As you may be aware, I am a HUGE IT Cosmetics fan and have featured it on the blog for two years. I love the lady behind the brand, the ethos of the brand and most importantly how the products look and perform on my skin. From all your lovely feedback, I know you love it too, so I am thrilled to share this incredible five piece collection with you.
Your top 5 Superstars Holiday Make Up Collection not only contains products that work on all skin types, ages and skin concerns but can also help improve your skin, whilst making you look and feel like your most beautiful you!
For those of you that prefer the ease of a powder foundation, Celebration Foundation is a full coverage, talc free, anti-ageing formula. The anti-ageing aspects of this foundation, including Hydrolyzed Collagen, Hyaluronic Spheres, Antioxidants, Rose, Silk and Aloe, enable this formulation to blur away imperfections, pores and fine lines and wrinkles. As regular readers of my blog will know I am not usually a fan of powders to be honest, I tend to find that my dry skin doesn't usually react well to them and I end up looking caked and dehydrated. When I first tried this product a while back I was looking forward to trying what offered me an easy, fast route to flawless coverage. I always make sure my skin is well moisturised, primed and dry before applying any foundation, but especially a powder foundation as if your skin is not primed before hand it will end up looking very dry.
I must admit the coverage on this powder is fantastic and is very quick and easy to apply. It does come with the softest, most gorgeous synthetic Angled Buffing brush which is perfect at stippling and blending this foundation to achieve the desired look.
If you can bear to mess up the It Cosmetics logo in the powder, swirl your brush in the compact and give a little tap. Gently buff in sweeping motions all over the face until you achieve the coverage that you want. The pigment in this is full and coverage is brilliant. It always gives an airbrushed look to my skin and blurs my pores which I was originally very, very surprised about. I think this would also be great for an oily t-zone too or to use over an existing cream foundation such as my favourite It Cosmetics CC Cream, as it adapts really well to skin tone and just smoothes everything out. If you are a powder foundation lover, then this is a really great product. I enjoy wearing it, have had it in my kit for two years and use it often – mainly as a great setting powder. It has beautiful, soft touch packing, with a nice sized mirror inside and a little sponge for touch ups on the go. Celebration Foundation is available in 5 shades Fair, Light, Medium, Tan and Rich.
Bye Bye Undereye is the award winning, best selling, globally iconic, full coverage, waterproof concealer from IT Cosmetics. Phew!
Containing Collagen, Vitamin C and K not only will this product conceal any dark areas, age spots, pigmentation and blemishes, it will also hydrate the skin and brighten as it does so. The amazing thing about Bye Bye Under Eye is that as it sets it does not wrinkle, crack or crease into dry areas of the skin. My top tip would also be to make sure your skin, including your under eye area is always well moisturised and primed. Any make up on a very dry/dehydrated skin has to work so much harder so before you apply your base, always make sure your skin is prepped and primed.
Now, it's no secret that I am a lazy brow girl, and I know it sometimes shows. However, in being a lazy brow girl I have finally grown into my big bushy brows and become somewhat fashionable! If it can't happen at 42 then when can it eh? I tweeze, I use a spoolie and I apply brow gel but on a normal day,that's as far as my brow game goes (don't Judge) Then last year I tried Brow Power and I absolutely love it. The spoolie attached on the end is small and has super close, tight bristles (that I love) that brush through the brow perfectly, pushing product through the brows and combing them out.
It is a lovely creamy pencil that blends in easily, allows you to apply the pressure you want, to achieve your perfect shade and lasts all day. The oval tip is great for both thick or thin brows allowing you to fill them in and create your perfect, natural looking brow. This award winning, iconic Brow Power comes in universal taupe and is retractable so no need for a sharpener.
Now it really is time to throw away those false lashes!! This product will certainly give your lashes some Va-Va-Voom! Not one for the faint hearted as you will certainly be making a statement in this!! Beautiful jet black mascara made in Italy, containing peptides and proteins that lift, lengthen and plump out your lashes! The brush head has brushes cut at all lengths to reach all the lashes that are growing at different lengths. Clinically proven to increase your lashes by 500% on the first coat, this really does deserve its Superhero name and statues.
My thoughts on this collection – This Collection from It Cosmetics really does tick all the boxes. Firstly it is perfect for anyone that has never tried the brand and wants to dip their toes in the It cosmetics water. Secondly it is a great top up collection for anyone, like me, that is already a fan of the brand and its products and needs to restock some of the 'Basics'. Thirdly it makes a really great gift as it has everything you need to create a full face – just add lipgloss and you are good to go! As you can see from my honest and untouched before and after below, the collection offers incredible coverage, but yet still leaves a natural look. The only addition in the after photo is the It Cosmetics Vitality Lip Flush in Je Ne Sais Quoi, everything else is in the collection.
Have you tried It Cosmetics before? Which are your favourite products? I would love to know, do leave me a comment below.
What a fantastic, informative review! You have definitely encouraged me to purchase it. Absolutely love trying new products – only thing I am unsure of is whether to go for the light or the medium as I am shocking at colour matching. I look forward to trying all of these products – not sure I would use the brow thing but I could sell or pass that on to somebody else. Thanks again!
I've tried the bye bye under eye from this set and I love it. I haven't tried any of the other products you have here but my fave It product is the bye bye redness – I'm on my third tub and it's so good!
I've just treated myself to the CC cream but, wow, that mascara is amazing! Seriously tempted to pick that up too.
It is such a great kit! I've been loving mine!


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ODA, Shimane -- A magnitude 6.1 earthquake on April 9 caused damage to 12 locations inside the World Heritage Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine site, including Sahimeyama Shrine, the Oda Municipal Government reported on April 11.
The facilities will be closed to the public until April 15 for fear of possible aftershocks, city officials said.
According to the municipal government, as of 6 p.m. on April 11, seven evacuees were taking shelter at four locations in the city and it is distributing water at three points to roughly 70 households whose water supplies have been disrupted.
At Sahimeyama Shrine, which worships a guardian deity of Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine, a pedestal for stone guardian dogs was found partially damaged. Moreover at the ruins of Daian Temple, stones fell from walls surrounding the temple and were scattered around steps.
Damage was also reported at the national important culture property "Kumagai ke Jutaku" ("Kumagai Residence"), once home to the high-class merchant Kumagai family.


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Blog: traveling exhibits
New exhibition series "Georgia's Response to the Holocaust" launches
The Commission launched a new traveling exhibit series titled "Georgia's Response to the Holocaust" which profiles Holocaust survivors, liberators, rescuers, and activists local to Georgia. The first installment of this series, "A Home for Refugees", tells the stories of seven survivors who left Europe after Hitler's rise to power and began new lives in Georgia. It is currently on display at the Anne Frank in the World exhibit in Sandy Springs through October. After September, the exhibit will be available for loan. Booking requests can be submitted online.
"Witness to the Holocaust" 2014 Library Tour
The Commission's exhibit "Witness to the Holocaust: WWII Veteran William Alexander Scott III at Buchenwald" is touring the state of Georgia. The tour is presented in cooperation with the Georgia Public Library Service. The exhibit will visit 8 libraries across the state from January until July 2014. Admission is free at all locations.
"Witness to the Holocaust" 2013 Library Tour launches in Trenton
The 2013 Library Tour of the Commission's exhibit "Witness to the Holocaust: WWII Veteran William Alexander Scott III at Buchenwald" launched on May 16th, 2013, at the Dade County Public Library in Trenton. The exhibit is on display in Trenton until May 29, 2013. Admission is free. The exhibit will visit 8 other libraries over the next 7 months.
The Commission's exhibit "Witness to the Holocaust: WWII Veteran William Alexander Scott III at Buchenwald" is touring the state of Georgia. The tour is presented in cooperation with the Georgia Public Library Service. The exhibit will visit 9 libraries across the state from May until November 2013. Admission is free at all locations.
New traveling exhibit "Witness to the Holocaust" launches
The Commission launched a new traveling exhibit, "Witness to the Holocaust: WWII Veteran William Alexander Scott III at Buchenwald" at Sweetwater Middle School on March 14, 2013. The exhibit will be on display at the school until March 22, 2013. Alexis Scott spoke to students and faculty about her father's experiences as a photojournalist for the U.S. Army during World War II. Booking requests to host the exhibit can be submitted online.

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I work with a very small nonprofit (under $10,000 per year) and the free version of Airtable works great for us. The only thing I don't know how do is create a timeline style report that looks similar to the Timeline block available in the $20/per month Airtable Pro version. I don't need my timeline to be interactive like the Airtable block is. I just need to create a report once per month showing (graphically) a timeline for the various upcoming projects we have for the year. Can I export a csv or ics file and use another program or service to create a timeline for me?
I don't need the timeline to adjust itself in real time or to interact with Airtable. I just would like to take a snapshot at a point in time and print it out so I can hand it out at our board meeting. I would use the printed timeline to give board members an idea of what projects we have going on throughout the year. A full fledged Gantt chart would be overkill.
You can export a CSV, import in in excel and create a timeline graph. You might be able to use some free services like www.visme.co .
I agree with the "export CSV to Excel" answer. I can't speak to using any third party apps because I have little experience. PivotTables and PivotCharts. Excel is already so powerful and user friendly.


I'm just a girl from Minnesota, raised by immigrant parents who decided to go my own way in life.
For most of my life, I resisted being an entrepreneur. I wanted to be a nurse. That's all.
My parents owned two restaurants on top of working their full-time jobs.
I remember my mom would take naps in a space at the restaurant no bigger than a coat closet late in the afternoons, when there were no customers, so that she would have enough energy to work her 10 hour night shift at 4pm. My dad would come at 5pm to take the dinner shift and close up.
I remember working there as young as 6th grade. I was probably the richest 11 year old in my class because I was the only one with a job along with my older siblings. I would be lying if I told you it was fun. This was our life. School and work, school and work. There was rarely any time for extra curricular activities or hanging out with friends. We were just kids at the time, so we didn't understand our family's circumstances. In retrospect, I wish I would have had the ability to see past my own selfishness because as an adult, I understand it all now.
Years later when they finally sold both restaurants, they didn't even profit.
All those years of work ... sacrifice .... losing part of their sanity ... and for what?
So I resisted this path of entrepreneurship, but I learned later that it didn't have to repeat my parents' story.
It didn't have to be the same kind of tortuous "hard". I didn't have to make the same sacrifices to design the life I desired.
And today, while there are things I have given up, I know it is only for a season of my life, so that I can create the life I want to live.
What story are you telling yourself about how your life and business have to look?
I believe that our businesses and lives can look the way we want them to and that true fulfillment begins with the decision to honor what it is that we really want.
What if it didn't have to be so hard?
I'll help you take care of the HOW.
IF you are ready to be done with doing it alone, contact me HERE. How would it feel to do your best work and show up in your life feeling confident and empowered, when you're living and operating in your zone of genius? Let's see what's possible and book a discovery call.


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Technical Agile Coach / Coder / Author
I train iOS developers in technical agile practices.
…Because you can only be as agile as your code lets you be.
2 Decades of TDD
I have 21 years of experience doing unit testing and test-driven development (TDD) in Apple environments.
Unit Testing View Controllers
Many say that unit tests should be done on model objects only. But View Controllers lie at the center of iOS programming. Learning to unit test them will greatly expand your safety net.
Refactoring: The Secret Sauce
Refactoring isn't just moving stuff around with your IDE. Refactoring is changing the design of your code in small, verified steps. The goal: to drive down the cost of change.
"Jon helped us with our actual codebase, impressing me with his skill of making impacting changes on a large codebase he had just seen."
"Having Jon take us through his training and coaching proved to be eye-opening. His training has given our team the push to really start doing TDD right."
"Jon Reid fills a huge void in the iOS community when it comes to unit-testing and quality."
"Anyone who cares about unit testing for iOS would benefit from Jon's workshop."
"The entire team came away energized and ready to apply all the learnings to our day-to-day work."
"Jon made writing tests fun and enjoyable. We've significantly increased our test coverage."
"Jon listened to our goals, learned about how we work, and created a great day of interactive and relevant content that our devs are actively applying."
Photo courtesy of NSSpain
I'm a trainer and coach with Industrial Logic. You can read my official bio there, or get the juicy details below.
I've worked on a few iOS apps. I mention this here to make it clear that when I talk about test-driven development and agility in iOS apps, I do so from actual experience.
I'm the author of iOS Unit Testing By Example: XCTest Tips and Techniques using Swift.
One way to quickly learn about a developer is to peek at books they've read, and tools they've created.
These days, I post new articles around once a month. Here are a couple of my favorite posts. They both have short videos, and give you a feel for my style and content:
The 3 Laws of TDD: Focus on One Thing at a Time
When I was first learning test-driven development (TDD), I'd try to get to the First Step (a failing test) by writing a fully-formed test. But it often took a lot fiddling to get that test to run and fail. Sometimes this was because the production code took several steps to set up. Sometimes it was
Refactoring Demo: Is It More than Just Changing Stuff?
Refactoring. It's a word I hear quite a bit. Usually, in the context of conversations with management, it means, "Rewriting that thing. Hopefully without introducing bugs." Often, among developers, it means, "One of the options in the Refactoring menu in my IDE." Table of Contents Tools vs. DisciplineRefactoring Demo ScreencastDo You Have the Refactoring Book?
My Story Starts with Being Fired
I worked at a Fortune 100 company. I was a member of a team responsible for maintaining a touchy framework. The code was brittle, and getting worse. Making successful changes became harder, and took longer. The team was afraid to touch the code, never knowing what else would break.
We tried to communicate these problems, but this made us look bad. Eventually, the company fired the entire team.
I Began Learning How to Create Safety
But before I was fired, in the midst of chaotic code, I began carving out areas of safety. This led to a series of happy chances:
I learned more about Object-Oriented Design. (These days, I think folks call it "Modeling.")
This got me studying the Design Patterns book by the "Gang of Four."
I eagerly searched for more resources on Design Patterns. This led me to a website where programmers were actively discussing them. (This was a brand-new type of site where anyone could change any page — the very first wiki. I became excited about wikis, and created the first wiki sites within the company.)
As it happens, the first wiki attracted discussion about three topics… One was exploring communication patterns in a wiki. Another was exploring Design Patterns. And yet another was exploring this thing called Extreme Programming.
Stumbling Across Extreme Programming Changed Me
Extreme Programming (XP) was "agile" before that term became popular. It was a set of values, practices, and feedback loops. extremeprogramming.org became my guide to a way of developing software that looked safe and sane. …It's kind of nutty, since I wasn't on a team that practiced XP. But I took what I was learning and applied it as best I could, on my own.
I learned about unit testing.
I wrote a unit testing framework. Back then, there was no platform support for unit testing frameworks, so you just used whatever you could find or make. Making my own unit testing framework taught me a lot about how they work. This was my first foray into discovering how tooling could make test code easier to write and manage.
When I had a chance to work on a greenfield project, I took my first stab at doing it test-first. This was nowhere near the disciplines of Test-Driven Development I've since learned. But it was a start!
I attended SD, the software development conference hosted by Dr. Dobb's. There, I listened to Martin Fowler introduce his new book Refactoring. The talk was riveting: how to safely change software by following predetermined recipes. I immediately bought a copy on the spot.
There was a problem with Refactoring: it presumed the existence of unit tests. This helped me with the greenfield project, but what could I do about legacy code? Along came another book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. This book gave me techniques for making existing code testable.
Once I learned how to add unit tests to legacy code, everything opened up. Here's a peek at my bookshelf, with the programming books that have influenced me the most.
Better Languages, Frameworks, and Platforms
So far, all of this was in C++. I'd carried a long wish to work with Smalltalk. Barring that, my next long wish was to work on NextStep, with Objective-C (which is the language part of Smalltalk, expressed in C). And wouldn't you know it… Steve Jobs was back at Apple, and he brought NeXT with him.
Studying about mock objects led me to jMock. The matcher library Hamcrest was extracted out of jMock. So I wrote OCHamcrest, an Objective-C port of Hamcrest.
I had one gig working on Mac & Windows. Mac was Cocoa, Windows was .NET. Looking into the unit testing frameworks for .NET, I chose NUnit. (A decade later, I still think of NUnit features that the Apple team has yet to deliver in XCTest.)
Then iOS happened. At the time, there were two competing unit testing frameworks: SenTestingKit and GHUnit, each with their advantages. (Apple eventually adopted SenTestingKit, rebranding it as OCUnit. Eventually, this became XCTest.)
Then I tried different approaches to mock objects. OCMock existed by then, patterned after jMock. But a friend pointed me to an alternative called Mockito. It offered tests that were both more readable and less fragile. So I wrote OCMockito, an Objective-C port of Mockito that used the matchers of OCHamcrest. (Here's a page collecting the various tools I've made.)
Lately, I've been working in Swift, of course. I was at another Fortune 100 company before becoming a full-time coach. Everything about coding feels so different from when that first company fired our team.
Blogging, Speaking, Teaching, Coaching
I started the Quality Coding blog. I started giving talks at my workplace. Eventually, I was tapped to teach Test-Driven Development to all new engineering hires at the main eBay campus.
And then, Mobile Central Europe — a new conference in Warsaw — asked me to come and speak. They took a gamble, since I hadn't done any speaking outside my workplace. I discovered that I loved it. Apparently, in spite all my "ahs" and "ums", I was pretty good at it, too: the conference voted me as "Best Speaker".
Since then, I've spoken at the following conferences and meetups. (Here's a page collecting my recorded talks.)
SoftGeeks (2021)
CocoaHeads NL (2020)
Silicon Valley Code Camp 2019
AltConf 2019
Swift by Northwest 2018
Next Door Conf 2018
Silicon Valley Engineering Leadership Community (2018)
CocoaConf Chicago 2017
try! Swift Tokyo 2017
CocoaConf San Jose 2016
#Pragma Conference 2016
MCE^3 (2016)
CocoaPods Test Jam (2014)
NSSpain 2014
iOSDevUK 2014
eBay Tech Talk Berlin (2014)
Mobile Central Europe (2014)
Photo courtesy of Natasha Murashev @NatashaTheRobot
I began teaching a workshop to get iOS developers started with Test-Driven Development. It started as a half-day. Then became a full day. Now it's two days. The workshop is hands-on in a big way, with active involvement from everyone. I think it's a blast.
Now I'm also offering additional services to individuals and teams. Because what matters is your team, your code, and achieving breakthroughs in the challenges you face.
Jon was voted as the best speaker of the first MCE conference. He is easily one of the best presenters I have seen at technology conferences. I highly recommend Jon as speaker and teacher!
In addition to all the content, experience, teaching skills — Jon also has a great personality that allows him to build relationship with people quickly, making his trainings and presentations more personable and approachable.
Jarek Potiuk — Principal Software Engineer
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The Forger
A former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to alter his plans and commit one more job for the man who financed his release.
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Richard D'Ovidio
Never too late for a final blow
Crime Drama Thriller
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Lyndon Smith
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Run time: 135m Release: 2016-11-18
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Stars: Anna Baryshnikov C.J. Wilson Casey Affleck Gretchen Mol Kara Hayward Kyle Chandler Lucas Hedges Matthew Broderick Michelle Williams Tate Donovan
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Run time: 100m Tagline: I want them to see what they have done to Jack. Release: 2016-12-02
Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Beth Grant Billy Crudup Caspar Phillipson Greta Gerwig John Carroll Lynch John Hurt Max Casella Natalie Portman Peter Sarsgaard Richard E. Grant


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And I have one more question. How do you make it so that the letters don't appear? Like that avvie, the words appear. How do you make it so that they are there all the time, but just the color appears?
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General Honore calls Louisiana to Earth Day Rally to remind nation about BP Disaster and outstanding victim needs
A free and public rally at New Orleans' Duncan Plaza on Saturday, April 21, 11 a.m. will utilize Earth Day as an opportunity to memorialize the BP Gulf Oil Disaster of 2010 and call attention to the tens of thousands of health victims from the toxic spill who are still impacted.
The rally at Duncan Plaza, 1300 Perdido Street in downtown New Orleans, will feature General Russel Honore, fishermen, BP Disaster Cleanup Workers, members of the Green Army and like-minded ecology groups, as well as the families of impacted Gulf Coast residents who have died or been harmed by the toxic chemical Gulf spill caused by the failure of the BP Deepwater Horizon. The Hot 8 Brass Band are also special guests.
This is the 8thanniversary of the BP disaster in the Gulf, and a recentGarretson Resolution Group Status Report(February 2018) and Justice for BP Health Victimsonline site note:
BP Disaster cleanup workers were injured and made sick because they were not provided with or required to wear safety equipment.
Many cleanup workers suffered injuries, respiratory problems, ocular problems, dermal problems and other chronic conditions from the moment they were exposed, but 80 percent of those who submitted a claim in the outlined process were either denied or only given the bare minimum compensation.
Many cleanup workers and spill-impact-zone residents are developing cancer, blood diseases, and neurologic problems from exposure to the spill's toxic chemicals.
The so-called Medical Benefits settlement to provide compensation for the aforementioned chronic conditions has been effectively eliminated, as only 40 claims out of 37,226 qualified for compensation for a chronic condition were paid.
A vast majority of claimants with chronic conditions are being forced to file an individual lawsuit against BP and pay a $400 filing fee to do so. Eight years after the spill, none of these claimants have been able to present their evidence to a jury and the Judge has stayed these cases indefinitely.
"These victims are our neighbors, friends and family. Many of these victims do not have health insurance and cannot afford treatment," said General Honore. "This rally memorializes these victims and calls us to action."
"The reality is many outside our region have forgotten about this disaster. As noted in the 2018 report the Plaintiff Steering Committee walked away with $700 million; the Claims Administrator, in charge of processing the first round of payments to victims, walked away with $155 million. The total paid to ALL victims? $60 million," said Rally Organizer Jonathan Henderson. He said the General and his organization are turning in at least 20,000 petitions in support of health victims to the federal court located in New Orleans on April 20.
"My anger and focus on this miscarriage of justice will not end. While I speak out on every anniversary, this one is particularly urgent because the grave injustices which persist are adding up for our cleanup workers and our residents," said the General.
The rally is open to the public. More about the rally is here: ABOUT JUSTICE FOR BP HEALTH VICTIMS: https://www.facebook.com/JusticeforBPhealthvictims
The petition is online at https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/854/037/331/
ABOUT GENERAL RUSSEL HONORE: http://generalhonore.com/about-general-honore/


The IHG hotel group is perhaps more known by travelers for budget-conscious no-nonsense Holiday Inn Express properties than for its high-end hotel brands like InterContinental. But, IHG is making a big move into the luxury hotel market with a majority acquisition of the ultra-luxe Regent Hotels & Resorts, an investment that completed in July 2018.
TPG currently values IHG Rewards points at 0.5 cents each. So, at TPG valuations, a night at the Beijing or Chongqing properties will require $250 per night in points. The Berlin and Singapore properties will require $275 per night in points, and the Taipei and Porto Montenegro locations will cost $300 worth of points per night.
It shouldn't be a surprise that these ultra-luxury properties are pretty high on the IHG award chart. It's actually nice to see that IHG didn't price any of these properties at its current maximum of 70,000 points per night.
Buy IHG Rewards points for as little as 0.57 cents each through IHG's current buy points promotion.
One of the perks of that IHG Rewards Club Premier Credit Card can help you stretch your IHG points much further. Cardholders automatically get every fourth award night free. That means you'll be able to book a four-night award stay at the Regent Berlin for a total of 150,000 IHG Rewards points. During the current buy points promotion, you can buy those points for $860 total.
Image courtesy of Regent Berlin.
That said, make sure that you check cash prices to make sure that you're getting a good use from your points. And that's especially important to do before you buy IHG points for any specific redemption.
This piece has been updated since publishing to reflect that the Regent Berlin has been changed to 50,000 points per night instead of the originally-planned 55,000 points per night.


AC/DC dementia, Paul Baratierro. Echo water, holiday conversation stress, CDC assault on children, FDA calorie silliness, fruit and veggie deficiency, cutting out GMOs, mistaken cannabis capers and MORE!
Paul Barattiero, C.Ped. industry expert founded Synergy Science, Inc. after being in the industry over 10 years and understanding electrolysis and its benefits and weaknesses. He decided to remove the components that cause water electrolysis machines to fail, he decided to develop the machine that would not have these inherent weaknesses and issues.
During the last ten years, Paul observed Hydrogen-Enriched Water improving the lives of individuals with different pathology, including his own family members, as well individuals in the communities in 40 countries. However, no one could accurately explain what the true mechanism of the benefits came from, what mechanisms really caused it to work, the chemistry involved, and how the fantastic claims that were being shared were accomplished.
Paul decided to deeply study the true origins of the technology as well as the science and chemistry of the technology. Through this process, he learned the true origins of water electrolysis and how it really worked in creating molecular hydrogen. The benefit has very little if anything to do with the increased pH, but everything to do with Hydrogen. He became very passionate and wanted to help educate individuals everywhere.
Help! I have an echo system and use the acid water for lots of things but while in the process of cleaning my glass containers, I think I mixed some of the #4 acid water with what I thought was 100% #1 alkaline water. I then proceeded to cook some pasta in this same water and steamed veggies with this same water. When I poured some of this water in my water bottle and drank some. I thought it tasted different and then thought, oops, I hope I didn't cook/drink acid water.
I pH tested the water and it was acidic, so I UNINTENTIONALLY ate/drank acid water. What concerns would I have from this and how would I counteract it. I'm hoping that you will see this tonight, Saturday evening and can reply to me with an answer and I'm hoping this is not a very very bad thing.
I have been away from home for 3 weeks in NC with Dr. B and was drinking ozone water there, so I didn't readily notice the difference. I have a reduced sense of taste.
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One in three U.S. adults to avoid talking politics over holiday season Americans will sit down next week for what has become a holiday tradition in the United States: tiptoeing through a turkey dinner without mentioning the president. Nearly one-third of all adults will actively avoid political conversations when they see friends and family over the Thanksgiving and December holidays, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday. About half said they do not expect to discuss politics at all.
New CDC Guidelines: 5 Year-Old Can Receive up to 19 Vaccinations in One Month On November 12, 2017, Neil Z. Miller made an online announcement that was guaranteed to shock thousands of parents worldwide. In a post, written on the popular social media platform Facebook, Miller exposed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had recently hatched a plan to ensure that ALL children were up to date with their scheduled vaccinations, whether they were vaccinated or unvaccinated. He revealed that the CDC had launched a catch-up program which could cause an unvaccinated 5-year-old to receive as many as 19 vaccinations in one month.
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An Extra Dollop of Ketchup is Not a Crime! Or is it? Confusion Over Calories on Menus Continues Small business owners and managers of chain restaurants subject to FDA's menu labeling rule remain confused as to the criminality of adding an extra dollop of ketchup to a hamburger. One thing is now clear — the only way to stop FDA's years of wasteful dithering on menu labeling is for Congress to intervene. Last week, FDA issued another in a string of guidance documents, and again failed to explain or simplify the hopelessly complex regulations aimed at requiring the disclosure of calories on menus in chain restaurants. The tortuous and bizarre history of FDA's efforts to interpret several pages of statutory text intended to set a flexible national standard for calorie disclosure, which the restaurant industry favors, has just become more tortuous and bizarre with FDA's latest effort to explain a needlessly inflexible regulation.
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benefits You might be aware that organic food is better for you than GMO options, but sometimes the price difference can be prohibitive. If you've ever stood in the produce section of the supermarket and asked yourself if the higher price tag on organic offerings is worth it, the results of a peer-reviewed study published recently in the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine will probably help make that decision a lot easier. The survey of 3,256 people found that 28 conditions could be reversed by switching to a mostly non-GMO and organic diet. This research is consistent with physician reports that show the power of making this type of dietary improvement.
Couple sues after cops arrest them for a hibiscus plant mistaken for cannabis A Pennsylvania couple is suing their local police department and Nationwide Insurance Co. after they were arrested when an insurance agent mistook their hibiscus plants for marijuana. The lawsuit filed Tuesday by 69-year-old Edward Cramer and his 66-year-old wife, Audrey, claims the agent came to their Buffalo Township home Oct. 5 to investigate a fallen tree. The Cramers claim the agent took photos of their flowering hibiscus plant and sent the images to police. The lawsuit claims officers with assault rifles arrested the couple Oct. 7 and held them for several hours inside a police cruiser, despite both of them telling the officers the plants were actually hibiscus.


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Q: Is it possible to limit SFSpeechRecognizer's vocabulary? I'd like to use the ios SFSpeechRecognizer to recognize a closed set of words and phrases. Is there a way to specify these and remove all other possibilities? I cannot seem to find a way to do this.

A: You can try to use contextualStrings property of SFSpeechAudioBufferRecognitionRequest  to set high priority or to set some words that are not in vocabulary.
For more info look here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech/sfspeechrecognitionrequest/1649391-contextualstrings?language=objc
  SFSpeechAudioBufferRecognitionRequest *recognitionRequest = [[SFSpeechAudioBufferRecognitionRequest alloc] init];
    recognitionRequest.contextualStrings = @[@"Your specific word", @"short custom phrases that are unique to your app"];

A: I think you cannot limit SFSpeechRecognizer's vocabulary, but you can fire action only if the words you want are recognized.
When you get your output, you can try something like this:
self.recognitionTask = speechRecognizer?.recognitionTask(with: recognitionRequest, resultHandler: { (result, error) in
    if result == "Desired word one" {
        // Do something
    } else if result == "Desired word two" {
        // Do something else
    } else {
        // Don't do anything
    }
})

A: After some trials and error, the best solution is a mix between Mrsantateam and Giuseppe Garassino's answers.
you can first specify all commands that should be "prioritized" by setting contextualStrings...
var contextualString = ["hello world", "goodbye world"]
recognitionRequest.contextualStrings = contextualString

... And later filter those results in recognitionTask :
recognitionTask = speechRecognizer.recognitionTask(with: recognitionRequest) { result, error in
    var isFinal = false

    if let result = result {
        for transcription in result.transcriptions {
            print("Pondering \(result.bestTranscription.formattedString)")
            if contextualString.contains(transcription.formattedString.lowercased()) {
                print("Found \(transcription.formattedString)")
            }
        }
    }

    //...
}

Sample code can be found at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech/recognizing_speech_in_live_audio if you want to play with it and test its limits

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We Speak Your Name: Brooklyn community celebrates Henrietta Lacks
By Christina Daulton
Education Outreach Specialist, NHGRI
The world owes much to Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cells were removed during a biopsy in 1951 and used for research without her knowledge or approval. Mrs. Lacks died at the age of 31, a few months after her diagnosis of cervical cancer. She would never know that more than six decades later, her cells would continue to grow and provide a foundation for advancements in biomedical research.
Mrs. Lacks' cells revolutionized the field of medicine. Her amazing and immortal cells - commonly known as HeLa cells - have been used for decades in biomedical research. They've been used to study cancer, AIDS and the effects of radiation, among many other areas, and have led to the development of drugs to fight leukemia, hemophilia, herpes, human papillomavirus (HPV), Parkinson's disease, influenza and many others.
On May 17 - 18, 2014, the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, N.Y., celebrated Mrs. Lacks with a community-based event, We Speak Your Name: Exploring the Life of Henrietta Lacks "Heroine of Modern Science & Medicine." The program, an extension of the "Genome: Unlocking Life's Code" exhibition, was made possible with support from the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Students, educators and audience members representing diverse cultures and socio-economic demographics met at the library to examine big questions in ancestry, genomics and culture, and to explore issues of race, class, gender and bioethics through the story of Mrs. Lacks.
Henrietta Lacks (HeLa) Timeline. Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI. View high resolution image on Flickr.com or Download as PDF
"NHGRI was pleased to join in partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture to honor the legacy of Henrietta Lacks," said Vence Bonham, chief of the Education and Community Involvement Branch at NHGRI. "These conversations are so important in making sure that the research we do at NHGRI benefits all communities and has everyone's interests in mind."
On a beautiful Saturday afternoon at the Macon Library Branch in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, hundreds of members of the community paid homage to Henrietta Lacks through drumming, poetry and dance.
Members of the Lacks family were present as the community honored Mrs. Lacks and publicly recognized her life and tremendous contribution to science and medicine. Following an ancestral ceremony of return and healing, the public engaged in a dialogue about the cultural and ethical responsibilities of science and explored issues of trust between communities of African descent and Western medical and science institutions.
"We were truly honored to host the family of Henrietta Lacks and provide a space for our community to hear her story-as a woman, mother, wife, daughter, sister and friend," said Taneya Gethers, senior librarian at the Macon Library and organizer of the two-day event. "This event carries on a great tradition. Since 1907, Macon Library has served as a space for the community to gather in conversation and celebration."
The following day Mrs. Lacks' grandchildren, David Lacks and Jeri Lacks-Whye, took center stage at the Brooklyn Public Library's Dweck Auditorium. They were joined by Professor Spencer Crew, Robinson Professor of American, African American, and Public History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Together, they explored the life of Mrs. Lacks, what her legacy has meant to her family, the era in which she lived and how her family became involved in controlling access to the complete genome sequence data of the HeLa cell line through a recent historic agreement with the NIH.
Deirdre Cross, the Adult and Family Programs Coordinator for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, captured the spirit of the weekend. "The weekend not only was an opportunity to honor the memory of Henrietta Lacks but allowed for honest discussion with members of the community about bioethics, medicine and race."
For more information, see:
The HeLa Genome: An Agreement on Privacy and Access by NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
We Speak Your Name: Exploring the Life of Henrietta Lacks "Heroine of Modern Science and Medicine"


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The article deals with the final changes made by the British government to its Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). It has been renamed as CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme and will begin in April 2010. The British Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has made several concessions to business. One of the changes mentioned is requiring firms to report their emissions but not buy allowances.
The article reports on reactions of Joan Ruddock, Minister of the British Department of Energy and Climate Change, to released figures from her department which showed a decline in carbon emissions in 2008.
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David James Brock is a playwright, poet, and librettist whose plays and operas have been performed in cities across Canada and the UK. He is the winner of the 2011 Herman Voaden Canadian National Playwriting Award. Brock penned the libretto for The Sloans Project (composer: Gareth Williams), which was most recently performed at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (previous: Glasgow's 2011 Merchant City Festival, Tapestry New Opera's 2011⁄2012 season). Other highlights include libretto for Sewing the Earthworm for the Canadian Art Song Project (Toronto, 2011. Composer: Brian Harman) and Pretty Boy for the Paul Dresher Ensemble (San Francisco, 2012. Composer: Jack Perla). Brock's debut poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, was released by publisher Wolsak & Wynn in spring 2014. He is currently working with Scottish Opera on Breath Cycle, a multimedia operatic song cycle developed with cystic fibrosis patients. He lives in Toronto and can be found on Twitter @davidjamesbrock
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Discoverer of DNA says yes to genetically modified food
Pallava Bagla | NDTV | July 16, 2012
Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, credited for the landmark discovery of the structure of the DNA, says "genetically modified foods are good." 84-year-old Watson says he feels the use of genetically modified foods was a way to save the world from starvation. Answering a question asked by NDTV at the ongoing Euro Science Open Forum (ESOF 2012), being held in Dublin where more that 4000 scientists are attending, Watson emphasized that the "use of genetically modified foods is non-brainer. If they are good, use them."
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Greenberg Island is a game made by Flavour for a recruitment company. They wanted to evaluate the profiles of the people that they help to employment. It's available in the app store and google play store.
We made a story driven game, where the choices the players make are recorded and converted into the players profile.
In the game, the players experience a plane crash and end up on an tropical island. They have to make choices to survive.
I made a colour script/ storyboard that illustrated the story and vibe of the game.
Screenshots from the game, a lot of 3D work, texturing and set dressing.


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Executive Chef Heshan Peiris of Banyan Tree's Laguna Lăng Cô, Central Vietnam. Image by Diana DeLucia.
GK: Tell me about your life before Laguna Lăng Cô.
I went to high school at St. Bernard's College in Essendon, Melbourne which is a very sports-oriented high school. I always had an interest in technology, but there wasn't an emphasis there on information technology, so I began studying IT after high school. However, the earliest stage of my interest in being a chef was probably in high school. In Australian high schools, you have work experience in year ten, and I went to the Victorian Art Center to do a two-week stint with my mom in the kitchen, and I enjoyed it.
After I had finished high school, I attended RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and studied Information Systems. As it turns out, I didn't find it to be very interesting and I thought, "No, this is not for me."
I begged my parents for help. At the time, my father was the Executive Chef of Ansett Airlines, and my Mom was, you could say, the Head Chef of the Victorian Art Center, so I grew up surrounded by the food industry. My grandma ran a huge catering company in Sri Lanka as well. I remember one day just sitting there at the counter having a chat with my mom, and she said, "Listen, if you're not interested in IT, you probably shouldn't follow that as a career." Then she added, "Is there something else you want to do?" I said, "Well, I wouldn't mind being a chef." So Mom responded, "If that's what you want to do and you're serious about it, I'll make some phone calls." She called up a couple of chefs that she knew, and I got a position at the Melbourne Racing Club as an apprentice around 1998. The club was part of a major complex, and I remember being in a tiny kitchen making sandwiches, steak, and chips - that kind of thing - and I enjoyed it.
At the same time, I was studying the culinary arts at William Angliss Institute, and that's where I really got interested in cooking as I met other apprentices who were working in hotels, restaurants, and resorts all over the country. I probably was the only catering chef.
I remember that, when we would prepared our own dishes, our plated dishes showed our culinary background. The restaurant guys would do elaborate plate-ups while the guys from cafes would make these big plates with sauce everywhere in typical café style. That ability to show creativity was why I got into the trade.
After two years at Melbourne Racing Club, I knew I had to get out. My father often said, "Listen, you should look at getting into a hotel." I feel like I always liked the managing side of everything, so I joined Hilton. I started at the Airport Hilton at the Melbourne Airport as a second-year apprentice, and that's where I got to see the preparation of restaurant-quality food. We had excellent servers, customers coming at all hours, menus changing all the time, and I made some great friends with whom I'm close to this day.
When I finished my apprenticeship, there was an opportunity to assist with opening the new Sydney Hilton in 2005, and I jumped on that. It was my first time leaving home and going to another city to which I had never been. I went with another chef from Melbourne with whom I had worked. I had never seen anything like the opening of the Sydney Hilton.
A unique aspect was that chefs at the hotel came from everywhere including Turkey, Greece, and Korea. The other Hiltons in Australia also sent teams to assist in the opening because it was a flagship hotel for Hilton at the time. I enjoyed working with a lot of different people, learned a lot of different techniques, and experimented with many new dishes. The chefs saw that we knew what we were doing, so we had a bit more responsibility as commis chefs. We got promoted pretty quickly to demi chefs, and I got the opportunity to run the room service kitchen. I then became the Chef-de-Partie, and my career started to develop. My friend and roommate Josh was working at the breakfast kitchen, and we were just working nonstop. My career grew and grew.
After three years in Sydney, I was getting a bit tired and wanted to come back home to Melbourne. I had an opportunity to work at the Windsor Hotel, and I joined that team as a junior Sous Chef. There I had free reign of the morning operation and was part of the team that enhanced the Windsor afternoon tea. We needed to revamp the afternoon tea experience, and it became our signature creation and became a huge success.
I've never seen a hotel just run purely from afternoon tea sales, but I remember the General Manager saying, "It's just flour and water." So yeah, we were doing big numbers there. Eight months into that, I had another phone call from the Hilton Melbourne team from the big hotel across the road from the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground), and they said, "Listen, we're looking for a chef, a Sous Chef. Do you want to join the team?"
I always liked the fact that, in a hotel group like Hilton, you have a lot of standards. There were always manuals and guidelines to follow. The Windsor didn't have that, and there were a lot of things decided ad hoc without procedures. I went back to Hilton in 2008, and again it was an entirely different animal. I went from afternoon tea to a single, stand-alone restaurant catering for 800 people! And within a year, they gave me the opportunity to become the Executive Chef, which was something I'd always wanted. I was 28, and I was excited about it.
GK: How did that change your life since you were so young?
Having the complete responsibility for the kitchen was entirely different because I had to be the decision maker. Your name is on every plate that goes out. It was very hard in the Melbourne environment to come up with something new, especially in a hotel, but I wanted to become someone who stood out.
My team was excellent at developing and handling events. As crazy as it sounds, we were the only hotel that was doing proper postings for breakfast because they wanted pre-steamed events, and we got a bit of a name for it. We weren't doing complicated food, but we were creating dishes that people wanted to eat. It was simple stuff, but it tasted superb. We weren't reinventing the wheel, but yeah, we were doing some great business. I was there for two years, and then I got another phone call suggesting I leave the country and move to Seychelles. At the time, I didn't even know where Seychelles was, so I was frantically looking it up. Also, I had to find out what kind of cuisine was there, and it turned out to be Creole, and all I could imagine is American Creole. When I arrived, I realized it was nothing like that. It wasn't gumbos and crawfish, but it's all curries.
We were on Silhouette Island in Seychelles about forty-five minutes from the main island on a boat. It's a national parish site, so we were the only resort there. There were no other shops, restaurants, or cafes. We were just a hotel on an island about three kilometers in diameter, with a giant rock in the middle, so you couldn't just wander around.
We had this fabulous beachfront coastline, so it's very hard to have a bad day there. On one side, you're looking at a forest, and on the other side, you're looking at this crystal blue water. In Seychelles, I learned the importance of quality and international expectations. This was the first time I had cooked for international clientele. When you're in Melbourne, you're cooking for Melbournians and Australians.
In Seychelles, you're preparing food for Germans, French, English, and a lot of Chinese. I was constantly in pursuit of trying to be different than the hotels on the mainland where everyone was doing the same thing, cooking traditional Creole food. It was not easy to maintain stock of products and ingredients because everything had to come in by boat once a week or flown in from Dubai. A tomato that travels from Australia through Dubai, and then to Seychelles, doesn't have a long shelf life. Trying to get the best out of those aspects was a major challenge, but I had a hard-working team who made incredibly tasty food. The difference between chefs in Australia and chefs in Seychelles was in the presentation versus the preparation. Australian chefs could present food well, where the guys in Seychelles were more experienced in cooking, so their presentation wasn't as abstract. Ultimately, our cuisine merged with Creole food so I could explore that cooking.
While I was there, we developed Allah Kitchen, a web TV show to showcase modern Creole food, and it took off successfully. Ministers of Tourism came to the island to see what we were doing. We even got a mention in Parliament, where they said, "They're doing something there that no one else is doing, and if you taste it, it is real Creole food." So it worked well for us. Creole food is very fresh with lots of colors. While that was taking off, a new opportunity to come to Vietnam arose.
My wife, at the time my fiancé, was getting a bit tired of Seychelles, so we had to make a decision that was best for both of us. In 2015, we came to Laguna Lang Co. at Banyan Tree, and I have been here for a year now.
Again I am learning an entirely different cuisine which is now one of my favorites. If I had to say, my top three favorite cuisines would be Thai, Vietnamese and French. It was a bit of a shock to the system because the Vietnamese food here is very different than at home in Melbourne. It is a lot cleaner and fresher, and I think we complicate it back home in Melbourne.
GK: What is your focus with the cuisine here?
My focus is to try and create a second dimension showcasing Vietnamese food - not just traditional but finding a modern way to present it while keeping it true to what it is. Some people modernize it by adding ingredients that aren't related, which changes the cooking methods. Seeing a lot of different cooking styles is a luxury of traveling around the world. Changing the cooking style simply means we're just changing the way we cook with the same ingredients. You're not going to introduce different ingredients into a traditional dish.
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Bouldering, which is climbing small rock formations without the use of ropes as protection, was the first form of rock climbing in general. Transplanted from natural rocky areas to centres offering artificial climbing walls, at first, only as an addition to the facilities, now it is claimed to be the most popular form of climbing; bouldering has become cool, spectacular, and eminently practical.
Responding to this natural evolution we design and build bouldering structures in no way inferior to the state-of-the-art projects completed all over the world. Clear and perspicuous formations ergonomically entered and fitted into the building interior provide for the fun of play and for professional training, as well.
Bouldering wall at the Kotłownia Climbing Centre, Lublin
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Bouldering wall at the Urock Climbing and Sports Centre, Toruń


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Visakhapatnam South Assembly Constituency is unique on several fronts with pollution, drinking water and flooding during rains dominating the issues during campaigning in every election.
The constituency always witnesses multi-corner contest as many think that it is the smallest in the district in terms of area is easy for checking and reach out to the voters directly as they prefer door-to-door campaign.
knowing once as a core area of the city, the localities under the constituency mainly the One Town area was once the beehive of commercial activity with it being home to the head post office, SBI main branch and many stevedoring companies. Due to pollution, they were later relocated as the city spread to new areas.
Some of the low-lying areas commonly get flooded during monsoon for want of proper drainage.
Beset with several slums and fishermen localities, drinking water is a big problem. With the elections being held during summer, this will become focus of discussions during the campaigning.
Pollution, mainly by the Visakhapatnam Port Trust, is an important problem here though the magnitude has come down manifold mainly due to execution of lots modernisation and size augmentation projects. Mechanisation has brought down coal and dust particles getting flown as per the wind direction to various areas in the constituency.
Still the residents are not happy with the pollution control measures with a thick layer of particles forming over their homes and heritage buildings like several churches, Town Hall, old municipality building and St. Aloysius School.
Just before the elections, GVMC under smart city project launched restoration work on Town Hall and old municipality building facing Beach Road at a cost of ₹10.97 crore.
The modernisation of fishing harbour at a cost of ₹40 crore is hanging fire for a long time. Residents say Allipuram, a crowded business locality, needs widening of the main road. Kotaveedhi, near the conveyor belt, is the worst-hit due to port pollution.
"We want more stringent measures by the port to contain pollution mainly after National Green Tribunal sought time-bound control measures," Rehman Khan, a resident of the area said.
Every time it sees at least a dozen candidates clashing sword with each other.In the election caused by the demise of Satyanarayana, his son Srinivasa Rao was given the Congress ticket and won. He could retain the seat with a wafer thin margin of 341 votes by defeating Praja Rajyam Party candidate Kola Guruvulu in 2009 relegating TDP's Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar to third position.


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The Queensland Government has approved mining leases for Adani's Carmichael coal project west from Mackay.
The government is quoting the value of the mine and associated rail developments at $21.7 billion.
The emphasis was on jobs development. Ms Palaszzuk said.
The leases — 70441 Carmichael, 70505 Carmichael East and 70506 Carmichael North — are estimated to contain 11 billion tonnes of thermal coal.
They provide for mining and the development of infrastructure such as haul roads, buildings, workshops, power lines, workers' camp and pipelines. Adani has estimated the mine, rail and port project will generate more than 5000 jobs at the peak of construction and more than 4500 jobs at the peak of operations.
The process to date included public objections in 2014, Land Court hearings in 2015, and a Land Court recommendation in December 2015 that the mining leases be granted, Dr Lynham said.
There would be no dredging at Abbot Point until Adani demonstrates financial closure and Queensland taxpayers will not fund infrastructure for the project, Dr Lynham said.
"Today's (Sunday 3/4/16) news will be a real boost in communities like Moranbah, where jobs and confidence are very much tied to the resources' sector's fortunes," Mr Pearce said.
The city of Mackay would welcome potential business for the city's mining engineering and services sector, hand-in-hand with the assurance of strict environmental conditions to protect the reef, Mrs Gilbert said.


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Q: Angular Function not Recognised in Unit Testing I'm using angular-datatables in our project.
I got this error while testing:
TypeError: DTOptionsBuilder.newOptions(...).withBootstrap is not a function in /var/www/symfony/xxxx/src/XXXX/AdminBundle/Resources/public/js/controllers/category/category-grid.controller.js (line 20)

Which the code is recognised as function in dev code, and here is the testing code:
(function() {

  "use strict";

  describe('Category Grid Controller Unit Test', function() {
    var $controller, $rootScope;

    beforeEach(module('category-grid.controller'));

    beforeEach(inject(function(_$controller_, _$rootScope_) {
      $controller = _$controller_;
      $rootScope = _$rootScope_;
    }));

    it('should define category grid controller', function() {
      var $scope = $rootScope;
      var CategoryGridController = $controller('CategoryGridController', {$scope: $scope});
      expect(CategoryGridController).toBeDefined();
    });
  });

})();

And here is the controller code:
  function CategoryGridController($stateParams, $scope, Category, DTOptionsBuilder, DTColumnDefBuilder, Utils, $window, notify) {
    $scope.categories = [];
    $scope.dtOptions = DTOptionsBuilder.newOptions().withBootstrap();

    $scope.dtColumnDefs = [
      DTColumnDefBuilder.newColumnDef(5).notSortable()
    ];

    if (angular.isDefined($stateParams.id)) {
      Category.get({id: $stateParams.id}, function(data) {
        var categories = data.children;
        var translation;
        for (var i = 0; i < categories.length; i++) {
          translation = Utils.getTranslation(categories[i].translations);
          categories[i].name = translation.name;
        }

        translation = Utils.getTranslation(data.translations);
        $scope.categoryName = translation.name;

        $scope.categories = categories;
      });
    }
    else {
      Category.query({ _level: 1 }, function(data) {
        for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
          var translation = Utils.getTranslation(data[i].translations);
          data[i].name = translation.name;
        }

        $scope.categories = data;
      });
    }

    $scope.toggleEnabled = function(id, index) {
      console.log(!$scope.categories[index].enabled);
      if ($window.confirm($scope.translations.ARE_YOU_SURE)) {
        Category.patch({id: id}, {category: {enabled: !$scope.categories[index].enabled}},
          function(data) {
            $scope.categories[index].enabled = data.enabled;
            notify({
              messageTemplate:  ' ' + $scope.translations.DATA_SAVE_SUCCESS + ''
            });
          },
          function(e) {
            notify({
              messageTemplate:  ' ' + $scope.translations.DATA_SAVE_ERROR + '',
              classes: 'alert-danger'
            });
          }
        );
      }
    };
  }

The controllers code work in development. If I remove the line with DTOptionsBuilder.newOptions(...).withBootstrap, the testing code works. But I need that code in development.

A: Since you are performing unit testing of controller, all dependencies on the controller need to mocked and injected, including your DTOptionsBuilder.
This dependency can be mocked by either creating you own custom objects and injecting them in the test or using jasmine spy.Read documentation around how to create spy in Jasmine.
For example in your test you can create
var DTOptionsBuilder={
  newOptions:function() {
     return {
       withBootstrap :function() {}
     };
  }}

and inject this object when you instantiate the controller
var CategoryGridController = $controller('CategoryGridController', {$scope: $scope,'DTOptionsBuilder':DTOptionsBuilder});

The bottom line is if you controller is dependent upon any other service, either a real or mock implementation of that service has to be inject for controller to work, allowing you to unit test it.


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using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;
using IdParser.Attributes;

namespace IdParser
{
    public static class Extensions
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the value of the <see cref="DescriptionAttribute"/> on the <see cref="Enum"/>.
        /// </summary>
        public static string GetDescription(this Enum value)
        {
            return value.GetAttributeValueOrDefault<DescriptionAttribute, string>(a => a.Description);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the value of the <see cref="AbbreviationAttribute"/> on the <see cref="Enum"/>.
        /// </summary>
        public static string GetAbbreviation(this Enum value)
        {
            return value.GetAttributeValueOrDefault<AbbreviationAttribute, string>(a => a.Abbreviation);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the value of the <see cref="CountryAttribute"/> on the <see cref="Enum"/>.
        /// </summary>
        public static Country GetCountry(this Enum value)
        {
            return value.GetAttributeValueOrDefault<CountryAttribute, Country>(a => a.Country);
        }

        private static TVal GetAttributeValueOrDefault<T, TVal>(this Enum value, Func<T, TVal> property) where T : Attribute
        {
            var field = value.GetType().GetTypeInfo().GetField(value.ToString());
            var attribute = field.GetCustomAttribute<T>();

            if (typeof(TVal) == typeof(string))
            {
                return attribute == null ? (TVal)(object)value.ToString() : property(attribute);
            }

            return property(attribute);
        }

        internal static string ReplaceEmptyWithNull(this string data)
        {
            return string.IsNullOrEmpty(data) ? null : data;
        }

        internal static string ConvertToHex(this string value)
        {
            var hex = BitConverter.ToString(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value));

            hex = "0x" + hex.Replace("-", "");

            return hex;
        }

        internal static string ConvertToHex(this char value)
        {
            return "0x" + BitConverter.ToString(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(new[] { value }));
        }

        internal static bool EqualsIgnoreCase(this string source, string value)
        {
            return source.Equals(value, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
        }
    }
}


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An external fixator acts as a stabilizing frame to hold the broken bones in proper position. In an external fixator, metal pins or screws are placed into the bone through small incisions into the skin and muscle.
The pins and screws are attached to a bar outside the skin. Because pins are inserted into bone, external fixators differ from casts and splints which rely solely on external support.
Your Wisconsin Bone & Joint doctor may recommend different cleaning techniques or solutions depending on the type of external device and the extent of your injury or fracture. In any case, use common sense with your external fixation device.
Wash your hands well and often before cleaning your pin sites or the device.
Be gentle and thorough, and dry everything carefully.
The cleaning process should be followed routinely even if your doctor has prescribed antibiotics as a preventative measure.
Since you'll be cleansing your pin sites and the device twice a day, it may make the most sense to gather everything you'll need and keep it handy and dry in a central location.
You'll need cleansing solution (sterile water), disposable cups, sterile cotton swabs, sterile gauze pads (in two-inch and four-inch squares) and a small trash bag to dispose of soiled gauze pads and swabs.
After washing and drying your hands thoroughly – towel and discarding it after use – use your fingertips to lightly touch and press the skin around the pins. This will encourage any drainage to come to the surface. Use a cotton swab saturated with cleansing solution to remove any crust or drainage from the pin sites.
Always work in a gentle, circular motion,moving away from the site.
Use a fresh swab for each pin site.
Use a fresh two-inch sterile gauze pad to clean each pin.
For the first few days, your doctor may advise you to wrap sterile gauze around each pin site. Once no further drainage is present, the pin sites may be left uncovered.
Use cotton swabs and the larger gauze pads to clean the entire fixator device carefully.
Dispose of all the soiled swabs and pads.Wash and dry your hands thoroughly.
After 10 days or so (your doctor will advise you), you may be allowed to shower with your external fixator.
Dry the fixator thoroughly with a clean towel and follow all other cleaning instructions for the pin sites.
Be sure to talk with your doctor if you have any questions on how best to care for your fixator and the pin sites.
No matter how carefully you've looked after your pin sites, an infection is still possible. Contact your WBJ doctor immediately if you observe redness or swelling at the pin site, thick or colored discharge, tenderness or pain, or any wiggling, play or movement in the pins.


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Uber Menu and Max Mega Menu Pro
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Nicole Freed
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Can you check the license, please? 100% GPL?
I've confirmed that Max Mega Menu is GPL 2.0 (and there's no such thing as a "split" or "partial" license; a plugin either is or isn't GPL). I don't have Uber Menu and can't find any licensing info on their website, so I can't tell you about that one.
Ah—looks like Uber Menu is sold by Envato/CodeCanyon. Here's their licensing info; I don't know if this is just a distributor license on top of a GPL or not:
https://codecanyon.net/licenses/terms/regular
Item #14 of their licensing terms reads as follows (they do reference the questionable "split" license):
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Why does internal rotation of ethane give an energy spectrum asymptotically approaching a rotation based on $\nu=1$ rather than $\nu=0$?
I'm a physicist with very little knowledge of chemistry. Recently a chem colleague left a molecular model in my classroom, so I brought it back to her, and as I was walking down the hall with it, a hydroxy group started spontaneously swinging around in circles. This made me curious about whether such motions could actually be observed. After asking around and doing some web searching, my understanding is that this sort of thing is called an internal rotation, and usually there is a barrier to rotation, which is modeled by a potential $V(\phi)=(1/2)\sum V_n(1-\cos n\phi)$.
If I'm understanding the history correctly, then originally people thought that the spectrum would be that of a free rotor, but that produced incorrect thermodynamic predictions. Then in 1937 Pitzer published a famous paper, "Thermodynamics of Gaseous Hydrocarbons," in which he showed that you could get correct thermodynamic predictions if you put in a barrier to rotation.
The classic textbook example seems to be ethane. I found this explanation of the physics (di Lauro, "Floppy Molecules," in Rotational Structure in Molecular Infrared Spectra, 2013), which I only partly understand. He gives the following theoretical spectrum of energy states:
So at low energies we have roughly a set of vibrational energy levels with energies $\hbar\omega (\nu+1/2)$, which makes sense to me because I guess we're sitting in a minimum of the potential where the geometry is staggered. He says, "The high levels, on the contrary, correlate and eventually almost coincide with the free internal rotor eigenfunctions, whose energy increases parabolically as $AK_i^2$, where $K_i$ is the eigenvalue of $J_γ$, in ℏ units." This also sort of makes sense to me, because if you put in a lot of energy, you shouldn't see the effect of the little hills and valleys in the potential $V(\phi)$, so it should act more like a free rotor.
Do the units of inverse cm mean $1/\lambda$, or $2\pi/\lambda$? If the former, then $1/\lambda= 200\ \text{cm}^{-1}$ corresponds to have $\hbar\omega_0/k\approx 300$ kelvin, so it makes sense that the barrier to rotation would have significant thermodynamic effects at temperatures on the order of room temperature or below, since the rotational-vibrational modes are not available. Am I getting this right?
But why is it necessary to place this fictitious rotational band on top of the $\nu=1$ state, rather than $\nu=0$? I would think that the fictitious band should be build from the ground state, it wouldn't match the actual energies at low energies, and then at high energies they would match up.
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$\begingroup$ Wavenumber units are cycles-per-cm, which I think corresponds to your $1/\lambda$. So, if you're using $\omega_0$ to represent the wavenumber value, you would need to use $h\omega_0c\over k$ to calculate that representative temperature. By my math $200\mathrm{cyc\over cm} \rightarrow 288\ \mathrm K$. $\endgroup$ – hBy2Py May 18 at 2:21
$\begingroup$ The rotor potential is cyclic which means that levels in each potential well interact with one another and become split. In addition there is quantised angular momentum both about the C-C axis and perpendicular to this which leads to further sets of energy levels. The unique axis is defined by quantum number $K$. Look for spectroscopy of symmetric top molecules. To me it is unclear what the levels in the figure refer to. ($ k_BT \approx 208\, \mathrm{cm^{-1}}$ at 300 K) $\endgroup$ – porphyrin May 18 at 7:35
$\begingroup$ @porphyrin: To me it is unclear what the levels in the figure refer to. (kBT≈208cm−1 at 300 K) I think that rotational band is supposed to be a fictitious one that he is saying gives the right energy levels in the limit of high spin. $\endgroup$ – Ben Crowell May 20 at 21:26
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3 St. Louis men scammed women out of $500k in cash, electronics, indictment says
The men pretended to be high-ranking military officers, who were deployed overseas
Author: Marianne Martinez
Published: 4:04 PM CDT September 2, 2020
Updated: 6:12 PM CDT September 3, 2020
ST. LOUIS — Three St. Louis men have been charged with scamming women all over the country out of thousands of dollars in cash and electronics.
A federal grand jury indicted 41-year-old Ovuoke Frank Ofikoro, 27-year-old Bonmene Sibe, and 27-year-old Trenice Hassel Wednesday, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen's office.
Ofikoro and Sibe face several charges, which include conspiracy to defraud, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft, the release said. Sibe and Hassel face charges of making false statements to a federal agency.
Between May 2019 and July 2020, Ofikoro, Sibe, and other individuals ran a scam in which they pretended to be high-ranking military officials who were deployed overseas, according to court documents. They preyed on women between 45 and 82 years old.
Investigators said they believe Ofikoro and Sibe worked with others in enticing the women to send money and electronic equipment to St. Louis area post office boxes from other states, including Hawaii, Illinois, Utah, Mississippi, Maryland, and Florida.
The value of the currency and equipment mailed through the U.S. Postal Service had a combined value of more than $500,000. Some of the shipments contained as much as $50,000 in currency. Ofikoro and Sibe transferred some of the funds received to accounts of financial institutions in Nigeria.
Credit: KSDK
"In particular, these romance scams often succeed against elderly victims who have lost partners or have been isolated due to the pandemic," said U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen in the release.
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Hassel assisted the conspirators in using the name of B.M. to fraudulently open one of the St. Louis post office boxes that Ofikoro, Sibe, and the others use in the scheme.
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