I've built my first pfSense router almost a decade ago. Fun fact is that the device is still working flawlessly, Alix2d13 is a beast. At that time 100 Mbps was more than enough compared to the offerings of the ISPs. Fast forward ten years, my WAN links are above this speed. CPU and RAM combined with the embedded architecture impose heavy limitations on the plugin options.
Still remember the time when equipped with console cable hooked to the Alix running pfSense v 1.2.2. Holding tight to my hard copy of pfSense The Definitive Guide to the Open Source Firewall and Router Distribution Book. I've typed on the terminal. These days are long gone.
Currently running on a Dual Core Intel CPU with 8 GB RAM and SSD, pfSense is v 2.4.4. The book is freely available online. It makes very little sense to me writing tutorials on how to do this and that any more. The only exception are some obscure cases that are rare and sharing them will be mutually beneficial.
pfSense version 2.5 will be based on FreeBSD 12, which should bring route-based IPsec, along with support for our integrated management platform, NRDM (more about this soon), and a number of other features.
With the increasing ubiquity of computing devices permeating all areas of our lives at work and at home, the need for encryption has become more important than ever. Desktops, laptops, smart phones, tablets, and many other devices all share this need to be able to encrypt sensitive information. Without encryption, everything you send over a network (or even store on a local storage device) is in the open, for anyone to read anytime he wants to read or even change it.
While we're not revealing the extent of our plans, we do want to give early notice that, in order to support the increased cryptographic loads that we see as part of pfSense version 2.5, pfSense Community Edition version 2.5 will include a requirement that the CPU supports AES-NI. On ARM-based systems, the additional load from AES operations will be offloaded to on-die cryptographic accelerators, such as the one found on our SG-1000. ARM v8 CPUs include instructions like AES-NI that can be used to increase performance of the AES algorithm on these platforms.
The AES-NI instruction set extensions are used to optimize encryption and decryption algorithms on select Intel and AMD processors. Intel announced AES-NI in 2008 and released supported CPUs late 2010 with the Westmere architecture. AMD announced and shipped AES-NI support in 2010, starting with Bulldozer.
Please remember these requirements when you are considering components for your pfSense system.
There have been some concerns expressed about the requirement for AES-NI (or other offload) with pfSense 2.5, as announced two days ago.
Some complained that, since they don't use VPN, they don't need AES-NI. While I wasn't quite ready to say more about the "3.0" effort, it is the reason for the new requirement for pfSense 2.5 and beyond.
With AES you either design, test, and verify a bitslice software implementation, (giving up a lot of performance in the process), leverage hardware offloads, or leave the resulting system open to several known attacks. We have selected the "leverage hardware offloads" path. The other two options are either unthinkable, or involve a lot of effort for diminishing returns.
Future versions of pfSense have a new management model. We're leveraging YANG, via RESTCONF.
The webGUI will be present either on our cloud service or on-device, both talking to the 'back-end' (written in 'C') on the device via a RESTCONF interface. This is just as I said back in February 2015.
We're leveraging AES-GCM inside TLS as the transport layer, because RFC 7525 REQUIRES it, and the RESTCONF standard, RFC 8040, says RFC 7525 is a SHOULD.
AES-GCM in particular has problems with side-channel attacks on pure software implementations. ChaCha20, which nicely avoids these issues when in software, isn't an option. This is because: a) it's not RFC-compliant, and b) there are currently no acceleration offloads for it, and the situation is that there could be thousands, or tens of thousands of pfSense instances hitting a single (clustered) instance of our cloud management platform.
So the choice is either to design, engineer and release a less-than-strong product, or require AES-NI or other offloads.
The entire PHP layer is being eliminated in the "3.0" effort, and we're simply too small to continue to maintain both the current, organically-grown PHP layer (100K lines of PHP in 200 files) and the new, pure JS GUI (client) architected as a single page web application.
So there is an excellent chance that pfSense 2.5 will use the new webGUI, talking to our RESTCONF back-end.
As should be obvious by now, this isn't about VPN.
If you've been testing 2.4 snapshots and updates, you've already seen a lot of new features. You have probably also seen a new pop-up in the webGUI.
While the pop-up is new, the message isn't. On January 27, 2017 we posted a blog Announcing a new trademark policy for pfSense. This pop-up is a simple reminder that ensures everyone sees and acknowledges the trademark policy.
For our end users and customers, nothing has changed. pfSense Community Edition (CE) remains a free and open product available for your personal or business use. This is true if you buy hardware from us or not. This notice addresses those who take pfSense CE and sell it, infringing our policy while not giving back to the project and directly competing with Netgate.
At Netgate, we engineer, build, test, and give pfSense software to the community for free. Accepting the pop-up affirms your agreement and right to use, but not sell, pfSense software.
I'll share just a small quotes from them.
OPNSense is a fork of PFSense, and PFSense is itself a fork of m0n0wall.
Once upon a time… in 2003 there was a new firewall OS called m0n0wall. Manuel Kasper had built it on a stripped down version of FreeBSD. There had been small firewalls before, but Kasper's innovation was to put a Web GUI on top of it so that the firewall's settings could be controlled from the browser! It did not take long and m0n0wall took the world by storm. However Kasper's project focused on embedded hardware. So only a while later a fork was created which geared towards more powerful hardware. The fork's name? You've guessed it: pfSense. In 2015 Manuel Kasper officially ended the m0n0wall project (because recent versions of FreeBSD had been grown too big to be easily usable for what he did with it in the past). And guess what he did: He gave his official blessing and recommends to migrate to and support OPNsense!
So if I want to go with pfSense I need to get a box with CPU supporting these AES-NI instructions. For this either get a branded box or build one on my own. Naturally I've chosen the latter.
In selecting the box I have to thank to the great members of the community forum of pfSense.
Alternative to Qotom Q190G4 with AES-NI?
The fan less design combined with the SSD makes the operation completely silent. It keeps a steady 50 C temperature, with average CPU usage of 1-4 % and consumes only 7 – 10 % of the memory. My hopes are that this will serve me for at least the next 10 years. As it is x86 architecture my choice of OS dramatically widens leaving the door open to experiments with whatever comes to my mind.
Some websites store session information including the client IP address, and if a subsequent connection to that site is routed out a different WAN interface using a different public IP address, the website will not function properly. This is becoming more common with banks and other security-minded sites. The suggested means of working around this is to create a failover group and direct traffic destined to these sites to the failover group rather than a load balancing group. Alternately, perform failover for all HTTPS traffic.
The sticky connections feature of pf is intended to resolve this problem, but it has historically been problematic. It is safe to use, and should alleviate this, but there is also a downside to using the sticky option. When using sticky connections, an association is held between the client IP address and a given gateway, it is not based off of the destination. When the sticky connections option is enabled, any given client would not load balance its connections between multiple WANs, but it would be associated with whichever gateway it happened to use for its first connection. Once all of the client states have expired, the client may exit a different WAN for its next connection, resulting in a new gateway pairing.
After some testing and consideration let's leave the sticky connections unchecked. As mentioned above they are problematic.
Some websites do not work properly if requests from the LAN are initiated from multiple public IP addresses. Hence load balancing is incompatible with these sites. Common examples are sites that maintain login sessions, most frequently online banking. This is most commonly observed with HTTPS sites so usually HTTPS should not be load balanced. Occasionally it is a problem with HTTP sites that maintain session, but this is rare.
For sites that do not function with load balancing, add firewall rules to not load balance traffic to these destinations or protocols.
Set the default LAN rule to use the Load Balancing Gateway Group.
Add new rule that will be valid only for HTTPS connection and set the Gateway to the Fail-over Gateway Group.
This way all HTTPS connections will pass through the First WAN until it goes down and failover to the Second. The alternative is to make separate rule for each and every HTTPS site with issues. The rule will be very similar to the one for HTTPS. The difference will be that Destination address will be single Public IP. Doing so will load balance all other HTTPS connection that don't have this problem.
Hello everyone. I've been running this blog for 9 years now. In 2010 there were very few options to host WordPress site. The blog was hosted in one local provider up until its acquisition by another company two years ago. This pushed me to move. At that time, I was experimenting with Azure and the natural choice of service was an Azure Web App with WordPress template.
The platform is packed with settings that you can tweak. Unfortunately, the prices are targeted at enterprise customers and were too steep for a small site like mine.
Recently a friend of mine mentioned the Static Site Generators. I've investigated the topic and it appeared quite an interesting concept. For my purposes this solution fits well as most of my content is static. Thanks to GDPR I had to close all comments and feedback options, which made the site even more static. On the positive side not having to worry about PHP and MySQL out in the wild sounds very a pleasing.
Each has some very strong features. But I still haven't decided which one to keep.
Simply Static has great Diagnostics that helped me troubleshoot some issues. Offering streamlined interface with essential options. While WP2Static gives more control over the crawling and processing with valuable options to clean up some garbage from the output pages.
They both produced archives containing the static content, WP2Static can even be configured to push it directly to GitHub repository.
Either way I have a static version of my site now. The next hurdle is where to store the files?
I don't want to host it On-Premise as this will require a lot of additional time and effort. As the Cloud options are so many, let's narrow it down to Static Websites on Azure Storage and GitHub for simplicity sake.
Price for storing content and data transfers charges would be low in my case. SSL is requirement but it is not directly offered from Static Websites. I need Azure CDN in front to get the desired feature. This will incur additional cost and complexity for just one simple static site served over HTTPs.
For Web Apps there is a Azure Let's Encrypt Extension that is a pretty useful solution to automatically renew the SSL Certificate.
This tilted the table in favour of GitHub. There are no taxes for storing publicly accessible content and it automatically takes care of the SSL Certificate provisioning and renewal. For the moment GitHub wins.
Now that I have the generation and web hosting covered. The last obstacle is where to keep my Static Content Generating WordPress instance?
WordPress.com – good starting point. But pretty much the same. You get a free WordPress instance somewhere out there. Not my ideal solution.
My experience with the service is mostly positive. Bringing it up is easy. Getting data persistence requires modifying the template. The performance at the lowest tire was comparable to the once in Web App and insufficient from my perspective.
VM with docker containers – My first choice. Spun up Ubuntu server, quickly and easily installed docker and docker compose. As I felt generous at the time the VM had 4 CPU cores and 4 GB or RAM. Even on mechanical HDD, performance was Fantastic! I never knew that WordPress could feel so snappy! The downside is that I will not keep the VM running all the time and must start and stop it every time that I want to do something.
But there is one for WordPress. I've tried building one on my own and hit a lot of problems! As a temporary solution for the moment I'm using this image hypriot/rpi-mysql. Works fine but holds MySQL 5.5 and my aim is 5.7. In near future I'll look into it and if possible, build one image on my own.
Had a few hiccups with the persistent storage of data for both WordPress and MySQL containers, but got it right at the end.
Again, the performance is even more surprisingly good compared the cloud scenarios. Considering that it is run off a mechanical hard drive on a very humble 1.2GHz Quad and only 1 GB of RAM.
With this exercise I've managed to decrease the costs of hosting this blog to the bare minimum. Hosting costs are reduced to virtually free. The power costs for the Raspberry Pi are shared with other services and are negligible.
Compared with Azure Web App and it's 20 Euros per month it is a feat!
My initial intention for this post was to be short and sweet, but it grew into something much larger. I was able to compress a few weeks of research and experiments into these few lines omitting a lot of problems crossed along the way. Hope you enjoy reading it.
I've collected a few useful resources and would like to share them with you. If you are into Azure Architecture these most probably will be quite useful.
Azure Application Architecture Guide – This guide presents a structured approach for designing applications on Azure that are scalable, resilient, and highly available. It is based on proven practices that we have learned from customer engagements.
Azure Reference Architectures – Our reference architectures are arranged by scenario. Each architecture includes recommended practices, along with considerations for scalability, availability, manageability, and security. Most also include a deployable solution or reference implementation.
Azure Quickstart Templates – Deploy Azure resources through the Azure Resource Manager with community contributed templates to get more done. Deploy, learn, fork and contribute back.
Cloud Design Patterns – These design patterns are useful for building reliable, scalable, secure applications in the cloud.
Each pattern describes the problem that the pattern addresses, considerations for applying the pattern, and an example based on Microsoft Azure. Most of the patterns include code samples or snippets that show how to implement the pattern on Azure. However, most of the patterns are relevant to any distributed system, whether hosted on Azure or on other cloud platforms.
Microsoft patterns & practices – We discover, collect, and encourage practices that bring joy to engineering software.
Introducing the Azure portal "how to" video series – A new video weekly series highlights specific aspects of the Azure portal so you can be more efficient and productive while deploying your cloud workloads from the portal.
I would like to share with you my learning path achieving this certification. In order to achieve Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, you have to pass two exams: AZ-300 and AZ-301.
Now is time to dig deeper in to each topic. For the purpose you can either go through this list: Updated: Study resources for the AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies exam or this one Azure Architect AZ-300 Exam. The latter is much more detailed.
Soon there will be a video course from Scott Duffy for this course too. Until than you can start with this list: Updated: Study resources for the AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design exam.
If you have PluralSight subscription there is a large collection of courses Here.
Before going to exam you absolutely have to do practice! Working with the real production technology has no substitutes. So hit the labs. My favorites are on the new Microsoft Learn platform. Check this list of learning paths specially tailored for Azure Architects. I've done them all and could say the are well written and the hands on labs are pretty good.
Design Patterns are interesting and important topic. On this site I've found very well presentation and summary for each pattern information.
If you are on Windows 10, you should probably give a try to Windows Subsystem for Linux. Getting a bash shell under Windows was not a trivial task back in the day.
Now you just head to the Microsoft Store and install one. There are variety of distributions to choose from ranging Debian, Ubuntu, Open SUSE and even Kali.
My preference is Ubuntu but wait there are 3 of them! This is quite confusing isn't it?
So if you need the latest and greatest LTS version simply install Ubuntu. For the moment my choice lays with Ubuntu 16.04 because of some application compatibility that is missing in 18.04 with weasel-pageant.


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Apple unveils new AirPods: boast a wireless charging case, Hey Siri and better battery
Joe Svetlik - 20 March 2019 Last updated: 21 March 2019
And you can buy the wireless charging case separately for the older model.
Apple's second-generation AirPods are official. And improve on its first-generation wireless headphones with the additions of a wireless charging case, voice-activated Siri functionality and better battery life.
In the market for a new iPhone? Get up to speed with the latest model, with our iPhone XS review.
The big sell is the new case. It's compatible with Qi wireless charging, which is the industry standard. That means it should work with pretty much every wireless charger out there.
Inside is a new H1 chip. This gives the AirPods 2 an extra hour of talk time, better microphone clarity, twice as fast connection times when switching between devices and voice-activated support for Apple's Siri personal assistant; just say "Hey Siri" and it'll spring to life, much like on an iPhone or iPad.
You can buy the AirPods in two configurations. The pair with the wireless charging case will set you back £199, but if you want them with the older-generation charging case you'll only pay £159.
Apple is also selling the wireless charging case separately for £79. This works with the first-generation AirPods, so you won't have to upgrade your pair to get wireless charging.
Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted a photo of himself using the AirPods while doodling on the new iPad Mini tablet.
The AirPods were widely expected, but Apple didn't mention its AirPower wireless charger that appears to have run into manufacturing problems.
AirPower was first shown off over a year and a half ago, but is yet to see the light of day. It's able to wirelessly charge multiple Apple devices at once, including the the AirPods, iPhone and Apple Watch.
It's been a big week for Apple. The firm also launched new iPads and new iMac desktop computers.
Maybe it's going for a new product launch every day this week – a new iPod Touch has also been rumoured. In which case, we could see AirPower before the week is out…
The firm also has a big event planned for next week, where it will unveil its video streaming service.
Google Pixel 4 has next-to-no bezels in these concept shots
Is this what Google has cooking?
Samsung's next Galaxy Watch could control your home with gesture control
Patent reveals plans for futuristic smartwatch.
Apple unveils iPad mini 5
New 10.5–inch iPad also launched, but no sign of AirPower or new AirPods.
Joe Svetlik
20 March 2019 Last updated: 21 March 2019
Tagged: accessories and wearables, apple, ios, iphone, ipad
iPhone XR users on O2 hit with network issues
Customers can't make calls or get online.
What to expect from Samsung's next flagship.

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One of the world's leading child psychologists shatters the myth of "good parenting".
Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call "parenting" is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the multibillion dollar industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-oriented labor intended to create a particular kind of child and therefore a particular kind of adult. In The Gardener and the Carpenter, the pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar twenty-first-century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong–it's not just based on bad science, it's bad for kids and parents, too.
Drawing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that although caring for children is profoundly important, it is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way. Children are designed to be messy and unpredictable, playful and imaginative, and to be very different both from their parents and from each other. The variability and flexibility of childhood lets them innovate, create, and survive in an unpredictable world. "Parenting" won't make children learn—but caring parents let children learn by creating a secure, loving environment.


Wind power is the product of the kinetic energy conversion of wind into other forms of energy (electrical or mechanical). Today it is mostly converted into electricity via a wind power plant, while in the past the energy of the wind was immediately used on the spot as power for industrial and pre-industrial applications (such as, for example, in windmills).
o Horizontal axis wind generators, in which the rotor is orientated (actively or passively) parallel to the direction of the wind.
The objective of RSE activities dedicated to wind energy is to support the development of this source, which has -to date- nearly 6000 MW of total installed power -of which more than 950 MW in 2010- and more than 8000 GWh of electricity produced, and which is expected to make significant developments.
Ongoing activities at RSE are focused on major issues, namely the assessment of the resource, the impact on the environment and the territory, technological innovations, problems of integration in the electrical system.
The more and more accurate and detailed assessment of the resource, both on-land and off-shore, sees -on one side- refining of the Wind Atlas, with the help of sophisticated meteorological modeling, and -on the other- the use of measuring stations on land and at sea; special mention to the anemometer buoy offshore to be installed shortly in the Strait of Sicily.
The interactive Wind Atlas is accompanied by restrictions provided by the regional directives on the implementation of wind farms ensuring the overlap of these "thematic features" with wind speed or specific feasibility maps, providing an immediate picture of the areas of interest from a point of view of potential installments in the Region. Particular attention is given to the development of tools to support the landscape design of plants and the study of interactions between wind energy and economic development in the territories.
In terms of technological developments, in addition to the analysis of the potential of the off-shore "multi-purpose" platforms, the project focuses on the so-called "mini-wind" through field monitoring of plants of different sizes, in order to provide adequate information on the actual production potential of the machines and the necessary precautions for installation.
The integration of increasing amounts of wind energy in the electricity system along with the search for logics and control devices and flexible and powerful controls, necessarily passes through the improvement of production forecasting systems for the short to medium term. In the project, forecasting systems are developed based on numerical atmosphere models, then subjected to testing at real sites, particularly in areas with complex orography (usually the windiest, but also where forecasting is more difficult).


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Q: Close the notification panel when not necessary in iOS app When I open a notification and start thinking for a comment or an answer, I want to focus to it and wish the notification panel disappears for a second. I suggest you to:

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*automatically hide it when it tap on an notification

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Q: How to remove not required Elements from generated XML via jaxb I want to know if there is anyway for removing not required elements from generated xml using jaxb.I have my xsd element definition as follows.
           <xsd:element name="Title" maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0">
                <xsd:annotation>
                    <xsd:documentation>
                        A name given to the digital record.
                    </xsd:documentation>
                </xsd:annotation>
                <xsd:simpleType>
                    <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
                        <xsd:minLength value="1"></xsd:minLength>
                    </xsd:restriction>
                </xsd:simpleType>
            </xsd:element>

As you can see it is not a mandatory element because

minOccurs="0"

But if it is not empty the length should be 1.
<xsd:minLength value="1"></xsd:minLength>

At the time of marshalling if I left the Title field blank it is throwing the
SAXException because of min-length restriction.
So what I want to do is to remove the whole occurrence of <Title/>
from generated XML.Right now i have removed the min-length restriction so it is adding the <Title> element as EMPTY
<Title></Title>

But I do not want it like this.Any help is appreciated.I am using jaxb 2.0 for Marshalling.
UPDATE:
Following is my variable definiton :
  private JAXBContext jaxbContext;
    private Unmarshaller unmarshaller;
    private SchemaFactory factory;
    private Schema schema;
    private Marshaller marshaller;

Marshalling code.
            jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(ERecordType.class);
            marshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
            factory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
            schema = factory.newSchema((new File(xsdLocation)));
            marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
            ERecordType e = new ERecordType();
            e.setCataloging(rc);
            /**
             * Validate Against Schema.
             */
            marshaller.setSchema(schema);
            /**
             * Marshal will throw an exception if XML not validated against
             * schema.
             */
            marshaller.marshal(e, System.out);

A: If you set the title value to the empty string "" it'll generate <Title/>, if you set it to null it should omit the element entirely.

A: I'm exploiting the XmlAdapter, implementing a transparent adapter which return in marshaling the null value if the Collection or String is empty.
public class XMLStringAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, String> {

    @Override
    public String unmarshal(String v) throws Exception {
        return v;
    }

    @Override
    public String marshal(String v) throws Exception {
        return v != null && v.isEmpty() ? null : v;
    }
}

Also add in package-info.java
@XmlJavaTypeAdapters({
@XmlJavaTypeAdapter(value=StringAdapter.class, type=String.class)
})
your.package

https://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/documentation/2.6/moxy/advanced_concepts006.htm
How can JAXB XmlAdapter be used to marshall lists?


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Steve Robinson was appointed lecturer in the Department of Soil Science in 1996. His teaching and research address the role and behaviour of soils in both the man-made and natural environments, seeking to ask and answer questions that are pertinent to national and international laws on agricultural land use and environmental quality. Following his PhD at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, he spent four years conducting postdoctoral work in the USA; first with the USDA in Oklahoma and then at the University of Florida. Under the Erasmus Staff Mobility Programme, Steve regularly lectures in Soil Science and Wetland Biogeochemistry at The University of Rostock, Germany.
Steve sits on the Science and Horticulture Advice Committee for the Royal Horticultural Society and has a substantial commitment to the supervision of research projects, particularly those of overseas postgraduate students.
Niedermeier, A., Robinson, J. S. and Reid, D. (2004) Wetland restoration within agricultural watersheds: Balancing water quality protection with habitat conservation. In: International Symposium on Nutrient Management in Agricultural Watersheds - A Wetlands Solution, Wexford, IRELAND, pp. 55-70.
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George, T.S., Gregory, P.J., Robinson, J.S. and Buresh, R.J. (2002) Changes in phosphorus concentrations and pH in the rhizosphere of some agroforestry and crop species. Plant and Soil 246, 65-73.
George, T.S., Gregory, P.J., Robinson, J.S., Buresh, R.J. and Jama, B. (2002) Utilisation of soil organic P by agroforestry and crop species in the field, western Kenya. Plant and Soil 246, 53-63.
George, T.S., Gregory, P.J., Robinson, J.S., Buresh, R.J. and Jama, B. (2001) Tithonia diversifolia: variations in leaf nutrient concentration and implications for biomass transfer. Agroforestry Systems 52, 199-205.
Hutchins, M., Silgram, M., Davenport, I., Settle, J., Robinson, J.S., Simmonds, L.P. and Veck, N. (2001) The role of earth observation techniques in improving field-scale predictions of runoff, erosion and pollutant fluxes. Aspects of Applied Biology 60, 219-224.
Siddique, M.T., Robinson, J.S. and Alloway, B.J. (2000) Phosphorus reactions and leaching potential in soils amended with sewage sludge. Journal of Environmental Quality 29, 1931-1938.
Robinson, J.S., Johnston, C.T. and Reddy, K.R. (1998) Combined chemical and 31P-NMR spectroscopic analysis of phosphorus in wetland organic soils. Soil Science 163, 705-713.
Ivanoff, D.B., Reddy, K.R. and Robinson, J.S. (1998) Chemical fractionation of organic phosphorus in selected histosols. Soil Science 163, 36-45.
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Ah! My Goddess Ch. 285 Manga Review
October 1st, 2012 AstroNerdBoy
Ah! My Goddess Manga/Oh My Goddess! Manga
ああっ女神さまっ Chapter 285
SPOILER Summary/Synopsis:
Hild tells Belldandy that the "true kiss" she gave Keiichi was a reckless way to break the spell, causing Skuld to get angry at what Keiichi had done with her "oneesama." Hild isn't done though, accusing Belldandy of deceiving Keiichi, causing Keiichi to defend her by reminding Hild that Belldandy can't lie. Hild acknowledges this fact, but tells Keiichi that one can deceive by purposefully omitting things.
Hild then asks Keiichi if he desires Belldandy sexually. He says he does, but then realizes that since Keiichi and Belldandy kissed, he's been looking at her differently — sexually. Hild explains that Belldandy's kiss removed a seal that kept Keiichi's lust in check. Since there is a restriction placed on sexual contact between humans and deities, Keiichi's contract with Belldandy required this seal to be put in place.
Thus Hild gleefully shatters Keiichi's notion by revealing how the gods manipulate humans for their own purposes. Keiichi's mind reels from this information as Belldandy ponders how she didn't really deceive Keiichi, but she did know the seal was in place.
She starts to speak to Keiichi, but the sound of music interrupts her. Hild smirks, saying that the Inter-species Intimacy Inquisitor is coming. Urd is shocked that one of the gods could make a transfer point into the mazoku realm and Skuld wonders who has the power to do this. The person gets stuck coming through the transfer point, leading Hild to wonder if it was impossible for this god to enter Hild's realm. However, this goddess forces her way through, causing Hild to state her surprise at who came, and the goddess to give greeting to the now-freed Hild.
Thoughts/Review:
Egad! Somehow this got released and thanks to the long hours I work these days, I totally missed it until I saw the next chapter was out (well, technically, it has been long out in Japan, but you know what I'm saying).
Anyway, this chapter made me laugh, but not for reasons of comedy within the chapter. You see, I'm thinking WAY back to the 80's when this manga started. Back then, the relationship between Belldandy and Keiichi was portrayed in a more normal boyfriend-girlfriend scenario, only with the girlfriend being a deity. There was the element of the two not "getting busy" (as we used to say), which is why Urd came down in the first place to try to spice things up. However, Keiichi and Belldandy did kiss a few times, and once, Belldandy won Urd's rigged board game in order to help Keiichi and to plant a big kiss on his lips.
Then for whatever reason, Fujishima-sensei backed down on the boyfriend-girlfriend aspect and turned Keiichi and Belldandy into something akin to an old married couple who no longer have a sex drive, but who do love each other. Sure, from time to time, Fujishima-sensei would show that Keiichi looked at Belldandy sexually, but for the most part, he made Keiichi the ultimate nice guy.
Then, Peorth came down with the express intent of forcing Belldandy and Keiichi to get it on. While Urd had previously attempted to seduce Keiichi and even force him to copulate with her, that was nothing compared to the efforts Peorth put on to get Keiichi to try to sleep with her. The fact that Keiichi was able to resist her is what made him even more desirable to Peorth, who apparently wasn't used to men resiting her. Back then, Belldandy's thoughts on the matter were that she was willing, but she knew Keiichi wasn't truly ready, so Belldandy was simply just going to wait for his lead.
Now, we have this new goddess showing up and the revelation that in fact all this time, Keiichi's lust has been sealed up, Belldandy knew about it, Hild knew about it, but apparently Urd, Skuld, and Peorth knew nothing, otherwise why would Urd and Peorth have come down to try to force the sexual issue with Belldandy and Keiichi (meaning the lack of sex or even kissing).
Obviously, this is the latest retconning move by Fujishima-sensei, hence the laughter I mentioned four paragraphs earlier. As is typical of Fujishima-sensei, plot holes are not something he really worries about. He just writes whatever he wants and moves on. After this many years, we fans just roll with him.
So, interesting revelations aside, I wonder about this new goddess and how she'll play into things. I won't speculate now since I have the next chapter waiting.
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retconning indeed. However, hopefully it means that we will be seeing a proper relationship between the two sometime soon.
Agreed! However, I feel that will be the end of the manga.
Actually that's incorrect, it was Belldandy who wasn't ready before
Here's we can see that Keiichi was completely ready
http://www.mangahere.com/manga/ah_my_goddess/c054/22.html
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If you read the earlier chapters, you see that Keiichi was more willing than Belldandy, like when they were outside the love motel and Keiichi was waiting on a go signal from Belldandy.
So the idea that Belldandy was more willing is completely wrong, in fact as early as the Miss Keiichi arc, its shown that Keiichi is completely willing as long as Belldandy is ready.
In fact it was Belldandy who wasn't ready, as shown here:
As you can see its Belldandy who is saying she's not ready, not that Keiichi isn't ready, she's talking about herself.
(If she meant Keiichi, she would have just told Peorth that Keiichi isn't ready, her angst indicates its her who was wrestling with it)
So in fact the retcon isn't as bad as you seem to think, rather than Belldandy desiring it and Keiichi not wanting it as you seem to be mistaken thinking, Keiichi did want it, but the ultimate system force was suppressing his desires, so only a little got through, while Belldandy knew she couldn't give it to him because of the edict against them procreating (and perhaps she wasn't ready herself, we can't be sure that some of it wasn't her own desire to wait).
As you can see here Keiichi is talking about something holding him back:
In hindsight we can see that the thing holding him back was the ultimate system force.
So yeah, you're wrong that Belldandy wanted it and Keiichi didn't and you're incorrect about it being such a big retcon, in fact as we can see, the groundwork for such a reveal was present a long time ago.
I would point out that it was Belldandy, not Keiichi, who initiated the early kissing that happened. ^_~
As to that moment of Belldandy saying "It is too soon," I always read that as "Keiichi isn't ready, so I'm not going to push it."
Two problems, first off a kiss is not anything like Sex, so Bell wanting a kiss doesn't indicate she was ready for Sex, also we don't know what Keiichi would have wanted had he won, he might have wanted sex.
Secondly, if Belldandy meant "Keiichi isn't ready, so I'm not going to push it.", she would have said so to Peorth
Instead she wasn't able to reply and got all angsty.
That indicates she was referring to herself thinking it was too soon, not Keiichi.
Also Keiichi already had shown in the Miss Keiichi arc he was waiting on her (so she never broached the topic with him, meaning she would not know whether Keiichi is ready or not, she isn't clairvoyant, as proven by the fact that she had to ask him whether he wanted her to stay with him, so the argument that she would know that he wasn't ready is flawed, not only was he waiting on her, but she would not know what his view on the issue is, because she never asked him)
Well, I wasn't just referring to sex, but stepping their relationship up from "I'm a goddess living with this guy who made a wish, whom I love and whom I'm loved by" to "I'm a goddess, living with a guy, whom I now consider to be my human boyfriend and he considers me to be his goddess girlfriend."
It is still retconning because Fujishima-sensei, for whatever reason years ago, decided that he wasn't going to allow their relationship to advance and even throttled it back so that they no longer kissed. Now that the manga appears to be ending, he's trying to explain things, even though Urd and Peorth apparently had no clue about this "no relations" rule since both tried to push Belldandy and Keiichi together (and Peorth attempted to seduce Keiichi).
Actually, so did Urd, now that I remember it.
Except Bell never referred to keiichi as her boyfriend, or some other relationship moniker (after all its clear goddesses do date and get married).
She always noted she was tied to him by the wish, so clearly she wasn't ready for such a level either.
More that it was Skuld that put the Kibosh on the progress, notice that Bell became more motherly after Skuld showed up, the added responsibility helped her to mature.
Skuld also interfered at every opportunity. At her introduction, she was the then popular concept of the little sister who adored her oneesama way too much, and got jealous (in a non-sexual way) of anyone who got in-between. So I always saw her another way for Fujishima-sensei to keep the romance between Belldandy and Keiichi from progressing as it had been doing in the very early parts. After all, many things introduced in the first several years were designed to keep Belldandy and Keiichi apart.
I question if Skuld's jealousy over Belldandy is completely nonsexual, some of the things she says and does makes me think there is an undercurrent of sexual desire in Skuld.
Well, you have a point here. Sadly, thanks to Dark Horse's rewrites ans such, my memories of the earlier volumes are heavily colored. 🙁
I went with non-sexual due to the fact that Belldandy is Skuld's sister, thus Skuld using the moniker "oneesama" does not automatically evoke a sexual aspect, as it does when Kuroko addresses her roommate Mikoto (A Certain Scientific Railgun) in the same fashion. So, there could be an element of that there, but if so, I wouldn't say it is major.
O-chan says:
The thing about the new goddess, from what was implied in the next chapter it's really a BAD idea for her and Hild to be in the same room.
Heh! Yeah. Funny that, now that I know whom this new goddess is. ^_~
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Nevada forward Caleb Martin dunks against Wyoming during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Laramie, Wyo., Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Boomerang via AP)
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Nov. 10: Nevada 88, Idaho 64
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Nevada: The Wolf Pack may just lose their newly earned ranking in next week's AP poll because they don't play again until next Wednesday. Nevada returned to the Top 25 this week after being ranked earlier this season. Nevada also saw its win streak in Mountain West Conference games end at 13. It fell one short of the league record for consecutive wins set by New Mexico from Jan. 13, 2010, to March 3, 2010.
Wyoming: The Cowboys continued their stellar performance at home against ranked teams. Entering the game, they had won four of their last five home games against ranked opponents. Nevada's visit to Laramie was the first time a ranked team played in the Arena-Auditorium since No. 5 San Diego State lost to Wyoming 68-62 on Feb. 11, 2014.
Nevada has the weekend off and next hosts Fresno State on Jan. 31. The Wolf Pack won the first meeting this season, 80-65.
Wyoming travels to play at San Jose State on Saturday, the first meeting between the Mountain West Conference foes this season.
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Today the children of 4RG got to make their own icing and then used it to decorate a gingerbread cookie. This came about after the children loved our last home economic activity where we made little gingerbread houses using ordinary biscuits.
I can't believe we are only 2 days away from the end of the school year. It's that time of the year where families begin to finish their school days and head off for holidays so I am taking the opportunity to say my thanks and well wishes.
I have had such a wonderful year teaching, learning and growing with 4RG and time has flown! Thank you to every child that was apart of 4RG and to our parents and caregivers who supported us through the highs and lows, every excursion, class celebration, homework and much more. Without the support from you, we wouldn't be able to flourish.
I have loved working with every child and wish all the children and families a happy and safe break. For those moving on, I wish you all the best on your new journey and hope we can stay in touch. For those who will be taking a break and then returning to HFCS, please keep dropping in next year and say hello. It is always so lovely seeing past students and families stopping to say hello.
A group of children have made 'Jay Jays Christmas Cafe'.
Welcome to Jay Jay's Christmas Cafe!
The children from 4RG asked if we could invite other 'customers' from different classes and so we did and business was BOOMING! Have a look a how busy the restaurant is now. The owners started a nail salon joined to the shop to cater to the large numbers.
Some of our visitors came from REQ, 6/7MS, 6/7NB, 1EC, 2IB AND 2TD. Thank you to these 'customers' for playing with us!
Kaiden: "I made a gingerbread house and it has beads for decoration, a garden. The garden has gummy bears growing. It has a waterfall at the front. A pathway for people to lead them to the door. I built it by cardboard".


Finally, post with my stylization. How do you like it? Although I am a fan of black, this beautiful, sunny weather motivated me to make something crazy. For me, the combination of such a strong pink that we see on a dress with a black motorcycle jacket is a great combination. On warm seasons I decide on more bold colors and how are you? I think I'm a bit like Demeter from the myth of Demeter and Kora haha. In winter, I dress in the dark because for me autumn and winter are associated with sadness I do not know why. And spring and summer is a happy season, I want to live right away and how are you?
I have a pink dress with New look. I like her a lot because she has a flimsy and very girlish cut.
The jacket is from Dresslily. I think it's a total classic and it will fit not only to this but to any stylization! It's great and I'm happy that I have it because I've been hunting for a jacket of this type for a long time.
The bag is from Mimco. I really like this purse because it is universal and fits many styles.
I have shoes with vansa. These are my favorite sneakers ever.
Okuraly are in Rosegal. In a cat shape, very fashionable now.
I wanted to show you the make-up brushes and the headband in the kitten's ears. I also have these things from Dresslily. The brushes are so well made that I can calmly compare their quality to Hakuro brushes! The headband is sweet, I will not wear it on a daily basis, but it is ideal for taking pictures or for holding hair while doing makeup.
And how do you like to dress the most in spring? Do you like my stylization? Do you like such connections? Be sure to let them know in committees!
Your outfit is stunning and I LOVE your makeup as well!
Love your cute pink dress!
Very nice post. I love pink and this dress is very beautiful. The jacket matches very well with the dress. Nice make up. See ya!
You look very stylish and chic in your pink dress! Wishoing you a wonderful spring.
Pink and black are so great together. I invite you to my Fancy Friday link up party!
Black and pink always work nicely together!
Thanks for visiting my blog. It is nice to get new blog friends. Very nice look, I like that!
Your outfits is so amazing. I liked so much of the black jacket!
Perfecta combinación de colores, muy guapa!!!! Gracias por tu visita.
Nice dress and outfit! Love pink colour.
I hope you´ll visit my blog soon. Have a nice day!
Black jacket and pink dress. Beautiful outfit!
Thanks to your visit now I know your fashion and style blog.
Have a great Sunday, Karolina.
Adorei o look, também com uma escolha perfeita nos acessórios!
E o vestido é lindo! Beijinhos! Bom final de domingo e uma óptima semana!
Ya te sigo, que ayer no me dejaba.
Hola Karolina, vengo a devolverte la visita y a felicitarte por este blog tan juvenil y tan cuidado. Bonitas fotografías las de esta entrada. Ya te sigo. Un gran saludo desde España.
Hola, Karolina. Lo prometido es deuda y aquí estoy, visitándote yo también.
You look girly with that beautiful dress, I also love pink. And the biker just give that final touch, you rock girl.
Such a lovely pink dress!
Thanks for the invitation and lovely blog <3 Very nice outfit and I like it.
I follow you.Have a nice day!
Perfect. I like this dress.
I like blak, and I love this jaket and purse, but I love to combine them with colors like you do!
Hola guapa, gracias por pasarte por mi blog, yo también te sigo ahora. Me gusta mucho la chaqueta.
You have a nice post I am also following you, thank you very much for your visit!
Wow! What a stunning dress! I really like your outfit!
In my opinion, black jackets are combined in contrast with pink ... very matching.
The color difference is an interesting unity seen .
It is a beautiful dress and you wear it with great style! Thank you for visiting my blog!
The brushes are also adorable.
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Melanie Wozniak Can Do It All
Photography by LeAnn Oliver
Mud Magazine talked to the "ITCH" star about playing Jack, LGBTQIA+ representation, and her rise in the fashion world.
Melanie's talent shines all the way from Western Australia, where she loves to surround herself with the turquoise beaches and rich bushland. At home, she has also created a fundamental network of people, or as she prefers to call them, her everlasting tribe.
Getting the chance to know more about Melanie has taught me one thing: she truly does it all. She is not just an actress, but also a fashion icon in the making. Through her education and professional experience, fashion has become another way for her artistic self to shine. While her focus may be on the modern day country man, her work has also been modeled by women on the runway.
"I constantly find myself interested in how clothing shapes the body and is an expression of one's artistic self. I love how the choice of fabric can evoke a feeling - a sense of 'mood' and how it can alter the structure of the human body, or even alter the space around the body," Melanie told Mud.
As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Melanie had the opportunity to connect even closer to her role on "Itch." In the show, she plays Jack, a non-binary character who matches Melanie's adventurous personality.
"When I first auditioned for "JACK" in Itch, I was thankful that they were a non-binary character as I felt it gave a voice to a community that can be under-represented, particularly in children's TV," Melanie said.
Melanie's identity not only deepens her connection to the role she is playing, but also allows her own voice to shine through. Through this role, she seeks to be an advocate for change to create a more accepting world for the LGBTQIA+ community.
As we anxiously continue to wait for the second season of Itch to come out, Melanie gave us a sneak peek into various aspects of her life. We learned that if there is ever a movie based on her life, she wants Shailene Woodley to play her. And that her secret talent is so secret that she has not even found it yet! Using the time to focus on exciting fashion projects, Melanie continues to prove to us that she indeed can do it all. I was so excited to catch up with her on what's her go to snack, playing Jack, and so much more.
K: You're from WA. What's the first thing we should know about growing up and acting in Australia?
M: I sure am! I was born in Chile and moved to WA when I was two. I wouldn't wish to have grown up anywhere else. Perth is a small city surrounded by the most beautiful turquoise beaches and rich bushland. It is quiet and I believe growing up here has taught me the importance of surrounding yourself with nature and creating a fundamental network of people who are your everlasting tribe! Acting in Australia has given me the ability to explore parts of my own country I otherwise probably wouldn't visit, so in a way I feel like I am a tourist in my own state when I am shooting. We are always looking so far away and sometimes the greatest beauties can be discovered in your own backyard.
K: What interests you most in fashion? Are you currently working on any fashion-focused projects?
M: I constantly find myself interested in how clothing shapes the body and is an expression of one's artistic self. I love how the choice of fabric can evoke a feeling - a sense of 'mood' and how it can alter the structure of the human body, or even alter the space around the body.
I have been focusing on the modern day country man, and what it means to intertwine this man into the traditional suit structures. These suits are inspired by the terrain of desert to the peaks and curves of glaciers. As a designer I am interested in how these deconstructed suits can be genderless and in my latest runway show, my suits were showcased by woman. You can watch my fashion space @melaniewozniakcreative.
K: As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, how do you use your youth platform to advocate for more inclusion in the industry? Is there any advice you'd give to aspiring young actors who are also part of the community?
M: The main piece of advice I would give to other aspiring young actors is the reminder that the LGBTQIA+ community is one of the most, if not, the most inclusive community in the world with the A standing for 'ALLY'. I believe everyone should be a member of this community, so identifying with this community is simply identifying that you are open minded and supportive to all. It's so great to see how more and more people have fought for LGBT rights over the years and I hope this continues to grow and this should give comfort to those who are finding it difficult to come out in the industry. Being a member of the LGBTQIA+ community as an ally helps with empathy not only within myself, but also for others around me. I have always felt that supporting individuals to be confident in their sexuality regardless of orientation will help close the gap of such exclusion that still exists.
As an advocate for equal rights, and having friends who identify as LGBT, my critical thought process has enhanced and I have found myself becoming more aware of the impact that this community has on pop culture. The most important piece of advice I have is empowering yourself to take an active role in creating a more accepting world by countering prejudice and discrimination with understanding, support and care. Change can be really hard to accept but I feel the youth of 2020 are admirably supporting the community to be recognized. One of my favourite stories being Brad Pitt and Angelia Jolie holding off on their marriage until 2014 when California passed the laws allowing gay marriage. When I first auditioned for "JACK" in ITCH, I was thankful that they were a non-binary character as I felt it gave a voice to a community that is under-represented, particularly in children's TV.
K: What does it mean to be young in the world today?
M: We have power, we have control, and we're not afraid to go out and take what is ours! I feel inspired by the youth around me, and I believe we can be vocal and hungry for change. Thinking out of the box is the new cool and we are truly taking over the world.
K: Your character, Jack, is always up for an adventure. What would you say has been the biggest adventure of your life so far?
M: My biggest adventure so far was my trip to Alaska where I spent a few days experiencing the wilderness and glacier landscape. I was lucky enough to witness a glacier carving! This is actually where my inspiration for 'WOVEN INTO THE GREY-SCAPE' suit was inspired from.
K: Jack is a brown belt in Martial Arts. How was training for the role like?
M: It was so much fun! I love to be challenged physically so it was exciting to jump into the deep end. I had already dipped my toe in tae kwon do as I got to the last round in casting for the TV series 'Power Rangers'. For this I trained every second day in gymnastics and tae kwon do with a private coach to the lead up of my final audition. Unfortunately I didn't get the role but I learnt so much from the experience and that training definitely helped with my fight sequences on the set of ITCH.
K: What is the biggest takeaway from working on the show? What are you looking forward to in season 2?
M: Definitely seeing the mechanics behind such a big production and how they operated that everyday. Until you are working on a set like this, you just don't realise the amount of people involved! I was grateful to have seen this up close as ITCH was my first large-scale production I've been a part of. I'm looking forward to seeing this crew and cast again for season 2! You really become a family, and I cannot wait to work with them all again!
Melanie Wozniak appeared on our ninth issue "from gucci to goodwill." You can read and buy the issue here.
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Breaststroke, you see, is in harmony with the universe.
An Unbiased Analysis of the Four Strokes by Laurie Kilmartin.
The main focus of breaststroke drills should be breaking the stroke down and perfecting it. Don't rush drills -- good technique is the more important factor.
Why should plodding freestylers own all of the distance and postal events?
Have a separate Breaststroke Postal. Half an hour (30 minutes) sounds a little whimpy, so go for 41 minutes, which is a nice arbitrary figure that allows a warm-up, swim, warm-down, and a congratulatory drink of Gatorade (or whatever), all within a one-hour time period. Add a little food afterwards and now you've got a real event.
Everyone who swims it could get a custom T-shirt, but there's no need for other awards, other than maybe bragging rights. Keep the entry costs down to just the shirt and postage to mail it to participants. Besides, we know that all breaststrokers are innate winners to begin with.
Okay, I had to go to the dictionary for this one. I know two events is a biathlon, three is a triathlon, five is a decathlon, and ten is a pentathlon, but my working knowledge of Greek didn't include the number "nine." It's neun, or at least that's what my trusty old Webster's New World Dictionary, College Edition, says it is. Hence the Neunathlon. Plus, it sounds neat to say: neunathlon!
Here's how it might work. During a single calendar year, keep track of best times in the 50/100/200 short course yards breaststroke, the 50/100/200 long course meters breaststroke, and the 50/100/200 short course meters breaststroke. Then, at the end, add the nine times together.
Send copies of your meet's breaststroke stickies or other official documentation of the times to a central location for compilation, and voila!
See who are the top Breaststroke Neunathletes. It sounds cool to say that, too.
Who ever said that the 400-meter or 500-yard free has to be done freestyle? Do it breaststroke instead!
In fact, get some fellow breaststrokers together, have each person put down 12:30.00 for a seed time so you'll all be in the same heat, and have a distance breaststroke event just for yourselves.
I did the 500-yard breaststroke at the St. Pete Masters Short Course Championships in 2002 and actually enjoyed the event; it was much more pleasant than a harried sprint (although I rarely harry anywhere for any reason, but it's the thought). So I swam the 500 free doing all breaststroke, focusing on turns, long pull downs and glides, breathing every other stroke, and counting strokes for each 25.
I had ulterior motives, though, rather than just messing with everyone's mind. However, that turned out to be an added bonus. I was going to the USMS SCY Nationals in Honolulu six weeks later and wanted to do well in the 200 breaststroke. It worked -- I finished 7th at Nationals, taking 6 seconds off my previous lifetime best, and I also medaled in the 50 and 100 breast. I'll never be a Top 10 swimmer, but as long as I improve my stroke and times, I'm happy.
And to answer your question, I finished the 500 freestyle race at St. Pete in 5th place in my age group. To answer your next question, yes, there were more than five swimmers in the event. And to answer your last question, no, I wasn't the last one in my heat either.


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For $2,000, this man will help you find love
Got a few thou burning a hole in your pocket? Mervyn Bunter will help you find love.
Marisa Kabas
If you're a busy single person with a disposable income, there just might be a solution to your dating woes.
Mervyn Bunter, an online dating concierge service, is here to help narrow down potential matches and take the "online" out of online dating. That is, if you have $2,000 per month to burn.
Mervyn Bunter
"It's a service for people who want to settle down," founder Anthony Recenello told the Daily Dot. "The people paying me, they're not paying me to get laid. They could find ways to do that if they wanted to."
Mervyn Bunter is an outgrowth of Wolf & Garden, a startup that Recenello refers to as a "social development program." Wolf & Garden helps men develop their networking and dating skills, and many of Recenello's clients complained about being too busy for the swiping and banal chatter that comes with the territory of online dating.
"Some of them were saying indirectly, 'I wish you could just give me a date, so I could start a relationship. I don't even have time to go to the bars. I have zero time in my life,'" Recenello said. "So I thought, 'Why don't I create something like that?'"
Despite its steep price tag, Mervyn Bunter isn't intended to exclude the non-monied or the rest of the 99 percent. Recenello says he just wants to help clients sort through a seemingly endless sea of potential suitors to find them the perfect match. Basically, if you're willing to pay, then Mervyn Bunter will make it happen.
Anthony Recenello, found of Mervyn Bunter (via Wolf & Garden)
Here's how it works: Clients must first consent to a background check. They then meet with Recenello so he can determine whether they're "there for the right reasons," as Bachelor contestants would say.
"When I interview a potential Mervyn Bunter client, I try to see if they're the type of person that men and women would like," Recenello said. He gets a feel for the person, their sense of humor, whether they're an introvert or extrovert, and if there's a beating heart inside the businessman or woman.
"Sometimes people are so focused on success, that it seems like there's not a person behind it."
Once a client is admitted, they're assigned to a Mervyn Bunter concierge who'll help them every step of the way, setting up their dating profiles and managing their dates. Mervyn Bunter even helps with the seemingly impossible task of helping select the perfect profile photo. At the first meeting, a professional photographer snaps some shots, and then members are invited to a cocktail party for the purpose of taking "candids."
Are these steps a natural, necessary part of the online dating process? Probably not. But are they useful? Definitely.
Clients are given monthly one-on-one coaching sessions with Recenello himself, and he even brings in "test dates" for clients who have been out of the game for so long that they need to brush up on their people skills. He also provides them with a new haircut, as well as a shopping spree with a stylist.
Then the concierge gets to work, perusing any combination of Match.com, eHarmony, OkCupid and, yes, Tinder, to see who might work for the client. It's like Expedia, except for dates instead of hotels and flights.
So who's actually doing the matching for Mervyn Bunter? Recenello says that right now, his matchmaking team consists of a few stay-at-home moms. The process might not be scientific, but who knows what's best for you better than a mom?
So far, Mervyn Bunter's matchmakers have been contacting potential dates by sending them online messages, which say that they're reaching out on behalf of a Mervyn Bunter client. While you might be creeped out by the prospect of receiving a message in your inbox from an anonymous "matchmaker," Recenello says that so far, potential matches have been fairly receptive.
"Before I started this service, I was weary of how people would respond," Recenello admitted. "But it's so weird because it really actually works."
From there, the concierge arranges a date, sending a calendar invite to both parties. At this point, Mervyn Bunter's work is done. It's up to the daters to make it happen.
"I'm really big on meeting face to face," Recenello said. "I'm trying to make face-to-face easier for people who don't have time to go out and meet people."
Haircuts and personal stylists aside, will busy singles be willing to shell out $2,000 for a service that uses online matchmaking to facilitate face-to-face interactions, the same way Tinder and OkCupid do? Probably not.
But Recenello, who has the spirit of Yente the matchmaker trapped in the body of a 30-year-old, wants Mervyn Bunter to be "the gold standard for eligible singles in New York City." And it just might be, if the singles are willing to pony up the gold.
Photo via Wolf & Garden
*First Published: Feb 20, 2015, 10:00 am CST
Marisa Kabas is a lifestyle reporter and activist. Her work has been published by Fusion, Fast Company, and Today. She's also served as an editorial campaigns director for Purpose PBC, a social movement incubator.


Michael Britt has been the Director of Percussion Studies at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, AR since 2003. He is responsible for all aspects of the percussion program, including applied percussion, directing the SAU Drum Line, the SAU Percussion Ensemble, and percussion methods. In addition to his percussion responsibilities, he also directs the Jazz Ensemble and the Dixieland Band. During his tenure at SAU, the percussion studio and drum line have more than tripled in size.
Mr. Britt received his Master's of Music degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Minnesota, and a Bachelor's of Music Education degree from Murray State University. While at Murray State, he instructed and arranged for the MSU Drum Line. While at Minnesota, he taught applied percussion, percussion methods, assisted with the percussion ensemble, and served as a feature soloist.
Michael is very committed to public school music education, having presented clinics at numerous schools in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Minnesota, Texas, and Arkansas. He has also served as a clinician and performer at state "Day of Percussion" festivals. Michael is active as both an arranger and adjudicator throughout the southern region. As a performer, Michael plays regularly with several orchestras in the Arkansas/Texas area, in addition to frequent solo and chamber performances.
His primary teachers include Fernando Meza and Dr. Tom Vanarsdel; additional studies with She-e Wu, Leigh Howard Stevens, Arthur Lipner, Steve Yeager, and Earl Yowell. He has worked with such noted composers/conductors as Gunther Schuller, Frederick Fennell, Craig Kirchhoff, and Johan de Meij.
Michael holds professional memberships in the Percussive Arts Society, College Music Society, Music Educators National Conference, Arkansas School Band and Orchestra Association, and he proudly endorses Innovative Percussion products.


I am writing this in order to make myself understand something. I am an Arma 3 player and I am getting kind of angry when I see all those bushes and trees flickering when I`m moving.Searching through internet I found out that I need to update the driver for the gpu. I tried this via Device Manager but it says the update is up to date. Looking on the AMD website,I downloaded auto detect tool. It detects that I need a new update for the driver. Nice and easy until now. After installation(no freeze/stuck or anything I found online) i restarted my laptop and had no problem on boot. Tried to look through CCC, found out that it disappeared and I got the new Radeon Software-Crimson (I was shocked that my gpu could handle it). So far so good. Trying to start the game, I saw that the performance was too low so I had to check that Crimson software again. I found out that I have another gpu detected, the R9 M200X. So the only solution I have is to restore the driver to an older version and keep playing with those annoying flickerings.
I was just wondering: does my gpu handles Crimson software? Or did I make anything wrong?


Distance between Baerami and Wondai. How many miles from Baerami to Wondai.
The straight distance between Baerami (New South Wales) and Wondai (Queensland) is 427.75 mi, but the driving distance is 556.53 mi.
It takes to go from Baerami to Wondai.


Seller installs google playstore and send out the phone within a day. Playstore is certified, able to do in app purchases. Good service and price.
I bought this phone on 15 March and received on 1April. Put it simple, this seller W Digital cannot be trusted. Qoo10 also NOT helpful. Seller will not have items as advertised yet lure customer n cheat. How come delivering a phone locally take more than 2 weeks? I asked both W Digital and qoo10 to refund but simply keep quiet. Shoppers, buy from this seller wisely. I am very very very disappointed this seller and qoo10.
Product received in good condition, delivery within 2 days, thank you very much!
Black/Grey model out of stock, was given the blue one instead. Still looks good though.
Delivery is OK. Phone looks good. Overall rating is OK.
Is it Global Rom version?
I don't want China ROM. Is it a way to flash to Global ROM?
Do you have ready stock for Xiaomi Mi 9 Transparent explorer set? 12gb / 256gb I want to buy direct.
may i know roughly how long will it takes to come once I pre-order?
your side will be sending out next Monday for my order?
Can I collect on the same day as the order if I buy today?
depends on which item do you order?
is the xiaomi mi 9 in stock if i want to buy? can i collect on monday?