By now we've all heard of the coming flood of network aware devices collectively referred to as the "Internet of Things". While the term encompasses a wide variety of use cases that are not all clearly defined, we can come up with some rudimentary expectations on how this influx of connections will affect networks. For the home gateway, the most significant impact is how to handle an order of magnitude more connections than most are traditionally designed for - how well does it scale?
CDRouter's main feature for testing a gateway's IoT scaling is in its ability to simulate multiple LAN hosts. Here's three areas where scaling could make or break your DUT.
The most common connection in IoT will likely be one or more forms of Wifi. CDRouter's ability to simulate multiple Wifi stations lets you stress the DUT's capability to handle an increasing number of Wifi clients as they come online. This feature can be combined with a number of CDRouter's scaling tests, including DHCP, TCP, IPv6, etc. to see at what point your DUT can no longer handle new Wifi connections, or handle them well.
This is one of the common problems we see in our own lab. Often, a home gateway (even a robust one) will begin to either refuse or drop Wifi clients after as few as 10 clients! Obviously, this isn't good if a user's home network is now going to contain tens or hundreds of Wifi connections.
Even in a world moving towards IPv6, especially in the LAN, DHCP still remains the most common way to bring a host online. CDRouter supports the ability to activate many hosts, each of which will go through the process of requesting an address from the DUT's DHCP server. However, just as a DUT's Wifi AP can have arbitrary or unusual limitations on the number of allowed clients, so can a DUT's ability to support devices that connect via DHCP. CDRouter's scaling test module begins with testing this basic feature to ensure that there are no such limitations or problems. This kind of testing will work for both DHCP and DHCPv6.
When simulating IoT hosts, it is also important to measure the DUT's ability to handle a very large number of connections to the Internet or to other devices on the LAN. The scaling test module will also stress the number of simultaneous TCP connections a gateway can handle, which can become an exponential problem with a large number of connected devices.
IPv6 could be by far the biggest enablers of small connected devices on the LAN, but with it's very, very large address size it can be a demanding environment for a home gateway to handle. As such, it is important to ensure that the same types of scaling problems one would check for on IPv4 can also be checked on IPv6.
CDRouter's IPv6 add-on includes scaling modules similar to those done in the scaling.tcl module for DHCP and IPv4 connections. This includes scaling for hosts connecting via both IPv6 autoconf and DHCPv6, as well as TCP scaling and UDP scaling over IPv6. Since the number of possible clients is very large, it's important to make liberal use of the ipv6MaxLanClients testvar to fine tune your particular use of the scaling tests.
Testing a home gateway for IoT readiness does go beyond scaling, however. Even though bandwidth usage of IoT devices may be low, fundamental protcol interactions passing over or handled by the gateway will mean the difference between services that work and services that don't. It's important to run a full feature set of tests on a gateway, excercising thing such as NAT and DNS, which are very often the cause of interruption for all manner of applications. The IoT world is going to tax all aspects of the home network in ways many CPE are not prepared for.


Marrakesh is a wonderful city filled with beautiful architecture, unbelievably tasty foods, amazing experiences and lovely people. During your time there, cross these items off your Marrakesh bucket list.
1. Stay in a colorful riad.
2. Shop 'til you drop in the medina's souks (markets).
3. Buy beautiful Moroccan rugs, lanterns, ceramics, spices, oils and jewelry.
4. Drink as much of the delicious mint tea as you can.
5. Indulge in their amazing tajines and couscous.
6. Visit the Eiffel Tower of Marrakesh, the Koutoubia Mosque.
7. Stare in awe at the architecture of the Ben Yousef Madrasa.
8. Take a dip in a hammam (Turkish bath) to relax and unwind.
9. Take a camel or ATV ride and spend a magical night in the Sahara Desert.
Moroccans are very kind and the greatest lovers of life.


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Buh-Bye Bad Blues
Progressive Democrats have been picking up momentum as they knock off corrupt corporate Democrats one by one.
"Three years ago, we helped write a report for RootsAction.org targeting 15 corporate Democrats in Congress who deserved to be "primaried." We called the report "Bad Blues." A common reaction back then was that those establishment pols were too strong and entrenched to be defeated.
On Tuesday, yet another "Bad Blue" apparently went down to defeat – with seven-term Congressman Kurt Schrader of Oregon running way behind community activist Jamie McLeod-Skinner in the slowly tallied Democratic primary.
Schrader is not the first "Bad Blue" on our list to face defeat by a progressive challenger. And he's unlikely to be the last.
The incumbent heavily outspent McLeod-Skinner – thanks to lavish funding from big pharma and other corporate PACs – but Schrader was out-organized on the ground. McLeod-Skinner called him "the Joe Manchin of the House."
The current vote count indicates that constituents in that Oregon district will no longer be represented by a Democrat who obstructs progressive initiatives on Capitol Hill, such as drug pricing reform and Build Back Better. (Despite his blockage of Democratic measures, Schrader was endorsed in the primary by Joe Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.)"
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Comments on "Buh-Bye Bad Blues":
by Curt_Anderson on May 19, 2022 11:10 pm
Oregon just got a new congressional district after the last census. Jamie McLeod-Skinner knocked on our door campaigning four years ago when she ran for Congress. She did really well here in progressive Ashland but lost the election because of the rural section of the state to our east. She is in different district now.
The bad news is that she is at a disadvantage in the general election in her conservative district. So the net result might be we lose a conservative Democrat and gain a wingnut Republican Congressperson.
by Donna on May 19, 2022 11:32 pm
Schrader's a Blue Dog. I think it's worth the gamble.
Local Democrats called for him to resign in January 2021, after he compared former President Donald Trump's second impeachment to a "lynching," and lambasted him again a few months later for voting against initial passage of the American Rescue Plan.
Schrader continued to draw ire at home for working to weaken the prescription drug reforms Biden had hoped to include in his domestic agenda. And when Gottheimer led nine House members to decouple infrastructure from Build Back Better, Schrader made the subtext of the move — that the group hoped to kill the Build Back Act entirely — into text by telling a dark-money group that other House Democrats shouldn't "get [their] hopes up that we're going to spend trillions more of our kids' and grandkids' money that we don't really have." Around the same time, he reportedly also called Pelosi "truly a terrible person."
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by HatetheSwamp on May 20, 2022 4:20 am
Donna,
Congrats to all of you. May many more primary victories be yours.
I was listening to that Guy guy, Guy Benson, the gay guy Curt's never heard of...the main man on Fox News Radio, just the other day. He referred to a chat he had with a GOP insider friend who warned him that GOPs shouldn't be over confident about a red wave in 022 because, his friend said, GOPs still could nominate unelectable candidates.
Still, even the Dems know that the deck is stacked against them. From THE HILL:
Congressional Democrats are trailing Republicans on the generic ballot in battleground districts by 8 points, according to internal polling from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
What you're rejoicing in is what the GOPs fear might kill them in the election...
...then in governing.
In purple areas, a candidate Donna loves will lose in November, unless the GOP puts up a crazed, super Ultra MAGA. Then, if you Primary a Blue Dog and win, you'll end up with so many radicals that in Congress, even if you get a majority, that you won't be able to govern...
...which is what happened to the GOP in 010 when so many Tea Party extremists were elected.
So, go for it.
On a much more important point, I've been splaining that the GOPs have become the party of openness and inclusion, that gay guy, Guy Benson being a prime illustration.
You're demonstrating how the Dems are becoming so intolerant and closed. You're supporting the effort to make the Dems 100% woke and progressive.
More power to you.
May the Force be with you!
by Donna on May 20, 2022 7:17 am
You're a member of the party that coddles Nazis!
Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhaahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, yes.
I learned, more than a decade ago, that you're much better than I am...
...and that you only remind me of that when you have no other reply. I so wish that I could be as enlightened as isle and Curt and and po and you but, at my advanced age, obviously, it ain't happnin. Shucks!
Trust me. 010 was a curse wrapped in a blessing for GOPs, having all those extremists from the Tea Party made it virtually impossible for GOPs to govern coherently...and, you're trying to replicate that on the left. You'll make your party so extreme that independents won't be able to relate to it.
Back in 010, at the beginning, I thought the Tea Party was good for the GOPs. Those days are gone.
As I said, may the force be with you!
Here is some good news. The district that McLeod-Skinner apparently won, the 2nd, is competitive but leans Democrat. See map below.
Incidentally, she is a 1985 graduate of Ashland High School.
projects.fivethirtyeight.com
That's encouraging. We still have a long way to go to retain control of the House and Senate though. But it's not bad news.
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An 'imposter Christianity' is threatening American democracy
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I have managed to create my first report with Telerik fairly quickly, after battling for several weeks with SSRS.
Anyway, I am trying to make my report prettier and wanted to enclose certain fields in a box. For the life of me I cannot find such functionality.
Also is it possible to define a default border for my report, where the border matches the border defined by the margins of the report.
You can use Panel items to organize TextBox items - Design Considerations for Report Item Layout.
Borders of items, sections and the whole report can be set through the item's Style object, via conditional formatting or binding. The priority of applying a styles is described in the Style Inheritance and Overriding article.
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Jeremih thanks supporters in first social media post following COVID-19 illness
"THANK GOD I'M STILL HERE"
By Charlotte Krol
Jeremih at the 2019 Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada. Credit: Mindy Small/FilmMagic
Jeremih has posted a thank you message after being hospitalised for coronavirus.
The US singer, who last weekend said he was "overwhelmed with gratitude" in a statement, has now updated his Instagram with a photo of him recovering at home.
"THANK GOD IM STILL HERE , THANK YA'LL FOR THE 🙏🏾 UP #imbackkkk," he captioned the an image of him firstly lying in bed, and secondly getting what looks to be a much-needed trim.
A post shared by Thumpy Johnson (@jeremih)
The R&B artist was admitted to intensive care last month with COVID-19 before being released from ICU on November 21.
Sharing a statement with TMZ, Jeremih said: "First and foremost, I would like to thank God and the incredible team of doctors and nurses at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for saving my life. I will be forever grateful. I would also like to thank my family and friends for all their prayers and well wishes. I'm overwhelmed with gratitude.
Jeremih CREDIT: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
"A special thanks to Chance The Rapper, 50 Cent and Diddy for their love and support. I would like to thank all my fans and people around the world who prayed for me. I'm getting stronger everyday, and look forward to spending time with my sons."
Big Sean and Toni Braxton were also among other stars who shared their support for Jeremih when his condition was first reported.
The 33-year-old contracted a "severe" case of COVID-19, a representative for the singer said last month.
Jeremih's spokesperson said: "The COVID-19 condition he's experiencing is rare for a young man his age without underlying conditions.
"There's no shame in contracting COVID-19, and people that have it need to be responsible and considerate of others. Everyone diagnosed with COVID-19 is affected differently. Unfortunately for Jeremih, COVID-19 viciously attacked his body."


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Antares overlooking an Auxiliary Telescope
30 October 2017: Brilliant blue stars litter the southern sky and the galactic bulge of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, hangs serenely above the horizon in this spectacular shot of ESO's Paranal Observatory. This image was taken atop Cerro Paranal in Chile, home to ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). In the foreground, the open dome of one of the four 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes can be seen. The four Auxiliary Telescopes can be utilised together, to form the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). The plane of the Milky Way is dotted with bright regions of hot gas. The very bright star towards the upper left corner of the frame is Antares — the brightest star in Scorpius and the fifteenth brightest star in the night sky.
ESO Open House Day 2017
23 October 2017: On Saturday 21 October, ESO Headquarters in Garching, Germany, opened its doors for the yearly Open House Day. In conjunction with other facilities based on the science campus in Garching, ESO invited visitors to experience first-hand its work as the world's leading ground-based astronomy organisation. Before the doors had even opened at 11:00, people were waiting outside, eager to experience all the different activities available. In total, a record-breaking 5600 people seized the opportunity to have their questions answered by experienced astronomers and to see what's going on at an organisation at the forefront of astronomical research. The programme included live experiments (like the comet-making experiment here), guided tours, an exhibition on the ESO observatories, talks from ESO scientists, and a live connection to the ESO observatories in Chile. Visitors could also test some of the interactive demonstrations which will be on display in the exhibition of the ESO Supernova ...
Caught in a Dust Trap
16 October 2017: This image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows V1247 Orionis, a young, hot star surrounded by a dynamic ring of gas and dust, known as a circumstellar disc. This disc can be seen here in two parts: a clearly defined central ring of matter and a more delicate crescent structure located further out. The region between the ring and crescent, visible as a dark strip, is thought to be caused by a young planet carving its way through the disc. As the planet orbits around its parent star, its motion creates areas of high pressure on either side of its path, similar to how a ship creates bow waves as it cuts through water. These areas of high pressure could become protective barriers around sites of planet formation; dust particles are trapped within them for millions of years, allowing them the time and space to clump together and ...
A high-tech family portrait
9 October 2017: This family portrait was captured by veteran ESO Photo Ambassador Alexandru Tudorică, and shows all of the telescopes residing at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. Looming over its relatives, ESO's 3.6-metre telescope gleams on the far left of the image. Home to the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument, the 3.6-metre telescope is the world's foremost ground-based planet hunter. ESO's New Technology Telescope (NTT) can be seen on an adjoining peak, easily visible as the next-largest family member. The NTT has been a testbed for pioneering technologies — such as active optics — that are now standard features on telescopes around the world, including ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). The smaller domes of more ESO-operated, collaborative, and decommissioned telescopes can be seen emerging from the mountain terrain, as can the site's main access road, which winds up the sun-bathed mountainside towards the site's various technical and support ...
VLTI Revisits the Largest Yellow Hypergiant Ever Discovered
2 October 2017: It may not look like much, but this blob shows a remarkable star named V766 Centauri (V766 Cen for short) and its close companion. It was first studied and classified a few years ago by researchers using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) when it was found to be something known as a yellow hypergiant, a massive and luminous type of star that is extremely rare — and extremely big! Measuring over 1400 times the diameter of the Sun, V766 Cen was not only the largest star of its type ever discovered, but also one of the ten largest stars ever found. However, a recent study has instead suggested that V766 Cen is likely to be in the phase of life just prior to that of a yellow hypergiant: an evolved red supergiant, which is losing mass so fast that it will eventually transition back into a warmer yellow supergiant ...
Stars and spirals
25 September 2017: This spectacular spiral galaxy, known as NGC 1964, resides approximately 70 million light-years away in the constellation of Lepus (The Hare). NGC 1964 has a bright and dense core. This core sits within a mottled oval disc, which is itself encircled by distinct spiral arms speckled with bright starry regions. The brilliant centre of the galaxy caught the eye of the astronomer William Herschel on the night of 20 November 1784, leading to the galaxy's discovery and subsequent documentation in the New General Catalogue. In addition to containing stars, NGC 1964 lives in a star-sprinkled section of the sky. In this view from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) — an instrument mounted on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, Chile — the star HD 36785 can be seen to the galaxy's immediate right. Above it reside two other prominent stars named HD 36784 and TYC 5928-368-1 — ...
potw1738a — Picture of the Week
The NTT and beyond
18 September 2017: Rising up to block part of the star-studded sky, the New Technology Telescope (NTT) cuts a striking and dramatic figure in this ESO Picture of the Week. Located at ESO's La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert, the NTT was inaugurated in 1989. It was the first ever telescope to have a computer-controlled main mirror. This 3.58-metre mirror is very flexible and its shape can be continuously changed, allowing astronomers to counteract deformations due to external influences such as temperature and mechanical stress mid-observation in order to see the objects as clearly as possible. Complementing the NTT's groundbreaking technology is the innovative design of its housing. Its octagonal dome is relatively small and includes a series of flaps that ventilate the structure with reduced turbulence, allowing air to flow smoothly across the mirror. The dome walls can be opened entirely — as opposed to only opening the roof, as ...
Do-it-yourself Science — is Proxima c hiding in this graph?
11 September 2017: This unusual Picture of the Week showcases the latest data gathered by ESO's exoplanet hunter, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), during the ongoing Red Dots campaign, a search for terrestrial planets around our nearest three red dwarf stars: Proxima Centauri, Barnard's Star, and Ross 154. The campaign was launched earlier in 2017 to build on the 2016 discovery of Proxima b around our nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri. Red Dots is designed as an open notebook science experiment, meaning the public has access to the data and can even contribute observations. Can you see a new exoplanet in these data of Proxima Centauri? By carefully tracing the movement of a star over time, graphs like these can reveal the presence of exoplanets. Just as a star pulls on its orbiting planets using gravity, planets pull on the star, causing the star to wobble and shift the wavelength ...
The VLT's night light
4 September 2017: This image, taken by ESO Photo Ambassador Petr Horálek, captures the moment that Yepun (UT4), one of the four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes comprising ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), shoots a laser beam up into the dark night sky over ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The laser shown in this image acts as an artificial star, known as a Laser Guide Star, and it is used to help astronomers adjust for the blurring and distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere. When observing a patch of sky, astronomers set up a laser guide star nearby and measure the tiny fluctuations in its image. The VLT's adaptive optics system can then use this reference to correct for the changes and distortions in the intervening atmosphere and produce the sharpest images possible in the main observations. Looming over Yepun is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a barred spiral galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. ...
Summer AstroCamp 2017
28 August 2017: From 6 to 20 August this year, AstroCamp 2017 took place at the Centre for Environmental Education and Interpretation of the Corno de Bico Protected Landscape in northern Portugal. AstroCamp is an astronomy-focused summer academic program for secondary students, which aims to bring together students who have different backgrounds and life experiences but a common passion: astronomy. Over the course of two weeks, the students — astronomy enthusiasts aged between 16 and 18 from various European Union countries — attended lectures, had Skype conversations with researchers in different countries, worked on a computational project with data from some of the world's best telescopes, and took part in night-time astronomical observation sessions. Social activities such as hiking, sports, community service activities, and film and documentary sessions also contributed to making the camp a fun and enriching experience. While this camp has been running for several years, it has only recently opened ...
21 August 2017: ESO's new webcams are being enjoyed by people across the world — and it seems the local wildlife can't resist taking a peek either. One of the cameras at Paranal Observatory in Chile recently played host to a cattle egret (a type of heron), which chose to settle on the enclosure of one of the Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) comprising ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) Observatory. Thankfully the AT was dormant, waiting for nightfall to begin observing. The webcams from Apical, which began a 24/7 livestream of the workings of Paranal in late 2016, offer razor-sharp images of the observatory and its surroundings in the serene Atacama Desert. The extreme altitude and arid climate mean that distant mountains can be seen hundreds of kilometres away, while the crystal clear skies create stunning 360-degree panoramic webcam views day and night. It seems the heron was happy with the webcams at Paranal — ...
Lunar Eclipse @ ESO
14 August 2017: During the early evening of 7 August, a partial lunar eclipse was visible in the sky above the ESO Headquarters in Garching bei München, Germany. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth, Moon and Sun are aligned, and the Earth casts a shadow on the Moon. This time, only a small part of the Moon entered the Earth's inner shadow, the umbra, but it still made for a stunning view. While observing from the rooftop of the ESO Headquarters building, ESO Photo Ambassador Petr Horálek captured the eclipse along with spectacular rays from the setting Sun behind him, known as anticrepuscular rays — a union of astronomical and atmospherical phenomena. The Picture of the Week shown here is a compilation of over 50 images of the eclipse, starting from the peak of the eclipse just as the Moon rose above the horizon, to the eclipse's conclusion when the Moon was ...
From the Residencia to the Milky Way
7 August 2017: This image captures the route from the Residencia — the guesthouse for visitors to ESO's Paranal Observatory— to the breathtaking heart of the Milky Way, which covers the entire night sky. The site shown here is Cerro Paranal, home to ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), a telescope comprising four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes. The VLT can also act as an interferometer in the form of the appropriately-named VLT Interferometer, or VLTI, by gathering additional light from four smaller Auxiliary Telescopes, which can be independently moved around and placed in different configurations. One of these Auxiliary Telescopes is shown in this image, gazing at the sky with its dome wide open. The road from the observatory to the Residencia appears as a shining thread, weaving amongst the rocky outcrops and hills of the desert environment. The yellow glow is caused by dim security lights — the street lighting is kept to a ...
Spot the cluster
31 July 2017: This image from the Wide-Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope shows the starry skies around a galaxy cluster named PLCKESZ G286.6-31.3. The cluster itself is difficult to spot initially, but shows up as a subtle clustering of yellowish galaxies near the centre of the frame. PLCKESZ G286.6-31.3 houses up to 1000 galaxies, in addition to large quantities of hot gas and dark matter. As such, the cluster has a total mass of 530 trillion (530 000 000 000 000) times the mass of the Sun. When viewed from Earth, PLCKESZ G286.6-31.3 is seen through the outer fringes of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) — one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies. The LMC hosts over 700 star clusters, in addition to hundreds of thousands of giant and supergiant stars. The majority of the cosmic objects captured in this image are stars and star clusters located inside the LMC. The ...
Seeing double
24 July 2017: Approximately 95 million light-years away, in the southern constellation of Octans (The Octant), lies NGC 7098 — an intriguing spiral galaxy with numerous sets of double features. The first of NGC 7098's double features is a duo of distinct ring-like structures that loop around the galaxy's hazy heart. These are NGC 7098's spiral arms, which have wound themselves around the galaxy's luminous core. This central region hosts a second double feature: a double bar. NGC 7098 has also developed features known as ansae, visible as small, bright streaks at each end of the central region. Ansae are visible areas of overdensity — they commonly take looping, linear, or circular shapes, and can be found at the extremities of planetary ring systems, in nebulous clouds, and, as is the case with NGC 7098, in parts of galaxies that are packed to the brim with stars. This image is formed from data ...
Billions of new neighbours?
17 July 2017: The objects that astronomers call brown dwarfs sit somewhere between the definition of a planet and a star. They are balls of gas with more mass than a planet, but not enough mass to sustain stable hydrogen fusion like a star. Because they hardly emit any visible light, they were only first discovered in 1995 and up until today the majority of known brown dwarfs are within 1500 light-years of us. Now, astronomers using the NACO adaptive optics infrared camera on ESO's Very Large Telescope have observed the star cluster RCW 38 in the constellation Vela (the Sail), about 5500 light-years away. This Picture of the Week shows the central part of RCW 38; the inserts on the sides show a subset of the brown dwarf candidates detected within the cluster. The scientists found half as many brown dwarfs as stars in the cluster. From these results and from studying ...
Hunting stars
10 July 2017: In this scene, one of the most recognisable constellations in the night sky — Orion (The Hunter), with his famous belt and sword — rises over the slumbering Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. This mythical collection of stars sits on the celestial equator, making it visible in both hemispheres. Within Orion itself, the distinctive blue and pink hues of the Orion Nebula are visible just above the stellar trio comprising Orion's Belt. Hundreds of new stars are being forged in the depths of this stellar nursery. Telescopes have observed numerous stars wrapped in cocoons of gas and dust — shrouds that will transform into protoplanetary discs as the turbulent youngsters mature. This image also captures the noticeably reddish colours of Betelgeuse and Aldebaran — giant stars that belong to the constellations of Orion and Taurus (The Bull) respectively. These stars can be seen to ...
The eyes of Atacama
3 July 2017: This picture was taken at the northern tip of the Salar de Atacama — the largest salt flat in Chile. The flat is close to the town of San Pedro de Atacama, a town in northern Chile very popular among Chilean tourists and international visitors. The salt flat is home to two similar freshwater lagoons that lie very close together: the Ojos del Salar, which translates to "Eyes of the Salt Pan". During the day, the site is visited by tourists, who stop by on their excursions from San Pedro de Atacama. Here, one of the two water-filled holes in the middle of the arid landscape is shown at dusk, when the site is again peaceful and quiet. The eye of water perfectly reflects the view of the sky as it changes from day to night. While the clouds on the right horizon are still been dipped in orange by ...
Betelgeuse captured by ALMA
26 June 2017: This orange blob shows the nearby star Betelgeuse, as seen by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This is the first time that ALMA has ever observed the surface of a star and this first attempt has resulted in the highest-resolution image of Betelgeuse available. Betelgeuse is one of the largest stars currently known — with a radius around 1400 times larger than the Sun's in the millimeter continuum. About 600 light-years away in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter), the red supergiant burns brightly, causing it to have only a short life expectancy. The star is just about eight million years old, but is already on the verge of becoming a supernova. When that happens, the resulting explosion will be visible from Earth, even in broad daylight. The star has been observed in many other wavelengths, particularly in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet. Using ESO's Very Large Telescope astronomers ...
Not the mother of meteorites
19 June 2017: The region between Mars and Jupiter is teeming with rocky worlds called asteroids. This asteroid belt is estimated to contain millions of small rocky bodies, and between 1.1 and 1.9 million larger ones spanning over one kilometre across. Small fragments of these bodies often fall to Earth as meteorites. Interestingly, 34% of all meteorites found on Earth are of one particular type: H-chondrites. These are thought to have originated from a common parent body — and one potential suspect is the asteroid 6 Hebe, shown here. Approximately 186 kilometres in diameter and named for the Greek goddess of youth, 6 Hebe was the sixth asteroid ever to be discovered. These images were taken during a study of the mini-world using the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, which aimed to test the idea that 6 Hebe is the source of H-chondrites. Astronomers modelled the spin and 3D shape of ...


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Roslyn Sinclair: Truth and Measure - The Carlisle Series: Book 1
D 2022, 376 pp., brochure, € 19.99
What happens when the world's fiercest fashion editor learns she's pregnant - and her distracting assistant is the only one she can turn to? This wildly popular age-gap lesbian romance mixes humor and chaos with self-discovery. Jules Moretti is newly single, an aspiring writer, and the hyper-competent assistant to the most powerful woman in fashion. It's a tough job, but her ice queen boss won't settle for less than perfection. Vivian Carlisle helms the internationally revered fashion publication »Du Jour«. She might be smack in the middle of a messy divorce, but you have to make sacrifices to be the best. That's what she tells herself, anyway. When the unthinkable happens, Vivian's regimented world is turned upside-down. Her life is about power, success, and dominance - not a baby! This single, shocking moment throws boss and assistant together into an intimacy neither could have imagined. With their lives in chaos, every day brings a new challenge bigger than the last. But everything will work out - just so long as they don't do anything totally ridiculous. Like fall in love. This slow-burn office romance is a steamy story of fashion, passion, and the power of the unexpected.
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Artists Julien Compagne
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Born in Besançon (France) Julien Compagne studied piano and classical percussion at the conservatory there for almost 10 years. In 2004, he decided to settle in Montréal where he received a Master's in classical percussion under the direction of Robert Leroux, Julien Grégoire and Louis Charbonneau. He then specialized with Paul Picard (Céline Dion, Zachary Richard…) in popular percussion. A versatile live and studio musician, he collaborated with many well-known classical and contemporary groups (NEM, SMCQ, OSD…) but also with several renowned pop artists including Jorane, Patrick Watson, Johnny Hallyday, Lewis Furey, Ima, Michel Legrand, Grégory Charles and even Aretha Franklin. A trip for training purposes to Brazil and an involvement in world music groups such as Gamelan Giri Kedaton, Le Bloco, Chimpum Calao and Écho Mandingue added a traditional phase to his eclectic career. He won first prize at the Université de Montréal concertos competition, first prize at the Jeunesses Musicales de France competition, but has also been a member since 2012 of the percussion group Sixtrum and a founding member of the two piano and percussion Quatrix quartet and of the Video Phase project. His work as a composer relies on his penchant for the blending of genres and experimentation. In all that he undertakes, he pursues two mutual objectives: to popularize a music that is scarcely accessible, and to introduce into popular works unusual tones and colors.
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Julien Compagne
Besançon (Doubs, France)
Residence: Montréal (Québec)
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Sony's high-speed 'eye' gives robots 1,000 fps vision (video)
July 21, 2017 - 17:05 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Sony is known for making great sensors that serve as a camera's eye, but it apparently designs eyes for robots, as well. The Japanese tech giant has announced the release of a high-speed vision sensor that will allow industrial robots to detect and track objects at 1,000 frames per second. Robots used in factories aren't typically the most sophisticated. Their operators usually have to plot their movements using a program, since they're only meant to do specific tasks in the factory again and again. This high-speed vision sensor, however, could lead to autonomous machines that can quickly react to an object's movements in real time, Engadget said.
That's made possible by the fact that the chip itself can process images and can instantly tell the machine what it's seeing -- no need to send the images over to a separate computer for processing. In the video below, for instance, you'll see the system identifying different currencies at a glance, tracking different fingers individually as they move and inspecting items without having to stop the conveyor belt for a closer look.
Once it makes its way to actual factories, the sensor could instantly identify malfunctions that would've affected production. It could also prevent accidents and get rid of machines' limitations. The best thing about it, though, is that it's not just a concept waiting to be manufactured. Sony will begin shipping samples to potential customers in October 2017.
Engadget. Sony's high-speed 'eye' gives robots 1,000 fps vision
VSCO files lawsuit against PicsArt over "reverse engineered" filters
The suit focuses on 19 PicsArt filters that were supposedly "reverse engineered from VSCO's filters."
Yeva Hyusyan among Crunchbase's 50 female entrepreneurs
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PicsArt hits 130 mln monthly active users worldwide, attracts Chinese
Nearly 80 percent of PicsArt's users are under the age of 35 and those under 18 are driving most of its growth.
Yerevan named among world's 25 up-and-coming startup cities
The Armenian capital of Yerevan has been named one of 25 up-and-coming startup cities projected to grow into the hubs of the future
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UK lawmakers threaten to drag Queen Elizabeth into Brexit chaos Members of the Conservative party are planning to go over the new Prime Minister's head and appeal directly to the Queen.
5.1 magnitude earthquake shakes Athens Residents said the quake was strong but short, describing televisions shaking and objects falling from bookshelves.
Armenia parliament speaker meets U.S. lawmakers in D.C. The President of the Armenian National Assembly met the Members of U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C.


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So as to understand the phrase health is wealth we must put some thought on the individual meaning and significance of both words. And the savings usually are not an artifact of bringing in a whole lot of comparatively healthy childless adults under the ACA expansion. We look forward to additional engagement because the Authorities undertakes the method of growing the Healthy Tasmania Five 12 months Strategic Plan. Health care is simply too expensive because poor individuals are usually sicker and so are their kids. State and local health departments have the authorized authority to shut public locations, reminiscent of a lake, to protect the health of the general public.
This helps over 32 million People afford health care who couldn't get it before and makes protection extra inexpensive for a lot of more. NT Health Minister Natasha Fyles says she plans to ask if the Commonwealth can put up an extra $6 million to support the PET scanner promised for Darwin. Then we will understand that To Err is Human has been an important diversion from the true determinants of health outcomes simply as spending 1 and then 2 extra trillion on health care has also been larger value for little change in end result – the opposite of worth based mostly. South Asian Neighborhood Health Services (SACHS) is a registered not for revenue charity organisation.
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There are just under than 50 ministries in India, which are all headed by political appointees, entitled "minister" or "minister of state". Ministers (or cabinet ministers) and ministers of state (non-cabinet ministers) are appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister. Constitutionally, the total number of cabinet ministers, including the prime minister, should not exceed 15% of the total number of members of the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament). Many of the ministries such as the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Human Resource Development have both a minister and minister of state. In such instances the minister of state acts as deputy or has specific responsibilities allocated to them. The "secretary" is the most senior civil servant in each ministry.
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Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie announced Monday that he will unveil new rules this week stipulating when veterans will be allowed to access private-sector medical care – a plan that he said would "revolutionize" the VA health system.
The change is part of the VA Mission Act, a major reform bill that President Donald Trump has lauded as a means to give veterans more choice about where to receive health care. The law instructs the VA secretary to create the new rules for private-sector care, with the potential to shift billions of dollars for veterans' care to private medical facilities.
Wilkie pre-empted the public release of the rules with a warning Monday that they would likely spark controversy.
The Mission Act was a bipartisan compromise passed last year with the support of major veterans organizations. Since then, Democratic and Republican lawmakers have spoken out about what they viewed as a lack of transparency from the VA regarding the new access rules. Veterans groups said they were concerned about the lack of collaboration.
On Wednesday, Disabled American Veterans, Paralyzed Veterans of America and the Veterans of Foreign Wars gathered on Capitol Hill to discuss their 2019 policy priorities. Their one "critical" issue was to ensure the VA "fully and faithfully" implement the Mission Act.
One of the key principles that the groups are pushing for is to ensure the VA remains the coordinator of veterans' care, rather than allowing veterans unfettered access to the private sector — a move they worry could strip resources from the VA health care system.
"Most Americans can already choose the health care providers that they trust, and President Trump promised that veterans would be able to do the same," he added.
One group that has gained influence in Washington under Trump's administration has pushed for an aggressive expansion of veterans' care to private facilities.
Concerned Veterans for America, a conservative group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, wants a system that "puts the veteran first and not the VA bureaucracy," said CVA Executive Director Dan Caldwell.
Like Wilkie, Caldwell predicted a fight about the new private-sector care rules.
"To be very honest, I think there's going to be some disagreement there," he said.
In his statement, Wilkie attempted to alleviate concerns about privatization, insisting veterans would continue to choose VA health care when afforded other options.
The Mission Act upends the Veterans Choice Program, which was created in response to the 2014 VA wait-time scandal. There was widespread consensus among veterans and lawmakers that the rules of the Choice program were too rigid – it allows veterans into the private sector only when they live more than 40 miles driving distance from a VA facility or it is estimated their wait for a VA appointment is longer than 30 days.
Under the law, the new rules are supposed to be finalized in March before the new community care program is established in June. Wilkie didn't say Monday what day he would release the new access standards.


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He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. 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Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained. 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He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference. Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths. Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits. This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, and on the borders which were between the frames were lions, oxen and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round. The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained. Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. Scripture Verse Art
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Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. ... Goodnews Art
This Christian wall art sows some of the most powerful and meaningful names of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is first of all the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Messiah. Jesus is also the Lamb of God, slain for the sins of the world. He is the healer by whose wounds we are healed. Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords and the Lion of the tribe of Judah. He is the Savior of the world and the Name above all names. Jesus is also the Way, the Truth and the Life. He is the gift of God, who gives us eternal life. Scripture Verse Christian Image
Let me share a secret with you. The resurrection power of Jesus Christ is also here and now at work, to raise you from the dead. From your dead circumstances. Your sickness. Your despair. Your sin. Your darkness, whatever it is. Just believe. Just look at Jesus Christ and see Him resurrected from the dead. SEE HIM, beloved.I ask you: OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE HIM. Don't look down. Don't loose your interest. Scripture Verse Art
Christian wall art can also reveal the greatest gift of all, for all of us: God became a man, just like you and me, and He died for us at the cross. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ for mankind is the single most important event in all of human history. Jesus took our place on the deathroll, and bore our sins upon Himself. He literally became the Lamb of God, that is slain for the sins of the world. Thanks to His blood and His sacrifice, we can now be forgiven of all our sins. God gives us His great gift of grace, forgiveness and a brand new life, in Jesus Christ. It's his greatest expression of compassionate love for all of us, no matter what we have done. Scripture Verse Christian Image
Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Scripture Verse Christian Image
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UBA Group wins 'African Bank of The Year' again
Interestingly, the Banker Magazine has once again selected United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc as the "African Bank of the Year 2019".
This is the second time, UBA has clinched the prestigious award, having been named Best African Bank of 2017 by The Banker magazine. This year, UBA also won best bank category in 6 of its subsidiaries: UBA Benin, UBA Tchad, UBA Gabon, UBA Congo, UBA Cote D'Ivoire and UBA Sierra Leone.
The unprecedented win marks the first time ever in the history of the banker awards, that any one bank will be given as many as six wins including the grand regional award.
The awards ceremony took place at the Sheraton Grand, Park Lane in London at the weekend where UBA was represented by its CEO, UBA Africa, Victor Osadolor who received all seven awards on behalf of the bank. John Everington, Middle East and Africa Editor for The Banker, said the aim of the award "is to highlight industry wide excellence within the global banking community. The winner is selected from participating banks in each of the countries from which entries are received for the competition."
UBA's Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, who expressed delight over the recognition from The Banker stated "The recognitions come as a reassurance that we are on track in consolidating our leadership position in Africa, as we continue to create superior value for all our stakeholders
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Editorial: Show up to speak
Published in the Current
SCARBOROUGH (Aug 11, 2005): Next week, on Thursday, Aug. 18, parents will have an opportunity to speak to the Scarborough Board of Education about their views on sex education in the schools.
Every parent of a child in Scarborough schools should attend the meeting, at 7:30 p.m. in Town Hall, no matter their views on sex education.
Many parents are pleased with the curriculum, but others are not. Some object to lessons about condoms as a means of protection against sexually transmitted diseases, saying teaching about condoms is tantamount to approving of sexual activity for students. Other parents are concerned that their children might not learn about an effective way to prevent disease and unwanted pregnancy at an early enough age that the lessons will stick and be heeded.
We have had columns and letters to the editor on this subject, and postings on our Web site at www.KeepMEcurrent.com, and we invite more of each. Please write to let us know what you think.
Children in our society are exposed to sexual material almost constantly, in the movies, on television, online and elsewhere. We must find ways to help children keep themselves safe, both from dangerous influences and from ignorance of the dangers.
No matter how caring or thoughtful a parent is, children have to do a lot of growing up all on their own, out among their peers, where parents' watchful eyes cannot go. What we teach them will affect their decisions in those situations.
Parents with ideas, concerns and wishes for all aspects of sex education should make their voices heard. Write to us, and then go speak to the school board.
Making bus sense
Scarborough school officials should be commended for reacting swiftly to complaints from daycare owner Heidi McDonald, who was upset that a new policy reducing the number of school bus stops in town would require some two dozen of her charges to wait just off Route 1, rather than in her building, as has been the case so far.
McDonald's immediate objections have been taken care of, at least pending further study by a school department committee: On Wednesday, McDonald met with Superintendent Bill Michaud and Transportation Director Scott Macomber, who told her the schools will keep the buses running to her driveway – though not her door – until the committee decides on a permanent solution.
Also, for this year, the schools will continue to transport students between Heidi's House and all three of the town's elementary schools, rather than just Eight Corners School, which serves the business's region of town.
McDonald says she plans to fight the changes, to make permanent the special provisions the schools made this year, mainly because of the short notice to McDonald and to parents.
The schools should carefully consider the effects of this new policy on businesses and parents, as well as children. Parents painstakingly choose daycares for a wide range of reasons, but if the best daycare for a child is across town, that shouldn't be a deal-breaker.
The idea of shortening bus trips by consolidating stops is a good one. But it would seem that the daycare centers have already created consolidated stops, by bringing together numerous children from separate homes to one location for pickup and drop-off.
The schools should be able to provide at least the larger daycare centers in town with bus service to and from all three elementary schools. Perhaps there should be a minimum number of students required before a bus route will include an out-of-region daycare, to avoid driving a town-owned bus all over town for a single student.
But there should be a way to meet the daycares' needs while still achieving the school department's goals. Bus service to daycares is, after all, a service to parents – just like bus service to homes.
Jeff Inglis, editor
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A LEGO Brickumentary (2014)
By CJ on 30 January 2017 • ( Leave a comment )
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Jason Bateman, in LEGO minifigure form, leads the viewer on a journey through the world of LEGO. From the creation of LEGO, the company's stumbles and new brick innovations to international success, giant builds and celebrity fans, A LEGO Brickumentary gives viewers a definitive overview of the world's most famous and bestselling toy.
As far as documentaries go, A LEGO Brickumentary is informative and gives viewers a well-rounded overview of LEGO, its creator, its fans, its uses and its employees.
A LEGO Brickumentary didn't have as much fun with being informative as I feel it could have, especially given that it's a documentary about a creativity encouraging toy. The scenes with Jason Bateman's minifigure narrator — especially the introduction — were fun and full of humour so it was disappointing that these elements weren't transferred into more of the feature.
I would have really liked to have seen more details on how LEGO sets are designed, made and built with less focus on the LEGO fans. I found myself getting distracted during fan segments unless they were truly exceptional, like the fan building a huge Rivendell model or the fans making their own feature length stop motion film.
Overall, A LEGO Brickumentary is an informative look at the LEGO universe's origins and story with a delightful pint-sized narrator, but don't expect much more than you would from a standard documentary.
"This story is about a simple toy and how its unique properties ushered in a new era of creativity.
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Derek Jeter's retirement gifts from Seattle: a Kingdome seat and a gold Shawn Carter watch
By Drew SilvaJun 10, 2014, 10:43 PM EDT
Derek Jeter's farewell tour continued Tuesday night at Seattle's Safeco Field …
Mariners give Jeter a seat from the Kingdome, where he made his big-league debut and got his first career hit in 1995.
— Mark Feinsand (@FeinsandNYDN) June 11, 2014
Here's the watch Cano gave Jeter as a personal farewell gift. pic.twitter.com/Z0kWGEO104
That's similar to the watch Jay-Z presented to Cano when Cano signed with Roc Nation Sports last year. It's a Shawn Carter by Hublot model and you can buy your own on eBay for around $23,000. Inscribed on the back of Jeter's: "To Derek, with love and respect, RC. Thank you for showing me how to be a leader."
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They may be out of the series, but will always remain in our hearts and minds. 90 Day Fiance:Before the 90 Days Paul and Karine celebrated their first wedding anniversary over the weekend by sharing sweet pictures of one another, and a video slideshow that Karine created for her husband.
The good, the bad, and the downright uncomfortable moments of their relationship was documented on both seasons of the show. It was a difficult first year for the couple who had to deal with physical separation, language barriers, arguments, and a heartbreaking miscarriage. But it seems the coming year may bring better things for the expectant parents-to-be. Karine is enjoying a healthy pregnancy and they are even starting to learn each others languages! Karine can be seen speaking English in a video on Paul's Instagram paying tribute to their love and their baby.
Any fans of 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days that enjoyed watching Paul Staehle and Karine Staehle segments will be very disappointed to hear that this couple won't be returning to the show. Paul confirmed that TLC will no longer be involved in airing their bumbling Google translate conversations with the now deleted Instagram post, "even though we were not selected to advance on the show, we are very excited for this huge next step in our life as a new family." The "huge step" was a confirmation document for Karine's visa interview. This interview would be taking place at a U.S. embassy in Brazil closest to their residence on October 30th and, if she passes, Karine will be given a spousal visa to travel into the U.S. Once in the country, she will be able to apply for a Green Card. If she is able to travel before delivering, Paul and Karine's baby will automatically have U.S. citizenship.
Paul has already left Brazil for the U.S. He posted a rambling monologue about flying his German Shepherds in from Brazil. Among some of the highlights of this odyssey include 3 connecting flights with series 500 kennels, dogs breaking out at security checkpoint in Miami, Paul left stranded in Chicago and having to spend over $700 on an Uber.
Paul Staehle really outdid himself this time. On the 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days reunion, he blindsided his pregnant wife Karine Staehle by demanding that she take a DNA test. That was Sunday night. After that pitiful display, and the subsequent fan backlash, it seems Paul is in damage control.
Monday morning, Paul posted a link on his Instagram to the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) website. The USCIS website provides all the information that a person would need to apply for visas, green-cards, and in this case, citizenship for a child born abroad to a U.S. parent.
Saturday night, I witnessed Bradley Cooper shine in A Star Is Born, but last night I truly witnessed the best actor in a lead dramatic role when Ricky pretended he was something other than a world class scumbag. Ah, 90 Day Fiance Before The 90 Days, what are we gonna do without ya? Season two has been a rare gift of carefully curated dysfunction, the likes of which we may never see again – until regular 90 Day Fiance (season 6) starts up in two weeks. YAY!
Before we get to Ricky's hot mess, a hop across the pond is in order. Rachel, Jon, and Lucy are playing "happy family" at their cottage rental as Rachel silently seethes over girlfriends of Jon's past. It seems she's moved past her fears (for now) because it's time to pick out wedding bands. And apparently, it's also time to tell the unwitting jeweler, "We met on a karaoke app!" It's also time for Jon to tell Rachel that he doesn't want to wear a wedding ring! Umm, WHAT?
It's the end of a long, dramatic journey for the six couples of this season's 90 Day Fiance: Before The 90 Days, and tonight we'll see just how much dignity can be scraped off of the floor before they decide to walk away and/or commit themselves to one another for another paycheck life.
TLC's previews are keeping tonight's drama on strict lockdown, but we do see glimpses of what may befall our American-foreign lovebirds. As for the 7th(ish) couple, Marta and Daya, their relationship was basically dead on arrival, so let's just allow them to RIP.


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