Who is surprised that most people get on their tax returns during the last 3 weeks of the deadline. But if you are the last minute type, it's okay – as long as you the smart type. Now when it comes to being smart with money, who better to ask than one of TV's favorite money experts, asset manager Ken Mahoney. Between his market analysis on all the top TV and radio business shows and his signings of his latest bestselling book " Life on your terms", we caught Ken just in time to give us his top 5 list of items people totally forget to tax deduct.
This write-off makes sense primarily for those who live in states that do not impose an income tax. You must choose between deducting state and local income taxes, or state and local sales taxes. For most citizens of income-tax states, the income tax deduction usually is a better deal. The IRS has tables for residents of states with sales taxes showing how much they can deduct. But the tables aren't the last word. If you purchased a vehicle, boat or airplane, you get to add the state sales tax you paid to the amount shown in IRS tables for your state, to the extent the sales tax rate you paid doesn't exceed the state's general sales tax rate. The same goes for home building materials you purchased. These items are easy to overlook. The IRS even has a calculator to help you figure out the deduction, which varies by your state and income level.
It's hard to overlook the big charitable gifts you made during the year by check or payroll deduction. But the little things add up, too, and you can write off out-of-pocket costs you incur while doing good deeds. Ingredients for casseroles you regularly prepare for a nonprofit organization's soup kitchen, for example, or the cost of stamps you buy for your school's fundraiser count as a charitable contribution. If you drove your car for charity in 2016, remember to deduct 14 cents per mile.
A tax credit is so much better than a tax deduction—it reduces your tax bill dollar for dollar. So missing one is even more painful than missing a deduction that simply reduces the amount of income that's subject to tax. But it's easy to overlook the child and dependent care credit if you pay your child care bills through a reimbursement account at work. Until a few years ago, the child care credit applied to no more than $4,800 of qualifying expenses. The law allows you to run up to $5,000 of such expenses through a tax-favored reimbursement account at work. Now, however, up to $6,000 can qualify for the credit, but the old $5,000 limit still applies to reimbursement accounts. So if you run the maximum $5,000 through a plan at work but spend more for work-related child care, you can claim the credit on up to an extra $1,000. That would cut your tax bill by at least $200.
If your medical and/or dental expenses are over 10% of your Adjusted Gross Income, or if you are over 65, they are 7.5%, over you AGI, it's deductible.
Transportation, parking, tolls, preparing your resume, printing, agency fees are also all tax deductible.
Giving to a good cause can help you out at tax time, but only if you're making a donation to a qualified charity. Handing out cash to a friend or relative who's struggling to find a job, for example, is certainly charitable. But it won't help you score a tax break.
Fluffy may seem like a member of the family. But that doesn't mean you can claim him as a dependent or get a deduction for his day-to-day care.
While business-related travel expenses (including the cost of flights and hotel stays) may be deductible, ordinary commuting expenses are not. If you take a bus, taxi or subway to get to work each day, you can't deduct those costs on your tax return as business expenses. You may be eligible for a deduction, however, if you're paying to travel to a training session or conference held outside of your office.
Home improvement expenses generally aren't deductible. One exception involves the renovations you make to a home office. Not everyone can take the home office deduction. But if you have a legitimate reason for claiming it, you may be able to deduct the cost of any upgrades you've made to your home office. While you can't qualify for a deduction for giving your kitchen a makeover or adding a new sunroom, these projects may raise your property value. If that happens, you can write off the additional property taxes that you have to pay.


This document presents Task 3.4, summarising the lessons learned from the PERsonalised ICT Supported Service for Independent Living and Active Ageing (PERSSILAA) project and how these may contribute to the development of European guidelines relating to the screening and prevention of frailty. The deliverable describes the initial results of PERSSILAA and provides recommendations based on these that incorporate the important clinical (screening, monitoring and managing prefrail older adults), technical (Information and Communication Technology [ICT] based innovations) and societal (health literacy in older adults) outcomes obtained to different stakeholders and agencies including but not limited to health and social care providers, governmental organisations, business organisations and the general public (patients and caregivers). This deliverable also seeks out appropriate and relevant local, regional, European and international guidelines that currently exist and how the results of PERSSILAA could be incorporated into these, while linking closely with the deliverable concerning dissemination (i.e. WP 6, D6.2). The results presented include recommendations that could be used towards the generation of European guidelines for the identification, monitoring and multi-faceted management of prefrailty (the precursor of frailty) in order to prevent onset of frailty and functional decline. These are grouped by theme into 43 recommendations and are grouped under the following headings: (A) Healthcare related recommendations, (B) ICT related recommendations and (C) Organisational (institutional) related recommendations.
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""Social media has become a significant source of information for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies," the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law noted in a report released last week. "The Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the State Department are among the many federal agencies that routinely monitor social platforms, for purposes ranging from conducting investigations to identifying threats to screening travelers and immigrants.""
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"In a truly rare turn of events, California's successful approach to legalizing more types of housing is serving as inspiration for reforms elsewhere in the country.
Over the past several years, lawmakers in the Golden State have passed a suite of bills that make it much easier for homeowners to build accessory dwelling units (ADUs), sometimes called granny flats or in-law suites, on their property, while also making it harder for local governments to stop such construction.
It's proven to be one of the few YIMBY (yes, in my backyard)-inspired zoning reforms that has actually led to more housing being built. Now other states and cities with their own affordability crunches are passing or considering their own ADU deregulations.
Last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, released her 200-page State of the State legislative agenda. Among other things, it took a swipe at local rules that prevent homeowners from turning their garage or attic into a new housing unit.
ADUs "can provide an affordable multi-generational housing option that helps families live closer together," reads the State of the State book. "Current land use restrictions prevent homeowners in some communities from building ADUs."
The governor's agenda says she'll propose legislation that would require localities to allow at least one ADU on owner-occupied residential lots. This legislation, per the agenda, would also prevent localities from adopting rules that legalize ADUs on paper, but prevent their construction in practice.
That reflects a lesson learned from California's ADU experience, where state laws allowing homeowners to build a backyard apartment have technically been on the books since the 1980s.
For decades, however, cities were able to stop them from being built by imposing infeasible requirements that they come with off-street parking, be a minimum size, or receive special, discretionary permits in order to be built.
It took the passage of several additional bills between 2016 and 2019 limiting what localities could require of ADUs, and then several lawsuits to actually enforce those new rules, to really kick off new ADU construction.
The results have been pretty amazing so far."
"To be sure, neither California's nor New York's high housing costs are going to be completely solved by more granny flats. But these reforms are an important piece of the puzzle."
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"Warren could hardly have picked a worse industry to use as an example: Grocery stores consistently have among the lowest profit margins of any economic sector. According to data compiled this month by New York University finance professor Aswath Damodaran, the entire retail grocery industry currently averages barely more than 1 percent in net profit. In its most recent quarter, Kroger reported a profit margin of 0.75 percent, during a time in which Warren claims that the chain was "expanding profits" due to its "market dominance."
In actuality, for much of the last year, grocery stores have seen enormous boosts in revenue, but not increased profitability, for the simple reason that everything has been costing more: not just products, but transportation, employee compensation, and all the extra logistical steps needed to adapt to shopping during a pandemic. Couple that with persistent inflation—which Warren also recently blamed on "price gouging"—and it is no wonder that things seem a bit out of balance."
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"The world has known for years now that Uyghurs, members of a Turkic ethnic group who number about 13.5 million and mostly live in China, are experiencing persecution by the Chinese government. A number of international observers and human rights advocates argue the Chinese government is attempting genocide, but Uyghurs looking for an escape from China's brutality have had a difficult time securing relief through America's refugee and asylum pathways, and their immigration struggles are shared by far too many vulnerable people seeking an escape to the United States.
Under U.S. immigration law, asylum seekers are people who are already present on American soil or at a port of entry and apply for the right to remain in the country. Refugees, on the other hand, apply for resettlement in the U.S. from abroad. Approval to stay in the U.S. under either category requires that applicants prove they have been "persecuted or fear persecution due to race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group." The two pathways are intended to help the world's most vulnerable people escape danger.
In the past two fiscal years, however, the U.S. has admitted zero Uyghur refugees. Many Uyghurs who have been lucky enough to reach the U.S. through other pathways, like student and travel visas, also face an uncertain future—as Caroline Simon reported for Roll Call yesterday, there are "roughly 800 Uyghurs caught in the backlog of hundreds of thousands seeking asylum in the U.S." Until they receive asylum, they can't apply to sponsor stranded family members.
It's undeniable that Uyghurs broadly fall into the categories outlined for refugees and asylum seekers. In the name of cultural erasure, they've been subject to mass sterilization, kept from speaking the Uyghur language, and forced to pledge loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. Adrian Zenz, senior fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, told NPR that China's treatment of Uyghurs is "probably the largest incarceration of an ethnoreligious minority since the Holocaust.""
"The plight of the Uyghurs waiting on immigration answers points to broader issues in America's refugee and asylum infrastructure. For one, the U.S. has been taking in astonishingly low numbers of refugees lately, hitting a record low of 11,411 in fiscal year 2021. Over 667,000 asylum seekers are waiting for their cases to be resolved, and they face an average wait time of around 1,600 days, or 54 months. There's also the issue of the "last-in, first-out" policy, under which asylum applicants who have arrived in the U.S. more recently are processed first. This means many people who have been present in the U.S. for years cannot petition for visas for family members, which propagates what the Center for Migration Studies of New York calls "the 'other family separation' crisis.""
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"Border Patrol apprehended more than 45,000 Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border during the fiscal year that ended on September 30—an increase of more than 530 percent from the 4,395 Haitians apprehended in fiscal 2020. More than 17,000 arrests occurred in that final month alone, after the July assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in August. But as camps of Haitians at the southern border continued to grow and the humanitarian crisis in gang-infested Haiti worsened, U.S. immigration policy stayed the same.
Although Biden presented himself as the immigration antithesis of former President Donald Trump, his administration has invoked Title 42, a public health provision that allows the government to expel migrants upon arrival instead of allowing them to claim asylum, as U.S. immigration law ordinarily allows them to do at any port of entry. Trump invoked Title 42 in March 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden has not reversed that policy, despite the advent of COVID-19 vaccines.
"Our borders are not open," U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas warned in September. "People should not make the dangerous journey.""
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Why DOJ is avoiding domestic terrorism sentences for Jan. 6 defendants
"In front of judges and in court filings, the Justice Department is engaged in a delicate rhetorical dance on the domestic terrorism issue. Seeking to satisfy a large swath of the public outraged by the Jan. 6 riot, prosecutors have declared that the event "certainly" qualifies as domestic terrorism. But they've kept their powder dry thus far on invoking the terrorism sentencing boost — potentially because its impact can be so severe."
"Invoking the terrorism enhancement typically adds about 15 years in prison to a defendant's recommended sentence, sets the minimum calculation at 17 and a half years, and also flips the person charged into the criminal-history category used for serial offenders."
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The Russia Sanctions That Could Actually Stop Putin
"Why is it so difficult to convert America's economic heft into geopolitical power? When it comes to sanctioning Russia, the U.S. faces three recurring challenges: The sanctions tend to be imposed gradually; they are negotiated with reluctant allies; and the most impactful ones would also be economically costly to the West. As a result, the Russia sanctions in place today are a watered-down compromise, designed to placate allies and minimize domestic costs.
Bending Russia's macroeconomic fortunes — and Putin's calculus — will require targeting the country's financial system as well as key exports such as oil. Such sanctions would have significant effects on Russia's economy and perhaps on the global financial system, which is why U.S. officials have been hesitant to go this far. But averting a war is a tall order and, unfortunately, won't be cost-free. "Smart" or "targeted" sanctions won't work. To really impose pain on Russia, the U.S. and Europe will have to bear some burden, too — although, fortunately, there are ways to minimize the fallout for Western economies."
"There are two main categories of sanctions that stand a chance of actually changing Putin's mind — and each comes with downsides that the U.S. needs to consider seriously. First, the United States could threaten to cut off major Russian banks from the U.S. financial system. Blacklisting a major Russian bank, such as Sberbank, VTB or Gazprombank, would make it difficult — if not impossible — for anyone in the world to transact with it.
The Treasury Department has deep experience imposing sanctions on foreign banks, having done so repeatedly against Iran. The largest Russian banks are much bigger than their Iranian peers, which has given U.S. officials pause about sanctioning them in the past. Indeed, this would cause substantial financial distress in Russia. Full-blocking sanctions on Sberbank would be particularly impactful, since most Russians have an account there. Russia's government would have to step in to bail out the bank and would struggle to prevent a domestic financial crisis. Companies would slash investment. The ruble would fall sharply against the dollar, but it would become riskier to hold dollars in Russian banks. Russian inflation would spike higher and real incomes would fall.
The impact would also be felt internationally. Many Western investment funds own Sberbank stocks and bonds, the value of which would slump."
"Second, the U.S. could substantially reduce Russia's export revenues. Russia's biggest export is oil (around 45 percent of exports), and other exports the U.S. could sanction include gas, coal and various iron and steel products. With Iran, the United States drastically cut the country's oil exports by allowing Iran's customers to gradually wind down purchases over time. A similar campaign is possible against Russia, though since Russia exports more oil than Iran, global oil prices would take a bigger hit. (Other countries would eventually increase production to make up for the shortage, but there would be a time lag during which oil prices would remain high.)
The United States could also sanction Russia's natural gas exports, though this carries even greater tradeoffs. The world — especially Europe — already faces natural gas shortages this year. Energy-intensive European industries, notably in Germany, could face shutdowns if Russian gas supplies were halted. Given the Biden administration's struggle with spiking energy prices and worsening inflation, it's not hard to see why Washington may be reticent to impose such sanctions."
"Russia may have the advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine, but the West has vast power over Russia's economy. It should be prepared to use it — and also be prepared for the costs."
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Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab – but feared debate could hurt 'international harmony'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-believed-covid-leaked-wuhan-211452135.html
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Will There Be a War Over Ukraine? 13 Putin Watchers Weigh In
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/26/russia-ukraine-putin-experts-00000019
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Republicans Are Moving Rapidly to Cement Minority Rule. Blame the Constitution.
"Equal representation of the citizenry hasn't become the enemy of the contemporary Republican Party. It has been the enemy for more than a half-century. Ronald Reagan opposed the 1965 Voting Rights Act from the beginning, explaining later that he believed it was "humiliating to the South." When the act came up for its third renewal in 1982, Reagan's lawyers in the Justice Department, led by a twenty-something John Roberts, mightily resisted it and much needed amendments to it. When it came up for renewal again, in 2006, the act nearly broke the House Republican caucus in two.
At the center of Republican opposition to the Voting Rights Act is Section 5, described by the historian J. Morgan Kousser as "one of the most innovative governmental mechanisms since the New Deal." Section 5 stipulates that states, counties and localities with a history of discriminatory voting rules and practices must get permission or "pre-clearance" from the federal government to make any changes to an electoral "standard, practice, or procedure." With the burden of proof falling on these jurisdictions, it is up to them to demonstrate that the intent or effect of their change is not racial discrimination.
Well-versed in the ingenuity and initiative of white supremacy, the authors of Section 5 understood that equal representation for all citizens required the nationalization of voting standards and preemptive action by the federal government to protect those standards. If local white officials were not stopped, in advance, from "stacking" or "cracking" the Black vote — concentrating Black voters in one district and reducing their power elsewhere or diluting their power by spreading their votes across districts — African Americans would not be guaranteed equal representation in the polity."
"In 2013, with Roberts now at the helm of the Supreme Court, the Republicans finally achieved their goal, effectively killing Section 5 in Shelby County v. Holder. Though the Cornell political scientist Suzanne Metler tells Edsall that the GOP is "a longstanding party that helped to protect democracy until recently," the wave of Republican racial gerrymanders and voting rights restrictions that we are seeing today was set in motion by leading members of the party more than fifty years ago."
"Americans associate the Constitution with popular liberties such as due process and freedom of speech. They overlook its architecture of state power, which erects formidable barriers to equal representation and majority rule in all three branches of government. The Republicans are not struggling to overturn a long and storied history of democratic rules and norms. They're walking through an open door.
The 20th century lulled many Americans into thinking that the Electoral College was a vestigial organ like the appendix. Citizens of the 21st century know better. Having witnessed two presidential elections in which the candidate with the most votes lost, they know that rule by the majority or plurality is not a necessary feature of the presidency. Nor is equal representation: In the Electoral College, the vote of a citizen in Wyoming is worth three to four times as much as that of a citizen in California."
"Though the Framers rejected the idea of a hereditary body like the House of Lords, they did accept a compromise in which the Senate would represent states rather than individuals. Contrary to popular lore, Madison thought the central concern of those states had less to do with the size of their populations than with the source of their labor, whether it was enslaved or free."
"While some longstanding, wealthy democracies do have upper chambers, the United States is one of the very few to grant its upper chamber equal power to its lower chamber. The extreme inequality of representation in the Senate, in which the vote of one citizen in Wyoming is equal to that of 67 citizens in California, is even more unique. The combined effect of these twin features of Congress, wrote the distinguished Yale political scientist Robert Dahl, is "to preserve and protect unequal representation" and "to construct a barrier to majority rule.""
"American racial politics, past and present, demonstrates the power of this observation. Between 1800 and 1860, the will of the voting majority was repeatedly expressed in the House, which passed eight anti-slavery bills. The will of the slaveholding minority was repeatedly enacted in the Senate, which stopped those measures. In the first half of the 20th century, the majoritarian House passed multiple civil rights measures — from anti-lynching bills to abolition of the poll tax. Each time, those bills were killed in the Senate."
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Sometimes; you'll want to capture data from an in-flight message and write it out to a JDBC compliant database. There are 3 standard ways you can do this : jdbc-data-capture-service, jdbc-raw-data-capture-service and jdbc-stored-procedure-producer. The first 2 are Service implementations which can write to any database table; the last is only used when executing a stored procedure.
jdbc-data-capture-service assumes that the payload of the message is text based (often XML). Data can be extracted from the message and stored in a database. There is the ability to optionally iterate over an XPath insert multiple rows into the database as part of the same service. The configuration for this service closely mirrors that of jdbc-data-query-service in that it will have a number of jdbc-statement-parameter parameters configured and an SQL Statement.
We get the nodelist returned by /document/sample and for each node in the list we resolve the the xpath ./data to find the parameter to pass into the insert statement.
This results in 4 INSERT statements being executed.
Tip: There is a variant of this service called jdbc-batching-data-capture-service which allows you to set a batch window for performance purposes; a jdbc-data-capture-service is simply a jdbc-batching-data-capture-service with a batch window set to 1.
jdbc-raw-data-capture-service makes no assumptions about the payload itself; if you configure a jdbc-statement-parameter that is xpath based and the document is not XML; then results are undefined. It is designed for the use-cases where the message contains binary data, and you need to store the entire payload into a database table; optionally capturing some non-payload information as well. Again it will have a number of jdbc-statement-parameter parameters configured and an SQL Statement.
Taking the example document above, we want to insert the entire document as a new row in the database table PANGRAMS capturing the message-id as well.
This results in a single new row in the database table PANGRAMS containing the message id and the entire document as two columns.


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17/01/2023 /Posted in News /By Chris Woffinden /Leave comment
Europe's largest motorsport show 2023 kicked off in fine fashion, opening the doors of the NEC Birmingham to over 90,000 visitors of trade and enthusiasts alike. Spanning across 4 days, with Thursday and Friday reserved for trade visitors only, the weekend opens up for families, enthusiasts and race license holders alike to get close up and personal with some of the finest, rarest, most exciting race cars and equipment on offer.
No matter what your persuasion or level of interest, the Autosport International show has something to offer. Be it young children and families looking for an action-packed day out or a life long petrolhead seeking the latest technology to eek out that extra bit of performance, there are no shortages here.
A Show With Something For Everyone
Included with all Saturday and Sunday tickets is access to the live arena. A chance to see the machines in action in a purpose built, 4,500 seater indoor stadium. It's a fantastic opportunity for fans of any racing discipline as it does allow for a slightly different experience to the usual race weekend. With sound and light shows accompanying each individual race, drift display or stunt show and a far more relaxed attitude to rules and showboating, it's immediately engaging and being in such a comparatively small space, instantly exhilarating.
Hearing even the smaller cars like the Autograss Class 7's snarl up to the start line and roar into life, lifting back on their haunches as they do so makes you all the more eager to investigate the cars on display in the subsequent halls. The smaller track allows for an unrivalled view of everything that's going on and the echo chamber of the NEC creates a pretty incredible orchestra of engine tones.
The driving on display is of the highest quality. With no shortage of space, Motocross riders somersault towards the lighting rigs, Team Maximum Lock slide in sequence through figure of 8's and pyrotechnics. And after all 10+ events featuring everything from Drag Racing to Monster Trucks have sped past the stands, a mega jump showdown for a real grand finale.
Driving Disciplines and Motorsport Madness
The show is spread out across 5 halls of the sprawling exhibition space of the NEC. With the Live Action Arena taking up all of Hall 5, the remaining 4 halls are home to just about everything the world of motorsports has to offer. With stands dedicated to tools and equipment, like Bilstein, Draper, or Rowe UK there are some great show exclusives to be found. The chance to discuss what's best for your next project or get advice on any technical troubles you've not been able to resolve from some of the industry's top companies and ambassadors is an opportunity unrivalled by the usual Internet forums or trawl through google suggestions.
If tinkering and tunings not your thing and you'd rather leave it to the professionals, this is still the place to be. Interspersed across all 4 halls are some of the finest race and show cars the UK has to offer. Saturday saw the crowning of Britain's Top Tuned Car, a highly-tuned Vauxhall Astra VXR that just narrowly beat off the competition from a Ford Escort Mexico Mk2 and Ford Focus ST Mk4. All were on display at the show with the ability to meet the owners and discuss the incredible modifications they've made to their machines.
Modifications and Setup Configurations
Autosport also featured a very special exhibit that had been put together by the Silverstone Interactive Museum and GP racing magazine. Set up to bring a taste of what the museum has to offer to the Autosport International Show, F1 fans in particular were treated to a wonderful display featuring Formula 1 cars from Max Verstappen and Red Bull's double championship-winning 2022 season, as well as cars from Alpine and Aston Martin racing teams.
A special addition of the 1951 BRM car had been brought along to illustrate the history of Formula 1. Dubbed the most valuable car featured at the whole event, it was a pleasure just to be able to see the supercharged V16 1.5 litre Grand Prix legend up close and in all it's trailblazing glory.
Along with the world's fastest Mini, pimped out drag racing tractors and a whole host of JDM legends the event offered some fantastic opportunities for any aspiring race drivers of all ages. Many of the cars on show are available to buy! For those with little to no experience and stifled by the seemingly inaccessible world of motorsports, there are a number of stands able to provide the insights and equipment to make your first steps.
From Formula 1 to Family Fun
Whilst any budding race driver will, unfortunately, need to have a reasonable amount of disposable income or funding available to get out on track for the first time, there are options available for most budgets. Autosport International is a great way to talk to people and find out which route is best for you. If you're looking for the cheapest path into race car ownership and driving experience, both the MG Car Club and 750mc are on-site to help you get into gear and on the track both safely and professionally and provide support tailored to your individual level of need.
For those looking for a route back into the sport or a one-time experience, there are a host of companies offering arrive and drive experiences, not just in the UK but at some of the finest race tracks around the world. Options varied from seats available in the Porsche Cup series to local race meets, with plenty of options to suit all tastes and skill sets. Following their recent surge in popularity, Esports and racing simulators are also in abundance, and there are plenty of sims available for you to test your skills on the latest equipment.
Whether you obsess over every nut and bolt, are driven to distraction by whatever race discipline that happens to be on that weekend or are just looking for a family day out, Autosport International has created an unrivalled experience for anyone with even the slightest interest in the world of motorsport. With so much on offer, all under one roof, Autosport International has been a huge success and we hope to see more of the same passion and excitement on display here for many years to come.
Photography by: Jay Sidhu
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Oldchella Was Phenomenal
October 19, 2016 / softballpolitics
Alison and I had the distinct pleasure to attend the Oldchella concert in Palm Springs this past weekend. The performers included the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan (Friday), Paul McCartney and Neil Young (Saturday) and Roger Waters and The Who (Sunday). We attended all but the Waters concert.
The venue was a gigantic open field. I estimate the distance between the stage and the furthest viewer was over a ¼ of a mile. Huge screens were critical to most of the audience who either sat in grandstands to the left and right of the stage and those who were a long distance from the performers.
The sound system was extraordinary. The voices of the singers were crisp and easy to hear in spite of the hard rock melodies that accompanied them. Residents in the area could hear the concert music a few miles away, we were told.
The staging was really great. As mentioned the screens behind the performers were essential. It would have been preferable if the performance areas were higher above the ground level to facilitate viewing by those closer to the stage.
One of the most interesting aspects of the concert was the sheer number of people who attended. Most estimates were about 85,000 each night. Keep in mind that the same concert schedule occurred the previous weekend, so the total the number of viewers for both schedules easily exceeded a half million. Not quite Woodstock, but a huge number nevertheless especially considering the average age of the audience (about 50+).
The opportunity to perform before so many people is rarely something these bands experience, with the exception of the Stones. So each group was blown away by the size of the audience and communicated it regularly during their performances.
I heard from a very good source that the payoffs for the bands were $7 million each weekend (plus room and board and alcohol) for the top billed acts (The Stones, McCartney and Waters) and $5 million for the other three (Dylan, Neil Young and The Who). The payoff for the promoters was purported to be astronomical. You can do the math: 85,000 times the average ticket plus all the vendors and advertiser income.
The real question is how did the bands perform? I would say that the five we witnessed were terrific. But here is a more detailed assessment of each performance.
Bob Dylan, the brand new Nobel Laureate. It really doesn't matter in the grater scheme of things whether Dylan was on his game or not. He deserved to be in the company of the other rock superstars. His music is more than iconic. The power of his lyrics, especially in the context of all the strife in the 60s, is overwhelming and memorable for those of us who lived through those trying times. Dylan was in tune with the events of his youth and his words still resonate for his 60 and 70 year old fans.
That's the good news. The bad news is that Dylan eschews the camera. This isn't a new perspective. He forbids any recording of his face while performing (strange?). He looks like an old man, but so did a vast number of people in the audience. During every song he faced away from the cameras so 90% or more of the viewers who depended on the seeing him on the big screens only saw his back. But like I said the guy's got a Nobel Prize. Substance of performance: A+, Execution: C.
The Rolling Stones followed Dylan. I've attended about eight or so Stones concerts dating back to 1969. I've seen Jagger at his best, and on automatic pilot. In recent concerts it appeared that Keith Richards had become the leader of the band.
Not at Oldchella. Jagger was on it. He sang, danced, cajoled the audience and everybody went crazy. The Stones were at their all-time best. For me Gimme Shelter was the high point (see a clip of it below). Substance: A+, Execution: A.
Neil Young went first on Saturday. I really like Young, but my expectations were not that high, frankly. I thought he might be too subdued for this venue. Wrong. Young started out accoustically with all his "peace and war" songs, and then found his true root as the rocker and a great guitarist he is. Young superseded everyone's predictions, and he connected fabulously with the audience. Substance: B+, Execution A.
Paul McCartney has matured over the years. I was not his biggest fan in the early years and believed John Lennon was the mainstay of the Beatles. I've been converted. The set was professional, memorable and exciting. I absolutely loved it. I knew almost every song and could sing the words of many (or at least the chorus lines). Live and Let Die stood out and crowd went berserk during the tune. McCartney's staging was terrific. Substance: A, Execution A.
The Who finished up a 2-year "50th Anniversary Tour" the night they performed. Peter Townsend seemed particularly moved by his own longevity, the band he loved, the music he plays and all the loving fans. Daltry and Townsend looked their age.
Having said that, they blew the roof off the place. Real blood and guts rock and roll. The set had all their great songs and was a trip down memory lane for me. All the greatness offset some high notes that were not attainable. Somehow Townsend cut his head during the performance (look for it in the clip below). I loved the act and so did every other person in attendance. Substance: A-, Performance: B.
As I said we missed Waters having already spend over 20 hours at the venue. We heard that his performance was exceptional.
It was a great weekend. The logistics were a pain in the ass. Ingress and egress was a challenge. The place was a complete dust bowl. Many of the old farts in attendance were trying to prove they were still cool and lit up weed which I found to be annoying. But the B.S. was no big deal considering the quality of the music.
Please enjoy the photos and clips of the concert below. They are anything but professional and taken with an IPhone.
Oldchella 2 is now under consideration. Here's an article that speculates which bands might participate. If you plan to attend make plans early, accommodations are tough to come by, unless you drive your RV to Palm Springs.
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Free is nice. I like free.The internet truly abounds with free… free medical advice (always entertaining), free recipes, free fonts (I love free fonts – this week's favorite is Ashcan, from http://www.1001freefonts.com/..
Ashcan is a good font for adding layer styles and for making smiley faces.
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Just put in the parameters for your rug, pick some colors and see what happens. This is the diamond variation. See what happens if I change the color ratios abit..
Choosing "fabric" from the menu bar gives you the layout for sewing and cutting your fabric..
Change colors, change percentages, change weft width..it's fun! Not interested in a pattern, but wondering how much fabric for a 3 x 5 rag rug? Just put in one color and "fabric" will tell you.
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Yogi Suri is a fourth-generation entrepreneur who has diversified into Publishing, Printing and Packaging and is consulted by business houses the world over. He is also the Joint Editor of The Daily Milap, India's largest and oldest Urdu and Hindi Daily that has turned 96 this year.
He has travelled extensively as a part of various Government Delegations and has co-authored two books. He is a B.Com (Hons) Graduate and an MBA with a specialization in Internet Marketing.
A 1991 batch pass-out, Yogi is presently the President of Modern School Vasant Vihar Alumni Association.
As the President of the Committee, he is focused to improve the quality of alumni engagement to ensure a better and more satisfying yet fun alumni experience. He is very active in Social Work and prefers to read Literature in free time and his interests include Aero-modelling, Golf and Chocolates.
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He graduated as part of the 1999 batch from MSVV, and also holds a BA in Economics (St. Stephen's) and MSc in Financial Economics (Univ. of Essex).
He is a co-opted into the MVA EC in 2021 and hopes to boost the association's efforts to further develop sporting initiatives as a means to bring the alumni network closer.
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The beach cleaning service is undertaken either mechanically or manually at Gurnard, East Cowes, Cowes, Ryde, Springvale, Seaview, Seagrove Bay, St. Helens, Yaverland, Sandown, Lake, Shanklin, Ventnor, Bonchurch, St. Lawrence, Freshwater and Colwell. The current programme is to cleanse the beaches throughout the summer season until the end of September.
There are many slipways that the public may use around the Isle of Wight. The following information included in the downloadable document below contains a full list of both public and Isle of Wight Council slipways. It also gives you information on the location, type, type of access and general comments on the slipways.
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Home / News & Events / Extension Blog / Traveling to the future: Cities in a new era of transit
Traveling to the future: Cities in a new era of transit
How we travel has always determined how we build our cities. Peder Norby foresees a dramatic future shift in our preferred modes of transportation – and with it, a shift in how our cities look and function.
"Change that hasn't happened in the last 100 years is happening now," said Norby, one of San Diego County's most prominent regional planning experts.
Norby, a nationally recognized consultant in sustainable transportation, will host a Dec. 3 morning lecture at UC San Diego Extension titled "Great Cities Are Made From Better Recipes…Not Just More Cooking." The talk will focus on the latest advances in transportation and what these technologies bode for development in San Diego and elsewhere.
"We know we're going to be changing," Norby, who is also a San Diego County Planning Commissioner, said in a recent interview. "The question is what opportunities are going to be available to us."
Norby notes that every generation had a favored mode of transportation that directly impacted development, "from horses to the steam engine to the train to the car to the interstate highway system." These shifts also reshaped the economy and the workforce – ushering in the demand for new skills and expertise.
The latest advances, from Uber to bike-sharing programs to driverless cars, are helping make people more mobile and less dependent on their own cars. The result is what Norby calls "relocalization," in which we have less suburban sprawl and more urban density. He cited a recent update to San Diego County's General Plan as an example of this trend.
This trend is a fortunate one, given that all California cities are required by state law to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by various target dates. It's not that Norby wants to force people out of their cars. As he puts it, he hopes these new transportation technologies will "give a person multiple travel options and let them choose the one that's best for them."
Laura Fandino, director of environmental sciences for UC San Diego Extension, said Norby's lecture will offer insights into "how San Diego can participate as a leader in renewable energy and mobility. He has a lot of insight into what the future of sustainable mobility will look like."
Norby, a Carlsbad resident, said his lecture is designed for an audience ranging from land-use planners to municipal engineers to community activists concerned about how the region might look in thirty years and what that means not just for the environment but also for the economy and the job market. To adapt to this new era of sustainable mobility, the region will have to address a wide variety of technology and infrastructure needs, which will require a workforce, such as planners, developers and engineers, skilled in both designing and developing the transit-oriented cities of the future.
"The goal of the talk really is to encourage more imaginative thinking on the part of everyone in terms of what's possible," he said.
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Crisp, caramelized, cafe biscuits famously served at Bewley's Cafés for generations.
Loved for their light, crisp texture and sweet caramelised flavour, Bewley'€™s Café Biscuits have been the perfect companion to tea and coffee served in our famous Grafton Street Café for generations. Each biscuit is individually wrapped for maximum freshness, so sit back and enjoy them with a cup of Bewley'€™s Tea or Coffee for the perfect café experience, all in the comfort of your own home.


"An integrated approach in Acoustics - sound propagation and the phenomena affecting it".
Whether indoors or outdoors, sound propagation is affected by the same phenomena, mainly reflection, diffraction, refraction and transmission. We present the approach of integrated acoustics, which irrespective where sound propagation takes place, and with the use of surface impedance, image source method and sound pressure summation, these phenomena can be taken into account to calculate room modes, the seat dip effect, atmospheric refraction and sound scattering, to mention a few. This talk will present cases where the integrated approach in acoustics is a prerequisite in order to calculate real life scenarios using Olive Tree Lab Suite.
PEMARD was set up in 2009, by the Founder of Panacoustics Ltd, Panos Economou, a member of the IOA soon after his graduation from Chelsea College under the supervision of Geoff Leventhall and Edgar Brown. Panacoustics has been consulting for 35 years, and set up PEMARD to implement the years of research in acoustics with one goal in mind, an integrated platform for scientists and practioners in acoustics.
The closest underground stations are Chancery Lane (Central line) and Holborn (Central & Piccadilly line).
Topics and speakers for the evening meetings are generally identified and organised by the London Branch Committee, but we always welcome new ideas and suggestions for future presentations. If you have any ideas or suggestions, or may even like to give a presentation yourself, please contact the London Branch Committee (Roslyn Andrews: Roslyn.Andrews@aecom.com).
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You can take this job and….
Okay, so it wasn't nearly dramatic. But this week, I gave notice to my company after 10 years of service. It just became obviously apparent this week, that I was learning more outside of work, than while at work. And my only reasons for staying and dealing with a daily 5 hour commute roundtrip was for a stable paycheck. Stable paycheck was no longer enough.
So, here is where I am. To be completely honest, I don't have a defined path of what will happen now. And more honesty, I'm a bit scared (maybe more than a bit). But I look forward to the change. And if I completely screw this up, I figure it can't be too hard for an unemployed software engineer to find a gig in Silicon Valley, right?
Congratulations! This is huge for you and it you will look back on it as a defining moment. Hold on tight…this is where the ride of life gets fun! One of my favorite quotes in times like this "I am not afraid, I was born to do this." Joan of Arc.
I also just recently quit my job as a software engineer for similar reasons. It was the best decision I've made in a while.


The Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT invites applications for a tenure-track position in linguistics at the Assistant Professor level, starting July 1, 2018. The appointment will be made in the area of either Language Acquisition or Experimental/Computational Linguistics. The department seeks candidates whose research connects productively with current issues in core areas of linguistic theory. We welcome applicants whose work is wholly within linguistics as well as applicants whose work connects linguistics with adjacent research in cognitive science, such as developmental psychology, learnability theory, computational modeling of language acquisition, or human sentence processing. The successful candidate will have a PhD or equivalent in Linguistics or a related field, and will be expected to participate in the research, teaching and advising activities of our department.
Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, copies of up to three representative research papers, evidence of teaching ability, and three letters of reference. In addition, the application should include a statement outlining the applicant's research interests and plans, and the broader questions that this research promises to engage.
Consideration of applications will begin on December 15, 2017. To ensure full consideration, applications should be complete and letters of recommendation received by this date, but we will consider all applications submitted until the position is filled.
Women and members of under-represented minorities are especially encouraged to apply.


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La halle de Lagrasse est une halle située à Lagrasse, en France.

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Localisation
La halle est située sur la commune de Lagrasse, dans le département français de l'Aude.

Historique

L'édifice est classé au titre des monuments historiques en 1937.

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 Liste des monuments historiques de l'Aude
 Halle (construction)

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Lagrasse
Monument historique à Lagrasse
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About MINA Japan
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Is Haruki Murakami going to Receive the Nobel Prize?
Do you read books? Do you know Haruki Murakami?
He is a Japanese novelist and has received Japanese awards as well as international awards.
He is one of the most influential and famous Japanese writes who re recognized internationally.
Haruki Murakami's Biography
He was born in 1949 in Kyoto. He was raised in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture and eventually moved to Tokyo.
His parents taught Japanese when he was a child, thus he had great opportunities to read a lot of books. He, however, never thought of becoming a write when he was a child.
He went to Waseda University and graduated in 1975.
He started to write a novel in 1978 while watching a baseball game in Tokyo. Before writing, he was running a jazz club and didn't write anything.
Since 1979, he has been receiving a lot of awards and prizes. In 1991, he was invited to Princeton University in New Jersey, US as a guest researcher.
Why is He Popular?
In most cases, it's not easy to understand novels well if it's translated directly.
This is because every language has different expressions and cultural factors behind it.
Readers must know unique expressions and cultural background if books are translated directly.
Translators say that they don't have to change anything when translating Murakami's books into their language. That is, his writing is clear so that they don't have to add extra notes.
Some Japanese novelists are extremely difficult to translate directly because of uncertainty. They tend to write with vague expressions and translators have hard time.
If the novel is easy to translate means it's easy to read and understand. That is why lots of fans enjoy Murakami's novels in their language.
Some people say Murakami's novels have similarity with movie"Your Name" which has been a big hit in Japan as of October 2016.
Is Murakami going to Receive the Nobel Prize?
Not only Japanese media but also foreign media has been expecting that Murakami is going to receive the Nobel Prize. Japanese media always mention that Murakami is one of the possible recipients of the Nobel Prize.
Lots of his fans would be praying and waiting for him to receive the Nobel Prize.
Some people, however, argue that it's exaggerated by media so that his books will be sold millions around the world. They want to promote his books and boost sales and make people buy his books.
They might believe that Murakami is the one who is closest to the Nobel Prize.
What do you think? Will he or won't he?
Whether he receives or not, we know he is one of the famous writers in Japan.
At the end, maybe Murakami doesn't care about the Nobel Prize.
He writes because that's what he wants to do.
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Cranberry growers feel the effects of trade tariffs
Geoff Spillane
WASHINGTON — The cranberry gets a lot of attention during Thanksgiving week, but this year it is generating discussion that goes beyond the dinner table.
U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey and U.S. Reps. William Keating and Joseph Kennedy III went to bat this week for local cranberry growers affected by China trade tariffs.
"We write to urge you to explore new markets for United States cranberry farmers to compensate for the impact of China's forty percent tariff on cranberries," the Democratic lawmakers said in a Nov. 25 letter to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
They told Lighthizer that the nation's cranberry industry has lost nearly $43 million this year due to the Chinese tariff, and buyers there are opting to purchase more affordable alternatives to the U.S. crop, placing economic pressure on American farmers.
"Throughout the past decade, the price of cranberries has dropped approximately more than 50 percent due to overproduction," the letter said. "To increase sales, the industry sought out international markets. By 2018, China became the largest consumer of cranberries, purchasing approximately $55 million of dried cranberries. In a five-year span, the U.S. cranberry industry was able to increase its sale of dried cranberries by more than 1,000 percent."
The lawmakers have requested a response from Lighthizer by Dec. 9 regarding possible solutions and resources to reduce losses to the cranberry industry.
Leo Cakounes, a former Barnstable County commissioner and owner of Cape Farm Supply & Cranberry Company in Harwich, is an independent grower of 20 acres of organic cranberries.
"I initially want to thank the Senators and Congressmen for drawing attention to Massachusetts' heritage crop. However, I personally don't think the tariff is the largest problem facing the cranberry industry in the state," he said.
Cakounes contends there already was more supply than demand, even accounting for the China market, and there are 7 million barrels of frozen cranberries in storage in the U.S. He says the state should be more amenable to allowing cranberry growers who want to remain in agriculture to transition to another crop if they choose.
State regulations are specific to growing cranberries in a wetland, and it's a gray area whether farmers are allowed to change, according to Cakounes.
Cakounes also said prices for cranberries have been stagnant for generations. He cited an 1876 book titled "Cranberry Culture" that features a letter from A.D. Makepeace of Cape Cod, who said he received $10 per 100-pound barrel for his cranberries in 1868.
That price has pretty much stayed the same in the 150 years since, Cakounes said.
"It costs 10 times more to produce (cranberries) due to government regulations, but they still pay us the same price for the crop," he said.
In November 2018, the state began offering stipends to cranberry growers to build solar panels over their bogs.
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Kasugai Lychee Hard Candy
Kasugai makes this candy in a gummy and a hard format. This review is for the hard candy.
Kasugai's Lychee Hard Candy (also spelled litchi, liechee, or lichee) has become an office favorite for those who have to work behind cubicles.
For those who don't know, the lychee berry can be found in specialty markets and at giant grocery stores. They rarely appear at smaller grocery stores or "mom and pop" stores in the United States. Fresh lychee berries are red on the outside and white on the inside, though refrigerating them makes the red rinds turn black, but that's normal. Canned lychees are hard and less flavorful, and often shrink while canning, so it's best to eat them as soon as you get them home. They have a good amount of vitamin C, followed by a trivial amount of folic acid, calcium and a few B vitamins, but you have to eat nine of them in order to reap the benefits. They were originally only grown in China, but now they're grown in India and on a few farms in South Africa as well as a few of the smaller countries in southeast Asia.
Since lychees are kind of scarce, most people settle for the candy version.
Kasugai's Hard Lychee candy is a milky-white color. When you first taste the candy, you'll notice a feint grapefruit taste. It's not as bitter as grapefruit, but it does retain a sour aftertaste that is similar. Some of the flavor is so light, you may not even taste the feint sweetness until just before crunching. The candy doesn't last very long, but it's not as sugary as US hard candies, making it a little easier on the teeth.
Younger children may not be a fan of the grapefruit-like taste, but this candy is a hit with adults who like something sour.
Sugar, Corn Syrup (Corn Starch, Water) Acidulant (Citric Acid, Tartaric Acid) Artificial Flavor.
Product of Japan.
Chocolate/Original Pocky
Pocky is arguably one of the most iconic snacks shown in anime, but few really know the history of the pre-packaged snack food. Created in 1966 by Ezaki Glico, most of the Pocky we see in North America comes from California and Thailand, but the snack originates from Japan. You can find a more robust version of it's history on pocky.com which is jazzed up with a large HD video in the background.
Original Pocky comes in a red box and has more than a dozen snack sticks. Each stick is a super thin cracker tube with a wheat aftertaste. The tubes are dipped in a very dark chocolate, and then placed in a wrapper, followed by the box. Sometimes, a stick will have a little extra chocolate at the tip, which has a satisfying texture, like eating less than 1/16th of a bite-size Hershey bar.
A regular-sized box of Pocky counts as one serving. Considering that one whole box is just 190 calories, that's not so bad, as it makes the snack 50 calories less than the average candy bar, which can set you back 240 calories. Pocky is sweet, but despite it's thin size can also satisfy a light hunger pang.
The ingredients for Pocky may not be the most healthy, but it's a great travel-sized snack, and also makes for less-messy eating. Below are the ingredients:
WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, VEGETABLE OIL (INTERESTERIFIED SUNFLOWER OIL, PALM OIL, LECITHIN, TOCOPHEROLS, CITRIC ACID), WHOLE MILK POWDER, MARGARINE, (VEGETABLE OIL (REFINED PALM OIL, HYDROGENATED PALM OIL) SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, TOCOPHEROLS, BHA, BETA-CAROTENE COLOR) CONTAINS 1 PERCENT OR LESS OF: COCOA BUTTER, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SALT, LECITHIN, TRISODIUM PHOSPHATE, YEAST, MONOGLYCERIDE, LEAVING (SODIUM BICARBONATE), POLYGLYCEROL POLYRICINOLEATE, PAPAIN
CONTAINS: WHEAT, MILK AND SOYBEANS
MANUFACTURED IN A FACILITY THAT USES PEANUTS, ALMONDS
Chocorooms
I still remember the exact moment I first saw Chocorooms. It was at the now defunct Borders Books and Music store in Highland, Indiana. (It's a BAM! now.) There was a box directly from Japan in bright, lime green with childish pictures of a sun in the background.
A week later, the Meiji America boxes came in, and I had a little extra cash on me, so i bought a box and decided to try some while watching Dragonball Z.
........ And I can't understand how I lived without them that long.
Chocorooms are tiny, lightly sweetened, hard crackers with a thick, dark chocolate coating. The chocolate is smooth and not very sweet, which plays well with the texture of the cracker underneath. It's designed to look like skinny mushrooms, which have earned it a less than savory reputation for those into drug paraphernalia.
You may be wondering why there is a Tyke rating for this snack. Who gives parental ratings to snacks, anyways, right? Well the reason I did this is because Chocorooms are small and oblong, and are at the width where they pose a choking hazard to Tots ages 0-4. But they make a perfect after-school snack for the kindergarten+ crowd.
A serving size is supposed to be 38 grams or one fourth of a 5 ounce bag. Each serving will set you back an unbelievable 210 calories, but considering that it's still way less than a candy bar, this makes Chocorooms a great snack for dieters. Chocorooms are sold in the United States in small boxes and tiny, re-seal-able pouches, while the Japanese version comes in little, colorful boxes. Here are the ingredients, as posted by the official website:
SUGAR, WHEAT FLOUR, COCOA MASS, VEGETABLE OILS (PALM, SUNFLOWER, SHEA, ILLIPE, CANOLA, SAL), WHOLE MILK POWDER, COCOA BUTTER, LACTOSE, SHORTENING (PALM), CONDENSED MILK POWDER, NONFAT DRY MILK, EMULSIFIERS (SOY LECITHIN, GLYCERIN FATTY ACID ESTER, SUCROSE FATTY ACID ESTER), HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CREAM POWDER, LEAVENINGS (SODIUM BICARBONATE, AMMONIUM ACID CARBONATE), MALT EXTRACT, YEAST, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS.
CONTAINS: WHEAT, MILK, SOY
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Rio Russell homered to left center, RBI.
Brian Corbett singled to left center.
Logan Barker homered to left center, 2 RBI; Brian Corbett scored.
Tyler Childs singled up the middle.
Max Mohring singled through the right side, RBI; Tyler Childs scored.
Logan Grizzell pinch ran for Max Mohring.
Max Mohring to c for Logan Grizzell.
Rafael Astacio singled to right field.
Tyler Cleasby doubled to center field.
Logan Barker doubled to right center, RBI; Brian Corbett advanced to third; Tyler Cleasby scored.
Ryan Robinette singled to left field, advanced to second on the throw, RBI; Logan Barker advanced to third; Brian Corbett scored.
Tyler Childs grounded out to ss, RBI; Logan Barker scored.
Alfred Brown to rf for Trey Matthews.
Xanders Vazquez singled to right field; Rio Russell advanced to third.
Scott Fickas doubled to right field, RBI; Xanders Vazquez advanced to third; Rio Russell scored.
Scott Fickas advanced to third on a wild pitch; Xanders Vazquez out at home c to p.
Tristan Starling to p for Andy Yarbrough.
Max Mohring singled to center field, advanced to second on an error by lf.
Sean Fannon singled to left field, advanced to second on the throw, RBI; Eddie Dopkowski advanced to second, advanced to third on the throw; Logan Grizzell advanced to third, scored on an error by lf, unearned.
Brian Corbett flied out to rf, SAC, RBI; Sean Fannon advanced to third; Eddie Dopkowski scored.
Luke Bushey singled to right field.
Cameron Cooper to p for Tristan Starling.
Max Mohring singled to right field.
Eddie Dopkowski singled to right field; Logan Grizzell advanced to second.
Eddie Dopkowski stole second; Logan Grizzell stole third.
Tyler Cleasby flied out to cf, SAC, RBI; Logan Grizzell scored.
Sean Fannon reached on a fielder's choice, advanced to second on an error by ss; Eddie Dopkowski scored on an error by ss, unearned.
Sean Fannon advanced to third on an error by p.
Brian Corbett advanced to second on an error by c; Sean Fannon scored on an error by c, unearned.
Tyler Childs reached first on an error by 1b; Ryan Robinette advanced to third; Brian Corbett scored, unearned.
Luke Bushey hit by pitch; Tyler Childs advanced to second.
Logan Grizzell reached on a fielder's choice; Luke Bushey advanced to second; Tyler Childs out at third 3b unassisted.
Scott Fickas singled through the left side.
Alfred Brown singled to left field; Scott Fickas advanced to second.
Ronny Penalo doubled to left field, RBI; Alfred Brown advanced to third; Scott Fickas scored.
Luke Myers to p for Cameron Cooper.
Tyler Cleasby hit by pitch.
Rio Russell singled to left field.
Alex Vazquez homered to left field, 2 RBI; Rio Russell scored.
Brian Corbett singled to right field.
Tyler Childs singled to left field; Brian Corbett advanced to second.
Jared Roth pinch hit for Luke Bushey.
Luke Bushey to lf for Jared Roth.
Harry Storch to p for Matt Blunk.
Ronny Penalo doubled down the lf line.
Rafael Astacio reached first on an error by 2b; Ronny Penalo advanced to third.
Erich Jaquez reached on a fielder's choice, RBI; Rafael Astacio out at second 3b to 2b; Ronny Penalo scored.
Devin Kirkland to 3b for Zachary Balogh.
Jake Ratledge to p for Luke Myers.
Zachary Balogh to 3b for Devin Kirkland.
Max Mohring singled to left field; Luke Bushey advanced to second.
Adam Mansfield to c for Max Mohring.
Eddie Dopkowski reached on a fielder's choice, bunt; Adam Mansfield advanced to second; Luke Bushey out at third c to 3b.
Logan Grizzell pinch hit for Tyler Cleasby.
Max Mohring to c for Adam Mansfield.
Alex Vazquez singled to right center.
Jaryd Clary pinch ran for Alex Vazquez.


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; 1685–1734) – painter [vol. 2, p. 245]
The horizontal line represents the person's life.1685 - born1734 - died
Angelis, Peter
, a painter of considerable note in the last century, was born at Dunkirk in 1685, and visiting Flanders and Germany in the course of his studies, made the longest stay at Dusseldorpe, enchanted with the treasures of painting in that city. He came to England about the year 1712, and soon became a favourite painter; but in the year 1728, he set out for Italy, where he spent three years. At Rome his pictures gave great satisfaction, but being of a reserved temper, and not ostentatious of his merit, he disgusted several by the reluctance with which he exhibited his works; his studious and sober temper inclining him more to the pursuit of his art than to the advantage of his fortune. Yet his attention to the latter prevented his returning to England, as he intended; for, stopping at Rennes in Bretagne, a rich and parliamentary town, he was so immediately overwhelmed with employment there, that he settled in that city, and died there in a short time, in 1734, when he was not above forty nine years of age. He executed conversations and landscapes with small figures, which he was fond of enriching with representations of fruit and fish. His manner was a mixture of Teniers and Watteau, with more grace than the former, and more nature than the latter. His pencil was easy, bright, and flowing, but his colouring too faint and nerveless. He afterwards adopted the habits of Rubens and Vandyck, more picturesque indeed, but not so proper to | improve his productions in what their chief beauty consisted, familiar life. 1
Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting.
Angeli, Bonaventure (?–1576)
Angelico, Fra Giovanni (?–1443)
Angelieri, Bonaventure
Angelio, Peter (1517–1596)
Angelis, Dominico De (1675–1719)
Angelis, Peter (1685–1734)
Angelis, Stephen De
Angelo, James
Angeloni, Francis (?–1652)
Angelucci, Theodore (?–1600)
Baan, John De (1685–1734)


Dynamic ADF Train. Adding train stops programmatically.
StartView activity is a page fragment where we input number of passengers and DynamicView activity provides a page fragment to input passenger's info. At the moment we have only one activity for passenger's info and I will add extra activities if the number of passengers is greater than one.
//The main trick of the post.
That's all! You can download sample application for JDeveloper 11.1.1.2.0.
Of course, you can implement your backing bean method getting suggested items from ADF BC layer in order to retrieve them from database or from other data sources. You can find detailed example of this feature in the ADF Code Corner Article posted by Frank Nimphius.
But there is another common use-case when users don't need any auto-suggestion for their input, and they want to be suggested on demand only. For example, by pressing "Ctrl-H", a user is provided by previously submitted values for this input field. Something like a history of values.
In this post I'm going to show two different implementations of this use-case. The first one is based on modified af:autoSuggestBehavior tag and the second implementation is built using usual af:popup tag.
* and added his default listeners to the inputText.
I have a popup and selectOneListbox component inside it. The listbox get suggested items from the backing bean property popupSuggestion and it has client listeners to submit selected values when Enter is pressed or mouse is clicked. The inputText has a listener to fire popup with suggested items when Ctrl-H is pressed.
That's all. You can download sample application for this post.
In this post I'm going to show how you can add Groovy validation rule for an entity's attribute programmatically "on-the-fly". When you build Groovy expression to validate the value of an attribute, you can use predefined keywords "newValue" and "oldValue" referring to the old and new values of the attribute correspondingly.
In my previous post I demonstrated how to retrieve and show information from a database table containing an attribute with SQL object type. In this post I'm going to show how to save this information back into the database.
Methods insertProcedure(), updateProcedure() and deleteProcedure() are used to call appropriate PL/SQL procedures for corresponding DML modes.
Note, that there is no any magic to pass contact information as a parameter to Callable Statement. PaymentImpl class has usual getter getContact() for its Contact attribute with TcontactInfo class. And TcontactInfo class inherits oracle.jbo.domain.Struct class which is commonly used to work with complex SQL types. That's all.


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Q: What does it mean for Mach ports to be "globally unique"? I read here in the GNU Hurd docs that Mach ports are "globally unique." I know that one of the design goals for Mach was for it to be easily used in distributed computing environments, so does this mean Mach ports are globally unique across all Mach systems at any given point in time? This would mean that Mach ports can be used as references to objects that live on remote Mach systems, which is convenient. But how is this implemented?
Or does this statement mean Mach ports are only guaranteed to be globally unique on a single Mach system at any given point in time?

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[sunday, november 27, 2011]
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The co-stars took a minute on set to give you a sneak peek into what life is like back on Southfork Ranch.
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The network spotlights the gruesomest gunk and crime case corpses from the series.
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The actor teases tonight's episode, airing at 8:00/7:00c on The CW, in a two-part chat.
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The Jeffrey Dean Morgan-led drama premieres in April on the pay channel.
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Check out the first promo from the network's upcoming animated series, premiering in January.
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Watch the exclusive season two sizzle reel prepared especially for the con.
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Check out series star Michael Emerson's introduction shot specifically for the NYCC audience.
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"The decision to continue Darth Maul's story was something that came directly from George," Lucasfilm says in the announcement.
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Watch the latest sizzle for the series, which premiered last night on the network.
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Watch the Mary Murphy-hosted previews for "House," "Bones," "Fringe" and the network's new series.
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Trump Straddle: Won't Stump for Moore, Yet Blasts Democrat Foe
Republican lawmakers are considering expelling Moore should he win the Alabama special election for U.S. Senate
By Zeke Miller	• Published at 11:21 am on November 27, 2017
Playing all sides in the Alabama Senate race, President Donald Trump has made it known he won't set foot in the state on behalf of embattled Republican Roy Moore, even as he intensified his insistence that voters must never elect Moore's Democratic foe.
In search of safe political ground, Trump is embracing a tried-and-true tactic before the Dec. 12 special election. Weighing political needs, loyalty to his base supporters and his own struggles against allegations of sexual impropriety, the president is staking out a position that should bring him the least political exposure.
Trump has repeatedly assailed Democratic candidate Doug Jones, has publicly defended Moore against allegations of child molestation and has broken with other GOP leaders calling on Moore to get out of the race. On the other hand, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday the president has no plans for an in-person appearance on Moore's behalf and in fact is too busy to "do anything between now and Election Day" for the candidate.
In addition, the president previously signed off on a decision by the Republican National Committee to cut off support for Moore's campaign.
Still, Trump had held the door open to personal campaigning for Moore last week, when he all but endorsed the pugnacious conservative's candidacy while criticizing Jones. But he's carefully stopping short of that actual endorsement.
For weeks the center state in the Alabama race has been held by accusations that Moore, now 70, sexually molested or initiated sexual contact with two teens, ages 14 and 16 — and tried to date several others — while he was in his 30s. Moore has denied the allegations of misconduct and has said he never dated "underage" women.
"This is simply dirty politics and it's a sign of the immorality of our time," Moore said Monday night during a campaign event in the rural town of Henagar in northeast Alabama. Lashing out at national Republicans who want him to step aside, Moore said: "They are aware of my past. They are aware I am difficult to manage."
Trump has been burned in this race before. He traveled to Alabama months ago to back Moore's Republican primary opponent, Sen. Luther Strange, who was then defeated in a September rout.
Moore had the backing of the GOP's conservative and populist wings, including Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, but Trump acceded to requests from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to try to boost Strange. Trump later seethed to White House aides that the episode left him looking politically weak.
Also, appearing with Moore now could expose Trump to a politically unpalatable image as allegations of sexual misconduct in politics, entertainment, business and the media fill the news. As he looks toward his own re-election in 2020, he doesn't want new attention focused on his own accusations of sexual impropriety in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election.
The White House clarified Monday that Trump isn't contesting the authenticity of the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women, and for which he issued a rare apology. "The president hasn't changed his position," Sanders said.
In the meantime, the president is determined not to alienate his core supporters — many of whom continue to defend Moore — at a time when his presidential popularity is lagging and his agenda faces headwinds in Congress. The outcome in Alabama could be crucial in the ongoing GOP fight for a tax overhaul, since a victory by Democrat Jones would narrow the Republicans' Senate majority to a mere two seats.
Trump bashed Jones repeatedly on Twitter over the weekend. "The last thing we need in Alabama and the U.S. Senate is a Schumer/Pelosi puppet who is WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment, AND WANTS TO RAISES TAXES TO THE SKY," Trump wrote from Florida, referring to Democratic congressional leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
Moore's campaign quickly highlighted Trump's comments on social media and in a fundraising email.
"President Trump calls them like he sees them. And, he's got my opponents in D.C. scrambling," Moore wrote
Jones, speaking to reporters in Birmingham, shrugged off Trump's criticisms, saying his vote in the Senate would not be a partisan one. He said Alabama residents are focused on issues such as the economy, education and health care.
"My record speaks for itself," Jones said. "I think I am very strong on the issues that the people of Alabama care for."
Earlier in the month, the Republican National Committee pulled roughly a dozen paid staffers out of Alabama as the allegations of sexual misconduct against Moore piled up. Republicans involved in that decision said Monday they would be angry if Trump ordered the committee to re-engage, although there was no such discussion underway as of Monday afternoon.
Opposition to Moore hadn't softened at the National Republican Senatorial Committee either. The Senate GOP campaign arm turned its back on Moore earlier in the month, and its chairman, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, said his Republican colleagues should expel Moore from the Senate if he's ultimately elected.
Alabama's other senator, Republican Richard Shelby, said Monday he did not vote for Moore. "I voted absentee. I didn't vote for him. I voted for a distinguished Republican write-in," Shelby told reporters, according to The Hill newspaper.
Some Washington-based Republicans on Monday suggested they actually would welcome an opportunity to expel Moore if it comes to that. Such an action could mark "a public cleansing" for the party as it struggles with low approval ratings ahead of the 2018 midterms, said one Republican official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the Alabama race and commented only on condition of anonymity.
There was still pressure for Trump to step in in person.
Said former Trump campaign adviser Sam Nunberg: "It's his choice. Does he want to be the first president in two decades not to have two Republican senators from Alabama?"
Associated Press writers Kimberly Chandler, Steve Peoples and Thomas Beaumont contributed to this report.


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Garmin® Updates GHP™ 12 Marine Autopilot to Support Multiple Steering Systems
June 30, 2011 7:00 AM EDT
OLATHE, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced it has updated its GHP 12 Marine Autopilot System to support powerboats with both solenoid-driven and cable-actuated steering systems, as well as those with third-party hydraulic pumps. Prior to this update, the GHP 12 only supported linear-actuated steering systems for sailboats.
"As Garmin continues to expand its breadth of marine product offerings, we're excited to announce this enhancement to our award-winning GHP 12 Autopilot System, making it an attractive solution for a broader range of powerboats and sailboats alike," said Dan Bartel, Garmin's vice president of worldwide sales. "Now this full-featured system is as versatile as it is capable."
This new update enables the GHP 12 to provide powerful autopilot capabilities to powerboats with solenoid-driven and cable-actuated steering systems, as well as those with third-party hydraulic pumps, which allows the GHP 12 to drive a much larger percentage of boats. Available for boats capable of providing rudder feedback position to the Electronics Control Unit (ECU), this update addresses many OEMs, as well as retrofit installations where removing the existing pump is difficult or not desirable, and where a GHP 10 autopilot system is not compatible.
For the sailing community, the GHP 12 is designed for 20- to 70-feet sailboats with linear-actuated steering systems, and is available with two linear drive options that fit almost any midsize to large sailboat. The Class A drive unit is offered for sailboats with up to 28,500 pounds of displacement, and the Class B drive unit is for larger sailboats with up to 79,000 pounds of displacement.
The GHP 12 is accessed through the NMEA 2000 certified GHC™ 10, a dedicated autopilot control unit with a 3.5-inch color display, designed to engage and disengage the autopilot. In addition to easy installation, NMEA 2000 compatibility allows you to share autopilot heading data with other devices on your network, including Garmin's robust line of chartplotters and multi-function displays. All Garmin autopilot systems use the latest in high-speed digital processing technology. These robust, below-deck autopilot systems have the power and sophistication to hold steady in virtually all types of weather, wind and sea conditions.
This update is available immediately update through Garmin's website. Customers can download the latest GHP 12 software by visiting www.garmin.com/support/software/marine.html.
Since its inception in 1989, Garmin has delivered 85 million GPS enabled devices – far more than any other navigation provider. Garmin's market breadth in the GPS industry is second to none, having developed innovative products and established a leadership position in each of the markets it serves, including automotive, aviation, marine, fitness, outdoor recreation, tracking, and wireless applications.
Garmin International Inc. is a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation. Since 1989, this group of companies has designed, manufactured, marketed and sold navigation, communication and information devices and applications – most of which are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin's products serve automotive, mobile, wireless, outdoor recreation, marine, aviation, and OEM applications. Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in Switzerland, and its principal subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit Garmin's virtual pressroom at www.garmin.com/pressroom or contact the Media Relations department at 913-397-8200. Garmin is a registered trademark, and GHP and GHC are trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries.
This release includes forward-looking statements regarding Garmin Ltd. and its business. All statements regarding the company's future product introductions are forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on management's current expectations. The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this release may not occur and actual results could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting Garmin, including, but not limited to, the risk factors listed in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 25, 2010, filed by Garmin with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission file number 0-31983). A copy of such Form 10-K is available at www.garmin.com/aboutGarmin/invRelations/finReports.html. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and Garmin undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Garmin International Inc.Carly Baltes, 913-397-8200media.relations@garmin.com