The task of raising a little fashionista can be adventurous and expensive. Well, it can only be expensive if you let it. I love to encourage my little girl's passion for fashion, and her unique style, but I also want to teach her how to search for great deals on outfits that will last at least 2 seasons or more. Last week, we took a trip to Target and I loaded up my Cartwheel app account with mobile coupons just for her. Here are the pieces she chose, the pastel preschool fashions she crafted, and a few lessons we both learned about fashion and the Cartwheel app.
The little fashionista was really drawn to soft colors and anything pink. There were great mobile coupons on Cherokee and Circo brand kids clothing, so I made a point of pointing her in the direction of those brands within Target. This turquoise hoodie from Cherokee was a favorite of hers sine the lining of the hood was a bubble gum pink. She told me that turquoise "isn't her color" but would make an exception since the inside was so pink. My kid, ladies and gentlemen. I selected the 15% Cherokee hoodies coupon from the Cartwheel app, and we moved on. The pastel yellow shorts from Circo were on sale for 5.00, but there was also a 5% off coupon on the Cartwheel app. The graphic shirt she picked was actually on clearance for 3.50, and she chose it because, you guessed it, it's pink.
Once she picked her new pink graphic shirt, I knew that we needed to add a little bit of bling to her selections. We found this adorable ice cream cone necklace on clearance in the jewelry section. While we did find a mobile coupon for jewelry on the Cartwheel app, it didn't include clearance items. So, I "splurged" and bought this for her for 5.08.
Tip: The jewelry section in Target isn't just for grown up fashionistas. To save money, look for pieces that you and your little one can both wear. Necklaces that fit like a choker on you will hang perfectly off of your little fashionista's neck.
Her second outfit was simpler, but again, it featured the pastel version of her favorite color. This pastel pink shirt from Cherokee has the most wonderful eyelet detail on the shoulders and pocket. I was very surprised that she picked this intricate piece. It was one of 3 choices I gave her after seeing a mobile coupon for 5% any Cherokee t-shirt for girls. The boyfriend-type khaki pants were her first choice of the pants I laid out for her to select. The were on sale for 12.00, with a 15% Cartwheel app mobile coupon. She said they looked like summertime. I wholeheartedly agreed.
Tip: Instead of letting your fashionista pick anything in the store, you choose 3 sale items and let her choose 1 from those. She'll feel as if she made her own choice of clothing, and you won't have to fight over taking multiple items home, thus busting your budget.
Now let's talk bracelets. Just like the necklace, I knew she needed a little something to add to this outfit. This bracelet was actually going to be a treat for me, but she ended up falling in love with it. It has multiple rings for the clasp to hook onto, so it's able to fit her wrist and mine. I'll rock it at conferences and girls night out, and she'll wear it on special dates with Dad or her grandmother. Double duty jewelry is such a money-saver.
After using the Cartwheel app mobile coupons, our out of pocket for all 7 pieces was 42.58. While she created 2 outfits, there are a plethora of styles she can make with these pieces and incorporate them into her existing wardrobe. Some of these will even go well with the thrifted pieces I have stockpiled for her to wear this summer. That hoodie alone will get lots of wear all spring and summer. I'd say her little shopping spree was a success and she's now all set for pastel preschool fashion for the warmer months.
Have you use the Cartwheel app from Target on clothing deals? What was the best deal you snagged?
This is not a sponsored post. I just puffy heart the cartwheel app and my little girl's fashion sense.


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namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http \{
    Request, JsonResponse
};
use App\Http\Requests\RentCreationRequest;
use App\Models\Rent;
use App\Events\RentRegistered;
use App\Http\Resources \{
    RentsResource, RentsResourceCollection
};
use App\Events\RentEnded;
use App\Http\Requests\RentCancelationRequest;

class RentsController extends Controller
{
    public function index() : JsonResponse
    {
        $rents = Rent::orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->get(['*']);

        if ($rents->count()) {
            return $this->success(new RentsResourceCollection($rents));
        }

        return $this->noContent();
    }

    public function store(RentCreationRequest $request) : JsonResponse
    {
        $request->validate();

        $rent = Rent::create($request->all());

        \Event::dispatch(new RentRegistered($rent));

        return $this->created($rent);
    }

    public function update(RentCancelationRequest $request, Rent $rent) : JsonResponse
    {
        $request->validate();

        $rent->state = $request->get('state');

        $rent->update();

        \Event::dispatch(new RentEnded($rent));

        return $this->success(new RentsResource($rent));
    }
}

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Q: Magnetic monopole bound state Magnetic monopole (mm) bound states
Background: I'm an experimentalist, simple equations are appreciated.
(Complicated equations are fine, as long as I can ask questions.)
This is one of many nice question on mm's.
When I heard years ago that magnetic monopoles had never (maybe once) been detected, I thought the answer might be magnetic atoms.  If mm's exists then they should come in both poles, and then get themselves bound into magnetic atoms.
First question:  What are magnetic monopole bound states called?  Certainly someone has figured this out.
Second question:  What's the size of the magnetic pole, or what is the energy of the magnetic bound state.  Is the energy the same as the Rydberg?  (With a different mass.)
A mm bound state seems like it might be a dark mater candidate.   Is anyone looking for them?
(something like the x-ray absorption spectra through areas with mostly dark mater.)
Additional information.  I found this on the web.
http://www-spires.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-2497.pdf
Which does answer many of my question.
The coupling for magnet monopoles would be very strong!
Not alpha (the fine structure constant), but as 1/alpha!
Does anyone know of other similar papers?
OK and now I'm getting confused.  If the magnetic atom has
such a big binding energy, then the mass of the "atom" could be much less than the sum of the masses of the two magnetic monopoles.  (I'm assuming that the monopole mass has to be bigger than the maximum energy of CERN, else they would have seen monopoles already.)
Are there any limits on the dark matter WIMP masses?
Edit: More questions generated by answers. (to Timaeus)
I'm afraid that I only know enough to ask rather naive questions.
Of course a monopole is going to have other properties.
Beside mass, can it be a lepton or baryon?  Perhaps it has an electric dipole moment to go along with it's magnetic "charge".  Does it also have to have an electric charge?  All that seems fine.  Now I'm picturing this "magnetic atom" being like the hydrogen atom.  So that even if each magnetic monopole does have to have an electric charge, the composite atom can be neutral.  (each of it's pieces has equal but opposite charge)
The magnetic binding energy also seems to be very large.  (Did you read the Slac article?)  To me that means that to create a monopole pair in a beam smasher, one is going to need not only twice the mass energy, but also the binding energy of the monopole - anti monopole pair.  (which could be huge?  Can the binding energy be bigger that than the mass energy?)  Mind you I'm not talking about a magnetic atom here, but something similar to an electron - positron pair.
Finally I was reading about gamma rays from dark matter areas.  Could these be due to emissions from "magnetic" atoms?  There is no law that says dark matter has to be totally dark.. it could just be shinning at some wavelength/ energy that we haven't looked at yet.

A: The magnetic atom you are talking about is called monopolium. (that's the answer to your first question).
It is correct that the monopolium binding energy might be very large. People have attempted to compute it, but such calculations are inherently unreliable because the Dirac magnetic charge is so large (equivalent to 68.5e), which makes the coupling of the monopole to the photon too large to allow for a perturbative expansion to converge. This makes it very difficult to provide a definitive answer: this is a matter which would need to be settled by experiment (if monopoles exist and there are possibilities to study them in a laboratory).

A: A magnetic monopole isn't a particle any more than an electric monopole is a particle.
Some particles have a net electric charge and so are monopole source terms.
If the electron had a magnet charge then since it also has an electric charge you could do a duality rotation between electric fields and magnetic fields and have it instead be purely electric charge.
So if you actually want to have a particle with a nonzero magnetic charge you need a particle with a different ratio of magnetic charge to electric charge. Different than the known existing particles.
As for this being dark matter, its not going to be dark if it has an electromagnetic charge.

An electric monopole is an electron or positron, No? Are you saying an electron is not a particle?

Electrons have an electric charge, so do positrons, muons, antimuons, tauons, antitauons; up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom quarks and their antiparticles (and each one of the three colors). As do the W+ and W- bosons. And each of those particles also has a mass and other types of charge. They aren't just an electric monopole sitting there with no other properties.
So one can't run around asking what the electric monopole ground states are, since positronium has different bound states than a bound muon-antimuon pair and so forth.
The main thrust of my answer is that the key to being forced to have magnetic monopole source terms in our theory is to have objects with different ratios of electric charge over magnetic charge. So by electromagnetic duality between electric and magnetic fields which particles have magnetic charge will depend on having ones with different ratios and then a choice within the duality.
So it very much does not point to a specific particle being the lone object with magnetic charge. Once you have both electric and magnetic charge there is some inherent ambiguity in what you call electric fields and what you call magnetic fields.
Right now we call the field with monopole source terms an electric field. If there are monopoles of different ratios we won't be able to force one of the fields to have no sources and hence we just have to randomly call something magnetic or something electric.
Much like calling an electron matter and the positron antimatter. That word and name is arbitrary. And so would the word electric in a world with different ratios of charge.

(I'm assuming that the monopole mass has to be bigger than the maximum energy of CERN, else they would have seen monopoles already.)

Maybe we have seen them already. That was my whole point. So if duality wasn't enough then what if, say, some known particles have magnetic charge but the value of the charge was super tiny. How are you going to know if it was in a very very unstable particle and had a very very very tiny charge.

Of course a monopole is going to have other properties.
  Beside mass, can it be a lepton or baryon?

Or even a whole new type. Which can affect the binding energy if it has a new charge (color for the strong interaction is a different kind of charge). So how could you just compute a binding energy without knowing all these other properties?
Just like you can't compute the binding energy of an "electric monopole" since hydrogen and positronium and muonium and muonic hydrogen and so on all have different binding energies.

Now I'm picturing this "magnetic atom" being like the hydrogen atom. So that even if each magnetic monopole does have to have an electric charge, the composite atom can be neutral. (each of it's pieces has equal but opposite charge)

But since the particles with the charge can have other charge and can have various mass, the binding energy could have a range of values.

The magnetic binding energy also seems to be very large. (Did you read the Slac article?)
To me that means that to create a monopole pair in a beam smasher, one is going to need not only twice the mass energy, but also the binding energy of the monopole - anti monopole pair. (which could be huge? Can the binding energy be bigger that than the mass energy?)

You have it backwards. A hydrogen atom has less energy than the sum of the energies of the electron and the proton. So producing a bound state requires less energy than producing the parts.

Mind you I'm not talking about a magnetic atom here, but something similar to an electron - positron pair.

That's why I brought up positronium.

Finally I was reading about gamma rays from dark matter areas. Could these be due to emissions from "magnetic" atoms? There is no law that says dark matter has to be totally dark.. it could just be shinning at some wavelength/ energy that we haven't looked at yet.

If dark matter can radiate, then it can lose orbital angular momentum and then why does it stay in the arrangements of diffuse haloes instead of contracting into compact objects and clumping the way regular matter does.
Sure there might be room for a small amount of not really dark matter (you could call it faint matter) but wouldn't we still need dark matter? And indeed if it turns out that dark matter is made out of thousands of new particles with thousands of new charges and different properties it might be hard to learn about them.
Even worse. If they have different properties and new charges and could be streaming through earth they could be affecting our particle accelerator experiments in a way to prevent pairs (say if a strongly charged river flows through earth with one of these new charges, then it might prevent particle antiparticle pairs with this new charge from forming) and so they could even have a low mass.
This is wildly speculative at this point unless you have a reason to say there should be a specific particle with specific properties or else if the actual concern is dark matter you should be looking at what the evidence says the particle should have as properties. So focus on the observational results or the theoretical principles.
But if you are interested in faint matter there are many possibilities but you need to start with a reason. For instance at Lawrence Livermore National Lab they started with the idea of explaining the equality of matter and dark matter abundance along with a quark confinement type interaction in  Direct Detection of Stealth Dark Matter through Electromagnetic Polarizability if it had a very small magnetic charge too that probably wouldn't change things very much, but it wouldn't be the reason it acts the way it does.

A: I would think tightly bound monopolism would have a huge wave function at the origin and quickly decay in a blaze of glory.
What would stabilize it?
Also would it residual interactions be small enough not be seen in dark matter searches. And if it decayed to two photons (but not too fast) there'd be a nice line we could see with Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

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Czas Wodnika – album polskiej grupy RSC, wydany w 1996.

Nagrań dokonano w Studio "SPAART" w Boguchwale pod Rzeszowem w okresie od maja 1995 do stycznia 1996. Większość nagrań dokonano w systemie "live in studio". Realizacja dźwięku – Andrzej Karp, Bogdan Nowak, Piotr Sitek. Mastering – Grzegorz Piwkowski. Muzyka – Wiktor Kucaj, Zbigniew Działa. Teksty – Zbigniew Działa. Projekt okładki – Paweł Czachur.

Lista utworów
źródło:.

 "Oniemiałe miasto" – 5:09
 "Tego nie wiem" – 4:27
 "Mediator" – 5:56
 "Zbemój" – 5:02
 "Ona liczy cienie" – 4:44
 "L'america" – 4:48
 "Billy kłamca" – 4:32
 "Czas wodnika" – 5:40
 "15000 obywateli polskich" – 3:16
 "Patrzę na wschód" – 6:51
 "Kołysanka dla Małgosi" – 4:28
 "Mgła w Villacam" – 5:31
 "Pomiędzy piekłem-niebem" – 5:02
 "Naucz mnie" – 5:07

Muzycy
źródło:.

 Wiktor Kucaj – organy Hammonda, syntezatory
 Zbigniew Działa – śpiew, gitary
 Michał Kochmański – bębny, instr. perkusyjne
 Andrzej Balawender – skrzypce
 Krzysztof Dziuba – gitara basowa
 Witold Stepaniak – gitara
 Tom Kiersnowski – harmonijki
 Wojciech Tramowski – gitary
 Waldemar Rzeszut – gitary

Wydania
 CD Victor; 002 - 1996
 MC Victor; 002 - 1996
 DG CD Polskie Radio S.A.; PRCD 836 - 23 lipca 2007

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

Albumy RSC
Albumy muzyczne wydane w roku 1996

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Winkelhaid (fränkisch: Winglhaad) ist ein Gemeindeteil der Stadt Windsbach im Landkreis Ansbach (Mittelfranken, Bayern).

Geografie
Durch das Dorf fließt der Bremenwiesbach, der ab Winkelhaid auch Weihersbach genannt wird und dann als rechter Zufluss in den Erlbach mündet, der wiederum ein rechter Zufluss der Fränkischen Rezat ist. Unmittelbar nordöstlich grenzt das Waldgebiet In den Fuchsen an, 0,5 km nordöstlich befindet sich das Waldgebiet Plann. Im Südosten liegen die Lüßäcker und 0,5 km südwestlich das Lehenfeld. Am Ortsausgang in Richtung Mitteleschenbach steht eine Linde, die als Naturdenkmal ausgezeichnet ist.

Die Kreisstraße AN 59/RH 10 führt nach Mitteleschenbach (2,8 km westlich) bzw. die B 466 kreuzend nach Wernfels (3,4 km südöstlich). Gemeindeverbindungsstraßen führen nach Bremenhof (1,1 km südlich) und nach Untereschenbach zur Staatsstraße 2223 (2,1 km nordöstlich).

Der Ort ist geprägt von der Dorflinde, die als Naturdenkmal ausgezeichnet ist, und dem großen Weiher am Ortsrand.

Geschichte
Vermutlich wurde Winkelhaid schon vor dem 12. Jahrhundert gegründet. Erhalten geblieben ist ein Stein der ersten Kirche mit der Inschrift des Baujahres 1103. Um 1300 wurde der Ort als "Winkelheide" erstmals urkundlich erwähnt. Der ursprüngliche Flurname bezeichnete eine versteckt gelegene Heidelandschaft.

Laut dem Salbuch der Deutschordenskommende Nürnberg von 1343 gehörten dem Stadtvogteiamt Eschenbach in Winkelhaid 1 Hube. Im Salbuch des Hochstifts Eichstätt des Jahres 1404 wurden zwei Höfe aufgeführt, die diesem unterstanden. Im Salbuch des eichstättischen Kollegiatstifts St. Nikolaus zu Spalt von 1380 wurden für Winkelhaid drei abgabenpflichtige Untertansfamilien verzeichnet. In den Salbüchern von 1460, 1517 und 1549 wurden nur noch zwei Untertansfamilien angegeben. Der Hauptmannschaft Hergersbach der Reichsstadt Nürnberg unterstanden 1529 3 Untertansfamilien im Ort.

Im 16-Punkte-Bericht des Oberamts Windsbach von 1608 wurden für Winkelhaid 12 Mannschaften verzeichnet: 1 Köbler unterstand dem Verwalteramt Merkendorf, 2 Höfe dem eichstättischen Kastenamt Spalt, 2 Höfe dem Stadtvogteiamt Eschenbach, 2 Höfe und 2 Güter den Herren von Heideck, 3 Höfe dem Oberamt Schwabach und 1 Hof den Flechtner'schen Erben zu Ansbach. Daneben gab es das Gemeindehirtenhaus. Das Hochgericht übte das brandenburg-ansbachische Kasten- und Stadtvogteiamt Windsbach aus. Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg wurde Winkelhaid zerstört. 1652 galt der Ort noch als ganz verödet. Im Eichstätter Salbuch von 1671 wurden für Winkelhaid wieder 16 Untertansfamilien verzeichnet, wovon 2 dem Kastenamt Spalt unterstanden, 1 dem Stift Spalt, 9 dem Oberamt Windsbach und 4 dem Nürnberger Eigenherrn Groß.

Gegen Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bildete Winkelhaid mit Bremen-, Käs- und Thonhof eine Realgemeinde. In Winkelhaid gab es 15 Anwesen. Das Hochgericht und die Dorf- und Gemeindeherrschaft übte das Kasten- und Stadtvogteiamt Windsbach aus. Grundherren waren das Fürstentum Ansbach (Kastenamt Windsbach: 1 Ganzhof, 1 Dreiviertelhof, 1 Gütlein, 1 Zapfenwirtschafts-Gütlein; Verwalteramt Merkendorf: 1 Köblergut), das Kastenamt Spalt (3 Ganzöfe), Nürnberger Eigenherren (von Tucher: 1 Halbhof; Kreß von Kressenstein: 1 Ganzhof, 1 Halbhof, 2 Gütlein), der Ansbacher Eigenherr von Seefried (1 Ganzhof) und das Stadtvogteiamt Eschenbach des Deutschen Ordens (1 Halbhof). Neben den Anwesen gab es noch kommunale Gebäude (Hirtenhaus, Schmiedgütlein) und kirchliche Gebäude (Ruine der Marienkapelle). Es gab zu dieser Zeit 16 Untertansfamilien, von denen 7 ansbachisch waren. Von 1797 bis 1808 unterstand der Ort dem Justiz- und Kammeramt Windsbach.

Im Geographischen statistisch-topographischen Lexikon von Franken (1804) wird der Ort folgendermaßen beschrieben:

1806 kam Winkelhaid an das Königreich Bayern. Im Rahmen des Gemeindeedikts wurde Winkelhaid dem 1808 gebildeten Steuerdistrikt Wassermungenau und der 1810 gegründeten Ruralgemeinde Wassermungenau zugeordnet. Mit dem Zweiten Gemeindeedikt (1818) entstand die Ruralgemeinde Winkelhaid, zu der Thonhof gehörte. Sie war in Verwaltung und Gerichtsbarkeit dem Landgericht Heilsbronn zugeordnet und in der Finanzverwaltung dem Rentamt Windsbach. Von 1862 bis 1879 gehörte Winkelhaid zum Bezirksamt Heilsbronn, ab 1880 zum Bezirksamt Schwabach (1939 in Landkreis Schwabach umbenannt) und zum Rentamt Spalt (1919–1932: Finanzamt Spalt, 1932–1972: Finanzamt Schwabach, seit 1972: Finanzamt Ansbach). Die Gerichtsbarkeit blieb bis 1879 beim Landgericht Heilsbronn, von 1880 bis 1970 war das Amtsgericht Roth zuständig, von 1970 bis 1972 das Amtsgericht Schwabach, seitdem ist es das Amtsgericht Ansbach. Die Gemeinde hatte eine Gebietsfläche von 5,028 km².

In einem Ortsverzeichnis von 1867 wurde der Grünthalhof als Gemeindeteil aufgeführt. Im Zuge der Gebietsreform wurde Winkelhaid am 1. Juli 1972 nach Windsbach eingemeindet.

Baudenkmäler
 Haus Nr. 2: Bauernhaus
 Haus Nr. 6: Bauernhaus mit Nebengebäude
 Haus Nr. 36: Wohnstallhaus
 St. Marien, Kapelle
 2 Steinkreuze nördlich des Dorfes im Wald, mittelalterlich

Bodendenkmäler
In der Gemarkung Winkelhaid gibt es ein Bodendenkmal:
 Abgegangene mittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Kapelle

Einwohnerentwicklung
Gemeinde Winkelhaid

Ort Winkelhaid

Religion
Der Ort ist seit der Reformation evangelisch-lutherisch geprägt und nach St. Andreas (Wassermungenau) gepfarrt. Die Einwohner römisch-katholischer Konfession sind nach St. Nikolaus (Mitteleschenbach) gepfarrt.

Literatur

Weblinks

 Winkelhaid auf der Website windsbach.de

Fußnoten

Ortsteil von Windsbach
Ort im Landkreis Ansbach
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Landkreis Ansbach)
Ersterwähnung 1300
Gemeindegründung 1818
Gemeindeauflösung 1972
Dorf


In the decision of Douthwright v. Duffy, 2015 NBQB 224, the 43 year old Douthwright was injured in a serious roll-over accident. Liability was admitted, but the parties differed on damages.
Douthwright alleged the accident caused soft-tissue injuries, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury (TBI), PTSD, sleep problems, and worsened her pre-existing headaches, anxiety and joint pain. Relying on Athey v. Leonati,  3 S.C.R. 458, she argued the accident materially contributed to her injuries, claiming $823,323 in damages ($150,000 in general damages, $143,140 for past loss of homemaking capacity, $388,351.00 for future loss of homemaking capacity, and $141,832.00 for cost of future care).
The defendant, Duffy, argued that Douthwright's injuries fell squarely within the definition of "minor personal injury", capping her claim at $2,500 in general damages, plus $500 in valuable services. Duffy contended that there was no objective evidence of many of the alleged injuries and that Douthwright had refused recommended physiotherapy and psychotherapy. Duffy further argued that the $1,459.01 Douthwright had received in Section B benefits was much more indicative of the true severity of her damages.
The court concluded that the plaintiff's pre-existing conditions were exacerbated in the months after the accident and that she exhibited some symptoms of PTSD. However, it also held that the medical evidence (particularly the family physicians' charts) showed a "complete lack of evidence to establish the presence or ongoing sequelae of a traumatic brain injury", and that the "gold standard" neuropsychological tests were inconclusive, possibly due to "suboptimal effort".
Although the injuries Douthwright did sustain were "serious and temporarily disabling", it was held that none met the test in Rossignol v. Rubridge (2007), 317 NBR (2d) 105. Once TBI was excluded, the court found it very difficult to identify the accident as the source of her current complaints. The court took particular notice of the fact that all but one of Douthwright's medications were exactly the same at the time of trial as before the accident, a fact described as "extremely striking".
With respect to housekeeping capacity, the court accepted that Douthwright relied heavily on her husband in the months immediately following the accident and was entitled to compensation. However, over time, her impairments were less and less related to the accident. Thus, the court held that it was inappropriate to use the cost of replacement services to calculate past loss of valuable services. The Court refused to accept the evidence of Douthwright's expert and instead awarded a lump sum of $15,000 for past losses and $7,500 for future losses.
The court noted similar difficulties with respect to calculating costs of future care and reiterated that Douthwright should be compensated only for costs that were causally related to the accident. Given Douthwright's previous refusal to participate in treatment, the court was also unconvinced that she would participate to any significant extent in the future. The award for cost of future care was limited to the cost of six months of psychotherapy and travel expenses, plus the cost of sleeping medication.
Final judgment was $37,631.65 plus costs and disbursements.


Wildfood.info • View topic - how much is 'a sensation'?
how much is 'a sensation'?
in a recipe for 'omelette bengali' one of the ingredients is 'a sensation of garlic'. could this be a discreet rub round the bowl or a massive hit?
the only ingredient in the recipe that could hint at bengal is, possibly, a pinch of cayenne.
Re: how much is 'a sensation'?
Not exactly omelette masala then!
i had no idea these were available - maybe that's another reason why fresh ones are so expensive!
are they in any way useable as a solid when defrosted or do they resemble guacamole?
My mother, who had learned a few things in service, and was a very good cook, used to cook scouse until it "flopped".
What you get is a bag of peeled halves of perfectly unblemished but apparently ripe small avocados from Peru. So ideal for one portion. They thaw ok and end up quite soft but not overly mushy, you can slice with care but the package recommends using in smoothies and dips or generally mashed. They taste of avocado.
The downside is that they have been treated, as you might expect, with a solution of citric acid and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) to prevent discoloration. Possibly overdone. Reading the reviews online it seems that some people find the residue incredibly bitter, some find it unremarkable. I'm in between, very noticeable when eaten in slices but just about OK when mixed in with the flesh using less lime / lemon juice than usual.
Left a small frozen half of avo soaking in a bowl of cold tap water for a little over an hour and it thawed completely Drained and dried on kitchen towel. Cut off a small slice, tasted of avocado (duh!) with a definite "sensation" of lemon.
I've just been idly browsing Elizabeth David's "French Country Cooking" and come upon the instruction "season with a discreet amount of black pepper".
A recent recipe described the cooking power needed was 'a whisper' ? So is that less or more than a simmer ????
I keep seeing ads for frozen avocado from Iceland and can't get fresh easily from here so I am tempted as I always find Iceland reasonably priced whereas Sainsbury's, my only real source which involves a bus or a mum car journey, can be very pricey, although good quality mainly.
TeresaFoodie wrote: I keep seeing ads for frozen avocado from Iceland and can't get fresh easily from here so I am tempted as I always find Iceland reasonably priced whereas Sainsbury's, my only real source which involves a bus or a mum car journey, can be very pricey, although good quality mainly.
I saw the avocado halves last time I was in there and I must say I'm very tempted as good avos seem always to be very hit or miss. The so-called "ripe and ready" at the supermarkets are a bit more reliable but certainly no guarantees, and they are quite pricey. I've given up getting them at the market even though the ones they have opened for the display always look fine!
Have you got an Iceland that is easily accessible, Tezza?
That article was quite amusing!
I have an Iceland walkable about half a mile away which I have yet to visit but plan a trip there on 'pay day'. I've never suffered from avocado hand and would only really be tempted because they seem to be very reasonably priced plus I am pretty good at planning meals well in advance, also couldn't be tempted to defrost in the microwave as I do not own one. Agree, fresh are very hit or miss.
Thanks Sue, I think it was your comments that convinced me to buy some. And, I just walked to post a letter opposite there so know I can do it as a daily walk now, but gently does it on the old hip which is now bu**ered for the rest of the day. Ooh, the avos should help oil that!
sensation - from medieval latin sensatio - to sense.
"a general feeling caused by something that happens to you, especially a feeling that you cannot describe exactly"
So a wipe round the bowl, if you´re English.
About 4 cloves if you´re Italian or Spanish??
Well, I was thinking it might be enough to make someone standing next to you wonder where the 'aroma' was coming from!!!
I scoured my local Iceland yesterday but couldn't find them, asked a young shop floor person who started rifling amongst the frozen berries. Needless to say he didn't come up trumps either! I found them eventually in with the green beans. It took me half an hour to walk home then before refreezing I popped one half onto a plate at room temperature then sliced and had on seeded bread with sliced tomato. Absolutely gorgeous and no difference to eating fresh. I'd say probably better than fresh as it was just soft enough to slice easily, no skin or stone to deal with and not overly ripe or squishy or bruised. I will be buying again.
Did you say you were "refreezing"? I hope that works out ok.
Ah, fine, next time I go to Iceland I'll definitely pick some up. I imagine they would be fine for guacamole too, which we love.


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Lucasfilm president teases an ancient setting for the next Star Wars movie
Star Wars may flash back to an even longer time ago.
Dais Johnston
The Star Wars universe has set itself up with a blank slate. Now the dust has settled on The Rise of Skywalker's divisive conclusion, there's no obvious path for the franchise to take. While there are multiple Star Wars television shows in production or development, the question remains: what will a major Star Wars movie look like in the future? The president of Lucasfilm may have already leaked the answer.
In an interview for The Wrap, Kathleen Kennedy discussed the future of the franchise, saying "stories have been told within this universe over the last 40-odd years, and there's now the realization that this is a mythology that actually spans about 25,000 years."
Of course, she's referencing the expansive and mostly non-canon works of the Star Wars Extended Universe, which covers among other things comics, books, and games.
Kennedy specifically mentioned games, which brings to mind Knights of the Old Republic, probably the most prominent example of Star Wars exploring its distant past. These took place 4,000 years before the events of the Star Wars movies we've seen so far, and explored a past Sith threat to the Jedi Republic. Could this be the next step for the franchise at large?
Gameplay from 'Knights of the Old Republic' BioWare
All of the parts of a classic Star Wars film are built into the game: Sith Lord Darth Malak has a secret base, the Star Forge, allowing him to assemble a massive armada against the Republic. However, there's a massive twist. Over the course of the game, the playable character realizes they are in fact Darth Malak's master Darth Revan, brainwashed by the Republic.
It's a plot twist rivaling "No, I am your father" and would make plenty of sense for a movie adaptation, but some things would be lost in translation. Knights of the Old Republic allowed for the character to choose the Light Side path or the Dark Side, which informed the ending. This of course wouldn't be possible in the movie setting, but what good is a flagship Star Wars movie if the Sith win in the end?
The Dark Side ending of 'Knights of the Old Republic' BioWare
Of course, with Kennedy referencing the Star Wars universe stretching 25,000 years in the past, perhaps a game set 4,000 years ago is thinking a bit small. It's possible the next movie will explore the ancient origins of the Sith and Jedi, perhaps the establishment of their orders as we see them.
It's unlikely we'll hear what direction the new movie will truly take any time soon, but series like The Mandalorian and the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi and Cassian Andor series all cover events before the sequel trilogy, so the logical conclusion is the movies will follow suit. The galaxy is wide, and there's plenty of stories to tell, even in the years before the events we've seen so far.

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The APdC provides information on its activities and on the dance world in general through a variety of mediums, like the Web, e-mail, a library service and a collection of information sheets that provide basic information helpful to those in the profession. This information is available to both the sector and those that study it, as well as to the general public, in order to enhance its understanding of the dance sector.
The APdC wants to be a reference point for up-to-date information on dance in Catalonia. The website provides current information on the sector and on the organisation, in a clear and readable fashion. We make sure that members who use the website have all the resources, documents and advice that they require readily available to them.
The APdC periodically informs its members and subscribers via e-mail of current events in the dance sector and of the organisation's activities. The members also receive more complete and specialised information, like calls for proposals of all kinds (competitions, grants, etc) and job positions available in the sector). To subscribe click here.
At our offices we have a library that specialises in Dance and Performing Arts. It includes books, specialist magazines, yearbooks, publications from various institutions and resource directories for consultation like the PAYE (Performing Arts Yearbook for Europe). It also holds a collection of shows, technical films, compilations (like the 'How they dance' series) and amongst other things on DVD. The library is open from 10 am to 3 pm. Members are able to borrow two items at a time for 15 days.
These are a collection of sheets that contain basic and key subject matter for the professional's day-to-day activities and can act as a useful work tool. Written in a condensed and comprehensible way, they deal with important issues like employment rights, dance and health or the authors'copyrights. APdC members can download these information sheets in a PDF formatfrom the website.


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Should people really pursue self-actualization?
The State of Serious Fiction in the Age of Games and Pornography
An Almost Religious Faith in "Process"
Nathan Englander
However many drafts and wrong turns it takes, says author Nathan Englander, total commitment to the writing process always results in a story the writer can live with.
"Write what you know" - the most misunderstood piece of good advice, ever.
Author Nathan Englander explains that the age-old writing advice "write what you know" isn't about events, it's about universal emotions like love, loss, and longing.
Nathan Englander's short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times and numerous other publications and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
Englander is the author of the forthcoming collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (on-sale by Knopf 2/7), as well as the internationally bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and the novel The Ministry of Special Cases.
Translated into more than a dozen languages, Englander was selected as one of "20 Writers for the 21st Century" by The New Yorker, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He's been a fellow at the Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and at The American Academy of Berlin.
This year, along with the publication of his new collection, Englander's play The Twenty-Seventh Man will premiere at The Public Theater, and his translation New American Haggadah (edited by Jonathan Safran Foer) will be published by Little Brown. He also co-translated Etgar Keret's Suddenly A Knock at the Door forthcoming in March from Farrar Straus and Giroux.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York and Madison, Wisconsin.


I hosted Winform control using WindowsFormsHost in ToolWindow but when trying to drag and dock it , dockguides are not visible and I am unable to dock it as it remain in floating state until I click on option button and choose dock option.
Please provide solution to this asap.
Please see the "Interop Compatibility" topic in the Docking/MDI documentation. That tells you the properties to set to allow compatibility with interop controls like WindowsFormsHost.
I saw "Interop Compatibility" topic in the Docking/MDI documentation and I used all properties as well but still the problem was not solved.
Actually I want this WPF User Control to be element Host on Winforms and what I found that dockguides are visible when ToolWindow is in Float state and if I want to dock another window into that floated window dockguides are visible.
The properties mentioned in that documentation topic should allow any interop content (like a WindowsFormsHost) to be embedded properly in Docking/MDI and still allow dock guides, etc. If you are seeing differently, it could be you have some other scenario. Please put together a new simple sample project that shows the issue you are seeing, and send that to our support address. Reference this thread in your email and be sure to rename the .zip file extension of what you send so it doesn't get spam blocked. Then we'll have a look and see what's going on.


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Leo Santa Cruz wants Gervonta Davis fight at super featherweight
By Dan Ambrose: Leo Santa Cruz told PBC he wants to take on Gervonta 'Tank' Davis in his next fight, but he wants the match to take place in the super featherweight division.
Davis, 25, might be willing to move back down to the 130-lb weight class for a big enough fight. Santa Cruz (37-1-1, 19 KOs) might be a big enough name to lure Davis back down to his old weight class.
Tank Davis (23-0, 22 KOs) moved up to the lightweight division last month, and defeated Yuriorkis Gamboa to capture the vacant WBA 135-lb title. Davis didn't look so good in that fight. He looked tired, and took him longer than expected to finally stop the 38-year-old Gamboa, who suffered an Achilles injury in round 2.
Tank Davis vs. Santa Cruz would arguably be a CASH OUT type of fight for Leo, because he doesn't look like he's got much time left as a top fighter. Davis would be doing Santa Cruz a favor by fighting him, but he wouldn't get much credit for beating him. There are far better fighters at 135 than Santa Cruz, like Vasily Lomachenko, Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia.
Leo wasn't impressive in Flores fight
Santa Cruz, 31, didn't look that great in beating Miguel Flores (24-3, 12 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision on November 23 to capture Tank Davis' old WBA super featherweight title.
Flores came into the fight having been STOPPED in 2 out of his last 4 fights, but Santa Cruz lacked the power to hurt him. This was Santa Cruz's first fight at 130, but it wasn't a good sign that he couldn't dent Flores' chin with any of his shots. Santa Cruz won by the scores 115-112, 117-110, 117-110. Boxing News 24 had Santa Cruz beating Flores narrowly by a 115-112 score.
The fight showed that Santa Cruz, who is a volume puncher, lacks the power to stop super featherweights. Ultimately, what that means is that Santa Cruz will need to be able to go the full 12 round distance to beat fighters like Gervonta Davis,
Santa Cruz: A fight with Davis will happen
"My New Year's resolution is to get the Gervonta Davis fight," said Santa Cruz to Premierboxingchampions. "I think a Davis fight is going to happen. He has good power, but I don't care. I want to show the fans I'm not scared of anybody. He's the most dangerous and popular fighter right now. The 130-pound division is my preference. I'm going to get better at that weight,"
This would be a risky fight for Santa Cruz to take right now, given how poor he looked against Flores. Leo doesn't have the pop in his punches to hurt Tank Davis, and that's not going to change anytime soon.
Gervonta Davis to his HATERS: 'Thanks for the support'
More importantly, Santa Cruz hasn't taken a tough fight since his rematch with Carl Frampton in 2017, and he barely won that fight. Frampton tried to get Santa Cruz to agree to fight him in a big money trilogy match in Belfast, but he chose not to take it. Some boxing fans felt that Santa Cruz was scared to fight Frampton in his own country, despite the fact that he had come to the U.S for both fights against him.
Santa Cruz hasn't fought a risky opponent since 2017
Since his win over Frampton, Santa Cruz has taken soft fights against Chris Avalos, Miguel Flores, Rafael Rivera and Abner Mares. Yeah, Mares is a good fighter, but he was WAY past his prime when he fought Santa Cruz in a rematch that no one asked for in June 2018. Santa Cruz had already soundly beaten Mares by a 12 round decision in 2015, and it was pointless for the two to be fighting again.
Mares was no longer a relevant fighter when Santa Cruz fought him in the rematch. It was a business level fight. In other words, it was more about money than it being a fight between two of the best fighters at 126. Mares is no longer one of the best.
Boxing fans wanted to see Santa Cruz take on WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr., but the fight wasn't made. Instead of Santa Cruz wasting time fighting Mares, Rivera and Avalos t 126, he should have taken on Russell Jr. in a unification fight. It's pretty obvious why Santa Cruz didn't take the fight with Russell Jr., as he likely would have lost badly to him. Russell Jr. is arguably on another level than Santa Cruz in terms of talent.
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FAMU Band Members Describe Using a "Big Traffic Cone" in Hazing Death
Band members at Florida A&M University are describing the brutal hazing ritual that lead to the death of Robert Champion last November. Champion, who was openly gay, was the last of three students to undergo the hazing on the band bus, one band member tells the AP.
In a law enforcement interview released Wednesday, Keon Hollis says that he was kicked, punched, hit with a large comb and struck with straps. The hazing happened last November on a bus parked in an Orlando hotel parking lot. He said there were at least 15 people on the bus and the goal was to get from the front to the back.
He said Robert Champion was the next person to be hazed that November night. He said Champion seemed fine immediately afterward, but said he was thirsty. Hollis said he gave Champion some water. Champion soon collapsed and later died.
The 26-year-old drum major suffered blunt trauma blows and died from shock caused by severe bleeding, according to the autopsy. Champion was reportedly vomiting before he was found unresponsive aboard the bus.
Thirteen defendants were charged with felony hazing on May 2. Two defendants face midemeanor counts. The felony hazing charge carries a maximum penalty of almost six years.
Champion was brutally kicked, slammed with a "big orange traffic cone" and beaten with drum sticks, according to "hundreds of pages of evidence released today by prosecutors", reports the Orlando Sentinel.
According to the documents, Champion made it to the back of the bus, having completed the "crossing Bus C" hazing ritual before he fell unconscious. A witness told investigators that Champion and the two other students hazed with him were hit with "straps, hands, sticks and a big orange traffic cone."
[Band director Julian Whit] said Rikki Wills claimed he helped Champion make it through the ritual. "I'm Robert's roommate so I decided I was going to help him get through so I pushed him through…and when we got to the end, Robert said, 'Oh my God, uh, I'm having trouble breathing…." And then he passed out.
[Band members] said that Champion couldn't breathe. Champion was unresponsive, so the group called 911. [One band member] said he began doing mouth to mouth and chest compressions. Champion began vomiting while Cearnel was trying to revive him. Soon after an officer and an ambulance arrived.
Listen to one band member describe the vicious beating HERE.
Investigators have learned that more than 100 members of FAMU's famous marching band are NOT registered students. This includes at least three of the 11 band members charged almost three weeks ago with felony hazing. FAMU is Florida's only historically black public university.
Champion's parents publicly revealed in January that their son was gay. In addition to being vocally opposed to hazing, Champion's sexuality could have been among the reasons why he was viciously beaten during the attack, according to the family's attorney. Read more at my article for Ebony.com: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": Why Has Black Media Ignored the Sexuality of FAMU Hazing Victim Robert Champion?"
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I bought a Walkera Devo 10 tx bundled with a Master CP heli back in December. I used it with a Li-Fe 9.9V from HK, with no issues...Suddenly this last Saturday, after landing my 450 FBL, I switched it off, and on again to change the battery on my heli...the tx is dead...how could this happen? I checked on google for dead devo tx and I found 0 results...I checked with a multimeter if I have power ion the board, and it's fine, I checked the switch also working..What could I do?
Bad news,my Tx was damaged too.
Is the screen light up when you switch on the TX?
Try disconnect the battery for a while and reconnect it again.
If those method all not work,try to open the tx and check is there any connector unclasped.
I mean to open the Tx and check whether the wire is loosened or not.
Or is there any scorch mark on the mainbord?
It is possible that your power switch failed. I've seen this a few times. The switch used by Walkera is junk.
It can usually be repaired by removing it and then squeezing the tabs gently with a pair of pliers to push the backing board against the contacts. Or just replace it with another slide switch.
It is also possible that the power circuit failed. I've seen this too (though never on a Devo10). If so, it is harder to fix, as you'll need to identify which Tx is blown and replace it.
if the Tx works, we can sure that the switch is breakdown.
Unplug the transmitter module from the board and see if anything changes.
Most likely you've blown one of the switching transistors in the power circuit. figuring out which one would require some electronics expertise as you need to know what you are looking for. Fixing it would require some SMT soldiering skills.
I've documented the circuit for the Devo8, but the Devo10 one is somewhat different and I never spent any time on it, so I can't really tell you where to begin.
Just wondering how could I trust another devo and spending again the 130$ when this one died after 6 months of very light use, due to time constrains...?
Guess it only happened to my since I couldn"t find any other dead devo apart from my other post on hf forum.
Again tx for taking your time and replying.
any other ideas? My beloved RC 711 offered to give me another one at some discounted price !!! They also told me to send it to WALKERA directly !!!
actually from my "luck" I couldnt find any other devo 10 dead...you can only find my post on the helifreak forum, but that's all.
Somebody actually suggested to try ni-mh cellsX8 instead of my 1500mAh li-fe...?
I have not heard of your situation either, but i see alot of broken power switches, short circuts, you know general walkera quaility control issues.
How much does two or three cheap tx's cost? If its less than $190 go for it.
I have no problem seeing and working with the devo 12s in the sun, and i live in the Bahamas.
I also dont like the stylus, so i rounded the tip of one of those pot turning, mini screw driver, type tools that comes with most gyros. It clips on to the tx rear handle thingy and is easy to get at and put back, unlike the pens.
If the devo 12s stands up to the test, and is a proven stable platforum for my bigger helis, i will be getting a 8s as a back up tx. Then i can retire the old, yet still solid, 2801pro.
The Devo10 should be very similar.
The most likely issue is that you blew out the 8550 or 8050 transistors.
This happened to my Devo8. I dropped in whatever I had lying around the house and it has worked fine since. If the Vgs is different than the original, your voltage measurement on the Tx will be off slightly.
There are higher resolution images out there, but these are the ones I could find quickly.
As I've said repeatedly, I think Walkera's quality control is low. some of their circuit designs are marginal, and the components they used are pushed too close to the operating threshold. We've seen quite a few failures on every Tx model of different sorts.
I don't personally recommend running Li batteries in Walkera transmitters (except the Devo12) without a proper voltage regulator, since the power circuit seems to be marginal, and quite sensitive to over-voltage. Lots of folks ignore me without issue of course.
A transistor has 3 pins, that's clear, but by looking at the schematics, I cannot identify which one would be the 8550/8050 you are reffering to?


In Finland the eurosceptic Finns Party (formerly known as True Finns) led by Timo Soini failed to repeat the landslide of the 2011 general elections despite polling 12.9 percent of the votes and increasing the party's representation from one to two MEPs out of Finland's thirteen parliamentarians.
It was the Prime Minister Katainen's pro-EU centre-right Kokoomus that gained the highest share of votes (22.9 percent) but fell one seat short of its aim of securing four seats in the European Parliament.
Perhaps the most interesting outcome of the Finnish elections was the strong performance of the left-wing Vasemmistoliitto-party which recently left the government as a protest to austerity politics. Following a five-year absence from the European Parliament, the party gained almost 10 percent of votes and a seat in the Parliament.
Finnish media reporting on the elections has focused on the growing popularity of left and right wing populist parties. The broadsheet Turun Sanomat and the tabloid Iltasanomat declare the Finns Party as the biggest winner of the elections given the 3 percent increase in the party's vote compared to the previous European elections.
The northern daily, Kaleva, on the other hand comments on the Finns Party's smaller than expected gains and suggests that the moderate gains reflect the toned-down Euro rhetoric of Soini. The newspaper notes that, on the whole, the Finnish election result sends a pro-European message.
The editorial in the largest daily newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, underlines the voter apathy that characterised the elections. The daily cautions against hasty declarations of the election result as a victory of anti-EU forces; the editorial asserts that votes for populist parties should be taken as an indication of the disillusionment with national governments rather than deep-seated antipathy towards the EU.
Dr Outi Keranen is a Teaching Fellow in International Relations at UCL and has previously lectured at the University of Westminster. She is also a co-investigator on the Euro Crisis in the Press project. Outi's main research interests are in global governance, conflict and peace studies. She is also interested in Finnish politics and foreign policy.
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Home » World News » What's Up With Apple: AAA-Rated, Supply Chain Woes Worsen, and More
What's Up With Apple: AAA-Rated, Supply Chain Woes Worsen, and More
Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday upgraded its credit rating on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to Aaa, the firm's gold-plated, prime rating for Apple debt. What it means is that Apple will receive the lowest possible interest rate on any future borrowing.
In its announcement of the rating change, Moody's noted: "Apple's very strong business profile reflects its substantial operating scale, a large installed base of products and users of its services, strong customer loyalty, and premium brand positioning that drives its industry-leading profitability across product categories." Analyst Raj Joshi said:
The upgrade of Apple's rating to Aaa reflects the company's exceptional liquidity, robust earnings that we expect will continue to grow over the next 2 to 3 years, and its very strong business profile. Apple's ecosystem of products and services provides enhanced revenue visibility over time despite some level of volatility that is inherent in its business from product introduction cycles.
And it is all about the cash:
Moody's expects that a mix shift toward higher-value 5G smartphones and sustained growth in higher margin Services will support strong profitability and annual free cash flow of $80 billion to $90 billion (over 50% of total Moody's adjusted debt) over the next 12 to 24 months. Apple's $173 billion of unrestricted cash balances and free cash flow result in an unmatched liquidity profile with substantial financial flexibility.
All this doesn't mean that there are no headwinds. Loup Funds analyst Gene Munster, a long-time Apple bull, wrote Wednesday morning that 10 Apple products his firm tracked over the past four weekends in six countries indicate that supplies remain tight. In fact, Munster thinks that Apple's estimate of an $8 billion hit to sales is too low and that sales for the December quarter will fall short by $10 billion.
The good news is that Apple will recover two-thirds of that shortfall in the March quarter and that delays for some products have been reduced. The new iPad models have the longest lead time, 42 days, while the Apple Watch has the shortest delivery time, one day. New iPhone 13 models have an average delivery time of two days, down from four days last week and eight days three weeks ago.
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The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans to begin accepting mobile driver's licenses (known as mDLs in the industry) stored in a person's Apple Wallet at two U.S. airports beginning in February. According to the Secure Technology Alliance, "TSA is preparing to begin its phased rollout, with mDL Apple Wallet integration being its first step, which will allow select security checkpoints in participating airports to be the first locations people can use their mDL in the Wallet app."
Last September, Nia Impact Capital, an investor in Apple, filed a shareholder proposal for Apple to include on the agenda of the company's next shareholder meeting. The proposal would have required the company to assess the potential risks to the company of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and other policies that conceal the company's decisions. Apple responded by asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to allow it to exclude the proposal from the meeting's agenda because the company had already "substantially implemented the proposal." On Tuesday, the SEC rejected Apple's request, saying that the company had not, in fact, done so.
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I rarely ever wear skirts, but in Bali, if you're not in maxi dress or maxi skirts or sandals - you'd really feel out of place.
I wore jeans once when we went out to buy food, and the mat sallehs there were looking at me as if I was mad. To be honest, I felt like I was mad too - wearing jeans on a vespa ride isn't really pleasant.
So one day, after walking along the Batu Belig beach for 3 km (will blog in detail soon), we lost our slippers and dropped by a store to get new ones. That was when I found the skirt.
"Can I get this skirt? I don't have one yet"
"Do we have enough cash?"
FYI, it was his answers to everything.
So after calculating the rupiah we had, he agreed to let me have it.
I doubt that I'd wear the skirt anywhere else other than beach, but at least now I have something to wear for beach holiday.


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The Central African Republic (CAR) has experienced decades of political unrest. Violence has spiralled since the 2013, when the mostly Muslim Seleka rebels alliance
ousted President Francois Bozize. Their abuses against the majority Christian population sparked a wave of revenge attacks that led to massacres across the country.
Violence in the north east of the country and in the capital Bangui has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. UNHCR estimates that over 2000 people have been killed since December 2013. More than 600 000 people have been internally displaced and some 100 000 have fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo, Chad and Cameroon.
According to the UNHCR, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now hosting nearly 60,000 refugees from Central African Republic. Half of them are spread across four refugee camps, while the others are living with host families.
An estimated 9000 people live in the Mole refugee camp, located on the banks of the Oubagui river, 35 kilometres from the nearest big town, Zongo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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In a column for Automotive News, Mitsubishi's soon-to-be new chairman Carlos Ghosn had a lot to say about "identifying synergies" between Nissan and Mitsubishi, as well as "targeting synergy benefits," "unleash[ing] potential synergies," and really a whole lot of things dealing with synergy.
Even though it may sound like meaningless business-speak, it makes sense coming from the guy who helped Nissan get back on its feet by marrying it to Renault and effectively turning on all the synergies. Ghosn expects to do the same through Nissan's acquisition of 34% of Mitsubishi, even though he admits that unlike the challenges Nissan faced in 1999, "Mitsubishi Motors has a strong balance sheet. What's missing is customer trust."
When it comes to synergy, the main way to "unleash" it is to share R&D and jointly develop vehicle architecture. While talking to CarAdvice, new Nissan co-CEO Hiroto Saikawa strongly hinted that Mitsubishi could use the CMF modular architecture already used by Renault-Nissan to revive its plans for new-generation passenger cars, such as the Mitsubishi Lancer.
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"Many companies face the challenge of ageing models. It happened to Nissan, it happened to Mitsubishi. I cannot give you full assessment of Mitsubishi right now. [But] I can tell you that, we will see this in two way benefit," Hiroto said. "Segments of joint platform development could include pick-up trucks in the ASEAN market where MMC has particular expertise."
The last bit suggests that the next-gen Nissan Navara and Mitsubishi Triton (also known as the L200 in some markets) could share the same architecture. Meanwhile, a future Lancer could share architecture with the CMF platform used by the Renault Megane, Nissan Rogue, and Nissan Pulsar.
Does this mean that we may get a new Lancer Evo in the future after all? We sure hope so.
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DID THE FEDERAL GOV'T. HIDE A FLU EPIDEMIC IN 1993 AND WHY?
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For decades now, since the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, US life expectancy has progressively risen. But federal government documents reveal a sudden unexplained increase in the US death rate in 1993, so severe as to cause a decline in US life expectancy for the first time in over 8 decades. Examine the chart below (Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2004 -- National Center for Health Statistics)
Nearly 93,000 more deaths were reported in 1993 than the previous year. My memory bank didn't recall any outstanding disease or epidemic back then.
What was the cause of this severe increase in the death rate? I began to investigate.
Not caused by a non-infectious disease
The Monthly Vital Statistics Report said death rates for HIV infection (9.8%), COPD-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (8.2%) and pneumonia/influenza (8.1%) rose steeply from 1992 to 1993. However, the ten leading causes of death didn't change over that time period. The Centers for Disease Control said deaths due to heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), HIV infection and pneumonia/influenza as well as diabetes made the largest contributions to the overall mortality increase. The cause(s) of the increase in the death rate were spread among various diseases by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), far too broad to explain any single cause. Not a word was said about this startling setback in life expectancy.
But that same government document said some of these increases in chronic disease (diabetes, heart disease, COPD) were "the result of the two influenza epidemics of 1993." [Page 9, Monthly Vital Statistics Report, Volume 44, No 7(S), Feb. 29, 1996]
1993: Two flu epidemics
What two flu epidemics is the report referring to?
A CDC review of mortality patterns in 1993 also states "the decline in life expectancy likely reflects increases in death rates for chronic disease during the two influenza outbreaks of 1993." [Morbidity Mortality Weekly 45:08), 1161-64, March 1, 1996] There it is again, confirmation that two flu epidemics in the same year caused an increase in deaths with an admission it resulted in a decline in the life expectancy of Americans.
Timeline of historical flu outbreaks
Americans may be roughly familiar with the historical timeline of flu outbreaks provided in the chart below. The chart has been adapted to show the severity of each influenza outbreak and also the SARS coronavirus pandemic of 2003. I have added the 1993 flu outbreaks to the chart.
Note that the 1993 flu outbreak which resulted in nearly 93,000 more deaths than the prior year resulted in more deaths than the well-known Asian and Hong Kong flu pandemics and would be second only to the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 in comparable deaths. The Spanish flu had temporarily set back US life expectancy gains from 50.9 years to 39.1 years. Of course, this was the pre-antibiotic era. There were no anti-bacterial or anti-viral drugs then.
According to charts provided by the CDC and other health organizations, it's as if there was no flu epidemic in the US in 1993. I had to dig deep into the health reports of that year to find further confirmation that it was the flu, and no other disease, that caused the American life expectancy to steeply decline for one year.
Data showed only 3,430 more deaths among HIV-infected residents then the prior year. [Morbidity Mortality 45: 121-25, 1996] Another study showed only 254 excess flu deaths among person with HIV for 1992-93 and only 191 the following year. [Archives Internal Medicine 161: 441-46, 2001] So HIV-infected persons, through at higher risk for death from the flu, cannot explain the unusual number of deaths attributed to influenza in 1993.
It's also possible that flu vaccination rates declined in that year, but a quick search on Google found evidence to the contrary. Vaccination rates were rising while the flu outbreak of 1993 proceeded. (See chart below)
It struck elderly nursing home residents. But why?
So I began to re-read a government document I had flagged with a red paperclip during my investigation. A flu surveillance report published by the CDC states that the "1992-93 influenza season was dominated by influenza B, but increasing circulation of influenza A (H3N2) viruses toward the end of the season" which struck nursing home populations with deadly consequences.
For reference, type-A flu viruses are the most virulent and most common. Type B are less common but almost exclusively strike humans.
The report went on to say that influenza B viruses predominated early in the season and were mainly limited to school-age children, and "no excess mortality was observed." Then sustained excess mortality began in mid-March of 1993 and coincided with outbreaks in nursing homes. [Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 46: (SS1), 1-12, Jan 31, 1997]
Like the more recent swine flu outbreak which began in Mexico, the second flu bout in 1993 began late in the season.
For comparison, the Mexico swine flu virus began in March or April of 2009 whereas the second 1993 flu outbreak began in March and peaked even later in August and September. The pathogenic virus involved in 1993 was identified as Type A H3N2 A/Beijing/32/92 strain. [Morbidity Mortality Weekly March 18, 1994 / 43(10); 179-183]
Still, why would the government hide such an epidemic, particularly the second one in 1993? I had no clue.
Free flu shots begin in 1993
I had uncovered much of this information over two years ago. But the reason for the cover-up remained elusive until I read a Health & Human Services press release issued in 1999. It said that Medicare coverage for flu shots for the elderly began in 1993 as the Administration launched an effort to increase immunization rates among older adults. The shots were free for those enrolled in Medicare Part B. The release can be found here:
The big difference from prior years was that elderly Americans were getting free flu shots.
According to The Vaccine Guide (North Atlantic Books, 2002), during the 1992-1993 season, 84 percent of samples for the predominant type A virus in circulation in the US population were not similar to the virus in the vaccine. The flu vaccine that year would be largely worthless. But that wouldn't explain such a huge increase in deaths, particularly in nursing home populations that apparently hadn't received flu shots in prior years due to lack of provisional funding.
There was a very slight increase in the risk for Guillain-Barré syndrome in the period 1992 to 1994 from flu shots (one additional case per million persons vaccinated). [New England Journal of Medicine 339: 1797-802, 1998] This would still not be sufficient to produce a setback in life expectancy.
A death vaccine?
Now the big question comes to mind. Was the flu vaccine in 1993 lethal in some way? This could be the only explanation as to why this deadly flu outbreak has been hidden from the public. If so, it would be a severe blow to the nation's flu vaccination program.
There is a hint of evidence in Europe that either a deadly flu virus or a "death vaccine" was in circulation that year. Dutch National Influenza Centrum reported that nursing home residents in 1993 experienced a severe outbreak of the flu that struck 49% of them and caused 10% to die. That's a death rate four times greater than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The cause of the deaths was attributed to the Type A H3N2 flu viral strain. [Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 1993 Sep 25; 137(39):1973-7]
Could there have been some deadly vaccine in use in the US in 1993? So-called "hot" lots of vaccines are not a matter of public record. Flu vaccines inject a "little bit of disease" to provoke the production of antibodies and produce long-term resistance to a particular strain of the flu. Nursing home patients are often frail and immune compromised. Every flu vaccine is a new invention, produced in advance of the next flu season and usually comprised of a new combination of three viral strains that virologists believe will be in circulation during the upcoming flu season. The three viral strains in these trivalent vaccines could have been deadly to frail elderly patients.
It is often stated that flu vaccines are comprised of "dead" or "attenuated" viruses. In fact, viruses are not alive, they are proteins and genetic material that require a host cell for replication. Virulent flu viruses are "grown" in mammalian eggs until less virulent strains are produced, which are then used in vaccines.
In the process of making a vaccine in this manner, a hidden virus may be introduced, such as the Simian 40 virus that was mistakenly introduced in the polio vaccine some years ago. New methods of making vaccines would eliminate this problem. But was a deadly combination of viruses hidden in the flu vaccine used in 1993? Certainly no flu vaccine manufacturer would admit to that.
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I had uncovered much of this information over two years ago. But the reason for the cover-up remained elusive until I read a Health & Human Services press release issued in 1999. It said that Medicare coverage for flu shots for the elderly began in 1993 as the Administration launched an effort to increase immunization rates among older adults.


Machiel van der Bijl of the University of Twente has developed a software package that eliminates the need for manual software testing.
The testing phase for new software consists of three steps: developing the tests, running the tests and evaluating the results. These three steps are generally performed manually. Model-Based Testing is a method that automates all steps in the software testing process. When used properly, the method completely eliminates the need for manual software testing.
Model-Based Testing has a number of major advantages: it makes the software testing process faster, cheaper and more accurate. It is not uncommon for manual software testing to take anywhere from several months to years. Van der Bijl's new system can significantly reduce the duration of the testing period and thus reduce costs. "We can reduce the duration of the testing phase by at least thirty percent. We were even able to reduce overall software development time for one of our customers by a factor of four." Model-Based Testing is more accurate, because in principle there is no limit to the number of tests you run, says Van der Bijl. "If you want, you can even run a million tests."
If his system takes off, this could represent an enormous cost and time savings for software developers. In particular, I'm impressed that the software doesn't just run the tests -- it actually develops them. Mr. Van der Bijl has also started a spin-off company, Axini, to market the process.


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Chip Proser, director of the documentary Gaia Selene, believes the Earth's future is in danger from climate change and energy crises. He maintains that colonizing the moon has the potential to mitigate these problems.
"We've got to find alternate forms of energy," Proser stated, explaining that all of our earthly resources combined will not be able to provide for the world's energy needs in 50 years. According to Proser, a viable and abundant energy source awaits us on the moon in the form of helium-3. Proser said moon dust, which contains helium-3, could be refined on the moon and brought back to power fusion reactors on Earth. He estimates it would take only 25 tons (one space shuttle full) of helium-3 to power the entire United States for one year.
Proser also envisioned living in lava domes under the surface of the moon, building lunar solar stations that could transmit "clean" power via microwave energy back to Earth, and using space elevators to place people and objects into space.
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It's time to look at the hard and real issues surrounding our nations healthcare and economic challenges. For too long there has been this exchange of rhetoric between the right and the left, progressives and conservatives, regarding the issue of healthcare reform. It is pretty much agreed on that healthcare costs are far too high in this nation and that the rate of cost growth is simply unsustainable. Everyone understands that each year healthcare insurance premiums rise at a disproportional rate to the rise in the cost of living.
While the Affordable Care Act (dubbed Obama-care) has many beneficial features and may contain costs to some extent, it is becoming obvious that it is not enough. There are still far too many who are without healthcare coverage. This is a continual added stress on our struggling economy when families and individuals encounter a major medical event and, as a result, lose their income forcing them into bankruptcy and/or foreclosure. These situations cost all of us directly or indirectly.
Opponents of H.R. 676 continue to use motive words and phrases such as "socialized medicine", "death-panels", "loss of choice", and many others. In reality we already have "socialized medicine" though the VA Medical Administration, Medicare and Medicaid, and other federal, state and local government programs. In fact, these programs make up half or more of our nations healthcare expenditures. Considering that Medicare expends only about 4-6% of its revenues on administrative and overhead compared to the healthcare insurance industries 30% or more, it makes economic sense that H.R. 676 is the most economical and efficient way to move. The concept of "death-panels" came from the portion of the law which refers to whether healthcare providers should be compensated for consulting with patients and families regarding end of life issues. This issue is no different that what we call advanced directives and/or "no code" status in our present situation. As far as choice is concerned, the insurance industry restricts our freedom of choice in regard to the healthcare providers we wish to see. Under H.R. 676 one would be free to see any healthcare provider as long as he/she was licensed or registered in the state in which he/she practices. Of course, licensure and/or registration is already part of our healthcare system.
We need to move away from language that continues to distort and/or skew the issues we face. As I understand it there are individuals who specialize in creating language which will put either a positive or a negative (depending on which way they wish to move) connotation on any particular issue. This is an intentional attempt to sway public opinion. We need to move away from this and address the issues directly without the use of these motive words and/or phrases.
H.R. 676, if brought out of committee and enacted into law, would eliminate the need to pay healthcare insurance premiums. For those of us who currently pay these premiums imagine how much that would leave in our pockets. It would also eliminate the portion of the premiums that employers currently pay. This is money that small businesses and corporations could put to use in expanding and hiring. Think how this could stimulate our struggling economy…not only in the short term but far into the future. H.R. 676 would provide a sustainable method for which to pay our nations healthcare costs.
But what about the Republicans…especially the Tea Party Republicans…who have vowed "no new taxes"? Yes, new revenue would have to be raised in order for this healthcare plan to be implemented. However, the additional taxes would be far less that the healthcare insurance premiums that we are currently paying.
In the final analysis H.R. 676 would provide healthcare for every man, woman and child…everyone in and no one out…from the womb to the tomb, and would reduce our nations over-all cost of healthcare. It is sustainable economically and is the social and moral direction that our nation needs to go.
For more information on H.R. 676 go to www.healthcare-now.org www.pnhp.org www.madashelldoctors.com and www.mforall.org You can download a PDF copy of H.R. 676 from some of these sites as well.


Today I thought I'd pop in and say hi and share a recent NOTD with you all! I had to completely chop my nails off (who white. YUP.) since my promotion training has my nails all bend out of shape. They were peeling and broken. So it's time to start over and let them breath and grow!
Today I have a polish that is all Kaz's fault. This post is why. Glitzy Stilettos is just so pretty I couldn't resist snatching it up on eBay for a mere few bucks. Sometimes, although I'm not a pink girl, I love a good pink polish. This is two coats. I think this would be a great pedicure color!