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HacknPlan allows you to create as many projects as you want. The system is designed in a way that works better when everything in your game is managed under a single project (at least in the Personal version, the Studio version will provide better multi-project management), but you could also split your game into several HacknPlan projects. An example could be a game with a custom engine or level editor, in that case isolating the tools and the game could be convenient.
Creating a project
In order to create a new project, click on the "Create" button on the personal projects panel of the front page of the HacknPlan application. You can also create it by either clicking on Projects->Create project from the top menu or pressing "P" on your keyboard. A new creation dialog is open with the following fields:
- Name: The name of your game.
- Description: A brief description of what your game is about. This is just a small text for informative purposes, especially when you are working on several small projects, not meant for detailed or formatted descriptions.
- Cost metric: This value indicates which metric you would like to use in order to estimate and measure the cost and effort of making a task. The currently supported values are hours, days and, for those who use relative estimations, points. Note: The hours and days will be soon replaced by a more advanced time-based metric that will automatically display minutes, hours or even days depending on your hours per day relation.
- Logo (Personal Plus & Studio): Premium users can upload a picture that will work as an icon for the project on lists.
- Template project (Studio): The Studio plan is better prepared for teams with multiple projects. You can select one of your existing projects as a template for the new one, and you can choose which data you want to be transferred:
- Master data (categories, design element types, platforms, and roles)
- Users
- Game design model
- Milestones
- Tasks
- General info: This is an advanced description field with markdown support that will be displayed on the project summary page. It's useful to put general links, guidelines or other useful information related to the project.
The project structure
A HacknPlan project is nothing but a big collection of tasks. The task is the main entity in the system, the minimum work unit, and everything revolves around it. Milestones, design elements, and categories are just ways to group tasks by certain criteria, which in this case would be time, concept and discipline, respectively. In order to be able to manage tasks and all these groups and relations, HacknPlan provides several tools or sections:
- Summary: This section gives you a quick overview of the project and allows you to manage your team and the milestones you created. It also displays some metrics about your progress, how many tasks you created, completed and how much time or points you estimated and used.
- The boards: HacknPlan provides a kanban board per milestone as a way to keep track of your work in progress. It also provides sub-boards by task category. This is where you will spend most of the time, picking tasks, moving them to different status columns, and closing them eventually.
- The metrics: This section gives you insights about how your project is going, how much effort you put into each type of issue you work on and how well are you estimating your tasks.
- The game design model: Define a tree structure which represents the features and concepts of your game, elaborate them by adding text, pictures or links, and attach tasks to those elements, like a dynamic version of a GDD. This not only gives you information about the design of the game but also a high-level overview of the progress of the project from a conceptual point of view.
- Administration: Configure your project and customize your categories and other classification elements.
On the other hand, premium users can have some special sections:
- Project (Studio): Dedicated section for the project, which includes an overview, metrics, activity log and administration features.
- Team (Studio): Dedicated section for the team, including the actions in the Summary section for Personal projects, plus extended information per user (pending and completed tasks, metrics, activity…).
- Milestones (Studio): Dedicated section for milestones, with advanced information and metrics.
- Calendar (Personal Plus & Studio): The premium accounts have a calendar section where they can look at the events from milestones, design elements, and tasks, such as when a milestone starts or when the deadline for a design element is. Besides this, they can also sync the calendar with the Google one, so you can view other events there too.
When you are in a planning session, you will mostly work from the game design model section, designing your features and general concepts and envisioning the high-level roadmap of your game, and will probably distribute many of those tasks among different upcoming milestones. You will also take a look at the metrics section to evaluate the estimation of your pending work and see if it's viable over time.
However, once your planning for the near future is done, you will start your milestones and will focus on the short term, on achieving the next goal. And the kanban board will be your home then, keeping track of the progress of the tasks, commenting, adding screenshots, enriching them… You will also take a look at the metrics of the current milestone in order to see how is it going.


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Explore the most popular trails near Franklin with hand-curated trail maps and driving directions as well as detailed reviews and photos from hikers, campers and nature lovers like you.
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this trail has a wide range of features it includes berms, roots, some opportunitys at small jumps, wood features and technical rock sections the only thing missing is a decent drop.
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This was one of the best walks i have ever been on !! I did not know i had a trail this cool around me with such a beautiful waterfall and pretty lake. I will definitely be going back !
Also want to add this is a really nice, well marked trail that was easy for me to walk. I wear a leg brace and sometimes have problems but this path is well lined with chips or wooden walkways.
Loved it !!
This is a nice little park with some pretty great views. Keep in mind, you need to pay a small fee $2 I think, to park but it is well worth it to help fund the park. As the name states there is a nice nature center there too.
pretty nice trail with good wildlife and nice scenery. Trails where well marked and they have plenty of other stuff to do there.
Very pretty multiple trails and waterfall. Easy and convenient. Frequent deer sightings on some trails.
Very kid friendly. Can get crowded.
It was a beautiful walk though a bit muddy this time of year which is expected. I also thought there was more than one waterfall however the waterfall was absolutely worth the drive. I'd come here again to explore other paths it was so pretty.
great hike
Love this trail and it is great for kids, even little ones.
Nice and peaceful. Good amount of wildlife.
Very nice trail
Wonderful trails for hiking. Lots of varieties of plants and animals. In reality there are several different trails, not just the one pictured around the lake. All of them are very well marked. The Nature Center has bathrooms. We saw a number of animals rather close to the trails, including two deer.
Peaceful; nicely wood chipped trail with boardwalks and waterfall. Also saw an array of birds
Very nice with lots of paths that you can explore.
Excellent easy hike to recuperate after a hard day at work. Plenty of wildlife to be seen as well.
It was peaceful.Small waterfall, nice lake.Easy for my son.I liked that it connected to several other trails Easy to follow.

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This code is an implementation of the binary search tree shown in class, with slides beginning here.
Write your answers into the studio10.txt file in the studiowriteups folder.
A1. Why do sad and happy appear as they do? Why is happy indented? What are the parent, left-child, and right-child relationships between happy and sad?
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A6. Why is it private instead of public?
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A8. Why does the code fail to execute properly?
A9. Why does eclipse not report a problem when you try to create a BST of type Color?
Remember to refresh the outputs folder so you can see the new files generated.
B1. What behavior do you see in the output? You will likely have to rely on ticks rather than time, because the times are so fast.
B2. What behavior did you expect to see, and why?
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/* new IntArrayGenerator(), */ new IntSequenceArrayGenerator(),which will provide an integer sequence as input.
Rerun the SortedSetUsingBST program, refresh outputs and look at the newest time and ticks files.
B3. What behavior do you see in the output given the sorted input?
B4. What behavior did you expect to see, and why?
B5. What behavior do you see in the output when a sorted set is implemented by an unordered list? Adding to the list should be quick, so why are we seeing these times?
B6. What behavior did you expect to see, and why?
When you done with this studio, you must be cleared by the TA to receive credit.
- Commit all your work to your repository
- Fill in the form below with the relevant information
- Have a TA check your work
- The TA should check your work and then fill in his or her name
- Click OK while the TA watches
- If you request propagation, it does not happen immediately, but should be posted in the next day or so
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Tolland Public Library
Board of Trustees
Meeting Minutes: August 2, 2004
Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order at 4:10 p.m. by Chair, Carolyn Locke.
Carolyn Locke, Chair. Gloria Gery. Penny Babbitt. Librarian Jessica Kelmelis
Meeting Minutes:
Minutes of the May 3, 2004 meeting were approved as written.
Old Business:
Library Parking:
Carolyn Locke sent a letter requesting a change in parking from parallel to perpendicular to the Selectmen. There has been no response. Gloria Gery will request a response when she attends the August 9th Board of Selectmen's meeting.
Tattler and Website Library Announcements:
Announcements have been distributed each month. Jessica believes they have increased library activity.
Library Sign:
Jessica Kelmelis presented a proposed pole-mounted sign for the Library and Senior Meeting House with an estimated cost of $1000 which includes installation. The Trustees voted to approve the sign design but requested that Jessica determine whether Planning Board approval is necessary based on the Zoning Bylaw. She will send a copy to the Selectmen for their information. Jessica will also get a price without installation and ask John Panai if he will install it. Location was discussed. Jessica will also determine whether the Cultural Council can contribute to the sign's cost.
Benefit Dance:
The Cultural Council's benefit dance for the Library netted approximately $150 which is being used for plantings around the Library.
Al Simonds Memorial Fund:
Todd Simonds presented the Library with a $500 contribution for use with Large Print books and documentary videos/DVD's. Jessica has ordered some books and is researching additional acquisitions. The Trustees will write to Todd to inform him that Jessica will provide a running list of acquisitions. The Town can now set up a special account for this fund and the Trustees will request that Todd place the contributed funds into that Donor-Advised Account.
New Business
Community Service by Tolland High School Students:
On Thursday, August 5th, community service work will be done on the library landscaping under Jessica's supervision. Students will receive credit toward their 100 hour requirement. Jessica will include recognition of student contributions in the Tattler/Website library announcements>
A patron requested that students be permitted to provide ongoing service by extending hours staffed by students. A discussion ensued about issues that included safety, selection of students, whether supervision would be required and consistency to assure that patrons do not come to find the Library closed. Jessica will present a proposal at the next Trustees meeting.
Objectives and Results Reporting
The Trustees requested that Jessica write up special project and ongoing work objectives for each Library employee, including herself. The Trustees would like a quarterly report on the progress against results and responsibilities and library circulation and membership/card statistics. Jessica will prepare these for discussion against the last meeting. This should provide a basis for staff evaluation, recommendation for salary increases and the Annual Report to the Town.
Volunteer Carol Finnigan:
Summer resident Carol Finnigan has been working with Jessica on special projects and has done significant work. The Trustees will acknowledge this contribution at the end of the summer and in the Tattler/Website.
Next Meeting:
The next meeting will be as on Wednesday, November 10th at 4 p.m. It was decided to have the meeting when the Library is not open to the public to minimize interruptions.
Meeting Adjourned:
The meeting was adjourned at 5:45 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Gloria Gery
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- Vessel Price: $169,000
- Vessel Location: Rockport TX USA
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Vessel Specifications
Builder: Post
Model: Convertible
Type: Flybridge Sport Fisherman
Engine Details: Inboard - Diesel
Beam: 15'9
Draft: 4'
Cruise Speed: 23
Water Capacity: 120
Displacement: 40,000 Lbs
Well appointed layout for a Sportfish
Powered by Detroit Diesels J&T 692's engines
Great for offshore fishing
Vessel Walkthrough
Entering the Cockpit is a Sport Fisherman's dream. Continuing onward you will enter a well-appointed Salon. To the port you have a Beige wrap around Leather Sofa. Forward to the starboard is an L shape Beige Leather Dinette Settee with Table. The Galley is to the port with a bar/counter top. Stainless Steel Refrigerator/Freezer, Microwave/Convection Oven and 2 Burner Stove with plenty of storage throughout. Amidships you will find the Guest Stateroom that sleeps 2 with Crisscrossed Berths, Flat Screen TV and a Private Head, Vanity, Sink, and Enclosed Shower Stall. As you move forward you will find the Master Stateroom with a Queen Berth island style, a Private Head, Vanity, Sink and Enclosed Shower Stall.
L Shape Beige Leather Sofa
Leather Dinette Settee with Table
Flat Screen TV – New 2015
Stereo/DVD Player
New Carpet - 2015
Dinette Settee
SS Sink with Fresh Water Supply
Sharp Carousel Microwave & Convection Oven
Princess 2 Burner Electric Stove 110v
11 Gallon Hot Water Heater
Fisher & Paykel SS Fridge & Freezer
On Demand Hot Water Tap
Master Stateroom
Island Queen Berth
Master Head with Stall Shower & Vanity
Storage Lockers
Guest Stateroom
Crisscrossed Berths Sleeps (2)
Flatscreen TV
Guest Head with Vanity, Sink and Enclosed Shower Stall
Storage Lockers
Flush Mount Rod Holders
Fighting Chair
Double Spreader Outrigger
Pedestal Mount Rocket Launcher
(2) In Deck Fish Boxes
Cockpit Freezer
pulpit w/Windlass and anchor
Teak Tackle Locker
Freshwater & Saltwater Washdown
6 Person life raft
Helm and Electronics
Sony AM/FM Stereo Receiver
KVH Satellite TV
Magnavox DVD Player
Furuno Auto Pilot
Furuno Nav Net
(2) Furuno VHF Radios
Furuno GP 1850 Color Plotter & Sounder
Furuno FCV 582L Color Sounder
Engine and Mechanical Details
J & T 692's Detroit Diesels 550 HP
Transmission: Twin Disc DD5091
(2) 30 amp Shorepower Cords
(2) 8D Batteries
Generator Start Battery
New CruisAir A/C 2015
Onan 8kw Gen-Set Fresh Water Cooled w/2673 Hours
DC 12V Distribution Panel
Note: 50 Hours after Rebuild on Engines - 2014
Brokers Comments
Owner is anxious to sell. Bring all serious offers.
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* Engine hours are as of the date of the original listing and are a representation of what the listing broker is told by the owner and/or actual reading of the engine hour meters. The broker cannot guarantee the true hours. It is the responsibility of the purchaser and/or his agent to verify engine hours, warranties implied or otherwise and major overhauls as well as all other representations noted on this website.
The company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.


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What do heart disease, premature birth, and diabetes have in common? The answer will probably surprise you. They have all been linked to gum disease. The bacteria found in gum disease enter the blood stream and flows to other parts of the body. Regular dental hygiene visits can minimize your risk for gum disease, although your genes also play an important role in your risk.
Dangers of Gum Disease
Gum disease is the leading cause of tooth loss and dental implant failure. As bacteria infect your gums around your teeth, they first separate your gums from your teeth, creating pockets around your gums where they can live. As the colonies of bacteria grow there, a combination of the acid they excrete and your body's immune response begin to remove bone and tendons around the tooth. Eventually, this will lead to loose teeth and finally, tooth loss.
As we noted above, gum disease has also been related to heart disease, premature birth and low birth weight, and diabetes. It has also been linked to erectile dysfunction, respiratory disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. The causal relationship between these diseases are in dispute, but there is some evidence that treating gum disease may improve your overall health.
Symptoms of Gum Disease
You should count on us to diagnose your gum disease at your regular appointment, but you should look out for the following warning signs between appointments:
- Persistent bad breath
- Red, tender, or swollen gums
- Bleeding gums
- Painful chewing
- Sensitive teeth
- Loose teeth
- Longer-looking teeth (receding gums)
If you notice sudden changes to your gums, you should contact our office to schedule an appointment immediately.
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You play an important role in protecting your body from gum disease. Make sure you follow a good oral hygiene routine. Brush your teeth twice a day and floss every day.
At your checkups, our hygienist will thoroughly evaluate your soft tissues for gingivitis, the early stages of gum disease. If you have gingivitis, a thorough effective cleaning, followed by careful homecare, can prevent the disease from progressing.
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If our hygienist finds significant gum disease, she may suggest scaling or root planing to remove plaque and deter future buildup.
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England are certain to retain the Ashes... the Aussies are a shambles and there is no way back for them after Lord's massacre
Forget the red herring of another last-wicket stand that came within three balls of taking this second Test into a final day. It does not get much more comprehensive than this, as one-sided as Trent Bridge was thrillingly even.
The resistance of James Pattinson and Ryan Harris could only do so much to paper over the cracks. Australia were massacred at Lord's on Sunday and, two Tests into the series, it is already clear the Ashes are assuredly staying put.
Australia could, of course, win the last three Tests but they have only ever done that once and they had Sir Don Bradman batting at three then rather than Usman Khawaja. There is about as much chance of that this time as India willingly embracing the Decision Review System after yet more controversies here.
Can't keep him out of the picture: Joe Root (right) leaps into the England celebrations after their win
Jubilation: The England players celebrate their victory
Done it! England celebrate winning the second Test after Pattinson's dismissal
Flying Swann: The bowler celebrates Pattinson's wicket
Castled: Peter Siddle is clean bowled by Anderson, who celebrates (below)
England's superior quality has told at Lord's after an indifferent first day and there would appear to be no way back for Australia now, not when they are such a shambles both on and off the field. They are simply not good enough.
As England slowly but surely made their way through Australia's brittle batting on Sunday, finally taking the last-wicket off the third ball of the last over of the extra half hour, there were yet more loud noises off.
This time there were more statements involving Mickey Arthur and yet another Twitter row involving a Warner, this time with David's brother Steven hurling cyber-expletives at Shane Watson. Who would have thought that David would turn out to have the brains in the Warner family?
At least all the off-field malarkey took some attention away from the cricket, which was almost anti-climactic in its predictability, at least until what is becoming the regular sight of the final pair showing up Australia's top order.
This was the tourists' sixth consecutive Test defeat and their fourth straight in Ashes cricket. Any semblance of a feel-good factor emanating from Darren Lehmann's arrival has evaporated because of the huge gulf between these sides.
England cannot worry about that. They must be as merciless now as Australia were during eight successive Ashes maulings between 1989 and 2002-03. This is no time to be having sympathy for the old enemy nor to bemoan what looks like being a lack of competitiveness in this series. It is Australia for heaven's sake.
Andy Flower will certainly have no qualms about the size of England's victory, their second biggest in terms of runs in Ashes history. He knows his side have not been quite the team they were since they went to the top of the Test world two years ago and he will relish the return of their dominance.
Joe Root, of course, was not around when England thrashed India 4-0 to reach their zenith but he will unquestionably, barring an unexpected disaster, be at the forefront of all the success they will have for at least the next 10 years.
If there were any doubts they made the right call in promoting Root to open in this series then they were dispelled by his magnificent 180 here, ended only when he selflessly attempted to hurry his way to a double hundred.
Memento: Joe Root celebrates the win by taking a stump
The lad can do no wrong: Root is delirious after taking the wicket of Clarke
Another one: Root jumps for joy after dismissing Usman Khawaja
Close catch: Jimmy Anderson catchjes the ball to dismiss Khawaja off the bowling of Root
All round star: Root celebrates the wicket of Australia's Usman Khawaja with teammates
Missing out: Root salutes the crowd as he walks of after getting out for 180
And if there were any doubts about Root possessing a golden arm and about his ability to be much more than a part-time off-spin bowler then they too were banished by his timely intervention just before tea yesterday.
When Swann went off clutching his back after a collision with Khawaja it looked as though Australia would at least take England into a fifth day as they pursued their notional quest to reach 583 to win this Investec Test.
Yet all Alastair Cook had to do was lob the ball to Root on a pitch jagging appreciably out of the rough and, hey presto, Australia lost three wickets for two runs before tea, two of them to the boy wonder, and England were on their way.
This was a superlative bowling
performance from the hosts after Cook had declared once Root had become
surely the first man in Test history to perish attempting to hit a six
with a reverse ramp in pursuit of a double hundred.
Injured Swann: The England off-spinner (right) holds his back after a collision with Khawaja
Getting in on the act: Tim Bresnan celebrates the wicket of Steve Smith
In and out: Michael Clarke got in and scored a half century before getting out
If there was disappointment that he fell 20 short of a significant landmark it was tempered by the fact that England had kept Australia's bowlers in the field for another 114 overs in their attempt to grind them down before Old Trafford.
There was no possible result then other than an England victory and it looked like it would come quickly when Watson was out lbw yet again – even he could not review this one – Chris Rogers had been undone by spin bowling of the highest quality from Swann's fifth ball of the day and Phil Hughes had wasted yet another review in questioning his lbw.
Michael Clarke and Khawaja did at least delay the inevitable until Root snared both, the captain falling at leg-slip, and Steve Smith became the latest Australian to fall foul of technology when he tossed away his team's last review.
It was Smith who had appeared to catch Ian Bell on Saturday only to be denied by a TV camera's limitations and there was more DRS misery for Australia when Ashton Agar was dismissed controversially.
There was a clear noise when he swished at Tim Bresnan but Marais Erasmus was unmoved. England reviewed and third umpire Tony Hill over-turned the decision on sound and deviation, even though there was no Hot Spot.
Plenty to ponder: The Australian players and officials watch on as the side lose the second Test
Juggling the ball: James Pattinson looks back with wicketkeeper Matt Prior as James Anderson and Jonathan Trott all failing to take a catch
Big appeal: Root, Prior and Swann appeal unsuccessfully for the wicket of Peter Siddle
Hill may well have come up with the right decision but he broke the protocol of the DRS in doing so because there must be overwhelming evidence to over-rule an on-field official. Confusing? Yes. Unsatisfactory? Most certainly.
Swann returned to trap Brad Haddin playing no shot but, almost inevitably in this DRS-driven series, Hawk-Eye said the ball would have missed the stumps. Only Australia, having failed to learn their lesson, had again run out of reviews.
When Jimmy Anderson bowled Peter Siddle the end looked nigh but there was something predictable and almost comedic about the fact that the last pair again looked the most accomplished for Australia. Pattinson and Harris survived 14 overs and just as it seemed we would all have to come back on Monday Swann trapped Pattinson plumb in front. No arguments this time just English joy.
They are on the brink now of their third successive Ashes win and Australia have much soul-searching to do in the week before the third Test.
LAWRENCE BOOTH with all the facts, figures and stunning statistics
England achieved back-to-back wins against Australia at Lord's for the first time since 1884 and 1886 — the first two Tests between the sides at HQ.
Only once has a team won the Ashes from 2-0 down. That was in 1936-37, when Don Bradman inspired Australia to a 3-2 win when Tests Down Under were played to a finish.
Day 4 Highlights
Shot of the day
It may have cost him his wicket, but for sheer cheek Joe Root's scoop to third man on 180 took some beating.
Ball of the day
Chris Rogers was expecting another ball to spin across him when Graeme Swann hurried through one that didn't turn and knocked back off stump as Rogers played no stroke.
Moment of the day
Shane Watson's failure — for the first time this series — to review an lbw decision against an England bowler was met with ironic cheers.
Hero of the day
Joe Root may have failed in his bid to score 200, but the wickets of Clarke and Khawaja just before tea hurried things along.
Villain of the day
When will Australia learn to use the DRS? The latest piece of incompetence came when Phil Hughes challenged his lbw — and Hawk-Eye showed the ball smashing into leg stump.
Stats Amazing
85 - Years since England beat Australia by more runs — 675 in Brisbane
47 - Tests won in this country by both sides (against the other) after England's victory
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Are you as obsessed with French style as much as we are? From the ingeniously concise ways these girls craft capsule wardrobes to our newfound love for their country's first ever online-only label, Sézane, it's not just the lofty runways of Paris Fashion Week that fascinate us.
The French fashion crew may not get as heavily street style snapped as, say, the Italians, but that's because their outfits aren't outré and are rarely lens-attracting. But that doesn't mean they're any lesser in terms of real-life impact. These ladies are subtle, classic and often wearing the very same outfit they wore last week and the week before that… And the week before that. They're the kind of women we aim to dress like more often—chic but not try-hard, casual but somehow smart, trendy but never slavish to trends.
So of course you know styling gurus like Carine Roitfeld already, but what of some of other sartorial luminaries that fly un petit peu under the radar? Scroll down to see the French fillies whose wardrobes we'd like to raid—then shop for sophisticated buys to match them.
Who: Caroline de Maigret
What: Model, muse, musician, generally cool human being
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Patients looking for a more efficient and expedited process to enroll in Health Canada's medical marijuana program will be pleased about the announcement between The Greenleaf Medical Clinic and Canada.MarijuanaDoctors.com that they are forming a partnership, allowing greater access to Canadian citizens needing access to medical marijuana treatment.
MarijuanaDoctors.com, a trusted gateway that provides a conduit for patients who need to connect to safe and reliable doctors and clinics who prescribe medical marijuana as a treatment in legal medical marijuana states and territories, recently launched their sub domain for Canada.
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Since 2001, The Greenleaf Medical Clinic has been educating patients and physicians on Health Canada's Medical Marijuana landscape; The Greenleaf Medical Clinic was opened in 2011 to assess patients for their eligibility into Heath Canada's Medical Marijuana program. Patients located outside of British Columbia are seen by physicians using telemedicine as an appointment platform. This allows patients to be seen in the safety of their own home or other remote location. The physicians serve patients in British Columbia, Ontario, New Foundland, Labrador and Quebec.
Patients seen by Greenleaf are charged an annual subscription fee of $333.50, which includes an in-depth one-on-one educational session with the Clinic Director that explains the differences with the various cannabinoids, how to safely and effectively use the medication and how to maneuver through the legal framework and current supply options in Canada with a Licensed Producer. Greenleaf's clinical staff are available Monday to Friday 8:00 to 4:00 PST to answer any questions and provide information as required.
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How is your nose? A new analysis on how a human nose can condition ambient air gives us fascinating information: primates fare better than we do.
Human evolution has indeed come a long way. An obvious indication is the shape of our head, which now features a flatter face, a bigger skull to accommodate a bigger brain, and a protruding nose.
But how does this change - say, our nose - compare to that of primates and early hominins?
To answer the question, Kyoto University researchers led by Takeshi Nishimura scanned the nasal passages of a human, a macaque and a chimpanzee. The team analyzed how air conditioning happens in the nose using computational fluid dynamics and 3D models. They also tried to simulate different temperature and humidity conditions like hot, dry, or wet to see how they impact nasal conditioning.
"[T]he airflow direction in the nasal cavities of chimpanzees and macaques differs in some key regions from that in humans," said the study, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The air flows in a horizontal pattern among primates and upward and curved among humans.
The differences mean that compared to humans, primates already can adjust the temperature and humidity of ambient air while it was still halfway in their nasal cavity even in extreme conditions.
This data is significant since one of the functions of the nose is to adjust the humidity and temperature of breathed air according to the internal parameters of the lungs. Otherwise, with poor conditioning, the organ becomes damaged over time, increasing the risk of different respiratory problems, and even premature death.
Evolution, therefore, has somehow "impaired" the nasal conditioning system of our ancestors when compared to the performance of the early hominins, whose nasal passage was similar to primate's.
But if our ancestors could not condition air effectively, how were they able to survive the extreme climate conditions when they went out of Africa and settled in Europe and Asia?
The answer is morphology.
"When human skulls flattened and elongated vertically, not only did it change the dimensions of the nasal cavities, but also the oral and pharyngeal cavities. The morphological changes to the skull caused the tongue to be pushed down toward the pharynx, and thus lengthening the pharyngeal cavity," the PLOS blog post said.
This means that the pharynx reinforces the work of the nasal passage in conditioning the air before it reaches the lungs. As an evolutionary bonus, these physical changes may also be responsible for the development of speech as the vocal cords have now become more complex and can produce different types of sounds.
Photo: Quinn Dombrowski | Flickr
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Compliments of a nice lady...widow of a fellow Boomer. Love the last comment!BREAKING NEWS for all those who, in broad daylight or in the dark of night, choose to erase American history.If you were to take down every statue on the continent slavery and the American Civil War still will have happened.If you have minimum wage skills now taking down statues won't change that.If you're up to your @ss in college loan debt taking down statues won't change that.The nation will still be $20,000,000,000,000 in debt.We will still be in a global economy.North Korea still will be run by a lunatic who wants you dead.Radical Islamists still will want you dead.People who hate you now still will hate you, perhaps even more.Soros, Obama and the Clintons will still be sleazy and corrupt and you still will be just a puppet for them.The Department of Education still will not have succeeded in educating anyone.Abortion still will be murder.Hillary still will not have won the 2016 election and Bernie still will be a Communist charlatan.There still will be opposing views outside your "safe spaces."You still will be accountable for your own choices and the world still will owe you nothing.Taking down all the statues still will not change the fact that Communism has been responsible for more slavery and death than the Confederacy ever was and the fact that it was Democrats who fought to KEEP slavery while Republicans fought to stop it!The removal of statues won't change the fact that the first slave owner was a black man.Removal of the statues still will not change the fact that it was black tribal leaders who sold their people into slavery.So, if you have a problem with a statue of Robert E. Lee in Virginia but no issues with a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Seattle we'll erect a monument to your cowardice and depict a huddled mass of frightened and drooling idiots who can't find their @sses with both hands and a map.Oh,and Donald J. Trump STILL will be our PRESIDENT!
I dream of a better world, A world where a chicken's crossing a road IS NOT questioned
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Today's prompt from the 30 Day Creative Writing Challenge is "Roast another blogger". Another blogger?! Heck! I say, let's roast all the bloggers that participated in the challenge. I tried to balance the insults. Considering I never actually met most of the bloggers, this should be interesting. I stole these jokes.
And I also apologize to each of you in advance. And I apologize to those of you that I did not include.
Some people say he drinks, he donated blood to the Red Cross, and they used it to sterilize the instruments.
What can you say about a man who is admired, revered, and loved by everyone? I can start by saying he's not Mike WJ. With most people, the left side of your brain does some things, and the right side does others. In his case, however, neither side seems to do a whole lot.
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I don't like Nicky -- and I always will. She may be a vegetarian but she's still full of baloney. Nicky was asked if she was a submissive wife. She said no, but her husband is."
"To promote her blog Ziva just began a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are confusion, delusion, and desperation. "
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Cheesy Mike is so dull, when he goes to vote, they hand him an absentee ballot. If he said what he thought - he'd be speechless. He once looked out a window and got arrested for mooning.
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Scottish Labour launches motion to repeal the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act
The first vote on the repeal bill is expected to take place by the end of the year
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Scottish Labour James Kelly has today launched a member's bill to repeal the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act.
The bill was officially lodged at the Scottish Parliament today, with a timetable for the bill to be agreed next week.
The first vote on repealing the act is expected to take place before the end of the year.
There is cross-party support from all the opposition parties to scrap the legislation, which was passed by the SNP while it had a majority in the last parliament.
- Bill to repeal Offensive Behaviour at Football Act to be published within weeks
- Opposition parties unite to call for repeal of 'illiberal' Offensive Behaviour at Football Act
- SNP government defeated on football sectarianism act debate
In a public consultation by Kelly 71 per cent of respondents supporting repealing the bill.
Speaking ahead of formally launching the Bill at Cathkin Park, Glasgow, today, Kelly said: "The SNP's Football Act is now approaching injury time.
"My bid to scrap the Act has now been formally introduced and I am hopeful we can see a vote on it this year.
"As it stands, I am confident that next season will be the final football season with this poor piece of legislation in place.
"SNP ministers were arrogant to bulldoze this law through Holyrood in the first instance.
"Every other party opposed it. Academics, lawyers, football clubs and football fans opposed it, yet the SNP wouldn't listen and used its majority in the Scottish Parliament to railroad the Football Act through.
"Having lost that majority, having seen the clear public support for repeal through the consultation process, and then having been sent a clear message by the Scottish electorate last week to get back to the day job, the SNP really needs to wake up to how unpopular this law is."
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He said: "Repealing the SNP football act will be a historic and important moment for devolution.
"The law sums up how arrogant the SNP has become in government – and the contempt ministers have for parliament.
"Lawyers, academics, football fans and every opposition party opposed the law as it made its way through parliament.
"The SNP dismissed those concerns and simply used a parliamentary majority to bulldoze the act through.
"And it has since ignored the views of the Scottish Parliament on this issue.
"Repealing the act will show that the days of the SNP treating the Scottish Parliament and the views of the Scottish people with contempt are long over."
The Scottish Liberal Democrats have endorsed Kelly's bid to scrap the act.
Scottish Lib Dem justice spokesperson Liam McArthur said: "With the repeal bill now being formally lodged, the final whistle is in sight for this unpopular and unnecessary act.
"We need a tactical switch towards a more holistic approach to tackling sectarianism as the experts recommend.
"This must involve grassroots and community-wide actions, working with local authorities, churches, football clubs and more.
"This minority SNP government must recognise the game has changed and join opposition parties in voting to repeal this legislation."
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I finished this week more convinced than ever that our GOP legislature and governor are out to touch with Arizona. Here are three examples:
1) As you know, the legislative Republicans passed a bill that effectively opens up vouchers (taxpayer money to private schools) to the whole state. They passed the bill by promising some concerned Republican members that there would be a cap on vouchers at 30,000 students by 2022. Those members proved to be quite gullible, as immediately after the vote the Goldwater Institute announced that they would work to remove the caps next year.
Then, the AZ Republic published information showing that the over-sight for the vouchers would be almost meaningless. This, after publishing this report showing that vouchers actually benefit white, rich students over low income minority students, as promised for years.
2) The governor vetoed a bill of mine that passed out of the House and Senate unanimously. The bill had to do with a bad home owner association voting practice that we tried to prohibit. See this video explanation and the governor's veto letter here. They swear it had nothing to do with how critical I am of the governor.
However, its hard to believe that when the governor signed three HOA-related bills in the last year, after saying in his veto letter that the government should not be in the role of dictating how HOAs conduct their voting. We attempted an over-ride. But, many of the same GOP members who voted for the bill could not bring themselves to help with the override. This was the first veto override attempt in 16 years, according to staff.
3) With all of the attention on the terrible voucher legislation this week, there was little talk of SB1366, which created new punishments for assault on police officers while not on duty. The bill had some problems.
However, I might have been able to live with those problems, had the bill also not had a clause that specified that this law shall be called the "Blue Lives Matter Act." This was not merely tone deaf to the concerns of African Americans in Arizona, but went so far as to further undermine trust between African Americans and police. Follow this link for the comments that I made as I voted against the bill.
News Around the District
1) There will be a tax day march to demand that President Donald Trump release his tax returns so that we can see what is conflicts of interest are. Here's the link for the Facebook invite. Can you imagine what Mr. Trump would have said if Pres. Obama had refused to release his tax returns?
2) The LD24 Dems meet every second Thursday of the month at 7pm. Stay tuned to this Facebook page for updates.
3) If you want an example of an incredible group that has emerged as a leader in grass roots organizing, have a look at Stronger Together AZ. These folks are organizing meetings and actions all over the state. Have a look at their Facebook page. It is a closed group to keep trolls out. But if you ask nicely, they will let you in.
4) I'll be doing my next fundraiser on April 22nd at the Grand Central Coffee Company. Here's the link. It will be a brunch with a lot of my friends who are also realtors. You are welcome to join. I promise to keep them from trying to sell you homes.
Brain Food
1) There are some great charter schools in my district, but this article illustrates why more taxpayers are demanding basic transparency in charter school funding. I believe that we need to protect the good charter schools by expecting transparency, while still giving them more freedom to operate. Otherwise, the bad apples will dominate the market... and fail to educate the next generation.
2) Along the same lines, this article illustrates just how private and some bad apple charter schools can get away with selecting only certain students, even relying on race and ethnicity to do so.
3) We hosted a town hall this last week about the future of the State Fairgrounds. The governor issued an RFI to get input from people about the future of the fair. We are hearing rumors that they want to move the fair, so we felt we should ask the people most directly affected by decisions like this. This is an article from the Arizona Historic Foundation that captured the feedback we got from the audience. What do you think should happen to the fairgrounds?


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Dupont Analysis on Jc Penney and Nordstrom
J.C. Penney's, Inc. versus Nordstrom, Inc. | Fiscal years 2005 and 2004 Refer to Figure 1.
During fiscal year 2005, both J.C. Penney's Inc. ("Penney's) and Nordstrom, Inc. ("Nordstrom") provided similar and high returns on their shareholder investments, at 27% and 26%, respectively. Both companies' 2005 returns on equity ("ROE's") are up from prior year. While Nordstrom posted a significant increase in ROE by 20% over prior year, Penney's ROE is up 152% over its 2004 ROE.
While it is notable that both companies have strong 2005 ROE's and have increased their ROE's since 2004, there is a very large variance in ROE growth between the two companies. This suggests that although the 2005 ROE's are similar, the companies must have taken different paths to achieve these returns. Overall differences in net income reflect that Nordstrom saw its earnings driven by performance on continued operations, while Penney's achieved its result by showing earnings from discontinued operations. Also notable is that Penney's reduced its owners' equity from 2004 to 2005 while Nordstrom increased its owners' equity.
Further analysis using the Dupont Model reveals that Nordstrom managed its assets more efficiently than Penney's in 2005 and 2004 as shown by its higher return on assets ("ROA") (11.19% vs. 8.73% for 2005 | 8.56% vs. 3.71% for 2004). Penney's also relied more heavily on leverage than did Nordstrom in both years, with a higher capitalization ratio (3.11% vs. 2.35% for 2005 | 2.91 vs. 2.57 for 2004).
Nordstrom's advantage in ROA was driven primarily by its higher asset turnover when compared to Penney's (1.57 times vs. 1.51 times in 2005 | 1.55 times vs. 1.28 times in 2004). Asset turn in general was driven in both years by Nordstrom's much higher inventory turnover (5.11 times vs. 3.55 times for 2005 | 4.97 vs. 3.54 for 2004). The effect on ROA was offset in 2005 by Penney's reduction of cash balances primarily to repurchase common stock during 2005. Given the variances in cash, analysis reveals that Nordstrom has a much lower investment in inventory necessary to generate sales than does Penney's.
Additionally, Nordstrom has a stronger profit margin than Penney's (7.13% vs. 5.79% in 2005 | 5.53% vs. 2.9% in 2004) also driving ROA. Although Penney's enjoyed a more favorable cost of sales than Nordstrom in both years, it is outweighed by Penney's higher selling, general and administrative, interest and bond costs, as a percentage of sales. Nordstrom also enjoyed higher income from its other activities in both years ("other income and finance charges") than did Penney's.
Penney's higher reliance on leverage (higher capitalization ratio) is primarily driven by a more clear reliance on debt. At the end of 2005 Penney's had a long-term debt to assets ratio of .28 when compared to Nordstrom at .13. There was less of a variance between the companies at the end of 2004, but Penney's still exceeded Nordstrom at .25 versus .20. Penney's also had lower interest coverage in 2005 at 8.8 times when compared to Nordstrom's 19.7 times. 2004 was similar with Penney's showing a lower interest coverage ratio of 3.11 compared to Nordstrom's 8.42. The debt has allowed Penney's to focus on increasing ROE by relying less on shareholder investments. In fact, Penney's has been able to reduce its overall equity by repurchasing common stock shares. This has required Penney's to maintain a higher solvency position than Nordstrom as evidenced by Penney's higher current and quick ratios at the end of both years. While both companies have strong and growing ROE's, Nordstrom demonstrates greater efficiency in management of its assets and relies less on leverage than does Penney's. We also notice a more drastic change in the ratios of Penney's from 2004 to 2005, and a more consistent trend with Nordstrom for the same periods.
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Ratios for Dupont Analysis
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Dean and Sam Winchester were raised as Hunters by their widowed father, seeking vengeance on the supernatural elements that took their mother from them. But the road to vengeance is a dark one, and is it a place where children can have any semblance of a life?
Picking up several years after Supernatural: Origins, the boys are now old enough to join John on his cross-country "hunting trips." Amid the carnage and violence, John's seeking something specific: any information on why his wife was murdered. But is he prepared for the answers that he'll find? And is he willing to sacrifice his 11-year-old son Dean to this hard, lonely life by giving him his first "hunt?"