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character if you want. I do know that it might be at this stage a bit early but I guess some people have already character concepts planed.
Furry Fandom, MMORPGs, History (in particular ancient civilizations), WWI Aviation and Bi-Planes and anything to do with Fantasy and SiFi.
At first glance Felidae seems to be your typical "Felo" rogue, a thief and assassin only interested in amassing a fortune to sweeten his life with all the luxury that gold can buy. But underneath that facade he follows a greater goal as member of a secret society.
Furry fandom, Dungeons and Dragons, video games (rpg, strategy,and fps are my favoites.), Magic the Gathering, 3d Modeling.
At first, i would like to play my fursona, Net. He is a wizard known for bumbling fire spells up and totally FUBARing everything in a 20ft. radius. Yeah. He wears sleeve-less robes for the sleeves would catch fire all too often. He usually wears red, intermingled with yellow and black, but he will wear any color combination that is garish enough. Though known for his fire spells, he isn't a pyromancer, most everyone forgets that and it annoys him. He is timid, reserved, and always looks at all angles of a social quarrel. If you manage to get him upset, he will be caustic, and wrathful, but he doesn't carry on for long, and has a mentality that everyone deserves forgiveness that wants it. To see how he integrates into antilian society shall be quite fun to see.
3 things I dislike: Stupidity, lack of respect towards others, and I can't really think of anything else that doesn't fall into the previous two's categories.
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My name is Jeff, and I am a developer. I'm responsible for creating content, world design, the website, and keeping the project on track.
Art, 3D Modeling, Writing, Photography, World Design, Philosophy, Dreams, "Fantasy Stuff", and then some boring stuff like Project Management and Graphic Algorithms.
- Stuff that inspires me - Epic Movies, Interesting Drawings, Dreams, Music, etc.
- Willingly ignorant, intolerant, apathetic, and/or lazy people - People that don't want the full picture, and don't want to make the right decision - especially when their decisions affect other people. Usually they like to play the blame game afterwards.
- Those days where you want to get things done, but just don't have any energy.
Pay no attention to the Felo behind the curtains.
Jen: 10 The Felo behind the curtains is right about the profile thing: however, an introductory thread is pretty obligatory, no? I feel so, at least.
I am a Yellow Mage, master of sealing latent magics and bending them to my own will. Due to the very nature of magic being one's one will imposed upon the world, this can leave many who already aren't fond of me quite frustrated if they dare reveal thier enmity. My weapons specialty is in one-handed melee weaponry of various types: versatility is very important to me. I have many aliases, but until I've decided upon one for Antilia, I will just be known as the Yellow Mage.
For future reference, I am male. That is all you need to know about that.
Furry Fandom, MMORPGs, Pokemon (though I don't associate it with Furry), RPGs and Fantasy, most things Nintendo, randomness, mathematics, logic.
Assuming no Lagomorphs are added in to the game, I will likely end up as a Vulan. I will cast magic. I will protect those who need protecting. I will slay evils. But, I am, by no means, your Paladin from D&D, who will willing lay down his/her life at the slightest whim of his/her superior: I would prefer to call myself the alignment of "Chaotic Good," if we're using those terms. Although it doesn't mean I can't be altruistic at times, if anybody's going to call themselves my "superior," they'd better have a good reason, and an even better cause, as I would prefer to remain a soul as independent as possible.
*~Taking pictures of animals, plants and mountains.
*~I highly dislike stereotypical people, and people who are unable to express their rage in other forms apart from swears.
*~ When you have a math problem and you know how to solve it in an easier way but the teacher reduces marks for not following their procedures.
I'll probably end up making a Lupan, or Koro. If the job type is aloud, I'll probably make my character a Cleric, or magician.
Jen: 10 My name is Shane. I do most of the programming for Antilia (As opposed to Jeff, who does most of the management and creative aspects of the project).
I enjoy listening to classical music, watching animated films, reading about politics and of course programming computers and getting them to do creative and interesting things.
* Creative stories that stimulate the imagination and make you think.
* Having a new complex software routine work perfectly on the first try.
* People who don't want to learn new things and improve themselves.
* Not being able to solve a difficult software engineering problem.
* People who have to fill their lives with useless drama. Life is supposed to be fun!
The annoying, ignorant, narrow minded, childish, immature people who populate many once great communities.
Lupan, as closely mirroring my fursona as possibly (which probably won't be too closely since I doubt the game will have waist length hair for a male *sigh*). Class wise I'll be looking for something rouge like; stab em in the back!
Drawing, Video Games, Reading, Anthro, College.
Homophobes, Mean People, Bad RP, Awkwardness.
Based on my FurryMUCK character back when I was an anthro artist. Lupan, black fur, silver hair, crimson and royal purple garb. Heavily muscled.


Praise the pinot! That's the theme of this tasting event, now in its sixth year. Sample 200 pinot noirs from California and Oregon wineries, including several exclusive to PinotFest. Also enjoy food courtesy of Noir Food & Wine and Altadena Town & Country Club.
WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 9, 1-4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Altadena Town & Country Club, 2290 Country Club Drive, Altadena.
COST: $89; $119 for VIP.
Celebrate our sweetest holiday by sampling up to 30 different wines and liquors -- with chocolate on the side. The event is at mega-candy shop Sweet, so guests will be in good hands.
WHEN: Monday, Feb. 11, 6-9 p.m.
WHERE: Sweet, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., #201, Hlywd.
Sit back, relax (with Irish coffee and beignets) and enjoy the show -- a series of monologues that creator Peggy Sweeny-McDonald calls "life stories about food." The cast features actors and local food-industry folk including Brandon Boudet and Kat Witt (Tom Bergin's Tavern), Adam Milstein (South Santa Monica), Johnnie Handel (San Gennaro Cafe), Brigitte Pailet (Snookie's) and Theo Stephan (Global Gardens Olive Oil & Vinegar). Sweeny-McDonald also recently published a book based on the show.
WHERE: Tom Bergin's Tavern, 840 S. Fairfax Ave., L.A.
COST: $25, including beignets, coffee, tax and gratuity. (Full menu available too.) Call 323-936-7151 for reservations.
The Strand House is bringing in special chefs for a special evening: Chefs Nancy Silverton and Matt Molina of Pizzeria and Osteria Mozza will cook a multicourse meal including a mozzarella appetizer, crispy pig's trotter, ricotta and egg raviolo, grilled quail, and Silverton's beloved butterscotch budino. K.R. Rombauer III from Rombauer Vineyards will be on hand to offer wine pairings.
WHERE: The Strand House, 117 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Manhattan Beach.
COST: $100; optional wine pairing $50. Call (310) 545-7470 for reservations.
The Other Door is serving up a "genuine New Orleans crawfish boil with all the fixins," plus the bar's craft beers and cocktails. Arrive on the early side for complimentary King Cake, homemade.
WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 12, 7-9 p.m.
WHERE: The Other Door, 10437 Burbank Blvd., N. Hlywd.


(NaturalNews) Natural News does not cover politics as a news focus, yet in the wake of the massacre of 50 innocent Americans in Orlando, I feel a strong humanitarian responsibility to warn all Natural News readers about the danger we all now face due to our federal government's runaway incompetence and abandonment of fundamental national security priorities.
Incompetence doesn't even begin to describe it, actually. What is being exhibit today by Obama and the rest of the regime in power is pure psychosis -- a delusional denial of reality that's going to get a whole lot more Americans killed if something doesn't change.
The deaths of these 50+ innocent Americans must be credited to the utter incompetence of the Obama administration and the President's bizarre unwillingness to utter the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism." Because he refuses to admit that a radical branch of Islam even exists, he has shut down every effort by other people within the federal government to try to stop such acts of terrorism.
The FBI is currently investigating over 900 ISIS terror threat leads in the United States, covering all 50 states. Yet the Obama administration has systematically shut down federal prosecutions of such groups and silenced whistleblowers who tried to warn that all this was coming.
On the surface of all this, you might conclude that the leaders of the U.S. federal government (and DHS in particular) are utterly incompetent. Yet if you look more deeply into what's really happening, it's far worse: These people are actively working to promote an ISIS invasion of America.
What we are all witnessing right now is the invasion stage of a massive war being waged against America. The government's open borders policies have allowed ISIS to occupy America with "boots on the ground." Now there are hundreds of active terror cells across America... guess who helped put them there? Your President did. The same President who promised to "fundamentally transform" America.
This is the same President who also handed nuclear weapons capability to Iran in a thinly veiled effort to start a nuclear war in the Middle East, beginning with nuclear attacks on Israel. See this Natural News story for more details.
Local cops are over-worked, under-paid and vastly under-appreciated. They try to protect lives while operating in a highly hostile environment of never-ending media accusations and criticism.
Cops are also short-staffed, meaning in any given city, there are barely enough cops on the street to prevent mass chaos and looting on any given day. It only takes one lone wolf terror attack to occupy nearly the entire police power of a major city. Such an act leaves the rest of the city wide open and vulnerable to additional attacks by other terror cells, meaning the police cannot protect you even if they want to.
The solution, of course, is to carry your own concealed firearm if it is legal to do so where you live. If it's not legal to do so in your city or town, move somewhere else where self-defense is legal!
At the same time America is being invaded and occupied by an enemy network of terror cells, the utterly incompetent, America-hating nut jobs in Washington insist on keeping the nation's southern border wide open.
This is being done for no other reason than to serve as a Democrat voter recruitment tool, hoping millions of impoverished, desperate illegals will pour into the nation so that Obama can declare them all eligible voters before election day and usher the new criminal-in-chief into office.
The very idea of "no borders" is ludicrous. The White House has borders. The Vatican has borders. Even the democratic national convention has borders. Every secure nation in the world has borders, and those nations which fail to enforce their borders suffer runaway problems with drug smuggling, human trafficking, illegal weapons trafficking and an influx of illegal aliens.
But thanks to this policy, ISIS terrorists can now walk right into America and set up shop in every major U.S. city. In fact, they have already done so. Mission accomplished, Obama!
The government won't protect you and the local cops can't protect you. So what does Obama and the freedom-hating media want to do about it? They want to take away your right to self-defense.
The gun control agenda is in full force today, all based on the absurd premise that if only innocent, law abiding Americans were all disarmed, somehow terrorists would stop killing their intended targets.
Yeah, it's brain dead stupid. But that's par for the course when it comes to an incompetent, criminal government that hates America (and hates your individual liberties even more).
If you dare criticize Islam these days, you're immediately labeled an intolerant bigot. Apparently, we must all embrace radical Islamic terrorists under a new P.C. regime of "inclusiveness" which also has deep-voiced men wearing wigs and marching into women's restrooms because they "self identify as a woman."
It's all delusional P.C. blabbergook, and like most thinking Americans, I've had enough of the P.C. leftist lunacy in this country that seeks to shut down free speech by calling rational concerns about radical Islam "bigotry" or "intolerance."
The fact is, the same P.C. police on the delusional left who claim to despise violence against gays has pushed a dangerous denial about radical Islam that has now led to the mass murder of gay people. In this particular massacre, the link is a direct one: As Infowars reports in this article, a co-worker of Omar Mateen tried to report his erratic behavior to his employer, but the report was silenced because Mateen was Muslim. Political correctness, in other words, allowed Mateen's mental illness to flourish!
In protecting violent Muslims by silencing criticism under the guise of political correctness, the political left just sold out gays to Islamic terrorism. And even now, we're all being ordered to chant "peace" and "love" and embrace Islam as a "religion of peace" while our gay brothers and sisters are being gunned down in cold blood by an anti-American hater. This is tolerance?
No... it's LUNACY. And I for one won't stay silent as my fellow Americans -- gay or otherwise -- are being murdered in cold blood.
For our mutual survival, I submit that we must REJECT the P.C. lunacy that silences legitimate concerns about Islamic terrorism. It's time we had the backbone to stand up and tell the truth... or we will be slaughtered while people like Obama roll out the red carpet to yet more ISIS terrorists who commit mass murder across America's cities.
As a practical matter, realize that ISIS terrorists will tend to target large, high-density crowds for their operations (in order to maximize their body count). Obviously, this means that if you want to avoid being killed by ISIS terrorists, you may wish to avoid placing yourself in or near crowded spaces... especially those that are indoors.
Night clubs are one obvious target, and if you look at the Paris attacks from a few months back, they also targeted night clubs. Terrorists like to operate at night because it's easier for them to hide their weapons and explosives. Dark, indoor environments with large crowds and lots of noise are perfect targets for maximum carnage in the minds of sick, evil-minded terrorists.
If you want to see things in America continue on the current path, keep voting for the same kind of establishment people who brought us to this point of lunacy in the first place.
But if you want to see a radically different future for this nation -- perhaps one where P.C. idiocy is abandoned and we finally get serious about radical Islam -- then vote for anti-establishment candidates.
If the voters keep putting the very same people into office who right now deny the existence of radical Islam, this whole situation is going to get far, far worse. Remember: There are consequences for denial.
The political left's demands for "tolerance" have reached the point of insane stupidity. Being "tolerant" should not require us all to be so incredibly stupid that we don't point out the very real pattern of terrorism taking place right in front of us.
Now, the left's "tolerance" is a cover for terrorists who target gays. So "tolerance" promotes violence against gays at a far worse level than all the so-called "gay bashers" in the history of gay bashing.
This is the price we all pay for P.C. lunacy and the power we reluctantly grant the tolerati -- the sniveling nitwit generation snowflake f--ktards who demand we limit our thoughts and speech to those few topics they consider to be acceptable. Meanwhile, our gay brothers are being gunned down and the entire leftist media still cannot find the honesty to utter the word "Islam".
It's a mental disorder, I tell you. There is mass mental illness in the P.C. culture, and it's now costing us dearly in suffering and blood. The deaths of these innocents in Orlando is a direct result of P.C. lunacy and mentally ill denials of reality.
It's time to speak out, tell the truth, acknowledge reality and get serious about protecting America again.


I spend time every business day reading about the metals markets and analyzing various companies to produce my Industrial Minefinder™ investing service. One thing I have noticed about mining investing is that there are no experts (left), just a few sages wearing garments of humility. Decades of battlefield scars lie behind their frequent cautions. Bromby is one such sage.
Bromby fills the pages of his Handbook with facts and gleanings that investors need to hear, even if they don't want to. He covers the globe, the history books, and the periodical table as he spans the mining "universe." Seasoned mining investors who do not learn something new are simply not paying attention. I, myself, did not realize that manganese is the 4th most used metal.
Bromby misses the fact that higher prices will find all the metal the world needs. In other words, more resources are discovered and developed as soon as the economic incentive is there to do so. Yet, throughout the book, here and there, he hints at what perhaps no Wall Street analyst has yet to figure out: China's slower but continued ascension will have them mining more outwardly as their price insensitive economic model has depleted all their own low-hanging fruit. The next price boom will be more of a supply story than a demand story.
By revealing the emergence of various minor metals in the 20th century as becoming critical to advanced technology, and thus economic and military superiority, Bromby's handbook suddenly shines as it gently reveals that the next super-cycle bull rush will span the periodic table more broadly than the last. Recent years have brought early tremors in cobalt, lithium, and vanadium – things no one talked about during the first super-cycle.
If you're looking for information on what metals to invest in, how to analyze costs, or what jurisdictions to avoid, this handbook is not for you. Then again, maybe it is. Many mining investors lack critical perspective and often expect too much from what lies underground. They spend years, sometimes decades, following mirages in a desert where there is no golden stream. What I liked best about Bromby's handbook is just this perspective. It forces one to think strategically. I enjoy investing in mining and Bromby's handbook helped me remember why.


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By Isabelle Kirkwood Canadian Startup News September 9, 2019
BC-based Lightship Works using AI to aid first responders with natural disasters
Lightship Works, a SaaS startup based in Kamloops, BC, is integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its disaster response mobile application to help first responders during natural disasters and other critical incidents.
"We are witnessing a trend where natural disasters are becoming more complex, frequent, and of higher intensity than ever."
– Jaethan Reichel, Lightship
Lightship Works develops mobile applications that take updates from first responders and recovery agencies and combine it with data from infrastructure, weather services, sensors, and real-time tracking of people and equipment in disaster scenarios. The startup has joined forces with IBM Canada to integrate the AI through IBM Watson on the IBM Cloud. Lightship Works said the partnership with IBM will allow them to quickly learn and discern large amounts of information, like real-time and forecast data, and then feed those insights back into the application for ongoing updates.
"Technology is a game-changer that augments [the] capacity of first responders and recovery agencies," said Jaethan Reichel, CEO and co-founder of Lightship Works. "We are witnessing a trend where natural disasters are becoming more complex, frequent, and of higher intensity than ever, so it is really important that the technology be easy to use but also incredibly stable, secure, and responsive. That is one of the reasons we decided to work with IBM."
Lightship Works's field operations platform provides comprehensive incident response, in-field data collection, and asset management solutions to large industry, local government, and emergency management organizations. The startup's goal is to provide a "common operating picture" that allows all involved in an emergency scenario to share information with each other and view all the data that is being collected during the ongoing event.
The application brings together the four phases of emergency management: mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery. Across all these phases, Lightship Works claims to give authorized agencies, like fire, police, local governments, and recovery nonprofits, access to real-time data. If, for example, trees go down or roads become covered with mud, Lightship Works' system can quickly warn response crews to map safer routes. Lightship Works says it can also provide individual first responders with personalized views of the information they need, when they need it.
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Lightship Works was founded in 2015 by a team with an industrial background in the natural resources sector. They had originally wanted to build a field operations platform for natural resource corporations in sectors like oil and gas.
"At some point, through interacting with some of those people that had emergency needs, we figured out that we [had] built this thing that was really, really great at responding to the types of emergencies that we're starting to see more and more of," Reichel told BetaKit. "The story that we're proud to be part of is building things that are going to help the communities that we live in."
The co-founder said the software is essentially a desktop application designed to be a neutral resting place for data sitting across multiple applications. The software is built to take in all information and filter it based on a user's role or assignment in an emergency response situation.
"The story that we're proud to be part of is building things that are going to help the communities that we live in."
"The way that government procurement in these large agencies works is there's a certain amount of risk that they just can't ignore," Reichel said. "That's one of the reasons why we're so excited about the partnership with IBM. Because we can be this just scrappy, innovative company who's built this great tool, but at the end of the day, walking in with a bunch of guys that have PhDs and extensive experience and the backing of a billion dollars in research [that's] the thing that's allowed us to get into opportunities now all over the globe."
Reichel told BetaKit the collaboration with IBM came from a set of trade tours hosted by Innovate BC, a provincial agency that funds entrepreneurial support programs. The purpose of those trade missions was to explore interesting projects and ventures taking place in the province, outside of Vancouver, Reichel said.
"When we met Lightship Works through Innovate BC, we immediately recognized the value they had already created with their application, and we wanted to help further enhance that solution to help address advanced information integration," said John Longbottom, senior innovation development executive of Western Canada with IBM.
By hosting its mobile application on IBM Cloud, Lightship Works said it will be able to integrate new services like 'Watson Speech to Text' and natural language processing into its solution.
Reichel said Lightship has already helped with several real-world initiatives, including the clean-up of Grand Forks, BC after it suffered record-setting floods in 2018. The startup has also played a role in wildfire protection and emergency response in BC, something it's hoping to take to a global stage. The North Shore Emergency Management in Greater Vancouver is currently working with Lightship Works on research and development. Lightship's team currently sits at 20 people, and the startup noted it is looking to hire for several positions.
"This technology is intended to enhance and improve emergency management processes and has significantly helped our teams," said Mike Andrews, deputy director at North Shore Emergency Management. "When we are in a crisis scenario, there is a critical dependence on reliable technology for things like situational awareness, resource requesting, rapid damage assessment, and evacuation notification tracking. It's vital that it works."
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Far-right demonstrators mass at the gates of Downing Street to demand EDL founder Tommy Robinson is released following his arrest for breaching the peace
Robinson was arrested on Friday after being caught filming outside a court
Supporters of his gathered in central London the next day to protest arrest
They climbed the gates near Prime Minister's home but no one was arrested
Hundreds of Tommy Robinson supporters flocked to Downing Street on Saturday to demand the release of the far-right leader.
Robinson, 35, was arrested on suspicion of breaching the peace on Friday after he was seen filming outside a court house.
It has caused a furious backlash among his supporters who stormed Whitehall on Saturday to stage a protest.
Hundreds of Tommy Robinson supporters (pictured) flocked to Downing Street on Saturday to demand his release after he was arrested on Friday
Far-right supporters waved '#FreeTommy' and 'Free the truth teller' placards as others branded St George's flags and banners with 'Make Britain Great Again' on them in Whitehall
Pictured: Robinson founded the English Defence League in Luton in 2009 and remains a far-right activist
From ZeroHedge.com Authored by Bruce Bawer via The Gatestone Institute,
"I am in a country that is not free… I feel jealous as hell of you guys in America. You don't know how lucky you are." — Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad), YouTuber with around a million subscribers.
"I am trying to recall a legal case where someone was convicted of a 'crime' which cannot be reported on." — Gerald Batten, UKIP member of the European Parliament.
"UKIP Peer Malcolm Lord Pearson has written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid today saying: if Tommy is murdered or injured in prison he and others will mount a private prosecution against Mr Javid as an accessory, or for misconduct in public office." — Gerald Batten.
Good on Lord Pearson.
On Friday, British free-speech activist and Islam critic Tommy Robinson was acting as a responsible citizen journalist — reporting live on camera from outside a Leeds courtroom where several Muslims were being tried for child rape — when he was set upon by several police officers. In the space of the next few hours, a judge tried, convicted, and sentenced him to 13 months in jail — and also issued a gag order, demanding a total news blackout on the case in the British news media. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was immediately taken to Hull Prison.
Hull Prison, in Kingston upon Hull, England, where Tommy Robinson was taken to serve a 13-month prison sentence just hours after his arrest on Friday, May 25.
Most media outlets were remarkably compliant. News stories that had already been posted online after Robinson's arrest at the Scottish Daily Record,Birmingham Live, The Mirror, RT, and Breitbart News were promptly pulled down, although, curiously, a report remained up at the Independent, a left-wing broadsheet that can be counted on to view Robinson as a hooligan. Indeed, the Independent's article described Robinson as "far-right" and, in explaining what he was doing outside the courthouse, used scare quotes around the word "reporting"; it then summed up the least appealing episodes in his career and blamed him for an attack on the Finsbury Park Mosque last January. Somehow, the Independentalso got away with publishing a report on London's Saturday rally in support of Robinson.
Also on Saturday, Breitbart UK posted a copy of the gag order, but redacted it as required. The resulting document proved to be a perfect illustration of Western Europe's encroaching tyranny.
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Agreement on renewable energy with South Korea
Press releases • May 21, 2019 10:04 CEST
The Danish Energy Agency has signed today an Implementing Arrangement with the Korea Energy Agency in relation to the visit of a big Danish industry delegation led by the Crown Prince Couple to South Korea.
New technology catalogue to support green transition in Vietnam
The Electricity and Renewable Energy Authority of Vietnam (EREA) and the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) are launching Vietnam's first ever technology catalogue. The energy partnership between Vietnam and Denmark is part of the Danish effort to support green transitioning globally and is financed in cooperation with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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New Nord Stream 2 application for two southern route options
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The DEA has received an additional application from Nord Stream 2 AG for permission to construct transit pipelines south of Bornholm on the continental shelf.
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The Danish Energy Agency hosts a technical dialogue on site-investigations with potential developers and relevant experts related to the Thor offshore wind farm tender on 13th May 2019
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Denmark's observed energy consumption increased by 0.2% in 2018, while CO2 emissions increased by 0.3% as a result of higher consumption of fossil fuels. At the same time, a significant decline in North Sea production last year has led to a fall in total energy production of 10.5% according to the preliminary energy statistics for 2018 published by the Danish Energy Agency yesterday.
Energy Statistics 2017: Higher renewable energy contribution
The Danish Energy Agency helps Egypt on the journey towards a greener future
Egypt now becomes the 15th country collaborating bilaterally with the Danish Energy Agency. The collaboration will focus on securing more renewable energy in the Egyptian energy system, and will help Egypt achieving its goal of increasing the share of renewable energy in electricity consumption from 9% to 43% by 2035.
The offshore substation and the export cables is included in the scope of the Danish offshore wind farm tender
The offshore windfarm Thor will be tendered through tender with negotiation like in the previous Danish offshore wind tenders, and the grid connection from the wind farm to the onshore point of connection will be included in the scope of the tender.
New EIA process for Vesterhav Syd initiated
The Energy Board of Appeal has cancelled and withdrawn the part of the construction licence for the Vesterhav Syd Offshore Wind Farm concerning assessment of environmental impacts, with a view to renewed processing by the Danish Energy Agency. A new EIA process has been initiated.
Continued interest in search for oil and gas in the Danish North Sea
In the 8th Licensing Round, the DEA has received 5 applications for licences to exploration for and production of oil and gas.
Lighthouse of Danish-Indonesian Island-cooperation has great potential for renewable energy
Two recent analyses show that both solar, wind and biomass are competitive technologies on the island Lombok, in Indonesia. Furthermore it is shown that integrating 60% renewable energy into Lombok's power grid, by 2030, is a cost-efficient initiative. These analyses are a result of the Danish-Indonesian energy cooperation.
Denmark and Indonesia collaborate on developing sustainable islands
Denmark signs MoU with Indonesian Energy Company
Press releases • Nov 27, 2018 16:10 CET
Energy consumption increased slightly in 2017. This covers a dramatic fall in coal consumption and increasing consumption of renewable energy. Overall, this led to a considerable drop in CO2 emissions last year. These are some of the results in the Energy Statistics 2017, which were published by the Danish Energy Agency today. Publication is in Danish, whereas Excel files are available in English.
Tender scheme for smaller solar PV installations determined
The tender scheme concerning a price premium for solar PV with an installed capacity of less than 1 MW has now been determined.
Call for bids in the technology neutral tender scheme 2018
The Danish Energy Agency calls for bids in the tender scheme for solar PV
Invitation for consultation on a Danish tender for solar PV
Press releases • Sep 27, 2018 07:45 CEST
Today, the Danish Energy Agency has opened a tendering scheme concerning a price premium for onshore wind, solar PV and open-door offshore wind. The deadline for bids is November 26 2018.
Contracts in the first Solar PV tender in Denmark signed
Today, the Danish Energy Agency has opened the tender scheme concerning a price premium for solar PV with an installed capacity of less than 1 MW. The deadline for bids is November 1 2018.
Historically low prices offered in Danish tender of aid for solar PV
Call for tenders on aid for solar PV
Press releases • Aug 30, 2018 07:00 CEST
2017 was the last year in which Denmark produced more oil than the country consumed. The latest forecast from the Danish Energy Agency shows that from 2018 Denmark is expected to be a net importer of oil. However, Denmark is still expected to remain a net exporter of gas until 2035 - except for a few years where the Tyra facilities are rebuilt.
New Open Door application for exploration and production of hydrocarbons mainly on Lolland-Falster
Ukraine's Minister of Energy visits Denmark
Press releases • Jun 01, 2018 07:00 CEST
The Ukrainian Minister of Energy, Ihor Nasalyk, is currently in Denmark in order to mark the valuable results of the Danish and Ukrainian governments' collaboration on energy. The minister brought a delegation comprising of deputy chairman of the parliament's energy committee, the chairman of the Ukrainian wind turbine association as well as public servants and mayors from chosen Ukrainian cities.
Ukraine: Closer toward a methodology on energy efficiency in industry through Ukrainian-Danish workshop
Significant increase in the consumption of renewable energy in 2017
Consumption of renewable energy increased by almost 11%, while coal consumption fell by 21% in 2017. Overall, this led to a large drop in energy-related CO2 emissions. This appears by the Danish Energy Agency's preliminary energy statistics for 2017, which also show that Denmark's degree of self-sufficiency increased last year.
Danes used more energy and renewables in 2016
Energy consumption increased in 2016 due to less wind
Blue print for Ethiopian wind power expansion
With the launch of the Wind Project Development Roadmap report Ethiopia and Denmark are joining forces for large scale expansion of wind energy in East Africa. Experts from both countries have been sharing experiences with leading international experts to produce this guideline to successful development of wind projects in Ethiopia.
Long Term planning for a greener future
Sharing Danish and international experiences to secure successful IPP wind tenders in Ethiopia
Wind project development workshop in Ethiopia reveals even bigger private sector project pipeline
Lower electricity imports and less windy conditions for wind turbines resulted in increased energy consumption and increased observed CO2 emissions in 2016. As power plants in particular also used more biomass, consumption of renewable energy increased, raising the share of renewable energy to 31.3%.
Renewables now cover 56% of electricity consumption
Press releases • Oct 18, 2017 14:13 CEST
As of today the "Sino-Danish Pilot Project on District Heating (DH) and Energy Efficiency (EE) Improvements in China" has been signed by the Danish Energy Agency (DEA), the National Energy Conservation Center (NECC), the Development and Reform Commission of Shaanxi Province (SXDRC) and the People´s Government of Tongchuan City of Shaanxi Province (SXTC), in Xi'an- Shaanxi Province.
China's National Energy Administration visit Denmark to learn about thermal power plant flexibility
China: Danish expertise in energy efficient district heating in high demand


For occupations and situations requiring ample first aid supplies, these emergency medical kits include products for treating various injuries. The kit has over 120 items packed in a cordura bag with Major Emergency Medical Kit carrying handles and two D-rings. Cordura is a water repellent combination of canvas and plastic.
(1) Emergency Blanket, 54" x 80"
(2) Trauma Dressing 10" x 30"
(4) Kerlix 4-1/2" x 4.5 yds.
(2) Surgipads, 8" x 10"
(1) Burn Sheet, Sterile 60" x 96"
(2) Co-flex Bandage 3" x 5 yds.
(25) Woven Strips 1" x 3"


Rosie Campbell's offers Caribbean food and beverages, with an infusion of New York cool. The space is vibrant, the menu's a collection of gutsy, Jamaican-inspired dishes, and the cocktail list is an absolute baller. Expect loads of rum-infused concoctions and a healthy dose of tropical vibes.
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I've been around in the Beachbody Business a long time, going on 8 years to be exact, and I've been fortunate enough to create a very large and successful organization. I've been through a lot of ups and downs, everyone who owns their own business goes through it, but there was one moment where I was stuck and couldn't progress beyond 3 Star Diamond. For the life of me I couldn't figure it out, but then I sat down with one of my mentors, who proceeded to tell me that my problem lied in my lack of organization and structure. I was all over the place, doing all of my tasks when they popped into my head, and answering emails, messages, and phone calls all at the same time. As a leader by example, if I'm not organized then neither are my Coaches. I knew I needed to change, and that I did, and with what I'm about to share with you I was able to go from 3 Star to 14 Star Diamond in a little over a year. Here are my tips on how to stay organized as a Beachbody Coach.
(1) Schedule your entire day. Go out and purchase a planner and different colored highlighters and break down your entire day into tasks. For example, maybe from 7 AM to 7:30 AM you answer emails and messages, in which you would highlight blue, and maybe from 12 PM to 1 PM you hold calls with your Coaches and prospects, in which you would highlight pink. Make sure you include the most important tasks in your schedule, such as personal development, prospecting, brainstorming, and even spending time with your family. You might think it's odd to schedule time with your family, but most people will get too caught up in the business that they neglect their family entirely, which can lead to many relationship issues. It's OK to work hard to succeed, but success is not worth it if you chase away those who are most important in your life. And as I stated above, brainstorming is important as well. Maybe you spend 10-15 minutes every day in a quiet place, away from the kids, and think about different ideas that you can come up with to take your business to the next level. Once you come up with those ideas, write them down and try them out. If something works, keep it and share it with your team, and if it doesn't, then don't do it again.
Something important to note, too, is that you cannot let your tasks interfere with one another. For example, when you are reading personal development each morning, you should not have your computer open and answering Facebook messages. And when you are answering Facebook messages, you should not be texting or answering any phone calls that come in. And even more importantly, when you are spending time with your family, your phone should be flipped over on silent and in the other room. It's very easy to see a notification pop up and have the urge to check it out. When you are spending time with your family, all of your attention needs to be on them. All your tasks throughout the day need to be completely separated.
(2) Limit call times to just 30 minutes. Too many Beachbody Coaches will get on the phone and talk for an hour and a half with a prospect or Coach. You can't let that happen. Let your Coaches and prospects know ahead of time that you have just 30 minutes for a call. Once they have that expectation, it will eliminate small talk and the conversation will be more structured and focused, and you will be able to fit in more calls throughout the day. Once the 30 minutes is up, you end the call. With my schedule, being a full time Coach, my time for calls is between 12 PM and 4 PM. At 12 I will hold a 30 minute call and then promptly afterwards I start my next call. If there is a day where all 4 hours are not filled up with calls, which is actually pretty common, then I put in other tasks into those time slots.
(3) Some of your tasks are going to be permanent, such as holding calls and answering emails and messages every day, but there are others that are not going to be permanent. Schedule time throughout the day (maybe in between calls as I stated above), where you complete important tasks. To do so, you want to start with a separate "to-do-list." On Sunday night of every week, take some time to write down all of the tasks that you need to complete throughout the week (not the ones already in your scheduler). Once you have all of your tasks listed, go through it and rank each task in the level of importance. For example, maybe you need to send your bank statements to your account, and maybe you need to create a video on staying organized as a Beachbody Coach. If you think the video is more important than sending your bank statements to your account, then rank that #1 and rank the task of sending over the statements #2. Then during the day when you are completing your non-permanent tasks, you would complete #1 first and then #2. Make sure you complete each task on your to-do-list every week in the order of importance.
(4) Stay off of Facebook when you're not using it, and always stay away from the News Feed. This is one of the biggest Beachbody Coach productivity tips I can give you. It's easy to get sucked into the News Feed and check out how others' day is going. Before you know it, 30 minutes go by and you get nothing done. Facebook can be a major time sucker if you allow it to be.
(5) Answer emails and messages once per day, that's it. Too many Coaches will answer an email or message and then check back later in the day to see if the recipient responded or not, and then respond back once again. If your time for answering emails and messages is between 7 AM and 8 AM, that is the only time throughout the day that you should be doing it. The only exception to this is if it is very time sensitive. For example, maybe someone is looking to purchase a Hammer & Chisel Challenge Pack. If they message you back wanting to know how to purchase, you don't want to keep them waiting. I answer all emails and messages within 24 hours of receiving them, and my customers know and expect that.
(6) Write down your goals. Something that I did back in 2010 was purchase a large dry erase board and hang it in my living room. At the time, the living room was my office because I was living in a 2 bedroom apartment. I purposely hung it in there so that I could see it every single day. I wrote down all of my major goals I wanted to accomplish during the year, such as become the Top Beachbody Coach 2010 and 10 Star Diamond, and every morning when I was about to get to work, I would look at those goals, and that would keep me focused on what I needed to do that day to continue moving towards them.
I hope you found my tips on how to stay organized as a Beachbody Coach helpful. These are all things that I have done in the past and continue to do, and they have helped me achieve tremendous success. I can sit here and and say that if I didn't do these things, I would not be where I am today. If you really want to become a successful Beachbody Coach, you have to organize and structure your entire day every day.


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Two smart and savvy investment icons fell hard for Fannie and Freddie. What were they thinking?
What causes otherwise smart, even super-intelligent, people to take leave of their senses and do really dumb things?
I wish I knew. I'm blaming the presidential election cycle. It has people worked up into such a partisan frenzy that they are behaving irrationally, and it's spilling over into the investing world. I'll give you two examples of gifted people, whom I respect, burning up their shareholders' money in ways that leave me almost speechless.
Fund manager Don Yacktman, having emerged triumphant from a terrible investing slump several years ago, remarked to me that "the difference between being stubborn and being principled is being right." So count the legendary Bill Miller as being among the stubborn.
Last summer, it was apparent even to me that any financial institution affiliated with home mortgages was in deep trouble -- and none more so than Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored companies that together own or guarantee $4.5 trillion in mortgages. Every week brought more bad news. They were among the many mortgage-owning financial companies infested with cockroaches this year.
The Cockroach Theory holds that one bit of bad news will be followed by many more bits of bad news, just as one cockroach in your kitchen heralds many others you haven't yet seen. So as mortgage foreclosures consumed the capital of these two institutions like an out-of-control bonfire, Miller's group at Legg Mason revealed on August 15 that the fund had bought 26 million more shares of Freddie Mac, which, at the price Freddie traded at then, were worth some $150 million. In all, Legg Mason owned 79 million shares of the company -- 12% of the total -- worth almost half a billion dollars. In less than a month, after the government threw both Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship, all but $70 million of that investment had been fed to the flames.
Now to the guys and gals at the Dodge & Cox funds, who fell in love with Fannie Mae. Their team-driven approach attracts them to companies that are down but (they hope) not out. Dodge & Cox kept buying Fannie for its funds until they owned, at last word, 120 million shares. Presumably all were thrown onto the bonfire, too, as Fannie's share price plunged from $12 a share on August 1 to a buck recently, thanks to the government takeover.
What is D&C's story? An e-mail to shareholders lamely reported that D&C team members had "met over the last several months with the company's management and industry professionals" and presumably concluded that Fannie Mae was sitting pretty. But like Miller's people at Legg Mason, they did the worst due diligence and risk analysis I've seen in ages. The Dodge & Cox team is both smart and cautious. What were they thinking? Not about cockroaches!
The epidemic of mortgage foreclosures and the resulting deterioration of the financial strength of Fannie and Freddie should have made these once-venerable companies suitable only for speculators. Instead, the two stocks ended up stuffing the portfolios of two famously conservative (Dodge & Cox) and savvy (Bill Miller) investment icons, making them look both foolish and feckless.
The one question I would ask now of both is, What have you learned? The answer to that question (presuming it ever comes) could determine whether Legg Mason Opportunity and Dodge & Cox Stock funds remain on the Kiplinger 25 honor roll.


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Top Five NBA Finals to Watch During Quarantine
Posted bybrianpirvu24 March 23, 2020 Posted inUncategorized
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As we go into day 12 of quarantine and no NBA basketball, One may start to become delusional and extremely bored (me), to the point where old NBA postseason games are the only thing keeping me going at this point. During these very uncertain and very BORING times, one must create activities and goals to help stay sane around the house.
In this post, I have decided to go over my personal top 10 NBA finals that you should consider rewatching if you want to flood with extraordinary talent during your social distancing break (this is what I'm calling it now).
Number 5: Detroit Pistons VS Los Angeles Lakers 2004 NBA Finals
This matchup was a final to remember, as the defending champions (LA Lakers) look to capture their fourth straight title in 5 years amid their dynasty championship run in 2000,2001 and 2002. The opponent was no other than the powerhouse Detroit Pistons that had a defensive duo at power forward and center, Rasheed and Ben Wallace. At the guard, the Pistons had Richard Hamilton, Chauncey Billups and Tayshaun Prince on the wing.
With this superstar team that dominated the East for half a decade, they still needed to get past the legendary Kobe Bryant and Hall of Famers, Shaquille O'Neal, Gary Payton and Karl Malone! If you've never heard of Karl Malone, not to worry, I will be diving into him quite a bit, as I do think he is the most underrated NBA player of all time.
The 2004 NBA finals was a story of an utter breakdown between Kobe and Shaq, and a statement made by the Detroit Pistons. The Pistons were considered the underdogs and came out the undisputed Champions with a 4-1 win over the Lakers.
The key to the victory was the defence played by Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace. Ben Wallace, only 6'10, was still able to leap over Shaq to get the put-back layup/dunk. This strategy was a key to winning games, as the Lakers ran their offence through Shaq at the time. After all, Ben Wallace put up 22 rebounds and 18 points. All five starters on the Pistons put up 10+ points. It was a series that would define the Pistons in the next six years.
Number 4: Los Angeles Lakers vs the Boston Celtics – 2010 NBA Finals
The famous showdown that has been present for decades came to an end ten years ago. As the Legendary Kobe Bryant took on the 2008 NBA Finals MVP Paul Pierce and his superstar team. This NBA final went down to the wire, in a nail-biting game seven that edged the Los Angeles Lakers to their 16th NBA Championship. The MVP, Kobe Bryant, averaged 28.6 points a game throughout the series and edged the Celtics by four points in a final score of 83-79.
The finals were a long-awaited rematch for the two teams, as they both faced off in 2008 prior, and the Celtics took home the victory winning 4-2. This series was a matchup that would be on its third round hadn't the Orlando Magic upset the Celtics in 2009. This seven-game blockbuster will keep you on the edge of the seat and sometimes make you forget that the Lakers would win the series. The Boston Celtics were still in their BIG 3 prime at this point, with Ray Allen and Kevin Garnet leading the charge with former NBA finals MVP Paul Pierce.
Number 3: Chicago Bulls vs the Utah Jazz – 1997 NBA Finals
The Series of the Legends if you ask me. Karl Malone and John Stockton against the GOAT himself, Scotty Pippen, and Denis Rodman. If you didn't get the reference earlier, the GOAT refers ti Michael Jordan (for now).
You may have heard of the All-Star Chicago Bulls that sealed six NBA championships throughout the 90s. However, the Utah Jazz for another offensive force in general. With one of the best passers in NBA history, John Stockton and the dynamic talent that consisted of Karl Malone. John Stockton leads the league in all-time assists, and Karl Malone is second behind Kareem Abul Jabar in points. Their careers were very impressive and very long, then to a bitter end losing 4-2 to the Bulls.
The video quality may not be as good, but worth watching if you like close games. Game 5 ended 90-88 for the Chicago Bulls, 90-86 for the Bulls game six, which sealed the deal. This series was a defining series for Jordan and legitimized him as the most clutch player of all time. It's just a shame that the dynamic duo on the Utah Jazz could not walk away with at least one championship.
Number 2: Cleveland Cavaliers VS Golden State Warriors – 2016 NBA Finals.
If you don't like this final, you are most likely a Steph Curry fan. This was by far the most underdog comeback in the history of the Sport. No team has ever been down 3-1 in the NBA Finals and has come back to win it. The greatest upset with the Greatest player, LeBron James.
Now ill make myself clear. Jordan is the greatest offensive player and most clutch, but in terms of overall ability and impact on a team, it has to be LeBron.The Golden State Warriors were coming off of an incredible NBA season with 73 wins, and nine loses and were sure to defeat the Cavs in game five.
Then LeBron happened, putting up 29.7 points 11 rebounds and nine assists to push the Cavs through to the chip. With the help of his weapons Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving and Kyrie with the last-minute shot in the fourth quarter. LeBron was named the MVP, but the clutch gene of Kyrie Irving cannot be dismissed either. The nail biting final that I would recommend, the first championship for the city of Cleveland!
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Number 1: Toronto Raptors VS the Golden State Warriors
Did you think I was not going to include this? I can remember this experience like it was yesterday. I was prancing down the streets after a few drinks to celebrate the game six victory that brought this beautiful city our first championship.
This is yet another underdog story. How the dynasty known as the Golden State Warriors continued their reign of Terror, except this time, it wasn't King James that was going to get the wrong end of the stick.
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It would be Kawhi Leonard that would hand them their final blow, in the last game ever to be played in the Oracle Stadium in Oakland, CA. The home of the Warriors for many years.
The Raptors started with an excellent 1-1 tie with Warriors going into Oakland, and the victories in games 3, 4, and 6 put the Raptors ahead. Kawhi Leonard came out with the NBA Finals MVP with 28.5 points, nine rebounds and four assists. The exemplary performances by Kyle Lowry, Pascal Siakiam and Marc Gasol provided the foundation for Kawhi to power on through. If you are from Toronto or Canada, you know the feeling. The victory was not only the first Championship for Toronto but the first for the country, the Raptors victory will always have a place in Canadian hearts.
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We are in the process of tripling the space of our semi-volatile organics lab!
Construction is expected to be done mid-August, with the expansion fully functional (hopefully!) by the end of September. The expansion will nearly triple the square footage of Bruce's lab, and the new equipment will essentially double capacity. The new instrument is a GCFID, which is for running TPH analysis (and could in the future run alcohols, gylcols, and qualitative, not just quantitative, TPH), and will be used to do just extract-ables, with the old GCFID being relegated to just purge-ables. In the old lab, where the instruments currently are, a six-foot fume hood will be installed, and all instruments will be in the expanded area. This new area will have six "instrument stations," with counter space and vents, but only three will be used for right now. This is exciting news because this means there are further opportunities for growth!
This week, TPH and HAA5 sample results may be a bit late, but all result and sample flow will return to normal right after that! This expansion will help WETLAB nearly double our sample capacity, and will give Bruce some much needed space in his lab!
For questions and queries, please call our client services department at (775) 355-0202.


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American Design (Moma Design Series)
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Автор: Antonelli
Название: American Design (Moma Design Series) (Американский дизайн)
Издательство: ACC-distribution titles
Промышленное / прикладное искусство и дизайн
ISBN: 88-7439491-8
ISBN-13(EAN): 978-88-7439491-3
Серия: Moma design series
Иллюстрации: 135 colour & illustrations
Описание: American design, like much of American culture, perennially oscillates between populism and elitism, between the revolutionary beauty and availability of Tupperware and the exclusivity of Tiffany`s. This book traces the development of American design from the `armory practice` of early American machinists to the branded, consumer-oriented design.
Название: Northern Delights: Scandinavian Homes, Interiors and Design
Описание: Northern Delights reveals why hardly any other interior or product design is so timeless, so functional, so aesthetic, and of such high quality as that of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark. The book's stunning selection of Scandinavian design ranges from individual products to skillfully staged living spaces. Although it also presents iconic designs, the book focuses on the work of young talents who are consciously building upon local sustainable design traditions and further developing them in a way that is consistent, intelligent, and reflects an unerring sense of style.
Автор: Francesco Franchi
Название: Designing News: Changing the World of Editorial Design and Information Graphics
Описание: In Designing News, award-winning editorial and infographics designer Francesco Franchi conveys his vision for the future of the news and media industries. He evaluates the fundamental changes that are taking place in our digital age in terms of consumer expectations and the way media is being used. The book then outlines the challenges that result and proposes strategies for traditional publishing houses, broadcasting companies, journalists, and designers to address them. Designing News explores how today's media outlets can become credible, cross-platform news brands. Franchi advocates redefining reporting as telling a continuous narrative across a broad range of traditional and digital media. To this end, he proposes a new, integrated role for editorial designers in advancing the evolution of media for the future. Franchi's findings in Designing News are based on his own work for Il Sole 24 ORE as well as case studies by top media insiders including Bloomberg Businessweek's Richard Turley, Thomson Reuters's Daniele Codega, the New York Times's Steve Duenes, the Times's Matt Curtis, and type designer Christian Schwartz.
Автор: Philippin, Frank
Название: I Used to Be a Design Student
Описание: This book offers a rare chance to read what graphic designers feel about their education and profession. Fifty influential designers give the low-down about their student days and their professional lives. A piece of their college work is shown alongside an example of current work. Each designer also offers a key piece of advice and a warning, making this a must-read for anyone embarking on a career in design. The book looks at the process a designer goes through in finding their 'voice'. Topics addressed include how ideas are researched and developed; design and other cultural influences, then and now; positive and negative aspects of working as a designer; motivations for becoming a designer; and whether it's really possible to teach design. Contributors include Stefan Sagmeister, James Goggin, Karlssonwilker, Studio Dumbar, Cornel Windlin, Daniel Eatock, Spin, Hyperkit and Christian Kusters.
Автор: Plunkett, Drew
Название: Detail in Contemporary Hotel Design
Описание: Hotel interiors need to satisfy the imaginations of their customers and whet the appetite for a return visit or recommendation, and the design that gets the formula right will do as much to prolong the life of the business as the service delivered within the hotel. This book explores in detail 48 of the best recent hotel interior design schemes, featuring projects by leading architects from around the world. The book is divided into three sections embracing newly built and refurbished hotels as well as conversions. Each project includes photographs as well as detailed drawings and plans, where appropriate, as well as informative text describing the design concept and process. A bonus CD contains drawings featured in the book, in both eps and dwg (generic CAD) formats.
Автор: Temkin, Ann
Название: MoMA Masterpieces
Описание: Since its founding in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art in New York has brought the history of modern and contemporary art to vivid life through its extraordinary holdings. This book offers an opportunity to immerse oneself in the multitude of artistic approaches encompassed under the banner of art.
Название: The Big Book of Small House Design, 1,250 Square Feet or Less
Описание: Finally available in paperback for the first time, Black Dog's collection of more than 500 blueprints, elevation drawings, and illustrations of small homes of various styles, from a New England farmhouse, to a sophisticated city townhouse, to a Santa Fe ranch. These small homes, all 1,250 sq. feet or less, represent a variety of living spaces suitable for every climate and environment, as well as numerous styles from the traditional (Modified Colonial Saltbox, Modern Tudor, Victorian Barn) to the avant-garde (Metaphoric Ark, Underground Earth Home, Zen Temple, Live-in Sculpture). Designs include site drawings, floor plans, elevations, section drawings, perspective drawings, and exploded views. It includes a brief introduction for each home that describes its setting, the design philosophy behind it, its intended use, materials used, recommended landscaping, and more. All of the plans included were selected as a result of several contest held among architects, designers, and architecture students in the search for the most elegant, affordable, funcational, environmentally friendly, and innovative design.
Название: Pattern Design: A Period Design Sourcebook
Описание: A collection of over 500 designs covers wallpaper, textiles, furnishings, costume, tiles and ceramics. It includes designs, which range from medieval through renaissance and the 19th century up to the 1970s; from classic French 17th-century wallpaper through William Morris pomegranate designs to 1950s children`s wallpaper.
Автор: John E. Bowlt, Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky and Nin
Название: Encyclopedia of Russian Stage Design: 1880-1930
Описание: Furthermore, through their daring inventions, Russian artists of the first thirty years of the 20th century transformed, profoundly and permanently, our perception of stage design - and hence of the theatre. They belonged to an extraordinarily creative generation of impresarios, dancers, actors, patrons, and critics who inspired or at least made a major contribution to the international renaissance of the art of the stage, and in particular areas, e.g. the teaching and performing of ballet, their influence is still present today. However, in spite of the many published commentaries on the Russian theatre, in spite of the autobiographies and biographies of its leading representatives, and in spite of the scholarly appreciations of its various components (ballet, drama, opera), the subject of stage design in Russia has yet to be explored in all its manifestations. Each work presented here is documented as fully as possible, and includes curatorial data, provenance index, and references to relevant published sources, exhibitions; and variants such as copies and preliminary drawings. The catalogue raisonne addresses the issues of attribution, identification of stage production, and date of execution and adduces evidence in the form of bibliographical, archival, and photographic data, expert opinion, and circumstantial evidence in order to support assumptions and conclusions. 'The Encyclopedia of Russian Stage Design 1880-1930' has been published to accompany 'Masterpieces of Russian Stage Design 1880-1930'.
Название: Libertys Furniture 1875 -1915: The Birth of Modern Interior Design
Описание: Liberty's Furniture 1875 -1915 provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of early Liberty furniture to date. A definitive work of reference, the volume outlines the company's unique contribution to the British Arts and Crafts style.Throughout the history of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Liberty & Co. always enjoyed a prominent position. With imaginative design, high-quality construction, and state-of-the-art marketing, the company was responsible for some of the most beautiful and enduring pieces of furniture from that period. Drawing on archive material and reviews in contemporary journals and magazines, Liberty's Furniture 1875-1915 examines the key features and different styles of Liberty's furniture design, as it evolved through a variety of genres including Oriental, Arts and Crafts and 'modern country cottage'. Illustrations from the Liberty catalogues enable readers to see how both the products and promotional styles of the company developed, whilst the many colour photographs show a wide selection of items - from the Athelstan suite and Culloden sideboard to the Thebes stools and Witlaf chairs. Giving particular attention to the work of Leonard Wyburd, the man responsible for some of the most important elements of the Liberty style, this volume represents an invaluable evidence base for collectors and auction houses alike. Contents: The Long Tradition: A Taste for the Exotic; The House Beautiful; Liberty: The Enchanted Cave; Furniture: 1883 - 1893; The Growth of an Influence; The End of an Era; The Later Years; Collecting Liberty Furniture; Brief Chronology; Liberty & Co. Catalogues at the National Art Library; Mottoes used on Furniture by Liberty & Co.
Автор: Heller, Steven
Название: 100 Classic Graphic Design Journals
Описание: 100 Classic Graphic Design Journals surveys a unique collection of the most influential magazines devoted to graphic design, advertising and typography. These journals together span over 100 years of the history of print design and chart the rise of graphic design from a necessary sideline to the printing industry to an autonomous creative profession. Each magazine is generously illustrated with a large selection of spreads and covers. A descriptive text based, where possible, on interviews with editors, designers and publishers is also included for each magazine alongside comprehensively researched bibliographic material. The magazines featured cover a range of industries and eras, from advertising (Publimondial, La Pubblicita Italiana), posters (Das Plakat, Affiche) and typography (Typografische Monatsblatter, Typographica), to Art Nouveau (Bradley, His Book), Modernist design (Neue Grafik, ULM) and Post-Modern and contemporary graphics (Emigre, Its Nice That). These 100 journals offer an invaluable resource to historians and students of graphic design, and a rich seam of visual research and inspiration for graphic designers.
Название: Pattern design postcard book
Описание: This striking collection of heritage design postcards is a must for all lovers of beautiful design.


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// .NAME vtkStructuredExtent - helper class to aid working with structured
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// .SECTION Description
//  vtkStructuredExtent is an helper class that helps in arithmetic with
//  structured extents. It defines a bunch of static methods (most of which are
//  inlined) to aid in dealing with extents.

#ifndef __vtkStructuredExtent_h
#define __vtkStructuredExtent_h

#include "vtkObject.h"

class VTK_HYBRID_EXPORT vtkStructuredExtent : public vtkObject
{
public:
  static vtkStructuredExtent* New();
  vtkTypeMacro(vtkStructuredExtent, vtkObject);
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  // Description:
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  static void Clamp(int ext[6], int wholeExt[6]);

  // Description:
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  // smaller than the \c wholeExt.
  static bool StrictlySmaller(const int ext[6], const int wholeExt[6]);

  // Description:
  // Returns if \c ext fits within \c wholeExt. Unline StrictlySmaller, this
  // method returns true even if \c ext == \c wholeExt.
  static bool Smaller(const int ext[6], const int wholeExt[6]);

  // Description:
  // Grows the \c ext on each side by the given \c count.
  static void Grow(int ext[6], int count);

  // Description:
  // Makes \c ext relative to \c wholeExt.
  static void Transform(int ext[6], int wholeExt[6]);

  // Description:
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  static void GetDimensions(const int ext[6], int dims[3]);

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protected:
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private:
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  void operator=(const vtkStructuredExtent&); // Not implemented.
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inline void vtkStructuredExtent::Clamp(int ext[6], int wholeExt[6])
{
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  ext[1] = (ext[1] > wholeExt[1])? wholeExt[1] : ext[1];

  ext[2] = (ext[2] < wholeExt[2])? wholeExt[2] : ext[2];
  ext[3] = (ext[3] > wholeExt[3])? wholeExt[3] : ext[3];

  ext[4] = (ext[4] < wholeExt[4])? wholeExt[4] : ext[4];
  ext[5] = (ext[5] > wholeExt[5])? wholeExt[5] : ext[5];
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inline bool vtkStructuredExtent::Smaller(const int ext[6], const int wholeExt[6])
{
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  return true;
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inline bool vtkStructuredExtent::StrictlySmaller(const int ext[6], const int wholeExt[6])
{
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    {
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  if (ext[0] > wholeExt[0] || ext[1] < wholeExt[1] ||
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    ext[4] > wholeExt[4] || ext[5] < wholeExt[5])
    {
    return true;
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  return false;
}

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
inline void vtkStructuredExtent::Grow(int ext[6], int count)
{
  ext[0] -= count;
  ext[2] -= count;
  ext[4] -= count;

  ext[1] += count;
  ext[3] += count;
  ext[5] += count;
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inline void vtkStructuredExtent::Transform(int ext[6], int wholeExt[6])
{
  ext[0] -= wholeExt[0];
  ext[1] -= wholeExt[0];

  ext[2] -= wholeExt[2];
  ext[3] -= wholeExt[2];

  ext[4] -= wholeExt[4];
  ext[5] -= wholeExt[4];
}

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
inline void vtkStructuredExtent::GetDimensions(const int ext[6], int dims[3])
{
  dims[0] = ext[1]-ext[0] + 1;
  dims[1] = ext[3]-ext[2] + 1;
  dims[2] = ext[5]-ext[4] + 1;
}

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Karen's Bakery and Cafe in Folsom, whose cakes are featured above, will host a 15th birthday bash and cake decorating contest in April.
The celebrated Karen's Bakery & Cafe in Folsom is throwing a sweet bash to celebrate its 15th birthday on Saturday, April 11.
"It's going to be a good ol' fashioned birthday party with balloons, streamers, hats, noisemakers—all that kind of decoration and mayhem," says chef-owner Karen Holmes.
Sutter Street Steakhouse's executive chef Brian Knadle and Folsom police chief Cynthia Renaud will be among the judges selecting the winner, who will receive a certificate good for one cake per month from Karen's Bakery for a year. After the winner is announced, party-goers will be able to sample the contestants' cakes.
A collection of tables will be lined up outside the bakery for cake enthusiasts to decorate for fun and dig into their creations throughout the birthday bash. Cakes, buttercream frosting, sprinkles and tools will be provided for both decorating events. Other festivities will include a live bluegrass band, a balloon artist and T-shirt giveaways.
Free. April 11. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Karen's Bakery and Cafe. 705 Gold Lake Dr. Folsom. Call 985-2665 or visit Karen's Bakery's Facebook page for more information.


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Apple users send 200,000 iMessages every second
15 февруари 2016 Luke Dormehl	0 коментара according, apple, author, channel, formula, gruber, interview, mobile, music, news, revolution, service
Since being introduced back in 2011, iMessage has gone on to become a monster hit for Apple as a communication tool. How popular is it? According to Eddy Cue, iOS users cumulatively send up to 200,000 per second: a number which adds up to a whopping 63 quadrillion messages per year. "The scale for this […]
(via Cult of Mac – Tech and culture through an Apple lens)
Apple Launches USB-C Charge Cable Replacement Program for Retina MacBook
12 февруари 2016 Juli Clover	0 коментара according, affected, apple-online, authorized, cables, china, designed, product, service, support, usb
Apple today launched a worldwide replacement program for the USB-C charge cables that were shipped with the 12-inch Retina MacBook through June of 2015, as these cables can fail "due to a design issue."
According to Apple, affected cables may cause the MacBook to not charge or to charge intermittently when it is connected to a power adapter. Cables with the issue can be identified by their labeling, which reads "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China." Redesigned cables have the same text, but also include a serial number.
Apple is providing new, redesigned USB-C charge cables to MacBook owners with faulty cables at no cost. In addition to cables that shipped with the MacBook, the replacement program also includes faulty cables that were sold as standalone accessories.
Customers who supplied a valid mailing address when registering their product or purchasing it through the Apple Online Store will receive their new cables automatically, while other eligible MacBook owners can contact Apple Support, find an Apple Authorized Service Provider, or visit an Apple retail store to get their cables replaced. Affected USB-C charge cables can be replaced under this program until June 8, 2018.
The Retina MacBook first went on sale in April of 2015, so the problematic cables were sold for approximately two months before a redesigned version was released.
Related Roundup: Retina MacBook
Buyer's Guide: MacBook (Don't Buy)
Twitter tweaks timelines by prioritizing 'most important' tweets – but it's opt-in for now
10 февруари 2016 0 коментара according, below, change, company, despite, dorsey, facebook, feature, home, manager, manager-mike, tweets-at-the
In a blog post today, Twitter has announced that it is beginning to roll out changes to its timeline, prioritizing 'important' tweets, but it's not replacing the standard chronological timeline. Read more…
U.S. sponsored report says governments should attack Bitcoin and undermine it
12 януари 2016 0 коментара according, apparently, become-the-norm, bitcoin-magazine, corporation, general, information, nation, national, rand, shutterstock, united
A new report from the influential RAND think tank suggests that governments should attack Bitcoin and blockchain technologies to undermine the public's perception of their utility and security. Read more…
Glitch Caused Apple to Underestimate Apple News Traffic
11 януари 2016 Jordan Ostreff	0 коментара according, apple, apple-news, australia, cnn, current, journal, people, september, street-journal, united
Publishers who have been offering their content on Apple News have been receiving incorrect usage statistics from Apple due to an internal glitch that caused the company to miscalculate the number of people using the service, Eddy Cue told The Wall Street Journal in a statement this evening.
According to Cue, Apple has been underestimating the number of readers using the News app since it launched alongside iOS 9 in September. The problem went under the radar because Apple was busy working on improving other aspects of the service. Apple doesn't know how exactly many people are using the News app, but the company is working to fix the problem.
"We're in the process of fixing that now, but our numbers are lower than reality," [Cue] said. "We don't know what the right number is," but he added that it was better to undercount than overcount traffic.
In October, during Apple's fourth quarter earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Apple News had approximately 40 million users, but he did not specify whether that number represented people who use the Apple News app on a regular basis or if it was a number reflecting the number of people who accessed the app at one point or another. Cue echoed that number in his comments to The Wall Street Journal, but it is not clear if that is an accurate figure given Apple's current inability to calculate exact usage.
Despite not knowing how many people are using Apple News at the current time, Cue says that Apple News usage has "scaled very fast," and that the company is happy with the Apple News product's progress thus far. After launching in the United States in September, Apple News expanded to the U.K. and Australia in October with the launch of iOS 9.1.
As The Wall Street Journal points out, accurate readership numbers are important to publishers because the figures impact advertising. Publishers who share content on Apple News are able to keep 100 percent of proceeds from ads sold on their own, or 70 percent from ads sold through the Apple iAd service. According to Cue, iAd has been popular enough with publishers that Apple will be expanding the platform with a self-service ad-buying feature in the next two months.
Apple has partnered more than a hundred publications for Apple News, including The New York Times, CNN, ESPN, The Atlantic, The Daily Mail, Slate, and more. MacRumors is also on Apple News and can be subscribed to by clicking this link on an iOS device.
Tag: Apple News
Apple CEO Tim Cook Earned $10.3M in Fiscal 2015, Up From $9.2M in 2014
6 януари 2016 Jordan Ostreff	0 коментара according, angela, apple, article, bruce-sewell, earnings, first, iphone, january, mac
Apple CEO Tim Cook's compensation for fiscal 2015 was $10,281,327, according to a newly released SEC filing. That breaks down to a salary of $2 million, non-equity incentive compensation of $8 million, and other compensation of $280k. Cook earned approximately $1 million more than he did in fiscal 2014, when he brought in $9.2 million.
Last year, with stock awards and hiring bonuses, Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts earned $73 million, but in 2015, her compensation was $25.8 million, in line with other Apple executives, all of whom received $20 million in stock awards and $4 million in non-equity incentive compensation in addition to their $1 million salaries.
Senior executives Bruce Sewell, Dan Riccio, Eddy Cue, and Luca Maestri all earned more than $25 million in 2015, numbers that do not include restricted stock units that vested in 2015. Over the course of the year, Tim Cook received 560,000 shares of stock worth over $57 million, Angela Ahrendts received 391,634 shares worth $50 million. Eddy Cue, Dan Riccio, Bruce Sewell, and Luca Maestri also had shares worth between $11 million and $38 million vest.
Under the guidance of Tim Cook, Apple had another record year, generating $233.7 billion in sales, an increase of 28 percent over 2014 and a new high for the company. Earnings per diluted share were at $9.22, up 43 percent from 2014. According to its October forecast, Apple expects to continue its record earnings streak into 2016, with projected revenue between $75.5 and $77.5 billion for the first quarter of 2016.
Apple will announce its earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2015 on Tuesday, January 26. MacRumors will provide live coverage of both the earnings release and the conference call.
Amazon Echo will soon integrate with Nexia automation devices
6 януари 2016 0 коментара according, amazon, amazon-echo, company, device, house, ingersoll, nexia, platform, since, voice
Nexia has announced that they will be integrating with Amazon Echo in Q1, 2016, allowing customers to control automations in their house by simply talking to the device. Read more…
Twitter Considers Boosting Tweet Length Limits as High as 10,000 Characters
6 януари 2016 Jordan Ostreff	0 коментара according, ceo, company, current, private, project, rule, team
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last night hinted at an incoming change to the 140-character limit for which the social network has been known over the past decade. Dorsey mentioned that the limit has "become a beautiful constraint" over the years, but the company is aware of certain workarounds its fans are going through to break away from the rule.
He points towards a possibility in the near future for the site to support full-bodied text tweets that are searchable and can be highlighted by users without a strict 140-character restriction. Back in August, Twitter removed the same limit from its private messaging system, and a month later new rumors about the possibility for the same move for traditional tweets began circling.
"At its core Twitter is public messaging. A simple way to say something, to anyone, that everyone in the world can see instantly. We've spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it.
Instead, what if that text…was actually text? Text that could be searched. Text that could be highlighted. That's more utility and power. What makes Twitter, Twitter is its fast, public, live conversational nature. We will always work to to strengthen that. And by focusing on conversation and messaging, the majority of tweets will always be short and sweet and conversational!"
According to people familiar with Twitter's plans, speaking with Re/code, the project is referred to as "Beyond 140" and has a tentative launch window around the end of Q1 2016. Numbers that have been considered internally by the team range from 5,000 to 10,000 character limits, the latter of which would fall alongside the same restriction placed inside of private messages on the site.
The sources point to expandable actions for the new tweets that would keep timelines as tight and orderly as they appear with the current limit, but include an expandable prompt that would then showcase the tweet's full text when clicked. Recently, Twitter updated its site to allow full images to appear without being cut off, and changed the favoriting star to a heart.
Apple Offering Free Next Day Delivery On December 23
18 декември 2015 Jordan Ostreff	0 коментара according, article, holiday, iphone, january, online, products, states, store, united, watches
For procrastinators and last minute shoppers, Apple is planning to offer free next day delivery on December 23rd, ensuring Apple products and accessories will arrive in time for the upcoming Christmas holiday. According to Apple's website, customers who place an order for an in-stock item by 2:00 p.m. on 12/23 will be eligible for free next day delivery.
In-store pickup orders made two hours before closing on 12/24 will also be available in any Apple retail location. Holiday hours for each retail store are available using Apple's store locator tool.
Apple already offers free next day shipping on the iPhone, but other products like iPads, Apple Watches, Macs, and accessories are delivered using two day shipping. Products ordered ahead of 12/23 will deliver on time using the standard two day shipping that Apple provides.
As a reminder, Apple's annual extended return policy is now in effect on the Apple Online Store and in retail locations in the United States, Canada, and many other countries. Most products and accessories purchased between November 1 and December 25 are eligible for return until January 8, 2016, extending the typical 14-day return policy. In some European countries, return dates are extended until January 20, 2016.
Apple Pay Coming to China Through Partnership With China UnionPay
18 декември 2015 Jordan Ostreff	0 коментара according, article, china unionpay, february, internet, iphone, software, union, year-according
Apple today announced a new partnership with China UnionPay, which will see Apple Pay expanding to China in early 2016. Through the partnership, China UnionPay cardholders will be able to use their bank cards with Apple Pay on the iPhone, Apple Watch, and iPad (within apps).
"Apple Pay has revolutionized the way millions of people pay every day with their iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad," said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. "China is an extremely important market for Apple and with China UnionPay and support from 15 of China's leading banks, users will soon have a convenient, private and secure payment experience."
Apple Pay in the country will work with the China UnionPay Quickpass, an existing contactless payment service. Customers will be able to hold an iPhone or Apple Watch near a UnionPay QuickPass-enabled point-of-sale terminal to make a payment at participating stores.
Reaching a deal to bring Apple Pay to China has been a priority for Apple, given China's increasing importance to the company. A partnership between Apple and China UnionPay was first hinted at in February, when the first iOS 8.3 beta introduced support for the China UnionPay network. Talks reportedly stalled later that month, but in the weeks ahead of today's announcement, rumors pointing towards a deal picked up.
A recent rumor has suggested Apple is aiming to launch Apple Pay in China before February 8, 2016, which marks the start of Chinese New Year. According to Apple's press release, the service will be available following "relevant tests and certification" required by Chinese regulators.
Related Roundup: Apple Pay
Tag: China UnionPay


Hyderabad, the historical city that is almost 400 year old, presents a charm that is unparalleled to any other part of the country. From best of modern world to the breathtaking architectural buildings to the unique natural formations of rocks, this city has more than just one way to keep its tourists and residents in good spirit.
What makes this city all the more interesting is the wide array of weekend getaways that are located quite close, offering a refreshing break from usual.Hyderabad weekend getaways are the perfect options to spend a short weekend or a long holiday amid rejuvenating settings, away from monotony of everyday life. One can go for a short trip or a long vacation to the places around and come feeling refreshed and ready of the everyday struggle.
The weekend getaways from Hyderabad present travellers with all kinds of places to choose, varying from hill stations to beach destination to historical places to religious towns. However, one can't travel to all these places on his/her own without any information or planning. For a wonderful holidaying, one must be aware of aspects related to the journey he/she plans to make. A proper planning and selection of appropriate service suiting one's requirements is necessary. One needs access to the facilities offered along with a genuine source offering the same. To assist you in planning a perfect vacation, weekend getaways hyderabad an important division of Holidays DNA offers best of the services and package deal available in the market.
From honeymoon to adventure holidays to family trip to religious tour to a spiritual travel, there are tourplans for each and every kinds. From travelling to the destination to accommodation facilities to places for shopping and eating to popular tourists spots in that particular destination to commuting within the destination to necessary things one needs to carry with oneself while on tour, etc. Weekend Getaways Hyderabad takes care of almost everything leaving you to just relax and enjoy the trip. We equip our clients with all needed information and presents deals catering to their specific purpose and varying budget limits.
Each place is unique in its own ways and has something interesting and worth cherishing to offer its visitors. These places can be divided into various kinds based on their geographical location and proximity to the Hyderabad city. Some of the interesting places for weekend trips around Hyderabad are Warangal, Nagarjunakonda, Yadagirigutta, Vijayawada, Suryalanka, Konaseema, Araku Valley, Manginapudi, Visakhapatnam, Srisailam, Kailasanathakona, Horsley Hills, Mallela Theertham and many more.


HeLa cells were fixed with 1% paraformaldehyde for ten minutes followed by permeabilization for ten minutes with 0.5% Triton X-100, and then blocked with 5% FBS for 30 minutes. 2.5 µg/ml of purified BRCA-1 (Poly26599) was added to the cells and left at 4°C overnight. The cells were then stained with 2.5 µg/ml of Alexa Fluor® 555 (Yellow) for 2 hours at room temperature. Nuclei were counterstained with DAPI and are shown in blue and phalloidin shown in red. The image was captured with a 40X objective.
This polyclonal donkey anti-rabbit IgG antibody reacts with the heavy chains of rabbit IgG and with the light chains common to most rabbit immunoglobulins. No cross-reactivity has been detected against non-immunoglobulin serum proteins. This antibody has been solid-phase absorbed to ensure minimal cross-reaction with rat, human, bovine, horse, and mouse immunoglobulins, but it may cross-react with other subclasses of rabbit immunoglobulins.
Each lot of this antibody is quality control tested by immunofluorescence staining. For immunofluorescence microscopy, a concentration range of 1.0-5.0 μg/ml is recommended. It is recommended that the reagent be titrated for optimal performance for each application.
This conjugated polyclonal donkey anti-rabbit IgG antibody is useful for immunofluorescent staining for flow cytometry, or microscopy.


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Carey Mulligan unearths archaeological drama in The Dig trailer
Ralph Fiennes also stars in Netflix's adaptation of John Preston's book.
By Joey Nolfi
Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes are a pair of Oscar nominees mining quality drama in the first trailer for Netflix's historical feature The Dig.
Based on John Preston's book of the same name, the film — directed by The Daughter helmer Simon Stone — follows Mulligan as a wealthy widow who, during WWII-era Britain, enlists an amateur archaeologist to explore her property for hidden treasures.
Credit: LARRY HORRICKS/NETFLIX © 2021
Soon after, the ancient burial mounds on her rural estate begin to yield historic finds, causing a media storm and prompting her community to reckon with its past while pondering the country's uncertain future in a time of global conflict.
The Dig was adapted by Harlots and Jane Eyre writer Moira Buffini, with Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes, and Monica Dolan rounding out the supporting cast. Oscar-nominated production designer Maria Djurkovic (The Imitation Game) also worked on the film alongside 127 Hours' Academy Award-nominated editor Jon Harris.
Mulligan can next be seen in the upcoming awards hopeful Promising Young Woman, which opens in December.
Discover The Dig in select theaters on Jan. 15, followed by the film's Jan. 29 Netflix premiere.
Credit: Netflix
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