What is Total Kidney Cleanse?
entire urinary system (kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra).
Total Kidney Cleanse contains powdered herbs and minerals contained in vegetable capsules.
bacteria in the urinary tract are being destroyed and your urinary system is being alkalized.


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Q: Get the last non-null element of an array Having an array like this
myArray = ["test", 32.5, 11.3, 0.65, 533.2, null, 423.2, null, null];

is there a way to get the last non-null element?
In this case it should be 423.2.

A: The easiest way of doing this is to filter out the null items using .filter, and then get the last element using .slice:
lastNonNull = myArray.filter(x => x != null).slice(-1)[0]
console.log(lastNonNull) // 432.2

To break this down a bit:
myArray
    .filter(x => x != null)    // returns ["test", 32.5, 11.3, 0.65, 533.2, 423.2]
    .slice(-1)                 // returns [423.2]
    [0]                        // returns 423.2

A: Use reverse and find
["test", 32.5, 11.3, 0.65, 533.2, null, 423.2, null, null].reverse().find( s => s != null )

Or just one reduceRight
var arr = ["test", 32.5, 11.3, 0.65, 533.2, null, 423.2, null, null]
arr.reduceRight( (a,c) => ( c != null && a == null ? c : a) , null)

A: Another way is Array#reduce():

var myArray = ["test", 32.5, 11.3, 0.65, 533.2, null, 423.2, null, null];
var last = myArray.reduce((acc, curr) => curr ? curr : acc);
console.log(last);

A: You can use filter to filter the non null elements and use pop to get the last element.

let myArray = ["test", 32.5, 11.3, 0.65, 533.2, null, 423.2, null, null];
let result = myArray.filter( v => v !== null ).pop();

console.log( result );

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Paterson, Katherine: Bridge to Terabithia
This book is a work of children's literature about two kids who create their own magical world in the forest. It was written in 1977 by Katherine Paterson. The characters all live in a small town called Lark Creek and most of the action takes place there.
Jess and Leslie are two tween outsider who become friends and escape from overbearing parents and bullies at school in their own private kingdom of Terabithia. Everything would have been perfect if their idyllic world hadn't been shattered by a tragic accident.
I think that the book demonstrates how important friendship and imagination are.
Signatur: FE.J / PAT
© Review and Illustration: Daniela Stelzer, 5Am (September 2018)
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Plain brown Kraft paper make up this medium gift bag. These bags have a brown twined handle for ease of use and style. Add a rustic look to your party or gift bags with this natural paper gift bag. Decorate with streamers, tissue paper, or use for craft projects and color with markers for added festivity. Bag is 6.5 in x 9 in x 3.25 in and includes paper handle.


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The Interior is 70m2 and can accommodate 4 to 6 tables and the modern décor is very appealing. The display cabinets run the length of the cafeteria and offer the pastries and snacks to entice the customers. A large range of coffee, tea, beer and wine compliment the selection of cakes and snacks.
The fully equipped kitchen has all the appliances to produce baguettes, special bread, doughnuts, crepes and muffins. Ample storage and refrigeration complete the main area.
Stairs lead down to a 60 m2 staff area with conveniences and a large 30m2 walk-in freezer. Once again as with the café, this can be reformed and turned into whatever the new owner decides.
The large wrap around terrace seats between 7 to 10 tables and is perfectly located to watch the world go by. The area has great footfall throughout the day and evening. This is an amazing opportunity to take over a cafeteria that is up and running is not to be missed.


What is the Amway Business Scam?
What is Amway Products? Is Amway Business A Scam?
Amway is short for American Way and is an American multli-level marketing company founded by friends, Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos in 1959. Based in Ada, Michigan. USA. Amway offers health, beauty and home care products and falls under its parent company, Alticor Global Holding Inc. It is the oldest MLM company and operates in over a hundred countries.
What Is Amway Global MLM Business Opportunity?
Amway Is A Multi-Level Marketing Company; What Is Wrong With This Picture?
Someone you know or an Amway MLM company representative has approached you enthusiastically and told you that they are onto the best opportunity ever, they want to recruit you but you want to check first.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT – Who wants to be pushed into saying yes?
Take your time, recruiters are pushy, learn about Amway first and see if you like it.
Is it really true that Amway is a good opportunity, pays well and is worth the investment of your time and money?
Nutrilite- This is Amway's biggest selling brand marketed as Nutriway in some countries. Nutrilite boasts the first ever vitamin supplement ever sold – the first ever product Amway owners sold as distributors before they founded Amway.
We are not going into greater depth about Amway products because products offered by any multi-level marketing company will always appeal to some but not to others.
This article will focus on the business opportunity because this is where time or money can be truly wasted.
There is of course the intricacies involved with the compensation plan but once again there is no point in going into it because all MLM plans, regardless of their variations, always end up at the same point… that of about 95% to 98% of the distributors earning very little or nothing.
Rich DeVos said originally, when they started as distributors, the requirement was to have 25 customers first before a distributor qualified to recruit. That meant a source of income every month as the distributor started growing their team. Now any distributor starts by recruiting and most focus on recruiting that is why most distributors don't make much money.
Are you involved with the Amway Global Company Business Opportunity or is someone trying to recruit you and you want to look at this more closely?
As individuals are different, it is up to you to look at this information closely and see if you want to go ahead with an MLM company.
There is enough information here to help you to come to a definite decision about the Amway Global Company opportunity.
Considering all the above, who would not get drawn to the MLM type of business?
What Are You Expected To Do With The Amway Opportinity?
Each product carries credits and so you have to make a certain number of credits each month.
Outside Amway's Impressive Presentations, what truly goes on?
If you want to stay in it because you like the products, that is fine, but know that business wise, there are no large sums of money to look forward to for 98% of distributors.
Work From Home… with the business meetings, presentations, and training that goes on, this is NOT a 100% work from home business opportunity. You are in and out and everywhere, adding up the traveling and events costs.
No Staff… hilarious. Yes, you have no staff in the conventional sense but you need downlines to earn in any MLM business. You definitely can't work alone, at home. To realize any kind of income from an MLM opportunity you have to recruit, monitor and motivate your downlines. Of-course the language used for this process is sugar coated. This is actually a burden. It is like recruiting new staff all the time and forever training new staff.
Residual Income... Maybe we should call this one 'dwindling income'. You start off with loads of excitement, recruit family and friends, who join just to support you or because they have been pushed into it. And then you realize that very few will want to really do the business and slowly the few sales you made before, come to naught.
There is more… The hidden costs. You will be traveling to presentations, meetings, events, seminars, even conventions and the MLM company doesn't pay for those!
How The MLM Business Is – Amway?
But the MLM company knows word of mouth is more effective as distributors are trained to be pushy and they actually don't care about you at all. It's all about pushing you to sell for them for very little or nothing in return and this creates HUGE profits for the company. Don't get caught up in their promises because they are JUST THAT – promises.
Who Really Earns In MLM Amway?
This is the reason why your upline or sponsor is on your back all the time. An annoying sequence! Isn't this what you are trying to get away from a job when you decide to have your own business! Even the boss at your regular 9 – 5 job is not as pushy as an upline!
You are running on hoping to be like one successful upline in a whole region.
Amway has not been declared a scam therefore from the title Amway Business Scam I would like to say Amyway is not a scam but your chances of making substancial money are pretty slim. Don't focus on one, Amway, stream of income. Look at other opportunities or combine them.
There Is A |Better Way For The Same Kind Of Amway MLM Effort.
Do Your Research And Get Some Information Before You Sign Up To Amway or Any Multi-Level Marketing Company.
Who Is Amway company For?
Have You Got Enough Of MLM or Amway Global Company?
It is recession proof. When the economy is in recession all you do is switch and work with products good to recommend during a recession!
Do you want to be the person that family and friends avoid because you have become pushy trying to recruit them for an MLM opportunity?
Do you want to lose class over a business opportunity that will NEVER make you rich?
Do you want a real business model that gives you a real business to work from home with no boss and no inventory, where you get proper guidance, no upline and no need to push anyone, instead, those interested in your business find you.


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Indy 500 champ Kanaan sixth in first race with Ganassi camp
By Chris EstradaMar 30, 2014, 8:17 PM EDT
A promising Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg appeared to be on tap for Target Chip Ganassi Racing newcomer Tony Kanaan after he qualified on the outside front row.
Instead, things got very difficult almost from the beginning for the Indianapolis 500 champion, when he suffered a potentially disastrous mishap in the cockpit of his No. 10 Target Chevrolet.
"Right at the fourth lap of the race, we went into a [fuel] mixture to lean the engine out and save some fuel – but the knob fell off," Kanaan explained to ESPN. "I raced the entire race with a lot less power, so it was quite hard to keep up."
Nonetheless, Kanaan was able to soldier on and pick up a sixth-place finish in his first race for the defending Verizon IndyCar Series champions. He also noted the big picture, with driver's champ and new teammate Scott Dixon finishing in fourth.
"It was one of those things. It happens. But a Top-6 is not a bad start," he said. "Both Target cars [finished] in the Top-6, and that's great for the championship. It's going to be a tight one, so we need to take any points that we can get."
The lack of power appeared to show early on after Kanaan lost second on the opening lap to Ryan Hunter-Reay (who would eventually finish there behind winner Will Power). He ceded third to Power on Lap 12, then lost fourth to Helio Castroneves on Lap 18 before making his first stop on Lap 27.
When that green flag cycle ended, Kanaan would shake out in sixth position. He would stay there for much of his second stint but then fall back to seventh after another wave of green stops.
However, his pit crew would do him a solid by getting him the lost spot back on pit road during the race's first caution (Lap 76-81). Kanaan stayed sixth for the remainder of the race, setting his fastest lap of the day on Lap 95 despite his fuel troubles.
"For all the problems that we had during the day, it was a great result," Kanaan said. "When you have a bad day and you have problems and you finish sixth, it's pretty good."


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Q: Need help creating a .bat file to execute SAS jobs Using Windows 7, I need a .bat file that will execute files in a folder whenever I put them in there. for example I want it to execute files with a .sas suffix and then rename them once executed. I want toe programs to run in sequence, not simultaneously. I am rusty on my bat programming.
I can get the following to run,
cd C:\Users\ABC\Dropbox\XYZ\Runlibrary
timeout /t 15
"C:\Program Files\SASHome2-94\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe"  -sysin  "program5.sas"
ren "program5.sas" "program5.done"

but now want a loop and the ability to have it do all .SAS programs in the folder. Something like
do (the following 1 million times)
timeout /t 15
for %f in (*.sas) do "C:\Program Files\SASHome2-94\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe"  -sysin  "%f"
for %f in (*.sas) do ren "*.sas" "*.done"

Thoughts, links or sample code?

A: Here's something that I cooked up, I haven't tested any of this, but give it a whirl as it's supposed to loop until you kill it:
@echo off
:: Setting max_count to '0' makes this an infinite loop, you can set it to 10000000 if you want or leave it at 0
set max_count=0

:: Location where the .sas files are stored; '.' means current directory
set sas_dir=.

:: counter should be '0'
set counter=0

:: Starting the loop
:start_loop
set /a counter+=1

:: Looking for .sas files to execute
if exist "%sas_dir%\*.sas" for /f "tokens=1* delims=" %%f in ('dir /b /o:n /a:-d "%sas_dir%\*.sas"') do (
    echo INFO: Running %%f
    call "C:\Program Files\SASHome2-94\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe" -sysin "%%~pnxf"
    rename "%%~pnxf" "%%~pnf.done"
)

:: Stats
echo INFO: Looped Count: %counter%; Reloop Time: 15 secs

:: Waiting 15 secs to reloop
timeout /t 15 >nul

:: Checking Max Counter
if "%max_count%"=="%counter%" (
    echo INFO: Looping completed with "%max_count%" counts, exiting...
    goto end
)

:: relooping
goto start_loop

:end

Here's a site that I found to be informative on for loops and other batch related questions: http://judago.webs.com/batchforloops.htm


After a decree from his doctor, comedian Eddie French has to change his lifestyle to one he distrusts and finds utterly unappealing. That of an exerciser. Perhaps this adventure will lead to him finding some sort of joy in activity. He doubts it.
Gone but not forgotten, our hero walks into the sunset. He will miss you, though.
Our hero has been hard at the coalface of comedy this week so how did he keep up on his fitnessjourneyhashtaglivinghisblessedlife? Listen and find out.
Wherein we fear our hero may be becoming unhinged. Pretty usual, that though. Not very Deluxe.
Where we find our hero trying his new format and offering dinner advice. We also hear about how our hero steps in to save Tony Law. Sort of.
All The Cat's Lives Are Gone So We Drink To The New.
Episode 9 is finally here. It marks the end of the old and the start of the new. 2 weeks worth of Exercises and the reveal of a new approach for French Trim. How endlessly exciting!
Proper pain in the arse this week. Not from an amusing exercise incident but from a laptop breakdown. Double ep next week to make up for the petrol station flowers that this broadcast represents. I'll just sleep on the sofa, this week.
In which our hero finds one of the worst Quotivations yet and spends an excess of time in the air.
It only takes a minute, girl (and another 6 after that).
Where our hero tries to save time and makes a worrying discovery.
Diamond Dogs. Where our hero puts his best foot forward and everyone fancies him. I think.
Eddie has found a new STOMPING ground. So see if you can keep up with his PACE and remember to... erm, shut the GATE and follow all the STEPS and continue DOGGEDLY... He's been walking dogs. Happy now?
Having An Old Dinner For A Friend. Or, How I Learned To Eat Everything And Comfort A Dog.
Boy, oh boy, oh boy. Eddie finds himself out of his depth in this one. A Greek spaniel is causing him bother and, on top of that he can't find a big enough plate... ever.
Revelations and Realignments. In which our hero nearly comes unstuck only to swear an oath to you all.
Eddie finds out more about himself and shares it with you. Fear not though, there is some of his actual remit in this episode.
Cowabunga. Welcome to this totally bodacious return to form (it's not surfing).
Third time is the charm if sayings are to be believed. Eddie has really dug deep on this one in the hope of having some fun. Has he finally broken the habit of a lifetime and had some? Listen and find out.
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Real life and illness attempt to, and largely succeed in attempting to thwart our hero's efforts. But you will be treated to the first of the occasional product reviews by Eddie and there's always Quotivation to get excited about!
Here we find out some background to the show and see how Eddie gets on with an exercise bike. He frankly wonders what Freddie Mercury saw in all things 2-wheeled and motorless. but that's by the by.
Just a little teaser trailer for the French Trim Podcast. Just to give you an idea about what it's about. Hope you find it interesting.


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The Last Last Hike
Celine Francois | 2021 | 20 min.
2022 Official Selection
83-year-old Nimblewill Nomad is about to become the oldest person to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. But he didn't start at Springer Mountain, Georgia – his trek began on Flagg Mountain in Alabama, the true southern terminus of the Appalachian Mountain Range. Throughout his odyssey, he's meeting hikers along the way and sharing the magic of Flagg Mountain, where he has been the caretaker for the past three years. With more than two decades and 50,000 miles of hiking experience behind him, will this really be his last last hike?
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'"Pretty Polly", "The Gosport Tragedy" or "The Cruel Ship's Carpenter"... is a traditional English-language folk song found in the British Isles, Canada, and the Appalachian region of North America, among other places.
This guy is a real creep, and it would be wholly appropriate if  his name was in fact taken to express a feeling of creepiness and fear.  By this interpretation of course, the DT's would represent a secondary development.


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«Debbie Gibson» - biography, albums, songs, video clips
female vocalist
Deborah Ann Gibson, credited as both Deborah Gibson and Debbie Gibson (born August 31, 1970 in Brooklyn, NY, United States), is an American singer-songwriter, and record producer who was initially a teen idol appearing repeatedly on the cover of such teen magazines as Tiger Beat. In contrast to the prevalence of the name Debbie in her teen-idol phase, she showed a preference for "Deborah" even then, and her fans had, before the release of Naked, signalled a departure from that image by using this name to refer to her. When Gibson turned 16 years old in 1986, she was signed to a recording contract by Atlantic Records, and soon she became the youngest person ever to write, record and produce a Number 1 hit, with her single Foolish Beat. Three other singles from her debut LP Out Of The Blue also cracked the top 5 Billboard Top 100: Only In My Dreams, Out Of The Blue, and Shake Your Love. By the time Out Of The Blue was established as a hit album, she and Tiffany, with her remake of I Think We're Alone Now, were fighting for the top position as teen queen of the United States. She also had considerable success in the UK, as well as Japan and south east Asia. During the early 1990s, she released to albums "Anything Is Possible" (1990) and "Mind Body Soul" (1993). In 1995, she signed with EMI's SBK Records division and recorded what would be her only album for the label, Think With Your Heart. After parting company with EMI, Gibson formed her own record label to release her original material. Controversially for some of her fans who were more comfortable with her earlier wholesome image, the March 2005 issue of Playboy featured a nude pictorial with Gibson, the publication of which also coincided with the release of her single, Naked. In 2005, Gibson co-wrote and recorded a song titled Someone You Love with The O'Neill Brothers. With The O'Neill Brothers, Gibson also released an updated, acoustic version of her former number 1 hit Lost In Your Eyes. Deborah's ninth album "Ms. Vocalist" was released in late 2010. The lead single, "I Love You" quickly reached #1 in Japan soon after its release.


The National Quality Infrastructure Project in Nigeria in an initiative funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) recently organised training on the use of Rapid Test Toolkits to determine mycotoxin and pesticide levels in agricultural produce.
The training which held in Zaria, Kaduna State, was within the context of the Conduits of Excellence, a quality control system that is one of the interventions to improve trade and diversification of the Nigerian economy. The initiative is carried out under the National Quality Infrastructure Project in Nigeria (NQIP), funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
The toolkits provided by UNIDO are easy-to-use single-step devices for rapid and accurate qualitative testing.
The training process involved sample collection from a local market, equipment set up and the testing process. Trainees demonstrated three tests: Aflatoxin test on dried beans, pesticides residue test on dried beans and Deoxynivalenol/Vomitoxin (DON) test on wheat. The toolkits will aid storage facilities in proper assessment of the produce farmers make available for storage.
"The implementation of the rapid testing system will be the first in Nigeria's agricultural sector and will demonstrate the Conduits of Excellence in practice," the statement said.


All baseball teams of Papa's Hot-Doggeria represents a game, but, some of them, we don't recognize, because they represents the new games, The batters represents Papa's Cupcakeria and The Gondoliers represents Papa's pastaria. Samurais are of japanese culture, so the team of Samurais represents a japanese gameria???


WGNE-FM (99.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Middleburg, Florida, and serving the Jacksonville metropolitan area. It is owned by Renda Broadcasting and airs a country music radio format as "99.9 Gator Country." Its main competitor is iHeartMedia-owned 99.1 WQIK.
WGNE's studios and offices are in the Arlington district of Jacksonville. The transmitter is downtown on a tower that also broadcasts Channel 12 WTLV and other Jacksonville TV and FM stations.
On July 14, 1972, the station first signed on as WIYD, licensed to Palatka, Florida, a town about 50 miles south of Jacksonville. It aired a beautiful music format as "Wide FM," and was the sister station to AM 1260 WWPF, both stations owned by Hall Communications. Because it broadcast from a tower only 180 feet tall, it was limited to serving the Palatka-St. Augustine area.
In 1978, the AM station switched its call sign to WIYD, while the FM station was sold to the Sis Radio Company and became WIYD-FM. The new owners got a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission to construct a tower more than 900 feet tall, making 99.9 audible from Jacksonville to Daytona Beach.
In 1981, the station was sold to the Ronnette Communications Corporation, with the studios and offices moving to Ormond Beach. It became Top 40 outlet WNFY. In the Jacksonville radio market, it competed with long time Top 40 AM radio leader WAPE 690 (now WOKV) and FM challenger 102.9 WIVY (now WEZI). In about a year, WAPE left the Top 40 format for Oldies.
In 1983, the station switched its call letters to WNFI, while remaining Top 40. Its tower was now nearly 1,300 feet tall, with a power of 100,000 watts, allowing WNFI to be heard over much of the northern section of Florida's Atlantic coast. In 1993, the station was sold again, this time to the Daytona Beach Broadcasting Corporation. The station remained Top 40 but the call letters were switched to WFKS to fit the new moniker "Florida's Kiss-FM."
In 1996, Renda Broadcasting paid $6.5 million for WNFI and 100.7 WKQL (now WMUV). Renda switched WNFI's format to Country, renaming the station WGNE-FM and using the moniker "99.9 Froggy-FM." In 2005, the station's studios and offices moved to Atlantic Boulevard in Jacksonville.
In the early 2010s, the station's city of license was moved to Middleburg, Florida, an unincorporated community in Clay County, which borders Jacksonville. WGNE switched to a tower on Gator Bowl Boulevard in Jacksonville used by Channel 12 WTLV and other Jacksonville TV and FM stations. While the move improved the station's signal to office towers and apartment buildings in Jacksonville, as well as its northern suburbs, it reduced coverage to the south. The power was cut by more than half and the antenna height was reduced by 300 feet. WGNE switched its moniker to "99.9 Gator Country."
^ "Your Hometown Morning Show". 99.9 Gator Country.
^ "River City Live". News 4 Jax.
^ "The Mark Brunell Show". Jax Chamber.
^ "Brian Jordan". 99.9 Gator Country.
^ "96.1 WEJZ". 96.1 WEJZ.
^ "Matt Basford". 99.9 Gator Country.


Ravencoin wallets are really just collections of key pairs. Hierarchical Deterministic wallets are the state of the art for reliably creating and backing up collections of related keypairs. For more detail read Andreas's in depth explanation about how they work in Mastering Ravencoin.
RVNBOX is an HD wallet which aims to be compliant w/ BIPS 32, 39, 43, 44. When you first fire up RVNBOX we create a random mnemonic from 16 bytes of entropy which we then use to create a root seed, master key and 10 default accounts.
You can configure how much entropy RVNBOX uses to create your mnemonic in the config section. More entropy means more words in your mnemonic. By default RVNBOX will use 16 bytes and create a 12 word mnemonic.
To do this we're using NodeJS's crypto.randomBytes and the wonderful BIP39.js.
Next we take an optional password and combined w/ the mnemonic create a root seed. The number of potential seeds is 2^512.
Finally we're using ravencoinlib-js to create a masterkey from the rootSeed.
This masterkey can be used to create 4 billion child keys. Each of those child keys can produce 4 billion child keys recursively in a derivation path.
When you combine the number of potential mnemonics, seeds and nested child keys the potential Ravencoin address space is unfathomably large.
purpose' is always set to 44 to signify that the wallet is BIP 44 compliant. coin_type' is set to 175 for $RVN. Then we create 10 accounts which are siblings and get the first private key in Wallet Import Format.
You can optionally set your own custom derivation path.
We don't want to display the private key WIF by default to the user because it's unsafe. Instead we get the publicKey and display that by default allowing the user to toggle visibility of the privateKeyWIF w/ a button click.
You can also toggle generating keys on the $RVN testnet.
RVNBOX aims to be an HD wallet which is compliant w/ BIPs 32, 39, 43 and 44. You can change the strength of the mnemonic, how many accounts are created, the derivation path, whether the addresses are displayed as Base58Check encoded and main or testnet.


Has a host of built-in organizational tools that streamline your marketing and sales efforts all in one location.
Integrates effortlessly with a variety of third-party sites, so you can do things like receive payments or mail shipments with ease.
Provides user-friendly navigation for your customers. In only a few clicks, they can search for a product, filter results, and receive a list of suitable products. Such quick, effortless online service encourages sales and keeps people on your page.
Magento doesn't require you to use standard templates or fit your vision into their design.
Since the program is open source, we can build you a one-of-a-kind online store unique to the needs of your business.
You have the freedom to add elements such as shopping carts, wish lists, reviews, multiple shipping options, guest checkout, and more.
If your business grows, you can adapt Magento and include new features without interruption of your store.
Sell to a limited area or the entire world. Essentially, with Magento's flexibility, your ecommerce store can become anything you imagine.
Include many features to help businesses grow.
The service offers customers access to on-the-spot financing, so they can buy now and pay later, with no additional cost to the merchant. Ready-made banner ads and a prominent Bill Me Later button at checkout are included to help promote the new service. Merchants also have an option to offer customers a more streamlined PayPal Express Checkout experience which automatically tries alternative payment options when a customer's credit card is rejected to help drive more sales.
Magento Enterprise Edition 1.14 now has native support for search indexing that is performed as the product catalog changes without manual intervention. These improvements provide shoppers with more up-to-date search results, and merchants with more efficient operations and better admin performance during search indexing.
Responsive is the best mobile solution for many merchants because they can invest in one site that serves customers using any device, while ensuring a consistent brand experience on every device. A single responsive site is less costly to develop and requires less time and effort to maintain than different themes for different sites and different devices.
Responsive is also good for boosting conversion, with a shopping cart and checkout designed to work in any environment and on any screen size. And having a responsive site makes it easy for mobile device-using customers to move from an email offer, for instance, to check out. All of this is good news for merchants aiming to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile commerce.
There are Search Engine Optimization (SEO) advantages too, because responsive is Google's recommended approach to mobile optimization and because it allows merchants to focus all their content energy on a single site. Great content that supports SEO also engages customers, provides a richer site experience and can reduce bounce rates.


Comfortable, clean accommodations with beautiful views of historic Cuba, NY. Easy access to Rt. I-86. Cable TV, coffee & donuts. All units computer compatible. Free high speed wireless internet, rooms have refrigerators, microwaves, hair dryers, Free local calls.


How do you know if someone's telling the truth on their CV? Hiring an undertrained candidate may mean they aren't up to the job, and for many industries employers risk prosecution if they hire someone without the necessary qualifications. Billions are spent worldwide on employee background checks, and as worker migration increases the need to verify applicants' legal right to work is growing.
APPII offers a simple solution. For employers – quick and affordable employee checks. For workers – a verified online CV that makes it simpler for potential employers to hire you. And it's all stored on the blockchain to guarantee accuracy and data security.
We joined APPII to overhaul the experience of using their product. The technology their team had built was clever, but the user interface needed to be rebuilt from the ground up. Users were struggling to navigate the complex flows required to complete checks, and the design of the CVs meant users weren't happy sending them to potential employers.
Our team created a comprehensive new UI system, applying it first across the web app then across the iOS and Android apps. Our approach was guided by a few key ideas. We decided to use familiar native interface components as much as possible to reduce the learning curve for new users. We wanted users to be delighted with their profiles to encourage them to complete and share them. Thirdly, we put as much emphasis on the ease of use for the backend employer views as the frontend user views. The usability often drops for the back of house – we recognised early on that in this case it was key to the success of the business.
Working closely with their team through regular workshops, Slack and a shared task board, we directed the roll out of the new interface. It was a design-led project, but our developers regularly checked and amended the frontend code to ensure our designers' vision was implemented correctly.
APPII is live in the app store, and has completed an additional funding round following our work.


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Fantasy Gay Hollywood Los Angeles Queer
Gays: In The Age of Consent. Mario Testino and Bruce Weber.
Mario Testino was a friend of ours. He had a studio in an abandoned hospital on Soho Square. Scott Crolla, Georgina Godley… and others were frequent guests. My boy friend in 1981 was Mario's long time friend and collaborator Patrick Kinmonth.
Patrick lived in a tiny apartment in Holland Park, deliberately disheveled, dusty yet filled with beautiful object. The place was brutally cold in the winter and a furnace in the summer. Patrick, according to the artist Craigie Aitchison dobbed me in to the police when they were looking for me to ask questions about my credit card and why I hadn't paid the bill. It was Patrick who lent me money to buy my Peter Doig and it was Patrick who encouraged me to make art. He was a vicious snob, exquisitely beautiful and at that time worked for Vogue magazine. He amused us all by mimicking Mario's Peruvian lilt. Patrick is a deft impersonator. The problem with Patrick? Nothing ever came of his own talent. He lives with the painfully shy food photographer Tessa Traeger in the West Country. He designs opera sets for out-of-the-way operas but never became the great anything everyone thought he might become.
The last time I saw Mario and Patrick we were in LA at The Chateau Marmont. I was having dinner in the garden they were having a party in the lounge with a bunch of gorgeous boy/men models. I sat beside Patrick for a moment but I didn't stay long. He scolded me. I made amends for some indiscretion and I left. Mario looked at me disdainfully. Patrick enjoys being on Mario's winning team. He wrote the forward to Mario's book and he styles the most interesting shoots. Neither of them wanted me hanging around. You've seen pictures of young girls on a yacht wearing bikinis, oggled by old men… this was Mario's gay equivalent. I'd already ruined things by talking to him and Patrick, bathed in Mario's reflected glory, wanted me gone. He looked down his aquiline nose and told me I could have made so much more of myself. Yeah, I thought… if you hadn't worked with the establishment to destroy me. I probably could.
You know why old men put young girls on yachts? You'd think… so the girls can't escape. No, it's so their old men friends can't join the party. I returned to my dinner in the garden. Soon I saw Mario, Peter Pan like… screaming and laughing down the stairs with his crew. Patrick lagging behind like a heavy train on an old dress.
I've never blogged about Mario. Now, within the context of the salacious revelations and accusations leading to his spectacular firing from the Conde Nast creative family I revisit my association with him. Let me say immediately, I didn't know anything untoward was happening. I had never heard anything. The towel series he shot with models were obviously designed to get the model naked and to legitimize Mario's pervy intentions but I never heard from models who worked with him they felt uncomfortable.
Many of those same models who worked with Mario were not so discreet about their working relationship with Bruce Weber. For over a decade or more I heard story after story from young men who had worked with Bruce and the discomfort they felt being 'relaxed' with his hands on their bodies, the 'breathing exercise' or asked to take off their shorts when they were alone with Bruce. I heard again and again about the notorious 'private archive' for which Bruce said he wanted their naked picture. I heard how he tantalized young men with lucrative campaigns and the promise of a life beyond their wildest dreams. I heard how he set models against each other, how within minutes of the private naked shots… would change his mind about the campaign promise he'd made, playing with them, manipulating them.
Yet, it seems, many models were perfectly happy to have their bodies used by Bruce. Yesterday I spoke to a male super model I know in NYC. Last year, after a few drinks, he described in detail how Bruce molested him, removed his underwear and had taken pictures of him naked. I asked if he was willing to come forward, speak publicly. He told me I should be ashamed of myself for suggesting he told tales on Bruce. Thus we understand how Bruce, inspiring loyalty in others, groomed them for sexual molestation.
I've had my run ins with Bruce over the years. I asked him to take the Dorian Gray portrait. He curtly suggested that I wasn't the sort of person he could do business with. Oh… how the tables have turned.
Sunday. I had a late lunch in Hackney with a young gay artist. We talked about Mario and Bruce. He asked the difference between flirtation and harassment. He was worried his flirtation might be misconstrued. How would he know? Of course, one asks ones self: why doesn't he know? He's a bright lad but his white male privilege is so ingrained he cannot differentiate between the two. He asked if the men now making the complaints were somehow complicit. Many gay men make excuses for Bruce and Mario habitually devaluing our lives by suggesting the men who agree to work or consort with us are somehow suspect, complicit. We remain baffled by the notion of consent. They knew what they were getting themselves into.
"Consent, that's for straight people? Women? Isn't it?" He looks confused.
We talk about the abuse of power between men (beyond top and bottom although that too) and how our anti social behaviour and lack of morality has been largely ignored by heterosexual society firstly before equality, because straight people found it distasteful and didn't really care. Then, after equality straight people were too embarrassed or confused to question how we lived in case they were accused of homophobia or insensitivity. Recent gay celebrity scandals have shocked many of our straight allies, realizing they don't know anything much about their gay friends at all. Like rats we live discreet and cautious lives just a few feet from theirs, scurrying from one assignation to another.
We've done a great job blending in. For many years the only evidence we existed was when the police arrested, tried and sent us to jail for being gay. Cottaging. Tricking. Dressing up. Without occasional mention in the newspapers our gay lives would remain completely invisible. I broke the law simply by being alive and sexually active. Straight acting wasn't a fetish, it was strategic and could save you from a beating or death. Ironically, this parallel life served many of us very well. As a young British gay man I enjoyed social mobility, sexual freedom and access to extraordinary financial opportunities my straight peers could only dream of. Yet, I paid the price for all of those benefits by surrendering my moral imperative.
Paris Hilton is maligned in the press for saying gay men on gay hook up apps are 'disgusting'. Which, after being sent 50 or so asshole pics this week… one might be inclined to agree.
With equality comes responsibility. Some fought hard to enjoy marriage equality. We fought hard in the UK to have homophobic laws like section 28 overturned. In the UK these laws were ratified in Parliament and are hard to revoke. We are tentatively exploring a new moral landscape. Morals defined by heterosexuals, most gay men are unprepared for these changes and how this shift toward 'normalcy' may affect our lives. Simply, our lifestyle compared with that of the average heterosexual may not bear scrutiny post Weinstein and Mario, Bryan, Bruce and Kevin may just be the very tip of the iceberg.
Entitled, affluent gay white men are especially morally impoverished. Many still live secret, compartmentalized and shameful lives blighted by addiction, alcoholism and mental illness. To many straight people we may seem carefree, highly entertaining, a cause to celebrate 'gay pride' and drink rainbow cocktails… but, on our own with our second screens we indulge less salubrious, secret lives using hook up apps as the portal, through which many enter a dark and disgusting world of chem sex, lies, cheating and despair.
They say, everyone lies on-line. We live in lying times. Acceptable lies are now morally ring fenced. The lies most gay men tell before they come out are perfectly… acceptable. A habit we are loathed to break. Most gay men are addicted to lying. Only yesterday I met a closeted 25-year-old gay man. I asked him why he was in the closet? He described the same feelings of shame and despair I felt nearly 40 years ago. Some things never seem to change… however much I am told, 'it doesn't matter, nobody cares'. I explained to him why he needs to come out of the closet. He needs to stop lying. The more he lies the less respect he will have for the truth. As I mentioned in my previous blog gay men get into nasty habits around the truth and the sooner we embrace the truth the less damage is done to our morality and our integrity.
The last time I saw Mario he was skipping like a teenager down the stairs at The Chateau Marmont surrounded by beautiful teens. Like Peter Pan, a 60-year-old man unable to face the truth about his failing body and his failing ability to make good decisions. He could not stop himself grabbing them by the pussy. He is the same as Trump. Made of the same stuff. Gripped by power, fame and entitlement he understood himself to be unassailable. Nothing would ever bring him down… his legacy would glitter in perpetuity. The dream maker, the fantasist, the story-teller… the liar. Conjuring a universe of beauty, Mario forsook a life of loving relationships for an abuse of power.
Anna Wintour, who I confronted publicly about her reticence to stand up to Weber, made this statement last week.
Today, allegations have been made against Bruce Weber and Mario Testino, stories that have been hard to hear and heartbreaking to confront. Both are personal friends of mine who have made extraordinary contributions to Vogue and many other titles at Condé Nast over the years, and both have issued objections or denials to what has emerged. I believe strongly in the value of remorse and forgiveness, but I take the allegations very seriously, and we at Condé Nast have decided to put our working relationship with both photographers on hold for the foreseeable future.
Of course Anna Wintour is torn, it is hard to align what she hears and what she knows of her friends Mario and Bruce. She is rightfully appalled, but thankfully for her she doesn't know the half of it… she merely glimpsed, briefly through the portal and into the dark heart of every gay man I know.
Tags Anna Wintour, Bruce Weber, Chateau Marmont Hotel, Craigie Aitchison, Dorian Gray, Mario Testino, Patrick Kinmonth, Scott Crolla
Bruce Weber/Fern Mallis Interview 92nd St Y
Last Wednesday I found myself at the 92nd Street Y supporting my great new friend Fern Mallis in the most recent of her Fashion Icon interviews, Bruce Weber.
Even though these charming conversations have become legendary within the fashion industry… receiving great reviews from all who attend, there's very little on-line that proves that they happen at all other than tiny, badly edited clips.
Fern deserves her own YouTube channel and somebody needs to organize this for her tout de suite.
Indomitable Fern is known most notably for her creation of New York Fashion Week but more importantly she is the consummate glass ceiling smasher. A brusk Russian jew prone to surliness, an inability to suffer fools, she also has a huge charisma and charm that softens her incisive questioning.
One feels that if anybody can, Fern can.
Interviews with Donna Karan, Polly Mellen, Tom Ford, Andre Leon Talley, Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang charting the genesis of their personal style, describing the homes where they were brought up, relationships with their parents and their personal adventures within the fashion industry have moved and delighted her audiences.
I arrived at her Bruce Weber interview expecting a great deal. In the theatre sat fashion luminaries Grace Coddington and Ralph Lauren.
The lecture series was announced, Fern introduces a short film by Bruce Weber with notable scenes including his own days as a model, numerous famous names and an elephant Bruce likes to take pictures of draped with naked boys.
The problem with Bruce Weber? He's not that interesting. When all is said and done Bruce is a married man obsessed with the homoerotic. With his wife Nan, sitting in the audience it would have been difficult for any great interviewer to ask pertinent question about the other elephant in the room. The humongous pink elephant in the room. The question I wanted answered… like all the others who sat with bated breath wondering if Fern would go there. The question we wanted answering but was never answered, "Bruce Weber, are you gay?
In 2013 post DOMA this would not be an unusual or impertinent question. He has, after all is said and done, devoted himself to photographing naked, young, super-fit, white boys. He is brilliant at photographing naked white boys because he loves them. He worships them. Everything else he photographs dulls by comparison.
Bruce says that taking a picture of a beautiful boy is like a 'handshake or a hug' I would go further… every time he takes a photograph of a beautiful, naked, white boy he is fucking that boy, caressing his ass, sucking on his cock. The photographs and the films of beautiful, naked, white boys ooze sensuality, eroticism and the merest suggestion that we are only one shot away from seeing them hard and proud… shooting jizz all over their perfect white bodies.
Bruce Weber, are you gay?
Bruce Weber, why do you only shoot white boys? Why is there never a black or asian or pacific islander in any of your pictures? Why do people like Grace Coddington or Calvin Klein or Ralph Lauren let you get away with this appalling racism?
Bruce Weber, have you (like Terry Richardson) ever used your power and prestige to encourage those boys you photograph to do other more extreme things for your camera?
I had lunch with a friend on Saturday who was also at the interview and (once we had discussed Terry Richardson sexual unmanageability problems) both lamented Weber's lack of openness. We concluded that if we are truly looking for clues about this maybe closeted, married sixty-five year old man we may look no further than a dull, almost forgettable story he told about a beautiful man carrying an air conditioning unit.
Walking in the street Bruce stops and, risking a 'punch on the nose' asks a half-naked man carrying an air-conditioning unit if he can take his picture. If it is his true intention to simply take a picture why would the man want to punch him on the nose? If Bruce's intention is to seduce the man… then a punch on the nose seems more likely.
I can shamelessly ask to take anyones picture if I only desire to take pictures. But if I am shamed by my desire for you, I want you to open yourself up to me, let me take you to a quiet place and take pictures of you as a means to watch you do things you keep private… then the implicit threat of violence seems more likely.
Beneath the chubby, bandana wearing kindly old grandfather facade lurks a self loathing homosexual, terrified of clearly and truthfully expressing his desires.
The interview was not as great as it could have been because we all colluded with Bruce Weber's charade. If we could have gotten past the crust of self-hatred then a perfectly brilliant interview might have happened. No such luck.
Finally, Bruce expressed his frustration… hatred even for the democratization of photography, for Instagram, for Facebook postings. In Bruce's perfect, elite white world manned by an army of assistants, he advised us that we should take our most treasured digital images and have them printed on expensive paper and make books as perfect keepsakes. Bruce lives in a world of perfect keepsakes, of platinum blonde golden retrievers bred by east coast breeders. Bruce lives by the sea, in the mountains, in the city keeping his eyes peeled for perfect boys who may or may not become stars in a world where naked Russian dancers come on seven month adventures around the world.
"Sergei, come travel with us."
A faux commune of beautiful, young, white men, strumming guitars in the moon light. Warmed by flickering log fires, sitting on Navajo blankets and always naked, their abs and lats and still wet hair glistening from skinny dipping in crystal clear water and always ready for another perfect photograph.
Hush now, the girls have gone to sleep. Let me lay beside you and enjoy you for a little while.
The narrative is always the same in the cult of Bruce. The gently spoken, self loathing homosexual who needs his wife's permission to buy another dog….
Tags André Leon Talley, Bruce, Bruce Weber, California, Donna Karan, Facebook, Fashion, Fern Mallis, Grace Coddington, Marc Jacobs, New York Fashion Week, Suzy Menkes, Terry Richardson, Tom Ford, Vera Wang, YouTube


Engineered Building Design's Production Manager Larry Northway gives a tour to seniors in the Advanced Manufacturing and Welding program at Kirkwood Community College in Iowa City.
Mike Petrina from Wisconsin Building Supply explains metal connector plates to a group of Construction 1 students from DePere High School during a tour in 2018.
Mike Petrina at Wisconsin Building Supply in Green Bay has a similar view of these efforts. He recognizes that a tour can positively promote his company and the use of components in his community but it isn't just about finding the next new hire to catch lumber or stack trusses. His goals include "promoting the construction industry and creating awareness" in general because, while the construction trades students he meets might be future employees, they might also be future customers.
Dean DeHoog explains that Standard Lumber "got involved with schools when they saw the economy was coming back and knew they were going to need more workers." Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dean says they "got proactive about it," combining classrooms presentations and "virtual tours" with hosting groups for a more hands-on experience at their plant. "Our initial efforts resulted in some good young people to work in the plant," Dean reports, "so when things really took off again and we needed more designers, some plant employees moved from the plant into design positions." He says it was "a natural transition," one that close to 20 production employees have now taken.
The next installment in this series will explore a second important trait CMs who host student tours have in common: a willingness to try. Many relationships with local educators start with a single phone call. Are you ready? SBCA can help! Check out our plant tour resources.
Looking for your next client or new hire? Host a plant tour!
Visit sbcindustry.com/cm-plant-tours or contact staff at planttours@sbcindustry.com for help getting started!
A recent SBC Industry News poll indicated that more than three-quarters of component manufacturers (CMs) give tours to local student groups, ranging from middle school students to those enrolled in technical colleges and universities. Of that group, almost 14 percent reported that they give tours to students at least quarterly and three percent say it's a monthly activity in their plant. In speaking to a number of CMs about their experiences with giving tours to students, it is clear that there isn't a one-size-fits-all formula for success. There were, however, some common themes worth exploring. This article kicks off a series designed to take a closer look at some of the main commonalities among those who give tours and how their successes can provide others with the inspiration they need to either get started or take their outreach to the next level.


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Coal, Emissions
Pre-Outage Water System Audit Can Prevent Headaches
Issue 11 and Volume 110.
An uninterrupted supply of high-quality water is vital to power plant operations. When making outage plans that include preventative maintenance on key plant systems, plant personnel should address the plant's water treatment equipment, ensuring it receives the same high level of attention as its boiler, condensers, turbines and process equipment.
So, how does a maintenance planner know whether the water treatment system is operating at its best and that it can meet the power plant's current and future demands? One way is to plan an audit of the water treatment equipment before a planned outage. The audit should start with a system check-up to assess system conditions, performance and efficiencies and to pinpoint areas that need improvement. The check-up also can determine if a full system audit is required to provide a more in-depth investigation of a single or multiple water unit operation. The system audit should address the individual challenges of specific situations and include an in-plant survey and a summary of findings and recommendations for improvement.
Audit recommendations can be implemented at any time, including during the next scheduled outage. The audit can be conducted by plant personnel or by an outside water treatment vendor. With today's power plants running increasingly lean operations, resources are at a premium, particularly during an outage. This is driving a trend toward outside-vendor services, including equipment audits. An outside vendor can design a program to coincide with a plant's major outages.
Siemens Water Technologies' service technicians monitor a customer's RO system water. Photo courtesy of Siemens. Click here to enlarge image
Product and service solutions that can be implemented during the outage include system maintenance, repair or overhaul. For example, for the pretreatment portion of the water system, components or media may be replaced, instruments and controls may be upgraded and temporary water treatment in the form of mobile clarification or filtration may be brought in. For the make-up water portion of the system, a resin analysis or membrane autopsy may be done, the resin and/or membranes may be replaced or temporary water treatment or service deionization equipment may be brought in. In cases where condensate polishing is included as part of the water treatment system, the resin may be regenerated offsite, cartridge filters may be replaced or mobile condensate polishing may be brought in.
Follow-up service after the outage is often needed to ensure the improvements to the water system meet the outlined objectives and specifications. Ongoing support also ensures that the system's performance stays on track and it operates at its highest efficiency.
Power Plant Case Study
A particular power plant using an older reverse osmosis (RO) system for treating reclaimed wastewater to within high-pressure boiler feedwater specifications needed to be reconfigured so the system could accommodate a change to well water feed. The RO membranes from the current system had not been cleaned in a year, and the membrane salt rejection had decreased to about 90 percent. This resulted in an increase in ion exchange mixed-bed regenerations.
Although the RO system was not a Siemens Water Technologies' system, power plant personnel contacted Siemens for a solution. Siemens ultimately recommended a full water system audit, part of an outage service package called OSCAR-Outage Service: Check-up, Audit and Review- that includes a water analysis profile of the system between each major treatment process.
The OSCAR service typically begins when a Siemens water treatment specialist interviews the client's water treatment system operator or plant manager and his or her staff to evaluate system conditions, performance and efficiency. A system check-up then pinpoints areas of improvement that can be achieved quickly with specific products and services. The check-up also determines if a system audit is required, and if so, an audit team is assembled and sent to the customer's site. Follow-up visits and ongoing service are also included in the program.
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Table 1 summarizes the OSCAR program's five steps and what is included in each.
Audit Recommendations
In this plant's case, because the feed water was to be changed from reclaim water to well water, Siemens recommended that the customer eliminate its weak-acid cation (WAC), acid feed and de-carbonator process, as these were no longer needed. By doing so, the company saved power, chemical and WAC regeneration labor costs.
The Siemens audit also showed that by switching to newer membranes, the customer could run its RO units at 73 percent recovery, allowing for a more continuous run time and reducing bio-fouling in the third stage of the RO units. Siemens recommended an off-site membrane cleaning program every six months to maintain optimum membrane performance and life, thus reducing ion exchange polishing costs.
By removing the WAC and de-carbonator process units and replacing the RO membranes, Siemens estimated that the plant could save $82,000 a year, based on reduced electricity, chemical and labor costs. Furthermore, by cleaning the RO membranes twice a year the audit predicted a reduction in the plant's ion exchange polishing costs by an additional 25 to 40 percent.
Power plant personnel agreed with Siemens' recommendations, and most of the system changes were made during the next scheduled outage.
This example illustrates how customers can reap the benefits of a pre-outage audit to optimize plant performance and reduce costs.
"The trend of auditing a plant's water treatment system before an annual outage, an unplanned outage or seasonal maintenance, is growing," says Chuck McCloskey, Siemens Water Technologies' market development manager. "Having water treatment specialists go to their site and offer solutions tailored to their needs allow customers to focus their time and resources on running their power plants instead of worrying about their water treatment systems."
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Why Marissa Cooper was killed off?
Question: Why Marissa Cooper was killed off?
Why does Marissa Cooper die?
Why did The O.C. get canceled?
Why does Ryan sleep in the pool house?
Does the Cohens house burn down?
Why is Kirsten an alcoholic?
Is the house from The O.C. real?
Does Marissa go back to harbor?
In a new interview with E!, Barton says she experienced bullying from some of the men on set. That was just part of the complicated reason why Marissa Cooper was ultimately killed off the show.
Mischa Barton is sharing her experiences -- good and bad -- on The O.C. The 35-year-old actress spoke frankly about her character, Marissa Coopers, shocking death on season 3 of the show and says that it was her treatment on set that led to the decision.
The series premiered with high ratings and was one of the most popular new dramas of the 2003–2004 television season. However, ratings declined as the show went on. The low ratings led to its cancellation in early 2007, even after an online petition that gained over 700,000 signatures.
Evidence: When multiple guests from the outside comes into the Cohen home they usually get the pool house thus forcing Ryan to have to sleep on Seths floor or on a living room couch. This is a classic situation that happens in multiple episodes. Those interiors were briefly seen in the pilot episode.
Until next time, Happy Stalking! Stalk It: The exterior of the Cohen mansion from The O.C. can be found at 6205 Ocean Breeze Drive in Malibu. The home used for interiors and backyard scenes in the pilot was just down the street at 6210 Ocean Breeze, but was, sadly, destroyed in the Woolsey Fire.
Her true problems began during the second season when she fears that her husband is cheating on her with his old fianceé, Rebecca Bloom. Sandy and Kirstens marriage begins to deteriorate, and she turns to alcohol to compensate. Her alcoholism is fueled by working closely with Carter Buckley, whom she has a crush on.
According to movie and TV house blog Hooked on Houses, the pilot episode of The O.C. was shot at a real house, but that house wasnt in Orange County — it was in Malibu. That home was used in the backyard shots, while a different house down the street was used for the exterior shots of the Cohen domain.
Johnny finally tells Marissa how he really feels. Summer, Seth and Ryan launch a mission-impossible campaign to get Marissa back into Harbor, and Johnny struggles between a friends happiness and his own feelings. Meanwhile, Sandy must make an ethical decision that could change Marissas fate, and Julie Cooper and Dr.


A preliminary study of young children undergoing treatment for cavities in their baby teeth found that nearly 28 percent had a body mass index (BMI) above the 85th percentile, indicating overweight or obesity.
The findings were presented June 22 at the 2010 annual meeting of the Endocrine Society. The study is one of 38 abstracts (out of 2,000 accepted) that was selected for inclusion in the society's Research Summaries Book, which is provided to the media for future reference.
Dental cavities are the most common chronic disease of childhood, according to Healthy People 2010 (5-10 percent of young children have early childhood cavities), and childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years, reaching nearly 20 percent by 2008.
"We hypothesized that poor nutritional choices may link obesity and dental decay in young children, but there is very little published data associating these two health issues," says Bethin.
Eighteen of the 65 children, approximately 28 percent, had a BMI above the 85th percentile, which Bethin noted might be higher if the children hadn't been fasting.
Waist circumference compared to height was significantly higher in the overweight and obese children compared to the children of normal weight, measurements showed.
Approximately 71 percent of the children had a calorie intake higher than the normal 1,200 per day for their age group.


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Targeted Marketing Based On Behavior Pushes The Right Consumer Buttons
Ads targeted to consumers based on their online behavior push psychological buttons that arouse more interest than ads consumers feel are targeted to them as part of a group of prospects. This is one of the takeaways of research cited by Harvard Business Review. One study with undergraduate students found that participants were more interested in buying a Groupon for a restaurant advertised as sophisticated when they thought the ad had been targeted to them based on specific websites they had visited during an earlier task (browsing the web to make a travel itinerary). One caveat: behavioral targeting has to be at least moderately accurate (i.e., plausibly connected to consumers' past behavior) or people will reject it.
Facebook Audience Network Shows Banners Under Siege From Native Ads
Research from Facebook and IHS reported by ADWEEK's SocialTimes shows that native ads are dominating Facebook Audience Network, with 83% of its ads using the format and more than 50% of applications on the network doing so exclusively. The percentage of apps using the native ad format on Facebook Audience Network has increased tenfold since the first quarter of 2015. CPMs (cost per thousand impressions) for native ads are seven times higher than those for banners. Users engage with native ads 20 percent to 60 percent more than they do with standard banner ads, and native ads result in user retention up to three times higher.
Get Ready For 'Staggering Amounts' Of Complexity From Consumer Technology
If Chief Marketing Officers think they have their hands full trying to make sense of the non-stop deluge of consumer data, wait until the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and virtual reality kick in for real. MarketingLand reports on the results of a survey of some 500 CMO's and senior marketing executives around the world conducted by Marketo and The Economist Intelligence Unit. They will have to make sense of billions of possible interactions between a company and its customers, resulting in "staggering amounts of complexity." Among the more significant findings: marketers won't be able to manage the customer experience without possessing a single view of a customer that facilitates personalized conversations across technologies, locations and physical objects.
As Marketers Bring Programmatic Trading In House, Complexity Grows
While the number of brand marketers handling their own programmatic advertising trading in-house remains small—some 31%, per a survey by Forrester Research and the Association of National Advertisers—the trend is for more to do so. And as Advertising Age points out, things won't get less complex between marketers and their advertising and media agencies as a result. The three biggest global ad spenders—Procter & Gamble Co., Unilever and L'Oréal—either have developed or are developing proprietary technology systems, managed with at least some involvement from their media agencies. Another layer of complexity is in-house trading desks at retailers like Walmart and Target that also buy on behalf of brand marketers who supply their stores, a so-called "inside-out" model now spreading into other marketing sectors like healthcare.
C-Suite Moves:
Mark Floisand to Coveo as Chief Marketing Officer, from Sitecore, where he led product marketing globally.
Anne Driscoll to Wrap Media as Chief Marketing Officer, from Dwolla, where she lead strategy and brand positioning.
Chris Brubaker to SLI Systems as Chief Marketing Officer, from Upserve, where he was VP of Marketing.
Shaun Priest to Streamline Health as VP and Chief Growth Officer, from Influence Health, where he was SVP of Strategic Accounts & Business Development.
Holly Rollo to RSA from Fortinet, where she was Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Marketing.


Most gyms have mirrors. The members mostly use those mirrors to check their techniques. At some gyms, members use the mirrors to check their make-up, their hair and their smiles.
That's not our style at Olympia. We've put our mirrors to another use. They have become our Mirror Wall, a gallery of our high achievers.
We started listing the names of members who achieved two categories of free weight presses – 70kg and 80kg.
Since starting our Mirror Wall in 2006 it has become something of a holy grail. Olympia owner Paul tells of one guy who drove 2 hours from Bendigo to have a go at the 70kg mark. He did it, got back in his car and returned to Bendigo.


Last February 3, 2019 – Limketkai Luxe Hotel celebrated the Chinese New Year in advance through a Dragon Dance by Kong Hua School Dragon dancers and a Chinese New Year lunch buffet. The event was graced by Limketkai Luxe Hotel executives and Staff, plus select members from the media and blogger community.
The event started with a lively and colorful Dragon dance by the dragon dancers of Kong Hua School. It was very fun to watch, entertaining and visually appealing. The guests really enjoyed watching as well.
The Dragon dance took place at the Limketkai Luxe Hotel lobby then the dancers went on to continue at the second and third floor.
After the dance, the guests proceeded to Kave Restaurant for a sumptuous Chinese New Year buffet spread. This lunch buffet was at P1,188 per person (adults) and P594 (kids 6-11 years old).
The place was decorated nicely, with Chinese lanterns scattered all over and with the dominant color which is "Red".
All the food items on the menu were simply delightful and most of the ones served are Chinese food true to its theme as a Chinese buffet. Here are some photos of the food from the buffet. Here are the main courses! Aren't they mouth-watering?
They also have a Siopao and Siomai section where guests can choose what type they want to try.
Here is the Ham, Bread and Cheese Station if the guests are looking for an appetizer or something to pair with their wine.
Now a celebration won't be complete without the Peking Duck and every Filipino celebration's signature dish, the Lechon!
The Chinese New Year won't be complete without Tikoy and some Chinese desserts. The dessert area also included some ice cream and other sweet treats.
Overall, the event was a successful one since Kave restaurant was packed and the smile on the guests' faces all indicated how happy and satisfied they were. Kong Hei Fat Choi! Until next year!


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IMPORTANCE OF SUBSCRIBERS TO MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF COMPANY →
Digital Signature nowadays a most important but highly unprotected personal property of an individual just next to his figure prints and unprotected payment instruments – UPIs, credit or debit cards or cheque books. If no fraud has been committed misusing a Digital Signature in last 10 days it is because no fraudster know the true power of a Digital Signature or you have placed your digital signature certificate in a hand of a person of integrity.
Fraud using the digital signature is not new or unheard. This is the reason why government has improved security features and way of issuing Digital Signature certificates in the last 15-20 years.
There are many laymen who think digital signatures are scanned copy of the physical signature. Please call these as Scanned Signature are not Digital Signature. There is something else also called Electronic Signature in public parlance which is being used in commercial contracts of basic nature. For example, the use of the software generated design of your name on an online contract. These are not valid signature under the Information Technology but the contract so signed may be a valid contract under the Indian Contract Act, 1872.
Digital Signature and Digital Signature Certification are defined under the Information Technology Act, 2000. "Digital Signature" means authentication of any electronic record by a subscriber by means of an electronic method or procedure in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of Information Technology Act, 2000. The authentication of the electronic record shall be effected by the use of the asymmetric cryptosystem and hash function which an envelop and transform the initial electronic record into another electronic record.
Digital signature certificates are issued by one of "Certifying Authorities" on the basis of PAN (or Passport in case of foreigners) and Address proof. These Certifying Authorities are regulated by Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA).
CONTROLLER OF CERTIFYING AUTHORITIES (CCA)
The Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA) has been appointed by the Central Government under section 17 of the Act for purposes of the IT Act. The Office of the CCA came into existence on November 1, 2000. It aims at promoting the growth of E-Commerce and E-Governance through the wide use of digital signatures.
The Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA) has established the Root Certifying Authority (RCAI) of India under section 18(b) of the IT Act to digitally sign the public keys of Certifying Authorities (CA) in the country. The RCAI is operated as per the standards laid down under the Act.
The CCA certifies the public keys of CAs using its own private key, which enables users in the cyberspace to verify that a given certificate is issued by a licensed CA. The CCA also maintains the Repository of Digital Certificates, which contains all the certificates issued to the CAs in the country.
As per Section 18 of The Information Technology Act, 2000 provides the required legal sanctity to the digital signatures based on asymmetric cryptosystems. The digital signatures are now under the Information Technology Act, 2000 accepted at par with handwritten signatures and the electronic documents that have been digitally signed are treated at par with paper documents.
LICENSED CERTIFYING AUTHORITIES
Presently, there are 15 Licensed Certifying Authorities which issues various classes of digital signature certificates to natural and legal persons. These licensed certifying authorities included the Indian Air Force and Indian Army, which issue these signatures to their officers only.
For offering fully paperless citizen services, mass adoption of the digital signature is necessary. Simple to use online service is required to allow everyone to have the ability to digitally sign electronic documents.
Issuing a Digital Signature Certificate
To sign a legally valid contract with a legally valid digital signature, a person the signer is required to obtain a Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) from a Certifying Authority (CA) licensed by the Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA) under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000. Before a CA issues a DSC, the identity and address of the signer must be verified.
There are three classes of Digital Signature Certificates. For the personal and commercial purpose, we require either class two or class three Digital Signature Certificates. Ideally, one person needs only one Digital Signature Certificates.
However, a person holding lower assurance Class 2 certificate may require higher assurance Class 3 certificates for certain application or purposes. The higher assurance Class 3 certificates can be used where ever application requires lower assurance Class2 certificate.
Documentary Requirement
Class 1: The verification requirements are (i) Aadhaar eKYC Biometric or (ii) paper-based application form and supporting documents or (iii) Aadhaar eKYC OTP + Video Verification. The Private Key generation and storage can be in software mean with or without e-token.
Class 2: The verification requirements are (i) Aadhaar eKYC Biometric or (ii) Paper-based application form and supporting documents or (iii) Aadhaar eKYC OTP + Video Verification. The Private Key generation and storage should be in Hardware cryptographic device validated to FIPS 140-2 level 2 means an e-token only.
Class 3: The verification requirements are (i) Aadhaar eKYC Biometric or (ii) Paper-based application form and supporting documents and (physical personal appearance before CA or Video verification) or (iii) Aadhaar eKYC OTP + Video Verification. The Private Key generation and storage should be in Hardware cryptographic device validated to FIPS 140-2 level 2 means an e-token only.
LEGAL IMPACT OF DIGITAL SIGNATURE
A contract signed using Digital Signature Certificate is a legally valid contract. Almost all government contracts, tenders, sensitive application and licenses are signed with higher assurance Class 3 certificates.
Most of us have uses these digital signature certificates for filing of various forms with various regulators and tax authorities like Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Tax authorities, SEBI, RBI and few others. Whiling doing so we do not realize highly sensitive nature of these digital signatures.
We do not realize that digital signature was originally and still aims to sign sensitive property contracts, high-value government contracts, inter-corporate contracts, loan and mortgage documentation, promissory notes, etc not just for so-called routine forms.
Presently one of the most sensitive contract we sign using digital signature is the formation of companies and Limited Liability Partnerships.
In case, you or your company secretary think that inserting your digital signature certificate is a routine task to delegate, this is dangerous thinking.
Aishwarya Mohan Gahrana
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Horner spent his time at Penn State as the captain of the PSU Bass Fishing Team. His time on the team gave him the opportunity to travel the country chasing bass in our many lakes, rivers, and tributaries. While traveling, he was able to work with some fantastic companies in the fishing industry and secured a job at ANGLR Labs after graduation. He worked long hours to get the fishing tech start-up off the ground with a small team and spent his free time on the lake or in the wilderness. After a four-year stint with ANGLR Labs, Derek joined Outdoor Life in May 2022, where he manages the brand's social content, email campaigns, SEO, website design, and marketing analytics.
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3 holiday concerts to attend in Long Beach
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The Long Beach Camerata Singers will perform "A Camerata Christmas," on Dec. 17 at Los Altos United Methodist Church. Photo courtesy Camerata Singers.
Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra will perform the show "Baroque Christmas," on Dec. 17 in Long Beach and Dec. 18 in downtown L.A. Photo courtesy Musica Angelica.
Guest Conductor Matthew Martinez will lead the Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra in a Dec. 17-18 performance of holiday music.
By Richard Guzman | riguzman@scng.com | Press Telegram
PUBLISHED: December 13, 2016 at 9:08 pm | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 12:21 pm
When it comes to revving up the holiday spirit with music, Long Beach is going into overdrive this weekend with three local musical powerhouses all putting on separate performances celebrating the season.
The Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra and the Long Beach Camerata Singers both head to different churches for their shows while the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra stays at home in the Beverly O'Neil Theatre for a performance that will take people back in time.
With so much music available, it'll be hard to choose which show to catch, although it is possible to see all three.
So here's what to expect at each holiday concert in Long Beach this weekend.
Long Beach Camerata Singers: "A Camerata Christmas"
Expect a fast-paced afternoon of holiday classics when the 80-member choir puts on its first-ever holiday show with a little help from the Southern California Brass Consortium and the 60-member South Bay Children's Choir.
"I think that presenting holiday concerts is a wonderful way to bring the whole community together, and nothing says Christmas like a choir," said Robert Istad, the company's artistic director.
"Ours is special because it's a huge collaboration," he said, referring to teaming with the Children's Chorus and the Brass Consortium for the concert.
The concert will take place on Dec. 17 at 3 p.m. at the Los Altos United Methodist Church and will include Morten Lauridsen's "O Magnum Mysterium," Benjamin Britten's "Jubilate Deo," and such classics as "O Come All Ye Faithful," "Jingle Bells" and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing."
"And of course Santa Claus is going to show up," Istad said. "I had a very short conversation with him, but he can fit it into his schedule."
Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra: "New Joy"
Contemporary American composers will be celebrated by the LBCCO at the 7 p.m. Dec. 17 and 4 p.m. Dec. 18 holiday concerts.
The performances are happening at Grace First Presbyterian Church and will be led by guest conductor Matthew Martinez, who is the music director at Mesa Verde United Methodist Church.
"People can expect to see a concert with a really wide variety of Christmas music," Martinez said.
The program will include works by contemporary American composers, including an inspiring piece by L.A. Master Chorale composer-in-residence Shawn Kirchner called "Behold New Joy" and an a capella piece called "Completing the Circle" by Los Angeles based composer Dale Trumbore.
"It's a lovely a cappella piece that's very reflective of the coming together that comes with Christmas," Martinez said.
The night will end with an audience singalong.
Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra: "Baroque Christmas"
The orchestra will be performing a festive night of music using authentic Baroque period instruments.
The Dec. 17 concert, which is described by the orchestra as "perfect for the yuletide celebration," will feature a pair of Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas oratorios.
"It may be the most festive music written, the most flamboyant music written in the Baroque period," said Martin Haselböck, the rrchestra's musical director.
The 7 p.m. performance at Beverly O'Neill Theater will include 28 musicians and 12 singers, which is a big group for a Baroque show.
"It's really going to be a joyful evening, I would say," Haselböck added.
There is an additional 7:30 p.m. performance of Baroque Christmas on Dec. 18 at the Zipper Hall, Colburn School of Music in downtown L.A.
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I add the objects to the Waveform Viewer and save the result as a WFCG file.
However, I cannot see these signals when I rerun the simulation and open the WFCG file.
Option 1: This behavior does not occur with ISIM so you can Simulate with ISIM instead.
Option 2: When you add the objects into the waveform viewer, a corresponding Tcl command appears in the console.
You can create a Tcl script and amend these add_wave commands.
Save the script then next time you launch the simulation you can source the script.


Functions for converting between different in-RAM representations of text and for quickly checking if the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm can be avoided.
By using slices for output, the functions here seek to enable by-register (ALU register or SIMD register as available) operations in order to outperform iterator-based conversions available in the Rust standard library.
Note: "Latin1" in this module refers to the Unicode range from U+0000 to U+00FF, inclusive, and does not refer to the windows-1252 range. This in-memory encoding is sometimes used as a storage optimization of text when UTF-16 indexing and length semantics are exposed.
Classification of text as Latin1 (all code points are below U+0100), left-to-right with some non-Latin1 characters or as containing at least some right-to-left characters.
Checks whether a valid UTF-8 buffer contains code points that trigger right-to-left processing or is all-Latin1.
Checks whether a potentially invalid UTF-16 buffer contains code points that trigger right-to-left processing or is all-Latin1.
Checks whether a potentially invalid UTF-8 buffer contains code points that trigger right-to-left processing or is all-Latin1.
Converts bytes whose unsigned value is interpreted as Unicode code point (i.e. U+0000 to U+00FF, inclusive) to UTF-8 such that the validity of the output is signaled using the Rust type system with potentially insufficient output space.
Converts bytes whose unsigned value is interpreted as Unicode code point (i.e. U+0000 to U+00FF, inclusive) to UTF-8 such that the validity of the output is signaled using the Rust type system.
Converts bytes whose unsigned value is interpreted as Unicode code point (i.e. U+0000 to U+00FF, inclusive) to UTF-8 with potentially insufficient output space.
Converts bytes whose unsigned value is interpreted as Unicode code point (i.e. U+0000 to U+00FF, inclusive) to UTF-8.
Converts bytes whose unsigned value is interpreted as Unicode code point (i.e. U+0000 to U+00FF, inclusive) to UTF-16.
Converts valid UTF-8 to valid UTF-16.
Converts potentially-invalid UTF-16 to valid UTF-8 with errors replaced with the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER such that the validity of the output is signaled using the Rust type system with potentially insufficient output space.
Converts potentially-invalid UTF-16 to valid UTF-8 with errors replaced with the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER such that the validity of the output is signaled using the Rust type system.
If the input is valid UTF-16 representing only Unicode code points from U+0000 to U+00FF, inclusive, converts the input into output that represents the value of each code point as the unsigned byte value of each output byte.
Converts potentially-invalid UTF-16 to valid UTF-8 with errors replaced with the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER with potentially insufficient output space.
Converts potentially-invalid UTF-16 to valid UTF-8 with errors replaced with the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.
If the input is valid UTF-8 representing only Unicode code points from U+0000 to U+00FF, inclusive, converts the input into output that represents the value of each code point as the unsigned byte value of each output byte.
Converts potentially-invalid UTF-8 to valid UTF-16 with errors replaced with the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.
Copies ASCII from source to destination up to the first non-ASCII byte (or the end of the input if it is ASCII in its entirety).
Copies ASCII from source to destination zero-extending it to UTF-16 up to the first non-ASCII byte (or the end of the input if it is ASCII in its entirety).
Copies Basic Latin from source to destination narrowing it to ASCII up to the first non-Basic Latin code unit (or the end of the input if it is Basic Latin in its entirety).
Replaces unpaired surrogates in the input with the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.
Checks whether the buffer is all-ASCII.
Checks whether the buffer is all-Basic Latin (i.e. UTF-16 representing only ASCII characters).
Checks whether a code point triggers right-to-left processing.
Checks whether a valid UTF-8 buffer contains code points that trigger right-to-left processing.
Checks whether the buffer represents only code point less than or equal to U+00FF.
Checks whether a potentially-invalid UTF-8 buffer contains code points that trigger right-to-left processing.
Checks whether a UTF-16 buffer contains code points that trigger right-to-left processing.
Checks whether a UTF-16 code unit triggers right-to-left processing.
Checks whether the buffer is valid UTF-8 representing only code points less than or equal to U+00FF.
Returns the index of the first unpaired surrogate or, if the input is valid UTF-16 in its entirety, the length of the input.


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Students in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences employ a wide array of satellite remote sensing technologies to study an enormous range of phenomena. Students in the Department do research with a wide array of satellite remote sensors, including instrumentation such as the spaceborne precipitation radar or microwave imager on NASA's Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) satellite, and multi-spectral imaging radiometers such as MODIS, MISR, and ASTER on the NASA's Terra satellite. Our Department is at the forefront of satellite remote sensing technology with strong research connections to NASA. Opportunities to work with NASA's advanced satellite instrumentation are available when you work with DAS faculty. Will you be part of this exciting work?


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