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At Shriners Hospitals for Children — Greenville, approximately one third of the patients we care for with progressive infantile scoliosis can be cured. Jackson is proud to be in that statistic.
At age 4 months, Jackson was diagnosed with progressive infantile scoliosis, a curvature of the spine. Jackson's mother, Jennifer, a pediatric nurse, immediately sought treatment from Shriners Hospitals for Children.
"We chose the Shriners Hospitals for Children network because they are the "gold standard" for treating progressive infantile scoliosis," Jennifer said. "We wanted our son to be treated in a place with a large caseload of kids like him. We specifically chose the Greenville Shriners Hospital because of Peter Stasikelis, M.D. I work closely with the Infantile Scoliosis Outreach Program (ISOP), and Dr. Pete is a very highly regarded professional in Mehta casting. He is known in ISOP for having great success with straightening spines."
At 16 months of age, Jackson was placed in his first Mehta cast. A Mehta cast is a plaster cast that is applied in the operating room from the patient's collarbone to the bottom of the spine. When the cast is applied, pressure is placed on the cast causing the spine to straighten. When the cast hardens, it holds the spine in this position. Subsequent casts each progressively straighten the patient's spine. Jackson wore each of his Mehta casts for two to three months, and then had a one week break before having the next cast put on. At age 3 and nine Mehta casts later, Jackson's spine is completely straight.
"When we began casting at age 16 months, Jackson's curve was around 50 degrees," Jennifer says. "Now, he is at zero degrees at 37 months! Jackson's straight spine feels like a new beginning and his future is unlimited. It's difficult for me to imagine what his future would have been without Mehta casting and Shriners Hospitals for Children — Greenville. Now, I feel like Jackson's incredible spirit won't be hindered by his physical deformity! He has been through a lot in three years, but now the story has a happy ending. I feel an immense relief that we acted in time, that we found the best place for treatment and that Jackson is cured!"
Jackson maintained his perfectly straight spine by wearing an orthosis, or brace, for one year. Since then, Jackson has been brace free and has maintained his straight spine for four years. He will be continually monitored at the Greenville Shriners Hospital to make sure his spine remains straight as he grows.
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Q: Jerky real time plot from serial port (USB UART interface - FTDI) in Processing I'm a newbie of Processing and I'm trying to plot some data received from the serial port.
I have a lot of accelerometers (~10) and I verify that the sketch receives all the data at 100Hz.
I want to plot only the data from one accelerometer at time.
If I stream the data from only one accelerometer the plot work flawlessy, but if I try to stream three of them (plotting only the first one) the plot works jerky.
The strange thing happens when I try to stream 4 or more of them, because unexpectedly the plot starts to work better and better when I increase the number of streaming accelerometers.
I notice that the serialEvent() and the draw() works correctly on two indipendents threads, but their alternance change in a strange way when I add more accelerometers.
In the worst condition, if I print the System.currentTimeMillis() for the draw() ["#" symbol] and the "add-value-of-the-first-accelerometer-to-the-array()" inside the serialEvent() ["_" symbol] I have something like:
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The final effect is a jerky plotting of the data.
This doesn't happen when the sketch receive few data (one accelerometer) or a lot of data (more than 6 accelerometers).
Where I'm wrong?
Thank you very much for any help!

A: I find the solution!
I have to change the settings of the USB UART interface (FTDI).
Infact I found that the data latency is related to the USB Buffer Size and the Latency Timer (Device Manager -> COM Ports -> USB Serial Port -> Properties -> Advanced).
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How to Season a Cast Iron Waffle Iron and Other Cookware
Written by Tosh Lubek in Cookware,Guides
Although some manufacturers pre-season their cast iron and carbon steel cookware, it is generally a good idea to season it yourself. Seasoning will help prevent corrosion and reduce the likelihood of food sticking.
If plain stainless steel or aluminium cookware is seasoned it is purely to help minimize sticking and improve browning, since these metals do not require protection from corrosion. Other types of cookware do not require any seasoning prior to use.
To season a cast iron griddle, pan, skillet, or waffle maker, the surface is cleaned, then thinly coated with oil or fat. The cookware is then heated in an oven at 450-500°F, to form a bioplastic layer by the polymerization of the fat. Four layers of seasoning are normally applied prior to first use.
The rest of this article includes a step-by-step guide on how to season cast iron cookware. The process is basically the same, whether the cookware is a griddle, pan, skillet, or waffle iron. I also discuss suitable fats and oils for seasoning cast iron cookware later in this article.
A cast iron grill pan before seasoning (left) and after seasoning (right)
How to Season Cast Iron Cookware
If seasoning old cast iron cookware, ensure it is stripped down to the bare metal surface and that it is clean and rust-free. This may require soaking in a bath of lye and vinegar and the use of a cast-iron scrubber or stainless-steel cast-iron cleaner. Once the cast iron has been stripped to the bare metal surface, proceed as you would with new cookware.
To season your cast iron cookware for the first time, follow these steps.
Step 1: Place a layer of aluminium cooking foil in your oven below the rack where you will place the cast iron cookware. The foil will catch any drips of fat or oil and prevent damage to the oven.
Cover the base of the oven with foil to catch any drips of oil
Step 2: Preheat the oven to 200°F (95°C).
Preheat the oven to 200°F (95°C)
Step 3: Clean your griddle, pan, skillet, or waffle iron in hot, soapy water, using a kitchen cleaning brush or sponge. Clean both the cooking surface and the base. If you are preparing a cast iron waffle iron, separate the two halves (if possible) to make the process easier.
Wash the cast iron cookware to remove the manufacturing residue
Step 4: Washing removes any factory residue on new cookware and will ensure old cast iron cookware is completely clean. Make sure you rinse it thoroughly because you don't want to remove any residues and then leave some soap on the surface.
Rinse the soap off the cast iron
Step 5: Dry the cookware with a kitchen towel or paper kitchen roll. Then put the cookware into the preheated oven for 20 mins to evaporate any remaining moisture.
Dry the cast iron with a cloth
Step 6: After 20 minutes in the oven use an oven mitt or glove to remove the cookware from the oven and place it on a heat resistant surface, like a wooden board.
Remove the cookware from the oven
Step 7: Turn up the temperature of the oven to between 450°F and 500°F (230-260°C).
Turn the oven up to 500°F
Step 8: Return to the cast iron cookware. Apply about a tablespoon of oil or fat to the warm metal surface. Then use a paper kitchen roll to rub the oil into the metal. Also, coat the underside and handle. For a cast iron waffle iron, you can also use a pastry or silicone brush to get the oil into all the grid channels and gaps to ensure a thorough coating of oil.
Coat the cast iron with oil
Step 9: Using a lint-free cloth, or paper kitchen roll, wipe off any excess oil. You only want a thin layer of oil to remain on the metal surface.
Wipe the excess oil off with a lint-free cloth
Step 10: Return the cast iron griddle, pan, skillet, or waffle iron to the oven, placing it on the shelf above the foil. Allow the cast iron cookware to bake for at least an hour. For best results do not open the oven while the cast iron is baking.
Put the cast iron cookware back into the oven
Step 11: After a minimum of one hour, turn off the oven and let the griddle, pan, skillet, or waffle iron cool in the oven. This will take at least an hour. If you find that your seasoning is a little sticky to the touch, you need to raise the temperature of the oven, and/or keep the cookware in the oven for longer.
Allow the seasoned cookware to cool in the oven for an hour
Step 12. When the cookware is cool enough to handle, repeat steps 7-11 a total of three times. You want to have seasoned the cast iron cookware a total of four times. This will start the formation of the protective layer on the surface, which should begin to appear darker than the original surface.
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What oil should you use to season a cast iron cookware
Many fats and oils can be used to season cast iron cookware, and in the process form a layer of polymerized oil on the surface of the metal. Oils that readily polymerize tend to be those that have more highly unsaturated fats. However, the most highly unsaturated oils also tend to produce less durable polymer layers and contain less carbon.
Flaxseed (linseed) oil, one of the most highly unsaturated oils, is recommended by many, and it does produce an extremely attractive finish to cast iron cookware. Unfortunately, the seasoning is not durable under regular use. If you collect cast iron cookware purely for display purposes, Flaxseed oil is a perfect choice to season your pans. But if you also wish to use your cast iron cookware you may wish to choose an alternative.
Some people advocate using animal fats, such as lard or bacon grease. I don't have a problem with using either of these fats, they both work well when seasoning cast iron cookware. The main problem is that over the last few decades dieticians have advised against heavy use of animal fats. Consequently, because most of us have stopped the regular use of these fats we no longer have them available in our refrigerators.
Good options for seasoning cast iron cookware include Crisbee cast iron seasoning, Crisco all-vegetable shortening, Canola (rapeseed) oil, refined Grapeseed oil, and Sunflower oil.
What is probably more important than the actual oil or fat, is to follow the seasoning procedure without cutting corners to try and save time.
Only apply a thin layer of oil each time you season the griddle, pan, skillet, or waffle maker. A little will go a long way, so wipe off any excess. Get the oven hot (around 500°F) and bake your cast iron cookware for at least an hour. DO NOT take the cast iron cookware out of the oven when you turn down the heat, let it cool down in the oven for around an hour. Then repeat until you have at least four layers of seasoning.
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Why do you need to season cast iron cookware including a waffle iron?
Cast-iron cookware needs to be seasoned to prevent rusting and food from sticking. The seasoning process creates a thin layer that repels water and at the same time attracts cooking oils. This layer keeps cooking food away from the bare metal, preventing it from sticking. The layer also prevents rusting.
Because seasoning cast iron cookware is not just about forming a non-stick cooking surface, the entire surface needs to undergo the seasoning process. This includes both upper and lower surfaces and the cast iron handle.
Corrosion resistance and being non-stick are obviously advantageous properties when baking, frying, or grilling with cast iron cookware.
Finally, seasoning also creates an attractive patina on the cast iron. The surface acquires a kind of sheen that also grows darker. This latter feature is due to the formation of carbon as the oil or fat is polymerized and baked onto the cast iron surface.
Maintaining the Seasoning on Cast Iron Cookware
You need to maintain the seasoned layer on cast iron cookware to prevent corrosion and food from sticking. Fortunately, all that is necessary is to keep using your cast iron cookware or waffle iron. Greasing it prior to cooking will produce additional polymerization of oil on the cooking surface. In this way, the seasoning will improve overtime as you use the cookware or waffle iron.
If you make waffles regularly, each use will help develop and maintain a non-stick surface, so you can enjoy perfect waffles every time. But make sure you do not ruin the seasoned cast iron by aggressive cleaning.
A traditional (and very old) Scottish cast-iron girdle for making pancakes, scones and soda bread over a peat fire
In the 1980s a lady from the Highlands of Scotland told me the secret of keeping her traditional Scottish cast-iron girdle (also known as a griddle) in perfect condition and ready for the next time it was needed to bake pancakes or scones.
The girdle was about 12-inches in diameter with a 1/4-inch thick base and a foldable half-moon handle for hanging the girdle over a peat fire (like to the image above). I later bought a similar girdle at a "farm roup" (farm auction or farm displenish sale) and used it on my stovetop. I followed her instructions for my girdle and other cast-iron cookware and have never had any problems. This is what the lady told me.
Do not use harsh soaps or detergents to clean the cast iron, just wipe the surface clean with a damp cloth.
Warm the cast-iron girdle over low heat and melt a tiny knob of fat on the surface.
Use a cloth to rub the melted fat across the surface, then wipe away any excess fat.
Allow the girdle to cool, then store it in a cupboard or hang it up.
What happens when cast iron cookware is seasoned?
When cast iron cookware is seasoned, a layer of polymerized fat forms on the metal surface, due to chemical changes of the oil when it reaches its smoke point. Carbon is also formed at the smoke point, some of which is retained in the polymer layer and enhances its non-stick properties.
It is this polymerized oil and carbon layer that creates a corrosion-resistant seal around the metal surface and that helps the cookware to be non-stick.
How long does it take to season a cast iron waffle iron?
Seasoning cast iron cookware requires the build-up of four layers of seasoning, a process that should not be rushed. Creating each layer of seasoning takes about two hours, so to fully season a cast iron waffle iron can take 8-10 hours.
How to season an electric waffle maker
A waffle maker with a non-stick coating does not necessarily need seasoning, but it can be done. First, clean the grids, then apply oil with a pastry brush, and leave. After 30 minutes switch on and set the heat to high for a further 30minutes. Finally, allow the waffle maker to cool.
The waffle maker is seasoned and can be used to make fabulous waffles.
Seasoning cast iron cookware is not a complicated process, but it does require a little effort and a few hours in a hot oven. The exact choice of oil or fat is not critical, although it is claimed that oils are better than others, with Crisco being a perennial favourite. What is more important is to keep the cast iron in a hot oven for at least an hour and then allow it to cool in the oven after the heat has been turned off.
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La nave dei mostri (La nave de los monstruos) è un film messicano del 1960 diretto da Rogelio A. González. Si tratta di una commistione di fantascienza e commedia ranchera.

Trama
La regina di Venere invia in missione nell'universo due formose astronaute, Gamma e Beta, affinché ne riportino esemplari maschi per ripopolare il pianeta, rimasto a corto di uomini.

Le due donne, che nel viaggio sono accompagnate dal robot Tor, finiscono sulla Terra, mettono gli occhi sul "charro" Lauriano e subito se ne innamorano. Gamma è buona e dolce, ma Beta è fatta di ben altra pasta e vorrebbe Lauriano tutto per sé (forse intende anche ucciderlo, essendo lei una vampira). Quando Beta riceve una condanna a morte dalla regina di Venere per aver vampirizzato un terrestre, essa si ribella, prende il controllo del robot e libera dall'astronave quattro mostri prigionieri: Uk il ciclope, Utirr una creatura aracniforme, Tagual il principe di Marte e Zok lo scheletro vivente, col progetto di conquistare la Terra.

Produzione
La pellicola fu girata nell'aprile-maggio 1959 (riprese iniziate il 20 aprile) negli Studi Churubusco.

Accoglienza e distribuzione
L'anteprima messicana del film si tenne il 22 gennaio 1960 al cinemex Palacio Chino di Città del Messico. In Italia, invece, fu distribuito dalla I.F.I. nel 1961. Praticamente ignorato nel periodo della sua prima uscita, nel corso degli anni è diventato per molti un piccolo film culto.

Il doppiaggio venne affidato alla CID. La voce italiana del charro Lauriano è quella di Raffaele Pisu, allora celebre anche per le sue partecipazioni a note trasmissioni televisive come L'amico del giaguaro.

Nel 2011 il film è stato distribuito in italiano in DVD per la Sinister Cinema.

Colonna sonora
La colonna sonora originale è opera di Sergio Guerrero. Durante il film, Eulalio González  canta le seguenti canzoni, scritte da lui stesso: Estrella del Deseo, Nace el Amor, Levantando Polvareda e La Embarcación. Inoltre, durante la sequenza ambientata nella grotta, egli canta e balla insieme alla Velázquez il celebre cha-cha-cha Eso es el amor del 1958.

Collegamenti esterni

Film commedia fantascientifica

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The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 1
Jeremy Pelt
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt is known for making hard-hitting original music with inordinately gifted peers, but The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 1 finds him in a pared-down trio setting, playing mainly ballad standards with two older master musicians: pianist George Cables (mid-seventies) and bassist Peter Washington (mid-fifties). Pelt, nearing his mid-forties at this point, has matured into the kind of player who can pull this off: a restrained, intimate setting without drums, reminiscent of nights at the celebrated Lower Manhattan club Bradley's back in the day. Cables was among the elite piano greats who performed there, and his playing here is undimmed, big in sound, and effortless in swing.
After Pelt's own "Love Is Simple" leads off, the trio takes up standard repertoire and does it just right on "Little Girl Blue," "Then I'll Be Tired of You," and "Always on My Mind" (the one by Green and Newell, not to be confused with Willie Nelson's hit). "While You Are Gone," by the unheralded bop tenorist Lucky Thompson, is an unexpected ballad gem. And then there are the duos: Cables' "Ebony Moonbeams," a trumpet-piano foray with elegant modern harmony and a stealthy odd-meter pulse; "Ab-o-lutely," a trumpet-bass blues throwdown in B-flat, as casual and spontaneous as it is intense; and finally "I'll Never Stop Loving You" by Brodszky & Cahn, which brings The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 1 to a moving, ruminative close.
Love Is Simple
I've Just Seen Her
Then I'll Be Tired of You
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While You Are Gone
Ab-o-lutely
I'll Never Stop Loving You
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Splinter Cell GC release date pushed up
The GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions of Ubi Soft's Splinter Cell will be shipping on the same day.
By Giancarlo Varanini on March 27, 2003 at 4:18PM PST
Ubi Soft has announced that the GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell will ship on April 8. The Game Boy Advance version of the game will be shipped shortly thereafter. The GameCube version of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell features Game Boy Advance connectivity options. When players connect their Game Boy Advance to the game, they'll be able to use the handheld as a map and to control various computers and weapons. The connectivity features will also let players unlock the sticky bomb weapon and five new levels in the Game Boy Advance version of the game. The PlayStation 2 version of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell features a new four-minute-long introductory cinematic, four exclusive levels in the power plant mission, and more.
Look for reviews on these games soon.
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Remember to pack all of the documents you need to hire a car. All of our suppliers accept a valid photo card driving licence or old paper licence, and they'll want to see a credit card in the name of the lead driver.
Study the directions that you're given to your villa. If you're confident of the route on paper you can relax and focus on the road.
You'll want to know about any toll roads near your villa, and how to settle those. Check your villa directions for details and perhaps pop a few of the sights you're planning to see into Google Maps for directions. That'll also tell you if there are any tolls on those routes.
If you've booked your car with James Villas, look out for the fast track links or forms that we'll send over to fill in before you arrive. They should make the car collection process quicker.
You'll be raring to get to your villa, we know, but don't rush. Before you set off, stop for a coffee or a quick bite. It's not just the car that needs to be refuelled, and you can set off feeling refreshed and relaxed.
Later on, pick a quiet time for a drive before it gets dark. You get to explore, know the roads better and feel more confident in the car itself, as well as driving on the right. It's amazing how quickly it all becomes second nature!
Adding additional drivers to your car hire policy means one person doesn't have to do all the driving. The passengers can sit back and enjoy the views (and perhaps a glass of the local tipple).
If you're planning a long road trip, make stops on the way. Yes the drive might take a little longer, but you'll feel refreshed and you'll get the chance to explore a couple of extra places!
If the thought of driving abroad still puts your mind in reverse, then choose a holiday destination like Malta, Cyprus or parts of the Caribbean where they drive on the left. Otherwise you could always choose one of our 'car optional' villas, with lots going on within walking distance.
Sometimes the drive is as much of a highlight as the destination, so do find out what great driving roads there are to explore. The N-222 in the Douro Valley is an absolute treasure, or check out the SS.163 in the Amalfi Coast. If you're in Mallorca the road around Puig Major, known as the 'Knotted Tie', is a curvaceous, mountainous descent of twists and turns that you'll love.
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This is one of the most common problems we treat.
Patients will often have had several courses of antibiotics, numerous sessions of Chiropody and may have had a persistent pain for months,or sometimes intermittent symptoms for years.
The treatment of choice is often a Nail Wedge Resection procedure. This takes around 10 minutes and is performed under local anaesthetic. It involves removing a small section of nail and chemically destroying the part of the nail bed where it grows.
See the Surgical Handout for preoperative evaluation, procedure details, complications, risks and post operative care.
Injury/infection: Changes the growing area of the nail bed.
Toenails take about nine months to grow from the nail base to the top of the toe.
Sometimes problems begin when pressure from footwear distorts the growth of the nail, or the nail is trimmed into the curved shape. This allows one of its vertical edges to pierce the groove in which it lies.
An ingrowing toenail often looks as though there is nothing wrong with the nail, but it hurts in shoes, to touch and sometimes even bed clothes cause pain. This is often due to a slight curviture of the nail, tight shoes or poor cutting techniques. Simple trimming by a chiropodist or podiatrist will usually help to resolve this problem. If not treated will often progress to a Type 3 Ingrowing toenail.
Most common is the infected and inflamed ingrowing toenail, sometimes very painful, the skin around the nail appears swollen and red and sometimes pus may be visible under the skin.
This is the classical ingrowing toenail, often found in teenagers or poor management of Type 1 or 2 above. This type of nail problem can also be managed by a podiatrist, sometimes with local anaesthetic if painful.
If the nail has become ingrown several times, or the shape of the nail is so badly deformed that it is likely to re-grow, a decision may be made to remove part of the nail root. The end result will produce a normal looking but slightly narrower nail.
Treatment is as above, but sometimes the nail plate may be removed initially and then the side sections removed a few months later due to the extensive infection.


摘要: A 3D stackable and bidirectional Threshold Vacuum Switching (TVS) selector using the same WO x material as the RRAM element is reported. It provides the highest reported current density of >10(8) A/cm(2) and the highest selectivity of >10(5). Stress test at high current density indicates >10(8) cycle capability for Reset/Set operation. A mechanism based on recombination of oxygen-ions and vacancies is proposed for the observed volatile switching of TVS. Utilizing the threshold characteristics of the TVS selector, a two-step reading waveform offers potential for 3D-stackable and 4F(2) cross-point RRAM applications.


← 100 Days to Copenhagen … counting down to the climate summit in December 2009.
Delusional Shell oil company prides itself on its progressive Green initiatives and like other big energy companies, Shell likes to put on an ethical mask and pretend to do good in the world. But the world isn't stupid and the company has been slated more than once by environmentalists for its blatant greenwash.
Anyway, for years now Shell has been making monster profits in the Niger Delta and as the Niger Delta is characterised by vital wetlands, freshwater swamps and much much more, it's not hard to imagine the implications of intense activity by oil companies. And it's not just the environment that is suffering. People are being affected too. In typical corporate mentality, it's simply a matter of profit before people and Shell, one of the biggest companies there, is not averse to exploiting people and dodging accountability.
It won't be a surprise to know that the oil guys haven't done much to improve things since the report was released. Amnesty is specifically targeting Shell claiming that they are continuing with the illegal activity of gas flaring and, rightly crying human rights abuses, they are asking us to make Shell clean up its act.
So, if you don't like what Shell is doing (and you shouldn't) you can tell Shell you don't like what it's doing. Just click the link.
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I love some of the oil company "green" commercials on TV. If you listen carefully, they usually disguise their "green" spending as part of other spending so it sounds like they are spending a lot more than they really are. BP is particularly good at this.
Thanks EP. Hope you're well.


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Voting machines audited in Venezuelan state of Barinas
Caracas, Dec 15 (Prensa Latina) The National Electoral Council (CNE, in Spanish)) of Venezuela announced today that in accordance with the electoral schedule for the state of Barinas, an audit of the voting machines was carried out.
Published by: Lino Céspedes Rodríguez
According to a report by the entity, at least eight representatives from candidacy political organizations participated in the review of the configuration files of the equipment for the vote.
According to the press release, the activity is established within the corresponding framework and was conducted by technical specialists from the CNE and external advisers.
In the electoral entity's hall in Caracas, they analyzed the files of the processes of Voting Experience, Voter Authentication Flow (authentication work flow), operation of the database of the main application of the machine, security and file encryption.
Representatives of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV, in Spanish), Alliance for Change (APC, in Spanish), Democratic Unity Table (MUD, in Spanish), Movement for Socialism (MAS, in Spanish) and the Authentic Renovation Organization (ORA, in Spanish), Patria para Todos (PPT, in Spanish), Unión y Progreso (UP, in Spanish) and Unidad Popular Venezolana (UPV, in Spanish) participated in the audit in person.
There were also but on-line members of Por la Democracia Social (Podemos) and the Movement of National Integrity Unity (Min-Unidad, in Spanish), as well as the Electoral Observation Network of the Education Assembly (ROAE, in Spanish), the Observatory of Latin American Affairs ( OAL, in Spanish,-Argentina) and the Latin American Council of Electoral Experts (Ceela, in Spanish).
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Vesting is a milestone that marks an employee's ownership of their retirement plan or stock options
Alene Laney
Employees typically become fully vested in their 401(k) plan over a set period of time.
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Vesting refers to an employee's ownership of their retirement plan or stock options.
Employers typically set vesting schedules that grant ownership incrementally over a fixed period of time.
For newer companies, venture capitalists often want longer stock-option vesting periods for founders.
Visit Insider's Investing Reference library for more stories.
Vesting in retirement and stock-incentive plans refers to how much ownership an employee has in them. A fully-vested employee has total ownership of the contributions made into a retirement account by an employer and can fully exercise stock options they've been awarded. If an employee were to leave a company before becoming fully vested, they would forfeit whatever percentage of employer contributions they hadn't yet been awarded under the vesting schedule.
It's common to see vesting schedules that grant a percentage of the amount contributed by an employer based on the amount of time they've been with the company. Understanding how vesting works can help employers and employees set expectations and make better decisions for business goals and employment duration.
How vesting works
Employer-sponsored retirement plans typically include a matching portion of an employee's salary, usually around 3% to 6%. This amount is put into a retirement account, such as a 401(k), along with the employee's contributions.
The employee's own contributions are vested immediately, meaning they have complete ownership over the money they personally put into their own retirement account. But the employer's contributions are often subject to a vesting schedule that gives the employee ownership of the employer's contributions over time. There are three approaches employers take to vesting.
Graded vesting schedule. This is the most common. Vesting occurs incrementally according to a predetermined schedule. There's often an initial one-year period, or cliff, during which employees don't become vested at all. (This makes sense, given that employees with less than one year of tenure at a company represent 22% of the market.) For each successive year, employees become increasingly vested. It's common to see a four- or five-year vesting schedule. In a four-year graded vesting schedule, an employee will often vest at 25% at year one, 50% at year two, 75% at year three, and 100% at year four.
Cliff vesting. With cliff vesting, employer match becomes vested all at once on a set date. For example, if an employer chooses a two-year cliff vesting schedule, the employer's contributions will become 100% vested on the employees' two-year work anniversary.
Immediate vesting. Although less common, immediate vesting is also an option employers can select. Employees gain access to an employer's contributions from the start.
As a fully vested employee, the employer's contributions to the employee's retirement accounts become nonforfeitable. The company can't take them back for any reason.
Quick tip: Companies looking to attract top talent may have some leeway when it comes to vesting employees. Be sure to ask what an employer's vesting schedule is, what the match percentage is, and if it's negotiable.
An example of vesting
It's typical to see an employer match 3% to 6% of an employee's salary. Here's an example of a four-year vesting schedule when 25% becomes vested each year. This example is what it looks like for the employee with a $50,000 salary and a 3% employer-contributed benefit. 3% would be $1,500 per year, or $125 per month.
This is for illustrative purposes for employer contributions and doesn't take into account salary increases, market appreciation, or employee contributions.
Percent vested
Employer contributions - 3% of a $50,000 salary
Amount en employee is eligible to keep based on vesting schedule
Total of employer contributions vested in employee
$375 ($1,500 x 25%)
$375 (25% vesting of year 1.)
$1,500 ($750 from 50% vesting of year 1 + $750 from 50% vesting of year 2.)
$1,125 ($1,500 x 75%)
$3,375 ($1,125 at 75% vesting of years 1 - 3)
$1,500 ($1,500 x 100%)
$6,000 ($1,500 at 100% vesting on years 1 - 4)
After the four-year mark where this employee is fully vested, 100% of the employer contributions now belong to the employee.
Why do employers require vesting periods?
It's common to see employers using a vesting schedule to give workers an incentive to stay. But it also may be required of businesses seeking venture capital.
To encourage employees to stay
In typical graded vesting periods, employees will own a greater percentage of an employer's contributions in each successive year they are retained by the company. The longer they stay with the company, the greater the percentage of vested employer contributions they will have.
"The main reason employers set up vesting schedules is for employee retention," says Bright Wealth certified financial planner Henry Hoang. "Hiring and training new employees is very expensive for businesses, so a vesting schedule allows a business to reward employees for their loyalty while minimizing financial risk should employees decide to quit before their benefits are fully vested."
To seek venture capital
A vesting schedule is also essential for businesses seeking venture capital.
Michele Schueli, general partner and venture capitalist (VC) with a global portfolio of early and late-stage companies at Armyn Capital, says early-stage financial backers of companies often encourage the use of vesting schedules for stock options, usually four years with a one-year cliff for employees, or longer for company founders.
"Disregarding vesting is a problem for investors as it leads to a capitalization table filled with 'dead equity,' which is equity owned by founders/employees who left the company and are not adding any value," Schueli, says. "Ultimately, 'dead equity' blocks result in a chaotic capitalization table, which makes it difficult for investors to fund the company, even if all other boxes have been ticked."
The financial takeaway
When it comes to vesting, timing is critical for employees. If an employee knows that staying another two months means they gain access to thousands more in their retirement account, then they can plan their tenure at the company accordingly.
Businesses have different ways of vesting their employees, and it's an often overlooked aspect of an applicant's job search. It's a good idea to understand how vesting works and what a potential employer is really offering in terms of compensation for the job — both now and for your future.
Alene Laney is an award-winning personal finance and real estate journalist based in the Southwest. She has written for a number of online and print outlets, including Insider, The Balance, Realtor.com, Smarter Travel, The San Juan Record and others.
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import java.util.List;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;

import com.taotao.common.pojo.TaotaoResult;
import com.taotao.common.utils.ExceptionUtil;
import com.taotao.pojo.TbContent;
import com.taotao.rest.service.ContentService;

/**
 * 内容管理 controller
 *
 * @author Jerry
 *
 */
@Controller
public class ContentController {

	@Autowired
	private ContentService contentService;

	@RequestMapping("/content/{cid}")
	@ResponseBody
	public TaotaoResult getContentList(@PathVariable Long cid) {
		try {
			List<TbContent> list = contentService.getContentList(cid);
			return TaotaoResult.ok(list);
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			return TaotaoResult.build(500, ExceptionUtil.getStackTrace(e));
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	}

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	@ResponseBody
	public TaotaoResult sysncContent(@PathVariable Long cid) {
		try {
			TaotaoResult result = contentService.syncContent(cid);
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KałużnaGUS. Rejestr TERYT – kolonia w Polsce położona w województwie zachodniopomorskim, w powiecie goleniowskim, w gminie Osina.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość położona była w województwie szczecińskim.

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1400 ERA QUILLION DAGGER S5734M Medieval Quillion Dagger & Sheath - Museum Quality A beautiful, and historically accurate, hand forged dagger made from EN45 spring steel. Produced by one of the UKs leading weaponry designers and forgers. This item is museum quality with a sharpened edge, so is suitable for use, or for historical display. The dagger's prime role as a weapon of self-defence continued into the high middle ages, although some new variants evolved such as the likes of this quillion dagger. Quillion, describes the crossguard on the hilt of the dagger which provided protection for the users hands.


Why can't we take incoming ac down with AA batteries instead of just using air force ?
Is this true ? F16 shot down by us !!
The only way so many people can be brought to book, assuming they evaded taxes, is to start another raid raj.


Looking to rent a villa in The Springs 8 instead?
The Springs 8 is one of the clusters or sub-communities of The Springs, which is a gated community developed by Emaar and is the largest of the Emirates Living properties. There are over 4,800 villas in The Springs, all set around a beautiful lush green landscape. Developed as a tranquil suburb, The Springs is a peaceful haven away from the usual bustle of the city. It is organised into clusters of distinct precincts with each having their own specific entrance points. Suitable for a secure family living away from the city but still in the city, The Springs real estate has grown to become a coveted place to buy properties in Dubai.
A safe nest for a happy family living, the villas for sale in The Springs 8 offer homes with two and three bedrooms for you to buy. Designed to meet high standards, the villas in The Springs 8 have a traditional Arabian architecture. There are spacious living rooms and bedrooms and nicely organised bathrooms and kitchens. You can also enjoy a beautiful backyard with primly cut grass grounds. The Springs 8 villas for sale set amidst a lush green surrounding, enabling access to the essence of nature and fresh air right at your doorstep.
If you are looking for a lucrative investment opportunity for housing, buying a property in The Springs is an ideal choice to go for. The Springs 8 villas for sale offer some attractive deals on prices for your convenience and needs. Although buying from The Springs property is known to be on the pricier side, it is comparatively less than many other gated communities in Dubai. You can call your own one of the 2-bedroom villas in The Springs 8 for AED 1,550,000 up to AED 1,999,999 and the 3-bedroom villas for sale in The Springs 8 costs from AED 1,999,950 to AED 3,450,000.
A great plus of this community would be the presence of the rich greenery that makes you feel more at home. The villas for sale in The Springs 8 also offer you an array of facilities for your pleasure. From swimming pools and fitness centres to beautifully primed parks that you can stroll down enjoying the wonderful views, living in The Springs is ensured to be pleasant. The houses for sale in The Springs 8 are also near a collection of retail shops, restaurants and cafes that you can choose at your preference. There is also some educational institutions and healthcare centres available nearby.
I am looking for Villas for sale in The Springs 8, The Springs, Dubai, UAE. Please let me know about any suitable properties you have. Thank you.


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Sales growth of electric and plug-in hybrid cars has slowed across EU major markets during the first half of this year because customers are still wary of limited driving ranges of the models and an insufficient charging network. Registrations of electric cars rose 33 % in the six months through June, compared to a 54 % surge a year earlier, according to consultancy EY. Strong demand in Germany, the EU's biggest auto market, wasn't enough to offset meeker growth in the U.K., the second largest.
Could have to deal with the high electricity prices in Europe, maybe?
The primary issue is range of affordable vehicles. A secondary issue is that many city dwellers where EV's are at their best don't have driveways for cheap overnight charging so they are limited to rapid charge facilities which are a PITA even with 20 minute charge times.
EV simple are very, very expensive for citizens of middle-income european countries. Maybe in Norway where you earn 5.000 euros per month its good alternative option.
But surely not for people from Poland or Slovakia where medium wage is rather 600 euros after taxes.
In these lower-income States such as Poland and Ukraine, I suspect you will see EV or EV-hybrid purchases down the road, as used cars. When the stuff rolling in Germany comes off warranty, or off-lease, then a secondary market would be found more to the East.
That said, given the vast distances in Ukraine, and the larger distances in Poland as compared to say Belgium, you are still going to see lower adoption rates, even with the price of used cars down to say 20% of new, except for hybrids, for which there will always be a secondary market. And PS: that is why I predict the Chevy Volt will have higher resale values than the Bolt, that gasoline engine in there (which can be fixed by any decent mechanic) will continue to run, even when the battery pack is kaput.
PS: for those of you who are not aware of this, and the GM salesmen typically do not know this, the Volt is designed with a clutch that engages under high-load, low-battery conditions, so that the gasoline engine directly drives the front axle through the transmission bypassing the electric motors. It is in only one gear, I think the third of four. With the clutch disengaged, the gas motor drives a generator which charges the battery pack which pulls the juice for the electric motors, but you do bypass that under high-load, no-volts conditions. GM engineers are a lot smarter than the public gives them credit for.
In Poland we most often buy 10 years old a quite wear and tear cars from Germany. They cost lets say 1000-6.000 euros per one vehicle. A lot of people probably could buy a more expensive car but they dont see a reason to spend such a lot of money for brand new car if they earn 400-1.000 euros per month after taxes and a lot of cheap used cars are available. They are surely not brand new and quite often they are not even safe but they are quite cheap thats the reason to buy them.
In Ukraine they most often cant afford to buy even such car. Because Ukraine is not middle-income country. After Maidan except of Moldavia its the poorest country in Europe with average wage 236 euros after taxes in April 2018..
So sorry I really dont see any chance for EV in Poland and Ukraine in near future.


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Branding Oatland
Marketing challenges have dogged the wildlife center
The Oatland Island Wildife Center is only a few miles from her home, but hairdresser Kai Moser, 25, has never gone to see it.
The place doesn't sound that interesting, the Wilmington Island resident says. "I know I pass by it all the time but I never think to stop," she says.
And when she's talked to friends about the wildlife center, "no one wanted to go," Moser says.
In a recent brochure, Oatland officials billed their 175-acre center as "one of the premier wildlife parks in the entire Southeast."
Created in 1974 by the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, it cares for owls, deer, cougars, eagles, alligators, bison — more than 110 animals, most of them native to Georgia and most living in outdoor enclosures under tall trees.
But if the natural setting is attractive, Savannah residents have found plenty of reasons not to visit the wildlife center.
Joseph Marinelli, president of the Savannah Convention and Visitors Bureau says that when he first moved to Savannah, he asked, "What is that Oatland Island?" The answer: "'It's crappy.' So I never went."
And Oatland's director, Chris Gentile notes that, after the wildlife center closed so that toxic DDT could be removed from the soil, "many people got the sense it never reopened."
But lately, Oatland's image has been changing — fast.
For starters, the school district, in January 2007, hired Gentile, a bright, young animal expert, away from the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, S.C.
Gentile opened new alligator and crane exhibits, created more readable trail maps, put animal caretakers on his staff and hired several "guest services" staffers to help visitors find their way around Oatland's winding trails.
In June 2007, he worked with the school board, to changed the center's name.
The old name, "Oatland Island Education Center" — sounded like a boring conference center for teachers, some Oatland supporters said. The new name, "Oatland Wildlife Center of Savannah," was more appealing.
In addition, about six months ago, Gentile posted eye-catching signs along President Street Expressway that showed off some of the animals hidden behind the trees. The signs featured a black bear standing on its hind legs, the tawny face of a couger and another cougar padding toward a moss-draped oak tree.
The campaign to promote Oatland Island kicked into high gear several months ago, when Gentile persuaded Convention and Visitors Bureau president, Marinelli, to join the marketing committee of a key support group, Friends of Oatland Island.
Now, Marinelli has targeted Oatland's principal market, calling it: "rubber tire tourism." These visitors live in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas and visit Savannah by car, Marinelli explains.
And to attract them and "create some buzz about Oatland Island," Marinelli says, his Convention and Visitors Bureau now promotes the wildlife center on its website.
The committee also wants to reach visitors who spend a couple of days in Savannah's historic district and then are ready to explore. It just makes sense. "On the way to Tybee, you stop at Oatland Island," Marinelli says.
The marketing committee also promotes Oatland Island to schools, to the military "and to the people who've driven by Oatland Island a thousand times on the way to Tybee," Marinelli says.
The online promotion is paying off. Since June 30, the center has averaged more than 50 referrals a day from the website, Gentile says. And the center's attendance has soared — from 58,000 visitors in 2007 to 75,000 this year.
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Arild Feldborg (18 April 1912 – 26 October 1987) was a Norwegian playwright, revue writer, script writer, humorist and broadcasting person.

Personal life
Feldborg was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, as the son of wholesaler Henry Theobald Feldborg and Petra Normandine Schnitler Blehr, and grew up in Norway. He was married to headmaster and secretary Aase Refsdal from 1948. He died in Bærum in 1987.

Career
Feldborg graduated as cand.oecon. in 1934. He wrote for revue theatres from the late 1920s, and his breakthrough came in 1934 with the song "Å" (co-written with Bias Bernhoft), in the Chat Noir revue Det hendte i går. Among his songs from the 1930s are "Norge, våkn opp!" from 1934 (, performed by Lalla Carlsen) and "Penere og penere" (, performed by Einar Rose in 1936, on Mussolini's attack on Ethiopia). His song "Bursda'n min" (, performed by Einar Rose acting as a short man with moustache), was stopped by the police after strong protests from the German Minister in Norway. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945 he took part in the resistance in various ways. While in exile in Sweden he wrote songs for the Norwegian police troops in Sweden. His song ", co-written with Finn Bø, was met with wild enthusiasm when it was introduced by Lalla Carlsen in May 1945.

He also collaborated with other songwriters such as Arild Haga, Otto Nielsen and Alfred Næss. Among his post-war songs are "Vigelandvise" (performed by Einar Rose), "Måten da ser De" (for Kari Diesen), and "Swingdilla" (for Leif Juster). Rolf Just Nilsen had his artistical breakthrough in 1958 with Feldborg's song "Operasangeren".

He worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1947, first within the radio's entertainment department, and later at Radioteatret. He also wrote for television. Among his works are a book on bridge, Bridge med Arild Feldborg from 1965, the crime novel Malkesaken (co-written with Michael Grundt Spang) and a book on solving crosswords, Damms kryssordløser from 1982. He edited the anthology Humor i Norge () from 1974. His comedy Mannfolk was performed at Oslo Nye Teater in 1980. He wrote the television opera Sjakk from 1980, and the musical Balder from 1984. He was awarded the Leonard Statuette in 1980.

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21 – A variation of blackjack game that is very much common and is also known to offer players with one of the best returns for each of the hand.
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Butterburn Flow, a valuable carbon sink and the largest of 58 wetlands that straddle the border between Cumbria and Northumberland.
Peatlands are complex systems where carbon accumulation rates exceed decomposition rates, however, this balance of carbon uptake and loss may be shifted by periods of intense drought, which are becoming more common in the light of climate change. Finding solutions to protect and preserve carbon stocks locked up in peat is essential as we move towards a more sustainable future.
Coleen sampling the peat at Butterburn Flow.
In late February 2018, PhD student Coleen Murty was joined by the BGS's Chris Vane and Geoff Abbott from Newcastle University on a field visit to Butterburn Flow, the largest of 58 wetlands that lie on the border between Cumbria and Northumberland. Butterburn is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and is considered one of the most valuable mires in England, operating as a substantial carbon sink. During the three-day visit, they took water table measurements and collected peat cores, water samples and moss samples.
Levelogger well containing water monitoring equipment that records alterations in the water table (four of which are deployed across the site).
The team collected a series of 1–2 m peat cores using a combination of Russian coring equipment and polycarbonate tubes. Various cores were taken from four different sites across the bog, each containing a water-level datalogger used to monitor changes in the water table over time.
Water data and air pressure can be downloaded onto an Android device and correlated with peat cores taken nearby. Changes in the water table can have positive or negative impacts on a peatland's ability to accumulate carbon and therefore must be carefully monitored. The collected peat cores will be used for a combination of geomolecular and bulk geochemical analyses: from bulk density measurements used to estimate carbon stocks, to a series of laboratory mesocosm experiments by which peat cores will be placed in a 'microenvironment' where natural field conditions will be mimicked in order to monitor the changing chemistry of the cores in different conditions and assess their ability to sequester carbon.
Bog pool with an abundance of Sphagnum cuspidatum growing at the water surface.
Sphagnum moss is the dominant peat-forming species across the Northern peatlands. It thrives in wet, acidic conditions and its high recalcitrance allows it to store large amounts of carbon compared to other peatland plants. Characterising the water-extractable, solvent-extractable and macromolecular chemistry of sphagnum moss will improve current knowledge regarding its role in carbon cycling within peatland ecosystems.
A variety of water samples were collected from the water level wells; the river that runs across the northern section of the site, and sphagnum moss-dominated bog pools. Different sphagnum moss species were also collected for species identification and chemical characterisation. The nature and abundance of carbon within the bog and river water running off the peatland will give insights into the source, stability and fate of different organic molecules being flushed through the peat profile and how their mobility affects the resilience and vulnerability of the carbon being retained within the wetland.
Contact Chris Vane for more information.


The next PARK general meeting is this coming Monday, September 17th at 7:00 pm at the First Methodist Church of Plano, 3160 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano, TX. As usual, VE testing will be conducted before the meeting at 6:00 pm.
This months program will be the training for Plano Balloon Fest.


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Jaitely's Budget options are severely limited
The presentation of the Union Budget is more of a media event than a realistic statement of objectives and goals, and ways and means. The Budget is the basic blueprint that specifies what the government intends to do in the financial year to come, and how it intends to spend and raise the resources to do that. It doesn't use the occasion to tell us what it did with the announced Budget the previous year.
Quite clearly a Budget is an imperative; otherwise a government will drift along aimlessly, though it often seems to be the case even with the most minutely-specified Budget. Having said that, one must wonder why there is such a fuss each year when India's finance minister is about to present the Budget.
If one analyses each of the 65-odd Budgets that finance ministers have presented over the years, little seems to be changing in how they propose to raise and spend each year. This is not to say that the first Budget raised and spent revenues in the same way as this week's Budget will. The first Budget presented by R.K. Shanmukham in 1947 was one that stayed within the means that were available, and did not rely very much on borrowings. The pattern of taxing and borrowing changed hugely over the years. The incidence of taxes has come down and the extent of borrowing has risen. So much so that the national debt has burgeoned and the interest burden become heavier. Let it not be forgotten that at the time of Independence India was debt-free and was owed a mountain of money by Britain.
India's national debt now is a gargantuan and burdensome Rs 70,450,136,500,510 — or Rs 70 lakh crores. The interest burden each year now is Rs 4,577,329,694,115, and growing. Consequently, the debt per citizen is Rs 58,954. Debt as a percentage of GDP is 49.02 per cent. So, one thing is for sure, interest has to be provided for. This is the second-biggest provision, accounting for 18 per cent of the Budget. Transfers to the states account for about 24 per cent. This now determined by GST collections, and the element of discretion or flexibility too has gone with it.
Next come the items labelled Other Expenditures, Central Sector Schemes and Centrally-sponsored Schemes, that draw away 13 per cent, 11 per cent and 10 per cent respectively. Hidden in them are Central government salaries and pensions that account for almost Rs 3 lakh crores. This doesn't include military and railway salaries and pensions. In fact, salaries at the Centre and states account for 10.4 per cent of the GDP of about Rs 150 lakh crores, or about Rs 16 lakh crores. Two big items follow — subsidies and defence take 10 per cent and nine per cent respectively. They are untouchables. With an election year looming, subsidies will only increase, and considering the combined challenges posed by China and Pakistan, the provision for defence and security will increase not just in absolute terms but in proportion too.
Effectively, this Budget too will have around 11 per cent to allocate for development and capital expenditures. Which simply means that the government, from every Rs 100, has Rs 11 to give to the people in terms of benefits, and it consumes Rs 89 by itself. Usually, this figure too drops as historically the revenue and other collections are far below target. This year GST collections are showing a declining trend from its inception and indirect taxes collections, as of November 30, are Rs 7.35 crores, out a target of Rs 9.27 crores. As of December 19, direct tax collections were only Rs 6.49 crores, out of a target of Rs 9.8 lakh crores.
So much so, it is really the extent of the government's borrowings to pay for what is beyond its means that will be the most important aspect of this week's Budget. This year the fiscal deficit can be expected to be well over the budgeted 3.2 per cent, as like all other addictions going for a cold turkey is not the most palatable of options. Therefore, the interest provision will at best retain the same share of expenditure. Salaries are sacrosanct, and it will retain its prime place as the nation's single largest expenditure. Given the current regional environment, defence is a sacred cow and will brook no change. And when it comes to subsidies, deserved and undeserved, open and hidden, and especially in a pre-election year, it is the government that is the sacred cow. Plan expenditures brook little change and have to be provided for.
Direct and indirect taxes also offer scope for little change, especially when you see how beholden the government is to the members of CII, Ficci and Assocham, particularly in a pre-election year. A back of the envelope calculation shows that over 95 per cent of the Budget is chiselled on stone. Besides, most of the tax increases and revenue enhancement steps like raising or reducing oil subsidies and prices are taken well before the Budget announcements. Then what's all the hoopla over the Budget about?
The challenges India needs to cope up with starting now was made explicit by the World Economic Forum in its Inclusive Development Index. It makes sad reading. India, with a score of only 3.38, ranks 62nd among 79 developing economies on the IDI, despite the fact that its growth in GDP per capita is among the top 10 and labour productivity growth has been strong. Poverty has also been falling, albeit from a high level. On the other hand, its debt-to-GDP ratio is high, raising some questions about the sustainability of government spending.
The WEF IDI also states that "framework indicators such as educational enrolment rates are relatively low across all levels, and quality varies greatly, leading to notable differences in performance among students from different socioeconomic backgrounds. While unemployment is not as high as in some other countries, the labour force participation rate is low, the informal economy is large, and many workers are in vulnerable employment situations with little room for social mobility".
More than budgetary announcements, which are quite full of empty promises, the Budget presentation gives the government a rare opportunity to announce policy changes. Dr Manmohan Singh, as finance minister in his first term, was persuaded by the then Prime Minister to announce the junking of the pernicious Industrial Licensing Policy and its prime rent collecting agency, the Directorate-General of Technical Development (DGTD). This earned him lasting glory as a reformer, though he never really showed any interest in liberating society from the straitjacket of government regulation. He even rested on this laurel for 10 long years as Prime Minister. What then can Arun Jaitley do? Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi direct him to announce a universal basic income (UBI)? Or the transfer of a basic income in place of the many misdirected subsidies, most of which gets stolen on the way down?
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This article was originally published on October 5 at http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/GuestColumn/2015/10/05/22558970.html/.
The better-late-than-never murder indictment of Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka in the 1983 death of his girlfriend Nancy Argentino once again challenges us with one of the main socially redeeming features of pro wrestling — an alternative universe that is all about life imitating art.
Indeed, since there's no accounting for taste, and wrestling's gleefully pandering interpretation of what sports-entertains people isn't everyone's cup of tea, the genre's occasional confrontation with death may be its only redeeming feature. Evidently, the human condition requires the inflation of the stakes to the level of the ultimate "work," in order to make us pay serious attention to the reality that the ultimate lesson of wrestling is that it is just like that other world, only perhaps more so.
The Superfly Snuka cold case tells a related but otherwise much different story: manipulation across a very long period of time. As such it's a fascinating study of the industry's history.
When Snuka allegedly killed Ms. Argentino in an altercation in their Whitehall, Pennsylvania, motel room, he was the No. 1 star of the Northeastern U.S. territory, whose promoter was just months away from launching and winning the national promotional war. That war, sparked by the growth of cable TV, bred the success of what is now WWE, a global corporation traded on the New York Stock Exchange with market capitalization of more than a billion dollars. Only a year earlier, Vincent Kennedy McMahon, in a highly leveraged deal that required less than $1 million in cash, had purchased from his father and his partners Phil Zacko, Gorilla Monsoon, and Arnold Skaaland the World Wide Wrestling Federation-founding Capital Wrestling Corporation, and rebranded it as Titan Sports / WWF.
Snuka's violence against the women in his life, wives or otherwise, was of a pattern that corresponded with the unprosecuted abuses of celebrities, whether major or (as even a star wrestler was in those days) minor. But as fate would have it, the Argentino incident played out while he was in town for the tri-weekly WWF syndicated television tapings at the Agricultural Hall in the Allentown Fairgrounds. Allentown — all of Eastern Pennsylvania, really — was a small-scale WWF "company town." The local cops worked off-duty private security at the matches; the local accommodations, such as the George Washington Motor Lodge in Whitehall, profited from a welcome mat defined, in part, by sweeping scandals inside the closed doors of the rooms they rented out.
The original police investigation, which was shut down within weeks, was a joke. Whether or not McMahon carried a briefcase into the June 1, 1983 meeting with Lehigh County prosecutors and police investigators, and whether that briefcase contained cash for bribes or just back issues of the Daily Racing Form, is a smoking gun teased by Snuka's characteristically incoherent 2012 autobiography. For me, the briefcase, if it even existed, is almost beside the point. Who's to say the Centimillionaire Man even had to pay anyone off?
In 1992 — for an article commissioned by the Village Voice but not published in print until 15 years after that, in my book Wrestling Babylon — Gerald Procanyn, Whitehall Township's chief of detectives, lied to my face by maintaining that Snuka had given a single, consistent account of Nancy slipping on the side of the road and hitting her head when they stopped to urinate on the drive into town.
Interviewed shortly thereafter by Penthouse magazine writer Jeff Savage, Procanyn reversed field, offering a more equivocal interpretation of Snuka's credibility.
The Morning Call coverage, following by weeks the publication of my ebook with the Argentino sisters, Justice Denied: The Untold Story of Nancy Argentino's Death in Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka's Motel Room, embarrassed District Attorney James Martin into revisiting the dormant, but still technically open, case. Martin is a former assistant and protege of William Platt, the D.A. in '83, who is now a senior state judge. Incredibly, the listless and lying Procanyn, defended by Martin as a "tenacious investigator," was still on the case, too.
I believe the "fresh look" by the D.A. still would not have resulted in a grand jury probe had Louise Argentino-Upham and Lorraine Salome, Nancy's surviving sisters, not continued to follow up aggressively.
I further believe the grand jury itself might have petered out with a whimper, rather than with the bang of an indictment for third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, had the Argentino sisters and I not gotten into a kerfuffle with the Morning Call over an op-ed essay accepted for publication in the fall of 2014, sat on for months, and finally pulled and published at the Wrestling Observer website.
Meanwhile, additional reporting exposes how the corruption and cronyism of the criminal justice system in the Lehigh Valley is hardly isolated to the Snuka case (just as the paradigm, no doubt, is hardly isolated to the Lehigh Valley). Earlier this year, thin-skinned D.A. Martin filed a free speech-chilling defamation lawsuit against Bill Villa, a local blogger who has written about how the privileged drunk-driving killer of Villa's 25-year-old daughter was coddled by both Martin and Court of Common Pleas Judge Robert Steinberg (who was another assistant D.A. of now-Judge Platt at the time of the Snuka non-prosecution in the eighties). The drunk driver, Robert LaBarre, is the son of a partner at the law firm that both represents the Morning Call and has represented Martin himself.
"Sports entertainment" is part of life. As for the gap between how the system is described in our civics textbooks, and how it really works — well, that is a matter of life and death.
The 2013 ebook, JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold Story of Nancy Argentino's Death in Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka's Hotel Room, annotates our original article and benefits a women's shelter in Nancy's memory. You can order the ebook for $2.99 on Amazon Kindle (http://amzn.com/B00CPTP6VM) or a PDF copy by email (send $2.99 via PayPal to nancyargentino@gmail.com). One hundred percent of the proceeds are donated by the Argentino family, in Nancy's memory, to the women's shelter in development at the Salerno, Italy, church Centro Evangelical dei Fratelli.


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The University of Nebraska's Kearney campus will soon be adding a Greek Village to its student residential portfolio, and it will also provide more housing for UNK's Greek community.
KWK Architects of St. Louis is hard at work on phase 4 of a five-stage project known as the Greek Village Master Plan for North Carolina State University, located in the Tarheel State's capital city of Raleigh.


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Q: How do we copy a custom table style from Word to Outlook? We're using Word 2007 and Outlook 2007. We've got a corporate table style defined in Word and set as the default.
How do we make that table style available in Outlook mail messages? I can't see any organise/export/manage styles option over there. I can see that we can define a New Table Style but really don't want to recreate it from scratch.


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Q: FFmpeg not working I own the website www.goploom.com which similarly to youtube, allows users to upload and view videos. The videos that are uploaded are converted to the mp4 format for compatibility with our site's html5 video player. My problem is that while FFmpeg successfully generates video thumbnails from the uploaded video and stores the image in  the proper directory, The video conversion aspect of my code does not produce any output. I have tweaked the code for a couple hours, and I have not been able to resolve this issue, however, I am told that I can perform video conversion with html, php, and ffmpeg.
My path to ffmpeg is correct as the thumbnail generation works perfectly.
**Information collected from the uploaded video upon upload.
                    $name = $_FILES['video']['name'];
                    $title = $_POST['videotitle'];
                    $type = explode('.', $name);
                    $type = end($type);
                    $size = $_FILES['video']['size'];
                    $random_name = rand();
                    $tmp = $_FILES['video']['tmp_name'];
                if($type != 'mp4' && $type != 'MP4' && $type != 'flv' && $type != 'FLV' && $type != 'mov' && $type != 'MOV'){
                    $message = "Video Format Not Supported<br>";
                } else {
            $username_query = mysql_query("SELECT `username` FROM `users` WHERE `user_id` = $session_user_id");
                    $username = mysql_fetch_assoc($username_query);
                    $username = $username['username'];

**Thumbnail generation that works perfectly.
                        $ffmpeg = "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg";
                        $videoFile = $_FILES['video']['tmp_name'];
                        $imageFile = "uploads/".$username."/thumbnails/".$random_name.".jpg";
                        $size = "160x90";
                        $getFromSecond = 5;
                        $cmd = "$ffmpeg -i $videoFile -an -ss $getFromSecond -s $size $imageFile";
                        if(!shell_exec($cmd)){
                            echo "Thumbnail Created!";
                        } else {
                            echo "Error Creating Thumbnail!";
                        }
**Moves the uploaded file to its permanent directory for video conversion.
                        $newFileLocation = "uploads/".$username."/temp".$random_name.".".$type;
                        move_uploaded_file($tmp, $newFileLocation);
*Video Conversion code.
                        $outputFile = "uploads/".$username."/".$random_name.".mp4";
                        $databaseStoredVideoUrl = "uploads/".$username."/".$random_name.".mp4";
                        $video_cmd = "$ffmpeg -i $newFileLocation $outputFile";
                        echo $video_cmd;
                        if(!shell_exec($video_cmd)){
                            echo "Video Converted!";
                        } else {
                            echo "Error Creating Thumbnail!";
                        }
**Properly stores the output src link in the database, but the video cannot be viewed because it does not exist.
                        // Video Storage into database under correct username and user directory
                        mysql_query("INSERT INTO videos VALUES('$session_user_id' ,'', '$name', '$outputFile', '$title', '', '$imageFile')");
                        $message = "Video Upload Successful.";
Any help or insight would be brilliant.
Thanks.
**EDIT: Fixed by using the following line.
$video_cmd = "$ffmpeg -i $newFileLocation -vcodec libx264 -vpre normal -acodec libfaac $outputFile";
and then inputting $video_cmd into shell_exec

A: Dunno.
Worked myself with FFMPEG and PHP a couple of times, some issues you can ran into are the following:

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*Memory limit since its seems you are running the video encoding server side, which i would rather not recommend.

*Secondly the ffmpeg process itself can take too long since how long the execution of the video enconding can take longer that what the maximum script execution is permitted by your web server Apache/Nginx.

If you are running the encoding as web request you should rather refrain from this, and instead make a cron job or a separate service that checks if there are any new videos that should be processed and encoded (video queue service).
Steps to ensure this roughly make:

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*First test your encoding directly from the cmdline.

*Update your video table and flag those that should be processsed, or make an video queue table.

*Have a cron job or a service that checks for new videos to be processed, and then processed them one by one.

If you are most comfortable with PHP, make a php script with ini_set("set_time_limit", 0) to make sure you script does not timeout. Other options could be a bash script, or for instance use node.js along with forever an ffmpeg library to make the processing service.


The venues are all located in Frankfurt: Billabong on the Riedberg Campus, Old Fashioned Bar Frankfurt in Sachsenhausen, Denkbar in Nordend, Ypsilon in Bornheim and Café Crumble in Bockenheim. Please find below a map with the rough coordinates. More information can be found here and directions on their websites.


The Bobcat volleyball team continued their home stand against Akron Friday and won in three straight sets. They improved their record to 9-8, breaking .500 for the first time this season. The Zips fell to 9-8, after losing three of their last four games.
The Bobcats are 7-2 this year at home, and all nine of their wins have come in straight sets. When they play three sets , they are 8-3, when they play four they are 0-4, and when they play five, they are 0-1.
The Bobcats won the first set 25-20, Kelly Lamberti led the way, with five of Ohio's 14 kills. Ohio's defense shut down Akron star Tina Dimitrijevs, who leads Akron with 202 kills on the season, averaging 3.31 kills per set. In the first set she only had four total attacks and one kill, but she also committed an error. Ohio led the entire set after they scored their 13th point and won it after their second set point.
The second set began with the teams battling back and forth. After Ohio tied it at 4-4, Akron went on a seven point run. They would retain the lead until Ohio scored their 22nd point, and led until they scored on their first set point opportunity, thus winning the set 25-23. In the second set Chelsea Bilger had six kills for the Bobcats , and 12 total attacks. Tina Dimitrijevs exploded in the second set however, recording six kills, two digs, and eight total attacks.
After the intermission, the Bobcats exploded on the court, beginning the third set on an 8-0 run and forcing Akron to extinguish both of their time-outs early in the set. Akron would slowly creep back into the set, but never came close enough to make a real impact, falling 25-17 to complete the sweep.
Chelseas Bilger had another seven kills in the third set, making her total for the set 17, with 37 total attacks on the match. Abby Gilleland led the Bobcats with 18 assists and Meredith Ashy had a game high 15 digs. Morgan Kuhn had a game high 28 assists for the Zips, and Dimitrijevs was again limited to just one kill in the third set, but recorded three errors.
Akron's third set was sloppy, they recorded nine errors compared to only eight kills. Akron's kill to error ratio, .133, was worse than Ohio's, .264, throughout, but it also declined with each set, from .216 to .195 to -.029.
The Bobcats also out-killed the Zips 42-36. Their offense was more fluid and efficient throughout the game. Ohio will continue their home stand tomorrow night versus Buffalo at the Convocation Center at 7.
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Chalándri () est une ville de Grèce située en Attique dans le nord-est de l'agglomération d'Athènes. Après le recensement de 2001, la population de la ville atteint 71 684 habitants et 75 418 d'après l'estimation de 2007.

Géographie

Quartiers
Aghia Barbara
Ano Chalandri
Ano Neo Chalandri
Neo Chalandri
Kato Chalandri
Patima
Metamorfosi
Polydroso
Toufa (ou Fragoklisia)
Sidera
Synoikismos

Démographie

Notes et références

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Dème en Attique
Ville en Attique
Ville de 50 000 à 100 000 habitants en Grèce


Back in 2014, Microsoft acquired Mojang, the creator of Minecraft. At the time of the purchase, it may have seemed like the company was purchasing the game to add next to its other properties like Halo but after owning the IP for about 18 months, the company is finding many new use-case scenarios for the technology.
One of the unique aspects of Minecraft is that at its core, it is simple programming to build any of the advanced objects in the game. While this was one of the initial reasons Microsoft was attracted to the software (also that fact that it is wildly popular with a younger audience), the company has found another new way to use the game, improving artificial intelligence.
Called project AIX, a Microsoft team out of the UK is using Minecraft to help teach its software how to learn how to climb a hill. While it would be easy to teach the AI (artificial intelligence) in Minecraft how to do one specific trait well, where AI has traditionally come up short is general intelligence.
Building robots and bringing AI into the real world is an expensive process, but what the team hopes to do with AIX is experiment in the virtual world and seeing as Minecraft offers up complex and varying terrains, it's an ideal playground for experimenting with algorithms to help AI learn how to operate in the real-world. Even though the platform was purchased for its gaming functionality, it has quickly proven to have commercial capabilities too.
The AIX project is currently in private beta but the company will be available via an open-source license.
Microsoft's goal is build a system that is beneficial to both the company's goals for AI and also the broader community. Because Minecraft is a simple to use and cost-effective way to test algorithms across different terrains and obstacles, it has become the perfect playground for developing AI algorithms.
You can learn more about project AIX, here.


Shipley's Diamonds and Fine Jewelry, a family owned business, for 30 years located on Main Street, Hampstead, MD is looking for a part-time or full time experienced bench jeweler. Specializing in one of a kind, custom work, and the highest quality customer service.
•Jewelry and watch battery replacement performed on site while customer is waiting.
•Conducts sizing (up and down) for merchandise of all precious metals.
•Very good communication skills. Must be able to consult with customers to uncover jewelry repair needs.
•Must be willing to assist at the sales counter when called during busy periods.
Experience: Will be bench tested on abilities.


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Q: Unable to use multiplication with grayscale image matrix I am quite new to matlab/octave. I loaded an image using imread() function of octave. I tried to perform multiplication operation on the matrix but get the following error:
binary operator `*' not implemented for `uint8 matrix' by `matrix' operations

Is there another way to input the image??

A: This usually means that you are trying to multiply arrays of different data types.  The easiest thing to do here is to convert the uint8 image into double.  You can either use the double() function, which will just cast the values, or us im2double(), which will also normalize the values to be between 0 and 1.

A: If you're trying to multiple two images (I'm guessing that's what you're trying to do since the error is for multiplying matrices and not a matrix by a scalar), you should use the immultiply function which handles different classes for you.
Simply, use immultiply (imgA, imgB) and never again worry about what class are imgA and  imgB. Note that you'll need the image package installed in loaded.

A: I=imread('...');
I=rgb2gray(I);
I=double(I);
% you can perform the multiplication operation now


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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti l'Athlītikos Politistikos Fysiolatrikos Syllogos Īraklīs Chalkidas nella stagione 2017-2018.

Stagione

Organigramma societario

Area direttiva
Presidente: Giannīs Karkalīs
Area organizzativa
Team manager: Giōrgos Christopoulos

Area tecnica
Primo allenatore: Spyros Gkolitsīs
Secondo allenatore Sōtīrīs Gkotsīs
Allenatore: Giannīs Karafyllidīs
Scoutman: Sōtīrīs Gkotsīs
Area sanitaria
Medico: Panagiōtīs Kouloumentas
Fisioterapista: Paulos Polatidīs

Rosa

Mercato

Risultati

Statistiche

Statistiche di squadra

Statistiche dei giocatori

P = presenze; PT = punti totali; AV = attacchi vincenti; MV = muri vincenti; BV = battute vincenti
NB: Non sono disponibili i dati relativi alla Coppa di Grecia e di conseguenza quelli totali della stagione

Note

Collegamenti esterni

2017-18
Iraklis Chalkidas


Jason Lacombe is a DPhil candidate and joined the Nuffield Department of Population Health in 2016. Before starting at NDPH, Jason completed an undergraduate degree, and a Master of Science degree at the University of Toronto, and was an invited scholar to visit Oxford's Cancer Epidemiology Unit where he undertook a project to create predictive models for site-specific fractures in post-menopausal women.
His British Heart Foundation funded doctoral project looks at the links between lifestyle factors – activity levels, diet, alcohol, and tobacco use – and cardiovascular disease, with the aim to inform policy-making in cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment.
Outside of his academic life, Jason plays for the Oxford Varsity Blues team and is the NDPH social secretary.