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The Electric Telegraph
Two other concepts of computing that have their roots in 18th and 19th century developments are the idea of using pulses of electricity to convey information, and the idea of scanning a picture to convert it into data that can be conveyed through wires, and so, over a century later, used by computers. It is in this latter that Jacquard's concept of the production of images by programmable machines and the electric telegraph are welded together. We shall begin this section by looking at the idea of conveying information along wires.
Fig 11: Cuneus' experiment in which he discovered that electricity could be stored (and damn nearly killed himself in the doing). From Deschanel, ex-lib: Stephen Jones
The ancient Greeks knew about the static electricity that developed through friction between dissimilar materials such as rubbing silk on a glass rod or amber; in fact the origin of the word electron is to be found in the Greek for amber or "elektron" [ήλεκτρου].1 Static electricity is that spark you often get from the car door handle on a dry summer's day and can be of some thousands of volts though of negligible current, thus surprising and stinging one more than doing any appreciable damage. Early scientific experimenters had to make their electricity by spinning balls of glass or other insulators like sulphur, and holding their hands against the spinning glass to produce frictional electricity, which was then conveyed to the experiment by a "conductor". That electricity could be stored for later use was discovered accidentally by the Dutch experimenter Cuneus in 1746 [Fig.11] when he gave himself a severe electric shock while attempting to electrify water held in a jar.2 From this, the Leyden Jar, effectively a "condenser" or very large capacitor, was invented and became the primary means for storing electricity for demonstrations and early experiments in sending currents through long wires. The Leyden Jar is not a battery since it has to have its electric charge produced by an electrical machine which is then stored in the jar, while a battery, invented by the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta in 1800, uses chemical action to generate electric current. Benjamin Franklin discovered that lightning was an electrical discharge from storm clouds into the earth and devised a method for storing it in a Leyden Jar to use this stored electricity in his experiments.3
In 1748, the English scientist Watson showed that electric current could be conducted through very long wires apparently instantaneously4 and in 1753 Charles Morrison (of Scotland), wrote to the Scots Magazine of "An Expeditious Method of Conveying Intelligence" suggesting a means for "transmitting messages by frictional electricity".5
"It is well known to all who are conversant in electrical experiments that the electric power may be propagated along a small wire, from one place to another, without being sensibly abated by the length of its progress; let, then, a set of wires equal in number to the letters of the alphabet be extended horizontally between two given places parallel to each other and each of them about an inch distant from that next to it."6
A metallic ball would then be suspended from each wire and immediately below that were to be placed small pieces of paper with the letters of the alphabet written on them. On the discharge of an electric current into one of the wires at a distant place the piece of paper below the metallic ball would be raised up indicating the letter being communicated. A system of this type was implemented by George Louis LeSage of Geneva in 17747 but, as it required separate wires for each character to be transmitted and with the difficulty of controlling the discharge of frictional electricity it failed to yield useful results.8
Joseph Bozolus suggested employing the Leyden jar to convey intelligence in 1767. Two wires were to be laid underground and at each terminus to be brought to the inner and outer coatings of the Leyden jar. By discharging sparks into one terminus they could be seen at the other terminus and a message could be transmitted by a predetermined code.9 This appears to be the first suggestion that sparks (or pulses) of electricity could be used as a method of encoding information, but it wasn't taken any further until 1795 when Tiberius Cavallo suggested that "by sending a number of … sparks at different intervals of time according to a settled plan, any sort of intelligence might be conveyed instantaneously from" place to place through an insulated wire.10 With this suggestion, he introduced the idea of communicating by using pulses whose timing might be understood as a coded sequence of signals representing letters. Numerous experiments in electrical signalling followed over the next twenty five years, but little advance was made towards a receiver that was both reliable and easily read.
In 1823 Francis Ronalds published a small booklet on his electric telegraph. Having determined that an electric current would travel at such speed, along a wire of 8 miles in length, that the start and receipt of the signal were indistinguishable, in 1816, he invented a telegraph which transmitted signals by means of synchronously rotating dials at each station; it was the first such machine to employ this technique.11 A pith ball electrometer was set before each clock. The pith balls at each end of the communicating wires were charged from a Leyden jar and, as the command to be sent became visible in the face of the sending clock, it was discharged. On the discharge of the battery the pith balls would collapse to indicate the words in the receiving clock that matched the words in the sending clock (always supposing that the two clocks were in synchrony). Letters, numbers and, by the use of a specially prepared "dictionary", whole sentences could be transmitted in this manner. Ronalds used a "Prepare" signal of greater charge, which caused the pith balls to stand out further from the face of the clocks. It was to be understood that this "Prepare" would discharge only when the letter "A", the number "1" and the command "Prepare" were in the sending aperture and by this means the receiving aperture could be moved to be over the same characters on the receiving clock, thus synchronising the apparatus. Ultimately his system would have faced the problem of having to be constantly resynchronised. It wasn't until the 1840s that a means for doing this was realized.
Fig 12: Oersted's experimental apparatus. When a current of electricity is connected to one of the bars above or below the compass needle, it is driven away from its resting position, thus demonstrating the relationship between electricity and magnetism. From Deshanel, ex-lib Stephen Jones.
Meanwhile, in 1820, the Danish scientist Hans Christian Oersted discovered "the intimate relation existing between electricity and magnetism".12 His experiment showed that electric current flowing through a wire caused a magnetized needle to turn at right angles to the wire.13 David Brewster described the experiment more fully in his Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. To paraphrase: Oersted placed a straight piece of wire, connecting the positive and negative poles of a battery horizontally above and parallel to a well-suspended magnetic needle, which was allowed to align itself with the earth's magnetic poles. When a current of electricity flowed through the connecting wire the magnetic needle would deviate from its equilibrium position, rotating through an angle that is proportional to the current flowing though the circuit. Swapping the poles of the battery will reverse the direction of deviation of the needle.14 [Fig.12]
Both the French savant Andre-Marie Ampere and the English scientist Wollaston explained this electro-magnetic effect on the magnetized needle by supposing "an electro-magnetic current passing around the axis of the conjunctive wire, its direction depending on that of the electric current, or upon the poles of the battery with which it is connected".15 This led Ampere to invent the electromagnet.16 He also proposed a needle telegraph using as many conducting wires and needles "as there are letters". By connecting the communicating wires of the telegraph to any letter in sequence individual needles may be made to indicate their letters.17
Johann Schweiger invented a means of multiplying the deflection of a magnetised needle under the power of an electric current. By winding an insulated wire a limited number of times (so as not to defeat the effect by increasing the resistance to the current by the length of the wire) onto a rectangular former and placing it around the axis of the needle he found that he could make an appreciable difference in the amount of deflection bringing it towards ninety degrees.18 This device forms the basis of the measuring instrument known as a galvanometer (or voltmeter). But more importantly it allowed the effect of a current transmitted some distance to be multiplied so as to produce the distinct deflections of a needle necessary to indicate the presence or absence of that current. [Fig.13]
Fig 13: Schweiger's Multiplier is the translation of Oersted's discovery into a practical device that could move the compass needle an appreciable distance. It used a coil of wire wrapped around the rectangular former to increase the magnetic field affecting the magnet. From Deschanel, ex-lib Stephen Jones.
It is with Oersted's discovery, its explanation by Ampere and Wollaston and the amplification of its effect produced by Schweiger that we are brought to the verge of the electric telegraph. The Russian diplomat Pawel Lwowitch Schilling availed himself of Oersted's discovery of the electromagnetic effect and its multiplication by Schweiger's device and in 1832 invented a so-called "deflective telegraph". His apparatus had two wires and one needle and, by changing the polarity of the connection to the voltaic pile (battery), he could deflect the needle to the left or the right to produce "all necessary signals for a complete correspondence".19
William Fothergill Cooke saw Schilling's apparatus in Heidelberg in 183620 and he and Charles Wheatstone subsequently employed a similar technique in their telegraph systems.21 Their first apparatus was a five-needle telegraph in which 6 wires (five signal and one ground-return) controlled the positions of the five needles according to the way a set of key were pressed. Depending on which character was being transmitted two of the needles would point to it on the front face of the frame.22 [Figs.14 & 15] This version was used on the Birmingham-London railway.
Fig 14: The front panel of a Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph in the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC. Photograph: Stephen Jones
Fig 15: Wiring setup for Cooke and Wheatstone's first, 5-needle, version of their telegraph. From Guillemin; exlib Stephen Jones.
In that one year (1836), three separate versions of a functional electric telegraph were demonstrated. As well as Cooke and Wheatstone's invention, a system of sending messages using a two-state code was shown by the German, Steinheil, and in America, Samuel Morse presented a telegraph which employed an electromagnet to pull a stylus onto a moving roll of paper-tape23 thereby marking it for the duration of the current. By using a "key", essentially a rocker switch that could connect and disconnect a battery to the telegraph wire, short and long pulses of current could be sent along the wire to his receiver. [Fig.16] Morse developed a code – of short pulses or "dots", longer pulses or "dashes" and spaces, during which no current flowed – by which the letters of the alphabet, numbers and other indicators could be telegraphed. The pulses recorded on the tape could then be decoded from a dictionary.
Fig 16: Telegraph paper-tape punched according to the Wheatstone method and its interpretation in Morse code. From Deschanel, ex-lib Stephen Jones.
Cooke and Wheatstone further developed their telegraphs producing both two-needle and single-needle [Fig.17] devices which also used a code for the messages. The single needle apparatus functioned as follows. A pair of magnetized needles borne on the same axis are made to stand vertically, so that "such an arrangement, if the needles are of equal power, has no tendency towards one point of the compass more than another; and, by making what are the lower ends of the needles somewhat heavier than the opposite extremities, the needles, when not under the influence of electric currents, will at once resume their vertical position".24 One needle then acts "as the visible index"25 on the front of the apparatus and the other behind the faceplate has a "multiplier" coil of wire around it which transmits the "telegraphed" deflection of the needle. Thus the needles when under the influence of a current flowing through the "multiplier" coil can be made to point towards specific positions on a circle whose centre is the axis of the needles. An appropriate code is then agreed by the sending and receiving parties in reading the deflections of the needles.
Fig 17: Cooke and Wheatstone's single needle telegraph apparatus. From Deschanel, ex-lib Stephen Jones.
In 1839 the engineer (and bridge builder) Isambard Kingdom Brunel commissioned a network of telegraph stations (using the Wheatstone apparatus) on the Great Western Railway in Britain so that information about trains arriving and departing could be "telegraphed" to the next station.26 Over the 1840's and 50's the telegraph network expanded rapidly along-side the railway lines, assisting the railway companies in co-ordination of their networks.27
In 1844 Morse received US government support to establish a telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington DC. After certain modifications and particularly the development of a "sounder", which enabled the telegraph operator to decode the message simply by listening, the Morse system became more or less the US and European standard and was also eventually adopted in Britain. [Fig.18]
Fig 18: Morse's telegraph equipment. Above is the receiver,in which a pulse of current from the telegraph line (right) switches on the electromagnet (the coils) pulling the lever down which then marks the paper tape. Below is the Morse sending key, essentially just a switch that connects a source of current to the telegraph line momentarily. From Deschanel, ex-lib Stephen Jones.
In the next big development, about 1858, one which had effects right up to modern times, Wheatstone developed a recording technique in which three rows of holes were punched in a paper tape [Fig.16]. The central row were equidistant and permitted a rotating toothed gear to move the tape at a uniform speed. On the outer rows, a dot was represented as an opposite pair of holes and a dash as a pair of obliquely offset holes. This allowed the message to be prepared beforehand and then transmitted automatically, greatly speeding up the number of letters that could be transmitted per second.28 Various improvements of the punched-tape code took place over the following years, culminating in the five-bit code Baudot code which was capable of representing all the letters of the Roman alphabet and the necessary punctuation, including a "space" character. This system went on to be used for inputting data and instructions (programs) into many early modern computers.
All digital information used in modern day computers and data networks is represented in binary numbers (as originally explored by Leibniz, above) and in agreed codes where binary numbers stand for letters of the alphabet (eg, ASCII) or other useful symbols. In digital electronics the binary zero is represented as a low level of voltage and a one is represented as a high level of voltage. For the electricians who invented telegraphy this meant simply using a switch to connect the telegraph to, or disconnect it from, the wire which is exactly what the Morse key did. While the switch is "on" current flows yielding a 1, or "true" state in logic, and while it is "off" current does not flow yielding a 0, or "false" state in logic. The transistors in a computer chip act as switches permitting or blocking current flow and it is through the representation of logic as states with these transistor switches by which all computing operates.
Thus we can see that the late 18th and 19th century telegraphers provided the link between the binary number system of Leibniz, the notion that a machine could change its character through the substitution of new sets of instructions, represented in both automata and the Jacquard loom, and, through the work of the 19th Century Irish mathematician George Boole,29 that logical propositions could be represented in the binary form and operations carried out on them by mechanical and electronic machines.
1 Mottelay, Paul F. (1922) Bibliographical History of Electricity and Magnetism, London: Charles Griffin & Co, p.421.
2 Mottelay, Paul F. (1922) op cit, p.421.
5 Guillemin, Amédée, (1891) Electricity and Magnetism (revised and edited by Silvanus P. Thompson), London: MacMillan & Co., pp.581ff.
6 Deschanel, A. Privat (1872) Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy (tansl. J.D. Everett), London: Blackie and Son, p.715.
7 Wilson, George, (1852) Electricity and the Electric Telegraph, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, p.39.
8 ibid.
9 Hyman, 1982, op cit, p.227.
10 Woolley, Benjamin (1999) The Bride of Science, London: Macmillan, p.252.
11 The automatic telegraph was also known as the "Electric Jacquard" on account of the punched holes in the tape being used to store information. See Ciolek, T. Matthew, Global Networking: a Timeline, 1800-1899 at http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/GLOBAL/1800.html
12 Boole, George (1854), An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities, Walton and Maberly, London.
13 Deschanel, op cit, p.506.
14 Deschanel, 1872, op cit, p.570.
16 Ronalds, Francis (1823)A Description of An Electrical Telegraph, London: Hunter; and Deschanel, 1872, op cit, p.585.
17 see: Scots Magazine. XV, p.73, or Scientific American Supplement, No. 570, Dec. 4th, 1886. or Mottelay, 1922, p.208.
18 Quoted in anon, (n.d.) The Story of the Telegraph, in Adventures in Cybersound, Melbourne: Australian Centre for the Moving Image <http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/TELEGRAPHY_LULA.html>
21 Mottelay, Paul F. (1922) Bibliographical History of Electricity and Magnetism, London: Charles Griffin & Co, p.226.
22 Cavallo, Tiberius (1795) Treatise on Electricity, Vol.III, 4th edition, London, pp.285-296.
23 Ronalds, op cit, 1823.
24 Mottelay, 1922, op cit, p.452.
25 "[H]e contends that there is always a magnetic circulation around the electric conductor, and that the electric current in accordance with a certain law always exercises determined and similar impressions on the direction of the magnetic needle, even when it does not pass through the needle but near it" [Mottelay, 1922, op cit, p.453-4]. This discovery led eventually to the dynamo and the electric motor and to the concept of electromagnetism sorted out by Clerk Maxwell.
26 Brewster, David, (ed) (1821) Edinburgh Journal of Science, vol.IV, Edinburgh: Blackwood, p.168; and Deschanel, 1872, op cit, p.697.
27 Brewster, 1821, op cit, p.435.
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Red Wings trade Mike Green to Oilers for conditional pick
Updated Feb 24, 2020; Posted Feb 24, 2020
Mike Green has an opportunity to reach the playoffs in Edmonton. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com
By Ansar Khan | akhan1@mlive.com
DETROIT -- The Detroit Red Wings traded defenseman Mike Green to the Edmonton Oilers late Sunday night for a conditional draft pick in 2020 or 2021.
The Red Wings also received center Kyle Brodziak, but he announced in September that he'll be forced to retire due to a back injury. So the Red Wings essentially just took his contract off Edmonton's hands (he's in his final year at $1.15 million).
The Red Wings will receive a fourth-round pick in 2020, unless the Oilers reach the Western Conference finals and Green plays in half of their games, in which case they will receive a third-rounder in 2021 instead.
The Red Wings retained half of Green's salary ($2,687,500, according to CapFriendly.com). Green waived his modified no-trade clause to enable the deal. Green, a Calgary native, is in the final year of his contract at a $3.375 million cap hit and will become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.
Green, the 34-year-old, right-shooting, offensive-minded defenseman, has struggled this season, like many of his teammates. He has three goals and eight assists, along with a minus-32 rating, in 48 games.
Green appeared in 303 games over parts of five seasons with the Red Wings, who signed him as a free agent in 2015. He collected 37 goals and 104 assists while posting a minus-73 rating. He was selected to the All-Star Game in 2018.
If the pick the Red Wings received doesn't get upgraded they will have nine selections in this year's draft, including additional picks in the second (from Washington) and third (from San Jose) rounds. They dealt their own fourth-rounder to Tampa Bay for Adam Erne.
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Great paint. Especially the one with the blue stripes.
beautifully painted, very realistic looking. And nice scrubby, rocky terrain.
And, yes! Good fine control on the striped shirt. He looks terrific, a fine tribute to the inventors of the T-Shirt.
These guys look great - really nice shading on the clothing and the striped shirt is very well done! They would go nicely with the Pegasus set, too, one of the best WWII sets in soft plastic out there, in my opinion.
Bill Slavin wrote: These guys look great - really nice shading on the clothing and the striped shirt is very well done! They would go nicely with the Pegasus set, too, one of the best WWII sets in soft plastic out there, in my opinion.
I think this post is a request for Elsi to paint the Pegasus Soviet Naval Infantry. I second it!
Excellent painting! How did you get the stripes so spot on accurate?!
Great figures and great photos as well. The white background is very good.
Hi Elsi, great job and i also like the way you photograph them with the white background much better! But more important youre figures are really really fantastic.


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Q: Where is save to data base woocommerce after buy product(checkout page)? Where is the saving in the database a plug-in to worldpress woocommerce after the purchase of the product (checkout page)?
Where is the saving in the database when confirming the order in woocommerce?
I need to substitute the code of my discount, so that it reduces the final result, in the View I know how to change, but when is the order confirmation, where do I need to add my code?
I can not find a file where POST sends my form, there is for example action = "site.loc / checkout", how do I know where it sends POST? I can not understand how routing works in wordpresse ..
Where can I look with the help of the debugger.
Tell me please.

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Idea: wilderness is quite empty, farms, small villages can be hard to find without fast travel, and unknown dungeons are very hard to find period.
Since it seems roads are a long way ahead (no pun intended), could there be alternatives?
NPCs/monsters walking around the land, minding their own businesses; Most of the time coming from, or heading to, some relevant place in the vicinity.
Each time some terrain zone is instanciated, have a small percentage of chance to instanciate NPCs or monsters in that zone. The mix could be similar to random attacks mix, or only the weaker ones, I'm not sure.
- animals: go in any direction, but try to avoid cities/farms/temples directions. They don't pay attention to the player (or even try to walk away from you once you're detected) unless you get too close in which case they become aggressive.
- humans (not sure if villagers can be added, maybe not in 1st version): either come from or ahead toward cities/farms/temples around, if there's any. Otherwise random direction. Don't attack unless you attack (there's already random attacks in game, wanderers are just minding other businesses).
- monsters: either come from or ahead toward dungeons, if there's any. Otherwise random direction, but try to avoid cities/farms/temples directions. Switch to aggressive if they detect you, so the only way to know where they're going is to not be detected. It should require patience and some luck, but not be impossible.
I totally want this !
it would be good to have some genuinely helpful NPC encounters in the mix - merchants, healers, temple priests (who can bless you), for example.
I don't mean the merchants should be stocked like a full shop (unless anyone wants to create a caravan), just carry a few useful items and be able to buy a few items off you. They could even provide non-mages with a chance of getting an occasional enchanted item.
See the Random Encounters mod that I mentioned, that looks like what you describe.
The goal of wanderers would be to be achievable instead of forever delayed.
Well, technically it should be similar to random encounters (that happen with or without Tedious Travel), so that's some more code that I need to look at. What I may check later in Tedious Travel is how to compute directions.
Basically, I tried to only use mechanisms that I've seen used elsewhere or that look reasonably straightforward.
Hopefully that could be used as a solid ground for more complex ideas from other people.
This would be useful and make the game more realistic. I love realistic.


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NTU fashion design students upcycle textile waste for rough sleeping outerwear
Nottingham homelessness charity Emmanuel House Support Centre and Nottingham Trent University's BA (Hons) Fashion Design course have joined forces to launch this year's #EmmanuelhouseNTU project.
Now in its third year, the 2021 project launched in late February at a virtual presentation to over 100 first year students. It challenged them to make items of clothing for rough sleepers in Nottingham using textile waste.
The students will use second-hand textiles and garments from the Emmanuel House charity shop in Hockley and donations from businesses, family and friends. Considering both functionality and the overall aesthetic, each student will design and create an outerwear garment, which could be used by a beneficiary experiencing homelessness, or sold in the Emmanuel House Charity Shop.
Alison Escott, Senior Lecturer, BA (Hons) Fashion Design said: "Working with Emmanuel House in this collaborative project educates and inspires young fashion designers. Ultimately this project is a series of problem-solving tasks, from re-purposing suitable waste textiles to re-using them with the needs of a specific end-user in mind – the service users of Emmanuel house."
During the presentation, the students also heard from an Emmanuel House beneficiary, who has recently stayed at the charity's night shelter. He told them about his experience of rough sleeping and his critical need to be safe, secure, warm, and dry. Gill Barker, Marketing Assistant at Emmanuel House, also talked to the students about the vital services provided by Emmanuel House, which support rough sleepers across Nottingham.
Gill said: "We asked the students to consider using textiles with properties that are waterproof, hard-wearing, warm, windproof and light, which will be most valuable to rough sleepers. The students were encouraged to think about how their design work could really make a difference and have a positive impact on the lives of people experiencing homelessness, rough sleeping, in crisis or at risk of homelessness."
NTU Strategic Partnerships Manager, Maggie Burnett, added: "This project enables our students to connect with an inspiring Nottingham charity and engage with the needs of a community that is often overlooked. Not only does the challenge involve creative upcycling and sustainable design thinking, it raises awareness of wider local community issues and a chance for businesses to support a very worthy initiative."
Thank you to brands within the Pentland Group for their generous donations of fabric and outerwear garments for this project.
Later in the year, students will have the opportunity to showcase their work. The garments will then be made available for beneficiaries to use or go on sale in the Emmanuel House charity shop to raise funds.
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Nottingham Business School a trailblazer for sustainable and responsible management education
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NTU alum is a Vogue Business 100 Innovator
NTU alum, Arooj Aftab, is listed as Vogue Business top 100 Innovator for her work as a next-gen entrepreneur and agitator at the forefront of overhaling the fashion industry.
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Performers include: Louis C.K., Hadley Delany, Todd Barry, Nick DiPaolo, Ashley Gerasimovich, Robert Kelly, David Patrick Kelly, and Jay Russell.
This comedy series is created, directed, and written by Louis C.K., a standup comedian who previously starred in a more traditional sitcom on HBO, Lucky Louie. Loosely based on his real life, this series focuses on his life offstage as a recently divorced father of two girls.
Each episode of the series focuses on two stories, which may or may not connect. They also include standup comedy bits and/or discussions between Louie and a therapist. Louie's character of a comedian/divorced father of two is the only character to appear in every show. While most of the story shows Louie's interactions with new characters, there are also recurring characters, including his brother Robbie (Robert Kelly), his daughters Lilly and Jane (Hadley Delaney and Ashley Gerasimovich), his therapist (David Patrick Kelly), and fictionalized versions of comedians Nick DiPaolo and Todd Barry.
Episodes often include guest appearances by other standup comedians, such as Jim Norton, Robert Kelly, Rick Crom, Eddie Brill, Chelsea Peretti, Hannibal Buress, Rick Shapiro, Todd Glass, Myq Kaplan, and Ricky Gervais. Actors sometimes appear in guest starring roles as well, including Matthew Broderick and Pamela Adlon.
Louie continues his work on the road.
First aired: May 28, 2015.
What do you think? Do you like the Louie TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or continued for a sixth season?
Louie: Plans Cancelled? Will There be a Sixth Season?
@tay: Returns sometime this summer.


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Arizona parents considering divorce or already dealing with custody disputes have probably heard about shared parenting. In recent years, most jurisdictions in the U.S. have moved toward the notion that joint custody is the preferred parenting arrangement for children...
Kevin Federline seeks more child support from Britney Spears
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Arizona fans of singer Britney Spears might have heard about her successful Las Vegas residency. She earned $15 million per year there, but it also reportedly caused her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, to demand more in child support for their two sons. Spears and...
Common pitfalls to avoid when dividing a retirement account
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Arizona couples who are getting a divorce might find themselves in conflict over a retirement account. According to a 2016 survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, this is the second most common source of conflict in a divorce after alimony and just...
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Before tying the knot, marriage-bound Arizona residents should think about protecting their assets. While it may seem very cynical to make plans for what could happen during a divorce, having the proper safeguards in place is often a wise move. In order to protect...
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Hale also serves as division head of Manatt's Media, Technology and Advertising division and as chair of the firm's Venture Capital and Emerging Companies practice.
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Redesign of front and back garden for a retired couple. Whether you are starting small with slightly planting bed next to the patio, or shifting into new development with nothing however naked ground, taking it one step at a time will take among the apprehension out of the design process.
Vital considerations in garden design embrace how the garden will likely be used, the desired stylistic style (formal or informal, trendy or traditional etc.), and the way in which the garden house will connect with the house or different structures in the surrounding areas.
A planting plan offers specific directions, typically for a contractor about how the soil is to be prepared, what species are to be planted, what measurement and spacing is for use and what upkeep operations are to be carried out below the contract.
Such gardens often profit from the vegetation being developed and habituated to the local climate, pests and herbivores, and soil conditions, and so could require fewer to no soil amendments , irrigation, pesticides, and herbicides for a decrease upkeep, more sustainable landscape.


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Q: Issue with chained root certificate in Java on Windows Vista I am trying to access a VPN server with an address like https://vpn.example.com using Firefox on Vista with the Sun Java plugin (SE 6 U24).
I'm using a server certificate issued by RapidSSL - signed by RapidSSL which is signed by GeoTrust Global CA. The Geotrust root is in the browser store and also in the system Java keystore.
No problem accessing the server with the browser.
But when the VPN Java applet starts up and tries to access the server, I get a security challenge - unknown publisher, cert issued by a source that is not trusted.
Using the same VPN software on the internal server https://vpn-int.example.com , with a server certificate signed directly by our CA, there is no problem once I install our CA root in the client keystore.
Is this because the RapidSSL cert is chained and Java does not understand that, or something simpler (finger trouble) ?

If I extract the intermeticate RapidSSL certificate to a file using Firefox, then add it to the keystore, the warnings go away. Not really that helpful, I could just have trusted the appliance certificate (unless I had hndreds of them)

A: You should add RapidSSL_CA_bundle.pem (the intermediate cert) to the Java keystore. Refer below enlisted url to solve an error of RapidSSL root installation.
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19/07/2017 7:00 AM AEST | Updated 19/07/2017 7:02 AM AEST
More Adults Are Living With Their Parents Because They Can't Afford A Home
114,000 people aged 25 to 34 still live at home with their parents in Sydney.
Nearly 114,000 people in Sydney aged 25 to 34 are still living in the family home, in a housing environment of spiralling prices and a decade-long wait to scrape together enough money for a deposit.
Australia's housing affordability drama -- it has turned avocado toast into a political issue, made ramshackle homes into million-dollar properties, and even got the United Nations worried. Now, it has been revealed housing affordability is now cramping the style of even proper adults, with more people aged 25 to 34 in Sydney having to live at home with their parents.
Housing affordability, or lack thereof for young people, is the issue on everyone's lips in Australia. The issues have been demonstrated in survey after survey after survey, in decidedly average cottages selling for nearly $4 million, in unrenovated homes going for far above the reserve, in weatherboards flatly described as "tired" going for more than $1 million.
Recent figures show even average families are being priced out of Australia's cities.
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An analysis of recently released Census data from housing affordability expert and financial planner Robert Snell has found 113,868 non-dependent children in Sydney aged between 25 and 34 living in the family home on Census night 2016 -- 67,738 men and 46,130 women. That means people with their own income and life ("non-dependent") but who still live with their parents or relatives. That's a small uptick from the 110,000 reported in 2011, but Snell told HuffPost Australia the figure remained so high in 2016 due in large part to housing issues.
"The 2011 number was large but it's still getting larger. It is going up for the obvious reason, which particularly in Sydney is the prices. There's nowhere for these kids to go," Snell said.
"This is a whole generation that will be worse off. It's a tragedy. Australia's prices are among the highest in the world."
Elsewhere in the Census, figures showed home ownership rates for almost all age groups (except those aged 65 and up) were declining. Only 31 percent of Australians owned their house outright after paying off their mortgage, down from 32 percent in 2011 and from 40 percent in 1991. People are renting more than ever, but rental prices are also on the way up, meaning people are forced into expensive rental properties instead of saving for a house as they would have done in previous generations. Around one in four (22 percent) of Sydney renters were in "housing stress", a situation where they spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing.
Home ownership rates falling for all age groups under 65. Latest @ABSCensus data from @gumnut49 in https://t.co/uq8gOFqDC4pic.twitter.com/UuPXOYDPCZ
— John Daley (@JohnDaley_) July 5, 2017
Snell called housing affordability a "gaping wound" and a "disaster" in Australian society.
"The problem is definitely growing. The Census data also shows a significant rise of groups of five or six living in a house, more people are having to co-habit. It's hard to get the data on what relationships are between those people, but many of them are definitely families, and would be children living at home with mum and dad," he said.
"This is going on everywhere, but Sydney is more pronounced."
He said living at home with parents or family wasn't necessarily a bad thing, as many people in the past did so in order to save money on rent and therefore save faster for their own home. However, he said this trend was not happening today.
"As maligned as negative gearing and investing is, if these people are paying off a property while living with mum and dad, the problem wouldn't be so bad, but this is not the case," he said.
"We need to get things started sooner rather than later. As a society, this generation will be dramatically worse off, and that's not the Australia I'd like to see."
#HousingCrisis – The #census is definitive proof that the housing market is rigged against young people: https://t.co/8zdrqkWi35pic.twitter.com/LH54Q6cBCp
— The New Daily (@TheNewDailyAu) June 28, 2017
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Katie Acheson, CEO of youth advocacy body Youth Action, said the Census figures showed how housing affordability issues are impacting on Australia's young people.
"About 10 years ago, baby boomers started talking about kids staying at home longer, there have been these jokes about young people mooching off their parents. But what we know is that it's 15 years to save a deposit and 12 times the annual salary," she told HuffPost Australia.
"When you're saving for 15 years, you need to earn enough to save. If you're renting, rents have gone up 44 percent in the last decade. While you're trying to save a for a million-dollar house, you have to have enough disposable income to save, so renting is sometimes impossible if you're trying to save. We see young people having to delay their own independence, either staying at home or coming back to their parents when they realise they can't make it work with rental and living expenses."
Acheson called for Australia to urgently address issues affecting the ability of young people to save money and enter the housing market. She cited factors including a shrinking job market due to higher automation and outsourcing through globalisation, job security, and negative gearing.
"We need to have an open conversation about what has happened and what we can do, not blaming one generation or the other. The issue isn't that young people just aren't moving out, its that they don't have an option," she said.
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Thanks to the efforts of activists and advocates, the vibrant movement for girls of color is growing! This moment calls for more philanthropic resources that have a global analysis directed to the movements that center girls of color. We were honored to host our third annual convening in Puerto Rico, an island with an incredibly powerful and resilient movement history.
From the courageous work to confront sexual violence to the determined efforts to dismantle structural racism, we know that girls of color are increasingly vulnerable and incredibly powerful in the movements to end these harms. The current political climate has deep implications for girls and their communities across the globe – yet the connections between what girls are experiencing are too often not explored. Our hope is to also create space for funders to learn directly how to support activists and movement leaders working for justice in Puerto Rico today.
This third annual convening engaged us in conversation about the global connections of this work and created space for learning, solidarity and growth, enabling us to better support movements working to dismantle the structural barriers facing girls of color.
For the 2018 convening, G4GC partnered with Education Anew: Shifting Justice (EASJ), a biennial convening hosted by Communities for Just Schools and Andrus Family Fund that brings together 300 education and youth justice organizers and advocates for shared learning and strategizing.


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#include "Magnum/Context.h"
#include "Magnum/Extensions.h"

#ifndef MAGNUM_TARGET_GLES
#include "Magnum/BufferImage.h"
#include "Magnum/Image.h"
#endif

#include "Implementation/maxTextureSize.h"
#include "Implementation/State.h"
#include "Implementation/TextureState.h"

namespace Magnum {

namespace Implementation {

template<UnsignedInt dimensions> VectorTypeFor<dimensions, Int> maxTextureSize() {
    return VectorTypeFor<dimensions, Int>{Implementation::maxTextureSideSize()};
}

#ifndef MAGNUM_TARGET_GLES
template MAGNUM_EXPORT Math::Vector<1, Int> maxTextureSize<1>();
#endif
template MAGNUM_EXPORT Vector2i maxTextureSize<2>();

#if !(defined(MAGNUM_TARGET_WEBGL) && defined(MAGNUM_TARGET_GLES2))
template<> MAGNUM_EXPORT Vector3i maxTextureSize<3>() {
    #ifdef MAGNUM_TARGET_GLES2
    if(!Context::current().isExtensionSupported<Extensions::GL::OES::texture_3D>())
        return {};
    #endif
    return {Vector2i(Implementation::maxTextureSideSize()), Implementation::max3DTextureDepth()};
}
#endif

}

#ifndef MAGNUM_TARGET_GLES
template<UnsignedInt dimensions> Image<dimensions> Texture<dimensions>::image(const Int level, Image<dimensions>&& image) {
    this->image(level, image);
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template<UnsignedInt dimensions> BufferImage<dimensions> Texture<dimensions>::image(const Int level, BufferImage<dimensions>&& image, const BufferUsage usage) {
    this->image(level, image, usage);
    return std::move(image);
}

template<UnsignedInt dimensions> CompressedImage<dimensions> Texture<dimensions>::compressedImage(const Int level, CompressedImage<dimensions>&& image) {
    compressedImage(level, image);
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template<UnsignedInt dimensions> CompressedBufferImage<dimensions> Texture<dimensions>::compressedImage(const Int level, CompressedBufferImage<dimensions>&& image, const BufferUsage usage) {
    compressedImage(level, image, usage);
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template<UnsignedInt dimensions> Image<dimensions> Texture<dimensions>::subImage(const Int level, const RangeTypeFor<dimensions, Int>& range, Image<dimensions>&& image) {
    this->subImage(level, range, image);
    return std::move(image);
}

template<UnsignedInt dimensions> BufferImage<dimensions> Texture<dimensions>::subImage(const Int level, const RangeTypeFor<dimensions, Int>& range, BufferImage<dimensions>&& image, const BufferUsage usage) {
    this->subImage(level, range, image, usage);
    return std::move(image);
}

template<UnsignedInt dimensions> CompressedImage<dimensions> Texture<dimensions>::compressedSubImage(const Int level, const RangeTypeFor<dimensions, Int>& range, CompressedImage<dimensions>&& image) {
    compressedSubImage(level, range, image);
    return std::move(image);
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template<UnsignedInt dimensions> CompressedBufferImage<dimensions> Texture<dimensions>::compressedSubImage(const Int level, const RangeTypeFor<dimensions, Int>& range, CompressedBufferImage<dimensions>&& image, const BufferUsage usage) {
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template class MAGNUM_EXPORT Texture<2>;
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Weeds + trees + crops + critters + soil = an integrated food web allowing biota to self-regulate with no pesticides needed.
Rick Knoll grows only organic fruits and vegetables on his farm. In the plot next to his, nothing grows there (unless Rick's neighbor says so). The conventional farmers next door call Rick's organic methods "dirty farming" (they're "clean"). Each winter their fields sit idle for months at a time. Since no cover crop is planted (a process that returns nutrients to the soil and increases soil fertility), the soil remains exposed to the elements. Wind erosion will carry some of this precious topsoil away, and in so doing releases carbon back into the atmosphere.
MONOCULTURE is growing a single crop over a vast amount of land which increases the risk of fungus, disease and specialized predators, which conventional farming combats with pesticides, herbicides and fungicides.
In What Ways Can We Use the Good Bugs?


The fully operational entry is designed to meet the unique demands of an air supported structure. The design allows for the highest volume of traffic with minimal air loss. The three leaf configuration provides ample walking area even while equipment is being carried.
The fully operational entry is designed to meet the unique demands of an air supported structure. The design allows for the highest volume of traffic with minimal air loss. The four leaf configuration provides easy access. The materials and finishes used in the door result in durability and an appearance that is aesthetically appealing.


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PlayStation 2 Classic of the Week - Shin Megami Tensei: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army
Ron Duwell
It's been over half a year since I've had the chance to write about a PlayStation 2 Classic, but Atlus proves to us this week that there is still a lot of untapped gems waiting to be uncovered. Its long-windedly named Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army releases this week on the PlayStation Network.
This third entry in one of the many side-series of the Shin Megami Tensei RPG series takes a huge departure from all the others in both setting and gameplay. Atlus drags the series back in time to the early days of Japanese Imperialism in 1931 and puts players in the shoes of Raidou Kuzunoha, a demon wielding high school student. He and his cohorts play detective in uncovering a sinister plot to bring a power demon into the real world.
The gameplay also shakes up the formula by scrapping the turn based battle system from the other Shin Megami Tensei games in exchange for quick bursts of action. Raidou's battles unfold in a small arena, and he can attack at both close range and long range. In line with the mythos of the series, he can also forge pacts with demons and summon them to his aid in battle.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army was a late hit for the PlayStation 2 releasing deep into 2006 in America after it proved to be a surprise success in Japan. In fact, Atlus even capitalized on it and released Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon in 2009, making it one of the last PlayStation 2 games worth checking out.
Much like its original release, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army could be one of the last good PlayStation 2 classics before Sony pulls the plug on the line-up. We'll have to wait and see what other obscure gems it digs up before streaming takes over.
Any hopefuls? I'm clinging to hope that Suikoden V has a chance, even if it's a small one.
PlayStation 2 Classics


Family and friends are in shock after a bizarre and deadly attack in Suisun City.
SUISUN CITY, California -- Family and friends are in shock after a bizarre and deadly attack in California. A man was arrested for allegedly killing his daughter-in-law with a hammer.
Police say it all began with an argument that involved a bike.
A man known for his quiet, friendly demeanor is sitting in jail in Solano County after he was arrested early Wednesday morning. Police say 63-year-old Amarjit Singh bludgeoned his own daughter-in-law to death at the home where they both lived.
It happened early Tuesday morning in a quiet Suisun City neighborhood. Police say Shameena Bibi's husband and his brother came home and found her dead in the garage.
"The suspect became angry and armed himself with a hammer," Suisun City Police Chief Tim Mattos said.
Mattos said the 29-year-old Bibi was killed while her in-laws and 2-year-old son were inside the house. According to investigators, it was only later at the police station when the father-in-law, Singh, confessed.
"He was very calm, very stoic. It was interesting seeing his demeanor," Mattos said.
According to police, Singh told investigators his daughter-in-law had "disrespected" him and that the pushing over of a bike in the garage may have been the last straw.
"The bike was pushed over, or thrown down or something happened to the bike. Possibly some words were exchanged, which the suspect felt disrespected through that exchange," Mattos said.
Singh worships at the Guru Nanak Temple in Fairfield, where a committee member told ABC13 sister station ABC7 that he is known as friendly, volunteers often and regularly attends Wednesday and Sunday prayers.
On Wednesday, friends stopped by to pay their respects at the family's home. "They are just sad right now. I came here to see them and my cousin came here," family friend Sanjot Singh said. "She was very nice, she was a very nice woman."
Singh is currently being held in the Solano County Jail without bail. He's expected to be arraigned by this weekend.


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Green Tier Legacy Communities (GTLC)
The Green Tier Legacy Communities Charter is a unique partnership between Wisconsin communities, non-profit organizations, and state agencies. We work together to assist communities in developing and implementing sustainability measures.
When communities sign the Green Tier Legacy Communities charter, they agree to take actions and share information to move continuously toward a future that promotes environmental stewardship, economic growth, public health, and social equity.
All of the recommended policies and programs in GTLC are administered at the local level and require little in the way of new state statutes or funding. GTLC allows communities to collaborate and share strategies with each other and encourages communities to adopt better practices through education, public involvement and finally, implementation.
Legacy Communities are a leading example for combating climate change at the local level.
Learn more about their 100% renewable energy commitments.
Learn about all GTLC Climate Commitments.
Currently, 30 communities and counties across the state have signed the charter and are actively participating.
Learn more about Green Tier Legacy Communities.
To become a Green Tier Legacy Community, visit the DNR Green Tier website.
Legacy Community Alliance for Health (LCAH)
Green Tier communities are participating in Legacy Community Alliance for Health (LCAH) – a project to build capacity within participating municipalities to improve health and health equity through the use of data and evidence-informed policies. The goal is to help communities achieve gains in at least one of four policy areas of interest: clean water, active transportation, safe and affordable housing, and healthy and affordable local food systems. Each participating community will choose its own policy approach.
Sustainable States Network
Deb represents GTLC on the Sustainable States Network. The purpose of the Network is to connect and align statewide sustainability programs, enable its members to share resources and best practices, foster the success of local sustainability initiatives, and collaborate on projects that advance our shared goals. The long-term vision of the network is to build a future where sustainability is the norm for every community. All of our network members focus on local governments as the primary change agent for sustainable development progress.
History of Green Tier Legacy Communities
Green Tier Legacy Communities are a direct result of the 2008 recommendations of the Transportation Working Group (TWG) of Governor Doyle's Global Warming Task Force (GWTF.)
Led by 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, the working group identified several measures that would reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector – currently the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Among the recommendations were: reduced reliance on the automobile; increased transit options; traditional neighborhood design ordinances to increase housing density and better opportunities to develop local amenities such as grocery stores and shopping; local programs to encourage walking and transit; and better bicycling infrastructure to encourage bicycle commuting.
All of the recommended policies and programs are administered at the local level and require little in the way of new state statutes or funding. But, what was needed was a way to encourage communities to adopt these better practices through education, public involvement and finally, implementation. 1000 Friends of Wisconsin took the lead on implementing these recommendations by working with local units of government across the state.
Rather than work with communities one at a time (there are over 1700 units of local government in Wisconsin), 1000 Friends looked for a model that would allow communities to collaborate and share strategies with each other. 1K found what seemed to be an ideal program administered by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources – the Green Tier Program. Green Tier was designed to allow business entities to implement best environmental practices and in turn, receive technical assistance from the Wisconsin DNR to refine and improve those management policies. Frequently businesses would have their trade associations create a charter that would proscribe best management policies for association members who wanted to participate in a narrowly focused Green Tier Charter tailored to that trade.
1K took this model and proposed to the DNR that a charter be created for municipalities who wanted to implement best environmental management practices at the local level and receive technical assistance in return. Then DNR Secretary Matt Frank enthusiastically endorsed the idea and designated a staff person to work full time with 1K to create a charter for interested municipalities. 1K then approached the Wisconsin Counties Association and Wisconsin League of Municipalities to see if their local government members would be interested in such a charter. Five communities quickly registered their interest in forming a charter and the work to create the charter began.
In December of 2010, the partners and 5 communities created the inaugural charter for what was called The Wisconsin Green Tier Legacy Community program.
The charter listed scores of best management practices for communities that included model zoning ordinances, best management practices for everything from transportation improvements to municipal solar energy programs to wastewater management. Each community was to come up with their own baseline measure of energy use (thus greenhouse gas emissions) and pledge to make continuous improvements over the life of their participation in the program.
Today there are many communities and counties across the state signed on to the charter and the list continues to grow. During quarterly meetings the communities share successes and ideas for new opportunities.
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Jimmy Neesham, Tom Blundell and Will Young delivered the New Zealand contracts
Jimmy Neesham, Tom Blundell and Will Young were offered the center of New Zealand as part of the group of 20 players for 2019-2020.
They replace Adam Milne, Corey Anderson and George Worker of the names hired on the 2018-2019 list.
The New Zealand World Cup team has included Allrounder Neesham and goalkeeper-hitter Blundell. Young, the 26-year-old hitter, was ready to make his debut in the Test against Bangladesh in March before the final Test was canceled after the Christchurch terrorist attack.
Tim Seifert, who missed a place in the World Cup when Blundell was preferred, lost a contract.
For Young and Blundell, this is their first central contract, while Neesham returns to the list and was lost last year after a fight for the form. He revealed last month that he was close to quitting the sport before he was talked about and made a successful return to the New Zealand team last season.
"Jimmy had a very good season and made excellent progress with Wellington, New Zealand A and the Blackcaps, he made all the posts to win one," said selector Gavin Larsen. "Will receives an offer based on the heavy weight of the races last season, both for New Zealand A and the Central Stags.
Tom has acted as a backup for BJ Watling on the tour of the UAE, has recently played for New Zealand A and is on the World Cup team as Tom Latham's land maintenance understudy.
Of those who have been eliminated from the list, Milne and Anderson have continued to struggle with the injuries that discarded them for the World Cup squad. Milne briefly returned to New Zealand side in the T20I against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates last year,
but has only won four games since then and withdrew from the IPL.
Last year, Anderson, who also played the T20I against Pakistan, said he would focus exclusively on white-ball cricket to try to win the World Cup, but he could not do enough to return to New Zealand's side one day. He has recently undergone shoulder surgery.
Players have until May 9 to accept to reject the offer of the contract.
Players have proposed a central contract for 2019-20 : Todd Astle, Tom Blundell, Trent Boult, Colin de Grandhomme, Lockie Ferguson, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Colin Munro, Henry Nicholls, James Neesham, Jeet Raval, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Neil Wagner, BJ Watling, Kane Williamson, Will Young.
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Jewelry making is a great way to make money, and one of the best things about it is that you can do it out of your own home. Whether you are looking to earn just little bit of extra pin money each month, or eventually make it a full-time source of income, making jewelry can be a great way to earn money.
One of the best things about jewelry making is that it doesn't take a big investment to get started. You can create inexpensive jewelry with low-cost materials or even use recycled materials to create completely unique jewelry.
Even though you don't need a big investment to get started making jewelry at home, you do need to know how to get started, so today I am going to offer some advice for how to do just that.
I have been making jewelry full-time for over 20 years. I have lots of experience. I have sold my jewelry at craft fairs, art shows, in art galleries, in museum shops, and online in various different selling venues as well as on my own website. I didn't go to school for jewelry making, I taught myself everything I know, and now, years later, I am the author of two traditionally published best selling jewelry making books, as well as two best selling jewelry instruction DVDs, all contracted with a major publisher who is the leading publisher in the industry. I can begin by telling you that there is no magic, secret recipe to doing it right. What I can tell you is that it takes a lot of blood sweat and tears, plain old hard work, the ability to take chances and the ability to fail and be resilient and start over again to be successful.
To start your own jewelry business at home you will need a creative spark, so it's also important to know how to nurture your own creativity, to take chances in that realm, and to not be afraid to be different and try new things. If there is one thing that could be considered a "secret" to success, it's being different from everyone else. I've talked about this, and I've talked about creativity, and a few of my past blog posts, and I will talk about it again in some future blog posts, but for now, let's get started talking about how you can get started making jewelry at home.
This article is going to be a basic rundown of how to get started making jewelry at home. It is by all means not everything in the world that you will need to know, but consider it a great springboard to getting started! One thing I want to say before I get started is that I am active on social media and I am an active reader of all kinds of craft articles and blogs and magazines, I keep up with my industry and with what people have to say, and I've noticed there are lots of blog posts that I seem to come across (mostly via Pinterest) that will talk about how to get started with crafts or jewelry, or how to do craft shows, and disappointingly I have found that an overwhelming amount of these articles do not offer much good advice at all and are really just fluff that seems to be written to fill empty blog spaces. I know that might sound harsh, but I have to point it out. Do not take advice from people who do not have years and years of experience! If you want good advice, you have to talk to someone who actually knows what they're talking about, who has walked the walk and talked the talk! So this is just a heads up to be careful about what you read out there on the interweb, because not all of it is good, practical advice!
Making jewelry at home, or any craft or art, is a true labor of love. First and foremost you have to enjoy what you're doing, you have to have a passion for it, you can't just do it "for the money" because that will show through in your work. You have to do it because you want to do it, because you love it and enjoy it and because you want to share that with other people. If you go into it with this mindset, you are off to a good start.
This is the first question that you will need to answer. What is it that you want to make? For this article I'm going to focus on jewelry making, but the advice in this article can be applied to any craft or art, so keep that in mind. But what do you want to make? I'm guessing you are here because you are interested in making jewelry. That's great! But I want to know: what type of jewelry do you want to make?
Not sure where to start? Think about all the different types of jewelry that there are. There's very trendy jewelry whose styles are always changing. There is beaded jewelry that uses glass beads. There is beaded jewelry that uses semi precious stone beads and pearls. There is jewelry that is made from recycled components. There is jewelry that is mostly made with wire. There is mystical jewelry that is made from crystals and in which the stones are chosen by their metaphysical properties. There is jewelry for weddings and bridal parties. There is jewelry for teens and tweens. There is jewelry for men. There is jewelry that follows certain styles such as Retro, Victorian, Art Nouveau, and Modern, to name just a few. There is jewelry made with natural components such as wood and shells. There is jewelry made from plastics, resin, and from handmade beads. There is large, artsy statement jewelry. There is delicate, demure, feminine jewelry.
There is jewelry for just about any interest that you could think of: sports, pets, travel, nature, the list goes on and on and on. What kind of jewelry do you want to make? Make what interests you, but make sure that it will also interest other people, or you will not be able to sell it. What I'm saying is, you want to create something for some type of audience who will want to buy it, but at the same time, you want to enjoy making it too.
You can't learn jewelry making without having some tools and jewelry supplies in front of you. This is a hands-on craft which requires you to go through some trial and error, creating and learning while you go. For the most extreme beginner, you will want to start with some very inexpensive components such as inexpensive wire and glass beads.
Save the precious metal wire (silver and gold) and fancy stuff such as crystal, stone and semi-precious beads until you've got your techniques down and your jewelry is looking very good and you feel confident in taking the step towards more expensive materials. Everyone starts this way, even the best designers started right where you are today! So don't worry, just take it step-by-step and you will be fine.
Go to your craft store and ask a knowledgeable sales person to show you the most inexpensive craft wire and jewelry making components. Tell them you are just getting started and that you need the very basic beginner supplies for practice, and I'm sure they'll be glad to help.
Hint: Instead of buying sterling silver wire, go to your local hardware store and buy a few feet of copper wire in a few different gauges. Use this wire for learning and practicing your jewelry making techniques.
If you have the opportunity to take a class in jewelry making with some very basic jewelry techniques, that's a great place to start because you hopefully will have an instructor who will be able to offer you some one on one hands-on help and instruction. If not, no fear, you can teach yourself. All you need is some patience and ambition. You can find basic jewelry making books at most libraries, And YouTube offers tons of jewelry making videos. You may have to spend some time weeding through the bad ones—and unfortunately there are plenty where you can't hear the person talking or you can't see what they are doing—but there are also a few good ones out there so YouTube can be a great resource for a beginner. If I have time I will try to get up a few videos on my own YouTube channel showing some very basic jewelry techniques. So know that there are plenty of free resources and that's all you really need to get started.
As for tools, there are tools that are "need to have" and there are tools that are "nice to have." Check out this article I wrote a while back where I talk about these two different types of tools. Of course, The tools you will need are determined by the type of jewelry you are going to make. For example, you do not need to buy a pair of crimping pliers if you are not going to be making bracelets or necklaces with beading wire, where the use of crimps and a crimping pliers is a necessity. You most certainly will need a pair of long nose pliers or rosary pliers and a pair of chain nose pliers as well as a side cutting pliers for most types of jewelry making. If you are going to buy beads you will also need some bead storage containers from the get go. I know it is a lot of information but just absorb it bit by bit!
This is important. Right when you get started, you need to save all of your receipts and you need to have some kind of a notebook where you can jot down some very basic information to keep track of what you spend and how much things cost. This is important for two reasons. First, you will need all the receipts for your taxes, and second, knowing how much you spent on all of your beads and components (and even your tools) will help you price your jewelry when the time comes. I have to admit, I slack at doing this. I usually just pull a number out of the sky when pricing my jewelry, but I think that's just because after all these years I pretty much don't have to write it down anymore, I just sort of know what I spend and how long it takes me to make a particular item.
This may seem like a lot to do but once you get into the habit it really is nothing and you kind of do it automatically. When you get into the habit of doing this every single time you buy a supply, by the end of the year when tax time rolls around, you will find that you have saved yourself a ton of work because you already have everything written down in one place, ready to be added up. Make doing this a priority and you will be saving yourself a ton of work down the line.
As for keeping track of what you spent on supplies to later figure out how you should price your jewelry… Many people do this. Like I said a little while ago, I kind of just figure out a price in my head but maybe that's because I've been doing this for so long. But what I meant by that is, let's say you buy a strand of beads that cost $20. When you get home from the store, the first thing you are going to do is count the number of beads on that strand. For the sake of making this explanation simple, let's say there are 20 beads on the strand. You spent $20 and got 20 beads so that means each bead cost you one dollar. You can use a notebook to write this down and keep track of it or you can do a spreadsheet on your computer, whatever works better for you. When I did this I used to always just keep it in a notebook because it was much easier to quickly flip a notebook open than it was to turn my computer on and then open up the file to find the spreadsheet etc. etc.. Sometimes the old fashioned way is actually the easiest way!
You have to do what works best for you! But in the beginning you really should keep track of what you are spending and how much those components cost, even the tiniest that seems the least important, because in the end it all ads up. Once you put together a piece of jewelry—let's say a bracelet—you will have to take a good look at the finished bracelet and figure into your price what you spent on all of the materials that went into making it: beads, beading wire, crimp beads, the clasp. Then you add something for the work you put into it on top of that (paying yourself) and that is how you figure out your price. You need to pay careful attention to this so that you can make a profit. Make sure that you keep track of all costs and expenses. All of those things will go into determining your products price.
Adding on to what I touched on earlier, you want to begin with inexpensive supplies. Some of you reading this right now who are already jewelry makers who already have beads can attest to these words: it's really easy to buy lots of beads! LOL proceed with caution! If you're shopping local craft stores, use those 40% off coupons that they publish in the newspaper every week, and nowadays they will most often scan them right off of your phone, so download those apps for those stores.
Later, when your hobby turns into more of a job and you find yourself getting ready to do craft shows, you will want to get a sales tax license from your state and make sure that you cross all of your t's and dot all of your i's so that you are in compliance with whatever your local and state and federal laws are. But not just that, you should get a resale certificate so that you can buy beads and supplies at discount wholesale prices from those who offer wholesale to buyers. You will not be able to buy wholesale unless you have that certificate that shows the merchant that you are a retailer. Wholesalers also usually sell in bulk, so you may have to buy a certain amount of an item, such as a gross, to qualify for wholesale pricing.
So by this point you have a pretty good idea of the particular type of jewelry you want to make. You've purchased some basic tools and supplies and have started learning how to make jewelry. You've been practicing, and you've been getting better at making jewelry each day. You're keeping track of what you spend and your expenses, and you have applied to your state for your resale certificate so that you can legally sell your jewelry as well as purchase supplies at wholesale prices.
Once all of these things start to come together, you want to think of a name for your jewelry making business. You may also want to think about a simple logo, as well as the image you want to project for your jewelry making business, as well as what type of packaging you are going to use. At this point when you are getting ready to sell your jewelry, you are going to also want to order some business cards and packaging.
Now is when the real adventure begins. It's time to sell your jewelry. I highly and I repeat – I HIGHLY recommend everyone begin with craft shows. You need to sell at craft shows. You need to expose your jewelry to people at a live event so that you can see their reactions and you can get their feedback. It is so important to discover what people like and do not like about what you are making. That will help you so much. I can't tell you how many times I have gotten great suggestions and ideas from people walking by my jewelry booth. You cannot look that information up anywhere on the Internet! There is no substitute for that live feedback that you can only get at a live show.
You will gain so much experience that I can't even begin to go into how that will help you in the future. You will make mistakes and learn from them and you will do things right and be really proud of yourself! You will also meet other artists and crafters and that is so much fun. Not every show will be a successful one. Everyone has been to their share of flops for one reason or another, but for every poor show there are a whole lot of great profitable shows as well!
Here's a link to my earlier blog post, how to prepare for your first craft show. It's here for you for when you need it. I wish you lots of luck and as always, be creative!


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The ACC/Big 10 Challenge was back at Purcell Pavilion as Notre Dame (6-1) used a big run to beat Illinois (2-5) in a game of runs. Illinois had a chance to win but a Trent Frazier's last-second three rimmed out to give the Irish the 76-74 win.
Notre Dame reeled off a 17-2 run midway that included nine-straight stops on defense and gave the Irish a 65-52 lead.
The 6-foot-11 junior scored six points and blocked two shots during the run, while a critical three-pointer from TJ Gibbs gave the Irish some much-needed momentum inside Purcell Pavilion.
Gibbs finished with 19 points, four rebounds, and four assists, while Aaron Jordan led the Illini with 23 points and five rebounds.
Durham ended the night with 10 points on 3-for-4 shooting from the field, four rebounds and five blocks.
"I'm so proud of Juwan Durham. For him to come in and do that, he deserves it. It the midst of watching it, we're up double-digits, and they make a run. I didn't want us getting beat to spoil his coming out party.
DJ Harvey, who scored 19 points to go with six rebounds, almost put the nail in the coffin with 6:25 left in the game with a three-pointer to push the Irish lead to 65-52 but the Illini had other plans.
After Harvey's three, the Illini ripped off a 12-2 run to make it a game in the end.
Durham ended the run with a dunk after the Irish broke the fiesty Illini press and added another block to give Notre Dame a 73-67 lead with under a minute left.
What will be lost in Durham's big performance was he stepped up when his team needed him the most. Notre Dame junior forward John Mooney fouled out with 16:50 left in the game and the Irish only had Durham and freshman Nate Laszewski to work the post.
Brey believed it might have been the perfect recipe for Durham as he not only had to play but he matched up well with Illinois.
"It was a maybe a good style to play against," explained Brey. "There was a big guy to guard, and he could lay back in the hole. He changes stuff. I thought it was interesting to watch it develop before our own eyes. Our team got so confident in him they were throwing it to him in the post. That's new.
The Irish also continued to be efficient on the offensive end of the floor for the second game in a row. Notre Dame shot 46% from the field and converted 13 offensive rebounds into 17 second-chance points.
Notre Dame freshman Robby Carmody did leave the game in the first half with another shoulder issue, but Brey is confident he'll be ready to play on Tuesday.


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Николай Тимофеевич Рязанцев (род. 6 ноября 1926 года в Ставропольском крае) — ветеран Великой Отечественной войны, отличник Военно-морского строительства, писатель, поэт.

Биография
Родился на Северном Кавказе в Ставропольском крае, точная дата рождения неизвестна. Свидетельства о рождении не было, мать посоветовала сказать, что он родился в 1924 или в 1926 году, Николай решил назвать 1926. А день рождения придумал себе сам в 1946 году — 6 ноября, в канун годовщины победы Октябрьской революции. У Рязанцевых была большая семья — четверо детей. Его отец в лейб-гвардейском Семёновском полку прослужил и провоевал всю Первую мировую войну и дослужился до чина вахмистра.

В 1941—1942 годах, в 15-летнем возрасте, Николай работал учетчиком на молочной ферме, а далее — по окончании курсов трактористов — в тракторной бригаде. В 1943 году, когда ему исполнилось 17 лет, он был назначен начальником военно-учебного пункта села Воздвиженское (Ставропольский край). Там он учил девушек и юношей военному делу: ребят — стрелковому делу, а девушек — регулированию движения на военно-полевых дорогах. Три первые группы стрелков отправил на поля боя, а две группы девушек не успел, поскольку сам попал на фронт. Сначала его направили на шесть месяцев в снайперскую школу, в которой было 13 рот по 280 человек. В 1944 году юного Николая отправили пулемётчиком в автоматную роту на 1-й Белорусский фронт, где он вместе с другими держал оборону. Далее ему пришлось воевать в составе полевой полковой разведки, где он спас раненого командира и привёл двух пленных немцев, за что получил орден Красной Звезды. В бою за освобождение Варшавы был тяжело ранен и с середины января до конца марта лечился в госпитале. После госпиталя Николая Рязанцева назначили командиром отделения во вторую танковую роту. Он дошёл до Берлина, где 21 апреля 1945 года в бою под Рейхстагом его контузило взрывом фаустпатрона, с тех пор ему пришлось пользоваться слуховым аппаратом.

После войны в течение десяти лет он участвовал в строительстве на Кольском полуострове, острове Новая Земля, в Мурманске, Архангельске, на полуострове Ямал и Таймыр. Он участвовал в возведении благоустроенных поселений, небольших городов с 4-6-этажными домами; баз для ракет стратегического назначения; электростанций; цементных, кирпичных, судостроительных и судоремонтных заводов.

Рязанцев награждён большим количеством грамот, двумя орденами Красной Звезды, Орденом Отечественной войны I степени, Орденом «За мужество», медалью «За боевые заслуги», медалью «За освобождение Варшавы» и медалью «За взятие Берлина», 25 отечественными медалями и двумя зарубежными.

Автор многочисленных статей в газете «Коммунист Подолье» и четырёх книг: «Время и жизнь» (2011); «Вспоминая прожитое» (2011); «Годы легендарные позабыть нельзя» (2012); «Победный март 1944 года на Подолье» (2013). Инициатор создания в городе Хмельницком Аллее Славы, которая носит название «Герои Советского союза. Место подвига — Хмельниччина». Аллея была торжественно открыта 25 марта 2014 года у Мемориала Славы на Выставке во время празднования 70-й годовщины освобождения Хмельницкой области от фашистских оккупантов. В 2018 году кандидатура Рязанцева была выдвинута на титул почётного гражданина Хмельницкого.

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