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Scared to return to work?
With lockdown restrictions being eased across the country, offices are opening up. And while people are excited about returning to normal, they're also anxious about the hazard it may pose to their health, in the current environment.
The decision to open offices is scary for employers too. They worry about the health of employees, and that transmission, should it occur, may reflect badly on the management.
By Sneha Mahale
You are not alone. As offices reopen, Mirror readers list the precautions they are taking to stay healthy
In March, the coronavirus forced us to embrace the WFH culture: think, Zoom meetings in pyjama pants, and watching reruns of favourite TV shows while working on office presentations. But all good things come to an end. With lockdown restrictions being eased across the country, offices are opening up. And while people are excited about returning to normal, they're also anxious about the hazard it may pose to their health, in the current environment.
A survey conducted in May across a wide range of industries by the Best Practice Institute found that only 13 per cent of employees want to return to the office full-time, with many expressing concerns about safety. "Employees are reluctant to resume work because of the fear of getting sick. Several travelled to their hometowns during the lockdown and feel no need to return to the office when they can manage with WFH," says Pankhuri Jain, lead executive of the HR department, Acuity Knowledge Partners.
Why the worry?
Amar, a private IT employee, who lives in an Andheri complex, which has had five positive cases in the past three months, is reluctant to leave home for fear of getting infected. So, he continues to work from home even though the rest of his team has resumed work. "Thankfully, my bosses have been supportive throughout."
It isn't just the thought of sharing a workspace with an infected co-worker that is scary; there's also the stress of commuting and navigating crowds. It's also difficult to not wonder, "have they sanitised the doorknobs?" or "is that guy an asymptomatic carrier?"
Siddharth Balani, who resumed work at the Bandra store of Diamantina Fine Jewels when the lockdown restrictions were relaxed, says the company's safety protocols helped allay his fears. "There were concerns initially as most of us either have young children or parents/grandparents at home, but we have been given protective gear, and hand sanitisers have been placed all around the store," he says.
To open or not?
The decision to open offices is scary for employers too. They worry about the health of employees, and that transmission, should it occur, may reflect badly on the management. There's always a possibility that an employee decides to withhold information about symptoms, especially at a time when there is constant talk about lay-offs and salary cuts.
But shutting shop till the cases reduce is not a viable option for many. Hardik Shah, CEO of Service Saathi, which offers home appliance repairs, installation and servicing in the Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane region, says most of his employees survive on their monthly paychecks, "so getting back to work was important for all of us".
Shah's team works three days a week and takes on a maximum of two or three assignments a day. The office is cleaned daily and the staff has been instructed to shower immediately after returning home. Temperature screening is done at the entrance and only those with valid ID card are allowed inside. Shah says, "Everyone has been instructed to use digital ID cards, shoe covers, disposable gloves, face shields and masks when meeting clients. They sanitise all tools before and after use, and avoid touching anything at the customer's residence. We are currently working at 10 per cent capacity, and we are in no rush to change that."
How to win trust
For Shreya Bhatia and Mahesh Java, managing partners at Vorx Industial Solutions, a Byculla-based company that provides industrial flooring solutions with anti-microbial properties, the focus is on employee safety. "We are only calling in those who cannot work from home. They are being provided with masks, gloves and sanitisers. The office and toilet is being sanitised at regular intervals," says Bhatia, adding that employees have been told about precautions and to inform the management if they have symptoms.
The general consensus is that employers and HR departments need to be sensitive to employees' concerns. AKP's Jain says it's a good idea to explain the business implications to those who are being asked to return to the office. "Encourage workers with co-morbidities to stay home and tell anyone with a travel history to home quarantine themselves for 14 days. Those living in containment zones or with children and senior citizen parents at home should be the last to come back. The idea is to minimise the risk of infection as far as possible," she says.
█ Plan of action
HR professional Pankhuri Jain's roadmap to building employee confidence
• Share the company's safety protocols
• Offer health insurance
• Conduct health checkups
• Provide transport facilities to avoid employee dependence on public transport
• Build trust so that employees come forward to report symptoms
• Allow flexi-hours and alternate working in office day options initially to ease the transition
█ How to cope
Dr Kersi Chavda, consultant psychiatry, PD Hinduja Hospital & MRC, offers tips on how to make the transition easy:
• Work to the best of your ability and knowledge, but don't overdo things.
• Follow basic protocols and avoid being paranoid. Routines help in the reduction of anxiety and let you adapt easily
• Follow the SOPs laid out at your place of workplace.
• Laugh and relax. Remember you are not alone. This too shall pass.
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Being overseas when this terrible event occured, on my birthday, aforded me the oportunity to see first-hand the international outpooring of support for the United States. As a nation, we are often criticised for our international policy, but on this day the civilized world was standing with us and holding our hand. This knowledge gave me an unexplainable comfort. Thank you, to everyone around the world who cried with me.


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Definition - What does The Singularity mean?
The Singularity refers to the emergence of super-intelligent machines with capabilities that cannot be predicted by humans.
This theoretical idea sounds like science fiction, but the increasing speed of computing power has led many experts to believe that it will eventually transform human life to something that would not be recognizable today.
According to science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, who popularized the term, the Singularity could occur as a result of artificial intelligence (AI), human biological enhancement or brain-computer interfaces.
The Singularity is also known as: "The Technological Singularity."
Techopedia explains The Singularity
The Singularity was originally coined by mathematician John von Neumann, who — way back in the 1950s — spoke of how ever-accelerating technological progress could impact human life.
In 1965, British mathematician I.J. Good described what he called an "intelligence explosion," where an "ultra-intelligent machine... that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of man however clever," could emerge; in which case "the intelligence of man would be left far behind."
In more recent years, the term has been popularized by futurist Ray Kurzweil.
The word "singularity" comes from astrophysics, where it is used to refer to a point in space-time where the rules of ordinary physics do not apply.
This idea is parallel to the way the term is used in a technological context because if a technological singularity were to occur, humans would be become unable to predict events beyond that point.
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Climate adaptation research suffering from a 'silo mentality'
The impact of climate change, particularly with respect to adaptation to a warming world, is often analysed on a sector-by-sector basis such as agriculture, forestry, or sea-level rise. But a new paper warns that this silo mentality is leading to mistakes, as working to combat negative impacts in one area can result in unintended consequences in other areas. The solution? Assessments that offer a more complete, cross-sector picture.
Researchers typically try to stick to the more isolated approach because to do other wise, involving many more variables, is incredibly complex and difficult. Indeed, the argument presented in the study, appearing this week in Nature Climate Change, is not really new, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change already emphasises this problem. But until now, a quantitative assessment of the scale of the uncertainty in single-sector studies has yet to be produced.
The European-Union-funded researchers looked at output from indicators covering agriculture, forestry, urban growth, land use, water resources, flooding and biodiversity, and a handful of other topics in single-sector models, and compared the output from the same sectors but appearing in integrated models. The comparison was also carried out across a variety of different climate and socio-economic scenarios.
The authors found discrepancies between the indicators were particularly noticeable for those involving food production and water use, because they are dramatically affected by changes in other sectors. Changes in water allocation schemes to deal with the effects of drought, for example, impacts the water that is available for agricultural irrigation, thereby lowering food production. The researchers also touched on adaptation measures to boost coastal defence against flooding that can in turn impact coastal habitats and biodiversity.
Construction of dikes and levees built to withstand rising sea levels are having an impact on the seagrass, that can work as a sort of natural line of defence against coastal flooding
It's a lesson a pair of PICS fellows working on adaptation research are already familiar with. Lia Chalifour, a biology researcher at the University of Victoria, is currently looking at seagrass ecosystems and their importance as salmon habitat, a key element of British Columbia's fisheries. The data she is collecting will support decision-making around alteration of these seagrass habitats by the construction of dikes and levees built to withstand rising sea levels.
Meanwhile, Tugce Conger, a community planning researcher and PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia, is investigating 'green infrastructure' such as dunes, marshes and seagrass as that can work as a sort of natural line of defence against coastal flooding.
"It is widely known that a protection action taken on one part of a coast will have a positive or negative impact on an adjacent part of the coast," Conger says.
The region her research focuses on, the Salish Sea, is further complicated by two national boundaries and multiple municipal and county jurisdictions. "There is no integrated coastal management system or analysis; instead, different departments and researchers are looking separately at fisheries, ecosystems, tourism, natural resource extraction and agriculture, for example."
"These human-instituted boundaries complicate our ability to act, but they also reduce our capacity to understand a complex system," she says.
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Q: Thread vs. Timer vs. etc. to Incremement Variable I have seen many posts on using Runnable, TaskTimers, Timers, Threads, etc., but they are all starting to look the same.  So here is a two part question:

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*If I wanted to increment a variable by n once per x seconds, which would I want to use?  (I need the rest of my program to run without skipping a beat!)

*Why would I use that?

A: ScheduledExecutorService executor = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(1, new ThreadFactory() {
  public Thread newThread(Runnable r) {
    final Thread result = new Thread(r);
    result.setPriority(Thread.MAX_PRIORITY);
    return result;
  }
});

executor.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TotallyImportantTask(), 0, 10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

A Timer won't work, because you cannot set the actual thread priority, therefore it might or might not run depending on the actual load.
A thread won't work, because you need to call Thread.sleep(x) in a loop, and there is no guarantee that it will actually wake up after x seconds. Depending on the OS and situation the times can slightly or greatly vary.
The ScheduledExecutorService actually uses the OS scheduling service (if any) and guarantees that at the correct moment the thread is launched with high priority and therefore all other threads will (if necessary) be put on hold.

A: Timer with method:
public void schedule(TimerTask task,
            Date firstTime,
            long period)
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Aron Eisenberg
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Aron Eisenberg (1969–2019) was a American actor who is best known to Star Trek fans for playing Nog in all seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Eisenberg also voiced Nog in Star Trek: Online, wrote a comic and was active in the convention circuit and other aspects of Star Trek fandom.
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Besides playing Nog in episodes and the STO games, Eisenberg's other characters include a Kazon youth in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Initiations", a Harlem newspaper vendor in "Far Beyond the Stars" and a holosuite character seen in the background of Vic Fontaine's lounge in "What You Leave Behind".
Eisenberg holds the record for the highest number of appearances for a recurring character in DS9, with appearances in forty-seven episodes, including the feature-length pilot "Emissary" and feature-length finale "What You Leave Behind".
In 1995, Eisenberg wrote "The Rules of Diplomacy", a Malibu DS9 comic that saw Nog escort the Klingon Gronn to Ferenginar.
Eisenberg did a sort of reprisal of his role as Nog for the documentary "What We Left Behind", as well as a guest appearance in the fan fiction series Star Trek Renegades.
In 2019, Eisenberg was hospitalized for medical issues relating to an earlier organ transplant. He passed away on 21 September 2019.
Aron Eisenberg article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
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Shining Star (Jerry Garcia Band album)
Bituing Walang Ningning (TV series)
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The Shining Star, a MediaCorp Singapore drama serial
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"Shining Star" a song by Inna from the album Party Never Ends
Shining Star - a 1969 Iranian film.
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Shining Star is the fourth live album, and fifth album overall, by the Jerry Garcia Band. A double CD, it was recorded at various concerts from 1989 to 1993. It was released on March 21, 2001.
On Allmusic, Lindsay Planer wrote, "While the Grateful Dead will always be considered Jerry Garcia's primary outlet, the Jerry Garcia Band often proved the most musically satisfying of the two. Shining Star is a double-disc anthology featuring Garcia's other band, and is comprised entirely of cover tunes derived from concert recordings made between 1989 and 1993. The late '80s and early '90s were sporadic in terms of performance consistency for the Grateful Dead; however, "the Jerry band" — as Deadheads refer to this aggregate — proved to be vibrant, funky, and alarmingly agile."
In The Music Box, John Metzger said, "Though the music contained on Shining Star — the latest release by the Jerry Garcia Band and the second two-disc set from the group in two months — was recorded between 1989 and 1993, it is presented in such a way as to create a 'new' concert. The seamlessness of the package is remarkable, and each track is first-rate, top-notch Garcia.... Shining Star joins 1997's How Sweet It Is and the band's 1991 self-titled double disc as essential recordings for anyone interested in Garcia's longstanding side project. What's more — each of these packages is unique, without a single song repeated.... So, which one of the three packages is the best? Undoubtedly it's Shining Star."
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Bituing Walang Ningning (Filipino, "Star Without Sparkle") is a Filipino television serial drama. It began airing on ABS-CBN on May 15, 2006, and ended on October 6 that year. For most of its run, the soap opera was the network's highest rating show in primetime. The station referred to the TV series as SineSerye, meaning Movie Serialized TV Series.
The series was supposed to end on September 25, 2006 but ended on October 6, 2006 due to coverage of the special concert staged at the Araneta Coliseum and a taped interview for the series on September 19 and also rehearsals, tapings and dubbings which were occurred during the run. The finale was in five parts for its finale week and also introduced its current primetime series Maging Sino Ka Man with its pilot episode moved to a different timeslot and would also be the replacement of the phenomenal TV series. On October 8, 2006, a "Himig of Pasasalamat Concert" was staged at the Araneta with all of the characters which was also televised live. The series also showed a glimpse of behind the scenes footage and also sung the themes from its successful album produced by Star Records and Viva Records. Although, it was said that some parts of the series was supposed to also be produced by Viva such as songs sung by Sarah Geronimo herself and the theme of the song was originally popularized by Sharon Cuneta in the film.
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The Perfect Truck for Most People Just Got Better
The Honda Ridgeline is all the truck you probably really need, and it's improved for 2021.
By Will Sabel Courtney
We all have grand plans for what we'd like to do with a pickup truck, whether we own one or not: tow Airstreams and power boats, fill the bed with construction supplies to complete our long-deferred home improvement projects, throw it in low range and climb a mountain or nine. But those dreams remain just that for the vast majority of actual truck buyers. Most people who buy pickups actually need something to haul around families and the occasional bit of dirty gear, something capable of going farther off-road than a conventional car but with a bias more towards highway driving than Rubicon Trail crushing.
Something, in other words, very much like the Honda Ridgeline.
The Ridgeline is, by pickup truck standards, an utterly unconventional rig. Unlike every other truck you can buy in America, it's based on a car-like unibody chassis — in fact, it's largely similar to the Pilot and Passport crossovers beneath the skin, though the suspension and many other parts have been beefed up for pickup duty. But those car-like roots don't hold it back when it comes to (moderate) off-roading or payload hauling; the Ridgeline can lug more than 1,500 pounds of payload around and tow up to two and a half tons.
The 2021 Honda Ridgeline, seen here waiting for the aliens to arrive.
Where the Ridgeline really excels, however, is in serving up the sort of clever, handy convenience features that truck buyers dig. Not only does the bed not need any sort of liner — it's made of a sturdy composite, not steel or aluminum — it has a lockable trunk integrated into it (it even works as a cooler), which can be easily accessed through a tailgate that opens both up-and-down and side-to-side. On higher-trim models, the bed even works as a stereo speaker, as immortalized in a great Super Bowl ad, and packs an electrical outlet with enough power to run a big-screen TV.
Right around now, you might be asking, why again are they extolling the Ridgeline's virtues? Well, in all honesty, it's because the 2021 model year facelift is a fairly minor update. There's a new front end that gives this Honda a truckier countenance (and distances it a bit from the company's crossovers), more aggressive wheels and tires, and an upgraded infotainment system to go along with other minor interior upgrades. The Ridgeline also offers a quartet of new accessory packages à la the Land Rover Defender, including one that adds the badass bronze wheels and less-badass body graphic you see here.
But those minor changes do indeed bring minor changes to a pickup truck that didn't really need much in the way of updates to begin with. It might not wow you with its specs — 280 horsepower and a nine-speed automatic do indeed seem tame these days — but at the end of the day, the Ridgeline is really the ideal truck for most Americans and what they do with them.
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The Secret Protocol for When the Queen Dies
Nat Berman 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state for not just the United Kingdom but also the Commonwealth realms, which are a collection of members of the Commonwealth of Nations that range from Australia and Canada to Jamaica and Papua New Guinea. As a result, her passing would have huge consequences throughout much of the world, so much so that it should come as no surprise to learn that extensive preparations have been made for when that unfortunate day comes.
For starters, the news of the Queen's death will be communicated to high-level officials in the British government through the use of a secret phrase, which is believed to be "London Bridge is falling down." The Queen's private secretary will be responsible for passing the information onto the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who will instruct the Foreign Office to inform the other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.
Meanwhile, the media will be informed as well so that they can switch over to a more appropriate setting before making the announcement. For example, radio stations will switch over to somber-sounding music, while the BBC will see its presenter switch over to a black tie. Once the announcement has been made, people can expect the media to start showing content related to the Queen while maintaining a somber attitude as would be appropriate for the occasion. It is well-known that the media has made significant preparations, with examples ranging from pre-made content and pre-arranged commentators to having conducted outright drills for what to do when the time comes.
Of course, there will be a number of other procedures carried out to pay proper respect to the Queen. For example, the Union Jack will be flown at half-mast as a gesture of respect as well as a gesture of mourning. However, it is interesting to note that the Royal Standard of the United Kingdom will remain at full. For those who are curious, this is connected to the famous phrase "The king is dead, long live the king," which reflects the position that the new monarch becomes so upon the passing of their predecessor. Regardless, other procedures will be carried out as well, with an excellent example being how comedic content won't be shown for some time on BBC as a sign of mourning.
On a final note, the state is responsible for paying for the funeral of a reigning monarch. It is challenging to predict what such an event would cost, but it is useful to point out that the funeral for Princess Diana cost $10 million, meaning that it is reasonable to assume that such an event would cost more than that sum. Combined with both the day of the funeral and the day of the coronation being public holidays, the eventual replacement of existing coins and bills bearing the Queen's image not just in the United Kingdom but also in other Commonwealth countries that use it, and the other factors, it is no wonder that the Queen's death is expected to come with a cost of $8 billion in total, which is a number that speaks volumes about her influence in the world.
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It's fitting, we suppose, that the Bears are sending out mixed signals regarding the offensive trend premised on sending mixed signals to the defense.
A day after Brad Briggs of the Chicago Tribune wrote that the Bears may use the read-option in 2013, the Bears said they won't.
"None," quarterback Jay Cutler said regarding the possibility of the read-option showing up this season for the Bears, via John Mullin of CSNChicago.com.
Coach Marc Trestman echoed the sentiment.
"No, we're not going that way with this offense," Trestman said.
But they could, if they wanted to.
"The thing about Jay on a read-option, Jay knows how to get down," Trestman said. "Jay knows how to play the position when he's running out on the field.
To summarize, the Bears aren't going to do it. But they could if they wanted to. So when you least expect it, expect it to be something they might possibly consider using. If they wanted to.
Well the Bears need to come up with something creative.
To summarize, who cares. Just get the f'ing ball in the end zone Trestman.
I think people confuse the Read Option for a lot of different things. Option offenses are pretty broad in nature and can come out of a variety of formations. I'm pretty sure Biggs thinks the Bears are going to run some sort of Washington or San Fran. style offense, but those offenses aren't the only kind of option offenses. The Bears could very well run some spread option, with Cutler and Forte lined up in shotgun, and then Cutler can run some keepers if the defense pursues. NFL read options are really just a play-action fakes that end in QB runs instead of passes.
Good article, or was it?
Cutler might be the smartest runner out there.
He had to be since he's been running for his life the last 4 years or so.
…as if any team in the NFL is going to lay out their overall game plan – or even a piece of it – before the first week of training camp is even over.
He'll run it once and hurt his witto LCL.
Jay Cutler doesn't get enough credit for how mobile he is. There has been countless times where there is a man to man coverage and Cutler takes it 15 yards or the pocket has broken down and he scrambles for a first down. He is an athletic QB and I'm sure if they wanted to run read option not at the level as the young extremely mobile guys but effectively I'm sure.
As with every team and every play, they could run it if they wanted to.
He won't be doing any of that crap against the Lions. He still has a red mark between his shoulder blades from Suh's hit that was so hard the refs thought it was illegal even tho it wasn't.
IDGAS what kind of offense the Bears run. I just want the team to buy into it and run it effectively. Get #22 the ball in the open on the outside and let him run. Keep the passes within 15 yards and keep the chains moving. It's not rocket science people.
The read option can't work in Chicago. Cutler has a hard enough time staying on the field. In fact, he tapped out of the NFC Championship game against the Packers in 2010 and spent the 2nd half on the sideline riding his hapless and tasteless exercise bike.
Cutler's a mobile guy, he played safety in high school for example, but he's not Colin Kaepernick or Mike Vick mobile obviously. Still, he could run a variation of the read-option. Shanahan had him doing that type of stuff in Denver.
All that being said, why would he or any qb disclose to the media what they're doing on offense?
This is not an offense that Cutler can run in my opinion. He's a decent runner but not on the level of the other QBs that run it. Work on Cutler NOT getting hit.
I hope they decide to run it in 9 days, cant wait to see Monsters Inc. beat that arse.
Seems to me Biggs was speculating yesterday, and today the Bears 'clarified' things…That said, I'm sure the offense will feature designed rollouts for Cutler to take advantage of his mobility and success throwing outside the pocket…But yeah, as long as they can score points, I don't care what you call the plays they use.
Just teach him to keep his feet planted correctly when throwing the ball and he will be fine. He has a terrible habit of throwing off of one foot, or both feet off the ground.
I seriously question professional analysis who say this is a fad. It seriously discredits anyone saying that.
Read option is a package… If you run it 100% of the time that's not going to work just like anything else, you need disparity and you risk injury from allowing your qb to run more than usual.
Read option is used EXACTLY like a shotgun play action not to be confused with a dive option play. It involves the qb reading what he sees and deciding where to go with the ball, either pass, handoff or run. It effectively keeps the defense on thier heels.
To excel in it, it helps to have an qb with some speed, but even more important for longevity it's important to have A SMART, qb who van process what he sees and not just take off like it's a qb run play, someone who looks to pass first or handoff first.
Any qb can run it, it's very similar to a regular play action except from the shotgun.
.. Side note to those who say " just smash the qb " let me explain why that will never in an million years happen. When Brady, Brees, Peyton do a play action from the shotgun and an player smashes them, they'll be ejected, and fined up the ying yang. There is no way to totally differentiate between the way the play is set up and other qbs who run it like Wilson, Keep, RG3 and Newton do the same thing but offer a three to run (THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THE QB) not play design.
The only way you can smash the qb is on an DIVE OPTION PLAY.
Of course if your stupid like Shanahan and run traditional dive option plays occasionally that's totally different. Read option is just meant to be a wrinkle not a base package, I can tell you my Hawks run it about 5.9 % of the time, another story is how stupid many fan bases are and media for acting like they run it all the time irritates me to no end. Just use it to get ends from rushing upfield, preventing many sacks and to enabling cutback lanes for elite rb's, which. forte is and Lynch are.
Please spread this logic, I played high level football and am tired of the ignorance of people who dint like change or cleverness. That's exactly what this is.
"Jay knows how to get down," Trestman said.
the word smart and cutler should not be used in the same sentence.
You probably should comment on grammar.
Cutler doesn't offer much of a threat running the ball. Defenses would invite him to run instead of pass.
Cutler graduated from Vanderbilt, where did you go to school? My guess, by your desperate and unintelligent comment, you never made it past grade school…..
Cutler has a degree from Vanderbilt, is a successful starting quarterback in the NFL, and is married to (and raising a son with) Kristen Cavallari.
We all should be so dumb.
Actually I am legally blind in my left eye, thanks for your concern…And still I see better than you do.
Jay is 34-22 since joining the Bears, 29-13 in his last 42 starts, and in four years has either broken or come close to breaking the Bears passing records it took Sid luckman 12 years to set.


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Q: Number of SPO sites causing issue with Get-SPOSite We have been using these few lines in a SPO site creation script for a while, to ensure a site doesn't exist already:
# Verify if site of same name already exists in SharePoint Online
$siteAlreadyExists = Get-SPOSite | Where-Object{$_.url -eq $url}

# If it does, stop the script
if ($null -ne $siteAlreadyExists) {
    Write-Host "Site already exists" -ForegroundColor Red
    Break new-SPOnlineSite
}

else{
    # Otherwise, create the site
    Write-Host "Creating $($url)"
    New-SPOSite -Url $url -title $title -Owner $userName -StorageQuota $storageQuota -NoWait -Template $template
}

Now, presumably because we have so many sites, I see this error:

WARNING: More results were found but were not returned.  Use '-Limit
  ALL' to return all possible results.

However, even when adding -Limit ALL to the appropriate line...
$siteAlreadyExists = Get-SPOSite -Limit ALL | Where-Object{$_.url -eq $url}

...the error remains.
Does anyone understand why or how to fix it please?
Thanks

A: You don't have to load all site collections and then look for one particular site matching the URL. Instead you can use '-Identity' parameter along with the site collection URL you need to check to find out the existence.
Example: Get-SPOSite -Identity https://contoso.sharepoint.com
You can update your code like below:
# Verify if site of same name already exists in SharePoint Online
$siteAlreadyExists = Get-SPOSite -Identity $url

# If it does, stop the script
if ($null -ne $siteAlreadyExists) {
    Write-Host "Site already exists" -ForegroundColor Red
    ...
}

As per the comment, I understand the code is failing when site is not present. So, I have wrapped the checking inside a try-catch block, like below:
try {
    $siteAlreadyExists = Get-SPOSite -Identity $url

    if ($null -ne $siteAlreadyExists) {
        Write-Host "Site already exists" -ForegroundColor Red
    }
}
catch {
    Write-Host "Site already exists" -ForegroundColor Red
}

This code should solve that problem as well.


This paper explores the use of full polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images for tsunami damage investigation from the polarimetric viewpoint. The great tsunami induced by the earthquake of March 11th, 2011, which occurred beneath the Pacific off the northeastern coast of Japan, is adopted as the study case using the Advanced Land Observing Satellite/Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar multitemporal PolSAR images. The polarimetric scattering mechanism changes were quantitatively examined with model-based decomposition. It is clear that the observed reduction in the double-bounce scattering was due to a change into odd-bounce scattering, since a number of buildings were completely washed away, leaving relatively a rough surface. Polarization orientation (PO) angles in built-up areas are also investigated. After the tsunami, PO angle distributions from damaged areas spread to a wider range and fluctuated more strongly than those from the before-tsunami period. Two polarimetric indicators are proposed for damage level discrimination at the city block scale. One is the ratio of the dominant double-bounce scattering mechanism observed after-tsunami to that observed before-tsunami, which can directly reflect the amount of destroyed ground-wall structures in built-up areas. The second indicator is the standard deviation of the PO angle differences, which is used to interpret the homogeneity reduction of PO angles. Experimental results from after- and before-tsunami comparisons validate the efficiency of these indexes, since the built-up areas with different damage levels can be well discriminated. In addition, comparisons between before-tsunami pairs further confirm the stability of the two polarimetric indexes over a long temporal duration. These interesting results also demonstrate the importance of full polarimetric information for natural disaster assessment.


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Premier League return plans revealed
Published on June 12, 2020 June 12, 2020 by Ann Bell
Players and staff will not be required to wear facial masks at stadiums when the Premier League resumes.
Players will be encouraged not to spit or clear their noses as well as not to break social distancing during goal celebrations.
Instead of ball boys or girls as usual, a system of sterilized replacement balls will be used.
Aston Villa vs. Sheffield United will be the first game when the league restarts on 17 June.
In Germany's Bundesliga, players and staff have been required to wear facial masks at all times, except for during play.
In the Premier League, they will not have to wear facial masks at all, including in the changing room or on the bench, though the fourth official, physios, and doctors will have to.
The Premier League announced on Thursday that there will be a minute's silence in order to remember those who have died with the Covid-19 before the first matches.
Heart-shaped badges in tribute to frontline National Health Service staff will also be worn on kits.
Clubs agreed to a range of medical and operational protocols for the resuming of the season at a meeting on Thursday.
There will be strict limits on those who are allowed into the stadiums on match days and the grounds will be split into zones, which include the tunnel and pitch side.
Only 300 people will be in each stadium, with no more than 110 allowed in the 'red zone' including players, staff, and officials.
There will be deep cleaning of goalposts, corner flags, match balls, substitution boards both before and after each fixture.
Some extra disinfection, such as of the substitution board after being used, will take place during matches and at half-time. Other work will also be carried out during drinks breaks if the league permits.
The league will restart on Wednesday when Aston Villa host Sheffield United at 6 p.m, with Manchester City vs. Arsenal at 8.15 p.m.
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Mali says negotiating mining code revision but could act unilaterally
Reuters | March 16, 2018 | 1:14 pm Precious Metals Africa Gold
Companies with stakes in industrial gold mines in Mali include Randgold, AngloGold Ashanti, B2Gold and Hummingbird Resources. (Image courtesy of B2Gold.)
BAMAKO, March 16 (Reuters) – Mali's government is negotiating with mining companies to draft a new mining code but will move to implement a new law unilaterally if no compromise is reached, the West African country's economy minister said on Friday.
Many mines in Mali, Africa's third-largest gold producer, are protected from changes to the fiscal regime for 30 years, but Boubou Cisse told reporters during a joint news conference with an International Monetary Fund mission that the government aimed to reduce those protections to the lifespan of the mine.
"The negotiations are underway. If they don't pan out, it will be a unilateral decision like in DRC," Cisse said, referring to Democratic Republic of Congo, which this month raised taxes and royalties miners have to pay, despite industry opposition.
Companies with stakes in industrial gold mines in Mali include Randgold, AngloGold Ashanti, B2Gold and Hummingbird Resources.
Cisse also said the government expected economic growth of 5 percent in 2018, down from 5.3 percent last year.
The IMF, meanwhile, said in a statement that Mali's macroeconomic outlook was "broadly positive" but cautioned that rising insecurity in the country's north and centre could hold back economic progress.
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Many featured movies, made or recapturing the atmosphere of those times, including war, romance and existentialism, would find a perfect fit in having a photographer holding a Nikon F or maybe a lot of them.
Above is Apocalypse Now (1979), from Francis Ford Coppola, an epic diving into the barbarism of Vietnam war. Nikon F was the Vietnam camera par excellence (leaving an honoured second place to Leica M). Its sturdiness and design go so well with weaponry, radios, jeeps and uniforms that in this locations it seems like it was conceived for combat.
Far from that kind of violence, below is Clint Eastwood (main character and director) with Meryl Streep, in The Bridges of Madison County (1995). He was a professional photographer assigned by National Geographic's to photograph the bridges. Once there, he gets to know a housewife that was let alone for a weekend while husband and children went to a fair in another city. Well, they undergo a sudden and overwhelming passion in which, like in a tragedy, the saddest has to come: each one resumes his own life and never sees each other again. The story emerges when the grown up kids, many years later, mother passed away, find letters and two Nikon F in an old container at home.
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In case you are interested in the history , models, accessories and information about the long, fruitful and precious production of Nikon F series, visit the page: Nikon F Collection & Typology by Richard de Stoutz. It is just fantastic.


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III.Institutions and Procedure
The institutions and procedure of Swiss civil justice can be best understood by chronologically following the course of a standard case. First, the attempt at conciliation, which is essentially mandatory before a case can be brought before a court, will be explained (1.). Subsequently, the rules for ordinary proceedings will be examined in detail (2.) following which a short overview of simplified and summary proceedings will be given (3.). Finally, the appellate remedies in Swiss civil procedure will be outlined (4.).
1.ATTEMPT AT CONCILIATION
As explained above, an attempt at conciliation is basically mandatory in Switzerland before a case can be brought to court (Article 197), although the law does provide for some exceptions (such as in summary proceedings). For financial disputes with a value in dispute of more than CHF 100'000, parties can agree to waive the conciliation attempt (Article 199 I). Like with cantonal courts, the federal law regulates the procedure before conciliation authorities but leaves their organisation to the cantons. The conciliation proceedings are initiated by the claimant filing an application for conciliation in the form of paper documents, either electronically (Article 130 I) or orally before the conciliation authority (Article 202 I). In their application, they must identify the opposing party, describe the prayers for relief and the matter in dispute. This is the minimum content required for a conciliation application (Article 202 II). With the filing of the application, a case becomes pending (Article 62): from this point, the same subject matter can no longer be filed elsewhere between the same parties (Article 64).
Conciliation authorities try to help the parties reach an agreement. The procedure is thus less formal than that followed in court proceedings. Conciliation hearings are also generally27 not open to the public. After the application is filed, the conciliation authority serves the defendant and summons the parties to a hearing. The parties must appear in person. The statements made during the hearing are confidential and cannot be used subsequently in any court proceedings (Article 205). In financial disputes where the value in dispute is below CHF 2'000, the conciliation authority can decide on the merits on the plaintiffs' request (Article 212). If the value in dispute is below CHF 5'000, the conciliation authority can submit a proposed judgement to the parties, which has binding effect as long as it is not rejected by any of the parties within 20 days (Article 211). If the parties do not reach an agreement during the hearing and the conciliation authority can neither decide the case nor render a proposed judgement, it grants authorisation to proceed (Article 209 I). From this point, the claimant has three months to file the action in court if he or she wishes.
2.ORDINARY PROCEEDINGS
Court proceedings are initiated by the claimant filing a detailed statement of claim (Article 221). If the value in dispute exceeds CHF 30'000, the ordinary proceeding applies. Provisions regulating ordinary proceedings apply to other proceedings unless there are specialised rules stipulated by law. After the statement of claim is received by the court, the preparation of the main hearing begins. The court examines whether the procedural requirements (such as the proper filing of the statement of claim, a legitimate interest of the plaintiff, the case not being the subject of pending proceedings elsewhere, and the subject-matter and territorial jurisdiction of the court seized) are met (Article 60), serves the statement of claim on the defendant, and sets a deadline for the submission of a written statement of defence (Article 222). If the defendant does not submit within the deadline (including a short period of grace)28, the court can if feasible make a decision solely from the statement of claim (Article 223 II).
After the statement of defence is received, the court has several choices regarding the next procedural steps to be taken. It can proceed directly to the main hearing, order that an instruction hearing be held before proceeding to the main hearing, or order that a second written exchange be conducted before the main hearing. An instruction hearing can be held at any time during the proceedings to discuss the dispute informally, complete the facts,29 reach an agreement, or simply prepare for the main hearing (Article 226). Courts can also take evidence during such hearings. Prior to the main hearing, the court delivers the so-called ruling on evidence (Article 154): here the court rules on the admissibility of each piece of evidence and determines which party has the burden of proof for each fact.
Figure 4: Possible Options for the Conduct of Ordinary Proceedings
In Swiss civil procedure, the main hearing is structured in a fairly formal way. First, there are two rounds of oral statements taken from each party (Article 228). After the second round of written or oral statements, new facts and evidence are admissible only if they are introduced immediately and came into existence after the statements or, where they existed prior to this point, if the party was unable to introduce them earlier despite exercising reasonable diligence (Article 229). If the court decides to proceed directly to the main hearing after the statements of action and defence, parties can introduce new facts and evidence in their first oral statement. If the court decided to hold an instruction hearing for reasons other than simply reaching agreement, parties are generally not permitted to introduce any new facts or evidence in the main hearing (except if they arose after the instruction hearing or if they existed before but the party was unable to introduce them earlier despite exercising reasonable diligence). Instead, the parties can only comment on the statements that the other party made during the instruction hearing. The same goes for cases in which the court ordered a second round of written exchanges between the parties: here, the parties can only comment on the statements made by the other party in the last written exchange. So in conclusion, in Swiss civil procedure parties have two opportunities to bring new facts or evidence into the proceedings without limitation: First the statements of action and defence and second depending on the further course of the procedure either the second round of written exchanges, the statements during the instruction hearing, or the first oral statements during the main hearing.
The second oral statement in the main hearing provides the parties with an opportunity to comment on the other party's first statement. This is especially important in cases where new facts or evidence have been introduced. Thereupon, the court examines the evidence produced by the parties and indicated in the ruling on evidence (questioning witnesses, performing an inspection, etc.). Afterwards, the parties may comment on the result of the evidence and on the merits of the case (Article 232). Each party has the right to make a second round of submissions. Parties can jointly agree to dispense with the main hearing (Article 233). In such cases, no evidence is taken as this is exclusively done as part of the main hearing.
If the court is able to make a decision, it closes the proceedings either by deciding not to consider the merits or by making a decision on the merits (Article 236). If the proceedings are not presided over by a single judge, the court decides by majority. The court may give notice of the decision to the parties without providing a written statement of the grounds, although the parties can request that such a statement be produced within ten days (Article 239).
3.OTHER TYPES OF PROCEEDINGS
Simplified proceedings are governed by Articles 243–247. They apply in cases where the value in dispute is below CHF 30'000, as well as to disputes in social matters, such as tenancy disputes, employment disputes, and consumer disputes. Simplified proceedings are less formal, largely allow oral submissions, and attribute a more active role to the court. Contrary to ordinary proceedings, in simplified proceedings a claimant may submit his claim orally before the court.
The Civil Procedure Code provides for summary proceedings in Articles 248–270. These procedures are even simpler and more expedient than simplified proceedings. They apply, in particular, to urgent requests and requests for provisional measures. They also apply to non-contentious matters, matters where the facts can be immediately proven, or matters where the legal situation is straightforward and indisputable. Summary proceedings also apply to specific proceedings under the Debt Enforcement and Insolvency Act, such as a declaration of bankruptcy. As in simplified proceedings, a claimant may present his or her claim orally. In the context of summary proceedings, the only permitted form of evidence is documents. Other types of evidence are only admissible if the taking of such evidence does not delay the proceedings or if the court has to establish facts ex officio.
4.APPELLATE PROCEEDINGS
As mentioned above each canton has a second-instance, appellate court. The Civil Procedure Code knows three appellate remedies: appeal, complaint, and revision. Subsequent complaints against final cantonal decisions can, in limited circumstances, be filed with the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. Such complaints are governed by the Federal Supreme Court Act (Articles 72 et seqq. Federal Supreme Court Act).
An appeal (Articles 308–318) is the ordinary remedy against final and interim decisions of first instance if the value in dispute amounts to at least CHF 10'000. Decisions in non-financial matters can practically always be challenged by appeal (for example, divorce cases). An appeal must be filed in writing within 30 days of service of a decision (Article 311 I). If the decision was rendered in summary proceedings, the deadline for filing the appeal is 10 days (Article 314 I). An appeal may be filed on grounds of the incorrect application of law (such as incorrect application of the Civil Procedure Code itself or incorrect application of substantial civil law) or the incorrect establishment of facts (such as incorrect assessment of evidence, incorrect assumption about whether facts have been claimed or not claimed).
Where an appeal is excluded, i.e. in financial cases with a value in dispute below CHF 10'000, a party may file an objection (Articles 319–327a). Objections are admissible on the grounds of the incorrect application of the law, but incorrect establishment of facts may be raised as a ground only if the establishment of facts has been obviously incorrect (Article 320). This is for instance presumed if the court determines facts based on an arbitrary assessment of evidence or if it assumes a fact that needs to be proven as proved without any records giving information on this fact. The deadline for filing an objection is 30 days from service of a court's decision (Article 321 I). In the case of summary proceedings, it is 10 days (Article 321 II). Contrary to an appeal, the filing of an objection does not, as a rule, suspend the legal effect and enforceability of the contested decision (Article 325 I). However, exceptionally, the appellate court may grant a suspension of the enforceability (Article 325 II). As opposed to appeals, new evidence, or new allegations of facts are, in principle, inadmissible (Article 326).
Finally, a party can apply to the court that has decided as final instance in its case to reopen proceedings through a review (Articles 328–333) leading to a final judgment if significant facts or decisive evidence are discovered which were not available in the earlier proceedings (Article 328 I lit. a). Review of a decision may also be requested when the decision was unlawfully influenced to the detriment of a party (Article 328 I lit. b). Offences in this context are for instance perjury by a party to civil proceedings (Article 308 Criminal Code), perjury by an expert witness or false translation (Article 307 Criminal Code), issuing a false medical certificate (Article 318 Criminal Code), or bribery of Swiss public officials (Article 322ter Criminal Code). A review must be filed within 90 days of the discovery of the grounds for review (Article 329 I) and within 10 years of the date the decision came into force (Article 329 II). Like with objections, the filing of a review does not suspend the legal effect and enforceability of the decision (Article 332).
27In disputes relating to the tenancy and lease of residential and business property the conciliation authority may allow full or partial public access to the hearings if there is a public interest.
28If the statement of defence is not filed within the deadline, the law orders the court to allow the defendant a short period of grace.
29In ordinary proceedings, the courts usually exercise their duty to enquire during the instruction hearing, giving the parties the opportunity to clarify, or complete their submissions by asking appropriate questions.


Mammy Blue Fruko y sus Tesos. Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo. Suena Ahora Michi Sarmiento. No Me Dejan Quererte. At least now, when vinyl is experiencing a resurgence of interest, 7-inch records are back in style and labels are reissuing deep album cuts or rarities that never originally saw the light of day as a single, so thankfully the palette is opening up for DJs who stick to 45s only, and hopefully as a result there will be fewer injured backs and sprained wrists! El Caterete Wganda Kenya. El Ascensor Los Corraleros de Majagual.
Ponchito de Colores Afrosound. Back when I was first conceiving of the Afrosound of Colombia inI fantasized about making some limited edition 45s of just such a selection from the Fuentes vaults — putting out a few tracks that were either very hard to find and expensive to get on 45, or that had never been available before on 7-inch. Descarga Espectacular Fruko y Sus Tesos. El Eco y el Carretero. Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo. Los Corraleros de Majagual. Salsa Boogaloo Sexteto Miramar.
Descarga Espectacular Fruko y Sus Tesos.
Yo vine pa' goza' Sexteto Miramar. Pa' ti Mami Afrosound. Combate a Kung-fu Wganda Kenya.
Salsa Boogaloo Sexteto Miramar. Mammy Blue Fruko y sus Tesos. This way I could do a special collection of ten 45s, not just a few singles, drawing from both of affrosound already issued volumes of Afrosound and also putting in some selections that Iñigo and I afrosoune to have on Salsa Boogaloo Sexteto Miramar. El Vampiro Los Corraleros de Majagual. Fruko y Sus Tesos.
Suena Ahora Michi Sarmiento. Back afrosouns I was first conceiving of the Afrosound of Colombia inI fantasized about making some limited edition 45s of just such a selection from the Fuentes vaults — putting out a few tracks that were either very hard to caliventua and expensive to get on 45, or that had never been available before on 7-inch.
Fiebre de Lepra Wganda Kenya.
Descargar MP3 de Caliventura Afrosound gratis.
El Caterete Wganda Kenya. El Eco y el Ca,iventura. At least now, when vinyl is experiencing a resurgence of interest, 7-inch records are back in afrksound and labels are reissuing deep album cuts or rarities that never originally saw the light of day as a single, so thankfully the palette is opening up for DJs who stick to 45s only, and hopefully as a agrosound there will be fewer injured backs and sprained wrists! Goza mi tamborera Los Calibentura Agers. Tihuanaco Fruko y Sus Tesos.
La Cara del Payaso. Joe Rodríguez y su Grupo Latino. Cumbia de Sal Cumbia en Moog.
El Ausente Fruko y Sus Tesos. But it was not until six years later that the stars aligned and this dream was fulfilled, the tangible product of which you now find in your sweaty little hands, dear reader.
El Caminante Fruko y Sus Tesos.
Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo. My friend DJ Turmix confided in me once that he gave up bringing inch records to parties and clubs because the weight over the years had damaged his body, and I heartily concurred.
Some would be tunes released on this format for the first time, while others were cuts nearly impossible to find in the original vinyl; some would be specially remastered just for this project, coming from deep within the vaults at Fuentes HQ in Medellín.
Caliventira twenty jams represent the taste not only of myself and Iñigo, but also caliventrua trusted advisors and fellow travelers down the road of Colombian music who tipped acliventura off to certain amazing Fuentes tracks and artists over the years.
Soy el Mas Sensual – Renato Classics. La negra caliente Pedro Laza y afrosoud Pelayeros.
Please wait Your comment has been submited in order to be published. María la O Fruko y Sus Tesos. Cumbia de sal Cumbias en Moog. No Me Dejan Quererte. Cachumbembé Fruko y Sus Tesos. El diablo Jaime Ley.


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Volume 124, Number 4
Research Article| December 01, 2021
Elemental proxy evidence for late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in southern African sedimentary records: interpretation and applications
M.S. Humphries
School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: marchump@gmail.com
South African Journal of Geology (2021) 124 (4): 1033–1046.
https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0046
M.S. Humphries; Elemental proxy evidence for late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in southern African sedimentary records: interpretation and applications. South African Journal of Geology 2021;; 124 (4): 1033–1046. doi: https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0046
Sediments are the most important source of Late Quaternary palaeoclimate information in southern Africa, but have been little studied from a geochemical perspective. However, recent advances in analytical techniques that allow rapid and near-continuous elemental records to be obtained from sedimentary sequences has resulted in the increasing use of elemental indicators for reconstructing climate. This paper explores the diverse information that can be acquired from the inorganic component of sediments and reviews some of the progress that has been made over the last two decades in interpreting the climatic history of southern Africa using elemental records. Despite the general scarcity of elemental records, excellent examples from the region exist, which provide some of the longest and most highly resolved sequences of environmental change currently available. Records from Tswaing crater and marine deposits on the southern KwaZulu-Natal coastline have provided rare glimpses into hydroclimate variability over the last 200 000 years, suggesting that summer rainfall in the region responded predominantly to insolation forcing on glacial-interglacial timescales. Over shorter timescales, lakes and wetlands found in the Wilderness embayment on the southern Cape coast and along the Maputaland coast in north-eastern South Africa have yielded highly-resolved elemental records of Holocene environmental change, providing insight into the changing interactions between tropical (e.g., El Niño-Southern Oscillation) and temperate (e.g., mid-latitude westerlies) climate systems affecting rainfall variability in the region. The examples discussed demonstrate the multiple environmental processes that can be inferred from elemental proxies and the unique insight this can provide in advancing our understanding of past climate change on different timescales. The interpretation of geochemical data can be complicated by the complex nature of sedimentary environments, various proxy assumptions and analytical challenges, and the reliability of sediment-based climate reconstructions is substantially enhanced through multi-proxy approaches.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 21 September 2008 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. 17 parties filed to run in the election, including all nine parliamentary parties. The election was won by the Social Democrats (SD), who then went on to form a government together with Zares, Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS) and the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS).

Opinion polls

Exit polls
According to exit polls, conducted by the Interstat agency for Radiotelevizija Slovenija, Social Democrats (SD) won the most votes, 32.02%. Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) finished second with 28.04%. Other parties followed: Zares 10.05%, Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS) 6.74%, Slovenian National Party (SNS) 5.58%, Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS) 5.21%, and Slovenian People's Party (SLS) with Youth Party of Slovenia (SMS) 4.28%. New Slovenia (NSi) and Lipa, the parliamentary parties before the elections, did not reach the 4% limit.

According to exit polls, conducted by the Mediana agency for POP TV, the results are following: SD 31.5%, SDS 27.7%, Zares 9.7%, DeSUS 7.6%, LDS 6.1%, SNS 5.8%, SLS-SMS 4.2%. The margin was not reached by NSi (2.6%) and Lipa (2.3%).

Results

See also
Patria case

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External links

 NSD: European Election Database - Slovenia publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1992–2008

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By Adam J. Pearson Oh, how the faces of the winds of autumn Reveal themselves in skies and trees and leaves. Now, they roar like the terrible lizards Who once stalked the great, green groves Where maples, oaks and pines now grow. Petrifying, boisterous, booming in the ears, So are the bellows of the winds…
Be Free From All The Claims of Hearts, O Starry Eyed
By Adam J. Pearson Be free from all the claims of hearts, O Starry Eyed, Let not the chains of past beloveds bind you, For that love which entraps is scarcely love at all, And only that heart's burning which sets all free is truly worthy of the name– Forgive me for not loving in so…
The Twin Paradoxes of Ho'oponopono
By Adam J. Pearson As a teaching, a method that is taught, ho'oponopono is paradoxical on two levels. The first paradox of ho'oponopono is that its methods cannot be communicated except by using the very unconscious data that it is designed to clean. All verbal teachings draw on data; they use language, which is stored…
Love and Appreciation
By Adam J. Pearson In the moment of experiencing love, appreciation also has to be there. When you are filled with love, you are grateful for what you love and for the love itself. When you lose track of gratitude, you lose track of love. Love takes you to gratitude and gratitude takes you to…
The Rose Cloud of Unknowing: On (Not) Knowing Why the Four Phrases of Ho'oponopono Work
By Adam J. Pearson After reading my last article, several people asked me how or why the ho'oponopono practice of the 'four phrases' works. If I am being truly honest, I'd have to answer that I don't really know. I have some ideas about how it might work. I see the power in the meaning…
The Way of Bold Healing: The Four Phrases of Ho'oponopono in Practice
By Adam J. Pearson What is Ho'oponopono? Ho'oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian art of healing, which developed as a social practice, a way of resolving conflicts between people, families and groups. Inspired by his teacher Mornah Simeona, Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len developed ho'oponopono into an inner practice for individuals, a technique for nonjudgmentally meeting whatever we encounter in…
Mayonnaise: What it is and How to Make It
By Adam J. Pearson What is Mayonnaise? A basic mayonnaise is not only one of the Mother Sauces from which many other sauces can be made, but also a delicious condiment by itself. It can be tasty on French fries or spread on sandwiches and burgers. Roasted red peppers can be pureed with it to…


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The Chiltern Way is a circular walking route of 134 miles that was established by Chiltern Society volunteers in 2000. Offering breath taking views of the rolling landscape, the route stretches around the AONB and is enjoyed by thousands of walkers every year.
If you fancy walking the entire original trail (excluding extensions), it will take you approximately 12 days, assuming an average distance covered of 10 miles a day. A helpful list of accommodation along the route is available here.
Route extensions
Two extensions were formed in 2003; a southern one from Bix Bottom via Mapledurham on the Thames adding a loop of 31 miles, and a northern one from Sharpenhoe Clappers via the Icknield Way and the outskirts of Hitchin adding a further 27 miles. The Creation of The Berkshire Loop in 2010 added an extra 28 Miles.
Explore it for yourself…
The Complete Route of The Chiltern Way
Why not join us on one of our regular walks? A great way to meet people and explore the countryside.
Fancy lending a hand?
Have you considered joining one of our path maintenance groups? They are the gatekeepers to the Chilterns and help keep our rights of way clear & tidy.
If you know of any footpaths or bridleways that are blocked and need attention, please let us know.
It would take the average person a whopping
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Aloe bullockii är en grästrädsväxtart som beskrevs av Gilbert Westacott Reynolds. Aloe bullockii ingår i släktet Aloe och familjen grästrädsväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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As a nod to all my American friends who celebrated Thanksgiving over the past weekend, I decided to make a very seasonal dessert for a dinner party on Saturday (that I didn't end up attending… sigh… damn flu). Hope everyone reading in the US is recovered enough from their turkey day comas to enjoy this post!
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). In a medium bowl, mix together the crushed gingersnap cookies, pecans, and butter. Press into the bottom, and about 1 inch up the sides of a 9 inch springform pan. Bake crust 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Set aside to cool.
I made sure there were some nice chunky pieces of pecans still left so as to make a nice textured crust.
2. In a medium bowl, mix together the cream cheese, 1/2 cup sugar, and vanilla just until smooth. Mix in eggs one at a time, blending well after each. Set aside 1 cup of the mixture.
Blend 1/4 cup sugar, pumpkin, cinnamon, and nutmeg into the remaining mixture.
4. Bake 55 minutes in the preheated oven, or until filling is set. Run a knife around the edge of the pan. Allow to cool before removing pan rim. Chill for at least 4 hours before serving.
Glad I left some chunky pecan pieces in there.
I ended up cutting it into squares for Neil to take to the dinner party to sort of hide the crack factor. I needed something special for the plating and presentation and decided to go with Simply Recipes caramel sauce.
Elise says: Before you begin, make sure you have everything ready to go – the cream and the butter next to the pan, ready to put in. Making caramel is a fast process that cannot wait for hunting around for ingredients. If you don't work fast, the sugar will burn. Safety first – make sure there are no children under foot and you may want to wear oven mitts; the caramelized sugar will be much hotter than boiling water.
1. Heat sugar on moderately high heat in a heavy-bottomed 2-quart or 3-quart saucepan. As the sugar begins to melt, stir vigorously with a whisk or wooden spoon. As soon as the sugar comes to a boil, stop stirring. You can swirl the pan a bit if you want, from this point on.
3. Once the butter has melted, take the pan off the heat. Count to three, then slowly add the cream to the pan and continue to whisk to incorporate. Note than when you add the butter and the cream, the mixture will foam up considerably. This is why you must use a pan that is at least 2-quarts (preferably 3-quarts) big.
4. Whisk until caramel sauce is smooth. Let cool in the pan for a couple minutes, then pour into a glass mason jar and let sit to cool to room temperature. (Remember to use pot holders when handling the jar filled with hot caramel sauce.) Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. Warm before serving.
Oh yeah! This was a little bite of heaven – creamy cheesecake/ pumpkin and crunchy crust with the warmed caramel….. Will definitely be making this again – even the more complicated version and next time I will trust the recipe re: the baking time!
It looks fabulous Mardi. Sorry you were under the weather for Thanksgiving. Hope you are feeling better now.
Wow I love the step-by-step photos…makes me drool ever more as I scroll down through the post! That seriously looks amazing!
cracked or not I'd eat it!! It looks amazing!! Hope you are feeling better!!!
Oh this looks so good. Letting the cheesecake cool very slowly in the (turned off) oven will help prevent cracking, but really, it would take a lot more than a few wussy cracks to stop me from eating that!
Crack or no, this looks delicious! I believe in the individual character each baked good we make has–yours looks fantastic!
They're definitely to die for and it's not the same without the caramel sauce.
That does look quite heavenly! Hope you are feeling better now!
Your cheesecake looks superb! I've just made one very similar yesterday. Not marble though which I adore a lot.
That looked delicious before the caramel sauce… with the sauce it is absolutely sinful! I think caramel's the bomb – better than chocolate!
This looks amazing! Love the step by step directions and pics!
How could you crush such cute biscuits?
I say it's ok though – crimes committed in the name of cheesecake are not real crimes!
Kate – umm, yes SOME of your pecans! I don't like pumpkin but this is very subtle.
Steph – thanks and yes, if it weren't for company I wouldn't care about the cracks!
Conor – thanks for the tip! And yeah – BOO to wussy cracks!!
Tricia – thanks – I love it "individual character"!!!
Divina – caramel makes it!
lululu – the marble is so pretty!
Jaclyn and Jen – thanks!
Mr P – I know – I felt bad doing it but hey, in the name of the blog, right?
mardi, this look so good! i'll have to remember this for next thanksgiving – our families would love it.
Get well soon babe! And well done on this yummy cake. You need to relax and rest up!
Best Family – oh yes you would all LOVE this – even Mr Cheesecake King himself!
Penny – I think I just need to eat more cheesecake!
As Mardi was sick, I took this solo to our dinner party, and can I just say it was indeed a hit. I had three (oink, oink) slices, and got to the point of eating just the sauce!
Neil – I am glad the guests liked it. My little piece I saved for myself that night was perfect too. And yes, I could just eat the sauce too.


(TRENTON) – On April 23rd confirmation was made by the National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) that the Longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis) was found at the Watchung Reservation in Union County. Samples had been originally collected in May of 2017 as part of ongoing tick study.
Various local, state, and federal animal health officials, as well as Rutgers University are working together to identify the range of the ticks and develop a plan to eliminate this pest from the area in Union County. The Longhorned tick was first confirmed to be found in the U.S. at a Hunterdon County farm, about 40 miles from the Union County location, last November and was confirmed to have overwintered at the Hunterdon County farm on April 17.
Like deer-ticks, the nymphs of the Longhorned tick are very small (resembling tiny spiders) and can easily go unnoticed on animals and people. This tick is known to infest a wide range of species and has the potential to infect multiple North American wildlife species, humans, dogs, cats, and livestock.
USDA APHIS-Wildlife Services in cooperation with the Division of Fish and Wildlife have been examining wild white-tailed deer for this tick near the Hunterdon County site. On April 24th, the NVSL confirmed Longhorned ticks on one of the white-tailed deer that was examined on April 19th. This was the first finding of this tick feeding on local wildlife.
Surveillance will continue in Hunterdon County as planned. To best evaluate the spread of the tick, Rutgers University Center for Vector Biology along with the Monmouth County Mosquito Control Division will be hosting a tick blitz in early May with all mosquito control commissions in each county in New Jersey.


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Home » News » Hotel » The Sinclair Hotel as first in the world to be powered by Ethernet technology
The Sinclair Hotel as first in the world to be powered by Ethernet technology
US: The 164-room hotel in Texas, which opens in a few weeks time, will rely on Ethernet (POE) technology as an ecological and sustainable source of energy.
Ethernet cables are typically used as network communication for landline phones and routers.
With POE, the Sinclair can power more than 2,000 lights and amenities via an IP address on a computer network, not only reducing the property's energy consumption by 30 to 40 per cent, but negating the need to hire electricians.
If a light or POE device fails, the Sinclair will be alerted through an immediate notification.
Its backup system runs on the world's first UL 924 lithium ion battery. Comparable to diesel generators, the battery takes up less space, is environmentally-friendly, and can power the building for nearly three hours during a power outage.
Furthermore, products have been created that can run on POE to accommodate the systems that already operate in the hotel, such as mini bars and electronic window shades.
LG is on board to make POE air-conditioning units and TVs, whereas an exercise-equipment company is working on machines that would allow guests to power the hotel through more than 20 minutes of cardio workouts.
The 17-floor Sinclair Hotel was renovated by Forrest Perkins and Merriman Architects, who retained the building's signature facade and interiors.
"We are taking modern technology and maximising its potential in The Sinclair, a 90-year old building, while staying true to the quality and detail of its iconic design," said Patrick Hazard, senior associate and team leader at Merriman Anderson Architects.
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This is my first post on my wordpress blog. I was using blogger, but if we're being honest, this type of blog allows for more creativity with my food and wine posts in terms of layout and photos.
2) I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I am hoping to become a Sommelier in the near future and I like to think I have a pretty good grasp on grapes.
3) I love beer, scotch and champagne as well, so some of my posts will touch on that- or other beverages.
4) I scout out restaurants with local soul that shows in their cooking and their wine/drink lists. I'm a happy returning customer to restaurants in Kingston such as Casa, Woodenhead's, RIVA (Gananoque), and Pan Chancho, but like to explore the tastes of different countries when I have the opportunity to travel. And sometimes I just like to explore the vintage section of the LCBO and taste test the wines.
5) I'm passionate about the food and beverage industry and am hoping to share my love with all of you.