I'm honored to work on (mix some tracks and master the project) and be featured in couple of songs (Better Dayz and Tryna Live) on this new album with Smiley-D, Truth Spoken "Fresh Out Da Hood". Real rap, for real people, from a real brotha who serves a real God. It's on itunes today! You know what to do Here's the link https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/truth-spoken-fresh-out-da-hood/id716713121 or click the pic.
Here's the music video for "Tryna Live" featuring ya boy. I'm singing on this one.
This entry was posted in Music, Videos and tagged Fresh Out Da Hood, Smiley-D, TDG, Truth Spoken on October 22, 2013 by TDG.


Hello! My name is Jeffrey Lindholm and I am a first-year seminarian from Saint Raphael Parish in Bay Village. I come from spending two years at Boston College studying Biology and Theology. I felt God's call to join the seminary amidst my time at BC. Through being a writer and editor at a Catholic newspaper, leading a service trip to West Virginia, and continual prayer and participation in Campus Ministry, God's nudge became so strong that I could not ignore it any longer. I have accepted the call to enter into discernment, formation, and transformation in hopes of finding out how God wants me to serve Him best. I am excited to enter deep into whatever God has planned for my life.


Another week goes by, and another Topps baseball product hits the shelves!
This week we have 2018 Topps Gypsy Queen. This year's design continues the basic Gypsy Queen theme in that there are really only slight modifications each year. The 2018 set features a 300 card base set with an additional 20 short printed base cards featuring retired veterans. These base short prints are not an easy pull(at least in retail) as they only fall in 1 of 48 packs!
Another Gypsy Queen trademark is the variations, and this year's product keeps that tradition going. Box breakers will be searching for Capless, Team Swap, Missing Team, Logo Swap, Jackie Robinson Day, and Bazooka Back versions. There are also several parallels at varying levels of scarcity.
A variety of Autographs and Relics can be found in both hobby and retail packs. The Pull Up Sock Auto Relics, Fortune Teller Mini Autos, and Auto Garments seem to be the targets of this group.
In addition to the base set, there are couple different insert sets which in my opinion are the highlight of this product. The Gypsy Queen inserts seem to be unique in comparison to some of the other Topps releases. This year we find the "tall boy" Fortune Teller set which features a 2018 player prediction on the back of each of the 20 cards. There is also a 22 card "Tarot of the Diamond" set which is intended to look like a fortune teller's tarot card set. I pulled a Bryce Harper out of my Blaster box, and it might be my favorite card in the break!
I found some blasters at my local Target and I just couldn't pass up the chance to open a box a day before the official release! Overall, I enjoyed it, but as far as the retro products go, Heritage is still my favorite.
You can see my full blaster box break here!
The highlights of my break were the Ohtani rookie, the two inserts above, and a Rickey Henderson short print. Actually, the Henderson is probably my biggest hit in that they only fall in 1 of 48 packs. That's only one SP in 7 blaster boxes! Interestingly enough, I also hit a missing team name variation and a Gypsy Queen logo swap variation, but according to the pack odds, those are actually easier to hit than the Henderson. The retail exclusive parallels look ok, but I didn't end up with anyone notable from that pack.
All in all this was a fun little break, but unless the hobby box prices come down, I don't think I'll be opening any more. If the opportunity arises to pick up a decent sized lot from a breaker, I may take advantage of that to get a set put together, but otherwise I'll probably focus on trading and buying some singles of my Cubbies and other PC guys.
Thanks for reading(and watching) and I'd appreciate you sharing the blog with your friends!
If you want to see more of the boxes I've opened this year, check out my YouTube channel.


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Q: Scripting GNU screen I've been trying to come to terms with scripting in GNU Screen. Upon reading the man pages and a few other examples, I understand that we can use the at command or the -X argument for sending commands to screen sessions.
Let me explain my situation. I need to write a script that runs from with in an existing screen session. This script should create new windows, set their titles, browse to a specific directory and run a program in each of these windows.
The problem with the at command is that I can only send one command at a time. When I create a new window using at command, it will not be possible for me to obtain the window number of that newly created window. Because of this, I will not be able to send any more commands to that new window. How can I retrieve the window number of this new window?

A: On creating a new screen window you can specify a name with -t (e.g. -t test) and send commands via -Xto this specific screen by using the additional parameter -p (e.g. screen -p test -X eval 'yourcommand --yourparameter')

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Q: AWS Elastic Beanstalk Not Recognising Valid Value In Config File In .ebextension/myconfig.config I have the following:
option_settings:
  - namespace: aws:elb:loadbalancer
    option_name: LoadBalancerHTTPSPort
    value: 443
  - namespace: aws:elb:loadbalancer
    option_name: SSLCertificateId
    value: arn:REDACTED
  - namespace: aws:elb:loadbalancer
    option_name: LoadBalancerHTTPPort
    value: OFF

When I push this to my EB environment, I get the following error:
ERROR: Value is not one of the allowed values: [OFF, 80]

The problem is with LoadBalancerHTTPPort. If I set that to 80 instead of OFF, my app deploys no problem. Not really sure what gives.

A: YAML passes ON/OFF as booleans. Solution was to wrap in quotes.
option_name: LoadBalancerHTTPPort
value: "OFF"


Licorice is a flavorful herb that has been used in food and medicinal remedies for thousands of years. Also known as "sweet root," licorice root contains a compound that is 50 times sweeter than sugar. Supplements containing therapeutic amounts of licorice come in two forms: either licorice with glycyrrhizin or licorice without glycyrrhizin, a form known as deglycyrrhizinated licorice, or DGL.
Licorice contains isoflavones and other constituents that have estrogen receptor modulating activities. Can be helpful for PMS and menstrual symptoms.
In large amounts, licorice containing glycyrrhizin can cause high blood pressure, salt and water retention, and low potassium levels, which could lead to heart problems. DGL products are thought to cause fewer side effects.


Letter sent to new Coalition Government health ministers and our local MP: Andrew Lansley, Earl Howe, Paul Burston, Simon Burns, Anne Milton and Neil Carmichael.
The previous government's water bill of 2003 allowed for the fluoridation of public water supplies to be implemented on the request of a Primary Care Trust (P.C.T.) to the appropriate Strategic Health Authority (S.H.A.) , if after a " Public Consultation" the S.H.A ruled in favour. Strict guidelines are laid down for public consultation which include a fair presentation of both sides of the arguments.
As you will know the South Central Strategic Health Authority voted unanimously to fluoridate the drinking water of parts of Southampton and South Hampshire, even after 72% of consultation responses from 10,000 people were against fluoridation.
The glossy brochure issued by NHS South Central , even after some modification following protests of strong bias in favour of fluoridation from the "Hampshire against Fluoridation" (H.A.F.) group, still contained bias and major errors in critical areas such as the decayed ,missing, or filled teeth (d.m.f.), quoted as 1.76 for the average 5 year old in Southampton, compared to the national average of 1.47 teeth. The NHS Dental Epidemiology Programme for England Oral Health Survey for 5 year old children 2007/2008 showed the d.m.f. in Southampton to be on a par with the "national average". The suggested costing was also found to have been underestimated. The ultimate devaluation of the brochure was on page 3 paragraph 1.7 which stated "This document……sets out all the facts about fluoridation".
The chief dental officer of the previous government issued documents strongly recommending P.C.T.'s to push for the fluoridation of water supplies and the then government was prepared to spend millions of pounds on implementing this.
This policy of enforced medication of the population we consider to be morally indefensible and in no way in keeping with a modern democratic country.
We warmly welcome the move of the new coalition government towards greater individual freedom and responsibility and given the increasing volume of evidence of the harmful effects of fluoridation, we would be very interested to hear what revised policies or changes in the law you are proposing in this important area of public health?


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Rubelio Blando (en latín: Rubellius Blandus) fue un retórico de la Antigua Roma de la época de Augusto.

Biografía
Era originario de Tibur (hoy, Tívoli, Italia) y pertenecía a la clase ecuestre. Séneca el Viejo precisa que fue el primer declamador de rango ecuestre en Roma y enseñaba retórica, lo que le hacía más respetable.

Fue uno de los maestros de Papirio Fabiano, que a su vez, tuvo por discípulo a Séneca el Joven.

Su nieto, Cayo Rubelio Blando llegaría a ser cónsul sufecto en el 18 y procónsul de África en el 36.

Referencias

Antiguos romanos del siglo I a. C.
Antiguos romanos del siglo I
Rétores de la Antigua Roma
Gens Rubelia
Équites

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Mobile apps are considered to be on top of the trend when it comes to addressing customers. But when does the empowerment come into play? As mobile phones have evolved, cool stuff began to happen with the users. Some literally became addicted to using their phones just like it happened with the early PC games back in the 90's. A smart phone is not just a mobile phone anymore and it stopped being one more than 8 years ago. It does all kinds of stuff now, from payments, keeping track of our activity, creating appointments, navigating, recording our memories, being informed, watching content, reading and so on.
Basically, apps are the reason why a smart phone is such a strong mobile device. Apps offer us functionality, apps bring us new ways of doing the same stuff, easier ways, more exciting and hence the empowering we were talking about. We're now communicating in more ways than ever, it's fun and easy to do it. We're now able to express ourselves in ways we never thought they were possible. The access to knowledge is at our finger tips.
Given the fact that 10 years ago mobile apps didn't even exist, one might say the industry is at its beginnings, but most of the mobile apps developers have a solid software development background. So they have taken their past experience and have transitioned their ideas and skills into developing mobile apps. This was possible when the technology has been sufficiently developed as to allow them to create very complex stuff, that looked good and had a great functionality in a easier way than before.
I truly believe that this is just the beginning, these are just the first steps in this industry. For example let's imagine a hairdresser. What could a mobile app do for a hairdresser? Their clients usually call in to make a reservation, at the agreed date and time. Sometimes they forget they have previously booked a spot in the barber's diary and time is wasted. Things could move ahead in this way as well, but what would it happen if the hairdressers had a mobile app?
If the hairdressers had their own mobile app, their entire process could be different. The client opens the app to make a reservation. He can see the hairdresser's schedule and pick the desired time slot. He will confirm it by the touch of a button and the hairdresser will be notified. The event will be added in both the client's and the hairdresser's calendars.
Then, when the reservation date approaches, the app will notify the customer, making him aware about his schedule. This means a low level of missed appointments is expected.
When the customer arrives to the location, based on Geo-location services, the app is "aware" he has arrived. If he wouldn't have been around the shop by the time of the reservation, the app could have send him one more message, or offer in advance the option to reschedule, so that the hairdresser could fill up his schedule with some other clients and not waste time waiting for a customer who might not show up.
Collecting feedback from the customers and showcasing them afterwards is a technique very often used by businesses. A mobile app can be designed to ask for feedback and to make it easy for the customer to offer it to you. From star ranking systems, to written feedback, or even giving the chance to record a video as a recommendation, mobile apps can do the job just great.
So, back to our hairdresser. After the client leaves the location, the app can be configured to send a thank you note, or an email. This ensures that ongoing communication is kept between the company and its customers, raising awareness towards their brand.
The conclusion is that mobile apps can change the way we do our day to day activities, can improve our lives and simplify our workflows. Mobile apps are a real addition to our lives and we benefit by using them day by day.
Businesses must at least consider if a mobile app could benefit them as well, as technology has evolved and very cool things are possible, things that 10 years ago we wouldn't even have dreamed about.


The information outlined in this section represents all offences recorded in the Victoria Police Law Enforcement Assistance Program (LEAP), where Victoria Police have recorded a crime prohibited by criminal law. These include crimes that have been reported to police as well as those identified by police.
The CSA uses a 24 month trend test on each offence subdivision and Local Government Area to highlight changes that are statistically significant. The CSA uses the Kendall's Rank Order Correlation statistical test (or Kendall's tau-b) to determine whether a series is trending upwards, downwards or has been stable over the two years. For more information on the trend test please see the Explanatory notes and for the full data set, please see the offences data tables in Appendix 4 and Appendix 5.
All other major offence categories showed a stable trend over the last 24 months.
In the past 12 months, 58.1% of offences recorded were coded to the category Property and deception offences, 15.5% were in the category of Crimes against the person, and 13.5% were a Justice procedures offence. Public order and security offences made up 6.9% of all offences recorded and Drug offences accounted for 5.6%. The remaining 0.3% consisted of Other offences not classified elsewhere.
In the last 12 months, the number of offences within the category of Crimes against the person increased by 3.4% (2,651 offences) compared to the previous year. This was driven by an increase in Sexual offences and Dangerous and negligent act endangering people, up 17.9% (2,213 offences) and 7.8% (433 offences) respectively. There was an overall decrease in the number of Property and deception offences of 8.0% (25,984 offences). The subdivisions that drove the decrease were Arson, down by 30.3% (1,360 offences), Property damage, down by 5.1% (2,246 offences), Burglary/Break and enter, down by 9.6% (5,194 offences), and Theft, down by 8.6% (16,090 offences).
In the last 12 months, the number of offences within the category of Drug offences decreased by 4.0% (1,231 offences). Drug dealing and trafficking showed a statistically significant downward trend, and decreased by 14.7% (734 offences) compared with the previous year. The number of Public order and security offences decreased by 0.9% (338 offences) compared to the previous year, driven by a decrease in Disorderly and offensive conduct offences by 1.0% (170 offences). There was also a decrease of 8.4% (1,152 offences) in the number of offences recorded for the Justice procedures offence subdivision in the last 12 months.
Further information on the number and types of offences by Local Government Area is available in the Crime by location tool at www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au (External link).
A family incident is counted each time Victoria Police complete an L17 form and may or may not involve a criminal offence. For more information on a family incident please see the Glossary located on the website. The following graph highlights the number of recorded offences that were related to a family incident and those that were not over the past five years. While a family incident may not involve any criminal offences, a single incident may also give rise to multiple offences.
In the last 12 months, 17.5% (90,295) of recorded offences were related to a family incident.
At the time of data extraction, 28.8% of offences recorded in the 12 months to 30 September in the category of Crimes against the person resulted in an Arrest (23,046 offences). There were 27.1% of offences resulting in a Summons (21,706 offences) and 16.3% remained Unsolved (13,047 offences). For 18.4% (14,724 offences) an Intent to summons in the future had been recorded and the remaining 9.5% (7,591 offences) resulted in either a Caution/Official warning or Other outcome.
The offences recorded data visualisation contains the number and rate of recorded offences in Victoria.


Quest Potts Point is located in Sydney's trendy and upmarket eastern suburbs, just on the fringe of the CBD, an excellent base for exploring the city. It is a short walk from Kings Cross - the lively home home of many bars, clubs and nightspots as well as being a short walk from the sophisticated waterside dining of Woolloomooloo Wharf and countless other cafes, bars, restaurants and galleries.
Guests at Quest Potts Point are also offered free on site laundry facilities, limited parking, kitchenette facilities and a 24 hour front desk.
The Royal Botanical Gardens and The Domain are nearby and a walk through this urban parkland brings you to the famous Circular Quay, The Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and many more major sights and attractions of the Sydney CBD.
Secure undercover valet parking (limited). Additional $45 per 24 hour period. Other parking options can be arranged. Prior notice necessary. Please note that due to Reception hours, valet service is not available between the hours of 11.00pm - 7:00am Monday - Thursday.
Please advise if expected arrival time is to be outside hours so arrangements can be made.
Secure undercover valet parking (limited). Additional $40 per 24 hour period. Other parking options can be arranged. Prior notice necessary. Please note that due to Reception hours, valet service is not available between the hours of 11.00pm - 7:00am Monday - Thursday.
Overall rating of Quest Potts Point is 1 out of 10 based on 1 customer votes & Yelp reviews.


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Love Story [50th Anniversary Edition]
Love Story [50th Anniversary Edition] Erich Segal
Author: Erich Segal
Category: Deep Discount Titles, Romance, Snag Books Bestselling Titles
"Funny, touching and infused with wonder, as all love stories should be." --San Francisco ExaminerThe iconic tale of love and loss that has touched the hearts of millions, Love Story has become one of the most adored novels of our time. It has sold more than twenty-one million copies worldwide and became a blockbuster film starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw. It is the story that told the world, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." This special anniversary edition includes an introduction by the author's daughter, Francesca Segal.This is the story of Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law, and Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Their attraction to each other is immediate and powerful, and together they share a love that defies everything.This is their story--a story of two young people and a love so uncompromising it will bring joy to your heart and tears to your eyes. --San Francisco ExaminerBinding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Erich SegalPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 02/04/2020ISBN: 9780062979476Pages: 160Weight: 0.25lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.40d
"Funny, touching and infused with wonder, as all love stories should be." --San Francisco Examiner
The iconic tale of love and loss that has touched the hearts of millions, Love Story has become one of the most adored novels of our time. It has sold more than twenty-one million copies worldwide and became a blockbuster film starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw. It is the story that told the world, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." This special anniversary edition includes an introduction by the author's daughter, Francesca Segal.
This is the story of Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law, and Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.
Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Their attraction to each other is immediate and powerful, and together they share a love that defies everything.
This is their story--a story of two young people and a love so uncompromising it will bring joy to your heart and tears to your eyes.
--San Francisco Examiner

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Police have just released details of the incident on Tuesday evening.
An 18 year old man was arrested on suspicion of assault and a public order offence.
Anyone with any information can contact police on 101.


Privacy settings govern a lot of exactly what you can or can not see on Facebook, consisting of photos. Each Facebook customer configures Privacy settings for specific photos and albums to establish who will certainly have accessibility to them. Photos Not Loading On Facebook - If you can not see a person's pictures, you are possibly not on the list of individuals accepted to watch the photos. Other times, web browser display screen issues can be the root cause of image screen errors.
The target market selector device consists of options such as "Public" "Friends" and also "Only Me" to manage that could see albums as well as specific posts. You can see albums and also private photos with a "Public" or "Friends" Privacy setting. Anyone on Facebook could view public images. You won't have the ability to see photos personalized with the "Only Me" Privacy setting because they are limited from everyone except individuals that posted them.
Sometimes, Facebook photo screen troubles can be attributed to your web browser. If your internet browser is running into display screen and also filling problems, cds may show up empty. An individual picture might also fail to lots. Web browser issues resulting in Facebook photo display screen issues vary with different users and also web browsers. Refreshing the internet browser is a basic procedure that could refill web content that can not be presented. Web browser cache can likewise contribute in Facebook image screen problems. If you have not removed your web browser's cache and also background in a while, erasing saved details can solve image display troubles.
If you are not friends with a person on Facebook, you could not have the ability to see his images, particularly if his picture as well as timeline settings have been set up to conceal web content from anyone apart from friends. Every Facebook customer has access to the audience selector tool to regulate exactly what could or could not be seen. If you open up a Facebook timeline for a person that is out your friends list, you could or may not have the ability to see his photos relying on his photo Privacy settings. If the person's picture Privacy settings are readied to anything aside from "Public" you must be friends to see each other's pictures.
You may not have the ability to see the photos in a group if you don't have a membership, depending upon the group's Privacy settings. Groups, especially secret groups, call for memberships to view the photos published by participants of the group. On the other hand, open groups show up to any individual, which suggests that you can see pictures various other participants have actually published without joining. In a closed team, any person can see the group as well as that's in it, but just members can check out photos. If a group is privatized or shut, you should join to see other people's images.


Ahead of tonight's game in Rockford the Milwaukee Admirals have recalled defenseman Garrett Noonan from the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL.
This move doesn't necessarily come off as much of a surprise. The Admirals defense right now is rather banged up and the numbers aren't quite there as a result. Conor Allen has missed the last seven-games due to an upper-body injury. Trevor Murphy was clocked with an illegal check to the head by Ryan Hartman four-minutes into the Admirals' last game and did not return to the ice. Johan Alm missed eight-games straight due to a lower-body injury, returned to game action for a pair of games, but has since been scratched from the last five straight games. It might be that Alm was scratched as Petter Granberg played out his conditioning assignment from the Nashville Predators or it could be, with Granberg returning to Nashville and Noonan now with the Admirals, that Alm's lower-body injury is still lingering on.
Noonan has been enjoying a strong season at the ECHL level in Cincinnati. He has produced 12 points (3 goals, 9 assists) in 20 games with a plus/minus rating of +6 and 19 penalty minutes. He has played in a total of five-games with the Admirals so far this season, has yet to produce a point of offense, and is a +2 player.
For a bit of fun, considering he was a recent guest on their show, I suggest listening to Noonan chat with our friends over on Penalty Box Radio right here to hear about his time in the ECHL this season.
I see that Hartman was suspended for 3 games by the AHL. It is about time that they get tough! I have seen too much of this already this seasons during the Admirals games. Too many high hits by the home and visiting teams. The refs aren't doing their jobs well most of the time in Milwaukee.


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class NotAnItertor {};

template <typename T>
struct NotAnAllocator { typedef T value_type; };

int main(int, char**)
{
    { // Not an iterator at all
    std::basic_string s1{NotAnItertor{}, NotAnItertor{}, std::allocator<char>{}}; // expected-error {{no viable constructor or deduction guide for deduction of template arguments of 'basic_string'}}
    }
    { // Not an input iterator
    const char16_t* s = u"12345678901234";
    std::basic_string<char16_t> s0;
    std::basic_string s1{std::back_insert_iterator(s0), //  expected-error {{no viable constructor or deduction guide for deduction of template arguments of 'basic_string'}}
                         std::back_insert_iterator(s0),
                         std::allocator<char16_t>{}};
    }
    { // Not an allocator
    const wchar_t* s = L"12345678901234";
    std::basic_string s1{s, s+10, NotAnAllocator<wchar_t>{}}; // expected-error {{no viable constructor or deduction guide for deduction of template arguments of 'basic_string'}}
    }

  return 0;
}

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Le migrazioni altitudinali sono spostamenti che interessano le specie altomontane che popolano, durante la stagione estiva, gli ambienti posti al limite o al di sopra della vegetazione arborea. Questi animali, nei periodi climaticamente avversi, scendono a quote più basse, nella fascia boschiva o nelle pianure, per portarsi di nuovo, nei periodi climaticamente più favorevoli, a più elevate altitudini. Le esigenze che inducono gli animali a compiere spostamenti di questo genere sono riconducibili sostanzialmente a due tipi: termica, per rifugiarsi in aree a temperatura più mite, e nutrizionale, per avere maggiori probabilità di successo nella ricerca del cibo.

Gli spostamenti dei mammiferi
I gruppi animali ove le migrazioni altitudinali sono state studiate con più attenzione sono i mammiferi e gli uccelli. Sulle Alpi, il camoscio (Rupicapra rupicapra), e in misura minore lo stambecco (Capra ibex), compiono migrazioni verticali stagionali, anche se di relativa scarsa entità, mentre le popolazioni di queste specie presenti su altri gruppi montuosi, quali il Caucaso e il Pamir, possono arrivare a effettuare spostamenti altimetrici di circa 2000 m di dislivello. Anche molte popolazioni di cervo (Cervus elaphus) e di capriolo (Capreolus capreolus) durante l'estate pascolano al limite dei nevai, risalendo a mano a mano che questi si sciolgono, mentre d'inverno ridiscendono nei boschi di conifere, dove è molto più facile trovare le piante erbacee di cui si nutrono. Tra i mammiferi, non sono solo gli ungulati a compiere migrazioni di questo tipo, ma anche vari carnivori e primati. Ad esempio l'orso bruno marsicano (Ursus arctos marsicanus), sottospecie endemica dell'Appennino centrale, durante la stagione estiva frequenta generalmente aree poste al limite della vegetazione arborea, ad altitudini comprese tra i 1500 ed i 2000 m, molto variate da un punto di vista geomorfologico. Le aree di svernamento sono, invece, localizzate a quote comprese tra i 1100 e i 1500 m, e sono caratterizzate da una fitta copertura vegetale e da una pendenza molto ripida. Interessanti sono anche le ampie migrazioni altitudinali che compiono le scimmie rhesus (Macaca mulatta) sulla catena himalaiana.

Gli spostamenti degli uccelli
Tra gli uccelli delle Alpi, molte sono le forme legate alle alte quote, che migrano verticalmente scendendo nelle basse valli al sopraggiungere della stagione invernale: tra queste, lo spioncello (Anthus spinoletta), il sordone (Prunella collaris) e il picchio muraiolo (Tichodroma muraria). In Asia invece è presente il codirosso testabianca (Phoenicurus leucocephalus), che vive sulla catena himalaiana sino a 5000 m di altitudine, e scende in inverno fino alle aree collinari e pianeggianti dell'India. In Nordamerica, questo tipo di movimenti migratori verticali viene compiuto, ad esempio, dal ciuffolotto testabruna (Leucosticte australis), che vive e si riproduce sui rilievi montani, durante la stagione estiva, nella zona di transizione posta tra la fascia arborea e i pascoli d'alta montagna, dove è presente una ricca vegetazione arbustiva. All'inizio dell'inverno si riunisce in stormi che intraprendono spostamenti abbastanza ampi, portandosi a quote più basse. Non esistono soltanto migrazioni altitudinali a carattere stagionale, ma anche giornaliero, legate ad esigenze alimentari. Ad esempio il gracchio alpino (Pyrrhocorax graculus) durante le ore diurne scende nelle valli del piano submontano per nutrirsi, mentre a sera risale in quota per trascorrere la notte sulle pareti rocciose. Movimenti giornalieri inversi a quelli del gracchio alpino vengono compiuti, invece, da alcuni colibrì della California (ad esempio il Selasphorus rufus), che salgono di quota durante il giorno per nutrirsi del nettare prodotto dai fiori che crescono nella zona subalpina e ridiscendono al tramonto per trascorrere la notte alle quote inferiori, termicamente più miti. Il fenomeno dell'inversione di temperatura, frequente nelle valli montane, può alterare in modo più o meno determinante l'andamento delle migrazioni altitudinali. Questo fenomeno meteorologico consiste nell'accumulo di aria fredda sul fondovalle e di stratificazione di aria calda nei livelli superiori, quindi le condizioni climatiche delle zone più elevate possono in questo caso essere più favorevoli di quelle esistenti nel fondovalle. Gli animali rispondono a questa situazione salendo di quota per trovare condizioni termiche più favorevoli.

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Review Article: Attack the machinery of permitted consumption
AS Volume 25 No. 2
Huw Wahl
In 2003, in a small town bordering West Yorkshire, I sat in the back of a police car next to my accomplice. He was shouting at the officers who had caught us: 'Class traitors, you're the criminals here, arresting us while people are being bombed in Iraq!' Rather than join in, I was desperately trying to remember the lyrics to 'The Arrest' by Conflict, which contained advice on the right to remain silent. James, who I'd met through the Anarchist Youth Network and with whom I shared a love of punk, obviously couldn't remember the lyrics either. Two hours earlier we'd set out with a rucksack full of spray paint to spread the anti-war message, but had ended up targeting anything corporate or that we felt represented authority. As I was spraying 'fuck the police' on the local police station, a car with flashing lights pulled up. 'This is so unlucky', I remember thinking, as we made an escape attempt. The car seemed to know exactly which backstreet we would run down, and promptly drove to the end of it to greet us. In the back seat I was glad the police seemed more focussed on making 'caught you red handed' jokes than asking why we'd just vandalised their station. Though, if I'd had the chance to read these two books, Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance and Subvertising: The Piracy of Outdoor Advertising, I might have been able to add to James's rant, with a dose of my own propaganda.
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Archive - January 7, 2023
We made it through another year! Huzzah!! Mercury is Retro on the Full Moon as we start the New Year!
Mercury Retrograde Dates for 2023
History of Christmas
By Sami MERLYN, DD
Winter is here! Mercury turned Retrograde Dec 29th, 2022 FULL MOON in Cancer, Jan 06, 2023
I am happy to say that despite whatever challenges, the ESP LAB and I made it through the past year! Huzzah! Huzzah. It was a year of the tiger which some say is a vicious year. 2023 is the year of the Water Rabbit, which starts on the Chinese New Moon of January 22nd, 2023 (Chinese New Year), and ending on February 9th, 2024 (Chinese New Year's Eve). The softer sign of the bunny is a symbol of peace, prosperity, and longevity… along with fertility. Let it be a better year for all of us. 2023 is predicted to be a year of hope.
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What Is Mercury Retrograde and What Does It Mean for You?
Mercury enters retrograde motion starting on December 28, 2022, and lasting into the new year! According to the age-old practice of astrology, we are all influenced by the effect of Mercury in retrograde. What exactly does it mean for each of us, though? Read on to find out.
What Is "Mercury Retrograde"?
Three times a year, the planet Mercury appears to travel backward across the sky. We refer to these periods as times when Mercury is in apparent retrograde motion, or simply "Mercury retrograde." To those who practice astrology, these times in particular were traditionally associated with confusion, delay, and frustration.
Christmas is celebrated on December 25 and is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon. For two millennia, people around the world have been observing it with traditions and practices that are both religious and secular in nature. Christians celebrate Christmas Day as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, a spiritual leader whose teachings form the basis of their religion. Popular customs include exchanging gifts, decorating Christmas trees, attending church, sharing meals with family and friends and, of course, waiting for Santa Claus to arrive. December 25—Christmas Day—has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1870.
WATCH: Christmas Documentaries on HISTORY Vault
How Did Christmas Start?
The middle of winter has long been a time of celebration around the world.
Here's how different countries are ringing in 2023.
As you make your plans to ring in 2023, consider partaking in one of the New Year's traditions from around the world. The past few years have truly been unlike any other, but one thing has been clear: Certain practices are now more important than ever, as they keep us grounded and remind us of the future ahead (and what to look out for, if you're following any New Year's superstitions).
Travel isn't an option for everyone around this time of year, so we've rounded up a few of our favorite New Year's traditions from cultures all over the globe. Pick one that lends itself to virtual celebration, or ask a few friends to join in the fun.


On the weekend of the 9th and 10th of July, Adventure Korea went to Seonyudo (island) off the west coast of Jeollabuk-do. This short "trailer" just shows a small selection of what our group did on the trip. Although the weather wasn't too great, we cycled around the islands, and hiked Seonyu-bong.


Welcome to the website of The Orthodox Archdiocese of America (New York).
We hope you will find these pages informative. Please contact us for further information.
The Holy Catholic Church was established by Our Lord Jesus Christ in A.D. 33. It has remained unchanged down to the present day. Due to the Great Schism in A.D. 1054, the Eastern Byzantine Church began referring to themselves as the Orthodox Church to differentiate themselves from the errors of the Roman Catholic Church.
Orthodox Christianity is timeless. Its worship and liturgy have a sense of profound sacredness not found anywhere else. Its appeal is in the beauty of its truth and sincerity. It is not the official property of the Eastern Churches, neither is it dependent upon some bishopric of a foreign nation. It is the timeless Christian Faith that has been handed down to us through the Apostles.
Why is there a need for a Western-Rite Orthodox Church?
Rome has fallen into modernism and Eastern Orthodoxy has fallen into phyletism. America has a need for all Christians who acknowledge the Tradition and Faith of the Undivided Church, and who observe a Western expression of that Faith, to unite in an Orthodox Catholic Church.
The basis of this is not compromise but sincere conviction that in order to be faithful to Christ we must return to our roots, to a time when the Church was one in both East and West.
The vehicle for this is the joining together of Bishops who hold the same Faith into a Synod of Bishops to pray, grow, and work toward the unity of the Traditional Orthodox Church.
The standard will be that of the Mediolanum 1474 Roman Liturgy. Within the Roman Family of uses (Roman, Old Catholic, Anglican) the ancient Roman Rite holds pre-eminence. However, a form of the Anglican Use has also been acknowledged by the Orthodox. Bishops will decide, in consultation with the Rectors and People of parishes, which Liturgy will be best suited to minister to the people of each place. Note: The pre-schismatic Orthodox West, like the East, had several liturgies.
Please see the Library for more information about Liturgies and Propers for the Liturgy.
Our mission is to facilitate, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and the following of Him as Lord within His Body, the Orthodox Catholic Church.
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We are in spiritual communion with all Canonical Orthodox of good will as we hold the Orthodox Faith. However, they may choose not to be in communion with us. Our Archdiocese is an active member of the Holy Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and America, which was born of the Archeparchy of San Julius. This was established in 1995 from the Patriarchate of Kiev. The Holy Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ravenna and the Old Calendarist Churches of Cyprus and Greece are fully united in Eucharistic communion. We are also in communion with The Orthodox Church of Italy.
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Das Großsteingrab Kleinendorf (auch Hohesteine oder Hünensteine genannt) war eine megalithische Grabanlage der jungsteinzeitlichen Trichterbecherkultur bei Kleinendorf, einem Ortsteil von Rahden im Kreis Minden-Lübbecke (Nordrhein-Westfalen). Es wurde im 19. Jahrhundert zerstört.

Lage
Das Grab befand sich im Südwesten von Kleinendorf im ehemaligen Ortsteil Mühlendamm. Es lag nahe der Gastwirtschaft Jägerkrug auf einem Feld. In der näheren Umgebung gab es ursprünglich noch mindestens drei weitere Großsteingräber: Die beiden Großsteingräber bei Rahden und das Großsteingrab Varl.

Forschungsgeschichte
Die beiden Gräber in Kleinendorf und Varl wurden 1807 durch Georg zu Münster untersucht. Der genaue Zeitpunkt ihrer Zerstörung ist unbekannt. Johannes Heinrich Müller führte sie 1867 als ausgegangen.

Beschreibung
Die Anlage war bei Graf Münsters Untersuchung bereits teilweise zerstört. Er konnte noch einen mächtigen Deckstein von 8 Schritt (ca. 6 m) Länge und 3 Schritt (ca. 2,3 m) Breite feststellen, der auf vier Wandsteinen ruhte. Zur Orientierung und zu den Maßen der Gesamtanlage liegen keine Angaben vor. Der genaue Grabtyp lässt sich nicht sicher bestimmen.

Funde
Die beiden Gräber in Kleinendorf und Varl waren bereits vor Graf Münsters Untersuchung ausgeräumt worden. Er fand nur noch Scherben einer verzierten und einer unverzierten Schale, Scherben weiterer Gefäße und eine Pfeilspitze aus Feuerstein. Es ist allerdings nicht überliefert, welche Funde aus welchem Grab stammen.

Literatur
 Johannes Heinrich Müller: Vorchristliche Alterthümer im Lande Hannover. In: Zeitschrift des historischen Vereins für Niedersachsen. 1867, S. 317–318 (Online).
 Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Vor- und frühgeschichtliche Alterthümer der Provinz Hannover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, S. 1, 289 (PDF; 25,0 MB).
 Kerstin Schierhold: Studien zur Hessisch-Westfälischen Megalithik. Forschungsstand und -perspektiven im europäischen Kontext (= Münstersche Beiträge zur ur- und frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie. Band 6). Leidorf, Rahden/Westf. 2012, ISBN 978-3-89646-284-8, S. 199.
 Kerstin Schierhold: Eine wenig beachtete Gruppe von Megalithgräbern der Trichterbecherkultur bei Rahden, Kreis Minden-Lübbecke. In: Archäologie in Ostwestfalen. Band 14, 2019 (2020), S. 9–19.
 Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands. Teil 3: Niedersachsen – Westfalen. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9, S. 151.

Kleinendorf
Geographie (Rahden)
Westgruppe der Trichterbecherkultur
Abgegangenes Bauwerk im Kreis Minden-Lübbecke
Sakralbau in Rahden
Grabbau in Europa
Archäologischer Fundplatz in Europa


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Review: The Girl's Guide to Vampires by Barb Karg
July 25, 2010 Narrelle
The Girl's Guide to Vampires
This book offers a great overview to the history of the vampire, from folklore and the novels of the 19th century, through the films of each decade leading to television and the 21st Century.
The writer, Barb Karg, occasionally hints at the way the vampire is used as a metaphor for social and political issues in each era, but rarely does more than touch lightly on these. I would have loved to have read more about how the vampire's role in stories reflects changing social attitudes as well. I also found the schtick of writing about vampires as 'the sexy bad boys' a bit overdone and seemed more a function of writing for the target audience than really necessary to the content. Still, the powerful female vampires, from Camilla to Selina, get good coverage as well.
Having said this – "The Girl's Guide to Vampires" would be a terrific book to get for anyone who has only recently started reading vampire fiction and would like a guide to the genre's history, and some suggestions of what other books to read/films to see to get a broader knowledge.
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The Plum Creek Envision Alachua sector plan is a win-win for economic development and the environment that will create the opportunities our county greatly deserves.


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Yoga | Lifestyle
Krishna Das: Bhakti With a Dash of Blues
Kirtan master Krishna Das defends American-style kirtan and explains how chanting can untie the knots in your heart.
by Anna Dubrovsky
Krishna Das makes no apologies for the way he pronounces "Ram," the Hindu deity who epitomizes virtue. He doesn't pronounce the "r" the way someone proficient in Sanskrit would. That caused an Indian woman to leave one of his kirtans. She just got up and walked out.
"I understand there are people who feel that what happens in the West with chanting is ridiculous—what do we know about chanting?" says Krishna Das, the white guy from Long Island whose name is synonymous with Indian mantric music in America. "That's really dumb. It's like saying Westerners don't have God in their hearts, because that's what chanting is about. God knows what the heart wants and responds to the call of the heart. It's not about music or pronunciation."
"Dumb" is the milder of the four-letter words that dot his defense of American-style kirtan. Krishna Das—born Jeffrey Kagel—discovered devotional chanting in India in the early '70s. He practiced it there at the feet of his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, also known as Maharaj-ji. But the music he makes today borrows from rock and roll and country blues as much as it does from the temples of India. "As the mantras changed me, as they got deeper into me, they began to come out of me in a way that's more natural to this incarnation. The chants took on different shapes—much more Western shapes. I didn't do that on purpose. It was a natural evolution." All One, his 2005 release, explores the Hare Krishna mantra from four diverse musical perspectives, including rock and South African township jive.
I just realized I had to sing with people. It was the only way I could clean up the dark places in my heart.
This weaving together of ancient mantras with modern melodies and instrumentation may offend purists, but it's part of the reason why communal chanting is gaining popularity in cultures that prize individuality and secularism. "It's only reasonable that people here would be attracted by the Western sounds because it's who they are," he says. The pressures of modern life also account for the expanding kirtan "market." "It's growing and will continue to grow because things are getting harder and harder in the world. I think it just reflects people's desire to find some happiness, some rest, a sense of joy in life."
Krishna Das spent the better part of his 61 years searching for happiness. He struggled with depression and drugs. He worked odd jobs and dabbled in music. In his 20s he met Ram Dass, the Harvard professor turned spiritual teacher whose 1971 best seller Be Here Now introduced legions of Westerners to Maharaj-ji and yoga. Krishna Das traveled to the foothills of the Himalayas to find Maharaj-ji. He spent almost three years there, basking in his guru's unconditional love. Then, in 1973, Maharaj-ji died.
"I was really destroyed by that," Krishna Das says. "Being with him was the only thing that made me happy. It was the most extraordinary, powerful experience I've ever had, on the physical plane anyway. When he died, I figured my only chance to be happy was gone. I went through a long, long, long period of very unconscious self-destructive behavior."
It wasn't until 1994 that a solution presented itself. "I was standing in my living room in New York, and I just realized I had to sing with people. It was the only way I could clean up the dark places in my heart." He walked into a Jivamukti Yoga Center in Manhattan, where founders Sharon Gannon and David Life offered him a Monday slot.
His audience then was several yoga students. Today he packs houses all over the world, singing with hundreds and sometimes thousands. The man who jokes about being "Jewish on my parents' side" occasionally bursts into a gospel classic—"Amazing Grace" or "Jesus on the Mainline"—as if to remind people that it matters not how you call out to God. It matters that you do.
He has found the faith he lost when his guru died. "By leaving his body, he forced me to find that love inside of me—or to begin to at least look for that love inside of me. That's really the point: it's not outside of us. Things outside of us can push a button for us and open us up temporarily. But ultimately we have to find that place ourselves. When we unravel our psychological issues and untie the knots in our hearts, and begin to let go of fear and judging ourselves and treating ourselves so harshly, then we start to move deeper within ourselves to where that love is."
Tour dates at www.krishnadas.com
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There is no power when I connect my Seagate 120gb hardrive. I use another drive and it works fine. I think my 120gb hardrive got grounded on power signal... does anyone experience this..
The light on the hardrive is blinking faster than normal and i couldnt connect to my laptop, it was working fine 2 mins before, i think its because i forgot to safety remove before i plug out.
Most probable cause is the Virus / Malware in the PC or Laptop.
Second cause is USB slot of PC or Laptop is corrupt or not properly installed.
The last cause is the Data Cable is not right.
If you cannot open or see the harddrive when you connect it to your computer after it is powered on then that is the external harddrive itself. First, check if the power connection is connected and the usb cord connect correctly. Then see if any lights come on on the external hard drive. If lights does come on and still nothing showing or coming on to the computer, then your harddrive is history. Seagate makes one of the worstest hardrive. You can google this up about seagate promblem and there are thousand out there who have this same promblem. I know this because I have the same promblem you have.
16 GB is the maximum USB storage the XBox will allow, but you may have up to two devices connected at the same time (which means nothing for your current situation, sorry). This is Microsoft's way of saying you should've opted for the larger internal hard drive.
Assuming the drive itself is still ok (it sounds like it would be), then yes, you can put the drive into another case or directly into the motherboard if you know how to do that.
I am thinking external HDD?? Bad power supply or check the connection.
Seagate 20GB SATA hard disk not detected Hi. I took the hard disk out of a 360 I found in the trash, and put it in my Desktop PC using the SATA cables, (my pc has the SATA ports) and only the BIOS detects it, Win XP does not.
Have a manual for Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 40 GB Hard Drive?


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Dubai's Swvl to enter Europe and Brazil through Shotl acquisition
SWVL Founders
Swvl, Dubai-based mass transit and shared mobility services provider, has agreed to acquire Shotl, an Uber-like service in Barcelona for bus and van operators that caters to municipalities, corporations and educational institutions.
The financial details of the deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year, were not disclosed.
Shotl will serve as Swvl's European centre for further expansion. The company operates across 22 cities in Brazil, Japan, Spain, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal and Finland.
Swvl is "meaningfully expanding its core markets, in line with our publicly stated growth objectives," said Mostafa Kandil, the company's founder and chief executive.
This is Swvl's first acquisition and a new market expansion announcement after it entered into a partnership with Queen's Gambit Growth Capital, the first special, last month.
Swvl plans to go public through a special purpose acquisition company in the fourth quarter of this year. It will become the second technology start-up from the Middle East to list on the Nasdaq stock market and the first such company from the region with a $1.5 billion valuation.
"There is an urgent need to transform traditional public transport to make it more accessible, convenient and sustainable," Kandil said.
"Shotl's vision for the future of mobility, with an emphasis on electrification, the reduction of congestion and emissions and affordability … is exactly what Swvl has already achieved in 10 emerging market megacities," he added.
Founded in 2017, Swvl allows commuters to reserve seats on private buses operating on fixed routes and pay fares through its mobile app. The start-up, which Uberises mass transit, currently operates in 10 cities in Egypt, Kenya, Pakistan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
"Our vision is to back local and regional champions in the space to achieve our mission of delivering safe, reliable and affordable mass transit to the entire globe," said Youssef Salem, Swvl's chief financial officer.
"With this partnership putting us significantly ahead of plan in these areas, we will continue to rapidly pursue strategic initiatives to further enhance shareholder value."
More than 1.4 million riders have booked in excess of 46 million rides to date with thousands of drivers on Swvl's platform. The company said it earned about $26 million in revenue last year and expects proceeds of $79m this year.
"Swvl is ideally situated for expansion into European markets and will immediately capitalise on our local partnerships and brand value," said Gerard Martret, chief executive and co-founder of Shotl.
With more than 350,000 bookings till date, the Shotl platform helps transport operators and cities make a better use of bus systems by replacing low-ridership routes with on-demand shuttles.
The Spanish company has partnered with municipalities and transport companies as well as mobility planners and consultancies. Some of its clients include Barcelona City Council, Munich Airport and Rimini City Council.
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UK PM Sunak sacks party chairman Zahawi over tax affairs
McCarthy to discuss debt limit, spending with Biden


America's First Legal Tender -- Colonial-Era Gold 1/2 Escudo Coins!
Strange as it may sound today, America's first official legal tender gold coins weren't American at all -- they were Spanish! However, when you think about it, it makes perfect sense. As a newly independent country, there was little time to organize the striking of hard currency. So, as a result, daily commerce in the early years of the United States was conducted using gold coins produced by foreign governments. One of the five gold denominations struck by Spain and circulated in America, the 1/2 Escudo lined the pockets and cash boxes of colonists throughout the young country.
Together with its four golden brethren, the 1/2 Escudo became part of the model for American currency, serving as the forbearer to the Dollar. The Spanish 1/2 Escudo would remain U.S. legal tender for more than 81 years until 1857. However, in the days before the famous gold rushes of the 1800s, many 1/2 Escudo coins in circulation were melted down to produce U.S. coins. That's the main reason why only an estimated 1% of the original mintage is still in existence today!
Fortunately, our buyers have located a small number of 1/2 Escudo coins from 1742-1788 -- the years that they were highly prized in colonial and post-independence America. Order now and we'll choose either a King Ferdinand VI Portrait 1/2 Escudo from 1742-1759 or a King Carlos III Portrait 1/2 Escudo from 1759-1788 to send directly to you. Your coin will come graded Extremely Fine (XF) by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC), sonically-sealed in an acrylic holder along with an exclusive "Legal Tender Until 1857" label. In addition, your coin will arrive in a specially crafted wood presentation case along with a Gold Escudos story booklet and checklist. We only have a few of these Gold 1/2 Escudo coins in our vault. Due to their exceptional condition, we're not expecting them to stay ours for long -- make one yours today!


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Digital mortgage lender Better acquiring Goldman Sachs-backed fintech ahead of public listing
Published Mon, Jul 12 20214:47 PM EDT Updated Mon, Jul 12 20215:11 PM EDT
Riley de León@RileyCNBC
Digital mortgage lender Better is making its first expansion overseas with the acquisition of Trussle — a Goldman Sachs-backed digital mortgage and insurance broker.
The deal values Trussle at roughly $9 million, according to people familiar with the matter.
The announcement comes ahead of Better's public listing via SPAC merger with Aurora Acquisition Corp., which is expected to value the company at $7.7 billion.
Vishal Garg, Better.com
Source: Better.com
Digital mortgage lender Better announced Monday that the company is making its first expansion overseas with the acquisition of Trussle, a U.K.-based digital mortgage and insurance broker backed by Goldman Sachs and Finch Capital, among others.
"Better and Trussle were both founded on the understanding that consumers increasingly prefer to use online services to shop for and transact on major life purchases," Trussle CEO Ian Larkin said in a press release announcing the deal.
Trussle was founded in 2015.
"We are very excited about becoming part of Better, and we are confident that Trussle's future looks brighter than ever as part of a large and growing international organization that shares our commitment to making homeownership more simple, fair and accessible for all," Larkin said in the statement.
Amid a frenzy in pandemic-induced U.S. mortgage refinancing, Better extended nearly $25 billion in loans last year.
Better was started in 2016 by Vishal Garg, a former analyst with Morgan Stanley, after a deal to buy a house for his family fell through. An all-cash buyer was able to beat the timing of his traditional mortgage lender, and that's when Garg figured there had to be a better way. He used the down payment he had set aside to start Better.
Goldman Sachs is among existing investors in Better.
"Better eliminates the high financing costs, massive transactional friction, tyranny and mind-numbing bureaucracy that comes with getting a mortgage and buying a home in the U.K. via a high street bank," Garg said in the deal announcement. "We found a kindred spirit in the team at Trussle who have developed a platform that we can work alongside to help every Briton own their own home."
The U.K.'s national homeownership rate had fallen from an all-time high of 70.9% in 2003 to 63.9% by 2018, according to the Brookings Institution.
Better's platform moves the mortgage process completely online, giving customers the ability to upload and eSign documents, and claims to cut the closing time from an industry average of 42 days down to 21 days. Garg says that the digital-only approach is also helping to decrease bias against minorities when applying for mortgage loans. The company has previously cited a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research showing that face-to-face lenders reject minority applicants about 6% more often than comparable non-minority applicants, and also charge minority applicants more for their mortgages.
Additionally, the company not only generated $800 million in revenue last year, but also a profit — though its growth has not come without some controversy.
In May, Better announced its plans for a market debut by merging with Aurora Acquisition Corp., valuing the company, ranked No. 15 on last year's CNBC Disruptor 50 list, at $7.7 billion. The SPAC deal includes a $1.5 billion private investment in public equity (PIPE) arrangement led by SoftBank, which invested a separate $500 million in the company just a month prior to the deal announcement. PIPEs are mechanisms for companies to raise capital from a select group of investors that make the final market debut possible.
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter.
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Part III: Regional Production
Our manufactured and agricultural goods are shipped from great distances. As transportation costs increase, regionalizing manufacturing and agriculture will become increasingly viable – and important.
include energy volatility and fuel depletion in New York City and State economic development policy
encourage production and procurement of regional farm products
support agricultural production within cities and suburbs
enable residents to find farming and gardening jobs
encourage schools to establish gardens on their facilities
open additional retail farmers markets, a wholesale farmers market, year-round public markets, and a regional product distribution center
explore entrepreneurial ways to make private land available to new agricultural workers
1. Manufacturing
Proximity to clients in Manhattan's central business district benefits food manufacturers, commercial laundries, building contractors and specialty garment and printing businesses, outweighing higher costs of prime locations. [1]
Low fuel costs enable long-distance transportation. As energy costs rise, business practices will change to minimize the energy demand of buildings and transportation. Manufacturing and food production will tend to become more regionalized and localized. [2]
Bill Reinhardt, a senior project manager at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), thinks that NYS economic development policy must take energy volatility and fuel depletion into account. He expects expansion of recycling and remanufacturing industries, energy efficiency and alternative energy services, local tourism and recreation, and manufacturers in close proximity to their raw materials and markets.
"I have already begun to see foreign producers look to New York as the place to produce their goods for Northeastern US and Eastern Canadian markets. Much higher energy prices will raise the incentive to remanufacture used products and components so as to recover the energy embodied in their original material acquisition and manufacture. Used manufactured products will become the natural resource base for these new industries, which will tend to locate near their sources of raw materials, which in this case will also be their markets." [3]
2. Agriculture
Food in the US usually travels 1,500 to 2,500 miles from farm to table, losing nutritional value, sending dollars out of the region and contributing to global warming along the way. [4] Large amounts of fossil fuels are used in pumping water, producing fertilizers and pesticides, and processing, refrigerating and transporting food, [5] so rising energy costs will affect large-scale agribusiness products. [6]
Livestock production, a central part of that system, is a massive contributor to climate change. [7] Consuming fewer or no animal products is an important way for individuals to reduce their carbon footprint. [8] Reducing energy use in agriculture will have many benefits: decentralized regional agriculture, less dependent on fossil fuels, will become more competitive and more affordable, while addressing community food security, green space, and social justice issues. [9]
City residents buy directly from farmers through the Greenmarket's 85 farmers markets [10] and 40 community-supported agriculture groups. [11] Members of Food Systems Network NYC recommend: [12]
encouraging procurement of regional farm products by city agencies, private institutions, non-profit community organizations, schools and businesses [13]
encouraging schools to establish gardens on their facilities
enabling residents to find farming and gardening jobs
eecovering food waste citywide for composting and return to farms
continuing support for the NYC Watershed Agreement, which preserves family farms and protects City drinking water
opening additional retail farmers markets, a wholesale farmers market, year-round public markets, and a regional product distribution center [14]
Urban and suburban agriculture have great potential. Raising fruits and vegetables directly within cities and suburbs was common during both World Wars, when Americans planted Victory Gardens, at one point producing roughly 40% of America's vegetables. [15] This practice is growing in popularity. There are over 500 community gardens in NYC, and many resources for local gardeners. [16]
Oakland, California recently adopted a food policy which mandates that by 2015, 40% of the vegetables consumed in the city will be grown within a fifty-mile radius of its city center. For the NYC metropolitan area to move in this direction, governments will have to provide incentives and training to area residents willing to work in agriculture. [17] Entrepreneurial ways to make private land available to new agricultural workers should be explored.
1. The Mayor's Office of Industrial & Manufacturing Businesses,
http://nyc.gov/html/imb/html/home/home.shtml
2 . "Think globally, manufacture locally," The Age, July 2, 2007.
3. Personal communication, Bill Reinhardt, NYSERDA, Oct. 2007.
4. "Do food miles make a difference to global warming?," Reuters, Oct. 17, 2007,
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSPAR74562220071017?sp=true;
"Home grown: the case for local food in a global market," Brian Halweil, Nov. 2002, Worldwatch Institute,
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/827;
Cornell University Cooperative Extension,
http://nyc.cce.cornell.edu//urbanfood;
Just Food,
http://www.justfood.org/jf/index.html
5. "Oil and Food: A Rising Security Challenge," Danielle Murray, Earth Policy Institute, May 9, 2005,
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2005/Update48.htm
6. "New solutions for food, feed & fuel," Community Solution, July 2007;
http://www.communitysolution.org/pdfs/NS13.pdf
7 . "Livestock's long shadow," UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 2006,
http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.htm
8. "Rethinking the meat guzzler," NY Times, January 27, 2008;
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html
9. "Farming the concrete jungle," In These Times, Aug. 24, 2007;
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3297/farming_the_concrete_jungle/
10. Council on the Environment of NYC,
http://www.cenyc.org/site/
11. Just Food,
http://www.justfood.org/csa/
12. Food Systems Network NYC,
http://www.foodsystemsnyc.org/
13. SchoolFoodPlus Initiative,
http://www.foodchange.org/nutrition/schoolfood.html;
"Local carrots with a side of red tape," NY Times, Oct. 17, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/dining/17carr.html
14. "When planning for the future, keep food at the table," Hilary Baum, Baum Forum, April2007,
http://pubadvocate.nyc.gov/policy/documents/Gotbaum_2030_response_000.pdf;
Food Systems Network NYC ,
15. "Fifty Million Farmers," Richard Heinberg, Energy Bulletin, Nov. 17, 2006,
http://www.energybulletin.net/22584.html
16. Tri-State Food Not Lawns,
http://www.tristatefoodnotlawns.org/;
"Garden resources," NYC Oasis,
http://www.oasisnyc.net/resources/comm_gardens/default.asp;
17. "What will we eat as the oil runs out," Richard Heinberg, Museletter, Nov. 2007.


Test::Harness is responsible for running test scripts, analysing their output and reporting success or failure. When I type make test (or ./Build test) for a module, Test::Harness is usually used to run the tests (not all modules use Test::Harness but the majority do).
To start exploring some of the features of Test::Harness I need to switch from make test to the prove command (which ships with Test::Harness). For the following examples I'll also need a recent version of Test::Harness installed; 3.14 is current as I write.
For the examples I'm going to assume that we're working with a 'normal' Perl module distribution. Specifically I'll assume that typing make or ./Build causes the built, ready-to-install module code to be available below ./blib/lib and ./blib/arch and that there's a directory called 't' that contains our tests. Test::Harness isn't hardwired to that configuration but it saves me from explaining which files live where for each example.
The switches here are -r to recurse into any directories below 't' and -b which adds ./blib/lib and ./blib/arch to Perl's include path so that the tests can find the code they will be testing. If I'm testing a module of which an earlier version is already installed I need to be careful about the include path to make sure I'm not running my tests against the installed version rather than the new one that I'm working on.
So far I've shown you nothing that make test doesn't do. Let's fix that.
If I have failing tests in a test suite that consists of more than a handful of scripts and takes more than a few seconds to run it rapidly becomes tedious to run the whole test suite repeatedly as I track down the problems.
All the tests will run but those that failed most recently will be run first. If no tests have failed since I started saving state all tests will run in their normal order. This combines full test coverage with early notification of failures.
See the prove documentation (type prove --man) for the full list of state options.
When I tell prove to save state it writes a file called '.prove' ('_prove' on Windows) in the current directory. It's a YAML document so it's quite easy to write tools of your own that work on the saved test state - but the format isn't officially documented so it might change without (much) warning in the future.
The -j switch enables parallel testing; the number that follows it is the maximum number of tests to run in parallel. Sometimes tests that pass when run sequentially will fail when run in parallel. For example if two different test scripts use the same temporary file or attempt to listen on the same socket I'll have problems running them in parallel. If I see unexpected failures I need to check my tests to work out which of them are trampling on the same resource and rename temporary files or add locks as appropriate.
The first line is the plan - it specifies the number of tests I'm going to run so that it's easy to check that the test script didn't exit before running all the expected tests. The following lines are the test results - 'ok' for pass, 'not ok' for fail. Each test has a number and, optionally, a description. And that's it. Any language that can produce output like that on STDOUT can be used to write tests.
If I save that as t/phptest.t the shebang line will ensure that it runs correctly along with all my other tests.
Subtle interdependencies between test programs can mask problems - for example an earlier test may neglect to remove a temporary file that affects the behaviour of a later test. To find this kind of problem I use the --shuffle and --reverse options to run my tests in random or reversed order.
If I need a feature that prove doesn't provide I can easily write my own.
Typically you'll want to change how TAP gets input into and output from the parser. App::Prove supports arbitrary plugins, and TAP::Harness supports custom formatters and source handlers that you can load using either prove or Module::Build; there are many examples to base mine on. For more details see App::Prove, TAP::Parser::SourceHandler, and TAP::Formatter::Base.
If writing a plugin is not enough, you can write your own test harness; one of the motives for the 3.00 rewrite of Test::Harness was to make it easier to subclass and extend.
The Test::Harness module is a compatibility wrapper around TAP::Harness. For new applications I should use TAP::Harness directly. As we'll see, prove uses TAP::Harness.
When I run prove it processes its arguments, figures out which test scripts to run and then passes control to TAP::Harness to run the tests, parse, analyse and present the results. By subclassing TAP::Harness I can customise many aspects of the test run.
Now that I know how to subclass and replace TAP::Harness I can replace any other part of the harness. To do that I need to know which classes are responsible for which functionality. Here's a brief guided tour; the default class for each component is shown in parentheses. Normally any replacements I write will be subclasses of these default classes.
When I run my tests TAP::Harness creates a scheduler (TAP::Parser::Scheduler) to work out the running order for the tests, an aggregator (TAP::Parser::Aggregator) to collect and analyse the test results and a formatter (TAP::Formatter::Console) to display those results.
If I'm running my tests in parallel there may also be a multiplexer (TAP::Parser::Multiplexer) - the component that allows multiple tests to run simultaneously.
Once it has created those helpers TAP::Harness starts running the tests. For each test it creates a new parser (TAP::Parser) which is responsible for running the test script and parsing its output.
If I need to reach even deeper into the internals of the harness I can replace the classes that TAP::Parser uses to execute test scripts and tokenise their output. Before running a test script TAP::Parser creates a grammar (TAP::Parser::Grammar) to decode the raw TAP into tokens, a result factory (TAP::Parser::ResultFactory) to turn the decoded TAP results into objects and, depending on whether it's running a test script or reading TAP from a file, scalar or array a source or an iterator (TAP::Parser::IteratorFactory).
TAP::Parser also supports callbacks; bailout, comment, plan, test, unknown, version and yaml are called for the corresponding TAP result types, ALL is called for all results, ELSE is called for all results for which a named callback is not installed and EOF is called once at the end of each TAP stream.
When it comes to altering the behaviour of the test harness there's more than one way to do it. Which way is best depends on my requirements. In general if I only want to observe test execution without changing the harness' behaviour (for example to log test results to a database) I choose callbacks. If I want to make the harness behave differently subclassing gives me more control.
This approach is useful if I need to convert my TAP based test results into some other representation. See TAP::Convert::TET (http://search.cpan.org/dist/TAP-Convert-TET/) for an example of this approach.
The Test::Harness developers hang out on the tapx-dev mailing list. For discussion of general, language independent TAP issues there's the tap-l list. Finally there's a wiki dedicated to the Test Anything Protocol. Contributions to the wiki, patches and suggestions are all welcome.


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Q: difference between varchar and int when doing max()? Is there a technical difference between these two, when table.column is a varchar or int? When would the results not be the same? I tried a few examples of digit values (e.g. 1, '1', etc.) and results are the same.
 -- table.column is int:
 select
    MAX(table.column) as m

 -- table.column is varchar:
 select
   MAX(CAST(table.column as int)) as m

A: Both of the result are same, because after casting both of the values are converted into int type.
If any string which is actually int type converted into int shows no difference over there. But if you have any string of any other type and you're converting that string into int type it gives error.

declare @str nvarchar(100)
set @str = 'sdsfd fdf fd dfsf'

select cast(@str as int)

Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 3486
  Conversion failed when converting the nvarchar value 'sdsfd fdf fd dfsf' to data type int.

For strings that can be converted to integers there is no difference in aggregate functions.
declare @dd table ( id varchar(max), id2 int)
insert into @dd ( id, id2 )
values ( '1', 1 )
, ( '99', 99 )
, ( '52', 52 )

select max(id2) as col, max(cast(id as int)) as col1 from @dd

Result
------------------
col    col1
99     99

Thanks for @Zohar for reminding.
Although it is better to use Try_cast for your type conversion in SQL Server 2012 and above version.

A:
Is there a technical difference between these two

If there's an index on column, the server can use it to cheaply compute the MAX for the "column is an int" version of your query. Not for the other.

When would the results not be the same?

There shouldn't be a difference in the result1 but as I say above, there may be a considerable difference in the amount of work the server has to do to compute the result. Even without the index, all of those conversions require additional code to run.

1Assuming all of the strings are convertible to ints.


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ArtSpeak
Antony Gormley's "Blind Light" at the Hayward has certainly had its share of publicity. The BBC has a slideshow, while this Times' piece was pretty much lifted straight out of the advance PR:
The artist Antony Gormley unveiled his first London solo exhibition today, featuring a glass chamber which makes visitors disappear in the mist.
The installation is the highlight of Gormley's Blind Light exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, which promises to be one of the major arts events of the summer, competing with the Tate Modern's giant slides.
Well, I've now done both - been down the slides at Tate Modern, and walked inside Gormley's steam-filled glass box. Do I get the T-shirt? What distinguishes both is that they're more fairground than art gallery. To paraphrase that old saying about religion and morals, when no one knows any more what art is, then anything can step in to the space that's left.
Here's Gormley, from the exhibition guide:
Architecture is supposed to be the location of security and certainty about where you are. It is supposed to protect you from the weather, from darkness, from uncertainty. Blind Light undermines all of that. You enter this interior space that is the equivalent of being at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of the sea. It is very important to me that inside it you find the outside. Also you become the immersed figure in an endless ground, literally the subject of the work.
It is very important to me that inside it you find the outside. I felt the same way. Once inside it was very important to me to find the outside. Well, maybe I exaggerate: I didn't feel panic, or terror, or euphoria, but there is that slight concern about finding the way out once you're in. I walked tentatively forward for a while. You can't see anything beyond about a yard (that's 0.9144 meters) in front of you: it's just a whiteish-grey blank. Occasionally someone else will loom into your little observational area. I eventually reached the far side, then pretty much stuck by the wall as I made my way slowly back to the exit. It's like - well, it's like walking around in the dark. You could recreate the experience in your own home by going to the toilet in the middle of the night without switching the lights on - maybe that's where Gormley got the idea - with the added frisson of being half-asleep, plus the chance of treading on the cat and falling down the stairs.
From the Times piece:
"Didn't Burke say, 'there is no beauty without some terror in it'?" Gormley said. "But we have had three test groups in there and on the whole it has been euphoria, not panic. Usually you can hear laughter - sometimes nervous, but also joyful.
"I think regressive behaviour is normal. It's similar to that sense of childlike delight you feel when you wake up in the morning and it's snowing and all you want to do is go out and throw snowballs. You feel, 'my goodness, this is my world but suddenly it has been transformed into something very different."
Around 25 visitors at a time will be allowed to feel their way around the installation. Gormley said: "By the time you come across somebody, you are already well inside their ordinary zone of intimacy. That is quite intriguing to me. People react to each other in a different way in that environment.
"The most important thing for me is that it is a totally open work. There is no content other than what is brought by the viewer. The idea is to make no distinction between life and art.
"I have tried to make it as simple as possible. On one level it is the archetypical minimalist glass box, but there is a cloud of unknowing in it."
Burke....zone of intimacy....a cloud of unknowing....ooh he's good, isn't he? And that old line about making "no distinction between life and art"....it'd be fine if he really meant it, but if he did he'd be out of a job. The distinction, which I've no doubt he's perfectly well aware of, is that for art I have to go to art galleries and fork out money; for life I don't.
And that's the main attraction. In fact, from the all the publicity it would seem to be the highlight of London's cultural life this summer: an enclosure where you can't see where you're going. Maybe it's a metaphor.
The rest of the exhibition? There's Allotment 11, a room full of concrete blocks based on the measurements of inhabitants of Malmo (why Malmo?...we're not told). Here's that exhibition guide again:
The individual units that congregate to form Allotment are derived from the vital statistics of real people aged between 18 months and 80 years. Besides the height and width of the bodies, thirteen precise measurements were taken from each of the 300 volunteers. The hollow concrete "body cases" constructed from these very personal dimensions have apertures for the mouth, ears, anus, and genitals...
[A clue there, perhaps, as to why Malmo: only the Swedes would put up with it. "Excuse me, I'm an artist. From England. Can I take precise measurements of your anus and genitals?" "Of course, yes, that is not a problem."]
"The body is our first habitation, the building our second. I wanted to use the form of this second body, architecture, to make concentrated volumes out of a personal space that carries the memory of an absent self, articulated through measurement... Bodies and buildings, cities and cells, monuments and intimacies, each of the "rooms" in this piece is someone's, is connected to the moving body of an individual, alive and breathing." Antony Gormley, 1997
He talks the talk alright - but this is a room full of rectangular concrete blocks, for god's sake. That's it. Aesthetically appealing it isn't. Interesting it isn't. You might as well shovel in a load of rubble from a building site and claim that each brick represents an animal in the Amazonian rain forest. It'd be better, in fact: you'd be making a suitably ecological point as well - "the fact that the dimensions of each piece correspond to those of threatened animals in the rain forest reinforces the message that lies at the heart of the work, while subverting our normal perception of what, precisely, is waste, as the natural world is cast aside in humanity's relentless destructive quest...." Or something.
The other main feature of the exhibition is Event Horizon, "an ambitious new installation commissioned by The Hayward" which consists of "life-size figures - casts of the artist's body - placed on rooftops and walkways both north and south of the Thames".
Event Horizon invites people to look afresh at the city and explores the way in which people view and interact with their everyday urban surroundings. As Gormley has said, "As you walk out on to the sculpture terraces you might encounter individuals or groups of people pointing at the horizon in the manner of a classical group of sculptures. This is exciting to me: reflexivity becoming a shared activity...
"The title comes from cosmological physics and refers to the boundary of the observable universe. Because it is expanding, there are parts of the universe that will never be visible because their light will never reach us. I think that one of the implications of Event Horizon is that people will have to entertain an uncertainty about the work's dimensions: the spread and number of bodies. Beyond the figures that you can actually see, how many more are there that you can't see?" Antony Gormley 2007
Again there's the inflated language: people will have to entertain an uncertainty about the work's dimensions. You mean, they won't be able to see all the figures? It's the language doing all the work here: the actual piece - though probably the most successful in the show, conjuring a faintly disturbing Big Brother-type atmosphere with all those statues up on the rooftops looking at you - is nothing special. It's clever publicity, though.
The exhibition's a disappointment, then. What really annoys, though, is the the way it's presented; the language used to push its claim of relevance and importance. Gormley, as you can see from the quotes I've included, is something of a master at this. But peer closely and the meaning dissolves. It's all wind, blown up with a monumental sense of self-importance:
The body is our first habitation, the building our second. I wanted to use the form of this second body, architecture, to make concentrated volumes out of a personal space that carries the memory of an absent self, articulated through measurement...
It's the same kind of postmodern discourse that's so disfigured English studies over the past couple of decades: the same way of using language to intimidate rather than inform; to impress rather than educate. There are maybe a couple of differences though. Firstly, artspeak tends not to have the same grandiose baroque flourishes as academic postmodernism. It's a more home-grown - which is to say anglophone - phenomenon, and doesn't rely to the same extent on the French maîtres à penser like Lacan, Althusser, or Derrida. Secondly, with artspeak, there would appear to be no possibility of a Sokal moment; no hoax to expose the hollow pretentiousness of it all. If major art galleries can pay thousands of pounds for tins of shit produced by a guy aiming to show what crap the art world is, and then, when it turns out not to be shit, say, oh well, it doesn't matter, it doesn't affect the subversive humour of the work, then clearly there's no way of getting through. The whole set-up is impregnable.
Not that Gormley is a complete con-artist, of course. He has a substantial body of work behind him, including Angel of the North. That's why I went along to this exhibition genuinely expecting something worthwhile, and why I was so disappointed to find such a poor show inflated by this pretentious and insulting artspeak. Why do we put up with it?
For starters it's a plagiarized adaptation of a fairly common security device; any pretense of creativity herewith denied.
http://www.white-safe.de/white-safe/en/pages/overview_action.php
http://www.flashfogsecurity.com/
Posted by: DaninVan | June 18, 2007 at 03:59 AM
I just wanted to say that I love when you post about artspeak.
Keep doing it. :)
Posted by: Fabian from Israel | June 18, 2007 at 07:52 AM
I agree, this is some of the most amusing and cogent writing in the "blogosphere".
Posted by: J.C. | June 18, 2007 at 11:20 AM


The chairside guide Oral Cancer: Prevention and Patient Management was recently released to coincide with the start of the FDI World Dental Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The chairside guide offers practical guidance on oral cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment to oral health professionals. It is available in several languages.
Oral cancer is a type of head and neck cancer and is any cancerous tissue growth in the oral cavity. About 500,000 new cases of oral and oropharyngeal cancers are diagnosed annually, three-quarters of which occur in the developing world. FDI is committed to reducing the oral disease burden and improving oral health outcomes worldwide.
In line with its mission to lead the world to optimal oral health, FDI developed the chairside guide to prevent, promptly diagnose and treat oral cancer. FDI recognizes that oral health professionals play an important role in combating oral cancer. The purpose of this informative tool is to provide oral health professionals and patients with concise, yet comprehensive, information about oral cancer prevention, risk factors and management, as well as to guide clinical examination and diagnosis through a decision tree. The chairside guide focuses on the most common sites of oral cancer: the tongue, the insides of the cheeks, and the floor of the mouth.
The Oral Cancer: Prevention and Patient Management chairside guide was launched by FDI and Sunstar to facilitate early detection and swift treatment of oral cancer. Survival rates for oral cancer can be improved through early detection. Therefore, it is essential that oral health professionals such as dentists, dental hygienists, dental therapists and oral health therapists understand the importance of conducting a thorough oral screening examination for malignant and potentially malignant lesions as part of their routine clinical assessments, even in younger populations considered at lower risk for oral cancer. The chairside guide encourages and facilitates the integration of this examination into routine dental check-ups.
The Oral Cancer Project seeks to improve oral cancer survival rates by promoting oral cancer prevention strategies and advocating early detection and swift treatment action.
Oral cancer is a type of head and neck cancer and is any cancerous tissue growth located in the oral cavity. This guide focuses on oral cancer, which dentists can detect by observing the oral mucosa, as it is both superficial and accessible.


The Decentralized Accessible Content Chain (DACC) project is reporting that it has received solid backing from both institutional and individual investors for its private token sale, which was said to be oversubscribed within a matter of hours.
The private sale was scheduled to run from June 1 to 9, 2018, and had an initial target of 14,000 ETH. DACC says that within two hours of the start of the sale, it raised over 40,000 ETH or over $21 million worth of its DACC tokens. The public sale will kick off next.
The DACC platform is a decentralised Identity and Access Management (IAM) content chain that seeks to give users and content creators methods to securely initiate, store and manage access permissions to their data and intellectual property (IP). The data rights platform is said to provide tools for any type of content and enables creators to more easily manage and monetize their work.
The DACC project is said to have completed the design of its core IAM-based distributed file system as well as its original dAPP Demo development, and will be moving ahead with developing its bottom public chain.
DACC says it has significant community support as the company's foundation partner, Sky, is the co-founder of the 3 AM community and 499 Community.
This entry was posted in Asia, Blockchain & Digital Currency, Offerings and tagged china, dacc, decentralized accessible content chain, singapore. Bookmark the permalink.


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Q: scp transfer becomes very slow when the file size is greater than 64KB The initial problem was that when performing git clone via ssh the transfer rate is very slow, then it pauses and finally fails with

connection reset via peer

Background

*

*ssh server is a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian

*ssh client I have tried with both an OSX as well as another Raspberry with Raspbian but have the same issue

*git clone on the LAN is never an issue but when attempted over the WAN shows this problem, I do have an openWrt router that has port forwarding to expose the ssh port of the raspberry pi onto the router for WAN access

*I do have a firewall running on the router that is visible from the Internet.

*IPv4 is being used

*RPi is connected to the router via a wired connection

*The following ssh clients were used:

*

*OSX: OpenSSH_8.1p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3

*RPi: openssh-client/stable,now 1:7.9p1-10 armhf
scp observations
I said let me try scp to make sure this is working fine before I look at git clone. Here are my observations:
scp of files smaller than 64KB is very fast and done under a second.
scp -P 31415 user@host:/tmp/64KB /dev/null

64KB                 100%   64KB 310.4KB/s   00:00

scp of files larger than 64KB is very slow, even if I just have 1 extra KB, and sometimes fails
scp -P 31415 user@host:/tmp/65KB /dev/null

65KB                 100%   65KB 284.2KB/s   00:00
Connection to xxxxxxx closed by remote host.

I tried to do an scp -vvv and did a diff of the two transfers and I see the following differences.
-64KB                                              100%   64KB 288.5KB/s   00:00
+65KB                                              100%   65KB 267.3KB/s   00:00
 debug3: receive packet: type 96
 debug2: channel 0: rcvd eof
 debug2: channel 0: output open -> drain
@@ -190,6 +190,18 @@ debug2: channel 0: chan_shutdown_read (i0 o3 sock -1 wfd 4 efd 6 [write])
 debug2: channel 0: input open -> closed
 debug3: receive packet: type 97
 debug2: channel 0: rcvd close
+debug3: receive packet: type 98
+debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype keepalive@openssh.com reply 1
+debug3: send packet: type 100
+debug3: receive packet: type 98
+debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype keepalive@openssh.com reply 1
+debug3: send packet: type 100
+debug3: receive packet: type 98
+debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype keepalive@openssh.com reply 1
+debug3: send packet: type 100
+debug3: receive packet: type 98
+debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype keepalive@openssh.com reply 1
+debug3: send packet: type 100
 debug3: channel 0: will not send data after close
 debug2: channel 0: almost dead
 debug2: channel 0: gc: notify user

I do see that with the 65KB I see some addition +debug3: receive packet: type 98, but I lack the understanding to interpret this.
I have already gone through few solutions like turning of TCPTimestamps, changing the MTU size, etc, but none of them helped.

A: Setting "IPQoS" to "none" fixed the problem. Thank you so much! I seemed to need to set the option on both the client and server.