Summer time will be over soon (hopefully, thanks global warming), so it's time to get out your coats and Smart Chromium Alloy Resistive Fabrics. What? You don't have one? Well now you too can have your very own electrically heated scarf!
Some of these things do not need to be bought, I just included links below for reference. The batteries you might be able to get from a tablet, the relay from different circuit board scavenging, the speaker from any broken electronic that emits sound, the aux cord from broken headphones, and the fabric from an old shirt or scarf.
Having said that, use the links below if you don't have everything.
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Our scarf will need to be wide enough to be able to be folded in half and long enough to hold all of our components. Depending on how long your resistive wire will be, you will need to calculate the dimensions of your scarf. My wire was about 7 feet long, and I bent it 3 times to make 4 strands as shown in the images above. Use some pins to hold your equally divided strands. They should be placed in the center of the scarf to be closest to your neck. However, we will only be able to use half of the scarf or fabric you measure as we will be folding the other half on top of the one we place our components on. The outer edges don't really matter as they won't be in direct contact with your neck and would decrease the power efficiency.
Once you have secured your chromium wire, test it out with your batteries. Again, these should be lithium-polymer batteries which are usually rated at 3.7 volts. Connect them all in series with the wire to get 14.8 volts and touch the wire. It should be hot enough to feel but not burn. Fold part of the scarf over it to feel what it would be like once worn. If you have a voltage regulator that can take the current, go ahead and hook it up to your batteries so you can stay the same level of toastiness even when the batteries' voltage decreases over time.
Do not attempt to use plastic or other materials for this project. The wire will melt the material and may burn you if you do so. Try something like cotton or linen. It will warm up but not catch on fire. As long as you don't make your wire glow red-hot, you'll be fine. Just remember that the shorter the wire, the smaller the voltage needed to heat it up.
To allow the Maxim Featherboard to control this scarf, we will need to use a relay. To do this, we simply connect a jumper wire on each side of the relay's coil side, add a diode to protect it from voltage spikes, and use the other side to break one of the wires (I split the red ''-" side in the pictures) like a switch. Don't forget to solder the tips of your switch or use wire nuts. Now, whenever our relay is powered, the energy from the batteries will flow into our chromium wire. The other component on this breadboard is a boost converter. It will boost the input from the FTHR board to 12v to activate the relay, as its logic voltage is too low to power it alone.
To secure it to the scarf, cut a strip of duct tape to stick to the bottom of the breadboard and leave about 1cm extra on each side. This will let you run a pin through it to secure the breadboard. Connect two jumper wires to the FTHR from the relay circuit. One should go to ground, while the other goes to a data pin of your preference. Secure it with pins, as well. It is not shown in the image, but connect your DHT22 sensor to the board by connecting the power and ground wires where they go, and data to an unused input pin. This will save you from having to use a button to activate your SCARF and will make it fully automatic. It will detect if it is cold or not and then act upon that data.
Since this is a small speaker with no audio booster, it will not be loud enough to disturb others but loud enough for you to hear. Wrap the scarf around your neck and mark the place where your right (or left) ear would be if you raised the scarf. Then simply solder an aux connection to it and pin it in place. Make sure your aux cord is long enough to exit the scarf. I got one from some old earbuds that no longer worked, so it was long enough to reach my pockets.
In Arduino IDE, add the Max DapLink programmer to your list of microcontroller programmers. You will also need to install Max's devices. All of this information is in the Materials list in the MAX link. Then, connect your MaxPICO (the physical programmer for the FTHR board) to your FTHR board and connect both to your computer. You can use an Arduino Uno while you wait for your FTHR board, but it is not nearly as compact or efficient as the Max board. the Featherboard was made for wearables, while the Uno is just for general projects.
Upload the included program to your board using the included pico board and it should be ready to run. Just be sure to configure the temperature index included to match your environment. 50 degrees may be cold for a Texan, but not a Canadian. Also make sure to change the input pin for your DHT22 sensor and your output pin for the relay. Download the code for tempIndexTrigger here.
Make sure to provide power to both the DapLink connector and the FTHR boards so that the program upload works.
Depending on your environmental conditions, you could add waterproof lining or other fancier fabrics. If you are comfortable here, go ahead and sew the electronics into place. I plan on adding a few more features to mine, so I used pins. Once that is done, fold your scarf in half to cover your electronics and sew the edges shut. Remember to leave a small opening for the aux and power cords.
This Smart Chromium Alloy Resistive Fabric will protect you from the blistering cold by detecting if the temperature is too cold for you and turning on a homemade heating pad. The DHT22 sensor sends data to the Maxim FTHR board that is interpreted by the onboard program. If it is below the your configured threshold of comfort, it will send out a signal that will go into a boost converter and activate a relay. This relay will then allow energy to flow from the batteries to the nickel chromium wire. This wire is highly resistive because of its atomic makeup, so it slows down electrons passing by through a tiny version of friction. Because of all the friction, the wire heats up (like in your toaster) and warms up the fabric around it. This then warms your neck. The speaker is just a bonus feature I sewed in there for convenience. Now, I don't have to periodically swap my headphones for earmuffs when I am outside.
An Arduino Uno is used as a placeholder for the FTHR board. The speaker is not included as it is essentially a separate circuit with your phone, and the resistor close to the relay is used as a placeholder for the resistive chromium wire(the heating element).
This is used to interpret DHT22 data and turn on the chromium wire's relay.


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From time to time, we like to feature real client case studies to exhibit the impact our solutions have. The next story demonstrates how pertinent understanding cultural differences and work styles are for a healthy and productive team.
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In 2014, the construction of KIA Motors Mexico (KMM) plant in Pesquería, located in the state of Nuevo Léon, begun. KMM had their Start of Production (SOP) in May 2016. The production plant, alongside its affiliates, hired roughly 2,700 Mexican employees. The majority of management came overseas from headquarters and plants in South Korea, while the majority of managers, supervisors, and staff were hired locally.
KMM conducted a corporate culture analysis, which consisted of a 360-degree assessment and a core value and engagement survey. These organizational exercises uncovered the need to improve trust, communication, and cultural understanding. KMM partnered with Aperian Global with the goal to uncover the root of team issues, restore trust, develop a shared vision for the team, create common ground rules to help prevent misunderstandings in the future, and begin to align work style and culture differences.
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Aperian Global began with key stakeholder interviews, followed by an executive alignment session to review findings, gather feedback, brainstorm and align on key actions that could be taken by leadership to support positive team building initiatives. Each team member then completed the Global Team Assessment (GTA), which uses seven critical elements of high performing global teams to assess performance and identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas in need of improvement. Aperian Global debriefed the assessment results with the heads of departments and planned the delivery of 2-day team workshops.
The workshops, which were called "Driving Team Performance," were held for 21 departments including Painting, Stamping, Welding, General Assembly, and Maintenance, and took place over a total of 7 months. Each workshop was led by two Aperian Global facilitators who contributed to the language requirements of the team – English, Spanish and Korean. In each session, a Korean and Mexican manager from the department assisted with the workshop. Aperian Global also certified internal facilitators on how to debrief GTA team reports for the remaining teams within the organization.
Each workshop directly utilized the results of the team's GTA survey results. Activities focused on team discussion and detection of issues, developing a shared vision, and action planning to improve team relationships and overall performance. Teams participated in a group dinner and stayed overnight at the resort to build comfortability with one another. Over 400 KMM administrative employees took part in these sessions. After each team session, there was a debrief, and feedback and suggestions were fed into the next teaming session.
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The "Driving Team Performance" seminars were met with overwhelming success. Participants built a high degree of trust during their sessions, were willing to speak up about their needs, and listened to each other well. As one participant stated, "We could openly express our concerns about our department." Heads of departments were eager to own improvement ideas and initiatives moving forward, which helped secure buy-in from managers, supervisors, and employees.
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The Spain international has been heavily linked with a move to Old Trafford in recent months.
Starsport understands United are keen on Morata, 24, with Jose Mourinho a huge admirer of the Real striker.
And according to Spanish outlet Diario Gol, doubts over Ronaldo's future at Real is delaying an announcement of Morata's move to United.
The Portugal talisman told the La Liga champions he wanted to quit the club after being accused of tax fraud.
Diario Gol say Real are willing to accept United's offer for Morata despite Zidane and club president Florentino Perez wanting the hitman to stay.
Morata has told the Real chiefs of his intention to leave Spain and play in the Premier League.
The former Juventus man struggled to get game time under Zinedine Zidane last season and wants to quit the Bernabeu.
Reports also suggested Chelsea were in the hunt for Morata but the Blues have no interest in the Real star, with Antonio Conte eyeing Romelu Lukaku instead.
The hitman picked up a La Liga and Champions League medal last season as Real completed the double.


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Q: how to calculate the cube root of this complex number Can anyone help me solve this exercise?
calculate the cube roots of $\frac{1}{(2-2i)}$ I started by rationalising by doing $\frac{1}{(2-2i)}$= $\frac{1}{(2-2i)}$ * $\frac{(2+2i)}{(2+2i)}$ --->
$\frac{(2(1+i)}{8}$ ----> $\frac{(1+i)}{4}$
then how can I continue?
thank you all in advance

A: You have$$\frac{1+i}4=\frac1{2\sqrt2}\left(\frac1{\sqrt2}+\frac i{\sqrt2}\right)=\frac1{\sqrt2^3}e^{\pi i/4}.$$Can you take it from here?

A: $$\large2-2i=\sqrt{8}e^{(-\frac{i\pi}{4}+2ki\pi)}$$.
So $$\large\frac{1}{2-2i}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{8}}e^{(\frac{i\pi}{4}-2ki\pi)}$$
so $$\Large\frac{1}{(2-2i)^{\frac{1}{3}}}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{8}^{\frac{1}{3}}}e^{\frac{(\frac{i\pi}{4}-2ki\pi)}{3}}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}e^{(\frac{i\pi}{12}-\frac{2ki\pi}{3})}$$.
Where $k$ is an integer.
Now you can write this out in terms of $\cos$ and $\sin$ to get a better representation but this should also suffice.
For $k=0$ you get one cube root (Which is perhaps only what you require as at a beginner level you dont need to be concerned with multiple values).
You get that $$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left(\cos(\frac{\pi}{12})+i\sin(\frac{\pi}{12})\right)$$ is one such cube root.
But the expression in the exponential is the general case and it gives you all of the cube roots.

A: suppose $z=\dfrac{1+i}{4}=\dfrac{1}{2\sqrt{2}}\left(\cos\dfrac{\pi}{4}+i\sin\dfrac{\pi}{4}\right)$. Let $z_1=r(\cos\alpha +\sin\alpha)$ be a root of $z_1^3=z$. Then,
$$r^3(\cos3\alpha+i\sin3\alpha)=\dfrac{1}{2\sqrt{2}}\left(\cos\dfrac{\pi}{4}+i\sin\dfrac{\pi}{4}\right)$$
Comparing moduli we get $r^3=\dfrac{1}{2\sqrt{2}}$, hence $r=\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2}}$. Comparing the stuff inside brackets we get
$$3\alpha=\dfrac{\pi}{4}+2k\pi$$ where $k\in \mathbb{N}$. We get 3 unique values for $\alpha$ which are - $\pi/12$, $3\pi/4$ and $17\pi/12$. So, you have your answer for the three roots by substituting $\alpha$ in $z_1$.

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Bonne Gauguin, född Bonne Winther-Hjelm Jelstrup 28 november 1910 i Kristiania (nuvarande Oslo), död där 12 juli 1989, var en norsk skådespelare.

Bonne Gauguin utbildade sig till danspedagog i Tyskland innan hon flyttade till Trondheim på 1930-talet. Hon debuterade vid Trøndelag Teater. År 1941 gifte hon sig med bildkonstnären Paul René Gauguin och paret flyttade tillbaka till Oslo 1946 där hon engagerades vid Studioteatret. Efter att Studioteatret avvecklats verkade hon vid Riksteatret, Det norske teatret, Radioteatret, Fjernsynsteatret. Bland hennes sista roller var lärarinnan i Grease 1984.

Vid sidan av teatern verkade hon som skådespelare i TV och på film. Hon debuterade 1952 i Det kunne vært deg och gjorde sammanlagt ett 25-tal roller fram till och med 1977.

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Q: List of Dictionary to list of tuples for loop in python I am trying to create a conditional for loop for a list of dictionaries.
The List of Dictionaries is as follows:
CLIENTS_EXAMPLE = [
    {
        "first-name": "Elsa",
        "last-name": "Frost",
        "title": "Princess",
        "address": "33 Castle Street, London",
        "loyalty-program": "Gold",
    },
    {
        "first-name": "Anna",
        "last-name": "Frost",
        "title": "Princess",
        "address": "34 Castle Street, London",
        "loyalty-program": "Platinum",
    },
{
        "first-name": "Ben",
        "last-name": "Frost",
        "middle-name": "john",
        "title": "Prince",
        "address": "36a Castle Street, London",
        "loyalty-program": "Platinum",
    },

    {
        "first-name": "Harry",
        "middle-name": "Harold",
        "last-name": "Hare",
        "title": "Mr",
        "email-address": "harry.harold@hare.name",
        "loyalty-program": "Silver",
    },
    {
        "first-name": "Leonnie",
        "last-name": "Lion",
        "title": "Mrs",
        "loyalty-program": "Silver",
    },
]

I have to print any individuals with a known Address (not email address) and print out their first, middle (if available) and last name with Address.
The output should look like this:
[('Princess Elsa Frost', '33 Castle Street, London'),('Prince Ben John Frost', '36a Castle Street, London') ... etc]

I have managed to filter out the items and add them to a list of Tuples:

def process_clients(segment):

   new_list = []
   new_tuple =()
      for x in segment: #separates the dictionary from the list
         if "address" in x:
             if "middle-name" in x:
                new_tuple += (x["title"] + " " + x["first-name"] + " " + x["middle-name"] + " " + x["last-name"]), (x["address"])
             else:
                new_tuple += (x["title"] + " " + x["first-name"] + " "  + x["last-name"]), (x["address"])
                new_list.append(new_tuple)

       print(new_list)

process_clients(CLIENTS_EXAMPLE)

What I get is the following output:

[('Princess Elsa Frost', '33 Castle Street, London'), ('Princess Elsa Frost', '33 Castle Street, London', 'Princess Anna Frost', '34 Castle Street, London'), ('Princess Elsa Frost', '33 Castle Street, London', 'Princess Anna Frost', '34 Castle Street, London', 'Prince Ben john Frost', '36a Castle Street, London')]

How do I avoid the repetitions in the tuples?
Thanks

A: You're making a new tuple and then appending to it, you just need to move that new_tuple initialization inside the for loop
for x in segment:
    new_tuple =()

You could also use a list comprehension
[("{} {} {}{}".format(
    x["title"],
    x["first-name"],
    x["middle-name"] + " " if "middle-name" in x else "",
    x["last-name"])), x["address"]) for x in segment]

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How do I avoid the repetitions in the tuples?

Don't use +=? When you write new_tuple += ... that's going to concatenate the existing new_tuple and whatever's on the right and set that as the new new_tuple. So you're starting with (), then you're adding Alfred so you get ('Alfred',), append that to the list, then you add Brenda and get ('Alfred', 'Brenda') and add that to the list, etc...
You can just remove new_tuple entirely and append each tuple literal to your output list directly.


Woolly's almost-world-premiere production of Bruce Norris's now wildly successful race-and-gentrification play, which I fairly raved about at this time last year, is coming back this summer. I muse briefly on why this is a good and welcome thing in the City Paper's Best of DC issue, on stands this week.
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Компас () једно од 88 савремених сазвежђа. Налази се на јужној хемисфери, а увео га је француски астроном Никола Луј де Лакај у 18. веку под именом -{Pyxis Nautica}- (поморски компас). Компас се налази у близини некадашњег сазвежђа -{Argo Navis}- (брод Арго), које је Де Лакај поделио на Прамац, Једра и Крму.

Џон Хершел, енглески астроном, је у 19. веку предложио да се Компас преименује у Катарку (-{Malus}-), али овај предлог није прихваћен.

Звезде
Компас нема сјајних звезда. Најсјанија је алфа Компаса, магнитуде 3,68 — врели плави џин чија би магнитуда била ближе 3 да га не заклања међузвездана прашина. Бета Компаса је друга звезда по сјајности у овом сазвежђу, џин -{G}- класе магнитуде 3,97. И трећа звезда по сјајности, гама Компаса, је такође џин. Гама има магнитуду 4,01.

Вероватно најзначајнија звезда у овом сазвежђу је Т Компаса, бели патуљак са пратиоцем који га снабдева материјом. Т компаса је нова која је еруптирала 1890, 1902, 1920, 1944. и 1967. тако да ће следећа ерупција бити снажнија од свих претходних (јер је прошло више времена па је бели патуљак акумулирао више материјала).

Објекти дубоког неба

У близини алфе Компаса се налазе два објекта дубоког неба — -{NGC 2613}- и -{NGC 2818}-. -{NGC 2613}- је спирална галаксија слична по величини и облику Млечном путу, удаљен од Сунчевог система око 60 милиона светлосних година. -{NGC 2818}- је отворено звездано јато у коме се налази планетарна маглина -{PN 261+8.1}-.

Референце

Литература

Спољашње везе

 Сазвежђе Компас  на -{TopAstronomer.com}-

Савремена сазвежђа
Сазвежђа по Де Лакају


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Marry the love of my life and live happily ever after. I imagine feeling completely content and utterly safe with him, listening to music, sampling wines, reading, watching sappy old movies all while snuggling up in front of a cozy fire.
Dance to All I Ask of You at my wedding.
Spend a month in Tuscany in a lovely Villa with a fireplace and a pool. I want it to be overlooking a vineyard on one side, and Cypress trees, Poppy fields and Olive trees on the other. I want to spend my days exploring ancient Rome and local marketplaces while sipping wine and sampling all the fabulous food only the local Italians can offer.
Pay off my mortgage and finally and forever be completely debt-free. While I have never imagined myself being wealthy, and have no non-secured debt, this is my idea of true wealth.
Learn to relax, as thoroughly and luxuriously as my cats do every day of their nine lives.
Own a second home in New England so as often as I wished I could spend as much time with my sisters as I would like.
See the triumphant return of Jesus. I can't explain it, but since I was a little girl, I have always felt that I would be alive when that happens. I felt this way long before I knew what being saved was. I am an avid reader of biblical prophesy. Unfortunately, my brain is too small to hold the enormity of it and my memory is such that I retain very little of it. Of course, I know I am in good company! I read the Left Behind series in great anticipation of reading another person's concept of what that magnificent event will be like.
Know that everybody I love is saved and will spend all eternity free of pain and tears.
Spend a Christmas at a ski lodge in Vermont, not unlike the firepit scene with Bob Wallace & Betty Haynes from White Christmas. I am originally from New England and have never been to Vermont! I have always imagined it to be at it's most splendid during Christmas.
Attend a Placido Domingo concert while he is still in glorious voice.
Attend a Andrea Bocelli concert, in Italy.
Reach my ideal body weight and be in excellent health.
Watch the sunset on an uncrowded beach in St. Maarten with my only love.
See The Phantom of the Opera in London, enjoy a pint at the pub, visit Stonehenge and walk across the crosswalk on Abbey Road.
Spend at least a week in Greece.
Encourage my parents to check off as many items from their Bucket List while they both enjoy strong body, mind and spirit.


Part of teaching is making sure your students understand you and actually learn. Each field has its own methods to differentiate genuine understanding from guessing the teacher's password.
You don't need a license to do great things. Still, you need to be reasonably confident that your efforts have a positive expected value, to stay motivated. As a corollary to the curse of Curiosity: self-confidence being harder to attain means there's a fast-growing pool of unaware Experts, perfectly capable of doing productive research but believing they can't.
This assumption doesn't hold for domains where there are cheap ways to test predictions. Anyone can test their own expertise in intuitive ballistics by throwing balls; anyone can test their fluency in basic arithmetic by checking their results against a calculator. We assume that for most domains, the vast majority of advanced validation is done by peers; only the foremost experts have the resources to test brand new predictions, which is where validation bottoms out; all other experts are either playing catch-up, or doing something other than original research.


Alabama ZIP Code Areas represents five-digit ZIP Code areas used by the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail more effectively. The first digit of a five-digit ZIP Code divides the country into 10 large groups of states numbered from 0 in the Northeast to 9 in the far West. Within these areas, each state is divided into an average of 10 smaller geographical areas, identified by the 2nd and 3rd digits. These digits, in conjunction with the first digit, represent a sectional center facility or a mail processing facility area. The 4th and 5th digits identify a post office, station, branch or local delivery area.


Further to our tasting of last Saturday, we can now announce our first Olymp-Mig's « podium » ! Wins the gold medal: Edoado Miroglio rosé (Bulgaria). The silver medal goes to the Soleil d'Enfer from Pigoudet (France)! And the bronze medal to the Oibelos from Weingut Soellner (Austria).
It was clearly still warm last Saturday as the two rosés were the most appreciated wines!
Do join us this coming Saturday for more fun tasting 6 elegant wines from 6 different countries to honor the gym competitions!


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A Three-Day Black Reign Over the Sports World
By #TeamEBONY | August 12, 2016
While the rest of the world was on vacation, Black athletes showed up and showed out this holiday weekend. Here's a recap, in case you missed out on the action.
Serena and Venus Williams
Yesss @Venuseswilliams come thru!!! Congrats on making it to the Wimbledon semifinals. pic.twitter.com/loqMWFdeJ8
— xoNecole (@xonecole) July 5, 2016
Venus Williams is back in the semis and she's playing some damn good tennis. Melanin don't fade.
— Vann R. Newkirk II (@fivefifths) July 5, 2016
Serena Williams proved yet again why she is a force to be reckoned with. The champion just earned her 300th career Grand Slam match and win, making her the second for career Slam victories.
Always aware of her position, Serena had this to say about the expectations to win via ESPN.
"Every time I step out on the court, if I don't win, it's major national news," she said. "But if I do win, it's just like a small tag in the corner. … I don't look at it as a burden. I look at it almost like something that's really awesome to be in that position." We're happy to salute Serena at every chance we get!
On Tuesday, the sisters both found themselves on the winning side both scoring wins to the next round of the Grand Slam finals.
Vashti Cunningham
"It was a good experience to compete at #Portland2016 vs. women I look up to. I'm at that level, too. I can be great, too." – @vashtizzle_
— USATF (@usatf) June 30, 2016
If you don't know Vashti Cunningham, you will soon. At 18 years old, the young star became the youngest Olympian in Track and Field in 36 years. The daughter of retired NFL All-Pro quarterback Randall Cunningham came in second place in her competition to round out the Olympic team. Vashti didn't let that deter her, telling NBC Sports "I always want to win, but this is something that will hit me on the head and make me work harder. I've got more motivation for Rio."
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The island of Bali is the face of a duck with great volcanoes for eyes, with the Bukit Peninsula, where surfers make year-round pilgrimage, dangling by a narrow isthmus like the giant testicles of a holy bull. Bali is an expanse of unspeakable beauty. It is the land of the gamelan — the orchestral ensemble of bronze-keyed percussion instruments — and temple dances, and theatrical ritual. For centuries, the Balinese have waylaid the forces of cultural change on its jagged reefs that bite into the Bali Sea. Big cities teem with tour-driven tourists, Kuta more than any other, and parts of the southern coast are caked thick with resorts and thousands of turis all getting away.
On Bukit, near the cliffs of Uluwatu, is a beachy surf spot called Padang-Padang ("fields"), hidden but popular in a crescent-shaped dip in the coast. Minutes north are Impossibles and Bingin and Dreamland and Balangan. A little shack on the beach serves up nasi goreng (fried rice) and the traveler's staple: Indonesian Bintang beer in half-liter bottles. The Peninsula lives by the tourist pulse — Mexican restaurants, happy hours, an Italian trattoria, burger joints in a culture where cows are sacred. (Bali is a Hindu enclave in the largely Muslim Indonesia.)
Travelers here are rarely sweet to the random traveler. There is no surprise in seeing western faces, in Spaniards meeting Spaniards, in Australians finding Australians, in Manhattanites finding Manhattanites. Though for more than a hundred years Westerners have lamented Bali's lost mystery at the hands of all-them-that-have-been-here-too, recent decades have increasingly watched parts of Bali paved and primped for the world's pleasure-seeking onslaught on its southeast. Some of us that travel there may never let go of the idealized "untouched". Some of us doing the touching will continue to look for the "untraveled". Along the coast of the Bukit Peninsula, at least, this is not the healthiest expectation.
The duck's bill is almost entirely uninhabited. West Bali is gorgeous and ravenous (as in, having lots of gorges and ravines) and as seen from above is nothing but pointy green hills rolling towards Java. At the very northwestern tip of the island is a tiny, separate island easily reachable by boat: the steeps walls around Menjangen are a diver's paradise, with rays, sharks, fish dressed like it's the 1970s, and ones like the Scorpion Fish, with rocklike skin that changes color almost instantly to match its surroundings. The extremely lucky (not I) may see a massive ocean sunfish, a mola mola, rising to the surface mouth agape to have its teeth cleaned by a swarm of tiny fishes.
By the volcanic black sand beaches in the far east of Bali, resorts and bungalows are easy to find but not overwhelming. There is little to do but snorkel and relax, or buy blowguns from Komang on the beach and shoot them into trees. Life is relaxed. Predawn Balinese prayer may waft from loudspeakers into open bedrooms if it is a holy day. It's often a holy day.
I spent the largest part of my summer month just outside the town of Payangan high in the hills of central Bali. From Ubud, a major destination for temples and monkeys and restaurants and big city life à la Balinese, we drove an hour and a half towards away. Small, square floral offerings plated in banana leaves are common, set down in the road to protect against evil and accidents. Up here in sight of the great mountains was yet another side of Bali, more rural but perhaps more complex in its balance of tradition and tourist desires.
"Official Bananas."
Ducks padded around in the rice paddies, picking out bad stuff and leaving the good. Just opposite on the semi-paved road that wound around to the local temple was the understated entrance to a huge villa, anyone's for the renting.
Lots and lots of pictures from Bali if you click here.
Sarah – the hedonista wrote @ September 9, 2011 at 18:56
Love Bali. It's one of those places that hold a sackful of wonders in the palm of it's hand. It's had such a bad rap because of all the yobbo tourists heading to kuta to get drunk and laid by other yobbo tourists. It's incredible getting out of town. Great photos as always – also loved your summer series.
Wayan Sri wrote @ September 9, 2011 at 18:56
I never thought of Bali as a duck.
I like that image with volcanoes for eyes, and a bull's testicles!
Lucu sekali!!!!


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Communication Godwin Co. owns three delivery trucks. Details for each truck at the end of the most recent year follow: Age Expected Useful Life Initial Cost Accumulated Depreciation Truck 1 3 6 $22,500 $11,250 Truck 2 5 6 26,250 21,875 Truck 3 2 6 28,500 9,500 At the beginning of the year, a hydraulic lift is added to Truck 1 at a cost of $4,500. The addition of the hydraulic lift will allow the company to deliver much larger objects than could previously be delivered. At the beginning of the year, the engine of Truck 2 is overhauled at a cost of $5,000. The engine overhaul will extend the truck's useful life by three years. Write a short memo to Godwin's chief financial officer explaining the financial statement effects of the expenditures associated with Trucks 1 and 2.
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Godwin Co. owns three delivery trucks. Details for each truck at the end of the most recent year follow:
Age Expected Useful Life Initial Cost
Truck 1 3 6 $22,500 $11,250
Truck 2 5 6 26,250 21,875
Truck 3 2 6 28,500 9,500
At the beginning of the year, a hydraulic lift is added to Truck 1 at a cost of $4,500. The addition of the hydraulic lift will allow the company to deliver much larger objects than could previously be delivered.
At the beginning of the year, the engine of Truck 2 is overhauled at a cost of $5,000. The engine overhaul will extend the truck's useful life by three years.
Write a short memo to Godwin's chief financial officer explaining the financial statement effects of the expenditures associated with Trucks 1 and 2.
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Capital expenditure: It refers to the amount spent on acquiring, maintaining, and improving the fixed assets that increases its productivity or extends useful life. It provides benefits in the future period.
To Write: a short memo to the Chief Financial Officer of Company G explaining the financial statement effects of the expenditures associated with Trucks 1 and 2.
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Write a short memo to the Chief Financial Officer of Company G explaining the financial statement effects of the expenditures associated with Trucks 1 and 2.
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CFO, Company G
Dated: 26th February, 20XX
Re: Financial statement effects of theexpenditures associated with Trucks 1 and 2.
At the beginning of the year, a hydraulic lift of $4,500 was added to the Truck 1. This modification improved the productivity of the truck as it improved its capability of delivering much larger objects. Thus, the cost of the hydraulic lift was depreciated over the remaining estimated useful life of the Truck 1 as the cost of the truck is increased due to the hydraulic lift. As a result, this expenditure would increase the amount of the depreciation expense, thereby reducing the net income...
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Mechanistic insights have driven the development of novel targets and treatments, and even in the case of glucose lowering drugs, led to a paradigm shift in management.
The lipoprotein(a) story: from risk factor to causality to clinical trials
First described in 1963 (1), over the last decade there has been a resurgence of interest in lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] driven by pathophysiological, epidemiologic and genetic insights. As discussed by Professor Sam Tsimikas (University of California San Diego – School of Medicine, USA), multiple lines of evidence demonstrate that Lp(a) is a causal mediator of cardiovascular disease and calcific aortic valve disease. Importantly, elevated levels of Lp(a) are common; an analysis of more than 500,000 samples indicated that about one in four people have Lp(a) levels >50 mg/dL, increasing to about one in three in a tertiary referral centre (2).
Structurally, Lp(a) is composed of an apolipoprotein B (apoB)-containing LDL-like particle, covalently linked to the plasminogen-like glycoprotein apo(a) (3). Circulating plasma Lp(a) levels are primarily determined by the LPA gene locus encoding apo(a). More than 40 different isoforms exist varying by the size of the apo(a), specifically the number of Kringle IV repeats. Lp(a) has proatherogenic effects (attributed to the LDL component), proinflammatory effects (due to oxidised phospholipids bound to apo(a)), and prothrombotic effects.
In both primary and secondary prevention settings, and even in patients on statin background, elevated Lp(a) is a strong causal mediator of cardiovascular disease (4-6). The 2019 ESC/EAS guidelines for lipid management recommend Lp(a) measurement at least once so as to identify those individuals with very high inherited Lp(a) >180 mg/dL who may have a lifetime risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease equivalent to the risk associated with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia.
The stage is now set for testing the Lp(a) hypothesis. Pharmacological innovation, especially the development of GalNAc conjugated antisense drugs, has been critical. In the latest report, the hepatocyte-directed antisense oligonucleotide AKCEA-APO(a)-LRx reduced Lp(a) by 80% at 6 months in patients with established cardiovascular disease, with a favourable safety profile (7). Moreover, 98% of patients attained an Lp(a) value <50 mg/dL at this dose. The HORIZON trial (NCT04043552) will test the impact of Lp(a) lowering on major cardiovascular events. APO(a)-LRx will be administered among 7,680 patients with established coronary artery disease on optimal background therapy, including statins, and with Lp(a) levels ≥70 mg/dL or ≥90 mg/dL. The trial is anticipated to report in 2024, providing the final chapter in the Lp(a) story.
Immune modulation in atherosclerosis
While there is an impressive body of evidence for the role of the immune system in atherosclerosis, many of the immunomodulatory strategies have failed to show benefit. Professor Ziad Mallat (University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK) discussed evidence for two interesting modalities, vaccination and tolerisation. Underlying both is mechanistic evidence that adaptive immune responses are driven by lymphocytes, with T cell and B cell responses playing prominent roles.
T cell activation has a major role in plaque progression; in contrast, Tregs are essential for maintenance of immune homeostasis, and suppress atherosclerosis by production of anti-inflammatory mediators, such as interleukin-2 (IL-2) (8). This may therefore represent a potential therapeutic target (9). At very low doses, IL-2 selectively activated Treg cells in patients with stable ischaemic heart disease and acute coronary syndromes and was safe without any increase in circulating effector T cells (10). These findings provide a basis for further investigation in the IVORY trial, an 8-week trial in patients with acute coronary syndrome. Mechanistic studies are also ongoing to better understand how IL-2 effects the Treg pool.
B cells represent another potential target for immunomodulation. Whereas B cell depletion suppresses atherosclerosis, maturation of B cells is not only atherogenic but also triggers monocyte mobilisation with a detrimental effect on tissue remodelling after myocardial infarction (11). In the RITA-MI 1 study, depletion of circulating B cells with the monoclonal antibody rituximab reduced infarct size and limited remodelling post myocardial infarction, with echocardiographic studies showing improvement in cardiac function. These findings set the stage for the RITA-MI 2, in which the effect of single infusion of rituximab will be investigated in STEMI patients.
Will non-coding RNAs change our understanding of vascular biology and disease?
According to Professor Stefanie Dimmeler (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) the answer is undoubtedly yes! Previously thought to be nonfunctional, emerging understanding of the contribution of non-coding RNAs to normal homeostasis and disease pathogenesis has driven the search for new targets and treatments (12). Non-coding RNAs can be broadly categorised as microRNAs (17–22 bases) and long noncoding RNAs (>200 bases). MicroRNAs have been shown to decrease target gene expression by altering transcript stability or impacting mRNA translation. Over 30 have been identified, with documented in vivo function in over 20, and two have recently entered clinical development. MiR92a was shown to inhibit vessel growth, reduce infarct size and improve vascular function in preclinical models, and in a phase 1 study an antisense oligonucleotide to miR-92a-3p inhibited miR-92a and related targets in humans (13). Other studies have investigated the potential for targeting miR132 in heart failure.
In contrast, long non-coding RNAs are less well explored. Most are expressed at low levels and are poorly conserved. Studies are just beginning to understand their function, with two appearing to be particularly interesting: MALAT1 and Meg3. MALAT1 has effects on endothelial proliferation, neovascularisation, diabetic retinopathy, myocarditis and atherosclerosis. In an experimental model of atherosclerosis, lesion formation was reduced in mice lacking MALAT1, suggesting an important function for this long non-coding RNA in promoting atherosclerosis. The other long non-coding RNA, Meg3, is upregulated by ageing, with induction of senescence (14). Silencing MEG3 in vivo induced recovery after hind limb ischaemia, and in humans, prevented cardiac fibrosis. Improved understanding may offer new targets and approaches in the future.
Finally, Professor Stefano Del Prato (University of Pisa, Italy) gave a timely review of the role of glucose-lowering drugs in preventing cardiovascular disease.
Guidelines have evolved with the advent of novel glucose-lowering agents, specifically the sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors and the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP1) receptor agonists. Regulatory requirements for cardiovascular outcomes studies for any new glucose lowering drug were instrumental for identifying substantial effects on cardiovascular disease risk.
The two drug categories could, however, be differentiated in terms of effects on heart failure and hospitalisation. Trials with SGLT2 inhibitors showed a 30% reduction in risk with no significant benefit in trials with the GLP-1 receptor agonists (15). Across the four outcomes studies with the SGLT-2 inhibitors there was a consistent effect on heart failure hospitalisation, although effects on major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and cardiovascular death differed, possibly reflecting differences in study design and population. This benefit on heart failure was also demonstrated in a real-world study (16). Moreover, the DAPA-HF study showed significant benefit on heart failure in patients without diabetes (17). There is also evidence of protection in terms of renal disease with both groups of drugs, although the magnitude of benefit was less with the GLP-1 receptor agonists (15). These effects were independent of baseline kidney function.
What now is the target for glucose lowering drugs in diabetes?
These novel agents have led to a paradigm shift in treatment strategies, integrating evidence for glycaemic control and modification of organ damage. For newly diagnosed patients or those with early stage diabetes without complications, the focus should be on glucose control using agents with a low risk of side effects to reduce microvascular complications, including effects in the heart. In patients with advanced disease and with prevalent ASCVD or heart failure, a SGLT-2 inhibitor is indicated.
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What The Critics Are Saying About Sifu
By Brittany Alva/Feb. 7, 2022 11:03 am EST
Sloclap, the studio behind beloved martial arts RPG "Absolver," has returned with a new action masterpiece, "Sifu." Critics have praised the game, enjoying almost every twist and turn the unique title threw their way.
In the game, the player character's master is murdered, which prompts them to go on a revenge spree. As noted by Gaming Nexus' Henry Yu, "Sifu" quite literally means "teacher or mentor" in Chinese, making it the perfect name for the game as the story asks players to avenge their mentor. The game also includes an interesting death mechanic that brings players back from the dead when they fail — but it also ages them. The older the protagonist gets, the harder they hit, but they also have less health.
Because of these interesting mechanics, Clement Goh of CGM called it "a masterfully crafted lesson in patience." Meanwhile, The Washington Post's Gene Park explained that it offers a "rare treat in video game martial arts: a brutal balletic presentation."
While there were many things critics were enthused about, the cinematic quality of the game was one of the main points of praise.
The beauty of using Pak-Mei Kung Fu
The majority of critics were impressed by just how beautiful the game is. Olly Smith from GameByte said that the game "acts as homage" to Chinese action cinema with its "long, drawn-out fight scenes in tight places." Game Informer's Ben Reeves zeroes in on the use of Pak-Mei Kung Fu in the game, praising the game's fluid animations and remarking that the combat feels "ripped from the very best Kung-Fu films."
Henry Yu also pointed out that the game "[encompassed] both modern and traditional China" in its world, and that Beijing composer Howie Lee did an excellent job of bringing Chinese music, both "past and present," to life in "Sifu." These elements made the protagonist's journey feel much more authentic and captivating for many reviewers who played the game.
While there was plenty to love about the game, there was one hiccup that proved too much for some critics.
Sifu is incredibly difficult
Difficulty in video games can be a highly controversial topic, to the point where many games offer different difficulty modes to help players get the most enjoyment out of a game as they can. Some games have insane difficulty spikes, and it's looking like "Sifu" might just be one of them.
It's important to remember the death system in "Sifu." The game gives players an interesting challenge as they attempt to balance their damage and health through new attempts at revenge, but every critic commented on just how difficult this is to do. In fact, Ben Reeves felt like "Sifu" asks players to master the fighting mechanics in the same way that actual martial arts asks disciples to spend a lifetime mastering.
Olly Smith argued that the combat was just too punishing, while Reeves thought that the revival system eventually turned into too much of a grind. It seems your mileage may vary when you enter the hyper-stylized and violent world of "Sifu."


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What's the weather like in Carvoeiro in June?
Carvoeiro is a lovely town on Portugal's south coast. Found in the country's beautiful Algarve region, it has a Mediterranean climate bringing long, hot summers and short, mild winters. As the first month of summer, temperatures are nice and warm in June without getting too hot. If you want to explore the Algarve in comfortable temperatures, June's a great time to go on holiday to Carvoeiro.
In June, the average temperature in Carvoeiro rises to 21ºC, with a high of 25ºC in the peak of the day. With weather like this, you should bring plenty of sun cream with you and check that the whole family's well protected from the sun. By night, temperatures drop to a low of 16ºC, so you might need a light jumper for evenings out in the town. Less than 10mm of rain's predicted in June, which sees 11 hours of sunshine each day. When it's time to cool off in the sea, the Atlantic waters are a refreshing 20ºC at this time of year.


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I have been eagerly awaiting this line of inks, Platinum Classic Inks, to arrive to the shop: a line of earthy-coloured Japanese inks in beautiful packaging – how can I resist.
I'm always on the lookout for brown inks, especially permanent ones, and this is line of iron gall inks – which are water resistant and become more so over time – has two beautiful ones, a Sepia Black, which is more of a grey brown, and a Khaki Black, which has hints of red/orange to it.
These inks all get darker with time – iron gall inks have elements that oxidize and darken – hence each ink ends with "black." I'm not sure if they're going to darken all the way to black, or stop at a certain point, but you should be prepared for some colour change from when they hit the page – this is actually my favourite characteristic of the inks! I love that it's a bit of a mystery and change on the page from what you put down.
The most noticeable darkening happens with the Citrus Black, it starts off a bright yellow and quickly darkens to an almost olive black green yellow. The yellow is readable, but still very light immediately after you put it down; after even just a few seconds, it darkens noticeably and is definitely readable – and after several hours or days even more so.
If you're in the shop, we've got tester ECOs with these inks in them for you to try out! This is something new for us, but we're planning on changing up the ECOs every month with a new selection of inks. Let us know how you're liking them, or if you'd like a certain selection or theme of inks for future months.
If you're not local, your best bet will be to get samples. I'm loving these inks so far – the subtle colour changes, the permanence, the unusual colours all make it worth it to at least try these inks.
I think my favourite has to be the Khaki Black, although the Citrus Black was a dark horse for me – I love an ink with so much shading and colour variation.
Old, historical formulas of iron gall inks were a bit aggressive and meant to be used with dip pens – the danger being corrosion of metal pen parts. Modern formulas, such as Rohrer and Klingner's Salix or these new Platinum inks, have a much gentler formula, and are generally safe for fountain pens – with the caveat that you're careful not to leave these inks in for long periods of time without use. Use caution and care, for example flushing out your pen thoroughly every once in a while, when using iron gall inks, but also remember that pens and inks are meant to be used.
In other news, I found my sandals. You might recognize them from Instagram, if you are observant, or you may have noticed their absence if you are even more particularly observant.
In any case, they went missing. I suspected Caleb of hiding them somewhere, which wouldn't be the first time, and I was even vaguely suspicious that he tossed them in the garbage, but I felt fairly confident that he is aware of the concept of garbage and in any case, he doesn't typically toss random things in (or at least not that I've noticed so far…).
I kept telling everyone to keep an eye out for them, and everyone kept saying they would turn up.
In any case the flip flops came in, and it still was not quite the same. For one thing, it was always slightly awkward to be flipping and flopping into the shop in the middle of winter. Birkenstocks, while admittedly still sandals, at least have an aura of mild seriousness, being brown and leathery, that turquoise flapping beach sandals do not.
Eventually the conversation gradually shifted to a more chipper "well, now you can get a new pair!" which I took to mean no one was keeping an eye out any more.
I was literally on the verge of ordering a new pair of Birkenstocks when we moved the couch in the apartment the other day, and along with finding an unpleasant assortment of various goods, including a very old clementine, we found my sandals.
I'm glad I found them too! They're a bit worn, but I hate to replace something that doesn't quite need it yet.
And yes, the inks are gorgeous!
Loved the colours. Definitely have to try the green. Are you going to post pictures of the samples after the ink has darkened? My wife and I were thinking the inks were gorgeous, but wondered what they looked like after they were closer to the black.
That's a great idea for a follow up post, to see how the ink has darkened. I will keep that in mind – stay tuned!
Hey, it could've been worse than a clementine. We were once helping clean out the house of an uncle who was moving, and shifted a cabinet to find a very large, and very unhappy dock spider. Relatedly, I am never, ever getting a house anywhere near a body of water.
So if I wanted to load up a pen with this ink would you recommend just buying something like an ECO, or Pilot Metro, Jinhao or other "cheap" pen to house this ink? or would you say it would be fine in something "nicer" like a Pilot Custom, 580AL, provided you were willing to flush the ink once per month.
If you want some more freedom to just leave it in and not be too worried, a cheaper pen might be a good idea, however I've got it in my Pilot Custom 92 and my Platinum 3776, and I'm not overly concerned – I'm not a huge fan of inks that I have to be really worried or fussy about. I will definitely take care not to leave it in too long, and I'm keeping some care to make sure I'm using them – I think having flow will help counteract ink sitting against the nib for too long. Hope that helps!
Curious about how these inks look now that it's been a month or so. Would love to see some photos of the original samples, especially that citrus!
Great idea! I will try to get my act together to get some updated photos on the swabs!


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Eva is entering her final year at the University of Maryland, College Park where she is majoring in public policy and government and politics. Eva brings her experience working on Capitol Hill, a congressional campaign, and her interest in the intersection of politics and media to ROKK as a Communications Assistant.
WHY EVA BELONGS IN THE ROOM
She has a knack for making people feel heard.
As a legislative intern in the House of Representatives, Eva learned how to help constituents with issues they were having in the district. She understands the importance of listening to people and seeing problems through their eyes. It's how she focused directly on what mattered to them, so she could help solve their concerns with a smile.
She understands how to craft a message.
Through her experience on Capitol Hill and on a political campaign, Eva strengthened her research skills and her knowledge of the political process. Working closely with the Communications Director, she learned how to craft messaging that is clear in purpose and empathetic in tone. Eva assisted in drafting press releases and other constituent-facing communications.
COFFEE OR TEA:
Tea! Almost always decaf.
West Wing and Glee—a musical version of West Wing would be her kryptonite.
When Eva was 13, she attended posture camp. As part of her ballet training, she spent a week working on her stature and perfecting how she stands.


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Over centuries, people have built terraces for their houses and vineyards on the rugged, steep coast right up to the cliffs. It's well worth exploring some of the higher paths to enjoy the breathtaking views of the sea and the countryside. Especially enchanting is the view of the tiny harbours with their small castles, which were built to protect the villages from pirates.
Monterosso al Mare , Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore.
"Via dell' Amore", the Way of Love. Lined with an abundance of exotic plants, it meanders along the steep coast, leads through brick-lined arcades and over and over again offers breathtaking views of the rocky coastline.
It is one of the greatest tourist attractions in the National Park.
You can explore the area by boat (April until Oct.) or by train (no cars in the National Park!). Both run between the five villages in each direction 1-2 times an hour during the day and stop at every town (boat doesn't stop at Corniglia, as there is no access from the sea). In order to walk along the trails between the villages, one must purchase a pass, available also in combination with the train ticket (Hop-on Hop-off).
Coming from Lerici, we decided, at first to sail along the Cinque Terre coast without break and then, on our way back, to visit the towns by train. So we got a complete impression of the intriguing coastline and after that managed to stroll through the small towns leisurely as well as to climb up some view points.
In case you intend to book any accommodation at one of the villages, check carefully on how to get there. We watched several tourists, as they carried their luggage up the steep stairways - no fun at all!
Some miles more southerly, also on the Ligurian coast, is Porto Venere (former Portovenere), another small town and commune, which is also on the UNESCO World Heritage list.


Home / WordPress Plugins / How to Make Infographics with iList?
Simply put an Infographic is a visual representation of information using elements such as charts, images, and text.
So, in principle, an infographic can have three building blocks – Texts, Images and Charts laid out in a visually impressive manner to convey some idea that anyone can easily grasp.
Most often than not, infographics take the form of a List. Because it is no secret that people just love bullet point lists. Five ways to do this, ten ways to do that, fifteen things you should do, twenty things you should not etc.. Lists are soothing and simple. They provide instant gratification and purpose.
So, infographics are usually Lists with Text, Images, and Charts.
iList lets you make Lists with Images, Texts, and Charts. The main concept is just that simple. You can do more with iList but we will get to that later. Let us dive right into how to make your Lists or iLists as we call it – which essentially happen to be infographics.
Before getting started – to make any infographics, first, you need a List of items or the bullet points. Just the base structure will do to start with. You can adjust, add, edit them anytime. That's another beauty of iList. You do not need to fire up photoshop or go to another website to change your infographic. Everything is manageable right from your WordPress backend.
As is the norm, bullet points of your iList should be short and sweet. Typically 1 to 2 sentences works the best. For our text case, I am borrowing some of the points from one of Neil Patel's articles: 45 Content Marketing Best Practices That Are Actually Myths and turning it into an infographic.
OK, so let's go to our Infographic Maker iList and Press on that New iList button. The next page is where most of the actions will take place. So, we will go through each option and steps in far details in the next few paragraphs.
We will begin by giving our infographic a Title. Preferably a catchy one to grab user's interest. In this case, I have titled it as "15 Content Marketing Best Practices That Are Actually Myths". In the next row, we have three options – Info Lists, Graphic Lists, and Infographics. Infographics is selected by default – so nothing needs to be done there.
Next, you can select a template for your InfoGraphic from a lightbox window which shows a preview of all the available templates. There are about 65 templates to choose from at the time of this writing. We add new templates every month. Click on the template you want to start with. Don't worry. You can change it later. Anytime!
Next, we have a bunch of options to color customize your infographic. Like changing the title or description font colors or the entire infographic's background color. They can make your infographic look more interesting but not mandatory to use. You can change them anytime later also.
You also have the options to pick your choice of any of the 800+ google fonts just for your infographics. You can assign different google fonts for your titles and descriptions. iList can take any google font style link from https://fonts.google.com/ . Again, these are for fine-tuning and customizing your infographic. You do not have to use them right now. You can play with them later or not use them at all.
Not all infographics need a chart. In fact, most do not. But yours might. In the next area, you can generate and include a chart or graph directly from the iList interface! Isn't that great?
Creating chart is super easy. Click on the Create iList Chart text area and in the popup chart generator just add a chart title, a label for each data set and the number. You can also choose where to show the chart – at the top of your infographic or middle or bottom. All without leaving your infographic creation space.
Alternatively, you may not want to use a chart but show an image instead. That is also possible and some templates do require a larger sized image. Not all of them do. You can upload that image in the next section. It is worth mentioning that you can either show a chart or an image but not both in the top, middle, bottom position. But some templates do support both. So, choose your template wisely. Since we are showing a chart for this example infographic – we will not be uploading any middle image.
Description: There is no niche that content marketing wouldn't benefit. Don't fall for this myth because it will be detrimental to your business.
Image: To illustrate my point, I needed an image. So, I hunted down a relevant image from the internet and uploaded.
There are a couple of more notable things here.
Notice that you can select a background color for each List item. This will affect only this bullet point or list item alone. You can assign different background colors for each of your items. Not only this option makes your iList infographic more interesting – you can also denote the importance of particular list item with this feature.
If we are too lazy or just do not have any relevant image – we could just use a relevant icon instead. We have seamlessly integrated 700 font awesome icons. They are categorized and even searchable! Now isn't that awesome? Note that, if you uploaded both an image and selected a font awesome icon – the image will take priority and show in your infographic.
Click on the Add Another Entry to add your next bullet list item and keep adding until your list is complete. Go ahead and publish the infographic. Don't worry, it won't start showing on your website until you add the shortcode on a page.
We got tired after adding 10 entries. But no problem. With iList I can publish what I have now and come back later and add more – anytime. That is another convenience of iList. With a graphical infographic, it can take 20-30 minutes to add a new entry depending on the design complexity. With iList you can do so in a minute without firing up your photoshop or the help of your graphic designer.
The final step is to publish your infographic on a page or post. You can publish the infographic inside any of your existing page or post contents or create a new page for this. This is done with a shortcode and the easiest way is to use the Shortcode Generator we added for your conveniences in the visual editor bar.
Place your cursor where you want the iList infographic to show up. Clicking on that small shortcode generator button will open a lightbox pop up window with all the shortcode options. There is no need to refer to the documentation to hunt down the shortcode parameters.
Order By: One of the kool features of iList is that people can UpVote your individual infographic entries. You can order by that UpVote count or leave to the default ordering of your iList – which you can reorder with drag and drop.
Embed Option: Allow people to Share your iList infographics on their own website! You can potentially earn backlinks when they do so.
Press the Add Shortcode button once you have chosen the options. Publish your page and voila – you are done!
But, "I want an Image of my Infographic to share on pinterest" – you say. No problem. You can just take a screenshot of the page using the print screen button on your keyboard where you published the infographic and crop with an image editing tool. Takes just another minute.
Bonus Tip: You can go back to manage your infographic and quickly change to another template, save, reload the page and see if the other template looks and works better.
Leave a comment if you had a question or feedback to make iList better.


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Special Agent Charles F. Artz
Railroad Police
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Police Department
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Police Department, Railroad Police
End of Watch Sunday, June 27, 1920
Charles F. Artz
Special Agent Charles Artz was shot and killed after arresting four men for vagrancy near the Rock Island Railroad tracks in north Wichita, Kansas. As he escorted the men to turn them over to a city patrolman three other men assaulted him and shot him once in the head. Their motive was revenge. Agent Artz had arresting them for vagrancy a few days earlier.
The three men who attacked him had nothing to do with the four men he had just arrested.
Agent Artz's killer was apprehended in 1925, convicted of murder, and sentenced to life. He died in prison on December 31, 1956.
Location Kansas
Weapon Handgun; .45 caliber
Offender Died in prison
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Agent Artz,
On today, the 100th anniversary of your death I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice as a Law Enforcement Officer.
USBP
United States Border Patrol


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URBAN AGENDA #005
URBAN AGENDA - A Drum & Bass/Urban Dance Night
with GENERAL MALICE, MR. FROSTY, MC QUESTIONMARK, MOTION EMPIRE, GREENSKY, and APPARITION
Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 10:00pm
$5.00 advance
The Record Room
Info Tabs
with EASYRIDER and MC BRACE + Special Guests
Last Saturday of the Month
The minds of Minneapolis music promotion veterans from Konkrete Jungle Minneapolis, Jungle Vibe Collective, Konkrete Jungle Minneapolis, and many more legendary nights come together to host a new vision of upfront drum and bass and urban dance music. Urban Agenda will represent a refined spectrum of artists on the cutting edge of low-end dancefloor theory to classic jungle vibrations emanating from deep within the global underground. Every Last Saturday.
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GENERAL MALICE
LA JUNGLIST
General Malice first began working with guitars, drum machines, synths, and turntables when he was 14. Slowly building his collection of studio gear and fine tuning his production techniques. At first experimenting with every style of music around, it was later the sounds of CRS?, R.A.W., ODG, Phantom 45, and Danny The Wildchild that turned him onto jungle/dnb.
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MIA DNB
[S.O.S, M.I.A., The Guild, Combat - Chicago] Mr. Frosty (aka M1D1) first started djing in 1993 and has performed at countless underground parties and full scale raves in Chicago's late 90's rave scene. Working with jungle vet R.P. Smack/RipeProductions, Frosty continued to bring his music into the new millennium and by 1999 he had started writing his own tunes. In 2004 he started his own DNB label, Combat Records, and with over 40+ releases to date Combat Records is home to many Frosty releases and also to many great dnb artists worldwide.
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MC QUESTIONMARK
BASSRUSH
[London/Chicago] One of the most recognized and beloved voices of the North American drum 'n' bass scene, MC Question Mark is one of the original driving force of the still-growing sound on these shores. Born and raised in the Peckham suburb of southeast London, England, Question Mark, nee Devon Andrew Morgan, moved to Los Angeles, California in 1987. Pushed to the United States on the insistence of his parents, it was a way to get Question Mark out of the distracting elements of his surroundings and encouraging him to attend college Stateside.
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MOTION EMPIRE
Motion Empire represents the new era in Dancehall and Electronic Music. Veteran DJs/Producers Virgo & Binghy Hype lay down fresh riddims while Murphy & Pree Dem deliver razor sharp lyrics in authentic Kingston style. Always thinking ahead, always moving forward, it's MOTION EMPIRE.
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MINNEMASSIVE
been djing since 1999, love techno and drum n bass is pretty much a passion of mine. like to think i find the techy side of dnb...
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Apparition is Angela Bird. Inspired by French house, ambient, folk rock, and modern dance, her talent came to fruition with this synthpop act. Singularity denotes music that appeals equally to EDM enthusiasts as well as indie rock fans. This touches on a bright spot of music that has the ability to resonate with mainstream and underground artists. The music makes waves with a reverb laden sound that is electronic without being overly techie. Sans gimmicks, the project is immersed with classically composed lines and harmonized vocals.
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Brace got his start emceeing in 1995 at the age of 17. Originally dubbed MC Duckshot, his name was immediately changed after he broke his neck in an automobile accident and was placed in a halo "brace" for 4 months. He is one of the founding members of the Jungle Vibe Collective aka JVC Crew formed in 1996. JVC was the first D&B/Jungle crew in the Twin Cities Area. They were featured on MTV in 1997 and responsible for some of the most infamous Jungle Raves (Murderapolis, Inside the Ride, Natural Selection, Hi-Jack, ect.) in the Midwest to date.
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Resident MC, Konkrete Jungle MPLS
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