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Market Update: August 2017
Energy Procurement Market Update: August 2017
Temperatures in the energy intensive PJM and ERCOT regions recorded near normal for the month of July and a bearish forecast for the first two weeks of August have led to an unusual soft patch during an historical firm period. Despite the current bearish conditions, summer is only half over leaving plenty of time for a return of summer volatility.
Although natural gas storage continues to be in an over supplied condition, weekly storage injections have lagged both last year's and the five year averages through the injection season.
The current supply surplus continues to contract with a current inventory of 2.990 Tcf which compares to 3.292 Tcf last year and a five year average of 2.879 Tcf.
The power market has mirrored natural gas as it should. With an exception of a handful of mildly volatile days, the power market has shown to be less sensitive to hot weather, a condition similar to last year's market. For this reason, partially hedged index strategies continue to outperform fixed strategies.
The US rig count continued to expand in July, increasing to 958 in the week of July 24 vs last year's count of 463. This steady increase in drilling activity will continue to act as a buffer to future volatility.
Despite what appears to be a benign outlook, we continue to believe the market lows have already been set and the path of least resistance for a measurable market move continues to be to the upside. This is due to an anticipated steepening in the demand growth curve. Virtually all factors effecting demand are trending upward. This includes a strong economy, generation demand, increasing industrial productions and continued growth in Mexican and LNG exports.
For larger clients, NJGEC continues to believe a hybrid, block & index, strategy will continue to deliver the most favorable budgetary impact. Fixed products continue to sit near multi decade low levels and offer attractive budgetary protection. For clients attracted to fixed products, we recommend extending terms 36 – 48 months to lock in at extremely attractive rates that will provide both short and long term savings.
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Wednesday App Review: Prismposted by Liz E. on May 10th, 2017 - 12:41 pm | Mobile Apps
Bills suck. They are, without a doubt, the worst part of being an adult. Unfortunately, however, they are also something that you sort of have to deal with at some point or other. While a lot of it can be done online, that leaves you with dozens of different passwords and websites to keep track of, and you're just left up to your own devices when it comes to remembering due dates. The app Prism, however, is designed to help with all of that.
Prism is sort of an all-in-one app when it comes to personal finances. Through the app, users can not only monitor their funds but also pay bills and keep track of things like confirmation numbers (which I never write down) and due dates. It provides a visual outline of what you're spending (in both list and calendar form). You can also input your paydays and see where your money is going.
There is a small catch, however. In order for Prism to work, you have to be able to pay the bill online, and Prism has to be able to support whatever company you're paying. When I first downloaded the app I didn't really expect to be able to do much. I have quite a few bills that are scattered all over the place. To my surprise, literally the only bill I was unable to pay via the app is my utility bill (which the app says support is coming soon). My rent? Check. Car insurance? Check. Phone bill? Credit card? Car payment? Check, check, check. The app even allows you to add manual bill reminders so anything not supported (or even temporary bills) still shows up.
The downside to the program is that it takes forever to set up if you've got a lot of billers. And believe me, you probably have more than you think. For every biller that you add to the app, you have to connect it via your account credentials and basically give the app permission to sign into your account for you and make whatever payment you request. You also have to hook your bank account into the app.
Now, I know what you're thinking: that's a lot of sensitive personal information all in one place, right? Well, being the wary person I am, I did a lot of research before downloading it, and there are two things that made me actually rather comfortable with this app.
First, none of the information you give to Prism is actually stored on your phone. It's all stored on their servers and can be accessed via your device. Their servers have bank-level security (read more about that here) and users can add a PIN to the app so no prying eyes can peek at your finances.
Second, the app really isn't doing anything less than what you already do if you pay online. It's literally no different. In fact, according to Prism, their system is more secure because you can't hack an app as easily as you can a website or computer. Makes sense, right?
I've been using the app itself for about two months now, and I have to say that it's been amazingly convenient. There is occasionally a bit of a lag in bills showing up (my AT&T bill, for example, isn't listed on Prism yet, but I can access it via the AT&T app on my phone as of yesterday). The friend who recommended the app to me has been using it without problem for four years and she hasn't had any issues.
To top it all off, the customer service for Prism is absolutely fantastic. You can message them right through the app (in fact, they often request you do that) and when I had to contact them with a problem it was literally fixed within 15 minutes. The second time I contacted them, it was a couple hours. For an app, that's incredible customer service. Most developers and app support take at least a day to get back to you, in my experience.
In short, if you're looking for a better way to pay your bills online, I simply can't recommend Prism enough. The app is great, it's simple to use, it's got fantastic support and customer service, and it's just an all-around useful app to have. You can download it for free for your iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, or Kindle Fire. If you've still got questions or concerns, check out the Prism website for more information on the service.


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The recent announcement that 23andMe has struck a $60M deal with Genentech to provide 23andMe customer data for Parkinson's disease research is, on balance, good news. The relationship between genetics and predisposition to Parkinson's disease is still under investigation, and more insight into the molecular basis for this terrible disease will be a huge step toward providing better treatment or possibly even developing a cure. But this news should also be met with some alarm by 23andMe customers. It raises questions about how the 23andMe customer data will be queried by Genentech, what is shared, and how this consent is managed. Like many 23andMe customers I've agreed to participate in "Basic Research", but now that tens of millions of dollars are being made from our collective data I have some reservations. Until there is more transparency about how customers' data is being resold for profit by 23andMe, I am withdrawing consent from 23andMe. And I'll show you how to as well! First, if you haven't already you should download your raw data. 23andMe may not be around forever, or they may one day close access to it. You paid for this data, you should make sure to take ownership of it. Note: Your genomic data is the most personally identifiable data possible. Treat this data like any highly sensitive medical record or financial document. Be careful how and where you store it. You can download your data from their download page while logged in. In case the link doesn't work, you can access the download page by clicking "Browse Raw Data" in the pulldown under your name in the upper right corner of the page, then clicking the "Download" button on the raw data page: After entering your password and secret answer, select your profile and the "All DNA" data set, then hit the "Download Data" button. The downloaded zip file should now be on your system. Store it somewhere safe.
To withdraw your consent for 23andMe to use your data for basic research, click on "Account Settings" in the pulldown under your name in the upper right corner of the page, then click on the "Privacy/Consent" tab.
If you have given consent for research you'll see something like this at the bottom of the page:
To change it, click on the "view/change consent" link and scroll down to the bottom of their Research Consent Document. At the bottom you'll see the link "click here to change your consent".
Clicking that link opens up a set of radio buttons for changing your consent.
Choose the appropriate variant of "I DON'T GIVE CONSENT" and hit the "Save" button. Once saved you should now see the following under "Basic Research Consent" under the "Privacy/Consent" tab of your "Account Settings":
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Since about 1 month ago, my brain constantly feels like it wants to explode out of my eyeballs.
Since about 1 month ago, wedding + reno prep has also hit new levels of intensity.
I am going to chronicle all the crap that we've gone through regarding the wedding. Whoever came up with the idea that a wedding should be some gigantic event should be shot.
Deciding to get married
The original plan had always been to get married in 2018/2019, after P had settled down in his job. We realised that due to various factors, this was not a viable plan. After much discussion, we therefore narrowed down the wedding date to June 2017.
Church Venue
This was the first thing I settled. No church = no wedding, cause, yunno, Catholic. I called a total of 7 churches for our preferred date. None were available, and I also discovered that some churches did not take wedding bookings unless you were a parishioner there. Panic ensued. I asked for dates a week after the preferred date. Thankfully we found a church available. We went down that very day to pay the deposit.
This church (I'll call this Church A) met our requirements of being (1) pretty and (2) having a large air-conditioned canteen. However, we later discovered that Church A did not have any support for weddings, had no wedding ministry, and that all their ministries did not do wedding services. You had to source everything, right down to the choir and altar servers, ON YOUR OWN. It also did not have a modern sound system, meaning, it could not play music off a CD. The secretariat was also, err, shall we say, unhelpful? Everything we asked, the answer was pretty much, NO, or WHY ARE YOU BEING DIFFICULT? Even when the question was merely, can you open a classroom for the bride to wait in before the march in?
Anyway, the final straw with Church A was when the secretariat informed me that the Church's feast day was in the week leading up to my wedding day, i.e. no rehearsals could be held in the evenings. I had specifically asked as to whether rehearsal could be held the Thursday before my wedding as at the time of booking in September 2016 because we knew that quite a lot of our bridesmaids and groomsmen would be flying in for our wedding. Unfortunately, I didn't have this in writing; confirmation was verbal at the time of payment of the deposit. Secretariat Lady suggested that I have the rehearsal the week prior. After checking with our bridal party, we found out that a total of THREE out of the 14 groomsmen/bridesmaids would be able to be present if the rehearsal were held the week before the wedding instead of the week of the wedding. Rehearse what har, with 3 people? We tried to explain this to the Secretariat, who adamantly said it was impossible. She further added that we had to be done with rehearsal by 8.00pm as the church closed then. That really was the end of the matter – my bridesmaids, at least, cannot be expected to reach earlier than 7.30pm, realistically.
So, I informed Secretariat Lady that we would be cancelling the booking, and that she could treat the $700 deposit as a donation to the Church. Her response did not even include a "thank you". Rolls eyes.
By the grace of God, my own parish was still available on our wedding date. We hastily booked it. The attitude of all the secretariat staff in our parish was the total opposite of what we had received from Secretariat Lady – so much so that I nearly cried the first time I dealt with them, they were so kind. Stockholm Syndrome, anyone? Everything we wanted to do, the answer was either "yes", or "let's see whether we can help you check to make it so."
The biggest problem with my parish is that the canteen was waaaaay too small to hold the number of guests we were anticipating. We explored (and are still exploring) various ways and means to increase or maximise the space in the canteen, which also happens to be in the basement and adjacent to the carpark (go figure, lol). It can actually only hold 150 people comfortably, and we are anticipating between 200-250 guests… Well…. We'll figure this out by the wedding day.
Dinner Venue
So I never, ever, wanted a formal dinner banquet. I find these a pain in the ass to attend, and I hate this idea that people feel obligated to cover their cost of attendance at dinner. My ideal wedding has always been Church + lunch reception, followed by a dinner treat by me and P for our bridal party for their hard work on the first evening, and for our families on the second evening. Just a regular dinner, with no programme, where we can actually talk to people and not have them entertained by emcees and videos.
But is that what's actually happening? YOU CAN BET YOUR ASS IT'SNOT.
What the plan is now: An (almost) full blown dinner banquet, just that it's small, capped at family and VERY close friends ONLY, and sans stage.
There was some drama about this too! At the time I was venue hunting, I got everyone involved, i.e. my parents, P and P's parents to estimate the number of guests they were likely to invite. P and I estimated fairly accurately. Our parents… not so much. We thought that a dinner of max 120 pax would be sufficient, and so I went looking around for venues on this basis.
I found two that met our requirements – both at good hotels, one being a small ballroom, and one being a restaurant in the hotel. P was in favour of the restaurant one. I was ambivalent, though leaning toward the small ballroom for various reasons. I asked P to check with his mother whether she would be ok with the restaurant venue. The MIL is the traditional kind. I wasn't sure if she would be ok with the restaurant wedding concept – no stage, no visual projection. There were TV screens included in the package lah, but these were small screens, nothing like the big projectors you would get in a ballroom.
The MIL okayed the restaurant venue, so we proceeded to book it since it was the cheaper and more central option. Small Ballroom Venue was in Sentosa, which admittedly would have added a fair bit of time to our schedule. We traded out the screens for corkage, since we were agreed then that we had nothing to screen. We did not want a videographer and we found the childhood montage type things rather tacky.
The booking was made in Dec 2016. In Mar 2017, in a random conversation between P and MIL, it came up that the dinner was in a restaurant and there was no stage. The MIL "went into shock".
Thus ensued frantic efforts on my part to obtain (1) AV projection, and (2) obtain SOMETHING to play on the screen. We finally agreed that it would probably make the most sense to get a videographer to do the church ceremony and the morning highlights. So of course, Madame had to go looking for reasonably priced videographers who produced quality work.
I think I spent a good 30 hours reviewing wedding videos after work, late into the night. I finally found one who had a reasonable half day package and seemed like someone we could work with. We met him one evening at Vivo, and hired him that very night in late March 2017.
The Bed
It also came up in conversation between P and the MIL that we had bought 2 single beds instead of one solid king bed to avoid motion transfer. The MIL was extremely unhappy about this and wanted us to buy a new bed that was one whole piece of king size bed.
I obviously refused. Thankfully P was on the same page. But to appease her he did say she could put some fengshui things to counter the bad effects of having separate beds. I blew my top. I did not believe in fengshui, and he, as a soon to be baptised Catholic, should not either.
The Tea Ceremony
Anyone who knows my Mother will know she is the No. 1 Bad Chinese – knows nuts about Chinese traditions and largely fails to follow most of them. I'm like this too. It therefore caught me totally off guard when she wanted to do a tea ceremony. How she broached the topic was, "Hey, I was thinking, for your tea ceremony, shall we do it the next day, on a yacht? I can book the yacht!"
Me: "Huh? What? Tea ceremony? We're having a tea ceremony? For what?!"
It all went rapidly downhill from there.
Suffice to say I made the mistake of saying that we'd do it if P's side wanted, cause I certainly didn't want it and I didn't understand why she was pushing me to do it when she had always said that she would never make me do anything for my wedding that I didn't want to. She then went all miffed and said that in that case, she didn't want a tea ceremony either.
Blah blah blah, and months on, obviously we are doing a tea ceremony. I've even bought a kua set for P and I to wear for it.
A wedding is not about what you want. It's about what others want for you.
The GDL/SDJ/HL
I was staunchly against this when I had the energy to fight this.
I have no energy left.
Whatever the MIL wants, she can have in this regard.
Even if she wants to give me some farken ugly piglets as my SDJ, or she wants the whole shebang for the GDL, replete with dragon farken phoenix candles, she is welcome to do so. I will comply.
Because I am tired and I give up. No one cares what the bride wants, so the bride has stopped caring what she wants too.
At the start of this, the Mother actually told me that if MIL wants to do this, I am on my own, because she doesn't know what to do and doesn't want to do it. Way to leave me alone. But she has since retracted this it seems, because she later said to P to get MIL to give her a list of things our side needs to prepare or do.
The Invites
I stupidly decided to design my own.
I did design my own.
The invites are gorgeous. If I do say so myself.
But it took so much stress, so many nights of painting, so many more nights spent cleaning up and editing images (with shit programmes no less, because I don't own Photoshop), and so many trips to that godforsaken place called Queensway for the printing that I'm not sure it was worth it.
And then of course there was the last minute request for Chinese invites from the MIL. Which I had to scramble to produce. And did, in time for printing. I am SuperBride.
The Father's Attire
This is the latest of things to crop up.
The Father agreed 2 nights ago to tailor a charcoal grey suit for my wedding.
Last night he accused me of being disrespectful and said that I did not get to dictate what he wore.
I couldn't help it. I screamed. I sobbed. In abject frustration. How can my own father not want to wear a nice fitting suit when walking me down the aisle? He doesn't even own a white shirt! And his blazer was tailored 30 years ago. There are no matching pants. I doubt the blazer fits. It looks incredibly dated. He's probably going to pair it with a polo shirt.
When I am already stressed out managing the wedding practically all on my own, and when I have already broken down three times in the last month, why would you, as a parent, add to this stress? Why is it that all my friends know to just go with the plan and not stress the bride out further, but my own father does not?
Obviously I screamed and sobbed in private.
Because I am farken SuperBride.


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We recently visited the iconic O2, London, for a major sporting event and were bowled over by what a great venue it is and how much there is to do there! The arena itself certainly has the wow factor, even though it only fills part of the dome. With capacity for 20,000 yet feeling surprisingly intimate, we were close to the action but if you wanted to nip out for a moment it was easy, thanks to the clever design of the arena with its many entrances. For concerts, sporting events and exhibitions in London, the O2 has a huge range on offer.
We attended the World Cup of Gymastics, which was being held at the O2 for the first time. A capacity crowd of gymnastic fans enjoyed world class competition from 8 countries, as well as entertainment from supporting acts and guest appearances from some of Britain's best gymnasts. As we entered the O2, Britain's Got Talent stars Boogie Storm were on hand to greet the kids whilst a drumming band performed acrobatics. The event was off to a great start! Three hours of international women's gymnastics sped by and the home crowd celebrated as British Olympic medal winner Amy Tinkler took the bronze medal.
This was a fantastic event to take my children to and really brought home the power of sporting inspiration to kids. My mini gymnasts loved it, especially when they spotted themselves waving their flags on the big screen!
Forthcoming sporting events are very varied, from darts to football, basketball to wrestling, tennis and boxing.
As well as the main arena there is a smaller venue for more intimate concerts. In 2008 the O2 Arena was the world's busiest music venue, beating even Madison Square Gardens in New York. This year alone sees Lady Gaga, Iron Maiden, Ariana Grande, Kiss, Ed Sheeran and Take That perform at the arena. Certainly an eclectic mix!
Peter Kay famously became the first comedian ever to sell out 15 nights at the O2. Jimmy Carr, Mrs Brown and John Bishop have all filled this iconic stadium.
Yes you can walk on top of the O2 – with the appropriate safety gear and a climb guide of course! It takes 90 minutes to cross over the O2, stopping at the observation platform for stunning views of London on the way. If you love views and don't mind heights, this is a unique way to visit the O2 and see London from above. There are age restrictions (no under 10s) as well as height and weight restrictions, so check out the details on the website to book. You can also now do a Climb and Dine restaurant and climbing combination.
There's a multiplex inside the O2. Normally multiplexes are huge venues on their own, but this massive 11 screen cinema just slots into a small part of the dome.
There are 26 restaurants and bars at the O2. Advance warning – they get extremely busy, with long queues, when shows or sporting events end and most don't take bookings. There are also other restaurants and bars just outside the venue.
There are food and drink counters arena-side as well. My dd made a beeline for the candy stand.
One small thing that I wasn't a fan of at the O2 was that on entry to the arena itself you cannot take any water through security, like an airport. That would be fine but they charge £4 for small bottle of water on the other side! You can ask for tap water at any drinks outlet so my tip is to do that or be prepared to pay £16 for the whole family to have a water #outrageous!
Exhibitions vary throughout the year but are usually crowd-pullers.
Sky Studios is a small area when you enter the arena where you can pose for pictures with TV superheroes or pretend to read the news. You wouldn't head for the O2 just for this free activity but whilst you are there it's fun to drop by for a few minutes.
Icon Outlet is a new addition to the O2 and has 60 outlet stores all under one roof, mainly fashion and lifestyle brands. There's always time to squeeze in a little shopping, right?
Not at the O2 but right next door is the Emirates Airline Cable Car that goes from the O2 over the River Thames. Spectacular views of London and if you don't fancy the Up@O2 experience or have people in your group whom it wouldn't suit, this is a good alternative. My children also enjoyed the small exhibition you can visit at the end and pretend to fly a plane.
As entertainment centres go, the O2 pretty much has something for all tastes. I'd love to know what you've seen at the O2!
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We all may worry consuming synthetic drug or using herbal medicine for insomnia, with all their side effect. Plus some of those treatment may required expensive cost for the prescribed drug or pill. So, why not you try some natural home remedies for insomnia. It's easy, cheap, safe and of course really natural, without any synthetic drug.
Yoga for Insomnia
There are various yogaasanas effective in the treatment of insomnia, shirasana, sarvangasana, paschimottanasana, uttanasan, viparitakarni and shavasana. Controlled breathing is very effective in inducing sleep.
Herbal Treatment for Insomnia
Extract about 30 grams of the milk from the poppy seeds (Papaver somniferum) and mix this milk with an adequate amount of sugar. Take this once in a day especially after dinner, when preparing to sleep. This remedy is my favorite and the most effective home remedies for insomnia for me.
Take four nutmegs and grind it to a fine powder and take this powder every night before going to sleep. This one is very effective home remedies for insomnia.
Valerian wallichi has mild relaxant properties and is useful in sleep disorders. The fresh juice of the valerian should be taken in a teaspoonful quantity before going to sleep. This is also very effective home remedy for insomnia.
Take some root of the pippali (Piper longum) plant and grind to fine powder. Take one teaspoonful of this powder every night by adding some jaggery. Take this powder with a glassful of warm milk. This is very effective Natural remedy for insomnia.
Exercise for Insomnia
Regular exercise deepens sleep in young adults with or without sleep disorders and enhances the quantity and quality of sleep as the exercise stimulates the elimination of lactic acid from the body.
Recent studies show that even the low-to-moderate Tai Chi and certain yoga practices enhance sleep quality in older persons and cancer patients with sleep problems, respectively. Most experts advise exercising at least three to four hours before bedtime to avoid interference with sleep.Walking, jogging, skipping and swimming are the good exercises. This is a good insomnia treatment.
Relaxation and Meditation
Increased muscle tension and intrusive thoughts can interfere with sleep. Therefore, it is not surprising that techniques aimed at relaxing and quieting the mind (meditation) have been found to be effective treatments for insomnia. It usually takes several weeks before they can sufficiently master them well enough to help ease insomnia. There is a growing body of evidence that supports the value of meditation in treating insomnia. Several studies show that regular meditation practice, either alone or as a part of yoga practice, results in higher blood levels of melatonin, an important regulator of sleep. To overcome the problem of insomnia one should stick to a regular sleeping schedule like going to bed at a fixed time every night and getting up at a fixed time in the morning.
Other Home Remedies for Insomnia
Applications of hot packs, hot fomentations to the spine, and hot footbath before going to bed are the effective measures. This is one of the best insomnia cure. The cold hipbath with feet in hot water at bedtime is the other beneficial water treatment. A cup of milk with honey at bedtime is helpful in inducing sleep. Mash a single ripe banana into a bowl and then put the roasted cumin seeds into it. mix both properly. Take this after dinner. It will induce good sleep and is very good home remedy for insomnia.


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Unprecedented efficiency. Exceptional environmental performance. Breakthrough economics. The new Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner extends the 787 family advantage, allowing airlines to grow routes opened with the 787-8 and 787-9 while delivering the experience passengers prefer. Explore more about the 787-10 Dreamliner below and tune in as we celebrate first delivery with our launch customer, Singapore Airlines.
6,430 nmi (11,910 km)
330 (2-class configuration)
6,802 ft3 (192.6 m3)
224 ft (68.27 m)
55 ft 10 in (17 m)
Around 25% better than the airplanes being replaced
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an all-new, super-efficient family of commercial airplanes that brings big-jet ranges and speed to the middle of the market.
In response to airlines' overwhelming preference, Boeing designed the 787 family with superior efficiency, which allows airlines to profitably open new routes to fly people directly where they'd like to go in exceptional comfort.
Exceptional fuel efficiency: The 787 family uses 20 to 25 percent less fuel on a per passenger basis than the airplanes they replace.
Low maintenance costs: The strong, durable composites that make up the 787 fuselage contribute to a 30 percent reduction in airframe maintenance costs than for previous-generation airplanes.
Mixed-fleet flying: Significant flight-deck commonality between the 787 and 777 benefits airlines that use mixed-fleet flying, scheduling pilots to fly more than one kind of airplane. Pilots who fly the 777 need only five days of training to fly the 787.
Standard airplane: This philosophy minimizes variation while still providing options desired by airlines and leasing companies.
Higher speed: At Mach 0.85, the 787 is as fast as the 777 and 747 and faster than other airplanes of its size. Boeing's flexible twin-aisle offerings allows an airline to have airplane families with the same speed, range and economics in three distinct sizes.
More revenue cargo: The 787 family is an excellent cargo carrier, which is key revenue for most airlines, especially as they open new city pairs.
More flying days: With its advanced, single-barrel composite fuselage and robust design, the 787 needs less scheduled maintenance than previous-generation airplanes, which translates to more flying days and more revenue.
Nonstop routes: The 787 allows airlines to open new long-distance routes profitably, satisfying passengers' expectations for direct flights. To date, operators have opened or announced more than 100 new nonstop routes with the 787 family.
Flexible seating configuration: Operators can configure the 787 interior quickly and in a variety of ways to match their market needs.
Preferred passenger experience: Passengers want to fly nonstop to where they want to go on midsized airplanes, such as the 787, rather than connect through hubs on giant-sized airplanes. In addition, the 787 offers many new passenger-pleasing features that provide unprecedented comfort, convenience and a great flying experience.
From the start, Boeing designed the 787 family with the passenger in mind. Extensive research into what affects comfort led Boeing to many design innovations on the 787 family, including
Large, spacious cabin: The 787's cabin architecture creates a strong sense of spaciousness with its broad, welcoming entryway, large windows and vaulted ceiling. The 787 cabin is wider than that of the airplanes it replaces, so passengers enjoy more personal space, both physically and visually.
Better lighting: Modern, adjustable LED lighting provides more lighting choices to create a relaxing environment.
Largest windows in the sky: With the largest windows of any jet, on the 787 every seat is a window seat: Every person can see to the horizon, for a view like never before. The windows also dim at the touch of a button, allowing passengers to look outside when they wish and still maintain a dimmed cabin when appropriate.
Cleaner, more comfortable air: The 787 combines new filtration, better pressure and more humidity to help passengers feel less dryness and fatigue.
Smoother Ride Technology: Sensors on the 787 sense and dampen turbulence for a more comfortable ride and less motion sickness.
Large overhead bins: There's space for your carry-on near your seat.
Better seating options: The 787 offers the latest in seat comfort and technology.
Smooth Ride
Large, dimmable
More-electric systems
Electric brakes
Electric wing ice protection
Laminar flow nacelles
Low-noise chevrons
Raked wingtips
Low-drag empennage
One-piece barrel
Composite floor beams
Composite cab structure
Leading engine
The 787 is an all-new design with no legacy constraints, and it achieves many firsts in commercial aviation. The 787 makes the best use of available new technologies. Materials, aerodynamics, systems, and engines have been chosen and designed with the overall, integrated design at the forefront. Design choices never optimize one area at the expense of overall performance, economics, maintenance costs, or airplane availability.
The 787 Dreamliner features a state-of-the-art flight deck that balances commonality with the latest enhancements. New technologies are integrated while still maintaining a significant amount of commonality with other Boeing airplanes, particularly the 777. Familiar Boeing controls, displays and procedures all support shorter transition periods to the 787 from other Boeing family members, enabling efficient Mixed Fleet Flying.
The 787 flight deck is furnished with a full suite of navigation and communication radios and avionics. Dual Head-Up Display (HUD), very large flat panel multifunction displays, dual Electronic Flight Bags (EFB), and an electronic check list are provided as standard.
The wide-format displays provide a larger map and enhance access to information about the flight and navigation. Also, the new displays are programmable, which means future advancements can be easily incorporated without having to replace or upgrade the display hardware.
The 787 is a key member of the Boeing wide body family.
Only Boeing offers a modern, optimized and winning airplane in every market. Our products are designed to offer airlines superior value and efficient market coverage.


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I've been chatting with Bob Lewis about the nature of kludges, and he suggests a kludge index. I began thinking about how you might score such an index...
This just seems like common sense to me. But I see people building applications that break pretty much all of these rules all too often. Whatever happened to be liberal in what you accept?
The best thing about Google Calendar has to be it's "Quick Add" feature. Can't be bothered clicking drop-down menus? Then just click Quick Add and type.
You don't realise how good this is until you work out that:
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1600-1700 Flight to Bangkok 28 June 2006
I kept checking because I didn't believe the parser would be that accurate, but Google has nailed it every time. Very impressed!
An insightful and practical guide to decision making from the always-worth-a-read pages of Bob Lewis:
There are five basic decision styles: Authoritarian, consultative, consensus, delegation, and democracy (voting). Democracy is awful for everything except when peers have to decide something and can't come to agreement - ignore it in all other circumstances. When you delegate a decision, the delegatee has to choose one of the five decision styles, so it's recursive. Ignore it too (for the purposes of this discussion - delegation is one of the most important skills a manager can master).
After struggling for hours on end to get nice columnar layouts using only DIVs and CSS, I have a lot of sympathy for this point of view [http://www.netregistry.com.au/news/articles/79/2/Tables---you-can-still-use-them-in-web-design] (link removed as per Netregistry request):
From Crooked Timber, a wonderful caution from sbk about the tendency to overexaggerate one's own importance online:
Be careful, as you (all) argue, not to confuse the urgency of your real concerns about people's moral reasoning with the urgency of your real concerns about other people's violent acts. They are not necessarily the same thing. Have any of you ever talked to anyone with real power over the pressing issues of our day? Would you speak to him or her in the same tone of voice you use for "[insert right/left political epithet] idiots†online? Why or why not? And do you at least see the difference between talking to powerful people and talking to powerless people? Why do the idiots online get the bulk of the intensity and the scorn? If this were a real argument, it probably wouldn't be an argument. You can't go off half-cocked when you've got live bullets.
(from http://www.mysqlfront.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11079
I've been tearing my hair out trying to work out why a MySQL dump won't import to my web host using phpMyAdmin. Error was:
SQL query:
-- Host: localhost Database: mydb
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version 4.1.12a-nt
MySQL said: Documentation
#1065 - Query was empty
I didn't really understand what these statements meant, but now I know that they refer to "conditional" SQL statement, only to be executed if the MySQL database version is equal or greater to that specified. In this case, /*40101 refers to version 4.1.1.


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The market started out great today, opening up nearly 1% on a weaker-than-expected jobs report, but all of those gains have evaporated. Despite a bet that the NFP data will ensure a Fed pause on Tuesday (I still think the odds they raise are higher than the futures markets are implying), stocks feel like they are topping out again here in the high 1200's on the S&P.
Honestly, we really should not be all that surprised that a Fed pause is already priced into equities. I mean, how many times have we had a huge "Fed is Done!" rally in recent weeks? On at least a couple of occasions we saw big triple digits gains on the Dow following dovish Bernanke comments or economic data. The real story isn't what Bernanke does on Tuesday, but rather, what is next for the U.S. economy? The market doesn't like uncertainty.
Without much confidence about what the next catalyst could be to get us back over S&P 1,300 and toward the old highs, stocks likely continue in their 1,225-1,280 trading range. Essentially, we need a lot of things to go right for the rally to gain steam. After the Fed pauses we need inflation to stabilize and GDP to remain in the 2-3% range, avoiding a recession.
Since rising costs are leading to company price hikes as a method of expense pass-through (which causes core inflation rates to rise), we also need commodity prices to stabilize or perhaps drop a bit. A slowing international economy would certainly curtail demand, and therefore allow for cost input prices to come down, but we would be walking a fine line between a global recession and merely more tepid growth. Until we see evidence that most of this scenario could play out, a "soft landing" so-to-speak, I can't get excited about near-term stock market returns.


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North Water Designs is a Vancouver-based company who manufactures a variety of paddling accessories, from throwbags to PFD's to spraydecks. They are providing a spraydeck for Leanne and Karsten's canoe, complete with roll-back hatches for accessing gear, portaging the canoe, and accommodating the dog and kid.
Maptown is a Calgary-based cartography shop, specializing in hard-to-get maps. Their products will not only help us navigate across the country, but through Farley's stories as well.
A small grant from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society will be applied toward the cost of hiring a sailboat to sail down the west coast of Newfoundland, revisiting the settings of The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, Whale for the Killing, and Bay of Spirits along the way.
After supporting the Y2Y Hike and Being Caribou with grants from their Environment Fund, Mountain Equipment Co-op is outfitting Leanne, Karsten and Zev with clothing and equipment for Finding Farley. MEC's kid's clothing designers are especially excited about the arrangement: Zev will be the first two-and-a-half-year-old to put their products through 6 months of steady outdoor use. We hope the bug shirt works and the rainsuit doesn't leak!
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JEALOUSY: Maybe that's too strong a word. Longing? Yes. When a major trade show comes to town, we often wish we could peek inside, to see the new electronics or doodads or fashion choices that'll be coming down the pike. The California Gift Show is one of those industry-only conventions we'd like to stroll around for an hour. After all, the decor and gifts and wrappings and baubles and soaps and everythings that come out of this show soon end up on store shelves from hither to yon. We should also mention talking trends is a big part of the big CGS. In the end, a lot of what happens over a week influences buyer choices for years to come. SO, IN THE END, WE DO SEE MUCH OF EVERYTHING: Just spread out across several stores. It's on from July 13-19 at both the LA Mart and the Los Angeles Convention Center. That is, indeed, a lot of soap.
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I have really enjoyed growing my garden this year. It's not perfect, I still struggle with issues like weather and seasons, neither of which I had much in S. Calif.
Right now I have 9 beautiful heads of lettuce. I decided to make a fresh summer salad for dinner so went out with my pairing knife and selected one of the heads and picked a few green onions. Back inside I filled the sink with cold water to rinse the veggies and BOING! BOING! BOING! Not one but 3 small frogs are now leaping their way over my kitchen counter. One is on the window ledge, another is plastered to the side of my espresso machine. (Now for those wondering, no I do not have a fear of frogs, I do have a problem with them hopping all over my kitchen)
Here's the scene – after my initial shock of having these (btw they are tree frogs) leaping up out of my sink in a silly game of leap frog I realized I had to capture them quickly.
It's probably a lot like having 3 small kids, the minute you focus on one the other two are going to get into something. In this case my dinner preparations. So I grab the one on the window sill, he hops out of my hand and onto the side of cupboard. These guys can move! Finally I wrangle him, being careful not to squish him. But I can't just toss him outside, two reasons.
1 – I have a very large cement patio and that would just be cruel and painful to do to the little guy. They're beneficial critters.
2 – I cannot leave the other 2 alone or I'll never find them.
Solution – grab a coffee mug and place Sherm inside to wait for his buddies. Huh..they were right here…
Nothing is more fun than a great game of hide and seek in the kitchen with your opponents being about an inch long, able to climb walls and hang upside down. Now while I don't have a fear of frogs, I do have a horrible fear of the garbage disposal. I cannot put my hand in there, I can't! And I have this horrible thought that one of them is in here. BOING! While contemplating my impending doom one of the other frogs has decided to make a leap on me as if to say TAG you're it! That's it Ricky you're going in time out with Sherm. Now where is Octavia. Yes it's a female, she's more of a brownish color whereas Sherm and Ricky are a brilliant and bright green.
Oh thank goodness!! She's not in the garbage disposal. She's just hanging out on the cutting board. She, and her two cohorts are now heading back out to the garden. And I shall go disinfect my kitchen.
So remember folks, not only do you want to wash your fruits and veggies before you eat them, you also need to check for critters before you bring them in the house.


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Drunkblogging the Big ObamaCare Speech
4:45PM The first question is: Which cocktail? The answer is always: Vodka martini. The next question is: Which network? CNN means risking an Anderson Cooper sighting. Fox? Bill O'Reilly risk. On the other hand, you usually get Brit Hume on Fox. So Fox it is.
4:51PM One request: Please don't refresh the page more than every two or three minutes. That's as quickly as I can drunkblog one of these events, and the old Amiga 500 we use as a server can barely handle the load when I'm sober. Thanks!
4:53PM Forgive the double post. I swear I'm not (yet) drunk enough to see two of them.
4:55PM Brett Baier? I was hoping for Brit Hume.
4:56PM My sources tell me Fox's Major Garrett is being groomed for Lt Col.
4:57PM Hey, Brit!
4:58PM A 40-45 minute speech for an issue we've been talking about since effing April? Who does this Obama guy think he is? Oh, wait...
5:01PM And away we go...
5:01PM The Speaker wore red.
5:02PM I usually love Michelle Obama's wardrobe, but why did she murder Corky the Clown and steal his tie?
5:05PM The Republicans have chosen a Birther to deliver the rebuttal? Was Charlie Manson not available?
5:07PM Ah, there's Kathleen Sebelius. I think she's there to tag elderly Congresspersons for possible counseling and termination.
5:09PM Al Franken, during his career as a comic, was never known for his George Hamilton impersonation. Somebody needs to remind his colorist of that.
5:10PM We could be in for a long evening. My wife took one look at me and ordered a very large pizza.
5:12PM And here comes the President, running on Clinton Standard Time. Bush's speeches were almost uniformly dreadful, but he was at least punctual.
5:13PM Judging by his reception, President Obama remains very popular with people who have no intention of voting for his proposals.
5:15PM I can't look at Michelle without hearing,
"Caroline laughs and
It's raining all day
She loves to be one of the girls..."
5:16PM You know why he's getting such a good reception? These Congressional clowns will applaud ANYone getting them away from those dreadful Town Hells.
5:17PM OK, kids -- brace yourselves for... content.
5:17PM Wait... he's turning this into a State of the Union address?
5:18PM "I will not let up until those Americans who seek jobs can find them." Translation: "The floggings will continue until morale improves."
5:19PM "We have pulled this economy back from the brink." Translation: "Inflation, taxes, and regulations haven't kicked in yet."
5:19PM "We came here to build a future." Oh... crap.
5:20PM If this is the last president to speak about health care, I'll give up drinking. Shall we meet in 2012 under a table?
5:21PM "The breaking point." Translation: We need to act NOW to pass a bill no one understands that won't go into effect until after I'm safely reelected.
5:22PM "We are the only wealthy nation..." without national health care. Dude. "We're not France" ain't gonna sell in the heartland, mmmkay?
5:23PM Heartbreaking insurance stories! And government will make bureaucracy better!
5:25PM Health care is putting an "unsustainable burden" on taxpayers. Solution: More! The solution is always more, isn't it? Let's try less for a while, and see how that works. Wow, I *must* be drunk.
5:26PM There are those who say we should be like Canada. Others say we should kill all the Jews. I say, take the middle route, and send some Jews to Canada!
5:27PM Telltale sign: Obama is positioning himself against his own Congress. I'm not so drunk I didn't spot that.
5:29PM Yes, he really is running against Congress -- both "extremes," to be sure, as that's his M.O. But still, he's trying to go over their heads and to the people. That might have worked six months ago, but his own negatives might now be too high.
5:30PM "Nothing in this plan will REQUIRE you or your employer to change what you have." Require is one of those weasel words.
5:31PM I think my cable company shouldn't be allowed to drop my favorite channels ever. I want a law.
5:32PM Correction: Preventative care does save lives, but it costs more money, not less. Nothing costs less than a dead patient. Don't forget that. Ever.
5:33PM These exchanges sound great. But how about we just repeal the cartel laws which prevent consumers from shopping nation-wide?
5:35PM John McCain has the look of a man who can't wait to twist the knife. Or, rather, he would, if he couldn't be bought off so cheaply. He'll flip, given half a chance.
5:35PM "...unless everybody does their part..." My part consists of... the people under my roof. Now you go do your goddamn party. Mmmkay?
5:38PM "Misinformation." Well, that's a step up. Pelosi called protestors Nazis. The President thinks of you as mere liars.
5:39PM Eff me. The president is LECTURING people he needs to win over. How's that gonna go over, you think?
5:40PM He's trying to sell the Government Option as a "choice" still. But of course. The over/under on the Government Option crowding out everything else is about five years.
5:41PM "I have no interest in putting insurance companies out of business." True, dat. But like GM and the banks, he has complete interest in making them wards of the state.
5:42PM Profit = "Overhead"!!!
5:43PM Kids, profit is how we get MORE of stuff we like. This socialist President thinks it's "overhead."
5:44PM He's still running against Congress. That alone should tell you where A) Congress is, and B) Obama is.
Neither place is good.
5:45PM Who defines affordable? Who defines choice?
5:46PM "Finally..." If he means it, I'll drink to it.
5:47PM Obama promises not to "add a dime" to the deficit. I'm not supposed to drop the f-bomb here, but your about to get fucked on your taxes. I apologize.
5:47PM Obama, however, won't apologize.
5:48PM Sorry if tonight's drunkblog is crankier than usual. But I drank too much last night, and woke up in an ice-filled bathtub minus my tonsils and my feet.
5:50PM Seniors have to pay for their own drugs? Outrageous! Why, if I'd have known that kind of thing was going on, I'd have stopped shoplifting all those steaks.
5:51PM Oh. My. Effing. God. Yes, I do think the president is promising us that in the future, all plans will have costs that are "below average." But he won't get half the kicking around Gerald Ford did.
5:53PM And... BOOM! Obama is desperate enough, he's willing to throw the Republicans a bone on malpractice reform. Now, here's where we find out if Republicans have principles or can be bought off cheaply. The safe money will go on the latter.
5:54PM The rich will pay! And so will those nasty foreigners! Except the Chinese! We'll be paying them for years and years!
5:55PM Government will save you money. In other news, Eliot Spitzer is spending one-tenth of one-percent fewer tax dollars on hookers.
5:56PM Give me my plan or people will DIE!
5:57PM Obama just praised the town hall protestors. You know, the Nazi liars? And now Ted Kennedy wants you to pass this bill that doesn't exist yet, because he was quite popular and very large and had hardly killed anyone at all, personally, since 1969. Also, great hair for a dude who was like 107, right?
5:58PM Self-reliance! Love of freedom! Skepticism of government! And socialized medicine! Sing it with me now: One of these things is not like the other...
5:59PM Mr. President, A suggestion -- don't use "Kennedy" and "drive" in the same sentence. Just sayin'.
6:00PM I will lend my own helping hand, by performing breast exams for only $10, and to women who can afford it least, in the 19-23 year-old age bracket. I'm doing my part! To your parts!
6:03PM Kick the can? Mr President, your own plan kicks the can until after your reelection. Put up something you might possibly pay for your own damn self.
6:03PM "We can do great things." Yes! We! Can! If you'd just, in the words of another patriot, "Get the hell out of my way!"
6:06PM For the record, I'm disgusted. And I need another drink. If I'm feeling up to it, I'll post a little Oh I'm So Wise summary later tonight at VodkaPundit.com. Or possibly not. But here's the short version: Obama will see a brief spike in the polls, but not enough. He delivered a divisive speech to a divided nation -- and that's no way to spur a divided Congress into action.


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There has been a noticeable recent trend in the music industry for pale, sallow English boys boasting hoarse, soulful voices, with John Newman and Sam Smith leading the way in the hunt for the male answer to Amy Winehouse and Adele.
But there is something about blonde, angelically handsome 21-year-old Hertfordshire singer-songwriter George Ezra that strikes a genuinely authentic note. It may be hard to credit that big, bassy sound booming out of his young chest but there is no disputing the passion in his performances, rooted in a still-unfashionable strain of folk and blues music that owes more to Big Bill Broonzy than the usual reheated Otis Redding soul-stylings.
Playing guitar, bass and keyboards, Ezra delivers structurally simple songs with enormous gusto, suggesting an uncynical, joyous release in the very act of making music. Producer Cameron Blackwood was once a member of the touring line up of Alabama 3 and has clearly learnt a few tricks about updating old grooves.
Ezra's fluid vocals shift up the register to a trembling falsetto, adding a very contemporary sensitivity to a musical cocktail that wouldn't have sounded out of place in a Greenwich folk club in the Sixties. From the giddy skiffle of Cassy O' to the sweet strum of Barcelona and rocky grit of Did You Hear the Rain?, Ezra's debut has charm to spare.


text: Tough times ahead for the economy, one important housing market A leading broker economist is sounding the alarm about economic turmoil – at home and abroad. "The point to understand is that this is just the beginning," Verico's economist, Michael Campbell wrote in his latest economic report, in reference to the factors that led to Brexit. "My prediction is that 2017 to 2020 will make the economic and financial volatility we've witnessed over the last five years look like a warm-up act." A sobering viewpoint, to be sure. And closer to home, there isn't much more reason for optimism, according to Campbell. "Another important consequence of Brexit is that the uncertainty in Europe is a negative for global economic growth, which is already slow. That in turn will diminish demand for oil, which will bring prices lower unless there's a major supply disruption," Campbell wrote in the report, which was obtained by MortgageBrokerNews.ca. "Translation – the recovery in Alberta will be slow, which will be negative for employment growth and the real estate recovery in that province." Campbell also addressed issues closer to broker hearts, including affordability problems plaguing several housing markets. He argues that, despite public outcry for it, the government has already done a great deal to rein in housing prices. That includes record-low interest rates, and property purchase taxes. "The problem for government is that there is no tooth fairy and there is no magic policy bullet. Think about the superficiality of the political talk. "End speculation" - but what's the definition?" Cambell wrote. "'Increase density' - but what about the change to the character of the neighbourhood? Penalize foreign owners – but do you support the same measures for Canadians who own real estate in the U.S.?" The point, according to Campbell, is that there is no easy solution for policymakers. "Can the municipal, provincial and federal governments do anything that will make a significant difference? I don't see it," Campbell wrote. "If government got rid of suspected dirty money, absentee foreign owners, taxed empty homes and discouraged speculation it won't solve the affordability problem and at best slow the rate of price rise at the upper end." Campbell ended on a cautionary note – made all-the-more obvious by entitling the last section of the report "Caution." "When it comes to the impact of China's internal debt problems there is a fine line as to whether it's positive or negative for our market," Campbell wrote. "So far, problems in China have encouraged money to flow out of the country in search of safety but that could turn quickly if there is a credit crisis." SHARE


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How an Automated External Defibrillator can save lives
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I'm sorry.
Up front, I'm sorry.
This blog was supposed to be the meandering thoughts that run through my head on the nature of the universe, a true home for my philosophizing, a place where my friends and family had a chance to gaze at my psyche from afar without being forced to engage me in the long, meticulous, and ultimately exhausting conversation that my introverted nature would drag them into.
Well, I have readers beyond my friends and family, and I have friends and family who don't even know (or don't seem to know) that this thing exists. Thanks, followers. I hope my post-intellectual-age philosophy is amusing, thought-provoking, distracting…whatever you're looking for. If you're looking for more hipster cats, well, no promises.
I did not want this to be the blog of an aspiring writer, documenting each step of the journey. Most of that stuff is best kept on the inside.
But, here I am. Writing another post on writing. I can't help it. My brain itches and this is the only way to scratch it.
Writing is an art form.
Yes, there are plenty of books that people scoff at and would not call art, but the truth is, writing is a form of art.
In jazz, the listener is told to listen to the notes that aren't there as much as the notes that are. This isn't just a load of crap. Music (no matter what kind) cannot be enjoyed unless people have a sense of expectation as to what is about to come next (Daniel Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music). The idea is that jazz musicians toy with listeners' sense of expectation. When you believe one note will be played, it isn't. Or, better yet, there is harmony and adjustment, giving the listener a different tone, pace, richness, exposing a new aspect of the piece merely by not living up to expectation.
There is a balance in this impromptu styling and the sense of expectation. Stevie Wonder's Superstition features a steady but unpredictable hi hat in the drum line (again, Daniel Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music). This unpredictability makes you feel like you're listening to a new song every time. Maybe not that far, but it still feels fresh, and, no better word, groovy, with every listen.
It's the same with writing.
When reading, you need to read the words that aren't there as much as the words that are. Writing isn't a simple delivery system, from the page to your brain without that space between. It requires subtlety, subtext, and implication.
Every story has been told. From a young age, we are inundated with story. We absorb the master plots. We know what to expect in everything we read. Writers must learn to write the right words and leave some words unsaid. Embrace subtlety. Let it flow. You can surprise your reader by advancing a trope, then switching it up. You can calm your reader by sinking into something familiar and slow.
When you do it right, people will want to read your book over and over, steady put unpredictable; fresh and smooth; nuanced.
Get out there and write.


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7 things you never knew about the smooth snake
Discover fascinating facts about the UK's rarest snake species, the smooth snake.
A smooth snake in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany © Hans Lang / Getty
1. Not an adder
Although smooth snakes have a similar appearance to the adder, they can be distinguished by a rounder head and slender build, and a less well-formed pattern on its back.
The main body colour tends to be brown or grey, with a paler belly.
2. Rarity
A smooth snake seen in heathland in Hampshire © Ian West / Getty
This species of snake is confined to sandy heaths in Dorset, Hampshire and Surrey, although it is widely distributed in Europe. There are reintroduced populations in Devon and West Sussex.
The main caused of its population decrease is the loss of suitable habitat, usually due to heathland being lost to development or conifer plantations.
3. What's in a name?
A smooth snake curled up on heathland © Sandra Standbridge / Getty
Smooth snakes are so called because their scales are smooth. In comparison, the scales of grass snakes and adders have a ridge down the middle.
4. Defensive mechanisms
If threatened, a smooth snake can secrete a foul smelling substance. This is excreted from its anal glands.
5. Diet
Smooth smakes primarily predate on other small reptiles, as well as small mammals and chicks.
They lack venom but use a powerful strike on their prey and wrap their body around it. Prey is swallowed whilst still alive.
6. Eat or be eaten
Whilst smooth snakes are predators, they are also eaten by other species, including birds of prey, foxes and weasels.
7. Live birth
A juvenile smooth snake © Sandra Standbridge / Getty
Female smooth snakes are ovoviviparous, which means that they incubate their eggs internally and give birth to live young.
This normally consists of between four and 15 young snakes, which have similar patternings to adults and thus look like miniature adults.
Read more amazing facts about wildlife in BBC Wildlife Magazine


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How long will it take for me to be seen?
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- Anytime you are concerned symptoms may indicate a problem which, if not treated promptly, could lead to death or disability
- Anytime pain is unbearable
- Symptoms are not always clear, even for conditions such as heart attack and stroke. When in doubt, come to the Emergency Department.


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ExtJS 4: A Textfield, a Grid, and Some Keystroke Interception
Recently, I've been working pretty furiously on the rewrite of Gloss, my first serious ExtJS application. I wrote Gloss in ExtJS 3, but wanted to give it a much-needed overhaul now that ExtJS 4 is out.
One of the more useful features of Gloss (well, I think it is at least) is the search functionality. In my rework, I've been trying to solidify some of the keyboard navigation to allow for a more fluid experience.
Ideally, I want the flow to go something like this:
- Enter a search, with as-you-type results
- When the full list of results is returned, be able to TAB from search text field to first row in the list of results
- Be able to TAB or DOWN ARROW to the next result in the list
- When focused on the desired result, be able to strike ENTER or SPACE to load the record
I'll start with the last two: navigating inside the grid panel itself.
Grid Navigation
With ExtJS 4, this is stupid easy. In my Search controller, I have some listeners set up. They're keyed in on the "itemkeydown" event of the grid.
Ext.define("Gloss.controller.Search", { extend: "Ext.app.Controller", init: function() { this.control({ "searchgrid *": { itemkeydown: function(grid,rec,item,idx,e,opts) { if(e.keyCode==13 || e.keyCode==32) { ... do some stuff } if(e.keyCode==9) { e.preventDefault(); var total = rec.store.getCount(); if(idx+1 < total) { grid.select(idx+1); } } } } }); } });
So nothing too crazy here. If someone strikes the ENTER or SPACE keys while on a focused row (keyCode 13/32, respectively), I do whatever's necessary to load the record. If, however, the key struck is a TAB (keyCode 9), I take a little bit different track.
First, I call preventDefault on the event object passed from the key action. While I'll get into this a bit later, this will *prevent* the TAB action from moving focus to some other element on the page (like a text field or something like that).
Next, I get the total count of my store from the record reference passed in the event. If the current index of the row (plus 1) is less than the total, I invoke the select method of the grid class, telling it to move its internal reference to the next record.
FYI, the DOWN ARROW functionality works OOTB…no need to capture the keyboard event.
From Text to Grid Row
Ok, so much for items 3 and 4. Now let's go back to 1 and (more importantly) 2: TAB-ing from the textfield to the first result in the grid panel.
To be honest, I spent a lot more time on this than I wanted to. Part of it was a bit of thick-headedness on my part.
Here was my first attempt:
Ext.define("Gloss.controller.Search", { extend: "Ext.app.Controller", init: function() { this.control({ "searchform textfield": { keydown: function(fld,e,opts) { if(e.keyCode==9) { var grid = this.getSearchGrid(); if(grid.store.getCount() > 0) { grid.getView().focusRow(0); grid.getSelectionModel().select(0); } } }, } }); } });
So quick overview: On the textfield in my "searchform" view, I apply an event listener for the "keydown" event. If it's a TAB (9), I dig into the grid's view and selection objects, calling the focusRow() and select() methods. In short, these mimic what happens when you click a row in the grid with your mouse…
The problem with this approach is with the focusRow() method. Sure enough, it works. If you press the TAB in the text field, it *appears* that the first row in the grid results gets focus. Heck, a special "focused" class is even applied to the row's containing HTML element.
But it doesn't really work, at least not in a full-on "focus" sense. Leaving out any stoppage or default-action-prevention of the TAB event, the browser focus will NOT be placed on the first row of the grid results. Rather, it will move onto something else.
Why is this? Well, it's simple. There's only so many HTML elements that actually take focus by default. Form inputs do. Link tags do. Table rows, by default, do not. So even though there is the appearance of focus, there's no actually representation within the browser of the table row of the first grid row receiving focus.
The work-around? Well, it feels kind of kludgy, but it works. While most HTML elements don't necessarily receive focus automatically, they *can* receive focus if they have a tabIndex specified. So my solution was pretty simple.
First, I set a generous tabIndex of 1000 on my search form field. Next, I applied a tabIndex of 1001 to the root element of the gridpanel, using the afterrender event:
"searchgrid": { afterrender: function(grid,opts) { grid.view.getEl().set({tabindex:1001}) } }...
With this in place, the normal flow of striking the TAB key will occur: e.g., focus will move from the currently focused element to that with the next highest tabIndex.
And because I already have a listener applied to the grid for the itemkeydown event, this event handler will pick up the navigation-management bits now that focus is within the grid panel.
Some Final Thoughts
As I wrapped this up, I thought about possibly tapping into the grid panel's templating system in order to simply apply a consecutive tabIndex to each rendered row. This would avoid having to to capture and override keyboard events when navigating the grid. However, I finally decided to stick with what I've outlined above, simply because there are a number of other things that I want to do after I've trapped these events…it seems cleaner to manage these fully in the controller, so that's what I'll do.
That said, I hardly advocate that this is best way to accomplish this functionality. There may be something very obvious that I am missing that would alleviate the work around altogether. If you have ideas, or questions, please leave a comment!
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Fri, 9 February 2007
February 9, 2007 . Volume 03, Number 06.
This week we have a full agenda, beginning with some comments on the on-going Six-Party Talks being held in Bejing on North Korea's nuclear efforts.
We then consider the significance of the results of Sunday's elections for the LDP and Opposition parties, and Prime Minister Abe's approval ratings.
Finally we consider the outcome of the Opposition parties' decision to boycott Lower House debate on the supplementary budget bill. In protest of Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa's offensive remark during a speech the week before. The boycott is over, but the results have longer-term significance for Japan's parliament, I think.We close, of course, with an inspiring clip of bluegrass, this one sure to brighten your day
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Companies not investing enough on cyber-security, government documents say
OTTAWA — Canadian companies may be skimping on IT security, leaving themselves and Canadians vulnerable to attacks from hackers, newly released records suggest.
The documents from Public Safety Canada show that the scale of cyber-security threats "is significant" and many companies don't invest the required money or time in good IT security.
How to solve this problem is something the Harper government has been investigating, according to records released to Postmedia News under access to information laws. They included a meeting with a cyber-security expert at an American conservative think-tank who has argued against any form of government intervention in IT security.
The government's cyber-security strategy doesn't legislate IT security standards for businesses or citizens. In October, the Conservative senator who chairs the Senate defence committee told a security conference the government wasn't interested in legislating cyber-security standards.
Some experts argue the answer is to have the government legislate minimum standards for IT security in Canada. Others argue the government should take the lead and raise its expectations for IT security, forcing hardware and software developers to raise their security on the products they put to market.
"I don't know if it's an avenue the government will go down," said John Adams, the former chief of Canada's cyber spy agency, and now a fellow at Queen's University.
"It's a heck of a challenge and the companies would go bonkers if you went after them."
"The scale of the problem is significant. The cost of maintaining a highly secure network is high for each company, and they may not be willing to make that investment. … With many thousands of companies in the same situation."
– Secret briefing paper for Public Safety Canada, July 2012
A discussion paper prepared for Public Safety Canada and released internally in July 2012 suggests there are "resource limitations" and "software dependencies" that affect how the private sector in Canada protects itself from "sophisticated cyber intrusions." The paper is titled: "Defending Canadian private sector from sophisticated cyber intrusions."
"The current situation is that there are an increasing number of new software vulnerabilities that can be exploited to gain access to companies' networks," reads the heavily redacted paper, labelled secret.
"The scale of the problem is significant. The cost of maintaining a highly secure network is high for each company, and they may not be willing to make that investment … With many thousands of companies in the same situation."
The cases of malicious code and software affecting businesses and government alike is growing. From April to June of 2012, the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre saw a 45-per-cent increase in the number of reported IT security breaches, according to an unclassified report the centre gave to the government and clients after the second quarter of the year.
CCIRC found there was a "clear trend" in "malicious individuals" targeting Canadians "by impersonating financial institutions through phishing campaigns." There was also an increase in cases of ZeuS malware, which steals banking information by logging keystrokes and taking screen captures of an infected computer.
"Most experts argued that given the nature of the threat, minimal standards in cyber security should be legislated."
– Briefing note for chief of defence staff, July 2012
Government was not immune to malicious code being embedded into websites. CCIRC issued almost 2,000 "victim notifications" to alert businesses, schools and government agencies that they were "hosting malicious content, website forgeries, and personal information."
At an event on cyber-security organized by the American Enterprise Institute July 9, 2012, which a Department of National Defence employee attended, one expert argued that 80 per cent of attacks could be prevented by better "cyber hygiene," according to a briefing note prepared for the chief of defence staff.
"Most experts argued that given the nature of the threat, minimal standards in cyber security should be legislated," the briefing note reads.
Adams said legislation could focus on forcing users to be more vigilant online, but would likely be better targeted at software developers to ensure products aren't rushed to market before security flaws are patched. Legislating standards for average Canadians would be helpful in preventing hackers from using one unsecured device to breach others, he said. But regulating that would be difficult with the number of devices already in use and require vast resources, Adams said.
Enforcing regulations could also be difficult if provinces decide to assert their powers over companies falling under their jurisdiction, setting up a territorial battle with federal legislators, said Bill Munson, vice-president of policy at the Information Technology Association of Canada. Munson said companies would likely take the government to court, setting up years of legal wrangling over any new law.
Rather than legislate, the government should lead by example and raise its standards for IT security purchases to force companies to raise standards for their own products, he said.
"Government has enormous clout … They don't have to pass a law, but can say we will not buy your stuff if you don't have it really high (standards)," Munson said. "I don't get the sense the governments are demanding the same high standards as other places do."
Tom Kellermann, a vice-president at cyber-security firm Trend Micro, said legislation should be considered to force companies to focus on the threats they face. Some industries, such as banks and health care, invest in IT security, he said, but the government should have the ability to force companies to secure their networks, likening it to a fire code for cyberspace.
In the United States, a bipartisan group of industry and national security experts recommended last year the government impose security regulations for critical infrastructure and public-private partnership agreements. Kellermann said approving similar regulations north of the border would make companies more transparent about breaches that affect customers and force a shift in how the private sector views IT security.
"You change the dynamics when you modernize existing regulations, when you modernize penalties," he said.
According to IT security firm Symantec, almost 8.3 million Canadians online were victims of cyber-crime in the past year. Overall, the cost of cyber-crime in Canada is estimated at $1.4 billion, according to the firm's annual report on cyber-crime released in September.