According to the US National Intelligence Council's (NIC) Global Trends 2030 report, the earth's population will be pushing 8.3 billion (up from 7.1 billion in 2012) by 2030. This population growth, combined with ongoing urbanization and rising incomes, will increase the world's demand for food.
Urban agriculture promises to relieve some of the demand for fresh produce in the future's megacities, but meat poses a different challenge. Scaling some types of animal husbandry down for urban space has been successful – such as with chicken coops that can be quite productive sources of eggs – but raising animals for slaughter is another matter. A single egg laying chicken can produce an egg every 24-26 hours; a roasted chicken can be consumed once.
Meat, in particular, is a resource-intensive food. For example, producing a single quarter-pound hamburger using traditional methods requires a substantial amount of grain, water, and land.
Moreover, these resources will themselves be under greater strain in the future. Most alarming is the water situation, estimates used by the NIC in the Global Trends 2030 report indicate that global water requirements will reach 6,900 billion cubic meters (BCM) in 2030, forty percent above current sustainable water supplies. Food supplies in the future will be heavily influenced by the availability of land and water, which will come under greater strain due to climate change and poor resource management.
Bioprinting may be part of the solution to these problems. A bioprinter prints out biological material in the same way a 3D printer may produce a replica Eiffel Tower. The use of 3D printing technology in the biological sciences made its debut in the field of regenerative medicine. Organovo, a firm spearheading the use of printed biomaterial for medical uses, successfully bioprinted functional blood vessels from the cells of an individual in 2010. Trials using bioprinted material have only been conducted in animals, but the results are exciting for the medical field.
Modern Meadow, an upstart biotech firm located in Silicon Valley, aims to pioneer bioprinting raw meat as an economic and ethical solution to the looming global problems associated with meat production.
In order to engineer meat, Gabor and Andras Forgacs, the father and son founders of Modern Meadow (also the founders of Organovo), plan to deliver bioink into a support structure with a computer-controlled delivery device, the bioprinter. To create the bioink scientists retrieve stem cells – cells which are able to replicate and differentiate – from an animal. Once the cells have multiplied they are placed into a bio-cartridge. Just as an inkjet printer lays down dots of ink, stem cells will be printed into molds and matured into muscle tissue.
The potential savings in terms of food, water, and energy could be enormous. A study published in Environmental Science & Technology by Hanna Tuomisto and M. Joost Teixeira de Mattos concluded that the overall environmental impact of cultured meat production is substantially lower than that of conventionally produced meat. According to the study, cultured meat production uses 99% less land and between 82 to 96% less water, depending on the specific product. To put the savings in water alone in perspective, keep in mind that while the Earth is seventy percent water, ninety-seven percent of the Earth's water is undrinkable salty sea water and two percent is trapped in icecaps. Only one percent is both potable and accessible. Every drop counts.
The funding of research and commercialization of the process and product will prove to be significant challenges. Last year researchers at Maastricht University in the Netherlands attempted to produce strips of muscle tissue using a similar technique called biofabrication. Project leader Mark Post estimated that a hamburger produced using their method would cost over $300,000. Post commented that the price would plummet as the technology advances.
The commercialization of manufactured meat may also encounter various difficulties. Public opposition to bioprinted meats may take the same tone as opposition to genetically modified (GM) crops. But this is not an insurmountable obstacle. As the technology is perfected and promoted, and the price of meat rises because supply cannot match growing demand, opposition would likely decline in the face of necessity.
We will not be ordering printed meat any time soon, but bioprinting may eventually provide a solution to a number of negative trends. Global demand for meat is projected to rise, but meat remains one of the most resource-intense food sources. By 2030, nearly half of the world's population will be living in areas with severe water scarcity issues – and will be faced with deciding how to use this most precious of all substances.
Innovative, targeted solutions such as bioprinting may assist in alleviating the pressure created by urbanization, the rise of the global middle class, and population growth on the world's food supply and resources. Human ingenuity is our greatest hope.
Catherine Putz is with the Council's Strategic Foresight Initiative.


MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: JUNE 26–JULY 2, 2017! Hanging with friends before everybody leaves LA to vacation, a spontaneous blood donation, free concert at a museum in downtown, and a weekend with my parents back at home. Enjoy!
Watch as I fall into a deep The Handmaid's Tale wormhole, hang out with my dad and mom for Father's Day, slip into work for an event, and catch the second half of an film screenings ft. films by asian filmmakers organized by my collective.
A few hours in Cabo San Lucas, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Mexico. We only had a little time, so we saw El Arco and Land's End and explored the beach.
Photographs that show a few points of interest in Mazatlán, a Pacific coastal city known for seafood, the sandy beaches, beautiful architecture, and as the home of Pacifico, the brewing company. I also snuck in a photo editing tutorial.
A day around Los Angeles—running errands, thrifting, and prepping and grilling Korean BBQ at home.
This is the third part of my DSLR photographs from my family's Alaska trip this past September. Most of these pics are from port. We visited another "historic" saloon, watched salmon swim upstream in Ketchikan, and visited the Totem Heritage Center.
ALASKAN CRUISE 2016 PART 2 – KLONDIKE SUMMIT, SKAGWAY, JUNEAU!
Photos from the first port town, Skagway, and part of the day in Alaska's capital, Juneau!


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Джон Эгер Ховард (; 4 июня 1752 — 12 октября 1827) — американский плантатор, военный и политик, 5-й губернатор Мэриленда. Он так же был членом Континентального Конгресса, Конгресса США и Сената США. Ховард служил офицером Континентальной армии в годы Войны за независимость и был награждён медалью и благодарностью Конгресса за отличие в сражении при Коупенсе. После войны президент Вашингтон предлагал ему пост Военного секретаря, но Ховард отказался.

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Джон Ховард родился на плантации в округе Балтимор, в семье Корнелиуса Ховарда (1706–1777) и Руфи Эгер (1721–1796). Его дед Джошуа Ховард родился в Манчестере, служил в армии короля Якова II в годы восстания Монмута, после чего эмигрировал в Америку и получил большой участок земли около Балтимора. Джон получил хорошее образование у частных учителей.

Губернатор Мэриленда

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Литература
 Eisenberg, Gerson G. Marylanders Who Served the Nation. Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives, 1992.
 Piecuch, Jim, Cool Deliberate Courage: John Eager Howard in the American Revolution. Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer 2009  USBN 978-1877853715
 White, Frank, The Governors of Maryland, 1777/1970, The Hall of Records of Maryland, 1970.

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 Биография Ховарда на сайте Конгресса США
 John Eager Howard (1752-1827)

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Временные президенты Сената США
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1297-961 - Palace of Justice Square in the Old Town, Nice, Alpes Maritimes, Cote d'Azur, Provence, France, Europe
1283-904 - Jan Hus Monument and St. Nicholas' Church seen from the old town market square in the morning, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic
1283-897 - Historical buildings seen from the easter market at the old town market square at dusk, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe
1283-891 - Facades of historical buildings seen from the easter market at the old town market square, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic
1283-895 - Historical buildings near the old town market square at dusk, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe
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1283-879 - Easter Market at the old town market square with St. Nicholas Church in the background, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe
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1283-866 - Our Lady before Tyn Church and the old town market square at dawn, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe
1283-868 - Historical buildings near the old town market square, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe
1283-869 - Staromestske namesti (Old Town Square) and Our Lady before Tyn Church in spring, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe
1283-854 - Facades of historical buildings near the old town market square, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe
1283-844 - St. Nicholas' Church seen from the Easter Market at the old town market square, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe
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1283-832 - Staromestske namesti (Old Town Square) and Our Lady before Tyn Church at dusk, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe
1297-944 - St Marys Square in the medieval old town, a UNESCO World site, in Krakow, Poland, Europe
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1297-952 - Elevated view of Cloth Hall in the Main Square in the medieval old town, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Krakow, Poland, Europe
1297-939 - The Adam Mickiewicz Monument in the main Square in the medieval old town, a UNESCO World site, in Krakow, Poland, Europe
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1297-879 - The main square, Rynek Glowny, in the medieval old town, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Krakow, Poland, Europe.
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1297-858 - Horse drawn carriage in the main square, Rynek Główny, in the medieval old town, UNESCO World site, in Krakow, Poland, Europe.
1184-3269 - Market square with the old town hall of Lorsch, Hesse, Germany
1297-820 - A cafe scene in the main square, Rynek Glowny, in the medieval old town, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Krakow, Poland, Europe
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1297-816 - Cloth Hall in the main square, Rynek Glowny, in the medieval old town, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Krakow, Poland, Europe
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Q: Exploding a data frame row by row and storing the exploded values in a new dataframe I have the following code.
I want to go through the 'outlierdataframe' dataframe row by row and explode the values in the 'x' and 'y' columns.
For each exploded row, I then want to store this exploded row as its own dataframe, with columns 'newID', 'x' and 'y'.
However, the following code prints everything in one column rather than printing the exploded 'x' values in one column, the exploded 'y' values in another column?
I would be so grateful for a helping hand!
individualframe = outlierdataframe.iloc[0]
individualoutliers = individualframe.explode(list('xy'))
newframe = pd.DataFrame(individualoutliers)
print(newframe)

outlier dataframe first line:

indexing first line of outlier dataframe:
outlierdataframe.iloc[0]

index                                                      24
subID                                         Prolific_610020
level                                                       1
complete                                                False
duration                                            20.015686
map_view                                            12.299759
distance                                           203.426697
x           [55, 55, 55, 60, 60, 60, 65, 70, 70, 75, 80, 8...
y           [60, 60, 60, 60, 65, 65, 70, 70, 75, 75, 80, 8...
r           [10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 1...
batch                                                       1
newID                                                  610020
Name: 24, dtype: object

newframe = pd.DataFrame(individualoutliers)
print(newframe)

                24
0                 24
1    Prolific_610020
2                  1
3              False
4          20.015686
..               ...
121               55
122               55
123               55
124                1
125           610020

A: You can use pandas.DataFrame.apply with pandas.Series.explode to explode your selected (list) columns (e.g, x and y).
Try this :
out = (
        df
          .loc[:, ["newID", "x", "y"]]
          .apply(lambda x: pd.Series(x).explode())
      )

# Output :
print(out)

    newID    x    y
0  610020  100   60
0  610020   55   60
0  610020   55   60
0  610020   60   60
0  610020   60   65
0  610020   60   65
0  610020   65   70
0  610020   70   70
0  610020   70   75
0  610020   75   75
0  610020   80   80

If you need to assign a single dataframe (with a patter name, df_newID) for each group, use this:
for k, g in out.groupby("newID"):
    globals()['df_' + str(k)] = g

print(df_610020, type(df_610020))

    newID    x    y
0  610020  100   60
0  610020   55   60
0  610020   55   60
0  610020   60   60
0  610020   60   65
0  610020   60   65
0  610020   65   70
0  610020   70   70
0  610020   70   75
0  610020   75   75
0  610020   80   80 <class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>

A: The following solution works:
individualframe = outlierdataframe.iloc[0]
individualoutliers1 = individualframe[['x']].explode('x')
individualoutliers2 = individualframe[['y']].explode('y')
newIDs = individualframe[['newID']][0]
individualoutliers1 = pd.DataFrame(individualoutliers1)
individualoutliers2 = pd.DataFrame(individualoutliers2)
data = [individualoutliers1,individualoutliers2]
newframe = pd.concat(data,axis=1)
newframe = newframe.rename(columns={newframe.columns.values[0]:'x',newframe.columns.values[1]:'y'})
newframe['newID'] = newIDs
print(newframe)

Output exceeds the size limit. Open the full output data in a text editor
      y    y   newID
0    55   60  610020
1    55   60  610020
2    55   60  610020
3    60   60  610020
4    60   65  610020
5    60   65  610020
6    65   70  610020

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The certifications we have ensure that students have access to a high quality curriculum that provides the necessary knowledge, skills and values for future success:
Mexican Secretary of Education (SEP)
Association of American Schools in Mexico (ASOMEX)
The Association of American Schools of Central America Colombia-Caribbean and Mexico (Tri-Association)
The Inter-Regional Center for Curriculum and Materials Development (IRC).
Membership since 1964. AdvancED is the unified organization of the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI). AdvancED is dedicated to advancing excellence in education worldwide through accreditation, research, and professional services.
AdvancED creates the world's largest education community, across the United States and in 65 countries worldwide, educating 15 million students. Less than 150 schools in all of Latin America and the Caribbean have this accreditation which allows JFK graduates to receive a U.S. Diploma for their studies.
Our American Certification obtained through AdvancED helps us maintain high standards with yearly reports of school progress that are combined with a special "in depth" study standards, every five years.
JFK currently offers the DP and MYP programs in Middle School and High School, and we are in the candidacy phase of PYP. With the implementation of PYP, we are moving towards an inquiry based learning system where students explore transdisciplinary themes and strive to be examples of the IB Learner Profile.
JFK is a candidate school for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme and pursuing authorization as an IB World School.
*Only schools authorized by the International Baccalaureate can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme or the IB Career-related Certificate (IBCC). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit www.ibo.org
Mission Statement from the IB The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end, the organization works with schools, governments, and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
The John F. Kennedy School is accredited by the Ministry of Education (SEP). The main purpose of this organization is to create the ideal conditions that allow a quality education for Mexican citizens.
• MÉXICO Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP). All students receive a Mexican National Diploma upon graduation.
The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
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Imagine how you would feel if someone you trained was brutally raped or murdered because you did not prepare them to the best of your ability for real life violence.
Imagine you were to teach someone that would knowingly go off and face a life or death confrontation that would affect them, their families, and their loved ones for the rest of their lives.
Think about the humiliation, the violation of trust, the fear, and the sense of helplessness that they carry with them after not having been able to defend themselves.
Suddenly, it wouldn't matter what level of instructorship you were. It wouldn't matter that what you learned came from the Special Forces. It wouldn't matter how hard you punched or kicked. It wouldn't matter how tough you were, or how many competitions, or street fights you won.
Nothing else would matter, but the fact that you did not do the right thing to guide that student out of a violent confrontation.
Unfortunately this is so often forgotten by us as self defense instructors. We train. We hone our bodies to high levels of pain and endurance. We get certificates, belts, and titles. We pat ourselves on the back and our students admire us.
The grim reality is that no amounts of our own personal accolades are going to help our students to survive in the street or the battlefield.
It doesn't matter how fast we are, how many moves we know, or how many boards we can break. It doesn't matter what we can do, ourselves, if they are the ones attacked. It's about what they can do.
We as instructors have an incredible responsibility to teach people how to defend themselves and survive a confrontation…..even if they are not as fast, strong, or as tough as us. It is a huge responsibility, and one that you should take very seriously. We are dealing with the safety of other people's lives.
We need to think about this the next time we pat ourselves on the back for having a 1,000 students training in a huge facility. We can never be complacent and always be continuously learning how to teach.
We need to study the behavioral and psychological aspects of a confrontation. We need to study human anatomy, physiology, and motor learning as it applies to combat.
We need to be able to say that we have worked hard to make students understand the mentality of survival, and make it apart of their lives. If you are willing to do these things you may be on the path to being a good Instructor.
Never lose sight of the fact that it's not about us.
As a tactical trainer and coach I've been working with people and organizations for over 20 years. Starting my career in the military and law enforcement sector, I quickly discovered my true passion. Empowering people is what I'm here for. Find me in the YCF Zone.
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Wenn du ein echtes Interessen daran hast, Menschen stark zu machen, dann schau dir unbedingt unser einzigartiges Instructor Program an.


A pair of larger brass door knobs that will suit grand Georgian and Victorian internal doors or front doors. These impressive door knobs can be used with either rim or sprung mortise latches/locks.
The brass has undergone an ageing process, and is unlacquered, leaving it to age further if desired, naturally.


In order to become a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, an individual must be nominated by the President of the United States and approved by the U.S. Senate, with at least half of that body approving in the affirmative. Generally, a justice's qualifications are judged by the President and, most visibly, by a Senate hearing. There is no definitive qualification of age or experience that is a standard to be met; instead, there is a much more subjective process taken by the Senate, occasionally resulting in a sometimes controversial defeat of judicial nominees.
The following list consists of past Supreme Court Justices since 1789 placed in the order in which they took the judicial oath of office and thereby started their term of office. The names of Justices who are active (as of November 28, 2004) are in bold. Justices who received a recess appointment to the Supreme Court have an asterisk(*) following their name. All but one of these recess appointments went on to be confirmed by the Senate during the following session of Congress.
(a) This individual was elevated from Associate Justice to Chief Justice. Unlike the inferior courts, the Chief Justice is separately nominated and subject to a separate confirmation process, regardless of whether or not (s)he is already an Associate Justice.
(b) There is some disagreement on how William Howard Taft exited office. According to some sources, such as the Supreme Court Historical Society (http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_chiefs/010.html), Taft retired. According to others, such as the Federal Judicial Center (http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2331), Taft resigned.
There have been a total of eleven seats: one Chief Justiceship and ten Associate Justiceships. Two of the Associate Justiceships were abolished, leaving the nine-seat Court we are familar with.
The Associate Justiceships are numbered in order of their creation. If seats were established simultaneously, they are numbered in the order in which they were filled.
Seat #7 was vacant at the time of passage of the Judicial Circuits Act of 1866, and hence was abolished on 1866 July 23rd. This meant that John Catron was not only the first occupant of Seat #7 but the last.
Seat #5 was abolished upon the death of James Moore Wayne on 1867 July 5th.
The Judicial Circuits Act was superseded by the Circuit Judges Act of 1869 April 10th [see 16 Stat. 44] before a third seat could be abolished.
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Jami est une ville du Togo.

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Jami est situé à environ 84 km de Dapaong, dans la région des Savanes.

Vie économique
 Coopérative paysanne

Lieux publics
 École secondaire

Ville de la région des Savanes


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Astronomy and space start up UwinguTM announced today the launch of its first commercial project at www.uwingu.com. The project is being launched "in beta testing," but the public can participate immediately, helping to generate a new source of funds for space exploration, research, and education.
Uwingu's introductory product is based around a challenge to the people of Earth to create a 'baby book of planet names' for the 160 billion or more planets astronomers now estimate inhabit our galaxy—the Milky Way.
Uwingu will use proceeds from this project and future ones to create a grant fund space researchers, space educators, and project tams can apply to.
Uwingu planet name nominations are just $0.99; there is no limit on the number of nominations a person or entity can sponsor. Associated with planet name nominations, Uwingu also announced a contest to determine the 1,000 most popular planet names in the database, which will be communicated to planet hunting astronomers for consideration. Votes also cost just $0.99.


"A Perspective on Kitchener's £2 Coin"
"Flying Eagle and Indian Cent Variety Collecting"
"Let the Blind See: What's on a Coin Anyway?"
"The Other Side of the Fence"
I am happy to present Volume VII, Issue II of The Tarnished Truth. This issue was admittedly harder to manage since I've been going into and out of the field quite a bit more than usual.
Some of you have asked what I do within my profession, so I thought I'd share a snapshot. In May, I spent 2+ solid weeks doing 24-hour steady state operations training maneuver. 24-hour steady state operations means you go from mission to mission and sleep when you can sneak it in. From there, we had a week of Recovery, where we clean up ourselves and our gear. Because we were going back into the field a week later, we had to multi-task and squeeze in field prep with Recovery. Normally, Recovery and field prep are two separate weeks of fun, so you can imagine how busy we were doing both. After the week of being back, we went back into the field for Gunnery for another 2+ weeks, where we qualified crews on their weapon systems. Imagine seeing a Bradley and HMMWV rolling down the road, shooting bullets and explosive projectiles at targets. It was a great experience and I learned a lot, but I'm still trying to catch back up on sleep!
I am very excited to hear that our Anniversary Tokens have been delivered to our President and he is preparing them for shipment. Once the board settles on a delivery date, we will have those shiny objects moving toward our doorsteps. I don't know when they will be mailed out, but it is my understanding that we will have them before Christmas.
I have included a PDF word search puzzle of numismatic terms. Truth be told, the idea came when I was looking for ways to bulk up the Newsletter since I don't have as many articles as last time. After some brainstorming, I decided it would be fun to expand our numismatic knowledge through a game and a little competition. The first member to complete, scan/photograph, and return the word search to me (by email) will receive a small gift package of coins and recognition in the next issue. I will decide who was the fastest person to return it once I've confirmed all the terms were located; I will also be the one selecting the prize.
A special thanks to Peter Munro, David Noble, and Tom Babinski for contributing articles to the Newsletter. I enjoyed the reads and I am certain the group will too. I would like to remind the group that everyone is welcome to submit any coin-related article they desire. I am certain there is a treasure trove of readable material right at your fingertips!


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Q: How to choose install location using "apt-get install"? I was about to play around on my virtual machine running Ubuntu 12.04.
I installed GIT-CORE using apt-get install git-core from repos. First I thought the apt-get command will install in the folder I am in, but I was wrong.
So is there a way to directly tell apt-get where to install ?
Or do I have to move the files later? Let me know your best solution for this.

A: I don't know if I understood the problem correctly, so the answer goes in two directions. The first: apt-get, deb packages, and source packages. The second: Git.
The first thing to say is that apt-get install does not choose where to install a package, but the package itself specifies that information. A .deb file is just a set of compressed directories which, in fact, has the proper install targets within. So, in short, no you can't change the apt-get install destination of the packages, because it has to do with the packages, not with apt-get. Last on this, each location within a deb goes to the particular GNU/Linux directory in your system, so /usr/share/bin cannot be changed by other, the same for the "man" pages, icons, etc. Once you touch the deb, it is actually a very tricky thing to handle.
Second, of course you can work-around the paths if you know what you are doing. It is not a simple task to do for beginners or intermediate users since you need to handle the deb packaging rules to modify the deb package. To do that, just download the package without installing it with apt-get, uncompress the package and edit the deb manifest and the files/directories you may want to change. Again, this is not encouraged at all and there is no reason to do this unless you are a developer that wants to test something in particular with that package.
Third, you can always compile from the source. That will basically make a "portable" version of the software you want to install and will locate it on your home folder. Of course, it will carry a) lots of dev dependencies to build the source b) eventually solve different problems regarding the compilation. This is also not recommended for beginners, unless there is no other way to install that particular software (which clearly is not the case of Git).
But, probably you might just want to change the git location target folders? To do that you just need to configure your git account and the folders to sync. That process though has nothing to do with apt-get. Check some guides on how to do it here or here. Of course, you can always see the official page or the man page of git (man git in a shell).


Get ready to Pivet. In January, the Cox Automotive Mobility Group launched Pivet, a new brand with a goal to provide end-to-end fleet services to enable transportation today and tomorrow.
As options like ride-hailing, car-sharing and vehicle subscription services gain traction, the proportion of miles traveled by consumer-owned vehicles versus fleet-owned vehicles will change dramatically. Inevitably, the emergence of fleets will disrupt the traditional car ownership model and we'll start to see more fleet-owned vehicles on the road.
These fleet owners (dealers, original equipment manufacturers, rental car companies, service and delivery providers) will need a wide range of services, including cleaning, detailing, fueling and charging, maintenance, storage, parking, logistics, technology services and more in order to keep their fleets operational and efficient. Pivet connects industry-leading Cox Automotive brands, including Manheim and RideKleen, and other trusted providers, to handle every fleet need.
The Pivet network will be a go-to resource for maximizing fleet vehicle uptime and profitability.
"The Pivet network includes physical hub locations as well as mobile solutions that service fleet vehicles where they are," said Joe George, president of Mobility Solutions at Cox Automotive.
The recently overhauled Manheim Metro Atlanta Fleet Hub will serve as the flagship hub location, while RideKleen, a national mobile car care company, will power the initial mobile fleet services offering.
According to Joe, Pivet embodies the broader vision of the mobility future the Cox Automotive Mobility Solutions team will lead — grounded in the art and science of moving people. "The name is also a nod to us evolving to meet our clients' changing needs and growth aspirations," he said.
Learn more about Pivet here.


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The Miracle Man (1919), een film van George Loane Tucker
The Miracle Man (1932), een film van Norman Z. McLeod


When trying to import an .AAF sequence from an AVID Symphony Nitris (ver 1.5.1) into Protools (ver 6.9.1/HD 2 Accel running on windows XP) I can't seem to get the AAF file to see any of the AVID's audio media. We are not trying to import video, just audio. We are on a Unity system, running client version 3.5.
When we export from AVID we choose "copy all media" and we set it to a specific folder on my partiion, yet when I try to open the AAF file, it only references media NOT created in the AVID digitize/editing process...meaning anything they've extracted from a CD, or VO files imported from me previously, etc. I can see the media in the "Audio Files" folder if i click and open it...yet it does not appear in the "Import Session Data" window when I try to import it. We do this with Symphony's using OMF 2.0 exports, and they work fine. It seems to be something with the AAF/Protools translation that's getting confused. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Pro Tools 6.9.3 and earlier with DigiTranslator does not support AAF files with embedded media. Only AAF import and export with external file references is supported.
When exporting from an avid system to a trackpack/ext drive that you want to house all the media, its best to use the "Consolidate and relink to consolidated media" option - then only the exact media you need it pushed onto the drive and the AAF refers to that newly created media with new UIDs and file durations etc.


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Who Is Luis Gil?
Or the better question might be, who's going to be the next Jozy Altidore, Clint Dempsey, or Landon Donovan? Eric Wynalda has given high praise to Luis Gil, and I'd take praise from Wynalda as very high praise indeed because he's not one to say someone's good unless they're pretty damn good.
As he told SI:
"I really like Amobi Okugo — I've seen his games at UCLA — and we've all heard about Luis Gil, and you can get carried away with that, but I'll tell you, he's maybe the most talented player I've seen in a long time."
I'm not sure what other young players Wynalda thinks are going to have an impact for future U.S. national teams, in Europe or in the MLS, but he's now an assistant with the U-20 U.S. national team, so he'll have a hand in helping these players grow and develop. He's an excellent choice for the team, as he's played in Germany, the MLS and in a number of World Cups.
Soccer By Ives has said that Gil is set to sign with the MLS, instead of going to Europe, where some of the biggest clubs in the world wanted to sign him. Luis Gil was on the radar screen for Arsenal and Real Madrid.
Gil was a part of the U.S. residency program and formerly played for Pateadores Soccer Club in California.
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Robert Lawrence Hicks
"For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand." 2 Timothy 4:6
Robert "Rob" Lawrence Hicks was born on November 15, 1948 in Bogalusa, Louisiana to Valeira "Jack" Hicks and the late Robert "Bob" Hicks. Rob departed this life peacefully at Our Lady of the Angels Hospital on February 11, 2020.
Rob leaves to cherish his life: his wife, Marilyn Hicks; eight children, Kiley Kilbourne of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Keela (Eugene) Burdis and Keeda Hicks of Prairieville, Louisiana, Diamond Hicks of Seattle, Washington, Rodrick (Keisha) Alexander of Harvey, Louisiana, Roderick (Daphine) Robinson of Gulfport, Mississippi, Tina Robinson of Bogalusa, Louisiana, and Madeline Martin of Grand Prairie, Texas; his mother, Valeira "Jack" Hicks; three brothers: Charles Hicks of Washington, D.C., Gregory (Gloria) Hicks and Darryl (Sharon) Robertson of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; one sister, Barbara (Matthew) Collins of Bogalusa, Louisiana; two aunts, Carol Burris of Avondale, Louisiana and Bernice Walker of New Orleans, Louisiana; two sisters-in-law: Barbara Morgan and Marynell Carson of Bogalusa, Louisiana and two brothers-in-law, Nevel Carson, Jr. of Bogalusa, Louisiana and Maurice Smith of Baltimore, Maryland; his ten grandchildren, Cameron Burdis, Chayson Burdis, Karson Duncan, Amaya Robinson, Nylan Alexander, Kamerin Alexander, JaRoderick Robinson, Acelynn Robinson, Mason Robinson, Roderick Robinson II; and a host of cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.
He was preceded in death by his father, Robert "Bob" Hicks; his sister, Valeria "Pena" Smith; and two dear friends, Melvin Torrence, and Henry "Shrimp" Mims.
Visitation will be held Friday, February 21, 2020 from 12:00PM until 2:00PM with funeral to follow at 2:00PM at Bethlehem Baptist Church, 837 E. 7th Street, Bogalusa, Louisiana with Rev. Christoper Matthews, pastor officiating. Interment to follow at Bogalusa Cemetery.
Crain and Sons Funeral Home – Bogalusa in charge of arrangements.


As President Barack Obama looks for ways to jump-start the economy and fund programs he promised voters, it's no surprise that he's eying major industry to help pay the freight. Big business has an interest in the success of goals such as health care reform and shoring up the nation's banks.
But Obama's current proposal is no way to go about this. His plan to close loopholes and dramatically increase taxes on income that companies are holding overseas would amount to a $60 billion hit on American employers that do business globally. There's a better way to bring billions of dollar in revenue home and create incentives for investment on American soil: Allow corporate profits parked overseas to come home at a more forgiving tax rate.
American businesses are sitting on piles of cash overseas – between $700 billion and $1 trillion, by the latest estimates – where for all practical purposes it is tax-exempt. The U.S. collects tax on the income at a rate as high as 35 percent only when it's brought back here.
A one-year reduction in the repatriation tax to 5.25 percent would offer an incentive to bring the money home.
It's projected to bring in more than $20 billion in tax revenue for the federal government. And the corporate cash itself, hundreds of billions of dollars, invested in the U.S. could create a huge economic stimulus at no cost to taxpayers. That's the win-win-win scenario for the president, businesses and the American people.
Unfortunately, when the U.S. tried a similar incentive in 2004, it didn't have the desired effect of spurring investment in this country. So in February, when Sen. Barbara Boxer proposed doing it again, the Senate defeated the plan 55-42. However, there are ways to tweak the law so that some or all of the repatriated funds have to be put to a useful purpose here – hiring workers, making capital improvements and investing in research and development. In return for the tax break, companies should be willing to show that this is the case.
Corporate tax policy does need a major overhaul. The system dates back to World War I and is about as effective today as a Sopwith Camel would be against an F-15 fighter. But the president must keep his campaign promise to not damage American competitiveness in the process. Revisions to close loopholes and crack down on tax havens first need to be carefully analyzed through the lens of today's global markets.
Twenty-five years ago, the United States had one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the world. Today, we have the second-highest. Given a world in economic crisis, the president and Congress must resolve to first do no additional harm. That's why encouraging repatriation of offshore dollars is the best immediate strategy.


The world typically values people based on their outward beauty, personal wealth or something amazing they've accomplished. What if God did that? What if He only loved you if you were remarkably good looking? Only loved you if you had tons of money and were willing to give some of it to Him and His causes? Only loved you if you had first overcome astronomical odds to accomplish a great feat? What if God judged us like we judge each other? How terrible would that be?
Thankfully, God does things a little differently.
The key word in this Bible passage is "ransom," which can also be translated "redeem." In the first century, to "ransom" or "redeem" a slave meant to set them completely free. They owed nothing. You paid the price "in full" for their freedom. The simple fact that something of great value was exchanged as part of the transaction inferred that whatever was being "ransomed" or "redeemed" was extremely valuable or precious to the person paying the price.
God has paid a significant price for your freedom from sin and death. Understand, not just any price. Your freedom, your ransom, and your redemption from sin and death cost God everything. He gave His most precious gift, His most valued possession to save you!
Perspective #74: Your freedom, your ransom, and your redemption from sin and death cost God everything. He gave His most precious gift, His most valued possession to save you!
Also notice the Apostle Paul is clarifying to his protégé Timothy who this ransom was paid for when he says "who GAVE himself a RANSOM for ALL." Jesus Christ GAVE Himself freely, paid the price FULLY, for ALL who accept His gift of Love! You, me, everyone!
Perspective #75: Jesus Christ GAVE Himself freely, paid the price FULLY, for ALL who accept His gift of love! You, me, everyone!
Read this passage slowly to get the deeper meaning. "Not with perishable things such as silver and gold (or money), but with the precious blood of Christ." God spared no expense to redeem you from sin and death.
Perspective #76: God spared no expense to redeem you from sin and death.
And if God spared no expense to ransom you, to redeem you, what does that say about how valuable, how precious you are to God?
Perspective #77: If God spared no expense to ransom you and to redeem you, what does that say about how valuable and precious you are to God?
You must be extremely valuable, extremely special, for God to go through so much trouble to ransom you, to redeem you!
God gave His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, His most precious gift, His most valued possession, to die on the cross for your sins. Jesus took the judgment your sins deserved, the punishment you deserved for the sins you have committed. Jesus did this so nothing would stand in the way of your relationship with Him and His Father. Like I said, what does that say about God? He must think you're worth it for Him to sacrifice His Beloved Son for you. Because to save you, it cost Him everything He had. He did this because He thought you were worth it because He loves you dearly!
With your sin debt paid by Jesus Christ, you stand righteous before God, rather than as a sinner before God. God now sees you through His Son Jesus rather than seeing you as you are. He can do this because His Son led a perfect, sinless life and sacrificed Himself for you.
Also, you are holy. To be holy means you are "set apart for honorable use." This "holiness" has two components to it. The first is positional holiness within our relationship with God. We are holy because He is holy. He has set us apart to Himself. The second is practical holiness, which must be actively pursued within our relationship with Him. God expects us to cultivate a lifestyle of holiness by honoring Him in everything we do.
Since He is the King, what does that make you? That makes you a prince or a princess. And since there is no such thing as an ugly prince or princess, you are automatically beautiful! To sum all that up, if you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you are a valuable, precious, pure, spotless, holy, beautiful prince or princess of the most high God!
Perspective #78: If you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you are a valuable, precious, pure, spotless, holy, beautiful prince or princess of the most high God!
Wow! Aren't you something? Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to see yourself as God sees you. Study God's Word, and you will find out that you are precious, created in your mother's womb by God's very own hand. You are not an accident; you are not a mistake. Even if someone has told you this before or said they never wanted you, be assured, God has always wanted you.
Perspective #79: You are not an accident; you are not a mistake. Even if someone has told you this before or said they never wanted you, be assured, God has always wanted you.
If this were not so, God would never have spent so much to redeem you, to ransom you. Your salvation cost Him everything that was precious to Him. He thought you were worth the expense, the sacrifice, the pain, the suffering. You are truly special, you are truly worth it, and you are loved so deeply by Him. You ARE beautiful!
Jesus did not want to live in heaven without you, which is why He "chose" to die for you so that you could spend eternity with Him!
Perspective #80: Jesus did not want to live in heaven without you, which is why He "chose" to die for you so that you could spend eternity with Him!
He wants you to be like Him and be "zealous" (enthusiastic, passionate, fervent) for good works!
You might say, "Well, I don't feel valuable or worthwhile." The only problem with feelings is that they sometimes lie to us. The fact is, you are valuable, you have great worth, you are gifted, you are talented, and you have a purpose on earth. God has more than proven this. Your choice will always be, do I believe my feelings, or do I believe the facts that I know about God?
This perspective of ourselves is essential to keep the enemy, our thoughts and are feelings from pummeling us with lies. My pastor and friend added to my insight on this just the other day when in his Sunday message, he gave me this perspective. What other people think about you is NONE of YOUR business. Focus on what God thinks about you and your relationship with Him. That is YOUR business.
Would they die for you? What if they knew all about you and your "secret" sins; would they still die for you? It would be hard to find anyone to take this deal, but God did! God didn't HAVE to do what He did, but because of your need and my need, He chose to do it.
Perspective #84: God didn't HAVE to do what He did, but because of your need and my need, He chose to do it.
You must have enormous value to Him. You must have enormous worth to Him. Which means, even though God doesn't need a relationship with you, He wants a relationship with you.
Perspective #85: Even though God doesn't need a relationship with you, He wants a relationship with you.
How amazing is that? God wants this relationship with you.
This says that God is going to "rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult (gloat) over you with loud singing." If God is going to do that for you, why listen to the world? Why take your perspective, your self-worth from what they say? The question will never be, does God love you? Does God want you? Does God want a relationship with you? The question will always come down to, do you want a relationship with Him? Bottom line, the choice is always yours, so choose wisely!


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Petition Lower the recommended age for a cervical smear test to 18.
The recommended age to conduct a smear test to prevent cervical cancer is currently 25 years old. In some tragic cases, this is too late in life and the cancer may have already spread. My aim is to get as many signatures in, and get the age lowered.
18 is a good age as the body has almost finished growing.
Whilst the Government acknowledges those tragic cases where cervical cancer progresses before age 25, UK National Screening Committee advice is to offer screening from 25, based on research evidence.
We would like to thank you for taking the time out to raise this important issue by starting your petition.
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) advises ministers and the NHS in all four countries about all aspects of screening policy and supports implementation. Using research evidence, pilot programmes and economic evaluation, it assesses the evidence for programmes against a set of internationally recognised criteria. In 2012 the UK NSC recommended that the age of the first invitation for cervical screening should be 25. This was based on evidence that a large number of women below this age received relatively little benefit from being screened and treated. It is only where the offer to screen provides more good than harm that a screening programme is recommended. This UK NSC recommendation also concurred with a major review by the Advisory Committee on Cervical Screening in 2009.
The NHS offers cervical screening to all eligible women aged 25 to 49 every three years and those aged 50 to 64 every five years and saves an estimated 5,000 lives a year by detecting abnormalities of the cervix early and referring women for effective treatment. The purpose of this screening is to reduce mortality and morbidity from cancer and other conditions in the population who appear healthy and have no symptoms, by detecting conditions at an earlier, more treatable stage. Women of any age, with symptoms, should contact their GP for referral for diagnosis.
However, cervical cancer in women under the age of 25 is very rare with 2.6 cases per 100,000 women. Importantly, younger women often undergo natural and harmless changes in the cervix that screening could identify as cervical abnormalities, and in most cases these abnormalities resolve themselves without any need for intervention.
Cervical cancer is caused by sexually acquired infection with certain types of human papilloma virus (HPV), with two HPV serotypes (16 and 18) causing 70% of cervical cancers and precancerous cervical lesions. The vaccination against HPV, introduced in 2008, is now routinely recommended for all girls aged 12 to 13 years and the first cohort of teenage girls to receive the HPV vaccination in year 8 (those born since September 1996) will turn 23 this year and become eligible for routine screening in two years' time. The impact the vaccination will have on the number of abnormalities detected through routine cervical screening will be carefully monitored.
Further to the vaccination, in November 2015, the UK NSC recommended that HPV screening should replace the currently used liquid-based cytology test as the primary screening for cervical disease. Evidence shows that using HPV screening as a primary test will be a more effective way of letting women know whether they have any risk of developing cervical cancer. It also means that if the woman tested does not have any evidence of high-risk HPV infection (high-risk HPV is found in 99.7% of cervical cancers), her chances of developing a cancer within five years are very small. This change will be implemented into the NHS Cervical Cancer Screening programme in December 2019.
Despite being vaccinated against HPV, work is ongoing to ensure that uptake of cervical screening remains high with Public Health England running a 'Be Clear on Cancer' campaign earlier this year. The campaign was designed to raise the public's awareness of cervical cancer symptoms; encourage people with those symptoms to go to the doctor; and diagnose cancer at an earlier stage, and therefore make it more treatable, and thereby improve cancer survival rates.
Women with symptoms are encouraged to contact their general practitioner as soon as possible and work is ongoing to ensure that GPs are aware of the symptoms and the need to refer for further investigation. Guidance is available specifically for the primary care of young women who present with gynaecological symptoms and was developed and published in March 2010. The guidance 'Clinical practice guidelines for the assessment of young women aged 20-24 with abnormal vaginal bleeding' was produced by a multi-disciplinary group, including professionals, patients and the voluntary sector, and was endorsed by the relevant Royal Colleges. This can be found at this link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/436924/doh-guidelines-young-women.pdf
Cancer prevention, public health and early diagnosis remain key priorities for this Government. The House debated this issue on 28 January 2019, and during that debate the previous Health Minister, Steve Brine MP, gave reassurance that this Government is not complacent in the fight against cancer.
Department of Health and Social Care.
Date closed 5 September 2019


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I came at this stuff back-end-to. I began with serious study of the Hermetic qabala/kabbalah/cabala back in 1971 and became deeply immersed in its intricacies before I encountered its esoteric step-children, astrology and tarot. So in a sense I had "nowhere to go but down" (you can disregard that lame Tree of Life pun). I tried path-working (as in "scrying in the astral") but I need rather large blocks of time to get much out of it, and it discourages normal human interaction. I've poked around in mythology, but it seems so "19th Century," not a living and breathing thing at all. I've experimented with lithomancy as well. (I've been talking to author Tony Willis about runes, maybe I should go there?) What I'm not especially interested in is psychic adventuring in the form of mediumship or channeling; I've had enough exposure to the Lower Astral to know it's not a place one wanders around to satisfy idle curiosity. I have yet to turn my attention to crystals and herbs, outside of a short-lived fling with Bach flower essences a great many years ago, but doubt I'll go far down that path. Conventional religion, no matter how "charismatic," is an absolute non-starter. I've considered teaching tarot and astrology in a face-to-face setting, and even tried to get study groups going in the past that went nowhere, but the one recent prospect I was offered garnered little interest locally.
What I have in my sights right now is Neopaganism in the form of modern druidry, and possibly the less religious aspects of Wicca. I've always had a great fondness for Scott Cunningham's books, and have a certain affinity for ritual methods based on my rudimentary practice of ceremonial magic some time ago. What I'm seriously lacking is a community within which to explore these unfamiliar avenues. I'm not normally one to seek hand-holding, but encouragement from like-minded practitioners would nudge me along the path. "Group-think" is not what I'm after, since the "hive-mind" notion is a really deadening one that discourages individual advancement in favor of lock-step regimentation. (I'm thinking here of the movie Hot Fuzz, where Timothy Dalton leads a group of fanatics in chanting "The Greater Good" over and over.) I've examined opportunities via Meet-up, but the venues are just too far away to be practical. So for the moment I guess I'll stay on "simmer" and hope that something breaks that will bring on a "full boil." Relocation may be the only way to make it happen.
About gems and stones, I always recommend Kozminsky's "The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones", which is pretty much the last word on the subject, and it's available online on the Internet Archive.
As to Geomancy, I don't think the major French works have ever been translated, which is a pity as there are 3-4 foundational works, including a translation of Robert Fludd's opus.
I do note that Alain de Benoist's study of the runes has recently been published in English, so that's one possibility.
Regarding geomancy, for years I've had Stephen Skinner's book, Aleister Crowley's brief contribution, Israel Regardie's presentation of the Golden Dawn material in The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic and the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by "pseudo-Agrippa," and now I have John Michael Gree's more recent entry in the field.
For the runes, I've been having an ongoing e-mail dialogue with author Tony Willis, who wrote a book on the runes some time ago. if the quality of that is as good as the companion book he wrote for Anthony Clark's Magickal Tarot deck. I will most likely stop by there as well if I go in that direction.


Save and send a report as a PDF file 64 For more information 64 Lesson 10 Welcome to the FileMaker� Pro tutorial. This tutorial shows you how you can manage your information in FileMaker Pro. You will learn how to use FileMaker Pro software to: 1 locate and sort information 1 create and enter records in a simple database 1 create mailing labels 1 create calculations, buttons, and scripts... There�s more to come in the Teaching in Higher Ed Screencast-o-Matic posts, including a closer look at the pro version. I�ll also be sharing about it on the podcast. Thanks for visiting. I�ll also be sharing about it on the podcast.
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For those of you that like my Ohmygod series, I wrote another travel journal about my drive from Sausalito, California to Philadelphia when I moved out here about 15 years ago. I published that journal here on the drunken cyclist a couple of years ago. On this Throwback Thursday, I thought I would re-blog the episode when we (I was traveling with my beloved dog Ibo [pronounced eee-BOO] who sadly died three years ago) made a detour to the Grand Canyon since neither of us had ever been. Be sure to let me know what you think!


Yes, learning French can be fun for your child! - Learn French through songs, games, and plenty of fun!
Developed by language-learning expert Catherine Bruzzone, the French for Children program is a fun and effective way for your child to learn the French language and culture.
This introduction gets your son or daughter speaking French right from the very beginning and keeps him or her engaged with a wide range of activities and games that keep language-learning fun.
An activity book filled with interactive puzzles and games that reinforce new language skills and advice for you on helping your kid get the most out of the language-learning experience.


Payroll is a crucial part of running a business and it's important to get it done accurately and on time otherwise you're left with unhappy employees.
Can I do the payroll myself?
Yes. Many small businesses choose to run their own payroll and if you only employ one or two members of staff, the process isn't too time-consuming.
The most important thing to remember is that rules for payroll and PAYE change frequently, so you'll need to keep up to date with the latest requirements. (The HMRC PAYE site is useful for this.) Mistakes can be costly and failing to pay your staff on time is embarrassing for you and demotivating for your employees.
Before you begin, you'll need a system to run your payroll. Technically, you could still issue handwritten payslips on handmade parchment and do all the calculations yourself on a crystal abacus. There are however so many useful applications that can help you, it seems folly not to use them. Furthermore, as HMRC gradually changes over to a completely digital system, you'll need to file your information online so creating an efficient digital system from the start makes more sense.
What payroll software will I need?
Your system will need to do the necessary calculations, produce payslips, send returns to HMRC and print P45, P60 and other forms for employees. The calculations include tax (PAYE), National Insurance, student loans, sick pay, maternity pay and workplace pensions.
Please get in touch with PKB and we can help you choose a system that works for you.
What will HMRC need me to do to create my payroll?
If you choose to use PKB's payroll service, we will take care of all these tasks for you.
If you'd like to have more time and freedom to focus on building your business, why not outsource your payroll? Outsourcing to a professional accountancy team gives you the reassurance that it's being done to HMRC's latest standards and that you're not paying too much tax or National Insurance. It also gives you reassurance that your employees will be paid on time.
What's included in the PKB payroll service?
Using our payroll services takes the pressure off you and allows you to focus your time on other important tasks such as developing your business.
Unless you are a sole director of a limited company, you will need to comply with auto enrolment regulations.
We can assist with all the registration and processing in relation to auto enrolment and NEST pensions as an additional optional service.
Does payroll have to be monthly?
No, you can choose how often you run your business payroll. The PKB payroll service can run weekly, fortnightly or monthly. You can also choose how you pay your staff, whether it's on an hourly rate or a yearly salary.
Offering perks to your staff is a great way to attract good people to your business. But rewarding your team can come at a cost. The most attractive benefits are often taxable, meaning that your employees will have to pay towards them, and that you (as an employer) will incur some higher National Insurance costs.
We've created a helpful guide to this topic; Employees With Benefits.
Real Time Information (RTI) is designed to make PAYE submissions more efficient. You'll need to submit information to HMRC in real time, every time you pay employees. If you decide to use PKB's payroll services, we'll do this for you.
RTI submission should be made on or before the day payments to employees are made, with the latest deadline being no later than five days after a month-end.
Do I have to have a payroll?
Any business that has employees being paid above £115 per week* has to register and run a payroll.
Do I need payroll if the only person employed is me?
Yes – if you are a sole director of a limited company, you still need to run a payroll for yourself as the only employee.
No – if you are a sole trader, you are not an employee of the business.
How can I find out more information about PKB's payroll service?
We know there's a lot to think about when deciding how to set up and run your payroll. If you'd like an experienced advisor, you're very welcome to come and see us in our Crowthorne office for an informative — and obligation-free — chat. We'll tell you if you would benefit from outsourcing your payroll to a professional team or whether it's something you can do yourself.
To make an appointment, simply contact us and a member of the team will be more than happy to help.


We have thousands of properties for sale all over France. But we've no property for sale in Mamers at the moment. And that's something we want to change.
If you have a property to sell in Mamers (or nearby) then act now to get a 50% discount.
Just place your advert in the normal way (Click here to place your advert). Then send us an email quoting "Mamers" and telling us that you you saw this offer.
Mamers is perhaps in itself not one of the Sarthe's most celebrated tourist towns, but it is an important market town which has a vibrant community life and excellent facilities. It is set in the lovely Sarthe countryside, an area of forests, lakes, rivers and rolling hills, and makes a good base for visiting the main attractions of the region such as the character town of Le Mans, famed too for its motor races.
The town's pride and joy is its superbly preserved old market hall, a covered structure that stands in the main market square and which is still very much used today on Monday mornings when Mamers holds its street markets in time honoured French style. Another intriguing feature found in Mamers is the reproduction of the Eiffel Tower, not quite to the same scale, but fascinating all the same! The town also boasts two mediaeval churches.
Mamers is a fairly large town, and has a very good spread of shops and restaurants to explore and enjoy. It also offers all the usual service industries, schools, health services and sporting and cultural facilities.
Motor racing fans will want to pay a visit to the world famous track at nearby Le Mans, which is worth seeing even if there isn't a race in progress at the time. If this doesn't grab you though, the town of Le Mans itself is well worth a day or two of your time as there is lots to see and do. It's listed as a "town of art and history", so there will be heritage and culture a plenty.
Out in the countryside numerous possibilities present themselves. Picturesque towns and villages such as Fresnay sur Sarthe and La Perrière are charming to see, but if it is the pure, unspoiled countryside you want to make the most of, you will find endless things to enjoy. The Sarthe has woodlands, lakes, rivers and hills, so it is an idyllic destination for hikers, pony trekking fans, cyclists and lovers of nature.
The airports of Paris, Rennes or Tours are all within reasonable travelling distance of Mamers, with Paris being served by a multitude of airlines, Rennes by Flybe and Tours by Ryanair. Meanwhile rail travellers can simply hop onto a TGV to arrive in Le Mans in double quick time. The A28 motorway is the nearest major road to the town, with the N12 also running close by.
The property market around Mamers offers a wide variety of property and an equally wide variety of prices. It is currently possible (November 2011) to pick up a village house, ready to move into, for just 71,980 Euros, or if you have a little more to spend you might choose a lovely country home complete with land and outbuildings, at a very reasonable 340,000 Euros.
Do you know Mamers better than we do? Do you have photos of Mamers?
Mamers is situated in the north-west of France, in the north of the Sarthe department, very close to the border with the Orne department in Lower Normandy.
Access: By air: To travel by air you have the choice of arriving in Paris, Rennes or Tours. By rail: The nearby town of Le Mans has a TGV station for efficient rail travel. By road: The town lies near to the A28 motorway and the N12.
Economy: The economy used to be concerned with hemp, but now combines commerce with agriculture.
Interesting fact: The gastronomic speciality of Mamers is "Rillettes Sarthoises", a potted pork dish.


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How Good Is... Joey Leilua
Jack Brady
Fri 9 Jan 2015, 12:00 PM
Not many bright lights shined on the Knights' fortunes in 2014 in what was a devastating year for the club. Yet throughout the club's trials and tribulations, players like centre Joey Leilua stood tall in the face of adversity.
Even before showcasing his devastating form for Samoa at the Four Nations, Leilua was excelling at Hunter Stadium, especially with the football in hand.
The 22-year-old Arncliffe Scots junior amazingly racked up his 100th appearance in the final round of the NRL season, and while he has had his troubles in the past, a seemingly more mature Leilua made people stand up and notice him over the course of the year.
What made 2014 so special?
Leilua has an uncanny knack of breaking through the opposition defence with relative ease. It's essentially what makes him stand out.
The former 18th man for New South Wales is also a handy offloader, which allows plenty of his Newcastle teammates to play off his shoulder in support.
During the season Leilua racked up 14 line-break assists, usually off the back of a tackle bust or two, with the centre frequently getting an arm free before handing it off back inside to the likes of Tyrone Roberts, Robbie Rochow or Chris Houston.
Leilua finished the season as the eighth-most prolific tackle buster in NRL, with 92 breaks credited to him across 22 appearances.
His impressive Four Nations appearances for Samoa capped off a stellar year. With particularly memorable displays against England and New Zealand, Leilua busted through 20 attempted tackles in three appearances and racked up an average of 124.3 metres per Test.
How can he be better in 2015?
While Leilua's offloading ability is a quality part of his arsenal, the same cannot be said of his passing game. Though it's sure to improve as he gains experience, you can't help but feel sorry for his winger with Leilua's wayward passes inclined to create plenty of errors.
An overlap down Newcastle's left side tends to only be beneficial if Leilua holds onto the ball, with his attempted passes out wide at times landing at his winger's feet or in the fifth row of Hunter Stadium, which explains his 28 errors in 2014 (equal 16th across the competition).
Another aspect of his game that is sure to improve with age is his defensive reads. Known predominately as a winger during his time at the Sydney Roosters, Leilua has become a regular centre in Newcastle. While 36 missed tackles in 2014 is nothing to be overly concerned about, a tighter defensive game will only contribute to his progress as a better-rounded player.
Which new signing will have the greatest influence on him?
Tariq Sims' arrival is sure to help Joey Leilua in a defensive capacity.
With Beau Scott taking out a mortgage out on Newcastle's right edge back-rower spot for at least the next two seasons, Sims will have to settle in on the left-hand side when he makes his debut for the club in Round 5.
With Sims and Jarrod Mullen beside him, Leilua will surely be a benefactor with the experienced duo sure to help him out with marking up and defensive reads.


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Fatal New Year's Eve crash may see doctor behind bars
On behalf of Law Office of Matthew Vance, P.C. posted in Drunk Driving Accidents on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
A 56-year-old doctor that once practiced in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is scheduled to appear at an upcoming plea conference in a case made against her. The woman has been charged with vehicular homicide after her reported involvement in the death of a 4-year-old girl. According to authorities, her blood alcohol content was 0.08 percent, high enough for police in New Mexico to consider the event a drunk driving accident.
Different accounts of the crash reconstruction have been submitted by the prosecution and the defense, making the case a potentially contentious affair. The only details that are certain are that the doctor was driving a 2004 Land Rover that was involved in an accident with a 2002 minivan driven by a mother with her two daughters as passengers. One of the daughters, the 4-year-old, was pronounced dead soon after the accident. The other, 3, was flown to a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, so that she could be treated.
Independent witnesses have provided reports on the accident that are in conflict with one another. This is how the two sides of the case were able to submit different declarations of the event. According to the criminal complaint, the 56-year-old doctor was traveling south on St. Francis Drive on Dec. 31, 2011 when her vehicle collided with the passenger side of the minivan.
Reports indicate that the doctor was traveling to the airport in Albuquerque at the time of the crash. Authorities have said that she told police she had drank two glasses of wine roughly five hours before the accident occurred. Results from a blood test showed that she had a blood alcohol content that was on par with the legal limit, making authorities to consider her intoxicated by law.
The other driver was also tested for alcohol but none was found in her system.
If convicted, the doctor may face as many as six years in prison. Currently, she is living in Arizona with her mother and is being monitored through the use of a GPS electronic monitoring device.
Source: Santa Fe New Mexican, "Doctor charged in fatal crash to appear at plea conference," Nico Roesler, Aug. 29, 2012
Fatal New Year's Eve crash may see doctor behind bars | Albuquerque Car Accident Lawyer


Implementation of Variational Auto-Decoder (A. Zadeh, Y.C. Lim, P. Liang, L.-P. Morency, 2019.). Code is implemented and made easy to run by Yao Chong Lim. Our paper shows that encoderless implementation of the AEVB algorithm (named in our paper as Variational Auto-Decoder - VAD) shows very promising performance in generative modeling from data with missingness (low and high missingness). We claim that even through rigorous training and hyperparameter search, missingness causes instabilities in the encoder which in turn harms the reconstruction or imputations performance of the decoder. We show that for a probabilistic decoder with only one mode, the approximate posterior disitrbution can be infered efficiently using only gradient ascend (or descned) without the need for MCMC sampling from the decoder input. This makes the process of inference faster and only a matter of gradient ascent (or descent) during test-time.
--> First - The input to a probabilistic decoder is sampled using Markov Chain Monte Carlo approaches (MCMC). This is essentially similar to a probabilistic inversion of a decoder for each datapoint .
--> Second - An arbitrary distribution - which is easy to sample from - is fitted to the sampled decoder inputs using Expectation-Maximization (EM).
--> Third - The fitted distribution is used to sample the similar data points to .
--> First - An arbitrary distribution (which is easy to sample from) is sampled . This distribution is assumed to have one mode, hence gradient ascend (or descend) leads to a single outcome regardless of starting location (convergence to the unique peak of the distribution). One such distribution is a multivariate normal distribution . Other distributions with one mode exist and can be used as well.
--> Second - After the sample(s, one or more samples) is drawn, the sample is used as input to the decoder .
--> Third - Training is done by gradient ascend (or descend) w.r.t , inference (testing) is done by gradient ascend (or descend) w.r.t .
The above method finds a mixture model based on . Sampling from this mixture model should essentially generate the learned density of . This mixture model may or may not have desirable generative properties such as meaningful manifold walk, given a limited dataset . The VAE reparameterization trick can be used to enforce certain properties using another distribution - one example is unit multivariate gaussian.
We make comparisons between VAE and VAD (both example implementations of AEVB algorithm) in generative modeling from partial data (data with missigness). In the figures below, indicates the missing ratio which changes between 0.1 to 0.9 (10% to 90%). In all the figures lower is better. Please refer to the paper for exact details of each figure.
The following demonstrates a comparison between VAD and VAE for the adversarial case where missingness ratio is different between train and test. Models are trained on the data with no missingness (data similar to Example Image) and tested on data with missingness (the missingness pattern is Missing Completely at Random - MCAR). This experiment can also be seen as inpainting from MCAR missingness.
The losses for the reconstruction and the loss for KL (reparameterization) may act in opposite directions; simiar to VAE, enforcing nice distributional properties may come at the cost of reconstruction inaccuracy for certain data points. The code allows you to balance between the reconstruction and the KL terms. As a general rule of thumb, more complex datasets may not conform to simple , such as densities with one mode. Therefore, the reconstruction may be bad. Therefore, we also allow for dropping the reparameterization fully, thus the model only learns a mixture based on . Due to missingness in data, learning the may also be problematic hence it can be treated as a hyperparameter.
The rest of this readme contains details of how to run the code and the requirements for it.
For convenient grid search over hyperparameters, use the script at configs/make_configs.py to generate a folder of JSON files representing different hyperparameter configurations.
Optional arguments can be found using python pytorch/train_model.py --help.
To test a trained model on partial data, use the test_missing option. --missing_mode must be selected, with either the fixed or random option.
To test a trained model on clean data, use the test_clean option.
The above models are applied to data imputation. Since imputation is related to recreating the exact missing value, very small variances work better than larger ones.


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SILENT MOVIE THE GERMAN
SILENT MOVIE MAIL
Heinz Ullstein
The actor, producer, director and publisher Heinz Ullstein was born as the son of the publisher Louis-Ferdinand Ullstein.
He decided to become an actor and he made first experiences at different theaters in Berlin.
His first cinematical activity was as a producer of the movie "Die gestreckte Frau oder Das Geheimnis der Flickenkiste" (17). Later he also produced another movie with "Die Dame und ihr Friseur" (22). For this movie he was also responsible as a director and screenwriter.
He impersonated his only role in front of the camera in 1920 for "Menschen im Rausch" (20).
Finally he retired from the film business and he took over a position at the Ullstein publishing in 1925. Four years later he became a member of the directorate.
Because of his Jewish origin he got arrested in 1943. Thank to the interventin of his wife, the actress Aenne Ullstein, he got away from a deportation but had to spend his time as a forced laborer till the end of World War II.
After the war he was able to continue his career as a publisher and in 1953 followed the re-foundation of the Ullstein Verlag. Later the company was taken over by the Axel Springer AG where he remained active till 1971.
Heinz Ullstein campainged for depressed actors and journalists. Together with his wife he founded the "Aenne und Heinz Ullstein Fonds".


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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"runtime"
	"runtime/debug"
	"strings"

	"github.com/gorilla/rpc"
	rpcJson "github.com/gorilla/rpc/json"

	"github.com/dertseha/everoute"
	"github.com/dertseha/everoute/travel/capabilities/jumpdrive"
	"github.com/dertseha/everoute/travel/capabilities/jumpgate"
	"github.com/dertseha/everoute/travel/rules/security"
	"github.com/dertseha/everoute/travel/rules/transitcount"
	"github.com/dertseha/everoute/universe"

	"github.com/dertseha/everoute-web/data"
)

func reachableSystemPredicate() func(data.SolarSystemData) bool {
	joveRegion := universe.Id(10000017)
	specialSystems := make(map[universe.Id]interface{})

	specialSystems[30000377] = nil
	specialSystems[30000380] = nil
	specialSystems[30000381] = nil

	return func(system data.SolarSystemData) bool {
		isJoveRegion := system.RegionId == joveRegion
		_, isSpecialSystem := specialSystems[system.SolarSystemId]

		return !isJoveRegion && !isSpecialSystem
	}
}

func buildSolarSystems(builder *universe.UniverseBuilder) {
	isSystemReachable := reachableSystemPredicate()

	for _, system := range data.SolarSystems {
		trueSec := universe.TrueSecurity(system.Security)
		galaxyId := universe.NewEdenId

		if system.RegionId >= 11000000 {
			galaxyId = universe.WSpaceId
		}

		if isSystemReachable(system) {
			builder.AddSolarSystem(system.SolarSystemId, system.ConstellationId, system.RegionId, galaxyId,
				universe.NewSpecificLocation(system.X, system.Y, system.Z), trueSec)
		}
	}
}

func getSolarSystemIdsByName() map[string]universe.Id {
	result := make(map[string]universe.Id)

	for _, system := range data.SolarSystems {
		result[system.Name] = system.SolarSystemId
	}

	return result
}

func getJumpGateDestinationName(gate data.JumpGateData) string {
	destNameStart := strings.Index(gate.Name, "(") + 1
	destNameEnd := strings.Index(gate.Name, ")")

	return gate.Name[destNameStart:destNameEnd]
}

func getJumpGateKey(fromSolarSystemId, toSolarSystemId universe.Id) string {
	return fmt.Sprintf("%d->%d", fromSolarSystemId, toSolarSystemId)
}

func getJumpGateLocations() map[string]universe.Location {
	result := make(map[string]universe.Location)
	solarSystemIdsByName := getSolarSystemIdsByName()

	for _, gate := range data.JumpGates {
		destName := getJumpGateDestinationName(gate)
		key := getJumpGateKey(gate.SolarSystemId, solarSystemIdsByName[destName])
		location := universe.NewSpecificLocation(gate.X, gate.Y, gate.Z)

		result[key] = location
	}

	return result
}

func buildJumpGates(builder *universe.UniverseBuilder) {
	jumpGateLocations := getJumpGateLocations()
	ids := builder.SolarSystemIds()
	isSystemReachable := func(id universe.Id) bool {
		found := false

		for _, temp := range ids {
			if temp == id {
				found = true
			}
		}

		return found
	}

	for _, jumpData := range data.SolarSystemJumps {

		if isSystemReachable(jumpData.FromSolarSystemId) && isSystemReachable(jumpData.ToSolarSystemId) {
			extension := builder.ExtendSolarSystem(jumpData.FromSolarSystemId)
			jumpBuilder := extension.BuildJump(jumpgate.JumpType, jumpData.ToSolarSystemId)

			jumpBuilder.From(jumpGateLocations[getJumpGateKey(jumpData.FromSolarSystemId, jumpData.ToSolarSystemId)])
			jumpBuilder.To(jumpGateLocations[getJumpGateKey(jumpData.ToSolarSystemId, jumpData.FromSolarSystemId)])
		}
	}
}

func dropUnusedData() {
	data.SolarSystems = nil
	data.SolarSystemJumps = nil
	data.JumpGates = nil
}

func prepareUniverse() *universe.UniverseBuilder {
	builder := universe.New().Extend()

	buildSolarSystems(builder)
	buildJumpGates(builder)
	transitcount.ExtendUniverse(builder)
	security.ExtendUniverse(builder)

	jumpdrive.ExtendUniverse(builder, 10.0)

	dropUnusedData()

	return builder
}

func checkBaseUniverse(verse universe.Universe) {
	ids := verse.SolarSystemIds()

	for _, id := range ids {
		solarSystem := verse.SolarSystem(id)

		if solarSystem.GalaxyId() == universe.NewEdenId {
			gateJumps := solarSystem.Jumps(jumpgate.JumpType)

			if len(gateJumps) == 0 {
				log.Printf("Solar System %v has no jump gates!", id)
			}
		}
	}
}

func initRuntime() {
	numCpu := runtime.NumCPU()
	maxThreads := 250 // Heroku limit: 256

	log.Printf("Initializing runtime to use %d CPUs and %d threads", numCpu, maxThreads)
	runtime.GOMAXPROCS(numCpu)
	debug.SetMaxThreads(maxThreads)
}

func main() {
	log.Printf("everoute-web v%v using everoute v%v", Version, everoute.Version)

	initRuntime()
	log.Printf("Building universe...")
	universeBuilder := prepareUniverse()
	universe := universeBuilder.Build()
	checkBaseUniverse(universe)

	log.Printf("Initializing server...")
	rpcServer := rpc.NewServer()
	rpcServer.RegisterCodec(rpcJson.NewCodec(), "application/json")
	service := NewRouteService(universe)
	rpcServer.RegisterService(service, "Route")

	http.Handle("/", rpcServer)
	serverPort := os.Getenv("PORT")
	if serverPort == "" {
		serverPort = "3000"
	}
	log.Printf("Starting server on port <%s>...", serverPort)
	http.ListenAndServe(":"+serverPort, nil)
}

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