a) @ Rs. 1,855/- per 8 wheeler wagon for BUlk/Bagged/General cargoes operating from hard surface sidings at KSLK.
a) @ Rs. 2,100/- per 8 wheeler wagon for BUlk/Bagged/General cargoes operating from Concrete siding at North of Spur-2 of KSLK, Except Bagged Fertiliser & Rice Cargoes.
2. In-Motion weighbridge usage charges is Rs. 3.50 /- per M.Ton.
3. The in-motion weighbridge operation is governed by prevailing railway norms/circulars for weighment, weight adjustment, re-weighment, demurrage charges, shunting engine charges, detentions etc…and costs associated are to be borne by railway users(co-users).
4. The users are to make suitable arrangements to unloading/loading the wagons within the free time allowed by Railways. Over and above the free time, demurrage charges for detention are payable as per the Railway Rules.
5. The users wishing to utilize the siding will have to give volumes commitment letter along with interest free deposit of Rs. 10.00 Lakhs as security deposit for the duration of the commitment offered by the party.
6. KSPL reserves the right to adjust all or any dues from the security deposit of the user concerned.
7. KSPL will act on behalf of Railways to the extent authorized by the railways and enforce all the prevailing rules, regulations and procedures of the Indian Railways.


Who was considered for The World of Suzie Wong?
France Nuyen was considered for the role of Suzie Wong, some reports say she actually filmed some of the movie but was eventually replaced by Nancy Kwan.
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She and her 18-year-old boyfriend, YBN Almighty Jay are expecting their first child together. So far, Chyna has two other children for the time being, one by Rob Kardashian and another by Tyga.
And the couple seems to be REALLY happy about it. 29 year old Chyna stepped out yesterday showing off her two and a half month along BABY BUMP.
Chyna was wearing a Married to the Mob brand cheetah print outfit for her flight to Los Angeles at LAX with her boyfriend YBN Almighty Jay.
She smiles for the cameras and at one point rubbed her stomach.
Congrats to the happy couple if these news actually turns out to be true.


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Playing Algorithm'n Blues
We all live in the Age of the Algorithm.
So here's a story that not only encapsulates the age, but dwells on how the algorithm obsession can go horribly wrong.
It all started when Facebook censored the iconic photo of «napalm girl» Kim Phuch, which became a symbol of the Vietnam War recognized all over the world. The photo was featured in a Facebook post by Norwegian writer Tom Egeland, who wanted to start a debate on «seven photographs that changed the history of war».
Not only his post was erased; Egeland was also suspended from Facebook.
Aftenposten, the number one Norwegian daily, owned by Scandinavian media group Schibsted, duly relayed the news, alongside the photo.
Facebook then asked the paper to erase the photo – or to render it unrecognizable in its online edition. Yet even before the paper responded, Facebook censored the article as well as the photo in Aftenposten's Facebook page.
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg protested it all on her Facebook page. She was also censored.
Aftenposten then slapped the whole story on its front page, alongside an open letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg signed by the newspaper director, Espen Egil Hansen, accusing Facebook of abuse of power.
It took a long 24 hours for the Palo Alto colossus to back off and «unblock» the publishing.
An opinion wrapped up in code
Facebook had to be engaged in much post-fact damage control. That does not change the fact the «napalm girl» imbroglio is a classic algorithm drama, as in the application of artificial intelligence to evaluate content.
Facebook, just like other Data Economy giants, happens to delocalize filtering to an army of moderators working in companies from the Middle East to South Asia, as Facebook's Monika Bickert confirmed.
These moderators may have a hand on establishing what should be expunged from the social network, according to what customers may signal. But the information is then compared to an algorithm, which comes up with the final decision.
It doesn't take a PhD to note these moderators may not exactly excel in cultural competence, or are capable of analyzing context. Not to mention algorithms – which are incapable of «understanding» cultural context and are certainly not programmed to interpret irony, sarcasm or cultural metaphors.
Algorithms are literal. In a nutshell; algorithm is an opinion wrapped up in code.
And yet we are now reaching a stage where a machine decides what is news. Facebook for instance now relies solely on an algorithm to establish which stories to position in its Trending Topics section.
There may be an upside to this trend – as in Facebook, Google and YouTube using systems to quickly block Daesh videos and similar jihadi propaganda. Soon eGLYPH will be in effect – a system similar to Content ID on YouTube which censors videos that violate author's rights using «hashing»; video and audio signaled as «extremist» will be assigned a unique footprint, allowing automatic removal of any new version and blocking any new uploading.
And that will bring us to even murkier territory; the very concept of «extremism» itself. And the effects on all of us of self-censorship systems based on algorithmic logic.
How WMDs run our life
It's under this spectrum that a book such as Weapons of Math Destruction, by Cathy O'Neil (Crown Publishing) becomes as essential as the air that we breathe.
O'Neil is the real deal; PhD in Math in Harvard, former professor at Barnard College, former quant at a hedge fund before reconverting as a data scientist, and a blogger at mathbabe.org.
Mathematical models are the engines of our digital economy. That propels O'Neil to formulate her two critical insights – which may startle legions who regard machines as simply «neutral».
1) «Math-powered applications powering the data economy [are] based on choices made by fallible human beings».
2) «These mathematical models [are] opaque, their workings invisible to all but the highest priests in their domain: mathematicians and computer scientists. Their verdicts, even when wrong or harmful, [are] beyond dispute or appeal. And they tend to punish the poor and the oppressed in our society, while making the rich richer».
Thus, O'Neil's concept of Weapons of Math Destruction (WMDs); or how destructive math models are accelerating a social earthquake.
O'Neil extensively details how destructive math models now micromanage vast swathes of the real economy, from advertising to the prison system, not to mention the finance industry (as in all the after effects of the never-ending 2008 crisis).
These math models are essentially opaque; unaccountable; and target above all «optimization» of the (consuming) masses.
A golden rule is – what else – to follow the money. As O'Neil puts it,
for «the people running the WMDs», their «feedback is money»; «the systems are engineered to gobble up more data and fine-tune their analytics so more money will pour in».
Victims – as in Obama administration drone strikes – are mere «collateral damage».
Parallels between the finance casino and Big Data are inevitable – and it helps that O'Neil worked on both industries. This is something I examined in a column on how.
Silicon Valley follows the money. We see the same talent pool of elite US universities (MIT, Stanford, Princeton), the same obsession of doing whatever it takes to rake more cold hard cash for the outfit that employs them.
WMDs favor efficiency. «Fairness» is a mere concept. Computers don't understand concepts. Programmers don't know how to code concept – as we saw it in the «napalm girl» story. And they also don't know how to adjust algorithms to reflect fairness.
What we do have is the concept of «friendship» being measured by likes and connections on Facebook. O'Neil sums it all up; «If you think of a WMD as a factory, unfairness is the black stuff belching out of the smoke stacks. It's a emission, a toxic one».
Gimme cash flow, now
In the end, it's the Goddess of the Market that rules it all – prizing efficiency, growth and endless cash flow.
Even before the «napalm girl» fiasco, O'Neil had made the crucial point that Facebook actually determines, according to its own interests, what everyone sees – and learns – in the social network. No less than two-thirds of American adults have a Facebook profile. Nearly half, according to a Pew Research Center report, rely on Facebook for at least some of their news.
Most Americans – not to mention most of Facebook's 1.7 billion users around the world – ignore that Facebook tinkers with the news feed; people actually believe that the system instantly shares anything that is posted with their community of friends.
Which brings us, once again, to the key question in the news front. By tweaking its algorithm to model the news people see, Facebook now has all it takes to game the whole political system. As O'Neil notes, «Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon have vast information on much of humanity – and the means to steer us in any way they choose».
Their algorithms, of course, are strategically priceless; ultimate, non-transparent, trade secrets; «They carry out their business in the dark».
In his recent, much publicized trip to Rome, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook is «a high-tech company, not a news company». Well, not really. The most intriguing aspect of the «napalm girl» fiasco may be the fact that Shibsted, the Scandinavian media group, is planning huge investments to create a new social forum and defy – who else – Facebook. Get ready for a brand new war in the WMD front.
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Moody's downgrades ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank
New Delhi: Credit ratings agency Moody's Monday downgraded India's three top private sector lenders -- ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank -- on growing concerns over the country's sovereign debt ratings.
Moody's lowered the standalone ratings of these top three private sector lenders to the sovereign ratings level of D+ from earlier C-. The lenders' hybrid rating is also lowered a notch to Baa2 from Baa3.
'The downward revision to the three Indian banks' standalone ratings reflects Moody's assessment that their creditworthiness are highly correlated with that of the Indian government's credit strength,' Moody's said in a report.
For all three banks, the key drivers for the rating action were: relatively low level of cross-border diversification of their operations; high level of balance-sheet exposure to domestic sovereign debt, compared with their capital bases; franchise resilience and intrinsic strength within the operating environment; and absence of ongoing support from foreign ownership.
'Our review indicated that there are little, if any, reasons to believe that these banks would be insulated from a government debt crisis,' Moody's said.
Moody's pointed out that all these three lenders have significant direct exposure to the Indian government securities: equivalent to 239 percent of tier-1 capital at Axis Bank, 226 percent of tier-1 capital of HDFC Bank, and 143 percent of tier-1 capital at ICICI Bank.
'In addition, these three banks are primarily domestic institutions with similar macroeconomic exposures as the sovereign government,' it said.
With assets of Rs.4,736.47 billion as on March 31, 2012, ICICI Bank is India's largest private sector lender followed by HDFC Bank with assets of Rs.3,379.10 billion and Axis Bank Rs.2,856.28 billion.


North Reformed Church is known among city leaders for its work in community outreach. The church works with the Bessie Green Community, Inc., a non-profit organization, to provide help for individuals and families through food and clothing distribution, counseling and job training.
Each year we partner with Bessie Green and a number of volunteers to provide a delicious Thanksgiving Day dinner. The food is great and the fellowship is nourishing to the soul.
It is North Church's privilege to provide the space for Bessie Green Community Inc. They provide breakfast and lunch three days a week to our homeless and hungry neighbors. Bessie has a well-stocked clothing barn and a food pantry. It is a privilege to provide a bag a groceries to someone who has been burned out or their welfare check stolen. Visit the website of Bessie Green to learn more about that ministry.
North Reformed also partners with a variety of ministries in the city of Newark and within the Classis of Passaic Valley.


(h) films has just finished shooting a beauty 45" commercial for RILASTIL (body oil) with director Kal Karman.
The idea – GreyUnited is the agency – revolves around the concept of elasticity, found in nature and in the skin of women of all ages so the film is a delicate visual parallel between women and water, grass, light.
The shoot took place in Palma de Mallorca in beautiful locations and under fantastic, sunny skies.
The main model, originally from Cuba, was casted in Milano. The other women were chosen from a cast in Barcelona and in Palma.


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The Popinjays special with Wendy Robinson
The Popinjays special with Wendy Robinson in conversation
The band was formed by Wendy Robinson (vocals) and Polly Hancock (vocals, guitar), initially with a drum machine. This line-up recorded the debut "Don't Go Back" EP on Big Cat UK (catalogue number BBA02) in August 1988) achieving "Single of the Week" in Melody Maker. A John Peel session, produced by Dale Griffin and recorded at the BBC studios in Golders Green, London, was first broadcast on 21 September 1988 and repeated on 11 October 1988. It featured four original songs; "Perfect Dream Home", "Fine Lines", "Dr Fell" and "Backward" Daydream. They then recruited Dana Baldinger (b. Seattle, WA), and signed to One Little Indian Records, releasing "Please Let Me Go" as a single in April 1990; this too attained Single of The Week in Melody Maker. Baldinger was eventually replaced by Anne Rogers of The Crowd Scene. In December 1989, the British music magazine NME reported that the Popinjays, along with others such as Power of Dreams, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and The Charlatans, were their pick as 'stars of tomorrow'.
Their debut album Bang Up To Date With The Popinjays was released in April 1990 and was followed by a live tour in May and June 1990 with One Little Indian label mates Kitchens of Distinction. In the autumn of 1990 Seamus Feeney joined the line up on drums making the band a four-piece for the first time. The band continued with live shows through the autumn, touring with both Cud and The Heart Throbs. The next single Vote Elvis was produced by Jessica Corcoran at The Greenhouse studios in London. In 1991 The Popinjays signed to US Independent label Alpha International and the single Vote Elvis was released in the United States in April 1991 entering the billboard Modern Rock charts the following month peaking at number 17 in June 1991.
In August 1991 the band played at the Reading Festival UK and in December of that year the second album Flying Down to Mono Valley was recorded at The Farmyard with Ian Broudie producing.
On 11 May 1992 the single Monster Mouth was released by One Little Indian records and a UK tour to support the release of the album Flying Down to Mono Valley followed from August through to October 1992.
In 1992 the rhythm section was replaced by two brothers and former members of the band Airhead, namely bassist Ben Kesteven and drummer Sam Kesteven.
In 1994 the third and final album Tales from the Urban Prairie was recorded and released, again on One Little Indian Records. a BBC Radio live session with Mark Radcliffe was broadcast on 1 June 1994.
After a 21-year hiatus, in April 2015 The Popinjays original line up of Wendy Robinson and Polly Hancock played their first live show in 21 years at The Lexington, London on April 4, 2015, and again at Indie Daze at The Forum London on October 3, 2015.


Rye has been on a steady upward swing over the past several years, driven in large part by the similar upward trajectory of classic cocktails. The notion that a proper Manhattan should be made with rye has taken hold, rightfully so in our opinion – the spicier profile of rye just balances so well with sweet vermouth and a touch of bitters. Of course, savvy distillers and marketers are looking to take advantage of this trend. Just this week, the folks behind Bulleit Bourbon introduced a new rye, Bulleit 95, Small Batch American Rye Whiskey. Bulleit 95 is 90 proof, 95% rye mash and 5% malted barley, and, according to Bourbonblog.com, is aged between 4 and 7 years. It's also rumored (now confirmed) to be sourced from LDI in Indiana, whose production of Templeton Rye has impressed many. At $25-$30, Bulleit 95 competes squarely with the Russell's Reserve 6 year old Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey (also a "small batch") – a level in price well above Old Overholt and well below the big bad boys like High West Rendezvous Rye, Thomas Handy and Van Winkle Family Reserve. We decided to undertake a "taste test" between the Bulleit 95, the Russell's Reserve, and the Rittenhouse Bottled in Bond (100 proof, at least 4 years old), a much-lauded bargain bottle ($15-$22) that is increasingly hard to find.
These three ryes make a fascinating lineup. In the glass, neat, the Russell's Reserve has the lightest color, a light golden amber, despite the fact that it's the only one that states its age – a solid six years. The Bulleit 95 kicks it up a notch to a delightful amber hue, and the Rittenhouse moves into deep copper territory, with a clearly thicker viscosity. On the nose, the distinctions are also clear. The Bulleit 95 is laden with sweet caramel, vanilla, oak and cherry, but evolves nicely in the glass, with layers of buttered popcorn weaving in and out of the toasty wood. The Russell's Reserve instantly hits your nose with grassy, herbal notes, certainly more rye-like in character. And then the Rittenhouse brings the full on rye spice – heady, full, a touch of heat (it is 100 proof), and a molasses-y depth that calls to mind rum raisin.
Sipped neat, the Bulleit 95 has a lovely, lingering mouthwatering presence. The rye spice emerges here, and stays through for a long finish with a kick. This is a nice sipper, enough rye that you know what it is, but very well balanced. The Russell's Reserve absolutely kicks it up a notch, more spice, more burn, more rye character. Not better per se, but definitely more of a prototypical rye. The Rittenhouse is a bit of a beast, and definitely benefits from a touch of water, with softens and smooths out its rough edges. As a sipping whiskey, the Bulleit 95 wins the round, though does not bring the combination of deep rye character that you will find in more expensive ryes like the High West Rendezvous.
The ultimate rye cocktail in our book is the Manhattan. Simple. Classic. Superbly balanced. We tried these three ryes in a classic combination of 2 parts rye to 1 part sweet vermouth, with two dashes of bitters and a twist of lemon. Here, the Bulleit 95 came across as a bit too mellow, allowing the vermouth to grapple away the drink. The Russell's Reserve produced a very nice balance, but the assertiveness of the Rittenhouse really kicked the drink up a notch. We're not saying that it will work better in all cocktails (or even with other variations of a Manhattan), but the Rittenhouse rye really makes a great Manhattan (and is a bargain to boot).
These three fine ryes are all worthy of a place in your bar – depending on what you're looking for. Cheers to Bulleit for making a rye that stands apart, though it won't be the rye that seizes the cocktail crown. The Rittenhouse Bottled in Bond is a stellar bargain and a superb cocktail rye. The Russell's Reserve offers a solid middle ground, and if your tastes veer to the herbal, grassy edge of rye, this is the one for you. So… what's your favorite rye… and why?
Brad, well done reviews as always. I can't wait to try the Bulleit. I'm a little leery of the "let's all get our rye from LDI" approach that many are taking, but in the end – what's in the bottle tells the tale. I do enjoy the other two you reviewed immensely. I'd say the Rittenhouse BIB is my fave of the two but I dearly love the Russell's Reserve also.
Excellent review. I recently discovered rye through trying classic American cocktails at several bars in San Francisco where the the whisky cocktail revolution is heating up. As a Scotsman (yes, I'm a single malt Scotch lover) some rye whiskies are rather good. Different, yes, great in cocktails and interesting sipping whiskies. They are to American whiskey what the peaty Islays are to Scotch.
The best rye's I've had are the Rittenhouse 25 year and High West Rendezvous. For a more affordable every day rye, and one that makes an outstanding Old Fashioned, I reach for Sazerac.
Allen, those are indeed some good ones. And Sazerac is a solid choice as well (in fact, that aren't too many American ryes that flat out miss the mark).
Since the Bulleit Rye's label notes that it was made in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, I don't think that "Sourced from LDI" is a rumor. LDI is the only working distillery there.
Eric, true, true. It's about a 99.999% likelihood, though I haven't heard them publicly state that LDI is the source!
Great reviews, the only rye I've had is Tuthilltown Manhattan Rye, which is phenomenal ($40 a 375ml though :0 ) Tonight I picked up the Ritten 100proof with the Bulliet to follow. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks, let us know what you think of them!
Love the rittenhouse, for $15 bucks how can you go wrong. Used it with your Manhattan recipe…monday I'll be buying a replacement bottle.
Where the heck can you buy Rittenhouse 100p. for $15? I'll buy five cases!
Rittenhouse 100 ? Ok Whiskey but nothing special. No off flavors but no great depth either. It is what it is and should be around $15 but now due to all the positive press the price is escalating to be over $20 here in New York. Side by side with Bonded Old Grand-Dad which is also rye forward, the Old Grand-Dad has more flavor and much more unique profile that has that unique piercing rye sting which I like.
Simple supply and demand. No rye distiller expected the current renaissance (craze) so everyone was caught off guard. IMO, I feel we're all lucky that the prices haven't jumped more. Luckily rye doesn't need to be barreled long, soon enough there will be a glut in the marketplace—hopefully with some tasty new offerings and competitive pricing to go along with them!
My Dad loved rye whiskey in the 50's and I tasted it then but it was too strong. I was maybe 12. Recently we had a sazerac that demanded rye and we loved it. So my wife visited Mount Vernon and bought a rye for $95 that was made at Mt Vernon in the original still and with rye grown there. All according to George's recipe Well It was terrible. But I got some Wild Turkey rye and it is great; better than bourbon and not as stringent as scotch. It really tastes American. I am a Rittenhouse (my Grandmother's maiden name) and I have a bunch of the old family stuff so I feel close. Now I see there is a Rittenhouse Rye! Wow! I cannot wait. But where in the hell is it? What a discovery. So. Come on rye. Make my day in my early 70's.
Sam, Rittenhouse Rye is widely available, and has been around in some form since the 1930's, but demand exceeds supply. You might want to call a few liquor stores around you to inquire.
I love the Bulleit Rye! An old army buddy and I last summer polished off a bottle in a few hours. I tasted great sipping it over big pieces of ice.


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iPhone 11 camera said to have Pixel-like night mode, but you can already get something similar on your iPhone
Image source: ConceptsiPhone, YouTube
By Zach Epstein @zacharye
Apple's next-generation iPhone 11 lineup might end up looking a whole like like last year's iPhone XS and 2017's iPhone X, but it's still shaping up to be a pretty huge upgrade. The new Apple A13 processor is expected to offer massive performance gains and important improvements in efficiency, resulting in much faster phones with at least the same battery life as last year's models. The design of the new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max will get a big overhaul, with frosted glass backs and other big changes. There will also be plenty of new features to enjoy, such as reverse wireless charging and a new photography mode that captures content outside the frame, allowing you to re-crop your shots after you take them. And speaking of photography, that's where the most significant improvements are likely to be found.
Once upon a time not so long ago, Apple was the undisputed champion of smartphone cameras and the gap between iPhones and Android phones was massive. Then, a few years ago, Huawei devoted a ton of resources to improving its smartphone cameras, and it overtook Apple by a wide margin. Since then, other Android phone makers have also surpassed Apple, including Google and Samsung. In 2019, however, Apple is seemingly looking to retake the throne.
The iPhone 11 will have a new dual-lens camera on the back, but the biggest upgrade will be found on the flagship iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max. A new triple-lens rear camera system will add a super wide-angle lens to Apple's regular wide-angle and telephoto lenses, and we're also expecting huge improvements enabled by new camera software. According to rumors, those improvements will include a special new mode that will capture much higher-quality photos at night.
Google wowed us all when it first introduced Night Sight on its Pixel smartphones. This new photography mode used artificial intelligence to dramatically improve the clarity of low-light photos, and the results were quite literally jaw-dropping.
Google's Night Sight has only gotten better since it was first introduced, and other Android phone makers have tried to come up with similar solutions of their own. Samsung's night mode isn't bad, but nothing else quite measures up to Night Sight. Next month, however, that may change.
Rumor has it that Apple has finally cooked up a new night mode of its own, and it will yield impressive results when capturing low-light photos. In fact, knowing Apple, it might end up being even better than Google's Night Sight mode, since Apple typically waits until it has achieved the best possible quality before releasing new features.
The downside of the new night mode on Apple's iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max may be that it's exclusive to these new 2019 iPhone models. Google's Night Sight is available on older Pixel phones, but Apple could decide to keep all of the iPhone 11's new camera features exclusive in order to help boost new iPhone purchases. iPhone sales have been declining pretty steadily lately, so Apple needs all the help it can get. If you want something similar on your current iPhone, however, there are already a few intriguing options you can check out.
A thread on Reddit drew our attention to an app called NeuralCam Night Photo, which is designed to recreate Google's Night Sight on an iPhone. It uses the same type of technology to illuminate dark photos, and the results can be fairly impressive. We tested the app ourselves, and here is the sample posted by the person who started this thread on Reddit:
https://preview.redd.it/6kacdmtryaj31.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e6e72c9b7950eb0bdf87e1bd8fc7e62c045f9e0b
Here's another sample from a different thread on Reddit:
https://preview.redd.it/hhrvws3vyfj31.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a711273550814f0ac4eccb820e178334721d55aa
Another app mentioned in the first thread is NightCap Camera, and it's said to achieve similar results. Both apps cost $2.99 in Apple's iOS App Store, which isn't bad at all. Apple's new iPhone 11 series will undoubtedly achieve much better results by using more advanced AI that harnesses the full power of Apple's coprocessor, but they'll also cost a whole lot more than $2.99 when they're released next month on September 20th.
Article updated with a second NeuralCam photo sample.
Tags: Apple, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max
Zach Epstein has worked in and around ICT for more than 15 years, first in marketing and business development with two private telcos, then as a writer and editor covering business news, consumer electronics and telecommunications. Zach's work has been quoted by countless top news publications in the US and around the world. He was also recently named one of the world's top-10 "power mobile influencers" by Forbes, as well as one of Inc. Magazine's top-30 Internet of Things experts.
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The City of Tucson is accepting proposals from artists interested in creating murals in the Downtown Tucson area. The Tohono O'odham Nation and Visit Tucson have donated a combined $40,000 to the City of Tucson Mural Arts Program, in coordination with the Tucson Arts Brigade, for murals that reflect diversity in style and culture.
Only original art will be considered, and the design must be acceptable for public viewing of all ages. Artists must be from Arizona. For a complete list of requirements, please follow this link (in English and Spanish) or email COTMuralProgram@gmail.com. The deadline to submit a proposal is midnight on Sept. 28, 2018, and finalists will be selected on Oct. 8, 2018. All murals must be completed by Nov. 30, 2018.


Tyler Technologies Inc., a North Texas company that provides government entities with information management assistance, said today the company has inked a $3.7 million contract with Cameron County to provide the county with the firm's courts and justice software.
The software program allows local entities, like Cameron County, to provide law enforcement and the judicial system with automated technological solutions that have the capacity to manage everything from court case management to jury selection and payment logs. Brownsville is the county seat of Cameron County.
Dallas-based Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL) said the software program allows counties and court systems to streamlined their court systems.
"Cameron County is doing what many counties throughout Texas and courts across the U.S. have done — turn to Tyler for its courts and justice software solution,"said Bruce Graham, president of the company's Courts & Justice Solutions segment.


Current Role at StanfordAdministrative Associate for: Alia Crum, Justin Gardner, Catherine Heaney, Benoit Monin, Anthony Norcia, Lee Ross, Claude Steele, and Emeriti.
BioDr. Jamie Imam received her Bachelors degree in Biological Sciences and Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and her Ph.D. in Genetics from the Stanford School of Medicine. In addition to teaching, Jamie is the Coordinator of the Honors Program in Biology. When she is not teaching or doing science outreach, she enjoys reading, baking and spending time outdoors with her family.


These are for Preston's birthday party on Saturday. One batch covered 38 pretzels….and I still had some chocolate left over….but I ran out of sprinkles.
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YUM!! Hey, I'm trying to update my notes– what is his actual birth *day*?


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New York Yankees Welcome In Red-Hot Blue Jays; The Chase Starts Now
Robby Sabo
With the New York Yankees holding a comfortable 4.5 game lead over Toronto in the AL East, this weekend series can explain a lot.
By Robby Sabo
After a superb and wind-the-clock back performance by C.C. Sabathia last night against the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees are feeling as confident as ever.
With a lineup that can call themselves the second best in MLB with 528 runs scored, coupled with a lock-down back of the bullpen, the Yankscomfortable 4.5 game lead in the AL East seems even larger than that.
Sabathia even showed fire and emotion in a charged up scene:
.@CC_Sabathia's final line: 6 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 8 K's. And one REAL hype moment. #PinstripePride pic.twitter.com/1m8TVGVuBS
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) August 7, 2015
Although, the team creeping up behind them is ready to make some noise.
The Toronto Blue Jays boast the absolute best offense in the league (587 runs) and have just acquired Troy Tulowitzki and ace lefty David Price. They sport an 8-1 record in their last nine and have many pointing to them as the team that'll continually rise over the last two months of the season.
What better time than now to have the Jays invade Yankee Stadium for an important three-game set?
#NastyNate returns to the mound in the Bronx as the #Yankees host the Jays. http://t.co/r7aVC5as93 #PinstripePride pic.twitter.com/OQsK3OkSVe
Tonight's lineup in NYC (7:05pm start), presented by @MajesticOnField pic.twitter.com/GffWQ5zV7T
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) August 7, 2015
The 2 hottest offensive teams in baseball are the @BlueJays and @Yankees. pic.twitter.com/ScYg3LUvbS — Baseball Tonight (@BBTN) August 7, 2015
In a series that will tell part of the story and set up an interesting narrative for much of the next two months, both offenses will look to take advantage of suspect starting pitching.
Nate Eovaldi (11-2, 4.30 ERA) will get the first call for the Bombers. He'll oppose knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (6-10, 4.06).
The Jays currently hold the number-two AL Wild Card spot, just fractions behind the Los Angeles Angels. Their charge to make their first postseason since 1993 begins now.
Via ESPN:
"There's just a different feeling," Mark Buehrle said after recording his 12th victory. "I felt the same way in '05 when (the Chicago White Sox) won the World Series."
Considering these teams are one-two in the majors in runs scored, watch this series feature a total of 11 combined runs.
One thing to note: after plating 90 runs in nine games, the Yankees offense was limited to just one run against Red Sox knuckleballer Steven Wright on Wednesday night. This will prove to either be a blessing or a curse with another knuckleballer in Dickey opposing them tonight.
First pitch is slated for 7:05 PM ET from the Bronx.
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King Leary 08/07/2015 at 4:08 PM
CC Sabathia beats the last-place Sox and everyone gets all excited?
Robby Sabo 08/07/2015 at 4:30 PM
Hey now..CC usually can't beat a little league squad.


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Becoming a Tourist in your own city is an inexpensive way you can explore the nooks and cranny's of your town and it's a way you can find some pretty awesome hidden gems.
If you've got a day to yourself or if you're looking for something to do with a friend, become a tourist in your own City for the day. It's fun, it's exciting, it can be inspiring and you're bound to learn something new.
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Go on a Thrift Store crawl!
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The South Bend Granada Theater stood on the east side of Michigan Street, directly opposite the Palace Theater (now the Morris Performing Arts Center). Sadly, this atmospheric theater was razed in 1972.
In 1940, the Granada took part in the premier of "Knute Rockne, All American", with future president Ronald Reagan (as George Gipp) and Pat O'Brien (as Knute Rockne) on hand.
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Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawaih al-Qummi (917-991 ), referred to as Ibn Babawayh or Al-Shaykh al-Saduq (the truthful scholar) was a Persian Shi'te Islamic scholar whose work, entitled Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih, forms part of the The Four Books of the Shi'ite Hadith collection.
The patronymic, Ibn Babawayh indicates a Persian origin, as Babawayh is an Arabic form of the Persian name Babuyah. For some length of time, unknown, the family had been devout adherents of Shi'ite Islam. Ibn Babawayh's father, Ali ibn Babawayh Qummi (d. 939 CE) was a leading figure among the Islamic scholars of Qom.
The exact date of Ibn Babawayh's birth is not known. Shi'ite scholars consider his birth to be after the year 305 A.H. (probably 306 A.H.) He was born and raised in Qom, a town about 125 kilometres (78 mi) south west of Tehran in modern-day Iran. Ibn Babawayh was educated by his father. He was taught by local scholars of Shi'ite Islam. Qom was a center of study of Shi'ite traditions and it was this form of religious learning to which Ibn Babawayh adhered.
In 966 CE, Ibn Babawayh left Qom for Baghdad. He traveled widely, learning about the tradition of Islam. Ibn Babawayh later emphasized the importance of tradition over speculative theology. His works reflect this interest in traditions and nearly all of them take the form of compilations of traditions. However, Ibn Babawayh did write a creed of Shi'ite Islam al-I'tiqadat. His pupil, the al-Shaykh al-Mufid, revised this creed in Tashih al-i'tiqad, critiquing several points.
Ibn Babawayh was a prolific scholar. Muhammad ibn Al-Hasan al-Tusi (d. 1067 CE) numbered Ibn Babawayh's works at over 300 but counted only 43 in his immediate possession. al-Najashi (d. 1058 AD) listed 193 works but does not mention Ibn Babawayh's sentinel work, Man la yahduruhu al-faqih. Many of Ibn Babawayh's works are considered lost but some do survive. Some have been published and others survive in manuscript form.
Ibn Babawayh died in Ray in 381 A.H. He was probably more than 70 years of age. He is buried at Ebn-e Babooyeh in Persia (modern day Iran).
Man la yahduruhu al-faqih a component of the group of four major books about the traditions of Shi'ite Islam. Despite the fact that many of Ibn Babawayh's other works are extremely important, this book is regarded as his most important work. However, some authorities maintain that there were five major books of traditions that included another of Ibn Babawayh's works, Madinat al-'ilm. Al-Tusi mentions that the latter work was bigger than Man la yahduruhu al-faqih but may no longer exist. Madinat al-'ilm was likely concerned with al-din (the principles of religion) rather than furu', the practical regulations for carrying out the shari'a (Islamic law).
Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih (literally, "for him who is not in the presence of a jurisprudent") is concerned with furu' (jurisprudence). The title has been neatly translated by Edward Granville Browne as "Every man his own lawyer". In his introduction to the book Ibn Babawayh explains the circumstances of its composition and the reason for its title. When he was at Ilaq near Balkh, he met Sharif al-Din Abu 'Abd Allah. Ibn Babawayh was delighted with Sharif al-Din Abu 'Abd Allah's discourses with him and his gentleness, kindness, dignity and interest in religion. Sharif al-Din Abu 'Abd Allah showed Ibn Babawayh a book compiled by Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi entitled Man la yahduruhu al-Tabib or "Every man his own doctor". Sharif al-Din Abu 'Abd Allah, then asked Ibn Babawayh to compile a similar work of reference on Fiqh (jurisprudence), al-halal wa al-haram (the permitted and prohibited), and al-shara-i' wa-'l-ahkam (revealed law and ordinary laws).
Man la yahduruh al-faqih represents a synopsis of all the traditions that Ibn Babawayh had collected, while his prior works, for example, Kitab al-nikah (the book of marriage) and Kitab al-hajj (the book of pilgrimage) are each a treatise on different aspect of furu'. Further, Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih was intended as a reference for the ordinary man in that the Isnads are not recorded. The isnads are the chain of authorities through which the traditions were received from the Prophet or one of the Imams. In the science of traditions, this providence is all important. A scholar would expect the isnads to be present for examination.
"… because I found it appropriate to do so. I compiled the book without isnads (asanid) so that the chains (of authority) should not be too many (-and make the book too long-) and so that the book's advantages might be abundant. I did not have the usual intention of compilers (of books of traditions) to put forward everything which they (could) narrate but my intention was to put forward those things by which I gave legal opinions and which I judged to be correct.
Ibn Babawayh not only records the traditions but also gives interpretation. For instance, in a summary of the various traditions of the pilgrimage, he gives a long outline of all the rituals which should be performed by the faithful, with very few traditions interrupting his description. The book is not arranged in kutub (chapters) but in abwab (sections).
In Man la yahduruhu al-faqih, Babawayh discusses his sources. These include the works of Hariz ibn 'Abd Allah al-Sijistani and 'Ubaid Allah ibn 'Ali al-Halabi who were contemporaries of the Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq. They also included the works of Ali ibn Mahziyar; al-Husayn ibn Sa'id; and Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Isa (died 297 A.H.) who all heard the traditions of the Imams Ali Al-Ridha, Muhammad al-Jawad and al-Hadi. Other sources were the works of Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn 'Imran al-Ash'ari, Sa'd ibn 'Abd Allah (died about 300 A.H.) and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan (died 343 A.H.) Ibn Babawayh was taught by the latter. The sources also included the works of Muhammad b. Abi 'Umayr (died 218 A.H.), Ahmad ibn Abi 'Abd Allah al-Barqi (died in 274 or 280 A.H.) and the Risala which Ibn Babawayh's father had written to him. Ibn Babawayh also cites his own works.
Man la yahduruhu al-faqih' has been the subject of some critiques. These include commentaries by Zain al-'Abidin al-'Alawi al-'Amili (died 1060 A.H.) and Muhammad Taqi al-Majlisi al-Awwal (died 1070 A H ).
Kamal al-din wa tamam al-ni'mah meaning "the perfection of the religion and the end of the blessings" is about Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer. It includes questions and answers about The Occultation, the event when the Mahdi appears.
Ma'ani al-Akhbar explains the complexities of traditions and the Quranic verses.
Oyoun Akhbar Al-Ridha, dedicated to Ibn-e Ebad, the minister of the Buyid family, includes some of the Imam Rida's traditions.
Al-Amali is a collection of Ibn Babawayh's lectures.
Ilal al-shara'i (meaning "the cause of situations") explores the philosophy of the Islamic ordinances.
Eʿteqādātal-Emāmīya (meaning "creeds of Shia") presents a summary of the core tenets of the Shi'ite creed.


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How we gather information from our build processes and live website monitoring, using source control and continuous integration.
During the usual development of our clients' websites, we have several standard stock tools that we use to aid us with pretty much every job.
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Monitoring these changes and builds involves loading up the CruiseControl page to check for any errors and such. Ideally, we want an indicator of all project statuses available at a glance.
When we moved our live sites to the cloud, we picked Amazon Web Services, or AWS, as our preferred platform. Not only does AWS allow us to code quicker and spin up a new instance with ease, but it also means we don't have to have actual, physical hardware in a co-located hosting company. Previously, if we needed to add another machine, we'd have to buy the hardware, drive to the hosting company, then install it, then configure it, and all the rest. This can take some time. With cloud-based hosting, we can simply click on the 'Create new computer instance' button, and in a few minutes, it's ready to go. Well, it's a little more involved than that, but you get the idea – it's much much quicker.
Amazon EC2 instances have some built-in monitoring that can be used through their CloudWatch service. On each virtual machine, we configure what we want to monitor, ie CPU usage, memory usage, disk space etc. All these metrics get stored in CloudWatch for later consumption. Behind the scenes, there is some code that runs on a virtual machine in our in-house cloud. This is configured to poll Amazon every few minutes and give us up-to-date information on all of our live environments (currently, we manage well over 200 virtual machines). This data is then passed back down to a client that renders it into an easy-to-consume, visual indication of how the sites are performing.
This same code also polls our continuous integration server, giving us stats on how the build and release code are doing. So, from just one screen, we can see both internal code deployments and health-checks on live servers. If a problem occurs, we get notified, and can quickly identify and address the issue. For example, if we notice that a server has unusually high processor usage, we can hop onto the virtual machine and take a look under the hood, as it were.
We had an issue not so long ago where one of our developers noticed one of the graphs was starting to show signs of high CPU usage - unusually high for that particular website. They quickly logged into the virtual machine to take a look, and sure enough, a task that we had scheduled to run at a certain time everyday was misbehaving. Thanks to our screens, we were able to catch it misbehaving before it impacted the stability of the site, and before either the end users or the client are aware of anything untoward. Proactive monitoring for the win!
Green means 'all good', build successful. Red means something has been committed that has broken the build, and therefore needs looking at. Amber means the site is currently in the process of being built - a developer has submitted something to source control, so CCNet has taken over, and is building the site.
These are where the metrics we get from Amazon's CloudWatch service are displayed. We can see below that out of 232 instances we have in AWS, 178 of them are active. The rest have been turned off, because we don't need them at present. We can simply turn those back on when we do.
From this screen we can see the top 5 instances where disk space might be a problem (and therefore needs looking into), as well as the top 3 instances where CPU usage might be a problem. The next screen further expands the CPU graphs to the top 9 instances. This gives us an at-a-glance indication of where sites might be under-performing, or have other issues that need looking at.
The CruiseControl slide updates every 30 seconds, and the two AWS screens update every 5 minutes, to give us near real-time updates. If you'd like to learn more about continuous integration, or what constitutes best practice for any of the techniques we use involving software engineering, programming and development in general, get in touch, we'd be more than happy to chat.
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By tankball, July 21, 2018 in The Workshop!
so in the next few day i'm going to start this build up.
Location:-p I'm somewhere between your clicks and your downvotes. Booyah!
Awesome! Can't wait to see the finished product. Life-size, right? Wow!
Are they able to pose them in ways that actually have a bit more life like look and feel to them? If so, it sounds like a fun project that I'd like to take on. I'd probably work on a Sheryl, since I can't afford the roughly $18,000 price tag..
idk yet but the guy thats posing the model for me is good. hes the one that made the 3 macross delta planes i made in the past. its going to be a few days before he is done so we have to wait and see. but ya 18K lols no thx.
heres the model being posted. its not 100% done but man he is good.
Now that's what I'm talking about. Being able to put them in some of their classic poses would make them really worth building. I need to learn about papercraft.
Interests:Models of: Macross - Aircraft - Armor - Warships and R/C Makes it better!
heres where im at for tonight.
If you wire frame it, you could actually bondo it all to smooth it out, and then paint her up as she's supposed to be painted, and you'd have a pretty legit looking statue.
By the way, care to share where can I get a copy of that Minmay desktop wallpaper? Thanks!
Hot damn there is a lot of good wallpaper fodder in there!
I've been watching Making It on TV with my daughter.
I think you would win!
in the next day or so i'll upload a video about her.
heres a 12 sec test video for the audio and LED.


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It's the New Year and the news for poker looks bright, just like its future. There's a lot of year ahead of us, however, and there are still a lot of things that may happen. However, for those who are looking to know what the newest trends in poker are, here are a few news items that may actually make the future look brighter.
This came from the lips of a Caesars employee, allegedly. What happened was that PokerGO was definitely arriving. The news came when PokerGO was still up in the air, whether or not it would happen was a mystery. Well, it did happen, and the newest item was that ESPN and PokerGO will create an entirely new thing. November Nine was so last year, allegedly.
Peters was strong in 2017 although he wasn't strong enough to cast his mitts on the POY. Adrian Mateos was the player who accomplished the feat of becoming 2017's POY, while Peters came in as only 13th best. The prediction for this year—that he will become the Player of the Year—is just too weak to become true, judging from his performance last year.
Bryn Kenney, a player who made headlines last year, proved that $8.4 million was doable—he cashed in an amount exactly a little over that. He was good for $8.5 million in a losing effort. However, the trend was possible because of the poker inflation which happened during that time. Bryn was definitely aided by the inflation that happened even though he got the L.
With the trend looking forward for legislation, it seems that poker will, at last, receive the due recognition it's been craving. The revenues for it is far too large to ignore–$400 billion in nationwide bets, according to NBA commissioner Adam Silver's editorial, is far too large an amount to ignore. The trend points towards legislation nodding in favor of making it legal.
Players won't be making more than $3 million in 2018. Even when the inflation points towards big wins, players in the Aussie Millions and the U.S. Poker Open won't be making amounts larger than that. Players like Scott Seiver and Juha Helppi is reportedly going to pick spots as a result of fields getting narrower.
There are a lot that could happen in the coming years or so, but poker remains a top favorite. Getting legislation in their favor and just playing constantly may move the needle towards their favor.


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Greed taints everything. It is a bug in laissez-faire economics.
The insatiable desire to have more compels humans to cheat.
Civilization intends to be wild on its fairest terms. But too many people up top are biologically prone to control natural selection. Those hit hardest become the angriest of mobs.
Economics is human, purely biological; a Darwinian struggle to come out on top in a state of unfettered capitalism.
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Once the dopamine surge subsides, it triggers the cycle to gamble all over again. In the hunt for feel-good chemicals, we lose all sense of rationality.


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NAVY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005
THE NAVY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005
[23rd June, 2005]
An Act further to amend the Navy Act, 1957.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-Sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:--
This Act may be called the Navy (Amendment) Act, 2005.
Section 2. Amendment of section 3
In section 3 of the Navy Act, 1957(hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for clause (16), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:--
'(16) "Officer" means a commissioned officer and includes--
(a) a subordinate officer other than a petty officer;
(b) a commissioned officer re-employed as such;'.
Section 3. Amendment of section 79
In section 79 of the principal Act, for the words "Provided further that", the following shall be substituted, namely:--
"Provided further that in computation of the said period of three years, any time during which,--
(a) the commission of the offence was not known to the person aggrieved by the offence or to the authority competent to initiate action, the first day on which such offence comes to the knowledge of such person or authority, whichever is earlier;
(b) it was not known by whom the offence was committed, the first day on which the identity of the offender is known to the person aggrieved by the offence or to the authority investigating into the offence, whichever is earlier, shall be excluded;
Provided also that where the institution of the prosecution in respect of an offence has been stayed by an injunction or order, then, in computing the said period of three years, the period of the continuance of the injunction or order, the day on which it was issued or made and the day on which it was withdrawn shall be excluded:
Provided also that".
In section 94 of the principal Act, for sub-sections (1), (2), (2A) and (3), the following sub-sections shall respectively be substituted, namely:--
"(1) The Central Government may impose on any officer below the rank of commander one or more of the following punishments, namely:--
(a) forfeiture of seniority in rank of not more than twelve months; (b) forfeiture of time for promotion of not more than twelve months; (c) mulcts of pay and allowances.
(2) The Chief of the Naval Staff may impose on any officer below the rank of commander one or more of the following punishments, namely:--
(a) forfeiture of seniority in rank of not more than six months;
(b) forfeiture of time for promotion of not more than six months;
(c) mulcts of pay and allowances.
(2A) The Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of a naval command may, subject to regulations made under this Act, impose on any officer below the rank of commander one or more of the following punishments, namely:--
(a) forfeiture of seniority in rank of not more than three months;
(b) forfeiture of time for promotion of not more than three months;
(c) severe reprimand or reprimand;
(d) mulcts of pay and allowances.
(3) The commanding officer of a ship may. subject to regulations made under this Act, may impose on any officer below the rank of commander one or more of the following punishments, namely:--
(c) mulcts of pay and allowances.".
Section 5. Amendment of section 133
In section 133 of the principal Act for sub-section (6), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:--
"(6) Any document purporting to be a report, under the hand of--
(a) any Chemical Examiner or Assistant Chemical Examiner to the Government;
(b) the Chief Inspector of Explosives;
(c) the Director of Finger Print Bureau;
(d) the Director of Haffkeine Institute, Bombay;
(e) the Director, Deputy Director or Assistant Director of a Central Forensic Science Laboratory or a State Forensic Science Laboratory;
(f) the Serologist to the Government,
upon any matter or thing duly submitted to him for examination or analysis, may be used an evidence in any proceeding under this Act.".
In section 151 of the principal Act,--
(a) in sub-section (1), for the word, brackets and figure "sub-section (2)", the words, brackets and figures "sub-section (2) and (3)" shall be substituted;
(b) after sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:--
"(3) Whenever any offender is sentenced by a court-martial to a term of imprisonment, in pursuance of this Act, not being imprisonment in default of payment of fine, the period spent by him in civil or naval custody during investigation, inquiry or trial of the same case, and before the date or order of such sentence, shall be set off against the terms of imprisonment imposed upon him, and the liability of such offender to undergo imprisonment on such order of sentence shall be restricted to the remainder, if any, of the term of imprisonment imposed upon him.".
In section 163 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), clause (e) shall be omitted.
Section 8. Insertion of new section 163A
After section 163 of the Principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely:--
"163A. Where any person is tried under the provisions of this Act, the Central Government or the Chief of the Naval Staff or the Flag Officers Commanding-in-Chief of the Naval Commands may in the case of conviction either with or without conditions release the person on parole".
In section 176 of the principal Act, in clause (b), for the words "ten thousand rupees in value", the words "the prescribed amount not exceeding rupees one lakh in value" shall be substituted.
Section 10. Amendment of section 184
In section 184 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2), after clause (q), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:--
"(qa) the amount required to be prescribed under clause (b) of section 176;".
Section 11. Omission of Chapter XXII
Chapter XXII of the principal Act and the heading relating thereto shall be omitted.


Each Grade follows BBO set syllabus, the level of difficulty increases as the dancer progresses through the grades. Technique, performance and musicality will be taught as well as covering History and theory of Ballet specific to each grade. Once standard is achieved an optional Examination can be taken at each level before moving to the next grade.


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The Guest: Kdrama Review
For my first Kdrama of 2021, I decided to go with supernatural drama The Guest. I've been meaning to see it for a while but it was just recently released on Netflix.
Synopsis: When he was little, Yoon Hwa Pyung (Kim Dong Wook) was visited (possessed) by a powerful evil spirit named Park Il Do. Because of this, his mother and grandmother die, his father abandons him and he is left under the care of his elderly grandfather. He makes it his life mission to hunt down and end the malevolent spirit's reign of terror. He gets help from priest Choi Yoon (Kim Jae Wook) and a detective Kang Kil Young (Jung Eun Chae), who both lost their family to Park Il Do.
I liked the treatment for The Guest. It was dark. It was broody and it effectively depicted the horror of demonic possession. It was also extremely violent even with the murder weapons blurred by OCN. All the stabbing would really bother people who have weak stomachs.
At times, it was frustrating how the characters reacted to the situations. Hwa Pyung rushes to the scene unmindful of how his presence would seem suspicious to the police; Kil Young beats up anyone who stands in her way and sticks her nose on everything without minding her jurisdiction, and Choi Yoon easily believes in his mentors. He is too gullible for his own good. On the one hand, audiences will understand why they are easily triggered by any hint of Park Il Do. On the other, its frustrating how their emotions and arguments really cost them a lot of precious time.
And what's with the lack of communication? Three protagonists are working as a team but they never share their plans with each other, so eager are they to sacrifice themselves to protect the others.
Of all the characters, I was particularly drawn to Hwa Pyung, not just because he lost his family to the spirit but because he carried around all of the guilt and responsibility of protecting his friends as he took them deeper into his dangerous mission.
On the other hand, I felt that he was lucky to have met such loyal friends in his journey. Yuk Gwang, Choi Yoon and Yil Gwang — everyone was just as ready to lay their lives on the line for Hwa Pyung as he was to sacrifice his life to keep them safe.
I was impressed with Kim Dong Wook's portrayal of Hwa Pyung — his charm, his intensity and his rawness. I was just as impressed with Kim Jae Wook. These two had such great chemistry that fans of the show made MVs about their relationship. Jung Eun Chae also deserves credit for her portrayal of her character. It was not easy to keep her two companions in check but she managed to do it. Her vulnerability at seeing her partner hurt was heartbreaking. However, I would have to say that Yuk Gwang was the secret MVP of this drama. He provided comic relief but his dramatic scenes were definitely the highlight of this series.
The drama did a great job in setting up the story by revealing layer upon layer of the plot, carefully giving a taste of Park Il Do's power until the final four episodes when he pits his three adversaries against each other and uses his full strength against them. He unleashes hordes of evil spirits for massacres at every turn and kills so many people that all of the efforts to save the possessed in the first few episode seemed pitiful.
The mystery element was masterful. It kept viewers on their toes as they continued to guess who was telling the truth and telling a lie. The filmmakers were able to exhibit the deceit by the demon as he orchestrated complete mayhem around the three main characters. Viewers will definitely feel the helplessness of Hwa Pyung, Choi Yoon and Kil Young as they try to face Park Il Do head on.
Without giving too much away, I loved how the drama ended. It was as good as it was going to get for this type of dark drama. Great performances from the main cast to the supporting characters. Excellent character development and treatment. Engaging story. This was a definite thumbs up for me.
PS. All the possessed actors deserve a shoutout for their amazing portrayals in the series. The shifts from crazy to vulnerable took a lot of great acting and each cast member delivered on their roles with flying colors.
PPS. There is no romance angle in this series so if you're looking for a love story, move along.
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WW84 (Wonder Woman 1984): Movie Review
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This quick & easy Greek-inspired chickpea salad is packed with fresh veggies and a lemony herb-studded flax vinaigrette for a delicious Omega-3 boost!
Spring is officially here, and while it's still pretty cold most days here in New York, I'm channeling the warmth by making fresh, delicious salads more often.
For this particular salad, I decided to load it up fresh items from my produce drawer. To bulk things up and add some protein, I chose canned chickpeas.
You can really use any mix of crispy, colorful veggies (and veggies that are technically fruits, like tomatoes and bell peppers) along with your favorite canned beans. White beans would be great in this, too.
But every good salad needs a great dressing, right?
Barleans is celebrating a big anniversary this year! 30 years ago, they kicked things off with their very first product – flax!
I've talked about flax here before. Flax oil is perfect for dressings and sauces because it has a mild, nutty flavor and can easily adapt to the other ingredients in your recipes. It can be used in both sweet and savory applications, but it can't be heated above 225°F.
Barlean's Fresh Organic Flax Oil provides a whopping 7,640mg of plant-based ALA Omega-3 fatty acid per tablespoon. Omega-3s are vital fatty acids that cannot be produced by the body, so we need to get them from foods or supplements. Flax is the best plant-based source. Barlean's Organic Flax Oil is an award-winning unrefined organic flax oil, freshly pressed in the Pacific Northwest, and protected from damaging heat and light from seed to bottle.
Forti-Flax® premium ground flaxseed is a nutritional powerhouse delivering essential Omega-3 fatty acids plus fiber, all 10 amino acids, vitamins and trace mineral and phytonutrients including lignans. Our proprietary cold-milling process gently liberates these elements without damaging the delicate Omega-3s or altering the natural light and nutty flavor.
Once you open any flax products, they should be stored in the refrigerator to ensure that they stay as fresh as possible.
I love mixing flax oil with flax seeds in my vinaigrettes. Flax seeds also add great texture to parfaits. I like sprinkling them on cottage cheese or yogurt in the morning along with fresh and dried fruits.
The mix of veggies in this salad was inspired by the flavors of Greece, so I went that route when flavoring my vinaigrette.
Just a few dried herbs, some garlic, a healthy dose of lemon juice, and a bit of fresh dill really brought this vinaigrette to life.
My husband was a bit skeptical of this vinaigrette at first because he tends to find flax oil "fishy" tasting, but this wasn't at all!
He was blown away by the flavor combination, and went back for seconds!
This Mediterranean Chickpea Salad is a solid meal on its own. It has plenty of bulkiness from the chickpeas and veggies and proved to be a very filling meal for my family. It would also be great as a side dish alongside grilled lamb, chicken, shrimp, or tofu.
I decided to stuff some of my salad into pita bread to make a little sandwich and it totally blew me away! This would be perfect packed in your lunchbox with the pita on the side. When lunchtime rolls around, just stuff the salad in there and you're ready to rock!
I love that this was a no-cook way to have a healthy, delicious meal. It's going to be heavy in the rotation come summertime when I don't feel like turning the stove on.
I also really like that it's made with veggies that you can get year-round, not just in the summer.
If you want to make this vegan-friendly, all you need to do is omit the feta. It still packs tons of flavor without the dairy.
I served leftovers from this recipe along with leftovers from my Broiler Kebab Sheet Pan Meal that I cooked up on Facebook LIVE this past Friday.
The recipe post for that is coming soon. It's super simple and goes so very well with this Greek salad.
What are your favorite salads or no-cook recipes? I'd love to hear about them in the comment section below!
If you try out this recipe, please come back and give it a star rating and comment below. I'd love to know what you think of it!
Make the vinaigrette: In a medium bowl, combine garlic, dill, lemon juice, flax seeds, oregano, salt, cumin, paprika, and pepper. Whisk in flax oil until emulsified. Taste for seasoning and adjust if necessary.
Make the salad: In a large bowl, combine chickpeas, bell peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, feta, and red onion. Drizzle vinaigrette over top and stir to combine.
This salad is great alone, as a side dish, or stuffed into pita bread as a sandwich.
Omit feta to keep this salad vegan-friendly.
One of my favorite salads…my husband has named it a summer salad because most of the ingredients came from our summer veggie garden.
It definitely feels like summer! I'm so excited to get our small veggie garden set up for the season, too. It's still a little too cold here in NY but soon!


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Watch Out! är det andra studioalbumet av post-hardcore-gruppen Alexisonfire. Det släpptes den 29 juni 2004.

Låtlista
Alla låtar skrivna och framförda av Alexisonfire.

 "Accidents" – 4:09
 "Control" – 3:43
 "It Was Fear of Myself That Made Me Odd" – 3:55
 "Side Walk When She Walks" – 4:22
 "'Hey, It's Your Funeral Mama'" – 4:22
 "No Transitory" – 3:16
 "Sharks and Danger" – 4:39
 "That Girl Possessed" – 3:26
 "White Devil" – 3:35
 "Get Fighted" – 3:05
 "Happiness By the Kilowatt" – 5:12

Musikalbum 2004
Album av Alexisonfire

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Vorsteiner is a global leader in automotive Flow Forged wheel development for sports and luxury vehicles. They create the most advanced, innovative, and distinct products in the marketplace to meet the demands of the most discerning clientele. Vorsteiner specializes in European luxury vehicles while embracing a unique blend of precision craftsmanship and modern technology to exceed their clients' expectations. Their wheels are designed, tested, and assembled with pride in California at their own production facilities. Product applications include several models for BMW, Audi, Lamborghini, Range Rover, Mercedes, Porsche, Bentley and many other marques of prestige.


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MarTech » Customer experience » Snickers Rolls Out New "Hunger Bars" Packaging With Hunger Emergency Hotline Video
Snickers Rolls Out New "Hunger Bars" Packaging With Hunger Emergency Hotline Video
The Mars candy brand takes a page from Coca-Cola by offering 21 different packaging choices related to it's "You're Not You When You're Hungry," campaign, with each wrapper representing a different "symptom" of hunger.
Pamela Parker on September 17, 2015 at 4:43 pm | Reading time: 3 minutes
Snickers has unveiled the latest iteration of its "You're Not You When You're Hungry," campaign, and this time it's centered around what people are, rather than themselves, when they get peckish.
Goofball, Drama Mama, Princess, Curmudgeon, Cranky, Irritable and Confused are among 21 different labels that will soon begin appearing on the candy bar packaging, like the Coke cans and bottles that now bear people's names or similar monikers.
The packaging will also encourage people to share photos of their bars socially using the hashtag #EatASnickers and will point them to a previously-unveiled meme generator — SnickersMeme.com — where consumers can create images related to their particular type of hunger symptom and share them with friends socially on Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.
Opened the box of Snickers at work to unpack and found this! Come and Get them! #DramaMama #EatASnickers pic.twitter.com/WW9eLyrG14
— Jennifer Vitale (@CelebratedLady) September 6, 2015
Along with its agency of record, BBDO New York, the Mars brand created a humorous YouTube video in which a call center employee responds to hunger emergency calls that have come in at 1-844-HUNGER-BAR. Here's the video and audio of what you hear when you call into that number:
As soon as the phone is picked up, a recording says, "Welcome to 1-844-HUNGER-BAR," and you can hear the rest of the audio below.
The brand says it will be rolling out additional campaign elements as the month goes on, including print advertising and a promotion using augmented reality mobile app Blippar, which lets people take smartphone pictures of objects in the real world and supplements them with related digital content. Snickers says consumers will be able to use the platform to create customized Hunger Bars and other brand-related content and share them with friends.
"We're always looking for new ways to engage our fans, who know and love our campaign," said Allison Miazga-Bedrick, director of the Snickers brand. "We believe the new bars will inspire people to not only quickly identify their own symptoms and satisfy their hunger, but give them a new, fun way to call-out friends and family on who they become when they're hungry, too."
Though a Snickers representative didn't respond when we asked about paid media purchased to promote the effort, the brand is leveraging its social channels to let its existing fans know about the new packaging. It changed its Facebook and Twitter cover photo to align with the campaign and has encouraged people to name their hunger symptoms as comments to its posts.
Show us who you become when you're hungry. #EatASNICKERS https://t.co/FjspcLFCMp
— SNICKERS® (@SNICKERS) September 4, 2015
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Pamela Parker is Research Director at Third Door Media's Content Studio, where she produces MarTech Intelligence Reports and other in-depth content for digital marketers in conjunction with Search Engine Land and MarTech. Prior to taking on this role at TDM, she served as Content Manager, Senior Editor and Executive Features Editor. Parker is a well-respected authority on digital marketing, having reported and written on the subject since its beginning. She's a former managing editor of ClickZ and has also worked on the business side helping independent publishers monetize their sites at Federated Media Publishing. Parker earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
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Venezuela Crisis Causes Tension Between Russia And U.S.
The Venezuela crisis has been in the public eye for quite a while now. The rise of Nicolas Maduro to the presidency of the South American country has been rife with accusations of fraud, corruption and violence. Food and water shortages, along with major power outages have been experienced all over the once thriving country and it has now reached a fever pitch as residents cry out for relief.
President Nicolas Maduro has deep roots in the political machine that runs the nation of Venezuela. Prior to the current Venezuela crisis he has been very active in politics. According to CNN, Maduro worked as a body guard for President Jose Vincent Rangel in 1983, when he was just 21 years of age. In 1992 he campaigned for the release of Hugo Chavez who had been imprisoned for the attempted coup that was intended to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez. Seven years later Maduro was elected to the National Constituent Assembly, followed by being elected to the National Assembly just one year after that.
His career as a politician really took off after his 2005 appointment as Speaker of the National Assembly. From that point, he steadily increased his political clout and strengthened his ties to Chavez and other leaders. In 2012 Chavez appointed Maduro to serve as his Vice President, later naming him as his approved successor should he die of cancer. In March of 2013 Maduro was sworn in as interim President following Chavez' death and the roots of the Venezuela crisis began to take hold.
In April of 2013 Maduro wins the presidential election by less than 2 percentage points. Angry protesters cried foul and claimed there was a large amount of fraud taking place. In 2013 he expelled 3 American diplomats from the country, followed by a short-lived revocation of CNN journalist's credentials. By 2016 the country was beginning to sink into chaos, and Maduro declared a constitutional emergency. The release of years of data previously hidden from the public sparks the visible signs of the Venezuela crisis, as food shortages and power outages rock the country.
In 2018 Maduro is re-elected by a landslide victory, in spite of the total voter turnout being less than 50%. Again the people accused the regime of fraud and his opponent announces publicly that he does not accept the results as official. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the 2018 election a sham. 14 Latin American nations called their ambassadors home from the capital city of Caracas, stating they would begin minimizing their trade with the regime. An apparent assassination attempt, aimed at Maduro, fails in August of 2018, and the Venezuela crisis continues to worsen.
September brings more troubled times for the country, as reports surface that an attempted coup is being discussed by US powers and leaders in the Venezuelan military. The coup never takes place, as the US drops its support of the action following the reports. Maduro took to the press, calling the Venezuela crisis a "fabrication," and stating that conditions were improving in the country. However, tensions continued to rise.
In January of 2019 Nicolas Maduro began another 6 year stint as president, bringing the population to a frenzy.
Maracaibo, Venezuela was hit with a huge power outage according to The Guardian, and the scene was similar to a horror movie. Reports of mass looting by mobs wielding axes, sledgehammers and rocks have surfaced. Maria Villalobos is a 35 year old journalist in the city, and she described the scene as one of "horror, fear, despair." She wept as she recounted the story of what locals call "la locura," or "the madness." This takes place on March 10 of 2019, 3 days after a power outage that turned most of the nation into pitch black. Villalobos said she believed it was "the start of a civil war." News of the Venezuela crisis has reached every corner of the globe, and the effects it is having on the population are devastating.
SFGate reports that Maduro has ordered that schools be closed following the massive power outages on Monday. His claim is that political opponents sabotaged the system, but that everything was back online. However, Caracas lost power again that evening. Juan Guiado, who is recognized by more than 60 countries as the rightful President of Venezuela, says that the people no longer believe Maduro's excuses and they have had enough of the illegitimate regime.
ARYNews reports that during a phone conversation on Monday, US Secretary of State warned his Russian counterpart that the U.S. would not stand by as Russia antagonizes the Venezuela crisis. This conversation took place following news that Russia had sent 2 aircraft carrying 35 tons of equipment and approximately 100 soldiers to the main airport in Caracas. ValueWalk recently reported that Russia had moved gold from a bank in Caracas to Moscow for safekeeping, although Russia denies this report.
General Vasily Tonkoshkurov is reported to be among the troops in Caracas. He is the commander of Russia's Mobilization Directorate for their armed forces, which means this could be a long term operation for the foreign troops in Venezuela.
Russia accused the U.S. of violating the U.N charter by causing "interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state." Both Russia and China have given billions of dollars in foreign aid to Maduro's government, which has increased the momentum of the Venezuela crisis.
President Donald Trump has warned the Venezuelan government that actions will be taken to help relieve the situation. While it wasn't spoken in direct words, the president's intent seemed to point towards possible military force. Maduro responded by claiming that the U.S. had used frozen Venezuelan bank accounts to fund the assassination attempt on the dictator in 2018. He claimed that the U.S. was working with Colombian President Ivan Duque.
The Venezuela crisis has reached a level that demands world attention. No doubt action will be taken soon to relieve the suffering of the nation's starving population.


As of October 2017 all MLC fonts have received a major update. The update includes some kerning updates and even a few new OpenType alternates in some fonts – but the main update includes a second set of fonts (TTF and OTF) using memorial "physical" sizing.
It is recommended that all users who purchased fonts before October 1, 2017 log in to the website and download the updates from their downloads page. If you receive a message that you have run out of download permissions, contact the MLC to have your permissions reset.
What exactly is the "physical" sizing update?
The fonts created using "physical" sizing have had the ascender area removed, forcing design software such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW to give the user the actual physical letter height desired. In these programs, if a 1″ height is input for a font the user will not recieve a 1″ letter, as the height of the font is calculated by the cap-height plus the ascender area of the font. In the print industry this is how the height of type is calculated. However, in the sign-making and memorial industry this makes for a bit of confusion and is not a desirable outcome – especially when trying to match existing lettering. The downside of the "physical" sizing method is that because the ascender area is removed from the line-height, the spacing between lines is greatly shortened. In most cases this is not an issue, but when using letters with diacritic marks for multilingual layouts, the marks may run into the text above or below the letter. This is easily fixed by manually adding more space between lines (leading).
MLC font users now have the option of installing the fonts using either print sizing or physical sizing, which are included in separate folders in the download file. For more information on the sizing update, as well as all features included with MLC fonts, visit the Font Project Page.