There are many claims that people do not clean up after their pets — just one of the many positive things about the new pet-waste stations that city officials are trying to get neighborhoods to "adopt" ("Pet stations will aid curbside pickup," July 6).
As more neighbors use them, it will also mean less waste entering the storm drains, keeping pollutants out of the storm drain system.
If you have a pet and have been leaving your pet waste out, just walk a little more until you see the stations with baggies.
Today, people are more excited to have pets, but they sometimes don't take responsibility for what their pets do. Installing these stations may make pet owners feel more responsible among their neighbors and city.


Old coloured map of the South Pole by Christoph Weigel. Shows the southern polar region with the tip of South America ( Tierra Del Fuego, Cape Horn), the Strait of Magellan and the Le Maire Strait. The map still shows the prevailing belief in a massive land mass south of Cape Horn. The land mass is labled Terra Incognita Australis. From Bequemer Schul- und Reisen-Atlas also titled Atlas scholasticus et itinerarius by Christoph Weigel. Weigel's well-known travel atlas, which he published in collaboration with Professor Johann David Köhler.
Some minor staining in the margins. Very good condition.
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Tunnel delays may become more common
TRENTON – Train delays like the ones caused recently by electrical problems in a century-old Hudson River tunnel could become much more common if a new tunnel isn't built, an Amtrak executive told New Jersey lawmakers Monday.
Even if that anticipated $14 billion project were started now, it wouldn't be complete until 2025 at the earliest, said Stephen Gardner, Amtrak's vice president of Northeast corridor infrastructure investment.
In the interim, there is no viable contingency plan in place if one of the two tubes in the tunnel has to be taken out of service for an extended period of time, which would reduce train traffic during rush hour from 24 trains to six, Gardner told the Senate Legislative Oversight Committee.
Amtrak's goal is to "keep the tunnel in working order to support the traffic we have today," Gardner said, adding that the tunnel is structurally sound even though it was built 105 years ago. "Every day we defer is expanding our risk."
Several days of train delays last month focused new attention on the push to build a new tunnel. Monday's hearing came as the major stakeholders in a tunnel project — the governors of New Jersey and New York, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the federal Department of Transportation — grapple with how to pay for it.
It is a steep challenge. Gardner told lawmakers that it would cost Amtrak $1 billion per year just to keep its Northeast corridor infrastructure in a state of good repair, and would cost another $4 billion per year to complete its backlog of projects on the 457-mile corridor, a span that includes numerous century-old bridges and a 142-year-old tunnel.
Amtrak gets about $1.4 billion annually in federal funding, he said, of which about $300 million is used for Northeast corridor needs.
In the wake of the delays in July, federal Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx sent a letter to Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Andrew Cuomo of New York urging them to meet with him within two weeks to put together a strategy for building new crossings under the river.
Christie and Cuomo then separately sent letters urging the government to come up with more money for the current project, called Gateway. Cuomo's letter made reference to the government's alleged offer to provide funding in the form of a loan that the states would have to pay back. The Port Authority also sent a letter to Foxx urging a bigger financial commitment.
"It's a little like a poker game. Who's going to show their cards first, who's going to put their money on the table?" Port Authority chairman John Degnan said last week. "I think clearly that has to be the federal government, and that will serve as an inducement for the states."
Several years ago, the government pledged $3 billion for a tunnel project initially estimated to cost about $9 billion, with the rest of the cost borne by New Jersey and the Port Authority. Christie pulled the plug on that project in 2010, citing concerns that his state would be forced to pay for billions in cost overruns.

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Ever heard of the Japanese government's Injury and Sickness Allowance?
Nobody likes getting sick, but in a place as hard working as Japan, it can also be a financial burden. In a country where mandated sick leave isn't really a thing, and the prevailing ideology is "if you can walk, you can work" it can be very tough to take time off to recover from all but the most serious of illnesses.
Of course, having to grin and bear it when you've got a heavy cold, fever or even a particularly aggressive hangover is just one of those things that come with the territory when we work in Japan.
However, what can we do when it's more than just a cold? What if we have a terrible, debilitating accident, or we are hospitalized for an extended period of time?
Thankfully, there exists a government scheme to help cover medium to long-term illnesses such as this.
Unfortunately, you're unlikely to find any mention of it in your orientation pack when you join your new company. The cynical truth is that many companies in Japan do not want this information shared, lest it harm their workers' productivity levels.
However, today, please allow me to reveal to you the wonders of the Japanese government's Injury and Sickness Allowance.
The basic aim of this scheme is to ensure that workers can have adequate recuperation time from medium to long-term sickness without incurring any major financial hit. In short, it allows a worker to take a period of absence from work for up to 18 months and still receive up to 66% of their regular salary.
In short, it allows a worker to take a period of absence from work for up to 18 months and still receive up to 66% of their regular salary.
There are a few conditions that need to be observed in order to qualify.
First of all, you would need to be absent from work for at least three consecutive days to qualify. These first three days are legally defined as "waiting days" and as such no benefits are paid to cover them. Hopefully you will still have three days of annual leave left at the time of your illness and can use them so you don't lose any money.
You also need to be enrolled in and have been paying contributions to the Japanese national health insurance and pension schemes. It is against the law not to be enrolled in these schemes if you are staying in Japan for more than a year, so most of you should be on them already.
In addition, you need to be able to prove that you are currently undergoing treatment or recuperating from sickness or injury. You don't necessarily need to be in hospital, or receiving ongoing care (recuperating at home is also acceptable) but you will need to provide medical evidence of your ailment. A doctor's letter would be sufficient in this case.
You also need to be able to show that you are unable to perform your job due to this injury. For example, a broken leg may be a valid cause for a PE teacher to take time off, but perhaps not so for a call center worker.
Another point worth noting here: If your injury was caused by an accident at work, then injury and sickness allowance would not apply and is instead replaced by the "Worker's Accident Compensation Insurance", another government-supported scheme.
So, as an example, let's say that you are an English teacher earning 250,000 yen per month. The average salary in Japan as of September last year was around 300,000 yen per month.
Option 1 as outlined above would produce a daily payout of 5,500 yen per day.
Option 2 would give you 6,600 yen per day.
So in the case of the English teacher, it would be 5,500 yen per day whilst you are sick.
In the case that you have been insured for more than 12 months prior to getting sick, then option 1 will apply in all instances. Whilst this is a disadvantage to the English teacher, it is advantageous to anyone fortunate enough to earn more than the national average wage.
Also, should you be unfortunate enough that your sickness leads to a permanent disability, then, at that point, your benefit payments will switch from the Injury and Sickness Allowance Scheme to the Disabled Employee's Pension Scheme.
As a final tip, I would say that, even with the provisions covered in this scheme, it is very important that you set aside some additional funds to cover your sickness in the short term.
Processing your payments for this scheme and getting them backdated to three days after you first took time off work can take several weeks in some cases. In that interim period you will have to make do without your salary or any other additional funds. Hospitals and clinics, even if you have national health insurance, will still require that you pay 30% of the costs, and such payments are usually taken on the day of treatment.
Although the vast majority of employers in Japan are honest and decent, I have encountered companies and even local governments in my time working in Osaka who were not as informed on these issues and not as forthcoming with information as they should have been. This sickness allowance is not a privilege or a benefit. In Japan, it is a legal right, and no reputable employer will seek to deny you it. However, as I said before, it pays to try and keep about one month's salary saved up just in case things do get nasty with your employer. When you are sick, the last thing you need is an employment dispute.
Hopefully, you'll never need to use what I've told you here today, but just in case, it's always a good idea to be ready.
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This book uses a narrative-oriented approach to shed light on the processes of identity construction and development among Japanese university students of English. The research highlights the instrumental agency of individuals in responding to and acting upon the social environment, and in developing, maintaining and/or reconstructing their identities as L2 users. The study offers unique insights into the role of experience, emotions, social and environmental affordances in shaping their personal orientations to English and self-perceptions as English learner-users. It also examines individuals' responses to these factors and discusses fluctuations in their motivations. The additional value of this book lies in its detailed account of methodological procedures, challenges and ways to overcome obstacles encountered when undertaking qualitative longitudinal studies.
Miyahara's detailed and illuminating narrative study of university students in Japan offers new insights into the role of experience and emotion in language learning in an EFL context. This book brings to life both current theories surrounding identity and motivation in language learning and complex methodological issues that arise in the research of these important concepts.
This book uniquely incorporates Dewey's work on experience to the development of an understanding of situated learning, imagined communities and the L2 ideal self. Miyahara links social and psychological factors in an effective and innovative way, making for a complex model of L2 identity which she applies masterfully to the English language learning narratives of Japanese university students. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in L2 identities, either from a theoretical or practical perspective.
This is a bold study that brings together psychological and sociological perspectives on the motivation to learn English of six young Japanese. Informed both by wide reading and an intimate knowledge of context, Miyahara uses a narrative approach to demonstrate convincingly how the learners' experiences with English in childhood and adolescence colour their attitudes and motivation to learn during their first year at college.
Miyahara's monograph contributes to identity research by constructing a theoretical framework combining both post-structuralist and psychological theories of identity (...) The explored EFL learners' identities strengthen the field by shedding more light on the diverse ways in which English learners in EFL (as opposed to ESL) contexts construct their identities as English users in the globalized world. Furthermore, the detailed discussion of narrative analysis provides methodological insights for interested researchers to further develop the approach.
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Q: Adding support for multiple subdocuments within a mongoose schema? I just started using mongoose, and I declared a schema for my data. I'm wondering how I can declare more subdocuments as the same type. Say I wanted to add a second or third location subdocument, how would I do that?
var nest_schema = mongoose.Schema({
company_name: String,
website: String,
chain: Boolean,
date: {
    date_added: Date,
    date_lastupdated: { type: Date, default: Date.now},
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rating: {
    yelp_rating: Number,
    yelp_reviews: Number,
    user_rating: Number,
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locations: {
    location_number: Number,
    location_name: String,
    address: String,
    phone: String,
    hours: {
        Monday: String,
        Tuesday: String,
        Wednesday: String,
        Thursday: String,
        Friday: String,
        Saturday: String,
        Sunday: String,
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drinks: {
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A: Define another schema and embed it in your primary schema:
var nest_schema = mongoose.Schema({
  company_name: String,
  website: String,
  chain: Boolean,
  date: {
    date_added: Date,
    date_lastupdated: { type: Date, default: Date.now},
  },
  rating: {
    yelp_rating: Number,
    yelp_reviews: Number,
    user_rating: Number,
  },
  locations: [locationSchema],
  drinks: [drinkSchema]
});

var locationSchema = mongoose.Schema({
  number: Number,
  name: String,
  address: String,
  phone: String,
  hours: {
    Monday: String,
    Tuesday: String,
    Wednesday: String,
    Thursday: String,
    Friday: String,
    Saturday: String,
    Sunday: String,
  }
});

You'll probably also want to make the drinks its own schema as well:
var drinksSchema = mongoose.Schema({
  drinks: {
    drink: String,
    sizes: {
      small: Number,
      medium: Number,
      large: Number,
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Bryn Curt James Hammond is a West Midlands born best-selling author, journalist and TV personality. He established a name for himself during the mid-millennium when he was catapulted into the spotlight and guaranteed studios' DVD rentals and sales based on his views and opinions and loyal fan base. Bryn Hammond's quotes featured on no less than 100 DVD covers, including Devil's Playground (Danny Dyer), Psychosis (Charisma Carpenter) and Growth (Mircea Monroe).
Bryn started out in the entertainment industry at a young age as a model and worked on various brand campaigns before retiring from the profession in 2001.
In 2004 Bryn took on the small screen and directed the B movie The Summer of the Massacre, which was later remade without his input and released in 2011.
In 2005 Bryn single-handedly launched GoreZone Magazine, which was later rebranded GZ Magazine. GZ closed in 2011 due to personal reasons.
Since GZ Magazine Bryn has written four successful books, including his best-seller A Case for Murder: Brittany Murphy Files.
Two of his books, Anna Nicole Smith Files and Brittany Murphy Files, are part of a ten-part book series titled A Case for Murder, which is currently being translated to a docudrama for TV.
Another offshoot of the A Case for Murder series is the eBook tour guide with a difference, called A Case for Murder: Tour Guide Files, which takes the reader on a tour of the dark side of the USA, predominantly focusing on hotels, night clubs and various other locations where celebrity scandals have occurred, including ghastly murders. These disturbing tourist hotspots are guaranteed to send a shiver down the spine of the most hardened ghost hunter.
The fourth is a cookbook for newbies which helps first-timers learn how to lay the table, arrange a party and make meals on the cheap. Clueless eBook Guide to Food and Dining is a must for any starter-out.
Bryn's unique style of writing sets him apart from the standard run-of-the-mill writers, and his is definitely a name to watch out for.
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but also by its peaceful Rural Hotel "Equelite"Hotel Rural "Equelite", A few meters from the courts we can find a nice large garden. Around this and with pool in the center there are cozy wooden houses.
Located in Villena, this rural hotel is at our academy of high performance in which some of the best tennis player of the world, such as Juan Carlos Ferrero, Nicolás Almagro or Tita Torró, train. So, apart from enjoy this wonderful environment, you can enjoy a great variety of sports such as tennis, paddle tennis, cycling, running, football or golf in any level.
The "wooden garden houses" have a spacious room with a full bathroom, a small terrace and views of the garden; television, Wi-Fi, laundry service, air conditioning and private parking.
In addition, during the tournaments we celebrate at the Academy, both players and coaches will stay with us, in a wide variety of rooms and at an affordable price.
You can read or make your reservation with our team by e-mail at tenis@equelite.com or calling (+34) 965 340 013.


Microsoft is not only trying its best to take back the market which it has lost to Apple but also to make a new consumer base. Recently Microsoft unveiled its new range of products, and boy they are impressive. Apple is known to come up with innovative products; with the launch of these products Microsoft might have just entered into the territory of Apple.
Here we are going to tell you a few details of the products and how awesome they are.
Microsoft is sort of making its own laptop; it is called the Surface Book. Surface Book comes with Windows 10 features. Surface Book has a 13.5-inch display and has an astounding resolution of 3,000x 2,000 pixels. This means that the images and videos will look incredibly sharp and crisp.
There is another feature which makes Surface Book, stand apart. It is a laptop-tablet hybrid. If you want to watch a movie you can remove the display from the keyboard and hold it in your hands. Surface Book is pretty heavy loaded. It comes with 6th generation Core i-series processors and can also be equipped with up to 16GB of RAM. One can choose from the standard Intel graphics chip or the high-powered Nvidia chip. While using it as a laptop, you can use heavy programs and even play a few high-end games on it.
Microsoft has also unveiled Surface Pro 4 which is powered by Windows 10. The Surface Pro 4 comes with a larger 12.3-inch display and is also powered by 6th – generation Core M and i-series processors. Surface Pro also comes with a new Type Cover keyboard. The keyboard comes with improved backlit keys, a better sensitive touchpad and also a fingerprint reader.
The Surface Pro 4 can also use Microsoft's new Surface Pen. The stylus offers 1,024 levels of sensitivity; this means that it can recognize when you are writing with a soft touch and when you are writing with really hard. Also, Microsoft claims that the battery of the pen will last for one year.
Apart from unveiling its two new surface products, Microsoft also unveiled its first true Windows 10 smartphones.
The Lumia 950 comes with a 5.2-inch OLED display while the 950 XL gets a larger 5.7-inch OLED screen. As far as the processor is concerned, the Lumia 950 comes with a 6-core processor, while the 950 XL gets a more powerful 8 core processor. Both the phones come with a 20 mp rear camera and also optical image stabilization. This means that even if your hand is shaking while taking photographs, the photos will come out clear.
Lumia 950 and 950 XL are special, but what makes them unique is that they come with a feature which is called the Continuum Mode. The Continuum Mode lets you plug the phone into a special adapter and allows you to connect it to your desktop monitor which allows your phone to be used like a regular PC. It is like you are looking at a bigger version of your phone.
There are some limitations, though; in order to use the Continuum Mode, you need to buy one of the Microsoft's $100 adapters. Also, if you want to use any app, it should be a universal Windows 10 app.


The ILO's 106th International Labour Conference (ILC) is taking place in Geneva from 4 to 15 June. SOLIDAR has a long standing tradition of participating in the ILC, as it recognises the central role of this UN Agency in promoting social justice and peace through the adoption of international standards on social and labour policies and the monitoring of their full application by its members.
This year's SOLIDAR delegation (composed of FOS, Solidarité Laïque, and the Egyptian Center of Economic and Social Rights) is focussing on the work of the Conference's Committee on the Application of the Standards (CAS). It is interested specifically in Freedom of Association in two countries where SOLIDAR is active: 1) Egypt: with the aim of denouncing the ongoing repression of independent CSOs and trade unions through, among others, the recent adoption of very restrictive legislation. The case of Egypt will be discussed in the CAS on 14 June. 2) Ecuador: with the aim of putting pressure on the Government of Ecuador so that it changes its legislation that does not allow banana workers to form a sectoral trade union.
As indicated in the 2017 Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, Ecuadorian law requires an excessive number of workers (30) for the establishment of workers' associations, enterprise committees or assemblies. As a consequence of this, the Agricultural Workers and Peasants Trade Union Association (ASTAC), a partner of SOLIDAR Belgian member FOS, has not been allowed to register as a trade union.
During the discussion of the case within the CAS, Silvana Cappuccio from the Italian Trade Union Confederation (CGIL), supported by the Austrian Trade Union Federation (OGB), the Luxemburg Trade Union Federation (OGBL), the Belgian Trade Unions (FGTB and CSC), and other workers' representatives, drew the attention of the Committee to the specific violations of ILO Convention 87 on freedom of association regarding banana workers in Ecuador and especially the Agricultural Workers and Peasants Trade Union association, ASTAC.
to take the necessary measures to amend its Labour Code in order to reduce the minimum number of members required to establish workers' associations and enterprise committees.
to set up an independent inquiry into the many anti-union actions which have taken place in Ecuador around the establishment of company trade unions and to undertake remedial action without delay, including those in relation to applications to register trade unions.
At the same time SOLIDAR and FOS asked the EU representatives present in the CAS to ensure a close monitoring of the GoE's obligation to comply with the ILO's Freedom of Association Convention No. 87 in the framework of the free trade agreement that the EU and Ecuador have subscribed.
SOLIDAR at 105th ILO Conference – Global Value Chains: A binding Treaty is needed!


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Chris "Maddog" Russo appearing on WFAN Friday?
If you follow sports radio anywhere in the United States chances are you have heard of "Mike and the Maddog."
For almost two decades they ruled the New York airwaves. They're credited as being the original sports talk show guys. WFAN was the first all sports station in the country and they became a major part of it. It was an odd pairing. At times….very odd. They fought a lot in the early days…..and eventually one of those fights let to the end of their great partnership.
Last year Chris Russo left for Sirus Radio to never be heard from again (I kid!). Couldn't really blame him. For years it was reported that he was always paid less then his partner. That never made any sense to me. They were a team….a solid one at that. They contrasted each other's styles well and brought the best out of each other on the air.
Russo said an emotional goodbye last year….and hasn't been back on the station since.
There was a rumor of a possible Chris Russo appearance on Mike Francesa's show at the Super Bowl this year….but it never materialized. The two have been at war over guests.
Earlier today Chris Majkowski who's a producer at WFAN tweeted that Russo will be appearing on the station tomorrow.
For those listening on our flagship, Francesa and Russo will be together to start the show tomorrow at 1:05 from Yankee Stadium.
Sal Licatta who is Mike Francesa's producer would not officially confirm.
Looking forward to it. Should be great radio.
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Neil Best: 'Mike and the Mad Dog' radio show could be history
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"Mike and the Mad Dog," the most successful, influential show in sports talk radio history, could soon be history itself.
Barring a change of heart, the partnership between Mike Francesa and Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo is not expected to survive to see its 19th anniversary Sept. 5, industry sources with knowledge of the situation said.
They may have already done their final show together; their next scheduled broadcast is not until July 11.
It is not clear which host would remain on WFAN, only that it would not be both of them. One factor appears to be a fraying of their personal relationship in recent months
Is it the end of an era? I've been listening to the show on a regular basis since 2003 and on and off for the 3 years prior to that. Like them or hate them it is really good radio. Is it the most in depth analysis around? Definitely no. But somehow they've carved out their niche over the years and have set the standard by which other sports talk shows are graded.
From time to time (don't ask me why) I check in on this message board. Its filled with the most crazed lunatics in the world. It is pretty much a critique site of WFAN….created by a fan. What you'll find there is a minute by minute critique of most WFAN shows….but a definite daily Mike and the Maddog thread. The site has been mentioned on air. These crazy people do everything from knocking Mike's weight, to laughing at Russo stumbling through the English language to how these two are reacting to each other. A couple of months ago several members started to feel some tension between the two. Do any regular human being…..it'd sound crazy. But these people apparently were right. It all started from Chris' last appearance on Letterman. For whatever reason Letterman doesn't like Francesa….and always has a joke or to about Mike. Ever since Russo's last appearance people have been speculating that something was up.
If they go through with this it'll be a huge blow for WFAN having already lost Don Imus last year. Only if WFAN had sensed this coming…..they could have tried to push Mike Francesa to take the morning show at that time.


SAN FRANCISCO - May 11, 2015 - Mooreland Partners, the leading independent investment bank providing M&A and private capital advisory services to the global technology industry, today announced that it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ:LUNA) on its merger with Advanced Photonix, Inc. (NYSE:API).
SAN FRANCISCO – May 11, 2015 – Mooreland Partners, the leading independent investment bank providing M&A and private capital advisory services to the global technology industry, today announced that it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ:LUNA) on its merger with Advanced Photonix, Inc. (NYSE:API). The combined company will keep the Luna name and be headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, and will have a strong product foundation with Luna Innovations' ("Luna") core test & measurement products and Advanced Photonix's ("API") High Speed Optical Receiver (HSOR) and Optosolutions product lines. Stockholders from both companies approved the transaction on May 8, 2015.
"The merger of API and Luna will result in a much larger, yet more cost efficient company. The combined new company will have the resources necessary to continue investing in growth areas such as Luna's strain and temperature sensing business, and API's next generation of receivers and detectors," said Richard Dalton, Managing Director of Mooreland Partners.
Luna Innovations is a public company composed of scientists, engineers, and business professionals that develop and manufacture next generation technologies and products. The company successfully takes innovative technologies from applied research to product development, and ultimately to the commercial market – driving breakthroughs in the aerospace, automotive, telecommunications, healthcare, energy, and defense sectors.
Advanced Photonix has three product lines, and is a leading supplier of optoelectronic sensors, devices, and instruments used by the test and measurement, process control, medical, telecommunication and Homeland Security markets. API's High-Speed Optical Receiver (HSOR) products are used by the telecommunication market in both telecommunication equipment, and in test and measurement equipment that is utilized in the manufacturing of telecommunication equipment. The Terahertz sensor product line is targeted to the process control (including via non-destructive testing) and security markets. API's T-Gauge® sensor can measure sub-surface physical properties, like multi-layers thicknesses, density, moisture content, anomaly detection and some chemical features, online and in real-time. Optosolutions focuses on enabling manufacturers to measure physical properties, including temperature, particular counting, color, and fluorescence for medical, Homeland Security and process control applications. For more information visit www.advancedphotonix.com.


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VACCINE is a program that, installed resident in memory, acts as a "filter" of the programs that are executed, opened to be read or copied, in real time .
DETECTOR , which is the program that examines all the files on the disk or those that are indicated in a certain path or PATH. It has control instructionsandexact recognition of the viral codes that allow it to capture its pairs, duly registered and extremely quickly disarm its structure.
ELIMINATOR is the program that once the virus structure has been deactivated, proceeds to eliminate it and immediately afterwards to repair or rebuild the files and affected areas.
PER ANTIVIRUS ® fulfills these three functions very efficiently and also includes utilities that rebuild the Boot Sector, the Master Boot Record and the CMOS, as well as routines that allow images of these areas of the system to be recorded on a floppy disk, to be able to restore them later in case of disaster.
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MICG to mark official launch of £18.27 million SIPF project at Ceramics UK
Date posted: June 9, 2022
The Midlands Industrial Ceramics Group (MICG) will be showcasing its work to place the region centre stage within the global advanced ceramics sector at a key event.
Members of the consortium are heading to Ceramics UK at the NEC to introduce the start of its research project, which is set to create thousands of jobs across the region over the next 10 years.
The move comes after the MICG secured £18.27 million government funding provided through UK Research and Innovation's flagship Strength in Places Fund (SIPF), last year.
The MICG is hosting a stand (number 18-724), throughout the exhibition, which takes place on the 29 and 30 June.
From there, visitors can find out more about the goals of the group and the research being undertaken under the SIPF programme, as well as and gain insight into opportunities in the Midlands for those wanting to innovate and produce in the region.
A launch event is also taking place for invited guests on the evening of the 29 June.
Membership of the MICG is made up of blue-chip companies and SMEs including Rolls-Royce, JCB, Morgan Advanced Materials and Lucideon – as well as the universities of Birmingham, Leicester and Loughborough.
Tony Kinsella, the CEO of Lucideon, a lead partner of MICG, said: "Ceramics UK provides a great opportunity for the MICG to celebrate the start of its SIPF programme and to give visitors to the exhibition the opportunity to come to our stand and find out more about the project.
"The advanced ceramics sector is projected to be worth £143 billion by 2023 globally, and the SIPF funding means the Midlands is well-placed to be part of it.
"Ceramics UK provides a great opportunity for us to present how we are collectively working together to achieve our goals."
The MICG has been established to ensure advanced ceramics help drive the competitiveness and success of Midlands' advanced manufacturing by tackling key innovation challenges.
It combines tried-and-trusted industrial and academic expertise to create a unified process for the development and commercialisation of new and enhanced processes and products.
The SIPF funding, combined with partner investment and the creation of new business opportunities, will together make the MICG programme a £42.1 million project.
It is also set to unlock further investment from MICG's partners, including opening-up opportunities for the next stage of the development, an Advanced Ceramics Campus.
This 130,000 square feet development, proposed for North Staffordshire, will make the scheme an £80 million plus project in total, and ultimately contribute towards the growth of 4,200 jobs in the region over the next decade.
More details about MICG can be found at https://micg.org.uk/
Professor Driffield: Foreign Direct Investment and the West Midlands
Nigel Driffield is a Professor of International Business and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Regional Engagement) at the University of Warwick. Prof. Driffield's work enables a region to understand the motivations behind firms investing in the area, thus supporting the region to understand its competitive position when seeking to attract such investment.
Midlands manufacturing strengths make region key to increasing UK's productivity
A new study from the Centre for Social Justice – Making the change: A plan to reboot British manufacturing and restore growth – says a revival of the manufacturing industry in the UK is essential if the government is to achieve its flagship ambition of 'levelling up' the poorest parts of the country. As the UK's manufacturing heartland, this could put the Midlands at the forefront of the nation's economic recovery.
MPs gather in Westminster to rally behind A50/A500 road improvements
Roundtable to be held today (Tuesday 24th January) at 5.00pm in Parliament
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Port Cities, Empires, and Global Maritime Trade in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Connections and Comparisons
Port cities were the spaces where the maritime commercial ambitions of merchants and trade corporations converged with the political and economic aspirations of empires and nation states. Port cities played a significant role in the growth and long sustenance of commercial exchange as well as in the imperial and national political economies. This panel seeks to explore the commercial and political dynamics of some major port cities of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in the 18th and 19th centuries with a focus on the relationship between ports and the markets to which they were connected through trade (foreland). The purpose is to initiate a conversation among scholars/participants working on port cities and maritime trade in different oceanic regions and under different imperial regimes with the hope that this will lead to a comparative perspective on port cities and the relationship between maritime trade and imperial political economies. A major focus of this panel is to explore port cities as sites where political sovereignty was enforced, negotiated, and contested. During this period, empires underwent major political transformations, which had some significant implications for maritime trade and the commercial fortunes of the port cities. The panelists will explore how the port cities navigated the challenges and what were the outcomes. We hope the panel will cover some major port cities of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans as well as the Mediterranean and other seas. In short, we show how ports operated as centers of trans-imperial trade, imperial control, and resistance to imperial authority.
Our panelists will explore the global character of the port cities during this period in their respective areas of expertise by highlighting the trans-imperial/transnational trade networks and their political and economic implications. They will examine the economic and political dynamics that shaped the relationship between empires/nations, port-cities, and maritime trade. In so doing, they will explore how long-distance trade connections facilitated imperial expansion and control but, also at the same time, provided the economic incentives and development for port cities to resist imperial hegemony. Our main objective is to bridge the oceanic divides in the scholarship and develop comparative perspectives on structural and commercial dynamics of port cities as it pertains to imperial and national political economies.
This panel will follow a standard format, with six to eight papers and one or two discussants. The papers will be pre-circulated. Each panelist will have between 15-20 minutes for presentation followed by discussion and Q&A. We plan to have papers on port cities of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and of the Mediterranean and other seas. Each paper will explore one or more issues/inquiries outlined above with an overall objective to develop a global comparative perspective.
Jeremy Land, Georgia State University, United States
Ghulam A. Nadri, Georgia State University, United States
Session members
David Doran, Georgia State University, United States
Constantin Ardeleanu, The Lower Danube University of Galați / New Europe College, Bucharest (Romania) / Utrecht University (The Netherlands), Romania
Gelina Harlaftis, Ioanian University, Greece
Servando Valdés Sánchez , Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Cuba
Vincent Geloso, Texas Tech University, United States
Rodrigo Dominguez, University of Minho, University of Porto, Portugal
Aleksandra Papadopoulou , Institute of Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, Crete, Greece
Chris Nierstrasz, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Manish Kumar, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Discussant(s)
Olli Turunen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Isaac Land, Indiana State University, United States
Panel abstract
Port cities were the spaces where the maritime commercial ambitions of merchants and trade corporations converged with the political and economic aspirations of empires and nation states. Port cities played a significant role in the growth and long sustenance of commercial exchange as well as in the imperial and national political economies. This panel seeks to explore the commercial and political dynamics of some major port cities of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in the 18th and 19th centuries with a focus on the relationship between ports and the markets to which they were connected through trade (foreland). The purpose is to initiate a conversation among scholars/participants working on port cities and maritime trade in different oceanic regions and under different imperial regimes with the hope that this will lead to a comparative perspective on port cities and the relationship between maritime trade and imperial political economies.
From Regional to Global Ports – Imperial Hegemonies, National Policies and an International Organization at the Lower Danube in the Long 19th Century
Constantin Ardeleanu
This paper looks at the shifting economic condition of several Lower Danubian and Black Sea ports after the opening of the Black Sea to international trade and shipping in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Placed in a disputed inter-imperial (Russian, Ottoman and Austrian) borderland, the inland ports of Brăila and Galați, as well as the seaports of Sulina and Constanța became large grain exporters to Mediterranean and western Europe. In the 19th century their development was shaped by imperial forces, national policies, and an international organization, created in 1856 to clear the mouths of the Danube and to improve shipping conditions towards inland Danubian ports. This paper will present, based on quantitative and qualitative approaches, the stages of these ports' development, in a unified, transnational and transimperial perspective.
Iberian Timber Imports from the Baltic, 1669-1857: A Study Based on Sound Toll Registers Online
The export of forest resources, especially timber, from the Baltic during the early modern period has interested historians for decades. Timber was the main raw material for shipbuilding and no maritime nation of Western and Southern Europe could do without the adequate supplies of this strategic raw material. During my research under the ForSEAdiscovery project (http://www.forseadiscovery.eu/), I developed a method for estimating the volume of Baltic timber products exported through the Danish Sound. In this paper, I propose to estimate the volume of Baltic timber imported by Portugal and Spain from 1669 to 1857 and its importance for their shipbuilding industries. Additionally, this paper will also focus on two or three most important timber exporting ports in the Baltic and the most important timber importing ports in both Portugal and Spain.
Quantitative Knowledge Needed: Fur Prices in Quebec during the Fur Trade's Decline
This short note provides the first data series of beaver products price movements (not levels) in Canada that expands beyond the end of French rule. Linking with other available price series allows us to generate a price history of furs in Canada spanning from the late seventeenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
A Methodological Approach of the Economic History of a Sea: The Paradigm of the Black Sea Port-Cities and Their Globalization Process
Gelina Harlaftis
The Integration of the Southern European Frontier of the Russian Empire into the Global Economy: The Evolution of Transport Systems in the Second Half of the 19th Century
Aleksandra Papadopoulou
Like Father, Like Son: Philadelphia's Rise as a Major Port, 1700-1775
Jeremy Land
Prior to independence from Britain, Philadelphia developed into a major port for not only British America, but for the entire Atlantic Ocean. This paper investigates how Philadelphia became a popular destination for goods, both exports and imports.The paper shows how Britain used Philadelphia as a center of imperial control following the end of the Seven Years' War with France. Within the same decade, however, Philadelphia merchants and wealthy elites began to oppose what they viewed as oppressive imperial policies, and by 1775, Philadelphia was the political and geographical center of the fledgling United States. Examining individual merchant papers to fully explore how goods were imported and exported throughout the period, there is significant evidence to show that Philadelphia merchants were engaged in trans-imperial trade, both illicit and licit. Thus, I seek to show that expansion of trade networks expands the political capital that residents of port cities can utilize.
The Boston Tea Party (1773) in a Global Perspective: Commodity Chains of Tea from China to Northern America (1650-1800)
Chris Nierstrasz
The Boston Tea Party (1773) has mainly been studied as an explosive mix of Enlightenment ideals, popular resistance against taxation and consumer-boycotts originating in the British colonies in the Americas. However, there might have been more global dynamics behind this event. This paper studies the symbol that brought tensions in the Americas to a boiling-point, namely long-distance trade in tea. The focus will be on the connection between events in Boston and commodity-chains of tea by the two main East India companies: the Dutch and English one. Moreover, it will go beyond the data of 'company trade' by looking at smuggling of tea in the Atlantic, European Empires and private trade in Asia, intra-Asian trade and Asian entrepreneurship in production of tea. By following the commodity-chain of this product to its origins, the Boston Tea Party comes to life as part of a larger history spanning the globe
Beyond the Atlantic World: Salem's Maritime Trade with Asia in the late Eighteenth Century
Salem was the sixth largest city in the US in 1790 and the richest city per capita. This paper takes a multidisciplinary approach to maritime trade by combining geography and history with economics. It explores the global trajectory of Salem's commercial maritime fleet in the final decades of the eighteenth century through the analysis of trade data obtained in the archives of the Peabody Essex Museum. Cape Town served as the fulcrum, hinge, or pivot to connect the North Atlantic economy with Asia while Mauritius served as their entrepot to the array of Asian commodities. East Indiamen from Salem were laden with cargoes from various port cities in North America and Europe and voyaged to Calcutta, Batavia, Manila, and Canton. This paper illuminates the flow of commodities on Salem vessels that circumnavigated the globe between the port cities of Asia and the North Atlantic economy during the "Age of Sail".
Two Sides of the Same Ocean: Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and the Establishment of a New Kingdom in Portuguese America (1789-1820)
Rodrigo Dominguez
The old Portuguese Empire had many ports and outposts all over the world, among all continents. But two had special importance, mostly for economic and political reasons: Lisbon, as the kingdom's natural main center and hub, connecting all the oceans; and Rio de Janeiro, where the Portuguese Royal Court would be established between 1808 and 1820, pushed out of the country by Napoleon's invasion and the French presence within the Iberian Peninsula between 1807 and 1815. The intent of this essay is to analyze some features of both ports and the interaction between them, through some trade and fiscal data. Moreover, to observe, within a logic of Portugal's political-economic dynamics in a critical period, the establishment of a new balance of power in Latin America, a new economic diplomacy and the commercial networks' rearrangement, from the Independence of former Spanish and British colonies, culminating with Brazil's independence in 1822.
Island Port Cities in the Triangular Relationship between Europe and Cuba-U.S. at the End of the 19th Century
Servando Valdés Sánchez
The Cuban ports, and especially that of Havana, which for many years was the main and only port of trade, were the points of contact with the Old Continent and the emerging neighboring power of the United States in the nineteenth century. Cuba, being an Island, and with a strategic geographical position in the Caribbean was conceived by the Spanish colonial metropolis as a maritime enclave between the two continents. The paper intends to analyze the interaction of the factors that influenced the port dynamics in the late nineteenth century, based on the following variables: Spanish protectionism, the emerging manufacturing takeoff in the main port cities of Cuba in the 1980s, Economic crisis of that decade and its responses, the positions of the Spanish shipping industry interested in accessing the triangular Europe-Cuba-United States trade, etc.
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At The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the British fleet, under Admiral Lord Nelson, defeated the Spanish allied with the French led by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. This battle touched off the War of Independence, or Peninsular War (1808-1813), as Spain's defeat resulted in the Spanish King being forced to abdicate; Napoleon immediately seized power.
In 1808 the French emperor put his brother Joseph Boneparte on the throne; the Spanish government refused to recognise him. The subsequent conflict - the Peninsular War - brought Napoleon's troops to Spain, where they occupied many cities, destroying many buildings and looting artistic treasures. Spain was allied with England against France at this stage, under the Duke of Wellington, and together the armies eventually succeeded in driving out the French troops. One fallen British officer who aided with the liberation of Seville in 1812 was honoured with a memorial.
During this period of French occupation, Spain had its first constitution, in 1812: see La Pepa. This liberal constitution was banned after the Bourbons were restored to the throne, followed Napoleon's departure, in 1814.
There followed further wars of succession, called the Carlist Wars, with one heir to the throne backed by the Church, conservatives and Basques, and the other supported by the Liberals and army.
When Ferdinand VII returned from exile in France and his repressive rule sparked many rebellions. One of the most notable was by General Jose Maria de Torrijos and Robert Boyd. An obelisk was raised to their memory in Plaza de la Merced in Malaga. Another rebellion was the Coloraos in Almeria city whose monument can be seen in Plaza de la Constitucion.
Important buildings from this period include baroque buildings in Ecija and Osuna.


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I retrieve 2 values in my string puck_data and I want to get the first and second values of my array. How can I do that?

A: As the example you set in comments are not printable characters, I think you want a way to print how the array looks like.
This example will show you the array contents converting the byte values to a decimal interpretation of them and give a basis on:
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-How to use StringBuilder.
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rockmoose said:
Halve you ordered the eewings cranks yet?
I have the Sram AXS wireless cranks coming
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Went for a cruise around Watopia with me mate @moorey ! I've told him to get the (RBZ) happening and join the club but he's happy doing secret training for now. Thanks for the RIDE ON !!!!
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After picking up the brake bits went a bit further north for luncheon and happened upon my niece in the local shopping centre carpark. She did not see me. So I followed stealthily and when she unlocked the car I climbed into the passenger seat as she was getting in the driver's side.
I haven't heard screams like that for years.
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So a 'little thing you love' is making someone think they're about to be attacked/sexually assaulted (or worse) to the point they're literally left screaming?
Calling that out as some supremely fucked up behaviour.
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Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
She might have just feared for her cheeks when she saw her uncle?
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Did it reignite your passion for serial killing?
I didn't think of that at the time but yeah it was dumb.
Fuck me, what kind of world are we creating where you can't have a joke with you family without people insinuating rape and violence.
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ozzybmx said:
Not to mention that while she is a tiny tiny lady she could still kick my arse but yes I should have thought about it.
Man I would do that shit at the drop of a hat, people need to lighten up.
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This isn't about cancelling anyone or taking a giant poo on Dales, There's just a lot more going on for women in terms of personal safety than most of us blokes realise.
It could have been someone with malicious intent getting in Dales' niece's car with her.
I read that many women are hyper-alert to their surroundings when walking, going to their parked cars etc, especially at night and/or when alone, because a significant number of women have been threatened/attacked/ mugged/sexually assaulted when out and about.
34 Things Women Do To Stay Safe Show The Burden Of 'Being Careful'
www.huffpost.com
This interactive map of greater sydney is a bit of an eye-opener
click on each one of the orange 'bad' dots, and there's a reported incident that took place there
Plan International's Sydney Map
Thousands of girls and women from Sydney, Delhi, Lima, Madrid and Kampala shared their stories to help create safer and more inclusive cities for everyone.. Map created by CrowdSpot in CARTO
crowdspot.carto.com
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Really depends on your relationship with the relative. Only you can judge that, not others on the internet. If she's a joker then I'm sure you had a good laugh about it.
I am not in anyway condoning the kinds of things some people do to women, but I thought that it is a refreshing change to see that DC has a close enough family in where he can get away with pulling stunts on other family members...i'm sure he wouldn't have done something like this if there was family history or something else going on in the background..
It's a shame that the media and the government has put the fear of god into every man, women and child for almost every activity and event that we do in our daily lives......I wish the world would just lighten the fuck up!
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I 100% understand where you's are coming from but where does the world go from here.
Can't do a jump out an BOOO in case it represents a mugger, cant throw a surprise bday party in case it causes anxiety and panic attacks.
It was only funny 'Uncle Dales', not weird Uncle Dales who seen me in the car park and walked on without speaking in case he was labelled a dirty old pervert.
Shits gone mad
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Great relationship and close family, that side at least. She went from a scream to hysterical laughter but I can see how it looks to some.
Nearly as much fun as 'borrowing' the spare car key and scabbing a lift somewhere and then moving the car after you split up to do different things.
I think I must be a bad person. I got blamed for all the pranks at work. Unfair targeting based on probable cause and guilt. None were dangerous though.
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@Dales Cannon if it makes you feel any better I did a similar thing to my daughter last night, as I may have had one too many pints last night I asked my daughter to pick me up at train station as she had her head buried in her phone and her window down, I stuck my face and went BOO. She screamed and I laughed so did her boyfriend in the drivers seat and her daughter in the backseat.
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The sky 'news' style "everyone's been cancelled, can't do anything any more, everyone gets triggered and should HTFU" isn't really a useful response.
For most of us, it's as you were. I think we can be a bit more aware that shit has gone sideways for some, in a very real sense.
IMO, Dales didn't finish the story that it ended with his Niece laughing ( and maybe a few good shoulder punches to Uncle Dales), and to a degree, I think that's why he got called on it. Also, all we had were the words to go on, not the voice tonality, body language and context.
Shit Has gone mad. But there is also a LOT of fucked up shit going on, so it's no wonder people are a bit jumpy, IMO.
And yes, the media is guilty of some needless beat-ups to try to make us fearful.
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It's fucking staggering how bad it's getting, even if you only take the conservative 1 in 5 statistics:
Most women in their 20s have experienced sexual violence, 'shocking' Australian data shows
Minister says domestic and sexual violence against women and children are at 'epidemic proportions'
The hardest thing to wrap your head from a blokes point of view, is it's not something women are likely to discuss with you. There's a good chance several friends/families have been the victim of sexual assault or abuse, and you just don't know about it. I used to think it was mostly a media beat-up until I sat down and asked some female friends and family members what their experiences have been and the responses were surprising in their frequency and alarming in the severity of several of them (Bear in mind I only asked about 4 of them). Getting flashed seemed to be especially common when they were teens (by weird old dudes in overcoats), getting groped as teens/adults (on public transport or in the workplace) was also commonplace, a couple of them had been stalked home from the train by total strangers (ie: different men on different occasions), one had been grabbed and had a man try to assault them (at night, walking home from a night out but they were not intoxicated luckily) - she had managed to escape and run away. There was also another young woman I knew who sadly had been raped, and more than once at that. First time during a toxic relationship, then by the same bloke several times after leaving him. She shacked up with another bloke who was the big burly "protector" type afterwards but unfortunately he turned out to be a domestic violence-committing piece of shit who beat her when he didn't get his way on trivial things. I also remember that my sister had walked down the same stretch of road as Jill Meagher before Meagher was taken, raped and murdered. My sister had gone through only about 10 minutes earlier, and I still remember my sister talking about it later - much like Jill Meagher, my sister had turned down the offer from a friend to walk to the train station or home with her assuming she'd be safe on her own. She was annoyed with herself for not taking her friend up on the offer, but also so angry that she even has to consider it.
Obviously @Dales Cannon hasn't set out to do anything malicious (aside from the obvious prank), and I was probably a bit blunt with my phrasing given I couldn't sleep and it was 2:30 in the morning - to his credit he's acknowledged it possibly wasn't the best idea with the benefit of hindsight.
(@ozzybmx) I'm all for a 'jump scare' with mates or family, and would suggest just sneaking up behind and yelling "boo!" or rapping your knuckles on the window of the car would be fine as you're basically announcing yourself and it's only a momentary thing where they get startled and then all's good when they spot you. I love a prank generally, but just thought that climbing into the car was a step too far and that the associated fear would/could be too real or too much until she realised what was going on. Fight or flight is a weird thing and you never know how people are going to react. Life goes on, but yeah...
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I am outside the circle of bad shit happening, at least for now. I didn't think about it even for a second as the opportunity was just too great to pass up. Had it been a close friend, male or female, same thing would have been done but I really do see the difference. The carpark was packed so who knows what others thought. Not that I care about that anyway.
I was talking with my BIL today about other stuff, and he was aware of the joke since it has been shared widely around family and friends, and he mentioned a mutual friend in the same area was subject to a home invasion earlier in the week so that was probably in their minds and I was ignorant of this other episode.
I am aware of the continued poor treatment of women and it is a piss poor situation where a woman cannot feel safe in any environment.
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Is not a gynaecologist but will look at your fork
15 years ago I'm sitting at a regional servo after way too little sleep one early morning. Work mate no1 is in my front passenger seat. Work mate no2, who wasn't going to the same place as us but was a creature of habit, had stopped at the same servo and did a dales to us getting in the backseat saying "give me all your money".
Work mate no1 pissed himself. Literally. Had to go change.
Many many laughs. Did scare the fuck out of me too initially so a chick would have an absolute panic.
I'm all for practical jokes. In a modern world we need to be conscious of what goes on for women, half the women I know have been assaulted or sexually assaulted. It's a shit world for them. It's for this reason my 12yo step daughter is a very skilled at Taekwondo, she's already given her 11 yo cousin a concussion when he went too far.
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Competition prize win number 1213: On the last day of last year I received this amazing Garmin Fitness band which I won from Maplin on twitter. Ever since it arrived I have been using it. As some people know I suffer from fatigue, this band has helped me so much because it shows how many steps I have done each day and how many miles I have walked. I also wear it to bed too and it records your sleep quality. I have noticed that I do fidget around a lot during the night. I love the band and I hope to continue using it through the summer when I hope to get out and exercising more with the dog especially as I have put on over a stone in weight in the last year and I am finding it so very hard to shift it.
Competition prize win number 1215: I won a Christmas Pawsome box for my dog Shortie from A Spaniels Tail blog. I love winning prizes for my pets. Shortie really loved the chicken fillets the best. He has played with a few of the toys. As he is a bit older now (12 years old) he has his favourite toys so some of them I am going to give to my friend who has 7 dogs (including 3 puppies).
Competition prize win number 1218: I won an amazing Christmas Hamper from Woman and Home. I find some competitions very odd sometimes in the fact that some sites offer Christmas Hampers etc to win but the closing date is after Christmas. This competition closed in November but I wasn't informed I had won until January. The hamper arrived after having to have it delivered to my friends house as I was away visiting family and it arrived on the day I got back. Such an amazing prize filled with lots of alcohol, condiments, chocolate, biscuits, Christmas cake and pudding and meat. Sadly some of the meat was out of date when it arrived.
Competition prize win number 1224: I won an amazing £150 Joshua James Jewellery Voucher from The LDN Diaries. My fiance Neil and I have been together for nearly 6 years and been engaged for nearly 4 of those years so we thought it might be a nice idea to get wedding rings with the voucher. So hopefully we will find some nice rings with the voucher.
Competition prize win number 1230: I won on the Magners Blippar competition. The prize was a pair of Hunter wellies however they send it in the form of a £95 Schuh voucher which is great for me. As I have big calves a lot of wellies don't fit me so I am going to use the voucher to get some more trainers as I wear them pretty much all the time. I will probably get Skechers trainers as I know they fit well and I love them.
Win 1231 - Whole Earths 3nut butter and pancakes.
And that is all my wins since my last update. I also have a competition running on my blog at the moment so be sure to enter.
Good Luck to everyone entering competitions over the next week.
Why not leave me a comment of your favourite wins of the year so far?
And my first for march was an oxo spiraliser (oxo fb) which im really excited about as ive started my diet, and cant wait to try that! i dont seem to be entering as much as i used to . im trying more effort ones now, especially a lot of photo ones, so my little girl can get involved more.
Wow! You seem to win so regularly. I comp for probably 8-12 hours a day a mixture of blogs, mag dailys, click to wins, Facebook & Twitter plus MSE closing. I do win but the prizes are usually DVDs, etc. Need a boost to spur me on this year.


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Race Miles Klee June 4, 2020
The Real Domestic Terrorists Are Drivers Who Want to Run You Over
Some people can't stop fantasizing about mowing down protesters in their cars
Republicans run the country, and they need a scapegoat to explain why it's such a flaming piece of shit right now. The president and his boot-licking proxies have settled on the "outside agitators" of antifa — a leaderless, anti-fascist non-organization — and attempted to smear those peacefully demonstrating against police brutality as terrorists. Naturally, however, the street activism in U.S. cities of all sizes is entirely homegrown (how can any marchers be from the "outside" if the protests are happening everywhere?), and the ones trying to incite violence at rallies are… wait for it… far-right extremists. Also, the cops, but hey, same thing at this point.
BREAKING: NEWPORT BEACH
DRIVER OF THE MINI COOPER THAT DROVE INTO A CROWD OF PROTESTORS HAS BEEN ARRESTED.
NO SERIOUS INJURIES 🙏#GeorgeFloyd🖤 #BlackLivesMatter #TheGeorgeFloydProtestThread #newportprotest #CaliforniaProtestpic.twitter.com/vpM166rMVo https://t.co/VX3zi88uJN
— LIVE Protest Feed – Cam Grey 👽🛸🖤🌊 (@camerongrey) June 4, 2020
As the videos above confirm, there is another, related danger: angry motorists recklessly plowing into crowds. It is an action without ambiguity — the intent is to intimidate, threaten, harm and terrorize. It is terrorism, the same kind that we saw at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, when a neo-Nazi named James Alex Fields Jr. drove his Dodge Challenger into leftist protesters the weekend of a white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 28 others. Fields is now serving two life sentences, plus an additional 419 years. Months later, Alek Minassian, an avowed incel, allegedly killed 10 and injured 16 in a business district of Toronto with a rented van, targeting pedestrians. Jihadist terrorists have carried out similar deadly vehicle-ramming attacks in New York, Barcelona, London, Stockholm and elsewhere.
A semi-truck sped into a large crowd of protesters on a closed highway in Minneapolis. No one appeared to have been hit, officials say.
Authorities say the driver was taken to a hospital and placed under arrest. https://t.co/HgAtsjorJh pic.twitter.com/xkL9ANZwPT
— ABC News (@ABC) June 1, 2020
A truck driver who drove his 18-wheeler into a massive crowd of protesters in Minneapolis over the weekend has been released from jail without charges https://t.co/qQTrT9gUKj
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 2, 2020
It is appalling, if unsurprising, to see this tactic of war employed against groups who are only obstructing roads to claim the value of black lives and demand the dissolution of our racist police state. Ditto the fact that some drivers have already gotten away with it, in part by failing to hit anyone. What may shock you, though, is how common it is for certain people — think white suburbanites — to openly fantasize about mowing down protesters with their car.
Search the phrase "I will run you over" on Twitter and you'll see no end to the sentiment. While often couched as a hypothetical, since these would-be murderers are always far from the action (e.g., "if I see anyone blocking my way," "if rioters and looters come to my town," "if someone smudges the front grille of my Ford F-350 truck," etc.), there is evident malice to the comments. By posting them on social media, the drivers send a message: We don't brake for human rights.
if i'm driving down the road and you're protesting and hitting my car with a bat, throwing rocks at it, or simply standing in front of it, i will run you over. i learned when i was 5 years old that you aren't supposed to walk out in front of cars on the road.
— toriii✰✰ (@tori_quinter) June 2, 2020
If someone in hays stands In front of my vehicle I WILL run you over…. https://t.co/iFsMEBAndU
— ©asey ®obben™ (@robbencasey) June 1, 2020
Take this as your warning, if you get in my way I will run you over, if you touch my truck I will shoot you. End of story. Try me and somebody else will raise your kids
— Cameron (@Cameron18_) June 1, 2020
Shouldn't be blocking the road and trying to harm his horses. He should've run over more of them then they'd have left.
— Brian C. (@BrianCam1980) June 2, 2020
I'm telling you right now.. IF MY DAUGHTER IS IN MY CAR… and you THINK you gonna bang on my windows and stuff… you're dead. ass. wrong. I'll run you over then get out and beat your ass. Try me over my daughter. Try me. https://t.co/B3qZ2NIR0b
— Rach (@RachelMiller_10) June 1, 2020
Again, much of this "horny for vehicular manslaughter" demographic is watching the unrest in America from home, through the grim ideological lens of Fox News — or worse. They tend to believe that Black Lives Matter protesters are the dangerous "antifa" terrorists that Trump says they are, and targeting random cars to destroy. If these motorists have the slightest inkling of what #BLM is actually hoping to achieve, then they still do not understand why it involves potentially causing traffic — that this is one of the only ways to make an indifferent populace aware of what's going on, let alone care.
To the extent they theoretically approve of free assembly, they'd prefer it to be as invisible as possible: Go ahead and wave your signs, just not anywhere on the route between my house and Target, goddamn it. In this calculus, a minor inconvenience for any person of privilege outweighs the trauma of extrajudicial killings and harassment visited on communities of color. Your movement stops where my commute begins.
i will protest and stand with the black community 100% but if these rioters touch my fucking car as i commute in and out of okc daily, and living on one of the busiest okc streets, i will without a doubt run you the fuck over and not feel bad at all.
— • bree hall • (@breannna96) May 31, 2020
s/o to the small dick trump loving mf in a lifted jeep (ofc) who hit the gas thru a stop sign and turned towards me before the bridge by tin city at the 1st protest while yelling "i'll run you over you fucking liberal c***"
mannn idk who tf you are but please choke on some glass https://t.co/7ZxYE7yWYB
— ☁ (@nbstxxn) June 4, 2020
Get out of my way or I'll run you over.
— Soldier: 76 (@Dad76_bot) May 31, 2020
Protest are ok.. riots and burning shit, and blocking roads.. are not.. I'll run their ass over they try to stop me on the road to work
— Josh Knowles (@Joshknowles1985) June 2, 2020
If I ever encounter protesters blocking the road in front of me I'm not slowing down..I'm driving right through and then not stopping if I hit anyone.
Stay the fuck off the roads. Go protest at a courthouse. If you get in the road and get run over that's on you, not the driver.
— Zander Nordby (@NordbyZander) June 1, 2020
A curious facet of these posts — or not, if you remember how white entitlement works — is the implication that after you hurt someone (or multiple someones) with your car, you can merrily proceed to your destination without consequence. We call this a "hit and run," and depending on the scene of the crime and its outcomes, it may carry a serious felony charge. That a pedestrian is in the street does not give you the right to treat them as a speed bump, despite the GOP's best efforts to legislate this into reality.
Would these road ragers also deliberately swerve into an oblivious jaywalker, or a mentally ill person who has strayed from the sidewalk? At any rate, they never seem to say so. Theirs is the bloodthirsty daydream of a scenario in which they have no choice but to maim and steamroll individuals who happen to be advocating against racism — this pesky fact has nothing to do with it! — and that the barbarous act will not really be their fault but nonetheless, maybe, cause some well-deserved physical trauma. Get out of my way, libs.
The best part is, it doesn't even have to be a car. A well-made bike can also handle the job:
Meanwhile in Bethesda MD, a wealthy enclave outside DC…a man assaults a child for putting up anti-racist signs. The park police are now looking for him. https://t.co/wZMguHtIbz
— Lulu Garcia-Navarro (@lourdesgnavarro) June 4, 2020
Anyone announcing their intent to slam their Mazda into demonstrators at the first opportunity is possessed by fury and fear. It's that simple. But to share a disturbing interior monologue that may become evidence of premeditated murder lets us know they believe in a culture that would protect and justify this action — and, frighteningly enough, this isn't wildly off-base. The ascendant movement in America right now poses literally zero threat to them, yet they are prepared to take a life to escape its general vicinity. Maybe they could reevaluate that choice.
Miles Klee
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Q: Scala with android studio I have a project in Java with Android studio 3.2, and I want to add some Scala files.
I have already read this Using Scala with Java in Android Studio
and I have some questions about it.
From what I understand, when you want to have java and scala files, it's better to use the gradle scala plugin instead of the scala plugin.
But because the topic is rather old, I was wondering if it's still true, or if I should use the scala plugin.
Thanks for the answers and any advice!

A: I create fork this plugin https://github.com/AllBus/gradle-android-scala-plugin
This version of the plugin supports Android 28 and Gradle 5.3
write this code in build.gradle file
buildscript {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
    dependencies {

        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.3.2'
        classpath 'com.github.AllBus:gradle-android-scala-plugin:3.3.2'
    }
}

and add app/build.gradle
apply plugin: "com.android.application"
apply plugin: "jp.leafytree.android-scala"

android {
    compileSdkVersion 28
    ...

}

dependencies {
    implementation "org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.11.12"
    ...

}


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My name is Harrison Thomas, and I am a rising junior studying Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Chemistry. This summer for my Curb Scholars Internship I am working in an organic chemistry synthesis lab in the Vanderbilt Chemistry Department. My specific project is focused on synthesizing a new antibiotic to target drug-resistant bacteria. The compound I am making was originally isolated in a natural setting but has yet to be produced synthetically in a laboratory setting, which would ultimately allow for mass production and use of this antibiotic.
Modern medicine is currently facing the alarming fact that there is a steady rise in multidrug-resistant bacterial infections in addition to a drastic decline in the development of new antibiotics to target these bacteria. This trend threatens to impede many healthcare advancements and cutting-edge biomedical research, as simple hospital acquired infections are becoming increasingly lethal with no effective antibiotic treatments. While the challenge is daunting, I am extremely excited to be working on creative solutions to the problem. I find this research especially interesting because I have a passion for medicine and healing people, and for decades basic antibiotics have been the first line of defense to alleviate illnesses. To now be making a brand-new medication that may soon become regularly prescribed by physicians is such a fascinating concept.
The actual procedure of synthesizing a new molecule is full of trial and error. Sometimes experiments fail more often than they succeed, but that is all part of the journey. So far, I have loved the problem-solving aspect of this research. I find myself waking up early in the morning thinking about how to fix a certain problem or how to optimize a reaction. In a way, the process is also like a puzzle, but in addition to putting all the pieces together just right, I also have to make all the pieces too, ensuring they are compatible.
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No Vacancy
Posted in: No Huddle by Brent Lorentson on July 3rd, 2014
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After the number of horror films I've seen, the prospect of going on a road trip and taking a back road seems like just about the worst idea anyone could ever have. Whether it's in the mountains where you have to fear backwoods cannibals (Wrong Turn) or it's the open desert highway and fearing maniacs in semi-trucks (Joy Ride), really, is anywhere safe to travel? Even the quaint little roadside motel is a place to fear, and I don't mean the bedbugs either. No Vacancy comes along on DVD as families and friends are getting ready to embark on the open road, and in case none of the previously-mentioned films were enough to make you think twice about that road trip, perhaps No Vacancy will.
A group of friends are on their way to Vegas; considering they're all young twenty-somethings, I seriously doubt it's to catch Celine Dion live on stage. Drinking and plenty of debauchery seems to be on the menu for these guys, that is until they get two flat tires and are stranded in the middle of nowhere. The guys set off to find help while leaving the girls behind with the car. The help that the guys do find turns out to be better than they ever could have expected.
At a little rest stop where there is a motel and a little dinner, there is a group of young people that work around the area and take in the guys that are in need of help. But our travelers are treated to free drinks and food while their car gets repaired. Of course all this should seem too good to be true, but no one seems to question anything, even when the travelers are all put up at no charge in the motel.
What follows is an odd mix of Saw meets The Devils Rejects, unfortunately not in a good way. What I give the film credit for is that it looks good, but this is the kind of polish that you would more associate with a Michael Bay film and not a horror film. This is a film that should have gone a darker direction in terms of its look and style. Considering the trailers promote the film "from the director of You've Got Served", it leaves little for the horror fans to get excited about.
Sure, there are some creative and gruesome kills throughout the film, but the film just doesn't seem to have much substance to it. The travelers are characters that are relatively hard to sympathize with considering they are cookie-cutter characters who just fill in the spots as victims to add to the body count. As for "the helpers" at the motel, even though they are cold-blooded sociopaths, they are characters the audience can at least sympathize with once it's discovered why they are out to kill these weary travelers.
Though it may lack in the originality department, the film is still enjoyable. The good-looking cast, solid camera work and decent kills at least make the film a brainless thrill ride. This isn't a film that is attempting to break the mold of horror but instead just be a film to enjoy late at night.
Brent Lorentson
Brent Lorentson is a horror writer and film critic based out of Tampa, Florida. With a BA in Digital Film, he co-wrote and co-directed Scavenger Hunt. His short stories have appeared in various horror anthologies. In 2019 his short script Fertile Blood will be a part of the anthology horror film Slumber Party. He is currently working on his first novel A Dark and Secret Place set to be released in late 2019. Favorite Films: Taxi Driver, Fight Club, I Saw the Devil, The Wild Bunch, Dawn of the Dead, A Clockwork Orange, Pulp Fiction, Heathers, The Monster Squad, and High Fidelity.
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In Episode 12 Dale Chance joins us by phone as he recovers from his car accident.
In episode 11 we welcome back Nate Figgs along with Lenny.
Lenny took the evening off & The Motor City Madman was back with us & filled in admirably. For those who want to hear more about his background in power lifting be sure to tune in.
Xmas & New Year holiday break is finally over and we welcome back The Motor City Madman in episode 9.
In episode 7 we update everyone on Emma's condition & welcome Mike P. on to the show. He was Lenny's first training partner back in the mid 90s before the days of Andrew Collura. He also happens to have The Iron Sheik's phone number, so we gave him a call! Check Youtube for some highlights of this episode.
"Synthol" Marc joins the crew in Episode 6.
Emma joined us on the podcast last night. She was a lot of fun and kept the conversations interesting. Plus Jay masters joins us by phone and gives Lenny some good advice.
In Episode 4 we welcome Nate Figgs to sit down with us as he gets the opportunity to confront Jason about some of the things he's said & done.
In Episode 3 we welcome Big Richard & Jason into the mix for over 2 hours of fun.
Jay Masters is in town for the week and made an appearance in a 3+ hour podcast marathon. He did not disappoint. Sound issues have been addressed for the most part, still a work in progress. Episode 3: Big Richard! Stay tuned... **And for those who have been requesting videos to go along with the podcasts, parts of this one & future ones were filmed. They'll be up on the Youtube channel ASAP, but please be patient.
Here it is, episode 1 of our Misfit podcast journey. We apologize if the sound levels aren't ideal or if there's some echoing. We're still in the process of perfecting the technical side of everything. We look forward to having different guests on as often as possible, including big Jay Masters next week when he's in town. Enjoy the ment.


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I don't know where the boy got this idea but he came to me with this sketch and a promotional toy ball and requested that we cover the ball in yarn and "knit" the body. My kids often come up with ideas they really can't accomplish on their own and I generally fall for "helping" them make their creations. They do make plenty of their own creations with very little help.
In the advertising world, the production artist is the person who makes the creative or art director's sketch into reality. Although they are usually at the bottom of the org chart, a good production artist is worth their weight in gold. I am not a good production artist. But I suppose this was good practice. The art director seemed pleased with the results and was even persuaded to help with some of the production.
We have recently acquired a rather large collection of worsted weight acrylic yarn balls in all colors from a neighbor and I have found these quite useful for occasions such as these. He quickly picked out the desired colors and I went to work on crocheting a cover for the toy ball. Yes, I could knit this but I'm better at winging it with crochet and I find it easier to get a firmer fabric with crochet, so better for dolls and animals.
Boring part over we moved on to the body. I started each foot and then had him sit in front of me and helped him through single crocheting the stripes. It's just a matter of sticking the hook through the right hole and pulling out a loop of yarn. We joined the legs into a body with more stripes, I did the decreases toward the neck and crocheted the arms and the blue eye rounds. He helped me sew on the arms and the details on the face. I did about one row of hair and he did the rest, styling as he went.
He took it to class for share day with a cardboard guitar he made. Rock on, mohawk dude.
I'm always trying to find a way to contain the girl's hair. It's wispy just like mine. I tried this quick headband with some leftover yarns. The first one was made following this pattern from Carissa Knits (Ravelry link). The only changes I made was to size it down for a smaller head (8″ ties and 8″center). It turned out to be stretchy enough that I could wear it too.
I added some rather roughly crocheted white flowers to the ballet pink basketweave headband. The ties are made with I-cord which I had never tried before. It turned out to be fast and easy and fun! The second one was made from green cotton using the same recipe but substituting garter stitch for the basketweave and I used some of the pink yarn to embroider some wonky flowers. The green one is going to my little niece for Easter. Hopefully she won't notice that embroidery is not one of my better skills.
These were so simple I actually made two in one day despite the crankies. I may even make one for myself, I have a little ball of dark plum colored cotton that might be just right.