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Boori Eton Expandable™ Cot bed - Mocha
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The Eton Expandable™ perfectly bridges the gap between the traditional and the modern. Gracefully minimal in style, it will fit seamlessly into your design schemes. When the time is right, it can also expand into your child's first single bed.Features 💠Converts from cot bed to toddler bed suitable from birth to around 5 years
💠Toddler guard panel included
💠Converts to a full size single bed (Requires Expandable™Conversion kit sold separately)
💠2 base heights to allow easy access to baby
💠Packed flat for easy home assembly
💠Made from solid Yellow Poplar and Australian Araucaria
💠Please be aware that the Mocha colour can vary slightly from that pictured depending on the timbers used for each individual piece. This is because Mocha is designed to create a more rustic look, and every piece is completely unique.
💠Suitable mattress size 132x70cm
💠Height: 85cm | Width: 81cm | Length: 142cm
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This product is made to order and delivered with a 12 week lead time.
After your furniture is packed you will receive a call from our dedicated courier service, you can then pick whichever date you want to receive your parcels.
Returns are easy, if in the super rare event your order arrives damaged or incomplete please contact us and we will look for the best and quickest resolution for you to get the product picked up, swapped or refunded.
Please note our approximate delivery time for 'made to order' products is currently running at 12 weeks from the date we receive your order. Lead times can vary during periods of increased demand or stock shortages.
We currently offer the following home delivery services :
Delivery only
As well as delivering to Mainland UK, we will also deliver to Ireland and The Isle of Man for an additional surcharge of £35. Please note these orders will have a longer lead-time and must be arranged before purchase.
For large furniture items our specialist delivery partner, ArrowXL will deliver to the room of your choice and remove all packaging.
Arrow XL will contact you via SMS to offer you a choice of available delivery dates and to book your delivery. The day before delivery you will receive a SMS with a 4 hour time slot. The day of delivery you will receive a SMS with a 2 hour time slot and you will also receive a call to advise they are on their way. If you have any queries regarding your delivery you can contact Arrow XL via 0333 2120198.
We use Parcelforce for smaller items, which are offered on a 'delivered to your door' basis. You will receive an SMS to advise the date for delivery. If you are not in they will either leave a card, leave it with a neighbour or with your local Post Office.
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Our assembly service includes the delivery and full assembly of our products in the room of your choice and the removal of all packaging. Assembly is additional as we use a third party company.
The charges are £79 for a single item or £149 for 2 or more items. We currently use Arrow XL or Flatpack Express who are a white glove, room of your choice service. We will deliver within 2 weeks after we receive your order. The customer is provided with an estimated time slot of delivery and this can be tracked online as well as Arrow/Flatpack Express calling an hour prior to delivery to confirm. Please contact us prior to ordering to arrange this custom delivery method.
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TMA, Illinois' Premier Full Service Manufacturing Association, has a rich history. Since its founding in 1925, TMA has been dedicated to helping its member companies prosper and grow through education, advocacy, training, employee benefits, human resources assistance and special events.
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Once in a while a client gives you the freedom to exercise some photoshop creativity for their business.
The brief was to create an image that expresses the future choices of students, or a kind of 'sky's the limit' type idea. Being a nerd for surrealist imagery and photography I had some ideas that I quickly sketched down. ..and quickly was the operative word as the image had to be conceptualised, shot and delivered within a week.
Too easy! I love a challenge and thrive under pressure.
Without going into the details, though message me if you are keen on specifics, I scouted some buildings in the city that had an appropriate reflected surface. I found the Grenfell Centre to be perfect. The building was photographed with my Fuji XT1.
After a number of photographs and some odd looks from people enjoying their lunch at the cafe on the ground floor of the Grenfell Centre, I settled on the image to the left. I wanted to feature the sun slightly appearing on the left of the building to balance the image as a result of an absence of another building.
You'll notice that the Grenfell Centre has no reflections of the surrounding buildings in this image. I purchased the birds from istockphoto and used clouds from my own personal collection to create more depth in the image. I initially placed a sun flare in the background, but later removed it as the image was looking a little busy.
Next was the task of photographing the students that would feature walking up the building.
I set up some studio lights in the school auditorium which had a white wall and used a white seamless for the floor. I blew out the wall in the background to pure white and used a couple of lights to create a similar daylight effect that I saw when photographing the Grenfell Centre.
After we had the shots, it was a matter of selecting them out from the white background, cleaning up the images and layering them in photoshop over the edited building. I must admit that the hardest part was creating the reflection of the students in the building to create a slightly distorted look to make it more realistic. Each reflected image of a student was composited from three individual student images, all slightly modified within the buildings windows. I'm sure there is a quick way of doing this that I'll work out for the next time.
Once all of the elements were placed together I created a layer of noise over the entire image and then reduced it back to give it a unified look.
I must admit that I was a little worried about how well the image from the Fuji XT1 was going to look. I had never at this point used a mirrorless crop camera for this type of work before and was initially anxious about it's quality for the final image. Having now seen the printed image over a meter in length, it's impossible to see which part of the image was photographed with a full frame camera or a crop camera; the final image looks sharp with no discernible image degradation.
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In healthcare, rudeness can have consequences more far-reaching than mere annoyance or distaste. A recent article in HealthLeaders Media cited two studies that suggest bad behavior by clinical staff actually hurts patient care.
One, published in the September 2015 issue of Pediatrics, found that NICU teams exposed to an expert's rude comments during a training exercise had lower diagnostic and procedural performance scores than teams not exposed to rudeness.
Another, published in the same journal this past January, found that when NICU teams experienced rude comments from a patient's mother during a training exercise, diagnostic parameters, intervention parameters and team processes central to patient care — such as workload sharing, helping, and communication — suffered.
"Rudeness has robust, deleterious effects on the performance of medical teams," researchers concluded. "Moreover, exposure to rudeness debilitated the very collaborative mechanisms recognized as essential for patient care and safety."
Yet rudeness happens. Some say, it's happening more than ever.
So what's a hospital to do?
Take a page from the playbook of the Vanderbilt Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy, perhaps. As HealthLeaders Media reports, the center takes the professionalism and healthy work environment of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, and its other partners throughout the United States seriously. Consequently, chronic rudeness is not tolerated.
"There has to be a shared vision and values that aren't just around being the best," said center director William O. Cooper, MD, MPH. "It's very important to have aspirational goals, but also that we will treat our colleagues with respect."
Otherwise, patient and staff well-being are on the line.
"If you have a nursing professional who has encountered a surgeon who, every time she brings up the surgical time-out, the surgeon says, 'No, we're on the same page; let's just proceed,' she may not bring it up the next time," said Dr. Cooper.
And that could have disastrous consequences.
When a professional is reported for rude or disruptive behavior by a staff member or patient, the alleged offender is notified of the complaint. If a pattern of poor professionalism develops, a trained peer messenger speaks privately with the offender in a nonjudgmental way.
According to the article, the "pep talk" goes like this: "I'm here as your peer today. I'm part of our professionalism committee. I just wanted to let you know that for some reason, your practice appears to be associated with more patient complaints than your colleagues."
At that point, 80% of the offenders self-correct, Dr. Cooper said.
If the boorish behavior continues, however, the peer messenger is replaced with a higher-up. More likely than not, simply having someone in authority address the issue is enough for holdouts to reform their ways.
Throughout the process, the tone remains unthreatening and objective.
"By sharing information with them in a nonjudgmental way, you can really turn things around for them," Dr. Cooper told HealthLeaders Media. Because while they may not even realize it, their rude behavior could set them up for malpractice or even harassment lawsuits.
"The ripple effects for that individual," Dr. Cooper continued, "and their coworkers and their patients are really phenomenal."
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Someone said that "In people, in culture, in art, in history, in cuisine Belgium is a masterpiece." Hereunder a number of interesting and not very well known facts about Belgium and its inhabitants past and present.
Did you know that: The Belgian Capital Brussels holds annually the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Contest one of the greatest musical contests in the world.
Created in 1951 it brings world fame to its laureates. Yehudi Menuhin and Vladimir Ashkenazi are amongst its famous laureates. The first Taiwanese ever to win the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition was born in Tainan and was educated and perfected his musical training in the Kuang-Ren middle school in Panchiao founded more than 40 years ago by Belgian Scheut fathers.
In Belgium music education is very popular and supported by the state. The annual registration cost in a municipal music academy cost no more than three private violins lesson in Taiwan. This is why Belgium produced so many musicians such as Cesar Franck, Peter Benoit, Henri Vieuxtemps, Eugene Ysaye, and that every Belgian village has its own band. Many Taiwanese students study music in Belgium and have brilliant international careers afterwards.
The first time the Flanders Region of Belgium was mentioned in the history of Taiwan was in the letters exchanged in 1622 between Gonzales Portales the Spanish governor of the Fortress Santissima Trinidad in Tamsui and the attacking Dutch governor Julius Tradenius, asking the Spanish to surrender. The former argued that his great experience in the Battle of Flanders against the rebelling Flemisch had allowed gaining great experience and his honor would not allow him to surrender.
The cannons, exhibited in the Chi-Mei museum in Tainan, were built for emperor Kang-Hsi by a Belgian astronomer and Jesuit Ferdinand Verbiest. His Chinese name was Nan Huai-ren. As a reputed astronomer he was close to the emperor of China who named him adviser to court for his knowledge of astronomy. He also built the first celestial globe a copy of which is still visible today. Missionary and astronomer, he was born in Belgium in 1623. He died in Peking in 1688.
In 1668 the young emperor Kang Hsi commissioned him to calculate in advance the length of the shadow of a given height at noon of a certain day as well as the absolute and relative positions of the sun and the planets on a given date and finally the lunar eclipse. He passed the test and Verbiest was immediately placed at the head of the Bureau of Mathematics.
Kang-Hsi made used the Belgian Jesuit talent's Belgian Jesuit in various other ways, such as for the transportation of enormous blocks of stone, the construction of an aqueduct, and the casting of canons of which 132 were cast. Two of these are to been seen in Tainan.
In his memory a Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation was set up in Belgium to study the past and historical activities of Belgian cultural and missionary activities in China and Taiwan while continuing to conduct intellectual and scholarly exchanges between Europe and the Chinese world. The institute celebrated on November 15 its 20th anniversary and is today directed by Jerome Heyndrickx, a well reputed Belgian expert on past and present day China.
It is no secret that Belgian racing pigeons are winning the majority of pigeon races in Taiwan where more than five million pigeons are participating regularly to pigeon races. Every fancier, no matter where, knows that Belgium is the cradle of pigeon racing and that Belgian pigeons are the most wanted in the world for over 100 years In Belgium and the surrounding countries pigeon racing is also immensely popular. There are 96,000 pigeon fanciers in Belgium. There is even a world pigeon Center in the small village of Hoesselt in northern Belgium set up in March 2000 with the help of Taiwanese investors.


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New Solutions from UIMC will Help the Netherlands to Fight Floods
The corporation has completed supplying goods for the Dutch company Miramap and commissioning one more lot of SHF radiometers of the new generation; the devices designated for controlling the condition of dikes and preventing floods. That upgraded equipment can monitor dikes proactively and obtain the data on hidden soil washing away and on flooding threats that cannot be detected visually.
"Floods have been the traditional issue for the Netherlands, because considerable part of the country is below the sea level, and it regularly faces the threat of flooding," told the Director of the Innovative Development of United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation Alexander Kalinin. "The government has a great interest in timely monitoring the waterworks, including dikes. Solutions developed by our concern Vega in the area of SHF radiometry allow solving the problem. Dutch researchers mount radiometers on UAVs and 4-wheelrs, what helps them investigate remote areas and dikes, where other machines cannot get."
Formerly, the Netherlands got radiometers of the previous generation, Ranet-21, with the help of which the Dutch company made its studies in the course of the last seven years. The new devices, Ranet-21M, are four times smaller and lighter, what reduces power consumption and increases the time of autonomous operation. Smaller size allows joining several radiometers in one device, and getting data from several pipelines during one trip. After processing, the data is aligned with the map and stored for future comparisons of the condition of a dike and adjacent territories in different years.
By the request of the foreign partners, Russian experts made turn-key tuning of the equipment and tested it at real facilities in the Netherlands. Then the equipment was adapted to special software of the foreign partners.
"The Netherlands has already got several generations of radiometers, and, in the opinion of the customer, they showed all advantages possible in terms of information value, reliability, and convenience in use," told the Head of a department from Concern Vega, Chief Designer of radiometers Ranet Igor Sidorov. "We've negotiated with the Dutch partner, and the issue of possible patenting of the results of the joint research in Russia and the EU was under discussion."
SHF radiometers measure the intensity of radio and heat radiation, which gives data, for example, on the moisture content of the soil. They have a wide range of functions: measurement of the ground water level, monitoring of the hydrological situation along pipelines, detection of underground leaks in dikes and under motorways. Radiometers can also be used for monitoring fire hazards in forests, detecting oil spills in the water, evaluating the surface biomass of plants, and mapping ice shields.


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Almost 200 MAN Lion's City buses operating in Trondheim
Trondheim in Norway now has189 MAN Lion's City buses operating, powered by biogas or biodiesel. The deliveries include 105 cityRead more
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A third bus contract in the Polish capital city Warsaw has increased Arriva's presence in the country's bus market. ArrivaRead more
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Thirty seven Iveco Crossway gas-powered coaches have been ordered by Beltrame Group, and will be delivered to Dracénie Regional CouncilRead more
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WordPress has a nice feature. The Post Revisions.
If you need it it's very usefull but if you don't it's a waste of space.
Every time you save a post or it does an auto-save WordPress writes in your data base.
In my case I don't need that Post Revisions so I will disable it.
Open your config.php file in your root installation folder.
Paste this line:
My real case: with this blog, after writing about 10 posts WordPress saved into my data base about 150 revisions.
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Where did Love come from? Why does this even matter? I'll deal with these issues together, and start off by way of analogy. In order to understand heart attacks, the first thing we do is use all the medicine we have sitting on the shelf and observe the outcomes. In order to prevent a heart attack, we have to learn everything about it: where does it come from, what makes it happen, and what will make it stay away. The same is true for those things that we wish to have, like Love. We must use what we have, learn as much as we can about where it came from, and why it has hung around for so many generations.
First, a note for those who may think Love has been around as long as the Rocky Mountains. It hasn't. Love is entirely human, as we are using it here. There are other animals that form lifelong attachments, called 'pair-bonding' by ethologists, which means that similar behavior has appeared in other species. However, we are only interested in people. It's likely that ancient humans, like our simian cousins, normally lived in tribes controlled by an alpha male. Love didn't exist a million years ago, and it may not have existed even a hundred thousand years ago. At some point in time it came to be; Love was created, by man. Since there is nothing in our species that says we have to pair-bond, why is Love around at all? It's around because one of our early ancestors successfully tried to pair-bond. The odds were against living happily ever after were never good, as they are even today. Then again, living happily ever after didn't take as long since most humans barely lived to middle-age.
Imagine the following crazy and possibly romantic scenario. You are in a band of hunter-gatherers living on the fringe of the African veldt. You've been born with the pair-bond urge, and your body has matured to the point where your hormones are screaming in your ears. You're ready. Here comes the romantic part. You're still part of your birth tribe because you're not old enough to threaten the alpha male or are too much of a drag on your mother. You're gathering some berries away from the group far enough so that you can hear them in the distance, but not so far that the tigers can take you by surprise. Suddenly you come across another young human, not of your tribe, and of the opposite sex. Bang! go your hormones, and Thump! goes your heart. You have just had the very first 'Love at first sight' experience. He sees she, she sees he, and off they go to start their own tribe.
The implications are tremendous. Because these two have committed to each other, they now have a very different relationship than any of the other competing clans. They present a more stable home for their children. They understand each other better than anyone else, and can tend to each other's needs more efficiently, saving time and making their time together more pleasing. Finally, they are able to start thinking about other things rather than taking care of their hormones; things like housing, higher education for the kids, and civic planning.
How important was this event, this 'Love at first sight?' It was big enough such that those humans who practiced it had a big advantage over other humans. And even today it is big enough that almost all of our cultures revere and promote the idea of life pair-bonding in some way. It's big enough so that most of our entertainment is focused on the same event – that one special moment when two souls meet and overcome obstacles to begin a new life together.


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Band of Horses - "Infinite Arms", Album Review
Even without the nature-filled videos accompanying the first two singles, the album's "starry night" cover art, and even the album stream's web page and its accompanying pictures for each song, Band of Horses' Infinite Arms does a remarkable job of creating imagery with its music. Everything on the album, from the rollicking "Compliments" to the softer, harmonized "Blue Beard," begs to be played on a road trip, with the windows down, on a never-ending open trail.
This exceptional quality of lead singer Ben Bridwell and company has endless benefits, but it leaves the album with some shortcomings. While Infinite Arms is gorgeous throughout, it doesn't contain too many songs that grip you, rarely demanding your attention the way stunners like "Is There A Ghost" and "Ode To LRC" did on 2007's Cease To Begin. Still, like that incredible album, the music on Arms is perfect for swaying, for montages on television shows, and for car rides. For better or for worse, Band of Horses have now crafted 12 tracks that don't individually stand out, and instead blend into one cohesive album that conveys a distinctive feeling and mood as a whole.
"Factory" sets the tone perfectly, with pretty strings that accurately match Arms' "sunny day road trip" vibe. Gorgeous but a little long and droning toward the end, "Factory" also exemplifies why this album is sometimes better when played in the background. Still, every time the strings hit, they hit powerfully.
The album's other slower jams are mostly great, with just one dud. Call me a bad critic, but the dull "Infinite Arms" resulted in some wandering around the internet, and a loss of interest in the music. "Blue Beard," however, is a phenomenal tune that is loaded with the emotion that Band of Horses so frequently, successfully deliver. The song is powered by Bridwell's typically awesome vocals: "The Midwestern sky," he sings, "is gray and cold/the sun never shines, but that's alright." "Blue Beard" also shines due to its clashing cymbals and "la-la-la-ooo" backdrop. More summer nights than Rocky Mountain day trip, it's an album standout.
"On My Way Back Home" features a building, almost Spanish salsa beat that drives the song and accompanies some calm instrumentation. Bridwell hits some remarkable notes on this one, both pitch-wise and lyrics-wise: "Pissing myself away, in the form of song." While the song's closing build amounts to nothing special and feels like a missed opportunity, the track as a whole has that distinctive slow/fast, sad/happy tone that is now a Band of Horses trademark.
Straightforward rockers like "Compliments," "Laredo," and "Northwest Apartment" are just that: straightforward and rocking. Each is solid, and different, keeping afloat the pace of the album and easily re-playable. "Dilly" should be on that list of straightforward rockers, but instead it falls flat, feeling a bit commercial and out of place.
I've already mentioned the album's "slow jams," but those are far different from true, raw acoustic ballads, which one would thing should be right down Bridwell's alley. He gives it a shot with "Evening Kitchen," and it works beautifully, almost eerily sounding like a duet with a female vocalist (is it?). This touch is even more effective with the lyrics, which describe a realistic conflict between lovers. "You wasted my time/it's true, it's true...I called off my plans/I counted on you, on you."
It's songs like "Kitchen," tracks that expand the dimensions of Bridwell and friends that demonstrate a clear development in sound for the band. "Older," which wouldn't sound out of place on an Avett Brothers album, is essentially a country song. Its chorus might be Arms' catchiest, and its closing moments without instrumentation are among the album's finest.
Most exemplifying this expansion in Band of Horses' sound (not that their massive Cease to Begin tracks left much room for expansion) is its 6-minute closer. "Neighbor" immediately brings Fleet Foxes to mind with it's quiet, multiple-part harmony. It stays small and quiet for 1 minute and 50 seconds, when a soulful piano chord jumps in and magnificently front and center. I'm always a sucker for piano, and on this track it makes me wish Bridwell utilized it more often. For a while, the song almost sounds like an acoustic epilogue to "Compliments," and that's a pretty perfect way to end an album. But it unexpectedly explodes at 3 and a half minutes in, reminiscent of Titus Andronicus' "A Pot In Which To Piss" and its epic breakdown. "Neighbor" is truly a how-to for album closers.
It is strange, however, that the song ends with a gradual, never-ending fadeout instead of a definitive closing line or note. But who am I to tell this band what to do? After three straight great albums, Band of Horses can do whatever they want now. Because even though Infinite Arms occasionally feels like Cease To Begin lite, it still contains all of the fundamental qualities of the band we know and love, and will merit just as many plays.
80 — Excellent. One of best offerings of the year, but may only appeal to fans of that genre. [Rating Scale]
Stream Infinite Armsat bandofhorses.com.
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Located in North Charleston, South Carolina, Life Care Center of Charleston has easy access to all the Charleston metropolitan area has to offer. Our facility is less than a mile from Trident Medical Center, making us a perfect choice for short-term rehabilitation, long-term care or post-operative recovery.
Focusing on inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation with 24-hour skilled nursing care, Life Care Center of Charleston's on-site physician offers faster, more convenient patient and resident care. Our in-house rehabilitation and nursing team creates individualized care plans, taking each resident's and patient's needs and goals into account. In 2013, our facility received a deficiency-free state survey.
Stop by today for a free tour and discover why Life Care Center of Charleston is a premier nursing home in the area.
We're excited to return for a fourth year as a Walk to End Alzheimer's National Team. We're motivated to continue working together in 2019, with the plan of building upon last year's success.
Battling Alzheimer's disease has been a priority of Life Care Centers of America since the opening of our first facility in 1970. It is our prayer that we can provide an environment that allows our patients with Alzheimer's and other types of dementia to be encouraged, appreciated and loved. Our hope is for a cure. A cure that can save the memories and dreams of millions of Americans who live with the disease. Like the Alzheimer's Association, we also dream of a world without Alzheimer's.
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Sure, everyone loves a long weekend. But sometimes you've got to go beyond the city limits to fully relax and recharge. Thankfully there are loads of options near Austin that offer a great escape for all ages. Here are five of our favorite day trip spots within two hours of downtown.
For family friendly fun, it's hard to beat Marble Falls, located about 80 miles from Austin. Begin at Sweet Berry Farm, which is open for all of Memorial Day weekend, including Monday. You can pick your own strawberries and also take part in a variety of fun activities such as sand art, barrel train rides and a bounce pillow. You'll also discover sweet treats including fresh strawberry lemonade and homemade strawberry smoothies. While you're in Marble Falls, grab lunch and a slice of pie at Blue Bonnet Cafe. Ready for a drink? If you go on Friday or Saturday, don't miss Save the World Brewing, where all profits go to charity. They've got lots of fun games to keep the kids busy, too.
Start your day with a hike up the massive granite dome that is Enchanted Rock — just be sure to arrive to the park arrive early, as it can get extremely crowded. Next, grab brunch at the Old German Bakery and Restaurant, home to a number of standout dishes including German pancakes, Opa's sausage and eggs and country fried steak. Once you're fully nourished, spend your afternoon touring the wineries that put Fredericksburg on the map, such as 4.0 Cellars, Baron's Creek and Kuhlman Cellars.
From the famous orange delicacies at Round Rock Donuts to the fanfare filling the Dell Diamond, there are so many reasons to visit Round Rock, a short 30-minute drive up Interstate 35 from downtown Austin. Another great reason? The already excellent Rock'N River Family Aquatic Center, conveniently located right next to Dell Diamond, reopens this weekend after a multi-million dollar renovation that doubled its size.
Whether you sip a float at the Dr Pepper Museum, check out the Waco Mammoth National Monument, say hello to the elephants at Cameron Park Zoo or pay your respects to Chip and Joanna Gaines at Magnolia Market at the Silos, there's something for everyone in Waco. Located 100 miles from Austin, you'll want to get an early start if you're doing it as a day trip.
The laid-back vibe combined with spectacular Hill Country sunsets make Dripping Springs, located 35 minutes from Austin, a fantastic place to spend an afternoon. Alcohol aficionados can take their pick between 15 area breweries, wineries and distilleries including Deep Eddy Vodka, Twisted X Brewing Co. and Treaty Oak Distilling Co. The food scene isn't bad, either, featuring standouts like Crepe Crazy, Drippin Donuts and Stanley's Farmhouse Pizza. Nearby Hamilton Pool is open again, too, although you'll need to make a reservation in advance.


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When it comes to making pasta, the secret's in the sauce ... and the salt.
Pasta aficionado and New York City-based chef Albert Di Meglio told TODAY Food that the two most common mistakes he sees home cooks make when cooking pasta are when they miscalculate how much salt they need (adding way too much or much too little) and not being able achieve the right sauce consistency.
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Di Meglio, who is the head chef of Barano (an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn, New York), created a menu inspired by his Italian nonna and the small island off the coast of Sicily where she grew up. His pasta plates feature classic Italian flavors in dishes like potato gnocchi and linguine with clams, but he also experiments with produce that is not native to Italy, like delicata squash.
And when he's not in the restaurant, Di Meglio loves cooking for his kids at home. Despite being professionally trained, the chef admits to the occasional kitchen screw-up — but he's worked out several foolproof ways to perfect pasta.
After mastering how to portion out pasta, there are simple measures any cook may take when cooking boxed or fresh pasta to make it perfectly every time.
Here are four common cooking mistakes, partnered with Di Meglio's expert advice on how to fix them.
1. Never salting the pasta water — or adding too much salt
Ever wonder how much salt is enough? Or do you ever pour in a few heaping spoonfuls only to realize once dinner is on the table that the pasta basically tastes almost too salty to eat? To take full flavor control, Di Meglio researched the composition of seawater and used that as guidance for how to salt pasta water. However, the type of salt of being used may greatly affect the final taste.
For every gallon of water (or 4 quarts, which is about what you need for a full box of pasta), cooks should add in 2-3 tablespoons of kosher salt.
It's also important to note that the salt should be added to the water before the pasta is added, not after, or you will not achieve the desired results.
2. Adding extra salt to the water before cooking fresh pasta
Making pasta at home is not as hard as it looks. Whether you're jumping into homespun Italian fare for the first time or are a practiced pro, Di Meglio swears by a slightly unconventional technique for ensuring that his fresh pasta tastes great every time.
"Don't salt the water when you make fresh pasta. Instead, salt the dough," Di Meglio told TODAY.
Salting the dough instead of the water allows cooks to maintain better flavor control of the final product.
3. Pouring sauce over cooked pasta and serving it right away
Di Meglio finds that many people think it's totally OK to simply cook their pasta and sauce separately, and then combine them right before serving. This is a big mistake in his eyes because it doesn't allow the pasta to absorb any flavors of the sauce — whether you've made a creamy Alfredo or decadent, meaty bolognese.
Think of the pasta and the sauce as ingredients for a final dish that must be cooked together before serving. Di Meglio recommends cooking dried pasta in its sauce for about six to seven minutes, while fresh pasta takes about three to four minutes to absorb the sauce's flavors.
4. Throwing out the pasta water
When you're done cooking that pasta water, the leftover water shouldn't be discarded right away. It's salty and starchy which means it can add loads of flavor to any sauce and help it come to right the consistency as it cooks with the pasta.
To prevent winding up with that familiar watery puddle at the bottom of your otherwise beautiful dish of penne with marinara sauce, reserve the starchy water after you've drained the actual pasta. During the final cooking stages, Di Meglio adds it in liberally to his sauces and told TODAY that the starch in the water actually helps the sauce bind better and becomes a wonderful thickening agent when used correctly.
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What Are the Causes of Rapid Eye Movement?
Eyes normally move only in response to stimuli or direct commands from the brain. If severe, rapid involuntary eye movements may interfere with vision. Rapid eye movement, or REM, can occur as a natural process or as a symptom of disease. It may indicate a serious brain disorder or occur naturally in sleep. Nystagmus -- one type of REM that can appear as shaking, jittering, side to side or up and down movements -- is a symptom of disease 23.
REM Sleep
One of five sleep stages and characteristically the most active stage physically is REM sleep. Dreaming occurs in the REM stage. Rapid eye movements and muscle twitching are accompanied by an increase in heart rate and breathing rate. Some muscles, on the other hand, become paralyzed. The average person goes through five sleep cycles each night, with REM sleep lengthening during each cycle. People enter REM stage faster and stay there longer as they age, Healthcommunities.com reports.
Congenital Nystagmus
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Acquired Nystagmus
Acquired nystagmus often occurs as a consequence of neurological or brain disorders, Windsor explains 23. Vision loss in adults doesn't normally cause nystagmus as it does in infants and children, he adds 23. The movements of acquired nystagmus can cause vertigo and dizziness, a condition called oscillopsia 23. Head injuries, brain tumors, stroke and conditions such as multiple sclerosis may cause acquired nystagmus 23. Inner ear problems such as Meniere's disease may also cause nystagmus 23. The movements of acquired nystagmus often include slow eye movement to one side followed by rapid movement back 23.
Medication-related Nystagmus
Anti-seizure medications such as Dilantin and Phenobarbital may cause nystagmus and oscillopsia 23. Vertical nystagmus, an up and down movement of the eyes, may be described as a rolling vision sensation, Windsor reports 23.
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Sausage & Potato Bake
If you are a reader of Today's Parent magazine, you may recognize this recipe. It's one of the 'Dinner's in the Oven' recipes from the current issue (April 2010). I was really excited about this because I am living in a city now where I can easily find turkey sausage (traditional pork sausage does not agree with me at all) so I knew I could adapt the sausage and be able to eat it. Here's the recipe...then read on to see what happened.
1 tsp veg oil
1 lb raw Italian-style sausages (I subbed turkey sausage here)
1 3/4 cups low-sodium chicken broth
1/2 jar (about 200 ml) alfredo pasta sauce
1 tsp dried parsley
2 lb waxy-potatoes, washed (I really don't know what waxy potatoes are, I just used white potatoes)
1 small onion, peeled
Preheat oven to 375*. Heat oil in a deep 12 inch ovenproof frying pan (medium heat). Lightly brown sausages (6 minutes) - set sausages aside onto a plate, drain excess grease from pan. Add broth, alfredo sauce and parseley to pan. Whisk to blend. Bring to a simmer, remove from heat and set aside. Slice potatoes & onions thinly. Spread evenly in pan, nestling into broth mixture. Transfer to oven, bake for 40 minutes, add sausage, bake for 20 more minutes (check sausages are cooked through). Let stand 5 minutes before serving.
*I did all as asked and my recipe turned out nothing like the picture. The potatoes were still crunchy and the broth was really thin, not at all creamy so here's how I saved it. I took the sausages off and set them aside on a plate. I then melted 1/4 cup margarine in a cooking pot, added 1/4 cup flour and blended to a paste, I then drained off the liquid broth mixture from the potatoes and added to the cooking pot. I whisked it all together and brought to a boil. This thickened everything up nicely. I poured it back over the potatoes, turned the oven heat up to 350* and baked it all for another half hour. It worked and was pretty yummy. I think if I were to make this again, I would add a flour mixture to begin with to be thicker to start. I would also up the cooking time to let the potatoes cook really well. The flavor was nice.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Pumpkin Cookies Help
This was a recipe that I found on Recipezaar.com. They were tasty, but came out more like a welsh cake than a cookie. So I'm still on the search of Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies. If you have a recipe I'd love to try it :o)
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 cup oats
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1/2 cup margarine
* 3/4 cup brown sugar
* 1/2 cup granulated sugar
* 1 whole egg, slightly beaten
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 1 cup pumpkin
* 1 cup chocolate chips
Combine flour, oats, baking soda, and cinnamon, set aside. Cream margarine, gradually adding sugars; beat till light and fluffy; add egg and vanilla, mix well. Add pumpkin to wet ingredients. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, mix. Add chocolate chips, mix well. On cookie sheets, drop tbsp full of dough. Bake at 350F for 10- 15 minutes.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
The Great Pumpkin
This yummy bread comes from Jean Pare's Company's Coming series. It's in the Muffins and More book. Company's Coming is a Canadian Cookbook series. I have 4 or 5 of the books and each recipe I try always turns out well.
4 oz softened cream cheese
1/4 cup softened butter or margarine
1 1/4 cups suagar
2 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (I didn't add these)
Heat oven to 350*. Combine cream cheese, butter & sugar in mixing bowl. Cream together well. Beat in eggs one at a time until blended. Mix in pumpkin.
In another bowl combine the remaining ingredients. Stir until thoroughly mixed. Pour all at once over batter. Stir until just moistened. Spoon into a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan. Bake for 60-70 minutes (until an inserted toothpick comes out clean). Cool 10 minutes in pan. Remove to rack to finish cooling.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
A Tale of 3 Avocados
We bought a 3 pack of avocados in our shop. With the 1st we made smaller guacamole. The 2nd we put into a salad. The 3rd I credit my husband with. He created a really yummy dip.
1 Avocado
a dollop of Renee's Cesar dressing
a good shake of Cajun spice
Mash the avocado and mix in the rest. Enjoy with tortilla chips.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Jeremy's Cars Cake
While I may be taking it easy cooking full force right now, there was no way that I was going to buy a birthday cake for my son's 3rd birthday. I used my wacky cake recipe (which I always use for my kids birthday cakes - it always turns out). The Cars characters came out of a pack of toys I fluked out to find. It was tricky to find a pack that had McQueen, Mater and Doc altogether. The road is lined with Reese's Pieces (my snack habit right now, Jeremy loves them too). An easy way to make a cute cake.
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On February 2, 2017, the federal judge administering the Settlement Agreement in the Medicare "Improvement Standard" case (Jimmo v. Burwell) ordered the Secretary of Health & Human Services to carry out a Corrective Action Plan to remedy the department's noncompliance with the settlement. In August 2016, Chief Judge Christina Reiss of the District of Vermont, held that the HHS Secretary had not accurately implemented the Jimmo Settlement's required Educational Campaign. The Judge ruled that the Secretary failed to explain that a consideration of the need for skilled care, not the potential for improvement, should govern Medicare coverage determinations—for skilled nursing facility, home health, and outpatient therapy. The judge ruled that the corrective action plan will include a new CMS web page dedicated to Jimmo, a published corrective statement disavowing the improvement standard, a posting of frequently asked questions, and new training for contractors making coverage decisions. The ruling does not mention in-patient rehabilitation.
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Hoover's Forgotten Manifesto
Eighty years ago this week, Herbert Hoover published a book of political philosophy entitled The Challenge to Liberty. Although little remembered today, it deserves scrutiny, especially by those interested in the history and theory of classical liberalism in its American context.
When President Hoover left the White House in 1933, he and his wife returned to Palo Alto, California to live. At first he maintained a public silence about the new chief executive and his shimmering New Deal. He did not wish, by any premature, partisan outburst, to jeopardize or appear to jeopardize economic recovery during a national emergency. At any rate he doubted that comments of his would have an effect in the current public atmosphere, poisoned as he considered it to be by the incessant "smearing" of his record by the opposition. He hoped also that, as New Deal measures failed (which he expected them to do), the American people would learn from disillusioning experience and return to their traditional values.
Herbert Hoover's Righteous Crusade Against the New Deal: A Conversation with George Nash
Herbert Hoover's legacy is perhaps forever linked with the failure of the American economy under his presidency after the stock market crash of 1929 and his ensuing defeat by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the election of 1932. Further adding to his difficulties is the charge that he was progressive-lite in his policies before and after the Great Depression. The proper foundation, it follows, for advocates of a renewed conservative focus is Calvin Coolidge, a President who cut budgets and taxes. This discussion with Hoover scholar George Nash begs to differ. Nash, who previously appeared on Liberty Law Talk to discuss the…
Crusading Against Collectivism: A Lost Memoir by Herbert Hoover is Published
In 1964 Herbert Hoover died at the age of ninety. He had lived a phenomenally productive life, including more than half a century in one form or another of public service. It was a record that in sheer scope and duration may be without parallel in American history.
His life had begun in humble circumstances in 1874 in a little Iowa farming community, as the son of the village blacksmith. Orphaned before he was ten, Hoover managed to enter Stanford University when it opened its doors in 1891. Four years later he graduated with a degree in geology and a determination to become a mining engineer.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Fosselman's : Cooling Ourselves OffPosted by Kat at 11:21 PM
I was amazed to see any place in LA to have over 200 reviews and still have 4 1/2 stars. So for Honeybee and I's first adventure together, I had to take her here since it seems to be so well-received. After a nice long dinner of hot pot, why not go somewhere to cool off! ^_^ Fosselman's was actually pretty close to the hot pot place. I swear we bring good fortune to wherever we go. When we first arrived there wasn't a line, but soon after we arrived there was a massive amount of people trailing in. At first we were checking out the cases on what ice cream looks good, but I couldn't find some of the ice creams recommended by other people. Then I looked up at the chart and saw that not everything is displayed, so be sure to look at the chart for the full menu!
Tofu got Pistachio and Pomegranate Chip. Honeybee got a scoop of Pomegranate Chip. The Pistachio was lacking in flavor, I prefer the one that B&J or Häagen-Dazs has. All in all it was a nice place to get an after dinner snack or even a mid-day cool down. The texture of their ice cream was very nice and smooth. I just wished they had more unique flavors. The fruit flavored ice cream were not for me, but the normal flavors like Dulce de Leche & English Toffee were very tasty. I am so glad I randomly chose my flavors based on instinct. The prices are very reasonable and it's worth trying. If they were closer, I would go back to try other flavors.
Okay here is a side note, after we departed from Honeybee... Tofu and I were stopped by a cop. This shows how weird the LAPD is! Tofu really needed to go to the bathroom so we pulled into a Wendy's to see if they were open so that he can go to the bathroom. A cop pulled up right behind us and stopped. We were wondering what was happening! He approached us gruffly and asked for license & registration... Tofu asked if something wrong and the officer shushed him immediately. I was sitting there in a panic! Then he said that his sticker was out of date and asked if he had it. LUCKILY Tofu had it in his car or who knows what the cop would have done. He treated us so rudely! That cop was on a power trip or his wife just left him, which I would say NO WONDER, because he already radioed in the plates. WTF! He never even flashed a light to pull us over and suddenly it's like we are criminals. This just fueled Tofu's HATRED for LA, and I can't really blame him. The LAPD really lack any protocol and competence! >_<#
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Labels: dessert, Ice cream, Los Angeles, Monterey Park
5 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Oh my goodness!!! I feel so bad that you were stopped by a rude cop! I've had expired plates before and would have NEVER expected that it would draw such negative attention from the cops. Sheesh! Well, let's take Tofu to more good places so that he could just have good memories of LA :)
- August 9, 2008 at 2:10 AM
- Kat said...
Hey Wow I just noticed you are up late! Go you! I like nocturnal people! ^_^ I shun those that sleep so early lol. Yes the cop was crazy and weird! I was scared at first because Tofu didn't do anything wrong and no lights were flashed. It was very creepy at night.
Unfortunately Tofu REFUSES to come back up LA again before he leaves. The most I can probably get out of him is to Garden Grove or Santa Ana.. that's about it... he is being SUPER lazy these days =P
Did you see my Honeybee dedication? It's kind of small, you might not see the words... but if you look for your Pomegranate Chip cone you should see the lil bee I drew for you ^_- it was very hard to do with paint and a lame mouse lol
- August 9, 2008 at 5:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
The honeybee you drew is soooo cute!!! Thanks!!! I don't blame Tofu for not wanting to come up to LA, plus maybe he doesn't LOVE food as much as us. I would totally drive down to OC for some good food. Oh yes, I'm nocturnal, I have to FORCE myself to go to bed early Mon-Wed since I need the energy, but Thurs & Friday are great days to stay up super late! But sometimes I have to go to bed so my daughter would go to bed early too....sometimes I "pretend" and get up later and mill around and watch TV...hee hee...but sometimes I wanna "pretend" but sleep through the night.
- August 9, 2008 at 6:29 PM
- Kat said...
I am glad you like the little bee ^_^
Yah, Tofu likes food but does NOT love it like we do! ^_- D@rn him for having an awesome metabolism! It's not fair when guys have it! lol We could put it to such better use!
You are welcome down to OC any time to join us on a foodie adventure! Maybe next weekend? Tofu is having a going away party Sunday, you are welcome to come down Sat or Sun. ^_^
I know what you mean about FORCE to sleep. I didn't sleep at all last night and I have been out since 10AM today and got back around 1AM. Yet, I am still up at this unholy time. I feel another migraine will be coming on if I keep being sleep deprived... but oh well! I will live! ^_^
- August 10, 2008 at 4:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
We can totally put the fast metabolism to good use like having many foodie adventures! I totally want to come down to OC one of these days but these 2 coming weekends look packed. Oh! My husband and daughter are going up to northern CA to visit family without me from Aug. 26-31, so if I don't go up (Bumblebee will totally object though) then we can totally hang out!!! I'll let you know.
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Historic Snapshot JFK Mary Ann Moorman
The Ochelli Effect 10-26-2017 Mary Ann Moorman Krahmer and Carmine Savastano
Standing on Elm Street November 22 1963 in Dallas Texas across the road from the now infamous grassy knoll A House Wife with an instant camera in hand captures a moment in history. The woman then known as Mary Moorman describes that day and how she came to memorialize the assassination of our 35th President despite being more interested in getting a better view of the first lady and not really having an interest in politics in general. Chuck speaks with Mary in a first time interview for him. We also get to hear what Mart believed she witnessed standing 10-12 feet away from the head shot heard around the world , and how a Polaroid photo ended up being seen by nearly everyone on the planet within hours of the assassination. what is today often refered to as "The Moorman Photograph" is seen in nearly any and every visual presentation on the JFK assassination. Mary will be speaking at the JFK Lancer Conference this year and stated this may be her last time to venture into Dallas for things. http://jfklancer.com/Dallas2017/2017welcome.html#speakers
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Second hour , Carmine Savastano stops in to talk about the current Files realeas or lack there of , and they new connections other historic events and figures he has discovered recently.
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John Spira – Chicago Johnny Is Missing: Help Find Him!
MISSING since Friday, February 23, 2007, 7:00 pm. from West Chicago, Illinois.
John Michael Spira, 45 years old, 5'8″, 165 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. Resident of St. Charles, Illinois. Last seen wearing blue jeans, black turtleneck sweater, black shoes, olive green aviator jacket.
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B-ON - Memory usage control & sequences start-upSpecification number: ESR001 More details
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| This specification focuses on devices with non-volatile and volatile memories (eeprom, flash, ram, ... ). At the application level, it focuses on applications that have some sort of initialization phases before entering into a mission phase that exists until the device is shut down or rebooted. This specification allows to fully control memory usage and start-up sequences on devices with limited memory resources:
- Controlling the sequence of initialization in a deterministic way,
- Defining persistent immutable read-only objects that may be placed into non-volatile memory areas, and do not require copies to be done in RAM to be manipulated: they are alive from system's startup.
- Defining immortal read-write objects.
This specification serves as a very robust foundation for implementing embedded Java software.
MICROUI - User Interface for embedded Java systemsSpecification number: ESR002 More details
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| This specification aims at providing the minimal cornerstone for quick construction of advanced, portable and user-friendly applications for a wide and heterogeneous range of devices with just-what-is-needed resources. This specification serves as a very robust foundation for implementing complex widget and/or windowing systems. Typical devices have some form of display, some input sensors, and potentially some sound rendering capabilities. This specification spans a potentially wide set of devices.
This specification takes its roots from established patterns such as MVC and MVP. It allows anyone to use it with minimal learning cost: it is a straightforward framework to design with. The main asset of this specification is probably its flexibility to fit customer needs at minimal cost: rapid design of HMIs without jeopardizing the Bill Of Material of the device.
This specification is multi display ready and multi touch ready. Other main features are:
- Models, Listeners, Events, Event generators, Event handling, Pumps, Thread safe
- Screens, Display, Displayable, View, CompositeView, Alphanumeric Display, LEDs, Audio Tones
- 2D rendering, Image transformation, Tranparency, Flying Image, Fonts
- Command, Button, Keyboard, Pointer, Keypad, State
A device built on this specification must have the following minimum characteristics:
- Display: optional (several displays are permitted); size: any, type: graphic or alpha-numeric, depth: 1-bit or more, pixel aspect ratio: approximately 1:1, alpha numeric: at least one line with one character
- Input: optional; Any user-input mechanisms: buttons, rotary switches, keyboards, multi touch screens, mouse-like-pointers, etc ...
- Output: optional; Any sound mechanisms that provide the ability to play tones: buzzer, PWM, etc ..., Any kind of LEDs.
- Memory: about 30 kilobytes of non-volatile memory if the whole MicroUI implementation is required by an application. For graphical screens, at least one display size of volatile memory for each graphical screen. For a 128x128 monochrome display, this is 2 kilobytes of ram; for a 320x240 16bit color display, this is 150 kilobytes.
HRTJ - Hard Real Time Java Profile SpecificationSpecification number: ESR009 More details
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| This specification targets deterministic Java for safety critical systems. It is designed to make it possible to have Java software certified at the highest possible certification levels, like DO178 level A for example. Therefore HRTJ targets libraries that, due to their sizes, can be certified at a reasonable cost.
This specification is about hard real-time, not soft real-time. A hard real-time system guaranties that expected behaviors will occur at the right time. The HRTJ specification uses deterministic hard real time constraints.
The HRTJ specification relies on the B-ON specification.
MWT - Micro Widget Toolkit for embedded systemsSpecification number: ESR011 More details
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| This specification provides a universal widgets-based framework across all Java Runtime Environment configurations.
MWT is a widget toolkit designed for a wide range of devices, including embedded devices with limited processing power.
MWT defines a graphical environment that avoids portability issues so that an application running on a constrained device can run on any other hardware device such as cellphones-PDA or PC. The aim of this library is to be sufficient to create complex applications with a minimal framework.
MWT defines three distinct roles:
- "Widget Designers" that create new widgets by specifying widget contents and behaviors.
- "Look and Feel Designers" that create consistent sets of rendering systems in order to define the way widgets are displayed on screens.
- "Application Designers" that create the HMI and the functional parts of the application.
The same binary HMI application can run the same way on all devices providing a compliant MWT framework (embedded devices, cellphones, Android-based devices, setopbox-TV, PC, etc...).
SNI-GT - Safe Native Interface for GreenThread ContextSpecification number: ESR012 More details
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| The SNI-GT specification is dedicated to green threads virtual machine architectures. the SNI-GT specification allows to:
- Call a C function from a Java method
- Access Java Immortal arrays (See the B-ON specification to learn more about immortal objects) in a C function
- Manage in C the life cycle of the Java world (aka the vm) from the RTOS
SP - Shielded Plug Profile SpecificationSpecification number: ESR014 More details
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| This specification provides the segregation of the processes which can be written either in C or Java. It allows the certification of each individual part separately.
The data sharing between processes uses the concept of shared memory blocks, with introspection on those blocks. The provided facilities include:
- Notification when the content changes
- Reinitialization of the block, testing the presence of data in the data block
- A mechanism for serialization and de-serialization
The SP specification allows the creation of several data stores. These can be entirely defined statically, or increased during the execution of a program.
Reading and writing in the shared memory are operations with predictable performance characteristics.
KF - Trusted Execution EnvironmentSpecification number: ESR020 More details
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|This specification defines a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) for
software modules, called Features. Each module runs in an isolated
execution environment, which provides a sandbox for module's resources
such as RAM control, CPU bandwidth control, integrity of applications,
code execution control, along with confidentiality of module's assets.
Kernel & Features semantic (KF) allows an application to be split
between multiple modules: (1) the Kernel, (2) zero or more modules. A
module is fully controlled by the Kernel: it can be installed
(dynamically or statically per-installed), started, stopped and
uninstalled at any time independently of the system state. In
particular, a module can always be killed at any time and all its owned
resources (RAM, flash, ...) be removed without compromising the rest of
the system.
This specification serves as one of the most secure foundation for implementing embedded software in MCU/MPU based electronic devices.
EDC - Edje Device ConfigurationSpecification number: ESR021 More details
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| The Edje Device Configuration specification defines the minimal standard runtime environment for embedded devices.
It defines all the default API packages (138 classes/interfaces):
- java.io
- java.lang
- java.lang.annotation
- java.lang.ref
- java.lang.reflect
- java.util
Home-EZ - Language specificationSpecification number: ESR023 More details
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| The HomeEZ language allows one to write scenario for smart markets, such as Smart Home, so its name. It is designed to be simple so that no particular notion about software programming is needed to achieve fluency in the language. Its purpose is to handle and to describe automation applications. It has two levels of descriptive power: the first one deals with straight forward objects (naming, linking, binding actions on events), while the second one provides a more expert semantic with classes that organize manipulated concepts.
HomeEZ is not typed, has an XML based syntax. The concepts provided by HomeEZ are :
-automatic pool of devices management
-construction and manipulation of direct acyclic graphs of devices (name space)
-events triggering (time, asynchronous (hardware) events, ...) and action invocation
-atomic states of devices management and variables manipulation
-scenario instance and scenario classes
-expressions computation model
LWM2M-MQTT - LWM2M over MQTTSpecification number: ESR030 More details
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| The LWM2M protocol is becoming the standard for remotely managing a device through a set of
normalized operations. However, although its semantics can be implemented on any kind of
protocols, the LWM2M specification is written in a way that it is tightly coupled to the CoAP
protocol, compliant with a lossy network such as UDP or SMS transport.
The goal of this specification is to propose an alternative composition of LWM2M semantics with CoAP message format based on MQTT publish/subscribe paradigm on top of a TCP transport.
NET - NetworkingSpecification number: ESR024 More details
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|java.net is a lightweight Java library dedicated to networking application. It supports stream (TCP/IP) and datagram (UDP) socket connection API.
FS - File systemSpecification number: ESR025 More details
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|java.io is a library to access multiple storage devices (in and out data streams) through a simple file system API.
NUM - Numerical processingSpecification number: ESR019 More details
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This specification defines OSGi for embedded devices addressing cost and robustness concerns on various Java Platforms.
The OSGi-ED specification makes minimal assumptions about the software system:
- A Java virtual machine may run on an OS, on an embedded RTOS, or directly on bare metal (The device boots directly in Java).
- A library implementing at least OSGi/EmbeddedDevice-1.0 environment running on top of the Java virtual machine.
The OSGi-ED profile specification introduces high robust semantic:
- A thread-safe framework
- True bundle context from which private classes cannot escape
- No stale reference, introducing a notion of object ownership
- Transactionnal bundles life cycle
- A controlled initialization sequence upon each reboot and restart
- DSDO, DSD1, and DSD2 that characterize how software is loaded into devices.
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ThinkReservations has the ability to fully synchronize your ThinkReservations rooms with Airbnb!
Click here for information about Airbnb and taxes.
Click here to see if Airbnb is collecting any occupancy taxes for you.
► Connect ThinkReservations to Airbnb
► Create Listings in ThinkReservations
► Confirm Listing in Airbnb
► Required Final Tasks
► Important Notes
To Connect ThinkReservations and Airbnb:
You will need to create all Airbnb listings in ThinkReservations. Listings that are not created in ThinkReservations will not be synced or connected automatically. Already have listings in Airbnb? You will need to recreate the listings in ThinkReservations. These new listings you are recreating in ThinkReservations can be connected with an existing listing! See step 2 of "Confirm and Publish your Listing" further below as this is a very important step.
1.) Go to ThinkReservations → Settings → Airbnb
☞ Have more than one ThinkReservations account?
You will need to have an Airbnb account for each ThinkReservations account. When you click the "Connect with Airbnb" button, it will connect the ThinkReservations account you are currently logged into with the Airbnb account you are currently logged into.
2.) The first time you connect with Airbnb in ThinkReservations you will need to click the red Connect with Airbnb button.
3.) You are taken to an Airbnb confirmation page. If you are not logged in, it will ask you to do so.
4.) You will be prompted to confirm your connection/agreement. Check the box and click Allow.
5.) Click the Return to ThinkReservations button. You will notice the page is now different and shows "Airbnb Rooms".
At this point your connection to ThinkReservations is complete. If you have other ThinkReservations accounts that you would like to connect, log into the other ThinkReservations account and the other Airbnb account. Remember you should not connect more than one ThinkReservations account to the same Airbnb account.
To Create a Listing:
You will need to create all Airbnb listings in ThinkReservations. If they already exist on Airbnb, and you would like them to be synced, you need to recreate them in ThinkReservations. Listings that are not created in ThinkReservations will not be synced or connected automatically. Existing new listings can be connected with an existing listing. See step 2 of "Confirm and Publish your Listing" further below.
1.) On the "Airbnb Rooms" page, click the "New Listing" button on the top right.
2.) Fill out each drop down box and checkbox as appropriate.
Airbnb get's some information from the rooms details page of the room/unit that you chose at the top of the form. The information that is collected from the room settings is the number of beds, full baths, and occupancy.
Airbnb now supports Room Types (room categories). Listing names will be automatically created in this format: Room Name - Property Name, but can be changed if you wish!
The Rate Type selected will be the Rate Type that rates, restrictions, and availability will be synchronized from.
► Related: Control OTA's like Airbnb with the Rate Type
If Airbnb is collecting any or all taxes for your property, it is important to create a separate 'Airbnb Rate' rate type with the option to have taxes overridden. Tax override is controlled in the General Information tab of the edit rate type screen. Once overridden, select only taxes that your business will be collecting, if any. Another reason for an Airbnb rate is if you want to give Airbnb different rates or availability. Otherwise, you can choose an existing rate type.
Make sure to create a random coupon code if creating a new Airbnb Rate so this rate type doesn't show to guests in the online booking engine if it is just for Airbnb reservations. It doesn't matter what it is, just so long as it's not something someone would guess. You or your guests will never need to enter this code anywhere.
If you are collecting taxes from the guest, and not Airbnb, we suggest you include a message in your "Listing Description" and "Notes" both.
For example: "Please note that taxes will be due upon arrival. Taxes, which are separate from Airbnb room charges and service fees, are not collected by Airbnb. Taxes that will be due are... " and then you can list the tax names and percentages.
You must provide Airbnb a minimum of 30 days of availability over the next 12 months for each listing, so make sure the rate type you associate has pricing for at least 30 days for each listing.
Using the 30 and 60 day cancellation policies on Airbnb will take your Airbnb commission from 3 to 5%.
► Cancellation policies explained
You must check at least 5 amenities checkboxes.
The following fields are optional but we highly recommend you fill them out, and can be edited later if you wish:
- Check-in time window
- Check-out time
- Booking cutoff time
- Booking cutoff time behavior
- Space
- Access
- Interaction
- Neighborhood
- Transit
- House Rules
- Notes
- Directions
- House Manual
- Cleaning Fee
- Security Deposit - We recommend setting this to the max of 5000
4.) Click the Save button at the bottom of the new listing page. You will then be taken back to the Airbnb Rooms page.
The details can also be edited later, and will automatically be synced with Airbnb once per hour.
NOTE: After the new listing(s) are created, it will take 2-8 days for Airbnb to process and approve.
You will receive an email from Airbnb stating that your listing is ready to publish, but the approval process typically takes much longer (2-8 days). Once it has been approved, you will receive another email stating that your listing status has changed to Approved or not.
Next: Confirm, Merge, and Publish Your Listing:
If you don't have any previous listings (no matter the status or if they were completed) then your ThinkReservations-created listings will publish automatically. If that is the case, you can skip ahead to the next step: Important Final Tasks.
You will receive an email from Airbnb stating that your listing has moved from ready for review to either "approved" or "rejected". If your listing has been rejected, a brief explanation from Airbnb is included in the email. You will also see the status in ThinkReservations.
1.) Once your listing has been approved, log into Airbnb. Click Host → Listings → ThinkReservations Sync
The listing will be labeled In progress even after approved until it has been Published. You will need to Publish the listing after approval. Airbnb will send you an email letting you know when your listings are ready to publish.
2.) Choose either "New Listing" or Connect to an existing listing and then publish your listing.
If you have previously created this listing on Airbnb, then you will want to select to Connect to existing listing and choose the appropriate listing. The old listing and it's content will be replaced with the new one created in ThinkReservations. When you choose to connect to an existing listing, your reviews from the old will carry over. Make sure to sync "Everything".
3.) Click Publish now to publish your listing after you have selected either New Listing or chosen the old listing to merge. They cannot be merged after the fact.
If you opted to merge listings, the new listings will be activated, and the original listing will be deactivated. You will receive an email from Airbnb letting you know the old listing is deactivated. This is so that you don't have two listings for the same room.
Once Published, you will be able to access under ThinkReservations Sync.
4.) Click on ThinkReservations Sync menu item on the left as in the above screenshot, or a blue button on the top right to review your listings.
5.) Navigate back to ThinkReservations for the final steps. At this point the listing is complete!
Most changes you make to your listing will happen in ThinkReservations, not in Airbnb.
Important Final Tasks:
► Make sure that all listings that you would like to connect to ThinkReservations are setup in ThinkReservations.
► Create a new custom payment type called "Airbnb Direct Deposit" or similar. This way, when you receive confirmation of payment from Airbnb you can mark them as paid with this payment method. You will need to manually post the payment onto the reservation in ThinkReservations to update the bill.
► Make sure not charge the guest's credit card for any charges that they have already paid to Airbnb. Train your staff to look at the source of the reservation. The source of a reservation is always right above the email section on the bottom left of the reservation.
► If the guest wants to add nights, rooms, or items, it is best to create a new bill for that to avoid confusion on what is paid from Airbnb, what is still owed from the guest, and tracking those charges and payments later.
Important Notes:
► If you need to contact Airbnb support, use the form at the bottom of this page: https://www.airbnb.com/b/host_pro
► ThinkReservations uses a special version of the itemized bill variable that is used in some email templates. Unless you have removed the itemized bill variable from your confirmation email, Airbnb reservations will receive a confirmation email that does not include any pricing information. Keep in mind that printed bills in ThinkReservations will still contain pricing information that should not be shared with the guest.
Information on the itemized bill variable can be found here.
The guest has already paid the full price of the reservation at the time of booking. The guest also has already received a receipt from Airbnb. The guest pays the "sell rate". The sell rate is the price that you give to Airbnb as programmed in ThinkReservations. The reservation will show the "NET rate". The net rate is the price that the business receives for this reservation. The difference between them is the Airbnb Service Fees. The difference also includes credit card processing fees.
► Use the Reservations by Channel report to view reservations from Airbnb and other channels. This report is found under Reports → Reservations → Reservations by Channel.
► Availability can be controlled with the synced rate type just like Booking.com and Expedia do, by setting or removing the price. No price means it's unavailable.
► Instant Book is automatically enabled for these accounts, and it is not possible to change.
► Additional guest fees are taken care of automatically!
► ThinkReservations sends emails to the property for new, modified, and canceled reservations.
If you have any questions please reach out to support.


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Room Attendant (full-time) found on the savoy hotel
The Fairmont Royal York, ON
About the Job
Primary Location: Canada-Toronto-The Fairmont Royal York
Employee Status: Regular
First impressions are everything! As a Room Attendant with Fairmont Hotels & Resorts you will have the opportunity to create lasting memories for every Guest, ensuring Guest rooms are comfortable, inviting and clean. The luxury our Guests experience will ensure their return.
Reporting to the Director of Housekeeping, responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:
- Consistently offer professional, friendly and engaging service
- Clean all assigned guestrooms including: dusting, making beds, soiled linen removal from rooms, and retrieval of clean linen from linen closets, vacuuming, bathroom cleaning, inside window cleaning, replenish rooms with supplies
- Sign in and out master keys daily
- Maintain proper usage of cleaning supplies and equipment
- Update and record all cleaned rooms
- Return and properly tag all lost and found articles in the Housekeeping Office
- Follow departmental policies and procedures and service standards
- Report necessary maintenance items
- Follow all safety and sanitation policies
- Other duties as assigned
- Previous housekeeping experience an asset
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal and problem solving abilities
- Highly responsible & reliable
- Ability to work cohesively with fellow colleagues as part of a team with minimum supervision
- Ability to focus attention on guest needs, remaining calm and courteous at all times
- Must be able to work weekends, shift work, holidays
Physical Aspects of Position:
Physical aspects of the position include but are not limited to the following:
- Constant standing and walking throughout shift
- Frequent lifting and carrying up to 50 lbs
- Frequent kneeling, pushing, pulling, lifting
- Occasional ascending or descending ladders, stairs and ramps
Visa Requirements: Must already be legally permitted to work in Canada.
APPLY TODAY: Whether you're launching your career or seeking meaningful employment, we invite you to visit http://www.fairmontcareers.com/ to learn more about Fairmont Hotels & Resorts—and the extraordinary opportunities that exist!
At Fairmont Hotels & Resorts we offer our guests the finest hospitality experience in each of our destinations. And we know that, to offer our guests the best, we first need to offer our employees the best. That's why you'll find exceptional work opportunities—throughout North America and the Caribbean, Europe and Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific—as well as industry-leading training, career development, recognition and rewards. Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is a celebrated collection of hotels that includes landmark locations like London's The Savoy, New York's The Plaza, and Shanghai's Fairmont Peace Hotel. Our teams are guided by values of Respect, Integrity, Teamwork and Empowerment; we employ the highest ethical and quality standards, treating all colleagues with fairness and dignity. A community and environmental leader, Fairmont is also regarded for its responsible tourism practices and award-winning Green Partnership program. An exciting future awaits!