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Can Gray Water Filtration Systems Save Football? Municipal water supplies across the country are threatened by dropping aquafer levels, overdevelopment in dry zones, aging infrastructure and many more issues. Even in areas with abundant rainfall and large natural water supplies, municipalities are realizing that the current rate of growth in water usage is unsustainable in the future. What does that mean for football? Without a plentiful fresh water supply, landscaping cannot be maintained and the demand from thousands of fans for flushing toilets could exceed available supplies at some point in the future. Someday, football games could be cancelled for lack of fresh water! The challenge is to find ways to reduce the demand on municipal supplies now while there is still time for local resources to recharge. Municipalities are raising water rates, (doubling them in some communities!), insisting on the use of high-efficient fixtures and waterefficient landscaping, and supporting a new industry known as "Water Harvesting". That includes rainwater harvesting, condensate harvesting and even reusing water onsite in a process known as gray water harvesting. A graywater filtration system captures "gently used" water from showers, sinks and other light processes and then cleans it up to make it useful in replacing drinking water in non-potable uses like toilet flushing and irrigation – ideal for a football stadium. A football stadium committed to gray water reuse with a graywater filtration system can save hundreds of thousands - or millions of gallons - of drinking water every year, and that might just save the day! Apart from adopting water use reduction strategies and other measures, stadiums are also tracking the consumption of water game-by-game and month-by-month to know how much water they are currently using and to learn how much it is costing to them. These stats are being recorded, options are being considered, and water reduction strategies are being put into place. Strategies to Save the Game: •
Graywater harvesting systems, supported by graywater filtration systems, are being installed at football stadiums across the world. The treated graywater is used to flush toilets, water turf, pressure wash stands and supply evaporative cooling systems. In areas with abundant rainfall, rainwater is collected from roofs and stored underground in large cisterns. Commercial rainwater harvesting systems draw from the cisterns and treat the water to a level safe for reuse in watering turf or flushing toilet fixtures.
Apart from adopting a graywater filtration system, the traditional toilets at the stadiums are being replaced with high-efficiency toilets that are using lesser water per flush.
Restroom fixtures, as well as sensor-controlled faucets, are helping these stadiums to reduce the consumption of extra water.
The graywater filtration system has been a breakthrough in the method of water conservation in the stadiums all across the world.
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Dieses Tool hilft, die Vorgänge in Windows Explorer automatisch zu verfolgen / zu überwachen und aufzuzeichnen.
Windows Explorer Tracker 2.0 war am 15. Mai 2018! als Giveaway verfügbar!
Windows Explorer Tracker wird verwendet, um die Vorgänge in Windows Explorer automatisch zu verfolgen / zu überwachen und aufzuzeichnen.
Unterstützt Remote-Host-Tracking über zugeordnete Netzlaufwerke.
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Hope that makes it clearer for anyone else who couldn't understand the purpose of this.
I was puzzled by what this actually DOES, so I checked on Softpedia (as suggested by #2) They say: **** Windows Explorer Tracker is a utility designed to record the activity on all drives along with the dates and names of the completed actions. It records everything neatly Regardless of whether you create, rename, insert a new file or delete a certain folder accidentally, you can find all the information related to it within the program's history log. In addition to tracking the action, the app also records the date and time it was finished. Consequentially, there would not be any shadow of a doubt regarding who made modifications and what operations were carried out. This applies to your local drives, LAN and other remote storage devices mapped. A noteworthy feature is that the utility allows you to specify a certain time frame for recording. **** Hope that makes it clearer for anyone else who couldn't understand the purpose of this.
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THANK YOU, TriSun for including that specific information! I have asked GOTD to make that information mandatory to avoid people having to ask every time it is not stated.
That said, I had to make this post just to acknowledge the above but I won't be downloading this as I don't really see a need for it on my personal laptop. However, thanks for the offer to both TriSun and the GOTD team.
"Please note: Single License (1 PC) (Lifetime License WITHOUT Upgrades) is included in this version" THANK YOU, TriSun for including that specific information! I have asked GOTD to make that information mandatory to avoid people having to ask every time it is not stated. That said, I had to make this post just to acknowledge the above but I won't be downloading this as I don't really see a need for it on my personal laptop. However, thanks for the offer to both TriSun and the GOTD team.
1) Block it from outgoing in your firewall! If you don't, there is all your data (passwords, etc) for anyone to find-easily! A hacker would have all their digging done for them!
2) Purge your history frequently, or your hard drive will fill pretty quickly with a massive history file!
Other than these two things, it is definitely a keeper. Tanx gotd. Good one for a change.
Dl'd/installed/registered w/o issues.Nifty little program if one needs to track just where a foobar may have occurred. Two things I would seriously recommend though: 1) Block it from outgoing in your firewall! If you don't, there is all your data (passwords, etc) for anyone to find-easily! A hacker would have all their digging done for them! 2) Purge your history frequently, or your hard drive will fill pretty quickly with a massive history file! Other than these two things, it is definitely a keeper. Tanx gotd. Good one for a change.
Well, I wasn't really sure what this is all about until reading the third party Softpedia review on their home page. Looks like a potentially useful little utility.
Easy download and register. Straightforward app. And....lifetime license!
This utility looks like it may be useful for a business to be able to monitor workers' activity. I can't see the benefit for home users to know exactly which files or folders were opened and when. Can anyone shed light on this, please?


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Guðný Árnadóttir (Islandia, 4 de agosto de 2000) es una futbolista islandesa. Juega como defensa y actualmente milita en el A. C. Milan de la Serie A de Italia. Es internacional con la Selección islandesa.

Trayectoria
Árnadóttir debutó en 2015 con el FH, club de la ciudad de Hafnarfjörður, donde permaneció tres temporadas. En 2019 fichó por el Valur Reykjavík, logrando la Úrvalsdeild (la máxima liga de fútbol femenino en Islandia). En diciembre de 2020 fue transferida al Milan italiano, que la cedió a otro equipo de la Serie A, el Napoli.

Selección nacional
Es internacional con la Selección femenina de fútbol de Islandia, en la que ha jugado en 8 ocasiones.

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 Perfil y estadísticas en la UEFA
 Perfil y estadísticas en la Federación de Fútbol de Islandia
 Perfil y estadísticas en Soccerway
 Perfil y estadísticas en calcio.com

Futbolistas de la selección femenina de fútbol de Islandia
Futbolistas de la Associazione Calcio Milan (femenino)
Futbolistas del SSD Napoli Femminile
Futbolistas del Valur Reykjavík (femenino)

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La Casa de Velasco es un edificio histórico situado en pleno centro de Santiago de Chile, en la esquina norte de la intersección de las calles Santo Domingo y Mac Iver. Se trata de una casa del siglo XVII, de estilo colonial, que dispone de tres patios y dos pisos.

Historia
En 1556, el Cabildo de Santiago le entrega el terreno donde hoy se levanta dicha estructura al conquistador Esteban Hernández. Con los años el inmueble cambia de propietarios y hacia 1730 Juan de Abaitúa expande la casa mediante la construcción de un caserón de adobe y tejas. A comienzos del siglo XIX, José Antonio Rodríguez Aldea realiza otras modificaciones y, uno de sus últimos propietarios, José María Velasco sería quien le heredaría el nombre a la construcción, ya que sus hijos transformarían dicha casa en un hito cultural de Santiago de Chile. Los Velasco no tuvieron hijos y hacia 1928, el primer patio de la casa fue comprado por la Compañía Chilena de Electricidad, empresa que encargaría al arquitecto Víctor Heal la restauración y remodelación del recinto, agregándole el balcón a lo largo de la fachada.

En 1981, según decreto 6006 del Ministerio de Educación Pública de Chile, la casa de los Velasco fue declarada Monumento Histórico. La casa quedó afectada por el terremoto de 1985 y fue tomada en comodato en 1990 por el senador Gabriel Valdés, quien contrató a los arquitectos Juan Echeñique y José Cruz Ovalle para su recuperación integral. El Senado de Chile la ocupó para su presidencia hasta 2001, año en que fue cedida como sede del Tribunal Constitucional, que la ocupó hasta 2012.

El 20 de diciembre de 2016 el gobierno de Chile, en la figura del Ministerio de Educación, mediante decreto 363 fijó los límites de dicho inmueble histórico para así ayudar a su conservación ante la expansión de nuevas construcciones en el casco central de Santiago de Chile.

Desde marzo de 2019 la casa alberga la sede de la Fundación Artesanías de Chile, dependiente de la Presidencia de la República. En marzo de 2022 abrió sus puertas la «Casa Museo Artesanías de Chile» en la Casa de Velasco, a cargo de la fundación y que está destinada a difundir la colección patrimonial de la organización y presentar las obras de artesanos nacionales.

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  en Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales
 Casa llamada de Velasco en Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales

Monumentos Históricos de la Región Metropolitana de Santiago
Arquitectura de Chile del siglo XVII
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Your letter of the 10th dear Mary reached me yesterday. I can well imagine the grief at Shirley upon the arrival of the lifeless body of its gallant Son.1 He was a noble youth, as faithful to his God as to his Country. Would that we had a thousand like him! But his Father in Heaven has taken him to himself. I know it was done in mercy & kindness to him & we should rejoice who love him. Still the pang of parting is bitter, & the loss of such a one to the Country is great. For ourselves & our Country I grieve. Give my affectionate sympathy to my dear Cousins Hill & Mary & tell them I mingle my tears with theirs at their deep affliction.
1. Lee is referring to Bernard Hill Carter (1835-1863), the son of Hill Carter (1796-1875) and Mary Braxton Randolph Carter (1800-1864). He served as a lieutenant in a Charles City cavalry unit and was killed at Chancellorsville. He is buried on the grounds at Shirley plantation.
2. George Washington Stuart (1838-1863) was born at "Chantilly" in Fairfax County. His father was Charles Calvert Stuart, the son of Dr. David Stuart of Ossian Hall. Dr. Stuart married the widow of John Parke Custis, the stepson of George Washington. Stuart attended the University of Virginia, where he graduated in 1859. He was known to be delicate in his health, nevertheless, before the war, he traveled to Texas, where he bought a cattle ranch near San Antonio. When the war broke out, he returned to Virginia and joined the 1st Rockbridge artillery. He fought with Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley and in 1862, he was taken ill with typhoid fever. He later returned to his unit and was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville.
3. Hamiltons Crossing, Virginia, is located to the southeast of downtown Fredericksburg. It was the location of the Confederacy's extreme right flank during the battle of 1862 December 13.
4. Jane Hamilton Marye (1823-1913) was married to John Mayre (1798-1868). They married in July of 1862. Marye's first wife was Anna Marie Burton (1796-1858). Jane was the youngest child of twelve children born to George Hamilton (1773-1858), who owned "Forest Hill," and Maria Slaughter (1783-1849).


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The untold story of WWE superstar The Undertaker will be revealed in a new graphic novel
The deadman. The Phenom, the American Badass, the original boogie monster of Vinny Mac's house of smacks. You think of the WWE, and no other superstar in the history of that sports entertainment vehicle has ever managed to rise above the legend and the mystery of the Undertaker. Sometimes a ghoulish mortician and other times a ferryman who carries souls to the afterlife via a Tombstone Piledriver, the Undertaker is a nigh-unstoppable force of carnage that many a superstar has failed to best.
Who was the Undertaker before he made his way to a WWE ring though? What strange forces created the phenom of Death Valley, that would also shape the rise of his brother Kane along the way? That's the question that Boom! Studios wants to answer later this year, with WWE: Undertaker. An origin story of the walking deadman, the original graphic novel will chronicle his rise from obscurity to main eventer at Wrestlemania. "I was 12 years old in 1990 when Undertaker debuted in WWE, and from the moment I saw him, he was my guy," writer Chad Dundas said in a press statement.
I responded immediately, not only to his obvious physical attributes, but the character development and storytelling that made him such a unique figure in the WWE landscape.
"I'm so happy that I was chosen to draw this story for so many reasons," artist Rodrigo Lorenzo added.
Since I was a kid, Undertaker has been my favorite WWE Superstar and it's flattering that BOOM! Studios and WWE chose me to bring the legend of the Undertaker to life in their first original graphic novel.
"There's only one 'Phenom' in the history of WWE, so when we were considering whose story to tell in the first WWE original graphic novel, there was only one answer: Undertaker," said Eric Harburn, Editor, BOOM! Studios. The graphic novel will debut this October, but until then you'll have to REST…IN…PEACE with these early sketches of the mythic wrassler from Lorenzo's pencil.
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Have you been in a guild raid team before? Yes i have also was a RL recently until it disbanded Please tell us about your raiding experience: Started off in WOTLK warrior tank on horde side, then moved to Lightbringer was MT there with warrior stopped playing for 2years came back in WOD and started raiding in HM then BRF was the raid leader then did quit well until we lost a bunch of players.
Why do you want to leave your last guild? Joined the remaining raid team but doesn't feel like i fit at all. Last night was the last straw when someone was away for 4weeks comes back and gets my tier piece and when i question it i just get told they have been raiding together for long time.
Can you meet the requirement of three nights a week of raiding? Yes with the slight exception of every 3rd Monday of the month i have to work late other then that no problem.
How did you find out about Kraken? First heard from Moonspel and Bullmic when they moved a month or so ago, also been looking on WowProgress for possibilities saw one of your members post in trade chat you were looking for a hunter.
Thank you for making the time to apply. We will get back to you as soon as we can. If you have any questions.please feel free to ask here or in-game!
Hey fellow hunter, just read your application, will try to get in touch with our councilers. One quick question: what is the main reason you change from DK to hunter?
(08-14-2015, 08:33 PM)Tutifruty Wrote: Hey fellow hunter, just read your application, will try to get in touch with our councilers. One quick question: what is the main reason you change from DK to hunter?
Hi, i just saw you were looking for a hunter : if i can stay on the DK i wouldnt mind as im a tank by heart, but lately have been asked to DPS so having fun with that as well.
Aloha, are you online tonight? We can have a little hunter chat and what possibilities we have in guild.


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Malka Leifer extradition delayed as Israeli court seeks psychiatric report on alleged paedophile
News National Malka Leifer extradition delayed as Israeli court seeks psychiatric report on alleged paedophile
This was the 57th time Malka Leifer's case came before an Israeli court since her 2014 arrest. Photo: ABC
A court in Israel has further delayed the extradition of a former Melbourne school principal accused of sexually assaulting her pupils.
The Jerusalem District Court has ordered an expert panel of psychiatrists to assess Malka Leifer to see if she is mentally fit to be extradited to Australia.
Victoria Police has charged the former principal of the Adass Israel School with 74 counts of child sexual assault.
Malka Leifer left Melbourne in the middle of the night when the allegations against her surfaced in 2008.
She is in jail in Israel after private investigators obtained video of her living normally in an orthodox Jewish settlement, shopping and socialising, in contrast to her defence team's submission to the courts that she was catatonic and unable to leave her home.
The decision follows dozens of prior psychiatric assessments and allegations of political interference aimed at blocking Ms Leifer's extradition.
One of Malka Leifer's alleged victims, Nicole Meyer, described the judge's decision as a great disappointment.
Nicole Meyer said victims were hoping the extradition process would begin. Photo: ABC
"We're feeling very let down today from the decision that's been handed down by the courts," she said.
"We were expecting a much more positive outcome and we were really hoping that the extradition process would begin today."
Israel Police have recommended the country's Deputy Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman be indicted for pressuring psychiatrists to find Malka Leifer was unfit to be extradited, because she is from the same orthodox Jewish sect as him.
The hearing was the 57th time the case has come before Israel's courts since Malka Leifer was arrested in 2014 and many supporters of the alleged victims attended court in Jerusalem.
"This is a very disappointing decision. The courageous victims … have been waiting for years for this day, for justice," victims' rights campaigner Manny Waks said outside court.
Leifer is in jail after private investigators obtained video of her living normally in an orthodox Jewish settlement despite her defence team's claim she was catatonic and unable to leave her home.
"The Australian community is awaiting the outcome of this decision and what we are seeing is the continuation of a farcical situation."
The court will hear more arguments next month about who will sit on the panel, before the psychiatrists submit a final report on Ms Leifer's mental fitness on December 10.
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During undergraduate studies in biomedical engineering in the 1980s, I developed a passion for brain function and disorders, working on analysis of evoked potential brain activity signals. I then worked as a medical writer for the Alzheimer's Association in Chicago, where I learned about the devastating effects of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders on patients and families, as well as society. During medical school at University of Illinois, I began doing wet lab research on brain plasticity in rats with Drs. Theresa Jones and Bill Greenough, learning how the brain adapts in many ways to injury or as a result of various types of environmental factors including skill learning. After that, I did research at Rush Medical Center in Chicago with Drs. Frank Morrell and Leyla deToledo-Morrell on the use of MRI to measure brain anatomy in living individuals and identify abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, and changes in brain anatomy associated with normal aging. Working in their lab in the mid 1990s, Irina Goncharova and I developed a new protocol for measuring the volume of the entorhinal cortex which we used to identify atrophy in mild cognitive impairment that predicted a diagnosis of AD. We also investigated the relationship of entorhinal and hippocampal volume to memory performance, demonstrating that the amount of shrinkage of these critical structures is related to the degree of memory impairment in a number of specific ways.
During neurology residency at Mass General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital, I began working with Marilyn Albert, Reisa Sperling, Deborah Blacker, Brad Hyman, Bruce Fischl, and others to investigate brain function in aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease. After neurology training and behavioral neurology fellowship under Kirk Daffner's mentorship, I continued research on brain function and structure with a K23 Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging, in collaboration with investigators in the MGH Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, Radiology, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, as well as Harvard University Dept of Psychology.
This foundation enabled me to develop my own laboratory at MGH in 2003, which is closely connected with the Martinos Imaging Center and the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and has been generously supported over the years by funding from the NIA, NINDS, NIMH, Alzheimer's Association, and the Krupp Foundation as well as other private philanthropists. Much of this work is focused on understanding aspects of normal brain anatomy and function and how these relate to memory, language, social and emotional function, and other abilities. In addition, some of these efforts are aimed at developing markers that can be used to assist in making a diagnosis of AD, PPA, FTD, and related disorders or in monitoring progression of these diseases over time. This and related work is ongoing as described on other pages.
Since 2005, I have been working intensively on Frontotemporal Dementia, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, and other less common neurodegenerative diseases, which led me to found the MGH Primary Progressive Aphasia Program in 2007 and the MGH Frontotemporal Disorders Unit in 2008, with the generous collaborative support of the Massachusetts ADRC, the MGH Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology Unit, the MGH Speech and Language Pathology Department, and other affiliated groups.
I was proud to win the American Academy of Neurology's Norman Geschwind Award in Behavioral Neurology in 2013, and to receive an honorable mention for the 2014 Schwartz Center Compassionate Care Award.
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Brad Dickerson, M.D., is the Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit and Neuroimaging Lab in Boston. He holds the Tom Rickles Chair in Progressive Aphasia Research, and is a behavioral neurologist in the MGH Memory Disorders Unit and Leader of the Neuroimaging Core of the MGH Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. He is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Dickerson runs a busy weekly clinic caring for patients with various forms of cognitive impairment and dementia, as well as providing training for clinical and research fellows. His research employs quantitative structural, functional, and molecular neuroimaging techniques, in addition to quantitative behavioral assessments, to investigate dementias as well as normal aging. He has published more than 130 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as many book chapters, and has edited two books on dementia. He is active in teaching, leading an annual course on Cognitive Neurology at the American Academy of Neurology and co-directing the annual Harvard Dementia Course. He is Chair of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Association and is a member of the medical advisory council of the national Association for FTD. He has won a number of awards, including the American Academy of Neurology's Norman Geschwind Award in Behavioral Neurology.


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Colostomy for Hirschsprung Disease is a topic covered in the Pediatric Surgery NaT.
Chen, Mike, et al. "Colostomy for Hirschsprung Disease." Pediatric Surgery NaT, American Pediatric Surgical Association, 2016. APSA Webapp, www.pedsurglibrary.com/apsa/view/Pediatric-Surgery-NaT/829181/all/Colostomy_for_Hirschsprung_Disease.
Chen M, Zigman A, Gosain A. Colostomy for Hirschsprung Disease. In: Waldhausen J, Powell D, Hirschl R, eds. Pediatric Surgery NaT. American Pediatric Surgical Association; 2016. https://www.pedsurglibrary.com/apsa/view/Pediatric-Surgery-NaT/829181/all/Colostomy_for_Hirschsprung_Disease. Accessed April 21, 2019.
Chen M, Zigman A, Gosain A. Colostomy for Hirschsprung Disease [Internet]. In: Waldhausen J, Powell D, Hirschl R, editors. Pediatric Surgery NaT. American Pediatric Surgical Association; 2016. [cited 2019 April 21]. Available from: https://www.pedsurglibrary.com/apsa/view/Pediatric-Surgery-NaT/829181/all/Colostomy_for_Hirschsprung_Disease.


Barbarians are wild savage humans who roam the Baladus Plains and other frontier areas of Derlith. They are tribal in nature, and are led by a barbarian chief or king usually. Humans in civilized areas often do not understand barbarians, and vice versa, so there are usually cool relations between them. Barbarians do not understand magic not related to battle enhancement or healing, so as a result they usually don't trust mages. All barbarian warriors are berserkers, and all barbarian clerics worship the god Ares, god of war, bloodlust, and battle. Blood, battle, tribal honor, and steel are all a barbarian understands or cares about. Barbarians are exceptionally large humans, occasionally over 7 feet in height. They are extremely robust in stature. Their savage nature causes them to be less intelligent due to ignorance, however.


New St. Joseph Baltimore Catechism, No. 2, over two years.
The New St. Joseph Baltimore Catechism, No. 2 worktext teaches religion, logical constructs, Scripture, prayers, etc., and models formal grammar.
We use this text for two years. Progress through it in 20-minute periods, three to five days per week.
Read aloud all Scripture—the strength of this program this year (besides the formal grammar and logic modeled); this may take weeks for some lessons. Take the time—it's worth it!
Do the end-of-chapter discussion questions aloud, but have the student do the rest of the exercises independently after discussion of the lesson.


The Disney Magic That Blew My Mind (It Might Surprise You!) | Fleming Consulting & Co.
Last week we took the kids to Disney in Florida for a surprise getaway before they went back to school. It was my first time visiting Disney in the past 30 years, and I was especially interested after the last 10 years or so of being exposed to countless articles and books about the Disney customer experience. I wanted to see if Disney still "had it." Was is still happiest place on earth? Was the customer experience all it's cracked up to be?
I've only been home for 24 hours, and I'm still collecting my thoughts, but there was one part of the experience that stood out to me.
Disney was packed. The crowds were insane and the place was a total zoo. Thousands of people battled their way into the parks each day. Whatever else I saw, it was apparent that Disney had the "How to attract customers" part down pat!
As we made our way from one ride to the next, each ride or attraction had its own designated "stroller parking area" for the hundreds of strollers being used to push around tired, often cranky, overstimulated kids. There were single strollers, small umbrella strollers, jogging strollers, double strollers and even triple strollers for those brave families with three young children.
A Disney "cast member" would quickly direct you to the stroller parking and there your stroller would sit amongst hundreds of others until the three to five-minute ride was complete.
Here's the most magical part. Whenever you came back to retrieve your stroller, sometime only minutes later, someone or some group of people had miraculously and perfectly organized all the strollers.
They were all lined up perfectly.
The jumbled mess of stroller mayhem was always returned to a state of pure calm.
While the kids were enamored with Goofy and Mickey, to my wife and I this was the moment of real magic.
We experienced the same thing at few of the shows we saw inside the park. A cast member would direct us to park the stroller in a certain area, and upon exiting the strollers would all be neatly organized, turned around, facing the exit.
It was a lot of work, and it was done every time, without fail. Why bother?
If there's one big thing I took away from Disney again and again, it's that they've carefully thought through every aspect of the customer experience–and they continue to do so. Make no mistake, they've done this for a reason with strategic intent. They've done it to extract more dollars from the pockets of parents. Plain and simple.
Imagine returning to the sea of strollers and having to spend the next 10-20 minutes looking for your stroller. I always found ours in about 15-30 seconds, making me happier and far more willing to open my wallet to appease the customer Disney is really catering to. The customer who was waiting for me at the gift shop. That customer, of course, who is my kid.
The lesson here is this. Disney understands who their real customers are and what parts of the experience could create friction. When you have friction, you reduce the chances of the customer willing to buy the first time, the second time or the twelfth time.
What parts of your customer experience create friction and resistance for your customers making it harder for them to buy from you? We've talked many times about businesses who make it hard to take money.
I once heard a business expert claim that Disney in Florida generates more revenue per person in a single day than the city of Las Vegas. They can do this because they continue to look for every single point of friction and continues to ask themselves, "What can we do here to make this part of the experience easier for our customers? How can we make it easier for our customers to buy?" That's a question you should all be asking again and again and again.
The "easy" thing to do, the thing most companies would have done, would be to simply designate a stroller area, have the parents dump the strollers in that area and find them later. It would be cheaper, take less labor and time from their employees, and nobody would expect anything different.
But somewhere, someone recognized that this impacted the sale. It created more stress and more frustration for their customers. It was a small enough impact that making the process more seamless would generate more revenue. The answer was simple. Spend 2-3 minutes and organize the strollers. Designate an employee whose sole job is to organize the strollers. It's a small detail that matters. It's ALWAYS the small details that matter.
Your Challenge For This Week: Look at your own customer experience.
What areas of your customer's experience might be causing friction and resistance and impacting the first sale or the third sale?
Where could a few minutes of extra work have a dramatic impact on your business and your customer's buying process?
Where might you need more people or additional resources to create a better and more seamless experience?
This is the type of thing that matters. It's simple stuff, and it's a small world after all.


If I ever get so old that I can't remember much, I hope I never forget the sound of your deep sleep breathing as I stare at the two banana moons on your ceiling. Oh, how I cherish our good night chats when you ask me all the tricky questions that I don't quite know how to answer. You see, my mom brain stops working at this time of night when I lay beside you, but my mama's heart tries its hardest to remember every little thing.
You and your big brothers make me so proud. Every single day. Your tender, adventurous spirits teach me how to love without limits and laugh with pure open mouth joy. The weight of taking good care of you guides me to set boundaries to protect you, life's most precious gifts. It's an enormous responsibility for your Dad and I. Fortunately, it's a job that comes with quite a few perks.
You train me to be strong and confident and humble and weak. Your enormous eyes and beautiful freckles capture and remind me of such endless beauty and never ceasing wonder. That of a creator whose love cannot be denied. I'm a better person because of you. I'm able to experience the world through three different sets of eyes. Six gigantic ones, thick lashed and bleached out on the tips. All of your beautiful brown eyes looking out at the world and up at me. One day, I suppose, I will be looking up at you.
I'm grateful. I'm humbled. I'm mesmerized. I'm usually overwhelmed. Thank you for being my boys. I'm pretty sure I'm the luckiest mom on the planet. Especially the planet inside your rooms. The one with the blue or green ceiling stars and two banana moons.
As we sit together in the waiting room, I hand him my wedding rings. It's our pre-surgery ritual of sorts. He delicately slips them onto his pinkie finger. Well, not really, he shoves them down over his knobby knuckle. His fingers are strong and wider than mine, probably from playing all of the instruments.
He will proudly wear my wedding rings as I fall into an anesthesia-induced sleep. He will wait and pace and drink bad coffee and then wait some more for the surgeon to be done. He will anxiously wait for me to come to the recovery room.
Over the years, he has unexpectedly become an expert hospital cafeteria food critic. He has gotten lost in far too many hospital hallways. He has spent hours upon hours in the waiting room. And I know he would do it all over again.
He would choose me. Complicated old me. He would marry me all over again tomorrow.
I slowly open my eyes. I'm confused. And sleepy. He is there. I relax and close them again because I still feel so sleepy. I'm awake. Again. I'm hurting. So badly. He quickly gets the nurse. I hear him talking to her. He knows I'm not one to complain. He knows me. He knows that I need more pain medicine.
In a different way than me.
He won't leave me. He stays right beside me in all of the tiny hospital rooms. He holds my hand. Or he rests his arm gently on the bed because he doesn't want to hurt my fragile body.
This is hard. This is selfless. This is not me dancing in a silk wedding dress. This is me writhing in pain in an oversized unisex hospital gown. It seems that there is nothing in this for him.
I've lived long enough to know that this kind of love is rare.
This is a small glimpse of my husband's love for me.
When I'm more alert and my pain is not controlling my mind, I tell him that he can go. He doesn't want to but I need him to make sure our kids are doing okay too. He is pulled in a million different directions but he manages to handle the uncertainty, the chaos, and the unfairness of it all with an unearthly amount of patience, and the most delicate form of kindness and grace. Gut-wrenching grace. I love him every day of the week but the days I spend in the hospital and in recovery, I somehow love him so much more.
He fills me up when I am empty. Tired. Worn out and in too much pain to be mad. When all of my dignity has been scattered throughout that hospital, he searches patiently and always finds it. Then, he secretly delivers it back to me without making a big scene.
I can try but his faithfulness and his love for me is hard to describe in words. I feel it. He carries me through, somehow without ever needing to lift my aching body.
Could the greatest gift to our marriage be this never-stopping, forever humbling, life-altering, soul-shaking disease? I don't know. It's probably not fair for me to answer for the both of us.
I'm not the one wearing the pinkie wedding rings.
What I do know is that God has these sneaky beautiful soul-capturing ways to show his love and tenderness through the worst and most unfair situations. Failed surgeries. Complications. Loss. Pain. Uncertainty. But yet, Hope with a capital "H" has taught us how to be honest, forgiving, humble, patient and ever grateful for the days we get to spend together.
Fourteen years of marriage. Together. A twisting, turning, chaotic, unpredictable, beautiful and hard journey that we have learned to embrace together.
I'm forever grateful and proud of the husband he is. I'm honored that he is willing to wear my wedding rings on the days when I can't.
Oh, how I love you, Cory. The morst. To the moon and back. To infinity and beyond. A million billion.


Ogunquit is well known for its beach and Marginal Way. However, we have a variety of public parks, from playgrounds and ball fields, to picnic-perfect grassy knolls, to hiking trails. We even have a park for our canine companions. Learn more about Ogunquit's Public Parks. This "Kids Guide to the Marginal Way" can be downloaded and printed to prepare your family for your visit, and for activities during your visit to our most popular park in Ogunquit.


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import akka.actor.ActorRef;
import akka.actor.ActorSelection;
import akka.actor.ActorSystem;
import akka.actor.Props;
import akka.japi.Creator;
import org.junit.Test;
import scala.concurrent.Await;
import scala.concurrent.duration.Duration;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class SimpleActorTest {

    @Test
    public void testActor() throws Exception {
        ActorSystem system = ActorSystem.create("MySystem");
        ActorRef myActor = system.actorOf(
                Props.create(SimpleActorJava.class),
                "simpleActorJava");

        System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName());
        myActor.tell("Bueno!", system.deadLetters());
        Thread.sleep(10000);
        Await.result(system.terminate(),
                Duration.apply(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS));
    }

    @Test
    public void testActorSelection() throws Exception {
        ActorSystem system = ActorSystem.create("MySystem");
        system.actorOf(
                Props.create(SimpleActorJava.class),
                "simpleActorJava");

        Thread.sleep(2000);

        System.out.println
                (Thread.currentThread().getName());

        ActorSelection myActor =
                system.actorSelection
                        ("akka://MySystem/user/simpleActorJava");

        myActor.tell("Bueno!", system.deadLetters());
        Thread.sleep(4000);
        Await.result(system.terminate(), Duration.apply(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS));
    }
}

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Interested in what's happening down at Princess Elisabeth? News from the field are posted here regularily to keep you updated about what is going on during the various seasons.
BELARE 10 leader Alain Hubert recounts finishing the technical facilities and garage ahead of schedule, and thanks the team who has made everything possible.
The Toyota Hiluxes go on their first field trip, the last of the containers are brought from the coast, and preparations are made for installing instruments in the geomagnetic observatory.
Around the time the Princess Elisabeth station crew were unloading the Mary Arctica, a 70 km2 iceberg calved off of the King Baudouin Ice Shelf, just 40 km away from Breid Bay.
The Princess Elisabeth team gets a surprise visit from a number of German VIPs, including two ministers, a member of the Bundestag, and AWI senior staff.


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FIRE > Resources > FIRE's Spotlight Database > Schools > University of North Carolina School of the Arts
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Thank University of North Carolina School of the Arts for its commitment to free speech.
Speech Code Rating
University of North Carolina School of the Arts has been given the speech code rating Green. Green light institutions are those colleges and universities whose policies nominally protect free speech. Read more
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College Handbook: Student Code of Conduct- Acts of Harm
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Bullying Policies
Bullying/Cyberbullying: Engaging in repeated or aggressive behaviors meant to intimidate, intentionally harm, control, or seek to control another person or persons physically, mentally, or emotionally. Examples include, but are not limited to: spreading rumors, teasing, playing trick/pranks, intentionally embarrassi... Read More
College Handbook: Student Code of Conduct- Harassment, intimidation, threats, or coercion
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
General Harassment– Engaging in conduct directed toward a particular individual or identifiable group of individuals through any action, method, device, or means which is so severe or pervasive, and objectively offensive, that it unreasonably interferes with the target individual's University employment,... Read More
Technology Use Regulation 508
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Use of UNCSA technological resources to gain access to other users' accounts, files, voice mail, or electronic mail, harassing other users in violation of university policies, or otherwise interfering with the work of others is prohibited. Read More
Interim Title IX Regulation
Title IX Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome sexual conduct determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies an individual equal access to the University's education program or activity; … Read More
Facilities Use Policy 402: Limited and Designated Forums
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
1. First Amendment expression in designated and limited forums do not require the University's prior approval. 2. Time, place, and manner restrictions are in place for the health, safety, and order of the campus community, without unreasonably restricting content of speech or expression. Read More
College Handbook: Student Code of Conduct- Policy Statement on Nondiscrimination
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
UNCSA embraces and strives to uphold the freedoms of expression and speech guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the North Carolina Constitution. Read More
College Handbook: Appendix F: Content of Posters and Disseminated Materials
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
1. Bulletin boards labeled "General Purpose" are provided at locations on campus. These bulletin boards may be used for commercial purposes, informational purposes, or for solicitation of charitable contributions, and may be used by any person or group, without prior approval. 2. Notices and disseminated materials m... Read More
University of North Carolina System: State of the First Amendment
FIRE teamed up with the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy to release the Report on the State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System. The Report notes that UNC System's many speech codes and illiberal restrictions on religious groups would likely not survive a legal challenge. It also… Read more
REPORT: North Carolina is home to some of America's best colleges for free speech
Eight colleges in North Carolina earn FIRE's highest rating for free speech — more than in any other state — but 17 still maintain policies that substantially restrict student expression. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24, 2018 — A new report finds that North Carolina's colleges and universities lead the way nationally for protecting student free speech. The… Read more
Report Exposes Extensive Constitutional Violations in University of North Carolina System
RALEIGH, N.C., January 10, 2006—Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy released their Report on the State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System. The Report explains precisely what the First Amendment obligations of the UNC System schools are—and… Read more
The State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System
A Joint Report of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Executive Summary If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or… Read more


BRUSSELS, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Finland is against putting pressure on Ireland to quickly apply for a European Union bailout, saying EU financial aid must be a last resort.
Euro zone finance ministers will discuss Ireland's debt situation at a meeting on Tuesday amid reports some EU countries are keen for Dublin to quickly tap EU emergency funds to calm markets and stop debt concerns from spreading to other countries, like Portugal.
Since decisions among finance ministers over activating the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which Ireland may need to access, have to be taken unanimously, Finland's view counts as much as the other 15 members of the euro zone.
Finland's staunch opposition to pushing Dublin into asking for help is partly based on its belief that the rules must be strictly adhered to but also out of domestic political concerns — there is an election in Finland next year and there is popular opposition to more bailouts.
"Finland is already supporting Iceland, Latvia, Greece and, who knows, possibly Ireland and others," said a Finnish EU source who spoke on condition of anonymity.
As well as opposing Ireland getting quick access to the EFSF — the Irish government is fully funded until mid-2011 and does not immediately need financing help — Finland opposes Ireland tapping the EFSF or other EU mechanisms to help its banks.
One euro zone source said that if Ireland asked for help in order to bail out its banks, then it should be forced to put up collateral against any loans.
The source said Ireland's government had assets worth over 100 billion euros which could be securitised and used as collateral against an EFSF loan if one was requested.
The European Financial Stability Mechanism, is a 60 billion euro fund overseen by the European Commission that can also be tapped to provide financial assistance to EU member states in emergency conditions.
Euro zone finance ministers are expected to begin their meeting at 1600 GMT with Ireland the main point on the agenda, but the situation in Portugal, Greece and Spain also under discussion.


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Written by Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.com August 5, 2019 August 5, 2019
Settling In And Meeting A Few Locals
We had two days before Susie began her busy examining schedule and I began island-hunting, two days to shrug off the jet-lag and explore our surroundings a little.
I have visited Hong Kong several times before on orchestral tours but for Susie it was not only her fist time here but her first trip to the Far East, so bearing in mind that she had a lot of hard work coming up we took ourselves off to visit a few sites, at as gentle a pace as possible. The words 'gentle pace' and 'Hong Kong' do not naturally go together, especially on a weekend in high summer, but we found the city to be unusually quiet. Perhaps the protests were having an effect on the typical noisy exuberance of this place.
Sunday: After a huge hotel breakfast of dim sum plus plenty of everything else, we walked to the Star Ferry, where I met Johnny, a Chinese Jehovah's Witness in his late 60s who was holding a big board and waiting to meet a group coming in by ferry. He helped me cash a large note at a street vendor's stall, and we then got into a conversation about the protests and the different perspectives of the young and the old in HK. Like Alex in his cab yesterday, Johnny was not a fan of the rioting. I don't think I've ever sought out a conversation with a Jehovah's Witness in the UK, but I found Johnny to be both charming and open minded. He told me that he struggled with the different beliefs of his parents, who worshipped the Gods and Deities to whom the many temples in HK are dedicated, whilst he had taken another path. He corrected my pronunciation of 'Christian' in Cantonese – "gey duk tou", not 'gai duk tou' – and asked how I knew the word. I told him a little about a wonderful memoir I'm reading at the moment of a western boy's childhood in HK, called 'Gweilo' by Martin Booth, which has been a fantastic source of knowledge about this part of the world, including vocabulary.
So the first ferry journey of this ferry-centric trip was the short hop over to Central District, where we picked our way through the hundreds of Phillipino women who spend their Sundays meeting up to sit in every available space – in parks, on every street pavement, beneath the skyscrapers –
– and to eat together, talk, laugh, play card games, bingo, and even practise their dance routines:
I'm told that they are mostly women who work as housemaids in the richer parts of the city, for whom Sunday is their one day off. They all sat on flattened-out cardboard boxes as makeshift picnic blankets, and were totally unselfconscious about being so on view and surrounded by city dwellers and tourists. In fact it felt like it became their city for the day, they were there in such huge numbers.
The island is dominated by The Peak, or Victoria Peak to give it its proper name, which is incredibly steep and over 500 metres high. The funicular railway that takes you to the top, The Peak Tram, is 130 years old and the steepest in the world. They're on to their fourth generation of trams, which are now modern and efficient, but expensive. In the 1950s, when 'Gweilo' is set, they were used as much for commuting as by tourists, with tiny stations stops along the way. The rear, cheap carriages were open, and on the higher stretches of track were vulnerable to attacks from monkeys who lived in the surrounding forest. Martin witnessed hats, coats, cameras and binoculars being stolen on the way up, and then saw most of the discarded wreckage of personal items hanging from tree branches on the journey back down the hill.
We paid a brief visit to the apartments where he and his family lived from 1952-54 at the top of the Peak, Mount Austin Mansions, where I unintentionally made the guard on the gate very uncomfortable by asking him if he knew about the author or any other history of the building. His answers to my questions, accompanied by a pained smile, were: "I can't tell you this", "This is a Privacy Residence", "It is not possible to talk about that", and "Thank you, goodbye".
After taking in the spectacular view from the Victoria Peak Pavillion, looking south into the South China Sea and the Outlying Islands, we took a walk around Victoria Peak Garden and the Governor's Walk in the humid light rain which came and went all day, then made our way back to the Tram.
Back in Tsim Sha Tsui I had a very helpful chat with Joyce at the hotel front desk, to find out what the Intercontinental Hotel might think of me walking through the lobby with a bicycle on my travel days. I had already thought that the elegance and calm composure might be a bit disturbed by flagpoles, panniers, helmets and lycra. Joyce agreed with me pretty readily, and suggested that I keep my foldaway bike in the Concierge's room until needed, and then pack it away again after each ride. I also asked how she felt about me mentioning the hotel in this blog: "An honest opinion is always very welcome!", she told me. "Please feel free to mention us, and we will follow your blog!". So I jotted down the Incidents of Travel details for her and thanked her for being so helpful. I hope things carry on like this.
Monday: Susie had pre-session meetings about her work, I explored the local supermarket, we tried out the gym, the sun shone from a clear blue sky, Susie tried the hotel Pillow Menu and selected "No6: Refreshing Bed Pillow with natural cooling effect.". In the evening we walked up and around the famous Nathan Rd, stopping off to visit a spot that used to be a notoriously dangerous enclave but is now a sort Little India of food stalls, restaurants and a kind of general bazaar, called Chungking Mansions. We found shop after shop to be closing early, with worried-looking proprietors who told us that there was going to be trouble nearby tonight. I have never seen Hong Kong like this, with streets emptying as early as a small Canadian town in the Prairies, and the normal crowd of locals gradually morphing as the sun goes down into mostly young kids dressed in black. Our noodle soup supper started in the company of laughing teenagers but by the time we left they had been replaced by groups of protesters, quietly eating some food and closely monitoring their mobile phones.
Two early Signs That Are Funny contenders. Firstly, the sign the greeted me the moment I arrived at my possible start point for cycling along the harbour front in the morning (please note accidental action shot of leaping fish) Then back at the hotel there was a little reminder that even the super-rich Ferrari owner can have problems of their own:
Tagged Chungking Mansions, Gweilo, hong kong, Hotel Intercontinental Grand Stanford, Martin Booth, Mount Austin, Peak Tram, star ferry, Tsim Sha Tsui.
3 thoughts on "Settling In And Meeting A Few Locals"
ollybuckton says:
I've been reading about the general strike in Hong Kong Monday, and the warnings by the governor. It sounds very serious, do be careful out there! Ol xx
Chris Buckton says:
That fish is clearly star struck, waiting for its moment….
Fascinating stuff Ben, and I think we stayed somewhere off Nathan Road in 1983
Ben Buckton - Incidentsoftravel.com says:
Any other HK memories that spring to mind?
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Pop Foto, 1977: ABBA had to disappoint a celebrity
Recently, ABBA received an important award for Swedish groups in their own country. The group was proclaimed the 'Best Group of the Year'. To celebrate the occasion, a huge party was being held at the Opera Restaurant in Stockholm. An enormous celebration with lots of champagne, several tasty delicacies and obviously an amount of rather to very well-known Swedes! There, the ABBAs met an equally famous compatriot, namely the world champion skiing Ingemar Stenmark.
At the same time as ABBA, this young man received an important award as well. At the party, that was hosted by a big Swedish newspaper, it turned out that the five Swedes got along exceptionally well, because they had a lot of fun together. On the accompanying picture, taken in front of the 'modest' background of the royal palace of King Carl Gustaf, Ingemar is positioned in the middle. The Scandinavian skiing freak had become such a big ABBA-fan after this pleasant afternoon, that he invited Anni-Frid, Agnetha, Björn and Benny to take free skiing lessons. Without a doubt a fantastic offer, that's what the four ABBA-members thought as well! But no matter how much they'd love to do it and how much fun they thought it would be, the world's most famous group simply didn't have the time. Regretfully they thanked Ingemar. To which he responded unaffectedly: "Well, that's your decision. But then I won't record an album with you either!"
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Oor, January 1978: ABBA - The Album album review
A review of ABBA - The Album from Dutch magazine Oor. From the opening lines, you can tell that writers of so-callled serious magazines were slightly embarrassed to review an ABBA-album, as if it was a chore that nobody wanted to do.
Since I was the only reviewer who had the guts to put 'Arrival' in my year list – and that takes some courage, you might not be taken seriously any longer as a serious writer – I was given the honour to review 'The Album' by Swedish teeny-bopper group ABBA. Like some may have thought, it wasn't a corny joke, therefore we're going to review the record seriously.
Everyone in the record industry, from label manager to producer, is drooling like Pavlov's dog on hearing ABBA's name, because it's synonymous with success. As a phenomenon, Agnetha, Benny, Björn and Anni-Frid (that's ABBA) are more influential and sociologically speaking just as interesting as the whole punk and new wave movement together. Time and time again, ABBA knows how to combine catchy music and lyrics with an exceptionally refined show of the ladies, that gives children glowing hands and moist eyes and dad a hard-on, however without mum realising that this might be caused by the prominently (well) swaying asses of the blonde and the dark one. I mean... what else could you wish for!
The often heard exclamation that the ladies can't sing isn't relevant either, because it's all about the complete package, and apart from that, technically speaking they're still head and shoulders above a similar singer like Deborah Harry, the empty-headed blonde that seems to have so many hidden qualities.
'The Album' has been released almost simultaneously with the feature film ('The Movie') and just a little while after the book about ABBA, a case of clever business insight of the man behind the scenes, Stig Anderson. I don't know if these simultaneous projects are the reason, but it's a fact that 'The Album' will easily exceed the already gigantic sales figures of 'Arrival'. The lyrics are obviously superficial, but that's how they should be, to appeal to the masses. Apart from 'The Name Of The Game', Stig Anderson is responsible for two other lyrics on this album, that clearly stand out compared to the others. Just like 'Arrival', 'The Album' is produced to perfection and full of potential hits. The strong aspect of most of the songs is that you can sing along to them effortlessly after playing them twice. Isn't recognizability the pillar of every commercial product?
The three songs from the mini-musical 'The Girl With The Golden Hair' are disappointing, because they are a much too obvious pile of clichés from 'Tommy', 'Hair', 'Evita' and other, more traditional musicals. But that's not the worst part; especially in songs like 'Thank You For The Music' and 'I Wonder' they are trying to give the music a profundity that the group doesn't have. It remains a phenomenon of the biggest common divisor and its qualities are to be found in its broadness. Their so-called deeper feelings are plastic and adolescent, not even Clearasil or DDD will fix that. Luckily, this quasi-sensitivity remains limited to the pretentious musical. The rest is of a standing that will give any hit producer wet dreams every night and in the morning a hangover at the thought that they will have to make do with Guys And Dolls, Teach In, Champagne and Brotherhood Of Man.
Pop Foto, December 1978: Secretly, Benny and Anni-Frid celebrated their big day
An article from Dutch magazine Pop Foto about Benny and Frida getting married in all secrecy in October 1978.
Even for very close friends it was a complete surprise. Only a couple of days before the event they received an invitation for the big party. But still, it has finally happened... Anni-Frid and Benny from ABBA are married!
Seven years ago, there had been some severe disorder in front of the Verum church in the district Skäne in the south of Sweden. The occasion then was the marriage between Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog. But despite the fact that this was yet another ABBA-marriage, not a living soul could be spotted on Friday October 6 at the rustic little church of the island Lidingö. It was dead quiet. Not because ABBA is less popular now than seven years ago, but only because Benny and Anni-Frid wanted it this way.
Carefully, they had kept their wedding date a secret. Even for close friends of the couple the wedding came totally unexpected. It wasn't until the last moment that they were called to the big party that Benny and Anni-Frid were hosting at their beautiful residence on the Stockholm island Lidingö, after the ceremony in the church.
Obviously, there had been rumours circulating for quite some time about a possible marriage. But no one really believed it would actually happen. Especially since Benny and Anni-Frid, when asked about it, maintained sternly that the unmarried life they had been leading so far had worked out just fine for them. Only two years ago, roaring with laughter they rejected an offer from an American television company, that wanted to bear the costs of a fairytale-wedding, only if they were allowed to broadcast the happening on the screen.
But just now, when the rumours have died down a bit, it has finally happened. Only family members and close friends were allowed to be a part of it. Reporters and photographers, as far as they were aware of the event, were kept at a distance. Benny and Anni-Frid wanted to have this day all to themselves. And quite rightfully. Congratulations... Benny and Anni-Frid!
Studio, June 1984: ABBA The Movie on TV
A Dutch TV guide announcement of the broadcast of ABBA - The Movie.
Although ABBA officially still exists, there hasn't been any group activity for a considerable amount of time. Together with Tim Rice, Björn and Benny are working on the musical Chess, that should be finished in January. In Paris, Frida has just completed the recordings for her second solo album, produced by Steve Lillywhite who also worked with U2, Big Country, Simple Minds and Joan Armatrading, among others. The album will be released in September. In the near future, Agnetha will start working on a second album, probably with 10CC's Eric Stewart as her producer.
Whether the four will ever do something together again as ABBA remains a big question mark. How things were going in ABBA's glory days can be seen once again coming Saturday in ABBA – The Movie. For the most part, this movie is a report of an Australian tour of the group in early 1977. In the middle of the concert footage, among which a gigantic open air performance in Sydney, there's a little storyline about a reporter who wants to interview the group time and time again, but always shows up just a bit too late. Apart from that, first and foremost a lot of ABBA-hits.
Pop Foto, 1983: "You never create a hit on your own!"
A 1983 article from Dutch magazine Pop Foto about Agnetha's then recently released solo album Wrap Your Arms Around Me.
"I knew beforehand that my album would be compared to Frida's successful album," Agnetha says about her recently released solo album. She told Pop Foto why she still dared to take that gamble...
With cheeks blushing with anticipation, Agnetha listens to the first mix of 'Wrap Your Arms Around Me'. Mike Chapman, the composer of this monster-hit and also the producer of her solo album with the same title, watches matters smilingly. He's very proud of this successful album, that everybody has been waiting for eagerly. Still, this isn't Agnetha's first album. On the contrary! Before ABBA even existed, the – then very young – blonde singer was already very well-known in Sweden. She recorded no less than 6 (!) albums, one of them even produced by herself!
"That doesn't take away from the fact that this album, my first album in English, was very important to me," Agnetha says without hesitation. "Because you can bet that it's terrifying to come up with a solo album after the success of ABBA. I also knew beforehand that people would compare my album to Frida's. But either way, I do love a good challenge every now and then, hahaha!"
That the album eventually became such a huge success, is for the most part thanks to Mike Chapman, a man who already has an extensive string of hits credited to his name. Mike was what you could call 'the big man' behind the number one hits of Smokie, Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Exile, Mud, Blondie, Tony Basil, and we could continue like this for half an hour.
"I used the group Smokie as backing vocalists for Agnetha's album. Four or five years ago, Smokie was an extremely popular band. You might remember songs like 'Needles And Pins', 'Oh Carol' or 'Living Next Door To Alice'. Agnetha has always been one of their biggest fans, and when I told her about my plans, she immediately was very enthusiastic. Obviously, the boys of Smokie were very honoured."
"It shows once again," the blonde singer says softly, while looking at Mike gratefully, "you don't create a hit on your own!"
Veronica, 1984: Platengala with many stars
A small article from Veronica magazine about the Dutch Platengala (at the time this was an annual event, promoting the record industry). Björn and Benny were there to promote Chess and Frida to promote her album Shine.
The recent Platengala attracted many international artists to our country. Especially the attendance of the Everly Brothers turned out to be a highlight of the evening.
The same could be said of Elaine Paige, a leading character from the 'ABBA' musical Chess. Also due to the fact that the composers of the musical, Björn and Benny from ABBA, had come to the gala, and ABBA-singer Frida did a solo performance, an extra sparkle was added to the evening. The ABBA-trio was only missing Agnetha. ABBA's record company did go through some trouble to get the missing ABBA-member to Holland. Unfortunately, they didn't succeed. You will be able to see Elaine Paige live on October 29 at the Concerthouse in Amsterdam. There she will be the star in the musical Chess.
Muziek Expres, 1984: Agnetha is leaving ABBA
Actually, ABBA has not existed as a group for a long time now. Only in name, but the members of ABBA have been going their separate ways for quite some time. Björn and Benny as a writers duo and Agnetha and Frida as solo singers. Recently, the blonde Agnetha has said goodbye to the group officially.
"I want to concentrate even more on my own career," according to the comment of the 34-year-old singer. "Apart from that, I'm becoming increasingly aware of the fact that I'm still regarded as a 'piece of ABBA'. And I want to get rid of that. I'm simply an independent, working woman. Someone who wants to shape her own course. And ABBA prevented me from doing that."
Indeed, when her career is concerned, everything is going Agnetha's way. From her solo album 'Wrap Your Arms Around Me', almost one and a half million copies were sold all around the world! Not a bad 'start'...
Joepie, July 1982: ABBA's life was indeed hanging on a string
For the first time, the ABBA headquarter has admitted, in the words of Benny, that the famous foursome was in danger of not making it into 1982. For that matter, he did that with much pleasure, because all private and professional problems have been solved gloriously. And at the same time, he revealed what the group has in store for us the coming months.
"Indeed, we have a difficult and awful time behind us, that could have meant the end of ABBA," Benny admits. "For starters, all four of us were over head and ears in relationship problems after the divorces. On top of that, we started to doubt our musical future, because we had the feeling that we didn't offer enough variety with our compositions. We talked about it day and night and finally decided to let the audience have the last say in the matter. The success of our new album 'The Visitors' would determine whether ABBA would live on our die. Well, the sales figures were overwhelming and they were still going upwards which was the clear sign for us to continue."
"The atmosphere is excellent now," Björn steps in. "Probably because we allow every member more time to catch their breath and focus on what he or she likes to do. So it isn't very surprising that all four of us are working on our own projects, without damaging the interests of the group. This way, we could continue for years to come."
"Last year, I've said several times that ABBA would make one more album, that it would be over after that," Benny says slightly bored. "I take that back. Ever since most problems have been solved, I'm taking a rosy view at my life and my career again."
Björn and Benny didn't sit still the past few weeks. Together with Frida and Anna they've recorded a couple of new tracks, that will be released as singles in the near future.
"It's our intention to release a new single this summer, and another one in the autumn," Björn clarifies. "Two out of these four tracks have been finished already ('Just Like That' and 'I Am The City'). After that second single, a double compilation album will be released: 26 tracks among which those two new A-sides. This means that there won't be an album with exclusively new material this year, but there will be in 1983. Benny and I are very busy working on that."
In August, two new songs will be recorded in the studios in Stockholm. After that, the foursome will go on a promotional trip throughout Europe, to promote the double compilation album.
"We will do a couple of TV-shows that will focus on our unique string of hits," according to Benny. "We are really looking forward to that, because in the meantime it has been quite a while since we were out on the road together."
Which immediately evokes the question whether ABBA has any plans for live concerts.
"It's not completely out of the question that we will set up a new world tour in '83," according to Benny's diplomatic answer. "Stig has already cleared a couple of months in our schedule. He is now considering the various possibilities. So far, nothing has been decided yet. But with the atmosphere as it is, chances are that it will happen."
ABBA's new fervour doesn't mean that the solo projects of the four members are a thing of the past. In the meantime, Björn and Benny have worked on their musical plans, that they want to launch next year as well. And after Frida, Agnetha is now working on her solo album too.
"Initially, Barry Gibb was going to produce her album, but those negotiations didn't lead to anything," says Benny. "In the end, it turned out to be Mike Chapman, the man behind Blondie. Anna wanted to record the album in Los Angeles, but Mike preferred our studios in Stockholm. He had heard so many good things about them, that he didn't want to let that chance go by. If things work out well, he wants to come here to record with Blondie. The recordings with Anna are planned for the middle of November. Until then, she's very busy with ABBA."
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Q: Passing a value to page which comes after 2 redirects I am working on an application where users can post different kind of requirements. And each requirement is tied with a user. For posting a requirement, users are first redirected to a page("/select_requirement_type"). And on that page, user selects the type of requirement he wants and then he is redirected to the respective form. I basically use current_user.id to link it with a user.
Now also i have an admin user who can post requirements on behalf of other users. So the flow is still kind of the same. I list users on a page("/manage/users") and there the admin selects a user for which he want to post the requirement for and the page redirects to ("/select_requirement_type") and then the page redirects to the form. In the form instead of current_user.id I have to add the selected_user.id.
There are 2 redirects through which I have to pass the selected_user's id, how can accomplish this. And this cannot be passed as params along the url.
Im stuck with this. Thanks.

A: Save the param to their session before the first redirect.

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Microsoft has rolled out a new product. Called Brainwave, the solution is an FPGA-based system that delivers ultra-low latency deep learning for the cloud. The introduction is part of the company's ongoing commitment to field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips.
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Microsoft says it is developing Brainwave to be usable in the Azure cloud platform. Like its previous FPGA integration, the company says users can get direct results from the new solution, including on Bing.
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Political and Social organizations are ready to reject a bill that seeks to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT).
The Colombian Federation of Education Workers (Fecode) calls on the population to march in Bogota to show the popular discontent over the expansion of the Value Added Tax (VAT) to the family basket.
The so-called 'Financing bill,' which the right-wing President Ivan Duque sent to the Congress on Oct. 31, has been promoted as a tool for modernizing the Colombian tax system and promoting business competitiveness.
According to the Teachers' union, however, the effect of the tax reform is likely to be an "assault on the pockets of the Colombian people." Extending the VAT to most items in the basic basket of goods would entail taxing textbooks and school books.
"This wave of taxes would directly harm the finances of teachers, workers, families, and Colombians in general, especially those from lower income strata," states the Fecode press release.
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Referring to the Financing Law, the Federation of Education Workers states that "its true purpose is to extend the taxable base to the family basket, that is, to 80 percent of the products that are consumed daily by millions of citizens. Vegetables, fruits, legumes, and almost all basic foods will have an increase of 18 percent in the next year."
The mobilizations against the Financing Law will take place in Bogotá, a city in which the Unitary Workers Central, senior citizens, social organizations and the student movement will gather on Thursday.
In its press release, the Federation makes "an urgent call to raise our voice of protest, to strengthen the denunciation, and to mobilize in the streets, with the different social, political, academic and union sectors, in order to defeat this assault on the pockets of the Colombian people."
Reunión de las Centrales Obreras, organizaciones sociales y sectores políticos organizando la oposición y movilización contra la Reforma Tributaria de Duque y Carrasquilla.
Meeting of workers' centers, social organizations and political sectors organizing the opposition and mobilization against the Tax Reform of Duque and Carrasquilla.
Let's go to the streets on Thursday!


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His perception of the world was shaped by two crucial people in his life, his parents. They made sure Jeffrey knew he could take something he loved and make a living off it. His parents both came from El Salvador with hardly any money but were determined to make a better future for themselves and their future family. Years later Jeffrey and his family returned to El Salvador to visit and it wasn't until he saw how different his parent's life was from his that he wanted to work even harder to try and give himself and his family the life they dreamed about. He always had respect for his parent's risk and drive that came with leaving their old life to pursue something better, but after his visit his parents became his fuel for inspiration.
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class TestImageCopy(PillowTestCase):

    def test_copy(self):
        def copy(mode):
            im = hopper(mode)
            out = im.copy()
            self.assertEqual(out.mode, mode)
            self.assertEqual(out.size, im.size)
        for mode in "1", "P", "L", "RGB", "I", "F":
            copy(mode)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

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