Planning and optimizing a field service schedule in real time is too complex a task for the human mind. It is best ot leave this to AI.
The future of artificial intelligence holds a lot of promise for enterprise systems, and we are already beginning to see its significant impact in automation. In three areas of field service, there are already commercially available, practical AI solutions delivering real business value: enhancing customer interactions, enabling management by exception and quickly masterminding complex scheduling.
First impressions matter, but the initial interaction a customer has with a service organization often involves several missteps — chief among these are long on-hold wait times. Customers are also reaching out through multiple channels including email, chat and social media, and when these data streams go into disconnected siloes, the result is disjointed communication.
Today, AI solutions can solve both these problems, but it requires more than "just" chatbots. Commercially available AI software which ties into chatbots is capable of learning which answers are appropriate for each question and automating a significant majority of chat interactions. A chatbot can be taught to answer commonly-encountered questions, such as inquiries about when a technician is scheduled to arrive. This enables customers to have a digital, convenient experience in their own time, while also providing call center efficiencies and the ability to use your agents to deliver a personalized service.
AI alone can handle, typically, between 50 and 60 percent of requests, but at some point an AI chatbot may get stuck and this is when personalized service is required, with a human agent taking over the discussion thread without missing a beat. This should be seamless not only to the customer, but for the internal customer service, ticketing and support systems. AI-based chatbots can enable a good agent to handle up to five or more chats at a time. It can consolidate Facebook messages, emails, telephone and tweets and direct them to an agent or to AI for intervention.
The beauty of this AI functionality is that it learns from answers provided by human agents and gets better at answering questions. Integration between an AI chatbot, email, voice, social and enterprise applications is important for another reason. It enables one version of the customer record. Lacking this, a customer can send an email and get no response. They send a direct message through Twitter. Then call and sit on hold. Then initiate a chat. All these interactions may not appear in a central customer record, but there have been three attempts to contact the company.
In the case of AI applications for the service organization, a primary ROI driver is that it enables humans to manage by exception. A high volume of activity can be automated, with human intervention limited to when a situation falls outside business rules or logic built into service management software. AI doesn't eliminate the need for human interaction, it makes the human interaction more focused on what humans do best — handle escalations and complex decision making for unique cases.
At one IFS customer, an AI chatbot handles about 50 percent of interactions—primarily those reaching out to cancel their service after a free three-month trial period, but if a longer-standing customer is cancelling their service the interaction gets routed to an agent dedicated to saving the account.
Human agents can excel in serving customers directly, but in the case of scheduling technicians in the field, humans are sometimes just not able to manage the constant numerical challenge of optimally adjusting a schedule.
Manual or traditional software-based scheduling may be a workable solution for service organizations with a very small number of technicians engaged in a small number of jobs. But it does not take many technicians or jobs for the number of possible solutions to outstrip human computation capabilities either individually or as a group.
A dynamic scheduling engine (DSE) driven by AI algorithms is designed to solve complex scheduling problems in real time—problems much too complex for any human dispatcher or customer service agent to handle. Even at the low end of the spectrum, a human dispatcher cannot quickly identify all the possible solutions and pick the best one. Two technicians, and five service calls yields 720 possible solutions. Four technicians and 10 service calls present a dispatcher with 1,037,836,800 possible solutions. By the time you get to five technicians that must complete six calls each—a total of 30 calls, you have infinite solutions.
Finding the optimal solution becomes even more complex as rapidly-changing factors are added into the mix — including emergency jobs, SLAs and other contractual requirements, technician skill sets, or tools and materials currently in stock on each service vehicle. An AI-driven scheduling engine automates the schedule, making adjustments in real time, based on priorities set by service organization management and real time information. This frees up human dispatchers to manage by exception and deliver meaningful customer interaction that builds loyalty and deepens the relationship.
Service management for many businesses relies on inventory. When a service request cannot be closed on the first visit, it is often because the right part is not on the truck or immediately available.
Service management software should encompass inventory management functionality, and that functionality should include automated reorder points for each part. The ability to take parts availability into consideration is a critical data set for AI to work on, as parts are a critical determinant in first time fix and job completion. It's also key to successful SLA and outcomes-based commercial relationships.
Once inventory data is available and integrated, a powerful DSE can be configured to influence inventory logistics so parts and materials are housed in warehouses, satellite offices or inventory drop locations closer to anticipated demand, and inventory is matched to jobs in a forward or current day schedule.
In one very large implementation of IFS Planning and Scheduling Optimization software — the London Underground transit system—inventory and tools are dropped ahead of each service visit so technicians who ride the subway to the service site can pick them up. This is only possible with a high degree of coordination between the service schedule, inventory logistics and an AI-driven scheduling tool.
Service organizations should recognize the tremendous potential AI holds — they can harness it to transform their operations, outflank their competitors and disrupt their markets. We are only starting to tap into the different ways AI can be used to better solve the problem of delivering optimal service in a rapidly changing environment as adoption is still lagging despite the real benefits AI brings. The good news is there are several straightforward and easily accessible ways service executives can harness AI technology right now today.


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Young Artist/ Entrepreneur Finds Success Transforming School Backpacks Into Art Masterpieces
Preston Mitchell, a young entrepreneur based in Nashville, Tennessee, has found huge success with his company Tatpack™, which offers a new innovative way of capturing creativity and artistic expression on backpacks. The company creates original, hand-painted, and customized backpacks so that his customers can not only wear a piece of art, but a piece of history in the making! He charges $150 to $300 per bag.
How he got started
Preston says he got started as an artist while in high school. "I had an art teacher named Mr. Donelly (I will never forget) and he would always tell me I could really draw. One day he gave me some paint and a canvas, and I ended up making a painting that won a contest in my class. So, I basically just went from there," he said during an interview with Urbaanite.com.
But he didn't get the business off the ground until he was in college. He continues, "I was in my college dorm freshman year, and I spilled some white paint on a friend's backpack. So, he was like now you got this paint on my bag, put your 'magic' to it in order to fix it back up. So, I basically created some artwork on his bag and everyone on campus started wanting me to make a bag for them and it just popped from there."
How he got 50,000+ Instagram followers
He says it's all about marketing, and making use of free promotion. "Basically, promote, promote, promote. Now, that we are in the age of free promotion, Instagram is a great place to put yourself out there and connect with other people and businesses that share the same core audience. I was also consistent with my artwork and the content I put out there," he says.
His advice to other artists
Preston's advice is simple: Get connected!
He comments, "Branch out into magazines, flyers, local event promotions and get connected to your local art scene. This will allow you to get out there, start getting projects and other opportunities to showcase your work."
Preston has also learned to be versatile because he's doing more than just backpacks. His artwork can also be seen on sneakers, sports jerseys, and canvases.
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When should one contemplate a surgical approach?
Is it advisable to self-treat the ganglion cyst by hitting it with an object to make it burst?
At this point I like to stress never to hit a ganglion cyst with any object!!!
Time and again ganglion cyst patients receive the advice by individuals of their surroundings to hit the ganglion cyst with objects like a bible (also sometimes referred to as "bible therapy") or a hammer.
I urge you not to follow this "well-intentioned advice". In hand-surgical literature the consequences of such measures – among other things – describe cases that ended with fractures.
I myself once was confronted with a case of a severe vascular damage to the radial artery of the wrist.
Particularly when – as seen in the picture – the ganglion cyst is located close to the radial artery hitting it can be very dangerous.
Can a ganglion cyst of the wrist be treated by aspiration?
A much more reasonable non-surgical approach to treating a ganglion cyst is to have a physician perform an aspiration. Even if this measure may only lead to a permanent solution for very few patients, still it is worth a try prior to proceed to surgery, since aspiration is much less straining than a surgical procedure.
An aspiration on a ganglion cysts located along the radial artery on the other hand is very problematic since it is possible to puncture and hurt the artery due to a lack of visibility in this area. The consequence thereof may be a very large hematoma on the wrist.
I do recommend surgery for the majority of ganglion cysts of the wrist which do persist over several months and do not show any signs of regression.
It is particularly advisable to remove ganglion cysts of the wrist when they are very large and disturb the appearance.
Equally advisable is the removal of those ganglion cysts which cause pain or pressure onto nerves.
Can ganglion cysts be removed as outpatient procedures?
Yes, in fact the surgical removal of ganglion cysts of the wrist typically occurs on an outpatient basis. In isolated cases when dealing with extremely large ganglion cysts for example, or if the ganglion cyst is located fairly close to the radial artery on the flexion side of the wrist, a hospitalization may be appropriate.
Each surgery on a ganglion cyst has to be performed under the same considerations as any other surgery to the hand. This means that an appropriate anesthesia as well as a bloodless operating surface along with the appropriate hand-surgical set of tools is mandatory in order to achieve a successful result.
Is it possible that a ganglion cyst to the wrist returns after it was surgically removed?
Yes! Any ganglion cyst of the wrist may return after surgical removal, aspiration or any other appropriate therapy! In medicine this is referred to as recurrent cyst!


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Rachel Hall and her husband Travis came to AdventHealth Winter Park to have their second daughter, Charlotte. After the couple welcomed their beautiful new daughter into the world, they couldn't wait to introduce her to big sister, six-year-old MacKenzie. Rachel and Travis were packing up all their belongings to take baby Charlotte home, when their pediatrician walked into the room to speak with them.
The pediatrician heard a heart murmur in baby Charlotte and diagnosed her with a congenital heart defect. Charlotte would need open heart surgery to correct the issue.
Rachel was in complete shock—her one-week old, perfect baby girl needed open heart surgery? How could that be?
Over the next week, baby Charlotte was transported to AdventHealth Orlando for surgery. Post-surgery in the NICU, Charlotte seemed to be stable, but Rachel continued to be on edge and worried.
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"She wasn't out of the woods until we walked out of the hospital. I had mixed emotions leaving the hospital. Charlotte had a lot of medications we needed to give her around the clock. I had to learn how to care for a baby who had a broken sternum."
Rachel is extremely grateful to the staff who cared for her family during this stressful time, especially the doctor who caught Charlotte's heart murmur before they went home. She also credits Dr. Alberto Marante, a physician at AdventHealth for Children, for saving Charlotte's life the night she coded.
Rachel reflected on the month she spent with Charlotte at AdventHealth for Children:
"The staff was so supportive. Dr. Marante tried so hard to prepare me for surgery. It was my brand-new baby, and this was a super serious life or death situation. I'm so grateful they cared enough to try and prepare me. I still talk to most of the staff to this day. They really cared and made us feel like we were more than just a patient."
After an extremely emotional experience, Rachel and Travis wanted to thank the staff that saved their newborn daughter's life. Instead of presents for Charlotte's first birthday, they asked friends and family to donate pacifiers and blankets for the babies in the hospital.
Like Rachel, many patients and families are grateful to their caregivers for going above and beyond expectations and requirements. How can we best thank the doctors and nurses that get us through the most painful experiences of our lives? This month, we invite you to Honor Your Caregiver with a thank you note or an online donation.
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A couple years in the making, Chicago spitter Lil Herb has finally let loose his debut project, Welcome to the Fazoland.
The Chiraq rapper serves up a 16-song offering, detailing his rise on "At the Light," dropping bars on the old-school soul-sampling "Fight or Flight" and trading verses about street violence with King Louie on the vicious, hard-hitting drill track "Another Day."
Throughout the tape, you also get guest verses from Lil Reese, Lil Durk and KD Young Cocky, while production duties are handled by Nascent, Da Internz, Blockondatrakk and more. You can stream and/or download Welcome to the Fazoland down below.


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Who is responsible? > Abingdon Flood Alleviation Scheme
The Environment Agency is working with its partners to reduce flood risk in Abingdon.
The Environment Agency are working in partnership with the Vale of White Horse District Council, Oxfordshire County Council and the Thames Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to find ways to reduce flooding in Abingdon. The Environment Agency have been investigating a number of design options including a flood storage area at Abingdon Common, property level products and natural flood management measures.
The Rivers Ock, Thames, Stert and the Sandford Brook all contribute to flooding in Abingdon. In July 2007 over 400 residential properties and 20 commercial properties flooded internally. In 2017 the Environment Agency built a flood wall to reduce flood risk to St Helen's Mill. They have temporary defences available to deploy in Potenger Way, Tower Close, Meadowside and Hermitage Road. They have also carried out modelling and surveying, and ground investigation work.
Flood Storage Area
The Environment Agency have been working on the design of a potential flood storage area at Abingdon Common to help reduce flooding in Abingdon. Abingdon Common is to the west of the A34, between Abingdon and Marcham.
The Environment Agency have now carried out further ground investigation work, used the latest modelling results and taken on board feedback from the public drop-in earlier in the year. With this combined information they have developed a more detailed design for a flood storage area.
Having done this, more detail is now known about the works and materials needed. It was initially thought possible to build the embankment on the existing ground. The results of the surveys have found this would not be possible. Instead it will be necessary to excavate down and build foundations for the embankment. The amount of clay material for the embankment is much more than previously estimated and will have to be brought in.
The Environment Agency have also made modifications to the design to ensure the safety of the scheme such as putting in more flow control structures and access routes for maintenance. These safety requirements are important both for staff and public and are in line with the Reservoirs Safety Act 1975.
Leader of Vale of White Horse District Council, Cllr Roger Cox, said: "We know the impact of flooding on residents in this area, which is why we funded the flood wall at St Helen's Mill in 2017 and why we have invested in further research into how to reduce that risk. The Environment Agency and our other partners have identified suitable methods to help protect people's properties, such as temporary flood barriers which can be deployed where and when they are needed and are also investigating the use of natural flood management techniques."
Based on the Environment Agency's more detailed design information, the estimated cost of the flood storage area would be in the region of £9.7 million. The government and local funding available for the project at the moment is approximately £4 million.
To be able to continue with plans to build the flood storage area, the partnership would need to secure the remaining £5.7 million from local partners, businesses and other organisations. For this reason it will not be possible to progress the project design work further until the additional funding can be found.
The partnership do not feel there is a realistic prospect of securing this amount of funding in the short term, so the Environment Agency have decided not to continue their work on the flood storage area at this time. They will keep this under review and check the scheme's viability in future as new information becomes available or if government funding rules change.
The Environment Agency will continue to investigate Natural Flood management options.
Natural Flood Management
Natural Flood Management measures may be able to help reduce flood risk in Abingdon. Natural Flood Management works by using natural techniques to hold back or slow down water and reduce flooding downstream. Examples include woody dams, replanting hedges to slow river flow and managing woodland to maintain soil porosity.
In order to develop the potential Natural Flood Management measures the Environment agency have employed a project manager to look at the opportunities which could benefit Abingdon.
The project manager is meeting landowners in potential areas to see what may be possible. The Environment Agency will provide updates with the findings of this work.
Example of what natural flood management can look like – a woody dam at Eye Brook in the Midlands:
Temporary Flood Barriers
The Environment Agency have identified three communities in Abingdon where Temporary Flood Barriers could be used to reduce the impact of flooding. These locations are in the Tower Close, Meadowside, Hermitage Road, Healey Close, Potenger Way and Chaunterell Way areas of Abingdon.
Temporary Flood Barriers include pumps and barriers that are stored elsewhere and delivered to a location before flooding occurs.
Temporary Flood Barriers work by creating an artificial wall to block the flow of water across the floodplain, reducing it from reaching those properties at risk.
The Environment Agency are still developing these plans. There is no guarantee that Temporary Flood Barriers can be deployed during every flood because each flood is different and Temporary Flood Barriers do not work in all situations.
Forward look
Continue to develop Natural Flood Management options in the Ock catchment to reduce flooding in Abingdon.
Meet landowners to investigate opportunities for natural flood management.
Continue to engage with the community on work to reduce flooding in Abingdon.
To contact the project team for the Abingdon Flood Alleviation Scheme, or to request to be added to the Newsletter mailing list, email: enquiries_THM@environment-agency.gov.uk
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The Education section will be opened on an external site (the Northamptonshire Flood Toolkit), in a separate tab/window. The Flood Aware Schools Pack was created by Northamptonshire County Council, but is applicable to any school and teacher across the country. As such, please do utilise these tools.
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Nicholas Locascio
Arapahoe District Court Judge Andrew Baum on Feb. 15 sentenced Nicholas Lee Locascio, 30, in the March 22 death of Justin Doe. Locascio pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in October 2018. The top range of the plea agreement was 42 years, so Locascio received the maximum sentence.
"A completely random act of homicidal violence and an innocent life is stolen from our community," said District Attorney George Brauchler. "We have no answers for such an unpredictable act of evil. But there can be justice. Sending the man who did this to prison for a very long time is the right outcome. This is another reason why we build prisons."
Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to QED, a business at 7000 S. Jordan Road about 10:45 on March 22 to investigate a reported shooting.
Doe was found outside on the ground. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The coroner later determined he died of a gunshot wound to the head.
Investigators spoke to eyewitnesses and found evidence that led them to Locascio as a suspect. He was arrested later that day near a fitness club in Aurora. Locascio tried to hide methamphetamine from the arresting officers.
Investigators found no prior connection between Locascio and Doe.
"After senselessly executing an innocent man, the defendant attempted to evade responsibility by fleeing the scene," said Chief Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Oldham, who prosecuted the case with Senior Deputy District Attorney Garrick Storgaard. "Through the swift response of law enforcement he was arrested and brought to justice with a sentence to 42 years in prison."
Doe's mother was glad the judge imposed the maximum sentence possible under the plea agreement.
"The sentence cannot bring Justin back, but at least the defendant is behind bars and cannot harm anyone else," she said.
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package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"errors"
	"io/ioutil"
	"os"

	"github.com/cerana/cerana/tick"
	"github.com/pborman/uuid"
	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
	"github.com/spf13/viper"
)

func (s *DatasetHeartbeat) TestValidate() {
	u := "unix:///tmp/foobar"
	tests := []struct {
		datasetPrefix string
		expectedErr   string
	}{
		{"foobar", ""},
		{"", "missing datasetPrefix"},
	}

	for _, test := range tests {
		configData := &ConfigData{
			ConfigData: tick.ConfigData{
				NodeDataURL:       u,
				ClusterDataURL:    u,
				RequestTimeout:    "5s",
				TickInterval:      "4s",
				TickRetryInterval: "3s",
			},
			DatasetPrefix: test.datasetPrefix,
		}

		config, fs, v, _, err := newTestConfig(true, false, configData)
		if !s.NoError(err, test.datasetPrefix) {
			continue
		}
		// Bind here to avoid the need for Load
		s.Require().NoError(v.BindPFlags(fs), test.datasetPrefix)

		err = config.Validate()
		if test.expectedErr != "" {
			s.Contains(err.Error(), test.expectedErr, test.datasetPrefix)
		} else {
			s.NoError(err, test.datasetPrefix)
		}
	}
}

func (s *DatasetHeartbeat) TestDatasetPrefix() {
	s.EqualValues(s.configData.DatasetPrefix, s.config.DatasetPrefix())
}

func newTestConfig(setFlags, writeConfig bool, configData *ConfigData) (*Config, *pflag.FlagSet, *viper.Viper, *os.File, error) {
	fs := pflag.NewFlagSet(uuid.New(), pflag.ExitOnError)
	v := viper.New()
	v.SetConfigType("json")
	config := NewConfig(fs, v)
	if config == nil {
		return nil, nil, nil, nil, errors.New("failed to return a config")
	}

	var configFile *os.File
	if writeConfig {
		var err error
		configFile, err = ioutil.TempFile("", "datasetHeartbeat-")
		if err != nil {
			return nil, nil, nil, nil, err
		}
		defer func() { _ = configFile.Close() }()

		configJSON, _ := json.Marshal(configData)
		if _, err := configFile.Write(configJSON); err != nil {
			return nil, nil, nil, configFile, err
		}

		if err := fs.Set("configFile", configFile.Name()); err != nil {
			return nil, nil, nil, configFile, err
		}
	}

	if err := fs.Parse([]string{}); err != nil {
		return nil, nil, nil, nil, err
	}

	if setFlags {
		if err := fs.Set("nodeDataURL", configData.NodeDataURL); err != nil {
			return nil, nil, nil, configFile, err
		}
		if err := fs.Set("clusterDataURL", configData.ClusterDataURL); err != nil {
			return nil, nil, nil, configFile, err
		}
		if err := fs.Set("logLevel", configData.LogLevel); err != nil {
			return nil, nil, nil, configFile, err
		}
		if err := fs.Set("requestTimeout", configData.RequestTimeout); err != nil {
			return nil, nil, nil, configFile, err
		}
		if err := fs.Set("tickInterval", configData.TickInterval); err != nil {
			return nil, nil, nil, configFile, err
		}
		if err := fs.Set("tickRetryInterval", configData.TickRetryInterval); err != nil {
			return nil, nil, nil, configFile, err
		}
		if err := fs.Set("datasetPrefix", configData.DatasetPrefix); err != nil {
			return nil, nil, nil, configFile, err
		}
	}

	return config, fs, v, configFile, nil
}

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Sandrine Mainville (Longueuil, 20 maart 1992) is een Canadese zwemster. Ze vertegenwoordigde haar vaderland op de Olympische Zomerspelen 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

Carrière
Bij haar internationale debuut, op de wereldkampioenschappen zwemmen 2013 in Barcelona, strandde Mainville in de halve finales van de 50 meter vlinderslag. Samen met Victoria Poon, Chantal van Landeghem en Samantha Cheverton eindigde ze als vijfde op de 4x100 meter vrije slag.

Op de Gemenebestspelen 2014 in Glasgow eindigde de Canadese als zesde op de 100 meter vrije slag en als achtste op de 50 meter vlinderslag, op de 50 meter vrije slag werd ze uitgeschakeld in de halve finales. Op de 4x100 meter vrije slag veroverde ze samen met Victoria Poon, Michelle Williams en Alyson Ackman de bronzen medaille. Samen met Sinead Russell, Tera Van Beilen en Katerine Savard sleepte ze de bronzen medaille in de wacht op de 4x100 meter wisselslag. Tijdens de Pan-Pacifische kampioenschappen zwemmen 2014 in Gold Coast strandde Mainville in de series van zowel de 50 als de 100 meter vrije slag.

In Toronto nam de Canadese deel aan de Pan-Amerikaanse Spelen 2015. Op dit toernooi behaalde ze samen met Michelle Williams, Katerine Savard en Chantal van Landeghem de gouden medaille op de 4x100 meter vrije slag. Op de 4x100 meter wisselslag zwom ze samen met Dominique Bouchard, Tera Van Beilen en Noemie Thomas in de series, in de finale legden Bouchard en Thomas samen met Rachel Nicol en Chantal van Landeghem beslag op de zilveren medaille. Voor haar aandeel in de series werd Mainville beloond met de zilveren medaille. Op de wereldkampioenschappen zwemmen 2015 in Kazan eindigde Mainville samen met Michelle Williams, Katerine Savard en Chantal van Landeghem als vijfde op de 4x100 meter vrije slag. Op de 4x100 meter wisselslag eindigde ze samen met Dominique Bouchard, Rachel Nicol en Katerine Savard op de zesde plaats. Samen met Santo Condorelli, Yuri Kisil en Chantal van Landeghem veroverde ze de bronzen medaille op de gemengde 4x100 meter vrije slag. Op de gemengde 4x100 meter wisselslag eindigde ze samen met Russell Wood, Richard Funk en Katerine Savard op de zevende plaats.'

Tijdens de Olympische Zomerspelen van 2016 in Rio de Janeiro sleepte de Canadese samen met Chantal van Landeghem, Taylor Ruck en Penelope Oleksiak de bronzen medaille in de wacht op de 4x100 meter vrije slag.

Internationale toernooien

Persoonlijke records
Bijgewerkt tot en met 5 april 2016

Kortebaan

Langebaan

Externe links

  Profiel van Sandrine Mainville op de website van Swimming Canada
  Profiel van Sandrine Mainville op de website van Team Canada

Canadees zwemmer
Canadees olympisch deelnemer

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Remedy Holdings Inc. | NewPoint Capital Partners Inc.
Remedy Holdings Inc. ("RHI") is a Canadian operator of specialty and retail pharmacies based in Markham, Ontario with operations in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Newfoundland.
NewPoint has acted as the exclusive financial advisor to RHI since 2009. Over that period NewPoint has advised, raised financing and assisted in the negotiations of each acquisition that RHI has pursued.
NewPoint has played a key role in every aspect of the RHI roll-up strategy. NewPoint continues to advise the Company with respect to certain financial matters and any future acquisitions.
Long-term client pursues a pharmacy roll-up strategy.


Yiii!! My Hair getting Longer!! Yiii!
Yellow / orange brassy hair- help!
Wrapping hair around your head to straighten it?
Would you shave your head for $50k?
Would you rock this style?
Would you prefer me Head and Shoulders 2n1 Shampoo and Conditioner Classic Clean or Head and Shoulders 2n1 Shampoo and Conditioner Men Full & Thick Dandruff?
Would this style suit me?
Would this help my hair grow?
Would short hair look good on me?


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/**
 * File was created 27.08.2015 08:44
 *
 * @author Karsten J. Gerber <kontakt@karsten-gerber.de>
 */

namespace PeekAndPoke\Component\Psi\Psi\Map;

use PeekAndPoke\Component\Psi\BinaryFunction;

/**
 * Returns input without changing it
 *
 * @author Karsten J. Gerber <kontakt@karsten-gerber.de>
 */
class Identity implements BinaryFunction
{
    /**
     * @param mixed $input
     * @param mixed $key
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function __invoke($input = null, $key = null)
    {
        return $input;
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}


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The section awards a book prize in the International Relations sub-field of Feminist Theory and Gender Studies each year. The award recognizes a book published in the preceding two calendar years that excels in originality, impact, and rigor towards furthering feminist theory and gender studies within the discipline of international relations. Where possible we have included a sample chapter from the book, and in some cases the full text, accessible by clicking on the chapter title.
Dara Kay Cohen, Rape During Civil War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016).
extract: 'The Logic of Wartime Rape' (copyright ©2016, reproduced by permission of Cornell University Press)
Lauren Wilcox, Bodies of Violence: Theorizing Embodied Subjects in International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
extract: 'Introduction: Theorizing Bodies, Subjects, and Violence in International Relations' (copyright ©2015, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press)
Jemima Repo, The Biopolitics of Gender (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
extract: 'Introduction: Gender, Genealogy, Biopolitics' (copyright ©2016, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press)
Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond (London: Zed Books, 2013).
full text: Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? (Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence)
Recipients must meet the following criteria:
Recipients must be a current member of ISA.
Recipients must be members of the FTGS section.
Books must have been published in the two preceding calendar years (i.e. the book must have an official publication date of 2016 or 2017 for nomination this year).
Nominators/ nominees are responsible for making sure the publisher provides copies of the nominated book for the committee by the nomination deadline.
Books that were previously nominated are not eligible for nomination in the following year.
The winner will be selected by the FTGS Book Award Committee. This year's committee are: Roberta Guerrina, Denise Horn, Natalie Hudson (chair), and Maria Martin de Almagro Iniesta.
The winner will be announced in December, along with details of other finalists.
The prize is awarded at the ISA conference the following spring.
Apply for the FTGS Book Prize
Nominations for the book prize are now open, and should be sent to the Chair of the Award Committee (Natalie Florea Hudson at nhudson1@udayton.edu) by 10 July 2018. Nominations should take include details of the publication and a 300-500 word justification.
Please also note that arrangements will need to be made with publishers to provide copies of the nominated books to the committee by 20 July 2018.


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Sun 28 May 2017, 7:00pm–10:30pm
Where: The Tuning Fork, 42-80 Mahuhu Crescent, Auckland, CBD, Auckland
The Tuning Fork
Listed by: chanley
Vector Arena, 95bFM & Under The Radar are proud to present Sun Kil Moon's first show in New Zealand in nearly a decade.
Almost fifteen years after Mark Kozelek's Red House Painters act disbanded, the Sun Kil Moon project continues to command a reputation for prolific, profound recorded output and exemplary live capabilities. The Guardian hailed Sun Kil Moon's live show as "utterly magnificent", and Brooklyn Vegan declared it "one of the most surprising and fulfilling show-going experiences."
Announced and released independently on Kozelek's Caldo Verde imprint in February, Sun Kil Moon's latest double LP Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys Of Blood is a 16 track, 130-minute album recorded alongside Steve Shelly of Sonic Youth, that takes listeners on a journey across the United States of 2016.
Pitchfork summed the songs up aptly: "by-and-large the most confrontational songs Kozelek has ever put out, but strangely they're also some of the more exciting ones he's written," and it traverses the harrowing, often banal realities of Kozelek's travels and internal narrative via candid, intimate lyrical musings.
And the album is more diverse than ever before. In conversation with Conor Oberst, he mentions a session musician who compared the album to Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly, and the lyricism touches on such political issues as gun violence.
Sun Kil Moon is utterly unique amongst the folk and rock genres. Sparse yet intense, there is a mesmerising quality to these introspective musical musings. The atmospheric restraint of arrangements is adored by true music aficionados the world over. The sweeping and poetic music inspires a unique brand of allegiance and respect. Pulsing and luminous, this is acoustic balladry that transcends narrative, deftly conjuring vivid and dynamic imagery.
Audiences are in store for Kozelek's distinctive brand of happy sadness that sits right in the core of your chest. Sun Kil Moon provides an unparalleled, unforgettable live music experience.
Restaurants to book near Sun Kil Moon
Eclipse - The Music of Pink Floyd - Napier
Pettigrew Green Arena, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Sat 28 Mar 7:30pm
Jackie Bristow 'Blue Moon Rising Tour New Zealand 2020'
Sherwood, Queenstown
Thu 5 Mar 8:00pm
The Thirsty Dog, Newton, Auckland
Mussel Inn, Golden Bay, Nelson / Tasman
The Boathouse, Nelson, Nelson / Tasman
Fri 14 Feb 7:30pm


Pencil Trio - Sewline — Missouri Star Quilt Co.
Fabric Mechanical Pencil Trio by Sewline has 3 colors of ceramic lead all conveniently housed in one pencil. Simply rotate the barrel to choose a color - white, black or pink. 9mm lead.
Fabric Mechanical Pencil Trio by Sewline has 3 colors of ceramic lead all conveniently housed in one pencil. Simply rotate the barrel to choose a color - white, black or pink. .9mm lead.


I can attest to it that having a father, put nicely, who you can't talk to or who you can't identify with, is a bit hard growing up with. Not bit, actually. It's hard. Fathers are supposed to be the people who you turn to when things go rough. When you need a strong person to adequately fill in your weakness. When you need a stern figure to talk to when things fall apart in your just-starting world. When the world lacks wisdom and inspiration. When things does not go your way. When things badly goes your way.
When things are not all right.
Fathers. They're your man when you need one. They're your hard yet gentle slap of reality when you require to. They're your single, wisest old man that can break your barrier to the wicked world.
Twelve years and I still have the same dad that I couldn't talk to. Watch the video above and start talking to him.
Advance happy father's day to all dads. Just you know, be good dads, please.
Moonleaf asks… What are your #TipsForFreshies?
It's school time once again, and we want to welcome all the students to the new school year with #TipsForFreshies.
We want to know: what are your school survival tips?
Whether you're a graduate, a returning student, or an incoming freshie yourself; you definitely have some tips to survive the demands of high school and college life. Share some of your tips as we share it to the other students as well.
And there's more to it: WIN DRINKS FROM MOONLEAF when you share your school survival tips on Twitter and Facebook! Five lucky people will win each week for the whole month of June!
So sit back, enjoy this video, and tell us: What are your #TipsForFreshies?


We, who have lived more than half of our allotted years, are at heightened risk of "going astray" in two basic ways: (1) Because we've "seen it all," we are less open to a corrective word from someone else, especially if they are younger or less experienced than we; and (2) people who can help may be put-off when we don't appear approachable or teachable.
Truth is truth, whether from the lips of an angel or from the mouth of a jackass (that is, the jackass of Numbers 22); and help is help, whether from a brother or from a stranger.
We extol these three qualities in any athlete. Likewise, these three qualities together are essential for faithful discipleship.
Paul's words remind us to aspire to excellence in all that we do. He reminds us to adopt the discipline of "strict training" so that we will be prepared for any of the so-called surprises of life, and fit to finish the course. He reminds us to be humble, lest we ourselves are disqualified as the price of our pride.


The first week back has felt like a right slog. I have been working non-stop, and yet we're only 4 days into the new term! I try to do one activity a week where I remove myself from the university environment; it gives me the chance to realise there is so much more to life than assignments and exams. After a long and stressful day, Rob and I went to the chain restaurant Bistro Franc on Hanover St, Liverpool. It's a lovely cute French restaurant, covered in French posters and clippings of Le Figaro. My meal was absolutely amazing. For drinks, we shared a 2 pint jug of a 'pear julep'. We both had 'L'entrecôte Grillé': a sirloin steak served with seasoned vegetables (medium rare obvs). It was possibly the best steak I've ever had. For dessert, I had crème brûlée and Rob had banoffee pie, both splendid. We even got served by a French waitress, adding to the novelty of the meal.
I definitely think that with medicine it can be hard to see the bigger picture. There's more to life than Tortora.


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Q: How to test the convergence of a scheme of a PDE without knowing the exact solution? I am now solving a Schrodinger equation with a magnetic field. I don't know its exact solution. I am trying to test the convergence of the scheme by comparing the difference of numerical solution when using different mesh-sizes.
However, in the 2D case, the solution is stored in a matrix; when I change the number of nodal points $n$ ($dx=(x_{max}-x_{min})/(n-1)$), the size of the matrix changes.
Both the $L^2$ norm and $\sup{}$-norm require the same dimensions.
In this case, how can I measure the difference of the solutions?

A: Your simplest course of action is to directly obtain approximations for the solution of the PDE at exactly the same grid points.
This can be done be repeatedly refining an existing grid. The simplest method is to systematically cut the step size in half.
To be specific, suppose your 2D domain is the unit square and the initial step size is $h_0 = \frac{1}{2}$ in either direction. Your approximation can be stored in a matrix $A_0$ of dimension 3. Now reduce the step size to $h_1 = \frac{1}{2}h_0 = \frac{1}{4}$. You now require a matrix $A_1$ of dimension $5$. However, the submatrix $B_1$ of dimension $3$ obtained by deleting the second and fourth columns of $A_1$ contains approximations for the same grid points,  as $A_0$. In short, it is meaningful to examine $B_1 - A_0$.
If you are working with MATLAB, then you can construct $B_1$ using as $$B_1 = A_1(1:2:5,1:2:5).$$

A: When we want to test the convergence of a numerical scheme without knowledge of an exact solution, we can use the method of manufactured solutions.
Say that the PDE we want to solve can be written as follows:
$$
u_t + P(u) = F(x,t), \\
u(x,0) = f(x), \\
u(0,t) = g(t),
$$
where $P$ is some differential operator, and $F(x,t)$, $f(x)$ and $g(t)$ are known functions (data). For the purpose of testing convergence of a numerical scheme, simply choose any (appropriately differentiable) function $v$ that you want to be your solution, and operate on it with $\partial_t + P$. In general, the result will be
$$
v_t + P(v) = G(x,t) \neq F(x,t).
$$
However, this doesn't matter if the goal is to study the convergence of the numerical scheme, which will be the same whether we use $F$ or $G$ (so long as both $F$ and $G$ are sufficiently smooth). We may therefore replace our original PDE with
$$
u_t + P(u) = G(x,t), \\
u(x,0) = \tilde{f}(x) ,\\
u(0,t) = \tilde{g}(t),
$$
where $\tilde{f}(x) = v(x,0)$ and $\tilde{g}(t) = v(0,t)$. Since $v$ is known (after all, we have chosen it to be anything we want), we have access to the exact solution to this new PDE, hence we may test the convergence of the numerical scheme as usual.

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Adaptive Working Memory Training Reduces the Negative Impact of Anxiety on Competitive Motor Performance
in Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Emmanuel Ducrocq * , 1 , Mark Wilson * , 2 , Tim J. Smith * , 1 and Nazanin Derakshan * , 1
1 Birkbeck University of London
2 University of Exeter
https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2017-0217
attentional control; competitive pressure; neurotraining; quiet eye;
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Optimum levels of attentional control are essential to prevent athletes from experiencing performance breakdowns under pressure. The current study explored whether training attentional control using the adaptive dual n-back paradigm, designed to directly target processing efficiency of the main executive functions of working memory (WM), would result in transferrable effects on sports performance outcomes. A total of 30 tennis players were allocated to an adaptive WM training or active control group and underwent 10 days of training. Measures of WM capacity as well as performance and objective gaze indices of attentional control in a tennis volley task were assessed in low- and high-pressure posttraining conditions. Results revealed significant benefits of training on WM capacity, quiet eye offset, and tennis performance in the high-pressure condition. Our results confirm and extend previous findings supporting the transfer of cognitive training benefits to objective measures of sports performance under pressure.
* Emmanuel Ducrocq, Tim J. Smith, and Nazanin Derakshan are with the Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck University of London, London, United Kingdom. Mark Wilson is with the Department of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.
Address author correspondence to Emmanuel Ducrocq at manu.ducrocq@gmail.com.
Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Online Training Tasks
Training group: Adaptive dual n-back task
Control group: Nonadaptive dual 1-back control task
Transfer Tasks
Near transfer: Change detection task
Far transfer: Tennis volley task
Training task performance
State anxiety
CDT performance
Tennis volley performance
QE period
Training Task Manipulation Check
CDT Task
Cognitive Anxiety
Tennis Performance
QE Onset
QE Offset
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Nazanin Derakshan


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This modern qualification gives students a general grounding in computing, including an understanding of computer systems, the principles of computer systems, the principles of programming and problem solving. Students look at computing fundamentals including hardware and software; the presentation, structure and management of data; how data is transmitted and networked; the life cycle of systems development.
The capacity to see relationships between different aspects of the subject.
What can you expect from Computing?
Computing is about creating solutions. As society becomes more controlled by computers, we study the tools and techniques used to create the websites, apps and programs which will be used to run the world.
Who would the course be suitable for?
This course is suitable for students with a logical mind and who enjoy understanding how things work. It is especially suited to students studying Science or Maths subjects, who enjoy working with computers and want to find out more about how they work. Computing provides a good companion subject to many other A levels and is accepted by all universities.
5 GCSEs at Grade 5/C or above including English and Maths. Whilst the prior study of computer science is beneficial, it is not essential.
A Level computer science is a very demanding course and students should ensure they are prepared to work consistently to the best of their ability in order to meet these demands.
The A Level Computer Science course is assessed by sitting externally examined written papers. All examinations will be assessed in the summer of year 13 (2 exam papers in total accounting for 80% of the Final grade). Programming skills will be continually developed throughout the course and students will carry out a project of their choice which will account for 20% of the overall grade.
A Level computing is an excellent preparation for students looking to take computing studies at degree level, or for anyone considering any kind of career in computing.


'Implicitly' is utterly central to our argument here. Jesus did not go around explicitly proclaiming 'I am consubstantial with the Father,' or 'I am the second person of the Trinity.' Of course, centuries of reflection and debate transpired before Christians settled on such language as their common orthodox teaching about the identity and significance of Jesus. But there was a starting-point for the development of such teaching in Jesus' self-evaluation that his words and deeds implied.
works belonged integrally to his message of the present and coming kingdom. They were powerful signs that the final age of salvation was already beginning. Jesus himself was inseparably connected with the inbreaking of the divine kingdom. With his personal presence, the rule of God had come and was coming.
At times Jesus expressed his mission in prophetic (e.g. Mark 6: 4; Luke 13: 33) and messianic (e.g. Matt. 11: 2—6) terms. But did he conceive of himself as being merely a righteous prophet or the anointed (merely human) agent of God's final salvation? Or did he lay claim, at least by implication, to being more than human and someone with a unique relationship to the God whom he characteristically called 'Abba' or 'Father'?
A startling, if mainly implicit, claim to more than human authority emerged from various aspects of Jesus' ministry for the kingdom: his freedom in changing and radically reinterpreting the law given by God to his people; his forgiving sins through his words and actions; his taking over the Temple in Jerusalem; his favourite self-designation as 'Son of man', in particular to claim for himself the divine prerogative of sitting in judgement on all people at the end.77 Repeatedly Jesus testified to himself as decisive for human beings' final relationship to God; their future salvation, so he stated, depended on their present relationship to him (e.g. Luke 12: 8—9). When preaching his message of 'my' or 'your' '(heavenly) Father', Jesus at times showed that he understood himself to stand in a special, even unique, relationship to God (e.g. Matt. 11: 25—7).78 Hence in evaluating Jesus' self-claims, we also need to reflect on the testimony to his filial consciousness.
77 For a fuller presentation of these and other aspects of Jesus' ministry, see S. T. Davis, Was Jesus Mad, Bad, or God?', in S. Davis, D. Kendall, and G. O'Collins (eds.), The Incarnation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 221—45; N. T. Wright, 'Jesus' Self-Understanding', ibid. 47—61; C. A. Evans, 'Jesus' Self-Designation "The Son of Man" and the Recognition of his Divinity', in S. Davis, D. Kendall, and G. O'Collins (eds.), The Trinity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 29—47; G. O'Collins, Christoiogy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 47—81; C. Tuckett, Christoiogy and the New Testament: Jesus and his Earliest Followers (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001).
78 See O'Collins, Christoiogy , 113—35.
mistakenly elevated him to divine status? One who purported to be only the son (lower case) of God and was changed into the Son (upper case) of God? Was there then such a doctrinal development that took decades to transform the man Jesus into the God Christ and climaxed with the clear endorsement of Jesus' divinity by John's Gospel?79 This thesis of such a gradual, first-century development must face at least two major challenges.
First, we summarized above the reasons for recognizing that Jesus himself had already made some astounding claims about who he was and what he was doing, claims that set him dramatically apart from other charismatic holy men of ancient Galilee and account for the fact that powerful religious leaders of his time found Jesus so disturbing that they joined forces with Pontius Pilate to have him put to death. The more one plays down or even explains away Jesus' claims about himself, the more difficult it becomes to understand why anyone would have decided to do away with such a relatively inoffensive teacher and healer. It is not that we want to maintain that the only reason for upholding Jesus' divine identity (in relationship to the Father through the Spirit) is that he understood himself to have and, at least implicitly, claimed to have such a divine identity-in-relationship. Nevertheless, the post-Easter image of Jesus was partly supported by the earthly Jesus' own self-image. His filial consciousness and further (largely implicit) claims about himself remain the permanent point of departure for confessing his identity—a confession that rests upon and is filled out by many other factors such as the Church's ongoing experience of faith in Christ being supported by the Holy Spirit. In her common worship the members of the Church have both remembered Jesus' life and claims and experienced his presence.
For an example of such a thesis see G. Vermes, The Changing Faces of Jesus (London: Penguin Press, 2000); see the review of this book by G. O'Collins in The Tablet , 1 July 2000, 895—6. On Jesus and responses to his identity and work, see M. Bockmuehl (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jesus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001); D. Ford and M. Higton (eds.), Jesus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
being claimed—in this case, Jesus' personal divine status. Implicit claims differ from explicit ones merely through the manner in which they are made: indirectly and by implication rather than directly and expressly. From NT times believers' experience of the risen Christ's redeeming activity as the Son of God has underpinned their faith in him, but has done so together with the memory of his personal sense of filiation implied and expressed in his activity for the divine kingdom.
Second, Paul's letters prove a thorn in the side of any thesis about Christians only gradually developing their belief in Jesus' divinity. Around 230 times his letters, which date from AD 50 to around 62, call the crucified and risen Jesus 'Lord', applying to him a name used for God nearly 7,000 times in the OT: Adonai in the Hebrew texts and Kyrios in their Greek translation, the version normally read by the earliest Christians. In the first century 'Lord' also had a range of merely human meanings, sometimes being simply a courteous form of address ('sir'). But in the scriptures that Paul inherited the title was frequently a way of speaking to or of YHWH. How then was Jesus understood when the apostle set 'the Lord Jesus Christ' side by side with 'God our Father' as the source of 'grace and peace'—that is to say, of integral salvation? Over and over again in the opening greetings of his letters Paul described Jesus that way. In doing so he distinguished a divine 'Lord' from any merely human one.
An astonishing affirmation came from the apostle when he expanded the classic Jewish confession of the true God, the Shema (Deut. 6: 4—9; 11: 13—21; Num. 15: 37—41), and set Jesus as the 'one Lord' alongside 'one God, the Father'. Paul never paused to argue for this Christian confession of monotheism that included Jesus (1 Cor. 8: 6). He obviously presumed that the Christians of Corinth to whom he was writing agreed with him: Jesus was and is the divine Lord (and the pre-existent agent of creation, 'through whom all things exist') to be included within their confession of the one God. Equally astonishing was a hymn that Paul composed or, more likely, took over from early Christian worship (Phil. 2: 6—11). There the apostle attributed to Jesus 'equality with God', as well as the right to bear the divine name of 'Lord' and so receive adoration from the whole universe. The language of that hymn echoed a key confession of the one, universal God from Isaiah 45: 22—3.
Obviously anyone can argue that Paul and other NT Christians were mistaken in acknowledging Jesus' divinity. But such a thesis also involves one in holding that from the earliest decades of Christianity countless men and women have been committing idolatry by giving divine worship to a person who was and is merely human.


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Q: Image attachments throwing error in new WP migration I have a WP site that works fine in my testing environment. I migrated to a sub-directory on the clients server and now I'm having an issue with image attachments.
Fist of all, when I go to the media library, the images are all there, but the thumbnails are not showing, instead, they're replaced with a file icon. See screenshot-1 below.
Secondly, when I try to view the attachment page I'm getting the following errors:
Warning: Illegal string offset 'width' in /xxx/image.php on line 28
Warning: Illegal string offset 'height' in /xxx/image.php on line 29
Here's the code in the image.php file that is creating the issue:
$metadata = wp_get_attachment_metadata();
printf( __( 'Published <time class="entry-date" datetime="%1$s" pubdate>%2$s</time> at %4$s × %5$s in %7$s', 'detund' ),
    esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
    esc_html( get_the_date() ),
    wp_get_attachment_url(),
    $metadata['width'],
    $metadata['height'],
    get_permalink( $post->post_parent ),
    get_the_title( $post->post_parent )
);

Specifically, the $metadata['width'] and  $metadata['height'] sections.
Because of this, functions like WP's featured image, are not working.
Has anyone come across this before, or can anyone offer a solution for this issue?
As always, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

A: Once I had this issue with one of my client. Jetpack plugin caused the problem. Try disabling it or even disable all active plugins and check whether you still have the problem. And even check your file permissions.
Also check your image url on whether it is pointing to your new url.


Every year all of our neighbors on Oak Street gather together for our annual ROCO Block Party. We open up our doors and gather together to host our local friends for a night! This year we had such a fun time with live music, drinks, a donut bar, and dancing! Let us show you!
We had a great time with you all – thank you to everyone who came out on this Thursday night to make it such a fun one! Sad you missed it? We will have another party in the spring!


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Chigorin can refer to:

 Mikhail Chigorin (1850–1908), Russian chess player
 Chigorin Defense, a chess opening
 Chigorin Memorial, a chess tournament
 7268 Chigorin, a minor planet

Surnames of Russian origin