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In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.
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Managing Users for Cloud Databases
This article describes the user management operations for Cloud Databases that you can perform.
Create users with host parameters
You can create a user in the Cloud Databases section of the Cloud Control Panel by clicking on an existing instance name, and then clicking Create Userin the Users section of the Instance Details page.
Create users
When you create a new user, consider the following requirements and limitations:
- All users have full privileges on the databases to which they are assigned.
- User names cannot contain more than 16 characters.
- There is no restriction on the number of characters in a user's password.
- You can assign one or more databases to the user.
- A database can be assigned to a user when created.
Valid characters for user names and passwords
The following characters are valid for user names and passwords:
- Letters, both uppercase and lowercase, are allowed.
- Numbers, spaces, and the symbols @, ?, and # are allowed, but spaces are not allowed at the beginning or end of the user name or password.
- The underscore symbol (_) is allowed anywhere in the database name, user name, or password
Limitations on user names and passwords
The following characters are not allowed when you create user names or passwords:
- Single quotation marks
- Double quotation marks
- Back quotation marks
- Semicolons
- Commas
- Backslashes
- Forward slashes
- Spaces at the beginning or end of the user name or password
Valid characters for host names
The host parameter should be a numeric IPv4 address that describes the host from which the user must connect (such as 192.168.1.12) or the symbol %. The symbol % serves as a wildcard to MySQL, and means "from anywhere". Users created without a host parameter are given the default value of %, which allows them to connect to the database from any host.
- Valid host name - 18.104.22.168
- Invalid host name - server1.test.com
Modify user accounts
You can perform the following operations to modify a user by clicking the cog icon next to the user name:
- Edit the user name and host
- Change the user's password
- Delete the user
- Manage database access (grant or revoke access to specific databases)
Manage database access for users
Clicking the Manage Database Access command in the Actions menu enables you to control user access to each database. To revoke a user's access to a database, click the "-" button next to the database name in the list.
To grant a user access to a database, click the Add Access button. In the list of databases for which the user does not already have access, select the check boxes next to the appropriate database names and then submit the changes to put them into effect.
Note: Through the Cloud Control Panel, users can only be granted or revoked full permissions on a database. To add more specific permissions, you must enable the root user as described in the following section.
Set access-level permissions for individual users
Currently the Cloud Control Panel enables you to grant or revoke user access for a given database, but all users are granted universal privileges on the database by default. Because of security concerns or other application needs, you may need to set specific privileges for a user such as granting some users read-only access to a specific database for reporting purposes. To completely control permissions for a user, you must enable the root user for your database instance. After the root user is enabled, you can log in to MySQL and manage the access privileges for individual users.
There are two ways to enable root user on Cloud Databases. One way is by using the Trove Command Line Tool, generally referred to as the CLI. Instructions for using this tool follow. Another way to enable the root user is through the API. Support for access-level control on Cloud Databases through our Control Panel will be provided in the future.
Use the Trove command-line tool
In order to use the CLI, first you must install the trove client. After installing the trove client, you can enable the root user for the database instance by using the following command, where <instance> is the ID of the instance:
$ trove root-enable <instance>
This command generates a password for the root user. Store this password because it is required to log in as a root user for the database instance. After the root user is enabled, you have full control for creating and managing user privileges.
Example - Database instance MySQLDBInstance01 has a database DBStaging1 and a user DevUser1. You would like to set up read-only permissions for DevUser1.
Step 1: List database instances to get the instance ID:
$ trove list
Step 2: Enable the root user on MySQLDBInstance01, with instance ID 23a6481f-f98a-4fcd-b4a9-54d06f6f6e88:
$ trove root-enable 23a6481f-f98a-4fcd-b4a9-54d06f6f6e88
A password is generated and returned for the root user.
Step 3: Log in to MySQL as a root user with the password generated in the preceding step:
$ mysql -u <root> -h <hostname> -p <password>
Step 4: In MySQL, set up read permissions for DevUser1 by using the GRANT statement:
$ GRANT SELECT on DBStaging1.* to 'DevUser1'@'hostname';
Note: You can reset the root user password by making subsequent calls to enable the root user.
Use the API
If you want to enable the root user via the API, you can follow the examples located in our API documentation.
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The pumpkin, along with other squashes, is native to Americas. The stems, seeds, and parts of the fruit of the pumpkin have been found in the ruins of the ancient cliff dwellings in the southwestern part of the United States. Other discoveries in these ruins indicate that the pumpkin may even have been grown by the "basket makers", whose civilization precedes that of the cliff dwellers, and who were probably the first agriculturists in North America.
Present varieties of pumpkin have been traced back to the days of Indian tribes. One variety, The Cushaw, was being grown by the Indians in 1586.
Botanically, a pumpkin is a squash. The popular term pumpkin has become a symbol, or tradition, at Halloween and Thanksgiving. The tradition dates as far back as the first colonial settlers.
Pumpkin can be served as a boiled or baked vegetable and as a filling for pies or in custards. It also makes a good ingredient for cornbread.
Pumpkins are grown throughout the United States and are used in or near the producing area. They are classed as stock feed and pie types, some serving both purposes. The principal producers are Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Iowa, and California. They may be found in stores from late August to March, the peak months being October through December.
Pumpkins of quality should be heavy for their size and free of blemishes, with a hard rind. Watch for decay if the flesh has been bruised or otherwise injured. Decay may appear as a water-soaked area, sometimes covered with a dark, mold-like growth.
Pumpkins are very high in potassium and sodium and have a moderately low carbohydrate content. They are alkaline in reaction and are affair source of vitamins Band C. Pumpkins are good in soft diets.
Pumpkin can be used in pudding or it can be liquefied. One of the best ways to serve pumpkin is to bake it. Pumpkin seeds and onions mixed together with a little soy milk make a great remedy for parasitic worms in the digestive tract. To make this remedy, liquefy three tablespoons of pumpkin seeds that have been soaked for three hours, one-half of a small onion, one half cupsoy milk, and one teaspoon of honey. Take this amount three times daily, three days in a row.
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Calcium: 66 mg
Phosphorus: 138 mg
Iron: 2.5 mg
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STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) Markel Brown scored 15 points, Michael Cobbins and Le'Bryan Nash added 10 apiece and No. 23 Oklahoma State beat Missouri State 62-42 on Saturday.
The Cowboys (7-1) scored 14 of the game's first 16 points.
After a dreadful first half, Missouri State (2-7) came out of the break hot and used a 10-0 run to claw back within 34-23 after Nathan Scheer's 3-pointer from the wing.
The Bears hit their first four shots and eight of their first 11 in the second half, but couldn't keep up the sharp shooting.
A turnover and three straight misses gave an opening for an 11-0 burst, and Cobbins' jumper with 8:09 left pushed the lead back to 53-31 and put it away.
Christian Kirk and Anthony Downing led Missouri State with eight points apiece.
The Bears came into the game shooting just 34 percent against Division I competition, losing all six of those games. In their previous two games, they were a combined 3 for 45 on 3-pointers.
They didn't fare any better against a Cowboys defense limiting opponents to just 36 percent shooting. Missouri State shot 33 percent from the field and made only three of its 18 tries from 3-point range.
Oklahoma State was just as cold from behind the arc, going 4 for 23, but dominated the glass 46-22.
The Cowboys were in control from the outset, scoring 13 straight points to go up 14-2 on Phil Forte's 3-pointer from the right wing with 14:14 left before halftime.
Forte, given a second chance after an offensive rebound by Cobbins, hit another 3 to spark an 11-0 surge to finish the first half and stretch Oklahoma State's advantage to 34-13.
Missouri State shot 6 for 28 (21 percent) from the field and got doubled up on the boards in the first half.
Oklahoma State has won all eight meetings in the series, including victories the past three seasons.


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Well, we're back from Alsace after a whirlwind tour lasting some eleven days, and my memories and images are in some ways a bit of a jumble, rather like the postcards shown in the picture. I'm grateful for the old-skool pen-and-paper logbook I kept on a daily basis – that and the (not very many, admittedly) photos I took should help me to piece it all back together in due course.
This year's tour was in some ways more arduous than previous ones. For one thing, I was a lot less fit when we started, my time in recent months having been rather occupied with non-saddle-related sedentary activities. A further factor was that we had planned almost exclusively to spend only one night at each camping site, which meant that we had the daily task of putting up and packing up our camping gear and were travelling with full luggage (him: a largish rucksack and trailer with ~20kg of gear; me: a small rucksack, two large saddle bags and the tent) almost all the time. On the other hand, experience has taught us how to pack effectively and efficiently, so we didn't actually encounter any problems with the bikes or what we were transporting on them (with the exception of some saddle-soreness that I'll spare you the details of – the moral of the tale being that you shouldn't do a long tour with a new saddle until you are completely sure that you have broken it in…).
Our overnight stops were: Gieswasser – Cernay (2 nights) – Eguisheim – Scherwiller – Erstein – Kehl (2 nights) – Obernai – Rhinau. We cycled about 500km in all, an average of 50km a day for the ten days we were actually cycling; our main tours (but not smaller-scale local pootling about) are recorded here, in case anyone's interested. We met lots of other touring cyclists, some of whom travelled a whole lot further on a daily basis, but we wanted to strike a balance between the cycling and the more relaxing holiday elements such as sightseeing and sitting around in the sun (or the shade: for the first few days the temperature was around 35 degrees) in front of the tent.
There'll be a few pictures to follow on Flickr, in due course [update 3 September: a few are already up!], but I'm not going to attempt a full-blown account of everything I did. Just a couple of quick summaries…
Occasional frustrations
- The rubbish corkscrew on my (el cheapo imitation) Swiss army knife was beyond frustrating and provided unwanted extra roughage in our wine on more than one occasion. We bought a new one in the end.
- Once again, I failed to speak as much French as I could have.
- Eguisheim, which I'd been really looking forward to looking around, was completely overrun with tourists – we'd coincided with the annual wine festival.
- Also in Eguisheim, the plot I'd determinedly selected as "perfect" for us to pitch our tent had such hard ground that we wasted an hour trying to get the tent pegs in, only to have to admit defeat and move it ultimately (the silver lining to this, however, was that we ended up with neighbours that couldn't have been nicer, and a quieter spot).
- We got awfully lost in both Colmar and Strasbourg, despite good maps and GPS. In Colmar it was because a large logistics company had plonked its new plant right where our map said there was a cycle route, while in Strasbourg I have to confess that it was our fault for choosing unsuitable roads in an attempt to cut corners.
Unexpected highlights
- The storks wandering around the camping site in Cernay, completely unperturbed by anything else that was going on.
- A bottle of local white wine provided by the lady at the camping site in Scherwiller, after we arrived soaking wet and bedraggled.
- Showers with temperature control AND without either a timer or coin-operation in Rhinau.
- The stained-glass windows in Strasbourg cathedral – some of the finest I've seen.
- Grapes on the vine ready for harvest right outside our tent in two of the places we stayed.
- I managed to hit on exactly the right (minimalist) combination of clothing for the tour – didn't run out of anything or return with unworn items.
- I already knew that tent-pegs were called Heringe (herrings) in German, but I was highly amused to discover that the French call them sardines.
- The infrastructure of cycling paths and lanes in Alsace is a million times better than what we encountered further south on our previous tours.
- On two occasions we experienced the deep satisfaction of getting the tent pitched before the thunderstorm begins, and we managed entirely to avoid having to either pitch or pack up the tent in the rain.
- Chocolate eclairs – not unexpected as such, but amazingly good from every bakery we got them from.


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| Players and staff on the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team for the 2013 FIVB World League.
Missing are Jayson Jablonsky and Russell Holmes
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 4, 2013) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team, ranked No. 5 in the world by the FIVB, took second at the 2012 FIVB World League with a 12-man Final Round team with an average age of 31.1.
The average age of the 22-man roster for the 2013 FIVB World League is 27.1. If you remove Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) and David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) – the only two veterans on the roster from the 2008 U.S. Team that won World League and the Olympic gold medal – the average age drops to 25.7.
That youth will be on display on June 7-8 when the United States when the United States takes on Argentina in Wichita, Kan., in the first weekend of World League for both sides. (To purchase World League tickets, click here)
First-year U.S. Men's Head Coach John Speraw (Irvine, Calif.) made it clear from the start that he was going to use the first World League of his tenure to assess new talent, even if it meant some growing pains; and he has followed through on that promise.
"I think it's about turnover and who the young guys are and how much experience we can get them early," Speraw said. "I think we're going to have to get some new blood in here and take a look at some new young players and see what they can do, particularly early in the (quadrennial). I think the coach needs empowered to take some risks even if it means there are some early failures, because I think it's going to mean success in the long run."
Working with younger players has brought new enthusiasm to practices and has also made it easier for Speraw to implement change in the gym.
"We have been working on establishing the system we want to run over the next four years," Speraw said of his first days in the gym with the team at the American Sports Centers (ASC) in Anaheim, Calif. "We want to establish the culture that we want to compete with the best in the world."
The roster for Wichita includes 2012 returnees Lee, Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.), Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) and Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.).
Those last five, who were considered "rookies" in London, are now the ones who are advising even younger players such as Tony Ciarelli (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Erik Shoji (Honolulu) who are both 23.
"It will definitely be a new experience for me, being one of the older guys," said Lotman, 28. "I'm looking forward to it. The first two weeks I was back in the gym, I had a minor injury so I acted as more of a coach."
The Team
Middle blocker is a strong position for the U.S. Men's Team as three players return from the 2012 Olympic Team: Holmes, Lee and Smith.
Behind them, Max Holt (Cincinnati), who was a 2012 Olympic Team alternate, had a strong winter season in Italy's Serie A league, where his team advanced to the league final and won the CEV Challenge Cup. Matt Rawson (Westchester, Calif.) has played at the Pan American Games and Pan American Cup and played the winter of 2012-13 in France.
At outside hitter, three-time Olympian Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) is taking some time off, although he has still been training at the ASC. Look for 2012 USA Volleyball men's indoor athlete of the year and Olympian Matt Anderson to step into a leadership role after a winter break spent playing in Russia. Paul Lotman, another 2012 Olympian, should also play a greater role after helping his Polish team to the league championship over the winter.
Newcomers looking to break through will be Ciarelli and Lawson as well as Jayson Jablonsky (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Garrett Muagututia (Oceanside, Calif.). Ciarelli and Lawson were both college standouts who have played on the U.S. Men's Junior National Team. Ciarelli, Jablonsky and Muagututia have all played on Pan Am Cup teams.
Thornton, a 2012 Olympian who started at setter for the U.S. Men for much of the 2010 and 2011 seasons, is the veteran of the setting corp. Setter Kawika Shoji (Honolulu) has played on U.S. youth, junior and Pan American Cup teams and spent the winter leading his German team to the league championship.
Setters Kyle Caldwell (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Ryan Ammerman (Denver) will be looking to help as well. Caldwell, who played in the 2011 Pan American Games, competed over the winter in Belgium. Ammerman was on the 2012 Pan Am Cup team and played over the winter in Croatia.
Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.), who competed in the 2011 World University Games and Pan American Cup and spent the winter of 2012-13 playing in Italy, is training at both outside hitter and opposite.
Opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu), a three-time Olympian and 2008 Most Valuable Player in Beijing, will also miss World League this year, opening the door for Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.), Carson Clark (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.). Troy played over the winter in Italy, while Clark was in France and Patak in Puerto Rico and France. Patak has the most international experience with the U.S. Men's Team, having been the starting opposite for much of 2009 while Stanley rested.
After two Olympic Games, Lambourne continues to be a solid force at libero. Erik Shoji (Honolulu) and Alfee Reft (Oxnard, Calif.) will also be looking for playing time. Reft was the backup to Lambourne in 2009 and 2010 before leaving the team to try full-time coaching. He returns after playing over the winter in France. Shoji has played on U.S. youth and junior teams along with the 2011 World University Games team.
The Competition
The United States has competed in World League 15 times since the start of the competition in 1990, including every year from 2006-12.
If the U.S. Men qualify for the World League Final Round in 2013, it will be the third straight time they have made it and the fifth time since 2005. Prior to the 2012 World League silver medal, the U.S. Men won the gold medal in 2008, bronze in 2007 and bronze in 1992.
One benefit to finishing second at the 2012 FIVB World League is that the U.S. Men got a particularly favorable schedule. They will get to play three matches in the United States against some lower-ranked teams before they travel to play Poland, ranked No. 4 by the FIVB and the defending World League champions, and Brazil, the world's No. 1 ranked team and the nine-time World League champion.
The U.S. will open World League against No. on June 7-8 in Wichita, Kan., against No. 9 Argentina. In 2012, the U.S. Men won two preseason scrimmages against Argentina and also defeated the South Americans at the Pan American Cup. Argentina finished 10th at the 2012 World League and fifth at the 2012 Olympic Games. Argentina will be without its top outside hitter Facundo Conte, who recently underwent shoulder surgery. The U.S. Men are 43-8 against Argentina since 1980.
On June 14-15, the U.S. Men will be in Tulsa to face No. 15 France. The two teams were in the same pool in 2012 and the U.S. Men went 2-2 against the European team. In fact, the U.S. Men had to win it final pool play match against Italy in order to keep France from winning the pool. France finished seventh at World League. It did not qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games. The United States is 39-8 against France since 1980. Four players on the U.S. World League Team – Patak, Clark, Reft and Smith – played in France's professional league during the winter of 2012-13.
After a week off, the U.S. Men's Team will be in Reno, Nev., on June 28-29 to face No. 8 Bulgaria. In 2012, the U.S. Men faced Bulgaria on its home turf in Sofia in the World League Final Round and came away with a victory in front of 10,500 fans. Bulgaria finished fourth in World League and went on to place fourth in the Olympic Games. The United States is 23-13 against Bulgaria since 1980.
The U.S. Men will play in two different Polish cities during their trip to Eastern Europe. On July 5 they will play in Katowice while on July 7 they will be in Wroclaw. The United States played Poland once in 2012, losing in the World League final. After winning World League, Poland finished tied for fifth at the Olympic Games. U.S. players Lotman and Holmes have both played in Poland the last two winters. The U.S. Men have a 33-18 record against Poland since 1980.
Pool play will end for the U.S. Men on July 13-14 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is just a short hop from where the Final Round will be held in Mar del Plata, Argentina. The U.S. Men defeated Brazil twice in 2012, once at the Pan American Cup and once in pool play at the Olympic Games. However Brazil bounced back from that loss and ended up winning the silver medal in London. It finished sixth at World League. The U.S. Men have a 64-75 record against Brazil since 1980.
Six teams will qualify for the World League Finals on July 17-21 in Mar del Plata, Argentina: The top two teams from Pools A and B, plus the winners of Pool C and the host country. As Argentina is in Pool A and is already among the qualified teams, the best ranked team of Pool A – not already qualified – will be selected.
2013 U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team
12-Man Roster for FIVB World League on June 7-8 in Wichita, Kan.
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1. Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
4. David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
6. Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7. Kawika Shoji (S, 6-3, Honolulu, Hawaii, Stanford)
9. Murphy Troy (Opp, 6-8, St. Louis, Mo., USC)
10. Tony Ciarelli (OH, 6-6, Huntington Beach, Calif., USC)
11. Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
13. Matt Rawson (MB, 6-7, Westchester, Calif., Hawaii)
15. Carson Clark (Opp, 6-8, Santa Barbara, Calif., UC Irvine)
18. Garrett Muagututia (OH, 6-5, Oceanside, Calif., UCLA)
20. David Smith (MB, 6-7, Saugus, Calif., UC Irvine)
22. Erik Shoji (L, 6-0, Honolulu, Hawaii, Stanford)
Head Coach: John Speraw (Irvine, Calif.)
Team Manager: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Assistant Coach: Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Mike Sealy (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Consultant Coach: Andrea Becker (Martinez, Calif.)
Physiotherapist/Athletic trainer: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
Technical Coordinator: Anton Willert (Berlin, Germany)
Doctor: Andrew Gregory (Nashville, Tenn.)
2013 U.S. Men's World League Schedule
June 7-8: Argentina at USA, Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kan. - BUY TICKETS
June 14-15: France at USA, Tulsa Convention Center Arena in Tulsa, Okla. - BUY TICKETS
June 28-29: Bulgaria at USA, Reno Events Center in Reno, Nev. - BUY TICKETS
July 5: USA at Poland, Spodek in Katowice, Poland
July 7: USA at Poland, Centennial Hall in Wroclaw, Poland
July 13-14: USA at Brazil, Maracanazinho in Rio de Janeiro


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Department of Human Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 350
fax: +49 (0341) 3550 - 399
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Heiko Temming
Software Engineer
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Evolution
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: 0049 (0) 341 3550 359
fax: 0049 (0) 341 3550 399
e-mail: temming@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Heiko Temming is within the department of Human Evolution mainly in charge of the technical and organizational aspects of acquisition, reconstruction, visualization, manipulation and replication of 3-dimensional imaging data:
- Supervising, operating and maintaining of
- Scanning Equipment (CT Scanners, Surface scanners)
- Virtual reality laboratory
- 3D-Printer
- Organizing internal and external CT scan projects
- Organizing 3D imaging data (database, user access, etc.)
- Generating 3D-replicas
- Software Development (e.g., Avizo, Matlab, C/C++)
He studied Electrical Engineering at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK Leipzig) and was employed at Siemens Medical Imaging Solutions and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.


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Events Listings
Exhibits-San Francisco Through October 3
"SUN SPHERES," -- "Sun Spheres'' is a trio of mosaic
sculptures by artist Laurel True at the intersection of Ocean and Granada
Avenues in the OMI District of San Francisco.
(415) 252-2551, www.sfartscommission.org/pubart.
"Water for a Sustainable City," through Oct. 29. Exhibit explores
the development of San Francisco's water system through the lens of
architecture and design.
Free. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 130 Sutter St., # 600, San
Francisco. (415) 362-7397, www.aiasf.org.
CONSERVATORY OF FLOWERS The Victorian landmark has 1,500
species including rare and beautiful tropical plants from 50 countries.
Exhibits include Highland Tropics, the Aquatic Plants, Lowland Tropics,
Potted Plants and the new Special Exhibits gallery. Opened in 1879, the wood
and glass greenhouse is the oldest existing conservatory in the Western
"Chomp 2! Return of the Carnivorous Plants," through Oct. 31.
Special exhibition of carnivorous plants features living plants and
activities for families.
$5 general; $3 seniors, students and youth ages 12-17; $1.50
children ages 5-11; free for ages 4 and under; free first Tuesdays.
Tuesday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. John F. Kennedy Drive, Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco. (415) 666-7001, www.conservatoryofflowers.org.
EVENING GALLERY WALKS These monthly evening gallery walks or
"crawls'' are a way to learn about art for the casual viewer without the
intimidation of visiting a gallery with no one else around. Generally the
galleries are filled on the "walk'' evenings with people drinking wine and
talking. Gallery owners are happy to answer questions about the art on view.
The important thing to remember is that it is free to gaze and drink.
"First Thursday," 5:30-8 p.m. Generally some 20
galleries participate in this monthly evening of open galleries. Many are
located around Union Square. Some of the galleries that participate on a
regular basis are Pasquale Iannetti Gallery, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, and
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, all on Sutter Street; Meyerovich Gallery and Dolby
Chadwick Gallery on Post Street; and Rena Bransten Gallery and Stephen Wirtz
Gallery on Geary Street. Sponsored by the San Francisco Art Dealers
Association. First Thursday of the month. Free.
San Francisco.
HOTEL DES ARTS The boutique 51-room art hotel in Union Square
features an art gallery by Start SOMA.
"Painted Rooms," An exhibit of painted rooms in the
hotel by emerging artists.
Free. Daily, 8 a.m.-11 p.m. 447 Bush St., San Francisco. (415)
956-4322, www.sfhoteldesarts.com.
"The Digital Liberation of G-d," A permanent interactive
media installation created by New York-based artist Helene Aylon, which
examines the influences of patriarchal attitudes upon Jewish traditions and
sacred texts.
Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday,
8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. 3200 California St., San Francisco.
(415) 292-1200, Box Office: (415) 292-1233, www.jccsf.org.
"Local Color," through Oct. 10. Works by 27 artists from the
Peninsula Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art.
455 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco.
"Bayview's Historical Footprints," A permanent
photographic exhibition celebrating the diverse history of Bayview Hunters
Point featuring multimedia oral histories from community elders.
Free. Monday, Tuesday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Wednesday, 1
p.m.-8 p.m.; Thursday, 1 p.m.-7 p.m.; Friday, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. 5075 Third St.,
San Francisco. (415) 355-5757, www.sfpl.org.
"Digging Deep: Underneath San Francisco Public Library,"
Exhibition collects archaeological remains from the Gold Rush-era cemetery
and the ruins of old City Hall destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.
"Singgalot (The Ties That Bind)," through Oct. 24. The exhibit
celebrates 100 years of Filipino American experience with photographs, images
and historical documents drawn from the National Archives, the Library of
Congress and personal collections.
Free. Monday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday, 9
a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday, noon-6 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m. 100 Larkin St., San
Francisco. (415) 557-4400, www.sfpl.org.
"Galleons and Globalization: California Mission Arts and the
Pacific Rim," through Dec. 19. The exhibit explores the lively commerce in
iconography, materials and ideas that shaped California's rich mission arts.
2130 Fulton St., San Francisco. (415) 422-5178.
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS The center's visual arts
exhibitions feature contemporary art and popular culture by local, national
and international artists. There are four rounds of exhibitions in the
galleries each year.
"PlayCRAFT: A Game of Your Design," through Oct. 3. Create your
own design object as you explore the "TechnoCRAFT'' exhibition.
$3-$6; free the first Tuesday of every month. Tuesday, Wednesday
and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday, noon-8 p.m. 701 Mission St., San
Francisco. (415) 978-2787, www.ybca.org.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's 2012 Goddard Forum, "Oil and Gas Development Impacts on Forested Ecosystems: Research and Management Challenges," will bring together scientists, managers, conservation organizations and industry representatives working with oil and gas development to share research results and management strategies.
The conference, to be held April 9-10 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, is sponsored by the School of Forest Resources in the College of Agricultural Sciences. The U.S. Forest Service's Northern Research Station, headquartered in Newtown Square, Pa., is a co-sponsor of the event.
"During this two-day meeting, we will have a diversity of invited and offered presentations focused specifically on impacts on and adaptive management strategies for forested ecosystems," said Jim Grace, Maurice K. Goddard Chair in Forestry and Environmental Resource Conservation.
"The pertinent questions revolve around how we can manage gas-development activities in a manner that preserves our environmental quality of life and deals with our social needs, while providing economic benefits to our citizens and bolstering our supply of clean domestic energy."
Grace, who served as director of the Bureau of Forestry in the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources from 1994 to 2007, noted that conference presentations by both managers and scientists will explore the full range of forest issues.
"They will discuss landscape modification, water, air, habitat, roads, timber supply, invasive species, noise, landscape restoration, management and monitoring strategies, and other topics focused on forests," he said. "Sessions will cover public as well as industrial and other private forests."
More than 30 conference speakers will represent academia, state and federal government, industry, and environmental and conservation organizations. Additional information, including a complete list of speakers and presentations, is available on the 2012 Goddard Forum website at http://psu.ag/wJUONr.
For information about conference accommodations, meals and registration, contact the Office of Conferences and Short Courses toll-free at 877-778-2937 or at email@example.com via email.


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Right up front? This movie is in the running for the dumbest movie of all time.
There are easily twenty to twenty-five points in the movie where you could look at what's happening onscreen and list ten good reasons why whatever's going on would be either impossible, improbable, incongruous, or idiotic. And that's ALLOWING for the possibility of an alien invasion in the first place, I'm not even counting that…
Yup, this script was someone's Jr. High creative writing assignment, but on the plus side? They blow a lot of shit up.
Seriously, anytime you have Rihanna manning heavy weapons, something silly is going on.
And that's exactly what this movie is. Right from the opening bell, when Taylor Kitsch is "forced to join the Navy", and then they cut to him starring in an international soccer game that's part of a joint military exercise with Japan, you just know, "Hey, they don't give a shit about logic or common sense here". I mean, literally, when they talk about "turning off you brain" to watch a movie, I don't think that's enough for this one. You better unplug that thing too, just in case.
High level plot summary, here we go!
- Aliens invade Earth. During entry into the atmosphere, they lose their communications ship.
- Explosions and damage effects as the communications ship crashes.
- Aliens create a force-field dome around Hawaii in order
to justify focusing the story on just three shipsin order to secure their attempts to hijack our communications uplink.
- Explosions and damage effects as we try to penetrate the force field.
- The three naval vessels trapped within the dome are the only military response the world can muster, they try to attack the aliens.
- Explosions and damage effects as the Aliens eliminate 2 out of 3 of the ships.
- The aliens' technology is alternately super high-tech and astonishingly primitive. They easily dispose of ships when it's convenient to the plot, and then inexplicably allow Kitsch's ship to survive.
- Explosions and damage effects as Kitsch and crew turn the tide.
I don't mean to shortchange the characters here, except there are none.
Well, except for Kitsch, so here's his bio. He's a ne'er-do-well who's forced to join the Navy, but still can't get his shit together. Well, I'll give him the fact that his girlfriend (Brooklyn Decker) is exceedingly hot. Of course, she's the Admiral's daughter (Liam Neeson), so that causes problems. Anyways, he's about to be discharged for getting into a fight… except the invasion occurs. When everyone who outranks him dies during the initial exchange with the aliens, Kitsch is forced into command of his destroyer.
While all of this is going on at sea, his girlfriend – the Admiral's daughter, is taking her physical therapy patient for a hike up the exact same mountain that the aliens are trying to attack. It's a good thing for us that she was, too, because along the way, she and he rescue the one scientist who could help any of this, relay critical information to the battleship at sea, and delay the uplink satellite at a critical juncture! WHOO! Eat hot blonde you Alien Scum!
For those of you who have seen it, I don't want to give any spoilers to those who haven't, but I do want to mention that I really like the portion of the movie where they call for aid from the unexpected source towards the end. I hope that's enough to clue you in. That was great…
I will also say that the way they tie this movie back to the board game "Source material" needs to be seen to be believed. It's thoroughly laughable. Not that everything else isn't…
I had fun, though. In all honesty every time something stupid happened (read: Frequently) I chuckled. I don't think it was a case of laughing with it and not at it… I was definitely laughing at it, but I WAS laughing. In any objective measure of quality, this movie is a fail. Plot, characters, themes, dialogue, direction… anything a critic should look at in order to "rate", this flick fails. But I think it pushes through to the other side. For those of you who enjoy dumb, loud, stupid films, I think this is a decent offering.
Grading Seriously?: F There's really no other option
In a so bad it's good way: B Not a classic of the genre, but enjoyable.


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Computer storage media have begun to arrive in archival collections with increasing frequency over the last 20 years. Approximately 50 of the Ransom Center's holdings contain floppy disks, CDs, or personal computers. Faced with the daunting task of capturing files from these media and making them available to researchers, archivists have begun to investigate fields such as computer science, engineering, and computer forensics for advances that may facilitate this work.
The Ransom Center recently participated in a Mellon-funded project, led by Matthew Kirschenbaum at the University of Maryland, designed to explore the convergences between computer forensics and the preservation of born-digital cultural heritage materials. Ransom Center archivist Gabriela Redwine and Richard Ovenden, associate director and keeper of special collections at the Bodleian Libraries, served as collaborators on the project, which the Library of Congress named one of the "Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2010." The resulting report, >Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections, was recently published by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). In 2011, the Society of American Archivists recognized the report with a Preservation Publication Award Special Commendation.
Digital Forensics is the first publication of this length to present computer forensics to the archives and library communities. Building on the pioneering work of Jeremy Leighton John at the British Library, the report examines the relevance of forensic techniques and methodologies to archivists, curators, and others engaged in the collection and preservation of born-digital cultural heritage materials. The report considers challenges related to legacy formats, the authenticity of files, and data recovery; explores the ethical implications of implementing forensic techniques as part of an archival workflow; and concludes with recommendations and next steps. Side bars by an international group of practitioners and scholars cover topics such as diplomatics and donor agreements, offer a sample forensic workflow, provide case studies from the Bodleian and Stanford libraries, and describe "Rosetta" machines of particular use in capturing born-digital materials. Detailed appendices provide contact, pricing, and specifications information for open source and commercial forensics hardware and software.
The authors solicited feedback about an earlier draft of the report at a May 2010 symposium organized around the same topic, which brought together practitioners from archives and libraries, scholars from the humanities and computer science, and computer forensic experts from government and industry.


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I have a Panel with 'Card' layout, there are 3 items in it and i want it to show any one item at a particular moment, in general it should show the first item, but I am facing a weird problem - initially it is showing first 2 items together, by inspecting the debugger I can find the active item to be the first one but in UI it's showing 1st and 2 nd item, so I ran a test in console - if i force to show the first item by Ext.getCmp('id').layout.setActiveItem(0) it still shows first 2 items, but if i use Ext.getCmp('id').layout.setActiveItem(1) or Ext.getCmp('id').layout.setActiveItem(2) I get expected result, and most interesting behavior is after executing Ext.getCmp('id').layout.setActiveItem(1) (or 2) if i try Ext.getCmp('id').layout.setActiveItem(0) I get the expected result i.e. only first item is visible!! Any possible explanation for this?


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_grau | d 2004 | 10:01 min
director, producer, animator: robert seidel
music: heiko tippelt, philipp hirsch
_grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally
various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds
KunstFilmBiennale 2004 | Honorary Award | the jury assigns the movie _grau by robert seidel an honorary award, because of the technological mastership which is used to show never seen phenomena in the borderland of science and aesthetics.
SHIFT Japan | DOTMOV Festival 2004 selected and commented by Motion Theory | _grau is a mesmerizing, beautiful and disturbing work of art that fuses dark and light to create organic forms and amorphous shapes. The scenes unfold slowly, elegantly revealing tensions between seemingly simple fragments of life. It feels like a long look at some primordial soup giving birth to some of the world's first life forms, or one-celled organisms that can't quite fully resolve themselves. The soundtrack, with its lonely drones rising and falling, make us believe we are witnessing a dark creation. The director's most impressive accomplishment was in going beyond the technology of the computer to create something that feels as if it is made of real moments in time, inside a reality only slightly offset from our own.
Media critic Matt Hanson, author of The End of Celluloid and founder of onedotzero festival | _grau appeals to me because it is organo-tech. it does not deliberately ape the abstract pioneers of abstract cinema, and it is worlds away from the motion graphic masturbation of many of those enamoured by digital animation. seidel's work is impressionistic, melding biological and emotional currents. out of amorphous shapes we make out bones, heads, a hand. a spirit leaving the body. at least, this is what i sense out of the chaos of galactic reconfigurations, neurological connections, and biological forms. this is a powerful piece of digital animation precisely because it does not feel like such, it feels emotional, epic. and once you release the background to the animation--communicating a 'coming to terms' with the aftermath of a car accident--you realise why.
copyright robert seidel 1996 - eternity


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It all comes down to this. After months of preparation full of burning lungs and packs of Gu Energy Gel, they are ready.
Cyclists are likely to wake up to perfect conditions Saturday morning for the 41st Iron Horse Bicycle Classic. Forecasts show nothing but sunshine and warm temperatures, with low to moderate winds, for the entire Memorial Day weekend.
The Iron Horse will kick off at 7 a.m. with the main event the 47-mile climb to Silverton when the field of 1,000 timed riders departs from Durango High School.
They have about 3½ hours to emulate Tom Mayers 1972 feat and arrive before the train. The untimed citizens tour, with 1,500 additional riders, will leave from College Drive and Camino del Rio at 8:30 a.m.
All preparations are on track. No major hiccups whatsoever, said Iron Horse Director Gaige Sippy.
Street-sweeper trucks have completed a final inspection of the route and cleared any loose sand, brush and debris, said Nancy Shanks, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation.
U.S. Highway 550 will be closed to all vehicles from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday between Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort and Silverton. In addition, from 7:15 to 9 a.m., northbound traffic in the Animas Valley between the Iron Horse Inn and Hermosa will be restricted to the left shoulder, and cars traveling south will be rerouted to County Road 203. All spectators hoping to greet cyclists in Silverton must clear DMR by 8 a.m.
Both defending champions are, on current form, unlikely candidates to repeat this time around. Durangos Ned Overend won his fifth Iron Horse title in 2011 at age 55 but has not raced competitively this year and acknowledged he could be rusty.
Racing hasnt fit with my schedule, he said. I know what to expect from the course, but how Ill fare against the other riders is harder to say.
Overend won his first Iron Horse in 1983.
Boulder-native Mara Abbott defeated Kristin McGrath by 10 seconds last year to win a fourth consecutive race, but she is taking a more relaxed approach in 2012. The change is part choice and part bad luck.
I retired from competitive cycling at the end of 2011, she said this week. Now, Im just ready to have a good time.
Abbott suffered a foot injury while running this winter and has been restricted to swimming laps to keep in shape. She resumed training only two weeks ago.
At least Im well-rested, she said.
The Quarter Horse, a 25-mile abbreviated version of the full race, will begin at 8:45 a.m. near Wells Fargo Bank. Those looking for a less-strenuous ride, followed by food and celebrations at the Purgatory finish line, may find this an attractive option.
Events will continue Sunday with the criterium in downtown Durango, where riders barrel through a closed-circuit course between Main and East Third Avenue. Serious cyclists will compete for the fastest time around the eight-turn loop, while fun-loving revelers in wild costumes will take part in the cruiser criterium at 3 p.m.
Drivers are encouraged to stay clear of downtown Sunday; Main Avenue will be closed entirely from Seventh Street to 11th Street. Portions of East Second Avenue, East Third Avenue and several cross streets will be off limits to motorists as well. People attending church services on East Third Avenue will need to avoid the racing zone between Eighth Street and 10th Street, but can otherwise park as usual.
Sundays lineup also will include the kids race, which organizers say contain more smiles in four blocks than anywhere on Earth, and a mountain bike course circling clockwise around the Centennial Nature Trail, Rim Drive and Goeglein Gulch Road. Near the end, mountain bikers will rampage through a hollowed out Steamworks Brewing Co. and down a ramp into the back alley.
The 13.7-mile time trial on East Animas Road (County Road 250) will conclude the weekends events Monday morning.
Video technology is making its Iron Horse debut this year. While spectators have long gathered to see riders start and finish the races, what happens in the middle can be a mystery.
No longer. Event volunteers are setting up flat-screen monitors at Silverton Memorial Park on Saturday and downtown Durango on Sunday to provide an inside look. People can also follow all events online with a live stream.
Im not guaranteeing perfectly smooth coverage, since this is a trial run, Sippy said. But we want family members back home to see what the Iron Horse is.
As usual, registration for the citizens tour filled up within days of opening in December.
Iron Horse co-founder Ed Zink, who also owns Mountain Bike Specialists, attributes the high demand to consistency.
(The Iron Horse) is reliable year after year, he said. People look forward to it. This edition will be good, as always.
Based on a Fort Lewis College study, Sippy estimates the Iron Horse brings an annual $2 million to the Durango economy, including $75,000 in sales-tax revenue.
Registration is still open for all events except the citizens tour and certain road race classes. Cyclists can sign up from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. today at Buckley Park.
For more information about specific race logistics, visit www.ironhorsebicycleclassic.com.


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The New Zealand Herald
The Herald is part of the fabric of New Zealand, growing from a daily newspaper to an award-winning website, mobile site and apps. The Herald enables advertisers to reach a premium audience wherever they are - at work, at home or on the move, through flexible, relevant and cost-effective campaigns.
The New Zealand Herald is the country's number one daily newspaper and connects with almost half a million New Zealanders daily. Whether targeting a mass market or a specific segment, The New Zealand Herald helps advertisers achieve their goal with our range of advertising environments and integrated solutions.
The New Zealand Herald was awarded Canon Newspaper of the Year, as well as Best Newspaper Design.
NZ Herald's website is one of New Zealand's most successful digital destinations. Through its constant innovation and development, NZ Herald Online provides advertisers with a platform to engage with its premium audience through display, native and bespoke advertising.
NZ Herald's award-winning mobile sites and apps enable users to get their news fix, wherever they are. Easily accessed from mobile devices, this is a place to reach a growing audience of people who have embraced the latest technology and are constantly finding new ways to use it.
NZ Herald mobile provides advertisers with a unique opportunity to tailor interactive and smart messages to a market that is accessing the latest news on the move.
"I look to the Herald to keep informed, when and where I need to be."
"I trust what the Herald has to say, and appreciate the varying levels of depth it provides – from short bite-sized summaries for when I'm short on time, to the in-depth review that I can pore over later – it all helps me be better informed."
Source: Nielsen CMI Q2 19 - Q1 20 15+
SOURCE: Nielsen Online Ratings April 2020
"The New Zealand Herald, the more you know the better."
Total Weekly Brand Audience1,639,000
Monthly Digital Audience1,886,000
Weekly Print Readership857,000


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Publisher: AVStudioGames- LudioBooster (Alban Viard Studio Games)
Designer and Artist: Todd Sanders
Plays: 1-2 players (It's a solo game with a optional 2 player variant)
Play time: 20-30 min Age: 14+
Print and play files were provided by the publisher for this preview. All of the components and artwork you see are in prototype form and do not represent the final product. I would like to thank Alban Viard and Todd Sanders for allowing to be a part of this project.
Pulp Detective is a solitaire/cooperative investigation card game. You play as detectives trying to solve a case by talking to informants, following leads, and surviving cliffhangers. If you're able to find 4 clues and confront the criminal before your time or stamina run out, you win. Pulp Detective is set in a Detective Comics world during the 1920/1930's. The game is a smart and simple on the surface, but the complexity lies in your card placement, roll of the dice, and your willingness to risk it all to solve your case before time runs out. More than meets the eye.
Preparing the Investigation
To start the game, you choose a case card and detective. There are a total of 8 detectives available and each have special abilities that give you rerolls, stamina recovery, and specific advantages on resolving cards. The Case card has a 24 hr time tracker. Based on your choice of difficulty, the amount of time you have less. Case cards are like round markers that can be sped up when you fail Investigation cards or confront the criminal. You can't solve a crime without a criminal. The double sided Criminal card has 4 suspects. It's treated just like an Investigation card, except you will not know which of the suspects turns into your final Investigation.
It's in the cards
Stamina/Clue Card and Item Card
The stamina/clue card shows how many dice you can roll and the effects that you gain or lose. You can lose or gain stamina by completing or failing to solve Investigation cards. You get bonuses as you move higher up the stamina track and you lose more time as you get close to the bottom. The items are gained by completing your current storyline card. Items are vital to your success in this game, so take a break from chasing Informant for clues to chase some items.
Investigation Cards
There are three types of cards that will create the storylines for your case. The front side of each card has 3 task lines. Depending on the time mark on the Case card, you will roll dice to fulfill the current task. You receive rewards for matching icons for the current task line or a penalty for missing the mark. The three types of cards are as follows:
Cliffhanger cards give you the best chance of gaining stamina
Informants cards give you the best chance to finding clues
Follow a Lead cards give you the best chance of receiving items
The dice are the driving force behind solving Investigation cards and leading you closer to solving your case. The 4 yellow dice you start with each have different sets of results based on the dice number. Each die has 4 possible results and 2 sets of doubles. Since the dice are numbered 1 to 4, you can choose which order you want to roll.
Twist tokens
There are four tokens types. You gain tokens by failing to meet the conditions of a current Investigation card. You may choose a token from one of the die result from your failed roll results. I like this mechanic, because you can use them on future turns and it gave a me the impression that dice rolls won't always rule the game. I know how some people feel about dice based games.
Taking it to the Streets
In a round of play, you're adding Investigation cards to you main storyline or subplot lines. Rows are aligned based on the placement on you very first card. The first row sets your main storyline and no row can be ahead of the main story. There are three phases to each round.
Phase 1: Storyline
You deal three face down Investigation cards. You choose one, discard one, and return one card to the deck wherever you want. At the beginning of the game, there's an opportunity to set up a main storyline that is cohesive and sets up rerolls as the game progresses. Every card, excluding some Informant cards, have icons on all four edges. The term If possible, you want to line them up to give extra rerolls during the Investigation Phase
Phase 2: Investigate
In this phase, you roll dice to complete your current storyline card. Depending on the current time on your case card, you this will gauge which line is your current task. Instead of looking at the game as a straight "dice chucker" take all of the actions you can do to complete a task:
- Roll each of the yellow dice in a specific order to match icons up
- Use items such as the Paperboy and Otherworld dice or Reporter to gain extra rolls
- Use Twist tokens to fulfill the matching conditions
- Spend 1 or 2 time from you Case card for rerolls
- Use a 5th die roll IF you are at the top of the stamina track
- Gain one to two rerolls based on having a cohesive storyline between cards. If icons of the edges match with cards adjacent to your current task you can gain extra rolls
- Use your detective's special action
Success: If you match the icon requirements, you gain whatever icon is shown in the white column. If it's an item icon, the die number in the top of the card will tell what to look for on your Item card. You can increase stamina to work towards gaining more dice or saving your hide from losing dice. You want to gain 4 clue icons (?) to reach the final confrontation.
Failure: Failing is not as bad as it seems. You lose whatever icon is on the rightmost column. Failing is not the worst thing in the world in Pulp Detective. Let's say you are going to lose an item or stamina. If you rolled three matching icons of the item or stamina icons while rolling your yellow dice, you don't lose the item or stamina. Even better, you gain a Twist token that matches one of your failed yellow dice icons. You can bank 1 or 2 twist tokens for or lose up to 3 hours of time to keep a 3rd and 4th token. The worst failure penalty is losing time. Time in Pulp Detective moves rather quickly, but hopefully you understand there are just enough options to press on and solve the case.
Phase 3: Time Passes on or Confront the Criminal
Time moves on by 1 hour every round. If you runs out…..dun dun DUUUUUUUUN. You lose. After gathering 4 clues you can attempt to solve the crime by confronting the criminal. The criminal is revealed by taking the card off the Investigation deck and checking the die icon. Match it up with the same icon on the Criminal card. You treat the criminal just like an Investigation card, except you cannot use items, special abilities, and twist token. You have the option of spending 2 additional hours to reroll until you run out of time. If you match the icons up, you cracked the case and winner winner chicken dinner. If you run out of time, the criminal gets away.
Why Should I Back This?
- Tons of replayability in the base box. Eight detectives and multiple difficulty levels will keep you busy for awhile. Based on how the criminal is revealed, you have the opportunity to catch four different criminals.
- The gameplay in Pulp Detective is smart and presents more challenge beyond dice rolling and hoping for the best.
- The expansion adds more difficulty with Masterminds and shorter windows for success
- Who doesn't like a old school detective themed game that's take seriously and doesn't feel tacked on?
- A game that's quick to setup, pack up, and a candidate for a good travel game.
- Works as a dedicated solo experience and a cooperative experience if you choose. I did not get a chance to play 2 player so I cannot comment on the gameplay.
My Final Thoughts
Pulp Detective seems like a solid pick up for a solo gamers. I personally keep my eyes peeled for games I can take with me wherever I go, with minimal setup time and table presence. When I play a solitaire game, I want to feel like I'm making juuuuuust enough head scratching decisions to keep me engaged for at least 30 minutes. Pulp Detective gives you so many choices on card placement and dare I say dice management that you get a fulfilling game experience. If I put this on the table at home, I could see myself playing Pulp Detective back to back like I did for this preview. I would love to share more info about the expansion, but that would be another 500 words. The amount of replayability with adding more cases, detectives, sidekicks, and mastermind criminals are all huge bonuses to the gameplay. If you can't tell, I highly recommend Pulp Detective and I look forward to seeing more unlocked content during this campaign.
Are you going to back the Pulp Detective? Have any specific questions about the base game or expansion? Please share any comments or questions below. Thank you for your time and please like, share, follow. I can also be reached on Twitter @jambapg
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IFSC Code of State bank of India SODEPUR Branch is SBIN001796 which is located in SODEPUR, 24 PARGANAS NORTH, WEST BENGAL along with that you will also find a contact number, address, Below table contains all details about SBI SODEPUR branch. Every SBI Branches have a unique IFSC or IFS Code, which is a unique code used for online transactions like NEFT, RTGS, IMPS.
SBI SODEPUR Branch IFSC Code: SBIN001796
The below table contains SBI SODEPUR branch detailed information like IFSC Code, BSR Code, SWIFT Code, MICR Code, Address, State, District, Pin Code, Branch Contact Number/Phone Number, Email Id, Opening and Closing time.
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District: 24 PARGANASNORTH
State: WEST BENGAL
Pincode – 700110
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What is IFSC code?
An IFSC code or the IFS code, you can also call it as Indian Financial System Code actually encourages electronic subsidizes to move in India. The code particularly distinguishes each bank office partaking in the 3 primary Payment & settlement frameworks in the country like India, (NEFT) or National Electronic Fund Transfer, (RTGS) or Real Time Gross Settlement and (IMPS) or Immediate Payment Service frameworks. This IFSC is a code with 11-character and the initial 4 alphabetic symbols speaking to the name of the bank & the last 6 characters (basically numeric, yet it may be alphabetic also) speaking to the branch. This 5th symbol is (zero) and saved for sometime later. Bank IFSC Code is utilized by RTGS & NEFT frameworks to course the statements to all the goal banks/branches.
Arrangements of IFSC Codes
Bank-wise arrangements of IFSC Codes are accessible with every bank-offices taking an interest in between bank electronic subsidizes move. A rundown of bank-offices taking an interest in the RTGS or NEFT & their IFSC Code is accessible on the site of RBI. Every bank has likewise been instructed to issue the IFSC code regarding that branch on checks provided by all the branches to all of their clients.
Some outsider web-based interfaces currently permit query of the IFSC Codes on the web. Clients can look for the IFSC Code of the bank's office with any single / a variety of things like the bank state, name, locale, city, branch and so forth. Banks utilize different sorts of one of a type of alphanumeric codes. IFS code is basically one aspect of them, & it represents the Indian Financial System Code.
The arrangement of the IFS Code is demonstrated as follows.
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Bank Code 0 Branch Code
How does IFSC code work?
This IFSC code is one of a kind alphanumeric code with 11 digits. The code is normally found on every page of the cheque book and on several types of equipment given by the bank. The code is likewise used to recognize the part of that bank where any person has their accounts. Besides, the codes are additionally utilized in moving cash through Immediate Payment Service(IMPS), National Electronic Funds Transfer(NEFT) & Real-Time Gross Settlement(RTGS) moves. On the off chance that an individual doesn't recall their bank's IFSC codes, it's anything but an issue any longer.
This IFS code of any branch or that bank may be effortlessly discovered by utilizing different sites that offer these administrations. Every one of them an individual is needed to accomplish is to encompass different subtleties, for example, the name & address of that bank, & they will have the option to look into the bank's IFS code. IFS Code is an 11 digits number & enables different sorts of cash to move frameworks to find the part of the record holder, in this way taking into consideration a consistent bank move.
An IFSC takes into account clients outside the locale of the local economy. Such focuses manage streams of fund, money related items and administrations across the world. Singapore, London and New York may be considered worldwide money related focuses. Many developing IFSCs across the globe, for example, Dubai and Shanghai, are seeking to assume a worldwide job in those years to arrive.
A specialist board headed by previous World Bank market analyst Percy Mistry presented an announcement on bringing about Mumbai a global money related focus in 2007. In any case, the worldwide money related emergency that unfurled in 2008 brought nations including India mindful about quickly opening up the budgetary segments.
What Does an IFSC Require?
The needs of an IFSCs, for example, the Dubai International Financial Center & Shanghai International Financial Center, which are situated inside SEZs, has mainly 6 key structure squares:
- Rational legitimate administrative structure
- Sustainable neighbourhood economy
- The stable world of politics
- Developed foundation
- Strategic area
- Good personal satisfaction
Gathering pledges administrations for people, companies & governments.
- all the executives and worldwide portfolio enhancement attempted by annuity reserves, insurance agencies and common assets
- Wealth the executives
- Global duty the board and cross-fringe charge obligation advancement, which gives a business chance to money related middle people, bookkeepers and law offices.
- Global and provincial corporate treasury the board activities that include raising money, liquidity speculation and the executives and resource risk coordinating
- Risk the executive's tasks, for example, protection and reinsurance
- The Merger & securing exercises among transfer-national enterprises
As for instance, CNRB0001996 is as IFSC Code for Indian Bank, Kolkata Branch & that can be clarified as follows:
Initial 4 characters speak to the substance of Indian Bank – INDB
5th position has actually defaulted with the (Zero) "0" for sometime later – INDB0 and the last six characters speak to the ID number of that bank office – 001996
As should be obvious the initial four characters are the Bank's code, the fifth saved for prospective putting (Zero) "0" & the next six numeric digits are highlighting a specific bank office.
All the account holders can without much of a stretch discover their bank office IFSC code from the record passbook or month to month proclamation.
In the event that some need to move reserved to your record through internet banking, and they will require the bank's IFSC code. On the off chance that you need to move support virtually ie., internet banking, from the record to somebody's record, you need to gather all of their bank's IFSC code & top it off in the endorsed area when you include a recipient name.
The most ideal approach to get exact IFSC code of any specific bank office, it is exceptionally prudent to visit the concerned bank's site and peruse the "find branch" segment. Connections to every business that all the banks are working in the country of India are then recorded are making your excursion to discover the IFSC code of that particular bank.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – For many people, Memorial Day weekend means a road trip out of town, time at the beach and at parties or barbeques.
For law enforcement, that means extra patrol and more eyes on people on the roads.
Millions of Americans use this long weekend to observe Memorial Day, but to also celebrate.
Because of the long weekend and those celebrations, law enforcement officers will be out in full force and they're reminding everyone to use good judgement and stay safe.
Channel 4 meteorologists say the sun will be shining this weekend, helping to kick off the unofficial start of Florida summer in style.
Channel 4's Safety Expert Ken Jefferson weighs in on holiday safety.
"Traditionally there's a lot of traffic on the road," Jefferson said. "People are going to the beaches. People are going back and forth to others homes for picnics and cook outs and things like that."
According to AAA, 34.8 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home for the unofficial start of the summer travel season. That's about 1 percent lower than 2012.
But millions of Americans will also be on the local roads, driving to events and barbeques.
"People are on the road that have been drinking and they want to be able to deter that type of behavior by having them out in force," Jefferson said. "So word of caution for those who might want to indulge in alcoholic beverages and get behind the wheel. The Sheriff's Office as well as Florida Highway Patrol will be out in full force, specifically looking for impaired drivers."
Most have heard it a million times, but a reminder can't hurt -- don't drink and drive. Have a designated driver and for the one hosting the party, Jefferson said take responsibility and take everyone's keys.
"My experience as a law enforcement officer or former law enforcement officer has shown that if you get the word out there and they see you out there, it does have a propensity to deter persons from getting behind the wheel," Jefferson said. "Because they know that their chances of getting stopped are greater now then it would normally be."
There will also be several road closures in Downtown Jacksonville because of the Jazz Festival which goes until Sunday.
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Unofficial Opinion 93-11
The duration of the contract of the Cobb County superintendent of schools is controlled by the applicable local constitutional amendment and not by a subsequent legislative enactment of the General Assembly.
You have asked my unofficial opinion as to what is the applicable law governing the duration of the contract of the superintendent of the Cobb County school system. It is my unofficial opinion that the duration of the contract of the superintendent is controlled by a previously adopted local constitutional amendment, and not by a subsequent enactment of the General Assembly.
In 1962, the General Assembly approved a local constitutional amendment which, under the Constitution of 1945, provided that:
The Board [of Education] shall appoint and employ a County School Superintendent for Cobb County who shall serve at the pleasure of the Board. Provided, that no contract of employment shall extend for more than six months beyond the end of the term of office of the members [*2] of the Board employing the Superintendent.
Ga. Laws 1962, pp. 971, 974.
The local amendment was approved by the appropriate voters and proclaimed as such by the Governor. Ga. Laws 1963, pp. 3778, 3786. The constitutional provision was continued by the General Assembly under the Constitution of 1983. Ga. Laws 1986, pp. 4055-56. See also Ga. Const. 1983, Appendix IV (Ga. Const. 1945, Art. VIII, Sec. V, Para. I continued.) This office has previously addressed how the duration of the superintendent's contract should be calculated, given subsequent enactments which changed the terms of office of Board members from concurrent to staggered four year terms. See Op. Att'y Gen. U88-29.
During the 1993 session of the General Assembly, O.C.G.A. § 20-2-101(a) was amended to provide:
Superintendents of each school system shall be employed by the local board of education under written contracts for a term of not less than one year and not more than two years. Those provisions of any local Act which authorize employment contracts with a school superintendent which are of a duration which exceeds that authorized by this subsection, which local Act became effective before, at [*3] the time of, or after this subsection becomes effective, are repealed. Any contract entered into pursuant to the provisions of a local Act repealed by the terms of the preceding sentence of this subsection shall not be affected by such repeal for the duration of that contract as specified immediately before this subsection becomes effective as long as that contract was valid at such time.
The question has now arisen as to whether the local constitutional provision or the aforementioned statute determines the length of the superintendent's contract of employment.
Under Ga. Const. 1983, Art. XI, Sec. I, Para. IV, an amendment, such as the original local amendment here, could be continued in force and effect by action of the General Assembly prior to July 1, 1987. As noted above, the General Assembly did so in 1986. Ga. Laws 1986, p. 4057. As such, the original local amendment became a part of the Georgia Constitution of 1983.
The Constitution also provides that the repeal of such local amendments shall be accomplished by a local act of the General Assembly, the effectiveness of which shall be conditioned on its approval by a majority of the qualified voters voting thereon [*4] in each of the particular political subdivisions affected by the amendment. Ga. Const. 1983, Art. XI, Sec. I, Para. IV(b). No such action to repeal the prior local amendment has been taken here and it continues on as a part of the state constitution. This constitutional provision takes precedence over any subsequent statutory enactment of the General Assembly.
Therefore, it is my unofficial opinion that the duration of the contract of the Cobb County school superintendent is to be determined by the local constitutional amendment discussed above, as interpreted under Op. Att'y Gen. U88-29, and not by the 1993 amendment to O.C.G.A. § 20-2-101.
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Edmunds API
This tutorial shows how to configure a remote web service to connect to the Edmunds Vehicle API. It shows how to pass parameters like API keys and format options to the remote service. The ones in this example are specific to the Edmunds API, but many APIs have similar concepts.
Create the Remote Web Service
In the admin console, go to the Services tab and click Create. Set the Service Type to 'Remote Web Service'. Set the service name to 'edmunds'. Set the service label to 'Edmunds API'. Go to the Config tab for the new service and set the Base URL to ```https://api.edmunds.com/api/vehicle/v2/```. Click the '+' button under Parameters to add a new parameter. Set the name to 'fmt' and the value to 'json'. Check the 'Outbound' checkbox so that your DreamFactory instance will pass the parameter through to the Edmunds API. Select all verbs so that the parameter is sent to the Edmunds API for all requests. Add a second parameter. Set the name to 'api_key' and the value to your API key issued from the Edmunds developer portal. Check the 'Outbound' checkbox and all verbs. Click Create Service to save your new service.
Call the Remote Web Service
You can now use any REST client to access your remote web service using the DreamFactory REST API. See other tutorials for authentication options. To get a list of new vehicle makes and models for 2015 you would send the following request. Replace http://localhost:8080 with the URL for your DreamFactory instance.
GET http://localhost:8080/api/v2/edmunds/makes?state=new&year=2015&view=basic
DreamFactory combines the request URL from the client with the configured base URL for the service to generate the actual URL for the request. Everything after the service name, 'edmunds' in this case, is appended to the base URL to generate the final URL.
GET https://api.edmunds.com/api/vehicle/v2/makes?state=new&year=2015&view=basic&fmt=json&api_key=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
DreamFactory also appends the fmt and api_key parameters before sending the request on to the Edmunds API. This ensures that your API key or other sensitive information is never exposed to the client app. The response will be in JSON format. It has been shortened here for the sake of clarity.
{ "makes": [ { "id": 200002038, "name": "Acura", "niceName": "acura", "models": [ { "id": "Acura_ILX", "name": "ILX", "niceName": "ilx", "years": [ { "id": 200701415, "year": 2015 } ] }, { "id": "Acura_MDX", "name": "MDX", "niceName": "mdx", "years": [ { "id": 200698434, "year": 2015 } ] }, { "id": "Acura_RDX", "name": "RDX", "niceName": "rdx", "years": [ { "id": 200693511, "year": 2015 } ] } ] }, ... ] "makesCount": 42 }