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Marina Acton flips out in Bel Air Crest for $18 million
June 29, 2018 12:31 pm PT
Hi folks, today is a travel day for Yolanda so unfortunately we don't have time to write out a full diatribe like we normally do. Instead, let's quickly touch on a rather (in)famous house up in that guard-gated development known as Bel Air Crest. For those who might not be aware, Bel Air Crest sits just off the 405 freeway in the fire-ravaged hills above LA. Although the community does sport a Bel Air 90077 zip code, it is geographically situated much closer to the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Sherman Oaks than it is to prime lower Bel Air.
It was only seven short months ago that celebrity super-couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West sold their freshly renovated Bel Air Crest mansion for a fat $17,800,000 in an all-cash deal, easily the most ever paid for a house in the area. The buyer then was a little-known woman named Marina Acton, née Marina Green. Our Mrs. Acton is the second (or third?) wife of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur Brian Acton, the dude who co-founded the WhatsApp app, which was sold to Facebook for more than $19 billion in 2014. Forbes says Mr. Acton is currently worth $6.3 billion, making him one of the richest men in tech.
The unusual thing about this sale was that Mrs. Acton and Ms. Kardashian suddenly appeared to be BFFs — Ms. Kardashian personally toured Mrs. Acton through the property, they followed each other on Instagram, and they even publicly hung out together. TMZ was conveniently at the scene when Ms. Kardashian and Mrs. Acton had dinner out on the town — a dinner where Ms. Kardashian referred to Mrs. Acton as "my girl Marina", and they wore fur coats and air-kissed and such.
The Blast has since revealed that the real estate transaction — as was widely speculated — included a novel clause that Ms. Kardashian had to fulfill certain promotional appearances with Mrs. Acton, a lady with great wealth who desperately craved fame. In fact, this may be the first (and only?) real estate sale that — quite literally — forced the seller to make the buyer famous. So if anyone is still wondering how much does fame costs — it's $17.8 million, apparently. At least that's how much Mrs. Acton paid for it.
Ms. Kardashian and Mrs. Acton
Born and raised in the Ukraine, Mrs. Acton once worked as a secretary for her country's Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun. So the rumors go, Mrs. Acton was introduced to her future hubby by his WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum, who also originally hails from the Ukraine.
But we digress. Although she promised her "fans" that "I'm real and you will see me soon!" Mr. and Mrs. Acton reportedly never moved into the Bel Air Crest mansion, and they had some legal trouble with squatters living in the residence. Plus, Mrs. Acton is now pregnant with the couple's first child, so it seems that she has decided to forsake LA after all. Oh dear! Was that $17.8 million all for naught?
We might take some heat for saying this, but we rather think that the old Kimye house looks more akin to a high-end mental institution rather than a typical "home". The unvarnished (and mostly unfurnished) interior features endlessly bland white walls, a highly sterile high-end kitchen, and one of the most austere master suites Yolanda has ever laid eyes upon. There are 7 beds and 7 baths in about 9,000-square-feet of living space, and the property is shoehorned on a .87-acre cul-de-sac lot right next door to Kathy Griffin's much larger $10.5 million mansion.
Listen kiddies, Yolanda can certainly appreciate a spot of minimalism. But this place isn't just minimalistic — it's big, bland, and rather soulless.
The Actons have hired one of LA's top real estate teams to sell their unwanted LA residence, and they have selected an $18 million sticker price. Hmm! Yolanda is of the opinion that Mrs. Acton originally overpaid by at least $5 million so unless someone else out there is hungry for Kimye's sloppy seconds, we think still think she is going to suffer a massive loss on this puppy.
But then again, she can afford it.
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Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel H. Kleppel of. Flushing, Queens, have announced the engage ment of their daughter, Miss Sharon Kleppel, to Michael David Tannenhauser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Tannen hauser of Forest Hills, Oueens.
Miss Kleppel, a member of the class of 1970 at Queens College, is a part‐time serv ice manager at Lord & Tay lor, where she plans to enter the executive training pro gram upon graduation. Her father is controller of the Fallek Chemical Corporation.
Mr. Tannenhauser, a 1963 alumnus of Syracuse Univer sity, is a vice president and director of the Barstan Elec tronics Corporation, Bellerose, Queens, and a sales manager of the North Shore Plumbing Supply Company in Flushing, of which his father is presi dent.


Below are key excerpts of highly revealing terrorism articles reported in the major media. Links are provided to the full articles on major media websites. If any link fails to function, read this webpage. These terrorism articles are listed by article date. You can also explore the articles listed by order of importance or by date posted. By choosing to educate ourselves on these important issues and to spread the word, we can and will build a brighter future.
The seven nations targeted for new visitation restrictions by President Trump on Friday all have something in common: They are places he does not appear to have any business interests. The executive order he signed Friday bars all entry for the next 90 days by travelers from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya. Excluded from the lists are several majority-Muslim nations where the Trump Organization is active. The restriction applies to countries that have already been excluded from programs allowing people to travel to the United States without a visa because of concerns over terrorism. Trump's order makes no mention of Turkey. On Wednesday, the State Department updated a travel warning for Americans visiting Turkey, noting that "an increase in anti-American rhetoric has the potential to inspire independent actors to carry out acts of violence against US citizens." Trump has licensed his name to two luxury towers in Istanbul. A Turkish company also manufactures a line of Trump-branded home furnishings. The executive order makes no mention of Saudi Arabia, home of 15 of the 19 terrorists involved in the 9/11 attacks. The Trump Organization had incorporated several limited liability companies in preparation for an attempt to build a hotel in Saudi Arabia, showing an interest in expansion in the country. The company canceled those incorporations in December.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), who has charged the Obama administration with funneling money to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria, visited Damascus this week on what her office called a "fact-finding trip ... to promote and work for peace." A member of the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees, Gabbard has called for the administration to abandon all assistance to armed groups and stop seeking Assad's overthrow, saying that the effort undermines the fight against the Islamic State there. Gabbard last month introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act, which would bar the U.S. government from providing money or other support to the Islamic State ... or to any of their allies or to any countries that support them directly or indirectly. "If you or I gave money, weapons or support to al-Qaeda or ISIS, we would be thrown in jail," she said in announcing the legislation. "Yet the U.S. government has been violating this law for years, quietly supporting allies and partners of al-Qaeda, ISIL ... and other terrorist groups with money, weapons and intelligence support, in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government." Citing news reports detailing CIA and other support to groups fighting against Assad ... Gabbard compared the U.S. effort to the Reagan administration's secret funding of Nicaraguan rebels who sought to overthrow that country's government in the 1980s, despite a congressional ban.
Note: A powerful and well researched article shows the key role the U.S. played in the formation and support of ISIS. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption and terrorism.


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The Golf Blog says: Is Hank Haney a good golf instructor? Well, he didn't fix Tiger Woods' errant driver. Nor did he fix Ray Romano's swing on the Hank Haney Project. And this video proves he didn't fix Charles Barkley's swing, either. So whose swing did Haney fix???


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Firstly, it is the marvelous mood that grips all the people without exception during this wonderful period. This means that the invited will come to the ceremony joyfully and ready to have fun.
Secondly, organizing a New Year's nuptial you can save money a little bit. To hold a bridal festival, you can hire a restaurant previously decorated in a New Year style – thus, you will not have to spend money on setting. The celebration will release you from the necessity to gather a large number of relatives at the traditional New Year or Christmas banquet; after all you will all meet at the wedding.
This will also reduce your costs, especially if your wedding is on December 31. You can buy strong drinks directly before the festival – the use of this product significantly increases on holidays, therefore prices drop.
Nevertheless the main goal is not to save money, but to turn a nuptial into a fairy-tail!
You can choose a banquet room of any restaurant. Doesn't matter what style it has as New Year's setting will make any place fabulous. However, more appealing variants are possible. For instance, you can rent a banquet room in a hotel out-of-town. What is the advantage of this decision? You will have an opportunity to come outside, organize fireworks, play snowballs and just admire pure snow.
Choose venue with a fireplace, which you will be able to light. This will make an atmosphere more comfortable. One more variant is to rent a country estate with a huge hall or a country cottage with a fireplace and a big reception-room, where you will be able not only to locate your guests but also arrange a dance floor.
Most modern wedding dresses are sleeveless and with cut-away shoulders. If the bride is afraid of chilling, she may choose original velvet dress or brocade with sleeves, or give her preference to a dress without shoulder-straps, but to provide herself with a beautiful shawl. Besides, there are special models of so-called winter bridal gowns. They are accompanied by a shawl, pelerine or mini jacket with sleeves.
Sometimes dresses are trimmed with fur or its imitation. If you would like to lay emphasis on the New Year's theme, you should pay attention to shining outfits, decorated with embroidery, pastes, sequins etc.
As to the color of a wedding gown, traditional pristine white dress will suit to the snowy season nuptial just at the right time. However, tint emphasis can be added, for instance, a belt and a frill on a dress can be red or green (the colors of New Year and Christmas). A colorful trimming of a gown must correspond to the shades that dominate in the wedding festival design.
The bride will need a nuptial fur coat (a wrapper, a bolero), gloves or muff for moving outside. You can even assort an original fur hat.
It is worth noting about jewelry for a fiancée. Ideal would be diamonds those look like a piece of ice. Other decorations that arouse the same associations will fit as well.
A fiancé should choose a three-piece suit for a winter nuptial. If a bride is dressed in white, a bridegroom can opt for a black or gray suit. A colorful buttonhole will support a colorful trimming of a wedding gown.
If a ceremony is organized in special colors, maids of honor attires usually correspond to them. So if your New Year's wedding will be arranged, for instance, in blue or silver tints, a maid of honor can choose a blue dress with a silver trimming, and the best man will put on a suit with a silver tint in this case.
Certainly, a large number of a maid's of honor obligations during the wedding will not allow her to sit still for a long time, although the girl can freeze, and thus a great decision will be a dress with a jacket, pelerine or shawl.
Children at a nuptial are a fortune. In addition to this, girls are great helpers. In particular they can act the part of flower girls, scattering rose petals from a beautifully designed basket.
You should use white or red petals for scattering at a New Year's or Christmas wedding, as well as confetti, tiny snowflakes and sequins.
A beautiful dress for a girl at a wedding can be assorted for a flower girl, but if the bridal is in December or January, one can choose a fancy dress, for example, a costume of a snowflake or an elf. It will be really fabulous: small cute snowflakes, scattering white rose petals and sequins on a bridegroom and a bride!
Relatives and guests will of course come well-dressed. However, a groom and a bride can denote a dress-code, presenting it in invitations. For instance, they can announce wedding colors and ask to come in corresponding clothing.
Alternatively they can suggest coming at a New Year's nuptial in fancy clothing at will. Still one can only ask to do this, but by no means insist on it. A different matter is significant people. It will be nice if next of kin and close friends will support a color wedding decision with the help of their attire. By the way, the clothing of bride's mother and groom's mother at a winter ceremony can be supplied by fur boas.
At the event hall entrance the guests can be distributed with masks at option, caps of Santa Clause, the Snow Maiden, Christmas deer horns etc.
Combination of white and silver is very wintry, but dull enough.
Certainly, it's design should include a wintry, New Year's or Christmas elements. Likely, these cards are to be ordered, but there is an advantage – your wedding invitation will be unique. One can make it in a shape of a snowflake, Christmas ball or a bottle of champagne. Don't forget to mention that your party will combine two festivals in it.
You will definitely have to go by car in the city. However, wedding cars' decoration can be special: use tinsel instead of ribbons, and a wreath twisted with fir branches instead of flower composition. Decorate the car with bells, pendants with plastic snowflakes, snowy cones.
In short, one may pick any New Year setting – in such a way the style of the bridal will be emphasized, and the cortege will attract a great attention. Prepare a play list of Christmas and New Year's songs and melodies – let exactly this music accompany your journeys in the wedding day. Drivers can put on hats of Santa Clause.
You can drive up on a sleigh directly to the banquet venue that is very symbolic, certainly. One will hardly get some deer, but three horses with bells will fit in the style quite well. A coachman can be dressed in a costume of Santa Clause.
You can use any New Year's setting: tinsel, garland, illumination. Walls and doors can be ornamented with wreaths made of fir branches, cones and ribbons. If you have already chosen the colors for your nuptial design, keep to them in all ways – starting with tinsel and ribbons, and finishing with napkins and bonbonnieres.
One should use tissues design as well: white and silver dorsal will create an association with an icy palace of the Snow Queen; vinous, golden and green tissues and ribbons will allow to make the Christmas spirit.
You can even set a big Christmas tree or several small ones. An interesting decision will be to decorate the tree not with usual decorations, but with souvenirs (for instance, small hearts with a photo of a newly wedded couple) and sweets.
By the end of the celebration let the guests "undress" a fir tree – children will take sweets, and adults will be pleased to get something as a memento. By the way, guests can lay their presents under the Christmas tree. Aroma design should be used as well. Fragrance of needles and citrus will fit for this bridal.
If there is a patio with bushes and trees in the banquet venue, they can also be decorated with illuminations. Icy sculptures will look beautifully in the entrance or in the hall.
Prefer white table-cloth with toppers or travelers of additional nuptial colors. Ornament the table with candles. Set flat plates with artificial snow, fir branches and Christmas balls. Service is preferably white or transparent (snow and ice). Flower compositions can be completed with pine branches, cones, fir decorations.
You can choose any dishes based on your tastes, but one ought to think about the fasting. Order delicious fast dishes. You should include in the menu 1-2 traditional New Year and Christmas dishes: baked duck, desserts with tangerines and oranges etc.
Order thematic cake in a winter, New Year's or Christmas style: it can still be traditional wedding cake decorated not with flowers and angels but snowflakes, icicles and perhaps figures of a groom and a bride in the image of Santa Clause and the Snow Maiden.
In addition to traditional nuptial cold beverages, you should think about hot ones. Even if there will be warm enough in the banquet room, hot drinks will be at the guests' taste and will emphasize the style of your winter bridal. It can be grog, mulled wine and hot chocolate. Hot drinks are served in the end of the banquet.
Think of preparing various theme bonbonniers for guests. What can you put in them at a New Year's or Christmas wedding? For example, a small snowball, nice Christmas ball, thematic candles etc. Sweets are usually put in the bonbonniers too: for instance, chocolate in the shape of heart. One may present guests with chocolate in the shape of a fir tree or the Snow Maiden etc.
An important nuance. You are better to remember that people can have their own plans on the holidays, thus you are to invite people long before – at least a month and a half, and even earlier.
A piece of advice. If you plan your nuptial day on December 31 or January 1, and offices of civil registration have the day-off at that time, it is no problem: you can officially register your marriage in the last days of the expiring year, and arrange a symbolic ceremony at the appointed date in any beautiful place, and then directly a party.
In the next article "Wedding on New Year and at Christmas entertainment" we will give consideration to an approximate script of the event: its conception, games, contests etc.


Every January, I set new goals. It's not that I don't set goals throughout the rest of the year as well; it's just that January represents a time when goal-setting is in the air. I like to take advantage of the opportunity to "reset" my energy, and I do it with a great deal of intention each year.
I rarely make New Year's resolutions, per se, because I see a difference between a resolution and a goal. A resolution is a new resolve–a determination to BE something different in the new year. I find resolutions daunting. "To be more organized," for example, is a resolution (which I've set for myself many times, to tell you the truth). "To lose weight" or "to start exercising" are also resolutions. A bit vague, even though they are action oriented.
I don't have anything against resolves (in fact, I like them and think they are important), but I do think they're tough to complete because they aren't measurable. To get something done, one needs to know what success looks like and have a deadline.
A goal is a specific determination to DO or to FINISH something. The completion of a goal is easy to assess if you make your benchmarks specific and obtainable. I'll say more about this in a moment.
In 2013, I have a handful of goals I'm excited about, too: I'm planning to train to shave off at least a half hour from my best marathon time (4:53); I'm going to double my twitter followers in service to my business (follow me at https://twitter.com/camiostman); and I'm going to publish an anthology of women writers writing about writing! I also plan to start two group coaching courses and run them repeatedly throughout the year and to complete (by September)the writing of a novel that I've been working on for more than a decade. It's a big list, but I promise you I'll get through it!
How, you ask? Keep reading.
Let's talk about your goals, now. I'd love to support you in reaching your goals, catching your second wind, and living an abundant, happy life this year, so let me share with you the end-of-the-year process that gets me to my goal setting and, more importantly, my goal achieving. You can do it with me this year.
The first week of every January, I spend some time writing about the previous year and crafting my goals for the next. Below are the questions I use for journaling this process. Why not give them a try now?
2. What did I learn in 2012 that I'd like to remember for 2013?
6. How will I celebrate or mark the completion of each step toward progress?
7. Who/what do I need to support me in this goal?
As you can see, this is a simple process. But it works! It works because the focus is not on changing anything essential about yourself. There is nothing shaming or condemning about these questions. There is no need to go back and look at your failures or to decide there is anything problematic or pathological about you. The key is breaking down the goal into bite-sized, achievable steps.
If you have a specific goal you'd like to work toward but feel stuck as you go through this process, why not give me a call and let me walk through it with you. I'm offering free half-hour consultations through January and February to help people identify their goals and objectives for 2013.
Happy New Year, Second Wind-ers! I look forward to hearing from you on facebook, twitter, or email throughout the year as you report on your successes and wins!


The Highway Patrol reports the arrest of a Lucerne man in Putnam County Tuesday on several accusations.
Fifty-one-year-old Stephen Pipes was accused of driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest by fleeing, careless and imprudent driving, and failure to drive on the right half of the road.
The Patrol notes he was transported to the Putnam County Jail and was bondable.


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Fatah Leader Calls for 'Armed Uprising'
A senior member of Abbas' Fatah party calls to 'renew the armed uprising' against Israel; follows threat to 'bomb Tel Aviv'.
Maayana Miskin
Jan 26, 2014, 3:12 PM (GMT+2)
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A senior member of Fatah, the party headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has called to renew terrorist attacks on Israel, Maariv/nrg reports.
Fatah Central Committee member Tawfik Tirawi reportedly told Al-Miadin that there will be no new Arab state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the near future, and not even in 20 years. For that reason, he said, Fatah must resume the "violent uprising" against Israel – meaning terrorism.
"That's the only way things will change," he argued.
Fatah must "join all of the organizations, both those operating under the Palestinian Authority, and those outside it," he added, in an apparent reference to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Hamas remains openly committed to obliterating Israel, while Islamic Jihad recently threatened to resume suicide bombings.
Tirawi argued that Fatah never truly abandoned terrorism. "Fatah never abandoned any form of action, including armed resistance," he insisted.
Tirawi clarified that he is pessimistic regarding the chances of establishing a PA-led Arab state through negotiations because he believes the PA will reject any compromise deal of the type offered by United States Secretary of State John Kerry.
PA leaders have repeatedly declared that they are unwilling to compromise on their demands, which include the expulsion of all Israeli Jews from land over the 1949 armistice line, sole control of the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site, the "right of return" for millions of Arabs descended from those who left Israel in 1948, the release of all terrorists, and the right to import weapons.
This is the latest in a string of incendiary statements by senior Fatah officials - statements which belie the PA's official stance in undertaking negotiations with Israel.
Just a few days ago, the Fatah party's official Facebook page featured a video by the group's armed wing - the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - in which it threatened to bomb Tel Aviv and promised to continue rocket attacks from Gaza.
Earlier this month, Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki told Syrian state TV that the PA's participation in US-brokered talks is part of a wider strategy to destroy Israel, and that whatever concessions it receives through diplomatic means will simply be the "first step" in achieving that long-term goal.

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Hot on the heels of Privacy Awareness Week, consider how IT departments can encourage better password practices from their users and clients.
Password management is a necessary evil. Latest figures put the average number of online accounts for an individual between 10–25, which demonstrates why so many people tend to re-use passwords.
The problem facing IT departments is maintaining a balance between forcing password changes too often and relying on users to secure unique, strong passwords in a way that doesn't compromise organisational security.
"Often, the more often you ask someone to change their password, the weaker the passwords they typically choose," says Professor Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey.
While purists suggest to never re-use passwords, it isn't practical to expect most people to remember more than a dozen strong passwords or passphrases.
One strategy for coping is to educate your users and clients to consider how severe the consequences would be if a particular password were compromised. For most people, banking sites or sites that store credit card details (such as online shopping) are highly sensitive for obvious reasons; people don't want their money stolen.
Some business applications may appear less vulnerable and therefore less likely to require strong password processes. However, innocuous applications such as business emails will often store a lot of sensitive information, and can also be used to reset the passwords for other services, so these must be treated as sensitive.
Additionally, social media sites and messaging services may also contain personal information that could be used to gain access to other accounts.
As password re-use is virtually inevitable, make sure you encourage users at sign up stage to create a strong password. In other words, making the password as random and complex as possible makes it more difficult to be cracked.
This concept is known as password entropy and is measured in bits. Password entropy is a guide on how much effort is required to crack a password via brute-force. A password with 20 bits of entropy will be as strong as a string of 20 bits chosen randomly (via a coin toss for example).
In other words, a password with 20 bits of entropy will require 2^20 (1,048,576) attempts to exhaust all possibilities during a brute-force attack. This means adding one bit of entropy to a password doubles the number of guesses required, which makes an attacker's task twice as difficult.
How can one remember the potentially dozens of different passwords for each of the accounts we all have?
Password managers are software tools designed to store individual passwords encrypted with one master passphrase as the key. They have the ability to generate very complex passwords, and safely store them on your device, locally, or in the cloud. This enables your users to easily create high-entropy, individual passwords, strongly immune to brute-force and dictionary attacks, while the user only has to remember the one master password for the password manager.
Password managers typically have extensions for integrating with the popular web browsers, and may be available on mobile devices such as phones or tablets as well. Like any software, password managers may have bugs or security vulnerabilities, so is worth reading reviews and search to find out about their past history of security vulnerabilities and how they handled them.
Another issue with password managers is that if the master password is forgotten, it's next to impossible to retrieve it, meaning all the individual passwords contained within the manager are also lost. However, memory can be a funny thing – recall can happen at any time, and muscle memory of typing the password out on the keyboard should also not be underestimated.
Common password criteria employed by most organisations and websites, typically comprises 6-8 characters, mix of upper and lowercase with numbers, and can arguably be considered woefully lacking. The natural instinct to add a "1" or "!" at the end of a password or employing "l33tspeak" in the attempt to make it more complex will not protect it against modern password cracking techniques and should be avoided at all costs.
However, these strict password criteria ultimately do nothing but annoy users and instil bad password practices. Passphrases— passwords that contain a series of uncommon, apparently random words—are typically much easier to remember for the user, and are inherently more robust due to high password entropy values.
For example, using a short phrase like "Nelson buys ugly fruit" (~ 30 bits of entropy) is better than a single word with a letter substitution such as "Duckl1ng" (less than 15 bits). However, both can be cracked quickly (hours for the phrase versus seconds for the word). It's best to use a phrase randomly generated, such as "prove allen gown sense observe mustang" (77 bits of entropy), which have a high probability of not being cracked with tools currently in use.


I opened my eyes this morning. I heard the soft breathing of the women I love. I touched her cheek with my fingers. I smelled fresh coffee brewing. I tasted the sweet joy of God's forgiveness. His mercy and grace are new every morning. This was a new day and anything is possible.


Note that there is a typo in Eq. (13.13) in the book. See the errata.
# The package optimization contains all the functions presented earlier. In this case, we need the quadraticDirect and the conjugateGrsdient functions.
# Note that there is a typo in the book.
Figure 13.3 (a), page 316.
Figure 13.3 (b), page 316.


In 2007, I golfed Scotland with my brother Steve and 6 other friends. We played 8 rounds of golf in 6 days at courses such as Old St. Andrews, Carnoustie, Royal Troon, and Western Gales. I played my best golf and my worst golf shooting 2 rounds in the 70's, three in the 80's, and 3 in the 90's. I did win some money, though! We stayed at the Rusacks Hotel on the 18th fairway at St. Andrews, and teed off on July 4th at 1:25 PM after toasting with a shot of scotch to my father, Cliff. The photo above is my brother, Steve, and I standing on the Swilcan Burn Bridge, originally built 700 years ago to herd sheep out to pasture.
For many years, my family and one or two other families would go on a one week house boat adventure on Lake Powell, Shasta or Lake Mead. We always had a wonderful time water skiing, reading, napping, or playing in the water with my children. Now that my kids are grown and beginning their own families, I am looking forward to starting that tradition again.
My wife and I celebrated our 30th anniversary a couple years ago in Paris, London, and Bruges, Belgium. We married on January 23rd, so our trip to Europe was cold, wet - and wonderful. We visited museums, went to a Burlesque show, toured the cities into the wee hours of the morning, ate Profiteroles, and drank wine at 11 in the morning. We also had our anniversary dinner at the Jules Vern Restaurant mid way up the Eiffel Tower - what a meal! Europe in the winter is amazing and there are no tourist lines. We spent hours just meandering around these wonderful cities.
Many years ago, my wife and I took a driving trip in my Firebird Trans Am for our 5th Anniversary. We got in the car, and I looked at Jill and I said, "we can go north, south, or east. If we go west, it's only 35 miles to the Pacific Ocean, so that will be a short trip." My wife hates traveling without reservations, so reluctantly she said, "north." The first night we drove to Santa Barbara, day two we drove to San Simeon, and day three to Carmel via the famous CA1 Big Sur route. We talked for hours on end, ate like royalty, and just had a wonderful adventure. On night four, we stopped at a motel in Lake Tahoe and stayed in the "Velour Suite". The bed was round, the bathroom had a jacuzzi tub, and the walls were covered with blood red velour. We then stayed our last night in a friend's condo in Mammoth and relaxed by the fire. What a wonderful trip - I have always wanted to do it again!
These are my 5 most memorable adventures, but I could list at least a dozen more. I have become very passionate about all things travel. I am most fortunate to be born into the industry. I tell everyone who will listen to get out there and make your own adventures. Big or small, every adventure will bring you memories for a lifetime. And for those of you who hate planning, just go without an itinerary and see what the world brings you! Happy travels.


Following a sellout season at Queensland Theatre Company in October 2015, The Little Red Company is thrilled to announce a Sydney Opera House transfer of their award-winning RUMOUR HAS IT in January 2016.
Rumour Has It charts the incredible rise of THE blockbuster soul sensation of the modern age live on stage in story and song, with all the upfront British wit and heart-stopping tunes that have made Adele the highest-selling recording artist of the 21st Century.
Best known to television audiences as Ricky Martin's leading lady on The Voice Australia 2015, smouldering soul powerhouse Naomi Price tells the story of the London tearaway with a voice that woke up the world with 19, then conquered it with the 30-million selling masterpiece, 21.
Hear Adele's deliciously frank life story come alive in the words of this world class stage performer, as seven of Australia's finest musicians deliver the greatest hits from a mega-platinum catalogue, including Rolling in the Deep, Set Fire to the Rain, Someone Like You and the Oscar-winning Skyfall.
A Little Red Company production created by Adam Brunes and Naomi Price.


TUSCHER NUTRITION & THERAPY – Therapeutic Treatment of Addictions, Eating & Mental Health Disorders.
Therapeutic Treatment of Addictions, Eating & Mental Health Disorders.
When you arrive at the juncture, choose the dying that enlarges you rather than the one that keeps you stuck.
As a certified eating disorder specialist, licensed clinical depth psychotherapist, registered dietitian, and global consultant for luxury hospitality ~ Gabrielle Tüscher belongs to a leading class of experts.
The Definitive Platform for Therapeutic Treatment of Addictions, Eating & Mental Health Disorders. Our brand was created out of a sincere understanding and passion for anticipating, and fulfilling individual psychological and wellness needs, while defining superior service.
I was initially referred to Gabrielle by my psychiatrist to help me with my depression and anxiety. We have been working together for 6 months and I have really learnt how much what I feed my body is connected to the way I feel. Not to mention how I respond to stress and low moments in my life when suicide seemed like the only way out – it's not.
"Gabrielle, thank you for your selfless, compassionate outpouring of support, love and care throughout our family's struggle dealing with our daughters ED.
Our family is truly at a loss for words to express our thankfulness to you for giving us back our little girl healthy and whole, when we feared she was gone forever.
"I have battled with my weight for as long as I can remember. I tried (and failed) every diet ever written, with my weight yo-yoing up and down for years, hating my body every step of the way for never being thin or good enough. You taught me a new approach to weight loss that tossed gimmick diets out the window and realistic lifestyle choices in, which helped me achieve my ideal weight.
Now 8 years on I have maintained my healthy skinny weight – pre-and-post children. Not only that, but you taught me how to embrace and love my body, and my current relationship with food is one I have always dreamed of.
"You've provided me with unwavering support through the lowest times for which I cannot thank you enough. I so admire your dedication and genuine drive to help people.
You have taught me so much how to look after myself and the ebbs and flows of life. Your knowledge of human nature, insight into yourself and outlook on life inspires me every day.
Beginning my journey into recover I was oblivious to how hard it would be and how deeply attached I was. You've helped me to feel prepared, strong and gave me hope that life IS better on the other side. When no one else understood you always bridged the gap and always cleared the situation up for me.
Your advice has been invaluable and I have never doubted that when you pushed me to break my own boundaries, that you had my best interests at heart. You never let me fall and walked with me night and day in my darkest hours.
Without you I never would've found such a deep connection and appreciation for my parents. I'm scared to be off to university, but feel excitement too knowing you will be with me every step of the way.
"When I came to Gabrielle to get my body in shape for a role in a film, I didn't expect to leave with a whole new insight into myself, my relationship with my body, food, and the people in my life.
When I took my five year old son to see Gabrielle he would only eat white food, barely ate a thing no matter how much we encouraged him to eat more, and at times literally made himself sick when presented with a new food. Meal times became battle zones as he got older and the restricting intensified.
We took him to every psychologist and dietitian in town and no one made a difference. We were at our wits end when our GP referred us to Gabrielle.
Her care and support in helping him to understand that it was safe to eat outside his comfort zone was truly remarkable and the behavioural changes we experienced under her therapeutic care were incredible.
She also helped us see that we were a major part of the problem without pointing the finger at us and guided us away from our destructive behaviours that were contributing in his trying to control his emotions through food and self harm.
Now we approach things very differently and each day is less of a struggle – mealtimes are often even fun!
You literally gave me my life back – Best therapist EVER!!


You Are Here: Home » Neymar news: 2018-19 » Manchester City 0-2 Barcelona: Highway to the next round?
Barça has taken the Etihad by storm and after a dominating performance, the Blaugrana brought back a precious 0-2 away win against Manchester City. Neymar started on the bench, but it would be Lionel Messi setting most the differences between these two top European sides, in what was a very cold night in England.
As expected, Barcelona had a hold on the ball throughout most of the game, even though the best chances in the 1st half ended up being created by the hosts. Half-time came in with a goalless draw, as both sides were playing cautiously and fully aware that a single mistake could very well be decisive. That was precisely what happened shortly after we saw the game being resumed for the second half and it all started in a ball possession lost by Navas, close to the right sideline. The Spaniard went down too easily on a challenge with Busquets (can you find the irony on this?), and Barça made Manchester City through a fast counter. Iniesta picked up the ball in midfield, spotted Lionel Messi unmarked just a few meters ahead and assisted the Argentina international with a low pass.
Messi controlled it and he was just entering Manchester City's box without having any further opponent in front him except the Joe Hart, he got tripped from behind after a sliding tackle from DeMichelis. The referee didn't hesitate and pointed to the penalty spot, right before he showed DeMichelis the red card. Lionel Messi naturally stepped on to take the penalty and he wouldn't tremble in such an important moment, scoring an always vital away goal for the visitors. City were down to 10-men against a Barça side that until that point had already been clearly trying to keep the ball only to themselves… Manuel Pelegrini's men were in trouble!
If the 0-1 result was already quite positive for Barça, it would get even better with a late goal scored by Daniel Alves. The Brazil international had one of his best performances this season (if not the best) and in a period of the game where Neymar had already stepped on to the pitch (he replaced Alexis Sánchez on the 73rd minute), Alves sealed the deal after a great combination with Neymar on the right. The 30-year old defender found between Joe Hart's legs and hammered it into the back of the net, to set the final score in 0-2.
The two teams will meet again on March 12, at the Camp Nou. You can watch Barcelona vs Manchester City live on Ronaldo7.net.


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About our membership..
There are two levels of membership, Ordinary Members and Associate Members.
Ordinary members are national trade associations or groups of national trade associations that represent individuals or organizations in their respective countries who are actively participating in the fresh produce supply chain, and act in a representative capacity; and have voting rights, one per Ordinary Member.
Associate Membership is open to individuals or organizations who are associated with but not actively participating in the fresh produce supply chain industry. Associate members do not have voting rights.
The member group provides an international forum to address issues that require international harmonisation or standardisation for the produce sectors and creates the first incorporated body constituted of national organisations providing direct representation of their respective countries' constituents.
DO PRODUCE STANDARDS MATTER IN YOUR COUNTRY? JOIN IFPS TODAY !
Members of IFPS
The following national produce associations are IFPS members:
Asociacion de Exportadores de Frutas de Chile (ASOEX)
Canadian Produce Marketing Association
Fresh Produce Centre (The Netherlands)
Fresh Produce Consortium (UK)
Frug I Com (Foundation Platform Fresh Chain Information, The Netherlands)
Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada (FVGC)
International Fresh Produce Association (US)
International Fresh Produce Association Australia-New Zealand
Norges Frukt-og Gronnsaksgrossisters Forbund (Norway)
United Fresh (New Zealand)
Accu-Label (Canada)
GS1 Global
Sinclair Systems (US)
Members are recognized on the member of logo.
Asociación de Exportadores de Frutas de Chile
The Chilean Fruit Exporters Association was founded in 1935 and today has 351 member companies, representing the 92% of the volume exported from Chile (from more than 6,000 growers). Also, its members represent approximately 50% of the fruit crop production. The main role of ASOEX is to facilitate the export process to its members through different programs and services. The main programs are: Industry's Sustainability Program, called ChileGAP, (Food Safety, Social Corporate Responsibility, Environmental Care), International Promotion of Chilean Produce, Productivity, Training and Labor Competences and Research & Development Programs.
Contact: Karen Brux, kbrux@fruitsfromchile.com
Website: www.asoex.cl; www.simfruit.cl
International Fresh Produce Association A-NZ
IFPA Australia-New Zealand Limited is the first stand-alone global affiliate of International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) - the leading global trade association serving the entire produce and floral supply chains by enhancing the marketing of produce, floral, and related products and services worldwide. Members are buyers and sellers from every segment of the produce and floral supply chain.
The overall objective of the organisation is to "connect, inform and deliver business solutions that enhance members' prosperity". It will do this through quality networking events, industry-wide initiatives on food safety and traceability, attracting and developing talent and increasing fresh produce consumption, and providing educational and insightful information to its members that has real practical usage.
Contact: Darren Keating, d.keating@pma-anz.com
Website: linkedin.com/company/ifpa-anz
International Fresh Produce Association
The International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) is the largest and most diverse international association, serving the entire fresh produce and floral supply chain and the first to seamlessly integrate world-facing advocacy and industry-facing support.
IFPA represents companies from every segment of the global fresh produce and floral supply chain. We advocate, connect and guide to enhance members' prosperity.
Together with our member companies, IFPA leads and makes things happen for our members and industry on both the national and global stages, creating beneficial changes through action.
Contact: Ed Treacy, etreacy@freshproduce.com
Website: www.freshproduce.com
Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada
Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada (FVGC) is a voluntary, not-for-profit, national association that has been committed to promoting the interests of its members since 1922. The mission is to encourage cooperation and understanding to build national consensus on key issues, thereby delivering unified and clear representation to governments and other national and international parties.
Members are primarily involved in the production and packing of over 120 horticulture crops comprised of fruit and vegetables and include provincial and national horticultural commodity organisations representing more than 25,000 producers in Canada, as well as allied and service organisations, provincial governments and individual producers.
The FVGC's activities include representation and advocacy on matters such as crop protection, risk management programs, food safety and traceability, grade standards and labelling and trade agreements. The FVGC was responsible for the development of the internationally recognised CanadaGAP™ food safety program and the establishment of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and a national Science Cluster for Horticulture.
Contact: Rebecca Lee, rlee@fvgc.ca
Websites: www.fvgc.ca
Fresh Produce Centre
Fresh Produce Centre represents the interests of businesses involved in the sale and marketing of fruit and vegetables and is a source of knowledge and inspiration. Its members account for over 80% of total sales of fruit and vegetables in the Netherlands, which are worth around € 15 billion (including growers' associations).
Fresh Produce Centre has around 320 members. The members are trading companies and growers' associations involved in the sale and marketing of fruit and vegetables. They specialise in the domestic wholesale, import, export, treatment, processing, packaging, storage and transshipment of fruit and vegetables.
Contact: R. Schouten, info@fpcnl.eu
Website: https://freshproducecentre.com
Associated member: Sinclair
Sinclair, which is more than three decades old, delivers a comprehensive offering of food safe fresh produce labels and labeling equipment that enable packers and shippers to showcase their brand identity and differentiate themselves. Based in Fresno, California and Norwich, England, Sinclair now has 10 labal-manufacturing sites around the world with labeling systems installed in more than 45 countries worldwide. Our labels are unsurpassed, comprised on micro-thin material that is food-safe and complies with requirements of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Union (EU).
With a portfolio of more than 79 issued patents, we take pride in product excellence. We pioneered produce labling and commercialized many product innovations such as Sinclair Tablift®, Sinclair Peel and Reveal®, Sinclair Print on Demand™, the Sinclair Compact Pattern Labeler™ and the ground breaking RM6 with its game-changing rotary head and bellows label application system. Furthermore, Sinclair technical service is recongnized as a leader in providing support, consultative technical advice and analysis for optimal labeling efficincy.
Website: www.sinclair-intl.com
Associated Member: GS1 Global
GS1 is a neutral, non-profit organisation that develops and maintains the most widely used global standards for efficient business communication. We are best known for the barcode, named by the BBC as one of "the 50 things that made the world economy". GS1 standards improve the efficiency, safety and visibility of supply chains across physical and digital channels in 25 sectors. Our scale and reach – local Member Organisations in 115 countries, 2 million user companies and 6 billion transactions every day – help ensure that GS1 standards create a common language that supports systems and processes across the globe. Find out more at www.gs1.org. Follow us on Twitter: @GS1 and LinkedIn.
Fresh Produce Consortium
The Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC) is the UK's fresh produce trade association and is recognised across the UK and European Union as the voice of the UK fresh produce and cut flower industry. FPC is an independent organisation owned by its membership which includes companies and associates from every sector of the industry: growers, importers, wholesalers, retailers, distributors, packers, food service organisations and other allied organisations.
Contact: Nigel Jenney, nigel@freshproduce.org.uk
Website: www.freshproduce.org.uk
Norges Frukt-og Gronnsaksgrossisters Forbund
Norwegian Association of Fruit and Vegetable Wholesalers
Organizes 33 Norwegian wholesalers and importers active in marketing fruit and vegetables.
Our association works within the following areas:
• Food Safety
• Contact with Authorities
• Generic marketing through Norwegian Fruit and Vegetable Marketing Board
• Information to members
• Networking
• Electronic tracing
Contact: Gry Sorensen, gry.sorensen@fgsfrukt.no
Website: www.grossistforbundet.no/
Based in Ottawa, Ontario, the Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA) is a not-for-profit organization that represents companies that are active in the marketing of fresh fruits and fresh vegetables in Canada from the farm gate to the dinner plate. CPMA's vision is to enable and lead the produce industry by enhancing the market and facilitating trade of fresh fruits and vegetables for its members.
Contact: Jane Proctor, jproctor@cpma.ca
Website: www.cpma.ca
United Fresh
United Fresh New Zealand Incorporated is the country's only pan-produce organisation - with 84 members from across the fresh produce value chain. United Fresh president, David Smith, says horticulture, which is currently a $3.5 billion industry, is an important export earner for the country. And turning it into a $10 billion industry by 2020 needs vision, co-operation and collaboration. Outside of United Fresh we are all competitors in the marketplace but within United Fresh it's an open forum, where we all pull together and communicate about industry 'good' issues," says David. "This creates an umbrella across our industry for external communication with the government, the public, media or international organisations." The primary objective of United Fresh is to promote the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables to New Zealanders, through the 5+ A Day and Fruit In Schools programmes. The formation of the 5+ A Day Charitable Trust, with the children of New Zealand as the beneficiaries, was a strategic move by United Fresh to separate the organisation's administrative role from the promotional role of 5+ A Day," he says. "And it has been a huge success." While other countries have similar 5+ A Day programmes, New Zealand is one of the few to be entirely driven by the produce industry and it is highly respected internationally, says David. United Fresh's main goal is to continue fostering collaboration within the industry. "In the future there will be an increased need for more interaction between government and industry organisations. Our role is to make sure we bring all the parties together to promote the industry in a positive way. United Fresh endorses and promotes success both internationally and domestically. Its overall objective is to grow the industry, and to make this happen we must make sure all parties are working together."
Contact: H. Maurer hmaurer@agrichain-centre.com
Website: www.unitedfresh.co.nz
Associated Member: Accu-Label
Accu-Label is widely recognized as an industry leader in fruit labelling technology, providing highly reliable, cost-effective & eco-friendly fruit labelling solutions since 2001. Accu-Label's internationally patented ORB-it® high-speed labelling systems, have proven to outperform all other fruit labelling systems by:
Providing the highest label application rate on wet and fuzzy produce;
Producing the least amount of damage or bruising to soft produce;
Being the most reliable equipment with user serviceable plug-and-play design;
Accu-Label's proprietary labels are constructed from high-quality biodegradable PAPER on a recyclable PET liner. Accu-Label's ORB-it-® Vision Labeller™ is a high-speed tray labeller that achieves over 90% label application on the (TOV) cluster tomato body. Since 2008, the ORB-it® G-2 Print & Apply labelling system has proven to be the most successful on-demand label printing solution, and the patented Waste Liner Rewind design has reduced operator maintenance by 90%. Along with Ag-Tronic Control Systems, Accu-Label provides a total packaging & automation solutions for customers across North America, Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Contact: Rod Baeini, rodbaeini@accu-label.com
Website: www.accu-label.com


Amazon Prime Day 2018 is officially 1 week away!
It has finally been announced that Amazon Prime Day 2018 will begin on Monday, July 16 at 3pm EST and go through Tuesday, July 17. That means we have 36 glorious hours to buy (and sell!) thousands of different products at a huge discount.
It's the day in which Amazon celebrates it's "birthday" by treating its Prime Members with loads of discounts and savings on some of the hottest selling items available.
It's also the day where sellers can take advantage by offering huge discounts to customers who are ready to one-click their order of whatever it is you are selling them that day!
This year marks the fourth year Amazon has picked a day close to its "birthday" to celebrate by offering Prime Members incredible savings on a plethora of products.
I highly recommend you download the app to get notified when items you want to buy go on sale.
If you're already a Prime member, then you're good to go. Just sit back and wait for Monday and get ready to start shopping.
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I had been a while since Bug's Princess Fiona had gotten a new outfit. This oversight is now corrected. I dug up remnants of voile from another project, a cute scrap of paisley and some tulle for a 2-day sewing spree.
Bug and Princess Fiona are very lucky! The outfits are adorable! My favorite would be the ruffled multi-tiered dress.
What great outfits, I love the purple trousers and the ruffled multi-tiered dress.


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other physicians, or to the public generally.
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authoritatively by any other person, he being the only living "charter member"
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than in any decided curative properties that the preparation may possess."
the distillate that it represents the fixed astringent principles of the drug.
As written by Leon T. Hurtt, of the Pond's Extract Company.
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hours it would return to its original clearness. (This needs corroboration. J.
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to be sold among their friends.
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direct fire. Thus they produced a fair article, but they could not preserve it.
now be found, I do not know.
life from exposure in the woods.
using the name 'Pond's Extract,' or manufacturing the article.
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hood and worm. Cold water was used for condensing the vapor.
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from November, each year, until April or May.
duties the manufacturing of the Extract.
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/**
 * Прием уведомлений от PayQR
 */

class PayqrReceiver
{
    const INVOICE = 'invoice';
    const REVERT = 'revert';
    const OFFER = 'offer';
    const RECEIPT = 'receipt';

    private $type;
    private $event;
    private $objectEvent;

    /**
     * объект события
     * @var PayqrEvent
     */
    private $objectHandler;

    public function __construct()
    {
        PayqrBase::checkConfig();
    }

    /**
     * Получаем уведомление
     */
    public function receive()
    {
        // Получаем данные из тела запроса
        $json = file_get_contents('php://input');
        // логируем тело запроса
        PayqrLog::log("REQUEST\n" . $json);

        // Проверяем валидность JSON данных
        PayqrJsonValidator::validate($json);
        // Получаем объект события из уведомления
        $this->objectEvent = json_decode($json);

        // Проверяем что уведомление действительно от PayQR (по секретному ключу SecretKeyIn)
        if (!PayqrAuth::checkHeader(PayqrConfig::$secretKeyIn)) {
            // если уведомление пришло не от PayQR, вызываем исключение
            throw new PayqrExeption("Неверный параметр ['PQRSecretKey'] в header уведомления", 1);
        }

        // Проверяем наличие свойства типа объекта
        if (!isset($this->objectEvent->object) || !isset($this->objectEvent->id) || !isset($this->objectEvent->type)) {
            throw new PayqrExeption("В уведомлении отстутствуют обязательные параметры object, id, type", 1, $json);
        }
        PayqrLog::log("Тип события: " . $this->event . "\nИдентификатор события: " . $this->objectEvent->data->id);

        $this->event = $this->objectEvent->type;
        $this->type = $this->objectEvent->data->object;

        // В зависимости от того какого типа уведомление, создаем объект
        switch ($this->type)
        {
            case self::INVOICE:
                $this->objectHandler = new PayqrInvoice($this->objectEvent);
                break;
            case self::REVERT:
                $this->objectHandler = new PayqrRevert($this->objectEvent);
                break;
            case self::OFFER:
                $this->objectHandler = new PayqrOffer($this->objectEvent);
                break;
            case self::RECEIPT:
                $this->objectHandler = new PayqrReceipt($this->objectEvent);
                break;
            default:
                throw new PayqrExeption("В уведомлении отстутствуют обязательные параметры object id type", 1, $json);
                return;
        }
        // если все прошло успешно, возвращаем объект
        return $this->objectHandler;
    }

    /**
     * Ответ на уведомление
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    public function response()
    {
        header("PQRSecretKey:" . PayqrConfig::$secretKeyOut);
        // если счет отмечен как отмененный
        if($this->objectHandler->cancel)
        {
            header("HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict");
            PayqrLog::log('payqr_receiver::response() - Send HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict');
            return;
        }
        header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
        $json = json_encode($this->objectEvent);
        PayqrLog::log("RESPONSE\n" . $json);
        echo $json;
    }

    /**
     * Обработка входящего запроса
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        $object = $this->receive();
        switch ($this->type)
        {
            case self::INVOICE:

                $invoice = new InvoiceHandler($object);

                if(!$invoice->settings)
                {
                    PayqrLog::log("PayqrInvoice. Не смогли получить информацию!");
                    break;
                }
                switch ($this->event)
                {
                    case 'invoice.order.creating':
                        // нужно создать заказ в своей учетной системе, если заказ еще не был создан, и вернуть в PayQR полученный номер заказа (orderId), если его еще не было
                        $invoice->createOrder();
                        break;
                    case 'invoice.paid':
                        // нужно зафиксировать успешную оплату конкретного заказа
                        $invoice->payOrder();
                        break;
                    case 'invoice.reverted':
                        // PayQR зафиксировал полную отмену конкретного счета (заказа) и возврат всей суммы денежных средств по нему
                        $invoice->revertOrder();
                        break;
                    case 'invoice.cancelled':
                        // PayQR зафиксировал отмену конкретного заказа до его оплаты
                        $invoice->cancelOrder();
                        break;
                    case 'invoice.failed':
                        // ошибка совершения покупки, операция дальше продолжаться не будет
                        $invoice->failOrder();
                        break;
                    case 'invoice.deliverycases.updating':
                        // нужно вернуть в PayQR список способов доставки для покупателя
                        $invoice->setDeliveryCases();
                        break;
                    case 'invoice.pickpoints.updating':
                        // нужно вернуть в PayQR список пунктов самовывоза для покупателя
                        $invoice->setPickPoints();
                        break;
                }
                break;
            case self::REVERT:
                $revert = new RevertHandler($object);
                switch ($this->event)
                {
                    case 'revert.failed':
                        // PayQR отказал интернет-сайту в отмене счета и возврате денежных средств покупателю
                        $revert->fail();
                        break;
                    case 'revert.succeeded':
                        // PayQR зафиксировал отмену счета интернет-сайтом и вернул денежные средства покупателю
                        $revert->succeed();
                        break;
                }
                break;
            case self::OFFER:
                $offer = new OfferHandler($object);
                switch ($this->event)
                {
                    case 'offer.invoices.creating':
                        // PayQR отказал интернет-сайту в отмене счета и возврате денежных средств покупателю
                        $offer->create();
                        break;
                }
                break;
            case self::RECEIPT:
                $receit = new ReceitHandler($object);
                switch ($this->event)
                {
                    case 'receipt.paid':
                        // PayQR отказал интернет-сайту в отмене счета и возврате денежных средств покупателю
                        $receit->pay();
                        break;
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'Tech Week' - As I look at my calendar for next week those two little words seem so benign, however, the fact that their presence has prevented the addition of any other entries reveals some of their significance. It is the last seven days before opening night, when all the separate components of a show come together for the first time and must be made to coalesce, sometimes not so lovingly referred to as 'Hell week': it's that time again.
Tech week is like the high school years of a show's life. It's a short, stressful, transformative period where many diverse groups collide. In retrospect, we look at this time with nostalgia, but when immersed in it we are fighting for survival. Life before or after this time seems alien. Concerns that seem small in outside reality are dire within the hallowed walls of our transformation. Those who travel along with us through this journey are like family; until the journey's end after which time we may not be able to recall their names. Those who are separate from the process assume that we must be filled with excitement when in reality we are simply exhausted. The most necessary of evils, we could not become who we must be without it.
The Paper Tech: A meeting between director, stage manager, and perhaps other technical or production team members, during which each cue is discussed so that all concerned have a theoretical understanding of what ought to be achieved.
The Hang and Focus: A meeting in the theatre with the director, lighting designer, lighting operator, stage manager, and perhaps other technical or production team members during which each lighting cue is reviewed on stage and adjusted as necessary. Stand ins for actors are sometimes used; these stand-ins are called 'light walkers' and should be roughly similar in physical characteristics to the actors involved.
The Cue to Cue: A run of the show with actors and technicians which focuses only on events on stage which trigger lighting cues, sound cues etc. Important plot points may be skipped. The purpose of this run is to cement what each cue looks like for director, stage manager, technicians, and actors.
The Costume Parade: a meeting with director, stage manager, costume designer, and actors where each costume is shown to the director on the actor to confirm that it is properly fitted, suitable for the activities the actor performs in it, approved by the director etc.
The Dress Rehearsal: A run of the show with all costume pieces. The purpose of this run is to allow actors and backstage team members to explore the timing of assisted and unassisted costume changes. It also allows the director to see the costumes in context and in action. There is also the possibility of a 'Dress and Tech' in which the new elements of lighting, sound, and costumes are all introduced simultaneously.
This is an extremely simplified list and does not account for the possibility that you are mounting a musical involving vocal, dance, and instrumental considerations. In each of these situations unforeseen circumstances will arise and problem-solving skills will be put to the test. This is the trial by creative fire that each show must pass.


What?!… No, don't be alarmed; cool-old-term has just changed name in cool-retro-term.
But why?… Well, cool-old-term was a sort of boilerplate name I chose at the beginning of the project and it stuck when the project became more popular. cool-retro-term keeps familiarity and has a very cool acronym so we can talk nerdy: "Have you tried CRT. It's really great!".
Why didn't you do that before?… Because I was planning to change the way the program is built and I didn't want to break the packages twice. Now all packages can be updated only once and I promise I won't break them again anytime soon.
What else did you change?… Well in the last month many things have. New features such as mouse support, color support, improved/fixed key combinations have landed in master together with many bugfixes. Moreover we are working on a OSX port which will see major improvements in the short future.
Why are you interviewing yourself?… I actually don't know, but I'm going to take advantage of this question to thank all the people who contributed to the project. Some of you helped with the code, some with the packaging/docs, some donated money and some just spread the world.
You have all been amazing! Thank you very much!
Brace yourself… cool-old-term is coming!
I am a little frustrating, I install it on my Arch Linux x86-64 from AUR.
Everything is frozen, even the menus.
I have to kill the process to exit.
Thank you!… What do you mean with "hide / unhide keybindings"? If you are talking about the menubar, that would be easy, it's just a matter of finding the right keybinding. With respect to tabs, this was already discussed in the past, I'm quite against them but I also see that they are one of the most requested features so we'll see. Anyway this will surely not happen soon since at the moment I'm trying to fix the issues to get a stable release.
How to start in fullscreen mode?
Well, that's a good idea. Currently there is no way, but what about adding a –fullscreen command line argument?
hello there. i m sorry but where do I put the -fullscreen argument ?
–fullscreen Exactly what is needed!
Another suggestions is to add the locked screen effect when quit the terminal like android phone.
I tried in the past and it looked awful 😀 … It's still definitely in my TODO list.
It starts in the directory from which it is called, that's the expected behavior. There is a flag though (–workdir) that let you change it.
How exactly I must use the flag? ./cool-retro-term -workdir:~ ? Or in the .desktop?
Hai there is no scroll bar and I am using Ubuntu 14.04, please fix this in next release I almost left using the default terminal, this is so cool!
I'm glad you are enjoying it. An overlay scrollbar is something that I would really love. Right now I'm working heavily on the plugin (basically rewriting it) just to expose those kind of things and fix issues.
Just wanted to say thanks taking my suggestion, made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
So you are the mind behind this! 😀 … Many people suggested me that name, but I didn't know where it came from. Thank you Mcorther!
HI – thanks for the great terminal. I use it as a daily burner, however there are a couple of things that i am having issues with.
Cut/Paste – I can mouse up with to some past commands, however the terminal jumps back to prompt when I click to select some text. Is it possible to select/copy from buffer?
Logging- would it be possible to log console output to a text file?
I'll try to answer your points in order.
Which version are you running? There was an issue selecting lines in the previous history, but that was fixed in the last revisions ten days ago. Please let me know if you experience the issue also in the latest master.
What do you mean by copy from buffer? If you are talking about copy selection, just select some text on the terminal and press the mouse wheel to paste it.
If you want to record all the session, so all your commands and responses there should be a program called script that does that.
I really hope I went through all your questions, and thank you for the beers!
Hi – The version listed in About is 0.9 . My install/build date was November 12, so that is outside of the 10 day mark.
On my migrating from windows: I just wanted to say that this is a killer app, and is *part* of the reason I'm running Linux on my laptop now (all I used in windows was chrome, putty and RDP), but CRT was *the* reason I picked kde over gnome. Love this terminal – wish you loads of success.
Wow, I'm really glad to heard that you like CRT this much! The fact that CRT is based on Qt doesn't force you to use it only in Qt DE (actually Qt applications looks really good under gnome). Wrt logging, that would be a nice feature, but I think it's a little outside the scope of this terminal emulation. The solution I proposed with script anyway should to the trick (http://askubuntu.com/questions/161935/how-do-i-log-all-input-and-output-in-a-terminal-session).
Additional Feedback – One of my profiles causes the CRT to close. Is there a log file I can send you?
Then make the application crash in a spectacular way.
Hey – sorry it took so long, but the above resulted in an empty log file.
We so need a Windoze port!
So in love with the look of this… the ONLY thing I wish it had was the ability for multiple tabs. Is this on the horizon at some point?


When multiple layers of your skin are damaged, your body tries to heal them. The result can be the formation of scars. Scars might appear after an accident, after surgery, or as the result of serious acne. It can be a challenge to find a scar treatment that is effective. It is important to note that in many cases, it is impossible to make a scar disappear completely. However, there are a number of treatments out there that allow you to diminish the appearance of scars. The best scar treatment for you is going to depend on the type of scar that you have.
Many are surprised to learn that scars come in different forms. Some of the most common types of scars are keloid scars, hypertrophic scars, and contracture scars. Keloid scars form when your body overproduces collagen during the recovery process. Keloid scars could extend beyond the area of the original injury. Hypertrophic scars have an appearance similar to keloid scars, but they never go beyond the affected area. It's easy to confuse a hypertrophic scar and a keloid scar. Hypertrophic scars are a lot easier to treat. Contracture scars are the type of scars you develop after a serious burn. The scars tighten the skin and can actually reduce movement.
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Training for judges, prosecutors, managers, and clerks of court in Italy and abroad have been periodically carried out by IRSIG's researchers and associates. The method developed over the years is based on the research findings that have been exploited to create original training materials such as case studies, role plays, simulations. Therefore, the training provided by IRSIG is always context specific and based on real justice system experiences. The Italian Ministry of Justice, in partnership with IRSIG, have received three acknowledgments of recognition for the innovative nature and high quality of training projects carried out for judicial personnel from the Italian Professional Trainers Association (AIF).
The Institute has been involved in training and tutorial activities of the Venice International University, which is sponsored by the CNR.
IRSIG's researchers also have a close relationship with universities. Quite often, they carried out seminars, workshops and university courses in comparative judicial systems, organization of the judiciary, organization and judicial behavior, organizational theory, public policy analysis.
IRSIG is also organizing short term stages for university students and short term placements for high school students.


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How much does having home-field advantage in college baseball – which means everything from sleeping in your own bed, to having a familiar commute to the ballpark, to playing in front of your home fans – actually matter when it comes to advancing in the postseason?
That's a question many fans will ponder after the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee announces on Monday, May 28, the 64 teams that qualify for the 2018 NCAA DI baseball tournament. Sixteen teams will host a four-team, double-elimination Regional, including the eight national seeds that will earn home-field advantage all the way to the College World Series, as long as they continue to win.
Hosting a Regional or Super Regional gives a college baseball team almost a 70 percent chance of advancing, so to answer the question posed above, home-field advantage does matter quite a lot.
We analyzed the last 10 years of the NCAA DI baseball tournament and laid out our key findings below in a breakdown of how having home-field advantage benefits teams in the postseason.
Note: We defined "home-field advantage" for the Regional round as a No. 1 seed that hosted a Regional in its home ballpark. We defined "home-field advantage" in the Super Regional round as a team that hosted the round at its home ballpark.
Some exceptions that we didn't count (with the host city in parentheses) include Arizona in 2008 (Ann Arbor, Mich.), North Carolina in 2008 (Cary, N.C.), Florida State in 2010 (Norwich, Conn.), Coastal Carolina in 2010 (Myrtle Beach, S.C.), Purdue in 2012 (Gary, Ind.), and UC Santa Barbara in 2015 (Lake Elsinore, Calif.). Exceptions for the Super Regional round include North Carolina in 2008, Coastal Carolina in 2010, and California in 2011.
WATCH: Who's punching their ticket to Omaha this year?
Eight of the last 10 national champions hosted at least one round in the NCAA tournament and five hosted both a Regional and Super Regional before winning the title. Fresno State in 2008 and Coastal Carolina in 2016 are the exceptions in the last decade that were able to reach Omaha and win the College World Series without the benefit of home-field advantage.


Sonia Bailey has been a Professional Reflexologist for many years.
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Sonia says she has been on a spiritual journey for 20 years and being exploring her natural healing abilities. She gives her courses with enormous enthusiasm, understand and humour. Participants come away with so many ideas, insights and possibilities.


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Conscientious real estate agency led by long-time locals to the area and top-producing real estate associates for over 16 years needed to revamp their offices in Surry Hills. The new office had to accommodate 30 staff members, all of whom needed their own workstation and 2 managers offices, corporate reception, a meeting room, an informal meeting area and a quite room for staff use.
Also needed were boardroom facilities for 30 staff with state of the art audio visual equipment, and video conferencing to match and communicate with their other office hub. Additionally, to make the space more liveable for the staff, a kitchen and social area for up to 10 staff members at any given time were created. Finally, a client interview area was required.
The scope was to create a space that could very comfortably accommodate the ever-growing team and make the working environment pleasant and inspiring. The office layout needed to be comfortable and modern, but also provide a strong correlation between the company values including staff well-being, happiness and productivity.


In this project, a rear twist beam axle was designed geometrically in CATIA and then was optimized for the locations of the hardpoints to have good handling performance in ADAMS/Car.
In this Project, a tracked robot was designed and analyzed in ADAMS/View without using ATV module. The robot had 1m length, 0.5m wide and six small rollers which were fixed. There were two larger pulleys at the ends which the rear one was a drive pulley.


IS IT A GOOD TIME TO LIST MY HOME?
The answer is YES, now's a great time to list your home. The listing inventory is at an all time low and the buyers who are out looking are ready to buy.
According to Fannie Mae's Home Purchase Sentiment Index, a survey of 1,000 Americans in January this is a great market to be in.
42% of Americans believe home prices will increase, a month-over-month uptick of 7 percentage points in January.
69% of Americans say they are not concerned about losing their job, a 1 percentage point increase from December 2016.
15% of Americans say now is a good time to sell, a 2 percentage point month-over-month increase.
15% of Americans who say their household income is significantly higher than it was 12 months ago, a month-over-month increase of 5 percentage points.
29% of Americans who say now is a good time to buy a home, a 3 percentage drop from December 2016 and a new survey low from May and September 2016.
These points show a favorable market for those considering listing their current homes. This makes it a Seller's Market; one in which the Seller is in control and likely to get top dollar.
I do advise sellers to not get too greedy. Even in this favorable market, there are still homes sitting on the market for long periods because the owners got greedy and overpriced them.
Listen to your Realtor® and price it properly.
Many people decide to wait for Spring and warmer weather to list their homes. That is a mistake, too, in the current market. The old saying to "strike while the iron is hot" should be modified to read "strike while the market is hot" for real estate.
In the spring lots of new listing will come on the market at once, giving the buyers too many alternatives to look at and potentially burying your home in the crowd. List now, so you will stand out in an un-crowded field.
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The Deerhound Jahresausstellung (German Breed Show) is an 19/ May/ 2018 in Tüttleben.
Good luck and fun for all.
Titel: Dt. Jug.-Ch. (DWZRV); Jub.Sg. 125 Jahre DWZRV; LS NRW(2017); LS Rheinl.(2017); Ned.
Maiden Islay´s | CMKU D/265/-16/16 | 07.01.2016 Titel: CZ Ch.
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Community for Life program aims to help seniors age at home
The Daily Record
Experts in aging from five sites in Maryland are joining together to launch a new state program to promote quality of life for people aging at home, with McDaniel College providing the expertise to guide and train leaders.
A McDaniel online training course began in January that will connect staff from five sites all over the state in creating the Community for Life program.
"This program is the first of its kind in the nation," said Maryland Department of Aging Secretary Rona E. Kramer. "Through partnership between Maryland government and the nonprofit community, we provide a grouping of reliable and professional services heretofore unavailable to seniors in an easy and manageable package that will help prevent falls, contractor fraud and isolation, while at the same time preserving their important assets, home and hard-earned savings."
Community for Life will connect people over 65 who are living at home with resources including a home and yard maintenance and repair network and transportation. The idea is to support people who want to age at home, and a concierge-like service offered by service navigators to connect it all together.
Diane Martin, director of The Center for the Study of Aging and an assistant professor of gerontology at McDaniel College, said that social engagement is one of the strongest influencers of cognitive and physical health later in life. Research shows people who aren't socially involved have worse health outcomes and earlier mortality rates.


You don't even understand how impossible this is, blogging after being away for this long.
I don't think i've ever taken a break this long before, and trust me, i never wanted to.
But recently a few people have let me know that they miss the blog, and that's really nice to hear.
And i am one of them! Although i miss posting more than reading. You know what i mean.
So the reason i haven't updated here in so long is pretty simple; no internet.
I have internet on my phone, but i've never been much of an iphone blogger, and using my phone for wifi is also expensive.
That hopefully explains the lack of email replies too, i hope. I don't really have time.
I hope some of you are following me on twitter and instagram at least, cause those are the only two things i update daily!
You know when you're in love and everything is just weird, and dreamlike?
The first couple of weeks here were like that.
I didn't even notice all the construction crap lying around, or the fact that everything was in boxes and my clothes were covered in paint.
Those first weeks were just so intense, and i was a little sad when the feeling slowly went away and got replaced by... everyday life?
But not quite, you know. I don't think our lives will ever be normal again. At least i hope they won't.
Although we're not going to Bauhaus at least twice a week like we used to (bad example maybe, as Allan is there right now), we're still up to our necks in renovations, and trying to run a half finished shop at the same time.
It's tough, and it's fun.
I am very proud of us for nearly finishing renovating a whole house, and shop, all by ourselves in just two months. If you could see the size of this place, and the amount of crap we have, you'd understand.
I've all but given up on trying to describe the last month and a half, so can we leave it at mostly magical with few average days in between? We go to the worlds best coffee place in the morning and have delicious coffee. It snows a lot, we walk the dog and go to flea markets. Allan tattoos a bit while i paint shelves or put up paintings. We spackle up walls or put up masking tape so we can paint. We find new ways to decorate, and we take on a million projects at a time. We rent movies at the 1 euro video store across the street and we go out to eat all the time, almost always bringing Lucifer with us, just because we can.
Oh, and we haven't had much alone time either lately. I believe we've had about 18 visitors since January 1st, but that's what happens when you move into a castle, and it's fine by me.
Life is very different here, and i am, honestly, happier than i've been in years.
Only sucky thing i can think of, besides the internet companies here being just beyond terrible, is that all the renovations did a number on my wrists and arms, and now i'm not allowed to work or lift heavy things... i cheat a bit, but don't tell the scary Chinese acupuncture lady that.
Seriously, the carpal tunnel thing does worry me, but hopefully it's fixable.
Ok, so i took a folder with 75 pictures of questionable quality and cut it down to somewhere around 60 (!), so don't forget to click the "read more" thingie.
Yeah, i hate the jump too, but i'm sure we can all agree that it's necessary in this case!
Sorry this isn't the eloquent, triumphant return to blogging that i'd been hoping for, i guess i'm not quite there yet.
Let's hope we get internet soon, so i don't have to delete the word "blogger" from all my online bios altogether.


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The news that Swiss racing motorcycle manufacturer Suter Racing will make its debut at the 2016 Isle of Man TT Races with its Suter MMX 500, a 580cc two-stroke engined machine, will evoke memories of the past when it lines up on Glencrutchery Road for the Superbike and Senior TT Races.
The 500cc two-strokes, as they did across the world, dominated at the TT in the 1970s and 1980s, winning countless races and setting lap records alike. As well as the 500cc Senior race, the machines also regularly came out on top in the Classic race – riders like John Williams, Tom Herron, Mike Hailwood, Graeme Crosby, Mick Grant, Joey Dunlop and Rob McElnea were all victorious during this golden era.
Williams, Grant, Pat Hennen, Dunlop and Steve Cull all set outright lap records on either Suzuki, Kawasaki or Honda machinery with Steve Cull the last to do so on a two-stroke, his lap of 119.08mph set on a 500cc RS Honda in 1988 and the first in excess of 119mph.
However, as the 1980's progressed, the 500s went in the opposite direction as racing became more and more four-stroke orientated. The 500cc World Championship may have lasted until 2001 but it disappeared from the domestic scene long before that with a similar occurrence happening at the TT. Indeed, to find the last win by a 500cc machine at the TT, you have to go all the way back to the 1987 Senior race when Dunlop took his three cylinder Honda to victory in a wet and dismal Senior race.
However, the last podium finishes were slightly more recent with Jim Moodie taking second place behind Phillip McCallen in the 1997 Senior and Ian Lougher claiming third in the same race in 1999. Those last few years of the 1990s saw a number of 500cc GP two-strokes on the grid, primarily the NSR500 V-twin in the hands of Moodie, Lougher and John McGuinness. Dunlop also practiced on one, but never raced, whilst Nigel Davies campaigned a YZR500 Harris Yamaha.
The lightweight machine was slightly down on top speed to the 750cc Honda RC45's and Kawasaki ZX-R 750s but was expected to represent a firm challenge to the four strokes due to its nimbleness through the multitude of bends and corners. The reality was it came up just short.
Moodie led for a while in 1997 but ultimately lost out by 8.7s and that's the closest the two-strokes from that era got. The Scot's fastest lap was 121.80 and he went slightly quicker in 1998 at 121.92mph before retiring whilst McGuinness also broke the 121mph mark, his best finish being seventh in the 1999 Senior.
Lougher had a strong showing in both 1998 and 1999, finishing third in the aforementioned 1999 Senior race. His best lap then was 122.93mph which remained the fastest two-stroke lap ever around the 37.73-mile Mountain Course until Bruce Anstey's record breaking feats at the last two Classic TT events in 2014 and 2015. Lougher was almost a minute behind race winner David Jefferies though in that 1999 race.
What does the Suter MMX 500 have to offer?
The Suter MMX 500 is the brain child of former 250cc Grand Prix rider Eskil Suter and is complete with all the expected modern day technology including electronic fuel injection and counter-rotating crankshafts.
The Austrian's company, Suter Racing Technology, has a strong record behind him and won't be coming to the TT as a bit part gesture. Winning will almost certainly be out of the equation but all concerned will be keen to put on the best possible show.
Suter developed, in cooperation with Swissauto, the MuZ 500cc bike which Dutchman Jurgen van der Goorbergh took to pole positions in the premier class and he was also responsible for the design and development of the Foggy Petronas FP1 900cc three cylinder machine that competed in the World Superbike Championship from 2002 until 2005.
More recently, they have provided a chassis to the 600cc Moto 2 class claiming three consecutive manufacturer's Championships between 2010 and 2012 with Marc Marquez giving them first rider's title in 2012. It's clear Suter knows what he's doing when it comes to manufacturing motorbikes.
The TT, of course, is a whole different proposition and the Mountain Course the ultimate acid test. Neither Suter nor rider Lougher, who has come out of retirement just to race the bike, will be undertaking the task though without having the confidence that the bike will be up to the task and able to perform. Just how well the bike performs will all become clear in those first two weeks of June but their benchmark should ultimately be Anstey's lap of 126.261mph set on the Padgetts YZR500 Yamaha.
Are you excited to witness the return of Suter Racing? Will it reach the podium?