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Creative and passionate, Jane Carroll has loved art for as long as she can remember. She started in the field as an author and artist at Winston Derek Publishers in Tennessee, and is now thriving as the owner of Jane Carroll Fine Art and as an artist, poet, and author at Lulu Press at Barnes and Noble. Ms. Carroll's art has been featured in group shows like Avondale Art in the Afternoon, the Georgia Artists Invitational at the Atlanta Art Gallery, and the Telfare Museum Savannah, and in one-woman shows at venues like the Revis Lewis Gallery and the Ariel Gallery. Furthermore, she has authored "Artist Orchard," "Dayspring," "Grace," "Intimate Moments," and "Carriage of Hate," and is represented in the permanent collections of the Greenville Memorial Hospital, the Embassy Suites, Macan Motor Cars, and Jenny Pruitt Reality. Her commissioned art includes landscapes, portraits, and family paintings.
Outside of her own artistic endeavors, Ms. Carroll lent her skills to her community through Arts in the Atlanta Project and Rehabilitation Education for Handicapped Adults and Children. She also joined and obtained leadership positions at a number of prominent organizations. Ms. Carroll was the chair of the Art Program of the National League of American Pen Women and the vice president and merit member of the Atlanta Artist Club, as well as a member of the Portrait Society of Atlanta. Additionally, she served as the assistant director of AID-Volunteer, the executive field director of the Northeast Georgia Girl Scouts, and as a teacher at A.C. Flora High School.
To prepare for her professional journey, Ms. Carroll completed portraiture studies with Nelson Shanks, Jim Schell, Marc Chatov, Nancy Honea, Daniel Green, and Thomasine Bradford between 1990 and 2009, and art studies with Dolores Kennedy from 1981 to 2004. She also earned a Bachelor of Art from the University of South Carolina in 1968 and completed coursework at Winthrop College in 1965.
Ms. Carroll's hard work and talent didn't go unnoticed. In recognition of her success, she was named Best of Show by the Georgia State Association of the National League of American Pen Women in 2012, and Best of Show by the Atlanta Branch Annual Show of the National League of American Pen Women in 2003, 2001, and 1987. Other accolades include an Award for Drawing and a Merit Ribbon from the Georgia National Fair, a First Place for Drawing Award from Savannah National, and inclusion in Who's Who in America and Who's Who of American Women.
When Ms. Carroll has free time, she enjoys traveling, reading, yoga, and outdoor activities. She is also painting portraits of all of her grandchildren.
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Q: How to Scrape multiple URL's and Titles and save it into my Database where each URL matches the Title? I have the following problem: I would like to scrape the URL's and Title's of Lightnovel's I'm reading and insert it into my Database, while each ChapterUrl matches the ChapterTitle.
I would like the endresult structurely look like this in my Database :
LightNovel:{
  chapters:{
    chapter1:{
      chapterUrl: String,
      chapterTitle: String
      chapterUpdate: Date()
    },
    chapter2:{
      chapterUrl: String,
      chapterTitle: String
      chapterUpdate: Date()
    }, etc...
  }
}

I would like to have an Object structure like LightNovel.?chapters.?chapter1.?chapterUrl
So far i can scrape each title and url with these line's of code:
let ChapterTitle = await page.$$eval('.div class .div class .div class a', a => a.map(title=> title.textContent.trim()));
// Will get me the title and returns me an array of titles.
&&
let ChapterUrl await page.$$eval('.div class .div class .div class a', ahref => ahref.map(link => link.href));
// Will get me the Url and returns me an array of links
When i scrape these things individualy I get for each an array of content, and when inserting it into the Database it looks structurely like this:
chapters: object
chapterTitle: Array ( Array of every title)
chapterUrl: Array (Array of every link)
so far so good, I mean that is what I wrote in code in the end...
but i would like each scapred URL match the title, as mentioned above .
Question:
How would i need handle this problem in order to get my desired endresult?
I hope i could make myself understood and am grateful for any answer / help / guidance regarding this matter.

A: It would be better if make an array of chapters and push individual chapter to that array.
Below is one version of what can be done, you can modify it as to your need.
Keep in mind I'm using for loop because i wanted to keep things simple you can use high order array methods like map,filter,reduce to accomplish similar thing with less lines of code.

let lightNovel={}
let ChapterTitleArray = ['title1', 'title2']
let ChapterURLArray = ['link1', 'link2']
let chapters = []

for (let i = 0; i < ChapterTitleArray.length; i++) {
  let chapter = {
    chapterTitle: ChapterTitleArray[i],
    chapterUrl: ChapterURLArray[i],
    chapterUpdate: new Date()
  }
  let key= `chapter ${i+1}`
  chapters.push({[key]:chapter})
}

lightNovel={chapters}

console.log(lightNovel)

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Gustavus households offered safe drinking water after latest PFAS scare
By Elizabeth Jenkins, Alaska's Energy Desk October 31, 2018 November 2nd, 2018 Alaska's Energy Desk
PFAS levels around Gustavus. (Image courtesy of the Alaska Department of Transportation)
There's a kind of chemical foam used to suppress oil fires. But that foam can leach into the environment and contaminate groundwater. In Alaska, it's been detected close to some airports and military bases in Fairbanks, where routine drills occur. It's also cropping up in other places around the state.
Kelly McLaughlin's family has owned property in Gustavus since the 1960s on what was once part an old territorial homestead. Most of it is close to the airport.
This past summer, she learned the state was testing water wells nearby for contaminants — specifically, a compound known as PFAS.
Many of the residents of Gustavus are on their own water system, including McLaughlin. So, she asked the state to test her water, too. She says it took some convincing, but in September, she got the results back, and she was floored. Her well tested positive for the contaminant. It had twice as much as the federal government advises for human health.
"You don't think the water you've been drinking and assume is safe is poison," McLaughlin said. "That's not a thought that crossed my mind ever. I was wasn't prepared for the results to be that bad."
The state is now providing McLaughlin's home with shipped-in jugs of water. Eleven other private wells also qualified.
A spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Transportation said this is a growing national issue, and that's what tipped off the state to test the wells near the Gustavus airport.
Over the summer, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report suggesting that PFAS may be more hazardous to health than previously thought.
McLaughlin says she's stayed awake at night thinking about the impact this could have on her family.
"My daughter of course drinks the bathwater and there's no keeping kids from engaging with the contaminated water," she said.
Exposure to the chemical compound has been to linked to an increased risk of cancer. It can affect growth and learning development in children and interfere with hormone levels.
McLaughlin says she'd like the state to offer some kind of blood tests to the residents, but so far, they haven't made the offer.
"No. And I've asked and asked, and I'd given every reason I can think of," she said. "I'd like my breast milk tested. I would like my blood tested and my kid's blood tested. I think at the very least, it's information that can be applied at a later date."
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services responded on Friday that the agency will not be conducting blood tests because "scientists do not know how blood levels correspond with effects on health from PFAS exposure."
In the meantime, McLaughlin is considering paying for her own test to get a baseline for her medical records.
She's still hoping the state will be responsive.
"This was nobody's fault. As far as I know, nobody knew how bad these chemicals were," McLaughlin said. "Nobody knew how far they would travel. The DOT did not intentionally poison the people in Gustavus. But it happened."
Now, she says the ball is in the state's court to to try to make this right.
A spokesperson for the Department of Transportation says they're bringing in an engineer to start to develop some long term solutions.
The state is also currently taking public comment until Nov. 5 to institute some kind of enforceable levels for the chemical compound — beyond the federal guidelines.
Editor's note: This story has been updated as new information has become available.
Planes violating airspace restrictions raise safety, operations concerns at Swan Lake Fire
Officials say some area pilots aren't abiding by the temporary flight restriction over the fire, and that could have major consequences.
Alaska State Arts Council shuts down after funding loss
The Alaska State Council on the Arts closed its doors Monday, making Alaska the only state without an arts council. Gov. Mike Dunleavy used a line-item budget veto to eliminate the council's funding of $2.8 million. Alaska lawmakers fell short last week in attempts to override the vetoes.
Could climate change research in Alaska be put on ice?
The University of Alaska system is known as a leader in climate change research, studying melting permafrost to shrinking glaciers. But there's growing uncertainty about the future of such projects with steep cuts to state funding.
ACLU sues Dunleavy over 'retaliatory' cuts to court system
The civil rights group claims that the move by the governor infringes on the separation of powers laid out in Alaska's constitution. Dunleavy said he vetoed the court system funding because the state Supreme Court has ruled that Medicaid funds can be used to pay for abortions.

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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2018) Review: The default Kindle
The Kindle Paperwhite has been the best-selling Kindle for long and with this year's model, Amazon is trying to make it even more compelling.
Karthekayan Iyer
@kkiyer90
Published: December 28, 2018 8:33 AM IST
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2018 Karthekayan Iyer 4 5
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The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2018) is thinner, lighter and more comfortable to use.
It offers familiar design but is now also waterproof.
It lacks Audible support but can last for weeks on a single charge.
In technology, if there is one gadget that has stayed constant over a long period of time, then it has to be the Amazon Kindle. The Kindle, which celebrated a decade of being a thing recently, has been a constant, and has largely remained the same in form and function as well. Whether you take the first generation device with the keyboard or a modern metallic Oasis, they do one thing: read a digital book as if you were reading a physical one. And while the changes are small, they are making small but meaningful improvements to the concept.
If you look at consumer electronics over the past decade then they have all become multi-functional devices. Take the example of the iPhone; it started as an iPod that can also be used to make calls. Now, it is basically a computer on your palm; one that can beat your classic computer in terms of performance. Portable speakers now come equipped with digital assistants like Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. The reform has happened even in the case of a USB drive which can now connect wirelessly to your devices. But the Kindle has stayed the same – a single function device that is largely the same as it was a decade ago.
Kindle Oasis Review: Best e-reader (a lot of) money can buy
In 2013, I bought the Kindle Paperwhite as an impulse purchase and not because I needed it. Almost five years later, I still don't see why that device needs an update but Amazon definitely sees an opportunity to improve on the successful device. The Kindle lineup now includes three devices – a standard Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Oasis. Consider it as equivalents of Mercedes C-class, E-class and S-class. They all drive the same , but with different powertrains under them and a few more bells and whistles as you go up the range.
All Kindles let you read books but do so little bit differently. Last month, Amazon launched the fourth generation Kindle Paperwhite in India and I have been reading on it for a good few weeks now. Here are my thoughts on whether it is the best Kindle yet and should you upgrade if you already have a Kindle.
With the new Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon has focused entirely on enriching the user experience and hence, the device looks exactly the same as its predecessor. It is clad in a soft plastic casing, which allows for a comfortable grip whether you are reading for few minutes or several hours. Yes, it lacks the premium metal build and angular curves of the Oasis, but the Paperwhite stands apart with its mid-tier price and overall finish.
In fact, this year the new Paperwhite feels a bit lighter than its predecessor but the overall distribution of weight is so even that the device feels the same whether you hold at the bottom side or midway. The back of the device is matte black and thus it is prone to catching fingerprints and if you have oily hands then it is recommended that you put a case right away.
One major design change this year is that the Paperwhite is water resistant like its premium sibling, the Kindle Oasis. The Paperwhite is the best-selling product in the Kindle lineup and if you are someone who reads while in the pool or on a beach vacation then you need not worry about spilling liquids on it or dropping it in water. The new Kindle Paperwhite will survive such scenarios with water resistance rated for submerging up to two meters deep for up to 60 minutes.
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Like all the previous Kindle Paperwhite devices, there is a power button and micro-USB port at the bottom. In contrast to rest of the design, the power button has a darker finish, which is a neat distinction from older models, which had a matte black power button. All the other three edges of the Paperwhite (2018) are clear of buttons and allow for a firm grip. The display, which is still a 6-inch E-Ink affair, now sits flush to the glass on top of it. It is rather difficult to distinguish the glass from the E-Ink panel, which Amazon says will eliminate reflection and allow for a reading experience similar to what you get from a physical book.
When you compare this display next to a previous Kindle Paperwhite, you notice the difference almost immediately. It feels as if text pops a bit more than it does on older models. The display has a resolution of 300 pixels per inch and is also much brighter than its predecessor. With the 2018 model of the Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon has packed five LEDs as opposed to four on the previous model.
When you increase the brightness all the way to 24 – the maximum possible level – you can see the difference. As someone coming from the second generation Kindle Paperwhite, I did not see any need for additional LEDs but after using the new Paperwhite for over a month now, I must say that it is a solid addition. One last change comes in the form of accessibility where Amazon has added an option to invert colors.
A typical page on the Kindle is represented by a white background with black text. On the new Kindle Paperwhite, you can enable a mode with black text on a black background. It is a kind of night mode that seems appealing at first but I only grew to dislike it over time. For me, the standard mode works best, whether it's day or night.
How does the Kindle Paperwhite (2018) perform?
An Amazon Kindle is the kind of device where even a major specification bump will not be immediately perceived. WIth the 2018 iteration of Paperwhite, Amazon has tweaked few elements under the hood that don't necessarily make it faster but eliminate some of the issues seen on its predecessor. For instance, the base model of Kindle Paperwhite now ships with a minimum of 8GB of internal storage.
This is double of what Amazon offered on the older model and if you are someone who reads a lot of anime or books with lots of photos then you can get the version with 32GB of storage. Amazon says you can store "thousands of books" and honestly, I don't even have that many e-books to test that claim.
Amazon says the new Kindle Paperwhite comes with same amount of low-power RAM as its predecessor but the processor has been updated. However, I did not seen any visible improvements when it comes to loading a book or flipping pages. The new Kindle works just like any other Kindle before it. However, there are areas where the Kindle Paperwhite stutters and it can be frustrating at times. If you leave the Kindle unattended for a long time then it will take good few seconds to wake. If you are someone who has been reading on the Kindle app on an iPad then this is rather slow since the tablet version starts instantaneously.
The new Kindle Paperwhite seems fast when it comes to turning pages but the sluggishness becomes apparent when you start typing on it. The very first step which involves signing into your Amazon account by typing in your credentials can seem slow. Web browsing on the Silk browser is something that should be ruled out altogether; use your smartphone for that instead.
Soon before we published this review, Amazon pushed out a software update that significantly enhances the user experience. The home page is now scrollable, which means you can see more recommendations or bestsellers in prime reading without going to the Kindle Store. When inside a page, tapping on top of the book shows a redesigned toolbar and from the new Page Display drop-down menu, you can even set a custom theme. You can create five such themes but the process of creating themes isn't too easy.
Amazon claims the new Paperwhite, despite being thinner and lighter, can last six weeks on single charge. While there is no definite way to put this to test since we all read differently, I can say that if you read for an hour everyday at maximum brightness then the Paperwhite should last for at least four weeks on a single charge. The battery drops faster on the 3G/4G version with an active data connection, but you can always enable airplane mode to conserve battery. In terms of real-life usage, I think the new Kindle Paperwhite delivers the same battery life as its predecessor.
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Should you buy?
As I wrote before, the new Kindle Paperwhite, like every Kindle before it, does the job of making e-books readable better than any other e-reader on the market. It does not quite match the Kindle Oasis, which not only has the largest and brightest display but also has an ambient light sensor for auto-brightness, a premium metal back and button for flipping pages. However, its compact form factor with comfortable grip, affordable price (starts at Rs 12,999) and waterproof design this time around makes it an easy recommendation.
If you are in the market for a new Kindle then this new Paperwhite should be your default choice. However, if you have an older Paperwhite then the only reason to upgrade would be if you need the waterproof design. Amazon says it always finds a way to improve and so, I won't go as far as to call it perfect. However, a faster typing experience and support for Audible in India could definitely make it the Kindle to buy, assuming Amazon is able to push out improvements on those lines.
Published Date: December 28, 2018 8:33 AM IST
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David Garrick (1717–1779) was a British actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer.

David Garrick may also refer to:

David Garrick (play), 1864 play by Thomas William Robertson
David Garrick (singer) (1945–2013), best known for his 1966 pop hit Dear Mrs. Applebee
David Byron (1947–1985), British lead vocalist of Uriah Heep fame, whose original surname was Garrick
David Garrick (1913 film), a silent film based on the 1864 play
David Garrick (1916 film)
David Garrick (1922 film)

Garrick, David

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Meanwhile, in another pavilion, we could find the first IFA Sweet festival, where met 35 expositors to offer the public a wide range of products for creative bakery, which is more popular every day, as it shows the over 6000 visitors it had.
This year, 8trade went to both fairs to offer you the last trends. As we've seen, within the icecream industry it's getting more and more trending all the ecological and natural products, as we can find some lines for people with lactose intolerance.
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As far as we know, they will repeat next year, and 8trade will be there to inform you again!


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A Case for Movable Type as your Intranet
By Deane Barker on March 30, 2008
Here's a fact: intranets don't have to be crazy-complicated. Intranets are fundamentally about sharing simple information, which is not as hard as some people make it out to be. As simple as this is, most organizations either have no intranet, or a smattering of HTML pages someone threw together with Front Page that no one looks at.
In working with companies on their intranets, I'm confronted by the fact that there are fundamentally two types (genres?) of information:
Permanent and temporal.
Reference and announcement.
Eternal and time-sensitive.
Groomed and discarded.
Wiki-ish and blog-ish.
Pages and posts.
Pages and posts — that brings us back to a couple of posts about the concepts of posts vs. pages:
Thoughts on Posts and Articles
Ruminations on Posts vs. Pages
More Great Wikipedia Coverage
I'm not going to re-hash those arguments here, but I recommend you go read them, as they really touch on an important point: some pages on an intranet are eternal, and some are temporal.
An announcement of an upcoming potluck — temporal
The mission statement — eternal
Information about a news article involving the company — temporal
A procedure explaining how to apply for a new ID card — eternal
Now, this is a bold statement, but think that 95% of information on an intranet would fit into these two groups. Something is either an announcement, or it's a reference page of some kind. Sure, there are other types — a discussion space type, for instance — but a lot of companies could fit almost everything into these two groups.
The most common phrase I hear about companies and their intranets is: "Our intranet is a mess." The next most common phrase: "We just need a list of announcements somewhere…" So, they need a blog, essentially. And, invariably, they need a smattering of static pages as well.
Going back to that post mentioned above about the Wikipedia coverage of Hurricane Ivan:
With Wikipedia, you're not seeing a series of posted items. You're seeing a single body of information, continually updated and groomed. Thus, the basic information stays right where it's easy to see. Wikis are more "speak to me like I know nothing" information, rather than "tell me the very latest nuance" information.
The ideal is really a combination of both — keep the basic (wiki-ish) information right there, and have a sidebar of the latest (blog-ish) information as it comes in.
So, we need a platform that allows groups to have blog-ish stuff, and wiki-ish stuff. What fits? Three platforms jump to mind:
Yes, I know there are many more, but these are at the lowest end of the scale in terms of complexity and the highest end of the scale in terms of applicability — remember, we're trying to be simple here.
WordPress is great, and crazy hackable, but it suffers from what I've always considered a huge limitation: lack of the ability to have more than one blog. This is something that Movable Type has done from the start, and I've always taken it for granted.
One of the most common requirements for a company intranet is that different organizational units have their own "spaces." Every department needs a sub-site all their own. It strikes me that this would be hard with WordPress, although with all the custom plugins and development, perhaps there's something I'm missing.
Another problem with WordPress is that it's bound to PHP. More on this below.
Google Sites is really fantastic. Blend uses Google Apps for Domains, and so we get Google Sites with it. I tried it out and was somewhat blown away by what appears to be an arrow shot directly at Sharepoint. Additionally, it's built with the concept of multiple sub-sites in mind — they even provide tagging tools to organize sites. Your company could have hundreds and hundreds of Google Sites, and you could search for any sites tagged with "Human Resources," for instance.
But, we all know Google Sites has perhaps a fatal flaw: you don't own it. Your stuff is housed on Google's servers, and this is just out of the question for a lot of companies.
Which brings us to Movable Type, which I think is the real winner here. First, it handles the posts/pages thing well, you can set up multiple blogs and allow individual permissions to each, and then there's the biggest benefit of all: MT is a data push system — basically a big code generator. It's written in Perl, but will effectively publish to anything.
A lot of companies are bound to .Net. It's not their fault, but they're Windows shops and all their stuff is in .Net. It's in this environment where I think Movable Type would really shine because it can generate ASP.Net Web forms.
Gadgetopia uses MT to generate PHP files — why couldn't it generate Web forms? Remember that it would just need to generate the Web form — all of the pages it generated could extend from the same code-behind.
This way, everyone consuming your intranet stays solidly in the world of .Net. All your hard-fought Windows user controls could still be in the pages (using Builderoo or some other tools, you could even get user controls embedded in posts), and you could use all of the other .Net integration goodness that the rest of your company runs on.
And this brings me back to my original point: there is a huge number of organizations out there for which a copy of Movable Type and a well-designed template would be an utterly massive improvement on their ability to share information.
I have built two intranets now using a mid-range CMS — it cost both companies about $40,000 in software alone. Looking back, I'm struck that they're not doing much more or less than they could do with a copy of Movable Type.
This may sound simplistic, but take your organization and a single installation of Movable Type. Give every department their own blog, in which they can manage posts, pages, and media files (have you seen MT 4 yet? It does supporting files quite well).
Suddenly, every department has a simple announcement list (with RSS, even), and the ability to create whatever reference pages they need. This would solve a huge number of issues for the majority of companies struggling with their intranets.
Sure, there are higher-level functions that MT wouldn't do well — things like a company directory, or a repository of policies and procedures. But in my experience, this stuff is often done in the main CMS anyway. The company directory is probably better served out of Active Directory, and policies and procedures are becoming more specialized with DITA and Docbook and other methodologies.
And of course, we could sit here all day and make up scenarios that would embarrass our humble little blogging platform, but that still doesn't help the organization I consulted with two weeks ago. Even after multiple tries, their intranet is such a mess that they've given up and just they now post announcements to the bulletin board in the hallway and hope people see them.
Movable Type certainly wouldn't solve all their problems, but it would solve most of them, and involve less pushpins.
More Great Wikipedia Coverage: Hurricane Ivan
James Robertson says:
I'm all for keeping intranet technology simple, but I think this misses the point.
I've identified four fundamental purposes for an intranet:
I would see a lightweight publishing solution such as Movable Type as being a pretty good fit for the communication component, but perhaps not the rest.
The content aspect needs to be supported by decentralised authoring, and MT just doesn't do this in a scalable way.
The collaboration aspect pretty much always needs to be supported by additional software, whether it's wikis or SharePoint.
The activity aspect is the big gap, as it is for most intranets. If the intranet is just a "place for reading stuff", it won't succeed. Instead, it also needs to be a "place for doing stuff", and this obviously isn't MT.
In summary, we need to take a broader view of intranets, if they are to be valuable and used. This doesn't necessarily mean more complex (or more expensive!) software, but it does mean we need to be careful about not getting trapped in one particular box.
PS. you can read an earlier article describing was then the "three purposes of an intranet" here:
http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/cmb_threepurposes/index.html
Cheers, James
James, I'm going to argue a couple points —
This scenario is targeted at the myriad companies that have nothing at all to work with — maybe I should have been more clear about that.
While I agree with your idea of the intranet being a place to "do stuff," there are countless organizations that can't even manage a list of announcements. These organizations lose sight of their most basic need (communication), bite off more than they can chew when planning and building something, and never get back to the first thing they needed out of an intranet in the first place.
Additionally, the concept of "doing stuff" is often not at all connected to a CMS anyway. When was the last time you changed your investment plan allocations within the bounds of a CMS? The tons of little mini-apps that exist on the average intranet are often custom-coded, so they exist apart from the CMS anyway.
We're getting into a larger question here of just what an intranet consists of. Is it a single thing that is served by your CMS? Or is it a broad survey of resources within the bounds of your companies network? I pick the latter, which means that any CMS is only part of any intranet solution — one cog in a much larger machine.
From this perspective, you're right — Movable Type would just handle one piece of the puzzle. But it's an important piece. It's usually the first thing people think of when they think "intranet," it's invariably the biggest bang for the buck that provides the most benefit for the least investment, and will often end up being the springboard on which they build the "activity" intranet you speak of.
Ian Stalvies says:
I think MT can still be useful as part of the puzzle for large companies, reason being it's LIGHTWEIGHT. Quite a few places I've seen combine a massive, cumbersome CMS with an obsessively centralised intranet policy – often meaning a hideous publishing process through different environments and layers of bureaucracy. Apps like SP can of course get around this with the right policy, but too often the dedication just isn't there (ie, they throw Sharepoint up "as is" leading to massive link lists …)
"Collaboration" is an interesting topic, internally this seems to be a buzzword mirroring "Web 2.0" in the outside world … dazzling technology, but what is it REALLY used for? Great potential users are stuff like voting systems on ideas, or SP connecting project elements (tasks, calendars etc …) to the user's everyday tools. But again, sometimes this stuff is just thrown up there with the idea that staff will just … em … "collaborate" via blogs and wikis, without a purpose. Cheers :o)


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Hegge steht für:
 Hegge (Ortschaft), Ort in Norwegen
 Hegge (Waltenhofen), Ortsteil der Gemeinde Waltenhofen, Landkreis Oberallgäu, Bayern
 einen Höhenzug im Nieheim-Brakeler Bergland im Oberwälder Land (zwischen dem Eggegebirge und der Weser), in den Gemarkungen Gehrden und Siddessen der Gemeinde Brakel und der Gemarkung Niesen der Stadt Willebadessen, auf dessen Westhang das Gut Charlottenhof liegt
 einen ehemaligen Bahnhof an der Bahnstrecke Buchloe–Lindau (Kempten-Hegge genannt, obwohl zu Waltenhofen gehörig)
 Die Hegge, eine überkonfessionelle Tagungsstätte für Erwachsenenbildung im Kreis Höxter

Hegge ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Christoph Hegge (* 1962), deutscher Geistlicher, römisch-katholischer Weihbischof
 Inger Lise Hegge (* 1965), norwegische Skilangläuferin
 Jacob Hegge (16. Jahrhundert), deutscher evangelischer Theologe und Reformator
 Odd Grüner-Hegge (1899–1973), norwegischer Komponist, Pianist und Dirigent
 Ole Hegge (1898–1994), norwegischer Skilangläufer

Siehe auch:
 Hecke (Begriffsklärung)
 Hege
 Hegg


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Home Africa Live Egypt increases fuel prices, as part of austerity measures
Egypt increases fuel prices, as part of austerity measures
A petrol station attendant fuels a car at a gas station in Cairo
Egypt announced on Saturday steep increases in fuel and cooking gas prices as part of the country's economic reforms and austerity measures designed to overhaul the country's ailing economy.
The new prices went into effect on Saturday morning, the Ministry of Oil said in a statement.
Prices for cooking gas increased from 60 to 100 pounds (from $3.3 to $5.6) per cylinder, a more than 60% increase.
Ninety-two octane gasoline increased from 5 pounds to 6.75 pounds per liter, or about a 34% increase. Eighty octane gas increased from 3.65 to 5.5 pounds, nearly a 50% increase per liter.
This is the third time the government has increased fuel prices since austerity measures were announced late 2015. The move is likely to send prices soaring further.
The authorities made the increases as Egyptians have been celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that comes at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. They fear the hikes could cause protests such as when dozens of people demonstrated against an increase in fares for the Cairo metro in May.
In recent weeks, authorities raised metro fares by up to 250%, drinking water by up to 45% and electricity by 26%.
The hikes come as Egypt presses ahead with a broader economic reform program that has included slashing subsidies, imposing a value-added tax and a currency flotation. The measures were aimed at qualifying for a three-year $12bn bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund, which Egypt secured in 2016.
The tough austerity measures have won praise from economists and business leaders but have come as a heavy blow to poor and middle-class Egyptians.
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the architect of the economic reforms – which none of his predecessors dared implement – defended his government's decisions to slash subsidies.
He said that the government spends some $18.6bn a year on subsidies to cover fuel, food and electricity. Each family receives an average of about $60, he said.
Egypt's economy is still recovering from unrest following the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak.
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More progress on the Truax Dam removal on Saugeen River.
A public meeting will be held in Walkerton, Ontario Fire Hall on October 5, 2016 at 7PM in regards to the Truax Dam removal.
Just an opinion on one big MNR screw-up.
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Caterpillar introduces its first-ever Cat utility vehicles – the CUV82 (gasoline model) and CUV102D (diesel engine). Both models feature rugged steel cargo beds and offer 1,000-lb. total rear cargo capacity and 2,000-lb. towing capacity. The new CUV082 and CUV102D utility vehicles boast a four-wheel independent suspension system with a front sway bar to provide unmatched stability at full load. A long swing-arm suspension, custom-tuned springs and shocks deliver a balance between a smooth ride and hauling loads. Ample ground clearance ensures these vehicles navigate rough terrain with ease.
These new Cat UTVs efficiently complete hauling tasks, quickly maneuvering over rugged terrain at the worksite at speeds reaching 45 mph, depending on model. The CUV82 is powered by a 0.8L three-cylinder gasoline engine delivering 50 hp, while a 1.0L three-cylinder diesel engine delivers 25 hp power to the CUV102D. The CUV82 and CUV102D comfortably seat two riders side-by-side with ample leg, elbow and headroom for tall riders. Customers can customize their Cat UTVs through more than 50 accessory options. Multiple cab options with sealed surfaces on the ROPS structure provide a weather tight enclosure, while other offerings include snowplows, heater, front winch and power dump. Cat UTVs are prewired for quick do-it-yourself installation of all options.
The National Hispanic Landscape Alliance (NHLA) is encouraging landscape professionals to proclaim their pride in being "Green Collared." The NHLA is offering landscape professionals the opportunity to purchase a "Proud to be Green Collared, Making America MORE than Beautiful" bumper sticker for $5. All proceeds will go towards student scholarships for those preparing themselves for a career as a landscape professional.
Weathermatic appointed Fred March president for its wholesale irrigation division. Fred March has been employed by Weathermatic the past 15 years, and represented the company in the western United States. Dave Estey, a Vermont native, recently joined Massachusett-based Arborjet Inc. as product marketing manager. He comes to Arborjet after working as director of product development at Propel Marketing.
Arborwell, Inc., a tree care company with 200 employees, recently announced that it has completed the transition to employee ownership by becoming a 100 percent Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Trust, effective January 1, 2017. Peter Sortwell, founder of Arborwell, views this as a natural step, consistent with his recognition of the contributions of each employee in the success of the company, and his desire to share the rewards of that success. "I acquired a very small residential operation in 2001, and in the years since, our employees have been instrumental in driving not only tremendous growth, but exceptional professionalism," says Arborwell founder Peter Sortwell.
The The Harvest Group recently announced the Harvesters' Virtual Peer Group. The group, meeting monthly via phone, provides business owners the opportunity to talk with peers in similar-sized companies about the everyday challenges of running a company. Lead by Fred Haskett, The Harvesters' Virtual Peer Group brings together groups of eight to 12 fellow contractor-related businesses from different geographic areas. Also, Adam Linnemann, president of Linnemann Lawn Care & Landscaping Inc. near St. Louis, and Phil Harwood of Pro-Motion Consulting also announced they are starting and will be co-facilitating landscape industry peer groups.
The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) presented the Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation, & Open Spaces Department with the Green Leadership City Award. "For nearly ten years, the Miami-Dade parks department has maintained the community's greenspaces with propane mowers, which reduce emissions and greenhouse gases that can be harmful for the public. They should be commended for that effort," said Tucker Perkins, president and CEO of PERC, which donated $5,000 to the Parks Foundation of Miami-Dade.
Redexim North America has announced the addition of Troy von Holdt as the National Sales Manager. His main objective is to act as the primary support role for Redexim's wide customer base by adding value to our dealerships and end user experiences. Troy comes to Redexim from Land Pride-Kubota, prior having spent over 8 years with Redexim, in direct end user sales and as a Regional Sales Manager. In total, von Holdt has 18 years experience in the golf, turf and equipment industry.
PROFILE Products LLChas announced that Adam Dibble, senior marketing and erosion control brand manager, recently achieved the designation as a Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control In-Training (CPESC-IT). Dibble joined Profile in 2009 and has a bachelor's degree in business and marketing from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. Dibble is also on the 2016-2019 Board of Directors for the International Erosion Control Association (IECA). Dibble also became a Certified Erosion, Sediment and Stormwater Inspector (CESSWI) in 2015. The CPESC designation recognizes expert knowledge in the principles, practices and legislation of erosion and sediment control. Those with the CPESC certification have demonstrated the ability to observe, evaluate and synthesize information related to Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs), Erosion and Sediment Control plans, installation of erosion and sediment control practices and other related activities such as assisting regulators, authoring handbooks or educating the public. The In-Training designation recognizes professionals who are continuing their education and have completed the first portion of the challenging, two-part exam.
Norlift JCB, a division of Norlift, Inc. in Spokane, Washington, is the newest member of JCB's growing North American dealer network. The dealership is located in the heart of Spokane's industrial and commercial business district at 512 North Fancher Road. Since 1970, Norlift, Inc. has sold material handling equipment to the Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho regions. Now, as Norlift JCB, the company will sell and service JCB's compact excavators, skid steer loaders, compact track loaders, small telehandlers and the one-of-a-kind JCB Teleskid, the first skid steer with a telescopic boom for increased versatility and accessibility. Norlift JCB will also offer used equipment acquired via trade-ins and rental fleet sales.
Planting trees, improving grass play areas and painting backstops in November doesn't seem to fit with the season when leaves and temperatures are falling, but the transformation of Detroit's Pingree Park is starting to bloom right before the eyes of neighborhood residents. Project EverGreen in collaboration with local business partners, including Troy-Michigan-based Magna International, community groups and the City of Detroit, started the renewal of the 18-acre park November 3-4 when about 200 volunteers pruned and planted trees, filled in ruts in the natural grass playing area, painted backstops and removed weeds and sticks from the playground.
Target Specialty Products, a leading national wholesale distributor of turf & ornamental and pest control products, is partnering with Scotts to develop a complete line of new professional turf products backed by Scotts PRO technology and the latest advancements in turfgrass management. The marketing agreement will allow Target Specialty Products the exclusive ability to co-brand with the Scotts PRO logo and related marks and will further strengthen Target Specialty Products' position in the marketplace and its product offerings to customers.
Arborjet Inc. has announced that Dave Estey has joined the company as Product Marketing Manager. In this role, Estey will be responsible for positioning Arborjet's products in the marketplace, executing strong go-to-market campaigns and managing product lifecycles. Prior to his role at Arborjet, Estey worked as Director of Product for national marketing agency Propel Marketing, now ThriveHive, and was a Senior Content Strategist at C-4 Analytics, a digital marketing services company. He holds a BA in communications with a minor in writing from Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire.
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Fidget Spinners for $6 at the Olive Bar!
It turns out that they don't just do Olive Oil at the Olive Bar! Who knew?
The Olive Bar just got in a special shipment of one of the summers' hottest items: fidget spinners. Come on down and get them! Only $6 and $7! Offer good while supplies last.
Of course, we've got some amazing Olive Oil, Balsamic Vinegars, and Cold Pressed Coconut Oil that you simply can't get enough of as well.


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New Bus Driver Training
Location: Edisto High School Auditorium
A classroom admission form will be required for all participants. These forms may be picked up at the area transportation offices. Contact Orangeburg County Transportation Department if you have questions, 803-534-5454.
OCSD5 Congratulates All Graduates of
Openings for 2019-2020:
Orangeburg County School District
FOR A LIST OF ALL VACANCIES & TO APPLY
Teachers: Must be SC certified and/or highly qualified or eligible
for SC certification in the area of education.
OCSD5 Administrative Offices Move to
New District Office Building
The offices of the Superintendent, the Human Resources Department, and the Public Information Department have moved from their former locations on Ellis Avenue to the site of the new District Office for Orangeburg Consolidated School District Five (OCSD5) located at 102 Founders Court in Orangeburg. The move became effective on May 20, 2019.
In the weeks ahead, additional offices and personnel will be relocated to the new District Office building. The district will announce these changes as they occur on the district's website at www.ocsd5.net and also on the district's Facebook and Twitter pages.
The telephone numbers and email addresses for staff located in the new District Office building remain unchanged. The new mailing address for the District Office is: 102 Founders Court, Orangeburg, SC 29118.
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OCTV Launches New Website, Viewing
Options Expanded and Enhanced
Orangeburg Consolidated School District Five (OCSD5) and the County of Orangeburg have partnered to create a new website that brings our local cable television signal and our library of video programming to anyone with an Internet connection. The address for the new Orangeburg County Television (OCTV) website is: www.orangeburgcountytv.com.
You can watch OCTV on Channel 1301 on the Spectrum Cable System or by following directions provided on Channel 99 on the AT&T U-Verse System. Don't have cable services? You can also watch OCTV at the website www.orangeburgcountytv.com . At the website you'll also find a program schedule and an archive of video content that is available to be viewed "on-demand".
Visitors to the website have the ability to view the live signal that is being broadcast on OCTV or select from any of the items in the video library for "on-demand" viewing. Check the website frequently as new video content is being added every week.
We hope you enjoy the Orangeburg Consolidated School District 5 website. A lot of work and attention goes into streamlining the website's navigation menus and in reorganizing the way information is categorized to improve the online experience of every OCSD5 website visitor. We hope you will find it to be a valuable resource. Pages feature class descriptions, documents, homework assignments, presentations, research links, multimedia, and more. Teachers and staff members are updating their designs on their webpages periodically.
Our goal is to keep the website current and full of information. So check back with us frequently to see the latest news about our schools and to learn about upcoming activities. As always, we welcome your suggestions and feedback at publicrelations@ocsd5.net .
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1. 'I bet you look good on the dancefloor' – Arctic Monkeys, 2005.
2. 'Seven nation army' – The White Stripes, 2003.
3. 'Paper planes' – M.I.A., 2008.
4. 'Neighbourhood#1 (Tunnels)' – Arcade Fire, 2004.
5. 'Get lucky' – Daft Punk, 2013.
6. 'Viva la vida' – Coldplay, 2008.
7. 'Crazy in love' – Beyoncé, 2003.
8. 'Take me out' – Franz Ferdinand, 2004.
9. 'Things have changed' – Bob Dylan, 2000.
10. 'Lonely boy' – Black Keys, 2011.
11. 'Back to black' – Amy Winehouse, 2006.
12. 'Last nite'- The Strokes, 2001.
13. 'Where are we now?' – David Bowie, 2013.
14. 'All my friends' – LCD Sounsystem, 2007.
15. 'Clint Eastwood' – Gorillaz, 2001.
16. 'Time for heroes' – The Libertines, 2003.
17. 'We found love' – Rihanna, 2011.
18. 'Skinny love' – Bon Iver, 2008.
19. 'Crazy' – Gnarls Barkley, 2006.
20. 'Such a great heights' – The Postal Service, 2003.
21. 'Float on' – Modest Mouse, 2004.
22. 'Your love alone is not enought' – Manic Street Preachers, 2007.
23. 'Rolling in the deep' – Adele, 2011.
24. 'Mr. Brightside' – The Killers, 2004.
25. 'New slaves' – Kanye West, 2013.
26. 'The rip' – Portishead, 2008.
27. 'Kids' – MGMT, 2005.
28. 'Weak become heroes' – The Streets, 2002.
29. 'Can't get you out of my head' – Kylie Minogue, 2001.
30. 'Handshake drugs' – Wilco, 2004.
31. 'Feel good hit of the summer' – Queens Of The Stone Age, 2000.
32. 'Find the torch, burn the plans' – Paul Weller, 2010.
33. 'Crystal' – New Order, 2001.
34. 'Under the westway' – Blur, 2012.
35. 'Everything in its right place' – Radiohead, 2000.
36. 'Manhattan' – Cat Power, 2012.
37. 'White winter hymnal' – Fleet foxes, 2008.
38. 'In the dark places' – PJ Harvey, 2011.
39. 'My girls' – Animal Collective, 2009.
40. 'Chicago' – Sufjan Stevens, 2006.
41. 'Cry me a river' – Justin Timberlake, 2012.
42. 'Lisztomania' – Phoenix, 2009.
43. 'Grounds for divorce' – Elbow, 2008.
44. 'Video games' – Lana Del Rey, 2011.
45. 'The rising' – Bruce Springsteen, 2002.
46. 'Hung up' – Madonna, 2005.
47. 'American idiot' – Green Day, 2004.
48. 'Maps' – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 2004.
49. 'Santa Maria da feira' – Devendra Banhart, 2005.
50. 'A song for the lovers' – Richard Ashcroft, 2000.


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The Dell XPS 13 is often considered one of the best ultraportable PCs on the market. Like every year, 2018 sees the arrival of a new model on the market which must honor the range. And it is not this year that Dell will be left behind by the competition.
In the field of laptops, Dell XPS are what we can call safe values. The 13-inch model, already present on the market for many years, has always been able to evolve with innovations. The latest is the edge-to-edge screen, which always impresses. With this XPS 13 2018 edition, Dell changes its formula little and seeks above all to offer an efficient PC, with updated components and improvements as discreet as effective.
Unsurprisingly, the Texan manufacturer delivers a computer that never fails and is surprising on a few points. In short, the Dell XPS 13 (2018) is the culmination of a range that manages to achieve excellence every year.
Regarding design, the Dell XPS 13 changes little compared to the 2017 model and blends in with the visual identity that characterizes the range. If it has gained a few curves, in particular at the angles to remind the very first XPS, it takes again the finish in brushed aluminum and the black edges in carbon fiber.
The real change in design is actually invisible from the outside. Dell has in fact chosen to place Gore-Tex, a material with breathable properties used among other things in mountain clothing. The point here is to dissipate the heat even better, as we will see below. The XPS 13 (2018) also keeps its "classic" laptop look, very "pro" oriented. We are not dealing here with a convertible PC or two-in-one, but with a laptop format. Note: this is not the case with our test model, but Dell also offers a version equipped with a touch screen.
By opening the PC, the user comes across a very well finished keyboard. In carbon fiber, the keyboard part is very pleasant to the touch and we find the feeling of specific softness to the range. Here, Dell has included what it calls a "magnetic key" keyboard that theoretically provides better typing - the keys only sink when the user presses well in the center. In practice, typing is at first sight extremely confusing; it does not reveal its potential until after a certain time of use, to finally become very effective and pleasant. The trackpad is classic for its part, up to the previous models, that is to say well integrated and very comfortable to use.
On the connection side, the USB-A disappears in favor of "all USB-C". There are thus three ports on the sides, including two Thunderbolt 3 and a USB-C 3.1. In addition, there is a microSD card reader and a jack. Excluding connectors, we also note on the sides the presence of 5 small LEDs indicating the battery level of the ultraportable, without it being necessary to open or turn it on. Convenient. Last point: Dell accompanies his PC with a USB 3.0 to USB-C adapter.
The use of Gore-Tex to keep the chassis cool proves its effectiveness during our test. Tested according to our protocol (Unigine Heaven benchmark loop for one hour), the XPS 13 (2018) knows how to manage its temperature perfectly. Only the rear grille rises to 46 ° C at a specific point, while the rest of the PC is limited to 39 ° C. Noise side, the PC does not exceed 40 dB, an honest score for an ultraportable as thin, but a little high all the same. The breath is therefore audible, although discreet and not very annoying.
Ultimately, the improvements of the Dell XPS 13 are tenuous compared to the previous model, but very present. The result is a computer that is still as well designed and very pleasant to use.
The screen is one of the highlights of the Dell XPS 13 since 2015 and, in 2018, the "wow" effect is still there. Our test model is equipped with a 13.3-inch (33.8 cm) glossy IPS non-touch screen with a definition of 1,920 x 1,080 px. It should be noted that Dell also offers a version equipped with a 4K and touch screen. This year, Dell announces that it has gained another 5% on the edges of its screen, which brings the screen / frontage ratio to 87%. A very impressive score, the highest we have had so far.
Delta E colors = 3.2 Contrast 1535: 1 Temperature 7130 K
Under our probe, the Dell XPS reveals an excellent screen, which however lacks nothing to be exceptional: the contrast, excellent, ensures good vision of the details; the average Delta E stands at 3.2, a very good score which attests to faithful colors, and the brightness is high, at 466 cd / m². The only disappointment is the color temperature which, at 7,130 K, is quite far from the 6,500 K reference, which results in a slight bluish drift. The remanence is finally 24 ms; it's high but it has little importance for this kind of PC, which is not dedicated to video games.
Our test copy of the Dell XPS is equipped with an Intel Core i5-8250U processor supported by 8 GB of RAM. Note that it also exists in Core i7 with a maximum of 16 GB of RAM. Not surprisingly, it is equivalent to its competitors equipped with a CPU of the same generation, without however being extraordinarily powerful.
After our usual battery of tests (file compression, video and audio conversion, 3D calculation and processing of several photos), the Dell XPS 13 (2018) reaches the index of 139. It is therefore placed just behind the Lenovo Yoga 920 equipped of the same processor, and almost on par with the Acer Swift 5, also equipped with a Core i5-8250U. The solid performances will be able to support advanced office automation tasks requiring a certain computing power, as well as photo or video editing.
Note, the XPS 13 (2018) has an Intel HD 620 iGPU that will be able to run small games with very little power consumption, no more.
The 2018 Dell XPS 13 is not the lightest ultraportable on the market with its 1.21 kg, but its weight remains reasonable and it can be transported everywhere without difficulty, especially since it comes with 'a very small charger.
In terms of autonomy, the Dell XPS 13 (2018) is doing very well and there is a clear progress compared to previous models. During our usual test protocol (Netflix on Chrome, headphones plugged in, backlight off, brightness at 200 cd / m²), the Dell ultraportable took 9 hours and 42 minutes to shut down. It is still far from the champion in the field, the HP Specter x360 (2017) with its 12 hours 02 of autonomy, but it is in a very good average for its category.
The speakers, trapped in the computer chassis, have tiny grids to communicate with the outside. This results in far too high distortion, therefore an aggressive sound. To this is added to a very unbalanced rendering, which certainly guarantees a certain intelligibility to the vocal remarks but does not respect their timbre. As for power, it is relatively low; however, audio software preinstalled on the PC saves the furniture.
The headphone jack, on the other hand, offers a very satisfactory rendering. Our measurements reveal above average results, whether in terms of distortion, dynamics (difference between the weakest and loudest sounds) or crosstalk (width of the stereophonic scene).
Always in excellence, the Dell XPS 13 improves from year to year, in small touches. So certainly, we could blame the Texan manufacturer for a lack of risk taking on this 2018 version, but in the end we can only forgive him, as this ultraportable convinces. Screen, design, finishes: the Dell XPS 13 (2018) is again an excellent vintage, which shows Dell's expertise in the field of ultraportables in Windows 10.
Intel Core-5-8250U
, HDD: 256 Go
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Lenovo Yoga 720-15IKB: the 2-in-1 with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 card
Razer Blade 15: hot ahead!
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HP Elitebook 840 G5: a solid ultraportable PC for professionals


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Patrick Wensink (born 1979) is an American author.

His novel Broken Piano for President received increased publicity when the whiskey company Jack Daniel's Properties (a subsidiary of Brown–Forman) sent a politely worded cease-and-desist letter to the author asking that he change the design of his book cover, which closely resembled the label on Jack Daniel's whiskey. However, the whiskey company said it could be done upon the book's next reprinting and it would compensate the author if he chose to comply during the current run.

The controversy propelled Broken Piano for President to the #6 bestseller position and the #1 positions for satires on Amazon.com. In an article on Huffington Post, Wensink used this experience as a model for how books can gain publicity.

His other books include Sex Dungeon for Sale! and Black Hole Blues.

References

External links
Patrick Wensink Official Website
Chicago Center for Literacy and Photography Review of ''Broken Piano for President
Patrick Wensink celebrates book The Courier Journal May 31, 2012
Interview with Patrick Wensink
Review of Broken Piano for President The Fanzine April 5, 2012

1979 births
Living people
American male writers


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Городско́е поселе́ние Лотошино́ — упразднённое муниципальное образование (городское поселение) в Лотошинском муниципальном районе Московской области.

Включало 43 населённых пункта, крупнейший из которых — посёлок городского типа Лотошино.

История
В ходе муниципальной реформы, проведённой после принятия федерального закона 2003 года «Об общих принципах организации местного самоуправления в Российской Федерации», в Московской области были сформированы городские и сельские поселения.

Городское поселение Лотошино было образовано 1 января 2006 года согласно закону Московской области от 28 февраля 2005 г. № 59/2005-ОЗ «О статусе и границах Лотошинского муниципального района и вновь образованных в его составе муниципальных образований».

В состав городского поселения вошли посёлок городского типа Лотошино и ещё 42 сельских населённых пункта Кировского, Михалёвского, Монасеинского и Ушаковского сельских округов. Старое деление на сельские округа было отменено позже, в 2006 году.

26 мая 2019 года Лотошинский муниципальный район был упразднён, а все входившие в него городские и сельские поселения объединены в новое единое муниципальное образование —  городской округ Лотошино.

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Gators finish third at Windy City Classic
(10/06/21 12:14am)
The Florida women's golf team began this year's campaign off without skipping a beat, finishing on the podium in each of its first two tournaments. The team arrived in Wilmette, Illinois, for the Windy City Classic with the allure of a tournament win in its sights.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/10/gators-finish-third-at-windy-city-classic
Gators men's golf finishes 12th at Colonial Collegiate Invitational
The Florida Gators men's golf team experienced some growing pains to start the 2021-2022 campaign.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/10/gators-mens-golf-finishes-12th-at-colonial-collegiate-invitational
Focus, drive prepare Ricky Castillo for junior season
(10/04/21 12:31pm)
Ricky Castillo played his final round of the spring season in Glendale, Arizona, competing for an individual title in the final round at the NCAA national championship.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/10/focus-drive-prepare-ricky-castillo-for-junior-season
Women's golf competes at Windy City Classic
If the Florida women's golf team has been anything in this season so far, it's consistent. Finishing third in both of their opening meets after sitting in fifth at the end of the first round, the Gators hope to maintain their status at the top of leaderboards going forward, and potentially avoid the opening-round slumps they have been plagued with.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/10/womens-golf-competes-at-windy-city-classic
Florida men's golf seeks improvement at Colonial Collegiate Invitational
The Florida men's golf team entered this season with high expectations, but did not reach those heights in the opening meet of the season.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/10/florida-mens-golf-seeks-improvement-at-colonial-collegiate-invitational
Gators finish in third at the Mason Rudolph Championship
Another shaky opening day, another rebound
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/09/gators-finish-in-third-at-the-mason-rudolph-championship
Florida women's golf travels to Nashville for Mason Rudolph Classic
The Florida Gators women's golf team impressed at the opening meet of the year, finishing in third place at the Cougar Classic in Charleston, South Carolina. Now at the Mason Rudolph Championship in Nashville, Tennessee, it's time to foster the consistency the team will need throughout the taxing season.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/09/florida-womens-golf-travels-to-nashville-for-mason-rudolph-classic
Gators softball releases 2022 SEC schedule
(09/23/21 6:03pm)
After losing to the Alabama Crimson Tide in the championship game of the SEC Tournament last spring, the Florida Gators softball team will be on the hunt for a shot at redemption in 2022. The team will get that chance on familiar grass.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/09/gators-softball-releases-2022-sec-schedule
Gators men's golf finishes tied for eighth at Fighting Illini Invitational
The Florida Gators men's golf team opened its season this weekend in the windy city. Competing at the Fighting Illini Invitational, hosted by Illinois, head coach J.C. Deacon and his team hoped to begin their campaign on a high note.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/09/gators-mens-golf-finishes-tied-for-eighth-at-fighting-illini-invitational
Florida men's golf preview: Run it back
The Florida men's golf coach JC Deacon told FloridaGators.com after failing to advance to match play at the NCAA Championships last May that he was already brainstorming ideas of how the team can improve this summer.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/09/florida-mens-golf-preview-run-it-back
Gators finish third at Cougar Classic
The Florida women's golf team started its season in the Palmetto State this week, competing at the Cougar Classic in Charleston, South Carolina. In a competition that saw more than five teams grab a share of first place at some point, Florida ended up with a third-place finish behind Baylor and Arkansas Tuesday.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/09/gators-finish-third-at-cougar-classic
Gators golfers shine in offseason
The summer of 2020 was not a good time for golf. The COVID-19 pandemic rampaged through the world, and most clubhouses closed their doors and organizations postponed their events. After a full season, business boomed again in the summer of 2021 as Gators golfers sharpened their games in the offseason once more.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/09/gators-golfers-shine-in-offseason
Florida women's golf preview: Returning talent looks to bounce back
For head coach Emily Glaser, the 2021-22 season carries extra weight as her 10th season leading the Gators women's golf team. Her team's previously young core has its sights set on Arizona as it looks to take a step forward from a disappointing outing at NCAA regionals a season ago.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2021/09/florida-womens-golf-preview-returning-talent-looks-to-bounce-back


A unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets, smuggling drugs across several borders, and losing a $50 million fortune to the CIA, before settling into a stellar banking career. Looking back on a life well lived as he faces terminal illness, he swears that the key to his success was his grueling training as a Buddhist monk in a snowbound Japanese monastery.
The dawn was shortly to break through the light mist. Wearing only a T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops, with neither money nor passport, I trudged along the tracks of the railway, taking two sleepers at a time and doing my best to stay calm. It was four o'clock in the morning and I was alone in the middle of the Gobi Desert. The Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator, was four hundred miles to the north-west, and Beijing was the same distance to the south-east. I had known many disconcerting, isolated situations in my life, but I had never felt such disquiet as I did now. It was only my second time in China, but I was painfully aware that it had become a ruthless, unsentimental place during the Cultural Revolution, where life was cheap. Anything could happen to me, and nobody would care that I was just a hapless traveller with a potentially fatal sense of curiosity. I cursed the folly that had got me into this predicament.
Up ahead, I heard a light ting-ting-ting sound. It was a sign of life, and it sounded unthreatening, so I hastened towards it. As the sound grew louder, I saw a figure bending over the rails. It was a rail-tapper, dressed in standard-issue Chairman Mao suit and cap, tap-tap-tapping the track to test for cracks in the metal. I emerged out of the mist and said good morning to him in the best Mandarin I could muster. To my consternation, instead of greeting me back, he screamed in terror, dropped his hammer and ran off as fast his legs would carry him.
Now I had really blown it. I could just imagine him calling the police and bringing out all the local villagers to search for me. Since I had no papers on me, I could see myself being thrown into a bamboo cage and paraded through the town, while the villagers threw rotten vegetables at me. But I had missed my train and there wouldn't be another one for a week. What the hell was I going to do?
The only other time I had visited China was in 1964, on a fleeting call at Shanghai on a freighter. Now, following the conclusion of the Cultural Revolution, my wife and I had managed to get a two-week transit visa through this magnificent country on the Trans-Siberian Railway. That meant starting the journey in Mongolia, where we stayed with the British ambassador in Ulan Bator. We then embarked on the train ride across four hundred miles of undulating grassland steppes to the Chinese border.
It was around 3am by the time we reached the border, where Outer Mongolia became Inner Mongolia and we were formally in China. We stopped at a small station before the next main station of Erenhot/Erlian. Being of a curious disposition, as well as wanting to stretch my legs, I got off for a wander around the station to see if I could find anyone to talk to. Marie-Thérèse called after me to keep an eye on the train to make sure I did not miss it, because this was only a weekly service. I told her not to worry. There was bound to be a whistle to call any passengers back on board.
There was no sign life on the platform but I walked around the back of the station building and found a fellow writing at a desk in an office. He nearly fell off his chair when he saw me, because a white face must have been such a rarity in those parts, but he knew I was a passenger from the train, so he was not too alarmed. We started exchanging Chinese ideograms by way of rudimentary communication. He asked who I was, and I wrote the word for England. We became fairly engrossed in our little conversation, so I completely lost track of the time, and it was with a sudden shock that I remembered my train. I had not heard any whistle, but I had been distracted, and in any case I was now completely out of sight and earshot of the platform. Giving him a cursory bow and wave, I hastened back to the platform. My heart sank as my worst fears were confirmed: the train was no longer there.
I looked frantically around for someone who might be able to help me but as I did so the lights started going out one by one. Trying not to panic, I headed back to the office where I had been talking to this fellow a few minutes earlier, but now that door was locked. The situation was turning rapidly into a nightmare.
There seemed to me no alternative but to start walking along the railway tracks in the direction of Beijing. There was a road at the front of the station, but I was mindful of the paranoid atmosphere in China: anyone seeing me wandering the highways might assume I had been dropped in by the CIA, and there was no knowing what might happen to me. Sticking to the track seemed the safest policy.
My encounter with the rail-tapper confirmed all my worst fears about the situation where foreigners were concerned. As this poor chap ran off into the dawn, I decided in my jittery state that the best thing was to return to the station, which might have opened again by now. But when I got there, it was still locked. I decided then to set off the other way along the tracks, the way we had come. Four hundred miles was an impossibly long distance on foot, but moving back in the direction of Ulan Bator felt better than staying where I was.
For as long as I could remember, I had woken up every morning and wondered what adventure the day would hold. The taste for it is in my blood. An ancestor on my father's side, despite being a wealthy landowner in Barbados, decided to become a pirate and was subsequently known as the Gentleman Pirate. He became an associate of the infamous Blackbeard and ended his life on the hangman's scaffold in Charles Town, South Carolina. My father, the son of a British army officer, was born in Tianjin, China, and my Anglo-Irish mother's family distinguished themselves in London, Ireland, the Americas and India. I myself was born in a farmhouse with no electricity, in the isolated British colony of Southern Rhodesia – now known as Zimbabwe. From my mother, a free-thinking quasi-mystic, who cut a striking figure in our remote colonial outpost, I had learned not to fear being an outsider, and to take risks at an early age. Had I now taken one risk too many?
Nearly twenty years earlier, I had abandoned the country of my birth and set off to be a medical student at Trinity College, Dublin, with which my mother's family had been involved since it was founded in 1592. After a year of studies, I decided that I was both not patient enough to deal with sick people for the rest of my life, and far too curious about the rest of the world to be restricted to this profession. So I left and began a six-year odyssey around the world. It took me from a cultural college in Germany to a Vancouver logging camp, from a stevedore's job in San Francisco to a mountaintop Buddhist monastery in Japan, from a jail cell in rural Oregon to an opium den in Laos, to crossing the Atlantic in a seven-metre sloop with no GPS to some serious climbing in the Canadian Rockies – and my accommodation ranged from one of the finest stately homes in England to the freezing floor of a Canadian public lavatory.
At every turn, I was driven by intense curiosity and had learned not to be daunted by physically difficult or emotionally isolating challenges. I had built up five businesses in Tokyo and then lost everything when the CIA threatened my life. Having been ordained as a lay Buddhist monk, I had learned to control my emotions by trying to minimise the demands of my ego, and I had never fallen prey to panic or despair.
But my current situation was as testing as any I had ever known. Where was my wife? Would we ever see each other again? If we did not, it would be entirely my fault.
After I had stumbled on for about three miles, I saw a large railway shed ahead of me with tracks going into it. The interior was brightly lit and full of noise, and my heart lifted, because now at least I might find some people to whom I could explain my predicament.
As I walked in, I saw an astonishing sight. On the train track in front of me sat a row of bogies – effectively the chassis and wheels of a train and nothing else – from which the carriage itself seemed to have been stripped away. I walked further into the shed and saw that the train itself was suspended ten feet off the ground, carriage by carriage, on a row of cranes. And there, at one of the windows, to my amazement and huge relief, was Marie-Thérèse, looking down at me, equally flabbergasted and delighted to see me.
The shed, it turned out, was a rail gauge-changing station: the Chinese use the standard international gauge but the Mongolians use the Russian one, which is about three and a half inches wider. That means that all carriages much be lifted off their bogies in a procedure that can take several hours. Because it was so laborious, it was no wonder that they ran so few trains on that line, but as my wife and I were joyously united, and as I prepared my speech of abject apology for not heeding her warning, I thanked my lucky stars that it all took so long. If the train really had gone off to Beijing without me, I am not at all confident I would have survived to tell the tale.
Forty years on, I am still telling my tales, but the time I have left to do so is limited. I was recently diagnosed with an incurable lung disease, which my specialists tell me, gives me only around two years to live.
I am generally calm about the prospect of dying. For this, I thank the Buddhist belief system which has enriched my life and helped me get through the toughest events in it. I have always focused on substance not form, being driven by curiosity, and attempting to minimise the demands of my ego. This three-part formula has served me well, leading to success in my business career as well as immense personal fulfilment. It surprises some people that I could be a committed Buddhist – I am ordained as a Zen monk – while holding senior positions in the business world and setting up multi-million-pound ventures. To me, there is no contradiction. The assumption that there should be derives from the common association of Buddhism with the kind of people who are most obviously drawn to it in the West. As a religious philosophy, it is not solely about chanting cross-legged to a soundtrack of wind chimes while preaching peace, love and harmony. If it were, how could Japan – where two-thirds of the population is Buddhist – ever have become the world's third largest economy? Rather, it is a belief system honed over more than two thousand years, which has an application to all areas of life. My aim in writing about my life's adventures is to provide a fuller and more complete account of this practical wisdom I learned in Japan, and to challenge some of those preconceptions about the spiritual teachings of the East.
The title, A Raindrop in the Ocean, refers to a Buddhist meditation koan or problem. It is partly a metaphysical enquiry: if a raindrop falls into the ocean, does it cease to exist? The answer is both yes and no: the raindrop is still there, but it is no longer an isolated thing, as it has lost the skin (aka ego) that was formerly around the water of the raindrop. This gives us a way of understanding how a person can have two apparently contradictory properties at the same time: the body/ego (form – a separate entity) and the soul (substance – part of the whole), which is a useful lesson for approaching the complexities of the world. It is thus a metaphor for the relationship between the individual and the rest of the world. It is about leaving the ego behind (the border demanding individual ego recognition) and accepting being an indivisible part of a greater whole. Before the monastery, I tried to eat life before it ate me , but since the monastery, I have tried to be dispassionately passionate – the dispassion is the removal of the ego, while the passion is absolutely necessary for communication with others and taking joy from being alive, which is not the monastic way. I still have a long way to go in achieving this latter goal.
I have spent my life since my monastic sojourn attempting to be a raindrop in the ocean. A great deal of enjoyment has been mine along the way, and the process has never been less than fascinating. Having learned to be fully engaged by life, I have not felt bored in a very long time.
It was a hot morning on the high-veld and I was in my usual garb of a pair of shorts and virtually nothing else, about to go off into the bush with one of the cattle herders, Twalika – my favourite, as he was always patient in explaining the ways of the bush and the wildlife that inhabited it. There were snakes everywhere, and I knew it was important to watch out for the puff adders that enjoyed basking in the sun while they lay in wait for small animals on the paths around my grandfather's farm. Unlike most other snakes, they were too sluggish to slither away, but they were not slow to bite, and their venom could easily kill a small boy. Nevertheless, six years old and fearless, I liked to run everywhere barefoot, and today was no exception. With a spear in my hand and my fox terrier, Toki, running on ahead, we set out on the path through my grandfather's tobacco fields. The rows of squat green plants were just coming into flower and the sweet scent of the pink blooms perfumed the air.
Beyond the village was an irrigation channel. It was dry at this time of year but it was a good route to follow and we now walked along its sun-baked path, humming a song I had learned from Nursey, who had sung the same songs to my father, and his brother and sister, when they were children in China. Some way along this channel was a spreading mahogany tree with just enough footholds for me to climb into the lower branches and survey the surrounding plateau. I hauled myself up, my bare toes curling nimbly around the bole, and settled into a comfortable perch, where I pulled from my pocket a slab of cake I had stolen from the kitchen. Toki looked up at me imploringly so I tore off a chunk and dropped it down to him, as well as giving a piece to Twalika. My vantage point was just high enough to see the low roof of our house, which my father had built from bricks that he and a team of village helpers had made from mud and straw and baked in the sun. Away to the north, too far to see, was my grandparents' farmhouse, which was larger than ours and full of treasures my grandfather had brought from the East. The one I liked best was a huge lacquered screen on which animals were painted: extraordinary creatures of a kind we did not have in Africa. There were tigers and griffins and dragons, and they puzzled me because I thought we had every conceivable animal on the farm. Glossing over the fact that several of them were mythological, my grandfather explained that they didn't live in our part of the world: rather, they lived in China. After hearing his explanation, I had decided that one day I would travel to Asia to see these exotic creatures for myself.
Until that day came, however, I still had plenty to explore on my doorstep. In the opposite direction from my grandfather's house, further along the irrigation channel, was one of the dams that the farm used for irrigation and fishing when it was full. Having realised he was not getting any more cake, Toki had wandered off in that direction and I decided I had better jump down and follow.
When we reached the dam, I could see my dog sniffing around a bulky object on the floor of the dry basin. It was hidden behind some stones, and from the stink and the cloud of flies, I assumed it was a dead animal.
Come away, Toki, I called.
He looked up to acknowledge my arrival, but it was clear he had no intention of leaving his noxious-smelling discovery alone. As Twalika and I approached, I tried to make out what kind of animal it could be. The most likely possibility was one of my grandfather's cattle, in which case Twalika would have to report this discovery to our headman. But the shape looked too small for that. Perhaps it was a calf. Bones were sticking out of what dark skin remained, and whatever it was looked as if it had already become a meal for the fish before the damn dried up. Twalika tried to persuade me to leave, as he was clearly very agitated. Holding my hand over my nose to try and fend off the stench, I tiptoed closer. Now, with horror, I saw that the shape was not the remains of a dead animal. I was looking at a dead body.
For all my fearless nature, I was trembling now.
Come here, Toki, I called, my voice shrill and hesitant in the eerie silence that seemed to have descended on this part of the bush.
Backing away, I grabbed Toki by the scruff of the neck to pull him with me, then began to run as fast as my bare feet would carry me back to our house, with Twalika following me closely.
I found my mother in the kitchen talking to our cook in Chilapalapa about lunch.
There's a dead man in the dam! I blurted out.
My mother was normally calm in a crisis, but she looked alarmed and promptly dispatched one of the kitchen boys to look for my father. Then she hugged me close and asked me to tell her precisely what I had seen, which I did.
What do you think killed him? I asked.
I knew there were lions and hyenas out there, because we could hear them at night, and I was under no illusions about the dangers of such wild creatures.
Let's wait until your father goes to find out, she said.
I did not know this at the time, but my mother knew at once that no animal had killed this man. It was impossible to recognise him but it was probable that he was a stranger to our farm. He had no doubt been murdered in order to harvest his organs so a witch-doctor could used them for his muti, or potions, in black magic rituals. The police were called, but nobody was ever charged because this kind of thing was a fact of life, albeit infrequent, in the bush of Southern Rhodesia. For me, as the discoverer of the body, it was a rough early awakening to the fact that life could be pretty brutal.
I also learned not entirely to dismiss black magic as primitive superstition. There was a time when one of the men on our farm became very ill. The local mini-clinic could do nothing for him so my father sent him off by bus to the general hospital in Salisbury, the capital, and monitored his health by public telephone. In those days of very limited long-distance communication, we had a system where one ring was for a neighbour twenty miles away, two were for a slightly closer neighbour, and three meant the call was for us. When the call came through, the hospital told us the man was definitely dying.
My father shook his head and looked at my mother. I'm sure it's black magic, he said.
He called in his headman and told him: I know perfectly well your wife is a witch-doctor. Bring her here at once.
The man looked at his feet.
If you don't, there will be very severe consequences, my father said.
His wife was duly brought to my father. I was standing watching when she arrived, fascinated to see what an actual witch would look like. But to my disappointment she looked no different from any of the other village women.
Have you put a spell on this man? my father wanted to know.
No, sir! she insisted. Honestly, I have not!
My father picked up his sjambok, a whip made of rolled hippopotamus hide, and raised it to make it clear he meant business. The threat had the desired effect and the woman changed her tune immediately.
All right, all right, she pleaded. I did put a spell on him, because he liked a girl and she liked him, but somebody else wanted her. That man paid me to put a spell on him. I will take the spell off now, I swear to you, sir. Please do not whip me.
She disappeared back to the village, and about three hours later we received a call from the general hospital some one hundred kilometres away. The man had got out of bed, they told us, and was coming home.
I have no idea how one explains that in a rational way. But incidents like it informed my world view as I grew up in this remote, unsophisticated outpost of the British Empire.
My grandfather had arrived in Southern Rhodesia in the 1920s. He was a brigadier-general who had lost a leg in the First World War. Like many men of his class and generation he had a nursery nickname that stuck with him for the rest of his life; his was Piglet. That may make him sound frivolous to modern ears, but in truth he was gruff and rather distant, as befitted a man who had spent the first half of his life in the Victorian era. Clean-shaven with a shiny bald head baked as a brown as the bricks of our house, he clumped around on his wooden leg, issuing orders in a military manner, and according his grandchildren a half-hour audience every day before his dinner. We referred to him as Grandpa, but to his face we called him 'Sir' – as indeed did our father.


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