Thats up to you! The online reservation system makes it easy and accepts all credit cards. We also accept cash, checks, Venmo, PayPal if paying in person.
DO WE NEED TO BRING OUR OWN EQUIPMENT?
IS GEAR AVAILABLE TO RENT?
Not yet. However, there will be new and vintage gear available for rent in the coming months.
CAN I BORROW GEAR FROM ANOTHER ROOM?
Nope, Nope, Nope! If you need a hand with an amp/cable/ or ANY gear in your room, please ask an employee or call the main number.
We have carefully chosen the gear to fit the size of each room. Taking gear from one room to use in another is prohibited.
WHAT IF I FORGET MY GUITAR OR BASS?
No problem! We have an electric and acoustic guitar, as well as a bass guitar available to loan out. This however is on a first come first serve basis until we stock up on more gear!
We are open from 12PM to 12AM seven days a week.
WHEN DO YOU ACCEPT NEW BOOKINGS?
We accept new bookings 24 hours a day via our webpage. If you would like to speak to someone personally about a specific booking or private event we can be reached from 10am-9pm by phone or email. Email is always the quickest way to get in touch with someone.
The fee for cancellations within 24 hours is half your booking rate and within 4 hours or no-show is full rate. Cancellation fees are waived in the event of an emergency or extreme weather conditions.
We have PLENTY of parking! There are 4 to 5 spots directly in front of the space as well as ample street parking up and down Acoma.
I'VE GOT A SHOW COMING UP, CAN I PROMOTE IT THERE?
Of course! Got an upcoming gig? Need to put up a "band member wanted" Ad? We want people to know! Feel free to put up your flyers, cards, show posters, etc on our community board next to the sofas.
CAN WE SMOKE OR VAPE IN THE ROOMS WHILE WE PRACTICE?
WE LIKE TO PARTY....CAN WE BRING ALCOHOL WITH US TO PRACTICE?
You got it! PARTY ON! As long as its kept away from the gear, you clean up after yourself, and it stays in the building or in the back alleyway. No alcohol is allowed in front parking lot facing Acoma Street.
IS FOOD ALLOWED IN THE BUILDING?
You bet! Just please be sure to keep it off of the gear, and to clean up after yourselves. We have trash cans in each room and at the end of the hallways.
We don't sell anything to eat or drink (yet), but feel free to bring your own snacks! We also have a cold filtered water fountain available to fill up water bottles/jugs.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU HAVE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE?
You bet! There is free wi-fi throughout the building. Go to the flyer board by the sofas for info to connect.


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Investors in Apple REITs Should Strongly Consider Individual Arbitration Claims Following Dismissal of Class Action Against David Lerner Associates, Inc.
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The time is ripe for Apple REIT investors to strongly consider filing individual arbitration claims. David Lerner Associates Inc. ("David Lerner Associates") recently won the dismissal of a lawsuit by investors who accused the brokerage firm of misrepresenting the value and returns of more than $6.8 billion worth of holdings in Apple REITs. The federal court found that the investors could not establish that they suffered a loss because the holdings continue to perform, and the possibility of changes in value, which occurred when the real estate market declined, was disclosed to investors. Although investors in the Apple REITs are appealing the lawsuit's dismissal, an appeal is time consuming, and there is no guarantee that the appellate court will reinstate the investors' claims. Further, while the appeal is pending, the clock is ticking, and an investor's claims can be time barred if the investor fails to act.
Class action lawsuits are court proceedings intended to recover damages for a group or "class" of investors who sustained losses from the same cause. For example, Apple REITs investors filed their lawsuit in 2011, and alleged that David Lerner Associates misrepresented the holdings as appropriate for conservative investors. The investors also claimed that the firm never disclosed that the REITs failed to generate enough income from their operations and that investors were being paid "with their own money."
Settlement negotiations can take place at any time during the class action litigation. A class action settlement must be approved by the court, who will order notice to be given to any class action members who will be bound by a settlement agreement or a dismissal of the case. Settlement, however, does not need approval from each class member; rather, the class member may either accept the settlement terms, or opt out of the settlement.
In contrast, a securities arbitration claim focuses entirely on the individual investor who brings the claim, and the claim may not be settled without the investor's approval. A securities arbitration claim is filed with the Financial Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), which is responsible for resolving disputes between investors and brokerage firms. FINRA has established rules and regulations regarding firms' rights and responsibilities with respect to the handling of investor accounts.
An individual securities arbitration claim typically focuses upon sales practice violations and is based on facts specific to the handling of an individual investor's account given the investor's objectives, financial wherewithal, and risk tolerance. Securities arbitrators consider not only what the firm said to its customers in general about certain investments, but also what the individual broker said – or failed to say – to a specific investor about various investments. This focus on the individual investor is not only a key distinction from a class action, but also a distinct advantage.
In addition, a securities arbitration claim can focus not only on a single investment, but also the handling of the investor's account as a whole. This is another advantage of a securities arbitration claim when compared to participation in a class action lawsuit. As a result, the findings made by the judge in dismissing the class action suit against David Lerner Associates regarding the Apple REITs does not bar individual investors from pursuing securities arbitration claims against David Lerner Associates for investment losses due to the Apple REITs.
Moreover, arbitration is intended to be more expeditious than court. Further, FINRA rules and policy strongly discourage the dismissal of an arbitration or claims prior to a full hearing on the merits in which both parties present evidence. By comparison, courts frequently dismiss claims in whole or in part through summary judgment procedure prior to a jury or bench trial.
If you invested in an Apple REIT, and suffered investment losses, please contact Sonn Law Group to explore your legal options. Sonn Law Group has filed claims against numerous firms for investors who suffered losses in REITS, TICs, and other high risk, illiquid investments. Sonn Law Group is a nationally recognized law firm representing individuals, trusts, corporations and institutions in claims against brokerage firms, banks and insurance companies. To learn more, please call us at 844-689-5754 or complete our "contact form."


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MainAll NewsEuropeHow did Britain's Labour Party become a hotbed of anti-Semitism?
How did Britain's Labour Party become a hotbed of anti-Semitism?
Labour's moderate elites lost control of their own party to radical fringe elements following attempts to 'democratize' the party.
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA, 13/12/19 07:28
As anti-Semitism scandals continue to rock Britain's Labour Party, critics have focused on what this means for the party, the country and its Jewish community.
Prior to Thursday's general election, many local Jews believed the United Kingdom would become a far less hospitable place for them if Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn unseated the Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Under Corbyn, Labour has become a "safe space" for anti-Semites, according to a damning 2016 report by an interparliamentary committee of inquiry formed by the House of Commons. Corbyn has disputed the committee's findings and pledged a zero-tolerance policy toward any form of racism. But some of the cases involve him personally, leading former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks to call Corbyn an anti-Semite.
How did the party that has long been the political home for much of the British Jewish community, not to mention a party closely associated with the fight against bigotry and discrimination, become a hotbed of anti-Semitism?
Accounts from multiple current and former party members suggest that the transformation happened within a matter of months due to a series of miscalculations by Labour's former centrist leaders — and Corbyn's ability to seize on the opportunities this presented. An attempt to weaken radicalism in the party wound up strengthening it, illustrating how fragile the political center had become in Britain — and perhaps in other Western countries polarized by divisions over immigration and the economy.
As for Labour's center, it collapsed spectacularly in 2015. The year before, Corbyn's predecessor, Ed Miliband, led a reform that opened Labour to new members and diminished the influence of its leaders — a change the party's left wing had sought for decades.
Miliband, who had been a lawmaker for only five years prior to his 2010 election to lead Labor at the age of 40, wanted to reduce the influence of trade unions in the party. Under the system Miliband inherited, unions, individual members and Labour parliamentarians each commanded one-third of the votes in electing Labour officials and determining policy.
Seeking to dilute the unions' clout, Miliband opted to democratize the party with a one-person, one-vote model. In exchange for a symbolic fee of 3 pounds, anyone could become a Labour member and vote in its primaries. The move helped to reverse a long decline in Labour membership, bringing the number of members from 179,891 in 2007 to about 485,000 today, with many following Corbyn into the party after 2015.
Miliband and other centrists were aware that they risked losing control, according to "Protest and Power," an account of Corbyn's rise by journalist David Kogan. So they relied on a system in which any candidate for party leader had to be a member of Parliament with written endorsements from at least 20 percent of Labour lawmakers. Following negotiations, the threshold was finally set at 15 percent.
Back then, Corbyn was an obscure Labour backbencher whose focus was on foreign policy and, in the run-up to the 2015 party primaries, was thought not to have met the 15 percent threshold. But the party's left wing still decided to put him forth as a candidate — "not because they thought they had a chance of winning an appointment, but just in order to drag the debate a little bit to the left," said Luke Akehurst, a non-Jewish pro-Israel activist and current Labour member familiar with the party's internal processes.
Corbyn, who has served as a lawmaker since 1983, had plenty of political experience. His campaign relied on recruiting new members drawn heavily from pressure groups with which Corbyn had long had close ties. The campaign was run by Jon Lansman, a longtime Jewish Labour activist. Ben Soffa, another Jewish supporter and a pro-Palestinian activist, handled the digital aspects of the recruitment push.
"It turns out that there are about half a million pretty extreme people who were waiting for an opportunity to take over the Labour Party," Akehurst said.
The swelling of Labour's ranks with far-left activists, many of them from anti-Israel groups, has accounted for a significant portion of the thousands of cases of alleged anti-Semitism reported to the party's ethics panel.
One of them was Marc Wadsworth, a minority rights activist who earlier this year allegedly used a racist slur against Ruth Smeeth, a Jewish Labour lawmaker. The incident happened a month after he joined Labour. Wadsworth, who denies Smeeth's allegation, has since been kicked out of the party.
Another is Ali Milani, an Iran-born journalist who said on Twitter that Israel has no right to exist, writing in one exchange: "Nah u won't mate. It'll cost u a pound #jew." Milani is Labour's candidate in the elections to unseat Johnson in his home constituency on the western edges of the London area.
Corbyn also shined in debates, portraying himself as an "anti-politician." His promises of generous benefits to students and higher taxes on the wealthy were particularly attractive to young voters who grew up in the austerity years following the 2009 financial crisis, Kogan said.
Labour's surprisingly good performance in the 2017 general elections against then-prime minister Theresa May gave Corbyn the further support he needed to consolidate his control over the party and remove his opponents from positions of influence. This was helped to some degree by a wave of resignations by those concerned about anti-Semitism in the party and Corbyn's apparent support for Britain's exit from the European Union.
In 2016, following the nonbinding Brexit referendum, Corbyn said he supported leaving, a position aligned with the Euro-skepticism of Labour's left wing. He has since endorsed a second referendum but has not come out against Brexit.
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Adolf Hitler Biography
Posted On September 16th, 2013 By Celebrity Biographies
Adolf Hitler was one of the most influential human voices and the founder of the Nazi party. He implemented and executed the Holocaust, the systematic execution and racial extermination of over 6 million European Jews, along with millions of other non-Aryans. Hitler was the Supreme Commander and Head of State of the Armed Forces, the "Fuhrer" or the guiding spirit of Germany's Third Reich for 12 years, from 1933 to 1945.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 to Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Poelzl in Braunau Am Inn, Austria. His father was a 52-year-old customs official whereas his mother was a young peasant girl and his father's third wife. As a child, Hitler was discontented, resentful, lazy and extremely moody. He was extremely hostile towards the strict rules set by his father. His mother was his only support, until she died of cancer in 1908.
He was a very good student and spent four years at a school in Realschule, Linz. At the age of 16, he left school with a dream of becoming a painter. He left home in October 1907 and went to Vienna to become an artist. The rejection at the Viennese Academy of Arts embittered young Hitler and he shaped this pathological hatred towards the modern Habsburg monarchy, liberalism, Marxists and Jews. From switching odd jobs to hawking sketches in taverns, Hitler would vent out his frustration to anyone who cared to listen to his ideas about a better Germany.
While living in Vienna, he got his first degree in politics, studying the demagogic ideologies of Karl Lueger, a popular Christian-social Mayor.
Hitler left Vienna in May 1913 and he joined the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment when the war was declared in August 1914. Although he started off as a dispatch runner, he proved to be courageous and received the Iron Cross (the second class award) for bravery. H continued to work as a soldier, but was severely injured by a grenade splinter in August 1918. He was then given the second Iron Cross (the first class award). Hitler was temporary blinded by a massive gas attack in October 1918. While convalescing in a hospital, he received the news that the war had ended and Germany was defeated. His resentment, anger and feelings of betrayal later shaped the times to come.
Rise As A Politician
After the end of the World War I, a lot of Germans felt betrayed by the government with their unexpected and sudden surrender. The after-effects of this war, including inflation, unemployment and daily struggle made it extremely difficult for average Germans to survive. In 1919, Hitler was appointed to work as a spy for an army organization. His duties were strictly "educational" and he was supposed to check on the rapidly increasing local political societies. While working on these groups, he liked one of them in September 1919. He enrolled into the group and was appointed as the 55th member. Hitler was soon leading the group.
Hitler As A Leader
Hitler possessed an amazing talent for oratory and he could slowly gather masses to follow him. Later, he introduced the new party symbol. By November 1921, Hitler was declared the "Fuhrer" and his movement had more than 3000 followers. Within 2 years, Hitler was confident that the Weimar Republic was about to collapse. Along with other nationalist groups and General Ludendorff, he made efforts to overthrow the Swiss Government in Munich. This is when the "Red Berlin" movement came into existence.
The Coup
Adolf Hitler strongly believed that he could create a stronger government in Germany and bring back the lost pride. So on November 9, 1923, he attempted a coup of the government, also called the "Beer Hall Putsch". The mission failed and eventually, Hitler was sentenced imprisonment for five years. He was moved to the Landsberg prison and was released in nine months. He used this time to formulate future strategies and penned his book, which is now one of the all-time bestsellers, called "Mein Kampf".
Rise To Power
After being released from the prison, he started on his path to attain ultimate power. Hitler wanted to compete for the presidential elections and by July 1932, he had acquired enough support to run the campaign. However he lost these elections against Paul Von Hindenburg, who later appointed Hitler as the chancellor on January 30, 1933. After the death of president Hindenburg in 1935, Hitler served as both, the chancellor as well as the president. He combined both these positions into one and the supreme leader was now referred to as the "Fuhrer".
After gaining such power, Hitler started solidifying his position in Germany on legal terms. All those who disagreed with his proceedings were put into harsh concentration camps. Hitler ran massive campaigns to strengthen the German pride and blamed all their problems on Jews and Communists. The whole idea of "pan-Germanism" inspired him to combine the German population from all countries across Europe.
The world wanted to stay away from the possibility of another World War, however Hitler invaded Austria in 1938, without any battle. When his forces entered Poland, the world could no longer stand his domination and the World War II began in 1939. In addition to Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht, the Nazi party created an extensive system to eliminate the Jews from the German society.
Adolf Hitler is considered to be one of the most evil human beings in the history, especially because of the Holocaust. The Nazi party seemed unbeatable until the Battle of the Stalingrad in 1943. The Allied Army destroyed the German forces and Hitler was defeated.
Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun, his long-time mistress, on April 29, 1945. They both wrote their political testament and the last will. The next day, on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide with his wife Eva Braun.
Genghis Khan Biography
Posted On July 1st, 2010 By Celebrity Biographies
In about less than a century, Genghis Khan and his followers built the largest kingdom in the world. This empire was later exceeded by the British in the late 19th century. Through brute force, spiritual mission and cunning diplomacy, Genghis Khan united the irreconcilable Mongols and then began his journey to the east and west of Asia, conquering major regions of Asia. By 1280 AD, the Mongol empire stretched from the Yellow Sea in China to the Mediterranean Sea, covering a total of 12 million miles.
Genghis Khan was originally called 'Temüjin' and was born in 1162. Due to the lack of modern-day records, there is very little information on the early life of Genghis Khan. He was born in a Mongol Tribe near Kherlen and Onon River, besides the Burkhan Khaldun Mountain, located in the contemporary Mongolia. According to the history of Mongols, it is believed that young Temüjin had a blood clot grasped in his hand, which is considered as a traditional sign that he was born to become a leader. The name suggests that he may perhaps have descended from a blacksmith family. His father's name was 'Yesükhei' and his mother's name was 'Hoelun'. His father was a chieftain of the 'Borjigin' clan and therefore Genghis belonged to a noble background. Since he belonged to a higher social status, it made it easier for him to solicit help from the other Mongol tribes and consolidate them.
There are no accurate portraits of this Mongol leader; however the legendary ancestors suggest that he was tall, red-haired, green-eyed and long-bearded. At the age of nine, Temüjin was taken to another tribe by his father, so as to find him a wife. While returning, Yesugei (Temüjin's father) was killed by the Tatars. Young Temüjin and his family were abandoned by his father's followers. They were forced to live in difficult conditions where they survived by fishing and hunting. For the next few years, the family lived in poverty. During one of the hunting excursions, at the age of 13, Temüjin eliminated his half-brother called Bekhter over a fight. After this incident, Temüjin was considered as the head of the family. His mother gave him several important lessons about the existing political conditions in Mongolia and the need for alliance.
Personal Life & Children
As arranged by his deceased father, at the age of 16, Temüjin married a young woman called 'Borte' of the 'Olkut' hun tribe. This led to an alliance between the two tribes and Borte had four sons out of this marriage. Ghenghis Khan is known to have many more children from his other wives, but none of them were included in his succession. There are no existing records of any daughters. His religion is widely considered to be Tengriism or Shamanism that is usually followed by the nomad tribes of Asia. He was known to be religiously tolerant and took moral or philosophical lessons from other religions as well. During his conquer; he often consulted Muslim merchants, Christian monasteries as well as a Taoist monk called Qui Chuji.
Temüjin started attracting followers who appreciated him during battles. He became a follower of a Christian tribe chieftain called Toghril in Central Mongolia. Along with Toghril and a young chief called Jamuka, Temüjin was able to rescue his wife. Soon after his wedding, his wife Borte was kidnapped by the Merkits, a prominent tribe in Russia (this tribe is existent until today). Quite a few Mongol princes considered Temüjin as their ruler and then presented him with the title 'Cheengiz Khan' (Genghis Khan) which meant 'the sole ruler of the ocean'. Toghril and Genghis Khan helped North China in their batter against Tatars and emerged successful.
Soon relations between Toghril and Genghis Khan became worse, which led to the open war between them. After being defeated in their first battle, Genghis Khan took abode in some remote areas of northeast Mongolia. 1n, 1203, he fought another battle with Toghril and defeated him. Thereafter, Toghril was killed by the Naimans and his tribe was united with the Mongols. Genghis Khan started his journey in West Mongolia, along with his associates, defeated his enemies including Jamuka, the Naimans and the Merkits in 1204. All the tribes were merged together and Genghis Khan was proclaimed as the supreme ruler.
Invasion of China & Afghanistan
Along with invading and conquering, Genghis Khan did more than that. He established some rules for his empire as well as introduced a written language for his people. He set up a basic postal service, so as to communicate with the different parts of his empire. Above all, he was a great military leader. In the year 1211, the Mongols assaulted China and invaded the north region of the 'Great Wall'.
Thereafter, he started his hunt for Sultan Muhammad of Khiva. The Sultan possessed major parts of Central Asia, along with Afghanistan and major portions of Persia. It was a matter of time before the two empires clashed against each other. The Sultan fled across Persia and was killed near the Caspian Sea. By 1220, he expanded his empire across the west by defeating the Sultan of Afghanistan. After concluding his campaign in the west, he returned back to Mongolia. Around 1226, Genghis Khan resumed war against the Tibetan tribe called Tanguts. He died on 25th August 1227, in the Liupan Mountains of Kansu, while the war was still in progress.
Genghis Khan wanted to be buried without any markings, following the traditions of his tribe. After his death, his body was returned to his birthplace in Mongolia. Many suspect that he is buried close to the Onon River. The Genghis Khan Mausoleum was created years after his death and is not his burial site. If we were to believe the folklore, it is said that the river was diverted on his grave so that it becomes impossible to locate his burial site. Some stories also suggest that his grave was stamped by several horses and numerous trees were planted over it. According to the Mongol tradition, the youngest son would inherit the father's property and hence his army was divided accordingly.
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Drought plagued Alabama for the last few months of summer. As fall gets underway many anglers are looking forward to the relief from the heat. In mid August a week long warming trend showed air temperatures averaging 103 degrees and very little rain occurred to help cool things down. In addition the summer drought had most Alabama Lakes down a few feet, far below normal full pool levels. For the last two months of summer on into the early fall period starting in September, Logan Martin Lake has been unseasonably low at 3-4 feet down.
Usually at the beginning of the fall season Logan Martin Lake is at full pool with aquatic weeds in full bloom. It is then lowered for winter pool, slowly dropping each week until down about 4-6 feet. With lake levels currently down over 3 feet since summer very little weeds had a chance to grow. Since most aquatic weeds were high and dry and most weeds just withered and died in the hot summer sun.
Despite low lake levels all summer, some weeds still continued to grow as the new, low water shoreline showed a steady lake level. So anglers looking for bass in the weeds at the beginning of this fall season, can still concentrate their efforts along visible weed lines, some of which are still growing along the lakes new, low water shoreline. Soon, as temperatures plunge, even these weeds could wither and die and again be high and dry with more of an annual lake drawdown of 4-6 feet during winter.
Logan Martin Lake could be down 4-6 feet for winter pool by the first week of October. If so, it will remain down until next spring, when the lake is traditionally returned to full pool in April. Looking at each section of the lake here is what to expect this fall season when targeting Logan Martin Lake's spotted bass, largemouth bass and an occasional striped bass.
Although the Interstate 20 bridge crossing is situated at midlake (its 25 miles to either dam) this is considered the lakes upper portion, even when it is down 3-4 feet. If the lake is dropped any lower (like last year at this time when it was down 6 feet), boaters should use extreme caution when navigating here. There is mostly just a river channel and no channel markers above this midlake I-20 bridge.
There are also very few feeder creeks in the lakes upper 25 miles of water with most creeks not even showing good water depths when the lake is down. Near the two bridges (I-20 and a railroad bridge) that span the mid lake, is Blue Eye Creek and Blue Springs Creek. Above here (about 5 miles) is Broken Arrow Creek. It does have a rock bluff bank on your left as you enter from the main lake, displaying 5-10 feet of water, before it plays out into a very shallow creek flat of 1-2 feet deep.
Idling the boat as you enter any of these major feeder creeks is highly suggested. There are stumps and rocks in some very shallow backwaters found here. Along the main river channel banks in these lake headwaters you will see stumps, laying trees, logs, visible brush piles and small points situated along the mouths of small cuts, pockets, flats and islands.
Fishing this wood cover requires various lures, certain colors and various presentations during the entire fall season. Its all according to the available current, the water clarity, lake levels and especially…the weather. Early during the fall season the lakes headwaters will still be warm from the hot summertime 100 plus degree days we had. This intense heat of summer showed water temps of 90 plus degrees and bass either fed in the warmer water or they headed for the deep feeding early, late in the day and at night.
As September gets underway and cooler weather slowly creeps in, these water temps slowly drop into the low 80′s and then into the 70′s by October. This triggers a feeding sensation among the lakes bass. Lures like topwaters, spinnerbaits and crankbaits are good choices fishing around all the wood cover found here in the lake headwaters. Heavy rains and cold, swift water may make these lake headwaters muddy and unproductive during November and early December. The mid to lower lake may prove to be much better fishing conditions in late fall during these adverse conditions.
Leaving Interstate 20 crossing at mid lake and heading down stream to Stemley Bridge is considered the mid lake. Here an angler will immediately notice the lake widens and small creeks, main lake flats and pockets become much more evident, than when fishing the upper lake region. Still, low water has many places anglers normally fish in early fall, now high and dry.
Fishing the upper and lower points leading into these creeks and pockets with lures like crankbaits, rattletraps, spinnerbaits and jerkbaits are good search lures for active bass in the fall and good lures for both spotted bass and largemouth bass right on up into the early winter.
There are main river ledges, points, stump filled drop-offs and some small islands as well. Texas rigged worms and lizards, Carolina rigged plastics, tube baits, creature baits, jig combos and using jigging spoons are all good lures for fishing from shallow to deep water of 15-30 feet found here.
Many anglers have success fishing Logan Martin Lake during the entire fall season with small 4 inch worms or small lizards, crayfish imitations and other soft plastic lures rigged on jig heads, fishing with light line and light tackle outfits. The clearer the water the better this finesse tactic works on this lake. It is an especially good technique during the fall and winter seasons fishing around piers, boat houses, marina release sites and man made rip-rap rocks found along bridges, the dam and rock lined causeways.
This midlake region does have plenty of this man made cover (like piers and boat houses) for anglers to explore this fall season. Seddon Creek, Dye Creek, Choccolocco Creek and Poorhouse Branch Creek all still have water at least 5 feet deep (or deeper) during lake drawdown.
From Stemley bridge to Logan Martin Lake dam is considered the lower lake. This portion of the lake displays water depths of over 60 feet deep with an old river channel, ledges, drop-offs, submerged roadbeds, old house foundations, submerged islands, humps, ridges and even a few submerged lakes for the deep water angler to explore.
There are also many piers with resident planted brush all around them. Many brush piles are now visible and getting a lure under piers is no problem with the lake down for winter. Clear water during the fall season may call for the use of lighter line and smaller profile lures during these cooler months.
Besides all the wood cover these bass relate to there, is also plenty of rock cover found to fish in this lower lake area. Rock bluffs, rock or block walls, boulder strewn banks and man made rip-rap rocks are very visible now with low water. Still there is loads of both wood and rock cover for bass to relate this fall and winter season on this lower lake region.
Feeder Creeks like Cropwell Creek, Rabbit Branch Creek and Clear Creek still have navigable waters and plenty of evident baitfish schools and bass busting shad during the fall period. Schooling activity among the lakes spotted bass, largemouth's and striped bass takes place on this lower lake area as waters cool in late September on into the early winter period of late December.
Always be rigged and ready for this often fast and furious feeding action. On top evident schooling activity always calls for the use of various types of topwater lures. On some days these bass prefer smaller lures like tiny or baby torpedoes, crazy shads, the spittin' image, the poppin' image and a small zara spook, baby super spook or sammie. Soft jerkbaits are great lures for schoolies.
Often these bass are feeding on bigger end of the year baitfish like threadfin shad, gizzard shad and smaller gamefish like baby bass, crappie or bream. This may call for the use of bigger more gaudy type topwater lures like the zara super spook and the bigger model Sammie's.
Fishing these feeder creek flats and backwaters in the fall season for schooling bass is also good using rattling lipless lures like one quarter to half ounce Rattletraps and Rattling spots, shallow to mid diving crankbaits, both floating and suspending jerkbaits and 1/4 to 1/2 ounce jigging spoons. Make long casts, rigging these lures on 14-15 test line and using 6-7 foot rods. This is the best equipment for making long casts to these schooling bass of fall on Logan Martin Lake.


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Trainwreck is a feminized indica Marijuana strain with deep sativa roots. This strains is a clone of the mythical strain of Arcata, California, the result of crossing an Indica Afghan and Mexican and Thai sativas. As the name suggest it hits like a train.
Trainwreck is a feminized Marijuana strain being an índica with sativa charateristics. This strain is a clone of the legendary Northern California, obtained from an Indica Afghan and Mexican and Thai sativas.
It has a very peculiar flavor with spicy and earthy notes and with a sweet, fruity and citric background. This strain will hit you like a train with a cerebral energetic effect stimulating the creativity evolving after in a corporal sensation of relaxation and wellbeing.
Moreover, besides having a long-lasting effect, Trainwreck can be used meidicinally against pain.
In a growing room and after 9 weeks of flowering it is able to yield up to 700 grams per square meter. In the outside, the plant develops several vine-type branches needing some kind of support. It is ready to be collected in the first week of October (northern hemisphere) and the productions can reach 800 grams per plant.


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Q: error in .vimrc file e
n  " Automatically detect file types.
set nocompatible  " We don't want vi compatibility.

" Add recently accessed projects menu (project plugin)
set viminfo^=!

" Minibuffer Explorer Settings
let g:miniBufExplMapWindowNavVim = 1
let g:miniBufExplMapWindowNavArrows = 1
let g:miniBufExplMapCTabSwitchBufs = 1
let g:miniBufExplModSelTarget = 1

" alt+n or alt+p to navigate between entries in QuickFix
map <silent> <m-p> :cp <cr>
map <silent> <m-n> :cn <cr>

" Change which file opens after executing :Rails command
let g:rails_default_file='config/database.yml'

syntax enable

and here's the error I got:
Espresso:ruby PowerBook$ vim .vimrc
".vimrc" [New File]
Error detected while processing /Users/PowerBook/.vimrc:
line    2:
E163: There is only one file to edit
Press ENTER or type command to continue

I'm new to vi.Could anyone give me a reference of all this syntaxes mean? It's so overwhelming for me right now.

A: it's the n character, which is a command to go to next file. Also e does not make much sense in .vimrc as it just reloads the file you just loaded...
The syntax of the .vimrc is just normal vim commands - you can think of it as you'd enter the file by hand, adding : to the beginning of every line.
You probably want your config file to look like:
" Automatically detect file types.
set nocompatible  " We don't want vi compatibility.

" Add recently accessed projects menu (project plugin)
set viminfo^=!

" Minibuffer Explorer Settings
let g:miniBufExplMapWindowNavVim = 1
let g:miniBufExplMapWindowNavArrows = 1
let g:miniBufExplMapCTabSwitchBufs = 1
let g:miniBufExplModSelTarget = 1

" alt+n or alt+p to navigate between entries in QuickFix
map <silent> <m-p> :cp <cr>
map <silent> <m-n> :cn <cr>

" Change which file opens after executing :Rails command
let g:rails_default_file='config/database.yml'

syntax enable

This old question and it's top rated answers are probably the most mindblowing reference to vim. I suggest also reading some vim tutorials

A: In your case the problem is in the 1st and 2nd line.
e
n  " Automatically detect file types.

These e and n are Vi(m) (ex) commands on the start of the lines (but in .vimrc they don't need the : prefix.
See their documentation at http://www.polarhome.com/vim/manual/v72/editing.html#:edit_f and http://www.polarhome.com/vim/manual/v72/editing.html#:next .
So they mean e edit file but there is no argument, so it's probably an error (usually most of the people doesn't specify e command(s) in their .vimrc
n means next (buffer), but as far as You does not specify more files on the commandline to start vim, it can't work, as there are no more buffers.
IMHO you should delete those commands from your .vimrc.
HTH

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FAIRFIELD: THE LAST SAD STORIES OF G. BRANDON SISNETT
Community Contact Staff — March 21, 2016
Robert Edison Sandiford's,
. Reviewed by H. Nigel Thomas
DC Books, Short fiction , 144 pp, $18.95
Fairfield: The Last Sad Stories of G. Brandon Sisnett is Robert Edison Sandiford's third collection of short fiction. There are thirteen titles that the author identifies as stories; in fact, there are fourteen inasmuch as the "Prologue" is also fiction.
Some of the stories are linked, and characters from Sandiford's novel And Sometimes They Fly and his first short story collection: Winter, Spring, Summer Fall, also show up here. Present too is his earlier foray into magic realism. According to the prologue, the stories have been authored by G. Brandson Sisnett, and the name Fairfield recurs "as city, state of mind, person, or idea of characters and places." (2) In essence, Sandiford, if one trusts the prologue (one shouldn't), assumes a double persona, that of author and acquisitions editor of the stories. The truth, however, is that the prologue suggests ways of reading and linking the stories.
In "The Big O" and "Funk," two stories that feature Orville Sobers, and "Michel," we again meet the character-narrator Edson Cumberbatch whom we first encountered in Winter, Spring, Summer , Fall. Although the interaction among siblings, which is the focus in Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, continues in "Michel," it is, however, the enigmatic nature of marital relationships that is Sandiford's primary focus.
The Fairfield stories depict gradations of marital relationships. There are those that last: Bradford and Maddie's ("They Build Houses Here Now"), the Linton's ("Madame Tussaud's Garden"), and the Cumberbatch's, Edson's parents ("Funk: ) Edson tells the reader that in earliest years his parents quarreled over every little thing, and then suddenly they stopped. "It occurred to me[that] my parents may simply have been together long enough at the time to voice their regret at some of their choices." (143). This statement is pivotal inasmuch as it implies that being able to resign oneself to or accommodate intra-marital conflict might be part of the reason some marriages survive while others fail.
There are those relationships characterized by sexual infidelity: Orville and Yvette's, in "Funk," and Justin and Helene's, in "Northern Lights." In both cases the women are unfaithful, and they seem genuinely puzzled by their need to cheat. There are hints here and there that neither Orville nor Justin understood the women they married. Indeed Orville's subconscious seemed to tell him that his marriage was wrong; he became almost catatonic when he was called upon to state the marriage vows. But can anyone truly understand another person? Do we even understand ourselves? The reader is more trusting of Orville's story largely because the narrator knows Orville. The men are the devastated ones. These are themes that only a middle-aged writer can confidently explore. Both stories are further enriched by their blues tone and settings.
The story "Michel" merits special attention. It's an excellent depiction of bullying, if not of downright sociopathy. Sandiford shows not only the bully in action but the desperate measures the victim engages in to palliate the effects of bullying. It is also Sandiford's return to the theme of sibling rivalry; this time, however, with a perspective enlarged by the knowledge and wisdom gained from experience. Early in the story the reader wonders whether Bert, Edson's older brother, isn't a repressed version of Roy, the bully-sociopath, but later learns that he has become a respectable professional.
Sandiford's penchant for speculative fiction, as shown in And Sometimes They Fly and The Tree of Youth, is present in three of the Fairfield stories. "The Jumbie Tribe" features the ghost of a Lebanese merchant standing on a street corner in Bridgetown, Barbados recalling his life and uncovering an ugly reality that only he, because of his jumbie omniscience, can know. "Screensaver," like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "An Old Man with Enormous Wings," employs an unlikely situation to proffer oblique social commentary. This story too makes the reader think of Kafka's "Metamorphosis." Its tone is gentler than Kafka's and is consonant with one of the major preoccupations of the collection: the invaluable benefits of family real and adopted. The third story "Massiah" projects a Barbados of the future. It offers brilliant insights into the machinations of power and the lies of which history is rife.
Two of the stories are about artists. "The Hours In-Between," where the detective Julius McDuff from And Sometimes They Fly reappears, focuses on finding a motive for the suicide of Jeffrey James, literary novelist, turned writer of "police procedurals." McDuff, who is also Jeffrey's friend and informal student, is at Jeffrey's home, the suicide scene. Along with the police he is trying to come up with a motive for the suicide. The story soon turns to reflections on another suicide: Mittelholzer's self-immolation. No motive is found, not even McDuff, who believes he can communicate with the dead, finds one. But Sandiford provides clues. There's the comfortable house which Jeffrey sacrificed his vocation to acquire and maintain. Some truths hold across millennia: gain at the expense of one's soul is of little worth.
The other story, "Dance a Little," contrasts with the first. Gary Spellman, upon hearing about the death of Michael Jackson and his father's admiration for the military genius of Lt Lance, decides to leave everything behind and live for his art. He is fifty. The story comes with a note of caution, however. Lt Lance, for all his military genius—his ability to get his lost men safely out of the desert—died a drunk in an almshouse. Michael Jackson's death was almost as inglorious. But Jackson and Lance had "guts" and exemplified it, and Spellman thinks the time has come for him to prove to himself that he does too.
There are two stories where the reader's attention focuses on language. "Thick 'n' Thin" is written completely in Barbadian, a first for Sandiford. The other story, "Mobbed by the BBC" draws our attention to what's left out when we translate or even paraphrase another's language.
This collection offer some lovable characters dealing with grim aspects of existence, beautiful prose, and many moments for reflection on life's enigmas and complexity.
Please note that Robert Sandiford will appear at the Kola Readings on April 11 (2741 Notre-Dame West at 7 pm), and at The Blue Metropolis Literary Festival on April 14 (Hotel 10, 10 Sherbrooke St. W, Salle Jardin at 7:30 pm).
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Q: Change the color of a single list item Is there a way in HTML/CSS to change color of just one list item not all of them? I just want to change the color of each of them so the user knows what page he is on. for now I managed only to do the a:hover but I cant figure out how could I do it so the color would stay.
HTML:

| About

| Gallery

| Prices

| FAQ

| Contact Us

CSS:
#buttons {
background-color: black;
}

.clear { clear: both; }

#buttons li a
{
position:block;
color:#fff;
padding:1em;
text-decoration:none;
float:left;
width:95px;
}

#buttons li a:hover
{
background-color:#bc1b32;
}

A: Look: http://jsfiddle.net/qzXgJ/
Detail:
HTML

| About

| Gallery

| Prices

| FAQ

| Contact Us

JS
$(".wrapper li a").click(function () {

    $('.wrapper li a').each(function() {
        $(this).removeClass('selected');
    });

    $(this).addClass('selected');

    $(".wrapper ul li a").click(function () {

    $('.wrapper ul li a').each(function() {
        $(this).removeClass('selected');
    });

    $(this).addClass('selected');

    console.log($(this).attr('id'));

    /* Get html by jQuery */
    $.get($(this).attr('id'),function(data){
        $('#result').html(data);
    });

    return false;
});

CSS
.selected
{
    background-color:#b51ba2;
}

A: easiest way would be to just create a class, lets say selected, add it to the a tag you'd like to change the color of, and that's it:
.selected { background-color: green; }

then your link would be:

| About

A: I've used this answer for the same question with good results: http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/highlighting-current-page-with-css

A: The question is a little vague; to indicate which page the user is on you could add a class to that particular list item that houses the link they last clicked:

    | Prices

You then provide specific styles for that:
li.current {
    background-color: #f1f1f1;
}


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Early in the spring semester of 2011, four brothers at Cornell University mobilized to address some of the issues with their pre-law fraternity. After considerable research and conversation, they determined that the best way to address the many issues facing their fraternity and the Cornell pre-law community was to disaffiliate and form a new pre-law fraternity, Kappa Alpha Pi. On May 7, 2011, the four founding fathers were joined by 32 other undergraduates and their faculty adviser, Professor Michael Evan Gold, in the induction of Delta chapter of Kappa Alpha Pi.
As the Delta chapter, the founding fathers at Cornell University followed the models set forth by the University of Michigan, the University of California Los Angeles, and the University of California Riverside. These chapters shared similar paths to forming their own local chapters of KAPi, preferring the safety of members and a close-knit community over the open membership offered by other pre-law fraternities. Though not affiliated with a national organization, the eight current chapters of Kappa Alpha Pi have formed bonds of fraternalism and support.
Kappa Alpha Pi (abbreviated KAPi, pronounced "Kap-ee") is Cornell University's only selective pre-law fraternity. Dedicated to providing interested students information about the law school application process, law school, and the legal profession, Kappa Alpha Pi aims to facilitate interaction between brothers, individuals within the law profession, and the community as a whole. Kappa Alpha Pi pursues these goals by providing the membership with the opportunity to participate in events focused on law and service designed to help the community of law. KAPi also provide its members access to people in the area of law.
Our fraternity is designed to educate about the field of law, but also strives to provide the most essential professional skills for its members. Our programming ranges from development of pre-professional skills to preparation for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). Brothers also participate in service and social events to foster friendship and camaraderie within the fraternity. Big-Little pairings and "families" within KAPi help strengthen the bonds of fraternalism that transcends normal friendships. The relationships that begin in the fraternity continue on throughout one's life.


Lacto-fermented foods are full of probiotics and natural enzymes that are wonderful for the immune and digestive systems. And we all know that having healthy digestive and immune systems is awesome! Since I first tried kefir and started making my own raw milk yogurt, I have become more curious about traditionally fermented foods.
I'm itching to get my hands on a copy of Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions to read more about why these foods are vitally healthy to our body. I hope the Nook edition becomes available soon.
Another lacto-fermented food, well beverage actually, that I was curious about was kombucha tea. I had never tried it, nor even seen it locally. I was shopping at a far flung Whole Foods the other week and they had it so I picked up a bottle to sip on the drive home. I tried the GT's Enlightened Organic Raw Kombucha citrus tea.
Though kombucha tastes nothing like wine the experience was like the first time I had really good Chardonnay. Happy, happy tastebuds! So refreshing and tangy and wonderful, Kombucha is made with brewed sweetened tea and a starter culture made of bacteria and yeast and left to ferment at room temperature for several days. The result is a tangy, fizzy, delicious drink that is loaded with probiotics. The yeast eats the sugar to create the fizz, just like in making Champagne!
This delicious little drink cost nearly $4. But I did some reading and found that kombucha is very easy and inexpensive to make at home. The only specialty product needed is a starter. I'm making yogurt this weekend but homemade kombucha is going to be my next project.
Ann Marie at Cheeseslave has a wonderful article on brewing kombucha at home based on Sally Fallon's method. This is the method I'm going to try.
What do you think of Kombucha?
I purchased a SCOBY (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast) a couple of years ago at a CSA fundraiser and we made our own kombucha for quite a while. I really liked using a spiced black tea, one with cinnamon, cloves, etc. Mine never got very fizzy though, and I abandoned the SCOBY during the winter one year when we just weren't drinking enough of it. But now, of course, I want another!
It's not nearly as good for you as plain kombucha because of the calorie count, but I love the Synergy Mango Kombucha. It's a once in a while treat for myself when I get to a Whole Foods.
I love kombucha! I was really into it last year, and last week just opened up a bottle that's been in my fridge since November (I brew for around 2-3 weeks, then bottle them). It was so fizzy and delicious! You get a lot of carbonation when you let it sit for that long, a lot like the bottled ones you get in stores.
If you want to mix it up, you can also add fruit juice once it's done brewing and you bottle it. My favorite is pomegranate (about 3 parts kombucha to 1 part juice).
You can also use green tea, which I prefer to black tea. I've tried chai tea too, but I didn't love the flavor.
I adore Kombucha. The Ginger one is great too - awesome for settling your stomach. Glad you discovered this too - can't wait to see how your home-brewed batch comes out!
Thanks for the comments, I wish I had some kombucha to sip right now. I'm so excited, I just ordered the kombucha starter along with kefir grains and some more yogurt cultures from Cultures for Health.
If you still have an abandoned scoby and it's still in the kombucha, you might be able to revive it. Just make a couple of batches of kombucha, but don't drink it. Toss it. If it doesn't come back, well, no harm done. I've done this several times, and the scobies have always come back to life--months later. But, it was sitting in the mother, and in the refrigerator the whole time. You might need to add more "mother" than usual.


Kate Selivanovitch (Douglas Lab) was first author on Chemically Induced Morphogenesis of P22 Virus-like Particles by the Surfactant Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate, a paper published in Biomacromolecules.
Join us for the Spring QCB Evening on Monday, April 1st from 5:30-7:00pm in Chemistry C033. The QCB Ambassadors will host a panel covering the ins and outs of the QCB Fellowship program, career timeline planning, grant writing, networking, and other campus resources to help STEM graduate students begin building their careers.
Britta Rued (QCB alumna) was first author on Structure of the Large Extracellular Loop of FtsX and Its Interaction with the Essential Peptidoglycan Hydrolase PcsB in Streptococcus pneumoniae a paper published in mBio January 2019.
Paul Marcyk (Cook lab) was first author on Stereoinversion of Unactivated Alcohols by Tethered Sulfonamides, a paper published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
Kate Selivanovitch (Douglas Lab) was second author on Cargo Retention inside P22 Virus-Like Particles, a paper published in Biomacromolecules.
Sashary Ramos was first author on Conformational Change Induced by Putidaredoxin Binding to Ferrous CO-ligated Cytochrome P450cam Characterized by 2D IR Spectroscopy, a paper published in Frontier in Molecular Biosciences.
Congratulations to Brenna Walsh (Giedroc lab) for receiving two travel awards! She received the Provost's Travel Award for Women in Science and the Fall College of Arts and Science Travel Award to attend a Gordon Research Conference and Seminar in January.
Congratulations to Kate Selivanovitch (Douglas lab) on receiving a first place Oral Presentation Award at the 2018 Women in Science Conference held at Notre Dame University. Kate also received a travel grant to attend and share her work at the conference.
Join us for another QCB Evening on Monday, November 5th from 5:30-7:00 pm in Chemistry C033. Talks will be given by current QCB Trainees, Paul Marcyk (Cook lab) and Jhavni Sharma (Douglas lab). Pizza and beverages will be provided.
We would like to invite you to the 9th Annual August M. Watanabe Symposium in Chemical Biology: Virology and Antivirals.
The Watanabe Symposium will be held on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, in the Department of Chemistry on Saturday, October 20, 2018. This year the emphasis will be on virology and antivirals. A light breakfast will be available starting at 8 am and the first presentation begin at 8:50. Talks and posters continue through the day to 5:00 pm. There is a wonderful list of speakers, so we encourage you to join us. You can follow the link below to register for the event. Priority will be given to QCB Trainer Labs for Poster Session.
The Watanabe Symposium honors the late August "Gus" Watanabe, a renowned physician, researcher and professor who led research and development at Eli Lilly and Company for nearly a decade, and who was a pioneer in the study of the cellular mechanics of the heart. IN 1994, Watanabe assumed the role as President of Lilly Research Laboratories and is responsible for launching eleven new and pivotal pharmaceutical products.
Join us for the first QCB Evening of the Fall 2018 semester on Monday, October 1st from 5:30-7:00pm in Chemistry C033. Talks will be given by current QCB Trainees, Mallory Kern (Pohl lab) and Brenna Walsh (Giedroc lab).
The QCB TP Steering Committee is pleased to announce six (6) new fellowship appointments and three (3) reappointments for the upcoming 2018-2019 academic year.
Three two-year NRSA fellowships were awarded to upcoming second year students, Brooke Brown (Clemmer group), Rachel Fadler (Flood group), and Lily Klapper (VanNieuwenhze group). Three one-year fellowship awards were made to rising third-year students Mallory Kern (Pohl group) and Kate Selivanovitch (Douglas group) and an upcoming second-year student Matthew Jordan (Giedroc group). Their photos and biographical information are forthcoming! Check back to our Current Trainees page!
Three additional trainees were re-appointed to their second year of support: Steven Ratvasksy (Zaleski group), Frank Roushar (Schlebach group) and Brenna Walsh (Giedroc group).
QCB trainee JB Holmes (Dragnea group) was highlighted in a commentary published in Nature on the American Physical Society's innovative Bridge Program, which seeks to diversify the Physics academic community. Congratulations JB!
Britta Rued (Winkler/Giedroc labs) was second author on The Opp (AmiACDEF) Oligopeptide Transporter Mediates Resistance of Serotype 2 Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 to Killing by Chemokine CXCL10 and Other Antimicrobial Peptides, a paper published in the Journal of Bacteriology May 2018.
Congratulations to Britta Rued (Winkler/Giedroc labs) for being named a 2018 William G. Roessler Microbiology Scholar!
Brenna Walsh (Giedroc lab) was co-first author on Hydrogen Sulfide Sensing through Reactive Sulfur Species (RSS) and Nitroxyl (HNO) in Enterococcus faecalis, a paper published in ACS Chemical Biology in April 2018.
Brady Strittmatter (Hollenhorst lab) received the Peglow Award for outstanding performance in the Biochemistry Preliminary Examination. Congratulations Brady!
Brady Strittmatter (Hollenhorst lab) was second author on a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Phosphorylation of the oncogenic transcription factor ERG in prostate cells dissociates polycomb repressive complex 2 allowing target gene activation, published in September 2017.


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VSM (Vision Sensor Monitor) is a monitoring device compatible with all DataVS2 vision sensor models. It is able to display elaborated images together with inspection results. The device also allows to change the running inspection as well as to fine-tune the vision sensor functioning parameters on-the-fly thus representing an excellent and complete Human-Machine Interface (HMI) ideal for automated production lines attended by operators.
MX-Series Vision Processors provide the highest performance in image processing with even more flexibility through multi-camera support. Three models allow you to choose the correct level of performance based on your application needs. The MX20 Series is an entry-level, affordable processor featuring an Intel® T3100 dual core 1.90 GHz processor and two independent PoE (Power over Ethernet) camera ports.
The MX20 offers a cost-effective mean to migrate from smart-camera applications to an embedded vision system. The MX40 Series is a ruggedized and compact embedded vision processor that features Intel® multi-core processors and four independent PoE (Power over Ethernet) camera ports. The MX40's long-life embedded components provide a very robust and reliable vision system for critical inspection applications. The next-generation MX80 Vision Processor extends the power and performance of MX-Series to faster applications, advanced algorithms and higher-resolutions with its Intel® Core™ i7 quad-core microprocessor, 8GB memory and four independent Gigabit PoE (Power over Ethernet) ports.
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Datalogic continues its leadership in machine vision with this comprehensive range of industrial PCs. They are packed with technology including the latest Intel® multi-core chipsets offering outstanding computing capabilities. State-of-the-art USB 3.0 connectivity delivers ultra wide bandwidth to support camera image acquisition at high frame rates and resolutions. All this managed and controlled using IMPACT, Datalogic's leading edge graphical interface. The MX-U Series further extends the Machine Vision portfolio reinforcing Datalogic as the preferred partner for automated inspection solutions.
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In the past decades, at the same time as the theory and practice of Shared Decision Making have achieved increasing prominence, threads of epistemological, ethical and political concern have converged to render the concept itself problematic. How does the "evidence based medicine" purveyed by the clinician differ from the evidence used by the patient? Whose values and preferences are meant to take precedence, and how does the social and political milieu impinge upon, or determine, the exercise of decision making (if indeed that is the main point of the health care encounter)?
In this exploratory, conceptual, and deliberately provocative talk, I will seek to blow up and then reconstruct shared decision making along both more defensible yet more ambitious lines, arguing that saving SDM as an approach to health care means saving our system from moral and empirical blindness.


Many people have been sailing with the yachts of the Jersey Sailing Trust and almost as many have enjoyed the pleasure of sailing in local waters, however, it is becoming essential to further regulate how membership is defined.
It is now essential to be able to prove membership rather than merely indicate one's interest. Consequently a minor change is required in the way that the crews relate to the support of the vessels that comprise the fleet of the Jersey Sailing Trust. Please bear in mind that all of the vessels are supported by subscription from the membership and that income has been diminishing in the current economic climate.
Firstly the good news is that going forward the Telegraph will continue to carry the news and reports and you may wish to add the site to your Favourites so that you can catch up on the adventures of the various yachts.
Then, as part of the improvements to the process to provide for "proof of membership", it will be necessary for every crew member to be a "fully paid up member". This will require that a regular subscription is actually being received and both parties can point to such subscription to establish such membership.
Advance notices of all sailing activity in the way that you have received such notices in the past.
Regular opportunity for "free sailing" during the week days and often at weekends.
Members Rates for Day Sailing or Over Night Cruises.
Inclusion in the insurance cover for any damage to the vessels.
In the past it would have been debatable whether certain skippers acting on their own initiative should have been liable for damage caused while purporting to be a member but not paying a subscription. Proof of membership may therefore have been in doubt and could possibly have been denied thus allowing the claim of damages against the culprit.
Lapsed Members who are not currently "subscribing members" can get access to the vessels of the Jersey Sailing Trust by contacting "admin@jerseysailingtrust.com and re-establishing their membership.


What a week it has been! We are on the other side of a non-stop whirlwind of printing for secret projects and custom orders. And, we've finished just in time! Tropical storm Darby is looking to put a damper on our outdoor printing operation this coming week.
This custom cosmetic clutch will be making its way from Honolulu, Hawaii to San Francisco first thing next week. With all of our custom orders we try to capture exactly what our customers are envisioning. We will also recreate a one-of-a-kind print that we've done in the past. Contact us on Etsy to create your perfect handmade in Hawaii Jana Lam accessory.
We aren't spilling the beans on this project quite yet. But get excited, because these prints and color combinations are what summer dreams are made of.
We've made countless clutches, cross-bodies, and totes over the years. Most of our daily tasks are second nature. This leaves our minds with nearly 40 hours each week to listen to books, podcasts, music, and episodes of 'FRIENDS' (Because we don't even have to watch to know what's going on... PIVOT!!!).
This week the #janalamfam was thrilled to have a new podcast to listen to. Fellow Hawaii-born creatives, Virginia Paresa and Bianca Nicole Bennet, released their first episodes of The Holoholo Podcast. The podcast aims to start a conversation about what it means to be from Hawaii, and how that shapes our careers and passions. Each episode is an interview with a native of Hawaii that has influenced their community. The first interview is with Sean Yoro, a street artist that has gone 'viral' because of his amazing talent as a painter and the unique way he has executed his series of water murals. We are hooked on the conversation, and are waiting with bated breath for the next installment.


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A Titusz latin eredetű férfinév. Eredete és jelentése bizonytalan. Egyes vélemények szerint a latin titus szóból származik, ennek a jelentése vadgalamb, mások szerint szabin eredetű, és a jelentése tiszteletreméltó, tisztelt.

Gyakorisága
Az 1990-es években szórványos név, a 2000-es években nem szerepel a 100 leggyakoribb férfinév között.

Névnapok
 január 4.
 január 26.
 február 6.

Idegen nyelvi megfelelői
 Tito (olasz)
 Titus (latin)
 Tytus (lengyel)

Híres Tituszok
 Szent Titusz püspök, Pál apostol tanítványa
 Dugovics Titusz
 Tuli Géza Titusz olimpiai ezüstérmes tornász, sportvezető
 Kovács Titusz színművész
 Titus római császár
 Titus Livius római történetíró
 Tito Gobbi olasz énekes, színész
 DJ Titusz (Bicskei Titusz) magyar lemezlovas

Jegyzetek

Magyar keresztnevek (T)
Férfikeresztnevek (T)
Latin eredetű magyar férfikeresztnevek
Szabin eredetű magyar férfikeresztnevek
Vitatott eredetű magyar férfikeresztnevek

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<TITLE>Boost Graph Library: Planar Graphs</TITLE>

Planar Graphs

A graph is planar if it can be drawn in
two-dimensional space with no two of its edges crossing. Such a drawing of a
planar graph is called a plane drawing.
Every planar graph also admits a straight-line drawing, which is a
plane drawing where each edge is represented by a line segment.

A planar graph (left), a plane drawing (center), and a straight line
drawing (right), all of the same graph

Two examples of non-planar graphs are K5, the complete graph on
five vertices, and K3,3, the complete bipartite graph on six
vertices with three vertices in each bipartition. No matter how the vertices
of either graph are arranged in the plane, at least two edges are forced to
cross.

K5 (left) and K3,3 (right) -
the two Kuratowski subgraphs

The above graphs are both minimal examples of non-planarity within
their class of graphs; delete any edge or vertex from either one and the
resulting graph is planar. A theorem of Kuratowski singles these two graphs
out as fundamental obstructions to planarity within any graph:

A graph is planar if and only if it does not contain a subgraph that is an
expansion[1] of either K5 or K3,3

A subgraph that is an expansion of K5 or K3,3 is called
a Kuratowski subgraph. Because of
the above theorem, given any graph, one can produce either a plane drawing of
a graph, which will certify that the graph is planar, or a minimal set of edges
that forms a Kuratowski subgraph, which will certify that the graph is
non-planar - in both cases, the certificate of planarity or non-planarity is
easy to check.

Any plane drawing separates the plane into distinct regions bordered by graph
edges called faces. As a simple example, any embedding of a triangle
into the plane separates it into two faces: the region inside the triangle and
the (unbounded) region outside the triangle. The unbounded region outside the
graph's embedding is called the outer face. Every embedding yields
one outer face and zero or more inner faces. A famous result called
Euler's formula states that for any
planar graph with n vertices, e edges, f faces, and
c connected components,

n + f = e + c + 1

This formula implies that any planar graph with no self-loops or parallel edges
has at most 3n - 6 edges and 2n- 4 faces. Because of these
bounds, algorithms on planar graphs can run in time O(n) or space
O(n) on an n vertex graph even if they have to traverse all
edges or faces of the graph.

A convenient way to separate the actual planarity test from algorithms that
accept a planar graph as input is through an intermediate structure called a
planar embedding. Instead of specifying the absolute positions of the
vertices and edges in the plane as a plane drawing would, a planar embedding
specifies their positions relative to one another. A planar embedding consists
of a sequence, for each vertex in the graph, of all of the edges incident on
that vertex in the order in which they are to be drawn around that vertex.
The orderings defined by this sequence
can either represent a clockwise or counter-clockwise iteration through the
neighbors of each vertex, but the orientation must be
consistent across the entire embedding.

In the Boost Graph Library, a planar embedding is a model of the
PlanarEmbedding concept. A type that
models PlanarEmbedding can be passed into the planarity test and populated if
the input graph is planar. All other "back end" planar graph algorithms accept
this populated PlanarEmbedding as an input. Conceptually, a type that models
PlanarEmbedding is a property
map that maps each vertex to a sequence of edges,
where the sequence of edges has a similar interface to a standard C++
container. The sequence of edges each vertex maps to represents the ordering
of edges adjacent to that vertex. This interface is flexible enough to allow
storage of the planar embedding independent from the graph in, say, a
<tt>std::vector</tt> of <tt>std::vector</tt>s, or to allow for graph
implementations that actually store lists of adjacent edges/vertices to
internally re-arrange their storage to represent the planar embedding.
Currently, only the former approach is supported when using the native graph
types (<tt>adjacency_list</tt>, <tt>adjacency_matrix</tt>, etc.)
of the Boost Graph Library.

Tools for working with planar graphs in the Boost Graph Library

The Boost Graph Library planar graph algorithms all work on undirected graphs.
Some algorithms require certain degrees of connectivity of the input graph,
but all algorithms work on graphs with self-loops and parallel edges.

The function <tt>boyer_myrvold_planarity_test
</tt> can be used to test whether or not a graph is planar, but it can also
produce two important side-effects: in the case the graph is not planar, it can
isolate a Kuratowski subgraph, and in the case the graph is planar, it can
compute a planar embedding. The Boyer-Myrvold algorithm works on any undirected
 graph.

An undirected graph is connected if, for any two vertices u and
v, there's a path from u to v. An undirected graph is
biconnected if it is connected and it remains connected even if any
single vertex is removed. Finally, a planar graph is
maximal planar (also called
triangulated) if no additional edge (with the exception of self-loops
and parallel edges) can be added to it without creating
a non-planar graph. Any maximal planar simple graph on n > 2 vertices
has exactly 3n - 6 edges and 2n - 4 faces, a consequence of
Euler's formula. If a planar graph isn't connected, isn't biconnected, or isn't
maximal planar, there is some set of edges that can be added to the graph to
make it satisfy any of those three properties while preserving planarity. Many
planar graph drawing algorithms make at least one of these three assumptions
about the input graph, so there are functions in the Boost Graph Library that
can help:

<tt>make_connected</tt> adds a minimal
set of edges to an undirected graph to make it connected.

<tt>make_biconnected_planar</tt>
adds a set of edges to a connected, undirected planar graph to make it
biconnected while preserving planarity.

<tt>make_maximal_planar</tt> adds a
set of edges to a biconnected, undirected planar graph to make it maximal
planar.

Some algorithms involve a traversal of the faces of the graph, and the Boost
Graph Library has the generic traversal function
<tt>planar_face_traversal</tt> for
this purpose. This traversal, like other traversals in the Boost Graph Library,
can be customized by overriding event points in an appropriately defined
visitor class.

An intermediate step in some drawing algorithms for planar graphs is the
creation of
a canonical ordering of the vertices. A canonical ordering is a
permutation of the vertices of a maximal planar graph. It orders the vertices
in a way that makes it straightforward to draw the ith vertex once the
first (i-1) vertices have been drawn - the only edges connecting the
ith vertex to vertices already drawn will be adjacent to a consecutive
sequence of vertices along the outer face of the partially embedded graph. The
function
<tt>planar_canonical_ordering</tt>
will create such an ordering, given a maximal planar graph and a planar
embedding of that graph.

A straight line drawing can be created using the function
<tt>
chrobak_payne_straight_line_drawing,
</tt> which takes a maximal planar graph, a planar embedding of that
graph, and a canonical ordering as input. The resulting drawing maps all of the
vertices from a graph with n vertices to integer coordinates on a
(2n-4) x (n-2) grid such that when the edges of the graph are drawn
as line segments connecting vertices, no two edges cross. Self-loops and
parallel edges are ignored by this algorithm.

Finally, there are two functions that can be used to verify the results of the
<tt>boyer_myrvold_planarity_test</tt> and
<tt>chrobak_payne_straight_line_drawing</tt> functions:

<tt>is_kuratowski_subgraph</tt>
takes the output of <tt>boyer_myrvold_planarity_test</tt> on a nonplanar graph
and verifies that it can be contracted into a graph isomorphic to a Kuratowski
subgraph.

<tt>is_straight_line_drawing
</tt> takes the output of <tt>chrobak_payne_straight_line_drawing</tt> and uses
a planar sweep algorithm to verify that none of the embedded edges intersect.

Complexity

Most of the algorithms in the Boost Graph Library that deal with planar graphs
run in time O(n) on an input graph with n vertices. This achieves
a theoretically optimal bound (you must at least iterate over all n
vertices in order to embed a graph in the plane.) However, some of the work
that goes into achieving these theoretically optimal time bounds may come at
the expense of practical performance. For example, since any comparison-based
sorting algorithm uses at least on the order of n log n comparisons in
the worst case, any time an algorithm dealing with planar graphs needs to sort,
a bucket sort is used to sort in O(n) time. Also, computing a planar
embedding of a graph involves maintaining an ordered list of edges around a
vertex, and this list of edges needs to support an arbitrary sequence of
concatenations and reversals. A <tt>std::list</tt> can only guarantee
O(n2) for a mixed sequence of n concatenations and
reversals (since <tt>reverse</tt> is an O(n) operation.) However, our
implementation achieves O(n) for these operations by using a list data
structure that implements mixed sequences of concatenations and reversals
lazily.

In both of the above cases, it may be preferable to sacrifice the nice
theoretical upper bound for performance by using the C++ STL. The bucket sort
allocates and populates a vector of vectors; because of the overhead in
doing so, <tt>std::stable_sort</tt> may actually be faster in some cases.
The custom list also uses more space than <tt>std::list</tt>, and it's not
clear that anything other than carefully constructed pathological examples
could force a <tt>std::list</tt> to use n2 operations within
the planar embedding algorithm. For these reasons, the macro
<tt>BOOST_GRAPH_PREFER_STD_LIB</tt> exists, which, when defined, will force
the planar graph algorithms to use <tt>std::stable_sort</tt> and
<tt>std::list</tt> in the examples above.

See the documentation on individual algorithms for more information about
complexity guarantees.

Examples

Testing whether or not a
graph is planar.

Creating a straight line
drawing of a graph in the plane.

Notes

[1] A graph G' is an expansion of a graph G if
G' can be created from G by a series of zero or more edge
subdivisions: take any edge {x,y} in the graph, remove it, add a new
vertex z, and add the two edges {x,z} and {z,y} to the
graph. For example, a path of any length is an expansion of a single edge and
a cycle of any length is an expansion of a triangle.

Copyright © 2007 Aaron Windsor (
aaron.windsor@gmail.com)


Taken from their recent FatCat LP 'Make It Pop' (recorded with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio studios in Chicago), 'Magmanic' is a succint blast of deranged vitriol that serves as a neat summary of where Giddy Motors are at. Errant and chaotic, but ultimately focused, 'Magmanic's jagged chord patterns and are held down by a reflexive, acrobatic rhythm section.
Comprising Gaverick de Vis (guitar/vocals), Manu Ros (drums), and Gordon Ashdown (bass), Giddy Motors originally set out to combine the jazz influence of Miles Davis with heavy, Jesus Lizard/Sabbath style US punk, but they deliver it with a fresh slant. More intense, energetic and strangely anglicised than most of their would be contemporaries entrenched in the so called new rock and roll, Giddy Motors songs are explosive and prone to suddenly flip back on themselves or fly off at unexpected angles.
'Magmanic' is backed with two recordings, a brutal but deftly arranged take on 'Eisbar', originally recorded by German speaking Swiss new wave/punk outfit Grauzone, alongside an alternate version of 'Bottle Opener', re-titled 'Tight Sauce'. Radically different to the version found on their recent LP, it's presented here in a faster, more urgent, ragged and metallic form. The final track here, a brief, bontempi driven rendition of the traditional German folk song 'Hanschen Klein', is unmentioned, or hidden away - a fitting, cryptic full stop to the EP, characteristic of Giddy Motors idiosyncratic take on rock.


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Exclusive: Obama personally apologizes for Americans losing health coverage
Thursday Nov 7, 2013 6:02 PM
In an exclusive interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, President Obama said that he is "sorry" that some Americans are losing their current health insurance plans. "We've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we can," he added.
By Chuck Todd, NBC News
President Obama said Thursday that he is "sorry" that some Americans are losing their current health insurance plans as a result of the Affordable Care Act, despite his promise that no one would have to give up a health plan they liked.
"I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me," he told NBC News in an exclusive interview at the White House.
"We've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this."
In a wide-ranging interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, President Obama discusses implementation of the Affordable Care Act, rollout of the healthcare website, NSA spying, Iran and keeping Joe Biden as his running mate.
Obama's comments come 10 days after NBC News' Lisa Myers reported that the administration has known since the summer of 2010 that millions of Americans could lose their insurance under the law.
Obama has made repeated assurances that "if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan" with Obamacare.
Consumers who buy insurance on their own — about five percent of the population — are at risk of being forced off their current policies because their plans have changed and don't meet the new standards of the Affordable Care Act.
Obama's statement has been called into question as Americans have begun to receive cancellation notices, effectively forcing them to enroll in a new plan either with their current insurer or through the government exchanges, in many cases at a higher rate.
Guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services dating back to July 2010 estimated that "40 to 67 percent" of the 14 million consumers in that marketplace could lose their policies due to turnover in the individual insurance market, NBC News found.
That part of the law does not impact the 80 percent of Americans who receive their health insurance through employers or through Medicare or Medicaid.
"Obviously we didn't do a good enough job in terms of how we crafted the law," Obama said in the interview Thursday. "And, you know, that's something I regret. That's something we're gonna do everything we can to get fixed ... We're looking at a range of options."
After the initial NBC News report, the administration insisted that the president did not mislead Americans, arguing that the law could not have accounted for insurers altering existing plans after passage of the law.
Yet earlier this week, Obama tweaked his promise, acknowledging that plans that have been substantially changed since passage of the law would no longer be "grandfathered" into acceptance under the ACA.
"If you had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed," he said.
On Thursday, Obama said many of the people being canceled could get better cheaper plans in the marketplaces, but he acknowledged glitches are preventing that.
"The majority of folks will end up being better off," he said. "Of course, because the website not working right they may not know it."
White House spokesman Jay Carney has also argued those being forced to find new plans will receive better quality of coverage.
"What we're talking about here is the five percent in the country who currently purchase insurance on the individual market," Carney said last month. "And that market has been like the Wild West. It has been under-regulated, it is the place where Americans have most keenly felt the challenges posed by the insurance system in this country."
Health and Human Services Secretary Katherine Sebelius acknowledged in a hearing Wednesday that a "majority" of those in the individual market would end up with plans with better coverage while "others will have to choose" an ACA-compliant policy.
In Thursday's interview, Obama defended his health secretary and argued that the website bugs aren't necessarily her fault: "Kathleen Sebelius doesn't write code. She wasn't our IT person."
Frustration among even some Democrats supportive of the Obamacare bill boiled over this week as coverage of the dropped plans continued.
Sen. Max Baucus, the Democratic Senate Finance Committee Chairman and a key author of the bill, called the problems "unacceptable" during a hearing at which Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was grilled on Wednesday.
"It has been disappointing to see members of the administration say they didn't see the problems coming," he said.
House Speaker John Boehner responded to the president's comments Thursday, saying, "an apology is certainly in order, but what Americans want to hear is that the president is going to keep his promise."
Pointing to a scheduled House vote next week on a measure that would allow insurance companies to continue policies that don't meet the ACA's standards, Boehner added, "if the president is sincerely sorry that he misled the American people, the very least he can do is support this bipartisan effort. Otherwise, this apology doesn't amount to anything."
NBC News' Carrie Dann contributed to this report.
Obamacare website to go offline overnight daily for repairs
Popular Obamacare provision is causing 'sticker shock' for some
Obama administration knew millions could not keep their health insurance


The three original lifts at Mt. Shasta Ski Park were built by Poma in 1985; this CTEC triple was added eleven years later to service an expansion.
Breakover towers near the summit.
The top two towers and upper terminal.


Another fine day in Galera – not that warm I have to say – quite a cold wind but not a cloud in the sky (my solar-charged deep discharge battery will be thinking its summer). Spent the morning wasting time following some guy's guide to emulating the Raspberry Pi 2 only to find out at the end of the day that it's physically impossible for it to emulate the full memory of the new unit – timewaster.
Went down to see friends for a while just to chat – and we're planning a lunch later in the week – that'll be nice. Meanwhile I'm back in my office late afternoon to catch up with the (work) email mountain (done) and to progress the learning curve I started this morning. I can see an early night coming on. Meanwhile here's a couple of sunny pictures I took this afternoon to cheer up the folks back home – apparently the weather is not too good back in Blighty.


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