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Candice Lill eyes one last National MTB Series prize
October 12, 2017 , 12:00 pm By In the Bunch
Candice Lill may not have been aiming for the overall National MTB Series title, but she is ready to go out with a bang when the series concludes in Kaapsehoop this weekend.
Lill, who is second in the overall standings behind Robyn de Groot, is tipped as the woman to beat after notching up five podiums – including two victories – during the series.
With De Groot set to be absent, the Capetonian said she would also go for the overall title if the opportunity presented itself.
"For me it is about the individual events, I didn't set out to win overall," said the 25-year-old.
Candice Lill (front) is looking to deliver another top performance at the last round of the National MTB Series, which takes place in Kaapsehoop. Photo: Craig Kolesky
The dormakaba rider finished fourth in the opening round in Grabouw and, since then, has consistently been in the top two in the races she started.
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With competition such as De Groot, Samantha Sanders and Amy McDougall to contend with, Lill said the competition throughout the seven-part series had been fierce.
She said the start of the season had seen a lot of international competition, but, since their departure, she had been impressed by the consistently high level of racing.
"Every race we turn ourselves inside out to win and we reach the finish absolutely exhausted, we couldn't have given any more."
This attitude, she said, was key to improving.
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"It's great to have a series like this, where you can race often and get better. I myself have seen huge improvement in my riding."
Lill, who won 3 Towers alongside Vera Adrian recently, has been a dominant figure on the scene this year.
Kaapsehoop will once again offer the opportunity for her to tackle some serious climbing, with the final round being the first in the series to end with a hill climb.
"I also expect this weekend to be tough because of the altitude, and they've thrown in a major climb somewhere at the end of day one," she said.
"They're also making a big deal about it being the first hilltop finish they've had, so I expect it to be hard."
Despite the challenges ahead, Lill said she would take the opportunity to make up some time on the 64.6km opening day as it was more suited to her strengths that the shorter 56.3km second stage.
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"I enjoy the long climbs; I feel that's my strength. I'm hoping day one will be my chance to make the gap and I'll just have to see how day two goes."
With less than 200 points separating the top two in the men's race, the grand finale will see PYGA EuroSteel teammates Philip Buys and Matthys Beukes go head to head for the overall title.
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Short Story writen by: Laura, 11 years old.
Once upon a time there was a boy named "Chickpea", well, actually that was what his family called him, but his real name was Charlie.
Ever since he was very small, his family had called him chickpea as a term of endearment because he had a cute rounded head.
When Joan and Charlie became adults they realised that it was not worth the trouble of being annoyed, so they changed their attitude and began to get along with each other and make the most of the moments when they were together.
So that is how they learnt that it is really important that children are together, and they transmitted this message to their own kids.


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Q: Why is strftime("%x") not working in my python code? So I am trying to rename a file that has been downloaded to my downloads folder.
My code:
import os
from time import strftime

current_time = strftime("(%x-%Xp)")

old_name = r'C:/Users/name/Downloads/file.pdf'
new_name = r'C:/Users/name/Downloads/file'+current_time+'.pdf'
os.rename(old_name, new_name)

However, I keep geting this error:
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'C:/Users/darianmoore/Downloads/file.pdf' -> 'C:/Users/darianmoore/Downloads/file(12/31/19-10:47:47AM).pdf'

I'm very confused because if I use this code it works fine, but it's not the formatting I want:
import os
from time import strftime

current_time = strftime("(%m%d%y-%I%M%p)")

old_name = r'C:/Users/name/Downloads/file.pdf'
new_name = r'C:/Users/name/Downloads/file'+current_time+'.pdf'
os.rename(old_name, new_name)

A: File name cannot contain a slash. file(12/31/19-10:47:47AM).pdf does.

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Defiance Contest Will Bring One Player's Character to the Show

A new Defiance contest will give you a chance to have your character written into a Season 2 episo
Defiance Television Show to Premier April 15th

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Trion Shying Away from Subscription Models
Trion Worlds, the folks behind Defiance and RIFT, and publisher of ArcheAge and Devilian, has come out and said
by David Piner on Sep 03, 2015
In an interview with Develop Online, Trion Worlds CEO Scott Hartsman has come out and said that he believes that they won't be doing another subscription based game. This is, sort of, I'm not even really sure how to comment because I agree with him - subscriptions are a restriction on getting into the game, but at the same time, Trion has been non-stop assaulted by the community for how they handled ArcheAge's free-to-play system, something of which their hands were kind of and kind of not tied over (as they're only publishers of ArcheAge, and not developers). So to start with, I think it's a positive affirmation that free-to-play and low barrier of entry is important. A game is all about friends and if you live the game, then by all means you should probably pay for it to get the most out of it. However, if you want to drag a friend along by the arm, then just having them join in with you in whatever capacity they can, is enough to make a good game even better.
So, I appreciate the words Scott Hartsman has said, but, it's important to also bring up the fact that free-to-play can be done badly and ArcheAge is a prime example of a game in which it was done very poorly, especially at the start. A lot of vocal community members still hammer on and on about the way the shop and land purchases were dealt with, and blame shifts around between Trion and the developer, XL Games, but nevertheless, Trion gets the full blame for everything and sours almost every discussion there is to be had about free-to-play and Trion.
You can read the interview here, the most interesting thing I found is that Trove has over a million players - although, we always have to ponder with a free-to-play game, how many are bots and how many are real registrations and how many of them have stuck around?
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Sports For The Non-Sports Fan: Marketing Recipe Worth Following
In the December 13, 2022 Media Post Marketing Insider, SLRG's Jon Last speaks to recent attitudinal research and why that is putting an emphasis on sports marketing activations targeted to more casual fans or event enthusiasts.
I've conducted significant amounts of research over the years among sporting event attendees, with the goal being to optimize the onsite experience. It's table stakes today to incorporate a variety of social experiences and interactive, participatory activations into any event or venue.
But what we've been seeing most recently is a heightened emphasis on offerings geared towards the casual or nonfan. This makes perfect sense since research increasingly shows divergent paths to attract and retain core fan loyalty versus those with weaker levels of connection. As to be expected, the attrition risk is significantly lower among this core group than among those along for the ride, or kicking the proverbial tires.
What's been particularly interesting to observe has been the impact of some of the less property-centric activations, which compel the casual and core fan alike. I've written in this space about catering to the less sport-centric "event enthusiast" segments, and some of our more recent tracking work suggests that creating engagement and delivering unique onsite experiences will only become more important in the coming months, particularly if a softening economy puts greater pressure on sponsors and properties alike.
In our latest data, half of American sports fans strongly believe that the economy is currently in recession. While that is a three-month low, nearly two thirds strongly agree that they are more budget-conscious today than they were two years ago. Both of these measures are up +10 points since April.
In two related questions, only about a third felt strongly that they or the country as a whole, was better off now than it was four years ago. And while nearly half of sports fans see themselves as very likely to attend a live sporting event within the next two months, the ability to extend that invitation to others in the orbit of core fans will be an even more critical success factor as the economy softens.
There's no doubt that for core fan and event enthusiast alike, live sports offers a unique oasis from the chaos of day to day life that is still transforming in a post-pandemic and still-divided populace. The ability to broadly deliver that escape valve plays perfectly into sports marketing.
This is where we see the strategy of optimizing social spaces and ancillary activities in venue and around properties will be put to its greatest and most creative challenge in the months ahead.
Properties and their marketing partners must seek activations that resonate with both the core fan and those around them, to effectively compete against non-sports specific leisure activities, particularly as those alternatives continue to struggle with staffing and service quality challenges. It's all part of a value equation that will take on greater primacy as we head into 2023.


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I found BCP088 last night on my way down to the coulees to get some caching done and the coords for this one was in my GPS. I would just walk by it so I went to see it but could not get pics. of it because did not have camera with me. So I went back today to get some of it and also get an other one near by (BCP286). The interesting thing is when I was done caching last night I came up from the coulees at a diferent place and just walked by an interesting post up the coulees. It looked painted not that long ago and a new plate on it. It is an unpublished brass cap I found there. So I went back there too, to get some pictures off of it. I hope this one will be published one day because it would be interesting for me, I found one before it is published. Thanx for the cap. Joci !


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Dragon boats get a second act in Ridgefield
By The Citizen on August 14, 2020
RIDGEFIELD — A couple of monster sightings are expected at Ridgefield's Big Paddle Festival and Paddle For Life event next year.
Over the past year, several organizations in the city have contributed to the restoration and redesign of two 40-foot dragon boats. One of the boats was recently completed; the other one is expected to be finished before next year's events.
The restoration will be the result of hundreds of volunteer hours and thousands of dollars in donations, Port of Ridgefield Commissioner Joe Melroy said.
"We didn't realize we were going to get into a monster restoration project," said Melroy, who is also part of the Ridgefield Lions Club.
Before their retirements, the boats glided along the Willamette River in the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Races.
In 2018, Gail Alexander, one of the founders of Big Paddle, heard from a fellow kayaker that the Rose Festival was looking to sell the boats at a heavily discounted price. She worked with the city to obtain them, and the port built a storage area to keep them.
The Ridgefield Lions Club chipped in $1,000 for the restoration. Six Lions Club members, led in part by club member and City Councilor Rob Aichele, worked to restore them, which included fiberglass repairs, a significant amount of sanding and three coats of a marine-grade waterproof coating.
Bob's Paint Land in Vancouver donated paint, and The Painter painting services in Ridgefield helped apply some of it. Restoration of the first boat included over 7 gallons of paint.
The Ridgefield Arts Association held numerous meetings to discuss the boats' designs, crafting several possibilities. The Big Paddle Committee then approved the final design.
Designers hoped to maintain the ancient Chinese heritage of the boats while adding a Ridgefield flair. The color scheme of the finished boats will be similar to that of the Ridgefield High School and city logos.
"We wanted to keep it simple because we knew people would have to paint this," said Patricia Thompson, president of the Arts Association.
Roughly 5 feet, 4 inches wide, the boats can hold 22 people. Teams typically include 20 paddlers, one drummer (also known as a caller) at the bow facing the paddlers and one steerer who stands at the rear.
The boats aren't intended for regular competition; most race boats today are smaller. Rather, they're meant to be a decorative attraction for Big Paddle. The festival next year is expected to include an official awakening ceremony and blessing.
"We always thought it would be really cool to have a dragon boat involved in the Big Paddle and get people out to the water," Deputy City Manager Lee Knottnerus said.
Those who have been involved in the project are eager to see the boats on the water, but they seem equally fulfilled by the restoration process itself.
"It turned out to be a very good community project," Melroy said. "It's going to be a community project for a lot of years."
Following decades in the big city, the dragon boats have a new life as a small-town attraction.
"How many small communities like this have dragon boats?" Thompson said.
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Among the numerous improvements and additions Apple is brining to iOS 8 are a slew of new camera modes and settings including timers, focus and exposure settings, as well as developer access to manual controls.
When Apple ships iOS 8 to the public in the fall, the company will bring a host of new features to its first-party Camera app by applying software tweaks that leverage existing iPhone and iPad hardware.
On the user-facing end, iOS 8's Camera brings notable additions like a timer and separate controls for focus and exposure. As seen in the screenshot below, the timer comes with basic three-second and ten-second delays, along with an off mode.
With iOS 8, users will also be able to independently control focus and exposure via onscreen taps. Currently, iOS 7 goes as far as an AF/AE lock, though third-party apps like Camera+ have boasted such functionality for some time.
A new time-lapse mode does what it says on the box, letting users create a video composed of snapshots taken at predetermined time intervals. Swiping left to "Time-Lapse," users press the record button and let the iPhone run for a desired period. Once a set is complete, the individual photos are stitched together and played back at a higher frame rate than what was captured.
As for iPad owners, one major addition will be a panorama mode, something that has been missing since the feature first debuted in iOS 7.
The bigger news for iOS 8 comes on the developer side, where Apple has granted full access to camera controls including ISO, aperture, shutter speed and more. Third-party app makers will for the first time be able to create camera apps that reach beyond the highly automated and constrained implementations previously offered by Apple.
Another big feature coming to iOS 8 is PhotoKit, which gives developers functional access to pictures saved in Photos and the Camera Roll. Harnessing PhotoKit, developers can provide special photo manipulations like filters and artistic flourishes directly in Photos without forcing users to open a standalone title. Integration is key and with the latest APIs, it looks like Apple is finally folding in assets from outside sources into its first-party software.
Finally, the Camera and Photos backend will be tidied up with iCloud integration so that all photos taken from one iPhone or iPad will be available on all other devices registered under a user's account. Automatic sorting as seen above will be standard, while upload settings are handled in the iOS Settings menu.


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Here are some fun facts about Piper provided to us by her owner. Piper was a mirror-image twin, so her sister had the same striking markings as her, only on the opposite side of her face. Piper has the softest, sweetest little meow you've ever heard. When she purrs, the sound is so quiet you would have to press your ear to her body to hear it. She loves treats, and is the one cat I've owned who will sit at or near the dining table and beg like a dog. She will not drink directly from her water dish, and instead sits there calmly, dipping her paws into it and licking the water off her fur (which our other cat hates).
If you do not have cat grass constantly available for her, she will chew through any small string-like item or equally sized wires. I'm so glad we figured that one out recently, because replacing phone chargers and internet cables was getting spendy. She is maybe the sweetest cat I've ever owned. She never bites or scratches, and if playing with you with her paw, uses only the soft pads of her foot. And lastly, she has a ridiculous amount of hair! I've bathed her before, and believe you me, half of that little body is fur.
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Winding through the verdant countryside of the western winelands, the Helderberg Wine Route consists of several historic manors that date to the 16th and 17th centuries. Among the most noteworthy of the route's estates are Vergelegen, Lourensford, and Morgenster. These impressive manors are now world-renowned vineyards that guests may visit today.
A popular destination in Cape Town, the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront is home to some of the best shopping in all of South Africa. The neighborhood features over 400 upscale storefronts that cover products ranging from designer fashion to jewelry. Several of the city's most celebrated landmarks are situated within the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, such as the Two Oceans Aquarium and the Nelson Mandela Gateway to Robben Island.
Originally established in the 1700s, Bo-Kaap is known for its brightly colored homes and cobble-stoned streets. But the neighborhood is also one of Cape Town's most culturally vibrant, as it traces its linage back to the city's population of emancipated slaves. Visitors today can travel to Bo-Kaap and experience this rich heritage for themselves.
The imposing Castle of Good Hope once served as the center of power for the Dutch East India Company when it governed Cape Town during the 17th century. A large bastion fort, the Castle of Good Hope remained in active use for the next 400 years. It is among the best surviving relics of Cape Town's colonial past.
Cape Point is a stunning mountain range near Cape Town that extends along the South African coastline for some thirty kilometers. This geographic feature constitutes the extreme southwestern point of the entire continent. At Cape Point, guests can travel to some of the country's most renowned natural landmarks, such as the iconic Cape of Good Hope.
A designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Cape Floristic Region is celebrated for the uniformity of its ecosystem. The area is protected due to its status as a "floral kingdom"—an isolated region of beautiful vegetation that has grown undisturbed for millennia. The Cape Floristic Region is one of just six such "floral kingdoms" to exist in the world.
The Table Mountain National Park is a massive nature preservation that extends down from Cape Town to the Cape of Good Hope. Part of the Cape Floral Region UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Table Mountain National Park attracts numerous outdoor enthusiasts every year. Its most recognizable landmark is the flat-topped Table Mountain, which is a great place for hiking and sightseeing.
Founded in 1913, the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens are situated at the eastern portion of Table Mountain in the Cape Floristic Region UNESCO World Heritage Site. The complex is host to over 7,000 different indigenous species of plants from across South Africa. Guests should certainly not miss witnessing the natural beauty of the gardens.
Part of Table Mountain National Park, Boulders Beach is home to a colony of incredibly rare African penguins. With only a few thousand left in existence, these magnificent birds are a special sight to behold. Boulders Beach is the only place in South Africa where guests can see this endangered species.


There's nothing worse than having the perfect outfit and caption but ultimately ruining an Instagram shot with an awkward smile, right? But hey, even after years of practice, smiling photogenically is much easier said than done. There are, however, simple ways to look better in photos.
Below, we're highlighting the five tips our editors practice to fake the perfect smile in photos. Keep scrolling to scope our expert tips, along with pics of some of our favorite Instagram stars practicing said tricks. And go a bit further to shop cool phone cases to use for your next snap too. Say cheese!
Our editor in chief, Kat Collings, lives by this trick. Here's how it works: Close your eyes a couple of seconds before you know the picture will be taken, and then slowly open them (not super slow, but don't jerk them open, either), and slowly draw up the corners of your mouth to smile. This resets any of the awkwardness you may feel about taking a photo and ensures that your smile doesn't seem forced or overeager.
Our editorial director, Bobby Schuessler, doesn't take a photo without first clamping his teeth to define the jawline a bit more and smirking slightly for that cool/mysterious look. If you really want to take it to the next level, try squinching, too.
Purse your lips just slightly, and open up your eyes for a unique smile. You really can't go wrong with a subtle side-smirk.
Tyra was not wrong—smizing actually works and will elevate your face, turning your photo from ordinary to model-like. How to do it? Schuessler laughs on the inside to create a relaxed face, tilts his chin, and squints slightly using just his eyes.
Ask our market editor, Nicole Akhtarzad Eshaghpour, how she always looks great in photos, and she'll suggest placing your tongue on the roof of your mouth and smiling without your teeth, which tightens the muscles in your face and neck. As our managing editor, Michelle Scanga, says, it helps her create a "natural"-looking smile, sit up straight, and readjust her posture for photos.


From volume control dampers, access doors, louvers, sound attenuators, UL classified fire dampers, fire dampers, to smoke dampers, all these products are equally demanded among the modern day companies. Each of the products mentioned above needs high-end technicalities and resources to be manufactured.
Hence, only the reputed suppliers like KAD Air Conditioning, a part of Bin Dasmal Group should be preferred. Such reputed suppliers deal with leading duct manufacturers with ISO certification. These companies carry huge experience in dealing with industries needing ducting equipment. Naturally, understanding the requirements well, they can assure about delivering best quality products.
The secret behind top manufacturers maintaining the best quality for their product is the best quality material they use for manufacture. High-end Galvanized Iron sheets are used by the top manufacturers for ducting products. These high-end sheets are utilized at their manufacturing plants enriched with superior technicalities.
Naturally, with high-end material and manufacturing unit, the best standard outcome can be very much guaranteed. To be specific, their manufacturing standard thoroughly meets the ISO certification standard. Top ducting manufacturers like KAD Air Conditioning and Delta Duct Air Conditioning thoroughly maintain the standard as explained above. One can easily find all varieties of products of these manufacturers from leading duct suppliers like Bin Dasmal group.
Ducting equipment for industrial groups is not limited within the fire dampers or sound attenuators. Industrial groups moreover look for centralized air-conditioning duct accessories. The equipment like flanges, flexible ducts, flexible duct connector, aluminum tapes, gaskets, fire coating, etc. are equally desired as well for ensuring utmost safety during industrial processing. In addition, the demands vary from the local clients to the global clients for the air-conditioning accessories.
A manufacturer is thus expected to enrich with state-of-art technicalities to cater the demands of all these groups with perfection. No doubt a manufacturer is expected to maintain ISO standard for its products. At the same time, it is equally crucial for the manufacturers to test those as per global standards as well. Global testing standards like DW144, SMANCA, ASHRE, UL555 and BS 476 part 5, 6, 7 and 8 are like must to be followed.
Units like fire rated ductwork system are essential to be manufactured with highest standard material for the safety concern these involve. Hence, Galvanized steel ducts are preferred for such units for complete assurance. It would be even better to go with the ducts coated with DFRD system and thoroughly installed to ensure greater stability and endurance.
Moreover, it should possess the best insulation as per BS 476 standard. A product maintaining BS476 insulation standard can guarantee about fire resistance for around 120 minutes. That's not the whole case; manufacturers put these for fire test on building materials to be ensured about best performance.
Today's industrial and commercial clients prefer to go with the flexible ducts that can be suitable from applicability point of view. Such flexible ducts are expected to be UL listed and are expected to meet the UL181 standard. These multilayer products with reinforced external jacket ensure the sturdiest construction.
Duct equipment is not just limited to the industrial groups. These are equally desired among the commercial and residential clients/users as well. Starting from UL classified fire dampers to sound attenuators, all this equipment are equally desired among the commercial and industrial groups as well. With advancing quality of air conditioning systems, the duct manufacturers are expected to deliver user-friendly products as well that can be handled by regular users well.
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User vary along numerous dimension: knowledge of the domain, the system expertise , frequency of use, etc.
Each user has different needs in interaction with the computer. A good interface should provide support for each type of user. To ease exploration and learning of an application or a system it is important to make fundamental functions easy to learn, make frequent functions easy to perform, and to encourage exploration by minimizing the consequence of an error, by providing recovery options. In addition system defaults should produce the most likely outcome.
It should be easy to access the menus in the system. The wording of the menus should be distinct and specific to make them easier to remember. For consistency one can gray-out options that are not in use or are not valid within a specific context. Shortcuts to options/functions that are frequently performed should be provided. Also permit users to create command sequences or macros that will make their work easier. Reduce keying requirements by providing command keyword completion. Do not require the user to reenter data that can be extracted from data already in the computer. Do not require users to enter the units of measures.
The user should be able to update the information both during and after entry. That is, the user can update the information he has authority to alter. Also he should be able to recover from unwanted or incorrect actions by, a function that exist in many systems that achieve this is the ``undo'' function.


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If you find no time to hit the spa, instead whip up a quick and refreshing cucumber and mint sugar scrub!
Into a medium bowl add: sugar, puree and olive oil.
Stir until combined. If you prefer mixture more firm add additional sugar.
This DIY recipe was originally posted by Paula of Bell'alimento which we posted on Pinterest (follow us!) We hope to always keep you happy, healthy and looking beautiful. Breathe Free, Rootologists!
Does the thought of taking time to relieve stress make you feel even more stressed out? Who has time for pedicures, massages, therapy sessions and long soaks in the bath? If you're feeling frazzled, there are lots of things you can do to calm down.
Try these techniques to bust stress in 5 minutes or less.
Grin and Bear It. Smiling, even when you don't feel happy, can instantly lift your mood. Instead of frowning, clenching your jaw, or tensing up your forehead in reaction to a stressor, grin and feel your troubles melt away. Try it now!
Call a Friend. Sometimes, you just need to vent. Enlist the help of a good friend or close loved one when you need to de-stress. Often, just getting something off your chest will help you calm down and keep things in perspective. A five-minute phone call can help strengthen your bond, too.
Take a Walk. Exercise, even when done leisurely, is a great way to relieve stress and boost endorphins, the feel-good chemicals in your brain. When you feel overwhelmed, go outside and walk for a few minutes. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
Stretch. Ever notice how dogs, cats and other animals stretch throughout the day? They do it for the same reasons we do—it just feels good! Starting or finishing your day with some light stretches can help you de-stress and relax when you need it most. At work, you can try some neck, arm and chest stretches, too.
Tune In. Anyone who listens to get-up-and-go music to get pumped up for a workout knows how much music can affect your mindset. Just as it can energize you or evoke powerful emotions, it can also help relax you. Choose the music you find most relaxing, whether classical, jazz, instrumental or something else. Keep it on your computer, in the car, and on your iPod in case of stressful emergencies. Tune in to relaxing music and tune out the world around you.
One of the first steps towards having a pair of beautiful feet is to heal them. If your heels aren't in perfect shape, sadly, there's only so much a lovely pair of summery flip-flops would be able to do. Here is our simple home remedy that will help soothe and makeover your cracked heels, and let you step out in style.
Do this every night to get rid of cracks and have beautiful smooth heels!
Detoxification of your body through bathing is an ancient remedy that anyone can perform in the comfort of their own home. In detoxification circles, your skin is known as the third kidney, and toxins are excreted through sweating. A detox bath is thought to assist your body in eliminating toxins as well as absorbing the minerals and nutrients that are in the water. Most of all, it'll leave you feeling refreshed and awakened.
Since bubble baths not necessarily being the healthiest, most nourishing alternative for your skin. Life goes on, and in much more luxurious, relaxing ways with our detox bath tips.
Prepare your bath on a day that you have at least 40 minutes available. The first 20 minutes are said to help your body remove the toxins, while the second 20 minutes are for absorbing the minerals in the water.
Add Epsom salts (aka magnesium sulfate). Soaking in Epsom salts actually helps replenish the body magnesium level, combating hypertension. The sulfate flushes toxins and helps form proteins in brain tissue and joints. Plus, Epsom salt is very inexpensive.
Add 1 to 2 cups or more of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). Baking soda is known for its cleansing ability and even has anti-fungal properties. It also leaves skin very soft.
Add ground ginger or fresh ginger tea. While this step is optional, ginger can increase your heat levels, helping to sweat out toxins. However, since it is heating to the body, it may cause your skin to turn slightly red for a few minutes, so be careful with the amount you add.
Add aromatherapy oils or fresh herbs. Again optional, but many people love the fragrance of such oils and for many, the oils have particular therapeutic properties to take advantage of.
We're crazy for coconuts! Not only are they extremely nutritious and their content is quite rich in fiber, but they are an excellent source of vitamins and minerals. The coconut palm is actually viewed as the tree of life. And thankfully, its (very) long list of health benefits that is passed on from a generation to another has now for the most part been validated by modern science.
TIP: Buy organic, unrefined, cold-pressed, extra virgin coconut oil.
Heart-Healthy. Coconut oil is beneficial for the heart since it contains about 50% lauric acid, which helps in actively preventing various heart problems like high cholesterol levels and high blood pressure. The saturated fats present in coconut oil are not harmful as you commonly find in vegetable oils.
Skin Care. Coconut oil is an excellent massage oil for the skin as well. It acts as an effective moisturizer on all types of skin, including dry and mature skin. Its high moisture retaining capacity keeps the skin from cracking or peeling off. Try rubbing coconut oil on wrinkles and sagging skin can help rejuvenate it by strengthening the tissues. Applying the same method is also a great way to fight off skin problems such as psoriasis, dermatitis, and eczema.
Immunity. Coconut oil is also good for the immune system. It strengthens the immune system because it contains antimicrobial lipids, lauric acid, capric acid and caprylic acid which have antifungal, antibacterial and antiviral properties.
Weight Loss. Coconut oil is very useful for weight loss. It contains short and medium-chain fatty acids that help in taking off excessive weight. It is also easy to digest and it helps in healthy functioning of the thyroid and endocrine system. Further, it increases the body's metabolic rate by removing stress on the pancreas, thereby burning more energy and helping obese and overweight people lose the weight.
"Health Benefits of Coconut Oil." Organic Facts. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Apr. 2014.
Simard, P. "Coconuts Are the 'wonder Food' with a Multitude of Uses." NaturalNews. N.p., 27 July 2013. Web. 04 Apr. 2014.
Zelman, Kathleen M. "The Truth About Coconut Water." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 04 Apr. 2014.


Talker Tailor Trouble Maker has hired former Freuds deputy MD Jo Grierson into a newly created role of partner, PRWeek can reveal.
Grierson left Freuds at the end of 2018 after six years at the agency, where she ran the global Lexus, Toyota and McCain accounts. Prior to joining Freuds, she was a board director at Havas for six years.
Talker Tailor Trouble Maker has also promoted Kim Allain (below) to lead creative, another new role in the business.
Allain, who has been with the agency for two-and-a-half years, will be one of the youngest black female creative leads in the industry, and is charged with delivering a next-level creative product for the business and industry.
Prior to Talker Tailor, she worked at Cake and client side at Gucci and Selfridges.
The changes follow a year of double-digit growth for the agency, which enters its third year of operation.
Last year the self-proclaimed 'Trouble Making agency' was appointed agency of record for Pride in London and Burger & Lobster whilst continuing its work with Mastercard and Deliveroo.
Talker Tailor Trouble Maker has also unveiled a brand refresh with its third logo today. The agency has committed to refreshing its identity annually "as a reminder both internally and externally that change is positive and should be embraced".
Grierson said of her appointment: "They are producing some amazing work and these are exciting times. Just look at the success TTTM is enjoying; who wouldn't want to be part of that? Oh, and I've been waiting for a menage à trois with these two for ages."
Talker Tailor Trouble Maker co-founder Gary Wheeldon initially said of the appointment: "What do you mean she's got a job? I wasn't informed."
He then added: "Our business is growing, it is going to be a year of dramatic change and we need the greatest people in our industry, in the world leading it. So, if you know anyone, let me know."


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Developed in the early 1950s, the Napier Eland turbo prop engine was first bench tested in 1952. The first air tests were carried out in 1953 with a modified Vickers-Armstrong Varsity aircraft. Within its first ten hours of flight test, the Eland had been operated at an altitude of 30,000 feet and successfully restarted at 25,000 feet. These milestones are thought to be a first for a turbo prop engine. Seeing a market for the Eland, in
re-engining current piston aircraft, Napier purchased a Convair CV-340. Napier replaced the CV-340's two
R-2800 piston engines with Elands. The changeover was straight forward and no modification were made to the engine firewall or to the airframe.
The Royal Canadian Air Force placed an order for ten Eland-powered Convairs in March 1958. These airframes were to be built by Canadair in Montreal, as the CL-66. The first CL-66B for the RCAF flew on January 7, 1960 and the all ten were delivered by March 1961. The CL-66 was redesignated the CC-109 Cosmopolitan in RCAF service. Suffering from reliability problems and a short life between engine rebuilds the RCAF decided to re-engine the Cosmopolitan with the more reliable Allison T-56 turbo prop engine. In 1961 Rolls Royce acquired the assets of Napier's engine division and the Eland was dropped from production. The Convair 540 and CL-66 were the only production aircraft to be fitted with the less than successful Eland engine.
Engine Type: axial compressor turboprop
Power at Takeoff: 3412 hp (2544 kW) at 12500 RPM
Maximum continuous: 2835 hp (2114 kW) at 12000 RPM
Compressor: 10 stage axial
Combustion chambers: 6
Turbine: 3 stage
Propeller reduction gearing: 10.97:1
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"Who am I?", "Who do I want to be?" – These are valuable questions especially for adolescents. A world of seemingly endless opportunities offers many possibilities for self-fulfillment and, at the same time, makes it increasingly difficult for some to find their path.
Too much freedom and too many choices can be confusing. Knowing the WHY? behind what we do can help us navigate the complexities of the modern world.
If we can find our purpose in life, we will notice that things get a whole lot easier.
He describes people who found their purpose as follows: "The purposeful are those who have found something meaningful to dedicate themselves to, who have sustained this interest over a period of time, and who express a clear sense of what they are trying to accomplish in the world and why.
In the chapter on "Parenting for Purpose" William walks us through nine things parents can do to help cultivate purpose in their children's lives.
He even goes so far as to say that "the urgent project for parents today, in this world of increasing economic, cultural, and social uncertainty, is to help their children gain a wholesome sense of direction that will carry them through the minefields of drift, confusion, apathy, anxiety, fear, and self-absorption that threaten their generation.
His research shows that "For the highly purposeful…, entrepreneurship was a stronger common factor than usual measures of success such as school achievement." How cool is that?!
Now, when I say that music education at Modern Music School helps adolescents to cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit, I'm not saying that we want to train our students to become professional musicians.
It's more about encouraging attitudes or dispositions such as having a vision, making plans, being ready to take risks and deal with – all valuable qualities beyond our professional lives.
The trainers at the Modern Music School help their students define clear goals, make realistic plans and verify if they're getting closer to their goals.
At Modern Music School, we design classes that let students carry home a sense of achievement every time. We challenge them, push them to their limits and help them grow beyond what they were previously able to do.
When learning an instrument, everybody will hit their limits at some point. Just roll up you roll up your sleeves and keep going. At Modern Music School we show our students that challenges are fun. By making sure that we never ask too much of them, they learn to perceive challenges as an opportunity for growth and learn to feel safe outside of their comfort zone.
If you want to grow, you have to be prepared to go for things that aren't guaranteed. We give our students the opportunity to play on stage and in front of an audience, for example. Even if you're well prepared, things can go wrong. We help our students to deal with setbacks – or celebrate their successes!
Setbacks and failures are an integral part of life. The difference between growing through them or giving up lies in our attitude and self-compassion. At Modern Music School, students learn to regard failures as learning opportunities. They learn to be compassionate with themselves and keep a positive and to work positively, consolingly and motivating to work towards their long-term goals.
This, again, is about specific and measurable goals. Grit is still a hot topic these days and refers to the combination of enthusiasm, goal orientation and perseverance that music students develop when they prepare for concerts and which are key skills for long-term success throughout life.
The essence of the entrepreneur!! Creating new things with limited resources and creative ideas. At Modern Music School, music lessons are never about perfecting your techniques or theory. They're about using your current skills to make awesome music while getting better and having fun.


The harlequin is a video card which has primarily PAL resolutions. In combination with a genlock made by Satelite et Television (as shown above) and their Time Base Corrector the MSP 3400 the Harlequin could be used for 32bit broadcast quality video. TVPaint was available for the Harlequin up to Rev 3.5 and ADPro has savers for the card. One feature of the harlequin was its ability to display low resolution animations (160 x129) at 25fps in 24bit.
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Q: z3 python z3.If always False (keygen) I want to generate a keygen in python with z3. here is the validation function:
def f(a):
    a = ord(a)
    if a <= 47 or a > 57:
        if a <= 64 or a > 98:
            exit()
        else:
            return a - 55
    else:
        return a - 48

def validate(key):
    if len(key) != 16:
        return False

    for k in key:
        if f(k)%2== 0:
            return False
    return True

I tried to write a solver for this
from z3 import *
solver = Solver()

def f_z3(a):
    return If(
        Or(a<=47, a>57),
        If(
            Or(a<=64, a>98),
            False, #  exit()???
            a -55
        ),
        a -48
    )

key = IntVector("key", 16)
for k in key:
    solver.add(f_z3(k)%2==0)

solver.check()
print(solver.model())

and here is the output
[key__1 = 48,
 key__10 = 48,
 key__9 = 48,
 key__15 = 48,
 key__6 = 48,
 key__8 = 48,
 key__4 = 48,
 key__0 = 48,
 key__14 = 48,
 key__11 = 48,
 key__7 = 48,
 key__5 = 48,
 key__2 = 48,
 key__12 = 48,
 key__13 = 48,
 key__3 = 48]

Which returns the key "0000000000000000", but validate("0000000000000000") return False.
I know that the problem is in the f_z3 function, I don't know how to express the exit() inside the if, I want something always False. But instead am just returning False.
Any idea how to solve this problem?

A: There are two issues with your code:

*

*As you observed, the replacement of exit with False isn't right
in the f_z3 function. (The python version is just bizarre here
that it would return a boolean in certain cases and just plain die
in others. But that's beside the point.) In all other branches
you're returning an integer, and in that one you're returning a
boolean. In z3 you always want to return the same type; an integer.
So pick something that will cause that case to produce False
eventually. Since later on you're checking for evenness, any odd
number will do. Say 1; so modify it to produce 1 instead of
False when exit is called.

*While you're validating, the Python code returns False if the result is even; so you need to assert that correctly. Currently you're doing solver.add(f_z3(k)%2==0), instead you should require the modulus to be not-even, like this: solver.add(f_z3(k)%2!=0).
With those two modifications, you'll have the following code:
from z3 import *
solver = Solver()

def f_z3(a):
    return If(
        Or(a<=47, a>57),
        If(
            Or(a<=64, a>98),
            1,
            a -55
        ),
        a -48
    )

key = IntVector("key", 16)
for k in key:
    solver.add(f_z3(k)%2!=0)

solver.check()
print(solver.model())

When run, this produces:
[key__1 = 49,
 key__10 = 49,
 key__9 = 49,
 key__15 = 49,
 key__6 = 49,
 key__8 = 49,
 key__4 = 49,
 key__0 = 49,
 key__14 = 49,
 key__11 = 49,
 key__7 = 49,
 key__12 = 49,
 key__5 = 49,
 key__2 = 49,
 key__13 = 49,
 key__3 = 49]

which suggests the valid key "1111111111111111".

A: For the second point I didn't notice, I was more concentrate in the first one.
returning 1 doesn't solve my problem sins I just simplified the real problem with a smaller example. I want a general solution for this pattern.
def f(x):
   if condition(x):
       exit()
   else:
       return g(x) # return something in relation with x

I found this pattern which is working now
def f_z3(x):
    global solver
    solver.add(Not(condition(x))
    return g(x)

So my first function will be something like
def f_z3(a):
    global solver
    # sins we have two nested condition we have to add an And
    solver.add(
        Not(
            And(
                Or(a<=47, a>57),
                Or(a<=64, a>98)
            )
        )
    )
    return If(
        Or(a<=47, a>57),
        a-55,
        a - 48
    )

I still search a better approach to solve this kind of pattern, something that tell the If condition to be always False.


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Queen vs. Queen
By Pamela | January 22, 2019 | 2
At some point while we were strolling through Salzburg, happy as two history buggs can be, My Own True Love said something to the effect of "You should write a blog post about the Merovingians. No one knows who they are."
I'm not going to write a definitive post about the Merovingians, because that's not what we do here on the Margins. But I'm delighted to tell you the story of Brunhild (also known as Brunhaut, because why make things easy) and Fredegond, a pair of rivals queens in the sixth century CE who stood at the heart of forty years of internecine warfare among the Merovingian kings. While they are not household words like, say Elizabeth I of England or Joan of Arc, they are unavoidable if you make even the most casual dip into Merovingian history. Which we're about to do. My Own True Love, this one's for you.(1)
First, a little background: The Merovingian dynasty were called "the long-haired kings" because (duh) they wore their hair long, unlike the Romans who preceded them. They ruled Gaul (the region that is now France) from roughly 448 through 751 CE.(2) The greatest of the Merovingian rulers, Clovis I (r. 481-511), united most of Gaul north of the Loire,(3) but after his death the kingdom was divided between his four sons. As the brothers died off, their kingdoms were reabsorbed into the whole until the Merovingian principalities were briefly united again under the rule of the last surviving brother, Chlotar I, in 558. (The whole thing feels like a giant tontine bet.) Evidently the Merovingians were slow learners; after Chlotar's death in 561, the kingdom was divided once again between his four sons—Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert, and Chilperic. That's where our story begins.
Brunhild and her sister Galswintha were daughters of a Visigoth king. (4) In 567, Brunhild married Sigebert, who ruled the eastern Merovingian kingdom of Austrasia. (5) That same year, her sister married Chilperic, who ruled the western Merovingian kingdom of Neustria.(6)
You would think this kind of fraternal double wedding would reduce the internecine struggles between the two kingdoms, but you would be wrong. Chilperic's concubine, Fredegond, was the power behind the throne in Neustria. She had previously convinced Chilperic to set his first wife aside and she was violently opposed to his subsequent marriage to Galswintha. At Fredegond's urging, Galswintha was strangled in her bed soon after the wedding.(7) A few days later, Chilperic married Fredegond and made her his queen.
Brunhild and Sigebert's next action may answer the question of why Chilperic bothered to marry Galswintha in the first place: they seized Galswintha's not insubstantial marriage settlement, which included the regions of Bordeaux, Limoges, Quercy, Bérn and Bigorre. (8) The brothers were at war until 575, when Fredegond hired assassins to kill Sigebert. Brunhild was subsequently imprisoned in Rouen. Chiperic was murdered nine years later—a death for which at least five different people are accused in the chronicles, including both Brunhild and Fredegond.
Brunhild's escape from prison is one of those stranger than fiction stories that could only happen in a medieval royal family. (And it may not be true. Both Brunhild and Fredegond suffer from the tendency of medieval chroniclers to distort the story to fit their own political biases, which often included a strong streak of monastic bias against politically active women.) Merovech, Chilperic's son by his first wife married Brunhild, and helped her escape. This is often presented as a love story. In fact, Merovech may well have had an eye on Sigebert's share of the Merovingian principalities. Chilperic rapidly had the marriage annulled on the grounds that Merovech was Brunhild's nephew—a legal technicality since they were not in fact related by blood.
Out of prison and unmarried again, Brunhild spent the thirty-eight years after the murder of her husband fighting to defend his kingdom for her own sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons—sometimes acting against one on behalf of another. She would pick and chose between them depending on how likely she was to remain in control.
On the other side of the feud, Fredegonde was actively involved in the political and military affairs of Neustria, with a predilection for political assassination. Among other things, she was known for devising a tactic in which a front line of soldiers disguised themselves with branches and foliage. This camouflaged the Neustrian army's movement with a "moving wood,"and allowed them to take their enemies by surprise.(9)
If anything, the chroniclers, often writing long after the fact, paint an even darker picture of Fredegond than they do of Brunhild. She was accused of murdering not only her stepsons but possibly her husband, of multiple counts of adultery, of raiding the royal treasury after Chilperic's death, and of witchcraft, that old staple of discrediting women.
Fredegond died in 597, thirteen years after his husband, but her heirs continued the long feud with Brunhild. The final act of their long feud occurred in 613. Fredegond's son, Clothar II, captured Brunhild and her great-grandsons. The young men were immediately strangled. Brunhilde was charged with the murder of ten kings. (Clothar was responsible for some of those murders himself. After being tortured for several days, she was tied to the tail of an untamed stallion and dragged to her death.
Bottom line: Nothing about their lives can be twisted to turn either Fredegond or Brunhild into role models. That doesn't make it any less important to remember their stories.
(1) Actually, they're all for you. xoxo
(2) To give you some context for your context: The western Roman Empire officially "fell" in 476 CE, when the Germanic leader Odacer deposed the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus. (And while it has nothing to do with today's story, it's worth remembering that the eastern Roman Empire, aka Byzantium, survived, and even thrived, for another thousand years. Rome did not fall so much as crumble along the edges.)
(3) He was also the first of the Frankish rulers to convert to Christianity, around 500 CE. This is not relevant to the story of Brunhild and Fredegonde, but it is worth reminding ourselves now and then that Europe's adoption of Christianity was slow and later than you might think. In fact, Christianity did not make inroads into Scandinavia until the twelfth century. But I digress.
(4) And yet more context: The Visigoths entered the Roman scene in the 4th century from Romania. After the requisite rampaging through the failing empire, they set themselves up in a number of small kingdoms in Spain and France.
(5) Which autocorrect desperately wants to change to Australia.
(6) Which autocorrect wants to change to Nutria—which I believe is a kind of rodent. Obviously autocorrect is sadly ignorant about medieval history.
(7) That use of the passive voice is deliberate. It's unclear to me whether Chilperic or Fredegond ordered the murder.
(8) A big step up from a blender and a set of cooking knives.
(9) Sound familiar? See Macbeth.
Posted in Medieval Europe, Women and tagged Brunhild, Fredegond, merovingian dynasty
Iris Seefeldt on January 22, 2019 at 7:49 pm
Well! A well organized synopsis with lots of peripheral info and a great amount of humor in your foot notes. The part about the gorilla warfare reminded me too of Macbeth and I am very aware of how auto correct continues to mess me up when I write my German lessons for students with the English keyboard. Simply because I chose not to use the German keyboard option every time I need an "Umlaut" it is too complicated to bounce back and forth so I use two vowels that give me the same sound. Germans understand. I have had my text pop up and tell me that I have too many miss spelled words. I must therefore review all that I have written and it is a page of blur with black ink and red underlined words that I scrutinize before I finish. Oh well. Always enjoy your material and I store it in a special file.
Pamela on January 24, 2019 at 12:58 pm
You made my day, iris!


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Even if you can only do one night, it is always worth staying in one of Rajasthan's palaces. One of India's famous Princely States, you will be in a state of joy, shock, self indulgence and excitement all rolled into one when you stay at one of the palaces, castles or forts that are still owned by India's royal Rajputs. Read on for more details.
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You will see the term 'Heritage Hotels' bandied all over Indian travel websites, with photos of gardens that make you feel like a goddess, balconies that are begging for a serenade and bedrooms that will make you feel positively regal. And Rajasthan really is the place to experience these palatial abodes, mainly due to the fact that this desert state was, over the centuries, home to many Maharajas and their royal residences. The residences survived British colonialism because Rajasthan had garnered status as a princely state, one of many privileged regions where India's own royalty could maintain their luscious lifestyles and semi-autonomous rule. Indeed many of these royal families still exist today, and have opened up their homes, galleries and gardens to people passing through.
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Over the centuries, wealthy influences have been prolific in Rajasthan, emanating from both Hindu and Muslim traditions. Regardless of their backgrounds, over a thousand years of culture, fine arts, architecture, music and cuisine have been protected by these families. Now, as they are opening up their doors for some of the most sumptuous overnight stays you could imagine, you can see that they have done so in a way that is both classy and culturally sound.
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Most heritage hotels in Rajasthan are Rajput-owned, the word Rajput meaning 'son of a king', and these days it refers to an often privileged and aristocratic patrilineal clan. Today, Rajputs are the largest group with royal heritage to be involved in the cultural preservation and sustainability of their property and, in many cases, may even be tour guides in their own domains. Hospitality is fundamental to aristocratic etiquette in India, and treating people royally is part and parcel of this.
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When you take a look through the luxury holiday itineraries that have been carefully crafted by our Rajasthan experts, you will see that many of them book you into these stunning restorations of forts, palaces and castles along the way. Such as a Beaux-Arts palace in Udaipur built by ruler Udai Singh in the 16th century and overlooking the iconic Lake Pichola; or a 19th century former home of the Maharaja of Jaipur. You can stay in a Maharaja's palace where the family is still resident in eastern Rajasthan, or head into the Aravelli Hills to stay in a restored fortress, originally built by the Jhala Rajputs who ruled the Mewar Kingdom. In Jodhphur, you can stay at the Ajit Bhawan, a Rajput palace hotel and in Jaisalmer, you can stay in a hotel inside the walls of its famous fort built in the 12th century by the Rajput ruler Rawal Jaisal.
One example of restoring architectural heritage in a sustainable way is at Ramathra Fort. Just a few years ago it was a ruin, but it has now been carefully rebuilt using local materials and traditional methods, and employing men and women from small rural villages around the area. Ramathra dates back as far as 1645, when it was granted as a fiefdom to Thakur Bhoj Pal, the son of the Maharaja of Karauli. It is still in the hands of his descendents who are doing more than their fine share to contribute to fine Rajasthani tourism.
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Palatial pastimes
When staying in a restored palace or fort in Rajasthan, you will be able to get involved in activities enjoyed by the privileged few in the past. The Aravelli Hills, which translates as 'line of peaks', is a luscious green belt that straddles the otherwise desert state. It's alive with the sound of wildlife. Go horse riding here to quietly follow in the trails of monkeys, langurs, sloth bear, spotted deer, sambar deer and many more, just as they would have in times gone by. Although hunting may have been more on the cards back then, sadly.
If you go on a horse riding holiday in the Jagnath Wildlife Sanctuary, you enter the world of the Sonagara family of Kaniwara, in the Jalore District, which was a gift from the Royal Family of Marwar (now Jodphur) seven generations ago. As well as staying in nearby restored castles or forts, you can spend time on safari here, as it is not only habitat to the endangered Asiatic wild cat, but also leopard, hyena, Indian gazelle and blue bulls. You will also get a chance to ride the Marwari horse, bred in the 12th century by the Rathores, then rulers of Marwar and famous cavalry fighters. These elegant equines are recognisable by their prowess in dressage, their inward turning ear tips and their ability to cope with desert landscapes.
For those seeking artistic rather than equine expertise, Rajasthan's palaces and historic hotels are very often curators of fine art and local crafts, as there is a long history of artistic skills in this state. This is because these palatial dwellings were often so much more than homes, many of the privileged rulers opening up their residences in the past for public use, such as artisan workshops or scholarly debates. On tailor made holidays in Rajasthan you can, therefore, go shopping with local experts at jewellers and meet artists who are celebrated for being 'by royal appointment'. Or learn the fundamentals of classical Indian miniature painting from an art scholar and have guided tours of some of the finest private art collections in the world. And of course, you will always be invited to enjoy the finest of local food. Because, in these palaces, many royal banquets await.
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Yesterday I posted about the Pumpkin Hat (which was met with much enthusiasm this morning), and a few days before that I posted about the Bunny Hat, but in between these, I knit the Monster Hat and I totally forgot to post it here. It's a cabled hat that matches the Monster Hand-warmers that I knit a month or so ago for Alex. I knit a seed-stitch brim, and then switched my favorite cable-rib pattern. I wasn't too sure how I was going to handle the decreases, but I decided to push forward and see what happened. I had 10 cable-rib repeats, so I decided to decrease every other one and see what happened. That worked out just fine, but I still had too many stitches so I decided to start decreasing the remaining cables, and at the end I had something like 10 sts total left over. I cut the yarn and pulled it through the remaining sts, and ended up with a perfect little star at the crown of the hat! My first ever cabled hat without a pattern.
pretty five-pointed star on top!
I'm thinking about knitting another one, in a larger size (or smaller) and trying to work out a pattern for this as there's been some interest on Ravelry in a pattern. I used Cashmerino Aran for the original, but I'm looking to knit the samples in a different yarn because frankly, the Cashmerino hasn't held up very well in the hand-warmers, which is disappointing considering how expensive that yarn is. We'll see if I ever get this done, as I've still got two projects due this week for school and I'm two weeks away from my final projects. And let's not forget about the shop samples that I still have on deck. Oh!, and I'm using the left over yarn from the pumpkin hat to knit the cowl that Alex asked for.


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Uber, Congestion, Taxis, and More
By Rachel Yoka, CAPP, LEED AP BD+C
The reality is that the convenience of Uber has massive, city-altering effects. Cities like New York, London, and Paris are challenged like never before.
It's not just demand at the curb, either. This New York Times opinion piece takes a deeper dive: "Ride-hailing apps have shattered boundaries by signing up drivers with livery or black-car licenses. These companies cast themselves as filling big gaps in the transportation system, and it's true that they have been great for people in mass-transit-starved parts of the city … At the same time, traffic has slowed to a crawl, to just 8.2 miles per hour south of 60th Street in Manhattan in 2015, down from 9.4 miles per hour in 2010, according to the city's Department of Transportation."
What's happening in your cities, on your campuses? What's the effect on your business? Share your piece of the puzzle on the Forum and let's talk about it.
Rachel Yoka, CAPP, LEED AP BD+C, is IPI's vice president of program development.


Anyone who owns a business knows the kind of efforts it has taken to reach at that particular point they've reached. It would be therefore very discouraging in case of any damage on commercial property or any of your assets that you have acquired with hard earned money.
Social media marketing has become a norm for most businesses. Most modern businesses, whether small or large ensure that they mark their position in social media. This is because it is an essential part in not only increasing their brand's awareness, but also in connecting with targeted customers.
In this fast-paced world, you can have a virtual assistant based anywhere in the world. When operating a small business on a budget, it will be a challenge to hire a virtual assistant when you consider the financial status. This does not mean that you cannot have a virtual assistant. This is because you can be your own virtual assistant. All you need is to plan your days well.
Business people or those aspiring to set up businesses should have networking endeavors in their strategies. This does not only focus on professional growth but also a personal one. Networking happens in many ways and that is one reason you find key players organizing events such as Marketers' Nights among others.
As a business or company owner, there are some customer habits you wish you could understand better. Customers stop doing business with you or they are no longer visiting your online or offline shop as they used to. There are several ways that you can get to understand these habits such as using analytics, data and even getting on the ground.
One of the major things that have brought a lot of businesses to a complete halt, is that they don't know what their customer really want, because of this they will be focusing on things that mean very little to their customers while giving little or no attention to what their customers really want.
Character traits business owners need in order to be successful.
There a lot of factors that makes a business successful. One of these factors is the character traits or quality of a business owner. Taking a deep look at the top guns entrepreneurs show that there are certain character traits that every serious business owner must cultivate.
In this article, we are going to be looking at 5 character traits that will make every business owner succeed.
The life of an entrepreneur is not an easy one. The thought of starting a new business can be very exciting especially if you imagine the amount of money you will be making. But things don't always go according to the way we imagine it to be. There are bound to be a few bumps in your path to becoming a successful entrepreneur.


To see a log of recent OS reboots.
Is there an easy way to see when the box was last power cycled?
But that is a log which rotates.
Centos 3.10 if the answer is not universal.
Under the Server Health tab there is a Power Statistics section which tells me "System Power Statistics value over the last n.nn Hours" which reset after I used the management console to power cycle the box.
So the answer is out there.
I don't have ipmitools or showsel installed on this box, and certainly could not get permission to install software on the remote box that is my actual target of interest.
So I have a starting point for further research.
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It doesn't matter how many times the president of the United States calls the news media "the enemy of the American people," or attaches the word "fake" to "stories," "media" or "polls."
All the repetitions in the world can't make the slander true — though, in some minds, the repetition can make the slander believed.
We cringe when we see colleagues berated and accosted at political rallies. Just for being present. We despair at cries of "fake news" from the powerful, and would-be powerful. Just for telling the truth. And we mourn when journalists are gunned down in their own newsroom. Just for doing their jobs.
President Donald Trump's anti-press rhetoric is "very close to inciting violence," warns the departing United Nations human rights commissioner. Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, of Jordan, told The Guardian that the attacks on the press could lead to journalists censoring themselves or being attacked. And they're encouraging authoritarian leaders to crack down on media overseas with newfound aggression.
So today, the Editorial Board of The Palm Beach Post stands with scores of editorial boards across the nation in a concerted effort to denounce what The Boston Globe, which proposed the joint action, calls "a dirty war against the free press."
We are concerned about far more than any journalist's personal safety, as important as that is.
A democracy can remain healthy only when citizens are well-informed and can make decisions based on facts. Why else would the Founding Fathers, with the First Amendment, make sure to protect this one profession in the Constitution? It's no accident that when authoritarians come to power, they quickly start harassing or shutting down independent media. As in George Orwell's "1984," "facts" are what the state says they are. Thus, on state TV in China or Russia, the leader is always strong, the government is always wise, the suppression of so-called unruly elements is always necessary.
We aren't the enemy. The Palm Beach Post, here for 102 years, is deeply committed to serving its community. On our news pages, we've exposed corrupt politicians, revealed abuses against the environment, cast an unsparing spotlight on the opioid crisis. We tell you what your town's government is voting on, when a new restaurant is debuting, where the next traffic crunch will be.
On our opinion pages, we've urged action to increase the stock of affordable housing, improve gun safety, raise teacher salaries, plan for sea-level rise — all of this, and more, in the public interest. If we criticize the governor or the president, it isn't out of disloyalty to country; it's in keeping with the most basic of American values, the rights guaranteed in the First Amendment.
By being a subscriber, you are helping to provide a crucial service — real local journalism — that keeps our community informed about what's really going on. As the most complete source of local news and information, we introduce you to people who are the heart and soul of our community.
We aren't the enemy. And the loose talk calling us that has to stop. Before somebody — before the very country we all love — gets hurt.


In this installment of the series, we delve into the roots of the DFW data center market and what the well-established players are doing today. We want to thank David Liggitt and the datacenterHawk team (www.datacenterhawk.com) for their significant contributions to this article and series.
Built in 1985, the Infomart was designed to be one of downtown Dallas' largest tech centers. This lineage enabled the distinctive seven story, 1.5 million SF facility to become a fiber connectivity nexus for over 70 carriers by the 2000s. Attracted by the high-performance connections and proximity to Dallas' urban center, colocation providers leveraged the Infomart's dense connectivity to serve their customers. Well-known data center and Cloud service firms such as Equinix, Cologix, zColo, Softlayer and Viawest currently operate significant data center footprints within the Infomart. Each of these providers offer a variety of colocation, managed service, cloud and interconnection services.
In 2014, the Infomart was officially renamed Infomart Data Centers due to a merger of Fortune Data Centers and Infomart Dallas. Since then, the new company has been upgrading various technological aspects of the building, with 3 MW of turnkey colocation space to be available June 2015. With these investments, Infomart Data Centers will continue to be a relevant, thriving ecosystem within the data center market for years to come.
Less than two miles away, Digital Realty's 2323 Bryan data center in downtown Dallas shares a similar history. Digital used their well-developed wholesale data center model to convert the 477,000 SF office building to host data centers for smaller companies. Leveraging ample fiber providers and opportunities to grow, Digital Realty has attracted notable names such as CyrusOne, Telx, Equinix, and zColo. Like the Infomart, 2323 Bryan is now one of the most connected buildings in North Texas.
In addition to 2323 Bryan, the San Francisco-headquartered Digital Realty made significant investments in the DFW market, especially in the northern suburbs of Richardson, Lewisville and Carrollton. The colocation provider acquired the former Collins Radio Campus in Q4 2009, a 68-acre site in Richardson they later named Data Center Park Dallas. The site included an on-site, private substation that Digital Realty uses to lower power costs for tenants at the park. The company is currently building a new 138,000 SF Richardson facility at 907 Security Row. Several Fortune 500 users and colocation/cloud providers such as Data Bank, Rackspace, SoftLayer, and Verizon Terremark currently call the park home. The investment in Lewisville was also quite significant with a 2012 price tag of $123 million for The Convergence Business Park, a 168-acre multi-building campus totaling 819,000 SF of real estate. The campus tenants included robust private enterprise and a major data center operator which we will discuss later in this article.
Several large telecom companies found sites in DFW they could develop themselves. For example, AT&T built their AT&T Internet Data Center in 2001 at the Millennium High-Technology Office Park in the northern suburb of Allen. Like their rival, Verizon has also constructed data center facilities in DFW and acquired more market share via its 2011 purchase of managed service and hosting providing Terremark Worldwide.
The standalone legacy facilities of big telecommunications firms still operate here, but with less relevance. This is due to so many carrier-neutral data centers and colocation facility options throughout the DFW market.
CyrusOne's entrance into DFW was a presence in 2323 Bryan as a safe-distance/secondary footprint offering for its mostly Houston-based customers. CyrusOne's real splash in DFW came in 2009 when it entered into a sizeable lease at Lewisville's Convergence Business Park (now owned, as previously noted, by Digital Realty).
Selling enterprise colocation services at Convergence contributed to CyrusOne's post-2010 growth. This led to its purchase of 1649 W Frankford, a 650,000 SF former warehouse for Home Goods. While this massive facility also includes their corporate headquarters, 1649 W Frankford will have 400,000 SF for technical space at full build out. CyrusOne has already developed and leased multiple data halls as it continues to move further into large retail and wholesale colocation. From its modest roots as a privately-funded data center upstart and Digital Realty tenant, CyrusOne has grown into a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), established public company (CONE), and a dominant player in the DFW market.


The NLOG stands for Netherlands Oil and Gas portal. This is a public database that holds all subsurface data (e.g. well logs and geophysical surveys) gathered under a mining permit. This includes data from the oil and gas industry, mining and scientific research. The Dutch mining law obliges all parties operating under a mining permit to deliver the acquired data to the governmental organization TNO. This data will then be made public five years after acquisition.
This system is of vital importance to the geothermal industry as it all but eliminates the need for exploration drilling. Based purely on the available data in The Netherlands it is possible to get a 90% certainty estimate (P90) of the power output of a projected well pair. This high degree of certainty means up to 70% bank financing is possible without the need for additional exploration activities. This significantly reduces the up-front costs and risks for geothermal project developers.
The Dutch government set up a fund to mitigate the geological risks within geothermal projects. This risk mitigation fund pays out 85% of well costs in case the thermal power output is less than the previously mentioned P90 estimate. The fee is 7% of the costs covered. A recent evaluation shows the fund has even made a small net profit. However, it is not expected that commercial insurance companies are willing to cover these geological risks in the near future. Based on this expectation the Dutch government will keep the fund open for at least 5 more years.
Feed-in premium for renewable heat.
The Netherlands has a feed in premium for renewable heat to stimulate the transition from a fossil based energy system to a renewable energy system. This program is called SDE+ and it pays out the difference between the costs of fossil energy and renewable energy. There is a set amount of subsidy each year and the cheapest forms of renewable energy get subsidized first. So far, geothermal heat is one of the cheapest forms of renewable energy per MWh in The Netherlands. As such geothermal heat has scored a large amount of SDE+ subsidy: in 2016 total the amount committed for geothermal was 3,9 billion euro for a total of 100 million MWh of heat.
The result of these measures is that the Dutch geothermal market is now the fastest growing in Europe by a large margin as shown below. The Dutch geothermal sector has seen a steady 50% annual growthrate in output over the past 4 years. One of the main reasons is the sound regulatory framework set up since 2011. This could serve as an inspiration for other countries looking to boost their geothermal energy production.


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Conferences Workshops
Opening of the renewed Xcèntric archive
The CCCB's cinema
Notes on Marie Menken (Martina Kudlacek, 2006)
The Xcèntric Archive reopens its doors completely renewed with a new system of digital consultation, with individual or collective access, to a collection of avant-garde cinema of more than 1000 titles. It will have a new space to get to know the cinematographic gadgets and experiment with the different formats and media of the cinema.
To celebrate the opening, this weekend we offer free guided tours to discover the contents of the Archive and a session of initiation to film techniques.
The new Xcèntric Archive incorporates a multi-purpose space, in which the possibility of projections is added to other practical and didactic ones, in the form of workshops, talks or shared experiences. We will start with the session of Introduction to Cinematographic Artifacts, an introduction to Xcentric cinema, directed by filmmaker Adriana Vila, who will offer direct access to the physical and instrumental nature of film in photochemical support, a world that not only refuses to disappear but it is substantial to numerous works and practices shown in Xcèntric.
And it opens its doors with the addition of new titles and authors, among which we highlight a collection of films of the Quay Brothers with titles like The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984), This Unnameable Little Broom (1985), Street of Crocodiles (1986), Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomy (1987), the Stille Nacht series, The Comb (1990), Anamorphosis (1991) or In absentia (2000). The documentary by Pip Chodorov Free Radicals, which is a masterful introduction to experimental cinema and the documentary Sois belle et tais toi! of Delphine Seyrig, among others.
To attend any of the activities, it is necessary to previously send a message to xcentric@cccb.org.
Saturday, February 2:
12.00 p.m.: Introduction to experimental cinema (60')
5.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.: Cinematographic Gadgets. An introductory session to analog cinema (sold out)
Sunday, February 3:
6:00 pm: Introduction to experimental cinema (60')
2 - 3 February 2019
Expanded Home Movies
Cinematographic gadgets


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Q: PHP setcookie working but not in all directories I am implementing a 'remmeber me' system in PHP, setting a cookie to keep the user logged in. Here is a snippet of my 'sign in code' :
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However, now when I sign in, I am not taken to the dashboard page as expected. Also, it seems the cookie can only be read by pages in the same directory (pages/users/) as the sign in page, even though I put a "/" into my setcookie statement.
This is how my main.php (included at the start of every page load) looks:
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Does anybody know what in the world I have done wrong?


Why Am I Getting an F02 Error on My Whirlpool Duet?
The "F02" error code on a Whirlpool Duet washer is one of many possible fault codes with the appliance. This one occurs when the washer tries to drain water. The fix for this could be to unblock the drain hose, which is easy to do, or the complete pump for the washer may need to be replaced.
When the washer tries to drain water and can't, it will beep twice; then the "F02" error code will appear on the screen. On some models, the error may appear as "F/02." After four minutes, the washer will clear the error, flash "SUDS" for four minutes then return to the "F02" error. Press "Cancel" twice to clear the error code from the screen.
Check your washer's drain hose for any blockage that could prevent the washer from draining. This could be lint, debris or other foreign objects caught inside the hose. Make sure the hose is not pushed back or blocked by the washer itself. If the hose is bent, water cannot pass through it quickly enough. Check the draining vents inside the washer to make sure nothing is blocking them from that part of the washer.
Refer to your Whirlpool Duet manual to find the location of the drain pump filter. This filters out the water and could be clogged. Remove the filter and clean out any debris inside of it. Once cleared, replace the filter and restart the laundry. If the error appears again, then the filter is not the reason for it.
If none of the above methods fixes the draining problem, then you need to replace the water pump on the washer. Contact Whirlpool customer service and have your model number ready. If the washer is still covered under warranty, an authorized service technician will install the new part free of charge. If your washer is no longer under warranty, customer service will provide you with a replacement part and repair instructions.
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Seven days 8th National Research Methodology Workshop was conducted from Aug 26-01 september, 2016 on data analysis and econometrics in the field of management & IT. The workshop has been designed keeping in view the need felt among academicians and researchers. The workshop was inaugurated by Mr. Rajesh Chandra, AVP, Godrej Consume Products Limited, Malanpur, Guest of Honour Prof. J.P Verma, (Prof. LNUPE, Gwalior) on 26th August, 2016.
The workshop has received tremendous support from academicians and researchers throughout the country. More than 70 participants registered from various parts of the country attended the workshop along with 45 pimg faculty and 25 students. Participants from Lingaya University, Aligarh Muslim University, Dayal bagh Educational Institute, Agra, Pune University, Mewar University, Rajasthan, Pondicherry University, Pacific University, Udaipur, Calcutta University, Bhartidasan University, Trichi, Foot Ware design Insitute, Chinddwara, Nagpur University, Banaras Hindu University, KL University Vijaywada, Venkatesh University, Delhi, HNB Garhwal University, Dehradun, MNNIT Allahabad, have registered for this workshop.
The workshop was conducted by Dr. S. S. Bhakar, which have conducted various sessions on Research process, writing good research paper, Selecting appropriate statistical tools, teaching Parametric one sample t test, independent sample t test, paired t test, non parametric chi square test, Mann whitney U Test, Wilcoxan Test, Signed Rank Test, Multiple sample tests (parametric): ANOVA (one way & two way), Repeated ANOVA, MANOVA, ANCOVA, and MANCOVA, Correlation simple & partial, simple regression and its assumptions and Multivariate & Mediation, logit and probit, Discriminate analysis & Cluster Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis using AMOS and Structural Equation modeling using AMOS etc.
There were a parallel sessions on Information Technology conducted by Dr. Saurabh Mukherjee , resource person from Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Jaipur on MATLAB. One session was also conducted on E-Views by Dr. Vishal Vyas of ABV IIITM Gwalior. Every day before and after the session, group discussion was done by every team coordinator, result of which we developed 17 papers in this research methodology workshop. The papers written will be edited by editorial board under the guidance of Dr S S Bhakar and will be published in an edited book.
The workshop was closed by a valedictory session on 1st September, 2016. Chief guest of the occasion was Dr. S. G. Deshmukh, Director(Atal Bihari Vajpayee IIITM, Gwalior) Guest of Honour was Mr. Avinash Mishra, GM - HR, Godrej Consume Products Limited.