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Part of long-vacant Oaks Hotel property to get new owner
By Rosemary McCoy
G&D Viking Glass is planning to build a warehouse, shop and office on part of the former Oaks Hotel property in northwest Sioux Falls.
G&D Viking Glass made a deal to buy almost half of the 8-acre property on the southwest corner of Maple Street and Westport Avenue, contingent on the rezoning, said Travis Duncan, one of four partners in the business.
The City Council is expected to vote on the zoning change in October.
"As soon as we get that last approval, we'll start construction," he said. "That should take six to seven months."
The 24,000-square-foot building will replace the current location at 1417 A Ave. in the industrial area south of the airport.
"We've just outgrown this place," Duncan said.
The business, which does mostly commercial glass installation and some residential work, has been on A Avenue since it started in 1999, he said.
G&D Viking Glass has a staff of 20, and 14 of those employees do the installations, working in a 150- to 200-mile radius of Sioux Falls, Duncan said.
David Graham owns the former Oaks Hotel property. The hotel closed in 2008, and it was demolished in 2012. He hoped to build two hotels there, but plans never materialized.
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Health is the amount of damage that any person or creature can take before dying. It is equivalent to the hit points (HP) used in other games.
The amount of health you have depends on your character's level. Each time you level up, you can choose whether to add ten points to your health or to one of your other attributes.
Your health attribute can be increased using a Glyph of Health's effects. Enchantments are particularly useful, since they have a constant effect. With spells, potions, and provisions, care is needed when relying on Fortify Health effects that will end in the middle of combat. When the effect expires, you will immediately lose all the bonus health, potentially killing your character.
Argonians, Imperials, Nords, and Orcs have a higher maximum health than other races, and Khajiit, Nords, and Orcs have faster health recovery.
Health slowly regenerates over time. You regenerate faster outside of combat than during combat. Most NPCs do not regenerate health during combat.
Your health regeneration rate can be increased by Regenerate Health effects, including potions and enchanted items.
From potions that can be found or purchased.
From custom potions created through alchemy.
Whenever your character levels up, your health is fully restored.
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Natural gas will be fastest growing fossil fuel.
Global gas demand to rise by 1.6 percent a year to 2040.
Coal to fall behind renewables in power generation mix.
Natural gas is expected to overtake coal as the world's second largest energy source after oil by 2030 due to a drive to cut air pollution and the rise in liquefied natural gas (LNG) use, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday.
The estimates are based on the IEA's "New Policies Scenario" that takes into account legislation and policies to reduce emissions and fight climate change.
"Natural gas is the fastest growing fossil fuel in the New Policies Scenario, overtaking coal by 2030 to become the second-largest source of energy after oil," the report said.
China, already the world's biggest oil and coal importer, would soon become the largest importer of gas and net imports would approach the level of the European Union by 2040, the IEA said.
According to Reuters calculations, based on China's General Administration of Customs data, China has already overtaken Japan as the world's top natural gas importer.
Although China is the world's third-biggest user of natural gas behind the United States and Russia, it has to import about 40 percent of its needs as local production cannot keep pace.
"Although talk of a global gas market similar to that of oil is premature, LNG trade has expanded substantially in volume since 2010 and has reached previously isolated markets," it said.
This trajectory was "far out of step" with what scientific knowledge says would be required to tackle climate change, the report said.


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Question: How much was the TV on in your home? Sometimes I feel like it hinders family bonding in the evenings, but I also understand the need to unwind and decompress from a busy day. Did you set any rules or limits on TV in the evenings? My children are 10, 8, 5, and 3. I do think the hardest one to convince on less TV is my husband though ;)
Brianne (and Spencer)
We didn't have time limits but no TV during family dinner, family home evening, or nightly story time.
What was different then was we were all watching the same TV together, usually pretty good stuff (even sitcoms taught ok lessons back then) and we could talk about the show. There wasn't an endless supply of channels so when the 5:00 news came on the kids were done, There might be 1hrs worth of stuff in the evening they liked. I didn't have to end TV time. The kids watched most of their TV in the kitchen while I cooked, cleaned, ironed right there with them-
Nowdays I think I'd just have Net Flix and still try to be around, and I guess with an endless supply of shows - I'd have to plan something to interrupt TV. Maybe play a hand of cards or get out the art supplies after the 2nd show and spend 15 minutes with them. That would be alot easier than just shutting off their entertainment and saying go find something else to do. After a few minutes of positive attention the next transitions would be to help me, or go play.
Marsha (and Richard)
I am not a TV watcher but my husband is. In fact, in an effort to limit the television watching in our home we have several times gone for long periods of time without a TV because it was just too much temptation for him. I know many men have that challenge. They come home in the evenings or weekends and they want to shut out all their employment concerns. It is a way of relaxation for them. For me, it is a distraction and interferes with my goals in the home.
The TV was not usually on in the mornings. Our children liked to play outside and enjoyed physical activity. We did not have DVR's or cable TV so they were stuck with whatever happened to be on at the time. We rarely watched it during the school week. In the evenings we would tune into a favorite show once or twice but it didn't' dominate our lives. One reason the children didn't watch much TV is that usually on Saturday afternoons when it was on, it was tuned to something my husband enjoyed. If that wasn't something the children wanted to watch, they found other things to do.
Children had to have their "jobs" done before they could play, so when they finished working, they usually had plans with friends. We didn't have TV games like Nintendo until later years and then it was a very simple version. They did play some of those games at friend's houses. Again, we had a big back yard and lots of children so it was easy to find playmates and to be active. We lived in a neighborhood where children were around and ready to play. During the school year evenings were taken up with homework, etc. and during the summer, there were trips, some camps, swim team and swimming activities throughout the day. We had a "quiet time" after lunch for a couple of hours where the children came in our of the heat and played games, read or watched TV. When it was over, about 2 p.m. they were ready to go out and play once again.
I really think the parents are the prime examples in TV watching. We only had one TV and it was in the basement. If anyone wanted to watch TV he went to the basement. I do know that in order to get help with dinner, etc. the TV had to be turned off. Whenever we didn't have TV there was far more family interaction and everyone was more inclined to be helpful. It makes a lot of difference.
We've never had a TV in the bedroom or the kitchen, only in the basement, away from the center of family activity. That has worked well for us.
Samantha and Thomas
We used the TV mostly for Sesame Street weekdays and movies on the weekend. Never during meals! It was off on Sunday, except for what we called "Sunday Movies"--Disney and inspirational stuff.
We tried not to use it as a babysitter, but occasionally it was necessary. Very little prime time stuff because it's so unpredictable standards-wise. Unwind time was after the kids were in bed, and we could go in our room and shut the door for some peace and quiet.
For a time we had a TV in our great room, but we found it was on too much. So we moved it to a side room that was close enough mom could hear and see it from the kitchen, but out of the way so the kids didn't like it, since it was away from the action.
The key is having other things to do--creative play (house, cowboys, star wars, etc), puzzles that take awhile, art stuff, piano, helping in the kitchen. It takes a while for kids to learn how to create their own "play" but they'll do it, if they don't have the TV for fall back.
Jane (and Samuel)
We always limited TV! Even had special cord plug ins that we hid. . The kids managed to find ways around our efforts...such as creating their own TV "keys". I am certain much more TV was watched after I went back to school and work. We only had one TV and that was in the Family Room. We never watched TV during meals. We had few video games....so kids went to their friends homes who were not as strict about TV as we were. That meant we had even less knowledge of what they were watching. My husband was too busy to watch much TV so that was not an issue. My children use "Media Time as a reward for accomplishing chores and practicing. I think that they use the technology well.
Karen and Lance
Didn't do a lot of monitoring as the children had a big yard to play in when they were younger and as they aged they had good friends. We had a 10 foot pool for them to invite their friends to use with them. They would rather play there than go to their friends homes that did have built in pools. Their friends preferred to come to our house for the pool. There wasn't that much on at that time to limit them in those days, 50's, 60's. Now we would have a lot more control. Out daughter allows 2 hours per day of TV during the school week, depending on the program. Homework was first and then TV or whatever. She really encouraged them to read. We did have FHE on Monday and since we had 5 boys, we were mostly watching games in the summer and too tired to watch TV that much. Try to keep them busy and "wear" them out during the day. If they are bored the TV or games are very tantalizing. When they are young they require more attention and fun times.
Abigail (and Martin)
We were very busy and didn't have a lot of time for television. I have noticed however, that programs today are not like programs when my children were young. We allowed some PBS shows and a few selected "fun" programs like, "Boy Meets World," and "Full House." Occasionally, we would watch a rented movie. In fact, Friday night was movie night and my husband could have the kids guess the movie, or made some sort of game about choosing from two different movies, sight unseen.
These days, I have been dismayed, and even shocked at some of the messages and themes in programs today. I overheard a topic on a show on the Disney channel that my seven year old grandson had on that seemed very "adult." I think the tV was just on and I'm pretty sure he wasn't really paying attention, but I was surprised that it was on what might be considered a 'Kids" show. I've been told that that particular channel is geared more for young teens, but I still felt the topic was inappropriate. My husband and I have felt compelled to stop watching series that we have enjoyed as the topics, themes and content have been somewhat crass and unsuitable. It was always a sign when our teenage son walked into the room and I felt the need to mute the program that it was time to stop watching it.
All in all, I don't think TV is all bad, but it should be monitored and limited. There are lots of other fun things to do to relax then sit in front of a screen.
Next week's question: How did you help your kids successfully make it through the pivotal early teen years (about age 12-15)?
The Hulls July 23, 2012 at 3:01 PM
Thank you for these comments. We too have many wide open spaces for the kids to be playing, and lots of cousins/friends to play with. It's off for meals and family night. Chores are done before play/tv...etc. It comforts me to hear you opinions and how you worked with it! It also helps me realize the bonding that comes along with watching it together. Thanks!
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Bertl's names Kyocera "office line of the year"
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced that Business Equipment Research & Test Laboratories, Inc. (BERTL), a leading independent testing laboratory for imaging devices and workflow solutions, honored Kyocera´s color and monochrome TASKalfa multifunctional product (MFP) series with its Spring 2012 "Best Office Line of the Year" award.
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The free event will run from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th April at Tate Modern, in the Tate Exchange area on the Fifth floor of their new Blavatnik building. You are welcome to come along any time between 12:00 and 17:00. You can let us know you're planning to attend via Eventbrite: www.age-allies-continuum.eventbrite.co.uk.
The three-day programme – titled 'Age/ncy' – will see a whole host of organisations set up installations, performances, and workshops to explore and celebrate the ageing experience.
'Age/ncy' offers an interactive space for us to reflect on perceptions of ageing and celebrate the profound sense of identity, community and independence that older people can access through art.
This unique event will feature a diverse programme of activities, from musical performances and physical theatre right through to parkour, stand-up comedy and even circus skills! So, drop-in and explore the idea of ageing as transition and examine the changes in identity that we all experience, whether young or old, as we travel across the life course!
'Age/ncy' has been organised by Flourishing Lives, a coalition of arts, health and wellbeing organisations taking a creative and aspirational approach to supporting richer, more independent lives for people over the age of 55. As a result, the 'Age/ncy' installation will include artists, community groups and organisations from across the Flourishing Lives coalition.
Age UK London has been offered a space at the Age/ncy workshop as part of our Age Allies programme, an ageism awareness project funded by the City Bridge Trust. Our Programme Officer Richard Norman has worked with his select group of Age Allies volunteers to create a workshop designed to help visitors reflect on their experience at the 'Age/ncy' display and to discuss how their views on ageing have changed as a result.
Visitors to the 'Age/ncy' installation will be guided by our specially-designed map, titled "Continuum". Continuum has been designed as an interactive 'board game' to help you move through the Age/ncy space. The hexagonal 'game board' tiles allow you to move across the room, inviting you to connect and participate in the activities while reflecting on your own experience of ageing. How you choose to sojourn through the space will be as individual as you are. It is a journey of self-discovery, offering you greater awareness of your assumptions and your potential.
Past, Present, Future - Take a moment to think about your own journey through life.
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Continuum Reflections - The final part of the journey: your chance to reflect on Age/ncy as a whole.
We want to hear how your journey through the Age/ncy workshop has changed the way you think about age, and to further explore your assumptions and understanding of ageing.
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Q: My button doesn't apear after the initial popup - Python Message Box I'm trying to make a little pop-up interface before my game to choose difficulties. The problem I'm having is that after I click yes on the first messagebox.askyesno() the whole pop up disappears and I have no idea on how to know which button was pressed to return an output. This is my first time using tkinter and messagebox so any help is greatly appreciated.
This is my code:
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import messagebox

def start_game():
    root = tk.Tk()
    root.attributes("-topmost", True)
    root.withdraw()
    if messagebox.askyesno("Welcome to Snake!", "Would you like to play?") == True:
        mainLabel = tk.Label(root, text='Choose a dificulty:')
        easy_ask = tk.Button(root, text='Easy')
        medium_ask = tk.Button(root, text='Medium')
        hard_ask = tk.Button(root, text='Hard')

        mainLabel.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
        easy_ask.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
        medium_ask.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
        hard_ask.pack(side=tk.LEFT)

    root.deiconify()
    root.destroy()
    root.quit()

    root.mainloop()

start_game()

A: What about an else statement ;-)? Consider what your code is doing: if you click 'Yes', it creates some Button on a main window that you have withdrawn. Then, immediately after you deiconify it, you destroy it. Reshuffle your code like follows:
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import messagebox

def start_game():
    root = tk.Tk()
    root.attributes("-topmost", True)
    root.withdraw()
    if messagebox.askyesno("Welcome to Snake!", "Would you like to play?") == True:
        root.deiconify()                    # <--- deiconify under the True condition
        mainLabel = tk.Label(root, text='Choose a dificulty:')
        easy_ask = tk.Button(root, text='Easy')
        medium_ask = tk.Button(root, text='Medium')
        hard_ask = tk.Button(root, text='Hard')

        mainLabel.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
        easy_ask.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
        medium_ask.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
        hard_ask.pack(side=tk.LEFT)
    else:
        root.destroy()                       # <--- destroy and quit under the False condition
        root.quit()

    root.mainloop()

start_game()

Note that you can also assign the outcome of messagebox.askyesno to a variable:
answer = messagebox.askyesno("Welcome to Snake!", "Would you like to play?")

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Q: I need help with the generalized chain rule I know how to apply the generalized chain rule for functions of this type:
$z = u^2 + v^2$, $u = x^2y$ and $v = xy$
$\frac{\partial z}{\partial u} = \frac{\partial z}{\partial u}\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}
+\frac{\partial z}{\partial v}\frac{\partial v}{\partial x}$ etc.
I came across a function of this type:
$z = f(u, v)$, $u = x^2y^2$ and $v = 5x + 1$
Because of the $f(u,v)$, I don't know how to proceed! Anyone could give me a hint on how
to find partial derivatives of this function? What is it that I don't understand?
Thanks!

A: If there is no other information on $f$, just keep it as is and proceed. Of course, you'll end up with terms containing $\frac{\partial f}{\partial u}$ and others, $\frac{\partial f}{\partial v}$.
The question does not seem to imply any need to go further. Just obtain the "general form" of the answer.


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2021-12-10 20:19 Part 2
Describe an activity you do after school or work
This episode's vocabulary
Routine (noun) - a usual or fixed way of doing things.
Regime (noun) - particular way of operating or organizing a business, etc.
To ramp sth up (phrasal verb) - to increase the speed, power, or cost of something.
Consistent (adj.) - always behaving or happening in a similar, especially positive, way.
To compliment (verb) - to praise or express admiration for someone.
Demanding (adj.) - needing a lot of time, attention, or energy/always behaving or happening in a similar, especially positive, way.
Self-discipline (noun) - the ability to make yourself do things you know you should do even when you do not want to.
M: Now, Rory here from Scotland, is gonna talk about an activity he does after school or work. He's going to say what it is, where he does it, who he does it with, and he's going to explain how he feels about it. Rory, give us a shout out. Are you ready?
R: Yes.
M: Off you go.
R: Well, it's not every day, but it's regular enough to be like that. And actually, the whole routine takes up my entire week. So I'll go with that. I have an exercise and nutrition routine or regime, I suppose, that I follow every week. That usually involves going to the gym, and also the swimming pool, because there's a swimming pool next to the gym, where I go. I just go by myself, which is probably for the best, since it's quite a detailed and complicated set of instructions and measurements I have to follow. So that's quite important that I keep my concentration. Like I say, it's a regime in every sense of the word. In more detail every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening, after university or work, I go to the gym and follow the instructions set out by my old personal trainer. There's usually a different set of machines and weights to use every day. And this ramps up over the course of the month. There are two key exceptions to this. In the first week of the four, I have to take some lighter exercises and dial the weight back to under a little more, sorry, back to a little under that which I did before. And then in the fourth week, I go to do the same full-body set for each of the three days at a higher weight ratio than before. After all the workouts, regardless of, well, whichever machines I've used, I go to the gym, and then I walk home. Alongside this, I have a smaller set of less intense workouts that I do at home, and I have a diet that I keep pretty consistent to compliment all of my efforts elsewhere. I imagine that sounds quite demanding. But once you get into it's actually quite nice. And you learn to enjoy the process and the progress that you make. In terms of how I feel about it, obviously, if I could take a magic pill instead of spending all that time working out, then I would, but I've learned to enjoy the self-discipline of it all and the results, of course. It's been well worth the effort so far.
M: What about your friends? Do they do anything like that?
R: I have one friend who comes close, but he's a lot more knowledgeable about this than I am. So I suppose he spends less time on it.
M: Thank you, Rory! That was a lovely answer!
M: So, dear listener, the card, the cue card, as they call it. Describe an activity you do after work or school. So if you go to school, then you go home and then you do something. You work, you go home, you do something. Here, the activity should be quite specific. So Rory talked about his workouts. So he does it pretty much every day after work.
R: I'm cheating a bit because it's like a set of activities rather than one activity itself. But it's happening in the same place, so...
M: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like going to the gym as an activity, right. So working out as an activity is possible. What activities can our listener talk about, that they do after school or work?
R: Well, I mean, not like, I imagine not everybody is as ridiculous with this as me. Most people, you know, they come home and maybe they play video games, or they'll read a book, or they'll make the dinner. This kind of thing.
M: Yes. So cooking.
R: So you could take more pedestrian activities. I just picked one because I don't... There's not really anything I do after work or university that's the same every day. So I was just sort of like, what am I supposed to talk about here? So I find something close. And I went with that. And I did explain like, this isn't exactly what you were looking for. But it's the closest thing I've got. Which is what you would say in a normal conversation, isn't it? You'd be like, oh, I don't have anything like that. But the closest thing if you really want to know is this thing.
M: Yes. Yeah. So you can talk about like your free time activity. Something you do regularly, not every day, but kind of regularly. Because again, describe an activity you do after work or school. What about the weekend? Yeah? So it should be like during the weekdays then.
R: Yeah.
M: Can I talk about watching Netflix? Is it an activity?
R: Yeah, but I don't really know what you would say about that for two minutes. Like I watch Netflix, there's shows on there.
M: Yeah, describe your favorite show, describe the characters. But again, if you can do it, right. And you can talk about your feelings, how you unwind. Sleeping. Can I talk about sleeping in my dreams as an activity?
R: If you remember your dreams, then yes, but not many people do
M: So something like, okay, cooking, doing sports, playing video games, reading. So, dear listener, now choose an activity, but choose an activity that you can talk about. Because depending on this activity, you need to use specific vocabulary for a high score. For example, Rory talked about his workouts in the gym. And he used very specific words to describe these activities. For example, you said that you have an exercise and nutrition routine?
R: Yes. So exercise is obviously, the actions but nutrition is just the eating that you do to support the actions.
M: Wait, what about all the McDonald's that you eat? Or you ate in Moscow?
R: That was part of it.
M: Oh, really? McDonald's was part of the diet?
M: Does your trainer know?
R: Yes, she actually encouraged it. So blame her, if you want to blame somebody for my rubbish diet. Or formally rubbish.
M: Really? Are you joking?
R: I have a little better diet now. It's not obvious. It doesn't sound like that from my voice, because I have a cold right now. But I do.
M: Okay, how is McDonald's part of the nutrition routine, and diet, and exercise?
R: Well, we were talking about bulking and everything. And so because McDonald's is quite calorie-dense, then that was quite a good idea. But since now that's no longer required. Obviously, I don't eat McDonald's all the time.
M: Because he doesn't have any McDonald's up there in Scotland.
R: We do. We have McDonald's. There's one up the road from my house. But I'm not going there. Because first of all, I'm not eating rubbish anymore. And second of all, it's a long way to walk and I can't be bothered.
M: Right. So I order McDonald's to get delivered to my home. Because I can't be bothered to go there. And Rory stopped eating McDonald's. Interesting. McDonald's, please sponsor our podcast. Give us your money. Rory, we'll start eating McDonald's. So, then you go, like, go to the gym, and swimming pool. Regime. It's a regime.
R: Yes. So like a regime, it's not like a program, which is seen as part of your life. Regime is like overarching. It pervades everything. So we usually talk about like a government, especially an over... What's the word?
M: Authoritarian.
R: Over authoritarian one, overly authoritarian one being a regime, but you can also have a regime for working out which is also pervading your life quite a lot.
M: Interesting, because in Russian, we have a very similar word regime. Regime.
R: Regime. It means the same thing?
M: Yeah, yeah. Also, we can say, military regime.
R: Yeah, it's the same idea.
M: Then you go, in more detail every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday after university or work, I go to the gym. Yeah? So you can say the days or every weekday after work I do this. I follow the instructions laid out by my personal trainer. That's a nice one. The instructions laid out by somebody.
R: Yeah. So if something is laid out by someone, it just means that they show you step by step how things are going to work.
M: Then Rory used a very specific vocabulary about being in the gym. So you said like machines, we call them different machines. You know, these thingies.
R: Very specific word.
M: Yeah, they're not like things or like, well, they, we call them machines, machines. And also you say weights.
R: Weights. So the weights are the things that you lift.
M: You lift. Oh, yeah, you lift weights. You also said ramps.
R: Oh, it's a phrasal verb, I think. Ramps up.
M: Oh, ramps up, ramps up. Okay. Okay. Yeah.
R: Which just means to say that it increases, although I should point out because it's phrasal verb you shouldn't really use this in your IELTS essay to describe any graphs or something like that.
M: Yeah, true, true. So you can say the weights are used every day ramp up.
R: Yeah. So, oh, no, the weights, the weights I use everyday ramp up.
M: Yes, the weights ramp up. So I kind of increase the weight of the weights, Jesus.
R: Why is that so hard?
M: You see a very specific. Well, but it's kind of like you increase the weight of the weights. Come on. How isn't this hard? The weight of the weights.
R: That's not hard. It's separated by like what, a preposition and an article. You could say that just fine. It's not like I had.
M: Yeah, yeah, true, true. So you lift weights in the gym.
R: Try to.
M: You use different machines or a set of machines. I go to the swimming pool or I go swimming. And after all the workouts, I go to the swimming pool, for example, yeah. Then you can say, like, less intense workouts or more intense workouts. Have a diet. Yeah? So follow a nutrition routine, have a diet.
R: To have a diet.
M: I really enjoyed when you said about a magic pill.
R: Yes, if I could take a magic pill instead of doing this. Oh, what is that? It's if.
M: And it's the second conditional.
R: Is it the second conditional? If I could I would.
M: It is a second conditional. Yeah, if I could, yeah. Because Rory cannot take a magic pill and make the gym disappear. No, he's imagining. If I could take a magic pill instead of spending all this time working out. A phrasal verb, to work out, to do exercise, I would do it. So really, like if you could avoid going to the gym you would? So you don't enjoy the process much?
R: Well, I like the process because there's a process and you follow it and it works. But if I didn't have to do it, and if I could spend my time doing something more, I don't know, economically productive, then I would.
M: Yeah, it does take a lot of time. And you do it like three times a day. Wow.
R: No, three times a week.
M: Three times, sorry. Three times a day.... Three times a week. So for example, one workout in the gym, and then the swimming pool. How much does it take?
R: It's not actually that bad. It's like two hours. But when you think about it, you have to move between and rest and things like that. So it's not like it's constant.
M: Yes, so you can say that I've learned to enjoy the self-discipline. So yep, self-discipline. Following all the instructions laid out by a personal trainer. Okay. And you can say it's been well worth the effort. It's well worth the effort.
R: Yeah, so that just means that it's been worthwhile, or it's been a good idea to do the thing as intensely as it has been done. So like you could say, it's well worth whatever, well worth the money, well worth the effort, well worth the time. But that just means it's worthwhile.
M: Yeah. You told us about something productive, about something healthy, but also about something active. Do you think like most people do something like that after school or work, or they just prefer to do nothing? Or just Netflix, video games, just you know, social media?
R: Yeah, but you could still talk about it using some of the structure involved and just say, well, you, like start off with well, it's almost every day, or, well, this is as close as I can get to, and then like in more detail to explain more about it. And then alongside this, something that you might do at the same time, for example, and then to explain about your feelings in terms of how you feel about it. So there's still stuff here that you could use, even if you don't do the same thing.
M: Yeah, when you choose an activity, make sure that you actually can describe it. Don't choose an activity that you have no idea what to say about and you don't know the lexis.
R: But hopefully we've given you an idea of what to say.
M: Thank you so much! And we'll see you in the next episode!
R: Yes, we're gonna keep talking about activities. Bye!
M: Bye!
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Adams Leaves with a Legacy
Steven Kellow	 August 28th, 2014 - 6:39 pm Football	Ross County, Scottish Football
Derek Adams' reign at the helm of Ross County came to an end today, as he and his father George (the Director of Football at the club) were sacked. As sad as it is to see the man who is surely the club's most successful manager in history leave, I think it's the right decision and I'm glad that chairman Roy McGregor has made the tough call to part ways. When it comes to football clubs, the main concern has to be success on the — Read more →
Salmond v Darling – Round 2
Steven Kellow	 August 26th, 2014 - 8:40 pm Politics	Independence Referendum
First Minister Alex Salmond and Better Together Chairman Alistair Darling squared off last night in their last scheduled debate before the Scottish independence referendum in just 24 days' time. After the first debate, where Alistair Darling won, the second was seen as a pivotal moment in the campaign – and perhaps make or break for the Yes side who were sitting behind in the polls. Fortunately for those of a Yes persuasion, Alex Salmond came out and delivered a far more convincing case for independence — Read more →
My Summer Projects
Steven Kellow	 August 22nd, 2014 - 10:38 am Personal, Technology
The summer's nearly over, which is strange considering it feel like it only just begun not too long ago, but that also means that I'm able to share what I've been developing at my work – and I'm proud of it. First up is the new OnlineTEFLCourses website. OnlineTEFLCourses allows people from all over the world to train to teach English as a Foreign Language. The brand launched in December 2012, but since then the website and brand had remained largely unchanged and was in — Read more →
Why I'm Voting Yes
Steven Kellow	 August 18th, 2014 - 10:00 am Personal, Politics	Independence Referendum
A month from today the people of Scotland will finally be given the chance to declare whether or not they should become independent. It will be a monumentally important day in the history of the country, building upon centuries' worth of struggle to give us the opportunity to make our democratic wishes heard. Polls suggest that it's going to be close, and it's still there for both Yes Scotland and Better Together to win (or lose). After years of thinking about the issue though, I've — Read more →
Fantasy Football 2014-15
Steven Kellow	 August 14th, 2014 - 2:02 pm Football, Personal	Fantasy Football
After the excitement of the Scottish league starting, the next stage in football's emergence from hibernation is the English Premier League's kick-off this Saturday. Even though I don't particularly support any one club in England, I still can't deny that it is the league that produces the most exciting games and where you will likely find the best football week-in, week-out. My interest in English football was keener than ever before last year as I took part in Sky Sports' Fantasy Football for the first — Read more →


Nor is it a stranger to State College. However, over the last year, several events, including the death of one student and a recent pedestrian crash involving another, have brought the issue into the public forum.
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Sims said next year the university will begin a one-on-one counseling program called Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students for students who have been involved in legal troubles, and this summer will be discussing if increasing university sanctions for students would be appropriate.
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Meanwhile, on the community side, State College Police Chief Tom King said discussions are under way with state legislators to craft a bill that would increase fines for minor crimes.
However, King noted that drafting the bill, having it introduced and having it pass as a law are several different things.
Other ideas presented at the forum included increasing town-gown relations through events, or programs; having students repair damage they have caused; and trying to market responsible drinking as a social norm, to change the way students perceive partying.
Moderator Cynthia Berger noted that the problem is not one that is in State College alone — communities around the nation are also having the same discussion.
She also later noted that based on the conversation Sunday evening, whatever the answer is, it must be a holistic one, encompassing all of the stakeholders involved — town and gown.
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Q: How to track clicks on Links using GTM I have an ads campaign and I don't know from where users came to my website and
How can I know which one of those links users click must
www.example.com/twitter

www.example.com/whatsapp

www.example.com/linkdIn

www.example.com/<this will be the source name>

I want to know which link users came from using GTM.
All links must open on the landing page.
Thanks.

A: You don't really need GTM to track click source. The GA script translates certain query parameters to traffic source dimensions automatically. Those query parameters are called UTM parameters. Here's the documentation on how they're mapped to GA data.
You can use the url builder tool to generate a url if you find it difficult to figure out the proper syntax.
Basically, you just generate a link to your landing, embedding there the information about the source and then you post the link on the said source. And you carefully do that for all sources.
Sure, GA also tracks the referrer, but TLS will eraze the query params of the referrer, so it may be much more awkward to use to determine the source, but GA already tries to parse the referrers to determine the source automatically, when no utm params are set. UTMs will override the automatic referrer logic.
Finally, GTM. GTM is powerful. It allows you to do more than that. For example, it's able to override the above described logic and set the source, medium, keyword, even referrer, using JS. Ultimately, mostly because of GTM's ability to deploy custom JS, it is possible to override any field in tracking and add extra fields.


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Q: Symfony2 - Prevent a form input from displaying I created two entities User (that contains email, password, username) and Profile(avatar...)
in the UserType:
public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
    $builder
        ->add('username')
        ->add('password', 'password')
        ->add('email', 'email')
    ;
}

and in the ProfileType:
public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
    $builder
        ->add('avatar')
        ->add('city')
        ->add('country', 'country')
        ->add('firstName')
        ->add('lastName')
        ->add('address')
        ->add('mobile')
        ->add('phone')
        ->add('user', new UserType($this->get('security.context')->getToken()->getUser()))
    ;
}

Is there is a way to not display the password in the profile when the user want to edit his/her infos ?
PS: Is it a great way to separate the User entity from the Profile ?

A: You  can achieve this via FormEvents. Something like this:
public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
    $user = $this->user;

    $builder
        ->add('username')
        ->add('password', 'password')
        ->add('email', 'email');

    $builder->addEventListener(FormEvents::POST_SET_DATA, function(FormEvent, $event) use ($user){
        $data = $event->getData(); // NULL or an instance of User object

        if ( $data && $data->getId() == $user->getId()){
            $event->getForm()->remove('password');
        }
    });
}

If you want to read more about dynamic forms, you could kind a lot of information in official docs.


Ireland's first ever Toastie Festival!
Will it be love at first bite? Hosted by our much admired Harbour Bar crew this festival is a definite DATE FOR YOUR DIARIES!! The festie is an unadulterated celebration one of Ireland's classics, the humble ham and cheese toastie… we can't wait!
There will be the classic ham and cheese offerings throughout the festival alongside some different & adventurous fillings to try, plus free tea top ups ! Visitors can grab a seat by one of the Harbour Bar's roaring fires or cosy up out front for outside service. Kid & dog friendly.
If you feel the need to earn your toastie then the Greystones to Bray cliff walk might just be the excuse you need!


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New Ceramics
May 14 - June 19, 2021
Works Video Installation Views Press Release Artists
Super Girl, 2021
Variations on a Square (Yellow, Blue, Black), 2020
19 x 17.5 x 15 inches
Oval with Black Flowers, 2020
Wabi-sabi Triple Gourd (Red, Blue, Violet), 2021
Glazed ceramic and gold resin
Contrapposto, 2021
21 x 9 x 8 inches
Wabi-sabi Skinny Square, 2021
25 x 8 x 20 inches
Double Gourd (Primary Triad), 2020
17.5 x 14 x 14 inches
17.5 x 21.5 x 20 inches
5 x 4.75 x 3.5
5 x 4.25 x 4.25
5.5 x 5 x 5 inches
Glazed ceramics
7.5 x 7.75 x 5.75 inches
9 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches
5.75 x 4.5 x 3.5 inches
May 14–June 19, 2021
CHICAGO, IL—Rhona Hoffman Gallery is happy to present an exhibition of new ceramics by Judy Ledgerwood (b. Indiana, 1959), a series of vessel forms featuring the artist's signature quatrefoil motif whose seductive impasto surfaces confront the superficiality of décor. Like the elaborately braided hairstyles that adorned caryatids—columns carved into the shape of goddesses, to prevent their necks from breaking under the weight of the stone entablatures upon their heads—the ornamentation in Ledgerwood's works are both structural and embellished. Viewed in the round, the artist's fragile yet durable objects resist definitions of craft and challenge comfortable categorization as either sculpture or painting. Hovering between the decorative and the utilitarian, each of the ceramics' colorful gilding articulates the patterns that are often portrayed in Ledgerwood's large-scale, wall-based paintings.
What we know of culture—of human history, the remains of daily life—we often know from ceramics. Objects of functional storage, ritual, devotion, and art made of wet earth once passed through a fire and now they tell us stories. For Ledgerwood, this recent body of work departs from the more conventional vase forms featured in previous exhibitions shown alongside her paintings. Installed upon a low pedestal, the six vessels compose a figurative garden through which our eyes weave around their masses.
Their exteriors are brightly keyed; hues of ultramarine, carbon, and oxide are set against primarily monochromatic backdrops, at times in gradients of yellow or milky white. The inner lip of each reveals a color that fades into the shadow of the cavern. Before being fired, the surfaces appear like frescoes—the dusty veil that results from pigment binding with plaster. After the firing process, the loose grid of shallow carved diamonds, thickly squeezed flowers, and patchwork line drawings coalesce beneath a glossy shine.
Variations on the quatrefoil symbol—a geometric pattern once found in art and medieval architecture in the Gothic and later Renaissance periods—have underpinned Ledgerwood's work over the last decades. Throughout her work, the artist's emphatic permutations of the floral pattern have surrendered to the imperfections of the hand, wavering in proportion and scale. While at times cubic in volume, many of the forms that carry this pattern quote the shape of a double gourd vase, a symbol of fertility developed during the Song Dynasty (960–1271 AD), as well as other eastern traditions of pottery.
In two of the objects, metallic lines of gold are drawn along haphazard cracks of the vessel's surface - reparative technique known as the Japanese art of 'kintsugi.' The visual trace of this mending, a beautification in place of what would conventionally be considered a 'flaw,' instead critically draw our attention to their lustrous exteriors. Ledgerwood engages with this history of craft, further echoed in the gestural marks upon the surfaces of the vessels in destabilized veils of mark making, draping over their concave curves like tapestries.
Weaving together elements of historical pattern, the portrayal of female sexuality abounds in Ledgerwood's works. Their scale prevents any one object from feeling 'empty,' a term that is often grafted onto the metaphor of women as entities that need to be filled. As individual forms, as well as in their collective presentation, Ledgerwood's ceramics express a corpus that is inventive and resonant with the artist's pattern-based logic.
-Stephanie Cristello


Plessey has developed its proprietary 2D planar GaN-on-Si process to emit Green light without the need for colour conversion techniques.
To produce Green light, LED manufacturers typically apply phosphors or quantum dot conversion materials to native Blue LEDs. These materials then convert short wavelength, typically 450nm, Blue light to Red or Green wavelengths with typically 10 percent to 30 percent efficiency.
Plessey's native Green LEDs are formed inherently using its proprietary GaN-on-Si epitaxial growth process similar to the native Blue LEDs with the principal difference coming in the amount of indium that is incorporated in the quantum well structures of the LED.
With no colour conversion losses, the native Green emission is orders of magnitude times brighter than colour converted process for microLEDs. With a dominant Green wavelength of 530nm and a full width half maximum wavelength of 31nm the Green is well suited for colour displays. Additionally, the Green emission exhibits outstanding wavelength stability versus current density.


A BART worker tries to prevent demonstrators from stopping a train from leaving in San Francisco, California.
(CNN) -- Transit officials in San Francisco reopened all downtown subway stations Monday evening after successively opening and closing them to stem the threat of spreading protests.
"All BART Stations are Now Open, Trains Running On Time," said a release from Bay Area Rapid Transit.
The situation was fluid most of the evening, with officials trying to thwart demonstrators, closing and reopening the Civic Center and Montgomery stations, closing the Powell station, then at least partially reopening Powell to allow riders to disembark.
Police officers in response gear stood at the Civic Center station, with one officer on a megaphone telling people, "This is your final warning, the station is closed."
On the streets, small groups of protesters could be seen gathering to criticize BART after several shootings involving its police officers -- the latest coming last month and resulting in the death of 45-year-old Charles Hill.
Meanwhile, an official with the system stood by the decision to shut off cell phone service ahead of a protest last week.
The decision Thursday to "temporarily interrupt ... service at select BART stations as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform" drew widespread criticism and stirred the well-known hacking group Anonymous to stage an "operation" Sunday. The group urged those supporting its cause to attend a "peaceful protest" at 5 p.m. Monday at the system's Civic Center stop.
"What we're going to do is take the appropriate steps within the Constitution," he said. "There are more constitutional rights than just free speech. There is the right to be safe."
Last week's protest never materialized. But the decision to cut cell service elicited fresh condemnations from civil liberty organizations, the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial page and others.
"All over the world people are using mobile devices to organize protests against repressive regimes, and we rightly criticize governments that respond by shutting down cell service, calling their actions anti-democratic and a violation of the rights to free expression and assembly," Rebecca Farmer from the ACLU's northern California office wrote on the advocacy group's website. "Are we really willing to tolerate the same silencing of protest here in the United States?"
Online messages attributed to Anonymous took credit for the apparent hacking Sunday of myBART.org, a link off BART's website that showed a page featuring, among other items, the hacking group's logo -- a smirking mask above two crossed swords, all on a black background.
In addition, Twitter traffic related to Anonymous boasted that hackers had been able to get into BART's internal network. Several related items and documents were posted, including one claiming to be "the User Info Database of MyBart.gov." This had e-mails and, in some cases, phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of people.
"By (cutting cell service), you have not only threatened your citizens' safety, you have also performed an act of censorship," a seemingly computer-generated voice -- speaking over dramatic music and images -- said in a video posted online Sunday afternoon. "By doing this, you have angered Anonymous."
The Federal Communications Commission is collecting information on the matter, with agency spokesman Neil Grace saying Monday by e-mail that "any time communications services are interrupted, we seek to assess the situation."
"We ... will be taking steps to hear from stakeholders about the important issues those actions raised, including protecting public safety and ensuring the availability of communications networks," said Grace.
Yet on Monday, Johnson emphatically stood by BART's move, made on the same day British Prime Minister David Cameron proposed a crackdown on social media to quell riots.
"We made a gut-wrenching decision that was forced upon us by the protesters," Johnson said. "They made us choose between people's ability to use their mobile phones (and) their constitutional right to get from point A to point B."


Presented by CyberScoop, DC CyberWeek is a SXSW-style, city-wide festival taking place October 15-19 in our nation's capital. The festival brings together thousands of leaders, experts and decision-makers from the cybersecurity community and features dozens of community conferences, events and parties, open to all participants.
The 9th Annual ROADTRIP! is an exciting and innovative full immersion Leadership Experiencethat is designed to empower undergraduate members of Culturally-Based Fraternal Organizations (CBFOs) (Asian, Black, Latino/a, and Multicultural) undergraduate students with an interest in learning more about these organizations (and how to work more effectively with them) and student service professionals and advisors who work closely with these groups.
Never before has there been an opportunity where African-American owned Spirit, Wine, and Beer brands have been unified in one place for a single common ground. The Black Owned Wine & Spirits Festival will lay a foundation of commerce and education that will inspire and propel a movement towards the widespread support of Black owned Spirits, Wine and Beer.
The Prio Bangla (a Non- Profit Organization) with supporting by Arlington County and recognized by the Virginia Governor is hosting the 7th annual Multicultural Street Festival for the large various ethnics' community here in Arlington, Virginia.
La Clinica del Pueblo is celebrating 35 years with the community! We couldn't think of a better way to express who we are than to spend it with all of those who make our mission come to life each and every day.
You'll have the chance to sample premium wine to your heart's content, while live entertainment keep the party lively during this one of a kind experience.
Join Taffi Dollar and host pastor, Cynthia Brazelton for Taffi Talks - Maryland! This dynamic, one-day event will be held at Victory Christian Ministries International in Suitland, MD.
Hurricane Maria caused over $125 billion of dollars in damages to Puerto Rico and left 3.4 million residents without electric power, potable water, and telecommunications. Recovery is estimated to take years.
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference is one of the largest yearly events hosted in the Nation's Capital!
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Cardiff Half sold out in record time!
The Cardiff University Cardiff Half Marathon has sold out in record time.
A total of 27,500 runners will flood the streets of the Welsh capital for the nation's largest mass-participation and charity fundraising event on Sunday 4 October after general entries were snapped up in just over 100 days after going on sale.
The 2020 race smashed the standard set last year by three months as Cardiff's reputation as a world-class sporting destination continues to grow.
The introduction of the SuperHalfs running series has attracted a new wave of international participants, with runners signed up from all over Europe and beyond set to take their place on the start line in the shadow of Cardiff Castle.
The inaugural SuperHalfs series begins in Lisbon this March before landing in Prague, Copenhagen, Cardiff and Valencia. Thousands of runners will aim to complete all five races in up to 36 months to earn themselves SuperRunner status, a SuperMedal and a space in the hall of fame.
Run 4 Wales Chief Executive Matt Newman, said: "We're delighted to see that the popularity of the Cardiff University Cardiff Half Marathon continues to grow year on year. It goes to show how much people from across the UK and beyond want to experience Wales' largest mass participation event and our fantastic capital city.
"SuperHalfs will give committed runners and experience seekers a new opportunity to see the world while doing what they love. It's a big victory for not only runners, but the cities themselves. A new wave of running tourists will flock to each city, while the sustainability pledge made by each host paves the way for a more eco-friendly future for large scale mass-participation events."
SuperHalfs offers running enthusiasts the unique opportunity to embark on their own running adventure whilst being rewarded for their efforts with exclusive benefits and prizes such as guaranteed entry, exclusive merchandise, e-stamps in a virtual passport and a SuperMedal for completing the five-race circuit over a three year period.
Races have been chosen based on their quality, popularity, location and commitments to sustainability. All hold World Athletics (IAAF) labels whilst Copenhagen, Cardiff and Valencia have all recently hosted the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
Follow SuperHalfs on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for all the latest information and stay tuned for more exciting announcements coming soon.
Missed Out?
You can still run in Cardiff this year. Many of our official charities have guaranteed entries for 2020 and a limited number of Welsh Distance Double tickets (granting access to the Cardiff Half and the ABP Newport Wales Marathon on 19 April) remain available at a discounted rate of £76.
A limited number of guaranteed entries are also available via www.superhalfs.com for runners interested in completing the SuperHalfs series of races in Lisbon, Prague, Copenhagen, Valencia and Cardiff.
Runners are encouraged to sign up for our Lead Charity Partner the NSPCC, who have £10 spaces available to those pledging to fundraise £300. Alzheimers Society, British Heart Foundation, Mind, Prostate Cancer UK and Shelter Cymru are our Associate Charity Partners and also have discounted entries (and other benefits) available to those looking for a space.
Enter for NSPCC (£10)
Enter Welsh Distance Double (£76)
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SuperHalfs Series Entry
Don't miss out next year – you can now pre-register for the 2021 race and be notified as soon as registrations go on sale.


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Home / Eyewitness / Hong Kong — Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
by Dick Virden
Watching the unfolding drama in the streets of Hong Kong, as police and protestors clash daily over the city-state's future, brings back vivid memories of another, distant era when, for visitors like me, the then-Crown Colony was a tantalizing, intoxicating, mixture of East and West.
It was more than half a century ago, in January of 1967, when I first stopped in Hong Kong en route to Bangkok for my initial assignment in the Foreign Service. I'd never ventured outside the United States before and was bowled over by the sights, sounds, and smells of this teeming island group off the tip of mainland China.
The British still ruled Hong Kong then, as they would for another three decades; their influence was not only in the language – nearly everyone I encountered seemed to speak the Queen's English—but also in a free press, august banks, a thriving economy, respected courts, and efficient administration.
Most of the residents (about four million then, more than seven million today), were ethnic Chinese. They brought the untold richness of China's ancient civilization. Take cuisine, for example. Having dinner at a famed Chinese restaurant with a Foreign Service classmate and other friends, we were each invited to select a dish for the group to share. When I came up with nothing more imaginative than sweet and sour pork – the one Chinese café in my home town had a simple menu — others quickly provided the guidance I clearly needed. (I did better on future visits.)
Hong Kong in that era was also one of world's best shopping emporiums, offering great bargains in everything from tvs, radios and cameras to tailor-made suits, shirts and shoes. The saying was that you could go broke saving money in Hong Kong. For the American and British sailors whose ships made frequent port calls, there were convenient Navy post offices to ship it all home.
The banks were among the most prestigious in the world. In 1968, my future wife Linda, then a college student, went to one of them to transfer money from her hometown bank in Foley, Minnesota. The Chinese tellers conferred in a backroom, returning to say, "State Bank of Foley very small bank." Still, the transaction went through.
July 1, 1997 marked the end of 156 years of British colonial rule. Photo: Paul Lakatos/AFP.
From the commanding heights of the Victoria Peak area, where most of the British establishment lived, the view of the city and its storied harbor was breathtaking. (Our son Andrew, an expert on desserts, gave high marks to the many-layered "Hilton Tower" ice cream sundae served at a grand hotel in the Peak neighborhood).
For Westerners at least, life was good. A novel about a British judge who made his home in the colony was titled, "Old FILTH," with the acronym standing for, "Failed in London, Try Hong Kong." Many did; some thrived.
Dropping by a half dozen times from the late 60s to the early 80s from my posts in Thailand and Vietnam, I saw Hong Kong as an ideal place to visit. It was exotic, yet also prosperous and safe. No doubt it felt quite different to the Chinese residents, who shared in few of the riches and answered to an imperial power half a world away.
London relinquished control to China in 1997, fulfilling 19th century treaty obligations, but it did less well in providing its former charges the democratic legacy they dearly sought.
Economically, Hong Kong has continued to prosper in the two decades since the British turnover; local per capita income is now better than four times the average for the rest of China, though income distribution remains even more skewed than our own. Even more than redressing this disparity or other more specific grievances, what clearly motivates the protestors manning the barricades is their desire for political freedom — democracy.
Hong Kongers had a whiff of it under the British, and now they want the real thing. They'd like to make their own choices, to govern themselves. They see repressive measures by Beijing as a giant step backward, toward authoritarian government and restricted rights, away from self-rule and democratic rights.
While that may be how it looks to passengers on the Star Ferry plying the waters around Hong Kong, authorities a thousand miles away in Beijing see a rebellious region that needs to be brought to heel lest the contagion spread to other parts of the country. Their instinct is to suppress the protests, but they are also wary of stifling the region's booming economy (Hong Kong remains one of the world's premier banking and trading centers, a vital source of revenue for China's central government and its business tycoons.)
It's not at all clear whether or how these clashing perspectives can be reconciled. In trying to have both economic openness and rigid political control – Leninist capitalism, as one observer puts it — China is riding a tiger; its hopes for a leading and respected role on the world stage may well depend on finding a satisfactory solution to the contradictions in the "one country, two systems" riddle agreed to when Britain returned Hong Kong to China. Can this circle be squared?
Dick Virden
Dick Virden is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer; his assignments during a 38-year diplomatic career included two tours in Thailand and one in Vietnam. An earlier version of this article originally appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Female's Facebook Post Lands Her In Hot Water With The Law
THECOUNT.COM "ALWAYS OPEN! Since 2005!" - March 29, 2014
Back in 2012, Colleen Cudney was convicted for drunken driving. As part of her punishment, she was put on probation, and so on the day after St. Patrick's Day, the 22-year-old was ordered to come to her Westland, Michigan probation office for a random breathalyzer test. She managed to pass it and celebratedthe good news on Facebook. That Facebook post, as WDIV Local 4 News reports, was a pretty stupid move.
Investigators told WDIV she posted, "Buzz killer for me, I had to breatalyze this morning and I drank yesterday but I passed thank god lol my dumba**." There's a lot of problems with this status update. Why don't we go over them?
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It's "buzzkill," not "buzz killer."
I know you meant "breathalyze," but that isn't a word.
OH AND YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE DRINKING BECAUSE YOU WERE CONVICTED FOR DRUNK DRIVING.
Cudney's post gained the attention of a Westland police officer, who then notified the probation office. Did the probation office then say something like, "Oh well, she got us. She wins this round"? Nope. They called her up and told Colleen they wanted her to take a urine test, something that would detect whether she had had alcohol in the previous 80 hours. Colleen then…hung up on the probation officer. You're not supposed to do that.
Hanging up the phone on the probation official was a probation violation. And to think, her probation was set to end in a few weeks. Colleen Cudney will be back in court on April 1 for a probation hearing and faces up to 3 months in jail.
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I tried to run the water quality model but a have some doubts about the Riparian Continuity. How i should procede to get this Layer, is it just a Buffer?.
The data base(came with the software) shows a more complex layer.I need some help to figure out this.
The riparian continuity index, the upslope source index, the downstream retention index, and the slope index (for groundwater recharge and baseflow objectives) are indices that are calculated based on other biophysical inputs. The RIOS installer includes a toolbox for ArcGIS that can be loaded into ArcMap. This toolbox will calculate each of these indices based on inputs like DEM, erosivity, rainfall, etc. (same inputs used otherwise in RIOS).
If you do not have ArcGIS, you can use any GIS program to calculate these layers. Let me know if you need to go this route and I can send you the instructions.
A description of each of these input layers and how they are calculated can be found in the RIOS User Guide in section III - Description of Models.


Jose Manuel Dias Luís had his first electronics classes at FAP and then studied electronics engineering at UALG where he created an electronics club. Lives in Algarve and made his first radio receptor when he was 10 years, and ever since then never stopped doing things, some with electronics, some with mechanics.
For the Maker Faire Lisbon he built his own vacuum forming machine, an autonomous self-heated vacuum table with two vacuum sources (one adapted normal vacuum cleaner and one professional pump) and a vacuum storage deposit.