The U.S. presidential primaries are essentially in the books and people around the world are watching closely as the general election draws closer. And nowhere may that be more true than in Mexico.
It's not surprising that Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party, has gotten a lot of attention south of the border. The candidate has broadly attacked Mexican immigrants as a group in an effort to play to anti-immigration sentiment in the United States.
"From the moment Mr. Trump began his campaign calling Mexicans rapists and criminals; they didn't take too kindly to that," said Shannon O'Neil, senior fellow for Latin American studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
A dummy made by Mexican craftsman Felipe Linares representing US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen at his workshop in Mexico City on March 24, 2016.
People in Mexico agree with O'Neil's assessment.
"Regardless of where in Mexico, the people here don't want Donald Trump to win," said Eloisa Hernandez, a 29-year-old restaurant owner from Queretaro, Mexico, nearly three hours outside of Mexico City.
Carlos Ramos Linares, a 27-year-old community manager for Tribuna Comunicacion, a media outlet based in Puebla, about two hours outside of Mexico City, told CNBC that a Trump win could have repercussions not only in Mexico, but across all of Latin American.
"If he wins, I think that, because of all his threats — like making us pay for the wall — there would be a political conflict that would take place not just in Mexico, but all over Latin America. Trump's racism isn't just against Mexicans, but rather against all of Latin America," he told CNBC by telephone.
Mexicans' views on Clinton are more mixed.
"I think Hillary Clinton is the best option for Mexico," Hernandez said. "Having a woman as a U.S. president would empower women across Latin America, in terms of politics."
However, a Clinton presidency could stir up bad memories, especially for those living near the border.
"It was the Clintons who put up the fence that we currently have," said Manuel Ocano, a freelance journalist living in Chula Vista, California, just seven miles north of the border. In 1994, President Bill Clinton's administration began the construction of the fence that divides the U.S. and Mexico.
Ocano added, however, that "Donald Trump doesn't know anything about the border. People here live with one foot on each side of the fence."
In 2007, Tecate firefighters crossed the border to put out the wildfires in San Diego County and saved an Anglo woman, Ocano said. She thanked the firefighters by making them a home-cooked meal. "She didn't speak a word of Spanish … but they didn't need words to communicate."
He noted that there are people who go across the border — from both directions — for work, shopping and other matters.
But regardless of who wins, the ongoing election could have serious consequences for relations between the United States and Mexico.
"We have a high-level U.S.-Mexican relationship going back a few years now," O'Neil from the Council on Foreign Relations said. Mexico is one of the United States' biggest economic partners, with bilateral trade totaling at least $500 billion each of the past three years, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
"In the last 10 to 15 years, the U.S.-Mexico relationship has grown exponentially," Peter Schechter, director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council, told CNBC by telephone.
From 2000 to 2015, Mexican-imported goods increased by nearly 120 percent and, from 1990 to 2015, they rose about 882 percent, Census data showed. Exports from the U.S. to Mexico, meanwhile, rose about 112 percent from 2000 to 2015 and more than 730 percent from 1990 to 2015.
"And yet ... Mexico has become the poster child for everything wrong with trade and immigration," Schechter said. "With all of these facts, it is amazing to me that Mexico has become the poster child for everything wrong with trade."
Trading relations between the two countries could suffer dearly under a Trump presidency, said Carlos Cardenas, head of Latin American country risk analysis at IHS, a Colorado-based research firm.
"The relationship [between Mexico and the U.S.] will be affected if Trump persists with his rhetoric against Mexico, but the Mexican government will take a wait-and-see approach," he told CNBC. "But it depends on how far his rhetoric goes" and whether he takes a more pragmatic approach.
On the flip side, a Clinton presidency could look a lot like President Barack Obama's from Mexico's perspective.
"The leadership in Mexico with a Clinton presidency would be a continuation of many of the things that are already under way," O'Neil of the Council on Foreign Relations said.
IHS' Cardenas echoed O'Neil's remarks, adding he expects more dialogue on fighting narcotics and strengthening trade and investment between the two countries if Clinton wins.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic Council's Schechter said, "I'm very hopeful that if Clinton does win, there would be continued improvement in U.S.-Mexican relations," but the negative rhetoric against Mexicans will not be entirely forgotten.


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Piston: Big Bills Giving Customers Some New Clouds To Think About
Cloud Native Ecosystem
Sep 10th, 2014 5:01am by Nancy Gohring
As much as big cloud infrastructure providers might not like it, companies still find that at a certain size it continues to make sense to move cloud operations on-premises. It turns out that size also impacts decisions around those internal implementations.
With an Amazon Web Services bill in the "solid five figures" or into six figures each month, businesses are still shifting to internal clouds, said Joshua McKenty, CTO of Piston. "That threshold has been weirdly static," he said. A monthly public cloud bill of that size tends to indicate a solid business, one that makes investing in an internal data center feel safe, he said.
Piston is also finding that size determines whether a business goes with a commercial distribution, like Piston, or takes on the work of adopting raw OpenStack. "Our best customers have a lot of developers but they make up less than, say, 20 or 25 percent of their total staff," he said.
In fact, Piston has a sales targeting tool that includes percentage of developers at a company. "We can figure out if you're probably never going to buy our product," he said.
Many of the big OpenStack implementations at places like Yahoo, Bloomberg, PayPal and GoDaddy have used the raw code rather than a supported distribution.
These companies "have enough developers to believe they can do it from the raw open source," McKenty said.
There are some businesses that went with the raw code – a challenging prospect, by most accounts – and later converted to Piston's distribution. They lose any custom work they did but some such companies have decided it's worth it to move to a supported distribution, he said.
Bloomberg, one of the early large enterprises to talk about its internal OpenStack deployment, has more than 3,000 in-house "technologists," said Justin Erenkrantz, head of cloud architecture for Bloomberg. It implemented the raw OpenStack.
"We have a strong preference toward open source," he said.
In fact, Piston has talked to Bloomberg but said that its preference for open source prevented Bloomberg from deciding to go with Piston, McKenty said. However, McKenty had the sense that Bloomberg might be interested in pieces of Piston's product, if they were available separately. That's one reason that Piston is working on the possibility of offering its product in a more modular fashion so that businesses could potentially buy pieces that they're interested in, he said.
Pure size surely wasn't the primary reason that Bloomberg went internal or chose to do OpenStack on its own. A lot of Bloomberg customers connect directly to its services rather than doing so over the public Internet, Erenkrantz said. It would make little sense, then, for Bloomberg to run its operations in a public cloud.
Bloomberg does use Amazon Web Services for consumer facing applications like Bloomberg.com and Businessweek.com, he said.
For companies that are on the fence about whether a shift to an internal cloud makes sense, Piston is just rolling out a total cost of ownership calculator that anyone can use to compare the price of using AWS compared to Piston. Users enter vCPUs, RAM, storage, hardware vendor and monthly AWS bill. The calculator will show, with Piston, how many cloud servers you'd need, the estimated hardware cost, monthly OpEx and licensing costs. The calculator includes costs for administrators and power.
Piston had been offering a similar comparison often, when potential customers ask for it, so the company decided to make the calculator available to anyone.
It's a pretty bare bones calculator – comparing costs across clouds is notoriously difficult because you're never comparing apples to apples. But for very straightforward AWS deployments, it might help.
Piston is making a couple other updates today, including support for Intel's Trusted Execution Technology, which can prevent the introduction of rogue servers. Also, users will be able to control updates to Piston, rather than use the live update service, if they want to do so for security reasons. The update also includes support for Icehouse.
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The rain has just stop but did not completely stop. Gazing out my front door, I saw a humming bird bathing under the gushing water from the gutter. I quickly ran and get my camera. That was a quick under 10 seconds sprint but the bird is no where to be seen. Too bad, the bird didn't want to be seen bathing nakid and probably ended up in the blogsphere. Boohoo!
Since I have my camera in my hand, I just shot the water droplet from the fence.
Timing has to be right even thought the cam was set at multiple shots. Out of 20, this is the closest to what I've wanted.
And out of 50, I could only managed to capture 2 shots with the water splashing. Obviously the water drops from the roof/gutter.
Aitelyu, I spent a good 20 minutes squatting in the water puddle snapping this. By the time I'm done, you can see me walking like a duck. My bad back la!
Tulips and cherry blossom are two type of my favourite flowers. Since it is now Spring in most of the 4 season country, I can't help but to ogle over their p.r.e.t.t.y flowers. Wuching is someone who loves gardening thus his enthusiasm helps him to start a new gardening blog. And each time I am there, I will go so envy looking at his props that my face is starting to turn green like his plants too.
Since Wuching lub me so much and he is afraid that one day I might turn into a Shreak, he decided to sent over a bouquet of flowers to me all the way from Melbourne (Read: PROVIDED THE FLOWERS BLOOM!) so that I won't die with a green face.
Well, the package is here now. Woohoo!
Infact, this is supposed to be a post-dated post. The package arrived last week. He is quite skeptical that the tulip will grow in our climate but I just have to try. Who know! And he insisted that I try daffodil too cos they are easier to grow than tulip.
Upon opening the package, beside the 2 packet of bulbs, Terese (his darling) included 2 packets of dried pineapple. Awww… isn't she sweet? If I would have known, I will ask him to stuff in a packet of Tim Tam. Aussie Tim Tam is such a die for! If you must check out the price, a packet of Tim Tam in Jaya Jusco cost you about RM10.90!
This is how a bulbs looks like.
The one on the left is daffodils and on the right is tulips. Before we put the tulips in the soil, we must play a trick on the bulbs first. It says here on the direction to put the bulbs in a paper bag and place them in the crisper compartment in your fridge for 30 days. This is to trick the bulbs that winter is over and it is now time to sprout. Smart eh?
Instead of putting them in a paper bag (which I assume newspaper), I have a special container from Tupperware to keep my greens crisp and fresh.
There it goes, the tulip bulbs. I'll see you in a months time.
What is your reaction when your dotter came home and told you that she has been sharing her lunch with her classmate? Well, I did not want her to be selfish and at the same time, I want her to be aware of some classmate who likes to take advantage on people (like getting a feel meal!). And of course I asked if her classmate bring a lunch box too. The answer is yes but not as luxurious as mine! . Well, she also claimed that they have been sharing meals and her friend's bread with honey is yummy. I almost puke. So from there onwards, I make sure I have something extra for her friend so that dotter will have a more fulling meal.
For this bento, I have some mini cupcake which I baked the night before, carrot sticks and dip.
I don't know why lately my link is not showing up in Technorati and almost miss this Meme from Wuching. So here you go, a simple Five question meme to be posted on a Friday. Lame!
I am no busybody. Usually I will just watch. But comes to housework, I would prefer to RUN!
I would prefer the traditional way to use scoop. Nothing beats the adrenaline rush from the water above you. You know how sometimes a shower can potong stim when the water pressure is low.
Both also lazy. Voice recording can ah?
p/s: This meme is to be posted on a Friday. And that is an order! Hmm… I wonder who started this meme tho.
I have 2 existing bento box at home – a 2 compartment bento and a 2 tier bento. But I want something that look sweet for my girl. I mean Princess! And of course I did some searching on the internet and saw quite a number of Hello Kitty face bento selling at US$9. Well, I was tempted to get them but decided to do more searching and also compare prices locally. And guess what? I went to a shop at my place and they had the same Hello Kitty bento box! I don't even have to think about the price before buying. That is really a steal. From Japan somemore!
The kids has these on a rush Sunday morning – Jacob's cracker with tuna mayonnaise. Squeeze a lime juice on the tuna if you hate the fishy smell.
Check out Bento Mania #1 here.
Ok. I know some of you is waiting to see the Coach bag. Well, infact, Hubby bought me other designs instead of the one I asked him to. Both also patch work. Yes! The patch work! I can hear Giddy Tigress screaming in the background. lol.
These two are new edition. When I first saw them in their website, the 2nd patch work looks exactly like my Grandma's blanket. But in real, they are really beautiful!
Other than the Coach bag, Hubby got me a Guess hip length blouse too.
The blinkers is exactly what I bought last year except that is is a over lap V shape neck with hip length blouse. Nice!
And this dress really surprise me!
I have been reading KookyCulinary for a year now and always looking forward to read what she've prepared for her kid's bento. And one fine day, the bunch of grapes that I've bought from Giant just inspired me. Yea, nothing too complicated. I don't even have to think. The next day and rest of the days (keeping my finger cross), my kids have been bringing at least 2 varieties of food to school.
For the start, this is what I can think of. Something simple. I am on my next shopping spree for bento set and the accessories. Drop me a line if you know of any place in KL/PJ that sell bento supplies. Arigato gozaimasu!
My kids just simply love mushrooms and last Sunday, I decided to turn them into 4 'Ms' – Mushrooms Mania on Mouthful Monday! I just simply create this stir fry of Enoki and Bunashimeji mushrooms. Note: I was told that mushroom contains lots of uric acid which is bad for gout. Make sure you eat moderately. Too much of everything is not a good thing tho.
Heat wok with 2 tablespoons of oil. Saute garlic and ginger till fragrant. Add in one rice bowl of water, bring to boil. At the meantime, season stock with oyster sauce or anything of your choice. Add in Bunashimeji to the boiling stock. Bring to boiled again. Lastly, add in Enoki mushroom. Bring stock to boil again and remove from wok. Don't over cook the mushroom. You should be able to do it quickly.
I'm not the type that is creative with garnishing to my dishes. Probably you can add in some spring onion or carrot. I forgo the carrot, cos we have having ABC chicken soup. If anyone of you cook this with improve version, let me know ya? Can learn a thing or two from you too.
Friends started to show concern when I mentioned it in my previous post that Hubby is away again to the States. Thank you guys. I feel so loved! I was then nicked name by one of the blogger as "The Lonely Wife of A Prominent Latuk".
With 3 kids at home, I wished I have the time to feel lonely. Wait till you see the dirty dishes in the kitchen! And a Latuk? I wish!
When I see my Coach bag!
Daddy called home from States in the morning to wish her a "Happy Burfday" and of course she is more than happy but can't control her EMOtion. Her voice started to choke and that sleepy eyes of hers slowly turned watery and red. Of course when Mummy see this, she can't control her EMOtion too. I think my daughter has my gene. Both of us is quite EMOtional type.
Since Daddy is not around, my Sister was kind enough to bring us out for dinner in TGIFridays. Awww….. see, I have the greatest Sister in the whole wide world!
And yes, I heard you, "TGIF again ah?" lol. We really love their yummillicious food and all the crazy stuff they chanted for the Birthday Girl.
But you know what? (S)he is (s)o (s)hy, (s)tunt, (s)peechless and her eyes starting to (s)well again.
You can tell by looking at her in the picture. Watch that guy in red. He has got all sort of action. Now look at my daughter, she just stood there like a statue and that smile is just so fake. Luckly the bunch of crazy guys notice it and quickly ended the session. So emo can die! I gave her hug so that she would feel better and told her TGIF is not her type. She is just too shy! (I was supposed to say EMO but didn't want her to rain again). So there you go, a emo birthday for her to remember.


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require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'

module Archangel
  describe SiteBuilder, "with a path setting" do
    it "should have a path which is different to the name" do
      site = Site.new(nil, {}, "my_name")
      b = SiteBuilder.new(site)
      b.path "custom/path"
      site.path.should == "custom/path"
    end
  end
end

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7 edition of William Caxton found in the catalog.
a bibliographical guide
by N. F. Blake
Published 1985 by Garland Pub. in New York .
Westminster (London, England),
Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491 -- Bibliography,
Printing -- England -- London -- History -- Origin and antecedents -- Bibliography,
Incunabula -- England -- London -- Bibliography,
Westminster (London, England) -- Imprints
Includes indexes.
Statement N.F. Blake.
Genre Bibliography.
Series Garland reference library of the humanities ;, vol. 524
LC Classifications Z232.C38 B645 1985
Pagination x, 227 p. ;
This banner text can have markup.. web; books; video; audio; software; images; Toggle navigation. The book is the largest which Caxton translated, and the words "By me William Caxton" may apply quite as much to the translation as to the printing, and it is no doubt that De Worde retained it .
The book known informally as the "Caxton Bible" was printed in for the Caxton Celebration in South Kensington. No record of Caxton's marriage or of the birth of his children has been found, but Gerard Croppe was separated from his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Caxton, before , when Croppe made certain claims in connection with Publisher. Originally published by William Caxton in , our August 'book of the month' is a copy of the second edition which was produced in about Caxton is extremely important not only for introducing the art of printing to England, but also for his influence on the development of English language and literature.
Printed by William Caxton, in Bruge, Belgium, the Game and Playe of the Chess was the 2nd book ever printed in the English language (the first was an obscure history of Troy). Rare 'unknown' 15th century text by English print pioneer William Caxton found in book spine could fetch £, The two pages from a priest handbook were found in a box at Reading University.
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Homes on the Hudson
The Temple Shakespeare / [with preface, glossary & etc. by Israel Gollancz]
The Cultural Landscape
Kiwitowns port
The Collectors encyclopedia
John S. Edgar.
Records of the Court of Appeals in the New York State Archives
Civilians in War (International Peace Academy Occasional Paper)
Eve and David (Large Print Edition): (Lost Illusions Part III)
Unification of some advection schemes in two dimensions
Voices from Strathclyde
teaching cost function for higher education.
A sermon preached at Haverhill, Mass., in remembrance of Mrs. Harriet Newell, wife of the Rev. Samuel Newell, missionary to India
The works of Samuel Johnson
Resolutions of the General Assembly of the Mississippi Territory of the United States
The Vickers and Purcell controversy...
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William Caxton, (born c. Kent, England—diedLondon), the first English printer, who, as a translator and publisher, exerted an important influence on English literature. In he was apprenticed to Robert Large, a rich mercer, who in the following year became lord mayor of died inand Caxton moved to Brugge, the centre of the European wool trade; during the.
Caxton's own translation of 'The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye' was the first book printed in the English language. In Caxton returned to London and established a press at Westminster.
William Caxton has books on Goodreads with ratings. William Caxton's most popular book is The History of Reynard the Fox. William Caxton ( – ) was a printer, diplomat, writer and merchant.
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George destroying the dragon, the company logo, sums up this world view. This venture encompasses literary and narrative non. William Caxton (c. – c. ) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England, inand /5(5).
The Book of the Knight of the Tower (full French title: Livre pour l'enseignement de ses filles du Chevalier de La Tour Landry) is a book commenced by Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry inand which he continued writing at least until It was translated into English (as The Book of the Knight of the Tower) by William Caxton and completed, according to his colophon, on 1 Juneduring.
Le Morte D'Arthur - Kindle edition by Malory, Sir Thomas, Caxton, William. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Le Morte D'Arthur.4/4(92).
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William Caxton Ltd Books. Home. Ellison Bay WI. Browsing the shelves of this jam-packed, used book emporium in Ellison Bay WI, a friend was thrilled and surprised to come across several South American novels that she'd been unable to find anywhere in her Chicago hometown. What less would you expect from a shop w plus titles that is.
Caxton's second book, the "Game & Pleye of Chess", another translation from the French, came, it is almost certain, from the same press in The highest point of interest in Caxton's life is reached when inreturning to England, he set up a printing press of his own at Westminster.
The first dated book issued from this press was the. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round Table: The Text of Caxton, Volume 1 by William Caxton, Edward Strachey, Thomas Malory ISBN (). William Caxton was both the first to print a book in English, and the first English printer.
He realised the commercial potential of the new technology while working as a merchant in the Low Countries and Germany, birthplace of printing in Europe. Late in or early in Caxton set up his own printing press in London. William Caxton printed over books, many of which were admired for their accurate editing and their craftsmanship.
He also translated many books from Latin, Dutch and French. William Caxton was buried in St. Margaret's Church, in the grounds of Westminster Abbey, London.
A memorial was unveiled in the abbey inclose to where Caxton. Translated by William Caxton from a prose version of the Image du monde (or Livre de clergie) attributed by some authorities to Gossuin, by others to Gautier, of Metz.
It is derived from various Latin sources, chiefly the Imago mundi, probably comp. by Honorius Solitarius. George Sarton. The text comes from William Caxton's Eneydos; the full title from the colophon is Here fynyssheth the boke yf Eneydos, compyled by Vyrgyle, which hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me wyll[ia]m Caxton, the xxij.
daye of Iuyn. the yere of our The fythe yere of the regne of kynge Henry the seuenth. WILLIAM CAXTON, THE GAME AND PLAYE OF THE CHESSE, INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTES 1 For an extended discussion of Caxton and his use of the Liber, see Adams, Power of this introduction has been framed by my work in that volume.
2 Such diagrams, more commonly known as chess problems, were popular in the Middle Ages, as they are today. 3 In this story, popular. The first book to include an original leaf from the works of William Caxton was published in William Caxton, by E. Gordon Duff (Chicago: The Caxton Club, ).
Four other editions of Caxton's leaves followed in the next three decades. Our Collection Highlight is one of them. The William Caxton offers a full pub menu including sandwiches, pasta dishes and homemade burgers. As well as a range of wines, the bar serves ales and lagers from Kent's Shepherd Neame brewery and a selection of teas and coffees/10().
Author of Legenda aurea, Dialogues in French and English, Prologues and epilogues, The Tracts Of Clement Maydeston, Game and Playe of the Chesse, Caxton's Book Of Courtesy, Lyf Of The Noble And Crysten Prynce, Charles The Grete, Caxton's advertisement.William Caxton >The first English printer, William Caxton (), printed a total of >about different works.
He also translated some 24 books, all but one of >which he printed. William Caxton said that he was born in the Weald [1] of Kent, but his exact birthplace is unknown.William Caxton (c.
– c. ) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer, and is thought to be the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England, which he did in He was also the first English retailer of printed books; his London contemporaries in the trade were all Flemish, German, or French.
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Living in the suburbs can be such a relief. Not only do you have a neighbourhood free of downtown traffic; you also have cleaner air to breathe. While the area outside could be one less thing to worry about for suburban residents, it might be a different story for the home interiors. Because you are in charge of the clutter and cleanliness indoors, do not forget to clean these parts of your household.
According to carpet cleaning services specialists, your carpet is the first thing indoors that could get dirty. Since this is the place that guests would step their shoes on to wipe dirt off them, bacteria or moulds could grow on these materials.
Curtains would be another thing to clean, especially if you open your windows a lot. These window accessories could get dust on them, which could cause allergies if not cleaned.
Pillowcases, blankets and bed sheets would need to get washed and replaced whenever they get too dirty. Unclean beddings could cause sickness to spread and trigger acne on the skin.
Forks, knives and spoons get used regularly. Because these materials handle food, they need to stay sanitised so that bacteria will not get on your meals.
Like utensils, dirty cooking ware could compromise food safety. Pots, pans, grills, spatulas and such should get washed regularly and stored in sanitised containers.
Chairs, beds and tables are furniture pieces that people use a lot. The sweat and other bodily fluids that might get on these pieces could attract bacteria, which require homeowners to clean the said furniture when necessary.
To sum it up, suburban living presents many benefits to its residents. The cleaner outdoors is a welcome relief, but the indoors would be the homeowners' responsibility. Regular cleaning of furniture, cooking ware, carpets, curtains and beddings would ensure that you are able to maintain a well-kept household.
Dirty Carpets and Your Health: Why Should You Be Concerned?


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Sheet Pan Chicken Stir Fry is a quick and easy way to make stir fry!
In general stir fry is not hard to make. It is actually quite easy, but it does take a little bit of time standing by your stove stirring things in the wok or pan.
It is kind of hard to walk away from a stir fry that is cooking. That is why I love this sheet pan chicken stir fry.
If you want a true Asian stir fry than this recipe is probably not for you. But if you are trying to get quick and easy healthy meals on the table for your family than this recipe is perfect!
We love this way of cooking stir fry. My husband requested that we eat it more often because he enjoyed it so much. And the leftovers were great in his lunch the next day.
One of the things I love about this is that you can vary the vegetables with what you have on hand or what is on sale. Just about anything will work in this. So use what you like or what you have on hand.
I have only tried this with chicken, but I am going to try it with pork and beef soon. The meat has more flavor if you marinade it all day, but you don't have to.
6 – 7 cups cut up or sliced vegetables, onions, peppers, broccoli, carrots, green beans, mushrooms, etc. If using snow peas or a vegetable that only needs a few minutes cook time keep it separate so that you can add it at the very end of cooking.
Place oil, soy sauce, cornstarch brown sugar, honey, rice vinegar, hot sauce, ginger, and garlic in a large zip top type bag. Mix together well.
Add chicken to marinade mixture and mix to coat well. Place bag on a plate or bowl and refrigerate for 2-8 hours. It is best to make it up in the morning and let it marinate all day, but you can do it for just a couple hours as well. Or if you don't have time you can skip the marinade and just cook the chicken in the sauce. It will have more flavor if you marinade it though.
Pour chicken and marinade onto a large sheet pan or two smaller baking pans.
Remove from oven and stir in vegetables. Cook for 10-15 minutes more or until vegetables are tender and chicken is done. Add in snow peas and any other vegetables that only need a few minutes at the end of cooking time.
Sounds like my type of food and my type of cooking! I will be trying this recipe!
That looks so good. I hadn't thought of cooking it that way, but it would be a lot easier for me than cooking it on the stovetop.
It makes it really easy especially when you are cooking for a family and need a lot of stir fry.
What if you use frozen vegetables? Do you know if that would vary cooking times? Thanks!


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Daytime Roadwork Saves Money but Aggravates Drivers
You're returning to the office for a mid-day doctor's appointment and it's looking like you'll be ten minutes early for your three o'clock meeting when you see more bright red than a presidential electoral map of Oklahoma. After inching along for twenty minutes, you arrive at the head of the traffic jam and find a […]
You're returning to the office for a mid-day doctor's appointment and it's looking like you'll be ten minutes early for your three o'clock meeting when you see more bright red than a presidential electoral map of Oklahoma. After inching along for twenty minutes, you arrive at the head of the traffic jam and find a road crew repainting lane lines. Infuriating, right? Get used to it. As budgets bust across the country, more states are looking to move nighttime work to day in order to save money.
Art Kinsman, Director of Government Affairs for AAA of Southern New England told Wired.com that increased daytime road work is the result of some really tough economic times. "Daytime work causes more congestion, more wasted fuel, more emissions, people not getting from point A to point B on time, and that costs money too," Kinsman said. "That's a sign of how difficult it is right now in transportation to make it work. There's just not enough revenue coming in." In the meantime, drivers stuck in daytime traffic contribute to pollution and idle away gallons of fuel each year.
The alternatives to daytime roadwork aren't that appealing, either. There's very little support for raising taxes, increasing tolls, or letting infrastructure crumble. Plus, daytime roadwork has benefits for workers and motorists beyond saving money on overtime. How would you balance these competing interests? Let us know after the jump.
Daytime construction has taken a particularly heavy toll (har, har) in cash-strapped Massachusetts. Kinsman, who may have been stuck in some of the same Mass Turnpike traffic jams as this writer, told Wired.com that leaders in Boston would have to "step up and take some hard votes" in order to finance construction without jamming roadways with workers.
"As a motorist advocate, the shifting to the daytime does not make me happy. On a personal level as a motorist, it doesn't make me happy," Kinsman said. "The alternative is we need to do something. Sometime in the next couple of years, motorists are going to have to ante up something -- an increase in the gas tax or other revenue-generating methods that can be employed."
That doesn't sit well with Linh Tanh Ngo, the creator of a Facebook group entitled "What?! Daytime road construction again?! This is just bad politics." Ngo, who has been stuck in traffic while living in both Maryland and Louisiana, believes that higher taxes aren't a solution. "Only when government funding has been depleted should there bean increase to income/tolls/other taxes," Ngo told Wired.com. His solution? "The most favorable choice is to implement daytime construction on small roads only. Doing so should help prevent morning traffic accidents and save time for everyone."
It's also important to remember that motorists and the media are guilty of overestimating the financial incentive of moving nighttime roadwork to the day. There's a reason why nighttime work costs more: it's more dangerous to work at night, and the quality of work suffers. A 2001 metastudy (PDF) from Oregon State University found that in nearly all cases, worker safety is most important among decision-makers who determine what time of day construction will take place. Traffic control and congestion tie for first and second. Coming in dead last are cost, air quality, and fuel consumption.
Pretend you are a governor, making hard choices that affect how much motorists pay for gasoline and road-use, how often they waste time stuck in traffic, and how well motorists and non-motorists breathe. What tradeoffs or policy recommendations would you make? We fully expect to hear from both the "build more roads!" and "high speed rail now!" contingents.
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Martijn Kamps (Rolde, 4 februari 1987) is een Nederlands voetballer. Hij speelde voor FC Emmen.  Hij speelt het vaakst op het middenveld, maar incidenteel wordt hij ook wel is in de verdediging opgesteld. Nadat hij in zijn eerste seizoen als talent doorbrak kreeg hij al snel last van blessures waardoor hij in zijn eerste 3 seizoenen in de eerste selectie slechts 5 wedstrijden speelde. In het seizoen 2007/2008 was hij voor het eerst een lange periode blessurevrij wat resulteerde in 18 wedstrijden en bovendien een basisplaats in het team van trainer Gerry Hamstra. In de thuiswedstrijd van FC Emmen tegen TOP Oss maakte hij zijn eerste goal in het betaalde voetbal.

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InterLoire is the official interprofessional body for Loire Valley wines, inspired and created by winegrowers and négociants in the Pays Nantais, Anjou, Saumur and Touraine to promote and develop their 31 appellations, denominations and PGIs.
InterLoire plays an integral role within the Loire Valley, France's 3rd largest producer of appellation wines; its missions include economic governance, research and development, and the safeguarding and promotion of Loire Valley wines.
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THE INTERLOIRE AREA
InterLoire draws together 3,000 winegrowers, négociants and cooperatives, collectively producing an average of 2 million hectolitres per year - equivalent to 270 million bottles. It encompasses 31 appellations, denominations and PGIs across 43,000 hectares, covering 14 départements from the Vendée to Puy-de-Dôme, and accounting for some 80% of the Loire Basin's wine production volume.
A second interprofessional body - the Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins du Centre - works alongside InterLoire to promote the vineyards of the Loire Valley.
InterLoire is based on elected representation. Representatives are elected in equal number from the industry's two professional strands, and decision-making is a democratic process. The operational structure consists of 3 functional bodies:
1. The General Assembly, a governing body of 60 members.
30 of these members – all members are individuals - represent the region's winegrowers and make up the Viticultural College. A further 30 members, also individuals, represent the region's négociants; these constitute the College of Négociants.
The General Assembly elects the President and Vice-Presidents, members of the Executive Council and Special Interest Committees. It formulates InterLoire policy, approves budgets and ratifies the accounts for the preceding financial year.
The President is elected for a 3 year term, and comes alternately from the viticultural and the négociants' colleges. The current president is Jean-Martin Dutour, a négociant from the Chinon appellation. He was elected on June 27th 2017 and will be in office for three years.
2. The Strategic Orientation Committee
This is made up of 18 elected members, again with parity between the two professional strands. The SOC performs, or oversees the performance of, tasks allocated to it by the General Assembly. It determines strategic and budgetary parameters for proposals delivered by the committees.
The Strategic Orientation Committee is made up as follows:
From the College of Négociants
1. BOUGRIER Noël (Bougrier) Assistant Treasurer
2. BROCHET Frédéric (Ampelidae)
3. De FOUGEROUX François-Régis (Langlois Château)
4. DUTOUR Jean-Martin (Baudry Dutour) InterLoire and SOC President
5. EMEREAU Nicolas (Alliance Loire)
6. FLEISCHER Serge (Lacheteau)
7. JACOB Bernard (Ackerman) Secretary
8. LEFORT Rodolphe (Castel Frères)
9. LEMASSON Jérôme (Loire Propriétés)
From the Viticultural College:
1. BOURDIN Denis (FRCOOP VL)
2. BRAULT Olivier (FAV 49)
3. FORGEAU Joël (FAV 44) Assistant Secretary
4. GIOVANNONI Pierre-Antoine (VIF)
5. GOSSEAUME Lionel (FAV 41) Treasurer
6. JOURDAN Francis (FAV 37)
7. LECOMTE Olivier (LOIREVINBIO)
8. MENESTREAU Laurent (FAV 49) Vice President
9. MOTHERON Catherine (SIGP VL)
3. Special Interest Committees
These carry out tasks allocated by the Strategic Orientation Committee and General Assembly, reporting back regularly to the SOC.
The Technical and Quality Committee, chaired by Olivier Brault (Viticultural College)
Objectives: To examine technical issues and the associated requirements, whether applicable across the board or specific to one appellation; to determine the technical measures to be implemented and calculate the budget required.
The Markets and Economic Affairs Committee, chaired by Laurent Ménestreau (Viticultural College)
Objective: To analyse upstream and downstream marketing, helping the industry to optimise its positioning both in the medium and long term. The Committee aims to work proactively, anticipating and preparing for events which may affect the industry.
The Communications Committee, chaired by Pierre-Jean Sauvion (Négociants' College)
Objective: To define the Loire Valley's communications strategy within the general guidelines determined by the Strategic Orientation Committee. Promotional activity includes digital marketing, wine tourism, press relations and education; export is a major area of focus.
InterLoire's head office is located at: 62 rue Blaise Pascal, 37019 Tours, France.


Balkans & Black Sea Cooperation Forum, "Stability | Growth | Cooperation"
On May 25th & 26th in Serres, Greece, the Balkans & Black Sea Cooperation Forumunfolds 42 international speakers who will be shaping the entrepreneurial near-future of the Balkans & Black Sea region by bringing forward the geopolitical importance, recognizing challenges and identifying opportunities for untapped business and trading.
In plenary sessions, on May 25th Forum will provide outlook on EU, Balkans & Black Sea Perspectives and SDGs '' Roads of Energy "electricity & gas inter-connectivity '' Digital Economy & Innovation '' Women in Leadership"Overcoming obstacles in a challenging region" '' Agriculture, Environment & Use of sources.
Maritime, Transportation, Infrastructures & Hubs '' Cultural & Sustainable Tourism "a key to sustainable development" followed by a Forum declaration.


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The Salvation Army works with some of the most disadvantaged people in our communities; including homeless people, older people, unemployed people, those suffering from drug and alcohol addiction, as well as victims of human trafficking and major emergencies.
As a company, we wanted to do something to support those less fortunate...'
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At Bromford Industries, the most loved time of the year is Christmas. However, we know it can be a hard time for others in need. This is the reason why we chose to support The Salvation Army because it is a leading charity organisation with strong policies and good reputation.
The Salvation Army fundraising team contacted us immediately after downloading the materials from their website, and we had full support throughout our fundraising journey.
We had fun while doing something useful in order to deal with serious issues such as loneliness, poverty and homelessness that affect many unfortunate people. Afterwards, we received a thank-you card from Salvation Army that is still proudly pinned to the main office board.
Vistage UK
As a company, we wanted to do something to support those less fortunate during the lead up to Christmas. We chose to take on a challenge that would help raise some money for The Salvation Army, as we know they operate all over the UK and help the homeless and elderly.
We set up a stationary bike in one of our meeting rooms, with a green screen behind, then we each took a turn cycling as many miles as we could. We were very chuffed to reach our target on the last day and raise a significant amount of money.


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Start the year off with Mentorship in mind
January 17, 2023 /by Lily Fleenor
January is Mentoring Month, just in time for the beginning of a new year! New beginnings mean new opportunities, and becoming a mentor is a great way to support UGA students as the semester begins.
In honor of International Mentoring Day on January 17th, we spoke with UGA mentee and UGA Mentor Program Ambassador Moira La Fuente (Class of 2024) and her UGA mentor Melissa Adomako (BS '13) about their experience in the program and why they believe others can benefit too.
Why did you first choose to engage with the Mentor Program?
Melissa: I have always been passionate about mentoring and coaching students. Even as a UGA student, I served as a resident assistant, mentoring younger students. The Mentor Program stood out to me because it was a structured way to connect with students and meet people who have similar interests to mine.
Moira: Mentorship allowed me to be focused on my career. My major is very broad, so having a mentor with experience in different sectors was really important to my professional growth. Having Melissa as an example has been really helpful.
What has been the most meaningful part of your experience?
Moira: Connecting on things that are not strictly just professional has been incredibly meaningful to me. Melissa was an international student like I am, so we have connected through shared experiences beyond just career paths.
Melissa: This relationship has truly blossomed into a friendship. Even though it is a short-term mentoring relationship, I can see our mentorship continuing on throughout our lives. Moira can always reach out to me regardless of what path she decides to take.
What have you gotten out of the program thus far?
Moira: I have gained a broader perspective on the different types of jobs that are available for my major. After connecting with mentors, I have realized there is much more to my major than I ever thought.
Melissa: Staying connected with young people makes me feel young! I am always on the lookout for opportunities to share with Moira and other mentees, and I always try to find connections to my mentee. It keeps me curious and wanting to make more connections.
What is your favorite part of the UGA Mentor Program?
Melissa: For me, it's getting to talk to younger people and advising them on things that I would have done differently when I was in their shoes. When I was at UGA, we did not have the Mentor Program, so I did not have people to reach out to who were in established careers. I wanted to be a resource, because I did not have that.
Moira: The accessibility is very appealing. As a student living in Athens, I did not think I would be able to connect with a professional like Melissa who travels frequently. Having accessibility to someone who is in the field you want to be in, regardless of location, is very good.
Why do you think that more mentees and mentors should participate in the program?
Moira: More mentees should enroll in the Mentor Program because it is not only about professional growth, but also personal growth. It's a great coaching relationship.
Melissa: More mentors should join the program to share wisdom. It is always good for older people to share their knowledge with younger people and provide them with a sense of community outside of Athens. Both of my mentees have been absolutely wonderful.
January, National Mentoring Month, is a terrific time to become a mentor and contribute to the lives of UGA students. You might be amazed how much YOU get out of giving back in this way! Learn more at mentor.uga.edu.
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The Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) is a small, largely nectar-feeding fast flying parrot which spends its winter in south-eastern mainland Australian before migrating to Tasmania in late winter/early spring to breed. During the breeding season, nectar from Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) and black gum (Eucalyptus ovata) flowers is the primary food source for the species. These eucalypts are patchily distributed and their flowering patterns are erratic and unpredictable, often leading to only a small proportion of Swift Parrot habitat being available for breeding in any one year. Swift Parrots breed in tree hollows in mature eucalypts within foraging range of a flower source. Birds can nest at low densities or sometimes in groups of >50 nests in <100 ha depending on the availability of flowers and tree hollows. The main threats to the species are the loss of foraging and nesting habitat, predation by sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps), and mortality of adults through collisions with man-made structures such as windows and chain-link fences. Protection of the species requires the conservation and restoration of all remaining foraging and nesting habitat.
The known range of the Swift Parrot outside the breeding season includes all of Tasmania.
The breeding range of the Swift Parrot mirrors the natural range of Tasmanian blue gum on the east coast of the state, but also includes smaller areas in the north-west. It is possible that some birds also breed in small isolated occurrences of Tasmanian blue gum on the west coast and on King Island.
Habitat for the Swift Parrot outside of the breeding season in Tasmania includes any eucalypt forest.
Habitat for Swift Parrot during the breeding season broadly includes the following elements: flowering Tasmanian blue gum and black gums (foraging habitat) and any eucalypt forest containing hollow-bearing trees (nesting habitat). Hollow-bearing trees are typically large and old with dead limbs or branches and at least some visible hollows. Note that the importance of breeding habitat in any one year varies depending on its location in relation to foraging habitat (i.e. blue gums or black gums in flower).
A Swift Parrot monitoring program is undertaken annually by the Australian National University between October and January.
An observation of foraging Swift Parrots or a potential nesting site is valuable information. Please report all observations of this species to the Threatened Species Section.
Note that habitat use varies between years: habitat which is not used one year may be used during other years (see Summary).
In order to recognise the species if it uses your property, learn to identify the Swift Parrot by sight and by its calls.
In order to recognise Swift Parrot foraging habitat if it occurs on your property, learn to identify Tasmanian blue gums and black gums.
In order to recognise Swift Parrot nesting habitat if it occurs on your property, learn to identify the sorts of trees that are likely to contain suitable nesting hollows.
If you have Swift Parrot habitat on your land consider protection of habitat through a vegetation management agreement or conservation covenant. See the DPIPWE Private Land Conservation Program for more details.
The Swift Parrot depends on flowering Tasmanian blue gum and black gum for food and old trees with hollows for nesting.
Blue gum and black gum are important in any setting (e.g. intact forest, remnant vegetation and paddock trees).
To prevent loss of foraging habitat - avoid clearing Tasmanian blue gum and black gum throughout the species' range (i.e. statewide).
To prevent loss of nesting habitat - avoid clearing eucalypt forest containing hollow-bearing trees throughout the species' breeding range.
To avoid disturbance of breeding during spring and summer - check this year's Threatened Species Link updates (via the Home page) on current breeding locations, and avoid forestry activities in mature eucalyptus forest and removal of flowering blue or black gum in these locations. The species tends to breed in different locations each year. Contact us for more advice and precise detail on locations.
Grazing can suppress natural regeneration and recruitment of Tasmanian blue gums and black gums.
To avoid impacts of stock grazing on regeneration of foraging habitat - fence off Swift Parrot habitat to exclude or limit access to stock.
Major bushfires can destroy foraging habitat for the Swift Parrot. The recovery time from destructive bushfires can be as long as several decades.
To avoid destroying foraging habitat - avoid activities which increase risk of wildfire in or near foraging habitat. Avoid fires under conditions of high fire risk.
To prevent destroying nesting habitat - avoid activities which increase risk of wildfire in areas of nesting habitat.
To avoid disturbance to breeding during spring and summer - always seek advice and/or obtain permits from relevant authorities (e.g. Tasmanian Fire Service, Parks and Wildlife Service, DPIPWE) prior to undertaking burning in areas that contain Swift Parrot foraging or breeding habitat.
To avoid disturbance to breeding during spring and summer - check this year's Threatened Species Link updates (via the Home page) on current breeding area locations, and avoid non-urgent management burns in these areas. The species tends to breed in different locations each year; these are identified by surveys completed in October, and reported on the Updates and Facebook pages. Contact us for more advice and precise detail on locations.
For general information and advice on building structures which minimise risk of collisions (with e.g. wire-mesh fences or windows) - see Guidelines and recommendations for parrot-safe building design. For comprehensive advice on avoiding collisions with glass - see An end to birds dying at windows.


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Q: A daemon to call a function every 2 minutes with start and stop capablities I am working on a django web application.
A function 'xyx' (it updates a variable) needs to be called every 2 minutes.
I want one http request should start the daemon and keep calling xyz (every 2 minutes) until I send another http request to stop it.
Appreciate your ideas.
Thanks
Vishal Rana

A: There are a number of ways to achieve this. Assuming the correct server resources I would write a python script that calls function xyz "outside" of your django directory (although importing the necessary stuff) that only runs if /var/run/django-stuff/my-daemon.run exists. Get cron to run this every two minutes.
Then, for your django functions, your start function creates the above mentioned file if it doesn't already exist and the stop function destroys it.
As I say, there are other ways to achieve this. You could have a python script on loop waiting for approx 2 minutes... etc. In either case, you're up against the fact that two python scripts run on two different invocations of cpython (no idea if this is the case with mod_wsgi) cannot communicate with each other and as such IPC between python scripts is not simple, so you need to use some sort of formal IPC (like semaphores, files etc) rather than just common variables (which won't work).

A: Probably a little hacked but you could try this:
Set up a crontab entry that runs a script every two minutes. This script will check for some sort of flag (file existence, contents of a file, etc.) on the disk to decide whether to run a given python module. The problem with this is it could take up to 1:59 to run the function the first time after it is started.
I think if you started a daemon in the view function it would keep the httpd worker process alive as well as the connection unless you figure out how to send a connection close without terminating the django view function. This could be very bad if you want to be able to do this in parallel for different users. Also to kill the function this way, you would have to somehow know which python and/or httpd process you want to kill later so you don't kill all of them.
The real way to do it would be to code an actual daemon in w/e language and just make a system call to "/etc/init.d/daemon_name start" and "... stop" in the django views. For this, you need to make sure your web server user has permission to execute the daemon.

A: If the easy solutions (loop in a script, crontab signaled by a temp file) are too fragile for your intended usage, you could use Twisted facilities for process handling and scheduling and networking. Your Django app (using a Twisted client) would simply communicate via TCP (locally) with the Twisted server.

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A restrictive type of pain that affects shoulder mobility often characterizes shoulder pain. Acute shoulder pain is experienced with over extension, injuries or trauma. Various musculoskeletal conditions can also trigger chronic pain in the affected area.
This pain is often experienced around the clavicle area, the shoulder cuff, and just above the humerus. In some cases, the pain may also radiate towards the neck and the scapula area or vice-versa, which means that the pain is triggered from a different source and not just at the shoulder. Heart-related issues may cause this pain as it radiates from the chest towards the shoulder area.
Although the pain is concentrated on a specific part, possible causes for this pain can vary depending on the affected organ system or illness type. Hence, treating the pain requires proper check-up with a physician to diagnose its cause.
Physicians are extra cautious in diagnosing shoulder pain due to a long list of potential causes. What seems to be a muscular-related pain can be a sign of potential heart attack or stroke without proper diagnosis. To ensure accuracy, physicians utilize x-rays, MRIs, electro diagnostic testing, and at times a CT scan.
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Heck I got amost 22 years in and I'm still tring to be a good CO. don't sweat it you'll do fine.
This job is 90% mental and 10% physical, just study hard and you should have no problem at the acadamy. If you have experiance with firearms great if not find someone to teach you the basics, it will give you a heads up on what to expect on the part of the trraining. Unarmed use of force is a guilded program so you should not be hindered there. As for when you start working in the walls, must of what you learned at the acadamy will classified as a guildline for on the job experiance will start to take over in due time. Welcome aboard and hope you like it the show.
Is the PAT hard? What was your experience?
I just received my paperwork for TDCJ CO academy yesterday and I have no idea what to expect. For me this will be a 360 change, I have no military or any experience like most people on here. I've always had this hidden career passion and now I'm going for it. I have tons of questions so anyone in TDCJ please help me with any tips and advice. I would love to get your insight. Thank you in advance.
AZ , I saw your other post. Are you trolling for female correctional offices???.
Redirish86, where are you located?
This job changes you and your way of thinking as time passes. Keep emotion out of it, observe and learn from the veterans, (the good ones) and never do anything that causes you or anyone else unwarranted risk.
Do not forget it is not your place to give them whatever they are lacking in life. You are not their friend. You are responsible for them and how you respond to their actions. Follow Policy and Procedure. Don't become another bleeding heart who is told a sob story or that your very pretty and start packing in stuff for them. You have children to worry about so just do the job and since you have the touchy feely keep your distance. Also be yourself and when it comes to inmates trying to befriend you it's okay to tell them where the line is and turn into a giant prick when the line is crossed. After you deal with that you will learn the rest as time goes on.
Neither one. It isn't a question of your emotional position, first Policy and Procedures. You can be empathetic but you must always follow P&p. Those rules are there for your as well as the institutions protection. The inmates are farther down on the priority list but certainly important.As far as enforcing the rules you must be fair and firm, but not malicious or denigrating. Have compassion but follow the rules, the worst thing that can happen is you will be successful. There is very little discretion with defined policies and procedures. Just when you think you've sen it all, you'll see something new!
Id like to give some back ground and get your guy's opinions. I am 27 a mom of 2 … I have worked consistently aside from this last year due to our move. All of my jobs have been people oriented and often in the construction field I was an HVAC estimator for the prior 3 years. I get along very well with nearly everyone and I'm a hard worker.. my concern is some might say I'm too good hearted… I grew up in a home where my parents fostered children from any and ALL walks of life and I have heard just about every horror story. I think I'm in decent shape (not fantastic) 5'5 150lbs.. I'm active and enjoy staying busy. I would be considered conservative. The position I'm applying for is in a city detention center. They house apprx 60 inmates (seems small) we are in a smallish area of about 40k… I've been scouring the internet read awful horror stories but want opinions. I love that the position is 3 -12s I love that it has benefits and I love working with people I'm not judgmental and have no chip on my shoulders. Do you think its worse to go in too soft or go in hardened??? I don't want to go forward if I really would be a bad fit. Please advise, and thanks!


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Holiday Gift Guide: Movies, TV, and Music
In this, the gift-giving season of 2019, we find ourselves at a strange technological crossroads. In years past, I have wrapped and given, and received and opened countless CDs, DVDs, vinyl records, you name it. For two generations, we have given each other *a* movie or *an* album we think will mean something to the recipient. But now, suddenly, with the proliferation of streaming services, we can give someone...*all* the movies. Or *all* the albums. It's a huge shift, and one that will continue to play out for many holiday seasons ahead, but this year it creeps into our Gift Guide. What will Gift Guides of Christmases-Yet-To-Come hold? Only Criswell knows for sure. - vk.
It is the height of consumerism to recommend Disney+. It's the new streaming service on the block and there have been some technical hiccups in the roll out, but I have two small children and there is just so much goodness available and more on the way. From the Pixar movies to Marvel to Star Wars to Disney animated classics to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (I've got small kids) to the wealth of 90's cartoons (Darkwing Duck, we're looking at you) - Disney+ has something for the whole family.
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Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky (Criterion Collection Edition)
Did you like Chernobyl? What about Annihilation? Men in Black? Mash those three together and then crank the weirdness factor up to 11 and you've kinda sorta got Andrei Tarkovsky's adaptation of the classic SF novel Roadside Picnic. Not for the faint of heart, and like a lot of European arthouse cinema, it requires a good deal of patience. But the viewer's patience is duly rewarded in spades.
Vance K:
Filmstruck is gone, and the Criterion Channel has taken its place. This streaming service boasts access to the Criterion Collection library, but there are licensing deals on certain titles that mean they'll either never show up on this platform, or will only be there for a little while. This is familiar to all of us who have watched things disappear from our Netflix lists, so we know the drill. But in addition to bringing film nerds (like me!) the works of Bergman, Kurosawa, Ray, Tarkovsky (see above), and other legends of world cinema, the channel is also doing a great job of curating new and under-appreciated talent. With showcase collections about women filmmakers, LGBTQ+ cinema, various spotlights on specific areas of the world and filmmakers from there, animation, and other specialties, it's a rewarding streaming option on several fronts.
Brian:
Shazam! by David F. Sandberg (director)
It's easy to be skeptical of the DC comic universe of movies. They've had a rough launch. But Shazam! requires none of the backstory of those movies, and it's easily the most fun. Billy Batson is a teenage orphan who suddenly finds himself with super powers. It's a stark contrast between the dour Superman we've seen recently, and a kid who wasn't born Superman but needs to learn some of the same lessons. It doesn't bury you under mountains of comic book history. It gives you a quick supervillain origin, a quick superhero origin, and then lets those two forces collide. If you've been disappointed by DC's previous comic book movie outings, forget about them and give Shazam! a shot. It's just a fun superhero movie, which is what this universe of films should've kicked off with in the first place.
Shazam! is available on most major video media formats, streaming, physical, and otherwise.
1000 Gecs by 100 Gecs
1000 Gecs might break your brain. I know it broke mine the first time I listened to it. Coming in from having listened to Stupid Horse on repeat for it's ska-influence, I wasn't sure just what in the hell I was listening to. But the more I listened to it, the more I liked it. I'm not a music critic. I don't know anything about music, and I have bad taste. But 1000 Gecs sounds different. It sounds fresh and new. It's a brisk 20-something minutes of the best post-pop I've heard in a long time.
1000 Gecs is available on almost all music streaming platforms.
Phoebe:
There Existed an Addiction to Blood by clipping.
For the hip-hop fan, the horror fan, the narrative fan — heck, the Hamilton fan — in your life, may I recommend clipping.'s latest album There Existed an Addiction to Blood. Some folks might be aware of their Hugo-finalist album Splendor & Misery (a narrative story about an AI and a prisoner), but this album shakes things up by going full horrorcore. Each song is a story all in itself, ranging from cannibals to werewolves. That being said, the songs don't get lost in the story and remain tracks ready to break out at the next Halloween party. While the songs definitely have a Halloween flare — perfect for its October release — the atmospheric elements will engage speculative fans all year long.
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Lysostaphin (, glycyl-glycine endopeptidase) is a Staphylococcus simulans metalloendopeptidase (crystal structure of lysostaphin). It can function as a bacteriocin (antimicrobial) against Staphylococcus aureus.

Lysostaphin is a 27 KDa glycylglycine endopeptidase, an antibacterial enzyme which is capable of cleaving the crosslinking pentaglycine bridges found in the cell wall peptidoglycan of certain Staphylococci. Lysostaphin was first isolated from a culture of Staphylococcus simulans by Schindler and Schuhardt in 1964. S. aureus cell walls contain high proportions of pentaglycine, making lysostaphin a highly effective agent against both actively growing and quiescent bacteria.

Staphylococcal infections of both Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis continue to be a major issue in clinical settings, particularly those with implantable devices. Staphylococci cause a significant percentage of device infections, and like many other pathogens, rather than living as free planktonic cells within the host they have the ability to form a multilayered community of sessile bacteria cells known as a biofilm on implantable devices. Once a "Staphylococcal" biofilm has formed on an implanted medical device, it is difficult to disrupt due to its antibiotic resistance and protection against bacterial action.

Many studies have been previously published on lysostaphin since its isolation, both in vitro and in vivo. Lysostaphin has been shown to eradicate susceptible S. aureus biofilms. It has also been reported to be effective in disrupting S. epidermidis biofilms in vitro, albeit at higher concentrations of the enzyme. Compared to commonly used antibiotics such as vancomycin, lysostaphin has been shown to demonstrate greater antibacterial activity in vitro. The enzyme has demonstrated effectiveness against methicillin susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) and methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) mediated keratitis in vivo in a rabbit model. Additionally, it has been shown that lysostaphin combined with antimicrobials such as cefazolin, clarithromycin, doxycycline, levofloxacin, linezolid and quinuprisitin/dalfopristin has a synergistic effect for MSSA strains of the bacteria.  A study published by Belyansky et al. illustrated that a lysostaphin bound mesh demonstrated dramatic preservation results in a rat model.

Using lyostaphin to treat "Staphylococcal" biofilm associated infections may prove to be preferable to using antibiotics as it may be possible to administer the enzyme at relatively low doses and disrupt a staphylococcal bioflim, therefore eliminating the need for surgical removal of the infected device.

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 The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: M23.004

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" But God is not going to fall at everybody's feet that, "Please ask for it." That is your freedom. That is what you have to ask for. You have to desire it. You cannot give up your freedom nor it will be denied. It is respected. In the same way you cannot take God's freedom which doesn't fall at your feet. I request you to seek it. So now I'm talking about that All-pervading Power which you cannot see. I would say it is like a mirror which is God's reflection of various things. We cannot see the mirror because we stop at the reflections. Our attention is on the reflection, that's why we cannot feel the bliss.While the mirror is the one that is reflecting and all the reflections are changing. But because our attention is still in that dreamland of reflection we cannot feel that All-pervading Power. So now, is there any method within our being which is being raised by God Almighty? Because if He has created us He must have power which triggers this happening within us by which we become aware of that All-pervading Power.
I say there is a method; there is a special instrument within us which is being placed by God. Through our different stages of evolution He has placed different centers within us which are subtle centers in the spinal chord and there is a gate. Now these centers do exist within us and if you want to see these centers you can with your own eyes. You can visualize it. You can see, some people, I will show you, when they, we try to raise their Kundalini you'll see that this Kundalini will start pulsating. You can see with your naked eyes that triangular bone. In the triangular bone you can see the Kundalini pulsating and then you can also see the rising of the Kundalini if I tell you. And you can also see the pulsation of these centers in some. This may not be in every person. It may be in some few people this could happen, but not in every person, because if there is an obstruction here and there, then only the Kundalini pushes our centers too much, too hard, and that's how you see the pulsation very clearly. But some people have such beautiful centers and such beautiful Kundalini and such beautiful desire that it just rises straight, just like a jet."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi June 15, 1979 " Sahaja Yoga Introduction " Public Program Reading, U.K.


It's that time of year again where we start speculating as to what new trips we should be looking forward to over the closed season (now that our outside chances of a play-off place seem to have slipped away), and this year throws up all kinds of interesting possibilities and uncertainties.
The teams looking likely to be relegated from the National National offer something of a Northern flavour, with Southport, York City and our old pals North Ferriby United filling the bottom three slots. However, most of the bottom feeders are running into something resembling form at the moment, with the seemingly dead-and-buried Guiseley starting to pull away from the pack. And on top of that, there's a whole host of Southern teams hovering just above the danger zone who could easily get pulled into the fray.
Kevin Nicholson's Torquay United are having the worst run of form of the lot of them, and have just slipped down into the last of the relegation slots, but Woking, Braintree and Maidstone are all hovering just above them with worried looks on their faces. But Guiseley still aren't entirely out of it, so there could still be a fag packet-busting possibility of four Northern sides coming down. But more of that later.
The Southern League, however, has got very interesting, for all kinds of reasons. No club seem to have been able to keep the lead for very long this term, but after a mid-season slump, our former familiar foes Chippenham have got a seven point lead at the top of the table going into the final run in. But it's not as cut-and-dried as that would have you hope, because both Leamington and Slough Town behind them have two games in hand and have tasted the heady heights of the top of the table in recent weeks, so this could still go down to the wire.
Hot on their heels in the other two play-off slots are the fabulous Merthyr, and Hitchin Town, who are both six points clear of a trailing pack made up of Banbury, Chesham and Frome, who would all have to have Herculean run-ins to make it to the knock out stages.
Again, this makes the old North/South divide a little complicated. Leamington would definitely go North, and Hitchin would probably be a borderline case. We even hear that Merthyr have concerns that they'd be sent North - although looking at the famous dividing line map, while they are in the purple border county zone, they are still considerably more Southern than many.
Shifting East to the Isthmian, there's still everything to play for, and it's looking likely that there'll be at least one trip near the seaside to look forward to. Bognor Regis Town have been leading the pack for much of the season, but Havant & Waterlooville are looking for an immediate bounce back and are hot on their heels for the automatic slot with games in hand.
The other three play-off berths are taken up by Needham Market, who are again in the North/South buffer zone, Tonbridge Angels and Wingate & Finchley, who have hit form at exactly the right point of the season. These five have opened up a five point gap from the pack, although sixth-placed Leiston have four games in hand on most of the sides at the top, so shouldn't entirely be discounted. Behind them, only Enfield, Dulwich, Billericay and Harlow have faint hopes of sneaking the final play-off slot.
So looking at that little lot there is a slight, but still possible chance of a major reshuffle to the two regional leagues. If three, or even all four sides that come down from the National are distinctly Northern, Leamington and perhaps even Hitchin go up from the South, and Needham Market and Leiston both pull off surprises in the Isthmian, the North/South dividing line would begin to creep Northwards again. If that is the case, we could start to get some old friends back from our sister league.
Gloucester are the usual side deemed most likely for a return trip back South, although they seem steadfastly bedded in to their surroundings. Worcester are next most obvious, but are facing a relegation battle and might not even make it that far, although Brackley Town are the next furthest South, and would probably appreciate the respite from the long away trips. After that it begins to get complicated, and we could even see some of the more Midlands-based clubs start trickling down.
But that's all ifs and buts and maybes, and whatever happens, it seems highly likely that we could be looking at a few less of those endless M4/M25 away trips next term. And I think we could all say amen to that. I'll keep you posted as to any further developments and late surges as they happen. So who do you fancy from that little lot?
I cannot thank you enough for posting this! It can get very confusing for me sometimes to follow all of leagues and how they interact together. I am excited to see everyone's thoughts on this.
Oh, and for all of those who always panic and think we're going North about this time every season, here's the delineation map again.
No direspect to clubs in our division but I would argue that one of the reasons we get poor attendances is because it's a boring league with uninspiring fixtures for the floating fan at least. If Chippenham, Merthyr get promoted and Gloucester/Worcester switch then it would help a lot. They're clubs with history. It wont happen but I would actually prefer us in the North!
cbtroman wrote: No direspect to clubs in our division but I would argue that one of the reasons we get poor attendances is because it's a boring league with uninspiring fixtures for the floating fan at least. If Chippenham, Merthyr get promoted and Gloucester/Worcester switch then it would help a lot. They're clubs with history. It wont happen but I would actually prefer us in the North!
Leiston and Needham Market please..
I quite agree, but it looks like Worcester could be heading for relegation. They're playing at Bromsgrove nowadays. A shame, as St George's Lane was wonderful, and their previous groundshare was at Kidderminster, suppliers of the greatest football stadium food on earth.
North would probably lose its appeal after a season or two. Whitehawk can revert to being awful again it'd be quite nice, with Gosport pulling away. The latter isn't exactly a local one but I'll have no qualms about losing Whitehawk, Bishop's Stortford and Margate.
And I'm saying nothing about Havant!
I will admit, even living here in the USA I had heard of the Bath Rugby club but I had never heard of the FC until this past fall. It also seems to me the newspaper could do a better job promoting the club. I can only read it online and see the articles they tweet about, but it is about a 10-1 ratio to me. I have to say I am pleased that I am starting to see more about the FC in the Chronicle.
Unfortunately Bath is a rugby city, and with them having a team in the top division (I literally have no idea how they're doing in it, and couldn't care less) means they'll earn more coverage. It's a debate that'll run and run. Unless we suddenly zoom up the leagues it'll be difficult to overcome that. A lot of my mates are football fans but most just aren't interested in watching non-league football, yet they'll gladly go to the Rec and watch a game they don't even particularly follow. I find that baffling but it's their choice. I have a more one-sided view on it because I dislike the sport.
I think the Chronicle's coverage, for a club of our level, is pretty good. Certainly better than others, we almost never have a visiting reporter in our press box, for example, whereas we'll always have someone covering us at an away match.
I agree we are in a boring league. We need some local colour to create more excitement, and that comes from someone who really benefits from the eastern bias.
I've had this convo in pubs after games, and a few of us are of the honest opinion that we'd rather the Conf N/S were disbanded and we went back to Southern, Northern and Isthman leagues. I know it will never happen, but I would support anything that meant this awful league didn't exist.
I've got an answer for that. Dispense with the traditional North/South divide, and split the country down the middle for an East/Wedt split. That way everybody would get a few decent awaydays each season, and it could possibly make the fag packet meeting a bit less complicated. To begin with, at least!
Interesting debate that always galavanises and polarises opinion. Dont recall it ever came up pre pyramid reorganisation in the late 80s. We were in the SL and that was that. Only change was promotion or relegation from/to Division 1. Hell, playing a Ryman / Isthmian club was restricted to the FA Cup (when we could get out of the regionalised group at the time) or the Trophy (when we won the odd game). Our expectations have changed as have our opponents but I guess it has stagnated a bit apart from our sojourn to the National. As Keith says the number of games in the East is helpful to us Exiles over here.
So the answer is to get promoted !
Roy D Hacksaw wrote: I've got an answer for that. Dispense with the traditional North/South divide, and split the country down the middle for an East/Wedt split. That way everybody would get a few decent awaydays each season, and it could possibly make the fag packet meeting a bit less complicated. To begin with, at least!
Our average journey for an away game was about half a mile further than what we experienced last season.
Love the look of that line-up... If only those in power read Junior's programme articles!
This thread comes up near the end of every season in the Conf South and I agree with almost everything said. Especially agree that this is an utterly boring league that will never attract the floating fan.
We're stuck on a little isolated island with only WSM for company and something needs to change. For me the most realistic chance we have of making waves is via the cup competitions. It's absolutely vital to make some money here as this can pay for a player or two who really will make the difference and get us out of this s**te league. I seem to remember our FA cup run in 2009/10 provided the finance that helped us get promoted. I know we cannot predict a successful run but we really should not be getting kicked out of cups by the likes of Potters Bar.
It'd be interesting to know what teams on the other side of the country think of the current league structure. Do Chelmsford get exciting over Essex meetings with East Thurrock and Concord?
There is a lot more Isthmian swing. I think the only team from the 2003/04 Isthmian Premier to switch to Conference North was Kettering, whereas in the Southern half there were more, the likes of Stafford for example.
Don't dismiss Dulwich Hamlet's chances of making the Ryman play-offs Roy.
They have games in-hand against all the sides above them - in some cases 4 or 5 matches. If they won all those they'd be right in there, and on their day they're a good team.
I'd love to see Hamlet come up personally. Despite their hipster reputation, they do get great crowds these days, and we could learn a lot from them re how they've encouraged and enabled this. I suspect they'd also bring a good away following to TP. And given how unlucky they've been in play offs in recent years, they deserve a bit of luck for a change !
I don't think people are being ambitious enough.
For a start off I wouldn't call it non-league. It is definitely a league.
Then you could have a complete shake up of football and mix all the leagues up so we got, say, Arsenal, Fulham, Bristol Rovers, Newport, Plymouth in our league.
That would certainly make things interesting.
BenE wrote: I don't think people are being ambitious enough.
It would certainly make things interesting BenE, but the big clubs would never let it happen - and English football is run by the Premier League clubs, despite the pretensions of the FA. If the top clubs go anywhere it'll sadly be into a European Super League at some point, rather than embracing lower English clubs.
Fish further up the footballing food chain just don't like swimming with the 'minnows' below them, and unfortunately they get to call the shots.
I think that would entice me to fly across the pond to see that match!
I think our opponents tomorrow, Hemel, would have put up a better fight against Bayern than Arsenal did, so why not join us for that!


The previous section assumed the existence of a directory that points to pages. One criticism of this approach is that it always requires at least one level of indirection. If we assume that we have a continuous address space large enough to hold all the records. we can eliminate the directory. In effect, this leaves it to the operating system to break the address space into pages and to manage moving them into and out of memory. This scheme is referred to as directory less hashing or linear hashing.
Consider the trie of Figure (a), which has two levels and indexes four pages. In the new method, the two-bit addresses are the actual addresses of these pages (actually they are an offset of some base address). Thus, the hash function delivers the actual address of a page containing the key. Moreover, every value produced by the hash function must point to an actual page. In contrast to the directory scheme, in which a single page might be pointed at by several directory entries, in the directory less scheme there must exist a unique page for every possible address. Figure shows a simple trie and its mapping to contiguous memory without a directory.
What happens when a page overflows? We could double the size of the address space, but this is wasteful. Instead. whenever an overflow occurs, we add a new page to the end of the file and divide the identifiers in one of the pages between its original page and the new page. This complicates the handling of the family of hash functions somewhat. However, If we had simply added one bit to the result of the hash function, the table size would have to be doubled. By adding only one page, the hash function must distinguish between pages addressed by r bits and those addressed by r + I bits. We will show how this is done in a moment.
It provides an example of directory less hashing after two insertions. Initially, there are four pages, each addressed by two bits (Figure (a). Two of the pages are full, and two have one identifier each. When C5 is inserted, it hashes to the page whose address is 10 (Figure (b). Since that page is full, an overflow node is allocated to hold C5. At the same time, we add a new page at the end of the storage, rehash the identifiers in the first page, and split them between the first and new page. Unfortunately, none of the new identifiers go into the new page. The first page and the new page are now addressed by three bits, not two as shown in Figure (b). In the next step, we insert the identifier CI. Since it hashes to the same page as C5, we use another overflow node to store it. We add another new page to the end of the file and rehash the identifiers in the second page. Once again none go into the new page. (Note that this is largely a result of not using a uniform hash function.) Now the first two pages and the two new pages are all addressed using three bits. Eventually the number of pages will double, thereby completing one phase. A new phase then begins.
Consider Figure ,which shows the state of file expansion during the phase at some time q. At the beginning of the rth phase, there are 2′ pages, all addressed by r bits. In the figure, q new pages have been added: To the left of the q line are the pages that have already been split. To the right of the q line are the pages remaining to be split up to the line labeled r. To the right of the r line are the pages that have been added during this phase of the process. Each page in this section of the tile is addressed by r + I bits. Note that the q line is an indicator of which page gets split next. The modified hash function is given in Program 8.6. All pages less than q require r + I bits. The function hash (lcey,r) is in the range (0, 2,-1 I, so if the result is less than q, we rehash using r + I bits. This "gives us either the page to the left of q or the one above 2′ – I. The directory less method always requires overflows.
overflow chain, When a new page is added and the identifiers split across the two pages. all identifiers including the overflows are rehashed.
Another fact about this method is that space utilization is not good. As can be seen from Figure, some extra pages are empty. anti yet overflow pages are being used. Lit win has shown that space utilization is approximately 60%. He offers an alternate strategy pursued in the exercises. The term controlled splitting refers to splitting the "next page" only when storage utilization exceeds a predefined amount. Litwin suggests that until 80% utilization .s reached. other pages continue to overflow.
A natural way to handle overflows is to use one of the traditional hashing schemes discussed earlier. such as open addressing. Recall that open addressing searches the file linearly from the home bucket. looking either for the identifier or for an open spot.
From the example, one sees that the longest overflow chains will occur for those pages that are near the end of the expansion phase. as they are the last to be split. By contrast, those pages that are split early are generally not full.


For the past some months, there has been a lot of concern on iBeacon technology in the retail division. The innovation has quick adoption with ongoing cases like rewards, marketing, POS, shopper engagement inside of the store, client criticism etc. There could be a couple of more unknown use cases as the innovation use takes an expectation to absorb information inside of the retail industry throughout the coming years. As this Beacon-buzz is cruising along, some followers would rush to recognize that the same technology can be considered in other industry portions outside of retail such as parking garages which is multi-level, Restaurants, Interactive Tourism, Casinos, Traffic, Cinema, Events, Exhibitions, Conferences, Petrol pumps, Access control frameworks, Airlines-Airports etc.
iBeacon development can be utilized getting on road traffic updates, get cautioning notices about traffic and alternative redirections before getting stuck in a overcrowded traffic.