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The 1857 Siege of Delhi is interesting in that it serves as both a pivotal battle and a pivotal marker in world history. Or at least it seems that way to me. As a phase of the 1857-1859 Indian Rebellion, it was a decisive British victory that did much to stifle the rebellion's national ambitions, even though the fighting continued for many months afterward. It also, and here's the world history part, marked the formal end of the Mughal Dynasty, and when you're talking about the last hurrah of a dynasty that ruled most of modern India and Pakistan for more than three centuries, that's the kind of thing I consider to be pivotal. There is a counter-argument to this, though, and it's related to the fact that I have sitting on my bookshelf right now a book, The Mughal Empire by John F. Richards, that pretty much ends in the 1720s, at the beginning of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah (d. 1748).
Why would a history of the Mughals end in the 1720s, when the Mughal dynasty stayed on the throne well into the 1850s? Because from the early 18th century on the Mughals soon stopped actually ruling much of anything anymore. Aurangzeb (d. 1707), the last effective Mughal emperor, instituted a repressive Islamic governance that upended the dynasty's previous tolerance for other faiths (i.e., for Hinduism) and thereby completely undermined the foundations of Mughal rule over their majority Hindu subjects–though Aurangzeb himself died before he got to witness the fallout. After his death Hindu principalities quickly began to assert their independence in central and southern India, and Nadir Shah's 1739 Sack of Delhi made it clear that Mughal power was on the wane. By the end of the 18th century the Mughals were under the "protection" of the Hindu Maratha Empire, based in the Deccan. It was the Marathas, not the Mughals, who resisted the expansion of British control over the subcontinent, and when Maratha power was finally smashed in the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1816-1819) the Mughals came under British East India Company "protection" instead.
In that sense, then, the 1857 end of the Mughal dynasty may be one of the great historical examples of an anticlimax. For all practical purposes, the Mughal dynasty had gone defunct more than a century earlier. Still, I think the actual end of the dynasty is historically noteworthy.
Nominally, the 1857 sepoy (sepoy means "soldier" and derives from the Persian word sepahi, but in this case it specifically means local soldiers recruited to fight for the British East India Company) mutiny that snowballed into a full-on Indian rebellion against British rule had as its aim the restoration of Mughal authority. But I have a hard time believing that the rebels who stood against Britain were really fighting for the Mughals. Rather, I imagine that "restoring the Mughals" was cover for "kick the British out" and was meant to serve as a rallying cry more than a concrete goal. I say this because none of the people who fought in the rebellion–hell, none of the people who were alive when it began–had been alive the last time the Mughal dynasty actually mattered in any practical sense. But hey, whatever gets people out of bed, I guess.
The immediate cause of the revolt was much more mundane than restoring the grand old Mughal Empire–it was about guns and ammo. Specifically, it was about the introduction of the Enfield P-53 rifled musket, whose cartridges were allegedly greased, in part, with beef and pork fat. Since the procedure for loading the rifle called on the soldier to rip the cartridge open with his teeth, meaning he'd inevitably ingest a little of the grease, both Hindus and Muslims in the sepoy ranks had religious reasons to object. Grumbling over this fear in late 1856 reached a level such that the East India Company announced that it would issue new ungreased cartridges that could be opened by hand rather than with the teeth. Unfortunately all this announcement really did was convince the sepoys that they cartridges they'd already been issued were, in fact, covered in beef and pork fat. The sepoys simply refused to use any new cartridges while their EIC superiors insisted that they would use them, and after a handful of smaller outbursts, a mutiny near Delhi in May 1857 was the one that caught fire.
Of course, the underlying causes of the revolt went a lot deeper than rifle cartridges, although again I think we're on safe ground assuming that a Mughal restoration wasn't really among them. But again, it was a rallying cry for those who rebelled. The landowners who'd lost the most, economically and socially, to the encroaching British-EIC control of the subcontinent were located in the north, where the Mughals had been centered, and it was in the north where the rebellion had its strength, so Mughal prestige had some cache. To the south, which had never really taken to Mughal rule the way the north had, support for the rebellion was relatively weak. This geographic disparity probably played a role in the revolt's eventual suppression, as a rebellion that had truly encompassed the whole of India would have been difficult for even the British Empire to take down.
Even among the sepoys there were deeper grievances than the nature of their ammo. Most of the local soldiers who'd opted to fight for the British had done so because they pay was decent and because the East India Company made a few promises as to how they would be treated. But as the British pacified more and more of India, there were less and less chances for sepoys to earn hazard pay, and in 1856 the EIC changed the terms of enlistment to make the sepoys eligible for service overseas. Many sepoys had only enlisted in the first place under the EIC's promise that they would never be sent overseas, and though the policy change was only meant to apply to new enlistees, the current sepoys feared that it would eventually be applied to them retroactively.
The action at Delhi happened fairly soon after the rebellion began, mostly because the sepoy mutineers, over 2000 of them, had been based only about 40 miles away and immediately, upon mutinying, marched there to take an audience with the current, and ultimately final, Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar (d. 1862). The sepoys stormed the palace and Zafar, voluntarily or not (it seems probable that he was coerced to some degree, but it's impossible to know just how much), assented to the rebellion and became its nominal leader. He started minting coins, taking oaths of allegiance from nobles and soldiers, and generally doing the things that a real emperor, as opposed to an emperor on paper, does. And here's where the rallying cry paid off–what had begun as an isolated mutiny of one unit of sepoys against the perceived abuses of the East India Company now became, by virtue of the Mughal emperor's imprimatur, a full-scale rebellion against the very idea of British control over India. Fighters streamed into Delhi to join the cause.
The EIC began besieging Delhi in early June, 1857, but it was a piecemeal affair due to their manpower shortage. As other parts of the country were brought back under control, more EIC forces were shifted to Delhi to participate in the siege, but it wasn't until August when men began arriving in sufficient numbers to threaten the city, and not until early September that enough British artillery was finally brought to the party. The British had about 12,000 soldiers and 100 guns to the rebels' ~40,000 men and ~100 guns, but that manpower advantage dwindled as fighters began to slip out of the city when conditions worsened and the rebel leaders seemed unable to cope. Also, as the siege moved into mid-September it seems that the rebels began to run out of things to shoot from their guns, and in the artillery battles that attended the final British assaults on the city, the British had the clear advantage.
British forces punched through the walls and into the city on September 14, but in the street-to-street fighting that followed, they were slowed down by heavy casualties and, hilariously, by rampant drunkenness courtesy of the liquor stores they'd seized. But the rebels, who'd been defending the city since June, were running out of food. Hangovers wear off. Hunger, unless you get ahold of some food, doesn't. By September 21, the surviving rebels having taken flight (including Bakht Khan, the sepoy who became Bahadur Shah's top general and would continue to lead the rebellion after Delhi's fall) and Bahadur Shah Zafar having fled the palace, the city was deemed taken. Thousands were killed in total, and while far more rebels and civilians were killed than British forces, there's no good count of the total number of dead. British soldiers sacked the city and, enraged by an Indian massacre of British women, children, and wounded at Cawnpore (Kanpur) in June, summarily executed hundreds of people after the city fell, increasing the death toll considerably. The fighting continued through the middle of 1859, but with the loss of Delhi and of the unifying symbol of the Mughal emperor the rebels lost whatever chance they'd had of turning their revolt into a pan-Indian war of independence.
But we're getting away from our original point, the end of the Mughal dynasty. By the time the city was fully pacified, Bahadur Shah had already been captured mid-flight. He and his sons had holed up at the tomb of the second Mughal Emperor, Humayun, a short ways south of Delhi. British forces caught them there, killed the emperor's sons, and carted the emperor himself back to Delhi. He was tried for…well, I don't know, insurrection or something, the exact charges were irrelevant. Convicted, naturally, he was exiled from India and spent the rest of his life in another British colony, Burma. With no male heirs and no empire left to rule, the Mughal house, once arguably the wealthiest and most powerful ruling house in the Islamic–heck, maybe the entire–world, descended from the two great Central Asian conquerors, Genghis Khan and Timur, died with him.


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MVC for Web Apps
Posted by Sean Harrison in Uncategorized on November 11, 2014
Note: I wrote this March 15, 2009 but never bothered posting it until now. -Sean
The model is the data storage and the logic for handling it. It is not dependent on the view or the controller, but is accessed by both. It includes the database, whatever it is, and the data access layer. Data objects should know how to get themselves, update/save themselves and present their data to the application. There are several ways to model the data access layer, one of the most popular being the Active Record pattern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_record_pattern). Because most applications are essentially about finding, displaying, and changing data, the model has been called the "functional core of an application" (http://www.phpwact.org/pattern/model_view_controller).
The job of the view is, when the controller passes it a user's interaction (request in web terms), to get data from the model and display it for the user.
It follows that, in web programming, views should only be handling GET requests directly.
When people submit data to a form, we often need to give the user feedback on what they have submitted. This suggests either a tighter coupling between "controller" and view, or a way of representing in the model the feedback that the application is giving to the user in this situation.
In these cases, we _could_ use the controller to hand this feedback to the view (tighter coupling), but this tighter coupling might entangle the view with the controller more than is desirable. It makes better sense to have this feedback live in the model somehow, and have the view get this feedback when it queries the model.
I have been intrigued by the possibilities of what I now know is called the Transform View pattern (http://www.phpwact.org/pattern/transform_view). The model produces a representation of itself, which the view then transforms into a form that is appropriate for that context. XSLT is the likely choice of language for this type of situation. A couple of things are intriguing about this pattern:
- Different views can be constructed for different contexts, without changing or duplicating anything else about the underlying application. This makes it much faster and easier, for instance, to create a mobile web app for different platforms, once the initial application is complete.
- In the case of web programming, some or all of the transformation can be pushed to the client (browser), because all of the modern browsers are XSLT capable.
My inclination at this point would be to build up the application as an XML representation of the model, use CSS for as much as possible, and do the minimal XSLT transformation that is needed to deal with presentational realities. Do XSLT on the browser when possible, on the server when necessary. This workflow maximizes the agility of the application itself and the ability to create new outputs for new contexts as they come up.
That brings us to the controller, which is the part of this that I struggle with the most.
A controller is the means by which the user interacts with the application. A controller accepts input from the user and instructs the model and viewport to perform actions based on that input. In effect, the controller is responsible for mapping end-user action to application response. For example, if the user clicks the mouse button or chooses a menu item, the controller is responsible for determining how the application should respond. — http://ootips.org/mvc-pattern.html
In a web application, if the user submits a GET request, the controller will simply hand the request to an appropriate view.
If the request is a POST, PUT, or DELETE, however, the controller's job is to submit that data to the model, receive the model's response, and then call the view to get the model's status. The controller is not necessarily to pass data or messages directly to the view (although it is often used to do this, such as in Ruby on Rails). It seems that, for decoupling, it makes better sense for the controller simply to tell the model to update itself, and then notify the view that the data has been updated, without acting as a courier. The view is then able to get whatever it needs from the model directly.
In Ajax apps, it would seem that the view is updating the model directly, but what's really happening is that it is posting changes to the the controller and mirroring those changes directly, or it is querying the controller to return another view or partial view, which is used to modify the current view.
The controller, then, becomes a fairly simple routing mechanism. If the request is a POST or other data modifying request, it simply passes that to the model, which processes it and returns. (This processing can be set up to be asynchronous where necessary.) After passing the request to the model, the controller notifies the view, which can then query the model for the updates (if its an asynchronous application, the view can start polling the model to wait for updates. This is potentially where the Observer pattern, below, becomes useful).
The controller also putatively has the job of doing authentication (authn) / authorization (authz). In fact, that's a major purpose, because the outcome authn & authz will determine exactly what is done in relation to models and views (e.g., a controller won't POST to the model if that post is unauthorized, and will provide a view that indicates as much).
Still, I see a need to keep the controller very specifically to its limited job of routing requests and posting/putting/deleting to models. This is a very different way of thinking about the controller from what is currently being done in, say, Ruby on Rails.
It looks like what I have in mind is the Front Controller pattern: http://www.phpwact.org/pattern/front_controller
A completely different approach is called the Page Controller pattern: http://www.phpwact.org/pattern/page_controller
In the Page Controller pattern, routing passes transparently to template files, which are also the "views," which then process everything about the request. The advantage is simplicity and immediacy. The disadvantages are (1) strong coupling between the URL space and the template space (solvable by adding a routing layer); (2) strong coupling between control logic and presentation; and (3) the potential for duplication of control code in the presentation layer. Thus it does make sense for the controller to be a bit more than a completely transparent layer passing requests directly to templates/scripts at URLs.
An observer is an entity that creates a mechanism for an *active model*, in which views / controllers can register to be notified whenever a model changes, so as to be able to respond to those changes.
Requests are initially handled by the Front Controller, which does authn & authz, passes legit POST/PUT/DELETE requests to the appropriate model, and then routes requests to the appropriate view. Also hands request and session data to the view, since it would be redundant to get this info from the database more than once. Use a dictionary to map requests to models and views.
Views receive requests from controller, deal with session data, and interact with the model to produce a presentation of the model to the client.
Models provide all the data and the logic required to manipulate that data. They also provide representations of the data based on the context. For example, at a bare minimum a model class should know how to produce XML of a record or set of records. It probably also knows how to produce an HTML representation of itself, and an HTML form representation of itself, but these things are less necessary because they can both be derived from the XML representation by the view, depending on the context.
Observers can be used to send notifications to views, which pick up these notifications and use them. Doing this in a webserver context requires some sort of storage of notifications for views to access, because of the asynchronous, event-driven nature of the interface.
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Posted by Sean Harrison in Uncategorized on July 28, 2012
I was recently reading some online discussions about continuations in web frameworks, and it was clear from the discussions that most of the people involved didn't have a clear idea of when continuations would be useful, nor did I run across any good examples in my brief survey. Continuations can be hard to understand, especially in the absence of good example cases. But there is a very specific kind of situation in web programming in which continuations are exactly the right solution.
I am working on an application in which the user can tie into their WordPress.com blog. The application goes through several preparatory steps, then redirects to WordPress, where the user authenticates to the blog, then returns and goes through several more steps in my application. It's really a very straightforward list of tasks, but not all of the tasks can happen at the same time, in the same request, or even on the same server. What is needed is a way to save the procedure in process at any point along the way, and pick it up again when the user comes back for the next step.
A continuation is nothing more than a stored procedure-in-process that can be resumed later. In the context of a web application, the procedure-in-process can be stored and then picked up by the user when they return. A continuation provides a way to model a web application as a procedure, even if the procedure requires several request and response cycles.
Unfortunately, most programming languages (and therefore, web frameworks) don't support continuations, which are seen as too arcane or hard to understand. Even those that have something called "continuations" often don't have the kind of continuation that is needed to do this particular programming job, which is one where the state of a procedure can be stored as an object or file ("picked") for an indefinite period of time until the user happens to return.
I once wrote just such a thing in Stackless Python, by creating Python generators that could be pickled, and therefore, stored as files. I fondly called them continuators. When a continuator was reloaded from the file, it would continue from where it left off; if the same continuator was reloaded, it would re-run from the same point. This behavior is quite special, because generators in regular Python (CPython and the like) cannot be pickled, and they are run-once affairs. It is conceivable that a single-process web application, or one which uses strict session affinity, could make use of generators in "normal" Python to serve as a kind of continuation. But pickling enables the generator to be stored, and therefore loaded by whatever process happens to be the next one called. And it also allows the generator to be run from the same point any number of times, which means that the web application "back" button can work as expected.
But I haven't yet found the old code that I wrote (something like 8 years ago), and I'm not currently building on Stackless. So I have to solve the application problem by more conventional means.
The other two main ways to solve this kind of situation are (a) to use a different url for each step of the application, or (b) to create a state machine, and store state on the server as the application proceeds. This approach is not at all ideal — for one, it completely breaks the "Back" button. But it does provide a way through. The basic idea of a state machine is that the application runs through the same overall loop several times. Each time through, the state changes — some data is stored, or some question is answered, or some authentication token is received. On each iteration, there is a massive if-then-elif-then-elif… structure that tests for the different possible states, and carries on accordingly. It works, but it's not pretty, and it can be very hard to trace.
Some people say that continuations make it hard to follow control flow, but I found in using my homebrew continuators that it made application logic very sensible. So perhaps I'll look harder for that old code, and see if it can be used in web programming (which now requires concurrency and real-time — topics for other posts!). Or I might see if Scala continuations will support the kind of continuators that I have in mind.
What solutions have you used for the problem of storing procedure-in-process in a web application? What has worked well for you?
Accessing SQL Server from Python
Posted by Sean Harrison in Uncategorized on October 11, 2011
It's really not hard to access a SQL Server database from python, but you have to make sure everything is set up correctly.
First, make sure that the database server is set up for "Windows and SQL Server Authentication." This can be set in the server security properties (in SQL Server Management Studio = SSMS, right click the server and go to Properties > Security). I spent quite a while pulling my hair out about failed logins, when this was the issue. After changing this setting, you'll need to restart the server (using the Windows services administrative panel).
Then, within SSMS create a login, and a user for each database connected to that login, and make sure the user has been GRANTed access to the database (giving it the owner role is the easiest way to do that).
Now you should be able to login from python. Using adodbapi:
>>> adodbapi.connect("Provider=SQLOLEDB; Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS; Initial Catalog=database_name; User Id=user_id; Password=user_password")
What is PostGrails?
Posted by Sean Harrison in Uncategorized on March 10, 2009
PostGrails is a sniglet I created to describe my journey as a developer (in a similar vein, PostLib is a blog I recently created to describe my spiritual journey). Think of it as "Post" = after, and "Grails" refers to looking for "holy grails" in web development. It's also a not-so-subtle jab at Ruby on Rails, and it expresses my preference for the PostgreSQL database server. Basically, it means that I'm done looking for the end-all in web frameworks, and want clean, light, fast, efficient tools for doing the work of web development that don't try to mother me, don't "abstract away" the underlying technologies, and generally stay out of the way as much as possible.
I have been specializing in web application development for several years. In the beginning, I had read Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing and responded by diving in with the OpenACS web framework. ACS was one of the earliest "full stack" web frameworks, and it still performs admirably, powering such sites as photo.net and .LRN.
Then, I moved to Python (because I like Python a lot) and began working in mod_python/Apache to create my own "full stack web framework to end all others" which, like every other individual project of the kind, died with a whimper rather than a bang.
About that time, I ran into Ruby on Rails and said, "Hey, looks great!" and dove in. That was around August 2006. Rails is a great framework in many ways, and it taught me a ton of things that I needed to know about web development and good practices. And with it I have gotten some nice projects off the ground.
I recently had an eye-opening experience, however: I deployed in staging an application that I have been working on for quite some time, on a public server but protected under a login until it's ready for production. A couple of days later, I received an autogen email from my virtual server hosting company telling me that my usage for the month was going to cost more than the pre-pay level that I am at. I did some sleuthing, and basically found that Rails is using an enormous amount of resident memory (RAM), which is very pricey in the shared VPS world.
Basically, Rails loads everything including the kitchen sink, whether you need it or not. That makes it possible to do all the neat magic that they do. But it sure is expensive when it comes to deployment.
Magic. That's at the heart of it. Many web frameworks try to do so much magic that the developer doesn't really know what's going on under the hood at all. When there's a problem, I get a stack track a mile long. It's always a problem in my code, a testament to the quality of the Rails team. But sometimes it's really hard to figure out what's going on, because the magic hides the implementation from me rather fully. That's because Rails is an incredible abstraction on top of Ruby, HTTP, SQL, HTML, and Javascript. As an abstraction, sometimes it's leaky. It's also an expensive memory hog.
Most web frameworks, in pursuit of magic, seem to create a more-or-less thick layer of abstractions over the underlying technologies. With Rails, this layer is very thick indeed. Rather than defining database tables in SQL, you define them in Ruby and then let Rake generate and execute the SQL. Rather than interacting with the database in SQL, you use Ruby code. Rather than writing Javascript in Javascript, you write it in Ruby, which generates the Javascript. And you never even see HTTP directly. It's all abstracted away.
What web frameworks like Rails try to do is to get you writing everything in the language of the server scripting language. That's a big mistake. It doesn't absolve you from learning the other technologies — you need to understand all of those langauges in order to develop for the web. Not only do you now need to learn them, but now you have to learn an additional language, the language of the abstraction layer over each of those technologies. It does make it seem easy to learn, but it actually makes things harder in the long run.
BTW, if Rails is guilty, it is not an awful guilt. They've done a great job, and the abstractions are well-designed. ASP.NET is a different story, with layers 10 stories deep of the ugliest abstractions imaginable.
Instead of doing magic and providing thick abstractions, a web development platform should provide functional tools and as thin a layer of abstraction as possible to enable developers to get their work done.
There comes a time, when one is maturing as a developer, that one gets tired of the be-all solutions, the magic and the abstractions, and just wants a good toolkit that helps one to develop fast, efficient applications. It's time to grow up. That's what this blog is all about.
Surrogate Keys Considered Harmful
Posted by Sean Harrison in Uncategorized on March 8, 2009
One of the issues that comes up in database design is whether to use part of the data for each record as a primary key on the data, or whether automatically to generate unique identifiers that have nothing to do with the data. Automatically generated primary keys are called surrogate keys because they acts as a surrogate for the data in the database. The other option is to see if there is a way to represent each record with a unique identifier that is derived from the data itself. There is a decent introduction to the matter at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogate_key, with a summarize of the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
Now, I am not really going to provide a satisfying rant in the "Considered Harmful" tradition. But I am in a position to state a clear preference for meaningful, rather than surrogate, keys. Here are a few of my reasons, coming from the perspective of a web application developer:
- Surrogate keys always require a join whenever I want a piece of meaningful information. But in many instances, I only need just one piece of information from the record. If this information were the primary key, no join would be required. Joins always require resources and should be avoided, wherever possible, in a web application. Surrogate keys slow things down. They limit speed.
- Surrogate keys make it difficult for human beings quickly and easily to understand the data in a join table, requiring the construction of additional views. For example, if you have a people table and a books table, and a join table (people_books, say) indicating which people have which books, surrogate keys make the join table meaningless to a human reader. Whereas using meaningful keys makes it very easy to see at a glance which people have which books. Surrogate keys make things hard to understand. They limit discoverability.
- One of the arguments in favor of surrogate keys is that it means that changes to the data or the model do not have to result in a difficult-to-implement change to the meaningful key. For example, many systems do not allow cascading updates to fields that are referenced by foreign keys. That's not a problem for people who use an enterprise-class database like PostgreSQL. In cases when the actual schema of the data changes, then it is not too hard to figure out how to transform the data to match the new schema. Surrogate keys attempt to solve a problem that doesn't really amount to much. They have limited utility.
I'll stop there. Perhaps later I'll provide a couple of examples of situations in which we started with surrogate keys but ended up ignoring them and creating meaningful, primary keys that we used throughout the application.
In the meantime, what are your thoughts about surrogate vs. primary keys?


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Nine months ago I received my Windows 8 tablet (Acer Iconia W700) and immediately installed eve on it to test if I would be able to play. The result was my review of how eve played on a tablet and furthermore if it was a viable platform for playing games like eve "mobile". The conclusion I came to then was that the tablet did successfully run eve, but that the touch interface was both aesthetically and technically challenging to use. Now that I have had the tablet for 9 months, I've decided to give an update on this, and discuss the honest usage I have gotten out of the tablet, and if my opinions on it for gaming (and eve in particular) have changed.
Let's start with the broader stroke of windows gaming and the touch interface. A lot of games quite simply are not designed to be used with a tablet. Almost all of the games I own on steam either don't work with a touch interface (requiring two pokes to click, similar to eve), or require more than just a left mouse Button to play. Some, such as Civilisation V and don't starve work just fine out of the box, others are tolerable such as Revenge of the Titans or The Walking dead. Some require a keyboard and mouse such as Kerbal space program. Because of this I have purchased a Microsoft Wedge Keyboard and Arc Touch mouse (IMO the best travel kit on the market at the moment, despite the mouse taking up my one USB slot)
[Edit: during the process of editing this document the small USB dongle which connects to the Arc Mouse received a bump and has subsequently stopped working. This is a great pity as apart from the silly Wifi dongle the mouse is pretty much a perfect travel mouse. However because it used up an entire USB port, and now its discovered weakness (destruction of a 50p dongle ruins an otherwise working £50 mouse), I can't say that I will be purchasing a second one).]
With these connected the tablet works just like a laptop would, but with more flexibility for where you place your K/M on the crowded commuter trains mine sees its most usage on. In the near future there is some software coming out which looks set to change this: Gameplay Gesture Works, but we shall reserve judgement on that for when its released.
This said, I rarely play steam games on the move these days, preferring to peruse my extensive list of RSS feeds on the go using NextGen Reader. This is where the windows tablets flexibility kicks in, on the train I tend to use it much like an android tablet, reading articles, perusing reddit, or playing the odd game from the Windows Store. But when it arrives at work the workout begins. Firstly I have several OneNote folders set up for various needs in the business, along with a good handful of Spreadsheets and Word documents. In customer requirements meetings, I can hook into the intranet and demo functionality, or remote onto my virtual development box and make minor changes to my code. When lunch time rolls around, I fire up eve and pop online to update my buy and sell orders, as well as organise my PI structure. Because the corporate network blocks eve, this is done over a Galaxy S4 configured as a portable 4G hotspot, it takes seconds to turn on and off, and the speed is plenty fast enough for eve, and I'm yet to have any connection issues.
Once my eve time is finished I boot up steam and spend a 20 mins or so in my current lunch hour game. This ranges from things like System Shock 2, through Mirrors edge all the way up into Skyrim. Lunchtime over its back to the grind, until I get home. There the tablet is hooked up as a 5th screen for the computer using Synergy. Here it gets used for stats tracking, or as a map for my roams in Faction warfare (using Dotlan's Radar function).
For any one especially interested in playing eve over a 3/4G connections I can tell you that it uses far less data then you might expect. I found that is uses around 0.3mb per minute of light play (defined as flying about in a hauler, updating the market and doing PI, all in a relatively quiet system). I'm not sure I would want to attend fleets on it, or do anything of high-risk, but that is more my healthy paranoia of allowing technology to factor into the risk reward ratio of eve than any instability record. If there were a move op say when I was out of the house, I would certainly consider moving using the tablet.
So is it perfect? Simple answer is no. For a start I would like to see a tablet with a proper graphics card in it. Also if I were buying again right now, I would want a tablet with a Wacom Bamboo pen as an input option (taking notes at work would be quicker). Furthermore I am very surprised that very few tablets have a built in 3/4G modem which I could slot my sim into for mobile internet, but this is something I hope will be fixed with the next generation.
Despite these minor issues, I am still immensely pleased with this tablet, and it gets a great amount of use every day.
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Home Appliance Rentals are excited to announce the opening of our latest Appliance Rental Store in Dapto. We have been serving the Illawarra since 2003 and as part of our ongoing expansion we have opened a store in the region so we can be closer to our clients. This will enable us to increase the level of service and products we offer to our existing clients and new ones.
The store displays a range of White Goods including Fridge Freezers, Washing Machines, Clothes Dryers, Freezers, LCD and Plasma Televisions, Computers and Home Theatre systems on display just to name a few of the great products. All these products are available for short to long term rental or if you prefer to own the product rent to buy is available.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
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The State Council issued a circular on Feb 17 to innovate the investment and financing system regarding rural infrastructure, in a bid to boost rural economic and social development.
Efforts will be made to break institutional barriers and encourage private investment in rural infrastructure, according to the circular.
The target of the plan is to build a diversified and robust investment and financing system that can dramatically improve rural infrastructure by 2020.
The investment system of rural infrastructure will be divided into three tiers.
Non-profitable infrastructure such as rural transportation will mainly be invested by government while private capital is also welcomed.
Investment in water supply, sewage and garbage disposal, and other profitable infrastructure will be jointly made by government and private sectors.
In addition, investment in construction of commercial infrastructure, including power supply and telecommunications, will mainly come from enterprises, and government will provide subsidies in poverty-stricken regions in need of such investment.
The move is not a temporary policy measure as, according to the circular, agriculture and rural areas are priorities of government financial support at all levels.
Government will play a leading role in the endeavor as different measures will be applied to support rural infrastructure, including direct investment, financial subsidies, and free building material supplies.
Besides government and social investment, people in rural areas are also encouraged to participate in rural infrastructure development.
Financial institutions, especially Agricultural Bank of China, will enhance financial support for rural infrastructure building.
Efforts will also be made to improve rural infrastructure management of highways, water supply, sewage and garbage disposal, power supply, and telecommunications, according to the circular.


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The big burger chains make billions of dollars a year while paying workers less than it takes to survive. McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's have franchised a McPoverty business model that leaves workers unable to support themselves, shifts costs to the public, and lowers consumer demand. When workers aren't paid enough to even afford basics like food and rent, they can't build a better future, or help create prosperity in their community. McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's can afford to pay workers enough to support themselves & contribute to the economy. The big three chains serve billions & billions of burgers at more than 24,000 locations across the country (including 25 in Seattle), and they make billions and billions of dollars doing it. McDonald's alone banked $5.6 billion in profit just last year, with a profit margin of 20%. Even the franchised stores in these chains are typically owned by large and profitable corporations that control hundreds of locations.
Fast food workers are calling on Seattle to Boycott McPoverty on February 20th. The mass citywide boycott will call on the big burger chains will to lead by example and implement a $15 wage that transforms McPoverty into middle-out prosperity. Higher pay is good for workers and good for the whole economy, because more money for more people means more customers for every business out there — you can contribute a whole lot more to the economy at $15 an hour than you can at $9.32.


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Barriers to Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Among Adolescents in the United States
After this article was published, CDC recommended that 11- to 12-year-olds receive two doses of HPV vaccine at least six months apart rather than the previously recommended three doses.
About 14 million people are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV) each year. HPV can cause cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancers in women and penile cancer in men. It can also cause anal cancer, throat cancer, and genital warts in both men and women. One study estimated that in the United States, about 26,000 cancers per year were attributable to HPV during 2004 to 2008; see the most recent estimates.
HPV vaccines are given as a series of three shots over six months. CDC recommends the HPV vaccine for preteen boys and girls aged 11 or 12 years, so they are protected before being exposed to the virus. Two vaccines (Cervarix and Gardasil) protect against cervical cancers in women. Gardasil also protects against genital warts and cancers of the anus, vagina, and vulva. Both vaccines are available for females; only Gardasil is available for males.
Unfortunately, in the United States, HPV vaccination rates are low compared with other recommended vaccines. We reviewed studies published between 2009 and 2012 to better understand why preteens and teens aren't vaccinated against HPV at all, or don't finish the series of three shots. This is the first literature review to include male as well as female adolescents, and to identify the barriers faced by health care providers, parents, and traditionally underserved groups.
- Parents often said they need more information before vaccinating their children. Many parents who got their children vaccinated said they did so because a doctor recommended it.
- Health care providers often said parents' concerns and the cost of vaccination made it difficult to provide the HPV vaccine.
- Many parents and health care providers didn't see a need to vaccinate boys.
- Parents whose children start the HPV vaccine series may forget or might not be aware that their children need to receive three separate doses of the vaccine.
By addressing the barriers found in this report, we can increase HPV vaccine use and protect children's health. For example, doctors should check teens' and preteens' vaccination status at every visit, including acute care visits, to make sure they are up-to-date. Doctors and parents need to be educated about the importance of vaccinating adolescents before they become sexually active. Health care professionals may benefit from guidance on how to explain HPV vaccine recommendations to patients and parents. To be most effective, efforts to increase HPV vaccine use need to consider the different concerns of certain groups within the population.
Holman DM, Benard V, Roland KB, Watson M, Liddon N, Stokley S. Barriers to human papillomavirus vaccination among U.S. adolescents: A systematic review of the literature.External JAMA Pediatrics 2014;168(1):76–82.


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Facebook Messenger, which can send messages directly to your friends on their mobile phones, has an updated version for Android mobile phones.
New & Notable features of Facebook Messenger for Android:-
|Facebook Messenger for Android
Quickly see who's available
Now you can swipe your finger to the left anywhere in the app to see who's available and send a message. You can also add the friends you message most to the top of your Favorites so they're easily accessible.
A new look for your messages
A more conversational design for messages makes it easier to see who said what.
Texting with Messenger on Android
On some Android phones, you can now text your contacts right from Messenger. That way, all your texts and Facebook messages are together in one place.


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Iphones through the years
Hey there everyone, how we all doing? Hope you have all had a good day, and after a good day what's better than reading a good post on my computers and electronics blog? Nothing! That's why I actually spent a bit of money for today's post, I used this website with lots of second hand electronics called http://www.for-sale.co.uk/ and I bought some different generations used Iphones. I got a Iphone 4, Iphone 5, as well as a 4s and 5s so I could compare the older apple Iphones with them right in front of me. To see the changes made with each release is fascinating, so I decided to share my finds with you lovely readers.
Iphone 4
The first Iphone I ever had was an Iphone 4. It was something I convinced my dad to buy for me after my phone at the time stopped working completely. This was right after the next phone, the Iphone 4s came out. I picked one of these up online for extremely cheap the other day using this link for cheap electronics http://www.for-sale.co.uk/iphone-4 . Personally I think this phone still holds up fairly well if you stay on an older operating system as the newer updates are to demanding. The camera is a little worse for wear, as the camera in modern phones is worth the same as this Iphone at release.
Iphone 4s
Apple released the Iphone 4s just a year after releasing the Iphone 4, and it came with a wealth of upgrades. Visually the phone looked similar, but it was more technical changes that helped it stand out. The Iphone 4s was the first Iphone capable of shooting 1080p video, and could do so at a speed of 30 frames per second. The chipset was also improved, moving from the A4 to the A5 chip. Face detection and panorama shooting were also possible thanks to the upgraded camera. If you want more details, check out this Iphone 4s comparison.
Iphone 5
The most showcased attribute of the Iphone 5 was definitely its speed. Apple had moved the Iphone 5 onto 4g networks across most of North America and Europe. The screen size was also increased, yet the weight somehow went down. This was also the introduction of FaceTime, now a longstanding standard for Apple products. I bought a second hand Iphone 5 from http://www.for-sale.co.uk/iphone-5 the other day and I think that for the cost, it is the best older generation Iphone you can get.
Iphone 7
How could I talk about how far the Iphone has come without talking about the newest release from Apple, the Iphone 7. This phone just came out in September and I haven't actually got my hands on one yet but I have talked to people who have. This is the biggest and fastest Iphone yet, and the camera competes with actual cameras you can buy for the same price. The Iphone 7 even comes with Google Cardboard support!
What is your favourite?
So that was just a quick rundown on some Iphones released in the past 6 years. What ones have you owned and what one is your favourite? I hope you guys enjoyed this comparison, if so then please check out my last post on Windows 7. See you soon.


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Mobile Apps : Natural History Museum and Museum of Jewish Heritage photos
Here are some more pics of the exhibitions from our trip to AMNH and Museum of Jewish Heritage.
The World's Largest Dinosaurs(AMNH )
Milstein hall of Ocean Life.
"Great Canoe" the work of craftsmen from than one of the First Nations of British Columbia 1841-1931.
Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies (AMNH ):
Hall of Human Origins/Sackler Educational Laboratory for comparative Genomics and Human origins.
The view of Statue of Liberty from the Museum of Jewish Heritage during sunset.


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10 units
1000 level
Course handbook
Provides an introduction to the food supply chain and to factors contributing to the quality of food commodities. Current issues in the chain are addressed. Principles for the safe food supply of food are established, as are mandatory and voluntary aspects of requirements for food product labelling. Students are introduced to the principles of the scientific study of food, including the chemical, physical, sensory and microbiological properties of food commodities.
Availability2019 Course Timetables
- Semester 2 - 2019
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Discuss the global management of food commodities and issues in the supply of a safe and adequate daily intake;
2. Compare the contributions of individual, cultural and religious differences to food selection and preparation;
3. Relate the principles of food science and laboratory based evaluation of food properties to constituents, their reactions and applications;
4. Apply professional software to prepare labels in accord with the Australian legislative requirements;
5. Demonstrate knowledge of the scientific method of enquiry as it relates to the measurement of sensory, chemical and physical properties of foods;
6. Demonstrate ability to work cooperatively with peers to bring a task to satisfactory completion.
This course includes the following topics:
- Feeding the world: The worlds food supply chain including Australia's role as a food supplier, and major supply problems;
- Factors in the selection and preparation of food: individual and social differences;
- Sensory aspects, including sensory properties and responses and their measurement;
- Chemical composition and properties of food components, food formulations, additives and food labelling;
- Biological structures and properties of foods, food safety & HACCP in food service;
- Physical properties of foods and the relationship of sensory to physical parameters;
- Structure, composition, properties and essential processing of a selection of water-based foods, protein based foods, carbohydrate based foods, and oil-based foods.
Assessment items
Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Laboratory Practical exercises & Reports *
Presentation: Oral Presentation
Formal Examination: Formal Examination
* This assessment has a compulsory requirement.
Compulsory Requirements
In order to pass this course, each student must complete ALL of the following compulsory requirements:
General Course Requirements:
- Laboratory: Induction Requirement - Students must attend and pass the induction requirements before attending these sessions. - In order to participate in this course, students must complete a compulsory safety induction.
Course Assessment Requirements:
- Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Pass Requirement - Students must pass this assessment item to pass the course. - Students undertaking this course are required to demonstrate practical and theoretical competency in laboratory-based learning by participating in and submitting reports for a minimum of 80% of the scheduled laboratory sessions and obtaining an overall grade of at least 50% in the laboratory component of the course.
Contact hours
Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term


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City sketches (solo piano)
by Mary Mageau (1978)
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Performance by Katie Zhukov from the CD Six profiles of Australian women composers
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City sketches : four pieces for solo piano / Mary Mageau
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Work Details
Year: 1978
Instrumentation: Piano.
Duration: 4 min.
Difficulty: Medium — Competent amateur or student.
Contents note: 1. High street -- 2. Rendez-vous -- 3. It's raining -- 4. Homeward.
Revised in 2009.
Previously titled : Cityscapes. Revised and re-named in 2002.
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Packing for Success, A Neuk Hoose Guide
By AMS, Jul 21 2017 12:06PM
The holiday is booked, everyone is excited, let us help with the packing!
Self Catering holidays offer you the freedom to plan your own day and meal times especially if you are holidaying with the children, you can eat out if you want or if the littles have been on the go all day you can come back for a cuppa and feed them something you know they'll eat!
The challenge with self catering holidays is to find a balance between using the local shops for essentails you could have brought from home and packing so much you can't even see the kids in the car!
We like to help by providing the bulkier essentials for travelling with the kids, so you'll find a travel cot, high chair, stair gate and some plastic plates and cups, we also have black out material that goes over the shutters in the Cloud room.
We're really lucky in Crail to have amazing local shops from the Coop to the butcher, wholefoods shop, greengrocer with fish counter and fantastic wine selection as well as an artisan bakery.
We like to provide a few things to get you started like some tea bags, coffee and milk, a few toilet rolls and a kitchen roll. We also provide a basic cleaning kit with dishwashing liquid, cloth, sponge and spray.
However here is our essential list
- More kitchen roll
-Your own favourite brand of tea and coffee
-Condiments, jam, honey, tomato ketchup
-Cooking Oil Spray, this is a top tip, not only does it take up less space, it also won't leak everywhere in the car
Must Haves for the Kids
-Nappies, nappy bags, rash cream, wipes, If you're in this stage you wouldn't go anywhere without them anyway! You will be able to buy nappies locally so you only need to bring enough for the first couple of days
-Milton bucket and tablets for bottles
-travel stroller
-baby carrier for when you want to go off road
-A few favourite toys and also the essential cuddly toy for bedtime
-Beach towels
Packing for Pets
-bed and blanket
-food and water bowl
-Food and treats
-lead (make sure your mobile number is on their tag)
-Poo bags
-wet dog towel
If you are wondering what kit we have and what you should bring, just get in touch, we're here to help!


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Considering what great material the filmmakers had to work with, Manny, the new documentary on eight-weight-class Filipino world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, should have been a sure-fire KO. Instead of delivering the haymakers fans would have loved to see, however, the film ended up pulling its punches all the way through, resulting in a thoroughly unsatisfying experience that barely scratches the surface of both the man and the sport.
On its face, Manny ticks all the right boxes for a sports documentary. A poor Filipino kid from the gutter is forced to box from a young age to put food on the family table, and in the process develops a talent and ferocity that would take him to the very top of the sport. Amid the career highs (such as his superstar-making pummeling of Oscar de la Hoya in 2008) and lows (his KO loss to Juan Manuel Marquez in 2012, for instance) there are celebrity interviews and "rare" public and behind-the-scenes footage, all with the familiar voice of Liam Neeson narrating the script.
But despite an explosive start highlighting Pacquiao's knockout loss to Marquez, Manny soon settles into conventional documentary mode and begins to skim over the stuff that would have made the film fascinating. It touches on all the things we already know about Pacquiao's life outside of his major fights — the humble beginnings, the rise through the weight ranks, the movies and singing that came with the stardom, the foray into politics, and the apparent "religious awakening" he would experience a few years ago — but without ever getting to the "good stuff" simmering beneath the surface.
Yes, it was cool to see highlights of his training and big fights — Barrera, Morales, De la Hoya, Hatton, Cotto, Margarito, Marquez — in high definition, and it was fun to see celebrities like Mark Wahlberg, Jeremy Piven and Jimmy Kimmel talk about him, but all of these things felt superficial.
I wanted to see more footage of Manny's daily life; I wanted to hear more about the dirty business of boxing and the disputes between his promoter Top Rank and Golden Boy; I wanted to hear about all the venomous groupies that feed of his money and all the cash he literally gives away; I wanted more depth on Manny's dark side — the gambling and the drinking and the womanizing. It would be unfair to say the film completely ignores these issues, though it barely takes more than a jab at them. The approach by directors Leon Gast (who won the Oscar for the Ali documentary When We Were Kings) and Ryan Moore was to just touch upon all the touchy things and gloss over them quickly before moving onto the more positive aspects of Manny's existence.
The best parts of the movie are when we see people close to Manny talk about him, from adviser Michael Koncz and ex-conditioning coach Alex Ariza to his long-time coach Freddie Roach and promoter Bob Arum. The bits with the most emotion actually all involve Pacquiao's wife Jinkee, the only person who appears to be giving it to the viewers straight. But unfortunately, these flashes of genuine insight into Pacquiao are few and far between.
Perhaps it's because I already know too much about Pacquiao for Manny to teach me anything new. To be honest, even the 24/7 documentaries produced by HBO before each Pacquiao fight offer more about he subject than this documentary. I just think the film would have been so much more interesting had it dared to venture deeper into things such as Alex Ariza's unceremonious dumping from Pacquiao's team and the subsequent feud he developed with Roach and Koncz (not discussed at all), questioning how and what really caused the negotiations with Floyd Mayweather Jr to break down multiple times (nothing apart from a couple of clips anyone could have dug up on YouTube), and some sort of definitive statement about all the allegations of performance enhancing drugs (the elephant in the room).
Even the chronological depiction of Pacquiao's career missed important chunks. Although the footage is out there, the film ignores Pacquiao's earlier losses before Morales and his world title fights at the lighter weight class, and completely skips his less inspiring bouts against Joshua Clottey and Shane Mosley. I know it's hard to follow every bout of Pacquiao's long career, but pretending that some important events of his life don't even exist makes me question the filmmakers' objectivity and decision-making.
At the end of the day, Manny is a film that's more hagiography than documentary. It feels like it has been made by the same people who follow Pacquiao around all day telling him how great he is (they're what netizens described as "Pactards"). Pacquiao is an interesting, charismatic sportsman who deserves a better biography than what he got here, and this was never more apparent when listening him spew out the awkward lines they wrote for him at the end of the movie.
Having said all that, Manny remains in a position to succeed because of Pacquiao's immense popularity and fortunate timing — as the long-awaited showdown between him and Mayweather appears to be getting somewhere at last. Maybe after they finally do fight each other someone else can make a more compelling documentary that can do Manny Pacquaio justice.
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The best Small Hair, Beauty and Makeup Salons s also include a detailed set of controls that make it easy to customize almost every aspect of your WordPress website. Some of these themes include the premium Visual Composer drag and drop page builder plugin, giving you even greater creative freedom.
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Whether you simply want to make a website to promote your business and the services you offer online, or you need to create a website with a fully operational online booking system, this collection of themes will provide you with everything you need.
Trueman – Barber Shop & Hair Salon WordPress Theme
Trueman WordPress theme has modern and functional design created especially for Barber Shop or Hair Salon. With lots of powerful features you can create a powerful website for representing your skills, benefits and services. Trueman is perfectly suitable for Barbers, Hairdressers, Tattoo Salon or any website in Beauty Industry.
Trueman has an intuitive visual interface and informative layout that looks wonderful on any platform, since it's fully responsive and Retina ready. The theme is compatible with awesome plug-ins: Revolution Slider, Essential Grid, PO Composer, Appointment Calendar, Visual Composer for creating any layout at your taste. Fully supported with detailed documentation, Trueman is a perfect solution to create a Barber Shop website.
Trend Salon – Beauty Parlor, Hair Salon Theme
Trend Salon is a beautiful WordPress theme for hair salons, barbers, wellness centers, SPA and all health and beauty related business websites.
Fully working Appointment or Booking module, where you can choose time ,service and staff. Gallery to showcase the salon infrastructure and hair style portfolio, spa services. Offers section to highlight trending discounts for different services. Stylists Profile and their achievements can be shown. Multiple designs to emphasize customers testimonials, salon timing, pricing plans for men and women and full screen sliders , custom content for inner pages with different layouts can be created instantly.
Crown – Spa & Beauty Salon Theme
Crown is a responsive WordPress theme. It's a smart choice for Beauty, Nail, Spa, Hair, Yoga, Massage Salons, Wellness Centers and similar businesses.
Blackair – One Page WordPress Theme for Hair & Beauty Salon
Blackair is a Responsive, One Page Parallax, and Retina enabled wordpress theme built using Bootstrap 3+ framework for Hairdressers, Hair salons, Stylists and similar professionals.
Designed to give your brand or service an air of artistic style and luxury, this template is built to attract class conscious clients to you.
Terra Atma | Spa & Massage Salon WordPress Theme
Spa salons has always had this special atmosphere of serenity and relaxation. And we've done our best to render this atmosphere via our new WordPress theme. Terra Atma is a unique design that gives its visitors a feeling of peace and tranquility due to calm and warm colors. That is precisely why this theme is perfect for massage and wellness salons, spa centers, beauty shops and hairdresser's websites.
Soapery – Handmade Soap & Handcrafted Products Shop WP Theme
Soapery is a responsive WordPress theme with modern and functional design especially made for organic handcrafted products shop. It best suits for handmade soap shop, but it can be also interesting for handmade jewelry and accessories store, clothing store or crafts shop. With lots of features, Soapery is fully compatible with the latest version of WooCommerce to allow you create online healthcare products shop.
O'Nails – Nail Bar & Beauty Salon WordPress Theme
O'Nails theme is created especially for Nail Bar, but it can be perfectly suitable for any kind of beauty service, such as: Makeup Bar, Brow Bar, Spa, Hair or Massage Center and Barber salon. With it's modern and functional design you can promote your nail art, nail design, manicure & pedicure services or other salon procedures. O'Nails is fully compatible with the latest version of WooCommerce to allow you create online beauty shop. For showcasing your creative work, the theme is integrated with amazing portfolio feature.
HairLoom | Responsive WordPress Theme for Barbers & Hair Salons
Looking for something unique cutting edge for your saloon? HairLoom is a WordPress Theme with a clean, unique design. The theme is packed with great Custom Post Types and Theme Options to display any kind of Work on your website. It is a website for Barbers & Hairdressers with everything such a business needs. Prices, stylers, galleries, services, beautiful Slideshow and much more. Not just support WooCommerce, also comes with exclusive designs integration. This allows you to create a professional eCommerce website with different products style.
Cutting Edge – Spa Hair Salon WooCommerce WP Theme
Looking for something cutting edge for your saloon, have a website that portrays and compliments your business, then please check out Cutting Edge – Responsive One Page Parallax Template. Designed to suit hairdressers, beauty saloons, massage parlours & day spas this site is very flexible and is easy to use with loads of great features. It has been designed to make it easy to customize.
Beauty – Hair Salon, Nail, Spa, Fashion WP Theme
Introducing Beauty, a premium WordPress theme, available only on ThemeForest. With its light and clean design it's a smart choice for beauty salons, hair salons, wellness centers and similar businesses. Beauty has everything you need to take your company to the next level, but most of all it's extremely easy to set up and use: your new website we'll be ready in no time!


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We are always amazed with Athanasia's ability to mix and match media, paper and embellishments. Sometimes most simple elements can turn out into a master piece, take a look at this amazing mixed media journal page!
Hello Mixed Media friends!
Hello Mixed Media friends!
I am very happy to be back with my journal page!
I love making pages with quotes or thoughts in my journal. I found this beautiful sentence in the 7 Dots Studio 'Nature Walk' collection GROW LIKE A WEED and that was my inspiration for this page.
I made a collage with scraps from a paper of the same collection and sealed them with Clear Gesso. Then I used some green and blue shades sprays to paint the background with a paintbrush.
When it was dry I decided to make a couple of circles using the cup of a Mica Powder as a template and a black permanent pen. I also made a smaller one and painted them all with blue shades of gelatos. I let it dry and then I used some stamps to create more interest on the background. I also used the Heavy White Gesso and a stencil here and there for more texture.
In order to alter the chipboard flower I used Heavy White Gesso to paint it and Lindy's Stamp Gang white spray to make it more shiny. When it was dry I spread some Black Glass Glitter on some spots and glued it with 3D Gloss Gel. I really like how it turned out!
Then, I glued down the flower with 3D Gloss Gel and spread some Mica Powder (Bottle Green and Frozen Lake) here and there with a dry brush. I sprayed some water on these spots and let the magic spread all over the composition! After that, I used again the 3D Gloss Gel to glue some fabric and the sticker with the sentence.
My final touches are always some splashes with White and Black Gesso.
Have a lovely crafty day!
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Bournemouth, Everton and Southampton Target Danny Welbeck Could Make Deadline Day Move
- by Grady King
- in Sport
- — Aug 10, 2018
"They return on Monday, train Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and today so you can imagine that they are not really fit and ready", he said, although he was happy that Chilean Alexis Sanchez was raring to go after a full pre-season. Something in my guts tells me that Arsenal will just nick this one. "Regardless, I must admit: They remind me a bit of the "old" Arsenal I played in".
Emery was brought in to replace Arsene Wenger after his 22-year reign ended with a sixth-place finish in the league last season.
Goalie Bernd Leno has joined the club from Bayer Leverkusen.
Southampton are reportedly keen on signing the Arsenal forward.
The manager hasn't faced many major challenges at the North London club but it seems he has finally got one which is - Aaron Ramsey not signing a new contract yet the club has offered the Welsh worldwide a deal but the midfielder is hesitating to sign it for un known reasons.
Manchester City were nothing short of spectacular last season.
However, former Premier League victor Lehmann has dismissed the idea suggesting that other teams like Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United too could compete for the title and it won't be a lopsided campaign like last time. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?
"I see a lot of potential at Chelsea, who have a new manager in Maurizio Sarri".
Champions League finalists Liverpool kick off their season at Anfield against West Ham United, as Tottenham Hotspur travel to Newcastle United on the opening day for the second successive season. He joins an already prolific attacking collective of the Citizens, who were led by Sergio Aguero's 30 goals in all competitions previous year.
Although Arsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke's imminent total takeover of the club has been received with horror by the fans, they have still had plenty to cheer about after the arrival of new manager Unai Emery, some exciting new signings and some pretty decent games during the preseason.
Burgess also gave an insight to how Emery operates as a manager.


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What is Awareness?
Every October the country dons a layer of pink, from soup cans to the shoes worn be professional athletes, everyone wants you to be aware of the dangers of Breast Cancer. Don't get us wrong, we think that is a good thing. We just wonder how aware you are that March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Seeing blue ribbons everywhere? No? Well, you are not alone. It is probably the subject matter that makes people feel uncomfortable with discussing this common cancer in public.
The real problem is this - when found early colon cancer is 90% curable. Think about that, would you let your fears of the prep or embarrassment over the procedure stop you from taking steps that could save your life? Screening colonoscopies can take your health one step further; during the procedure doctors look for, and remove, small benign or precancerous polyps BEFORE they can become cancers. Prevention beats cure every time!
If you are at least 50 years old and have not had a screening colonoscopy please call your doctor to set up an appointment.


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Here is a gallery of pictures of Cliff Hollow and it's surrounding areas to help give you an idea of why it is so special.
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A view from the approach road
A view of the house and its proximity to the beach
Another view of the house and beach
A closer look at the house
A panorama of the beach from Cliff Hollow.
A panorama of the beach towards Cliff Hollow.
Looking north towards Perranporth
The beach at low tide
The beach at high tide
Detail of the open plan layout
The interior of the conservatory.
A view of the sitting Room from the dining area
The dining area from the sitting room
The Kitchen from the Dining Area
This room doubles as a bedroom with a double sofa bed


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This elegant wedding table plan is handfinished with organza ribbon and tags. This one is a navy wedding table plan.
Printed onto pearlised card and backed with layers of complementing cardstocks, colours of choice.
It is mounted onto a cream or white mountboard measuring 500 mm x 700 mm, although we can cut to other sizes.
We do not frame our plans; the boards can be freestanding on an easel. We can also provide the cards ready for you to mount on a mirror, ladder etc., please email us for further details.
The photo is navy sheer ribbon. We have more photos of our table plans on Flickr.
Up to six tables plus top table
Up to ten tables plus top table £75
Up to 15 tables plus top table £90
Up to 20 tables plus top table £100
Please contact us for larger plans.
Shipping £15.00


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Schmitter appointed as new CEO of Arvato's e-commerce unit
Guetersloh/Munich. Friedhelm Johannes Schmitter, 48, will take over the management of Arvato's e-commerce strategic business unit at the earliest possible point in time. In his new role, the noted e-commerce expert for will be responsible for the further expansion of Arvato's extensive services in this growth segment.
"In Friedhelm Johannes Schmitter, Arvato gains a top manager who has been exceedingly successful in the logistics and e-commerce sector for nearly 20 years. During this time he has proven in a variety of executive positions that he can think and act both as an entrepreneur and with a focus on customers. His task at Arvato will be to work with the existing management team to systematically advance the development of the e-commerce strategic business unit and to generate future growth," says Markus Schmedtmann, member of the Arvato executive board.
Schmitter says: "I really look forward to this new challenge at Arvato. As the market leader we know how complex and promising the e-commerce business is, and will do our very best to offer customers integrated solutions from a single source going forward."
A native of Mönchengladbach, Mr. Schmitter began his career in 1986 as a branch manager for Victoria Air Cargo GmbH while also earning a degree in Transport from Düsseldorf University. In 1993 he left to join Harry W. Hamacher GmbH as Regional Manager and another three years later became managing director at Transfair Luftfracht GmbH. In 1999 he joined Hellmann Worldwide Logistics as Director International Development before being appointed managing director of Birkart Fashion (DKS – now Logwin Solution), the market leader in European fashion and lifestyle logistics, in 2002. In 2009 he became managing director operations of Heycom GmbH (later renamed NETRADA Management GmbH) the world's leading provider of e-commerce services for the fashion and lifestyle industry.
Friedhelm Johannes Schmitter is married, has two sons and lives with his family in Schenefeld near Hamburg.
About Arvato:
Arvato is an internationally networked BPO provider. More than 67,000 employees design and implement bespoke solutions for all kinds of business processes across integrated service chains, for business customers from around the world. Its portfolio includes all services related to the creation and distribution of printed materials and digital storage media, as well as data management, customer care, CRM services, supply-chain management, digital distribution, financial services, and professional and custom IT services.


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Ovid's Sappho leaps to her death from the Leucadian Cliffs when Phaeton chooses a younger woman. Other heroines abjure the company of men and enter the cloister, or die of the consumption. The gents fight duels or go off to die in wars...
But this is real life and these are modern times.
In this technologically driven age, the ultimate in dramatic gestures is (cue dramatic music now): Deletion!.
People hook up, break up, and make up via text and email. AIM, Gmail and myspace often supercede the tête-à-tête. I admit, I am not immune this particular phenomenon. I recently found myself in the role of the rejector and watching the drama unfold. I found it to be rather anticlimactic.
One interesting drawback (or advantage, depending on who you ask) to all of this technology is that it leaves a record. One can track the whole process, the whole emotional roller coaster and, sometimes even the advancing level of intoxication. Quite fascinating really (or maybe I was bored and needed a break from photo editing).
The 7 Stages of Rejection
1. Denial and Bargaining:
Well we already covered those (here, if you're curious), so we move right along to...
2. Realization of The Loss sinks in:
Said realization elicits a myriad of conflicting emotions. The confusion which ensues may prompt the first dramatic gesture...
3. The Redistribution of Assets:
This is usually an irrational demand to return borrowed items or reclaim items left behind right now, regardless of time of day or night. This stage is also characterized by a complete disregard for what the other party may be doing (i.e. going to bed).
The rejecting party is usually grumpy at this point and the dismissal is quick, prompting further confusion for the rejected party.
4. Sorrow:
Soon after the brief face to face, comes the regretful sentiment, via text of course. "Hate that it had to be this way."
5. Anger:
This stage follows a few hours later---usually around bar-close. Presumably prompted by liquid gumption and spurred by sympathetic friends, comes the snarky verbal attack. The degree of inebriation will determine the format, whether text or phone call.
6. The Last Word:
Also what I like to call "And another thing...". The final point, jab, comment, and just so there's no chance for rebuttal...the final stage:
7. Deletion:
Ah yes, the final gesture, the ultimate repudiation of the rejecting party, the closing of that final door---deletion from the "friends' list". With the click of a mouse you can erase a person from your life and make a statement.
Call me an old-fashioned romantic, but I think the options in dramatic gestures for the rejected suitor of today are rather limited and lack a certain...panache.


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Industry analysts continue to project strong growth for medtech industries, with the Department of Health and Human Services reporting that the U.S. medical device market will reach $133 billion by 2016. As U.S. companies represent 38% of the global medtech market, the year is poised to result in record industry growth. Several notable medtech trends for 2015 include:
1. Elimination of the medical device tax. With a general Congressional focus on tax reform, the 2.3% medical device tax is expected to be repealed this year. Elimination of the tax has bipartisan support, with several key Democratic lawmakers joining Republicans in support of tax repeal.
2. Widespread adoption of PEEK to replace metal parts. Although PEEK has been around for decades, experts anticipate that 2015 will usher in a boom in its use in medical technology. R&D teams continue to investigate ways to combine PEEK's bio-inert properties with compounds designed to promote tissue regeneration.
3. Consolidation of big players in the medtech world. Mergers are the name of the game for 2015, with Stryker rumored to be seeking to acquire Smith & Nephew. Dozens of innovative start-ups are also poised to be bought out by medtech industry giants.
4. Generation of chemical-resistant polymers. Although the CDC reports that life-threatening MRSA infections continue to decline, there is growing interest in hospital equipment treated with chemical-resistant polymers. 2015 is expected to bring a renewed focus on production and delivery of chemical-resistant equipment.
5. Mobile apps grabbing a large segment of the market. Mobile health is here to stay. Nearly 1 in 5 smartphone owners have downloaded a health tracking app, and that number is expected to expand in 2015. Industry observers are keen to note whether mHealth can tap into the desirable youth demographic.
6. 3D printing boom poised to revolutionize medical care delivery. With 2014 bringing 3D-printed vertebrae and knee cartilage, some predict that 2015 will be "the year of medical 3D printing." An expansion of available materials for printing is predicted to spur innovation and improve access to life-saving medical equipment.
7. Large newcomers entering the playing field. No longer content to sit on the sidelines of the lucrative medical market, Google is poised to use its vast resources to solve medical problems (Apple may be close behind). Google's new R&D firm Calico intends to develop technologies that combat neurodegeneration, cancer, and other age-related diseases.


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text: Events Special Recognition Award The Hercules Historical Society gratefully acknowledged the receipt of the Special Recognition award that recognized the efforts of its founders and members for their focus on the City's history for the last 30 years. The Hercules Chamber of Commerce Ceremony Program has more information regarding the event. The History of West County Libraries Please Join us for this Special Presentation of The History of the West County Libraries A Tale of Two Cities A unique presentation, the first ever to specifically focus on ties between the Pinole and Hercules communities. Hercules Presenting Local History to Sister City Tsushima, Japan Lynn Fissell donated books to sister city Tsushima, Japan on behalf of the Hercules Historical Society and the Hercules Sister City Association. Hercules History Expo Location: Hercules Library, 109 Civic Drive, Hercules Ca 94547 Time: Saturday October 22, 2011 at 11:00 am to 4:00 pm The Hercules Historical Society and the Hercules Library are sponsoring a History Expo. The event will be held in the large conference room in the Hercules Library. Local historical societies and local authors will be present. The local ...Rotary Club Presentation Location: Hercules Senior Center, 111 Civic Drive in Hercules Time: Wednesday July 6, 2011 at 7:15 am Hercules, the newest book in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America Series, will be featured at an event for the Rotary Club of Hercules. Local author and Hercules Historical Society member Stephen Lawton will be conducting a presentation and be available ...What's on Second Antiques Location: 720 Second Avenue, Crockett Time: Sunday June 12, From 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Hercules, the newest book in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America Series, will be featured at an event at What's on Second Antiques on June 12th. Meet local author Stephen Lawton, who will be available to sign copies. This new book ...Hercules Middle High School Band, Chorus, and Orchestra Pops and Awards Concert Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gymnasium on campus, 1900 Refugio Valley Road The Hercules Music Boosters will be present to accept admission ($5 for each adult, $2.00 for each student, and free for children under 5), distribute programs, and sell refreshments before the start of the concert. The Boosters have invited ...Pinole Historical Society annual meeting Location: Pinole Public Safety Building, 880 Tennent Avenue, in the Alex Clark Room Time: Saturday, May 19, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. Pinole Historical Society's annual meeting, Author Jennifer Posedel will share interesting stories from Hercules's past and photos from long ago. Used Book Sale Location: Hercules Public Library, 109 Civic Drive in Hercules Time: Saturday, May 14, 2011 from 11:00 to 5:00 p.m. and on: Sunday, May 15, 2011 from noon to 4:00 p.m. In conjunction with the used book sale being conducted by the Friends of the Hercules Library, the book will be sold inside the library's doors.


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Los Angeles, CA, March 7, 2018 - Press Release - XCentium, a full-service digital consultancy firm and a leader in the digital eCommerce industry, today announced they have integrated the Bitcoin payment gateway, Coingate, and Sitecore Experience Commerce™ 9, expanding payment options with cryptocurrency.
XCentium, an award winning digital consultancy, today announced Sitecore®, the global leader in experience software, has awarded ten of its employees with the coveted Sitecore Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title. XCentium is one of the few worldwide partners to have been awarded 10 or more MVPs.
Just like the Sitecore 9 upgrade, there is a lot to love about Sitecore XC 9. As the leading Sitecore Experience Commerce Implementation team in North America and a Sitecore Platinum Parter, our XCentium Commerce team has identified nine reasons the Sitecore XC 9 upgrade will be a game changer in the eCommerce space.
Our team at XCentium has been hard at work putting together great content to share with you, which is comprised of our tireless efforts this past year – including connecting Alexa to Sitecore Commerce and developing 11 new plugins for Sitecore's Commerce Engine. Since there are over 80 sessions in this year's Symposium, I thought it would be helpful to share a list of ways you can connect with our team.
Nine XCentium employees awarded Sitecore Technology Most Valuable Professionals, including 2 Sitecore Commerce Technology Most Valuable Professionals, for exceptional contributions to the Sitecore community.


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Stop wasting time. Learn how to manage your Pain-In-The-Arse people to get great results.
Wisdom at Work is holding an upcoming workshop on how to deal with your Pain-In-The-Arse people.
You will learn:
If you want to learn how to handle your P-I-T-A people but can't attend the workshop, download your guide to assertive conversations.