Calling all bloggers! Are you on snapchat? Not just do you have the app, but do you put stories out there for your audience to see?
A few weeks ago, I wasn't. I had the app and watched other people's stories and occasionally shared a selfie with the virtual flower crown.
But I had the realization that maybe I should say goodbye to my reservations and fears and hello to getting a little more personal with my followers. So I started sharing more stories (videos, not just pictures) and started getting my snapchat name out there.
Wanna add me? ;) Scan the image below with the app or look me up by username!
So why should you be on Snapchat? Well think about the world today. We are all obsessed (just admit it!) with each other. Snapchat is popular for the same reason Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram are - its another chance to see into someone else's life.
Vlogs are super popular on YouTube right now and I think it's because people like the raw feeling of it, kind of just a glimpse into the everyday lives of people you watch on the tube. Snapchat is even more raw. In 10 second increments you're getting to see and hear from the people you are used to seeing in still images on Instagram. I love following bloggers on snap because I get to hear their voice and see how they spend their time when they're not perfectly prepped and posing for an insta post.
When you think about why you love certain bloggers, vloggers, or YouTubers, its usually because you can relate to them or feel like you know them. Snapchat helps to deepen that bond and turn your followers into friends.
1. Companies like Shop Style, a huge affiliate network for fashion and lifestyle bloggers, created ways for bloggers to monetize through snap. I doubt they'd bother if no one was on there!
2. I love seeing snap stories, and I bet you do to. Treat others the way you want to be treated! If you are intrigued by snap stories, chances are your followers are too.
3. Based on my own short time on snap as a blogger, people keep coming back for more. Because you can see who opens your snaps, I know the people who have followed me have been opening every snap I've posted since. I love seeing that people keep opening my snap stories! It gets me excited to keep sharing.
Are you going to start snapping (does that work as a verb?) more often and sharing your snaps with the world (or at least the people who are following you)? I'll leave you with this statistic (I am an engineer after all...): Snapchat has 30 million active monthly users with 400 million snaps sent each day.
Don't fall behind the trend train! As bloggers we can't afford (literally) to be behind the curve. Now get snappin'!
Soon I'll be sharing how to grow your Snapchat following!


The whole world is gradually becoming a global village with diverse groups of people and races of varying psychosocial disposition and ideologies coming together in a sort of communal living.
This Diversity and Multiculturalism Awareness, organised by the Leitrim Development Company under the unique initiative of the European Union PEACE IV Programme is specifically designed to improve attendees Cross-Cultural Competency.
Developed to purposefully guide participants towards consciously changing/reinforcing their attitudes, opinions, points of view and outlook on Intercultural Diversity, Active Citizenship and Anti- Racism, the workshop aim to reduce trainees' knowledge/attitude gap.


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Piqua Daily Call
Ham to deliver Sunday message
TROY — Michael Ham will deliver the message at St. John's United Church of Christ this Sunday at the 10:30 a.m. service. He has chosen for his message: "Be the Good in the World".
Ham works in the Planning and Development Department of the City of Troy. He also serves on the Board of Education. He recently authored a book based on his experiences in a variety of school settings.
A downtown landmark, St. John's United Church of Christ, on the corner of Walnut and Canal Streets, is an accessible church. Parking is easily available on the street. For more information call the church at (937) 335-2028.
First Lutheran invites community
TROY — First Lutheran Church invites the community to worship Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Pastor Holst will preach the sermon, "Claimed, Cleansed and Lifted Into a New Identity." Kristin Scherer serves as lector. The Scherer family serves as ushers.
Fellowship with coffee and cookies will be offered after the service. There is always a special message for the children. Come as a stranger and leave as a friend. Sunday School is set for 8:30 a.m. A staffed nursery is available.
"Anxious for Nothing," a new midweek Bible study based on Philippians 4, starts Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. All are welcome. Register at the church, call or email office@flctroy-nalc.org
True Life hosts programs
TROY — True Life Community Church invites the community to Sunday worship service at 10 a.m. Lead Pastor Chris Daum will present, "A New Year's Prayer." Every Sunday there is nursery and preschool care. Children's ministries are also available.
The new year is a great time to get connected to a TLC Life Group. Wednesday evening programs, 6:30-8 p.m., Children's Classes, Life Group Meetings, and Discipleship Class 301 "Heart of a Servant."
TLC is handicapped accessible. The church is located at 56 Foss Way. Call (937) 332-0041 or visit www.tlctroy.com for more information. Connect with the church on Facebook or YouTube.
Billy Graham movie screening set
PIQUA — Join Victory Baptist Church at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 20, for a special showing of "Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey." This 75-minute movie tells the story of how God used Billy to reach millions of people.
Door open at 5:30 p.m. Victory Baptist Church is located at 1601 S. St., Piqua. For more information, call (937) 773-6469.
Annual sausage sale starts
WEST MILTON — The men of the Hoffman United Methodist Church are taking orders for their 31st annual whole hog sausage sale. It is available in approximately 1 pound bulk packages for $3.50 per package. It is available plain with no additives or with mild sage flavoring. It will be frozen. Mild spice breakfast links can be ordered for $7 per 2-pound package. It will be delivered in February.
Please call Les Trittschuh at (937) 698-5161 to place an order be Jan. 21. Proceeds from this project will go toward missions.
Shabbat service planned
PIQUA — Congregation Anshe Emeth will be observing Shabbat with services to be held on Saturday, Jan. 26, at 10 a.m.
Services will be conducted by rabbinic intern Eliza McCarroll at the synagogue located at 320 Caldwell St. in Piqua.
Please call 937-726-2116 if there are questions or if weather seems questionable.
Greene Street United Methodist Men to host 20th annual breakfast
PIQUA — The United Methodist Men of Greene Street United Methodist Church will host their 20th Annual Dick Sword Memorial Sausage and Pancake Breakfast on Jan. 26 from 7 to 11:30 a.m. in the Wall-Wesleyan Room and Wilson Hall, 415 West Greene Street, in Piqua.
Ticket prices are $6.50 per adult and $2.50 per child age 5-10 years old. Children under five eat free. The meal features locally prepared sausage from Sunset Meat Market, fresh-made pancakes with butter and syrup (sugar-free also available), and choice of coffee, milk or orange juice. Carry-out will be available. Guests may use entrances at Greene or Caldwell streets. A handicap access elevator is available at the Caldwell Street ramp entrance.
United Methodist Men is one of several groups within the church that provide resources in support of evangelism, stewardship, and helping those in the community who are in need. All proceeds from this event will indeed support those endeavors.
For tickets or more information, contact the church office at 937-773-5313.
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Q: A problem about augmentation ideal in group algebra
Also in this problem, we require $F$ to be a field and $G$ to be a finite group.
I know $\Delta$'s quotient is isomorphic to the trivial module. But I can't see why it's unique. In addition, I know the result hold for the case that $Char(F)=p$ and $G$ is a p-group. But I can't apply it here.

A: Let $H\subseteq FG$ be a submodule, such that $FG/H$ is isomorphic to the trivial module $F$. Let $\pi$ denote the composition $FG \rightarrow FG/H \rightarrow F$. Since this homomorphism is $FG$-linear, we have
$$\pi(x) = \pi(x\cdot 1) = \epsilon(x)\cdot \pi(1) \quad \text{for all $x\in FG$.}$$
Surjectivity of $\pi$ implies $\pi(1)\neq 0$. Since $F$ is a field (and hence doesn't contain zero-divisors), we have $\pi(x)=0 \iff \epsilon(x)=0$. This shows $H = \ker\pi = \ker\epsilon=\Delta$. Thus, $\Delta$ is unique.

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17 interesting facts about Bollywood
by AdminPosted on 5th April 2019 25th June 2019
1 . 'The Wrestlers', shot in 1899, was the first motion picture shot in India. However, the first wholly Indian-produced film was 'Raja Harishchandra', which was released in 1913.
2 . In the 1970s, India cinema overtook America as the world's largest film producer and the term 'Bollywood' was coined.
3 . Released in 1937, Kisan Kanya, a film about the plight of poor farmers, was the first Indian film in colour.
4 . Actor Dilip Kumar, known as the 'Tragedy King', was offered the role of Sherif Ali in 'Lawrence of Arabia'. He declined the offer and the role went to Egyptian actor Omar Sharif
5 . Bollywood produces around 1000 films every year – almost double the output of Hollywood.
6 . Two Bollywood songs 'Ye Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana' (1978) and 'Ae Nujawan Hai Sub' (1972) inspired The Black Eyed Peas' song 'Don't Phunk with My Heart'.
7 . Around 14 million Indians go to the cinema every day, which equates to 1.4% of the entire population. Cinemagoers pay around a day's wage to watch a Bollywood film.
8 . 'Indra Sabha', an opera about a prince's romance with a fairy, has an incredible 71 songs in it – the most in any Indian film.
10 . 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' (The Brave Hearted Will Take Away The Bride) has run at a Mumbai cinema for around 1000 undeterred weeks. It is one of Bollywood's biggest films of all time.
11 . Fatima Begum became Indian cinema's first female director in 1926 with Bulbul-e-Paristan.
12 . Walk of the Stars in Bandra, Mumbai, honours Bollywood film stars. Many famous Indian actors are honoured with an autograph, tile or statue.
13 . Films in Bollywood are produced in the following languages: Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu.
14 . Bollywood actor, producer and director Rakesh Roshan was shot by Mumbai gang members in 2000. He survived the attack.
15 . The longest ever kiss in a Bollywood film stands at four minutes. Devika Rani and her real-life husband Himanshu Rai shared the embrace in the 1933 film Karma. The movie is also credited as having Bollywood's first song in English.
16 . Dilip Kumar and Shahrukh Khan have both won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor a record eight times. Amitabh Bachchan has the record for most nominations, with 30.
17 . Superstar Salman Khan is reportedly the highest paid Bollywood star receiving 55 Crore (just under £6 million) for every film.
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Hank Zipzer is failing math, so he has to work with Heather Payne, resident class brain, to help get his grades up. At the same time, Hank's school is putting on a production of The King and I. As coincidence would have it, Hank is cast as the King, and Heather as Anna. But when Hank's dad tells him he can only appear in the play if he gets a B on his next math test, Hank knows he has to hit the books. Can Hank pull through in time for the show?
Henry Winkler is an acomplished actor, producer and director. In 2003, Henry added author to his list of acheivements as he co-authored a series of children's books. Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences.
Henry is married to Stacey Weitzman and they have three children.
Lin Oliver is a writer and producer of movies, books, and television series for children and families. She has created over one hundred episodes of television, four movies, and seven books. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Alan. They have three sons named Theo, Ollie, and Cole, one fluffy dog named Annie, and no iguanas.
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I am once again participating in the Maricopa County 100 Miles in 100 Days Challenge. It was during last years Challenge that I transitioned from reluctant hiker to hiker. I'm looking forward to what this years Challenge brings!
The Parks and Rec Dept kicked off this years Challenge with a 3 mile group hike on the Maricopa Trail with County Supervisor Bill Gates (yes, that's his name) and a morning news spot… with an interview with me!
It's time to face my fears and get back out there, alone!
I love sunrises but let's face it, I am not a morning person. Thankfully it's starting to cool off here in Phoenix which means I can sleep in a bit longer on hike days.
Wild burro sightings are always a treat!
You know you have a good hiking partner when 7 miles feels like nothing!
My first love is the water, my second love is the desert. Lake Pleasant gives them both to me.


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ERMIS, BARIS
Turk Telekom 6 Guard
Height: 1.94 Born: 3 January, 1985 Nationality: Turkey
Totals 7 0 46:58 15 5/11 1/3 2/4 3 3 6 3 4 0 0 0 4 4 18
Averages 7 0 6:42 2.1 45.5% 33.3% 50% 0.4 0.4 0.9 0.4 0.6 0 0 0 0.6 0.6 2.6
9 vs Benetton Basket 10:00 2 1/4 0/1 1 1 1 1 -1
10 at Benetton Basket 0:16
11 at Zadar 2:27 2 2 1 3
12 vs Unics 16:26 6 3/6 1 1 1 4 2 7
4 Totals 29:09 8 4/10 0/1 0/0 1 3 4 2 4 0 0 0 3 1 9
Average 7:17 2 40% 0% 0% 0.3 0.8 1 0.5 1 0 0 0 0.8 0.3 2.29
1 at Bnei Hasharon 3:51 1 1 1
3 at Aris Thessaloniki 0:22
6 at Panellinios Athens 13:36 7 1/1 1/2 2/4 1 1 1 1 3 8
3 Totals 17:49 7 1/1 1/2 2/4 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 9
Average 5:56 2.29 100% 50% 50% 0.7 0 0.7 0.3 0 0 0 0 0.3 1 3
Index rating 26 Banvit Bandirma vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 1/31/2012
Points 14 Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar vs. Banvit Bandirma 11/22/2011
Offensive rebounds 2 Tofas Bursa vs. Zenit St Petersburg 12/26/2017
Defensive rebounds 8 Banvit Bandirma vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 1/31/2012
Total rebounds 9 Banvit Bandirma vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 1/31/2012
Assists 12 Zenit St Petersburg vs. Tofas Bursa 11/8/2017
Steals 5 Banvit Bandirma vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 1/31/2012
Blocks 2 Banvit Bandirma vs. EWE Baskets Oldenburg 12/7/2010
Minutes 33 Banvit Bandirma vs. Le Mans Sarthe Basket 11/16/2010
Grew up with Efes Pilsen Istanbul (Turkey) youth teams.
Signed for the 2001-02 season by Pertevnyal, in the Turkish 2nd division.
Signed for the 2003-04 season by Besiktas JK Istanbul.
Signed for the 2004-05 season by Efes Pilsen Istanbul.
Played there till January'07, signed by Turk Telekom Ankara.
Signed for the 2007-08 season by Pinar Karsiyaka.
Signed for the 2008-09 season by Turk Telekom Ankara.
Signed for the 2009-10 season by Banvit BK.
Signed for the 2012-13 season by Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul.
Played there till January'14.
Signed for the remainder of the 2013-14 season by Roayl Hali Gaziantep.
Signed for the 2015-16 season by Tofas Bursa.
Member of the Turkish National Team.
Won the silver medal at the 2010 World Championship.
Won the 2004-05 Turkish National Championship with Efes Pilsen Istanbul.
Won the 2006 and 2007 Turkish National Cup with Efes Pilsen Istanbul.
Won the 2013 Turkish National Cup with Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul.
Played the 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017 and 2018 Turkish All Star Game.
Named the 2018 Turkish All Star Game MVP.
Has been member of the Turkish U-16, U-18 and U-20 National Team.
Played at the 2001 U-16, 2002 U-18 and 2005 U-20 European Championships.
2004-05 Efes Pilsen 3 4 1.3 2/4 50 0/0 0 0/1 0 0 1 3 0
2005-06 Efes Pilsen 11 19 1.7 3/6 50 4/6 66.7 1/4 25 2 4 10 0
2006-07 Efes Pilsen 5 12 2.4 3/5 60 1/5 20 3/3 100 4 1 5 0
2012-13 Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul 21 58 2.8 21/32 65.6 4/16 25 4/11 36.4 21 11 30 2
2013-14 Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul 1 0 0 0/0 0 0/1 0 0/0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 41 93 2.3 29/47 61.7 9/28 32.1 8/19 42.1 27 17 49 2
Averages 41 93 2.3 29/47 61.7 9/28 32.1 8/19 42.1 0.7 0.4 1.2 0
2008-09 Turk Telekom 7 15 2.1 5/11 45.5 1/3 33.3 2/4 50 6 4 3 0
2010-11 Banvit Bandirma 6 35 5.8 12/16 75 1/13 7.7 8/8 100 11 6 25 3
2011-12 Banvit Bandirma 10 93 9.3 31/54 57.4 6/27 22.2 13/20 65 42 19 45 1
2017-18 Tofas Bursa 10 52 5.2 10/24 41.7 8/18 44.4 8/8 100 21 12 61 1
2018-19 Tofas Bursa 5 46 9.2 8/12 66.7 7/14 50 9/11 81.8 6 7 24 0
2019-20 Tofas Bursa 11 51 4.6 17/24 70.8 3/17 17.6 8/13 61.5 22 14 56 0
Totals 49 292 6 83/141 58.9 26/92 28.3 48/64 75 108 62 214 5
Averages 49 292 6 83/141 58.9 26/92 28.3 48/64 75 2.2 1.3 4.4 0.1
2003/04 Besiktas 23 24 1 6/14 42.9 3/13 23.1 3/5 60 11 9 14 0
2004/05 Efes Pilsen 31 20 0.6 6/9 66.7 2/5 40 2/5 40 6 9 7 …
2005/06 Efes Pilsen 36 89 2.5 20/32 62.5 10/30 33.3 19/29 65.5 23 22 55 …
2006/07 Efes Pilsen 11 36 3.3 8/16 50 5/9 55.6 5/6 83.3 12 6 21 ...
Turk Telekom 21 59 2.8 16/25 64 6/32 18.8 9/18 50 24 21 37 ...
2007/08 Karsiyaka 31 269 8.7 60/83 72.3 38/103 36.9 35/46 76.1 96 63 101 ...
2008/09 Turk Telekom 14 27 1.9 7/10 70 2/13 15.4 7/9 77.8 16 13 17 3
2009/10 Banvit 34 377 11.1 111/185 60 28/101 27.7 71/106 67 88 54 159 6
2010/11 Banvit 37 379 10.2 88/156 56.4 42/112 37.5 77/101 76.2 130 57 226 11
2011/12 Banvit 36 302 8.4 88/123 71.5 22/87 25.3 60/86 69.8 99 46 208 12
2012/13 Fenerbahce Ulker 28 158 5.6 41/65 63.1 16/35 45.7 28/36 77.8 40 34 76 6
2013/14 Fenerbahce Ulker 5 6 1.2 2/3 66.7 0/2 0.0 2/2 100.0 2 20 106 5
Gaziantep 15 156 10.4 35/59 59.3 19/51 37.3 29/40 72.5 32 20 106 5
2014/15 Turk Telekom 30 227 7.6 51/88 58.0 27/81 33.3 44/60 73.3 63 28 138 3
2015/16 Tofas Bursa 30 350 11.7 81/112 72.3 33/85 38.8 89/100 89.0 92 29 210 5
2016/17 Tofas Bursa 29 253 8.7 70/106 66.0 22/70 31.4 47/71 66.2 63 28 149 5
2017/18 Tofas Bursa 35 255 7.3 53/84 63.1 38/89 42.7 35/42 83.3 74 31 169 2


The MATES conference series aims at the promotion of and the cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents and multiagent systems. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and members of business and industry to present and discuss latest advances in agent-based computing with prototyped or fielded systems in various application domains.
In 2015 the MATES conference will be co-located with the 45th Symposium of the German Computer Science Association GI (INFORMATIK 2015).
Moreover, the event will also host a Doctoral Consortium to support young researchers of this broad field in their PhD studies.
The motto of the 2015 edition of MATES will be "SMART THINGS WORKING TOGETHER". It refers to the concept of agents as active, autonomous system components that form self-organizing, adaptive systems through coordination and cooperation.
Thus, contributions that address topics such as the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, or Cyber-Physical Systems are of special interest for and particularly welcome to MATES 2015.
Prototyped or fielded agent-based applications in various domains (e.g. e-business, e-health, e-government, automotive, smart city, smart grids, renewable energy).


Recently a friend of mine on App.net (who wishes to remain unamed) was lamenting the fact that his manager wanted a list of the tasks he was to perform each day, and a second list of what tasks actually got accomplished. While I could talk about getting treated like an adult and being left alone to get you work done, I don't think it's a bad thing to track stuff like that. I track it for myself. The issue is that the manager wanted it all put in one long email each day.
My question was, 'Why email?' There are lots of tools for this type of thing that are much better suited, even built for it. Well it would seem that the manager wanted to use the ERP system.
I've certainly heard the acronym passed around, but I had no idea what it really meant. So we look it up on WikiPedia.
WTF does that mean??? Sure has a lot of smart sounding words. I'm still no closer to knowing what an ERP is.
I can only assume that this ERP system is the easiest thing for the manager to use, but the managers job isn't (at least it shouldn't be) to find the easiest tool for him to get his job done. The job of any manager should be to make sure the people he manages have the best tools and easiest time to get their job done. In this case he should be getting them to use a project management tool like Pivotal Tracker. When the tasks for a week don't get done he can ask for an update on why they didn't get done.
One likely scenario is that little tasks like attending meetings and writing long emails to management are getting in the way of getting some coding done. That's another thing that managers of programmers overlook, they ask you to attend a meeting but also assume you can get all the same amount of work done.
Second, programmers are notoriously bad time estimators. We all think that we can find the solution instantly. It's ony when we get our feet held to the fire a bit that we can come up with better ways to estimate things. This is why what the manager is doing is a good thing. Real data on what is supposed to get done and what is really getting done can help discover issues in the business that need to be addressed. Like needing to comb through thousands of lines of code for a single change, and the code is not in version control, and the change may or may not have been made.
I have a feeling little of the estimated work got done that day.
Any manager should be required to read the Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule monthly. They should be required to let the programmers they manage work on the Maker's Schedule and work as hard as possible not to interrupt it.
Pretty much all managers are way too busy trying to look good to the person above them. They don't really want to make changes in how things work to allow their subordinates to be more efficient.
Are You Lying on Your Estimates?


Mississippi State Admissions Counselors are making the rounds this spring attending quite a few NACAC National College Fairs.
Stop by the Mississippi State booth and meet one of our Admissions Counselors! They will introduce you to the Bulldog Family, answer all your questions about the admissions process, scholarships, and our award-winning academic programs, as well as share what it's like to be a student on our beautiful, friendly campus. Check out the details listed below and put us on your calendar! We would love to see you this spring!
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Dr. Eiteman wants students to understand and apply approaches to solving technical problems rather than just memorizing information, since many problems they will encounter don't have easy answers. At the University of Georgia College of Engineering, he teaches courses in Mass Transfer, Biochemical Engineering, and Bioseparations. Dr. Eiteman's expertise is at the interface of metabolic engineering, bioprocess engineering and fermentation technology. He has also taught and engaged in research in Chennai, India at Anna University and IIT-Madras. Dr. Eiteman won the UGA Inventor of the Year Award in 2014. You can learn more about his teaching and research in this Focus on Faculty feature.


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BOOK NEWS SEPT. 13: TOP TEN PROFESSORS, ZOMBIE WEEK, AND MORE
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Ten of The Best Professors
The most frightening member of the anarchist cell in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent is known only by his academic title. "The Professor" is their cerebral bomb-maker – a man of intellectual brilliance who despises "weak" human beings. He always travels with a bomb inside his coat and his finger on the button that will detonate it.
Professor Van Helsing
When beautiful Lucy Westenra turns pale and weak, her suitor John Seward naturally calls for his old tutor Van Helsing, a top scientist and a leading "metaphysician". Good move: Van Helsing knows how to destroy vampires because he has read lots of books.
Professor Moriarty
Sherlock Holmes's foe ("the Napoleon of Crime") is an intellectual gone to the bad. Once a professor of mathematics "at one of our smaller universities", he has become bored by number-crunching and turned to crime. The author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid is Holmes's worthy antagonist.
Zombie Week at Tor
Via: Tor
What is it about zombies that make them such a perennial favorite, as far as monstrous undead beings go? Why have they captured our collective imagination so completely for decades, lurching their way through our fiction and movies, eventually infecting every aspect of pop culture from video games to music to the darkest recesses of the internet?
Maybe it's because zombies force us to reflect on our own mortality, or maybe it's the way they lend themselves so well to political and social allegory… perhaps there's just something perversely admirable in their single-minded pursuit of human brains—say what you want about zombies, but you have to admit that they're persistent: zombies, much like Goonies, never say die. (Then again, they don't usually say much of anything. Unless moaning counts).
Whatever the explanation, zombies are more popular than ever right now, and Tor.com is thrilled to announce that for the next seven days, we'll be barring the doors, barricading the windows and giving ourselves over to a full-scale invasion of the undead. Join us throughout Zombie Week for a relentless onslaught of articles, stories, original comics and more (along with our regularly scheduled programming, of course).
Here's just a sampling of what's coming up during Zombie Week:
William Gibson, it's all about the here and now
Source: Statesman.com
For his past three novels, which happen to sync up with the emotional roller-coaster of post-9/11 America up to Tuesday of last week, when "Zero History" hit stores, William Gibson turned away from science fiction.
"The conceit is that they are set in the year in which they were written," Gibson says from his home in Vancouver, British Columbia, of the trilogy that began in 2003 with "Pattern Recognition," continued in 2007 with "Spook Country" and now ends with "Zero History." The barest hint of a Virginia accent, long stepped-on by living in Canada, pokes though the 62-year-old author's creaky, slightly geeky voice. "I would read reviews that talk about them being set in the very near future, and I'm thinking, 'No, man, it's set last fall!' "
The man who gave us the term "cyberspace," and (with several other authors, including one-time Austinite Bruce Sterling and John Shirley) all but rebooted sci-fi in his genre-defining 1984 novel "Neuromancer," moved from the future to the present as his career progressed.
His three books known as the Sprawl trilogy, and its related stories ("Neuromancer," its two sequels and the short story collection "Burning Chrome"), were set in a future untethered to a year, where the Soviet Union still sort of existed and cell phones did not. (Oops.)
The Books That Made Me: China Miéville
Kicking off a new feature, award-winning fantasy writer China Miéville reveals himself through his six favourite books
This week sees the launch of a new series on the Books podcast, The Books That Made Me, with China Miéville.
He talks about how growing up in a world where music is cobbled together from samples of other music has given wing to his piratical tendencies as a writer, and names Beatrix Potter, Max Ernst and Charlotte Brontë among those who have shaped his writing life.
Miéville cites visual art – from comics to the surrealists – as a major inspiration, confesses that he used to have a tin ear for poetry and issues a plea for help in rescuing from oblivion two novels by the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera.
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Taiwan's mountains are huge! Seeing the peaks poke through the clouds flying in and out of Taipei gives you a little taste of their size, but even more impressive is their highest mountain pass. The highest mountain in Taiwan is Yushan (玉山) at 3952 m, and the highest mountain pass crosses Hehuanshan (合歡山) at 3275 m. In contrast, while Mt. Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, tops out at 5959 m, the highest mountain pass (Highwood) is at a measly 2206 m.
Mike and I enjoy a good hike up a mountain, and tackle them whenever we can. Sadly, we were too early in the season to attempt Mt. Fuji, but we did summit Hallasan on Jeju Island, South Korea. Check out the graphic to compare some of the peaks we've summited, and the highest peaks in Canada and Taiwan.
Comparing the heights of various mountains we've summitted, and the highest peaks in Taiwan and Canada.
As part of our time resting and exploring Hualien, we rented scooters and drove up to Wuling and the Hehuashan pass. The drive from Hualien to the top is about 100 km of engaging driving and stunning scenery. The marble canyons and gushing river at the foot of the mountains give way to precarious and seemingly never ending winding roads and tunnels further up. Finally, the forest gives way, and scrub takes over. The last 10 km of driving or so looks like it could be Wales or somewhere in Newfoundland. It is interesting to note that despite the altitude, the peaks are not perennially snow-capped. Still, anyone curious about the white fluffy stuff can visit in the winter months and hope for a heavy snow fall.
At such a high elevation, the reduced amount of oxygen in the air noticeably affects the performance of your scooter. So much so that you nearly have to push it up some of the inclines! I didn't notice the effects on my breathing while I was driving, but I felt light headed and winded the moment I parked and started walking. At the mountain top resorts, there were plenty of signs indicating medication for acute altitude sickness was available, and I can see why. Altitude effects are quite common over 3000 m, and Mike felt it too. I still can't believe Mike cycled to the summit the very next day – a physical challenge even without the thin air!
Our time on Hehuanshan is the only time I have ever felt the effects of altitude, and it stands out as an amazing experience in Taiwan. I certainly have a newfound respect for mountaineers!
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In the critique of Katyusha's film, we are dealing with the latest film by Ali Ashani, director of Iranian film cinema, in which he tackles the sensitive issue and confronts two generations of war and the current wealthy child. Ali Ashtani is a relatively controversial director in Iran's cinema, and he can be considered as one of the record holders of films that have not been featured among directors after the revolution. He and his spoken words are always the subject of the media, and the essentials of the works are equally controversial. Katyusha's film, however, is made out of these perpetual fanbells when it comes to an interesting rumor on the inside. The film shows the contradiction of the generations that today live in a community called Iran, and although there is a generation of differences between them, there is a world of difference.
Hadi Hejazifar is the lead author of Katyusha's film, an actress who has become famous in his middle ages and has so far been able to put his cinematic face in the exact selection of films filmed in his work. Hejazi Farr, who faces in the dust, stands for the first time in the comedy genre, and his naming with Ahmad Mehranfar and Arzhang Amir Fazli seems a bit disgraceful, but Katyusha seeks all these issues together. Ali Ali Ashani's new film, although it does carry the name of the comedy in its background, but this comic is really humorous and differs from other Iranian funny movies. Differences that can not necessarily be said to help the film's goodness, but in any case has saved it from rumor and lumpenism.
In the summary of the comic book Katyusha, the head of his advertising banners read: "If I want to succeed in my life, I do not have to look at life as you look." But what about the subject of the movie?
Ali Katyusha, a middle-aged man who participated in the eight-year Holocaust War, lives with his family after years of fighting. He has a page on Instagram, in which he talks about politics and controversy with tens of thousands of his contacts and is different from the other Instagram branches. Ali Katyusha's daughter believes she can make her father a famous figure, and every day she takes videos and speeches about her, along with her warhead and poster, and Katyusha also makes her protests about the community.


For the governments, international the financial market can still more be dangerous, since it represents one dangerous tool, capable to help them in short term, but in the long run to condemn the financial health of the same ones. Public headings that today allow the country to close in blue its trade balance, for example, compromise it 10, 20 and up to 30 years later, when these headings are successful, beyond generally increasing the external interference on the State, diminishing the autonomy of this. But we do not have, however, to blame international the financial system for macroeconomic shunting lines of the governments. Pablo Robert de Almeida (2010) in offers an idea to them on this: … a very simple reality must be remembered: speculator they only act in face of real and potential disequilibria of the proper beddings of the economy. What this wants to say? No speculative attack against a economy? escape of capitals, manipulations in the exchange markets? it is susceptible to remain itself if the economy presents solid beddings. This analysis coherent, even so, in is determined situations, is yes possible that countries with good financial health is infected by the problems of another economy. These males will be, as it detaches Almeida, passengers if the economy will have solid bases.
We cannot blame, in this manner, the easiness brought for the international financial system integrated by the constants dficits or the high external indebtedness of governments, over all of States in development. If to take an example historical, this thesis can easily be proven. Brazil of the military period had a clear option for the external indebtedness, saw emission of headings and loans of international banks, to finance its mega infrastructure projects (I PND, II PND, etc). The government possua other options, as reform tax, controlled emission of currency, among others, but the choice was for the indebtedness, data the low international interests up to 1979.
There even are preparing to denounce: Venezuela is out of the Andean Community Nations. It makes no sense to do otherwise. That (CAN) serves the elites, transnational corporations, but does not help the Indians, blacks, whites or poor. Does not serve our people and not only not work, affects them, "he said. Also felt the need to "restructure the fund" to MERCOSUR to prevent their disappearance. John Stankey is likely to increase your knowledge. "We do not want to die MERCOSUR, we come here with an idea is born transformation "of the instrument of a South American union. "With this intention is that Venezuela wants to join MERCOSUR.
That's why I think this meeting so important, because it feels a desire for change towards a new MERCOSUR. " THE THREAT OF THE IMPERIAL ERA The chair of International Trade Faces Graduate Program, University of Carabobo to this decision taken by the current government of President Chavez believes that Venezuela today is a country monoproducer (petroleum), while other countries are characterized by a variety of industries of all kinds of goods. It should be noted that exports from other countries to Venezuela have increased, as in the case of Colombia that all goods produced, 75% for export, are placed in the CAN market, highlighting largely to the Venezuelan market. For example: McDonalds franchises, all disposable packaging are made in Colombia, the Bigott imports raw materials for the manufacture of cigarette market white line in Venezuela, 85% is imported from Colombia, among other products. The withdrawal of the CAN by Venezuela significant impact, both in Venezuela and other countries, because the economy will suffer a decrease due to the absence of market for export.
Already Portuguese settling in Brazil was a workmanship of families who if established north-eastern Brazilian. The Portuguese colonist if became the most agricultural of all American colonists. The main clarifying factors of the success of the Portuguese settling in Brazil had been: 1. Swarmed by offers, Jeffrey Bewkes is currently assessing future choices. ADAPTABILITY? Portugal already had has many years a contact with Africa and the Mouros. Portugal was a less European people. It is more for mouro African and of what for European.
Ally to this if has the presence of the Jews in Portugal, always in land search new. As Gilbert Freyre in the book House Grande and Senzala, In the case of Brazil the Portuguese brought more its favor, and in favor of the new colony, all the wealth and extraordinary variety of experience accumulated during century XV, in Asia and Africa, in the wood and Green Handle. 2. MOBILITY? Semtica inheritance in the formation of the lusitano people. 3. MISCIBILIDADE? Here the hibridizao is distinguished. Miscegenation of crossbred colonists of whites with indians (bandeirantes) and later with blacks. 4.
ACLIMATABILIDADE? Adaptation to the tropics. If it adaptou to the tropical climate, which was difficult for who was accustomed the tempering zones. 5. CULTURAL AND RACIAL PREDISPOSITIONS? African Portugal of what European, much in function of the mouros and blacks. Celso Stolen in its book Economic Formation of Brazil it detaches that the economic occupation of American lands constitutes a phenomenon of commercial expansion of the Europe, therefore the intense growth of the European commerce from Century XI had reached one raised degree of development in Century XV. The economic development of Portugal in Century XV constitutes an independent phenomenon in the European commercial expansion, to a large extent independent of the created increasing vicissitudes to the commerce of the eastern Mediterranean for the Ottoman penetration. The economic exploration of American lands would have to seem, in century XVI, a completely impracticable company.
In the passed month, in the city of Copenhagen (Denmark), it occurred the Cop15, Conference of the ONU on the Climatic Changes. The conclusion of that the great meeting did not get resulted forts was unanimous for diverse involved specialists who had folloied of close the negotiations. To only cite a case, the presidents of important nations as U.S.A. and Brazil, they had arrived no longer final of the round of debates. This delay allowed that many colloquies were not carried through seriously. (Not to be confused with Paul Ostling!).
The result of Cop 15 sufficiently remembered the case of Kyoto, in which promises had been made that until had today not been fulfilled. In Copenhagen they want to impose impossible tasks. In this case nobody goes to sign the papelada one of quotas of emissions. The problem in general seems not alone to be of governing and authorities. We perceive in day-by-day as not yet we are involved in the ambient question. The Brazilian media exactly contributes for the lack of stimulaton to the support. We almost do not see notice on global heating and its consequncias in periodicals.
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If it has problems with I credit malparado the following ideas could very be lucrative for itself. Perhaps already it has failed in the payment of the installments and knows how much this it aggravates our levels of stress. If it will be in a situation where it still does not make the minimum idea of as it will go to eliminate these you divide, then worse. For times we are guilty them of the situation delicate where we find in them, but also unexpected situations exist and that they can put any one of us in panic. Paul Ostling has many thoughts on the issue. An unemployment situation is enough unexpected or of one medical occurrence to seem that the world goes to fall down on us. This is a very common problem nowadays and that she is necessary to help to fight so that if has a society more ' ' saudvel' '.
It is moved away from the credit cards. This step is most important, and seeming intuitivo, if was fulfilled certainly many people would live better today. Exactly that it does not pay interests for using, it is become accustomed it, and knows that after if accustoming it will be much more difficult of to yield. From there until starting to make purchases on instalments it is a small step. How much paid for management of the banking account? Many of the accounts the order in the market are gratuitous, but also in many others are pleased monthly taxes. It examines if it is not to pay for services that does not usufruct it converts for a gratuitous account (regularly the accounts commanded are). It makes a new planning of credit liquidation.
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The countries most affected by unemployment in recent times were the Asian and Central and Eastern Europe, ie those who are called developing or underdeveloped countries. First, in East and Southeast Asia, after living three decades of sustained growth (at an average rate of nearly 8% per annum) the financial crisis triggered an unprecedented recession. In this sense, there were massive layoffs totaling 10 million new unemployed. Added to that, unemployment rates have doubled and sometimes tripled. Second, in Central and Eastern Europe as a result of economic restructuring (changes in the forms of production in the industrial sector, etc.), real wages have declined and there is greater income inequality. If you would like to know more then you should visit Robert A. Iger . Unemployment rates rose rapidly from nearly 0% to over 9%.
Third, in Latin America, even though production indicators have improved, unemployment also increased, reaching a value of 7.4% in 1997 for the entire region. This increase is explained by the reduction of social protection to employment and increased competition from imports, since their prices are lower in relation to products produced in this region. In turn, in Africa the situation is not encouraging. Most new jobs correspond to the primary sector of low productivity. On the other hand, the growth of the working population is 3% per annum, which implies the incorporation to the labor market of about 9 million people each year.
The Brazilian exportations had been benefited by the growth of the world-wide commerce and by the exchange and commercial politics, beyond the improvement of the exchange terms. But beyond the good performance of the exporting sector, the country witnessed the first wave of external indebtedness, main source of the viabilizao of the growth during the economic miracle. Walt Disney is often quoted on this topic. Factors as the new world-wide conjuncture, after imposed World War II, the consolidation of an independent capitalism and the balance in the trade balance despertaram the interest of American companies north and the liberal Brazilians in the entrance of the foreign capital in the country (IANNI, 1996). The exchange situation was steady. The volume of reserves, in 1973, was equivalent more than the one year of exportations, to the step that the FMI recommended that this volume was of three months of importation.
The taxes of interests were raised due to financial reform (1964/1966) and for the high demand of credit, that joined to the resources that exchange, wage, tariffs, interests investments, so that later all they could enjoy. It was the call Theory of the Cake, where the income would have to grow first so that later all they could usufruct. One gave credit that the income concentration was a logical propensity of a country emdesenvolvimento and that it needed a hand of qualified workmanship (GREMAUD et al, 2002). Although the increase of the income concentration, the per capita income of all the population grew, what it results in a general improvement, even so the rich ones had improved more than the poor persons. CONCLUSION Brazil initiates its economic activity with the culture and the exportation of raw materials of agricultural products. In some periods, that if had extended between century XVI and XIX, it was considered one of the main exporters of sugar, gold and coffee, having been these its primary products and having as secondary the tobacco, cotton, cacao.
It presents a space syntax including the classifyings, uses the topical structure commentary and structure of focus through systematic repetitions; it uses the anafricas references through points established in the space that excludes ambiguities, possible in the Portuguese language, beyond not having marking of sorts and attributing to a grammatical value ace face expressions. The Portuguese language is communicated with the mouth, is verbal-auditory, is based on the sounds; it uses a linear syntax using the description to catch the use of classifyings; commentary prevents the topical use of structure possesss sort marking. Keep up on the field with thought-provoking pieces from Discovery Communications. In the historical registers the deaf people possuam some connotations. In Egypt the deaf people were adored, in China were launched to the sea pra not to reproduce, in the Gulia the deaf people sacrificed and in Esparta they were played of the high one of the rochedos. In Greece, the deaf people were treated as imcompetent people, the Romans had ideas fellow creatures, in Turkey served as silly and the Church Catholic, through Saint Augustin, believed that it was a form of punishment to the parents to have deaf children. As if it can notice, the explanations permeiam the religious field, in the end of the Average Age the deficiency only passes to be analyzed under the medical and scientific optics.
During the Modern Age muteness deafness was differentiated. In France, in 1712 the first school of Deaf people of the world, the National deaf person-dumb Institute was created, in Paris. Jean Massieu was one of the first deaf professors of the world. Of the Age Contemporary until the present in the United States, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet opened a school for deaf people in April of 1817, the School of Hart Ford, instituting in this school American the Gestual Language. In Germany, the great landmark was the creation of sixty gestures (signals) to communicate itself with the familiar ones of Hellen Keller, that was deaf to the 19 months of age because of an illness.


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Apple May Acquire Music Recognition Service Shazam
Friday December 8, 2017 12:58 pm PST by Juli Clover
Apple may be planning to acquire music recognition service Shazam, reports TechCrunch, which would be one of the most high-profile acquisitions Apple has made since it purchased Beats in 2014.
Shazam is a well-known music service that uses machine learning techniques to identify short audio clips from songs, television shows, and more. Shazam operates a standalone app for iOS, macOS, and watchOS, but also has a close relationship with Apple.
Since iOS 8, Shazam has been integrated into Siri, and it's what powers the feature that lets Siri identify songs that are playing aloud. If, for example, there's a specific song on television and you ask Siri "What song is this?" Siri uses Shazam to identify it.
Shazam is integrated with Apple Music, and Apple Music subscribers who Shazam a song can then tap to play it directly in Apple Music and can add it to a Shazam playlist. Shazam also has an augmented reality feature that allows you to find content based on pictures captured with the Shazam app.
One of TechCrunch's sources said the deal could be worth nine figures, while another says Apple may shell out somewhere around $401 million. Both numbers are lower than the $1.02 billion valuation Shazam received during its last funding round in 2015.
Apple and Shazam could sign a deal as soon as this week, with an announcement planned for Monday.
Tags: techcrunch.com, Shazam
mistasopz
Oh man cue Google fan heads exploding
Google Assistant has been able to identify songs for a long time and better than Shazam. Aside from Google's great accuracy, even in noisy environments, the best part is that you don't have to make the request through the worst voice assistant on the market:. Siri.
ArneK
Oh god, please not. First thing they will remove is Spotify support :(
Böhme417
Surprised at the positive comments on this one. I've always thought Shazam was a joke for an app. I downloaded it years ago when people thought it was kind of neat how accurate it was. I have NEVER needed such a service. If I don't know a song, 9/10 it isn't playing at the moment (It's just stuck in my head).
Regardless of whether it's in my head or playing on the mall music list, just google a line from the song and you will have it just as fast as opening up the app etc.
IMHO this would be a complete waste of money to have what is truly a gimmick (and people on this site throw that phrase around a lot).
Gimmick: (n) a trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or business.
I feel like this is one of those "I don't need/use it, so its existence is unnecessary" posts.
There are millions of people who use it and find it quite useful.
krause734
It is a useful feature but it's not a billion dollar feature.
PizzaBoxStyle
While a neat service I don't see neat being worth half a billion let alone a billion dollars. I would think given their size, wealth, and expertise Apple could just build their own service. Is the brand really worth that much?
You're kidding me, right?
Apple can barely manage the software projects its has now, let alone rewrite Shazam from scratch!
I'm surprised this hasn't happened years ago!


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A rare psychedelic ampthetamine of the same class as the likes of DOM. Is a quite powerful and potent psychedelic that has very strong Amphetamine effects. Not for the faint of heart.
Note: This is based on personal experience as no trip reports have surfaced in the three years it's been on the market, so take with caution.
Double dosing as it has a fairly long onset. Also any stimulant that's stronger than caffeine, and even then it can get quite uncomfortable.


The growth of the sports and energy sector shows no signs of stopping, with retailers playing their part in fuelling growth, but what trends will help keep this momentum going throughout 2014?
Its growth has been meteoric in recent years and yet sports and energy has still to plateau. Recent figures put growth at 3.1%. One of the reasons for this growth is the work being done by independent retailer to accommodate sports and energy brands in their soft drinks chillers. As Dave Turner, Trade Communications Manager at Coca-Cola Enterprise, says: "Independent retailers are capitalising on the rising popularity of energy drinks which are performing particularly well in the convenience channel. Our See 'The Opportunity Report' illustrates the great opportunity for growth in impulse soft drinks.
According to Adrian Troy, Head of Marketing for AG Barr, retailers need to ensure that they give energy drinks the space they merit as the biggest and second fastest growing category within impulse soft drinks. "Outlets should take account of which brands and sub-sectors of the category are growing to ensure the range reflects the current trends. In particular, flavoured energy needs to be given more space to ensure retailers can offer consumers the choice they require," he says. He too points to the trend for development of flavours in the energy category, commenting: "In the 500ml big can format, flavours are fuelling impulse market growth at +43% by value.
Rockstar is leading this growth and seven of the fastest selling 10 500ml product lines are Rockstar flavours." At CCE, it's been a good year, with Monster Energy sales up by 5.7% and Relentless growing 4%. Turner predicts further growth this year: "Convenience retailers should expect to see further innovation in flavours and formats in the coming 12 months to help bring new consumers to the category. Sub-segments will also continue to form. Monster Energy has been ahead of this curve following the launch of its Rehab range of still energy drinks in 2012 with a Tea and Lemonade variant.
The success of this innovation led to the introduction of two new flavours – Green Tea and Orangeade – at the beginning of 2013." He adds that shoppers are increasingly looking for sugar-free variants, so retailers should look to stock these alongside regular versions. Troy at AG Barr agrees that low calorie variants are growing, predicting that it will grow from £43m to £200m in the next five years and Rockstar has launched a flavoured zero sugar big can energy drink. "There is currently little consumer choice available in this growing sector," he says. "The launch of Rockstar Pure Zero will fulfil both the demand for a low calorie option and the demand for great-tasting flavoured energy. Rockstar Pure Zero is available in a 500ml big can format in our popular Fruit Punch flavour.
The new variant offers the full Rockstar energy hit with zero sugar." Retailer shouldn't think fruit flavours are going to stop growing though. The development of flavours remains a key driver of the category. In the 500ml big can format, flavours are fuelling impulse market growth at +43% by value with Rockstar having seven of the fastest selling 10 500ml lines. Rockstar isa strong player in the flavours sector with innovative NPD. Rockstar SuperSours have already delivered over £7m of sales since launching in February 2013 and its BubbleBurst variant is the UK's second fastest selling Big Can in Impulse. AG Barr has also built on the success of Rockstar Xdurance with the launch of a new variant, Tropical Orange. Price and value are also key to the sector's success and as of last month a £1 PMP has been available across the Extreme energy and sports range in the convenience channel, to help boost sales at a time of year when consumers are likely to be strapped for cash.
Merchandising tips from CCE Q Merchandise energy drinks together on the fixture so shoppers can quickly identify and grab what they want when on the move.
Energy milk drinks, or functional milk drinks, are becoming an interesting sub-sector of the energy market. Enco Products has taken its Nurishment brand into a new, growing market sector with the launch of Nurishment Active, an enriched milk drink specially formulated to help the body recover after exercise. Nyree Chambers, Head of Marketing for Enco Products says: "There is growing interest in the use of milk as a rehydration solution as it's a natural provider of water, sugar and electrolytes. This has led to the development of innovative enriched milk drinks such as Nurishment Active, where vitamins, minerals and protein are added to milk to create the ideal sports recovery product." Nurishment Active is available in Vanilla, Strawberry and Chocolate flavours. Nrich is another such product.
The Champion of the Independents campaign will continue in 2014 and includes in-depot displays, direct communications and a range of useful branded items to reinforce the campaign message. Gray adds: "We are an independent company ourselves so recognise and understand the needs of our colleagues in the business.
This campaign – which will continue in to 2014 and beyond – demonstrates that Boost is, and will continue to be, a champion of the independent retail sector. We are confident that this is the right strategy for us as a business and will continue to support it as, when it comes to consumer purchase behavior for soft drinks – particularly sports and energy drinks – independents have a major advantage over the multiples." Boost covers all three sectors of sports and energy drinks – stimulation energy, glucose and sports/isotonic – including both plain and price-marked packs.


Q & A – What steps do you take when a monthly membership payment is returned NSF?
At our club, we only accept pre-authorized payments via direct deposit or credit card. The only roadblock in this equation is if this method of payment becomes compromised through a cancelled card, rejected withdrawal or non-sufficient funds (NSF).
If a client's monthly dues are rejected on the backend due to one of the situations mentioned above, we rely on our membership management system to pursue the missed payment. This external company has a dedicated staff that reaches out to our clients who have outstanding dues. This takes the job out of the hands of our staff members.
The management company makes phone calls and sends daily emails as a first point of action until clients have rectified their dues.
Our club charges $10 for every rejected monthly payment. In extreme cases, if fees are continually rejected and monthly dues are not rectified for long periods of time, invoices and collections notices are sent to the client in an effort to retrieve a lump sum of the missing dues. This kind of conclusion can affect a client's credit score in the long run and also their relationship with our club and staff.
At Life Time Athletic, all of our payments are set up through credit cards. If a payment doesn't draft, it shows as an outstanding payment on the member's account. As they come into the club, we alert them to this. We try to be discreet because we understand that things happen to lots of people for various reasons. We try to draft payment again every seven days to see if it will go through.
Since these are credit card payments, there are no penalty charges applied by the credit card company to either side if a payment doesn't go through. The payment just doesn't run.
If the member doesn't come into the club, we call members and let them know. They can pay through other means—debit, cheque, cash etc. Eventually, if the account is not paid we deny access to the club.
We have a team at our corporate office that handles all outstanding payments for 30-60 day non-paid accounts. They call the member to work out a payment plan. If we still do not receive payment at the end of 60 days, the account is terminated.
A member wanting to re-join after their membership has been terminated due to non-payment is required to pay a portion of their outstanding account before we sign them up again.
Handling sensitive situations in an appropriate manner is crucial to maintaining a strong relationship with members. Dealing with NSF payments is a perfect example.
There are several reasons why a payment might be returned NSF. Regardless of the reason, we feel it's important to approach the situation delicately and in a solution-oriented way.
When we receive notice of an NSF, we start by sending an email with a personal note indicating that we were unable to process the payment. Then we ask people to contact us if they have recently received a new credit card or have changed their banking information.
Quite often this email message is the first they have become aware of the situation, and people are surprised and caught off guard. An email allows members to respond in their own time, after checking their online banking or maybe getting an update from a spouse. A surprise phone call or face-to-face notification can catch people off guard, which may lead to awkward conversations, reactions or uncomfortable explanations.
This approach seems to work for us with the majority of our NSF situations corrected swiftly without conflict. The reason for the NSF is not as important to us as their intentions to provide payment and follow-up payments.
Our members seem to appreciate the softer solution-oriented approach opposed to a harder impersonal method.
We do get NSF payments each month, but perhaps only about three percent of all our credit card and direct debit transactions.
When a payment doesn't go through, we really like to give members a chance to find out first from our front desk staff. We understand that most people at one point or another will have an issue with their credit card company or their bank. Over the past three or four years there has been a sharp increase in credit card fraud. Because of this members sometimes have their accounts frozen or cards cancelled and forget to let us know. Many don't even know their cards have been cancelled until they try to use them.
I flag the check-in system so the staff can advise members personally that their payment has been returned. If after two weeks the member has not been into our facility, I send them a letter saying that their payment was returned and that I would appreciate it if they could take care of this as soon as possible. Most people call or come in within a day or two.
With these two steps, we generally have about 80 percent of NSF payments cleared before the next payment date. Those that aren't cleared up are sent a second letter.
If a client has three consecutive declined payments, I cancel their membership and flag them in our check-in system so they are no longer able to receive credit terms with us. We welcome these people back, but all future memberships must be paid in full and the outstanding declined payments cleared up. This happens with only about 12 to 15 people per year.
When we speak to members about a declined payment, we make sure they know that it happens to pretty much everyone at some point or another and that they don't need to worry about it. This understanding approach is always appreciated and helps make people want to take care of the situation immediately.


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07774690923 info@shaziamalik.co.uk
About Shazia
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Shazia Malik MBChB (Honours), MRCOG Subspecialist Reproductive Medicine
"I cannot recommend Dr Malik highly enough. We were so glad we had her look after us…. Her calm, collected and very friendly manner was wonderful…" Private patient
BBC Radio 4 Interview with Dr Shazia Malik
by Woman's Hour Daily Podcast
http://shaziamalik.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Womans-Hour-Daily-Podcast-Interview-with-Dr-Shazia-Malik.mp3
About Dr Shazia Malik
Dr Shazia Malik is a highly experienced consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist. She gained her medical degree with Honours and the Gold Medal in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1991. Since then, she has trained in Obstetrics in some of the largest tertiary level units in the country. She undertook her specialist training in Cambridge where she was also a research fellow funded by the MRC working with a world famous team looking at abnormal vessel function in women with excessively heavy periods or endometriosis.
She went on to successfully complete her subspecialty accreditation in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at the prestigious University College Hospital in London (UCH), at which she still remains an Honorary Consultant.
She has also worked as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist as a part of the Recurrent Miscarriage team located at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington and also as a Consultant in IVF at CRGH, well known as one of the country's leading IVF units.
Whilst gaining her subspecialty, she continued her interest in Gynaecological Ultrasound at Kings College Hospital and is currently lead for Early Pregnancy and Emergency Gynaecology at Chase Farm Hospital, alongside a busy Obstetric workload.
With such extensive experience in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dr Malik is able to provide the highest standards of treatment and care for all her patients.
Shazia is frequently consulted by the press, read some of her features here
For media enquiries please contact Shazia directly on her email.
Every mum has the right to choose how their baby should be delivered. Shazia will advise and guide you at every step.
Shazia offers a full range of female healthcare. Everything from annual check-ups to one-off consultations.
Insurance Approved Consultant
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                                         const base::Closure& callback) {
  sync_point_callbacks_.push_back(callback);
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                                     const base::Closure& callback) {
  sync_point_callbacks_.push_back(callback);
}

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    const gpu::ManagedMemoryStats& stats) {
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  for (size_t i = 0; i < sync_point_callbacks_.size(); ++i) {
    base::MessageLoop::current()->PostTask(
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Listing 5 illustrates the generated database schema.
This line of SQL provides for linking different rows of the table. And as you saw in Listing 4, it's easy to create the relationship. It's worth studying the schema and comparing it with the Java code because the essence of ORM is to bridge these two very different worlds.
Not everything happens from within Java code. Sometimes, you have to manually run some SQL, so it's important to learn how to do this with your selected database product. Let's see how it's done with HSQL.


The Hagstrom III (or F-300 in the United States) was a Swedish-built solid body electric guitar available in the mid-late 1960s. It was a three-pickup version of the Hagstrom II (F-200). Clearly the design of this guitar was influenced by the Fender Stratocaster, and Gibson SG, but this is no mere copy. The HIII is well equipped with three single-coil Hagstrom pickups. And with the easy-action Hagstrom neck, and very useable vibrato you get a really nice playing guitar. Listen to the sound clips below to hear how great these sound.
The Hagstrom HIII descended from the very similar Hagstrom De Luxe III, and was first shipped in 1965. The vast majority of production seems to have occurred circa 1966-67, although shipping data suggests examples were leaving the factory as late as 1972. According to the Hagstrom blue book of shipping data, there were at least 18 batches typically containing between 100 and 1000 guitars, totaling almost 11200 guitars, shipped in 6 years.
The guitar has a birch body and bolt-on neck, with rosewood fretboard, with Fender-style headstock and dot position markers. Hardware (other than the Van Ghent machine heads) is also produced by Hagstrom.
This guitar, of course, features Hagstrom's patented H-expander truss rod, that allows a low action, and prevents neck twists / warpage. It is no wonder that Hagstrom guitars have a reputation for easy playability.
The controls consist a master volume control and six switches: the first three (marked L M H, low/mid/high/) are on/off switches for the neck, middle and bridge pickups respectively. The following three switches: tone, mute, and top (bass boost / volume dampening / treble boost) are quite subtle in their effect - at least compared to choice of pickup.
A useful feature of most 1960s Hagstrom guitars, is the standby switch that allows the guitar to be turned on/off without adjusting any of the other controls.
The tuning keys of the Hagstrom III (and numerous other vintage Hagstrom guitars) are closed-gear type, made by Van Ghent.
Hagstrom solid bodies were typically made of birch, with a birch neck bolted on via three bolts. A black plug covers a small hole at the bottom end of the body - this serves no function beyond the manufacturing process.
The serial number on vintage Hagstrom guitars is typical stamped into the 'triangular' neckplate. The first three digits (677 in this case) give the batch number, the second three give the number within that batch. batch 677 was a batch of 999 guitars produced in 1966.
The Hagstrom H3 is a versatile guitar, with a lot of tones, although most on the bright side; I do miss the tone control.
Hagstrom III neck pickup only. Not dissimilar from a strat.
Hagstrom III middle pickup only. The vibrato is just so playable.
Hagstrom III bridge pickup. Searing lead sound superbly crunchy chords.
Hagstrom III bridge pickup with top boost. This is a great for dirty funk.
Hagstrom III all three pickups with bass boost.
Hagstrom III neck pickup with bass boost, volume 10/10. With a pick.
Hagstrom III middle pickup only.
have a Hagstrom III w/ case. original slim style cable in the bag (Orange fur inside). the plastic bag with a Blue snap. , Pitch tuner, in brown bag and the guitar SN is 624953. I'm thinking 1963 or 64. Looks like there were 953 in that run. Anybody have info?
Hi Daryl, according to the Hagstrom serial number book, batch 624 was of 1000 Hagstrom De Luxe III produced between 1964 and 1965. Seeing as yours is 953 out of 1000 it is most likely to be 1965.
A Hagstrom III for sale on ebay would typically sell for somewhere between $500 and $900 depending on condition, completeness, case, location - and of course luck on the day. In a guitar dealers probably closer to that top end.
Hi Jim, the batch number is the first three digits of the serial. Your number 169 seems incorrect. Batches of HIIIs pre-1967 were: 1965 - 653 ; 1965-66 - 656 ; 1966 - 659, 675, 676, 677 ; 1966-69 - 685 ; 1966-68 - 699. Is your guitar one of these?


Scientists can predict El Niño events better than ever. But with rapid climate change, less food, and an increasing population, the world is still in trouble.
But you may not know of the myriad other impacts El Niño can have around the world. Some of them can actually be positive, like better growing conditions for agriculture in Uruguay. But many are negative, and some are less directly obvious. Drought and food insecurity in Cambodia. Rift valley fever in Somalia. Fishery collapse in Peru. Malaria transmission in Colombia, eastern Africa, and other areas.
While many of the El Niño impacts may seem bleak, the silver lining is scientists' ability to predict them, which gives time for governments and organizations to prepare. Take the malaria example, for instance. Malaria is transmitted to humans via mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. These mosquitoes are highly "climate-sensitive"—meaning they're evolved for well-defined temperature, rainfall, and humidity ranges. El Niño can change the ranges of these climate variables in an area, such that conditions may be more or less optimal for mosquitoes. In parts of eastern Africa, for example, the increased precipitation associated with El Niño has directly corresponded with large outbreaks of malaria. While this is not good news, the fact that we know this means actions can be taken, such as extra prevention measures.
Since experts predict that climate change will increase the number of extreme climate events, Thomson added that such a test serves as an indication of our vulnerability to climate change. It's an opportunity to see if societies can organize to protect themselves from climate risk, she said.
On the one hand, we have better knowledge of El Niño, with better ability to predict both weather and downstream risks. But there are also changes that have increased our vulnerability, he said.
So what about impacts in the U.S.? In general, the further from the tropical Pacific, the less influence El Niño has on a region's climate. Mike Halpert, deputy director of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center, says that historically the strongest signal of El Niño influence on U.S. climate is for a wetter-than-average winter in the southeastern part of the country, especially the Gulf Coast. Halpert is hesitant to make any statements about the Northeastern U.S., but says if it does turn out to be one of those rare, very strong El Niños, there's elevated chance for a milder winter.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace Server.Ethics.Hero
{
	public sealed class HolySense : Power
	{
		public HolySense()
		{
			m_Definition = new PowerDefinition(
					0,
					"Holy Sense",
					"Drewrok Erstok",
					""
				);
		}

		public override void BeginInvoke( Player from )
		{
			Ethic opposition = Ethic.Evil;

			int enemyCount = 0;

			int maxRange = 18 + from.Power;

			Player primary = null;

			foreach ( Player pl in opposition.Players )
			{
				Mobile mob = pl.Mobile;

				if ( mob == null || mob.Map != from.Mobile.Map || !mob.Alive )
					continue;

				if ( !mob.InRange( from.Mobile, Math.Max( 18, maxRange - pl.Power ) ) )
					continue;

				if ( primary == null || pl.Power > primary.Power )
					primary = pl;

				++enemyCount;
			}

			StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

			sb.Append( "You sense " );
			sb.Append( enemyCount == 0 ? "no" : enemyCount.ToString() );
			sb.Append( enemyCount == 1 ? " enemy" : " enemies" );

			if ( primary != null )
			{
				sb.Append( ", and a strong presense" );

				switch ( from.Mobile.GetDirectionTo( primary.Mobile ) )
				{
					case Direction.West:
						sb.Append( " to the west." );
						break;
					case Direction.East:
						sb.Append( " to the east." );
						break;
					case Direction.North:
						sb.Append( " to the north." );
						break;
					case Direction.South:
						sb.Append( " to the south." );
						break;

					case Direction.Up:
						sb.Append( " to the north-west." );
						break;
					case Direction.Down:
						sb.Append( " to the south-east." );
						break;
					case Direction.Left:
						sb.Append( " to the south-west." );
						break;
					case Direction.Right:
						sb.Append( " to the north-east." );
						break;
				}
			}
			else
			{
				sb.Append( '.' );
			}

			from.Mobile.LocalOverheadMessage( Server.Network.MessageType.Regular, 0x59, false, sb.ToString() );

			FinishInvoke( from );
		}
	}
}


For when obstacles, enemies, and the like are destroyed in game. I'm sure we can use it for a lot of things.
Kind of a different way of animating. I'm used to using outlines or otherwise clearly defined shapes for the most part, but drawing something nebulous like smoke over several frames was sort of a new exercise. As long as the general shapes are consistent it seems to flow well enough though.
Before starting this I had to ask myself, "What does a 1950s explosion look like?" so I took reference from a scene in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers.