The laid back and sedentary lifestyle that we lead make us prone to several health conditions that can put a lot of pressure on or spine and back.
We tend to ignore the pain that we experience in our lower back areas until it starts screaming at a chronic level for immediate attention. Even though the pain can be temporary, the care that our spine needs on a daily basis should be consistent.
Yoga for back pain is the most feasible care option that one can opt for to keep the discomfort and pain at bay. Though medical supervision is recommended if the pain has reached the chronic stage, practicing yoga on a daily basis can help in preventing the back and spine pain for good. In addition to bringing the strength to the back, the yoga poses discussed in this post can also help in improving blood circulation in spinal nerves.
Below are the most effective yoga poses to keep a check on back and spine pain.
Cat Pose Cat and cow pose is excellent for giving some massage to the spine and stretching the back completely in alignment with the torso. The cat and cow pose is also often referred to as the 'keep your back limber and happy asana' by yoga experts.
Though there are a lot of twisting poses in yoga that you can perform on a regular basis to bring some relief from the persisting back pain. But, if you are new to yoga poses for back pain then it is advisable to start with the spinal twist pose. It is a basic twist pose that does not put much strain on the back muscles but can bring relief to the back pain. The stretch that it provides to the back muscles makes the nerves relaxed and also improves the flow of energy.
Surely, one of the iconic poses in yoga methodology to bring relief from chronic pains, the downward dog pose is much more than just being a yoga pose for back pain relief. Performing this pose on a regular basis can rejuvenate the entire body, thus bringing relaxation to neck muscles, back, and the shoulder as well. This pose can also be a great healer tension and strain.
If you want to relax your body after a tiring day, then the child's pose is a great way to do that without putting in much effort. It can give the required stretch to your entire back and hip muscles. You will also be relieved from the fatigue your back muscles must be experiencing after the long and tiring sitting hours at work. The problem of back pain can be averted, only if we remember to provide enough stretch and strength to the back muscles. Preventing any discomfort to the pine muscles through yoga poses for back pain can be a key to having pain free life. So, instead of forcing your body into postures that bring more discomfort and pain to the back, try this simple yet beneficial yoga poses before your back problem seeks immediate medical attention.


This single monitor, articulating desk mount will open up usable desk space and with its integrated cable management clips you can keep your desk immaculate at the same time giving you the flexibility to adjust the height and angles of your monitor for optimal viewing angles. This exceptional desk mount provides you with the ability to swivel/rotate and tilt your LCD monitor up to 180 degrees with an easy height adjustment up to 17". This single full-motion, articulating arm desk mount will definitely provide you with more space on your desk as well as keep your desk more organized to help you to stay task oriented.
The MI-750 is constructed with a heavy-duty cold rolled steel with a black powder finish to make this mount scratch resistant. This desk mount was built tough to ensure the security of your monitor from sagging, which makes this one of the toughest, longest lasting desk mount on the market today.
The MI-750 features a single articulating arm that will support a flat LCD monitor between 13"- 27" with the weight capacity of 22lbs. This desk mount offers you a full-motion, articulating arm that swivels/rotates 180 degrees, with the ability to tilt up to 180 degrees. It comes with necessary hardware and manual.


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Curriculum Connections: Colonial and Revolutionary History, Native American and Indigenous History, Pontiac's War
These classroom materials were produced in conjunction with DAR Chicago Chapter on American Women or Early American History, 2022.
Download the Glossary here.Download
Rachel Banke, PhD, currently works as a Teaching Associate at the University of Illinois Laboratory High School (Uni High) in Urbana, Illinois, an innovative public school for talented and motivated students in the 8th-12th grades. Her experience includes teaching American, British, Atlantic, and world history classes at the secondary and university levels. She has previously taught at the University of Notre Dame, University of Missouri-Columbia, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, and Aurora University. Dr. Banke received her PhD in early American history from the University of Notre Dame with a dissertation entitled "Bute's Empire: Reform, Reaction, and the Roots of Imperial Crisis." She also recently published a chapter entitled "The Ideology of Imperial Reform: Enlightened Absolutism and the American Colonies" in Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty (University of Virginia, 2021).
Collection Essay American Indians in an Age of Empire and Revolution, 1750-1783
American Indians in an Age of Empire and Revolution, 1750-1783: Primary Source Activities
American Indians in an Age of Empire and Revolution, 1750-1783: Assessment Prompts

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use Illuminate\Validation\ValidationException;
use Illuminate\Auth\Access\AuthorizationException;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\ModelNotFoundException;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\HttpException;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Exceptions\Handler as ExceptionHandler;
use League\OAuth2\Server\Exception\OAuthServerException;

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{
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The Arthritis Foundation strongly recommends that Members of Congress communicate with their respective members and leadership on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense asking for a stand-alone arthritis program within the DoD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), funded at $20 million. This would ensure dedicated research funding to meet the growing needs of active duty military personnel and veterans, and would benefit all people with arthritis.
Share this issue brief with your Representative and Senators.
Use this graphic to demonstrate why the Department of Defense should create an arthritis research program.
Share this executive summary about how arthritis affects active duty personnel and veterans.
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using AntMe.Runtime.EventLog;
using System;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;

namespace AntMe.Runtime.Communication
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interface für Verbindungen zu einem Simulation Server.
    /// </summary>
    public interface ISimulationClient : IDisposable
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// ID der Verbindung - gesetzt vom Server.
        /// </summary>
        int ClientId { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gibt an, ob die Verbindung offen ist.
        /// </summary>
        bool IsOpen { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// GIbt an, ob Header und ID übertragen wurde und die Verbindung
        /// bereit zum Empfang ist.
        /// </summary>
        bool IsReady { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gibt die Versionsnummer des Übertragungsprotokolls an.
        /// </summary>
        byte Protocol { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Öffnet den Endpoint
        /// </summary>
        void Open();

        /// <summary>
        /// Schließt die Verbindung aufgrund einer Exception.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="ex">Error</param>
        void CloseByError(Exception ex);

        /// <summary>
        /// Schließt die Verbindung zum Server, falls offen.
        /// </summary>
        void Close();

        /// <summary>
        /// Benachrichtgung über das Schließen des Clients.
        /// </summary>
        event CloseClientDelegate OnClose;

        /// <summary>
        /// Benachrichtigung über einen Fehler bei der Verbindung.
        /// </summary>
        event ErrorClientDelegate OnError;
        /// <summary>
        /// Gibt an, ob der aktuelle Client der Spiel Master ist.
        /// </summary>
        bool IsMaster { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gibt das aktuell geladene Level an.
        /// </summary>
        LevelInfo Level { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// EventLog für diese Simulation.
        /// </summary>
        Log EventLog { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Eine Liste der aktuell verbundenen User.
        /// </summary>
        ReadOnlyCollection<UserProfile> Users { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Eine Liste der Level-Slots.
        /// </summary>
        ReadOnlyCollection<Slot> Slots { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// GIbt das User-Profil des Masters zurück oder null, falls es noch keinen gibt.
        /// </summary>
        UserProfile Master { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gibt das eigene User-Profil zurück.
        /// </summary>
        UserProfile Me { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Status des verbundenen Servers.
        /// </summary>
        SimulationState ServerState { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Snapshot des aktuellen Simulationsstands oder null, falls die Simulation nicht läuft.
        /// </summary>
        LevelState CurrentState { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gibt die Framerate (Frames pro Sekunde) an.
        /// </summary>
        byte Rate { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Öffnet die Verbindung zum Server.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="username">Initialer Username</param>
        void Open(string username);

        #region Methoden

        #region Master Handling

        /// <summary>
        /// Versucht den aktuellen Client in die Position des Masters zu versetzen.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        bool AquireMaster();

        /// <summary>
        /// Gibt den Master wieder frei
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        bool FreeMaster();

        #endregion

        #region User Handling

        /// <summary>
        /// Ändert den Usernamen dieses Clients.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="name">Neuer Name</param>
        /// <returns>Erfolgsmeldung</returns>
        bool ChangeUsername(string name);

        #endregion

        #region Chat Handling

        /// <summary>
        /// Sendet eine Chat-Nachricht an die anderen Clients des aktuell verbundenen Server.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="message">Nachricht</param>
        void SendMessage(string message);

        #endregion

        #region Settings Handling

        /// <summary>
        /// Setzt das Level, das gespielt werden soll.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="level">Level</param>
        bool UploadLevel(TypeInfo level);

        /// <summary>
        /// Lädt die KI des aktuellen Clients hoch.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="player"></param>
        bool UploadPlayer(TypeInfo player);

        /// <summary>
        /// Erlaubt dem Master einen beliebigen Spieler-Slot zu überschreiben, falls dieser nicht schon von einem Spieler belegt ist.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="slot"></param>
        /// <param name="player"></param>
        bool UploadMaster(byte slot, TypeInfo player);

        bool SetPlayerState(byte slot, PlayerColor color, byte team, bool ready);

        /// <summary>
        /// Removes the Player from the given slot.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        bool UnsetPlayerState();

        bool SetMasterState(byte slot, PlayerColor color, byte team, bool ready);

        #endregion

        #region Flow Handling

        /// <summary>
        /// Startet die Simulation, sofern dieser Client der Master ist und alle Spieler bereit sind.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="result"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        bool StartSimulation();

        /// <summary>
        /// Hält die laufende Simulation an, sofern sie läuft.
        /// </summary>
        void PauseSimulation();

        /// <summary>
        /// Setzt eine angehaltene Simulation fort.
        /// </summary>
        void ResumeSimulation();

        /// <summary>
        /// Hält eine laufende Simulation an.
        /// </summary>
        void StopSimulation();

        /// <summary>
        /// Reguliert die Framerate der aktuellen Simulation.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="frames"></param>
        void PitchSimulation(byte frames);

        #endregion

        #endregion

        /// <summary>
        /// Wird geworfen, wenn der Master des Servers sich ändert.
        /// </summary>
        event SimulationClientDelegate<UserProfile> OnMasterChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Wird geworfen, sobald sich die komplette Userlist des Servers ändert.
        /// Wird gewöhnlich nur beim ersten Kontakt geliefert. Danach werden
        /// User nur noch per Add und Remove signalisiert.
        /// </summary>
        event SimulationClientDelegate OnUserlistChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Wird geworfen, wenn sich ein neuer User verbindet.
        /// </summary>
        event SimulationClientDelegate<UserProfile> OnUserAdded;

        /// <summary>
        /// Wird geforfen, wenn ein verbundener User die Verbindung getrennt hat.
        /// </summary>
        event SimulationClientDelegate<int> OnUserDropped;

        /// <summary>
        /// Wird geworfen, wenn ein verbundener User seinen Anzeigenamen
        /// verändert hat.
        /// </summary>
        event SimulationClientDelegate<UserProfile> OnUsernameChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Wird bei einer neuen Chat-Nachricht eines anderen Users geworfen.
        /// </summary>
        event SimulationClientDelegate<UserProfile, string> OnMessageReceived;

        /// <summary>
        /// Wird geworfen, wenn der Master ein neues Level hochgeladen hat.
        /// </summary>
        event SimulationClientDelegate<LevelInfo> OnLevelChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Wird geworfen, wenn sich alle Level-Slots geändert haben. Das
        /// passiert nur beim ersten Kontakt des Clients oder beim Upload eines
        /// neuen Levels.
        /// </summary>
        event SimulationClientDelegate OnPlayerReset;

        /// <summary>
        /// Signal, falls sich der Zustand eines einzelnen Level-Slots verändert.
        /// </summary>
        event SimulationClientDelegate<byte> OnPlayerChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Signalisiert die Änderung des Simulationszustands und der Rate.
        /// </summary>
        event SimulationClientDelegate<SimulationState, byte> OnSimulationChanged;

        /// <summary>
        /// Signalisiert die Ankunft eines neuen Simulationsframes.
        /// </summary>
        event SimulationClientDelegate<LevelState> OnSimulationState;
    }

    public delegate void SimulationClientDelegate(ISimulationClient client);
    public delegate void SimulationClientDelegate<T>(ISimulationClient client, T parameter);
    public delegate void SimulationClientDelegate<T, U>(ISimulationClient client, T parameter1, U parameter2);
    public delegate void ErrorClientDelegate(ISimulationClient client, string message);
    public delegate void CloseClientDelegate(ISimulationClient client);
    public delegate void ClientDelegate<T>(ISimulationClient client, T parameter);
}


Upper - Polyester Mesh, Suede and PU Nubuck. Providing a snugger and more supportive fit than traditional running mesh uppers.Membrane - Waterproof, breathable and durable - the tri:ariaTM micro-porous membrane. Allowing moisture vapour to pass through yet preventing water from entering the footwear's upper.Outer Material: SyntheticLining - Hydrophobic Interface One lining, which provides a water resistant barrier.Insole - EVA with mesh topsheet.Outsole - Anatom Trail-Grip 1, offering improved traction and grip on wet or slippy surfaces.
Designed for day to day trail duties the Waterproof V1 Trail shoe from Anatom can handle everything from fast paced hiking to scrambling, even in adverse weather. Providing comfort, durability, traction and support Anatom have combined a number of technologies and materials in to a waterproof trail walking shoe. The waterproof, breathable and durable tri:ariaTM micro-porous membrane, allows moisture vapour to pass through while preventing water from entering the footwear's upper, ensuring you are kept dry and comfortable. The durable, high traction sole adds grip for those tougher, rough terrains. Additional stability is provided by the wrap around, external Heel Cradle Support System.


Set within a quiet cul-de-sac and situated within walking distance of many local amenities and services including the Mid Links park, cricket and rugby ground and Montrose beach, this top floor flat is an ideal first time buy or buy to let investment. Entry is into a mutual stairwell leading to the top floor into the flat itself. The inner hallway has two storage cupboards, one housing the hot water tank, and leads into the bedroom with a fitted wardrobe and also the bathroom complete with a three piece white suite with a shower over the bath. The lounge to the front has an arch giving access into the kitchen which is fitted to modern base and wall units with an electric oven, hob with extractor hood above and space for further appliances.
Outside, there is a mutual drying green and bin store, and parking is also available at the front of the property.


CHICAGO — A judge has granted a new trial to a prison inmate who contends he was beaten into confessing to a 1990 double murder he didn't commit by a notorious squad of Chicago detectives that allegedly tortured more than 100 suspects over two decades.
The Chicago Tribune reports that on Wednesday the judge also said he'll decide Friday if he'll allow Gerald Reed to be freed on bond after 28 years in prison.
The detective Reed says beat him was part of squad under the command of former Police Cmdr. Jon Burge that were accused of torturing suspects — mostly black men — into confessions between 1972 and 1991. The city has paid out more than $130 million in Burge-related cases. Burge was convicted of perjury but never prosecuted for torture. He died this year.


The USSSA All American Fastpitch Program created an environment where athletes are evaluated by the top players and coaches in softball based on the athlete's skill level and athleticism. Athletes who are selected to their regional teams will then compete against the other Regional teams in the USSSA All American Games. The games will be held July 22-27, 2019 and will be located in the brand new USSSA Space Coast Complex in Viera, Florida. The eight regions include the Far West, Northwest, Midwest, Central, Great Lakes, Southeast, Atlantic, and Northeast.


There's a new approach to cattle farming, and Warialda Belted Galloways is pioneering the movement.
With many consumers becoming more conscious about where their food comes from, and whether it's ethically produced, being a part of the paddock-to-plate movement is a huge point of difference.
Victorian farmers Allen and Lizette Snaith are tackling food waste with a 'nose-to-tail' solution.
The couple has raised Belted Galloways for more than 30 years at their rural Victorian property, Warialda Belted Galloways.
Originating from Scotland, this breed of cattle is rare in Australia, with only around 3000 in the country.
Allen Snaith feeding the Belted Galloways.
"The added advantage of these is that they're unusual. So, straight away, it's specials-board appeal at a restaurant," says Lizette Snaith.
Meat is the Snaith's business, but unlike many breeders, they're working towards a new approach to cattle farming.
Training up as butchers to supply their beef to friends and neighbours, it gave them a unique view of how much meat was wasted.
"The prime cuts make up about 15 per cent of the whole amount of meat, so that's a hell of a lot of other stuff that you've got to do something with," says Lizette.
After visiting a slow food market in Italy they devised a 'whole use' strategy.
Allen and Lizette at the local farmers market with their produce.
Despite reducing their waste to around 15 per cent, Allan and Lizette can't compete with major supermarkets, but they argue higher prices reflects their quality.
Lizette says, "We're not cheap, but there's also this other theory, and that's a bit of a 'slow meat' theory, is that, you don't need 400grams of meat to yourself," Lizette says.
The Snaiths aren't just looking at creating food products – they have a range of bags and covers made from home-grown hides too.
"I call that 'nose to tail and beyond' because it's more than just the eating process, there is more to the animal than just the meat," says Lizette.
Many customers are keen to benefit from their paddock-to-plate philosophy, but recent success follow a struggle to rebuild, after destructive bushfires swept through Victoria in 2009.
They lost buildings, equipment and fencing - in fact, everything except their mudbrick home, which they had painstakingly built by hand. Luckily, by opening farm gates they were able to save their herd of Belted Galloways.
The devastating after-effects of Black Saturday.
"I try really hard to not say 'before' or 'after' the fire, but it's in me now," Lizette says as she holds back tears.
For the Snaiths, recovering from the fires was a long road back to prosperity.
However, they are now award-winning beef producers, finding new ways to breathe new life into their business by hosting large event dinners, and they even plan to open a bed and breakfast and restaurant on location.
Watch this story at the top of the page, or catch the full episode on SBS On Demand.


The end of the world as we know it song.
The video is kinda weird, but the music is great.
Gotta love dat Amen Break.
Lover of the Light, I Will Wait, and Babel will be the hit songs. You heard it first from me.
You heard it first from me.
Theres this really awesome guy on youtube who makes music you should check out.
Camo and Krooked just keep on making great tracks.


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Vard Delivers Luxury Expedition Cruise Vessel Hanseatic Inspiration For Hapag-Lloyd Cruises
Subsea 7 Wins Contracts Offshore Azerbaijan From BP Exploration
"K" Line Celebrates 100-Year Anniversary With Company History Entitled "Voyaging Through Time"
We are pleased to announce that we have completed and delivered the second ship in a new series of luxury expedition cruise vessels for Germany's Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. The 139 meters long, 16,000 GWT HANSEATIC inspiration follows sister ship HANSEATIC nature delivered by Vard Langsten in Norway, with a third vessel, HANSEATIC spirit, scheduled for completion in 2021. Each ship is specially tailored to allow passengers intimate and high-quality experiences in remote regions, ranging from the Arctic and Antarctic to the Amazon.
HANSEATIC inspiration features seven spacious passenger decks, with 120 luxury cabins accommodating a maximum of 230 passengers. The vessel, like its sister ships, mixes quality with environmental care – boasting features including a water sports marina and spa and fitness areas, alongside energy-efficient hull design and technology.
The ship marks the collaborative effort between the facilities in the global VARD and Fincantieri network, in close cooperation with the customer Hapag-Lloyd Cruises.
Image Credits: vard.com
HANSEATIC inspiration is of VARD 6 07 design, by Vard Design in Ålesund, Norway. Its 139m long and 22m wide hull was built at Vard Tulcea in Romania, before being towed to Vard Langsten in Norway in March this year for final outfitting. Several specialized companies has been involved, including the Fincantieri Group's Marine Interiors, and VARD's subsidiaries Vard Electro, Vard Accommodation and Vard Piping. Successfully sea trials followed in August. In the final outfitting stage in Norway, the project provided work for approximately 950 highly experienced local and international shipbuilders during its stay at the Vard Langsten yard. VARD's shipbuilding activity is well known for its positive spin-off factors in the maritime cluster and in its local regions.
"I am delighted to deliver HANSEATIC inspiration, the second high class, expedition cruise vessel in this new HANSEATIC series from the VARD network to Hapag-Lloyd Cruises," comments Ronny Langset, Yard Director at Vard Langsten. "It is always a pleasure to see the teamwork and interaction between all involved partners in such advanced projects; the solution-oriented and hard work of our employees, the classification society DNV GL, and all contractors and suppliers, in harmony with the excellent collaboration with the team at Hapag-Lloyd Cruises."
"Hapag-Lloyd Cruises and the HANSEATIC series sets high standards and optimal passenger experiences. We're convinced the inspiration, will delight generations of voyagers for many years to come" says Ronny Langset.
Speaking about the project, and the company's specialism in expedition cruise, Mauro Leboffe, Executive Director, Cruise, VARD, adds: "This is a growth sector and VARD, with its full support from Fincantieri's cruise experience, and through its collaborations with leading ship owners such as Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, has consolidated a position as an innovative, trusted and high quality partner within the expedition cruise industry."
"As HANSEATIC inspiration ably demonstrates, we focus on designs that mix beauty with functionality, builds that exude quality throughout, and final delivery that are on time and according to the most demanding specifications. Together with our customers we have the expertise this sector requires, and the ambition to realize unique, safe and eventful cruises for passengers all around the world" says Mauro Leboffe.
HANSEATIC inspiration has the high ice classification for passenger ships, DNV class PC6. The vessel, which will be manned by around 175 crew members, offers 5-star service for its passengers all around the world. The ship will be named in a naming ceremony at the Port of Hamburg on 11 October 2019.
Reference: vard.com


DestinedToDie wrote: Please do upload it so I can examine.
Done. They're attached to the relevant task tickets #3185 and #3186.
Seems like it has some animations. Did you try it ingame to see how it moves?
I think the problem with slotting individual pieces of the body is that they will not be connected. This means you will have to make a dollish model like Bethesda did in Morrowind, where the bodyparts are somewhat inside of eachother. Seems like that´s what you did here, however I have a way better idea.
Your skeleton and the bodypart cubes are also connected in a different way than they´re supposed to... no idea if it makes a difference.
Instead of making a doll, have the character body in one piece, with 'head' as mesh name so that the head shows up in race selection menu. This way the whole body is in 1 piece. Slotting only makes sense in weapon, shield and armor, where the pieces truly are separate.
DestinedToDie wrote: Seems like it has some animations. Did you try it ingame to see how it moves?
The rig was adapted from Moonboy, so they are your animations with different proportions... so they "work" but are unsightly, and of course some animations need to be added, like drawing a weapon and casting a spell.
I don't know what you mean, but I've swapped out body parts and it works just fine. The only part that looks weird is the neck.
I don't think you'd actually be able to equip any sort of outfits that way, unless you have the entire outfit as one piece of equipment (e.g. "plate armor set", "fancy gentleman's clothes", "street punk clothes", etc.). Even a robe is separate from shoes in MW. If you want a shirt and trousers as two separate items, I think it has to be done this way until some de-hardcoding happens. Correct me if I'm wrong.
johndh wrote: I don't think you'd actually be able to equip any sort of outfits that way, unless you have the entire outfit as one piece of equipment (e.g. "plate armor set", "fancy gentleman's clothes", "street punk clothes", etc.). Even a robe is separate from shoes in MW. If you want a shirt and trousers as two separate items, I think it has to be done this way until some de-hardcoding happens. Correct me if I'm wrong.
No, I think you just misunderstood. There are 2 ways to equip bodyparts. 1 is rigging, the other is slotting.
I would rig the entire body in 1 piece and name it Tri Head. Any armor/shield/weapon can still be slotted. If you look at Better Bodies mod, that also uses rigging instead of slotting, as well as having the whole thing in 1 piece, albeit using a clever trick to divide it by materials when you export to nif. It retains the rigging behavior and so you don´t need to piece together amputated bodyparts.
I have no idea what you're talking about, but by all means go for it if it will work.
Don´t know if it will work. I´m pretty uncertain about some things. But we have the BetterBodies example of doing it way better than vanilla Morrowind did, so I´m going to try.
Also should I go quiet and disappear, you forgot to rig Tri Weapon to Weapon Bone. Currently moving weapon bone doesn´t move anything.
DestinedToDie wrote: Also should I go quiet and disappear, you forgot to rig Tri Weapon to Weapon Bone. Currently moving weapon bone doesn´t move anything.
Well, I've been told that getting old versions of Blender to run on my machine is a nigh-impossible task, so feel free to change/fix whatever you need/want to, because I'm not going to be able to. I can still do modeling, since newer versions run, but exporting rigs and animations isn't going to work for me any time soon (unless the script gets updated or we get support for another format).
Anyone feel like texturing? We got a weapon submission, which I´m going to need when making attack animation. However it´s untextured, and I´d hate to package it into the Example Suite at that state.
Is it unwrapped? If yes, I'll texture it tomorrow.
I made an unwrap. Admittedly, I am pretty bad at unwrapping, so please excuse my mess.


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II./984. Grenadier Regiment 275. Infanterie
Bodo Fehrmann
Walther Kriesmeier
Johann Rosemeier
Alois Klein
Erich Kessler
Reinhard Pabst
Klaus Heisler
Hans Meijer
Karl Hungus
Erhardt Schäffer
Kaspar Bär
Albrecht Selig
Our Impression
The (Real) 275. Infanterie Division
Soldatenlieder
Authenticity Standards
Rank and Awards
bodo "Oberschnäpser" fehrmann
Bodo Fehrmann was born in 1927 in Bamberg, Germany to Gunnar and Annika Fehrmann. Gunnar, a veteran of the First War, held his house in a militaristic fashion, enforcing strict rules on Bodo and his siblings, Marta and Udo.
At the age of sixteen, Bodo quit his apprenticeship at the steel foundry, ran away from home and lied about his age to join the Army. He fit in well in the Army, his strict upbringing bearing credit. He rose quickly in rank and by his eighteenth birthday, had attained the rank of Obergefreiter.
For the first year of his military service, Bodo was a part of an occupational troop in the south of France, assigned to the 275. Infanterie. At the time of the Normandy invasion, Bodo was mobilized as a part of Kampfgruppe Heintz, as an assistant squad leader.
Bodo was scared, but pressed on, as he wanted to become a decorated fighter as his father had. Although he had written many letters to send to his family, he was ashamed to do so and the letters remained in his bread bag, wrinkled and soiled, never to be delivered.
On the second day that Bodo's squad was involved in combat, the Gruppenfuhrer, Feldwebel Hans Wesp, was shot in the lung and perished on the field of battle. As the assistant squad leader, Bodo took his place as Gruppenfuhrer. He remained a Gruppenfuhrer for the rest of his military career.
During the fighting in Aachen, Bodo received a shot in the thigh from a nervous young soldier in his own Gruppe and was awarded the Black Wound Badge. Bodo was not angry or upset with the youth, because he understood what it was like to be a scared boy far from home. After a few weeks of rest in a hospital, Bodo was returned to his squad to find that half of the men had died and were replaced by men from surrounding units. This hit Bodo hard because he felt that if he hadn't been wounded, he would have been able to somehow protect his men. Bodo never wore his wound badge.
Bodo was shot in the throat in the battle of the Hurtgen Forest and died in the snow with his men.
His parents never learned of his death, or even that he had joined the Army. The letters in his breadbag were never mailed.


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The Canon PowerShot A430 is another in the company's long line of well-built digital cameras in both the film and digital camera markets. Canon is well-known for its high-quality optics, technical innovations, and aggressive product development. The 4.0-megapixel Canon A430 redefines the entry level model in Canon's A Series (for AA battery models).
It replaces the A410, bumping the resolution from 3.2 megapixels to 4.0 megapixels, enlarging the LCD from 1.5 to 1.8 inches, increasing the optical zoom from 3x to 4x, adding sound to Movie mode, returning the body style options to four different color panels and retaining the DIGIC II processor. There are smaller digicams but the A430 is ruggedly built, and at just $180 list (and $125 retail), it makes Canon quality available at a very affordable price. Keep reading to find out more!
There was a time when the low end of the PowerShot A-series really defined the word "low-end." That's no longer true with the latest low-cost Canon PowerShots. We were fairly blown away by the quality and utility of the PowerShot A410, and the A430 looks like an incremental upgrade following in those footsteps.
With a 4x optical zoom, a 4-megapixel sensor, and the lightest weight of the A-series lineup, the Canon PowerShot A430 is ready to go wherever you like. Though it doesn't have the manual control that some of the other A-series cameras boast, there are 14 exposure modes to get creative with, as well as Stitch-Assist mode for capturing panoramas, a Movie mode, and a Continuous mode for capturing up to 2.3 frames per second.
Its ISO ranges from 64 to 400, great for fine shots in bright light, or for handling the significantly lower light found indoors. Its movie mode can capture 640x480 pixel movies at 10 frames per second, or a far smoother 320x240 at 30 frames per second, impressive for a camera at this price point. With its included USB cable, you can copy your images from your SD/MMC memory card to a Mac or PC, or print directly to a PictBridge printer.
The Canon PowerShot A430 is chock-full of more advanced features, including a spot metering mode, custom white balance, audio recording, and special color modes, like black and white, sepia, and positive film (to emulate the vibrant colors of slide film). Yet it uses the most versatile of power sources: two AA batteries, alkaline or NiMH rechargeable. If you're looking to travel light on a budget and still bring home great pictures, the A430 looks promising.
This might be my favorite A-Series model. Surprised? So was I!
Design. No, it wasn't love at first sight. It's about as sleek as a power brick, yes, but it knows how to dress. The big chassis does makes it hard to pocket, sure, but you'll want it swinging from your wrist ready for action.
Its design bucks the trend toward cameras as jewelry. It's more like sculpture. I liked the big shutter button. All business. And I liked just as much the recessed Power button. It was out of the way when I wanted to shoot but I always knew where to find it when I was done. Seems like faint praise, maybe, but it isn't. A lot of companies can't get those two buttons right. Canon does.
Performance. It powered up quickly and shut down quickly, too -- a big help when you're biking around the city to take a few shots. That nimbleness is what first attracted me to the A430, no question. And the gorgeous images it captured sealed the deal.
Surprisingly, I don't have to do any apologizing for the A430's specs. It doesn't really concede anything. In fact, its specs would have made it a pretty hot camera just a little while ago. A 4x zoom with 4-Mp sensor, Photo Effects, and a 30-fps Movie mode with sound would have stood out. And the Wide screen mode would have been icing on the cake.
The DIGIC II image processor and iSAPS technology are responsible for the A430's unusually satisfying image quality, not to mention the nimbleness of the machine and its low power consumption. That's worth paying for.
Canon's iSAPS technology uses an internal database of thousands of photos to tune the DIGIC processor's focus speed and accuracy as well as exposure and white balance. It's as if the A430 recognizes the scene and knows just what to do to get a vibrant, natural image.
Consequently, the blown highlights and oversaturated colors I'm used to seeing on other low-end digicams seemed less a problem on the A430.
Display. The 1.8-inch LCD is the least impressive feature, but it's also the big money saver. And I really didn't mind it. Even in Wide screen mode. Canon at least gives it plenty of resolution with 77,000 pixels.
Finally, those AA batteries are a feature in themselves. A set of four NiMH rechargeables, using two for backup, will last for years. And if you ever find yourself stranded on a desert island with weak batteries, you only have to go down to the Seven-Eleven to get a fresh set.
Target User. That AA convenience certainly makes this an intriguing option for travelers. But at its modest price, it won't ruin your vacation if it gets lost, damaged, or stolen either.
The modest price also makes the A430 an interesting candidate for the young photographer. It takes nice pictures with an Auto mode that's nearly infallible, so you can concentrate on composing your image, zooming in or out, and waiting for the right moment.
From the Top. Viewfinder slightly off lens axis.
LCD Plus VF. The small LCD leaves room for an optical viewfinder.
Anyone will enjoy the almost microscope-like intimacy of Super Macro mode, which lets you sneak up a bit closer than half an inch from your subject. For someone new to photography, it can be a real thrill to see things up that close.
And if that doesn't convert them to photography, maybe the Color Swap and Color Accent options will. Color Swap lets you pick one color in the image (a dominant one is a good choice) and replace it with any color you want. You can have green skies or red oceans, for example. Color Accent desaturates every color but one in an image, so you have a black and white picture with just one color. Fun stuff.
Printing. I've never seen a camera manual that recommended a particular printing method, but cameras seem to have their preferences. A dSLR might be too shy to spit out a bunch of 4x6 prints without the files getting a serious massage in some image editing program. A high-end digicam might find a computer display more flattering for its detailed images. And plenty of low-end digicams would like to hide behind their LCD and never come out!
But I made nice enlargements from the A430's images as well as quick 4x6s just by plugging into the nearest PictBridge printer. All you need is a USB cable and the A430 turns into a photo kiosk. Very nice (particularly if you're using someone else's printer <g>).
Quibble. I did miss a real Manual mode where I could control the aperture and shutter myself. But perched on a bike seat, I was happy to be relieved of the option, frankly.
Nothing else really bothered me as I used the camera for a couple of weeks. I never caught myself excusing some annoyance with a "Well, what do you expect at that price?"
Final thoughts. While the A430 doesn't wow you with features, it doesn't skimp either. It's a reliable box that's pleasant to use. And it takes remarkable pictures, which makes it a gratifying experience too. Just the right thing for someone new to photography, no matter their age.
Two sets of high-capacity rechargeable AA batteries and good-quality battery charger.
USB 2.0 interface is only "Full Speed," not "High Speed"
Featuring a 4.0-megapixel CCD, 4x optical zoom, automatic exposure control with a wide range of preset shooting modes, and a real bargain price, the PowerShot A430 does a great job of holding up Canon's sterling reputation at the low end of their line. Built on the same long-tested design as many A-series predecessors, the Canon A430 delivers a lot of features, great image quality, and tremendous value in a compact package designed for novices (no matter the age). I'd like to see it equipped with a (much) more accurate optical viewfinder, but other than that, what this camera does, it does very well. With an initial suggested retail price of just $179 (and widely available online for much less), the A430 is an especially good bargain for an all-around consumer model. Overall, a solid replacement for the previous A410 model, and one of the best cameras on the market in its price range: An absolute shoo-in for a Dave's Pick.


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Wine World Wins And Woes: The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Boutiquier
Posted on November 18, 2012	by intoxreport
Let me toss out the seemingly random figure of ten million dollars and ask you what you think it represents:
1. The purchase price of immaculate turn-key San Marcos Creek Vineyard in Paso Robles, including custom home, a luxurious bed and breakfast, a tasting room and a classically styled winery surrounded by 42 acres of vineyard and another 50 acres of private natural landscapes. Based on yields kept intentionally low, San Marcos Creek is capable of producing about 5000 cases of premium wine per year, making it the quintessential business model for a boutique winery.
2. The amount of money Constellation Brands spends per year on digital marketing alone.
The answer, of course, is both.
If Corporations Are People, Then I Am an Egyptian Burrowing Dung Beetle
Having spent the bulk of my career working for successively larger corporations, culminating in a number of years at a $20 billion Fortune 500 automotive supplier, I can say without hesitation that corporations, within the very nucleobase of their soul-less DNA, are far worse than anything forged in Gehenna's pits. One presumes that Satan operates from the perspective of solid, old-school malevolence with which anyone who has ever wasted an afternoon at the Secretary of State trying to renew a driver's license can commiserate. Corporations feel no such malice—they destroy with disaffection, ravish with impunity, downsize without regard for those they displace and gobble up competing concerns regardless of whether or not they're hungry.
My groupies.
'Hostile' takeover is a misnomer, of course: Hostility has nothing to do with it—that's too human an emotion. Corporate growth is fueled by perfunctory opportunism that's duplicated in the natural world everywhere you look—from the SARS virus to cellular parasites to galaxies devouring one another in distant space.
And as you know, public corporations are beholden to their shareholders, and must by law put profit ahead of every other interest—including those of humanity.
Hence, Monsanto, Peabody Energy, ConAgra Foods and Archer Daniels Midland.
Speaking of the Wine Industry Financial Symposium 2012…
Said symposium was held Sept 24 and 25 in Napa, and from what I can tell from written accounts, it was two days of masturbatory, self-congratulatory back-pats due to what Wine & Vines magazine refers to as 'the recovering health of the wine industry.'
Wine & Vines—a monthly directory and news magazine founded in 1919—goes on to suggest that symposium participation itself is indicative of the upturn in the eno economy, with 330 lenders, growers, wine companies and suppliers in attendance—up from 260 last year.
In fact, W & V expresses surprise that more wine executives didn't attend 'to gain valuable insights and rub elbows with bankers and other lenders who could make the difference between success and distress sales of their businesses'.
Well, like you, I've known my share of bankers, and from what I remember, if you need a quick cash infusion to save an already-failing business, it isn't their shoulders that you're gonna have to rub.
David is Goliath
But, symposium founder David Freed is canny enough to know this. He refers to himself a 'vineyard executive'—an oxymoronic-sounding title if ever there was one—and has been running this show for 21 years: In drinking terms, that means that 2012 is the year it finally comes of age.
All the feel-good chuffery oozing through the room was consolidated into concise sound-bite sludge by Robert Smiley from the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management, who said, "These are the most positive results I've seen for years!"
Resorting to Nadsat, our lingua futura, those double-plus ultra-horrorshow results were summarized in part by John Gillespie of Wine Opinions, whose research has found that in 2012, 25% of adult consumers in the United States are 'core' wine drinkers and 19% are marginal wine drinkers.
'Core' wine consumers account for 91% of wine sales, and include high-frequency drinkers, high-end buyers who tend to spend between $1000 and $5000 on wine annually, with a smaller percentage (7%) spending more than ten thousand dollars on wine every year.
Headwinds, Tailwinds and Windbags
Danny Brager of the Nielsen Co.
Whenever you get a bunch of financial people together to shoot the breeze, plenty of hot air there tends to be. And you know that in the course of the blabberation, buzzwords will fly even thicker than horsepucky: Brand momentum, seamless integration, rightshoring, yadda, yadda, yadda…
And indeed, the focus of the presentation made by Danny Brager of Nielsen Company, that revered information/measurement company who knows more about you than your mother does, was the 'headwinds' and 'tailwinds' that the wine business faces in upcoming months.
For those unused to the clutter of corporate cackle, 'headwinds' are industry obstacles ('opportunities', please!) while 'tailwinds' are the economic indicators that promise to push sales up to the next dollarsphere. Examples of the former were given by Mr. Brager as 'fragile consumer confidence', margin erosion with rising costs and stagnant prices—the usual bear market bugbears. Tailwinds, however, received more upbeat lip service: Growing on-premise sales, the impact of millennials, who have apparently traded in Snooki for Sonoma and e-commerce, reporting direct-to-consumer shipments of $1.4 billion last year, up 10% from the year before.
In the main, pretty good news for folks in the wine biz, right?
And Now For The Bad News…
So, let's suppose that this upcoming Black Friday is the single biggest day for retail sales in the history of man's reign on earth; that every record ever set will henceforth be smashed to smithereens. You'll be dancing in the streets, right? Celebrating the revived economy?
Then suppose you read that most of this hard-earned, easily spent cash went not necessarily to strengthen Middle America, but to further line the already silk-skirted pockets of the Walton clan—heirs to that Baal-busting, big-box behemoth who have a combined net worth of $102 billion, more than that of the bottom 30% of all American families combined. Which it probably will. Then, not so much street-level jubilation perhaps? I mean, as mom 'n' pop—your mom 'n' pop possibly, continue to shutter up their shops by the tens of thousands, unable to compete with the avaricious archfiend from Arkansas?
Diablo in a Double Magnum?
L. to R.: Gallo, TWG, Constellation
Now, I would not dare compare the genuine winners celebrated at the Wine Industry Financial Symposium 2012 with Diabolus, King of Hell or Mephistopheles, Prince of Darkness—that would be inaccurate, unprofessional and rude.
More like Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guards the gates to the Underworld.
Because, on a massive base of 100 million cases, half of the wine industry's growth last year was divided between three distribution companies: Gallo, The Wine Group and Constellation.
Figure that another 50 million cases wound up billowing the billfolds of the next five biggest industry players—Trinchero, Bronco, Treasury, Delicato and Kendall-Jackson—with a 3.5% sales growth, and third-tier biggies Don Sebastiani, J. Lohr, Bogle, Charles Krug, Diageo's Beaulieu and Sterling, Korbel and Fetzer picking up most of the rest.
Not much gravy left to slather over the small guys, is there?
…Though during his speech before the symposium, David Freed—a former tax attorney who currently chairs the vineyard investment trust Silverado Properties Partners—sort of sounds that your average boutique winery should be groveling, groupie-like and grateful for whatever crumbs they are able to extract from the sweepings:
"Domestic wine producers are increasingly splitting into two segments: the top 16 to 20 who are good at building brands and producing efficiently in volume, and the rest, who exist in the luxury space…"
Luxury space? Maybe I am misreading his sentiment; if so, I would be groveling, groupie-like and grateful if somebody would explain to me what he does mean.
The Big Three: Building Brands and Producing Great Pustulating Wads of Cash…
Constellation's compendium of class 'n' crap.
Let you think otherwise, I am not suggesting that a comparison between, say, Constellation and Wal-Mart is in order. The Victor, New York-based Constellation may have a thirst for profit as unquenchable as the most out-of-control street dypso has for Wild Irish Rose or MD2020—Constellation's pair of fountainhead brands—but as far as I know, they have not single-handedly undermined the American middle class nor driven a growing share of the labor force into working poverty.
That's Wal-Mart territory.
The Constellation Vision Statement is: 'To elevate life with every glass raised,' and although we all know that 'life' is a tongue-in-cheek euphemism for 'the bottom line', it beats the hell out of Wal-Mart's Vision Statement: 'To eviscerate the traditions of rank-and-file labor—especially union wage workers—with every cheap Guangdong gee-gaw commissioned.'
However, Constellation, whose premium brands include Inniskillin, Mt. Veeder Winery, Ravenswood and Hogue (along with bulk production cash cows Cribari and Vendange) has, since its founding in 1945, moved like a humongous Hoover through the corkscrew cosmos, inhaling winery after winery until they became the world's largest wine company, owning—in the United States alone—a quarter of the top selling wine brands. Stir in Constellation's equally edacious diversification into booze (Black Velvet, McMaster's) and beer (July's $1.85 billion purchase of Crown) and to the 6000 or so boutique Davids in America trying to outrun distribution regulations, fruit shortages, cash flow nightmares and licensing hiccups and the conglomerate must make Goliath look like Matt Roloff on Oxycontin.
That's not meant to be a burn on Constellation's all-American acquisition acumen, either: The Wine Group is just as bad. Borne upon the wings of Franzia—those bag-in-the-box buffoons whose 5 liter sacks-o'-spume play a key role in college drinking games like 'Slap The Baby' and 'Tour de Franzia' and, of course, infamous, not-soon-to-become-an-Olympic-sport 'Butt-Chugging' (the rules are self-explanatory), which in September, at the University of Tennessee, saw Pi Kappa Alpha member Alexander P. Broughton hospitalized with a blood alcohol level of 0.45%.
The Wine Group has not been as diligent as Constellation in balancing their wine portfolio between crackerjack and crapola products, choosing to focus more heavily on Piggly Wiggly profit procreating plonk like Corbett Canyon, Paul Masson, Mogen David and Almaden. And of course there is Cupcake, the multi-national winery which intends to be all things to all people—except those who know wine from bulk-produced, personality-free, alcohol-flavored grape juice.
Hallowed Gallo
Wedged between Constellation and TWG is E.&J. Gallo, the most recognized wine producer in the country—it has seen its share of troubled times, of course, but tends to emerge victorious, having captured adult America's heart as the wine of their youth: Boone's Farm, Night Train, Thunderbird, and for very special occasions, André peach-flavored California champagne.
Despite the fact that Ernest and Julio sued their own brother for trademark disputes in 1986, and then pulled a cease-and-desist order on some other Gallos for selling 'Gallo Pasta' in the United States even though that was their name, the company website creams all over the 'family' angle, claiming, like good Italians everywhere, that family is the cornerstone to continued worldwide success.
And when you consider it, Michael Corleone did take his big brother fishing before having him shot.
Which probably explains why they rejected my non-family-friendly entry to the 'Find Gallo A New Slogan' contest earlier this year:
'Gallows are for hanging. Gallo is for hanging out.'
And That's the Way It Is…
Apologies if I am coming across as hysterical mass media left-wing hippie who hates capitalism, hates profit, hates America. Not so. Actually, it wouldn't occur to me to say that bloated corporate moguls like Robert Sands (Constellation), David Kent (The Wine Group) and Joseph Gallo haven't earned every nickel they have through hard work, superior insights and innovative business practices.
I might think it, but I would never say it.
After all, it's no real secret that 60% of the income listed in the Forbes 400 comes from capital gains, and a lot more of it comes from other forms of deregulatory subterfuge. Even so, even if wine's Big Three maintain the highest standards imposed by a free market, their avarice—perfectly legal, however distasteful—remains unabated, unsurfeited, unsatisfiable. The overriding theory, of course, as taught by classical school markets in the 18th century, is that growth is the one and only business imperative; growth is evolution and forward momentum can absorb financial setbacks, keep brands vital and force companies to properly manage product portfolios.
At the wine symposium, Constellation CEO David Kent announced that his conglomerate was currently in the process of launching fifty new brands. That's five zero, droogies.
Now, I think you can assume with some certainty that in the midst of unsound financial times, even with banks—having learned the downside of foreclosures—trying to work with struggling wineries, that in the time required for Constellation to choose, purchase, insufflate and wrap up their brand-new brands with an economies-of-scale ribbon, fifty boutique wineries will have been put on the market like San Marcos Creek Vineyard, or simply gone belly up. And, without question, a lot of the failures are self-perpetuating: The wine business is tough, and the dreams and romance of owning a vineyard is frequently unaccompanied by carefully considered and implemented business strategies.
Welcome to the jungle, kids.
Corporations Are People, Alright—And I'm Looking For a Pile of Shit to Live In…
Since 1819, in the case of Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward – 17 U.S. 518, the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized corporations as having the same rights as natural persons to contract and to enforce contracts. Like people, they can sue and be sued.
All this 'corporate personhood' balderdash didn't start with Mitt Romney, you know.
So sayeth the Chief Justices of the United States: Corporations are people.
Unfortunately, a lot of these people are named Gordon Gekko.
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When you open the packet, the 1st thing you'll notice is a fishy smell, but the noodles don't taste fishy at all. I didn't like them at first because they feel a bit rubbery in the mouth. I thought that I would grow to love them, but it never happened..
I was at Holland & Barrett in Fgura last week and I came across Slim Pasta and decided to give them a try to see if they're better than Zero Noodles. They are slightly higher in calories - 7.7 per 100 g, but OMG they are amazing!! They are thicker than the Zero Noodles and taste amazingly like real pasta!! Plus, no fishy smell when you open the packet!! They have a wide variety of options : Spaghetti, penne, rice, fettuccine and noodles. I've tried the spaghetti and fettuccine and absolutely loved them! I also noticed that they are much more filling than the Zero Noodles!
Have you ever tried any of them? What did you think?


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Q: SQL SUM of different product groups in one query? I have a table with the following columns:
PRODUCT_ID | PRODUCT_NAME | GROUP_ID | GROUP_NAME | PRICE

GROUP_ID and GROUP_NAME are not UNIQUE. Can I make a selection which just returns each GROUP_ID with its GROUP_NAME and its SUM(PRICE)?
Or will I have to make a SELECT query for each GROUP?
For example: I have 12000 PRODUCTs which are in 14 GROUPs. My query should then only return 14 rows.

A: a SUM is an aggregation of data, when working with aggregations you can specify the clause GROUP BY to show results grouped by what you need.
SELECT Group_Name,
       SUM(Price)
  FROM Table
 GROUP BY Group_Name

A: SELECT GROUP_ID, Group_Name,
       SUM(Price)
  FROM ProductsTable
 GROUP BY GROUP_ID, Group_Name

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Hugh Hefner: How Should We Remember the Playboy Founder?
How Should We Remember Hugh Hefner & His 'Playboy' Legacy?
(Highsnobiety Opinion) 4 years ago in LifeWords By Aleks Eror
On Thursday, September 27, 2017, Hugh Hefner, the man that founded Playboy, passed away at the age of 91.
Since then, Hef has been both lionized and demonized. For some, he was a sexed-up freedom fighter, jabbing away at puritan norms with his throbbing…desire to liberate the repressed. For others, he was a perverted old creep who exploited women and hijacked the sexual revolution to reinforce the patriarchal agenda. To say that HH was a polarizing figure would be an understatement.
To Guardian columnist, Suzanne Moore, he was "a pimp" — and not in the celebratory, 50 Cent interpretation of the term. A weeping Pamela Anderson declared on Instagram that "outside of my family, you were the most important person in my life," which will surely come as a great disappointment to her Baywatch co-star, David Hasselhoff. Ross Douthat, the New York Times' resident moralizer, proclaimed that he was a "a pornographer and chauvinist who got rich on masturbation, consumerism and the exploitation of women, aged into a leering grotesque in a captain's hat, and died a pack rat in a decaying manse where porn blared during his pathetic orgies." Civil rights hero, Reverend Jesse Jackson, on the other hand, reminded the world of Hefner's long-time support for the African-American cause. "We shall never forget him," he tweeted. A long list of celebrities and, bizarrely, even conservatives sung his praise, while liberals stuck the metaphorical boot into his rhetorical corpse.
All of them are guilty of peddling simplistic narratives and the question of how history should remember Hugh Hefner is one that requires far more nuance to answer.
Those that adored him celebrate Hugh Hefner and Playboy as catalysts of the sexual revolution that swept over America in the 1960s. This gives him too much credit. His incredible success was an early sign that the revolution was on its way, but his contribution was more of a nudge than a cause.
An early proponent of the Kinsey Reports on human sexual behavior, Hef saw that American attitudes towards sex were changing and was astute enough to follow the shifting tide. Playboy launched in 1953, the same year that the second, female-focused Kinsey study went public. Its spectacular success was down to a clear demand in the marketplace and a dearth of comparable publications that satisfied it, but to put such a sweeping reconfiguration of a nation's morals down to one man and his magazine is excessive. The oral contraceptive pill, which arrived in 1960, had a far more sizable effect and even that was but one link in a chain stretching back to the 1920s.
That's not to dismiss the significance of Playboy, however. Being the first to stick your head above the parapet is important and every issue sold engaged at least one human being in a conversation about sex and morality. It made them consider their own sexuality in ways that they might have been unable to articulate before and nudged them into questioning widespread norms. By its fifth anniversary in 1958, Playboy's monthly circulation sat at nearly 900,000 copies and it's reasonable to assume that they reached many more sets of eyes. Hefner certainly played a significant role in America's sexual awakening, but had he not stepped into that role then someone else surely would have. Ross Douthat, the aforementioned New York Times Christian talking head, recognized as much:
"No doubt what Hefner offered America somebody else would have offered in his place, and the changes he helped hasten would have come rushing in without him," he notes. "But in every way that mattered he made those changes worse, our culture coarser and crueler and more sterile than liberalism or feminism or freedom of speech required."
As a religious puritan, Douthat's judgement should come as no surprise, but it's woefully misplaced: Playboy's effect on American culture was actually quite benign. While it certainly objectified women, I am yet to hear a convincing argument that it objectifies them any more than mainstream advertising does. Human civilization as a whole objectifies women. The only thing that's different about Playboy and Hef is that they were more brazen about it – although we shouldn't ignore that he regularly cast himself as a proto-feminist, which is total bullshit.
But what's also bullshit is Douthat's argument that Hefner made U.S. culture "courser and crueler and more sterile." As the Guardian pointed out in Hef's obituary: "Magazines including Penthouse and Hustler battled for market share with Playboy. These were the years of the "pubic wars," in which rival porn magazines vied for how much skin – and pubic hair – they could get away with showing on their covers. Hefner, posturing as ever as putative sophisticate, declined to stoop to conquer in this battle." Playboy is wholly inoffensive compared to the smut found in one of Larry Flynt's publications or all over the internet today. Officially, it would be categorized as "softcore" and is no more explicit than the sort of nudity that might appear in a sophisticated European arthouse movie. The objects of Douthat's frustration aren't truly Playboy or Hefner, but the general current of history, which has consistently flowed towards liberalization.
And it really should be remembered that Playboy was more than just an album of tits: it financed a substantial amount of serious journalism over the years – most notably one of the earliest interviews with Civil Rights leader, Malcolm X, published in May 1963. Its pages housed short stories by literary greats such as John Updike and Ernest Hemingway.
For all his objective wrongs, which I will discuss at greater length in a second, it is undeniable that Hef helped refine American tastes, using porn as a gateway to sophistication. Although we shouldn't ignore that this served an ulterior motive, as Douthat rightly points out: "his good deeds and aesthetic aspirations were ultimately incidental to his legacy — a gloss over his flesh-peddling, smeared like Vaseline on a pornographer's lens."
This served him well, no doubt, and continues to serve him in death, shaping his legacy. Because as we discuss his life, his reputation as an aesthete sits beside a long litany of accusations of predatory sexual behavior, perversion and sleaze. For some, this softens those accusations, even though it really shouldn't. Hefner was accused of acts that were at best immoral and at worst illegal: from slipping Playmates quaaludes, which he described as "thigh openers," in order to get them in the "mood" for orgies involving a wrinkly old man, to allegedly providing a setting for at least one of the rape accusations levied against Bill Cosby, and countless accounts of lewdness that make him seem like a right old creep – not that this should surprise anybody.
Although puritan moralists would like to frame Hugh Hefner and his behavior as a reflection the porno industry — proof that porn inspires such behavior — I believe they're well off the mark. Hef and his predatory impulses are a byproduct of power and affluence. Celebrities flocked to the Playboy Mansion for his legendary parties, which were the rewards of his money and fame. The young, beautiful women that lined up to be his playthings willingly demeaned themselves in the hope that it would open up a gateway to stardom – like it did for Holly Madison, Hef's main girlfriend in his inane reality show, Girls of the Playboy Mansion, who monetized her own degradation by writing a memoir about her torrid experiences inside his harem.
Rather than providing evidence that pornography inherently fuels perversion, I think Hef's sex scandals say a lot more about America's fetishization of the rich and the entrepreneurial. In America, a country where wealth is correlated with virtue, no one is more respected and adored than the self-made millionaire who serves as a living testament to the American dream. In a country where a significant portion of the population believes in the idea that government should be run like a business, the cash-rich entrepreneur is treated like a demigod and talentless people like the Kardashians are fawned over for no reason other than their wealth. Money creates an imbalance of power even without these sorts of cultural values amplifying it.
Nothing highlights America's attitude towards brand and business better than the words of Kendra Wilkinson, one of Hefner's TV girlfriends, who once said, "I didn't want to disrespect Hef or the Playboy name – that always came first." This sort of fawning deference could only possibly breed megalomania and entitlement, which have a tendency to spill over into abuse and exploitation. We would also do well to remember that what unites Trump, a reality TV tycoon-turned-president who brags about grabbing women "by the pussy," Bill Cosby, the star of wholesome comedies targeted at Middle America, and Hugh Hefner isn't pornography, but wealth and fame and the glory that comes with it. In that sense, Hef didn't so much change the nation; instead, he reflected it in all its gnarled vulgarity.
Next up, why is the internet body-shaming Kanye West?
Main & Featured Image:Hector Mata / Getty
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Q: Removing dates ( in any format) form a text column Hope everyone is well.
In my dataset there is column including free texts. My goal is to remove all dates in any format form the text.
this is a snapshot of the data
df <- data.frame(
  text=c('tommorow is 2022 11 03',"I married on 2020-01-01",
         'why not going there on 2023/01/14','2023 08 01 will be great'))
df %>% select(text)

                               text
1            tommorow is 2022 11 03
2           I married on 2020-01-01
3 why not going there on 2023/01/14
4          2023 08 01 will be great

The outcome should look like
               text
1            tommorow is
2            I married on
3            why not going there on
4            will be great

Thank you!

A: Best approach would perhaps be to have a sensitive regex pattern:
df <- data.frame(
  text=c('tommorow is 2022 11 03',"I married on 2020-01-01",
         'why not going there on 2023/01/14','2023 08 01 will be great'))

library(tidyverse)

df |>
  mutate(left_text = str_trim(str_remove(text, "\\d{1,4}\\D\\d{1,2}\\D\\d{1,4}")))

#>                                text              left_text
#> 1            tommorow is 2022 11 03            tommorow is
#> 2           I married on 2020-01-01           I married on
#> 3 why not going there on 2023/01/14 why not going there on
#> 4          2023 08 01 will be great          will be great

This will match dates by:

*

*\\d{1,4} = starting with either month (1-2 numeric characters), day (1-2 characters) or year (2-4 characters); followed by

*\\D = anything that's not a number, i.e. the separator; followed by

*\\d{1,2} = day or month (1-2 chars); followed by

*\\D again; ending with

*\\d{1,4} = day or year (1-2 or 2-4 chars)

The challenge is balancing sensitivity with specificity. This should not take out numbers which are clearly not dates, but might miss out:

*

*dates with no year

*dates with no separators

*dates with double spaces between parts

But hopefully should catch every sensible date in your text column!
Further date detection examples:
library(tidyverse)

df <- data.frame(
  text = c(
    'tommorow is 2022 11 03',
    "I married on 2020-01-01",
    'why not going there on 2023/01/14',
    '2023 08 01 will be great',
    'A trickier example: January 05,2020',
    'or try Oct 2010',
    'dec 21/22 is another date'
  )
)

df |>
  mutate(left_text = str_remove(text, "\\d{1,4}\\D\\d{1,2}\\D\\d{1,4}") |>
           str_remove(regex(paste0("(", paste(month.name, collapse = "|"),
                                   ")(\\D+\\d{1,2})?\\D+\\d{1,4}"),
                            ignore_case = TRUE)) |>
           str_remove(regex(paste0("(", paste(month.abb, collapse = "|"),
                                   ")(\\D+\\d{1,2})?\\D+\\d{1,4}"),
                            ignore_case = TRUE)) |>
           str_trim())

#>                                  text              left_text
#> 1              tommorow is 2022 11 03            tommorow is
#> 2             I married on 2020-01-01           I married on
#> 3   why not going there on 2023/01/14 why not going there on
#> 4            2023 08 01 will be great          will be great
#> 5 A trickier example: January 05,2020    A trickier example:
#> 6                     or try Oct 2010                 or try
#> 7           dec 21/22 is another date        is another date

Final Edit - doing replace with temporary placeholders
The following code should work on a wide range of date formats. It works by replacing in a specific order so as not to accidentally chop out bits of some dates. Gluing together pre-made regex patterns to hopefully give a clearer idea as to what each bit is doing:
library(tidyverse)

df <- data.frame(
  text = c(
    'tommorow is 2022 11 03',
    "I married on 2020-01-01",
    'why not going there on 2023/01/14',
    '2023 08 01 will be great',
    'A trickier example: January 05,2020',
    'or try Oct 26th 2010',
    'dec 21/22 is another date',
    'today is 2023-01-29 & tomorrow is 2022 11 03 & 2022-12-01',
    'A trickier example: January 05,2020',
    '2020-01-01 I married on 2020-12-01',
    'Adding in 1st December 2018',
    'And perhaps Jul 4th 2023'
  )
)

r_year <- "\\d{2,4}"
r_day <- "\\d{1,2}(\\w{1,2})?"  # With or without "st" etc.
r_month_num <- "\\d{1,2}"
r_month_ab <- paste0("(", paste(month.abb, collapse = "|"), ")")
r_month_full <- paste0("(", paste(month.name, collapse = "|"), ")")
r_sep <- "[^\\w]+"  # The separators can be anything but letters

library(glue)

df |>
  mutate(
    text =
      # Any numeric day/month/year
      str_replace_all(text,
                      glue("{r_day}{r_sep}{r_month_num}{r_sep}{r_year}"),
                      "REP_DATE") |>
      # Any numeric month/day/year
      str_replace_all(glue("{r_month_num}{r_sep}{r_day}{r_sep}{r_year}"),
                      "REP_DATE") |>
      # Any numeric year/month/day
      str_replace_all(glue("{r_year}{r_sep}{r_month_num}{r_sep}{r_day}"),
                      "REP_DATE") |>
      # Any day[th]/monthname/year or monthname/day[th]/year
      str_replace_all(regex(paste0(
        glue("({r_day}{r_sep})?({r_month_full}|{r_month_ab})",
             "{r_sep}({r_day}{r_sep})?{r_year}")
        ), ignore_case = TRUE),
                           "REP_DATE") |>
      # And transform all placeholders to required date
      str_replace_all("REP_DATE", "25th October 2022")
    )
#>                                                                              text
#> 1                                                   tommorow is 25th October 2022
#> 2                                                  I married on 25th October 2022
#> 3                                        why not going there on 25th October 2022
#> 4                                                 25th October 2022 will be great
#> 5                                           A trickier example: 25th October 2022
#> 6                                                        or try 25th October 2022
#> 7                                               25th October 2022 is another date
#> 8  today is 25th October 2022 & tomorrow is 25th October 2022 & 25th October 2022
#> 9                                           A trickier example: 25th October 2022
#> 10                               25th October 2022 I married on 25th October 2022
#> 11                                                    Adding in 25th October 2022
#> 12                                                  And perhaps 25th October 2022

This should catch all the most common ways of writing dates, even with added "st"s "nd"s and "th"s after day number and irrespective of ordering of parts (apart from any format which puts "year" in the middle between "day" and "month", but that seems unlikely).


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Running slower & shutting down?
Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by stutzdriver, Jul 26, 2006.
HELP!!! My wife is about to throw this PC out the window! PC running slower and slower, also shutting down for no reason just locks up and goes blank. Everything was OK untill afew weeks ago but nothing has changed. Ran AdAware and Spybot both clean. Running Webroot Spysweeper all the time, upgraded to ver 5.
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HostManager] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\1151806766\ee\AOLSoftware.exe"
O18 - ALL OF THEM!
I'll have to have my wife repeat what she was doing when the system locked up. To me it seems better but I'll have to have her stomp on it tonight.
OK let me know what she thinks!


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Urzaiz gained nearly 30 caps for Spain, representing the national team at Euro 2000.
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Urzaiz left Real Madrid permanently in 1993 and during the following three seasons played for three different clubs - Rayo Vallecano, UD Salamanca and RCD Espanyol, with a very modest scoring rate in the first two. He did help Salamanca win promotion to the top flight in 1995, scoring twice as they beat Albacete 5–0 in the play-offs.
The following season he joined Espanyol and exploded as a first-rate attacking player, netting 13 top division goals for a side that eventually finished fourth (including a hat-trick against former club Rayo Vallecano).
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After just three league appearances, Urzaiz was released by Ajax, announcing his retirement at nearly 37 shortly afterwards.
Urzaiz played for Spain as a youth international, helping the country win the UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship in Denmark, in 1988. He also scored four goals at the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship in Portugal.
On 10 October 1996, Urzaiz made his debut for the senior side, a 0–0 away draw with the Czech Republic for the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Over the next three years he made only three more appearances and failed to score. However, he emerged as the hero as Spain qualified for UEFA Euro 2000, scoring six goals in three games. This included two against Austria and a hat-trick against Cyprus. He scored a further two in a friendly against Poland and was picked for the final stages in Belgium and the Netherlands.
After 25 caps and eight goals, Urzaiz made his last appearance for Spain in a 3–0 friendly loss against England, in Birmingham in 2001. Between 1997 and 2005, he also made seven appearances for the Euskadi XI and scored twice in a 3–2 win over Morocco, in 2000.
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