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Press Release: 2018's Best Health Insurance Companies for Baby Boomers
By Insure.com - Posted On: Dec. 5, 2018 PrintDownload
Dec. 5, 2018 (Foster City, CA) -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina was ranked the top health insurance company by Baby Boomers in a new Insure.com survey, which can be seen here: https://www.insure.com/best-health-insurance-companies/
Respondents to the survey with ages within the Baby Boomer and beyond group of 53-plus gave ratings based on the following insurance company factors:
Claims handling (score out of 100)
Price (score out of 100)
Customer service (score out of 100)
Usefulness and ease-of-use of its website and mobile apps(score out of 100)
Plan to renew current policy (Percentage out of 100)
Would recommend the insurer (Percentage out of 100)
Here are the top five overall for Baby Boomers:
Company rank
Website and mobile apps
Plan to renew
1. BCBS of NC
2. Horizon BCBS of NJ
3. EmblemHealth
4. Humana
5. Blue Shield of CA
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina got the top spot despite leading in only one of the subcategories (usefulness and ease-of-use of its website and mobile apps).
"Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina only led in one category, but it ranked highly across the board," says Les Masterson, managing editor of Insure.com. "It finished in the top five in all categories for Baby Boomers.
Humana got the highest ranking for claims handling and price. EmblemHealth, which came in third overall for Baby Boomers, was first for customer service. Humana and EmblemHealth both had 100 percent of respondents say they would recommend the company to others. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, which ranked second for Baby Boomers overall, shares the top spot With Blue Shield of California on the list for customers who plan to renew with the company. BCBS of Michigan topped the Baby Boomer list last time but finished sixth overall this year.
The vast majority of respondents spoke highly of their insurance company.
"The results show that most people would recommend their insurer," Masterson says. "EmblemHealth and Humana had 100 percent of the respondents recommend their company. Those two plus Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey and Blue Shield of California all had 89 percent or more of the surveyed customers willing to recommend the company. Those are impressive percentages given the way Americans often feel about their insurers."
The Best Health Insurance Companies' top three when factoring in all ages groups were:
See the scores and rankings for all 15 health insurance companies in the general survey.
Insure.com's Best Insurance Company survey removes the guesswork from finding the best companies in the industry. Not only can you compare five of the most important factors when choosing your plan, but now you can sort companies by your priorities. That includes age or location. You can then immediately narrow choices to your own top three.
Insure.com commissioned Op4G to survey more than 3,100 insurance customers nationwide in December 2017. The survey collected customer ratings for 15 leading companies in the health category. Only current customers of the insurers on our lists were surveyed, and the survey was not open to the general public on the Insure.com website.
Health insurers were ranked according to a weighted 6-point measurement of the following factors: customer service, claims processing, value for price, website/apps and would recommend and would renew. Weighted measurements were derived from surveyed policyholders' historical rank of prioritization of these factors.
The A.M. Best ratings, discounts and coverage options noted in the survey do not affect the scores but are provided as a supplementary resource.
Insure.com makes these ratings freely available via this site. The views and opinions expressed by users do not reflect the views and opinions of Insure.com. Insure.com expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with the ratings.
About Insure.com
Insure.com provides a comprehensive array of information on auto insurance, home insurance, health insurance and life insurance. The site offers an extensive library of originally authored insurance articles and decision-making tools that are not available from any single source, including its health insurance advisor tool. For more information, please visit Insure.com.
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Les Masterson
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Nick Pope Not to be confused with The Pope is a former UK government bureaucrat and a current "UFO expert". His main claim to fame is his three-year stint at the "UFO desk" of the UK Ministry of Defence, dealing with UFO reports and related inquiries. Apparently his work turned him into an UFO believer: after he was moved to another job in the Ministry, he wrote a book, Open Skies, Closed Minds, and rose to fame in the UFO-sphere, exploiting his status of a "government insider" and "Britain's Fox Mulder".
Pope worked at the Ministry of Defence from 1985 to 2006. Between 1991 and 1994, as a junior manager, Executive Officer (EO -The lowest civil service management grade), he worked at "Secretariat (Air Staff) 2a", the office that was, among other things, responsible for handling UFO reports and related inquiries received by the MoD from members of the public etc. The section is sometimes described as "the real X-Files", but its actual work was far less glamorous. The nominal reason for collecting UFO sightings report was to determine whether any of them had a defence significance. Any reports of interest would have been referred upwards from Mr Pope's desk to senior officers for investigation. Most (if not all) of its files have been declassified and digital copies are available for a small fee from the UK National Archives. (Though they can also be found on various UFO and conspiracy-theory-related websites, as the PDFs had been offered for free on the Archives' website for a brief period of time.) In 2009, Mr Pope's successor mentioned the routine nature of the job. The MoD announced that it will no longer collect UFO reports.
Nowadays  Pope calls himself the "former head of the MoD's UFO project", which is also a trifle inflated. Pope's job description shows that he was supposed to spend maybe a day a week dealing with UFOs, sending out all those boilerplate letters saying that UFOs had never been a defence threat and that the Ministry didn't investigate sightings.
It is interesting and bemusing to see that Mr Pope is portrayed in various UFO documentaries such as Ancient Aliens et al, that he is either a former Director in the (UK) Ministry of Defence (MoD), Defence Expert, Analyst etc. Most of what Mr Pope comments on is already 'open source' and known by other UFO researchers, or interested members of the public.
Nick Pope (español) es la versión en español de este artículo.
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The ECSDA team building sports day was hosted by Europe's oldest continuously inhabited city, Plovdiv in Bulgaria, a city that straddles seven hills and a venue with spectacular views. With mixed teams divided into pink, green, yellow and blue with team shirts to match, the ECSDA Sports Day was a Co-operation Outcome based event for our group of highly talented individuals, who were all put to the test.
Teams were required to transport marbles across a course without the marbles touching the floor or exposing them to daylight using only the piping provided. The marbles could not be thrown and team member could not move their feet if holding a marble in their tube.
Team's raced against the clock to try and retrieve a ping pong ball placed at the bottom of a leaky pipe. To do this they are provided with a bucket of water which is placed 10 metres away from the pipe and several cups. They had to work together to fill the pipe with water and collect the ball from the top of the pipe, the only way to transport the water being through the cups provided.
The Sports Day was a good way for ECSDA to bring together its members, and find hidden talents amongst us.
ECSDA's objective is to provide solutions and offer advice at international level on economical, technical, legal, financial and regulatory matters to increase efficiency and reduce risk in custody, pre-settlement and settlement arrangements for securities and related payments across Europe for the benefit of market participants, issuers and investors.
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What are the rules of naming an organism?
Rules of Binomial Nomenclature
All the scientific names of organisms are usually Latin. Hence, they are written in italics.
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The name of the genus starts with a capital letter and the name of the species starts with a small letter.
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Which is the new kingdom in 7 kingdom classification?
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The universal rules of nomenclature are as follows: Biological names are in Latin and are written in italics. The first word in the name indicates the genus, while the second word denotes its specific epithet. When the name is handwritten, both the words are separately underlined.
What is the binomial name for humans?
Can you name a new species after yourself?
There are a lot of rules involved in animal species naming, all found in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, including the rule that you cannot name a species after yourself.
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There are rules to follow when writing a scientific name. The genus name is written first….
The specific epithet is written second.
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The first letter of the specific epithet name is never capitalized.
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Each unit or category of classification is termed as a taxon. It represents a rank. For example, the basic level of classification is species, followed by genus, family, order, class, phylum or division, in ascending order. So each of these categories can be called as a taxon.
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There are seven main taxonomic ranks: kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, species.
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In biology, kingdom is a taxonomic rank that is composed of smaller groups called phyla (or divisions, in plants). Historically, kingdom is the highest taxonomic rank, or the most general taxon used in classifying organisms.
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If anyone who is not a Grand Rivers resident would like to come hear Sean speak, they should plan to arrive around 7:15.
***This event is sold out!*** Join us for "An Evening with Sean of the South" in McCandless Hall at Athens State University in Athens, Alabama. The event it free, however you must reserve a ticket and there are limited seats available.
***This event is sold out!*** Art's Council Thank You Dinner to the residents of Sylacauga.
Southern food and fun with Sean Dietrich. There will be a silent auction, dinner and cash bar. Silent auction is at 6:00, dinner is at 6:30 and Sean will take the stage at 7:30. All proceeds go towards the Miss Azalea-Dogwood Queen scholarship. Tickets can be purchased through the link below or at Shute Pecan Company in Dothan. Tickets are $40 each or a table of 8 can be purchased for $300.
Join us on Saturday, March 9 in historic Franklin, Tennessee as some of the leading creative Southerners share with us inspiring and thought-provoking stories about how they are using food, drink, music, storytelling, poetry, woodworking, photography, and even spray paint to positively impact the future of the American South. Sean will be doing several ten-minute talks throughout the day. You will receive a 10% discount if you use the promo SDGUMP.
Kick back and enjoy an evening of music and stories of the South with Sean Dietrich and music with his band. Tickets available at the door or through the link below.
This event will be held at the Old School Theater. Tickets are $20. If you are a Twin Rivers Arts Council member, entry is free with your membership card. Tickets are only available at the door. Doors open at 5:30.


If you thought 220 million pixels was a lot, well, you'd be right. But given how things are in Texas relative to everything else, we'd say there's no denying that 307 million pixels is indeed a lot more. Dubbed the world's highest resolution tiled display, Stallion has just been unveiled by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. Designed for studying diminutive cells and checking out old game footage, the system boasts 75 Dell 30-inch LCDs, each of which has a native resolution of 2,560 x 1,600. It also packs 36GB of graphics memory, 108GB of system memory and 100 processing cores. And just think -- if the Longhorns could get that one game back against the Red Raiders, every fan within a 10-mile radius of Austin could see their team in the championship game on this thing.


I've spent the afternoon with Alfie Boe........he's sung to me, over and over, and I've melted like warm chocolate.....aahhhh.
Ok, ok,........I've been playing his latest album while I've been making a card....did'cha have to burst my bubble, eh, eh?
So, did I make a romantic card while I oozed all over my chair, as Alfie serenaded me?
Nah.......made a cheeky birthday card for my old mate, Pat......and I DO mean old (good job she doesn't read blogs!)...because it will be her 60th on 26th February...............do I REALLY hang out with people who are 60..........YEP.......and will be joinin' their ranks, come the end of June.....waaaaaahhhh!!!!
Pat would never dress like this, and the over-the-top bling is definitely not her thing.........but........I couldn't resist sprinklin' all these micro beads on the old girl's bag, stick and luvverly shoes!
I've always made a "thing" about the fact that I AM YOUNGER than her......ok, only by 4 months.....and 1 day.......but that DOES make me younger......fffwwwaaaaaahhh......so I HAD to make a feature of her birth-date......well, ya would, wouldn't cha?
Definitely had to do some hand-sewing, on the green Bazzil, and around the image, because Pat is a keen needle-woman.......she made my Joanne's wedding dress........but I'm hoping she doesn't look too closely at my stitchin'.......heehee.
It turned out really cute! I love the bling!
Oh how CUTE!! Love the details! Great job!
I LOVE this card Anne-Marie. I would get a huge laugh out of it if I received it. The bling is terrific and pointing out the date is such a great idea.
What a fun card. I love her colorful pants!
Thanks so much for joining our "Show Us What You Got" Challenge at Shelly's Images. Please join us again soon!
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Joining the PFN Project Freight Industry network is a very wise decision and we are sure you have considered this or have already engaged in this.
The people that run the network with decades of industry experience on both sides of the table and truly understand what it takes.
ProjectFreight.Net will be the Network organization of the future and will Raise The Standards of networking in the Project Freight industry.
Reserve your country membership in the network, you don't want to regret waiting too long.
PFN network is exclusive and if your Country is taken you may not ever get a chance to join.
Member+ members are in most cases Carriers in either Ocean, Air or Surface freight as well as Offshore brokers and other related to the industry expert companies.
These companies are able to become a member and will then be given the "MEMBER+" status. This means that you become the "expert" in your companies field knowledge and supporting the members throughout the world in order to gain additional business for all.
This is a special status and PFN is new in applying this to its network. It will allow the network to have virtually in-house transport engineering, ocean, air and surface freight expertise that can be applied into the projects immediately without having to negotiate the terms and technical aspects.
Another "PLUS" is that you will as a member+ be eligible to enter into our "2nd level strategy" plans that has started in Q4 of 2016 and is fully on its way now and picking up projects.
Reasons enough to sent your request now!


Screening methods are a high throughput common approach for accelerating method development for chromatographic separations. Using this approach, several method conditions can be screened in serial or parallel to reduce or eliminate timely method development. However, as the numbers of method conditions are increased, inevitably the amount of time to review and select the optimal condition increases. An automated flexible and dynamic method selection package was implemented to analyze and review both SFC and HPLC screening conditions.
Supercritical Fluid (SFC) and High pressure liquid (HPLC) chromatographic systems were interfaced to single quadrupole mass spectrometric detection. The SFC and HPLC systems consisted of Agilent 1100 LC-MSD's which include quaternary or binary pumping components, autosampler, Diode Array Detector (DAD) detectors and G1946D MSD Systems. The SFC system also included an Aurora Fusion A5 unit to condition carbon dioxide for use in these experiments. The automated software utilized Analytical Studio Express and Analytical Studio software from Virscidian with customized data interpretation and results visualizations.
The software was validated against a statistically relevant batch of real world discovery phase pharmaceutical chemistries utilizing 6 SFC and 4 HPLC screening methods. In our initial evaluations of the screening results, the system implementation was able to guide the user to select the best method better than 80% of the time for both SFC and HPLC, though we are still currently optimizing selection criteria and do expect improvements. A target of better than 95% in both cases is the ideal goal for the project once it goes into routine operation. The subsequent methods were purified and the success rate of the purification was found to meet or exceed our corporate needs for purified compound for downstream operations. Additionally, the increase in throughput for lab personnel resulted in an overall drop in turnaround time by 15 – 20% though this is still being optimized. Figure1 shows the visualization of an example analysis and results visualization from the approach. This approach was taken to enable our laboratory to use the best in class instrument, automation and software elements in order to deliver the optimize solution. During the presentation we will provide an overview of the system, its implementation, available performance figures, the challenges which were faced and some of the approaches that have been used to solve these issues.
Selective scoring and visualization of the practical separation method conditions for SFC-MS and HPLC-MS methodologies using advanced data evaluation criteria.


In a personal injury claims process, the insurance company you're working with — often the negligent party's provider — will offer you a settlement. A common question we get from our clients is whether they should accept that offer and move on with their lives.
While accepting the offer will end the case, it's important to be sure you are actually getting a fair deal out of the proposed settlement. Because insurance companies know people want to get through the claims process as quickly as possible, they will typically offer a low settlement offer, hoping you will just take it so you can move on.
In most cases, you should probably reject the first offer from an insurance company, but you should only do so with the advice of your attorney and a plan for negotiating with the insurance company afterward.
You do not end your chances at securing compensation for your injuries by rejecting the insurance company's first offer. Instead, you give yourself the opportunity to negotiate.
The best way to do this is for you and a lawyer to have an ideal settlement figure somewhere in mind, along with an absolute bottom-level offer you would accept. When you respond to the initial offer with your rejection, submit a detailed injury demand letter that asks for more than the insurer first offered. You might need to repeat this process several times until you arrive at a compromised settlement figure that works for both sides. Only then should you sign your liability release and end the claim.
This negotiation becomes more important as the value of your claim increases. Any claim involving significant injuries and vehicle damage is going to have a lot more money on the line, which is why it's important to fight to maximize your settlement. That's why an experienced injury attorney who understands your claim's value offers you the best chance of a good result.
For more information on how the accident claim settlement process works, consult a trusted San Jose personal injury lawyer with Staskus Law Firm, P.C. Please call (408) 479-5822 or contact us online.
Second, you should consider whether your injury was someone else's fault.
Distracted driving has become a common cause of car accidents and subsequent injuries in the United States.
A car accident is a stressful experience, even if you did not sustain any significant property damage or apparent injuries.


Doors in busy buildings that experience a high amount of traffic, such as hospitals and schools, can be subjected to many knocks and scrapes. Over time this can harm the door's fire rating. The Astroflame door edge guards not only protect the edge of the door from impacts, but also have integrated fire and smoke seals which help to maintain the fire rating of the door.
Fantastic product. Saved us having to replace 2 fire doors.


The Scituate U10 softball team had itself a big season, working its way to an 8-1-1 record and a trip to the South Shore Summer League playoffs.
In the team's playoff opener, Scituate beat Whitman 8-6 before bowing out to No. 1 seeded Brockton, the only team that beat Scituate during the regular season.
An interesting tidbit from the team's great season was the spirit of friendship with neighboring Cohasset.
When Cohasset was unable to field a team in the age group, Scituate stepped in and three players joined in.
Penny Murray, Madeline LeFevre and Julia Palopoli joined the team and both sides benefited with new friendships and outstanding coaching.


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According to Platts, Equinor reported on June 7 that global petroleum demand is predicted to peak around 2030, reaching 111 million barrels per day. There will be some factors that help demand to rise, and others that cause demand to decrease. However, the former will offset the latter. The former will be caused by remarkable growth of electronic vehicle sector and growing energy efficiency. The latter will be led by rising demand of petroleum from aviation sector and petrochemical industry. Equinor's report projected that because of rising EV demand, petroleum demand from the light-duty vehicle in the transportation sector will decrease, from 25.2 million barrels per day in 2030, to 16.2 million barrels per day in 2050. The report pointed out that after the petroleum demand peaked, the dropping scale of demand will be mild. The global petroleum demand in 2050 is projected to drop 5% from that in 2030, and will reach 105 million barrels per day.
Equinor's long term outlook of petroleum is slightly more pessimistic than that of International Energy Agency (IEA) and that of BP p.l.c. IEA expected that global petroleum will peak in 2040. BP p.l.c forecasted that global petroleum's demand might peak at the end of 2030s.
By contrast, US Department of Energy (DOE) predicts that global petroleum demand will continue growing. Why will it continue growing? The Chief Economist of Equinor, Eirik Waerness pointed out that the rising global trade friction will impact long-term global economic growth. However, petroleum demand might increase because in volatile markets, there might be lack of sufficient global cooperation to enhance energy efficiency.
According to US EIA's report on June 7, its data as of June 1 showed that US natural gas storage increased 92 billion cubic feet from previous week. The total storage reached 1.817 trillion cubic feet. Analysts predicted that average increase was 92 billion cubic feet. When this figure was compared to the average storage in the same time period from 5 years ago, this figure was up 104 billion cubic feet. When compared to the same time period in 2017, this figure was up 103 billion cubic feet.
As of June 1, this figure of US natural gas storage for the week was down 30.5% YoY. When this figure is compared with the average number in the same duration 5 years ago, the storage was down 22% from 5 years ago.
According to the New York Mercantile Exchange Inc. (NYMEX), natural gas future price's closing quotation was up 1.2% on June 7. It reached US $2.930 per million British thermal unit (Btu) because in the previous week, natural gas storage increase rate was less than expectation.
S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (S&P GSCI) has risen 7.9% since early this year. In particular, energy index rose 11%. This was the largest growth among its different indices. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) rose 9.1%, and Brent crude increased 15.5%. Speaking of natural gas' price since early this year, it has dropped 0.7%.
According to statistics of PointLogic Energy, at the duration from May 31 to June 6, the US total domestic natural gas consumption per day grew 2% from a week ago, from 56.6 billion cubic feet to 57.8 billion cubic feet. In particular, power generation industry's daily natural gas consumption dropped 1% from previous week, from 29.9 billion cubic feet, to 29.5 billion cubic feet. US industrial sector natural gas consumption grew 1% from previous week, from 19.6 billion cubic feet to 19.7 billion cubic feet. The US commercial/residential natural gas consumption moved up 19% from previous week, from 7.1 billion cubic feet to 8.5 cubic feet.


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QUnit.module('Item Bounds');

test('item.bounds caching', function() {
    var circle = new Path.Circle(new Point(100, 100), 50);
    var rectangle = new Path.Rectangle(new Point(75, 75), new Point(175, 175));
    var group = new Group([circle, rectangle]);
    equals(group.bounds, new Rectangle(50, 50, 125, 125), 'group.bounds');
    rectangle.remove();
    equals(function() {
        return group.children.length;
    }, 1);
    equals(group.bounds, new Rectangle(50, 50, 100, 100), 'group.bounds without rectangle');
    group.addChild(rectangle);
    equals(function() {
        return group.children.length;
    }, 2);
    equals(group.bounds, new Rectangle(50, 50, 125, 125), 'group.bounds with rectangle');
    circle.remove();
    equals(function() {
        return group.children.length;
    }, 1);
    equals(group.bounds, new Rectangle(75, 75, 100, 100), 'group.bounds without circle');
    group.addChild(circle);
    equals(function() {
        return group.children.length;
    }, 2);
    equals(group.bounds, new Rectangle(50, 50, 125, 125), 'group.bounds with circle');
});

test('group.bounds when group contains empty group', function() {
    var group = new Group();
    var rectangle = new Path.Rectangle(new Point(75, 75), new Point(175, 175));
    group.addChild(rectangle);
    equals(group.bounds, new Rectangle(75, 75, 100, 100), 'group.bounds without empty group');
    group.addChild(new Group());
    equals(group.bounds, new Rectangle(75, 75, 100, 100), 'group.bounds with empty group');
});

test('group.bounds and position after children were modified', function() {
    var group = new Group();
    var rectangle = new Path.Rectangle(new Point(100, 100), new Point(200, 200));
    group.addChild(rectangle);
    equals(group.bounds, new Rectangle(100, 100, 100, 100), 'group.bounds before change');
    equals(group.position, new Point(150, 150), 'group.position before change');
    rectangle.firstSegment.point = [0, 0];
    equals(group.bounds, new Rectangle(0, 0, 200, 200), 'group.bounds after change');
    equals(group.position, new Point(100, 100), 'group.position after change');
});

test('group.bounds when containing empty path first', function() {
    var group = new Group();
    var path = new Path();
    group.addChild(path);
    equals(group.bounds, new Rectangle(0, 0, 0, 0), 'group.bounds with empty path');
    path.moveTo([75, 75]);
    path.lineTo([175, 175]);
    equals(group.bounds, new Rectangle(75, 75, 100, 100), 'group.bounds after adding segments to path');
});

test('path.bounds when contained in a transformed group', function() {
    var path = new Path([10, 10], [60, 60]);
    var group = new Group([path]);
    equals(path.bounds, new Rectangle(10, 10, 50, 50), 'path.bounds before group translation');
    group.translate(100, 100);
    equals(path.bounds, new Rectangle(110, 110, 50, 50), 'path.bounds after group translation');
});

test('shape.strokeBounds when scaled with strokeScaling set to false', function(){
    var shape = new Shape.Rectangle({
        point: [5, 5],
        size: [20, 20],
        strokeScaling: false,
        strokeColor: 'black',
        strokeWidth: 10
    });
    equals(shape.strokeBounds, new Rectangle(0, 0, 30, 30), 'shape.strokeBounds before scaling');
    shape.scale(2, 2, [5, 5]);
    equals(shape.strokeBounds, new Rectangle(0, 0, 50, 50), 'shape.strokeBounds after scaling');
});

test('text.bounds', function() {
    var text = new PointText({
        fontFamily: 'Arial, Helvetica',
        fontSize: 14,
        fillColor: 'black',
        point: [50, 100],
        content: 'Hello World!'
    });
    equals(text.bounds, new Rectangle(50, 87.4, 76.25, 16.8), 'text.bounds', { tolerance: 1.0 });
});

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By Jillian Dodd
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Jillian Dodd Jillian Dodd Inc.
The Keatyn Chronicles
The fifth book in The Keatyn Chronicles delivers a breathless fairy-tale romance with swoon-worthy characters, suspense, and a glittering celebrity world. Fans of Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and reality TV will devour this pulse-pounding, sexy teen drama set against the backdrop of Hollywood and an East Coast boarding school. Keatyn has everything she ever dreamed. Her life is following the script she wrote for the perfect high school experience. She's popular, goes to the best parties, dates the hottest guy, and sits at the most-coveted lunch table. She's just not sure she wants it anymore. Because, really, things aren't all that perfect. Her best friend is threatening to tell everyone her perfect relationship is a scam. Her perfect boyfriend gets drunk at every party they go to. It's exhausting always trying to look and act perfect. And, deep down, she isn't sure if she has any true friends. To add to the drama, her movie star mom has a creepy stalker. A hot, older man flirts with her and tells her they should make a movie together. And she's crushing on an adorable surfer. Dating him would mean committing social suicide. So she writes a new scrip. One where all the pieces of her life will come together in perfect harmony. But little does she know, there's someone who will do anything to make sure that doesn't happen.
The fifth book in The Keatyn Chronicles delivers a breathless fairy-tale romance with swoon-worthy characters, suspense, and a glittering celebrity world. Fans of Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and reality TV will devour this pulse-pounding, sexy teen drama set against the backdrop of Hollywood and an East Coast boarding school.
Keatyn has everything she ever dreamed. Her life is following the script she wrote for the perfect high school experience. She's popular, goes to the best parties, dates the hottest guy, and sits at the most-coveted lunch table. She's just not sure she wants it anymore. Because, really, things aren't all that perfect. Her best friend is threatening to tell everyone her perfect relationship is a scam. Her perfect boyfriend gets drunk at every party they go to. It's exhausting always trying to look and act perfect. And, deep down, she isn't sure if she has any true friends.
To add to the drama, her movie star mom has a creepy stalker. A hot, older man flirts with her and tells her they should make a movie together. And she's crushing on an adorable surfer. Dating him would mean committing social suicide. So she writes a new scrip. One where all the pieces of her life will come together in perfect harmony. But little does she know, there's someone who will do anything to make sure that doesn't happen.
Author Bio: Jillian Dodd
Jillian Dodd is a USA Today bestselling author who writes fun romances with characters her readers fall in love with, from the boy next door in the That Boy trilogy to the daughter of a famous actress in the Keatyn Chronicles® to a kick-ass young assassin in the Spy Girl series. Jillian lives in a small Florida beach town, is married to her college sweetheart, has two grown children, and two Labrador Retrievers named Cali and Camber. When she's not working, she likes to travel, paint, shop for shoes, watch football, and go to the beach.
Category: Fiction/Romance
Publisher: Jillian Dodd Inc.
Audience: Young Adult (12–17)


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XF50mm F1.0 R WR is the fastest AF mirrorless camera lens
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Fujifilm announced a groundbreaking lens. The company claims the XF50mm F1.0 R WR is the "world's first autofocus lens with a maximum aperture of f/1.0″ for X-series mirrorless cameras.
Essentially, this the the fastest autofocus lens that's been produced for mirrorless cameras. It has an aperture of f/1.0, meaning that this lens is extremely fast and bright. f/1.0 is extremely rare for a lens to have, so it just shows how unique this lens really is. In total, the lens is 4.07 inches long and weighs 1.86 pounds. Overall, these are average measurements. The lens isn't small, but it isn't too big either. The XF50mmF1.0 R WR lens is made from 12 lens elements in nine groups.
Let's take a closer look at the XF50mm F1.0 R WR
Fujifilm's f/1.0 lens autofocus system should make it easier for users to use AF. According to Fujifilm, the system is "fast and precise… even in near darkness." Additionally, its manual focus should be easier to adjust due to a new focus ring design.
Fujifilm XF50mm F1.0 R WR. Image courtesy: Fujifilm
At f/1.0, the lens will allow the Fuji X-Pro3 and X-T4 cameras' autofocus systems to operate at -7EV. Previously, that was limited to -6EV. Also, the lens' AF system is powered by a direct current (DC) motor, relying on the Fuji X-Series PDAF for directions. However, you can choose to go manual if you so choose.
The XF50mm F1.0 R WR includes an autofocus motor and full weather sealing. This allows the lens to be fully protected against dust and moisture. It can also withstand temperatures down to 14°F (-10°C).
The XF50mmf/1.0 R WR is open for pre-order right now for $1,500. While it's on the pricier side for a lens, it's actually a lot more affordable than other options, like the $8,000 Z-Noct. It is a very unique lens that actually offers a lot for its price. We can expect the lens to ship in Fall 2020.
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The Curse of Corn: Poverty and Politics and Pellagra
Posted on July 24, 2012 January 14, 2013 by Cynthia Bertelsen
Dr. Joseph Goldberger stands watching the children eating. He's about to prove his hunch that pellagra occurred in the face of nutritional deprivation.
He devoted years to discovering what caused the curse of corn, pellagra. Although the fat cats in the South of the time, and we're talking early 20th-century here, didn't want to spend money on feeding programs, Goldberger managed to set up situations where he proved that insects and bacteria had nothing to do with the scourge of pellagra. A serious public health problem at the time, mostly seen among poor whites and African Americans, the elimination of pellagra testifies to the power of government to aid the destitute in spite of the protestations of landowners and mill owners and politicians.
No, pellagra existed because poverty drove people to eat the cheapest, and increasingly processed, foods possible: cornmeal, molasses, and fatback. Like many of their ancestors anywhere in the world, the pellagrins – as the sufferers were called – found themselves in early spring looking at thick scaly skin on their hands, the butterfly rash across their cheeks, and the oozing necklaces drooping down from their necks to their chests. Generally, these skin lesions appear where there's been sun exposure. A number of symptoms pop up, but most descriptions focus on the four Ds: diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, death. In many cases, people improved once fresh foods became available after long winters, making the disease a seasonal thing. But many people did not improve much, because poverty and debt precluded spending money on food, even on seeds or livestock.
Niacin, or the lack of it, turned out to be the major culprit in Goldberger's case. But poverty and politics also played important roles.
Pellagra still presents problems in places where corn underscores the daily diet, particularly in areas where crop failure or other catastrophes occur, putting a strain on the food supply. Epidemiologists recorded the disease recently in Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, Nepal, and Angola.
The name pellagra actually comes from the Italian, meaning "sour skin," first recorded in 1771 by Dr. Francisco Frapolli of the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan, Italy. A Spanish physician, Dr. Gaspar Casal of Oviedo in the Asturias region, described what the peasants called mal de la rosa. The Spanish painter, Francisco Goya, included a pellagra sufferer in his painting, The Miracle of St. Anthony, in the dome of San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid.
Pellagrin in Goya's The Miracle of St. Anthony
But we're not talking about just any corn. In the Old World, corn is not treated to free bound niacin. People who depend on corn to provide the bulk of their diet will suffer from pellagra, if they cannot include other foods rich in niacin alongside the corn. This is what happened parts of southern Europe, particularly Italy, where peasants took to corn for a number of reasons, one being its ease in cultivation. But they did not adopt the Native Americans' nixtamalization process, instead believing that their advanced milling technology would grind the grain well enough to bypass the old process.
Niacin ensures adequate cellular function due to its essential role in two similar coenzymes (ie, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide [NAD] and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate [NADP]).
Tryptophan metabolic pathway
The process of nixtamalization, as used by people in the New World, allows niacin to be more readily available in corn, which is deficient in tryptophan. Note that a double whammy exists here because the liver can synthesize tryptophan from niacin. (For a detailed explanation and pictorial depiction of nixtamalization, click HERE.)
Let's end this very brief description of pellagra with some food for thought:
Pellagra affected people's behavior, as well as their appearance. Families tended to hide their pellagrins away. Malaise, apathy, and weakness would affect people's ability to work. Neurological factors such as anxiety, hallucinations, insomnia, and stupor impacted even more on people's ability to function normally. Many times, these symptoms appeared before the skin changes did. These symptoms no doubt led to stereotypes about certain classes of people. It all raises questions about how diseases impacted daily productivity throughout history.
Read more about pellagra and the Southern diet:
Brenton B, Paine R. Pellagra and Paleonutrition: Assessing the Diet and Health of Maize Horticulturalists through Skeletal Biology. Nutritional Anthropology 22(2): 2-9. 2000.
Covey, Herbert C. and Eisnach, Dwight. What the Slaves Ate: Recollections of African American Foods and Foodways from the Slave Narratives. Denver: ABC-CLIO, 2009.
Etheridge, Elizabeth W. The Butterfly Caste: A Social History of Pellagra in the South. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972.
Goldberger Joseph. Experimental pellagra in the human subject brought about by a restricted diet. Public Health Reports 30: 3336, 1915.
Kraut, Alan M. Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader. Hill & Wang, 2004.
Roe, Daphne A. A Plague of Corn: The Social History of Pellagra. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973.
Taylor, Joel G. Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: an Informal History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Chapter 6: "Cornmeal and Salt Pork: The Food of the Slaves."
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The following research projects are complete and awaiting peer review and publication in scientific journals. Study results and links to more information will be posted here upon publication.
Research Pending Peer Review and Publication
Character-Space-Limited Online Prescription Drug Communications
Disease Awareness and Prescription Drug Promotion on Television
Experimental Study of DTC Advertising Directed at Adolescents
Risk Information Amount and Location in Direct-to-Consumer Print Ads
Prescription drug regulations require a fair balance of the content and prominence of risk and benefit information in prescription drug product claim promotion. The rise of Internet communications that have character space limitations, such as sponsored link promotion and microblog messaging, has led to questions about how to use these communications for prescription drug promotion while complying with the fair balance requirements. In 2014, FDA released draft guidance, "Guidance for Industry Internet/Social Media Platforms with Character Space Limitations — Presenting Risk and Benefit Information for Prescription Drugs and Medical Devices" which states:
Regardless of character space constraints that may be present on certain Internet/social media platforms, if a firm chooses to make a product benefit claim, the firm should also incorporate risk information within the same character-space-limited communication. The firm should also provide a mechanism to allow direct access to a more complete discussion of the risks associated with its product.
This project is designed to address the question of whether substantive risk information in the character-space-limited communications is effective in communicating risks when benefit claims are made, or whether a link to the risk information is sufficient. Within each study, we will manipulate whether or not substantive risk information appears in the character-space-limited communication.
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When pharmaceutical companies market a new drug, they often also release disease awareness communications about the medical condition the new drug is intended to treat. FDA is interested in the extent to which this practice may result in consumers confusing or otherwise misinterpreting the different information and claims presented in disease awareness communications and prescription drug promotion. Prior research has documented that in both print and online contexts, consumers tend to conflate the information presented in prescription drug promotional materials with information presented in disease awareness communications. Specifically, the results of these studies suggest consumers incorrectly ascribe benefits to a prescription drug as a result of being exposed to information in a disease awareness communication that broadly describes the symptoms and negative consequences of the disease. There are ways in which this effect can be attenuated. For example, prior research has indicated that greater visual distinctiveness between the two ad types can ameliorate such confusion. The present research seeks to extend previous findings to the context of television promotion, and broadly examine how perceptual similarity between the two communication types as well as their temporal proximity and exposure frequency can impact the nature and extent of viewer confusion.
Sponsors for several prescription drug classes market their products directly to adolescents, but research regarding how adolescents use risk and benefit information for health-related decisions is limited. Despite the lack of previous research specific to DTC drug marketing to adolescents, existing theoretical and empirical data make a strong case for treating adolescence as a unique life stage during which vulnerabilities that can affect informed decision-making must be taken into account. We conducted a randomized, controlled study in two different medical conditions that assessed adolescents' perceptions following exposure to DTC prescription drug advertising that varies in benefit and risk onset and risk severity. We compared adolescents' perceptions with the perceptions of their young adult counterparts. Each participant viewed a web-based promotional campaign for either a fictitious Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder medication or a fictitious acne medication. Because adolescents typically depend on their parents for prescription drug purchases, we also included a sample of parents matched to their adolescent children to explore similarities and differences in perceptions for these matched pairs. We explored differences in effects of the ad manipulations across these three age groups on a variety of outcomes, including benefit and risk recall, benefit and risk perceptions, and behavioral intentions. Results showed that adolescents were able to understand the risk and benefit information depicted in the Web sites that they viewed. Results also showed that adolescents tend to both overestimate and underestimate risks, viewing them at the more extreme ends of the continuum, when compared to young adults. Perceptions of short term benefits seemed to have appeal, suggesting a desire for a "quick fix" among the adolescents in this study.
To fulfill the regulatory requirements for fair balance and the brief summary, sponsors have typically included risk information about the product in DTC print ads both in the main part of the ad where the product claims appear, and in a separate brief summary page. The section of the main ad where the risks appear is often referred to as the "Important Safety Information" (ISI). Including risks in both the ISI and the brief summary may have advantages. However, a potential downside to including the same warnings in both the ISI and again in the brief summary is reduced attention by recipients over time. OPDP plans to investigate, through empirical research, combinations of the ISI and the brief summary. We will test two levels of the ISI (short versus long) and the presence of the Brief Summary (absent versus present) in two different medical conditions (overactive bladder and rheumatoid arthritis).
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Q: Different monitor setup at multiple workstations I have my monitors at work set up to the left of my macbook, and at home to the right. Based on the way my monitors are mounted, I can not change their location to be the same in both of my workstations.
My Mac thinks my second monitor is to the left of the Macbook Pro, but at home my monitor is set up to the right of the Mac and the setup is all wrong.
Is there a way to have my Mac detect the workstation and re-arrange the display's position?
I am running Yosemite on the late 2013 Macbook pro.

A: Different "monitor profiles" within the computers configuration is not something that can be automatically detected due to the computer having no way of knowing the physical alignment of the monitor. This setting must be adjusted every time you "install" a new setup.
There are monitor "profile" programs out there, but to the best of my knowledge, they are only for Windows based PC. One such program is Display Fusion. With said program, you can add different profiles and configurations, but you will have to select the configuration when you are in the actual OS and load the program up.
I have done some research to find a monitor profiling program out there for OSX, but have never been luckily enough to fine one. Looks like we will have to manually change our display setting every time.

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Irish priests reject suggestion that they break seal of confession
By Michael Kelly
DUBLIN (CNS) — The group that represents Ireland's Catholic priests says the secrecy of confession must be protected, despite government indications that confessions would not be exempt from rules on mandatory reporting of child abuse.
"The point is, if there is a law in the land, it has to be followed by everybody. There are no exceptions, there are no exemptions," said Irish Children's Minister Frances Fitzgerald.
Father P.J. Madden, spokesman for the Association of Catholic Priests, insisted that the sacramental seal of confession is "above and beyond all else" and should not be broken even if a penitent confesses to a crime.
Father Madden said he would strongly urge and appeal to the penitent — whether a priest or anyone else — to confess a crime to the police and have the civil aspect dealt with, but that he did not approve of the idea of reporting what was said.
"If I'm breaking the law then somebody has to find a way to address that for me … but in my own right as a priest what I understand is the seal of confession is above and beyond all else," he said.
"The seal of confession is a very sacred seal for lots of different reasons way beyond this one single issue, however serious this one single issue is," Father Madden insisted.
The Irish government said it would introduce legislation that makes it mandatory for priests to reveal details of child abuse, even if they become known in the confessional. The offense is punishable with up to five years in prison.
The announcement came after a judicial commission investigating the Diocese of Cloyne revealed July 13 that allegations of abuse were being mishandled and withheld from the police as recently as 2008.
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said July 14 that canon law would not be allowed to supersede state law.
Fitzgerald said the government was not concerned about "the rules governing anybody."
"This is about the law of the land. It's about child protection. Are we saying … if a child is at risk of child sexual abuse that should not be reported? We cannot say that. The law of the land is clear and unambiguous," she said.
Bishop John McAreavey of Dromore told Catholic News Service that the bishops would await the publication of the legislation before assessing it. However, he said, he felt it was "unreal to suggest that the seal of confession has prevented the reporting of the abuse of children."
The new legislation is not expected to be published this fall, and sources close to the Irish bishops' conference expected that a heavy lobbying campaign will get under way to ensure that a suitable exemption is considered.
David Quinn, director of the think-tank the Iona Institute, called the proposal "unprecedented."
"This would make us the one and only country in the Western world to have such a law. Even revolutionary France in the days of its worst violence against the church did not pass a law requiring the breaking of the seal of confession," Quinn told Catholic News Service.
He said the government "is clearly missing something that every other government can see, which is that, at a minimum, such a law is very unlikely to lead to a single conviction and, at a maximum, will be counterproductive and will make society less safe, rather than more safe."
"No child abuser will go to a priest in confession knowing the priest is required to inform the police. But cutting off the avenue of confession to a child abuser makes it less likely that he will talk to someone who can persuade him to take the next step," he added.


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Слизь — продукт секреции клеток, в многоклеточных организмах — преимущественно эпителиальной ткани слизистых оболочек. Это вязкое вещество чаще всего состоит из гликозаминогликанов, также часто содержит некоторые антисептики (например, лизоцим) и иммуноглобулины, которые служат для защиты эпителиальных клеток лёгких, желудочно-кишечного тракта, мочеполовой системы, зрения и слуха у млекопитающих; эпидермиса у земноводных, жабр у рыб. Улитки, слизняки и некоторые беспозвоночные также производят слизь, которая, помимо защитной функции (как слизистой, так и от хищников из-за неприятного вкуса), может облегчить передвижение и играть свою роль при коммуникации.

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Q: how get search:suggestion from multiple range elements source as default-suggestion-source option xml sample like below in my MarkLogic database
<metadata>
      <title>first title</title>
      <author>gorge k</author>
      <location>London</location>
</metadata>

I have a range index set up on title, author and location. I want to create default search:suggestion source on all elements instead of any single element.
In search:option I have only title as default suggestion source option as below
<default-suggestion-source>
  <range collation="http://marklogic.com/collation/"
      type="xs:string">
    <element ns="" name="title"/>
  </range>
</default-suggestion-source>

Now I want to add both author and location in above default suggestion source option.
I try to add author using this configuration:
<default-suggestion-source>
  <range collation="http://marklogic.com/collation/"
      type="xs:string">
    <element ns="" name="title"/>
  </range>
  <range collation="http://marklogic.com/collation/"
      type="xs:string">
    <element ns="" name="author"/>
  </range>
</default-suggestion-source>

but am getting below error:

[1.0-ml] XDMP-ARGTYPE: (err:XPTY0004) fn:string((attribute{fn:QName("","collation")}{"http://marklogic.com/collation/"}, attribute{fn:QName("","collation")}{"http://marklogic.com/collation/"})) -- arg1 is not of type item()?

Any one please suggest how achieve this?

A: You can set up a suggestion source to refer to a constraint. You can set up a constraint to be a field, based on the three elements you're interested in. Set up a field range index and search options like below, and I think that should work.
<search:options xmlns="http://marklogic.com/appservices/search">
  <constraint name="suggestions">
    <range type="xs:string" collation="http://marklogic.com/collation/">
      <field name="suggest-field"/>
    </range>
  </constraint>
  <default-suggestion-source ref="suggestions" />
</search:options>

A: In addition to Dave Cassel's solution, i would suggest not referencing the default-suggestion-source to a constraint. Rather include the constraint in the default-suggestion-source node.
<search:options xmlns="http://marklogic.com/appservices/search">
  <default-suggestion-source>
    <range type="xs:string" collation="http://marklogic.com/collation/">
      <field name="suggest-field"/>
    </range>
  </default-suggestion-source>
</search:options>

Why? MarkLogic will not only suggest values found in the source (range index in this case) but also constraint names. So you will have a suggestion suggestions:. This might not be wanted for the default source.
For further reading see this answer.


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module Summary
  module Query
    class Union
      def initialize(*queries)
        if queries.first.kind_of?(Array)
          raise
        end
        @queries = queries
      end

      def run(runner = nil)
        @queries.map {|q|
          result = q.run(runner)
          result
        }.inject {|running, cur|
          running + cur
        }
      end

    end
  end
end


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hmmm could you explain me what this hack actually does ?
Scorsch - You know how avatars are stored in the Database?
Why does ^ (that) redirect to usercp.php?
I seriously think it needs to be required that people give a description on what the hack actually does! Maybe an extra required field when making in the newthread interface? Usually just the title alone, such as in this case "Signature Image System", doesn't really explain enough.
But anyway, commenting on what you said after Schorsch post, the idea does seem pretty cool....except that most people who have signatures use them on other sites as well. For example, before I got a host I would use DeviantArt to host my signatures for many forums that I posted on. People might hotlink from your site to all their other sites..and I'm not all that sure you would want that, mostly if it's in the same case as attachments where the "who's online" thing will display guests viewing the signature. (not sure if that's actually an issue though).
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Words made in Spain
By Ángel|2020-12-14T10:43:16+00:00December 16th, 2020|Words made in Spain|
Christmas idioms in Spanish are very funny. Actually, learning idioms is always funny. Nowadays it's Christmas time, even though department stores started some months ago. From Spanishviaskype.com, we know that these days will be weird [...]
Actualidad, Words made in Spain
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Chess vocabulary in Spanish is trending nowadays. Actually, chess vocabulary is trending in all languages and the reason is a TV series called Gambito de Dama (Queen's Gambit) in Netflix. By the way, last week [...]
Idioms about bullfighting in Spanish
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Idioms about bullfighting in Spanish are very common. Nowadays, this activity is very controversial. On the one hand, defenders of tauromachy claim that it's a traditional cultural expression, even art. On the other hand, animal [...]
Words about COVID-19 in Spanish
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Words about COVID-19 in Spanish are everywhere, nowadays. After overcoming the first outbreak of this pandemic, Spain is at cliff's edge, again. Many districts in Madrid are in lockdown and other cities in the country [...]
The Verb Caer in Spanish: Idioms in Autumn
The verb caer in Spanish is full of idioms, and now, autumn is almost here and we'll see leaves falling everywhere. That's the original meaning of the verb caer in Spanish. However, reading this article [...]
Funny Expressions in Spanish
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Funny expressions in Spanish are a jack of all trades for Spanish teachers. Our students at Spanishviaskype.com love learning and "playing" with these phrases. We call them "funny" because misinterpretations caused by them are very [...]
Expressions with leche in Spanish
Expressions with leche in Spanish are plentiful in our vocabulary. Leche is an essential foodstuff for mammals and these kind of basic terms are a good source of idioms in all languages. The etymology of [...]
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Expressions with the five senses in Spanish is a good topic when we talk about anatomy in our lessons at Spanishviaskype.com. It's often boring to learn a large list of vocabulary with the names of [...]
Spanish Idioms Using Nationalities and Countries
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Spanish idioms using nationalities and countries are very popular when we speak in the colloquial register. Clichés and stereotypes are present at all languages. They are used to make jokes, prejudge and even attack people [...]


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Retailers try to lure customers with free Uber rides
NEW YORK (AP) — While shoppers are getting everything from morning coffee to complete work wardrobes delivered to their homes, some businesses are working with ride-hailing company Uber to entice customers through their doors. Apr. 10 2019 @ 12:05am
FILE- In this June 6, 2018, file photo Uber driver Joshua Oh drives in Honolulu. Uber launched a voucher program Tuesday, April 9, 2019, enabling companies like Westfield Mall and TGI Fridays to offer free or discounted Uber rides to customers. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — While shoppers are getting everything from morning coffee to complete work wardrobes delivered to their homes, some businesses are working with ride-hailing company Uber to entice customers through their doors.
Uber launched a voucher program Tuesday that enables companies like Westfield Mall and TGI Fridays to dole out free or discounted rides to customers, offering a way for retailers to counter declining foot traffic heightened by the growth of online shopping.
Retail traffic has declined 2.3 percent over the last two years, according to Cowen Equity Research. Malls in particular have experienced a drop-off as younger generations living in urban centers have shown little interest in owning cars and taking trips to suburban shopping malls, said Jon Reily, vice president and global commerce strategy lead at Publicis Sapient. The growing number of retail bankruptcies illustrates the problem, he said.
"That's a great move for malls to get people in the door, because malls need footfall, and anything that they can do to get that is a good thing," Reily said.
Restaurants are also participating in the Uber vouchers, including some that are already delivering food to customers' homes through Uber Eats.
Getting diners back into the restaurant — even if it means paying for their ride — could enable restaurants to make more money since customers could be more inclined to order a dessert or alcoholic beverage than if they ordered delivery to their homes.
Alcohol is a money-maker for restaurants, and delivering happy hour margaritas or cocktails in an Uber car isn't a viable option. Uber does deliver alcohol from a very limited number of restaurants, but it is not available to most customers.
"Our bartenders might hand these out as a way to ensure we're providing a great guest experience," said Sherif Mityas, chief strategy officer at TGI Fridays.
The vouchers — like coupons — could be given out as a perk to rewards members, creating another visit that might not happen otherwise, Mityas said.


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Jelix 2 is an open-source framework for PHP 7.0+.
It has a modular and extensible architecture. Applications based on Jelix are made with modules, which allow to reuse features in several projects.
For more informations, read details about its features.
WARNING: many changes occurs in the master branch, because of a "namespacification" which is not finished yet. So API may change or may be broken (even if we try to no do it) Don't use it for production for the moment! However if you want to migrate an existing application to this unstable Jelix version ( just for tests! ), read the file [UPGRADE-TO-2.0.md].
The master branch will be Jelix 2.0.
For the current stable release, see the jelix-1.6.x branch. For the next stable release, see the jelix-1.7.x branch.
Please, to fix issues on stable versions, do it on their corresponding branches, not master! So do pull requests on stable branches!
The source code of the master branch (Jelix 2.0) is compatible only with PHP 5.6 or more.
Then read the documentation to create an application.
The documentation is not updated yet with all changes since the release of Jelix 1.7.x. But it should be ok for most of things.
You can ask your questions on the forum or on our IRC Channel, #jelix, on the irc.freenode.net network.