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Introduction: Media
Jürgen Baetz
Governments around the globe spend billions on laudable development programs, but while the charitable industry comes up with endless new acronyms and sophisticated concepts, one of the most powerful and simple tools to enhance change and foster development in societies remains underestimated at best, and perhaps even ignored at worst: the media.
The impact of media on developing nations even with low literacy rates has never been demonstrated more dramatically than by the case of Rwanda's Radio Mille Collines, whose hate-laden broadcasts were described by U.N. investigators as having played a decisive role in creating the atmosphere of racial hostility that led to the barbaric genocide in 1994.
One of the brightest examples of the media's power for goos, in turn, was their pivotal role in triggering the upheaval in the Maghreb and the greater Middle East which has so far toppled or brought to the brink at least four regimes – in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya – while others, such as Syria and Bahrain, are holding on desperately, hoping to crush the "Arab Spring" with the help of riot police and tanks.
In this issue, Bijan Kafi describes the importance of bloggers, Twitter and Facebook in shaping Egypt's revolution, while Oualid Hamdi of Tunisia tells us in an interview that "access to independent information was only possible through the internet," and that "Facebook became the media of the people".
But it's not always about toppling the government right away. Media also play a key role in fostering "good governance," one of the central goals now cherished by donors and aid groups as crucial to sustainable development. But good governance remains a distant goal if there is no accountability of those in power on all levels of government. Creating strong institutions in some countries is proving to be a daunting task that will take years or decades, but supporting the development of independent local media outlets holding those in power to account is a fast and effective means still too much neglected.
Word has long spread that building schools isn't enough. Sustainable development also needs to achieve cultural change when it comes to issues such as good governance, schooling children, family-planning, or the position of women in society. To achieve the desired change in attitudes and behavior, independent media can help most effectively by shifting public opinion.
In this issue, Fawzia Ihsan states that "there is no doubt" that the media in Afghanistan have raised awareness of women's woes such as forced marriages, underage marriages, women's rights and violence against women since the Taliban were ousted. "For illiterate women media are more than a source of entertainment," Ihsan notes, media are "one of the most important tools for teaching them how to reach their goals and higher positions."
Finally, in remote rural areas with low literacy rates, local radio stations can play an important role not only in influencing public opinion, but also in transferring knowledge – be it about the use of mosquito nets or farming techniques. "I am [...] convinced that poverty in Tanzania is basically due to a lack of information," Joseph Sekiku of FADECO radio tells us. The broadcaster aims to help small-scale farmers in the country's remote north-west, and ideas as simple as teaching people how to dry their tomatoes cheaply and effectively in the sun before they rot can make a huge difference for a family of subsistence farmers.
Sekiku struggles to fund his initiative, and FADECO is only one small example of a wider mismatch. Large development organizations and donor countries often seem reluctant to embrace funding, supporting or cooperating with media initiatives for various reasons – perhaps because they cannot fully control what messages such independent media outlets convey or that they doubt their quality and effectiveness altogether, fearing that such endeavors won't make good bullet points in their annual progress reports.
The media can be a transformative force, an effective development tool that allows for the spreading of knowledge and the fostering of cultural and behavioral changes. However, policymakers in donor countries and aid organizations still underestimate the extent of their role in the success of development strategies.
The examples cited here, along with other aspects discussed in this issue, therefore aim to highlight the media's crucial role, making it plainly clear that they should no longer be seen as an appendix to development programs, but as a vital part of any sustainable development strategy.
Jürgen Baetz is a Germany Correspondent for The Associated Press and closely follows development issues.
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Error: Cannot find a differ supporting object '[object Object]' of type 'object'. NgFor only supports binding to Iterables such as Arrays.
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import { NavController } from 'ionic-angular';
import { RestProvider } from './../../providers/rest/rest';
@Component({
  selector: 'page-home',
  templateUrl: 'home.html'
})

export class HomePage {
   weapons: any;
   errorMessage: string;
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 ionViewDidLoad() {
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import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import { map, catchError } from 'rxjs/operators';
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// import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';
@Injectable()
export class RestProvider {
  baseUrl:string = "http://localhost:3000";
  constructor(private httpClient : HttpClient) {
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  public getweapons(): Observable<{}> {
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          map(this.extractData),
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      private extractData(res: Response) {
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          const err = error || '';
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        } else {
          errMsg = error.message ? error.message : error.toString();
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        console.error(errMsg);
        return Observable.throw(errMsg);
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}

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  "weapon_category": {
    "weapons": [
        {
          "name": "AK",
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A: weapons is an object, hence you are getting this obvious error Error: Cannot find a differ supporting object '[object Object]' of type 'object'. NgFor only supports binding to Iterables such as Arrays.
To fix, you need to access weapons.weapon_category.weapons in order to get an array
change your template as
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I recently had a case where I was seeking to enforce the terms of a contract between my client and the opposing party. The contract stated that if the opposing party wanted to take my client's deposition, she would pay my client "$300.00 per hour, including drive time." The contract also provided that if my client retained an attorney for the deposition, the opposing party would pay the attorney's fees associated with the deposition.
When the opposing party noticed my client's deposition, I sent the opposing attorney a letter outlining our expectations, including payment for my and my client's fees.
The opposing attorney refused, and I filed a motion for a protective order on behalf of my client, asking the court that the deposition of my client be conditioned upon payment of her and my fees.
The problem with this argument, besides lacking any legal authority, is that it is wrong. It illustrates a common misconception about adhesion contracts.
a standardized contract form offered to consumers of goods and services essentially on a "take it or leave it" basis, without affording the consumer a realistic opportunity to bargain, and under such conditions that the consumer cannot obtain the desired product or service except by acquiescing to the form of the contract.
Obstetrics & Gynecologists William G. Wixted, M.D., Patrick M. Flanagan, M.D., William F. Robinson, M.D. Ltd. v. Pepper, 101 Nev. 105, 106, 693 P.2d 1259, 1260 (1985).
As a practical matter, most contracts consumers sign are adhesion contracts. Your contract with the cable company, the cell phone company, online vendors, airlines, hotels, etc., are all adhesion contracts. The airline you purchase a plane ticket from, for example, does not have a representative sit down with you to negotiate the terms of your agreement, like the ticket price, the airspeed of the plane, the departure time, maximum altitude, cabin temperature, etc. Large corporations and even small business would not be able to operate if they only way they could enforce contracts was to negotiate each one separately.
Instead, many businesses will prepare standard contracts that govern their relationship with their potential clients, and if the potential clients do not agree to one or more of the terms, they are welcome to do business elsewhere.
As a general rule, a contract is not unenforceable merely because it is an adhesion contract. In fact, Nevada courts "permit the enforcement of adhesion contracts where there is plain and clear notification of the terms and an understanding consent, and if it falls within the reasonable expectations of the weaker … party." Burch v. Second Judicial Dist. Court of State ex rel. Cnty. of Washoe, 118 Nev. 438, 442, 49 P.3d 647, 649 (2002).
At the hearing on behalf of my client, the opposing attorney took the same position he took in the briefing—that adhesion contracts are unenforceable. I was able to quickly dispatch with that argument using citation to Nevada law (something he did not even try to do). The attorney then took the position that because his client did not actually read the agreement, she cannot be held to its terms. That he would resort to such an argument revealed the weakness of his position.
In the end, the judge ordered that both my client and me be paid our respective hourly rates for time spent at the deposition.
It was a hard lesson to learn for the opposing party, who also had to pay her attorney. You should always read contracts before you sign them. And if there are terms you do not agree to, try to negotiate the terms, particularly if you are dealing with a small business. Often they are willing to adjust their standardized contract if it means keeping your business. And always be wary of what you sign because regardless of whether you read it or understand it, chances are, you'll be held to its terms, which means any deviation from the terms will likely constitute a breach of contract.
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27 Oct Customer Experience is Driving a New Era of E-Commerce
The time to think beyond the customer journey is now.
If there's one thing we know, it's that the e-commerce landscape and buyer behavior can shift quickly in response to major world events. Well-poised e-commerce companies reap the rewards of delivering high-quality, personalized customer experiences that adapt to changing customer needs and buying behaviors.
The concept of a customer journey sprang into the industry's collective consciousness when retail met the internet, forever changing the way people interact and shop with brands. With the proliferation of purchasing options in e-commerce, customers shifted from prioritizing price to prioritizing value. It became less about scoring the best deal and more about the complete experience – and the rush to create a fully realized, end-to-end customer journey was born.
Don't misunderstand: all of these things are still true today. Customers are still seeking value, they're still seeking the best experience, and they still give their business to companies that hit the sweet spot between price and service. But now, consumers have already adapted their expectations to the market's initial response. The idea of a personalized shopping experience is now the baseline, not the outlier. It's no longer a question of whether you're personalizing, but how well you're doing it.
As we covered in our last blog, a good way to understand how your marketing practices should adapt to this seismic shift in consumer expectations is by understanding the new consumer decision-making cycle. McKinsey and Co. provided a nuanced analysis of these changes, which is referenced throughout this post.
Traditionally, the customer decision journey was depicted as a funnel.
The idea was that the consumer started out with a specific range of options and landed on the final choice by process of elimination. Brand-name familiarity and offers played important roles in being included in the initial set of options; the marketing component delivered messaging accordingly, designed to "push" consumers through each stage of the funnel.
Fig 1. Traditional Decision Funnel, Image Credit: McKinsey & Co.
The new decision-making journey, as laid out by McKinsey, explains the decision-making process as a loop within a loop, with one initial purchase decision journey that feeds into a loyalty cycle after purchase.
Fig 2. The New Customer Decision Journey, Image Credit: McKinsey & Co.
This is significant for a few reasons:
1. There is no funnel. The whole point of the funnel was that the competition narrowed down as you went through the process; people started with one big group and then eliminated brands until they were left with the winner. In stark contrast, consumers today take matters into their own hands: By looking up reviews and researching online, asking for opinions and referrals, it's now the norm to add one or two options after eliminating a few from the original selection.
2. It's a two-way conversation. As in the above point, consumers are no longer evaluating or selecting their purchases by how much your marketing message is able to sway them one way or the other. It's now a much more complicated conversation, with consumers doing their own research and independently comparing and contrasting. It's one reason that roughly 70% of purchases are abandoned at the shopping cart: Shoppers often start looking for external product reviews before pulling the trigger and just as often disappear down the black hole of Googling.
3. It doesn't repeat; it restarts. Perhaps the most important difference of the new decision-making process is the innocuous-seeming "loyalty loop" added into the cycle. The idea of transactions being a cycle isn't necessarily groundbreaking – this is where the ideas of customer lifecycles, sales cycles, and so forth come in. But here's what is groundbreaking: once the purchase is complete, the cycle not only continues but restarts. The moment of purchase is no longer a guarantor of success. As McKinsey points out, people purchase cosmetics and still keep researching alternatives and reviews after the fact. A sale is no longer a win; it's just another stage, and another part of the cycle where competitors can slip in.
With all these factors in play, it's clear to see why 66% of marketers say that their attempts to provide valuable brand experiences are "hit or miss." Today's concept of the customer journey, which takes the customer through a guided tour of pre-established and pre-defined stages, is no longer applicable because consumers have disrupted that process themselves.
Put simply, the personalized customer journey as it exists today is a static response to a dynamic problem. A journey by definition is about moving from point A to B, and the traditional customer journey is about facilitating that movement – but it's clear that today's consumers are not held by such linear constraints.
Personalized and relevant marketing, then, must also be taken out of the original context. It's not about shaping one customer journey through messaging that is only relevant because it pertains to each predetermined stage, but rather being able to identify where a customer is within the journey at a given moment, and providing the most relevant messaging for that corresponding spot.
It's a formidable task, to be sure, but it's the only way to stand out and delight customers who have come to see relevancy and personalization as prereqs, not perks. And though it sounds crazy, it's not impossible.
We at Retention Science will be diving deeper into how exactly this level of personalization is possible at scale. The short version? Artificial Intelligence holds the key. Download our free guide for insight on how we do it: Scientific Marketer's Guide: Retention Marketing & Predictive Analytics
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Senate's most principled civil libertarian and most reasonable moderate share Donald Trump's entire boot for dinner
By Scott Lemieux
Well, this is always where his career was going to end up:
Sen. Rand Paul is waging a fierce campaign to prevent the Senate from hearing witnesses in Donald Trump's impeachment trial, vowing to force tough votes on his fellow Republicans if they break with the president or back Democrats' demands fornew evidence.
The Kentucky Republican is occasionally at odds with Trump, from his killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani to his national emergency to build his southern border wall. But when it comes to impeachment, Paul is taking the hardest line possible in Trump's favor.
Paul says if four or more of his GOP colleagues join with Democrats to entertain new witness testimony, he will make the Senate vote on subpoenaing the president's preferred witnesses, including Hunter Biden and the whistleblower who revealed the Ukraine scandal — polarizing picks who moderate Republicans aren't eager to call. So he has a simple message for his party: end the trial before witnesses are called.
Rarely has the search for a Principled Republican leftier-than-thous could celebrate as a superior alternative to a liberal Democrat been more pathetic than the attempts to project something admirable about this standard-issue neoconfederate hack. As a recently deceased Canadian philosopher once observed:
Peart outgrew his Ayn Rand phase years ago, and now describes himself as a "bleeding-heart libertarian," citing his trips to Africa as transformative. He claims to stand by the message of "The Trees," but other than that, his bleeding-heart side seems dominant. Peart just became a U.S. citizen, and he is unlikely to vote for Rand Paul, or any Republican. Peart says that it's "very obvious" that Paul "hates women and brown people" — and Rush sent a cease-and-desist order to get Paul to stop quoting "The Trees" in his speeches.
"For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party," says Peart, who also calls George W. Bush "an instrument of evil." "If you're a compassionate person at all. The whole health-care thing — denying mercy to suffering people? What? This is Christian?"
OK, but how about the alleged moderate who is up for re-election this year?
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said on Wednesday she doesn't think newly released evidence, which happens to show Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump were deeply involved in the effort to force Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, should be allowed at the Senate impeachment trial.
"I wonder why the House did not put that into the record and it's only now being revealed," Collins said, referring to documents Democrats released on Tuesday from Lev Parnas, the indicted Giuliani aide who turned over his notes and text messages with Giuliani and other Ukrainian officials as part of the impeachment investigation.
Parnas only just released the documents to the House Intelligence Committee because federal authorities had seized them as part of its investigation into Parnas' political activity. Parnas was ultimately indicted for breaking federal campaign finance law.
When reporters reminded Collins of that fact that Parnas just released documents to House investigators yesterday, she replied, "Well, doesn't that suggest that the House did an incomplete job then?"
Collins' remarks ignore the fact that it was unclear whether the documents would ever be released at all.
Federal authorities had seized the documents as part of the investigation that ultimately led to Parnas' indictment on campaign finance charges. Parnas had to ask a judge whether he could then publicly release those same documents that prosecutors had seized.
A federal judge signed off on allowing him to release the documents only two weeks ago.
I'm beginning to think that this trial might not be entirely impartial!
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Portland, Oregon, awaits right-wing rally, counter protests
More than two dozen local, state and federal law enforcement agencies are in Portland, Oregon to help out police with a right-wing rally Saturday …
More than two dozen local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Federal Protective Service, were in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday to help police there monitor a right-wing rally that's expected to draw demonstrators from around the U.S.
Self-described anti-fascists have vowed to confront the rally while leaders from the far right urged their followers to turn out in large numbers to protest the arrests of six members of right-wing groups in the run-up to the event.
Patriot Prayer's Joey Gibson, who is not involved in this weekend's event but organized similar rallies in 2017 and 2018 that erupted in clashes, surrendered Friday on an arrest warrant for felony rioting. He was at a confrontation that broke out on May 1 outside a bar where members of the so-called "antifa" movement had gathered after a May Day demonstration.
In a video he livestreamed on Facebook, Gibson accused the police of playing politics by arresting him but not the masked demonstrators who beat up conservative blogger Andy Ngo at a June 29 rally that drew national attention to this small, liberal city.
"What I'm saying to everybody who's listening to this (is) they're trying to shut you guys up. They want you to not show up in Portland, they want to put fear in your hearts," he said.
"When a government pushes back like that, we don't bend the knee," Gibson said, as he walked to the jail.
Portland Police Bureau spokeswoman Tina Jones declined to comment about specific arrests but said generally police continue to investigate several incidents from clashes on May 1 and June 29 and are politically neutral.
Members of antifa often cover their faces with masks, making it harder to identify them.
"We receive criticism no matter what. It's either too much, not enough, you arrested this group and not this group," Jones said. "It seems like some people are keeping score, and that's not what it's about on the law enforcement side. One hundred percent, it's about public safety."
In addition to the Proud Boys, the white nationalist American Guard and the Three Percenters, a far-right militia, have said they will have members in Portland.
Hate group watchdogs say the Daily Stormers, a neo-Nazi group, are also expected.
"It would be best for the patriot/conservative cause if this August 17 rally were simply canceled," the group's founder, Stewart Rhodes, wrote. "Those who want to protest the way Portland coddles Antifa should start over, with a clean slate."
Authorities asked residents not to call 911 unless it's a life-threatening emergency and to stay away from the heart of downtown. Some city streets will be closed Saturday, as well as a major bridge connecting the east and west sides of the city.
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Back in early August, Apple added Toronto and Montreal to its list of cities with 3D map capabilities. Now, it appears Calgary has been quietly added with 3D maps too. Check out the image below:
Here's Toronto and Montreal if you haven't seen them already:
Under Apple's iOS 6 Feature Availability page, Canada isn't listed under 3D Buildings, but as you can see we have three cities already added, with most likely more to come.
Apple acquired Sweden-based C3 Technologies last October and has implemented their technology into the latest iOS Maps app, ditching Google Maps, although many feel the latter still provides an edge in maps.
iOS 6 will be released for download this Wednesday, September 19th.
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We've just finished one of the biggest social media years ever. Live video became huge, fueled by Periscopeand Facebook Live. Half-baked ideas for apps came and went. We still have no idea if Twitter will survive.
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced chat bots within its Messenger app earlier this year, reaction from users was lukewarm.
But chat bots might just be how customer service gets done in 2017. More and more platforms are relying on artificial intelligence to take care of small tasks.
For fellow entrepreneurs and small business owners, these chat bots can be a godsend. Imagine having an automated (and free) virtual assistant who can help your customers find simple information or track purchases? Instead of outsourcing your customer service, a chat bot can provide vital information on a medium your customers already know and love.
Zuckerberg is a huge fan of artificial intelligence. As a New Year's resolution, he coded Jarvis, a super-powered virtual assistant for his home -- voiced by Morgan Freeman. Zuckerberg, as he has proven time and again, thinks ahead of the curve. This kind of technology is primed to take off in 2017, providing a major productivity boost for entrepreneurs and businesses.
Don't believe me? Facebook already has more than 34,000 chat bots on Messenger. Look for this trend to explode soon.
Back in the Wild West days of social media, brands had to be on every platform -- even if they had no following there.
Now that companies are getting smarter about throwing money on social media, they'll realize that spending money where it matters most will lead to the most success in 2017.
Think of it this way: you have finite time and money. Why waste it on platforms that don't return your investment, trying to cater to fans who don't exist? I'd love to see a correction from the be-everywhere-all-the-time trend of the past few years.


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Arnold, Delene is an assisted living facility. Assisted living facilities are an apartment-style habitat designed to focus on providing assistance with daily living activities. They provide a higher level of service for the elderly which can include preparing meals, housekeeping, medication assistance, laundry, and also do regular check-in's on the residents. Basically, they are designed to bridge the gap between independent living and nursing home facilities. When thinking about how to pay for care, assisted living facilities are generally less expensive than nursing homes, if assisted living is a viable option for your loved one.
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The Virtual Wall provides a barrier made up of plasma laser beams depicting pedestrians doing what they do best and any car that crosses that barrier suffers the consequences. Okay so maybe those lasers aren't powerful enough to do any harm but the effect is enough to make drivers and pedestrians alike follow crosswalk rules to the tee.
Not that these should ever be necessary in a civilized urban environment, but we can almost hear Richard Brodsky spouting off about the high-falutin' walled-off elitist pedestrian class.
I think it looks like an excellent idea.
If I understand it correctly, it is precisely one of these "mental speed bumps" many readers here seem to support.
Can motorists see the "virtual pedestrians" BEFORE motorists arrive at the crosswalk?
Does the light show only activate when people are entering it? Or is it on all the time?
I think it would be most effective if it only activated when pedestrians are actually approaching and/or using the crosswalk, rather than being active all the time. If it's on all the time, motorists might get desensitized to its presence.
EXCELLENT IDEA, though, I think.
Wow, that's cool. But will it zap me if I roll through on my bike (after making sure there are no real pedestrians in the x-walk, of course)?
ok, I kind of love it. Pedestrians and cyclists get fenced in all the time in this city – now it's the cars' turn. Though of course I would prefer a physical barrier. pop-up bollards, perhaps?
The solution to not getting zapped when "rolling through" on your bike is: don't roll through on your bike.
Telling a biker not to carefully roll through an empty intersection is like telling a New York pedestrian not to J-walk. Let's try to stop sniping at each other but rather look out for each other and work for our common good.
Great idea, plain and simple.
Cars need to be penned in like that because every time they are stopped at a red light, they unthinkingly creep forward into the crosswalk.
A slight easing of the break pedal leads to great annoyance for others, but they don't care.
epc, I'm New Yorker. If I'm walking and encounter a red light and no car is coming, I cross the street. If I'm on my bike and no car is coming andno pedestrians are crossing, I'll roll through the light. I've never come close to hitting anyone on my bike, and I don't plan on ending that streak.
I hate to say that my impression (living on a bike-laned street in the village) is that a higher percentage of bikers break the rules of the road than drivers.
Bikers flame away but a lot of street space is being given to you and you still don't play by the rules. Explain.
It would be even better if the plasma beams created force fields protecting pedestrians and cyclists.
In any case, urban compatible vehicles should have acceleration and speed governors especially, so that they can't speed up to make lights. Adding intelligence to these governors in areas where there are a lot of people could provide even more limiting and even provide awareness-raising alarms to drivers.
Of course, it would be better not to have cars and trucks in these areas at all.
#9 Dave, There's no excuse for the bad actions of the cyclists you describe but, safety on the streets is skewed way against pedestrians and cyclists and is totally unfair since the streets are public spaces. Cyclists have to ride in the streets by law but have the same physical protections as pedestrians which is virtually nothing.
A pedestrian is something like 2.5 times more likely to be killed by a car than someone in a car. Car and truck accidents kill something like 300 people a year in this city. The numbers are so low for deaths caused bicycles that they are meaningless but, the last I heard it was about one-third of a person per year or 1 person every three years.
I love the idea in concept but I have two reservations: 1) Aren't lasers really bad for the eyes? 2) How much does one of these things cost? If those issues can be addressed, I say put these things up tomorrow.
Do cyclists who use a car lane instead of a dangerous little bike lane really "block" traffic? Or do they more often go as fast as or faster than the cars around them? The latter is certainly my experience.
Please don't complain about cyclists spurning crummy little bike lanes. Respectable bike lanes, maybe, but not those dinky meaningless white lines.
I must have extraordinary bad luck with cyclists because I've been hit or clipped three times this year (last week: cyclist hits me from behind and knocks my dog over while we're walking on the sidewalk).
Cycling is only going to increase in the city, I hope. But as a pedestrian (and ex-cyclist: Bus, Pittsburgh, 1990), I'd ask, beg, plead, warn, scream that the cyclists here need to drop the holier-than-thou attitude and be more mindful of pedestrians, you need them (us) on your side. Yes, more pedestrians are killed by vehicles in the city than by cyclists. Could it possibly be related to there being more vehicles than bikes in the city?
Riding a bike doesn't make the behavior any less anti-social or more careful than the same behavior in a car, truck or bus.
And yes, that seems to be the same pace I was on last year.
Maybe I should drive more, walk less.
Shifting people from cars to bicycles (or even from transit to bicycles) is not going to make them stop being assholes. You want to reduce the number of assholes in the world, become a social worker. This is all about reducing the damage that assholes can do.
You do have bad luck epc, or maybe it's the neighborhood you live or work in. (I think midtown is where things get really nasty?) I've never been hit by a bike, and have been startled (and momentarily pissed off) only twice in seven years here.
As far as attitudes go, they can be bad all around but the fact is that attitudes and carelessness ARE a lot less dangerous on a bicycle or in shoes than in 3,000 lbs of metal. There's not much reason to look beyond Newtonian physics for an explanation of the disparity in death rates, but if anyone has solid VMT numbers for bikes vs. autos it would be easy to factor that out. (Given the distances delivery people cover on bikes, largely invisibly, I wonder how great the VMT difference would be?) What surprises me is that we do average almost one pedestrian death a year from bicycles. It's definitely something to look at after dealing with the 150x higher death rate from autos.
I wonder in person-miles-traveled how the pedestrian death ratio works out between bikes and cars/trucks. A lot of those cars are transporting multiple people while bikes rarely do.
A lot of bicyclists — who require no license, no registration, no insurance and no demonstration of minimum qualifications — have a lot of room for improvement, and you thoughtful bikers would be well served if they did. Just yesterday I saw a biker going west on 92nd or 93rd street (some cross street with a clearly marked and unobstructed bike lane) non-chalantly coasting down the center of the street glancing back over his shoulder at a car that was following slowly behind him. Then the light turned red and the biker went through it and made a right without even slowing down. The car of course stopped. I wouldn't be surprised if that driver thinks twice before yielding to the next bike he comes across.
Sure, that would have to be part of the calculation but unfortunately I don't think our carpooling rate is high enough to redeem personal cars in a comparison that breaks things out by busses, comercial vehicles, personal cars, and cyclists. Honestly. The emphasis on bad bikers, the endless anecdotes (thanks for providing another!) is a grim joke. Talk to me when the auto-to-ped kill rate is below 100 a year for this city. If we can keep up the decline of the past few years, that isn't too far off.
p.s. You know I'm not a "you thoughtful biker" ! I'm a thoughtful pedestrian, thank you very much, who doesn't see much point in a stereotype-inflamed "mode war" among those of us who do very little of the killing and very much of the dying.
Back to the initial topic: I thought of a way to actually get the city interested in this: display advertising on the virtual barriers.
All fine and dandy, great design, but there's no physical way of actually making something like that happen, pictures in the middle of the air, by laser or any other means. this is fiction, not a technology.
Caution, any sufficiently technologically advanced group of people suddenly exposed to a group lacking such advancements may appear as gods.
Regarding the seemingly futuristic red 2D-laser display of people crossing at a crosswalk, it's pretty easy to say something is impossible if you do not have immediate experience on how a proposed idea might work.
Your mission – if you should decide to take it — is to do a little research to determine how this might work.
Excuse, but what is a laser plasma beam? And how is it visible from the side?
25. Alfred Louro, Supposedly you can contact designer at http://www.leehanyoung.com/.
You can also check holographic and volumetric displays on Wikipedia.
Sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning, NYPD surrounded Flatiron Plaza, where Broadway crosses Fifth Avenue, with concrete barriers. Similar barriers could be coming to public spaces throughout the city in the name of NYPD's counterterror initiatives.
Will "Crash-Proof" Cars Make Drivers More Dangerous?
Let's hear from a lawmaker who pushes pedals, not paperwork.
Braking News: NYPD Barricades Make Brooklyn Bridge Bike Path Even Worse!
These sugar cubes are going to create a lot more headaches on the Brooklyn Bridge.


First date conversation is essential. Based about it, you could or may n't have a 2nd time. It is crucial about yourself if for you to talk you want to know your relationship companion better. Your time can only just be as successful as efficient is the communication. With out a genuine conversation that sheds light in who you actually are you currently can't anticipate a girl in order to become thinking about you. Read the guide that is following get acquainted with a number of the very first time discussion tips.
One of the better methods for very very very first day discussion is always to show curiosity about your dating companion. You ought to approach a person you're relationship with honest interest. Be high in enthusiasm to know your relationship companion. Which she is really, just just what she likes, just exactly what she does not like, etc. Ask her questions and follow her attentively. Make her compliments, be surprised, happy, and surprised. Express emotions that are positive she could realize that you're interested in her own.
Steps to start a discussion?
Frequently males see it is difficult to start out a discussion. It may be tough to do because there's no ground that is common both you and your online online dating partner for a very very first time. You just don't understand one another. Consequently, both of you tend to be availableto different situations. But, this variety of preference rather than pushing guys towards innovative and initial solutions, usually make sure they are numb and struggling to speak about such a thing. Guys frequently justify that by saying "I didn't understand what to chat about". Reading the guide that is following be conscious of just how outrageous this reason seems.
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Here are a few conversation that is good for very first dates. Rather than speaking about weather condition or meals, ask her where she actually is from ( exactly exactly just what city, province, state, country). Then, ask her about her household, knowledge, work. This is often exactly just exactly how men and women decide to try getting to understand one another. Ask her where she purchased this kind of nice gown or her extremely purse that is fashionable. You need to appear with these relevant concerns quickly by yourself. It should not concern you at all. You shall observe how simple it really is as soon as you test it your self.
Ask her about some cool motion picture that recently was at the cinema. You might ask her about some stuff that is popular is aware of. Or in other words, find anything she most likely is aware of and ask her about any of it. As an example, everyone found out about a present quake in Mexico or a brand new Beyonce record album. Make it work well for you personally and create a ground that is common.
Don't press it tough but attempt to know the maximum amount of about her as you're able. Witnessingyour interest will most definitely flatter her. Still, don't overdo it. You should ask just as much as you're willing to share with about your self. Various other terms, ask her something that you'dn't mind been wondering.
General information like household history, task position, training, destination of residence, etc. is very important. Nonetheless, it can't state much about a individual. To be able to understand her better you ought to discover what her preferences and tastes tend to be. Start with a"what's that are typical preferred color/flower" but go to much much more questions that are detailed. Discover what songs she likes, exactly exactly what movies she watches, and just exactly what publications she checks out. Perhaps, she's into sports. Make an effort to understand what recreations she likes and just why. So how exactly does she be spent by her no-cost time?
Generally speaking, you need ton't touch upon some really serious subjects for a very first day. These things is normally remaining for the following phases of internet internet dating. Nonetheless, there may be exclusions. According to a scenario, determine it yourself. It really is better to ask a minumum of one really serious concern. You may paraphrase it as you prefer but its essence could be the after: just just just what can you expect from interactions? Your aim is always to find out what type of connections she actively seeks and exactly why. Speaking in broader terms, exactly why is she internet online online dating? Remember that you ought to be in a position to respond to this concern your self also.
About yourself if you want to get to know each other, you need to tell her. Her about yourself, you need to make a good impression when you tell. You can only just accomplish that by being enthusiastic whenever you present your self. Whether you're dealing with your work, your hobbies or tastes in songs, take action with enthusiasm and passion. Ladies want to see interesting, enthusiastic, and passionate males. Chatting you to show a girl your about yourself requires most readily useful edges. Don't inform her something huge or severe like family members issues or difficulties at your workplace. Also, don't feed her in just little details. Blend anything crucial with anything insignificant. You really need to delicately stability between everyday talk that is small one part and severe discussion on the other.
Another suggestions about simple tips to speak about your self indicates informing about a thing that defines you as an individual. Easily put, you will need to inform the thing that makes you who you are. Why is you various? Why and exactly how are you currently initial? A woman you're dating will most likely need to know the responses to those concerns. Therefore, begin by responding to all of all of all of them your self very first.
How will you speak about your self depends upon the tone of one's vocals, gestures, imitates, and techniques. It's called non-verbal interaction hotrussianwomen.net. Start with getting utilized to laugh. The greater amount of you smile the higher. But get it done sincerely and also at the proper events. Then, adjust the tone of the vocals. If a girl speaks quietly, reduce your sound. For no reason, should you shout. Don't make unexpected techniques. Men and women don't like razor- razor- sharp moves and think about all of all of them distracting and annoying. Nevertheless, to state your feelings efficiently and be passionate, make use of gestures. Stress the essential things you state with the techniques of the fingers. You might think orators take action with out a explanation?
Your mindset should always be good. Whether you're asking concerns or responding to all of all of all of them, you ought ton't genuinely believe that smiling is perhaps all you must do. You should be positive in your method. Your success relies on your optimism, passion, and joyfulness. Men and women meet up to pay time having fun. Consequently, be joyful about anything you do and say. In the event she's perhaps perhaps not when you look at the state of mind, your good method would most likely melt her cool heart. Remember that optimism and enthusiasm tend to be infectious.
Just Just Just What to not Do?
Therefore, how will you have conversation that is nice appearing as a douche? Right Right Here may be the range of typical problems you'll want to stay away from whenever chatting with a ladyon a very first day. After them shall create your interaction much much more efficient. Every thing is determined by the way you communicate. Internet Dating it self is a procedure for interaction. Therefore, don't fail it.
On no account, should you chat significantly more than she does. Often during a romantic date one partner demands all interest. You need ton't chat all of the time. Indeed, this really is a means of showing your self. But carrying it out similar to thiswill make a girl believe you're perhaps perhaps not thinking about her. Additionally, don't you would like to understand her? Either you don't you want to know her like her, or. There's no 3rd option. You can't like her and disregard her during the exact same time.
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On the whole, so now you understand what to complete in order to make an appealing discussion. Remember the success of your very first time totally depends on your own capacity to produce a conversation that is good. Don't be too harsh on your self because perhaps maybe maybe not every thing varies according to you. The way in which she talks additionally issues. Do all you can but don't leap over your mind. Maybe, she does not need it. Stick to the guidelines to get prepared for a few significant improvements. Ask her questions, tell about yourself passionately, and get confident. Great fortune!


This year I had Mommy and Me mini sessions and loved watching all the moms and their children. We had a cute little set up in our home studio in Chaska. We also set up a little spot outside so we could get indoor and outdoor photos. This session was special to me as momma and I played basketball in Waconia together when we were in middle school. We recently reconnected and it's been fun being a part of this family's life again. I love getting the opportunity to photograph the genuine interaction of parents and their children - child photography is so important. Capturing them when they're little is so important!


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28 publications found
Series: Open-File Report Authors: Bradbury, K.R. Resource Types: Report Tags: Groundwater
Assessing Seasonal Variations in Recharge and Water Quality in the Silurian Aquifer in Areas with Thicker Soil Cover
Documentation of variations in groundwater levels and selected water-quality parameters in four wells completed in the Silurian dolomite aquifer in northeast Wisconsin (Brown, Calumet, Kewaunee, and Manitowoc Counties).
Muldoon, M.A.; Bradbury, K.R.;
Report: 38 p. + appendix (4 oversized pages)
Forecasting Impacts of Extreme Precipitation Events on Wisconsin's Groundwater Levels
Joachim, D.R.; Gotkowitz, M.B.; Potter, K.W.; Bradbury, K.R.; Vavrus, S.J.; Loheide, S.P.;
Human Viruses as Tracers of Wastewater Pathways into Deep Municipal Wells
WOFR2010-04a
Human Viruses as Tracers of Wastewater Pathways into Deep Municipal Wells: Final Report
Bradbury, K.R.; Borchardt, M.A.; Gotkowitz, M.B.; Spencer, S.K.;
WOFR2010-04b
Human Viruses as Tracers of Wastewater Pathways into Deep Municipal Wells: Virus Analyses Data
Groundwater Susceptibility Maps, Diagrams, and Report for the Town of Byron, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Groundwater susceptibility maps, diagrams, and report for the Town of Byron, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
Bradbury, K.R.; Batten, W.G.;
Report: 16 p. + 7 color plates
Assessment of Virus Presence and Potential Virus Pathways in Deep Municipal Wells
Bradbury, K.R.; Borchardt, M.A.; Gotkowitz, M.B.; Hunt, R.J.;
Investigating Groundwater Recharge to the Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer through Fine-Grained Glacial Deposits in the Fox River Valley
Hooyer, T.S.; Hart, D.J.; Bradbury, K.R.; Mickelson, D.M.;
Delineation of Areas Contributing Groundwater to Springs and Wetlands Supporting the Hine's Emerald Dragonfly, Door County, Wisconsin
Bradbury, K.R.; Cobb, M.K.;
Mechanisms of Groundwater Flow Across the Maquoketa Formation
Hart, D.J.; Bradbury, K.R.; Feinstein, D.T.; Tikoff, Basil;
Impacts of Land Use and Groundwater Flow on the Temperature of Wisconsin Trout Streams: Final Report
Gaffield, S.J.; Rayne, T.W.; Wang, Lizhu; Bradbury, K.R.;
Assessing the Ecological Status and Vulnerability of Springs in Wisconsin
Swanson, S.K.; Bradbury, K.R.; Hart, D.J.;
Data Accompanying WOFR2007-04: Assessing the Ecological Status and Vulnerability of Springs in Wisconsin
GIS Data: Shapefiles, JPEG images, Microsoft Access database
Groundwater Flow Model for the City of West Bend, Washington County, Wisconsin: Report to the City of West Bend, Wisconsin
Bradbury, K.R.; Hart, D.J.;
Hydrostratigraphy of West-Central Wisconsin: A New Approach to Groundwater Management
LePain, D.L.; Bradbury, K.R.; Cobb, M.K.;
Report: Multiple PDF files + data
Delineation of Five-Year Zones of Contribution for Municipal Wells in LaCrosse County, Wisconsin
Delineation of Five-Year Zones of Contribution for Municipal Wells in La Crosse County, Wisconsin
Chapel, D.M.; Bradbury, K.R.; Hunt, R.J.; Chapel, D.M.; Bradbury, K.R.; Hunt, R.J.;
Delineation of Zones of Contribution for Municipal Wells in Rock County, Wisconsin: Final Report
Gaffield, S.J.; Gotkowitz, M.B.; Bradbury, K.R.;
Verification and Characterization of a Fracture Network within the Maquoketa Shale Confining Unit, Southeastern Wisconsin
Eaton, T.T.; Bradbury, K.R.; Wang, H.F.;
Field Verification of Capture Zones for Municipal Wells at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin: Final Report to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Bradbury, K.R.; Muldoon, M.A.; Rayne, T.W.;
Report: 20 p. + 10 color pages
Hydraulic Conductivity and Specific Storage of the Maquoketa Shale
Eaton, T.T.; Hart, D.J.; Bradbury, K.R.; Wang, H.F.;
Hydrogeology of Dane County, Wisconsin
Bradbury, K.R.; Swanson, S.K.; Krohelski, J.T.; Fritz, A.K.;
Report: 66 p. + 2 plates
WOFR1999-04-plate01
Water-table Elevation and Unlithified Aquifers in Dane County, Wisconsin
Map: 34.5 in x 25.5 in, scale 1:100,000
Aquifer Contamination Susceptibility Map of Dane County, Wisconsin
Evaluation of the Confining Properties of the Maquoketa Formation in the SEWRPC Region of Southeastern Wisconsin: A Final Report Prepared for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Eaton, T.T.; Bradbury, K.R.;


What's your sleep like? It can't have escaped any of us that one of the most important components of good health, both mental and physical, is good sleep. If your slumber's interrupted or too light or you simply don't put in enough hours, you'll suffer in a variety of ways. It's so hard to feel on top of things when your body's crying out for rest and your over-taxed mind hasn't had enough zzzzz-s. Now research indicates that the precise time that we got to bed and wake up is as an important aspect of our sleep as the number of hours we get. If you've tried gay massage, then you'll already know that this relaxing treatment will, among a whole host of benefits, actually help you sleep better, making it easier to zone out and nod off. Now, however, experts at the Nuffield Department Of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, have made some new discoveries, and we'd all do well to pay attention to them.
Their research shows that the best strategy for quality sleep is not to worry unduly about the notion that there is one specific time that suits all of us. Professor Colin Epsie, the country's pre-eminent expert on the matter, advises that most of us are halfway between night-owls and early birds, but that some people are on one end of the spectrum or the other. The important thing which he stresses is that if you've found a bedtime and wake-time that suits you, make a habit of it. Wherever possible, stick to that bedtime, that amount of hours and that waking-up time. What most of us need is a sleep routine. If you find, one day, that you wake up feeling particularly refreshed, then make a note right there and then of the time you went to bed, the number of hours you achieved and the time you woke. Then repeat it. You should find that you're able to discover your sleeping sweet-spot soon enough.
The researchers also advise that insufficient sleep and/or low-quality sleep can and will affect your day-to-day life. Everything from your mood to your productively will be impacted by the way you sleep. Your ability to make decisions and to think quickly will be affected, too. So don't forget to get in a deluxe gay massage appointment to make sure you're not going to bed with a whole host of unwanted thoughts bouncing around your brain, stopping you get off. Focus on that strategy of finding your own personal sleep routine like the guys from our gallery, the one that most suits you and leaves you feeling refreshed, and then do it again and again.


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Carlisle, Cumbria & The Lake District	(Ref. 954419)
Mrs Roberts
"This cottage was advertised as en suite bedrooms!"
The upstairs bedroom, which has 2 x Velux windows without blinds, has a toilet and wash hand basin. The only shower is downstairs off the kitchen, lounge, dining room! There were lots of cobwebs, the cottage was definitely cleaner when we left!! It's also advertised as no fishing in the lake, what it doesn't tell you us that all, except cottage 4, are cottages for fishing!! Everyone else there is there to fish!! The area is beautiful and our holiday was very relaxing, but bit your supplies before you go, or pick up at a supermarket, as the onsite shop is for fishing supplies only! I wouldn't stay here again!!
- Mrs Roberts, August 2020
Mr Mcqueen August 2020
"We should have read Miss Wood's comments on July 2020 before booking the cottage."
We booked the cottage as it said it was able to accommodate four adults and three children, fortunately for us my son and his wife decided to stay at home as the 'cottage' would have been claustrophobic and there wold not have been a suitable place for our three year old grandson to sleep. It is not really suitable for young children unless you want to keep them in doors all the time as there is a fishing lake outside the back door which is used by people from adjacent cottages so you do not really have much in the way of privacy. As there are no defined garden areas just fishing pitches we had people more or less fishing outside our property. Why was the fact that this was a fishing village not mentioned in the cottage details and only really suitable for groups of fishermen or families who fish? Your software should have recognised the fact that we requested a property for three young children and as such not suggested an adult property. As with another visitor we had to provide our own duvet and pillow for the single bed up stairs. We always tidy up before we leave a holiday let but the vacuum cleaner didn't work which would explain why certain areas of the lounge had not been vacuumed before we arrived. We did let the cleaners know before we left. The area and the closeness to Carlisle was the only saving grace of this cottage. Would definitely not be going back.
- Mr Mcqueen, August 2020
Miss Wood July 2020
"The property did not state that it was in a quiet fishing village where other adults would be sitting outside the property fishing."
The directions were also not clear on how to get there. There was no mention of a gate with a code or that we would have to ring someone on arrival (we ended up trying to get into someone else's house). The owner states that the key is in the house which is was not. There was only bedding on one of the beds. The information did not state we need to bring our own bedding. So this led to 4 nights sleeping on a Old mattress with no protection from previous stays. The beds were very uncomfortable and you could feel every spring. Being next to the lake we were unfortunately surrounded by flies in the property which was not pleasant. There is no WiFi which normally would be ok but when you get to the property you do not get any service on your phone. I would not recommend this property to families and should only be for people who are wanting to go on a fishing holiday. On a more positive note it was spacious inside.
- Miss Wood, July 2020
Mrs Stafford August 2019
"The cottage was decorated and furnished to a high spec and very comfortable."
We really enjoyed staying there and would definitely stay again. The surroundings were very peaceful and quiet and you could just relax.
- Mrs Stafford, August 2019
Resting on the outskirts of Carlisle, overlooking a beautiful fishing lake is this lovely terrace cottage, boasting spacious rooms and peaceful surroundings.
Ideal for a large family or a group of friends who love to be part of a calm and tranquil environment.
Step into the hallway, which leads off into two ground floor bedrooms, perfect for those who are less mobile than others, both presented in a fresh, neutral shade for an uplifting feel.
Next is the lounge, fitted with plush beige-coloured carpet and a large red corner sofa resting adjacent to the wonderful picture window, which showcases lovely views out over the still waters and glorious wildlife, enveloping the cottage.
Spend some quality time curled together with some TV or around the dining table which is positioned in the opposite corner of the room.
The kitchen is neat and tidy with ample equipment, aiding you comfortably throughout your stay.
Upstairs benefits a charming loft conversion with a light and airy feel; a double and single bed, sleeping two or three guests, bright Velux windows and an en-suite cloakroom with a dressing area.
Outside you can enjoy the peace and serenity of the countryside while the town of Carlisle rests just a few miles away offering an assortment of attractions.
Discover the history of its imposing castle along with museums and other historical landmarks.
The River Eden runs through the town which is a delightful spot to enjoy a picnic.
Take a trip across to the Victorian seaside town of Silloth boasting an idyllic promenade for an afternoon stroll, watching the sun set.
Further afield are the wonderful areas of The Lake District National Park and the North Pennines.
Consider a stay at this lovely holiday let and enjoy the local experiences it has to offer.
Three bedrooms: 2 x ground floor doubles, 1 x first floor family room with a double and a single bed
Ground floor shower room with shower, basin and WC
Electric oven and hob, microwave, fridge
Rear garden with picnic bench
Sorry no pets, no smoking
Shop 3 miles and pub 1 mile
One well behaved welcome
Note: Steep stairs up to loft conversion
Note: Fishing is not available with this property
Note: No stag/hen or similar parties allowed
NO Wifi available
Gretna Green 13.1 miles; Penrith 19.9 miles; Dumfries 36.2 miles
Carlisle is set in the county of Cumbria, situated just 10 miles south of the Scottish Borders and is nicknamed the Border City. During Roman times the town was established to serve the forts for Hadrian's Wall, which runs east from the city across the country to Wallsend on the east coast and today is recognised as a World Heritage Site. During the Middle Ages, due to its proximity to the Kingdom of Scotland, Carlisle became an important military stronghold and Carlisle Castle, still relatively intact, was built in 1092 by William Rufus, after once serving as a prison for Mary, Queen of Scots. The castle now houses the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment and the Border Regiment Museum. In the early 12th century Henry I allowed the foundation of a priory in Carlisle and the town gained the status of a diocese in 1122, resulting in the priory becoming Carlisle Cathedral. The Settle to Carlisle railway runs across some of the most breathtaking scenery to the popular Yorkshire town and Carlisle Racecourse has a packed fixture list including Ladies' Day and evening fixtures. Within driving distance is the Victorian seaside town of Silloth and just over the border is Gretna Green, where you'll find the Gretna Gateway Shopping Centre and Anvil Hall, the famous wedding venue.
Note: No stag/hen or similar parties allowed.
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Q: Triple Loop in VBA I am trying to create a triple loop in excel that will read from a table and populate three columns with increasing values that are dependent on the values in a table. So the values in column one and two will repeat until column 3 has finished and then two will increase and 1 will repeat until it is finished, and so on. It should ultimately give me values that look something like this. (where the hyphens are column divides.
1-1-1, 1-1-2, 1-1-3, 1-1-4, 1-2-1, 1-2-2, 1-2-3, 1-2-4, 1-3-1, 1-3-2, 1-3-3, 1-3-4, 2-1-1, 2-1-2, etc...
Here is the code that I currently have, but it is not repeating the values in the first two columns while column 3 counts, and it is stopping when column 1 finishes its first round of counting. It needs to start again as column 2 increases itself to the next value.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Dim i As Integer, iPos As Integer, c As Integer, iRow As Integer, d As Integer, iShl As Integer

iPos = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "J").Value
iShl = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "I").Value
iRow = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "H").Value
For i = 1 To iPos
 Cells(i, 3).Value = i
    For d = 1 To iShl
        Cells(i, 2).Value = d
            For c = 1 To iRow
                Cells(c, 1).Value = c
            Next c
    Next d
Next i

A: First of all, you will need to write out all values in the innermost loop.
Dim i As Integer, iPos As Integer, c As Integer, iRow As Integer, d As Integer, iShl As Integer

iPos = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "J").Value
iShl = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "I").Value
iRow = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "H").Value
For i = 1 To iPos
    For d = 1 To iShl
        For c = 1 To iRow
            Cells(i, 3).Value = i
            Cells(i, 2).Value = d
            Cells(i, 1).Value = c
        Next c
    Next d
Next i

However, this will not print properly. You can achieve this by just adding a counter variable currRow:
Dim i As Integer, iPos As Integer, c As Integer, iRow As Integer, d As Integer, iShl As Integer
Dim currRow As Integer

iPos = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "J").Value
iShl = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "I").Value
iRow = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "H").Value
currRow = 1

For i = 1 To iPos
    For d = 1 To iShl
        For c = 1 To iRow
            Cells(currRow, 3).Value = i
            Cells(currRow, 2).Value = d
            Cells(currRow, 1).Value = c

            currRow = currRow + 1
        Next c
    Next d
Next i

A: Your logic is a just a bit off here. First off, you want to write out all your row data in the innermost layer of your nested loops. You also will need a variable to keep track of how many rows you've already written (in the original code, the data will just repeatedly write over itself). Throw those changes in along with a couple other minor adjustments and you get something like this, which I believe accomplishes what you are looking for:
Sub generateValues()
    Dim i As Integer, d As Integer, c As Integer
    Dim iPos As Integer, iShl As Integer, iRow As Integer
    Dim rowCounter As Long
    iPos = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "J").Value
    iShl = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "I").Value
    iRow = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(3, "H").Value
    rowCounter = 1
    For i = 1 To iPos
        For d = 1 To iShl
            For c = 1 To iRow
                Cells(rowCounter, 1).Value = i
                Cells(rowCounter, 2).Value = d
                Cells(rowCounter, 3).Value = c
                rowCounter = rowCounter + 1
            Next c
        Next d
    Next i
End Sub


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Tag: Whiteman Air Force Base
UCM to observe Patriot Day
September 9, 2019 | Community, News, UCM News
In remembrance of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York, Washington, D.C. and outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, UCM will observe conduct ceremonies for its annual Patriot Day observance, according to a press release from Integrated Marketing and Communications. The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the UCM quadrangle and will… Read more »
Whiteman AFB to receive B-21 bomber
May 3, 2018 | Community, News
WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo. – The United States Air Force announced Wednesday which bases will be hosting the new B-21 Raider bombers. Whiteman Air Force Base, near Knob Noster, Missouri, will be one of the hosting bases. In addition to Whiteman, Dyess Air Force Base in Texas and Ellsworth Air Force Base in South… Read more »
B-21 Bombers
March 14, 2018 | Community, News
When a fleet of B-2 Spirit bombers arrived in Knob Noster, Missouri, Dec. 17, 1993, life at Whiteman Air Foce Base changed substantially. Life may be changing again at Whiteman AFB as a new generation of bombers was announced recently. Whiteman is the only operational base for the iconic B-2 bombers, which boast a… Read more »
Military spouses find support at UCM
November 1, 2017 | Community, News, UCM News
(WARRENSBURG, Mo.) – Just as with soldiers, military spouses accustomed to the rigors of a military lifestyle sometimes find coming to school can be an uncomfortable experience. "People in this office have talked to me more than people in any of my classes," said Amanda Wagner, a senior communications major whose husband was in the… Read more »
Command change coming at Whiteman Air Force base
February 17, 2014 | Missouri News
(KNOB NOSTER, Mo., AP) — A leadership change is in the works at Whiteman Air Force Base. Brig. Gen. Glen Vanherck is to take command of the 509th Bomb Wing during a ceremony Friday at the west-central Missouri base. He will be succeeding Brig. Gen. Thomas Bussiere, who has led Bomb Wing since June 2012…. Read more »
UCM president thanks community
July 25, 2013 | Letters
Dear Members of the Campus Community and Friends of UCM: The University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg and surrounding communities can be very proud of the cooperative spirit and strong sense of community that contributed to a successful, history-making visit by President Barack Obama on July 24. We can agree that it is not every day… Read more »


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This action will open another window where you can create Purchase payment refund. Afterward, the list will update and you will see a new Refund Payment in it.
Also, as in every list in EasyERP, you can sort payments list. Use clickable column titles, and sort it in ascending or descending order. This will greatly alleviate your search.


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Rainbow Six Scavenger Hunt Promotes Tropic Thunder
Mike Fahey
Here's an interesting new way to cross promote. Apparently there's been a scavenger hunt injected into Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 since July 18th that urges players to seek out clues in the campaign regarding Paramount Picture's upcoming comedy Tropic Thunder, starring Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., and Ben Stiller. Players who reach the end of the scavenger hunt will receive an invitation to join Ubisoft's VIP Club, a chance to download a free VIP map, and will be entered into a prize drawing for an Xbox 360 Elite system, complete with a one-year Live subscription and a collection of Ubisoft games.
"This is a new and highly innovative use of dynamic in-game advertising and really demonstrates the creativity and marketing power of this medium," said Cory Van Arsdale, CEO of Massive.
He took the words right out of my mouth. Hit the jump for details on the hunt, which runs through August 25th.
Paramount Pictures and Massive Launch First Branded Scavenger Hunt in Ubisoft's "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2" In-game scavenger hunt promotes upcoming movie "Tropic Thunder" with interactive experience that engages and rewards gamers. NEW YORK - Aug. 5, 2008 - Massive Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corp. and a leading network for video game advertising, Paramount Pictures and Ubisoft Entertainment have teamed up to create a first-of-its-kind dynamic in-game advertising promotion. To promote the upcoming film "Tropic Thunder," the companies have placed an interactive scavenger hunt in "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2," published by Ubisoft, which encourages gamers to actively interact with the dynamic in-game campaign, take action from the clues, and get rewarded at the final stage of the hunt. "This innovative scavenger hunt enables us to reward our target audience and give them a direct call to action to go see 'Tropic Thunder,'" said Amy Powell, senior vice president of Interactive Marketing for Paramount Pictures. "We've had a track record of success working with Massive since the business started. This is taking our in-game advertising campaigns to the next level by making them interactive and actionable. Gamers are motivated to seek out the next ad, which is an amazing way for us to build awareness and excitement for our new release." Gamers see a series of nine branded "clues" within "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2," each leading them to the next clue, until they successfully reach the end of the scavenger hunt. Everyone who completes the scavenger hunt will receive an invitation to join Ubisoft's VIP club and the chance to download a free digital VIP map for "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2," and will be entered into two prize drawings. In the first drawing held July 31, 25 winners received a "Tropic Thunder" Gift Pack: two tickets to "Tropic Thunder" and a "Tropic Thunder" T-shirt and hat.* The second drawing, on Aug. 22, will award one grand prize winner an Xbox 360 Elite system as well as a one-year Xbox LIVE subscription and a collection of Ubisoft's upcoming video game releases.** "This is a new and highly innovative use of dynamic in-game advertising and really demonstrates the creativity and marketing power of this medium," said Cory Van Arsdale, CEO of Massive. The scavenger hunt began on July 18 and will run through Aug. 25 to drive awareness leading up to the movie opening on Aug. 13.


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Q: Extracting information about View from Bigquery auditlog I have created a Sink using Log explorer that pushes data to Bigquery. I can get information about tables by using the following query.
SELECT
    SPLIT(REGEXP_EXTRACT(protopayload_auditlog.resourceName, '^projects/[^/]+/datasets/[^/]+/tables/(.*)$'), '$')[OFFSET(0)] AS TABLE
  FROM `project.dataset`  WHERE
    JSON_EXTRACT(protopayload_auditlog.metadataJson, "$.tableDataRead") IS NOT NULL
    OR JSON_EXTRACT(protopayload_auditlog.metadataJson, "$.tableDataChange") IS NOT NULL

However, I am unable to find information about Views. I have tried

*

*Audit logs https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/auditlogs

*And biguqery asset information https://cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/resource-name-format
however, I am unable to find how to get the information about "View". What do I need to include? Is that something in my sink or there is an alternative resource name I should use?

A: Views are virtual table which are created and queried in the same way as queried from tables. Since you are looking for Views in BigQuery which is setup as a logging sink, you need to create Views in BigQuery by using the steps given in this documentation.
Currently there are two versions supported, v1 and v2. V1 reports API invocation and V2 reports resource interactions. After creating the views, you can do further analysis in BigQuery by saving or querying the Views.

A: It seems like auditLogs treat tables and views the same way.
I made this query to track view/table changes. InsertJob will tell you about view creations. UpdateTable/PatchTable will tell you about updates
SELECT
resource.labels.dataset_id,
resource.labels.project_id,
--protopayload_auditlog.methodName,
REGEXP_EXTRACT(protopayload_auditlog.methodName,r'.*\.([^/$]*)') as method,
--protopayload_auditlog.resourceName,
REGEXP_EXTRACT(protopayload_auditlog.resourceName,r'.*tables\/([^/$]*)') as tableName,
protopayload_auditlog.authenticationInfo.principalEmail,
protopayload_auditlog.metadataJson,
case when protopayload_auditlog.methodName = 'google.cloud.bigquery.v2.JobService.InsertJob' then JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_EXTRACT(protopayload_auditlog.metadataJson, "$.tableCreation"),"$.table"),"$.view"),"$.query")
else  JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_EXTRACT(protopayload_auditlog.metadataJson, "$.tableChange"),"$.table"),"$.view"),"$.query") end
 as query,
 receiveTimestamp

FROM `<project-id>.<bq_auditlog>.cloudaudit_googleapis_com_activity_*`
WHERE DATE(timestamp) >= "2022-07-10"
and protopayload_auditlog.methodName in
          ('google.cloud.bigquery.v2.TableService.PatchTable',
          'google.cloud.bigquery.v2.TableService.UpdateTable',
          'google.cloud.bigquery.v2.TableService.InsertTable',
          'google.cloud.bigquery.v2.JobService.InsertJob',
          'google.cloud.bigquery.v2.TableService.DeleteTable' )


Ryan Potter is set to deliver a special fan showing of his newest film from Disney, Big Hero 6. Beginning at 2:20 p.m. November 15, fans can meet the star and see the film, but tickets are going fast, at the Cinemark Theater on 845 Market Street in San Francisco.
Head over to Cinemark's website to purchase advance tickets, and check out Ryan Potter's Twitter account @RyanKPotter for more details.
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Q: How to install Erlang and RabbitMQ on OpenSUSE 11 I'm still very new to OpenSUSE , and I'm trying to install erlang then rabbitmq with the package manager but it's not working , like when I do :
> zypper install erlang
Refreshing service 'susecloud'.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'erlang' not found.
Resolving package dependencies...

Nothing to do.

Is there any simple procedure to install the two packages easily ?

A: You can try http://software.opensuse.org . Select your openSUSE version there and try to find the packages. You can then download and install the package manually or install it with One-Click-Installation.


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Battle of Marianna
On September 27, 1864, Union troops led by Brigadier General Alexander Asboth struck the small Northwest Florida City of Marianna. The result was a bloody battle remembered today as The Battle of Marianna.
The battle developed when Southern Union sympathizers brought word to General Asboth that Federal prisoners were being held at Marianna and plans were underway to fortify the town. Leaving Fort Barrancas at Pensacola, Asboth led 700 mounted men through six modern Florida counties. He reached Marianna on September 27, 1864.
Commanded by Colonel Alexander Montgomery of the regular Confederate army, an outnumbered force of Southern militia, reserves, volunteers, wounded soldiers home on leave and a few regulars tried to defend against the attack.
Asboth and his men made a bold attack up the main street of the city while a flanking party moved in behind Montgomery and his defenders. The fighting moved up Lafayette Street from the edge of town as Asboth drove back the commander and his mounted forces, only to charge right into an ambush prepared by the men of the Marianna Home Guard and local volunteers who joined in when the news of the Federal approach reached the city.
Asboth was severely wounded, along with "nearly every officer and man" at the head of his column. His principal regiment, the 2nd Maine Calvary, suffered its greatest losses of the war that day. Unfortunately for Marianna's defenders it was not enough.
The main body of the Union force turned on the Marianna Home Guard with a fury the Confederate firing from along the southern edge of the street was driven down a steep hill and virtually all were killed, wounded, or captured.
The local men fighting from the north side of Lafayette Street fell back to St. Luke's Episcopal Church; where the battle degenerated into a brutal fight in the cemetery behind the church. The battling forces fired at each other from just yards away. Even after the main body of the Home Guard surrendered, Union troops fired a volley into their ranks. Seeing this, Confederates firing from the windows of the church and two nearby homes refused to surrender and continued to fight.
In the end, the church and both homes were burned to the ground, four men and boys died in the flames.
By the time the battle was over, both sides had been severely bloodied, more than 25% of the male population of Marianna had been killed, wounded or captured.
Brochures for self-guided walking tours of the Marianna Battlefield are available at the historic Russ House and Visitor Center!
Courtesy of Author/Historian Dale Cox