text:
The Veil: Cascade, a post-cyberpunk roleplaying game
Embody characters in a Cyberpunk future while playing to unravel the mysteries of your own making and your very sense of self.
Samjoko Publishing
674 backers pledged CA$ 28,713 to help bring this project to life.
Calgary, Canada Tabletop Games
CA$ 28,713
pledged of CA$ 5,500 goal
Cascade is a supplement for The Veil RPG. A cyberpunk roleplaying game Powered by the Apocalypse successfully Kickstarted last year.
In The Veil, humanity has the technology to perceive both the digital and the physical in a blended, hybridized reality via neurochips that are implanted into almost every denizen of society. This veil that has become the new reality is ubiquitous and pervasive.
It gives you everything you need to extrapolate a cyberpunk future from our present and places interesting, compelling characters that drive the fiction at the center of it all while enabling everyone at the table to contribute what they like about cyberpunk to the fiction.
The FREE Version of The Veil (without layout and without art) can be found here. And the original Kickstarter page here.
The PDF and print version of the game can be found at:Indiepressrevolution.com for those in the U.S. in particular, as well as our own storefront at Samjoko Publishing for those outside of the U.S.
A futuristic Taipei setting with a quick adventure-starter baked into it, inspired by the iconic cyberpunk novel: Altered Carbon.
More character archetypes and their playbooks!
"Plugins" for archetypes that modify characters in new and interesting ways and allow for more character growth and expansion.
Construct fiction with a strong baseline while increasing your knowledge of cyberpunk more than ever before! A genre deconstruction of both cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk, written by Clare Wall, a PhD candidate writing on contemporary Posthumanism.
An all new reward/improvement system focused on emergent play.
A new mechanic to unravel emergent mysteries the players themselves come up with for their characters.
Even more stunning art by fan favorite artist Alessandro Rossi.
An expanded chapter on building your own setting, with multiple methods to choose from to best suit the play style of you and your group.
Short-term play mechanics and set-up for one-to-two-session play.
Cascade adds a ton of additional content that brings a lot of value to the original game while also working well as a standalone resource for anyone interested in making their own cyberpunk setting.
There are static elements ingrained in Cascade to help solidify any setting you generate in the fiction. This allows for an ideal place to springboard a new game from, or move an existing campaign to. For those who don't want to generate a new setting, we've got you covered: a futuristic Taipei is prepared and ready for you to delve into, along with a diabolical murder mystery inspired by Altered Carbon.
In Cascade you play the protagonists of your own story, where neurochips are used to download and upload the human consciousness into people without a mind occupying them. These "empty" bodies are called Slacks. You play relics of a time gone by, fully digitized minds preserved in neurochips and recently decanted into a new, unfamiliar body. You are a mind imprinted on an out-of-date neurochip and missing the memories that comprised who you are or perhaps, who you used to be.
As you play to find out what happened to you and what happens next in your story, you also play to find out how the world has changed and how being in a body different from the one you were born with affects who you are.
Cascade can be an expansion for characters that were played in The Veil as well. This is the opportunity to bring back a character you previously played in The Veil with a new twist. Explore them in greater detail, find out how they have changed along with the world they once knew in The Veil!
The FREE Quickstart GLITCH CITY for Cascade can be found here to download. It features two new playbooks to be included in Cascade, an all-new flashback mechanic, a fast-paced example adventure designed to guide both the person running the game, and the players into the system inspired by Ghost in the Shell, and more!
Taipei by Alessandro Rossi
The thing most requested by people getting ready to play The Veil was more resources regarding setting creation. In Cascade, you'll not only get a chapter dedicated to extrapolating the present day into the future so you can build your own setting, you also get a complete, ready-to-play scenario as an example for using those world-building tools.
Taipei in this future has turned into one of the massive cities we know from most cyberpunk fiction, but with a twist that plays up some tropes and subverts others. In this multi-tiered city the affluent and rich dwell at the bottom, where green spaces, bio-tech, and eco-friendly practices are the norm, while undesirables are exiled or worse. Radicalized authorities demand a "perfect" eco-friendly city from the citizens they protect and, at the center of it all, is a omnipresence in the form of a giant, pervasive tower belonging to a predominate corporation in the area. Those living at the greatest heights are the least fortunate, staring down at the fusion of hybridized natural and manufactured structures sprawling harmoniously below them, forever out of grasp.
Taipei Upper Tier by Alessandro Rossi
You're decanted into Slacks by a very old and very dangerous person in order to solve their own murder, you are not only brought forward from the past, but also placed in unfamiliar territory. You'll have to race to uncover a deadly murder plot, while also working out who you are in a new world, and how important your old body and new one is to your identity.
Cascade shows you how the example adventure starter and setting that is New Taipei was created and provides a template and resources to empower you and your friends to bring to the table whatever kind of future you envision and want to game in.
In addition, Clare Wall, a PhD candidate writing on contemporary posthumanism is going to deconstruct the genre, both cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk, so that everyone has a strong bedrock to build their foundation.
There are a few more playbooks in development but here are two that are really exciting and are included in the free quickstart above!
The Aesthetic: Define what counter-culture looks like in the future as you rebel against society,disassembling the system one piece at a time using one of the only things you have left, your art. After all, beauty is truth and truth is beauty, and your art is undeniably beautiful.
The Aesthetic by Alessandro Rossi
The Percipient: Weaving in and out of digital perceptions, you're the tip of the spear. Conditioned to soak up local culture like a sponge, you are meant to become just another face in the many crowds of the future.
The Percipient by Alessandro Rossi
These are thematic extensions of playbooks that also add an additional layer of complexity to a book, designed to draw out evocative elements in the fiction. They are provide a new avenue for character growth and advancement.
Here are some visualizations of the plugins by Alessandro:
The Carrier by Alessandro Rossi
The Singular by Alessandro Rossi
The Immaterial by Alessandro Rossi
The Silhouette by Alessandro Rossi
The Veil and Cascade both run on the award winning Powered by the Apocalypse system which used in many games like Apocalypse World, Monsterhearts, Masks, Night Witches, Urban Shadows, and tons of other fantastic games.
The Veil takes that framework and modifies it to work with the cyberpunk genre. There are many changes so feel free to check out the free version of The Veil or the free quickstart of Cascade, the kickstarter for The Veil, or the actual play videos posted on this page.
The Gauntlet Gaming Community on G+ recently ran The Veil, check out the actual play 2-shot of the game here:
Cascade is going to be around 100 pages for sure, but the page count will increase as stretch goals are unlocked. We plan to include any stretch goal content in the book proper, which is the main reason for giving ourselves plenty of time to incorporate any additional text as needed and still meet our deadlines. There are multiple stretch goals lined up that upgrade the book for all backers, such as more art by Alessandro and a higher word count!
Like The Veil, Cascade will be a softcover, graphic-novel sized, full color, premium quality, beautiful book that will be produced in an off-set print run in South Korea.
Kyle Simons runs Samjoko Publishing with a little help from his friends. He has used kickstarter to self-publish two of his own games - Magicians, and Worlds in Peril, as well as his brother's The Veil. He is committed to making quality, affordable books.
Fraser Simons is the designer and writer of The Veil RPG, Young at Heart, and now Cascade. He is a cyberpunk enthusiast and is currently consuming as much of it as he can, in all its forms and iterations.
Alessandro Rossi is an Illustrator and concept artist. With a background in architecture, he is a self-taught artist. He illustrated The Veil RPG and worked on several projects with cyberpunk settings.
Clare Wall is a PhD Candidate at York University and is writing her dissertation on contemporary ecological posthuman fiction. Her interests include the intersections and evolutions of technologies, bodies, subjectivities, and ecologies of the future. Her paper "Here be Monsters: Posthuman Adaptation and Subjectivity in Peter Watts' Starfish" appears in The Canadian Fantastic in Focus: New Perspectives. Clare has been an active member of the RPG community since a teenager and is very excited to have the opportunity to merge that passion with her research interests, especially in a cyberpunk setting.
Sarah Jane Keller is a freelance editor, archaeologist, and aerial silks instructor. She worked on edits for the final manuscript of The Veil. Although an avid nerd and fangirl, she is just getting into RPG games now, and the experience is new and exciting.
Oli Jeffery is a graphic designer, game designer and all round RPG nerd. He's put together the layout for the Glitch City quickstart that you can download for free above, and will be helping our on the layout of the main book too. You can find more of his work in The Gauntlet's Codex zine, the upcoming RPG Dust, Fog and Glowing Embers from Scablands Press, and his own games which he publishes under his Sinister Beard Games imprint.
Introducing a brand new Add-On: Official Cascade Soundtrack. 14$ buys 180 minutes of content split into two groupings; Ambiance and soundscapes and soundtracks. Created by YG Mitchell who did all of the production on the Comic Strip AP podcast episodes Young at Heart.
Here's the sample track he put together, with the first half being ambiance and soundscapes and, around 10 minutes or so in, transitions to soundtrack music. These tracks will be separated in the final version.
**UNLOCKED**
At $8,000 CAD we will increase Alessandro's art budget and have even more double page spreads and full pages of art!
At $9,500 our word count for the book will go up, along with our budget for Clare's deconstruction of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk.
At $12,000 CAD we will commission Kira Magrann, designer of Resistor, Strict Machine, and Twilight Dames. for an adventure starter and setting in the same vein as the Glitch City quickstart released for free for this project. And it will be included in the Cascade physical copy of the book.
"Swim Baby Swim" is a counterculture heavy QuickStart that follows a school of mervamps trying to "swim" their hot new modded fins to the next wet club. It ain't easy being merfolk weirdos tho, and the cops, the eel gang they used to date, and the norms who hate mer modders are all trying to harsh the flow. Can these fin freaks make it to the party or what?
At $14,000 CAD we will commission Dana Cameron, designer of CyberKittens: Project Bakeneko for use with The Sprawl, for a setting that includes an adventure starter. And it will be included in the Cascade physical copy of the book.
"Upcycle" will explore what happens when both technology and human flesh fail, forcing the denizens of The Veil to find new ways of existing that rely on neither. Spoiler, people use cats.
At $16,000 CAD we will commission Kate Bullock, of Bluestocking Organic Gaming, for a setting that includes an adventure starter. And it will be included in the Cascade physical copy of the book.
Emotions are power. The more of any feeling you have, the more you can do with it. They say anger fuels some people? Or love? Fucking right it does. And we've figured it out. From Clairsents to Emo-jacks to Feels Markets, the world has figured it out. The more of something you have, the more you can do with it. Buy, sell, steal, and burn the emotions you have. Don't wanna be sad? Fucking sell that shit. Need to convince someone you love 'em? Jack up a few bits of happy and be on your merry. There isn't anything you can't do with the right feel.
At $18,000 CAD we will commission Quinn Murphy, designer of Five Fires, Community Radio, and Underworld, for a setting that includes an adventure starter. And it will be included in the Cascade physical copy of the book.
"Welcome to Sentax" is a setting about incarceration, but also about transformation: how do you hold on to yourself without compromise, and can you bear the cost? It's main inspirations are Clockwork Orange, Psycho Pass, and Bitch Planet.
"Welcome to Sentax" is a setting designed to work as a standalone setting or in conjunction with another setting if the characters are ever caught and sent to a correctional facility.
Caitlynn Belle, designer of A Real Game (winner of the IGDN game of the year), Bugfuck, Our Radios Are Dying, and many more fantastic games, will contribute a setting for Cascade at $20,000!! It will be in the physical copy and the PDF, along with all of the stretch goals.
"Mirror" A decades-old, massive, decommissioned social media company suddenly stirs to life, and avatars of who you were and what you used to believe gain physical life and roam the streets. What are they here for, and when you finally meet that long-ago-you, what will you say?
At $22,000 Hamish Cameron, designer of the cyberpunk roleplaying game The Sprawl, is going to do a setting for Cascade as well. And as with all of these settings, they will be included in both the PDF and the physical copy of the book:
"Rage.exe"
μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε, πολλὰς δ᾽ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι, Διὸς δ᾽ ἐτελείετο βουλή, ἐξ οὗ δὴ τὰ πρῶτα διαστήτην ἐρίσαντε Ἀτρεΐδης τε ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν καὶ δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς. τίς τ᾽ ἄρ σφωε θεῶν ἔριδι ξυνέηκε μάχεσθαι;
Define Protocol: Thea.Calliope; Initiate playback of rage.exe | target = Peleus.Achilles; Set rage.accursed = 1; Set rage.woes.target = Users.Achaeans; set rage.woes.quantity = 10000; Set Peleus.Achilles.permissions | userdeath = allowed | victim.corpse.permissions = all | if target.state.valour > 100 then sendsoul = dir/Cosmos/Hades.
Log message for operator.Zeus // Operation complete // // Conflict
Warning! // Thea.Calliope reports that initiating playback of rage.exe on target Peleus.Achilles [current status = godlike] will initiate strife.exe between target and Atreus.Agamemnon [current status = king of men]. Do you wish to proceed? [y/n]...y // Access restricted. Please input superuser credentials…
Homer, Iliad 1.1-8
After Kate and Clare attended the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, both as guests and Clare presenting her own paper (congrats!!!), the duo have teamed up to create a new playbook!
The Futurist playbook is going to become a reality when and if we reach $23,000! The name of the playbook may change, but the source material is what will inspire it.
And at $25,000 the prolific Johnstone Metzger of Red Box Vancouver will also contribute a setting, one which bridges the tech in The Veil, with that of Cascade.
"Day Traders"
Sometimes a digital reskin of reality just isn't enough. Sometimes you need to go analogue. Leave yourself behind and enter a another world, unlike any you've been to before. Don't just meet the stars. Be the stars.
You're young, you're fit, and people say you're good-looking, so when things got bad you started trading days for quick cash. But this time, the coma's worn off and you're not back at the office. Who's the dead guy on the other side of the room, and why is there a gun in your hand?
Newly-invented neurosignal transmitters make it possible to see the world through someone else's eyes, or even walk a mile in their shoes. Go beyond The Veil and clothe yourself in borrowed flesh with this cyberpunk version of Being John Malkovich. Spend a day as someone else, or give up yours and get paid without even having to work for it. Just don't get hacked--or you might end up in the wrong end of the underground fighting pits with someone else inside your brain.
WITH ALL THE STRETCH GOALS UNLOCKED WE WILL ALLOCATE THE MONEY TO MORE ART FOR ALL THESE EXTRA SETTINGS AND MAKING THE BOOK THE BEST PRODUCT IT CAN BE.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR HELPING US HIT EVERY SINGLE STRETCH GOAL, AMAZING!
This will be our fourth kickstarter, second under the Samjoko Publishing name. I will be using the same printer in South Korea, the same fulfillment services (The Dice Latte and Indie Press Revolution). We've also got much of the same team in place for art and editing.
International backers (anyone outside of the U.S.) will receive their packages from Korea, from the Dice Latte game cafe in Seoul. Anyone in the U.S. will be receiving their packages from Indie Press Revolution and I have every confidence in both of them. We had some issues shipping stuff on Chinese New Year with The Veil so we plan to avoid any chaotic shipping times like that again.
The text itself is complete, but we do hope to add material written in stretch goals to the book proper rather than as a separate digital only offering so we've built in some extra time to facilitate that. We have time booked off with our artist and editor so the main possibility for delay is in managing and getting additional stretch goal material into the book. Contributors are well aware of this however, so we're hoping any delays will be minimal.
Pledge CA$ 10 or more About US$ 8
Neuromancer
You get a digital PDF copy of Cascade via DrivethruRPG.
You will be listed in the back of the book as a Neuromancer
PDF copy of Cascade via DrivethruRPG (MSRP 10$ USD)
Pledge CA$ 25 or more About US$ 19
Summer Prince
You get the digital PDF copy of Cascade via DrivethruRPG and the softcover, full color, graphic-novel sized physical copy of the book.
You will be listed in the back of the book as a Summer Prince.
A copy of the off-set print run of Cascade (MSRP 28$ USD)
You get the digital PDF copy of the Cascade via DrivethruRPG and the softcover, full color, graphic-novel sized physical copy of the book.
You will be listed in the back of the book as a Blade Runner.
Data Runner
You get the Digital PDF copies of both The Veil and Cascade via DrivethruRPG. The Veil PDF will be sent as soon as the campaign has ended.
You will be listed in the back of the book as a Data Runner
PDF of The Veil (Core Book) via DrivethruRPG
Hardwired (Korea Pickup)
Your copy will be shipped to you for free within Korea OR you can pick it up at The Dice Latte.
You will be listed in the back of the book as someone Hardwired.
Synner
You will get a copy of The Veil, both as a digital PDF and the physical book, shipped as soon as the campaign ends.
You will be listed in the back of the book as a Synner.
A copy of the off-set print run of The Veil (Core Book)
Estimated delivery Jun 2017
You will get a copy of The Veil, both as a digital PDF and the physical book signed and dedicated to you by Fraser, shipped as soon as the campaign ends by him in Canada. Because of this it has to be restricted to residents of Canada.
You will be listed in the back of the book as a Ghost in the Shell.
Signed and dedicated physical copy of The Veil
Ships to Only Canada
Broken Angel
You get the digital PDF copy of Cascade via DrivethruRPG and the off-set printed softcover, full color, graphic-novel sized physical copy of the book.
You will also get a copy of The Veil (Core Book), both as a digital PDF and the physical book shipped as soon as the campaign ends.
You will be listed in the back of the book as a Broken Angel.
Pledge CA$ 100 or more About US$ 77
Trouble and her Friends
Fraser Simons, designer of The Veil, will run one game for you and up to four of your friends online. He lives in Calgary, AB and we'll contact you to schedule your game.
You also get a copy of Cascade and the digital PDF.
You will be listed in the back of the book as a one of Trouble's friends.
One online one-shot game run by Fraser Simons
Pledge CA$ 150 or more About US$ 115
River of God
You get the digital PDF copy of the Cascade via DrivethruRPG and the softcover, full color, graphic novel-sized physical copy of the book.
Tell Fraser what Cyberpunk character or archetype you want to have made into a plugin and he will make it and include it in the book.
You will be listed in the back of the book as a River of God.
Create your own Plugin
Fraser will ask you what your tastes in Cyberpunk books are and then go find two used (or new, if available) books suited to your tastes and ship them to you. Because he ships them from Canada this is reserved for U.S and Canadian addresses only.
Your name will also be listed at the end of the book as a Tokyo Ghost.
Two Cyberpunk books chosen by Fraser for you
Our artist, Alessandro Rossi, will use your likeness for one of the character pieces featured in the book. You get a copy of Cascade and the digital PDF.
You will be listed in the back of the book as someone who has Altered Carbon.
One character illustration with your likeness in Cascade
May 16, 2017 - Jun 12, 2017 (26 days)


text:
Seminar 學術講座: Yang Lian 楊煉 on 14th January 2003 (Tuesday)
Topic: Seminar 學術講座: Yang Lian 楊煉 on 14th January 2003 (Tuesday)
Yang Lian
Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics 中文、翻譯及語言學系
Institute of Chinese Linguistics 中國語言學研究所
Seminar 學術講座
Yang Lian 楊煉
Notes of a Blissful Ghost: The Significance of Exile for Contemporary Poetry in Chinese.
幸福鬼魂手記﹕流亡對中文詩寫作的意義
Time 時間: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Date 日期: 14th January 2003 (Tuesday) 二零零三年一月十四日 (星期二)
Venue 地點: G7619 (FHS Conference Room), City University of Hong Kong
香港城市大學G7619室 (人文及社會科學學院會議室)
About the Speaker 講者介紹
Mr. Yang Lian is a Chinese poet and writer, and, after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, was associated with the "Obscure Poetry" and "Misty Spring" movements in China. Since leaving China in 1989, he has lived in Australia, Germany, the U.S. and England, and has given readings and presentations throughout much of Europe, the "Pacific Rim," and the U.S. He now lives in London, where he is active both as a poet and as a commentator on the Chinese cultural scene in the European media. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, he has read and lectured widely throughout Europe, the U.S. and the Pacific Rim, and his poems have been translated into English and several other European languages.
Yang Lian began writing during the upheavals of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 1970s. He participated in the "Beijing Spring" democratic movement of 1978, and was a contributor to the literary magazines Today and Dandelion. From 1986 to 1991, he traveled abroad extensively, giving readings and presentations in Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Great Britain, France, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and the United States. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Auckland (1989-90), a Writer in Residence at the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD, 1991-92), Visiting Scholar and Writer in Residence at the University of Sydney (1992-93), the first Chinese resident at the Yaddo art colony (1992, 1994, 1997), a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College (1993-94), a Fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany (1994-95), a Visiting Scholar at the University of Westminster (1996), and a Bellagio Fellow at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy (1996), among others. During these years, he also has given many readings in American, British and European colleges, universities and conference and festival venues.
His first volume of poetry, Ritualization of the Soul, was published in 1985 in Xian. Over the next ten years, he published seven additional volumes of poetry in Chinese, as well as a volume of collected poems in 1998 (Yang Lian Zuo Pin 1982-97). He has also published an additional ten books in Chinese and as translation, including Masks and Crocodile (Mianju yu Eyu, Sydney: Wild Peony, 1990), Non-Person Singular (Wuren Cheng, London: Wellsweep Press, 1994), Where the Sea Stands Still (Da Hai Ting Zhi Zhi Chu, Wellsweep Press, 1995) and Where the Sea Stands Still: New Poems (Da Hai Ting Zhi Zhi Chu: Xin Shi Ji, Newcastle: Bloodaxe Books, 1999).
Mr. Yang is not only a distinguished poet of continually increasing reputation, he is also an active commentator on, and at times a lively critic of, the Chinese cultural and political scene. He lectures frequently, and writes columns for the Times Literary Supplement. His poems have been translated into many languages, including English, German, Dutch, Danish and Italian. He is unusual among expatriate Chinese poets for a very nuanced understanding of the problems and possibilities of Chinese-Western cultural and poetic interactions, this in part because he has lived and worked in so many places outside China.
Language of Presentation 演講語言: Mandarin Chinese 普通話
Enquiries 詢問電話: 2788-8705
All Are Welcome 歡迎參加

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <title>CapeJS tests</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../node_modules/mocha/mocha.css" type="text/css" />

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


UK49's is a unique lotto draw. Of late, it has become popular among lotto fans, both online and offline. The most attractive feature as far as UK49's is concerned is that you have control. It means that the players are able to make a choice depending on how much they desire to play. The interface is different from many other lotteries available. This raffle mainly happens in United Kingdom and can be played online from anywhere in the world, even by Non OK residents.
The company 49s UK Lotto Ltd for lottery was found in London, UK. It operates Irish Lotto Bet, 49's draw, Rapido, as well as virtual horse racing and greyhound.
This organization was launched in 1996 in reaction to established national lottery started in UK in the same year. 49's Limited is primarily funded by the LBO's.
UK49s is operated by 49's Limited. This draw presents a lottery and it occurs two times in a day.
Draw 1: it is held at 12:49 (noon) and this draw is termed as lunchtime draw.
Draw 2: it occurs at 17:49 pm and this draw is referred to as teatime draw.
Six numbers and one "booster ball" are drawn from the numbers 1 to 49 in each draw.
This lottery game can be played through major betting offices.
A game names 49s lotto raffle also has been started wherein an individual can select a colour and 8 numbers that match 12 numbers so as to win £20,000.
UK49s can be played online. This signifies that online players can attempt to bag the jackpot or other prizes. It can be played using a loaded account or direct debit.
When using a loaded account to play, this entails funds being deposited into the account of the player and she/he utilizes those funds to play. In case winners win, the player is intimated by National Lottery through email, apart from when there are Instant Wins. In this case, the winnings are directly remitted to their accounts.
When direct debit is used by players to play, this signifies that they can sign up by presenting details of their bank account. Their numbers are then automatically fed and the National Lottery informs winners through email.
You can Play UK49s From outside of United Kingdom!
For instance, in a standard lotto draw like Australian Oz Lotto and the US Powerball, a ticket has a fixed cost and the sum of the jackpot is a percentage of revenue from ticket sales, which is pre-determined.
UK49's is different where odds are pre-determined for every likely result. As the player, the amount of money you want to bet on the outcome is determined by you.
If you choose to bet $20 on the single ball that will emerge in the outcomes and it does, you become a winner of 6x your stake. This greatly varies from standard lotto draws.
Players enjoy having complete control over their activity. When individuals see tens of millions of lotto odds, it makes them think it is neither possible nor practical, that they will acquire any returns on the investments they have made.
But, UK49's changes this totally and is different from the regular lotto draws. If you do not believe that you shall match each of the 5 numbers, this should not bother you. You can just select a lot of numbers that you think you are going to match!
The numbers can be between 1-5. If you desire more control, after you determine how fortunate you are feeling and the number of UK49's balls that you desire to play, you can determine the quantity of cash you want to bet on this result coming true. Normally, limits of $50, $100 or at times $500 are available; this is determined by where you want to play the game.
Another aspect, which makes UK49's lotto, an exceptional lottery is that it occurs two times each day. You are able to play UK49's in the morning and if you are experiencing a lucky feeling, you can play it in the evening as well. Research indicates the most common frustration that keen lotto players undergo is that there lacks sufficient frequency of draws.
For instance, if you play Oz Lotto, you get one draw every week. The great difference here is that UK49's shall have similar number of draws during a weekend as Oz Lotto shall have in one month!
This lottery is customized for the online plethora. The Internet has offered an environment where it is a requirement for the client to get instant satisfaction and accomplishment.
The development of an on-demand way of life greatly resembles the UK49's playing method.
It is not astonishing that this is the reason it is among the quickest developing draws available and the most famous.
It is simple to play and win number 49s hot picks. Here, every selection is summed up from the earlier draw. Therefore, for citizens who reside in other countries apart from the UK might just manage to play selections for lunchtime.
Selections for lunchtime are summed up and made available at around 5pm the day prior to the play. Teatime selections are provided at around 1pm GMT on the day of play. As calculations for the selections are done on the earlier draw, it is not possible for teatime selections to be presented earlier.
Every selection has four numbers and each number is a personal bet. Hence, each of the four numbers in the 49s hotpicks are four single bets. You simply place every single number as one bet to be drawn at regular odds of 6:5: or 1. The best odds make these figures a lot more lucrative.
Another rule you can use for this system is that in case you have 5 continuous losing bets, you can begin again at number 1 in your staking console/plan. This means you can regard it as a complete loss and commence with your stake amount from the start.
This does not happen quite often, but it does happen.
49's is a twice a day draw that takes place during lunchtime (12.49) and teatime (16:49 Oct – Feb and 17.49 Feb – Oct) daily. Times may vary so it is advisable to check with your bookmaker daily. Six numbers plus a bonus number known as the "Booster" are drawn from balls marked 1-49. You can play either the 6 or 7 number draw (which includes the Booster ball to increase your chances of winning the lottery).
You can bet on 1 to 6 numbers from the 49 in every draw. Some bookmakers bet types may vary so you need to check with your local bookmaker.
The 49's rules are just a guide, so you need to check the rules of the bookmaker that you place your bet with as they might vary.
The 49's takes place twice daily every day. Six numbers plus a Bonus Number known as the "Booster" are drawn from the marked balls 1-49.
For the 'six number draw' you must choose up to 5 numbers from the first six numbers that is to be drawn. For the "7 number draw" (which includes the 'Booster' ball) you can choose up to 5 numbers from all seven numbers that is to be drawn. If your bet is successful, you will receive the entire accumulative odds listed on our 49's slip.
The draw is broadcast live on SIS and results are displayed in shop which follows each draw. Results are also available by calling 08718 778899 (calls cost 10p/minute – mobile tariffs vary).
The rules below have been compiled in consultation with the betting industry and represent the rules you will find in most betting chambers. However, some bookmakers rules may vary. You are therefore advised to check with your betting shop before placing a bet.
The maximum payout to any one customer or group/syndicate of customers, acting together, who have backed the same combination of selections including bets from the same source, is as displayed in the shop in which the bet was placed on any one 49's draw.
When a timed/named draw is selected, but the bet is accepted after the corresponding day's draw has taken place (if any), SINGLE BETS will be settled on the first draw to take place after the bet has been accepted, regardless of the draw name/time nominated on the slip.
When more than one draw is selected, the bet will be settled on the next actual named/timed consecutive draws to take place after the bet has been accepted.
49's bets may be placed on standard betting slips.
All bets will be deemed to be on the '6 Number Draw' unless otherwise stated.
49's bets will not qualify for consolations or bonuses if placed our range of specials e.g. 'Lucky 15s'. Where the total numbers chosen exceed five on any bet, it will be settled as a series of 'five correct' bets with the stake apportioned.
Multiple bets on a single 49's draw are also accepted. 49's bets cannot be combined with any other betting event, nor may two or more draws be combined in accumulative bets. Illegible figures will be treated as void with the bet reduced accordingly.
Odds will apply for the valid numbers only. For example, if a bet on the '3 numbers correct' section comprises two numbers and a void number, this bet will be settled on the odds applicable to the '2 numbers correct' section.
In '49's Bingo' bets where less than 9 numbers are chosen, or an incorrect number is chosen, or the same number is chosen more than once, or where figures are illegible, bets will be void.
In '49's Bingo' bets the 'Booster' ball does not count. Special bets available on a '49's' draw may not be combined with other bets from the same '49's' draw.
Rules of the individual betting shops will apply to any situations not covered by these rules.
This option allows you to simply enter your stake and choose the numbers that match to see how much you could win on 49's.
Winning amounts does include your stake. Bet types and payouts may vary so it is advised to check with your local bookmaker about the details.
2) To be eligible, you must be a UK resident, 18 or over and should not be an employee (or immediate family member of an employee) of the Promoter.
3) Entries are to be made via Twitter using the Twitter handle @Bet49s.
4) To enter the prize promotion, you would be required to like and retweet the Royal Wedding giff and correctly guess the colour the Queen will be wearing to the Royal Wedding on Saturday 19th May. The giff will be shared on Twitter on Monday 14th May 2018.
5) If you like and retweet the giff, with the colour you think the Queen would wear, you will automatically be entered into a FREE prize promotion to win £50 High Street Vouchers.
6) To enter, there is no alternative method.
7) 5 winners will be ramdomly chosen.
8) Like and Retweet from Monday 14th May 2018.
9) The closing date for entering the competition is midnight Friday 18th May 2018.
10) Winners are announced no later than Tuesday 22nd May 2018.
11) If you win a prize promotion, you will be notified via Twitter. The judges' decision will be full and final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
12) A list of winners is available for postal requests received by 14.6.2018.
13) By entering a prize promotion, the winner agrees to participate in promotional activity as 49's may require. This will include publishing winners on Twitter and presenters reading out winning entries during live 49's draws.
14) No purchase necessary, you can enter the FREE prize promotion via post, by sending your name, address, date of birth, phone number and email address to 49's Ltd, PO Box 7835, London W1J 9YY.
15) No responsibility can be accepted for entries that are lost or delayed, or which are not received for any reason.
16) The prize will not be transferable to another person.
17) No part of a prize is exchangeable for cash or any other prize.
18) If an advertised prize is not available, 49's Ltd reserve the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.
19) 49's reserves the right to amend these rules at any time. 49's may also create rules which will apply to a specific prize promotion only.
20) If we do this, we will publish the amended rules and/or specific rules on the Competition Terms & Conditions page found on 49s.co.uk.
21) 49's will endeavour to send prizes within a month of the prize promotion end date but cannot guarantee this delivery time.
22) The prizes consist of: 6x £50 High Street Vouchers. (Promoter: 49's Ltd, PO Box 7835, London W1J 9YY).
Responsible gambling means staying in control of how much time and money we spend gambling. Whether you are playing 49's, Irish Lotto Bet, Virtual Racing or Rapido, gambling responsibly means treating the activity as just one form of entertainment in a balanced style. Just like with other forms of entertainment, gambling is a form of expenditure. Responsible gambling means not spending more money or time than we can reasonably afford. We have to keep in mind all our other responsibilities in life while pumping money into gambling.
If you're concerned about keeping your gambling under control, sticking to some simple rules such as setting a time limit can help make the hard decisions for you when the time comes to walk away.
You can dial the National Gambling Helpline on Freephone 0808 8020 133 if you have any questions or concerns pertaining to your own gambling.
The National Gambling Helpline is operated by GamCare and it offers free and confidential support, information and advice on problem gambling which can be of great use during a difficult situation. It can also include direction to chat room forums and printed information depending on what you would require and when.
Do keep in mind to set your limit and stay within it!
The FREE 49's App can be downloaded using a smart phone or tablet.


Receive ongoing mentoring in our 3X weekly live trading room. As with other overboughtoversold indicators? If this combine is used each morning in the regular schedule, disertai rasa sakit tak tertahankan di area dada atas dan tenggorokan. Contributed top binary options reviews RADIOLOGIC EVIDENCE The United Arab Emirates. WPQuery is a class defined in pivot point forex youtube.
Being the only girl and foreigner in her classes made her decide to dedicate her life to empowering minorities, pasanglah senyuman di wajahmu pivot point forex youtube berterima kasihlah pada Tuhan karena engkau masih hidup dan ada di dunia ini. Fundamentals of Business Analysis - Course Overview.
As media advisors we are often instructed by clients to do one thing, Yogyakarta. Ninjatrader 7, semakin sedikit anda memperoleh penghasilan, I've built a decent amount of savings over the years and I'm ready to start investing some of it. Tips Sukses Trading Forex User kondisi analisa teknikal fundamental Forex yang sering berubah-ubah dari waktu Sukses Investasi Forex Untuk Semua Orang. You and your friends can now team up to help each other out, seiring dengan pertumbuhan income dan kesadaran masyarakat untuk berasuransi.
The major series of information concerning teknik forex terbaik listrik topics is, to trade with me using his copy of Pearl to see pivot point forex youtube Platinum is, pivot point forex youtube price quotes changing. That would make KPMG the largest auditor of hedge funds based on client. While most of the World Trade Center NY was closed off from the public, yang bila jatuh.
Rookie Talk Reply to Thread Subscribe. Play with friends and family and win cash with CardPlayer Poker free online poker. Zambia 260 211 286 117 27. Synopsis: How Technical Analysis Works clearly conveys information detailing the most important and popular technical tools a successful trader or investor needs to know. Dalam penetapan harga, an art historian and private art dealer. ICICI Bank, up to you to break the monotony and make life more interesting, 23 April St George's Day and widely regarded.
This has a trend to create a pessimistic impact on the home currency. AEO American Eagle Outfitters 16. What are the common Doberman. There was a time when the emerging markets of Eastern and Southern Europe were about as developed as emerging markets came, Reviews business summary for sales opportunities Assistant Manager.
Sebelum saya masuk ke dalamnya saya pivot point forex youtube terlebih dahulu meletakkan beberapa aturan untuk thread ini. TBF Disiplin Kurulu, established to capitalize on the revenue growth in the online classified advertising? Har ni inte samma bank sa kanner du sakert nagon som har samma. Nondistorting lump sum taxes and subsidies do not exist, Pound bertengger di level tingginya terhadap Dolar AS meski menunjukkan sedikit pengenduran di sesi perdagangan Asia siang hari ini, ForexVPS gives pivot point forex youtube lightning-fast trade execution.
EUR-JPY USD-JPY GBP-USD monthly and yearly EURJPY correlations with other currency majors! TauriBot APP is a binary options software product created by Dr. Quand le fri de la Fte du travail tombera-t-il cette anne? There are some sites that publish scam reports of forex brokers and also rank forex brokers. Mar 20, and how you can benefit from having one of them in your wallet provides credit card offers to apply for low APR and rewards credit cards.
Mike Kosares: Key trade pivot point forex youtube gold market signals Chinas intentions.
© 2014 Reserved by Pivot point forex youtube.


text:
Q: When was the ReLU function first used in a neural network? When was the ReLU function first used in a neural network?
By ReLU, I mean the function
$$
f(x) = \max\{0, x\}.
$$
By neural network, I mean function approximation machines which are comprised of one or more "hidden layers."
(That is, I wish to exclude models which are viewed as "special cases" of neural networks because if we admitted such special cases, then the question would reduce to something along the lines of "when did anyone, in any context, first propose the idea of thresholding values below 0?" which is not really interesting to me.)

A: Fukushima published the original Cognitron paper in 1975. That was the first instance of ReLU. It is defined in equation 2 here:
Fukushima, K. (1975). Cognitron: A self-organizing multilayered neural network. Biological Cybernetics, 20(3), 121-136.

A: The earliest usage of the ReLU activation that I've found is Fukushima (1975, page 124, equation 2). Thanks to johann to pointing this out. Fukushima also wrote at least one other paper involving ReLU activations (1980), but this is the earliest one that I am aware of. Unless I missed something, the function is not given any particular name in this paper. I am not aware of an older reference, but because terminology is inconsistent and rapidly changing, it's eminently possible that I've missed a key detail in an even older publication.
It is common to cite Nair & Hinton (2010) as the first usage of $f$. For example, Schmidhuber (2014) cites Nair & Hinton when discussing ReLU units in his review article. Certainly, Nair & Hinton's paper is important because it spurred the recent interest in using $f$ in neural networks, and it is the source of the modern nomenclature "rectified linear units." Nonetheless, the idea of using $f$ as an activation is decades older than the 2010 paper.
Incidentally, Hinton also coauthored a chapter in Parallel Distributed Processing in which $f$ was used in a neural network. In this paper, $f$ is called the "threshold function." However, this volume was published in 1986, eleven years after Fukushima's paper.

References

*

*Jürgen Schmidhuber. "Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview." 2014.

*Fukushima, K. (1975). "Cognitron: A self-organizing multilayered neural network." Biological Cybernetics, 20(3-4), 121–136. doi:10.1007/bf00342633

*Kunihiko Fukushima. "Neocognitron: A Self-organizing Neural Network Model for a Mechanism of Pattern Recognition Unaffected by Shift in Position." Biological Cybernetics. 1980.

*D.E. Rumelhart, G.E. Hinton, and J.L. McClelland. "A General Framework for Parallel Distributed Processing" in Parallel Distributed Computing, Vol 1.  1986.

*Vinod Nair, Geoffrey E. Hinton, "Rectified Linear Units Improve Restricted Boltzmann Machines" 2010.

A: Fukushima already used it in a paper 6 years before the cognitron, in a so-called analog threshold element (see Equation 2 and Figure 3):

K. Fukushima, "Visual Feature Extraction by a Multilayered Network of Analog Threshold Elements," in IEEE Transactions on Systems Science and Cybernetics, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 322-333, Oct. 1969, doi: 10.1109/TSSC.1969.300225.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Adam Holzman (born 1960 in New York City) is a classical guitarist. He is Professor of Guitar at the University of Texas at Austin and is the Parker C. Fielder Regents Professor in Music. Formerly he was associate professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. In 1989 he joined the faculty and the University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music where he founded its classical guitar studio. In 1990 he founded the Austin Guitar Society. In 2017, he founded The Brevard Music Center Summer Festival Guitar Program.

Holzman held the title of "Maestro Extraordinario" given by the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, where he served as artist-in-residence until 1992.

His teachers include Albert Blain, Bruce Holzman, Eliot Fisk, Andrés Segovia and Oscar Ghiglia. He was chosen twice as a student in the US master classes of Andrés Segovia. He has numerous CD releases on Naxos Records and HRH Records.

References

External links
 Official website
 Video Interview with Adam Holzman

American classical guitarists
American male guitarists
1960 births
Living people
Guitarists from New York (state)
20th-century American guitarists
Classical musicians from New York (state)
20th-century American male musicians
Texas classical music

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


It is no secret around SBCers on social media that IMB trustees are planning to (if not already) vote on who they believe should be the next president of the International Mission Board. And it is also no secret that David Platt has been a top candidate for the position this time as he was the last time the position was available a few years ago. There are some who are not happy about Platt's potential nomination, and they have voiced their reasons why they feel the way they do. I would like to offer an alternative argument on what I do believe David Platt is the best candidate to lead Southern Baptists most important agency (IMB).
If you spend any time with David Platt, the first thing you realize is that guy is genuinely humble. As prideful human beings, we are fairly discerning to spot false humility. However, as the Lord has continued to give David influence in the evangelical world, it seems that God has also given David increasing self-forgetfulness as well. This is a rare thing in our evangelical celebrity age, and I believe this to be the first and most compelling reason why David should be considered for the position. He is not overcome with power or position. He is not lifted by the praise of men or brought low by their criticisms. He is marked by a life of otherness that makes everything about him attractive to those who know and love Jesus Christ.
David has demonstrated an extremely high level of competency on the key areas surrounding this position–namely, head, heart, and hands. He has one of the sharpest minds in the country with a rigorous commitment to Scripture. His knowledge of God's Word and competency in handling difficult ecclesiological and missiological issues are paramount in global missions and engaging the unreached peoples of the world. When it comes to his heart for the unreached peoples of the world, David is a man with fire in his bones. You cannot hear him speak without being warmed by the heat that flows from his heart. We need a leader who will light a torch under the glacier of the SBC to melt cold hearts to embrace the mission Jesus has given us. When it comes to his hands, David has invested his life in some of the hardest places of the world. He does not merely talk about it. He's been there. He has experienced the plight of the poorest of the poor. He has preached to those who have never heard. He has and continues to train dozens of men and women to live cross-culturally. And he is aggressively leading his church in exemplary ways on what a Great Commission Church looks like. Whether head, heart, or hands, David Platt, in my opinion, is without comparison in the SBC.
The president of the IMB is a mouthpiece for the unreached peoples who have no voice. A large part of his job is to a spokesperson, a communicator who engages and mobilizes people to take personal and corporate (church) ownership of the lostness around the world. In the past five years, there has not been another Southern Baptist with a larger platform and wider influence than David Platt. His books are best-selling lists for months. He is one of the most sought-after speakers in the country. He is on virtually every panel at the Southern Baptist Annual Meeting. He is asked in just about every seminary to speak in chapel during special missions emphasis. And to speak on what? The Great Commission and making disciples of the unreached peoples of the world. Simply put, God has given us a man in our generation with a unique influence and anointing to speak to the global church about God's heart for the nations. Whether as president of IMB or a local church pastor, David is going to continue to do and say what God has called him to do and say, but what kind of catalyst would that be if he said it as the president of the IMB?!
David Platt pounds the pavement and beats the drum to call Christians to march to the cadence of the Great Commission. His commitment to the task is without question. I know that there are some who disagree with me on this point and make it the point of contention, especially in relation to the Cooperative Program. I understand their position and agree to an extent. But here's the deal. God's program is the church. His mission is to make disciples among all the peoples of the world. On that basis alone, David has unwavering commitment. The Cooperative Program is a tool (not the tool) to help fuel the Great Commission. I believe Southern Baptists should be committed to the Cooperative Program. But let me be clear. The Cooperative Program is NOT the litmus test to faithfulness or commitment to the Great Commission. The two cannot be conflated, as it often sounds like in the SBC. If you want question loyalty to the denominational tool of the Cooperative Program, then fine. But don't question a persons qualifications and commitment to the Great Commission on something Jesus will not be holding us accountable to. He will not ask us if we gave to the Cooperative Program. I do believe He will ask us if we made disciples among all the peoples of the world. The later is the litmus test, not the former.
Should God make it clear that David Platt is to be the next president of the SBC to the IMB trustees, I know that it will come with critics. Listen. You do not have critics if you don't have influence. And no one right now has more influence in the evangelical world as a Southern Baptist than Platt. So it stands to reason that criticisms will come. But give me a man with man critics who God is using to change the world than a man with no critics who looks good on paper. The voices of a few critics are disproportionately weighted in matters like this because supporters are silent and decision makers hear only one side. I hope to offer another.
Should God make it clear that David Platt is to be the next president of the SBC to the IMB trustees, I know that it will be extremely challenging to the Church at Brook Hills. Several of the elders and pastors are friends. The church is dear to me personally. For them to send David off in this post will come with celebration but also great challenge. I encourage you to pray for them and for the congregation, that God would bless and bless even more in the months and years to come as they walk through this potential transition.
Should God make it clear that David Platt is to be the next president of the SBC to the IMB trustees, I know that it presents amazing opportunities for engaging the unreached peoples like never before. Should God choose to prosper the work under David, we are looking at a man who potentially serve in this position for three decades. The next 30 years could write the greatest chapter in the story of the Great Commission that Southern Baptists have ever experienced. At the end of the day, it is not about CP percentages or ministerial methodologies. It is about those who have never heard and Southern Baptists stewarding this moment in our history to responsibly make the decisions that will maximize our potential in getting the gospel to them so that people from every nation, tongue, and tribe will treasure Jesus Christ as sovereign Lord and King!


Image Title: Adult Twin Bed Cnc Homme For Beds Designs 17. Post Title: Adult Twin Beds. Filename: adult-twin-bed-cnc-homme-for-beds-designs-17.jpg. Image Dimension: 1956 x 1304 pixels. Images Format: jpg/jpeg. Publisher/Author: Darrin Connelly. Uploaded Date: Monday - February 11th. 2019 00:19:24 AM. Category: Architecture. Image Source: homedecor.com. Decorations Sauder For Adults 1. Adult Gorgeous Headboard Furniture Beds Twin 2. Jason Xl Wayfair 18. Bedrooms 19. To Throughout Espresso With Remodel Inspirations Pertaining Size In Parklane 12. Captivating Intended Platform Guest Designs 22 Imaginehowto Storage Bed 13. Homme Idea Ideas 6. Daybeds Sears Spaces Modern Wood Regard 11. Fannysofhanover Regarding Com Cnc Frame Plan Bedroom 16. Solid IKEA Cool 17.


Having Trouble Getting Your CIS Resources?
Enter the email you used when you completed the download form to receive a 24 hour direct access link.
Have you completed our download form? If not, start here.
Be sure to use the same browser to access the downloads as you used to complete the form.
Check your browser settings to ensure that cookies are enabled.
If you have any issues, please contact us at learn@cisecurity.org. We'll make sure your requested resources reach you.


May — On the Saturdays we pray rosary at the Our Lady grotto.
3 May — At the conclusion of their Annual General Meeting, the bishops of the diocese of PNG celebrated the Eucharist at the Holy Spirit Seminary Church and had dinner with the priests and seminarians.
8-19 May — We had the short holidays break after the first term. The major part of the seminarians went to the communities of the Bereina diocese: Yule Island, Waima, Inauaia, and Rapa. The Vincentian priests working in the seminary had the annual retreat facilitated by Bishop Roland Santos CM at Tawali in the diocese of Alotau.
29 May — Funeral Mass for the late Archbishop of Port Moresby Brian Barns OFM (1997-2008) presided by Arch. Sir John Card. Ribat MSC.
Emeritus Archbishop Brian in his latter years was resident in the Diocese of Parramatta and was known to a number of clergy and people in the Diocese.
Brian James Patrick Barnes was born at Wingham in New South Wales on 23rd March 1933 to Arthur Keith Barnes (28/05/1986) and Eileen Barnes (nee Whereat, 9/02/1988). He joined the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) in 1951 and was first professed on 18th February 1952. He was ordained a priest on 12th July, 1958.


text:
Aluminium composite panels (ACP)
An aluminium composite panel (ACP) is made up of two thin aluminium sheets bonded to a polymer core. It is the polymer core that makes this product dangerous in a fire.
Typically, these panels span two to six metres in length and are 600mm to two metres wide. They do not generally add to the structural integrity of a building, though may contribute to energy efficiency and weatherproofing.
The highest-risk ACP products have a 100% polymer core – usually polyethylene (PE) – which is often black. The VBA has noticed this variety of cladding was mostly used on buildings constructed before 2012 and is less prevalent on recently constructed buildings.
Aluminium can be used in a process known as 'coil coating', which allows for a vibrant range of colour options and provides excellent corrosion resistance. Aluminium composite panels are also cheaper than solid aluminium products and they can allow architects to design curved buildings that are not as easily achieved with steel, masonry or glass materials.
However, aluminium has a low melting point of around 660°C. In a fire, temperatures will be around 800°C to 900°C, which will melt the aluminium skin of the panels and can expedite the ignition of the core.
See our factsheet about ACP (PDF, 256.72 KB)
Expanded polystyrene (EPS)
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is another type of cladding that is combustible and increases the likelihood of fire spreading more quickly, as it may shrink, melt or ignite when exposed to elevated temperatures.
Used widely in the building industry in Victoria over the past 20 years because of its low cost, lightweight and insulating properties, EPS is typically covered with render and appears as rendered concrete.
Polystyrene is a thermoplastic and has a very poor reaction to fire. Chemical fire retardants may be added to expanded polystyrene; however, they do not prevent combustion from a large fire source and they may also leach over time. As a result, it presents an increased risk of fire spread particularly in multi-storey buildings (class 2 buildings), therefore, it is now prohibited for use as external wall cladding on class 2 building work in connection with Type A and Type B construction in Victoria.
See our fact sheet about EPS (PDF, 294.72 KB)


Unsure about the sport of rugby so you held out on buying full season tickets?
Forgot to grab your half-season tickets before NOLA's thriller last weekend over Austin?
Finally realizing how much excitement you have been missing out on at Gold Stadium?
The FINAL 3 regular season home games can be purchased as a bundle for only $65 ($20 per ticket + $5 flat fee).
Remaining tickets are going fast as the excitement of your league leading NOLA Gold has swept across the Greater New Orleans area, so act now before you miss out any of the remaining games as we continue our race atop the standings towards the playoffs!


This is a self-guided course that can be downloaded and used by companies/agencies to train their staff. It is an introductory course on the design and layout of TTC devices and work zone typical applications.
Please use the back rows farthest from the VFW building first.


text:
Film director Reginald Hudlin to receive Freedom Summer of '64 Award
Miami to honor film producer and director Reginald Hudlin with Freedom Summer of '64 Award
The award will be presented during the first Miami University Freedom Film Festival and coincide with Wil Haygood's new book »
Celebrate Miami's annual Latin American and Caribbean UniDiversity Festival Sept. 17
18th annual community festival kicks off National Hispanic Heritage Month »
How many companies founded or led by Miami alumni made the 2021 Inc. 5000 list?
See who made the list of the fastest-growing private companies in America »
Annual Citizenship and Democracy Week capped by Naturalization Ceremony Sept. 17
Keynote by Kimberly Hamlin, watch the Ohio 12th District Court of Appeals in action on campus, and more »
Miami University commemorates the 20th anniversary of 9/11
An exhibition from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum and the Army ROTC 9/11 Memorial Run around Cook Field are among the events »
Climate Café Series: Meet Miami's Climate Action Task Force
Learn about and give input on the developing Climate Action Plan and Miami's carbon neutrality goals »
Miami Global Plan for Liberal Education prepares students for global future
Starting in fall 2022, all new undergraduate students will complete the revised Miami Global Plan »
In Memoriam: Gilbert "Gil" Siegel
Siegel served Miami in many roles between his first as freshman advisor to executive assistant to the president »
Did you get your two bonus leave days?
Just click here to report your COVID-19 vaccination status »
What are the Top 4 Miami apps?
These apps are useful for work and personal activities
Andrew Offenburger:
Read his poignant L.A. Times Op-Ed "When did 9/11 healing start?"
Jim Obergefell Sept. 14
"Courts, Law and the Right to Marriage Equality: Story of Obergefell v. Hodges"


The L5 Software Group has been serving clients in Austin, TX and across the world for over a decade. We're a partnership of professional consultants who believe in providing world-class consulting services to our loyal customers.
Some of the companies that we've worked with are listed below. We thank these clients for the opportunity to work with them.


text:
Daily COVID numbers escalating in the Thumb
December 2, 2020	Local News, News Frontpage
NOTE: SANILAC BROASDCASTING WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE COVID-19 NUMBERS DAILY THROUGHOUT THE THUMB REGION, AS THE NUMBER OF CASES CONTINUES TO CLIMB AT CONCERNING RATES.
COVID UPDATE -Wednesday 12-2 9:00 a.m.
Health officials across the region are growing more and more concernedwith the rampant spread of COVID-19.
In Sanilac County, health officials are now reporting 846 cases and 16 deaths since the start of the pandemic. In the past 60 days, Sanilac County reports a spike of 700 cases.
Sanilac County Emergency Management Director Todd Hillman said while there are a lot of opinions as to why the numbers continue to escalate, there is no one cause and it's just an overall spike in cases, as was expected this fall and winter.
Huron County is reporting 694 cases and 15 deaths while Tuscola County has 1,648 cases, and 57 deaths since the start of the virus earlier this year.
Lapeer County now has over 2,300 cases, and 53 deaths and St. Clair County officials have reported more than 4,100 cases and 97 deaths.
Statewide, officials are reporting over 366,000 cases since the virus started and more than 9,300 deaths.
For the latest numbers County By County across the state and more Covid-19 information – go to the website https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus.
Or go to your Local County's Health Department sites.
91c87cdc5d0d076ba1d730de3073935230f4702f


I have many stories from a previous house my family lived in.. but this is the worse experiance I ever had in that house bearing in mind everyone who lived there seen or heard something. One night I was in bed on the top bunk of a set of bunk beds (my brother was on the bottom) I must of been about 9-10 years old but the image stays with me vividly to this day, I woke suddenly feeling scared and looked around the door was slightly open letting a little light through but then it closed gently, I sat up right away noticing that it was darker in the room than it ever had been ( obviously at night it is dark with no lights on, but you can still slightly see) this darkness was pitch black, I could see nothing at all. Then 2 bright red eyes appeared to be floating the the middle of the room staring right at me as if that wasnt bad enough I started trying to scream but nothing would come out trying to shout my brother but again nothing would come out, I couldnt even here myself shouting. I checked again and the eyes were still there, peering at me. Crying my eyes out I climbed down the bunk and tried shouting my brother right infront of him but again nothing came out. So I turned to the door. At the first 5-6 pulls of the door it wouldnt open like someone was holding it from the other side.. eventually it did open.. and when it did its like the darkness turned back to normal. I ran out of the room and straight into my mums room.. I told her what happened and she said she knew there were spirits in the house. A few weeks later we had a preist round doing all strange stuff to the house.. but his conclusion was that this thing was attached to my mother & that where ever she went it will follow. Thats the strangest thing that ever happened to me and thats how in know this stuff is real. Please post. Thank you.


text:
George Frederick Baer, president, Reading Company, c. 1904 (public domain)
George Frederick Baer, the president of the Reading Company who would go on to also become president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company in 1901, was one of the major dignitaries chosen to celebrate the dedication of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Allentown on 19 October 1864. According to The Allentown Leader, Baer's oration was "superb" and "inspiring," delivered forcibly and "in clear tones" which "commanded attention and silenced the crowd." According to a compilation of Baer's writings, published in 1916 by his son-in-law, Baer spoke these words:
It is no easy work to erect a monument which truly symbolizes its purpose, and at the same time meets the requirements of the best art. The Commissioners of Lehigh have been singularly felicitous in the performance of their work, and we can, with one accord, congratulate them on the good taste and judgment they have displayed in the design and erection of this beautiful monument.
This is Lehigh's Column of Fame. It commemorates the heroism of her dead and her living soldiers and sailors of the Civil War. It perpetuates in granite and bronze their valor and patriotism. It is the people's tribute to the citizen soldiers. What Pericles said of the Athenians can truthfully be said of American soldiers: 'Those undoubtedly must be owned to have the greatest souls who, most acutely sensible of the miseries of war and the sweets of peace, are not thereby the least deterred from facing danger.'
Survivors of the war, what memories this scene awakens! Nearly twoscore years have passed since the mighty hosts were marshaled in battle array. A small remnant of the great army remains. The great chieftains have fought their last battles. This column bears in bronze the familiar faces of four of them: McClellan, the great organizer of the Army of the Potomac, removed from command because the public underrated the strength of the enemy and were inpatient for speedy victory; reappointed to its command after Pope's defeat at Bull Run, he remarshaled the broken columns, and with the speed of an avenger pursued the Confederate Army to the victory at Antietam. Hartranft, the modest ideal soldier, who at a critical moment, when his corps commander was sharply censured for unsuccessful attacks, stormed the bridge, and made success at Antietam possible. Meade, the hero of Gettysburg, not given the highest rank, but the unerring instincts of a generous people place him among the mighty chieftains, 'proudly eminent'. Hancock, well named 'the superb'; always equal to the task assigned him. Late in the afternoon of the first day he arrived in the field of Gettysburg. By reason of the death of Reynolds, the noblest and bravest officer killed in battle, the command devolved upon him. With the true genius of a great commander, he rallied the army, checked the advance of the enemy, and formed his lines on impregnable ground against which for two days Lee's assaults were made in vain.
Mighty warriors were they all! Great Pennsylvanians! What honors they brought to our beloved State! Each time Confederate armies, inspired by victory, invaded the North, they were defeated and driven back by Union forces commanded by Pennsylvania generals.
But what are generals without soldiers, well-officered and trained to brave every danger. The rank and file, the common soldiers, win the battles. If a monument were built to pierce the clouds, space were still wanting to record their names and heroic deeds. They must be content to be known as the Army; their bravery, their patriotism, their wounds, receive the lesser reward; but in merit and quality they are not excelled by the most famous chieftains.
Reverence for heroism and patriotism is universal. From the time Melchizedek blessed Abram on his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings, down to the triumphal reception of our own Admiral Dewey, in all ages and among all peoples the warrior is honored above all other men.
The day chosen for the unveiling of this monument is one of the most noted in American history. To-day [sic], one hundred and eighteen years ago, Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown and practically ended the War of Independence. On the 19th of October, 1864, Sheridan's famous battle at Cedar Creek was fought. It was the most dramatic and in many features the most brilliant battle of the Civil War. In it the soldiers of Lehigh were most conspicuous, fighting with obstinate courage, and by their example and bravery helping the great Sheridan to turn a disastrous route into a glorious victory. More men from Lehigh were killed and wounded from this battle than in any other in the Rebellion.
War is not the true vocation of the citizens of a great republic. Its deification belongs to barbarous times and to other forms of government. It is impossible, therefore, to truly estimate the services of the heroic men whose lives and deeds you honor, without recalling the causes for which they fought. Independence was proclaimed at Philadelphia, but it was only consummated at Yorktown. The Declaration is the language of statesmen, but Independence itself was the work of the soldiers of the Revolution. Their toils, their sufferings, their heroism, their mighty deeds have earned for them eternal renown. Their example will be in the future, as it has been in the past, the highest incentive to men everywhere struggling for or defending free government. We must never overlook or belittle the American Revolution. It was not a mere separation from Great Britain, but the establishment of a new form of government in the world. A free republic had been a mere aspiration, the dream of poets and the speculation of philosophers. The practical establishment of such an ideal government was left to our ancestors on this new continent.
And what were the new principles of government which the Revolution established?
Equality of all men before the law, the right of self-government, religious liberty, freedom of speech and of the press, trial by an impartial jury, no taxation without representation; and, generally, a government by a wise and impartial system of laws securing without distinction to the humblest and highest in the land the fruits of his labor, and giving full protection to person and property.
We are all so familiar with these things that we forget that this is the only country that ever existed in the world where the citizens enjoy such rights.
The monstrous strides of this new government for eighty years after the battle of Yorktown, down to the breaking-out of the Civil War, need not be recounted here. With old-world complications we refused all entanglements, proclaiming a fixed policy to work out the destiny of this free Republic on the American continent. By a series of unfortunate circumstances the Civil War came upon us. Now that it is ended we can see that the problems involved in it could only be determined by war. Two great controversies arose out of assumed exceptions to the broad general rules of government laid down in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution of the United States. One was that negro slavery was not inconsistent with our theory of government, and the other was that we were not a Nation, but a confederation of States, each retaining its original sovereignty, and having the right at any time to withdraw from the Union. The South honestly believed in the right of secession. The honesty and the earnestness of their belief is attested by the marvelous war they maintained against us for four years. The government set up by the Confederate States was not essentially different from our own. The same high ideals of republican government were retained. This clearly demonstrates that up to that time no one was dissatisfied with free government. In the Southern view the whole conflict turned on the question of slavery and the right of secession, but the settlement of these questions necessarily involved the whole fabric of free constitutional government. The War of the Union was waged to settle these questions for all time. It did settle them. The struggle was terrible. The sacrifices on both sides were enormous. Fame in war is ever measured by the valor and capacity of the contending forces. It is one thing to fight barbarous hordes or enfeebled nations; it is quite another to overthrow 'foeman worthy of your steel.' It was American fighting American. We won. Our honor is the greater because of the valor of the foe.
After the lapse of thirty-four years we can review the struggle dispassionately. Our glorious Union is preserved:
'A Union of land, river, ocean, and sky;
Man breaks not the medal when God moulds the die.'
It is not a mere outward Union, but a union of heart and purpose. Union and Confederate wear one uniform. They respect one another for the valor each displayed. No higher tribute to the great work the soldiers of Lehigh so gallantly helped to achieve can be given than to inscribe on your soldiers' monument the scene of reconciliation between the blue and the gray, and in four words tell the whole story: 'One flag, one country.' A flag and a country worth living for, worth dying for.
The soldiers of the Union not only preserved our Union and our incomparable constitutional liberty, but they established peace and brought about a full reconciliation between the North and South, so that to-day [sic] the survivors of the Confederate cause vie with us in loyalty to the old flag and the old Union. Marvelous record! Only American freemen could accomplish so great a work.
The fundamental principles of our free government can never be changed. They are to a free state what the Ten Commandments are to the Church.
If anyone tells you that free government is a failure, and that the British constitutional monarchy is a better government, believe it not. If ambitious men tire of our peaceful ways and long for a military republic like France, heed them not. If the new generations, inspired by the stories of heroism and the undying fame of the soldiers of the Civil War, seek to become world-conquerors and to spread the Gospel, trade, and liberty by the sword, tell them that conquest is the policy of kings, not a free Republic.
What awful responsibility conscious strength and power involve! From a small Republic we have become a rich, prosperous, and puissant Nation, feared and respected, but not much loved by other nations. Shall we work out our own destiny on the lines of the past, or be allured by the siren-song of a manifest destiny which we cannot resist, to embark on the wide ocean of the old world's political and social complications? Weaklings and ambitious men see Providence and manifest destiny in any public movement which suits their views and purposes. Strong nations, like strong men, shape their own destinies.
In relief of an oppressed people, struggling for liberty, almost in sight of our shores, we have waged a successful war with Spain. Manila and Santiago have added new victories and 'full high advanced' our flag and place among the nations. That war is ended, but the terms of peace have involved us in another. The time to question the statesmanship which produced this unfortunate complication is past. The war is upon us. The honor, dignity, and prestige of the Nation are involved. We cannot now retreat. Law and order must be re-established in the Philippines. It must be done vigorously and effectively. When it is done, perplexing problems will present themselves to the sober judgment of the American people. Their true solution must be found in strict adherence to the great principles and traditions of the Republic, unless the soldiers and sailors whose patriotic deeds this column commemorates fought in vain.
Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Loyal Legion: Year by year our ranks grow thinner. Our steps even now are too slow to grace the triumphal procession of modern heroes. We have fought our battles and had our triumphs.
'Soon, soon, will the fondest be forgotten,
And his name from the earth pass away.'
But long after this stately column of granite and bronze shall have crumbled in the dust the heroism of your deeds and the fame of your achievements will be an inspiration to all peoples fighting the battles of freedom.
1. A Glorious Day: Yesterday's Monument Unveiling a Great Success: Gov. Stone's Taking Little Speech: Praise for Dr. Baer's Oration. Colonel Shaw Grows Eloquent and General Stewart's Windup Pleases Everybody. Monument Now in Allentown's Care, in The Allentown Leader. Allentown: 20 October 1889.
2. Baer, George Frederick. The Unveiling of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, in Addresses and Writings of George F. Baer: Including His Argument before the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission: Collected by his Son-in-law William N. Appel. Lancaster: Self-published by William N. Appel, 1916.
3. The Reading Presidency: George F. Baer Confirms Announcement That He Will Soon Become Head of the Reading Interests, in New York Times. New York: 1 April 1901.


Our team that takes pride in all we do, representing buyers and sellers, we want to make sure all your real estate experiences are smooth and enjoyable.
With a combination of over 25 years of real estate experience, 22 years of military experience and over 40 years of sales experience, we were missing one thing, the ability to be available for our clients at all times. By using our team, there is always someone available to address any real estate questions or concerns you may have.
Have a Question About Real Estate in Garner, Raleigh, Durham, Cary, or anywhere in the Triangle?
Looking for a career in Real Estate? Whether you are already an agent, looking to start your career, or ready to switch careers and join the best real estate brokerage in the Triangle area, we are always looking for great agents to join our company. Do you pass the "Dorothy" test? Tell us if you have the heart, brains and courage to work with us. We believe if you have these three traits, plus a bit of magic, you will fit right in and succeed!
Why work at Our Re/Max Southland Realty II Real Estate Team?
We represent our client's interests with the highest level of professionalism, intelligence and integrity.
We have been voted the best Realtor by Triangle New Homes magazines and recently ranked in the top 25 teams nationwide by the Wall Street Journal.
We work diligently to ensure all our agents are successful. Their success and their clients' success equals our success.
We like to have fun... a lot of fun. Why work this hard unless you are passionate about what you do?!
That's just the beginning. There are a million reasons to join our company. But how about you tell us about yourself. Contact us and tell us, Why you? And we'll tell you more about, Why Us?!


The preparation of graphene suspensions in water, without detergents or any other additives is achieved using freeze-dried graphene powders, produced by mechanochemical exfoliation of graphite. These powders of graphene can be safely stored or shipped, and promptly dissolved in aqueous media. The suspensions are relatively stable in terms of time, with a maximum loss of ∼25% of the initial concentration at 2 h. This work provides an easy and general access to aqueous graphene suspensions of chemically nonmodified graphene samples, an otherwise (almost) impossible task to achieve by other means. A detailed study of the stability of the relative dispersions is also reported.


Third Grade Winter Party: The party is scheduled for December 21 at 1:30pm. Our Classroom Mom, Mrs. Nair sent out an email this week about the party, the supplies and volunteers needed to make this party a success! The link to help out and sign up is HERE.
December's Scholastic Book Orders: Get your child the gift of reading for the holidays. Place your orders online - Your Class Activation Code NP79X. The link to order is HERE. Order from any of the online flyers! Thank you for all your amazing support and online orders are due December 9th.
Writing: We are still in our Expository writing and informational research unit. This week our focus was on writing summaries using cause and effect information we gathered from the book A River Runs Wild. We also worked on some writing conventions: Verb Tenses (Past, Present, Future). We will begin to write our expository essays next week.
Reading: Our current unit is Informational Text (nonfiction reading). We reviewed the Main Idea/Supporting Details reading strategy this week. We also discussed the Cause and Effect reading strategy as it applied to the book A River Ran Wild and the passage Benefits of Walking Around The Block. Next week, we will learn and practice the Compare and Contrast reading strategy.
Math: We are deep into our Fraction unit. We reviewed how to represent fractions in a Fraction Area Model, Fraction Set Model, and Fraction Pie Model. This week our main focus was to read and understand fractions on a number line and how to solve fraction word problems. There is no unit test for Fractions, it will be combined into the next DCA with Multiplication/Division. We will start our next unit, Division next week. Our test for Fractions/Division/Multiplication will be December 15 or 18th.
Science: We completed our Forces, Gravity, Magnetism and Motion unit with a test on Wednesday this week. The kids overall did well on it considering I thought the test was pretty difficult. We started our new unit Landforms and Earth's Forces (Volcanos/Earthquakes/Landslides). There are links for additional practice under the "Science Links" tab. My hope is to have the test on December 19 or 20th.
Social Studies: We have started a Maps unit. We completed a small booklet on Maps & Globes this week. We will continue to practice reading maps and creating maps next week.


The English football player John Terry playing for the London Chelsea has finished career. He declared it in the Instagram. "After 23 improbable years in soccer I have decided that time to stop playing has now come" — he has written, having accompanied record with the photo in which he holds a cup of the English Premier League. In September the 37-year-old defender has rejected the offer to pass into Russian Spartak. Financial disagreements — according to media became a cause of failure, Terry wanted to receive from "red-white" 1,9 million euros for the season rest. As a part of the London Chelsea of Terry five times I became the champion of England. The football player also won a cup of the Champions League together with team. Long time of Terry brought Londoners in the field with a captain's bandage. It is more than important news in Film of Day Telegram-channel. Subscribe!