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	: public CCreature
{
public:
    CCharacter(IScene& Scene, CWorldClient& WorldClient, const std::shared_ptr<CM2>& M2Object, const SCharacterVisualTemplate& CharacterVisualTemplate);
    virtual ~CCharacter();

	// CCharacter
	const SCharacterVisualTemplate& GetTemplate() const { return m_CharacterVisualTemplate; }

	void SetNPCBakedImage(std::shared_ptr<IImage> BakedNPCImage);

	void Refresh_SkinImageFromTemplate();
	void Refresh_SkinWithItemsImage();
	void RefreshMeshIDs();

	// Items
	std::shared_ptr<CCharacterItem> GetItem(uint8 InventorySlot) const;
	void SetItem(uint8 InventorySlot, const SCharacterItemTemplate& ItemTemplate);

	// Geosets
	virtual bool IsMeshEnabled(uint32 _index) const override;
	virtual void SetMeshEnabled(EM2GeosetType M2GeosetType, uint32 _value);

	// ISceneNode
	void Initialize() override;

	// ILoadable
	bool Load() override;
	void OnAfterLoad() override;

private:
	SCharacterVisualTemplate			             m_CharacterVisualTemplate;
	std::shared_ptr<CCharacterItem>                  m_CharacterItems[INVENTORY_SLOT_BAG_END];
	uint32                                           m_MeshID[(size_t)EM2GeosetType::Count];

	bool                                             m_IsNPCBakedTexturePresent;
	std::shared_ptr<IImage>                          m_BackedSkinImage;

};

#endif

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1. Allele-specific polymerase chain reaction.
3. Methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction.
4. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.
5. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction.
7. Assembly polymerase chain reaction or polymerase cycling assembly.
8. Helicase-dependent amplification polymerase chain reaction.
9. Inverse polymerase chain reaction.
10. Intersequence-specific polymerase chain reaction.
11. Ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction.
12. Miniprimer polymerase chain reaction.
13. Solid phase polymerase chain reaction.
14. Touchdown polymerase chain reaction.
Polymerase chain reaction is the wave tool of the future in molecular biology. PCR technology not only overcomes the time-consuming process using conventional culture and microscopic analysis, but also has increased sensitivity, specificity. An interesting PCR is digital PCR. Digital PCR combines the amplification and quantification power of PCR with limiting dilution of template targets. This allows not only for the quantification of PCR products but also for quantification of rare initial nucleic acid targets, important in such areas as cancer and prenatal diagnostics. Digital PCR performed on microfluidic PCR devices has been used for single-copy DNA droplet PCR, aneuploidy detection and absolute quantification of point variants. This allows not only for the quantification of PCR products but also for quantification of rare initial nucleic acid targets, important in such areas as cancer and prenatal diagnostics. The future of PCR holds further advances in multiplexing kinetic PCR mRNA profiling designer DNA polymerases and accessory proteins. In the future, incorporation of computer in different polymerase chain reaction will help in deciphering the entire genome of various organisms and generate more information on the evolutionary relation between organisms.
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Artboost founders Anders Cederholm and Mikkel Steen.
Many markets are still untouched by digital technology, and a massive one among them is the art world. Danish startup Artboost has set out to change that.
Artboost's thesis is that the art wold is almost entirely controlled by a small group of influential people. Meanwhile, artists lack direct access to the market, and the buyers have to rely on the established world of art galleries and auction houses.
Artboost's solution to this gridlock is a digitial platform cutting out the middlemen. Buyers can browse art online and acquire artwork directly from the artists. So far, roughly 2.500 artists have uploaded more than 13,000 pieces of art.
With Artboost, the artist can upload an unlimited number of art pieces and get exposure to a worldwide audience. Any artist is welcome, professional or amateur. The service is free, but Artboost receives a commission of 15% on every sale. At this point, Artboost is selling between 120 and 180 art pieces per month.
Then there are the buyers. Artboost wants to capture current art buyers from the galleries, but the main target group is that massive amount of people who want more than posters on their walls but do not frequent art galleries or auction houses.
Online art market sales reached an estimated $3.75 billion in 2016, up 15% from 2015. This gives the online art market an 8.4% share of the overall art market, estimated at $30 billion, according to the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report 2017. Other reports suggest a higher total market value, such as the The Art Market Report from The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) with an estimate of $45 billion.
And then there is the question of price. How do you value art? Nobody really knows, but Artboost would like some more transparency.
The main challenge for Artboost is to reach a sufficiently high number of buyers to feed the ecosystem, says Anders Cederholm.
Besides content about art, Artboost is also working on AI-powered recommendation machine for the platform. The art world is a big one, and buyers need guidance to develop their own preferences.
26-year-old Anders Cederholm, who founded Artboost together with Mikkel Steen, 25, became aware of the market deficiences when he moved away from home and was to decorate his first own place.
Artboost is funded through a pre-seed round with various business angels and investment from the Danish public investment fund, Innovationsfonden. The company expects to raise $1 million in 2018.


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The MIGRATE Consortium is pleased to invite all interest people to the project's 2nd Stakeholder Workshop at ENSTO-E premises in Brussels on 28 March. Two years after the project start of the R&D project funded by the European Commission MIGRATE is able to provide the first results and will give an overview about the next two years. In order to ensure the exchange with the power electronic community we are glad to see many of you there!


Welcome to our faith based organization. We have been serving the Ash Fork and the Juniperwood Ranch community for over two decades. Our community outreach programs, recovery ministry, and youth initiatives are designed to help those in need. We do not require that you belong to any particular religious affiliation or financially support our organization in any way. We do ask that you return one good deed with another and perform an act of kindness toward another. Through these deeds, the cycle of compassion and goodwill shall continues indefinitely.
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Discussion in 'General Mac Discussion' started by jimthorn, Mar 24, 2004.
hmmm...What time did you check your email and got that message? I've been checking my email at least 3 to 4 times per hour for the last 5 hours, and my .Mac email has not been down.
Maybe just routine maintenance to some accounts?
It was only down about 5 minutes. I leave Mail up all the time and it automatically checks every few minutes. I just got "lucky" I guess.


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Predator: Concrete Jungle (PlayStation 2) review
"That's not to say you can't have fun. Killing people is a time-honored tradition among the average gamer, and nobody kills people better than a Predator. "
It sucks to be a Predator.
Oh, you wouldn't know it to look at the movies. They make it look so cool; going around killing people, bitch-slapping Danny Glover and Arnold Schwarzennegar, collecting human skulls and screaming at the top of their lungs after every kill.
But, in real-life, the Predators (which are officially called Yautja in comics and books and such) are a bunch of hard-asses. Just ask the one you're playing as in Predator: Concrete Jungle.
He comes back to his ship after a human hunt goes wrong, and instead of comforting him like family ought, what do his fellow Predators do? They dump him on hostile alien planet, give him a spear…one lousy spear…for protection, and leave him there alone, letting him fend for himself as dozens of very large and very hungry aliens come bearing down on him.
But he's tough; he rolls with it. He's the personification of annihilation, the embodiment of disembowelment, and he's not about to just roll over and die. His brother's come back after a few decades, and guess what? He's still breathing, still in one piece, and still doing fine without their candy asses.
Turns out they've got a job for him, a way to win back his honor. Turns out that the last time our hellish hero was on Earth, he left some of his toys behind. Turns out that some humans found his stuff, modified it, and turned it into war weapons.
Turns out that somebody needs their ass whipped and their skin stripped. They know just the badass to do it.
Time to hunt.
The game puts you in the shoes of this unnamed ass-kicker from another world and drops you in the middle of a sprawling city. At first you might think this is another one of those sandbox games, like Grand Theft Auto with aliens, a free-roaming world to hunt and maim and kill…which, of course, sounds like a bitching idea.
Unfortunately, you'd be 100% wrong. Things aren't quite what they seem; as you leap from rooftop to rooftop, you'll notice that things are limited. You can only hunt in specific area, only explore sections of the city with each mission, and there's never any down-time: You're given objectives to complete, complete them or wander around endlessly in what little space you have.
That's not to say you can't have fun. Killing people is a time-honored tradition among the average gamer, and nobody kills people better than a Predator.
You think you've seen violence in videogames? You think headshots are the pinnacle of polygon pain? Think again.
You haven't seen shit until you've seen a human skull ripped out with one sweeping motion, spine and all.
You haven't seen shit until you've seen a human body stripped off flesh, hanging on a billboard like fresh meat…which it is, in a way.
And you really, truly, honestly have not seen shit until you seen a Predator grab someone by the legs and head, raised them above his head, twist them at the waist, and break them in two pieces like a rotten twig. You can slice and you can dice; you can maim and you can maul, but you can't do that all the time and it won't always be easy: You've got to employ a little tact.
Being a Predator's not just about killing people, it's about sneaking around and then killing people. Stealth missions with invisibility. Easy.
Or at least it would be easy if the invisibility worked when you needed it to. Chances are, when you come to that all-important mission where you don't want to be detected until you want to be detected, your stealth abilities hit the fluke, forcing you to sneak around the old-fashioned way. And since you're an eight-foot-tall alien with dreadlocks, being subtle isn't the easiest thing.
It's not the end of the world if you get caught once or twice, but you have to make sure not make much noise; the louder things get, the closer it gets to game over. Too many wrong turns, a witness left alive…done.
But it's not like every mission is an exercise in stupidity, a good chunk have you doing just doing what killing machines are meant to do. This is when the game's at its best; you leap from building to building, scaling stories with each bound, hunting down your enemies. You could just drop down; take them head on…but where's the fun in that? No, the best hits are the silent ones, the ones that kill them before they even know they're being killed. You drop down, hide in the shadows, activate your invisibility to blend in with the darkness, walk up behind with steady steps, he turns at the last moment…
The last thing his eyes ever see is his own headless body, slumping to the ground. Nasty.
It's some fucked up shit, I'm not denying that. But that's what the whole Predator experience is about: unabashed hack-and-slash. Those with weak constitutions and dominant moral values need not apply.
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Trump's return to the stump underscores the challenges of the 2024 campaign and the concerns of donors
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The former close friend and assistant to Megan Thee Stallion said in a taped interview played for jury on Friday that she saw rapper Tory Lanez fire a gun at Megan's feet.
The September interview with prosecutors was conducted at Lanez's Los Angeles assault trial after Kelsey Harris said on the witness stand Wednesday that she did not see Lanez fire the gun that wounded her former friend and boss, and herself didn't remember other important details.
"He shot the gun," Harris says in the recording, describing seeing Lanez standing next to an SUV in the Hollywood Hills, leaning over the passenger door and pointing the gun at the ground next to Megan.
Canadian rapper Lanez, 30, real name Daystar Peterson, has pleaded not guilty to count of negligent handing over of a firearm, assault with a semi-automatic firearm and carrying a loaded unregistered firearm in a vehicle.
Harris was one of four people in the SUV, along with the two rappers and Lanez's bodyguard and driver. The four were leaving a small gathering at Kylie Jenner's home when the incident happened on July 12, 2020. She said Megan and Lanez got into an argument that escalated into insults about each other's careers.
Prosecutors played parts of her interview with Harris during her testimony. She was granted immunity in the case, but not on the grounds of perjury.
Harris said on the witness stand that she was "not honest" about some things in the September interview.
After Lanez's attorneys suggested in their cross-examination that Harris had been pressured into making her statements, the judge allowed the prosecution to take the rare step of playing the entire 78-minute recording for the jury.
Harris was cordial in the taped interview, in contrast to her evasive, sometimes combative time on the witness stand, and prosecutors rarely had to prompt her to do so during her report. She said on the recording that like others in the car she had been drinking heavily and got out of the car when she heard a few gunshots. Then she looked up and saw Lanez firing more shots.
While on the witness stand, she denied that she herself fired the gun, but would not say Lanez did it. When confronted with a text message she sent to Megan's manager read, "Help. Tory shot meg. 911," Harris said she just assumed Lanez fired.
Harris said in the recording that the incident estranged her and Megan and she has not seen them in person since. The two had been close friends for years, having met as sophomores at Prairie View A&M University in Texas, and she had helped Megan on her rise to hip-hop stardom.
Harris said she returned home to Houston when told it would likely take Megan a long time to recover. She and Megan were in Los Angeles to shoot the "WAP" video with Cardi B. The track would make Megan an even bigger star than she already was.
Harris's description of the night on the tape was generally consistent with Megan's description in Tuesday's statement, but differed on specifics. Harris said Lanez was silent as he fired. Megan had testified that he yelled, "Dance, b——-!" at her as he shot.
Lanez's attorney, George Mgdesyan, argued during the trial that no one saw Lanez fire the gun. Megan testified that she did, but Mgdesyan said the injuries to the insteps of her feet showed she could not have seen the shooter behind her.
Police were unable to find DNA or fingerprints from the gun used in the shooting.
Lanez has had a successful run of mixtapes and major label records since the beginning of his career in 2009, with his last two albums reaching the top 10 on the Billboard chart.
Megan Thee Stallion, whose real name is Megan Pete, won a Grammy for Best New Artist in 2021 and had #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with both "WAP" and her own song "Savage" featuring Beyoncé.
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Le Maubeuge Centre Cemetery » est l'un des deux cimetières militaires  de la Première Guerre mondiale situés sur le territoire de la commune de Maubeuge, Nord. Le second est le Maubeuge (Sous-le-Bois) Cemetery.

Localisation
Ce cimetière est situé à l'intérieur du cimetière du centre, rue de Tivoli.

Historique
Avant la déclaration de guerre, Maubeuge possédait un aérodrome militaire français qui est devenu le Q.G. du Royal Flying Corps du 16 au . Avec l'avancée de l'armée allemande, le Q.G. a été déplacé plus à l'ouest.

La ville de Maubeuge a été capturée par les Allemands le , et est restée entre leurs mains jusqu'au , date à laquelle la ville a été reprise par les troupes britanniques. Au cours de la guerre, le "cimetière communal du centre " a été utilisé par les Allemands ; il contenait à l'Armistice les tombes des soldats allemands et des prisonniers britanniques, français, américains, russes, italiens et roumains. Seules les tombes des soldats du Commonwealth ont été conservées sur ce lieu. Un hôpital ayant été créé dans la ville après l'Armistice, ce cimetière a été utilisé jusqu'en  pour inhumer les soldats décédés des suites de leurs blessures .

Caractéristiques
Le cimetière comporte 244 tombes du Commonwealth de la Première Guerre mondiale.

Sépultures

Notes et références

Liens internes
 Cimetière militaire
 Maubeuge
 Liste des mémoriaux et cimetières militaires du Nord
 Commonwealth War Graves

Liens Externes
http://www.inmemories.com/Cemeteries/maubeuge.htm

Maubeuge Centre Cemetery
Maubeuge Centre Cemetery

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You want to apply for visa of Italy give us a miscall on 022-66209999.
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The Meath Community Games Cross Country will take palce in Ballinacrea beside St. Bridgets' GAA Club in Oldcastle this Sunday February 22nd at 11am. Registration is on the day and the entry fee is €2 per athlete. Anyone who wishes to take part please be there by 10:30am latest. Competitors must be under-age on 31st July 2015, eg. under 8 Competition - Competitors must not have reached their 8th birthday on or before July 31st 2014. Note: Under 8, 9, 10 & 16 are County Competitions only and winners do not go forward to Athlone.


Cleary Gottlieb is advising the Board of Directors of Higher One in connection with the company's divestiture of its data analytics division, known as Campus Labs, to an affiliate of Leeds Equity Partners. The transaction, announced October 19, 2015, is expected to close by the end of November 2015.
Campus Labs provides a software platform for colleges and universities to make data-driven, strategic decisions ranging from accreditation to student retention to effective operations.
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Q: Assigning results of strsplit to multiple columns of data frame I am trying to split a character vector into three different vectors, inside a data frame.
My data is something like:
> df <- data.frame(filename = c("Author1 (2010) Title of paper",
                                "Author2 et al (2009) Title of paper",
                                "Author3 & Author4 (2004) Title of paper"),
                   stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

And I would like to split those 3 informations (authors, year, title) into three different columns, so that it would be:
> df
                          filename             author  year   title
 1           Author1 (2010) Title1            Author1  2010  Title1
 2     Author2 et al (2009) Title2      Author2 et al  2009  Title2
 3 Author3 & Author4 (2004) Title3  Author3 & Author4  2004  Title3

I have used strsplit to split each filename in a vector of 3 elements:
 df$temp <- strsplit(df$filename, " \\(|\\) ")

But now, I can't find a way to put each element in a separate column. I can access a specific information like that:
> df$temp[[2]][1]
[1] "Author2 et al"

but can't find how to put it in the other columns
> df$author <- df$temp[[]][1]
Error

A: You could try tstrsplit from the devel version of data.table
library(data.table)#v1.9.5+
 setDT(df)[, c('author', 'year', 'title') :=tstrsplit(filename, ' \\(|\\) ')]
df
#                                  filename             author year
#1:           Author1 (2010) Title of paper           Author1  2010
#2:     Author2 et al (2009) Title of paper     Author2 et al  2009
#3: Author3 & Author4 (2004) Title of paper Author3 & Author4  2004
#             title
#1:  Title of paper
#2:  Title of paper
#3:  Title of paper

Edit: Included OP's split pattern to remove the white spaces.

A: result <- cbind(df, do.call("rbind", strsplit(df$filename, " \\(|\\) ")))
colnames(result)[2:4] <- c("author", "year", "title")

A: With the tidyr package, here's a separate solution:
separate(df, "filename", c("Author","Year","Title"), sep=" \\(|\\) "), remove=F)
#                                  filename            Author
# 1           Author1 (2010) Title of paper           Author1
# 2     Author2 et al (2009) Title of paper     Author2 et al
# 3 Author3 & Author4 (2004) Title of paper Author3 & Author4
#   Year          Title
# 1 2010 Title of paper
# 2 2009 Title of paper
# 3 2004 Title of paper

Leading and trailing spaces have been accounted for

A: There is a base t-method (transpose) for dataframes:
 res <- t( data.frame(  strsplit(df$filename, " \\(|\\) ") ))
 colnames(res) <- c("author", "year", "title")
 rownames(res) <- seq_along(rownames(res) )
 res
#--------------
  author              year   title
1 "Author1"           "2010" "Title of paper"
2 "Author2 et al"     "2009" "Title of paper"
3 "Author3 & Author4" "2004" "Title of paper"

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How to start a food blog from your smartphone with Samsung Galaxy S9+ & Target. I show you how you can run, mange, and begin your food blog from your phone in this easy how to. The first step is to JUST START!
A question I find in my inbox on a weekly basis is "How do you start a food blog?". The answer is very simple, you just press publish! Okay, I know, you want the real details, but I'm being serious. When I started blogging 5 years ago (If you're vet reader, you remember Becoming A Heath!) the blogging world was a little different. Bloggers were just starting to fill their blogs with bright photographs. The concept of monetizing was also just taking off. You could find endless posts on starting blogs. They that had mile long list of products you needed before you could even press publish. Well I'm here to tell you that is not true. When I started my first blog, I started it with only my smartphone. True story! Now, thanks to how high tech phones are, it's allowed me to even keep my smartphone as a major component in telling my food blog stories. Today I'm joining up with Samsung Galaxy S9+ to show how easy and quick it's become to just press publish and share your food stories with one device.
Number one, you need a platform. This is what you're going to blog on. While you can self host or be hosted, it is up to you. My personal recommendation is to be hosted on a platform when you first start because it's easier. Matter of fact, it wasn't until this year that I moved to self hosted. There are tons of hosting options but look for one that best suits your needs. The great thing about being hosted is you can add a theme to your website with a click of a button. Which is a major plus when working from your smartphone.
Things I look for on a platform?
After you decide your platform and set up your theme, you need to decide the where. Yes, I'm talking domain, the www.elletalk.com, of your own website. While it's not 100% necessary to have a domain name (it is if you want to work with brands), it helps establish a permanent bond with your readers and your site. Plus it saves you from having to make a lot of redirects in the future when you do want to switch to your own domain. Just remember don't over think it and have fun naming your blog!
You don't need to buy a seperate camera to shoot good food photography. I can't put enough emphasis on that and it still blows my mind. Smartphones have amazing cameras these days. Because of that, I know a ton of bloggers who solely take photos with their phone. I've even pulled back into phone photography because the quality is on par with my standalone camera. Take my Samsung Galaxy S9+, it's got a dual aperture lens that adapts like the human eye. I've captured stunning pictures in bright daylight and super low light. A key element to good photography is good lighting. I think having a phone that lets you adjust the lighting features to your preferences/atmosphere is great to have. Especially when trying to get those bright food photographs. I find it an added bonus with being able to capture in low light, you can still grab photos on those darker over cast days.
Check out how this photo turned out from our shoot!
What about your set up? It's happy hour cheap. I work in natural light because that's what I enjoy. I use foam boards to bounce light around and that's something you can do with artificial lighting as well. Those cheap foam boards make for great white backdrops. Though you can buy colored poster board as backdrops for variety. As for my props, they are thrifted or out of my own kitchen. My best advice is to take your phone and start taking practice photos. Exchange out props, move your lighting from the side to back, and move yourself around for new angles. You do this enough and you'll figure out what works best for you, your lighting, and how you like to set up your photos.
Editing. I know filters are a big thing right now but starting out, focus on the three main adjustment tools. White Balance, Brightness, and Contrast. These you can edit on a Samsung Galaxy S9+ right in the Photos app to adjust those bright and crisp photographs. By working more with these, you're going to get an understanding of your photography and how to frame it better later. That way down the road, you'll be taking better quality photos and spending less time in editing.
A lot of people think food blog writing is a lot of "it has an earthy taste but silk feel". While I'm all for explaining what something taste like, readers want to know about you too. You are uploading once or twice a week, why not get yourself involved? Something I'm always doing on my blog is sharing my life stories through my food. For me food is the center of my social interactions and where I make the best memories. If you're looking to start a food blog, I'm guessing, that goes for you too. Share what makes you, you and don't try to be like everyone else. If you're corky own it and if you're into puns, pun it up! It's as important to catch the reader with a fun story as it is to describe what they could be eating.
Having trouble imagining typing up posts on your phone? Typing 300+ words on a smartphone can seem daunting. If you keep yourself organized it's going to help you streamline your process. I still phone type blog posts while I'm traveling. I've learned if I make bullet point lists, I can easily type up a post in no time. I start with writing my bullet points on paper and later moves them to my Samsung Galaxy S9+ Notes app. Then I'll use Multi Window to read my bullet points while typing out a blog post. Mix in the Infinity Edge display that showcases my notes, photographs, and blog posts on a beautiful edge to edge screen. Thus making the working space feel larger and less daunting to get around for writing and edits.
Social media is officially an extension of blogging. You have to do it, but you can have a lot of fun doing it.
Start by branding your accounts. Grab your smartphone camera and snap a fun photo of yourself in your kitchen. Make that the same feature photo of yourself across all your social media platforms. If a social media account has a banner, make sure to use those to showcase your food photos. You're also going to want to make your account name/handle the same across all your platforms. I recommend sticking with your blog name.
From there start growing your account following. A good way to do this is to use hashtags and engage with people within those tags. As you start connecting with like minded people, you'll slowly start growing a following of readers. Plus reach out to those bloggers like you! Feature each other on your social media accounts and share each other's content. It's always good to have someone who gets it.
How about when people come to your account though? This is the fun part, promise. Share your favorite blog photos, share your favorite resturant, show behind the scenes, or make daily videos for people to follow. I love using Samsung Galaxy S9+'s Super Slow Mo to add to daily videos for "sneak peeks" of upcoming recipes. You could even use the AR Emoji to create an augmented reality version of yourself by simply taking a selfie. Then share your real-life feelings as emoji stickers and videos for your social media. The main key for social media is to extend the personality and content you have on your blog into those platforms. By using it to showcase an unseen side of your blog, it helps take those social media followers into readers.
Check out this Super Slo Mo video I made from the shoot that would be fun to add in to a daily video thread.
At this point you've pressed publish, you've shared, what more do you need to do? A content calendar. I mentioned in writing blog posts to stay organized. One of the best ways to do that is to build yourself a content calendar within your smartphone. On my Samsung Galaxy S9+'s Calendar app I add in every holiday including those made up ones. I then start building out blog and social media posts to do around those holidays. This helps me stay organized but also keeps me on schedule to upload. Plus it's nice if I have a spark of an idea for a blog post, I'll drop it on one of my upcoming post days! This doesn't go for just blog posts. I have alarms on my calendar that go off to remind me to upload content to social media. I pair that content to that weeks blog content or holidays. A content calendar may not be key to starting a food blog but it's going to be a great tool to keep creating.
See, it's possible to start your food blogging journey from your smartphone through creating, sharing, and engaging. If you're like me, you may still be making a chunk of your content with one 5 years later. Blogging is a learn as you go experience that I suggest everyone to try. If you fall in love with it like I did. You can start to build your blog up from the solid foundation your created here based off quality content and your unique personality.
Looking to upgrade and want a phone to launch your Food Blog from? The Samsung Galaxy S9+ isn't a minor enhancement. It is a technology overhaul that connects your life to the rest of the ecosystem. The phone may look similar, but the camera with slow mo, dual aperture and increased pixels increases the experience. The screen & water proof is a huge improvement for the Galaxy S6 & S7 users. Grab a Samsung Galaxy S9+ lilac purple, midnight black and coral blue at your local Target. You can find them in the electronics section. Instore photos take with the Samsung Galaxy S9+.
Have you been wanting to start a food blog? Have you felt like you didn't have all the tools you needed to make it? I hope this post has inspired you to see that you can create good content but getting creative with your smartphone.
YAY! Samsung Galaxy S9+ buddies!!
Quick question about your slow-mo though … did it work when it was low light? I read a lot of people were having issues with that. I do notice in your video there was PLENTY of natural, bright light so, was just wondering.
Hey Mellie! You're right I did shoot the video in the same lighting as the photos, as it's my go to. I haven't gotten the chance to test out the low light for the Super Slo Mo in a dark resturant or bar yet. I've just only worked with photography in that setting, which works great btw.


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Snoop Dogg's First Gospel Album 'Bible of Love' Debut at #1 on Billboard
Snoop Dogg presents Bible of love debuts at #1. Album sits atop billboard and nielsen soundscan charts broke record for most streams of a gospel album in its first week with over three million.
Legendary artist Snoop Dogg is continuing to break down barriers and set records with his latest music project and first gospel album, Bible of Love (All The Time Entertainment / RCA Inspiration). Released on March 16th, the 32-track album debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top Gospel Albums chart and #1 on Nielsen SoundScan's Gospel Total Consumption chart. Additionally, Bible of Love is #2 on Billboard's Top 200 Christian & Gospel chart, #2 on Nielsen SoundScan's Christian / Gospel Digital Album chart, #3 on Billboard's Top Christian & Gospel Album's chart and has been streamed over three million times in its first week, which broke the previous record for a gospel album.
Featuring guest artists including, Charlie Wilson, Rance Allen, Kim Burrell, Isaac Carree, The Clark Sisters, Dazz Dillinger, Faith Evans, K-Ci, John P. Kee, Patti LaBelle, Mali Music, Jazze Pha, Marvin Sapp, B. Slade, Tye Tribbett and co-executive producer, Lonny Bereal, Bible of Love, has been making a powerful impact on the public, the media and other entertainers alike. The Associated Press said, "Bible of Love doesn't just showcase talented artists. It also shows off an elastic, big-tent version of the musical genre that can include flavors of soul, blues, and R&B. Adding rap makes sense. For that, we should all praise the Dogg" and CCM Magazine calls the album, "a real, take-you-to-church affair that will have you checking to make sure you've got your robe on right or tie tied tight just a few movements into the thirty-two track, double-disc set." Diddy lauded Bible of Love as "incredible, timely and needed".
Throughout Snoop Dogg's dynamic career he has always followed his heart and never been afraid to take risks. Bible of Love demonstrates once again that this is a formula for success. USA Today said, "Bible of Love is another argument in favor of Snoop's impressive longevity, not just as a TV host cooking alongside Martha Stewart, but as one of the most prolific rappers of his generation."
Snoop can be seen performing music from Bible of Love on the 33rd Annual Stellar Awards premiering on TV One on Friday, March 30th and on Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC on Monday, April 9th.
For more information and updates on Bible of Love, visit www.rcainspiration.com and www.snoopdogg.com
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Congress calls for change to NSA spying law
Hearing digs into controversial Section 702
By Kieren McCarthy in San Francisco 10 May 2016 at 20:30
The legal justification for the NSA to tap the internet's backbone was put on the table Tuesday in a hearing of the Senate's Judiciary Committee, with some senators vowing to add privacy protections to the law as expert witnesses noted the FBI was likely reading the love letters of US citizens rather than tracking down terrorists.
The Congressional hearing - titled "Oversight and reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act: the balance between national security, privacy and civil liberties" - dug specifically into the section of the 2008 law that allows the NSA to force Facebook, Google and other internet companies to provide them with all communications for review.
Section 702 has been used to justify mass surveillance of online activity and includes the infamous PRISM program revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013. Under the law, the NSA and other security services are only supposed to review the details of non-US citizens based outside the country.
In reality, however, the personal data of huge numbers of US citizens within the country are swept up in the broad programs justified by the law. How many? That is one of the questions Congress wants to know.
Last month, the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to director of national intelligence James Clapper asking him exactly how many US citizens the security services are spying on through Section 702.
The security services has avoided answering the question for a number of years but with the required renewal of the FISA Act in 2017, senators are using it as an opportunity to force some sunlight on the surveillance issue. Following the letter, Clapper's team is saying to be working on a method for assessing the actual number.
It is far from certain what changes Congress will be willing to insist upon as a pre-condition for re-authorization however.
Two statements from leading members of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), outlined different perspectives of the two political parties.
While Leahy made no bones about his concerns of abuse and insisted on reform, Grassley excused the known examples of where the law has been stretched to breaking point as mistakes and argued that recent changes were largely sufficient.
Leahy noted that "the government has repeatedly failed to comply with FISA court orders" and that the court had "reprimanded [it] for 'substantial misrepresentations' regarding operation of the 702 programs."
Leahy also notes that so-called "backdoor" searches carried out by the FBI - where it searches existing databases without requiring any kind of warrant - "raise serious constitutional questions, particularly since the FBI can use them to investigate crimes having nothing to do with national security."
Grassley on the other hand referred to recent atrocities including the Paris, Brussels and San Bernardino shootings and insisted that "the Intelligence Community have the tools to keep us safe."
While he acknowledge that "human error has led to mistakes in implementing the law over the years," he noted that no one has "ever found any instance of an intentional violation of the law."
He then pointed to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and noted that it had made recommendations "to help improve the privacy and civil liberties protections of the Section 702 program" and noted that all the recommendations had either been implemented or were being implemented.
Somewhat unusually, not one but two members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board were called as witnesses to the hearing, as well as two lawyers and a cybersecurity expert.
The reason why became immediately apparent: chairman of the oversight board, David Medine - who will be stepping down from the independent group this summer - was highly critical of the Section 702 as it currently stands.
He said that the government's databases built up through their interpretation of the law "inevitably contain deeply personal communications by, from, and concerning US persons." He continued that many of these communications "have nothing to do with terrorism or crime."
Instead, he noted, "they can include family photographs, love letters, personal financial matters, discussions of physical and mental health, and political and religious exchanges."
His fellow board member was far more supportive, defending the collection of data under Section 702 and arguing that it was "less invasive" than the information that security services would need to gather to justify a warrant to search their communications.
Another witness who was highly skeptical of law enforcement was Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice who said that the "backdoor" searches created a "massive end run around the Fourth Amendment" and said that the US government was using its databases to investigate ordinary criminal cases of US citizens - the exact opposite of what Section 702 is supposed to be used for.
The discussion between the panelists and senators was occasionally revealing, such as when Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) argued that "the only American citizens impacted by this process without a court order will be those communicating with a known terrorist overseas."
Medine was quick to snap back: "This program does not just target terrorists. It targets anyone with foreign intelligence value. It could be a completely innocent businessman or anyone else out of the country who has that information."
It's impossible to know what reforms will be introduced and how far they will go but there are two promising signs for privacy advocates. First, the fact that the public hearing has happened at all; the law, passed in 2008 and renewed in 2012, has only ever passed through Congressional corridors and closed sessions.
Secondly, both Judiciary Committee in the House and Senate have started review of the Act more than 18 months before it needs to be renewed. That means there is a determination to make changes and to provide a sufficient timeline for doing so. ®
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CPE's Stars to Watch 2019: The Perfect Net Lease Partnership
Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther are a winning combination.
Alexandra Pacurar
Patrick Luther, 30 & Matt Mousavi, 34
Managing Principals, SRS Real Estate Partners
Patrick Luther believes that the ability to communicate a sales strategy to an owner and knowledge of product type comes from experience, which requires time. Image courtesy of SRS Real Estate Partners
Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther are a winning combination. Last year, SRS National Net Lease Group, which they lead, closed more than $800 million in transactions last year, including the sale of over 80 individual Ruby Tuesday locations to two separate portfolio investors and the subsequent resale of more than 40 individual locations. Since launching SRS's NNLG and its Investment Sales Property Group, which count 50 professionals handling deals nationally from 25 offices, the team has closed on 600 properties across the country worth more than $2 billion.
Luther met Mousavi after joining Irvine, Calif.-based Faris Lee Investments in 2011; five years later, the two took their partnership to SRS Real Estate Partners. Both had entered the business very early on and knew how to leverage their experience to achieve success for their clients and recognition for themselves.
Matt Mousavi entered the business at the age of 19 and loves every aspect of it—the people, the personalities, the dynamics, the pressure, the challenges. Image courtesy of SRS Real Estate Partners
"When I met Matt, I was really struggling," Luther recalled. "I was cold calling and bumping into his clients. Rather than scold me, Matt gave me some advice on where to focus my time. I had moved to California from Arizona and was almost out of savings, and thankfully, his guidance to focus on net lease and merchant developer client profiles gained traction."
Their common values—discipline, hard work and determination—but also their differences have earned them a reputation for results in the net lease sector.
Mousavi and Luther knew they wanted to be in real estate ever since they were children. Luther was attracted to the lifestyle that comes with the profession, while Mousavi was focused on his entrepreneurial instincts. "I was a 'businessman' as a child, and although I was planning to go to law school, commercial real estate was always of interest to me," Mousavi related. "I was in the process of attending business school with a focus on finance when I started my internship (in real estate), so starting in the business as an analyst and underwriter was a natural fit for me."
Luther says he is committed to his work and convinced that consistency and being available around the clock have helped him build credibility and a strong portfolio. "If there is any pet peeve of mine, it's people that are not accessible. The world and the deal will pass you by. If I'm not answering the phone, that client is calling someone else for assistance. So perhaps it is a bit of paranoia, but it's a healthy amount that drives me," he added.
What Others Say About Them: "The combination of personal and professional talents that Matt and Patrick have honed so well make for one of the most successful partnerships that I have experienced in my more than 45-year career. Having been a small part of starting their careers in retail real estate has been a very bright light for me." – Rich Walter, Executive Vice President of SRS Real Estate Partners' Investment Properties Group
What You Didn't Know About Patrick: "I was working as a production assistant—the movie was Scooby Doo 2—for six months between college and accepting my first real estate job with Grubb & Ellis."
Matt's Plans For The Future: "In 2018, I was invited to be part of the board of directors for SRS Real Estate Partners. In that capacity, I am excited to continue to assist in the growth of the firm."
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Walmart executive to speak at Wake Forest
3.23.2010 General, News Release, School News
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Join Lee Scott as he discusses the "new normal" and how Walmart and businesses in general will need to adapt to the future.
H. Lee Scott Jr., former CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., will talk about the economy and leadership when he visits Wake Forest University and the Schools of Business on Wednesday, March 24.
The event is part of the Leadership Speaker Series and is free and open to the public. The talk is scheduled from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM in Room 1312 of the Worrell Professional Center on campus. Scott now serves as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. As part of his presentation, titled "Leadership in the New Normal," Scott will talk about leadership lessons — learned throughout his career — that can help people and businesses succeed and make a difference in this challenging economic environment.
Walmart is now recognized as a vital part of the solution to the most pressing economic and social challenges. In response to the health care crisis in the U.S., the Walmart team introduced $4 generic prescription drugs and in-store health clinics, and partnered with other employers and opinion leaders to call for major health care reform. The company also expanded its benefits and bonus program for associates. In the area of social and environmental responsibility, Walmart has emerged as a leader in sustainable practices, leveraging its global reach in three key areas: renewable energy, zero waste and sustainable products. The company has also set aggressive goals to work with suppliers in building a more responsible global supply chain.
Scott joined the company in September 1979 and has served as vice chairman and COO, executive vice president and president and CEO for Walmart U.S. He has been a member of the board since 1999. BusinessWeek says Scott, a 25-year veteran of the company, was instrumental in improving Walmart's distribution network. Scott received a bachelor's degree in business from Pittsburg State in Pittsburg, Kan., and was named Outstanding Alumni in 1995. He has completed the Executive Development Programs at Penn State and Columbia universities.
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Applying for a new job or for a new role in your current company? Trying to convince management that your project needs time regularly spent on refactoring? Or about to found your own start-up? In many cases like these good sales skills could help a lot for achieving success. In this talk I'll present some of the main approaches and principles for successful sales - and will map these to different scenarios in the IT professional's life.
Iancho has been in the software industry for 20 years and considers himself to be an IT professional with business affinity, or the other way around. He has worn many operational hats – software engineer, BA, software architect, project and program manager, CTO, Business-IT Consultant. In his current VP role at Musala Soft Iancho covers both business and operational responsibilities - taking care of strategic clients success, business development and projects involving emerging technologies.


Can Someone Help Me Diagnose This Sales Call? I Don't Get It.
It's 7:00am, I'm busy disposing of email and getting my day started. I'm already on my second cup of coffee, the phone rings…..
Most of my clients and colleagues know I start my day in the "office" at 5:00am, so I am anticipating it is one of them.
Dave: Hello, this is Dave Brock.
Other Party (OP): May I speak to your office manager?
Dave: Well, my name is Dave Brock, I own the company so I guess I'm the office manager, how can I help you?
OP: I'm John Doe from XYZ company and I'd like to know when your office hours start.
Dave, slightly confused: Excuse me, who are you and what are you asking?
Dave, still confused: Well, since we are speaking on the phone right now, clearly they have already started.
OP (I guess I should start calling him John Doe): OK, thank you. Good bye.
Dave, very confused: Wait a minute, can I ask you why you want that information?
OP (John): Well we are an IT services company…… I wanted to see if I could set an appointment to talk to you about your IT needs…….
Dave, no longer confused but now perplexed: Well, why didn't you ask?
OP (John): Well……… What's your name?
Dave: That's OK, thank you for calling, I'm not interested in your services.
I think that was supposed to be a prospecting call???? I've done thousands in my career and have seen lots of sales people doing them.
But I'm not really sure. John had reached me, I clearly identified myself as the person he probably wanted to talk to, but clearly he wasn't prepared to execute his prospecting call. Why did he make the call? What was he trying to accomplish? Is he aware of the impression he made? Is he being paid to do this?
1. He didn't know anything about the company. Before I make calls, I use this new thing called Google…..(you know what I'm going to say).
2. When he reached me, he didn't clearly introduce himself and his reason for calling.
3. I'm not clear that he had a script, but he really wanted to know when we started work. Even if that is in the script, it seems that when he heard he had the right person on the phone he might launch into the reason for calling and asked for an appointment, but I had to pull it out of him.
4. I raised an objection (Why didn't you ask?)and didn't even try to respond.
5. He wasn't listening, I told him my name twice, but at the end of the call, he still was asking for my name.
Yes, I still make prospecting calls myself. I do my homework before I make the call, so I know a lot about the company, their situation, and, if possible, about the individual I call. So often, when I call, I reach voicemail–I'm prepared for handling that. Sometimes, I reach an assistant–I'm prepared for talking to assistants, and every once and a while, I actually reach the person I want to talk to—I leap on those opportunities. I want to capitalize on those few seconds I might actually be talking to a prospect, I want to use their time well, make a great impression, and make the first step in achieving my objective.
Do I have it wrong? Am I missing something? Am I being too critical.
Unfortunately, these days, I get too many calls like the one from John Doe—no wonder "cold calls" don't work.
Getting Caught In A Lie — Why Do Sales People Do This?
Dave – you definitely did not miss anything, but the prospecting sales guy certainly did! I suppose if he was just doing some practice to warm up, it could be excused, but it sounds like he did not have a clue. Even a highly scripted sales call is more compelling than what that guy said. You should have offered your services like that scene from Boiler Room (for those with sensitive ears, you may want to avoid that clip, the movie is full of cursing).
Dave, thanks for the comment. i'd forgotten that scene, but it was great! Made me want to watch the movie again—but probably not as an example of outstanding sales practices.
This is the best prospecting call of all time. I templatized it for our clients. Thanks for sharing!
High praise from you Craig, thanks so much!


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Q: Google Cloud: best practice for developer workstations authentication The question is specifically about the case where developers need to access GCP from their workstations (Firestore, Stackdriver, KMS...).
In Google Cloud documentation, it is usually stated:

Developer workstation: Authenticating by using a service account is also recommended for your developer workstation.

How should we handle the case when a developer gets fired?

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*Should we have a service account per developer?

*How to provision these service accounts to developers?

*Or is it actually better to go against the docs and authenticate using developer accounts?

A: The best answer requires far more details then your question provides. This answer serves as a general-purpose answer that applies to typical small scale usage of Google Cloud.
For enterprise-class development with multiple accounts, projects, hundreds of resources, etc. would require a different answer that includes organizations, folders, federations, SSO, VPNs, etc.

How should we handle the case when a developer gets fired?

Delete/Disable the developer's service account JSON key. Remove the user's IAM member account (email address) from having rights in Google Cloud.

Should we have a service account per developer?

Yes, you should create and issue one service account key per developer. Just like you would create separate login accounts for each user. You should also issue separate SSH keys to each developer for logging into Compute Engine instances.

How to provision these service accounts to developers?

You can create service accounts in the Google Cloud Console, the Google Cloud SDK CLI gcloud or via APIs.

Or is it actually better to go against the docs and authenticate using
  developer accounts?

No - listen to the documentation. You can use User Accounts for the CLI gcloud but for any software written using SDKs/APIs, you should use service accounts. The Google SDKs will print warnings on the console about the usage of user credentials. If you plan to deploy software in the cloud you need to use (usually) service accounts. Invest the time now to do things correctly and securely. This will minimize headaches and problems later.
There are exceptions to everything I said. However, until you have a solid understanding of Google Cloud IAM and Security, follow the best practices. Google Cloud Authentication is very complex and an expert developer could create backdoors into GCP if you try to take shortcuts.


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Meneldur [...] again [...] urged Aldarion to take thought of marriage, though he did not speak of Erendis. But Aldarion would have none of it, for he was ever and in every course the more opposed as those about him urged it; and treating Erendis now with greater coolness he determined to leave Númenor and further his designs in Vinyalondë. Life on land was irksome to him, for aboard his ship he was subject to no other will, and the Venturers who accompanied him knew only love and admiration for the Great Captain. But now Meneldur forbade his going; and Aldarion, before the winter was fully gone, set sail with a fleet of seven ships and the greater part of the Venturers in defiance of the King. The Queen did not dare incur Meneldur's wrath; but at night a cloaked woman came to the haven bearing a bough, and she gave it into the hands of Aldarion, saying: "This comes from the Lady of the Westlands" (for so they called Erendis), and went away in the dark.
[...] Five years passed; and Aldarion returned with nine ships, for two had been built in Vinyalondë, and they were laden with fine timber from the forests of the coasts of Middle-earth.
Erendis
Green Bough of Return


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Q: Chrome: CPU profile parser is fixing n missing samples I'm using Chrome's performance tab to study the performance of a page, and I occasionally get a warning like:

DevTools: CPU profile parser is fixing 4 missing samples.

Does anyone know what this means? Googling for this warning has returned no results so far...

A: As coming across with and having this situation, possible helpful things to consider are as below.
As Chrome 58 is released in 2017, some changes are done related to the analyzing performance. For example:

*

*Timeline panel is renamed as Performance panel.

*Profiles panel is renamed as Memory panel.

*Record Javascript CPU Profile menu is moved into Dev Tools → Three dots at right → More tools → Javascript Profiler. (Old version of Javascript Profiler)

In addition of these, the warning message that is seen (DevTools: CPU profile parser is fixing N missing samples.) is being written to the console window when there is single (program) sample between two call stacks sharing the same bottom node. Also, the samples count should be greater than or equal to 3 according to the source code.
Comments written above _fixMissingSamples method in the CPUProfileDataModel.js file explains this situtation as below;
// Sometimes sampler is not able to parse the JS stack and returns
// a (program) sample instead. The issue leads to call frames belong
// to the same function invocation being split apart.
// Here's a workaround for that. When there's a single (program) sample
// between two call stacks sharing the same bottom node, it is replaced
// with the preceeding sample.

In the light of these information, we can trace the code and examine the behavior.
CPUProfileDataModel.js
 let prevNodeId = samples[0];
 let nodeId = samples[1];
 let count = 0;
 for (let sampleIndex = 1; sampleIndex < samplesCount - 1; sampleIndex++) {
   const nextNodeId = samples[sampleIndex + 1];
   if (nodeId === programNodeId && !isSystemNode(prevNodeId) && !isSystemNode(nextNodeId) &&
       bottomNode(idToNode.get(prevNodeId)) === bottomNode(idToNode.get(nextNodeId)) {
     ++count;
     samples[sampleIndex] = prevNodeId;
   }
   prevNodeId = nodeId;
   nodeId = nextNodeId;
 }
 if (count) {
   Common.console.warn(ls`DevTools: CPU profile parser is fixing ${count} missing samples.`);
 }

It seems that, it simply compares previous and next node related to current node as if they has the same bottom node (actually comparing parent nodes). Also previous and next node shouldn't be a system (program/gc/idle function) node and current node should be the 'program' node. If it is the case, then the current node in samples array is set to previous node.

idle: Waiting to do process

program: Native code execution

garbage collector: Accounts for Garbage Collection

Also, disabling Javascript samples from Performance → Capture Settings result fewer details & call stacks because of omitting all the call stacks. The warning message shouldn't appear in this case.
But, since this warning is about the sampler that says cannot parse the JS stack and call frames being split apart, it doesn't seem very important thing to consider.
Resources:
https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend/tree/master/front_end/sdk

https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend/blob/master/front_end/sdk/CPUProfileDataModel.js

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/master/Source/devtools/front_end/sdk/

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/evaluate-performance

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/12/devtools-javascript-cpu-profile-migration


On Thursday & Friday 14 & 15 March we began Part 1 of our Native Woodland Project. With some expert advisors on hand, lots of enthusiastic parents and some very hard working students, we planted over 260 trees. Each 6th class planted a tree themselves, then they helped a first class student to plant one too. During the preparation for these planting days, all of the 6th class students researched the importance of planting native trees. We look forward to them sharing their projects with their first class buddies.
Part 2 of the Native Woodland Project will take place in the Autumn. At that time, every other student in the school will have the opportunity to plant a tree. This is a very special project for the students to take part in. Not only are they improving our school grounds by planting trees, they will also get to watch their trees grow over the years to come.
While our staff and students work very hard on these projects, they also wouldn't be possible without the help and support of our volunteer parents. A massive thank you to all staff, students & parents involved!
On Thursday & Friday 21 & 22 March our hardworking First and Sixth classes put the finishing touches to our woodland planting. There was still a lot of bark mulch to be moved and spread. Well done to all of our shovelers, wheelbarrow pushers, rakers & sweepers…. Always plenty of work to be done in the garden! Once again a big thank you to our volunteer parents.


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It's still citrus season so oranges are exceptionally tasty right now as well. Mandarines and clementines are also in most grocery stores right now.
I found clementines on sale today and they work really well. The oranges were more expensive here today, but use what you have the easiest access to!
Bananas are sweet and lovely in the morning.
I used large, white onions but green onions would be wonderful, too.
Yum, red pepper flakes! I love these, especially with citrus and salty things.
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Salad is an excellent choice for breakfast. This one uses sweet, delectable fruit with a spicy/creamy dressing.
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Assemble the salad ingredients on plates or in bowls. Add the orange sections, banana slices, and onion to the top.
Pour salad dressing over and add a sprinkle of black pepper and/or crushed red pepper flakes.
This is another salad that's sweet and spicy and suited for breakfast!
This is great in the warmer months but can be enjoyed year round.
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It's the onions and fruits that I question.😂😂😂😂But I will just need to try that!
This is the most unusual recipe I think I have ever seen! I'm trying to figure out whether I will actually like it. I do like all the ingredients, but not sure how I'll feel about them altogether – banana and orange…together? I am going to have to try it just to satiate my curiosity.
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Algorithmic Trading Group Forum - Do You Have 21 Monitors on Your Desk? If So, Why?
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Do You Have 21 Monitors on Your Desk? If So, Why?
I came across this funny picture on Michael Covel's blog.
"Do you think he's maybe compensating for something?"
Re: Do You Have 21 Monitors on Your Desk? If So, Why?
Considering his trading style, I think Dr. B. requires those screens.


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I am new to cycling and bought myself a decent quality hybrid bike from my local store and decided to do the Guild Wheel on my first day out. It took me 3 hours and hurt real bad. the route itself is very pleasent with nothing major but in total I did 27 miles and it was to much to soon. Has anyone else done the wheel and what are there thoughts on it?
I've done the wheel 6 times now and taken it slowly. Even done it in reverse going up THAT HILL on Brockholes, never again! It can take about 3hrs at a decent pace ,but I tend to stop at the Shaws arms for a drink or by the river cafe for a brew and chat to other cyclists.
My Profile Hi is there a route on here for that i am in wigan and always looking for somewhere new to go for a ride.
That is a rapid ride Darren, what bike?
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Get smart or fall behind
Cord ImportMay 18, 20115 mins read
By: Bree Rody-Mantha, Features Editor
That iPhone you own may be more than just a cool, grown-up toy that you use to confirm your party plans via Facebook and text messaging. iPhones, Blackberries, Android phones and the various other cell phones with multi-tasking platform technology are rapidly becoming standards in the social and professional world.
As the prices of smartphones and data plans lower and retailers shift their focus more towards multi-tasking mobile devices, it is apparent that a phase-out has begun for regular talk-and-text cellular phones. Mobile users may soon be forced to adapt to smartphones or face falling behind.
With so much new technology readily available, especially for students, mobile devices have become a great convenience as well as a great distraction. Though university professors have been attempting to ban cell phone use in class, according to a September 2010 online poll conducted by The Cord, the majority of Laurier students continue to use phones in class.
Additionally, recent technological developments indicate that attempts to bar cell phone use in lectures may not only be fruitless, but counter-productive.
"The students that we are increasingly attracting […] are used to learning in a different way," said Ginny Dybenko, Laurier's head of strategic initiatives. "It's really important that the university allows for this and really takes advantage of it."
Connecting students and teachers
Though some teachers still prohibit the use of cellular phones and even laptops in the classroom, developers have come up with ways that those devices can be used to enhance learning rather than take away from it.
Top Hat Monocle is one company that is attempting to achieve that. The Waterloo-based company markets a system to professors which allows students to answer quiz questions, participate in polls and provide feedback via phones and computers — rendering devices such as the iClicker obsolete.
Mohsen Sahini, co-founder of Top Hat Monocle, conceived the idea while working as a teaching assistant at the University of Waterloo.
Sahini said he noticed a lack of engagement and organization among lower-year students, who seemed reluctant to participate. Sahini and his then-roommate Mike Silagadze (co-founder and CEO of Top Hat Monocle) came up with the idea of a system that would incorporate the media students used — laptops, cellular phones and smartphones.
"If you incorporate the technology students are using with what you are hoping to achieve, you can increase student engagement," he said.
In 2010, Laurier's Masters' of Business Administration (MBA) program launched a project where full-time MBA students were given Blackberries.
The intent was for students to take advantage of the devices' tools such as Blackberry messenger, voice notes and video for the purposes of collaboration and communication with classmates, professors, and employers.
The project was viewed as successful and Laurier hopes to expand on the project in years to come.
Beyond schoolwork, the devices are also becoming essential communication tools for social interactions.
"A lot of schools have their own mobile applications that are interactive space," said Kory Jeffrey, coordinator for Laurier's Digital Media Hub.
Indeed, the Wilfrid Laurier University Students' Union (WLUSU) has released an application in an attempt to catch up with what is apparently becoming a standard. The application, however, has gone through several technical mishaps which delayed its production. It is currently available for the iPhone.
Reaching outside the classroom
"I can foresee the day when we deploy technology to allow not only for that technology in and of itself to be used within the classroom but really to bust open the walls of the classroom," said Dybenko. "Allow in experts from different geographic locations, [and] opinions from various places that you could find on the Internet."
Jeffrey also feels that the mindset of education is shifting, and that knowledge is no longer closed off and exclusive. "If you look at Laurier," he explained, "It's kind of closed off. It's separated by all these walls… but go to Google, and you can Google almost anything."
Jeffrey gave examples of schools who have embraced the openness of information rather than combated it.
"Big institutions such as [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] have taken all their coursework and made it public," he explained. "It doesn't even matter if you're part of the institution or not — you can see their coursework. You can go online right now and look it up."
Dybenko feels that increasing technology will help to unite rather than alienate.
"All technology does is allow access to content — and content is absolutely everywhere."
"It's only going to get more exciting"
As is the way of technology, new developments are constantly arising.
"[Technology] is everywhere," said Dybenko, "And it's only going to get more exciting." Many agree that the next developments to watch for are those of tablets.
Tablet computers such as the Apple iPad and Research In Motion (RIM)'s Playbook have risen into the market. Though many questioned the practicality of the iPad upon its initial release in April 2010, it was met with mostly favourable reviews and moderately successful sales.
With The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg praising the iPad as a "pretty close" laptop killer, 2011 has seen an increase in production of competing tablets.
RIM released the Playbook in last month, and several tablets operating Android platforms have entered the market.
"I think tablets are definitely going to take off," Jeffrey predicted. "It's not a substitute for a laptop yet, but it's a convenient addition."
Jeffrey explained that thanks to cloud computing, anyone with a broadband connection can sync their tablet with a home computer. "You can access all of your data sets at home or wherever, without having an actual hard drive," he said. "With all that together, eventually, you're only going to need a tablet."
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