VMware has a very interesting offer to try out their public cloud service vCloud Air. If you sign up for this offer you will get credits worth US $ 300,- to try out vCloud Air. Mind you will need to use a new MyVMware account to get the service credit. Existing accounts are not eligible for the start up credits.
Credits will expire 90 days from sign up.
vCloud Air is the public Infrastructure as a Service offering of VMware. vCloud Air is running the same vSphere hypervisor as used in many on-premises vSphere infrastructures. This allows a seamless integration with an on-premise vSphere infrastructure. Both on-premise and vCloud Air offer the same ESXi and vCenter features.
vCloud Air supports over 90 guest operating systems which is a lot more than competing cloud providers.
vCloud Air can be used to run virtual machines in production or test/dev scenarios. This is the IaaS offer. vCloud Air also offers a Disaster Recovery as a Service offering. This allows customers to replicate their vSphere virtual machines running on-premises to vCloud Air datacenters using vSphere Replication. vCloud Air Disaster Recovery requires a seperate subscription.
A few years ago many organizations knew about cloud but did not consider using it. This is rapidly changing. Organizations understand the benefits of cloud and are deploying workloads in the cloud.
While cloud can be used for various scenario's most organizations start with deployment of virtual machines for test and development scenario's. This type of scenario often requires a lot of resources for a relative limited period. Instead of purchasing hardware and software, deployment in the cloud is a very attractive option.
By using cloud for test/dev many organizations start exploring the features of cloud like scale, agility and pay as you go.
Many organizations currently purchase their hardware based on peak demand. Those peaks are often seasonal like Christmas for retailers, or summer for the website of the Tour de France or any other sportsevent. Using capacity from vCloud Air during peak demand is much more cost effective. It is pretty simple to spin up additional webservers when demand increases. This can be done all automatically. Load balancers have the intelligence to sent instructions to API in for example vCenter Server to start virtual machines based on increased HTTP load.
When load decreases virtual machines are shutdown again.
The video below explains how vCloud Air OnDemand can be used for development and testing of applications. Let me first explain a bit about vCloud Air.
vCloud Air uses the concept of Virtual Data Centers or VDC.
A VDC is an isolated pool of resources like compute, storage and networking. Basically a VDC is a cloud in the cloud. The owner of the vCloud Air subscription (IT of headquarters for example) is able to provide CPU and storage capacity to developpers. They can use this capacity to deploy virtual machines with the hardware specs they want.
Each VDC can be isolated on the network layer from other VDC's.
It is important to understand the components of vCloud Air. Each VDC has vApps and virtual machines. A vApp is a set of virtual machines serving the same application. Using a vApp the administrator can set priorities on reboot for example. It also allows to copy or move a complete set of virtual machines (a vApp) to a different Virtual Data Center or to a catalog.
A catalog is a list of virtual machine templates or vApps which cloud consumers can select as a starting point.
The video below shows how to create a virtual datacenter. The next step is to create virtual machines in the VDC. This can be done either using your own templates or from the VMware catalog.
Next virtual machines are made member of a vApp. When the application development is done and is ready for production the vApp can be copied from the development Virtual Data Center to the Production Virtual Datacenter using a few mouse clicks.
This video shows an example of running SharePoint in vCloud Air. More on this scenario in this blogpost.
These are just two examples for use cases of vCloud Air. There are many more.
Cattle and pets. Clouds are not the same!
Back to the main offering of vCloud Air, Infrastructure as a Service.
A reliable cloud has various redundancy features built into the platform. Servers are of A-brand, have redundant power supplies. The hypervisor offer features like vMotion so virtual machines can be moved to other hosts in case of planned maintenance. Also top of rack switches are redundant. A reliable cloud platform supports the typical enterprise applications which do not offer redundancy features like clustering. These type of applications are often called pets. You care about pets and you care about this type of application.
vCloud Air for example offers the ability to create snapshots of virtual machines. vCloud Air also enables customers to use the console of the virtual machine. The benefit of this is that management of the virtual machine is possible even when the guest operating system does not have networking configured. Many other IaaS cloud platforms do not offer a remote console feature.
Lets have a look at the other side of the IaaS spectrum.
The oppositie IaaS cloud offering is a best effort cloud. This type of cloud is designed with the principle that the application has to offer redundancy. A failure of a single virtual machine should not lead to the application being unavailable. The application offers redundancy by having multiple virtual machines offering the same role. If a VM fails it is simply deleted and automatically recreated by deployment software.
This type of application is called cattle.
Most of the applications running in offices are traditional pets kind of applications.
vCloud Air is a reliable cloud. If your business critical application depends on the availability of a single virtual machine you can perfectly run this on vCloud Air. Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are examples of best effort clouds. Microsoft does not provide any SLA on single instance virtual machines.
Now we understand the two main type of clouds, lets have a look at the possibilties of vCloud Air.
vCloud Air Datacenters are located in the US (7), Europe (3), Australia(1) and Japan(1).
Dedicated Cloud means the customer has one or multiple physical hosts for exclusive usage. All virtual machines running on those hosts belong to a single tenant. The advantage of this offering is that the performance is not affected by virtual machines of other tenants (noisy neighbors). Also for compliancy and licensing reasons this can be an attractive offer. Some software vendors prohibit the use of their software on hosts which are shared by multiple customers.
Virtual Private Cloud means compute, network and storage resources are shared by tenants. Customers pay upfront and receive a certain amount of resources in return.
Virtual Private Cloud On Demand is a pay as you go offering. Customers pay for the resources they consume. This is the most common consumption model for IaaS.
The video below shows the administration interface for vCloud Air. There are two consoles. Initally after logon you will be presented with the vCloud Air Dashboard. This will enable customers to perform basic tasks like create, stop,pauze and delete virtual machines. It also reports about resource consumption.
For more advanced features like adding network interfaces, edit vApps and configuration of the network the vCloud Director management console is required.
The video below shows the process of creating a new virtual machine. It shows Linux based operating sytems are free. For Windows Server an additional fee is charged. There are two types of disks available: standard and SSD.
The impact on the total costs for running the virtual machine is displayed which is nice. Not all cloud providers present their costs in such a transparant way.
The video will then switch to the vCloud Director interface and shows how to edit the properties of the Virtual machine. It also shows that you can take over the console of the virtual machine.
If you want to try out vCloud Air yourself for free and even get $ 300,- worth of service credit click here to register for the free trial of vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand.
The promo code 'Influencer2015' is for new My VMware accounts only. So for the purpose of this program you'll need to create a net-new My VMware account.
After registration you have 90 days to spent the free service credit.
After sign up you will receive an email with a link to set your password. Click the link and set the password. After that you are directed to the login portal.
Use the account and password to login. Then select a vCloud Air datacenter where you want to deploy your virtual machines in.
Thereafter the virtual datacenter will be created. This will take a few minutes.
Then you can create your first virtual machine. You can select a VM from the VMware catalog. This offers Linux virtual machine images which are free. Or you can choose Windows virtual machine templates which have an hourly charge for the usage of the Windows Server license. Available Windows versions are Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2. All are the Standard Edition.
Enjoy your vCloud Air experience!
disclaimer: VMware paid me for publication of this blogpost about vCloud Air. In no way did VMware influence the content of the blog! This is my own opinion.


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Q: Resizing window after action is done Here's description of my problem (in one picture!):
I would like to know:
1.) Why this is happening (I have even tried to setMaximumSize(), setPreferredSize(), setMinimumSize()!)?
2.) How I should resolve this? (I used GridLayout. It may or may not be super effective)
This is the setup code:
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.CardLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;

public class IntroScreen extends JFrame implements ActionListener
{
    private boolean sandboxed = true;
    private final String SELECTION = "selection", CLEAN = "clean";

    private JPanel container;
    private DirectorySelectionPanel selectionPanel;
    private DirectoryCleanerPanel cleanerPanel;
    public IntroScreen()
    {
        super("Directory Cleaner");
        add((container = setupContent()));
        pack();
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setVisible(true);
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, this.getSize());
    }

    private JPanel setupContent()
    {

        JPanel content = new JPanel(new CardLayout());
        this.selectionPanel = new DirectorySelectionPanel(this.sandboxed);
        this.selectionPanel.getButton().addActionListener(this);
        content.add(this.selectionPanel, this.SELECTION);
        this.cleanerPanel = new DirectoryCleanerPanel(false);
        content.add(this.cleanerPanel, this.CLEAN);
        return content;
    }

    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
    {
        // get the source of the event
        Object source = event.getSource();
        // if it was the selectionPanel's button
        if (source.equals(this.selectionPanel.getButton()))
        {
            if (this.selectionPanel.validateSelections())
            {
                System.out.println("Test line");
                ((CardLayout)this.container.getLayout()).show(this.container, this.CLEAN);
                // must figure out the correct size for this
                // TODO: Find a way to force the size of this to be around 450-by-90 pixels
                this.setSize(450,90);
            }
        }
        // otherwise
        else
        {
            // show the selectionPanel
            this.setSize(312,253);  // revert back to the original size
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        new IntroScreen();
    }
}

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January 15, 1947 Los Angeles, California The nude and mutilated body of Elizabeth Short, aka Black Dahlia, is found by a woman walking with her 3-year-old daughter The murder created an immediate sensation, due in part to Short's body being mutilated so horrifically and the mystery of who would be so savage to another person.… [4], Most notably, Scottish actor Tommy Flanagan has the scars of a Glasgow smile from when he was attacked outside a bar in Glasgow. 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Sometimes further to hurt or even kill the victim, he or she would then be stabbed or kicked, most notably in the … A Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea smile, or a Glasgow, Chelsea, Birkenhead, A buck 50 or Cheshire grin) is a wound caused by making a cut from the corners of a victim's mouth up to the ears, leaving a scar in the shape of a smile. Cumlin then ran the blade of a knife across her cheek slashing her from the ear to the corner of her mouth.". Kaiden Hale gave himself a glasgow smile at age 15. A Glasgow smile (also known as a Glasgow grin, Anna grin, Chelsea grin or Chelsea smile) is a nickname for the result of cutting a victim's face from the edges of the mouth to the ears. Sometimes further to hurt or even kill the victim, he or she would then be stabbed or kicked, most notably in the … Originating from 1930's era Scotland, the Glasgow Smile was a signature performed on those unlucky enough to suffer at the hands of the Glasgow Razor Gangs. 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The Glasgow Smile is a hideous torture. [3], The practice is said to have originated in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1920s and 30s. At Glasgow Smile be with a knife or other sharp object the mouth over the cheeks to the ears by a cut extended. He added: "We're seeing at least one so-called 'Glasgow smile' a week - that's where the mouth is slashed right round to the ear." In April it … Cumlin struck the stranger on the face with a bottle, leaving the teen refugee with a permanent scar below his eye. He pounced on the 29-year-old, repeatedly stabbing him and causing "significant" blood loss, for which the victim needed emergency treatment for a number of chest wounds. This scar became known as the Glasgow Grin or the Glaswegian Smile. Cumlin will also be supervised for a further three years on his release. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. 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A Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea smile, or a Glasgow, Chelsea, or Cheshire grin) is a wound caused by making small cuts on the corners of a victim's mouth, then beating or stabbing him or her until the muscles in the face contract, causing the … A Glasgow smile, called by people in Scotland a Glesga smile, is a wound caused by making small cuts on the corners of a victim's mouth, then beating or stabbing them until the muscles in their face contract, causing the cuts to extend up their cheeks to their ears. Sometimes to further hurt or even kill the victim, he or she would then be stabbed or kicked, most notably in … "Still believing him to be joking, she leaned towards him. "I have to take a very dim view of this," Judge Lady Stacey told him. While seeming like ancient history, in 2008 knife related injuries were reported every six hours and the Glasgow Smile was executed at minimum once a week. However, she became annoyed when the thug suddenly called her a "cow". 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He had previously admitted assaulting the two teenagers to their severe injury and permanent disfigurement, as well as attempting to murder Mr Sutherland. We are dedicated to providing you with the latest news, game guides, tips, tutorials, and original content for EA and The Sims. Better than Ed Sheeran's original? The sale of Kiara and Keyara Wecker to a UK couple in 2001 sparked a transatlantic battle and condemnation from Tony Blair, but what's become of the twins since then? On Friday, Cumlin was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison. The Glasgow smile - also known as a Chelsea smile - is a notorious method of injuring a victim and leaving them permanently disfigured. Also known as the "Glasgow grin", it is created by slashing a victim's face from one or both corners of the mouth to the ears using a knife, … Malcolm Cumlin, 31, has been jailed for eight years over a string of vicious knife attacks, When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Cumlin's next victim was Raid Ghotani, whom he bottled at a car wash in Possilpark on July 8. The scar if often referred to as the 'Glasgow Smile' in Scotland which is his homeland. Malcolm Cumlin struck between June 10 and September 27 2019, a judge heard at the High Court in Glasgow. Everyone online seems to think so, simple due to the fact that this remix is blowing the f**k up. Months earlier Cumlin had also violently attacked pizza factory worker Edward Sutherland outside a shop in the city's Lambhill. A thug who carried out a string of vicious attacks and left an innocent girl scarred with a "Glasgow smile" has been jailed for more than eight years. The court heard how Cumlin attacked 18-year-old Kaitlyn Donnelly at a flat in Glasgow's Possilpark. A Glasgow smile (also known as a Glasgow grin, Anna grin Cheshire grin or Chelsea smile) is a nickname for the result of cutting a victim's face from the edges of the mouth to the ears.The cut – and the scars it leaves – form an extension of what resembles a smile. According to The Sun a Glasgow smile, also known as the "Glasgow grin", is created by slashing a victim's face from one or both corners of the mouth to the ears using a knife or any other sharp object." 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How can future structural engineering failures be avoided?
Few structures fall down in the UK but when they do the consequences and ramifications are huge. 'Avoid the complacency which leads to tragedy,' is the central theme of the Standing Committee on Structural Safety's 12th bi-annual report published this week.
SCOSS has this year reminded the profession that while techniques and technologies evolve, risk of disaster is ever present and, if anything, is increasing.
SCOSS believes it is vital to remove the 'inadequacies and confusion' from the engineer's main tools - the codes of practice and the management systems employed.
Events like the 1994 Ramsgate walkway tragedy collapse, 1997 Piper's Row car park collapse, and the tunnel collapse at Heathrow, all contain valuable lessons. All too often these are forgotten or ignored.
'There is a natural, but not inevitable, tendency among engineers towards collective amnesia concerning previous structural failures and the lessons to be learned from them. This process occurs as older engineers retire and their places are taken by younger ones,' says the report.
SCOSS is very concerned about the growth in the sheer volume of guidance notes and non-British Standard Institute codes of practice in use in the UK.
A new streamlined policy on codes must be defined and vigorously implemented to reduce confusion and keep pace with technological change.
However, SCOSS notes the potential difficulties with the current drafting and revision process which is done on a largely voluntary basis. This system must change as 'it is not meeting the requirements of professional engineers and their clients'.
In the demanding commercial environment where engineering professionals work, risk management is now a fundamental tool.
The report calls for guidance to be prepared for the assessment of hazards affecting structural safety as part of an 'explicit risk management process starting at the design stage of projects. The regulatory requirements for risk management should be clarified by the relevant government departments,' the report adds.
The logical extension to this is the introduction of mandatory inspections of structures as part of the risk management process.
And by having a formal system, mandatory or otherwise, of identifying the possible weaknesses in any structure or system, the likelihood of complacency setting in must go down and with it, SCOSS predicts, the likelihood of structures falling down.


Do you all remember the way Lara used to teach us stuff in the original Tomb Raider in Lara's home? Like she told us which buttons to press etc. ,, ...to make me grab the ledge and save myself from a nasty fall" and things like that :) .
I think that was really cool, but it belongs to the old TR's. The new ones with the Croft Manor are fine the way they are in my opinion.
Who wants the 'old style' back???
I quite like how croft mannor is now, but you cant beat the classics, her old mannor was more fun to explore even though there was so little to do in it lol!
I remeber in tomb raiders 1 & 2 when i was younger thinking "i wonder whats behind those doors?" even though you could never open them!
I loved the old style.
I personally have always been a fan of hearing whatever character I'm playing a video game with, speak.
"Old style" as in keep the training/learning of how Lara moves in the gym, and build up a knowledge of basic techniques in there, sounds sensible to me. It also allows the main levels to start off harder, more replay value because we all hate to replay the level and have it remind us of actions we've done throughout the whole game.
I wouldn't mind if they kept/put in both easy, and more challenging puzzles into Croft manor, it's a side thing to complete afterwards.
I agree. Keep ALL of the training and tips, hints and tricks to the Manor gym.
That includes grappling, moving objects, jumping, swinging, climbing, shimmying, picking up objects, swimming, crawling et al. Have it so that the instructions are written on the screen and not spoken and make an assault course whereby Lara has to complete every move in there that appears in the game to get from one end to the other so we, the gamers, don't miss a move.
The first level of the game should be the start of our mission and not hindered by hints and instructions flashing up.
I like the manor the way it is in Legend & Anniversary; a nice bonus level. I have no need for a tutorial so I don't care where it is located.


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Australia's Outback "Full of Life" After the Rainy Season
New South Wales National Park and Wildlife say major bird breeding events have been observed in Australia's McAlley Wetlands, between Dubbo and Burke, and in the Guidil Wetlands near Molly after two seasons of heavy rains. I am.
Ecologist David Smith says the hinterland is now full of stunning sights.
"There is a bit of a misconception that arid areas are a dead place, but it's incredibly biodiversity and the creatures that live there are absolutely amazing.
"They don't just survive there. They thrive.
"I encourage people to go out to the area. It's vibrant."
Smith was surprised last week after filming a horde of endangered flock bronzewings in flight at Nariia Rakaya Pundy Swamp National Park in northwestern New South Wales.
Birds flew in flock of more than 100,000 birds over a century ago, but today the numbers are much smaller.
Smith, a researcher at the Australian National University's Sustainable Farm, said he had only seen birds twice in groups of about five.
"Suddenly the flock took off and at first I thought it was a crow," Smith told AAP.
"I realized it was a flock bronzewing and was very excited to see it.
"It's a very cool experience."
The storm just passed through Tiboubula, providing a dramatic background to the sand-colored wings.
In addition to endangered species in New South Wales, birds are rarely seen due to their frequent inhabitants of arid areas such as national parks near the borders of New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia.
"They are nomads in the arid areas. There is something cool about birds that roam the arid areas looking for where to find food and water and the right conditions.
"The difficulty of finding them makes it really exciting. I don't know if they are around."
The greatest threats to flock bronzewings are foxes, stray cats, and grazing, which damage grassland habitat.
Australian Associated Press is an Australian news agency.
A Chicago woman who received $ 2.9 million in the settlement says she would be "more satisfied" if the officers were fired more than they received the money: "I lost much of my life."
Harry Potter actor James Snyder hits an ax after a probe from Broadway show


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Enter into a world of mystery and wonder. Déjà vu, performing as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival, is a theatre movement piece that weaves in and out of the worlds of death, life and dreams leaving the door to interpretation wide open for each individual audience member.
As the show opens, a streaming fog, expelled from a machine hiding downstage left, settles inside the room. Music from an aria begins, aiding to a cresendoing effect from the fog. And a black blob from upstage right begins to move. These three elements together set the tone for a mystifying and dream-like performance by the incomparable Andi Snelling.
As a follow up to her successful 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival debut, Snelling's latest show, Déjà vu is inspired by a harrowing bicycle incident from last year. As described in the show's program, an hour before her terrible fate, Snelling imagined herself experiencing a bicycle crash. Moved by this odd coincidence, Snelling decided to use the stage to explore the mysteries behind repeated events.
Gracefully, Snelling uses her dance and movement training to create a show without saying a single word. While there doesn't appear to be a clear narrative throughout the performance, it is the sequence of small vignettes that provide the audience the liberty to interpret Snelling's exploration. In fact, I found it most interesting to discuss with my partner what I took away from the performance and his interpretation was quite different.
The reality is, this open-ended interpretation is what I find most brilliant about Déjà vu – a piece that allows the audience to take away different perspectives. As Snelling stated at the end of her performance, she believes that theatre is created to provoke discussion. If this is telling of her goals for this performance, then she nailed it through and through.
Déjà vu is performing at Arts House through Friday, September 23rd at 6:45PM. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the Melbourne Fringe Festival website.


OCEANSIDE, CA: "Chickleball Tuesdays" at Melba Bishop Pickleball Courts in Oceanside name was proposed by the Board of Directors of Melba Bishop Pickleball to describe the weekday of play. Tuesdays have become a very popular day with the ladies many traveling from 3 counties to drill then play.
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The day begins with a random draw from numbered wine corksto determine what court you start on, then they move and split after every game. It's more of a community of women supporting each other to get better together. It's not uncommon to hear intermediate players encouraging the newbies during each match. All levels are welcome and drills are practiced before games, often led by guest instructors. Of course, we also swap out pickleball clothes and celebrate good news in each others lives. Weekly emails are sent out the day before to announce any special happenings. There are monthly round robins played at skill level. In December, we combined the RR with a holiday gift drive to serve the needs of Brother Benos Charity.
January is the One Word New Years Resolution Round Robin.
Players will write a one word resolution on a sticker to wear this day.
Many ladies have stated that "Tuesday is their favorite day to play". It's a simple formula…Make someone feel welcome and important and the rest falls into place.
I am new to Oceanside and thought the Ladies Day looked like something I would be interested in. What time does the Day start? Thank you.
Chicklball drills start at 8 and games at 9 every Tuesday.


The Florida Cranberry is an annual fruiting hibiscus plant. It grows without irrigation, yielding many pounds of highly nutritious and delicious fruit. It is virtually drought tolerant and disease resistant. Florida Cranberry is known by many names, including Roselle, Jamaican Sorrel, Fleur de Jamaica or Gongura.
Florida Cranberry is most known as a medicinal herb that is proven to lower blood pressure and as the primary ingredient of hibiscus tea, however this multi-faceted plant offers myriad culinary and aesthetic uses. The leaves and flower calyxes can be eaten fresh, dehydrated for teas and fruit leather, distilled, fermented into beer and wine, made into juices or syrups, or used in floral arrangements.
We encourage folks of all backgrounds - from growers to grocers, craft beer makers to chefs, pastry chefs to florists - to introduce this fantastic fruit into your garden and kitchen!
Soil & Moisture: Florida Cranberry can tolerate nearly any soil condition and is somewhat drought tolerant. It likes rich, moist, sandy, well-draining soil.
Exposure: Full Sun, Part Sun. Florida Cranberry performs best with morning sun and afternoon shade.
Sow Exotic offers fresh-picked Florida Cranberry September through December. Each 2 lb case of fruit is harvested to order! Pre-order is available year-round.


The Richardson Adult Literacy Center received a $16,000 Partnership Grant Program (PGP) grant from LegacyTexas Bank and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) to support operational and administrative costs for the center's "ESL for Adults" program. The program helps adult students improve their English to become workforce-ready, enhance job skills, obtain U.S. citizenship and fully engage in the community. Media is invited to attend the check presentation at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, August 8, 2018, at 707 East Arapaho Road in Richardson.
Media is invited to attend check presentation on 8/8 as LegacyTexas Bank and @FHLBDallas award the Richardson Adult Literacy Center $16K grant.
PGP awards provide 3:1 matches of member contributions to provide grants up to $12,000 that help promote and strengthen relationships between community-based organizations and FHLB Dallas members. The PGP also complements the development activities fostered by FHLB Dallas' Affordable Housing and Community Investment programs. For 2018, FHLB Dallas has awarded $300,000 in PGP funds through 31 member institutions to assist 32 community-based organizations. Combined with the $114,010 contributed by FHLB Dallas members, a total of $414,010 has been awarded to the organizations.


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Businesses that operate both online and offline know exactly the benefits they get when hiring virtual assistants; an efficient and convenient business solution which have proven to be really helpful in attaining business's goals. A Virtual Assistant or VA can help a business owner "virtually", or online. Filipino virtual assistants or Filipino VAs have some traits and skills that make them unique and exceptional. Hence, the Philippines is one of the leading providers of virtual assistants in the outsourcing industry.
Filipinos value good relationships whether personal or professional, building trust with their peers comes naturally. As a team in the workplace it makes work easier as everyone can rely to each other.
If there is one trait that Filipinos must be very proud of- is that of being respectful. This is something that is first taught at home and being schools reinforce. The Filipino culture embeds being respectful, so Filipino VAs show respect to their colleagues, superiors and clients.
As part of their training at home and in school, Filipino VAs exude calmness in times of pressure. They know how to control their temper. They are also enthusiastic about anything that can help them in completing their task. This makes them dedicated and passionate in their work. In addition, they stay committed to their goals.
With these traits, you can expect Filipino VAs to be proactive with their tasks to give you high quality results.
The Filipinos are one of the happiest people in the world. One of their best qualities is always seeing the brighter side of life. As a nation that typhoons visit annually, they are resilient in the face of calamities and personal difficulties. Hence, you don't need to worry about any difficult personalities on your team, as you have a VA who is optimistic and confident enough to get things done to your advantage.
Another great trait you should know about Filipinos is being industrious. They are known to give their best when getting their task done and don't settle for mediocrity, as they always aim for excellence.
They always want to be at the top as their work is an expression of themselves. Moreover, their education and training prepare them to keep up with the pace of those countries. Their skills are most needed making them adaptable to the various demands of their jobs.
Filipino virtual assistants practice to be good listeners. This is a very important trait that helps increase productivity as it helps minimize misunderstandings. They are also diligent and will accurately deliver every task assigned to them.
Filipino VAs are smart and know a little of everything that they need to know to accomplish any task excellently. You can expect them to meet your expectations.
English is the country's second language, and the medium of instruction in the Philippine education system. This is why the EF English Proficiency Index ranked the Philippines number 13 globally (out of 72 countries) and 3 in Asia (out of 19 countries). Filipinos definitely have the edge when it comes to communication.
The government gives priority to education and makes sure that it is of quality. In fact, there are schools even in the remotest areas to ensure that every Filipino has access to quality education. Teachers are also well-equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to be competent in their respective fields. According to UNESCO's Literacy rate statistics, the country's literacy rate is 98.22% as of 2015.
This would mean that the higher one's academic level is, the better is his/her knowledge and proficiency in the English language considering that English is taught as early as preschool.
When you hire a Filipino virtual assistant, having a staff who has excellent communication skills is an assurance! Another bonus is that most Filipino virtual assistants know the dynamics of outsourcing, thus making them familiar with your requirements.
Make sure to give your VAs their full job description as well as your expectations.
Being hardworking, they have the tendency to overwork. Therefore, you need to give them a specific schedule or work hours for them to pace their work well.
As they can also be shy at first, just encourage them to ask questions to ensure that everything is clear with their tasks.
Feel free to give them feedback to let them know what they have done best and what areas they need to improve.
You can tell them your preferred day or time to communicate so they will feel comfortable talking with you.
This also helps create a good working relationship between you and your VA which is necessary to achieve your goals.
Now that you already know the benefits of hiring Filipino Virtual Assistants, you can start looking for VA firms that provide extensive VA training. They surely have proficient, hardworking, loyal, and optimistic Filipino virtual assistants who can help you manage some significant tasks to make your work much easier and your business more successful.
You can start your search by checking us out at Syntactics, Inc. where you can find a highly qualified virtual assistant in the philippines.
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Dark Horse Comics este o editură americană de benzi desenate, romane grafice și manga. Editura a fost fondată în 1986 de Mike Richardson în Milwaukie, Oregon.

Richardson a început cu deschiderea primului său magazin de benzi desenate, Pegasus Books, în Bend, Oregon, în 1980. De aici, el a putut să folosească fondurile pentru operația de retail pentru ca să-și înceapă propria lui editură de benzi desenate. Dark Horse Presents și Boris the Bear au fost primele două titluri în 1986, iar la un an după prima sa publicare, Dark Horse Comics a adăugat nouă titluri noi în lista sa, incluzând Hellboy, The American, The Mask, Trekker și Black Cross. Sin City de Frank Miller este una dintre cele mai faimoase lucrări asociate cu Dark Horse, și a devenit un fel de bandă desenată de semnătură pentru editură. Ea de asemenea a devenit recunoscută pentru publicarea lucrărilor de licență cum ar fi Alien, Buffy, spaima vampirilor, Conan Barbarul și Războiul Stelelor.

În decembrie 2021, Embracer Group a început să cumpere Dark Horse Media, compania părinte a Dark Horse Comics, cu achiziția fiind terminată în martie 2022.

Istorie
Editura a debutat cu Dark Horse Presents, o serie antologică editată din iulie 1986 până în septembrie 2000 (157 de numere). Aceasta a apărut ca parte a unui curent numit "explozia alb și negru" (majoritatea materialului fiind publicat în alb și negru), care punea în prim-plan creatorii independenți. Printre primii autori popularizați astfel de Dark Horse au fost James Dean Smith și Steve Mattson, cu Boris the Bear, o comedie neagră despre un urs antropomorfic violent, și Paul Chadwick, a cărui bandă desenată, Concrete, a vândut în jur la 60.000 de copii în prima ediție și a câștigat numeroase premii de-a lungul timpului. Printre cele mai populare benzi desenate care și-au făcut debutul în antologia Dark Horse Presents sunt The Mask (concept de Mike Richardson) și Sin City (de Frank Miller).

Chiar dacă la început Dark Horse Comics a servit drept platformă de lansare pentru creatorii independenți, compania a ajuns renumită datorită materialului licențiat. Dark Horse Comics a cumpărat drepturile de autor pentru a realiza benzi desenate pe baza francizelor Aliens, Army of Darkness (înainte ca Dynamite Entertainment să primească licența), Indiana Jones, Predator, Predators, RoboCop, Star Wars, The Terminator, Timecop, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (și produsul derivat, Angel), Planet of the Apes sau Let Me In.

Cu timpul compania s-a extins în alte ramuri de divertisment precum filmele (Dark Horse Entertainment, fondată în 1992) și jucăriile (Dark Horse Deluxe, fondată în 1998).

Tipăriri și studiouri
 Comics' Greatest World/Dark Horse Presents (1993–1996)
 Legend (1994–1998)
 Dark Horse Manga
 Maverick (1999–2002)
 DH Press
 M Press
 Dark Horse Digital
 Dark Horse Deluxe
 Kitchen Sink Books
 Berger Books
 Dark Horse Games
 Secret Stash Press
 Flux House
 Dogu Publishing
 Albatross Funnybooks
 Tiny Onion Studios

Dark Horse Entertainment
Dark Horse Entertainment este brațul de producție al Dark Horse Media înființat în 1992 care se ocupă cu filme și seriale bazate pe benzi desenate publicate de Dark Horse Comics.

În 2015, compania a semnat o înțelegere first-look cu Universal Content Productions, iar în 2017 înțelegerea a fost reînnoită.

În 2018, Dark Horse Entertainment a bătut palma cu firma chineză Vanguard Visionary Associates pentru a-și finanța propriile proiecte și pentru a putea realiza proiecte și în China.

În 2019, compania a intrat într-un parteneriat cu Netflix, care a fost reînnoit în 2022.

Seriale
Următoarele seriale sunt bazate pe benzile desenate publicate de Dark Horse:

 Duckman (1994–1997, serial de animație)
 Masca (1995–1997, serial de animație)
 Polițist prin timp (1997–1998)
 Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (1999–2001, serial de animație)
 Mendoza, câinele grăsan (2000–2001, serial de animație)
 The B.P.R.D. Declassified (2004, special)
 The Amazing Screw-On Head (2006, pilot de animație)
 Axe Cop (2013–2015, serial de animație)
 Dark Matter (2015–2017)
 The Umbrella Academy (2019–prezent)
 Fetița Rachetă (2019–2020, serial de animație)
 Rezident extraterestru (2021–prezent)
 Iepurele samurai: Cronicile lui Usagi (2022–prezent, serial de animație)
 Fear Agent (VFA)
 Grendel (VFA)
 Hungry Ghosts (VFA, serial de animație)
 Iyanu: Child of Wonder (VFA, serial de animație)
 Mind MGMT (VFA)
 She Could Fly (VFA)
 Sin City (VFA)
 Wyrd (TBA)

Filme
Următoarele filme sunt bazate pe benzile desenate publicate de Dark Horse:

 Masca (1994)
 Răfuială dincolo de moarte (1994)
 Stăpânii apei (1995)
 Enemy (1996)
 Barb Wire (1996)
 Supereroii amatori (1999)
 Virus (1999)
 Agenții din iad (2000)
 Splendoare americană (2003)
 Timecop 2 - Atentat la Fuhrer (2003)
 Alien vs. Predator (2004)
 Hellboy (2004)
 Sin City (2005)
 Urmașul Măștii (2005)
 Hellboy: Sword of Storms (2006, animație, televizat)
 300 (2007)
 Hellboy: Blood and Iron (2007, animație, televizat)
 Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
 Hellboy și Armata de Aur (2008)
 R.I.P.D. Copoi pentru strigoi (2013)
 Sin City: Am ucis pentru ea (2014)
 300 - Ascensiunea unui imperiu (2014)
 Polar (2019)
 Hellboy (2019)
 Iepurele-Găină și Hamsterul Întunericului (2022, animație)
 R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned (2022, direct-pe-video)
 Bang! (VFA)
 Dept. H (VFA)
 Hellboy: The Crooked Man (VFA)
 Lady Killer (VFA)
 Mystery Girl (VFA)
 Tank Girl (VFA)
 The Goon (VFA, animație)

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Edituri din Statele Unite ale Americii

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DUBAI: The chief executive and a managing partner of the collapsed Dubai private equity firm Abraaj Capital Ltd were arrested on United States charges that they defrauded their investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a federal prosecutor said on Thursday.
Griswold said that Abraaj had represented itself as a pioneer of "impact investing" that promoted social progress, for example by investing in hospitals in developing countries. "In truth, Abraaj was engaged in a massive fraud," she said.
The indictments were short on detail, Griswold said, because authorities moved quickly to arrest Abdel-Wadood upon learning he was in the US with his wife and son to visit colleges. She said prosecutors intended to file more detailed charges by the end of May.


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NEWPORT – Thanks to the staff and crew of the Impossible Dream, a 60-foot custom built and wheelchair accessible sailboat, Ms. Wheelchair Rhode Island was able to enjoy trips on the sea on Aug. 20 and Aug. 21.
The crown is held this year by Tina Pederson of Lincoln. She is a cancer survivor who suffered an injury to her spinal cord in July 2014. Since being named Ms. Wheelchair Rhode Island in February, she has been working with elected officials to increase opportunities and awareness in the state.
The Impossible Dream was created by Mike Browne, a paraplegic who had a dream of a vessel that could sail the oceans and is fully operational by a person in a wheelchair. She was designed by Nick Baily and built by Multi-Marine. The ship has provided trips for people all along the East Coast throughout the summer. The trips in Newport left from Casey's Marina on Long Wharf.
For more information about the Impossible Dream, or to request a future trip, visit ImpossibleDream.us. For more information on Pederson's work, follow her Facebook page, "2018 Ms. Wheelchair Rhode Island."


The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in collaboration with the Georgian National Tourism Administration will present the 1st UNWTO Global Conference on Wine Tourism to be held in the Kakheti wine region of Georgia from 7-9 September.
Expert speakers will provide snapshot presentations to lead the debates which will ensue at each of the tables.
Participants will be requested to actively participate in the interactive debates with the expert speakers which will be rotating among the tables. The conclusions of the Conference will be a compilation of all the information debated during each meeting.
"Georgia's unique wine-making traditions date back 8,000 years and are part of UNESCO's intangible heritage, creating the ideal base to host the Wine Tourism Conference. Herewith, the country's recent success in attracting a growing number of tourists, its development in terms of tourism products, branding and marketing present an excellent platform to share best practices, experience and knowledge", – said Dimitry Kumsishvili, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.
– The UNWTO Wine Tourism Prototype will be presented by UNWTO and Affiliate Member, the Leading Brands of Spain Forum along with its five participating wineries: Osborne, Gonzalez Byass, Barbadillo, Freixenet and Pagos del Rey.


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Mar 31 (OPTA) - Standings from the NHL on Tuesday EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION W L OTL GF GA PTS 1.
Boston 44 14 12 227 174 100 2. Tampa Bay 43 21 6 245 195 92 3. Toronto 36 25 9 238 227 81 4. Florida 35 26 8 231 228 78 5. Montreal 31 31 9 212 221 71 6. Buffalo 30 31 8 195 217 68 7. Ottawa 25 34 12 191 243 62 8. Detroit 17 49 5 145 267 39 METROPOLITAN DIVISION W L OTL GF GA PTS 1. Washington 41 20 8 240 215 90 2. Philadelphia 41 21 7 232 196 89 3. Pittsburgh 40 23 6 224 196 86 4. Carolina 38 25 5 222 193 81 5. Columbus 33 22 15 180 187 81 6. NY Islanders 35 23 10 192 193 80 7. NY Rangers 37 28 5 234 222 79 8. New Jersey 28 29 12 189 230 68 WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION W L OTL GF GA PTS 1. St. Louis 42 19 10 225 193 94 2. Colorado 42 20 8 237 191 92 3. Dallas 37 24 8 180 177 82 4. Winnipeg 37 28 6 216 203 80 5. Nashville 35 26 8 215 217 78 6. Minnesota 35 27 7 220 220 77 7. Chicago 32 30 8 212 218 72 PACIFIC DIVISION W L OTL GF GA PTS 1. Las Vegas 39 24 8 227 211 86 2. Edmonton 37 25 9 225 217 83 3. Calgary 36 27 7 210 215 79 4. Vancouver 36 27 6 228 217 78 5. Arizona 33 29 8 195 187 74 6. Anaheim 29 33 9 187 226 67 7. Los Angeles 29 35 6 178 212 64 8. San Jose 29 36 5 182 226 63 Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the standings and are not included in the loss column (L) Wednesday, April 1 schedules (EST/GMT) Philadelphia at NY Rangers (1930/2330)-postponed Montreal at Nashville (2000/0000)-postponed Dallas at Anaheim (2200/0200)-postponed Thursday, April 2 schedules (EST/GMT) Tampa Bay at Columbus (1900/2300)-postponed Ottawa at Florida (1900/2300)-postponed Buffalo at New Jersey (1900/2300)-postponed Chicago at NY Islanders (1900/2300)-postponed Nashville at Philadelphia (1900/2300)-postponed NY Rangers at Pittsburgh (1900/2300)-postponed Detroit at Toronto (1900/2300)-postponed Minnesota at Washington (1900/2300)-postponed Boston at St. Louis (2000/0000)-postponed Las Vegas at Calgary (2100/0100)-postponed Winnipeg at Colorado (2100/0100)-postponed Vancouver at Arizona (2200/0200)-postponed Dallas at San Jose (2230/0230)-postponed Friday, April 3 schedules (EST/GMT) Columbus at Carolina (1930/2330)-postponed Los Angeles at Anaheim (2200/0200)-postponed Saturday, April 4 schedules (EST/GMT) Chicago at NY Rangers (1300/1700)-postponed St. Louis at Colorado (1500/1900)-postponed Winnipeg at Arizona (1600/2000)-postponed Carolina at Boston (1900/2300)-postponed Philadelphia at Buffalo (1900/2300)-postponed Tampa Bay at Detroit (1900/2300)-postponed Washington at Florida (1900/2300)-postponed New Jersey at NY Islanders (1900/2300)-postponed Pittsburgh at Ottawa (1900/2300)-postponed Montreal at Toronto (1900/2300)-postponed Minnesota at Nashville (2000/0000)-postponed Edmonton at Calgary (2200/0200)-postponed Las Vegas at Vancouver (2200/0200)-postponed Dallas at Los Angeles (2230/0230)-postponed Anaheim at San Jose (2230/0230)-postponed
League exploring reduced schedule, short-term hubs for 2020-21 season
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The hedonic prices method has been proposed to determine the price of a complex product, with several separable attributes, or to evaluate its relative price. It is based on the evaluation of a separate price for each component of the bundle with a statistical approach of market equilibrium. This method is used for automobile and for durable goods as well (computers, apartments...). One of the major drawbacks is the insufficient facial validity of estimated prices, due to a multicolinearity problem. In this paper, we analyze and compare the practical interest of two neural multilayer networks versus linear regression. These results lead us to the conclusion that there is no obvious superiority of neural networks in spite of their higher adaptability to cope with the interactions between the characteristics.


Governor Bruce Rauner declared March 20th Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Day for Illinois. I was privileged to attend when friends and colleagues were honored and be the program presenter.
The beautiful décor centered on starfish, which seemed different in Chicago with the nearest ocean many miles away. Then, Carrie Balian, Coordinator of Guide By Your Side Of Illinois Hands & Voices shared the powerful Starfish Story and how each one of us can make a difference. Do you know the story?
At times in our lives, we are all the old man, the young man, or the starfish.
Sometimes, as the old man, we don't see the purpose to actions.
Sometimes, as the young man, we persevere and make a difference.
And sometimes, we are the starfish who just need a little help."


In the spirit of Earth Day, Magnolia Springs State Park will be hosting a Litter-B-Gone cleanup and game day. Get your bags and gloves and go around the park picking up trash and cash it in for tickets, and then for the final hour bring your tickets in and play family fun games like bingo, sac races, and bean bag toss for a chance to win prizes.
Every bag of litter you collect gets you a ticket to play fun games and win prizes. $2 per person or $8 per family.


Hotel La Favorita is not part of our programme at the moment. But don't worry there are plenty of other options to look at.
Hotel La Favorita is located on the way to the beautiful medieval town of Apricale just around 12 km from the Mediterranean Sea. In has six neat rooms and a good eatery serving delicious local dishes and grilled specialities.
You will enjoy the view from up here and when you want to wander a bit in nature, you will find that it is the perfect setting for a stroll. When appetite calls, you can also be reassured that a good meal is not far away. The restaurant seats 100 guests indoors and 50 on the outdoor covered terrace where you can dine 'a la carte' for a very reasonable prices.
Set at 260 m.a.s.l on a quiet side road, approx. 700 metres from Apricale, you can reach the town on foot if you are feeling energetic. It is a great spot from where to enjoy the beautiful views of the surrounding landscape from the terrace. For hiking enthusiasts, it is an area of much interest and trekking excursions can be arranged. There is free parking on site.
- The six rooms are decorated in bright colours with flowers and frescoes that give them character. They are located on the first floor and all have satellite TV, air conditioning, a telephone, internet, a safety deposit box, a mini-bar and a bathroom with a toilet, hair dryer and shower / bath. Rooms either face towards the rear or towards Apricale. In one of the rooms there is the possibility of adding an extra bed (it is not possible to order a cot). There is no elevator on site.


I create a new Rails app remarkably often and over the years have found it difficult to remember my preferred options for rails new. The out-of-the-box experience of Rails has always been one of its strong points but I end up taking a lot out of a freshly created Rails project. I can't believe it took me so long to discover ~/.railsrc, a file that stores your default preferences for rails new — it must have passed me by on its arrival years ago with Rails 3.2. From what I can gather this feature is also underutilised by other experienced Rails devs so it's time to evangelise.
Some of my choices are purely personal preference but some are slightly more quantifiable and follow the principle that gems, configuration, and other files should enter a project when they serve a purpose instead of being added by default (on a related note I recently had a pull request merged to ensure that Uglifier isn't added unnecessarily) — this seems to be the opposite approach to something like Suspenders which configures everything up-front.
Heroku uses PostgreSQL. I use Heroku. I use PostgreSQL.
I haven't tried Action Cable yet and am not sure where it fits into the way I typically apply "realtime" so until I find out I'll continue using Pusher.
Sending email isn't usually the initial functionality of an app, there'll also be a bit of configuration to integrate with an email-sending service, so I choose to leave it all until then.
If I'm somewhere with no (or even worse, slow) internet I'd rather get on with writing code as soon as possible instead of waiting for my machine to notice it's offline so I run bundle install --local which usually does the job.
I know where everything goes so the scattering of .keep files are just noise for me.
I've never actually used Spring.
After many years of actively disliking RSpec (!) it's now my testing framework of choice. My first few commits of a project tend to be about validating an idea so I'll add and configure rspec-rails later.
Tweet me your ~/.railsrc preferences.


Elaine Economou, President and CEO of a bustling Ann Arbor fitness studio, sat down with Tara Kachaturoff, the creator and host of Michigan Entrepreneur. For a decade, Michigan Entrepreneur has spotlighted entrepreneurs as part of an effort to bring awareness to exciting and dynamic businesses across Michigan.
In this interview, Elaine talks origins with partner Robin Krienke, the business of joy, and some of the tough questions they've had to ask as they approach MOVE's five-year anniversary.


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Q: Find $\dfrac{dy}{dx}$ if $y=\sin^{-1}\bigg[\sqrt{x-ax}-\sqrt{a-ax}\bigg]$
Derivative of $y=\sin^{-1}\bigg[\sqrt{x-ax}-\sqrt{a-ax}\bigg]$

Put $\sqrt{x}=\sin\alpha,\;\sqrt{a}=\sin\beta$
$$
y=\sin^{-1}\bigg[\sqrt{x-ax}-\sqrt{a-ax}\bigg]=\sin^{-1}\bigg[\sqrt{x(1-a)}-\sqrt{a(1-x)}\bigg]\\
=\sin^{-1}\bigg[\sin\alpha|\cos\beta|-|\cos\alpha|\sin\beta\bigg]
$$
My reference gives the solution $\dfrac{1}{2\sqrt{x}\sqrt{1-x}}$, but is it a complete solution ?
How do I proceed further with my attempt ?

A: Assume $0 < x < 1$ and $0 < a < 1$. Then, $0< \alpha < \frac\pi2$ and  $0< \beta< \frac\pi2$. Continue with what you have,
$$
y=\sin^{-1}\bigg(\sin\alpha\cos\beta-\cos\alpha\sin\beta\bigg)=\sin^{-1}[\sin(\alpha-\beta)]=\alpha-\beta
$$
Since $\alpha = \sin^{-1}\sqrt x$ and $(\sin^{-1}t)' = \frac1{\sqrt{1- t^2}}$, the derivative is,
$$\frac{dy}{dx} = \frac{d\alpha}{dx}=\frac12 \frac 1{\sqrt x} \frac1{\sqrt{1- x}}=\frac1{2\sqrt{x(1- x)}} $$

A: Using
$$ (\arcsin u)'=\frac1{\sqrt{1-u^2}}u' $$
one has
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{dy}{dx}&=&\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-(\sqrt{x-ax}-\sqrt{a-ax})^2}}(\sqrt{x-ax}-\sqrt{a-ax})'\\
&=&\frac1{\sqrt{1-(x-ax)-(a-ax)+2\sqrt{a(1-a)x(1-x)}}}\bigg[\frac{\sqrt{1-a}}{2\sqrt x}+\frac{\sqrt a}{2\sqrt{1-x}}\bigg]\\
&=&\frac{1}{\sqrt{(1-a)(1-x)+ax+2\sqrt{a(1-a)x(1-x)}}}\cdot\frac{\sqrt{(1-a)(1-x)}+\sqrt{ax}}{2\sqrt{x(1-x)}}\\
&=&\frac{1}{2\sqrt{x(1-x)}},
\end{eqnarray}
where
$$ 1-(x-ax)-(a-ax)=(1-a)(1-x)+ax $$
is used.

A: You can also use the $\arcsin$ addition formula to get
\begin{eqnarray}
f(x) &=& \arcsin\left(\sqrt{x-ax}-\sqrt{a-ax}\right)=\\
&=&\arcsin\left(\sqrt x \sqrt{1-a}-\sqrt a \sqrt{1-x}\right)=\\
&=&\arcsin\sqrt x - \arcsin \sqrt a.
\end{eqnarray}
And now, easily,
$$f'(x) = \left(\arcsin \sqrt x\right)'.$$


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Black Stone Cherry — американская рок-группа, образованная в 2001 году в Эдмонтоне, Кентукки.
Состоит из Криса Робертсона (вокал, гитара), Бена Уэллса (ритм-гитара, бэк-вокал), Джона Лоана (бас-гитара, бэк-вокал) и Джона Фреда Янга (ударные, бэк-вокал).
Группа выпустила семь студийных, три концертных альбома, пять ЕР.
До 2015 г. группа имела контракт с лейблом Roadrunner Records; сейчас сотрудничает с .

История группы

2000—2004: Формирование и ранние годы
Группа Black Stone Cherry возникла в Эдмонтоне, штат Кентукки. Крис Робертсон и Джон Фред Янг, сын ритм-гитариста Ричарда Янга (The Kentucky Headhunters), начали играть в подростковом возрасте, и вскоре к ним присоединились Уэллс и Лоан. Black Stone Cherry официально сформирована 4 июня 2001 года. Они начали проводить шоу в клубах и через некоторое время получили расположение людей всех возрастов в городе.

2005—2007: Black Stone Cherry
Первый одноименный альбом был выпущен в мае 2006 года. После того как группа закончила запись, она вернулись в Эдмонтон. Там они были приглашены отыграть концерт в спортивном зале местной средней школы, который посетили 1500 человек. Когда группа вошла в город, улицы были заполнены людьми с плакатами «Добро пожаловать домой».

В июле 2007 года они выпустили мини-альбом, который содержал песню «Rain Wizard» вместе с двумя ранее не издававшимися треками.

Их первый концертный альбом был выпущен 31 октября 2007 года. Он был записан в концертном зале  в Лондоне. Копии были проданы посетителям сразу же после концерта. Альбом вышел строго ограниченным тиражом, и по состоянию на январь 2013 он продавался по 200 фунтов стерлингов на Amazon.

2008—2009: Folklore and Superstition
19 августа 2008 года Black Stone Cherry выпустили свой второй альбом под названием Folklore and Superstition. Были выпущены четыре сингла с альбома, «Blind Man», «Please Come In», «Things My Father Said» и «Soulcreek».

Летом 2008 года в качестве группы поддержки сопровождает Def Leppard и Whitesnake в их туре по Великобритании.

В мае 2009 года они поддерживали Nickelback в их Dark Horse туре.

2010—2012: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Третий альбом группы Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea был выпущен 31 мая 2011 года. Продюсером альбома был Говард Бенсон. Первый сингл под названием «White Trash Millionaire» был выпущен в конце марта.

Группа была номинирована на награду классического рока в 2011 году.

Группа поддерживала Alter Bridge вместе с Theory of a Deadman в туре по Европе, который длился с октября по ноябрь 2011 года.

В феврале 2012 Black Stone Cherry провели совместные гастроли вместе с группой Cavo.  Также музыканты отыграли собственный полноценный тур по Соединённому Королевству с Rival Sons на разогреве. Все билеты были проданы. Весной 2012 года Black Stone Cherry поддерживали Chickenfoot в их американском турне.

2013—2015: Magic Mountain
В качестве группы поддержки Black Stone Cherry поехали в турне вместе с Lynyrd Skynyrd и Bad Company.
В июне 2013 года группа впервые выступила на фестивале "Download".

Новый альбом коллектив записывал в период с осени 2013 по начало 2014 года. Magic Mountain вышел 6 мая 2014 года и достиг 5-й позиции в чартах Великобритании. Первым синглом была выпущена песня «Me and Mary Jane». Этот сингл, наряду с прочими хитами группы, эксклюзивными акустическими и концертными треками с фестиваля Download-2013 попали в специальный CD-сборник июньского издания журнала Classic Rock под названием «Black Stone Cherry — Hits, Rarities & Live».
В октябре 2014 года Black Stone Cherry в связке с Airbourne и Theory of a Deadman отыграли британский тур и затем отправились в Европу.

В силу личных обстоятельств группа взяла небольшой отпуск (не считая одного концерта в родном штате Кентукки в декабре 2014 года) и вновь отправилась на гастроли лишь в феврале 2015 года в США. В июне того же года в качестве хедлайнеров Black Stone Cherry снова выступили на "Download" и продолжили концерты в качестве "разогрева" на небольших площадках Великобритании и Ирландии.

В июне группа отправилась в масштабный тур по Великобритании "Carnival of Madness" вместе с Shinedown, Halestorm и Highly Suspect.
30 октября 2015 группа выпустила первый концертный DVD под названием Thank You: Livin' Live, включающий съёмки с турне в поддержку Magic Mountain.

2016—2017: Kentucky и Black To Blues
7 октября 2015 года группа заключила контракт с лейблом Mascot Label Group и приступила к записи следующего альбома. Он записывался там же, где и дебютник 2006 года — Глазго, Кентукки.
Новый диск, озаглавленный Kentucky, вышел 1 апреля 2016 года и стал вторым в карьере группы, ставшим #1 в Billboard Hard Rock albums. 21 июля 2016 в YouTube появился видеоклип на новый сингл «The Rambler» с участием Билли Рэй Сайруса.

С конца мая до середины июня 2017 года Black Stone Cherry гастролирует вместе с группой Letters from the Fire.

29 сентября 2017 вышел EP с шестью каверами блюзов — Black to Blues.

2018 — настоящее время: Family Tree, Black To Blues 2, The Human Condition
В феврале 2018 года появился новый сингл «Burnin'», а 20 апреля на Mascot Records  вышел новый диск Family Tree.

18 октября 2019 года выходит второй EP с порцией блюзовых каверов — Black To Blues 2.

6 августа 2020 года группа порадовала фанатов первым синглом «Again» с нового альбома The Human Condition, релиз которого состоялся 30 октября.

2 июня 2021 года басист Джон Лоан покинул группу по личным причинам. Новым бас-гитаристом стал Стив Джуэлл из сатерн-рок группы OTIS.

Состав
 Крис Робертсон — вокал, гитара
 Бен Уэллс — ритм-гитара, бэк-вокал
 Джон Фред Янг — барабаны, перкуссия, бэк-вокал
 Стив Джуэлл — бас-гитара, бэк-вокал

Бывшие участники
 Джон Лоан — бас-гитара, бэк-вокал (2001-2021)

Дискография
Студийные альбомы:

 2006 — Black Stone Cherry
 2008 — Folklore and Superstition
 2011 — Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
 2014 — Magic Mountain
 2016 — Kentucky
 2018 — Family Tree
 2020 — The Human Condition

EP и концертные альбомы:

 2006 — Hell & High Water EP (digital EP)
 2007 — Rain Wizard EP (digital EP)
 2007 — Live at the Astoria, London (31.10.07) (live)
 2008 — The Kerrang! Radio Sessions EP (Acoustic) (digital EP, записанный в Kerrang!)
 2014 — Black Stone Cherry Thank You: Livin' Live, Birmingham UK October 30, 2014 - Live (live)
 2017 — Black To Blues (EP)
 2019 — Black To Blues 2 (EP)
 2022 — Live From The Royal Albert Hall... Y'All! (live)

Примечания

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Хард-рок-группы
Группы южного рока
Хеви-метал-группы США
Квартеты
Музыкальные коллективы из Кентукки
Музыкальные коллективы, появившиеся в 2001 году


Sometimes I'll do a scan through Twitter posts that mention TriMet to see if there is anything interesting being discussed or if people have questions about the trains that have a quick and easy answer. However, I've noticed a lot of people use Twitter to tell TriMet about safety or operational concerns, and although Twitter is an official channel for TriMet information, it's really not the best method to address, well, pretty much any of the things that get posted there.
TriMet's official twitter is not monitored 24/7. Typical activity on the official account is that every Monday through Friday, someone at TriMet will scan through the last day's worth of tweets and do a batch of responses to them over the span of about an hour or so. As a result, by the time someone gets around to seeing what you wrote, you're nowhere near that train that had a broken sign, loose pitbull, bikes blocking the doorway, etc, whatever it was that you wanted someone to do something about in the first place, and the only response you will likely get from TriMet will be to call customer service.
So if not Twitter, What should I do if I want to report something on a train?
TriMet's Twitter is not constantly monitoring the trains, however the operator of your train is, and he or she is connected to controllers, who in turn are connected to emergency/medical personnel as well as supervisors in the field who can get to situations much faster than Twitter will. That being said, for most immediate concerns onboard a train you should notify the operator, but if there happens to be a supervisor, fare inspector, transit police, or security officer onboard, you should talk to them instead because your operator's first priority is to safely operate the train.
If at all possible, wait until the train is stopped before contacting the operator about an issue. Only contact the operator while the train is moving if there is an emergency situation.
EMERGENCY SITUATIONS: Situations where someone's life may be at risk. Examples – someone needs immediate medical attention; there is a fight onboard; the train is on fire; a door opens while the train is moving. Contact the operator immediately.
URGENT SITUATIONS: Situations that potentially pose a safety risk, but do not appear to be immediately life-threatening. Examples – overhead panel onboard the train is open; access to train doors or aisle is blocked by bicycles not properly stowed. Wait until the train is stopped and contact the operator.
IMPORTANT, NON-URGENT SITUATIONS: Situations that need attention but are not safety-sensitive and don't impair the operation of the train. Examples – HVAC not working right, APACU issues (stuck destination signs, announcing the wrong stop, etc). Wait until the train is stopped before contacting the operator.
Generally speaking, situations that would be reported are either safety-related or operational-related.
When reporting a safety issue to the operator, give as much information as you can. The operator will relay this information to Control. Sometimes Control will ask the operator to step out of the cab to get more information on the situation, and they will often notify a supervisor in the area who will meet the train to address the situation. Control will also send for police or medical if necessary.
If there is a fight onboard the train or other threatening situation where you fear that using the intercom will put you too close to the problem, you can move to the other car of the train and use an intercom from there or use your phone to call 911 and police will meet the train at the next platform.
Know where to be able to find the emergency intercoms on the train. In a Type 1, there are 2 per car, located above the seat to the left of each cab. In Type 2s and 3s, there are 4 per car, located at doors 3, 4, 5, and 6 (the doors closest to the middle of the train car). In Type 4s, there are also 4 per car, located at doors 1, 4, 5, and 8 (one near each set of doors in the train car on alternating sides).
If something seems broken or out of place on the train, you can let the operator know, using your best judgment if the operational problem poses an immediate threat to safety or if it can wait until the train is stopped at the next platform. Same as with safety issues, giving a specific location is very helpful (which car is it in; what door number is it near, etc) – considering that a 2-car consist is about 200′ long, being able to quickly narrow down the location of the problem means getting to it faster to fix it and less of a delay for everyone.
As to the answer to this particular situation, I don't know what the issue was, possibly a bridge lift. But operators are trained to keep passengers informed of delays with as much information available regarding when the train will be rolling again. Some delays at platforms are expected and built in to the schedule (in particular at Ruby Junction, Gateway, Beaverton TC, or Elmonica) where one operator relieves another at the end of their shift. Other times trains can get conga lined if something causes a backup and this could also cause delays. If your train has been stopped for several minutes with no announcements made, it's okay to contact the operator and ask what's going on.
For example, now that we're back in the rainy season, you'll hear the buzzing sound of sand being deposited for traction which is normal and expected. Another example of something that isn't a concern is when the lights and HVACs in the train temporarily go out because an operator took power underneath a section isolator or where the overhead wires cross (such as near Pioneer Courthouse or any of the Streetcar/MAX intersections) What is a cause for concern is if the lights go out and stay out, or all the lights on one side of the train go out – let your operator know if something like that happens, because that's indicative of a converter or inverter issue and will need to be fixed.
Any other options to report an issue?
You can also call TriMet's customer service number 503-238-RIDE to report a safety, security, or operational problem by pressing 5 in the menu of options. However, this is only available Monday-Friday, 8:30a-4:30p so if you're traveling outside these hours, similar to Twitter this isn't going to be the most helpful way to get a fast response.
And of course, you can call 911 if the onboard situation warrants it.
So When should I tweet @trimet about an incident on a train?
Sorry, that was sarcastic of me, but if you want an immediate response, tweeting @TriMet is not your best option. While @TriMet is great for directing people to customer service after incidents occur, it's not a good way to get an immediate response to an issue. Talking to a TriMet employee at the time the incident that you want to report occurs is the best way to get a situation addressed, and so this should be your first option for safety issues or an operational problem with a train. The official Twitter backed me up on that after someone tweeted both @TriMet and the mayor of Portland to report that a stanchion pole on a train was broken – that sort of thing would best be reported to the operator when the train is stopped at a platform.
If you have a non-urgent, non-safety, non-train concern such as reporting a broken ticket machine or validator, a Transit Tracker problem, or graffiti on a platform, you can use Twitter to let TriMet know as these aren't urgent situations that require a fast response.


In the summer of 2015 we have established a tertiary referral center for patients with neurosarcoidosis. Supervision concerning the care of patients suspected of or diagnosed with neurosarcoidosis is being done by the neurologists Prof. Dr. Diederik van de Beek and Dr. Matthijs Brouwer. Patients are being seen every thursday morning at the neurosarcoidosis outpatient clinic in the AMC by Drs. Daan Fritz, who is a resident in neurology. Care for these patients is multidisciplinary. Multidisciplinary meetings are being held every week on friday in the AMC (KIR meeting) and once a month with the center of excellence for sarcoidisis in the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam.
Neurosarcoidosis AMC is part of the 'Neuroinfections Amsterdam' research group. This group consists of medical doctors and researchers involved in conducting research evaluating epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnostics and treatment of neurological infections, infections in neurological disorders and neuro-inflammatory disorders. Here you can find more information about how to refer to our center and the research we are currently conducting in the AMC.


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While Grace Jones' career encompasses several successful phases, fans new and old continue to return to the music she made at the Nassau-based Compass Point Studios in the early '80s. The Bahamian recording facility (owned by Island Records CEO Chris Blackwell) was Jones' home base from 1980 to 1982, and everything she recorded there is on this superlative collection. Jones served as an ideal frontwoman for The Compass Point All Stars, the studio's mostly Jamaican house band. They were looking to push the musical principles of reggae into the future, while Jones was a born futurist looking to reconnect with her Jamaican roots. While this collection boasts such definitive works as "Slave to the Rhythm," "Pull Up to the Bumper," and "My Jamaican Guy," the dub versions are equally essential to any understanding of the Compass Point ethos. Who else but Jones could have led this formidable group of Jamaicans to make a dub cover of "She's Lost Control," originally recorded by the doomed Manchester punk outfit Joy Division? Perhaps because of the tropical backdrop, the songs seem shaped by a deep conviction in musical voodoo.
Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions Grace Jones
Private Life (Long Version)
Private Life (Dub Version)
Love Is the Drug (Long Version)
Warm Leatherette (Long Version)
The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game (Long Version)
I've Done It Again
Pars (Long Version)
Pull Up to the Bumper
Use Me (Long Version)
She's Lost Control (Long Version)
She's Lost Control (Dub Version)
Cry Now, Laugh Later
Nightclubbing
The Apple Stretching
Nipple to the Bottle (Long Version)
My Jamaican Guy (Long Version)
Feel Up
I've Seen That Face Before
Demolition Man (Long Version)
Unlimited Capacity for Love
Ring of Fire (Demo)
Man Around the House
Living My Life (7" Version)
Slave to the Rhythm (Hot Blooded Version)
Released: Jun 16, 1998
This Compilation ℗ 1998 The Island Def Jam Music Group
More By Grace Jones
Bulletproof Heart
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Grace Jones


A little something different this week as I'm trying to find time to sort all the awesome Lindy videos from the past couple of months. The Washington Post recently did a wonderful spotlight on up and coming DC tap talent, John and Leo Manzari.
The two brothers are both in high school but are currently in a local production of Sophisticated Ladies, a musical based on the music of another DC native, Duke Ellington. The show is headlined by Maurice Hines, the brother of the late great tapper Gregory Hines. Here is is talking about discovering the two brothers.
And a couple more videos of the guys dancing. Here's John by himself.
Sophisticated Ladies is produced by Arena Stage but is showing at the Lincoln Theater and is running until June 6th.
In a previous post I said that I'd put up a few clips from a tape of Hop the Millennium but then decided that the whole thing was too good and uploaded the whole thing. The event took place over New Year's 1999/2000 in Mexico City Ensenada, Mexico of all places. There's a lot of dancing goodness featuring the Rhythm Hot Shots which is the team that begat The Harlem Hot Shots. Southern California represents with a piece by Rusty Frank & Peter Flahiff and another by Peter Loggins & Lisa Ferguson. Keep an eye out for a pimpin performance by the father and son team of "Moke & Poke" a.k.a. Chazz Young and Frankie Manning.