This is a terrific review activity that can be used at many levels. It is best used to see if students have masted a grammatical concept in context with other concepts. The goal of the game is to be the first team to move your chariot all around the track. It involves galloping horses, straining to surpass each other. It looks like this!
What it really involves is 5-6 magnets and the ability to draw or project a racetrack with 5-6 "spaces" on your board. Below is an example of one of my own "Circus Maximus." Pitiful- I know but progress around this misshapen doughnut promotes much excitement. Nascar caption was snuck in by a student at the end of the class. The magnets were made by buying a pack of magnet blanks from Staples and then gluing on a picture of a chariot. I then then colored each chariot in different race colors. Before I did this, I simply used 5 random magnets I had in my house. The magnets work as the teams' markers so their shape isn't really important.
Divide your class into teams of three or four. If you have two strong students left over, you can have a dynamic duo. It is important that the teams be balanced in terms of ability otherwise one group may very quickly get discouraged. You now need to come up with five sentences - or more - one for each space on the track that practice the concept that you just taught for students to write in Latin. You can also generate five sentences to translate but I find this activity works much better for writing in Latin since the group needs a thoughtful problem to work out. Now, generate extra sentences - a different one for each team and write each of those on an index card.
At the beginning of the game, announce the teams of students and tell them to get together with their group with all their Latin resources: text book, reference charts etc. Tell them to appoint a writer - someone on the team with neat handwriting and a runner. Have each team choose a colored magnet which to represent their team.
Now here's the main action: Write one of your sentences on the board and tell the teams to write it in Latin. The must write the English first and the Latin below it. Once they feel they have it correct, the runner brings it up to the front of the room. You read the sentence and underline in red what they have wrong. I tend to underline the whole word if they have the wrong word or just the ending if the ending is wrong. Don't say anything - just underline the incorrect bit. The runner then dashes back to his team and they hash out the problem and bring up the new version - rewritten. Before they bring it up again - THEY MUST REWRITE THE SENTENCE. This is important. Otherwise, you will never be able to tell what has been fixed and what hasn't. Insist on this or you will go blind trying to navigate hastily crossed out words and endings. Once they have it correct, you put a big check on it and the runner moves the magnet to the next space. AS soon as one team has correctly written the first sentence, you write the next sentence on the board and the play continues until the first and second team goes all the way around.
At the beginning of the game, give each team one index card with the extra sentence. These are rotae fractae, broken wheels. At any time, a team can hand one of their cards to another team. When this happens, the team with the "broken wheel" must translate that sentence before moving on. This way a team can slow down another and make the game more competitive.
Separate your teams from each other otherwise there may be some squabbling over answers overheard.
If one team has not gotten the sentence after three tries, explain to them where they went wrong. If you let them flounder too long, when they are completely stumped, they will cease to think critically and instead, throw down random endings hoping one of them will be right.
Some teams may attempt to start one the second sentence before they have the first one correct - be clear that they have to complete one before starting on the other.
Be warned, this game gets very competitive - particularly with middle school students. It takes about 25 minutes to play.
Once a rota fracta is given to a team, it cannot be handed to a different team. I have the students bring up the cards as they translate the rotae fractae and I collect them once they have translated them so they cannot be given out again.
For this tried and true activity, I must credit the incomparable Nancy Emery. She invented it, shared it with me and it has never failed me. Debeo te, magistra.


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Russian Reconciliation Center evacuated 50,000 civilians from E. Aleppo in past 2 days – MoD
From RT
https://www.rt.com/news/369869-syria-evacuation-civilians-aleppo/video/
© Russian Defense Ministry
Over the past 48 hours, up to 50,000 people have been evacuated from eastern Aleppo, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Major General Igor Konashenkov has reported.
"We warn terrorists and militants of the so-called 'moderate opposition,' and also their patrons: Do not attempt any provocations, especially attacks on civilians leaving through humanitarian corridors," the Russian Defense Ministry statement says.
East Aleppo civilians report torture, executions by 'moderate opposition' – Russian military
Konashenkov also addressed those who, over the past few months, have declared their readiness to send humanitarian aid to Aleppo.
"Representatives of the US, UK, France, Canada, the European Union, and international organizations: Over the past two days, nearly 50,000 civilians have been evacuated by the Russian Reconciliation Center from the eastern parts of Aleppo. They are in need of the humanitarian assistance you promised. It is time to check the validity of your intentions."
The statement added that the Syrian government now controls 93 percent of Aleppo, and the civilians who exited eastern Aleppo have been placed in special humanitarian centers where they are provided with hot food and medical help.
The Russian Reconciliation Center is monitoring the evacuation of civilians from the blocked districts round-the-clock with the use of drones.
Earlier this week, Moscow slammed a statement by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, who said the EU was the only party providing aid to Syria.
"It's outrageous twisting of facts which ignores what Russia has been doing for a long time,"Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Thursday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Russia, "unlike other international players, has been actively supplying thousands of tons of humanitarian aid to various regions across Syria, including the liberated areas in eastern Aleppo, at the risk of Russian military lives.
Russia hopes Syria's Aleppo situation can be resolved by end of 2016
"If the high representative [Mogherini] means providing assistance to terrorists and extremists, then we don't participate in this, indeed," the statement added.
Last week, British Prime Minister Theresa May's spokeswoman claimed that Russia was blocking aid intended for Aleppo's civilian population.
"The Syrian regime and their influencers [Russia, among others] are preventing aid" from reaching the city, the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.
"It seems that the UK government has lost an objective view of what is happening in Syria, including Aleppo, due to Russophobia," Konashenkov responded, noting that the UK has not sent "a single gram of flour, any medicine or blankets to help" civilians in Aleppo during the entire Syrian conflict.
"If the UK government really wants to send humanitarian aid to residents in the eastern neighborhoods [of Aleppo], it has all the conditions for doing this, just tell us where it [the aid] has been held up," he added.
https://www.rt.com/news/369869-syria-evacuation-civilians-aleppo/
Tagged aid, Aleppo, East Aleppo, evacuation, Mogherini, Syria, Theresa May
DPR received from Russia 16,5 thousand tons of aid for Donetsk railway repair
From DONi News
The Russian Federation has transferred to railway workers of Donbass more than 16 thousand tons of humanitarian aid in 2015 – the DPR Minister of Transport Semyon Kuzmenko.
16,5 thousand tons of freights have been transferred already. Generally the humanitarian aid consists of materials for the Donetsk railway – glass, cement, bricks and a specific railway equipment which was destroyed as a result of military operations.
He specified that the help was provided in October.
DONi News Agency
https://savedonbasspeople.info/en/news/dpr-received-from-russia-16-5-thousand-tons-of-aid-for-donetsk-railway-repair/
Tagged aid, Donbass, Donetsk, railway, Russia
SaveDonbassPeople: How to help
From SaveDonbassPeople
Conflict in Donbass has gathered lots of international volunteers to different kind of tasks, which can happen everywhere in world, also in Donbass. SDP is building coordination and cooperation organization with international community for voluntary works for saving Donbass people. Most effective use of voluntary human resources is our target.
Notice: To join SDP missions all volunteers have to be minimum 18 years old.
Volunteers in Donbass
SDP can produce its own civilian missions and participate with its members in excisting ones. Volunteers can participate in DONi media works, SDP humanitarian programs, communal helping and depending from volunteers will and personal skills, basically participating in all sectors of communal life in Donbass is possible. All volunteer candidates will be contacted personally by SDP and DONi staff after sending us message below.
All tasks and actions made under SDP will be accepted by local authorities and performed by local laws and regulations. Foreign volunteers will not get salary from works, but expences from taking care of agreed responsibilities can be paid. Final deal from joining voluntary works in Donbass will be made when volunteer candidate arrives to Donetsk and after interview.
Volunteers in Donbass are responsible to take care and pay them selfs of personal traveling documents, passports and visas and pay when traveling to Donetsk City and back to their homes. Those who have possibility to stay longer periods in volunteer works (+1 month) can receive free housing and meals by SDP and DONi organization.
Volunteers abroad
SDP is launching different kind of voluntary working projects which can be done from all over the world. Tasks for SDP volunteers can include media campaigns, activist coordination, upkeeping information channels or organizing events. Our target is to grow ProDonbass movement!
By joining SDP voluntary missions in your own home country, you will be soon involved in growing international network, which tasks will be coordinated from Donetsk with local people.
Source and for more information:
https://savedonbasspeople.info/en/get-involved/
Tagged aid, Donbass, Donetsk, humanitarian, Save Donbass People
Russia concerned as U.S. military moves into Ukraine, Black Sea
Xinhua News Agency
Russia concerned with U.S. military deployment in Ukraine
MOSCOW: Russia is concerned with arrival of U.S. military personnel on Ukraine soil, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
"Up to 300 U.S. troops reportedly have been deployed to a peacekeeping center in Ukraine's western Lvov region," the ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told reporters.
Noting that those U.S. military instructors would train Ukrainian soldiers from March 5 to Oct. 21 on western military hardware operations, Lukashevich said that U.S. military presence in that country has become a fact.
He also highlighted danger of U.S. plans to start massive arms supply to Ukraine despite successful implementation of the ceasefire agreement reached in Minsk, the Belarusian national capital, on Feb. 12 between Ukrainian government and Donbass insurgents in eastern Ukraine.
Moreover, the U.S. Congress has been drafting a bill on allocating one billion U.S. dollars for Ukraine's army training and armament equipment, according to Lukashevich,
"It seems like Washington decided to take (Ukrainian armed forces) under full maintenance," Interfax news agency quoted Lukashevich as saying.
Meanwhile, the spokesman blamed the U.S. for its military presence in the Black Sea, as NATO Maritime Command said Wednesday in an online announcement that six NATO warships had arrived in the Black Sea for joint exercises.
"This somehow contradicts the public statements of the U.S. administration supporting political settlement of conflict in Ukraine," Lukashevich said.
He warned that such actions might lead to "the most serious consequences" for the peaceful settlement of the crisis.
Lukashevich also urged the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe monitoring mission in Ukraine to verify implementation of Minsk agreements, especially to monitor the weapon withdrawal by conflicting parties in the "impartial, well- organized and systemic way."
https://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/u-s-nato-move-military-into-ukarine-black-sea-russia-mildly-perturbed/
Tagged aid, Alexander Lukashevich, Black Sea, Congress, Lvov, Minsk, NATO Maritime Command, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE, U.S. troops
Kiev prohibits Bochum, Germany from delivering humanitarian aid to Donetsk
Donetsk and Bochum – Twin Cities since 1984.
Junta vs. miners: Kiev prohibited the German twin city of Donetsk from helping
In early December, the authorities and the public organizations of Bochum (located in the Ruhr region, North Rhine – Westphalia — famous for its coal mines ) appealed to the Ukrainian Government requesting to allow them to deliver humanitarian aid to Donetsk.
However, the Kiev junta refused on the pretext of difficulties with the customs clearance of cargo.
The German newspaper Die Welt writes this.
[Donetsk is also an important coal mining region.]
Tagged aid, Bochum, coal, Die Welt, Donetsk, humanitarian, miners

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Faraci Lange Attorney, Matthew F. Belanger, recently resolved a vaccine injury case for an Erie county resident who developed adhesive capsulitis, commonly known as frozen shoulder, after she received a seasonal flu vaccine at her doctor's office.
Adhesive capsulitis is a condition characterized by stiffness and pain in the shoulder joint. Our client started to experience this pain as soon as she received the vaccine and it only worsened despite her continual range of motion exercises. Unfortunately, despite our client's diligence in participating in her prescribed physical therapy over the course of two and a half years, she continues to experience daily pain and a loss of range of motion, both of which are likely permanent.
On behalf of the client, Matthew Belanger filed a claim with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program demanding to be reimbursed for the medical expenses and pain and suffering that the client had to incur, and will continue to incur, due to her vaccine-related shoulder injury.
At Faraci Lange, we have experience in analyzing, preparing and filing vaccine claims for injured people. These claims, while outside the traditional tort system, require the collection and preparation of voluminous documentation that can include all of an injured party's medical records, employment information and tax records.
If you or a loved one has been injured by a vaccine or believe that you may have been, contact Faraci Lange and let our experienced vaccine injury attorneys help you.


Have you heard about Flamingo? It's an application, exclusive to Android, that will totally change your mobile Twitter experience.
Since last year, Flamingo has garnered rave reviews from users. And now it is adding several new features as well as a swanky new app icon.
Some of the new features include better hashtag suggestions, (finally) verified icon on avatars, rounded GIFs, threads for tweet replies, new animations, custom time/date formats and many more.
In case you really liked the old Flaming icon and desire to go back to it after updating, there's an easy way to do just that! Simply slide out the hamburger menu on the side, go to Settings, go to Advanced and scroll all the way down to the App icon section where you can pick from a dozen options.
You can download Flamingo from the Play Store if you haven't tried it out yet. However, like any decent Twitter client out there, you may need to part with a few notes to get the ultimate Twitter mobile experience.


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iPhone 5s and 5c: The best smartphone in 2018
Apple's iPhone 5 and 5s will launch in Australia and New Zealand this year, with the new phones coming in a variety of different colours and models, according to the company's Australian and New York offices.
The phones are expected to hit the Australian market in August, and will then hit the New Zealand market in September.
Apple also has plans to release the phones in China, the United Kingdom, Germany and France in the coming months.
Both the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C are expected by some analysts to be among the best smartphones on the market, according the Wall Street Journal.
The iPhone 5 is expected to come in around $650-$750.
The new iPhones are also expected to be priced slightly lower than the iPhone 6.
While the iPhone X, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are expected in Australia this year.
Apple also announced that its iPhone Xs, Xs Max and Xs are all expected to ship by the end of 2018, and the iPhone 8.
However, the iPhone 9 is also expected by Apple to ship this year and the 10th-generation iPhone X is also slated to ship next year.
Apple's iPhone 7 is expected in September, while the iPhone 7 Plus is slated to arrive by the middle of 2020.
The new iPhones, however, are expected only to be released in a handful of markets around the world.
The iPhone 8 is also scheduled to arrive in 2020, but it is not expected to compete with the Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+, S8 Max, S9+, S9 Max, X, XS and XS XL.
Apple will also be selling its new iPhone in the United States starting in 2019, the company said in a statement.
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Q: iText 7 - Add and Remove Watermark on a PDF I would like to add and remove a watermark to a PDF using iText 7. I was able to add the watermark, but unable to remove it again. I could only find relevant code/examples related to iText 5. Any pointers appreciated, thanks.
This is how I added the Watermark (using Layers):
            pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(sourceFile), new PdfWriter(destinationPath));
            var numberOfPages = pdfDoc.GetNumberOfPages();

            PageSize ps = pdfDoc.GetDefaultPageSize();

            for (var i = 1; i <= numberOfPages; i++)
            {
                PdfPage page = pdfDoc.GetPage(i);
                PdfLayer layer = new PdfLayer("watermark", pdfDoc);
                var canvas = new PdfCanvas(page);
                var pageSize = page.GetPageSize();
                var paragraph = new Paragraph(message.WatermarkText).SetFontSize(60);
                paragraph.SetFontColor(Color.BLACK, 0.2f);

                Canvas canvasModel;
                canvas.BeginLayer(layer);
                canvasModel = new Canvas(canvas, pdfDoc, ps);
                canvasModel.ShowTextAligned(paragraph, pageSize.GetWidth() / 2, pageSize.GetHeight() / 2, pdfDoc.GetPageNumber(page), TextAlignment.CENTER, VerticalAlignment.MIDDLE, 45);
                canvasModel.SetFontColor(Color.GREEN, 0.2f);
                canvas.EndLayer();
            }
            pdfDoc.Close();

This is what I have tried to remove the watermark. I want to remove it completely, not just set the layer to not display.(any sample code appreciated):
            pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(sourceFile), new PdfWriter(destinationPath));
             IList<PdfLayer> layers = pdfDoc.GetCatalog().GetOCProperties(true).GetLayers();

            for (var i = 0; i <= layers.Count; i++)
            {
                var t = layers[i].GetPdfObject().Get(PdfName.Name);

                if (t.ToString().Equals("watermark"))
                {
                        //Not what I want..need to remove the layer
                        layers[i].SetOn(false);
                        //This does not work...
                        //layers.RemoveAt(i);
                    }
                }
                pdfDoc.Close();

A: With help from the guys at iText I was able to solve this.
If you intend to remove the watermark later, you will need to add it as a 'PDF watermark annotation'.
To add a watermark on every page:
    public void WatermarkPDF(string sourceFile, string destinationPath)
    {
        float watermarkTrimmingRectangleWidth = 300;
        float watermarkTrimmingRectangleHeight = 300;

        float formWidth = 300;
        float formHeight = 300;
        float formXOffset = 0;
        float formYOffset = 0;

        float xTranslation = 50;
        float yTranslation = 25;

        double rotationInRads = Math.PI / 3;

        PdfFont font = PdfFontFactory.CreateFont(FontConstants.TIMES_ROMAN);
        float fontSize = 50;

        PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(sourceFile), new PdfWriter(destinationPath));
        var numberOfPages = pdfDoc.GetNumberOfPages();
        PdfPage page = null;

        for (var i = 1; i <= numberOfPages; i++)
        {
            page = pdfDoc.GetPage(i);
            Rectangle ps = page.GetPageSize();

            //Center the annotation
            float bottomLeftX = ps.GetWidth() / 2 - watermarkTrimmingRectangleWidth / 2;
            float bottomLeftY = ps.GetHeight() / 2 - watermarkTrimmingRectangleHeight / 2;
            Rectangle watermarkTrimmingRectangle = new Rectangle(bottomLeftX, bottomLeftY, watermarkTrimmingRectangleWidth, watermarkTrimmingRectangleHeight);

            PdfWatermarkAnnotation watermark = new PdfWatermarkAnnotation(watermarkTrimmingRectangle);

            //Apply linear algebra rotation math
            //Create identity matrix
            AffineTransform transform = new AffineTransform();//No-args constructor creates the identity transform
            //Apply translation
            transform.Translate(xTranslation, yTranslation);
            //Apply rotation
            transform.Rotate(rotationInRads);

            PdfFixedPrint fixedPrint = new PdfFixedPrint();
            watermark.SetFixedPrint(fixedPrint);
            //Create appearance
            Rectangle formRectangle = new Rectangle(formXOffset, formYOffset, formWidth, formHeight);

            //Observation: font XObject will be resized to fit inside the watermark rectangle
            PdfFormXObject form = new PdfFormXObject(formRectangle);
            PdfExtGState gs1 = new PdfExtGState().SetFillOpacity(0.6f);
            PdfCanvas canvas = new PdfCanvas(form, pdfDoc);

            float[] transformValues = new float[6];
            transform.GetMatrix(transformValues);
            canvas.SaveState()
                .BeginText().SetColor(Color.GRAY, true).SetExtGState(gs1)
                .SetTextMatrix(transformValues[0], transformValues[1], transformValues[2], transformValues[3], transformValues[4], transformValues[5])
                .SetFontAndSize(font, fontSize)
                .ShowText("watermark text")
                .EndText()
                .RestoreState();

            canvas.Release();

            watermark.SetAppearance(PdfName.N, new PdfAnnotationAppearance(form.GetPdfObject()));
            watermark.SetFlags(PdfAnnotation.PRINT);

            page.AddAnnotation(watermark);

        }
        page?.Flush();
        pdfDoc.Close();
    }

To remove the watermark:
    public void RemovetWatermarkPDF(string sourceFile, string destinationPath)
    {
        PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(sourceFile), new PdfWriter(destinationPath));
        var numberOfPages = pdfDoc.GetNumberOfPages();

        for (var i = 1; i <= numberOfPages; i++)
        {
            // PdfAnnotation
            PdfDictionary pageDict = pdfDoc.GetPage(i).GetPdfObject();
            PdfArray annots = pageDict.GetAsArray(PdfName.Annots);
            for (int j = 0; j < annots.Size(); j++)
            {
                PdfDictionary annotation = annots.GetAsDictionary(j);
                if (PdfName.Watermark.Equals(annotation.GetAsName(PdfName.Subtype)))
                {
                    annotation.Clear();
                }
            }
        }
        pdfDoc.Close();
    }

What about variable length watermark text? How would you dynamically resize the rectangle to fit the text? This is not inbuilt into iText, you would need to play around with the following dimension parameters:
float watermarkTrimmingRectangleWidth = 600;
float watermarkTrimmingRectangleHeight = 600;
float formWidth = 600;
float formHeight = 600;
float formXOffset = -100;
float fontSize = 30;

For my use-case I checked the length of the watermark text and based on that adjusted the parameters accordingly eg:
        if (watermarkText.Length <= 14)
        {
            watermarkTrimmingRectangleWidth = 200;
            watermarkTrimmingRectangleHeight = 200;
            formWidth = 200;
            formHeight = 200;
            formXOffset = 0;
            fontSize = 30;
        }
        else if (watermarkText.Length <= 22)
        {
            watermarkTrimmingRectangleWidth = 300;
            watermarkTrimmingRectangleHeight = 300;
            formWidth = 300;
            formHeight = 300;
            formXOffset = 0;
            fontSize = 30;
        }
        else if (...)
        {
         ...
        }
        .
        .
        etc.
        .
        .
        else if (watermarkText.Length <= 62)
        {
            watermarkTrimmingRectangleWidth = 600;
            watermarkTrimmingRectangleHeight = 600;
            formWidth = 600;
            formHeight = 600;
            formXOffset = -100;
            fontSize = 20;
        }

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Matt Brezina is co-founder and CEO of Sincerely, a mobile gifting startup whose mission is to help the world be more thoughtful. Postagram, Sincerely's first product, enables users to send real postcards made from photos taken with Instagram. Sincerely's Ink Cards application offers hundreds of greeting card designs that easily can be personalized and mailed from a mobile phone. Sesame, Sincerely's newest service, makes it easy to mail a themed gift set in a beautiful box. The Sincerely network has more than 1.4 million members who have sent cards and gifts to over 900,000 homes. Sincerely was founded in 2011 and is backed by $3 million in venture capital.
Brezina also co-founded Xobni, an email software company that makes your inbox and address book smarter. Xobni, and its Smartr product suite, discovers all the people you've ever called, emailed, or messaged, and creates complete social profiles that are instantly searchable. Xobni's application for Microsoft Outlook, which has been downloaded more than 10 million times, was lauded "the next generation of social networking" by Bill Gates in 2008. Xobni has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. Xobni was founded in 2006 and is backed by $40 million in venture capital.
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Limited-edition dishes rouse this round of Dallas restaurant news
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Paula Deen visits Dallas to christen her first restaurant in Texas
Paula Deen and her Southern cuisine are coming to Texas. Paula Deen's Family Kitchen/ Facebook
Southern celebrity chef Paula Deen is about to open her first restaurant in Texas. Called Paula Deen's Family Kitchen, it'll open on March 26 at Fairview Town Center, according to a Facebook post.
And in possibly even bigger news, Deen herself will make a personal appearance at the restaurant, one month after its debut.
According to a representative, Deen will visit the restaurant on April 20.
Deen's previous visits to Dallas include a 2013 appearance at MetroCooking Dallas, a two-day food exhibit at the Dallas Convention Center.
Fairview Town Center is the shopping complex at the northeast corner of US 75 and Stacy Road in Fairview. The restaurant will be located at 163 Fountain Ct., the space left vacant some time ago by the doomed Guy Harvey's Island Grill.
The restaurant will be open for lunch and dinner, and will come with a companion Paula Dean Store, for your merchandising needs.
In a release, Deen says, "I adore all my fans in Texas, and bringing my Southern cooking to the Lone Star State is something I have dreamed about for years. This is the perfect place to bring together family, friends and great Southern food — three of my favorite things!"
The restaurant's menu consists of Deen family recipes, including Southern fried chicken, spare ribs, and fried catfish. Meals are served family style, and guests can order endless portions of Southern-style entrees, side dishes, and desserts. Endless portions.
It'll also serve alcohol including sangrias, margaritas, peach bellinis, wine by the glass, and beer.
Deen offers a colorful quote about the restaurant's complimentary bread.
"I have taken my favorite recipes and brought them to life in an atmosphere that feels just like my own home," she says. "When you come in and are taken to your table, the first thing you're gonna get is biscuits and sweet potato butter that'll make your tongue wanna slap your brains out."
Guests can dine in the 250-seat dining room; browse retail items from Paula's home, kitchen, and lifestyle collection; and enjoy a unique interactive cooking experience at a full-scale replica of Paula's kitchen called "Cooking with Paula." The restaurant's Facebook page will post updates about how to reserve your experience.
Current Paula Deen's Family Kitchen locations include Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and another is opening soon in San Antonio. A release says that this new location will be located in the largest inland metropolitan area in the United States with a population in excess of 7,000,000. Is that a dig on Pigeon Forge? Hey small town, we're bigger than you.
Deen has another restaurant, The Lady & Sons, which opened in Savannah, Georgia in 1996.
Matt Gallo, a senior VP for landlord Lincoln Property Company, says they're thrilled. "Paula Deen's Family Kitchen will further position Fairview Town Center as the place to dine in Northern Collin County — there will truly be something for everyone," he says.
The center has a Dillard's, Macy's, JCPenney, The Container Store, Old Navy, Buckle, Express, Versona Accessories, Gloria's, Wild Salsa, Cane Rosso, Splitsville Luxury Lanes, Whole Foods Market, and iPic Theaters.


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Q: WebSocket connection sometimes hangs while being behind a proxy I am at work, and I am behind a Squid proxy. Usually everything works fine. But from time to time, I get this (in chrome console:)

WebSocket connection to 'ws://sockets.ny.stackexchange.com/' failed: Unexpected response code: 502

And that prevent every ajax request (When you click edit for example) from working. What could be wrong ?
Another problem is that approx 50% of pages that I load, I have to reload because the first time it hanged. This may be linked to the same issue. All of this is very irritating.
I don't have details about the proxy server, so that might be very hard to reproduce. But I am interested if you have any pointers.
Note: I have no problems whatsoever using a normal internet connexion.

A: This is caused by someone up the chain between you and SE running squid in transparent mode and SE's heavy use of websockets.
Unfortunately the squid devs refuse to implement WS support for some reason. Oddly enough web sockets over https via squid work great.


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Gorgeous projects ladies! Thank you so much for sharing them! If you're creating this weekend be sure to tag us at #sctcanada150 or send it to us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com with "Canada 150" in the reference line. We would LOVE to see your Canada pride to feature throughout the month.
Now what about a little SURPRISE we've been hanging on to! Would you like something Canadian themed to create with? Why not our brand new Celebrate Canada stamp set and matching dies!
Designed by design team member Lisa Dickinson, you can preorder the stamp set for only $15 Cdn, the set of dies for $15 Cdn or as a package that includes the stamps and dies for only $25 Cdn! (plus a bit of shipping and any applicable taxes) We expect the stamps and dies to ship the week of July 31st! Click HERE to preorder this limited edition set created just for YOU!
If you wish to enter for this hour's prizes, be sure to leave a comment below by July 7th and we will randomly select one lucky winner this hour to win them! After leaving your comment here we hope you'll take a moment to visit us on Facebook and Instagram (@sctmagazine) and leave a comment there as well for THREE chances to win! We'll be compiling all the comments each hour.
Next hour is a sweet one!
Fun Fact: Canada's official phone number is 1-800-O-CANADA.
Woohoo! This is very exciting! A stamp and die set just for Canada! I love it! Yay Canada 150!
Everyone is so talented in creating their Canada Cards and Layouts. Thank you everyone who shared.
Oh my gosh, I love that stamp and die set! Keeping my fingers and toes crossed for this one!!!!!
This is a gorgeous stamp set!!! I love everyone's creativity! Happy Canada Day!!
What a great idea with the stamp and die set and I'm really enjoying reading all the fun facts etc. Hope everyone is having a wonderful Canada Day celebration. We are so fortunate to live in such a great country!
Love all the Canada pages and cards. What a great country we have…Happy 150 to the best country in the world.
Great stamp and dies set! I already ordered them and can't wait to get them, even though I live in the U.S.
SO excited about this stamp set and dies!!! AMAZING! Thanks to everyone who shared!
Thanks for sharing ready inspiration. Would love to win this stamp set and use it to scrap pages of my grandparents.
Great layouts and cards everyone! And a great stamp/die set! Thanks SCT!
Cool stamp and die set! Would love to win it!!
Although I'm not Canadian, I've been visiting Canada since I was a little girl, and I've loved every minute that I've spent there! I'd love to have this stamp and die set to document some of my visits – thanks for the chance to win!
Beautiful layouts and awesome die and stamp set. Great inspiration and products to scrap with.
Looking forward to the stamp and die set! Love all the layouts and cards!
Thanks for sharing the layouts and offering a great prize!
Love all the Canadian layouts & cards! Happy 150th Canada!
I love the stamps. I love Canada. I am Canadian, and proud.
Nice but where's the Mountie or does the Disney copyright prevent it ?
Fabulous projects, love them all!
Awesome layouts, cards and projects. LOVE those BIG chairs in Rona's layout.
Great stamp and die!! I would love to win this amazing prize!! Happy 150th Canada!!
I would love to use this stamp set to scrap my pics from Crop and Create Abbotsford!!
What a great set of LOs and how fun to see a page by someone I know. Dawn's is so typical of her beautiful work.
You folks are really going all out to show off some Canadian pride with some amazing paper crafters. We often forget how large and amazing our country really is.
LOVE those cards by Karen Carvell. They shout CANADIAN ??
would be great to add to my collection.
scrapbook of my trip to Canada.
Very creative work! Canadian pride! The stamp and die set would be a treasure to own!
Great layouts! Love the new stamp and die set too :o) Happy Canada Day!
These Canada projects are AWESOME!!! Feeling very inspired to do something myself along these lines. Would really love to win a stamp and die set – those are perfect!
What amazing creations honoring Canada's 150th Birthday! Love the stamp and die sets! TFS!
What a wonderful stamp and die set to help document this great country!
The submissions were fantastic, lots of Canadian pride and striking red & white layouts.
Wonderful Canadian themed layouts and cards. Wow! Loving that stamp and die set.
Stunning layouts and stamp set is so great. Would definitely like to use it.
Off to place my order for the stamps and dies!! Love this set!!
Fabulous layouts and cards…lots of inspiration there. And such a great prize you are offering as well.
A great prize package from great Canadian magazine, Scrapbook and Cards Today. Thank you for being so great!
Great cards. Talented Canadians. I love this stamp and die set very Canadian and a treasure for all stampers alike. A must have in every Canadian craft room.
1-800-O-CANADA, that's adorable. I feel like calling it right now and saying Happy Birthday! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Wonderful variety of layouts and cards.
Sweet coin for Happy Birthday Canada…. these scrapbook pages remind me of my very simple one that I did when we visited Canada for our agility dog training class. Sweet memories!
Love your patriotism, and the spirit captured in the layouts!
Very nice pages & cards, Thanks for sharing. Thanks to SCT for the chance to win this set!
Great layouts and cards ladies!
Those are some awesome Canada Day layouts, so many unique ideas.
Inspired by the Canadian layouts!
Love the stamp and die set! Very Canadian.
Love those Canadian layouts and cards!
I love the stamp set and Dies. However when I went to order, noticed that they just had a Canadian price. Will they be available in the U.S.?
Great layouts and cards. May have to scraplift a few.
Love love this stamp set! Really awesome layouts! Happy Canada Day!
Wonderful, wonderful layouts! Think I'll have to scraplift some, as I continue to work on my Crop and Create trips!
I love this – thank you so much!
thanks for the chance to win! Love the great layouts!
Thanks for sharing some beautiful layouts. Thanks for the chance to win!
Just love the Canada stamp and die set. What great layouts and cards! Love them.
Very nice layouts indeed. Happy Anniversary!!!
Wow those are beautiful layouts!
Thanks for the great inspiration and the wonderful giveaway!
Love these scrapbook layouts! O Canada indeed!
What a great stamp & die set too.
Gorgeous layouts displaying the pride of our great country! TFS!
Love this stamp set, especially the "Made in Canada" stamp – so many possiblities for this stamp alone, let alone all the other ones!
Living the stamp set!! My mind is already thinking ahead to all that could be done with it. Happy Canada Day ??
Need this set for all of our Canada 150 pics!
Love the stamp and die set and all the fabulous Canadian work you shared so beautiful!!!
Beautiful cards and layouts ladies! Inspired to do one of my own. The amazing stamp set would surely help!
Beautiful layouts from a beautiful country.
Wowser!! Beautiful layouts and cards — well done!! Drooling over that stamp and die set!!
Great Canada Day layouts! Wonderful stamp and die set.
So many talented artists…just gorgeous ??
Love the layouts and cards- so inspiring and everyone so talented. Would love to win the Stamp and Die Set. Thanks SCT for making this day even more of a celebration.
What great layouts – love being Canadian!
Great lyoits and such a cute set of dies and stamps.
All of these layouts are just so beautiful and so CANADIAN ??!! Thank you for the inspiration and the stamp and die set is absolutely amazing and would make my layouts and cards just stunning! they are truly wonderful!!!
Love this great set! Thank you for considering me!
What fun stamps! Our first trip to Canada is next week and I'd love to have these to scrap it with.
Such amazing inspiration…love them all! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
I'd love to know where the ladies got the cut file for the 150 logo shape? They were all lovely layouts, but those one's really jumped out at me.
Fantastic layouts and cards everyone! Wonderful prize pack too!
Love the loonie. What great layout love the different pages. Happy 150th Birthday Canada.
Love the stamp and die set!! The layouts that were sent in are great! Awesome work!
What a great stamp and die set! I would love to win this fabulous blog candy. It is so hard to find Canadian themed stamping and scrapping supplies. Thanks for the chance to win!
What a perfect stamp and die set! I'd love to stamp my cards with 'made in Canada'! So fun!
I love so much this new stamp set!!!
Wow!!! The layouts and cards are gorgeous!!! Thank you for sharing them. I love the stamp and die set!
Great stamp and die set. Thanks for the fun giveaway.
And really enjoyed the beautiful layouts. Congratulations to all the contributors, they are lovely.
Love Leanne's layout – and of course would love to win the stamp and die set as well.
Love the stamp set! I have my Canada Day photos on arranged on templates and ready to print and scrap. I have decided that I like hybrid scrapbooking.
Happy Canada Day !!! These hourly posts are a super creative way to honour our fabulous country. I love the Celebrate Canada stamp and die set! Thanks for the chance to win!
Lovely layouts. I am loving the Canadian red.
Beautiful cards and layouts and a beautiful stamp set, as well!
Gorgeous pages! May have to lift at least one!
Wondering if there is a cut file for the mosaic maple leaf Canada 150 icon? And where I could get it?
Love these layouts! Thanks for sharing!
OH I loooove the stamp and die set Happy Canada Day??
Love all the awesome pages and cards. The stamp set looks like great fun – love the bear especially.
Beautiful inspiration from fellow crafters. Love the stamp set.
Awesome layouts and cards! The new Canada stamp set & dies would be very useful this year.
Beautiful stamp/die set, truly Canadian.
Such beautiful layouts with so much inspiration. Well done everyone.
So happy to see a LO by Dawn Brittain. I love everything she does. Awesome inspiration from so many.
Great Canadian crafting! Happy Canada Day!
Love the layouts and the stamps!
Love the stamp and die set…ordered!!
Oh wow! The scrapbook layouts and cards look amazing!! Love all the red and white, and the special Canada 150 maple leaf looks really cool in a scrapbook page!
Preordered the set. It is pure perfection.


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Rafael - El Parnaso (Vatican, Rome, 1511)
Apollo on Parnassus, (fresco detail).
In the spring of 1612, Italian glassmaker Antonio Neri finished writing L'Arte Vetraria, and the Holy Office of the Inquisition approved it for publication. The book of glass technical recipes passed the Church's censors despite it containing a large number of alchemy related methods. Contrary to what we might imagine, they did not have any problems with Neri's work; in fact, one bureaucrat commented that the book was full of useful information. Remember, this was at the same time that so-called sorcerers and witches were being tortured and executed around Europe. One big difference in this case was intent, or rather the perceived intent of Neri's writing. Another factor was his personal connections. The truth is that alchemy was something of a fad among the wealthy nobility, who used the equipment for everything from making rosewater, to distilling liquor, to quietly trying their hand at transmutation.
To form a better sense of the public image of the chemical arts in the early seventeenth century, we can turn to the satirical critic Traiano Boccalini, who published a book of his own the same year as Neri. Ragguagli di Parnaso [Reports from Parnassus] was an immediate hit. In fact, it became so popular that he and his sharp tongue were forced to leave Rome for the comparative safety of Venice soon after its completion, and soon after that friends found him dead under suspicious circumstances. Initially, Boccalini had been on good terms with Church officials, but perhaps he had seen a bit too much of the institution's inner workings. Eventually, he became bitterly disillusioned and wrote Ragguagli as a collection of fictitious news-sheets. These were patterned after the letters that circulated widely as the forerunners of modern newspapers. His reports took place in the mythical state of "Parnassus," which struck an uncanny resemblance to contemporary Rome. Its monarch, Apollo, struck an uncanny resemblance to the pope, as the princes of Parnassus did to cardinals, bishops and curia officials. Report LXXXIX is illustrative of what were the more practical fears over alchemy, in this case, some creative wealth building among the clergy. It gives a sense of alchemy's public persona. Apparently, in real life, there was a crackdown by the Church on chemical apparatus, under the guise of concern for public health. Our author slyly suggests, in the very last line, that it may have had more to do with putting an end to clergy lining their own pockets.
Apollo [the pope] Prohibits the Princes from the Use of Distillers or Alembics At Home:
In the past few months here, various ailments have emerged in this state of Parnassus, which have caused in some an extraordinary fatigue with frequent agitation: in many a tenacious fever, a faint pulse and a monstrous appetite: in others an intense stomach ache with an ardent thirst.
The doctors cannot find a single remedy. However, the true cause of these maladies, by decree of Apollo, was revealed before a recent meeting of the grand Asclepius [Society] of prominent Greek, Latin and Arabic doctors, where it was the subject of long and erudite debate. Because neither the enemies of the grand princes nor other eminent gentlemen were spared, it was doubted whether the sickness was caused artificially by powerful poisons. Furthermore, it is clear these troubles were not only happening nearby.
And we see several modern princes put great study in their most excellent facilities to prepare in their alembics things other than rose water. They conceal subjects dangerous and heinous with their hidden machinations of poison. This cannot be allowed to be covered up; such a scandal must be exposed with the violence of a dagger.
His Majesty, concurring with the opinion of the congregation, yesterday morning made a public speech, to issue a strict edict, which forbids princes of any color, from ever keeping distillation or alembic operations at home or outside. However, he allowed similar exercises in the hands of experimenters and herbalists. A thing being extremely foul is the minting of counterfeit money in the night and then by day covering so treacherous a crime by running shops openly making medals for the crown.
In this piece, Boccalini crystallizes the complex social stigma carried by alchemy. Of all the practical tasks that could be performed in this art, the most notoriety by far was derived from the concept of turning base metals into gold.
In a 1613 ms, Neri openly expressed his fear that true transmutation, in the hands of the masses was likely to collapse the economy. The Vatican's concerns were more immediate: financial gluttony within the Church. Anyone with enough alchemical knowledge could produce convincing counterfeit money. Turning lead into gold was a theoretical issue; dealing with rogue counterfeiters was a real and immediate one.
[1] Antonio Neri, Manuscript, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze: Ms. Conv. Soppr., B.3.16. Discorso sopra la chimica (che cosa sia, e sue Operazioni del R.[everendo] P.[rete] Antonio Neri Sacerdote Fio.o) (1613).
*This post first appeared here on 8 August 2014.
Labels: #earlymodern, #histSTM, Asclepius, Boccalini, Counterfeit, distillation, L'Arte Vetraria, liquor, Neri, Parnaso, Parnassus, Physicians, Ragguagli, Rosewater, Venice
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El Trinium es un material ficticio utilizado en las series de tv Stargate SG-1 y Stargate Atlantis.

El trinium  es un metal muy débil y frágil en forma bruta, careciendo de cualquier utilidad. Sin embargo, al refinarlo, se obtiene una sustancia 100 veces más fuerte y más liviana que el acero.
Este fue la base de la extinta raza Tolan, permitiéndoles grandes avances técnicos y científicos.
El Comando Stargate ha procurado conseguir reservas de este material en varias ocasiones.

Entre las utilidades que los Tau'ri le han dado al Trinium se destacan el Iris actual del Stargate compuesto de una aleación de Trinium-Titanio, y los cascos de las naves terrestres como el Prometheus y los BC-304.

Los Asgard también utilizan el Trinium en sus Cruceros de batalla clase O'Neill (excepto en el primero que se utilizó para destruir tres naves Replicantes), ya que sus cascos están compuestos de una aleación de Trinium-Carbono-naquadah.

Stargate

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Q: Why do these podcast episodes say they are temporarily unavailable even though they look like they have been downloaded? I am having an issue where certain podcasts in a location with no internet access (see "no service" on the upper left). It  looks like they have been downloaded based on the fact that:

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*There is no cloud to the right

*The blue dot is on the left

but when I click to play then, they are not available.
As an example, in the image below, look at the podcast "Choosing a Javascript Framework . . ." as in the image below:

it looks like it has been downloaded (versus the second podcast below that clearly shows it needs to be downloaded)
but when i try to play that first podcast episode, I get the following error:

Saying that "this episode is temporarily unavailable . . ."
Does anyone know what could be wrong here.  Its happening to a significant number of different podcasts so I have eliminated the possibility that this is some "quirk" with a specific podcast that happened to have a corrupt download.

A: I am using an iPhone 5S with the most up to date iOS software (9.2.1 currently) and having the same error.
I called Apple Care to get an answer on this - as I'm having the same issue. Downloading podcasts then when trying to play them I get the error message "Episode temporarily unavailable", even ones I have downloaded and played previously. I also didn't think the approach of having to download a podcast twice is an appropriate solution - even this doesn't always work.
The main Apple Support person I spoke with contacted the Apple iTunes Support department. They provided the following comments:
It isn't the player that is causing the issue its the third party providing the podcast file. The issue is that with new software updates to the iPhone or iPod the podcast files must also be updated.
Apparently part of the podcast download file needs to be re-written in order to be compatible with the newest Apple software update.
This doesn't really make sense as music files don't need to be updated everytime there is a software update (that I'm aware of anyway).
I called them back in order to try and delve a bit deeper into this issue.
I got a Senior Advisor on the phone - they checked my IMEI number and software version which seemed to be fine.
I got them to download the same specific podcast that I was having the issue with and they were able to play the one that for me was "unavailable" even though it is downloaded locally.
We ended up resolving it by deleting all the podcasts from Storage (Settings>General>Storage & iCloud Usage>Storage>Manage Storage>Podcasts)
and also Reset>Reset All settings (this will mean you lose all your settings - this didn't really affect me - just meant I had to put in my wifi password back in, reset my wallpaper and my alarm clock).
Hopefully this works for you - I asked that the Apple Advisor I spoke to pass this information onto the team at Apple that works on the Podcast app - hopefully they will be able to push an update to the app that makes this resolution process obsolete.

A: This is a wide spreaded problem. If you check the ratings of the Podcast-app in the App Store, they are at around two stars. I don't know if apple doesn't fix this bug, but at the moment, there is no easy fix for that problem.
The only fix would be, that you download the podcasts from your Computer and sync it to your iPhone. But maybe even that way, it won't work because the app itself is the problem. So you could download a music-player from the app store which allows to play music which you added via iTunes to the app before.(App-Tab on itunes and than drag and drop the podcasts to your music-player) or you could try to add it to your music-library and play it with your standard iPhone-player.

A: If you add them to "Play Next" then use the drop down list to the right, looks like 3 short lines they will all play in the order you arranged them.

A: I don't know why it happens but the way I fix it is by deleting the episode (deleting it and also deleting the download) and downloading it again.

A: I noticed that I only started to get this problem after I started using WiFi. Previously i'd been using only 4G cellular internet and never saw this problem. I'm talking like for 6 months. But soon as I had both cellular & wifi on it started happening. So i think it may be a bug where the 2 networks are getting confused somehow.

A: Delete the podcast app and re download. Fixed.

A: So I'm not a tech person but I did find out a solution to my ongoing error.
My phone is set up not to download podcast on cellular data.
This is gonna sound stupid. But when I'm at work and my phone thinks it's connected to the Internet but I haven't entered the password, the WiFi symbol still shows, the podcast tried to download but doesn't. That's when I get the error.
Once I connect to the WiFi, I delete the podcast and reinstall it, it plays.
I've had this issue for months and could never figure it out until now.
I guess,  make sure you are connected to the Internet.
The podcast shows its downloading but it's quick. It doesn't show that it's not fully downloaded or partially downloaded. It just gives me the error it's not available.
I hope this helps some people.
I will add when I tried adding it to the play next, it wouldn't play.

A: This is a Apple iOS podcast app issue not the source of the podcast. It means that the download was not handled by the app properly.  What do you usually need to do when this happens is delete  the episode from the Podcast feed ,
Then refresh the feed and choose download from the right "dots" menu and when it finishes downloading it will be ready to play.

A: I found this problem can occur when the enclosure url in the feed is a redirect. Redirect urls are used automatically by some feed generators in order to collect stats, e.g. the Sermon Browser Wordpress plug-in does this. I fixed it by modifying the code to insert a direct link to the file instead.

A: Just tried many of these fixes and no luck. Finally, I downloaded another podcast app from a third party and it worked fine... even with the feed I couldn't play in Apple's app.

A: I turned off WiFi and it started working. It was the whole of one podcast that just wouldn't play for weeks.


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Surfin' Salmon the Editors of Publications International, Ltd.
Combine cornflake crumbs, egg substitute, milk, dill weed, black pepper and hot pepper sauce in large mixing bowl. Add salmon; mix well.
Shape salmon mixture into 5 large egg-shaped balls. Flatten each into 3/4-inch-thick oval. Pinch one end of each oval to make tail shape for each fish.
Spray large nonstick skillet with cooking spray. Add fish to skillet; cook 2 to 3 minutes over medium-high heat or until lightly browned. Turn fish over. Add oil to skillet. Continue cooking 2 to 3 minutes or until firm and lightly browned.
Place small drop tartar sauce and pimiento on each fish to make "eye." Serve with remaining tartar sauce, if desired.
For a tasty side dish of seaplants, serve fish on a bed of shredded Romaine lettuce and matchstick-size cucumber slices.


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FILE - In this April 21, 2019, file photo, Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant, top, dunks as Los Angeles Clippers guard Landry Shamet defends during the second half in Game 4 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Los Angeles. Rarely relevant at the same time on the basketball court, the Knicks and Nets are front and center in the free agency race, two of the teams best positioned to make a splash when the market opens. Both can afford two top players, with hopes of landing not only a Kevin Durant or Kyrie Irving, but possibly even both. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Kevin Durant to leave Golden State Warriors, sign with Brooklyn Nets
A ruptured right Achilles tendon could keep him out the entire next season
Kevin Durant says he will signing with the Brooklyn Nets, leaving the Golden State Warriors after three seasons.
The announcement was made Sunday at the start of the NBA free agency period on the Instagram page for The Boardroom, an online series looking at sports business produced by Durant and business partner Rich Kleiman.
Durant won titles with Golden State in 2017 and '18 then was injured for much of this post-season as the team lost the NBA Finals in six games to the Toronto Raptors.
A ruptured right Achilles tendon could keep him out the entire next season, and whenever he returns it will be in the Brooklyn black.
ESPN first reported Durant's decision, saying he had agreed to a four-year deal worth $164 million. Durant could have gotten five years and about $221 million to remain with the Warriors.
ALSO READ: 'Canada is sorry': Raptors fan sends Kevin Durant flowers to apologize for cheering injury
AP Sports Writer Janie McCauley in Oakland, California, contributed to this report.
Brian Mahoney, The Associated Press
Stoppage-time heartbreak: Whitecaps fall 1-0 to Sounders
Canucks sign free agents Myers, Benn to bolster defence
Roller derby in Houston
The Bulkley Valley Roller Derby (BVRD) league hosted their first ever derby… Continue reading
Northern B.C.'s Ridley coal terminal sold, Canada divests, First Nations to own portion
Ten per cent of shares transferred to the Lax Kw'alaams Band and the Metlakatla First Nation
Recreational fishing for sockeye salmon in the Skeena River watershed temporarily closed
Effective July 11 recreational fishing will be banned until further notice
Skeena mainstem closed to recreational sockeye
Escapements expected to be below 800,000 threshold


Here at Opium Pulses HQ we're always developing the website based on user feedback and requests.
Below we have listed our most recent website updates plus work in the pipeline so you can see what's new and coming up.
User avatars - File uploads now possible! Link to Gravatar is still possible, however this proved less popular than we thought and we had lots of requests for avatar file uploads, so now you can.
Commenting system upgrade - You asked us for more formatting tools in the commenting system, and we delivered!
Change password on Account page - Previously you had to go via the 'forgot my password' screen to change your password which was a little messy. Now you can do it right from your Account screen.
Link to our Discord channel - Opium Pulses is now an official Discord partner! You can now find a direct link to our channel in the 'Find us on' footer banner at the bottom on any page.
Support for Ultra Wide screens - Not a widely requested feature, we admit, but some of our ultra wide customers reported alignment issues on some of our website pages. Now our website should look just as beautiful no matter how wide you go!
Clickable notifications - Probably our most requested feature! Don't worry, we're working on it. Soon you will be able to click on a notification and it will take you straight to the relevant screen. Also, all notifications will be remain in the drop down until you click it or 'mark all as read'. That way you will never miss an important notification again.
Filter games by release date - Another highly requested feature. We are working on adding release dates to all games in the store with the option to filter games this way so you can find all the latest releases in one place.
Filter games by best selling - Want to know what's hot right now on OP? Soon you will be able to filter in order of best sellers.
Additional 'Find me on' links - We missed a few the first time round, so soon we will be adding links to your Battle.net, GOG, itch.io, Nintendo and Instagram profile pages.
Option to remove entry(s) from a giveaway - This is a little complex as refunds are normally involved, however we're working on a solution.
More achievements - We already have over 30 achievements you can earn, but don't worry there's plenty more in the pipeline!
More ways to earn points - We get asked this a lot and we are working a big project that will allow users with some spare time to earn additional points on top of what the website already offers. Expect to hear more in the next few months.
Have some feedback or a great idea you want to tell us about - let us know in the (new and improved) comments below!
Please add steam links to the store pages.
so in the giveaway overview where can I see which I entered already? /can I at all?
This article is from the previous update so is a little out-of-date... Don't worry, we're working on update that will make it clearly visible which giveaways you have entered that we will roll out asap.


The best food products of Lischeto at Biofach 2016!
the world 's leading trade fair for organic food.
The presence of Farm Lischeto is inevitable at the most important international event for the organic food – Biofach 2016 – held Feb. 10 to 13 in Nuremberg.
The expectations are very high and this year Lischeto and its organic products are ready to repeat the success of 2015, when at the competition of BioOil Award he finished in 4th place, with its organic extra virgin olive oil from Volterra.
The world's leading trade fair for organic food (organic food exhibited is certified to the EU Organic Regulation for the accreditation directives of IFOAM, the patron of BioFach), together with Vivaness (the international exhibition of natural cosmetics), Biofach is a strategic moment of great importance to relations with overseas customers and partners as also to present the latest news. It is an exciting event for the organic sector, and an opportunity to meet new partners.
People, ideas and tastes – BIOFACH collects the colorful variety of the organic world and Lischeto has always been one of the key players of the Italian organic food. For those who come to visit us, you can try the wide range of our organic food, to have updates on current developments of our sectors, and talk about the tastes and flavors of Tuscany.
We welcome visitors of all types (women and businessmen, activists, innovators, networkers or just anyone interested of organic food) to live together the atmosphere of the world's leading trade fair for the organic industry.
We look forward to meeting you at Biofach in the Halle 4 – 621!
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Report - Next-gen Mercedes Viano to be called 'V-Class', debuts in July 2014
25/09/2013 - 09:47 | Mercedes Viano, Mercedes-Benz | Anjan Ravi
The next-generation Mercedes-Benz Viano has been caught testing in Europe recently. Sketches highlighting the van's design, which are believed to be official sketches that were leaked, have also found their way on the internet.
Now our friends at Mercedes Passion Blog, have uncovered some new details about the future Viano. Sources have told them that the market launch of the new Viano will be held in July 2014. Also, Mercedes may no longer use the 'Viano' name, instead calling it the 'V-Class'.
This supposedly leaked sketch, shows the design of the next-gen Mercedes Viano.
Earlier reports indicating that the new Viano would sport a more luxurious cabin with telematics and equipment on par with a Mercedes luxury sedan, still hold good. However, Passion Blog reports that an earlier rumored V6 petrol engine will not be offered. Three diesel engines and a four-cylinder petrol are the likely engine options for the van. The automatic transmission Vianos will use the Mercedes 7G-Tronic dual-clutch transmission.
Another detail brought to light earlier was that the new Viano will be sold through Mercedes-Benz's passenger car showrooms, sharing space with the lineup that includes the compact A-Class and the luxurious S-Class. This is being done to attract more customers, who may have earlier had apprehensions on purchasing their Viano from a commercial vehicle dealership, which sells trucks and busses apart from the Daimler Sprinter van.
Next-gen Viano will also replace the R-Class MPV, and as a result, would get a more luxurious interior.
The next-generation Viano will also be a replacement for the R-Class MPV, which has been selling in disastrous numbers worldwide. The R-Class was recently discontinued in India.
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Recap: Reds 12, Astros 9
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Reds 12, Astros 9: Joey Votto went 4-for-4 with one of Cincinnati's four homers as the visiting Reds sent Houston to its eighth straight loss.
Drew Stubbs had a three-run blast and an RBI double, and Todd Frazier and Ryan Ludwick also went deep for first-place Cincinnati, which has won five of seven. Votto's two-run homer in the first extended his hitting streak at Minute Maid Park to 20 games.
Houston matched its worst losing streak since April 27-May 4, 2010. The Astros have given up 67 runs in their eight losses.
After Houston rallied from an 8-2 deficit to lead 9-8, Ludwick tied it with a fifth-inning homer and Brandon Phillips delivered the go-ahead RBI double an inning later. Phillips added a two-run single in the eighth.
Houston's J.D. Martinez went 2-for-5 with three RBIs and Jed Lowrie hit his ninth homer, a two-run shot.
Sam LeCure (1-1) earned the win with two scoreless innings of relief, and Aroldis Chapman earned his fifth save by striking out the side in the ninth. Fernando Rodriguez (1-6) took the loss.
GAME NOTEBOOK: The Reds are 21-7 when they score first. ... Astros first baseman Carlos Lee sat out with a strained hamstring and could be headed for the DL. ... The Astros put OF Travis Buck on the DL with tendinitis in his Achilles and called up OF Fernando Martinez, who started and had a two-run double.


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Q: INSERT com prepare não funciona Estou tentando inserir dados no banco usando mysqli prepare mais não estão inserindo os dados, e não mostra erro algum
Perguntas:::

*

*Oque estou fazendo de errado nesse código abaixo?

*Essa é a melhor forma de se fazer?

*Poderiam colocar um exemplo?
$conecta = new mysqli($hostname, $username, $password, $dbdatabase);
if($conecta->connect_error){
echo "Conexao:Erro!";
}else{
echo "Conexao:OK!";
}

$sql = $conecta->prepare("INSERT INTO cotacao (chave,id_transfer,id_empresa,nome)
VALUES (?,?,?,?)");
$sql->bind_param('s', $chave,$id_transfer,$idc,$nome); //
$sql->execute();
$sql->close();
$conecta->close();

Obrigado

A: O erro acontece no seu método bind_param, o método fala para o SQL qual é o tipo dos dados que estão sendo enviados à query e é obrigatório haver um para cada parâmetro que você enviar no bind. O s significa que o dado é do tipo string, i integer, d double e o b blob.
 $sql = $conecta->prepare("INSERT INTO cotacao (chave,id_transfer,id_empresa,nome)
    VALUES (?,?,?,?)");
    $sql->bind_param('iiis', $chave,$id_transfer,$idc,$nome); //Supondo que a chave é um integer, se não ela também recebe um "s" de string
    $sql->execute();
    $sql->close();
    $conecta->close();

A: O bind_param que está errado/ou faltando os demais parâmetros, porque, para cada item tem que ter o seu tipo definido, exemplo no seu código:
$sql = $conecta->prepare("INSERT INTO cotacao (chave,id_transfer,id_empresa,nome)
VALUES (?,?,?,?)");
$sql->bind_param('iiis', $chave,$id_transfer,$idc,$nome);

ou seja, faltou a declaração dos outros tipos que nessa sql são 4.
Os tipos são:
+-----+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  i  | corresponde a uma variável de tipo inteiro                                    |
+-----+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  d  | corresponde a uma variável de tipo double                                     |
+-----+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  s  | corresponde a uma variável de tipo string                                     |
+-----+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  b  | corresponde a uma variável que contém dados para um blob e enviará em pacotes |
+-----+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

A: $sql = "INSERT INTO cotacao SET chave = ?, id_transfer = ?, id_empresa = ?, nome = ?";
$query = $mysqli->query($sql);

Tente assim, não esqueça de passar os parametros do array, ou usar normal mesmo.


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Grammy-winning Tejano/Norteño fusion band takes their latest Highway tour across the US with dual SSL L300 consoles mixing front of house and monitors.
Intocable is an Tejano/Norteño fusion band that has been making records and touring for over 25 years with three Grammy wins in their portfolio. Their latest Highway tour has taken them all over the US since June and culminates in November in Houston, in their home State of Texas.
The band's tools of choice at both front of house and monitors are Solid State Logic SSL L300 consoles, and Jose Ramon Quintero has engineered with both, previously as monitor engineer, and now as front of house engineer.
There are seven members of Intocable and Quintero has a 52-channel input list across drums, percussion, bass, Bajo Sexto, accordion, vocals, and comms. He uses the console's 32 x 36 output matrix for the seven PA outputs, with subs driven from an auxiliary. All 36 matrix outputs of the console have filters, 4-band EQ, delay, all-pass-filters, and insert points for internal and external processing.
The SSL All-Pass-Filter has proven to be one of Quintero's favorite features. It's available on all processed paths, and presents a highly tunable processing stage with two filter types, adjustable center frequency, and adjustable Q. "This makes a huge difference," he says. "Now I can use that tool for mixing as well as for tuning, which is very exciting.


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It's all change here at BBC Radio Suffolk, as a new series of local shows have taken over the airwaves from 7-10pm on weeknights. BBC Music Introducing in Suffolk has doubled in length, we're now 7-9pm on a Wednesday, and I now have a new co-presenter.
Angelle Joseph is a rapper (as A.N.G), a promoter (her Girls Do Music nights have been big successes), a presenter (check out Beats, Rhymes and Grime on IO Radio) and now she's… er, more of a radio presenter. She brings to the show a wealth of knowledge about the local scene, and an enthusiasm for supporting people who are making music. If she had the time I think she'd go knocking door to door to tell musicians just how important it was to get involved with Introducing.
We're a handful of shows into the new era, and things are going well. Rubber Jaw joined us for our first broadcast, as we fumbled our way through two hours of live radio – trying not to talk over each other, and keeping each other calm. Morgan Swann, Bessie Turner, Cherise Phillips, Oranje and Monster Florence have since joined us in the live room, highlighting that a big part of our plan is to bring the best of live music from around these parts into the living rooms, kitchens and car stereos of Suffolk.
We've already got Piers James and his full band and War Waves, who it's sad to hear are calling it a day, booked in for December.
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var path = require('path');
var __path__ = path.join(__dirname, '../../../src/js/components/icons/DropCaret');

var GrommetTestUtils = require('../../../src/utils/test/GrommetTestUtils');

describe('Grommet DropCaret', function() {
  it('loads an drop-caret icon', function() {
    var Component = GrommetTestUtils.getComponent(__path__);

    GrommetTestUtils.componentShouldExist(Component, 'control-icon-drop-caret');
  });

  it('loads a custom drop-caret icon', function() {
    var Component = GrommetTestUtils.getComponent(__path__, null, { className: 'testing' });

    GrommetTestUtils.componentShouldExist(Component, 'testing');
  });
});


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File-systems vs. Databases
January 25, 2009 Jaspreet Singh, Founder and CEO
It's interesting to see how databases have come a long way and have clearly out-shadowed file-systems for storing structured or unstructured information.Technically, both of them support the basic features necessary for data access.
For example, both of them:
Ensure data is managed to ensure its integrity and quality
Allow shared access by a community of users
Use well-defined schema for data-access
Support a query language
Download Executive Brief: Choosing the Right Model for Enterprise Backup & Recovery
But file systems seriously lack some of the critical features necessary for managing data. Let's take a look at some of these features.
Atomic transactions guarantee complete failure or success of an operation. This is especially needed when there is concurrent access to the same data set. This is one of the basic features provided by all databases.
But most file-systems don't have this feature. Only the lesser known file systems, such as Transactional NTFS(TxF), Sun ZFS, and Veritas VxFS, support this feature. Most of the popular open source file systems (including ext3, xfs, reiserfs) are not even POSIX compliant.
Databases allow indexing based on any attribute or data property (i.e. SQL columns). This helps fast retrieval of data, based on the indexed attribute. This functionality is not offered by most file systems, i.e. you can't quickly access "all files created after 2 PM today."
The desktop search tools like Google desktop or MAC spotlight offer this functionality. But for this, they have to scan and index the complete file system and store the information in an internal relational database.
Snapshot is a point-in-time copy/view of the data. Snapshots are needed for backup applications, which need consistent point-in-time copies of data.
The transactional and journaling capabilities enable most of the databases to offer snapshots without shopping access to the data. Most file systems however, don't provide this feature (ZFS and VxFS being only exceptions). The backup software has to either depend on the running application or underlying storage for snapshots.
Advanced databases like MySQL also offer clustering capabilities. MySQL offers shared-nothing clusters using synchronous replication. This helps the databases scale up and support larger & more fault tolerant production environments.
File systems still don't support this option. The only exceptions are Veritas CFS and GFS (Open Source).
Replication is a commodity with databases and forms the basis for disaster-recovery plans. File-systems still have to evolve to handle it.
Relational View of Data
File systems store files and other objects only as a stream of bytes, and have little or no information about the data stored in the files. Such file systems also provide only a single way of organizing the files, namely via directories and file names. The associated attributes are also limited in number, e.g. type, size, author, creation time, etc. This does not help in managing related data, as disparate items do not have any relationships defined.
Databases, on the other hand, offer easy means to relate stored data. It also offers a flexible query language (SQL) to retrieve the data. For example, it is possible to query a database for "contacts of all persons who live in Acapulco and sent emails yesterday", but impossible in the case of a file system.
File systems need to evolve and provide capabilities to relate different data sets. This will help the application writers to make use of native file system capabilities to relate data. A good effort in this direction has been Microsoft WinFS.
The only disadvantage with using the databases as the primary storage option, seems to be the additional cost associated. But, I see no reason why file systems in the future will not borrow features from databases.
Druva inSync uses a proprietary file system to store and index the backed up data. The meta-data for the file system is stored in an embedded MySQL database. The database-driven model was chosen to store additional identifiers with each block – size, hash and time. This helps the file system with:
Block Size: Divide files into variable sized blocks
Data deduplication: Store single copy of duplicate blocks
Temporal File System: Store time information with each block. This enables faster time-based restores.
Find out more about to pros and cons of different architecture models by accessing this report: Choosing the Right Model for Enterprise Backup & Recovery


As you know Short links are useful for microblogging, mobile applications as well as for applications where space or number of characters is a constraint. Many such famous services are available for shortening the URLs and are popularly known as URL shortening services. May be TinyURL is the most famous among them but also goo.gl from Google and t.co from Twitter, bit.ly etc are widely used.
But as you know many such services were short-lived and created ghost URLs where these shortened versions were not redirected to the actual URL as the URL shortening service become non functional. This is a major reason behind linkrot.
Linkrot is a phenomenon, were links on the web might become broken for several reasons. For example if the URL shortener becomes unreachable, the access to the final web resource will become impossible.
To overcome all these limitations rel="shortlink" link attribute can be used to indicates that the hyperlink may be used for space constrained and/or manual entry. The author (Sam Johnston) released this work into the public domain and the rel="shortlink" proposal solves the problem of linkrot. By adding rel="shortlink" to a link in a page indicates that the hyperlink may be used for space constrained and/or manual entry.
You can use the rel="shortlink" attribute of link tag in the HEAD section of an HTML page. See the example below.
WordPress.com has its own URL shortening feature, wp.me. You can easily get shortlinks to your blog posts and pages using this service. You can see the "Get Shortlink button" next to the post/page Permalink when you create a new post or edit an existing post.
"the_shortlink()" WordPress function can be used to display a "URL shortening" link for the current post.
The function "wp_get_shortlink()" on the other hand outputs the complete shortlink for the post.
You can use "the_shortlink()" function as follows.
were "text" is the link text to display, "title" is the tool-tip text displayed with the link and "before" and "after" are the HTML prefix and suffix added to the link.
Please note that by default, the short URL has a format of /?p=1234, and will only appear if pretty permalinks are enabled. See example below.
The " wp_get_shortlink()" is used to get short Link to a post for use in PHP. You can make use of this in your template PHP code.
and "allow_slugs" is to decide whether to allow post slugs in the shortlink.
There are many wordpress plugins available to make this process automatic. For example the Short Link WordPress plugin adds a rel="shortlink" link to each page as well as the corresponding HTTP header.


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Dave's Computer Repair Blog – Why do so few people and small businesses perform backups?
Data recovery is a time consuming and often expensive business. Considering data loss is (mostly) avoidable, we here at Dave's Computers are often left wondering why so many people don't perform backups of their valuable data. We can understand individuals not backing up but we are constantly surprised when small businesses contact us to inquire about data recovery.
We think there are three main reasons why backups are not more widely used.
While we can understand people now knowing how backups work, the information is out there. A quick internet search generates thousands of pages just like this one discussing backups for individuals or small businesses. There are hundreds of YouTube videos showing you how to do it and lots of products out there that can take care of everything for you.
While you can spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a do-it-all data backup solution, you certainly don't have to. A simple USB 3.0 backup drive is enough to get you started and you can buy those for as little as $50.
You begin with a full backup and then incrementally back up your files as you create them. Do it once per day if you're a small business and once per week if you're an individual computer user. Just connect the drive to your main computer and drag and drop files you want backup up onto your drive. That's it!
We get this one a lot. The 'it won't happen to me' scenario. While hard drives are definitely more reliable than ever, they are still sensitive electronic components. They can be affected by a voltage spike, virus, impact or just wear out. Usually it happens without warning and usually at the worst possible time.
If you have important documents or anything you don't want to lose, it is vital that you back up your data. It doesn't have to be expensive and it doesn't have to be complicated. The external drive method above is a perfectly viable way of saving critical data for any individual and some smaller businesses. It only takes a few minutes and could save you a lot of time and money.
If you would like more information on data recovery or backing up your data, contact Dave's Computers in Hillsborough. We will be happy to help!


Professor Hersey is a graduate in medicine from the University of Adelaide and in science from the University of Oxford where he completed a D.Phil in tumor immunology. He has worked closely with the Sydney and Newcastle Melanoma Units on Immunological aspects of melanoma and has been the principal investigator for a randomized trial of adjuvant immunotherapy in Stage 11b,111 melanoma and several trials of dendritic cell vaccines in patients with stage IV melanoma. He is Professor of Melanoma Biology at the University of Sydney, Research Director of the Newcastle Melanoma Unit and Consultant Immunologist to the Melanoma Institute Australia. He is a Member of the International working group on Melanoma and the Global melanoma task force. He has contributed extensively to studies on sensitivity of melanoma cells to apoptosis induced by the immune system and chemotherapy and treatments which sensitize melanoma to therapy. He holds the view that overcoming resistance to cell death pathways in melanoma holds the key to advances in treatment of melanoma. He is joint holder of a National Health and Medical Research Council Program grant for studies on melanoma. He is on the editorial board of a number of international journals and has contributed extensively to melanoma research. Dr Hersey is author of over 260 papers on original research related to melanoma.
Epigenetic targeting of T cell dysfunction ("exhaustion") in patients failing treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors; Hersey P, McGuire H, Shklovskaya E, Gallagher S, Carlino M; Cancer Council New South Wales/Research Grant.
The Sydney University Immunotherapy Hub: Improving the efficacy of Immunotherapy; Palendira U, Britton W, Scolyer R, Long G, O'Toole S, Hersey P; DVC Research/Sydney Research Excellence Initiative 2020 (SREI).
Molecular determinants of risk, progression and treatment response in melanoma; Kefford R, Thompson J, Hersey P, Mann G, Scolyer R, Hayward N, Long G; National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Program Grants.
Overcoming Resistance of Human Melanoma to Systemic Treatments; Hersey P; University of Sydney/Internal Scheme.
BioMark HD High-throughput Real Time & Digital PCR System for the Open Access, Multi-Disciplinary Sydney Cancer Research Core Facility; Richardson D, Scolyer R, Lee C, Halliday G, Murray M, Lay P, Christie M, Kench J, Damian D, Hersey P; Cancer Institute NSW/Equipment Grant.
Molecular determinants of risk, progression and treatment response in melanoma; Hayward N, Hersey P, Kefford R, Kefford R, Thompson J, Hersey P, Mann G, Scolyer R; National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Program Grants.
Immunotherapy of melanoma with dendritic cells; Hersey P, Menzies S, Halliday G; National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Project Grants.
Zalaudek, I., Whiteman, D., Rosendahl, C., Menzies, S., Green, A., Hersey, P., Argenziano, G. (2011). Update on melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy, 11(12), 1829-1832.
Johnstone, D., Gomez Ravetti, M., Moscato, P., Hersey, P., Scott, R., Milward, E. (2009). Metabolic gene expression in advanced melanoma. ASMR NSW State Scientific Meeting, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Milward, E., Johnstone, D., Gomez Ravetti, M., Berretta, R., Hersey, P., Scott, R., Moscato, P. (2009). The relationship between Parkinson's disease and melanoma - insights from microarray analysis of genome-wide gene expression changes in melanoma. ASMR National Scientific Conference, Hobart, TAS, Australia.