Arqui Chique and Retrosaria Bijou are two Lisbon Historic Shops which, in addition to being close to each other – they are only a few doors apart – can be considered twins. They belong to the same owner and represent two facets of the same trade, a trade that has established itself as a theme or almost a raison d'être for the whole of Rua da Conceição, so much so that it is was frequently referred to as "Haberdashery Street".
Arqui Chique was established in 1935 and remained in the hands of the same family for three generations. The shop sign still references that genealogy: Coucellos & Coelho, Limitada. It was later taken over by José Vilar, the owner of the neighbouring Retrosaria Bijou. Maria Francisca, one of the former owners, remained in the shop.
Both stores attract everyone who has an interest in sewing, knitting, crochet, and basically anyone who makes made-to-measure garments or would like to repair a garment they already own. They are a paradise for lovers of wools, buttons, studs and all of the little things needed for this type of work. The projects that bring customers to the shop are countless, and the type of clients very varied, but they can all be sure of one thing: personalised service and specialised knowledge accumulated over many decades.
Haberdashery articles: wool, threads, buttons, ribbons, decorative braids, fringes, buckles, zips, appliqués, needles, lace, embroidery, decorative cords, needlework frames, emblems, articles for all kinds of handicrafts, etc.


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Lavino di Mezzo (Al Lavén in dialetto bolognese) è una frazione dei comuni di Anzola dell'Emilia e Bologna nella città metropolitana di Bologna.

Geografia fisica
Lavino di Mezzo è situata a 3,5 km a sud-est di Anzola dell'Emilia e a 10 nord-ovest di Bologna (quartiere Borgo Panigale), lungo la via Emilia. Deve il suo nome all'omonimo torrente che ne atterversa il centro abitato fungendo da confine tra i comuni di Bologna ed Anzola, mentre l'aggettivo di Mezzo deriva dalla posizione della parrocchia della frazione, posta a poco meno di un chilometro prima del torrente e di conseguenza nella parte di territorio bolognese.

Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse
 Chiesa dello Spirito Santo

Infrastrutture e trasporti

Strade
Lavino di Mezzo è attraversata dalla Strada statale 9 Via Emilia, attorno alla quale si è sviluppato l'abitato. Ad est dell'abitato si trova uno svincolo dell'Autostrada A14 e della tangenziale di Bologna.

Ferrovie
Fino al 2007 la frazione era servita da una fermata ferroviaria lungo la linea Milano-Bologna.

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Altri progetti

Frazioni di Anzola dell'Emilia
Frazioni di Bologna
Frazioni di Zola Predosa

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BBC Studios Natural History Unit announces two new specials
BBC Studios Natural History Unit have revealed two wildlife spectacles for audiences to enjoy this festive season – Meerkat: A Dynasties Special and Penguins: Meet the Family.
Julian Hector, Head of BBC Studios Natural History Unit, said: "We're thrilled to be bringing these two brand new natural history specials to viewers. In a year of such challenging times for everyone, seeing the world through the lives of such characterful animals we hope will bring joy and warm hearts and homes this festive season."
Premiering on BBC One and BiliBili this festive season, Meerkat: A Dynasties Special is a one-off special which follows the award-winning series Dynasties that redefined natural history filmmaking in 2018.
Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the special follows the dramatic story of a young meerkat queen, Maghogho, on a quest to establish her dynasty in one of the harshest places on earth. Her kingdom lies amongst the dramatic beauty of the Makadikadi salt pans in Botswana. The desert is so hot and dry here that almost nothing can survive – and yet it is here that she must raise her pups.
To succeed in this desolate and extreme landscape, she will need the support of all of her family. Maghogho's challenge is to unite and lead them as a team – working together to overcome adversity.
Together they will face the toughest of dry seasons, immense dust storms and battles with rivals that will test their loyalties to the limit. Can the strength of Maghogho and her family allow them to triumph against all the odds?
Filmed in an entirely new location, this family demonstrate the harsh world that meerkats inhabit and the unexpected behaviors, raw emotions and difficult decisions they must make.
Mike Gunton, Creative Director and Executive Producer, BBC Studios Natural History Unit, said:
"Dynasties is back this festive season with a story like no other. Follow the twisting and turning tale of Maghogho and her clan and find yourself on the edge of your seat as they strive to battle both the elements and their enemies. This special shows viewers a whole new side to meerkats, and demonstrates the power of family unity through hardship."
Meerkat: A Dynasties Special, a 1x60' for BBC One, is made by BBC Studios Natural History Unit and co-produced by BBC America and BiliBili. It was commissioned by Charlotte Moore, BBC Chief Content Officer and Jack Bootle, Head of Commissioning, Science and Natural History. The Executive Producer is Mike Gunton.
For the first time ever, Penguins: Meet the Family introduces viewers to every single species in this iconic bird family. Narrated by Liz Bonnin, viewers will meet penguins living in dense forests, desert burrows and city streets, from the Equator to deepest Antarctica.
Enjoy the heart-warming moment an Emperor Penguin chick steps away from the safety of it father's feet and experiences its first flurry of snow. Revel in the beauty of the majestic King Penguins as they overcome a catastrophic molt, swapping their ragged feathers for a brand new outfit. And peer into penguin's lives, witnessing spectacular colonies in some of the wildest places on the planet.
Audiences will join the penguins as they battle the elements, face the perils of rock climbing and confront dangerous sea lions. Discover how these wonderful characters form lifelong bonds and become devoted parents, and see how satellite imagery is revealing new penguin colonies we never knew existed before.
Doug Mackay-Hope, Executive Producer at BBC Studios Natural History Unit, said:
"What I love about this show is that many of us feel we know Penguins and yet if asked, most have no idea that there are 18 different varieties out there. From the striking Snares penguin with its punk hairstyle, to the Little penguin with its blue feathers. In Penguins: Meet the Family we celebrate all of them for the first time, giving viewers a unique opportunity to meet and enjoy this much loved animal family in a whole new light."
Penguins: Meet the Family will premiere on BBC One this festive season.
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Proper agriculture census for attaining SDGs stressed
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Agriculture minister Md Abdur Razzaque said that the government gave a grant of Tk 3000 crore to mechanise agriculture sector to make it more modern...
Agriculture Census begins
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Field-level data collection for the country's 6th Agriculture Census began across Bangladesh on Sunday and it would continue till June 20. During the Agriculture Census...
Agri Census begins today
The field-level data collection for the Agriculture Census-2019 begins today in the country to continue till June 20.During the census, the enumerators will collect data...
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Joel what patch are you trying to apply to that kernel? I have not tested beyond RT2 patch. I had some fail before due to various reasons.
To ensure a working kernel I would suggest you choose what I had already tested; or others.
Also two pages back I have a deb of linuxcnc master built that I put in my sharedrive. you can use it for testing if you wish but dependencies will still need to be satisfied.
Last edit: 18 Aug 2017 14:55 by cncnoob1979.
First problem with 18.2, 64bit.
Working on it. I'll give it till midnight.
So I understand this to mean (could be wrong?) python-imaging-tk needs python-imaging.
python-imaging is already the newest version (3.1.2-0ubuntu1.1).
Going on to Kernel Build so I can go to bed.
Give up again for today.
* Could not find Qt via pkg-config.
make: *** No rule to make target 'scripts/kconfig/.tmp_qtcheck', needed by 'scripts/kconfig/qconf.o'. Stop.
have you verified that you have QT installed? Im pretty sure you would. After installing build essentials.
the python-imaging-tk is part of a larger package. Search official Ubuntu repositories to find them using launch pad.
Typically you can find these packages that are part of the precise base.
I would suggest that to check for other dependencies that you download linuxcnc as in the tutorial and do a git pull. Then check for missing dependencies. Therefore you know what you are looking for in lauchpad and can get all the dependencies that you require at once.
Rodw mentioned he got his USB dongle working with Mint.
But I did not tell you how long it took me as this was not written.... It was a long time ago. I was ready to give up but these guys wouldn't let me.
I found my original install script (dated December 2016) and it looks like I am running the 4.1.35 patch. But plenty of people are using the later version cncnoob has in his first few posts. I would not be tempted to roll forward to later versions. I do remember updating the bash script I posted around about post 5 of this thread to be compatible with the versions used by CNCnoob when he released this before posting it.
No, you didn't tell me how long it took to get the USB Dongle working. For me it was instant when I installed Mint.
If it ain't broke.......we'd probably wouldn't have come far since 1991.
I'm at work now so it'll have to wait a few hours until I get home.
Last edit: 19 Aug 2017 00:21 by joel0407.
How much did your latency increase with the more demanding OS?
I think I've said a few times before, I got it down to 4,000 on the Wheezy ISO so I figured I had a little head room for Mint. This might all be in vain and I might have to go back to the old Wheezy. At least I'll be able to report back with my findings.
Last edit: 20 Aug 2017 13:16 by joel0407.


You can see 4 chimneys looking in the direction of Bedford, the site of the Stewartby brickworks. We will get quite close to the chimneys and have a view of the brick making kilns. Stewartby was once the largest in the world employing 4,000 people producing 18 million bricks a week. It's now redundant, leaving a model village (a village built by the industrialists to house their workers). The walk will mainly be on flat hard well-drained surfaces but soft and wet underfoot for the first and last parts.
Stewartby Brickworks to Cardington Airship Sheds. 2009. By Tony Margiocchi (Snapperz).
Meal provided?: Please ensure you bring a packed lunch.
Gear: Comfortable clothes and footwear, better hiking boots because the path may be muddy, and waterproof clothing. Always carry some water with you.
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What a relief it was to see Lady Mary and her cousin Matthew, heir to Downton Abbey, finally get together. That wonderful scene when he proposed to her in the snowy moonlight gave me goose bumps. But what will happen to poor Mr. Bates, locked up in prison for a crime he didn't commit? And don't you love the Dowager Countess? Has there ever been a wiser, sharper-witted grandmother anywhere?
Oh, please forgive me. I'm having terrible withdrawal symptoms since the "Downton Abbey" series ended its second season on public television two weeks ago. The only thing that keeps me going is the thought of the third season next year, with Shirley MacLaine and the possibility of a Jewish angle. Still I feel bereft on Sunday evenings and, of course, I'm not alone. Millions of fans, including most of my friends, have been equally obsessed with the "Downton" crowd.
It occurred to me the other day that with Purim here, I might find some respite from my pain by revisiting the Esther story. To be sure, I've read this Megillah dozens of times. But, dwelling in the fantasy land of "m'lords" and "m'ladys" all year has led me to look anew at Esther, Mordecai and the world they inhabit. Amazingly, I have found that the two sagas, portraying different eras and different sensibilities, have some things in common.
Let's start with the details. One of the glories of the "Downton Abbey" series is the care given to every detail of life in the Edwardian home of Lord and Lady Grantham. We see half-empty jelly jars lining downstairs kitchen shelves; sparkling silver and beautiful crystal on the upstairs dining table; lavish upholstery and furnishings in the ball room; stunning silk gowns and long satin evening gloves on the women; and men in perfect hunting suits or white-tie dress clothes. Every impeccable detail reinforces the status of the landed aristocracy and the power it wields in its society.
Now look at the court of King Ahasuerus. It has hangings of "white cotton and blue wool" tied to "silver rods and alabaster columns" and couches of "gold and silver" on "a pavement of marble, alabaster, and mother of pearl." In the king's harem, the women receive treatments of "oil of myrrh" and "perfumes and women's cosmetics." Lush details fill out the image of a king in control of his realm.
Then, too, in both narratives, the upper crust has to cope with unnerving social change. World War I turns Downton Abbey into a convalescent home for wounded soldiers, and barriers between the classes begin to break down — Lady Sybil even marries the chauffeur! In Ahasuerus's universe, a wife, Vashti, disobeys the king's orders, and a courageous Jewish woman turns the tables on a once trusted servant, saving a people the king had never even heard of at the beginning of the tale.
Viewed this way, the Esther story has as much, or more, color and excitement as "Downton Abbey." But now my comparison ends and I'm back where I started. I can barely wait to see what comes next in the television series. No suspense remains in the Esther scroll. Read every year, it holds little that I don't already know.
But does it? Pondering this scroll I have begun to wonder what the future bodes here as well. What happens after Esther saves the Jews of Shushan? Is she forever locked in the king's harem, never to be reunited with her people? Has she actually martyred herself for those people by marrying the king? Will her children, growing up in the royal court, ever learn about their Jewish heritage? Or, will she and Mordecai somehow manage to teach them on the sly? Perhaps one of the children will escape — like Lady Sybil did from the life of Downton Abbey — and become a leader of his nation. Perhaps one of Esther's descendants will help found the State Israel.


The Husqvarna MZ5226 zero turn lawn mower is yet another zero turn mower from Husqvarna that has a 52 inch cutting width. This is just like the Husqvarna iZ5223, the Husqvarna EZ5224 and the Husqvarna LZF5227 zero turn lawnmowers. The main difference between all four of these 52 inch mowers is the engine that powers them. The engine powering the MZ 5226 is a Briggs and Stratton Endurance Series model. This engine has a power output of 26 hp and is a twin cylinder model that keeps everything lubricated and properly oiled using a full pressure lubrication system.
This engine powers the 52 inch mower deck on the Husqvarna MZ5226. This mower deck houses 3 blades within the 11 gauge steel. Each of the 3 blades are identical and measure 18.4 inches long. The mower deck has an operating height that ranges over 3 inches, from a low of 1.5 inches to a high of 4.5 inches above the ground. The deck is raised and lowered using a spring assisted lever. It discharges the cut grass clippings out the right side of the deck in a controlled manner thanks to the large discharge chute that gives the deck a total width of 67 inches. On the leading edge you will notice 2 anti scalping wheels (1 on either side) and a nose roller in the middle. These act to guide the deck smoothly across the lawn while at the same time preventing it from catching the ground and potentially scraping it.
The max speed you can travel on the Husqvarna MZ5226 zero turn mower is 12.9 kph (8 mph), while in reverse it can only manage half of this at 6.4 kph (4 mph). To turn on a dime (i.e. make a complete 180 turn, while staying the same position on the ground), you just need to provide each rear wheel with equal amounts of power, but in opposite directions.


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Social distancing won't prevent me from laying hands on the sick…
Centre condemns execution of NGO workers, use of landmines by Boko Haram
The Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has condemned the killing of five aid workers by the Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists.
The Centre also criticized its use of landmines and buried improvised explosive devices, which according to them, doesn't discriminate civilian and military targets.
In a statement signed by Executive Secretary, Isaac Ikpa, on Friday, CESJET said the radical jihadists' new dimension may be connected to its broken relationship with international NGOs in the country.
Having suffered heavy casualties, unable to come close to the military, the Centre reckoned that Boko Haram has now resorted to attacking from position of weakness.
CESJET urged the Federal Government and the Armed Forces to maintain its onsluaght, unleashing maximum force against the terrorists as punishment for their evil deeds.
The Centre, however, called on world leaders to rise up and quit its lip service to the Boko Haram problem.
It further urged the media, bloggers and activists to be "circumspect in the treatment of this sad incidence so that they do not fall into the trap of promoting the message of terror"
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The Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) is appalled and saddened by the murder of five aid workers by Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists even when the release of the deceased from captivity could have help mitigate the punishment that is in store for the terrorists.
We condemn in the strongest terms possible the perverted violence being perpetrated by terrorists in the northern parts of Nigeria irrespective of the brand name under which these sociopaths operate. Equally repulsive is their resort to using landmines and buried improvised explosive devices that do not discriminate whether it is a civilian or military target as they kill or aim anyone that steps on them.
We further condemn the iincessant abduction of aid workers by Boko Haram and ISIS elements in the northeast of Nigeria. The depravity from all such abduction especially the latest one that ended in the murder of the terrorists' victims marks a new low even for a group that had earned itself the repulsive title of the deadliest criminal gang on earth. No further proof is needed to confirm that Boko Haram is a sheer evil humanity.
If previous trend is anything to go by, Boko Haram resorts to this kind of shock tactic to gain attention whenever its fighters have been beaten into irrelevance and are no longer able to stage significant attacks.
We are therefore not surprised that the group sensing that it can no longer continue to milk money from some of the international NGOs that had in the past collaborated with the terrorists against the military and the innocent citizens of Nigeria have now taken to another tactics to continue its evil act of blood shedding.
From its position of weakness and inability to launch offensives against military targets, Boko Haram has trained its fighters in the use of landmines and hidden explosives on highways in a renewed push to discourage troops for defending the citizens of Nigeria.
Beyond condemning these dastardly acts of the terrorists in the strongest terms possible, CESJET demands that the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Armed Forces should unleash maximum force against the terrorists as punishment for their evil deeds and as means or eradicating them from being alive to repeat such inhuman behaviour.
CESJET is of the view that something concrete is done about the handicap imposed on the Nigerian military by international conventions and the Nigerian Armed Forces rules of engagement. There is an urgency to let the terrorists know that the military is not weak but is being constrained by these considerations and it is a message that must be passed on to the terrorists in the wake of their murdering the five aid workers.
We challenge the world to rouse from its lethargy, stop paying lips service to the Boko Haram problem and quit fiddling while an entire region burns. It is high time something drastically is done by the world to stop Boko Haram/ISWAP.
We appeal to the media, bloggers and activists' communities to be circumspect in the treatment of this sad incidence so that they do not fall into the trap of promoting the message of terror and hopelessness that the terrorists intended to send to Nigerian through the dastardly murders. Our thought are with the families and colleagues of the slain aid workers.
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Sadiq Khan asks Londoners to back his call for government to 'do right' by London
24th August 2020 2nd September 2020
The Mayor has warned that Downing Street has "got it in" for the capital, which faces an "existential" threat
Less "alpha male" politics, please – that was the call from Sadiq Khan to Downing Street last week, amid growing concerns that the government is intent on "dismantling" the 1999 devolution settlement which saw the creation of the mayoralty.
"If they want more power in London they need to win the election," the Mayor said, speaking to reporters last week after an online "Speak to Sadiq" question and answer session organised by the London Labour Party at which Khan took questions from non-Labour and floating voters and from Londoners who had voted Conservative for the first time at last year's general election.
Downing Street seems to have "got it in for London," Khan said, nevertheless predicting that the Prime Minister's team would "calm down after we've won a landslide victory". While relations with some cabinet members are good, a more "collegiate" approach overall is needed, he added, calling on the capital's residents to back him in urging the government to "do right" by London.
"London is the country's economic engine. It is in all our interests to understand that London is crucial to our country's wealth and prosperity", he said, adding that the government needs to learn the lessons of its slow response to the Covid-19 pandemic and act quickly to avert an "existential" threat to the capital.
Action should include extending the business rates holiday for another year, targeted help for hard-pressed retail, culture, hospitality and leisure businesses, including further furlough support in those areas, and retraining for the 1.3 million Londoners currently furloughed and at risk of unemployment, Khan said.
His call came as figures released by Labour suggested that more than £72 million in emergency government grant funding earmarked for London businesses remained unallocated and at risk of being "clawed back". £1.4 billion unallocated nationally should be redirected into a Hospitality and High Street Fightback Fund, the party said.
Khan also repeated his call for an immediate inquiry into the UK response to the pandemic, in order to learn lessons "in real time". And he confirmed his intention to relocate the capital's seat of government to Newham's Royal Docks, saving £55 million against a background of up to £500 million shortfalls in Greater London Authority budgets over the coming two years.
The Mayor also confirmed that he expected his London Plan – the planning and development blueprint for the capital – to be signed off by the government "sooner rather than later".
The draft Plan, in preparation since 2017, fell at its final hurdle in early March, when communities secretary Robert Jenrick refused to approve it. The intervention came just before the expected launch of hostilities ahead of the mayoral election, since postponed to next year. The last formal contact between Khan and Jenrick was on April 24.
The Plan was now more relevant than ever, Khan said, with its "good growth" focus on protecting open space, promoting active travel, work-life balance and high-quality design. The government's recently-unveiled planning reform proposals, threatening to further undermine the strategic role of the Mayor according to some commentators, as well as reducing those of local councillors in determining planning applications, are a "pig's ear", he added, predicting a U-turn on the plans.
Transport for London will be introducing dedicated "school buses" as schools return after the summer, Khan said, with capacity increased to 60 rather than 30, and every other bus on key routes reserved for schoolchildren.
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Tony's Last Tape
Possibly less famous than Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Andy Barrett's Tony's Last Tape has much in common with it; not least the obsession each of the eponymous heroes had with bananas and tape recordings.
A comforting reminder of an age when principles were held dear.
Tony Benn's daughter, Melissa, commented at his funeral that her father 'ate so many bananas that he was hospitalised with suspected potassium poisoning'. Along with cheese sandwiches they formed his staple diet when on endless tours around the country and on the campaign trail. As a lover of technology he also recorded his life on cassette tapes that were later to become his published diaries. This had already given playwright Andy Barrett the idea for his play's title but the bananas turned out to be a surprise coincidence.
For those not familiar with this legend of British politics, Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (1925-2014) was a Labour Member of Parliament for 47 years between 1950 and 2001 and a Cabinet minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s. Over the years he progressively dropped more of his name, ultimately known simply as Tony Benn. He also worked hard to lose the title of 2nd Viscount Stansgate, which he inherited upon his father's death. As a peer he was unable to remain an MP and the law prevented him from renouncing his title. His answer was to have the law changed with the passage of the Peerage Act 1963. He subsequently took up several offices of government under prime ministers Wilson and Callaghan: Postmaster General; Minister of Technology; Secretary of State for Industry and finally Secretary of State for Energy. His politics became increasingly radical and those on the left who espoused his ideology became known as Bennites. He was President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 until his death. The landmark Post Office Tower in London, whose construction he oversaw, is a lasting monument to him.
Benn meticulously made a daily record of all he did, so his published diaries provide an excess of material for a playwright. Inevitably Barrett has been highly selective and to a large extent has chosen passages, events and comments that lend themselves to being performance material. There are significant omissions. This is not a full biography but rather an attempt to provide an insight into the man at an opportune moment. 'The timing feels right,' he observes, 'to bring Tony Benn's story back to life. With.... the Labour party using the word socialism with increasing confidence, it's clear that Benn's time as a political thinker has come again. He's as relevant now as he's ever been.' He's right. Many lines resonate with contemporary significance.
As the rain pours down, Benn (Philip Bretherton), now 87, is up early, unable to sleep. His sense of history and humour is emblazoned on the T-shirt he wears under his dressing gown and with his pyjama bottoms: 'Say No Poll Tax 1381; a reminder of the battles he had with Thatcher and the poor have always had with the ruling classes. He puts down his mug of tea and starts the recording equipment, rummages in the drawers of his desk, that occupies centre stage in his cluttered study, and finds the pipe he was never without. Oh, and a banana! Thus the saga begins.
Bretherton lights the pipe with great attention to Benn's style. Surely, no one ever lit a pipe in such a contorted manner as Benn that it became a well-recognised trademark. The same accuracy applies to the all-important and highly distinctive voice that barely changed over the years, unlike that of the Queen and Thatcher. He never lost the edge of aristocracy, Westminster School and Oxford, yet he transformed himself to the great champion of the working classes with a passion. Bretherton gets that too in the conviction with which he utters exchanges that Benn had with so many people. Also present is the wicked sense of humour, the joy of pranks played and the sadness that stayed with him for the many years following the death of his brother and more lately Caroline, his dear wife for over fifty years.
Under the direction of Giles Croft this production at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, is a comforting reminder of an age when principles were held dear and people espoused causes that consumed their lives. Benn made a conscious decision to finally call it a day and record his last tape, but he left us words to remember that underscored his life. 'There is no final victory, there is no final defeat. Just the same battles which have to be fought over and over and over again.'
Based on the diaries of Tony Benn. An old man sits in a room faced with a collection of recording devices he has collected over his long and eventful life. He opens a drawer, takes out a pipe, unscrews his flask and pours himself the first cup of tea of the day. For more than fifty years he has recorded everything that has happened to and around him, but today he has decided to make his last tape.


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Fox Business Network president stepping down after 20 years
Posted: Sep 12, 2019 / 05:37 PM UTC / Updated: Sep 12, 2019 / 05:37 PM UTC
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox Business Network says its president, Brian Jones, is leaving the network.
Jones worked at the Fox Business Network and the Fox News Channel for 20 years and was promoted to president two years ago. No reason was given for his departure.
He's being replaced by Lauren Petterson, Fox News's senior vice president of morning programming and talent development.
Petterson will still oversee talent development at Fox News. She has overseen the morning program "Fox & Friends" for 11 years.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Heath, a Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist and composer who performed with such greats as Miles Davis and John Coltrane before forming the popular family group the Heath Brothers in middle age, has died. He was 93.
Heath's grandson Fa Mtume told The New York Times that he died Sunday at his home in Loganville, Georgia. The cause of death was not immediately given.
ATLANTA (AP) — Statements from law enforcement officials and a Kentucky-based rapper are shedding more light on what led to a shooting that caused chaos outside one of Atlanta's largest malls last week.
The man shot by police on Saturday after refusing to drop his gun may have been trying to stop a robbery.
by AMY FORLITI, Associated Press / Jan 20, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Prince's family members has been quietly dismissed in recent months, suggesting family members have reached settlements with defendants including the Minnesota doctor who saw Prince in the weeks before his death and the Illinois hospital that treated him for an opioid overdose seven days before he died.
The dismissals largely close one legal chapter in the superstar's legacy, even as efforts drag on to value and dispose of his estate once pegged at around $200 million.


Dr. Noll is a leading church historian. He recently retired as the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, having previously served as Professor of History and Theological Studies at Wheaton College. He has taught courses on American religious history, world Christianity, Reformation theology, Puritanism, historiography, nineteenth-century British evangelicalism, and American intellectual history.
Dr. Noll has written and edited numerous books, most recently including In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life (OUP, 2015), From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian's Discovery of the Global Christian Story (Baker Academic, 2014), Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind (Eerdmans, 2011), and Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia (co-written with Carolyn Nystrom, IVP, 2011). He has also served on the editorial boards for Books & Culture and Christian History, and as co-editor of "Library of Religious Biography" for Wm. B. Eerdmans. In 2006 he received the National Endowment for the Humanities medal at the White House. Dr. Noll currently lives in South Bend, Indiana, with his wife, Maggie.


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More Static Than Clarity -- Part II
The Trader -- Part I | Crunch Time for Krispy
THE COMPANY ALSO IS CREDITED with having set itself up for achievable sales and revenue growth this year, after biding its time in 2004 with a flat profit performance as CEO Jeff Immelt rejiggered the business mix in favor of faster-growing sectors (health care and media over insurance, for instance).
Finally, GE has courted the cash-craving crowd with a recent 10% dividend boost. The company also has planned a $15 billion, three-year stock-buyback plan.
Admirable stuff, for sure. But the story is now pretty well understood, judging by the Street's favorable posture toward the shares and the rebuilt valuation premium reflected in today's price.
Approaching 36, GE shares are fetching about 20 times the company's suggested 2005 profit figure ($1.76 to $1.83, officially). The dividend yield is now 2.5%, more than competitive but hardly reason alone to own the stock.
Considering that GE derives close to half of its earnings from finance, and that huge-cap financials such as Citigroup and J.P. Morgan are consigned to P/E multiples around 11 or 12, it would seem the premium afforded GE's industrial businesses is that much stouter.
There's good reason to argue that GE's financial earnings are worth more than a large bank's profit stream. (GE Capital has a triple-A credit rating, and can concentrate on underserved, less-regulated financial niches.) But, in a flattening-yield-curve environment, investors should ask how aggressively they want to value even a high-quality financial profit machine like GE.
Barron's bold declaration that GE was a buy in February 2003, with the stock under 24 ("Turning on the Lights," Feb. 24, 2003) only seems an easy call in retrospect, now that the stock is up 50% from there. At the time, earnings visibility was murky, analysts were skeptical and no one cared that the stock looked cheap.
The current situation isn't a perfect opposite, but it's hard to escape the universal affection for the stock and the company's confidence about its profit outlook.
GE shares haven't seen $40 since early 2002. It'll probably take either a strong overall market or plenty of unforeseen good news to get them back there to stay any time soon.
IT'S A CHALLENGE TO COME UP with the thousand words that the picture nearby captures.
The chart depicts the cumulative breadth of NYSE issues. That is, it's a running tally of advancing issues minus declining issues, as kept by technical analyst John Roque of Natexis Bleichroeder.
One interpretation of the striking vertical thrust at the right side of the chart is that this is the perfect visual distillation of general asset inflation.
Because the NYSE, in addition to common stocks, lists thousands of closed-end bond funds, preferred shares, real-estate investment trusts and such, Big Board breadth reflects the thirst for all financial assets.
With stocks back in demand in the past couple of years and bonds and real estate drawing fresh capital, too, the breadth chart shows the deep appetite for yield and appreciation potential in a low-interest-rate world of expensive assets.
Traditionally, a broad advance is taken as a sign of stock-market health. And, all things being equal, it beats a stingy, narrowly led market. But it's worth asking how much longer such a trend can persist.
Roque interprets the stupendously broad A/D line as a signal that the market's nearly unprecedented inclusiveness may be peaking. That is, more stocks will likely begin to falter, relative to those that climb, as gravity begins to exert itself on the near-universal levitation of stocks
This means it might make sense for traders and investors to begin looking for short-sale candidates and to take more care in estimating downside risk for long positions.
Morgan Stanley strategist Henry McVey touches on a similar point, as he makes the case that the three-to-one ratio of winners to losers in the S&P 500 last year is bound to drop.
Particularly hazardous, says McVey, is the current consensus expectation that more than three-quarters of S&P 500 companies will be able to expand profit margins in 2005.
It all leaves quite a bit of room for disappointment, and may mean that rifle shooters will outperform shotgun blasters this year.
TWO CORRECTIONS FROM A COUPLE of weeks ago: New Frontier Media distributes its adult-video programming over the DISH satellite network. This column mistakenly said its programs are carried on DirecTV.
The same column noted that the first week of 2005 was the worst initial week since 1991 for the Dow Jones Industrials and S&P 500, and that 1991 was a down year for the market. In fact, stocks fell in 1990, but in 1991 the indexes rallied more than 20%.
Crunch Time for Krispy
SOME INVESTORS WERE EXCITED last week when Krispy Kreme booted out its old management and brought in a restructuring crew. There probably still isn't enough known about the health of the company's franchisees, however, to warrant buying the stock.
Krispy Kreme generates revenues by selling doughnuts in company-owned stores, and from franchise royalties and equipment and supply sales to franchisees.
In its fiscal year ended Feb. 1, Krispy owned 141 stores; franchisees, the remaining 216. Royalties generated $24 million, which might not seem like much for an outfit with $666 million in sales. However, the royalty revenue had an 80% operating margin, so it contributed $19 million, or 19%, of Krispy's $102 million of operating income. Sales of equipment and supplies kicked in $193 million of revenue and $39 million, or 38%, of the company's operating profit.
Krispy doesn't disclose franchisees' profits because most are privately owned. However, tidbits in the company's financial reports indicate that some franchisees aren't making much dough. Krispy has guaranteed $52.3 million of debt or operating leases for franchisees. Of this, $16.7 million is owed by franchisees who aren't in compliance with covenants in their credit agreements.
The company also reported that it took a $2 million allowance for doubtful accounts from two franchisees. And a joint venture partner, Glazed Investments, exercised a put option that required Krispy to buy an 11% interest in the JV for $3.6 million -- a potential indication that the owner wanted to get out while the getting is good. (No other JVs have put options.) The company also has reported that its consolidated joint ventures had third-quarter and nine-month operating losses.
In the third quarter, average weekly sales at franchised stores slid to $47,900, 15% below the year-earlier level, as commodity costs were rising. Analysts expect the company to earn 27 cents a share in its current fiscal year, down from an expected 40 cents in the 2005 fiscal year that ends this month, or the 91 cents reported for fiscal '04.
Krispy also faces a potential cash crunch, with only $17 million of cash on hand at the end of the third quarter and no access to its bank lines because it hasn't filed third-quarter results with the SEC. At the end of October, the doughnut purveyor had borrowed $90.9 million on its $150 million bank facility. And Jan. 24 -- today -- is the deadline for the banks to begin considering whether to consider it in default.
This is in addition to filing financial statements for the first time in six months and settling an SEC inquiry into its accounting.
In recent months Barron's has warned investors away from the stock, much as we did in 2000 when Krispy seemed too hot to handle (see "Dollars to Doughnuts," July 10, 2000). We see no reason to change our view now.
—Jacqueline Doherty
E-mail: michael.santoli@barrons.com


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Ninja Warrior UK to return to Manchester for new series
by Stephen Chapman
ITV has commissioned a second series of Ninja Warrior UK, which will be filmed in Manchester.
The format had already proved a hit in the USA, Sweden and Japan, while in the UK, the first series peaked at 6m viewers.
It will be hosted by the trio of Ben Shephard, Rochelle Humes and Chris Kamara.
"I'm delighted Ninja Warrior UK's coming back. The show's mix of contestants' hilarious attempts and inspirational performances is presented brilliantly by Ben, Rochelle and Kammy," said Asif Zubairy commissioning editor, entertainment.
It will be produced by Potato, which is part of ITV Studios and was commissioned by Zubairy and Elaine Bedell, ITV's director of entertainment and comedy. The series is based on Sasuke, a TBS format.
In total 250 competitors attempted to conquer "the toughest obstacle course ever seen on British television" but no-one succeeded. 18k viewers have already applied to see if they can do better.
"Ninja Warrior UK has proved to be a hit with viewers of all ages, a real family favourite on Saturday nights. I'm thrilled to be making the show again for ITV," added Michael Kelpie, managing director of Potato.
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Q: Why LiveData Observer is called too many times? I am using Android LiveData with Room database.
Everything works fine, but only thing is that LiveData observer is called too many times.
I initialized ViewModel inside Activity onCreate function.
Please review my codes and if I've done something wrong.
Thanks
viewModel = ViewModelProviders.of(this).get(PersonListViewModel.class);
viewModel.getAll().observe(this, personList->{
    Log.e("PersonRecycler", "Observer called");

    if (personList.size() == 0) {
        lytNoPerson.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    } else {
        lytNoPerson.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        adapterData.resetData(personList);
    }
});

I expected this observer called only one time at first load.
And called again whenever I have new updates.
But it is calling many times at first load.
Please check this screenshot below.
Thanks again.
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Below is ViewModel source code.
public class PersonListViewModel extends AndroidViewModel {
    private PersonRepository repository;

    private MutableLiveData<List<Person>> personList;
    private MediatorLiveData<List<Person>> liveDataMerger;

    public PersonListViewModel(@NonNull Application application) {
        super(application);

        repository = PersonRepository.getInstance(application);

        personList = new MutableLiveData<>();
        liveDataMerger = new MediatorLiveData<>();
    }

    public LiveData<List<Person>> getAll() {
        String createdBy = AppController.getInstance().firebaseUser.getEmail();
        return repository.getAll(createdBy);
    }

    public LiveData<PagedList<Person>> getPagedPerson() {
        return repository.getPagedPerson();
    }

    public LiveData<List<Person>> loadMore(int page) {
        /*
        LiveData<List<Person>> pList = repository.getPersonByPage(page);
        liveDataMerger.addSource(pList, list->{
            liveDataMerger.setValue(list);
        });

        return liveDataMerger;
        */
        return repository.getPersonByPage(page);
    }

    public MutableLiveData<List<Person>> getPersonList() {
        return personList;
    }
}

This is getAll function in repository.
public LiveData<List<Person>> getAll(String createdBy) {
        return database.personDao().getAll(createdBy);
    }

This is getAll function in Dao
@Query("SELECT * FROM " + TABLE_PERSON + " WHERE deleted=0 AND createdBy=:createdBy ORDER BY created DESC")
LiveData<List<Person>> getAll(String createdBy);

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The Royal Naval Aeroplane Repair Depot was commissioned at the Isle of Grain early in 1915, and to distinguish it from the seaplane station already established there it was named Port Victoria. Ultimately it became known as the Marine Experimental Aircraft Depot and undertook original design work. Its first entirely original design was the P.V.2 single-seat anti- Zeppelin seaplane. Of wooden construction and powered by a 100hp Gnome Monosoupape rotary, the P.V.2 was an exceptionally clean sesquiplane, the wing cellule being almost devoid of bracing wires with the upper wing attached to the upper fuselage longerons and the lower wing passing beneath the fuselage. The intended armament was a two-pounder Davis gun, although this was never fitted. The P.V.2 was first flown in June 1916 with floats of the pontoon type, these later being replaced by Linton Hope floats. Trials showed considerable promise and it was decided to develop the design further as the P.V.2bis.
If you will contact me I can give you the name and contact of a fellow modeller friend of mine here in the States that has a very successful FF electric powered PV-2 he campaigns in FAC power scale. Has won with it many times and surely has documentation for it.


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Saint-Quentin-Fallavier – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Owernia-Rodan-Alpy, w departamencie Isère.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 4977 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 218 osób/km² (wśród 2880 gmin regionu Rodan-Alpy Saint-Quentin-Fallavier plasuje się na 174. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 396.).

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Chivenor
Weather in the United Kingdom
Severe weather in the United Kingdom
Surface pressure chart
Weather in Chivenor, GB (Weather Station)
Avg. wind speed: 20.1 km/h
Time of day (BST)
rain or rain showers
slight rain or rain showers
intermittent drizzle with partly clear sky
Wind gusts 50.9 km/h 38.7 km/h 38.5 km/h 39.6 km/h 40.7 km/h 41.4 km/h 46.5 km/h
Avg. wind speed 22.6 km/h 19.7 km/h 19.5 km/h 20.3 km/h 22.1 km/h 24.1 km/h 25 km/h
Precipitation 1 l/m² 0.6 l/m² 0 l/m² 0 l/m²
Avg. wind speed 19.5 km/h 20.3 km/h 22.1 km/h 24.1 km/h 25 km/h 26.6 km/h 22.6 km/h 14.4 km/h
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Wind gusts 26.1 km/h 25.9 km/h 27.7 km/h 34.3 km/h 40 km/h 42.5 km/h 37.8 km/h 31.9 km/h
Avg. wind speed 12.4 km/h 12 km/h 12 km/h 15.3 km/h 19.9 km/h 22.3 km/h 19.7 km/h 16.2 km/h
Wind gusts 35 km/h 35.4 km/h 34.9 km/h 38.3 km/h 46.5 km/h 40.9 km/h 34.9 km/h 19 km/h
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Avg. wind speed 8.6 km/h 8.2 km/h 10.6 km/h 15 km/h 20.3 km/h 22.3 km/h 19.2 km/h 14.8 km/h
occasionally heavy thunderstorms
Precipitation 16 l/m² 4 l/m² 1 l/m²
Data provided by weather station Chivenor, 8m
+38 km - Liscombe
+39 km - North Wyke
+44 km - Okehampton
+55 km - Mumbles
Weather in Chivenor, 19.07.2019
On Friday it will be overcast with light rain. Morning temperatures will be around 14 °C. During the day they will reach a maximum of 20 °C. Low temperatures at night will be around 16°C. Southeasterly, later westerly winds are brisk to brisk with strong gusts.
In the early morning it will be variable with rain showers. Before noon it will become overcast with local rain. The afternoon offers mostly sunny weather. Morning temperatures will be around 16 °C. During the day they will reach a maximum of 19 °C. Low temperatures at night will be around 15°C. We have moderate to brisk westerly wind with strong gusts.


A pilot observational study by Weber-Carstens and colleagues contributes to a mechanistic explanation of the puzzling and complex phenomena of ICU-acquired weakness (ICU-AW). The authors suggest systemic, inflammatory-mediated pathology is the most significant risk factor for ICU-AW. While this finding is somewhat equivocal, it provides important direction for future investigations and illustrates the challenges of interpreting significance in small observational studies.
The pilot observational study by Weber-Carstens and colleagues  provides important contributions to a mechanistic explanation of the puzzling and complex phenomena of ICU-acquired weakness (ICU-AW). Earlier findings from this research group suggested that ICUAW is primarily a myopathy  and confirmed that initial pathology manifests, on average, 7 days after ICU admission among the most severely ill [2–4]. In the current subanalysis with 40 of the original 52 subjects, multiple factors were examined for association with myopathy: molecular (IL-6, C-reactive protein (CRP), and insulin growth factor binding protein (IGFBP)-1); serum osmolarity; medication use (norepinepherine, dobutamine, hydrocortisone, aminoglycosides, analgesics, sedatives and neuromuscular blocking agents); and multisystem factors (simplified acute physiology (SAPS-2) and sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) scores).
The authors suggest systemic, inflammatory-mediated pathology is the most significant risk factor for ICU-AW. The results on IL-6 show that its effects are actually quite modest. While IL-6 had a significant contribution to the statistical model, the hazard ratio of 1.006 indicated a higher IL-6 (>230 picograms/ml) is little better than chance in predicting inexcitable muscle membranes (see Figure 7 in ). CRP, the second inflammatory biomarker, was not associated with abnormal muscle excitability (P = 0.075). However, the sample size for this analysis was small. It may simply be that there are insufficient numbers of results to derive a meaningful Cox regression equation - allowing a reasonable 10 samples per factor/covariate, a sample size of 160 would provide more value to the statistical model (16 covariates; see Table 2 in ).
The authors also report a hazard ratio for norepinepherine similar to that for IL-6. Along with the relative differences in the presence of septic shock and organ dysfunction in Table 1 in  among participants with/without inexcitable muscle membrane, this finding lends support to oxidative stress or the interaction of oxidative stress and pro-inflammatory biomarkers as risk factors for myopathy in ICU patients . Findings from this study illustrate the challenges of translating basic science to clinical settings. Multiple measures and more complex clinical data, such as a heterogeneous sample as in this report, make it difficult to derive important conclusions from small samples.
Building a framework to identify ICU-AW early and to evaluate efficacy of treatments is essential. Between 25 and 50% of patients who receive mechanical ventilation for 7 or more days experience neuromuscular abnormalities and these abnormalities can result in weakness and impaired function years after discharge from the ICU . In the United States, from 1997 to 2006, the number of ICU patients who received mechanical ventilation and were subsequently discharged to home has decreased while transfers to long-term acute care increased significantly without concomitant changes in survival . For older adults discharged with new or additional dependency in daily activities after hospitalization, less than 31% return to prehospital function . Determining interventions that alter muscle pathology and associated dysfunction among patients who experience prolonged mechanical ventilation, whether from a mechanistic or a holistic perspective, has the potential to reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation and length of hospital stay .
The role of IL-6 and other cytokines in muscle dysfunction is not yet clear. In healthy adults, very high levels can be myogenic after intense exercise . Yet IL-6 is also associated with proteolysis and myosin loss . Among patients with chronic inflammatory conditions/diseases, serum IL-6 is related to muscle wasting and dysfunction . In ICU patients, IL-6 can be unconnected to illness severity yet predictive of mortality [13, 14]. The sources of IL-6 - muscle versus leukocyte - may also be important to muscle pathology.
Developing understanding of basic pathology and establishing predictive biomarkers will provide the opportunity for new hypothesis testing. In this exploratory report of risk factors associated with abnormal responses to direct muscle stimulation, molecular to multisystem levels of covariates were examined . Future studies will be more compelling when focused on single-level, inter-related pathways. Investigations related to molecular cascade interactions are providing insight into the genetic, signaling, bioenergetic, and metabolic processes that contribute to muscle health and disease. Understanding of molecular determinants of common diseases encountered in the critically ill can provide the rationale for selection of therapeutic targets . If a serum IL-6 value >230 picograms/ml is confirmed in future studies as an early indicator of muscle dysfunction, then the efficacy of prevention and treatment strategies may be measured rapidly and inexpensively by IL-6.
Observational data like this report provide important information with which to calculate effect size and determine promising biologic pathways for future investigations. Results also suggest that the timing of interventions to prevent ICU-AW may need to occur earlier than typically occurs in many settings as serum IL-6 and muscle stimulation responses were abnormal quite early in the majority of patients who went on to manifest ICU-AW.
Samantha Razavi, RN and Jeffrey Ruf, RN reviewed the literature and assembled articles for this commentary.
CW has received research and travel funding from Hill-Rom. 2007-2009.


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The Dark Pictures Is Until Dawn Developer's Next Game
by Deville Louw
in Gaming, Uncategorized
Bandai Namco and developer Supermassive Games have announced their next project: a horror game anthology series titled The Dark Pictures.
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The Dark Pictures anthology will consist of a series of stand-alone games basically designed to scare the living daylights out of gamers. Each of these games will feature new characters, settings and narrative with a binding thread that each will be just as scary as the next. The first of the games in the series is called Man of Medan and will see players switching between a cast of four Americans and the captain of the ship. So, why will these characters find themselves on a ship? Well, they are on a trip to dive at a rumoured World War II wreckage. As things tend to go in most horror-inspired tales, everything goes horribly wrong when a mysterious storm moves in. The game, as with previous games by the developer, will feature multiple branching storylines and plots adding to the game's overall replayability. We are excited to see what new scares Supermassive Games can come up with especially since we are such huge fans of Until Dawn. In a game where each decision matters and may have lasting consequences, who will live and who will die?
Man of Medan, the first in the The Dark Pictures anthology, will release in 2019 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
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The Single Adult Ministries Resource Guide does give some very good ideas. I have one and it is helpful.
Yes, and it's a quick download. Still is available. at the above link.
Quick Start Guides can still be downloaded. This certainly is a good resource for Single Adult Ministry Leaders and helpers. Please don't hesitate to download it and use it. It is very good.
The Quick Start Guide is quite good and so it wouldn't hurt to download it and work at starting this ministry in your church or area. Certainly is a great ministry!
Yes the Quick Start Guide is good. If you are a Single Adult Ministry leader have you looked at this book yet? If so, would you agree that it is a good guide?
Well from checking the website given, I see that these resources are still available.....so if you would like to find out more about starting a Single Adult Ministry....check them out.
Yes! The Resource Guide is in PDF Format which means you can download and print it. What a wonderful discovery!
Still can access the Quick Start Guide and it still has some very good information in it that is helpful to someone leading out in the ministry.
The Quick Start Guide is still looking good and useable. Certainly worth the small amount of money to buy it!


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give me any song and i'll try to tell how hard the theme will be to combo if it was in mother 3
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i know this is a weird one but i'll give it a shot (by the way, sorry for the mother 3 related "spam")
one of mother 3's most unique features is that if a character uses their normal attack, they can get more hits in if they time the a button to the heartbeat of the enemy, or the beat of the song.
i'm going to give myself an example:
Deltarune Chapter 2 OST: 05 - Queen
Very hard. The song speeds up and slows down a lot, and these tempo changes would likely be very hard to adapt to.
If a signature cannot exceed 200 pixels in height, how big is a pixel here? Are the pixels large enough to be counted? Or are they so small that they may as well not be squares?
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Ngl, I thought you meant Killer Queen at first, cuz that one's at a consistent 144bpm, but then I realized you meant the other song...
Okay, how about Rush E?
The Warden, it's not just a sin eater... it's an ASS!
Rush E:
I searched the song's tempo up, and apparently its BPM is only 80. I think the song's difficulty to combo will be average if it was in Mother 3, but I can definitely see it being hard.
According to the Mother 3 fandom wiki, Tragic Reconstruction (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odQXupCHnHc) from the original game is actually faster than this song!
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obligatory cave story track suggestion: wind fortress
Eli said:
Rather easy. There's nothing making the beat extremely obvious, but I don't think ORGMaker supports tempo changes, and there's only one section where the song seems to slow down. The hardest part would probably be to keep up with the beat of the song, since it's definitely going to be fast.
2DBro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZwr511qGoY this song is in 10/8 but has frequent time signature changes
play headman! its a really good mod and i spent a very long time on it.
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2DBro said:
My only experience with King Gizzard is Vinny mentioning them on stream, but this is a banger.
Anyways, if all we're doing is tapping along to the underlying pulse, most of my gut reaction "difficult songs" probably aren't going to be that difficult since they're still in 4/4 and/or don't change bpm.
Despite how Splatoon 2 OST - Splattack (Octo) sounds, it's actually 4/4 (just really fast).
Savant - Change changes bpm ( ), but it's pretty gradual and still in 4/4, so I can't imagine that being super difficult.
I'm honestly not sure what's going on with QUAVIS - Ulya's Misery . I was able to tap to the first half it in 4/4, but maybe that's because I've listened to it too much...
And finally, underscores - skincare/i is actually impossible; the artist confirmed it has no bpm
CS mods:
Picnic - Extended (Incomplete, on indefinite hiatus)
Dad's Story ("Complete")
Sue - W.I.T.W.F.M. (Based of the Fanfic of the same name) (Incomplete, will be redone from scratch)
I Wanna Kill The Doctor (Early WIP of a hard mod)
CMPGenerator Demonstration (Complete)
Ant Story (lazy WIP)
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All-Seeing Eye (Guxt Editor)
BPP (stand-alone BL Hackinator replacement)
CMPGenerator (niche map/script editor)
improved_map_system (For Clownacy's mod loader)
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I'll give you one track and one track only.
Marx's battle theme - Kirby Super Star
(also how does a song have no bpm)
Although that song doesn't change bpm so maybe it's easier than I think. . .
I think it'd be better if we changed the challenge to time signatures than bpm, cuz we seem to know more with that.
BurnOut said:
Probably very easy, assuming the heartbeat goes to the drums that aren't high hats, and each snare in the snare rolls aren't heartbeats. Although this sounds specific, this would likely be how the heartbeat would go.
Also, a song has no BPM if the author doesn't plan a specific beat. If I just mashed a ton of notes on my piano, it could count as a song, but wouldn't have a BPM.
EnlightenedOne said:
My ears cannot handle whatever this is, so assuming from the small sample I listened to from the middle of the song, this will be somewhat hard to combo because or how disorienting and confusing the song is. You'll really need the song's heartbeat for this.
Frequent time signature changes sounds really bad. Dry Guys from the original game constantly switches time signatures and is already one of the hardest early game songs to combo, if not the hardest. Since this song is extremely long, it would be nearly impossible to memorize, although that won't be much of an issue due to this song likely having an obvious beat.
I think it would be around the difficulty of the most notorious themes in the game (Strong One, Back Beat Battle (Hard), Fate/Serious)


"If You Can Avoid It, Don't Multitask" --What?
From time to time you see a spate of articles sweep through the mainstream media decrying multitasking and the apparent conclusion from scientific research that multitasking leads to a reduction in overall accomplishment. I've seen headlines like "Multitasking is Counterproductive," "Multitasking Creates Health Problems," "Multitasking Makes You Stupid," and "The Thief of Time: Multitasking is Inefficient." Those headlines make my blood boil and chill at the same time (multitasking)!
These newspaper, television, radio, and Internet flurries are almost entirely either from or about the article, "Executive Control of Cognitive Processes in Task Switching," in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Someone from the Knowledge Age had to get to the bottom of this. So, I submerged myself in the dense, 34-page original article and found out that, among other things, the research in question d'esn't relate in any realistic way to either the headlines or to the content of the news articles.
The first thing I found out, when I did a little research into the source, was that the American Psychological Association (APA) isn't at all averse to putting a media-friendly, hype-it-up "spin" on things.
In 4 experiments, participants alternated between different tasks or performed the same task repeatedly. The tasks for 2 of the experiments required responding to geometric objects in terms of alternative classification rules, and the tasks for the other 2 experiments required solving arithmetic problems in terms of alternative numerical operations. Performance was measured as a function of whether the tasks were familiar or unfamiliar, the rules were simple or complex, and visual cues were present or absent about which tasks should be performed. Task alternation yielded switching-time costs that increased with rule complexity but decreased with task cuing. These factor effects were additive, supporting a model of executive control that has goal-shifting and rule-activation stages for task switching. It appears that rule activation takes more time for switching from familiar to unfamiliar tasks than for switching in the opposite direction.
New scientific studies reveal the hidden costs of multitasking, key findings as technology increasingly tempts people to do more than one thing (and increasingly, more than one complicated thing) at a time.
Now try to find where the press release language reflects the study. Hmm. Well, there's clearly even less relationship if you read the whole 34-page article, which I have now. Twice. Carefully.
The initial research was aimed at learning more about how the brain controls task shifting and the concomitant application of rules for thinking. And the data was collected in 1992 and 1993, years before the trends that we've seen in using IT for multitasking were visible to many researchers--many of whom by their nature likely avoid multitasking when at all possible.
Sure enough, the researchers found that there were some costs in terms of time used by your brain to manage your shift from one task to another. Not exactly a surprise, but not really a finding about multitasking and "efficiency" on the job, either.
A few dozen undergraduates at the University of Michigan were given ten arithmetic problems to solve. When the problems were all one kind--say, all multiplication or all division--it took them about a minute to get the answers. If the problems were mixed--some division and some multiplication--it took them about 15-20 seconds longer.
My bet is that 95 percent (or more) of the journalists who wrote or spoke about this paper and multitasking read and understood that sentence, but not much if anything more. Most probably never even followed the hyperlink to the full article, and if they did, they probably skimmed the front page and went somewhere else as they felt their eyes glazing over.
What's all this got to with information technology and higher education, and why is it here in IT Trends? Well, at the NLII and EDUCAUSE meetings I've attended, and at the Syllabus conferences, too, I've noticed and been made to feel at home by the number of people using their laptops and PDAs to multitask in the middle of seminars and presentations.
No one there is telling me to "put your laptop down and pay attention," or telling me I can't possibly work well with 1,000 files on my desktop, or that I can't really be paying attention to my work and getting things done while reading e-mail, browsing the Drudge Report, and simultaneously carrying on three instant messenger conversations.
And I'm guessing that most of the readership of this column is like me--"born" for info tech and what it lets you do! At the NLII conference I attended most recently, a couple of people I met asked me to research the origin of all that bad press for multitasking and write about it. So I have. And I hope you enjoy it and that you find it useful to counter criticism from your Luddite colleagues!
"Executive Control of Cognitive Processes in Task Switching," Joshua S. Rubinstein, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Atlantic City, N.J.; David E. Meyer and Jeffrey E. Evans, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, Vol. 27, No.4.


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Hootsuite hits 10M users, acquires Brightkit, launches Campaigns
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Published: September 4th, 2014
Hootsuite Inc. has made a slew of announcements today, saying it has acquired Brightkit, a social media marketing platform – and it has already used Brightkit's technology to launch a new product called Hootsuite Campaigns, the first fruit of its acquisition.
On Thursday, the Vancouver-based social media management company said it had bought Brightkit for an undisclosed sum, allowing it to make more of a play within the enterprise with Hootsuite Campaigns. The tool allows digital marketers to launch about 13 types of social campaigns, contests, sweepstakes, and galleries to attract consumers, all through a simple user interface.
"[This] is also something that somebody without a computer science degree can figure out … and have it really work well on three distinct areas," says Greg Gunn, vice-president of alliances, business development, and platform at Hootsuite.
HootSuite enters managed services with Security & Compliance
Vancouver-based social media dashboard firm HootSuite Media Inc. is expanding its business today with a new managed service aimed at managing the risk that comes with a growing corporate presence on social media.
Published on: February 26th, 2014 Brian Jackson @brianjjackson
HootSuite acquires social analytics firm uberVU
Vancouver-based social media dashboard firm HootSuite Media Inc. has acquired Cambridge, Mass.-based social analytics firm uberVU, the firm announced this morning. HootSuite's dashboard offers digital marketing managers easy access to various social media
Published on: January 22nd, 2014 Brian Jackson @brianjjackson
"It can work well on Facebook itself, having it work well on a standalone microsite that people can navigate to. But more importantly, probably the competitive advantage that we have here is that it looks beautiful and delightful on a mobile experience, because that's where most consumers are, and most brand marketers and social media marketers need to make sure that any campaign that they're doing on social, plays really well on mobile."
Aside from the acquisition and product announcements, Hootsuite said Thursday it had passed the 10 million user mark, with users hailing from more than 175 countries. It also said it had added new enterprise customers such as Telekom Malaysia, Singapore Press Holdings, Brooklyn Public Library, Cambridge University Press, Red Carnation Hotels, and Hyland Software Inc.
However, the company would not disclose how many of its 10 million users are paying for the service, and how many are using the free version.
Edging out of the territory of what the company has officially confirmed, Hootsuite may also have landed more funding, to the tune of $35 million from Boston-based Fidelity Investments, according to a story published in the Wall Street Journal.
The company already raised $165 million in August 2013 in a series B funding round. And in July 2013, the company reported it had seen record revenue growth of 300 per cent in its second quarter of the year, compared to the same period in 2012. However, it would not disclose its revenue in a dollar amount.
Gunn would not confirm any news on funding, but he pointed to Hootsuite's growing customer base, its recent acquisitions, and its hiring rush as signs of growth. The company was just 300 employees strong as of last year, but is now at around 600 – and at its job fair in Vancouver last week, it had 1,000 job seekers show up, vying for 100 more positions.
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TD and The Big Push team up and launch 'Lift-Off' program to support women entrepreneurs
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KANNAPOLIS, North Carolina (Sept. 26, 2018) – Aric Almirola and the No. 10 Smithfield Ford Fusion team for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) make the short journey from the team's headquarters in Kannapolis, North Carolina to Charlotte Motor Speedway in nearby Concord. The Smithfield team heads into the weekend with momentum from Saturday night's race at Richmond (Va.) Raceway, where it posted a fifth-place finish.
Earlier today, SHR announced a new partnership with Valley Technical Academy. The school will be the primary partner on Almirola's No. 10 machine for two races next season. Additionally, Valley Technical Academy will be displayed on the decklid of the Almirola's Smithfield Ford this weekend.
Aric Almirola will make his 273rd career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series start this weekend at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway.
Almirola is sixth in the playoff standings after last weekend's fifth-place finish at Richmond (Va.) Raceway.
Almirola is currently second among his Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) teammates in the playoff standings.
The Smithfield driver can automatically clinch his spot for the Round of 12 in the playoffs with a second-place finish on Sunday.
This weekend's event at Charlotte will mark the Tampa native's 13th Cup Series start at Charlotte, but it is the inaugural event on the 17-turn roval.
Almirola tested at the Charlotte "roval" with the No. 10 Smithfield team in July.
The 34-year-old has led 116 laps this season, the most in his Cup Series career.
The roval is the third road course start this season for Almirola in the Cup Series. His Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway result in June was eighth, and he ended up with a 22nd-place finish at Watkins (N.Y.) Glen International in August.


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For A Program To Support Citizen Engagement In Extractive Industries And Budget Processes In Senegal
General Support/Program
Inclusive Governance and Evidence-Informed Policymaking
Oxfam America works closely with local civil society organizations to promote transparency of government revenues and spending and to increase public participation in decisions about how public resources are allocated and spent. In the last two years, Oxfam provided detailed information on the legal and fiduciary obligations of extractive companies to citizens in three regions of Senegal and facilitated citizen monitoring of company activities in those regions. This grant will enable Oxfam to consolidate the work in the three regions, expand to two more regions, and build the capacity of citizens in the target communities to participate in decisions about the allocation and use of extractive revenues.
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www.oxfamamerica.org
226 Causeway Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA, 02114, United States
for Oxfam Novib's Voice initiative
Oxfam America will provide funding to Oxfam Novib to support the Voice initiative, which promotes inclusive governance across 10 countries in Africa and Asia. Under the Voice initiative, Oxfam Novib will partner with the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, a donor collaborative, to support efforts by community-based organizations that seek to increase access of people who are marginalized and discriminated against, notably persons with disabilities, to the decision-making processes on how government revenues are allocated and spent. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for the Power and Money program
Oxfam America's Power and Money program promotes government and corporate transparency and creates opportunities for citizens to participate in decisions about how public revenues are generated, allocated, and spent. Oxfam advocates at the international level for stronger governance and transparency norms and works with local partners at national and subnational levels to promote effective implementation of those norms. During this grant period, Oxfam will intensify efforts to protect civic space and foster greater participation of women and minority groups in fiscal matters. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for research to inform a new program on transparent, accountable financial flows for development
With Hewlett's support, Oxfam America will research and produce a planning paper for how greater transparency on financial flows for development can translate into stronger public accountability between citizens and states on pro-poor public policies and investments. A number of other Oxfam affiliates and external organizations are already deeply invested in this field. This research will aim to position Oxfam America as a useful ally on these issues within the broader Oxfam confederation, and as a partner to other Hewlett grantees, such as the International Budget Partnership, Revenue Watch and Publish What You Fund. Ultimately, the planning paper will feed into Oxfam America's next strategic plan (2013 to 2019), which proposes a major new program of work called "Active Citizenship in Pursuit of Effective Development Investments".
Hewlett Foundation welcomes Aimee Arrambide as a Program Officer in Gender Equity and Governance
Hewlett names Mallika Dutt as Program Director for Gender Equity and Governance
Hewlett nomme Mallika Dutt au poste de directrice de Programme d'Equité des Genres et de Gouvernance


Artist's impression of the Thirty Meter Telescope.
State Hearings Officer and former Judge Riki May Amano released a 305-page report on July 26 that recommends a Conservation District Use Permit (CDUP) be issued by the Board of Land and Natural Resources for the TMT project.
"TMT welcomes the recommendation that a state permit be issued and we respectfully look forward to the next steps. We appreciate that Judge Riki Amano worked carefully and tirelessly to ensure all voices were heard during the contested case hearing. We are grateful to all our supporters and friends who have been with us during the hearing process and over the past ten years and we remain respectful of the process to ensure the proper stewardship of Maunakea."
Work on the telescope on Maunakea was halted in 2015 when the Hawaii Supreme Court invalidated the Conservation District Use Permit issued by the Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) to the University of Hawaii - Hilo to build TMT on Maunakea.
At the time the permit was initially granted, a contested case hearing was also approved, as was a stay on construction pending the outcome of the contested case hearing. The Supreme Court returned the case to the Hawaii Circuit Court and instructed that a new contested case hearing be conducted before the Board. The contested case got underway in October 2016. Following 44 days of testimony by 71 witnesses over five months, that hearing concluded in early March 2017.
Over the last 10 years, TMT has followed the state's laws, procedures and processes in its efforts to build TMT on Maunakea. More than 20 public hearings have been held since 2008. An EIS was completed and approved. For the complete timeline, visit http://www.maunakeaandtmt.org/background-information/.
The BLNR has issued an order setting briefing dates and a date for arguments on whether they should accept reject or modify Amano's proposed decision on the CDUP. Exceptions to the recommendations are due no later than August 21, 2017, and responsive briefs to those exceptions may be filed no later than September 11, 2017. Oral arguments will be held on September 20, 2017.


Planetbase is a Strategy and Space Simulation with Building elements created and published by Madruga Works. The game is about establishing a human colony on the distant planet and creating an outpost to survive on an alien planet. There is a group of settlers, and you must lead the team and struggle to build a colony on an isolated planet. You can assume the role of the protagonist, who is a base architect and a manager. Lead your group, and it is your responsibility to make sure that your team is working properly, building the base in the empty place where they can survive and have a supply of food, oxygen, and water. You are responsible for controlling your team to create a self-sufficient base where they can get water and grow food to survive. There are a variety of levels, and each level needs a completion of certain objectives to progress. It has different planets such as Gas Giant Planet, Frozen Planet, Desert Planet, and Storm Planet. As the manager, you must control the flow of the new people coming toward your colony and make sure that the people with unique skills will come to the planet. Try it out, and you'll love it.


Dr Christian Jessen checks up on diet swappers one year on. Darryl from Derbyshire was a hefty 33 stone, and was keen to lose weight in a bid to be more active with his two young sons. The self-titled 'Blobbie Williams' lived on fry-ups, roast dinne... (more)rs, crisps and kebabs - often all in the same day. Darryl swapped with London mum Yasmin, whose diet was free of wheat, dairy, gluten, lactose and preservatives . Yasmin hoped to gain more curves and boost her energy. London-based jazz singer Sandra was desperate to lose weight to combat her chance of developing diabetes, which runs in her family. She met seven-stone Tatiana in the food clinic. Tatiana, from Brighton, hated her skinny body, but couldn't bring herself to eat anything that wasn't lean and fat-free. How has the last year been for them?
When is Supersize vs Superskinny back?


An old friend was on the phone the other day talking about his golf game and asked if I knew anything about the Snell ball. He's been a scratch player for many years, a loyalist of the ball played by the majority of Tour professionals and had received a sleeve of Snell Golf's My Tour Ball as a tee gift.
In response to his question I asked if he had played the Snell ball yet and that started a discussion about the MTB in comparison with other premium performance balls, so-called Tour balls. We talked about the construction and the fact Tour balls all have at least three layers and a cast thermoset urethane cover. This type of cover provides excellent control on the shorter scoring shots but is more expensive to manufacture.
The second point we talked about was price, i.e., how much money are you willing to spend relative to the performance you want. Some may decide the out of pocket dollars are the only factor while others may feel purchasing a less expensive ball that doesn't have the spin characteristics to help scoring is a bad idea. With Tour balls costing from $40 to $48 per dozen the idea a ball that can deliver the same or better performance for $32 is a winner.
Snell Golf's My Tour Ball fits that description perfectly.
At the PGA Merchandise Show last January company founder Dean Snell told me one of the secrets of the ball business is from the tee all golf balls, i.e., Tour balls or distance balls, go the about the same distance. Manufacturers have figured out how with the longer clubs, specifically the driver, to get soft-cover Tour balls to launch with low spin similar to harder cover distance balls. In contrast to the cast urethane of Tour balls, distance balls have an ionomer or Surlyn cover which is much firmer and spins a lot less which originally gave them added yardage over Tour balls.
Snell also added virtually every ball is at or very close to the limits set by the USGA.
So the difference comes down to how a ball behaves on those short shots around the green. Does it fly high with low spin, hit and roll out or does it come in lower and check? In other words does it act like distance ball or a Tour ball?
We took the opportunity to do a test with a number of average golfers playing Snell's MTB and reporting back their reactions. Here is a sampling of the unedited comments (except for length) from golfers with handicaps from 2 to 16 after playing the My Tour Ball. They weren't told up front whether the MTB was a distance ball or Tour ball nor unless they looked it up for themselves, the price.
So how good is the MTB? Each of us has to decide but I have seen data for pitch shots showing the $32 per dozen MTB has similar spin rates and as flat a trajectory as any of the Tour balls.
Snell has worked in the ball business for almost 30 years, first for Titleist and then for TaylorMade. Snell Golf was started in 2015 as a low budget operation with Snell himself doing the design, overseeing of manufacturing and most of the administrative duties. He shared with me that many times he enlisted family and friends to spend their evenings in his kitchen putting together sample packages of balls. The company has grown exponentially since that modest beginning but it's still not huge and sells only over the Internet at SnellGolf.com. Snell confided he is working on further refinements of both the MTB and the two-piece Surlyn cover Get Sum ball which sells for $21 per dozen.