You never know when you may need a personal injury lawyer. You could be on your way home from work and get rear-ended. Or, you could fall while doing your family's weekly grocery shopping. Nobody warns us that we're going to get hurt. It just happens. Thankfully, most of these accidents don't result in really serious injuries.
Sometimes, however, your injuries can be very serious. You may need medical treatment. You may miss a lot of time from work. The important thing is, you're entitled to be compensated for your injuries. A lawyer in Norfolk can help you do this.
A good example of this is a slip and fall. A department store owes their customers a duty of care. This duty includes providing a clean and safe environment. Let's say that you go shopping on a day when it's raining. You slip and fall on your way to the cash register. This is because the floor is wet. There are no caution signs.
In this example, the department store has breached their duty of care. As a result, you fell. If your fall resulted in injuries, they are likely caused by the defendant's failure to provide a safe environment. If this is the case, you will be entitled to compensation for your injuries. Also, if you've been hurt in an accident, you need to meet with an experienced Norfolk personal injury lawyer. Your lawyer will do what it takes to prove the defendant is liable for your injuries.
Regardless of the type of injuries you've sustained, chances are, your attorney has handled a case like it before. Great personal injury lawyers handle dozens of cases every year. Although every case is different, they're all handled pretty much the same way. Norfolk personal injury attorneys handle all types of cases, including but not limited to the following.
Drinking & driving is a serious criminal offense in Virginia.
Despite very strict laws against it, people drive under the influence of alcohol and drugs all the time. When drunk drivers get into accidents, the injuries are usually very serious. This is because they're driving recklessly and have no concern for the safety of others.
You see these accidents all the time. A car is on the side of the road, hit from behind. Thankfully the injuries in these accidents are usually minor. But that is not always the case. Generally speaking, the rear driver is always going to be held responsible for a rear-end accident.
If you get hit by a truck, you'll probably suffer pretty serious injuries. Some of these injuries may require that you be in the hospital for days or weeks. You may need surgery and physical therapy. The damages in truck accident cases can be very high.
If you've suffered any of these injuries, you need to contact a personal injury attorney in Norfolk, Virginia. You may be out of work for some time. You may even end up permanently disabled. Your lawyer will make sure that you receive compensation for your injuries.
A lot of people have "gone green" and have started riding their bikes instead of driving. It is much better for your health and the environment. People ride their bikes to work and school all the time. Sadly, every time they put on their helmet, they are the mercy of every other driver on the road. No matter how careful other car drivers are, they simply don't pay enough attention to the road. Bicyclists are often in a driver's blind spot. When a car hits a cyclist, the impact can be very serious – even deadly.
Dogs may be man's best friends. However, it doesn't feel that way when you get bit by a friend or neighbor's dog. Even if a dog is on a leash, it's not a guarantee that they won't attack you. The law in Virginia does protect you from a dog bite. However, it doesn't call for strict liability for dog owners. This means you could be held partially responsible for your injuries. If you try to pet a strange dog or antagonize a dog in any way, you be held responsible. In Virginia, if you're even partially responsible for the attack, you will not prevail in your lawsuit.
If your loved one has passed as a result of his injuries, you need to contact a Norfolk personal injury lawyer right away.
Back injuries can affect our daily routines, if not treated properly.
One reason your Norfolk personal injury attorney always tells you to seek medical attention after an accident is to check for internal injuries. A doctor can perform the necessary tests to make sure you're okay.
TBI is probably the most life-altering type of personal injury. Depending on how serious your TBI, you may never be able to walk or talk again. You could end up in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. Your lawyer will make sure you get compensation for this.
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Usually, if you get hurt in an accident, you file your insurance claim and receive your check within a week or so. There are times, however, when insurance companies deny your claim. Insurance companies wouldn't stay in business if they paid out every claim.
For most reasons, your lawyer will be able to appeal your claim and get you paid. He can show that you were indeed injured and that your injuries are severe. He can also prove that the accident is what caused your injuries.
If your claim is denied for these reasons, you'll have to turn to your uninsured motorists fund. Or you can file a lawsuit against the other driver personally.
If you've been injured in a personal injury accident, you need to contact a personal injury attorney in Norfolk, Virginia. Your attorney will review your case. He will make sure you have the evidence to support your claim. He'll also make sure he talks to any witnesses to help prove your case.
Call and schedule your consultation today. Your attorney can answer any questions you may have. He can also give you an idea of what your case may be worth. The insurance company will have lawyers working for them. You should too. And, remember – you pay nothing until you win your case.
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For many of you, history classes are boring. But you can travel and visit cultural festivals to beat boredom associated with cultural history classes. For example, Ladakh Festival presents a number of folk dances that re-narrate cultural practices of the mountain dwellers every year in Leh.
The festival presents snow lion dance (Senggey Garcham) that tells a lifestyle story of mountain people of bygone eras.
This dance is a multitasker like you: it highlights an age-old bond between two animals and people of Ladakh in an entertaining way. The dance is generally performed in opening ceremonies.
The first animal is a snow lion: a mythical creature that exemplifies enlightenment and fearlessness. The lions representing glaciers and snowy mountains and ascetic community of Tibet are revered locally.
The second one is a yak. The yak provides for all needs of the nomads living in high altitude areas.
I saw it for the first time in Ladakh Festival 2013, Leh. It was funny and relatively fast dance in which an old man matched steps with a pair of energetic snow lions and a yak. The body movements in sync with the beats of traditional folk music instruments were simple. The old man hopped; the lions jogged, jumped, and scratched itself. The old man moved around the lions and imitated its jumps. Both were almost of same height. The old man swung his arms. But these bubbly peppy performances were executed by young kids.
Two pairs of artists wore costumes of snow lions. Another pair of artists was dressed in costume of a yak. The front artists controlled the head and / or the horn of feisty animals. The second controlled hind parts, including the tails.
The costumes are as heavy as about 20 kg. To perform these dances gracefully, lots of practice is required. The artists turn over, jump, sometimes roll, run in circle, and sit. Synchronization is therefore must.
I noticed that the mouths of the animals were always wide open. The mouth doubles as a window for the artists who can see the stage and audience through it while performing.
Now scroll down to experience the dance.
An old man, the ring master in bold multi-color and multi-layer costume, runs to the stage, the open ground.
A snow lion in white and green dress follows. The musicians play a drum, flute-like instrument, and cymbal.
Another snow lion enters the stage.
The old man performs with the yak and the snow lions. (Background) Tsemo Castle.
Yak, an ox-like domesticated animal with short legs and long hairs, lives at high altitude ranging from 4,000 to 6,000 meters. Chinese call it "hairy cattle." However, lungs of yak are naturally designed to pump more oxygen required to survive in rarefied atmosphere of the high altitude areas. The count of small red blood cells is also more than that in the cattle living in plains, enhancing ability of the blood to carry more oxygen.
Although the low number of sweat glands and thick fur protect it in cold climate areas, this very feature makes its life difficult in mid altitude.
The man rides the yak and sits at the hind part, causing a peel of laughter in the audience stands.
Yak mammals have a mechanical cousin: Yak aircraft.
Both beasts of burden are known for their survival skills required in rough terrains. The mammals regularly bore the burdens of the traders who traversed the Himalayas in the past. In the mid twentieth century, the Yak-24 (Flying Wagon / Letayuchiy Vagon) created payload-to-altitude records: the aircraft transported 4 tons (about 4,000 kilograms) of cargo to an altitude of 9,520 feet (2,885 meters) and 2 tons (about 2,000 kilograms) to 16,670 feet (5,052 meters).
The wagon was the part of a series of jet fighters (Yak aircraft) designed by Aleksandr Seregeyevich Yakovlev and named after him. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) used these yaks in the 2nd World War (1939-1945).
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Q: Fail to start windows service created using Procrun in powerShell I created a java application(.jar) as a windows service using Procrun. This Service get installed and runs successfully when I use a batch(.bat) file. but I have this requirement of creating the same service using windows powerShell.
When I use PowerShell, service get installed but cannot start the service I checked in the windows event viewer and it displays as "Incorrect Function" Can anyone please tell me what could be the reason for this.
This is the string I used in PowerShell script to install the windows service
$CmdInstall=@'

--Description="$Description"
--DisplayName="$DisplayName"
--Install="$DAEMON"
--Startup=auto
--Type=
--DependsOn=
--Environment=
--User=
--Password=
--ServiceUser=
--ServicePassword=
--LibraryPath=
--JavaHome
--Jvm=auto
--JvmOptions=-Xmx1024M
--Classpath=server.jar
--JvmMs=
--JvmMx=
--JvmSs=
--StartMode=jvm
--StartImage=
--StartPath=
--StartClass=at.mrdevelopment.esl.server.Server
--StartMethod=main
--StartParams=
--StopMode=jvm
--StopImage=
--StopPath=
--StopClass=at.mrdevelopment.esl.server.ServerServiceStarter
--StopMethod=stop
--StopParams=
--StopTimeout=120
--LogPath=$LogPath
--LogPrefix=$InstanceName
--LogLevel=DEBUG
--LogJniMessages=
--StdOutput=auto
--StdError=auto
--PidFile=${InstanceName}.pid
'@

Any help would be appreciated.
This is the PowerShell script I used.
  #region Parameters
   [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)]
param(
   [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
   [string]$Action="//IS"
   ,
   [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
   [string]$ServiceName="//ESL_SERVICE"
   ,
   [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
   [string]$DisplayName="ESL_SERVICE"
   ,
   [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
   [string]$Description="ESL Service"
   ,
   [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
   [string]$InstanceName="server.jar"
   ,
   [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
   [string]$LogPath='C:\Apachelogs'
   ,
   [string]$Pause=60
)
#endregion

#region Main

$CmdInstall=@'

--Description="$Description"
--DisplayName="$DisplayName"
--Install="$DAEMON"
--Startup=auto
--Type=
--DependsOn=
--Environment=
--User=
--Password=
--ServiceUser=
--ServicePassword=
--LibraryPath=
--JavaHome
--Jvm=auto
--JvmOptions=-Xmx1024M
--Classpath=server.jar
--JvmMs=
--JvmMx=
--JvmSs=
--StartMode=jvm
--StartImage=
--StartPath=
--StartClass=at.mrdevelopment.esl.server.Server
--StartMethod=main
--StartParams=
--StopMode=jvm
--StopImage=
--StopPath=
--StopClass=at.mrdevelopment.esl.server.ServerServiceStarter
--StopMethod=stop
--StopParams=
--StopTimeout=120
--LogPath=$LogPath
--LogPrefix=$InstanceName
--LogLevel=DEBUG
--LogJniMessages=
--StdOutput=auto
--StdError=auto
--PidFile=${InstanceName}.pid
'@

$DAEMON_HOME         = "C:\imagotag\server"
$DAEMON              = "$DAEMON_HOME\prunsrv_64.exe"
$ESL_HOME            = "C:\imagotag\server"

$CmdArgsDict=@{}

$CmdArgsDict.Add('//IS',      "$Action$ServiceName $CmdInstall")

$CmdArgs             = $CmdArgsDict[$action]
# Convert backslashes in the paths to java-friendly forward slashes
$CmdArgs             = $CmdArgs -replace "\\","/"
# Variable interpolation: expand embedded variables references (need to call this twice)
$CmdArgs             = $ExecutionContext.InvokeCommand.ExpandString($CmdArgs)
$CmdArgs             = $ExecutionContext.InvokeCommand.ExpandString($CmdArgs)
# Split on newlines to convert to an array of lines
$CmdArgsString       = $CmdArgs -split "`n"
# Convert array of lines into a string
$CmdArgsString       = "$CmdArgsString"

#--- Execute the command
if ($PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess(
    "`n$DAEMON`n$CmdArgs","Manage ESL Service"
))
{
   "$DAEMON $CmdArgsString"

   $p=Start-Process "$DAEMON" `
         -ArgumentList "$CmdArgsString" `
         -Wait `
         -NoNewWindow `
         -PassThru

   $rc = $p.ExitCode
   "`nExit Code: $rc"
}
#endregion

My PowerShell script is TestPS.ps1 and I execute the script like this
.\TestPS.ps1 //IS

A: For creating a service , use the following cmdlet in PS:
$username = "Username"
$password = "password"
$secstr = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.SecureString
$password.ToCharArray() | ForEach-Object {$secstr.AppendChar($_)}
$cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $username, $secstr

new-service -Name [INSERT SERVICE NAME] -DisplayName "[INSERT DISPLAY NAME]" -Description "[INSERT DESCRIPTION]" -BinaryPathName "[INSERT BINARY PATH]" -StartupType Manual -Credential $cred

If you wish to perform it remotely, then use the following function:
function Install-Service(
    [string]$serviceName = $(throw "serviceName is required"),
    [string]$targetServer = $(throw "targetServer is required"),
    [string]$displayName = $(throw "displayName is required"),
    [string]$physicalPath = $(throw "physicalPath is required"),
    [string]$userName = $(throw "userName is required"),
    [string]$password = "",
    [string]$startMode = "Automatic",
    [string]$description = "",
    [bool]$interactWithDesktop = $false
)
{
    # can't use installutil; only for installing services locally
    #[wmiclass]"Win32_Service" | Get-Member -memberType Method | format-list -property:*
    #[wmiclass]"Win32_Service"::Create( ... )

    # todo: cleanup this section
    $serviceType = 16          # OwnProcess
    $serviceErrorControl = 1   # UserNotified
    $loadOrderGroup = $null
    $loadOrderGroupDepend = $null
    $dependencies = $null

    # description?
    $params = `
        $serviceName, `
        $displayName, `
        $physicalPath, `
        $serviceType, `
        $serviceErrorControl, `
        $startMode, `
        $interactWithDesktop, `
        $userName, `
        $password, `
        $loadOrderGroup, `
        $loadOrderGroupDepend, `
        $dependencies `

    $scope = new-object System.Management.ManagementScope("\\$targetServer\root\cimv2", `
        (new-object System.Management.ConnectionOptions))
    "Connecting to $targetServer"
    $scope.Connect()
    $mgt = new-object System.Management.ManagementClass($scope, `
        (new-object System.Management.ManagementPath("Win32_Service")), `
        (new-object System.Management.ObjectGetOptions))

    $op = "service $serviceName ($physicalPath) on $targetServer"
    "Installing $op"
    $result = $mgt.InvokeMethod("Create", $params)
    Test-ServiceResult -operation "Install $op" -result $result
    "Installed $op"

    "Setting $serviceName description to '$description'"
    Set-Service -ComputerName $targetServer -Name $serviceName -Description $description
    "Service install complete"
}

Here is the Guide to Install Windows Service Remotely
Note: Make sure you are running everything with elevated mode.
Hope it helps.

A: Your problems came from a misconfigured service. That comes from a problem with the parameters of prunsrv.exe.
The script works well after changing the line
$CmdArgsString       = $CmdArgs -split "`n"

to
$CmdArgsString       = $CmdArgs -split "`r`n"

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Exsurge Domine (Uppstig herre) är en påvlig bulla, promulgerad av Leo X den 15 juni 1520. I vissa tryck anges Bulla contra errores Martini Lutheri et sequacium.

Leo X krävde att Martin Luther skulle återkalla 41 av sina påståenden – varav flera av dem kom från de 95 teserna – eftersom de ansågs kritisera kyrkan.

Exempelvis så skriver påven i bullan att : "Med råd och samtycke från dessa våra vördnadsvärda bröder, efter moget övervägande av var och en av ovanstående teser, och med den allsmäktige Guds auktoritet, de välsignade apostlarna Petrus och Paulus och vår egen auktoritet, fördömer, fördömer och förkastar vi helt och hållet var och en av dessa teser eller felaktigheter som antingen kätterska, skandalösa, falska, stötande för fromma öron eller förföriska för enkla sinnen och som strider mot den katolska sanningen. Genom att räkna upp dem förklarar vi att alla troende av båda könen måste betrakta dem som fördömda, förkastade och förkastade ... Vi begränsar alla i den heliga lydnadens dygd och under påföljd av en automatisk stor bannlysning." och

"... vi fördömer, fördömer och förkastar också helt och hållet de böcker och alla skrifter och predikningar av nämnda Martin, vare sig de är på latin eller på något annat språk, som innehåller de nämnda felaktigheterna eller någon av dem, och vi vill att de skall betraktas som helt och hållet fördömda, fördömda och förkastade. Vi förbjuder var och en av de trogna av båda könen, i kraft av helig lydnad och under de ovan nämnda påföljder som automatiskt ska ådra sig, att läsa, hävda, predika, prisa, trycka, publicera eller försvara dem. ... I själva verket skall dessa verk, var de än befinner sig, omedelbart efter offentliggörandet av detta brev noggrant letas upp av ordinarie och andra [kyrkliga och ordinarie] och under var och en av de ovan nämnda straffen skall de brännas offentligt och högtidligt i närvaro av präster och folk."

Påven uppdrog åt Eck och kardinal Girolamo Aleandro att publicera bullan i Sachsen, dess grannregioner och Nederländerna. Martin Luther besvarade bullan som fick titeln Adversus Execrabilem Antichristi Bullam (Mot Antikrists avskyvärda bulla).

Luther förklarade trotsigt i sitt svar att "[..] den som skrivit denna bulla är Antikrist. Jag protesterar inför Gud, vår Herre Jesus, hans heliga änglar och hela världen att jag av hela mitt hjärta är oenig i denna bullas fördömelse, att jag förbannar och avskyar den som helgerån och hädelse av Kristus, Guds Son och vår Herre. Detta är min återkallelse, du bulla, du bullans dotter."

Externa länkar
 Exsurge Domine (text på engelska)

Påvliga bullor

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ALERT: Due to a conservation project, it is recommended that visitors stay off the ice.
NOTE: Cave Lake State Parks's e-mail address has changed. If you wish to reserve the Group Camping, Group Day Use, or the Yurt for the Summer of 2019, email all requests starting January 2, 2019 at midnight. Please include your full name, phone number, and exact arrival and departure dates and times. Please include a few date options with preferred date listed first. We will answer on a first-come, first-served basis. The park is unable to accept phone reservations.
Camping: Cave Lake offers two designated campgrounds: Elk Flat Campground and Lake View Campground. All sites are level and include a fire pit with grill, table and parking. Access roads to campsites are unpaved. The camping limit is seven days in a 30-day period and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Although reservations are not accepted and saving sites is prohibited, a few small group sites are available by reservation and several sites can accommodate more than one vehicle. Please contact the ranger for overflow camping information.
Elk Flat Campground is the first camping area visitors see as they approach from Highways 93, 50 and 6. The campground opens early May and closes mid-October, weather permitting. Showers and flush-type toilets are available while the campground is open.
The Lake View Campground is near the lake and open year-round with flush toilets and showers. In extremely cold conditions the facilities may be closed. Please contact the park if you plan to arrive in the winter.
Group areas: There is one group site for day use and one camping group site in each campground. They may be reserved for a small fee by emailing clsp@parks.nv.gov. When not reserved, the area is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Contact the park for information.
Yurt: A yurt is available by reservation. Please email the park for details.
Picnicking/Day Use: Two picnic areas can be found along the lake shore. Restrooms, tables, grills and water are available.
Fishing/Boating: Fishing is permitted 24 hours a day and a fishing license is required (buy online at ndow.org). Anglers will find German brown trout in Cave Lake and park streams. The lake is also stocked with rainbow trout. Fishing is excellent both for boaters and from the shore. Motorized boats are permitted on the lake, but may not exceed 5 mph (flat wake).
Hiking: Motorized vehicles are prohibited on all trails. Four developed hiking trails are maintained. An easy, three-mile round trip can be found on the Steptoe Creek Trail. The trail starts at the lower parking lot and crosses the creek and returns via Success Summit Road.
The Cave Springs Trail is five miles of moderately strenuous hiking. It starts at the lower parking lot and meanders throughout the surrounding hills.
The Cave Lake Overlook Trail is a strenuous 4.5 mile loop that starts on the east end of the lake.
The Twisted Pines Trail is the park's newest addition and connects to the Overlook Trail. This trail is moderate, starting below Elk Flat Campground. It is just over four miles one way and ends on the Overlook Trail loop.
Winter Activities: (December through February): Winter recreation is popular at Cave Lake during normal winters when several feet of snow may cover the park. Snowmobiling is allowed within the park on approved dirt roads. Snowmobiles may be unloaded on Success Summit Road for access to the surrounding National Forest lands. Snowmobiles are prohibited on the divided highways. Lake ice may be as thick as 24" during the coldest part of winter. Ice fishing is popular, and the catch rate is very good. The boat launch area is used for outdoor ice skating. Sledding and snowshoeing are also popular activities. Most of the roads through the park are paved and kept free of snow. However, plowing may not occur for one or two days after a storm. Please keep this in mind if you don't have a four-wheel-drive vehicle.
Only licensed drivers with licensed vehicles are allowed to operate on divided highways and must stay on established roadways. Operation of ATVs, dirt bikes, etc., is prohibited on all divided highways.
Trash receptacles are in the park for your convenience.


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With Dinakaran Too Behind Bars, Sasikala Stares at a Bleak Future
Karnataka Assembly Adjourned Till Tomorrow Morning, BJP to Stage Overnight 'Dharna'
News18 »	Politics
Sasikala was looking tense and was staring at the ceiling of her cell in the high security central prison at Parappana Agrahara on the outskirts of Bengaluru after her nephew and AIADMK (Amma) leader TTV Dinakaran was arrested by Delhi Police in cash for symbol case.
D P Satish | CNN-News18 dp_satish
Updated:April 26, 2017, 6:32 PM IST
File image of VK Sasikala.
Bengaluru: On Tuesday night, Sasikala refused to eat dinner and asked the jail staff to inform her about the latest news on her nephew TTV Dinakaran. She was looking tense and was staring at the ceiling of her cell in the high security central prison at Parappana Agrahara on the outskirts of Bengaluru.
Around mid-night a "friendly" prison guard knocked on the metal door of her cell and told her that the worst has happened – Dinakaran was arrested by the Delhi police for allegedly trying to bribe the Election Commission of India to retain two leaves symbol of the AIADMK. She is reported to have just looked at him and collapsed on her bed.
On Wednesday morning, she came out of her cell. But refused to have breakfast. Jail doctors, keeping her health in mind, advised her not to skip breakfast. A chronic diabetic and a BP patient Sasikala refused to budge saying that she was not in a mood to eat anything, said reports.
ALSO READ: Sasikala Banners Out of AIADMK Office After Demand From OPS Camp
A top prison official, who spoke to CNN-News18 on condition of anonymity, said: "Her behavior has changed after alleged broker Sukesh Chandrashekhar was arrested by the Delhi police a week ago. Before that she was looking confident. When she came to know that he was arrested, her face turned pale and asked prison guards to give her all Tamil and English newspapers. On the same day Dinakaran was supposed to meet her at the prison. She was waiting for him. But even he did not come. It led to more anxiety."
According to this official, before the OPS and EPS camps started talking about the merger of two factions, a lot of top AIADMK leaders and ministers used to wait outside the jail seeking an appointment with "Chinnamma". She met only a few of them, but there used to be a steady flow of high-profile visitors from Chennai. Suddenly, all that has stopped after she was removed from the post of AIADMK General Secretary.
"Not a single visitor has come to see her in the last one week. She is getting restless. As long as Dinakaran was out, she was confident that he would bail her out and keep the party under his control. With Dinakaran's arrest, she seems to have lost all hopes. She is in a big shock. She does not know what to do. She is really in a bad shape" this officer said.
ALSO READ | Sasikala Disproportionate Assets Case: How it All Started
However, she is still getting home-cooked food. A local leader of the AIADMK has made arrangements for all that, say sources. "Earlier he used to visit jail every day. Even he has stopped coming in the last one week. We don't know if home cooked food will continue to arrive at the jail in future" said another prison official.
He added that Sasikala had never expected this and her confidence level has now hit rock bottom. In the first one month of her jail term, hundreds of AIADMK leaders used to come to visit her from different parts of Tamil Nadu to express solidarity with her. Luxury hotels near the prison had a good business. Now no one is coming to see her and the hotels have seen a dip in their business.
If Dinakaran continues to languish at the Tihar jail in Delhi for a long time and OPS and EPS factions manage to bury the hatchet, Sasikala will soon be forgotten both by the media and her own people.
ALSO READ: Sasikala, Qaidi No 9235, Will Make Candles in Bangalore Jail
Chinnamma
Sasikala
TTV Dinakaran
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Month: July, 2010
Deeper into slavering fandom
Relishing, savoring, basking in this audio interview with Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster (while I'm supposed to be doing work).
New things that are already things (or, Using algebra to explain things)
I can remember, during my first year of college, standing in line for a movie with a friend. It was at a big multiplex in Yonkers, New York and the place had an air-conditioned, mass-appeal feeling to it that made me feel vaguely uneasy. Because I was eighteen and considered myself a writer in the slightly haughty way an eighteen-year-old can, I thought that an awesome way to "freak out" all the "mainstream" people standing in line with me would be to show an adult movie instead of whatever they had paid to see. (This was a year or two before Fight Club used a similar idea. Also, in case I'm not conveying the silliness of my college-freshman attitude, the movie we were lined up to see was either The Matrix or 10 Things I Hate about You. The new Harmony Korine flick it was not.)
I liked this idea so much I verbalized it to my friend, and as he looked at me and considered how to respond, I went further. I suggested that it would actually be a really awesome avant-garde thing to do, to bring people together at a theater and show an adult film and have people just, like, respond to it. They could laugh, or be uncomfortable about their arousal, perhaps they'd find their political convictions challenged by their response at the bodily level.
I was picking up steam with this, trying to think through the subversive aspects of rendering a private and taboo genre public, re-contextualizing what was considered a shameful and—when my friend asked, "You mean like at a porn theater?"
I briefly struggled against this simple summary—No, because the films would be shown at an art house, and people would get it, man—but then gave it up. We were able, still standing in line, to see the brief sad trajectory of my avant-garde movie theater, the shift of its clientele from beret-wearing intellectuals to raincoat-wearing sad sacks who'd prefer to sit in a row by themselves. "Oh," I said by way of concession, "I guess that already exists. And it's terrible."
List for this week: beard-shaving scenes
The time has come to get rid of the mangy beard I have been cultivating since the great snow event of February. Some time this week or over the weekend, it's happening. It's a feeling I'm waiting for, a moment whose rightness will be self-evident. Also, I keep forgetting to buy shaving cream.
But, towards bucking me up to just do it, a list of portentous beard-shaving scenes from movies. I'm not sure I like the suggestion that these are symbolically weighty (and thus that my ditching the beard will be, too), because things have gone well with the beard; I suspect, though I imagine it would be impossible to prove, that men with beards get more respect in Pittsburgh than without (it' s just that kind of town).
Adorable Economists
Slightly related to this earlier post on economics and how I find it fascinating, to the extent that I ever understand it, I ran across something interesting this morning.
At my office, there is a department that publishes a journal that is essentially a bibliographic list of economics books. They receive a ton of books on various strains of economic thought, of varying levels of seriousness, from Freakonomics-level stuff for people like me to data-heavy reference books for the hardest of hardcore econ weenies. Every few months, there accrues a surplus of these books and an e-mail goes out announcing that whomever so desires can take whatever books he/she wants (from certain, marked shelves; it's usually a surefire laugh (for me, no one else) to reach for an adjacent shelf, which will send one of the bibliographers into a mini-conniption, as they go to great lengths to keep their shelves organized and have to account for every book).
Anyway, I ended up taking Peter Leeson's The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates. It looked interesting, meant for the layman, and concerns an area that I'm doing some minor research in for a project. (See this earlier entry re: pirate research.)
I went to thumb through the table of contents and came across this dedication: "Ania, I love you; will you marry me?"
The great Teddy Wayne
has cracked The New Yorker's "Shouts & Murmurs" section. Why great? The man is a beast. See here for the exhaustive list, but do especially peep "Saved by the Bell: The Grad School Years" (dear to my heart), "Your Best Friend in a Romantic Comedy Is Always There for You," and my most favorite of all, "Ashton Kutcher Fan Fiction: 'The Middle School Dance' by Melissa Bell, Age 13" (also in video form here, though I think seeing someone perform it makes it less funny; this girl is not quite who I pictured in my head).
Wayne's debut novel, Kapitoil, recently came out. I have not yet read it, though every time I remember it exists, I ask myself, "Why haven't I read it yet?" My friend and noble roommate, Salvatore Pane, reviewed the book for BOMB and had nothing but good things to say about it.
Also, as an aside, the fact that Teddy Wayne produced all this screamingly funny stuff for McSweeney's website and now has this (still funny but decidedly) tamer piece in The New Yorker reminds me of this article in The Onion, the upshot of which is that pitcher Mike Mussina has no problem getting his satirical pieces into "Shouts & Murmurs" but finds McSweeney's a tough nut to crack.
On Burying Fiction
My friend, colleague, and, tantalizingly soon, roommate Robert Yune hosts a few thoughts I had in response to this crotchety Lee Siegel article (which I think came out last month). His earlier, scientifically rigorous thoughts on the question here (seriously, that one has a reference list at the end) and here. Another takedown of Siegel's piece from another former classmate here. This guy can't catch a break!
Also, someday I'll have a blogroll. And on that day, I'll surely include a link to Robert's blog, which is what my blog would be if I had more patience, focus, and seriousness of purpose, and less propensity to making ball jokes and writing about cheeseburgers.
Inception Redux
A wealthy and enigmatic businessman has hired me to implant an idea in a target's mind. I considered infiltrating the person's dream, then going inside a dream within a dream, and another dream within that dream, but, well, it seemed like kind of a lot of work. I think I've found a better way.
(The idea, in this case: "You are blue (da ba dee)." Weird message, but whatevs. For this kind of payday, you don't ask questions.)
Everyone talks about the weather, but almost no one attempts ball jokes about it
. . . Until now.
In Philadelphia this weekend, it was literally as hot as balls.
More to come later (including an off-color joke about the weather), but for now, a song that has been at once rocking me and convulsing me with laughter.
Cheeseburger Bulletin (or, Reason to Love Pittsburgh #4: Noble Cheeseburger)
I did not want it to pass unremarked-upon that I ate a truly superlative cheeseburger this week at the Brillobox, one of my favorite Pittsburgh bars. Others' takes here and here. Grass-fed beef (cooked medium) with gruyere. Amazing. And as a side: mixed greens! What a world!
The cheeseburger was off a "transitional menu," as the new menu is coming out in a week or two. The menu is here and it's full of other stuff that sounds more exotic and appealing, perhaps, than the Brillo burger. And it's true too that there's a distinct vegetarian bent to the menu, that would lead one to look askance at the burger. But this burger is not to be dismissed.
The conventional wisdom on the Pittsburgh cheeseburger scene is that Tessaro's is tops. And it is quite a good burger. But the Brillobox is serving notice to all comers. Watch your back, Tessaro's.


The director of the Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences, prof. Massimiliano Ferrara, the Scientific Director of the masters, prof. Francesco Manganaro, Dr. Natalina Cappello, INPS manager and the councilor of the Municipality of Reggio Calabria, Dr. Anna Nucera, presented today at the press conference the High Education offer of the Department in collaboration with INPS.
Twenty-eight editions in ten years of professional training, about four hundred participants from different regions, over 600 teachers and professionals involved in teaching, four hundred thousand euro scholarships provided by INPS every year in the last two years are some of the numbers that explain the success of the second level Masters organized by the Department of Jurisprudence, Economics and Human Sciences of the Mediterranean. A unique educational offer in the Universities of Southern Italy; an opportunity for many young graduates and for those who want to improve their professional qualifications; a generative welfare path, rewarded by the INPS scholarships obtained - the only Department in Calabria - following a national selection. An educational activity that has achieved the prestigious goal of ISO 9001 certification for design quality. A ten-year commitment repeated this year by the Director of the Department prof. Ferrara and the scientific manager of the Masters prof. Manganaro.
The Master Management e diritto dello sport (Master Management and Sports Law) provides managerial skills for the management of sports clubs or to carry out professional activities as sports prosecutor. Diritto Privato Europeo (Private European law) has an international scope and hosts professors from all over the world, comparing legal systems and making known supranational institutions, including through organized visits to European public institutions.
The new addition of this year is the Master sull'economia civile per il management delle imprese sociali, cooperative e non profit (Master on Civil Economy for the management of social enterprises, cooperatives and non-profit organizations) realized in agreement with the Scuola di economia civile, which gathers the best known economists of the sector (Zamagni, Bruni, Becchetti , Ruffini, Pelligra, Smerilli): the aim is to verify if and how an economy other than the speculative one that has led to the current economic crises is possible.
For further informations, please visit: www.digies.unirc.it/master.php; www.mhs.unirc.it.


Howard Webb followed up his Brazil v Egypt thriller at the Confederations Cup here in South Africa with a real comedown - Iraq vs New Zealand. Played in a half full stadium at Ellis Park, the dull 0-0 draw presented Webb with very few real challenges, apart from constantly having to charge up and down the field at full speed following the ball when it was haplessly pumped up the pitch.
But Webb's presence shone through. He has a commanding character on the pitch and his confidence shines through. Players appear to naturally listen to him and he has very few problems with dissent. It's not yet known if he'll play any further part in the semis or the final of the tournament but he deserves it.


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The Last Ford Crown Victoria Interceptor Is Retiring from the Vermont State Police
Pour one out for ol' P71.
By Kyle Cheromcha October 31, 2018
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The venerable Ford Crown Victoria—the police car for over a generation before production ended in 2011—has finally reached the end of the road at another one of our nation's law enforcement agencies. This week, Vermont State Police announced the retirement of its last active-service Crown Vic, which is headed back into the shop for a thorough refresh before being auctioned off like the maple-scented collector's item it will one day become.
There's no doubt that the newest crop of police cruisers are far more efficient than the hulking Crown Victoria, but there's a certain je ne sais quoi about the old girl. The car's three-decade reign on American roads left its perfect three-box form (not to mention those instantly recognizable headlights) embedded in our national consciousness. It's still a visual shorthand for authority, and its dead-simple powertrain was one of the last bastions of easy serviceability in the automotive world.
But the P71, as the Police Interceptor model is known, is disappearing from speed traps around the country as cars from the final production year age out of service—generally, they have to hang up their steel wheels around 120,000 miles. The photo shared by Vermont State Police on Facebook is as symbolic as they come: the last Panther, at sunset, in autumn. No one ever called the Crown Victoria beautiful, but its straight lines, low hood, and overall demure appearance are aging with an undeniable stateliness.
The wheezy, 4.6-liter V8 and four-speed automatic transmission haven't aged quite as well, its 250 horsepower looking more dated as the years tick on. While it's hard to imagine a Crown Vic keeping up with a Hellcat, straight-line speed is never what made the Crown Vic the country's default patrol car. Officers prized its airy cabin, surprising ruggedness, and mineshaft of a trunk; stressed-out fleet managers loved that its decades-long production run meant any part you could possibly need was never far from hand.
Modern cop cars all undergo a few key modifications to the intake, cooling, and electrical systems, but the Crown Victoria offered an inherent toughness that none of its replacements have been able to match. They also happen to look far less cool in police livery than the old Panther.
If you're sad about another piece of automotive history falling into unscrupulous private hands, don't be: Vermont State Police edited the post to add that they've held on to one "late-model" Crown Victoria and another example from 1997 model for posterity.
Nevada Highway Patrol Retires Last Ford Crown Victoria P71 in the Fleet
The iconic squad car is being sent out to pasture...a.k.a. the auction block.
Armormax Is Building Bulletproof AWD Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Police Cars
You do not want to see one of these in your rearview mirror.
Police Officer Hits 143 MPH in Chevy Impala While Chasing Drunk McLaren 720S Driver [UPDATED]
There's a reason police cars need to be pursuit rated.
Kevin Bacon's Favorite Cop Car Is the Crown Vic
The Hollywood vet dishes on Austin-Healeys, stolen police cruisers and the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to him in a car.
All-New Ford Police Interceptor Is a Crook-Catching and Fuel-Saving Hybrid
It is expected to deliver an EPA-estimated 24 miles per gallon on a combined cycle, bettering the current 3.7-liter V6 by about 40 percent.


Saturday, 04-04-2014 and Sunday, 05-04-2015.
Now that the big parades of Semana Santa were over and we still had two more days to relax in Granada, it was finally time to move our car to a closer parking facility. But even though the real festive parades were behind us, it was still the Saturday before Easter. So we thought we'd walk by to see if there were any available spots, just in case. And, since the parking facility closest to our hotel was also near the Cathedral of Granada, naturally it was already full. So we decided to just leave the car where it was and, since we were right next door, check out the cathedral.
This grand cathedral is built on the site of the city's former grand mosque, and construction began in the early 1500s—almost right after the defeat of the Moors. They say it was modeled after the cathedral in Toledo, and it has elements of Gothic architecture, but it also shows Moorish and Spanish Renaissance influences in its design.
Orange tree with the Granada Cathedral dome.
As we walked around the cathedral, we were hit up by more rosemary-wielding gypsy ladies and there were plenty of sidewalk vendors selling cheap sunglasses, rosaries, and other touristy fare. There were also a number of gents who would write your name in Arabic on a piece of paper for 3€.
As we walked by one of the entrances, there was a long queue building up for a look inside. We thought about going in for a tour, but there was an entrance fee. Every time we consider going to a place with an entrance fee that we haven't already accounted for, we make a quick budget check. Our hotel room was right at the upper end of our budget range, and that left us feeling a little cash poor, so we didn't go inside. This meant we missed out on seeing the tombs of Ferdinand and Isabella (Los Reyes Católicos) and their daughter, Joanna (the Crazy), and her husband, Felipe I (the Handsome), whom we'd learned about in Madrid.
Instead, we meandered back to the Albayzín district where we were staying. And here we should mention that while the Alhambra is the big draw in Granada, the whole Albayzín, which intersects the small, picturesque Darro River, is part of the same UNESCO World Heritage site (Alhambra, Generalife, and Albayzín) and worth a visit.
Right near the Darro River, at the gateway from the Santa Ana Plaza to the Carrera del Darro, one can find the Church of Santa Ana.
Located on the site of mosque of Almanzra, this church was first built in the 16th century and is notable for being one of the best examples of the Mudejar art style (which is southern Iberian Moorish design) in Granada. The night before, a seemingly endless stream of penitentes marched down the steps of the church and took to the streets, but this time it was pretty quiet.
Right near our hotel, we stumbled upon a sign for the Sephardic Memorial Center, just up one of Granada's narrow streets. The museum is rumored to be in the home of a former Jewish landowner, but because the murky history of Jews in Spain, they can't be sure. When we arrived to check the place out, they told us there was an English tour scheduled for 5:00 that evening. So we went back to the hotel to relax for a little while, then came back for the tour.
Put a sword on it: how to disguise a menorah.
When we came back, a small group of us were given a tour through the small museum that covered the history and the contributions the Jewish people made to both Granada and to Spain.
The history of Jews in Spain is long and convoluted, and this tour gave us some deeper insight into the history of the Jewish people from their arrival in the Iberian peninsula and relatively peaceful existence through Roman rule. The trouble really started when the Visigoths took over in the 5th and 6th centuries. One of the strongest Visigothic kings was Catholic, and he enacted restrictive laws, taxes, and forced conversions for Jews. Things got better when the Moors took over (the invasion against the Visigoths was aided from the inside by the Jewish community), and things went well for the Jewish people ... until Los Reyes Católicos took control of Granada (and thus all of Spain) from the Moors in 1492.
Shortly (as in about 30 days) after defeating the Moors, Ferdinand and Isabella issued the Alhambra Decree, an edict that gave all Jews three months to convert to Catholicism or leave Spain. Of course some left and some converted, but others stayed and only pretended to convert (and practiced what was known as crypto-Judaism)—and that's where the Spanish Inquisition came in.
There are a few artifacts on display from the era of crypto-Judaisim at the museum, including a torah, but historically, there really aren't all that many things left to find from the time after the Alhambra Decree.
During our tour, someone asked how many Jewish families were living in Granada. We sort of expected a round estimate, but the answer was quite specific—a resounding "five." There's no synagogue in Granada, so for services they go to nearby Málaga.
So for the last 500 years, the Jews in Spain have had it pretty rough. But these days, Spain is making amends. There is a bill passing through Spanish parliament that grants descendants of Spanish Jews who fled the inquisition the chance to apply for Spanish citizenship.
After we finished at the Sephardic Museum, we went out for some tapas with Lenny, Christina, and Anne, three people we'd met on the tour.
Oh, and we found more nun cookies. But more on that later.


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Release Process
===============

This page describes how to make a versioned release of Pants and and
other related packages to PyPi.  If you need to release pants jvm tools
(jars), see the
[[JVM Artifact Release Process|pants('src/docs:release_jvm')]]
page.

Deciding the "who", "what", and "when" of releasing is described on the
[[Release Strategy|pants('src/docs:release_strategy')]] page. Note that for some
lucky release managers, this may result in two or more releases in a particular week.

Once you know what to release, releasing pants involves:

-   Preparing the release.
-   (optional) Perform a release dry run.
-   Publishing the release to PyPi.
-   Announce the release on pants-devel.

Prerequisites
-------------

There are several things that require one-time setup in order to be
able to perform pants releases.  The release script checks that all
these steps have been performed in one way or another, but you might
like to go through this list ahead of time rather than have the release
script fail:

  - Create a pgp signing key if you don't already have one.

    You might use the gpg implemntation of pgp and start here:
    https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/c14.html

  - If using gpg, ensure that the gpg-agent is running (for OS X, see
    instructions [here](https://blog.chendry.org/2015/03/13/starting-gpg-agent-in-osx.html)),
    and ensure that gpg is set up to use it (e.g., set `use-agent` in `~/.gnupg/gpg.conf`).

  - Configure git to use your pgp key for signing release tags.

    A description of the configuration can be found here:
    https://git-scm.com/book/tr/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work#GPG-Introduction

  - Create a pypi account if you don't already have one.

    You can register here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=register_form
    Don't forget to include your pgp key id even though pypi considers
    this step optional.

  - Get your pypi account added as an `owner` for all pantsbuild.pants packages.

    You can ask any one of the [Owners](#owners) listed below to do this.
    Once this is done and you've performed your 1st release, add yourself to
    the [Owners](#owners) section below.

  - Configure your pypi credentials locally in `~/.pypirc`

    For some versions of python it's necessary to use both a `server-login` and
    `pypi` section containing the same info. This will do it:

        :::bash
        cat << EOF > ~/.pypirc && chmod 600 ~/.pypirc
        [pypi]
        username: <fill me in>
        password: <fill me in>

        [server-login]
        username: <fill me in>
        password: <fill me in>
        EOF

  - Note that the release script expects your pantsbuild/pants git remote to be named `origin`.
    If you have another name for it, you should `git remote rename othername origin` before running
    the release script, and rename it back afterwards.

Prepare Release
---------------

Pants and the common libraries are published to the [Python Package
Index](https://pypi.python.org/pypi) per the Python community
convention.

Although the build and publish are automated, the version bumping, changelog edits,
and CONTRIBUTORS management are not. Changelog edits and CONTRIBUTOR updates always
occur in master, while version changes generally only occur in the relevant release branch.

Releasing from different release branches
-----------------------------------------
Every week we do a release from master.  In most cases we will use the `dev` naming convention
detailed in [Release Strategy](http://www.pantsbuild.org/release_strategy.html). When we are
ready to create a new stable branch we will release under the `rc` naming convention instead of
`dev`.  For example releases in master should look similar to the following: 1.1.0dev0, 1.1.0dev1,
1.1.0dev2, 1.1.0rc0, 1.2.0dev0, 1.2.0dev1, 1.2.0rc0, 1.3.0dev0. *In addition to a release from master
the release manager may also need to do a release from a stable branch.*

* ###Preparation for the release from the master branch
    1. Edit the version number in `src/python/pants/version.py`
    2. Update `src/python/pants/notes/master.rst` to reflect the changes for this week (can use
       `build-support/bin/release-changelog-helper.sh` to get a head start).
    3. If this release is also a release candidate then:
         * Create the corresponding notes file for that release, initialized with notes for all
           `dev` releases in the series.

           _For example if you were releasing `1.2.0rc0` you would need to
           create `src/python/pants/notes/1.2.x.rst` and include all `1.2.0devX` release notes._
         * Add the file to pants.ini in the branch_notes section.
         * Add the new notes file to `src/docs/docsite.json`.
         * Create a new page() in `src/python/pants/notes/BUILD` corresponding to the new notes.

       For additional information on generating documentation see the
       [docs reference](http://www.pantsbuild.org/docs#generating-the-site)
    4. Bring the CONTRIBUTORS roster (from master) in
       [CONTRIBUTORS.md](https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/tree/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md)
       up to date by running `build-support/bin/contributors.sh`.
    5. Create and land a review for changes in the master branch.
    6. Execute the release as described later on this page.
    7. Finally, if creating a release candidate, create the stable branch from the commit in
       master for your release. For example if you were releasing `1.2.0rc0`, create the branch
       `1.2.x` from your release commit.

* ###Preparation for the release from the stable branch
  See [Release Strategy](http://www.pantsbuild.org/release_strategy.html) for more details about
  whether a release is needed from a stable branch.
    1. Cherry pick [changes labelled needs-rc-cherrypick](https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3Aneeds-rc-cherrypick)
       directly to the stable branch.  Note that these pull requests must have been merged into master, and
       therefore will be closed.
    2. In master, update `src/python/pants/notes/*.rst` to reflect all patches that were
       cherry-picked (can use `build-support/bin/release-changelog-helper.sh` to get a head start).
       For example if you were releasing 1.2.0rc1 you would edit `src/python/pants/notes/1.2.x.rst`.
    3. Create and land a review for the notes changes in master.
    4. Cherry pick the merged notes changes from master to the release branch.
    5. In your release branch: edit and commit the version number in `src/python/pants/version.py`.
    6. Execute the release as described later on this page.
    7. Remove the `needs-rc-cherrypick` label from the changes cherry-picked into the new release.

Dry Run (Optional)
------------------

A dry run is not strictly required since CI includes one, but you might
like to try one anyway; if so, releases should only be published from
master, so get on master and ensure your version number commit is present.
After confirming this, run.

    :::bash
    $ ./build-support/bin/release.sh -n

This will perform a dry run local build of the pantsbuild.pants sdist
and other related package sdists, install them in a virtualenv and then
smoke test basic operations.

Note that in addition to CI checking dry runs work, the release publish
flow also performs a mandatory dry run so executing a dry run separately
is not required.

Publish to PyPi
---------------

Now that we've smoke-tested this release, we can publish to PyPi:

    :::bash
    $ ./build-support/bin/release.sh

This also performs a dry run and then proceeds to upload the smoke
tested sdists to PyPi.

Announce
--------

Check PyPi to ensure everything looks good. The [pantsbuild.pants
package index page](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pantsbuild.pants)
should display the package version you just uploaded. The same check
applies to other related package PyPi pages.

To test the packages are installable:

    :::bash
    $ ./build-support/bin/release.sh -t

This will attempt to install the just-published packages from pypi and
then smoke test them.

Finally, announce the release to pants-devel.  You can get a
contributor list for the email by running the following where `<tag>`
if the tag for the prior release (eg: release_0.0.33)

    :::bash
    $ ./build-support/bin/contributors.sh -s <tag>

Owners
------

The following folks are set up to publish to pypi for
pantsbuild.pants sdists:

Name              | Email                       | PYPI Usename
------------------|-----------------------------|---------------
John Sirois       | john.sirois@gmail.com       | john.sirois
Benjy Weinberger  | benjyw@gmail.com            | benjyw
Eric Ayers        | ericzundel@squareup.com     | ericzundel
Ity Kaul          | itykaul@gmail.com           | ity
Stu Hood          | stuhood@gmail.com           | stuhood
Patrick Lawson    | patrick.a.lawson@gmail.com  | Patrick.Lawson
Garrett Malmquist | garrett.malmquist@gmail.com | gmalmquist
Matt Olsen        | digwanderlust@gmail.com     | digiwanderlust
Mateo Rodriguez   | mateorod9@gmail.com         | mateor

And the current list of packages that these folks can release can
be obtained via:

    :::bash
    $ ./build-support/bin/release.sh -l

Right now that's:

- pantsbuild.pants
- pantsbuild.pants.contrib.android
- pantsbuild.pants.contrib.buildgen
- pantsbuild.pants.contrib.scrooge
- pantsbuild.pants.testinfra

You can run the following to get a full ownership roster for each
package :

    :::bash
    $ ./build-support/bin/release.sh -o

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Join us at Michigan's Heritage Park for our 3rd annual Pow Wow! Native American drummers, singers, and dancers will perform throughout the weekend. Park visitors will have an opportunity to participate in some of the dances. Over a dozen trade booths will be on the grounds with items for sale such as jewelry, handmade crafts, and beadwork, and traditional native food will be available for purchase.


Newark – Today, the FBI announced a national campaign to deter people from pointing lasers at aircrafts, a federal violation that presents danger to pilots, passengers and those on the ground. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest of any individual who aims a laser at an aircraft. The reward is available for 90 days in all 56 FBI field offices throughout the country.
In 2005, the FBI partnered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to address the increasing problem of laser strikes on airplanes. The problem was growing across the country, as more powerful lasers became easier to purchase. From 2005 through 2013, the deliberate targeting of aircrafts by handheld lasers increased by more than 1,100 percent. These incidents often result in pilots experiencing temporary blindness, which can force them to divert or make emergency landings.
This dramatic increase in reported laser strikes prompted the FBI to create a pilot program aimed at raising awareness on the dangers of pointing a laser at an aircraft, and the offering of a monetary reward for information that leads to an arrest. Twelve FBI field offices throughout the country participated in this media campaign. Since the launch of the pilot program on February 11, 2014, the major metropolitan areas of the 12 FBI offices participating in this program have seen a 19-percent decrease in the number of reported incidents. Laser incidents on aircrafts arriving and departing from Newark Liberty Airport have increased 14% over the past year.
The FBI is partnering with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Air Line Pilots Association International, federal, state and local law enforcement, international law enforcement, school resource officers and other stakeholders in its efforts to continue to educate the public about the dangers associated with laser strikes to aircraft. Campaign outreach efforts include digital billboards, radio public service announcements, video, social media, a presence on www.fbi.gov and partner websites and more.
Thousands of laser attacks go unreported every year, including strikes against law enforcement aircrafts, media helicopters, military aircrafts, medical evacuation and search and rescue aircrafts, as well as foreign air carriers. If you have information about a lasing incident, or see someone pointing a laser at an aircraft, call your local FBI field office or dial 911.
Newark Special Agent in Charge Aaron T. Ford would like to thank the Federal Air Marshal Service, the New Jersey State Police, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, Essex County Prosecutor's Office, Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, and the Union County Prosecutor's Office, and the Ocean City New Jersey Police Department for their significant contributions to this public awareness campaign.


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Melbourne hosts a Umbraco meetup every first Tuesday of the month and the September meetup was a success with Peter Gregory (Little Web Empire trainer for the whole of Australasia) presenting his thoughts on E-commerce engines for Umbraco and his personal experiences with each. Attendance was great with around thirteen peeps joining in.
Peter discussed the following four E-commerce packages and his personal views on each of them (especially the ones he's used). Peter had some great slides which I'm sure will go up on his blog at some point.
uCommerce (There is a Free edition listed, but details on that are a little hazy).
While writing this post, I came across this great blog post from Guy Macarthur (it's an year old though and some things have changed) which makes some interesting reading too.
uSync - For syncing umbraco database config to disk and back.
Ditto - Ditto is a lightweight model mapper for Umbraco. It offers a generic solution to the problem of using strongly-typed models in your MVC views. There are no 3rd party dependencies, other than Umbraco core itself.
E-commerce MVP (minimum viable product) was also another term which was discussed and the following resources talk about them in length.
Wikipedia defines E-commerce (also written as e-Commerce, eCommerce or similar variants), short for electronic commerce, is trading in products or services using computer networks, such as the Internet.
Thanks to Robert Foster from Digitalsmith for organising this event and Adam Connor at roadhouse digital for providing the venue.


Paper cuttings may be one of the most ubiquitous decorations that adorn many places and homes every year at Spring Festival. This traditional art form symbolizes happiness and luck, and the Chinese give it as a gift to express good wishes.
What better way to ring in the Year of the Dog than to do paper-cutting, right? This month, beijingkids invited Atelier and 7-year-old Sophie Gauthier to help make this project. They have a special idea, since it is intricate and will take some time to finish.
Atelier mixes this Chinese art form with mola, a handmade material with different patterns made by the Guna indigenous people of Colombia and Panama. Sophie, meanwhile, has a suggestion: make a design inspired by the puppy she dog-sits. The second-grader at the French International School of Beijing (LFIP) tells us another thing: she really likes dogs! This project can be done by kids 7 and above, and can be finished within an hour, depending on the design.
Choose a picture of any dog in any kind of pose. Draw an outline of the dog on a colored A4 paper first, then cut it out.
Stick the dog cutout on a white A4 paper, then cut it out. Make sure you leave a 5mm outline.
Paste the new cutout anywhere on a black A4 paper, but leave space for your designs.
Now, let's work on the background with patterns and layers. Cut rectangles and circles of different colors with a pair of pattern scissors. Stick the shapes and layers around the dog.
Woof woof! Your dog wants some designs! Unleash your creativity and use colored markers and gouache paint to draw thin lines, dots, and other details around your new dog.
This article appeared on p28-29 of beijingkids February 2018 issue.


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Last Sunday The Maui News http://mauinews.com/ ran an article about how the country of France has decided its people are too rude. They have begun a billboard campaign in bus and train stations to encourage people to be more courteous. It cited the statistic that France is the world's most visited country (I didn't know that, did you?) and the French needed to step up their game with the tourists. We just happened to have French friends staying here. I asked Maxim what he thought. He said he agreed with the article and that basically it was a sad commentary on their nation.
At least the French know they have a problem, and they are, afterall, mostly French. Here in Hawaii the lines are blurred, in that it's a melting-pot of cultures, with each being represented at roughly ten percent. I didn't know that before I moved here. Did you?
Well. You have to live here to know how rude that was. She might just as well have said, "How much money you got, Haole lady?" And the silly part was I was wearing a $29 dress off a sale rack that was missing it's belt, and a pair of $22 sandals from Marshall's. I had on no jewelry, no usual markers of wealth or status, (though it's normal to see local girls/women with 3-5 gold bracelets piled up their arms, with Hawaiian words carved into them…words like kuuipo; sweetheart). Because I am haole and I'm not in shorts and a tank top, the aide assumes I'm prosperous. She thinks I live in Wailea, also known as Haolewood. But I just smile, because she doesn't even realize how rude it is.
This is part of the paradox, this type of racism. After all these years, it still catches me by surprise. If a Filipino lady had come in with her Chanel bag and large diamond the question never would have been asked. Case in point: the "local" lady in a blue silk dress and high heels at Taco Bell today. No one is ever going to ask her if she's from Wailea. (If you haven't been to Maui, Wailea is the chi-chi area. Except I can't really say that, because in Hawaii chi-chi means "to go potty".) Go figure.
I was in LA one time and a waiter in a coffee shop said he could tell I wasn't from there. How? Because I had short hair at the time and wasn't carrying a $1,200 bag? Elsewhere, it's considered wise to always look your best. For a haole in Maui, it's a minefield…if you're not careful you'll be taken for a tourist, or worse, a realtor!
And if luck is really against you, you'll be accused of being from Wailea. Don't get me wrong, it's a really nice place. I have done lots of interior design work there in high-end homes. Clint Eastwood has a home on the beach there. It's that kind of place.
With what seems like about nineteen cultures represented in full force in Hawaii, it's hard to know what's considered normal for each culture. A neighbor girl moved here from the Phillipines and plied me with questions about daily life in Maui. She made this observation about Maui: "No one dresses here when they leave the house. They all look like slobs. Where I'm from, you have clothes you wear at home and clothes you wear out. Why don't they do that here?" I couldn't answer her question, but apparently, a cotton dress and sandals were too much for this haole girl's doctor's appointment.
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I'm always messing up rows and columns of matrices when it comes to putting results in the proper cell. I am the type that can even screw a 2x2 matrix. The photoshoot for "Trip on the Complex Plane - the Matrix View" had to be done twice for that very reason.
When you think of it: the series of row index numbers form a column. Very confusing at times. It is like the problem I have with aubergines and courgettes. Only when I see an aubergine I can tell that the green one must be a courgette.
In order to supply visual support for my poor brain I've cut&pasted this page on matrix multiplication.
When two matrices shall be multiplied, the rows of the left one are correlated with the columns of the right one. I might as well cut the matrices into pieces directly. These single row and column strips are now vectors.
I give those vectors slightly different teints, to distinguish them in upcoming operations. Indexing starts with zero, at least when using matrices in dsp-technique.
Correlation of two vectors means to find the inner product: the sum of products of corresponding cells. Let us do an example.
The inner product of two vectors is just one number. That number should go in the correct cell of the output matrix. In the case of row zero, column zero, it is not so difficult to find that cell. It is just the first one we come across.
When continuing matrix multiplication, the cells of the output matrix need to be identified. By convention, the first id-number of a cell is that of it's row, and the second is that of it's column.
For example, the correlation product of matrix A row 1, and matrix B column 0, goes into cell 10 of the output matrix.
These examples were with 3x3 matrices everytime. But matrices need not be square. They can be rectangular, and they can consist of just one row or one column. A typical configuration is: a one-column matrix multiplied by a square matrix. The vectors must have equal length. I will do one example of that, with two-point vectors, because this has the scheme of complex multiplication.
Maybe you wonder if matrix division is also possible. In a certain sense, and under certain conditions, that can be the case. Compare with: division by 4 is multiplication by 1/4. There is no seperate operation for matrix division. Multiplication with the inverse is the only option. Provided there is an inverse, because not al matrices have one. Construction of matrices with known inverses may be in the top 3 of dsp-challenges.


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University of Georgia's Study Shows New Way Athletes Can Improve Reaction Time
By Freddy Lopez / October 27, 2014
Freddy Lopez, 5 years ago 9 min read
(Photo via Elite Daily)
Out of the four major professional sports, baseball, undoubtedly, is in the most dire need for offense.
Pitching prowess has supplanted hitting power–or lack thereof, rather. Just about every statistical measure confirms that. The American League and National League combined to break the all-time strikeout record for a seventh straight season, less than 3,000 shy of amassing 40,000 strikeouts collectively. The leaguewide batting average hovered around .251 this year, levels that borderline reached the worst ever, dating back to when the AL debuted the designated hitter in 1972.
Moreover, on average, big league pitchers' fastball has gradually increased from 89.9 MPH in 2002 to 91.8 MPH this season, per FanGraphs. There's been an uptick in hitters swinging outside of the strike zone as well, up to 30 percent from those kind of pitches.
The 2014 World Series between the San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals virtually personifies the ultimate manifestation of this epidemic.
Clearly, batters' approach at the plate has been well below par, in terms of their in-game decision-making processes. There's a palatable necessity for them to react faster and better to pitches.
In recent years, however, an under-the-radar development centered around science is being experimented among a few teams: neuroscience.
According to the Wall Street Journal, then-General Manager of the Boston Red Sox, Theo Epstein, first tapped into this practice with a local company called NeuroScouting. The intention, in theory, to create software that could assist batters in their ability to identify pitches that they could make contact on, both enhancing its speed and accuracy facets. A video game-esque format has materialized as a prerequisite for hitters before games within the minor leagues. The Tampa Bay Rays, even, have gone insofar as placing fines for players that don't perform these tasks.
Another startup, similarly, named Neuroscout offers electrode caps for players to wear in order to quantify the pertinent brain functions, whenever partaking in visual demos of trying to hit pitches. Such test, again, would assess player's neurological strength and weaknesses during the minor leagues.
As Red Sox's Manager, Ben Cherington, points out to the WSJ: "Intuitively, it would make sense that this would be a helpful tool, but I just don't know if anyone yet can prove it's predictive. The hope is maybe it can be."
Nevertheless, the newfound curiosity for neuroscience in MLB to combat hitting woes is bound to grow. This data enables teams to utilize it as a training module as well as a scouting device. It's a matter of continued repetitions for tangible trends to emerge–in spite of being atypical to players' routines.
To compound the intrigue behind this scientific area further, though, the University of Georgia has published a new study in the journal PLOS ONE that shows a new way athletes–particularly baseball players, in this case–can improve their respective reaction time by 10 percent.
The basis of this study pertains to determining whether or not a nutritional supplement can influence brain functionality. The supplement chosen was zeaxanthin that's known to be quite actively accumulated by the brain and retina; in turn, plausibly impactful towards cellular function due to previous cellular modeling studies conducted. It's also the most widespread carotenoid alcohol in nature, the very pigment that serves paprika's color, too. The measure of the brain function derives from visual processing speed–the underscoring way of cognitive fundamental that details a person's ability to detect, process, and react to stimuli between the eyes and the brain.
Again, it's worth noting that this entire area of study, nutritional neuroscience, is relatively new. This University of Georgia Vision Science's experiment is the first performed of its kind that demonstrates how carotenoid supplements can impact brain processing speeds among young, healthy adults.
Up to this point, what's known about optimal brain function and its processing speed tends to prescribe to various factors that can be altered. Pharmaceuticals, like caffeine, would, indeed, be an example that boosts cognitive ability, albeit in a transient manner. Exercise, of course, propels these executive functions further and for an extended interval of time, particularly evident amongst the elderly. Dietary, though, poses potential by the mere fact that half of the brain is composed of fat, intertwined with the nervous system that contains the aforementioned carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin. This latter point dovetails to these latest findings, after just one trial has been conducted on record with elderly women, with regards to the effects of lutein supplementation on cognitive performance when compared to a placebo.
"Our hypothesis was that supplementation would yield a benefit," Dr. Billy R. Hammond, Graduate Coordinator and Professor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program at the University of Georgia, tells SportTechie.
"This, however, was based almost purely on ex vivo data; so, we had no real basis for predicting the empirical effect on young subjects."
The "young subjects" that Dr. Hammond refers to are college students, 92 of them, 56 females to 36 males, with an average age of almost 22 years-old. They were chosen, in large part, because they would be the least likely to show a change–being at the virtual peak of one's cognitive abilities. Dr. Hammond reasoned that if they could achieve a change in this group, then the effect incurred would be robust and generalizable. The age demographic is critical in order to delineate the final results and discourage any negative effects from that of an elderly sample, especially since carotenoids are known prophylactics that could directly impede neural functions.
These students had to undergo several procedures that were measured and later again after four months of supplementation: macular pigment optical density–it's the concentration of zeaxanthin and lutein together quantified in retinal tissue–visual reaction time–both variable and fixed positions–and critical flicker fusion. Most importantly, the coincidence anticipation timing test enabled the students to follow a streak of light at variable speeds and time their response to when a light reaches a target location–the principal simulation relevant to batting in baseball.
Considering that these tasks are predicated on psychological processes, it's difficult to discriminate against one student from another's results since they had to see flashing lights. Each of them had to follow the protocols independently and had no knowledge of being on placebos or active intervention.
Although this study didn't face the average attrition rate for clinical trials, 30 percent, it's usually the biggest obstacle to overcome along with the initial recruitment. They're in the process, though, to follow-up the results with neuroimaging methods in order to directly measure the changes in the brain, itself.
Still, Dr. Hammond affirms previous understanding that proves the battle of aging to improve reaction time: "The old axiom that you are what you eat is literally true. The brain is composed and maintained by your diet–period."
The composition of one's diet, accordingly, directly influences the activity of neural tissue. While the brain is made up of about 60 percent fat, it can be solid or liquid form. Diet represents the "magic bullet" that either saves or kills, with the physical appearance of one's body as the aggregate byproduct of eating habits made. Exercise, thus, stands as the only other elixir for the brain.
Dr. Hammond believes that this study worked due to the fact college students are rather deficient in the basic food components that the brain needs to evolve. People synthesize close to nothing, conserving most of one's metabolism for our quite large brains. Since carotenoids are the key chromophores in plants that the body leverages for a gamut of functions, lutein and zeaxanthin are instrumental for the central nervous system to react in a pronounced way.
"We are in an epidemic of absence: we are missing so many things that formed the basis of our biology for hundreds of thousands of year. The result is less optimal function in youth, degenerative disease with age," describes Dr. Hammond, in terms of the importance behind finding out that nutritional intervention could influence brain function in college students or, by the same token, professional athletes.
That said, the role of nutrition and vision training to aid athletic performance have been well-documented. The synergy of these two constructs, with the former serving as the catalyst for the latter's improvement, is a novel concept. While some eye-care professionals are cognizant of zeaxanthin's potential towards vision optical effects, this study reveals the direct benefits of zeaxanthin in visual processing speeds and reactions times–what baseball players need.
The Oakland A's, in fact, participated in a similar trial two years ago, where they had their players take EyePromise supplements that contained the same formula as this University of Georgia study. Not only were those results reflective to these current findings, A's players reported an enhanced ability to track a baseball after a pitcher's release and the baseball's rotation.
"As an athletic trainer, I am looking to give our players every edge possible," says Walt Horn, Oakland A's' Assistant Athletic Trainer.
"If an athlete can see the rotation of the ball better, process what they see faster and improve reaction time as demonstrated in the UGA study, they have a better chance of improving their performance over time," Horn continued.
Dr. Dennis Gierhart, Founder of ZeaVision, which produces the EyePromise supplements, considers that athletes need to see benefits close to real-time, therefore, recommending higher doses intake of zeaxanthin. Such trials with MLB clubs suggests that the performance advantages do translate to elite athletes; the likely qualifier, though, being: "translating visual performance benefits onto the field is a complex thing to measure." There's a distinct possibility that a user of the supplements could experience their visual performance regress, provided they stop using them after becoming accustomed to this consumption.
Of course, it's prudent for athletes to ensure that the National Science Foundation (NSF) logo for sports is visible in the product's packaging and consult with their professional advisors. The ingredients of the supplements has to be extremely high quality and filtered by the eye-care industry, first and foremost.
This 10 percent enhancement in visual processing speed and reaction time means a 43 millisecond edge for a batter at the plate. The adoption of this supplement's intake could also mean closing the gap between pitchers and hitters in MLB, a step towards more offensive production across the board would be welcomed for the sport's vitality.
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National Opposition parties reject exit polls
Opposition parties reject exit polls
New Delhi, May 20 : Terming exit polls in the past as "inconsistent" and "incorrect", the opposition parties have played down the predictions for the Lok Sabha elections, claiming that the actual results to be announced on May 23 would be different.
Soon after the exit polls on Sunday largely predicted full majority for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) with seats ranging from 282 to 365 while the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was restricted between 82 and 165 seats, opposition leaders expressed their displeasure.
The Congress said that people had not revealed their true choice and the official results would be different from the exit polls.
Congress spokesperson Rajeev Gowda said that exit polls were "regularly wrong", and seat share and vote share predictions were very difficult to make.
"Fear is the key, so a lot of people are hesitant to reveal their true choice. Let us wait for May 23, the results will be sufficiently different," he said.
Congress leader P.C. Chacko also said that the results will be different from the exit polls and that there were so many possibilities which will become clear on May 23.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said the pollsters have failed to catch the pulse of the people.
"Exit polls have proved to be incorrect and far from ground reality in many instances. While undoubtedly the TDP will form the government in Andhra Pradesh, we are confident that the non-BJP parties will form a non-BJP govt at the Centre," Naidu said.
Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called the exit polls "gossips" which would be used to manipulate results.
"I don't trust exit poll gossip. The game plan is to manipulate or replace thousands of EVMs through this gossip. I appeal to all the Opposition parties to be united, strong and bold. We will fight this battle together," she said.
If exit polls are to be believed, the Narendra Modi government is coming back to power with full majority, but the predictions by poll survey agencies in the past have been found not to be close to the actual results.
Barring the exit polls in 1998, when some of them were quite close to the actual results, the pollsters went completely wrong in mapping the voters' mood since 1996.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh said in a tweet that if "TV scientists have any shame" they should remember the exit polls of 2004, 2013 and 2015 about Delhi as also predictions about the recent Assembly elections in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPI-M) leader and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan dismissed the exit polls, saying they could go wrong and added that the CPI-M-led Left was going to win big in the state.
"Let us now wait for May 23. Don't you know that previous exit polls have gone haywire? What did they say in 2004, that the BJP-led NDA would return to power. Did they come," asked Vijayan.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson Nawab Malik said that many of the exit polls results were contradicting themselves, so they lack credibility.
"Our assessment is that BJP+NDA will be restricted to less than 220-225 seats and there may be a hung Parliament. However, this is not reflected in any exit polls which give wide-ranging figures ranging from 225-325 to the BJP+NDA," he said.
DMK President M.K. Stalin said his party was not bothered much about the exit poll results. "In three days time people's verdict will be known and we are waiting for that. The party is not bothered about exit poll results, be it positive or negative," he said.
Riding on 'Modi wave', the NDA had won 336 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. None of the major pollsters, except Today's Chanakya, had expected the NDA's tally would cross the 300-mark.
The pollsters had failed in 2009 when the Congress-led UPA won 262 seats, a figure no pollster could even come close to.
In 2004, Outlook-MDRA and Star-C-Voter had predicted that the incumbent Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government will return to power by giving it 290 and 275 seats, respectively.
Other pollsters, including Aaj Tak and NDTV, had also expected the NDA to do better than the Congress and allies by giving it 248-250 seats.
However, all exit polls were wide off the mark as the NDA could bag only 159 seats while the Congress and allies, which went on to form a government later under the UPA banner, won 262 seats.
Following the early collapse of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, most exit polls predicted the NDA, which was a coalition of 24 parties, would win between 329 and 336 seats.
It won 296 seats and HT-AC Nielsen was closest to the actual results as it had predicted 300 seats.
In 1998, the top four election surveys — India Today-CSDS, DRS, Outlook-AC Nielsen and Frontline-CMS — had predicted that NDA would get between 214 and 249 seats, less than the halfway mark of 272. Eventually, NDA got 252 seats.
Fire breaks out at Andhra counting centre
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Food Network Kitchen Alexa app lets you take live cooking classes with Martha Stewart
The new service will feature instructional videos and interactive cooking classes on iOS, Android and Amazon devices.
The Food Network Kitchen app features interactive classes from celebrity chefs.
Fans of Food Network celebrity chefs like Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis and Ree Drummond can now take live cooking classes with the pros. The new Food Network Kitchen app, out Tuesday, wants to become your personal kitchen assistant.
Food Network Kitchen integrates with Amazon Alexa to act as a hands-free helper while you cook, said Tyler Whitworth, senior vice president and general manager of direct-to-consumer at Food Network's parent company, Discovery. The app offers hundreds of on-demand cooking classes, including 500 beginner classes, and hundreds of step-by-step instructional videos.
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"As we talked to more customers, we heard that they were often not feeling confident in the kitchen, and wanted help," Whitworth said. "We built this kitchen companion that customers could use on a regular basis to help them build their skills and have more fun in the kitchen."
In daily live cooking classes with celebrity chefs, including Anne Burrell and Valerie Bertinelli, users will be able to submit questions and get feedback from chefs or culinary experts in the coming months, Whitworth said. There will be 25 live and interactive classes offered per week. Eventually users will have access to other Food Network chefs, including Rachael Ray, Guy Fieri, Martha Stewart, Alton Brown and Ina Garten, a press release noted.
The new app is separate from the Food Network GO app, which streams the network's television content. Food Network Kitchen acts as a personal kitchen companion, helping you step by step while you cook, Whitworth said.
The service will cost $48 a year, or $4 per month. But at launch, you can take advantage of a 90-day free trial period before subscribing. With each annual subscription purchased, Discovery will donate up to 100 meals to kids as part of its Turn Up: Fight Hunger initiative.
Once you sign up for the service and connect your Alexa account, you can ask Alexa to bring up cooking classes, recipes and shows. And when you're elbow-deep in turkey stuffing, you can ask Alexa to repeat steps in the recipe or the amount of ingredients needed, without having to touch a screen, Whitworth said.
You can also order groceries and ingredients directly from the app via Amazon Fresh, PeaPod or Instacart's network of stores, covering 80% of US houses at launch, he added.
In 2020, Food Network Kitchen will expand its features to include 24/7 culinary support. So if, for example, you have a question about what to substitute for a certain ingredient, someone will be able to help you. Other upcoming features include culinary equipment delivery and more exclusive content.
Food Network Kitchen was first announced alongside Amazon's Echo Show 8 at a September Amazon event. The app is currently available on iOS and Android devices, Amazon Fire Tablets, Fire TV, Alexa, and Echo Show. It'll come to Apple TV, Roku, Google Chromecast, Xbox One and Xbox 360 later this year and into 2020, according to Food Network.
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Martin Clunes' "Islands of Britain" documentary series was produced by ITV Productions. It airs from time to time on local public television stations in the U.S. A preview is made available by American Public Television.
Gig rowers in the UK have their own website, including the annual World Pilot Gig Championships in the Scilly Islands each May.
The small island of Sark in the Channel Islands is the first island designated as a "dark sky" destination.
The Guardian has an interview with Martin Clunes about his family life, and a review of his recent nature documentaries.
Martin Clunes' most recent nature documentary is called "The Lemurs of Madagascar." His nature and animal documentaries can be purchased for home viewing from the Australian Broadcasting Company.
BBC News coverage of the Scottish independence campaign.
The dominant party of the current Scottish Parliament is the Scottish National Party, which favors independence from Britain.
Here's a link to a dictionary of unfamiliar words to most English speakers from the Scottish vernacular.
Colin Mairs' website is called Excursion Scotland.


You've got questions, and I've got answers for next Saturday's (July 26) Sun of a Beach Festival.
The event is free, with no ticket necessary.
It's held at Bobber's Grill on the Coralville Reservoir.
Come early. The party's Saturday, July 26th from 10am to 3pm.
Yes! The Bamboozlers, a Jimmy Buffett Tribute Band will perform from 11 to 3.
Is there going to be sand volleyball too?
Absolutely, bring your "A" game with you and join the fun.