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=begin

=end
#main window
class MyWindow < Gosu::Window

  def initialize
    begin
      puts "Start environment..."
      super 640, 480, false
      self.caption = 'Mouse Game'
      @bg = Gosu::Image.new(self, 'images/level/bg.png', true);
      @music = Gosu::Song.new(self, 'sounds/music.ogg')
      puts "Create game music..."
      @music.play(looping = true)
      @menu = Menu.new(self)
      @level = Level.new(self)
      @level.start
    rescue Exception => e
      puts "#{e.class}: #{e.message}"
    end
  end

  attr_reader :level, :music

  #game logic
  def update
    begin
      if not @level.game_over
        @level.update
        @menu.update
      end
    rescue Exception => e
      puts "#{e.class}: #{e.message}"
    end
  end

  def draw
    begin
      @level.draw
      @menu.draw
      @bg.draw(0, 0, 0)
    rescue Exception => e
      puts "#{e.class}: #{e.message}"
    end
  end

  def button_down(key)
    case key
    when Gosu::KbEscape
      @music.stop
      close
      puts "Exit."
    when Gosu::KbBackspace
      @menu.drawing= !@menu.drawing
      @level.pause= !@level.pause
    end
  end

end

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Elise Heß (* 9. Dezember 1898 in Biberach; † 9. Mai 1987 in Gundelsheim) war eine deutsche Hebamme und Sozialdemokratin. Sie war im Widerstand gegen die Nationalsozialisten tätig.

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Elise Heß war eine Tochter des Maurermeisters Heinrich Senghaas, der von 1925 bis 1933 Vorsitzender des SPD-Ortsvereins in Biberach war und von 1908 bis 1933 dem Gemeinderat angehörte.

Sie war mit Robert Heß verheiratet und von 1924 bis 1959 Hebamme in ihrem Geburtsort Biberach. In dieser Zeit leistete sie mehr als 1500-mal Geburtshilfe. Ab 1932 war sie auch für die Gemeinden Bonfeld und Fürfeld zuständig, weshalb sie sich als erste Frau in Biberach ein Auto zulegte.

Nachdem sie nach der Machtergreifung von Kindern, die Hakenkreuzfahnen trugen, als "Rote" mit Dreck beworfen worden war und sich gewehrt hatte, wurde sie von 40 Mitgliedern der SA aufgesucht; im Dialog mit diesen äußerte sie unter anderem, sie lasse sich "nicht mit Dreckbollen beschmeißen von den Kindern," die sie auf die Welt gebracht habe. Elise Heß nahm gegen die Nationalsozialisten Stellung und verteilte unter anderem Flugblätter. Ihr Mann Robert Heß, der Nachfolger seines Schwiegervaters im Gemeinderat war, legte seine Ratsfunktion nieder, nachdem er gehört hatte, dass in Neckargartach SPD-Mitglieder von Nationalsozialisten die Rathausstiege hinuntergeworfen worden waren; als Begründung gab er gegenüber dem Bürgermeister an, das Biberacher Rathaus habe eine steile Stiege. Nach der Verhaftung Fritz Ulrichs holte Robert Heß mit zwei Helfern Bücher und Möbel aus dessen Wohnung, um sie in Biberach in Sicherheit zu bringen, ebenso wurden Materialien des Widerstandes von Heidelberg über Wimpfen und Biberach nach Heilbronn geschmuggelt.

Nach Elise Heß ist seit 1994 die Elise-Heß-Straße in Biberach benannt.

Einzelnachweise

Hebamme
Deutscher
Geboren 1898
Gestorben 1987
Frau

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Rebirth Junior High School – The Excelling Top Student Goddess [Chapter 196]
Yun Hua did not feel tired.
Living like this was her dream!
Only after losing it would one understand just how precious such a wonderful life is!
Yun Hua turned on her computer and login to Q.
Tang Tang's message instantly popped up, "Fu Sheng, the first volume of [Shocking Dreams in the Forbidden Palace] has already been proofread by Brilliant Publishing House, we're only waiting for your illustration, they've already sent a few cover designs to your email, have you seen them?"
Hua Fu Sheng, "I've already finished drawing the illustration, I'll just touch up a little before sending them. I'll look at the covers now!"
Yun Hua hurriedly opened her email and indeed, there were a few pictures, 2D and 3D, the overall effect was quite good!
The designs were indeed extremely exquisite, looks like the Brilliant Publishing House did put in effort.
A lady wearing Qing Dynasty Manchu clothes stood before the majestic palace gates, contrasting the two worlds inside and outside the palace.
This one it is!
After Yun Hua picked the design for the book cover and title page, she had also sent the illustration she drew.
The Publishing House instantly replied to her email, "Thank you Fu Sheng, we can send the sample book latest by the middle of November. Also, we would send a portion of the books to you, could you sign it?
Naturally, Yun Hua would not reject, "Of course, I will design a set of bookmarks which can be used as gifts. As for signing books, the limit is 500 books, I won't be able to handle anymore than this. Also, the rarer things are, the more they are worth. The book would be republished so I can just sign more in the future.
The Publishing House replied very quickly, "Alright, we'll typeset the book and illustrations first, please send us the design of the bookmark after you finish designing it."
After settling this matter, Yun Hua was also extremely satisfied.
Actually, drawing the design of the bookmark was even easier, she planned to draw the Chibi version of the characters. The female lead in modern clothes, Qing Dynasty clothes, and other main characters that appear in the book, the Crown Prince, 4th Prince, 8th Prince, 10th Prince, 13th Prince, 14th Prince and 18th Prince.
Beside each character, there would be their name and a basic introduction to them, together with an extremely short synopsis of the "Shocking Dreams in the Forbidden Palace".
Then an unique and interesting bookmark would be complete!
A few years later, Chibi characters were extremely common, but in 2006, it was still quite rare so it would stand out to people, so cute!
Yun Hua even took some time to login to her weibo.
Previously she made a post that refuted her own novel, saying directly that this novel was not about history, but a romantic imagination.
In her post, she had rebutted the irrationality in her book, but one had to know, transmigrating itself was the most irrational thing, it belonged to a romantic imagination, it completely had nothing to do with documentary novels.
At the end of her post, she had put a Chibi version of her female lead, just to act cute.
However now that she looked at her post, most of the comments were asking her how she got the drawing, did she hire a professional artist to draw it?
There were also many people who asked if they could use it as their profile picture, but of course, more people went ahead without asking.
Yun Hua thought for a moment and posted on her weibo that the Chibi picture was drawn by her, there was an exclusive watermark on it which belonged to her and a stamp made by a seal designed for the novel.
If one wanted to use it or forward it, then they had to keep these marks and indicate the source!
She also said in her post that when the first volume of "Shocking Dreams in the Forbidden Palace" gets published, free bookmarks would be given to the first batch of buyers, the bookmarks were the whole set of Chibi characters in the book!
This also counted as building up the hype for her book that was about to be published.
Afterwards, Yun Hua carefully read through those comments related to the post.
She had to admit, there were too many talented people, there was a comment by a user, that person quote the classics and used all kinds of historical materials to prove that even if the female lead of the "Shocking Dreams in the Forbidden Palace" did indeed transmigrated to the ancient times, it was impossible for her to thrive as well as written in the novel.
The person's attitude was very serious and Yun Hua also accepted such a statement.
In all kinds of novels, the female lead that had transmigrated or reborn were all extremely amazing, but in reality, life could never be like a novel and never will be as simple and straightforward like the novel!
Because one could not live however one liked, then people turned to novels to search for the awesome feeling of not being oppressed!
If the novel plot was as hard and difficult as one's life, then reading the novel was just looking to suffer!
Of course, such a saying was only limited to online novels and potboilers, people just wanted to get the pleasant feeling of refreshness from novels. If one just had to read philosophy of life or ideological literature, then they should go and read the works of traditional authors.
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Promote Daisy perfume and boost the sales in the duty free areas of 8 airports.
Create a unique precise polygonal target area, in order to Geo-target a relevant cut-out of the airports compared to a POI method or a radius method.
Use of a scoring system, ensuring that the targets are users having access to the duty-free areas.
New York, Los Angeles, Manchester, London Heathrow & Gatwick, Bangkok, Singapore and Sydney airports.


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Albuquerque Employment Lawyers
Albuquerque Wrongful Termination Lawyers
Find the right Wrongful Termination attorney in Albuquerque, NM
Employment in the state of New Mexico is mostly considered to be "at-will" employment. "At will" means that for any reason, both the employer or the worker may end the work relationship at any point. The only exception to "at-will" employment is that the employment can not be terminated in a manner that breaks the law.
Employment not falling in the "at will" category is subject to different limitations and requirements, so you should be sure to know the classification of your work setup. If an employment contract specifying a time for employment is involved for your work agreement, then employment is not "at will", and termination can only be done following the terms of the contract.
What are the Illegal Grounds for Terminating At Will Employment in New Mexico?
Discrimination is the most common unlawful grounds for terminating an employee in New Mexico. Employers are not allowed to terminate an employee because of their race, religion, nationality, or gender. An employer in Albuquerque also cannot fire at-will employees in retaliation for the employee filing a claim for discrimination or initiating an investigation of discrimination against the employer.
Additionally, the Family and Medical leave act prohibits employers from firing employees for having taken leave for family or medical reasons. Finally, employers cannot terminate employees who are simply exercising a legal right, performing an obligation under law, or refusing to do an illegal act.
Do I Need a New Mexico Attorney for My Wrongful Termination Case?
Albuquerque, New Mexico lawyers are knowledgeable and can inform you properly as to whether a wrongful termination has occurred. They will also be able to help you gather the proper information and documents, and will guide you through any unique or special procedures.
Life in Albuquerque
Albuquerque is biggest city in the State of New Mexico with over 600,000 residents and 182 square miles. A percentage of the population can be attributed to the University of New Mexico, Kirkland Air Force Base, and a number of other labs and research institutes. Albuquerque is also the seat of the Diocese of the Rio Grande. The Pueblo Revival style of architecture was popularized by an Albuquerque native John Gaw Meem. A number of outstanding examples, including the University of New Mexico, exist in Albuquerque.
Otherpopular places to visitinclude Old Town Albuquerque, Sandia Mountain, and the Albuquerque Biological Park. The Petroglyph National Monument is one of the city's most popular. Albuquerque was voted Men's Fitness number one fit city because the city offers outstanding bike lanes, a number of public and private gyms, and a very low obesity and health injury rate. If you're not from Albuquerque, you may remember what it looks like from the movie Sunshine Cleaning and television shows such as Breaking Bad and In Plain Sight. The City of Albuquerque is racially very diverse and threw a festival to represent their diversity and celebrate their history at their Tri-centennial Celebration. Yes, the city has been inhabited since 1706.
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Family of 5, including 3 children, found dead in Lake Minnetonka home
Five members of a family – three of them children – are dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a home on the shores of Lake Minnetonka.
Police searched a house on Channel Drive, Greenwood, Thursday afternoon, FOX 9 reports, and discovered the bodies of a married couple and their three children.
"Officers responding to a welfare check in the city of Greenwood, found all five members of the family deceased from an apparent murder suicide," South Lake Minnetonka Police said on its Facebook page.
Interim Police Chief Mike Siitari referred to it as an "unspeakable tragedy" as he updated reporters on Thursday afternoon, as broadcast by KARE 11.
"I've no words to describe it. I have been a cop for 32 years and to see an event like this, it's a tragedy," he said.
Authorities were notifying next of kin on Thursday and did not publicly identify the family.
Allnurses.com announced in a Facebook post that its founder, Brian Short, was among those who died. Short, a nurse who had formerly worked at Hennepin County Medical Center, created Allnurses in 1997. The website calls itself the largest online nursing community in the world.
Siitari said concerns were raised after the family was not seen or heard from for days, and that the children had not turned up for school, according to KSTP.
According to the Star Tribune, the bodies were found in different parts of the home, which is on Saint Albans Bay.
Siitari said it is a "complex crime scene" and that it could take Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and the The Hennepin County Medical Examiner several days before its investigation is complete.
Greenwood Mayor Debra Kind told the Associated Press she didn't know the family, but said it was "very upsetting news."
"I hope that people who have suicidal thoughts get help," she added, saying this was a "tragedy that is not necessary."
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The worst of it will be Wednesday through Friday.
Town Hall Brewery in Minneapolis closes temporarily
The owner cites the omicron variant and impending vaccine/testing requirements in Minneapolis.
2 shootings in Brooklyn Park minutes apart; 1 injured
One person was almost hit, while a second person suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
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Home News Briefs Aurelius Equity-backed Office Depot Europe agrees to sell Spanish contract business to...
Aurelius Equity-backed Office Depot Europe agrees to sell Spanish contract business to Lyreco
The sale is the third exit of an Office Depot Europe business in the past nine months.
Chris Witkowsky
Aurelius Equity Opportunities-backed Office Depot Europe agreed to sell its Spanish contract business unit to Lyreco, a provider of office supplies based out of Marly, France. Aurelius Equity acquired the Spanish contract business in 2017. The sale is the third exit of an Office Depot Europe business in the past nine months. Office Depot Europe sold its Central Eastern European business in November 2019 and its Nordic division in May 2020.
Office Depot Europe, a portfolio company of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA (ISIN: DE000A0JK2A8) has agreed to sell its Spanish contract business unit to strategic buyer Lyreco, a leading provider of office supplies headquartered in Marly, France.
The contract business unit ranks among the leading players in the Spanish market, serving small, medium and large international and national blue chip companies from various industries. The sale comes after a successful realignment of the Spanish contract business since the group was acquired by AURELIUS in January 2017. Over the last three years, the assortment was expanded away from what was a stationary focus to end-to-end workspace solutions and product offerings including furniture key turn projects and managed print services. Lyreco will integrate this business with its existing Spanish presence and continue to develop the business ensuring best-in-class service levels.
The sale of the Spanish contract business unit is part of the ongoing transformation of Office Depot Europe. It is the third exit of an Office Depot business to complete in the past nine months. Office Depot Europe sold its Central Eastern European business in November 2019 and its Nordic division in May 2020. The exit of Office Depot's Spanish contract business follows the same strategic rationale, freeing resources to allow Office Depot Europe to focus on its core European ecommerce centric business activities.
ABOUT AURELIUS
AURELIUS Group is a pan-European investment group with offices in Munich, London, Stockholm, Madrid and Amsterdam. Since it was founded in 2006, AURELIUS has grown from a local turnaround investor to an international multi-asset manager.
AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA (ISIN: DE000A0JK2A8, ticker symbol: AR4) is the listed entity within AURELIUS Group and focuses on investing in mid-market corporate carve-outs and platform build-ups in a broad range of industries. With a team of approximately 100 in-house operations experts, AURELIUS actively supports its portfolio companies in their long-term development. AURELIUS Equity Opportunities currently has 22 portfolio companies located across Europe which employ around 15,000 people and generate annual revenues of approx. EUR 3.4 billion. The shares of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities are traded on all German stock exchanges.
AURELIUS Group also operates in the areas of growth capital, real estate opportunities and debt. AURELIUS Growth Capital invests in leveraged buyouts usually in succession or corporate spin-off situations. AURELIUS Real Estate Opportunities focuses on real estate investments, the value of which can be increased in the long-term by means of active management. AURELIUS Finance Company is an alternative direct lender, focused on providing flexible debt solutions to small and mid-market firms across Europe.
With its group charity AURELIUS Refugee Initiative e.V., AURELIUS provides comprehensive support for refugees on their way towards a better life.
To find out more, visit www.aureliusinvest.de.
ABOUT LYRECO
The Lyreco group is a European leader and the third largest distributor of workplace products and services in the world.
A privately owned company since 1926, Lyreco has constantly adapted to the evolutions of workplace and work practices thanks to its constant focus on excellence in customer experience, strong partnerships with renowned suppliers, and efficient logistics.
Lyreco's 10,000 employees share a common commitment: being pioneers in delivering sustainably what any workplace needs, so that their people can focus on what matters most to their business.
As a specialist of the work environment, Lyreco's expertise keeps on extending to cover all workplace needs: office supplies, furniture, IT equipment, printing solutions, personal protective equipment, hygiene, coffee and catering…
The group directly operates in 25 countries in Europe and Asia and covers 17 additional markets on 4 continents through a network of distribution partners.
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I look forward to the day when some wise person undertakes an explanation of the theoretical misconceptions on which the United Nations is premised. One of these misconceptions would surely be the extenstion of the democratic principle of "one man/one vote" to countries, so that each country is accorded one vote.
In the case of the many tyrannies seated in the General Assembly and other bodies of the United Nations, the "one country/one vote" principle in fact literally means "one man [e.g., Col. Khadaffi]/one vote." Moreover, others have noted that the UN Security Council is an outmoded reflection of the world in the immediate aftermath of World War II when the UN was created.
For the foreseeable future, however, while the United States is at war, Rocket Man's point is the key: "It would be unprecedented in human history for a nation to cede control over its foreign policy, voluntarily, to a hostile group of foreign nations." Undermining the moral authority of the UN through analysis of the absurdity of its governing structure would be a useful adjunct to the recognition of this key point.


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David Edgar Called Up By Canada
Mark Fletcher (Shutter Press)
David Edgar made his Pools debut against Dover Athletic
David Edgar has been called up by Canada for their decisive Concacaf National League qualifying match against French Guiana on Sunday 24th March.
The 31-year-old is part of the 23-man squad named by coach John Herdman for their crucial upcoming fixture to be played at VC Place in Vancouver.
Edgar and his Canadian teammates know they need to beat French Guiana to guarantee their place in both the 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup and Group A of the 2019/20 Concacaf National League.
If the centre-back plays in the game he will become only the second player to win an international cap whilst on the books at Pools after Ambrose Fogarty starred for the Republic of Ireland in 1964.
"Every game you play at home is special, but this game has the little something extra as the result could really shape the destiny for Canada," explained Herdman.
Edgar will travel to Canada to link-up with the squad immediately after this Saturday's National League game against Barnet and will miss Pools encounter with Wrexham on Saturday 23rd March.


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) -- Pakistan said on Friday the United States had not given it any information about the presence of al Qaeda leaders, following remarks from U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte that they were holed up in Pakistan.
"We have no such information nor has any such thing been communicated to us by any U.S. authority," Pakistan's military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan told Reuters.
Washington's ally has always contended that Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri could be either side of the rugged, porous border with Afghanistan.
But in an unusually direct statement, Negroponte on Thursday named Pakistan as the center of an al Qaeda web that radiated out to the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
In a testimony to a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Negroponte wrote, without naming bin Laden or Zawahri, that al Qaeda leaders are holed up in a secure hideout in Pakistan.
He said they were rebuilding a network that has been decimated by the capture or killing of hundreds of al Qaeda members since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Many security analysts suspect that bin Laden is likely to be hiding in Pakistan's tribal regions or neighboring districts of North West Frontier Province.
There has also been speculation that he may have died, though intelligence agencies say they have not picked up any supporting evidence.
A half-dozen audio tapes of bin Laden were circulated in the first half of 2006, but the al Qaeda leader last appeared on video tape in late 2004. Subsequent tapes released were identified as old footage.
Zawahri, meantime, has had several tapes released. On January 5, an audio-tape was posted on the Web by al Qaeda's media arm al-Sahab, exhorting Somalian Islamists to attack Ethiopia. The authenticity of the tape could not be verified, but correspondents familiar with Zawahri's voice said it was his.
In January last year CIA-operated drone aircraft carried out a missile strike on Pakistan's Bajaur tribal region based on information that Zawahri might be there.
The strike on Damadola village did not kill Zawahri, though it possibly eliminated a handful of al Qaeda militants. It killed 18 villagers.
Analysts say Pakistan's denials that it was informed of the strike beforehand were aimed at offsetting domestic criticism of its alliance with the United States.
Last October, around 80 men, some of them young boys, were killed in a missile attack on a madrasa in Bajaur, though this time the Pakistan military said it carried out the operation.
In his testimony, Negroponte acknowledged Pakistan's efforts in the fight against terrorism but said it was also a "major source of Islamic extremism".
He also noted President Pervez Musharraf was aware of the risk of sparking a revolt among ethnic Pashtuns living in the tribal belt straddling the border, as well as the political risks of a backlash from Islamist political parties, especially as national elections are due in Pakistan this year.


A Tokyo-based, multinational power-pop band.
Join us on Friday, December 14th for a show with some great Tokyo artists in support of TELL (www.telljp.com) and serve their mission to end suicide in Japan and shatter the stigma of mental health care.
We Rocked "Canada Rocks Tokyo" With You!
Saturday April 15th was a special night for sure! Thanks to all who joined us including Hopemore and Double Double. (special thanks to Rob and Tim for jumping in on guitars, and Bruce Daddy for the vocals) Great fun! The audience was ridiculously cool! What a fun night. Can't remember when we played that long last. Thank you!
Long Time No See! Three New Gigs Coming Up!
The band is totally stoked to be a part of Africa Rocks II on Thursday November 17th, our second time to play this event now in it's second year! We hope to see people out in support of this clean water project in the Tsyate district of Ethiopia.
Come and enjoy a day of great music, delicious food, special drinks, while supporting a great cause!
Thirty years ago artists in London and Philadelphia performed at Live Aid to help North Africa, which was overwhelmed by famine, disease and droughts. Fast forward 30 years where the inspiration has culminated to bring artists in Tokyo. This spectacular event will help 6,800 people in Tsayte, Ethiopia gain access to clean water and on their way towards becoming self-reliant.
Rise of Laka is a film that highlights the changes in Laka, the village next to Tsayte, which was provided water system 3 years ago brought by HOPE JP's water projects. Mackenzie Sheppard Productions and Nameless Media bring us this glimpse into the life of the people of Laka, and how water has given new life to the people there.
The school is full every day!
And the people of Laka have begun their ascent out of poverty towards a better life.
All of this incredible entertainment, food, drinks and fun helps families across Tsayte on their journeys.
Playing Yoga Summer Festival 8.27!
We're looking forward to rocking Yoga Station in the summer evening heat on Saturday, August 27th in Yoga Summer Festival. Come down for some cool beers, food stalls and TCD. Bring out our "lighter" tunes for this one. A couple of weeks later we're rocking for TELL once again at What The Dickens pub in Band Night for TELL Vol.19! Hope to see you there dancing and donating. Grab some drinks and awesome meat pies. A percentage of drink sales goes to TELL, so drink up!
皆さん、有り難う! Thank you everyone! TCD is off to Shibuya Eggman on May 22nd for round two of the contest. We're thrilled to be playing this iconic venue! Special thank you to Alex Mustatea and Andrew Holtby (Offbeat Photography) for the support and photography! These two talented folks will be dropping some photos to us shortly.
Plus... Steve T's Farewell Party TCD Album Release!
Join us on Friday, May10th for a show with some great Tokyo artists in support of TELL (www.telljp.com) and serve their mission to end suicide in Japan and shatter the stigma of mental health care.


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Q: Create Event Indicator from 2 DataFrames of Timestamps I have two dataframes, one is the main_df that has high frequency pi data with timestamps. The other is the reference_df that is a header-level dataframe with start and end timestamps. I need to create an indicator for main_df for when individual rows fall between the start and end timestamps in the referenc_df. Any input would be appreciated.
import pandas as pd

#Proxy reference dataframe
reference_data = [['site a', '2021-03-05 00:00:00', '2021-03-05 23:52:00'],
        ['site a', '2021-03-06 00:00:00', '2021-03-06 12:00:00'],
        ['site b', '2021-04-08 20:04:00', '2021-04-08 23:00:00'],
        ['site c', '2021-04-09 04:08:00', '2021-04-09 09:52:00']]

ref_df = pd.DataFrame(reference_data, columns = ['id', 'start', 'end'])
ref_df['start'] = pd.to_datetime(ref_df['start'], infer_datetime_format=True)
ref_df['end'] = pd.to_datetime(ref_df['end'], infer_datetime_format=True)

#Proxy main high frequency dataframe
main_data = [['site a', '2021-03-05 01:00:00', 10],
        ['site a', '2021-03-05 01:01:00', 11],
        ['site b', '2021-04-08 20:00:00', 9],
        ['site b', '2021-04-08 20:04:00', 10],
        ['site b', '2021-04-08 20:05:00', 11],
        ['site c', '2021-01-09 10:0:00', 7]]

# Create the pandas DataFrame
main_df = pd.DataFrame(main_data, columns = ['id', 'timestamp', 'value'])
main_df['timestamp'] = pd.to_datetime(main_df['timestamp'], infer_datetime_format=True)

Desired DataFrame:
print(main_df)
    id      timestamp           value event_indicator
0   site a  2021-03-05 01:00:00 10    1
1   site a  2021-03-05 01:01:00 11    1
2   site b  2021-04-08 20:00:00 9     0
3   site b  2021-04-08 20:04:00 10    1
4   site b  2021-04-08 20:05:00 11    1
5   site c  2021-01-09 10:00:00 7     0

A: Perform an inner join on the sites, then check if the timestamp is between any of the ranges. reset_index before the merge so you can use that to keep track of which row you're checking the range for.
s = main_df.reset_index().merge(ref_df, on='id')
s['event_indicator'] = s['timestamp'].between(s['start'], s['end']).astype(int)
# Max checks for at least 1 overlap.
s = s.groupby('index')['event_indicator'].max()

main_df['event_indicator'] = s

       id           timestamp  value  event_indicator
0  site a 2021-03-05 01:00:00     10                1
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BADIE VAUGHN SAWYER
By News Staff on Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Badie Vaughn Sawyer, Jr., 70, of League City, Texas, passed away on December 21, 2020 in Pasadena, Texas. Vaughn was born November 23, 1950 in New Orleans, Louisiana to loving parents Badie Vaughn Sawyer, Sr. and Mae Etta Sawyer. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Hearne, Texas where he was raised, fell in love with his high school sweetheart and married Barbara Ann Franks on June 26, 1971.
He went on to co-own Hearne's Western Auto with his father-in-law and raise his family as members of the Grace United Methodist Church. He and Barbara moved to Metairie, Louisiana for several years where he was with Lowe's. They then moved to Dickinson, TX where he transferred with Lowe's at the Bay Area and Baytown locations. Later they settled in League City, TX where he managed the Auto Zone store in Seabrook, TX. He loved his family, his work, his play (especially family road trips, fishing, and golf), and the people he met throughout. Vaughn's life provided the most wonderful example of family dedication, perseverance, faith, humor, and love to his two children and four grandchildren.
Vaughn was preceded in death by his parents Badie Vaughn Sawyer, Sr. and Mae Etta Sawyer, an infant sister, Barbara, father-in-law Alvah Franks, and sister-in-law Pam Sawyer.
Vaughn is survived by his loving wife Barbara, mother-in-law Dorothy Franks, son and daughter-in-law of Lubbock, TX, Eric and Lisa Sawyer, daughter and son-in-law of Dickinson, TX, Erin and Trevor Reifel, three brothers and sisters-in-law, Richard and Mary Brown of Terrytown, LA, Keith Sawyer of Jennings, LA, and Rusty and Donna Sawyer of Fulshear, TX. Four grandchildren Margaret Rose Sawyer, Vaughn Sawyer, Tabitha Reifel, and Wyatt Reifel. He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews, and many friends.
A visitation for Vaughn will be held at Crowder Funeral Home in Dickinson, Texas on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. A funeral service will be held in his honor at the Crowder Funeral Home Chapel on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 12:30 PM. Interment will follow at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in Dickinson, Texas.
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It is the fifth week of the 2012 NFL season and with it, FOX has a singleheader of action. Most of America will see the Pennsylvania showdown of Eagles-Steelers while others may see Packers-Colts, Falcons-Redskins, Bears-Jaguars or Seahawks-Panthers. Continue reading for announcing assignments as well as distribution splits.


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Table Tennis demo a hit
Henley School students were treated to a rare performance on Friday – their own principal taking on a Chinese table tennis legend.
Although John Armstrong spends his days running the school, he used to be a former Nelson, West Coast and Canterbury table tennis representative, and when he was asked to play against Mr Zeng Sang, a former player of Hubei Provincial Table Tennis Team in China, he thought he'd dust off his bat.
Zeng Sang has been in Nelson for China Week, and was part of a demonstration on Wednesday evening at Saxton Stadium.
The pair also put on demonstrations at Waimea Intermediate, Nelson Intermediate and Hampden Street School, with a total of 1000 students being performed to over two days.
John says that although he is "very much retired" from the sport, he enjoyed the experience.
He is a really nice guy and just played to my level," he says. "We put on some great rallies that entertained the children."
"It's such a fast sport so the kids liked watching it. At Nelson Intermediate a lot of kids came up and gave him a hit – he definitely made an impression, and I think it will encourage some of the kids to pick up the sport."
Those who are interested in giving table tennis a go can find out more by contacting Table Tennis Nelson at Saxton Stadium on 547 9479 or going to www. sportsground.co.nz/ttnelson.
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Particle.io has already made a mark in IoT industry by launching Photon and Electron IoT development kit and Particle cloud. Particle's all in one solution helps you to quickly get in started building your IoT project and make it live. Before discussing Particle mesh let me give an overview or various IoT development board Particle family has.
Photon was the first development board launched by Particle which has got tremendous support from the developer community and enterprises for ease of using and building IoT product on top of it. Backed by a powerful 120Mhz ARM Cortex M3 micro-controller and Broadcom Wi-Fi chip in a tiny thumbnail-sized module called the PØ (P-Zero) connectivity support on the board, Photon was one of the smallest and powerful boards available in the industry for IoT development.
To support cellular connectivity, Particle launched Electron, another addition to Particle family which quickly became very popular for its cellular connectivity and Particle sim global coverage plan. Built on the same powerful micro-controller STM32 ARM Cortex M3, Electron also added industry-leading u-blox GSM and LTE modules. From prototyping hardware to mass production modules to global cellular connectivity and cloud services provided end to end building from the first prototype to mass production.
A large mesh network of sensors talking to each other and passing information is the need of all modern IoT development. Be it a factory or a car, various sensors talk to each other and make the complete system very effective. Particle has launched Particle Mesh, essentially allows you to create large mesh networks of sensors, letting you connect multiple disparate devices together wirelessly in order to collect a wider range of data.
Backed by the Argon (Wifi, Bluetooth, Mesh), the Boron (LTE, Bluetooth, Mesh), and the Xenon (Bluetooth, Mesh), allow you to create a powerful network of mesh over cellular connectivity gateway or wifi connectivity gateway. Xenon acts as the mesh device which is connected to sensors. Multiple Xenon devices form a mesh network which runs on an open mesh networking standard released by the Thread Group. Finally, the mesh network is connected to either Wifi (Argon) or Cellular (Boron) gateway to take it to online.
The mesh network protocol used by Particle called OpenThread, is an open source implementation of Thread® released by Nest.
Particle Mesh pricing builds on existing Wi-Fi and cellular Device Cloud pricing. All Particle customers get 10 free gateway upgrades to support prototyping and evaluation of Particle Mesh. After the first 10 upgrades, Particle will charge an additional monthly fee beyond baseline Device Cloud pricing for Argon and Boron devices acting as gateways within a Particle Mesh network. Adding mesh-only devices (Xenons) to your network and all local communications between mesh devices are free.
Particle mesh is being shipped in September 2018 and currently being put on pre-order. I would highly recommend all my reader to get a kit for yourself as it is going to be really fun working with Particle mesh.


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Bradley Happy With The Player's Big Win for Family-Owned Farm
The Player collected his second consecutive impressive victory of the Spring Meet in winning a first-level allowance race on Friday for trainer Buff Bradley, who co-owns the son of Street Hero with Carl Hurst. (Coady Photography | Churchill Downs)
William "Buff" Bradley, trainer and co-owner The Player. (Churchill Downs)
Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare (GI) winner Effinex (8), runner-up to American Pharoah in the 2015 Breeders' Cup Classic (GI), heads the roster of horses nominated to the $500,000 Stephen Foster Handicap (GI). (Churchill Downs)
Trainer Dallas Stewart will saddle Charles Fipke's Seeking the Soul and Forever d'Oro in next week's Belmont Stakes (GI), the final jewel of racing's Triple Crown. (Churchill Downs)
Trainer William "Buff" Bradley will be saddling Woodford Reserve Turf Classic (Grade I) winner Divisidero in next Saturday's $1.5 million Manhattan (GI) on the Belmont Stakes undercard, but a big victory with The Player in Friday afternoon's seventh race at Churchill Downs has given Bradley even more to look forward to.
Owned and bred by Bradley in partnership with Carl Hurst, the 3-year-old son of Street Hero comes from family lines that Bradley is quite familiar with. He is out of the broodmare Hour Queen, whose mother was Bradley's first stakes winner.
"Most of my big horses are in this pedigree," Bradley said. "I bought Town Queen's mother (Regal Export) for $20,000 and she produced King of Speed, Town Queen, and Chief Export which were all black-type horses. If he moves on, this will be the biggest horse that we have had out of this pedigree. We always thought that this would be our big pedigree and then we had Brass Hat out of a different one and then Groupie Doll out of another different one, so we're kind of glad to see this horse come along and that's why we kept the mare. This family matures late, you don't see them really start coming around until they're about 4 years old. I think he's got great conformation, he's sound and he could really improve."
The Player finished fourth in his career debut and went up against stiff competition. Familiar faces to come out of the race include its eventual winner Tom's Ready, who finished 12th in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI), graded stakes-placed Forevamo who was second, and Preakness runner-up Cherry Wine, who ran fifth.
"There were some good horses that came out of that race," Bradley said. "Forevamo was in the race, Cherry Wine was in the race and we beat him. We knew he could run last year and his first time out he didn't break well. He always broke well, but he didn't that day so he was kind of rushed up there and he showed some promise in that race. The next day we noticed he had a chip in his knee so we took him out and gave him the winter off. We took him to Tampa to train for a while and then we came back here. He ran second at Keeneland in his first start this year and ran a remarkable race there."
Following Friday's big performance, Bradley was met with positive comments from some of his competition.
"What made me feel good was after the race, Corey Lanerie (the jockey on runner-up Unbridled Outlaw) came up to me before The Player even walked in the winner's circle and said, 'Buff I ran right up to him and your horse just hit the next gear. I thought I was going to go by him and your horse went on.' So he's a very nice horse and I've got other jockeys complimenting me before I even got to the winner's circle which was good.
"It makes you feel good to know that they're watching and they know I've got another good horse. I was getting texts after the race and people were saying, 'Oh wow, another good horse off the Bradley farm,' and that makes you feel good with one that you raised. I love winning with the other horses but it's nice that you have those kind that you know have potential from Day One."
The Player was nicknamed "Angus" as a foal, a name given to him by Haygard Equine Medical Institute's Dr. Nathan Slovis after the rock band AC/DC's lead guitarist Angus Young.
"We always give our horses a barn name at the farm," Bradley said. "He was over at the clinic after he was born for something – it was nothing serious but enough that he needed to go over there – but Dr. Slovis said, 'Man he's a rock star,' so my wife Kim just started calling him Angus."
Having been around The Player since he was born, Bradley had quite a few interesting stories to tell about the horse.
"He's quite a character," Bradley said. "When he was a yearling, I remember one morning I was mowing the field with the bush hog and his two buddies were standing over in the corner away from me and he's chasing me. I'm having to call Kim and Kelly, my wife and a person who works on the farm, and I said, 'You got to get me out of this paddock. He's going to try and climb up into this tractor with me.' He was just always a really cool horse. He's not just a race horse, he's a barn favorite too.
"My kids would be with him in the stall. He wasn't two weeks old yet and my kids would just be sitting on him while he's lying down and he just didn't care. He was just really cool. He wasn't here at the barn for two weeks and my son Drew came and said, 'I want to walk him,' and he had been really good, but the horse knows my son real well since Drew grew up with him. He would always lead him out to the paddock, and Angus would always try to play with Drew when he was feeding him. When Drew was walking him the horse tried to climb on top of him and play with him right here in the shed row and Drew was right underneath him and the horse didn't even move. He was just playing around, he's not a mean horse. I could tell you a hundred stories about him."
The Player made Bradley proud with his win on Friday and will have a chance to make his trainer even more proud when he steps up against tougher company next time out in the $500,000 Indiana Derby (GII) at Indiana Grand Race Course on July 16.
"I said that if this horse can win this race then we'll go to the Indiana Derby," Bradley said. "I felt like he's that type of horse. He's a nice, big, good looking horse and he's got the right demeanor. He knows how to relax and he knows how to take everything in. He's had personality from Day One."
CHURCHILL DOWNS REMEMBERS ALI – At 12:15 p.m. prior to Saturday's first race, Churchill Downs remembered Louisville-born icon Muhammed Ali, who passed away late Friday at age 74. Here is a transcript of the copy read by track announcer Travis Stone:
"Our Churchill Downs family joins our community, the nation and the world in mourning the passing of Muhammad Ali. The Louisville-born, three-time heavyweight boxing champion, American legend and humanitarian was no stranger to Churchill Downs. Early in his career, he jogged over our one-mile dirt track to build fitness, and he later visited our track to attend the Kentucky Derby. Our Churchill Downs family sends thoughts and prayers to the champion's family and friends here in Louisville and around the world. In his honor, please observe a moment of silence for our hometown icon – the Greatest of All Time, Muhammad Ali."
STEPHEN FOSTER HANDICAP LURES 24 NOMINATIONS – The Grade I, $500,000 Stephen Foster Handicap on Saturday, June 18 lured 24 nominations led by $2,682,950-earner Effinex, the four-time graded stakes winner from the Jimmy Jerkens barn who won last fall's Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Health (GI) after finishing second to Horse of the Year and Triple Crown-winner American Pharoah in the Breeders' Cup Classic (GI).
The Foster nominees (with trainer): Anchor Down (Todd Pletcher), Are You Kidding Me (Roger Attfield), Behesht (FR) (Rusty Arnold), Blofeld (Pletcher), Bradester (Eddie Kenneally), Comfort (Pletcher), Donworth (Doug O'Neill), Eagle (Neil Howard), Effinex (Jimmy Jerkens), El Kabeir (John Terranova), Frosted (Kiaran McLaughlin), Hawaakom (Wes Hawley), Hesinfront (Dale Romans), Imperative (Richard Baltas), International Star (Mike Maker), Majestic Harbor (Paul McGee), Melatonin (David Hofmans), Mobile Bay (Victor Arceneaux), Natchez (D. Wayne Lukas), Noble Bird (Mark Casse), Red Rifle (Pletcher), S'maverlous (Maker), Stanford (Pletcher) and Upstart (Rick Violette Jr.).
Effinex will attempt to join No Marker (1989-90), Saint Liam (2004-05) and Blame (2009-10) as horses who won the Clark in the fall and returned to Churchill Downs to win next spring's Stephen Foster.
In addition to Effinex, the Foster is expected to attract the top two finishers from the Alysheba (GII) on Kentucky Oaks Day: four-time graded stakes winner Majestic Harbor and Grade III winner Eagle.
Anchor Down, Blofeld, Frosted, defending Stephen Foster champ Noble Bird and Upstart appear to be headed to next Saturday's $1.25 million Metropolitan Handicap (GI) on the Belmont Stakes undercard.
The 1 1/8 mile Foster for 3-year-olds and up – part of the Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In Classic Division" in which the winner will earn a guaranteed spot in the starting gate for the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic (GI) at Santa Anita on Nov. 5 – is one of five stakes races on June 18, which is a "Downs After Dark" night racing event that starts at 6 p.m. The others are the $200,000 Fleur de Lis Handicap (GII) for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles; the $200,000 Wise Dan (GII) – formerly the Firecracker – for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/16 miles on turf; the $100,000 Matt Winn (GIII) for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles; and the $100,000 Regret (GIII) for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on turf.
A complete list of Stephen Foster Handicap Night stakes nominations can be found online at https://www.churchilldowns.com/horsemen/stakes/nominations/.
STEWART-TRAINED PAIR CONFIRMED FOR BELMONT; FOREVER UNBRIDLED BREEZES FOR PHIPPS – Trainer Dallas Stewart confirmed that his pair of recent maiden winners, Seeking the Soul and Forever d'Oro, are set to compete in the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes (Grade I) on June 11 following their maiden victories on May 29.
Both owned by Charles Fipke, Seeking the Soul will be ridden by jockey Florent Geroux and will ship to the New York oval on Tuesday morning. Forever d'Oro, who is already stabled at Belmont Park, will be piloted by Jose Ortiz.
"They're both real nice horses," Stewart said. "They're bred for the distance so they've got the breeding that will take them both a mile-and-a-half. It will be a tough race, though."
On the Belmont Stakes undercard, Stewart will saddle Forever Unbridled in the $1.25 million Ogden Phipps (GI), who put in her final breeze for the race over the Churchill Downs main track Saturday morning. She went five furlongs in :59, recording fractions of :12.40, :35.60 and :47.40 before galloping out six furlongs in 1:13.20 under exercise rider Emerson Chavez.
She breezed great," Stewart said. "She looked good, came back good and healthy so she's all set and ready to go."
Also on the Belmont undercard for Stewart is Tom's Ready, who was 12th in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI) last time out. He goes in the $500,000 Woody Stephens (GII).
LEPAROUX LOOKING FORWARD TO ROYAL ASCOT OPPORTUNITY – A leading rider in North America for the past decade, jockey Julien Leparoux will be given the chance of a lifetime to achieve major success overseas when he rides Champion Turf Female Tepin in the Queen Anne (Group I) at England's Royal Ascot.
"It's always been a dream, watching the races there to even go there," Leparoux said. "It's fun just to have the opportunity to ride in a race there, but I think I have a good chance going there with a good horse. The filly is doing well and we'll see what happens. It's very exciting. She still has to prove herself, so we're going to go there and have some brand new thing to go over the straightaway going a mile uphill at the end. It's something that I don't think will be a problem, but it's still an obstacle that we'll have to go through."
Highlighted by a triumph over the boys in the Breeders' Cup Mile (GI) at Keeneland, Leparoux has been aboard the daughter of Bernstein for her last 11 outings, nine of which resulted in trips to the winner's circle.
"She relaxes a lot more than she used to," Leparoux said "I believe that since she goes out an wins so easily every time our confidence level is that much higher. I think she has a lot more confidence. Winning over there would mean a lot, it would be a dream come true and especially since we're presenting American racing over there. Wesley Ward showed all Americans that we can go over there and compete so it would be nice to go there and win that big race."
Leparoux will arrive in London on Sunday afternoon
"I've never been to London so I'll probably go downtown and check everything out," Leparoux said "We come back here early Wednesday morning so I probably won't get to do much sightseeing but I'm definitely going to make the most of it."
GO MAGGIE GO BREEZES FOR BELMONT'S ACORN – Mike Tarp's Go Maggie Go breezed five furlongs in 1:00.40 over the Churchill Downs main track Saturday morning for her next start in the $750,000 Acorn (GI) on the June 11 Belmont Stakes undercard.
Churchill Downs clockers caught the daughter of Ghostzapper in fractions of :11.80, :23.60 and :47.60, and she galloped out six furlongs in 1:14.40 with regular exercise rider Tammy Fox up.
"She breezed terrific," Fox said. "Everything went really well. She did it nice and easy, she's very calm."
DOWN THE STRETCH – Known probable starters for the $100,000 Old Forester Mint Julep Handicap (GIII), a 1 1/16-mile grass event for fillies and mares on Saturday, June 11, according to Churchill Downs stakes coordinator Dan Bork: Cash Control, Flying Tipat, Josdesanimaux, Kiss Moon, Lady Fog Horn, Personal Diary, Sweet Acclaim and Zipessa. … The "Who's the Champ? Handicapping Contest" returns Sunday. Interested participants can enter for $35 ($30 for TSC Elite members) for a chance to win the $1,000 cash voucher first prize by placing mythical $2 win and place bets on Races 3-8. Second place receives a $500 voucher and third place is worth a $200 voucher. Registration takes place between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on the Clubhouse second floor at the top of the Gate 17 escalators.


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F'D Companies
Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts
Philip J. Kaplan
Not long ago, the world was awash with venture capital in search of the next Yahoo! or Amazon.com. No product, no experience, no technology, no business plan -- no problem. You could still get $40 million from investors to start up your dot-com. And you could get people to work around the clock for stock options and the promise of millions. Then, around April 2000, it all came crashing down.
Smart investors, esteemed analysts, and the business press found themselves asking:
• Who knew people wouldn't rush out to trade in their U.S. dollars for a virtual currency called Flooz?
• Who knew people wouldn't blow all their Flooz on a used car from the guys at iMotors.com?
• And who needed a used car from iMotors.com when they could just sit at home and have 40-lb. bags of dog food delivered to them by a sock puppet?
F'd Companies captures the waste, greed, and human stupidity of more than 100 dot-com companies. Written in Philip J. Kaplan's popular, cynical style, these profiles are filled with colorful anecdotes, factoids, and information unavailable anywhere else. Together they form a gleeful encyclopedia of how not to run a business. They also capture a truly remarkable period of history.
F'd Companies is required reading for everyone involved in the "new economy" -- assuming your severance check can cover the cost.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY MAR 18, 2002
"I'm a computer programmer," Kaplan writes. "I'm that dude at your office in the dark cubicle who nobody listens or pays attention to (especially the hotties in marketing)." Kaplan's claim to fame is FuckedCompany.com, a Web site he built over Memorial Day weekend in 2000 to serve as a forum for bad news about Internet companies. His timing a few months after the Internet bubble began to deflate was perfect, and FuckedCompany became an immediate hit. Thousands of fired or about-to-be-fired dot-commers were more than willing to share their horror stories about the collapse of one Internet company after another. He has translated the material posted on the site into a book, offering brief vignettes of the demise of more than 150 Internet ventures. His basic formula includes a description of what the company purported to do (Mercata.com "customers would use the site to band together and purchase merchandise at wholesale prices"), how much money it blew through before going bankrupt and how many people were fired ("$89 million and 100 employees were burned"). Kaplan, 25, attempts to enliven each story with humor, which is often more crude than clever. That many of the stories sound the same is not Kaplan's fault, as most really are: someone comes up with an idea, finds a venture capitalist willing to pour funding into the company despite the flimsiest of business plans, and then goes broke when the money dries up. Although he tries, Kaplan delivers little more than an elegy for the Industry Standard, Pets.com, Contentville.com, Flooz.com, Bid.com and Kozmo.com, not to mention Zing.com, ProcessTree.com and MetalSpectrum.com.
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Most married and engaged couples have touching stories about the proposal – at the restaurant where the couple first met, at a baseball game projected onto a Jumbotron, or maybe on a sun-kissed beach during an all-inclusive vacation.
Sam Hermack, 22, figured she would pop the question to her girlfriend, Michelle Skolly, 34, through their favourite shared pastime – video games.
Skolly, who runs skolly.net, a blog about programming and computer hardware, met Hermack when she was living with her best friend.
On Feb. 28 the couple's second anniversary, Hermack presented Skolly with a gift in the form of a mod, or modification, she had built within the PC role-playing game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
In the video game world, mods are altered program codes that allow users to create their own characters, environments, weapons, quests as well as several other items and concepts.
Hermack's mod was a quest specifically made for Skolly that began with a non-playable character (or NPC) imploring Skolly's character to kill a bunch of monsters in a cave with her reward being the chest contained within.
What Skolly did not know, is the prize contained in the chest was a ring named "Engagement Ring" and her girlfriend would be proposing to her as she opened the chest.
Hermack, who sat and watched as her fiancée-to-be played the quest, said she was not scared about popping the question as much as she was nervous of the process.
Hermack, who moved from New Brunswick to Ontario at 18, said the couple's personalities and interests operate nearly in tandem.
Hermack said her passion for video games, science fiction and fantasy all started when she first read the Lord of the Rings trilogy at the age of 9.
Her interests have branched out into making costumes for the different comic conventions the couple began attending a few years ago.
Although the date of the wedding is not set, Hermack and Skolly's affinity for all things science fiction and fantasy will definitely play at least a minor role in the ceremony.
Added by Marko on September 9, 2014.


This week our food storage focus is cocoa drink mix.
Recipes: see a homemade version here.
Why?: Useful during cold weather and emergencies to warm someone's tummy.
Tip: You can make a homemade version using non-fat dry milk out of your food storage. However having a prepared supply is easy to grab for emergency use. If finances are tight, prepare your own.
Tip: Stock up this month! It's everywhere today, but it may not be tomorrow. Buy more to replenish what you use. Skip this if you've already got it.
STEP 4: Longer-Term Supply (per adult) - None this week.
Tip: Use your best judgment to figure out how much to stock. It's cheaper to buy in bulk. Sam's Club has 16/4oz bars of Lever2000 for $7.70 or .48 cents each.
Preparedness Goal - Learn how to purify water.
How: This FEMA handout has the instructions. Print it and keep in your emergency binder. Boiling is the safest method.
Emergency water sources: Melted ice cubes, undamaged water heater, liquid from canned foods, drained pipes. Do not drink from pools/spas, toilet bowls, water beds, hot water boilers.
Tip: Check at camping or emergency supply stores. If you decide to store water in your own containers, choose those that are food grade safe. Glass is not recommended because of danger of breakage. Remember the container will be heavy after you fill it, so choose the size carefully. If you are using commercially bottled water, you can skip this goal.
Tip: Check your beverages for breakage, spillage and replenish if needed. Items such as shelf stable juice, soda, sports drinks, powdered drink mixes, lunch box drinks, or other canned beverages can be considered food storge.
Good luck on your weekly goals. You CAN do it! Go here to see a printout of the January 2013 Food Storage list.
I have found that in an emergency situation like our power going out that nice things like hot chocolate make the situation actually enjoyable. It's like fun time like being snowed in and you are forced to go have fun with your family in the snow. Cocoa mix in #10 cans is really a great deal and shelf stable in a sealed can.
I agree. In our 72 hour kits, I made sure we have coffee, soup, and hot cocoa as morale boosters - we've seen first hand how a warm beverage can lift your spirits and make an otherwise 'disastrous' situation feel less of a burden. In our hurricane supplies, we stock all of the same, but in larger quantities, for the same reason.


Where Can I Get a Well-Written Chemistry Research Paper Example?
If you are looking for a chemistry research paper example then you have come to the right place. Here you will learn some of the best places to find example papers that you can use to help you understand how to write this kind of paper. And when you look use examples on the subjects that you are covering, you will be able to see how someone else wrote about the subject and then you can do something similar or something totally different, it is all up to you. This list will tell you where you can find the best well-written examples of papers.
It can be hard to go through all of the search results when you are looking for a well-written example but there are some tricks you can use to find the best ones. Like looking for college and school websites first. These kinds of the website will have great examples that you can look at and they are updated often so you have to most accurate information on how to write that kind of paper.
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//
//  XYStore.h
//  Pods
//
//  Created by qichao.ma on 2018/4/19.
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <StoreKit/StoreKit.h>
#import "XYStoreProtocol.h"
#import "NSNotification+XYStore.h"

extern NSString *const XYStoreErrorDomain;
extern NSInteger const XYStoreErrorCodeDownloadCanceled;
extern NSInteger const XYStoreErrorCodeUnknownProductIdentifier;
extern NSInteger const XYStoreErrorCodeUnableToCompleteVerification;

@interface XYStore : NSObject<SKPaymentTransactionObserver>

+ (XYStore *)defaultStore;

/**
 外部内容下载
 注:单利内部为weak持有,建议注册一个单利的contentDownloader
 @discussion Hosted content from Apple's server (SKDownload) 自动下载,无需设置contentDownloader。
 */

- (void)registerContentDownloader:(id<XYStoreContentDownloader>)contentDownloader;

/**
 票据校验
 注:内部为weak持有,建议注册一个单利的receiptVerifier
 */
- (void)registerReceiptVerifier:(id<XYStoreReceiptVerifier>)receiptVerifier;

/**
 缓存订单
 注:内部为weak持有,建议注册一个单利的transactionPersistor
 The transaction persistor. It is recommended to provide your own obfuscator if piracy is a concern. The store will use weak obfuscation via `NSKeyedArchiver` by default.
 @see XYStoreKeychainPersistence
 @see XYStoreUserDefaultsPersistence
 */
- (void)registerTransactionPersistor:(id<XYStoreTransactionPersistor>)transactionPersistor;

+ (BOOL)canMakePayments;

- (void)addPayment:(NSString*)productIdentifier;

- (void)addPayment:(NSString*)productIdentifier
           success:(void (^)(SKPaymentTransaction *transaction))successBlock
           failure:(void (^)(SKPaymentTransaction *transaction, NSError *error))failureBlock;

/**
 @param userIdentifier

 An opaque identifier for the user's account on your system.
 Use this property to help the store detect irregular activity. For example, in a game, it would be unusual for dozens of different iTunes Store accounts to make purchases on behalf of the same in-game character.
 The recommended implementation is to use a one-way hash of the user's account name to calculate the value for this property.
 */
- (void)addPayment:(NSString*)productIdentifier
              user:(NSString*)userIdentifier
           success:(void (^)(SKPaymentTransaction *transaction))successBlock
           failure:(void (^)(SKPaymentTransaction *transaction, NSError *error))failureBlock;

/**
 请求在线商品,并存储于内存中

 @param identifiers 产品id
 */
- (void)requestProducts:(NSSet*)identifiers;

/**
 请求在线商品,并存储于内存中

 @param identifiers 产品id
 */
- (void)requestProducts:(NSSet*)identifiers
                success:(void (^)(NSArray *products, NSArray *invalidProductIdentifiers))successBlock
                failure:(void (^)(NSError *error))failureBlock;

/**
 获取单个产品,若内存中已存在,直接返回;若没有则网络获取

 @param identifier 产品id
 */
- (void)fetchProduct:(NSString *)identifier
             success:(void (^)(SKProduct *product))success
             failure:(void (^)(NSError *error))failure;

/**
 恢复购买
 */
- (void)restoreTransactions;

- (void)restoreTransactionsOnSuccess:(void (^)(NSArray *transactions))successBlock
                             failure:(void (^)(NSError *error))failureBlock;

- (void)restoreTransactionsOfUser:(NSString*)userIdentifier
                        onSuccess:(void (^)(NSArray *transactions))successBlock
                          failure:(void (^)(NSError *error))failureBlock;

#pragma mark Receipt

+ (NSURL*)receiptURL;

- (void)refreshReceipt;

- (void)refreshReceiptOnSuccess:(void (^)(void))successBlock
                        failure:(void (^)(NSError *error))failureBlock;

/**
 获取base64的票据,主要用于服务器的票据校验
 */
- (void)base64Receipt:(void(^)(NSString *base64Data))success
              failure:(void(^)(NSError *error))failure;

#pragma mark Product management

- (SKProduct*)productForIdentifier:(NSString*)productIdentifier;

+ (NSString*)localizedPriceOfProduct:(SKProduct*)product;

#pragma mark Notifications

/** Adds an observer to the store.
 Unlike `SKPaymentQueue`, it is not necessary to set an observer.
 @param observer The observer to add.
 */
- (void)addStoreObserver:(id<XYStoreObserver>)observer;

/** Removes an observer from the store.
 @param observer The observer to remove.
 */
- (void)removeStoreObserver:(id<XYStoreObserver>)observer;

@end


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Curving Iron 333 Ten Mile Canyon, Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections Stanford Libraries
A World Transformed: the Transcontinental Railroad and Utah
May 10, 2019 marked the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah. Utah State University Libraries and the Utah State Division of History have partnered to create an exhibition series entitled, A World Transformed: the Transcontinental Railroad and Utah. This series serves as a broad overview of the creation, completion and aftermath of the rail. Making clear the Utahan contributions of investment, surveying, and labor. The railroad brought significant cultural, economic, and environmental changes. Utah became more connected both economically and culturally with the rest of the nation. In the large version of the exhibit personal stories of Irish and Chinese laborers will be highlighted by artifacts from the USU Museum of Anthropology and Golden Spike National Historic Park. All exhibit formats draw upon the many rich historical resources held by different institutions across not only Utah but the entire United States including photographs, maps, art, and lithographs.
Large Exhibit Locations: https://spike150.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TCRR-Flyer_3.pdf
Digital Exhibit (with lesson plans) available at exhibits.usu.edu
Downloadable Press Release
Press: https://www.usu.edu/today/index.cfm?id=57884
"Why Teach Art?"
"Looking at Art"
2022-2023 Traveling schedule
Hub City Gallery, Mount Pleasant, Jun 30 - Aug 16, 2022
Echo Historic Church Museum, Echo, May 30 - Sep 5, 2023
Museum of Moab, May 24 - Aug 16
Davis County Convention Center, Layton, Sep 9 - Oct 22
Hub City Gallery, Mount Pleasant, June 30 - July 30
St George Art Museum, St George, July 27 - Oct 19
Grantsville Junior High, Grantsville, Oct 22 - Nov 19
Uintah County Heritage Museum, Vernal, Feb 2 - Mar 2, 2021
Canyon Community Center, Springdale, Sep 3 – Oct 7, 2019
Sterling Elementary, Tooele, Oct 10 – Nov 7, 2019
Gerald R Sherratt Library, SUU, Cedar City, Jan 7 - Mar 3, 2020
Trailside Elementary, Park City, May 1 - 29, 2020


The Microscopy Tutorial covers the basic principles of microscopy and explanations of the different types of microscopy. Also included is information on imaging. The tutorial was compiled and written by Julio Vazquz, manager of the Cellular Imaging core facility.


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In Our Son's Name
South Carolina ETV premiering environmental conservation film 'Cultivating the Wild' Thursday, Nov. 12
Cultivating the Wild
Reel South | Reel Digital 2020
Phyllis and Orlando Rodríguez's lives shatter with the death of their son, Greg, who dies with thousands of others at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Instead of seeking revenge, the grieving couple begin a journey of reconciliation that transforms their lives. Their odyssey thrusts them reluctantly into the public eye as they speak out against war in Iraq and Afghanistan, oppose the death penalty for 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, and befriend his mother. Seeking to understand the nature of violence, Phyllis and Orlando engage in an emotional dialog with men incarcerated at Sing Sing prison for violent crimes, who themselves seek reconciliation. Over time they reach a new understanding of their rebellious son. Interviews, verité footage, and striking archival images create a a subtle, profound story told with disarming candor -- a response to violence that challenges conventional concepts of justice and healing.
Shadd Maruna, Dean of the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice said about the film: "I watched this powerful and healing documentary in a lecture theater filled with utterly transfixed undergraduates – literally the 9/11 generation – and you could have heard a pin drop in the room. None of us could help but be moved, even transformed, by Phyllis and Orlando's remarkable courage and dignity."
In Our Son's Name was produced by Gayla Jamison. The program is presented nationally by South Carolina ETV and distrbuted by NETA.


The term IT is the abbreviation of the word Information Technology. Information technology is the use of computers and computer systems in storing, retrieving, transmitting, and manipulating information and data. Of late, IT is very important to businesses. In business activities, information technology has simplified communication, decision making, data security, customer support, business growth and record keeping among others. A business may choose to employ some IT officers or outsource IT services. It is better to outsource IT services rather than employ IT officers permanently. If a business entity requires improved IT services, minimize salaries and concentrate on other areas of business, a business should consider outsourcing IT services. The number of IT companies is high hence a business should take good care when looking for one. A business should consider the following when searching for the best IT services.
The best IT companies have authorization. According to the law, an entity should have a license in order to offer goods and services. The license is provided by the authoritative bodies after the IT company has attained the minimum set requirements and has been registered. Since the license has an expiry date, it should be renewed from time to time. The best examples of authorized IT companies are IT Authorities.
Before you hire an IT company, you need to consider the pricing. The managed IT services are important to a business but they are not supposed to have hiked prices. It is good to carry out research on the pricing of various IT companies before picking one. It is also good to have a budget on the IT services in order to avoid overspending.
Before you hire an IT company, you are supposed to consider the qualifications of the IT technicians in the company. Every IT technician working for the company is required to have at least an undergraduate degree in IT, Computer Science or any related course. The IT technicians are also supposed to have gone for internships immediately after graduating in order to receive more skills. The best companies which offer IT services do not hire technicians who are not qualified.
Before you outsource IT services, you need to ensure that the company has a good reputation. The highly esteemed and honored companies which offer IT services are associated with quality services.
Improved customer service is another feature of a good IT company. A competent IT company is the one which will always be there when you need support. The best companies which offer IT services have always working telephone lines, email addresses, and customer care departments.
Lastly, a competent IT company needs to have a site online. The website will enable clients to learn more about the IT company and even book managed IT services. In order to attract more viewers who later become clients, the website of the IT company is supposed to be eye-catching.


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Dan Amos
Born: Aug 13, 1951
Birthplace: Pensacola
Profession: Businessperson
Date of Birth : Aug 13, 1951
Birth Place : Pensacola
Daniel Paul "Dan" Amos is the chairman and chief executive officer of Aflac and Aflac Incorporated. He is son of Aflac co-founder Paul Amos, and he joined the company in 1973, working in sales for ten years, during which time, he was the Company's top sales person. He was named president of Aflac in 1983, chief operating officer in 1987, chief executive officer of Aflac Incorporated in 1990, and chairman in 2001. Aflac, a Fortune 500 company, insures more than 50 million people worldwide. It is the leading provider of individual insurance policies offered at the worksite in the United States and is the largest life insurer in Japan in terms of individual policies in force. During Mr. Amos's tenure as CEO, revenues at Aflac have grown from $2.7 billion in 1990 to $23.9 billion as of December 31, 2013. The Company has appeared on Fortune's Most Admired Companies list every year since 2001. Aflac has also appeared on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list for 16 consecutive years. Aflac is the only insurance company to be listed as an Ethisphere Magazine World's Most Ethical Company eight times, or every year since the inception of the award in 2007. Amos received the Dr.
Businessperson
Daniel P. Amos
Daniel P Amos
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text:
import threading

from pressenter2exit import PressEnter2Exit

from balsa import get_logger

from propmtime import __application_name__

g_exit_control_cli = None
g_exit_control_event = None  # can be used for GUI

log = get_logger(__application_name__)

def init_exit_control_cli():
    global g_exit_control_cli
    # ensure nothing has already been initialized
    assert(g_exit_control_event is None)
    assert(g_exit_control_cli is None)
    g_exit_control_cli = PressEnter2Exit(post_message='enter pressed - will now exit',
                                         pre_message='press enter to interrupt propmtime')

def is_exit_requested():
    # propmtime needs a single test for exit requested (i.e. that spans CLI and GUI)
    if g_exit_control_cli is not None:
        return not g_exit_control_cli.is_alive()
    if g_exit_control_event is not None:
        return g_exit_control_event.is_set()
    return False

def request_exit_via_event():
    # CLI doesn't need an exit request (pressenter2exit doesn't have or need an 'exit request' - this is taken care
    # of by the user pressing Enter).
    global g_exit_control_event
    g_exit_control_event.set()

def init_exit_control_event():
    global g_exit_control_event
    g_exit_control_event = threading.Event()


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First we had the opportunity to visit the palace of Westminster to make a series of declarations declaring God's blessing and favour on our nation. We prayed that that God's message of Hope and Good News would be proclaimed across our nation and that revival would come. It was such an honour to be at the houses of parliament again (our second visit with operation London). It was great to make the return visit to Westminster Hall and the central lobby including saying prayers at the main entrance door to Westminster hall.
We then made our way to the South Bank via Westminster bridge were we stopped to blow bubbles to represent God's presence going out over the City. We then walked to Lambeth Palace the London home of Justin Welby the Archbishop of Canterbury. At the palace we were warmly greeted by Amy Wilson the Palace's events and tours manager. Following a short film about the life and work of the Archbishop and his staff we made our way to the oldest part of the Palace – the crypt chapel said to be one of the best preserved medieval vaults in London. This is where the Archbishop and his team meet 3 times a day for prayers. Here we prayed for Archbishop Welby and then asked God for messages. We then wrote or drew them on Operation London Cards. We then asked God on what seats to leave their messages and placed them for the Archbishop and his team to find when next in the crypt, – what a unique opportunity! After this we had a tour of the palace garden, one of the largest private gardens in London. When we arrived at the pond we made some declarations over the Church in the UK. We Thanked God the Church of England and the fact it has stood for the Christian faith over the centuries and we prayed for revival to come to the church in our nation. We then blew more bubbles! On our way out we were shown a gate that connects the palace garden to St Thomas' Hospital (another operation London destination). This gate was used to access the garden by Florence Nightingale when she worked at the hospital.


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Avoid 'new conflagration' urges UN chief, in wake of military escalation in Golan
Golan (HRNW): According to media reports, the Israeli military attacked Iranian military installations in neighbouring Syria in retaliation for an Iranian-instigated rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the Golan. UN Secretary-General António Guterres "followed, with utmost concern, reports overnight of missile launches from Syria targeting Israeli positions and retaliatory strikes by the Israel Defense Forces," said his Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, in a statement issued on Thursday. Mr. Guterres "notes, with relief, today's partial normalization of the situation," and "urges for an immediate halt to all hostile acts and any provocative actions to avoid a new conflagration in the region already embroiled in terrible conflicts with immense suffering of civilians," added the statement.
The Golan was captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, and in 1974, a UN observer force was set up to monitor the ceasefire reached that year by Israel and Syria. Mr. Dujarric noted that the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) has maintained contact with forces of both sides during the latest hostilities and urged them to exercise "maximum restraint" and abide by their obligations under the 1974 agreement.
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package com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.transport;

import java.io.IOException;

import com.alibaba.dubbo.common.Constants;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.common.extension.ExtensionLoader;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.common.logger.Logger;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.common.logger.LoggerFactory;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.common.serialize.Serialization;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.Channel;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.Codec;

/**
 * AbstractCodec
 *
 * @author william.liangf
 */
public abstract class AbstractCodec implements Codec {

	private final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());

    protected Serialization getSerialization(Channel channel) {
        Serialization serialization = ExtensionLoader.getExtensionLoader(Serialization.class).getExtension(channel.getUrl().getParameter(Constants.SERIALIZATION_KEY, Constants.DEFAULT_REMOTING_SERIALIZATION));
        return serialization;
    }

    protected void checkPayload(Channel channel, long size) throws IOException {
        int payload = Constants.DEFAULT_PAYLOAD;
        if (channel != null && channel.getUrl() != null) {
            payload = channel.getUrl().getPositiveParameter(Constants.PAYLOAD_KEY, Constants.DEFAULT_PAYLOAD);
        }
        if (size > payload) {
        	IOException e = new IOException("Data length too large: " + size + ", max payload: " + payload + ", channel: " + channel);
        	logger.error(e);
            throw e;
        }
    }
}


The head can be boiled, picking out the meat after. Used in soups or stews. Brawn is the pig's head set in its own jelly. The meat from the head, surprisingly tastier than loin, makes lovely patés, burgers or terrines.


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Mise en Snap Visual Splendor
Mise en Snap: The Virgin Suicides
Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides is a gorgeously dark movie that I just had to feature and study. As you can see from the screens, and might expect from a Sofia Coppola movie, it's very lonely and feminine. The main characters are gorgeous girls who are isolated both because of their beauty and because of the recent suicide of their youngest sister. The film follows their lives as learned from boys in their class by reading Cecelia's, the youngest sister's, diary.
Aren't the mise-en-scenes dreamy?
Mise en Snap: I Love You Alice B. Toklas!
It's about time I did another mise-en-snap!
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas is a deliciously tacky film from 1968 that parodies the 1960s counterculture. I watched it once and didn't really pay attention.. the next time I saw everything and couldn't stop laughing. (I always get a little mesmerized by 60s decor, trying to find ways to incorporate the hippie's lounge pad into a family home.) The film is directed by Hy Averback and stars Peter Sellers and Leigh Taylor-Young (in her film debut). It features music by Harpers Bizarre, including the theme song that I still cannot stop singing — haha!
The title is a reference to writer Alice B. Toklas, who wrote a recipe for making cannabis Brownies released in 1954. I had the pleasure of learning about Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein during a college Hemmingway class and trip to Paris — they were both pretty cool cats.
Mise en Snap: A Woman is a Woman
A Woman is a Woman (Une Femme est une Femme') is a 1961 French new wave film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It's colorful, quirky and adorable in it's imagery and story. I found the interior shots to be clean, bright and simple, yet quaint and kitshy-cool. Reminds me of the delicious interior eye-candy to be gorged on in each of the Jeu de Paumes books.
The film centers around the relationship of an adorable exotic dancer Angéla (Anna Karina) and her live-in boyfriend, Émile (Jean-Claude Brialy). This films requires little-to-no serious thought, all of the discussions are completely trivialized and cute to watch. For instance they use book titles to argue and debate issues, pointing to titles that communicate the response that they would like to give.
Angéla wants to have a child while Émile does not, all the while Émile's best friend Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo), constantly insists that he is in love with Angéla. It must be that every woman's biological urge to have (bear, adopt, get a cat or chihuahua instead of) children kicks in at some point in their lives (even if just by passing thought!) no matter how much fun they may be having. *wink*
Have a taste!
Mise en Snap: Tales from the Crypt
I recently had the fun of re-watching the 1973 movie edition of Tales from the Crypt. An absolute design gem in my opinion, you can find lovely mise-en-scenes in most old films (especially in Hitchock's). Try watching some of your favorite old films for inspiration when designing anything. You'll find as many tacky, funny goodies as you will absolutely sensational ones. Mind not the knives, terror-stricken faces and gore — as my grandmother LaVera once said, murder is necessary to tell a story.
All horror films should contain tea parties nestled within their gore!
Many Miseducated ladies are known to have fright fests
so why not get a little tea party motivation simultaneously?
I'm really digging the modular stereo with rainbow tuning.


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FROM debian:jessie
MAINTAINER Joao Paulo Dubas "joao.dubas@gmail.com"

# install system deps
RUN apt-get -y -qq --force-yes update \
    && apt-get -y -qq --force-yes install \
        curl \
        git \
        zsh

# install zsh
ENV HOME /root
RUN curl -L http://install.ohmyz.sh | bash

# cleanup
RUN apt-get -y -qq --force-yes purge \
        curl \
    && apt-get -y -qq --force-yes autoremove \
    && apt-get -y -qq --force-yes clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*

CMD ["/bin/zsh"]