Fidelity offers investors brokered CDs, which are CDs issued by banks for the customers of brokerage firms. The CDs are usually issued in large denominations and the brokerage firm divides them into smaller denominations for resale to its customers. Because the deposits are obligations of the issuing bank, and not the brokerage firm, FDIC insurance applies.
A brokered CD is similar to a bank CD in many ways. Both pay a set interest rate that is generally higher than a regular savings account. Both are debt obligations of an issuing bank and both repay your principal with interest if they're held to maturity. More important, both are FDIC-insured up to $250,000 (per account owner, per issuer), a coverage limit that was made permanent in 2010.
Brokered CDs can also be purchased from multiple banks and held in a single account at Fidelity, allowing you to effectively expand your FDIC protection beyond the $250,000 limit. Even if you own brokered CDs within multiple accounts, these holdings can be consolidated into a single account at one financial institution.1 Unlike a bank CD, a brokered CD can be traded on the secondary market,2 meaning it doesn't necessarily have to be held to maturity.3" When purchasing a brokered CD through Fidelity, you may also take advantage of our Auto Roll Program, which can help you maintain your income stream by reinvesting the CD's maturing principal, or investing in multiple CDs of varying maturities in a laddering strategy.
Brokered CDs come in a wide range of maturities—as little as 3 months and as long as 20 years. This allows you to choose between high degrees of liquidity, meaning you have the opportunity to reinvest your funds frequently, and stability, meaning you can lock in favorable interest rates for long periods of time. Like other fixed income securities, CDs with longer terms or maturities generally have higher yields.
Unlike bank CDs, there is generally a secondary market for brokered CDs sold prior to maturity.1 Furthermore, if a customer who owns a CD at Fidelity wishes to liquidate that position, he or she may do so at any time, subject to a $1 per CD (1 CD = $1,000 par value) trading fee.5 Most banks charge a penalty to liquidate one of their CDs. Note that while Fidelity attempts to support the secondary trading of the CDs it offers, the new issue market garners the most interest. Accordingly, investors attempting to sell CDs may experience limited liquidity in secondary markets.
Brokered CD offerings provide access to multiple banks' CDs. In addition, because brokered CDs are securities, purchasing one requires none of the paperwork that is required when purchasing a bank CD. By consolidating a number of brokered CDs in a single brokerage account at a single financial institution, you're reducing your paperwork, streamlining the purchase process, simplifying the process of managing multiple maturities, and potentially expanding your FDIC coverage under one account.
Because of the inherent safety and short-term nature of a CD investment, yields on CDs tend to be lower than other higher risk investments.
Like all fixed income securities, CD valuations and secondary market prices are susceptible to fluctuations in interest rates. If interest rates rise, the market price of outstanding CDs will generally decline, creating a potential loss should you decide to sell them in the secondary market. Since changes in interest rates will have the most impact on CDs with longer maturities, shorter-term CDs are generally less impacted by interest rate movements.
Since CDs are debt instruments, there is credit risk associated with their purchase, although the insurance offered by the FDIC may help mitigate this risk. Customers are responsible for evaluating both the CDs and the creditworthiness of the underlying issuing institution.
In the event the issuer approaches insolvency or becomes insolvent, the CD may be placed in regulatory conservatorship, with the FDIC typically appointed as the conservator. As with any deposits of a depository institution placed in conservatorship, the CDs of the issuer for which a conservator has been appointed may be paid off prior to maturity or transferred to another depository institution. If the CDs are transferred to another institution, the new institution may offer you a choice of retaining the CD at a lower interest rate or receiving payment.
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In the event that the original investor is deceased or permanently incapacitated, most brokered CDs carry a survivor's option feature (also known as a "death put"), which allows the estate of a deceased investor to "put back" or redeem both principal and accrued interest of that instrument without penalty. CDs that carry a survivor's option can generally be redeemed for par value when the survivor's option is exercised. To confirm that your CD has a survivor's option, click the description of your holding and, on the Bond Details page, locate the row Survivor's Option. Alternatively, if you are considering investing in a New Issue CD, locate the Attributes column and confirm the acronym SO is listed within the Attributes section. Issuers may limit the permissible early withdrawal of CDs to the FDIC insurance limits (currently $250,000 for each insurable capacity) and/or may limit the amount being put back in a particular time period. The survivor's option must be invoked by the estate prior to any account re-registration or transfer. For further information on exercising the survivor's option, or to learn more about potential survivor's option limitations of a particular CD issuer, please call Inheritor Services at (800) 544-0003.
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2. If you want to buy or sell a CD on the secondary market, Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC ("FBS") will charge you a mark-up or mark-down. This mark-up/mark-down will be applied to your order, and you will be provided the opportunity to review it prior to submission for execution. CDs are made available through our affiliate National Financial Services LLC ("NFS") and from various third-party providers, including participants on the Tradeweb Markets, TMC Bonds, and Knight Capital Group platforms, with FBS normally acting as riskless principal or agent. These offering brokers, including NFS, may separately mark-up or mark-down the price of the security and may realize a trading profit or loss on the transaction.
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Thousands of military service members will soon be undergoing the all-too-familiar ritual of receiving their orders to move to a different region of the country as part of a permanent change of station (or PCS).
PCS orders, which peak around now, trigger a cascade of issues for those service members with a family and children in tow. And one of the most difficult of those issues for soldiers, sailors, marines or airmen with school-age children is the worry over ensuring consistent and high-quality education for them.
Terri Batschelet, a longtime educator and military spouse, said service members who are also parents are often gripped by concerns every time new orders come through.
But all too often, service members who receive their PCS orders do indeed roll the dice when it comes to the education of their children.
In large part, the concerns are a function of the mobile lives military families lead. What sets military families apart is that they are highly nomadic – Department of Defense dependents often attend as many as nine schools during their K-12 years.
As a result, more than one million military-connected children, most of whom attend public schools, change schools at a rate far exceeding that of their civilian counterparts. Their education can suffer as students are regularly put at a disadvantage of being either ahead of or behind their peers when they put down roots in a new school.
One of the problems is that parents in the military lack clear and practical information on how to manage these many school transitions. They end up relying on informal networks of other military families. While those networks are essential and can provide invaluable insights, much more is needed.
In an effort to minimize those disadvantages and help military parents and their children transition in and out of new school districts, several military spouses and military-focused organizations banded together to provide a concise guide for service members with children in the K-12 age range.
"A Military Family's Guide to School Transitions" explains what parents need to know about a pending move and the impact on a child's education. It provides helpful tips on the need to gather detailed school records, on connecting with school liaisons at military installations and reviewing a child's curriculum at the old school and matching it against that of the new schools, and much more.
The Guide was compiled by military spouses with decades of experience moving their children in an out of schools because of ever-changing assignments.
Among the groups that have endorsed it are the Association of the U.S. Army, the Air Force Association, the Military Child Education Coalition, the National Military Family Association, Military Families for High Standards, the National Math + Science Initiative, the Military Impacted Schools Association, the Military Officers Association of America and the Navy League of the United States.
The Guide is a go-to resource for families once the PCS orders are received. When the time comes to depart for a new locale, the Guide can better arm military families with battle-tested strategies so that they might make the best educational choices for their children.
A former U.S. Navy officer, Jim Cowen is executive director of the Collaborative for Student Success.


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In situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction studies of the effect of microstructure on tensile behavior and retained austenite stability of thermo-mechanically processed transformation induced plasticity steel
Kun Yan, Klaus Dieter Liss, Ilana B. Timokhina, Elena V. Pereloma*
Transmission electron microscopy and in situ synchrotron high-energy X-ray diffraction were used to investigate the martensitic transformation and lattice strains under uniaxial tensile loading of Fe-Mn-Si-C-Nb-Mo-Al Transformation Induced Plasticity (TRIP) steel subjected to different thermo-mechanical processing schedules. In contrast with most of the diffraction analysis of TRIP steels reported previously, the diffraction peaks from the martensite phase were separated from the peaks of the ferrite-bainite α-matrix. The volume fraction of retained γ-austenite, as well as the lattice strain, were determined from the diffraction patterns recorded during tensile deformation. Although significant austenite to martensite transformation starts around the macroscopic yield stress, some austenite grains had already experienced martensitic transformation. Hooke's Law was used to calculate the phase stress of each phase from their lattice strain. The ferrite-bainite α-matrix was observed to yield earlier than austenite and martensite. The discrepancy between integrated phase stresses and experimental macroscopic stress is about 300 MPa. A small increase in carbon concentration in retained austenite at the early stage of deformation was detected, but with further straining a continuous slight decrease in carbon content occurred, indicating that mechanical stability factors, such as grain size, morphology and orientation of the retained austenite, played an important role during the retained austenite to martensite transformation.
Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2016.03.048
Published - 26 Apr 2016
Austenite to martensite transformation
High-energy x-rays
Synchrotron x-ray diffraction
Transformation-induced plasticity steel
Transmission electron microscopy
10.1016/j.msea.2016.03.048
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Yan, K., Liss, K. D., Timokhina, I. B., & Pereloma, E. V. (2016). In situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction studies of the effect of microstructure on tensile behavior and retained austenite stability of thermo-mechanically processed transformation induced plasticity steel. Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing, 662, 185-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2016.03.048
Yan, Kun ; Liss, Klaus Dieter ; Timokhina, Ilana B. ; Pereloma, Elena V. / In situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction studies of the effect of microstructure on tensile behavior and retained austenite stability of thermo-mechanically processed transformation induced plasticity steel. In: Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing. 2016 ; Vol. 662. pp. 185-197.
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A new story out today! A thank you to Les Weil and The Flash fiction Press for publishing The Dance of the Snow People. Check out the story and many others here.
Les was kind enough to direct me to his site after the story was declined by another magazine. Enjoy the story, and check out The Flash Fiction Press.


'S e baile mòr ann an Valle del Cauca, Coloimbia, a th'ann Buenaventura. Tha e suidhichte air an àirde an iar na dùthcha dìreach air oirthir a' Chuain Sèimhe aig 7m os cionn ìre na mara agus 128km air falbh bho Chali. 'S e baile le gnàth-shìde gu math teth a th' ann agus tha teodhachd mheadhanach dhe 28˚ aige, rè na bliadhna. 'S e Buenaventura an 18mh baile as motha na dùthcha. Chaidh am baile a stèidheachadh ann an 1550.
Mar a b'àbhaist ann an Aimearaga, chruthachadh na Spàinntich ainmean-àite le freumhan anns na creideamhan aca neo mar chuimhne air àiteachan agus daoine ainmeil thall anns an Spàinn: m.e. Sante Fe de Bogotá, San Bonifacio de Ibagué agus Santiago de Cali. Mar sin, fhuair am baile an t-ainm aige oir chaidh e a steidheachadh air an latha aig Naomh Bonaventure, neo Buenaventura ann an Spàinntis. Tha an t-ainm a' ciallachadh deagh àigh, bho buena (math) agus ventura (àgh).
Tha 328,794 nan tàmh anns a' bhaile fa leth, ach chan eil ach 35,847 dhuibh a' fuireach thall anns na sgìrean dùthchasail am broinn crìochan a' bhaile. Tha fearann na dùthcha sin ga roinn eadar na bailtean (Spàinntis: municipios) agus le sin tha gach clachan agus croit fo stiùireadh baile air choireigin. Air adhbharan trioblaidean poiliteagach air an dùthaich, tha a' mhòr-chuid dhe na daoine anns gach uile baile a-nis a' fuireach anns na bailtean fhèin, is na daoine a' fàgail na sgìrean dùthchasail.
Taobh chinnidh, ' s e daoine le freumhan ann an Afraga a th'ann a' mhòr-chuid dhe na daoine ann an Buenaventura (88.6%), ach tha 0.8% dhe Tùsanaich agus 10.6% dhe daoine geala/mestizos cuideachd. ' S urrainn dhan 83.4% dhe na daoine ann an Buenaventura leughadh agus sgrìobhadh. A tuilleadh air sin, chan eil fòn aig an taigh aig 31.8% dhe na dachannan.
Thathar a' cumail am iomadach seòrsa dhe fhèis ann an Buenaventura. Chithear fèilltean caitligeach, leis gur e dùthaich le mòr-chuid chaitligeach a th'ann fhathast, fèisean na stàite agus tachartasan ionadail a sheallas cho làidir 's tha beairteas cultarail na dùthcha.
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We are proud to be the home of the University of Arkansas but we are so much more. You will find small town charm with amenities and things to do usually found in a community much larger. Restaurants, shopping, entertainment and outdoor spaces make us a favorite for visitors and residents alike. We can't wait to see you!
In 1828, George McGarrah settled at Big Spring with his family on the modern day corner of Spring and Willow, founding the town of Washington, and starting work on the courthouse. Later in the year Postmaster Larkin Newton changed the name to the Fayetteville Courthouse, to avoid confusing with Washington, Hempstead County. During the American Civil War, the Union General Samuel Ryan Curtis occupied Fayetteville on Feb 18, 1862 and the following week, the Battle of Pea Ridge took place northeast of Fayetteville. The city housed wounded soldiers from the Battle of Prairie Grove in December 1862, and housed injured troops on Dickson Street. Confederate troops besieged Union soldiers in Fayetteville on April 18, 1863 at the present-day intersection of [College Avenue (U.S. Route 71B) and Dickson Street, and at their headquarters.
Here is a collection of downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas businesses. Clicking on the thumbnail image, or the blue "View Member" will take you to that businesses page. We've included some jump links so that you can easily navigate to different categories of businesses. Those, can be found directly below as icons. Or, there is a list of categories in the menu bar.


Wave-based shooters have become one of the most popular genres on the PSVR. The reason for this is simple; the genre lends itself well to the technology. You get to use both hands independently, there is very little full 360 rotation required (cutting down the ever-present fear of motion sickness) and the genre is a pick up and play treat. With these thoughts in mind, it's no wonder then that there are more wave-based shooters available for the PSVR than any other genre. So, you might ask, how can a new kid on the block stand out from the crowd in what is clearly an overcrowded market? The answer presents itself in the Wild West extravaganza Guns 'n' Stories: Bulletproof VR. Before we dive into this review it's worth pointing out that this is a PSVR game. So you're going to need a headset and also two motion controllers. The PS4 controller will not work on this game.
Ok, now we've got that out of the way, let me tell you a little bit more about Guns 'n' Stories: Bulletproof VR. Created by Mirowin, Guns'n'Stories: Bulletproof VR borrows heavily on the story-telling format of the PS3 classic Call of Juarez and reboots it with a welcome dose of tongue in cheek humour. In Guns 'n' Stories: Bulletproof VR you're cast in the role of a doting and slightly inebriated old-timer retelling the stories of his wild west glory days to his – somewhat incredulous – grandson. As you can imagine, the old-timer uses a large dose of poetic licence in his recollections which, ultimately, provides the comic relief that helps Guns 'n' Stories: Bulletproof VR truly shine. Plot wise, you're out to rescue your sweetheart Charlotte from whoever's kidnapped her and no-one's going to stand in your way.
The game comprises of three chapters, each with three levels and a super tough boss to take out at the end of each level. There's a wide assortment of weapons on offer ranging from your standard pistols to a TNT cross-bow and even a Tesla-style electric gun. Most of the weapons are held in each hand while some of them require you to hold the gun/motion controller in one hand while aiming with the other. We found these to be a little tricky and, like most of you, instinctively preferred the guns you can hold in each hand while spraying the town with bullets Matrix-style. Mirowin really want you to suspend your disbelief here by requiring virtually no re-loading and also giving you the ability to swat bullets out of the air with your gun. Something even Neo might have applauded.
Another nice touch we appreciated was the fact that your weapons of choice changed according to the old man's recollections. Sometimes his grandson chips in with a reality check that alters the game in a subtle way. A case in point, the old-timer is bragging about how he sprayed wave after wave of bad guys with lead until the kid points out that revolvers can't do that in 'real' life. So, the story shifts and you suddenly find yourself armed with a sub machine gun. Brilliant. As we said earlier, the witty dialogue in Guns 'n' Stories: Bulletproof VR really helps the game shine. Some of the one liners are actually quite funny while others are cringe worthy but in the best way. Either way, mowing down wave after wave of goons has never been so much fun. With the great writing, the games voice acting is both polished and believable. Both work together to create the feeling that you're actually in the Wild West listening to an old coot retelling his life story the way he'd like to remember it.
Graphically Guns 'n' Stories: Bulletproof VR looks great on the PS4. The character modelling and animation works brilliantly and the rag doll physics is a joy to behold when you're giving everything around you a dose of lead poisoning. The number of locations is limited – we counted nine in total – but you often get to revisit a location from a new angle, which gives it a fresh perspective.
The sound effects complement the action superbly and the musical score really sounds like something out of a Serio Leone spaghetti western. All in all, you'll take some three to four hours to complete the three chapters and probably another couple of hours for the bonuses levels. A great bargain for the games asking price. The only minor gripe we had with Guns 'n' Stories: Bulletproof VR was a complaint that can be levelled at most wave-based shooters. The action can get a tad repetitive very quickly and the longer levels are physically demanding on the arms. After you've been holding your arms out and shooting for a good twenty minutes, you welcome the level end cut scenes with a sigh of relief. It's to their complement that Mirowin have gone some way to tackling the genres repetitive nature by offering us humorous stories that pave the way for what is a fun rooting tooting shooter. Oh, and as for the title, 'Guns 'n' Stories.' It's a play of words on Gun 'n' Roses. But you got that joke, right?
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Virgin Atlantic ship Barbarella (G-VROM) departing Manchester enroute over EU England to Orlando.
A Beautiful Morning in Cornwall!
Before leaving for NZ (nearly 20 yrs ago now!), this beautiful valley was my home: just east of Stroud, Gloucestershire ... called "The Golden Valley" due to its stunning autumn colouring. Chalford is almost alpine in nature and as steep as many villages in the south of France. Aston Down, where I used to go gliding, is now (finally!) modelled in P3D - thanks to TEGB ... It's a shame TEGB does neither Cotswold stone nor autumn - but at least it's summer all the year round, which is how I like to remember it! Adam.
Buffalo Airways C-46 departed Fort Smith for Manning. I love the far north of openLC NA. Great textures. Early fall weather. Nice flight. Light was already short when I flew it on 27 October. I like the plane, but this thing is a bear to land in anything other than a breath of wind.
Just a short flight from Val-d'Or (CYVO) to Ontonagon County Airport (KOGM) on the southern shore of Lake Superior in the Comanche.
Some various shots from around the PNW, SAK and Norway. Departing Oslo in some miserable weather. Approaching KESE Eagle County Regional. High above KASE. High altitude visibility flying from PAVD to PAJN. Petersburg Harbor, Tongass Fjords.
Haven't posted for a while. But thought I'd share the latest leg of my world tour which started in Sydney and has now made it to Norway in short hops (54 so far!). Tonight's flight was from Bergen (ENBR Flesland Airport) to Sogndal (ENSG Haukasen Airport). Some very nice ORBX scenery on the way. The aircraft is the Cessna S550 Citation SII from Carenado. Taxiing at ENBR Leaving Bergen En-Route to Sogndal Landed at Sogndal Haukasen Airport.
Just a short IFR trip from unincorporated Gig Harbor to Snohomish County.
Leaving ESSA right at this moment.
Hi everyone, Just finished installing/tweaking the flightdeck to run ORBX True Earth - Netherlands. Stunning, there were times in the video the view seemed real. I just hope the United States is in their True Earth pipeline.
Hello, I have a desire ! Iam a P3D v4.2 user and I cant really understand why the Orbx night lighting isn´t that good like in XP11. The default lighting in XP11 is amazing and needn´t to buy something else for it. So my big wish is, that Orbx update the night lighting for P3D that it Looks like in Xplane11 ! Would it be possible for you to work on it ?
I have FSX installed on my computer and bought the full catalogue of ORBX. I am happily running ORBX on my FSX. I want to install P3D V4 concurrently with FSX on the same computer. How will I be able to use ORBX products on both sims? Do I need to re-install the add-ons for P3D? and if so, how? Will FTX Central do it? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you all.
I've been enjoying everyone else's shots but it's been a while since I posted some of my own. So ... here we go!!! A rainy-day Spitfire near NZAA: One of Matt (Jeansy) Levi's superb repaints - on the troublesome CAC Boomerang. The pilot is ready to abandon ship at a moment's notice! PMDG's wonderfully elegant DC-6B over NZWN. Artwork by Jankees Blom: No ... it's not the Mach Loop! More pics on the way! Adam.


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Argentina Rises Up Against Monsanto's Toxic Transgenic Seeds
By Phillip Schneider on May 14, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )
Phillip Schneider, Staff
Waking Times
Argentina is one of the most heavily polluted nations on earth thanks to decades long misuse and abuse of agro-chemicals, and farming communities and the nation's poor are suffering terribly from the disease and deformities associated with toxic exposure.
"Agrochemicals are now routinely found in homes, schools and drinking water nearby soy, cotton and corn fields. They are handled inside residential neighborhoods with little training or compliance regarding protective gear and mixing concentrations. Pesticide storage containers are often reused in farming communities, at times to even hold drinking water." [Source]
Now, in light of an impending eviction at a key resistance camp, which was blocking one of Monsanto's GMO seed plants in the province of Cordoba, Argentina, demonstrators in the hundreds took to the streets in Argentina to protest Monsanto and their attempts to continue to poison Argentinian lands and people with toxic products like glyphosate, which is now considered carcinogenic.
Argentinians stood in unanimity with the resistance blockade in Malvinas, Argentina's municipality in the province of Cordoba, where a camp has managed to suspend the construction of one of Monsanto's primary GE seed plants. The blockade was organized in 2013 "in favor of food sovereignty and life" and has recently been given a notice of eviction, which has only strengthened the movement. Activists consider the province of Cordoba in a state of "environmental emergency".
These demonstrators, located in Buenos Aires and other major cities, hammered Monsanto over the dangers of their products including genetically modified foods and round-up herbicide with active ingredient glyphosate, which has been declared by the World Health Organization a "probable carcinogen". They chanted "Out with Monsanto!"
These protests were sparked when Buenos Aires Governor Maria Eugenia Vidal had appointed a former Monsanto executive, Leonardo Sarquis, as the Minister of Agriculture in the province. From 2005 to 2007, Leo had previously been the general manager of Monsanto's vegetable seed division for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
In his first month in office, big agriculture was also given support by Mauricio Macri, the president of Argentina. His decision to remove taxes on corn, wheat, and beef exports as well as lower them for soybeans has eliminated funding for social programs and infrastructure. Monsanto has its eye on Argentina because of its role as the worlds largest producer of soybeans.
This incident however, is only a microcosm of Latin America's larger movement against biotech companies like Monsanto and their genetically engineered foods. Farming communities in Argentina, after accepting the use of GMO seeds, found themselves "using nine times more agrochemicals by 2013 at a combined 84 million gallons per year, compared to nine million gallons in 1990" in despite of corporate promises of lower pesticide/herbicide use.
In addition, herbicides and pesticides are used as close as 55 yards from populated areas.
"About one third of these [populated] provinces have no limits whatsoever". There are even cases of these GE crops being planted only a few feet away from classrooms and residential housing. One study links round-up, the most commonly used herbicide alongside GMO's as a potential cause of "Diarrhea, Skin Rashes, Depression, Thyroid Disease, Kidney Failure, [and] Cancer" [Source]
"I prepared millions of liters of poison without any kind of protection, no gloves, masks or special clothing," he said. "I didn't know anything. I only learned later what it did to me, after contacting scientists." [Source] …says one Argentinian farmer.
Indigenous activists in Mexico and Guatemala are also waging fierce resistance against Monsanto and the other agro-chemical giants, and worldwide, momentum is gaining to expose and stop the corporate assault on agriculture and our health.
Read more articles from Phillip Schneider.
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http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/12/01/how-monsanto-destroyed-rural-argentina/
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Opinion | University underserves in diversity promise
Lanie Hibel
Students sit on the Main Quad April 3. Columnist Andrea Martinez argues that students at the University learn about diversity, but not inclusion — about diverse communities, but not how to interact with them.
By Andrea Martinez, Columnist
The University prides itself not only in its academic achievements but also in its diversity. Over the years, the University has taken deliberate steps to advance underrepresented minorities.
The school boasts a hub of cultural houses, a Veteran's Center, disability services, diversity staff in each university residence hall and minority programs specific to each college, in addition to the Office of Minority Student Affairs.
The University also has dedicated staff for diversity and inclusion within its administrative departments. The purpose of these employees is to ensure the voices of minority groups are being heard and taken into consideration in administrative decisions.
However, this does not make the University immune to criticism on the subject. Try as they might, the problem does not go away by simply throwing money at the issue.
This University has a deep-rooted problem. The issue is not about the proportion of enrolled students who identify as people of minority groups, but rather, about the inclusion of minority groups.
Too often do people misinterpret the statistical data to mean the job is done; many believe that because the University offers certain types of services or a specific amount of resources for minority students that the issue has been solved.
That presumption is far from true. It remains that the "Inclusion" in "Diversity & Inclusion" has been left out of the solution. Admittedly, this issue has more so to do with the student body, rather than the administration itself.
Perhaps you found yourself in a classroom, wanting to befriend a nearby international student but are unable to approach them for fear of making them uncomfortable or simply because you might have nothing in common with them.
Maybe you considered visiting a cultural house or event to learn more about other cultures, but the thought of being the odd one out invokes a sense of worry for fear of being judged and mislabeled, so you would rather not go at all.
That is what being a minority at the University of Illinois — still a predominantly white institution — is like. It is the feeling of being afraid to communicate with people of other groups you do not feel included in and sometimes being the only minority in your classes.
Most importantly, the issue lies in the fact that, despite the diversity in our student body and the plethora of events and services available to all students regardless of minority status, many will not seek out those events, services and relationships if they do not feel included.
On this front, it is the fault of the University for not facilitating large-scale interactive diversity and inclusion workshops for its students the way they do for responsible drinking. Students at the University learn about diversity, but not inclusion — about diverse communities, but not how to interact with them.
The University talks the talk when touting its achievements in diversity, but it now must walk the walk by properly focusing enough resources into the department of inclusion.
Andrea is a junior in LAS.


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package goblin

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"regexp"
	"runtime"
	"sync"
	"testing"
	"time"
)

type Done func(error ...interface{})

type Runnable interface {
	run(*G) bool
}

func (g *G) Describe(name string, h func()) {
	d := &Describe{name: name, h: h, parent: g.parent}

	if d.parent != nil {
		d.parent.children = append(d.parent.children, Runnable(d))
	}

	g.parent = d

	h()

	g.parent = d.parent

	if g.parent == nil && d.hasTests {
		g.reporter.begin()
		if d.run(g) {
			g.t.Fail()
		}
		g.reporter.end()
	}
}

type Describe struct {
	name       string
	h          func()
	children   []Runnable
	befores    []func()
	afters     []func()
	afterEach  []func()
	beforeEach []func()
	hasTests   bool
	parent     *Describe
}

func (d *Describe) runBeforeEach() {
	if d.parent != nil {
		d.parent.runBeforeEach()
	}

	for _, b := range d.beforeEach {
		b()
	}
}

func (d *Describe) runAfterEach() {

	if d.parent != nil {
		d.parent.runAfterEach()
	}

	for _, a := range d.afterEach {
		a()
	}
}

func (d *Describe) run(g *G) bool {
	failed := false
	if d.hasTests {
		g.reporter.beginDescribe(d.name)

		for _, b := range d.befores {
			b()
		}

		for _, r := range d.children {
			if r.run(g) {
				failed = true
			}
		}

		for _, a := range d.afters {
			a()
		}

		g.reporter.endDescribe()
	}

	return failed
}

type Failure struct {
	stack    []string
	testName string
	message  string
}

type It struct {
	h        interface{}
	name     string
	parent   *Describe
	failure  *Failure
	reporter Reporter
	isAsync  bool
}

func (it *It) run(g *G) bool {
	g.currentIt = it

	if it.h == nil {
		g.reporter.itIsPending(it.name)
		return false
	}
	//TODO: should handle errors for beforeEach
	it.parent.runBeforeEach()

	runIt(g, it.h)

	it.parent.runAfterEach()

	failed := false
	if it.failure != nil {
		failed = true
	}

	if failed {
		g.reporter.itFailed(it.name)
		g.reporter.failure(it.failure)
	} else {
		g.reporter.itPassed(it.name)
	}
	return failed
}

func (it *It) failed(msg string, stack []string) {
	it.failure = &Failure{stack: stack, message: msg, testName: it.parent.name + " " + it.name}
}

func parseFlags() {
	//Flag parsing
	flag.Parse()
	if *regexParam != "" {
		runRegex = regexp.MustCompile(*regexParam)
	} else {
		runRegex = nil
	}
}

var timeout = flag.Duration("goblin.timeout", 5*time.Second, "Sets default timeouts for all tests")
var isTty = flag.Bool("goblin.tty", true, "Sets the default output format (color / monochrome)")
var regexParam = flag.String("goblin.run", "", "Runs only tests which match the supplied regex")
var runRegex *regexp.Regexp

func init() {
	parseFlags()
}

func Goblin(t *testing.T, arguments ...string) *G {
	g := &G{t: t, timeout: *timeout}
	var fancy TextFancier
	if *isTty {
		fancy = &TerminalFancier{}
	} else {
		fancy = &Monochrome{}
	}

	g.reporter = Reporter(&DetailedReporter{fancy: fancy})
	return g
}

func runIt(g *G, h interface{}) {
	defer timeTrack(time.Now(), g)
	g.mutex.Lock()
	g.timedOut = false
	g.mutex.Unlock()
	g.shouldContinue = make(chan bool)
	if call, ok := h.(func()); ok {
		// the test is synchronous
		go func(c chan bool) { call(); c <- true }(g.shouldContinue)
	} else if call, ok := h.(func(Done)); ok {
		doneCalled := 0
		go func(c chan bool) {
			call(func(msg ...interface{}) {
				if len(msg) > 0 {
					g.Fail(msg)
				} else {
					doneCalled++
					if doneCalled > 1 {
						g.Fail("Done called multiple times")
					}
					c <- true
				}
			})
		}(g.shouldContinue)
	} else {
		panic("Not implemented.")
	}
	select {
	case <-g.shouldContinue:
	case <-time.After(g.timeout):
		//Set to nil as it shouldn't continue
		g.shouldContinue = nil
		g.timedOut = true
		g.Fail("Test exceeded " + fmt.Sprintf("%s", g.timeout))
	}
}

type G struct {
	t              *testing.T
	parent         *Describe
	currentIt      *It
	timeout        time.Duration
	reporter       Reporter
	timedOut       bool
	shouldContinue chan bool
	mutex          sync.Mutex
}

func (g *G) SetReporter(r Reporter) {
	g.reporter = r
}

func (g *G) It(name string, h ...interface{}) {
	if matchesRegex(name) {
		it := &It{name: name, parent: g.parent, reporter: g.reporter}
		notifyParents(g.parent)
		if len(h) > 0 {
			it.h = h[0]
		}
		g.parent.children = append(g.parent.children, Runnable(it))
	}
}

func matchesRegex(value string) bool {
	if runRegex != nil {
		return runRegex.MatchString(value)
	}
	return true
}

func notifyParents(d *Describe) {
	d.hasTests = true
	if d.parent != nil {
		notifyParents(d.parent)
	}
}

func (g *G) Before(h func()) {
	g.parent.befores = append(g.parent.befores, h)
}

func (g *G) BeforeEach(h func()) {
	g.parent.beforeEach = append(g.parent.beforeEach, h)
}

func (g *G) After(h func()) {
	g.parent.afters = append(g.parent.afters, h)
}

func (g *G) AfterEach(h func()) {
	g.parent.afterEach = append(g.parent.afterEach, h)
}

func (g *G) Assert(src interface{}) *Assertion {
	return &Assertion{src: src, fail: g.Fail}
}

func timeTrack(start time.Time, g *G) {
	g.reporter.itTook(time.Since(start))
}

func (g *G) Fail(error interface{}) {
	//Skips 7 stacks due to the functions between the stack and the test
	stack := ResolveStack(4)
	message := fmt.Sprintf("%v", error)
	g.currentIt.failed(message, stack)
	if g.shouldContinue != nil {
		g.shouldContinue <- true
	}
	g.mutex.Lock()
	defer g.mutex.Unlock()
	if !g.timedOut {
		//Stop test function execution
		runtime.Goexit()
	}

}


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1) Consist of a research declaration.2) Provide a preview or exposition prepare for the essay.
Thus exactly what perform these pair of traits indicate?
1) A premise statement is actually the paragraph (or even sometimes sentences) that informs the viewers exactly what the position from the author is. When you are actually offered a composition question, the thesis claim is your clear as well as to the point response to the inquiry.
A 'thesis' is an 'argument', so the research declaration indicates exactly what the disagreement from the essay is actually, or even just what argument (or even standpoint) the writer of the essay will be actually putting throughout to readers.
2) An overview must introduce all the primary ideas that the essay are going to discuss. Argumentative compositions should provide documentation so as to backed-up or even support the research declaration. This suggests you have to supply proof to back up your response to the composition concern. So if your essay performs the reasons of the Holocaust, and your essay is actually heading to explain six main causes (two paragraphs on each), at that point your intro has to list (or introduce) each from these six principal sources. An essay chart or sneak peek is actually just a checklist from subjects that your essay are going to review. Often this listing is actually urled to your premise claim, or happens directly after this.
When creating an essay, you have to utilize 'subject sentences'. In the example our experts have actually been looking at of the Holocaust essay, I discussed that the essay will cover 6 reasons for the Holocaust as well as each reason will certainly have two paragraphs.
write a paper for me These paragraphes let the visitor know what the paragraph will certainly discuss (what the following indicate be explained in the essay is actually) as well as likewise relate the paragraph back to the introduction. This gives the essay a nice flow, and reveals that this has been effectively planned.
You can easily inform just what the subject matter of the first body paragraph is actually by reviewing the subject matter sentence, which is actually the first sentence in the paragraph.
A concluding paragraph goes at completion from a paragraph or subject, and also totals up for the readers what has actually merely been explained and also relates this back to the concern.
Topic sentences and also wrapping up paragraphes go before and after your paragraphs like a club sandwich, leading the reader with your essay.


Working from home is a dream a lot of new mums have so here I am trying to make it reality. I started making clothes for Loni, my 9 month old daughter just for fun, using left over material from my mums creations. I feel proud when I can dress Loni in something I have made. The uniqueness of her clothes and accessories catches the eye when we are out and about and we receive many compliments on my handiwork.
This is where the thought came to start making extras and selling them. I'm finding more and more people appreciating and seeking handmade goods for their children, other mums wanting to support one another so that is where 'Love Loni' started.
I'm having fun with it at the moment, with a few online sales here and there but I hope to grow into a business that can contribute to our household.
Thank you for reading and please remember to support local and handmade, it may cost a little more but just know that your purchase helps a family just like yours.


Are given to the kids before the start of classes and those donations are provided to those families who qualify. In short, K.E.S assists those parents who do not have money to buy their kids' school supplies.
Are given to the children to see those happy faces because they now have something to play with. Nowadays some parents do not have enough money to even cover the basic needs of the house much less buy toys for their kids. Therefore K.E.S. helps them to keep a smile on their kids' faces, especially during the holidays and birthdays.
K.E.S. has this program as an open door with general donations to help parents to keep their houses safe and healthy. These donations are announced periodically and then given away to those more in need.
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K.E.S. also donates backpacks with food for the children to eat while they are at home during the evenings and weekends because sometimes they do not have food to eat at home. The only meals for some of these kids are their breakfast and lunch at school on weekdays.
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A prison art competition calling for drawings of biblical images drew over 140 entries. Moana Tipa, Prison Art Advisor, Arts Access Aotearoa, reports.
A total of 96 art makers in 18 prisons across the country took part in the Bible Society of New Zealand competition. Six winning works will be included within the pages of a new bible for prisoners due for publication in 2011.
The inspiration for the initiative came from Stephen Opie, of Bible Society of NZ , a non-denominational organisation widely respected by churches across New Zealand.
The idea was progressed through Prison Chaplaincy Services Aotearoa NZ (PCSNZ), which saw the opportunity to work alongside and produce a bible specifically for prisoners.
One of those judges, Stephen Opie, was overwhelmed to see the responses on the walls in front of him.
His colleague, Silke Hendel, was surprised at the passion and knowledge of Christ amongst some of the art makers.
There were as many perspectives of Christ and Christianity as there were entries. There were equally as many levels of skill in the use of pencil, biro, coloured pencils as there was light, shade and depth.
The task of judging appeared somewhat daunting. How important was biblical accuracy? Could the judges agree on the spirit or the attitude of a work? The strength of the core idea and its translation into visual form was what eventually surfaced.
Where works were similar in content, design or in their markings, it was likely that art-makers had accessed the only Christian visual images available from prison libraries or been helped by others to make their works. Of the six works chosen, four were outstanding.
The winning work, The Fisher of Men, was original in every sense, featuring Jesus with a hand extended, a fishing boat in the sea behind him and Calvary in the distance.
One of the judges, Father Peter Healy, an artist and Chaplain of about four years at Wellington Prison, said his basic take on any creative pursuit is that it is a spiritual activity anyway.
He felt the face of Christ in the winning work had a real freshness.
A pencil drawing titled A bold, smiling Jesus, was thought to be a copy or a version of the well known poster 'the Laughing Jesus', standing with the rope of the fishing net draped easily over his hands.
The Cross of Jesus is another skillfully drawn work in coloured pencils. It has a strong meditative feel about it; an unexpected and insightful quality about the guard kneeling at the foot of the cross, holding the spear that pierced the side of Christ.
The Carved Cross of the Pacific presented a mix of responses. The small inset drawing of Jesus appears in part to be a copy of a well-known image, adjusted to the aesthetic of the artist. The easily drawn carving style of the cross could be Maori.
Stephen Opie drew attention back to the bold statement made in this work -- the easily overlooked paradox of the cross -- a symbol of the ultimate violence of humanity and the word 'love' carved into it.
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require 'spec_helper'
require 'belafonte/helpers'

module Belafonte
  describe Helpers do
    it 'includes all of the helpers' do
      [
        Belafonte::Helpers::MetaData,
        Belafonte::Helpers::Arguments,
        Belafonte::Helpers::Flags,
        Belafonte::Helpers::Restricted,
        Belafonte::Helpers::Sharing,
        Belafonte::Helpers::Subcommands
      ].each do |mod|
        expect(described_class.included_modules).
          to include(mod)
      end
    end
  end
end


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Categories Children's Chapter Books, West Virginia History
History of West Virginia
Anna Egan Smucker
The West Virginia story stretches back to the mists of prehistory and forward to the day before yesterday. During those many years, our land has been inhabited by the mysterious Mound Builders, by the Native American who followed them, and by the explorers, pioneers, slaves, and immigrants who contributed to the present population.
This book, by gifted storyteller Anna Egan Smucker, presents the history of the Mountain State as a lively tale of conflict and triumph, as West Virginians have stood up for themselves and the place they love. The larger-than-life figures – John Henry, John Brown, Mother Jones, the Hatfields, Chief Logan and Stonewall Jackson, among others – who populate our past are shown here as the rightful forebears of today's generation of Mountaineers.
"The history of West Virginia is the story of a place whose hills and hollows are a part of its people, a place where family has always been important," Ms. Smucker writes in her Introduction. "It is the story of people proud to call this beautiful, rugged land home."
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A roll of Koday's Ektachrome film.
Days after Kodak announced it would bring back its once-popular Ektachrome color reversal film, TIME has learned that other discontinued films could follow suit.
Ektachrome will be the first, once Kodak has developed a new version of the emulsion that will respect the new environmental regulations introduced since its demise in 2012. But others will also be dusted off. "We're already starting to evaluate what other films we could bring back and whether it would make sense to do it," Olbrich tells TIME.
Kodachrome film, which used to be a favorite of professional photographers until it was discontinued in 2010, uses a more complex emulsion that could only be processed by expert labs such as Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kans., which stopped processing the film in 2012. "It's much more likely that we will be bringing back other films than Kodachrome," says Olbrich.
Correction: The original version of this story misstated the type of film Ektachrome is. It's a color reversal film, not a color negative film.


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Raising the Bar in Engine Stand Utility and Beyond
Technological Innovations Are Not Limited to Engine Platform or Industry
Our recent product launch of the GEnx 1B-2B dual-purpose rollover engine stand was a watershed moment for Champion GSE and a true breakthrough in safety and ease of use for the commercial aviation industry. While the months leading up to the launch were busy with production benchmarks, customer validation and exhaustive testing, when it was over, we finally had a chance to reflect on what we had accomplished.
Our engineering team's driving motivation throughout the project was a desire to innovate — to develop a product that is safer, easier to use, and raises the bar in engine stand utility. Although the creation of the GEnx 1B-2B was the end result, this same approach applies to all products we could produce, in any of our customers' industries. Here are just a few of the technological innovations that could potentially apply to your products.
Multi-platform functionality — Our commercial aviation customers are not the only engine stand end users who would welcome the opportunity to reduce the amount of equipment they need to do their jobs. End users in multiple industries will be transitioning to a more universal approach to engine stands that consolidate engine platforms into a single stand. We're at the forefront of this movement and look forward to offering this technology to our broader customer base.
Hydraulically automated deployment — To minimize manual tasks, simplify field operations and increase crew safety, the dual-purpose engine stand utilizes hydraulic automation to deploy caster arms and the unit's shock isolation mount. These are features that we are already integrating into engine stands and containers for other customers as well.
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Medicinal Properties: 1:1 THC:CBD Ratio – a CBD rich strain.
Nordle was the name given by Howard Marks to the finest Afghan Hashish when we was discussing drug deals over the phone. The strain Nordle from Mr Nice Seeds maintained the wonders of that hashish from the 1960's in seed form. The CBD enriched version of this strain grows as a short, strong Christmas tree shaped plant. Its otherwise indica characteristics produce dence compact flowers. It is a fruity strain that gives off hints of freshly cut chives or wild garlic.


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Jay Pharaoh On How Comedy Helped Him Survive Depression
BY BUST Magazine
Comedian Jay Pharoah moves on from SNL with his own show, White Famous
Despite having achieved things by the age of 30 that most comics will only ever dream about—a six-season stint on Saturday Night Live and his own Showtime series, White Famous—Jay Pharoah is one humble dude. That is, until he talks about his famous impressions. "There's not one I haven't perfected," he says proudly of his status as the reigning king of imitation. In fact, long before the Virginia native made a name for himself online by impersonating everyone from Jay-Z to Stewie from Family Guy, Pharoah was using his skills to impress the ladies. "When I was six, I liked this girl named Sara, and I won her over with my impression of Iago from Aladdin," he says. "She was giggling like crazy. Giggling is always a good sign. But I worked with her at PetSmart when I was 18 and she didn't remember me. I was like, 'Was the relationship that bad?'"
Pharoah started acting in local theater at eight, but says he lacked confidence due to significant weight gain and struggles with depression. "I looked in the mirror and I hated myself. It felt like shit. I didn't have a reprieve—everyone said harsh things to me," Pharoah recalls. "My sister was my one light."
Fortunately, standup comedy became his escape. "I started doing standup at 15 and I got my confidence back," he says. "I still didn't go to prom—but I was cool. Depression is very dark and in order to survive it, you have to make light of life. I was lucky to have comedy to exorcise those demons."
Now, like Floyd Mooney, the character he plays on White Famous, which premiered in October, Pharoah is a comedian on the verge of another level of stardom. "I definitely see myself in this part," he says. "Floyd is hot on the underground and wants to cross over. He's trying not to lose himself. I'm the same way."
So did he start to lose himself at SNL? Pharoah doesn't like talking about his former employer, and in the past has said in reference to his departure, "You go where you're appreciated." But he now calls SNL "comedy boot camp" and says it was a great place to prepare for just about anything.
Despite his rising profile, Pharoah insists, "I'm still the same guy I was when I left Virgina." But at least one thing has changed. During our interview, he fields direct messages on Instagram from a stunning model. "I was told for years, 'You're ugly, you're fat.' That's how it was for me. I'm not used to DMs and butt pics," he confides. "For someone who wasn't popular in school, it feels like what Chris Rock said about fame. 'Now you become the hot chick.'"
By Sabrina Ford
Photographed by Ramona Rosales
Grooming: Christina Guerra; stylist: Charlie Staunton; clothes: Virgil Normal; location courtesy of Virgil Normal + Cereal & Such
This article originally appeared in the December/January 2017 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today!
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Mountain Echoes is a unique literary and cultural festival set in the pristine beauty of Bhutan. An initiative of the India-Bhutan Foundation in association with Siyahi, it aims to provide a platform for authors to engage in cultural dialogue and celebrate tales of a shared landscape in the Himalayan region. The festival enjoys the patronage of Her Majesty, the Queen Mother Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck.
Man has forever been haunted by the idea of echo. Sometimes in the form of retribution but often for the plain joy of hearing your voice resound on the other side – echoes are both, far-reaching and beautiful. Inspired by this poetic phenomenon, Mountain Echoes is making a comeback following the overwhelming response received by the literati in both Bhutan and India last year. In its second year, Mountain Echoes is bigger and better. There is no other way to grow but to learn to see the world from another perspective. –Mountain Echoes gives this opportunity to one and all by allowing them to enter in an almost parallel universe for four days this year between 20th to 23rd May. Bask in the beautiful weather of Thimphu, Bhutan and avail the opportunity to view theatrics, literary discussions and workshops against the striking, mountainous backdrop.
visit www.mountainechoes.org for more details.


All plants have unique characteristics and thrive under varying circumstances. Here you will find links to in depth descriptions about all of the plants that we use in our school gardens. Each card contains notes for planting, care, harvesting, and storing. The profiles are set-up on two pages so that you can print double-sided and end up with four cards per page. These cards are intended to be laminated and brought into the garden as a resource!


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The extraordinary success that Bill McIntosh has had with the business was very attractive to long-time customers Steve & Karen Creech, so On June 1st 2018 they became the new owners of Ohio Valley Stone Products.
They also own Creech's Lawn and Landscape in Lebanon which is a family-run and full service lawn, landscape, hardscape, and garden center founded in 1988.
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module LuceneQueryParser
  class Parser < Parslet::Parser

    # Public: find and explain errors in a query, if any
    #
    # query - the query to check
    #
    # Returns nil if the query is parseable, or a hash containing information
    # about the invalid query if not.
    def error_location(query)
      parse query
      nil
    rescue Parslet::ParseFailed => error
      cause = error.cause.ascii_tree
      cause =~ /line (\d+) char (\d+)/
      {:line => $1.to_i, :column => $2.to_i, :message => cause}
    end

    # ----- grammar definition -----

    root :expr

    rule :expr do
      space.maybe >>
      operand >> (space >> (operator >> space >> operand | operand)).repeat >>
      space.maybe
    end

    rule :operator do
      str('AND').as(:op) | str('OR').as(:op)
    end

    rule :operand do
      unary_operator.maybe >> (
        group |
        field |
        term |
        phrase
      )
    end

    rule :term do
      match["\\w'"].repeat(1).as(:term) >> (fuzzy | boost | wildcard ).maybe
    end

    rule :phrase do
      str('"') >> match['^"'].repeat(1).as(:phrase) >> str('"') >>
      (distance | boost).maybe
    end

    rule :distance do
      str('~') >> match['0-9'].repeat(1).as(:distance)
    end

    rule :group do
      str('(') >> space.maybe >> expr.as(:group) >> space.maybe >> str(')')
    end

    rule :field do
      match["\\w"].repeat(1).as(:field) >> str(':') >>
      (
        term | phrase | group |
        inclusive_range.as(:inclusive_range) |
        exclusive_range.as(:exclusive_range)
      )
    end

    rule :inclusive_range do
      str('[') >> space.maybe >>
      (range_word | range_wildcard).as(:from) >> space >> str('TO') >> space >>
      (range_word | range_wildcard).as(:to) >> space.maybe >> str(']')
    end

    rule :exclusive_range do
      str('{') >> space.maybe >>
      (range_word | range_wildcard).as(:from) >> space >> str('TO') >> space >>
      (range_word | range_wildcard).as(:to) >> space.maybe >> str('}')
    end

    rule :unary_operator do
      str('+').as(:required) |
      str('-').as(:prohibited) |
      (str('NOT').as(:op) >> space)
    end

    rule :fuzzy do
      str('~') >>
      ( str('0.') >> match['0-9'].repeat(1) | match['01'] ).maybe.as(:similarity)
    end

    rule :boost do
      str('^') >> (
        str('0.') >> match['0-9'].repeat(1) |
        match['0-9'].repeat(1)
      ).as(:boost)
    end

    rule :range_wildcard do
      match["*"].repeat(1)
    end

    rule :wildcard do
      str('*').as(:wildcard)
    end

    rule :word do
      match["\\w"].repeat(1)
    end

    rule :range_word do
      match["0-9a-z\\-."].repeat(1)
    end

    rule :space do
      match["\n \t"].repeat(1)
    end

  end
end


Google understands packets better than any, any, company on the planet. If you have trouble with that statement, go back to the sports page or People, and skip this.
AMD's new Fury X Enthusiast's AIB packs quite a punch for such a small package. Taking advantage of AMD's new stacked memory, the company was able to reduce the size of the board by removing all the memory chips that normally surround a GPU. But it's still a hot processor so AMD had to water cool it. That's OK because it comes as an assembled unit, and it runs a lot quieter than a multi-fan AIB.
AR lets you move; VR is restricted because you can't see the real world and so you bump into things. Sitting still in a planetarium or movie is not VR just because things are in 3D, or offer a 180-degree FOV (field of vision). To be VR it has to be interactive. And yet, the VR we have today is only interactive via an avatar. However, the Oculus Half Moon Touch system, Magic Leap's system, and startup Usens' Impression Pi (see story, page 11) offer the potential to allow people to interact more naturally in a virtual reality environment.
AMD's APU is now 10— how is it on 10?
In this episode of let's see if we can melt the processor, we tortured AMD's latest APU, the A10-7870k, a 28-nm part that competes nicely in price and performance against Intel core iN processors.
We covered the technical details of the A10-7870k in the June 5, 2015, issue of TechWatch.
With the launch of the GTX 950 Nvidia and its partners are bringing the high quality low power Maxwell 2 GPU to gamers with modest budgets.
The GTX 950 is based on the GM 206 Maxwell 2 the same processor that is in the Performance class GTX 960, however the GTX 950 contains 768 Cuda Cores cut down from 1024 with 48 texture units as opposed to the GTX 960 64.
Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated PC graphics add-in-board (AIB) shipments and suppliers' market share for Q2'15.
Discrete GPUs continue to slip as embedded GPUs in the CPU and APU bring better performance for free. The erosion of the low end of the market by tablets seems to have subsided, and even tablet sales were off for the second quarter in a row.
I remember, not too long ago, when Qualcomm was the darling of Wall Street, the prince of processors, the regal radio rogue, the king of the hill and the towers on the hill—until they weren't. And then their revenue slipped 7% in a seasonally down quarter, and the mobs called for a beheading and martial law in the boardroom. What in the world is going on here?
The computer graphics industry has been a growth industry since it was established in the late 1970s. It has weathered the storms of recessions and has emerged renewed vigor and potential, partly due to a big boost from mobile and the move to 4K, but also from emerging technologies including 3D scanning, 3D printing, augmented reality, and VR.


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module Config where
--
import qualified SDL
import qualified Data.Text as T
import Linear.V2 (V2(..))
--
--
winW  = 800
winH  = 600
winV2 = V2 winW winH
--
winConfig = SDL.defaultWindow
   { SDL.windowPosition = SDL.Centered
   , SDL.windowInitialSize = V2 winW winH
   }

rdrConfig = SDL.RendererConfig
   { SDL.rendererType = SDL.AcceleratedVSyncRenderer
   , SDL.rendererTargetTexture = True
   }

genConf :: T.Text -> (T.Text, SDL.WindowConfig)
genConf t = (t, winConfig)


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'Shadowhunters' and 'Grand Army': See our exclusive Sydney Meyer interview
Sydney Meyer, known for her roles in Grand Army and Shadowhunters sat down with us to discuss her roles and any new ventures. The Canadian-born actress dives into life before the camera and how influential TV can be for young people.
Here's our exclusive interview with Sydney Meyer.
Sydney Meyer has recently joined the cast of Netflix's new series Grand Army which is aimed at a young adult audience. The show focuses on a group of students at Grand Army High, the largest public school in Brooklyn. Meyer's character is named Anna who is smart, opinionated and acts as the motherly figure of the group.
Throughout the series, Meyer's character must navigate close acquaintance sexual assault and privilege disparity. Grand Army also highlights racial inequality and the significance of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Before Grand Army's debut, Sydney made a name for herself in other popular series throughout her career. Netflix show V Wars was one of the latest roles that Meyer took on. She played the role of Ava O'Malley and the show focuses on Dr. Luther Swann as he enters a world of horror when a virus is released from ice melting due to climate change.
Now, let's talk about the one and only – Shadowhunters. This show built a huge fan base over the seasons. Sydney describes her experience working on set as special as she began the process by joining in on table reads. Luckily, Meyer got cast as Helen Blackthorn in the supernatural show.
Teenage angst
Sometimes teen dramas are known for glamorizing what many teenagers suffer through every day. Sydney Meyer's latest role in Grand Army is important to her so she can highlight the real issues that many teens face. It's her hope that young people will see themselves in the series and characters. Hoping that they feel less alone.
Being the oldest person on set, Meyer felt a bit separated from her character initially. However, taking herself back to her own personal experiences provided enough inspiration to continue portraying Anna in a way that felt more authentic.
Looks like things aren't really slowing down for the twenty-five-year-old actress. Sydney Meyer mentions that she will be embarking on a new project with her fiance. COVID-19 has messed with other plans, but Meyer hopes her newest venture will blossom.
Make sure to read through our interview transcript below.
What drew you to becoming an actress?
Oh gosh. I mean, it kind of sounds like an accident. I honestly was at a school that I was very unhappy with when I was young, I was bullied. And I was in a small town and you had to go to your district school and my parents found this school that was a School for the Arts that if you audition, and you got in anyone from any district could go, and that seemed like the only way that I could get out of my home schools.
So I auditioned and you have to do all the arts and I played him, we kind of didn't think I was going to get in. But I did. And I ended up going and from grade four to eight, I was at that school and we did a play every year, we studied Shakespeare, and I just really fell in love with the language of Shakespeare.
I at the time, was so academic minded, and I loved that and I loved being on stage. And I really got drawn into theatre. And I think that was kind of like my gateway into it. I love being on stage. I love Shakespeare, and it kind of like developed and developed and developed and I had a friend who had a TV show, she was on a being on stage.
I love Shakespeare and it kind of like developed and developed and developed and I had a friend who had a TV show, she was on heartland and she kind of like opened the door for me into film and TV and showed me that there were other options and I just fell in love with telling stories in that way.
No, I've never been on Heartland that was her show. But we just grew up down the street. So it was just, you know, it was just the matter of connections. Yeah, she had the show. And so we kind of like talked about it. And I started to understand that that was a world that was like possible.
My first TV job I think I ever did was like, a docu-drama series that was like, reenacting real things that happened. And I think I was maybe like, 15 years old. And then after that, it was to grassy, and I just did like guest stars for a bit. And then my first recurring role was on Shadowhunters.
What was the first project you ever worked on, and what did you learn from that experience?
Shadowhunters was so special to me, because, um, I mean, that was just such a mind blowing experience for me, because I got Shadowhunters. Because I worked the table reads for like two years, would go for two years, every week or week and a half. And I would fill in for the roles that weren't there.
And it was amazing for me, because I was watching these incredible actors work. And I got to know them as people. And I got to know the writers and directors, producers, and I'm watching these people work at such like a high level. And to me, I had never been recurring on a show. And it's just amazing to get to be a part of that.
And they were so welcoming. I, you know, I was invited to the rap parties, I got to like, be a part of their community. And they were so warm to me. And then they just kept being like, Oh, you know, you're so great as a reader, like we should find a park for you on the show. And I didn't think that that was real.
And eventually, it was and that was just so special for me that these people that I had worked with for years, like just welcomed me into the community of their show, and trusted me with that. So that was so special for me.
And I had to read the books by that point, because I've been doing the table reads and I thought Helen was amazing. And the books I thought she was so cool. So that was like just so special that I got to play Helen.
I've learned so much about like, the way that your personal attitude towards the work can permeate a set. I've been on sets where, you know, like on V Wars, Ian and Adrian were so incredibly positive and like having people at the top of the cast that were so warm and positive and generous with their time, that really radiated downwards.
And I think that that, for me was such a lesson of like, if I'm ever leading a cast, I really want to be that way. And I want to be aware of the fact that like, even if you're having a bad day personally, you can bring that to set and it makes such a difference for everybody else.
If you're being positive and you're giving so much to the other actors and, like really just learned so much about taking You know the time that you need as an actor on set to make sure that the work is what it needs to be at the end of the day because it's such a fast moving environment.
Sometimes you can get caught up in that and like Not wanting to take that extra time, but it makes such a difference sometimes to just take that extra 10 minutes in let it settle in, and it can change the whole scene. So I've really learned a lot from them about Like owning your space in your work and settling into it.
How was your experience working on Grand Army?
Grand Army was such a unique experience I think because I've never been on a set that was full of so many theatre-based actors and also like in a project sight. You know, our showrunner wrote the play and it was incredibly theatre based.
So there was a lot of room for that kind of work. Which are usually isn't on a set and because it was Section emotionally dense show There was a lot of space for like process those emotions you know we had an incredible intimacy coordinator And they would be times that after A table read that was particularly emotional.
We would just all stop Like not go back to filming and we would sit And talk about what that was bringing up for us. We were feeling and work through that first before you Went back to filming and sometimes on a set.
There's not space for that but I feel like it was, um, it was treated with such respect in that way that they understood that it was a very emotional storyline and our intimacy coordinator was always there for us.
If he wanted to go sit in the trailers and speak about what our experience was that we were going through emotionally to work That out so that we were able to do the work there was space for that which was just great and the cast became very close and like a family because I think there was a lot of trust.
When developing your character Anna, what did you draw inspiration from?
It was interesting for me, because I mean, I'm the oldest one on the set. So playing someone that 16 I had to really like, try and remind myself, there were so many times that I was very judgmental of Anna of like, Why is she doing that? That's so stupid like that. So you'd have to be like Sydney, when you're 16? Didn't you do things like that and think like that, that. That's what happens when you're 16.
You know, you're emotional, and you're impulsive. And you're not seeing things with the full spectrum. And I had to really, like have some grace and forgiveness for my character, for the fact that she's 16, you know, and all these characters are of their age, but they're also still children. And so there was a lot of like, going back to that place when I was 16.
In my experience in high school, and there were a lot of kids on the set that were still in high school. And so there was a lot of that kind of work for Anna and then I think so much of it was.
Yeah, like working with the intimacy coordinator and going into those vulnerable places and my characters, best friends with Joey and Odessa, who plays Joey actually was living with me while we were filming. So that came very easily, you know, we did build that relationship. We were so close.
And so that was very, very natural, like that relationship kind of built itself and that trust between her and I was there. And that was very easy.
How does Grand Army set itself apart from other teen dramas like Degrassi and Riverdale?
I feel like those shows try to make . . . I mean, those shows are so entertaining, and they're wonderful and they're fun, but I think they also in a way try to make the dark parts of teen life or the hard parts of teen life seem like fun or like glamorous in a way they're very pretty and they're shot beautifully in there.
It's like an elevated visual plane of those type of experiences. And, and grind army kind of does the opposite. Like it dives into the gritty part of it and the way it shot. It's like, it feels like you're in there with the kids. It feels like you're in school with them.
It's not this like beautiful, pretty picture. It's kind of goes the opposite direction. And there's times that you're watching and it's uncomfortable. And I think it kind of tried to do the opposite thing of like, it's not fun to go on these adventures of these dark things all the time. It's sometimes it's like this is real life and this is what kids are dealing with and we need to be able to have those conversations.
And talk about it in ways that people need to understand that maybe this is what your kids are going through. Or maybe this is what your friend is going through and you haven't been able to discuss it openly. And so I think it kind of tried to like de glamorise, those things.
There's so much misconception about what it is to be young today. I mean, there are so many comforts now today and I think that that makes a lot of adults look at youth and say you have it so good. When I was your age, it wasn't like that. And I think it makes a lot of young people feel very misunderstood and makes them feel like they're not heard.
It makes them feel like what they're going through. They're going through alone, and I think it's important for shows to shed light on what is going on in In the lives of young people today so that it opens up conversation
Not only between young people But between adults and young people as well so that young people can watch the show. And feel seen and feel heard. See that there perience is not isolated that other people have gone through this They can find a way to speak about with their peers, with their parents, with the teachers with Whatever that this can be a doorway to open up those conversations in a way that it's like you might think.
It's all Instagram and whatever and it might be easier but there's also So a lot of things going on today that kids have to deal with. It's really tough and and it's worth talking about and opening up those conversations.
What are you bingeing on Netflix right now?
Honestly, I feel like a few months ago It was all like dead to me and kind of Darker shows and I think since growing teen we've Kind of lightened it up a bit and now it's like shifts. Creek and we've finished like selling sunsets and And we've been watching kind of later Later shows a little bit because I think that's kind of like where we're at right now, we go up and down. It's a lot of that and also true crimes. We're very into true crime. So we watch a lot of unknown household.
Oh my god, Chrishell. Are you kidding me? It's ridiculous to me that so many people are like, I love Christine. I'm like, I'm sorry. I don't understand that. I mean, I'm all for strong women, but I think there's a difference between strength and just like cruelty. My gut might be Goodness.
What's next on the docket for you?
Strangely enough, I have two projects that I'm shooting with my fiance next which I'm very excited about. That's what An actor couple's dream who gets to do that. That's so weird. Which both happened like by them,
So we had our first workshop fitting today for a TV show that we're shooting together. And we go to camera next week, which is awesome. I'm so excited so I get to shoot a TV series from him for several months and we play love interests.
It's like a dream. The first project we were supposed to shoot to get There was a film and it was supposed to start filming like right when The first wave kind of pet and it Spin just kind of Definitely so definitely was held off because of COVID.
And then we kind of like had self tapes for COVID. I shot a guest are just recently but I think we were a bit more cautious than a couple of Like we have friends that we're going back to set but I have an autoimmune disease. So we were pretty happy to let Like, stay at home.
When wasn't that great? We were like, Oh, we don't know if we really want to go back. Because that right now, because sets are so many, it's just so many people. And we just weren't gonna chance it until it was like a little calmer. But people did go back to work, but we were pretty happy to just let that rest until things calm down a bit.
Do you have any advice for any up-and-coming actors?
The thing I always was like, I think I read this in a book or something. And I was, for me, that was my interpretation of high school was like, if life were to suddenly get easy, I doubt it would happen in high school. You know, and I think that that's something that I when I was in high school, if someone told me that I'd be like, Oh, thank God, like, I'm doing fine, you know, um, but also just like, trust your instinct more.
Your, you know, what you're doing, you know, when people are fooling you, or, you know, you know when to believe in yourself, you know, when to take chances, you know, when things are being presented away that they're not. And I think when you're young, it's so easy to put your trust in other people because you think they're older than you and they know better. And sometimes you have to just trust yourself and what's right for you. And I think I would have told myself to just believe in me more.
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Rianna is an honest writer with a sense of humour and a keen eye for detail. She is a recent graduate with a lot of love for all things film & TV. When she's not bingewatching the latest show, she sings along to music and travels – sometimes simultaneously.
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We actually have critters moving into the new stones on the Reef already. Crabs and lobsters have been spotted and plant life is starting to flourish.
West Stone – A mature stone with lots of habitation, placed May 2012.