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Japan's popular cat cafés — where visitors can pay to drop in for some rest and relaxation with the felines — are getting slapped with a curfew.
A revision to Japan's animal-protection law will soon enforce the 8 p.m. curfew on the "public display of cats and dogs," according to Reuters, beginning June 1. The law is coming to a head with cat cafés, where customers pay to play with the animals. Popular in Tokyo, the cafés cater to animal lovers who, because of housing regulations, aren't allowed to have pets in their homes, where space is often at a premium.
Unfortunately, it is these same customers who often trickle in to de-stress after work, usually after 8 p.m. Some cat-café owners have voiced concerns, given that they see the majority of their business in the evening. Besides losing just the revenue, owners are now worried about how to provide for the animals.


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"How wonderful," the neighbours exclaimed!
"Not only did your horse return, but you received two more.
One of the key lessons in this parable is this: It is impossible to tell whether anything that happens to you in life is GOOD or BAD, because you never know the consequences of misfortune or good fortune until enough time has passed.
In other words, events that happen to you in and of themselves are 100% neutral.
…and your happiness and peace of mind depends entirely on how you interpret those events.
You must make every effort to reprogram your mind (and expand your consciousness and awareness) to look at the world this way. It will be greatly beneficial.


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Japanese Snacks 101 — The Salty and Savory Snacks of Japan
Do you love the crispiness, the loud crunch, the sharp texture, or the savory aftertaste? Whatever it is that makes you reach for your daily dose of salty snacks, Japan has a lot to offer!
Today I'll tell you about the most popular chips, puffs, crackers, and bits that the Japanese love. They come in quite surprising flavors, so brace yourself and let's get off on a journey through Japanese savory snacks!
Japanese snacks come in a variety of shapes and sizes
Japanese Chips, Crisps, and Puffs
At first glance, Japan may seem to have a similar selection of packaged chips and crisps to the US. At a second glance, you realize how diametrically different it is.
Sure, there's always the basic, salted or pizza-flavored potato chips. But the most popular flavor combos in Japan are quite different than what's offered on western supermarket shelves.
In addition, Japan went far beyond potatoes, corn, and wheat when it comes to crispy snacks. Rice is a well-used ingredient for savory delights, and so are shrimp, squids, and seaweeds.
Potato Chips and Sticks
These basic potato snacks probably exist everywhere in the world – and Japan's no exception.
Some of the most popular potato chips and puffy potato stickflavors are:
のり塩 – Salt and nori – yep, the seaweed often wrapped around sushi is one of the most popular potato chips flavors
コンソメ – Consommé – named after a savory soup
わさび – Wasabi – a green, super-hot paste made of a type of horseradish root
明太子 – Mentaiko – This cod roe-based seasoning is popular in both fish delicacies and potato chips
しょうゆ – Soy sauce and ポン酢 – ponzu – citrus sauce
マヨ – Mayonnaise
梅 – Ume, a tart and aromatic Japanese plum that gives a sour flavor.
The leading potato snack producers are Calbee, Tohato, Royce, Koikeya, Chipstar, and FritoLay.
It's definitely not the caramel-topped popcorn that we adore in the west – Japanese caramel corn is something else.
First created by the snack manufacturer Tohato in the '70s, this puffed corn snack is similar to a Cheeto – but sweet. It's combined with peanuts for a wonderful savory-sweet combo. It also comes in sweet potato, sakura milk, and pumpkin flavors!
Shrimp Chips
You're probably aware that a large portion of Japanese recipes include seafood. So, it might not come as a surprise that the island nation enjoys seafood snacks too!
Calbee, a brand name as legendary as Lay's, launched the first shrimp snack back in 1964. It's branded under the name Kappa Ebisen (かっぱえびせん). It has an airy texture with an incredible crunch.
Shrimp Crackers
The snack's main ingredient is, of course, shrimp, minced and mixed into the dough and baked. Ingredients like wheat flour, starch, and vegetable oils are added to achieve the snack's legendary texture.
The original shrimp chips are still the most popular option, but wasabi, yuzu (citrus), and garlic flavors are available too.
Ika (いか) – Squid Snacks
Calamari treats are a national favorite – and they've been around for a long time! Grilled and dried bits of squid are a traditional "finger food" and they go great with drinks.
There are many squid dishes out there, but there are basically three famous calamari snacks in Japan:
Surume ika (スルメイカ) – This is a very old, traditional recipe. The squid is gutted, dried, and then toasted and shredded to bits.
Noshi ika (のしいか) – similar to surume ika but thinner and more tender, we can thank newer food-processing technologies for this snack.
Ika no kunsei (イカの燻製) – Smoked squid – long strips of squid, smoked for a chewy, tender snack.
Surume Ika -Dried and Shredded Squid
Tempura Snacks: Ikaten (いか天) and Noriten (のり天)
You might wonder how Tempura (天ぷら) ended up on a list of Japanese snacks. Normally, the deep-fried tempura battermakes any dish crispy and delicious. Tempura flakes, crispy little deep-fried pieces of wheat flour batter, are often used to bring crunch to meals. But why stop there?
Tempura is so widely loved in Japan that it's eaten both fordinner and as a snack. In particular, tempura is mixed with squid or seaweed to make deliciously crunchy bite-sized pieces sold in a bag.
Ika ten, the squid tempura, is a uniquely textured snack that manages to be both chewy and crispy. Nori ten is a combination of seaweed and tempura. Sometimes, these come flavored with wasabi. Both kinds of tempura snacks go incredibly well with drinks!
Rice-based Snacks in Japan
Rice is a basic staple in any pantry in Japan. So, it may not come as a surprise that many types of savory and sweet rice snacks exist too, especially in the form of crackers. The dry rice cookies and crackers are collectively called beika (米菓).
Baked, fried, or grilled, there's an incredible variety of rice crackers out there. Practically, each region in Japan has aspecialty rice snack with ingredients or recipes that can't be found anywhere else. Two major categories of salty rice snacks are senbei and okaki.
Senbei (煎餅)
Ask any senior in Japan what salty snack first comes to their mind, and the answer will likely be – senbei.
Senbei is a simple type of rice cracker with a long tradition behind it. You can buy a bag of senbei in any supermarket. But it's also nice to find specialty stores that sell this type of snack in bulk – the traditional senbei stores have a lovely retro vibe to them. In many cases, the displayed price is per piece (or 2, 3, 5 pieces). That's because senbei is usually a rather large disc shape, about the size of a palm of a hand.
Assorted Senbei crackers
This type of snack is usually made of non-glutinous rice (uruchimai) flour, but some regions of Japan use different types of flour. In particular, Kanto-region senbei is typically made of fine non-glutinous flour, which gives it a strong crunch. The senbei in Kansai uses glutinous rice flour, which gives it a softer texture. The dough is shaped and baked, fried, or grilled over charcoal.
Senbei traditionally accompanies green tea, so it's no wonder that many types and grades exist. Most commonly, the crackers are seasoned with soy sauce, seaweeds, squid, black sesame, or chili pepper. From the deep-fried supermarket variety to artisan-grade senbei with unique flavors – everyone can find a version of this snack that they love.
Kaki no tane (柿の種)
With a similar recipe as senbei, kaki no tane is one of the most popular snacks to go with beer in Japan! This elongated, dark-orange piece of crisp looks very much like a persimmon seed – which is what the name of this snack literally translates to.
Yet – kaki no tane contains no persimmons nor their seeds – it's a combination of slightly spicy rice crisps and peanuts.
Kaki no tane
Also known as Kaki-pi, kaki no tane originally comes flavored with chili, but it also comes in various aromas including mayonnaise, wasabi, chocolate, cheese, curry, and umeboshi.
Okaki (おかき)
Okaki is somewhat similar to senbei – they're both salty rice snacks.
But there are two key differences that set okaki apart from senbei:
Instead of less glutinous rice varieties, okaki are made out of mochigome, the sweet, super-glutinous rice typically used for sweets. In a way, okaki is essentially cut, and dried, baked, or fried mochi.
Okaki are smaller than senbei, and they come in various shapes. An even smaller variety of tiny finger snacks is called arare (あられ).
Even though sweet rice is used, and the cracker is made out of a traditional Japanese sweet, okaki are savory snacks. Seasonings like soy sauce, salt, pepper, black sesame, nori seaweed, and other savory delights are added to enhance the salty flavors of okaki.
Arare – Fried Rice Crackers
Snacking Away
Savory snacks are, possibly, something people are universally drawn to. There are simply very few things in life that are as sweet as licking deliciously salty seasoning off your fingers after a bag of crisps.
If you're satiated with Western snack flavors, Japan has a lot of fresh variety to offer. Many savory, salty, umami, and spicy snacks are available in unique flavors that you'll find nowhere else in the world!
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The Guinness Premiership is one of the best Rugby Union top flights in the world. The Prem is the top flight of English Rugby and has some of the best players in the world playing in it.
With six games played in the Guinness Premiership this season, it is still a tightly contested race, with Gloucester holding a slim lead over Bath 23 points to 22. Saracens and Harlequins are trying to nip at their heels, tied for third at 19 points.
Worcester and Leeds are trying desperately to get back into it and avoid relegation. Worcester has four points and Leeds have five.


The megacorporation Dan Foundation declares independence from Japan as the head, Dan Kuroto, declares himself king of this tiny new nation! Sougo and the others go to investigate this new king, but they discover that the once-Kamen Rider Genm is now Another OOO! How did this happen?


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Streaming wars: Competing music services offer free trials and versions
Francois Marchand and Gillian Shaw, Vancouver Sun 11.27.2015
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Home entertainment is topping holiday gift lists this year and, in that category, music is experiencing a resurgence in the home.
Sales have been fuelled by increasing options for streaming music. The arrival of Apple Music is expected to do for streaming music what the iPod did for digital music — push it from the margins to mainstream.
And music lovers are emerging from under their headphones to listen to wireless speakers, a category that is growing with options ranging from the smallest, portable Bluetooth speakers for travel to large, premium speakers to fill your home with sound.
Sadly, this month saw the demise of Rdio, the first streaming music subscription service in Canada. We were always grateful to Rdio for bringing all-you-can-listen-to flat fee music to the country, which had been left behind as subscription services like Spotify launched in other countries. Plus it was a great service, a good interface and it featured many Canadian indie artists.
In the face of increasing competition, Rdio announced it was filing for bankruptcy, with its key assets to be acquired by the music service Pandora for $75 million US.
Unfortunate as that is for consumers who benefit from choice, at least the number of streaming music services in Canada has increased since Rdio launched in 2010.
Recently Google's YouTube, known as a video platform but passing Spotify and Apple Music in the number of viewers using its streaming music service, announced its newest YouTube Music app. It's free, but with there's a paid ad-free version in combination with Google's other music service.
However, it's not available in Canada — a perennial refrain when it comes to getting streaming music in Canada. But stay tuned, Google promises the service will expand beyond the United States soon.
Whether it's setting up your home audio for the holidays or choosing a gift of music that will keep on giving, here's our holiday shopping guide to streaming sound. While there are a number of free streaming options, like Songza, Last FM and others, we're focusing here on the paid subscription services.
The biggest factor, we find, in choosing a music streaming service is the user interface, especially on mobile.
Spotify, Google Play, Apple Music and Tidal all have a similar amount of content, though Tidal also gives you access to a library of 10,000+ music videos. It also costs $5 to $10 more a month, depending on the plan you choose.
Spotify, Google Play and Tidal all have relatively similar interfaces on a mobile platform, which is where you'll consume most of the streaming. Spotify and Google Play have been heavily leaning on "mood playlist" and situation-sensitive content curation. For example, you can load up Google Play on a Monday and select "Beast Mode" to get yourself amped up, with the option to listen to classic rock anthems. Spotify offers a "Running" mode that finds music matching your running speed using your mobile device's accelerometer.
Rdio was a little more straightforward in its presentation but it failed to keep up with the competition, introducing a free option that came too late. Other companies offered a ad-supported free option and won over a lot of paying of customers that way as people became accustomed to their offerings and decided shift to the paid, ad-free version. Rdio still had a lot of fans — it was no-nonsense and it worked like a charm. Much like Spotify, Rdio made sharing your own playlists or creating a "radio station" very easy.
If you're an iTunes user, Apple Music is a strong contender. The iCloud Match feature is still a tad clunky and the user interface since the iOS 8 upgrade has been over-complicated for no reason. But if you already own a bunch of stuff you've imported from CD, the Match feature is neat to have since you can "mirror" your home iTunes collection on the go. The Match feature is still limited to 25,000 songs, with the promise of 100,000 in the near future. And if you have The Beatles on CD, Match will allow you to stream them from the Cloud since they're available for purchase on iTunes. (No stand-alone streaming service offers The Beatles at the moment.)
If you have a limited cell data plan, picking any of the services will allow you to stream at the basic 96 kbps, which sounds a little lame but actually works quite well, especially if you're using earbuds while riding the bus. It renders the Tidal option less appealing, however, since the service is a data hog. For home use via Wi-Fi, though, you'd be crazy not to boost your resolution or go full FLAC quality with Tidal, especially if you're streaming your songs to a stereo with a half-decent set of speakers.
If you listen to music a lot on the go, make sure the service you choose lets you listen offline — most paid services do, free versions typically don't. Otherwise you'll be eating up cellular data every time you tune in when you're out of Wi-Fi range.
Pricing. At $10 a month, you can't go wrong with any of the services. The basic functionalities you'll crave (downloads for offline listening, playlist creation, new releases, recommendations, social sharing, and tailored content) are all roughly the same. Since you can test-run the services for a period of one or two months (Google offers a two-month trial period), you should give them all a spin and pick the one you like best.
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Past pupil, Lucy Hyland, did the Ballymaloe 12 Week Certificate in April 2009. Lucy is a Food & Health Consultant.
She decided to do the course just after taking voluntary redundancy.
I had been working in social policy and planning around the world, but knew I wanted to work more with individuals and their own sense of well-being. I had just finished 4 years of studying Nutritional Therapy in Dublin and I knew my direction was changing. I had grown more and more interested in role that food and nutrition plays in our health, but I knew something was still missing.
In some ways, the Ballymaloe course filled that missing link. Although I knew about the scientific side of how food benefited our health and had spent many years tasting my way around the world, I had lost the love and celebration of food after 4 years of studying and learning.
The course re-ignited what I already knew: that good food is not just about the ingredient and its health properties, but also about the lives of the growers, the history of the making, the health of the soil, and the journey from farm to fork.
This formed the basis of my new company, Food for Living, which was set up in the summer after I left Ballymaloe. I wanted to do more than simply hand out advice to people on what food they should increase and decrease in their daily diets. I wanted them to think about how they felt after eating, how their relationship to food reflected the deeper relationship they had with themselves and what else was involved in getting the food onto their plate.
Over the last 4 years, I've developed an eating well company that focuses on helping people create more of a link between themselves and the foods they eat. This involves designing recipes that inspire people to start cooking or using new ingredients; creating meal plans that allow people to improve health conditions through food and programmes that help people on the step by step journey towards a way of eating that promotes good health. It also involves working with individuals and groups to create a deeper connection to their own wellbeing through the food choices they make on a daily basis.
I am so grateful to Ballymaloe for reminding me of what is important and instilling this ethos in the way that I developed my business. Some days on the course I could have cursed getting up so early to pick herbs and leaves for the lunch! But, in doing so, it reminded me of the seasons, the freshness of the ingredients and the incredible taste of food that has been grown with love and care. The pleasure we get out of the food we prepare, cook and eat every day forms the basis of our enjoyment and attitudes of the richness in our lives.
At least, that's what I hope to live every day with Food for Living.


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Stargate SG-1: Unleashed Opens The Gate To Adventure Game Fun
By David Wharton | 8 years ago
Since the 2011 cancellation of Stargate Universe, it's been a lean time for fans of the 'gate. (Is that a thing Stargate fans say? I'm assuming it is.) And while I'm afraid I don't have good news about any return to the big or small screens, you will get the chance to return to the Stargate universe in a more interactive way. Check out the cinematic teaser trailer for Stargate SG-1: Unleashed.
While the trailer could pass for a triple-A console/PC game, Unleashed is instead an episodic adventure game from MGM and Arkalis. It will be available for iOS and Android devices. So far there aren't any details as to gameplay or pricing, but it is slated for a March 2013 release.
I'm sure Stargate fans will feel a little sting of glee at the sight of familiar faces from SG-1 (albeit in digital form), but what should we expect from Unleashed? We can probably pick up a few clues from its description as an episodic adventure game. That's a format that's found a lot of success in recent years, especially in the catalogue of Telltale Games, who have produced episodic adventures for such high-profile properties as Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, and The Walking Dead. Their games release in short segments over several months, ideal for more casual gameplay on tablets or laptops.
We'll bring you more about Stargate SG-1: Unleashed when we hear it.
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CUI (Customize User Interface) is one of the shinning points of ZWCAD 2018, helping you customize the operation interface to make it fit in with your working habits by inputting the CUI commands and defining the interface including tool bar, menu, shortcut key, etc. by yourself, so as to enhance your working efficiency significantly.
If you use Match Properties frequently in your work, you can place this command on a toolbar or ribbon interface. Use CUI editor and drag the Match Properties tool to the ribbon or toolbar as you wish, so that instead of inputting the command, you can click the brush pattern as Figure 2 directly in the toolbar every time you want to use Match Properties, realizing quicker draft by handy tools.
You can also set shortcut keys for Match Properties by CUI editor. The way is similar to toolbar customization. Drag the Match Properties tool to the Accelerator Keys in menu, then define the shortcut key such as Ctrl+M for Match Properties. In this way, Match Properties can be employed easily and conveniently by pressing Ctrl+M instead of typing command or clicking button. What a time-saving feature!
CUI also supports Partial Customization Files, allowing you to create extra user interface elements in a separate CUIx file without changing the main one which is located in C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\ZWSOFT\ZWCAD\2018\en-US\Support\ZWCAD.CUIX. For example, ZWCAD Mechanical is an application of ZWCAD, which contains additional drafting tools for mechanical design. Two more tabs, Mechanical Annotation and Mechanical Drawing, are added to the ribbon interface. All the additional tools and Ribbon tabs are defined in an independent ZWCADM.cuix file located in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\ZWSOFT\ZWCAD\2018\en-US\Support.
It not only supports to define new partial CUIx files in ZWCAD, but also supports you to use existing partial CUIx files directly. That means application developers can benefit from Partial Customization Files a lot when porting their apps — if you have an existing partial CUIx file for your app, you can also directly load it into ZWCAD as a partial CUIx file , and use it without changes. It helps developers focus on migrating the application itself, without concerning about its user interfaces.
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Home News borussia dortmund trio could be transfer listed if they fail to qualify for champions league
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Borussia Dortmund could be about to put some of their brightest players on the market if they fail to meet their expectations this season.
BVB have not had the season that they'd have hoped, so far failing to pose any realistic threat to Bayern Munich's dominance at the top of the Bundesliga. They currently sit in seventh place having, 13 points off the summit with less than half of the season remaining.
Dortmund were beaten last time out by Borussia Monchengladbach
As of now, the Black and Yellows would miss out on European qualification altogether depending on who wins the DFP Pokal. It was this form that saw manager Lucien Favre sacked back in December.
The financial consequences of missing out on European football could be massive. Coupled with the hit already taken from the COVID-19 pandemic, Dortmund could be in for some difficulty if they don't turn things around.
According to German newspaper Bild, the club could sell the likes of Jadon Sancho, Giovanni Reyna and Raphael Guerreiro if they fail to finish in a top six spot.
Sancho will be the one who would command the highest fee. The Englishman was at the centre of last summer's biggest transfer saga, with Manchester United and Dortmund spending most of the window negotiating over a potential €120 million move to Old Trafford.
Sancho is one of Dortmund's stars
However, no move materialised, and the winger stayed in Germany. Since then, he has not hit the heights of previous years, and the Red Devils have been doing perfectly fine without him. It is unclear whether Man Utd will be back in for him anytime soon, and whether he will still be worth that amount of money.
Meanwhile, Bild claims that Dortmund will fight to keep star striker Erling Braut Haaland at the club regardless of whether they qualify for Europe or not.
The Norwegian has burst onto the scene in the last 18 months, scoring 65 goals in just 59 outings in all competitions for RB Salzburg and Dortmund. This form has attracted the attention of some of the world's biggest clubs, including Barcelona, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain.
Haaland has quickly risen to stardom
Despite this, BVB sporting director Michael Zorc insists that he will stay, hoping that he can be the man to help dethrone Bayern from the top of the Bundesliga.
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Q: Proving $\forall d\in\mathbb{Z_+},\ \min\{n:\lambda^n(10^d)=1\}=d+2,$ where $\lambda()$ is the Carmichael function. (I'm posting this question in the spirit of this advice and will post an answer if no one else does so.)
[This paper] proves the following:

If $k, x$ and $a_1,a_2,a_3\dots$ are positive integers, then $a_1\uparrow a_2\uparrow\dots a_{s}\uparrow x\pmod k$ is independent of the value of $x$, provided $s\gt h(k).$ Here $h(k):=\min\{n:\lambda^n(k)=1\}$, where $\lambda()$ is the Carmichael function.

Thus, if we're considering the last $d$ decimal digits of such a tower, the proviso involves $k=10^d.$ I've verified by computer that $h(10^d)=d+2$ for $1\le d\le 10^3$.
Q: Is it correct that $\ h(10^d)=d+2\ $ for every positive integer $d$? How to prove it? For other bases $b$ as well, are there correspondingly simple formulas for $\ h(b^d)?$
EDIT: Since my answer would essentially coincide with that of @Onir, let me instead just mention here that the same method gives the following explicit formula for $\lambda^n(10^d), \ \ n,d\in\mathbb{Z_+}:$
$$\lambda^n(10^d)=\begin{cases}
1&\text{if $1\le d\le n-2$}\\
2&\text{if $d=n-1$}\\
2^2\,5^{d-n}&\text{if $n\le d\le 2n-1$}\\
2^{d-2n}\,5^{d-n}&\text{if $d\ge 2n+2$}
\end{cases}$$

A: for $a\geq 4$ and $b\geq 1$ we have
$\lambda(2^a 5^b) = \operatorname{lcm}(2^{a-2},4\cdot 5^{b-1}) = 2^{a-2}5^{b-1}$.
Let $k = \lceil d/2 \rceil$.
Then $\lambda^k(10^d) = 2^25^{d-k}$
From here each application of $\lambda$ just reduces the exponent of $5$ by one, so we have:
$\lambda^d(10^d) = 2^2$
$\lambda^{d+1}(10^d) = 2$
$\lambda^{d+2}(10^d) = 1$

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Some people replace their gutters because they just don't look good anymore. They can start to sag and look old. Of course, if your gutter is no longer holding water, or if it is becoming detached from the roofline, it will need to be replaced for practical reasons. If you are in the market for a replacement, there are a lot of things to consider. But, before you make any major decisions, you should choose the material. You no longer have to settle on aluminum gutters. One of the best modern gutter materials is vinyl. This article explains what makes vinyl such an ideal material for a gutter.
First of all, vinyl gutters are dyed and it is probably best if you don't paint it. So, it is best if you can find a gutter that is already the color you want. Some aluminum gutters come unpainted, and then it is left up to the buyer to paint them. But, if you can find a vinyl product that is already the right color, you will have a product that has a much more permanent finish. You don't ever need to paint vinyl. In fact, this is one of the major selling points. Vinyl is more fade resistant, so you don't need to worry about the color scratching.
If the paint on an aluminum gutter comes off, the metal underneath will be exposed. This is never an issue with dyed vinyl gutters.
Importantly, vinyl is also waterproof so you don't need to worry about rusting. Obviously, both the inside and outside of your gutter can get wet all the time. So, having a waterproof material is going to be hugely important when it comes to the long term functionality of your gutter.
Another attractive feature of vinyl gutters is that they are modular. Pieces can be attached to each other without needing to be secured with screws. This is significant when it comes to replacing or repairing the parts of your gutter. In areas with severe weather, you might need to replace a section of gutter that gets damaged by ice. With a vinyl gutter, this can essentially be done without any power tools or screws.
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Purdue junior who put education to use in heroic act honored with One Brick Higher Award
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Hayden White's clear thinking and quick action as a pool lifeguard in his hometown of Carmel saved a life this summer. White could have reasonably expected to provide assistance to a swimmer in distress. He couldn't have expected to put his Purdue education to use in a critical situation that had nothing to do with water.
When a fellow lifeguard had suffered a heatstroke in the hot sun — with symptoms that weren't all that detectable to others on hand — White recognized what was happening and sprung to action, quite literally saving his co-worker's life.
For his efforts, the Purdue junior in the College of Health and Human Sciences was honored Friday (Nov. 20) with the One Brick Higher Award. The honor came during one of his classes and in front of his classmates. Purdue President Mitch Daniels gave the honor in a video presentation.
The One Brick Higher Award is a special recognition given to Purdue faculty, staff and students who go beyond the requirements of their role and through extraordinary effort improve the lives of those around them, increase the effectiveness of the workplace, or prevent or solve problems. In this case, White's actions did more than improve someone's life.
Hayden White, right, exchanges an arm bump with clinical professor Scott Lawrance as White was presented with the One Brick Higher award during class on Friday (Nov. 20). (Purdue University photo/Rebecca McElhoe)
White, a student in the Department of Health and Kinesiology, was working alongside when a fellow lifeguard dropped to the ground, unconscious, on a particularly hot day in late July. Onlookers thought she had fallen while climbing down from her lifeguard stand. White, however, quickly recognized the much more threatening symptoms of heat stroke, a subject covered in his studies as an athletic training major. Knowing his workmate needed immediate medical intervention, he was able to stabilize her until an ambulance arrived on the scene. By communicating relevant information to the EMTs and helping them load her into the ambulance, White assisted in ensuring she got to the emergency room as quickly as possible.
Two recently retired trauma-room nurses happened to be at the pool and observed White attending to the victim. Later, they stated that they had never observed a lifeguard so well prepared for an emergency and that they wouldn't have done anything differently. Both even offered to be a job reference for White in the future.
"Hayden's ability to perform under pressure embodies the spirit of building 'one brick higher,'" Daniels said. "His capacity to help others by turning knowledge into action is a model for fellow Boilermakers."
White attributed his response to training provided by the athletic training program.
Purdue University is a top public research institution developing practical solutions to today's toughest challenges. Ranked the No. 5 Most Innovative University in the United States by U.S. News & World Report, Purdue delivers world-changing research and out-of-this-world discovery. Committed to hands-on and online, real-world learning, Purdue offers a transformative education to all. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue has frozen tuition and most fees at 2012-13 levels, enabling more students than ever to graduate debt-free. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap at https://purdue.edu/.
Writer: Christy McCarter
Media contact: Jim Bush, 765-336-1909, jsbush@purdue.edu


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Australia's biggest building union is calling for the Federal Government to start an urgent large-scale investigation into the use of formaldehyde in household products.
The Government has already confirmed up to 50 Northern Territory intervention staff and police officers were exposed to concerning levels of the substance in the converted shipping containers they were living in for six months.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) says high levels of the dangerous carcinogen could be found in thousands of Australian homes as it is used in particle board and furniture.
The CFMEU's health and safety coordinator, Martin Kingham, says union members are exposed to the potentially carcinogenic substance in their daily work.
He says the health concerns extend to householders as well.
"There's also a long-term health effect for ordinary householders - particularly when you think of a kitchen, kitchen cupboards, that's where you store food, and tests have indicated that the formaldehyde cures out of the product into the air for up to 20 years after it's been installed," he said.


Since Helen's first visit to the Za'atari Refugee Camp in 2016, she has co created and delivered a number of projects with Syrian Women and girls. Through collaborative partnerships and informed by direct needs, they have together built upon existing talent and sought to foster increased opportunities for expert skills training, as well explore new creative approaches to enhance enterprise and education.
In an age of reciprocity, these projects are as much about what Syrians have to teach us, as they are about us sharing knowledge, training and opportunity.
Who: The female soap and perfume making community in camp, Givaudan Paris and Dubai, Deepa Patel, Helen Storey, UNHCR and IRD.
Why: There is an urgent need for Syrians to become economically independent of NGO's, something they long for and something that constant threats to funding requires.
What: '4 Caravans' is a project which brings together all we have learnt over the last 2 years. Beauty Coop will be a physical community and a dedicated space to operate and grow from in the future. Designed as an inspirational space with a Making Lab (created by Givaudan), for training and production of products, a Hydroponics Garden, in collaboration with Sheffield University, a crèche and a retail / gallery space, to sell produce to the camp and camp visitors. It will also serve a new social purpose amongst everyone who is a part of the community.
Aim: To contribute to women's ability to continue to up skill, remain dedicated mothers, create and sell beautiful products, create their own brands, explore sponsorship with Jordanian partners to sell outside of camp and to raise the level of money they can earn, seeking to lead to economic independence.
Who: In collaboration with the fashion house of Elie Saab, The Tiger Girls, Tiger Coaches, Deepa Patel, Helen Storey and LCF International office, IRD, UNHCR.
Why: The Tiger Girls speak often of their culture and lost heritage of Syria, both contemporary and before they were born. They have written poems of what this loss means to them, but still look to the future. The idea to bring their love of creativity, need for expression and another new skill lead to the thinking behind this project.
What: We shared embroidery techniques that LCF students had also worked on and with Syria in mind wondered, if Syria was a stitch – a stitch which symbolised what it means to be Syrian now, what would it look like?
Aim: To create a new Syrian stitch by learning a unique form of embroidery technique taught by expert hands from the House of Elie Saab and to share this skill on going by identifying the talented and gifted to pass it on after the project was delivered.
Who: Helen Storey, Elizabeth McLafferty (LCF International), Lucy Wearing (Make Up artist and LCF Alumni), the ladies who attended the first basic training Short Course in camp and a second group of 18 female refugees who live in the surrounding urban area of Mafraq.
Why: To give the women who have shown the most interest and creative promise, higher level skill sets, to aid their ability to offer makeup services within camp. UNHCR Jordan also made a request that LCF take the basic Short Course beyond the camp, to trial with the women who live in the local urban area of Mafraq.
What: A 4 day course in camp, teaching in Advanced Make Up application and advice on skin care and skin health. Each woman was given a box with enough products and tools to last at least 1 year of their start up enterprises. This was gathered from a further 'Make Up' amnesty organised by Liz from world leading make up brands.
Aim: To reach more women, who in turn, due to their own talents, could then spread the training to others when we are not in camp. To date LCF has trained 120 women and there is now a demand for training hair and nail care.
Who: Helen Storey, MA Fashion Futures students.
Why: A challenge back to students to respond to the real needs, both practical and social within the camp.
What: MA students were invited to design spaces for the camp community. A number of ideas chimed with intended camp projects, Helen Storey, together with a team from Sheffield University (Science and Engineering), will try and realize some of the students ideas in real time and space. The ideas which lend themselves well to the development of informal community spaces, using the sun and wind to power utilities and create textile escapes for shade, as well as spaces for contemplation, play and conversation.
Aim: to respond to the real needs of refugees in a live camp situation.
Who: Helen Storey, the established soap & perfume making group of women at camp, Givaudan - Paris.
Why: On one of Helen's trips to camp, she met with a group of women already making good quality soap and perfume, but who welcomed working with Givaudan to share knowledge and create new making opportunities together.
What: Helen met with Givaudan in Paris to share the inspirational story of the women makers in Za'atari. Givaudan instantly responded with a custom made workshop, sharing the science behind perfume making, creating a bespoke perfume with the women and exploring future collaborations together.
Aim: To share and exchange knowledge and to explore a model to set up enterprises with commercial self sustaining opportunities within and beyond the camp. (other partners Oxfam, UNHCR, IRD and Unilever).
Who: Helen Storey, Elizabeth Mclafferty (LCF), Lucy Wearing (Make Up Artist), a targeted group of women who have identified beauty as an area of interest and would like to set up enterprises.
Why: To educate, develop skills, support development of enterprises.
What: The team delivered a University of the Arts London accredited short course in beauty to 40 women (gifted by LCF Head of Collage Prof. Frances Corner). The participates received certificates and each received a make up kit created from gifted make up supplies, gathered during a UK make up amnesty, which raised £35,000 worth of product.
Aim: Empowerment/re-building personal confidence, new skills, development of new enterprises.
Who: Helen Storey, UNHCR, Oxfam, NRS international, IRD, TIGER Girls (These inspiring girls enjoy reading - 25 out of 1200), Jax Black (London College of Fashion technician), Saida Bruce (LCF International Team) & Deepa Patel.
Why: The girls love of fashion, their wish for making skills, wish to be able to gift to others & fear of the winter.
What: Day 1 included a workshop exploring the girls own imaginations and sense of self. On Day 2 the girls cut the basic shape of a coat and then using second hand clothes, gifted by Oxfam, and trimmings, gifted by The Cloth House and Barnet Lawson, decorated their coats based on day 1's exploration.
NRS International gifted the thermal fleece to make the coats.
Aim: Learning new skills through team work and then sharing them with others, to promote a culture of upcycling, develop creativity and imagination, to build stronger connections to the girls peers and give back to the community through the process of gifting the coats.


Picked once (at least) yearly!
For jury duty we've known.
Icf held for trial you may be!
* Song parody…sing this poem to the tune of THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS.
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California Golden Bears Olympic Sports
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California Golden Bears 2016 Olympics
Cal Bears in USA Swimming Olympic Trial Day 2
Dana Vollmer and Josh Prenot have made Day 2 finals. Missy Franklin, Natalie Coughlin, Jessica Hardy, Ryan Murphy, etc. are in action on Day 2.
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Josh Prenot may be able to make the US Olympic team tonight by finishing in the top 2 of the M. 100 Breast final.
Day 1 Recaps:
No Golden Bear has yet to punched a ticket to Rio...yet, but both Dana Vollmer and Josh Prenot have advanced to the Women's 100 Fly and Men's 100 Breast finals on Monday night. Vollmer is the top seed while Prenot earned the 3rd seed for their finals.
Caitlin Leverenz, who represented the U.S.A. in both 200 IM AND 400 IM in the London 2012 games, finished 5th in the 400 IM.
Other Golden Bears who made it to the evening sessions included sophomore Katie McLaughlin who finished 9th in the W. 100 Fly semifinals to be the first alternative, junior Connor Hoppe who finished 10th in the M. 100 Breast semifinals to be the second alternative, and recent graduate Chuck Katis who finished 13th in the M. 100 Breast.
Josh Prenot did qualify for the 400 IM final with the 6th best time but decided to scratch that event's final to concentrate on the 100 Breast.
Checking the CalBears.com recap, I did miss a few Cal swimmers from yesterday (all eliminated in the prelims). Here is the full list:
Men's 400-meter individual medley - 6. Josh Prenot 4:14.19; 12. Andrew Seliskar 4:20.05; 61. Ken Takahashi 4:29.92
Women's 100-meter butterfly - 2. Dana Vollmer 57.50; 6. Katie McLaughlin 59.14; 42. Rachel Bootsma 1:00.39
Men's 400-meter freestyle - 46. Ryan Kao 3:58.36
Women's 400-meter individual medley - 5. Caitlin Leverenz 4:39.55; 39. Celina Li 4:53.21; 56. Chenoa Devine 4:55.12
Men's 100-meter breaststroke - T3. Josh Prenot 59.76; 14. Connor Hoppe 1:01.38; 16. Chuck Katis 1:01.41; 45. Carson Sand 1:02.66; 55. Hunter Cobleigh 1:02.88; 69. Sean Mahoney 1:03.19; 97. Zach Stevens 1:04.07; 109. Nick Silverthorn 1:04.38; 117. Wyatt Hodges 1:04.64
Day 2 Events:
Women's 100m Fly - Final
Men's 200m Free - Semifinal
Women's 100m Breast - Semifinal
Men's 100m Breast - Final
Women's 400m Free - Final
Men's 100m Back - Semifinal
Women's 100m Back - Semifinal
For all of today's finals, only the top 2 swimmers will make the U.S. Olympic team. For the 200 Free tomorrow, top 6 will make the team with the extra swimmers serving as depth for the relay heats.
Link to Day Two Heat Sheet (please let me know in the comments if there are other Cal swimmers that I missed)
Viewing Info:
Prelims: 8 AM PT (LIVE on NBC Sports App/Live Stream)
Prelims tape delayed on TV: 3:30 PM PT on NBC Sports Network
Finals: 5 PM PT on NBC
Results: USA Swimming site has links to the corresponding Omega time sheets
CGB overall preview of the 2016 USA Swim Olympic Trials (6/26 - 7/3)
Golden Bears to watch:
Dana Vollmer will likely be the first Golden Bears to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympics swimming squad. The 2012 London gold medalist in this event is the favorite to win this race. She does face a strong competition led by Louisville's Kelsi Worrell who have dominated this event in the NCAA's.
SwimSwam preview of this event
Trent Williams is the lone Cal representative in this event but he doesn't have one of the top 12 times. Even with 6 men making the team from this event, I don't think any of them will have a Berkeley tie.
Jessica Hardy is probably the favorite for this event, although some of the youngsters like Indiana's Lilly King may push Hardy out. Since the Cal graduate, Hardy, is now training with USC, I don't think the Cal women's swimming Twitter will focus on her results.
Maija Roses is the lone other familiar name that I see in the heat sheet.
Recent Cal graduate (turns out that he's not quite down with the degree but has just exhaust his eligibility, he will come back and finish that physics degree in the fall) Josh Prenot will look to make his first Olympics. Prenot is the 3rd seed going into the final, where again only the top two will earn a spot on the team.
The 400 Free format is different from that of the rest, given how it's a long race. The prelims are split into two groups, with the better seeds actually swimming earlier on the day.
Former Golden Bears and recently announced Wisconsin transfer Cierra Runge is probably the best bet amongst the Cal affiliated swimmers to snatch that second spot besides Katie Ledecky (a Stanford commit who has deferred matriculation until after the Rio games).
Given how distance freestyle has always been a weak spot for the Bears beside Runge, I can't find another familiar name in the heat sheet.
For whatever reasons, Cal has been Backstroke U for a while now. The top backstrokers for both men and women flock to Berkeley.
For the men, senior Ryan Murphy has dominated the NCAA for the past three years. He is easily the favorite given his recent performances, including at a long course at the worlds at the end of 2015.
Murphy's teammate who recently graduated Jacob Pebley has the 4th best time this year. He is a threat to earn a spot as well.
The Cal pair will have to fend off old guards like Matt Grevers (Arizona alum) and Eugene Godsoe (Stanford alum).
Current Cal Bears Mike Thomas, Jesse Rykman, and David Puczkowski are other names that I found in the heat sheet.
Cal practices have traditionally been the most competitive races for women's 100 Back. Natalie Coughlin's signature event back in the days, her success is partially to blame for why all of the top backstrokes like Missy Franklin and Rachel Bootsma had chosen to come to Berkeley.
Missy Franklin and Rachel Boostma edged Natalie Coughlin for the 2012 London game berths 4 years ago. While Coughlin has shifted focus to be a sprinter, she has found her mojo in 100 Back in the last year after not swimming that event for 2+ years. Whether Coughlin can make a return to this event is one of the most intriguing story of this Olympic trial.
Cal sophomore Kathleen Baker is also another strong contender. Recent Cal grad Elizabeth Pelton hasn't swam that well for a couple of years, but has always shown that potential. Another Cal sophomore in Amy Bilquist is also in the mix. Recent Cal graduate Melanie Klaren is another swimmer who does quite well in this event.
All of the swimmers that I listed can easily make the semifinals in the evening.
Good luck to all of the Golden Bears racing today.


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Q: How to architect a Group in Django Channels so that the 24 hour group_expiry time does not harm my communication? In my infrastructure, I have a fleet of RPi devices that connect in to our webserver over a websocket.  The websocket connection ideally remains open permanently and acts as the conduit where the server can push information down to the RPi device, and the RPi can send information back to the server.
When the RPi device connects in to Channels, it joins a specific group based on the configuration in the connection payload.  The server doesn't need to know what devices are connected because it uses the same heuristic to algorithmically determine the group name to send out information to appropriate devices, if they'd exist.
The place I'm getting destroyed is the group_expiry time in channels is set to 24 hours.  Additionally, the websocket timeout is also set to 24 hours.  I can deal with the websocket timeout because the JavaScript code will automatically attempt a reconnection as necessary.  However, when the group expires after 24 hours, my devices stop receiving the communication over the group.
The net effect is that every 24 hours, I have to bounce Daphne in order to have all of the groups reset and recreated.  Exactly 24 hours later, Channels purges the groups and everything comes to a standstill again.
I've looked at this issue thread: https://github.com/django/channels/issues/999.  I've considered adjusting the timeouts much higher, but I don't know if that would have any adverse implications to any other parts of the infrastructure.  Groups will always be controlled and so I don't believe I really benefit at all from the housekeeping that the group_expiry does for me.
Are there any adverse implications of finding a way to disable the group expiry?  Is there a different architectural approach I should be leveraging, for instance, wire up the date into the group name and automatically create groups and membership with the current date so that the groups can expire without bringing the communication down? (that contrived example was admittedly silly).  I guess I'm looking for architectural advice.
Perhaps I'm even going down the wrong road entirely.  I guess I should first prove that it really is the group expiry timeout that is killing me by figuring out how to change it to something like 2 hours and see if the site goes out.
Here's the package where the group_expiry setting is discussed:
https://github.com/django/channels_redis


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Жасінту Муонду Дала (,  13 липня 1996, Луанда), відомий як Желсон Дала () — ангольський футболіст, нападник португальського клубу «Ріу-Аве» і національної збірної Анголи.

Клубна кар'єра
У дорослому футболі дебютував 2013 року виступами за команду «Примейру де Агошту», в якій провів чотири сезони, взявши участь у 72 матчах чемпіонату і забивши 48 голів. Поступово отримував дедалі більше ігрового часу і покращував результативність. В сезоні 2016 року з 23 забитими голами став найкращим бомбардиром першості Анголи і допоміг своїй команді здобути перше за попередні десять років чемпіонство.

Того ж 2016 року був запрошений до лісабонського «Спортінга». В Лісабоні грав насамперед за другу команду «Спортінга» в Сегунді, за яку регулярно забивав, однак шансу проявити себе в іграх за основну команду фактично не отримав.

Сезон 2018/19 відіграв на правах оренди за «Ріу-Аве», після чого також на орендних умовах протягом другої половини 2019 року захищав кольори турецького «Антальяспора».

На початку 2020 року знову був відданий в оренду до «Ріу-Аве», після чого у серпні уклав з клубом з Віла-ду-Конді повноцінний трирічний контракт.

Виступи за збірну
2015 року дебютував в офіційних матчах у складі національної збірної Анголи.

У складі збірної був учасником Кубка африканських націй 2019 року в Єгипті, де виходив на поле в усіх трьох іграх групового етапу, який його команді подолати не вдалося.

Титули і досягнення
 Чемпіон Анголи (1):
«Примейру де Агошту»: 2016

 Найкращий бомбардир чемпіонату Анголи (1):
 2016 (23 голи)

Посилання

ангольські футболісти
Гравці збірної Анголи з футболу
Гравці кубка африканських націй 2019
Футболісти «Примейру де Агошту»
Футболісти «Спортінга» (Лісабон)
Футболісти «Ріу-Аве»
Футболісти «Антальяспора»
ангольські футбольні легіонери
Футбольні легіонери в Португалії
Футбольні легіонери в Туреччині
Уродженці Луанди

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Innovation is not exactly Flame of Recca's strong point. In the show's endless martial arts tournament the enemies fall into two groups: the ugly ones who will end up dead, and the cute/handsome ones who will change sides to join the heroes. Saicho, of course, is one of the latter.
I've always liked Saicho's character design, though I wouldn't say he was especially interesting otherwise. I'm a sucker for hair-over-one-eye characters, and Saicho's skin tone is unusually dark for an anime like FoR.


It's been about 2.5 months since my last post. We've had a pretty major happening in our nuclear family, which I'm still deciding whether to talk about. Also, I have been INSANELY busy. Every morning I wake up feeling hungover without the good part! Then there's Paris. I am not going to go into that because this is not what this blog is about. It's about recognising little mercies, artistry and beauty, something the world sorely needs.
Therefore I am going to give a big shout out to art in all its myriad forms, good and bad. Appreciating art is not about being snooty, turtle-neck adorned, squinting know-it-alls who use the words "minimal", "je ne sais quoi" and "composition". It's about being moved. It's about human expression. It's about being transported away from and into the depths of what it means to be human and to live on this earth. Before I float away on my cloud of existentialism, let me introduce the inimitable Hervé Tullet's The Game of Sculpture.
I am a strong believer in instilling a love for the arts from diaper stage. No matter if the child prefers eating the paint than looking at it, or joining in the modern interpretive dance with gusto. We've been dragging Iris to museums since she was a few months old; taking her to live performances; and my favourite children's event of the year in Perth is the Awesome Festival, an arts festival for kids. Being able to appreciate the arts just makes life so much more interesting and filled with loveliness. It really helps to remind all of us, but especially mini people, that human beings are capable of creating beauty and not just of destruction.
Published by the pinnacle of arty farty publishing, Phaidon, The Game of Sculpture is not a book in the traditional sense. It teaches colours, shapes AND physics! All without words so kids can get into it all by themselves! And you know what, I don't think there's any shame in us adults, sitting quietly, trying to create something pretty, even if meaningless, from time to time.
It comes as a long fold out cardboard with pop out pieces and a sleeve.
And here are just a few examples of what you can do with it! Pieces can be balanced, slotted and angled, hence the physics element. It's not complicated but if you're lazy to whip out the paints and dough, this'll do in a pinch for a good half an hour.
*NB: Not for kids in the mouthing/destructive phase. The child also needs to have pretty good fine motor skills so probably more for 4 and up, or if you're prepared to invest the time, you could do it with them.


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CCS ranked 6th in the nation
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There were 7.5 million pounds of thrust that catapulted the historic Saturn V rocket from the ground at the Kennedy Space Center, bound for lunar orbit in July 1969. That enormous level of force didn't just open a whole new frontier of human exploration, it was also responsible for the first American space station. Saturn V was launched 13 times in its working lifetime—a duration of just six years.
The number of monumental feats achieved by NASA in a very short time span is astonishing. It serves as a good reminder of how quickly things can evolve, even if in our quest to achieve lofty goals we sometimes lament the limitations of 24-hour days.
The best part of each year drawing to a close is that we get to zero in on the growth of the AV industry and dole out fresh results concerning which integrators are driving that progress. We call that the Top 50 Systems Integrators, of course. This industry exclusive is a coveted position for those firms generating top revenue in commercial AV installations for the year, and for others, it remains an inspiring achievement to work toward. For the many people working in some other capacity of the industry, the Top 50 is looked upon as an informational tool.
Over the years, we've worked to add value to the Top 50 list, so it's not simply about name dropping and revenue ranks. This year, in addition to our annual commentary assessing areas of business growth and challenges, we've also noted which of the Top 50 most successful integrators are participating in AV-iQ. To further illustrate the successful strategies of these firms, we've also provided a snapshot of the projects that helped to thrust them ahead this year.
1. AVI-SPL
2. Whitlock
3. Diversified Systems
4. AVI Systems
5. Technical Innovation
6. CCS Presentation Systems
7. HB Communications
8. Ford Audio-Video
9. Electrosonic
10. SKC Communications
Click here for the full list.
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ClemsonGRIT
Littlejohn Coliseum
Clemson Men's Basketball
Clemson vs. Wake Forest postgame quotes
Clemson Head Coach Brad Brownell
Overall thoughts:
"It was certainly an exciting, great win for our team. I'm really happy for our guys. This was just one of those games when you're climbing the mountain the entire day. We're down 11-2 and my message to our guys was we need some adversity and we need a way to fight through and win a game at home where it hasn't been easy. It seemed like we climbed back. We had a couple bad plays waiting to make a good play, and we'd be back down eight or nine. That's how it was the whole day.
"I thought both teams played really hard, both teams really wanted to win. It was hard going for both of us on offense; we didn't make a lot of shots. I thought our defense was really good today. We did some really good things that carried over from practice. Wake (Forest) is as fast tempo-wise as anyone in the league. Our transition defense was fantastic; I thought we guarded all ball screens really well. I think guys just kept fighting and we found a way to make good plays and steal a win."
On the performance of his bench:
"You could see this (type of game) coming for Jordan (Roper). That's why we started him today. His confidence is starting to come around. And Damarcus (Harrison) has been struggling a little bit, so we went with Rope and I thought he gave us good energy and really ran around a lot out there. Austin Ajukwa hit a big three late in the game; I thought that gave us a lift. But I'm really happy for Josh (Smith). He's a guy that works hard and is well liked on our team. He'll remember this moment for a long time. I thought our big guys, Landry (Nnoko) and Sidy (Djitte), did a serviceable job on Devin Thomas, who's a terrific player for Wake. He had 17 and 12, but he really had to work for it."
On the final offensive play:
"Certainly, we wanted Rod (Hall) to drive to the basket and either make the shot or get fouled. Of course if he felt pressured, he was going to try and find the open man. But that was the play all along, and fortunately it worked out for us."
Wake Forest Head Coach Danny Manning
Opening Statement:
"This afternoon was a tough and hard-fought battle on both sides of the ball. In situations like that, when it comes down to a last-second shot you're always worried about a miss, offensive rebound and second chance opportunity. They pursued the basketball and got the putback, which ended up being the game-winner. We have to do a better job of finishing and closing the game. I think we were up 12 at one point in the second half and we didn't close the way we would like to close. But give Clemson credit, they continued to battle and fight. Brad (Brownell) kept them in the game and they came up with a play down the stretch."
On drought in the last five minutes:
"I don't know. It just happens. We had some opportunities to get some good looks and we just weren't able to capitalize – it basically comes down to not being able finish, regardless if it was offense or defense, we didn't finish the way we expected to or wanted to."
Effect of close losses on team:
"It's wearing on me. We've put ourselves in some situations where we need to do a better job finishing and a better job closing. I don't think (the losses are affecting the team psyche) so. They're not 30-point losses. We're losing games that we're in. We're losing games where we have the lead down the stretch of the game, and we're just not finishing or closing and we have to be better about that."
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#include "GameFramework/Actor.h"
#include "CustomMeshComponent.h"
#include "CodeGeneratedNeuron.generated.h"

/*
UCLASS()
class MULTIUSERTOOL_API ACodeGeneratedNeuron : public AActor
{
	GENERATED_BODY()

public:
	// Sets default values for this actor's properties
	ACodeGeneratedNeuron();

	// Called when the game starts or when spawned
	virtual void BeginPlay() override;

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{
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		UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, Category = Triangle)
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	UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, Category = Triangle)
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class Dendrita {
public:
	TArray<FVector> points;//ESQUELETO
	TArray<FVector> T;
	TArray<FVector> B;
	TArray<FVector> N;
	TArray<FCustomMeshTriangle> triangles;//TRIANGULOS PARA
	FVector U;
	float L;
	float Ri, Rf;
	FVector Xo, Io, Jo, Ko;
	int nivel;
	int LOD;
	int n, m;//TOPOLOGIA CILINDRICA

	class ACodeGeneratedNeuron *Neurona;
	Dendrita *parent, *childs, *next;

	Dendrita(FVector Xi, FVector Ui, int nivel);
	void Generar(FVector Xi, FVector Ui, TArray<FCustomMeshTriangle> &triangles, int nivel);
	void Update(void);

};

class NeuronVertex {
public:
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class MULTIUSERTOOL_API ACodeGeneratedNeuron : public AActor
{
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	void GenerarNeurona(void);
	void GenerarSoma(TArray<FCustomMeshTriangle> &triangles);
	void ACodeGeneratedNeuron::GenerarSomaNew();
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	//void GenerarDendrita(void);
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	void GenerarDendrita2(FVector Xi, FVector U, float L, int nivel);
	void GenerarTriangulos(int m, FVector *S, FVector *Sa);
	void GenerarSeccion(FVector *S, float r, int m, FVector O, FVector B, FVector N);
	int  GenerarRama(FVector Xi, FRotator Ai, float L, float Ri);
	void AjustarSoma(LocalRef *Refs, int n);

	// Called when the game starts or when spawned
	virtual void BeginPlay() override;

	// Called every frame
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	class UMyCustomMeshComponent *Mesh;
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The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
Mark Kirk
Mark Kirk's quotes
When you look at the state of the economy right now, you have to set a priority. And my top priority is the deficit of jobs and economic growth, and especially this perception that the United States could be falling behind especially Asian economies.
I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.
And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.
Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively.
Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.
Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.
Donald Trump is kind of a riverboat gamble. He won the Illinois primary; in this case, we have seen the Republican vote up and the Democratic vote down, so it looks like it's a net benefit.
For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.
For those of us who want to accomplish something for the country, we need to come up with a list ... of anti-spending reforms which are locked into place so we are dramatically lowering the appetite of the federal government over the future.
I want to make sure we have elected people constantly looking at helping the African-American community.
I would say the difference between 'old Mark' and post-stroke Mark ... is that pre-stroke Mark was a major micromanager. I just don't have the time or inclination to micromanage as much as I used to.
I'm pretty disappointed in Sony Pictures' decision to pull 'The Interview' under pressure from North Korea.
I'm still a reservist. We have three drilling reservists in the Senate. Senator Graham serves in the Air Force, Senator Brown serves in the Army, and I serve in the Navy.
I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.
It's okay to take the food out of the mouths of the citizens from a government that's plotting an attack directly on American soil.
It's the only way that Democrats can win in Illinois, is to say, 'Oh, Kirk has health problems, he's going to retire.' For Democrats looking at a minority life and seeing that they cannot win in Illinois is so frustrating that they will just assume away any issue. They'll just say to willing reporters, 'I think Kirk is going to retire.'
The Spending Control Act. It would recreate President Reagan's grace commission to have a bipartisan commission on how we reduce spending.
The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.
The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.
The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get 'yes' or 'no' votes. Your whole job is to either say 'yes' or 'no' and explain why.
There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.
There's a new role that I see for myself with the new Republican majority running the Senate. I am now the premiere ambassador for the state from the Republican majority.
We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.
We should all be neo-abolitionists here to make sure that there is no right in America to enslave others using the Internet.
With all this rehab, for me just to walk was a huge effort. I had to re-learn how to walk again after the stroke. And all the rehab and all the effort shows the mental determination times 10 to keep serving.
I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.
Good managers have a bias for action.
Thomas J. Peters
Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.
Morris Chestnut
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
Charles Edward Merriam
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
C. L. R. James
To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.
Norm Dicks
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
Elihu Root
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.
David R. Ellis
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.
Izabella Scorupco


Cancer Support Community is a part of a national non-profit organization and global leader in providing vital social and emotional services for people impacted by cancer no matter where they are. People come to CSC for a variety of reasons: to learn about cancer, to give and receive support, to reduce distress, to seek assistance in preparing for doctors appoints, to feel less isolated, to learn skills for wellness and healthy living and to connect with others, to name a few.
Whether a cancer patient, family member, caregiver or friend - Cancer Support Community is there for all people touched by cancer. FREE services for the whole family, the whole time.
Cancer Support Community programs are run by licensed mental health staff, based on research and evidence through our own Research Institute which leads the way in capturing data and information directly from our members' voices and needs and develops programming based on that information. We are proud to offer services that meet cancer patients where they are in providing support groups, social and fitness classes, survivorship and educational programs and materials that are relevant and current in the medical community.
Tour of Paso is a special event for Cancer Support Community and started with the Founders challenging teams to raise funds that will in turn continue the free services that we provide. This will be our 11th year with this great event. Funds go directly to the programming that touches patients and provides a quality of life in addition to hope, as they go through stages of diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
Cancer Support Community is completely funded by private donors, sponsors and fundraisers. Thank You for supporting this vital need. Thank You for helping Cancer Support Community continue its work for cancer care.


Did you know that there's an Israeli version of PJ Library? It actually reaches more than kids and families than in North America.
Called Sifriyat Pijama (Hebrew for "Pajama Library"), the program gifts books in Hebrew each month to more than 215,000 preschoolers in about 7,000 preschools throughout Israel. Many of the recipients of Sifriyat Pijama books are part of underserved immigrant populations and people living in the northern and southern periphery of Israel. This year, the program will expand in age, reaching kids ages 2-5.
Sifriyat Pijama enables preschool teachers to introduce a new book each month to their classes. Then each student receives the book to take home to read with his or her family. Participating teachers are given access to professional development training. Teachers learn to use the books as a means of enhancing literacy and engaging families in the learning process.
Sifriyat Pijama is the result of a partnership between the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF), the Israeli Ministry of Education, and private funders.
Visit the Sifriyat Pijama website to learn more about the program.


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Q: android custom flag I am currently work on an application which has a service and an activity. They change some file and I want to save which one of them made the last change. Is there anyway else than writing to file again?
Can I create a custom flag like the ones already defined in android like RINGER_MODE_CHANGED_ACTION?
EDIT :  I do not want to use SharedPreferences, what I really want to learn is to create custom flags in OS if possible.

A: You can use Android SharedPreferences to store which of the file made the last change. Here is the tutorial to get you started on SharedPreferences.


Walk has already passed the Benelux, Scandinavia, Baltic States and neighboring Poland, Czech Republic and Austria. From 30 January is a British actor Matthew McVarish in Slovakia. Refrain with us six days.
Matthew Mc Varish is an author, musician, actor and activist organization Stop the Silence. In Britain and Australia is famous for theater, radio and television. Featured in the BBC children's program "Me too".
Thursday 30 January came to Slovakia British actor, author and musician Matthew McVarish. Matthew is the ambassador of the organization "Stop the Silence" (Stop the Silence) and the Journey for Change campaign, which highlights the problem of sexual violence against children.
Matthew McVarish their march unusually attention to the problem of child sexual abuse, which was previously exposed himself. On the way is the eighth month, and day passes about 40 miles. With minimal backgrounds residential deliveries travels on foot through the countries of the European Union, liaise with NGOs and inform officials of the urgency of the problem.
The main objective of the campaign is to change the attitude towards assessment of these acts, in particular the abolition of the limitation period. That many of the victims reported the crime late culprits remain unpunished and often continue to work with children. United Kingdom has abolished the limitation period for all crimes with sexual overtones. A victim can report them and with the passage of decades.
Matthew McVarish during visit to Slovakia will meet with representatives of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, with non-profit organizations that are dedicated to the issue of sexual violence and the Authority Ombudsman.


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