You'll take a coaster and start calculating quickly. All factors need to be taken into account as you write down your calculations on the edge of the coaster. Once your coaster is full, you'll know a lot of answers to a lot of questions: How much can I offer for this piece of land? How expensive will one flat be? How many parking lots could be built and how expensive are they? And of course there's many more.
Architecture students at the ETH learn this so-called "coaster method" in real estate economics classes. Planning and building a house of any size is no easy task to begin with, and neither is understanding the financial aspect of it. To understand all of those calculations, some students created spreadsheets that do the calculations for them. This is prone to error. There are many questions that can be answered and many parameters that influence those answers. The ETH IÖ app was designed to teach students about the complex correlations of different factors that influence the decision. Furthermore, if building a house on a certain lot is financially feasible or not.
The product owner at ETH, a lecturer for real estate economics, took the tome to create such speadsheets, much like the students. These spreadsheets contained all calculations and formulas that were part of the course, as well as some sample calculations. After a thorough analysis of the spreadsheet, we came up with a total of about 60 standalone values that could be adjusted by the user, as well as about 45 subsequent formulas that used those values and other formulas to yield yet another value.
60 values and 45 subsequent formulas, all of them calculated on a coaster. Implementing this over several components would end up in a mess. We needed to abstract this away somehow.
The framework we chose to build the frontend application with, was Vue. We used Vue to build a prototype already. so we figured we could reuse some components. We already valued Vue's size and flexibility and were somewhat familiar with it, so it was a natural choice. There's two main possibilities of handling your data when working with Vue: Either manage state in the components, or in a state machine, like Vuex.
Since many of the values need to be either changed or displayed in different components, keeping the state on a component level would tightly couple those components. This is exactly what is happening in the spreadsheet mentioned earlier. Fields from different parts of the sheet are referenced directly, making it hard to retrace the path of the data.
A set of tightly coupled components. Retracing the calculation of a single field can be hard.
Keeping the state outside of the components and providing ways to update the state from any component decouples them. Not a single calculation needs to be done in an otherwise very view-related component. Any component can trigger an update, any component can read, but ultimately, the state machine decides what happens with the data.
By using Vuex, components can be decoupled. They don't need state anymore.
Vue has a solution for that: Vuex. Vuex allows to decouple the state from components, moving them over to dedicated modules. Vue components can commit mutations to the state or dispatch actions that contain logic. For a clean setup, we went with Vuex.
Find the lot - Where do I want to build?
Define the building - How large is it? How many floors, etc.?
Further define any building parameters and choose a reference project - How many flats, parking lots, size of a flat?
Get the standards - What are the usual prices for flats and parking lots in this region?
Monetizing - What's the net yield of the building? How can it be influenced?
The fields within the state are some sort of interface: Those are the fields that can be altered via mutations or actions. They can be considered a "starting point" of all subsequent calculations.
And we're good to go. Mutations and actions are implemented in their respective store module too. This makes the part of the data actually changing more obvious.
With this setup, we've achieved several things. First of all, we separated the data from the view, following the "separation of concerns" design principle. We also managed to group related fields and formulas together in a domain-driven way, thus making their location more predictable. All of the subsequent formulas are now also unit-testable. Testing their implementation within Vue components is harder as they are tightly coupled to the view. Thanks to the mutation history provided by the Vue dev tools, every change to the data is traceable. The overall state of the application also becomes exportable, allowing for an easier implementation of a "save & load" feature. Also, reactivity is kept as a core feature of the app - Vuex is fast enough to make any subsequent update of data virtually instant.
However, as with every architecture, there's also drawbacks. Mainly, by introducing Vuex, the application is getting more complex in general. Hooking the data to the components requires a lot of boilerplating - otherwise it's not clear which component is using which field. As all the store modules need similar methods (f.e. loading data or resetting the entire module) there's also a lot of boilerplating going on. Store modules are tightly coupled with each other by using fields and getters of basically all modules.
In conclusion, the benefits of this architecture outweigh the drawbacks. Having a state machine in this kind of application makes sense.
The journey from the coasters, to the spreadsheets, to a whiteboard, to an actual usable application was thrilling. The chosen architecture allowed us to keep a consistent set up, even with growing complexity of the calculations in the back. The app became more testable. The Vue components don't even care anymore about where the data is from, or what happens with changed fields. Separating the view and the model was a necessary decision to avoid a mess and tightly coupled components - the app stayed maintainable, which is important. After all, the students are using it all the time.


My life for the past few years has been a tale of the carefully redacted. There are those who share all and damn anyone who doesn't want to be written about – and I get that. It's your life too, get it out there. But something I said years ago has really stuck with me.
The private lives of proper nouns.
The privacy part, it's important to provide that to your proper nouns. Not so much the cats. Or K's long dead beta. But those human proper nouns whose lives could be touched by what they or others read online. So I don't tell some of the stories. My victories. My defeats. The funny interactions. And it means a big part of my story goes untold. Sure I could change the names to protect the innocent but that doesn't go far.
As the mother of an infant, a toddler, a pre-schooler, a child in elementary school I had so many stories. Grand tales about new experiences, words, revelations, highs and lows, new lives. They weren't all my child's. Many were experiences we shared together. Some were just mine. Others shared by many. But the stories about her when she was little, those were mine to tell at that age otherwise they would have been forgotten. Even now she doesn't recall the epic Chia Pet debacle of 07. Now? Well we've reached the age of storytelling consent. I don't share her life, her revelations, her stories – embarrassing or otherwise – without checking in with her first. Every tale I tell or photo I post involving her here, on facebook, on twitter, or instagram I've received consent. I've asked to make sure she's comfortable with whatever corner of the world may stumble across my words or images sharing in the ongoing story of her life.
But what about the hard times? The days and nights, or even weeks or months, when things are just too difficult and it starts to take its toll. Where I am weighed down by the heaviness of her tales or the tales of other proper nouns and I long to work out those thoughts in story. To tell the tale of a single working mother, who although she has all sorts of privilege in this world, still struggles day to day to make all the pieces fit together.
As the mother of a nearly teen I have a new story: I have a kid. We do stuff. Sometimes there are issues. And then we have chocolate.
It's either that or something that reads like a CIA report marred with black lines through 90% of the text. For now I'll take the chocolate.


A change address is an address where change from a transaction is sent. Bitcoin transaction outputs can only be spent whole. So, if you want to send someone a portion of a bitcoin transaction output you have to spend the whole lot and send some of it back to an address you own. For example, if you have 2.00 in an address and want to send someone 1.00 you will have 1.00 change that will come back to you. Depending on your bitcoin client this change will go to a new unused address or one of the input addresses.
You are discouraged from reusing bitcoin addresses. Use a separate address for every transaction.
Change is sent to a different address than the address you are spending from.
So, the use of change addresses that are different from the input addresses is a good thing from a privacy point of view. It is not perfect – people can still infer that you are the owner of the change address too – but it helps.
Bitcoin-QT: QT does use different addresses for change than the input address(es). It picks an unused address from its address pool to use as a change address.
Electrum: Electrum too uses a different address for change than the input addresses. It maintains a separate branch of deterministic addresses for change.
Armory: Armory also uses a different deterministic address to send change to. It also allows you to control where change is sent to in expert mode.
Multibit: Multibit sends change back to the second address in the wallet if it is available. If it is not available all change goes to the very first address in the wallet.
Blockchain.info MyWallet: According to their FAQ they send all change to the very first address in your wallet. However, users have reported that other addresses, including ones from imported private keys, are also sometimes used.
They can be confusing: Change addresses can be a source of confusion for new users. Bitcoin clients abstract away the business of change addresses but sites like blockchain.info allow anyone to see a specific address's balance. Users are confused when the address they think contains all their coins in fact does not. Usually this means that the rest of the coins are in a change address.
Change addresses also show up in transactions and new users wonder who the address belongs to and whether they've been hacked!
Address reuse gone wrong: Another downside to change addresses is how they are implemented by certain clients. blockchain.info, for example, can use an imported private key's address as a change address. The user might think that all the funds in that private key have been spent and make that private key public with disastrous consequences!
To prevent this sort of thing from happening users are advised to use a temporary wallet to import the private key and send all the coins to an address in their main wallet. Another, easier solution is to use Bitcoin Armory's sweep private key function which can safely do this for you.
Change addresses are one of those lower level aspects of bitcoin that confuse new users. But they are a necessary part of how bitcoins are spent and understanding how change works helps you avoid costly mistakes.


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Strike4Repeal to Tap into the Legacy of Striking for Gender Inequality and Reproductive Rights
Posted On March 2, 2017 By Editor
Striking is one of the fundamental rights that we as workers have. It allows us to protest for fair pay rises, better working conditions and fair contracts. Strikes have been used throughout the years for this purpose but they've also been used to make a point about how we value certain members of society. This is the vein that Strike4Repeal is aiming for, to apply pressure on the axis of power in Leinster House to call a referendum on the 8th amendment.
But what is Strike4Repeal? Essentially it's a group of students, academics, trade unionists and activists who are encouraging people to strike on March 8th, if the government does not call a referendum on the 8th amendment by then. The likelihood of the government calling this referendum before March 8th is low given that they have continually stated that they wish to wait for the findings of the Citizens Assembly which is expected to report back in summer of this year.
The strike itself is not a traditional one so to speak as people are being encouraged to take annual leave on the 8th of March, cover someone's shift if they can't take the day off or wear black in solidarity. There will also be an event at the Ha'penny Bridge at around 12:30pm and a march to mark International Women's Day later in the day. Students are being encouraged to walk out of lectures or to wear black in solidarity and try to discuss the strike as much as possible with friends, co-workers, family members and lecturers. The action has been officially supported so far by Trinity College Student's Union and supported by a number of other colleges around the country. UCDSU have committed to support the strike for Repeal, and will be supplying t-shirts for the UCD for Choice group.
So why should we as students support the action? On October 24th 1975, the women of Iceland went on strike to protest against the wage gap where women were earning less than 60% of what men earned for the same job. The main message of the protest was to show how the country could not function if women refused to work either in their jobs or in the home. It was estimated that approximately 90% of Iceland's female population refused to attend work or do any work in the home that day resulting in the closure of many industries. There was no telephone service and no newspapers were printed that day as all the typesetters were women. Most of the teachers were women so many of the schools closed and bank executives had to work as tellers in order to keep banks open. In short, the strike caused such a colossal shutdown of many services that the following year, the Icelandic government passed a law which guaranteed equal rights for men and women. The legacy of the Icelandic strike lives on. Every 10 years on October 24th, Icelandic women leave work around 2:30pm to symbolise the time at which they stop earning an equal pay to their male counterparts.
The Black Monday protest in Poland in 2016 was largely based on the Icelandic strike of 1975. This protest was organised in the wake of the Polish government's threat to abolish access to abortion services in the country where access is already limited to abortion in the case of rape, incest, fatal foetal abnormality or risk to the mother's life and health. Women in 60 cities went on strike and the following Thursday, the proposed ban was rejected in the Polish government following the intense political backlash.
What the Icelandic and Polish examples show is that strikes can and do have a massive effect on the political landscape. While the likelihood of a referendum being called before March 8th is low, the strike will likely keep the pressure on the government to face the abortion issue instead of hiding behind delay tactics and empty rhetoric. A strike allows people to show their support for the Repeal/pro-choice campaigns in a new way. It allows the people to tell our leaders than we can wait no longer. A strike allows the people to show their solidarity for any person who has to leave Ireland to procure an abortion or order abortion medicines from the internet. It lets our government know that this issue is not going away anytime soon. Similar successes of collective action have worked for transport works in the Luas, Dublin Bus, and this year teachers, nurses and Garda have leveraged the threat of strike to demand better conditions
Will a strike cause a sudden change in our legislation or constitution? Probably not yet that reason alone does not make a strike worthless or pointless as some people have suggested, Will it change the minds of those who are still undecided on this controversial issue? It is difficult to say, the real debate will likely only start when a referendum date is tabled.
The strike will certainly be a force of momentum to draw form for the growing movement to Repeal. The more engaging the action, the more people feel empowered and the more momentum gained. The Strike4Repeal campaign is allowing people to voice their anger in a powerful way. The withdrawal of work has many effects and is yet another ripple to incite more change in the way we view our abortion services in this country.
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THE STONE PONY AND BLACKBIRD PRESENTS JOIN FORCES TO BRING A NEW EXPERIENCE TO THE ASBURY PARK MUSIC SCENE
Pasqualina March 26, 2019 July 2nd, 2019
Two Iconic Music Entities Create A One-Stop Destination In Asbury Park, Selling Concert Tickets And Co-Branded Merchandise For The Stone Pony Summer Stage And Beyond
Asbury Park's legendary Stone Pony and Blackbird Presents—a worldwide leader in the production of large-scale concert events, broadcast specials, TV series, music festivals and tours— are thrilled to announce that they have joined forces to bring a customized one-stop-shop experience to the music lovers of Asbury Park and concert goers of The Stone Pony. The two iconic music entities are set to join forces on April 1, 2019 where Blackbird Presents' flagship boutique in downtown Asbury Park will host a downtown satellite box office location, selling tickets to Stone Pony and Stone Pony Summer Stage concerts. Tickets to Asbury Park's Wonder Bar, Paramount Theatre and Convention Hall will also be available. The boutique retail shop and gallery, located at 651 Cookman Avenue, is just steps from the New Jersey Transit Asbury Park train station, making a convenient experience for both local and out of town music lovers to stop in, browse and purchase tickets en route to a show.
Tickets at the Blackbird Presents box office will be available weekdays 10am – 6pm, with extended hours on Fridays and Saturdays from 10am – 9pm and on Sundays 12pm – 5pm. Payment by credit card will only be accepted and all tickets purchased through Blackbird Presents will be available digitally via smartphone. Ticket purchasers will also receive a limited edition co-branded Blackbird Presents and The Stone Pony drink koozie, (available while supplies last).
In addition to concert tickets, the hip-meets-rock & roll chic boutique will also sell merchandise from The Stone Pony amongst its current one-of-a-kind selection of apparel, limited edition gig posters, photographs, and exclusive concert merchandise. The Stone Pony will also sell Blackbird Presents merchandise during Summer Stage and exclusive co-branded apparel available for sale at both locations.
"We are excited to join forces with the team at The Stone Pony, one of music's most iconic venues, bringing fans more access to tickets and merchandise in the heart of downtown Asbury," states Keith Wortman, CEO Blackbird Presents.
The concept came about in 2018 when The Stone Pony's General Manager, Caroline O'Toole and Social Media Coordinator, Kayla Tracey had lunch at Taka, a restaurant located in downtown Asbury Park, directly across the street from the flagship Blackbird Presents boutique location. Naturally being drawn to all things music, the two decided to stop in and introduce themselves. And what would come next would entail two big names in music joining forces.
"For this partnership to be able to happen right here in Asbury Park, is just one more reason to see how music helps drive our city's ongoing vision," says Caroline O'Toole.
The Stone Pony will be bringing the action outside for its wildly popular annual Stone Pony Summer Stage, kicking off on Saturday May 11, 2019 with the best shows of the summer played by renowned national touring acts from across the country, attracting tens of thousands of fans to the Jersey shore. Blackbird Presents will begin selling tickets for shows at The Stone Pony and The Stone Pony Summer Stage series starting April 1st. The season lineup includes artists like, Coheed and Cambria & Mastadon, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Ben Folds & Violent Femmes, and Papa Roach, to name a few.
For more information on tickets and for a full calendar of shows, please visit https://www.stoneponyonline.com/calendar/. The Stone Pony and The Stone Pony Summer Stage are located at (913 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ)
Follow or share photos capturing your visit to Blackbird Presents and The Stone Pony with the following social media handles:
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ABOUT THE STONE PONY
The Stone Pony opened its doors in February of 1974 and since has earned the designation as one of the greatest rock and roll venues of all time. The Pony has played host to iconic local and national musicians from Southside Johnny and the Asbury jukes, to Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen amongst many others. Considered a musical mecca, many of today's top musicians and bands have graced The Stone Pony's stage. https://www.stoneponyonline.com
ABOUT BLACKBIRD PRESENTS
Blackbird Presents is a worldwide leader in the creation, financing, and production of music-driven programming. Through large-scale concert events, broadcast specials, TV series, music festivals, and tours, Blackbird Presents' team of creative executives bring a new perspective to the development and presentation of music-driven programming that transcends genres, cultures, and generations. Blackbird Presents is also the creator and producer of The Outlaw Music Festival Tour, in partnership with Willie Nelson and The American Roots Music & Arts Festival, in partnership with Eric Church. https://blackbirdpresents.com
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After soul singer Adele broke the Internet last week with the release of "Hello," the artist's first single in three years off her upcoming album 25, British network the BBC announced Tuesday that it's filming an hour-long Adele concert and interview special. The event, "Adele at the BBC," will be released internationally as Adele Live in London on Nov. 20.
U.K. television host Graham Norton will host the event, to be recorded on Monday, and interview Adele on her life and career while she performs her classic hits and tracks from 25, according to BBC Music. "I can't wait for the show," Adele told the Hollywood Reporter. "The BBC has been wonderful to me over the years, and Graham and I get on great, so it's going to be a laugh."
"This opportunity to spend an hour with Adele, her music and her stories is a truly rare treat," Norton told the Hollywood Reporter. "If I wasn't hosting this special, I'd be at at home watching it!"
Tickets to the live show are available through a lottery and can be requested here until midnight GMT on Wednesday.
The BBC will distribute the full 60-minute cut of the event and a 45-minute edit excluding the interview portion to international networks to air on Nov. 20, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Adele's latest single, "Hello," sounds like it's about an ex-lover (which would be congruent with the theme of her last album, 21), but it's actually about someone more important — herself. In an announcement on Twitter of her upcoming album and its meaning, Adele dubbed 25 the "make-up" album and 21 the "break-up" album. "25 is about getting to know who I've become without realizing," she wrote.


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Filing period closes today at 5 p.m.
By Heather Acheson | July 8, 2011 12:00 am | comments
Two candidates have stepped forward this week to file with the Clark County Elections Office for the vacant Ward 3 position on the Camas City Council.
Margaret Tweet and Shannon Turk will have their names appear on the Nov. 8 General Election ballot. They will be competing to serve a portion of the 2.5 years remaining on Higgins' term, from Dec. 5, 2011 to Dec. 31, 2013.
The special three-day filing period ends today, at 5 p.m.
The seat became vacant on Monday, June 27, when Scott Higgins resigned after he was appointed to the mayor's position. Former Mayor Paul Dennis resigned as of May 31 to become the director of the Camas-Washougal Economic Development Association.
The person who will fill the portion of the term that runs from July 26 to Dec. 5, 2011, will be decided by the Camas City Council later this month.
Applications for the Ward 3, Position 2 seat, available at www.ci.camas.wa.us, must be hand-delivered to Camas City Hall by Friday, July 15. Submissions made by U.S. mail, e-mail or fax will not be accepted.
The application requests some candidate background information and includes a questionnaire that addresses several topics including reasons the candidate wants to serve on the City Council; experiences, talents or skills a candidate can offer; and candidates' views on how the city should address budget challenges and other significant obstacles facing the city of Camas.
On Monday, July 25, a special meeting is scheduled at 4:30 p.m., so that the City Council can conduct public interviews of the candidates and then make an appointment.
The seven-member City Council is responsible for setting policy, adopting the annual budget, adopting laws, determining the services the city provides and the funding levels for those services, and confirming the mayor's appointments of citizens to its advisory boards, commissions and committees. Meetings are held on the first and third Mondays of each month, beginning with a workshop at 4:30 p.m., followed by a regular meeting at 7 p.m.
According to the application, the duties of a City Council member could involve an average minimum commitment of 15 to 25 hours per month for preparation, participation, and attendance at various meetings, and community activities.
Council members earn a monthly stipend of $500.
The City of Camas provides municipal services to a population of more than 18,000 people and employs approximately 171 individuals who help provide police, fire, ambulance service and emergency aid, street maintenance, sanitation, recreation, library, public improvements, planning and zoning, water supply treatment and distribution, and sewage collection and treatment services.


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For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

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Shared Vision Brought Stanley Jones & Associates Together with Centrex Rehab and Volunteers of America
A commitment to excellence and putting clients and staff first resulted in a unique transition this year. Centrex Rehab and Volunteers of America (VOA) took ownership of Rochester-based Stanley Jones and Associates' (SJA) therapy services on September 1. The new venture will allow Centrex Rehab and VOA to create a more visible and strengthened presence in Rochester and the medical community. More details are available in the Rochester-Post Bulletin.
Stanley Jones and Associates consists of three divisions: home care, outpatient therapy and a pediatric outpatient clinic. Volunteers of America acquired the home care division and Centrex Rehab acquired the therapy services and the clinic. As part of the transaction, Centrex will provide therapists who subcontract with Volunteers of America to serve clients in home care.
While SJA has provided therapy to the homebound and children for more than 30 years, company owners are nearing retirement age. The company began looking for a therapy provider that shared its vision and had "the same dedication to therapists and clients while still providing quality services," says SJA Administrator Pat Mrdjenovich-Hanks. When asked for a provider with these qualifications, SJA's attorney immediately recommended Centrex Rehab.
"Centrex holds many of the same values and commitment that SJA has become known for: excellent care, great outcomes and a sincere belief that clients and staff come before the bottom line," says Mrdjenovich-Hanks. "Because Centrex Rehab offers competitive benefits and salary and expert in-house training for therapists, there is an increased opportunity for advancement and personal growth that a small company cannot offer."
"We are very honored to be recommended," says Centrex CEO Kristy Brown, who praises the dedication of SJA therapists and staff. Stanley Jones and Associates' awards in the home health care field include the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Home Health Care Survey Honors, which recognize the highest performing agencies ranked by satisfaction measures covering performance and improvement of care.
Volunteers of America currently provides independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing services to the community at The Homestead in Rochester. "We look forward to adding home care to the services we provide," said Wayne Olson, Volunteers of America executive vice president, healthcare operations.
In addition to working with older adults, Centrex Rehab is looking forward to helping more children through this new venture." In fact, Augustana Care (which partnered with Ebenezer to create Centrex Rehab) served women and children who were orphaned in the organization's early years.
All three organizations are working together to ensure a smooth transition. Brown anticipates that most of SJA's employees will join Centrex, and services to SJA clients will continue without interruption.
Centrex Rehab was launched in partnership with Augustana Care and Ebenezer.


The first full harvest from our young vines produced fabulous ripe, clean fruit, showing intense characters classic of Gewurztraminer - all grown in Gisborne, New Zealand.
This elegant expression of Gewürztraminer shows lovely floral, honey and spice notes on the nose, while the palate gives flavours of nashi pear and ginger. Showing lovely balance of freshness and texture, this wine will maximise sensory pleasure when partnered with fragrant dishes of the East.
The first full crop from five year old vines trained as two cane VSP system. Two metre wide rows, with two metre spacing between vines. This Gewürztraminer is clone 457, which has shown excellent varietal expression and complexity when grown on the Patutahi Plateau. Predominant soil type is clay loam with pumice sub layers.
The fruit was crushed and destemmed directly after hand harvesting, and kept cool on skins overnight to extract maximum aroma and flavour. The fruit was then pressed gently and slowly to retain all delicate flavours and characters. The final press fractions were fined with fresh skim milk at the press to ensure balanced structure in the final wine. After 24 hours of cool settling, the juice was racked retaining a small amount of inherent nitrogen for yeast support and inoculated with an aromatic yeast. Cool fermentation followed to ensure maximum expression of aromas and flavours in the final wine. This wine was gently fined with fresh skim milk prior to bottling.


I received product for review from Prime Time Toys. The opinions within this post are of my own and I was not influenced in any way. Please do your own research before purchasing products or using services. Your opinions and results may differ.
I have two teenage boys who, although nearly grown, are still kids at heart from time to time. For instance, the Battle Blaster from Prime Time Toys has gotten plenty of play time since I received it for review. Other than having to warn the boys not to aim the blaster at each other, it's turned out pretty well.
The Battle Blaster Power-Pump Water Gun performs with great precision aided by a detachable scope. With a water blast range of up to 35', you'll be sure to catch your target in the crosshairs. Trust me, I know; I've been in those crosshairs!
The water gun is packaged in a cardboard box and secured with zip ties, so scissors are necessary to cut the gun loose.
We did have a hard time, at first, finding the cap opening for the water. There wasn't any indication on the box. After feeling around for a while, we were able to locate it. The gun holds a good amount of water and it's easy to operate. You just have to pump the bottom half of the barrel and pull the trigger to squirt. The water comes out in a long, thin stream. If you prefer not to have the scope on top of the gun, you can detach it by sliding it off. The Battle Blaster Power-Pump Water Gun has gotten plenty of use and has proven to be a fun outdoor activity.
Prime Time Toys launched the new collection of water blasters, including the Battle Blaster, in January of this year. They are available exclusively at Wal-Mart and walmart.com. The Adventure Force™ line of water blasters will bring a splash of fun to the backyard this Spring and Summer.
One person will win a Battle Blaster Power-Pump Water Gun.
I like the SUNKEN TREASURE. That will be fun to play with.
The HYDRO ROCKET SPLASH BLASTER would be another fun one.
I like the Hurricane Water Balls!!
I like the Sunken Treasure pool game.
I like the Original Skydiver.
My boys would also like Water Blasters. They love any toys like this. They had a water gun fight with their cousins yesterday.
The dart blasters are pretty cool! Thank you!
My grandson would like the Hydro Rocket Splash Blaster.
I like the Scorpion Gatling Blaster.
I also like their Splash Sports Pack.
I would love the crossbow.
My daughter would love the hydro blaster pro. Anything she can get her dad and older brothers with is really liked.
I also like the ELIMINATOR water blaster!
I like the 'sunken treasure chest' pool toy.
Their G-Rip Vortex Spin Copter looks like a lot of fun. My grandson would love playing with that!
Prime Time Toys has some really cool water toys! I like the Monster Blaster that has the head of an alligator. The kids would love it!
The Airhawk Compound Bow looks like lots of fun!
I would love to get our kiddos the LEGENDFIRE ™ POWERSHOT BLASTER!
The boys like the SCORPION BLASTER.
I also like the Talon Dart Blaster.
My kids would also really enjoy the Water Blasters!
My daughter would love the Powerbolt Belt Blaster! Looks like lots of fun!
My grandson would love the Eagle Dart Bow.
I like their monster blaster!
I like the DIZZY DIVE RINGS FUN PACK.
I would love to get the AIRHAWK COMPOUND BOW for my son, I think he would love it.
The Hydro Rocket Splash Blaster looks like a lot of fun!
CRITTER BLASTER™ would be fun this swim season.
My boys would LOVE to have the SCORPION BLASTER -- awesome!
I like their SUNKEN TREASURE pool toy!
I like the Sunken Treasure game.
I also like the Hydro Rocket Splash Blaster!
I'd love to get the HYDRO ROCKET SPLASH BLASTER for my grandson. He'd love it!
I like the shark monster blaster!
Scorpion Gatling Blaster would be a top pick.
My nephews would have a big time with those Splash Bomb pool toys, lol. They love stuff like that.
My sons would love all of them! I want to get them the Hydro Rocket Splash Blaster.
The Hydro Rocket Splash Blaster looks like so much fun!
I likee the Hydroblaster Pro!
The scorpion blaster looks like a ton of fun for my sons.
i want to get The Hydro Rocket Splash Blaster. it looks like it will be a lot of fun.
The monster blaster is fun.
The Big Jump Launcher looks fun. I know my son would love it.
I like the enforcer belt blaster.
I'd like to get the Super Sharpedo for my grand son !
The Max Liquidator is very cool. I'd love to the able to blast my grandkids with this toy!
My son would love the dart blasters.
My son would love the Battle Blaster...another one he would love is the Hydro Blaster. Water guns are so much fun...I may have to attack him with it! :-) Thank you.
My kids would love the MONSTER BLASTER Water Blasters! They look like so much fun!
I love the monster blasters. Thanks for the chance.
Would love to add this to our water arsenal.
I like the EAGLE DART BOW, it seems like a fun toy.
I like the monster blaster.
The Eagle Dart Bow would be fun to play with my nephews.
I like the sunken treasure pool toy.
I like the Original Sky Diver.
I like the water blasters they are so much fun in the pool!
Lots of fun toys I like the Dart Bow!
I would pick the Splash Sports Pack.
i also really like the water blasters.
I like the Sunken Treasure toy, very cute!


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Grand designs in tiny spaces: Inside a creative couple's bach and matching tiny house at Waikawa Beach
Life in Aotearoa is celebrated in a bach and matching tiny house on the Horowhenua coast.
Words: Emma Rawson Photos: Nicola Edmonds
The taniwha lurking in the Waikawa River is flexing its muscles and wriggling its way to the beach. Legend says the river's twisting and turning is the taniwha flapping its tail.
In 2018, Cyclone Gita battered the Horowhenua coastline with wild winds and sea surges and the river did an about-turn, heading north to south and gobbling a chunk of the coast on its new course.
Before Gita, a wall of dunes had sheltered the family bach of Rodney Inteman and Shirley Cameron. But within months of the cyclone, the dunes and six metres of land were gone, leaving the property on the edge of high tide.
The bach's blue and white theme is a nod to Rodney's dad's navy roots and Shirley's love of Delft pottery.
The wind, sea and the river are merciless, but Rodney and Shirley adore this place, even the taniwha. Prevailing nor'-west winds drive shoreline trees into a permanently crooked stance. A local recently measured wind speeds of 65 knots (or 122 kilometres an hour) twice in two months. In stormy weather, dead seals and all manner of flotsam and jetsam have washed up on the shore.
Another sign in the bach encourages visitors to the beach to pick up litter. "When we take PK the dog for a walk on the beach, we take an extra bag with us in order to pick up some rubbish and do our bit," says Rodney.
Rodney loves the outdoors, kayaking on the Waikawa River and flying kites on windy days
Waikawa Beach is popular with horse riders.
The prevailing winds are westerlies and northerlies and when the wind blows there's sand for Africa, says Rodney.
"A very small house gives an experience that is closer to the elements, and many people love that simplicity," says Shirley.
Rodney and Shirley, who live in Palmerston North, are no fairweather visitors and when the epic sunsets paint the land with a tangerine glow, there's no place they'd rather be.
On fine days, to borrow words from songwriter Neil Finn, even Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire couldn't conquer their optimism under this blue sky. "Waikawa has a life of its own. It can be wild here in winter, but when the fire is going it's perfect," says Rodney.
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They bought the bach three years ago using an inheritance from Rodney's father, who also passed on his love of the sea. As a teenager, Rodney's dad had worked on fishing trawlers off the coast of Taranaki and later, in World War II, served on the HMS King George V.
"Dad loved Foxton Beach, even on rough days, but he never got around to buying himself a bach. He'd have loved it here so, in a way, it is his legacy."
There's only one rule in Rodney and Shirley's bach at Waikawa Beach and it's written on the outside — "Relax". On winter days, a chair by the fireplace is the perfect vantage point for watching the waves crash ashore.
Was it sailor's luck that helped them land the Waikawa Beach bach? Shirley and Rodney were looking for a holiday house on the Horowhenua Coast somewhere between Te Horo and Waitarere Beach. They left fliers in letterboxes asking: "Are you interested in selling?"
One little lime-green bach, with grass growing from its gutters, caught their eye. It was in Waikawa Beach, a tiny hamlet that usually sees more horses and dogs than humans. They called back several times, but the bach always had its curtains drawn, and there was no letterbox for a flier. Nearly a year later, they drove by once more and the curtains were open.
Shirley leapt out of the car with Rodney cautioning: "You can't just bolt up and ask them to sell their house out of the blue."
"I ignored him, and it turned out the owner did want to sell. It pays to be bold," says Shirley.
The former fashion designer (Shirley) and commercial interior and graphic designer (Rodney) wasted no time and none of their artistic skills redecorating the bach. "This house is about celebrating New Zealand," says Shirley.
The sea is very audible at night from the master bedroom.
"Sometimes we take our freedom, lifestyle and what we can achieve in this country for granted. We get a lot of overseas people who come to stay here, and they love the Kiwi touches."
The bach, called Interville after Rodney's father's former antique business, features several of his father's collector items including a ship's clock nicked from HMS King George V. There are also Wee Willie Winkie candle-holders from his father's collection — for an unfathomable reason he had 350 of them. From Shirley's Dutch grandmother come pieces of Delft pottery, including a bean salting pot.
There is no shortage of guests wanting to stay in the bach's one guest room.
The Wee Willy Winkie candle-holder was a gift to Rodney's father from his grandson Joel.
The vase in the bedroom, by Dutch company Moooi, is designed to look like it's been blown in the wind.
In the collection of Delftware is Shirley's grandmother's cake plate.
Rodney knows his bowline knots from his clove hitches.
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"I'm New Zealand-born, but both my parents were Dutch immigrants. My parents told us that in Holland during the war, they had to eat tulip bulbs. My sister and I were born here, and we were both chubby babies because my parents were so proud to be able to feed their children well.
"They loved their bouncy, bonnie New Zealand babies."
Shirley's father was a truck driver, and her parents scrimped and saved to provide holidays for the family at the beach.
"When he got his pay packet, he used to line up several little envelopes on the table. There was an envelope for power, food — and the envelope right at the end was for the annual summer holiday where we'd drive around New Zealand for three weeks in a caravan. Waikawa reminds me of the simplicity of those wonderful summers."
The tiny house called TinyVille, adjacent to the bach, is a reconfiguration of Katikati company Build Tiny's Millennial design.
The two-bedroom bach wasn't big enough to accommodate their blended family of Shirley's two children, Chanel and Christian, and Rodney's kids Joel and Jessica, who live in Australia.
Local bylaws dictated the house couldn't be extended and the land erosion meant building a second house on the section next door was too risky. The solution was a tiny house on wheels.
The tiny house has a second mezzanine area, ideal for lounging around and watching the sunset. Rodney and Shirley sacrificed some cabinet storage space to make room for the breakfast bar
Designing a small house requires many nips and tucks, a bit like constructing a well-fitted dress, says Shirley, who won the Fashion in the Field prize several times for her race-day gowns and fascinator designs.
Working with tiny-house company Build Tiny of Katikati, Shirley and Rodney emailed their ideas back and forth, finally signing off version 13 of the plans. The final 7.2-metre-by-2.4-metre house has two mezzanines with a queen bed in one and a separate lounge in the other. They called the house TinyVille.
The retractable stairs pull out from the storage area.
"A tiny house is a real challenge to build. A bigger test is working out if a couple can cohabit in a small space," says Rodney. "We rent out our tiny house sometimes, and often people who are considering living in a tiny house come to stay so they can see what it's like. It is not for everyone.
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"A very small house gives an experience that is closer to the elements, and many people love that simplicity. To enjoy the New Zealand environment, you don't need much."
Shirley's fashion design house Studio Astoria used to specialize in evening and race-day outfits. "There aren't many occasions that require dressing up for these days, or wearing a hat, so why not have a bit of fun?"
The huia is extinct but the beautiful bird lives on in a painting by Hawke's Bay artist Sophia Blokker. The feather artwork was bought at State One Designs in Otaki.
She clocked up 32 best-dressed awards for her gown and race-day designs (including winning Fashion in the Field at the Melbourne Cup), but was forced to give up her fashion career 10 years ago when she was suddenly hit by the stinging pain of RSI (repetitive strain injury) using sewing scissors.
"Fashion design was a big part of my identity, but you adapt, and it made me realize I'm more than just what I do." She's since made the switch to menswear, managing the Palmerston North retail store of New Zealand company Rembrandt.
"Men take a lot more risks with fashion these days. Even suits are a lot more interesting than they used to be, with patterns and bold colours."
A PALACE ON WHEELS
The devil is in the details when it comes to building a tiny house, says Rodney. A tiny house on wheels (known as a THOW) is classed as a vehicle. Even with his design background, Rodney advises using a specialist tiny-house building company.
Every tiny house needs a teeny bathroom.
Access to the bedroom was lowered so there is enough space for a person to stand up and make the bed.
"The thing to remember with a tiny house on wheels is the weight; they have to be under 3.5 tonnes, so it's important to consider things like cabinets or flooring."
Tiny-house builders have scales on which to weigh materials. Shirley and Rodney's tiny house is completely transportable and has four ground attachments to stop it rocking in a storm.
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La reggenza rappresenta il secondo livello amministrativo dell'Indonesia. È subordinata alla provincia e in indonesiano è denominata kabupaten. Con il termine kota si indica invece una città che per importanza e dimensioni è parificata ad una reggenza.

Al 2009 in Indonesia si contavano 401 kabupaten e 97 kota, per complessive 498 suddivisioni amministrative con il grado di reggenza.

Sia le reggenze che le città di pari livello sono divise in distretti (in indonesiano kecamatan).

Il termine indonesiano kabupaten deriva dal giavanese bupati che a sua volta trae origine dal sanscrito bhapati, traducibile come "signore" o "vice-re". Sotto il governo delle Indie Orientali Olandesi, prima di una riforma radicale di tutte le giurisdizioni, le vecchie suddivisioni mantennero il termine e l'ordinamento originario, per cui kabupaten fu semplicemente tradotto con l'olandese regentschap, cui in italiano corrisponde appunto "reggenza", rimanendo inalterato anche dopo le successive riforme.

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Exhibition and provenance
Salutat
126.4 cm × 101.0 cm (49+3⁄4 in × 39+3⁄4 in)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Salutat is an 1898 painting by Thomas Eakins (1844–1916). Based on a real-life boxing match that occurred in 1898, the work depicts a boxer waving to the crowd after the match. According to Eakins' biographer Lloyd Goodrich, Salutat is "one of Eakins' finest achievements in figure-painting."[1] The painting's title is Latin for "He greets" or "He salutes."
Much as he had with his paintings of rowers in the 1870s, during the late 1890s Eakins turned his interest again to the male nude, this time depicting prizefighters. Eakins attended fights in 1898, and aided by sportswriters Clarence Cranmer and Henry Walter Schlichter, met with and hired fighters to pose for him.[2]
A postcard of Billy Smith, circa 1900
The studio became a place to spar; according to Eakins's protégé the sculptor Samuel Murray, (who in 1899 made a bronze statue of Billy Smith)[3] one of the fighters, Ellwood McCloskey, would "round up fellow pugilists who had promised to pose but didn't show up":
"Hey, you son of a bitch, haven't you got a date to pose for Mr. Eakins? Come on now, or I'll punch your goddamn head off."[4]
"Turkey Point" Billy Smith, a featherweight who competed in over 100 bouts over the course of ten years and fought two featherweight champions, was the protagonist for Salutat as well as for Between Rounds.[4]
Eakins made multiple studies of the subject. A pencil-on-paper study was purchased by Joseph Hirshhorn in 1965 and donated to his eponymous museum in 1966.[5]
Eakins also completed an oil-on-canvas study, which he gave to art critic Sadakichi Hartmann after Hartmann praised Eakins in his 1901 book A History of American Art. (This was the first time Eakins had been recognized as being of historic importance.)[6] This study is now in the possession of the Carnegie Museum of Art.[7][8]
Oil-on-canvas study for Salutat, 1898, 20 1/8 x 16 1/8 inches; 51 x 41 cm., Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Salutat, Between Rounds (a portion of which was executed separately as Billy Smith) and Taking the Count are a series of three large boxing paintings done by Eakins. The former two depict events surrounding a boxing match that took place on April 22, 1898.[9] Featherweight Tim Callahan fought featherweight Billy Smith in a match that was close until the final round, when Callahan gained the advantage and won the fight. However, for Salutat, Eakins chose to depict Smith as the winner.[10] In the work, Smith raises his hand to salute the audience, in the style of a gladiator. On the painting's original frame Eakins carved the words "DEXTRA VICTRICE CONCLAMANTES SALVTAT" (With the victorious right hand, he salutes those shouting [their approval]).[11]
As with a number of other Eakins works, the rendering of the figures is extremely precise, such that it has allowed art historians to identify individual members of the audience. While working on the boxing pictures, friends would visit the studio, and Eakins invited them to "stay a while and I'll put you in the picture."[12] For Salutat, audience members include Eakins's friend Louis Kenton (wearing eyeglasses and a bow tie), sportswriter Clarence Cranmer (wearing a bowler hat), David Jordan (brother of Letitia Wilson Jordan, whom Eakins painted in Portrait of Letitia Wilson Jordan), photographer Louis Husson (next to Jordan), Eakins's student Samuel Murray, and Eakins's father Benjamin Eakins.[13]
Smith is bathed in soft white light, which illuminates his muscles.[14] Amid a general tonality of warm grays and browns that contains no strong chromatic notes, the skin tones of the three main figures are pale.[15] All three men have the quality of relief sculpture, and with Smith's figure separate from those of his seconds, they appear to move across the canvas in an arrangement reminiscent of a frieze.[16]
Eakins sent the painting to the Annual of the Pennsylvania Academy in January 1899,[17] and although it "failed to please the few critics who noticed it", he exhibited the picture a total of four times in the next five years.[18]
The painting remained unsold during Eakins's lifetime, and was bought from his widow by Thomas Cochran in 1929; he subsequently donated the picture to the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.[19]
^ Goodrich, Volume II, pp. 151-2.
^ Samuel Murray's 1899 statue of Turkey Point Billy Smith, retrieved March 30, 2009
^ a b Goodrich, Volume II, p. 145.
^ Thomas Eakins - Study for "Salutat". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Retrieved March 29, 2009
^ Adams, 358
^ Study for "Salutat", (painting). Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
^ Thomas Eakins: Study for Salutat. Carnegie Museum of Art.
^ Billy Smith, 1898. Wichita Art Museum
^ Kirkpatrick, 444
^ Kirkpatrick, 444-445
^ Messenger 350, footnote 8
^ Sewell, Darrel; et al. Thomas Eakins The 1890s Marc Simpson, p. 268.
Henry Adams. Eakins Revealed: the Secret Life of an American Artist. Oxford University Press US, 2005. ISBN 0-19-515668-4.
Martin A. Berger. Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Lloyd Goodrich. Thomas Eakins. Harvard University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-674-88490-6
Sidney Kirkpatrick. The Revenge of Thomas Eakins. Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-300-10855-9
Christian K. Messenger. Sport and the Spirit of Play in American fiction: Hawthorne to Faulkner. Columbia University Press, 1981. ISBN 0-231-05168-9
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The Great State of California. One trip out there just isn't enough to do it all, especially since it has 9 National Parks that I have to go to to check off my list.
The 44th state, Wyoming is home to the first National Park in the world, Yellowstone, and the first National Monument, Devils Tower.
The 40th state admitted to the Union in 1889, South Dakota contains some impressive open expanses. Mount Rushmore and The Badlands are contained within its borders, but also a couple thousand free roaming Bison on the prairies of Wind Cave, and Badlands National Parks.
The Empire State, deserves it's own Collection.
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The 45th State to join the Union. There are 5 National Parks in this state, so needless to say, I've got some trips planned out here.
The last state of the Lower 48 and home to a Natural Wonder, Arizona is a state of extremes.
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Samsung Galaxy Lollipop Release Date Preview (Early)
Android Editorials Galaxy Note 3 Galaxy Note 4 Galaxy Note Edge Galaxy S4 Galaxy S5 Samsung
As we push deeper into the year away from the Android 5.0 Lollipop launch date, we're starting to hear more about Samsung Galaxy Android 5.0 Lollipop update plans. With those in mind, we want to offer up an early preview of Samsung's Galaxy Lollipop release plans for owners of the Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note 3, and more.
In June, Google took the stage at Google I/O 2014 and announced a slew of new products including the Android L update, its replacement for Android 4.4 KitKat. At the time, the company showed off a number of new features including Android L's Material Design that delivers massive changes to the look and feel of the Android operating system. The company did not, however, confirm an Android L release date.
After a lengthy wait, Google finally confirmed the Android L update and the Android L release alongside its brand new Nexus 6 smartphone and new Nexus 9 tablet from HTC. As expected, Android L is called Android 5.0 Lollipop and it's going to be hitting Nexus smartphones and tablets during the month of November. It's also going to be hitting a number of other devices as well.
While companies like HTC, Motorola and Sony have detailed their Android 5.0 Lollipop release plans, the world's largest Android manufacturer remains silent. It has been several weeks since Google's Android Lollipop announcement and Samsung still hasn't confirmed any plans to its Galaxy smartphone and tablet users. Of course, this isn't the least bit surprising given that Samsung always remains mum right up until it releases an Android update.
Over the past month, we've seen unofficial Samsung Galaxy Android 5.0 Lollipop information emerge, information that's helped us put together an early preview for those with a Galaxy-branded device. Today, we want to take a look at what we know so far and add in some of our own expectations as well to help fill in the blanks. Here's our early Galaxy Android 5.0 Lollipop release preview.
Samsung Galaxy Android 4.4.4 KitKat Update Plans
Samsung has remained committed to Google's Android 4.4 KitKat update and specifically to both Android 4.4 KitKat and Android 4.4.4 KitKat. Android 4.4 KitKat updates continue to pour out of Samsung's servers as the company continues its quest to get devices up to newer versions of Android. In the wake of Google's Android 5.0 release, Galaxy users have been wondering about Samsung's plans and yesterday, a key detail surfaced.
According to new information from SamMobile, Samsung won't be rolling out Android 4.4.4 KitKat updates to the international versions of the Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4 or Galaxy Note 3. This isn't too surprising given what we've heard about the Android 5.0 Lollipop release though it means that many Galaxy users will stay on Android 4.4.2. Those dealing with issues should seek out temporary fixes in the interim.
Android 4.4.4 KitKat updates for other devices, devices like the Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy S3, remain wide open at this point. Some carriers still owe Android 4.4 KitKat updates to Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy S3 users and at this point, we would expect Samsung to continue its Android 4.4 KitKat upgrade to those devices instead of skipping ahead to Android 5.0.
Samsung Galaxy Lollipop Update Features
On Halloween, SamMobile leaked a new version of the Galaxy S5 Android 5.0 Lollipop update. This new version, dubbed LRX02E, is far more polished than the initial Galaxy S5 Lollipop leak. The site says that the differences are "night and day." The leak also contains a number of new features including the Galaxy Note 4′s new lock screen, a new system wide font, improvements to Samsung's core TouchWiz apps including Music, and new animations that make the update far smoother than the previous early build.
This preview is important to owners of all Galaxy devices because it offers a glimpse at what to expect from Samsung's Android 5.0 upgrade. The Galaxy S5 Lollipop release is going to be substantial, it's a new device, but we should see at least some of these features emerge for owners of older devices like the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3.
Now, it's important to note that this is an early build. Things could certainly change between now and the release. However, the overall look and feel of the update should not change too much between now and its arrival. This early preview is a huge breakthrough for Galaxy users and those who are interested in moving up from Android 4.4 KitKat would be wise to take a look.
First Samsung Galaxy Lollipop Release Rumored
The Samsung Galaxy S5 Android 5.0 Lollipop release is heavily rumored for 2014 and more specifically, December. That window is not confirmed and there's no way to tell if Samsung is going to stick with that release window or not. Remember, release dates are heavily dependent on testing. And while the Galaxy S5 Lollipop release seems to be making substantial progress behind the scenes, it's still early, and that means that there is a chance things could take a turn for the worse.
We look at December as a best case scenario for Galaxy S5 users. If everything goes right in testing, we could see the Galaxy S5 Lollipop update released this year. We would not, however, be surprised if the update got pushed into the early part of 2015, perhaps January. December is an extremely tricky month because it's full of holidays. Holidays mean vacation time for employees and specifically, engineers.
December or January look like the safest bets for Samsung's first Android 5.0 Lollipop update and it's looking like the Galaxy S5 could be among the first to roll out.
Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop Release Date
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop release has also been rumored for November or December. This puts it right alongside the Galaxy S5. As we've pointed out, this makes sense. Historically, Samsung's updated its two flagship models in and around the same time. Earlier this year, the Galaxy Note 3 got Android 4.4 KitKat in January while the Galaxy S4 followed in February.
We're almost certain that the Galaxy Note 4 is going to be among the first to Lollipop and we would not be surprised if it arrived days before, or after, the arrival of the Galaxy S5's update. The same rules apply to this update. December is, in our eyes, the best case scenario. January could also happen should something pop up in the next few weeks.
Galaxy Note 3 Android Lollipop Release All but Confirmed
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Android Lollipop release hasn't been confirmed but thanks to the information we picked up on yesterday, it looks like an update is on the way. This isn't surprising at all. The Galaxy Note 3 has only received one major update in its year of existence and there's simply no way Samsung leaves it on Android 4.4 KitKat.
If the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4 are set to get the update in December or January, we'd expect the Galaxy Note 3 to get the update a few weeks later. Earlier this year, the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 got Android 4.4 in April and May respectively and we would not be surprised if the Galaxy Note 3 update pushed out in the early first half of next year.
The Galaxy Note 3 is a powerful device and its more than capable of handling the company's Android 5.0 software. It should be a part of Samsung's second wave of Android Lollipop updates.
Galaxy S4 Android 5.0 Release: 2015
Same goes for the Galaxy S4. The reliable SamMobile claims the Galaxy S4 Android 5.0 Lollipop update will be coming to the international GT-I9500 variant sometime in the early part of next year. A specific release date hasn't been nailed down, likely because it's a moving target.
Again, our best guess is that the Galaxy S4 rolls out sometime in Q1 or Q2 in close proximity to the Galaxy Note 3 Lollipop update. Expect the regular Galaxy S4 to get the update first, followed by variants like the Galaxy S4 Active.
Galaxy Users, Keep This In Mind
Now, keep this in mind. Samsung's Android roll outs usually take place over the better part of an entire year. So when we're talking about December and January release dates for these updates, we don't mean that for everyone.
International unbranded variants tend to be near the front of the pack. Carrier-dependent devices are at the mercy of Samsung and its armada of carriers. We hate to say it, but it's clear that Samsung plays favorites. U.S. carriers are typically in the front of the pack while smaller markets tend to suffer from delays and inactivity. It's just how it goes.
The point is, while the Galaxy S5 Android 5.0 Lollipop release might start next month, there are going to be some people that probably have to wait until Q2 or perhaps longer. We wouldn't be surprised if the initial upgrades stretched into summer while the second wave stretched into the fall. This looks like it's going to play out similar to the Android 4.4 release.
Most Galaxy Lollipop Updates in 2015
With two updates and two updates alone rumored for 2015, it's clear that a majority of Samsung's work is going to be done in 2015. Devices like the Galaxy Alpha and Galaxy Note Edge need to get upgraded. So do devices like the Galaxy S4 mini and Galaxy S5 Active. There will be plenty of upgrades to go around but Samsung almost always rolls out its biggest updates first. If you own a mid-range phone or a no-name phone, you'll probably get the update next year.
Key Devices In Gray Android Update Area
There are also some people that probably won't get the update at all. Two key devices, the Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy S3, currently sit in a gray area. Samsung typically keeps devices updated for two years before kicking them aside. Both the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 are now more than two years old which means that they'll be lucky to get Android 5.0 Lollipop.
If Samsung does decide to jump to Android 5.0, these devices and other devices that arrived in and around their release dates, will almost certainly be last in line. Upgrades for older devices tend to take a lot of work and a lot of testing behind the scenes. We expect these devices to be low priority as well. Look for Samsung to upgrade the devices that are still being sold first.


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$1 home deal triggers property stampede in Sambuca, Italy
Town located on island of Sicily
By SILVIA MARCHETTI, CNN
Posted: 9:01 AM, January 18, 2019 Updated: 9:01 AM, January 18, 2019
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(CNN) - Tempted by the deal offering homes for just over $1 in the town of Sambuca on Italy's island of Sicily?
You and everyone else.
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Since CNN Travel broke the news about the €1 ($1.14) offer aimed at revitalizing a beautiful but depopulated community, there's been a stampede to buy.
Within 48 hours of the story going live, the town has been inundated with tens of thousands of inquiries from people hoping to grab their piece of the rural Italian dream.
Giuseppe Cacioppo, the town's deputy mayor, says he's excited by the level of interest, but is freaking out.
"This is great, I'm flabbergasted by the response," he says. "I haven't come up for air since the story appeared.
"It's just been a few days, and I'm already under stress. The €1 houses email inbox is full, so people have been calling me on my mobile. It hasn't stopped ringing. I have received something like a thousand phone calls, I hope not to go nuts."
The deputy mayor says the constant phone calls mean he hasn't been able to sleep. He's struggling to juggle his institutional role, private job and this new unexpected PR gig.
As of Friday, the town had received 38,000 emails about its deal, which requires buyers to promise to spend up to $17,200 to renovate their new Sicilian homes.
"The whole world has got in touch," Cacioppo adds. "Callers are from Europe, mainly Spain, Russia, and as far as South Africa, Australia, USA, the Arab Emirates."
And it's not just individuals and tourists lured by a dream house in sunny Sicily.
"A team of US lawyers, working for an American company interested in doing real estate business in Sambuca, wants to meet up with us," says Cacioppo.
"A businessman from New York just called me, saying he's flying to Sicily tonight.
"And a very rich lady called from Dubai. She wouldn't say her name or who she works for, but wants the whole package. She wants to buy all the dozens of €1 houses on sale."
Cacioppo says he's delighted the article has triggered such global interest but won't be able to satisfy all incoming requests.
Language barriers are making it all the more harder.
"That story has killed me," he jokes. "My English is OK -- not great -- but with other languages I must admit I have a hard time understanding what I'm being asked.
"It's not easy talking to people on the other side of the world over the phone."
Desparate buyers
Cacioppo says newspapers and TV outlets have gotten in touch with him, including Italy's state broadcaster, RAI, which had no idea of the initiative until CNN reported it. The Italian network now plans to run a special coverage on Sambuca.
Susanne Heinson, a German woman who has already bought a home in Sambuca and was quoted in CNN's original article about what makes it such a "great, perfect place to live in," says she's been tracked online by interested buyers and national German media.
"People get in touch to have more info about the location, what Sambuca is like, how's the lifestyle there," she says. "Many ask me to liaise with the town authorities and put them through to Cacioppo. Now I'm just worried Sambuca will stop being a niche place and that flocks of foreigners will arrive."
Many interested buyers have also targeted CNN's reporter via social media out of desperation to get a slice of the Sambuca action.
One woman from the United States implored: "Please, can you forward me the phone number of Cacioppo? I need to buy a house in Sambuca. I need to buy it NOW!"
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Janet Museveni, striking public universities non teaching staff meeting hits a snag.
Museveni Defends Kiboko Police. MPs to Resist Land Act Amendment. FDC Leadership in Crisis Meeting.


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comedy festivals May 17, 2021
Ramy Youssef Reflects on Performing at First Palestinian Comedy Festival
By Justin Curto
Photo: Danny Matson/Getty Images for SXSW
Ramy Youssef has broken ground as an Arab American comedian, both in the U.S. and in the Middle East. The comedian recently reflected on performing at the first comedy festival in Palestine, the 1001 Laughs Palestine Comedy Festival, in 2015. "we played to some of the most amazing crowds i've ever experienced," Youssef wrote on Instagram on May 15. "they laughed a lot, then fed us a lot of food." The Ramy star posted his memory of the festival amid a recent resurgence of conflict between Israeli forces and Palestinian people in Gaza, where nearly 200 have been killed in the past week, per Al Jazeera. (Of those, Israel has claimed ten deaths.) "we did shows in various spaces around the region because our audiences were under occupation, and unable to come to us," Youssef wrote of the political conditions in Palestine.
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The comedian went on to tell the story of one particular performance that "almost didn't happen" after the Israeli Defense Force would not let him enter Gaza. Youssef wrote that he and other comedians ended up performing via webcam for an audience in Gaza — "i think making us the original zoom comedians," he joked. During the post-show Q&A, he remembered, a girl asked how Palestinians could help with the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. "the girl who asked this question is currently a citizen of nowhere," Youssef wrote. "she's not welcome where she is, yet there is no way for her to leave. still the first thing she wanted to ask a group of americans, was how she could help us." Youssef, who often performs stand-up about being Muslim, continued, "israel and palestine is not about jews vs. muslims. this is about a group of people that is occupied," he wrote. "this is about holding the israeli government, and the united states government accountable— both in the region and in america."
"we should be able to speak up for that young girl in that way that she hopes to speak up for us," the comedian concluded. "and i wanna be able to get heckled in gaza." After Youssef made the Instagram post, fellow Muslim comedian Hasan Minhaj tweeted, "My brother @ramy perfectly encapsulates everything I've been feeling regarding what's been happening in Palestine. Please give it a read."
My brother @ramy perfectly encapsulates everything I've been feeling regarding what's been happening in Palestine. Please give it a read.
This may be seem politically challenging, but it is not morally complicated.
Occupied people anywhere are occupied people everywhere. pic.twitter.com/kghguPSuFO
— Hasan Minhaj (@hasanminhaj) May 17, 2021
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Марсело Алексис Вейгандт (; родился 11 января 2000, Авельянеда) — аргентинский футболист, защитник клуба «Бока Хуниорс».

Клубная карьера
Вейгандт — воспитанник клуба «Бока Хуниорс». 17 января 2019 года в поединке Торнео де Варана против «Унион Санта-Фе» Марсело дебютировал за основной состав. 1 сентября в матче против «Ривер Плейт» он дебютировал в аргентинской Примере.

В 2020—2021 годах на правах аренды выступал за «Химнасию и Эсгриму» из Ла-Платы.

Международная карьера
В 2017 году Вейгандт принял участие в юношеском чемпионате Южной Америки в Чили. На турнире он сыграл в матчах против команд Венесуэлы и Парагвая.

В 2019 года в составе молодёжной сборной Аргентины Вейгандт принял участие в молодёжном чемпионате мира в Польше. На турнире он сыграл в матчах против команд Португалии и Южной Кореи.

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Футболисты Аргентины
Игроки сборной Аргентины по футболу (до 20 лет)
Игроки ФК «Бока Хуниорс»
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A simple pencil holding jig allows me to scribe a line at just the right spot for trimming down the planking for the outer gunnel. I like to have the lip of he outwale fit close to the top of the planking without any gaps. This makes it easy. This sort of jig is also why I bought a proper pencil sharpener instead of just using my utility knife, the jig only works if the pencil point is consistently centered.
With the planking finished it is time to clean out any tack burrs from inside the ribs. If these are not removed the sander will catch them and create deep swirls in the cedar. Next is to sand the ribs. The planking was sanded beforehand, but the steaming process raises the grain on the ribs and this needs to be sanded prior to varnishing.
Varnish really shows off the new wood! I have used many types of varnish, but now I am sold on Epiphanes. It is predictable, builds up well so fewer coats are needed, and it doesn't run and sag much up near the gunnels! It doesn't matter how much you go back and check your work there always seems to be some sagging going on there.
I varnish prior to canvas so that the varnish does not wick between the planking and soak into the canvas. This seems to be the source of the dreaded paint blisters! Uncured varnish in the canvas heated by the sun. I have never had a repeat of the blister problem since reversing my canvas/varnish protocol.
Once the varnish is done it is time to fair the hull exterior.
I use my angel grinder to knock down the obvious high spots. This tool is fast and can cause damage quickly if you are not experience with it. It also makes a lot of dust, so you need to be prepared for that.
After the grinder, I pull out my big sanding block to further refine the surfaces, then I go over the hull with my random action sander, both 100 and 220 grit.
I finish with a coat of linseed oil and let it dry overnight prior to canvassing.
Finished hull showing the interior.
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CD40 ligation induces macrophage IL-10 and TNF-alpha production: differential use of the PI3K and p42/44 MAPK-pathways.
Foey AD., Feldmann M., Brennan FM.
Interleukin 10 (IL-10) is an anti-inflammatory cytokine produced in the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) joint by macrophages/monocytes and infiltrating peripheral blood derived lymphocytes. Recent data suggest a role for physical cell-to-cell interactions in the production of IL-10. In this report, we have investigated the signalling mechanisms involved in IL-10 production by peripheral blood-derived macrophages upon interaction with fixed CD40L transfectants. IL-10 and tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) are produced by macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF)-primed monocytes/macrophages in response to CD40 ligation. The utilization of the inhibitors, wortmannin and LY294002, demonstrated a role for phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) whereas rapamycin demonstrated p70 S6-kinase (p70S6K) involvement in the production of IL-10 by these monocytes. The production of TNF-alpha was enhanced by wortmannin and LY294002, suggesting negative regulation by PI3K; however, it was dependent on p70S6K suggesting a PI3K-independent mechanism of p70S6K activation. One alternative pathway that activates p70S6K independently of PI3K and also differentiates between IL-10 and TNF-alpha is the p42/44 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), which regulates TNF-alpha production in a PI3K-independent manner. These observations suggest that CD40 ligation induces macrophage IL-10 and TNF-alpha production, the mechanism of which is p70S6K-dependent yet bifurcates at the level of PI3K and p42/44 MAPK.
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Androstadienes, CD40 Antigens, CD40 Ligand, Chromones, Humans, In Vitro Techniques, Interleukin-10, Macrophages, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, Morpholines, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases, Transfection, Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha, Wortmannin


In the not so distant past, much of of our clothing was made here in America. With the advent of the union push to raise wages, and the low cost labor in the Asian countries and India the mills slowly closed; people lost jobs and towns died. One can travel through North and South Carolina and find towns that are shells of their former glory.
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After everything Nevada's been through, she knows that the danger won't be over until she figures out a way to keep her family safe. With the mysterious "Caesar" trying to kill her, her evil grandmother hunting for her, and Rogan's attentions distracting her, Nevada isn't sure whether she can keep herself alive long enough to accomplish anything for her family.
I've loved this series from the first book and this one was just as good. Everything I loved about the first two books from the world building to the characterizations was still perfect. I have zero complaints about the plot as well. I read the book in one sitting, then reread it because I enjoyed it so much.
I do want to talk about the ending, which was a touch disappointing. Without giving away too many spoilers, I will say it was very neatly completed. I expected another twist or something a little shocking, but instead everything went smoothly. Also, there is absolutely no way this book was the last in the series. The final scene in the epilogue made that very clear, so I'm hoping the authors are able to write more.
Like all the previous books in this series, I absolutely recommend this book. The world building, the plot, and the characters were all wonderfully written. The ending was a touch disappointing, but it barely took away from my overall enjoyment of this book.


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Q: OpenCV Template Matching Error #include "opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp"
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>

using namespace std;
using namespace cv;

/// Global Variables
Mat img; Mat templ; Mat result;
char* image_window = "Source Image";
char* result_window = "Result window";

int match_method;
int max_Trackbar = 5;

/// Function Headers
void MatchingMethod( int, void* );

/** @function main */
int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
  /// Load image and template
  img = imread( "test.png", 1 );
  templ = imread( "template.png", 1 );

  /// Create windows
  namedWindow( image_window, CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE );
  namedWindow( result_window, CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE );

  /// Create Trackbar
  char* trackbar_label = "Method: \n 0: SQDIFF \n 1: SQDIFF NORMED \n 2: TM CCORR \n 3: TM CCORR NORMED \n 4: TM COEFF \n 5: TM COEFF NORMED";
  createTrackbar( trackbar_label, image_window, &match_method, max_Trackbar, MatchingMethod );

  MatchingMethod( 0, 0 );

  waitKey(0);
  return 0;
}

/**
 * @function MatchingMethod
 * @brief Trackbar callback
 */
void MatchingMethod( int, void* )
{
  /// Source image to display
  Mat img_display;
  img.copyTo( img_display );

  /// Create the result matrix
  int result_cols =  img.cols - templ.cols + 1;
  int result_rows = img.rows - templ.rows + 1;

  result.create( result_cols, result_rows, CV_32FC1 );

  /// Do the Matching and Normalize
  matchTemplate( img, templ, result, match_method );
  normalize( result, result, 0, 1, NORM_MINMAX, -1, Mat() );

  /// Localizing the best match with minMaxLoc
  double minVal; double maxVal; Point minLoc; Point maxLoc;
  Point matchLoc;

  minMaxLoc( result, &minVal, &maxVal, &minLoc, &maxLoc, Mat() );

  /// For SQDIFF and SQDIFF_NORMED, the best matches are lower values. For all the other methods, the higher the better
  if( match_method  == CV_TM_SQDIFF || match_method == CV_TM_SQDIFF_NORMED )
    { matchLoc = minLoc; }
  else
    { matchLoc = maxLoc; }

  /// Show me what you got
  rectangle( img_display, matchLoc, Point( matchLoc.x + templ.cols , matchLoc.y + templ.rows ), Scalar::all(0), 2, 8, 0 );
  rectangle( result, matchLoc, Point( matchLoc.x + templ.cols , matchLoc.y + templ.rows ), Scalar::all(0), 2, 8, 0 );

  imshow( image_window, img_display );
  imshow( result_window, result );

  return;
}

While using the example code from opencv I come across the following error. I am pretty new to QT C++ and I don't know how to debug this. Normally in Java I would use stacktrace and tell me where in the code I am screwing up but this seems to point directly to the library.

OpenCV Error: Assertion failed (corrsize.height <= img.rows +
  templ.rows - 1 && corrsize.width <= img.cols + templ.cols - 1) in
  crossCorr, file c:/OpenCV/opencv /modules/imgproc/src/templmatch.cpp,
  line 70 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cv::Exception'
  what():  c:/OpenCV/opencv/modules/imgproc/src/templmatch.cpp:70:
  error: (-215)  corrsize.height <= img.rows + templ.rows - 1 &&
  corrsize.width <= img.cols + te mpl.cols - 1 in function crossCorr

UPDATE: The built .exe file runs but not when it's launched from QtCreator. I was able to launch the built .exe file. I copied over the files from the QtSDK/Simulator/mingw/bin and to my surprise the application ran successfully. When I click the Run button inside Qt Creator it will throw the same error message above.

A: I got the same error when I had given incorrect file names as image/templ. If you give incorrect file names, it wouldn't give an error, but the created Mat would be of size (0,0). Hence the assertion error.
When I gave the correct image, the program was working well.
My output (with correct image filenames)

P.S. I am using OpenCV 2.4.0

A: The problem arises from result Mat size, when you use create method of Mat first parameter is number of rows and second one is number of col, so you should change result.create( result_cols, result_rows, CV_32FC1 ); to result.create( result_rows, result_cols, CV_32FC1 );

A: I had the same problem - I could only get it to work after forceably changing both types, like so:
cvtColor(src,src,CV_8UC1);  //channels need to match template
cvtColor(template,template,CV_8UC1);  //channels need to match template

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Concerted effort early leads to Colorado blowout victory
By Adam Dunivan | adunivan@prairiemountainmedia.com | Boulder Daily Camera
There are still a lot of reasons to be afraid of the Colorado Eagles if you're an ECHL team bound for the postseason. Just ask the defending ECHL champion Florida Everblades and the most recent CHL champion Fort Wayne Komets.
While the Eagles were a much flashier team back in November when they played Florida, the current roster certainly did enough to prove itself by scoring 10 goals in the past two games. On Saturday night, the defensive effort matched that of the offense, and Colorado cruised to a 6-1 victory to take two of three against the Komets.
Two goals in the first 2:21 of the game paved the way, but the effort through 60 minutes was solid as the team remained above the .500 mark and made up for a so-so showing on Friday night. Cody Sol scored twice, and four others found the net while on defense the Komets were held to just 14 shots on goal — just one more than the Eagles team record.
"The mental preparation was there tonight, and that's probably one of the things we've been lacking," said head coach Chris Stewart. "When we get on the board early, we're pretty salty defensively."
Added defenseman Arthur Bidwill: "(Friday) was kind of a wake-up call for us not to get complacent, and tonight I thought we got out there and did a lot of the little things right, and we did it for 60 minutes."
Keep in mind, the Komets had seven power plays to work with on Saturday. That makes the shots against stand out even more, and also put the number of blocked shots in the spotlight, too. Eagles defenders made it hard all around for Fort Wayne, a team that had six goals the night before.
"A lot of blocked shots, absolutely. The guys did very well in getting in front of them, and they played the angles well," Stewart said.
Between the two champions, each coming from the Eastern Conference, the Eagles finished 4-2, winning in grand fashion a couple of times and also getting a couple of close victories, including Wednesday's 2-1 outcome.
This time, the hosts were fired up from the start. Just 1:32 in, Kevin Ulanski set Sol up from behind the net into the high slot for a quick 1-0 lead. Sol made it 3-0 with one of his patented rocket slapshots from the top of the circle at 16:35 of the first, that coming after Dylan Hood scored on a wrist shot after a Fort Wayne turnover at 2:21.
The Komets led a 3-1 lead vanish in the first period on Friday, but the Eagles were determined not to repeat that. They held the visitors to just three shots in the first — a season-low — and then made it 4-0 with a Joey Sides score just 55 seconds into the middle frame.
Sides, Hood and Michael Forney finished with a goal and an assist each.
The Eagles also got a big boost from a Jason Beatty fight early on, and Kyle Jones honed in on keeping Fort Wayne subdued despite not seeing action since Jan. 26. He made 13 stops to put a halt on a personal six-game losing streak.
"Our forwards were playing unbelievable. It helps when they're coming (on the back check) so hard, just makes it a lot easier for the defensemen to stay up and try and keep them out of the zone," Bidwill added.
While his squad still hasn't been able to reel off a nice win streak, Stewart is still noticing some positive trends that could lead to such a streak or two later on. Perhaps even in April or May.
"Overall, our game and our game plan, they've executed pretty well. They've held their lanes, picked up the right man, played tight to the vest … that's the important thing right now, at this time of the year."
Adam Dunivan can be reached at 669-5050 ext. 511, at adunivan@reporter-herald.com or on Twitter @RHEaglesBeat.
Eagles 6, Komets 1
At Budweiser Events Center
Fort Wayne 0 1 0 — 1
Colorado 3 2 1 — 6
First Period — 1, Colorado, Sol 4 (Ulanski, Kaunisto), 1:32. 2, Colorado, Hood 8 2:21. 3, Colorado, Sol 5 (Bowman, Hood), 16:35 (PP). Penalties-Hood Col (slashing ), 10:05; Schrock Fw (fighting — major), 13:02; Beatty Col (fighting — major), 13:02; Henley Fw (slashing ), 16:17;
Second Period — 4, Colorado, Sides 20 (Smeltzer, Forney), 0:55. 5, Colorado, Haddon 6 (Beatty), 4:41 (SH). 6, Fort Wayne, Beauregard 19 (Marino, Giosa), 19:13. Penalties-Sides Col (high-sticking), 3:40; Firman Fw (fighting — major), 10:48; Lange Col (roughing, fighting — major), 10:48; Kaunisto Col (hooking), 12:15; Klotz Fw (roughing, double — roughing), 15:11; Smith Fw (roughing), 15:11; Bowman Col (roughing), 15:11; Smeltzer Col (roughing, slashing ), 15:11;
Third Period — 7, Colorado, Forney 23 (Sides), 18:46. Penalties-Wheeler Fw (slashing ), 4:48; Ostrow Col (interference on the goalkeeper), 5:20; Sol Col (interference), 7:57; Klotz Fw (slashing, fighting — major), 10:09; Sol Col (fighting — major), 10:09; Henley Fw (roughing, misconduct), 13:50; Hegarty Fw (slashing), 14:45; Forney Col (slashing ), 19:41.
Shots on goal — Fort Wayne 14, Colorado 30.
Power Plays — Fort Wayne 0 for 7; Colorado 1 for 6.
Goalies — Fort Wayne, Effinger (30 shots– 24 saves); Colorado, Jones (14-13).
Attendance — 5,289.
Adam Dunivan
Adam Dunivan has been with the Daily Camera since 2013 and has 17 years of high school, college and pro sports reporting experience in Colorado.
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Five Guys -- with locations across the country -- is a safe place to go and get a gluten-free meal. The only thing in the entire burger and fry restaurant that contains gluten is the buns. And we just bring our own. We also ask that they be careful about handling the burger patties we order for our son, who is GF...we ask that they use clean gloves and that the patty doesn't come into contact with any bread. They do not grill buns on the hamburger grill, so no need to worry about that potential pitfall. They will put your burger in foil, and you can choose from about a dozen different fixin's (mushrooms, grilled onions, cheese, pickles, ketchup, etc.), and there is no upcharge for any of them. The fries are GF as well, and nothing else is fried in the fryer. The burgers are great -- they use fresh ground beef (not frozen patties), and their menu is trans-fat free. They use peanut oil to fry their french fries, and there are peanuts everywhere (to munch on while you wait), so avoid this place if you have a peanut allergy! But if you need only avoid gluten, bring a bun and enjoy delicious burgers and fries with all your family and friends!