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Earned Income Tax Credit could be life-changing windfall for many | Opinion
In 2016, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the EITC lifted close to six million people out of poverty.
Earned Income Tax Credit could be life-changing windfall for many | Opinion In 2016, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the EITC lifted close to six million people out of poverty. Check out this story on tallahassee.com: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2019/02/18/earned-income-tax-credit-could-life-changing-windfall-opinion/2883776002/
Patrick La Pine, Your Turn Published 2:00 p.m. ET Feb. 18, 2019
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If you think of $80 million in one person's hands, that's a fortune. If you consider that amount divided among 26,000 eligible households close to the poverty line, that's still a tremendous windfall.
It's money to put food on the table or pay the electric bill and could be life-changing in the lives of low-income, working families. Sadly, that's a large portion of our population, and that's why we need to encourage those in need who meet the requirements to file for their Earned Income Tax Credit.
In 2016, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the EITC lifted close to six million people out of poverty, including about three million children. Studies show that the EITC encourages large numbers of single parents to leave welfare for work, especially when the labor market is strong. Nearly nine million children in working families lived below the official poverty line (about $24,000 for a family of four) in 2016.
In 2018, 25 million eligible tax-filers received about $63 billion in EITC, however, the IRS and U.S. Census Bureau estimate this number only represents 80 percent of those who are eligible for the credit. There is some recourse for those who qualified but did not file since it is possible to amend taxes for up to three years.
Taking the step to receive a tax credit is daunting for many, who don't realize they are missing out on money they badly need. In the spirit of "people helping people" that credit unions are founded on, we want to make people aware of this unclaimed resource that averages just under $2,500 per family. Requirements include:
Must have earned income from the tax year.
Income must be less than $45,802 for single people with two children.
Income must be less than $51,492 for married couples filing jointly with two children.
Income must be less than $49,194 for single people with three or more children.
Income must be less than $54,884 for married couples filing jointly with three or more children.
Please help share this message on the importance of filing for the EITC. It can make a huge difference in the quality of life for working families.
Patrick La Pine is president/CEO of the League of Southeastern Credit Unions and Affiliates, which represents 243 credit unions in Alabama and Florida with a combined total of $88 billion in assets and more than 7.8 million members. For more information, visit www.lscu.coop.
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Chinese contractor resumes work at Dhalkebar
220 kV substation project
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Almost 90 percent of the work at the project site has been completed, and it will take at least three months to complete the project, according to Mahato
Jul 30, 2017-
A Chinese company hired to build a critical power substation at Dhalkebar, which will enable the country to increase electricity imports from India during the dry season, has resumed work after a week-long hiatus. Central Power Grid International Economic and Trade Corporation, the Chinese contractor that is working on 220 kV Substation Project at Dhalkebar, had stopped all works at the construction site a week ago without formally informing Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), the state-owned power utility and the owner of the substation.
The contractor finally mobilised workers at the construction site on Friday. With this, the construction work has resumed, but it is moving ahead at a slow pace, according to NEA. The work resumed after NEA warned of contract termination. "We are still not sure, if the contractor will continue to work seriously and complete the job on time," said Radhe Saran Mahato, chief of the substation project.
Almost 90 percent of the work at the project site has been completed, and it will take at least three months to complete the project, according to Mahato. If the project is not completed by October, it will hit the power utility's plan to increase electricity imports from India via Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur cross-border transmission line during the dry season.
NEA has repeatedly said it will be difficult to keep the country load-shedding free during the upcoming dry season if the substation at Dhalkebar is not completed immediately. Nepal's electricity demand is expected to increase by around 200 MW then.
Even though the country's installed capacity of hydroelectricity is expected to go up by additional 130MW by this dry season, power generation is expected to drop by a third around that time when water level goes down in most of the river basins.
But if the 220 kV substation is built at Dhalkebar by that time, the country can import another 100 MW of power from India using the Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur cross-border transmission line. Currently, the cross-border transmission line has the capacity to import 160 MW of electricity.
As per the deal signed between NEA and the Chinese company in June 2014, the substation should have been up and running by September 2015. But the deadline was continuously pushed back.
The deadline was extended for the third time till May 31, 2017, but the project still remains incomplete. NEA had been mulling over extending the deadline till October 2017 when the contractor abruptly stopped work, according to the state-owned power utility.
The Chinese company started exhibiting defiance to build the substation after NEA terminated its contract for the Bharatpur-Bardaghat 220 kV Transmission Line Project signed almost seven years ago. The Chinese contractor had asked the NEA to make a price adjustment, but as there was no such provision in the contract, the power utility terminated the contract. NEA said the Chinese contractor was delaying works at the Dhalkebar substation site to coerce the state-owned power utility to rethink on its decision to terminate contract for the Bharatpur-Bardaghat 220 kV Transmission Line Project.
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We are at Fespa Berlin Global Fair 15-18 May 2018
FESPA today announces that its FESPA 2018 global print expo, will take place over four days from Tuesday 15 to Friday 18 May 2018 at Messe Berlin, Germany.
The next global print expo is expected to cover nine halls of the Berlin Messe showcasing screen, digital and textile printing solutions. FESPA 2018 will again be co-located with European Sign Expo for non-printed visual communication solutions.
Roz Guarnori, (née McGuinness) divisional director, FESPA, comments: "We always consult with our exhibitors on the location of our shows and Berlin was one of the favourites. We've received positive reactions from exhibitors for the Berlin event, which is evident from the floor space already booked and optioned, even before FESPA 2017 began.
"Berlin is a favourite city as many of our exhibitors have positive memories of our last Berlin event back in 2007. It is the capital and largest city in Germany and the seventh largest in Europe, and a world renowned centre for culture, politics, media and science. Importantly, Berlin is a continental air and rail traffic hub, accessible from all major European and international cities."
One of the world's leading conference organisers itself, Berlin Messe is in an accessible position, located just a 10 minute car journey from Berlin airport. This makes it easily reachable for international visitors and just a short journey from the city centre, which is home to over 750 hotels.
When FESPA was last located in Berlin it attracted increased attendance from Eastern Europe, especially Poland and Russia, in addition to the traditional core audience from Western Europe.
For more information on FESPA and to keep updated with the latest news and technologies in the market, please visit: www.fespa.com.
Occupying 10 halls with specific zones for screen, digital and textile print, FESPA 2017 is still running from 8-12 May at the Hamburg Messe with the biggest ever edition of the global print expo.
Throughout the week, thousands of print service providers and signmakers from around the globe are flocking to the exhibition to see the latest innovations in technology and consumables from more than 1,000 supplier brands, and will witness dozens of product launches.
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Shubhraji graces us with another compilation of traditional sanskrit chants.
She studied and traveled with her guru H.H. Swami Chinmayananda for over 20 years.
She is known for her unique, dynamic and accessible delivery of the Advaita Vedanta teachings.
This album follows in the footsteps of her previous CD, Sloka Mala.
The chants are ancient and carry the vibration of powerful spiritual energy.
Shubhraji wishes to share their joy with us.


I've got big teeth, so I eat lots of wood.
I round it, I curve it, I shape it real good.
Rippa riippa rippa is the sound I make.
Pushin me forward on the wood I skate.
I am a RASP and this is my RAP.
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Blindfolded discussion held to highlight diversity during Black History Month
Amaya McDonald February 16, 2020 February 17, 2020
Students face eachother blind folded at the "Blindfolded Discussion" in the Wagner College Lounge. Participants asked questioned based on race through out the event. AMAYA MCDONALD/THE STATESMAN
On Feb. 13, junior political science major, Kiara Arias, and sophomore mechanical engineering major, Ruben Saint Paul, hosted a program entitled "Blindfolded Discussion" in the Wagner College Lounge. The pair as Resident Assistants (RAs) are required to host programs that expose their residents to new ideas and cultures. In attempts to bring attention to the importance of Black History Month and its impact on the students of Stony Brook University, Arias and Saint Paul were eager and excited to introduce this program.
Hoping to encourage conversation about the black experience in America today, the pair asked their blindfolded participants a series of questions concerning the issues faced by black people in the U.S.
Arias and Saint Paul facilitated the event by offering each participant a blindfold and pairing them up. The couples were then asked to speak to each other for five minutes in response to questions and hypothetical scenarios about race and social injustice. The group of participants was made up of students from various backgrounds and ethnicities including Egyptian, Chinese, Haitian and Jamaican, to name a few.
This diversity made for interesting conversation as each individual shared their unique perspectives and experience in regards to race. Questions like, "Have you ever been treated differently because of your skin color?" or "How do you feel about interracial relationships?" became the foundation of intense discussion that brought attention to race and the way it affects the lives of people of color. As a participant, I found that at first, sharing my experiences with complete strangers was nerve-racking. However, I soon found that the other attendants were very respectful and eager to listen to each other's arguments about race and its effect on society.
When asked why she decided to host this event, Arias explained a failed attempt to showcase black history through the film "13th" in her first year as an RA. The documentary, directed by Ava DuVernay and released in 2016, calls attention to the American justice system and racial discrimination against black Americans. Arias was discouraged after someone "only came [to the event] for ice cream and then left," but she was determined to find a new way to galvanize conversation about black history and its contribution to America.
She explained, " … I still want to have these sorts of discussions, but I was trying to think about how to do it in an interesting and engaging way." Although Stony Brook did something similar for Hispanic Heritage month, Arias was then inspired by a popular reality show called "Dating in the Dark" in which the contestants of the show go on both literal and figurative blind dates, forcing them to only base their judgments of each other on their personality. Arias realized that the fear of being judged is one reason students may shy away from programs focusing on social issues. Adopting the idea of speaking and listening to a partner without being able to see them, the program gave participants an opportunity to express themselves with less apprehension.
By creating "Blindfolded Discussion," the duo presented Stony Brook students with the opportunity to discuss the importance of black history and its impact on society. Built on oppression and discrimination against people of color, the United States would not be the country it is today if not for the innovation and tireless labor of black Americans. Though it can be difficult to talk about, it is important that we continue to have discussions like the ones encouraged by Arias and Saint Paul. Everyone deserves to be heard, regardless of where they come from or how they look.
The introduction of "Blindfolded Discussion" is a great start to emphasizing this message to the SBU community; and it has already made a lasting impression on its participants by providing a safe space for them to express their anxieties, hopes, and concerns about today's society.
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Aquatic plants are generally speaking a beneficial element of the water body, be it a lagoon or simply a pond. The aquatic vegetation is a source of nutrition, refuge and oxygen to the creatures residing in the pond or lagoon. However , remaining uncontrolled these aquatic plants can propagate fairly quickly and restrict the activities in the water-feature and / or lake. That is when these types of aquatic plants come to be aquatic weeds.
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Chengdu-Lhasa railway construction to be speeded up this year
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(TibetanReview.net, Jan31'16) – China is to speed up the construction of a second railway line into Tibet this year with the aim to cut the travel time between Lhasa and Chengdu from three days by road at present to less than 15 hours, reported its official China Daily newspaper Jan 30. The construction of this 1,629-kilometer Sichuan-Tibet railway will be completed in the early 2030s, the report added. Work on the railway's construction was begun last year.
"The government will start a preliminary survey and research of the Kangting (Tibetan: Dartsedo)-Lyingchi (Nyingtri) railway project this year, and accelerate the construction of Sichuan-Tibet railway in the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period," Losang Jamcan, chairman of the Tibet autonomous region government, was quoted as saying at the fourth session of the 10th People's Congress of Tibet Autonomous Region on Jan 27.
Yin Li, acting governor of Sichuan, was also reported to have sent out a similar message in the fourth session of the 12th People's Congress of Sichuan in Chengdu earlier.
The report said the project to link the capitals of Tibet and Sichuan will be divided into three sections from west to east: Lhasa-Lyingchi, Lyingchi-Kangting, and Kangting-Chengdu.
More than 74 percent of the railway line will run on bridges or in tunnels. It will meander through mountains, with the highest point being over 7,000 metres above sea level.
"It's like the largest rollercoaster in the world. With a designed service life of 100 years, it is believed to be one of the most difficult railway projects to (be) build on Earth," Lin Shijin, a senior civil engineer at China Railway Corp, was quoted as saying.
He has said the railway is a worthwhile project, although the builders will have to overcome multiple difficulties, such as avalanches, landslides, earthquakes, terrestrial heat, karst caves and underground streams.
Building the railway line is expected to cost at least 100 million yuan ($15.87 million) per kilometre, similar to the cost of high-speed railways on plains, Zhao Jinxue, a rail construction risk appraiser with an insurance company in Chengdu was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, in its constant endeavour to further integrate Tibet, China has been continuing to link more province and cities in China with Lhasa through the existing Qinghai-Tibet Railway line. The country's ministry of railways recently announced a decision to launch a railway service from Shenyang, Liaoning province, to Lhasa on Feb, 1, 2016, reported China's online Tibet news service eng.tibet.cn Jan 30.
It will be the first time people living in the northeast of China will be able to travel by train to Tibet. The train will pass through nine provinces over around 4,000 km one way, the report added. The journey will take 50 hours or so.
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Landing Its Arab World Premiere
Director Abed Abest's Iranian film Simulation is taking part in the 29th Carthage Film Festival (JCC) (November 3-10) within the Asian Cinema Section, making its Arab world premiere after a successful tour at international film festivals.
Created in 1961, the Carthage Film Festival (JCC) is the oldest event of its kind on the African continent and the Arab World. This year, the festival will screen more than 200 films, produced in 2017 and 2018, from 47 countries in its different sections, including 54 Arab films.
Simulation landed its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film took part in a number of prestigious film festivals such as; Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Shanghai International Film Festival, Iranian Film Festival in Boston, Iranian Film Festival in Prague, and Florence Middle East Now! Film Festival.
Simulation tells the story of three young friends who are planning for a party during the weekend at an old man's house. Little did they know, this gathering will lead to a tragic turn of events for them all. Written and directed by Abed Abest, the film stars Abed Abest, Shahrzad Seifi, and Majid Yousefi. MAD Solutions is handling the film's distribution across the Arab world.
Abed Abest is an Iranian theatre actor/filmmaker who starred in several works by salient directors Amir-Reza Koohestani and Reza Gouran. He is also the lead actor in Shahram Mokri's Fish and Cat (2013) and Invasion (2017). Abed's directing credits include the short film I Haven't Seen Hossien since the Day Before Yesterday (2011) and the medium-length film The Corner (2014). His debut feature film Simulation premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.


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RISO LATIN AMERICA, INC. RISO de México, S.A. de C.V. RISO do Brasil, Ltda.
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RISO means "ideal."
(And we really mean it.)
The founder of RISO, Noboru Hayama, chose the name of his company for a good reason. It's Japanese for "ideal."
RISO strives to create fundamentally unique new technologies in paper-based communication through an approach that emphasizes productivity, cost containment, and versatility. Every product we manufacture delivers these benefits in a balance that offers the ideal solution to our customers.
At the same time, RISO carries on a tradition of caring for the world at large through our environmental and community support programs. Just as we are committed to delivering the ideal products and service, we strive to be an ideal corporate citizen in every country in which we conduct business.
Still the global leader in digital-duplicating technology
RISO's tradition of innovation in both technology and service continues to fuel the expansion of our product line and our base of loyal customers.
Since RISO was founded in Tokyo in 1946, our company has thrived on creativity. RISO has repeatedly developed the world's best solutions to a variety of specialized sectors in document printing and duplicating. We are still the world leader in digital duplicating technology, and we are rapidly building our market share in digital laser and inkjet printing solutions for business. RISO products are now sold in over 150 countries.
Our Latin America headquarters is based in Sunrise, Florida. You'll find our printing solutions in the most demanding business environments in all countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
For more information, please refer to our Corporate Profile
Principles for Progress
We are committed to act in accordance with and take ownership for the following set of operating principles. We do this in the belief that to do so is in the best interests of our customers, our company, and ourselves.
Customer satisfaction is at the heart of our success as a company. We will each be ambassadors of RISO and will always communicate positively within and outside the workplace. We will take ownership for customer issues and will ensure that they are followed to satisfactory resolution.
We will do what we say we will do, when we say we will do it. We will take ownership for supporting and following through on company objectives and will accept accountability for our actions without casting blame.
We will act with honesty and with the highest degree of integrity with our customers and with each other. Our decisions and actions will always reflect ethical practices and will be in the best interests of the company and our customers.
We will act with a sense of urgency. We will respond to our customers' and our colleagues' needs promptly and honor our commitments. Our style will always be to listen carefully as we determine a best course of action.
We will readily embrace change and will proactively and continuously identify opportunities for improvement. The marketplace is the driving force behind company strategies and objectives.
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8 Best Free Packet Sniffers & Network Analyzers for Traffic and Data Analysis
Marc Wilson Last Updated : 01/07/2021
Every IT professional, from companies big or small, knows the value of data.
Troubleshooting is always an act that is half instinct and half data – and Packet Sniffing is where the data comes in.
A Packet Sniffer is the tool that helps you figure out if packets are being sent, received, and arriving safely on your network, but they can also do so much more!
Below is a list of some of the Best Packet Analyzers and Sniffers and some of the features that they have built in for you to extract network information and data.
They all tend to have the same sort of functionality – you can view packets being sent and received on some level or another, but many of the tools have certain nuances that allow them to shine in certain situations or network environments; the trick is knowing which one!
Ultimately packet sniffing is the go to tool when you've got a network issue that you can't quite isolate to a single machine or protocol and it's time to start digging deep.
There's almost too many choices in this category of software.
Some of them are a bit 'old-school'; they're grounded in terminal font and command-prompt interfaces and aren't that user friendly at first glance.
Others are flashy much more geared towards a visual audience with easy installation, or portable executables, and plenty of graphs and tables.
They also range from free to quite expensive for corporate licensing!
Here's the Best 8 Free Packet Sniffers and Network Analyzers for Traffic and Data Analysis:
1. Solarwinds Bandwidth Analyzer 2-Pack – Free Download
This particular software is a two-piece deal with similar, but distinct, functionality that goes hand in hand.
The Network Performance Monitor, as the name implies, monitors network performance and is going to be one of the Best Network Data Sniffers on the market if you want an overall view of what's going on in your network.
What this means, more plainly, is it pays mind to more of the pure motility of the network.
Transmission speeds and rates, packet transmission reliability, and even comes pre-configured with a wide variety of visual aids and sharp looking charts to make irregularities easier to spot.
Its counterpart, the Network Analyzer, again with a self-explanatory name, is more focused on the traffic itself.
While the Performance Monitor is focused more on the overall view of the network's performance, the Network Analyzer is paying a lot more attention to the network on a more granular level.
In particular this part of the program ferrets out the bandwidth hogs and anomalies, sorted by merit of users, protocols, or applications. Available for Windows environments only.
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2. ManageEngine Netflow Analyzer – Free Trial
ManageEngine has recently updated is Netflow analyzer to give you greater insights in your network traffic and bandwidth to see whats really going on in your networks.
With capabilities that allow you to weed out bandwidth hogs and resource heavy applications, you'll be happy to you chose this product over ones that dont give you historical data.
This ManageEngine product gives you detailed views into the packets that go through your networks and help you analyze them further.
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Utilize Packet analysis to perform network Foresnic & Analysis!
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3. Wireshark
WireShark is relatively new tool in the broad scheme of network diagnostics, and it does a great job finding a middle ground between raw data and visual representations of that data.
It's simple, it's compatible, it's portable. It does what needs doing and it does it succinctly.
It's got a clean UI, plenty of options for filtering and sorting, and, best of all for some of the multi-platform folks, it jives happily on any of the big three in terms of OS.
Add to that the fact that it's open-source and a Free Sniffer and you've got a compelling tool to reach for when you need some quick diagnostics. Available for *NIX, Windows, and OSX environments.
https://www.wireshark.org/
4. tcpdump
Tcpdump is something of an older tool and, to be frank, it looks like it. But there's a certain power in tools that are so cut and dry – it does what it needs to do, does it with as little a footprint as possible, and does it cleanly.
It may be harder for some professionals to weed through the stark tables of data, but in some environments, or on a machine barely running, minimal is best.
It's native and has its origins in the *NIX environment, but there are several Windows ports that do the job well.
It has all the functionality you'd want and need from a sniffer – capturing, recording, etc. – but it does lack a lot of the fancier capabilities of more robust software.
Tcpdump is often called for due to its sheer reliability and simplicity. Available for *NIX and Windows environments.
http://www.tcpdump.org/
5. Kismet
Kismet is more than just a packet sniffer and, in fact, delves into wide range of functionality.
Kismet even has the ability to sniff and analyze traffic of hidden networks or un-broadcasted SSIDs!
Tools like this can be strangely invaluable in the right circumstances when there's something unknown causing troubles and you can't just find it – Kismet can sniff it out, if it happens to be a rogue network or AP acting up nobody mentioned they setup not quite right.
As one can imagine by the nature of wireless networking it's a little more complex when it comes to sniffing, which is why a specialized tool like Kismet not only exists but is looked to frequently.
Kismet is an excellent go to if you've got a lot of wireless traffic and wireless devices and need a tool that's better suited to handling a wireless-heavy network. Available for *NIX, Windows Under Cygwin, and OSX environments.
https://www.kismetwireless.net
6. EtherApe
EtherApe has a lot of the same sort of functionality that WireShark does and, to boot, it also boasts being both Open-Source and free of any cost!
What makes it different, though, is that it's far more graphically driven.
Whereas WireShark has you peering at lists of numbers and comparing network throughput in a more numerical sense, EtherApe takes the focus more to the visual and graphical realm.
Some people just plain prefer the visual approach, and EtherApe tends to take precedence over WireShark for those folks. Available for *NIX and OSX environments.
http://etherape.sourceforge.net/
7. Cain and Abel
This particular software has a bit of a curious name, and it belies the remarkable breadth of tasks the program can perform.
If your needs extend well beyond simple sniffing, then this may be the tool for you.
It can even perform limited password recovery, do dictionary attacks to retrieve lost credentials, peruse VOIP data on the network, analyze routing, and so much more.
This is a powerful tool that can really shine in those rare instances when you need to do a little search and recovery on a network.
Available for Windows environments only.
http://www.oxid.it/cain.html
8. NetworkMiner
Network miner is another tool that does more than sniff and, arguably, would be better suited to ferreting out problematic users or systems on a network than overall diagnosis or monitoring as a whole.
Whereas other sniffers focus on the packets being sent back and forth, NetworkMiner is paying more mind to the ones doing the sending and receiving.
An excellent tool for finding problem machines or users.
http://www.netresec.com/?page=NetworkMiner
9. KisMAC
This software's name says it all – it's a lot like Kismet, but for the Mac environment. KisMAC! Simple as that.
These days Kismet has a Mac environment port, so it may seem redundant, but it's worth emphasizing that KisMAC actually has its own codebase and was not directly derivative from Kismet's.
Of particular note is that it offers several mapping and de-auth features on Mac that Kismet itself doesn't provide, and due to its unique codebase you may find it does the job better than Kismet itself at times. Available for OSX environments only.
http://www.igrsoft.com/en/kismac2
Using Network Analyzers and Packet Sniffers will become a necessary tool when you have network issues of almost any kind – whether it's performance, dropped connections, or issues with network-based backups.
Just about anything that involves transmitting or receiving data on the network can often be fixed using some clues from the above software.
Packet sniffing is invaluable when you've got to really dig down beyond the top layer of a problem to get a better picture of what's happening, or what isn't happening and should be!
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Heidevolk – Vuur van Verzet (2018) REVIEW
Heidevolk made a huge impression upon the folk metal landscape with their 'Walhalla Wacht' record back in 2008 with punkish, traipsing riffs and axe-wielding shouts that helped them stand out a great deal in the cluttered tail end of folk metal's upsurge heading towards the end of the decade. With bands like Thyrfing peaking, Moonsorrow and Falkenbach both taking extended breaks, bands like Heidevolk more than filled that void for me. Though I don't feel like the band really hit upon anything nut-shattering until 'Batavi' showed the band's ability to sing-and-slash with stronger, less subtle melody, heavier instrumentation and boldly layered vocals. 'Vuur van Verzet' is in many ways a slight return to the bombast of that album, with respect for the calmer oaken spirit of 2015's 'Velua'.
If nothing else, the world of classic heavy metal and ye olde peers like Týr are more alive in Heidevolk's detailed compositions than ever before. The best example might be the standout track "Wolf in my Heart" which is a banger of a folk anthem and one of the several songs entirely in English, a relatively new ratio for the band. It is a rousing and catchy song that really shows proof of concept for a newer, more modern bit of folk metal from Heidevolk. I will say I missed the previous singer (now in Wederganger) on 'Velua' but here they've found their distinctly layered baritone and warrior cadence again. The 'viking chorus' is back and with seemingly increased ranks. With it the band have regained a lot of the personality that seemed to drift away on the previous album in general.
Another standout track comes in the middle of the album with "The Alliance" which has a slight lean towards Borknagar's more recent operatic folk metal sound on the second half of the track. It shows Heidevolk reaching out for new inspiration and the English/Dutch mixed lyrics sort of help drive home the concept of the song. The one main criticism I've seen of this record so far is that it might not be "folk metal" enough; though to my ears the pagan black metal influences and heavier semi-power metal instrumentation that pop up never obstruct the folkiness of the record. Heidevolk continue to be one of the heaviest, most energetic folk metal bands on the planet. Their loosely woven tale of an unknown man rising as a warrior to lead a resistance movement is perfectly placed in 2018 and it helps that the band has never sounded better.
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The cover story of National Geographic magazine's February issue, "The Invisible War on the Brain," takes a close look at a signature injury of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars—traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) caused by the shock waves from explosions. TBIs have left hundreds of thousands of U.S. veterans with life-altering and sometimes debilitating conditions, the treatment of which can be extremely complicated. At Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, soldiers paint masks that help them cope with their daily struggles and help them reveal their inner feelings. We invite you to see the service members' masks and read the full story here.
Tiffany H., as she prefers to be known, was "blown up" while helping women in a remote Afghan village earn additional income for their families. Memory loss, balance difficulties, and anxiety are among her many symptoms. The blinded eye and sealed lips on her mask.
I can't imagine. The war never leaves the warrior. I wish I understood it. War. Maybe I could do more for our veterans.
Many men lost their hearing and their minds from the explosions of guns that they were manning.


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Q: In Windows 7, my user profile cannot be loaded, how do I fix this? After uninstalling an HP Vector mouse driver, then rebooting, when Windows tries to auto log me in, I get an error message saying the following.

The User Profile Service failed the Login. User Profile cannot be loaded.

Due to the fact that it is the only account on this PC, I cannot even go into another account.
I rebooted the machine several times, before going into Safe Mode with Networking. For some reason, I cannot create a new account whilst in safe mode (I think it is to do with UAC, nothing with UAC is clickable).
Thus, I am stuck. I cannot get into my account, nor can I create a new one to copy files over to.
How do I fix this problem?
EDIT: System Restore was, for some reason turned off. Thus, I cannot restore to a working point.

A: Here is a fix if you have only one account:

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*Boot into Safe Mode, with the option to use Command Prompt

*Disable the User Control Account in the registry; use regedit to navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

*Change the value of EnableLUA to 0.

*Reboot and login normally.

Your profile still might not load, but at least you get a temporary one - now you can make a new user.

A: It's possible that your user profile is not corrupted, but that Windows is having trouble loading it (think a bad hard drive). You can boot into the Windows 7 Recovery Console from your Windows 7 DVD. Open the command prompt and start a chkdsk.
If your profile is actual corrupted, you can try a system restore. This will restore your profile back to an earlier date. Again, use the Windows 7 DVD to do this.
You may also be able to rename the user profile using the command prompt (eg
cd \Users
ren UserAccount UserAccount.old
And then try to log in, Windows might complain of a different problem but it should recreate a profile for you.
EDIT: Are you sure you are the only user? Unless you are the local administrator, there should also be an "Administrator" account.

A: Looking around I found this guide and forum detailing the problem and various solutions. I suggest having a read: there are 81 pages of additional posts after the guide so a working solution for you should be in there somewhere.

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Sometime late in the 19th century. The language is currently in early stages of revival.
Awabakal (also Awabagal or the Hunter River-Lake Macquarie (HRLM) language) is an Australian Aboriginal language that was spoken around Lake Macquarie and Newcastle in New South Wales. The name is derived from Awaba, which was the native name of the lake. It was spoken by Awabakal and Wonnarua peoples.
Awabakal is a Pama–Nyungan language, most closely related to the Worimi language, within the Yuin–Kuric group of Pama–Nyungan.
Awabakal was studied by the Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld from 1825 until his death in 1859, producing a grammar and dictionary in An Australian Grammar. The speaker of Awabakal who taught him about the language was Biraban, the tribal leader. Threlkeld and Biraban's Specimens of a Dialect of the Aborigines of New South Wales in 1827 was the earliest attempt at exhibiting the structure of an Australian language. Threlkeld's work was republished in 1892 as An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba, or lake Macquarie contains a grammar and vocabulary, popularizing the name Awabakal for the language grouping more broadly referred to as the Hunter River-Lake Macquarie language.
The language is currently being revived. A new orthography and reconstruction of the phonology has been undertaken. To date, several publications have been produced.
Awabakal ceased to be a spoken language since long before the creation of recording equipment, and part of the revival process has been the reconstruction of the phonology. Therefore, the exactness of the language's sounds will never be historically precise. This process has, however, produced one which will be satisfactory for the purpose of revitalisation.
There exist three noun classes. The first has 4 declension patterns. A noun can exist in any of 13 cases.
1st class – Common nouns, descriptors, demonstratives and Minaring (what?). 2nd class – Place names, words of spatial relations and Wonta (where?). 3rd class – Persons' names, kinships terms and Ngaan (who?).
The default, unmarked case of nouns is the absolutive. Unlike English and many European languages, in which an unmarked noun in the nominative case, and is (in the active voice) the subject of the sentence, Awabakal merely references a particular noun with this case.
There is a category of words in Awabakal called descriptors. They can stand as referring terms and are in these cases similar to nouns, like adjectives or intransitive verbs/predicative verb-adjective phrases. They can be declined into nominal cases.
There are four number words.
Pronominal enclitics are suffixes which have several functions and can be attached to verbs, descriptors, appositions, interrogatives, negatives and nouns. The numbers are: singular, dual and plural with a feminine/masculine distinction in the first person. They mark verbs for person, number, case and voice. The "ergative" enclitcs imply an active transitive situation and the "accusative" implies a passive intransitive situation. There are three true pronouns which could be called a nominative or topic case. There are only found at the beginning of an independent clause. These pronominals are found in ergative, accusative, dative and possessive cases.
There are 3 degrees. They are declined for 10 cases.
Here too, there are 3 degrees. These terms indicate place. They decline for 13 cases.
The default verbative voice of Awabakal verbs is neutral. I.e. they do not give a sense of active or passive. The pronominal enclitics indicate which voice the verb should be analysed as being in. There are 3 present tenses, 8 future and 7 past, with various voice, aspect and mood modifications.
There are 10 forms of negatives which work with different types of words or phrases.
Conjunctions are not commonly used in comparison to many languages. Sentences can often be connected without their use. These also have various combinations and case declinations.
Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes of eastern New South Wales.
2. Yanti bo ġearun kin bara ġukulla, unnoa tara nakillikan kurri-kurri kabiruġ ġatun mankillikan wiyellikanne koba.
4. Gurra-uwil koa bi tuloa, unnoa tara wiyatoara banuġ ba.
Threlkeld, Lancelot Edward (1827). Specimens of a Dialect of the Aborigines of New South Wales; Being the first attempt to form their speech into a written language.
Threlkeld, Lancelot Edward (1834). An Australian grammar: comprehending the principles and natural rules of the language, as spoken by the Aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter's River, Lake Macquarie, &c. New South Wales.
Threlkeld, Lancelot Edward (1836). An Australian spelling book in the language as spoken by the Aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter's River, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales.
Threlkeld, Lancelot Edward (1850). A key to the structure of the Aboriginal language; being an analysis of the particles used as affixes, to form the various modifications of the verbs; shewing the essential powers, abstract roots, and other peculiarities of the language spoken by the Aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter River, Lake Macquarie, etc., New South Wales: together with comparisons of Polynesian and other dialects.
Threlkeld, Lancelot Edward (1892). Fraser, John (ed.), An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba or Lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales) being an account of their language, traditions and customs.
Arposio, Alex (2009). A grammar for the Awabakal language.""
Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association Incorporated (2009) Awabakal Dictionary – Research Edition.
^ Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxiv.
^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Awabakal". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
^ Threlkeld, Lancelot Edward; Biraban, H. Livingstone; George Taplin; James Günther; William Grant Broughton; William Ridley (1892). An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba, or lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales): being an account of their language, traditions, and customs. C. Potter, Govt. Printer.
^ This map is indicative only.
^ This orthography is from the original works of Threlkeld. A new orthography was created in 2004.
Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-47378-0, ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.
Lake Macquarie or Awaba is Australias largest coastal salt water lagoon. Located in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, it covers an area of 110 square kilometres and is connected to the Tasman Sea by a short channel, most of the residents of the City of Lake Macquarie live near the shores of the lake. Lake Macquarie is twice as large as Sydney Harbour and is one of the largest salt water lagoons in the Southern Hemisphere and it is slightly smaller than Port Stephens, which is about 43 kilometres to the northeast of the lake. Aboriginal people of the Awabakal nation lived in the area surrounding what is now known as Lake Macquarie for thousands of years, the name Awaba, which means a plain surface was used to describe the lake. Lake Macquarie was first encountered by Europeans in 1800, when Captain William Reid, Reid took a wrong turn and found himself in a lake rather than a river, with no coal to be seen anywhere. The name Reids Mistake was retained until 1826, when it was renamed in honour of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the lake is of irregular shape and the land separating it from the ocean is only a few kilometres wide along most of its length.
Lake Macquarie is connected to the sea by Swansea Channel and Lakes Entrance, Swansea Channel is approximately 380 metres wide and 2 kilometres long. It joins Lakes Entrance, a small bay measuring approximately 900 m wide by 2.2 km at the Swansea bridges, the bridges can lift to allow yachts and other larger pleasure craft into and out of the lake. There is no point on the coast from which the entire expanse of the lake, however, a good view can be obtained from lookouts in the nearby Watagan Mountains. Masked owls and ospreys regularly nest within the IBA, the Pulbah Island Nature Reserve is a protected 68-hectare nature reserve that is located in the southern part of the lake. Being approximately 1.6 kilometres long the island is, by far, Pulbah Island is managed by the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service. There are no permanent structures on the island and it is uninhabited although in the past a maintenance cottage existed on the island, Pulbah is an Australian indigenous Awabakal word meaning island.
Case is a special grammatical category whose value reflects the grammatical function performed by a noun, adjective, participle or numeral in a phrase, clause, or sentence. In some languages, pronouns, determiners, prepositions, numerals and their modifiers take different inflected forms depending on what case they are in. Distinctions can be seen with the pronouns, forms such as I, he and we are used in the role of subject, whereas forms such as me, him. A language may have a number of different cases, commonly encountered cases include nominative, accusative and genitive. A role that one of these languages marks by case will often be marked in English using a preposition, as a language evolves, cases can merge, a phenomenon formally called syncretism. More formally, case has been defined as a system of marking dependent nouns for the type of relationship they bear to their heads, cases should be distinguished from thematic roles such as agent and patient. They are often related, and in languages such as Latin several thematic roles have an associated case.
Languages having cases often exhibit free word order, because thematic roles are not required to be marked by position in the sentence. The English word case used in this sense comes from the Latin casus, the Latin word is a calque of the Greek πτῶσις, ptôsis, lit. falling, fall. The sense is that all cases are considered to have fallen away from the nominative. This picture is reflected in the word declension, from Latin declinere, to lean. The equivalent to case in several other European languages derives from casus, including cas in French, caso in Spanish, the Finnish equivalent is sija, which can mean position or support. Although not very prominent in modern English, cases featured much more saliently in Old English and other ancient Indo-European languages, such as Latin, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit. Among modern languages, cases still feature prominently in most of the Balto-Slavic languages, with most having six to eight cases, as well as Icelandic and Modern Greek, in German, cases are mostly marked on articles and adjectives, and less so on nouns.
A spatial relation, specifies how some object is located in space in relation to some reference object. When the reference object is much bigger than the object to locate, the reference object is often represented by a bounding box. In Anatomy it might be the case that a relation is not fully applicable. Thus, the degree of applicability is defined which specifies from 0 till 100% how strongly a spatial relation holds, often researchers concentrate on defining the applicability function for various spatial relations. In spatial databases and Geospatial topology the spatial relations are used for spatial analysis, in cognitive development for walk and for catch objects, or for understand objects-behaviour, in robotic Natural Features Navigation, and many other areas, spatial relations plays a central role. Commonly used types of relations are, directional. The DE-9IM model expresses important space relations which are invariant to rotation, translation, an internal directional relation specifies where an object is located inside the reference object while an external relations specifies where the object is located outside of the reference objects.
New South Wales is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south and it has a coast line with the Tasman Sea on its east side. The Australian Capital Territory is an enclave within the state, New South Wales state capital is Sydney, which is Australias most populous city. In March 2014, the population of New South Wales was 7.5 million. Just under two-thirds of the population,4.67 million. Inhabitants of New South Wales are referred to as New South Welshmen, the Colony of New South Wales was founded as a penal colony in 1788. It originally comprised a more than half of the Australian mainland with its western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825, in addition, the colony included the island territories of New Zealand, Van Diemens Land, Lord Howe Island, and Norfolk Island. During the 19th century, most of the area was detached to form separate British colonies that eventually became New Zealand. However, the Swan River Colony has never administered as part of New South Wales.
Lord Howe Island remains part of New South Wales, while Norfolk Island has become a federal Territory, as have the now known as the Australian Capital Territory. The prior inhabitants of New South Wales were the Aboriginal tribes who arrived in Australia about 40,000 to 60,000 years ago, before European settlement there were an estimated 250,000 Aboriginal people in the region. The Wodi Wodi people are the custodians of the Illawarra region of South Sydney. The Bundjalung people are the custodians of parts of the northern coastal areas. The European discovery of New South Wales was made by Captain James Cook during his 1770 survey along the eastern coast of the Dutch-named continent of New Holland. In his original journal covering the survey, in triplicate to satisfy Admiralty Orders, Cook first named the land New Wales, however, in the copy held by the Admiralty, he revised the wording to New South Wales. After years of chaos and anarchy after the overthrow of Governor William Bligh, macquaries legacy is still evident today.
Their traditional territory spreads from Wollombi in the south, to the Lower Hunter River near Newcastle and Lake Macquarie in the north. In the traditional language, Awaba is the word for Lake Macquarie, meaning flat or plain surface, the Awabakal were bounded to the north–west by the Wonnarua, the Worimi to the north–east, and the Darkinjung peoples to the west and south. The Awabakal people, like most of the Aboriginal Australian tribes in Australia, awabagal is a common alternate name for the Awabakal people. Awaba is now the name of a town in the region. Tindale claims that the Ninyowa clan were from the Newcastle area, the Awabakal language was used by the Awabakal people and by the Wonnarua people. Oral historians and linguists are reviewing the language in order to develop a dictionary of the language of the Hunter River. The eaglehawk or wedge-tailed eagle has special significance for the Awabakal people, their celestial entity, looks like an Aboriginal man, but in flight resembles an eagle-hawk.
The Awabakal people played a significant part in shaping the environment of their region and they practised fire-stick farming extensively, which helped them to hunt and to navigate through dense prickly scrub along the coast. Tracks and paths were maintained, including a path from the shore to the top of a hill which became Watt Street in Newcastle, particularly for shellfish, was a significant part of the Awabakal peoples diet and culture pre-colonisation. Academic research by Webb indicates east coast Australia tribes were violent, the Awabakal Newcastle Aboriginal Cooperative Limited is a not-for-profit community controlled organisation operating in the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Hunter Region with 195 members. In 2014 financial year, Awabakal had income of $10. 7million, approximately half of the income is used on employee benefits expenses, being $5. 87million in 2014. Total assets for both 2013 and 2014 were ca, in 1976, the Awabakal Environmental Education Centre began operating.
Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages. Phonology includes the study of equivalent organizational systems in sign languages, the word phonology can refer to the phonological system of a given language. This is one of the systems which a language is considered to comprise, like its syntax. Phonology is often distinguished from phonetics, note that this distinction was not always made, particularly before the development of the modern concept of the phoneme in the mid 20th century. The word phonology comes from Ancient Greek φωνή, phōnḗ, sound, according to Clark et al. it means the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use. The history of phonology may be traced back to the Ashtadhyayi, Baudouin de Courtenays work, though often unacknowledged, is considered to be the starting point of modern phonology. He worked on the theory of alternations, and may have had an influence on the work of Saussure according to E. F. K.
Koerner. An influential school of phonology in the period was the Prague school. One of its members was Prince Nikolai Trubetzkoy, whose Grundzüge der Phonologie. Directly influenced by Baudouin de Courtenay, Trubetzkoy is considered the founder of morphophonology, Trubetzkoy developed the concept of the archiphoneme. Another important figure in the Prague school was Roman Jakobson, who was one of the most prominent linguists of the 20th century, in 1968 Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle published The Sound Pattern of English, the basis for generative phonology. In this view, phonological representations are sequences of segments made up of distinctive features and these features were an expansion of earlier work by Roman Jakobson, Gunnar Fant, and Morris Halle. The features describe aspects of articulation and perception, are from a fixed set. There are at least two levels of representation, underlying representation and surface phonetic representation, ordered phonological rules govern how underlying representation is transformed into the actual pronunciation.
Scottish English refers to the varieties of English spoken in Scotland. The main, formal variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English, Scottish Standard English may be defined as the characteristic speech of the professional class and the accepted norm in schools. IETF language tag for Scottish Standard English is en-Scotland, Scottish Standard English is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with focused broad Scots at the other. Scottish English may be influenced to varying degrees by Scots, many Scots speakers separate Scots and Scottish English as different registers depending on social circumstances. Some speakers code switch clearly from one to the other while others style shift in a less predictable, generally there is a shift to Scottish English in formal situations or with individuals of a higher social status. Scottish English results from contact between Scots and the Standard English of England after the 17th century. Furthermore, the process was influenced by interdialectal forms, hypercorrections.
Convention traces the influence of the English of England upon Scots to the 16th-century Reformation, printing arrived in London in 1476, but the first printing press was not introduced to Scotland for another 30 years. Texts such as the Geneva Bible, printed in English, were distributed in Scotland in order to spread Protestant doctrine. King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England in 1603, since England was the larger and richer of the two Kingdoms, James moved his court to London in England. The poets of the court therefore moved south and began adapting the language, to this event McClure attributes he sudden and total eclipse of Scots as a literary language. The continuing absence of a Scots translation of the Bible meant that the translation of King James into English was used in worship in both countries, the Acts of Union 1707 amalgamated the Scottish and English Parliaments. However the church and legal structures remained separate and this leads to important professional distinctions in the definitions of some words and terms.
Located 162 kilometres north-northeast of Sydney, at the mouth of the Hunter River, it is the predominant city within the Hunter Region. Famous for its coal, Newcastle is the largest coal exporting harbour in the world, beyond the city, the Hunter Region possesses large coal deposits. Geologically, the area is located in the part of the Sydney basin. Newcastle and the lower Hunter Region were traditionally occupied by the Awabakal and Worimi Aboriginal People, in September 1797 Lieutenant John Shortland became the first European settler to explore the area. His discovery of the area was largely accidental, as he had sent in search of a number of convicts who had seized HMS Cumberland as she was sailing from Sydney Cove. While returning, Lt. Shortland entered what he described as a very fine river. He returned with reports of the port and the areas abundant coal. Over the next two years, coal mined from the area was the New South Wales colonys first export, Newcastle gained a reputation as a hellhole as it was a place where the most dangerous convicts were sent to dig in the coal mines as harsh punishment for their crimes.
By the start of the 19th century the mouth of the Hunter River was being visited by groups of men, including coal diggers, timber-cutters. Philip Gidley King, the Governor of New South Wales from 1800, in 1801, a convict camp called Kings Town was established to mine coal and cut timber. In the same year, the first shipment of coal was dispatched to Sydney and this settlement closed less than a year later. A settlement was attempted in 1804, as a place of secondary punishment for unruly convicts. The settlement was named Coal River and renamed Newcastle, the new settlement, comprising convicts and a military guard, arrived at the Hunter River on 27 March 1804 in three ships, HMS Lady Nelson, the Resource and the James. The convicts were rebels from the 1804 Castle Hill convict rebellion, New South Wales is a similar distance north of Newcastle as Morpeth, Northumberland is north of Newcastle upon Tyne. Under Captain James Wallis, commandant from 1815 to 1818, the conditions improved. The quality of these first buildings was poor, and only breakwater survives, during this period, in 1816, the oldest public school in Australia was built in East Newcastle.
Lieutenant John Shortland, the first European to explore the Newcastle region.
A tram halts outside the AMP building at the eastern end of Hunter Street, 1947. Buses later replaced the trams.
A Sea of Hands outside the AIATSIS building on Acton Peninsula. The Sea of Hands was created in 2014 with the help of local communities, to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the National Apology to Australia's First Peoples, 2008.
The number of grammatical case inflections in European languages. Light grey areas indicate languages that do not inflect nouns for grammatical case.
Biraban, drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate.
Examples of topological spatial relations.
James picks up his dribble against Caron Butler of the Washington Wizards, November 2006.
James engages in his pre-game ritual of tossing crushed chalk into the air, March 2008. The routine was mostly ended after 2011.
James and DeShawn Stevenson in April 2008. The two had a short feud after Stevenson called James "overrated".
George Clooney cast his hands and shoes in the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in 2007.
The K'alyaan Totem Pole of the Tlingit Kiks.ádi Clan, erected at Sitka National Historical Park to commemorate the lives lost in the 1804 Battle of Sitka.
Grave Creek Mound, located in Moundsville, West Virginia, is one of the largest conical mounds in the United States. It was built by the Adena culture.
The Great House at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.
The Mayflower, which transported Pilgrims to the New World. During the first winter at Plymouth, about half of the Pilgrims died.
Megaliths in the Solstice Archaeological Park, in Amapá, erected between 500 and 2000 years ago, probably to carry out astronomical observations.
A Tamoio Warrior depicted by Jean-Baptiste Debret in the early 19th century.
The Portuguese victory at the Battle of Guararapes, ended Dutch presence in Brazil.
Portuguese colonial Brazil gold coin from the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
Donald Rumsfeld, US special envoy to the Middle East, meets Saddam Hussein on 19–20 December 1983.
Jean II, the Good, being captured.


A wide range of English services are offered to clients in the heritage sector, including translation, correction, proof-reading and copy editing.
Translations into English are offered for books, guidebooks, exhibitions, articles, abstracts, summaries, grant applications, internet pages, correspondence, conference materials etc. in the areas of archaeology, monuments care, museology, archive studies, history, art history and related disciplines.
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English language correction is offered in the same fields as translation. These rates for correction relate to texts produced by other translators or the text's original author, and are based on the "standard page" of 1500 characters excluding spaces. Clients outside the Czech Republic should contact us for sterling, dollar and euro rates.
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If you're the kind of traveller that likes to indulge in a bit of retail therapy on your holiday, a trip to India will put a smile on your face and a whole lot of extra weight in your luggage. With everything from bustling bazaars to suburban shopping malls and upmarket boutiques, shopaholics will find themselves spoiled for choice. Whether you're browsing through amazing textiles and fabrics, searching for impressive works of art and curios or indulging yourself with some of the exquisitely crafted jewellery, you're sure to find treasures you could only dream of. From exotic arts and crafts in Delhi to the amazing teas in Darjeeling and of course the unmatched variety of spices and fragrances, India has a lot to offer the bargain hunting traveller. Just make sure that you brush up on your haggling skills.


Good morning and Happy New Week to all of us, I believe We all had a Great Weekend.
This Post is to remind and motivate us to stay positive in every thing we do, in our thoughts, in difficult times and also in merry times.
First off what is a MAGNET:- It is a piece of iron or other material which has its component atoms so ordered that the material exhibits properties of magnetism, such as attracting other iron-containing objects or aligning itself in an external magnetic field.
Also in this same rule our minds could be defined as a MAGNET, which means A Person That Has A Powerful Attraction.
If you keep a POSITIVE MIND you will attract blessing, success, beauty, good life, power, good health, and so much more.
NEGATIVITY only breeds destruction, sadness, inferiority, problems,insecurity, etc. Rid your mind from Negative thoughts and saturate it with positive thinking.
Positive mind nourishes the soul, gives you a picture of the Brighter side of life, you are at peace with yourself and those around you.
It attracts LOVE towards you, YES, those around you will show LOVE and CARE to you.
Positive mind attracts the right people to you, those that influence your life in a good manner be it knowledge, material things, financial help, job offers and lots more. They would be happy to establish business with you, trusting that you won't disappoint them.
Positive thoughts directs you on doing good to others by offering health care, academic care, financial care, selflessness, loyalty, You show love and care towards people without looking for or expecting rewards.
I can go on and on to expanciate more on having a good positive mind but I believe that once your thoughts and mind are positive you will surely attracts beautiful and wonderful things into your life.
So I urge us today to learn how to keep good thoughts and stay positive always.


24 September, 2013 (SINGAPORE) – W-Locate Pte Ltd ("W-Locate"), a leading telematics technology and location intelligence company based in Singapore has secured S$2 Million of Series A funding from a top ASEAN investment firm, RHB OSK ASSET MANAGEMENT PTE LTD ("RHB OSK") through one of its funds, the RHB-OSK GC-MILLENNIUM FUND LP.
This Series A investment was preceded by a pre-series A investment of S$589,000, which was jointly funded by TNF Ventures ("TNF") and National Research Foundation ("NRF") earlier this year in March under the TIS scheme. W-Locate intends to utilize the funds from RHB OSK to further its expansion regionally and to expand the capabilities of XimLoc to incorporate cell optimization features.
W-Locate is also pleased to announce that it has concluded a partnership agreement in August 2013 with Advanced Info Services PCL ("AIS") to jointly launch and promote W-Locate's XimLoc across Thailand, which is a proprietary SIM-Based tracking solution developed in-house in W-Locate. AIS, a listed public entity on the Thailand stock exchange is the largest telecommunications company in Thailand with over 35 Million customers as of March 2013.
"2013 has proven to be a fruitful year for W-Locate with back to back investments from TNF-NRF and RHB OSK. On the business development front, we are excited to have clinched both StarHub and AIS Thailand to jointly launch XimLoc in Singapore and Thailand respectively. The Series A funding from RHB OSK will help us accelerate our growth and secure more similar strategic partners regionally in countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and China." said Stevie Ooi, CEO of W-Locate.
"We are pleased to support W-Locate in their efforts to be a global industry leader. W-Locate has proven products and technologies, which have been deployed and adopted by top–tier customers in the region. We look forward to assisting the company to further advance its business growth with our financial resources, capabilities in M&A and capital markets, as well as our global relationship network." said Dr. Harrison Wang, Managing Partner and Head of Alternative Investment of RHB OSK.
"We are happy to have RHB-OSK as the Series A investor in W-Locate Pte. Ltd. The new fund injection will accelerate W-Locate's regional development plans, and RHB-OSK will lend strategic presence in pan-asian market entries and partnerships. We look forward to W-Locate's growth in the region to become a leading telematics technology company in Asia." said Shirley Wong, Managing Partner of TNF Ventures.
W-Locate is the innovator behind the well-acclaimed products, FIND and XimLoc. FIND combines tracking technologies and tracking analytics to empower fleet and assets owners to remotely track, manage and protect its fleet and valuable assets. Most importantly with the analytics of FIND, fleet owners can leverage on FIND to increase the productivity of its fleet. FIND is remote vehicle diagnostics, incident detections systems, and fleet operation management all rolled into one. FIND is currently adopted by more than 2000 vehicles, of which many of these fleet owners are MNCs and large public listed enterprises in Singapore and Malaysia.
First in the world, XimLoc delivers a SIM-Based tracking system that can accurately track any mobile handset in both indoor and outdoor locations. XimLoc is a proprietary technology, which uses information and signals that are available from the GSM (2G/3G/4G) network to compute positions. XimLoc uses an applet (that resides in a SIM card) to send back to a backend XimLoc server, which will calculate the most probable location based on WLC's Patent-Pending algorithm. XimLoc has been vigorously tested and has been proven to be as accurate as GPS while addressing the limitations of GPS, i.e. inability to track indoor and heavy power consumption. W-Locate expect XimLoc to be deployed heavily for workforce tracking in Asia. XimLoc has already secured 2 major telecommunications companies to launch its services in South East Asia. XimLoc is also currently in talks with telecommunications companies in other parts of Asia and the Middle East.
RHB OSK Asset Management Pte Ltd is the regional hub of the asset management business of the RHB Banking Group, one of the largest financial services group in Malaysia with 17,000 employees and 502 offices in ASEAN and Hong Kong/ China. RHB OSK Asset Management has approximately US$10.3 billion of funds under management with various asset classes invested worldwide. RHB-OSK GC-Millennium Fund LP is a private equity fund managed by RHB OSK and was set up under Economic Development Board/Contact Singapore's Global Investor Programme.


I've had the pleasure of working for Doctor's Approach since April of 2007. I started as a receptionist and quickly move up to the front desk supervisor. I then I changed my roll and became the Surgical Coordinator, in which I would call, educated and schedule procedures. Doctor's Approach has invested in me, by sending me to training classes that will help me grow in my career. I was just recently promoted to the Medical Spa manager and I am so excited to be managing one of Doctor's Approach divisions. I am thrilled to work with for company that promotes from within, encouraging the staff to grow alongside them. My journey is not over yet, as I cotinue to grow within the company. ~Wendy C.


In this tutorial, we will learn about how to remove elements of the sorted set value having score between a specific range. For this, we will use Redis ZREMRANGEBYSCORE command.
This command remove all the elements of the sorted set value, whose score is greater than equal to min ( inclusive ) score and less than equal to max ( inclusive ) score passed as an argument.
Will remove all the elements with 5 < score < 10 (5 and 10 excluded).
min and max argument can be -inf (negative infinity) and +inf (positive infinity) so that you are not required to know the highest or lowest score in the sorted set.
An error is returned, if the key exists but value stored at the key is not of sorted set datatype.
- (integer) reply, representing number of removed elements.
- 0, if key does not exists.
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I know what you're thinking, how do I know that? I do because it's true. What am I talking about?
You have the talent to be as good as any writer you read and love. I mean that as an absolute literal truth. You might say I don't know you and I don't know your level of talent but it doesn't matter. I know all about human potential, and I'm telling you whatever your goals for your writing career, or your creative endeavours if they are in visual arts or music (because I know there are a lot readers of this blog who are) they are totally and fully achievable.
How can I be sure? I'm sure because I have a cast iron belief in the possibility.
If so, that's fantastic. If not, why the heck not?
Is it belief in your talent you have trouble with, or belief in your destiny? Or maybe you want it but deep down you are not convinced you deserve it, because surely something that important to you can't be easy or pleasant to obtain.
We all have inbuilt limits to what we think we can do, and those who actually achieve share the same firm belief in their future. If you doubt yourself for a second, if you don't think you can do it after all this time, then ask yourself this question: Why did you not give up before or never try to be a writer in the first place? What keeps you plugging away at it even though you believe ultimately you won't get as good as you want to be? Simple logic: on some level you want it really badly even if you don't believe it.
You should be kinder to yourself. Look at you, look how much you want it. If you were someone else outside of you looking at you right now, wouldn't you want to give you what you want? Of course you would. Why would you stand in the way?
Lose the limiting beliefs. Easier said than done, I know, but start today. Meditate or just sit somewhere quiet and think for a while without distractions. What do I want? What kind of writer do I want to be? What kind of stories do I want to write? What kind of emotions do I want to conjure up in my readers? What things have I got to say about life which I could share with another person?
Find out who you are and what you want. Know it with certainty and in exhausting detail. And nail your resolve to it like a treasure map to the mast of a sailing ship. Feel the way you will feel with the full wind of purpose blowing into those sails. Live your dream. Life is short, confusing and beautiful, and we need the storytellers and the people with things to say to tell us how they feel. Life needs to be lived. You need to believe in your talent today and sail forward into your amazing future.
Why waste your time on anything less?
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Valentine's Day is coming. Act now, and you'll be as happy as these two when the big day comes.
A friend of mine was dating this angel for about a year. She was such an angel she told him Valentine's Day was a Hallmark holiday and that she didn't want anything.
He made the worst mistake any man could have made. For the first time in their relationship, he followed her advice.
Needless to say, he's a bachelor now.
Here's what we can all learn from his mistake. V-Day can be D-Day for relationships. It doesn't take much, but guys - show your ladies you love them.
So here's our gift to you. We've got tips for pre-planning that will save you from disaster, regardless of your budget. And remember - it's the thought that counts.
Art events: These will cost you $20 or less per person. Some events are free. Click here for a complete listing.
A Tasty Treat -The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme will have a Sweet Art event on Friday, Feb. 9. $15 for members, $20 for non-members, gets you reservations. You'll taste some local coffee and pastry surprises. Then, the two of you can roll up your sleeves and make your own ganaches, tarts and truffles.
Love Stories -The Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London is offering romantic tours of the galleries from Feb. 13-17. $10 per person covers admission, champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries.
Love Me Tender - On Valentine's Day, head to the New Britain Museum of American Art for some romance in their new Art Studio. It's $9, and that includes light hors d'oeuvres and wine and "Classic American Love Songs" performed by a live jazz band. You can also make a valentine for your loved one!
Shrine Benefit -The Lourdes in Litchfield Shrine and Retreat House is hosting a Valentine's Day Dance on Saturday, Feb. 14. It's $25 per couple or $13 for singles, and that includes hors d'oeuvres and soda. You're welcome to BYOB. All of the proceeds benefit the shrine.
A Sweet Surprise - At 2 p.m. on Valentine's Day, you can learn how to make truffles from scratch. The class is being taught at the Stanley-Whitman House in Farmington. It's adults-only and you'll have to make reservations. It's $20 for members, $25 for non-members.
Love Songs - On Saturday, Feb. 7, the New Britain Symphony Orchestra will perform "An Enchanted Evening" Valentine Pop's Concert. It's $35 for two people, a little less for seniors, students and kids. The program will have love duets from Broadway musicals and romantic orchestral selections.
Hit the Wine Trail - There are 19 different vineyards in Connecticut, all offer many different types of wine. Many of the vineyards, such as Chamard Vineyard in Madison, offer a place to sit by the fire and sip wine. It's typically less than $10 a person for tastings, which typically includes a souvenir glass from the vineyard. Click here for a complete list of vineyards along the Connecticut Wine Trail.
Dinner and romance - We found quite the Valentine's Day package at the Waters Edge Resort and Spa in Westbrook. You'll get deluxe accommodations with champagne upon arrival, a fully-loaded candlelight dinner for two, entertainment, dancing and a breakfast buffet. It's $299 per couple for Friday, Feb. 13 or Sunday, Feb. 15. Valentine's Day itself is $50 more.
Staying inn -The Heritage Inn of New Milford has a special package in February. $219 per couple will get you a cozy king suite, a welcome basket, champagne, Bridgewater Chocolates and a $50 gift certificate for dinner. The inn also offers cooking school on the weekends where you can learn how to prepare for a dinner party.
The ultimate chocolate experience -The Spa at Norwich Inn has some great treatments for chocolate lovers. They have a chocolate body polish, a peppermint mocha manicure and pedicure, a chocolate chip aromatherapy body wrap and a chocolate facial. You'll want to eat your loved one up for this gift - but they'll probably want to eat you up as well. They've also got a Winter Wow package for $160, including all fees, you'll want to check out. It includes full use of the spa, a 50-minute service, a fitness class, lunch and a lotion.
Custom puzzles - If your loved one is the piece that completes your puzzle, you might want to get him or her one. MGC's in East Haddam makes custom puzzles. You send them your picture - or proposal message! - and they'll hand carve it in wood. Prices run between $149 and $300.
One magical evening -The Dutch Iris Inn in Granby has quite the additions. Beautiful Victorian rooms are between $109 and $149. But what caught us is what you can add onto it. For another $144, you can add an intimate dinner for two, a fresh floral arrangement, chilled champagne, chocolate-covered strawberries, romantic music and candlelight. Then you can go to the Loonmeadow Farm right down the road and book a horse-drawn sleigh ride for two. It's $120 and they'll make sure you're warmed up with hot apple cider at the barn.
Pretty Woman - I couldn't resist. There's a Web site that touts itself as the Millionaire's Concierge. They're not kidding. Here's the ultimate dream package.
It's called the Pretty Woman Manhattan Getaway. In the movie, Richard Gere escorts Julia Roberts onto his private jet for a romantic evening of fine dining and theater in NYC. A limo will pick you up at home and whisk you away to a private jet. You'll have cocktails and hors d'oeuvres while you fly to NYC. Then a limo will take you to a romantic restaurant. From there, you'll have the best seats in the house at a Broadway show. A limo will bring you back to your private jet, where you'll be served chilled Cristal Champagne and strawberries on the way home.