It's DC's largest 10K and includes a 3K and kids' fun run as well. It's the only race that takes place on the streets of historic Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, taking runners past the Supreme Court, US Capitol, Library of Congress, Folger Shakespeare Library, RFK Stadium, and Lincoln Park. It benefits a unique DC public school, the Capitol Hill Cluster School, educating over 1,000 children from 3 years old through 8th grade on three separate campuses.
This is the only 10k event to take place entirely within the confines of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. This event benefits the Capitol Hill Cluster School, the proceeds are used to purchase supplies and fund field trips for the children. Race has been run for 35 years! The day also includes a 3K and a kids' fun run.
A WORLD RECORD was set at the Capitol Hill Classic 10K this past Sunday! (Yes, really!) 6-year old Ava Johnson from New Jersey set the 10K world record for her age group with a 47:59 finish! The previous record of 52:08 for 6-year old runners was set by Amber Debu in 2012.
Ava's family was in town from New Jersey to attend a graduation ceremony, and planned on a Sunday race back home, but changed their plans to stay in DC and run in the Classic. "Your race looked like fun and the weather was remarkably cool," said Ava's grandfather, Roger Jackucewicz, about the last minute change of plans. Two adult family members paced Ava for the race, and said she picked up the pace on her own in the last half mile to take the record!
This was the first time Ava had run continuously for a distance longer than a 5K. Running definitely "runs" in the family - Ava's grandfather is a well-known endurance runner, Ava's aunt set a national high school indoor 5K record in the 7th grade, and Ava's mother also competes in road races. We are in awe of Ava's accomplishment, and could not be more thrilled for her!
The USATF-certified course for the 10K starts out in front of Peabody Primary School. Runners head west around the corner of Stanton Park to the U.S. Capitol, turning and passing in its shadow as well as past the U.S. Supreme Court and Library of Congress. After coming back behind the Library of Congress, runners head to the tree canopies along East Capitol Street, passing around Lincoln Park on their way to RFK Stadium. Once past RFK Stadium, runners head onto the Anacosta Riverwalk Trail. After a circle along the trail, runners head back in along East Capitol to return to the finish at Peabody.


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Meet the woman who could move women's college basketball to a more equitable spot
Change is a notoriously slow process and that's only if the powers that be want it in the first place. Hence how the NCAA found itself attempting to weather a blizzard of outcry over inequalities in its basketball tournaments last March.
With one click to her millions of fans, Sedona Prince pushed the first domino that ultimately created an inflection point in all of women's basketball heading into the 2021-22 season. And with games well underway, changes are coming into focus in actionable areas not seen in the past.
"People who are trailblazers in this industry have been fighting these things for 20 years [and] have never made movement," Megan Kahn, the newly named Big Ten vice president of women's basketball, told Yahoo Sports. "And now suddenly in five and six months, we've made significant movement.
"We've never seen this investment, this kind of momentum like what we're seeing right now."
Kahn is the first to hold the position after commissioner Kevin Warren announced the role last month, telling Yahoo Sports it would be "one of the most important hires that I'll make in my tenure." She will report directly to Diana Sabau, the conference's first chief sports officer, and be on equal footing with the VP of men's basketball. Warren said he will also be heavily involved.
Her role is to promote and build Big Ten basketball, and it's a great time to do it. Four Big Ten teams remained in the Associated Press Top 25 this week — three are in the top 10 — following a record-setting number of tournament bids and Sweet 16 spots in 2021.
"The Big Ten is probably the best-kept secret in college basketball right now," Kahn told Yahoo Sports. "I think they traditionally haven't gotten the respect that they deserve."
It will look to prove its dominant conference status on national TV with the Big Ten/ACC Challenge that began Wednesday. In an ESPN doubleheader on Thursday night, No. 12 Michigan plays No. 10 Louisville (7 p.m. ET) and No. 9 Iowa will play Duke (9 p.m. ET). No. 6 Indiana will host No. 2 N.C. State on ESPN2 at 7 p.m. ET.
A record-setting 12 games of the 14-game series will be on linear television, a welcomed change toward equity, but there's more Kahn has keyed in on before officially starting the job.
Big Ten VP focuses solely on women's hoops
Kahn's hiring is itself an investment and a sign of momentum. Most conferences employ a senior executive in charge of men's basketball, but none for women's. The sport often falls by the wayside of leaders focused elsewhere, resulting in less guidance and attention. The gender equity report on the 2021 NCAA tournament put into clear terms how detrimental this is to the women's side.
But now, in the Big Ten, women's basketball will have its own sport-specific leader intent on growing the game and in turn lifting the entire sport on a national level.
"They have all the tools in place to be in that upper echelon, they just traditionally aren't there because of just so many different factors with nobody really having the time," Kahn told Yahoo Sports.
The Big Ten is one of, if not the most, competitive conferences in women's college basketball. Maryland, the nation's best offense in 2021, was briefly ranked No. 2 in the AP poll. Iowa sophomore Caitlin Clark is one of the most exciting guards in the game. Michigan's Naz Hillmon is a monster double-double threat night after night. Indiana is on the brink of breaking into the Final Four.
Every conference deserves someone who knows the product intimately in order to boost attention and in turn help the entire sport's growth. Because if not, a 2021 tournament repeat is bound to happen when progress turns into regression.
Megan Kahn's background in Big Ten
Kahn is well-versed in the conference having grown up an Iowa Hawkeye and forging connections throughout the years at youth camps and recruiting. Playing with current Maryland coach Brenda Frese's younger sister is only one of her "fun facts" around the Big Ten.
She's spoken to many of the coaches already as the chief executive officer of WeCOACH, a nonprofit committed to education and professional development for women's coaches, and the host of a podcast with the organization. Her knowledge of the game — its struggles, successes, highlights and lowlights — is deep.
"I have a really solid understanding of the shoes that [coaches are] walking in," Kahn told Yahoo Sports, "and have a lot of great, not only respect for them, but empathy in the pressure and the time commitments and some of those things that go on that not necessarily everyone in the public realizes what it's like to be a head coach."
Not to mention the network of connections she can utilize to uplift the Big Ten specifically with direct contacts like Holly Rowe, Debbie Antonelli and LaChina Robinson at ESPN. Forget to mention a major Big Ten matchup or performance? Kahn is here to be in their ear.
What will progress look like?
Progress has to start internally before it can be seen outwardly, and Kahn said the conference's work in the digital space, where consumers are now ingesting sports, will be a focus.
"There are a lot of things that we can do from a campus perspective [and] a Big Ten women's basketball social media perspective," she told Yahoo Sports. "I think we can engage our teams and do a better job connecting with fans. There is so much that we can do at the tournament itself."
As for the conference tournament, she does have a timeline there. By 2024 she said she believes the Big Ten can sell out the semifinals and championship game.
"There's no reason why Big Ten women's basketball isn't strong enough," she told Yahoo Sports. "We should be able to make that a can't-miss event."
That translates into better TV spots and more attention on sports talk shows. The guiding force behind women's sports, unfair as it may seem, is still that those inside the game have to force others to have no choice but to notice it.
Kahn fairly cautioned that any significant progress will take a while.
"The three of us are really cognizant to recognize this is a marathon not a sprint," she said of herself, Warren and Sabau.
She's focused on building a culture and fostering relationships with coaches who have been asking for change longer than some of their players have been alive. More movement will come.
"If you talk about what's going to happen between now and March, yeah, we'll see some progress," Kahn told Yahoo Sports. "But if you talk about what's going to happen between now and December 2022, I think we'll see significant change."
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W Virginis (W Vir / HD 116802 / HIP 65531) es el nombre de una estrella variable en la constelación de Virgo que se encuentra a más de 11.000 años luz del sistema solar. Fue descubierta por el astrónomo Eduard Schönfeld en 1866.

W Virginis es una estrella gigante amarilla pulsante y el arquetipo de un tipo de estrellas llamadas cefeidas de Población II o variables W Virginis. Las capas exteriores de la atmósfera de W Virginis se expanden y contraen en un período de 17,2736 días, período que se ha ido alargando a lo largo de los últimos 100 años de observación. La pulsación provoca una variación de 1,2 magnitudes en su brillo ya que aumenta su tamaño al doble durante el ciclo.

Al igual que otras cefeidas, las variables W Virginis también muestran una relación directa entre su período de variación y su luminosidad, pero la relación es diferente a las cefeidas clásicas, tales como δ Cephei o Mekbuda (ζ Geminorum). W Virginis, máximo exponente del tipo de variables que lleva su nombre, es una estrella más pequeña que las cefeidas clásicas —se piensa que su masa puede ser menor que la del Sol— y, como estrella de Población II, una de las más viejas de la Vía Láctea.

Véase también
 Lista de estrellas variables
 Estrella variable W Virginis

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Constelación de Virgo

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Hong Kong's new top judge urges impartiality in courts
By Zen Soo, The Associated Press on January 11, 2021.
Hong Kong's new top judge warned Monday that the semiautonomous Chinese territory's courts need to show they are impartial amid a flurry of politically charged cases or risk losing public trust.
Hong Kong has been in a state of political crisis after months of antigovernment protests in 2019 led to Beijing imposing a national security law on the city to quash dissent. Pro-democracy supporters have decried the security legislation as authorities suppressing the freedoms Hong Kong was promised when it was handed over from British control in 1997.
Last week, 55 pro-democracy activists were arrested in a sweeping police operation, and prominent pro-democracy activists such as Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and outspoken media tycoon Jimmy Lai are currently in jail for their activism.
Hong Kong Chief Justice Andrew Cheung, who was sworn in on Monday, said that judges in the city's courts must be careful with the appearance of impartiality in terms of what they say in court or what they write in their judgments, especially in cases with a political nature.
"Any lapses in this regard, given the potentially polarizing nature of these cases, could lead to suspicion of partiality, which is not conducive to maintaining public confidence in our judicial system," Cheung said in his first speech delivered as chief justice.
He said that it is equally crucial to the public and business community that there is confidence in the judicial system. Cheung also said that it is important to the international reputation of Hong Kong that the city is governed by the rule of law under the so-called "one country, two systems" framework that allows Hong Kong freedoms not found in mainland China.
Cheung also condemned threats of violence and doxxing attacks on judges, describing them as futile and reprehensible.
"Comments and criticisms, sometimes extreme and harsh ones, are unavoidable. Whilst the freedom of speech of everyone in society must be fully respected, there must not be any attempt to exert improper pressure on the judges in the discharge of their judicial functions," he said.
Cheung said that while there is a system in place to ensure the accountability of judges in Hong Kong, "there is room for further enhancement of the transparency and accountability" of the complaint-handling mechanism.


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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on George Floyd protests: Black Americans have been playing catch-up economically since the Civil War
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Anger over the May 25 killing of George Floyd has coincided with "the slimy underbelly of institutional racism" being exposed by the coronavirus, wrote NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in a recent L.A. Times op-ed. The recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA's all time leading scorer, six-time NBA champion, and only six-time MVP.
"I just tried to point out to Americans what they were watching when they saw all of the unrest," Abdul-Jabbar said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. "People pushed to the edge, people who have no voice, no power, no economic power."
"They just are tired of dealing with the system, that it often times ends up killing them. The police forces kill black Americans at an inordinate rate and it has to do with racism," he said.
Racism, however, is not confined to acts of police brutality and the unjustified deadly use of force against African-Americans as seen in the case of Eric Garner who died in a police chokehold or George Floyd who drew his last breath as a cop's knee pressed into his throat.
Philonise Floyd, a brother of George Floyd, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on proposed changes to police practices and accountability on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 10, 2020, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
Economists have pointed out that black workers suffer from a first fired, last hired phenomenon. In the midst of the pandemic, the overall official unemployment rate fell from 14.7% in April to 13.3% in May. However, the unemployment rate for black workers rose from 16.7% in April to 16.8% during that same time period.
"History speaks to us. Black Americans starting out as having nothing other than the clothes on their back at the end of the Civil War. We've been playing catch-up economically ever since then and have never caught up," said Abdul-Jabbar, who is the author of 16 books.
Corporate America has made headlines by donating millions of dollars to organizations fighting racial injustice. Abdul-Jabbar says companies also have a role to play in addressing racial income inequality in America's workplaces.
"For some reason, they have woken up to the fact that certain segments of our society need a cash injection to get rolling, hey, that's a start," he said. "We have to start figuring out who needs help and giving them the aid that they can use to succeed."
Protesters rally Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Mesa, Ariz. demanding police reform. The protest was prompted by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers May 25. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Addressing income inequality requires ensuring a living wage for black workers, says Abdul-Jabbar. While some states like New York and New Jersey have passed $15-an-hour minimum wage laws, the federal minimum wage still stands at $7.25.
The living wage amount for workers should be determined "not in numbers, but in results," says Abdul-Jabbar. "People being able to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table and send their kids to school. You know, the bare minimum that gets you ahead. I don't think that is unobtainable. That should be possible."
Education is a key to closing the racial income gap.
"The jobs that black Americans end up getting tend to be less glamorous, pay less, not much future in them," Abdul-Jabbar says. "And that is a consistent factor in the status that blacks have economically in our country. All of that affects the bottom line and our bottom line is a lot worse than white Americans." Black workers earn 82.4 cents for every dollar their white counterparts are paid.
Corporate America has a critical role to play. "If you have a ninth grade education, you can't participate except at a very low level. We have to recognize that and figure out a way to train people so that they can be productive. That is a valid goal and these corporations can go a long way to seeing that those gaps are filled with those types of people," he says.
Victor Contreras, an 11th grader at Citrus Hill High School, in Riverside County, explains his school's project to grow affordable produce using hydroponics and aquaculture to basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar during an education seminar in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Abdul-Jabbar founded the Skyhook Foundation in 2009 in an effort to serve underprivileged kids and give them further exposure to science, technology, engineering, and math subjects. "We send kids to camp and they get a [a week of] hands-on experiments with the STEM subjects. They go out, they observe the night sky," he said, "They take samples for water quality. They look at the flora and fauna and make observations and get an idea of just how technology and science are involved in most of the jobs that they want to get in the 21st century."
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I need to say that I wrote this post on Monday....oops I forgot to post!!! Updates are in red!!
And I'm hanging on… By my teeth. Right now I'm not losing and I'm not really gaining. Well on my official weekly weigh in I lost 3.2 pounds....go figure!!! I just feel like I'm in no mans land. I feel like I'm spinning my wheels and I don't have the energy the time or anything that I need in order to get where I want to go. I know I've talked about the issues before so I'm not going to going to detail. I'm just going to say time is at a premium in my life right now and I don't have a lot of it to spare.
The other weekend we stopped and got the most wonderful delicious donuts. I swear each one weighed a pound, I kid you not. I managed to maintain my weight for the next weigh in. Yes I was surprised considering I ate two of these huge donuts. But another problem came up shortly after that weekend.
I've talked about it on here for over the years. At certain points in my weight journey my stomach rubs the buttons and the waistband on my pants and it gets rubbed raw. Well not exactly raw it just gets a really sore and looks painful. It is painful. Over the years I just learned to get big Band-Aids and cover the spot while I'm in that weight range / body shape timeframe. So after the donut weekend, a.k.a. last week; this happened. On Thursday I pulled out the big Band-Aids and plopped one on my skin. On Friday morning as I took a shower I noticed the Band-Aid was still there so I ripped it off. And I ripped a nice size patch of my skin off. Can I say ouch? I bandaged it and went on to work and had dealt with it. But let me tell you that's motivation! What's bigger motivation? Having to explain to your boyfriend who you love with all your heart that you're fat rubs and causes wounds! Embarrassing!!!
So here I sit bandaged up, carefully. And I'm tired of being this weight. It's got a change. For more reasons than what I just talked about also. I want to be healthy and hike. I want to be healthy and be able to ride my bike for longer periods. I want to be healthy and live a long time with Jason. I want to live my life to the fullest.
I've come up with some ideas. Number one involves Siri on my phone. I am dictating my blog post while I drive home today. In this way I will only have to read it over and edit it when I get home. I know for me that writing in this blog has a way of keeping me accountable and honest with myself. This is the way that I might be able to continue with this activity that has helped me so much in the past. I don't know if or when or how often I will be able to read other people's blogs but I'm gonna try to pop on when I can.
Accountability with friends. I email Julie weekly! And anyone else who wants accountability!!!
Exercise… This is a biggie! I have been walking at work on my lunches..... but during the week, that's about it!! I actually miss running! But right now it's pitch black when I leave for work and it's dusk or later when I'm getting home. In a perfect world I would be able to wake up an hour earlier and go running then… I however do not feel safe running by myself in the dark at 4 AM in the morning. I had already given up my gym membership and since we plan on moving sometime soon I don't want to pick up another membership in the town I currently live in. My plan that I've been thinking about is to pull out the exercise videos/DVDs that I have stored away. When I was first losing my weight, way back at the beginning of this blog I actually did quite a few exercise videos. Ideally I would like to do then at night but realistically I know that by the time I see Jason and eat dinner that I'm exhausted. So that means if I can't start forcing myself to do it in the evenings I will be waking up an hour earlier in the morning… OK at least a half an hour. Yep this has not segued into real life yet...it's just a glimmer of an idea!
As for the food… Those sweet treats have crept in. The thing that saving me is I typically eat at serving or two of fruit for lunch while I walk around the lake at work so my lunches are really healthy and that is negating the ice cream and or cake and or cookies and or candy that I eat. What can I say other then the sweet treats have to go! I'm not even going to say 100% gone they just need to be severely limited. But boy was that Cinnabon good tonight!!!
It's not the best options but it's what I have to work with right now.
Our weekends are fun. We have been getting a bike rides in most weekends and we both are looking forward to getting back to hiking now that the weather is cooling down.
You're moving in with Jason? Yay!
A long commute is hard, a new job is stressful, living with parents can't be easy, I remember dating someone and living with my parents was not fun! - but you are still being mindful. Sounds like moving with Jason somewhere closer to work will ease a lot of that! So happy for you that things are going well with the 2 of you!
Dictating a blog post to Siri is a great idea and I'll bet will help you feel more connected with the blog world, what with having an easier way to post. Good idea!
Happy to hear you're moving in with Jason AND moving closer to work. Commutes are so rough.
I've been thinking of you. I'm glad things are going ok. Sounds like you have a plan. I bet when you move closer to work things will get a lot easier.


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As season six kicks off, USA Network's long-running legal drama, Suits, is turning a new leaf.
The new run of episodes begins with Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) acclimating to his new reality as a prison inmate after the truth about his lack of a law degree surfaces, threatening the livelihood of the firm, Pearson Specter Litt, and those who kept quiet about his secret -- most notably Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht).
All the familiar elements that make Suits what it is still remain, though the new season has its own unique test: striking a balance between Mike's prison storyline with everyone else's at the firm, while still maintaining a connective thread between the two worlds.
"Moving forward, the challenge was to feel like Mike is not completely separate from our characters. That's why we came up with the idea of Mike being in prison with someone that Harvey put away. Obviously Harvey's going to hear about that and find out about it and it's going to involve him in Mike's life," he explained.
Though Mike won't be getting out of prison anytime soon -- Korsh says he'll be behind bars for "a big part of the season" -- there will come a time when he'll find his way out eventually. "I don't think I'll have Mike in prison for two full seasons," he deadpanned.
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With all the rain we've had lately, we have a bumper crop of kumquats. I usually make kumquat marmalade, sometimes with the addition of fresh ginger. Last year I also made a compote which was delicious served at room temperature with labneh. Cut them up, skin and all, removing as many seeds as possible and place in a saucepan. Add a little water and sugar to taste – as if you were stewing apples or rhubarb. Then simmer gently until tender. I also made some preserved/candied kumquats rolled in sugar. Delicious but a lot of work.
This year I thought I would have a go at preserving some in salt, to use the way you use preserved lemons – in couscous, tajines, rice salads and so on. I did some research on Google, found a large jar and here is the result. In the photo you can also see two jars of lemon quarters which were preserved with salt in the same way about two months ago. Adding a little sugar is an optional extra I found in some recipes for preserved kumquats online. I have never used any sugar when preserving lemons, but thought I would give it a try.
Uses for preserved lemons and kumquats: Most recipes say to throw the flesh away and just use the diced skin, but you can use the flesh if you like to add a nice citrus flavour to curries and casseroles. In Vietnam kumquats preserved in this way are used to get rid of a sore throat or cough. Just eat the whole thing!
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You would like to configure iPads to be filtered by Securly for on-site and/or off-site.
Prerequisite: Regardless of which deployment method you choose, all iPads must have the Securly CA installed for SSL inspection to work properly. It is important to know that filtering will still occur even without the certificate deployed, but users will receive certificate warnings in their browser for HTTPS sites that Securly provides SSL inspection (google.com, for example).
The certificate is included as an attachment at the end of this KB. The preferred method for deployment is with your Mobile Device Management (MDM) software. Please see below for our MDM KB links.
PAC file URL Notes by Apple ISO version. If URL is not matched correctly, there may be problems Apps or web browsing.
On-Site Only Solution: If you are successfully using Securly DNS filtering already, all iPads should be covered with that implementation. If you do NOT use the Securly DNS filtering solution, and would only like to filter your iPads on-site, please submit a request to support@securly.com, and jump over to our Best Practices Guide for further assistance.
On-Site and Off-Site Solution: A PAC file that is created by your Sales Engineer is a hard requirement for any off-site iPads. Please reach out to your Sales Engineer by submitting an email to support@securly.com to have this created for you.
Off-Site Only Solution: Inline filtering appliances can conflict with an off-site iPad filtering solution. It is best to have a discussion with an engineer to come up with a design plan that works best for you.
Off-site Filtering Note: It is not recommended to allow iPads to go home without an MDM.
Please follow the above "Prerequisite" section to install the Securly CA certificate. Once that is completed, you will need to configure the iPad to use a PAC file. A PAC file is provided by your Sales Engineer before or during the deployment. If you have not been provided with a PAC file, please reach out to your Sales Engineer by submitting an email to support@securly.com to have one created.


I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called September-October 2013 Table of Contents and is located at http://analytics-magazine.org/september-october-2013-table-of-contents/.
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Q: Invoking inter dependent callouts from a managed package I have a requirement, where I have a scheduled apex which runs every 5 mins and invokes a future method of an apex class. This future method invokes a managed package method for making the callout. So the current logic is that in a for loop for every record I am forming the request and invoking the Managed package method to perform the callout.
The callout gives a response and on the basis of response I have to perform another callout or just move ahead.
Now the problem is that there is DML transaction happening in the Managed package method as confirmed by the client. So while performing the 2nd callout or the callout for next record, I get the System.CalloutException: You have uncommitted work pending. Please commit or rollback before calling out.
What approach can I take achieve this requirement?
Here is the snippet of how logic is written now
Schedule Class -> invokes Apex class method
processRecords()
{
In this there are 3 SObjects maps which are serialized and sent to the future method
}
futureMethod(){
Deserialize the input
for(every record)
{
create the request
invoke the managed package method to perform callout
if response success put data in map for DML in the end after for
loop
if response failure invoke 2nd callout
}
}
In the end perform DML operations.

A: You can create class that implements Queueable and make the last callout in it. So the final logic will be:

*

*Scheduler: serialize data for callout in future method

*Future(Callout=true): run first callout group, save data from responses (which is needed) for queue

*Queueable class implements System.Queueable, Database.AllowsCallouts: run second callout group, make DML

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UBTECH Robotics Inc. is a manufacturer of robots based in Los Angeles, California.

History
Ubtech was founded in 2012 by James Zhou. Ubtech specializes in humanoid robots. Ubtech exhibited at IFA Berlin in 2017 and showed its latest innovations.

In 2018, the Italian mobile communications provider Telecom Italia Mobile set a Guinness world record for simultaneous dance for robots with 1,372 Alpha S1 robots from Ubtech. The old record was 1,069 robots. In 2020 its robots were used to help medical workers treating COVID-19 patients in Shenzhen.

After a Series-C funding round by Tencent and ICBC it was valued at $5 billion. It was planning an IPO as of 2019.

In December 2021, the company delivered pint-sized robots to 300 pre-schools in Seoul, South Korea.

In January 2022, Ubtech launched a mobile robot that emits UV rays to disinfect. The robot was commercially launched in USA.

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Combine ingredients in a medium saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Allow to simmer until the sugar is dissolved and remove from heat. Allow syrup to cool completely before storing in an airtight container. Mason jars work well. Keep refrigerated. Stores for about a week.
Combine 3 tablespoons lemon juice and 3 tablespoons syrup. Top with soda water. Viola!
NOTE: to make single servings, it is equal parts juice and syrup, topped with soda water.
I love that you combined lemon and lavender, so creative!
Fancy straws makes everything even better!
I'll have to try this!
I hope you do Allison, it's yummy!
Yum! I'm going to make all of your picnic food when it actually gets warm enough here for a picnic…come on spring!
I love this idea, can't wait to try it.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it, it's so refreshing!
I love lavender in cold drinks. I usually make a lavender syrup to use it in iced tea. I have to give this a go.
Hmmmm, I can't remember exactly. I sort of hoard them from various locations but Shop Sweet Lulu has a great selection online, as does Papersource.
I just discovered your blog via Joy the Baker and I have to say, I love it! I've pinned just about every recipe I've read so far – they're all so delicious, and so beautifully styled! Hi from Australia!


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Q: Stop Dracut from asking for a password I have a device I've encrypted with luks1 and I decrypt it with a script in init.d. (Centos 6, no keyscript in crypttab). Its a raid disk, with the encryption under the raid, but I don't think that matters.
The lsblk looks like:
sda                                   8:0    0 238.5G  0 disk
└─md127                               9:127  0 476.7G  0 raid0
  └─luksmap1 (dm-15)                253:15   0 476.7G  0 crypt /data11
sdb                                   8:16   0 238.5G  0 disk
└─md127                               9:127  0 476.7G  0 raid0
  └─luksmap1 (dm-15)                253:15   0 476.7G  0 crypt /data1

The problem is that dracut finds it during boot and asks for a password. I need to be able reboot this without being physically present.
It's set to noauto in fstab. I've told dracut not to load /etc/mdadm.conf. cryptab is empty.
How do I tell dracut not to look for ask for the password? Or timeout after waiting a bit? Or just keep going if there's no keyboard present?

A: To completely prevent dracut from scanning for LUKS devices, add the following to your kernel command line:
rd.luks=0

If you want to only decrypt specific disks (e.g. I wanted it to decrypt the root partition, but not other encrypted disks), you should instead add
rd.luks.uuid=<DISK_UUID_HERE>

once per encrypted disk and not add rd.luks=0. You can find the UUIDs for disks with lsblk -o +uuid.
More on the options can be found in the manpage dracut.cmdline(7).


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A brief summary of Oregon's recreational cannabis laws | Kight on Cannabis
A brief summary of Oregon's recreational cannabis laws
June 11, 2015 Kight On Cannabis
Oregon is rolling out a cannabis information campaign.
Oregon goes live with cannabis on July 1 per Measure 91. Click here for a link to a summary of the laws. Here is a short FAQ from the Oregon Liquor Control Board:
Q: When can I smoke/use recreational marijuana?
A: Starting July 1, 2015, Measure 91 allows Oregonians to grow up to four plants on their property, possess up to eight ounces of usable marijuana in their homes and up to one ounce on their person. Recreational marijuana cannot be sold or smoked in public. Until then, current marijuana laws in Oregon remain in place. Measure 91 requires OLCC to begin accepting license applications by January 4, 2016 for commercial growers, processors, wholesalers and retailers.
Q: Where and when can I buy marijuana?
A: Marijuana will be available for purchase through retail stores licensed by the OLCC sometime in the third quarter of 2016.
Q: Where and when can I buy edibles and extracts?
A: The OLCC has made the decision to take extra time to make sure that it gets the availability of edibles and extracts right. They will eventually be available at retail outlets licensed by the OLCC, but probably not at the same time that the stores are expected to open in the third quarter of 2016.
Q: How much marijuana can I have?
A: Beginning July 1, 2015, recreational marijuana users can possess up to eight ounces of useable marijuana and four plants per residence in Oregon. An individual can carry up to one ounce in public, but smoking using marijuana in public is prohibited.
Q: What is meant by "useable" marijuana?
A: Useable marijuana refers to dried marijuana flowers or leaves. In other words, marijuana that is ready to smoke.
Q: Can I grow marijuana at home and when?
A: Yes, with limits. The act allows home grow of up to four plants per residence beginning July 1, 2015, regardless of how many people live in the residence. Four adults in one residence does not mean 16 plants. The limit is four per residence.
Q: Where can I obtain marijuana seeds or starts after July 1, 2015?
A: The OLCC can provide no guidance on that issue.
Q. Can a landlord tell tenants not to grow recreational marijuana or smoke it rental units?
A. Measure 91 does not affect existing landlord/tenant laws.
Q: What if an employer requires drug testing?
A: Measure 91 does not affect existing employment law. Employers who require drug testing can continue to do so.
Q: Can I smoke marijuana in a bar/restaurant?
A: No. Marijuana cannot be smoked or used in a public place.
Q: What is the definition of a public place?
A: Measure 91 defines a public place as "a place to which the general public has access and includes, but is not limited to, hallways, lobbies, and other parts of apartment houses and hotels not constituting rooms or apartments designed for actual residence, and highways, streets, schools, places of amusement, parks, playgrounds and premises used in connection with public passenger transportation."
Q: Who can smoke recreational marijuana? What is the minimum age?
A: As of July 1, 2015, anyone 21 years of age and old and consume recreational marijuana in Oregon. Marijuana use or possession of recreational marijuana by anyone under 21 years of age is illegal. That includes home consumption.
Q: Who will enforce recreational marijuana laws?
A: Enforcement of the home grow/personal possession provisions of Measure 91 will be at the discretion of local jurisdictions, the state police and possibly other law enforcement agencies. The OLCC is responsible for enforcement actions against businesses that the OLCC licenses to grow, process, wholesale and sell recreational marijuana and related products.
Q: How much will recreational marijuana cost?
A: The retail price of recreational marijuana will be determined through a competitive marketplace.
Q: Can Oregon recreational marijuana be taken to the state of Washington where it is also legal?
A: No. Taking marijuana across state lines is a federal offense.
Q: How will children be protected from recreational marijuana and marijuana products?
A: Measure 91 prohibits the sale of recreational marijuana to anyone under the age of 21. The act also gives OLCC authority to regulate or prohibit advertising. In writing the rules necessary to implement the new law, the OLCC may also regulate packages and labels to ensure public safety and prevent appeal to minors.
Q: Can I get a DUII while under the influence of marijuana?
A: Yes. Current laws for DUII have not changed. Driving under the influence of intoxicants (DUII) refers to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated or drugged, including impairment from the use of marijuana. In addition, Measure 91 requires OLCC to examine, research and present a report to the Legislature on driving under the influence of marijuana. The OLCC will do this in conjunction with the Department of Justice Criminal Investigation Division and Oregon State Police.
Q: Can I lose my job for using marijuana?
A: Passage of measure 91 does not change existing employment law in Oregon.
Q: Where will marijuana stores be located?
A: Measure 91 does not address siting requirements. Where to locateLocation of commercial recreational marijuana businesses will be determined by legislative action, location local action or through the OLCC rule-making process. To keep up to date, click here.
Q: Who collects the tax on recreational marijuana?
A: Under the provisions of Measure 91, the OLCC is required to collect the tax on recreational marijuana at the grower level.
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Q: How does a magnetic field "push" charges? I was under the assumption that a magnetic field acts similar to that of the normal force in mechanics; both affect the path of the object, but do no work. So now suppose that we have a rectangular circuit with the left side in an uniform magnetic field that is pointing towards the computer screen and the right side being moved at a velocity $v$ Since the whole circuit is moving with a velocity $v$ there is a magnetic force perpendicular to $v$, but still in the direction of the wire. Therefore the magnetic field pushes the charges along. If we assume the charges to be that of protons and electrons, the magnetic field will separate electrons from protons and cause current to flow. My confusion is on the very fact that the magnetic field is causing the current to flow. I simply thought the magnetic field would change the direction of current flow. How can this be?

A: Magnetism arises from the continuous movement or spin of electric charges. Therefore magnetism does affect electric charges not only of direction but also pulling them to move the same way the electrons causing the magnetic field are and mostly to spin the same way.

A: Without the magnetic field the velocity of electrons is v. When the magnetic field is on, the velocity of electrons is v + u.
Velocity and kinetic energy of electrons increases when the wire enters magnetic field. The source of that energy is the force that pushes the electrons to the direction of the velocity vector v.
Electrons in a magnetic field would move around in a circle whose center is at rest relative to to the magnet. But in this case electrons are trapped in a tube that keeps moving on. That tube pushes the electrons in addition to the magnetic field that pushes the electrons to direction perpendicular to vector v + u .


Megumi Shauna Arai is a biracial Japanese and Jewish multidisciplinary artist working in photography, performance and the reinterpretation of craft and tradition into a contemporary conceptual context. Her work draws on themes of identity, isolation, the idea of freedom and contradiction. She has shown in Seattle, Portland, NYC, Indianapolis and soon Los Angeles. She traveled to Shikoku, Japan for an intensive workshop/residency in traditional papermaking in 2015. She was an Artist in Residence at the Photographic Center Northwest in 2016 and currently preparing for an upcoming show at the Wing Luke Museum in 2018.
Your background is in photography, but your practice has expanded over the years to cross multiple mediums, including textiles, etc. Do you define your practice by a specific medium?
I identify with the term "artist." My first language is photography, but I love the idea of being multilingual. I firmly believe that the most interesting occurrences happen when things collide/mix/intersect.
Tell me a bit about the importance of performance in your work.
Recent work of mine has included photographs created in junction with a durational performance. A photograph freezes a fleeting moment. I love photography, but I continually fight against the capture, what feels stagnant and dead. It's a continual theme for me, being in love with something and equally wanting more. Feeling restless and questioning the very essence that makes a discipline feeds my creativity. My answer is to work in between mediums. It goes back to the whole hybrid/intersecting thing.
You often acknowledge the impact your dual cultural identity has had on your work/practice. Can you speak a bit about this?
Much of how we view the world has to do with the way we grew up, how we assimilate or resist, each individual's particular concoction of nature and nurture. My mixed race and cultural identity is an essential part of my person. Growing up it determined where we lived, the number of times we moved, how we ate, what we spoke, how my family dispersed, what we lost and what we gained. In my work, Osore (2015), I investigate these themes of mixed identity, the trained chameleon, ideas of choice and control. I am interested in the question, what does it mean to truly be free?
One thing I appreciate about the Seattle art/photo scene is its interconnected, supportive nature. How has this impacted your work and the way you think about making art?
Seattle has provided a wonderful home for me as an artist. There is a sense of openness and curiosity in the community that welcomes a self-taught artist like myself. I have great mentors that push me as a professional and support me as an individual. I wish for a more diverse population, but we are around if you look.
You recently participated in a few residencies. Did this change how you think about making work? If so, how?
Yes. Like my residency hopping English artist friend Lucy says, "Once you catch the residency bug there is no going back". There are so many types, but the luxury of concentrated work time, travel, collaborating with fellow artists and studying unique skills with master's in whatever combination is beyond fulfilling. I love the idea of being fully immersed and creating work based on that experience. I structure residencies based on the work I hope to make, similar to the idea of field research.
You often work with brands, and do quite a bit of commercial work in addition to your personal practice. Do you see these as independent entities? / If not, how do they interact/ influence each other?
When I shoot commercially, I am providing a service for a client. My art practice is driven by my curiosity, self-generated questions and recurring themes. The continuity between the two are me and my vision.
When we worked on RIFFS together, collaboration was becoming a larger part of your practice. Is this still the case?
I want it to be! You, reading this, do you want to collaborate?! Get at me!


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Q4 - ____ us the story again!
Q5 - I'm afraid I can't ____ for sure but I think it's OK.
Q6 - I dare ____ things will turn out fine.
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Q10 - Did the joke he ____ make you laugh?
Q11 - Could you ____ me the right time, please?
Q12 - What did she just ____?
Q13 - She ____ she wasn't coming.
Q14 - Who do you think is ____ the truth?
Q15 - I ____ them not to do it.
Q16 - I ____ her a lie.


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on sunday my brother and i took his two sons fishing. we didnt know that they were going to go out there and show up their old man and uncle. they both caught bigger bass than we did! mason caught the largest bass of the day and connor caught the second largest. all in all we got six keepers and had a small fish fry that night. the kids seemed to have a good time and you know dustin and i did.
on our last hunt richard ran into this not so friendly snake. he was walking along the pond trying to jump a duck. i had seen two others earlier that morning but had let them go. dustin shot this one proclaiming he had saved a future someone's or cow's life. maybe so!! it does make me rethink all the wading around i had done in that pond. if you look close u will see there is no head left.
saturday we went out to a small pond in haines city for our final hunt of the season. it was a great final hunt. we shot 9 ring necks (ring bills as many folks call them because the ring around their bill is much more prominent than the one around there neck) and 1 hooded merganser drake. dustin got the hoodie with the last shot of the season, which is fitting because he has wanted to get one since we started hunting this year. we all had a blast (literally) and we cant wait till the start of next years season.
this is a lesser scaup or blue bill as most call it. it was taken on crooked lake two saturdays ago, which was the windiest day of the year. my brother, richard and i got stuck on the lake for about four hours longer than we had planned because of the waves. while we were waiting for the wind to die down, which it never did, we got a few of these bluebills.
my brother and i are heading out tomorrow morning for another day on crooked lake. wish us luck, i think ive found a wood duck flyway so hopefully we will bring home a couple of woodies.


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Asahi Europe & International Collaborates with Tech Mahindra to Lead Their #digital Transformation Programme
Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Asahi Europe & International (an Asahi Group Holdings company), to lead an enterprise-wide IT modernisation programme.
Asahi's IT modernisation programme, in partnership with Tech Mahindra, will focus on rationalising and standardising services to its various business lines covering over 10,000 employees in 16 countries spread across four continents. The strategic project will improve Asahi's global operations by fully migrating the organisation's applications to the cloud, upgrading to a modern IT infrastructure and consolidating vendors.
Vikram Nair, President, EMEA Business, Tech Mahindra says, "We are happy to announce our association with Asahi Europe & International. We believe that combining our deep technology expertise with a passion for digitally empowering businesses will enable Asahi to deliver on its ambitious roadmap. In fact, we are confident that this long-term partnership could influence the future direction of the global food and beverage industry."
The partnership will provide Asahi with cloud-first and interoperable IT infrastructure operations. Tech Mahindra will provide various services including infrastructure and service desk operations, device-as-a-service, software infrastructure asset management (SIAM), cloud migration and application modernisation. This five-year engagement will modernise Asahi's digital core by centralising business processes and powering them with modern technologies to achieve maximum efficiencies, helping to optimise business growth.
Reto-Urs Sahli – Chief Information Officer, Asahi Europe & International, says, "The creation of an eco-system partnership with Tech Mahindra is a key milestone in our efforts to transforming our IT landscape and our way of providing technology services to the organisation. We are excited to jointly unlock the opportunities in innovation, automation, and operations excellence that this partnership will bring. The cultures and values of the two companies are matching nicely and is a very promising recipe for success."
Tech Mahindra's strategic partnership with Asahi marks a new milestone in the organisation's development and will expand its footprint across multiple European countries.
As part of the NXT.NOW™ framework, Tech Mahindra aims to enhance human centric experiences for businesses. This means focusing on investing in emerging technologies and solutions that enable digital transformation to better meet the evolving needs of its customers through our DigitALL framework.
Connect with us on www.techmahindra.com
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For more information on Tech Mahindra, please contact:
Abhilasha Gupta, Global Corporate Communications and Public Affairs
Email: Abhilasha.Gupta@TechMahindra.commedia.relations@techmahindra.com


To kick things off we have 6 guests to announce! Joining us for Izumicon 2015 is Johnny Yong Bosch (Ichigo Kurasaki, Vash the Stampede) and his band Eyeshine, Caitlin Glass the voice of Haruhi in Host Club, and Winry in Full Metal Alchemist, Tyson Rinehart Voice Actor the voice of Daru in Steins;Gate, and Georg in Eureka, Jad Saxton the voice of Carla in Fairy Tail, and Perrine in Strike Witches, Leah Clark the voice of Blair in Soul Eater, and Coby in One Piece!
We aren't stopping there though, Hatsune Miku and other vocaloids will be returning to Izumicon 2015!


The North American Trail Ride Conference (NATRC) is offering free 2016 memberships to people who have never been NATRC members.
As a nonprofit educational and distance competitive-trail-ride-sanctioning organization, NATRC education takes on many forms. One of these is the direct feedback to competitors of scores and comments on their veterinary and horsemanship scorecards, which each rider receives at the close of a ride competition.
Other resources include clinics, a new competitor section on the website, mentoring new competitors, informative articles in regional and national newsletters, an introductory video, social media, and the soon to be published second edition of the NATRC Rider's Manual, A Complete Guide to Competitive Trail Riding.
For more information on the free membership offer, visit www.natrc.org.


The Foundist is the place for all things discovered—random news, celebrity happenings, real world stories, useful guides, and practical reviews. If it's dug up on the web, it's displayed here.
Email your best finds to thefoundistsite@gmail.com.


Welsh indie slacker/garage rock band Los Blancos is set to drop a double A-side via Libertino Records.
Welsh indie slacker/garage rock is alive and kickin' in the form of Cardiff-based band Los Blancos, with core members Osian (guitar, vocals), Gwyn (guitar, vocals), Dewi (bass, vocals), and Emyr (drums) delivering gritty and dynamic to reflective and melodic tunes.
Los Blancos' latest release is the double A-side of "Cadw Fi Lan" and "Ti Di Newid".
"Cadw Fi Lan" is the calmer of the two tracks, featuring a laid-back beat and silky guitar flow. Languorous vocals roll out in the Welsh language (buttery Scottish-like curls but with less pointed emphasis), following the stream of twangy and reverb guitar and cymbals shimmer.
The smoldering "Ti Di Newid" adds indie rock guitar grime to the mix and sing-talking vocals on the verses. The chorus sections lift off with a richer sound and exclaimed vocals that only build higher as the song chugs along, until ultimately blazing out with a dynamic ending.
Los Blancos' influences for these two songs include the Velvet Underground, The Replacements, and early Y Cyrrff. The band is planning on releasing their long-awaited debut album before the summer season.
"Cadw Fi Lan" and "Ti Di Newid" will drop on February 8th via premier Welsh music label Libertino Records.


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Bezwada's crusade against manual scavenging
Wilson Bezwada
Harpreet Singh
NEW DELHI: As a child in Karnataka's Kolar district area when he discovered his parents did manual scavenging for a living he wanted to commit suicide. However, better sense prevailed and Bezwada Wilson educated himself and got transformed into a crusader against this evil practice, getting a law against such scavenging passed in 1993. Bezwada Wilson's Safai Karmachari Andolan would take a crowd of former manual scavengers, mostly women, to demolish dry latrines wherever they could find them. The resulting hullabaloo around the demolition would help Wilson spread awareness about the law against manual scavenging thus bringing down the numbers of manual scavenging from lakhs to a few thousand.
In 2016 Bezwada was honored with Ramon Magsaysay award. Recently invited to deliver the 20th D. S. Borker Memorial Lecture by its Foundation in New Delhi, Bezwada narrated how in school fellow students would address him as thotti (a local word for the menial caste in India). When he would ask his parents what it meant, they would pass it off with some explanation or the other. Finally, the day he discovered what his parents did for a living and the understanding of the reality dawned upon him, he said, he was shocked and wanted to die.
Born in 1966 to a family of 'untouchables', as he said, his parents and his elder siblings were all working with manual scavenging jobs. His parents had hidden this from him and wanted to educate him so that he would not have to endure what they had their whole life.
Unable to sleep all night and in turmoil with the existing practice of humans having to clean the latrines of other humans, manually without equipment or machines, and being treated so, he wept alone inconsolably and as the sun rose in the morning, instead of wanting to die, he said he decided to leave his home with the resolve to fight for the eradication of this inhuman and completely abnormal practice still seen as normal in Indian society.
Bezwada Wilson became a full time activist and then one of the founders of Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA), a human rights organization campaigning for the total eradication of manual scavenging, which has now been illegal in India since a 1993 Act of law. Yet, he reminded that the practice has not ended. There are 1.6 million women still working as manual scavengers and the local officers conveniently turn a blind eye.
He says he only hears Dalits talking about untouchability in public, while all others close their eyes to the subject. Even 71 years after independence, he said, residential areas in villages still continue to be divided on caste lines. He feels this is not only a matter of shame for our country rather a global shame for humanity.
Why he questioned, if we as a Nation can spend our energies and money on sending satellites into outer space, our scientists still haven't innovated technologies, say for cleaning of sewers, in which manual scavengers die each year because they are expected to clean them physically, at times even without the most basic equipment and safety, because it is considered to be 'their' job.
Bezwada Wilson continues to devote his life along with his colleagues of the SKA to campaign for the complete eradication of manual scavenging by raising awareness rallies, advocating for dignified rehabilitation of these workers and filing petitions in courts of law for specific cases including the Supreme Court where petitions are pending since field in 2003.
He ended by saying his vision of India 2047 can therefore only be – No discrimination; No hunger; No poverty and No hierarchy.
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One of the best aspects of the Disney Disney Dining Plan are the meal credits.
Every dining plan offers a certain number of credits per the duration of a Disney vacation.
With each table service credit, you're basically paying $30.
However, when you're dining at certain restaurants, your table service meal can run an upwards of $55 but still only count as one credit.
So technically, you're saving money by using table service credits at particular restaurants.
It's pretty awesome hack if you ask me!
Below, you'll learn about the best table service restaurants that you can maximize your credits at.
Here are the 10 best one credit Disney World restaurants when you're on the Disney Dining Plan.
All you can eat buffet where servers come around to your table filled with skewers of shrimp, steak, and chicken. And let's not forget about that bread pudding!
Delight in Norwegian cuisine while being visited by Disney princess including Snow White, Cinderella, Belle, Princess Aurora, Ariel, and Mary Poppins.
An all you can eat seafood buffet that screams expensive. However, you can use 1 table service credit!
Enjoy contemporary American food in the presence of Cinderella, Prince Charming, the Evil Stepmother, and the Evil Step Sisters. To maximize your credits, make sure to dine here for dinner and not breakfast.
All you can eat African fare in one of the most popular and highly rated restaurants in Walt Disney World.
Where else can you eat food grown in Epcot's greenhouse, in a restaurant that revolves 360, while also getting visited by Farmer Mickey, Chip 'n Dale, and Pluto.
By far the most popular character meal in Disney World that features the fab five which includes Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Donald, and Goofy.
Eat in the Beasts Castle that features 3 distinct dining rooms such as the West Wing and the main ballroom. I recommend getting the steak which is so tender, you can run a butter knife through it. And of course, try the grey stuff, it's delicious.
Enjoy delicious brick oven Italian pizza made from imported Italian water and ingredients. This restaurant is pretty expensive for what it is so it's really important to use your table service credits here.
Indulge in delicious french cuisine in a restaurant that promotes people watching (something that's widely popular in Paris).
Thanks for reading and hopefully you enjoy at least one of these delicious one disney dining plan credit restaurants.
I do not recommend eating at Be Our Guest. First of all, we had to order and pay from a computer and then had to serve oursleves to drinks. The price we paid I expected to be served. My daughter got a bowl of kids fruit loops for 14.00. The rest of us ordered kids meals as well due to prices higher than park meals. We left hungry. We could ordered 3 Mickey waffles at our Disney room than for the one bowl of cereal at Be Our Guest. We were told Belle and the Beast would be there is main reason for our visit. The characters where not present. I feel highly ripped off. The Beauty and Beast castle was a mini castle and was a huge disappointment to my daughter. We will not be going back.
It sounds like you went there for breakfast… you should've checked before assuming. Beast is only there in the evening. I've not read about Belle being there. You served yourself because it's Quick Service for Breakfast and Lunch, Table Service for dinner (when Beast is there). These things are published.
I LOVED Be Our Guest when we went there! When we hit our 180-day mark for ADRs, that's the first one I'll be trying to get for this year's trip. The lunch really isn't more expensive than several other quick service restaurants. I don't know about breakfast, because we don't do breakfast at a QSR, but the prices are posted on the Disney site.
But the ambiance in the castle is breathtaking. We were lucky enough to get a table in the West Wing. It totally lets you escape to a different world. The other two dining areas are beautiful. Look at the ceiling to see the angels painted on it. You just can't go wrong at this place!
Only restaurant in the list that I can't agree with is Via Napoli. We went there last year and left before even placing our order. It is incredibly loud in there! We had problems even hearing the lady who sat us at our table, it was so loud. My 10 year old had her hands over her ears because the noise was hurting our ears. We were going to ask to be moved to a table outside in hopes it would be quieter, but once the lady who sat us left the table, we sat and waited about 10 minutes for someone to at least come for our drink order. No one ever did, so we left. Won't ever go back there.
Yes please update. We went to Be Our Guest on this recommendation and ended up out of pocket.


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namespace FormatNumber
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Threading.Tasks;

/*Problem 11. Format number

Write a program that reads a number and prints it as a decimal number, hexadecimal number, percentage and in scientific notation.
Format the output aligned right in 15 symbols.*/
    class FormatGivenNumber
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            Console.Write("Please enter an integer: ");
            int number = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

            Console.WriteLine("The number as hexadecimal number: {0}", number.ToString("X")); // or {0:X}
            Console.WriteLine("The number as percentage: {0}", number.ToString("P3")); // or {0:P3}
            Console.WriteLine("The number in scientific notation: {0}", number.ToString("E")); // or {0:E}
            Console.WriteLine("The number as a decimal number: {0}", number.ToString("D")); // or {0:D}
        }
    }
}


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Durach är ett vattendrag i Schweiz.   Det ligger i kantonen Schaffhausen, i den nordöstra delen av landet,  km nordost om huvudstaden Bern.

I omgivningarna runt Durach växer i huvudsak blandskog. Runt Durach är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer.  Inlandsklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juni, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är december, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är juli, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är mars, med  mm nederbörd.

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Vattendrag i Schaffhausen (kanton)