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Verizon: Law Enforcement Demands for "Cell Tower Dumps" Still Rising
The number of "cell tower dumps" requested by law enforcement authorities continued to rise in Verizon's semiannual "transparency report" even as other forms of law enforcement surveillance held steady. Verizon received approximately 8,870 warrants or court orders for cell tower dumps in the first half of 2017, compared with 6,000 for the first half of 2016, Verizon said in a first-half transparency report released yesterday.
Cell tower dumps enable law enforcement authorities to identify the phone numbers of all devices that connected to a specific cell tower at a particular time. For all of 2016, Verizon said it received 14,630 warrants or orders for cell tower dumps; in 2013 the number was 3,200. "This tool is being used much more frequently by law enforcement," the Verizon report said.
The number of law enforcement requests received by Verizon for other forms of surveillance was largely unchanged in the first half of 2017 compared with other six-month periods. The company received 68,237 subpoenas seeking customer data during the period covered by the latest report, versus 67,433 for the first half of 2016.
The total number of requests for customer data was 138,773 during the first six months of 2017 compared with 135,786 for the comparable period of 2016. "The number of demands that we have received each year has been fairly stable since we made our first report over four years ago," said Craig Silliman, the company's executive vice president and general counsel, in a statement accompanying the latest report. "In the first half of 2017 we rejected approximately 3% of the demands we received; that is, we rejected almost 2% of the subpoenas we received and 6% of the warrants and orders we received," the report said. "We might reject a demand as legally invalid for a number of reasons, including that a different type of legal process is needed for the type of information requested."
Most of the law enforcement requests sought data about a customer's account rather than the contents of a customer's communications, Verizon said. "We are compelled to provide contents of communications to law enforcement relatively infrequently," the report noted.
"Under the law, law enforcement may seek communications or other content that a customer may store through our services, such as text messages or e-mail. Verizon only releases such stored content to law enforcement with a probable cause warrant; we do not produce stored content in response to a general order or subpoena. During the first half of 2017, we received 4,436 warrants for stored content," the report said.
Mr. Silliman's statement accompanying the report included a plug for two pieces of legislation pending in Congress, the ECPA Modernization Act and the International Communications Privacy Act (ICPA). Both bills would attempt to update the processes used to obtain electronic communications from providers such as Verizon.
The ECPA Modernization Act (S 1657) would require government agencies to obtain a warrant from a court based on probable cause before demanding e-mails, text messages, and other electronic communications from a service provider. Under existing law, the warrant requirement is applied unevenly depending on where the data is stored and how long it has been stored. A version of the bill has already cleared the House and was recently introduced in the Senate (TR Daily, July 27).
The International Communications Privacy Act (S 1671) would update the procedures used by law enforcement agencies to obtain data held overseas. "This bill emphasizes that the U.S. government cannot obtain a customer's stored communications or content without a warrant," Mr. Silliman said. "In addition, the bill reasonably addresses our concerns about respecting both international law and the privacy needs of our customers outside the U.S."
"Verizon has long taken the view that the U.S. government cannot unilaterally require a U.S. company to produce data entrusted to it by a non-U.S. customer for storage in one of its data centers outside the U.S.," he said. "The ICPA bill takes a balanced approach," Mr. Silliman added. "When the U.S. government seeks the communications of a person in a qualifying foreign country, the U.S. government would be required to provide notice to that country's government to afford it an opportunity to object, thereby fairly respecting the sovereignty of that country, the privacy of its citizens and, at the same time, the needs of law enforcement." —Tom Leithauser, tom.leithauser@wolterskluwer.com
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Have you lost weight and kept it off? Pls share how!
That old New Year's chestnut! I went up a size after having my baby and would love to get back into my old clothes.
There are so many faddy diets and workouts out there, so I'd love inspiration from those of you who've actually done it and kept it off.
When I'm not looking after my toddler, I just want to curl up with a book or go on Facebook. What was it that helped - a particular class, gym, book, podcast? Inspire me - please!
In the past, I have done low carb diets, which I think are good at getting the weight off. It is hard as carbs are the nicest foods, but if you can stop eating bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and sugary foods it will work wonders. The first seven days are tough, but if you can get through that, you will be fine.
In terms of exercise, I have always thought strength training classes are the best, as they help to build muscles, which in turn help you to burn more calories. I did the body pump class for a long time, which I thought really helped me to lose weight and keep it off. A cardio class like spinning is great also.
Hope this helps. I am in no way an expert, and this is from my own personal experience. Good luck.
I was in the exact same place as you after having 2 kids back to back. I just couldn't shift the weight so I felt a new approach was needed. Anyway, a friend suggested intermittent fasting, where you only eat within a smaller time frame of the day, for example 1pm to 9pm at night. It has great psychological benefits because you feel like you can eat more because you are consolidating all your calories within a smaller window of the day.
At the beginning yes, you will be hungry in the mornings but then after a week or two, you adjust and are no longer hungry until around noon or 1pm when you have your first big meal. I found it worked amazing for me.
The weight has dropped off surprisingly fast. I am a lot less rushed in the morning because I didn't have to worry about my own breakfast. Just a coffee and I am good to go. Then after kids are down for their afternoon nap, I can really enjoy a big meal in some peace and quite. I have a snack a few hours later, and then another big meal in the evening. I always feel very full and satiated.
I was reluctant to try it at first, because it went against everything i have been taught about dieting and all that talk about breakfast being the most important meal of the day....but in reality there is a lot of debate about that theory and some would say its not necessarily true. Anyway, all I can give is my own experience and it worked for me, I love it and I plan on continue eating this way for the long term.
You don't say whether you drink much alcohol but for me weight loss has always had to go hand in hand with cutting down massively on my alcohol intake. I had totally underestimated how many calories there are in alcohol, and what effect a couple of glasses of wine most evenings has on my weight. It's something I still have to watch massively when I notice my weight creeping up.
Oh one other thing. I eventually got into running but before doing that I found great benefits by just "power walking" - going for long (eg. 30-60 minute) walks but at a fast pace. Great post baby activity, can be done with your child in the buggy, and a suitable app will show you how many calories you're burning - which is surprisingly high considering it's only walking.
Drinking more water - snacking on greens - cutting out white carbs.
Increasing intensity of exercise - as a mum I haven't got hours or the inclination to go to the gym! Highly recommend quick workouts of 45 minutes with the children - like today even in the rain the boy enjoyed seeing mum squating around the park!!! I've been doing it since new year and already feeling the benefits of it.
I have a personal trainer who is fab - wattsfituk@gmail.com / 07961730681 (Neil) - is running a free consultation through Jan.
If you want to lose weight then diet is the overwhelming factor. Exercise despite it's obvious positives is a distance 2nd and I say that as a qualified personal trainer.
Take a look at your alcohol, dairy and wheat consumption. See if you can take a little off each and see what the results are. If you can combine a little more exercise during the week, walking, swimming, riding a bike etc, all the better. That'll stimulate your metabolism and hopefully release the cheery endorphins.
Exercise fads are as bad as diet fads. Just a little less calorific intake with a little more exercise will achieve a managable, sustainable weight loss.
Could try contacting James at FittoLast. They run a 12 week fitness programme and offer nutritional advice and monitor you over the 12 weeks including weighing and measuring. No faddy diets here.They focus on improving your diet and combine it with quite intensive classes three times a week.The classes involve using your body weight, free weights and interval training . If you listen to the advice and remain committed the results can be AMAZING Remember it is not the fat that makes you fat. It's the sugar!
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I've tried many thing and the simple fact is eat less and exercise more.
Cut your portion size down and increase the exercise that you do. That could be walking more steps, taking the stairs instead of a lift etc.
A Fitbit watch really helps for motivation and definitely cut out for booze as its empty calories.
Your body needs carbs for energy so whilst lowering the carbs is OK don't cut them out as once you reintroduce them the weight will pile back on.
If you lack motivation there are some fantastic and free apps that you can download on iTunes by Glenn Harold - his weight loss app is fantastic.
Also if you have time tonight or if you can watch on catch up there is a gat TV show on channel four at 8pm all about diets and weight loss.
Morning: Oatmeal + fresh fruits + cinnamon + walnuts. Green tea!
Snack: Toast with honey/cottage cheese or fruits/nuts. Tea/Coffee.
Exercise: ~20 minutes. If you can - do 30-40 mins at least twice a week.
Dinner: Something like the lunch.
If you can do a 10 minutes of morning yoga for flexibility it'd be great! I, personally do a 1 hour yoga for beginners at home every Saturday.
My summary is: Drink a lot of water and tea, eat clean, exercise. And you're good to go.
Weightwatchers is the way forward. I did it after being unhappy with my weight after having two children. I did it online in the privacy of my own home, I never wanted to go and weigh myself in front of a load of people. I cut down massively on alcohol and I ate everything else including cakes and chocolate in small quantities. And I limited my intake of cheese. I did it all slowly and lost 20lbs in 7 months. I am now at my pre-wedding weight so am very happy with life! No other diet ever worked for me, cutting out carbs or anything else isn't logical as you really crave it so just reduce intake. Really give it a go, there are online deals on at the moment. Good luck!


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Green Matter: Avantium's got the t-shirt
Avantium, the Dutch technology company that developed and is currently commercializing the biobased polyester known as PEF (polyethylene furanoate), announced yet another breakthrough. According to the company, it has demonstrated that PEF, like PET, can also be used to make fibers, and that, moreover, PEF bottles can be recycled into PEF fibers and subsequently processed into 100% biobased T-shirts. So, why exactly would that be exciting news? Well, consider the following:
Karen Laird | Nov 14, 2013
Avantium, the Dutch technology company that developed and is currently commercializing the biobased polyester known as PEF (polyethylene furanoate), announced yet another breakthrough. According to the company, it has demonstrated that PEF, like PET, can also be used to make fibers, and that, moreover, PEF bottles can be recycled into PEF fibers and subsequently processed into 100% biobased T-shirts.
So, why exactly would that be exciting news? Well, consider the following:
First, demand for textile products has been growing for years. Incredibly, annual per capita consumption has grown 53% over the past three decades, reaching 12.2 kg, in 2012, up from a mere 8 kg in the early 1980s. The fastest growth has been generated by manmade fibers: the percentage of manmade fibers among total fiber production rose from 30% in 1980, to 59% in 2012.
Annually, some 50 million tons of manmade fibers are produced worldwide. The most popular of these is by far polyester, with a market share of 81% that can be valued, according to the recently published Polyester Chain Report 2013 at $75 billion in 2012.
Polyester boasts a wide range of properties and is suitable for applications ranging from filaments, fibers and technical yarns to containers, films and moldings. The most widely used polyester is PET, with the majority of the world's PET production - over 60% - being used for synthetic fibers.
Second, the textile industry is notorious for the impact it has on the environment. In recent years, governments, NGOs and consumers have pressured the textile industry to take a more proactive approach in reducing the industry's environmental footprint, leading the industry to look for more sustainable alternatives to current practices and materials. Initiatives in this area include, for example, the development by a young Dutch company called DyeCoo of a technology for waterless dyeing. By using carbon dioxide as the application medium, the use of water in the textile dyeing process can be completely eliminated. The company is believed to be the first company to successfully apply the scCO2 process to the commercial dyeing of polyester fabric.
In view of the fact that the fiber market is an important recycling outlet for today's PET packaging, the use of biobased PEF instead of oil-based PET in packaging and fiber applications might well be another route to a more sustainable textile industry. The results presented by Avantium today show that similar end-of-life solutions are more than feasible for PEF, especially as the fibers used were spun, woven into fabric and dyed at the Institute of Textile Technology at RWTH Aachen University using conventional polyester processing technology and equipment.
"The production of the first biobased PEF T-shirts produced from recycled bottles, adds apparel and sportswear to the many potential outlets of PEF," said Avantium's CEO, Tom van Aken.
During the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, shorts and jerseys made from recycled petroleum-based PET bottles were introduced by Nike for the national soccer teams of Brazil, Japan, England, the Netherlands and Team USA, saving petroleum based raw materials and reducing energy consumption by an estimated 30%. PEF T-shirts made from 100% biobased and recycled material would be the next step in sustainability, reducing dependence on petroleum and further decreasing the carbon footprint of apparel.


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Finance One in four plan to take on debt this festive period
10:00pm, Dec 9, 2021 Updated: 8:11pm, Dec 9
One in four plan to take on debt this festive period
Make sure not to bury yourself in debt these holidays. Photo: Getty
Sezen Bakan Finance Reporter
Almost one in four Australians say they will go into debt to fund their Christmas shopping this year, prompting warnings from financial advisers.
A new survey from Reviews.org shows 24 per cent of us plan to borrow an average of $570 across credit cards and buy now, pay later services to cover festive costs.
And while separate data from the Reserve Bank shows Australians owe less money on their credit cards today than at any point since May 2003, personal finance experts said people planning to go into debt should keep in mind that it's a slippery slope.
"It could be $500 this time for Christmas presents, [but] in a few months it could be another few hundred dollars for something else," said Chronos Private principal adviser Chris Giaouris.
Draw up a budget
Reviews.org's survey of 1000 Australians found shoppers were planning to spend an average of almost $700 on Christmas gifts and 'necessities' like food and decorations.
But more than half said they weren't planning to draw up a budget for their shopping and would just spend as they go.
Canstar chief spokesperson Steve Mickenbecker said this was a recipe for disaster – as without a budget people would have no limit on their spending.
Mr Mickenbecker said people planning to go into debt should first consider whether they can make their repayments.
"Work out your budget, and say, 'Look, I can afford to repay this amount over a couple of months,'" he said.
"If you're in doubt that you can afford [repayments], maybe you shouldn't be spending it."
Mr Mickenbecker said deciding what items you want to buy ahead of time would relieve some pressure and help you stay under budget.
Mr Giaouris said in the future, if you know you're going to spend big over the holiday season, start saving during the year.
Deciding what you are going to spend and putting away an amount like $10 a week will help ease some pressure when it comes time to spend, he said.
But putting aside money throughout the year might be impossible for some.
A Canstar report released on Wednesday shows 25 per cent of Australians saved no money during 2021, mainly because they were living from week to week.
"It's easy to say, 'Just spend less throughout the year' … but that's not always possible for some families," Mr Giaouris said.
If you're struggling to save money for presents, organising a Secret Santa might work.
Mr Giaouris said being randomly allocated one person to buy a gift for will prevent you forking out too much cash on everyone you know.
Gifts also don't have to be expensive, and just spending time with someone or doing them a favour can be enough, Mr Mickenbecker said.
Christmas can be an awful financial trap, but if you're in a tough spot, your loved ones will understand, he said.
"I don't think the people that you're gifting to at this time of year would want to see you in financial hardship because you've given them a gift."
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Ladislav Soldán (* 10. října 1938 Brno) je český literární historik a kritik. Užívá také pseudonymy Ladislav Jurkovič nebo L. Sel.vet

Život
V roce 1956 maturoval na JSŠ v Blansku, v letech 1957–1961 absolvoval vysokoškolská studia oboru filozofie - historie na Filozofické fakultě UJEP, nynější Masarykově univerzity v Brně. Tamtéž externě absolvoval obor Divadelní věda (1963–1970). Jako učitel působil na ZŠ v Petrově nad Desnou (1963–1964), poté ve Sloupu v Moravském krasu. Od dubna 1964 se na základě konkurzu stal asistentem tehdejšího Slovenského ústavu pre ďalšie vzdelávanie lekárov v Bratislavě, od 1967 tamtéž ve funkci odborného a vědeckého pracovníka na ústavu přejmenovaném na Inštitút lekárov a farmaceutov (do roku 1970). Poté pracoval jako odborný pracovníkem tehdejšího Okresního kulturního střediska v Blansku. V letech 1972–1973 byl jmenován ředitelem zdejšího okresního muzea. Poté byl zaměstnán na brněnských vysokých školách jako učitel.

V roce 1968 získal titul PhDr, v roce 1985 se stal docentem. Předmětem jeho badatelského zájmu byly po léta otázky filozofické antropologie a osobnosti Ericha Fromma, dále životního profilu a kritického díla jeho vysokoškolského učitele, v Brně působícího doc. dr. Olega Suse (1924–1982).

Rodina
V roce 1963 se oženil s Marií Heclovou (dcera Šárka 1964). Jeho druhou ženou byla od roku 1965 Mirjana rozená Kljajić, srbské národnosti (1942 – 2015), se kterou měl syny Slobodana a Tomislava. Manželka, narozená v Sarajevu, patřila k významným rodinám Sládečků a Odkolků, majitelů mlýnů atd., působících v blízkém okolí Sarajeva, poté z vlastního rozhodnutí přestěhovaných do nynější České republiky.

Dílo

Edice kritických textů (i celého díla výběrově)
 Karel Schulz: Tvář neznámého a jiné prózy Editor, autor doslovu, edičních poznámek a vysvětlivek Ladislav Soldán, (Arca JiMfa Třebíč a Gloria 1998. 224 str.)
 Miloš Dvořák: Doma v Jasenici Uspořádal a k vydání připravil Ladislav Soldán. (Pro obec Jasenice vydalo nakl. L. Marek, Brno 2006)
 Miloš Dvořák: O katolictví v české literatuře K vydání připravil, studií HOST V DOMĚ HOSTA a Výběrovou bibliografií M. Dvořáka od r. 1960 doplnil Ladislav Soldán (L. Marek, Brno 2007)
 Miloš Dvořák: O Jakubu Demlovi Uspořádal a doslovem Miloš Dvořák o Jakubu Demlovi doplnil Ladislav Soldán (Nakladatelství CHERM, Praha 2007)
 Miloš Dvořák: Inflace slova v našem věku Texty z let 1945- 1969. Uspořádal a Doslovem a komentářem autora doprovodil Ladislav Soldán (Cherm, edice Duch a tvar sv. 4) (CHERM, Praha 2009)
 Jan Strakoš: O české literatuře, kritice a historii Editoval a Doslovem doprovodil Ladislav Soldán (CHERM, edice Duch a tvar sv. 7) (CHERM, Praha 2012)
 Miloš Dvořák: Svítání kritikovo Texty z let 1919 – 1944. Uspořádal a doslovem s názvem Býti kritikem doplnil Ladislav Soldán (CHERM, edice Duch a tvar s. 9)(CHERM, Praha 2017)
 Karel Kapoun: Básník Uspořádali Ladislav Soldán a Ivo Lukáš. Doslovem nazvaným Karel Kapoun (1902 – 1963) Básník dnes málem zapomenutý doprovodil Ladislav Soldán (Nakladatelství Barrister – Principal, Brno 2015)
 Robert Konečný: Spáč pod plamenem Básně, kritiky, vyznání. Uspořádal a doslov s názvem Robert Konečný, literární kritik a redaktor napsal Ladislav Soldán (nakladatelství L. Marek, Brno 2006)
 Oleg Sus méně známý. (A stejně neúprosný) Z Článků, Recenzí, Glosáře, Lektýrníku, Sami proti sobě a jiných rubrik HOSTA DO DOMU 1968. Edičně připravil a doslov napsal Ladislav Soldán (Tribun EU, Brno 2017)
 Bohumil Marčák -Ladislav Soldán: Osmkrát Oleg Sus. (Podtitul: Vždy stejný a vždy trochu jiný). Vydalo nakladatelství Miroslav Klepáček - Sursum Tišnov - Brno 2018. Editor Ladislav Soldán. Fotografie Bohumil Marčák.

Básnické sbírky
 Ještě naposled Bibliofilie – 49 ks – "Básnický deník z let 1998 – 1999" – podtitul editora Tomáše Mazáče (Brno – Žilina 1999)
 Bydliště slov (Echolálie krajinomalby vyznání 1998 – 2001) (Gloria, Rosice u Brna 2003)
 Písmeny proti zdi (Básně 2002 – 2005) (Knihař, Brno 2005)
 A do třetice pleskot vět (Básně 2005 – 2007) (L. Marek, Brno 2008
 Polibky, plivance a jiné zvyklosti (Básně 2015 – 2016) (Miroslav Klepáček – Sursum 2016)
 Krajiny a zvyklosti spíše místní (Básně z roku 2016) ) (Tribun EU, s.r.o., Brno 2017)
 Stále se slovy (Básně 2017 – 2018) (Tribun ET, s. r. o., Brno 2018)
 Zase se slovu aneb Všehochuť (Básně 1959 – 1960 a 2017) (Tribun EU, s.r.o., Brno 2017)
 77krát v sedmistupech (Básně od Božího hodu 2017 přes Nový rok 2018 až do Hromnic) (Tribun, s.r.o., Brno 2018)
 Až pod zuby slov (Básně z roku 2018) (Tribun EU, s.r.o., Brno 2018)
 Polibky, plivance a jiné zvyklosti (2. vydání) (GLYF Media, Brno 2020)

Další díla
 Ke genezi kritika, mladý Bedřich Václavek a F. X. Šalda (1977)
 Jaroslav Hašek (1982)
 Karel Dostál-Lutinov a Nový život : dva sloupy Katolické moderny (2000)
 Od konce století před práh milénia

Účast na kolektivních dílech
 Lexikon české literatury
 Přehledné dějiny literatury II, III
 Karel Dostál-Lutinov bez mýtů, předsudků a iluzí : nástin života a díla vůdčí osobnosti českého katolického modernismu (s Pavlem Markem, 1998)

Reference

Externí odkazy

 Heslo ve Slovníku českých filosofů
 Kulturní magazín s L. Soldánem v TV Noe

Literární vědci
Čeští literární historikové
Docenti
Absolventi Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity
Slovenští vysokoškolští pedagogové
Vyučující na Slezské univerzitě v Opavě
Narození 10. října
Narození v roce 1938
Narození v Brně
Žijící lidé
Muži

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            // Act
            var result = sut.HostsRecordExists("127.0.0.1", "NotFound");

            // Assert
            result.Should().BeTrue();
        }

        [Fact]
        public void NoRecordExists_False()
        {
            // Act
            var result = sut.HostsRecordExists("0.0.0.0", "NotFound");

            // Assert
            result.Should().BeFalse();
        }

        [Fact]
        public void RecordExists_CommentedHost_False()
        {
            // Act
            var result = sut.HostsRecordExists("127.0.0.1", "DisabledHost.dev");

            // Assert
            result.Should().BeFalse();
        }

        [Fact]
        public void AddRecord_Always_Adds()
        {
            // Act
            sut.AddHostsRecord("127.0.0.1", "MyTest.dev");

            // Assert
            var hostsLines = ReadHostsLines();
            var hasRecord = hostsLines.Any(l => l == "127.0.0.1 MyTest.dev");
            hasRecord.Should().BeTrue();
        }

        [Fact]
        public void AddRecord_CommentedAlready_AddsAnyway()
        {
            // Act
            sut.AddHostsRecord("127.0.0.1", "DisabledHost.dev");

            // Assert
            var hostsLines = ReadHostsLines();

            var hasRecord = hostsLines.Any(l => l == "127.0.0.1 DisabledHost.dev");
            var numberOfMentions = hostsLines.Count(l => l.Contains("DisabledHost.dev"));

            hasRecord.Should().BeTrue();
            numberOfMentions.Should().Be(2);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void AddRecord_AlreadyExist_DoesNotAdd()
        {
            // Act
            sut.AddHostsRecord("127.0.0.1", "ImSpecial");
            sut.AddHostsRecord("127.0.0.1", "ImSpecial");

            // Assert
            var hostsLines = ReadHostsLines();
            var numberOfMentions = hostsLines.Count(l => l.Contains("ImSpecial"));
            numberOfMentions.Should().Be(1);
        }

        [Fact]
        public void RemoveHostsRecord_Removes_Always()
        {
            // Act
            sut.RemoveHostsRecord("127.0.0.1", "ToBeRemoved.dev");

            // Assert
            // validate hosts file does not contain the record anymore
            var hostsLines = ReadHostsLines();
            var hasRecord = hostsLines.Any(l => l.ToLower().Contains("ToBeRemoved.dev".ToLower()));
            hasRecord.Should().BeFalse();
        }

        [Fact]
        public void RemoveHostsRecord_Commented_DoesNotChange()
        {
            // Act
            sut.RemoveHostsRecord("127.0.0.1", "ToBeRemoved.disabled");

            // Assert
            // validate hosts file does not contain the record anymore
            var hostsLines = ReadHostsLines();
            var hasRecord = hostsLines.Any(l => l.ToLower().Contains("ToBeRemoved.disabled".ToLower()));
            hasRecord.Should().BeTrue();
        }

        [Fact]
        public void RemoveHosts_WithoutMathingHost_DoesNotChangeFile()
        {
            // Arrange
            var fileContentsBefore = File.ReadAllText(hostsPath);

            // Act
            sut.RemoveHostsRecord("8.8.8.8", "blah");

            // Assert
            var contentsAfter = File.ReadAllText(hostsPath);
            contentsAfter.Should().Be(fileContentsBefore);
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            File.Copy(hostsPath + ".backup", hostsPath, overwrite: true);
        }

        private List<String> ReadHostsLines()
        {
            var allLines = File.ReadAllLines(hostsPath).ToList();
            return allLines;
        }
    }
}


Many adults with learning difficulties are eager to work and engage with their local community, but find there are few opportunities to do so. Brunswick was founded in 1992 to address this need. We took over a run down plant nursery and have transformed it over the years through hard work - much of it done by volunteers.
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Our volunteers come from all walks of life, are aged from 14 years old to 88, and bring a variety of skills and experience. We offer opportunities for volunteer placements, for example, as placement for a school or college course, or for awards such as the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
Our volunteers need to be a minimum of 14 years old, and some volunteering opportunities will be restricted to over 16s or over 18s.
What's it like volunteering at Brunswick?
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Most usually this is travel to and from your volunteering session.
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If you would like to find out more about volunteering at Brunswick, contact us to arrange a visit or have a chat.


Owners Craig and Beth Wathen are usually working the bar at their encyclopedic store. They can point you toward bottles of Goose Island's Bourbon County Stout, one of the nation's first and best bourbon-barrel beers. Brewed in Chicago and black as tar, it tastes of cinnamon and raisin, toasted coconut, and sweet pipe smoke. At the in-store bar, the on-tap list changes weekly, but you might find Firestone Walker's Abacus, a bourbon-barreled barley wine laced with silky fig, brandy, and butter. Order some cheeses and chocolates and you've got yourself a meal.


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RIK LANDER ARTWORKS Narratives Installations Videos Day Job
Rik Lander's practice over the last quarter century is highly diverse ranging from linear video, multiscreen video, video installations, web narrative and pervasive theatre. It is unified by a consistent exploration of giving the audience a role and agency within the work.
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2017 – 2019 freelance conversation designer for chatbots
I create the personality and words for chatbots. Commercially, I have been focusing on bots for training or assisting healthcare professionals. My main client is Elzware.
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In 2017 I have written commercials for Indian radio and the script for an insurance company that delivers a customised video to each viewer. In 2015-16, I wrote 50 scripts for Google's Youtube channel The Apps Show via the agency Quill.
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The Branded team was created as a production unit within the media agency MPG Media Contacts, renamed Havas Media in 2012. From a standing start in 2010 the team I was part of built this into a business turning over six figures. My role was creative director, either overseeing the creative elements of our productions or sometimes directing them myself. In this period, I directed commercials for cinema and TV and interactive videos that used the Facebook API.
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I had a long period of directing TV programmes in several niches. I did light entertainment shows like The Word and Eurotrash. Travel shows like Lonely Planet and Pilot Guides. I did a long stint making arts documentaries including Channel 4's annual coverage of the Turner Prize for 5 years and Andrew Graham Dixon's A History of British Art.
From the mid-1990's on I was involved in the making of a lot of interactive projects, starting in CD ROMs as internal communications for corporations like Unilever and Microsoft and on to bigger projects like the BBC's first interactive soap, Wannabes (2006) which I directed and story-edited. I co-developed the format for Me In The Mix (BBCJam) which had an £800,000 budget. It was an online teaching tool offering 11-13 year olds the chance to play with the concept of citizenship.


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If we are to talk about which of today's highly urbanized countries is worth unravelling, one cannot skip the thought of Australia. Immigration to Australia, one of the sixth largest country in the world with the most robust economy and a highly skilled workforce proffers you with a kaleidoscope of diverse communities and cultures.
What is the process for Immigration to Australia?
As a prosperous nation, Australia is gifted with an excellent Quality of Life and if you're certain about moving in, then you must understand its organized immigration system and straightforward immigration laws.
You have to choose your occupation (if listed) from SOL / CSOL, to apply.
Get the skills assessment from the relevant assessing authority.
ONCE your profile is selected and you receive an invitation to apply, you have to submit the application (along with the Australia immigration fees) within the next 60 days for VISA APPROVAL.
How can I migrate to Australia from India?
Having one of the Advanced and well-developed economies in the world, huge number of Indians have made their home in Australia. Over the last few years Australia has seen an upsurge in the no. of Indian immigrants due its favoring climate, employment opportunities, culture and customs.
SUBCLASS 189 - A Permanent Residence Visa, to live and work in Australia, wherein the applicant has to score a minimum of 60 points upon assessment, to meet the qualifying criteria for the General Skilled Migration visa.
SUBCLASS 489 – It's a 4 years provisional Visa, which requires the prospective candidates to live and work in Australia to acquire permanent residence status.
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Bonnie Brooks; COTA Issues: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Am J Occup Ther 1982;36(9):567-568. doi: 10.5014/ajot.36.9.567.
The issue forum continues this month. Bonnie Brooks, M.Ed., OTR, COTA Liaison, and Assistant Director, Division of Education, has developed the issues associated with the relationships between Occupational Therapist, Registered (OTR) and Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA). It is very important for all of us as members of the AOTA to recognize and support the two professional levels of preparation and practice, and to work together to provide comprehensive occupational therapy services to the clients in need of occupational therapy services within our diverse and complex health delivery system.


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Baum, Lawrence. The Supreme Court (2006) excerpt and text search
Hall, Kermit, et al. eds. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 2nd edition (Oxford, UK/New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005) Also published under the title The Oxford Guide to the Supreme Court of the United States ISBN 9780195340945 excerpt and text search; complete text online at OUP
O'Brien, David M. Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics. 8th edition. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008). ISBN 9780393932188 excerpt and text search
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Hoffer, Peter Charles, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, and N. E. H. Hull. The Supreme Court: An Essential History (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007), by leading scholars. ISBN 9780700615384 excerpt and text search
Irons, Peter. A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution. Preface by Howard Zinn. 2nd ed. (New York: Penguin, 2006). ISBN 0670870064 excerpt and text search
Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court. New Edition. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005). ISBN 0307290328. Written by the late Chief Justice. First edition 1987 excerpt and text search
Schwartz, Bernard. A History of the Supreme Court (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). ISBN 978019509387 excerpt and text search
Warren, Charles. The Supreme Court in United States History (Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1922). vol 1 1789-1821 online; vol 2 1821-1855 online; vol 3 1856-1918 online
Casto, William R. The Supreme Court in the early republic: the chief justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995)
Schwartz, Bernard The Burger Court: counter-revolution or confirmation? (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Swindler, William Finley Court and Constitution in the Twentieth Century. 3 vols. (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969-1974) ISBN 9780672518737
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Greenburg, Jan Crawford. Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court (New York: The Penguin Press, 2008) ISBN 9781594201011 excerpt and text search
Pickering, Charles Sr. Supreme Chaos. The Politics of Judicial Confirmation and the Culture War. (Macon, GA: Stroud & Hall, 2005). ISBN 0974537659 excerpt and text search
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Q: How to convert date to the first day of month in a PySpark Dataframe column? I have the following DataFrame:
+----------+
|      date|
+----------+
|2017-01-25|
|2017-01-21|
|2017-01-12|
+----------+

Here is the code the create above DataFrame:
import pyspark.sql.functions as f
rdd = sc.parallelize([("2017/11/25",), ("2017/12/21",), ("2017/09/12",)])
df = sqlContext.createDataFrame(rdd, ["date"]).withColumn("date", f.to_date(f.col("date"), "yyyy/MM/dd"))
df.show()

I want a new column with the first date of month for each row, just replace the day to "01" in all the dates
+----------++----------+
|      date| first_date|
+----------++----------+
|2017-11-25| 2017-11-01|
|2017-12-21| 2017-12-01|
|2017-09-12| 2017-09-01|
+----------+-----------+

There is a last_day function in PySpark.sql.function, however, there is no first_day function.
I tried using date_sub to do this but did not work: I get a column not Iterable error because the second argument to date_sub cannot be a column and has to be an integer.
f.date_sub(f.col('date'), f.dayofmonth(f.col('date')) - 1 )

A: You can use trunc:
import pyspark.sql.functions as f

df.withColumn("first_date", f.trunc("date", "month")).show()

+----------+----------+
|      date|first_date|
+----------+----------+
|2017-11-25|2017-11-01|
|2017-12-21|2017-12-01|
|2017-09-12|2017-09-01|
+----------+----------+

A: You can get the beginning of the month with the trunc function (as Alper) mentioned or with the date_trunc method.  The trunc function returns a date column and the date_trunc function returns a time column.  Suppose you have the following DataFrame:
+----------+
| some_date|
+----------+
|2017-11-25|
|2017-12-21|
|2017-09-12|
|      null|
+----------+

Run the trunc and date_trunc functions:
datesDF\
  .withColumn("beginning_of_month_date", trunc(col("some_date"), "month"))\
  .withColumn("beginning_of_month_time", date_trunc("month" ,col("some_date")))\
  .show()

Observe the result:
+----------+-----------------------+-----------------------+
| some_date|beginning_of_month_date|beginning_of_month_time|
+----------+-----------------------+-----------------------+
|2017-11-25|             2017-11-01|    2017-11-01 00:00:00|
|2017-12-21|             2017-12-01|    2017-12-01 00:00:00|
|2017-09-12|             2017-09-01|    2017-09-01 00:00:00|
|      null|                   null|                   null|
+----------+-----------------------+-----------------------+

Print the schema to confirm the column types:
root
 |-- some_date: date (nullable = true)
 |-- beginning_of_month_date: date (nullable = true)
 |-- beginning_of_month_time: timestamp (nullable = true)

Scala users should use the beginningOfMonthDate and beginningOfMonthTime functions defined in spark-daria.
PySpark users should use the beginning_of_month_date and beginning_of_month_time functions defined in quinn.
Notice how the trunc function takes the column argument first and the date_trunc takes the column argument second.  The trunc method is poorly named - it's part of the functions package, so it's easy to mistakenly think this function is for string truncation.  It's surprising that date_trunc is returning a timestamp result... sounds like it should return a date result.
Just make sure to wrap these functions with descriptive function / UDF names so your code is readable.  See here for more info.

A: I suppose it is syntactical error, Can you please change f.dayofmonth -> dayofmonth and try. Expression looks fine.
import pyspark.sql.functions as f

f.date_sub(f.col('Match_date'),dayofmonth(f.col('Match_date')) - 1 )

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In a class on negotiations and the impact of power, two students in a mock group negotiation exercise willingly walked out of a profitable deal just so that a stronger member of the group could be taught a lesson and be left with nothing. When asked in the debriefing session as to the reason, the response that came was that the man in power was asserting his authority over the less powerful groups and constantly showed an arrogant attitude. The lack of respect given was enough for them to accept losses, provided that the student with power lost face in front of others.
Every human being and nation, irrespective of their power or strength, has the right to be respected. "Respect is an unassuming resounding force, the stuff that equity and justice are made of." It means being treated with consideration and esteem and to be willing to treat people similarly.. It means to have a regard for other peoples' feelings, listening to people and hearing them, i.e. giving them one's full attention. Even more importantly, respect means treating one with dignity. Respect is the opposite of humiliation and contempt. So where the latter can be a cause of conflict, the former and its opposite can help transform it. As William Ury writes in his book The Third Side: "Human beings have a host of emotional needs- for love and recognition, for belonging and identity, for purpose and meaning to lives. If all these needs had to be subsumed in one word, it might be respect".
Respect is the first positive step in building a relationship and relationships are central to conflict transformation. One does not have to like a person or understand his viewpoint to accord him respect. Respect comes with the belief that a person or culture can have beliefs contradictory to ours and we should still honor them, as basic respect is a fundamental right of all human beings. In addition, goals and concessions become easier to attain when the element of respect is present As Bill Richardson, the US permanent representative to the UN put it. "You have to be a human being. You cannot be arrogant..... If you treat each individual with respect, each nation with dignity, you can get a lot further than trying to muscle them"
A case example is that of John Kamm, the founder of Dui Hua Foundation. Kamm has been successful in persuading the Chinese government to release political prisoners, when many others have failed. He has found that approaching the Chinese "with dignity and respect facilitated their response to his inquiries and uncovered a wealth of information regarding the status and well being of thousands of political prisoners."
Peacebuilding and conflict transformation strongly emphasize the human relationship aspect. Therefore, for peacebuilding to succeed, the element of respect is essential.
Respect plays an important role in a number of ways.
Respect allows one to build trust with "the other."
Respect allows one to build and rebuild relationships.
Those who are respected within the community are most likely to be able to bring or encourage peace.
In addition, according respect can make the key difference in the direction of the conflict.
Its presence can lead to a positive change, whilst its absence may lead to even more destruction.
The presence of respect can therefore create opportunities. It is then up to the peace builder to act upon them.
Thus, for a peacebuilder, it is important to look at respect from different angles. First is the importance of treating parties to a conflict with civility and honor. Once people are accorded respect, they are more willing to make compromises which are long term and sustainable, rather than those that are made under duress. Second, peacebuilders and "outsider neutral" mediators need to look for links within the conflicted society and community that have the respect of the people, such as professors, elders, religious leaders etc. Through these people, the mediators and peacebuilders can build networks and contacts. And through their help, peacebuilders and mediators can begin to build rapport with the conflicting parties.
What Happens in the Absence of Respect?
Contempt and humiliation are the absence of respect, as are a sense of being unheard or not understood. The absence of respect or a perceived lack of respect often leads to conflict at an individual, family and societal level. Since the first key step to building strong relationships is respect, the absence of respect or the breakdown of respect are also key factors in the breakdown of relationships and in the occurrence of conflict. Relationships and contacts that are built without the presence of respect are seldom long term or sustainable.
Respect is created in many ways.
It is created when people treat others as they want to be treated. This brings us to the famous quotation from the Bible. "Do unto others as you would others do unto you". This also brings the element of circularity to it. That is, things are connected and in relationship. So the growth of something, such as respect, often nourishes itself from its own process and dynamics. Be the first to accord respect, and with time, it will develop amongst all the conflicting parties.
Avoid insulting people or their culture; instead try to understand them. Many disastrous interactions are characterized by attitudes such as arrogance, disdain, fear of difference, etc. To avoid this, it helps to contact people who are familiar with the unfamiliar culture and can give the peacebuilder guidelines of how to best adapt to the culture.
Be courteous. Listen to what others have to say. Treat people fairly. All the basic elements "that we learned in Kindergarten" will go a long way to creating an atmosphere of trust and respect.
Apart from the above, when already involved in a conflict, 'separating the people from the problem' also allows one to treat the other side with honor. Recognizing that the issue is the problem at hand and not the people can also help create respect.
William Ury tells how he managed to build trust with the leaders in Venezuela and through shuttle diplomacy and focusing on their interests got them working together to prevent violence.
Thus the presence of respect can help transform conflicts, by providing opportunities that did not exist before. At the same time, the absence of respect can lead to conflict. What makes men like Bill Richardson and John Kamm succeed in negotiations and dialogue where many other fail, especially in their dealings with cultures other than our own? What makes them different from others? Both cite respect to be their main secret. Recognize respect to be a basic human right, treat individuals and states with dignity, and you will receive a more sustainable response. The relationships so established will be based on mutual trust and respect, and hence is likely to last. In contrast, if you browbeat your enemies (or both sides if you are the mediator) then even though the goal may be attained, the relationship will be resentful, and backlash, more than stable peace is the more likely outcome.
 Refer to the story from Ghana " I do not wish to in John Paul Lederach's "The Moral Imagination"
 Moore, Christopher W. and Woodrow, Peter. "What Do I Need to Know About Culture? Practitioners Suggest..." In Into the Eye of the Storm. Edited by John Paul Lederach and Janice Moomaw Jenner.
 "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" available online at http://www.peace.ca/kindergarten.htm and as a book with the same title written by Robert Fulghum. Ivy Books; Reissue edition. 1989.
Farid, Sana. "Respect." Beyond Intractability. Eds. Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess. Conflict Information Consortium, University of Colorado, Boulder. Posted: July 2005 <http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/respect>.


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Perspecs News
Flores gone again?
The club have sacked two managers already this season
Perspecs
What's going wrong for Watford?
By Joe Harker
Watford have parted ways with manager Quique Sanchez Flores for a second time, sacking him after 10 Premier League games during his second stint at the club.
The club plan on bringing in a successor "imminently", having decided after 10 Premier League games that they weren't going in the right direction.
Is this the right move for Watford, or do their problems run deeper than the man in the manager's seat?
The Claim:
Where exactly it all went wrong for Sanchez Flores and Watford is a matter of debate, but one win in 10 Premier League games is abysmal form for anyone with any notion of avoiding relegation.
The returning manager didn't seem to have much of an idea how to turn things around for the club, which essentially rules him out of being considered the man to keep them in the Premier League this season.
If the manager isn't up to it then logic dictates that you get a different manager. Losing 8-0 to Manchester City and 3-0 to Burnley points towards portents not improving.
Watford will now go for Chris Hughton, hoping the former Brighton manager will be able to shore things up and steer them to safety.
A new manager might at least get a better tune out of the players, many of whom have kept the club in the Premier League for several seasons and would appear to be good enough to stay up.
The Counter Claim:
There's a good line from political comedy The Thick of It which arguably applies here: "Sacked after twelve months: looks like you've f---ed up. Sacked after a week: looks like he's f---ed up."
If you're parting ways with your manager after barely breaking into double figures of games then who exactly should the finger of blame fall on?
So how far does "sacked after less than three months" go on the scale of determining who made the series of mistakes that brought Watford to eight points after 14 games?
Watford have gone through a whole host of managers, with Sanchez Flores being hired on two separate occasions, and they still haven't managed to find stability. At some point the constant chopping and changing surely produces a club that doesn't know whether it is coming or going.
If you sack Javi Gracia and his replacement doesn't improve things then either you made a mistake to sack him or you picked the wrong guy to come in. Or perhaps you fostered conditions where the manager was always going to have a hard time.
Watford were averaging 0.7 points per game in Sanchez Flores' second stint at the club, worse than any of the club's other managers in the Premier League besides Graham Taylor.
Their tally of nine goals scored is the worst in the Premier League by some margin, with the next least prolific sides scoring at least 13 goals. Meanwhile, their defence shipping 28 goals makes it the third worst in the league.
On average they are scoring less than a goal a game and conceding two. That's a recipe for relegation. Whoever replaces Quique Sanchez Flores needs to get the team scoring goals and tighten things up at the back, as if it was as easy as just saying that.
Quique Sanchez Flores: Where did it go wrong for ex-Watford boss?
Watford's decision to sack Quique Sanchez Flores after only 10 Premier League games is based is one simple reality - the Hornets know they must remain in the Premier League at all costs and that status is already at serious risk.
Those behind the scenes at Vicarage Road have worked tirelessly to ensure Watford not only arrived in the Premier League but stayed there.
Watford's 2-1 loss at Southampton, unfortunate as it was, signalled the end for Flores as it put the Hornets bottom of the table with only eight points from 14 games.
A news app like no other
© 2016 Trinity Mirror


How would your family be able to survive financially if one of you passed away unexpectedly and your salary was gone? Life insurance is one of the most neglected forms of insurance that families pass over and avoid.
How would your family be able to survive financially if one of you passed away unexpectedly and your salary was gone? Nobody loves to pay for insurance, but unfortunately life insurance is one of the most neglected forms of insurance that families pass over and avoid. There are also those that get wrapped up into bad polices that are expensive and that leave your family under insured.
For the single folks, with no children, the final expenses are the main thing you need to protect against because you usually don't have a family that is relying on your income to support them.
Once you have children, get married, or are supporting a family, then you need to start focusing on getting the right amount and types of insurance.
How do you know how much insurance you need?
As a general rule I like to recommend 10 times your annual salary in insurance. Why 10 times? Well if your spouse gets a check for 10 times your annual salary you should have more than enough to pay off any remaining debts and have plenty left over to provide for income for several years to come.
After your debts are paid off your monthly living expenses should also be much lower than they are now (think about not having a car payment or a house payment anymore).
There are two main types of life insurance – Term life Insurance and Cash Value (sometimes called Permanent insurance).
Not sure exactly how much insurance you need? Or how to apply for a good term life insurance policy? Don't put this off, it could cost your family dearly if the worst happens!!


The Yakovlev Yak-40 (NATO reporting name: Codling) is a small, three-engined jet airliner. The maiden flight was made in 1966, and it was in production from 1967 to 1981. Introduced in September 1968, the Yak-40 has been exported since 1970.
I have been wanting to do a trijet for a very long time, and I finally stumbled on one I really liked a few days and lo and behold: The Yak-40. I haven't really delved too much into commercial aircraft either, and I think this is a decent go at it. Still think I could use improvement in the cockpit glass concept, but its hard to get it smooth while maintaining a low part count.
As always, please let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements or if there is a vehicle you would like to see recreated. Thank you so much for stopping by to look and enjoy your flight!!
How do you make custom control SURFACES.


Khiran Resort is a famous facility located in Khiran District near the borders of Saudi Arabia about 110Km away from Kuwait city. It is one of companies under the umbrella of Touristic Enterprises Company (TEC) conglomerate inaugurated on 23rd February 1987.
The facility was re-opened after the invasion on 1st January 1993 and has been with constant developments and projects aiming to have complete facilities within the resort.
Occupying a prime seafront location covering a sprawling of about 831.900sq.meters, Khiran Resort is the ideal place for Kuwaitis and expatriates alike for an utterly relaxing "Get-Away" from the stressful daily life. Beautifully landscaped lawns is a neat and clean environment, with wide roads, ample parking areas, clean and well maintained Beach areas are all part of the Khiran Resort experience.


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Moneague Health Centre being rehabilitated
MONTEGO BAY — Over $7 million will be spent to rehabilitate the Moneague Health Centre in St. Ann, which serves more than 10,000 persons from that area, and surrounding communities.
The health centre, which is now closed to facilitate repair work, is currently operating out of the Moneague Community Centre.
Chief Health Inspector at the St. Ann Health Department, Leroy Scott explained at the monthly Parish Council meeting, on July 14, that the health centre would be closed for approximately two to three months.
"The Health Department would like to express their gratitude to all those persons who have contributed to making it possible for the clinic to continue in Moneague while the repairs are taking place. The efforts of the political representatives, the business and general community in Moneague enabled the preparation of the temporary site and prevented any dislocation in terms of clinic services which may have occurred due to the temporary closure." Mr. Scott said.
He noted that the rehabilitation work falls under the Jamaica Social Investment Fund's (JSIF) Storm Recovery Grant, and commended the agency for reaching out to the community of Moneague.
The scope of work to be carried out at the health centre includes repairs to the roof and bathroom, as well as fencing, and painting of the building.
Additionally, a refrigerator and a computer will be provided, and termite treatment and landscaping conducted. Improvements will also be carried out to accommodate a pharmacy.
The Moneague Health Centre is a Type II facility, which offers services such as curative, mental health, and general medical care.
By ALDEEN CAMPBELL, JIS Reporter


Lets start off February with a collection of articles from the world wide web related to armored vehicles. Click on the headline to read the full piece.
ANKARA—The Turkish government has officially launched a competition for the upgrade of a batch of 200 German- and US-made battle tanks in the army's inventory, a contract that analysts estimate to be worth roughly $500 million. Five Turkish companies placed their upgrade bids on Jan. 23. The local bidders are: military electronics specialist Aselsan, Turkey's biggest defense company; missile-maker Roketsan; and armored vehicles manufacturers BMC, Otokar and FNSS. Aselsan and Roketsan are state-controlled companies; BMC, Otokar and FNSS are privately owned.
The Diplomat – More China Tanks for Thailand?
Military cooperation between China and Thailand, the oldest U.S. Asian ally, has deepened somewhat in the past few years amid a downturn in U.S.-Thai relations over rights concerns following the May 2014 coup. Since then, there have been some notable developments, including a first-ever joint air force exercise, planned purchases of equipment from tanks to submarines, as well as discussions about a joint military production facility to advance defense industry cooperation.
ANKARA, Turkey — Growing political tensions between Ankara and Vienna in recent months have resulted in the termination of an otherwise prospective deal between a Turkish and an Austrian company, both engine specialists. In October 2015, TUMOSAN, a privately owned Turkish engine maker, signed a deal with AVL List, an Austrian firm, for technical support for the engine that the Turkish company had been commissioned to develop. Under the deal, TUMOSAN would get technical support from AVL for the power unit of the Altay, Turkey's first indigenous, new-generation main battle tank in the making. AVL also would provide know-how for the integration of the engine to the tank.
The Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA) has outlined plans to upgrade a number of its armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) in order to extend their operational lives and enhance capabilities. Details were given by Colonel Eric Molenaar, Head of Material, Army Staff of the RNLA, at the IQPC International Armoured Vehicles 2017 conference held in London from 23 to 26 January. The RNLA is set to upgrade at least part of its CV9035NL fleet in two phases. Under Phase 1, 44 vehicles will be fitted with a hard-kill defensive-aid suite (DAS) under the leadership of BAE Systems Hägglunds.
Jan. 31 The U.S. Army will send M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks to the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania along Russia's borders ahead of a NATO operation in the spring. The tanks participated in joint drills between U.S. and Polish forces but some are being moved to the Baltic states to await a deterrence operation set to reassure the United States' European allies that Washington, D.C., is committed to their defense, The Wall Street Journal reported. German troops are also arriving in Lithuania, British troops are reinforcing positions in Estonia and Canadian troops are being sent to Latvia.
Further details have emerged about India's plans for the main battle tank (MBT) element of the Future Ready Combat Vehicle (FRCV) programme. Requirements for the main armament, powerpack, and mission systems have been revealed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Speaking at the International Armoured Vehicles 2017 conference in London, Dr U. Solomon of the DRDO's Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE) highlighted some of the new requirements for the MBT design, which is intended to replace the Indian Army's fleet of T-72M1 'Ajeya' MBTs and is scheduled to enter service from the early 2020s.
Germany began sending tanks and other equipment to Lithuania on Tuesday as part of a NATO mission to beef up the defense of eastern Europe and send a signal of resolve to Russia, which has denounced the build-up as an act of aggression. The German army command said it was sending about 200 vehicles, including 30 tanks, by train to Lithuania along with 450 troops, the first of whom arrived last week. The transports would continue until late February. Seven decades after the end of World War Two, the movement of German troops to eastern Europe, even on a NATO mission, remains a sensitive issue both in Germany and the region.
Orbital ATK has been selected to continue developing a new 120 mm Advanced Multi-Purpose (AMP) round for the US Army's M1A2 Abrams main battle tank, the Pentagon announced on 23 January. The USD46 million contract is to complete development and qualification of the XM1147 High Explosive Multi-Purpose with Tracer (HEMP-T) round, which was developed with an ammunition data link and programmable multi-option fuze (point detonate with or without delay, or airburst effect).
The Sheridan's service in Vietnam ended with the withdrawal of the last Armored Cavalry Regiments in 1972, and the Army began phasing the complicated vehicles out of the cavalry units by the late 1970s. However, they remained in airborne formations for lack of a replacement, and were upgraded the M551A1 TTS model with an effective thermal sight for night combat. In 1989, eight to ten Sheridans of the Third Battalion of the Seventy-Third Armored were used in the first and only parachute drop of U.S. tanks into combat by C-130 transports onto Torrijos/Tocumen Airfield.
We hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving weekend. Here is a number of articles from the past week or so related to tanks and AFVs Click on the headline to read the full article.
As the mild-mannered Private Godfrey in the hit TV show and film Dad's Army, actor William Arnold Ridley won a place in the nation's hearts. He actually served in the Home Guard for real in the Second World War after being evacuated from Dunkirk as the Germans pushed the British back across the Channel in May 1940. But even before that time, Ridley has seen action in the trenches during the First World War with the Somerset Light Infantry.
IRBIL, Iraq — As they battle to hold on to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Islamic State militants have added a new weapon to their arsenal: tanks made of wood. The life-size replicas are intended to confuse air support from the U.S.-led coalition backing the Iraqi ground offensive for the city, commanders said. Although they may look far from realistic when viewed from close quarters, it's harder to tell what they are made of from the sky. Iraqi forces discovered a building used to manufacture the decoys when they retook the village of Sada, north of Mosul, last week. In addition to three fake tanks, they found five wooden Humvees.
WARSAW, Poland — Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos has announced that the country's Defence Ministry is planning to award a contract for the delivery of armored personnel carriers (APC) to Germany's Rheinmetall Defence. The company is to team up with a state-run Romanian manufacturer and launch a plant in Romania that will produce the APCs. "There will be a partnership, a Romanian-German joint venture, which will allow Rheinmetall to obtain the contract from the Ministry of Defence and build an armored personnel carrier that will be first supplied to the Romanian military," Ciolos told local broadcaster Europa FM in an Nov. 17 interview.
The Brazilian Army's Logistics Command (CoLog) will award Iveco Latin America a contract for 1,580 serial production VBTP-MR Guarani 6×6 amphibious armored vehicles on 22 November, the service's Projects Management Office told IHS Jane's . The fleet, to be delivered from 2016-35, will comprise troop transport, communications, command post, ambulance, and 120 mm mortar vehicles. CoLog is buying the platforms in batches of 723, 547, 275, and 35 vehicles, as well as associated equipment and services totalling BRL5.9 billion (USD1.76 billion). Several will be armed with manned protected weapon mounts and ARES Aeroespacial & Defesa's REMAX and UT-30BR remote weapon stations.
Morocco has taken delivery of a consignment of 155 mm M109A5 self-propelled howitzers, local media reported on 21 November. The reports were accompanied by photographs showing at least 12 M109s that had been unloaded at Casablanca's port. The US Excess Defense Articles database shows that Morocco has requested 70 surplus M109A5 howitzers. Morocco is already an M109 user, having imported 42 M109A2 howitzers from Germany in 2008, as well as three M109A3s and a single M109A4 from the United States in 2013, according to the UN Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) information.
Russia is reportedly preparing to upgrade its Soviet-era T-80 battle tanks in order to bring them back into service. Up to 3,000 of the tanks, which entered service in 1976, will be updated to bring their combat power closer to the current T-90 model. "At present, the preparative works to start the modernisation of the first T-80BV MBTs are at a final stage," a defence industry source told military magazine Jane's Defence Weekly. The "overhaul and modernisation" of the tanks "will be launched next year" the source added. They said the number of tanks to be upgraded will be determined by the military.
The Pakistani government has signed an agreement with Ukraine for the supply of 200 engines to equip the country's highly anticipated next-generation main battle tank (MBT), which is commonly referred to as the Al Khalid-Improved (I) MBT, according to Pakistani defence officials. The deal was signed on 23 November during the International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS), which is held every two years in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi. While the exact type of engine was not revealed, a senior official of Pakistan's Ministry of Defence (MoD) told IHS Jane's that it will be larger than the Ukrainian 6TD-2 engine generating a maximum 1,200 bhp that powers the 420 Al Khalid MBTs operated by the Pakistan Army's Armoured Corps.
A 20-year old IDF soldier was killed when his tank overturned during an exercise on the Golan Heights shortly after midnight Wednesday, the IDF announced on Thursday morning. The accident victim was Sgt. Ido Ben- Ari from Ramat Sharon, a tank commander in the 9th Battalion of the Armored Corps' 401 Brigade. He was posthumously promoted to staff-sergeant. Three other soldiers suffered minor injuries in the incident and were discharged from Rambam Medical Center in Haifa after receiving medical treatment. Ben-Ari's tank brigade was taking part in a wide-scale training exercise along with the Givati Brigade and its engineering forces when the accident occurred at around 1 a.m. on Mount Shifon on the northern Golan Heights.
CUTS being planned by army chiefs would see the country's defence force lose a third of its frontline tanks, leaving it with fewer than Serbia. The plan, expected to be revealed in the coming months, would see one of the army's three tank regiments have all of its 56 Challenger 2s replaced with Ajax fighting vehicles. If the plan was sanctioned it would leave the country with just 40 more tanks than neutral Switzerland. The move would see the UK's tanks drop from 227 to 170, with 112 on frontline duty while the rest would be used for training in the UK and Canada.
Mainland agents tipped off Hong Kong customs about nine Singaporean military vehicles after the boat carrying them docked in the mainland port of Xiamen, prompting their seizure and impounding in the city last Wednesday, a report has claimed. Before the latest twist in the diplomatic row, Singapore stepped up efforts to recover the armoured vehicles, with a delegation arriving in Hong Kong on Friday night to expedite their release and quell the potential political fallout. Sources said Singapore would need to contact the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get the vehicles back, adding that the discovery had been reported to Beijing already and the decision on whether to release them was no longer in Hong Kong hands.
MANBIJ, Syria (Kurdistan24) – The Kurdish-led military command in the northern Syrian town of Manbij on Thursday announced they destroyed four Turkish army tanks in the western countryside of the township. In a statement, the Manbij Military Council (MMC), a Syrian Arab-Kurdish coalition allied to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said the Turkish army airstrikes and shelling had changed the course of their battle against the Islamic State (IS) since last week. The MMC statement said the Turkish airstrikes were supposed to be against IS in al-Bab town in northern Syria, but the Turkish warplanes and artillery were targeting the liberated areas around Manbij. "Our forces [MMC] blew up four Turkish tanks around the village of Sheikh Naser, west of Manbij," the statement said.
Here is a collection of some recent articles and videos concerning tanks and AFVs that are circulating the internet. Click on the headline to read the full article.
ANKARA—Turkey's military and procurement officials are mulling the options of upgrading hundreds of German-made Leopard 2 and U.S.-made M60 main battle tanks.
One senior procurement official familiar with the program said that about 100 Leopard 2s and 300 M60s would go through an upgrade program. Industry sources say such upgrades would cost Ankara anywhere between $2 million to $3 million per tank. A bunch of 300 to 400 tank upgrades will have a total cost of more than $1 billion. They say Turkey's defense procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM in its Turkish acronym) would most likely award the Leopard 2 upgrade contract to the German Rheinmetall's three-partner, Turkey-based venture, RBSS. Rheinmetall's partners are the Turkish armored vehicles manufacturer BMC and the Malaysia-based Etika Strategi.
ROME — Italy's new tank, the Centauro II, was shown off at a military test range Wednesday, as the country's Parliament continued to decide whether to fund the vehicle. Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff Lt. Gen. Danilo Errico and Leonardo CEO Mauro Moretti were among guests who gathered Oct. 19 at the Cecchignola Army range on the fringes of Rome to watch a prototype of the wheeled tank being put through its paces. The Army hopes to buy 150 of the vehicles, which is built by a joint venture between Leonardo and Italian truck-maker Iveco.
The 31-year-old was airlifted to hospital in Munich in a helicopter after the crash, police reported on Thursday. The 24-year-old driver of the tank was also lightly injured. The crash happened in the mountainous Tyrol region of Austria, where the soldiers were on exercise on Wednesday evening. The driver reportedly lost his way in thick fog and the tank rolled over several times as it fell down the hill. A recovery crane was brought in to the crash site, and only after it had recovered the tank could the two men be freed.
SHOOT the deranged man driving the stolen tank or risk mass Sydney casualties. That was the strange dilemma facing police officer Ron Mason 30 years ago as he climbed on top of a stolen Army tank parked on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. "There is going to be substantial death — either to motorists or train passengers or even in the harbour — if I didn't shoot him," retired detective superintendent Ron Mason told The Daily Telegraph on the incident's anniversary.
CLINTON Forty-two tons of steel flew through the air Saturday as the Ohio Veterans' Memorial Park took possession of its newest relic — an M60A1 tank. A crane gently placed the hulking tank onto a decorative rock garden a few paces from the park's display of a 1963 Cobra AH-1F helicopter. A VFW post in Defiance donated the M60A1 "Patton" tank to the park. "It actually was going to be melted down for scrap because they had no place to put it," said Ken Noon, president of the not-for-profit Ohio Veterans' Memorial Park.


Chance @ Pt England School: What's the time?
WALT: Build a stronger knowlege base around time.
For this maths task we have been learning about time. We have been writing the digital and written form of time together. We were given in this presentation a time on a clock. We had to figure out the time then write it in digital and as said in written form.
A Polluted Future: How can we save it?
A day in the life of me!


My husband lost his job yesterday, I had to explain what that meant to my kids, our credit card number was stolen and used to purchase several thousands of dollars worth of phone minutes on the Itunes store, and my Itunes account is now all messed up. This sure is turning out to be one hell of a week!
One Hell of a Week has been posted in Disasterous Mamamamahoney and Tagged: credit card fraud, itunes fraud, job loss, losing a job.


A Cineproduzioni Associate (Roma), P.C. Balcazar (Barcelona) & Les Films Copernic (Paris) co-production.
After a rather dull first hour, this evolves into something much grittier than is normally to be found within the genre. With an onus on night-time photography (that often makes things rather difficult to make out), a preponderance of hard-hitting fistfights and a particularly nasty face-burning scene, it all leaves one with the (ultimately misguided) feeling of being a rather sombre affair. It definitely seems to lack the glamorous ambience that pervades the majority of its peers. However, that doesn't mean it's any better than average, and at several points this hapless reviewer found himself in need of a swift raspberry collins to offset the dangerous onset of sleep.
Professor Larsen, a prominent nuclear scientist, is freed from a Chinese prison camp by a group of Japanese judo experts. They take him to Hong Kong, where he can await in hiding whilst transportation to America is arranged. However, his main contact, Agent Z51, is killed before anything can be finalised. Knowing the delicacy of matters, the US Secret Service send in their best agent, Robert Manning, aka Z55 (German Cobos). His mission: to both relocate the AWOL academic and avenge his murdered associate.
It's not long before Manning discovers that a disparate group of individuals are taking a close interest in his activities. There's a suspicious pair of 'bodyguards' (Milton Reid and Yoko Tani) who persist in trying to pay him to work for them, not to mention an annoying blonde, Sally (Susan Baker), and her camp chum, The Baron (Gianni Rizzo). Now every good camp villain should have a pet – in Bond films, these ranged from piranhas to sharks to, err, a cat. Unfortunately, the Baron was dealt a rather duff card in the vicious fauna stakes; his particular mammalian sidekick is… an armadillo ('an animal that's quite affectionate, despite it's rude exterior')! Now there's nothing that quite so diminishes the tension of a scene as much as having a goddamned armadillo wandering around in the background. Sometimes I'd swear that these Italian filmmakers just threw in such outrageously absurd elements just to completely confuse the unsuspecting viewer, stumbling across their long forgotten works after thirty-five years of total obscurity.
Desperate Mission has a few things in its favour. There's a great title sequence, faultlessly blending animation, loungecore vibes and shooting silhouettes, that conjures up memories of The Avengers. Francesco De Masi's soundtrack is very enjoyable, and there's a nice supporting cast, including a couple of unexpected performers. Milton Reid was a familiar face in British films, often appearing as a mute butler or bodyguard (see Adventures of a Private Eye, Au Pair Girls, Dr Phibes Rises Again and Dr. No amongst others). He's not a great actor, for sure, but has a formidable presence and a bad complexion. Yoko Tani was a French actress who appeared in many Euro productions as a token oriental (ie giggling regularly, looking demure, trying to kill people) before her death in 1999.
Apart from that, though, it's pretty much a motley assortment of the usual clichés: stupid passwords, hat-wearing villains, stilted 'suave' dialogue ('what kind of chicken are you, Mr. Manning?'). Unfortunately things aren't helped along too much by rather stodgy direction, with the exception of a good shoot-out in a cinema, from the usually reliable Roberto Montero. Lead actor German Cobos certainly looks like Sean Connery, and acts in a much more vicious way than is expected, but fails to really engage.


My dream boat has finally arrived!
I have been in the market for this model for three years and I am finally getting one!
Clearly, this is a departure from the Monster Cross genre but I want something for dirt roads, some light singletrack, riding with the kids on rail trails, and commuting to work.
This bike does it all and it has a little squish to take the edge off.
Of course, what you see is not what I will be getting. The current owner will be taking a few bits to his new bike and of course I will need to nerd it up a bit, because that is what I do best!


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Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900
A Discourse on the Method : of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences PDF
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'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.'Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography in the vernacular for a non-specialist readership, sweeps away all previous philosophical traditions, and sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous 'cogito ergo sum'), next deduces fromit the existence and nature of God, and ends by offering a radical new account of the physical world and of human and animal nature. This new translation is accompanied by a substantial introductory essay which draws on Descartes's correspondence to examine his motivation and the impact of his great work on his contemporaries.
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POLICE are hunting for a man seen breaking into a car in Warwickshire.
He was seen forcing his way into a silver Ford Fiesta and grabbing something from the front seat, in Gordon Street, Leamington, at about 6.45am on Monday.
The man, described as about 5ft 11in and wearing a hooded top, then made off in a blue car, possibly a Ford Mondeo.
It is not known at this stage what was stolen.
Anyone with information is asked to phone Leamington police station on 01926 415000.


With over 60% of us valuing outdoor space in homes in Britain's towns and cities, according to an occupational demand survey from Savills, it is no wonder we like to make an external mark on our own little corner of England.
Landscape gardener Randle Siddeley (Lord Kenilworth) from SLD Siddeley Landscape Design believes an urban garden lends an opportunity to create suspense, discover and surprise, no matter how small the space. He says that even if you are in a seemingly gloomy corner, new shade to light grasses on the market now can solve the problem.
Garden furniture in spun plastic that can stay outside all year round is another must.
'Try to keep planting 70% evergreen – do not rely too much on bedding plants. Well-structured gardens with herbaceous perennials require less work,' he adds.


Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk deal with upcoming changes to Ontario's employment and labour law; the update to the Canada Revenue Agency form RC18 to calculate automobile benefits; and a 20-year old workplace injury case.
On February 11, 2014, the Government of Canada announced its intention to terminate the Federal Immigrant Investor Program and Federal Entrepreneur Program and eliminate the large backlog of applications. These immigration-related announcements were contained in the Canadian Government's 2014 Budget.


Robotic window cleaners which have been with us only a few years have been designed to take over an unpleasant chore we would most willingly escape.Winbot Series 7, a window cleaning robot manufactured byEcovacRobotics, the company which had created the first ever prototypefor a robotic home cleaner in 2000, was released by them this spring. Winbot7is touted to be the world's first robot which will automatically clean any glass surface (even thermopanes) that you place it on, regardless of its thickness.
What are its main features? How does it function?
The robot works on the principle of suction. It attaches itself to your window panes via an industrial-strength suction mechanism. Itsinternal vacuum pump and seals generate enough suction to the window to support and allow the unit to manoeuver easily. Winbot is equipped with dual suction rings. If the outer ring senses any loss of suction, a signal will be sent to the bot's "brain" to reverse direction and select a new path.
After the robot sticks itself to the window, it then automatically proceeds to determine its size and programs the best pathway for cleaning quickly and efficiently. This it does by moving from the bottom of the window to the top and then cleaning it with a zig-zag motion, coming back to where it began.
The robot sports a three-stage cleaning process which is designed for maximum efficiency. First the front cleaning pad sprayed with the cleaning solution provided, moistens, loosens and absorbs the dirt. Second, the squeegee draws the residual dirty water off the window pane. Lastly, the rear cleaning pad wipes the pane till it becomes spotless. The cleaning pads are made ofspecially-designed fiber which aids powerful absorption of dust and dirt. They are also easy to remove, wash and dry.
Power is supplied to the robot by a tethered cable that also serves as a last-resort lifeline should the bot lose power and suction, but a three-hour backup battery is included that will keep the suction motor running until it can be rescued.The Winbot comes with a remote control with batteries, a power adapter, a power cord with extension, two sets of cleaning pads, and spray-on cleaning solution.
It is also provided with a safety pod as an extra layer of protection and further comes equipped with anti-slip driving treads and two powerful motors. It definitely has what it takes to clean without slipping.And if the Winbot encounters a problem it sounds an alarm.
The body of the robot is surrounded by extremely soft material that will not scratch your window frame; the material on its underside is also engineered to not scratch. Its bumper and side rollers are designed to protect the unit and the window and to reduce friction.
According to the manufacturer, the robot hasa working noise output of just 55 decibels and will, therefore,not pose any disturbance.
How well does the Winbot clean?
Demonstrationsof the working of the robot which was conducted at the Consumer Electronics Show in January this year and subsequent reviews on its working, to some extent, support the claims the company makes regarding its efficiency.
The Winbot can indeed clean both the inside and outside of windows of any size or thickness. The robot can also clean showers, mirrors, sliding glass doors, and thermopane windows and proves particularly helpful in cleaning large window surfaces that are hard to reach and which would take much time and effort to wash by hand.Because it has a remote control even when the cleaning is not perfect, remaining dirt streaks can be recleaned.
The robot is not of much use when cleaning very dirty windows. The manufacturers advise a rough pre-cleaning in such cases and use of the robot once the windows are dry, as the cleaning pads are small and can remove only as much as they can handle.
The Winbot isn't like a robotic vacuum cleaner where you set it and forget it. Sofor ordinary interior window washing it's not as practical. But it is certainly a boon when you consider it as an alternative to climbing ladders carrying a bucket and a sponge! It may well be worth the $300 you pay for the Winbot 710 which is for framed windows and the $400 for the Winbot 730 which can be used on both framed and unframed windows.
It has been predicted that the rise of the home robot will be the next disruptive technology, consigning the human maid, and even the hand-pushed vacuum cleaner to history. This robotic window cleaner definitely has the potential to convert a tiring chore into a fairly painless process.
Michael has a natural flair for interior and exterior home décor. He believes home improvements should not only be aesthetic but sensible and energy-efficient as well. Michael is a freelance writer who has had 12 years of experience as an interior designer. He currently writes for Atlanta Champion Window and other home improvement companies.