text:
Gaming on PC
Videogame news, previews and recommendations
Livelock Review
David Dominguez / September 4, 2016
General game information
Game name: Livelock
Available on: Steam, Humble Store
Genre: Top-down shooter with RPG elements
Developer: Tuque Games
Publisher: Perfect World Entertainment
Launch trailer:
Livelock is a top-down cooperative/singleplayer shooter with RPG elements. Players can tackle the game's campaign as one of three different characters, a long range fighter, a support character who can also play a medium range combatant's role, and a melee tank. Along the way, gamers will collect extra weapons, and their characters will level up and get new active skills to help them fight against tougher enemy types.
The Catalyst acts as a support class, but it still packs a punch.
The Hex is a long range DPS.
The Vanguard is a melee tank.
The story mode clocks at a respectable 6 hours, and there are three difficulty levels, which should keep players entertained for a few hours more at least. The character archetypes are different enough to change the game's pace quite significantly, adding to the replay value. Solo players will be happy to read that all three characters are viable for a singleplayer run of the campaign (though turning up the difficulty increases the challenge quite a bit) so the game can potentially be played three times, one for each chassis type. After the main story mode is over, there's also a survival horde mode which can be played solo or in co-op, offering a never ending supply of enemies that will satisfy even the most hardened robot killers.
Livelock has a strong story focus, which is strange considering the game's genre. Sadly, it's a mostly by the numbers affair, with cliched characters and twists that can be seen from miles away. Basically, a cataclysmic event forced humanity to lie in a long sleep, leaving three cyborgs and countless machines in charge of the planet until they can reawaken the dormant humans. Players take command of one of the three cyborgs, fighting against an army of machines that has taken over the earth while their former masters slept.
The voice acting is top notch however, and each of the three different playable characters has its own personality, blurting out one liners and commenting on the state of the world during mission briefings. Gamers worried about having to sit through the game's cutscenes and long lines of dialogue can rest easy knowing that every story sequence can be skipped at the touch of a button.
Graphically, Livelock is a very pleasing game, with plenty of eye candy wherever we look and an astounding amount of destructible objects littering each level. Audio design is also a high point, weapons sound powerful and the music tracks fit the action well.
Robots blow up in an extremely pleasing way.
Livelock controls like a classic twin stick shooter, with the left stick or W, A, S and D keys being used for movement, and the right stick or the mouse for aiming and shooting. Both control styles work as intended, and the game disables joystick vibration on the fly if it detects that players are using mouse and keyboard.
Most levels work the same way, with the player moving forward through the map and destroying everything between them and their objective. The game does spice things a bit however, spawning bosses, "upgraded" enemies (similar to Diablo 3's Unique Enemies) and different objectives from time to time. Luckily, the base gameplay is strong enough to keep players from being bored, and the scenery changes drastically from act to act. "Upgraded" enemies usually drop cosmetic loot that can be used to enhance our characters' visual design.
The game shines when playing online with friends, as each character complements the others, and gamers looking forward to an enjoyable cooperative experience will not leave disappointed.
Ultimately, Livelock is a fun top-down shooter with fine tuned mechanics and gorgeous graphics. The story isn't as strong as one could hope, but that doesn't detract from the fact that the game will offer many hours of enjoyment for shooter fans.
7.5/10 (Good)
September 4, 2016 in Reviews. Tags: action, co-op, Livelock, PC, perfect world entertainment, Review, rpg, shooter, Steam, top down, tuque games
← DOOM – An id Software game
For Honor Closed Alpha coming in September 15 →
PC Indie Master Race (Spanish) GameZinger
Outriders' PC Spotlight Trailer Delivers the Goods
Monstrum 2 Getting Early Access Launch on January 28
Neptunia Virtual Stars Hits Steam on March 29
Lucasfilm Games Partners With Ubisoft for a New Star Wars Title
Can Gaming Boost Your Career Prospects?
Gaming on PC on Twitter
View gamingonpcdotcom's profile on Facebook
View GamingOnPCcom's profile on Twitter
DLCompare – The gamer's price-comparison tool


text:
I Cheshire Cats sono stati una squadra di football americano di Wallasey, in Gran Bretagna. Fondati nel 1987, hanno vinto un titolo NWWCAFL. Nel 1990 si sono fusi con i Birkenhead Nighthawks.

Dettaglio stagioni

Tornei

Tornei nazionali

BGFL Premiership

Fonti: Enciclopedia del Football - A cura di Roberto Mezzetti

Tornei locali

NWWCAFL

Fonti: Enciclopedia del Football - A cura di Roberto Mezzetti

Riepilogo fasi finali disputate

Palmarès
 1 Titolo NWWCAFL (1987)

Squadre britanniche di football americano
Wallasey

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
thanks to "wake up america" and "before its news"
Truckers Ride On DC - Video Update Oct. 12 - Freedom Over Fear #T2SDA (Vid)
By Bob Gorrell - October 11, 2013
And taking handlesnoff of drinking fountains on bike and walking paths "MAKE IT HURT"
Obama's Confession of Indifference
Jonah Goldberg | Oct 11, 2013
Last week I wrote a column accusing the president of having a vindictive streak -- of deliberately trying to make the lives of average Americans worse just so he could score ideological and political points.
We already knew from how he handled the budget sequester that Obama liked this approach. He ordered Cabinet secretaries not to do their jobs -- i.e., to manage as best they could under spending restraints -- but instead to find ways to make the cuts needlessly painful for innocents caught in the Beltway crossfire.
They dusted off the same playbook for the shutdown. As one park ranger told the Washington Times, "We've been told to make life as difficult for people as we can."View Full Article
Obama Spends $100,000 to Shut Down Free Memorials
Today, he held a news conference where he shamelessly blamed Republicans for all of the nation's problems, including the recent government shutdown. But Obama can't see the own irony in his criticisms.
As we head into the second week of the federal government's shutdown, Obama has saved several programs and facilities from closing their doors because they offer him political support. But facilities that remain open 24 hours a day, unguarded and without gates, are being boarded up and paid for by taxpayers.
Last week, in response to the shutdown, WWII veterans from all over the country traveled to the WWII Memorial in downtown Washington, D.C. to protest the government's exploits. Many veterans blamed Obama's weak leadership as a factor in the shutdown.
Instead of Obama listening to the Greatest Generation's criticisms, he simply shut down the memorial. Obama spent an estimated $100,000 on barricades for the WWII Memorial—an unguarded landmark that's open to the public 24/7.
Park rangers told reporters, "We've been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It's disgusting."
Obama's behavior is disgusting in itself.
LISTEN: Why truckers will rally for the Constitution
Herman Cain , Rare All-Star
The Herman Cain Show | Posted on October 11, 2013
Organizers of the Trucker's Ride for the Constitution will have a big rally in D.C. on Friday. In this clip, Herman Cain explains why this is a good thing, particularly because these truckers represent an important segment of our economy.
- See more at: http://rare.us/story/listen-why-truckers-will-rally-for-the-constitution/#sthash.UV66PRvn.dpuf
HURT THE PEOPLE ? WE'RE NOT THE ONES WHO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT
Today, he held a news conference where he shamelely blamed Republicans for all of the nation's problems, including the recent government shutdown. But Obama can't see the own irony in his criticisms.
NewsBusted: IRS, Democrat Politicians and NBC
Jodi Miller delivers the latest headlines with a fresh comedic twist.
Wait a minute.....DID THEY SAY "CBS" ??
Video: CBS News Slams "Disastrous" Obamacare
Guy Benson | Oct 10, 2013
A follow-up to this morning's post chronicling Obamacare's myriad failures; CBS News surveys the wreckage and renders an unavoidable verdict (via Hot Air):
"The president's signature achievement has become the butt of late night jokes...no one knows how many people have managed to enroll, and the administration refuses to release those numbers. The website's launch has been nothing short of disastrous. Media outlets have struggled to find anyone who's actually been successful."
If a one-year delay of the Obamacare mandate tax is good enough for Jon Stewart, Wolf Blitzer and the vast majority of the American people, why won't Democrats in Washington even consider it? To add insult to injury, how much did taxpayers fork over to build the non-functioning Obamacare website? According to government records, the figure appears to be north of $600 million, (somewhat appropriately) way over budget:
Phony ACA Insurance Cards:----------- Imposters posing as Navigators:
Medicare Card Scam: ----------- Fake websites:
READ REST OF STORY
Reading through this makes me think.....if the affordable care act is so good, WHY DOES HE NEED A PERSONAL ARMY TO ENFORCE IT ??
An Update On Obama's Personal Army…Because the American military swears an allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, and not to the President, could Obama's strategy be to strip our Armed Services and shift their dollars into an all powerful civilian Army under his command? Two tips coming into CiR this week surprisingly connect just these dots and link these machinations to Obamacare funding.
On page 496 of H.R. 3590
is this quote: " (b) Assimilating Reserve Corp Officers Into the Regular Corps. . .Effective on the date of enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, all individuals classified as officers in the Reserve (civilian) Corps . . .shall be deemed to be commissioned officers of the Regular Corps." Reserve and Regular Corps are military terms used to describe a "civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded," says Obama in his famous Civilian Army Speech.
Works for me......................
Lib Blog Think Progress: LA Police Dogs Are Racist!…
A new report on the Los Angeles Sheriff Department Canine Special Detail finds that the number of minority individuals bitten by police dogs has dramatically increased between 2004 to 2012. In a department already plagued by accusations of racial targeting, 100 percent of dog bite victims in the first six months of 2013 were blacks and Latinos.
In the past nine years, the minority-heavy, urban areas of Century, City of Industry, Compton, Lakewood, and South LA/Lennox, experienced more dog bites than 21 other agencies or stations combined.
Borrowed from LEGAL INSURRECTION
Now gov't trying to block people from looking at Mt. Rushmore (seriously)
Posted by William A. Jacobson Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 8:30am
Not satisfied shutting the monument even though the State offered to pay to keep it open, the feds placed cones to block viewing areas in the distance.
As bad as the Battle of the Barrycades is in Washington, D.C., forcing WWII Vets to have to push their way past barricades at the WWII Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, and Iwo Jima Memorial, what the feds did at Mount Rushmore has to be the most petty and insane of them all.
The feds didn't just shut the access roads — even though the state offered to pay to keep them open — it erected cones along a viewing road in the distance to prevent people from pulling over to view the presidential monument
Living, breathing man will remain dead in the eyes of Ohio law
CNN | Posted on October 10, 2013 6:12 pm
An Ohio man who has been legally dead since 1994 will remain so in the eyes of the law after losing his complaint to overturn his death filing, according to authorities.
Donald Miller, 61, testified Monday that he disappeared in 1986 after losing his job, leaving behind a wife, two children and thousands of dollars of unpaid child support, according to James Hammer, the attorney for Miller's ex-wife, Robin Miller. He was declared legally dead eight years later.
Donald Miller said he returned to Ohio "around 2005″ with no knowledge of his legal death, and that he had hoped to reestablish his Social Security number.
A legal statute in Ohio prevents changes to death rulings once three years have passed, Hammer told CNN, and Judge Allan Davis ruled accordingly in Hancock County Probate
- See more at: http://rare.us/story/living-breathing-man-will-remain-dead-in-the-eyes-of-ohio-law/#sthash.ggGUEAyB.dpuf
SHAME HE CAN'T BE SIDELINED PERMANENTLY ALONG WITH HIS BOSS
Harry Reid has Sidelined Joe Biden
Heather Ginsberg | Oct 10, 2013
Wow, that Democratic Party sure is looking strong. Even Harry Reid sees what a detriment it is to have Vice President Joe Biden on their side of the aisle during the government shutdown.
When President Obama and Harry Reid met earlier this week about a new debt-limit plan, the Senate Majority Leader only had one stipulation: No Joe Biden. Even though Biden did attend last week's meeting with congressional leaders, Leader Reid has basically prevented Biden from any more potential deal talks.
Isn't it funny though that just this past New Year's the Democrats were begging and pleading to have Joe do their negotiating? Well the most amusing part is that they actually feel he gave up too much!! And now, they are keeping him away from the negotiation table because of those actions. STORY
Boehner offers debt extension; interim resolution?
ANDREW TAYLOR, AP A Marine honor guard holds open the door to the West Wing of the White Hous...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a fresh deadline, House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that Republicans would vote to extend the government's ability to borrow money for six weeks — but only if President Barack Obama first agrees to fresh negotiations on spending cuts. Under the Republican plan, the partial government shutdown would continue in the meantime.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a 90 minute meeting with Obama, appeared to throw cold water on the plan. Asked whether Democrats would negotiate with Republicans with the government shuttered, he declared, "Not going to happen."
Earlier, the White House had said Obama "would likely sign" a short term extension of the debt cap and did not rule out his doing so even if the government remained partly closed. But the White House made no promises that Obama would hold negotiations under those circumstances.
"He will not pay ransom in exchange for the Republicans in the House doing their job," said spokesman Jay Carney.
Boehner and other House GOP leaders were headed to the White House late Thursday for their own meeting with Obama. Read Story
SURE......HE'LL KEEP WORKING WITH CONGRESS
Obama Tells Federal Employees He'll "Keep Working With Congress" to Reach a Deal
Katie Pavlich In a letter sent to U.S. Government workers affected by the shutdown on October 1, President Obama told federal employees he will continue to work with Congress in order to get them back to work, thanked them for their service and blamed House Republicans for the government shutdown.
"To the dedicated and hard-working employees of the United States Government: The Federal Government is America's largest employer, with more than 2 million civilian workers and 1.4 million active duty military who serve in all 50 States and around the world. But Congress has failed to meet its responsibility to pass a budget before the fiscal year that begins today. And that means much of our Government must shut down effective today. I want you to know that I will keep working to get Congress to reopen the Government. Despite telling federal employees he will work with Congress, President Obama has repeatedly told Speaker of the House John Boehner he will not negotiate. READ REST OF STORY
Shutdown Fallout: Obama Approval Rating Slides to 37 Percent
Guy Benson
President Obama's approval rating is not doing so hot these days.
Townhall's Guy Benson writes:
The American people, needless to say, are disgusted by the spectacle playing out on Capitol Hill. Despite his efforts to play the role of an above-the-fray, frustrated bystander, Obama is also taking a hit from this mess. As well he should. Between his atrocious leadership on shutdown talks, which he's single-handedly blocked, and the ongoing Obamacare meltdown, Obama's overall job approval has sunk to 37 percent. For perspective, as he prepared to leave office in January of 2009, President Bush's approval rating was 34 percent. This ain't pretty:
ARIEL CASTROS SUICIDE IN PRISON, MAY NOT HAVE BEEN A SUICIDE
Auto-erotic asphyxiation possible in Castro death
Loading..ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS,
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro may have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide, and two prison guards falsified logs documenting their observation of him in the hours before he died, the state said Thursday.
Castro's pants and underwear were pulled down to his ankles when he was found, leading the state to forward those facts to the state highway patrol to consider the possibility of auto-erotic asphyxiation, according to the report from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
The report suggests — but does not conclude — that Castro may have died as the result of auto-erotic asphyxiation, whereby individuals achieve sexual satisfaction by briefly choking themselves into unconsciousness.
Castro did not leave a suicide note FULL STORY
Detective arrested in NYC motorcycle-SUV melee
JENNIFER PELTZ, AP
FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2013 file photo,The Range Rover involved in the bike...
NEW YORK (AP) — An undercover police detective was arrested as fallout from a burst of motorcyclist mayhem reached a new level, with investigators saying the officer was shown on video hitting and kicking an SUV before bikers attacked its driver.
Wojciech Braszczok, who was off-duty when he joined a motorcycle rally that spiraled into violence, was expected to be arraigned Wednesday. He surrendered Tuesday to face riot and criminal mischief charges, New York Police Department spokesman John McCarthy said.
There was no immediate response to phone messages left with Braszczok's attorney, Phil Karasyk. He had previously said the 10-year NYPD veteran only witnessed other bikers attacking the vehicle.
But investigators discovered video evidence showing Braszczok punching an already damaged back window, then twice kicking the side of the SUV before leaving the scene, according to two people familiar with the case. The people weren't authorized to discuss the inquiry and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. read story
Are they surprised ???
Obama supporters discover ObamaCare raises their premiums
posted by Jason Pye
Opponents of ObamaCare tried to warn Americans, particular those who are covered through an individual health insurance policy, that their premiums would go up because of the law. But many either didn't listen or dismissed the concerns.
But the San Jose Mercury News recently took note of complaints about the dramatic increase in premiums that two supporters of President Obama will see because of ObamaCare (emphasis added):
Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.
Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.
Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.
"I was laughing at Boehner — until the mail came today," Waschura said, referring to House Speaker John Boehner, who is leading the Republican charge to defund Obamacare.
"I really don't like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000 out of my family's pocket each year, that's otherwise disposable income or retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy."
Police arrest 8 House members at immigration rally
Rep. Lui Gutierrez, D-Ill., is arrested by U.S. Capitol Police officers on...LUIS ALONSO LUGO, APs
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least eight Democratic members of the House were among about 200 people arrested Tuesday after they blocked a main street near the Capitol during a massive rally seeking to push Republicans to hold a vote on a stalled immigration reform bill.
Police would not identify those arrested. Representatives of the social policy organization Center for Community Change and The Associated Press witnessed the arrests of Reps. John Lewis, D-Ga.; Luis Gutiérrez, D-Ill.; Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz.; Keith Ellison, D-Minn.; Joseph Crowley and Charles Rangel, both D-N.Y.; Al Green, D-Texas; and Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.,
Representatives of other groups whose members attended the rally, such as United Farm Workers and Farmworker Justice, confirmed that several of their members were arrested as well.
Those arrested will be charged with "crowding, obstructing and incommoding" under the local laws of the District of Columbia, the Capitol Police said. The arrests began about 4 p.m. EDT and had ended two hours later, police said in a statement .Full Story
And............Another one
RI 7th-grader appeals suspension for gun keychain
COVENTRY, R.I. (AP) — The family of a Rhode Island seventh-grader who was suspended for three days for having a small toy gun keychain at school is appealing the suspension.
WJAR-TV (http://bit.ly/198ZOTV ) reports the family of 12-year-old Joseph Lyssikatos (lis-ih-KAH'-tos) is appealing Monday to the superintendent in the town of Coventry.
Joseph was suspended last month after bringing a 2-inch keychain he won at an arcade to Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School. Another student found it and showed it off to classmates, and Joseph was suspended.
He has already served the suspension, but his parents hope to get it expunged from his record so Joseph can try for perfect attendance this year.
Health law glitches: fatal or fleeting?
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, AP
FILE - In this June 17, 2005 file photo, Mark McClellan is seen in Maple Gr...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The glitch-ridden rollout of President Barack Obama's health care law has opponents crowing: "Told you so!" and insisting it should be paused, if not scrapped.
But others, including insurance companies, say there's still enough time to fix the online enrollment system before uninsured Americans start getting coverage on Jan. 1.
After emergency repairs over the weekend, consumers in different parts of the country Monday continued to report delays on healthcare.gov, as well as problems setting up security questions for their accounts. The administration says the site's crowded electronic "waiting room" is thinning out. Still, officials announced it will be down again for a few hours starting at 1 a.m. Tuesday for more upgrades and fixes. FULL STORY
By Bob Gorrell - Oct...
And taking handlesnoff of drinking fountains on bi...
Obama Spends $100,000 to Shut Down Free Memorials ...
LISTEN: Why truckers will rally...
HURT THE PEOPLE ? WE'RE NOT THE ONES WHO SHUT DOWN...
NewsBusted: IRS, Democrat Politicians and NBC O...
Reading through this makes me think.....if the aff...
Living, breathing man will remain dead in the eye...
SHAME HE CAN'T BE SIDELINED PERMANENTLY ALONG WITH...
Boehner offers debt extension; interim resolution...
Shutdown Fallout: Obama Approval Rating Slides to ...
ARIEL CASTROS SUICIDE IN PRISON, MAY NOT HAVE BEEN...
Detective arrested in NYC motorcycle-SUV melee ...
Police arrest 8 House members at immigration ral...
Health law glitches: fatal or fleeting? <!-- ME...

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Published in 1958, Good Housekeeping's Around the World Cook Book "specialty recipes with a foreign flavor". This copy has slight edge wear and slight creases, but is otherwise in great vintage condition.
Around the World Cook Book has 68 pages of recipes and tips and is a great intro to international cuisine. Inside you'll find recipes from Brazil, China, Cuba, Egypt, Haiti, Hungary, Russia, Switzerland and many more! (Not sure how authentic they are tho.) A fun cookbook and great for anyone's vintage cookbook collection.


Stunning aquamarine and diamond dress ring which boasts magnificent workmanship and spectacular sparkling diamonds.
A centre piece oval aquamarine has a round aquamarine set above and below it set alongside 18 twinkling diamonds surrounding and on the shoulders.
Secure claw and grain settings enhance the beauty of the gemstones.
Diamond set shoulders for added sparkle.
Dimensions: Length 28mm width 12mm depth 7.5mm.
Ring size P½. NB Ring size can be altered free of charge but limitations apply. Please specify ring size required.
Don't miss this chance to acquire this amazing ring.


Provides helper methods for determining the type of phone we are paired to.
Indicates that we are paired to an Android phone.
Indicates an error returned retrieving the type of phone we are paired to.
Indicates that we are paired to an iOS phone.
Returns the type of phone handset this Wear OS device has been paired with.
int one of DEVICE_TYPE_ERROR_UNKNOWN, DEVICE_TYPE_ANDROID or DEVICE_TYPE_IOS indicating we could not determine the phone type, we are paired to an Android phone or we are paired to an iOS phone respectively.


text:
Healthcare's Most Dangerous Cybersecurity Threat
Healthcare providers are a top target for malicious hackers. Unfortunately, few providers have the internal resources necessary to optimally reduce their cybersecurity risk. That's why the right healthcare IT consulting partner is often the difference between a successful defense and a costly disaster.
By: Wm. Gregg Bridgeman PMP, CISSP, GPEN, GCIH, GICSP, CEH, ITIL
Health IT Security and Risk Manager, Change Healthcare
Healthcare providers face a tsunami of cybersecurity threats—from opportunistic attacks on unpatched vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems to clever "social engineering" gambits that induce unsuspecting users to click on perimeter-compromising emails as well as text messages seemingly from a known colleague with a request to respond.
And those threats are inflicting significant damage. The FBI reported that more than 40 million patient records were compromised by hackers in 2021. That means compromises have more than tripled since 2018.
Worse yet, the average cost of a healthcare security breach is by far the highest among all sectors. According to IBM, that per-incident cost rose a startling 29.5% from $7.13 million in 2020 to $9.23 million in 2021. No other sector's per-incident costs come close. In fact, the sector with the second highest per-incident costs—financial services—actually saw its per-incident cost decrease from $5.85 million to $5.72 million.
Multiple factors account for the magnitude of risk healthcare providers face. These factors include:
The high value of personal health information (PHI) on the open market.
The large "attack surface" inherent in healthcare environments that spans multiple networked locations and includes large numbers of medical devices and vendor partners.
An ever-changing portfolio of medical devices that vary greatly in vintage and vulnerability.
Extensive interconnectedness with other healthcare entities.
But the most dangerous cybersecurity threat to any healthcare provider is its dearth of cybersecurity resources. Four out of ten providers spend 6% or less of their IT budget on security. That's significantly lower than the broader average of 10%. And a remarkable 23% don't even have a dedicated cybersecurity budget "carve-out."
Worse yet, no amount of money can compensate for the current dearth of available cybersecurity talent. About 600,000 jobs open up for cybersecurity workers every year in the U.S. across all sectors. Unfortunately, the observers at MIT Technology Review claim that less than 25% of the applicants for those positions are qualified. And the worldwide shortfall of cybersecurity professionals has been estimated at about 3.5 million.
"It's impossible to outbid big tech companies for cybersecurity talent," says one VP/CIO at a provider organization operating a 350-bed hospital and several associated clinics. "It's especially difficult to find people who combine technical competency with the soft skills they need to effectively communicate with our staff."
Given such big challenges and such problematic resourcing, it's no wonder that providers seek healthcare IT consulting partners who can deliver the expertise and services they so desperately need.
The Three-Fold Risk Mitigation Challenge
Effective mitigation of cybersecurity risk requires smart, decisive action on three fronts:
Guarding the perimeter
Perimeter defense has historically been the primary focus of healthcare cybersecurity teams. And with good reason. After all, if you can stop the enemy at the border, your territory will be safe.
Perimeter defenses take many forms, including:
Antivirus/anti-malware to identify and remove any malicious code attackers attempt to inject into endpoint systems.
Access controls such as strong passwords, multifactor authentication, and VPNs.
Vulnerability management that helps IT staff identify known software vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems.
Endpoint detection and response (EDR) that alerts cybersecurity staff about potential indicators of an active attack.
Given the continued evolution of social engineering, healthcare cybersecurity leaders also now see user education as a key component of perimeter defense. "People love to click on things," says the director of IT security at a large physician-owned provider network. "If you don't address that problem, you'll always be vulnerable to ransomware."
Internal vigilance
No perimeter is 100% impenetrable. And insiders such as employees and contractors present a risk, too. That's why effective cybersecurity also requires the ability to quickly identify and neutralize active threats that have bypassed perimeter defenses.
To achieve requisite levels of internal vigilance, healthcare organizations need:
Comprehensive, up-to-date threat intelligence that keeps them informed about the latest attack techniques of both cybercriminals and state actors—as well as the tell-tale indicators that an attack may already be underway.
Monitoring technologies such as security information and event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR) that can detect attack indicators anywhere across endpoints, networks, and/or clouds.
Threat response capabilities in the form of both hands-on professionals and automated actions.
Healthcare organizations can also protect themselves against threats that get past the perimeter through encryption, granular segmentation of administrative privileges, air gapping, and other best practices.
Recovery preparation
Even with great perimeter defense and intensive internal vigilance, a cyberattack can still be successful. Healthcare organizations must therefore further mitigate their risk by preparing for recovery from a successful attack. Such recovery measures can include:
Operational continuity. Healthcare providers must make plans to recover their digital operations using backup systems. They must also rigorously test these continuity plans to ensure that their backup data isn't compromised by the same attack that compromised their primary systems.
Operational playbook. While IT and vendors recover digital operations, the work must still be done. The playbook is a defined process to allow an organization to work manually if a system (e.g., EMR, billing, etc.) is shut down. Yearly tests of the manual process should be part of this mitigation so that staff know what to do if/when a system is rendered useless for a period of time.
Cyber Insurance. Healthcare providers can indemnify themselves against the financial consequences of a breach. This indemnification typically requires that they meet the stringent standards of cyber insurers.
Payment contingencies. Healthcare providers should determine in advance under what conditions they would pay a ransom demand and, if so, put in place the mechanisms necessary to make such a payment in cryptocurrency. They must also bear in mind, however, that threat actors do not always honor their promises to provide relief upon payment.
The Role of Healthcare IT Consulting
With such an extensive and complex cybersecurity agenda on their plates, it's no wonder healthcare providers are turning to skilled, specialized partners for assistance. That assistance can include:
Current-state assessment. The right healthcare IT consulting partner can audit an organization's cybersecurity posture, engage in adversarial testing to empirically validate (or invalidate) an organization's assumptions about its exposure to risk, and pinpoint areas in particularly urgent need of improvement.
Cybersecurity expertise. Healthcare organizations can leverage a consulting partner's field-proven insights across a wide range of issues—from security operations (SecOps) workflows and access permissions to vendor certification and user training—to remediate shortfalls in their current risk mitigation capabilities.
Virtual CISO. Responsibility for cybersecurity at healthcare organizations often falls to CIOs or VPs of IT who have many other imperatives competing for their attention. A full-service consulting partner can provide qualified CISO oversight on an "as-a-service" basis, filling this problematic management gap with just the right cost/benefit ratio.
Project management. Healthcare organizations often need expert guidance and experienced leadership to help them achieve specific near-term cybersecurity objectives. A well-scoped partner engagement is ideal for fulfilling these clearly defined objectives.
Operational playbook. The organization can benefit from an expert consulting partner who has the operational expertise to craft the playbook, run mock drills for manual work during a system outage, create/update policies for a manual operation, as well as provide training and guidance to the organization.
While general-purpose cybersecurity specialists can theoretically address some of these issues, healthcare organizations are best served by a consulting partner with deep knowledge of the healthcare sector. Healthcare-specific expertise is vital for addressing the vulnerabilities and risks specific to providers: regulatory mandates regarding PHI, a growing number of intelligent medical devices connecting to the network, extended networks connecting satellite clinics and practices, etc.
Just as important, a true healthcare IT consultant knows how to aggressively mitigate risk without impinging on every provider's primary goal: excellent patient care.
"You can't effectively secure a healthcare provider's clinical and administrative processes if you don't fully understand those processes," says Sheryl Zarozny, vice president of consulting services at Change Healthcare. "An intimate understanding of healthcare provider processes is also essential if you're going to protect those processes from the potential adverse impact of poorly conceived cybersecurity measures."
EHR Selection and Procurement Case Study
Discover how a medical provider engaged Change Healthcare consultants to oversee the selection and procurement process for a new electronic health record (EHR) system.
HIPAA Privacy and Security Program Assessment
Explore the steps healthcare organizations can take to strengthen their HIPAA privacy and security program, prepare for audits, and support regulatory compliance.


text:
It is expected that WhatsApp will soon allow users to share media files up to 2GB in size. WhatsApp has reportedly started testing a new feature that allows people to send media files up to 2GB in size following the release of the latest beta update for iOS 22.7.0.76.
The beta update brings support for iOS 15 and brings this new feature to WhatsApp beta for iOS 22.7.0.76. WhatsApp has been testing the feature in Argentina, according to WABetaInfo. Take advantage of this new feature by learning what it is and how it can help you.
In order to make WhatsApp more user-friendly, Facebook has been actively introducing new features. Reports say that WhatsApp is testing a feature that allows users to send files up to 2GB. WhatsApp users can share media files of up to 100MB size only at the moment. According to a screenshot shared by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp's popup notification now says "you can send media files of upto 2 GB".
Currently, this is only available in Argentina and only a few beta testers have access to it. WhatsApp has not yet confirmed whether it will extend the same feature to more users in the future or not. The changes may be rolled back after the testing by restoring the previous limit.


There was a record 9 hole play-off required to decide the eventual winner of the Open de España, on the European Tour in Valencia at Parador de El Saler. Frenchman Raphaël Jacquelin needed all his experience to beat Maximilian Keiffer from Germany and Chile's Felipe Aguilar. RaphaëlJacquelin /Getty Images Raphaël finally overcame the persistent challenge of Maximilian at the ninth play-off hole. Felipe dropped out early on leaving the others to battle it out. Once Felipe had gone anyone expecting a quick conclusion to this event was sadly mistaken, they ended up playing the 18th hole nine times, taking two hours, before Raphaël won it with a birdie. He said he was tired, but very happy; "That is very tiring but I am really, really happy. I could not make any putts in the play-off but the last one dropped, which means a lot for me and my family. There's another baby coming at the end of November; every time I get a baby, there's a win so I'll have a football team after a few years!" Raphaël was gracious with his comments about Maximilian, who playing in only his tenth European Tour event; "He is starting this year very well. He is going to do very well and going to win a lot, I am sure." The Ladies European Tour and the PGA Tour in America also needed play-offs to decide the winner, is this going to become the norm, will be interesting to see what happens next week, I will be watching.


Born in Los Angeles' Redondo Beach. Danny Power moved to Italy for 5 years, then returned to Southern California in 1974 and has resided in Encinitas for the past 30 years. Danny has seen first hand the growth and desire of San Diego's North County. Genuinely interested in world travel, Danny has spent the last 20 years traveling the four corners of the globe. He recently lived in New York where he is a also a licensed Realtor. Although loving the pulse of Manhattan he still feels that San Diego is the greatest place to live.
In Danny's first year with The Guiltinan Group he sold over $10 million in vacant land, detached homes, condos and commercial properties. The following year he doubled his volume in sales and was up 100% again last year. Danny has quickly evolved to be one of San Diego's Top Producing Realtors. In 2006, he was ranked #6 in Gross Sales out of all San Diego Prudential agents and #9 in Units Sold!
Danny has also worked in the mortgage business providing a balance of both sides of real estate. Danny is an individual who firmly believes in a win-win relationship in all business transactions and has owned and operated two different successful small businesses in San Diego's North County for the last 20 years. As owner and operator, his integral business ethics and morals are of the utmost importance. This has reflected in his outgoing enthusiastic personality that has won his clients over time and time again.
Danny enjoys spending time with his 6 year old daughter, golfing, snow boarding, surfing, photography, cooking, art and the theater.


Our mini wooden shaker doubles as a guiro and comes with a scraper. It is ideal for children as it is lightweight and compact and the ends are coloured bright red and blue to appeal to early years.
This shaker is a great choice for all percussionists as it is simple but fun to use and is capable of producing lots of different sounds. Either hit or shake the instrument or run the scraper across the grooves to play.
Please note: These are musical instruments, not toys. It is advised that they are used with supervision.


Indulge yourself in a superlative Suite experience.Rate includes buffet breakfast and wifi.
Complimentary Wi-Fi upto 04 devices @ 2 mbps.
The offer is available at Taj Hotels and subject to rate availability.
Additional Taxes and Govt. Levies are applicable.


text:
Q: Efficient way of running multiple scripts simultaneously using Python I have a csv file with 10,000 rows, each row contains a link, and I want to download some info of each link. As that's a consuming task I manually splitted it in 4 Python scripts, each one working on 2,500 rows. After that I open 4 terminals and run each of the scripts.
However I wonder if there's a more efficient way of doing that. Up to now I have 4 scripts .py that I manually lunch. What happens if I have to do the same but with 1,000,000 rows? Should I manually create for example 50 scripts and in each script download the info of the rows of that script?. I hope I managed to explain myself :)
Thanks!

A: You don't need to do any manual splitting – set up a multiprocessing.Pool() with the number of workers you want to be processing your data, and have a function do your work for each item. A simplified example:
import multiprocessing

# This function is run in a separate process
def do_work(line):
    return f"{line} is {len(line)} characters long. This result brought to you by {multiprocessing.current_process().name}"

def main():
    work_items = [f"{2 ** i}" for i in range(1_000)]  # You'd read these from your file
    with multiprocessing.Pool(4) as pool:
        for result in pool.imap(do_work, work_items, chunksize=20):
            print(result)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

This has (up to) 4 processes working on your data, with, for optimization reasons, each worker getting 20 tasks to work on.
If you don't need the results to be in order, use the faster imap_unordered.

A: You can take a look at https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html to make the download + processing tasks async.

A: Use Threads to run multiple interpreter instances simultaneously (https://realpython.com/intro-to-python-threading)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
In the shadow of Trump's visit to India, religious violence challenges the official narrative
Updated February 28, 2020 NEW YORK—Addressing more than 100,000 people, the biggest crowd of his political career, at...
ON THE GROUND WITH USA TODAY
Poverty and hope battle in the hollers of West Virginia
CHARLESTON, WV – Last June, I was dispatched home to West Virginia as a Report for America corps...
ON THE GROUND IN AUGUSTA, ME
Maine confronts 'crumbling infrastructure' in neighborhood schools
AUGUSTA, ME — Rushing through Cony High School's cafeteria, past the afterschool crowd doing homework or scrolling through...
Report for America newsrooms raise nearly $1 million in 2019 through local philanthropy
NEW YORK — Today, Report for America announced its 2019 partner newsrooms quadrupled the program's goals for local...
ON THE GROUND IN TWIN FALLS, ID
The Snake River, lifeblood of Idaho's Magic Valley
TWIN FALLS, ID – When I first drove into southern Idaho, I passed over a 500-foot canyon. Below...
ON THE GROUND IN LEXINGTON, KY
Moving home: Church and state converge at Kentucky's foster care crisis
LEXINGTON, KY -- It was early evening in late August and former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was talking...
ON THE GROUND IN BLANDING, UT
In Utah, change is slow following historic election of Native Americans
BLANDING, Utah – I arrived in San Juan County after a historic shift in power. In November 2018,...
ON THE GROUND IN DETROIT, MI
Life after prison: Second chances in Detroit
DETROIT, MI — On a Sunday afternoon in summer, Demetrius Knuckles popped open the trunk of his Trailblazer...
Report for America among top 100 proposals for MacArthur $100 million grant
BOSTON, MA — The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today unveiled The GroundTruth Project, home of...
Pushing forward: How one reporter took over a 20-year-old investigation
Editor's note: For this edition of Navigator, we're proud to share this dispatch from Report for America corps...
ON THE GROUND IN JACKSON, MS
Wounds of the past still haunt Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. -- Shortly after relocating to Mississippi last summer, I came face-to-face with the state's racist past...


text:
Statement on Governor Whitmer Inaction on Water Shutoffs, Public Health Safety
Peoples Water Board
Public health endangered by depriving thousands of clean water
DETROIT — Today, a large coalition of social justice groups released a statement which serves as the basis for a letter and a petition to Governor Gretchen Whitmer. In the document, they call on Governor Whitmer to use her executive authority to declare a moratorium on water shutoffs because of the current and impending health crisis. The groups cite the need for everyone to have access to clean, safe water as a way to combat the spread of coronavirus which the Centers for Disease Control affirm will spread in the United States. They have released the following statement:
In light of the impending health and social crisis of coronavirus and the current health crisis of shigelloses and other water-related illnesses caused by thousands of households being deprived of water, we the undersigned demand that Governor Gretchen Whitmer work with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to call for an immediate moratorium on all water shutoffs in the State of Michigan.
Hundreds of thousands of people in low-income families across the state have borne the brunt of the record rise in the cost of water services and the unaffordable water bills that have resulted from that rise. The unconscionable act of depriving anyone of water because the cost is more than they can afford has resulted in a health crisis, that, with the advent of coronavirus, has the serious potential to be magnified and spread due to thousands not having access to water. The ultimate solution is to implement income based water bills based on the Water Affordability Plan. The immediate, short term solution must be a moratorium on water shutoffs and the immediate restoration of service where it's been disconnected.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II declared a public health emergency for the entire United States to aid the nation's healthcare community in responding to COVID-19 (coronavirus.) The World Health Organization has already declared a public health emergency, naming it an issue of international concern. For this reason, it is incumbent upon us to ensure that all Michigan residents have access to clean, safe, and affordable water. We must stop the water shutoffs that are occurring in our communities to prevent the further spread of potentially fatal infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
The City of Detroit, Michigan's largest city, became the first major city in the world to shut off hundreds of thousands of its most vulnerable residents from water and sanitation, flouting the consensus of an international body of research that shows water, sanitation, and hygiene access are essential to maintaining mental and physical health, and to halting the spread of infectious disease.
The Centers for Disease Control recommendations for common prevention strategies include the following specifically:
Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom; before eating; and after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
If soap and water are not readily available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol. Always wash hands with soap and water if hands are visibly dirty.
Michigan residents have particular reason to fear the spread of coronavirus because the ongoing deprivation of tens of thousands of people from basic access to water and sanitation puts everyone at risk
Residents deprived of water in their homes have been sharing or borrowing water at an alarming rate — 80% in one study — creating a transmission path for coronavirus, as well as hepatitis A, shigelloses, campylobacter, and giardia, all of which have been plausibly linked to the shutoffs by health officials
The city and state have neglected to put any public health measures in place or to study the problem
Those shutoff from water are already more likely to be infants or children, elders, and/or people living with chronic illness — the same factors that predispose people to a more serious course of illness or death if they catch the virus
It should not take an outbreak to realize that lack of water and sanitation poses a danger to the public health of those impacted by shutoffs, and everyone in our state
Governor Whitmer must act in the best interests of every person in the State of Michigan. Basic health and safety must be the top priority. The threat of widespread disease makes it imperative that every household has access to clean, safe water for drinking and sanitation. That means the Governor must use her authority to declare a moratorium on water shutoffs across the state.
Rabbi Alana Alpert, executive director, Detroit Jews for Justice
Charles Altman
Russ Bellant, former licensed Water Plant Treatment Operator, City of Detroit.
Randy Block, Director, Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network
Rev. Roslyn Bouier, executive director, Brightmoor Connection, Detroit People's Platform, Equitable Detroit Coalition
Jennifer Carrera
Piper Carter, Hartwell Block Club Environmental Justice & Equity Cultural Organizer
Rev. Cass Charrette, People's Water Board, Poor People's Campaign
Detroit People's Platform
Faculty-Staff-Student Alliance for Climate and the Environment (FSSACE), Oakland University
Jennifer Fassbender, Coalition to Oppose the Expansion of US Ecology
Barbara Ford, R.N., President of Davison Association of Block Clubs
Nadia Gaber, PhD University of California San Francisco/UC Berkeley, We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective
Georgia Street Collective
Mary Grant, Public Water for all Campaign Director, Food & Water Action
Rev. Denise Griebler, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Detroit; Michigan Coalition for Human Rights
Mary Ellen Howard, RSM, Sisters of Mercy, People's Water Board
Dr. Shea Howell. James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Kim Hunter, Engage Michigan
Darryl Jordan co director, East Michigan Environmental Action Council/Cass Corridor Commons
Alice B. Jennings, Partner, Edwards &Jennings, PC
Marian Kramer, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
Emily Kutil, University at Buffalo, We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective
Reverend Leah McCullough, pastor, Trinity-St. Mark's United Church of Christ Detroit
Lou Novak, Co-Chair Green Party of Michigan
Sylvia Ordu=C3=B1o, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
Rev Edward Pinkney, president — CEO, Black Autonomy Network Community Organization
Kimberly Redigan – Michigan Coalition for Georgia Street Community Collective Inc
Human Rights Vice Chair, People's Water Board
Cyndi Roper, Michigan Senior Policy Advocate Healthy People & Thriving Communities Program
Mike Shane, member, Moratorium NOW Coalition
Sierra Club Michigan Chapter
Maureen Taylor, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
Jennifer Teed, Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network, Peoples Water Board, Frontline Detroit
Nickie Van Lier, member People's Water Board
Fred Vitale, board president, East Michigan Environmental Action Council
Dr. Paul von Oeyen, social justice facilitator – Detroit Metropolitan Association Michigan Conference, United Church of Christ
We the People of Detroit
Diane Weckerle, board, Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation, co-chair Coalition to Oppose the Expansion of US Ecology
Rev. Bill Wylie-Kellermann, Peoples Water Board, Michigan Poor Peoples Campaign Rights; People's Water Board
This statement originally appeared on the People's Water Board website on February 28, 2020 here.


The Empark Grand Hotel Hangzhou Bay (Ningbo Hangzhou Wan Shiji Jinyuan Dafandian) is a 5-star hotel situated in Hangzhou Bay New Area and within easy reach of the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, a highway bridge linking Shanghai and Ningbo.
This Cixi hotel's rooms are completed with various amenities including hair dryers, safes, electric kettles, mini refrigerators and mini bars.
Diners can choose from Chinese, Western and Japanese foods at the on-site restaurants.
When it comes to relaxation, guests can enjoy drinks at the on-site bar or entertain friends in one of private karaoke rooms.


Food Network's Tyler Florence has a new cookbook - hot off the presses yesterday - and will be in the Baltimore area to promote it. In Tyler Florence Fresh, he shows that using fresh, unprocessed foods, whether from the farmers' market or the grocery store, is easier than one might think.
Tyler will be at the Williams-Sonoma in Annapolis at 12pm on Saturday, December 8th, and at 6pm that same evening, he'll be at the Wegman's in Hunt Valley.
To whet your whistle, here's a recipe from the book. As soon as I get my hands on some smoked olive oil (even if I have to do it myself) I'm trying it.
Roast the chicken. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Using a sharp knife or kitchen shears, cut along both sides of the backbone and discard it. Flatten the chicken and cut it in half through the breast so you have two halves—each with a leg and breast. Rub all over with some of the smoked olive oil, ensuring it gets in all the crevices. Season all over with salt and pepper.
Set the chicken in a large roasting pan over two burners and heat over medium-high heat. When the pan is hot, add the chicken halves skin-side down and sear for 4 to 5 minutes. Turn the chicken over, add the potatoes to the pan, and drizzle with more smoked olive oil. Season with salt and pepper. Roast in the oven for 45 minutes, or until an instant-read thermometer inserted in the joint between the thigh and drumstick reads 160° to 165°F. The potatoes should be golden on the outside and tender in the middle. Remove from the oven and allow the chicken to rest for 5 minutes.
Make the citrus salsa. Use a sharp knife to cut away the rind and pith from each of the citrus fruits. Holding the fruit over a bowl, carefully cut between the membranes to free the segments. Let the juices and segments fall into the bowl. Add about cup extra-virgin olive oil to the bowl and season with salt and pepper. Cut the radishes into very fine matchsticks on a mandoline or with a sharp knife. Fold them into the citrus salsa, and add the chives.
Serve the roasted chicken with the potatoes and citrus salsa, and garnish with flowering cilantro. Season with fleur de sel.


If you believe you have dealt with an immigration company or law firm that scams people or does not deliver on their services as promised, Canadian visa reviews would like to hear about your experience. Even if it did not happen to you but to someone you know, we would like to know about it, so that we can do a proper report on the scam agency. Immigrating to Canada can be a stressful thing to undertake, costing a lot of money and time, so the last thing a prospective immigrant needs is to be overcharged or scammed for immigration services. We know how it feels to have a company scam your hard earned cash, it does not feel good. So Canadian visa reviews feels very strongly about reporting these fake or scam immigration consultants, so that you don't run the risk of being scammed.
The more details you can give us, the better. If we are going to report these scam companies, and write a review about them, warning other people not to use them, then we need detailed information. For example, their name, a link to their website, and information about what exactly they did to scam you. We will not use or share your personal information, unless you expressly wish us to, but we will use any information that you give us, to investigate the immigration agents or law firm, and report our finding s on Canadian visa reviews and to a scam checker website.
Please note that while we will do our level best to report on exactly what happened, we write online reviews on our Canadian Visa Reviews website and do not represent the Canadian Government or any other official bodies. We do not have the power to take anyone to court and prosecute them, but we can do a fair investigation on your claim, and report honestly about any information that we find. We at Canadian visa reviews believe that everyone has the right to immigrate to Canada without being scammed, and if we can help by reporting on scam immigration agencies, then we may be able to stop other immigrants from being taken advantage of.


We weighted 8 top-quality Buffalo Buck's Coffee black teas over the latter 2 years. Learn which Buffalo Buck's Coffee black tea matches you. You can also Narrow by flavored tea, flavor, specialty and color or pick one of our Buffalo Buck's Coffee black tea feature picks.
As of our top of the heap pick Double Bergamot Earl Grey Black Teas Infused with Double Oil of Bergamont Fair Trade Certified - 1 Pound is an exquisite place to start, it gives the majority black tea features with a bow-wow price only at Black-tea.org.
Buffalo bucks house in consonance with Buffalobuckscoffee. Our general includes flavored black tea, tea, herbal white tea, tea, latte and turkey. See 'tea' pull your left. We are expanding the range of gourmet coffee products and accessories as well as the variety of products to enhance the coffee experience.
The beauty sumatra mandheling coffee conforming to Buffalobuckscoffee. At buffalo cafe are dedicated to using a sivetz roaster the everyday of all our coffees. Fluid bed has a lot on the drum roaster.
26 best pictures of tea pinterest to the degree that Pinterest. Explore buffalo coffeehouse tea "on tea leaf ideas, tasting products and recipes.


Search Result for "transcriptvideo1 pdf learnarabiconline com"
List of ebooks and manuels about "transcriptvideo1 pdf learnarabiconline com"
Download our transcriptvideo1 pdf learnarabiconline com eBooks for free and learn more about transcriptvideo1 pdf learnarabiconline com . These books contain exercises and tutorials to improve your practical skills, at all levels!
You can download PDF versions of the user's guide, manuals and ebooks about transcriptvideo1 pdf learnarabiconline com, you can also find and download for free A free online manual (notices) with beginner and intermediate, Downloads Documentation, You can download PDF files about transcriptvideo1 pdf learnarabiconline com for free, but please respect copyrighted ebooks.


text:
Home Science Biology
300 million year old shark nursery found
in Biology, Geology, News
Imagine salmon in reverse: long-snouted Bandringa sharks migrated downstream from freshwater swamps to a tropical coastline to spawn 310 million years ago – leaving behind a fossil nursery, which researchers found.
The bandringa sharks
The surprising conclusion was drawn by University of Michigan paleontologist Lauren Sallan and a University of Chicago colleague; they analyzed every known specimen of Bandringa, a bottom-feeding predator that lived in an ancient river delta system in what is today the Upper-Midwest (keep in mind though that the face of the Earth was very different at the time, due to tectonic shifts).
This is the earliest example of shark migration, and so far, it is the only example of a freshwater to saltwater shark migration, as well as the earliest example of a shark nursery where fossilized egg cases and juvenile sharks were preserved in the same sediments; paleontologically, it's a monumental find.
"This pushes migratory behavior in sharks way back," said Sallan, an assistant professor in the U-M Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. "These sharks bred in the open ocean and spent the rest of their lives in fresh water. No shark alive today is known to do that."
How the continents looked like 250 million years ago.
The Bandringa shark (which currently doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry) is likely one of the earliest close relatives of modern sharks. It greatly resembles today's sawfish and paddlefish, with a spoon-billed snout up to half its body length. When they were fully grown, they could reach sizes of over 3 meters (approximately 10 feet). The first fossil specimens were discovered in 1969, and since then, they became one of the most prized specimens. They lived exclusively in freshwater swamps and rivers, according to Sallan and Michael Coates from the University of Chicago. If their conclusions are correct, then bandringa females traveled downstream to the shallow tropical coastline to lay their eggs in the salt water – a reverse situation from today's salmon migration.
A shark nursery
Initially, it was thought that the Bandringa was actually two species – one that lived in saltwater, and another that lived in freshwater. But Sallan and Coates showed that Bandringa was a single species that lived, at various times during its life, in fresh, brackish and salt water.
Most sharks are ovoviviparous, as opposed to fish, which are generally oviparous; this means that instead of laying the eggs in the water, the eggs hatch in the oviduct within the mother's body and that the egg's yolk and fluids secreted by glands in the walls of the oviduct nourishes the embryos. However, bandringa was oviparous.
All the Bandringa fossils from the Mazon Creek marine sites are juveniles, and they were found alongside egg cases – the protective capsules that enclose the eggs. The females came, they laid their eggs and then left – that's why no mature fossils were found. Meanwhile, the juveniles spawned from their eggs and tried to make their way upstream. Some made it, some didn't.
"This is the first fossil evidence for a shark nursery that's based on both egg cases and the babies themselves," Sallan said. "It's also the earliest evidence for segregation, meaning that juveniles and adults were living in different locations, which implies migration into and out of these nursery waters."
Lauren Cole Sallan, Michael I. Coates. The long-rostrumed elasmobranchBandringaZangerl, 1969, and taphonomy within a Carboniferous shark nursery. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2014; 34 (1): 22 DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.782875
Tags: bandringafossilpermian


This composition for Piano includes 6 page(s). It is performed by Morris Stoloff. The style of the score is 'Folk'. Catalog SKU number of the notation is 22608. This score was originally published in the key of E♭. Authors/composers of this song: Words and Music by WILL HUDSON, EDDIE DE LANGE and IRVING MILLS. This score was first released on Thursday 1st January, 1970 and was last updated on Thursday 1st January, 1970. The arrangement code for the composition is . Minimum required purchase quantity for these notes is 1. Please check if transposition is possible before your complete your purchase.


text:
Stanisław Przestalski (ur. 1927, zm. 22 kwietnia 2017) – polski biofizyk, prof. dr habilitowany.

Życiorys
Pracował w Wszechnicy Mazurskiej, a także na Uniwersytecie Rolniczym we Wrocławiu i w Polskiej Akademii Nauk.

W 1951 organizował Katedrę Biofizyki w Wyższej Szkole Rolniczej (późniejszym Uniwersytecie Rolniczym).

Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu zezwala na bezpłatny przedruk artykułów pod warunkiem poinformowania o tym fakcie drogą mailową oraz podania źródła artykułu. W serwisach internetowych prosimy o zamieszczenie podlinkowanego adresu artykułu. Był profesorem w zakresie nauk fizycznych, a także posiadał habilitację. Był recenzentem 24 prac badawczych. Zorganizował 13 konferencji międzynarodowych "Schools of Biophysics of Membrane Transport". Zmarł 22 kwietnia 2017.

Otrzymał doktorat honoris causa Uniwersytetu Rolniczego.

Publikacje
 2000: Oddziaływanie wybranych związków lizosomotropowych z monomolekularną błoną lecytynową
 2000: Protection of Erythrocytes against Organometals – Induced Hemolysis
 2000: Toxicity and Model Membrane Modifying Properties of Organolead Compounds
 2000: Effects of Trimethyltin on Pinocytosis of Dictyostelium discoidum
 2000: Trimethyltin Inhibits the Chemotaxis of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae
 2000: Wpływ organicznych związków ołowiu na błony biologiczne i modelowe. "Obieg pierwiastków w przyrodzie"
 2000: Wpływ budowy cząsteczkowej flawonoidów na peroksydację błon liposomowych
 2000: Protecting Role of Flavonoids in Action of Organometallic Compounds in Liposome Membranes
 2000: The Influence of Amphiphilic Compounds on Model Membranes
 2000: The Effect of Cholesterol on the Adsorption of Phenyltin Compounds onto Phosphatidylcholine and Sphingomyelin Liposome Membranes
 2002: Folic acid, ascorbic acid and sodium selenite restore the motility of Dictyostelium discoideum cells inhibited by trieethyllead
 2004: The effect of triethyllead on the motile activity of Walker 256 carcinosarcoma cells
 2005: The effect of phenyltin chlorides on osmotically induced erytrocyte haemolysis
 2005: Di- and tri-phenyltin chlorides transfer across a model lipid bilayer
 2005: Antioxidative effect of kaempfereol and its equimolar mixture with phenyltin compounds on UV-irradiated liposome membranes
 2005: The antioxidative effect kaempferol and their equimolar mixture with phenyltin compounds on UV-irradiated liposome membranes
 2006: Antioxidative Effect of Quercetin and Its Equimolar Mixtures with Phenyltin Compounds on Liposome Membranes
 2009: Oddziaływanie związków organicznych ołowiu i cyny z albuminą w obecności UVB
 2009: Modyfications of erythrocyte membrane hydration induced by organic Tin compounds

Przypisy

Polscy biofizycy
Polscy fizycy XX wieku
Polscy fizycy XXI wieku
Urodzeni w 1927
Zmarli w 2017


George Arias 3B 25.160 Traded by Angels with Stevenson Agosto and Ryan Hancock to Padres for Rickey Henderson.
Pedro Astacio P 27.264 Traded by Dodgers to Rockies for Eric Young.
Mike Maddux P 35.357 Signed as Free Agent by Padres.
William Van Landingham P 27.034 Signed as Free Agent by Giants.
Reggie Williams LF-RF 31.106 Purchased by Angels from Monterrey (Mexican).
Eric Young 2B 30.093 Traded by Rockies to Dodgers for Pedro Astacio.


Want to join the world's largest garden birdwatch survey on January 26th and 27th and be one of half a million people counting birds? Haven't got a garden? Or, would you simply like to join us here at Rodley to watch the birds for one hour and record the highest number that you see. Bring binoculars if you have any.
Afterwards, come back into the Visitors Centre for a warming cuppa and a bun, whilst the kids make squidgy bird cakes to take home!
Be part of the world's largest garden wildlife survey!
Meet at the Visitor Centre 10am – 11am and 2pm – 3pm on both days. Count sheets and pens will be provided by our volunteers.


text:
Q: Python - Como construir uma boa função para verificar se há internet? A ideia é construir uma pequena função para verificar se há conexão com a internet. Tenho um rascunho de uma função que usa a biblioteca socket, mas acredito que não seja a maneira mais eficiente e nem a que melhor respeita as boas práticas de programação.
from socket import gethostbyname,create_connection

# Verifica se esta conectado a internet
def conectadoInternet():

    tentativas = 0
    servidorRemoto = 'www.google.com.br'

    while tentativas < 3:
        if tentativas == 1:
            servidorRemoto = 'www.lds.org'
        elif tentativas == 2:
            servidorRemoto = 'www.msn.com'

        try:
            host = gethostbyname(servidorRemoto)
            s = create_connection((host, 80), 2)
            return True
        except: tentativas += 1

    return False

Quais seriam outras melhores maneiras?

A:
Não há só uma resposta correta
Primeiro deve-se entender o que significa internet, no conceito de sua aplicação/programa.
Daí, implementar aplicações para verificar pelos serviços (qualidade e banda) que lhe são importantes, nos padrões aceitáveis. 1

Aqui, creio que nos atemos a falar sobre soluções síncronas, como a sua.
Saídas assíncronas podem ser mais interessantes, principalmente para scripts.
Acho a sua solução uma das melhores, ainda que uma lista contendo os hosts seja preferível, essa deve ter uma boa performance em tempo de execução. 4
Mas não vejo também problema com:
import os
is_connected = (os.system('nc -z 8.8.8.8 53') == 0)

Ou usando requests.. 6 7

A: Olá, você pode usar o seguinte código que tenta uma conexão com o IP do google, caso o ip não funcione, é só usar o comando ping e a url do google para conseguir um ip atualizado
import urllib2

def internet_on():
    try:
        urllib2.urlopen('http://216.58.192.142', timeout=1)
        return True
    except urllib2.URLError as err:
        return False


text:
CK Rajan (* 1960 in Kerala) ist ein indischer Künstler.

Leben
CK Rajan wurde 1960 im indischen Kerala geboren. Er studierte von 1987 bis 1989 Kunst an der Maharaja Sayajirao Universität in Baroda, wo er in den 80er-Jahren Mitglied der marxistischen Künstler-Vereinigung "Radical Group" war. Zwischen 1992 und 1994 erwarb er eine Master of Arts in Malerei an der Universität von Hyderabad. Bekannt wurde Rajan vor allem durch die Ausstellung seiner Arbeiten bei der documenta 12.

Rajan lebt in Hyderabad.

Werk
Rajans Arbeiten sind politisch motiviert. In seinem Werk nimmt er die gesellschaftspolitischen Widersprüche seines Landes auf. Er arbeitet vor allem mit Collagen.

Ausstellungen
 2007: Who's got the Big Picture?, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen
 2007: documenta 12, Kassel
 2007: HORN PLEASE, Kunstmuseum Bern
 2008: SANTHAL FAMILY, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen

Einzelnachweise

Bildender Künstler (Indien)
Künstler (documenta)
Inder
Geboren 1960
Mann


Mercury and mercury-containing components are hazardous wastes due to their toxicity. Keep students and staff away from contaminated areas. Even small amounts of mercury can pose a risk to human health and the environment. Exposure to mercury by inhalation is of particular concern in managing a spill.
Spills of more than one pound (two tablespoons) must be reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the National Response Center (NRC). The NRC hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call (800) 424-8802.
According to EPA, the general public can clean up small mercury spills no greater than the amount contained in a thermometer if spilled on a flat surface.
Center at (800) 632-8000 or (208) 846-7610.
Mercury spill kits contain powders, granules, sprays, and/or cleanup materials specific for cleaning mercury spills. Spill kits range in price from $50 to $300 depending on contents. Follow the directions outlined in the kit.
If a commercial mercury spill kit is not available, the spill may be managed with other items. Have on hand nitrile or neoprene gloves, a squeegee or playing card, eye dropper, plastic zipper-type bags, paper towels, and sulfur powder. Powdered sulfur may be purchased at garden supply stores or pharmacies.
Secure the area to keep the mercury spill from spreading and to keep people from coming in contact with it.
If there are any broken pieces of glass or sharp objects, pick them up with care. Place all broken objects on a papertowel. Fold the paper towel and place in a zipper-type bag. Secure the bag and label the bag accordingly (i.e., broken glass).
Use a squeegee or cardboard to gather the mercury beads. Use slow sweeping motions to keep the mercury from becoming uncontrollable. Use a flashlight to look for any additional mercury beads that may be sticking to the surface or in small cracked areas of the surface.
Use an eyedropper, piece of paper, or cardboard to collect or draw up the mercury beads. Slowly and carefully transfer the mercury onto a damp paper towel. Place the paper towel in a zipper-type bag and secure. Label the bag.
Place all materials used with the cleanup, including your gloves, and all mercury beads and objects into a zipper-type bag. Secure and label the bag as mercury-contaminated hazardous waste.
Once all visible mercury is picked up and placed in the bag, sprinkle sulfur powder on the spill area; a color change from yellow to brown indicates that mercury is still present. Use a small brush to sweep up the sulfur and residual mercury, and place it into the same bag.
Contact your hazardous waste management company for disposal in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.
Keep a window open for at least 24 to 48 hours after your successful cleanup. Continue to keep students and staff out of cleanup area. If sickness occurs, seek medical attention immediately.
Mercury can be cleaned up easily from hard, smooth surfaces like wood, linoleum, and tile. If a spill occurs on carpet, curtains, upholstery, or a similar surface, cut out the contaminated portions and dispose of as hazardous waste as outlined above. Once removed, check the floor below to ensure mercury has not soaked through the carpet.
Never use a vacuum cleaner to clean up mercury. The vacuum will put mercury vapor into the air and increase exposure. The vacuum will become contaminated and need to be disposed of as hazardous waste.
Never use a broom to clean up mercury. It will break the mercury into smaller droplets and become contaminated.
Never pour mercury down the drain. It may lodge in the plumbing and continue to volatilize over time, or expose workers during maintenance and repair of plumbing system. Due to its toxicity, it may also cause problems with the operation of the septic or sewer system.
Never wash mercury-contaminated items in a washing machine. Mercury may contaminate the machine.
Avoid foot traffic in spill areas. This will spread the mercury around making it harder to clean.
Do not wear jewelry when cleaning up a spill. Mercury will adhere to and contaminate gold and other metals.


text:
American Airlines and Qantas receive approval to form a joint venture
References: Judge stops subpoena from Trump Org docs
Home / Tag Archives: company (page 20)
Tag Archives: company
Dutch railway company to pay reparations for mass deportations of Jews during World War II
November 28, 2018	World 0 8
Recent Emails Receive breaking news and special reports. The news and stories that mattered delivered the weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Nov. 28, 2018 / 3:04 PM GMT By Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The Dutch railway company is setting up a commission to investigate how it can pay for individual reparations for their role in bulk deportations Jews by Nazi …
WhatsApps chief business officer leaves the company – TechCrunch
November 27, 2018	Technology 0 5
About a year after WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton made his much-publicized withdrawal from Facebook, another senior executive and former messaging platform employee is doing so. Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp's Chief Business Officer, announced today that he "will take some time to recharge and spend time with the family." Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 for $ 19 billion and pledged to allow …
Microsoft has (briefly) handed over Apple and today is the most valuable US company
November 27, 2018	Business 0 8
Enlarge / Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft For a short period of time, Microsoft today has a higher market value than Apple, which is often referred to as Apple's most valuable company in the world. The temporary shift is reminiscent of a long and exciting history of rivalry between the two companies – even though today it is a partner …
Microsoft dethrones Apple as the most valuable US company (AAPL, MSFT)
Reuters / Shannon Stapleton Microsoft briefly surpassed Apple as the most valuable US company. It passed Apple on Monday with a market value of about $ 812 billion. Watch Microsoft and Apple trade live. Microsoft on Monday briefly surpassed Apple as the most valuable company in the US, with a market capitalization of about $ 812 billion. Still, Apple was …
PG & E Security Probe: The company may be trying to select the check boxes only
Two weeks before the terrible campfire, a state regulatory judge expressed skepticism about the extent of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s commitment to safety and re-launched the utility's practices. Peter Allen, Administrative Judge for the California Public Utilities Commission, released the comments as part of a review of the corporate culture of PG & E, which began in 2015 in …
Samsung Galaxy S10, a foldable phone could end the annoying status of the company
Samsung Electronics is ready to launch the 10th edition of the Galaxy S Series flagship smartphones and first-ever folding smartphones early next year. For Samsung Mobile CEO Koh Dong-jin, Samsung's launch could be boosted by the launch of the two high-end handsets. In a company statement to executives and employees of Samsung's mobile phone division, Koh admitted that he was …
Beam us up! Colliding galaxy clusters look like a spaceship company (photo)
November 18, 2018	Science 0 6
A recently published composite photograph of the galaxy cluster Abell 1033, located about 1.6 billion light-years from Earth, bears a striking resemblance to Star Trek's Starship Enterprise. Picture credits: X-ray: NASA / CXC / Leiden Univ./F. de Gasperin et al. Optical: SDSS; Radio: LOFAR / ASTRON, NCRA / TIFR / GMRT Is the blur of the USS Enterprise on the …
The Boring Company built the first tunnel
Elon Musk's drilling company has reached a new milestone this week: it has dug up LA's first tunnel. Musk posted a video of the breakthrough on his Twitter account, indicating that the computer has reached the endpoint the company calls O'Leary Station. The video shows a crowd that has gathered at the endpoint as it breaks through the machine. In …
The Boring Company goes through and through with The Brick Store – TechCrunch
Elon Musk shot some crazy, unbelievable tweets last year, but he did not joke about the bricks. Musk has formed a company called The Brick Store LLC to make and sell bricks, according to TechCrunch public documents. The new company, founded in July is headed by Steve Davis, the former SpaceX engineer who also heads The Boring Company (TBC). TBC …
Xiaomi & # 39; Flash Sale & # 39; Angers customers in the UK, the company apologizes
November 14, 2018	Technology 0 10
Xiaomi launched the Mi 8 Pro, Redmi 6A and Mi Band 3 in the UK earlier this month. In classic Xiaomi fashion, the Chinese phone maker held certain "crazy-deal" -lash sales in which it claimed to make an offer for some of its smartphone models at a price of GBP 1 or above Rs. 94. However, the units were fast …
Page 20 of 47« First...10«1819202122	»	3040...Last »


text:
Booz Allen dinged for premature protest
Booz Allen Hamilton loses a bid protest that GAO said was too early. But the firm might be laying the ground work for the future.
Booz Allen Hamilton files a fair number of protests each year. The firm has filed at least seven in the last 12 months but it appears they may have jumped the gun with one of their latest ones.
The Government Accountability Office recently rejected another Booz Allen but did not rule on the merits. GAO merely said that Booz Allen's protest was premature.
It all started in June when the Army awarded Raytheon the three-year, $575 million "Strategic Systems" task order to support the software engineering directorate of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
Then Booz Allen filed a protest arguing that Raytheon had an organizational conflict of interest, that technical proposals weren't reasonably evaluated and that Booz Allen's proposed costs weren't reasonably evaluated.
GSA -- which is managing the procurement for the Army -- asked GAO for an outcome prediction alternative dispute resolution conference.
Here the news was good for Booz Allen: GAO said they would likely rule in favor of the company even in rejecting the protest.
With this information, GSA and the Army have decided to take a corrective action and pulled back Raytheon's award. The government said it would take several actions such as more analysis of the alleged OCI at Raytheon, technical evaluations and pricing.
Apparently this wasn't enough for Booz Allen and they filed another protest claiming the corrective action was insufficient.
Booz Allen focused on some of the terms GSA used in describing its corrective action such as "and/or" and "as it deems necessary." According to the GAO decision, Booz Allen called GSA's corrective action an "illusory promise." GAO wasn't committing to a re-evaluation.
But GAO rejected Booz Allen's protest saying that the company is speculating that the agency will not fairly re-evaluate proposals.
Booz Allen can still file a protest if the contract is re-awarded to Raytheon.
In other words, the company needs to wait and see what GSA and the Army do.
Here is where I think Booz Allen's strategy might be a smart one. They are laying the ground for another protest -- perhaps a stronger one -- because they have gone on the record twice with their concerns.
If Raytheon wins again, you can bet Booz Allen will be back at GAO again.
For now though, Booz Allen has to wait.
Booz Allen declined to comment on the protest.
NEXT STORY: HighPoint Global acquires Primescape Solutions to boost citizen experience strategy


❶Staying in touch is another key component of essay management, and we are proud to announce the support team works day and night to keep you informed.
These weight loss benefits are: Elevates metabolism Suppresses appetite Blocks carbohydrates from turning into fats once inside the body Burns off fat deposits in the body Reduces food cravings Increases energy To ensure that you reap all of these benefits in your Garcinia regimen, remember to take the supplement at the same time every day with a glass of water and a meal.
Full directions come with all products. The back of the bottle has all the information you need. But remember, this is a natural supplement that does not carry the risk of side effects that medications do.
Affordable Papers Reviews of Services mihtorg.ga is a service that can offer you some extra help and provide with affordable paper. Our company supports students in need and offers affordable papers legit writing service.
mihtorg.ga is the best choice for every student. We can guarantee that your content will be original and well-written because we work only with experienced writers who have the necessary academic background and are familiar with all the standards of writing.
Disclaimer: mihtorg.ga is an academic service, aimed to help customers in writing college papers, reviews, essays, thesis papers, dissertations and others. The purpose of the service should be assistance only, and every reference needs to be included. If you always wonder "where can i find someone to write my paper" - so you on your way! Our best custom writers will write for you affordable college papers that .
Get an affordable paper for truly reasonable price. For this reason, be sure to get affordable papers legit and proficient! buy custom essays. Students that have already tried our writing sites leave their comments in the affordable papers reviews. The main thing that they find the most exciting is the combination of quality work they. mihtorg.ga is an online writing service which claims to specialize in writing professional academic papers of every kind, length, subject matter, and even in different languages if you require.


text:
Káto Asítes, en , est un village du dème de Héraklion, dans le district régional de Héraklion, de la Crète, en Grèce. Selon le recensement de 2011, la population de Káto Asítes compte .

Le village est situé à une altitude de  et à une distance de  de Héraklion.

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Localité dans le dème de Héraklion


J.J. Abrams seems to have his paws in all sorts of classic sci-fi properties these dates, having just released Star Trek Into Darkness and digging in to direct Star Wars: Episode VII, but now he's getting set to dive into the mind of one of the genre's greatest minds. According to The Wrap, Abrams and his production house Bad Robot are now developing a project based on a script that Twilight Zone legend Rod Serling wrote shortly before his death in 1975.
Serling's work is titled The Stops Along the Way, but unfortunately there aren't any plot details available yet. Frankly, knowing Abrams and his love of mystery, my guess is that we won't have a clue about the plot until the first episode airs. The project is being shopped through the company's deal with Warner Bros. Television, but one key piece of information that appears to be missing is the format. While it's clear that Abrams is aiming for the small screen, there's no mention if this will be a full series, a mini-series, or a made-for-TV movie. That will probably become clearer once it moves further along in development.
Abrams currently has Person of Interest running on CBS, but will soon have both Believe and Almost Human running up on NBC and Fox, respectively. It's hard to say how hands-on he will be with The Stops Along The Way - let's remember that he still hasn't seen every episode of Fringe - but it's worth noting that Star Wars Episode VII is aiming for release in 2015, meaning that the next three years of the filmmaker's life are pretty locked up.


Bristol Palin is ready for people to get an inside look at her home life.
ET caught up with the 27-year-old reality star, where she opened up about why she decided to join the upcoming season of Teen Mom OGand how she believes that her kids will respect her decision.
"I decided to join Teen Mom because of a lot of reasons. I read this book recently and it was all about turning your wounds into someone else's wisdom and your hurt into someone's healing, and your breakdown into someone else's breakthrough," she began. "It really changed my perspective on a lot of things, and made me realize that God gave me a platform that was to serve others, and if I can do that with this show, you know, letting people know they are not alone, and there are the same struggles across the nation. So that is why I decided to do it. It was to hopefully encourage others and to let them know that life isn't over after a divorce."
Palin and her ex, Dakota Meyer, split in February after a year and a half of marriage. In August, she confirmed that she was "freshly divorced." The two share two daughters together, 2-year-old Sailor and 1-year-old Atlee. Palin is also mom to 9-year-old son, Tripp, from her relationship with Levi Johnston. Prior to letting cameras inside her life, Palin says she lived a fairly normal life.
"People don't realize that I've had a normal job for several years," she explained. "I worked at a doctor's office for almost eight years before I moved to Texas. So my life was pretty figured out. I got engaged, it was a planned pregnancy, 100 percent, and the marriage part of it just didn't work out. So I felt like my life was together and I was definitely ready for another child, but I was not ready for the marriage part of it."
She also reveals that she "100 percent" felt like she and Meyer rushed into marriage. "I think that our marriage was something that was very fast, and he would agree too," she expressed. "There's a lot of things that we probably both wished that we would have done differently. I think there's a lot of things that we would advise our children to do different, absolutely."
During ET's interview, Palin had nothing but great things to say about the father of her daughters, yet admitted that times were tough.
"I've seen a teaser on the show where I'm talking to my mom [Sarah Palin] saying, 'I go to sleep at night knowing that I tried my hardest,'" she explained. "And I do go to sleep at night knowing that I've tried my hardest. Is it unfortunate how things have ended up? Absolutely. But I do go to bed knowing that I have given it my all."
"He is an incredible father and I would never say anything about him as a father because he's blown my expectations," she added. "And I know he's got all the help in the world when they're at his home and I respect him as a father."
Palin, however, is moving on and hopes her story can help other single mothers. So does she regret letting cameras inside her home? She does admit to having some moments where she wishes they would be turned off.
"When my kids are overwhelmed, I can feel it," she confessed. "So there have or 'They need to go to bed.' But the crew we work with is amazing and they respect those boundaries."
For more on Palin, watch below.
Teen Mom OG premieres Oct. 1 on MTV.


text:
Q: Lock mutable objects as immutable in python How do I "lock" an object in Python?
Say I have:
class Foo:
  def __init__(self):
    self.bar = []
    self.qnx = 10

I'd modify foo as much as I want:
foo = Foo()
foo.bar.append('blah')
foo.qnx = 20

But then I'd like to be able to "lock" it such that when I try
lock(foo)
foo.bar.append('blah')  # raises some exception.
foo.qnx = 20            # raises some exception.

Is that possible in Python?

A: Here is a simple way of doing this.
class Foo(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self._bar = []
        self._qnx = 10
        self._locked= False

    @property
    def locked(self):
        return self._locked

    def lock(self):
        self._locked = True

    @property
    def bar(self):
        if self.locked:
            return tuple(self._bar)
        return self._bar

    @property
    def qnx(self):
        return self._qnx
    @qnx.setter
    def qnx(self,val):
        if self.locked:
            raise AttributeError
        self._qnx = val

def lock(obj):
    obj.lock()


text:
Sun, 09 Jan, 2022 - 09:58
Olivia Rodrigo celebrates one anniversary of global hit Drivers License
The viral track topped the charts in the UK and US and went on to win many accolades.
By Naomi Clarke, PA Entertainment Reporter
Olivia Rodrigo has celebrated the "little song that changed her whole life" as her debut single Drivers License reaches its one-year anniversary.
The US pop sensation, 18, shot to worldwide fame after the release of the global hit last January, which topped the charts in the UK and US.
The track went on to win song of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards and the Apple Music Awards.
It has also been nominated for record of the year at the 2022 Grammy Awards alongside global superstars including Abba, Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X.
The singer, who previously acted in the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical – The Series, first made headlines when the track went viral online with the help of TikTok and claims of a potential love triangle amongst her Disney co-stars being the inspiration for the song.
In Rodrigo's song, she sings about her heartbreak over a break-up and refers to a "blonde girl" who is "so much older than me", and "everything I'm insecure about".
Rumours swirled online about a love triangle between Rodrigo, her High School Musical co-star Joshua Bassett, 21, and actress Sabrina Carpenter, 22, best known for starring in the Disney series Girl Meets World.
However, Rodrigo rose above the speculation and continued to have a breakout year, with her follow-up singles Deja Vu and Good 4 U also enjoying incredible success.
Her debut album Sour also topped the charts in the UK and US and won album of the year at the Apple Music Awards and People's Choice Awards, with another pending nomination from the Grammy Awards.
The singer has been named Time magazine's Entertainer Of The Year.
Ex-FBI agent: Jamie Spears used secret listening device to spy on Britney
Rachel Stevens to miss Dancing On Ice on Sunday due to injury
Fashion world mourns 'indomitable' Andre Leon Talley
Chrissy Teigen celebrates six months of being alcohol-free


text:
Mondariz-Balneario – gmina w Hiszpanii, w prowincji Pontevedra, w Galicji, o powierzchni 2,31 km². W 2011 roku gmina liczyła 690 mieszkańców.

Przypisy

Gminy w Galicji


text:
Global Staycations Up 18% With Hotel Room Rates Climbing Despite Covid Restrictions
Posted by Splendicity | Feb 22, 2021 | Travel
Research by Hoo, the hotel room offer platform, has found that the level of staycations being taken across 16 global holiday hotspots has increased by an average of 18% when compared to this time last year. With the cost of accommodation also climbing 16% due to this uplift in domestic demand.
Hoo analysed statistics on booking momentum from SiteMinder across 16 key tourism markets, looking at the ratio of international and domestic holidays booked.
The figures show that currently, an average of 76% of all bookings are for domestic holidays, with just 24% of bookings being made for holidays abroad. This is an 18% swing when compared to the same point last year when just 58% of bookings were for domestic holidays.
At the same time, this domestic demand seems to have caused an increase in the cost of staycations. Hoo also analysed hotel room rates across major cities within each nation and found that the average cost of a room per night has increased by 16% from £95 a year ago, to £111 today.
The biggest swings towards staycations
Where the biggest changes in holiday trends are concerned, Singapore leads the way. A year ago, just 42% of all holidays booked were domestic stays, while now this has increased to 83%; a 41% change in holidaymaker habits.
Both New Zealand and the Netherlands have both seen a 40% increase in domestic holiday momentum. In New Zealand, with its strict quarantine rules for overseas travel, domestic holidays now account for 95% of all bookings, up from 55% a year ago. In the Netherlands, the choice to opt for a staycation has increased from 29% this time last year to 70% this year.
Biggest staycation holiday hotspots
When it comes to the current staycation hotspots, the UK ranks within the top five with 90% of all bookings being made for domestic holidays.
Just South Africa (91%), the United States (94%), New Zealand (95%) and Australia (97%) rank higher where the preference for a staycation is concerned.
Holidaymakers in Mexico have the lowest tendency to holiday at home, with just 47% booking domestic trips, followed by Morocco (48%) and Canada (49%).
Interestingly, Mexico and Canada are the only two nations to go against the growing trend of staycations, with -2% and -15% declines in domestic holiday bookings respectively.
Biggest hotel price hikes
The biggest increase in hotel room rates in the last year has been across Morocco, with a huge 92% jump from £106 per night to £203.
France (44%), Italy (43%), Hong Kong (33%) and the UK (21%) have also seen some of the largest increases in the cost of a hotel room per night.
In contrast, the cost of a hotel across major cities in South Africa (-35%), New Zealand (-13%) and the USA (-8%) has actually dropped, while remaining static in the Netherlands.
Hoo Co-founder, Adrian Murdock, commented:
"This time last year, we were already starting to see caution where our holidays were concerned, as the growing threat of Covid caused uncertainty over travel plans. A year down the line and there's an obvious shift away from international travel.
The silver lining for the travel industry is that many holidaymakers are, at least, hoping to get away for a staycation this year. Although we currently remain in lockdown in many parts of the world, many are hoping that the easing of restrictions will allow domestic travel by the time the holiday season arrives.
Of course, the downside to this uplift in demand is an increase in cost and with so many of us looking to staycations to break the monotony, demand is pushing up hotel room rates by quite some margin.
While the year on year change has been smaller than other nations, it's great to see the UK rank within the top five with respect to heading away on a staycation holiday this year. The UK tourist industry has been hit very hard as a result of numerous government lockdowns and while times are currently very tough, the release of this coiled spring of travelling intent should help to spur a quick revival across the sector. Maybe it's the start of a longer-term return for the Great British Holiday."
Table shows the increase in domestic vs international booking momentum and the change in the average hotel room rate sorted by the biggest swing towards domestic holidays
Nation 2020 2021 % swing to domestic bookings Average hotel room rate per night (major cities by nation)
International Domestic International Domestic 2020 Room Rate 2021 Room Rate Change (%)
Singapore 58% 42% 17% 83% 41% £135 £148 10%
Netherlands 71% 29% 30% 70% 40% £101 £101 0%
New Zealand 45% 55% 5% 95% 40% £109 £95 -13%
Morocco 78% 23% 52% 48% 26% £106 £203 92%
South Africa 34% 66% 9% 91% 25% £80 £52 -35%
France 40% 60% 17% 83% 23% £104 £150 44%
Spain 46% 54% 26% 74% 19% £80 £83 4%
United States 23% 77% 6% 94% 17% £108 £99 -8%
Australia 17% 83% 3% 97% 14% £108 £127 18%
Italy 52% 48% 37% 63% 14% £65 £93 43%
Germany 31% 69% 18% 82% 13% £75 £87 16%
United Kingdom 23% 77% 10% 90% 13% £110 £133 21%
Hong Kong 23% 77% 14% 86% 10% £63 £84 33%
U.A.E 49% 51% 43% 57% 7% £142 £171 20%
Mexico 51% 49% 53% 47% -2% £40 £45 13%
Canada 36% 64% 51% 49% -15% £93 £97 4%
Average 42% 58% 24% 76% 18% £95 £111 16%
Analysis of year on year booking momentum sourced from SiteMinder (Feb 2021 vs Feb 2020)
Analysis of year on year room rate cost in major cities for each nation sourced from Trivago (Feb 2021 vs Feb 2020)
PreviousBoarini Milanesi Launches A 6 Million Euro Bag To Save The Oceans
Next3.5 Tonnes Of Clothing Waste Thrown Away Every Five Minutes In The UK
A Quick Guide To The Seychelles
Road Out Of Lockdown – International Hotel Suggestions For June 2021
Locke Design-Led Aparthotels Expands In UK and Europe
Jumeirah Group Announces Stunning New Hotel Jumeirah Maldives
The Food & Company Cook Book – Perfect Christmas Present 2021
Oct 8, 2021 | Food
From Runway To Motorway – Volvo Cars X 3.1 Phillip Lim Sustainable Weekend Bag
Oct 8, 2021 | Cars, Fashion
The Rise Of Dry Dating – Third Of Young Brits Stays Sober On Dates
Sep 22, 2021 | Life
Replace Your Eye Makeup Every 3 Months – Dermatologist Advice
Sep 22, 2021 | Beauty
The Seven Signs You May Have An Online Shopping Addiction
Sep 22, 2021 | Fashion
UK Sunshine Capital Ramsgate – Celebrates 200 Years Of Royal Harbour Status
Sep 20, 2021 | Travel
Dóttir Launches Ultra-Competitive Sports-focused Headphones
Sep 20, 2021 | Technology