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» The GS5 Diamond Pixel architecture is not the same as...
The GS5 Diamond Pixel architecture is not the same as the GS4
When Samsung first released the GS5, we thought the 5.1" FHD Super AMOLED display is pretty similar to the 4.99" FHD one used in the GS4. But DisplayMate found out that this is a much superior display in many aspects, one of them being that it is 27% more efficient.
GS5 subpixels GS4 subpixels
Samsung told DisplayMate that the improvement mostly came from more efficient OLED materials. They also incorporated new display electronics and optics and that helped as well. But now Chipworks posted a teardown of the GS5, and they published a macro image of the display's sub pixels. It turns out that it's a different architecture than the GS4, and this may explains some of the performance boost, too.
The GS4's display was the first OLED panel to use Samsung's new Diamond Pixel Pentile subpixel architecture. The display uses diamond red and blue subpixels and an oval green subpixel. In the GS5 display, however, all of the sub pixels are diamond shaped. The GS5 red and blue subpixels have a diagonal of about 27 µm while the green is smaller at 19 µm. The red and blue subpixels are smaller than the subpixels on the GS4 (in which the blue is 36 µm, the red is 31 µm and the green is 23 µ).
Diamond Pixel: the unique GS4 sub pixel arrangement
The iPhone X has a different diamond pixel structure than Samsung's Galaxy displays
UDC announces the all-phosphorescent AMOLED architecture with the fourth light-blue sub-pixel
Will Samsung use diamond or hexagonal sub pixels in their new AMOLEDs?
Samsung patents a dual-panel foldable display that uses smaller pixels at the junction
UDC: our RGB1B2 AMOLED architecture minimizes blue light hazard
Will SEL's ExTET device architecture finally enable an efficient blue OLED?

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CD REVUE: The Greenhornes
By Sam Gnerre | scott.wolf@dailynews.com | Daily Breeze
The Greenhornes
"Four Stars"
Third Man 3 STARS
Cincinnati's Greenhornes released its last full album in 2002.
Since then, the band has released a compilation CD ("Sewed Soles"), and acted as the backing band for the Jack White-produced Loretta Lynn comeback album, "Van Lear Rose."
In addition, its rhythm section, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler, joined White and Brendan Benson to form the Raconteurs for two albums.
Now that the side projects have been put aside, the trio has returned to what it does best: taut, energetic mid-1960s-influenced rock 'n' roll.
On "Four Stars" that includes, but isn't limited to, the album's two best rockers, the opening "Saying Goodbye" with its fluid bass line, crashing guitars and dizzy solo, and "Underestimator," whose "I Can't Explain"-like power chords make it sound like a long-lost cut off the Who's first album.
In addition, the band also can dial it down a few notches for slow-burning ballads such as the R&B-tinged "Better Off Without It" and the soulful "Hard to Find," or shift into vintage Kinks mode for "Jacob's Ladder."
Arrangements are kept basic so that occasional flourishes such as pumping organ riffs, jagged fuzz guitar solos and handclaps have room to catch the listener's ear.
There's no mistaking the Greenhornes' love for the past on "Four Stars," but the band's selectivity, restraint and astute songwriting make for exciting listening instead of trite nostalgia.
– Sam Gnerre
Sam Gnerre
Sam Gnerre has worked for the Daily Breeze in Torrance since 1984. He grew up in Fontana, Calif., and is a graduate of Fontana High School. He earned a B.A. in English literature from the University of California, Riverside, and a Master's degree in library science from UCLA. He was hired at the Daily Breeze in 1984 to help with the conversion of the paper's manual clip file system to an online database of archived stories. Currently, he writes the paper's weekly News Quiz, does a weekly music CD review, and researches and writes local history articles for the South Bay History blog, in addition to his current duties as a night website editor for the Southern California News Group.
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Thanks Steve. I believe the photo of CN #6 was taken at Truro ready to leave for Sydney.
I have a question regarding the CN Train #6 photo: Behind the large water pipe in the foreground are two smaller pipes on stands. What are these and why are they mounted so high?
Graham, those are fuel pipes for the diesels. They have a counterweight as part of the assembly, but the fuelling nozzle is lower.
Thanks Steve for the kind words.
Graham the pipes you are referring to are water hoses for the steam units. Before we topped up the tanks, we would put the contents of a few bags of anti-scale in the hoses. There were no fuel facilities at the Truro station, as the roundhouse was a mile to the east. I'd like to have a buck for every time we went from the roundhouse to the station to top up water tanks!


POLICE and Crime Commissioner, Jason Ablewhite is today (31st May 2018) launching a recruitment campaign to find a new Chief Constable for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Following Chief Constable, Alec Wood's announcement (9th May) that he plans to retire from the police service in September this year, the Police and Crime Commissioner has the responsibility to appoint his replacement.
"I have been very fortunate to work with Alec over the last two years. His approachable and principled style of leadership leaves the constabulary in a very strong position to respond to the challenges ahead.
"I am also immensely proud of the hardworking, dedicated and professional individuals within the Constabulary who constantly strive to respond to the needs of all those of who live, work and visit Cambridgeshire. Their views helped shaped the Constabulary's new policing model has now been implemented to meet increased demand and provide much needed support to the frontline.
"There is always more work to be done. That is why I am looking for an exemplary and inspirational Chief Officer who has vision, determination and resilience to lead the Constabulary and work with partners to help deliver my Police and Crime Plan. My Plan sets out the strategic direction for community safety and criminal justice is half-way through its four year journey.
"I am inviting Chief Constables, Deputy Chief Constables or Assistant Chief Constables (or equivalent ranks) to apply". An Information Pack and Application Form can be obtained from the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner by emailing Aly Flowers (aly.flowers@cambs.pnn.police.uk) or Claire George (claire.george@cambs.pnn.police.uk). The closing date for applications is 09:00 on Monday 25th June 2018.
The Commissioner is aiming to offer the role to his preferred candidate in July. The candidate will then be required to attend a Confirmation Hearing, where the Police and Crime Panel will review the proposed appointment and make a recommendation to the Commissioner.


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Nevada State College Receives $50,000 Donation From Gene Haas Foundation
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HENDERSON – Nevada State College announced they received a $50,000 donation from the Gene Haas Foundation, a philanthropic organization within Haas Automotive. Known as the largest tool builder in the western world, Haas Automotive is opening a manufacturing facility in West Henderson.
The donation was designated to help students through the impact of COVID-19 – be it the loss of income, paying bills or other needs.
"We are very grateful for this generous donation by the Gene Haas Foundation," said Stefanie Coleman, Ed.D., Dean of Students. "The Student Assistance Payment Program is a critical program that many Nevada State students rely on as we continue to analyze their developing needs throughout the pandemic."
Nevada State students may apply for assistance at www.nsc.edu/studentemergencyfunds. More information and resources are on the @NSCCARECorner Facebook page or by emailing laura.hinojosa@nsc.edu.
Nevada State College, a four-year public institution, is a member of the Nevada System of Higher Education. Nevada State places a special emphasis on the advancement of a diverse and largely under-served student population. Located on a developing 512-acre campus in the foothills of Henderson, Nevada, the college was established in 2002 as a new tier in the state system between the research universities and the two-year colleges and, as such, is Nevada's only state college. Nevada State College is the second fastest-growing college in the country and the fastest growing in Nevada. It currently has more than 5,500 students and more than 800 full- and part-time employees. For more information, visit http://nsc.edu.
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So, you've thought about a change in career, but don't know whether you should step out into uncertainty and act on that dream, or choose to remain within your comfort zone, which quite frankly… may not be all that comfortable if you're thinking of a change! In the following short read, I will explore 10 common myths around choosing or changing a career path. Let's get to it!
This is a well-known, age-old career myth… the belief that you can't have a career that allows you a comfortable living doing something that you enjoy and are good at. This is an outdated concept, which stems from the times of our forefathers. Yes, of course you need to earn to provide for yourself, and for your family, but fear and a reluctance to step outside your comfort zone can prevent you from reaching your potential and earning a living doing what you're passionate about. You don't have to sacrifice on happiness to make a living, you just have to be willing to think creatively about what you're good at, how you can earn from it, and be prepared to put in the work. If you enjoy what you do, believe me…it won't feel like work!
If you find yourself buying into this myth, think about what you'll regret more… following your passion or giving in to your fears! Now by no means am I suggesting that you give up on a job that pays to follow your dreams without thinking it through, planning, or getting the necessary advice… instead, what I'm saying, is that with motivation, creativity, focus and dedication, (as well as sound advice and judgement)… you can turn what you enjoy into a career.
I'm not asking that you disbelieve news sources… when reports tell you that unemployment figures are rising, that businesses are downsizing or that there's a slow economic recovery, this may in fact be true, BUT the important thing to remember is that this is not a complete picture. There are always businesses that do well, even in the worst of economic situations. The economy is changing, the way in which we progress through jobs is different, and hiring practices have changed. What makes it difficult to succeed is not necessarily the externally facing challenges, but that we are slow to change and adapt to changing circumstances. If we hold on to old behaviours and old practices, we'll keep getting the same old (or worse) results. Old ways do work, and there's no point in re-inventing the wheel when you don't need to… but adaptation, (like getting the snow chains on your tyres when necessary), is key to being more effective in a world that is rapidly changing.
What I challenge you to do is to think about what you want to do, and to then make a list of all the ways in which you can tap into that market… It may not always be straightforward, but only when you make the effort to consider how it might be possible, can you work toward actual outcomes. You'd be surprised at the leads and opportunities you can generate when you change your mindset and approach things differently.
It's true, one of the most risky things you can do is to pursue the unknown… or rather, to pursue what is unknown to you. Changing careers can also bring into question your sense of identity. Most of us have come to define ourselves by using what we do to earn a living as a point of reference. If what you do for a living isn't what you enjoy or are passionate about, then you're at risk of having a misaligned sense of identity… but the fear that outweighs this, is the fear of attempting a change, not succeeding, and losing a point of reference, and losing a sense of identity altogether.
If the longing for a career change is there… and you do your research, get the right advice, and make considered decisions, (without over-thinking things), then you minimise the risk. This should be your aim… minimise and take calculated risks.
The emphasis here is on 'ALWAYS.' Of course at times it can be prudent, and smart to have a backup plan. While it's grown up and responsible, know that it's not always possible to have a backup plan. It's also important to realise that if you spend too much time focusing on your backup plan, it decreases the level of commitment to anything else and leaves you with less energy to focus on anything else. Decide what it is that you want, and commit to it, and do as much as you can to avoid the almost inevitable 'what-ifs' that leave nagging regrets.
Yes, you've heard this one before… and maybe you've even wondered when you would come across that job that's perfect for you, and matches your personality, skills and interests, and pays well. Perhaps you've even wondered exactly what this job would be.
So, is there a perfect job out there waiting for you? The answer is, thankfully, NO! Surprised? It's a 'thankful' no, because there are more jobs out there than you can imagine that would fantastic for you. The problem tends to be knowing what that perfect job is, or not being on the lookout for it and missing the opportunity.
If you want a change, start looking and working toward one. Keep your eyes open, ask others to keep their ears to the ground, and look beyond the obvious.
It's normal to think that if you aren't enjoying your job that it may not be right for you, or that your career path may not be the best (for you). Whilst being unhappy in a job is a reason to re-examine your situation, it may not be a reason to re-examine your job or career choice. What I would encourage you to do is to look at the context in which you're working as well. Think about how things would change if you were in the same job but there was a different boss, or a different organisational culture, or a different division of tasks. What you need to do is to figure out what the real cause of your discontent is. It can be difficult to figure this out on your own,so it's useful to have a sounding board in the form of a trusted advisor/coach or mentor.
There's a lot of talk about knowing what your purpose and mission is. This is what gives us some form of guidance, helps to keep us on track, and steers us forward. If you can't identify yours, or aren't quite sure, don't let this fool you into thinking that you're destined to never reach your full potential or find your right career path. If you spend too much time pondering what your purpose and mission is, you may become so distracted by that, that you may miss out on actually pursuing it! A more useful place to start is with thinking about what you enjoy, and assessing what you're good at.
A number of people keep thinking that they just need to figure out what it is that they want to do, and expect that one day, this will suddenly occur to them. If you are one of these… unfortunately, in most instances, this simply does not happen. It would be great if it did, and it was somehow clear to us what the next step was, but instead we have the career path of discovery, where details unfold in time, and we have to make the best possible choices we can along that journey. My advice… think of what you want, and learn from others to make informed decisions which give you a short-cut to where you want to be.
A key reminder… you can only ignore something that pesters for so long! At first it may be easy to ignore the feeling of discontent and focus on something else, but you can only push aside the feeling for so long. Eventually you will have to give in and re-assess your position. When doing this, bear in mind some of the myths I've highlighted, think through what you want, how committed you are to what you want, and whether you're willing to succumb to change if that's what's required. If you are, and you're willing to learn from others and utilise the wealth of expertise that is available to help make job, career and life decisions, then there'll be no stopping you!
Good luck! I hope that you find career contentment and success!


I'm running for State Senate to be the advocate my district deserves at the State House: someone who is approachable and available to listen to their concerns and ideas. Someone who will work hard to find solutions to problems and pass legislation that will improve the lives of all Rhode Islanders.
My husband and I chose to put down roots in Rhode Island because we wanted to raise our family in a place with breathtaking beauty, world-class educational opportunities, and a state-wide small-town feel. We love it here. I want to build on all that our communities in East Greenwich, North Kingstown, South Kingstown and Narragansett have to offer—so that our area continues to be a welcoming place where families can thrive, seniors can retire comfortably, and small businesses can grow.
I promise to fight for access to comprehensive health care for all, to protect the coastline and other natural resources in our beautiful state, and to raise wages and create opportunities for working families.
I'm ready to get to work for you. I hope you'll join me. Together, let's make Rhode Island work for everyone.


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Q: APEX Oracle Package returning a data collection Is it possible to create a APEX interactive grid off an oracle data collection in a package.  It does not need to be an interactive grid but any report.  I have a pkg with an out parameter (cursor) and I would like to display it on a APEX page.  If it is possible, could you point me to an example or provide some instructions on how to accomplish this?  Thank you

A: At this time, it is not possible to use cursors as the source for APEX components. This is because the APEX engine "wraps" the provided SQL query with more SQL to apply filters, do sorting, pagination, etc.
When a stored procedure returns a cursor, the cursor is already opened and its results can not be modified by the APEX engine.
Here are a couple of workarounds you could consider. Neither would be as performant as just supplying a SQL query for the report, but if the cursor doesn't return a lot of data then either should work fine.

*

*Consider using APEX Collections. APEX Collections are not PL/SQL collections. They can be thought of as generic, temporary tables linked to a user's session. On page load, you would write PL/SQL code that gets the cursor and uses it to populate a collection. Then the SQL query for the report would be written on top of the table.

*Consider wrapping the API that returns a cursor with you're own "table function" that returns a PL/SQL collection. Then the SQL query for the report would be written to call your wrapper using the TABLE function (which will treat the function call like an actual table).

Here's an example of creating a view:
-- Create a simple table
create table t (
  c  number,
  c2 varchar2(10)
);

-- Add some data
insert into t (c, c2) values (1, 'one');
insert into t (c, c2) values (2, 'two');
insert into t (c, c2) values (3, 'three');

-- Create a function that returns an opened cursor
create or replace function get_cursor
  return sys_refcursor
is

  l_cursor sys_refcursor;

begin
  open l_cursor for select * from t;

  return l_cursor;
end;
/

-- Create an object type based on a row of the cursor
create type cursor_ot as object(
  c  number,
  c2 varchar2(10)
);
/

-- Create a nested table based on the object type
create type cursor_ntt is table of cursor_ot;
/

-- Create a pipelined function to fetch the data from the cursor
create or replace function get_piped_data

  return cursor_ntt pipelined

as

  l_cursor sys_refcursor;
  l_c      t.c%type;
  l_c2     t.c2%type;

begin

  l_cursor := get_cursor();

  loop
    fetch l_cursor into l_c, l_c2;
    exit when l_cursor%notfound;

    pipe row(cursor_ot(l_c, l_c2));
  end loop;

  close l_cursor;

end;
/

-- Create a view on the pipelined function
create or replace view t_piped_v
as
select *
from table(get_piped_data());

-- Select data from the view
select *
from t_piped_v;

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"Honestly, I was surprised that this lifestyle coaching could work. I was struggling with procrastination. I use to journal how I'd love to wander the country and for years it remained just a dream. It's pretty scary to recognize where you're stuck and through the coaching process realized that I was flooded with negative self talk. However, through Donna Lee's compassionate approach gently bringing me back to my goals, I began to let go of perfectionism. It's now totally okay to try something – because it's better than not trying at all. When something arises now that needs my attention, I may feel the resistance but it's fleeting, and I find it actually exciting to take care of what needs attending in the moment. During our time working together I lost a loved one and found it safe to allow my emotions and just let them flow, rather than holding it in like I use to. All that I learned in Donna Lee's program keeps expanding exponentially. The old negative self talk no longer sneaks up on me. When a little block appears in my life, I see it as a stepping stone or just another pot hole. I have the confidence now to try new things and travel to my hearts content. Meeting new people is easier and before I know it we're best friends. Life is simpler.


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My Weibo Page is Able to Tell Fortunes Chapter 30
Live (one more)
First, stabbing, such a cruel method and the latter method of hiding the body, I am afraid that the murderer and Cheng Qiuyi will either have grudges or complaints.
Shen Yuan Ye frowned slightly.
"Relax…" Vincent said, his hands kept moving.
There was a sensation of a brush sweeping across her face, and she quickly abandoned the messy thoughts and completely emptied her head.
After a long time.
"Okay." Vincent exclaimed in surprise.
Only then did Shen Yuanye woke up. She accidentally fell asleep just now. Fortunately, there are no bad people here, otherwise her vigilance would suffer.
Vincent held her chin, "Come, take a look."
Shen Yuanye looked at herself in the mirror carefully.
The depth of the facial features of the Chinese is rarely comparable to that of Europe and the United States, only some ethnic minorities and mixed races are slightly deeper.
Vincent not only highlighted her facial features profoundly, but even spotted a mole next to her.
The eye makeup is quite gorgeous and heavy, with blue and green overlapping gradients, with red lips, and the impact is blown on the face. It is a feeling that I didn't have in the previous filming of "Unshang".
Shen Yuanye looked a little silly, and after a long while she returned to God's way: "Can't you get your hairstyle?"
Vincent smiled mysteriously and lowered his voice: "Hairstyle? You don't need it, you'll know it later when you shoot, and you'll be surprised."
He raised his hand, "Come on, go and change clothes, I'm going to shoot later."
The clothes placed in the innermost part of the dressing room belonged to the models. The clothes that Shen Yuan Ye needs to wear are naturally included here, but the positions are different.
It is bunched high on the wall, and there is nothing around it.
The dress is not a long skirt, but a striped top with a fluttering feeling, and the lower body is seven-point wide-leg pants.
Shen Yuanye took a deep breath and took it into the changing room.
The coat is very wide and simple. She will wear a vest and then drape the striped shirt outside to create a wild feeling.
The material of the clothes is very comfortable to wear.
Vincent waited outside, a little impatient.
At this moment, the door of the changing room was pushed open.
He hurriedly turned around, staring at the woman in front of the door, his eyes widened suddenly, his breathing increased, "Come on, turn around."
The neckline of the back is down, all the way down to the shoulder blades, and a half of the spine groove is slightly exposed, which makes people unable to move their eyes and is extremely sexy.
"Excellent!" He clapped his hands.
This is the feeling, no matter from which aspect, the clothes and makeup, as well as the model itself, fit perfectly.
"Come on, go to the studio together." Vincent smiled.
The studio was ready for a long time, the fragmentary single pages were taken, and everyone else left, waiting for the model to appear and shoot the cover.
Once in the studio, the stylist was dragged to the small area where the shot was taken.
Shen Yuanye calmed down, and someone came from the side and poured water on her hair. The water drops down her cheeks and gathered in the vest.
The photographer's eyes lit up, "Hold up your chin a little bit, put your hands on the side, and make a casual feeling, with your eyelids slightly raised, so that's it!"
The light hit her straight.
The hair was splashed with water and it was a little uncomfortable.
But when he thought of the importance of the cover and his own profession, Shen Yuanye had to bear it all. Anyway, it was not a big deal.
Until the sun was about to set, the shooting was finally completed.
Liu Li and Lu Yue had already waited aside and offered a glass of water, "The shooting is over, I feel it's okay, and the effect should not be bad."
Shen Yuanye patted her stiff face, "That's the best."
Until she got out of the building, the lights of different colors were already on, and the air outside made her breathe out.
Three people got in the car.
Shen Yuanye couldn't help but stretched out in the car, and Lu Yue happened to see her. Both of them stared at each other for a long time, and finally looked away.
Liu Li suddenly said: "I found you an apartment again, do you want to go there? If you go, you can sign the contract."
Shen Yuanye sat up straight.
"After "GRACE", your resources will be completely different. The privacy of your original place is not strong, and the company will be in a high-end community, so there is no need to worry about security."
Shen Yuanye thought for a while.
She hadn't seen the man again before, and it might be because of her own move, but in general, she got rid of it temporarily.
If it was a deliberate murder, she would never let it go, and her move would only increase the difficulty of finding the other party.
But changing to a high-end one will increase the difficulty.
Why did Shen Yuanye turn her head: "Will people who are not in the community enter and exit will be restricted?"
Liu Li nodded: "Of course, access must be checked, and there is monitoring. I have seen it. There are no dead ends. You can rest assured that Huayi will not make jokes about artists. You can rest assured of security issues. There is more than one company. The artist lives there."
Shen Yuan Ye said with a sigh of relief.
"Well, I will ask Lu Yue to give you the key tomorrow. You happen to go over and have a look, and you can bring it up if you are not satisfied." Liu Li said.
Shen Yuanye looked out the window with emotion in her heart.
If it were before, a company like Huayi had never thought that she would sign a contract. Even if she signed the contract, she had never thought that there would be an agent like Liu Li. Although it was not a gold medal, it was not bad.
Everything is due to Zhang Wentao and Li Mengran.
Weibo predicted that she saved a family of three. This kind of gratitude really helped her a lot, and Shen Yuanye could not refuse it.
She is not a saint, she has the opportunity to be presented to herself, not necessarily a fool.
When she reached her apartment downstairs, Liu Li spoke again, her voice lowered a lot, "Zhang Wentao would like to invite you to dinner, and would like to ask if you are free."
Shen Yuanye had a meal with her hand on the car door, "Eating?"
Thank you, isn't it? It's been a few months, so what's the matter with having dinner again?
Liu Li did not hide it, "Li Mengran was discharged from the hospital last month, and now he can go out. Both of them should want to see you."
Shen Yuanye understood.
She thought for a few seconds, "Sister Li, can you help me write a refusal, they must be followed by paparazzi when they go out, and they have already given it, so there is no need to add anything."
Liu Li was a little surprised, but gave up such a good opportunity?
Shen Yuan Ye has his own plan.
She accepted the kindness of the other party's company and agent, and when she saw the real person, she had to mention what happened that day, even though the two words fortune-telling had fooled Zhang Wentao, she asked about it carefully, and she might have to wear it.
Zhang Wentao, a actor, can still tell if people are acting in front of him.
Liu Li sighed, "All right, I'll talk later, you can go back."
Shen Yuanye nodded.
After the magazine was shot, I was relaxed.
Shen Yuanye still didn't dare to relax, and was about to prepare dinner for herself. After a long time, Sun Ai's invitation came-to eat barbecue.
She thought for a while, a barbecue should be nothing.
In fact, she has a physique that is not fat enough to eat. After eating barbecue, come back at night and exercise again to digest it.
Shen Yuanye made the appointment decisively.
The main reason is that she hasn't eaten anything for the cover of "GRACE" for a long time. Now when she listens to barbecue, she is really greedy.
Sun Ai had been waiting at the barbecue restaurant.
She beckoned, waited for someone to sit down, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for so long, do you miss me? You seem to be thin again, and you are a dog, why am I getting fat again!"
Sun Ai frowned.
There are many people in the rotisserie. Although the two of them look good, they are blocked by screens and green plants, and no one can see them, like a small box.
Shen Yuan Ye took a deep breath, and the smell of the barbecue immediately penetrated her nose, causing her to squint her eyes, "I miss the meat."
Sun Ai took a few clicks, "I have a big meal today, I'll treat you."
Shen Yuanye smiled and said: "Okay, then I'm not welcome."
Barbecue is relatively wasteful. As the two of them talked about what they had encountered during this period, Shen Yuanye did not tell her about his involvement in the case.
She didn't want to think about these things herself.
"Seriously, I really didn't expect the entertainment industry to be unsafe." Sun Ai ate a piece of sausage. "Look, Cheng Qiuyi used to be so hot, someone killed her with such a high profile."
Shen Yuan Ye made a move.
She changed the subject calmly, "This is normal, no matter which circle it is, it happens every day, and people die every day."
"You are right." Although Sun Ai is not a member of the entertainment industry, he likes gossip.
The two hadn't seen each other for almost a month since the last time. She talked more and couldn't finish talking, and suddenly couldn't stop the car.
"Aren't the two of us still watching the TV series played by Qiu Yi in the university together? What's the name? She is so dead now, there are all kinds of comments on the Internet, and some people live it live."
Shen Yuan Ye's chopsticks stopped, "Live this?"
"Yes." Sun Ai turned the meat over, "You also know that this matter has a lot of topics now. Nowadays, the Internet celebrities don't have a lower limit, so everyone wants to use Cheng Qiuyi's Bring fame to yourself."
She simply took the phone and clicked into the app she frequented, and then clicked into a live broadcast room. "Look, there is a ghost in this live broadcast."
Since the accident in Ping An Square, fewer people have gone there after dark, except for some young people, old people will not go.
So the flow of people is greatly reduced.
Shen Yuanye raised her eyes to look at the video.
The anchor in the video is a woman who looks like she is in her twenties, no different from the current Internet celebrities, and her face is a little stiff.
"…Look, the four big characters of Ping An Square, the top point of An and the word wide, don't you think it's weird? A square that should be very safe, such a weird place appears, of course something will happen… …Thank you for your gifts, but now I'm going to the place where Cheng Qiuyi was found to let everyone take a closer look…"
The woman in the video really leaned a little closer to the police cordon, but she didn't dare to go in, she kept depicting it on the periphery.
Shen Yuan Ye was surprised: "Can you still do this?"
Sun Ai received his mobile phone and said, "Of course, did you see it? There are 10,000 people online, which shows how popular it is."
Status: Completed Type: Chinese Novel Author: Jiang Zhi Yu Released: 2017 Native Language: Chinese
Horror Mystery Romance Supernatural
After rebirth, Shen Yuanye discovered that her Weibo page was able to foresee the future. As soon as she followed the other party's Weibo page, it would immediately refresh to show the other party's [Portrait of the Deceased], [Date of Death], and [Picture of the Death Scene]. ……Eventually, the foreseeing function of her Weibo page had upgraded. "Film Emperor Zhang and Empress of Pop Li, who fights everyday……are actually in the same Portrait of the Deceased?" "Singer was killed……the murderer's shoe was photographed at the death scene?" "The new young actress and the Film Empress……died at the same time?" Jiang Pan: Why do you not follow me on Weibo? Shen Yuanye: …… That was because she did not want to see both of them together in his Portrait of the Deceased after she followed him on Weibo. I shall unfollow you, unfollow!
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Mutanttüdruk (Tyttömutantti)
Ülev Aaloe (kääntäjä)
Michael Baran (kirjailija)
The Autio family lives in two different countries: the father in Switzerland, the mother in Finland. The mother, Maria Autio, is an architect. She has stayed in her home country to look after the two teenage daughters Oona and Iina. Oona is a girl mutant, a boy girl who is overshadowed by her brother Antti's death. She has herself assumed the male role in the family and takes care of her sister and her mother. Iina, on the threshold to adulthood, is searching for her own femininity. She is hypochondriac and fears that her life will end before it has even begun. The girls' mother is lonely and unhappy. As for their neighbours, a woman called Toini Kaisla clings to her daughter Saara, not allowing the young woman to detach herself from her mother. Upstairs, meanwhile, lives a strange German man who calls himself a doctor. The German ultimately becomes a key figure for the Autio women. They are drawn to this strange man and with his help the knot of problems begins to unravel. The end of the play is hopeful, mother Autio making an important decision, as does the Kaisla daughter. (Tinfo/Sunklo)
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The Estonian translation premiered at Endla Teater, Pärnu in 1996. The original Finnish version premiered at Theatre Little Finland in 1991.


I a Just like the Panthers are looking for answers these days after a rough start to the season, our city is in a similar place; looking for answers to the issues affecting our town. Recently our kids had the opportunity to spend the evening with former CEO of Bank of America, Hugh McColl through his stewardship of the arts and giving at the Mint Museum. I was quickly reminded of how local government and the business community used to work hand in hand to shape the direction of Charlotte. Years ago people had real dialogue about how certain issues would impact the business community and the city as a whole. The business community used to work collaboratively with the political leadership in Charlotte.
Business leaders like Mr. McColl lived and worked in Charlotte, so his allegiance was to this community. A number of the CEOs of the large companies located in Charlotte today no longer call our city home. The allegiance to Charlotte is gone. And it shows in our changing landscape. It is clear based upon some of the recent decisions of local government that little to no collaborative dialogue took place on some of the hot button issues like the LGBT ordinance. Our skylines are dominated by cranes and rent rates have flown by $1000 a month with no regard to the working class of our city. Urban neighborhoods have been bought up by developers and have priced out current residents who call these areas home. Charlotte is in need of a fresh dose of collaborative leadership once again.
We are in the midst of significant change in Charlotte. It's time for us to roll back pews and step on toes; we need to demand collaborative leadership by our business and political leaders to affect the direction of our city in a positive way. Be sure to vote your conscience on November 8th! You can help change the landscape...#OneCharlotte!
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Led by landscape architect and university senior lecturer, Duncan Goodwin, The University of Greenwich is running a University Urban Tree Pit Comparative Study, looking at the various tree pit systems available in today's marketplace.
"For trees to become functionally useful within our urban landscapes, they need to establish and reach a state of healthy, productive maturity. Unfortunately, tree planting is often seen as a piece of 'window dressing' to assist a design scheme through the planning process." commented Goodwin.
This long-term project will investigate various methods of ensuring adequate rooting volumes for trees in constricted urban landscapes and GreenBlue Urban are proud to be a part of it.
Space and assistance is being provided by Hadlow College and its ground crew, led by head gardener Alex Rennie.


Want a Head Start? Start with Chiropractic.
This is my latest article published in the Citizen: May 17, 2011.
I had a wonderful time speaking to a group of high school seniors recently. It was very refreshing because they didn't know anything about chiropractic so I didn't hear the usual conversations that often come up regarding chiropractic.
When I talk to groups of adults I hear the typical questions about someone's back pain even if it is not the topic of my talk. People seem to be programmed to discuss their spinal surgeries, carpel tunnel syndrome and whiplash when they meet up with a chiropractor.
While I really feel for people who are struggling with long standing pain, I am trying to share a different message about health. People with poor health are looking for reassurance that it is not all in their heads. I truly believe it is not all their heads, but they need to turn their heads in a new direction.
The high school students I spoke to had a fresh outlook regarding health maintenance. The first thing I said to them was, "All disease is the same, so don't get bogged down in the details." I explained why it isn't that complicated and we can avoid feeling anxious over every breaking news story about a disease.
This gets people's attention because I am asking people to rethink healing. I had to give up old ideas myself; otherwise my own health would have been a personal struggle. I grew up thinking "things happen to you," but, now I know why. Patterns are memorized by the nervous system as we experience events and behaviors. The same way we learn how to ride a bike is the same way the nervous system reinforces strength or weakness in the body.
Endocrinologist, Hans Selye, made stress a household word so we could understand how repeated exposures of unhealthy events deplete the body of its survival reserves. Scientists use the term "neuroplasticity" to describe how experiences can positively or negatively change the brain.
Because the spinal cord is an extension of the brain, chiropractic can provide the fastest way to reset nervous system patterns like rebooting a computer. This has been shown in experiments using EEG brain scans before and after chiropractic adjustments. Immediately after adjustments, EEG readings showed a higher state of relaxation, health, and healing.
All disease is the same because the stress response of the nervous system is always the same as it attempts to protect the body. Disease symptoms will present differently from person to person depending on each person's state of health and nervous system patterns.
During my talk I pointed out the various times in my life when injuries and life style choices repatterned my nervous system. Looking back I realized these events could have spiraled into a debilitating condition had I not used my chiropractic knowledge to make changes.
I wish the graduating seniors much success and good health. They get to start young with this information but anyone can take a different look at their health and use chiropractic to change their healing patterns.
Chiropractic 101: Where's Your List?
I don't have a list. Because it is wrong.
Reading "the list" on a website is the wrong way to decide to go to a chiropractor.
#1 - Self Diagnosis - it's okay, you might be spot on but you need to be open minded to the actual way chiropractic influences the body. If your curiosity gets you through the door of my office, I welcome you. But, be ready for learning how to empower yourself in a way not presented to you by the medical arena.
#2 - Self Diagnosis - on the other hand, if your assumptions keep you out of the office, you are missing out on a great healing opportunity. Maybe you need healing from something else that you haven't considered?
#3 - You don't have to be in pain to get adjusted. Revisit this blog post about people without pain getting even better when adjusted.
#4 - Warning Signs? - We usually wait until pain shows up before we take action, but what if I taught you some more important warning signs that are not painful?
#5 - If I limit myself, I also limit you. Should I turn people away if they have a condition that is usually not connected with mainstream chiropractic? Should I turn away a pregnant lady? A child? Someone with an immune disorder? Someone with cancer? I take care of people, not diseases.
You can live your Best Life Always, or you can just put out fires.
So, if I put a list on my website with 10 or 15 skeletal issues that chiropractic might be good for, it makes people think they may not be suitable for chiropractic care. I never want someone to be in the dark about chiropractic.
You won't see a list at my site.
Patternology is the best word to describe chiropractic.
People have their own notions of chiropractic.
I had no notions when I first researched chiropractic as a career change. I wasn't looking for pain relief, but I was looking for a better way for people to open up their world. And it all comes down to patterns.
We are bright thinking people. We have invented great technology. We sent scientists to the moon. But we are very simple. We run on patterns-- the neurological patterns memorized in the brain and spinal cord.
Are you getting adjusted because you are in pain?
Nope-you really have a negative pattern that if continued would develop into a degenerative disease through the inflammation response.
So, you fell down. You got bruised. You were sore for a while and then you felt better. What you didn't notice was the shift in the spine that changed the subtle transmission of nerve energy so the next stressor that comes along responds differently. Most of our stressors are emotional or chemical (diet/toxins).
Your body adapts and these adaptations change your healing patterns.
Chiropractors like to use the term subluxation. Sub means less. Lux means life.
A subluxation is an altered state of the nervous system where organ and motor function meet at the spinal complex.
Basically, the patterns have been changed as the body adapts to stress. But we don't want to adapt so stress takes over. We want to body to defend itself and remain strong.
The first thing you need to do is interrupt the pattern and rewire your brain's defense response. Chiropractic does this with adjustments.
You support your adjustments with nutrition, detoxification, exercise, rest and stress management.
We can live our Best Life Always or we can just put out fires.
Many of you are already seeing insurance cutting back a great deal when it comes to chiropractic. But chiropractic care is essential to your health and I highly recommend more people sign up with PCD for affordable and unlimited care.
PCD allows me to legally discount my fees and avoid the entire insurance process altogether. Do you know what this means for you? You can have weekly lifetime care for $14 or less! Kids are free.
You can get adjusted for depression.
You can get adjusted to support your addiction recovery process.
You can get adjusted for stomach pain.
You can get adjusted for constipation.
You can get adjusted for female problems and infertility.
You can get adjusted to have a faster labor with less pain.
You can get adjusted to have more energy.
You can get adjusted to perform better at work and sports.
You can get adjusted because you already feel great and what to protect that precious gift.
Your can get your children adjusted so they grow up avoided possible nervous system patterns that can damaage their health.
You can get adjusted as much as you want. NO LIMITS.
And I don't have to quiz you endlessly about back pain to see if I can bill it as a spinal disorder.
In my office, I keep a list of prescription drugs that cause nutritional deficiencies so I can remind folks they need to increase their supplementation otherwise their health is going worsen over time.
Blood pressure is often caused by a magnesium deficiency. Blood pressure medications will deplete the body of magnesium even further. See the problem?
I was looking online for a more thorough list since there are so many new brands of drugs, and it took me a while to find a good, informative site.
Click here to use this site.
Here is another article with a number of examples.
Cholesterol meds are notorious for deplete ting the body of CoQ10. This leads to a weakening of muscles, including heart muscle. CoQ10 is already severely depleted by age 20 because the body makes very little of it by then, but making it worse with a drug is a problem.
Most pain meds deplete trace minerals. The body will not naturally cleanse itself when trace minerals are lacking.
Keep these lists on hand if you are thinking about taking a drug so you can really consider the risks. Often there is a natural solution if you look for it.
And don't forget chiropractic to speed healing from past nutritional deficiencies.
Is like building a house without a roof.
---See you at the table...the chiropractic table.


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Italian court rejects Google's €10 million appeal, accepts Apple's one
The appeals refer to two €10 million fines imposed by the Italian antitrust authority in 2021. Last week, an Italian administrative court rejected an appeal by Google against a fine from Italy's antitrust authority, according to Reuters. The same court did, however, accept an appeal filed by A... Read more
Google location tracking results in largest-ever privacy settlement
The tech giant has agreed to pay $391.5 million to 40 US states. This week, Google agreed to settle the largest-ever privacy lawsuit in history, agreeing to pay over 390 million dollars in a suit that was brought by attorneys general (AGs) in 40 US states. Ellen Rosenblum, the AG for the State o... Read more
Google wants to outsource application development to autonomous robots
A software prototype from Google allows robots to autonomously write code. Users write a sentence to describe a task, after which the robot automatically programs the workflow required. It's the dream of every low-code and no-code platform. Google's software allows users to program workflows wit... Read more
Google ends support for JPEG XL in Chromium
Google will phase out JPEG XL from Chromium. The format has been supported from February 2022 onwards, but Google reportedly sees too little interest in the ecosystem to continue maintaining the standard. Chromium M110, an upcoming version of the browser backend, will not support the JPEG XL for... Read more
Big tech revenue drops due to decline in advertisements
Tech giants like Google and Meta are losing revenue due to a changing online advertising market. Google, Meta and smaller tech companies like SnapChat and Spotify have recently presented disappointing quarterly figures. Google recorded revenue growth of 6 percent over the third quarter of 2022,... Read more
Google Play Store is under siege by regulators
Google is under siege. The tech giant confirmed that European and British regulators are investigating the Play Store on suspicion of abuse of power. The Google Play Store is an indispensable source of income for Android developers. The platform is impossible to ignore for anyone who wants to t... Read more
Google now removes personal data from search results on request
Google has released a tool that allows users to remove personal data from search engine results. It's a significant move for the company, which has traditionally resisted individual control of search results outside of widely damaging or copyright-violating cases. However, the tool's effectivene... Read more
Google updates Jetpack Compose
Google launched a new stable release of Jetpack Compose, an Android user interface (UI) development tool. The latest features should improve developer productivity and system performance. Jetpack Compose helps developers build Android UIs with minimal coding. This allows users to develop faster ... Read more
Google plans new Belgian datacenter in La Louvière
Google plans to establish a new datacenter near the Belgian city of La Louvière. The tech giant has recently purchased 36 acres of land. Belgian media report that Google plans to build its new datacenter in Ecaussines, a municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut. Ecaussines lies south of ... Read more
Google launches GUAC, open-source tool for software security reviews
Google introduced GUAC, an all-new cybersecurity tool that combines strategic data from different sources to help developers efficiently review and analyze software security. Google collaborated with Citibank NA, Purdue and Kusari to launch the tool, which helps companies find software vulnerabi... Read more


Long-term. I am most interested in building long-lasting relationships with clients and people in general. That way, I don't have to come up with new marketing strategies for different products continuously and I can just focus on learning about my clients' projects and needs as much as possible.
Building long-term relationships has also created a steady influx of referrals for me. When people see that you are truly dedicated to getting results for them, they are usually quite happy to refer some of their friends to you which would be less likely if you only have short-term clients all the time.
What strategies do you use to nurture and retain current clients?


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All Foreign Policy statements that are Half-True
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When Joe Biden's son Hunter was serving as "a director to Ukraine's largest private gas producer," the elder Biden "threatened to withhold $1 BILLION in U.S. aid to Ukraine if they didn't fire a prosecutor looking into" the gas company.
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Never quite used that word
Says Jimmy Carter was the last "U.S. president to say flat out those (Israeli) settlements are illegal."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, April 22nd, 2019
Clumsiness, not coziness
Says the Trump administration has "a scheme to try to take (Oleg Deripaska's) ownership level down from 70 percent to roughly 40, 45" so that the Russian company is no longer subject to sanctions.
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
Saudi Arabia is just one reason
Just before Thanksgiving, oil was $54 a barrel, down from $82. "Thank you to Saudi Arabia."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, November 26th, 2018
Fuzzy, 16-year-old estimate
Nicholas Burns
European allies "pay us $2.5 billion a year to keep our forces there. It would cost us more money to bring the troops home than to keep them in Europe."
— PunditFact on Thursday, July 12th, 2018
History repeating itself?
North Korea's history of international negotiations shows "they'll take the concessions, they'll keep them in their pocket and then they won't deliver."
— PunditFact on Thursday, June 7th, 2018
Provincial rules
"If you are talking about Canada .. our wine cannot sit on their supermarkets."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, June 6th, 2018
Amended disclosure
Says of disclosing his $20,000 speech about Syria, "there was no hiding. I released it."
— PolitiFact Ohio on Thursday, April 26th, 2018
Stick to the lower estimate
"The United States has a massive trade deficit with Japan. It's anywhere from $69 billion to a $100 billion a year."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, April 19th, 2018
Generally on target, but 'chain' misleading
About 1.1 million people legally enter the U.S. each year as permanent residents -- "65 percent of that is some kind of chain migration; 22 percent is diversity lottery, 'asyling,' refugees; only about 14, 15 percent has anything to do with work."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, February 2nd, 2018
Defense spending has been on the rise for 3 years
"The president early on called on NATO member countries to step up their contributions ... and as a result of that countries have stepped up contributions toward their own defense."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, October 15th, 2017
Not like U.S. in the 1970s
"Long gas lines forming in North Korea."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
U.S. making progress, but limited
Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, July 17th, 2017
Different countries, different situations
Hagar Chemali
"Cuba is far more sanctioned than North Korea."
— PunditFact on Friday, July 7th, 2017
In Soviet Russia, KGB endorses you!
"This is not the first time (the Russians) have been involved in our elections."
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Tuesday, June 20th, 2017
An indirect effect
Karen Handel
"Nearly $2 billion in cash was flown over to Iran, money that the Obama administration has admitted is being used for terrorists and to support further activities there."
— PolitiFact Georgia on Tuesday, June 6th, 2017
Tougher words, anyhow.
With North Korea, "nobody has ever seen such a positive response on our behalf from China."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, April 19th, 2017
A part-time college kid with unusual authority
Jon Ossoff
"I've got five years of experience as a national security staffer in the U.S. Congress."
— PolitiFact Georgia on Monday, April 3rd, 2017
Revoking the reset
"In recent years ... the Obama administration was committed to the notion, against all evidence, that we could reset relations with Putin."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, March 20th, 2017
Not as much as oil
Anthony Tata
"The sanctions that we put on (Russia) for the Crimea annexation and meddling in Ukraine ... have absolutely crushed the ruble by 50 percent. And GDP from 2014 to 2016 is 50 percent down in Russia, as well."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
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As the Principal of a high school, Hand2Hand means more than just feeding hungry students, it is also a means to understand what a student is wrestling with on the inside.
High school students are finding their way in this journey of life and meeting a basic need is a necessary first step, but Hand2Hand is also a tool for a relationship to be built between our staff and students.
Natalie, a 9th grade girl, moved into our school from a neighboring district. We didn't know much about her but we knew that life at home was not an easy one. Fitting into a new school was hard and she quickly tried to find her way. Natalie's counselor connected her with Hand2Hand and she reluctantly accepted. Not long after, it was Christmas time and the Hand2Hand coordinator put out some small gifts for all of those who were signed up for Hand2Hand. In the last hour of the day before Christmas break, the gifts were stolen! The administration scrambled to watch video and try to get the gifts back prior to the students leaving for Christmas break. The video showed Natalie taking the gifts. Administration pulled Natalie out of class, retrieved the gifts, and began establishing a relationship with her. That day, Natalie received more that a Hand2Hand backpack. She received grace.
As a couple of staff members cared for her, showed grace, and asked more questions about what her home life was like and why she needed to take the gifts, it was the beginning of a new road for Natalie.
Natalie began to trust a couple of adults in the building and then was connected with a program that continued to help her to develop. She began to understand what the words love and acceptance meant. Staff members began to understand her more, and she began to trust. Natalie wrote a letter that I still have today. That letter was a heart felt apology and thank you. I've been able to watch Natalie grow, and she is now a senior, graduating from our high school, and is planning to attend Grand Valley State University. Her future is bright, and I'm so proud of who she has become, and I'm excited to see her excel in life. Without Hand2Hand, we would not ever have truly been able to connect with Natalie on the level we did that day.
When we work together and provide for a need but also do it with love, we are able to show kids that there are those who care for them. Together, we can truly change their world.
Who would have thought a backpack could do all of that?


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Has the split topic command disappeared from the context menu?
Is it my imagination or has the split topic command disappeared from the topic context menu? If so, why?
I'm aware that it's on the ribbon under Advanced, Edit Topics, but this is a lot less convenient then right-clicking and choosing a split topic option. If I'm wrong please tell where I can find it on the context menu.
Yes, it was removed. Our design partner data indicated it was only used by a few users. We'll be looking into a customizable context menu in the future so you and others can add it back. The project is in the backlog. I'm going to add an idea here to see if others vote for it.
I was trying to use that the other day. Very frustrating when things you use disappear.
Thanks Michael for your response, however I have to indicate my surprise and disappointment both at the decision to remove this feature from the topic context menu and how this has been handled.
While the context menu split topic command isn't "mission critical" for me, I do use it a lot. It's a very useful tool if like me you import large sections of text from a document into a mind map to analyse it and/or prepare responses. Having the command in the context menus makes it easy to click on the point where you want to break a long single-paragraph topic into two topics, right click then split the topic without moving away from it to the ribbon.
What is more concerning and disappointing however has been Mindjet's handling of this issue and its approach to its customers which seems to be "business as usual" despite all the talk about engaging with the client base, listening to their needs etc. In this case the approach seems to be, "there is this small but useful feature, but just because something called 'design partner data' indicates that not many people are using it, we'll just get rid of it and hope nobody notices".
Well, first, how many people did your "design partner" talk to and second, out of those that were interviewed how many are going to think of the split topic command in the topic context people as something they need to mention as being important even if they actually use it every day?
And having decided to take out this feature, why was its removal not announced as part of the release notes? I spent some time checking all the context menus and then through the manual and the release notes but could find no mention of the loss of this feature, let alone any explanation as to why it was taken out.
This sort of thing makes me very nervous that some other feature I rely on more heavily will be discontinued without warning in a future upgrade and that Mindjet may even be returning to the bad old days of version 9.0 when the key Outlook integration feature was substantially downgraded without warning. It took until version 9.2 and a lot of protest to get a replacement facility in place.
2. Keep all MindManager's existing feature set intact when an upgrade is introduced, unless any changes you make to features will actually improve them (and ensure that any such changes don't introduce unwanted side-effects).
3. If you must discontinue a feature in MindManager for whatever reason, make sure users are fully informed and that the changes are fully documented in the release notes. Also provide an explanation regarding why the facility has been withdrawn and whether you are considering introducing an alternative feature that will restore some of the removed functionality.
4. Don't assume that when some fancy-dancy sample survey indicates that a feature isn't widely used that the survey results are correct, especially if it is the sort of feature that people are likely to take for granted. And even if the survey is right there is still likely to be a sizeable minority of people who use any given feature.
Alex, Design Partner is background app which has been part of the MindManager install for several years. It reports your usage back to Mindjet. You can disable it in Options or during the install ( I think). If you have disabled it, then Mindjet won't know its a feature used by you.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of user enable Design Partner?
Keeping users informed of deleted features is important. Particularly for trainers like myself. I have "enjoyed" this scenario a few times. "Let me show you a really simple way to do this" only to find the menu item or function has disappeared.
I could also make similar points to you about JCV Gantt versus the current dumbed down built in tool which doesn't allow you to do what ifs for the project plan.
Thanks Andrew - I think I knew what Design Partner was once, but had completely forgotten!
If anything this approach is probably more likely to produce a skewed result than a sample survey. I suspect that only a small proportion of users are likely to enable Design Partner because of security and/or privacy concerns. I certainly haven't.
And I can see how disconcerting it would be in a training or sales situation if a feature has disappeared in a point release without any documentation advising the change.
Andrew is correct. We have the design partner program which sends Mindjet anonymous information about the usage of features within MindManager.
Both -- I've noted your points about the documentation and your absolutely right. My apologies for any inconvenience. I will definitely make sure that the release notes more thoroughly document any features that are changed (and/or removed).
Please note, that the command is now located in the 'Advanced Ribbon' in the 'Edit Topics' group. It can also be placed on the quick access toolbar.


I used to run just about any game I wanted at high settings 60fps+. Although, I wanted more because why not? Surprisingly the CPU and RAM made a significant difference in performance. Some games I couldn't stand playing due to memory leaks and stuttering, but with just the core components, I'm able to demolish just about anything.
I kept the GPU because I didn't want to pay 2 times the price for a product that is soon to be marked down due to next-gen GPU's. I plan on upgrading it soon though. I can still run most of the games I play at 144 FPS ultra settings (Mostly MMORPGs).
Overall I am extremely happy with the way this rig turned out.
Runs absolutely amazing. It's fast with just the right amount of cores. Only downside is that it runs a little heated when under full load.


text:
\section{}

\section{Introduction}

The ATLAS detector~\cite{ATLAS} is one of two general-purpose
detectors that will study fundamental high-energy physics in
proton-proton collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The Inner Detector tracker is the sub-detector closest to the
beam-pipe; it consists of three components: the Transition Radiation
Tracker (TRT), the Silicon Central Tracker (SCT), and the Pixel
detector.  The Pixel detector~\cite{Pixel} is the inner-most of the
three components and the most granular, as it is designed to provide
the lowest-occupancy measurements that are critical for efficient and
accurate pattern recognition and for vertex reconstruction (including
both the primary collision vertex and secondary vertices formed by
decays of long-lived particles). The detector uses silicon pixel
technology designed to withstand the high-radiation environment of the
inner regions of the tracker.\footnote{The fluence of charged
particles at a radius of 5 cm is expected to be
$3\times10^{7}$~cm$^{-2}$~sec$^{-1}$.}

\section{Overview of the Pixel detector}

\subsection{Geometrical layout}

The Pixel detector consists of a central barrel region of three
cylindrical layers at radii of 50.5, 88.5, and 122.5~mm from the beam
axis; and two end-caps, one on each side of the barrel, consisting of
three disks located at 495, 580, and 650~mm away from the nominal
interaction point along the beam axis.  The barrel and end-caps provide
three space-point tracking in the pseudorapidity region $\eta < 2.5$.
The detector is composed of 1744 modules, each of which contains
46,080 pixel channels divided among 16 front-end chips (FE), for a
total of approximately 80 million channels.

\subsection{Pixel modules}

Pixel modules consist of $n^{+}$ pixel sensors implanted on $n$-doped
bulk wafers with a $p^{+}$ backplane, designed and qualified to
withstand an integrated radiation dose of 50~MRad.  Bulk depth is
$250~\mu$m, while most pixel dimensions are
$50~\mu$m$\times400~\mu$m.\footnote{Some pixels are larger to bridge
the regions between FE chips.}  The FE chips are bump-bonded to the
pixels and utilize $0.25~\mu$m CMOS technology to perform
pre-amplification, discrimination, measurement of time over threshold
(TOT), and digitization of the sensor signals.  A
high-density-interconnection Kapton/Copper printed circuit (flex
board) is connected to the FE chips with wire bonds and contains a
module control chip (MCC) that communicates with the chips and
multiplexes FE data, as well as performing basic error detection in
the data stream.  The flex board also contains connections to the
optical readout system and the power and HV distribution, as well as
an NTC thermistor for temperature measurement.

\subsection{Readout}

On-detector optoboards convert the electrical MCC signals from six to
seven modules into optical form with VCSEL lasers and transmit them
through optical fibers to the off-detector electronics.  The
optoboards are operated at about $20^{\circ}$C to provide low
bit-error-rate data transmission in the VCSELs.  Off-detector DAQ
boards convert the signal back to electrical form, format and monitor
the data stream, and pass it on to the global ATLAS DAQ stage.  The
same path is engaged in reverse for module configuration and control
data, with VCSELs on the DAQ boards transmitting multiplexed clock and
command information through separate optical fibers.

\begin{figure}[!tb]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics*[scale=0.35]{./figures/pix_thresh_type.eps}
\end{center}
\vspace{-5mm}
\caption{\label{fig:fig1}
Tuned threshold distribution for the whole detector.
}
\end{figure}

\section{Installation and calibration}

\subsection{Installation}

The Pixel package was inserted into the center of the Inner Detector
in June of 2007.  However, cable connection could not commence until
February of 2008 due to other ATLAS installation constraints and was
finished by April 2008.

The cooling system~\cite{Cooling} was commissioned loop by loop until
all 88 loops servicing the detector were operating at the end of
August 2008.  Three loops were found to have significant leaks inside
of the detector package and will be monitored as a potential source of
inefficiency in the future.  (They cannot be fixed and the
C$_{3}$F$_{8}$ coolant leaks will be studied to see if they could
cause structural defects or corrosive damage due to HF recombination
in a radiation environment after LHC turn-on.)  The evaporative
temperature in 2008 was $-10^{\circ}$C, leading to module temperatures
of roughly $-5^{\circ}$C.

\subsection{Calibration}

The exposure of the Pixel detector to high radiation doses during
operation leads to modest changes in performance of the electronics
and sensors. To retain the initial performance throughout the detector
lifetime, it is essential to regularly tune and calibrate the modules
in the detector. During 2008, we have performed a first set of
reference calibrations that will serve as our performance baseline.
The calibration consisted of tuning of the optical readout;
measurement and tuning of the signal threshold for pixel uniformity;
tuning of the TOT to set the charge response for a minimum-ionizing
particle (MIP); and TOT calibration to characterize the charge
response over the whole dynamic range of the pixels.

\subsubsection{Optical tuning}

The optical error rate is measured versus the threshold and phase of
the off-detector optical PIN receiver and versus the on-detector VCSEL
laser power. Two methods are used: a faster one, where the modules are
asked to send back 20~MHz clock and the 'one' bits are counted; and a
slower one, where the modules send back a pseudo-random bit pattern
and a bit-by-bit comparison is performed. The more accurate slower
method would only be used on problematic modules.

\subsubsection{Threshold calibration}

The pixel FE electronics have the capacity to inject charge directly
into the pixel preamplifier.  While injecting many signals, the number
of hits that are read out is counted versus the size of the injected
charge, which is scanned through the expected threshold.  The
resulting turn-on curve convoluted with roughly Gaussian noise in the
pixel is fitted to an Error function, with the fitted mean
corresponding to the threshold and the fitted width corresponding to
the noise.  The threshold is tuned pixel by pixel to the value of 4000
electrons, reducing the threshold dispersion from 100 to 40 electrons
(Fig.~\ref{fig:fig1}).  The threshold-over-noise ratio for most pixels
is around 25, resulting in low probability of noise hits.

\subsubsection{TOT tuning and calibration}
The TOT pulse width is proportional to the signal charge through a
constant-current feedback in the pixel preamplifier and is measured in
units of bunch crossings (BC), equivalent to 25~ns at the 40~MHz LHC
clock.  The TOT value can be tuned at the FE level and fine-tuned at
the pixel level.  The pixel charge response is almost linear over a
large range of deposited charge.  This behavior introduces a trade-off
between signal size and the dynamic range, since if the TOT is longer
than the ATLAS Level-1 trigger latency, the hit is lost.  The current
tuning is set to a TOT of 30~BC for a MIP charge deposition (roughly
20,000 electrons), giving a dynamic range of 8 MIPs.  The tuning has
reduced the TOT dispersion over the whole detector by $50\%$.

\subsubsection{DAQ firmware upgrade and HV leakage current}

The calibration is controlled by digital signal processors in the
DAQ boards, which run firmware binaries that are maintained and developed
within the Pixel group.  In 2008, a new version of the firmware was
introduced, incorporating a more versatile modular design and various
functional optimizations.  As a result, most calibration functions
perform two to four times faster, and new tasks have been implemented
to exploit the full calibration functionality of the FE chips.  One of
these tasks is the leakage scan, which measures the HV leakage current
pixel by pixel.  The pre-irradiation baseline shows that approximately
$99\%$ of pixels in the detector do not presently draw measurable
current.  We expect roughly 25~nA per pixel at the end of lifetime at
$-5^{\circ}$C.

\section{Taking data with cosmic rays}

When single beams were first injected into the LHC on Sept. 10, 2008,
the Pixel detector did not collect data as it was operated with HV
turned off and the FE preamplifiers disabled to protect the FE chips
from large charge depositions that are possible in unstable beam
conditions.  After the LHC incident of September 19, more than 400,000
tracks with hits in the Pixel detector were collected over several
months of data-taking with cosmic rays, interleaved with the
calibration efforts.  After masking roughly $0.01\%$ of noisy pixels
in the detector, noise occupancy at the $10^{-10}$-per-BC level was
achieved, corresponding to roughly $0.05$ noise hits per event in the
whole detector.

\subsection{Timing}

The Pixel detector was reading out a window of 8 consecutive BCs in
order to allow synchronization with the other ATLAS sub-detectors,
which was quickly achieved.  As the detector is currently timed-in to
within 3~BCs, the read-out window will be reduced to 5~BCs for initial
LHC data, and ultimately to 1-3~BCs.

\begin{figure}[!tb]
\vspace{5mm}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics*[scale=0.35]{./figures/LorentzConf.eps}
\end{center}
\vspace{-5mm}
\caption{\label{fig:fig2} Distribution of the cluster width versus
track incidence angle for the Pixel detector for two values of the
magnetic field, showing the fitted Lorentz-angle values.  }
\end{figure}

\subsection{Calibration studies with cosmic rays}

The cosmic-ray data has been extensively analyzed for additional
calibration measurements.  Fig.~\ref{fig:fig2} shows the cluster width
in the pixel detector versus incidence angle of the track for two
different values of the solenoidal magnetic field in the Inner
Detector.  The minimum of the distributions occurs at the Lorentz
angle, which reflects the deflection of the charge carriers in the
magnetic field.  This angle is consistent with zero when the magnetic
field is off and about 214~mrad for the full magnetic strength of 2~T.
This result is consistent with simulated expectations to within $5\%$.
Fig.~\ref{fig:fig3} shows that the cluster-charge distribution for
tracks with nearly normal incidence agrees very well with simulated
events as well.  Remaining disagreements are being studied to improve
modeling of the detector response.

Misalignment of the Pixel detector has been reduced to the $20~\mu$m
level in the $50~\mu$m pixel direction (azimuthal) and to $30~\mu$m in
the $400~\mu$m direction (longitudinal) after extensive alignment
efforts down to the module level in the central barrel.  End-cap
alignment will require LHC beam data.  With the most recent aligned
geometry, the efficiency of attaching a hit to a track traversing the
barrel is $99.8\%$, which is compatible with the test-beam value of
$99.9\%$~\cite{testbeam}.

\begin{figure}[tb]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics*[scale=0.35]{./figures/charge_tight_BOn_overlay.eps}
\end{center}
\vspace{-5mm}
\caption{\label{fig:fig3} Distribution of the cluster charge
distribution in data (points and fitted solid line) and simulation
(dashed) for tracks with nearly normal incidence.}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusion and outlook}

After an intensive commissioning and cosmic-ray data-taking period
over the year 2008, $96\%$ of the ATLAS Pixel detector is tuned,
calibrated, and ready to collect data, with all but about $2\%$
expected to be recovered. The cosmic-ray data sample has
been used for extensive calibration, tuning of simulation input, and
on-going studies of detector performance.  After upgrade work on the
cooling system concludes in May 2009, the detector will be
re-calibrated in preparation for LHC collisions to be delivered by the
end of 2009.

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According to soothsayers, the world faces the beginning of the apocalypse in 2021
Surely humanity is used to a lot from psychics, fortune-tellers and prophets who emerge from the historical mothballs every year again to deliver the spooky predictions for the next twelve months.
This time, however, it seems different.
The seer from the Balkans, called Baba Vanga, accurately foresaw the events of the past twelve months almost 30 years ago. It should be noted that Baba Vanga has been dead for three decades.
She predicted Corona or COVID-19. Many of her predictions did not come true in the predicted years, but they did come true later, such as the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, the 2004 tsunami disaster in Thailand, and other events that instilled great fear in humanity.
Unfortunately, the seer from the Balkans has nothing good to report for the year 2021. Strange events that will cause Vladimir Putin to fall victim to an attack to be carried out by an employee of his bodyguard.
She has no good news for Donald Trump either, the American autocrat will suffer from a mysterious disease. This disease disintegrates his brain, as the woman put it when she was alive, leaving him a deaf, disoriented man.
Unfortunately, things don't look good for humanity either. In the year 2021, when the Earth's orbit is also supposed to shift due to a strong solar flare, there are violent floods everywhere and fights for living space.
Further trouble threatens humanity, especially in Europe, from invading marauders who are gradually depopulating Europe with chemical weapons and then taking it over. There are to be fierce terrorist attacks on the continent. These acts of war are to continue until 2025, leaving the continent of Europe simply deserted. Allegedly, three dragons will unite into one and wipe out humanity. There has also been speculation about whether biological weapons will be used to fight in Europe.
After these changes, Europe's economy is said to collapse completely.
There is to be famine and constant warfare.
In addition, it is reported by Baba Vanga that the first mission of humans to Venus is being prepared. However, this is being done secretly and behind closed doors.
However, she had one piece of good news for the year 2021, that a cure for cancer will be found, literally this disease will be locked up with iron. As she put it.
The seer from the Balkans had the same visions about the year 2021 as the seer Alois Irlmaier and the prophet and doctor Michel Nostradamus had already had in the Middle Ages. All three prophesied a year of catastrophes for 2021. We know from Baba Vanga that she had a hit rate of about 85% in her predictions. We can only hope that she was wrong in 2021 and that none of the bad events will actually happen.


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The Sacramento bunch arrived first. We waited in "Savannah Square" at the airport and were delighted to see Girl Scout banners there to commemorate the historic occasion for all the travelers who would pass by. We formed a "bridge" with arched arms for Holly when we knew she was disembarking from her plane. She knew just what to do when she saw our bridge! She came sailing and laughing under our arches. We got a taxi to the hotel where the entire patrol was united with joy!
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(Update 8/8/16: This is an old blog from 3/9/12 but still the language issues remain).
I am here once more again among the heroes in hospital. After the recent episode with Tony Nicklinson, I suppose it just highlights for me, that its definitely quality over quantity that counts, especially when it comes to life.
The title comes from`what the Filipino nurse said, after she stuck a cotton bud up my nose, prompting an involuntary jerk."Luvvie and darling" seem to be the typical favourite, foreign nurse learned adjective'. Somehow, it doesn't sting so much, coming from them.
I really wasn't in the mood for visitors. They didn't have an electric bed, so I was semi reclined constantly, as upright as two ward pillows would allow!
The Eucharistic minister came around yesterday with her "god in a wafer", and I surprised myself by saying a polite "no thanks". I also had another visit from someone trying to convert me.
I'm sure he's a nice person, but he was just a perfect example of my belief that religion is certainly a mental poison. Anyone who thinks the bible is an accurate historical record and that Noah did indeed fill his boat with two of every animal, is just beyond delusional.
We're getting into the realms of the patently absurd and insulting!
My main problem with the religious there days, is that it is just not enough to say let people believe what they want, once they are not hurting anyone.
They certainly are hurting people, when they feel compelled to dictate the laws that tell people how to live their lives. It was all so galling to see Mitt Romney vying for the most powerful position in the world.
It is worrying to believe what crazy turns this man would take, if he did get the US presidency, holding such crazy religious beliefs.
Seeing his suited, white,and beaming family and followers I am just amazed that such a person so close to the worlds top job, can gather so much support.
Can economic concerns really brush away all other worries? I would liked to have watched someone at the convention, get up and ask if he is wearing his magic underwear?
People need to remember that all of his policies are going to be guided by his crazy inculcated cult beliefs. I sincerely hope Americans don't foist him on the world!