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Pour out Your Spirit upon us, Oh Lord and cause us to abound in truth and wisdom; causing ignorance and falsehood to flee away.
Anoint us afresh with the atoning blood of the covenant of grace established between God and man by Jesus Christ purging us from all our sins and restore to us the joy of our salvation by the anointing of the oil of gladness.
Renew a right spirit within us, Oh Lord that we may abound with the virtue of love for God and for one another and let the spirit of forgiveness abound in our hearts.
Cause us to learn to walk according to Your ways and not our own. Amen.


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Katia Boyadjian was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1958. From a distinguished line of Armenian / Egyptian photographers (she is the niece of the renowned photographer, Van Leo and daughter of Angelo Boyadjian), Katia Boyadjian grew up in Paris, where her father had settled after fleeing Egypt during the time of Nasser's regime. There she met her partner, the French artist Daniel Juré, becoming his muse and model. She took up photography, creating a number of self-portraits in Juré's studio, and revealing her intimate world to an outside audience. She has exhibited these and other works from her travels to Egypt and Armenia in numerous French Museums, including FRAC, FNAC, the National Library and Institute of the Arab World Paris, as well as international venues including the French Cultural Centre in Alexandria or Guernsey Fine Art Museum. In 2007 "Year of Armenia in France" her handcoloured painted version of "A l'ombre d'Amon" is presented at the Arab World Institute ("L'Orient des photographes arméniens") and "Journey to Armenia" at the Museum of Beaux-Arts de Caen. Her pictures have entered numerous public and private collections as Arab Fondation Image, Arab World Institute, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain.She lives and works in Reviers in Calvados in Normandy.
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There are many interesting places near Guwahati the gateway to unsung and untamed northeast India. The wild life sanctuaries in Assam and the quaint red-roofed hill capital of Meghalaya, Shillong, are the most well-known.
Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary is located 65km from Guwahati. The wildlife includes the one-horned rhinoceros, leopards, tigers, and varieties of migratory and non-migratory birds. Accommodation available is forest bungalows – contact the Range Forest Officer, Pabitora, Assam. Driving here from Guwahati is the best option – it is close by and the roads are good.
Kaziranga Game Sanctuary is one of the most well known tourist destinations in Assam, covering an area of 430 km. Home to the nearly extinct one-horned rhino, one can also spot elephants, sloth bears, tigers, leopard cats, jungle cats, hog badgers, capped langurs, hoolock gibbons, pigs, jackals, porcupines, pythons, buffaloes, Indian bisons, swamp deer, sambhars and hog deer from very close quarters. Trips into the sanctuary are taken at dawn on elephants that wade through the tall elephant-grass and give you a vantage view of animals waking up to the day. The sight of the one-horned rhino bathing in ponds with its offspring on its back is one you just cannot afford to miss. Do wear trousers that fully cover your legs to avoid abrasions from the elephant-grass. The best season to visit this park is November to April. Avoid the monsoons (June to September) that bring heavy rainfall and often flood the park. There is a wide range of accommodation available at the park ranging from luxury hotels to rest houses and dormitories.
Manas National Park is 176km from Guwahati it is the only tiger reserve in Assam and also famous for the rare golden Langur and red Panda, Manas is one of the best-kept national parks in India. The wildlife is best seen on elephant back at dawn.
Shillong is described as 'Scotland of the East' because of its striking similarity to the Scottish highlands, situated at an altitude of 1500 meters above sea level, romantic and picturesque with an abundance of natural beauty, Although it is a bustling city today, its striking waterfalls and caves are just a breath away. Shillong also boasts of Asia's first 18 holes golf course. Within the city is the flower bedecked Ward's Lake encircled by whispering pine groves. Take a boat ride if you want to or feed the multihued fish standing on the bridge across the lake. You'll love the walks in this city although it does get a little crowded with cars in the afternoon.
Lady Hydari Park doubles up as a miniature zoo and is a short distance away from Ward's Lake. A visit to the cathedral at Dhankheti is a must, it has beautiful stained glass windows and the grotto is carved out of a single rock. The bells of the cathedral resonate across the city at dawn, in the afternoon and dusk. You can hire a taxi or take a conducted bus tour of the sights around the city, the cascading Elephant Falls, the twin Beadon and Bishop Falls, Sweet Falls, Crinoline Falls, the Shillong Peak, the Cherrapunjee limestone caves and the Barapani Lake could all be a part of your itinerary.


I will be heading out next week for our annual vacation in Bodega Bay for crab season so I am not sure how much video taping I will be able to do so I have set up several cards to post here for you - just in case I don't get any taping done. You can consider them my 12 Days of Christmas but they will be stretched out during the month of November to give you inspiration in creating your own cards this holiday season.
I have to sneak this one in right away since Halloween tomorrow! I love this gate die and can think of so many uses for it but we will start with the obvious - just an iron gate on eerie night! I started by sponging in the Daffodil Delight center, then worked out from there with Pumpkin Pie, Night of Navy, Eggplant Envy and finally Basic Black in the upper corners. At the bottom I used Eggplant Envy and the Basic Black. I added a few flying back and then placed my gate on the card front. The headstones were stamped in Basic Gray on Smoky Slate card stock. I purposely had the ink pad a bit on the dry side so it wasn't full coverage. This made it appear more textured like a headstone would be. A raven was stamped in Basic Black on Whisper White and cut out using my Scan N Cut. The sentiment was stamped in Eggplant Envy on Pumpkin Pie and trimmed to create a point.
Here on the inside of the card, I placed more headstones and stamped the Boo! from the Brushwork Alphabet set. That black & white ribbon at the top? Nope, wasn't planned but I got a black smudge at the last minute and didn't want to redo the entire piece so I just covered it up! I love being able to find solutions to problems like this instead of starting over.


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ALMA Spots Possible Formation Site of Icy Giant Planet
Astronomers found a sign of a growing planet around TW Hydra, a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Based on the distance from the central star and distribution of tiny dust grains, the baby planet is estimated to be an icy giant, similar to Uranus and Neptune in our Solar System. This result is another step for understanding the origins of various types of planets.
A number of extrasolar planets have been found in the past two decades and now researchers have a common view that planets take a wide variety of characteristics. However, it is still unclear how this diversity emerges. Especially, there is still debate about how the icy giant planets, such as Uranus and Neptune, form.
To take a close look at the planet formation site, a research team led by Takashi Tsukagoshi at Ibaraki University, Japan, observed the young star TW Hydrae. This star, estimated to be 10 million years old, is one of the closest young stars to the Earth. Thanks to the proximity and the fact that its axis of rotation points roughly in the Earth's direction, giving us a face-on-view of the developing planetary system, TW Hydrae is one of the most favorable targets for investigating planet formation.
Past observations have shown that TW Hydrae is surround by a disk of tiny dust particles. This disk is the site of planet formation. Recent ALMA observations revealed multiple gaps in the disk1. Some theoretical studies suggest that the gaps are the evidence of planet formation.
Figure 1. ALMA image of the disk around the young star TW Hydrae. Several gaps are clearly depicted. Researchers found that the size of the dust particles in the inner 22 au gap is smaller than the other bright regions and guess that a planet similar to Neptune is located in this gap. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tsukagoshi et al. | Download image
The team observed the disk around TW Hydrae with ALMA in two radio frequencies. Since the ratio between the intensities in different radio frequencies depends on the size of the dust grains, researchers can estimate it. This ratio indicates that the smaller, micrometer-sized dusts dominates and larger dusts are missing in the most prominent gap with the radius of 22 au 2.
Why are smaller dust particles selectively located in the gap in the disk? Theoretical studies have predicted that a gap in the disk is created by a massive planet, and that gravitational interaction and friction between gas and dust particles push the larger dust out from the gap, while the smaller particles remain in the gap. The current observation results match the theoretical prediction.
Figure 2. Artist's impression of the dust disk and a forming planet around TW Hydrae. Credit: NAOJ | Download image
Researchers calculated the mass of the unseen planet based on the width and depth of the 22 au gap and found that the planet is a little more massive than Neptune. "Combined with the orbit size and the brightness of TW Hydrae, the planet would be an icy giant planet," said Tsukagoshi.
Following this result, the team is planning further observations to better understand planet formation. One of their plans is to observe polarization of the radio waves. Recent theoretical studies have shown that the size of dust grains can be estimated more precisely with polarization observations. The other plan is to measure the amount of gas in the disk. Since gas is the major component of the disk, the researchers hope to attain a better estimation of the mass of the forming planet.
These observation results were accepted for a publication as Tsukagoshi et al. "A gap with a deficit of large grains in the protoplanetary disk around TW Hya" by the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The research team members are:
Takashi Tsukagoshi (Ibaraki University), Hideko Nomura (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Takayuki Muto (Kogakuin University), Ryohei Kawabe (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, National Institutes for National Sciences), Daiki Ishimoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology/Kyoto University), Kazuhiro D. Kanagawa (University of Szczecin), Satoshi Okuzumi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Shigeru Ida (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Catherine Walsh (Leiden University), T. J. Millar (Queen's University Belfast).
This research was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science through Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. 24103504, 23103005, 25400229, 26800106, 15H02074, 16K17661, and Polish National Science Centre MAESTRO grant DEC- 2012/06/A/ST9/00276.
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See the press release "ALMA's Best Image of a Protoplanetary Disk" issued on March 30, 2016 for more detail. Astronomers observed radio waves from TW Hydrae in only one frequency in the past observations and could not estimate the size of the dust particles. ↩
1 au = 1 astronomical unit. One astronomical unit corresponds to the distance between the Sun and the Earth, about 150 million kilometers. ↩
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DENVER (AP) — A Colorado woman charged in the death of her 7-year-old son told a fellow inmate that the boy died in July, months before his body was discovered encased in concrete inside a Denver storage unit, according to court records unsealed Tuesday.
A woman whose name is redacted in court records told police that Pankey said she and her husband sometimes forced the boy inside an animal carrier.
The woman said Pankey told her that sometime in July they kept him in the carrier overnight despite his cries of being thirsty and hot.
Pankey said the boy was dead by morning and she believed he had suffocated, the records state.
The woman told police that Pankey said she and her husband took the boy's body — still inside the animal carrier —to the storage unit, poured concrete over him and wrapped the carrier in plastic trash bags.
Leland Pankey, the boy's father, has remained in jail since late December on an outstanding warrant. He has not been charged in connection with McWilliams' death.
The records show police began investigating the family in mid-December after Pankey reported that her husband had choked and threatened to kill her.
The records portray a chaotic life, with both parents living in hotels. McWilliams last attended school in late May. His mother unenrolled him from Denver Public Schools in the fall of 2018 and said he would be home-schooled.
She told investigators that Leland Pankey took their son and daughter to live with him in November and had been sending her threatening text messages. Within a week, police in suburban Aurora arrested Leland Pankey for outstanding warrants in the metro area.
But they could not find McWilliams or get more information from his parents.
During a search of Elisha Pankey's hotel room, police found a business card with a unit number from a public storage facility in Denver. They also found heroin and took the woman to Arapahoe County jail on suspicion of drug possession, the records state.
Denver police opened the storage unit and found a large chunk of cement inside an animal cage that had been wrapped in plastic sheeting.
Investigators say they discovered a decomposed child's body in the cement but could not immediately tell if the remains were those of McWilliams.
The Denver coroner's office later identified the body but could not determine how the boy died. An autopsy found signs that McWilliams was severely emaciated and evidence of injuries to his head, chest and limbs, some of which showed signs of healing.
Pankey has not entered a plea and is due back in court April 2. She is represented by the state public defenders' office, which bars its attorneys from commenting on individual cases.
This story has been corrected to show the boy's last name is spelled McWilliams.


Does Your Business Need Asset Management Software?
All companies have assets. If you are a multi-million-dollar corporation or a small startup, you have assets. With these assets, you conduct business that turns hard work into profit. The business cycle would not function without the regular use of company assets.
You may be wondering whether your business needs asset management software to be successful? In today's age of technology advancement, the answer is an emphatic yes — that is if you want to remain competitive in today's ever-evolving market.
What Are Business Assets and How Do I Manage Them?
Assets vary between companies, but once defined, you can develop solutions of how to best use them to turn a profit.
To put it simply, an asset is anything your business has that can be used to generate income. Examples include computers, vehicles, furniture, equipment and anything else that is used in the daily operations of a company. The full list of assets is quite extensive.
Thus, proper management of them has many financial implications for your business and bottom line.
Why are Company Assets Important?
Businesses exist to make a profit. Your company needs assets to complete jobs they are hired to do. Construction workers need hammers; an office clerk needs a computer, lab techs need equipment to conduct research. Without assets, there is no business.
What is worse than having no assets is mismanaging existing company assets. One can have ten work trucks stocked with tools needed to complete a job, but with no solution in place to manage the trucks and tools, assets are lost or their locations are unknown.
Many times, this leads to the unnecessary purchase of new assets, ultimately costing your business money in the long run. It is imperative you have an asset management tool that gives your team full visibility into what assets are available to them.
While every business owner can benefit from asset management, we have selected a few industry categories that have traditionally shown the greatest need for asset management software.
From the hammer that drives the nail, to the front loader that moves a mound of dirt, a construction company is only as good as the equipment it uses.
When a business uses good equipment and keeps track of where everything is, that business will experience greater success than the one who doesn't.
Documentation – Keep track of your equipment and use it wisely.
Scheduling equipment properly – You don't want to double book the only flatbed truck you have and risk losing business.
Protecting against theft or misuse – GPS location of asset equipment.
Routine maintenance of your equipment – You cannot work if your equipment is broken down. Keeping a maintenance schedule is beneficial to you and the clients you are serving.
Keeping accurate records of money spent – Knowledge of fuel consumption, drive times, and engine hours can help you in your bidding processes.
When you have records of these figures, you know how to bid a job properly, even showing your client in writing how you plan to execute their project, giving you an edge over the competition.
Asset management is different for electronic equipment than for a grader or bulldozer.
Data Protection – Understand what information you have and what needs protecting.
Back-up System – Just as a construction company has a backup generator, computers must have some form of redundancy to protect stored information.
Routine maintenance schedule – Protect sensitive electronic equipment with updates.
Assignment – Who has what equipment is critical to the daily operation of a company.
Routine Maintenance – Office equipment needs to remain operational for your office to be productive.
Equipment Accountability – Equipment needs to be accounted for, so the whole team has access to it. Workflow process is interrupted when an agent has the equipment others agent is seeking; video projection units, meeting offices, or even funds spent on client acquisition.
Scheduling – Know where equipment is and when it will be available again.
Accurate Record Keeping – Records of asset inventory is beneficial when you need to submit a sales order. You don't want to run out of something when you need it the most.
Documentation – Know the brand and models of equipment you have and any software licenses that need to be maintained or paid for.
Organization – Have a centralized location for everything. The whole team will know what is in stock. When everything has its place, less time is spent searching for needed items, thus improving productivity of your employees.
Routine maintenance – While it may hurt workflow to stop business for two hours for a Mass Spectrometer to be fine-tuned, it would be devastating for the instrument to fail and be down for two days.
Keep Accurate Records – Not only of maintenance but what model numbers you have. This can help in the event of a recall or system update.
Documentation – Who is authorized to use it and where it is located in the office for regulatory compliance.
Scheduling – Keeps workflow processes from freezing up if there is a limited supply of instruments.
What will Asset Management Software Do for My Company?
There are five things that excellent asset management software will do for your business.
Save you time – You and your support teams will not be hunting down where equipment is. The Asset Management solution will give information on the location of equipment, the last time it was used, and when it was last serviced.
Save you money – Using software solutions will help your workflow become more efficient. Through proper organization, you will be able to accomplish more in less time. There will be less downtime with equipment breakdown or searching for that one thing you cannot find. You will also save money by not purchasing unnecessary new assets due to your inability to locate existing assets.
Encourage your staff – There is nothing more frustrating than to go to use a piece of equipment, and it is either occupied or requires maintenance. Delays can also affect client relationships.Employees work best when assets are available. Software that manages the assets you use can generate a stronger working relationship, thus helping employees become more productive.
Keep you prepared – Hindsight is 20/20. But what if you can have that vision looking forward? Asset management software can help with tracking your assets, workload, scheduling, and processes; when you need a document, a piece of equipment, scheduling, or even tax documents, you will be ready.
Invest in your future – When you are prepared for today, it helps you prepare for the future. Knowing how your assets perform now, gives you a reliable measuring stick to future performance. Especially when it comes to company growth. One asset turns into two, and your bottom line continues to increase when your assets are managed properly.
Trinity is a Quick Base Solution Provider. We work with companies to extend Quick Base functionality by streamlining business processes like asset management.
Trinity has developed an Asset Management solution on the Quick Base platform that utilizes barcode scanning and mobile devices to track all of your assets to help you manage your business better.
We customize solutions that are specific to your company's needs. Our top priority is delivering excellent solutions that are easy to use. This saves time and money, thus improving overall business processes.
Flexibility and scalability are integral to these solutions, since Trinity understands that growing businesses evolve over time. For over 21 years, Trinity has worked with clients to improve their efficiency, increase service levels, and upgrade their quality of output.
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AeroVironment Celebrates Historic First Powered Flight on another World by Mars Ingenuity Helicopter
SIMI VALLEY, Calif., April 20, 2021 – AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), celebrated with its colleagues at NASA/JPL when data confirming the Ingenuity Helicopter's successful first flight on Mars arrived at approximately 3:50 a.m. PT on April 19.
"AeroVironment is proud to have played a key role in developing the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter and achieving today's historic first powered flight on another planet," said Wahid Nawabi, AeroVironment president and chief executive officer. "We congratulate JPL and NASA on today's achievement and salute their leadership and vision for deploying unmanned technology to further our understanding of other worlds."
Since 2013, the AeroVironment team has worked closely with NASA rotorcraft experts and with JPL electrical, mechanical, materials, vehicle flight controls, and systems engineers on the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter project. AeroVironment's contributions to Ingenuity include the design and development of the helicopter's airframe and major subsystems, including its rotor, rotor blades, hub and control mechanism hardware. AeroVironment also developed and built high-efficiency, lightweight propulsion motors, power electronics, landing gear, load-bearing structures, and the thermal enclosure for NASA/JPL's avionics, sensors, and software systems.
"AeroVironment's deep, rich and diverse history of designing reliable and effective unmanned solutions that deliver mission success in extreme environments, combined with our experience with near-space aircraft, make us uniquely suited to collaborate with NASA and JPL," Nawabi said. "We also incorporated the ultra-lightweight and ultra-high-precision methods integral to Nano projects that have been developed in our MacCready Works Advance Solutions laboratory, where we've assembled a dedicated team of the industry's brightest and most experienced engineers to solve some of today's greatest technological challenges.
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Proceeds from Ring-A-Bell 5k Run/Walk will be put towards The Salvation Army Christmas campaign locally, which provides Christmas food baskets, toys for children, Christmas dinner, and more for those in need throughout the tri-state area. Funds also support year-round services such as the organization's food pantry, rent and utility assistance, and the operation of the emergency shelter.
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COMMITMENT WITH TRADITION
A commitment to social responsibility is firmly anchored in our company history. In addition to training and support for his employees, Ferdinand Adolph Lange himself was also committed to activities within the scope of social and corporate responsibility. As volunteer mayor of the town of Glashütte and later as a member of Saxony's state parliament, he had roads and bridges built and wells dug, and he supported the construction of a railway line to the then remote valley of the Müglitz river. His son Emil established a foundation to provide pensions for former employees. And Emil's sons in turn also made a name for themselves with their social commitment, such as their endeavour to procure affordable homes for employees.
In 1990, Walter Lange followed in his great-grandfather's footsteps: social and societal commitment were key aspects of doing business for him, too. As the town's biggest employer, we are committed to working regionally and nationally in the spirit of the Lange family to promote the skilled trade through watchmaking qualifications and master training. The sustainable use of resources and eco-friendly production are another aspect of our working environment. We also support non-profit projects through donations and partnerships.
INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE: THE WALTER LANGE WATCHMAKING EXCELLENCE AWARD
To develop the great art of fine watchmaking through curiosity and enthusiasm: that is the aim of our Walter Lange Watchmaking Excellence Award. In an initial project week, we impart Lange's understanding of watchmaking to talented young trainees from all over the world. The selected participants, who were nominated by their schools, will then be able to put what they have learned into practice as part of a project within six months. The competition prize money is €10,000. In this way, we deepen our strong relationships with the international watchmaking schools who produce the participants and support young talent at the same time
PRESERVING THE CULTURE OF SAXONY
As a tradition-steeped brand with its historic roots in Saxony, A. Lange & Söhne assumes responsibility for maintaining the cultural heritage of our home.
THE STAATLICHE KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN DRESDEN (THE DRESDEN STATE ART COLLECTIONS)
We have supported the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and their realisation of demanding exhibition and research projects since 2006. The Mathematisch-Physikalische Salon (cabinet of mathematical and physical instruments) with its outstanding collection of technical instruments and watches also forms part of the important museum association.
THE SEMPEROPER IN DRESDEN
In 1841, Johann C. F. Gutkaes completed the Fünf-Minuten-Uhr (five-minute clock) on the Dresden Semperoper with the assistance of his journeyman Ferdinand Adolph Lange. It continues to reliably display the time to the audience, even during the show, to this day. Its characteristic indication inspired the watchmakers from A. Lange & Söhne to design the outsize-date display now typical of Lange. Our long-standing partnership with the opera house highlights this historic connection.
DONATIONS TO AID ORGANISATIONS
We support organizations and associations which support disadvantaged children and young people in particular, including the Albert-Schweitzer-Kinderdorf in Sachsen e. V., a non-profit organisation that gives children a new home, Sonnenstrahl e. V. Dresden, which supports children with cancer and their families, and the Geneva-based organization Children Action, which helps young patients get the urgent operations they need to make their lives better.
For several generations, the watchmakers of A. Lange & Söhne have been pursuing one goal: To craft timepieces that represent the pinnacle of international watchmaking artistry.
We believe our watches can last many years, as long as they are cared for. In a Lange watch, we only use components which we guarantee can be newly produced in the long term.
We make some of the finest timepieces in international watchmaking.


When it comes to decorating the house, people don't worry about the money. Their goals are just making their home more attractive. Well, it is also true that if the house looks decorative and beautiful, then it will automatically boost the personality. There are various kinds of decorative items are available in the market, and Jute rugs are one of them. Customers will find a wide variety in the Jute rugs which they can easily use for the home. People should always check the quality of the rug before buying it because it's a matter of decoration.
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If you like the mobile phone with huge memory then checks out the memory card slot. It should be expandable upto 64 GB.
Instead of this, you should check you the quality of the product, and it should be perfect.
Price of the product is also very important to check because it is a matter of money.
Make sure, and the gadget should be up to date.
Well, once you go through in this process, then you are able to choose the right option for you. For more information, you should check out the reviews.
If you are going to purchase the smartphone, then you should compare different products. Due to this, customers can select the right product for themselves.
The best part about getting a second credit card is that you can get a better credit score if you maintain the cards well. People with more credit cards stand a stronger chance of getting a better score and also increasing their card limit. What's better is that with two cards you can divide your payments and thus get more out of the cards. If you have a low credit limit, you can split the bill on both cards and pay for things you could not afford with one card. The benefits of a second card are always better than having just one card. However, if you're not sold to the idea of using a second card then you might want to visit the dumps shop and see what they have to offer.
The best part about having two cards is that you have added benefits. You can get certain benefits and discounts from one card and other offers on the other. This helps you save on a lot of money while shopping, buying groceries and even while going to the movies and paying bills. Two cards means more options and a wider choice for discounts and offers.
It is essential to not have too many credit cards since this makes it tough to maintain the payments. Two cards per person is ideal, however if you have a partner who is not working you should try and manage with two cards. Always keep a balance between the number of debit cards and credit cards you own since it will help you balance your finances and you will ensure you pay your bills on time. When used the correct way the idea of getting a second credit card will work towards your benefit, however it is essential to know how much you can spend and pay back on time.
Why People More Prefer Gym Equipment For Healthy Life?
All people in the world want a healthy life and physically fit body to do every work better without any stress. Best gym equipment helps you in many ways to make your body in better shape. With that, you can better achieve your health goals and can live a healthy life.
More of things are there that you need to consider for choosing the best gym equipment. Also, there are so many side effects are available of choosing bad gym equipment. We can say that it is essential to select the right equipment for taking more benefits mentioned in this article.
You can better give a perfect shape to your body by using gym equipment. It helps you to make your body healthy and physically fit. With that, you can better do any work without getting tired and stressed. You can better remove all the stress and tension by doing exercise with best gym equipment. Or in simple words, with the help of best gym equipment, you can better make physically fit body.
Yes, if you do exercise with the best gym equipment, your body releases more chemicals. With that, you feel tired and better, and you can better take proper sleep. You know that good sleep is essential to do every daily work better. From better sleep, you can live a healthy and disease-free life. Also from that, you can better remove all the stress and tension from your mind.
If we talk about dumbbells, it is made from many materials. It depends upon you which to choose the material like- metal dumbbells, and plastic. You can better select any materials dumbbells which make your exercise harder to make a better body.
Natural herb products are definitely very beneficial for you. This can surely help in improving your health, which can surely reflect on your daily life routines. Thus, you should have it through the best possible ways, and iHerb is one of those. Of course, do not miss the iHerb free shipping code too, for you to have further perks.
To begin with, iHerb is a reliable online shopping site that offers thousands of brands of natural herbal products. All of these products are on high quality, and are sold in the US market. With iHerb, such products are made available worldwide, providing people easy access to order such stuff.
Thing is, many people could worry about the shipping fee that they should pay upon ordering. This probably include you as well. That is why you should have the iHerb free shipping code that you can use to eliminate such worry and gain big perks along the way.
When you have free shipping code of IHerb, you can be sure that you can have the best natural herbal products that you need. Of course, you can have it from iHerb with is a source you can trust. This can help you to make sure of having authentic products on good condition, thus avoiding fake products along the way.
You just have to remember to get the free shipping code from the official iHerb site. Moreover, note that such codes are only available for existing iHerb customers only. Do not get codes from other sources to avoid hassles and processes that will never work.
So if you want to buy the best natural herbal products from iHerb, you should have iHerb free shipping code with it. This can help you purchase the products that you need without worries of expensive shipping fees.
Mobile phone cases can surely help your device in many ways. It is not just for aesthetics after all, but it can also protect your mobile device and make it last longer. However, you need to purchase quality phone cases to have such benefits. Thus, you should check out Spigen, for you to purchase quality mobile phone cases and other accessories.
If you want to buy cases for your mobile devices, you should have it from a reliable seller. This can help you to make sure that you will receive quality products, and avoid one that will not serve its purposes.
At Spigen, you can surely have the phone cases that you need. It is an only shopping sites for mobile device accessories, which includes various phone cases for different phone models. Phone cases in Spigen are all in high quality, durable and long-lasting, and are good looking as well.
This means that you can easily make your phone look fantastic by simply attaching phone case from Spigen. You can also make sure that its designs and colors won't fade away through time. Of course, it is also durable enough to protect your phone from shocks, especially on accidental fall. This can give you the assurance that it will keep your phone away from harm and physical damages.
All you have to do is to visit the official website of Spigen, and look for phone case that suits your preference and style. You can then make your order, and Spigen will ship your phone cases directly to your place.
So if you want quality cases for your mobile phones, Spigen is the best online shop for that. Just make sure to contact their customer service support team if you have queries about the process, or check out their site for more info and products.
The computer sales market is one of the most competitive market there is, thus you can expect tons of hard choices to make if you ought to buy one. That is why you should not miss to read reviews at KeuzeHelper before making a purchase, for you to end up with the best choice!
Keuze Helper is a website entirely dedicated on giving unbias and truthful reviews about various stuff. It aims to help buyers to make the best choice upon purchasing certain stuff, and this includes gadgets and computers as well.
Having said that, you should know how important is it to check out KeuzeHelper before you buy your computer. For starters, there are dozens of brands and units available in the market, and each unit have their own specifications as well. Those are lots of considerations that you should think about before buying, which could cause too much confusion to you.
When you will read reviews on Keuze Helper, you can easily search about the specifications that you need. This can easily lead you to the computers you can choose from. After finding a smaller list of choices, you just have to think which one is on the best quality. Finally, you can consider which one has the most affordable and reasonable price for you to pay.
All of this you can do without too much hassles because of the way on how the Keuze Helper presents their reviews. Their website is very user-friendly, and their articles are very easy to read as well.
So before you make a choice of which computer you should buy, make sure to have a look at KeuzeHelper first. The site can surely help you to find the specifications that you need, and know which unit is on the best quality and most affordable price rate.
If you are thinking about buying few lipsticks, of course you would want to have the best. Not only that you want high quality stuff, but you would love to have the most fantastic colors and shades as well. Thus, you should definitely go for Lipsense, and have the best Lipsense colors for you.
Of course, you can have the most fabulous colors on your lips. The Lipsense color chart has around 70 different colors and shades for you to choose. This means that you can choose few colors that could match your preference and your wardrobe. You can even choose some that could match the occasions you usually go.
What makes Lipsense truly fantastic is the fact that you can combine few colors to come up with a different shade. This means that you can manipulate few colors of lipsticks that you have from Lipsense, thus producing some that you would love. Just remember to apply the thinnest possible layers for each colors in combining them.
With Lipsense, you can have fabulous color on your lips for the whole day. You do not have to reapply the lipstick just to maintain it. It could even last through certain factors like eating, drinking and even kissing. Just make sure to bring your lip gloss with you, for you to protect the lipstick throughout the day.
Thus, if you want to buy the best lipsticks, you should definitely purchase the best Lipsense colors! It can help you have wonderful colors on your lips, along with some other great stuff you would love.
If you have the wonderful Sony A7 with you, buying few lenses that you can use interchangeably is an important thing to consider. This is because of the big advantages you can surely have from new lenses for Sony A7. These advantages can help you a lot, especially in taking certain photos and videos.
What are the Advantages of having New Lenses for Sony A7?
If you have the right lenses for your Sony A7, you can surely have the following advantages that can help you with your shots.
It can help you deal with different shots and angles. Regardless of you wanting to take landscape or portrait, or if you want to have short, mid or long range shots, you can easily have the best quality photos and videos through the right lens. You just have to change your Sony A7 lenses for certain shots, for you to produce the best outputs.
It can help you manipulate distortion, blurriness and other negative elements in your shots as well. Although most of the time you want to get rid of distortions and blurriness, there are shots where they could help in producing stunning pictures. You just need to have the right lens that can help you manipulate such factors to have it favor you.
Of course, the right lenses can also let you capture action photos in a moment. You do not have to wait for few seconds before the shot will take. This could be very helpful especially if you want to capture shots of moving objects.
You just have to know about the new lenses for Sony A7, for you to choose the right one to buy. Grab those that can help you with your favored shots, and you can surely produce fantastic pictures and videos using the Sony A7.
Are You Going To Buy A Coffee Machine?
There are various types of coffee makers available in the market which you can buy with ease. First of all, it is really important to check out different models, and then you should find the right one to make purchases. All of the coffee machines are not the same, so you should know about their features and other vital information. With the help of this, it becomes easy to find the right one to buy. There are several factors which you also need to take into the account. You can also take help from kaffeemaschine test for finding the right type of coffee machine for your needs.
It is good to pay attention to the several features of the coffee machine while buying it. If it has some advanced features, then you shouldn't think anymore to buy it. Always make your choices on behalf of the features of the machine.
You can see that the coffee machines always come with the different capacities. It is the reason that you should always buy the one according to your requirements. You can either buy the single-serve coffee machine or the large-capacity coffee machines.
It is important to check out whether the coffee maker is easy to use or not. It is also one of the main things that you should always look for before going to buy a machine for your needs.
With the help of all these factors or the results of kaffeemaschine test, you can easily decide about the right machine that you should buy.


File photo of former CSI feline fellow Cassie.
10)Acting Clow UFO Base administrator considers accepting transgender refugees The last we heard, a decision is still pending.
9)Illuminati honors Qanon at the Bolingbrook Golf Club She's still going strong in some corners of the Internet.
8)From the webmaster: Bolingbrook Pride to host 'Pride Picnic and Puppies' on June 10 The next event is planned for June 2019 at Village Hall.
7) Village Board celebrates the opening of 'troll farm' in Bolingbrook They're still in business and we can expect to see their work during the 2019 campaign.
6) Mayor Claar defiant as Clow UFO Base reopens Roger may not control Clow UFO Base currently, but he might after the April election.
5) Anonymous Sources: Rogue Township trustees set fire to IKEA solar panel The war between the Illuminati and the New World Order reached the DuPage Township. Allegiances may have changed since this story was published, but the fighting rages on. Even the Edgar County Watchdogs, rumored to be Illuminati operatives, have joined the fight.
4) Center for Inquiry responds to harassment allegations against Lawrence Krauss by firing its feline fellows This one has kind of a happy ending. Krauss will retire in 2019 and the cats are enjoying their new home at the American Humanist Association.
3) The Roger Claar Party launches the first attack ad against the First Party for Bolingbrook The 2019 campaign is off to a negative start with a bold attack ad by the Roger Claar Party, which isn't affiliated with Mayor Roger Claar.
2) Amid controversy, Joshie Berger opens a restaurant at Clow UFO Base It was closed during the uprising at Clow UFO Base, but it is now open again. Though it is not as popular as the WeatherTech restaurants.
1) Illuminati honors Professor Jordan Peterson The Bolingbrook Golf Club was the place to be if you were a member of the Illuminati.
I don't know how organized it so quickly, but Bolingbrook Pride will be hosting its first event, "Pride Picnic and Puppies," on June 10 from 3 pm to 7 pm.
Bolingbrook PRIDE is holding our first annual community picnic with art activities, pet adoption event, food, games, fellowship and more!! We aim to support LGBTQ acceptance through family-friendly, community activity. Join us at James S Boan Woods for four hours of fun!!
While most our staff recovers from a suspected Russian biological attack, I decided to share some of the letters we've received. The ones I've selected cover the hot issues in our exceptional burb.
We received quite a few letters about gun control. Some were very disturbing. A few Bolingbrook High School students argued that they should be able to buy assault rifles from the pawn shop across the street, to "protect themselves from teacher tyranny." Other residents say they have the right to shoot at any public official they disagree with. We have forwarded these letters to the proper authorities. At the very least, you won't be getting any awards from the village this year.
It seems that my fellow Second Amendment supporters are more interested in triggering liberals than promoting sensible gun use. I've seen women put pistols in their yoga pants, and men put pistols in the crotch of their jeans. Don't get me started on so called "open carry activists" who bring their guns to crowded places. Their actions endanger both themselves and the public.
Thanks to some unfortunate incidents, more people support gun control today. It is scary, but that is no excuse to scare others. The public cannot tell the difference between a good guy with a gun, and a bad guy with a gun. We need to start acting like a well-regulated militia, or else the government will regulate us!
I am pleased to announce that I will be marrying the garbage toter I just met at the Home Depot. Not only will I be marrying the love of my life, but my spouse will be able to go anywhere on our property. My love will be spending her days sitting by the side of our house, and no one, not even our dictatorial housing association, can stop my spouse!
I'm sure (Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar) will try to stop me, or impose a fee on my spouse. He will fail because I know that every Bolingbrook resident, with few exceptions, supports freedom, and therefore will support my freedom to marry my loving garbage toter!
The Cook County Democrats have gone too far! They're organizing a "Bolingbrook Pride" event. We've never had a gay event in Bolingbrook before. Why now?
The answer is simple. The Chicago political machine, lead by Rahm Emanuel, Louis Farrakhan, and Jesus Garcia, want to take over Bolingbrook. This "pride" event is cover for an invading Cook County army!
I don't hate gay people. I just don't think they belong in Bolingbrook— and Cook County has no business imposing them on us!
I'm calling on every decent resident to stand up to this invasion force. We stood up to Cook County last year. We will do it again. Keep your (offensive term redacted), Cook County! Bolingbrook is a wholesome community!
I think I can speak for the entire Babbler staff regarding this letter.
First, there is no word in the English language strong enough to describe your total lack of knowledge about Cook County politics and your disrespect for LGBTQ+ people. Second, there are LGBTQ+ residents in Bolingbrook, and they help make Bolingbrook the diverse and vibrant community that it is today. As far as we've determined, Bolingbrook Pride is locally organized, and we should be at their event in some manner.
You may not hate LGBTQ+ people, but attitudes like yours make life difficult for them. They should be proud to be surviving the hate and discrimination imposed on them, as well as proud to be who they are.
That's it for this week's letters. Remember, anyone can post a web comment. Only a select few will have their letter published by me. Are you up for the challenge?
Officials at Bolingbrook's Clow UFO Base praised their ability to remain operational, despite getting nearly a foot of snow over the weekend.


President Donald Trump dismissed the Robert Mueller special investigation into whether his political campaign colluded with Russia to help him beat Hillary Clinton.
"The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime," Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday.
The president again branded the investigation as a partisan "witch hunt" and said there was "no collusion" between members of his campaign and Russia.
"Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans?" he asked on Twitter, noting that even Democrats questioned whether the investigation was fair.


Reducing or eliminating the number of on-site servers, software cost, and the number of staff can significantly reduce costs, while accessing powerful off-site data centers can potentially improve your IT capabilities.
The Cloud providers we work with are extremely reliable in providing their service. If your employees have an internet connection, they can access data and their applications when they need them most.
Work via laptop, tablet or smart phone while on the go in a variety of environments like retail stores, in the field or while visiting customers at their homes or offices. You and your employees can have access to data and applications anywhere in the world that has internet access.
Employee groups, with the proper access permission, can see and edit data in real time from offices around the world. These disperse groups can meet virtually and easily share and update information in real time. This allows teams to improve product development reduce time-to-market and create exceptional customer experiences across multiple touch-points.
Capacity at off-site data centers can be provisioned as needed on the fly. For example, holiday or seasonal trends may increase the amount of traffic your company typically experiences. Capacity can be added quickly to avoid over-utilization of servers and potentially impacting business. When the traffic slows down, capacity can be de-provisioned resulting in cost efficiencies.
With traditional computing, your company may spend tens or hundreds of thousands before you see a return from your investment in a data center. Through Cloud, you may not have to invest significant money up front on hardware, facility construction and other operational costs.
Traditional on-site computing requires buying hardware with enough capacity for peak utilization times and future growth. This technology sits idle the rest of the time, depreciating. Through Cloud you only pay for the infrastructure capacity that you need, while you use it.
Markets are constantly changing and your business needs change with them. Cloud computing offers a flexible cost structure that can be increased or decreased based on what your business requires during these fluctuations.
For companies that are environmentally conscious, the Cloud has an added benefit. When using shared resources via the Cloud you have less impact on the environment.


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AI: Blind Chinese human rights activist remains under surveillance
Posted 13 Sep 2010, 10:12pm By Shao Jiang
Amnesty International has urged the Chinese authorities to end the continued surveillance and harassment of a blind human rights activist, who has been kept under unofficial house arrest since he was released from prison last week.Chen Guangcheng had served a four-year prison sentence for charges relating to his involvement in a legal action against forced sterilizations and abortions carried out by the authorities on thousands of women in the Shandong province.Hewas released from jail in the city of Linyi on 9 September and escortedback to his home village of Donshigu where he and his family were placed under heavy surveillance. "Despite being released after serving his sentence, Chen Guangcheng is still effectively being kept a prisoner in his own home," said Amnesty International."The Chinese authorities must end this harassment and surveillance and let him and his family move about free from intimidation and interference." Accordingto media reports, the authorities have installed surveillance cameras around Chen Guangcheng's house and village prior to his release. Plain-clothed police and government officials surround his house and their home phone lines are cut.Neither Chen Guangcheng nor his family have been allowed to leave home, even to buy food. Chen Guangcheng has not been allowed to visit his doctor for a check-up despite fears that he may be in need of urgent medical attention due to ill-treatment while in prison.Chen Guangcheng was severely kicked and beaten by fellow inmates on the orders of prison guards on 16June 2007 after he refused to have his head shaved. He was denied medical treatment and later told his wife that he thought one of his ribs may have been broken.He is also thought to have suffered as a result of food poisoning while in prison.ChenGuangcheng lives with his wife Yuan Weijing, their five-year-old daughter and his 76-year-old mother. Chen Guangchen's son is staying with Yuan Weijing's sister in Yinan city so that he can go to school. They too are under heavy surveillance.Chen Guangcheng, who taught himself law, helped villagers to take legal action against the Linyi city authorities, who had allegedly been forcing thousands of women to have abortions to meet birth quotas set by government.Hewas placed under house arrest in September 2005. In August 2006, after agrossly unfair trial, he was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for "damaging public property and gathering people to block traffic".Chen Guangcheng appealed against his sentence later that year, was re-tried and appealed again but on 12 January 2007 the Linyi Intermediate People's Court upheld the original verdict.AmnestyInternational campaigned for his release and named him as a prisoner ofconscience, jailed solely for his peaceful activities in defence of human rights.
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Posted 13 Sep 2010, 10:12pm
By Shao Jiang
...like many not-for-profit organisations, our fundraising has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Amnesty International UK depends on the generosity of our supporters to fund our ongoing fight for human rights. Our usual work must continue, and we must now also ensure governments around the world are doing enough to protect vulnerable people during this pandemic. Your donation, however big or small, is valuable.
If you are able to help, please chip in today and help the fight for humanity and human rights to continue.


That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how. - Rhett Butler.
Favorite Musician: "A dream inspired me to write Twilight." - Stephenie Meyer. "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live" - Albus Dumbledore.
Favorite Book or Author: Harry Potter series, Gone with the Wind, many more.
We have a lot of spots in common!


Where the hell have I been for the last 3 weeks? Well, while Chris was in Edinburgh drinking Highland Park and Balblair, rubbing shoulders with a certain young lady who can sing as good as she looks (or the other way round), I was away updating my somewhat obsolete marital status and then honeymooning in Prague. Why take a brand new wife to Prague instead of, say, Venice or the Caribbean? The beer of course!
I'm obsessed with it now and, to be perfectly honest, I have been spending much more time dealing with beer than whisky recently. Not that I don't love whisky (or you) any more – just needed a few non-whisky weeks to gain a new appreciation, put things into perspective, organise my thoughts. While on my whisky break me and two of my mates polished off a litre bottle of Laphroaig QC, drunk a fair amount of Lagavulin DE and enjoyed a few samples of Manager's Choice, so it wasn't exactly a whisky break… just some time not reading/writing about it. And I guess it's done the trick, I have a few new ideas and heaps of energy to do blog work, which I regret to say I have been neglecting over the last couple of months.
Another update is that I don't work as a tour guide any more, I quit that just before I went away. In the mean time I have somehow managed to get myself a wee consulting deal with a whisky company. I'm saying this for the first and the last time on the blog and I want to assure you that this will have no impact on the EWB operations, the two things are completely independent and I'm under no obligation to cut the consulted brands any slack. I thought about it long and hard and I'm sure this will not compromise my integrity as an on-line whisky commentator. I don't know if you think that it's fair I'm doing this now but I have a brand new family to feed and I don't think I would be happy doing something outside the industry just to keep it real. Enough said.
Well, sorry for this entirely personal update and no interesting whisky content but I felt like sharing, eh? One more thing. I'm launching my home brewery this week, my first home-made batch will be a Bavarian hefe-weizen. Do you want me to blog it? I can take a few pix as I go along and describe the process a little bit. Let me know.
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The fam has now been in NZ for the last two days and it has been a fun time. We will be headed off in about 9 hrs from this writing to take a 12 hour scenic train ride through the North Island and end up in Wellington. Got some new pictures online. That's about all for now.
Merry Christmas Eve to all from Lake Wanaka, New Zealand. We have been at the Hughes lake house for the past two days. I have finally been able to do some yard work for the first time in over 6 months. It has been quite relaxing. The weather has been nice, just a bit windy.
Well the times they are a changin. It was about that time and I have sadly moved out of 'Warm Chubby and the Shipwrecked Ostrich'. For now I am staying at Tisa's flat - about 1km from where I was. We will be here today and tomorrow and then it is off to Lake Wanaka again - but this time with Emma. We'll be celebrating Christmas with her family and then returning to Dunedin on the 26th (pending a pair of bus tickets). As soon as we return, we'll get to packing once more and on the 27th we fly to Auckland and will be staying with my former flatmate, Nick. My family will be in the air at that time and we will rendezvous with them on the 28th some time in the late morning (I need my rest). That takes us to a two week trip around the North Island, South Island, and Sydney, Australia. We'll then be back in Dunedin on the 11th of January only to pack for good and have hotel reservations in Wellington for the 15th-19th in such time we will be finding a place in the city there.
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I had an encounter with a New Zealand Tunnelweb Spider. To anyone who knows me, it's a well known fact that I am more or less terrified by most anything of the arachnid variety. It's entirely an irrational fear, this I know, but I can't seem to get over it for whatever reason. Thankfully, I think spiders are about the only things that I am afraid of.
Of course I also think most anyone would be afraid of a tunnelweb.
The other day while still living in my flat in Dunedin, I strolled into my bathroom (or toilet) for a quick pee break. So far there was nothing unusual about this sudden urge to urinate. I began peeing and as I looked down to my left, just near the upright shower, was a GIANT New Zealand Tunnelweb spider. Now that I was in a state of complete terror, not to mention mid-stream, instinct kicked in and I immediately stopped my flow and jumped about 6 feet to my left far, far out of harms way.
Once I calmed down a bit, I ran to get my camera and though I usually get pretty close to the subject in my nature pics, I kept my distance for this one. These were zoom lens all the way. I tossed an American Quarter on the ground near the spider to give it some perspective. FYI: an American Quarter is just under an inch in diameter. This spider clearly spawned about 2.25 of them.
Is there such a thing? Though the Tunnelweb is about the size of a Tarantula, like the Tarantula, it is not poisonous. Don't confuse it's name with the Australian Funnelweb spider. The Funnelweb, on the other hand, is quite deadly. Also like our Tarantula, however, this spider can inflict a very painful bite if provoked to do so. If you look between the small front two legs, you can see the very large black fangs touching the ground below.
After this whole encounter (with death itself), I did a bunch of research on the particular spider. Though I had seen them around outside, I had not seen one in my bathroom, but that is apparently somewhat normal. As I read, every so often a Tunnelweb spider will find his way into a house and when it does, it becomes severely dehydrated (usually to the point of death). The spider will immediately seek out a source of water with it's sensing tools and this usually lands it either in the bathroom or the laundry room. Apparently sometimes they are able to sustain themselves for awhile in the bathroom as they can live off of the leftover humidity from showers, and drops of water on the floor. Usually though, they wither and die pretty quickly. This one was obviously somewhat resourceful.
I would just like to say to anyone who has told me New Zealand 'does not really have spiders', you are wrong or a liar. For the past few weeks now I have been watching the so called Black Tunnelweb spiders make funnel like nests in front of my flat. Today I came home around 11:00pm and headed into the bathroom only to be staring at one of these monsters stretching perhaps 2 - 2.5" across. This is not my idea of 'no spiders' much less even 'small spiders'. It was huge to say the very least. I have read that they can be typically found inside of bathrooms as they seek the water when straying inside - but I am left to think that spiders aren't smart enough to know where the bathroom is. This would leave me to conclude that these things are crawling around in my house and eventually stumble upon the bathroom. I am hoping not to come across any others.
Congrats to Anne and John!
Wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS to Anne and John for finally getting engaged! I will be looking forward to that wedding whenever it may take place.
On another note, I am currently working to get some music files online. I have been recording some stuff via my digital camera's microphone so while the quality isnt all that great, it will still work. The camera saves as .MOV files and so I am working to extract the audio into .MP3 - this is turning into somewhat of a nightmare but I imagine I will have it done in a few hours.
The gallery has finally been restored fully. There are now all 978 pictures online that have been taken in the last 6 months or so around New Zealand. Sorry it took so long to get the older ones back online but now that I don't live with anyone, I have been able to tie up the phone lines all day long. And yes, to those interested, I am in fact using dialup. It was a hard set-back at first, having been used to broadband for so many years, but I have adapted to it well.
Just wanted to add a little content to start off December. Only 25 more days till Christmas. If you wanted to catch up with anything from November, the link is in the top-left block.


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from touchdown.tests.aws import StubberTestCase
from touchdown.tests.fixtures.aws import VpcFixture
from touchdown.tests.stubs.aws import ExternalAccountStubber

class TestExternalAccount(StubberTestCase):
    def test_acquire_role(self):
        goal = self.create_goal("apply")

        external_account = self.fixtures.enter_context(
            ExternalAccountStubber(
                goal.get_service(
                    self.aws.add_external_role(
                        name="session-name",
                        arn="arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/S3Access",
                    ),
                    "null",
                )
            )
        )
        external_account.add_assume_role()

        self.assertEqual(
            external_account.service.session.access_key_id, "AKIASSUMEROLEASSUMEROLE"
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            external_account.service.session.secret_access_key,
            "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            external_account.service.session.session_token, "zyxwvutsrqpnomlkjihgfedcba"
        )

        vpcf = self.fixtures.enter_context(VpcFixture(goal, external_account.resource))
        self.assertEqual(
            goal.get_service(vpcf.vpc, "describe").describe_object(),
            {
                "VpcId": vpcf.vpc_id,
                "EnableDnsHostnames": {"Value": False},
                "EnableDnsSupport": {"Value": True},
                "State": "available",
            },
        )

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


for Solar Water Heating, Solar Photovoltaics, Wind, Fuel Cells, Geothermal Heat Pumps, and other Solar electric technology.
We tend to think of the climate in terms of hot and cold, but a more scientifically accurate way of thinking about it is in terms of hot and less hot. What we perceive as cold is really an uncomfortable drop in the amount of heat in the air. The complete absence of heat is a theoretical concept called absolute zero, which is calculated as being less than minus 450 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale.
Using the "hot" and "less hot" line of thought, an air conditioner or a heater can be described as a heat mover. In the summer months, the air conditioning system moves heat from inside to outside; in the winter, it does one of two things: either it generates heat using fossil fuels or electricity, or it takes the heat from outside and moves it inside.
This may seem counterintuitive - bringing in winter air to heat the house - but remember that our winters are nowhere close to absolute zero. There is still a great deal of heat out there that can be harnessed, and when it is condensed it can keep a home comfortable in the winter.
However, it does require a great deal of energy to gather this heat during the months when weather is most extreme. This is where the thermal properties of the Earth come in handy. Just below the surface of the Earth, as close as four feet below the ground, the temperature hovers around 55 degrees. This is heat emanating outward from the planet's molten core.
Instead of drawing winter heat from the outside air (which can feel like absolute zero even if it's nowhere close), a geothermal heat pump draws heat from the ground. It requires much less energy to gather heat from a 55-degree environment than a minus-20-degree environment.
Antifreeze is a heat-sensitive chemical that evaporates at low temperatures, absorbing the heat around it like a sponge as it expands into its gaseous state. In a geothermal heat pump, cold liquid antifreeze is run into the ground in pipes. When the antifreeze comes into contact with the 55-degree ground temperature, it heats up and evaporates, soaking up the ground's heat and carrying it along the pipeline.
Fifty-five degrees isn't warm enough by most people's standards of winter comfort, so a compressor squeezes the warmed-up antifreeze gas, concentrating its heat into a smaller area. This concentrated hot gas snakes through a serpentine pipe pattern as a fan blows air across it. As the air rushes past, it absorbs the pipes' heat. This air is then transported through air ducts and blown into the house.
The antifreeze, meanwhile, begins to condense back into a liquid, having given up its heat to the passing air. It then comes to an expansion valve. The effort of expanding causes it to lose more of its heat, and it turns completely back into a liquid. It's ready to start the loop over again.
One advantage of the geothermal system is that it is a type of heat pump. A heat pump is versatile, serving as both heater in the winter and air conditioner in the summer. With the flip of a switch, the antifreeze can flow in the opposite direction and the heat-moving cycle is reversed: in the summer, instead of bringing in heat from the outside, it moves the heat out of the inside.
While the geothermal heat pump does use electricity to run, it's more environmentally friendly than a traditional heating/air conditioning unit because it moves heat instead of generating it. It doesn't rely on fossil fuels or electricity-generated heat, which means a geothermal user is pouring fewer greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It also means the person paying the utility bills is paying for fewer resources every month. These savings mean that a geothermal system can pay for itself in as few as five to 10 years.


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Music Showcases
ASSEMBLY at Somerset House
From 14-18 November, Somerset House hosts ASSEMBLY
FAMLAB 2018: Meet The Participants
Matthew Sweet: The Sound Of Cinema
Cairo Calling
Quinta: Musicians in Residence, China
Somerset House Studios presents ASSEMBLY (14-18 November 2018), five days of new sound and performance extolling the best in contemporary electronic and experimental music, and we're excited to bring five international guests to see the best British music this new event has to offer.
British music comes in the shape of Okzharp (Gerv Gordon), cellist Lucy Railton, composer John Bence, Vessel (Sebastian Gainsborough), a London debut for Gazelle Twin's Pastoral show and many more besides plus a host of talks, discussions, screenings, premieres and special events.
Find out more about ASSEMBLY and book tickets here
ASSEMBLY Radio
You can enjoy live audio from ASSEMBLY via Audioboom. Subscribe to the podcast series here. You can also watch some live shows via the Somerset House website.
Meet the delegates
Our guests join us from the USA, Spain, Russia, Japan and Egypt – all looking forward to seeing cutting edge British music and exchange ideas with their peers in the UK. These trips can be extremely rewarding for guests coming to the UK from overseas and often spark new ideas which can lead to new work, commissions and opportunities for British musicians in the future.
Lorna-Rose Simpson
Currently based in New York, Lorna-Rose Simpson works as a freelance curator and producer and has been organising Moogfest since 2013.
Born and raised in London, Lorna-Rose worked at Southbank Centre across literature, contemporary music and festivals such as Meltdown, before independently producing work for institutions including Apples & Snakes and the RSC. After relocating to New York, she worked at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, while also producing numerous music and fashion projects. Lorna-Rose now heads up the programming team at Moogfest – the music, art and technology festival in North Carolina – in partnership with Moog Music. Moogfest honors the legacy of Bob Moog by presenting artists that embody his creative visionary spirit alongside futurists and makers designing new sound technologies.
Nacho de la Vega
Nacho de la Vega is a cultural activist, multimedia artist and curator based in Gijón, Asturias, in the north of Spain. He is co-director together with Cristina de Silva of L.E.V. Festival.
For the past 20 years, Nacho de la Vega he has been an active part of the digital art and electronic culture scene in Spain, serving as catalyst and promoter of working networks through the creation of visible platforms for avant-garde creation through his curatorial projects and collaborations in the periphery of big cultural capitals. Founding member of FIUM, a collective focused on video creation and multimedia, he has showed his work in many internationally renowned events and has collaborated with many artists of international prestige. In 2007 he created the L.E.V. Festival at LABoral Centro de Arte in Gijón, a pioneer festival that provides support to contemporary audiovisual creation. His DATATRON 03XF collective represents one of the most innovative and risk-taking platforms on today's creative scene, evidenced by the projects achieved over the past 15 years.
Nikita Rasskazov
Nikita Rasskazov is a curator and producer of the live programme at the V-A-C Foundation. V-A-C values learning from artists and encourages fluidity between disciplines, audiences and cultures. Integral to this are the role of residencies and production spaces to stimulate the Russian scene and develop international networking.
After graduating from the University of St. Petersburg (MA) in 2017, Rasskazov joined the Moscow sound artists community SA)) and focused on audio installation and music for animation and video. He began to work at the V-A-C Foundation during the Geometry Of Now season curated by Mark Fell and continued as a producer of public and education programmes for Hosting The Inhuman and Tino Sehgal. His latest project at the V-A-C Foundation is the 2018 exhibition General Rehearsal including work by Gigi Masin, Tomaga, JS Aurelius, Philip Jeck, Gavin Bryers, Matthew Bourne and more. Rasskazov's main interests are expanded musical practices, regional music identity, the collaborative and educational aspects of music and music production.
Nozomu Matsumoto
Nozomu Matsumoto is a Tokyo-based artist and curator.
Matsumoto curated "Tokyo Art Meeting VI TOKYO: Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis" at The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2015. He has worked on sound design for numerous projects including Nile Koetting's Sustainable Hours at Maison Hermésin in 2016 and FUKAMI, une plongée dans l'esthétique japonaise at Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in 2018. Matsumoto released his remarkable first vinyl Climatotherapy in 2018 for The Death of Rave – "a surreal voyage into digital futures for fans of TCF, James Ferraro, Sam Kidel and Elysia Crampton," said FACT. "If [it] sounds challenging, well it is; it's also extremely engaging."
Mohamed Allam
Mohammed Allam lives and works in Cairo using different mediums such as video, performance and sound.
Born in Assiut in 1984, Allam studied at the Arts Education Faculty of Helwan University in Cairo. His work usually involves the surrounding environment; social and political stimuli provide the context and inspiration for much of the sense of irony in his creative approach. He has participated as an artist in numerous events since 2003. Allam is also concerned with art management and has participated in organizing several art events in Cairo. He is a co-founder of the Cairo-based artist initiative "Medrar for Contemporary Art" which aims to promote the contemporary artistic practices of young artists in Egypt.
ASSEMBLY runs from 14-18 November at Somerset House, London
Other Music Showcases projects
The Great Escape is the UK's number one festival for new British music and we're delighted to be bringing another...
The Great Escape 2019: International Delegates
Meet the overseas music industry insiders we've invited to The Great Escape 2019 festival taking place in Brighton, UK, in May.
Convergence festival kicks off once again in March 2018 – four days of intensely engaging gigs and compelling conversations across...
Contemporary Opera & Music Theatre Showcase
During summer 2015, the British Council and the Royal Opera House joined hands and extended a sunny welcome to 18...
Showcase Scotland 2015
Showcase Scotland is an industry week of performances highlighting some of Scotland's best emerging talent as part of the Celtic...
EFG London Jazz Festival 2014
The EFG London Jazz Festival returns for it's 22nd year from 14-23 November 2014; taking over some of London's biggest...
New Music Biennial
New Music Biennial is supporting and promoting 20 brand new commissions by some of the UK's most exciting composers; to...


text:
import { TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { StoreModule } from '@ngrx/store';
import { metaReducers, reducers } from '../../app/models';
import { ServicesModule } from '../../app/services/index';
import { errors } from './errors';
import { Resource } from './resource';
import { ResourceManager } from './resource-manager';
declare const _: any;

class MockResource extends Resource {
  load(data?: boolean): Promise<MockResource> {
    return Promise.resolve(this);
  }

  fetch(shouldFailAsString?: string): Promise<MockResource> {
    return Promise.resolve(this);
  }
}

class MockFailResource extends Resource {
  load(data?: boolean): Promise<MockFailResource> {
    return Promise.reject('failResource load always rejects');
  }

  fetch(shouldFailAsString?: string): Promise<MockResource> {
    return Promise.reject('failResource fetch always rejects');
  }
}

describe('ResourceManager', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    return TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      imports: [
        StoreModule.forRoot(reducers, { metaReducers }),
        ServicesModule.forRoot(),
      ],
    });
  });

  let loader: ResourceManager;
  beforeEach(() => {
    loader = TestBed.inject(ResourceManager);
  });

  it('should be defined and instantiable', () => {
    expect(loader).not.toBeNull();
  });

  describe('create', () => {
    it('should throw error if create is called with invalid args', () => {
      expect(() => {
        loader.create('this is not a constructor' as any, null);
      }).toThrow(new Error(errors.INVALID_ARGUMENTS));
    });

    it('should resolve promise when resource loads properly', (done) => {
      loader
        .create<MockResource>(MockResource)
        .load()
        .then((data) => {
          expect(data).toBeDefined();
          done();
        });
    });

    it('should reject promise when resource fails to load', (done) => {
      loader
        .create<MockFailResource>(MockFailResource)
        .load()
        .catch((err) => {
          expect(err).toBeDefined();
          done();
        });
    });
  });

  describe('loadAsType', () => {
    it('should allow specifying resource type explicitly', (done) => {
      loader
        .loadAsType<MockResource>('something', MockResource)
        .catch(console.error.bind(console))
        .then((data) => {
          expect(data).toBeDefined();
          done();
        });
    });
    it('should reject with error if not given a source', (done) => {
      loader.loadAsType<MockResource>(null, MockResource).catch((err) => {
        expect(err).toBeDefined();
        done();
      });
    });
    it('should reject with error if not given a type to load as', (done) => {
      loader.loadAsType<MockResource>('something', null).catch((err) => {
        expect(err).toBeDefined();
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  describe('load', () => {
    it('should fail with unknown resource type', (done) => {
      loader.load<MockResource>('something.unknown').catch((err) => {
        expect(err).toBeDefined();
        done();
      });
    });
    it('should cache loaded resources', (done) => {
      loader.registerType('mock', MockResource);
      loader.load('made-up.mock').then((resources: any[]) => {
        resources[0]._marked = 1337;
        // Ensure the same resource is returned, indicating that it
        // was retrieved from the cache.
        loader.load('made-up.mock').then((cachedResources: any[]) => {
          expect(cachedResources[0]._marked).toBe(1337);
          done();
        });
      });
    });

    it('should load an array of resources', (done) => {
      loader.registerType('mock', MockResource);
      loader
        .load<MockResource[]>(['made-up.mock', 'two.mock'])
        .then((resources: any) => {
          expect(resources.length).toBe(2);
          done();
        });
    });
  });

  describe('registerType', () => {
    it('should register custom types', (done) => {
      loader.registerType('mock', MockResource);
      loader.load('made-up.mock').then((data) => {
        expect(data).toBeDefined();
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  describe('getResourceExtension', () => {
    it('should return file extensions for a given url', () => {
      const expectations: Array<[string, string]> = [
        ['png', 'foo.png'],
        ['png', 'http://www.website.com/foo.png'],
        ['', 'http://www.website.com/foo'],
        ['', 'foo/bar'],
      ];
      for (let i: number = 0; i < expectations.length; i++) {
        const tuple: [string, string] = expectations[i];
        expect(loader.getResourceExtension(tuple[1])).toBe(tuple[0]);
      }
    });
  });
});


. Be sure that you put your name and contact information on the note. Within 48 hours of our receipt of the instrument, we will call you to give a diagnosis.
Bear in mind that RAD7 repairs involve a re-calibration of the instrument, which takes time. If you need a RAD7 during the repair time we may be able to provide a loaner instrument.
1. You can send us your RAD7 at any time to either one of our Calibration facilities (USA and UK), listed below (see important, specific instructions for each below).
2. We need the RAD7 in house for 10 days, so the total time a RAD7 will be away from your facility will be 10 days plus the time the RAD7 spends in transit. If additional service or repair is required, this may delay the return of the instrument.
3. When sending your RAD7, please send the instrument only, without the cables and accessories. Pack the instrument upright in a box with one-inch (2.2cm) padding all around. A 14x14x14in (or 36x36x36cm) box is suitable. Pack the box well, and seal it carefully. Please include your contact info with the package.
4. International customers must be very careful, to avoid substantial extra shipping charges and delays, both for shipping to the nearest calibration facility, and for its subsequent return.
For your courier or freight forwarder, you will need to provide a Commercial Invoice.
Please write only in English on the commercial invoice.
Please use the following description for RAD7: "Used RAD7 Electronic Radon Detector".
Please state on the invoice that the instrument is MADE IN USA and that it is being "returned to the manufacturer temporarily for repair and recalibration".
Please use the HS (Commodity) code 9030.10.00.
Please mark the box with the serial number of the RAD7 (as the RMA – Return Merchandise Authorization).
Please add the phone number of the Calibration facility you choose, in case the Customs Office wants to call us.
Next, you must ensure that your courier (i.e. UPS, FedEX) or freight forwarder will deliver the package to our door. The formal "INCOTERM" for this is "DDP", which means "Delivered Duty Paid."
We will not pay or be responsible for USA or UK import duties, or Customs clearance charges. Your shipper must be told this when you arrange your shipment.
It is important to make sure you prepare all the documentation you need to reimport the goods back into your country without being charged.
For the Return to you: unless you instruct us otherwise, we will return your RAD7 via the same shipping method you used to deliver it to us, Freight Collect. DURRIDGE can pay for the return shipment CPT ("Carriage Paid To") to you, but our cost will be invoiced to you before shipment.
There needs to be documentation proving that the instrument was previously imported into your country, otherwise you may be charged import duties when the instrument is returned to your country.
Please fill out the declaration form provided below. Attach the completed declaration form to the commercial invoice. If the invoice is scanned and submitted electronically, please scan the declaration form and submit it electronically as well.
No special paperwork is required for shipping within the EU Customs Union.
Please complete the checklist in the above section. It is very important to include the HS (Commodity) code 9030.10.00, otherwise import duty may be charged at the UK border, for which you will be liable. Please also include our EORI number GB219670885000.
Please ensure that you make the necessary arrangements with the Customs authority in your territory for the return of your instruments. There may be special procedures for temporary exports. For example, you may need to provide documentary evidence that the instrument was previously imported into your country, to avoid being charged import duty again.


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