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"A choral concert of superlatives"
"The Volksoper Chorus was outstanding, as always"
A FESTIVE VOLKSOPER SEASON OPENER, September 1st, 2019
Lively and tuneful selections from our choral repertoire, from The Magic Flute,
Tales of Hoffmann, The Bat, etc.
Summer 2019, Guest Appearance of the Vienna Volksoper in Savonlinna, Finland with "Die Fledermaus"
From July 30th to August 3rd the Vienna Volksoper appeared for the second time at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finnland and delighted the Finnish audience just as it did in 2015.
"No wonder the Vienna Volksoper is known as the best operetta Theatre of the world. Everything is thoroughly grounded in quality and tradition" - Itä-Savo
"Fledermaus" - Operetta Summer Kufstein
We are proud to participate in "The Bat" by Johann Strauss in the Kufstein Castle From August 2nd -17th, 2019 we enjoyed tremendous acclam with the resounding success of the "Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss in the Kufstein Castle.
Musical Direction: Guido Mancusi, Stage Direction: Karl Absenger
"Outstanding singers, really funny comedians and a fireworks display of melodies. "Die Fledermaus" crowns the operetta summer of the Kufstein Castle.
"...it is by far the best performance we have heard in the Kufstein Castle to date..." Tiroler Tageszeitung, August 4th, 2019
The "Austrian Musical Theatre Award" in the category "Best Chorus" for 2017 has been awarded to us, the Vienna Volksoper Chorus!
"The widely varied Repertoire of the Volksoper Vienna presents a challenge to the chorus, which they master with brilliance and elan. Whether in Opera or in Musical, every note that the singers sing is perfectly placed and their enthusiasm carries over to the audience", was the Jury`s verdict.
With this fantastic piece of good news we start our new season and wish our audience many beautiful and entertaining evenings in our Opera House!
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Ultimate Recovery Smoothie
After a hard ride, this healthy smoothie tastes great and gives my body the recovery nutrients it needs. For best results consume within 30 minutes of completing your workout.
- 2 cups (16 fluid ounces) unsweetened vanilla almond milk
- 1 medium banana, frozen
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon natural peanut butter
- 1 Scoop (30g) vanilla protein powder
- 10-15 drops liquid Stevia (or 1 packet of sweetener)
- 1 cup ice (about 9 cubes)
- Blend all ingredients until smooth. I use and recommend the Blendtec Total Blender. Enjoy!
Yield: 1 serving. Peel banana before freezing (I freeze several at once in a large freezer bag). I also make a triple chocolate version of this shake by using chocolate protein powder and unsweetened chocolate almond milk. Feel free to add/subtract ingredients based on your own tastes and recovery needs!
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|Calories 400
|Total Fat 15g
|Saturated Fat 2g
|Monounsaturated Fat 5g
|Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
|Trans Fat 0g
|Cholesterol 0g
|Sodium 414mg
|Potassium 762mg
|Total Carbohydrate 41g
|Dietary Fiber 8g
|Sugars 16g
|Protein 32g
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HIS Radeon HD 7950 3GB IceQ X2 Overclocked Video Card Review (Page 20)
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With a slew of new games recently that are extremely taxing you might find yourself in the market for a new video card. Combined with the fact that you could also find yourself greeted with some much needed holiday leave, the HIS HD 7950 IceQ X2 from HIS is a fantastic offering.
Take AA and AF out of the mix and you can see on almost all of our test games here that we're able to play with the highest in-game settings at all resolutions including the ultra-high 2560 x 1600 option. Moving into the AA and AF high quality side of things you can see it's a little hit and miss. 1920 x 1200 for the most part isn't an issue, but moving to 2560 x 1600 causes some problems.
Of course priced at $339.99 this is one of the more expensive HD 7950 models on the market, but it does come in $50 cheaper than the equivalent HD 7970 from HIS and considering you could be finding yourself buying presents for other people at this time of year, the savings could come in handy.
Moving away from the 3D gaming performance, you can see the cooler does an excellent job sitting in the middle of the pack when it comes to our noise and temperature numbers. Considering the added voltage due to overclocking and the increased clock speeds, this isn't too bad at all.
On the bundle side of things it's fairly basic, but also fairly typical of most video cards these days. There's no major surprises to be found and you should have everything you need to get up and running.
If you're looking at buying a new video card for some holiday gaming and want something that stands out a bit more than a reference design and cooled HD 7950, this is a really nice option. While a little more expensive, HIS have put together a really nice product that looks great and performs exceptionally well. Throw overclocking into the mix and you can get even more bang for your buck.
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Though our name has changed from McCann's Fruit to Fyffes to Total Produce, we've been here, selling fruit ever since. Still located in the heart of the town, we deliver across the entire North East, from North Dublin, to Cavan / Monaghan and up to Antrim six days a week.
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Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she's a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal to fly, Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt's dream come true. But when her contraption doesn't fly but rather hovers for a moment and then crashes, Rosie deems the invention a failure. On the contrary, Aunt Rose insists that Rosie's contraption was a raging success: you can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit.
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Responding to residents' confusion over speed limits and grace speed margins, Dubai Police has clarified that the grace speed limit is 20kmph on most roads in the emirate.
Most roads in the city of Dubai have a grace margin over an allowed speed limit for that road. This means that where the maximum speed on a road may be 100kmph, the radar will get you at just over 120kmph, for example.
Residents have been unsure about internal city roads such as Al Wasl Road or Beach Road where common understanding is that the grace speed limit is just 10kmph over and over the prescribed speed limit of 70kmph.
Elsewhere in the emirate, most roads such as Sheikh Zayed Road or Al Khail or Emirates Road allow for 20kmph over and above the notified speed limit.
"Because the maximum speed is the number appearing on the traffic boards along the road, the grace speed can only be found out through flirting with the speed radar. A little too much of advancement can easily result in a fine, at least," says George KV.
"It's good that the police has clarified the grace limit. I can now drive in a more relaxed manner and not have anxiety if I am over-speeding. Also, those who speed up between radars and slow down when one approaches, can now drive at a more regular pace," he added.
S. Kumar, an Indian motorist tells that he always drives at a 70 kmph speed on Jumeirah Road, until his colleague told him that she passes the same road at a 90 kmph. "We had a discussion about the grace speed there. She told me that she had never been fined at that speed. But I was not sure enough to try the same."
To make things more clear, the Traffic Department of Dubai Police clarified the speed limit and grace speed at five major roads in Dubai; Sheikh Zayed Road, Emirates Road, Al Wasl Road, Jumeirah Road, and Al Khail Road, with two different speed limits existing on Sheikh Zayed Road.
In response to the announcement of Abu Dhabi traffic authorities that the grace speed will gradually be reduced to be zero by the start of 2013, Colonel Zaif Mohayer AlMazroi furthermore clarified that no such measure has been discussed for the emirate of Dubai.


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Have you ever wondered what a birthday cake would look like with 100 or even 103 candles on it? Lit and ready to blow out with a wish? It'd have to be a pretty big cake I think!
I've seen such a cake on the day my family and family friends celebrated my Mom's 100th birthday. It's a momentous occasion. My Mom, who was just starting to be uncertain of her surroundings said "Am I 100?" We answered "Yes." And my Mom commented, "Imagine." Exactly Mom; imagine.
During my time researching our population aged over 90, I've come across stories of some pretty amazing women and men. For example, in the Los Angeles Times, there's the story by Susan King in the Los Angeles Times about a woman named Carla Laemmle the niece of then Universal Studios chief Carl Laemmle, who lived on the lot with her family in the 1920s and '30s and appeared in films. She marks her 103rd birthday with a party at the Silent Movie Theatre. The birthday party will feature film clips and a slide show of vintage photographs of Laemmle.
"We are incredibly honored to have one of the last living links to the silent film era at our home at the Silent Movie Theatre," said Mya Stark, director of development and outreach at Cinefamily. "Our audience skews young and it's a once in a lifetime opportunity for them to experience and celebrate somebody who was at the birth of cinema."
So what is Laemmle's secret to longevity? "I never thought about age," she explained. "I always had a feeling that I was in my 20s."
Such memories Carla must have! Here's one, "Carla Laemmele remembers the family frequently being visited by a camel who wandered over from the lot. "They had a wonderful zoo," she said. "A camel would get loose and somehow he would trek up from the back lot and start grazing on our lawn. I would take out a little bowl of oatmeal and lead it to one of the garages and call [the zoo workers] and say, 'Your animal is here."'
"Tell her the story about the nude pictures," piped up Laemmle's grand-niece, Rosemary Hilb, who is an organizer of the birthday party. "Carl Laemmle was so upset," said Hilb. "He thought he had destroyed them, but she was able to keep a set. Everybody said you have a beautiful body and at that time, I thought, well I don't mind showing it," Laemmle said, smiling. "They are in very good taste but he frowned on that."
She's continued to act occasionally, appearing in low-budget independent films. She just finished a part in a new Web series called "Broken Dreams Blvd," written and directed by Kevin Jordan. Just so you're certain to have understood, Carla is 103 and still working! How cool is that?
If you follow the link above, you'll see a lovely photo of Carla. She looks petite, maybe fragile and happy and she seems to be welcoming to any guest. She seems to me to have an inner calm expression on her face. She seems to be very comfortable in her 103 year old skin.
Carla Laemmele, at 103, has lived a life that few of us can imagine. But perhaps we can imagine her pleasure looking back for 103 years. Perhaps we can imagine the wonderful parts of our own lives we'll be remembering.
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Earth-sized 'Tatooine' planets could be habitable: Study
Washington, April 13
An Earth-sized exoplanet with two suns in its sky — like Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in "Star Wars" — could be habitable, says a study.
Thanks to observatories such as NASA's Kepler space telescope, we know that two-star systems can indeed support planets, but such planets discovered so far are large and gaseous.
In the new study published in the journal Nature Communications, the scientists asked the question "if an Earth-size planet were orbiting two suns, could it support life?"
The findings suggest that it could, if located at the right distance from its two stars.
In a particular range of distances from two sun-like host stars, a planet covered in water would remain habitable and retain its water for a long time, the study said.
"This means that double-star systems of the type studied here are excellent candidates to host habitable planets, despite the large variations in the amount of starlight hypothetical planets in such a system would receive," said Max Popp, research scholar at Princeton University in New Jersey, and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany.
The researchers created a model for a planet in the Kepler-35 system.
In reality, the stellar pair Kepler-35A and B host a planet called Kepler-35b, a giant planet about eight times the size of Earth, with an orbit of 131.5 Earth days.
For their study, researchers neglected the gravitational influence of this planet and added a hypothetical water-covered, Earth-size planet around the Kepler-35 A and B stars.
They examined how this planet's climate would behave as it orbited the host stars with periods between 341 and 380 days.
"Our research is motivated by the fact that searching for potentially habitable planets requires a lot of effort, so it is good to know in advance where to look," said Siegfried Eggl, a California Institute of Technology (Caltech) postdoctoral scholar at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
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A new video by The Lincoln Project, a newly formed Republican organization against Donald Trump, mocks Trump supporters for worshiping "The MAGA Church." The ad intertwines clips of Trump talking about faith with videos of him speaking crudely. It also features Bible verses, such as Matthew 7:15 which states "Beware of false prophets, which come […]
The True Sport Foundation announced its Canadian Sport Award winners this week. The national organization honoring individuals like speed skater Christine Nesbitt and world and national figure skating champion Patrick Chan; also singled out an Ottawa hockey team.
The Ottawa Senators Women's Bantam AA hockey team which is composed of all 14 year olds earned the Spirit of Sport Story of the Year for their resolve and bravery. Less than halfway through their 2010-2011 season one of the team's defensive players, Daron Richardson took her own life. The tragedy was overwhelming for the remaining 16 team members who instead of throwing in the towel hit the ice winning four gold and four silver medals in nine tournaments. The team then went on to take the silver medal at the provincial championships.
In one report, the team's coach, Bruce MacDonald said that the girls didn't want to let Daron down and they knew that moving forward is what she would want them to do. He also said that the girls played with a level of sportsmanship that truly made him proud.
These young ladies' dedication and desire did not end on the ice. Daron's teammates joined other volunteers to participate in the Do It for Daron (D.I.F.D.) campaign as well. D.I.F.D. is a youth-driven program that focuses on raising awareness and inspiring conversations centered on youth mental health. The organization was created by friends and family of Daron and is inspired by hope for a future where youth will reach out for help without shame or fear.


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NEW DELHI — In a rare legislative action, a private member's Bill seeking to protect the rights of transgenders was passed unanimously by voice vote in Rajya Sabha today.
The "Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014", moved by Tiruchi Siva (DMK) was passed after leader of the House and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said it would not be proper if the House is divided on this issue as all feel in favour of the rights of transgenders.
The Bill was passed with the full strength of the treasury benches, though several opposition members were not present at the time. The Bill was passed by voice vote in the presence of 19 Union Ministers, including eight Cabinet Ministers. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was also present.
Siva later shook hands with the senior members in the House, thanking them for supporting him in the bill's passage.
Jaitley spoke after Siva insisted on division, rejecting the assurance given by Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot that government will come out with a comprehensive bill in this regard.
Gehlot said many issues were yet to be resolved among various Ministries on the issue and clarification has been sought from the Supreme Court on some other issues.
Siva, however, did not yield and insisted on voting, saying the issue was important and needed to be taken up urgently to protect the rights of transgenders.
While Congress members, despite their poor attendance, prompted Siva to go ahead for seeking passage of the bill, at least three Ministers and the Chair requested Siva to take the government's assurance and not insist for voting, going against the tradition of the House.
Moving the bill for passage, Siva said 29 nations and leading democracies in the world including US, UK, Canada, France, Australia, Italy and Singapore had legislations protecting rights of transgenders.
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Weird Movie Review: Dragon Wars
So this thingy is a South Korean sky-high budget extravaganza with little care for details, or story, or script, or actors, or anything except video game badassness :P Any jow. […]
So this thingy is a South Korean sky-high budget extravaganza with little care for details, or story, or script, or actors, or anything except video game badassness :P Any jow. […]
So this thingy is a South Korean sky-high budget extravaganza with little care for details, or story, or script, or actors, or anything except video game badassness :P Any jow. All images are belong to Shim Hyung-rae (director) and Showbox Freestyle Releasing (distributor). We'll use them to educate our sorry little lives in how to properly use Computer Generated Images, yo'.
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Dragon Wars
D-War, Dragon Wars or what-ever other marketing iteration of the name… is the result of uncontrolled trust in a director, Shim Hyung-rae who also acts as script writer. The movie its sort of a fantasy, action, disaster movie and video game oriented compilation. Considering the sheer amount of CGI (computer generated images) in the movie, you could basically call this thing an animation.
Is there a concept to this thing? HELL NO!
Why even bother with an idea behind it all …
when you got Giant Snakes on a PLANE! I mean a building.
Is there a story to this thing? Kinda' [at best]. There is a prophecy behind it all, that has to do with a girl and a bunch of dragons. Bad dragons and good dragons. There is some sort of past event that relates to the what's going on in the present. But many times scenes are just recycled and so you'll have trouble following what belongs to when… so to speak.
Jurassic Park meets Lord of the Rings…
… meets Neo-Nazi Zombies from Space on Velociraptors
Long story short: Girl, prophecy, girl dead, prophecy, DRAGONS, girl back… or something, roll credits.
Its baffling how complicated the story tries to be, in a movie called Dragon Wars?! Its beyond our eyes, as audience, how much the movie tries to cover: From past events, contemporary disaster-movie / total war between CGI dinosaurs and CGI helicopters, end of the world prophecy and just how, HOW much CGI-things are randomly-ish thrown at the screen.
This high-budget, cult-following-worthy movie has, believe or not, some decent CGI (computa' generated images, 'case you forgot). Decent as in Playstation 2 era for most of them… What I mean is that the CGI is terrible for the most, recycled and a sad excuse for lacking a story, a villain and a final confrontation… Literally, the antagonist of the movie is a CGI thing on top of a triceratops or something and the ultimate villain is a CGI snake.
Perhaps I'm been to rational, there are some cool CGI moments… unfortunately these cool moments are drowned in a sea of bad CGI.
The so-called Dawdlers launching rockets are kinda' cool …
… gotta give credit where credit is due.
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Dragon Wars IS a video game, with different levels, boss battles and a crazy giant final boss fight between two CGI snakes, oh wait, "dragons". A battle that is supposed to be the final battle for Earth, or time and space or some bullshit, sorry "b.s." The battle ends and you get some weird dialogue, the hero leaves the scene, roll credits. 100% Video game approved.
Is it something to remember? Well, it was definitely something to laugh at. I can only guess that high, drunk or CHAUKLETwasted… it could be a trippy experience.
"Ethan don't be sad." – Girl
Sure darling, the world is destroyed, the girl is dead and I'm lost in the middle of a threatening dessert, why should I be sad?!
5 / 10
Its not bold enough to deserve a cult-following nor is it a "its-so-bad-its-good" movie. Its depressing to notice how the story, music, actors and the animations try to be taken seriously while everything is just plain awful. At the very, very least it made more than double its budget so it was financially successful. Sadly. On the bright side, if you're so drunk or high anything could make you laugh Dragon Wars might be a good movie.


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Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Kathryn Morris and Olivia Munn give you a double dose of green. See their tips here. (Gerri Miller)
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar: Hi, I'm Mark-Paul Gosselaar from "Raising the Bar," uh, my ocean tip would be please don't dump anything down storm drains. Everything you dump down there goes stright to the ocean, we need our oceans, and it's up to you.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar: Hi, my name is Mark-Paul Gosselaar. My green tip for the day is buy a Prius. Everybody can buy a Prius, right? Or lease one. Rent one. Get a green car.
Kathryn Morris: Hi, I'm Kathryn Morris and my green tip is to actually look into getting solar power. There are so many avenues, you can pick from the phone book, you can probably see a sign in your neighborhood that says "go solar." I have the big binder sitting on my desk right now and it's just those baby steps and learning more things about the possibility of doing that.
Kathryn Morris: I'm Kathryn Morris and my green tip is definitely trade in your car for a hybrid and really look in to solar in your neighborhood if you can, and unplug everything as often as you can when you're not in that room.
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- MedlinePlus: Turmeric
- The Journal of Family Practice: Clinical Inquiry. Does Turmeric Relieve Inflammatory Conditions?
- The Journal of Family Practice: Clinical Inquiry. Does Turmeric Relieve Inflammatory Conditions?
- Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: Efficacy and Safety of Curcuma Domestica Extracts in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
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Turmeric for Gout
Gout is a type of arthritis that is caused by the buildup of uric acid in your body, either because your body can't get rid of it effectively or because your body produces an excess amount of uric acid. A painful big toe is often the first sign of gout, but gout can affect any joint in the body. It is painful because the acid forms crystals in the joints and causes inflammation. Men over age 40 are the most commonly afflicted, but anyone can get it at any time -- particularly, if it runs in the family. Taking turmeric may help gout, because it has anti-inflammatory properties, but little research has been done to verify this. Consult a doctor before taking turmeric as a medicinal.
If you are experiencing serious medical symptoms, seek emergency treatment immediately.
Propertis of Turmeric
Turmeric, Curcuma longa, has been used for more than 4,000 years as a medicinal for a variety of ailments, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center 12. It originated in India, and is often used as part of both traditional Chinese and Indian medicine -- known as Ayurveda -- as an anti-inflammatory, as well as to treat digestive and liver problems. The main active ingredient in turmeric is an antioxidant called curcumin. Antioxidants help fight free radicals, which can damage or kill cells in the body. Curcumin also reduces the levels of two enzymes that cause inflammation. The yellow coloring commonly associated with turmeric is also due to curcumin.
Gout Treatment
Research based specifically on the effects of turmeric on gout is not available, but smaller studies on related conditions have indicated that the anti-inflammatory properties of turmeric may be beneficial. One clinical inquiry into the available evidence, published in the March 2011 edition of "The Journal of Family Practice," reported that turmeric was beneficial in reducing the inflammation found in rheumatoid arthritis 3. Another study, published in 2009 in the "Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine," found similar benefits for those suffering from osteoarthritis 4. The researchers reported that a curcumin extract was at least as effective as ibuprofen in reducing inflammation. The University of Maryland Medical Center recommends turmeric as a possible treatment for gout 12.
Proper Administration
Turmeric is a common ingredient in many foods, but it is best to take a specific dose for medicinal purposes, either in the form of a tincture, extract or powder. You may also use the raw root. The proper dosage will vary depending on your age, weight and what other medications you are taking, but MedlinePlus reports that the effective dosage for inflammation found in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis was 500 milligrams taken twice daily in the extract form. It's recommended to consult a qualified health practitioner before taking turmeric, or curcumin extract, to obtain the proper dosage and discuss any potential complications that might arise.
Potential Problems
Taking turmeric is categorized as likely safe, according to MedlinePlus, but mild side effects may occur. Commonly reported side effects include nausea, dizziness, upset stomach and diarrhea. Avoid taking turmeric if you are pregnant, breast-feeding, have gallstones or suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease. Turmeric can interact with certain medications, particularly blood thinners, diabetes medications or drugs that reduce stomach acid. Herbs that clot the blood, such as angelica and ginseng, may also interact with turmeric. Stop using turmeric at least two weeks prior to a scheduled surgery, as it may affect your blood's ability to clot properly.
- University of Maryland Medical Center: Gout
- University of Maryland Medical Center: Turmeric
- The Journal of Family Practice: Clinical Inquiry. Does Turmeric Relieve Inflammatory Conditions?
- Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: Efficacy and Safety of Curcuma Domestica Extracts in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
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The show version EXEC command is able to tell how much Dynamic RAM (DRAM) and packet memory (separate SRAM or shared memory) are installed in a Cisco router.
The Cisco 4000, 4500, 4700, and 7500 series routers have separate DRAM and packet memory. The example below shows a router with 64M of DRAM and 2M of SRAM (packet memory):
cisco RSP4 (R5000) processor with 65536K/2072K bytes of memory.
The example below shows a router with 256M of DRAM and 8M of SRAM (packet memory):
cisco RSP8 (R7000) processor with 262144K/8216K bytes of memory.
The Cisco 1600, 2500, 2600, 3600, and 7200 series routers use a fraction of their DRAM as packet memory. Hence both numbers need to be added to find out the real amount of DRAM. The example below shows a router with 29696K + 3072K = 32768K = 32M of DRAM.
cisco 2611 (MPC860) processor (revision x) with 29696K/3072K bytes of memory.
The example below shows a router with 93184K + 5120K = 98304K = 98M of DRAM.
cisco 2621XM (MPC860P) processor (revision) with 93184K/5120K bytes of memory.
DRAM is mainly used for system processing, eg: storing routing tables, routing protocols data, network accounting information, and running the Cisco IOS software; while packet memory is used for packet buffering of the router network interfaces and CPU cache memory functions. The packet memory on Cisco 4000, 4500, 4700, and 7500 series routers is the total physical I/O memory (also known as SRAM or Fast Memory); while the packet memory on Cisco 1600, 2500, 2600, 3600, and 7200 series routers is the amount of shared memory, which is a portion of the DRAM.
The terms I/O memory (iomem), shared memory, Fast Memory, and PCI memory are all refer to Packet Memory, which is either a separate physical RAM stick or module, or shared DRAM.
Static RAM (SRAM) is a type of semiconductor memory that does not need to be periodically refreshed as Dynamic RAM (DRAM). Memory refresh is the process of periodically reading information from an area of computer memory, and rewriting the read information back to the same area immediately without any modification. SRAM is still volatile, as the data stored in it is eventually lost when the memory is not powered.
SRAM is more expensive, but faster and far less power hungry when idle (no periodical refresh) compared to DRAM. Additionally, due to a more complex internal structure, SRAM is less dense that DRAM and hence not used for high-capacity, low-cost applications, eg: PC main memory.


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Rotary is an organization of professional men & women united worldwide providing humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations & help build goodwill & peace
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The Old Assyrian Text Project
Welcome to the portal of the Old Assyrian Text Project, a collaborative project designed to produce new editions of Old Assyrian archives and specialized studies of the Old Assyrian period. We intend to provide up-to-date information about the project itself and about Old Assyrian studies in general.
The project is sponsored by The Carlberg Foundation and involves a close collaboration between a group of scholars, at present Gojko Barjamovic, Jan Gerrit Dercksen, Karl Hecker, Thomas Hertel, Bert Kouwenberg, Guido Kryszat, Mogens Trolle Larsen, Agnete Lassen, Cécile Michel, Nibal Muhesen, Xiaowen Shi, Ed Stratford and Klaas Veenhof.
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OA online database moved to new server
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OA online prosopography database launched
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OATP meeting 2011
- 26-06-2011
Publication: Historical Geography Of Anatolia by G. Barjamovic
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Publication: AKT 5 by K. R. Veenhof
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The Texas Motor Speedway Media Relations Department is located on the 6th floor of The Speedway Club outside of Turn 1 of the speedway.
Chip Ganassi Racing displayed its dominance during Saturday's Firestone 600 with a 1-2 finish for the organization as Scott Dixon claimed the win over teammate Tony Kanaan. It was the second time the organization captured a 1-2 finish at Texas Motor Speedway, the other coming in the first race of the 2011 Firestone Twin 275s twin races when Dario Franchitti edged out Dixon for the victory. … With his win in the Firestone 600, Scott Dixon became just the fifth multiple Verizon IndyCar Series winner in Texas Motor Speedway history. Dixon, who previously won in 2008, joins four-time winner Helio Castroneves, three-time winner Sam Hornish Jr., and two-time winners Scott Goodyear and Scott Sharp. … During the Firestone 600, there were more than 1,100 on track passes for position. Runner-up Tony Kanaan had 87 alone. … The 29 green-flag passes for the lead in Friday night's WinStar World Casino & Resort 400 were the most for a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway since June of 2012. … Verizon IndyCar Series driver James Hinchcliffe, recovering from surgery for an upper left thigh injury suffered in a practice crash May 18 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, was the surprise Grand Marshal for the Firestone 600. He donned a black cowboy hat and gave the command for drivers to start their engines from his Indianapolis home via videotape that was shown to the crowd on "Big Hoss TV." … Team Penske's Helio Castroneves finished third in the Firestone 600 and remains the all-time Verizon IndyCar Series career leader in top-five (10) and top-10 finishes (14) at Texas Motor Speedway. He has had only four starts in his career at Texas Motor Speedway where he has not finished among the top 10. … NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Matt Crafton became just the ninth driver in Texas Motor Speedway history to successfully defend his race crown when he won Friday night's WinStar World Casino & Resort 400. The previous eight drivers accomplished this feat 13 times, which includes two three-peats). The NASCAR Camping World Truck series is where this has happened the most at TMS as Crafton's defense was the sixth successful one in track history. Texas Motor Speedway becomes just the second track (Kansas is the other) where the two-time defending Series champion Crafton is a multiple winner in his career. … Verizon IndyCar Series driver Will Power of Team Penske earned his third consecutive pole at Texas Motor Speedway during Friday's NTT Data Qualifying Day. Power's impressive streak makes him just the second driver to win three consecutive poles at TMS in any major series, joining former NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Mike Skinner who won four consecutive poles from 2004-06. … Erik Jones became the third rookie in the previous four NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races at Texas Motor Speedway to qualify on the pole. Jones earned his fourth career truck series pole with a speed of 181.074 miles per hour for the WinStar World Casino & Resort 400. … Firestone 600 champion Scott Dixon led a race-high 97 laps to give him 353 career laps led, moving past Al Unser Jr. (275) and Ryan Briscoe (282) and into fifth on the all-time laps led list at Texas Motor Speedway. Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Tony Kanaan led 57 laps Saturday night to maintain the fourth spot on the list with 362. The all-time laps led leader is Helio Castroneves with 499.
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When your divorce is uncontested, it means you and your spouse do not require the court to decide anything for you because you've reached an accord on every possible issue on your own. Your property settlement agreement precisely sets out these terms. Some states, like Ohio, require that you submit your agreement to the court at the same time you file for an uncontested dissolution. In many other states, you may negotiate a settlement at any time during the divorce process. In Virginia, if you submit a signed settlement agreement to the court, the state offers a reward: if you don't have children, you can qualify for a no-fault divorce six months sooner. When you sign a voluntary agreement with your spouse, you avoid placing important decisions in the hands of a judge.
Ideally, your property settlement agreement will cover every possible post-divorce eventuality, as well as resolve all marital issues. You must cover all the usual aspects of divorce: custody, visitation, child support, property division, debt division and spousal support. You should also consider including provisions for how you want to handle a change of circumstances down the road. For example, you might agree to pay your spouse alimony, but might also want to address what happens if she remarries. Further, you might want to address if you want to give the court jurisdiction to modify the amount you're paying should you lose your job. Also, if you are giving your spouse residential custody, but then your teenager decides that he wants to live with you instead, you might want to determine how you will deal with this situation as well. You can provide for how you want to resolve all these types of issues in advance -- and include terms for enforcement in the event that one of you breaks the agreement's terms.
Court Approval
If you want the court to include the terms of your property settlement agreement in a divorce judgment or decree, a judge must typically approve and sign off on it. As a practical matter, judges almost invariably do so unless the agreement is unconscionable – meaning it's grossly unfair to you, your spouse or your children – or you forgot to include something important. If a final hearing is required in your state, the judge may ask you if you understand the legal implications of what you signed -- and he might want to determine that you signed the agreement voluntarily without your spouse coercing you into the terms in any way.
Your property settlement agreement is enforceable as a contract if you and your spouse remain separated, but not divorced, indefinitely. If one of you breaks its terms, you must file a breach of contract suit in civil court, as family court has no jurisdiction to enforce. This can be tricky if you have children and your agreement includes provisions for custody or child support. Depending on where you live, these issues may not be enforceable without a court order – which a signed property settlement agreement, by itself, is not. If you decide to divorce and ask the court to incorporate your agreement's terms into your divorce decree, you can then go back to family court for enforcement of all its provisions.


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As promised, here's our latest aerial video of The Cedars Ranch showing our construction and landscaping progress so far.
Our maintenance and garden shed looks so good! We think it definitely makes our tractors look sexy!
What a difference a year makes! This view from the air really shows us how far we've come. We started last year with the total deconstruction of the existing buildings on the land. Now there is barely any sign that they ever existed! We then relocated the shed shack, to fit into our future wedding campus area. You can also see our renovated garden from the sky, complete with beautiful new stone walls, pathways, raised beds and gazebo. Our new berms and swales with planted orchards are looking great too.
Bring on a whole new year of construction in 2017!! What will the aerial footage look like this time next year?
Well, it's a fresh start for everyone this 2017! Least of all, for our Cedars fairies! Look, they've jumped ahead of us and started their construction early! They've installed some flashy new fairy windows. We're presuming they are double-glazed for maximum energy efficiency (!).
The cold weather and low winter sun here in the Texas Hill Country makes for magical mornings and atmospheric light beams! Thanks Billy Orr, for this photograph.
Speaking of that cold weather, here's Paige removing covers on our trees to protect them from some near freezing temperatures.
Lastly, we here at The Cedars Ranch have a big and exciting weekend coming up! We are exhibiting our wedding venue at Austin's biggest bridal show, "Bridal Extravaganza", this Saturday and Sunday! Come by and visit us! Also, keep an eye out for the latest photos on our social media!
If you are interested in going, reach out to us and we can get you a free ticket!
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Our Club is affiliated with the Veteran Cycling Victoria (V.C.V.) and the Australian Veteran Cycling Council (A.V.C.C.) which caters for veteran aged racing.
The age for membership is 30 years and over for females and 35 years and over for males. These ages are taken from Jan 1st in the year of a riders birth date.
There are currently nine affiliated clubs in Victoria with membership in excess of 1000. The Hume Vets have a current membership of 20.
We meet to race once a month on a Sunday on a range of courses including Benalla, Glenrowan and a couple of courses north of Wangaratta, which vary in distance from 44 km to 66 km. Some courses are flat, some hilly and some in between.
Races are mainly handicapped events to cater for all levels of ability and thus giving everyone an equal chance of success.
Our Club races commence at 10 a.m. and most are finished by 11.45 a.m. During the summer's three months (December - February), start time is 9 a.m. to combat any possible heat conditions.
For those who've never held an Australian Vet's Licence, nor used a 'come & try permit' previously and would like to 'have a go' at racing, there is available a Free - 'come & try - racing permit' that allows you two free trials at racing to see if racing suits you. For this you need to contact the Club Secretary in advance of the days you wish to try out (please note that conditions apply).
Holders of a full A.V.C.C. licence, can race in any event in Australia where an A.V.C.C. sanctioned race is run, so you're not just limited to riding with our Club.
During each calendar year, each of the affiliated Victorian clubs are invited to stage an Open Event which incorporates an aggregate points system to which all licensed members are welcome to attend/race.


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Valentin Yudashkin is the most famous Russian designer. His works are exhibited at Louvre, at the Californian Museum of Fashion, at the State Historical Museum in Moscow, at the International Museum of Olympic Games and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Valentin was born on October 14th, 1963 in the village Bakovka near Moscow. In 1986 he graduated with honors and a distinction from the Moscow Industrial Secondary School with two degrees: history of traditional costumes and make-up and decorative cosmetics.
It all kicked off with the Fabergé collection shown in 1991 in Paris which received plaudits from all over the world and was seen a great success by the most acclaimed fashion critics. Some of the pieces from the collection were taken by the Louvre Museum of Decorative Arts and the Californian Fashion Museum. From then on Valentin Yudashkin began presenting the haute couture collections at the Paris Fashion Week annually.
In 1994 Valentin became a member of the High Fashion and prêt-à-porter Association of Russia and played the leading role in the creation of the Moscow Fashion Week which not only supports the Russian fashion industry as a whole but also helps young fashion industry professionals to find new and exciting opportunities. Soon after the Valentin Yudashkin Fashion House was accepted as a member of the Syndicat de la Haute Couture in Paris and it was the first time in the fashion industry history that such a respectable organization admitted a Russian member.
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As one decade swings gloomily into another, an eagle-eyed reader has drawn my attention to an irregularity regarding the founding date of my journal Underneath the Bunker. The information to the left of this post ('About Georgy Riecke') states that I have been general editor of the journal since 2003. And yet, elsewhere on the web (here, for instance) can be found claims that the journal was founded in the 'mid 90s'. Which, comes the lusty cry, is right?
Both are misleading. The truth is that I can't say exactly when the magazine was born, per se, though it is certainly true that it had a difficult conception. The idea emerged, without doubt, in the mid 90s, when I was still working on another journal (Peggy Grounter's ill-fated Groping for Allusions). An early, draft copy was then produced somewhere around 1998, possibly under a different name (or then again possibly not: I can't recall). At this point, the project stalled for a while, before relaunching at the beginning of the decade as a fully-fledged printed journal, with a full team of employees – a situation that lasted, in all, about two weeks. In those days, of course, Underneath the Bunker had no online presence; this didn't start until at least 2004, whereupon the printed version ran into troubles, finally dying in about 2005. At about the same time, many of the original team went their own ways, leaving me as master of the entire project, helped out by a gang of regular contributors, amongst them such names as Heidi Kohlenberg, Jinpes Terenk, Lucien Ropes and Caspar Nietcher (or Nietscher as he seems to be calling himself at present).
Since then, we have undergone further changes. As things stand, the journal is undergoing a rather long spring-clean, with the main bulk of the action being re-located to this very blog. Is it the end for Underneath the Bunker? In one form, yes. But as the old saying goes, you can't keep a good journal of obscure European Literature down. Oh no you can't.
To answer the original question, however – when was Underneath the Bunker founded? Well, I wonder whether it matters. It is, that is all I need to know. To ease the beating hearts of the truly pedantic amongst you, I shall nonetheless throw you a date. How's about the 28th August 2002? Yes?
That's settled then.
P.S. My Christmas Quiz (aka. "Half-hearted Seasonal Quiz') is still very much open for answers. It all kicks off here.


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Although the role of the humanities in the economic life of the United States may not be as readily apparent as that of engineering, for example, the humanities are, in fact, crucial to many fundamental elements and functions of modern economic productivity. Institutions such as museums and universities, as well as business enterprises in publishing and journalism, generate employment, returns on private investments, and tax revenues. They also depend on the humanistic skills of critical thinking, reading, writing, and speaking, and, while these skills have always been important, they have become increasingly vital to today's knowledge-based economy, which requires a strong humanities workforce.
The extent and the characteristics of this workforce are the focus of the first section of this part of the Humanities Indicators. Data gathered for inclusion there treat not only occupations involved in the creation or dissemination of humanities knowledge, but also those jobs that are performed in humanities institutions (e.g, a cashier in an art museum gift shop) or that support humanistic endeavors (e.g., the janitorial or food service jobs at universities). The next two sections look more closely at another important issue—namely, the relationship between higher education in the humanities and subsequent employment. What are the occupations and professions of those who received their undergraduate and graduate degrees in the humanities? What are their salaries compared to those whose educational backgrounds are in other fields? What are their levels of job satisfaction? Having addressed these and other questions about the humanities workforce, this part of the Humanities Indicators concludes with a section that focuses on a particular segment that has attracted much attention in recent years: postsecondary humanities faculty. While this section covers such topics as their demographic characteristics and institutional status, the data also allow for comparisons of humanities faculty with those who teach in other fields and thus can help to inform ongoing debates about the flexibility and diversity of the academic workforce.
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Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman discusses the making of her short film, which follows the modern day love story of Gus, a home-schooled Christian boy from small-town Illinois that takes a chance and Facebook messages Jiyun, a beautiful New York City art student from Korea.
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#30 First Center Step Card
Well, I decided to take to the craft room to take my mind off the hurricane. I created my first ever center step card. I am so happy how it turned out. I am entering this card in the Birthday Sundaes Challenge.
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The chances are you've heard of Nobó by now. It's the all natural, dairy free "ice-cream" that everyone seems to be talking about. Lucinda O'Sullivan is a fan and it recently made it into Lovin Dublin's list of the city's top 10 ice-creams. Yet there's no one more excited about Nobó than than the paleo community. Each of Nobó's three flavours are made using a small list of all natural ingredients and, whether it's intentional or not, they're all paleo compliant. Hurrah!
The other thing that makes Nobó stand out from its big name competitors is that its made by a small Irish company. According to the website Nobó was set up by two people called Rachel and Brian and by the looks of it they've grafted hard on the farmer's market circuit to get to where they are now. It's the kind of small business that it feels good to support.
At about €7.50 a tub Nobó isn't cheap but for anyone who has wrestled with a blender full of frozen bananas you might just be willing to pay a little extra for ready to go paleo ice cream without the washing up. The lemon flavour is tangy, fresh and creamy. It's not as rich or sweet as regular ice cream. Which is of course meant as a compliment.
This is just the latest in a range of Irish companies catering for paleo dieters. More and more Irish restaurants are offering paleo options, while Paleo Man Foods and Paleo Meal Deliveries are two Irish companies devoted entirely to the cause. The paleo diet originated in America but it seems that Ireland is fast becoming one of the diet's strongest outposts.


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The Town of Cottesloe has two TADWA Beach Trekker available for loan by members of the public. The aim is to give all people access to the joy of visiting the beach.
The wheel chair at Cottesloe Beach is available to hire from 1 October until 30 April each year. The wheel chair at North Cottesloe Beach is generally available to hire all year round, however, this is dependant on availability of North Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club staff. If sufficient notice of the booking is provided, generally requests can be accommodated.
To book, please read the important safety information provided on the reverse of the booking form. The completed booking form can then be submitted by email to email@example.com. It is recommended that you book 5 business days in advance to allow time to process the booking.
Please note, the maximum safe weight of a person using the beach wheelchair is 120kgs. Users are responsible for their own safety. It is recommended that two carers come with users for any assistance that may be required.
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Moving to Miami - step 2
Hello everyone,
With the help of some wonderful people from InterNations we are able to go pass the first step of finding the house and office space for our upcoming move to Miami.
Now I am here again to seek some advice for preparing for the second step : What's and where??
-What are the best options for schools for pre-schoolers Protected content old) in Coral gables?
-Any recommendation of an agency for car leasing?
-Are there any driving schools that you would recommend?
-Which are the hypermarkets in proximity to Coral Gables?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.


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Jefferson City in Jefferson County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)
Battle of Mossy Creek
December 29, 1863
Erected by Tennessee Historical Commission. (Marker Number 1C83.)
Marker series. This marker is included in the Tennessee Historical Commission marker series.
Location. 36° 7.885′ N, 83° 28.889′ W. Marker is in Jefferson City, Tennessee, in Jefferson County. Marker is on East Old Andrew Johnson Highway 0.1 miles south of Municipal Drive, on the right when traveling south. Located across the street from Johnson Ball Park. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 270 East Old Andrew Johnson Highway, Jefferson City TN 37760, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Mossy Creek Engagement (here, next to this marker); Sarah Swann Hall (approx. 0.9 miles away); Site of Original Land Grant by John Roper Branner (approx. one mile away); Carson - Newman College (approx. 1.3 miles away); Cox Mill (approx. 3 miles away); "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (was approx. 4.4 miles away but has been reported missing. ); David Crockett and Polly Finley (was approx. 4.9 miles away but has been reported missing. ); Frances Hodgson Burnett (approx. 5.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Jefferson City.
Categories. • War, US Civil •
More. Search the internet for Battle of Mossy Creek.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on March 7, 2010, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 2,113 times since then and 21 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on March 7, 2010, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee. 2. submitted on July 22, 2015, by Brandon Fletcher of Chattanooga, Tennessee. 3, 4. submitted on March 7, 2010, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee. • Craig Swain was the editor who published this page.


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CGI Employee Benefits Group, Inc. (CGI) is a diversified full service employee benefits brokerage and consulting firm dedicated to providing the highest level of personalized service and objective advice.
Our goal is not to meet expectations but to exceed them in ways our clients have never experienced before. Creativity is the hallmark of our approach. At CGI we strive to develop innovative solutions to meet the demands of an ever changing and increasingly complex employee benefit and Human Resources landscape.


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Tempe, AZ -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/20/2013 -- MedicalAssistantProgramOnline.net, a website that provides in-depth and helpful information and advice on how to become a medical assistant, has just launched its new and user-friendly site. The website, http://www.medicalassistantprogramonline.net/, also provides prospective students with information about programs in their area, as well as reviews of some of the best medical assistant schools in the country.
While many people are interested in working in the exciting and rewarding field of medicine as a medical assistant, they may not have the time to pursue a degree at a traditional brick and mortar school. Students' schedules tend to be extremely busy, and they often work full or part time and have family responsibilities to attend to, in addition to their school work. This is why online degree programs are becoming so popular; students can learn from the comfort of home, when it is most convenient for them. Thanks to the new website, students can learn what they need to know about online medical assistant programs and help determine which online school will be the best fit for them.
The new website also explains what it means to be a certified medical assistant, and what the job duties typically entail.
"Medical assistants are responsible for the administrative side of the health care industry," an article on the website explained, adding that they are secretaries of sorts, but they do much more than answer phone calls.
"They are in charge of filing patient records, contacting insurance companies, scheduling appointments, billing and coding, and preparing patients to see their doctors. The training to do all of this is minimal, and the rewards are huge. That's why becoming a medical assistant is so desirable."
The new website also provides future students with helpful advice about how to become a medical assistant. For example, the site explains which degrees and certifications are needed or recommended, and what skills employers will be looking for.
Anybody who would like to learn more about becoming a medical assistant is welcome to visit the new website at any time; there, they can browse through the educational articles and reviews of online programs.
About MedicalAssistantProgramOnline.net
MedicalAssistantProgramOnline.net is a new website that is dedicated to helping students discover everything they need to know about a career in medical assisting. The site is ideal for people who want to become a medical assistant, but do not have enough time to take courses at a local campus. The site is already rated number one as the best source for medical assistant schools. For more information, please visit http://www.medicalassistantprogramonline.net/


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Ideal for any types of catering, Vision's collection of waiters cloths are crafted to an incredibly high standard and are ideal for creating a clean, polished and professional image. Hard-wearing, durable and perfect for protecting against spills or burns, our range includes white waiters' cloths which feature an attractive yet simple striped design for a smart service.
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Amazing Lubbock Texas Craft Beer, Pizza and Pasta
In Lubbock, TX we love our craft beer. That's why here at BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse we're always Pursuing Amazing™. Whether it's our craft beer, delicious pizza or our pasta favorites, you are sure to find something amazing on our extensive menu.
If it's pizza you're craving then check out our BJ's Signature Deep Dish Pizza. Try our Sweet Pig®, BJ's Classic Combo (The most popular topping trio! Pepperoni, sausage and mushrooms) or our Gourmet Five Meat, you won't be disappointed! As an appetizer, try one of our select flat bread pizzas, you can choose from Margherita Fresca, California Club, Roasted Vegetable and Goat Cheese and more!
At BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse in Lubbock we understand that brewing is both a science and an art form, we're passionate about both. If you're looking for something balanced or something more robust, we have the craft beer you've been looking for. If you're searching for an intense beer, try our Tatonka® Stout. Want something milder? Then try BJ's Oasis® Amber, a great every day beer that's not too hoppy. But, if its hops you want, try our HopStorm® IPA. Want something in between? We've got you covered.
At BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse we take our food and beer seriously, but we don't stop there. We also take pride in our dining experience, from the ambiance of our Lubbock, TX restaurant to the attentiveness of our wait staff. We won't disappoint!
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Spring and Fall Clean-ups
Seasonal clean-ups are an essential component of your landscape maintenance plan. Sunrise Landscape and Design can help with this time-consuming but very important task. Spring is a time for renewal and the perfect time for preparing your landscape for the warm summer months. Garden beds need to be cleared of any remaining vegetation debris, bulbs transplanted and grasses and perennials cut back. Fall is the time to ready your landscape for the dormant season and prepare for the upcoming year. Leaves need to be cleaned up, plants cutback, and bulbs planted. Sunrise Landscape and Design has a dedicated team of professionals ready to tackle these tasks that will keep your landscape beautiful year round.
Spring Clean-Up
With the arrival of spring, your landscape is ready to burst with vibrant colors and strong growth. Spring clean-up ensures that your landscape will grow to its potential beauty throughout the spring and summer seasons. Mulching and edging are important in preparing for the growing season. Not only are they aesthetically pleasing, they also are key in sustaining a well maintained and beautiful landscape. Some of the key benefits of mulching include:
- Increases moisture retention
- Serves as a barrier against weeds
- Reduces soil erosion
- Keeps roots insulated during extreme temperatures
- Adds a professional look to your landscape beds
Sunrise will tailor spring clean-up tasks for your budget and landscape. We offer a full range of clean-up services including mulching, edging, garden clean-up and planting. Our team of horticultural consultants and certified arborists are ready with the knowledge and skills to prepare your landscape for the spring and summer, allowing you to enjoy the maximum growth and beauty of your landscape.
For more information on spring landscaping, including ways to prepare your lawn for spring, read our spring cleanup tips.
Fall Clean-Up
Fall ushers in the cool weather months with shorter days and cooler temperatures. When the season changes from hot and humid to mild and cool it an important time to begin preparing your landscape for the dormant months ahead. Your fall clean-up task should include:
- Leaf Clean-up – While jumping into piles of fall leaves can be a fun, it is important to remove those leaves from your lawn. Leaves, especially wet leaves can suffocate your lawn and damage its growth potential in the spring.
- Core Aeration and Overseeding – Core aeration and overseeding will prepare your lawn for a fresh start in the spring by allowing nutrients, water, and air to penetrate the grass roots.
- Fertilize your Lawn– Fertilizing in the fall helps preserve the roots of your lawn allowing them to replenish nutrients that were deleted over the summer.
- Fertilize your Trees and Shrubs – Just like your lawn needs fertilization, so too do your trees and shrubs. Make sure all your plant beds and flower gardens have the appropriate nutrients to sustain them over the winter months.
- Pruning – Trim back trees and bushes, being sure to remove dead or overgrown growth.
- Planting – Fall is the perfect time to plant spring bulbs such as daffodils and tulips, as well as divide existing plants. You'll enjoy them in the spring!
For tips on rejuvenating your Northern Virginia lawn, check out our fall lawn renovation checklist.
Sunrise Landscape and Design has a team of horticultural consultants and certified arborists with the knowledge and skills to prepare your landscape for the coming winter months so that it will blossom and grow in the spring. Contact us and let us do the work for you – we love keeping your landscape looking beautiful year round!
In addition to Spring and Fall Clean-ups, Sunrise also offers a variety of landscape and design services including:
Landscape Design and Build
- Hardscape and Structures
- Landscape and Gardens
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- Landscape Lighting
- Holiday Lighting
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- Ornamental Tree and Shrub Care
- Tree Trimming and Shrub Pruning
- Irrigation Systems and Services
- Drainage and Erosion Control
- Deer Control
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Classic Whites & Greens Among the Classics
Few venues are more inspiring than art museums, and we have one of the best here in Chicago, The Art Institute. Our couple chose the museum's gorgeous courtyard for their intimate and romantic reception. Clean, crisp white garden roses, ranunculus and vibrant late summer greens were the perfect touch for this amazing space.
Photo credit: White Quill Creative
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Pera Palace Hotel in the Tepebaşı district of Pera, İstanbul, right near Taksim Square, is a luxury boutique hotel which is steeped in history.
The soaring lobby leads to the majestic, domed Kubbeli Saloon and Tea Lounge with its exotic 'Arabian Nights' ambience; the Orient Bar and the Patisserie de Pera have a nostalgic charm. A new basement level features a spa and Turkish bath, as well as the refined Agatha restaurant (named after Agatha Christie, the hotel's most famous guest), where the menu has been designed to reflect the notable stops on the Orient-Express: Paris, Venice and Istanbul.
With boasting views over Pera and Golden Horn , it makes for a perfect place to feel like a native. Regardless of whether you choose to stay at Pera Palace hotel or not, the afternoon tea is certainly worth a try.
Hagia Sophia
With great architectural beauty , Hagia Sophia embodies in itself the grandeur of both the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
There is not a lot of information given inside so you need to do your homework or take an audio guide or actual guide in order to know what you are looking at.
Sultan Ahmed Mosque
Also known as" Blue Mosque" , this historic place was built between 1609 and 1616, making it an exceptional structure to view both from the outside and inside. While you will only need 30 minutes or so inside, the lines can also be excessively long. Arrive early and be prepared to wait.
The Grand Bazaar
A market featuring keepsakes and cultural specialties from the country of Turkey. Spices, coffee, candy, glassware and furniture all can be found within presented in visually stunning orderliness.
There are over 3,000 shops and the Bazaar attracts somewhere between 250,000 – 400,000 visitors per day. It is a true spectacle and an absolute must-see for visitors to Istanbul.
Bosphorus River
Whether you delight in a Bosphorus cruise (for a very small fee) or find yourself on the water's edge, be sure to take some time away from the busy and bustling city to enjoy the river which separates the European side of Istanbul from the Asian side.
Galata Tower & Beyoglu District
Standing alone in a Galata quarter square is the medieval stone tower. Boasting views across Istanbul and the Bosphorus it is the perfect advantage point to put Istanbul into perspective. I didn't get the chance but I guarantee sunset would be amazing from there.


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Pencak Silat is a non-aggressive martial arts from the of the Indonesian/Malay islands.
Today there are hundreds of different forms of Pencak Silat. Silat employs natural body movements and develops balance and economy of movement in each individual.
It can be practised purely for sport and fitness, for the aesthetic beauty of the art or for the chance to learn one of the world's few remaining complete traditional martial arts systems.
Silat enhances and strengthens self-awareness, self-discipline, integrity, responsibility, loyalty and cooperation amongst its practitioners.
Pencak Silat was incorporated into the Asian Beach Games in 2008 and the Asian Indoor Games in 2009.
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Danang, Vietnam, October 1, 2016: As a three-time martial arts world champion, Malaysian Pencak Silat fighter Mohamed Al-Jufferi Jamari has had his fair share of tough fights but not many as hard as the one he was .....


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A few selected sips from the Twitter stream.
What's Hot
Top-Ten lists are passé—ours goes to 11. These are the top titles that folks are interested in currently, along with their rank from last month. This is based solely on direct sales from our online store.
|Agile Web Development with Rails
|The RSpec Book
|Crafting Rails Applications
|Hello, Android
|Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
|Programming Ruby 1.9
|iPhone SDK Development
|The Definitive ANTLR Reference
|Cocoa Programming
|HTML5 and CSS3
|Learn to Program
Inquiring Minds Couldn't Care Less
Twitter is a great place to ask those questions that you just have to ask but that nobody's going to answer.
Why the heck does it take Leopard so long to install? — @HuntHenning
Do you write Cucumber features in Romanian? — @aslak_hellesoy
Don't you play music when you code? — @louielouie
Do you use zillow.com to see how property you used to own is doing? — @davewiner
Are you a Groovy guy, then, looking for some cool tips and finding none? — @SamirTalwar
Don't all good projects start with a 'G'? — @matthewmccull
Can you contribute to mine instead of maintaining your own? — @edavis10
Who will do for Prolog what Clojure has done for Lisp? — @puredanger
Anyone in the twitterverse have a recommendation for a hair-clogged drain? — @squarepegsys
Any recommendations for a good work-friendly coffee shop around Lincolnwood/Rogers Park? — @eng
What iPad applications are a must for me to try out? — @JEG2
Are we witnessing Agile Bread Development? — @dimsumthinking
Wait, what? When? — @rit
Damn, the word "acknowledgements" is so long. Can we call it A14S from now on? — @bphogan
You did it! You totally have the right to brag.
First review of Japanese Pomodoro Technique Illustrated comes from Gordon Pask awarded Kenji Hiranabe http://bit.ly/hjxP2C — @staffannoteberg
#GQuick has another 5-star review: "The best 200 pages of technical literature I have ever read." http://amzn.to/hDAZKi — @daveklein
Just blogged: Driving Technical Change book review—http://bit.ly/gGKn0O — @pragdave
First audio interview describing the genesis of the Agile Samurai is now available via Pragmatic Bookshelf—wp.me/pt5cX-oF — @jrasmusson
It's official, I'll be joining Microsoft as the GM for System Experience in the Interactive Entertainment Business: http://is.gd/jc9AO — @rahulsood
I earned the Radiohead(50) sticker on @GetGlue! http://bit.ly/fsz6tG — @chadfowler
New on Ihnatko.com: Why I'm better than the banking industry. http://bit.ly/i18niX — @Ihnatko
Yay, only 15 failures left in my test suite. Then on to all the prototype JS stuff that no longer works. #rails3upgrade — @bphogan
Tweets of Science
Scientists link size of amygdala to size, complexity of person's social networks. http://bit.ly/f9Z8Bp — @hrheingold
Ray Kurzweil reckons he knows how to live forever. So how's that working out for him so far? http://bit.ly/h8LXJv — @newscientist
Would a hamster & a dog survive if dropped from on high? The RI Christmas lectures—BBC 4: 28, 29, 30 Dec, 8 pm http://bit.ly/gLyyNr — @newscientist
The t-distribution in statistics was invented by the guy responsible for quality control in the Guinness Brewery. Another triumph for beer. — @marick
Mathematics is the only subject that many people BRAG about hating. — @janetbyronander
Solar panels for your pants. http://idek.net/3gGm — @GuyKawasaki
The Coding Life
A woman tells her programmer husband: "Get me a quart of milk? And if they have eggs, get a dozen." He comes back with 12 quarts of milk. — @bphogan
I just found myself touching a word in a paper book, hoping to get a definition. — @pragdave
When working against deadlines involving computers, don't get your eyes dilated by the optometrist. #lessonlearnetoolate #cantfocus — @adamgoucher
The easiest way to shut down WikiLeaks would be to have Yahoo acquire it. http://read.bi/eiyeZJ — @hblodget
One good way to learn your bug fix was correct: People complain that their "loophole" code stopped working because of the bugfix. — @rit
Opportunity lost: "Welcome to day one at your new job, here's a memo about the dress code." http://www.jdwalt.com/?p=67 — @theworkinggeek
Listening to the Tron soundtrack while I code makes me feel way, way cooler than I actually am. — @benrady
Tweets of Wisdom
There is no writing, only rewriting. There is no coding, only refactoring. There is no testing, only feedback. — @PragmaticAndy
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. — @cshirky
If people are not trying to hire your employees, you have the wrong employees. And if they leave, you have the wrong model. — @adamgoucher
Job boards no more "help" you find a job than a billboard "helps" you find a new pair of shoes. http://bit.ly/aRecvK — @theworkinggeek
Efficient is othogonal to Effective! — @staffannoteberg
It says a lot about humanity that the word "hypocrite" has no antonym. — @trevorburnham
I haven't read the #pomodoro book yet, but just thinking about it makes me focus more. — @javaHelena
The senti-mentalist: "Think of a card. Maybe it was your favorite card from back-porch games of Whist with your grandfather…." — @undees
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — @DalaiLama
Snow Tip: The other people out shoveling are called "neighbors." They are like Facebook friends who live nearby. — @pourmecoffee
Life Is Frustrating, but then a Cool App Comes Along, and Everything's Great
I've failed after 4 attempts to enter the right Capcha on this registration site—I am no longer human. — @venkat_s
"Nor can we currently ship Nexus S orders to Canadian addresses." #foiled — @adamgoucher
Isle of Man is crazy. As part of the entry you have to assure them the cost of transporting your corpse is already covered. — @wolever
#amigos can call it a Crisp Meat Burrito all they want; they'll never convince me that the name is more than 2/3 true. — @scottdavis99
Gave a demo of Word Lens to my wife. Thought she was going to pass out. — @eng
Gonna be a lot of angry frat boys when Word Lens starts translating Kanji tattoos. — @ryanirelan
London kids throwing snowballs at me in the street. Hit one back in the face. Fun! — @aslak_hellesoy
After much soul-searching, we decided to clean up the spelling and punctuation and so forth in the tweets we found. So the people credited actually said what we credited them with saying, but not necessarily precisely how we said they said it. This month those people included Dion Almaer, Janet Byron Anderson, Henry Blodget, Trevor Burnham, Eric Davis, Ian Dees, Luis de la Rosa, Brian Eng, Chad Fowler, Adam Goucher, James Edward Gray II, Aslak Hellesøy, Hobie Henning, Helena Hjertén, Brian Hogan, Mike Hostetler, Andy Hunt, Andy Ihnatko, Ryan Irelan, Guy Kawasaki, Dave Klein, Dalai Lama, Andy Lester, Brendan W. McAdams, Matthew J McCullough, Brian Marick, Alex Miller, New Scientist, Staffan Nöteberg, @pourmecoffee, Ben Rady, Jonathan Rasmusson, Howard Rheingold, Clay Shirky, Rahul Sood, Daniel Steinberg, Venkat Subramaniam, Samir Talwar, Dave Thomas, Dave Winer, and David Wolever. Fair is fair: you can follow us on twitter.
Twitter is now complete. @slightlylate has joined the party. Call it done! — @dalmaer


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a Show of Strength is something I am incredibly proud of. I use it to show the world what mental illness looks and sounds like. And to Encourage Courage.
Beginning today I am also going to use this platform to help fundraise for an organization that literally saved my life, CAMH. Join me on this journey to One Brave Night - Friday, May 10th - as I aim to raise $5,000 that can be used to provide hope and healing to those in need.
You can help me achieve this goal by visiting donating today.
Be well and stay safe.