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This is one of the reasons that it is important to make sure that there are no termites in the home. However, given their size and where they dwell, termites can be a little challenging to find. Fortunately, there are ways to find and ultimately get rid of termites in the home. There is a step by step process that can make things easier for people.
- Find The Termite: The first step is to find the termites. Fortunately, termites do leave signs of their presence. Among the signs to look for in a termite infestation are termite wings and droppings. They also create tunnels that are worm-like so that they can be protected. However, it is important to make sure that they are ants and not termites. While they may look similar, one thing to check is the antennae. If they are bent, then they are ants. The ones with straight antennae are termites.
- Look For Other Signs: Another thing to do is look for signs of termite infestation. There are going to be plenty of signs to find in the home. Among the things to look for are holes in the wood or matter that looks a lot like sawdust. The material that is resembling sawdust is frass. As for the holes, the best thing to do is examine them. The best way to do this is with a pin or another sharp object in order to try to find an exit for the termites. This could give a clue as to the nature of the infestation. Then one can look at some of the other signs of termite infestations. Another sign to look for are bubbles and cracks in the paint. This often occurs when a termite digs a tunnel very close to the paint. Often times, termites have created colonies at this point in the house walls. Fortunately, there are many common places that you can look at. Among the places to look are the doors and the walls. Also, anyplace where there is wood is a likely place for a termite colony and should be examined. After all, wood is one of the most common material that termites use for their infestation. Another way to check and see if there are termites is to knock on walls in order to check for hollowing. One thing that termites have is the capability to break down walls so that they can be eaten. Sometimes, they can break down whole walls. The best way to tell whether or not the termite has taken over the walls is to knock on them. If the wall is solid, then it will make a thud. However, if the wall is hollow, then there will be an echo in the sound. In this case, you may have termites. One thing to look for is moisture. Among the types of wood that termites go for is wet wood. Therefore, it is important to get a thorough examination in order to see if there is any moisture and termites. Among the signs to look for are leaky pipes. There are also certain things to do in order to avoid attracting termites. One thing to do is make sure that any wood that is leftover from yard work is recycled so that no termites are going to be attracted.
- Termite Elimination: This is perhaps the most crucial part of protecting the home from termites. When you find a termite infestation, it is important to take care of the issue as soon as possible. For one thing, termites can destroy the home if they are left to their own devices. This is one of the reasons that it is important to act fast. There are plenty of different methods to exterminate the termites. One of the best things you can do is look into the different treatments in order to find one that works best for you and your home. Afterward, the best thing to do is to carry out the elimination. One method of termite treatment involves setting a perimeter around the house with termite killing liquid. This is effective because it will keep the termites away because any termite that goes into the liquid will die. One thing to do is to dig up a trench around the house so that the termites won't be able to get to the house. For new houses, this method is very effective. Another method involves termite bait. This type of poison is made of cardboard, or paper with some lethal substance. This is a slow acting poison that can kill the whole colony because it spreads throughout the colony because of the gradual process of killing the termite. The best thing to do is place the bait roughly 12 feet apart around the home. The bait can be applied according to termite activity around the home. They can be applied either above or under the ground. Other ways to get rid of termites include using nematodes which are termite eating worms. You can also call an exterminator. The method you choose to get rid of termites depends on you. You can also look into plenty of other methods for termite elimination.
- Prevention: After getting rid of the termites, one of the best things to do is look into ways of preventing another outbreak of termites. Among the ways you can protect your home from any future infestations is to have a professional examine the home in order to look for any termite colonies before they have had time to develop and cause any harm. Another thing is to look for any type of cellulose based debris around your house. The best thing to do is to get rid of all traces of debris so that the termites will not be attracted to the home. With the right approach, one is going to be able to effectively protect the home from termites.
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Chinese site Pad News makes the claim, which suggests Apple's favourite tech-building workhouse Foxconn is testing the larger iPads ahead of a possible announcement that could come as soon as March of 2014. The 12-or-thereabouts-inch iPad has been rumoured since early this summer, back when the WSJ suggested that an Apple 12-incher was undergoing testing. [Pad News via Apple Insider]

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Nigeria's largest conglomerate and oldest surviving business, UAC of Nigeria (UACN) Plc has appointed four new managing directors and a deputy managing director for five of its subsidiaries.
In a group-wide management changes, the conglomerate has appointed new heads for its paints and chemical, logistics and agricultural businesses. Mrs Oluwakemi Ogunnubi takes over as Managing Director, Chemical and Allied Products (CAP ). Mr. Taiwo Ajibola is the new Managing Director, MDS Logistics Limited. Mr. Adedamola Olusunmade has assumed office as Managing Director of Portland Paints & Products Nigeria Plc while Mr. Solomon Aigbavboa, previously Managing Director of MDS Logistics Limited, has been appointed Managing Director of Livestock Feeds Plc.
Mr. Mukhtar Yakasai, former Managing Director of Portland Paints and Products Nigeria is now the Deputy Managing Director of Grand Cereals Limited, a Jos-based agricultural subsidiary of the group. Mrs. Modupe Asanmo, erstwhile Managing Director of Livestock Feeds has retired from the company after 10 years of service. All the appointments took effect from January 1, 2018.
Ogunnubi, a Chartered Accountant (ACA), attended The Polytechnic, Ibadan where she obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accountancy in 1992. Until her appointment, she was the Head, Financial Services of UACN. She is an alumnus of Ashridge Business School and a member of the Institute of Risk Management, United Kingdom (UK).
Olusunmade, a graduate of Chemical Engineering from the University of Benin started his career as an Assistant Production Manager with CAP in 1999. He worked in different capacities including plant manager, marketing manager, corporate responsibility and strategy manager and technical operations manager. He has attended local and international training courses including the Lagos Business School's Advance Management Programme and was in 2007 appointed to the International Labour Organisation's Committee of Experts on Safe Handling of Hazardous Chemicals.
Yakasai is a graduate of Agriculture with Agricultural Economics option from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and holds an MBA from the same University. He joined CAP in July 1985 and held various roles as National Sales Coordinator, Business Manager Flame Guard and CAP Decorators, General Manager Business Development and General Manager Paints. He was at various times the Managing Director of Spring Waters Nigeria Limited (SWAN) and Warm Spring Waters Nigeria Limited (Gossy) and Special Projects Manager, UAC. He was appointed to the Board of Portland Paints in June 2013 as a Non-Executive Director and, subsequently, Managing Director of the company in October 2015. Mukhtar is an alumnus of Ashridge Business School, UK and has attended other local and international training programmes.
Aigbavboa, a pharmacist, was educated at the University of Benin (B.Pharm & M.Sc) and Federal University of Technology, Owerri (MBA). He joined UACN in June 1997 as Personal Products Manager in the then GBO – MDS Division. He thereafter, occupied various management positions in the UACN Group including National Customer Service Manager, MDS Logistics and General Manager -Franchise Operations, Mr Biggs. In September 2008, he joined Zain Telecoms, Nigeria where he served as General Manager, North West Regional Operations and Director, Regional Support in the Sales Group. In June 2009, he returned to UACN and was subsequently appointed in January 2010 as the Managing Director of MDS Logistics Limited. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Supply Chain Management
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Topic Page: Pullman Strike, 1894
US rail strike in 1894 involving George Pullman's Palace Car Company workers at Pullman, Illinois, and the American Railway Union led by Eugene Debs. Strikers protested in May 1894 against lay-offs and wage cuts of 25–40%. Midwestern railways were paralysed by July, but President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to the Chicago strike centre, ostensibly to protect the US mail trains, crushing the strike. Debs was jailed for six months for defying an injunction not to impede the mail trains by continuing the strike.
The Pullman Strike of 1894 was an organized work stoppage, originating in Chicago, by Pullman Palace Car Company employees in response to the company's announcement of a wage decrease. During the late nineteenth century, the U.S. economy struggled with severe economic downturns and banking crises that left many Americans unemployed or underpaid. This created an environment of hostility and unrest among laborers toward management, and the military was often asked to intervene. The Pullman Strike was one of the first labor movement strikes in the United States and called into question the role of the federal government in settling labor disputes.
After the American Civil War (1861–65), the U.S. economy enjoyed a period of economic prosperity with the advent of the Second Industrial Revolution (1865–73). This was a time of significant technological innovations, corporate expansion, and large-scale agriculture. Because of risky investments and unsafe banking practices, which fueled much the economy's success, the railroad industry and the banking system collapsed and caused the Panic of 1873. The United States sank into a period known as the Long Depression (1873–78), a financial recession that affected the lives of millions of Americans who lost their jobs or were subjected to severe wage cuts.
Throughout the next two decades, financial panics continued to occur, culminating in the most severe, the Panic of 1893. Also caused by a collapse in the railroad industry, the 1893 panic, which lasted from May to November of that year, precipitated a financial depression that persisted until 1897. There was a run on banks, hundreds of banks were forced to close, and many never reopened. Many businesses and manufacturers shuttered their operations because they did not have the cash to pay workers or suppliers. Several major railroads, including Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, went bankrupt. For the next half decade, the unemployment rate exceeded 10 percent, and in some cities the unemployment rate for industrial workers was between 20 and 25 percent. These events deepened the unrest and dissatisfaction of the working class and were the basis for several large labor strikes, including the Pullman Strike.
During the winter of 1893, directly following the 1893 panic, the Pullman Palace Car Company, which built and repaired railroad coaches, announced a 25 percent wage cut. Pullman was a "company town," located south of Chicago. Most of the Pullman workers lived in company-owned housing and purchased food and supplies from company-owned stores. Even though he cut wages, George M. Pullman, the chief executive officer of the company, refused to reduce rent payments on the company housing.
The Pullman employees went on strike in early June 1894 and refused to work for Pullman until their full wages had been reinstated. The strikers requested other unions to honor their picket lines. The American Railway Union (ARU), led by Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926), announced that its members would refuse to work on trains that included any Pullman railroad coaches. The ARU was one of the first labor organizations and the largest labor union of its time. It united employees from all areas of the railroad industry. Within a few days the strike spread to the entire Western and Southern sections of the county, and eventually more than 250,000 workers nationwide, including many ARU members, had joined. Twenty-seven states and territories were affected.
During this period a main issue that contributed to labor unrest was the perception that the government was not neutral in most disagreements between workers and management. During the Pullman strike, rather than letting labor and management settle their disagreement and allowing the dispute to take its course, many government officials in affected states called out the militia to repress the strike. The most notable exception was John Peter Altgeld, the first-term Democratic governor of Illinois, who had already shown pro-union sympathies by pardoning three union organizers accused of instigating the 1886 Haymarket Riot. Altgelt refused to dispatch the Illinois militia to break the Pullman strike. He said that public order was not threatened by the strike and that he intended to allow Pullman executives and laborers settle the dispute without government interference.
The Pullman Strike quickly turned ugly and began to negatively impact various industries. The lack of railroad employees halted mail delivery and significantly reduced freight and passenger traffic. A Chicago mob attacked stockyards and rail yards, setting hundreds of rail cars on fire. Almost 2,000 federal soldiers were dispatched to the Chicago area by order of President Grover Cleveland (in office 1885–89). When a mob attempted to block a train, National Guardsmen fired on the crowd. That day 4 people were killed and 20 were wounded. Before the strike ended, an estimated 20 people had died, and 60 were injured.
Pullman's lawyers, with the support of U.S. Attorney General Richard Olney (1835–1917), appealed to a federal court to stop the strike. They put forward two arguments. First, they claimed the strike was "in restraint of trade" and therefore violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. This act was passed by Congress in 1890 and ruled illegal "every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce." The Sherman Antitrust Act had been passed to break up monopolies (companies that controlled an entire market) rather than unions, but it was also used against unions. Second, they argued that the strike interfered in the delivery of federal mail. On July 3, 1894, the court ruled in favor of both charges and forbade Pullman employees and the ARU from continuing the strike.
The ARU, however, refused to honor the court's decision. As a result, the court sentenced Debs, along with his fellow union officers, to six months in jail. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of the ARU leaders, declaring that the order issued against the union was a legitimate device to protect interstate commerce and the mail. For 30 years after the Debs case, the court's decision was a powerful weapon in the hands of employers threatened with a strike. It was not until the Norris LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act of 1932 that labor gained some protection against strikebreaking orders issued by federal judges.
Although Pullman workers and the ARU were unable to stop the wage decrease, the strike was important for being one of the first and largest organized labor movements in the United States. Unlike smaller labor disputes, the Pullman strike became a national incident and received much attention from the public and the press. The dispute also called attention to the disparity of wealth resulting from of the Second Industrial Revolution, as well as the plight of workingmen.
SEE ALSO American Federation of Labor (AFL); American Railway Union (ARU); Company Towns; Haymarket Bombing; Industrialization; Labor Movement; Panics of the Late Nineteenth Century; Pullman Palace Car Company; Second Industrial Revolution
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1. What are the three most challenges facing the healthcare system due to changes in financial mechanisms.
The reasons sited differ somewhat across different healthcare systems and authors, but there seems to be several common threads. It seems that the main challenges that the healthcare system faces due to changes in the financial mechanisms are:
1. Rising costs,
2. Declining reimbursement, and Limited resources.
3. Privacy and confidentiality of medical and financial records
4. Other challenges
1. Rising financial and operational costs
The ever-increasing rise in healthcare cost is often sited as the biggest challenge to healthcare today. Technological change in billing and finacial expenditures. In one report, annually, spending on equipment exceeded spending on buildings, with spending on equipment making up 51 percent of capital spending for fixed assets in 2001 This pattern of spending a higher proportion of capital on equipment shows the importance of equipment investment to keeping up with health and safety code requirements, efficient and high quality practice of medicine, efficient operations, and strategic business expansion (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3257/is_1_58/ai_n6068611).
Specifical challenges are of setting up of financial and accounting computer systems is one of the financial and operational challenges facing healthcare today. Most industries recognize that world-class quality cannot be produced without automation. However, the LTC, for example, industry expects perfect execution and documentation from a labor source that is scarce and sometimes unskilled. Without IT solutions, those expectations are unrealistic.
Managed care has demanded the transition to integrated delivery system, which is another challenge. The optimal organizational form or model for structuring relationships between hospitals and physicians, which allows for a cooperative rather than competitive relationship is open to much debate. Local market forces will influence the feasible range of options available. However, the more successful models succeed in creating shared economic incentives for both the hospital and the medical staff. This alignment of financial incentives remains one of the most difficult challenges facing systems today, affecting both hospitals' strategic choices. As stated in the Bristol Review, Stephen Shortell in Remaking Health Care in America defines functional integration as "the extent to which key support functions and activities (such as financial management, human resources, strategic planning, information management, marketing, and quality improvement) are coordinated across operating units so as to add the greatest overall value to the system." An area that most organizations immediately recognize as needing to be integrated is information systems, which would link providers and patients across the continuum of care and sites. This is the link that allows information both clinical and financial, to be available where and as needed ...
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On February 2, 2014 will be the Super Bowl XLVIII 2014. The event will be held at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey where the ticket holders will receive a gift bag which inside is consist of different stuff like lip balm, seat cushion, three pairs of hand and foot warmers, tissues and mufflers. Because Super Bowl 2014 will be held first time in the outdoors, National Football League Vice President Frank Supovitz for the preparation of the game said that they cannot provide a coat for the viewers but they instead encourage them to stay in their seats and enjoy watching the show using the seat cushion inside the gift bag given to them entering the stadium. People were asking if the Super Bowl is for the fans then why is that they held this event outdoors that will cause the viewers to be distracted while watching the show due to the climate.
Many coat-makers will take advantage of this opportunity to sell their coat outside the stadium for the fact that Super Bowl officials cannot provide the coat for the people. Many hotels surrounding the stadium are preparing for their rooms to be occupied by those tourists who came from far places. The prices of hotel rooms are already increasing and they inform the viewers from faraway lands of the Super Bowl to book their rooms early this time. Even though the prices are going up, hotel owners are very concerned about the fact that the rooms will be fully occupied and many viewers from far away lands cannot reside anymore. The officials are still depending on the weather. They can finalize their plan for the last minute after making sure of the weather status. Officials also informed those people who will bring their kids to monitor them always. The expected viewers of the Super Bowl are more than 100,000. So parents of those kids were warned already to look for their children's security.
For those viewers on television, they can watch the Super Bowl 2014 on TV at this particular starting time 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time, 5:30 p.m. Central Time, 4:30 p.m. Mountain Time, and 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Fans across the whole region will be aided by the most extensive public transportation. Stalls for those who are selling jersey will also take advantage during the game. Food stalls are also in the line. Well, obviously, people will be going to have their meal outside rather than bringing food inside the stadium but there are also some of those that will bring food inside the stadium to really witness the biggest and extravagant event of the year.
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The Halftime Show of the SuperBowl 2014 will be performed by Bruno Mars. Yes, it will be Bruno Mars this time. The NFL already made an announcement that it will be Mars who will join FOX co-host Terry Bradshaw and Michael Strahan in the Times Square. Bruno Mars is one of the top music artists of today's performers. The Grammy-winner with his band, The Hooligans, will perform live at the Super Bowl 2014. He said that it is an honor to be the one chosen to perform at the Super Bowl and they will surely celebrate for this announcement. Bruno Mars' popular piece "When I was your man" became the most played song of the year. His singles were sold over 155 million worldwide. Mars will play plenty of songs from this year's most-watched musical event. Many fans were screaming when they found out that it was Mars who will perform at the Super Bowl 2014. Mars, 27, with styles from pop to reggae will join the roster of music legends. Music legends like Madonna, Prince and Bruce Springsteen. The Hawaiian born singer with a real name of Peter Gene Hernandez is a 14-time Grammy nominee and a winner.
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Who will be the hailed Super Bowl XLVIII football team winner of 2014? Well, that is absolutely the most tarrying questions of all. People around the globe and of those who will watch the game has its own predictions of next year's game. Different fans of both teams said that their team will surely to win the game and the loser will definitely be ashamed. Commercial ads for the Super Bowl 2014 are also highly awaited. The fans of the Ravens, Rams, Colts, Redskins and Panthers, the last team before the odds go over the undo cliff and at 66-1 are having a frozen feeling for their chosen teams. Members of each team are having their own special techniques for making their way to the top. As the event is fast approaching, players are having a hard time in their practice and daily exercise. Well, football players also need to be physically strong to clear those who will get in their way. They are required to eat only healthy and non-greasy foods to be physically fit. They should show the world what they deserve to be. Also whose commercial advertisement will be the winner and will claim the prize of a millionaire? There are already more than few of advertisers known to appear in the Super Bowl 2014. Their plans and extensive preparations will soon be uncovered. Each ad will be charged of $4 Million of every 30 second spot.
The Super Bowl 2014 will be an event that will surely leave a mark on the Super Bowl history. The officials stated that their preparations will cause zero-damage unlike the recent blackout issue of the NFL game. They assure the viewers of the inhibit respirations that they will witness for the game next year. Another breathtaking competition also is on the line. Performances of those music legends are highly expected. Pressures from the event organizers are increasing as the event is fast approaching. Even the broadcasting companies who will cover the Super Bowl 2014 are being pressured. Viewers who will not be watching the game are expecting that those broadcasting companies will provide a high quality of service. Sunday on the 2nd day of February 2014 will be the judgment day.


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There are many factors to consider when deciding how often to professionally clean a carpet. For example: How many people live in the house? How many children and babies? What pets live there? Does someone have a home office that requires regular cleaning? Are allergens a concern? What are the frequency and extent of environmental changes that impact air flow both in and out of your home?
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Are you ready to take photography classes in Fairport NY? No matter if you are a professional, beginner, or hobbyist, the best way to improve your photography abilities is through hands-on training with knowledgeable instructors.
There are many accredited and recognized photography schools in New York. Techniques taught in photography classes include portrait capture, exposure and composition, lighting, posing and unposing, and other photography fundamentals. Maturing into an accomplished photographer can lead to a lifelong hobby or successful professional career.
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You may have seen the hand-made placards that Internet-savvy teenage girls like to take pictures of themselves holding that begin with the line, "I need feminism because . . . ." They're all the feminist rage right now.
The whiny signs often make very little sense, but what fashionable feminism lacks in logic, it makes up for in entertainment value.
Let's look at a few.
This feminist's sign reads, after the opening "I need feminism because… I'm attractive and intelligent. I should never have to downplay either!"
That's fair, but what's this have to do with feminism? Unless she's referring to her compatriot diehard feminists whose hobbies include attacking the physical beauty of women who disagree ideologically. Aren't feminists the ones who typically downplay their own looks and go out of their way to make the point that they refuse to adhere to the social norms of what constitutes beauty? It seems to me this feminist complainant is unaware of what her own side espouses.
Many feminists can't find anything to complain about, so instead of declaring victory and moving on, they seek to create sexism where there is none. Sexism does exist, but not in the following feminist's complaint:
Her "I need feminism because" sign reads, "[W]hen I wasn't wearing a jacket (because I was not cold at all), the principal came up to me and asked me about it (even though all the boys in class were going around without jackets, and nobody countered them about it). When I went home crying about it, my mother agreed with the principal and mocked me."
So entrenched in sexism is our society that someone had the patriarchal temerity to ask, in essence, "Aren't you cold?" That's anti-woman talk if I ever heard it! It also means my mom is anti-woman and thinks I'm a female, because it's not uncommon for her to ask me the same thing.
There's a reason this girl's own mother mocked her: it's because she's a joke, a soft-touch who cried (!) when someone essentially asked about her comfort with the room temperature. Her form of feminism is self-parody.
Finally, here's a sign that reads, "[M]y choice of attire is not invitation for you to stare." The word "feminism," it is fun to note, is written in frilly pink letters, so clearly this young girl is advancing the "patriarchy's" social construct that pink frills are for women.
As to the substance of her message, I most heartily disagree with it. When males wear shirts that say "Nike" in big, bold letters, it's because they want people to notice it. When females wear makeup, they say they do it for themselves because they want to feel pretty, but that's a load of crap; those feelings of beauty only come at the thought of someone looking at them. What one wears in public is a presentation to the public. Men don't wear skinny jeans because they're comfortable; they wear them because they want to be seen as fashionable, and/or they want to accentuate their package—in either case, they're tools. And women don't wear shirts that put their cleavage on display because they don't want people to view the display. Look at it like this: if your choice of public attire is nudity, yes, it's an invitation to stare, and it's an invitation to which I will RSVP post haste.


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Creating A Landscape With No Grass Included
If you would like sell a property or have a nicer look, landscaping can help with that. This post is an effective way to start your own landscaping project or plan one by using an expert.
Use local plants when landscaping. Native plants are comfy inside the soil and climate of your respective region, so they are simpler to maintain. This allows them to easily be maintained. If you need information about local plants, visit any home remodeling center or nursery for advice.
It's definitely worth the money to get a soil test prior to landscape your backyard or yard. You will understand what to add to achieve the right acidity and drainage for the plants you are wanting to use. This will help to your plants grow more quickly and raise the chance of a successful project.
Are you currently thinking about putting your home for sale in the near future? You can observe big returns coming from a small landscaping investment. Make use of the front yard to provide your property entrance charm and the outdoor area to have an outdoor entertaining area.
People often overlook the many online options when looking for landscaping materials or equipment. Obviously, internet shopping is incredibly convenient and allows access to landscaping plants which can be difficult to get and even rare inside your local retailers.
Consult an experienced before beginning any major landscaping project. You don't ought to hire these people to do any of the heavy lifting, however expertise could save you money by avoiding the most popular mistakes many do-it-yourselfers face. This would definitely be completed for those who have never landscaped before and is vital.
Whenever you plan a substantial landscaping project, it is always a smart idea to include a multitude of different plant species. A landscape that has many kinds of plants is far more resistant to diseases and insects. If you use all alike plants, they will all be attacked and lost. Plant health can often rely on diversity when you are planning your yard.
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Although, it is essential to check the plants over prior to buying them. Places where sell these may not take care of them properly.
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The littlest little lawn care can significantly help to increasing your home. Once you try everything right, your home can become the envy in the neighborhood. The info you might have read in the following paragraphs can get you off and away to a fantastic start..


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If this case were to go on appeal to the Supreme Court, will the convict be freed on the ground that when the Criminal Code was made, cell phone was yet to be invented and that removing it from the pocket of the owner, with the intention of permanently depriving the owner of its use cannot be an offence unless and until a law specifically criminalizing the now very rampant cell phone theft is made? If an Unlawful Cell-Phone Removal and Other Related Matters Law is not enacted or a law like this is enacted after a cell phone had been stolen, will it be reasonable to say that nobody can be or could have been convicted of fraudulently removing a cell phone before this becomes an offence or until it became an offence?
In the Information ( Charge ) tried by Oyewole, J, the trial judge, and in his judgment delivered thereon, there was no reference to the Public Procurement Act of 2007. So, the Supreme Court, with profound respect, erred in deciding that Chief Olabode George and others were convicted of contract splitting, when same was yet to become an offence, and that same only became an offence under Section 58(4)(d) of the Public Procurement Act. It was a strained judicial interpretation that provided an escape route. What the Supreme Court did was to elevate and convert a particular of offence into a statement of offence for the purpose of reaching a conclusion that they were wrongly charged and erroneously convicted.
In Nigeria, before the advent of specific legislations like the Money Laundering Act, the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, and the Failed Banks ( Recovery of Debt and Financial Malpractices in Banks) Act, the Criminal Code Act and Penal Code Act had provided for the offences of stealing, theft, fraudulent conversion, criminal breach of trust, obtaining property by false pretences et cetera . Certainly, it cannot be argued that before these laws came into existence, charges could not have been laid against persons under extant provisions of the Criminal Code and Penal Code, simply because the particulars of offence alleged constituted the offences defined in the above-listed new criminal legislations.
Finally, when the appeal came before the Supreme Court for hearing, the matter had become an academic matter. It was no longer a life issue, for the convicts had served their terms. And the Supreme Court has repeatedly admonished counsel that it will only take life issues and not treat academic natters. Rather than being granted a "judicial pardon", the appellants ought to have been advised to try their luck with the Executive under the prerogative of mercy provisions in the Constitution.
A young man, now serving a seven year jail term for stealing, was convicted and sentenced by an Osun State Court for picking Governor Rauf Aregbesola cell-phone from his pocket, and converting same. Stealing, like abuse of office and disobedience to a lawful order issued by a constituted authority, are offences created under the Osun State Criminal Code. In the case of this convict, stealing was the statement of offence, while removing the cell phone from Governor Rauf Aregbesola's pocket was the particular of the offence.
If the act is done or directed to be done for purposes of gain he is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years
Section 203 of the Criminal Law, Cap C17, Vol 2, Laws of Lagos State provides for Disobedience to a lawful order issued by constituted authority. It provides that " Any person, who without lawful excuse, the proof of which lies on him disobeys any lawful order issued by any person authorized by any Order, Act, Law, or Statute, to make the order, is guilty of a misdemeanour, unless some mode of proceeding against him for such disobedience is expressly provided by an Order, Act, Law, or Statute and is intended to be exclusive of all other punishment"
Finally, when the appeal came before the Supreme Court for hearing, the matter had become an academic matter. It was no longer a life issue, for the convicts had served their terms. And the Supreme Court has repeatedly admonished counsel that it will only take life issues and not treat academic natters. Rather than being granted a "judicial pardon", the appellants ought to have been advised to try their luck with the Executive under the prerogative of mercy provisions in the Constitution. By law, a full pardon granted under the prerogative of mercy provisions in the Constitution, will obliterate the record of conviction and the taint of sentence and imprisonment.
by Jiti Ogunye
These provisions are analogous to Section 104 and 203 of Criminal Code Act Cap C 38 Volume 4 LFN, 2004. Thus, what the Supreme Court has done is to nullify two sections of the Criminal Code Law of Lagos State that exist, word for word, in the Criminal Code Act and replicated in the Criminal Code Laws of all the Southern States of the "Federation" of Nigeria.
Under Section 58 (3) ( a & b) prosecution can be undertaken by AGF either by himself or by any officer authorized by him, or by the AG of any State, after consultation with him, or by any legal practitioner authorized by him, based on request of the relevant authority. It is instructive that the appellants were not charged under the Public Procurement Act. Why did the Supreme Court reach for that law?
A prosecution for any offence under this or any of the last three preceding sections shall not be instituted except by or with the consent of a law officer"
The offender cannot be arrested without a warrant.
Chief Olabode George and others were not convicted of contract splitting, as an offence in the High Court. They were convicted of abuse of office and disobedience to a lawful order issued by constituted authority, contrary to section 104 and section 203 respectively of the Criminal Code Law of Lagos State and sentenced accordingly. Contract splitting was the particular of the offence alleged, prosecuted, tried and adjudged in the High Court. Every offence, tried on Information in the High Court has a statement of offence and a particular of offence. Every crime has its elements, ingredients and particulars. In the Chief Bode George Case, the Statements of Offences charged in the High Court were: abuse of office and disobedience to a lawful order issued by constituted authority; fraudulent contract-splitting in order to circumvent the laid down approval limits or threshold for contract awards by the Board of the Nigeria Port Authority were the particulars supplied in the Charge Sheet.
In a contribution published days ago, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, used the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the Criminal Appeal of Chief Olabode George, Architect Aminu Dabo, Captain O Abidoye, Alhaji Abdullahi Aminu Tafida, Alhaji Zanna Maideribe and Engineer Sule Aliyu v. Federal Republic of Nigeria to call attention to a disturbing trend in the judicial determination of corruption cases involving the rich and political powerful in our country. In this contribution, we endorse and share the reasoned legal opinion of Mr. Femi Falana, SAN on this issue.
For the avoidance of doubt, Section. 104 of the Criminal Law, Cap C17, Vol 2, Laws of Lagos State provides for Abuse of Office. It states that " Any person, who being employed in the public service, does or directs to be done, in abuse of the authority of his office, any arbitrary act prejudicial to the rights of another is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is liable to imprisonment for two years
Section 58(4)(d) of the Public Procurement Act, No 14 of 2007 provides thus:" splitting of tenders to enable the evasion of any thresholds set.. Section 58(5) any person, who while carrying out his duties as an officer of the Bureau , or any procuring entity who contravenes any provisions of the Act commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a cumulative punishment of (a) a term of imprisonment of not less than 5 calendar years without any option of fine"
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1. Always be pro-active.
Manchester United used to be the much feared team, with attacking options like David Beckham, Nistelrooy, Cantona, Ronaldo and so on. Go to a random year like 1997 and take a look at the English Premier League table. Who finished first on the Premier League table? Manchester United.
1999? Manchester United.
2002/2003? Manchester United.
2013/2014? Manchester… City.
That particular season of 2013/2014, United finished at 7th place with 64 points, as opposed to 86 points accumulated by Man City. Last season, they finished at 4th place with 70 points.
What happened there? Well, change in tactics. Instead of aggressively pushing past the defenders from the opposing team, they played safe, bouncing the ball back and forth, relying a lot on the midfielders. But you already know that, because you sat down and diligently watched every United game.
United is now known to be better at defending rather than attacking, especially since Sir Alex Ferguson left the team. David Moyes' style of let's-fucking-lose-every-game did not work out too well for the team either. But that aside, even Louis Van Gaal's United seemed to be defending most of the time, and this is quite shameful for a club with so much attacking history.
Let's look at some numbers. Last season (while still playing SAFE), after 9 games, they were at 8th place with 13 points, having won only 3 games.
This season, after 9 games, United stands at 3rd place with 19 points, and won 6 out of the 9 games played. What happened there? They switched to attack. With the arrival of players like Memphis and Martial, United regained their aggressiveness on the pitch.
While defending is good and can ensure you don't lose the game, it also doesn't guarantee that you win it. To win, you need to be out there. You need to chase the ball, not wait for the ball to come to you. Go and get it. There's a reason why only the Forwards get nominated for Ballon d'Or.
If you keep protecting your heart, of course you don't get hurt, but you don't get what you deserve either. Maybe that girl that you turned down was never going to hurt you. Maybe that girl you were too afraid to talk to loves playing World of Warcraft, and is okay with you having a boy's night out every other weekend. When you stay in the safe zone, you don't take risks. And if you don't make mistakes, you don't move forward. If you don't go forward, you won't score.
Step out of your comfort zone. Cross the halfway line. Go to your opponent's box and give it all you have. Win your trophy.
2. Get your formation, I mean, strategy right.
We all know how Man United fans run to the wall to bang their heads whenever Van Gaal employs the 3-5-2 formation. He knows it's not working but he still insists on using that strategy. Everyone around him is probably telling him that it's not working but he doesn't give a damn. He wants to make it work.
Don't ignore the red flags. While you're dating someone, we always try to compromise; we forgive way too much and try to fix something that is beyond repair. All your friends tell you this is not working, and you don't look happy, but you keep going anyway, because it's easier to stick to something you're already familiar with instead of trying something new. If it's not working, sometimes it's best to let it go and make way for something new. You never know, it might just give you the result you've been waiting for. Don't be afraid of change.
3. Don't be selfish like Cleverley.
Nobody wants to pass the ball to Tom Cleverley. Don't be Tom Cleverley. Football is not a one-man game, it is team work. You need to trust your teammates enough to pass the ball over to them, and trust them to pass it back to you when necessary.
Once you're committed to someone, you need to realize that it's not all about you anymore. Maybe you like having dinner at Bob's every Sunday. Maybe you need your basketball games 5 times a week. Maybe you only like sci-fi movies. You know where I'm going with this, don't you? There will come a time when you might have to cancel basketball because she's singing for the first time and wants you to be there. Sometimes you may have to watch White Chicks although you hate that movie with every fiber in your being, because you like to watch her laugh.
It becomes a two-way street, you start trying new things for her and she does the same for you.
4. Possession is not everything.
Time and again we see Man United having the highest possession in the game but still end up losing the match. When you keep holding on to the ball but don't know what to do with it, that becomes a problem as well. Perhaps they're afraid to let go but, what if the opposite team intercepts and scores?
Over-possessiveness is the deal breaker for a lot of people. When you hold on too tight to that person and don't allow them to move freely, not trusting that they'll come back to you if given the freedom, that's where the problem lies. Going back to the point above, it's still not all about you. Two people who are together can still have separate lives, enjoy doing different things, and yet still enjoy each other's company. Possession is not the key to a successful relationship; trust is.
5. It may not work out with "the one."
There were many times when United thought they had "the one." The two obvious examples are David Moyes and Angel DiMaria. Everyone believed in them, thought they were going to be the difference makers; the X factor that the team was missing. That these two were going to work a miracle and United will come out on top again. Both did not meet the expectations, ended up disappointing the team and eventually leaving the team.
Similarly, there will be many times in life where you think you have found "the one". They seem perfect at first; attractive, caring, loving, funny, witty and every other positive adjectives that you can name. But over time, you see their true colours. Sometimes it may work out, other times it might end up being a colossal disappointment and hurt you in the process. Sometimes it just fizzles out. This doesn't mean you should stop trying and give up completely. Heartbreaks happen to everybody. Yes, even if you're Cristiano Ronaldo. Keep searching, keep trying, and eventually, even if you don't find another Alex Ferguson, you will find your Louis Van Gaal.
6. No one can be perfect all the time.
Whether you're Wayne Rooney or Robin Van Persie, you can never be on form all the time. Well, unless you're Cristiano Ronaldo, then it's a different story.
Football can sometimes be like fashion; as Heidi Klum likes to say, "one day you're in and next day you're out." One season you can be scoring hat tricks, and next season your foot barely touches the ball. By the third season, your club has sold you off to some third league football club.
No, don't do the same when it comes to your relationship. It's important to understand that the journey with your significant other may not always be a walk in the park. Some days you're making pancakes together, and another day you're fighting about whose turn it is to turn off the lights. It's normal for relationships to go off form every now and then. But if you choose to focus on all the good things about the other person and accept that fact that no one on this planet can be absolutely perfect, it won't be long before they are on form again.


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Hello everyone! How are you doing? It's Lexa here today with a happy card using the brand new Critter Campout Stamps and the coordinating dies together with another versatile frames from Sunny Studio called Fancy Frames Rectangle Dies. I must say that this stamp set is my absolute favorite from the release, how I can say no to this adorable critters.
First of all, I stamp all the imaes with Versafine black ink and watercolor them with Distress Markers. After I finished with the coloring, I die cut each of them with the coordinating dies (time saver!) I want to create a scene where all of these friends are gathering around the campfire under the starry night sky. Each of them are so darling! I create the green hills portions bigger than the sky so there will be enough space for all the critters together. I'm super happy with the result, it's even better than what I imagined. The scallop Fancy Frames Rectangle is a perfect touch to frame this little scene.
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Just as Google introduced analytics and tracking to the webisphere in 2005, the technology conglomerate has yet again released a free solution for marketers, advertisers and business owners alike. At the Google Marketing Next conference held in San Francisco in May, Google announced the launch of their new platform, Google Attribution, which is a simplified version of Attribution 360 (paid enterprise version of the Analytics 360 suite).
What is Google Attribution?
Google Attribution is a free platform that integrates with Google Analytics, AdWords, and DoubleClick to pull in data to better illustrate conversion actions across channels and devices, bringing online and offline data together. The current user path to conversion is exposed to several touchpoints throughout the consumer journey, and tracking has become vulnerable to relying on last-click attribution models. Google Attribution seeks to remedy this by unifying data streams to offer a holistic view of a campaign's performance and impact.
What does Google Attribution solve for?
In true Google fashion, their new platform follows a slew of iterations that strive to solve for assigning proper attribution. In 2014, AdWords introduced attribution modeling for search funnels, which helped advertisers appraise the impact of their search ads using various attribution models. About a year ago, Google gave advertisers the ability to assign an attribution model to conversion events in AdWords.
When understanding the full scope of your marketing efforts, it's important to see beyond just the last-click action. Often, a generic keyword initiated the conversation between a consumer and a brand, and Google Attribution aims to highlight the true influence of an advertiser's search and display ads along the conversion path. Moreover, the immediate insight procured by Google Attribution (through automated, modeled conversion data fed into AdWords) can help inform bidding decisions based on full-funnel attribution data.
"Google Attribution is a great step in the right direction," shares Staci Weber, Media Supervisor at Katana. "It's difficult for clients to make the connection between how marketing across channel directly contributes to conversions, and this is just another tool to help marketers tell that story. However, I don't see the argument for last-click attribution going away anytime soon."
Google Attribution vs. Attribution in AdWords
Conversions and converted clicks coexisted in AdWords for the majority of the platform's existence, but as of September 2016, Google got rid of converted click support to pave way for conversions only. 'Converted clicks' was the incumbent conversion tracking method, but it only tracked last-click attribution while conversions support other attribution models.
Search Funnels Attribution debuted in AdWords in 2014, but it only reports on whether online users interacted with multiple ads from the same advertiser. In other words, it lacked insight from how other channels' ads interplayed unless advertisers had data-driven attribution models implemented.
Google Attribution vs. Attribution in Analytics
Through the current Analytics and AdWords integration, advertisers can evaluate paid search and Display Network performance in the platform's multi-channel funnel reporting and the attribution model comparison tool. However, Google Attribution offers more in-depth insight, includes Google's data-driven attribution model and offers additional information on more touch points.
Data-Driven Attribution Model
Since the very nature of attribution is an imperfect science, Google has earnestly tried to capture accurate data on each touch point a user interacts with prior to converting or completing an action. Google debuted its data-driven attribution modeling platform in 2013 (initially exclusively available to the paid versions of Analytics and Attribution) and then integrated with AdWords in 2016.
Because attribution can't just assign credit to a channel where the conversion happened, there needs to be substantial data for modeling to occur. Modeling is executed at the conversion action level, requiring the conversion action to have at least 15,000 clicks and a minimum of 600 conversions within 30 days to be eligible for data-driven modeling. The new Google Attribution and Attribution 360 (paid version) include all touch points versus only the last four touch points in Google Analytics 360.
So, what does this mean for advertisers? Well for starters, you can have more knowledge around what's working and gain insight to improve upon your campaigns. Unique attribution models that account for all channels and are built around your business's needs will aggregate the most accurate insight. In turn, this will lead to improved performance and higher return on investment for cross-channel campaigns.


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Whether you call her La Virgensita. La Santisima, Nuestra Senora de la Caridad, La Caridad del Cobre or just "Cachita"-because only Cubans would have a nickname for their patron saint- or Ochun, today is her day.
And I got me one of those big old candles with her likeness on it and I'm going to light it right now and join the millions of Cubans that today pray that, just like she saved those three Cubans from the storm so long ago, that she protect our fellow Cubans from the Hurricane that is battering the island today. And that once the clouds begin to clear that the light of freedom shines brightly to every corner of our enslaved island.


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Of more than 400 artifacts collected in this museum of the paranormal in West Virginia's "city of the dead," one is attracting more attention than all others, though curators are at a loss to explain why.
"You can see why the lost execution-cap from the penitentiary's electric chair is popular," says Steve Hummel, referring to a relic from the nearby W.Va. Penitentiary, now a focus for guided ghost tours.
"But this portrait — few guests pass without remarking that they were moved by it, or 'her,' in some way."
Hummel has little explanation as to why he acquired the portrait and only some idea why it is so paranormally active, though he can verify that it's garnered more consideration than many other museum artifacts, which include dolls, books, statues, an embalming table, and even soil collected from the yard of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
The portrait attracted his attention years before he established the "Archive of the Afterlife: the National Museum of the Paranormal" in 2012 in Moundsville, a city named for prehistoric burial mounds that rose along the Ohio River.
(The Grave Creek Mound, now the centerpiece for a state park, is all that remains of several burial mounds raised in alignment in what would become the city. Some paranormal investigators speculate that destruction of these sacred landmarks is what has contributed to psychic activity in the city.)
"I had been visiting an antique mall in the Centre Market area in Wheeling and often passed the portrait. I wondered what the young lady might have to say, though it wasn't until I opened the museum that I realized it belonged in the museum."
Of all artifacts, Annie's portrait also seems to be the most paranormally active, he says.
"Annie has been known give some folks uneasy feelings, but she has also activated proximity meters, generated a disembodied laugh from within the museum and has even been recorded on digital recorders. One particular recording was her saying her name, 'Annie,' leaving a Class A EVP or 'Electronic Voice Phenomenon.'
"Added, she has even followed me home, twice to be exact, though I'll relate that tale to museum visitors as there's much to tell."
As for the execution cap, Hummel says the relic, ironically acquired on eBay, is among the museums other popular attractions.
Communication with two of nine inmates executed with the cap at the penitentiary was made during an investigation by the Society of the Supernatural, he said, during which convicted killers Tom Ingram and Fred Painter made contact with the investigators.
The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday 1-6 p.m. Winter hours (Dec. 1-March 1) are Friday and Saturday 1-6 p.m., excluding major holidays and during inclement weather. Appoints may also be made for private groups.
Read also:
- The Top Five Monsters from the West Virginia Hills
- The Most Haunted Places in West Virginia
- Hanging the bloodthirsty bluebeard of Quiet Dell
- New film to investigate legend of Flatwoods Monster


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The Raspberry Pi is a computer that can be used by anyone interested enough in picking it up. The single-board, Linux-based machine has sold more than five million units since launching in 2012, becoming a teaching tool for young programmers and a creative outlet for electronic hobbyists in the process.
One look at the kind of things it's been used to create — from a makeshift smartphone to an instrument made of beets — should signal just how much the credit-card-sized device is capable of. The problem with it, though, is that it's still a computer, and terms like "single-board, Linux-based machine" may sound like a foreign language to you.
If you'd like to change that, though, you can pick up a Raspberry Pi 2 Starter Kit from CanaKit or check out The Complete Raspberry Pi 2 Starter Kit currently listed on StackSocial.
The former goes for $70 on Amazon, and includes the latest edition of the mini computer, along with a case, USB power supply, and a 8 GB MicroSD card with NOOBS — or, the "New Out Of the Box Software" suite that'll get you situated with an OS for your new machine — pre-installed, among other necessary tools.
If you'd like something that comes with the hardware and a couple of relevant online courses, the $115 kit at StackSocial can also help you understand what you can actually do with your pocket PC. The five classes include a general introduction to interacting and computing with the Pi, a beginner's course for Python — the relatively simple programming language at the heart of the device — and a handful of other engineering exercises. It all culminates in a guide to building a Pi-powered mini robot, which'll inevitably be used to mess with your pets.
Free lessons for what to do with your Pi are scattered across the web, but the starter kit offers a more organized and well-paced way to get up to speed. (You may want to brush up on some intros to Linux, however, just to be fully comfortable.) Either way, if you'd like to have a little fun while learning to code, working with the Raspberry Pi is a proven way to do so.
CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit, $69.99, available at Amazon.
The Complete Raspberry Pi 2 Starter Kit, $115, available at StackSocial.
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video of Jack White, Dave Grohl & Paul McCartney playing the White House w/ Obama, Jerry Seinfeld, the Jonas Brothers
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Paul McCartney sings My Michelle for Michelle Obama
High Res official video of the speech
Hey Jude – Live at the White House
Dave Grohl and Jack White performed for President Barack Obama at the White House Wednesday during the ceremony for Paul McCartney's reception of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
After Obama presented the award to McCartney, the performances began and White took to the stage for a rendition of the Beatles' "Mother Nature's Son." Grohl went on to perform the Wings hit "Band on the Run."
Other performers at the ceremony included Stevie Wonder, the Jonas Brothers, Elvis Costello, Faith Hill, Corrine Bailey Rae, Herbie Hancock, and McCartney himself.
Past recipients of the Gershwin Prize include Wonder and Paul Simon. [RTT]
The full show is coming to PBS in July.


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Irvine Valley's baseball team tried to rally with two runs in the bottom of the eighth and four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, but it still wasn't enough in a 11-10 loss to Allan Hancock on Friday at home.
Allan Hancock won all three games it played against the Lasers over the last week and improved its record to 7-6 overall. Irvine Valley's record slipped to 9-7 overall.
The Bulldogs scored three runs in the top of the eighth to take a 11-4 lead.
But the Lasers kept battling.
Sophomore shortstop Colin Conroy had an RBI double and sophomore designated hitter Zack Stack hit an RBI single to get IVC within 11-6 in the bottom of the eighth.
Then in the bottom of the ninth, right fielder Grant Rockefeller hit an RBI double to make it 11-7. The Lasers plated another run on a groundout to get within 11-8. Freshman third baseman David Rojas hit an RBI single up the middle to make it 11-9.
After the second out of the inning and a walk to Conroy, Stack singled through the right side to score Rojas and pull Irvine Valley within 11-10. Conroy moved up to third base on the play and was the potential tying run.
But Allan Hancock reliever Ismael Hernandez struck out Irvine Valley sophomore first baseman Cooper Moore to end the game.
Hernandez earned his third save of the year, pitching one inning and giving up one unearned run on two hits and one walk with one strikeout.
Dylan Maiden picked up the win. He went 5.2 innings and gave up four runs (three earned) on eight hits and one walk with three strikeouts.
Irvine Valley freshman Kennan Cisneros was charged with the loss. He went 4.2 innings and gave up six runs on 10 hits and one walk with five strikeouts.
The two teams combined for 32 hits in the game.
IVC had 15 hits. Stack was 3 for 5 with a walk and three RBI and Rockefeller went 3 for 5 with two runs scored and one RBI.
Conroy was 2 for 3 with a walk, a run and two RBI, freshman catcher Ryan Santa Cruz went 2 for 2 with two RBI and Rojas was 2 for 5 with two runs scored and one RBI.
Jake Shusterich was 4 for 5 with three RBI to pace Allan Hancock's offensive attack.
Irvine Valley plays again next Tuesday at home, hosting West LA at 2 p.m.


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While working on a ray tracer I found a pretty convenient design pattern for applying custom material types to the fragments encountered while colliding view rays with scene geometry. The figure below shows a general outline of what the pattern looks like in the context of the ray tracer.
The idea here is that various materials will require differing parameters for shading a particular pixel (e.g., basic Phong shading may simply require a normal, while something more complex like Greg Ward's full Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF), may require a tangent and binormal as well). In order to accommodate this problem there are two hierarchies of objects: fragments which hold the appropriate parameters for specific material types and the material types themselves. While ray tracing, geometry in the scene is tested against rays from the eye for collisions, when a collision occurs the geometry it occurs with should be aware of 1) what the geometry is (as a mesh or primitive) and 2) its respective material. Using that material we can then figure out what fragment we want to generate - the material is responsible for doing this since it knows what parameters it needs from the fragment and is therefore capable of generating the correct kind of fragment.
When pixel colouring is being done (later on) in the ray tracing program, the colour can be more dynamically derived from fragments without having to worry about having the appropriate parameters to feed into the material calculations. A simple call to the render function in a Fragment is all that is required.
- Dyanamic accomidation of materials by fragments
- Saved memory space: only use the fragment parameters needed
- Scales to new materials
- Very high coupling between Fragment and Material and between the two hierarchies in general
- Slow down due to virtual table look-ups (polymorphism)
Improvements, Additions and Side Notes
Obviously you will be passing other parameters to functions like render, for example you will probably need to pass the scene graph for things like recursive rays. You will definitely need to accommodate lights somewhere (probably as another parameter to the render function).
One question that might arise is "how do I know what parameters to extract when I'm performing the actual collision itself?". For example, lets say I have a primitive of a sphere and I have my eye ray and it collides with the sphere - how do I know what parameters I want (other then the ones I would always want (i.e., position of collision, normal, view direction), for specific materials. This could be taken care of by introducing a method for every primitive type into the Fragment class hierarchy (ugly slow way), or in a more object oriented, design-pattern approach, which would be to use the Visitor pattern and have a separate visitor node hierarchy with a method for dealing with each primitive type in relation to every fragment type. Either way, this will become complicated to maintain any form of object orientedness.