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Cowboys 35, Patriots 29 (OT)
In a game of plot twists and incredible lead changes, Patriots were finally knocked out by Cowboys
By Jim McBride Globe Staff,Updated October 17, 2021, 8:43 p.m.
Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was 36-of-51 passing for 445 yards and 3 touchdowns.Matthew J Lee/Globe staff
FOXBOROUGH — With apologies to HBO, this was a real life version of "Hard Knocks.'' And unfortunately for the Patriots, they absorbed the biggest hits of this Sunday show.
The Cowboys, whose summer was chronicled in the series, delivered a knockout punch in overtime when the ever-elusive Dak Prescott hit CeeDee Lamb with a 35-yard touchdown pass on Dallas's only possession to secure a thrilling 35-29 win at Gillette Stadium.
Prescott lived up to his billing as a leading man, completing 36 of 51 passes for 445 yards and 3 touchdowns as the Cowboys handed the Patriots (2-4) their fourth straight home loss.
Prescott, just a year removed from a devastating ankle injury, masterfully manipulated the pocket and the Patriots defense for much of the game. He continually found ways to buy extra time — even if it was a split-second — to make plays.
"We would have liked to have made him a pocket passer and try to limit the damage he can do when our [defensive backs] have their backs turned," said Matthew Judon. "But it's easier said than done.''
Despite Prescott's heroics, the Patriots were in prime position to win as this episode had more plot twists than any drama series — reality TV or the make-believe stuff. With four lead changes in the fourth quarter and overtime, the packed house at Gillette Stadium, including a good dose of Cowboys fans, were riveted.
After Rhamondre Stevenson's first career touchdown gave the Patriots a 21-20 lead with just over six minutes remaining, all hell broke loose.
The Cowboys (5-1) drove to the New England 33 on the ensuing possession, but Greg Zuerlein's 51-yard field goal attempt sprayed far left, with the kicker likely influenced by Justin Bethel's closing push.
With a chance to salt the game away, the Patriots fell victim to Trevon Diggs, who snagged a Mac Jones pass that tipped off Kendrick Bourne's fingers and returned it 42 yards for a touchdown and a 26-21 Dallas lead.
Jones was disappointed but undaunted.
The rookie connected with Bourne on a 75-yard touchdown pass on his next snap — burning Diggs in the process — and giving the Patriots a 29-26 lead after he hit Jakobi Meyers with a 2-point conversion pass.
"That just showed the grit that [Jones] has always been showing us,'' said linebacker Ja'Whaun Bentley.
Bourne had to move on from the pick, which deflected off his hands on his first target of the game.
"Crazy play, crazy sequence, but just tried to keep my head in that game — not point fingers in that situation," said Bourne. "I kind of blamed myself, like what could I have done better, that's how I looked at it ... Just grateful we had another chance.''
With the crowd at full throttle and just 2:11 left in regulation, Prescott kept his foot on the gas, driving the Cowboys into Patriots territory, where Zuerlein punched home a 49-yarder to tie it at 29 and set the stage for the extra session.
The Patriots won the toss in overtime but weren't able to get into scoring position.
The Cowboys took over at their 20 and Prescott was as nimble and as spry as he'd been all day, moving in the pocket to buy extra time and make key completions, the final one the deep crosser to Lamb that sealed it.
"They made some big time plays in the clutch moments, so kudos to them,'' said Bentley.
The Patriots had built a 14-10 halftime lead but after scoring on their first two drives, had trouble building any momentum until the fourth quarter.
The Cowboys gambled early, and as is often the case, the house won.
The Patriots defense stuffed Zeke Elliott on fourth and 1 at the Dallas 34 on the Cowboys' first possession, giving the hosts terrific field position before most of the fannies had settled in their seats.
Jones needed just three plays to get his mates in the end zone. Harris ripped off a 21-yard burst through the A gap on first down and after 9-yard completion to Jonnu Smith, Harris barreled in from 4 yards on a wildcat strike and it was 7-0.
Prescott and the Cowboys hardly seemed discouraged, however, needing just seven plays to pull even.
Big completions to Dalton Schultz (18 and 23 yards) were sandwiched between a 17-yarder to Amari Cooper. Prescott hit Blake Jarwin from 1 yard out to cap the drive.
The blitzkrieg continued on the ensuing possession when Jones hit Rhamondre Stevenson with back-to-back passes (a swinger for 14 yards and a seam shot for 22) to get things rolling.
A 4-yard Stevenson run, plus a 15-yard personal foul on Diggs, put the Patriots in the red zone. From there Jones hit Hunter Henry with a 20-yard touchdown pass for a 14-7 lead.
Dallas crept closer on Zuerlein's 30-yard field goal, which cut the Patriots' advantage to 14-10.
The Cowboys appeared poised to take the lead after Luke Gifford blocked a Jake Bailey punt, giving the Cowboys possession deep in New England territory.
Prescott and Co. drove it to the 1-yard line where they hit a red, white, and blue brick wall.
Elliott was turned back twice and Prescott found no space on third down. Rolling the dice again on fourth down, Prescott fumbled on his sneak (with help from Bentley) and the Patriots recovered for the touchback before heading for the locker room with 14-10 edge.
The final 30 minutes was ratings gold.
"Tough one to lose tonight. That's a good football team. Give Dallas credit. They're a good team. They're well-coached,'' said Bill Belichick "We came up a little bit short. I thought we went toe to toe with them for 60 minutes. They just made a few more plays than we did, so let's give them credit for that. We'll move on.''
More Patriots-Cowboys coverage
▪ Chad Finn | Unconventional Review: The Patriots had to have Sunday, and per usual, they couldn't quite get it
▪ Tara Sullivan: Mac Jones is getting knocked down, but he keeps getting up and giving the Patriots a fighting chance
▪ Ben Volin | Instant analysis: Patriots somehow hung in with the Cowboys, but the more talented and better team won
▪ Patriots notebook: Patriots offensive linemen Mike Onwenu, Isaiah Wynn return from COVID list but do not start
▪ Bill Belichick praised Dak Prescott after Patriots' loss to the Cowboys
▪ The Red Sox had an optional workout on Sunday, so some of them went to the Patriots game
Jim McBride can be reached at james.mcbride@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @globejimmcbride.


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Clean-up Windows Explorer menu items with CCleaner
Melanie Gross
Updated • Jul 22, 2012
Tutorials, Windows, Windows tips
The more applications you install, the more likely the chance that your Windows Explorer menu fills up with context menu items. While some of these items may be handy to have, others may not add anything in terms of functionality to the menu. If you do not use an item, it does not really make sense having it in the context menu as it only increases the size of it and makes it harder to find the items that you are interested in.
Microsoft for whatever reason has not include the means to manage the context menu items easily in the operating system. Once they are there, they can only be removed by uninstalling the software, or by manually editing the Windows Registry.
A more comfortable option are third party applications that you can use for that purpose. To name a few that we have reviewed in the past: Context Menu Editor, File Menu Tools or Ultimate Windows Context Menu Customizer.
A recent CCleaner update added a context menu editor to CCleaner which you can also use to disable or delete items that are displayed in Windows Explorer on a right-click. You do need the latest version of the program which you can download as a portable version or installer from the developer website.
When you run it click on Tools > Startup, and select Context Menu in the Startup tab listing. Here you find listed all file and directory keys that programs have added to the Explorer context menu.
You identify items by their program name, publisher or file path which are all listed in the columns here. Usually, all it takes is to look at the program column to identify the majority of programs. Sometimes, you need to look at the file path column as well to identify entries like UAContextMenu.
You can select one or multiple items in the list (multiply items by holding down the Ctrl-key while left-clicking). These items can then be disabled, deleted or enabled again. Disabling removes them from the context menu but keeps them listed, giving you an option to reactivate the item listing at a later time. When you select delete, it is completely removed from the system.
Items that you disable or delete are immediately removed from the context menu without need for a restart of the system.
CCleaner provides its users with an easy way to remove Windows Explorer menu items. I'd suggest you disable items that you are not sure about whether you may need them again at a later point in time.
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Fine citizen said on July 22, 2012 at 2:37 pm
niiice man, thanks for informing me about that neat new feature
GiddyUpGo said on July 22, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Thanks! I always use CCleaner and did not know about this.
Transcontinental said on July 22, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Nice catch, thanks! I admit a trend to update those everyday applications without even thinking about new features. This one is handy, no need for extra software. Nice.
KoalaBear said on July 22, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Thanks. Didn't know it was in CCleaner. Was searching for other tools to do this, but didn't find a good one :)
Ken Saunders said on July 24, 2012 at 9:32 am
Excellent, thanks
michel said on July 27, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Too bad CCleaner now insists you install Chrome if you want Ccleaner. I couldn't even find a way to opt out.
Shame, and goodbye Piriform anything.
Martin Brinkmann said on July 27, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Michel you could try the portable version instead which does not need to be installed.
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You don't need chrome – you just don't tick the request box – either for install or portable . .
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Q: Detect corners of grid I am trying to detect the corners of a grid within various pictures I have to process. Images can be skewed and some might be relatively well oriented but we cannot guarantee that all images will be like this.
To determine the corners of the grid, I have tried using Hough lines but to no avail. Sometimes the Hough lines don't identify the edge of the grid and it is hard to determine which of the lines drawn belong to the edge of the grid and which of them are grid lines.
I then decided to use contours to detect the edges of the grid. It however, picks up on numerous contours and it leads to the same problem of identifying which are at the corners amongst all the contours identified.
To help aid this, I've used bilateral filtering, Canny edge detection, morphological dilation, and Harris edge detection as seen in a question with a similar problem as mine. Even after applying all those measures, I still get tons of false corners and sometimes true corners aren't identified.
I was wondering if anyone had a way for me to improve the results of my corner detection or if anyone had a completely different suggestion in mind that might help solve my problem. The goal is to get the corners so I can perform a homography using a 10 X 10 grid to account for skewing in the images. It will also help map grid square to pixel space which is very useful.
This is my code (a bit sloppy with the naming and all but I'll try and fix that later). Also, yes, I went all out on the bilateral filtering, it seemed to help get rid of unnecessary contours and corners.
I also seem to get one error when I tried applying the Hough lines to my contoured image:

error: (-215) img.type() == (((0) & ((1 << 3) - 1)) + (((1)-1) << 3)) in function cv::HoughLinesStandard

from PIL import Image
import numpy as np
import cv2
import glob

#import images using opencv
images = [cv2.imread(file) for file in glob.glob("SpAMImages/*.jpg")]
for image in images:
    #resizes image gotten from folder and performs bilateral filtering
    img = cv2.bilateralFilter(cv2.resize(image, (715,715)), 15, 800, 800)

    #applies a canny edge detection filter on the images loaded from the folder
    gridEdges = cv2.Canny(img, 140, 170)

    #apply image dilation
    kernel = np.ones((5,5), np.uint8)
    gridEdges = cv2.dilate(gridEdges, kernel, iterations=1)
    gridEdges = np.float32(gridEdges)
    gridEdges = cv2.blur(gridEdges,(10,10))
    gridEdges = cv2.cornerHarris(gridEdges,2,3,0.04)
    gridEdges = cv2.dilate(gridEdges,None)
    img[gridEdges>0.01*gridEdges.max()]=[0,0,255]

    #draw contours on current image
    imgray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
    ret, thresh = cv2.threshold(imgray, 127, 255, 0)
    contourImage, contours, hierarchy =
    cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_TREE,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
    contour = cv2.drawContours(img, contours, -1, (0,255,0), 3)

    '''
    def largest_4_sided_contour(thresh, show_contours=True):
        contourImage, contours, hierarchy =
        cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_TREE,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
        contour = cv2.drawContours(img, contours, -1, (0,255,0), 3)
        contours = sorted(contours, key = cv2.contourArea, reverse =  True)
        for cnt in contours[:min(5, len(contours))]:
            print(len(cnt))
            if len(cnt) == 4:
                return cnt
        return None
        print(largest_4_sided_contour(thresh))

    #applies a hough transformation to extract gridlines from the image

    -----------THIS LINE BELOW GIVES ME THE ERROR-----------------
    lines = cv2.HoughLines(img, 1, np.pi/180, 245)

    #iterates through an array of lines gottne from the hough transform
    #and draws them unto the image
    for i in range(len(lines)):
        for rho,theta in lines[i]:
            a = np.cos(theta)
            b = np.sin(theta)
            x0 = a * rho
            y0 = b * rho
            x1 = int(x0 + 1000*(-b))
            y1 = int(y0 + 1000*(a))
            x2 = int(x0 - 1000*(-b))
            y2 = int(y0 - 1000*(a))
            cv2.line(img, (x1,y1),(x2,y2),(0,0,255),2)
    cv2.imwrite('houghlines.jpg', img)
    '''
    #resize window because for some reason they are too large.
    cv2.namedWindow('image', cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL)
    cv2.resizeWindow('image', 800, 800)

    #display all the images produced from above processes
    cv2.imshow('image', img)
    cv2.imshow('dilated edges', gridEdges)
    #cv2.imshow('contour', contour)
    cv2.waitKey(0)
    '''
    retrieve image size from imported image.
    testImageWidth, testImageHeight = img.shape[:2]
    print(testImageHeight, testImageWidth)'''

These are some images gotten from my attempt to obtain corners using contour detection and Harris corner detection.
Identifying corners using contours and harris corner detection:

And some examples of the images I have to work with.
Prime example grid:

Somewhat skewed grid:

Thanks for any help in advance!!!

A: You're working in Python with OpenCV, but I'm going to give you an answer using MATLAB with DIPimage. I intend this answer to be about the concepts, not about the code. I'm sure there are ways to accomplish all of these things in Python with OpenCV.
My aim here is to find the four corners of the board. The grid itself can be guessed, since it's just an equidistant division of the board, there is no need to try to detect all lines. The four corners give all information about the perspective transformation.
The simplest way to detect the board is to recognize that it is light-colored and has a dark-colored background. Starting with a grey-value image, I apply a small closing (I used a circle with a diameter of 7 pixels, this is suitable for the down-sampled image I used as example, but you might want to increase the size appropriately for the full-size image). This gives this result:

Next, I binarize using Otsu threshold selection, and remove holes (that part is not important, the rest would work if there are holes too). The connected components that we see now correspond to the board and the neighboring boards (or whatever the other white things are around the board).
Selecting the largest connected component is a fairly common procedure. In the code below I label the image (identifies connected components), count the number of pixels per connected component, and select the one with the most pixels.
Finally, subtracting from this result its erosion leaves us only with the pixels at the edge of the board (here in blue overlaid on the input image):

The trick I'm using to find the corners is fairly simple, but fails here because one of the corners is not in the image. Using Hough on these four edges would probably be a more robust way to go about it. Use this other answer for some ideas and code on how to go about that.
In any case, I'm finding as the top-left corner of the board the edge pixel that is closest to the top-left corner of the image. Likewise for the other 3 corners. These results are the red dots in the image above.
A third option here would be to convert the outline into a polygon, simplify it with the Douglas–Peucker algorithm, discard the edges that go along the image edge (this is where corners are not in the image), and extend the two edges on either side of this to find the vertex that is outside the image.
The MATLAB (with DIPimage) code follows.
img = readim('https://i.stack.imgur.com/GYZGa.jpg');
img = colorspace(img,'gray');
% Downsample, makes display easier
img = gaussf(img,2);
img = img(0:4:end,0:4:end);
% Simplify and binarize
sim = closing(img,7);
brd = threshold(sim); % uses Otsu threshold selection
% Fill the holes
brd = fillholes(brd);
% Keep only the largest connected component
brd = label(brd);
msr = measure(brd);
[~,I] = max(msr,'size');
brd = brd == msr(I).id;
% Extract edges
brd = brd - erosion(brd,3,'rectangular');
% Find corners
pts = findcoord(brd);
[~,top_left] = min(sum(pts.^2,2));
[~,top_right] = min(sum((pts-[imsize(brd,1),0]).^2,2));
[~,bottom_left] = min(sum((pts-[0,imsize(brd,2)]).^2,2));
[~,bottom_right] = min(sum((pts-[imsize(brd,1),imsize(brd,2)]).^2,2));
% Make an image with corner pixels set
cnr = newim(brd,'bin');
cnr(pts(top_left,1),pts(top_left,2)) = 1;
cnr(pts(top_right,1),pts(top_right,2)) = 1;
cnr(pts(bottom_left,1),pts(bottom_left,2)) = 1;
cnr(pts(bottom_right,1),pts(bottom_right,2)) = 1;
cnr = dilation(cnr,3);
% Save images
writeim(sim,'so1.png')
out = overlay(img,brd,[0,0,255]);
out = overlay(out,cnr,[255,0,0]);
writeim(out,'so2.png')

A: I have somewhat of an answer for you, although not complete, it might just help you.
I use the Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm to determine the contours and then extract rectangular boxes from the contours. I then use the percentage of the "box" area to the image area to remove smaller boxes. This removes most of the junk boxes.
Here is an example of what I did in python code:
Finding Contours:
    def findcontours(self):
        logging.info("Inside findcontours Contours...")
        # Pre-process image
        imgGray = self.imgProcess.toGrey(self.img)
        logging.info("Success on converting image to greyscale")

        imgThresh = self.imgProcess.toBinary(imgGray)
        logging.info("Success on converting image to binary")

        logging.info("Finding contours...")
        image, contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(imgThresh.copy(), cv2.RETR_LIST, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
        logging.info("Contours found: %d", len(contours))

       return contours

Using Contours to find boxes:
    def getRectangles(self, contours):
        arrrect = []
        imgArea = self.getArea()
        logging.info("Image Area is: %d", imgArea)

        for cnt in contours:
            epsilon = 0.01*cv2.arcLength(cnt, True)
            approx = cv2.approxPolyDP(cnt, epsilon, False)
            area = cv2.contourArea(approx)
            rect = cv2.minAreaRect(approx)
            box = cv2.boxPoints(rect)
            box = np.int0(box)
            percentage = (area * 100) / imgArea
            if percentage > 0.3:
                arrrect.append(box)

        return arrrect

To combine these 2 methods:
    def process(self):
        logging.info("Processing image...")
        self.shape_handler = ShapeHandler(self.img)

        contours = self.shape_handler.findcontours()

        logging.info("Finding Rectangles from contours...")
        rectangles = self.shape_handler.getRectangles(contours)

        img = self.imgDraw.draw(self.img, rectangles, "Green", 10)
        cv2.drawContours(img, array, -1, (0,255,0), thickness)
        self.display(img)

        logging.info("Amount of Rectangles Found: %d", len(rectangles))

Display Image:
    def display(self, img):
        cv2.namedWindow('image', cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL)
        cv2.imshow("image", img)
        cv2.waitKey(0)
        cv2.destroyAllWindows()

The final step would be to combine any intersecting boxes since you're only interested in the edges/corners and then only getting the box with the largest area. Look here to check how to combine boxes.
My coding source: OpenCV 3.1 Documentation
Result on your images:
Normal:

Skew:

Hope this helps!

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Speaking with a half paralysed tongue was not fun, but being in a special school, the children were all very understanding. Ignoring disability was part of the culture, where people appreciated one another for who they were, not for how they might look.
1999, my two older children were living away, one in Melbourne, the other overseas. Simon, the youngest, was nineteen, and had aspirations to join his sister in Melbourne. It was also the year that Christopher and I started corresponding. Chris had sent me an invitation to his exhibition opening in Melbourne, which I had to decline with a card for his birthday. There began a most amusing correspondence. Chris has a very vivid sense of fun, so I would rush to work early to open his e-mails. Computers had only just been provided at the school. Up until then reports were hand written. We also faxed each other at home, as this was cheaper than ringing.
Jokes were sent back and forth, and both workplaces, his and mine, were entertained with the daily installments. Chris was working at McClelland Gallery, doing the books, and living in the caretaker's cottage. We both went to Tasmania for his mother's eightieth birthday, and my mother cooked a special dinner for the occasion. Our lives had intertwined over the years, but my mother commented on Chris staying behind to help with the washing up, noticing his attentions.
Later in the year, Chris invited me to the opening of the extension to the gallery. I gladly accepted. He picked me up from the airport, visiting a Church of England nunnery on the way home, where he showed me a magnificent tapestry that he'd designed. The nuns were very proud to show off their tapestry and provided afternoon tea. Chris had cooked Coq au vin for dinner with potatoes in their jackets. This weekend changed our lives with Chris's proposal that night.
Saturday we were busy digging and placing nameplates beside each sculpture in the grounds before the big event. Exciting times lay ahead. Everything fell into place as if it was all predestined.
Chris brought his two spaniels to stay for Christmas. We had Becky's dog, Jimmy, staying with us while she was overseas, as well as our ancient cat, which died soon after. Apart from Jimmy jumping on Chris's head in the middle of the night when there were fireworks and scaring the life out of him, the animals were as contented as the humans.
We were married the following year when my long service was due, to live happily ever after, with the true fairy tale ending.
This entry was posted in Daily post, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Writing and tagged change, Christopher Pyett, fairy tale, Love, marriage, predestined on February 13, 2015 by bkpyett.
The McClelland Sculpture Survey opened today with perfect weather. There were crowds attending. We appreciated seeing the sculptures in the bush setting as well as seeing the plantings we did some years ago now. I shall post just a few of the 33 sculptures in the prize.
This entry was posted in McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park and tagged McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Sculpture prize 2014, Survey on November 23, 2014 by bkpyett.


BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday warned parents charged in the largest college admissions scandal in U.S. history, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, to avoid discussing the case with their children, who are potential witnesses.
Prosecutors had wanted U.S. Magistrate Judge M. Page Kelley in Boston to go further and prohibit the 12 wealthy parents who appeared before her from talking about the case with their children without a lawyer present.
While Kelley warned the parents that discussing the case with their children could expose them to potential obstruction of justice charges, she said she did not think the prosecution's proposed conditions on parental communications could work.
"I just don't think that's realistic," Kelley said.
"Desperate Housewives" star Huffman and "Full House" actor Loughlin said little during the hearing other than to say that they understood the charges prosecutors brought against them. They are among 50 people, including several college athletics coaches, charged with participating in fraud and bribery schemes.
Prosecutors said those schemes involved cheating on college entrance exams and paying $25 million in bribes to help their children gain admission at well-known universities including Yale University and the University of Southern California (USC).
Some of the 33 parents charged in the scheme have begun plea negotiations with prosecutors. On Wednesday, packaged food entrepreneur Peter Sartorio, became the first to reveal he plans to plead guilty. Two others said they were also in plea talks.
Prosecutors say the scheme was overseen by California college admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer, who has admitted to facilitating the cheating scam and bribing coaches to present the parents' children as fake athletic recruits.
Loughlin walked into the courthouse past a group fans yelling, "Lori, we love you," and left smiling. Huffman exited the court holding her brother's hand.
Prosecutors allege that Loughlin and her husband, Los Angeles fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, agreed to pay $500,000 to have their two daughters named as recruits to USC's crew team, even though they did not row competitively.
Huffman, who is married to the actor William H. Macy, is accused of making a $15,000 contribution to Singer's foundation in exchange for having an associate of Singer's in 2017 secretly correct her daughter's answers on an SAT college entrance exam at a test centre prosecutors say Singer "controlled."
Sartorio, who is expected to plead guilty later this month, similarly paid $15,000 to have his daughter's ACT exam corrected by Singer's associate, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors have not yet charged any applicants and said that in some cases the parents involved took steps to try to prevent their children from realizing they were benefiting from fraud.


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 * WIKI : https://github.com/celdotro/marketplace/wiki/Prima-pagina
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 * Use composer to install dependencies:
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 * WIKI : https://github.com/celdotro/marketplace/wiki/First-page
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Opsaridium is een geslacht van straalvinnige vissen uit de familie van karpers (Cyprinidae).

Soorten
 Opsaridium boweni (Fowler, 1930)
 Opsaridium engrauloides (Nichols, 1923)
 Opsaridium leleupi (Matthes, 1965)
 Opsaridium loveridgii (Norman, 1922)
 Opsaridium maculicauda (Pellegrin, 1926)
 Opsaridium microcephalum (Günther, 1864)
 Opsaridium microlepis (Günther, 1864)
 Opsaridium peringueyi (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1913)
 Opsaridium splendens Taverne & De Vos, 1997
 Opsaridium tweddleorum Skelton, 1996
 Opsaridium ubangiense (Pellegrin, 1901)
 Opsaridium zambezense (Peters, 1852)

Eigenlijke karpers


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Le cocher est le conducteur, assis sur un siège, d'une voiture hippomobile.

Histoire
Le nom vient du coche, voiture originaire de la ville hongroise de Kotschi, qui fut pendant plusieurs siècles le principal mode de transport terrestre. Mais la fonction de cocher existe bien évidemment depuis les origines de la traction hippomobile. Dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, l'aurige menait un char dans des compétitions de vitesse.

Le cocher exerce une activité rémunérée pour le compte d'un employeur, ou pour son propre compte. Il conduit à partir de la voiture, assis sur un siège généralement placé à l'avant de la voiture, mais qui peut aussi être situé à l'arrière, comme sur le cab britannique.

Certains types de voitures ne sont pas conduits par des cochers, mais par des postillons. C'est le cas des chaises de poste, voitures légères et rapides destinées au service du courrier, qui ne peuvent prendre qu'un ou deux passagers. Dans ce cas, le postillon monte un des chevaux de l'attelage (attelage en poste). D'autres voitures plus importantes, comme les diligences, nécessitaient à la fois la présence d'un cocher et d'un postillon (attelage en demi-poste).

À partir du  et sous l'influence anglaise, des voitures légères sont conduites par leurs propriétaires eux-mêmes, et ne nécessitent donc plus de cochers et, par conséquent, de sièges pour les cochers (voir cabriolet). Parfois, comme dans la victoria, le siège du cocher est amovible, selon que la voiture est conduite par un cocher, ou par le ou la propriétaire depuis le siège principal. Dans ce cas la personne qui conduit l'attelage s'appelle le meneur.

Le cocher était un personnage important, surtout à l'époque des grandes diligences qui assuraient des services réguliers entre les grandes villes. C'est lui qui détenait toute autorité sur l'organisation du voyage, qui réglait la marche, qui faisait descendre les voyageurs dans les montées ou les passages délicats. Il avait la prééminence sur les postillons. Toutefois, dans certains cas, une personne pouvait assumer ces diverses autorités : on l'appelait le conducteur, mais il ne jouait pas le rôle du cocher et ne menait pas la voiture.

En 1907, Eugénie Charnier et Clémentine Dufaut deviennent les deux premières cochères à Paris après avoir passé la formation de trois mois et l'examen de cocher de fiacre (la première course de Madame Dufaut est le 21 février 1907). L'école, gratuite, est fondée par l'Assistance aux animaux, une branche dissidente de la Société Protectrice des Animaux.

Plaques de cocher

Créées en 1835 en France, jusqu'à la Première Guerre mondiale, on appelait plaques de cocher les plaques indicatrices en fonte placée au bord des routes pour indiquer les directions et les distances. Les textes et chiffres, en relief, étaient peints en blanc. Les plaques de cocher étaient souvent disposées sur des obélisques ou des croix aux carrefours, selon une loi du  qui stipulait que des indications devaient figurer à tous les carrefours. Beaucoup de croix et d'obélisques ayant été détruits à la Révolution, on les plaça sur des mâts métalliques.

Voir aussi
Cheval territorial
Richard de Chichester, saint patron des cochers
Porte cochère

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 Anne Claude Philippe de Pestels de Lévis de Tubières-Grimoard, comte de Caylus, (préface de Pierre Testud), Histoire de Guillaume, cocher, Zulma, Cadeilhan, 2003, 198 p.
 Noël Lebreton de Hauteroche, Le Cocher. Comédie, Paris, Th. Guillain, 1685, 88 p. (pièce en un acte)
 Selma Lagerlöf, Le cocher (trad. du suédois par Marc de Gouvenain et Lena Grumbach), Arles, Actes Sud / Montréal, Léméac, 2002 ( éd. 1912), 150 p.
 Michel Ragon, Le cocher du Boiroux, Paris, Albin Michel, 1992, 212 p.
 Peter Weiss, L'ombre du corps du cocher (traduit de l'allemand par Alban Lefranc), Paris, éd. Perturbations, 2008, 118 p.

Périodiques
 Le Cocher, publié trois fois par mois à Paris à partir de 1864
 Le Cocher français, hebdomadaire publié à partir de 1869 à Paris
  Almanach-guide pratique du cocher et du propriétaire de chevaux pour..., annuel publié à Paris à partir de 1887
 Le Réveil du cocher, mensuel publié en 1911-1912 par le Syndicat mixte des cochers de Lyon et le Syndicat général des cochers de voitures de place et de grandes remises de Lyon

Références

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Véhicule hippomobile
Meneur
Métier des transports
Ancien métier


SBI SO Recruitment 2019: Candidates who want to get Job in Government Bank, They must read this article. In this article, we are giving the Bank Vacancy information. This is a great job opportunity for those candidates who want to make a career in the bank sector. State Bank of India will be recruited Specialized Officer Posts through SBI Specialist Officer Recruitment 2019. In this article, the candidate can collect all the information about SBI Deputy Manager Vacancy 2019 Notification.
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🇪🇪 Estonia
Estonia (Estonian: Eesti [ˈeːsʲti] (listen)), officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariik), is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland and of 2,222 islands on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of 45,339 km2 (17,505 sq mi), the land area is 43,432 km², and is influenced by a humid continental climate. Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and Tartu are the largest cities and urban areas in the country. Other notable cities include Narva, Pärnu, Kohtla-Järve and Viljandi. The official language of the country, Estonian, is the second-most-spoken Finnic language.
The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited since at least 9,000 BC. Ancient Estonians were one of the last "pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianity following the Livonian Crusade in the 13th century. After centuries of successive rule by the Teutonic Order, Denmark, Poland, Sweden, and the Russian Empire, a distinct Estonian national identity began to emerge by the end of the 19th century. This culminated in the 1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence from Russia and German Empire and, after the end of World War I, in the 1918-1920 War of Independence, where Estonians were able to repel the Soviet Russian invasion and successfully defended their newborn freedom. Democratic throughout most of the interwar period, after the onset of worldwide Great Depression Estonia also experienced authoritarian rule during the politically non-violent "era of silence" in 1934-1938. During World War II, Estonia was repeatedly contested, invaded and occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union, ultimately being incorporated into the latter as the Estonian SSR. After the loss of its de facto independence to the Soviet Union, Estonia's de jure state continuity was preserved by diplomatic representatives and the government-in-exile. After the peaceful "Singing Revolution" of 1988-1990, the nation's de facto independence was restored on 20 August 1991.
Estonia is a developed country, with a high-income advanced economy; ranking very high in the Human Development Index. The sovereign state is a democratic unitary parliamentary republic divided into fifteen counties. It has a population of 1.3 million, and is one of the least populous members of the European Union, the Eurozone, the OECD, the Schengen Area, NATO, and the United Nations Security Council. Estonia has consistently ranked highly in international rankings for quality of life, education, digitalization of public services and the prevalence of technology companies.
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The establishment of competitive electricity markets worldwide, the deregulation of the electricity industry, and the response of the industry to the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 have resulted in both very large and very small Balancing Authorities, greater operational complexities, and new reliability management needs at the wide-area level. Both the industry and government organizations responsible for different aspects of reliability management are adapting and responding to these new developments. This ongoing evolution of the industry and the increasing numbers of major blackouts around the world spotlight the need for wide-area visibility of the health of power systems and real-time monitoring of electrical grid reliability performance in order to prevent blackouts. Traditional real-time monitoring tools, real-time hardware-software architectures, and user interfaces all developed for vertical integrated environments have proven to be inadequate for the development of the new wide-area intelligent tools and visualizations required to operate and manage the evolving electrical grid.
This paper describes the new reliability management needs and organizations emerging at the wide-area level; new hardware-software user-interface configurations; intelligent alerts and alarming and geo-graphic multi-view visualization technologies resulting from the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solution's (CERTS) research, and tailored and applied by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC) functional organizations for wide-area real-time resources adequacy monitoring, and intelligent alert and alarming tools currently in use by about 75 operational organizations in North America.


This is an example of a Designer being her own client. Our business is fast moving and we needed an office that supported all our needs, including functionality and aesthetics.
The team at Rejoy Interiors desired a beautiful, functional office. The color scheme had to be neutral so that it wouldn't compete with the various colors and materials we brought into the office. This project was a complete remodel! We gutted our previous office and created a space that would allow us to be surrounded by beauty, while providing cabinetry and storage that supported us in our intention to be highly organized.
A Platinum Award is the highest award ASID offers so it was wonderful to be recognized and honored by our peers!


Freshwater aquatic and semi-aquatic: River Thames; lakes and ponds; roadside streams and ditches.
Many of Radley's lakes were and are the result of gravel extraction, and have, in recent years, been infilled with PFA from Didcot Power Station. When settled, the ash is covered with earth, re-landscaped and replanted to form new 'natural' woodland areas.
Wildlife also exists and sometimes thrives in many man-made environments including: paths, pavements, walls, exteriors and interiors of buildings, etc. Semi-natural environments are provided by gardens and parkland (Radley College and Barrow Hills).


Anil Gupta, an expert on globalization and strategy, on the domino effect unleashed by several global megatrends: from the turmoil in the energy markets and the crisis in Greece, to the challenges being faced by the Chinese economy.
Global financial markets have been in turmoil all this week. On Monday night, following the biggest single-day slump in the Chinese stock markets since 2007, all major indices around the world went into a tailspin. In the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index shed more than 500 points (3.57%); in Europe, the FTSE 100 dropped 3.25% to below 6,000, the lowest since early 2013; in Asia, the Heng Seng Index lost almost 5% to a two-year-low, while the Nikkei 225 Index fell by more than 4%.
Although markets in Europe and Asia largely started to rebound later on, "Black Monday", triggered by factors not only in China, but also in different parts of the world (including the expectations of the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates and feeble oil prices), signifies a more synergized and sensitive global economy. Therefore, for investors as well as policy makers to fully understand what is happening in one particular economy today requires an all-round perspective, and understanding of the major trends and risks globally.
Anil Gupta is one of the few experts who can shed light on virtually all aspects of the global economy. A professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, Gupta is a renowned scholar on strategy, globalization and emerging markets.
In this wide-ranging interview with CKGSB Knowledge, Gupta shares his opinions on the many parts of this extremely complex puzzle: from the debt crisis in Greece and turmoil in energy markets, to China's economic reforms and the future development of the US-China relationship, among other issues.
Q. We've seen a lot of turmoil around Greece in the last few months. How do you think the situation will evolve the next few years?
A. We have to, of course, see how the game plays out. But the way I see is that if the Eurozone were to break up, that would have seriously negative consequences for all the major European economies—forget about Greece, but Germany, France, Italy and so on. So for the major European economies that are really determined in the direction of Europe and the Eurozone, they are likely to keep pushing for integration, but obviously integration with some boundary conditions.
When it comes to fiscal management, the member countries have to "behave", that's where the whole big challenge was with Greece. Particularly if you look at Germany and Greece—Germany has a huge stake in keeping the Eurozone together, but at the same time you can't let a member country get away with basically profligate spending. So the question is, how much can you tolerate, how much restriction should you put?
The Greek Prime Minister, even [though] he is a leader of the Syriza party, and he campaigned against the agreement with the European Union, very soon after the referendum, changed his perspective. I am glad that he did. And Greece has agreed, clearly, of course with the help of the opposition party, to many of the tough measures. The signal it sends to other countries I think is a good signal, which is yes, the powers, for example Germany and France, they do see a huge stake in keeping the European Union together; but at the same time it's not that they'll accept any type of profligate spending by the member country. So I think it's a dual message, but it's the right kind of message.
Q. We see a lot of turmoil in countries that primarily control oil production. How do you think the energy market will perform over the next few years? What are the developments that we should follow to discern the trends in this market?
A. Perhaps the most important statement I've heard and read fairly consistently [about the energy industry] is that the cure for high oil prices is actually high oil prices. What high oil prices do is that they trigger two types of responses, which are very powerful.
One is, they trigger response on the part of very powerful and tech-savvy companies to look for energy efficiency, whether it's energy efficiency of cars or of buildings. If you look at cars on the roads in the US, according to figures, the average efficiency of cars on American roads today is actually two times that of the late 1980s. So if you assume that the number of cars is roughly the same, actually the auto sector is consuming half as much petroleum as it was in 1990 or mid-1980s, so obviously what energy efficiency does is reduce the demand.
The second kind of action that high oil prices trigger is incentivize the search for new sources of energy. That could be non-traditional resources of energy like solar and wind, or traditional sources like fossil fuel, oil and gas. So even though the global GDP has being growing, even though the emerging markets have been growing—at a somewhat slower pace, but still at about 2-3 times pace of the rich economies—the energy intensity of worldwide GDP is coming down, and the availability of energy supplies, both traditional and non-traditional, has gone up. It's hard for me to imagine the next 5-10 years [and whether] these trends will reverse, or why they should reverse. So I think we can count on it that for the foreseeable future, energy prices—oil prices for example—will remain soft.
Q. Regarding the pace of change in terms of energy efficiency or looking for alternate sources of energy—like solar and wind—and the impact it's having, just how fast is that happening?
A. If we take one of the world's large economies that's fast-growing—India, as a case study on this question, its total energy production is somewhere around 280 gigawatts in the whole country. And out of that, solar, wind etc. today actually account for only less than 10 gigawatts, so that's about 2-3%. And [Indian Prime Minister] Mr. Modi is pushing in an absolutely passionate way for solar energy, say maybe within 10 years, to be 100 gigawatts. Hopefully India's energy production should go to somewhere around 600 gigawatts [by then], so 100 out of 600 would be 16%. So compared to 3% today, it would be significantly higher. But can we expect in the next 10 years, solar and wind, in most of the major economies, to account for 40%-50% of energy sources? Probably unrealistic.
But one of these disruptions—we still have to see how it plays out—is the 'Uber-ization' of many things including driverless cars and electric cars and all of that. And some seriously smart auto industry analysts are saying that as these developments play out, we should expect to see a significant reduction in auto ownership. So if that happens, and the efficiency of cars, because of all of these developments, goes up dramatically, it might be that the growth in energy demand [will be] nowhere near what we currently expect.
Q. Would there be any short-term geopolitical impact of this changing landscape?
A. Yes. From a geopolitical point of view, of all the major economies in the world, the economy that is suffering the most, is Russia; and it's very hard to imagine how Russia [will] get out of it, because there's nothing that I can imagine that Russia can do to somehow boost energy demand around the world or to slow down the pace of the renewable developments in solar and wind. Therefore from the economic point of view, what Russia needs to do is to figure out how to reduce some of the challenges by exporting more oil and gas to, for example, China and other markets, but that's not really going to solve Russia's economic problems.
What they need to do is to figure out the way to diversify their economy. Russia's economy clearly is suffering in a major way because of Western sanctions, but even if Western sanctions had not happened, Russia's economy would still be in very deep trouble, which it actually was in two years back.
Q. Countries like Russia, Brazil, etc., have been facing different economic and political challenges; and others like Qatar, the UAE, etc. are doing relatively well. There's a discussion about whether the term "emerging markets" still makes sense. Should there be a better way to group such countries?
A. In my view, much of the discussion that we have seen in the last few weeks is really off the mark. To me it doesn't make sense. It's like we now call this particular fruit a banana, and say, "Hey banana is not the right term, we need to call it an apple." But what difference does it make? The point is that the world consists of rich economies, middle-income economies and low-income economies, and even if we threw the terminology "emerging markets" into the sea, the fact is that the heterogeneity across countries will remain.
Among the rich economies, you have the US on one side, then you have Italy, Spain, Ireland or Greece on the other hand, and these are not exactly identical to each other; similarly in the middle-income economies, the big ones of course you have the BRICs and among the four BRICs, Russia and Brazil are a whole lot more resources-dependent, commodities-dependent, while China and India are commodity importers, so clearly there are significant differences among the BRICs. So some people say, instead of calling them emerging markets, we should group countries in terms of level of risk.
But the heterogeneity across the 200 economies of the world is multi-dimensional, some are culturally closer to each other and distant from others, some are economically closer to each other but distant from others in terms of country risk. Some countries are low risk and others are higher risk; some countries are commodities rich and others are commodity importers, and one can't pick any one of these dimensions and forget the rest.
So to me, coming back to the central question of emerging markets, the original idea is to look at countries that are rich, and technologically advanced versus countries that are not. And the countries that are not, if we go back to the period before 1980, they used to be called "the third world" or "underdeveloped"; the most charitable term that one would use before 1980 for the low-and-middle-income countries would be "developing".
But what happened is as they embraced more liberalization, more global integration and more entrepreneurship, these economies, whether it's China, India or others in Africa, started to grow at a much faster pace, and that's why the term "emerging" makes sense. Emerging doesn't mean that they have emerged; it doesn't mean that every country is emerging at the same pace. But I still think the term "emerging markets" continues to make the most sense.
Q. There's been a lot going on in the last few weeks in the Chinese economy. What do you think is the most promising aspect of the Chinese economy? What are the most challenging sectors that the government will encounter and how should they deal with them?
A. Perhaps one can look at this question at two levels, one is the macro and the other is micro. At the macro level, some of the major strengths of the Chinese economy are the sophistication of China's infrastructure, the quality of Chinese education, both in terms of basic literacy and some of the top-tier universities, the basic entrepreneurial character of the Chinese population, and the very high rate of savings—so all of these are major pluses.
Coming at the macro level to the challenges, China has come a long way over the last 35 years since the opening up and reform era, and given where the Chinese economy is, the sustainable rate of growth for China is more like 5-5.5%. And that's where South Korea was in the mid-to-late 1980s; and if China continues to grow at 5-5.5% for the next 20 years, it would still become a high-income economy and that would be a sustainable, healthy rate of growth.
The challenge comes if the country is not willing to accept that the days of 10% are gone for good, that the days of even 7% are gone for good. If the country can really accept that, then the leadership won't feel the pressure to put in place policies to somehow 'forcefeed' the growth to be higher. So I think that's the challenge at the macro level.
And at the micro level, if I look at different sectors, I think everything that has to do with construction, be that steel, cement or construction machinery, suffers from massive overcapacity. I don't see how that sector is going to get out of trouble anytime soon.
And another sector that has been a major contribution to economic growth in China is automotive. I've been saying this for the last three years that the days of double-digit growth—forget about 30% growth rate that took place from 2000 to 2010–are gone for good; and in fact one should expect, at best, a low single-digit growth rate. So the brutality of competition in the auto sector can be expected to become much worse. So I wouldn't be in anyway sanguine about the profit margins for auto companies in China, whether it's at the luxury level or at the mass market level.
On the plus side, service sectors like healthcare and financial services are huge areas. Of course tourism is another. And as the labor pool begins to shrink, things like industrial automation and robotics—these would be sectors where I would anticipate growth to continue at a pace higher than the GDP.
Q. International investors are paying lots of attention to the marketization of the Chinese financial system. What are your thoughts on the current progress and challenges?
A. I would say two different perspectives. One is, if I look over the last 10 years, China has been opening up and embracing the market. However, what happened in the last two or three months… that troubles me. Because in terms of the opening up of the financial sector, the government, if you look at the stock market for example, the government has seriously got into the act of intervening in capital markets, both in terms of cheerleading the formation of a bubble in a way, and then when the bubble bursts, intervening to prevent it from finding the new normal. So what that has done is really create a scare among the minds of people such as myself—is the government ready to embrace the market? And does the government get cold feet when the market begins to do its own thing?
On the currency front, I believe the devaluation of the yuan is very much in line with what the market forces signaled, but I think still, the intervention by the government is more than what it should be. Perhaps "schizophrenia" is the right word—in the financial sector the country needs to move to a stronger market orientation, but at the same time when it begins to do that there's a fear of losing control.
Q. What do you see is the future of China and Japan? Do you see more conflicts happening between the two countries and other countries in the South China Sea?
A. I am worried because with each passing day, the risks of conflict escalating are going up. The reason the risks are increasing is because neither side, whether China or Japan, China or the US, China or Vietnam or the Philippines and other countries—nobody is backing down. I think the risks of escalation are increasing, and if, God forbid, somebody's plane gets shut down, it would be hard, in the current environment, to claim that this was an accident. Therefore, the risks of any such incident becoming bigger are high.
Q. China and the US are the two largest economies in the world, but they don't necessarily see eye to eye. We've seen flashpoints on cyber security, or the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. How do you think this relationship will evolve in future? Do you see it getting worse or will it improve?
A. The economic relationship, to some extent, is affected by the geopolitical relationship. On the geopolitical side I don't see in the foreseeable future prospects for geopolitical harmony between China and the US. It's not just because of the South China Sea tensions, but also if you look at cyber warfare—I think it's fair to say that cyber warfare is already on and there's no indication that either side is backing down or even coming to an agreement on the terms of engagement. So I think the geopolitical tensions continue and may increase—the probability is higher than 50% that the geopolitical tensions will increase.
What it means, of course, is that in the technology sector, the Chinese government has taken a very explicit perspective that on security grounds, it doesn't trust Western technology companies, like IBM, Oracle, EMC, HP or even Microsoft and so on. When I talk to people in these Western technology companies, the executives tell me that in China across the board, their life has gotten tougher in terms of what they can sell, how much they can sell, to whom they can sell. In reverse, in the technology sector, if it's commodities [or] things like IBM wanting to sell its server business to Lenovo, that's not an issue. But if a Chinese company wanted to acquire a US IT company, which is not just a commodity player, for example—Huawei is pretty much blacklisted in the US, in terms of the network equipment.
So I think the engagement between US and Chinese companies in the IT sector, other than PCs and smartphones, consumer products like that, is pretty much at a standstill. And it's hard for me to see how China would feel about cyber security a year from now. That aside, [in many other sectors], I think the engagement will continue at a fairly robust pace. I see a deep engagement for example in the pharma sector, I see continuing deep engagement in lots of services sectors, including in financial services, in travel, in tourism… including investments by Chinese companies because obviously outbound FDI (foreign direct investment) from China will probably surpass the inbound FDI. So I think that is likely to continue and other than in the IT-related high-tech sector, outbound investment from China is likely to continue to be very welcome.


We are an acquisitive and almost avaricious world. The height of news over the last few days being the fact that some energy companies may have overcharged for gas and perhaps we should all change before the winter to save money. We have never changed electricity companies (we have no gas supply here). The only time we have talked about ours is to praise them. Luckily they were also the best ones when we came to install our pv panels and I don't think any price checker yet takes in how much the electricity company pays you for power. There has been no talk in the press of the fact that credit cards are still commonly charging 16-19% when interest base rates are actually close to zero percent. It just shows how we let the press distort scandals and their relative importance.
The most precious things I have been given of late are advice and knowledge and something I don't think I fully appreciated at the time – drawn out frames in a super. Don't get me wrong – I did appreciate them but I am not sure I realised what a precious gift they were.
My bees seemed to fill those frames at the rate of a frame a day. I had watched as they struggled to draw out and fill the brood body frames. Partly that must have been because the original colony was smaller. I suspect another key factor relates to the effort it takes to make and draw out wax on the foundation. No wonder preprepared foundation is the norm in most beekeeping worlds. I will try to find some statistics about the various outputs from the bees to compare activities such as comb making, honey producing, pollen collection and such like in terms of the bee activity. Honey production is very complex anyway – presumably I would need to break down into the process which reduces water content as well as the more obvious ones. Now the colony is larger and presumably there is still brood to be fed but much less than earlier. I think I may have seen teh first evidence of the drones being kicked out of the hive. They still seem to be using syrup – but I assume that they would always go for the easiest food and they would want to keep their stores rather than start using them so early in the season?
One of teh things I ahd not comprehended – hence the value of knowledge – is the way the cluster keeps together in the winter. I knew there was a cluster and I knew that if stores were present and too far away a colony could die of starvation even with plenty of stores close by. But I assumed that some bees might go and collect the food and bring to the cluster rather than the cluster move en masse. So the presence of a QE did not seem a problem and I thought might be necessary to let Paul have his super and frames back next season. However, Paul has now imparted knowledge which leads me to assume it is much more complicated. the cluster must more or less stay in a cluster and move to get the supplies so if the queen cannot go to an area neither will the rest of the colony.
The scientist in me would just love an infra red camera with time lapse that might be able to give me clues as to how the cluster moves and plans the use of their stores. You'd imagine they might start at the outside but I have read of colonies that die with the outermost stores still present. Perhaps the frames of honey round the outside act almost like an insulator so are left until later. Please let me know of any research that has attempted to establish what happens.
I am not sure how you say thank you for the precious gifts of advice passed on from those who have more experience than I. My suspicion is that the givers may be most pleased if in my turn I tried to do the same. The world of hobby beekeepers seems to be populated by those who celebrate and foster nature and natural things. This means they are probably generous in all ways that encourage others along the path. If you are reading this because you are thinking of starting along this path I hope it encourages you. If you are someone who needs a little peace and awe and wonder in your life then keeping bees must surely be a good decision. The only negative is to remember the weight of a super full of honey. great when you are calculating possible income but possibly not so good if you have a bad back.


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Percutaneous nephrolithotomy for staghorn calculi
A single center's experience over 15 years
Frédéric Soucy, Raymond Ko, Mordechai Duvdevani, Linda Nott, John D. Denstedt, Hassan Razvi*
Background and Purpose: Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) for staghorn calculi is one of the more challenging endourologic procedures. Although excellent stone-free rates are universally reported in the literature, complication rates vary widely, especially related to the need for blood transfusion. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of PCNL for patients with staghorn calculi in a large series of patients at a single, tertiary referral, endourologic stone center. Patients and Methods: Between July 1990 and December 2005, 1338 patients underwent PCNL for renal stone disease at our institution. Among this group, 509 procedures were performed for patients with a partial or complete staghorn calculus. Data analysis included procedure time, length of hospital stay, number of access tracts, transfusion rates, other early and late complications, and stone-free status. Results: Mean patient age was 53.8 years (range 4-84yrs). The average procedure time was 104 minutes. Sixteen percent of the cases needed multiple access tracts (range 2-5), with the lower calix being the most commonly used in 64.1%, followed by the upper calix in 18.5% and the middle calix in 17.4%. Various intracorporeal lithotriptors were used, including ultrasound, pneumatic, electrohydraulic, and holmium:yttrium-aluminium-garnet laser. The transfusion rate among this group was 0.8%. There was no statistically significant difference in transfusion rates (0.7%-1.2% P=0.24) or other major complications in patients who were treated with either a single tract or among those needing multiple tracts. Stone-free rates at hospital discharge and at 3 months follow-up were 78% and 91%, respectively. Conclusion: PCNL is a safe and effective procedure in the management of staghorn calculi, with outcomes similar to those reported for percutaneous management of smaller volume nonstaghorn stones. Attention to accurate tract selection and placement as well as possession of the full array of endourologic equipment are essential to achieving an excellent outcome.
Journal of Endourology
https://doi.org/10.1089/end.2009.1534
Published - 10 Jan 2009
10.1089/end.2009.1534
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Percutaneous Nephrostomy Medicine & Life Sciences
Length of Stay Medicine & Life Sciences
Holmium Medicine & Life Sciences
Solid-State Lasers Medicine & Life Sciences
Staghorn Calculi Medicine & Life Sciences
Referral and Consultation Medicine & Life Sciences
Kidney Medicine & Life Sciences
Soucy, F., Ko, R., Duvdevani, M., Nott, L., Denstedt, J. D., & Razvi, H. (2009). Percutaneous nephrolithotomy for staghorn calculi: A single center's experience over 15 years. Journal of Endourology, 23(10), 1669-1673. https://doi.org/10.1089/end.2009.1534
Soucy, Frédéric ; Ko, Raymond ; Duvdevani, Mordechai ; Nott, Linda ; Denstedt, John D. ; Razvi, Hassan. / Percutaneous nephrolithotomy for staghorn calculi : A single center's experience over 15 years. In: Journal of Endourology. 2009 ; Vol. 23, No. 10. pp. 1669-1673.
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The grand opening celebration will be held at 4PM on Tuesday, August 21.
The building is 3,400 square feet and has been separated into two areas. The front portion will be a retail space with the back portion dedicated to community education. The community education division is set to open later this fall.
SAU Beyond the Campus is a student-managed career-training center dedicated to providing graduate students enrolled at the University the opportunity to sharpen career-readiness skills while earning a Master of Business Administration degree.
The inaugural management team consists of three MBA students at SAU: Jeremy Hunter, of Magnolia, Arkansas; Macy Moseley, of Fordyce, Arkansas; and Ja'Corey Porchia, of Stephens, Arkansas. Each of these students earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from SAU in the fields of Supply-Chain Management, Marketing, and Accounting, respectively. By managing the retail store as a team, these students will develop the necessary collaborative skills that will provide an edge in the marketplace upon completing their MBAs.
According to Berry, the management team will oversee all aspects of an entrepreneurial retail business, from ordering and pricing merchandise to managing employees. The store will sell SAU merchandise, Magnolia merchandise, and reading books as part of its partnership with Barnes and Noble, the campus bookstore provider.
The grand opening is scheduled in conjunction with Blue and Gold Day. The University invites the community to be a part of the grand opening at 4 p.m. and stay for the festivities on the square from 5-7 p.m., which will include numerous free activities provided by SAU as well as pep rallies by both SAU and Magnolia High School cheerleaders and bands.


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Where to get music and sound effects to place in your videogames?
When it comes to design and build a video game, at some point we will need to add sound effects and / or background music.
The problem is that, of course, we cannot use any song downloaded from iTunes, Amazon or Google Play, but we need a special license so as not to infringe the copyrights and avoid problems in the future.
What kind of music or sound effects can I use in my video game?
You need to use Royalty-Free music or music under creative commons licenses, like the ones you can download from Audiojungle.
Get your Background Music here!
Using this kind of songs we make sure follow the legislation -something essential today in a globally connected world- because most chances are that your game is going to be played by people of many different countries.
The last thing you want to see when launching your game is that is involved in legal issues for little details like this, so it is best to follow our advice.
How do I know what kind of music is Royalty-Free and what is not?
Easy. Virtually all the music you hear in your everyday life is protected by copyright and royalty-free music is specifically on the pages that we detail below.
To make it easier, we will detail here the major payment gateways from which to download our music. In them, you buy the song or sound effect properly licensed and forget about any other problems.
The price of the licenses vary in every marketplace, but the sound effects are usually much cheaper than the songs, as their duration and the time it takes to record it is also lower.
IMPORTANT! What is essential to take into account when purchasing a license for a song is the estimated audience for your game. That is, if your game is to be distributed globally and will reach millions of people, the price of the music will be greater than if distributed locally to a few thousand gamers.
For sound effects, though, you don't have to worry about this aspect because they are all the same and the price does not vary by the audience.
AudioJungle: Definitely the best of them. It has a huge library with nearly half a million sounds and a search engine from which is really easy to find what we seek. Being a large website with so many registered authors, we can find all kinds of audio from the sound of a breaking glass to famous songs with lyrics. Sound licenses typically cost only $1 and the price for songs starts at $29 for the 'Standard' license.
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Premiumbeat: Licenses are usually more expensive than Audiojungle, around $3 for sound effects and $49 for a standard song license, but we will have the highest quality in return.
Pond5: While this website is a tad more difficult to navigate than the others, it's also possible to find true musical jewels. Prices of sound effects start at 2€ and songs vary in price according to their duration.
AudioNetwork: Prices range from 9€ for non-profit online games to 140€ or more. Music is classified by genre, instruments, mood and styles.
Soundrangers: They have two special licenses for gaming: web-based games and downloadable games that cover up to 500 downloads. For a bigger one, you'll have to ask. Prices range from $39 to $79.
Lucky Lion Studios: Only one type of license that allows you to use the song however you want. Prices vary depending on the length of the song.
Shockwave Sound: For using their music on games, we can choose the standard license (if it's a non-profit game) or the extended license if it's a commercial one. Prices are high compared to other marketplaces.
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Goulburn je město v jižní části australského spolkového státu Nový Jižní Wales. Nachází se asi 195 kilometrů jihozápadně od Sydney a 90 kilometrů severovýchodně od Canberry. Goulburn má populaci 23 835 lidí (údaj k červnu 2018). Městem prochází Hlavní jižní železniční trať, vedoucí ze Sydney do Albury.

Etymologie
Město je pojmenováno geometrem Jamesem Meehanem po Henrym Goulburnovi, státním podsekretářovi války a kolonií (kromě jiného).

Historie
Důležitou osobou v raném rozvoji města byl George Johnson. Ten koupil mezi lety 1839 a 1842 první pozemky, na kterých postavil například obchod s licencí na lihoviny (1848). V při sčítání roce 1841 bylo napočítáno 665 obyvatel, z toho 444 mužů a 211 žen. O šest let později se již jejich počet zvýšil na 1 171 (686 mužů a 485 žen). Město v té době mělo svůj soud, policejní stanici, několik kostelů, nemocnici a poštu. Město také bylo centrem zemědělské oblasti (zejména farmářství a chov ovcí). V roce 1858 zde byla také otevřena škola.

Telegrafní stanice byla otevřena v roce 1862, to již město dosahovalo populace 1 500 občanů. Kromě toho zde již bylo postaveno kovářství, dva hotely a několik domů. O rok později byl Goulburn ustanoven městem.

Obyvatelstvo
S přihlédnutím ke sčítání v roce 2016 zde žilo 22 890 lidí, z toho:

 4,3% jsou domorodí obyvatelé
 83,7% obyvatel bylo narozeno v Austrálii. V Anglii bylo narozeno 1,9% lidí, v Novém Zélandu 1%, v Indii 0,6% a na Filipínách také 0,6%.
 86,7% obyvatel mluví doma pouze anglicky.
 28,7% jsou katolíci, 25,3% anglikáni a bez víry je 20,7%.

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Externí odkazy

Města v Novém Jižním Walesu
Města v Austrálii
Sídla v Novém Jižním Walesu
Austrálie
Nový Jižní Wales
Vzniklo 1833