text:
Farm Street
Nine Minute Novena | Day 6
As we approach the Feast of St Ignatius of Loyola on 31st July, please join us in praying a novena over these next 9 days from each of our Jesuit parishes in England and Scotland. Today's novena comes from the Church of the Immaculate Conception in London, which is affectionately known as 'Farm Street'. Fr Dominic Robinson SJ is priest in charge:"We're a gathered community from all around London and much further afield and we have a large digital community also through social media and...
'Faith Matters Question Time' will focus on responsible business
'Jesuits have much to teach modern business about morality'. This is the title of an article published in the Financial Times on 26th March 2015, just two weeks after Philip Green sold BHS for £1, a move which put thousands of jobs and pensions at risk.For the author of the article (respected financial journalist Daniel Ben-Ami) the Jesuit approach to accounting is successful because it provides 'a means of reflecting on possible futures, rather than just an accurate representation of financial...
The Future of food in Zambia: A Climate Change warning
Jesuit Missions is delighted to welcome Fr Leonard Chiti SJ to the UK in September. Fr Leonard is the Provincial Superior of the Zambia-Malawi Province and former Coordinator of the Global Ignatian Advocacy Network and Director of the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection in Lusaka, Zambia.Fr Leonard will speak at various Jesuit schools and parishes during his visit about the effects of climate change on food production in Zambia. He will look at ways in which Zambia can develop their...
Blessed days in Lourdes
A group of parishioners and volunteers from Farm Street Church joined the Westminster Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes. The journey started on 21st July, with the different parishes, chaplaincies and the youth services travelling to the sanctuary by air and train. Cardinal Vincent Nichols welcomed the pilgrims in France and at home with a video. A reflection for each day was shared by various bishops and priests. Throughout the pilgrimage, more videos were shared on Facebook and Twitter with live...
Canadian TV crew visits Farm Street
A Canadian TV crew came to Farm Street on Monday 3rd June for a documentary about Farm Street Church's old east window which was transferred to St Agnes' Church, Lac-Mégantic, Quebec in the early 1910s.While the old glass was installed in the small town, in 1912 the window over the high altar at Farm Street Church was reglazed to a new design which kept the same theme of the Tree of Jesse but was in a different style with a large image of Our Lady in the centre.In 2013, Lac-Mégantic suffered a...
Walsingham Pilgrimage 2019
Please join Farm Street's annual pilgrimage to England's National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Norfolk, led by Fr Dominic Robinson SJ. The day includes prayers and talks en route, visits to the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican shrines, walking the Holy Mile and free time.PROGRAMMECoach departing from Mount Street at 8:30am, returning there via drop-off at Victorian Station at approximately 8pmCOSTCoach and buffet lunch: £35, cash or cheque made payable to FARM STREET CHURCH...
LGBT+ Catholics Westminster meet the Pope
On Ash Wednesday, 6 March 2019, 16 pilgrims, who were taking part in the 3rd LGBT+ Catholics Westminster Pilgrimage to Rome, had privileged seats at the morning Papal Audience in St Peter's Square. At the end of the General Audience the group, which included parents and family members alongside LGBT Catholics with Pilgrimage Chaplain, Fr David Stewart SJ, was invited to meet Pope Francis.The Pilgrimage Leader, Martin Pendergast, a member of the LGBT+ Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council,...
An evening with Tim Schmalz
Tim Schmalz, sculptor of the Homeless Jesus, will speak about his art and his faith with special reference to his challenging statue.Admission freeHomeless Jesus at Farm Street Church Download the Poster
The role of Catholic education in the modern world
A Tablet event in conjunction with Stonyhurst College (part of the Stonyhurst 425 Lenten lectures series)Join us at Farm Street, for an evening with Melanie McDonagh as she explores the role of Catholic education in the modern world.Followed by Q&As – Drinks and canapés - Book salesMelanie McDonagh is an Irish journalist based in London and a senior leader-writer for the London Evening Standard.Stonyhurst is the UK's leading co-educational Catholic boarding and day school for 3-18 year olds...
Jesuit martyrs at St Giles-in-the-Fields recognised in a memorial
The unveiling of a memorial for seven Jesuit martyrs at St Giles-in-the-Fields marked a true ecumenical moment. On Sunday 20th January, friends and representatives of the Catholic community and of the wider church gathered together with members of the Anglican community at the West End parish for a choral evening prayer and the dedication by Fr Dominic Robinson SJ, parish priest of Farm Street, of the commemorative plaque."We don't come to faith from a vacuum, but rather from a tradition"...
The last letter of St John Ogilvie SJ


We carry a full line of heating & air conditioning units designed to keep your home warm in the winter and cool in the muggy summers Hickory, NC is known for.
Heating & Air Conditioning Units – At Climate Control Systems, Inc., we carry a full line of heating & air conditioning units designed to keep your home warm in the winter and cool in the muggy summers Hickory, North Carolina is known for. When our company first started out 50 years ago, we knew we wouldn't get very far without offering our clients good products and even better service. Because of this, we only carry heating & air conditioning units from reputable brands like Lennox, and we make sure our main focus is always on you as the customer.
Not only do we sell and install heating & air conditioning units, but we service them, too. If your heater gives out on a particularly chilly night or your AC unit stops working in the middle of a warm day, give us a call! While we operate during regular business hours, we also have an emergency line for you to call to get the service you need at any time.
If we can't fix your heating & air conditioning units right away, we will loan you a portable system to use until we can fix or replace your HVAC system. You won't find this service available from any other heating and cooling company in the Hickory area!
If you're on the market for new heating & air conditioning units or need someone to do maintenance or repair on an existing unit, give us a call at Climate Control Systems Inc. and find out why we are the best HVAC company in Hickory, North Carolina!
Check out the Lennox website for more information about the products we offer!
Climate Control Systems has been in business for over 50 years, offering an extensive range of products and providing heating and cooling installation and repair services. Call us for all your air conditioning, furnace, air filter, solar panel, and HVAC needs.
Don't Miss Out on Our Spring Promotion!
Get a Great Deal on a New Cooling System!


text:
Celebrity Birthdays for May 10 – Bono, Young MC and More
Kathy Landin Published: May 10, 2012
Here's a look at some notable birthdays being celebrated today:
Occupation: Singer
Known For: Being the outspoken frontman for U2 and the world's richest rock star, leading the group to 22 Grammys (more than any other rock band), being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and tirelessly tackling many humanitarian causes.
Young MC
Occupation: Rapper
Known For: Getting us all on our feet with his 1989 hit 'Bust a Move,' winning a Grammy for Best Rap Performance for the same song, and needing an updated name.
Linda Evangelista
Occupation: Model
Known For: Appearing on more than 600 magazine covers, saying to Vogue about supermodels "We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day," and most recently, for suing the billionaire father of her son for $46,000 a month in child support, a case which settled out-of-court for an undisclosed amount.
Todd Lowe
Occupation: Actor
Known For: Working hard in Merlotte's Bar & Grill while battling war-induced PTSD, werewolves and vampires in 'True Blood,' and fielding fast dialogue pitches as Lane Kim's husband Zach Van Gerbig in 'Gilmore Girls.'
Lauren Potter
Known For: Her role as a cheerleader with Down syndrome on the hit TV show 'Glee,' and for being appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, which will allow her to advise the White House on issues involving people with similar disabilities.
Read Original: Celebrity Birthdays for May 10 – Bono, Young MC and More
Filed Under: birthdays, celebrities
16 Celebs Who Were Spotted In Minnesota And Wisconsin In 2022
Look Inside Your Favorite Country Stars' Most Spectacular Beach Houses [Pictures]
Ed Harris Joins Star Studded Cast To Film New Movie In Minnesota
18 Celebrities You Could Run Into In Duluth
If Duluth Had A Walk Of Fame, These Would Be Some Of The Stars
Derek Jeter Selling His Stunning Hudson Valley Lakeside Castle for Discounted Price
20 Of The Weirdest Predictions For 2020, As Made By A Psychic
Reality Television Star Posts Photos From Minnesota, Vikings Game
Epic Spelling Errors On Birthday Cake Leaves Us Shaking Our Heads

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Exactly four years ago, Amar'e Stoudemire was soaking up the spotlight in Madison Square Garden. The star power forward, who had just inked a max 5-year, $100 million contract that summer, was dominating night in and night out. In the month of December, he averaged 29.8 points, 9.7 rebounds, and 2.7 blocks while setting the franchise records for most consecutive 30 point games (nine) and most consecutive games shooting 50% or above (also nine). Stoudemire went on to become the Knicks' first starter in the All-Star game since Patrick Ewing and earned a spot on the All-NBA Second Team. Little did Stoudemire and the Knicks know what would lie ahead for the big man.
Entering free agency in 2010, STAT was one of the most coveted players in the league. However, after years of dominating alongside Steve Nash in Phoenix, it became evident that Stoudemire would not be returning to the franchise. The Suns' medical staff, management, and ownership determined Stoudemire's surgically repaired knees were a major injury risk going forward, and as a result, they offered him a 4-year, $96 million with only $56 million guaranteed (way short of a max contract, especially with the non-guarantees). Steve Kerr, who was the Suns' GM then, went on the record saying, "What I remember is our orthopedic surgeon Tom Carter saying that generally after six to eight years after a player has a microfracture there could be problems. We calculated he had a couple of good years left and that the back end of the contract could be a problem.
Unfortunately, the Knicks and ex-coach Mike D'Antoni clearly didn't get the message and failed to monitor the status of Stoudemire's knees. Although Amar'e enjoyed an extremely successful first season as a Knick, D'Antoni rode him until the wheels fell off, playing him a career high 36.8 minutes per game. Two years and three knee surgeries later, Stoudemire was a shell of himself.
Most people criticize Stoudemire's game because of his inability to live up to his lucrative contract, but to judge him based on a dollar figure given to him when he was healthy just isn't fair. You have to be willing to look past what he was in his prime and evaluate him as a 32-year old big man who's undergone multiple knee surgeries. Only then is it possible to appreciate what he's been able to do this year.
Now in the last season of his massive deal, Stoudemire is showing signs of life. He was able to stay relatively healthy throughout the 2013-14 campaign thanks to heavy minutes restrictions, which set him up nicely for the current season: Amar'e is taking on a bigger workload (minutes are up to 25.3 from 22.6 last year), finding his groove, and providing a spark off the bench for a team that desperately needs help.
Obviously, Amar'e is not the dominant scorer he used to be; the wear and tear on his knees has robbed him of the explosion that once made him one of the most feared scorers in the league. However, scoring 18.1 points per 36 minutes is no easy feat considering power forwards like Kevin Love, Paul Millsap, Zach Randolph, Serge Ibaka, and Tim Duncan are all failing to do so.
Stoudemire is one of the only players on the Knicks to have benefitted from Phil Jackson's triangle offense thus far this year. With zero post-scorers on the team outside of Carmelo Anthony, STAT's being relied upon to create his own shot out of post-up situations as opposed to constantly getting his points through the pick and roll. Of course, Stoudemire still runs a fair share of pick and rolls, but only 44.6% of Stoudemire's made field goals have been assisted this year, which is a career low, and he's 15th in the league in elbow touches with 6.3 per game.
With his new role on offense, Stoudemire has been impressive. He's shooting 56.1% thanks to his ability to finish around the rim. More than half of his shots come from 0-3 feet from the hoop, and he's converting 71.3% of these looks. The only time Amar'e has ever been this effective near the hoop was in the 2007-08 Season when Nash was spoon-feeding him dunks all year long.
But the more shocking development in Stoudemire's game comes on the other side of the ball. Throughout his career, it would have been generous to call Amar'e a subpar defender. I mean, we're talking about a professional basketball player who claims he had "never been taught defense" until his 11th season in the NBA.
Clearly, someone should have taught him defense a lot sooner because Amar'e is finally starting to show signs of being a decent rim protector, allowing opponents to only shoot 47.6% around the basket. For a frame of reference, this puts him up there with players like Robin Lopez (48.5%), Larry Sanders (49.3%), Marc Gasol (47.5%), and Josh Smith (47.3%). While he is still far from being an elite defender, Amar'e has definitely made strides in this area. Plus, he's cleaning up the glass, grabbing the second most rebounds in his career per 36 minutes.
As a result, Stoudemire is second on the Knicks with 1.5 win shares, trailing only Carmelo Anthony's 1.7. No other player on the team even has a full win share thus far, which is a testament to how bad the Knicks, both individually and collectively, have been outside of Melo and STAT.
Amar'e will finally shed the burden of being one of the most overpaid players in the NBA this upcoming offseason (well… if you can call earning $100 million a burden…). It will be interesting to see what happens to him. It's possible he gets traded before the season ends, though I doubt it because his contract is so large; if he does, it will likely be to a team that just wants to use his contract to clear cap space for the offseason.
The more likely outcome is that Amar'e stays with the Knicks for the remainder of the season and becomes a free agent. What he does from there is anyone's guess. However, if Stoudemire doesn't decide to take a discount for a contending team, I could very well see him back in the Big Apple on a much cheaper, short-term deal. He looks comfortable in the Knicks' new system, and I have a hard time imagining that Amar'e wants to leave a city like New York. If he resigns, Stoudemire could redeem himself to Knicks fans. He'd no longer be judged by an enormous contract, but rather, he would be appreciated as a player who remains effective despite his age and injury history.
Regardless, keep the wine bathes coming Amar'e! They're clearly rejuvenating you!


text:
Home / Health / Is there a limitation on human endurance? Science says yes
Is there a limitation on human endurance? Science says yes
Runners on the 3.080 mile Race across the US in 2015. Credit: Bryce Carlson
From the Ironman triathlon after the Tour de France, some competitions test the limits of even the toughest endurance. Now, a new study of energy expenditure during some of the world's longest, most disturbing sporting events suggests that, regardless of activity, everyone has the same metabolic limit – a maximum possible effort on the part of humans. long-term maintenance.
When it comes to physical activities lasting days, weeks and months, the researchers found, people can only burn calories at 2.5 times their resting metabolic rate.
Not even the world's fastest ultra-marathons reached the border, the researchers found.
"It defines the world of what is possible for humans," said study co-author Herman Pontzer, a fellow professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University.
Beyond the threshold of 2.5 times a person's resting metabolic rate, researchers found, the body began to break down its own tissues to relieve the calorie deficiency.
One explanation for this limit is the digestive tract's ability to break down food, said team leaders Pontzer and John Speakman of Scotland University of Aberdeen and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In other words, eating more will not necessarily help anyone make Iditarod's history. "There is only a limit to how many calories our gut can absorb daily," Pontzer said.
The results will appear online on June 5 in the journal Science Advances .
Measurement of resting energy expenditure for a race over the US runner. Credit: Bryce Carlson
For the study, the team burned calories daily that ran through a group of athletes who spent six months in the 2015 US race six marathons a week, six months a week, & # 39; 000 miles from California to Washington, DC. The team also considers other achievements of human endurance, including punishment of 100 miles and pregnancy.
When they recorded the data over time, they found a L-shaped curve. The athletes' energy consumption started relatively high, but inevitably dropped and collapsed at 2.5 times their basal metabolic rate for the rest of the event.
Co-author Caitlin Thurber analyzed urine samples analyzed during the first and final bones of the race. Across the US. After 20 weeks of walking-back marathons, athletes burned 600 calories a day as expected based on their kilometers. The findings indicate that the body can "downshift" its metabolism to help stay within sustainable levels.
"This is a good example of limited energy spending, where the body is limited in its ability to achieve extremely high levels of energy expenditure for a prolonged period of time," Thurber said.
"You can sprint 100 meters, but you can drive for miles, right? That's also true here," Pontzer said.
All the endurance has the same L-shaped curve, or the athletes ran 500 pounds in Antarctica during freezing temperatures, or the Tour de France in the summer. This finding challenges the idea suggested by previous researchers that human endurance is linked to the ability to regulate body temperature.
One limiting factor for endurance, researchers find, lies in the digestive process. The body's ability to process food and absorb calories and nutrients to burn bodily processes.
Interestingly, the maximum sustainable energy consumption was under endurance. only slightly higher than the metabolic rates maintained by women under pregnancy. This suggests that the same physiological boundaries say, Ironman triathletes of debilitating speed records can also limit other aspects of life, such as how big babies can grow in the womb.
As far as the researchers know, nobody's ever persistent levels are beyond this limit. "It is therefore a challenge to endure endurance," Pontzer said. "Science works if you're wrong. Maybe someone breaks through the ceiling daily and shows us what's missing."
Not only for weightlifters: study found high protein diet gives endurance & a boost
C. Thurber et al., "Extreme Events Shows a Feeding Limit for Continuous Maximum Human Energy Expenditure," Science Advances (2019). DOI: 10.1126 / sciadv.aau0341, https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw0341
Is there a limitation on human endurance? Science says yes (2019, June 5)
picked up June 5, 2019
from https://phys.org/news/2019-06-limit-human-science.html
This document is subject to copyright. Except for any fair trade for the purpose of private study or research, no
Share may be reproduced without written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.


Prime Minister and COP23 President Voreqe Bainimarama has hailed the COP23 meeting in Bonn, Germany a success.
The main agenda issues of the COP23 meet were endorsed, despite the several hours of negotiations.
Bainimarama says there has been positive momentum in a number of areas and the task set out to be done has been achieved.
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa says the conference has delivered a launch-pad that can take us to the next stage of higher ambition.
She says it has also advanced the implementation guidelines of the Paris Agreement so that by 2018 it can truly support sustained international cooperation and national efforts to realize a more secure, prosperous and better world for all.


Microsoft has paused the October update of its Windows 10 operating system after reports that some users found their documents disappeared once it was installed.
On its support page, the firm asks affected customers to use their device as little as possible and to phone their local helpline.
It is also asking people who have downloaded the update manually not to install it.
The firm said the cases were isolated.
"Microsoft has paused the roll-out of the update while we continue to investigate reports from some customers," the firm said in a statement.


Beware this ferocious looking creature! With his majestic mane and his razor sharp teeth, he does recall his larger cousins in faraway lands – however, the micro-tufted hound is unlikely to cause much damage. He is no more than three inches tall, and his main appetites is for spiders and dragonflies. Yes, that's real life size here.


Recently, I sold a home in nearby Mitchellville for $600k -- an impressive $50k over it's actual appraisal value of $550k! What really makes this blog-worthy is the fact that the number that a lot of home buyers rely on is the ever popular "Zestimate" found on Zillow. A number that is built from an automated software process designed by statisticians that takes into account data such as the number of beds, baths, square footage, lot size, tax assessment, prior sale price. Zillow maintains that this number has a national median error rate of 4.3% and in this case it is spot on when compared to the appraisal.
But thanks to our effective marketing strategy and the amount of work we put into getting a property onto market - including construction, staging, cleaning and professional photography and video materials - we were able to get MORE. This doesn't happen by accident, we go the distance to make sure our clients our satisfied! We focus on bringing out the true beauty of a home and make certain that we pass the test for even the most demanding perspective buyers. Watch the property video and take a look at the absolutely gorgeous photography and decide for yourself if you really would be content with your Zestimate.
Are you ready to sell your home? At the bottom of this page you will find a link to get the initial value of your home!
Click the link below to get your estimated home value and we will reach out to you!


Take flier delivery to the next level by starting a community bulletin board service. The concept is very straightforward. In exchange for a flat monthly fee, you post promotional fliers for retailers, professionals, and service providers on bulletin boards throughout the local trading area. Community bulletin boards are typically found in supermarkets, schools, laundries, libraries, gas stations, community centers and fitness clubs. Most, however, have a policy of removing fliers after a week so that boards do not get overcrowded, and to allow space for new fliers to be posted. Even though most small business owners realize that posting fliers on community bulletin boards is a fast, frugal and effective way to advertise their products and services, most miss out on the opportunity because they do not have the time to drive around town posting them. Like hand-delivering fliers to homes and businesses, this service can also be very profitable because you have the potential to post fliers for more than one client at a time. Charging clients $20 (not including the cost of the fliers) per week to post fliers on 50 bulletin boards may not be worthwhile, but a mere 50 clients will earn you $52,000 a year. And, at 40 cents per flier posted, with the potential for thousands of people stopping to read it, you will find little resistance in selling this service to small business owners.


text:
E pluribus unum — łac. "Z wielu, jeden" (tłumaczone też "jeden z wielu") – tradycyjne, trzynastoliterowe motto USA, znajdujące się na Wielkiej Pieczęci Stanów Zjednoczonych razem z Annuit cœptis (łac. Zatwierdza zobowiązanie) oraz Novus ordo seclorum (łac. nowy porządek wieków) przyjęte przez Kongres w 1782 roku. Nigdy nie skodyfikowane prawnie, E Pluribus Unum było uważane de facto za motto Stanów Zjednoczonych, dopóki w 1956 roku Kongres nie ustanowił "In God We Trust" oficjalnym mottem.

Znaczenie
Tradycyjnie rozumiane znaczenie mówi, że z wielu stanów (kolonii) wyrósł jeden naród. Jednak w ostatnich latach sugeruje się, że jakoby z wielu plemion, ras, religii, języków oraz przodków wyrosło jedno plemię i jeden naród – jak w tyglu.

Przypisy

Sentencje łacińskie

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Keeping your cryptocurrency safe and secure is important. For large amounts, it's never advisable to keep funds on a centralized exchange. In fact, it's not just enough to hold your coins in a mobile or desktop wallet when you're talking about long-term savings. Hardware wallets can provide that added (and necessary) additional layer of security. There are many such devices on the market today, and I try to test them out whenever I get the chance.
Today on the BTC Sessions I take a look at the Coldlar Pro 3 – a 100% air gapped, high end cryptocurrency hardware wallet. We walk through setup, user interface, using the paired application, basic transactions, and my thoughts on the unit as a whole.


I can definitely say now that Rainbow Ridge is as steep as it looks from the road below. I drove down on Saturday, June 6 with the hope of hiking to the top of Rainbow Mountain. But, there had been a lot of fresh snow the week before above 5000 feet elevation, so I scratched that plan pretty fast. I'm not a big fan of hiking through just a few inches of snow covering loose talus.
There is a platform just below the summit that looked like it was mostly snow free, so I figured I'd give it a go and see if there's a good view of the mountain from there. It's a pretty wild 4000 feet of elevation gain in just under two miles.
View of the Delta River Valley before heading into alder thicket.
Some wildflowers in the talus field.
I kept expecting the hillside to start leveling off. However, it just gets steeper and steeper as I gain exposure on my way up. The lupins were pretty.
Light poking through the clouds over the Delta River.
I'm not sure what was going on with my helmet. I guess it didn't want to play well with my hat.
Nearing the top of Rainbow Ridge the landscape starts to change.
At 5000 feet, I start to get a break from the loose talus to scramble over some solid rock (solid by Alaska Range standards). This is much preferable to me. I like it when the ground doesn't move beneath my feet. Until this point, much of the hike was "two steps forward, one step back", except for when the opposite occurred and things got scarier. There was also an abrupt change in temperature, dropping below freezing. Suddenly there was a strong wind and it was snowing too.
Looking at Rainbow Mountain and the ridge from up on the saddle. Next time when there's less snow I'll hit the top. I don't love walking on loose talus covered by a few inches of snow.
I waited around a while for the light to hit this scene just right, but this was the best I got. Plus, it kept snowing on me and the cold wind was annoying.
I started getting cold and noticed my lack of gloves. My hands stiffened up, it became difficult to operate my camera. Probably a good time to head down.
I took slightly a different route. It was a bit steeper in places, but the ground was more cohesive than the scree slope. There was a lot more alder work at the bottom, I'm not sure it was worth the secure footing.
Sunlight hits the Delta River while on my way down from Rainbow Ridge.
Oh. My feet hurt after that. It may have been the most intensive hike I've ever done that was less than 5 miles long. After packing up the car, I headed south to fill up with some spring water and chill my feet in the stream for a bit.
The evening light was turning golden. I had to make a few stops along the way to take some photos (and continue chilling my feet in the Delta River). Then I was treated to a wonderful sunset for the entire 3-hour drive home.
A little evening light on the hills beneath Rainbow Ridge. Still cloudy up top.
Golden evening light hits the mountains south of Rainbow Ridge.
Bright sunlight on Mt. Moffit over a meadow along the Richardson Highway.
Sunset at the Donnelly Lake pull-off on the Richardson Highway. Storms forming over the mountains.
Gorgeous sunset on Birch Lake.
Sunset over the Tanana River. Near Salcha.


text:
Q: Cypress: How can i use any variable/element of a describe block in different describe block?

//Enter data and add the customer profiles
describe('Enter data to New profiles', function() {
    it('Enter cuatomer details and add the customer profile', function() {

        //Dynamic Customer profile Name

        const todaysDateTime = Cypress.moment().format('MMMDDYYYYSS')
        const profileName = 'ProfileName-' + todaysDateTime
        //Entering the profile Name
        cy.get('input[id="fileDataSubform-portfolio_name"]').type(profileName)
        cy.get('textarea[name="fileDataSubform[customer_list]"]').type('Smith002')
        //clicking the submit button
        cy.get('button[id="pvwButton1"]').click()
    })
})
//I want to use above 'profileName' const value in diffrenet describe block.

describe('Customer details page Navigation', function() {
            it('Click on created customer profile name', function() {
                        cy.get('html > body > div:nth-of-type(1)').then(($elem) => {
                                const x = $elem.text()
                                cy.log(x)
                                if (x.includes(profileName)) {
                                    cy.log("found")
                                    cy.get($elem).click()

                                })
                        })

I have used cypres hook method to solve this but is there anyway, I could able to use the 1 dynamic value of a describe block in other describe block apart from cypress hook concept

A: You just need to move profileName outside of your describe so it's in the global scope. Then, it can be accessed from anywhere in the test file.
Read more about Javascript scopes here (it will supercharge your Cypress experience): https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_scope.asp
Something like this should work:
const todaysDateTime = Cypress.moment().format('MMMDDYYYYSS')
const profileName = 'ProfileName-' + todaysDateTime

describe('Enter data to New profiles', function() {
  // ... your tests that use profileName here ...
})

describe('Customer details page Navigation', function() {
  // ... more tests that use profileName here ...
})

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged social etiquette, social skills, Third wheel. Bookmark the permalink.
Yes. I get it! We anticipate a meeting with a friend, hopeful of that intimate sharing of thoughts and feelings that only this friend will reciprocate. We give our time and attention to our shared time and it is so disappointing to find this particular friend has not given our appointed time the same recognition. Great writing Simone!
The introverts all get it -they're the ones who have always complained to me about people doing it to them so they know it!
You always have such a fresh take on things! Appreciate your perspective!
It's actually not my take – I've had loads of people complain to me about people doing it to them over the years (which I agree with) so decided to write it down!


Young people in New Zealand will soon have a new place to hone their IT skills and job prospects.
Microsoft New Zealand Managing Director, Paul Muckleston, announced that as part of Microsoft's global YouthSpark program the company is donating NZ$1M in cash, software and services investment to the High Tech Youth Network to provide pathways for young, underserved Kiwis into the IT industry. He made the announcement at One Tree Hill College in Penrose, where Prime Minister John Key joined with students and the CEO of the High Tech Youth Network for the official ground-breaking at the school.
Through the Network, young people aged 8 – 25 years in underserved communities receive NCEA and industry related secondary and tertiary credentialing, workplace internships and mentoring in the High-Tech and Digital Media industries. At the studios, participants learn project management and technical skills such as computer game design, electronic publishing, Photoshop, animation and 3D graphic design.
The $1M grant – made under Microsoft's global YouthSpark programme – includes a commitment of investment to these programs.
The government's 2013 Budget also provided $1.9M to enable the Network to develop two new studios – including the One Tree Hill College site – and to continue to support young people enrolled at existing studios.
Muckleston said, "Through our partnership with the High Tech Youth Network, we hope to inspire young New Zealanders to imagine and build a better future for themselves – all while building a skilled and innovative workforce in New Zealand that is equipped to prosper in the global economy."
Mike Usmar, CEO of the Network, expressed his deep gratitude for the new grant of support which he says will enable them to expand its reach further than ever before, positioning the organization to serve more than 37,000 youth and whanau in the Oceania region towards developing IT skills that will impact them for a lifetime.


Ambient Temperature Controlled Vans – Why are they important?
Your first thought might be to just go with a conventional vehicle courier solution when it comes to ambient Temperature controlled deliveries.
Simple – firstly, you know that your products will arrive in their best state. Whether the trip takes an hour or ten, come rain or shine, traffic or extreme weather. Whatever we are moving stays the same ambient temperature.
We prevent any risk of cross contamination by regularly sanitizing our vans. Our drivers are also trained in all the necessary procedures. Combined, this ensures the safe, successful delivery of your ambient items.
Whether it is a box or a pallet of food samples, we will get it from A to B at optimal temperature. You choose the temperature and we do the rest – even if you need to transport various items at different temperatures.
We offer a dedicated delivery service. In other words, the doors stay closed after loading to keep ambient temperature stability.
Our comprehensive range of vehicles have the latest tracking technology fitted. Consequently, we offer accurate delivery times with live traffic updates.
Do you have a delivery to book in?


WHAT IS A GHOST WINERY? VINE CLIFF IS PART OF NAPA VALLEY HISTORY. There are numerous wineries in the Napa Valley that have been designated 'ghost wineries' not because there have been sightings of anything out of the ordinary, but because these wineries were built between 1860 and 1900, when the first wine boom occurred.


RAMSEY, N.J. - December 1, 2006 - KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC. (KONICA MINOLTA) today announced the introduction of the new bizhub™ C252 color printer/copier/scanner/fax. An ideal replacement for Segment 2 monochrome and color multifunctional products (MFPs) with a letter-sized copy speed of 25 pages-per-minute (ppm) color and B&W, the compact bizhub C252 enables small- to medium-sized office workgroups to use the bizhub concept by allowing them to digitally share and distribute B&W and color documents, while controlling security.
Modular Finisher: flexible options allowing documents to be hole-punched, crease-folded or center stapled in an instant.
Optional Booklet Finisher: for high demand booklet applications, allowing documents to be hole-punched, folded or center-stapled.
Intelligent Manual Bypass: handles 24-1/4 lb. to 55-3/4 lb. specialty paper, OHP transparencies, postcards, ten #10 envelopes, and label sheets.
In addition to the range of traditional fax features, the bizhub C252 also offers advanced fax capabilities and functions including both analog and digital fax transmission, Internet Fax, and between similarly equipped bizhub devices, IP Address Fax communication in color. Receive-to-box and Email, and fax forward functions with instant notice allows sharing of faxes via Email, FTP Site, SMB folders, and prevents unnecessary print jobs without additional cost as the distribution occurs via Internet.
The highly compact bizhub C252 offers the following standard features: laser print technology (featuring four lasers); PCL5e/c, PCL6 and PS3 emulation; networking; 25 originals-per-minute (OPM) color and B&W scanning; a 40 GB hard disk drive; User Box functionality; the ability to handle up to 140 lb. index paper through the multi-purpose cassette, the intelligent manual bypass and the automatic duplex unit; KONICA MINOLTA Simitri® Color Polymerized Toner; User Authentication; and network management tools through the PageScope software suite.
"With the huge success of the bizhub C250 last year in winning three coveted awards, we are confident that the additions to the bizhub C252 will achieve further acclaim and position the device as a multi-tasking tool for the modern office," said Kevin P. Kern, Vice President, Product Planning and Development, KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC. "The bizhub C252 will benefit every office environment, and save businesses time and money."
"In a relatively short period of time, KONICA MINOLTA climbed to the top market share position in color and we look to continue that momentum," said Bill Brewster, Vice President, Marketing, KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC. "The introduction of the bizhub C252 continues the legacy of KONICA MINOLTA award-winning color products, and will strengthen our hold on first place in color. Innovative products like the bizhub C252 backed by the best after-sales customer care establish truly beneficial customer relationships, enabling us to continue our growth momentum."
KONICA MINOLTA's bizhub OP brings a continued level of performance and reliability to the bizhub C252 by delivering a common user experience, increased manageability, superior print performance, improved scanning functionality and enhanced security. The three major components of bizhub OP are the bizhub Architecture, the Emperon Print System and bizhub Open API. The bizhub Architecture removes the need for separate functional boards through the utilization of common system software that drives all functions — copy, print, scan and fax.
The architecture also eliminates hardware-based functions, and shares the device's CPU and memory for a seamless MFP user experience. The Emperon Print System provides for total integration of document output management with a consistent user interface and functionality across future KONICA MINOLTA products. In addition, the bizhub Open API will enable control of both the print and scan functions from external applications.
Featuring 256 levels of grayscale per pixel and 600 x 600 dpi print/copy resolution, the bizhub C252 produces clear text, sharp edges and consistent color. The bizhub C252 uses KONICA MINOLTA Simitri Color Polymerized Toner, which maintains the uniformity of the toner particles for more even distribution, significantly better halftone definition and better solid fills.
With these image quality features, plus one of the smallest 11" x 17" color tandem engines in the industry; a monthly maximum duty cycle of 75,000 impressions; standard paper capacity of 850 sheets, including a 100-sheet intelligent bypass tray; expandable paper capacity up to 3,350 sheets; and the ability to handle up to 140 lb. index through the multi-purpose cassette, the manual bypass, the standard automatic duplex unit, and the choice of a versatile modular finisher or advanced booklet finisher; the bizhub C252 is designed to handle the diverse color and B&W document needs of small- to medium-sized office workgroup environments such as Marketing, Finance and Human Resources.
Also available for the new bizhub C252 is the optional 33.6 Kbps Super G3 analog Fax Kit. The optional fax capabilities include: 32 MB of memory, transmissions in B&W up to 11" x 17", JBIG data compression, up to 600 x 600 fax TX resolution, separate scanning, duplex TX and RX, mixed original faxing, PC faxing, memory reception and delayed transmission.
With document security and document management playing a significant role in the technology acquisition decision-making process, the bizhub C252 supports Hard Disk Drive Overwrite and Job Erase, which automatically overwrites the hard disk drive after each job. In addition, the bizhub C252 offers User Authentication to protect a user job by prohibiting its modification or deletion. With User Authentication, it is also possible to enable or disable each user's access to the device based on function — copy, print, scan, and fax.
The bizhub C252's User Box functionality, with its PageScope Box Operator software, supports each of the device's functions — copy, print, scan and fax. With a total of 1,000 user boxes and the ability to store up to 3,000 documents, users can manage individual User Boxes, create public and private User Boxes, assign passwords, and restrict the number of files stored.
The bizhub C252 is available through KONICA MINOLTA's North American direct sales, authorized dealer and value-added reseller channels. The manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) for the bizhub C252 is $10,450.
About KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A.
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC., offers a broad range of multifunctional digital imaging solutions inspired by its bizhub brand of powerful solutions that serve as the central resource for document scanning, in-house printing, copying, faxing and electronic archiving and distribution. From high-quality color and monochrome bizhub systems for workgroups and small offices, to advanced high-volume bizhub PROTM production printing systems for large corporations and print-for-pay services, Konica Minolta is leading the industry toward integrated, networked hardware/software solutions that are more simple, reliable, and cost-effective. Complementing its bizhub solutions, Konica Minolta also offers desktop laser printers, microform digital imaging systems, wide-format printers and scanning systems for specialized applications.
Headquartered in Ramsey, New Jersey, KONICA MINOLTA delivers expert professional services and experienced, responsive client support, in addition to the world-class service provided through its extensive network of direct sales offices, authorized dealers, resellers and distribution partners in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America and South America. For more information, please visit KONICA MINOLTA at www.kmbs.konicaminolta.us.
* - Top U.S. market share position in 2005 unit shipments for color laser digital copiers according to IDC's "Market Analysis: U.S. Copier 2006-2010 Forecast and Analysis". Copiers include single-function digital copiers and copier-based MFPs; it does not include printer-based MFPs. KONICA MINOLTA and The essentials of imaging are trademarks of KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC. bizhub and bizhub PRO are trademarks of KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.


text:
Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (n. 15 septembrie 1916, Valea Albă, Comuna Războieni, Neamț, România – d. 22 iunie 1992, Paris, Franța) a fost un diplomat român interbelic și un jurnalist, romancier, poet și preot român din exilul românesc postbelic.

Note biografice

Bunicul și tatăl său au fost preoți în localitatea Războieni.

Între anii 1928 și 1936 a studiat la Liceul Militar "Regele Ferdinand I" din Chișinău.

După ce a terminat liceul, a renunțat la cariera militară și a venit în București unde a absolvit Facultatea de Litere și Filosofie a Universității din București.

În 1943 a fost numit atașat de presă al ambasadei românești din Croația. Atunci a început lungul drum al pribegiei sale, trecând prin Germania, unde s-a refugiat 1944 (imediat ce sovieticii au intrat în România), pentru ca în 1948, după ce-a fost eliberat din arest de americani, să se stabilească în Franța, unde a publicat circa 40 de volume.

În exil fiind, a urmat studii de teologie la Heidelberg (în Germania de Vest), astfel că în 1963 a fost hirotonit preot la biserica ortodoxă română "Sfinții Arhangheli" din Paris. Primește rangul de iconom stavrofor în 1971, activând sub jurisdicția Patriarhiei Ecumenice de Constatinopol.

Opera

Iată o listă cronologică a cărților publicate de Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu:
 romanul Taraful de noapte (Editura Fortuna)
 Viața de toate zilele a poetului ("La vie de tous le jours du poète") – poezie, Editura "Cartea Românească", 1937;
 Caligrafie pe zăpadă ("Calligraphie sur neige") – poezie, Editura Fundațiilor Regale pentru Literatură și Artă "Regele Carol al II-lea", București, 1940;
 Armand Călinescu (Armand Calinesco), Editura Socec, București, 1940;
 Ard malurile Nistrului: mare reportaj de război din teritoriile desrobite ("Le rives du Dniestr sont en flammes"), cu o scrisoare de Tudor Arghezi, Editura Națională "Gheorghe Mecu", București, 1940 — reportaje de pe front din timpul războiului de eliberare a Basarabiei și a Bucovinei de Nord, folosite mai târziu de Marin Preda, ca sursă documentară, în romanul "Delirul";
 Cu submarinul la asediul Sevastopolului ("Avec le sus-marin à l'assault de Sébastopol"), Editura Națională, București, 1942;
 Am luptat în Crimeea ("Je combattu en Crimée"), reportaj de război cu un portret de Lucia Demetriade Bălăcescu, Editura Națională "Gheorghe Mecu", București, 1942
 Ceasul de rugăciune ("L'Heure de la prière") – poezie, cu un portret de R. Rybickza, Editura Națională "Gheorghe Mecu", București, 1942;
 Ultima oră ("La dernière heure"), Editura Națională, București, 1943;
 Rumänische Märchen ("Povești românești"/ Contes roumains), Eibandentwurf (?) de Eugen Dörr, editura "Ähren", Heidelberg, Germania, 1948;
 La vingt-cinquième heure ("Ora a douăzeci și cincea"/ "Ora 25"), roman tradus în română de Monique Saint-Côme, cu prefața de Gabriel Marcel, Plon, editura "Feux Croisés", Paris, 1949
 ecranizat în 1967, rolul principal este jucat de Anthony Quinn
 De la vingt-cinquième heure à l'heure éternelle ("De la al 25-lea ceas, la momentul eternității")
 Tatăl meu, preotul care s-a urcat la cer (1965, Paris și 2003, Sibiu)
 Perahim - Rendez-vous à l'infini ("Perahim - Ne vedem la infinit")
 La Seconde Chance (1952) ["A doua șansă"], Editura Plon, Paris, tradus din română de Livia Lamoure
 Les Sacrifiés du Danube (1957) ["Jertfele Dunării"]
 La Maison de Petrodava (1961) ["Locuința Petrodavei"]
 Les Immortels d'Agapia (1964) ["Nemuritorii Agapiei"]
 Dieu Paris (1964) ["Zeul Paris"]
 L'oeil américain ("Ochiul american") (1972) – roman de acțiune, suspans, politică-ficțiune și gândire geo-politică. Editura Plon.
 Memorii (1990), tradus în limba română de Sanda Mihăescu-Cârsteanu. În Memorii, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu prezintă un aspect inedit; de exemplu, se referă la pogromul împotriva evreilor bucureșteni din timpul revoltei legionare;
 După romanul Ora 25, care îl consacra definitiv în lumea liberă, descoperirea unei opere apărute în timpul războiului, favorabilă redobândirii Basarabiei, îi va aduce autorului o serie de atacuri violente în presa occidentală, care îl acuza, neîntemiat, de antisemitism. Își va explica atitudinea într‑un nou roman – Omul care călătorea singur (Ed. Sophia, 2010).
 Les Inconnus de Heidelberg ("Necunoscuții din Heidelberg"), Plon, 1977, 251 de pagini. ISBN 2259001955, ISBN 9782259001953. Traducere în limba română: Gheorghiță Ciocioi, Editura Sophia, București 2015, 256 de pagini ISBN 978-983-136-466-7
Viața lui Mahomed, traducere în limba română de Gheorghiță Ciocioi, Editura Sophia, București 2016, 500 de pagini, ISBN 978-973-136-524-4
"Sfântul Ambrozie al Milanului", traducere în limba română de Gheorghiță Ciocioi, Editura Sophia, București 2013, 301 pagini, ISBN 978-973-136-375-2

A publicat un poem dedicat mitului tatălui și, după o vreme, a fost acuzat că ar fi plagiat un poem al lui Virgil Carianopol. Numai că el publicase poemul cu câteva luni înaintea lui Virgil Carianopol. Totuși, nu a fost posibil să-și dovedeasca nevinovăția, pentru că Virgil Carianopol era legionar și presa legionară nu admitea că un membru al Legiunii ar putea să facă vreun act necinstit.

Note

Legături externe
 Ce urmărește de fapt proletarizarea? , jurnal.md
 http://www.romlit.ro/sclavia_ascuns  Marius Mihet în "Romania literară"
 Memoriile lui Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, 14 mai 2005, Eugen Simion, Ziua
 Români în lume, balcanii.ro
 Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, "poetul lui Hristos și al României" , 17 aprilie 2008, Pr. Ioan Neculoiu, Ziarul Lumina
 Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, 6 februarie 2013, Radu Alexandru, CrestinOrtodox.ro

Nașteri în 1916
Nașteri pe 9 septembrie
Decese în 1992
Decese pe 22 iunie
Diplomați români
Poeți români
Români ai celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial
Români francezi
Români expatriați în Franța
Scriitori români de limbă franceză
Scriitori români din exil
Preoți creștini români


text:
Q: Query get category and product on tree I have category table:

And product table:

I want query get a tree include both category and product, example: If last level of category is product of category, same image below:

A: Update:
Thanks you @bradbury9
I try JOIN 2 table and use UNION ALL, it working for me:
SELECT *
FROM
     (
          (
                SELECT NULL AS content_id, NULL AS question, NULL AS answer, node.*,
                     (
                          SELECT COUNT(parent1.id) - 1
                          FROM faq_categories AS node1,
                          faq_categories AS parent1
                          WHERE node1.lft BETWEEN parent1.lft AND parent1.rgt AND node1.id = node.id
                          GROUP BY node1.name
                          ORDER BY node1.lft
                     ) AS level
               FROM `faq_contents` as content
               LEFT JOIN `faq_categories` AS node ON node.`id` = content.`category_id`
               LEFT JOIN `faq_categories` AS parent ON parent.`id` = content.`category_id`
               WHERE node.lft BETWEEN parent.lft AND parent.rgt
               GROUP BY node.id

           )
           UNION ALL
           (
                 SELECT content.id AS content_id, content.question, content.answer, node.*,
                       (
                             CASE WHEN content.id IS NULL THEN
                             (
                                  SELECT COUNT(parent1.id) - 1
                                  FROM faq_categories AS node1,
                                       faq_categories AS parent1
                                  WHERE node1.lft BETWEEN parent1.lft AND parent1.rgt AND node1.id = node.id
                                  GROUP BY node1.name
                                  ORDER BY node1.lft
                              )
                              ELSE 3 END
                       ) AS level
                  FROM `faq_contents` AS content
                  RIGHT JOIN `faq_categories` AS node ON node.`id` = content.`category_id`
           )
   ) node
ORDER BY lft


When you start working on a mobile project with a team, it's often desirable to have a shared build server to help create a continuous delivery workflow. This build server recompiles your app every time a new commit (or "check-in" as we used to call them) is pushed to your project, and can even notify testers and beta users when new (working) builds are available. There are many ways to set up build servers for continuous delivery, but as with all things involving servers these days, isn't this something the cloud can do? Wouldn't it be nice if someone else managed your build servers for you?
Enter BuddyBuild. A cloud-based service for building Android and iOS apps. Cool.
The compiled apps can be downloaded and run on local devices, or you can use BuddyBuild to help distribute your app to beta testers (similar to capabilities in Telerik's AppManager and Microsoft's HockeyApp, both of which also work with NativeScript).
BuddyBuild does not (yet) support NativeScript projects right out of the box (if you want that, let them know!), but they do offer a flexible system that allows you to customize the build process. Every build gets its own, fresh server instance, so that means you have quite a bit of control to configure that environment as necessary to make your builds work.
We'll do that by adding a "Post Clone" BuddyBuild step to our NativeScript project that installs the CLI from npm and runs the tns prepare command to generate our XCode or Gradle platform project files.
echo "******** Install NativeScript CLI *************"
echo "******** NativeScript CLI Ready *************"
echo "******** Prepare NativeScript iOS Project *************"
Obviously, this snippet is set up to work for an iOS app build. If you wanted to support both iOS and Android builds, you can use the BuddyBuild environment variables to create a more advanced script.
NOTE: BuddyBuild requires separate "projects" in their system to build the same app for iOS and Android, so you can set specific environment variables in those two projects to build NativeScript source for iOS and Android.
The echo comments are included in this script to help with debugging. You get the complete command line output for all builds in BuddyBuild (the "Logs"), so these comments will help you see where the various Post Clone actions are being performed.
With this script in place, BuddyBuild should build your NativeScript project and give you an app package you can deploy to your testers or beta users!
It wouldn't be mobile app development if it were just that easy.
In my experiments, I found this solution works fine for the NativeScript "Hello World" example and relatively simple apps. For apps that had large numbers of plugins, particularly native iOS plugins, your milage may vary. One large iOS app I tested would only compile on BuddyBuild some of the time, and even when it did, it would fail to work when installed on a device.
So...it's not perfect. But hopefully the BuddyBuild team will be able to help polish the rough edges when they add first class support for NativeScript to their systems.
Until then, it's a very cool continuous integration build server solution for iOS and Android apps, and with very little configuration, it might work for your NativeScript app.


With an enormous assortment of material grades and a wide variety of metalworking processes available, the selection process for the best combination can be challenging for any application.
Quench cracking is typically seen as a result of several factors including: cooling too fast; uneven cooling; pre-existing stress risers; and large percentages of martensite formation. However, consider the case of a simple bar that has few stress risers, cools evenly, and contains little to no martensite, yet still cracks. With large cross-section components, quench cracks can be catastrophic, resulting in the component splitting entirely in half.
"Large" must also be defined. Large components have an increased risk of cracking due to a gradient of stresses through their thickness. These stresses develop during phase transformations and temperature differences from surface to center. Inherently, thicker sections will have increased differences in temperature upon heating and cooling. In addition, the demand for higher mechanical properties requires faster cooling, which will increase thermal and transformational stresses.
Large is relative to part geometry, grade chemistry, and heat treatment, and size ranges will be broken down into small, medium, and large. Small forgings are composed mostly of martensite. Medium forgings have a mix of martensite, lower bainite, and Upper Transformation Products (UTP). Large forgings are those, which consist of mostly UTP. Small forgings typically crack from the outside toward the center. This occurs because the DI, quench rate, and size are sufficient to produce a mostly martensitic microstructure. Martensite has a volumetric expansion upon formation. This expansion will put the surface in a tensile residual stress and the center in compression. If the stress is large enough, the forging will crack at the surface and propagate toward the center.
Medium-sized forgings have a mixture of microstructures. This mix gives the bar a better balance of temperature and transformational stresses resulting in a lower observed stress. No efforts have been put forth into investigating yet, though it is possible there are size ranges for a given material that can be quenched with Grossman quench factors approaching infinity with low risk of cracking!
If we were to assume that all factors listed above are seemingly for the quench, how can we explain when cracking still occurs? Additionally, if properties are difficult to meet and a more aggressive quench is needed, how can one reduce the risk of cracking?
In my next column, I'll discuss the reduction of transformational and thermal stresses.


Limpid cake & pie lifter is a great companion for your serving.
The leather string makes it easy to hang.
Made from plantation wood which was crafted and left in its natural state with no chemical treatment done.


Pamper feet with the luxuriously rich and easily absorbed Clarins Foot Beauty Treatment Cream to nourish and soothe the hard-worked and oft-neglected skin of the feet.
Restore suppleness to dry skin with this non-oily treatment, and soothe and comfort tired and stressed-out feet.
Exfoliate area beforehand for extra effectiveness. Massage product on to the skin from ankles to toes whenever hydration is needed.


text:
Falkville est une municipalité américaine située dans le comté de Morgan en Alabama.

Selon le recensement de 2010, sa population est de . La municipalité s'étend sur .

La ville est nommée en l'honneur du commerçant Louis M. Falk. Elle devient une municipalité en 1898.

Démographie

Notes et références

Liens externes

Town en Alabama
Comté de Morgan (Alabama)


text:
Rise of Social Messaging Apps
Using social messaging apps to get in touch with friends, family, and coworkers in real time is at an all time high right now with no signs of letting up. What's important for businesses is the present and coming opportunities to use these same apps to connect with customers!
Social Messaging apps are quick and convenient to use, similar to text messaging on your phone but usually offering more multimedia tools and other additional features. BI Intelligence from Business Insider estimates that in 2015, social messaging apps will grow to surpass standard social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+ in use, so it's a trend to pay attention to!
What are Social Messaging Apps? We're talking about apps like Facebook Messenger, SnapChat, What's App, and more. Typically they are used on Smartphone's but also have website interfaces. Small or mid-sized businesses and companies need to pay attention to these changing trends as they become tools that businesses will need to use to connect with their customers, and which may allow for advertising opportunities. They are where customers are spending time. Social messaging apps are not a flash in the pan. As these apps become the primary way people choose to communicate while using their mobile devices, companies need to adapt and change marketing strategies to reflect the usage of these apps. Let's dig into a few of the key apps in a bit more detail.
One popular and growing app is Facebook Messenger. According to HubSpot's Blog, Facebook Messenger has experienced a 50% growth rate in 2014. Integrated within Facebook and also as a stand-alone app, it's a tool that is experiencing phenomenal growth. If a business has a Facebook page, then it's possible to use Facebook Messenger as the business to connect with fans. Using Facebook Messenger companies can easily interact with customers and answer their questions and customer service concerns. Customers develop a deep loyalty to brands that take the time to reply to concerns.
It's also interesting to note that Facebook is spending considerable time on adding new features and tools to Messenger, both for the user, and for developers to add features. It's similar to how Facebook Pages evolved over the years. Basically, if Facebook is seeing growing value in Messenger for their own marketing and connecting users, then businesses want to pay attention and look for ways their business may want or need to use the tool to reach their ideal customer audience. One recent addition Facebook is rolling out for Messenger is the peer-to-peer payment integration. Connect once, and then
WhatsApp is another popular messaging app, with a particular strength of users outside of the United States. It's interesting to note that Facebook bought this app and continues to have it function as a separate and stand-alone messaging app. This online messenger app on mobile phones has a feature to integrate with a user's phone contact list and allows users to message their contacts. Employees in small to mid-sized companies can easily communicate with coworkers rather than sending out emails for quick correspondence. With one of the largest user bases of all apps at 700 million, and being owned by Facebook, this is an App to watch and be familiar with.
Viber is a step up from WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger in that it also offers voice call capabilities. Users can send text messages to their contact list as well. Viber text messages don't count against a user's data plan. For speedy communication, this is a very useful app. At this time, Viber isn't very marketable from a business to a customer yet, but that will change.
Kik has over 200 million users and can be a marketing tool for smaller companies right now. Instead of pulling contacts from the phone's contacts list, this social messaging app allows the user to register with a username. Then a user can connect with others and send text-like messages that have photo and video capabilities. A business can use Kik as a part of a marketing campaign by connecting with customers and using hashtags, videos, and images to attract business.
SnapChat has been on a serious growth curve in the past year and is an emerging force in social messaging apps. They turned down a $3 Billion purchase offer from Facebook and are said to now be valued at 3x that amount! Why? They command the important 13-25 year old demographic. Used most as a peer-to-peer image and video messaging app, there is also a text feature and a one-to-many stories feature that businesses are beginning to use. The key feature of SnapChat is that messages disappear after viewing, or in the case of stories, after 24 hours. This means users pay much more full attention when absorbing a message, much like a phone call or in-person conversation. When it's over it's gone, so viewers pay attention to each message, something marketers value! This is an emerging app that it one to watch for sure. It has a massive user base and is a growing force in social messaging.
With the new social messaging app technology, small and mid-sized businesses will have to watch as these apps progress and measure up against social media sites. With the projected growth expected, a business would be wise to start looking at possible ways to integrate some of these apps into their marketing efforts. Learn early so your business can be ready when the time is right to connect with customers where they are in "in app."
Are you using any of these apps regularly now for personal or business use? Let me know!
I'm all-in on Facebook Messenger and use SnapChat some with family and friends.
Facebook Changes Announced at Recent F8 - What You Need to Know
What is Facebook Messenger Day and How Do You Use it for Business
15 Facebook Tools you Need to Know about for your Business
Business Efficiencies with Mobile Apps


text:
OnTime Networks' CM-4012F0-AER Gigabit Ethernet Switch selected by Airbus for use in flight test instrumentation high speed data acquisition system applications
OnTime Networks
OSLO, Norway, Sept. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- OnTime Networks, a global leader for rugged, time synchronized Ethernet solutions for the Aerospace and Defense Industry, announced today the selection of its airborne-grade CM-4012F0-AER 12 Port Gigabit Ethernet switch by Airbus for use in flight test instrumentation high speed data acquisition system applications.
OnTime Networks and Airbus have signed a multi-year frame agreement for the supply of the CM-4012F0-AER to Airbus. The product will be utilized by various flight test centers of the group.
Small Form Factor (SFF) fully rugged 12 Port Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Switch for airborne, ground and sea applications
Øyvind Holmeide, CEO of OnTime Networks, stated "We are excited about the selection by Airbus. This contract is a strong example of our long-standing relationships and continued support of the critical flight test industry. It reinforces our commitment to providing the most advanced and reliable networks and time synchronization solutions for high speed flight test instrumentation system applications."
About CM-4012F0-AERO Series
The CM-4012F0-MM-AER is an airborne-rugged managed gigabit Ethernet switch specially designed to operate reliably in the harsh climatically and noisy electrical demanding environments (e.g. high altitude, extreme shock, and vibration, wide temperatures, humidity, dust and water exposure, noisy EMI, dirty power) of military applications. The platform is an advanced and highly engineered switch that addresses complexity, enable modularity and provides growth, while delivering optimal performance for Space, Weight, Power and Cost (SWaP-C) constrained aircraft applications onboard helicopters and fixed wing aircrafts. The unit complies to the environmental requirements of MIL-STD-810G, EMI/EMC requirements of MIL-STD-461 or IEC-55032/61000 and electric power characteristics requirements according to MIL-STD-704 (DC variant).
This fully managed, Layer 2/3 Gigabit switch/router provides a powerful set of networking features, including support for IPv4 multicast traffic filtering according to static filters or IGMP snooping, Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), port control (speed / mode / statistics, ow control), Quality of Service (QoS) traffic prioritization, Link Aggregation (802.3ad), SNMP v1/v2/v3 management, secure authentication (802.1X, ACLs, Web/CLI), port mirroring and network redundancy based on RSTP/MSTP.
The CM-4012F0-AER-TS00CFBA0 is a PTP 1588 Transparent Clock (TC) with PTP version translation (v1/v2) support. The unit also contains a standard NTP server.
About OnTime Networks
OnTime Networks is a technology leader for rugged, time synchronized, fully managed, modular Gigabit Ethernet switches, specifically designed to operate reliably in the harsh and climatically demanding environments of the Aerospace and Defense Industry. Recognized for innovation and excellence, OnTime focuses on precise time over Ethernet according to IEEE 1588 (PTP) as core technology. For more information, please visit www.ontimenet.com.
SOURCE OnTime Networks
http://www.ontimenet.com


text:
Drugs and other dangers for passengers of a subway station in Upper Manhattan in New York | Videos | Univision 41 New York WXTV
Victoria gives the surprise in La Ceiba and prescribes a beating for Real Spain at the start of the Clausura 2022 tournament
Mexico welcomes a new internet
Patience is running out! Getafe confirms the sad news for José Juan Macías
Seven countries are interested in building renewable energy projects
Alexa Dellanos shows off great beauties in tight sports top
Petco stadium deaths ruled as homicide-suicide | Tijuana News
Summary Real Sociedad vs Atlético (2-0) | They eliminate Hector Herrera
Under the shower, Alexa Dellanos shows off her rear with a white string bikini
Home/Technology/faces two new multi-million dollar lawsuits that threaten Meta's digital empire
faces two new multi-million dollar lawsuits that threaten Meta's digital empire
Admin 5 days ago	Technology Leave a comment 74 Views
The year that has just begun is not easy for Mark Zuckerberg either. If 2021 was the year in which a new scandal over Facebook's practices caused it to change the name of its conglomerate of companies to Meta and announce that it was diving headlong into the dark -by unknown- waters of the metaverse, the one that has just started walking has already shown signs that it will also be moved.
And it is that Meta has begun 2022 with two new legal battles, one in the United States and the other in the United Kingdom, which threaten its accounts and endanger its digital empire. The first of them, that of North America, is especially dangerous for Zuckerberg's interests, because could force you to get rid of two of your crown jewels, Instagram and WhatsApp.
On January 11, a court in the District of Columbia admitted an antitrust lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission of that country against Facebook, by which the US state agency denounces that Meta has an illegal monopoly on social media services having acquired two direct rivals like Instagram and WhatsApp. and increasingly integrate some platforms with others.
This type of lawsuit against Facebook, now Meta, is not new, since in 2020 the court dismissed one of a similar nature. But this time, instead, the judge has considered that the evidence provided is more solid and detailed than before, so it is admitted for processing, rejecting the allegations of those of Zuckerberg and allows the US justice to investigate whether, indeed, the digital conglomerate exercises excessive dominance of the digital market.
Now a legal battle is opening that seems to be fierce and that could lead to one of the biggest crises in Meta history, and in this case in the area that hurts Zuckerberg the most, the economic one. Because if it is shown that the company has a monopolistic position in the market, the US justice could force it to get rid of two of its most profitable businesses, especially Instagram.
The UK demand
On the other hand, this Friday it has been made public that the UK Financial Conduct Authority has filed a class action lawsuit against Meta of nearly 2,800 million euros for abusing its dominance of the market in the British Isles to exploit the information of 44 million users, according to Reuters.
The lawsuit states that Facebook used its dominant position in the social media market between 2015 and 2019 to impose unfair terms and conditions on its users, demanding that they hand over valuable personal data to access the social network, giving Zuckerberg's company the power to exploit them as they wished.
Trouble hiring
In addition to these judicial setbacks, which could well become severe economic setbacks, there is another problem that is no less important for its future: Meta is finding it increasingly difficult to hire new employees.
Not long ago, Facebook was one of the most attractive companies to work for in the world, and almost any professional in almost any field would have been delighted to join its ranks. But the successive reputation crises of the company, added to the current situation of the labor market in the technology sector, have made Meta, today, you're not finding all the talent you need, according to internal documents to which Protocol had access.
This is especially problematic for a company that is going to undertake a profound transformation of its business strategy with the development of the metaverse, for which Zuckerberg announced that tintended to hire, in Europe alone, 10,000 new employees.
A) Yes, the lack of manpower, the tremendous outlay that his adventure in the metaverse will entail and the new legal blows, with the possibility of disastrous economic consequences, endanger the long-term continuity of a business that, yes, until now continues to offer very positive results.
Previous Bronx fire victims still searching for housing | Videos | Univision 41 New York WXTV
Next Is El Salvador's 'Bitcoin plan' really paying off?
What is the artificial Moon developed by China and what is it for?
nine sweat-resistant Bluetooth headphones for use with iPhone from 14.90 euros
New Year New Life. Or that is one of the promises that many make in …
Abinader meets with political leadership to discuss the Haitian crisis
'We are going to close the year without hatred'
Bitcoin hash rate hits new all-time high, for the first time without China
FDA Recalls Unauthorized Home COVID Test – NBC New York (47)
They premiere a new series of the Colombian National Team – International Soccer – Sports


Rita caught a weird bug. It was weird, in part, because there hadn't been any code changes in their label printing application for ages. Yet, there was a sudden new bug. Labels were printing with what was obviously unicode garbage. Interestingly, the application definitely supported unicode- there had been a huge effort a few years back to move the C++ code from chars to wchars.
Rita started debugging, and confirmed that when the label text was populated, memory stored correct values. By the time the data was printed, it no longer did. Obviously, there was something wrong with memory management- something was touching the end of the string and throwing off the output. That was an easy enough bug to make in C++, but tracing through 7,000 lines of label printing code to figure out where things got thrown off was more of a chore, especially with the… "friendly" variable naming convention the original developer had used.
That doesn't look like much, does it? xyz is a pointer to a wchar_t, a pretty typical way to represent a string, and then we initialize it to point to a new wchar_t with a size equivalent to the length of an input string, right?
Of course not. There's an important difference between new wchar_t(10) and new wchar_t. The latter makes a block of memory capable of holding ten wide characters. The former makes a single wide character and initializes it with the value 10. So xyz points to a single character, but this is C++. If you disable enough warnings, there's nothing that will stop you from abusing that pointer and running off the end of memory.
It had the same bug. The bug had gone undetected for all this time because the message string had been short enough that nothing else was touching that section of memory. It was only after a user had recently tried to add a slightly longer message that the buffer overrun started causing problems.


text:
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Using :host styling</title>

  <template id="x-foo">

background

  </template>
  <template id="x-bar">

    <shadow></shadow>

white text

  </template>

  <template id="x-zot">

    <shadow></shadow>

orange border & gray background

  </template>

  <template id="x-scope">

background

  </template>
  <template id="x-button">

    <content></content>
  </template>

  <template id="x-anchor">

    Hello
  </template>

  <template id="x-zim">

    <shadow></shadow>

padding: 20px

  </template>

  <template id="x-zim2">

padding: 20px

  </template>

Expected: red background

  <x-foo></x-foo>

Expected: red background

  <x-scope></x-scope>

Expected: green background

  <button is="x-button">green</button>

Expected: black background

  <x-foo class="foo"></x-foo>

Expected: black background

  <x-scope class="foo"></x-scope>

Expected: red background with white text

  <x-bar></x-bar>

Expected: red background with white text

  <x-bar2></x-bar2>

Expected: red background with black text and orange border

  <x-zot></x-zot>

Expected: red background with black text and orange border and 20px padding

  <x-zim></x-zim>

Expected: 20px padding, background green

  <x-zim2 class="foo"></x-zim2>

Expected: 20px padding, background green

    <x-zim2></x-zim2>

Expected: 20px padding

    <x-zim2></x-zim2>

Expected: blue background

     Test Link

Expected: blue background

       <x-foo class="foo3"></x-foo>

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Available for the first time on Blu Ray in the UK.
Oscar nominee Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother who, one terrible night is raped in her bedroom by someone – or something – that she cannot see. Met with sceptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific?
Now, with a group of daring parapsychologists, Carla will attempt an unthinkable experiment: to seduce, trap and ultimately capture the depraved spectral fury that is The Entity. Eureka Entertainment is proud to present this groundbreaking horror in a special Dual-Format edition.


text:
CP Rail SD40-2 6027: Still Running in the Real & Model Worlds After All These Years
6027 still racks up the miles on the M & M Sub.
Back in the late 1980s, when I returned to the hobby of model railroading, there weren't a lot of choices for locomotives for someone who wanted to model CP Rail.
Back then, pretty much the only quality affordable locomotives available in CP Rail livery were made by Athearn, which offered the SD40-2, GP38-2, SW7 (cow and calf) and F7 (A and B units) in its blue box line.
6027, new in the box. Today this is considered
a "vintage" locomotive!
Of the four models, the SD40-2 was the most needed. At one time CP Rail owned 484 of these units, the third-most after Burlington Northern and Union Pacific in terms of the number of SD40-2s purchased by any North American railway. Any modeller hoping to do a halfways-decent job of replicating the prototype needed lots of those units.
Athearn offered the SD40-2 in two numbers: 6027 (with MultiMark and without) and 5415 (in Twin Flags scheme). I ended up with four (with MultiMark and without) and one (Twin Flags) on my roster--three of them re-numbered. (Plus others in ex-KCS, Union Pacific, SOO and primer schemes.)
The prototype; credit photo to Bill Sanderson.
Of the two units, the 6027 seems to be the most ubiquitous; anyone who modelled CP Rail had one.
The prototype was built in 1982. Surprisingly, it is still on the CPR's roster today. In fact, it is due for a serious reconditioning at Progress Rail, which will turn it and 20 other SD40-2 units into SD30C ECO locomotives. The units are being rebuilt from SD40-2 cores and frames and powered by a new 12 cylinder 3000 hp 12-710G3F engine. When completed, the units will meet Tier 0+ U.S. emissions standards.
When finished, good old 6027 won't look like its former self--it will have a new fuel tank, cab and flared raditatiors ( to meet Tier 0+ requirements). It also won't be 6027 anymore; the rebuilt units will be renumbered into the 5000 series when released.
When rebuilt, 6027 will look like this.
So, farewell old 6027 and welcome to the new 6027 in the real world. Since in my modelling world it's always the early 1990s, the old 6027 will continue to soldier on, moving tonnage on the Manitoba & Minnesota Sub.
P.S. By 2020, the CPR expects to be the largest operator of EMD's ECO line of locomotives, with nearly 500 locomotives being rebuilt over the next eight years.
Labels: Layout, Prototype
Christmas and Trains: Merry Boxcar Christmas (Reprise)
On Christmas Day, this reprise of a 2010 post about the Merry Christmas boxcar painted by Rei Alvarez, an artist in Austin, TX for the Balcones Recycling Company. The car is owned by the Texas and South Eastern Railroad. (#5096).
The last update I have about the car is from April, 2011, at which time it was still adorned in Christmas finery. Anyone have any more recent news?
Read the original post and see more photos here.
Posted by JDL56 at 11:46 AM 1 comment:
Christmas and Model Trains (4): Santa and Trains
Once upon a time, Santa loved model trains--as evidenced by some Christmas cards I found on the Web.
Today his workshop is more likely to be filled with video games, iPads and other electronic devices. But we can still remember the days when the jolly old man tinkered with trains. And we all know what scale he modelled : HO, HO, HO.
He certainly seems to be enjoying himself in these pictures!
Christmas and Model Trains (3): Trains Under the Christmas Tree
Unlike John Coker and Renee Law, I have never set up
a train underneath the Christmas tree.
As long as I can remember, it's been a tradition for operating model trains to be put under Christmas trees.
That never happened in our house when I was growing up, and I don't do it now. In fact, I have never seen a real operating model train underneath a Christmas tree in someone's home.
And yet, trains and Christmas trees have gone together for a long time. Where did it start?
An article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says it may started in Pennsylvania over 300 years ago--long before Lionel, and real trains, for that matter.
According to Jim Morrison, curator of the National Christmas Museum in Paradise, PA, it could date back to the 1700s when Moravian Christians in that state set up elaborate Nativity scenes in their homes called "putzen"--the German word for decoration around the holidays.
In the mid-1800s, he said, people created villages at the base of the tree with items such as model farmhouses fashioned after their own dwellings.
Cast-iron toys emerged toward the late 1800s in the form of homes, carriages and fire stations. When trains came on the scene about that same time, stationary cast-iron models of trains were placed underneath the tree.
When Lionel, Ives and other manufacturers started making model trains in the 20th century, it wasn't much of a leap for some people to start using moving models underneath the tree.
The idea was helped along by department stores, which displayed model trains in holiday settings, including underneath Christmas trees.
True or not, somewhere along the line model trains under the Christmas tree became a tradition for some families. But not mine--at least, not yet.
Anyone have other ideas for how model trains under the Christmas tree became a tradition?
See how John and Renee made their Christmas tree layout here.
Christmas and Model Trains (2): Lionel Trains on Christmas Morning
A long time ago in a land far away . . . the only thing many boys wanted for Christmas was trains.
This was the land of my childhood, back in the 1960s. A time when it just wasn't Christmas if there wasn't a train under the tree. And, back then, it meant Lionel trains.
But as the ads on this page show, it wasn't just about trains; it was about male bonding, about the relationship between father and son. Put down that newspaper, dad! Play trains with your son.
But it wasn't just dads and sons; it was also about family happiness and togetherness: Look! Even sister wants to play with the train.
It was also a way for men to recapture their boyhood--to remember those days gone by when they, like junior, lay on the floor watching the train fly by, dreaming about being an engineer one day. (Instead of the boring office job they ended up in.)
Was it ever so sweet and gentle, or has time smoothed over the rough spots in our memories? Nostalgia is a powerful thing, and the blacks and whites of the past can merge into a subtle, mellow grey. That's OK; better to have good memories of days gone by than bad ones--especially if they involve Christmas and trains.
Speaking of which, Lionel understands this nostalgic urge; now you can watch your memories roll along the track by buying the Christmas Morning or High Hopes boxcars. It's not a bad way to say "Merry Christmas," I suppose.
And if this isn't enough to make those of you who are older feel like visiting your childhood--or those of you who are younger want to visit that strange land of the 1950s and 60s--then watch The Wonderful World of Trains, a film produced by Lionel in 1960 (including a train with nine--count 'em, nine, giraffe cars going up and down, up and down).
What will be under your tree this Christmastime?
Labels: Christmas, Ruminations and Reflections, Various
Straight Dope on Straightest Track in the World
Learn something new every day: A friend came back from a visit to Saskatchewan with the news that the longest stretch of straight track in the world is between Regina and Stoughton, a small farming community in the southeast part of the province.
I knew he was wrong; the longest stretch of straight track in the world is in Australia—a 478 kilometre (279 mile) portion across the Nullarbor Plain between Port Augusta and Kalgoorie.
But what would make those good citizens of Saskatchewan think they were number one?
This is where the part about learning something new every day comes in; unbeknownst to me, the 132 kilometre (82 mile) stretch of track between Regina and Stoughton is the longest section of straight track in North America, and the second longest in the world. (Something proudly noted on the town's website.)
The line was originally owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, which arrived in Stoughton in 1904. Today it is owned by Stewart Southern Railway, a shortline that bought it from the CPR in 2010. The line runs for a total of 140 kilometres (87 miles) from the Crecy, on the CPR's Indian Head Sub, to Stoughton.
The longest stretch of straight track in the U.S., by-the-way, runs for 127 kilometres (78.9 miles) on the CSX between Laurel Hill and East Arcadia, North Carolina.
And that, as they say, is the "straight" dope on straight track.
Christmas and Model Trains (1): Garrison Keillor and the Dangers of Christmas
One of my favorite authors is Garrison Keillor of Prairie Home Companion fame.
Keillor has written about trains a few times, including "My North Dakota Railroad Days."
This fictitious piece in the New Yorker magazine is about the Prairie Queen, a train which crossed North Dakota on tracks so straight that "passengers stood on the rear of the platform of the parlor car in the trans–Dakota Canal, and trolled for fish."
As far as I know he has only written once about model trains, and that was for Land's End magazine, in a collection of short items called The Dangers of Christmas.
One of those dangers was "wanting something too much and therefore making it impossible."
And the thing he wanted? A model train. Wrote Keillor:
"I, for example, would dearly love to receive a model train layout similar to the one of my childhood, which rusted and decayed. I remind myself every year not to want it too much, but I do, and I never get it.
"A man my age can't simply walk into a store and buy a model train set for himself; people would talk, people would chuckle behind his back, and one day he'd come home to find an attorney sitting smiling in the living room, who would explain to him in easy-to-understand terms, using simple declarative sentences, why his financial affairs will hereafter be managed by his nephew Vince.
"I keep telling myself, 'I honestly don't care if that model train layout is under the tree or not,' but that's not the truth, and I know it."
Great Canadian Model Railroad: Rich Loveman's CN and CPR in the Thompson River Canyon
Even though my layout is no longer in the planning stage, I always buy Model Railroad Planning when it comes out. I always like learning about how other modelers are solving various challenges and, who knows? Maybe I'll build another layout some day, and can use the ideas.
When the 2011 issue came out, I was especially impressed by Rich Loveland's HO scale Canadian National and Canadian Pacific in B.C.'s Thompson River Canyon. Rich did something I've rarely seen when it comes to modeling a canyon—he modeled both sides.
In the MRP article, Rich noted that his interest was in faithfully modeling this unique area, which finds CN on one side of the river and the CPR on the other. To model the canyon, in an area two feet wide, Rich used extruded Styrofoam covered with Bragdon Enterprises rock castings.
He added that while some of the canyon walls were two feet high, some spots were less than one inch thick—it pushed the foam contour approach to its limits. He also made the canyon walls independent of the trackbed; this allowed him to detail them on his workbench, and they could also be removed to provide access to any part of the layout for maintenance.
The layout was also designed to force the viewer to look down the canyon to see trains coming and going—just like for the real thing.
After seeing the article, I sent an e-mail to Rich via MRP. I asked him for some photos I could use on the blog; he sent me a few outtakes from the article, and promised more sometime this year (2012)—he was planning to re-do some scenes, and add more detail, and would send photos after that was done.
Well, time went on, as it always does; this fall that I thought I should contact Rich to see how the layout was coming along, and whether he was ready to send me some photos. But my e-mail to him bounced back as no such address.
I did a bit of Googling, and found the following online: "Richard W. Loveman, 63, died May 16 after battling pancreatic cancer for more than six years."
I was saddened by the news. I sent an e-mail to Tony Koester at MRP, asking if he could send a note of condolence to his wife. I also asked if he had any more photos of Rich's layout; he did, and he copied Rich's friend Bill Botkin.
Over the past couple of weeks, I received photos of Rich's layout from Tony and Bill. I have added them to the ones Rich sent me earlier; you see them together on this page.
So, rest in peace, Rich. You certainly made an impression on me with your modeling, and on many others, I'm sure. Even though your layout wasn't completed, it's still a great Canadian model railroad in my books.
P.S. Before Rich's layout was taken down, Bill took more photos. Click here to see them.
Great Canadian Model Railroad: Fall in Pennsylvania
Does a Great Canadian Model Railroad have to be a layout set in Canada or featuring Canadian trains? Fortunately, no; being built by a Canadian also qualifies. Which is a good thing, or else I couldn't include Ron Loewen's three-rail O guage Fall in Pennsylvania layout.
Actually, this is the second time I've featured Ron's layout on this blog. I recently went back to see it again, and took some more photos--it's definitely worth another look!
Ron's layout, which is still under construction, is set in his favorite state--Pennsylvania--during his favorite time--fall. In fact, that's what makes his layout so special; his signature scene is a hillside featuring colorful autumn leaves at the top, where the air is cooler, and green leaves lower down. Since the hill is about 8-9 feet tall, it's quite an impressive sight.
As mentioned in the earlier post, Ron's layout fills the second floor of his two-car garage; he uses MTH DCS to run four trains at time. Other features include a six-foot long bridge, tunnels, smoke, sound and a camera on a flatcar that allows visitors to view trains from an engineer's perspective on a TV screen in the layout room.
A video of Ron's layout can be viewed here.
CP Rail SD40-2 6027: Still Running in the Real & M...
Christmas and Trains: Merry Boxcar Christmas (Repr...
Christmas and Model Trains (3): Trains Under the C...
Christmas and Model Trains (2): Lionel Trains on C...
Christmas and Model Trains (1): Garrison Keillor a...
Great Canadian Model Railroad: Rich Loveman's CN a...


Apple has posted security updates to fix 16 security vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X operating system. Both client and server versions of the software need patching.
The bugs stem from flaws Apache web server software, QuickTime Streaming Server and Apple's Safari web browser, for example. Security firm Secunia describes the patches as "highly critical".
Left unfixed, crackers could theoretically run amok with vulnerable systems. Even though the vulnerabilities are not been actively exploited they still merit attention. One vulnerability affects at least 25,000 web servers running the Apple Mac OS, according to managed security firm NetSec, which discovered the security bug in Apple's HFS+ filesystem.


text:
0800 -- 1700 daily
entry fee £E20
student entry fee £E10
£E5 for cameras
64 km (40 miles) south of
travelogue 2/5
collapsed pyramid
red pyramid
Dashur
Dashur is fairly hard to get to, and surprisingly few tourists venture here. As a mater of fact, we were the only non-Egyptians at the site the entire time we were there. Most tourists visit the Step Pyramid at south Saqqara and never work their way south to this necropolis.
The pyramids in Dashur are, in their own way, even more spectacular than the famous pyramids at Giza. They represent a significant step in pyramid development -- the steps between the famous Step Pyramid of Djoser and the classical shape of the Great Pyramid at Giza. From the evidence here, it took a few tries to get it right!
There are two groups of pyramids here -- Old Kingdom on New Kingdom. The Old Kingdom pyramids, built by Sneferu (The Red Pyramid and the Bent Pyramid) are the predecessors of the Giza Pyramids. The eastern group (including The Black Pyramid) are from the Middle Kingdom and show the decline of the pyramid builders. Chronologically, they come after Saqqara and Maidum and before Giza and Abu Sir.
Sneferu, the first pharaoh of the fourth dynasty, moved the royal necropolis here from Saqqara, where the previous dynasties had created their monuments. It wasn't quite a direct move, though, as the pyramid at Maidum, also attributed to Sneferu, was attempted first.
It is thought that Sneferu built the two large pyramids here, in addition to the pyramid at Maidum, the only pharaoh to build three pyramids. In order to build three pyramids in approximately 24 years of ruling, nearly nine million tons of stone (West) would have been quarried, cut, transported, and placed.
the road to dashur, along an irrigation canal
You can get to Dashur by taxi or microbus, or on tours from the hotels in Cairo. The nearest public transport is almost 10km away, which probably explains the lack of casual tourists.
cairo prev
collapsed pyr.
dendara
© 2003-2005 r. fingerson
send me a note!


text:
Health News > Women
Latest Women's Health News
Penis Birth Defects Are on the Rise – Are Environmental Toxins to Blame?
Number of views: 10
FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors are seeing an alarming increase in cases of a specific genital malformation in male babies, and new research suggests environmental factors might be at play.
The malformation is known as hypospadias, where the opening of the urethra is not at the tip of the penis, but on the underside of the organ.
In the study, scientists identified a direct link between hypospadias tissue samples and the presence of epigenetic alterations -- changes to the molecular factors and processes around DNA that determine how genes behave.
"Previous researchers have done extensive analyses and not found any kind of genetic DNA sequence mutations that correlate with the presence of the disease, so there has always been a big question mark regarding where it comes from," explained senior study author Michael Skinner, a professor of biology at Washington State University.
"Our study shows the etiology of the disease is environmentally driven through epigenetics, rather than a result of changes to the DNA sequence," he said in a university news release. "It gives us a clearer picture of what is going on."
Incidents of this malformation have increased by 11.5% in recent decades.
This research could ultimately lead to earlier detection and better clinical management this genital defect, the study authors said.
What happens next is uncertain, but researchers pointed to one potential path. It could be identifying a specific epigenetic biomarker that doctors could collect with a simple cheek swab from the parents of a baby to determine the likelihood that a newborn will develop the defect.
"This is not so far-fetched," Skinner said. "We have identified these types of biomarkers for other diseases. Early detection means they could do clinical management sooner, which could result in fewer complications for the baby and more peace of mind for the parents."
Researchers don't know what specific environmental factors are leading to hypospadias. They said it's possible that it's a synthetic estrogen called diethylstilbestrol (DES) that was prescribed to pregnant women in the late 1950s and early 1960s to prevent miscarriages and premature births. Affected babies would pass down this likelihood to future generations.
"There was never really evidence that it helped with pregnancy, but after the fact doctors started to find severe developmental effects from the drug on babies. Hypospadias were one of the issues," Skinner said.
"Unfortunately, because epigenetic changes caused by drugs like this and other environmental toxicants are epigenetically heritable, they are often passed down from one generation to the next after they are contracted," he explained. "Over time, the detrimental effects can persist and spread."
The findings were published recently in the journal Science Reports.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on hypospadias.
SOURCE: Washington State University, news release, Jan. 18, 2023
Categories: HealthDay, Teens, Women