H7 is a modern, functionally designed, single-strorey, flat-roofed house. Architectural minimalism has been altered thanks to the integrating chamfers of the building edges and interesting arrangement of the facade. The interior of the house is also worth mentioning – open, very ample living area, making it possible to spend time actively with your family or friends. Four bedrooms provide the whole family with space necessary to regenerate and rest.


Control desk are sheet metal enclosure specifically made for mounting of control & indication element such as meters, controllers, annunciators, mimics, lamps push button actuators,switches, etc.
Folded and welded sheet steel in 1.5mm thickness & finished with RAL 7032/7035.
The doors of the front and back as well as the operation boards can be opened, which are very convenient for installation. When door is not necessary at rear, screwed cover in 1.5mm thickness is provided.
Options – Back door, Plinth, Cut outs, Paint on request.


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Fancy Boys Go To The Movies: Birds Of Prey
February 13, 2020 February 13, 2020 by Matt Drufke
At a cursory glance, Birds Of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) has a lot going for it, besides the exhausting title. It is the second DCEU to feature a female lead and the second film in DC Comic's rocky film history to have a female director (Cathy Yan). Margot Robbie reprises her role as Harley Quinn, and she was one of the few positives of the very not-good Suicide Squad. Most importantly, this film takes place in Gotham City and features absolutely zero nipples on a Batman costume.
Unfortunately, this film is just another in a long line of DCEU slogs that goes nowhere and does so slowly and painfully. It's not an awful film (like Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice), but it is bad. And to be in the bottom tier of DC's film franchise is saying something, as only one of their films can be considered good, and that's Wonder Woman (which sees it's own sequel coming out this summer).
Let's take a quick look at what's going on here: After being dumped by the Joker, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) no longer has the protection of her psychopathic boyfriend and that means that the people she's done wrong are coming for her, chief among them the maniacal Black Mask (Ewan McGregor, who is pretty effective here). In order to stay alive, Black Mask demands that Harley find Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Bosco), a young pickpocket who has a valuable diamond.
Also looking for Cain are police officer Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), vigilante The Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Dinah Lance, aka The Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell). As in any superhero film, action and hi-jinks ensue as all of the ladies realize that the only way they will survive is to team up.
Yan does as much as she can to make the film fast-paced and entertaining. An action sequence inside of a police station where Quinn attacks with shotgun pellets filled with glitter and colored powder is the highlight of the film. It's a mess of color and smoke and Robbie's smile and bright eyes that look to thrive on the mess and chaos.
But besides that sequence and few sparing moments like this, the film seems to be bogged down by it's own lack of plot and ambition. For a movie titled Birds Of Prey, the film doesn't give any of the titular birds (Perez, Winstead, and Smollett-Bell) any real screen time at all. We don't know anything about these women and are given a bare minimum as the film progresses. There is literally no reason to care about any of these characters, and when they decide they need to come together, all I can think of is, "Why bother? Who cares?"
Honestly, besides Robbie, no one is given anything really to do here. Somehow, only Ewan McGregor is able to give his character any sort of definition. As Black Mask, he brings both an energy and menace that makes us understand why people fear him. Had it been McGregor instead of Jared Leto in Suicide Squad, one could only wonder if the film would have had a little more heft.
With no time given to the other characters, that puts all of the weight on Robbie's shoulders, and she's definitely trying her best. Unfortunately, this paper-thin script (written by Christina Hodson) doesn't really service her at all, either. Yeah, Quinn in in every scene, but as much noise as Robbie can make, it's not really serving any purpose. Her jokes don't really hit and she doesn't have any of the chaotic charm that she had in Suicide Squad. She spends the first part of the film as a whiny drunk more than a criminial deviant.
Birds Of Prey is a lost film that never finds it's footing, even in it's rating. I had assumed the fact that it earned an R from the MPAA meant that the film would be filled with violence and language and make an attempt to be a Deadpool-ian romp of crass jokes and violence. But the film isn't really that crass or that violent. Honestly, it's about three "fucks" and maybe one shot away from being PG-13, which I actually think would have helped the film bring in younger viewers (at the time of this review, the film has grossly underperformed at the box office and may not make it's budget back).
At the end of the day, Birds Of Prey doesn't feature a fantabulous emancipation and doesn't focus on the birds. For a character that is supposed to be as wild and outlandish as Quinn, the film is the worst thing it could possibly be: it's just boring.
Birds Of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)– 6.5/10
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I loved this movie!

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Q: Samsung Tizen Timer settings I was built a samsung smart TV app, and there is a timer on the device, what sets up the turn on and the turn off periods to the device.
Can I update that periods via web application?

A: Yes you can. There is an API to do just that:
www.samsungdforum.com/B2B/Guide/APIReference/SSSP4/tizen2821/index.html#setOnTimer
It's hard to find that documentation. If you scroll up at the page I linked you will see a summary of methods, there is a whole section for timer-settings.
Example from the link:
var onSuccess = function(val) {
  console.log("[setOnTimer] success : " + val);
};
var onError = function(error) {
  console.log("[setOnTimer] code :" + error.code + " error name: " +                   error.name + "  message " +  error.message);
};
console.log("[setOnTimer] ");
b2bapis.b2bcontrol.setOnTimer("TIMER6","21:30", onSuccess, onError);

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My parents migrated to Saudi Arabia from India for a better life. As a result I …
My parents migrated to Saudi Arabia from India for a better life. As a result I was born there, and grew up through the Gulf War. When I was 9, we moved to Canada, and I remember feeling angry because I didn't understand why we had to leave our extended family and our schools and our friends and basically everything that we knew. It was very lonely there at first, and very confusing to me as to how this was supposed to be a better life for us.
I had a lot of beautiful memories of growing up in the Middle East. As a child, I held on to these memories but now, as a parent myself, I look back and realise the huge efforts my parents must have made to to disguise the reality of living in a war. They always seemed so chilled out, but when I grew up, I found out that they were terrified. I remember when the sirens went off, we had to quickly get on our elephant masks, which is what we called them, and hide under the table. My parents weren't allowed to take time off work, so there were a lot of days where we would just hide there and play games by ourselves. Now I can imagine how challenging it was for them, not knowing if they were going to return home, or not knowing if their children were going to be there when they did return.
My last memory is of a big water tank explosion and it's the only memory I have that is actually quite serious because I thought that our family was going to die. I was really scared – our whole building shook, there was dust everywhere, the air conditioning units were coming out of the casings, and when my Dad opened up the door of the apartment, we could only faintly see people through the dust and they were just running around and screaming.
Shortly after that, we left.
As an adult, I ended up working with young people who live with different challenges, and that truly felt like something that I was meant to do. I first became an educational teaching aide and then got my degree in Child and Youth Care, working in many schools.
I thought my story would end there but at the age of 25, perhaps because my family have always been such travellers, I felt the urge to move somewhere different, and came to Sydney on a working holiday visa. Originally, I planned to come for only a year, but then I met the man who was to become my husband. He's Serbian, so that's another culture in the mix!
At first, I didn't really know what I was going to do here. But interestingly, the fact that nobody knew me really pushed me to find out who I was, and I eventually realised I had a chance to live a life of influence. I now manage education programs across NSW for young people as part of the Reach Foundation, and I feel massively privileged to work with some really amazing and inspiring young people.
My husband and I have a little two and a half year old daughter now. As an educator and as a parent, it's so important to see her growing up in a world where she can confidently be herself. It's also important to me that she understands her roots. I identify myself as a bit of a third culture chameleon, having lived in a lot of different countries and each of these places had such a big impact on me and who I am today.
Hopefully within the next few months, I'll be an Australian citizen. None of it was planned, but I guess that's life!
Photographer: Kurt Tilse www.instagram.com/kjtilse
This month, we are bringing you a series of stories commissioned by TransferWise for their upcoming Faces of Australia campaign, celebrating the contributions of migrants to Australia. Find out more about this exciting project here: https://transferwise.com/community/facesofaustralia
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Sophora japonica - leguminous tree that grows mainly in China and Japan. A mature tree has a large crown spherical shape and the height is 25 meters. Sophora japonica blooms in July and August fragrant yellowish-white flowers and juicy fruits beans collected in pods that as aging is painted in a reddish color.
For therapeutic purposes, use the flowers and fruits of the tree. Sophora japonica flowers contain up to 30% of vitamin P, and unripe fruits, collected in autumn, in addition to the routine contains flavonoid glycosides.
The therapeutic use is the Sophora japonica beneficial effect on the circulatory system of the body, because in combination with ascorbic acid, rutin strengthens the walls of blood vessels. This allows the use of fruits and flowers of a tree in the treatment of sclerotic vascular injury, colitis, typhoid, hemorrhoids, hypertension, angina, all kinds of malignant tumors, gastritis, lupus and internal bleeding. In addition, the result of Sophora japonica treatment reduces blood sugar and cholesterol, which makes it suitable for patients with diabetes.
For the preparation of an aqueous infusion of 20 g of crushed flowers Sophora japonica boiled water. Take the resulting infusion is possible after 2 hours, a tablespoon 3 times a day, preferably after a meal. To prepare the alcoholate to treat hypertension same number of flowers wood poured 100 ml of 70% alcohol and infused for 10 days in a dark place. Take 20-40 drops of tincture and after meals three times a day.
In addition, the Sophora japonica Review has regenerating and healing properties, allowing its use as an outdoor water compresses in the treatment of eczema, psoriasis and trophic ulcers. Tincture for external application may be prepared from the fruit of a tree, to which 10 g of crushed material is boiled in a glass of water on a water bath for 15 minutes. An hour infusion can be used for dressing, irrigation, lotions or compresses.
Also, from the fruit of a tree producing drug infusion. According to the instructions Sophora japonica in a tincture used externally as an antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory agent that improves regeneration in the treatment of wounds, burns, boils, venous ulcers, pressure ulcers and other inflammatory skin diseases. However, according to the instructions Sophora japonica virtually no side effects, allergic reactions, except in cases of individual intolerance plants.
In addition, treatment of Sophora japonica Review is effective in hair loss and baldness. For the preparation of liqueur 2 teaspoons of crushed seeds pour a glass of boiling water and insist 15-30 minutes. The resulting tincture can be taken orally as a 1 teaspoon 5-6 times a day, and applied externally to clean hair, rubbing into the scalp for 15-20 minutes.
For the application of Sophora japonica as a tonic enough 1 tablespoon crushed fruit of the tree in a thermos insist 8-12 hours in a glass of boiling water. The resulting infusion take 1 tablespoon before eating. In addition to the tonic effect of the tincture of the fruits of Sophora japonica reviews for effectively taking the deposition of salts, and by tides during menopause.
Sophora japonica is contraindicated inside with hypersensitivity to the plant, as well as kidney and liver during pregnancy and lactation. However, topically, for the treatment of purulent inflammatory skin processes, kidney and liver contraindication for Sophora japonica are not.


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New Challenges for Student Mobility 2006
"New Challenges for Student Mobility 2006 - In Search of a New International Education Paradigm"
From March 12 (Sun) - March 13 (Mon), 2006, APU hosted the international conference for "New Challenges for Student Mobility 2006 - In Search of a New International Education Paradigm."Sixty participants including specialists and professors connected to the international exchange field and teachers and students interested in education took part in the international conference, as well as 25 people associated with APU.
The conference focused on what should be done to promote student mobility, develop effective international exchange programs, and incorporate these programs into a four year university experience. A panel discussion and specialist-led keynote address, seeking to identify the new challenges for student mobility in the search for a new international education paradigm, were carried out on the first day of the conference.
The second-day commenced with a series of workshops, among the dialogue partners, who worked towards the design and creation of exemplars, which can hopefully be executed in the near future. Afterwards, representatives from the APU circle PRENGO and Ai no Nami (an APU circle which aims to assist nations affected by the Indian Ocean disaster) gave a report on their latest activities. After the reports, some of the delegates who empathized with the circle's goals kindly made donations to the student groups. Talks were then held on educational possibilities in the future between the participating universities, institutions and APU. How to continue to assist APU with its student mobility was also discussed.
MS. Marlene Johnson, Executive Director and CEO of NAFSA, commented that she had been inspired by the range of intellectual energy and expertise shown throughout the conference, noticing that the potential and the vision for enhancing undergraduate education as being very exciting. "I hope that we all embrace this as something which should be expected of all undergraduate students; a standard rather than the exception." President Cassim asked the conference participants, the committed group of practitioners, to share with APU their goals and visions they aspire to.


Charla: An architecture for embedding DSLs that makes use of reflective features of the GPL.
Charlista: Tom Dinkelaker, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
Traditionally, preprocessors are used to introduce domain-specific abstractions into general-purpose languages (GPLs). However, implementing preprocessors is labor intensive. Embedded domain-specific languages (embedded DSLs). These heavily reduce the initial costs of implementing DSLs. Roughly speaking, embedded DSLs are DSLs that are implemented as libraries in a GPL. Following this approach allows reusing the general-purpose features of the host language. The reuse of features implemented in the GPL significantly reduces the development costs of language features of the embedded DSL.
Embedded DSLs are said to be easier to implement, to extend, and to compose than preprocessor-based DSLs.But, embedded DSLs often lack support for domain analysis or transformation, and domain syntax for DSL programs. In this talk, I will present an architecture for embedding DSLs that makes use of reflective features of the GPL. The architecture uses reflective features to provide support for domain analysis and transformation, and support for domain syntax.
Tom Dinkelaker is a Research Assistant from the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany. For his PhD work, Tom developed a new approach for embedding languages as libraries into existing host languages. To provide support for customizing languages, he is exploring the potentials of meta-object protocols to open up the language semantics. Tom has embedded a set of languages those syntax and semantics can be extended by a developer in order to customize them for special domains.


Some 70% of credit allocated by the European Investment Bank (EIB) under "The main credit for the agricultural sector – Ukraine" project will be given to small and medium-sized enterprises, according to the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry.
"The credit from the European Investment Bank should become a real tool to support business development especially for small and medium producers. Under the project, EUR 400 million will be added from the Ukrainian banks participating in the project to the initial sum of EUR 400 million from the European Bank. We also hold active talks with the Finance Ministry, as well as Ukreximbank so that to accelerate this project implementation," Agrarian Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Taras Kutovyi said this during a meeting with representative of the European Investment Bank Vazil Hudák.
The minister stressed that at least 70% of credit is planned to be given to small and medium-sized agrarian enterprises, while other 30% will be given to operators of the state sector: research stations, laboratories and institutions on fisheries monitoring and control.


Lake Indawgyi, Myanmar is a natural habitat of this species.
Subadult individual. The reddish colouration in the dorsal-fin is lost as the fish mature.
Adult male from the U.K. aquarium trade.
Subadult female from the U.K. aquarium trade.
...while other areas are used to graze buffalo.
Pethia: the generic vernacular name for small cyprinids in the Sinhala language.
erythromycter: from the Greek erythro, meaning 'red', and mykter, meaning 'nose', in reference to the red snout in male specimens.
To date known only from the upper Ayeyarwady River basin in northern Myanmar with type locality 'Hap Lap Chaung just south of Yuzana Myaing village, 8 kilometers left from Myitkyina-Myitzon road kilometer 11, Ayeyarwaddy River drainage, Kachin State, Myanmar'.
It's been collected from small streams and tributaries close to the city of Myitkyina in Kachin State as well as in nearby Lake Indawgyi, the largest inland lake in Southeast Asia.
The lake and surrounding area were designated a protected zone by the Ministry of Ecotourism in 1999 and now form the Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary.
Kachin itself is one of the world's great biodiversity hotspots and contains many endemic species although large portions of the area have already been decimated due to illegal logging by both Myanmar and neighbouring China.
We haven't yet been able to obtain clear information regarding the stream habitats in which the fish are found, but underwater images from Lake Indawgyi depict relatively clear water with dense growths of aquatic vegetation and various kinds of algae including Vallisneria, Elodea and Spirogyra species.
Substrate is apparently a soft, rich clay mixed with decomposing vegetation.
At the north east end is a stream named Indaw Chaung which forms the outflow of the lake.
Here the lake gives way to marshland and scrub swamp on either side of the stream which eventually empties into the River Mogaung, a tributary of the Ayeyarwady.
Despite it's diminutive adult size this species' behaviour (see 'Behaviour and Compatibility') dictates that aquarium base dimensions of at least 90 ∗ 30 cm or equivalent are required.
Best-maintained in a densely-planted environment in order to provide plenty of broken lines of sight as fighting between rival males may prove too intense in open surroundings.
The addition of some floating plants and driftwood roots or branches to diffuse the light entering the tank also seems to be appreciated and adds a more natural feel.
Temperature: In Kachin the air temperature varies between 80°F/26.6°C in summer and 60°F/15.5°C in winter. Under aquarium conditions this fish seems to be happiest between 18 – 24 °C.
pH: It's been kept and bred successfully at a pH of around 7.0 – 7.5.
Like many barbs it's a generalised omnivore likely to feed on a variety of small invertebrates, algae, diatoms and other organic debris in nature.
Can be kept in a community set-up provided tankmates are chosen with care since it may outcompete or nip the fins of slow-moving or long-finned companions.
However it does very well when kept alongside other small, robust species such as active cyprinids or nemacheilid loaches.
As always research your planned combination before purchase in order to avoid problems.
Males are aggressive towards one another and tend to spar constantly during daylight hours, particularly when maintained in small numbers or if space is restricted.
The most favourable solution is to purchase more females than males with a ratio of at least four to each male recommended. Keeping a large group comprising upwards of 20 individuals should also help.
Males are more colourful than females, possessing red pigmentation around the mouth, with a thin strip of scarlet extending to the dorsal-fin in dominant individuals.
When in spawning condition the entire body of the male darkens to an inky-blue, and sexually mature females tend to be plumper and slightly larger than males.
Like most small cyprinids Pethia spp. are egg-scattering free spawners exhibiting no parental care.
An alternative is to observe the group until a pair separates from the shoal to spawn before removing them.
These should hatch in 36 – 48 hours with the fry free swimming 24-48 hours later.
After 10 days or so they should be at a stage where crushed dry foods or grindal worms are accepted.
This species first appeared in the aquarium hobby in 2006 and is sometimes traded under the name 'Tulip barb'.
It was officially described by Kullander (2008) in a paper describing five new Puntius species from Kachin, all of which are superficially similar in possession of a dark band or blotch on the caudal peduncle.
P. erythromycter can be distinguished from all congeners by: a small adult size (to 33.1mm SL), presence of a dark band around the caudal peduncle, an abbreviated, curved lateral line, males with a reddish snout with tubercules in nuptial individuals, and absence of barbels.
The presence of tubercules on the snout is interesting as it's not often a feature among the very smallest cyprinids.
In Lake Indawgyi it occurs syntopically with the similar-looking Pethia nankyweensis but can be told apart by the curved course of the lateral line scales (vs. straight in P. nankyweensis), absence of barbels (vs. presence of small maxillary barbels), dorsal-fin patterning comprising two rows of dark spots (vs. hyaline), plus some meristic counts.
It was formerly included in the Puntius conchonius 'group' of closely-related species alongside P. ater, P. bandula, P. conchonius, P. cumingii, P. didi, P. gelius, P. khugae, P. macrogramma, P. manipurensis, P. meingangbii, P. nankyweensis, P. nigripinnis, P. nigrofasciatus, P. padamya, P. phutunio, P. punctatus, P. reval, P. shalynius, P. stoliczkanus, P. thelys, P. tiantian, and P. ticto, but all of these were moved to the new genus Pethia by Pethiyagoda et al. (2012), as were P. melanomaculata, P. pookodensis, P. muvattupuzhaensis, P. ornatus, and P. yuensis.
Pethia species are defined by the following combination of characters: rostral barbels absent; maxillary barbels minute or absent; possession of a stiff, serrated last unbranched dorsal-fin ray; presence of a black blotch on the caudal peduncle, and frequently, black blotches, spots or bars on the side of the body; infraorbital 3 deep and partially overlapping the preoperculum.
Five new species of Puntius from Myanmar (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).
Two new species of Puntius from northern Myanmar (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).
Puntius padamya, a new species of cyprinid fish from Myanmar (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).
A new species of barb Puntius nigripinnis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from southern Western Ghats, India.


Now rotate and crop the image as you like.
That's it! We have our planet!
2. With the second "inside out" version we will not need to flip our picture upside down. All other steps are the same.
It is great to have a panorama to work with, but it is not necessary. You can turn pretty much anything into a round creation. For the image of a "portal" I had a picture of a boy sitting on the beach.
It is not a panoramic shot but I thought it could look interesting. To make a seamless connection and a wider image, I just mirrored the picture. When you do this your edges will match perfectly and you do not need to worry about it. Sort of a lazy version: ) I created a new file twice wider than the original. Then I copied the original image (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C) and passed it twice (Ctrl+V) to the new file. Now we have two identical layers.
Then I moved Layer 1 to the left and Layer 2 to the right side of canvas.
We need to resize the image now, and make it square. Go to Image>Image size, uncheck "Constrain Proportions" and make the width of your picture the same your height is.
Look at that – We've got our portal!
Last thing we do – some finishing touches. I played a little bit with levels, hue/saturation and color balance to get the color I wanted and something that looks like a sun in the center of the image.
We hope you will all join us in saying a very special thankyou to Natalia for sharing both her knowledge, time and imagery with everyone – keep up the great work Natalia!


Jorge Recharte, Ph.D., is the Director of TMI's Andes Program and also serves as the Director for Global Strategy. He is based in Huaraz and Lima, Peru, and holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University. Dr. Recharte has taken full advantage of the dramatically visible consequences of climate change on tropical glaciers to draw attention to the Andes' important role in the welfare of mountain communities and the region as a whole. He and his team have organized and implemented many transformational climate change adaptation projects for mountain ecosystems.
Fostering cooperation between scientists, mountain communities and local governments, Dr. Recharte has helped develop solutions for large watersheds as well as for specialized challenges, including reducing the risk of glacial lake flooding.
Recharte joined The Mountain Institute in 1997 after spending three years in Ecuador working for the Latin American Social Science Faculty (FLACSO) designing and heading the graduate education and research program in Mountain Societies and Sustainable Development. Between 1980-1981 and 1990-1993 he was an associate researcher at the International Potato Center where he developed participatory research methodologies in agriculture.
Dr. Recharte currently serves on the Board of The Common Good Institute and is a member of the Andes Chapter of the International Mountain Society (IMS).
Click here for a video clip about the Andes Program, featuring Dr. Recharte.
Video interview with Dr. Recharte about the initiative that won the 2018 St Andrews Prize for the Environment.


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Q: Query Optimization Tips I been looking for some general Tips and Tricks for Query Opitimization in SQL Server 2008.
I came accross the below which am quite unsure what are the consequences of using views / triggies

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*Try to replace views with original source table

*Triggers should not be used if possible, incorporate the logic of trigger in stored
procedure

Can someone shed light on these explaining pros and cons and also point me to list of general Tips and Tricks for Query optimization.

A: A view is a virtual table formed from a query such as 'SELECT a, b FROM tableC'  This creates a 'virtual table' of a & b.  A source table is the table its self, and it is far more efficient to be able to 'SELECT * FROM tableC' so that a virtual table is not created.
Triggers are events that are triggered when a specified event happens, such as a specific query.  Stored procedures are compiled transactions and can function exactly like a trigger except they are far more efficient.  In short, do not use triggers.
I would seriously consider this http://www.amazon.com/SQL-Tuning-Dan-Tow/dp/0596005733/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345679033&sr=8-1&keywords=sql+optimization


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Michael McDermott
Friday, December 2, 2022 • 8:00pm
Michael McDermott's brand of rock n' roll brims with the kind of well-honed style and wisdom that can only come from a career on the road and a pedigree in the studio. Effortlessly blending natural folk sensibility, pop hooks, and honest rock, McDermott's music is as much for the outcast as the congregation. It's an exploration of the dark corners of life's journey and it resonates middle class truths through the passionate filter of a kid that grew up on Chicago's Irish South Side.
If you are a fan of Springsteen, Van Morrison, John Steinbeck, Patti Smith … McDermott's inspirational rock is in your wheelhouse, waiting late night with a guitar, spare smokes and stories of the American heart.
"McDermott's music helped me to find a part of myself that wasn't lost, as I had feared, but only misplaced. That's why we love the ones who are really good at it, I think: because they give us back ourselves, all dusted and shined up, and they do it with a smile…Michael McDermott is one of the best songwriters in the world and possibly the greatest undiscovered rock & roll talent of the last 20 years."
- Stephen King
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FOLK-ROCK SINGER-SONGWRITER MICHAEL McDERMOTT TAKES US TO ST. PAUL'S BOULEVARD ON HIS POWERFUL NEW STUDIO ALBUM - CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (April 5, 2022)
Music makes a deep connection when it strikes that delicate nerve separating the personal from the universal. If the listener can use the songs as mirrors, then the musician has succeeded in communicating their art. Chicago-based singer-songwriter Michael McDermott has spent decades riding that artistic balance, and he does it again with fresh potency on St. Paul's Boulevard, which arrives May 20 on Pauper Sky Records.
St. Paul's Boulevard is a concept album, of sorts. It gathers its creative momentum by introducing characters lost and found, rich and poor, young and old, and many struggling to survive on a fictional street that could exist anywhere. Recorded from August 2021 to February 2022 at Transient Sound and Pauper Sky Studios in Chicago, St. Paul's Boulevard is the sonic vision of McDermott and co-producer Steven Gillis. Gillis is also on drums, playing with fellow musicians Matt Thompson on acoustic and electric bass; Grant Tye on guitars; Heather Lynne Horton on violin and vocals; and Vijay Tellis-Nayak on piano and organ. Additional musicians on St. Paul's Boulevard include Will Kimbrough on guitars, banjo, and mandolin; John Deaderick on piano, organ, and keyboards; Danny Mitchell on piano and keyboards; and David Grissom on guitars.
McDermott, who also played guitars and piano on his batch of personal songs, is at his most passionate on choice cuts: "Our Little Secret" is a driving folk-rocker that plays like the soundtrack for restless days and lustfilled nights. "Sick of This Town," with its chugging folk-country bottom beat, is a cathartic ode to busting out of the neighborhood that cages us in. "Marlowe" pays tribute to Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe character in an anthemic heartland rocker. And "New Year's Day" is one of those brooding tunes that seeps under the skin and rattles the senses.
"Everyone has their own St. Paul's Boulevard, the place where we left pieces of our hearts, our innocence, where we suffered heartbreak, came to learn about shame, where we struggled to find our place in this world," says McDermott. "It's a place where we struggled to nurture love and light in a darkened world. It's where some of us were permanently arrested in our development and our social and emotional intelligence."
McDermott knows a thing or two about heartbreak and arrested development. Back in the early '90s, McDermott was the new toast of the major label recording industry with his debut album, 620 W. Surf. But in typical chew-them-up and spit-them-out style, McDermott had seemingly been tossed in the never-been bin by the end of that decade. He persevered, though, and built a career fortified by more than a dozen studio albums and critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, The New York Times, CNN, and The Washington Post, to name a few. Even Stephen King, the master of the best-selling horror novel genre, called McDermott "possibly the greatest undiscovered rock and roll talent of the last 20 years."
But this heartland rocker continues to make music on his own terms. He is the ultimate survivor of the potentially soul-crushing world of money-hungry executives and starving singer-songwriters yearning for stardom. That's exactly why St. Paul's Boulevard is as personal as it is universal. McDermott lived those songs, that place, and those shattered hopes.
"Those days are now just a wash of dreams of characters, of drunken and drug-fueled nights wandering all over town looking for an angry fix driven by love, lust, longing, or connection," he says. "I lost a lot of people on St. Paul's Boulevard. Many never made it out, but I'm lucky to have. It's a place that brings out our best and our worst in equal measure. It's the landscape where the doggedness of the spirit rises above the grim realities that surround us."
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Zombotron Coming to PC Next Week
By Mike Sousa on April 16, 2019, 2:02PM EDT
Armor Games Studios announced that Zombotron, the side-scrolling shooter from developer Ant Karlov, will be releasing on PC on the 22nd of April.
Zombotron is a heart-pounding, run-n-gun shooter with a legacy dating back to the golden era of web games. You follow Blaze, a mercenary desperate for a job. In search of an easy payday, he follows a distress beacon to the surface of a dangerous planet and the remains of an ancient crash site. There he finds a mystery that will test his strength, his resolve, and every gun at his disposal. Zombotron features an arsenal of weapons and armor, vicious explosions, and enemies that hate each other as much as they hate you.
Physics Shenanigans: Crush foes with elevators, send them flying with explosives, run them down in vehicles, and much more.
Build your Arsenal: Lock and load with a variety of weapons as a soldier of fortune.
Unveil the Mystery: Discover the secrets of the planet Zombotron in an engaging, camp-tastic storyline.
Dress for Success: Customize Blaze's armor to be the space-faring badass you've always wanted to be.
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Monthly car registrations in Finland 2017-2018
The registration numbers of new passenger cars showed monthly fluctuations in 2017 and 2018. The most popular month for registering new cars was January in both years, whereas the slowest month of the whole period was December 2017. Overall, the registration amount in 2018 was slightly higher than in 2017; however, fluctuations in the figures could be seen in recent years.
Registrations of new diesel-fueled passenger cars dropping in Finland
The annual figures of registrations of new diesel-fueled passenger cars showed a decreasing trend of late, whereas an opposite trend could be seen for fuel types such as petrol, electricity, natural gas, and petrol/electric hybrid. The increase of electric passenger cars could also be seen in the registration numbers of cars from the American electric automotive manufacturer Tesla Motors, which was also the most popular electric passenger car brand on the road in Finland.
Toyota in the lead in new passenger car registrations in 2018
Other popular passenger cars in the country in the year 2018 included brands such as Toyota, Volkswagen, and Škoda. Toyota, a Japanese automotive manufacturer, sold roughly 15 thousand cars in that year, proving itself as the leading passenger car brand in the country.
Number of new passenger cars registered in Finland per month from January 2017 to August 2018
Number of car registrations
Aug '18 12,004
Jul '18 9,583
Jun '18 11,660
May '18 12,487
Apr '18 11,047
Mar '18 11,723
Feb '18 9,109
Jan '18 13,584
Dec '17 8,069
Nov '17 9,670
Oct '17 8,752
Sep '17 9,118
Aug '17 9,672
Apr '17 9,399
January 2017 to August 2018
Leading passenger car brand registrations in Finland 2018
Leading passenger car model registrations in Finland 2018
Passenger car registrations in Finland 2013-2018, by fuel type
Volvo car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Statistics on "Automotive industry in Finland"
Turnover of motor vehicle & trailer manufacturers in Finland 2008-2017
Turnover of motor vehicles in Finland 2008-2017
Forecast: motor vehicle manufacturing revenue Finland 2008-2018
Forecast: motor vehicle bodies manufacturing revenue Finland 2008-2018
Production value of motor vehicle & trailer manufacturers in Finland 2008-2017
Enterprises in the manufacture of motor vehicles & trailers in Finland 2008-2017
Enterprises in the manufacture of motor vehicles in Finland 2008-2017
Finland: enterprises manufacturing motorcycles 2008-2014
Finland: turnover of the wholesale and retail trade industry 2008-2015
Forecast: car and light motor vehicle sales revenue Finland 2008-2018
Industry revenue of »wholesale trade of motor vehicle parts« in Finland 2011-2023
Industry revenue of »retail trade of motor vehicle parts« in Finland 2011-2023
Finland: production value of wholesale and retail trade industry 2008-2015
Finland: number of wholesale and retail trade enterprises 2008-2015
Number of employees in the wholesale and retail trade sector in Finland 2008-2015
Finland: personnel costs of wholesale and retail trade industry 2008-2015
New passenger car registrations in Finland 2008 to 2018
Finland - brands of owned or leased cars 2018
Municipal passenger car registrations in Finland 2013-2014
Finland: number of registered buses and coaches from 1990 to 2017
Volkswagen car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Toyota car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Skoda car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Ford car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Nissan car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Audi car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Kia car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Opel car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Honda car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Peugeot car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Citroen car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Hyundai car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Seat car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Renault car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Mazda car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Most sold used cars in Finland 2018, by brand
Most sold used cars in Finland 2018, by model
Most expensive used cars sold in Finland 2017, by brand
Most expensive used car models sold in Finland 2017
Shortest used car sales times in Finland 2017, by brand
Shortest used car sales times in Finland 2017, by model
Distribution of cars bought new or used in Finland 2018
Distribution of car types owned or leased in Finland 2016-2018
Distribution of motorcycle ownership in Finland in 2018
Most trusted car brands in Finland 2018
Passenger car registrations in Spain 2005-2018
Tesla Motors car sales in Finland 2013-2018
Monthly number of newly registered gasoline passenger cars in Sweden 2018-2019
Passenger car sales - Canada 2005-2018
Jeep car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Car registrations in Europe in November 2016, by segment
Passenger car sales volume in Italy 2010-2018
Chevrolet car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Fiat car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Suzuki car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Subaru car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Alfa Romeo car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Monthly number of newly registered plug-in hybrid passenger cars in Sweden 2018-2019
Passenger cars sold in the GGC 2010-2015
Smart car sales in Finland 2010-2018
Italy: number of registered semi-trailers in Liguria 2013-2018
Online-based car features in the UK 2019
Number of Chereau semi-trailers registrations in Italy 2013-2018
Number of car registered Balearic Islands 2011-2018
Automotive industry in Switzerland The UK Automotive Industry
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Q: Linearization around the equilibrium point for a system of differential equations Suppose we have a system of differential equations
$$ \frac{dN}{dt}  = \mu N \left(1-\frac{N}{K}\right) + N \int_{0}^{\infty}p(a,t)da $$
$$ \frac{\partial p}{\partial t} + \frac{\partial p}{\partial a} = k p(a,t). $$
Linearizing it around $(N=K,p=0)$, I am getting the system
$$ \frac{dN}{dt}  = h - \mu N  + N \int_{0}^{\infty}p(a,t)da $$
$$ \frac{\partial p}{\partial t} + \frac{\partial p}{\partial a} = k p(a,t),$$
where $h = \mu K.$
The reason I am getting this system is because I am considering $N \int_{0}^{\infty}p(a,t)da$ as linear term. Is this linearisation right or the correct system is
$$ \frac{dN}{dt}  = h - \mu N $$
$$ \frac{\partial p}{\partial t} + \frac{\partial p}{\partial a} = k p(a,t),$$
where $h = \mu K.$

A: I agree with the linearisation of the second equation. For the first, you are close but not quite correct. To find the linearisation around $N=K$, $p=0$, substitute $N=K+\varepsilon \tilde N$ and $p = \varepsilon \tilde p$ into your equations and throw out everything that isn't order $\varepsilon$. I got: \begin{align*}
\varepsilon \frac{d \tilde N}{dt}=\frac{d  N}{dt}&=\mu N \bigg ( 1- \frac N K \bigg ) + N \int_0^\infty p(a,t) \, da \\
&=-\mu (K+\varepsilon \tilde N) \varepsilon \bigg (  \frac {\tilde N} K \bigg ) + \varepsilon (K+\varepsilon \tilde N) \int_0^\infty \tilde p(a,t) \, da \\
&= \bigg ( -\mu \tilde N +K \int_0^\infty \tilde p (a,t) \, da\bigg) \varepsilon +o(\varepsilon).
\end{align*} Thus, the linearised equation is (dropping the tildes): $$ \frac{d N}{dt} = -\mu N +K \int_0^\infty p (a,t) \, da .$$

Edit: Answer to question in the comments. Let $N^\ast$, $p^\ast$ be steady state solutions to your system. Replacing $p$ with $p^\ast + \varepsilon p$ the equation for $p$ becomes: \begin{align*}
kp^\ast+\varepsilon kp=k (p^\ast+\varepsilon p) &= \frac{\partial p^\ast } {\partial t}+ \varepsilon \frac{\partial p } {\partial t} + \frac{\partial p^\ast}{\partial a}+ \varepsilon \frac{\partial p}{\partial a} \\
&=  \frac{\partial p^\ast}{\partial a}+ \varepsilon \bigg ( \frac{\partial p } {\partial t} + \frac{\partial p}{\partial a} \bigg )
\end{align*} which implies the linearised equation is $$kp= \frac{\partial p } {\partial t} + \frac{\partial p}{\partial a}$$ (not surprising since the original equation was linear). For the equation for $N$ replace $N$ and $p$ with $N^\ast +\varepsilon N$ and $p^\ast + \varepsilon p$ respectively: \begin{align*}
\varepsilon \frac{dN}{dt} &= \frac{d (N^\ast+\varepsilon N)}{dt} \\
&= \mu (N^\ast+\varepsilon N)\bigg ( 1 - \frac {N^\ast+\varepsilon N} K \bigg ) +(N^\ast+\varepsilon N) \int_0^\infty (p^\ast(a)+\varepsilon p(a,t)) \, da\\
&=\mu N^\ast\bigg ( 1 - \frac {N^\ast} K \bigg ) +N^\ast \int_0^\infty p^\ast\, da \\
&\qquad + \varepsilon \bigg [ N^\ast \int_0^\infty p\,da +N \int_0^\infty p^\ast \, da + \mu N \bigg (1-\frac{2N^\ast}K \bigg )\bigg ] \\
&\qquad + \varepsilon^2 \bigg [N \int_0^\infty p \, da -\frac{\mu N^2}{K}\bigg ] \\
&=\varepsilon \bigg [ N^\ast \int_0^\infty p\,da +N \int_0^\infty p^\ast \, da + \mu N \bigg (1-\frac{2N^\ast}K \bigg )\bigg ] \\
&\qquad + \varepsilon^2 \bigg [N \int_0^\infty p \, da -\frac{\mu N^2}{K}\bigg ]
\end{align*} using that $(N^\ast,p^\ast)$ is the steady state solution. Thus, the linearised equation is: $$\frac{dN}{dt} =  N^\ast \int_0^\infty p\,da +N \int_0^\infty p^\ast \, da + \mu N \bigg (1-\frac{2N^\ast}K \bigg ).$$


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 Harry Hibbs (1906-1984), gardien de but de l'Équipe d'Angleterre de football lors des années 1930 ;
 Jesse Hibbs (1906-1985), réalisateur américain.


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A McDonald's worker at the BP Chinderah roadhouse sued after she slipped and fell on wet tiles. John Gass /TWE150512bp
$100,000 payout to Macca's worker for slippery floor
by ccalcino
A FLOOR scrubber, slippery tiles and a lack of "wet floor" signs have resulted in a payout exceeding $100,000 to a Chinderah McDonald's worker.
Cleaning company Kellys Property Management Services went to Sydney Appeals Court to fight a decision ordering it to pay $117,918 to Anjoshco, a company that operated a McDonald's franchise at the BP Chinderah roadhouse.
McDonald's employee Susan Muller had successfully sued Anjoshco after she slipped on a wet floor and injured herself at work in 2011.
Anjoshco then claimed indemnity from the cleaning company which had failed to erect proper warning signs, and the payout and Anjoshco's legal costs were passed on to Kellys.
Justice Fabian Gleeson rejected the cleaning company's claim a reasonable person would have realised the floor was wet, despite no warning signage being in the immediate vicinity of where Ms Muller fell.
"In the present case, the cleaner failed to place any 'wet floor' signs marking the perimeter or indeed any part of the area where the walkway was wet and slippery due to his having recently pushed the cleaning machine across it in his passage to the storeroom," Justice Gleeson said.
Kellys was forced to pay the $117,918 in damages as well as the restaurant operator's costs.
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Q: Java regex to filter phone numbers I have following example string that needs to be filtered
0173556677 (Alice), 017545454 (Bob)

This is how phone numbers are added to a text view. I want the text to look like that
0173556677;017545454

Is there a way to change the text using regular expression. How would such an expression look like? Or do you recommend an other method?

A: You can do as follows:
String orig = "0173556677 (Alice), 017545454 (Bob)";
String regex = " \\(.+?\\)";
String res = orig.replaceAll(regex, "").replaceAll(",", ";");
//                           ^remove all content in parenthesis
//                                                 ^ replace comma with semicolon

A: Use the expression in android.util.Patterns
Access the static variable
Patterns.PHONE
or use this expression here (Android Source Code)

A: Here's a resource that can guide you :
http://www.zparacha.com/validate-email-ssn-phone-number-using-java-regular-expression/

A: This solution works with phone numbers separated with any string that does not contain numbers:
String orig = "0173556677 (Alice), 017545454 (Bob)";
String[] numbers = orig.split("\\D+"); //split at everything that is not a digit
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
if (numbers.length > 0) {
    sb.append(numbers[0]);
    for (int i = 1; i < numbers.length; i++) { //concatenate all that is left
        sb.append(";");
        sb.append(numbers[i]);
    }
}
String res = sb.toString();

or, with com.google.common.base.Joiner:
String[] numbers = orig.split("\\D+"); //split at everything that is not a digit
String res = Joiner.on(";").join(numbers);

PS. There is a minor deviation from the requirements in the best voted example, but it seems I cannot just add one character (should be replaceAll(", ", ";"), with a space after the coma, or a \\s) and I do not want to mess somebody's code.


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The Life and Times of a Very British Man Reviews
The Life and Times of a Very British Man
Kamal Ahmed
Category: Biography & Memoirs, Non-fiction, History
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain. Kamal Ahmed's childhood was very `British' in every way - except for the fact that he was brown.
"He comes alive here"
Kamal Ahmed's memoir captures a country in transition. Even allowing for the lofty vantage point he looks back from as economics editor of the BBC, his story has a touch of the everyman about it... Yet in other respects Ahmed's story isn't all that typical. Like Barack Obama — whose ascent was the original inspiration for this book — he is a double outsider... Ahmed recounts all this with elegance and wry humour. The difference between his stolid TV persona and the slightly wayward character in these pages reminds you of the dictum that writing for TV is like writing with a six-tonne pencil. He comes alive here... The book loses momentum in lengthy digressions where Ahmed becomes a political and psychological theorist... Other chapters, examining structural racism, immigration or the origins of prejudice, tend to go over all too familiar ground... Still, when he pays homage to his parents, you can't fail to be moved.
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The writing is full of charm... There is much modesty here, yet publishing a memoir is necessarily an act of arrogance, and a man whose elbows are sharp enough – as well as his talent obvious enough – to be promoted to the editorial director of news surely knows he has risen above the ranks of the ordinary... There are intriguing omissions in the book... It's his prerogative, but for a work reflecting on race and identity it is perhaps pertinent... It could be that as a journalist and broadcaster he is discomfited by the inaccuracy of memory or absence of facts... Ahmed is a senior figure at the corporation. His ambition is to rise even higher. The exodus of high-profile black executives from the BBC in recent years demonstrates how tricky that path is. While this careful book will no doubt deepen the conversation on race and identity in Britain, it sometimes reads like an audition.
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"scrupulously honest and often very funny"
I have learned a great deal over the past year by reading the brilliant likes of Afua Hirsch and Reni Eddo-Lodge on the subject of race, immigration and identity. But there is much I personally recognise in this scrupulously honest and often very funny memoir, by the BBC's economics editor, of growing up mixed-race in 1970s Britain, in the wake of Enoch Powell's incendiary 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech. Half-English, half-Sudanese, Ahmed's childhood was as British as mine in every way - Raleigh bike, Adidas Gazelle trainers and cords, bucket and spade seaside holidays - apart from the fact that he was brown and had a funny name (which he changed to Neil because it was better than being called "camel"). Now he combines candid reflection on the lifelong legacy of regularly being called a "jungle bunny" as a child-and told to go home, even thought he was born just down the road-with political analysis, setting out his passionate belief in the vitality of our multi-ethnic future as a nation.


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Today is WORLD APS DAY!
As you know, my husband had APS. He's been diagnosed since 2004. It's been a rocky road and pretty scary at times, but we can't look back and can only live in the now and hope for the future.
2004 was the year that changed our lives forever. 2005 is the year when we started using that change for good.
In 2005, myself, my husband and our new friend (and fellow APS patient), Tina turned a support forum and informational website into a brand new non-profit dedicated to bringing awareness to APS and education and support to APS patients.
My first priority was to make sure our website and online support forum was informative and honest. I didn't want another APS patient to be as lost as we were when my husband was diagnosed. I was lucky to find that first forum on Delphi and Tina to point me in the right direction.
I thank God everyday for bringing her into our lives. I wish more people would try to get to know her, because you'd see the wonderful person she is. She'd literally give you the shirt off her back.
I really hope that the APSFA has helped people learn more about APS – the real APS, not the "take coumadin and you're cured" APS. To me, that's the most important thing because APS is not a bed of roses. It IS life threatening. Many people die from it, and sometimes they don't even know they have it before it's too late.
I have met some of the most amazingly strong people during the past 5 years. I don't know how people live with being so sick each and everyday. I guess you just get up and do what you can. I don't know if I could do it. Especially those who don't have great care and who are basically dismissed by their doctors or even by their friends and families.
Unfortunately, we've also lost some people as well – nature of the disease, I guess. It's hard though because I have so many friends who have this disease and it hit close to home when someone passes. Way too close to home.
I wish patients got better care. I wish they got taken seriously.
Thank you to everyone who has supported the APSFA over the past 5 years. Everything we have done we do for each and every one of you. You are all in my thoughts and prayers on a daily basis. Keep fighting and keep spreading the awareness! Together, we can get the word out!
Great post and Thanks Heidi!!


Uncommonly attractive for its dreamy color, Earth's rare pink sand beaches exist mainly because of a microscopic organism which lives underneath coral. The surf over time grinds white coral with spent red shells of foraminifera into powdery, pink sands. The Bahamas are set apart with some of a these colorful beaches, located on a handful of islands in the nation's vast archipelago. Travel to the Out Island beaches of Harbor Island, Eleuthera, Cat Island and Long Island, where after a dive or snorkeling under turquoise waters, you can take a break on the pink sand and enjoy the warm breezes and swaying palm trees.
Harbor Island, a quintessential tropical island experience, imparts a relaxed ambiance blended with sophistication on its magical Pink Sands Beach. If you're embarking from Nassau, it's 30 minutes in the air to North Eleuthera Airstrip, and a short water taxi ride to Harbor Island, which blushes pink with unforgettable sights, sunbathing, snorkeling and sunsets. The largest resort on iconic Harbor Island beach is Pink Sands Resort (pinksandsresort.com), featuring two dozen pastel-colored cottages on 20 acres. Another top resort, Coral Sands Hotel overlooks turquoise waters and pink sands from a bluff, with beach service and amenities you'd expect from a luxurious Caribbean hotel.
The narrow, crescent-shaped island known as Eleuthera, lies between a calmer Caribbean sea, known as the Exuma Sound, and the Atlantic Sea. Soft pink and white sand beaches present miles of beautiful views interrupted only by cliffs that provide dramatic views, or once served as a lighthouse point to guide the Old World's tall ship. The most visited pink sand beaches are French Leave Beach, location of the former Club Med, and Lighthouse Beach on the southern end of the island in Bannerman Town. Eleuthera's unpretentious luxury boutique hotel, Pineapple Fields (pineapplefields.com), is a condo concept, offering an island home charm with pink sands near French Leave Beach and agriculture fields that produce large crops of sweet pineapples.
Slender 48-mile long Cat Island is a true, away-from-the-crowd destination devoid of luxury hotels or large crowds. East of Nassau, with pink and white sand beaches, the island is more rustic and lodging less urbane than you'd expect on Eleuthera's Harbor Island list -- but if your looking for privacy, Cat Island's enticements have true meaning. Visit the almost deserted eight-mile pink sand beach at Port Howe, see the island's historic place where Columbus first discovered the New World over 500 years ago. Go diving, snorkeling, spear fishing, or hike to ruins, caves and blue holes that link to the sea. The Tail Winds Resort (tailwindsresort.com) is an intimate beach hideaway with a small number of one bedroom view villas just steps away from the sand.
With its dramatic cliffs, turquoise waters, coral reefs and serene beaches, Long Island is a destination for bonefishing, scuba diving and snorkeling. For sun worshippers, soft, pink sand and white sand beaches lap peaceful blue-green waters on the island's western side. The world's deepest blue hole, Dean's Blue Hole is a sight worth seeing, surrounded on three sides by rock cliffs and a turquoise lagoon at its face. Winter Haven Inn (winterhavenbahamas.com) in Clarence Town on the island's south end. The hotel and its amenities are on the beach, with views of the ocean and reef to the east and western views toward town and its marina harbor.


The new album by NIC – please stay – from March 19, 2010 in the trade all good things come in threes\"- NIC – these are three letters which have burned themselves in many party, pop and pop fans in the head and heart. Where it appears, especially female fans into hysteria, couples in magic, and men in recognition of expire. The 27 year old singer furore years three ago with \"A star (which bears your name)\" for the first time. Placed NICs version successfully under the first ten of the media control single charts and recorded a total of 20 weeks in the TOP 100 episode title such as \"Still\" and \"Sweet Caroline\" also notable placements brought him and led to a steadily growing fan base. Already, NIC is among the greats in the music business and is both encoder and trendsetter of new pop generation. The person: NIC is a man of many talents. Born deep in the West, i.e. in Duisburg, his parents quickly realized what they as held in the hands – a small boy with a then seemingly irrepressible Vocal power.
With their unanimous verdict: \"The determined times is singer\", both of which were right. Already as a young boy, the music for NIC was more than just a hobby. Again and again he moved with family and birthday parties on small, improvised stage, which he used to mimic his personal pop heroes to the delight of the guests. Every day NIC worked after school to his vocal and musical expression, with the aim to get more applause at the next gig. In the teenage years, NIC came another passion – the boxes. In addition to the voice, he trained his body now. Here too, the ambition gave him wings and his discipline helped NIC for top performance. As amateur boxer, he was several years very successfully in the ring and taught the fear his opponents.
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5 Times Steve Babaeko Showed Us Why He's the African King of Advertising
Steve Babaeko is no doubt a man of many achievements. He is an advertising and music executive, public advocate, founder of X3M Ideas and X3M music, a record label.
But this post isn't about his musical conquest (which let's be honest, is applaud-worthy too) rather, it's to celebrate one of Adweeks's creative 100, advertising King himself Steve Babaeko, first of his name.
Why should he be crowned the Nigerian King of advertising, you ask? Easy.
5. The start of an empire: X3M ideas
It takes one step to start a journey of greatness. For the then 41-year-old Steve Babaeko, the step was quitting his job in August 2012 to start a small advertising agency in Ikeja. Today, that small agency has grown to be the empire which is X3M Ideas, in just seven years. X3M Ideas boasts of an impressive clientele including Glo, Dangote, Peak, Multichoice, and Diamond Bank among many others.
4. Judge and Jury: The New York Advertising Festival
It takes a certain level of excellence to be nominated for The New York Advertising Festival (one of the oldest advertising festivals there is), it takes another level to win. But it takes a whole new level of excellence to be invited as a part of the jury for this prestigious festival. In 2016, 2018, and now 2019, Steve Babaeko has served as a 3-time member of the grand jury, the first Nigerian to achieve such feat. Go ahead, duff your hat.
3. Winner to Chairman: Lagos Advertising & Ideas Festival (LAIF)
Ever since it debuted at the Lagos Advertising & Ideas Festival (LAIF), there has hardly been a year (actually, never!) that X3M the Lagos-based digital advertising agency has failed to win an award or two. Now, X3M Ideas doesn't just participate in this award festival, Steve Babaeko is the Chairman!
2. Cristal awards: And the Winner Is…
It is every agency's desire to snag an award at the annual African Cristal Awards, an innovative award that recognizes African agencies for a year-long of excellence. But year after year, current Chairman of the Lagos Advertising & Ideas Festival (LAIF) Steve Babaeko and his advertising agency stand bold and strong contenders for the award almost always leaving each event with at least one award. Last Year, X3M Ideas bagged an outstanding twelve (12) awards, which is beyond amazing if you ask me.
1. Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN).
What's a shepherd without sheep? What's a King without an heir? For Steven Babaeko being Vice President of the 'Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN) with less than 10 years of experience isn't enough, and because of this, the Associate member of Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), is setting up an academy to train future generations to pick up the crown when he finally takes it off.
And honestly, we can't help but stan our advertising King.
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Michelle Malkin: Secretary of State John Kerry Is a Jihad Coddler
by Michelle Malkin | @michellemalkin January 19, 2014 | 5:15 pm Updated January 5, 2023 | 2:20 am
The myth of the poor, oppressed jihadist never dies. Secretary of State John Kerry is the latest Obama administration official to peddle this odious narrative. Cue John Lennon's cloying "Imagine," don your plaid pajamas and curl up with a warm cup of deadly naivete.
While meeting with Catholic Church officials at the Vatican in Rome last Monday, Kerry expounded on their "huge common interest in dealing with this issue of poverty, which in many cases is the root cause of terrorism or even the root cause of the disenfranchisement of millions of people on this planet." In other words: If only every al-Qaeda and Taliban recruit had a fraction of Kerry's $200 million fortune, they'd all be frolicking peacefully with infidels on jet skis sporting "Coexist" bumper stickers.
This wasn't a one-off. Kerry delivered a similar Kumbaya-style discourse at the Global Counterterrorism Forum last fall: "Getting this right isn't just about taking terrorists off the street. It's about providing more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment."
Naturally, the Foggy Bottom apple doesn't fall far from the Pennsylvania Avenue terror-excusing tree. President Barack Obama subscribes to the very same "midnight basketball" theory of counterterrorism. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Obama asserted that jihad "grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."
The chronic cluelessness of the root-cause apologists of jihad never ceases to amaze. Britain's MI5 reported in 2011 that two-thirds of the United Kingdom's jihad suspects were from middle-class backgrounds, "showing there is no simplistic relationship between poverty and involvement in Islamist extremism." Thorough reviews of the empirical evidence shows, as the RAND Corp. reported, that "(t)errorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds."
Here's a refresher cheat sheet:
» 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta went to Hamburg University to study urban planning.
» Convicted al-Qaeda scientist Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani who studied microbiology at MIT and did graduate work in neurology at Brandeis.
» Osama bin Laden did a summer school stint at Oxford.
» Christmas Day underwear bomb operative Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab was an elite Nigerian engineering student who studied at one of Britain's leading universities and "lived a gilded life."
» Jihadist Samantha Lewthwaite, the notorious "White Widow" British Muslim convert linked to last year's Westgate mall massacre in Nairobi, was the daughter of a soldier and a former University of London student.
» British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a London School of Economics student, was convicted of abducting and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl.
» Seven upper-middle-class jihadi doctors were implicated in the 2007 London/Glasgow bombings.
» Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri didn't need more education or wealth to steer him away from Islamic imperialism. He had a medical degree. So did former Hamas biggie Abdel al-Rantissi.
» Al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed attended Chowan College in Murfreesboro, N.C., and then transferred to North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, where he earned his degree in mechanical engineering along with 30 other Muslims. Mohammed applied his Western learning to oversee the 1993 World Trade Center bombing plot (six Americans dead), the USS Cole attack (17 U.S. soldiers dead) and the 9/11 attacks (3,000 dead). He also has been linked to the 1998 African embassy bombings (212 dead, including 12 Americans), the plot to kill the pope, the murder of Pearl and the Bali nightclub bomb blast that killed nearly 200 tourists, including two more Americans.
Bin Laden, of course, was dedicated to spending every last penny of his inherited Saudi fortune — estimated at $50 million to $300 million — to wage war on the West. Al-Shabaab jihadists have amassed their own terror campaign chest through the illegal ivory trade.
Privileged jihad funders from Qatar and other Gulf states heap their petro-dollars on al-Qaeda. The Taliban raised $400 million in one year, according to a 2012 United Nations report, not just from opium, but largely from "donations, taxing local economies and extorting money from such targets as drug dealers, cell phone operators and aid projects." Indeed, since 2006, "the Taliban have managed to finance an ever-increasing number of attacks, reflecting a year-on-year increase in income," the U.N. report said.
Memo to stupidly rich elitist Kerry, richly stupid progressive Obama and his administration's bleeding-heart bureaucrats in a bubble: Financial bankruptcy is not, and has never been, the "root cause" of Quran-inspired hatred and violence against nonbelievers. Lack of intellectual stimulation is not, and has never been, the "root cause" of radical Islam's centuries-old and never-ceasing imperative to establish a worldwide caliphate and conquer the West. The root cause of civilizational jihad is unmitigated evil and arrogance, not lack of compassion, understanding or social justice.
Islamic terrorism never had such dutiful tools as the American fools who rationalize it.
— Michelle Malkin is author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies. Contact her at malkinblog@gmail.com, follow her on Twitter: @michellemalkin, or click here to read previous columns. The opinions expressed are her own.
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