There are many benefits to drinking tea, but did you know you can get some of those same benefits by using it in a different way? Below are a few creative ways to repurpose those tea leaves and tea bags you've already steeped. It's both sustainable and easy to incorporate into your everyday life.
Mix 1 cup of water in a pan and 2 tbsp of green tea leaves.
Boil it in the low flame for few minutes.
Allow it few minutes to cool and then strain the tea.
Add 1 tbsp of banana and 1 tsp of plain yogurt to the green tea.
Apply the paste to your face and leave it on for 20 minutes.
Repeat this method twice or thrice in a week.
Follow this remedy till you get relief from this acne issue.
Note: You can replace banana with peach or papaya.
Green tea has antibacterial properties and honey does as well. This combination plus the rice will help reduce oils and bacteria on the skin, which will reduce acne.
Take ½ cup of boiling water and boil the green tea powder in it.
Add 1 tbsp of honey to the mixture.
Add 2 tbsp of rice flour to make a thick paste.
Increase the content of honey or rice flour to make the paste thick enough to apply on your face.
Mix the paste well to avoid lumps.
Remove it using warm water.
Apply it twice a week to quickly reduce the spread of acne and remove the scars.
Simmer tea bags with salt (or vinegar) for 30 minutes.
Add fabric to the pot. The fabric must be damp first, to eliminate air pockets.
Soak fabric for up to one hour, depending on the desired shade. Stir every few minutes so the fabric takes the colour evenly.
Note You can also do this with Easter Eggs!
Put the cream, milk, sugar, matcha powder, and salt in a heavy bottomed saucepan and whisk ingredients until combined. Try and whisk the majority of lumps away, but don't worry if it's not perfectly smooth. The next step should help eliminate most of the lumps.
Heat the mixture on medium-high heat until it comes to a full boil. Keep whisking until it starts to foam. At this point, your mixture should be pretty lump free — the heat will have eliminated most of the lumps. Remove from heat.
When the mixture has chilled, remove cover and give the mixture a whisk to bring it together. Churn for 20 – 25 minutes in an ice cream maker, or, according to your manufacturer's instructions. Serve freshly spun — it will have an incredibly creamy texture (almost that of soft serve) at this point. For a more traditional ice cream texture, transfer to an airtight container and freeze overnight.
Slowly begin to whisk the mixture. Then continue, increasing the vigor of your whisking every 30 seconds, until the mixture is glossy and silky-smooth. This will take 2 to 4 minutes, depending on your speed and strength. You can use the sauce at this point, or store it in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. Do not freeze.
Brew two bags of tea, wring them out then simply apply a tea bag on each eye. Let sit for 10-15 minutes. It really does soothe tired eyes, and it's easy enough to incorporate with a face mask to achieve total spa level relaxation.
Repeat #5 above, rather place tea bag on bug wounds. Green tea bags make a great itch reliever.
Tea never disappoints. For something so old, we're constantly finding new ways to use it.
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Newlyweds Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner Rock Streetwear and Hold Hands in NYC
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Feast Your Eyes on the Best and Worst Dressed Celebs at the 2020 Grammys!
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Newlyweds on parade! Sophie Turner and her husband, Joe Jonas, were spotted decked out in streetwear looks while holding hands in NYC on July 30. Needless to say, these two cuties continue to look more and more in love every day … maybe they should get married. Oh, wait. Nevermind. Scroll through the gallery to see Sophie and Joe out and about in New York together.
Say hello to the married couple, y'all. Sophie, 23, and Joe, 29, looked seriously slick in these street style looks. Joe's fanny pack/backpack combo is so on-trend right now!
The newlyweds tied the knot (for the second time, but we'll get to that in second) on June 29 in France, and obviously, the couple has been feeling the love since then.
Two weeks later, the dynamic duo jetted off to the Maldives for a lovely honeymoon — which, at this point, was totally deserved. The couple had their first wedding in Vegas after the 2019 Billboard Music Awards in May so it's been a long time coming!
Unfortunately for Joe and Soph, though, their union has already come with a bit of hardship. Their dog, Waldo, passed away after being hit by a car on July 24 while with a dog walker.
According to reports, a pedestrian scared the dog and after he was startled, he got loose from his leash and ran into the street where he was hit. Joe's rep told Us Weekly the dog's death was "a freak accident."
The couple adopted the pup in April 2018, to be a baby brother to their first dog, another Alaskan Klee Kai named Porky Basquiat. Both dogs were a Sophie's gift to Joe — a very sweet gesture.
The duo recently took to social media to show off their matching tattoos for Waldo: a realistic portrait of his sweet face. "R.I.P. my little angel," Joe captioned his post showing off the piece, which seems to be located on his right arm.
Sophie also shared her tat on her Instagram Story, writing "I miss you, Waldo. Rest in peace my little baby."
We're glad the grieving couple got a little sunshine in their day.
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Please try and use the toilet before you leave home. Portaloo facilities at Ormeau Park will not be able to cope with all competitors, especially before the race. There will be toilet facilities on the route and these will be clearly marked in advance and are highlighted on the map.
Competitors are advised to arrive no less than 20 minutes before the start. You will have the option to leave your clothing in the allocated marquee in Ormeau Park on Race Morning with Marathon Staff. You should attach the cut off slip from your number to your bag. Signage will be in place to guide you to this location. This service will only be available until 8.45am as you will need time to line up at the starting line.
Participants are required to complete the course in under 3 hours. If you decide not to complete the course, the best place to "drop out" is at one of the First Aid Stations. A special minibus will collect you and deposit you at the finishing area.
Hydration and Energy stations - please click HERE for details.
As you cross the finishing line, glance at the clock which will indicate your finishing time - AND KEEP MOVING. The officials at the finishing line will not know your exact finishing position so please don't ask them for details of positions or times.
At the finish line, water will be provided in addition to your well earned medal and finisher bag containing your Finisher Tech T-shirt.
Changing facilities will be available in the Ozone Tennis Centre post-race. Please follow the signs and obey instructions from Marathon Staff for entrance/exit of these changing rooms.
Results will be available here on the evening of the event. All individuals will receive a medal. Details of all other prizes will be available on the website after Race Day.


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Q: Hexdump output certain labels I want to output only the code in labels after start (start, loop1, and loop2).
$ objdump -d quasilog.o

00000000 <main>:
   0:   b9 64 00 00 00          mov    $0x64,%ecx

00000005 <start>:
   5:   31 ff                   xor    %edi,%edi

00000007 <loop1>:
   7:   89 cb                   mov    %ecx,%ebx

00000009 <loop2>:
   9:   4b                      dec    %ebx
   a:   31 d2                   xor    %edx,%edx
   c:   89 c8                   mov    %ecx,%eax
   e:   f7 f3                   div    %ebx
  10:   85 d2                   test   %edx,%edx
  12:   75 f5                   jne    9 <loop2>
  14:   47                      inc    %edi
  15:   29 d9                   sub    %ebx,%ecx
  17:   83 f9 01                cmp    $0x1,%ecx
  1a:   77 eb                   ja     7 <loop1>
  1c:   c3                      ret

So I see the code in my labels is 24 bytes long (0x1c - 0x5 + 1).
$ hd quasilog.o
00000000  7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
00000010  01 00 03 00 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000020  18 01 00 00 00 00 00 00  34 00 00 00 00 00 28 00  |........4.....(.|
00000030  07 00 04 00 b9 64 00 00  00 31 ff 89 cb 4b 31 d2  |.....d...1...K1.|
00000040  89 c8 f7 f3 85 d2 75 f5  47 29 d9 83 f9 01 77 eb  |......u.G)....w.|
00000050  c3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000060  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000070  03 00 01 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000080  03 00 02 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000090  03 00 03 00 01 00 00 00  05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000000a0  00 00 01 00 07 00 00 00  07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000000b0  00 00 01 00 0d 00 00 00  09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000000c0  00 00 01 00 13 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000000d0  10 00 01 00 00 73 74 61  72 74 00 6c 6f 6f 70 31  |.....start.loop1|
000000e0  00 6c 6f 6f 70 32 00 6d  61 69 6e 00 00 2e 73 79  |.loop2.main...sy|
000000f0  6d 74 61 62 00 2e 73 74  72 74 61 62 00 2e 73 68  |mtab..strtab..sh|
00000100  73 74 72 74 61 62 00 2e  74 65 78 74 00 2e 64 61  |strtab..text..da|
00000110  74 61 00 2e 62 73 73 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |ta..bss.........|
00000120  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*

etc.
I notice my code starts with 31 FF and I find that at byte 0x39. So this gives me the output I want:
$ hd -s 0x39 -n 24 quasilog.o
00000039  31 ff 89 cb 4b 31 d2 89  c8 f7 f3 85 d2 75 f5 47  |1...K1.......u.G|
00000049  29 d9 83 f9 01 77 eb c3                           |)....w..|

Is there any way to automate this process? To be clear, I want the output of hd, that is provide me with -s and -n values. I'm open to using xxd as well.
Usually my main starts at 0x34, but I don't know why.

Here is my attempt:
objdump -d quasilog.o | grep start | grep -P -o "[0-9a-f]+" | head -1 gets the address of start.
objdump -d quasilog.o | tail -1 | grep -P -o "[0-9a-f]+" | head -1 gets the last address.

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Should Connecticut Fear a Measles Outbreak?
Here's a certainty about measles. Anyone who receives the proper dose of measles vaccine will never get the infectious viral disease, even if exposed to it.
Some baby boomers will recall the days before the vaccine was introduced in 1963, when there were 4 million cases, 48,000 hospitalizations and 500 deaths nationally every year. By 2000, though, measles essentially vanished from the United States, wiped out by immunization. But now it's back, with outbreaks recently in California, Washington state, New York and New Jersey.
In Connecticut, health officials announced the year's first case of measles Jan. 28. Two more cases were confirmed Feb. 3 by Yale New Haven Hospital officials. Even though the three cases match last year's total, the high rate of vaccination in the state could minimize the chances of a widespread outbreak.
Measles, a highly infectious disease with complications particularly dangerous for young children, is back at least in part because of lapses in vaccination fueled by mistrust and misinformation. In a recent week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 20 of 30 cases reported in Clark County, Wash., were people who had not been immunized. By the end of January, 47 cases had been reported in Clark County.
The suspicion about the possible dangers of the measles vaccine is associated with an article in the journal Lancet in 1998 by British physician Andrew Wakefield that linked the vaccine to autism in children. Although the article was debunked — Wakefield was subsequently banned from practicing medicine — parents in several areas around the country, still clinging to the vaccine-autism myth, have not allowed their children to be vaccinated.
The first reports of measles in the state this year has not resulted in widespread alarm because, for the 2017-18 school year, 98.2 percent of kindergartners and seventh-graders were vaccinated against measles, according to public health records. In Connecticut, students are allowed a religious or medical exemption. That accounts for the remaining 1.8 percent of the 83,508 students. The state also requires vaccination with two doses of MMR, unless exempted, to attend in-state schools and colleges.
In California, however, several counties reported vaccination rates lower than the required 90 percent for herd immunity that also protects people in the community who have not been vaccinated. Local officials say more parents in these areas are seeking medical exemptions from willing doctors.
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We're celebrating Star Citizen's birthday with a huge ship sale! Each day for the next week, we're bringing back a selection of fan favorite limited edition ships to the pledge store, so anyone interested can pick up what they might have missed. Today, the focus is on our merchant ships, from the armored Freelancer to the massive Hull E! For anyone who wants it all, a merchant master pack is also available!
The smallest, most affordable Hull. The Hull A is great for those just striking out in the galaxy on their own. The Hull A is most similar to the Aurora and Mustang, but lacks the 'jack of all trades' nature. Where the others trade cargo capacity for firepower or speed, the Hull A is 100% on-mission transport! Additionally, Hull A (and B) are often used as station-to-orbit ferries.
The Hull B is a more rugged option most often compared to MISC's own Freelancer. But where the Freelancer is equipped for long range exploration and other roles, the Hull B is a pure cargo transport. Hull B are often used as corporate support ships, and it is not uncommon to spot several in different liveries during a single flight.
SPECIAL NOTE: Constellation Phoenix hulls included in this promotional package do not count towards the 5000 unit production run.
The Crucible, our penultimate Wave Four concept ship, is now available! Designed by the legendary Ryan Church, this repair ship is just the thing for keeping your fleet up and running. When closed, the detachable workshop allows crews to repair single seat fighters internally. When open, the Crucible can use its remote arms to attach and repair larger craft! You can learn more about the Crucible here, and Star Citizen's overall repair mechanic here.
Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 will see the addition of flyable variants for the Aegis Dynamics Avenger! The base Avenger available today is now the Stalker, designed with the needs of bounty hunters in mind. A basic Titan cargo ship and an advanced e-warfare Warlock are also available… and all three will be available for combat in Star Citizen's next patch!
The Titan and Stalker are permanent additions to the pledge store, the Warlock will be on sale through the end of the anniversary sale (Sunday, November 29th.) Please note that these variants will be available as separate modules in the future. The initial release of Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 does not allow changing modules, so we are offering them as distinct, playable ships first. We would encourage you to CCU to the Avenger you're most interested in trying rather than picking up all three!
Lacking the Prisoner Cells of the Stalker or the EMP Generator of the Warlock, the Titan's hold is free to carry cargo. Couple that available space with the Avenger's tried and true combat abilities and you've got a light cargo hauler that's more than capable of handling itself in a fight.
The Avenger Warlock was built towards a single design philosophy: stop ships, don't destroy them. Probably the closest to a non-lethal fighter, the Warlock is outfitted with a Behring REP-8 EMP Generator, capable of emitting a powerful electromagnetic wave to disable any electronics unfortunate enough to be within the blast radius.
If you're looking for something a little more agile, blaze among the stars with Kruger Intergalactic's P-72 Archimedes. Whether for added security, exploring a system or simply the joy of flying, the Archimedes is the perfect companion snub craft. Featuring an extra intake and a lighter hull than its sister ship, the Archimedes delivers exceptional handling and boost capabilities in a sleek package you'll want along for the ride.
The Archimedes is here! Concepted by Gurmukh Bhasin, the Archimedes is the speedy, luxury alternative to the P-52 Merlin. Initially included with the Constellation Phoenix, the P-72 is interchangeable with Kruger's other snub fighter and can be attached to any snub-capable Constellation. The Archimedes is available this week as a concept sale.
The A3G Vanguard is the United Empire of Earth's dedicated deep space fighter. Initially developed as a bomber-destroyer, the Vanguard is a hard-charging bulldog of a ship which features extensive forward-mounted weaponry designed to tear through the shields and armor of other spacecraft. Four high-caliber forward laser cannons and a massive central Gatling gun give the Vanguard an unprecedented amount of sheer striking power. So-named because their multiple-jump range allows them to form the forefront of any military expedition, Vanguard have seen extensive service against the Vanduul.
We're proud to announce that the Aegis Vanguard will be available as hangar-ready in Star Citizen Alpha 2.0! Going forward, we intend to make ships hangar ready earlier in the process than previously allowed, starting during their advanced greybox phase. The Vanguard will be the first of these ships! In its honor, we're making all three variants and their BUK options available again this week.
We don't just want existing players to enjoy the anniversary, we want to introduce Star Citizen to new players! As a result, we're offering a limited number of discounted $30 packages each day, first come first serve (1,000 per day.) These packages offer the full Star Citizen experience, including an Aurora starter ship and a copy of the Squadron 42 single player adventure. You won't find a better deal anywhere in the 'Verse, so pick up a copy for a friend today!
Star Citizen physical merchandise is also on sale! For the next week, Constellation models are now $80, Arena Commander t-shirts are on deep discount and all other in-stock merchandise is 20% off.
We're making a large number of our older ships available for those who missed out, want to upgrade an existing package or simply want to expand their fleets. We will be presenting these ships over the course of the next week in a series of role-based theme days, listed below. From armored explorers to lumbering transports to alien traders, there's something for everyone! All existing ships will be offered with three year insurance in honor of our third birthday. Each day will also include a discounted 'fleet pack' in the style of the Armada Pack available during CitizenCon. Don't want to wait around to switch to your favorite ship? All ships will be available at once during the end of the sale, from Friday, November 27th to Sunday, November 29th.


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Naval Surface Warfare Center
This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.
Naval Surface Warfare Center. U.S. Navy photo by Devin M Pisner/Public Domain
Naval Surface Warfare Center. U.S. Navy photo by Kathryn Ellis-Warfield/Public Domain
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On most counts the U.S. Navy is a deadly serious business with its nuclear submarines, supercarriers, and destroyer mounted railguns. But one of its more whimsical facilities is landlocked in suburban Maryland: a half-mile long indoor swimming pool run by the Naval Surface Warfare Center.
The so-called David Taylor Model Basin is normally used to conduct naval architecture tests (like a watery wind tunnel), but once every other year since 1989 it has also hosted the International Submarine Races, an educational spectacle aimed at drawing more students into STEM specializations.
Facility commander Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper explained to Undersea Warfare Magazine in 2011 that participating collegiate and High School teams have an opportunity to see "a real practical application to what they're learning in the classroom and putting it to actual use building a piece of hardware—and not just building it, but getting it to compete a goal."
Two dozen teams typically compete with a diverse mix of one seat, two seat, propeller, and non propeller designs. Rules allow for a wide degree of creativity, but all the submersibles are required to have propulsion systems "directly coupled to a human being and shall not employ any energy devices." The most common human powered propulsion rigs work like underwater bicycles, with leg power producing torque on a propeller shaft.
A Popular Mechanics reporter attended the 2017 races and came away convinced that this style of human powered sub "is so ridiculous and impractical that outside of this competition, they are virtually nonexistent." And while the idea of frantically pedaling away while submerged and pulling air through a SCUBA respirator does sound physically strenuous, and that's what makes the ISR such a fun engineering challenge for students.
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This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.
The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
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The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.
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Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.
Nazi U-Boat Pens
A massive, secret marina for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.
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Nitrogen producer could hire 80 after opening at Jenkins
By Mountain Eagle Staff | on May 05, 2010
By WILLIAM FARLEY
A Canadian company which produces materials used in "fracking" natural gas wells has agreed to locate a $30 million nitrogen production plant at the Gateway Industrial Park in Jenkins. The plant is expected to create as many as 80 high paying jobs with benefits.
Ferus Inc. will use the large facility to produce nitrogen, which is delivered to well sites as a refrigerated liquid, by using air as its "feed stock."
The company's decision to locate in Letcher County was announced Monday by Letcher County Judge/ Executive Jim Ward at the May meeting of the Jenkins City Council. Ward was accompanied by Letcher County Economic Development Director Joe DePriest and Magistrates Wayne Fleming and Archie Banks.
Ward said it had been a long struggle to get the plant located in Jenkins and it had been equally difficult to keep from sharing the earlier bits of good news during this time of a downturn in the economy, but it was important to keep the information secret until everything was in place, including a $2 million incentive program from the State of Kentucky. He said Governor Steve Beshear plans to be in Jenkins for the groundbreaking ceremony, which should be in June or July.
"We were in competition with other counties and states," said Ward. "But we kept onto it and stayed with it. It came down to two counties in Kentucky and two in Virginia and we were able to persuade them to come to Letcher County."
Ward credited a team approach to the final success in obtaining the plant and praised the cooperation and hard work put in by Jenkins Mayor Charles Dixon as well as Magistrates Fleming and Banks and other court members. He said the positive team-oriented approach had paid off big with the representatives of Ferus, who were pleased with the efforts made by the Letcher County group to meet their needs. Ward also praised the efforts and cooperation of Jenkins Councilman Todd DePriest and the Industrial Board.
"When the company came to visit the site, all the people were there every time," said Ward. "The team approach made a big diff erence. The people in Frankfort said our teamwork and positive approach were very important."
Mayor Dixon expressed his appreciation for the efforts of the fiscal court and said that by working together with the court and the City of Whitesburg, it had helped to create this and other opportunities. Dixon said the most important thing about the announcement was that it might give young people in the area some hope that they won't have to leave their home region to find good opportunities.
Ward said it would take between 18 and 24 months to get the plant operational and the county may have a job fair to interview candidates, or that the Kentucky Employment Services Department in Whitesburg might handle the interview process. He also said a new fueling station will built by Childers Oil in the Gateway Industrial Park to service large trucks and will be self-serve and operated by using fleet cards. Ward added that Kentucky Power has agreed to upgrade the power supply for the plant and that Jenkins will now have the luxury of having two power sources in case one fails.
"They will be installing a big generator with 8,000 horsepower to pull the nitrogen out of the air," said Ward. "Ferus is connected with the natural gas industry and will supply the region. I imagine a lot of truck drivers will be hired."
Magistrate Fleming told the council that the Gateway Industrial Park has proven to be successful much quicker than many industrial parks in the region and said the park has a bright future.
"Our site is a young site," said Fleming. "There are a lot of other sites much older than ours that still have nothing sitting on them."
Mayor Dixon thanked the court members and DePriest and promised a large groundbreaking ceremony. Dixon said Raven Rock Golf Course had been an attractive and positive factor as well. Magistrate Banks said that Dixon had been an important factor, too.
"Charlie was in on this, too," said Banks. "He was with us all the way."
Ward said the jobs will start off around $15 per hour with higher wages for skilled workers. He said the initial training will be done at Ferus's Canadian facility although it also has operations in Colorado.
Ferus's website describes it as specializing in providing integrated solutions to the energy industry for well stimulation, well completions and enhanced oil recovery. It provides a dedicated supply of cryogenic fluids, as well as the related logistical services to deliver those products where needed, when needed. Its primary product and service lines include liquid carbon dioxide (CO 2) , liqui d nitroge n ( N2 ), transportation, storage and on-site services.
Ferus currently owns and operates six cryogenic plants, which are strategically positioned across Alberta, Canada in close proximity to energy industry demand. A fleet of more than 150 transportation and storage assets is specifically designed for oilfield operations, providing Ferus customers with premium on-lease capability and efficiency, according to the company's website.
Judge Ward also announced construction of a recreational vehicle campsite at Fishpond Lake, with water and electricity provided. The park will be located near a new trailhead for all-terrain vehicles that will connect to a series of trails throughout the county. Councilman DePriest told the council it needs to form a policy for creating good relationships between ATV riders and the Jenkins Police Department and said that several cities including Evarts in Harlan County have agreed to send their ATV ordinances to Jenkins to help the city draft a policy.
Ward said the ATV trailhead and RV site will enhance tourism and provide opportunities for businesses to serve the needs of campers and trail riders. He added that Pine Mountain Trail and the Linear State Park, which runs along the ridge of Pine Mountain, also present opportunities for tourism-related businesses to serve the needs of hikers.
In other business, the council will revisit a 1990 zoning ordinance (Ordinance 139) that was passed but never enacted. Mayor Dixon said the time for zoning has arrived in Jenkins and cited the destructive effects and reduction in property value for residents who have neighbors with dilapidated houses, garbage in their yards, or inappropriate structures that lower the desirability of the neighborhood. In his Mayor's report, Dixon said it was beyond him how people would oppose any measures taken by the city that would enhance the value of their property and keep their neighborhoods clean and desirable. Councilman Todd DePriest agreed, and said people should realize that zoning is done to protect the value of their property.
The council discussed the issue briefly but DePriest, Rebecca Terrill Amburgey and others said they would like to have a chance to see the ordinance and the maps that accompany it. The creation of a Zoning Commission and other measures to fully enact the ordinance will be discussed at the June meeting.
The council also heard a "good news/ bad news" water loss report from Water Superintendent Bo Hopkins. Hopkins said that while unaccounted for losses of treated water are down to a low figure of 6 percent (811,000 gallons), city workers found and repaired a number of leaks that accounted for an estimated total loss of 5,860,000 gallons, 2,000 gallons more than the city sold in April. The city produced a total of 14,612,000 gallons and sold 5,858,000.
Hopkins said the real good news was that the city lost about 10 percent less water in April than in previous months, but added that the unaccounted for figure will level out in coming months because they had the good fortune to locate and repair an unusually high number of large line breaks. He said that one three-inch line with heavy leaks in Burdine has been isolated and will be turned off as soon as service lines are run to the two houses it serves. Hopkins also said the city's revenue has about doubled in Burdine after new meters to provide accurate readings were installed for Mountain Breeze Apartments.
Paul Nesbitt of Nesbitt Engineering, which works with the city on water and sewer projects, told the council that when the revamp of the Jenkins Wastewater Treatment Plant is complete, the city will be able to use "gray water" to perform many of the cleaning and flushing jobs for which it now has to use treated water and said it will save a good deal of money on treated water.
Nesbitt said a number of water and sewer projects are either underway or ready to begin. The Number Two Bottom Sewer Project is ready to go with all easements cleared and the Camden Water Project has lines laid and awaits the installation of new meters. Nesbitt said that Camden will essentially have a new system. He also said that Phase I of the citywide Waterline Replacement Project is ready to go to bid.
Nesbitt said the city should go ahead and take bids for Phase I by the end of May, and that doing so will protect its funding. He said a few easements remain but that the easement process is taking a bit longer because the easements are being done correctly and to the letter of the law so they will be preserved for the future. Mayor Dixon promised a big groundbreaking celebration for Phase I when it is ready to go.
In other business brought before the council:
• The council voted to authorize the Jenkins Volunteer Fire Department to place bids for a new fire truck, providing the sale of the old "Silver Fox" truck the department now has can provide enough so it doesn't go over budget. David Stofel of M3 Fire Apparatus visited the meeting and told the council M3 has a 2010 Silver Fox and that he intends to submit a bid.
• Councilman Chuck Anderson reported that the Jenkins Homecoming Days Festival Committee has about $8,800 in the treasury and added that two successful hot-dog sales fundraisers have added to the coff ers. He said the entertainment lineup is now set with eastern Kentucky country musician Tim Michaels on Thursday night, the Tams on Friday, and Grand Ole Opry star Earl Thomas Conley on Friday. The Tams are a popular "shag" (beach music) band who have two gold records, "Hey Girl Don't Bother Me," and "What Kind of Fool," and a platinum single, "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy." Original Tams members Charles Pope and Little Redd are featured. Conley had a long string of number 1 country hits in the1980s and 1990s, including "Holding Her and Loving You," and his hit album "Don't Make it Easy for Me."
• The Kids Day celebration for Jenkins is set for June 5 at the Jenkins City Park.
• Mayor Dixon presented his budget for 2010–2011 for the first reading. The budget calls for $3,340,868 in revenue and $3,318,145 in expenditures. Dixon said he left a reserve because the city has not received updates in health insurance costs for city employees from the carriers this year.
• Videographer Rick Hall was presented an "Unsung Hero" award by the mayor. Dixon said Hall has done videos on hundreds of events and does freelance work with Intermountain Cable, TVS Cable, and Heritage TV. He also hosts the weekly news and current events interview show, "Meet the People" which is recorded in Hindman. Hall has interviewed a number of celebrities including Governor Steve Beshear and bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley.
• Magistrate Fleming asked the city to do what it could to aid two homeowners in Mudtown who have water standing under their homes that is ruining their floors. Fleming said the water was the result of heavy rains and runoff , but added that it is an ongoing problem which is also caused by drainage pipes running into to Elkhorn Creek below the water level which brings water back into the neighborhood. He said the fiscal court will do what it can and that he has spoken to representatives of AML about the situation.
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Christian Friedrich Ecklon (født 1795 Aabenraa, død 1868 Capetown) var en dansk botaniker og apoteker. Hans officielle botaniske forfatter-forkortelse er "ECKL. ".

Ecklon kendes især for at være ivrig samler og forsker af planter i Sydafrika. Som de fleste botanikere, indsamlede han også insekter tilknyttet til de planter, han studerede.

Ifølge IPNI, har Ecklon opdaget og navngivet i alt 1974 forskellige arter.

Ecklon var søn af en slagter i Aabenraa, og tog en uddannelse som farmaceut i Kiel. Han tog til Sydafrika i 1823 som apoteker-lærling og blev uddanet farmaceut der, hvor han søgte efter planter med medicinsk værdi. Da han manglede forskningsmidler og led af dårlig helbred, levede han af at sælge plante-løg til dyrkning og salg af plantemedicin, som han selv lavede. Han var dog i stand til at rejse frem og tilbage til Europa med stadig større samling af planter, som han præsenterede og beskrev for andre videnskabsfolk. Han døde i Capetown.

Hans store samling af sydafrikanske planter og hans værker, der beskrev dem, dannede grundlaget for det store botaniske værk Flora Capensis (1860–1865) skrevet af hans ven, farmaceuten Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–1881) fra Hamborg i samarbejde med den irske botaniker William Henry Harvey (1811–1866). Plantesamlingen blev senere solgt til Unio Itineraria, en botanisk forening i Württemberg.

Til Ecklons ære, blev brunalger-arter fra familien Alariaceae navngivet Ecklonia, såsom Ecklons tang (Ecklonia biruncinata eller E. radiata) og Ecklons Lilla Isplante (Delosperma ecklonis). Derudover er evighedsblomst-arten (Helichrysum ecklonis) og Bornholm-margueritten Osteospermum ecklonis også opkaldt efter ham.

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James Silver, writer and journalist I could blame it on the launch of Timeline (Facebook's now mandatory reboot of users' profile pages) or the forthcoming mega-IPO. Or even claim I was taking some high-minded stance (a social suffragette perhaps?) on how social media gnaws away at our privacy/sense of self-worth/ability to enjoy simple pleasures such as reading a book.
But in the end it was the soul-crushing ennui that led me to deactiviate my Facebook account last week. The sheer bloody listlessness logging on to the site produced in me in those final, dreary visits. "Steve listened to 'Death of an Interior Decorator' by Death Cab for Cutie on Spotify for Facebook." "Bob and Sophia commented on Mark's photo album University of Loughborough Reunion 04." Not forgetting that other classic: "Nigel likes Cordelia's post Me and My Cat Archie Eat a Tuna Flan."
It's not that I dislike social media. I know at their best these platforms can help spark the overthrow of despots, raise cash for medical research and share brilliant links. I'm a big fan of Twitter, which has become a primary news source for me. LinkdIn is a bit of an odd duck, but I can see what it's for. But Facebook? It's just white noise. A time sink. If you want to tell your life story, as the Timeline tagline has it, then go and write your autobiography. No one would read it. But that's kind of my point.
Elizabeth Day, Observer writer and author For me, the key to social media is that it's, well, social. What I value most about Facebook is the ability to keep in touch with friends, wherever in the world they find themselves. Although James is bored by the endless videos of cats eating tuna flan, I actively like being able to see the latest photo of my goddaughter in Hong Kong or having an instant messenging chat about the best way to eat panettone with my friend in Milan (thinly sliced, with a cup of tea is his take).
Perhaps it's because I have a strange form of phone-phobia. I hate the faux cheerfulness I have to assume when I call someone; the awkward pauses; the way you can never hang up until you've put the next social rendezvous firmly in the diary; the anxiety that you might be boring them. The thought of Skyping, where you can actually see someone's face, is enough to bring me out in a rash. I prefer communicating through Facebook – I like the jokes, the bonhomie and the sense that you're part of something (especially because, as a writer, I often work from home). And if the whole tuna-flan-feline thing gets too much, the true joy of Facebook is, of course, that you can always log out.
JS Is Facebook really the best platform with which to browse photos of your goddaughter or discuss how to eat Italian fruit bread, Elizabeth? Photo and video messaging on your phone would do just as well for the first (or one of the picture sharing sites) and if you could summon up the nerve to use Skype for video calls, you could even watch each other eat a whole variety of southern European cakes. In real time. Hell, you could even live tweet it.
I take your point that you can always log off, but what about your privacy when you're logged on? Unless you have a PhD in machine learning, you are unlikely to be able to operate Facebook's privacy settings, which means a disgruntled ex is just a couple of clicks away from checking out his former girlfriend's new man, and people who are "friends" – but only in a Facebook sense (ie they met once on holiday in Magaluf in 1997) – have an access-all-areas pass to each other's Facebook back-story.
When will they be satisfied? When there are only six people in Africa who haven't connected with Facebook? When they've hardwired the Facebook "like" button into toddlers' teeth?
ED I know it's tempting to view Zuckerberg as an evil genius (especially after he wore pyjamas to a board meeting in The Social Network), but I don't personally feel his goal to "connect" people is all that sinister.
Of course, if you choose to leave your Facebook privacy settings wide open, if you choose to befriend someone you only met once on holiday to Magaluf, and if you then compound the error by posting (or failing to detag) a photograph of yourself in a compromised state with a vodka luge, then there might be certain drawbacks.
But I don't understand why everyone has got in such a tizz about the Timeline. It only organises the data that is already on your profile. If you want something to remain private then – here's a handy little tip – don't put it on the internet. On Facebook – unlike Twitter, which allows anyone to follow you – I am friends only with people I know and like. I have customised my privacy settings (truly not that difficult) so only certain of them can view my posts. Because of this, I find it a brilliant way of sharing photos, keeping in touch with lots of people in a time-effective way and using status updates for shameless self-promotion when I have a book out (Scissors Paper Stone, out now in paperback if you want to buy a copy, James).
JS Actually, I don't buy into the "Zuckerberg equals evil, cat-caressing genius" theory. I'm merely arguing that Facebook's plans smack of hubris. Yes, Google, Microsoft and Apple have flourished, but the evidence suggests that social networks come and go, as fashions change. Between 2005 and 2007, MySpace was the dominant player. Bebo, too, showed early promise. Friends Reunited once had 15 million users.
Facebook faces many bumps in the road, not least competition and regulatory issues, particularly over privacy. To those I would add the likelihood of new rivals appearing, seemingly from nowhere. Just a couple of years ago, few of us had heard of (games developer) Zynga or (deals site) Groupon – both titans now. As everything goes social, we can expect new, niche networking sites to emerge.
Leaving Facebook is a bit like quitting a cult: you can leave, but you're never truly free. Yes, my account is deactivated, but my details, friends, "likes" and even those dreaded status updates are merely mothballed in some underground server farm, waiting for that moment of weakness, where I log on once more… For now my resolve is strong. But you never know when the urge to "like" pictures of household pets eating savoury snacks may strike once again.
ED I'm sure all of this is true (not least the likelihood of James logging back on for those cat videos) but the fact that Facebook might face future challenges doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the site as a user at the moment. I'm on Twitter as well but for different reasons – as you say, it's a great way of getting the latest news developments. But Facebook performs a different role. It is more sociable – there is less pressure for constant 140-character updates and less competition over the number of followers/friends you have. Interestingly, whenever I speak to teenagers, they generally tell me they use Facebook but don't see the point of Twitter, which suggests Zuckerberg and his henchmen will be around for a while yet. So James, if you are ever lured back to the light-blue land of "likes" and Scrabulous, I'll be the first to request a friendship add.


Халилов А. Ж. Analysis and modeling of asymmetrical operating modes of arc steel-smelting furnaces // Молодой ученый. — 2016. — №23. — С. 106-109. — URL https://moluch.ru/archive/127/35290/ (дата обращения: 21.04.2019).
At the present stage of development the industry is increasingly focusing on the problem of improving power quality. This primarily relates to single-phase loads, causing asymmetry of currents and voltages in the power supply system. It is obvious that a change in consumers' parameter settings and the emergence of new devices, both industrial and domestic, can make it impossible for economic and efficient operation of the entire electrical system and result in the rejection of a number of large industrial facilities projects. Such objects in the electrical system are: electric arc furnace, induction furnace, three-phase uneven loads, welding machines, etc. [1, p. 63].
In systems of power supply and control of the arc steel-smelting furnaces (ASSF) as all majorities of the existing control systems use an electric power expense as key parameter for transition from one stage of melting to another.
In the metal melting in ASSF process necessary to control the power of the arcs by changing the amount of energy introduced into the furnace [2, p. 188]. Active power arc in arc furnaces is adjusted by changing the secondary voltage of the furnace transformer, and at a constant voltage by changing the current in the electric circuit of the furnace. To maintain a phase current of a predetermined value and, accordingly, the arc power system is used automatically move the electrodes. The control system electric mode DSP usually runs a two-tier.
– operational, caused by instability of burning of arcs both frequent collapses, and furnace charge relocation, especially during melting therefore currents of separate phases change from zero (an arc breakaway) and to current of operational short circuit.
Asymmetry of loading of the arc steel-smelting furnace causes appearance on buses of substations of power supply systems of asymmetry of tension that worsens quality of the electric power and leads to decline in production of profitability both electric furnaces, and the customers who are powered from the general with it buses of substations.
In case of design and operation of arc electrical furnace installations there is a need for calculations of asymmetry of currents and tension both for a choice of diagrams of electrical power supply, and for development of actions to symmetry of an operation mode of furnaces. The accounting of asymmetry allows to estimate in a complex processes in case of change of the mode and to select the best energetic mode, to receive more authentic results. Switching on in an electrical circuit of the furnace of reactive impedance of a short network substantially worsens electrical furnaces of characteristics and leads to loading of its sources big reactive power.
The problem of development of highly effective algorithms for calculations of the asymmetrical set modes is urgent in many cases. The carried-out analysis of various approaches to the solution of this task has shown that the most perspective in this area is the method of harmonious balance allowing to carry out calculations taking into account the interference of nonlinear loading and external electric network which is really taking place when results of calculation are adequate to numerical calculation of uniform system of the differential equations describing the alternating current main and nonlinear loading. Calculation is conducted separately on each harmonica with the subsequent use of a method of imposing. At such approach dependences of parameters of elements of electric network on frequency are rather just considered that causes difficulties when using other methods of calculation.
Calculations and the analysis of the asymmetrical operation modes of the furnace are necessary for the decision of many practical tasks: analysis of operation of automatic regulators of power, choice of the best parameter of regulation and creation of the most perfect type of the regulator; a choice of appropriate construction of a short network and development of actions for maintenance of equal capacities of all phases of the furnace; settings of relay protection and automatic regulators of the furnace, check of their sensitivity in case of different types of the asymmetrical short circuits of a circuit; analysis of operating characteristics of the furnace.
In the known classical methods of calculations of three-phase asymmetrical circuits of resistance of each of phases are accepted by the constants which aren't depending on current. Application of these methods for calculation of the asymmetrical circuits with arcs in which not resistance of arcs, but tension on arcs are constant are impossible.
where ; ; — currents in circuit phases; ; ; — conductivities in branches of phases; — tension offset of a neutral; , , — phase EMFs of idling of windings of the lowest tension of the transformer; ; ; inherent resistances of the current distributor; , , − of resistance of arcs of each phase of the furnace.
«Star triangle» diagrams, «triangle star» and «triangle triangle» when calculating are provided by conversion of the active or passive triangle to the equivalent circuit «star star» (fig. 1).
This system of equations allows to calculate the diagram concerning currents in circuit phases.We calculate arc resistance in each phase by these formulas. Further we check the calculated value resistance with the previous value. If a difference of less admissible error, we quit a cycle of check of resistance. We write result in in advance prepared array of results. Further we calculate arc resistance for the following value of current of a circuit. Calculation of the symmetric operation modes for power, tension and resistance of an arc happens on a similar algorithm.
The arc steel-smelting furnaces used in metallurgical industry are characterized as receivers with rezkoperemenny loading. In the course of their operation generation of currents of the higher harmonics, essential asymmetry of tension, throws of reactive power is watched. The specified phenomena lead to oscillations of tension in power lines that negatively affects both operation of other customers of the electric power, and operation of the most arc furnace. Use of the static thyristor compensators (STC) allows to increase throughput of power lines, to restrict temporal overvoltage, to reduce losses, to improve tension curve sinusoidalnost in different operation modes of a network. The filter-compensating circuits) which are set up definitely allow to compensate harmonicas of the higher orders. Generation of reactive power in filter-compensating circuits happens discretely therefore for receiving the smooth regulation of reactive power together with filter-compensating circuits the thyristor and reactor group (TRG) is used. Besides, application of TRG allows to increase stability of system and to damp oscillations of power. Regulation of parameters of system in STC is made incremental, balancing of system there by is carried out. In given work is also considered functional scheme, in accordance with which is realized controlof STC.
The compensation level of reactive power is defined by a voltage amplitude which is compared to the setting value and by means of the PI-regulator the adjusting signal arriving on TRG and filter-compensating circuits is worked out.
The required voltage stabilization level is as a result carried out. The unit of distribution performs function of division of a signal of control into switching on of the corresponding filter-compensating circuits and choice of a necessary angle of regulation of TRG.Determination of parameters of the PI-regulator by a classical method difficult owing to the fact that their variation strongly depends on operation modes of the arc furnace.
In [4, p. 489] it is shown that even for a reduced model of STC considering more than possible combinations of switchings of the reactor and the furnace transformer, the system of equations of electrical and non-linear circuits turns out very difficult and poor-selling in practice.
One of options of implementation of the adaptive PI-regulator. In this regulator by means of a circuit of back coupling are considered as the response characteristics of the thyristor influencing the moment of switching on filter-compensating circuits, and reactive impedance of constant-error behavior of , STC defining an angle of regulation of TRG[5, p. 25].
Use of the offered model of system of electrical power supply of ASSF in the presence of STC gives the chance to estimate influence on figures of merit of an electrical network of parameters and operation modes of ASSF, and also to consider own characteristics of a network influencing control algorithms STC. Weakening of influence of not stationarity of the ASSFs parameters on figures of merit of a power line can be reached by creation of system of regulation of STC on the basis of the modern microprocessor technique [6, p. 81].
In this paper for solving these problems were used the theory of electrical circuits, methods, and symmetrical components of phase coordinates, the calculation of probability characteristics and indicators of asymmetry, mathematical and computer models of asymmetric modes DSP operation. In developing the model used Matlab and Simulink package.
– developed software packages to meet the challenges of research and computer models of asymmetric modes of operation of electric arc furnaces.
Sosokin O. M., Shishimirov M. V. Power and technological features of steel melting in electric arc furnace and transferring eaf to operation with water-cooled roof designed in moscow state evening metallurgical institute. Bulletin of South Ural State University. Series: Metallurgy. Number 3 / volume 15/2015. P. 62–69.
Kochkin, V. I. Use of static compensators of reactive power on electrical networks of power supply systems and the enterprises / V. I. Kochkin, O. P. Nechayev. — M.: NTs ENAS publishing house, 2002. — 248 pages.
Mironova A. N. Power technological efficiency of arc steel-smelting furnaces: studies. grant / A. N. Mironova, Yu. M. Mironov; under the editorship of Yu. M. Mironov. Cheboksary: publishing house of Chuvash University, 1999. 154 pages.
Mathematical description of complicated power supply systems/V. Soloviov, A. Kupov, K. Khandoshko, A. Kupova//Proc. 11th Int. conference «Electrical machines, drives and power systems ELMA 2005". — Sofia, 2005. — P. 487–490.
Modeling of static thyristor compensator in power supply system of electric arc furnace / V. Soloviov, N. Deryuzhkova, A. Kupova. Bulletin of the SUSU. Series "Power Engineering", vol. 14, no. 2. — Chelyabinsk, 2014,, P. 23–28.
Zhumaev O. A. Pulatov V. B., Khalilov A. J. Optimization of electric modes of modern electric arc furnaces with static thyristor compensator. Scientific and technical and industrial magazine. 2016 № 4. Mining Bulletin of Uzbekistan. P. 76–82.
Основные термины (генерируются автоматически): STC, ASSF, TRG, DSP, ELMA, ENAS, SUSU.


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Warner Bros.'s Shazam! struck lightning for a second weekend in a row, retaining its number one spot at the box office. The Zachary Levi-starring superhero flick pulled in an additional $25.1 million for its second weekend earning it an estimated $258.8 million worldwide take.
Universal's Freaky Friday-styled comedy, Little, saw a powerful debut for second place delivering an estimated $15.5 million for its first weekend at the box office, according to Box Office Mojo. The film appealed to an older and more female audience with 65 percent women and a mostly over 25-year-old audience, with 43 percent of ticket buyers being black.
In third place, but with a disappointing gate, came Lionsgate's Hellboy. The film was estimated to pull in upwards to $17 million but earned far below that mark bringing in only $12 million for its debut weekend. Hellboy was hit with a number of negative reviews and was plagued with rumors of production problems.
Paramount's Pet Sematary maintained its spot in the top five, earning the fourth spot, though it saw a 59 percent drop in its audience from its opening weekend last week. The Stephen King remake earned another $10 million to bring its total to $76.8 million worldwide.
Rounding out the top five was Disney's live-action remake of Dumbo. While losing 49 percent of its audience over last weekend, the Tim Burton-helmed flick brought in another $9.18 million to add to its domestic total of about $90 million. That brings the film's global tally to $267 million.


I have been teaching exercise and movement since 2000. I initially discovered Pilates while recovering from a head trauma in 1999 and this is when my career took a very different path. I started The Pilates Centre in 2003 when my first son Connor was 6 months old. I expanded my business over time and at my peak was operating from 3 locations in Hawkes Bay. I am now very happy to say I have been blessed with another beautiful son, Paris born 2012, and am now enjoying a much more relaxed pace with my business as I work from home so I can enjoy both my family and professional life.
I have continued to study different forms of movement over the years which has enhanced my teaching of exercise and movement and how my clients experience it. I am very proud to say I have a wonderful following of students with whom I continue to grow (age) and move with. We have a lot of fun and enjoy a lot of laughter, even during the challenging movements!
So I hope I get to meet you in person also, and get the opportunity to share my wonderful mix of Pilates and Restorative Movement so you too can continue to flourish well into your retirement years with an abundance of energy and a love of movement.


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TRUSTchildren Support Group UK
is a UK registered charity, run by volunteers who have visited the Children's Home run by TRUST in rural south India. We aim to raise money and awareness of these children and the work done by TRUST through its inspirational leader and Managing Trustee, Mr P. Thirumaran.
Please help us to help them by making a donation (or click here for other options: Support TRUSTchildren)
TRUST (an acronym for Thirumaran Rural Upliftment Stable Trust)
is an Indian Trust registered under the Indian Trust Act in 1998 by Thirumaran and his wife Shanthi. It is registered under FCRA, 12AA and 80G. It works within the local community and its visions include:
• Upliftment of poor people (especially women) in rural areas
• Eradication of untouchability
• Tribal welfare
• Abolition of child labour
• Blood donation
• Village Health Care, and
• Children's Homes
TRUST Children's Home began in 2005 to look after children from the fishing community who were left destitute after the 2004 tsunami. There are now separate Homes for boys and for girls, providing around 80 children with a place to live, food, clothes and education including vocational training to equip them for their future independent life.
Read some of their recent news below:
Mariselvi wedding
Mariselvi has been cared for at TRUST Children's Home from her childhood
News update - May 2019
A great deal has happened in the last few months!
World for 18+
A Children's Home is for children, of course, and in India the rules say this means up to the age of 18.
A new bore hole
1000 feet deep... a big effort to overcome the serious water scarcity
Blood Donation awareness
Blood Donation is a vital part of Thirumaran's mission through TRUST.
Building a Dining Hall
Inaugurated in April 2019.
Deepavali 2018
Deepavali (Divali), the Festival of Lights of South India, is an important Hindu celebration - lighting the dark corners of your life and filling it with happiness.
Hattie & Tilly at TRUST
Our experience volunteering at TRUST has been incredible.
Rain has arrived
Rain in October is relied on to provide a supply of water for the next year.
Reports - August 2018
Flood relief, Solar Panels presented to Tribal families, inauguration of a new Sick Room and Store and a new small vehicle.
"The secret of life is not in what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you"


It Is "Debt Saturation" Plain And Simple!
I have tried to explain this concept many times before but never had a chart to do it with. Please note the start date of the chart is 1971, this is not by any coincidence as that was the year the U.S. dollar became fully fiat and backed by nothing but "faith". Before getting started, it is important to understand what August 15, 1971 really meant and why Nixon took us off the gold standard. The obvious is because with France and other nations demanding conversion of dollars into our gold, it would have only been a few short years before our stockpile was completely depleted.
The other, less obvious (so far) reason to come off the gold standard was because it allowed the U.S. to operate without the "restrictions" on monetary (and fiscal) policy that a gold standard imposes. In other words, once gold's restrictions were lifted, literally unlimited amounts of dollars could be printed by the Fed along with unlimited amounts of fiscal borrowings by the Treasury ...to a point. The chart above actually shows you exactly where that point in time was, please let me explain "why".
Looking at the chart you will notice from 1971 to 2008, the line was for the most part an upward trajectory. Beginning 2008, you will also notice the line has basically crashed below all years prior to 2008 and is now "negative". For perspective we need to know what "the line" actually represents. Basically it shows net growth of GDP for any given year with the amount of Treasury issued debt subtracted from GDP. For instance, if GDP were to grow by $500 billion over the previous year and the Treasury borrowed a net $250 billion then that year would register a positive $250 billion. Conversely, if GDP grew by $500 billion but the Treasury issued a net $1 trillion, the number registered would be negative $500 billion. Also note this chart is "cumulative" which means the current year is added or subtracted from all the previous years combined.
Another way to view the chart is to see it as a map of whether issuing new debt adds to GDP or whether it is a drag. Clearly prior to 2008, the issuance of new debt generally added to GDP, since then, new debt has been a hindrance. This only confirms in chart form what we already knew, each dollar of new debt is creating well less than a dollar of new GDP.
So what happened in 2008 for the relationship to change from new debt helping ...since it always had in the past, to new debt not helping so much or even hurting? SIMPLE! As I wrote in 2007-2008, and maybe a dozen or so times since, we reached DEBT SATURATION! We first saw this in the real estate markets as rental income from properties no longer covered debt service. This sector could not take on more debt because borrowers/buyers either did not want to nor could afford to take on more debt.
As I have said before, at that point (2009), treasuries and central banks were the only entities left that had room on their balance sheets to lever up further ...which they have in spades! At the time we called them the "white knights" who rode in with their balance sheets and saved the system by reflating. But levering up came at a high cost. Yes it did buy another 10 years or so time but now the bulk of sovereign treasuries and central banks have reached their respective credit limits! In essence, the world has now as a whole reached credit saturation levels ...otherwise known as banana republicland!
As we have said for the last several years, in no mathematical way can the current build up in debt and future promises ever be repaid in current currency terms. Only one of two things can happen, either the debt does not get repaid in which we will see massive and total default, or, the currencies must be devalued to levels where the debt can be repaid.
Option number three and the one we have been told all these years is now discredited ...remember how we have been constantly told we would "grow our way out from under the debt"? This chart is your proof positive that it ain't so!!!
Switching gears to finish, we have another chart to look at.
This is a chart of commodities priced in terms of the S+P 500. More or less "stocks versus commodities. It would look fairly similar if it was shown as commodities priced in 10 yr. US Treasuries. Basically this can be viewed as real stuff priced in "confidence". In other words, commodities will be cheap in terms of paper assets when confidence is high and vice versa. Confidence currently is quite high but it is showing signs of waning.
The important thing to understand when we put both charts together is that confidence stands to take a huge hit once the concept of "debt saturation" becomes understood and prevalent. Many ask why can't the game of printing money, borrowing and suppressing real assets go on forever? Again, the mathematical concept of debt saturation precludes this. It is the addition of more and new debt that becomes ever more destructive. To the point of additional debt actually tipping (credit) markets over and into panic/default. Debt is a funny animal and especially in today's word where credit default swaps are used as weapons. Think 2008 when individual firms were attacked by purchasing large swaths of CDS. Though similar to buying homeowners insurance on your next door neighbor's house and then torching it which is illegal, there is nothing illegal about running CDS rates so far up the flagpole ...in order to cause a run in a company's debt. This will certainly be seen again!
To finish, chart number one illustrates how close we are to a panic in the credit markets because it is clear there is no way to reflate again. In other words, new debt is now showing itself to not only no longer help, it is actually destructive. Chart number two shows you what should benefit once confidence does break ...real stuff! We have lived through a credit induced holographic standard of living considered to be "normal". Never throughout all of history has a genuine lifestyle been funded continuously on credit. Each attempt always failed miserably. The only difference today is that more of the world is involved along with more credit used than ever before. The only logical conclusion is this latest credit experiment to fund lifestyle will fail on a far grander scale than ever before!
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Safety Ron Parker made his signing with Atlanta official. He chose the Falcons, he said, for a chance to go to the Super Bowl.
I remember playing against the Falcons and I said, 'That's Authentic Cheap Jerseys From China the best offense I've ever played since I've been in the league,' Parker said. I'll never forget that, just the flow of the offense and the flow of how things were going in that game. Even though we won, I felt like we lost because we couldn't stop [the Falcons] on offense. Yeah, the offense was amazing. That was the best offense I've seen in football in a long time.
The Falcons' return starters in Desmond Trufant, Robert Alford and Brian Poole at cornerback and Ricardo Allen and Keanu Neal at safety. They also added Justin Bethel in free agency and selected Isaiah Oliver in the draft.
The Devils selected defenseman Ty Smith of the Spokane Chiefs of the WHL with the 17th overall pick in the first round of the 2018 NHL Draft on Friday at American Airlines Center in Dallas.
Smith is the first defenseman taken by the Devils in the first round Authentic NFL Cheap Jerseys of a draft since they took Adam Larsson fourth overall in 2011.
The 5-10, 176-pound left-handed blue liner comes in undersized, but he projects to be a 200-foot defenseman at the NHL level. He finished second in the WHL in points by a defenseman last season when he went for 14 goals and 59 assists for 73 points.
He's just got to keep working at it and that's the biggest thing that he does, said new receivers coach Adam Henry. He comes in early, he works hard, he's taking notes. He's doing the little things, learning the route techniques, things of that nature, just doing the things that he does well and expound on that and tweaking some things. But mentally just being in there. He's champing at the bit. He wants more, so it's just progression each and every day.
Duffy had reached when he hit a hard grounder that nailed Sabathia's side and dribbled toward first base. Sabathia tried to get creative, sliding on his knees and flipping the ball to first baseman Greg Bird. It went over Bird's head and into shallow right field, letting Duffy reach second. It was scored a hit and and error.
As the NHL game develops into a smaller, faster game dictated by skill over physicality, size has become less of an asset for defenseman.
The Devils don't have any defensive prospects in their who Cheap NFL Jerseys USA stand over 6-2, and the Devils aren't shy about using them at the NHL level. They targeted 5-10 Sami Vatanen in a midseason trade in 2017-18, and he quickly stepped in as the Devils' top defenseman.
(Smith's) an undersized blue liner, which is not crazy these days, Wagman said. But the interesting thing about Smith, he's going to profile as a 200-foot defenseman and not just as a power-play quarterback like you sometimes see with those little guys.
Which Devils prospects will impact NHL in 2018-19?
As checkered playoff histories go, the Washington Capitals haven't been around nearly as long as some NHL teams. The track is still long and sad.
There was Pat Lafontaine of the Islanders beating Baseball Jerseys them in the four-overtime Easter Epic back in 1987. Esa Tikkanen missing a wide-open net in the Stanley Cup Final loss to Detroit in 1998. Heck, losing nine of 11 postseason meetings against the Pittsburgh Penguins alone is filled to the brim with gut-wrenching letdowns.
My husband and I had developed a habit of when we lost, we would go to eat frozen custard to help us deal with the loss, Irene Pollin recalled.
There were a lot of chances for custard: Teams leading 3-1 in a best-of-seven series have won 91 percent of the time (276-28). Of those 28, the Capitals have blown such a lead five times — the most of any team.
While we've seen quarterbacks overcompensate to injuries by changing their arm mechanics, Wentz having familiar heat on his throws suggests a solid leg base from which he's tossing.
The arm is alive, Ertz said, I'll tell you that much.
By all accounts from organized team activities, Wentz is on a positive track to possibly return for Week 1. NFL Network's Mike Garafolo reported Wednesday that Wentz is running at just over 90 percent at this stage.
Tennessee Titans safety Kevin Byard earned first-team All-Pro honors by leading the NFL with eight interceptions during a breakout sophomore Cheap Atlanta Braves Jerseys season. PFF graded him as the 46th-best player in the league, while PFR determined that he was the most valuable player on Tennessee's roster.
So yeah, the 24-year-old had a nice year. And that nice year cost the team only $842,831.
The best part if you're a Titans fan? The team owes Byard just $2.1 million over the course of the next two seasons.
Over the course of the last three years, Jamison Crowder of the Washington Redskins has become one of the top slot receivers in the NFL. The 24-year-old has caught at least 64 percent of the passes thrown his way for 600-plus yards every year while also playing a big role as a return man.
Chris Long is many things. Troll is now one of them.
The Eagles defensive lineman recently had some fun on Twitter, with a stream of messages pretending to criticize and demean hockey. In multiple tweets, he acknowledged that plenty of hockey fans may not get the joke.
Which means that maybe Long should have simply relegated his jokes to a burner account.
Gore needs just 76 yards this season to pass Curtis Martin for fourth on the league's all-time rushing list. And while the 35-year-old has shown he can still be productive, he'll also have a role helping Drake develop.
It seemed that Drake was on the right path last year. Over the last five weeks of the season, no back in the league had more rushing yards (444) than Drake, though even he noted that players such as Todd Gurley and Kareem Hunt took their foot off the gas late in the year. But it was still an encouraging finish, and helped validate the Dolphins' decision to trade Jay Ajayi.
"I've learned that you definitely can't take any week for granted," Drake said. "It's a one-game season every week. On any given Sunday. You have to be where your feet are. From waking up one morning and you realize you just traded your starting running back [Jay Ajayi] and now you're going to get a lot more carries. To the next person in front of you [Damien Williams] is injured for the rest of the season. And so now you definitely have to have a lot more of the bulk.


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Q: ffmpeg error: input packet contains no samples av_interleaved_write_frame() I use ffmpeg to concat lots and lots of clips - that works perfectly fine in 99% of the cases. That said, sometimes I get this error:
[mov @ 0x7fcc94004000] fatal error, input packet contains no samples
av_interleaved_write_frame(): Not yet implemented in FFmpeg, patches welcome
The output is still produced and looks fine – but I really would like to understand what throws this error. I'm pretty sure it's a problem with the audio – all clips have audio in the same format (PCM, little endian, 48 kHz, 16 bit), but one clip might have stereo, the other mono, and it only happens when mixing these. I have this all the time though and usually ffmpeg does not complain, so it must be something else on top. Any ideas?
Just for reference (I don't think the line is the problem, but…), this is how I call ffmpeg (from Python):
subprocess.call(['ffmpeg', '-f', 'concat', '-safe', '0', '-i', path_concatlist, '-c:v', 'copy', '-c:a', 'copy', output])

A: All inputs must have the same channel layout
Inputs must all be stereo, or all mono, but not mixed. Refer to this list of properties that must match for proper concatenation with the concat demuxer.
It's only working for you by chance
You just haven't tried a player that fails, stops between sections, plays half/double speed for the mismatched sections, and/or loses A/V sync. As inconvenient as it is, you have to make them all stereo or mono.
Make them all the same
ffmpeg -i input.mov -map 0 -c copy -c:a pcm_s16le -ac 2 -ar 48000 output.mov

Also see How do you convert an entire directory with ffmpeg?
Check channel layout with ffprobe
ffprobe -loglevel error -select_streams a -show_entries stream=channels -of csv=p=0 input.mov

It will either input nothing if there is no audio, or it will output the number of channels per audio stream. This is useful if scripting is involved.


This entry was posted on Monday, October 17th, 2011 at 20:41 and is filed under Call To Action, Government Reform, News, Politics, Restoration.
As a follow-up to my post Boiling It Down, This Is What You've Said, where we discussed first principles, it's now time for we conservatives to talk about the particular issues on which we agree. I notice that there is a fairly libertarian streak in most of what you've offered, which suits me just fine. Let's see what sense we can make of all of this. One of the things you've told me in various forms is that you want a platform of issues that are positive actions, rather than a bill of all the things against which you stand. It's true that there are certain things against which we must all align, but the truth is that most of you would rather see issues in which we are for something, rather than merely against something, which seems to be the reactive role into which Conservatives are all too frequently shoe-horned.
You are for a massive overhaul of the tax-code, in part by repeal of the 16th amendment, and by then instituting some other form of tax with some specific limits enshrined in the constitution. I don't think any person who responded expressed any sort of support for our current tax code or system. Many of you referenced the gargantuan compliance costs for the entire economy that ultimately produce no net wealth.
You are for a balanced budget amendment that will severely curtail the run-away spending of government, with no recourse to additional taxes, but instead to some form of line item veto. A line-item veto amendment was popular.
You are for the national defense, but not wastefully so, in either men or material, and you are for defending our few actual allies around the globe.
You are all some flavor of pro-life, those of you who mentioned the abortion issue, although there were some differences on any exceptions.
You are for a return to strict constitutional adherence.
There is a half-page of agencies and departments of the federal government you would like to see eliminated. Those that showed up most frequently in your comments and emails are: Department of Education, EPA, and Department of Energy. Let's call them the three E's of disaster, because nearly all of you wanted these three gone, at a minimum.
Virtually all of you wish to see the repeal of Obamacare, with the only replacement being what I would term a de-regulation of health insurers so that they can compete across state lines, among other things.
You want the borders secured, and most of you have no sympathy with the notion that "we can't deport 12-20 million people." Your idea seems to be that while we won't do so in one day, or even one year, we need to take away the reasons illegals come to the US by instituting a uniform set of rules with respect to benefits and employment. You also want the practice of "sanctuary cities" specifically banned and all federal grants to cities which adopt that policy denied.
You want the government out of medicine except perhaps for veterans, and there is some variation on Medicare. What you seem to want most in the medical care arena is government to take its nose out of it.
You have varying opinions on social security, although there seems to be a sentiment if not universally held, than held by a clear majority of opinion that the program is fatally flawed, probably unconstitutional by a strict yardstick, and certainly in need of overhaul. At least two people suggested that while they believe the program to be unconstitutional, they suggested amending the constitution to include it long enough to phase it out over twenty years. Some of you actually said you'd be willing to do without it in the future if you could stop paying into it now.
There were a number of differing opinions on issues like gay marriage, and assisted suicide and such things, but all in all, the bulk of the comments and suggestions were in relative agreement on most issues.
Of those who spoke of foreign policy, almost all of you wanted a radically reduced American role in any sort of global alliances like the UN. From there, proposals differed radically, but one thing surfaced repeatedly: You want the United States to continue its support of Israel, with only one exception.
There was near unanimous support for term limits, although ideas on how long varied. I saw a suggestion for a maximum of six terms in the House, two terms in the Senate, while leaving the President as is. There was one that suggested nobody needed to serve more than a single term as President. There was one that I found interesting suggesting that we should have a total of twenty years federal service for elected officials, but that the presidential term limit still ought to apply. The idea was to discouraged lengthy federal careers, giving the edge to people from the states to move up. More than one of you suggested that staff be term-limited just like the officials under which they serve. It was a mixed bag of ideas from very sedate and practical to much more radical and creative.
Speaking of 'radical ideas,' the number of you who thought it would be a good idea to reform the Federal Reserve system, or abolish it outright was rather high. I always knew that conservatives never really liked the Federal Reserve, but I figured this to be mostly a libertarian position. Apparently, that's not at all the case. You want a stable currency with a stable store of value providing its backing.
Most of you wanted the bulk of the welfare state eliminated, particularly for able-bodied people. You wanted strict lifetime limits. You wanted to see cash and cash-like subsidies replaced with food allotments to discourage widespread fraud. Three of you expressly called for a requirement to establish paternity of any child for whom support would be claimed.
You wanted work and savings and thrift to pay. Four of you suggested eliminating the minimum wage outright, citing its negative effects on total employment and inflation.
Most of you thought our energy policy is a joke. You think the government is discouraging rational energy ideas while subsidizing what some of you called boondoggles("green energy" and ethanol subsidies) and others among you called corporate welfare.
There were a few other things you expressed. Most of you were in favor of harsh punishments for corruption. Almost all of you favored a federal death penalty, those who mentioned it. Anybody who mentioned "affirmative action" did so in the negative.
There were various opinions on drug legalization, some strongly against, and a couple strongly in favor.
Everybody was angry about debt growth and deficit spending.
That's covering a lot of ground, and I hope you'll help me with the next step in this. What I'd like to do is get your help in prioritizing these things. So, here's what you can do: Select your top five, in order of importance, and if you think there's something not mentioned here that must be mentioned, make it number six on your list, and I will add it for the second round.
I think this gives us a good toe-hold on this cliff, but it's a long and treacherous climb ahead. I expect there will be disagreements, but the general sentiments expressed suggested to me that you're mostly willing to work around some issues in favor of your most important priorities. Much of what you've offered comports well with what I've seen of Tea Party doctrine, insofar as I know it, and you all seem willing to give this a go. I want to thank all the respondents who filled my inbox, and submitted comments.
Mark, I feel remiss that I didn't submit a list of the things that I'm in favor of, such as you describe in this missive. But, I didn't do so as it seems to me that federalism trumps almost all of the above. If the 10th amendment is returned to it's proper role, most of the things listed above again become NO BUSINESS of the federal government and, IMO, that's as it should be.
In the list you outlined, I see lots of "I don't like THEIR rules but would want to put MY rules in place instead!" Not much federalism in what you've described above. My wish list is short … Reinvigorate the 10th amendment. Repeal the 16th and 17th. Restrict the Judicial to their proper role as a CO-EQUAL branch of the federal govt. Judicial supremacy (a la Warren) is a BIG part of our problem.
Securing our borders is important, but if we don't stop all the freebies(ie. free breakfast, free lunch, free daycare or public school, food stamps, housing assistance, welfare for anchor babies, free medical),with no strings attatched for those who come here illegally, and even legally, they will always find a way. These are just a few examples of how our govt. makes it far too appealing to come here. It's not just jobs!


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The Taurach Railway () is a  narrow-gauge museum railway in the Austrian state of Salzburg.

History

The Taurach Railway uses the section of the Murtalbahn from Tamsweg to Mauterndorf, which was closed for economic reasons in 1981 after heavy damage to a bridge. The section was revived as a museum railway by Club 760, which is an association formed for that purpose. Club 760 leased the line on 1 April 1982 and from 1983 to 1987 volunteers and members worked on restoring it. The Taurachbahn was opened on 9 July 1988 and operates as a museum railway weekends every summer.

The route

The line begins at Mauterndorf station and runs along the  through  stop to Mariapfarr station. From there the route goes through Lintsching stop to St. Andrä Andlwirt, which is the terminus for passenger traffic. The Taurachbahn continues a further two kilometers to meet the Murtalbahn at Tamsweg. On this section is a branchline, which gives an easier grade. Tamsweg station is not used for regular tourist traffic because of the fees demanded by the Steiermärki National Railways for it; however special trains do go through to Mauterndorf through Tamsweg from the Murtalbahn on specific occasions. Also this section is used for the mutual change by vehicles.

Infrastructure

The major station on the railway is Mauterndorf, where there is a boiler house and workshop, and also a wagon-works constructed in 1999 with the assistance of a European Union grant. After  passing through Mariapfarr the line crosses the Taurach, and Lignitzbach rivers, and then local highway L248.  After St. Andrä-Andlwirt the railway crosses the Göriachbach river, local highway L222, and then finally the Lessachbach river.

The railway crossings on the federal highway at Mariapfarr station and the local highway at Lintsching stop are secured by barriers, which must be closed and opened by the train crew by hand. There are many crossings at local dirt roads, which are secured by speed limits, St Andrews crosses and/or stop boards.

Rolling stock
Steam locomotives 298,56, 699,01, StLB 6 are used to operate the railway, and in 2004 locomotive 12 from a salt mine railway was obtained. Diesel locomotives 2091,03 and SKGLB D40 are also used, as well as three smaller diesel locomotives and a hand trolley for work trips. Several historic railway carriages are used for passenger traffic. In the goods yard are a number of goods wagons, several of which are used for maintenance on the railway.

Operation

The railway operates on Saturday and Sunday afternoons from the middle of June to in the middle of September, in the mornings in July and August and on Friday afternoons from middle of July to the middle of August. The railway is operated completely by those voluntary members from Club 760.

References

760 mm gauge railways in Austria
Heritage railways in Austria
Railway companies of Austria
Museums in Salzburg (state)
Railway museums in Austria
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