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Another week is coming to an end and it's been a huge one for iPhone and iPad owners looking to save some money on great apps. We've shared dozens of apps with you this week that are worth a combined $232, and every single one was available for free. In fact, some apps from Thursday's post are still free. Now, we're going to bump this week's total up to nearly $270 with eight more paid iOS apps you can download right now without paying a cent.
These are paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now — obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they are free at the time this post is published. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word "free," it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged.
This music player has a design as sleek as its name is curious.
Anything you want in a music player wrapped in your favourite color.
– gesture based playback control
– browse and play any artist, genre or playlist right from the home screen
– search songs
– enqueue songs and manage a playback queue
– full screen cover art for the song that is playing
– special Favorites playlist for your top rated songs
– fade in and out when pausing, resuming or playing a song
– changeable app colors
Extra features:
– touch and hold on a song, artist or anything in a list to get its extra menu
– create custom playlist (not syncable with iTunes)
– search inside any playlist, artist or genre
– hold the play buttons if you don't want to skip the current song and lose the songs you have enqueued
– check out any artist's biography (requires internet connection)
– settings to configure the home screen list's content
– setting to enable song skip with volume controls*
* Volume control song skip is switched off by default. When switched on it gives you the ability to skip the currently playing song by pressing one of the volume buttons and then quickly pressing the other one. Regardless of the feature's state, the volume buttons act as they should – increase/decrease the music volume.
Mixweet is normally $0.99 but it's free right now.
Clone Magic
This nifty photo app will confuse the heck out of your Instagram followers.
Do you want to make a photo where many of you appear?
It's now very fast and easy with Clone Magic.
– Shoot 2 to 6 photos
– Draw with your finger to mark the clone objects
– Press next button to preview and share
Additional features:
– Support Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Email
– Save to Camera Roll
– Support timer camera
– Hold your camera stable while taking multiple shots
– Pinch to zoom and move to mark clone objects easier
Save $1.99 by downloading this universal iPhone and iPad app right away.
If there's a more beautiful calculator app in the iOS App Store, we haven't found it.
Numerical is a calculator without equal. Whether you're doing simple math, advanced brackets or need a running history of your previous work, Numerical has the answer!
NOW with Percentage Button, Magic Brackets and Decimal Localisation!
"This could be the best calculator ever." – TUAW
"Exactly what a simple iOS app should be" – BGR
"The way Numerical works makes more sense than Apple's app for me" – MacStories
"For someone who's looking for a simple and elegant calculator app that fits iOS 7's design language, Numerical is a superb choice." – Beautiful Pixels
"One of my favorite apps I've seen this year." – The Industry
The equals button was invented when computers were the size of furniture and it's time to move on. As you type Numerical displays the answer instantly & your current calculation is always visible.
As you work Numerical automatically saves finished calculations to the History View. When you need to revisit an old problem it's right there waiting for you.
Use easy swipe gestures to undo, redo and save the current calculation.
Working out a tip, a discount, or whether the glass is half empty? The new context aware % button has you covered.
Solve complex problems with a single brackets button that intelligently decides whether it should be an open or close bracket. Just tap it and let Numerical figure it out.
Tap the answer or calculation to copy them elsewhere. You can paste text from any app and Numerical will remove non-maths digits and solve it.
This calculator now knows what region of the world you're from and how decimals and separators should be presented. It also uses this information to determine how pasted numbers should be interpreted.
Numerical knows to display very large answers with scientific notation, and if an answer is approximate (due to recurrence or floating point decay) it will use an "approximately equal to" sign (≈).
Have you ever divided by zero? Tried to exponentiate a googolplex? If Numerical can't figure out the answer it will tell you what went wrong in plain english, not just yell ERROR!
This app is usually $2.99 but it's free right now.
Air Combat Rivals
Air Combat Rivals is a fun jet shooter with smooth gameplay on the iPhone and iPad.
Chase the enemy fighter jet and shoot it down! Test your skills as you dodge and weave your figther jet through a treacherous canyon at break-neck speeds.
The average player will be able to shoot down 4 jets. The average player has average reflexes. The average player will not become an Air Commodore. Can you?
– Bright, crisp high definition 3D graphics
– Diverse environments
– Simple swipe controls
– Collect coins and buy upgrades for a tactical advantage
– Climb the ranks in the Air Force
– Experience the thrill of a fighter jet chase!
Think you have the reflexes of a fighter pilot?
This app is free for a limited time, on sale from $5.99.
SpotiFinder for Spotify Premium Full HD
Crazy name, nifty app.
SpotiFinder for Spotify Premium Full HD – The best music search engine for Spotify, iHeart Radio, Pandora Radio, Rdio and YouTube
With SpotiFinder you can find all the music you want. You can search by Playlists, Songs, Albums or Artists, and enjoy all the music through Spotify or Youtube.
SpotiFinder is the best app in the AppStore to discover and find music, since it has its own state-of-the-art search engine which uses the best Artists databases in Internet. SpotiFinder is fast and very easy to use. It was developed by the best specialists in interface design and programming, with many years of experience, so that you may listen to your favourite artists in less than 5 seconds.
Try and download SpotiFinder right now, you will not regret it!
Main features:
– Search by Playlist, Song, Album or Artist.
– Enjoy the best music on Spotify or the best videos from your favourite artists on YouTube
– We show you the most popular songs so that your searches become better and faster
This app is perfect for Spotify Premium users through the Spotify app, however, if you do not have the premium version, you can use it through YouTube.
Save $1.99 with this short-term sale.
Download SpotiFinder for Spotify Premium Full HD
Flying Benjamins
Another big sale on a Benjamins game? Sure, why not.
Experience the most daring money heists imaginable while piloting one of 3 upgradeable modern jet-fighters, as you defend the skies of the newly built offshore banking communities. The next generation of On-Rails Arcade-Action is here: with 20 intense missions and highly cinematic game play!
• Never before seen On-Rails Modern Aerial Combat arcade experience, with sights, sounds and non-stop action that will take your breath away!
• Enjoy Simple and Intuitive Controls: tilt your iOS device left/right to steer your fighter jet around city obstacles while skillfully avoiding enemy missiles.
• Alternatively, for a casual ON-RAILS experience: forgo tilting and simply tap your enemies to engage the "Autopilot" while controlling your Afterburner and Weapons with a smooth 2-button interface.
• Face more than 30 different types of enemies, including: modern jets, attack helicopters and GIGANTIC money-packed transport aircraft!
• 20 action-oriented campaign missions (including 2 bonus Endless Gauntlet levels) offer over 4 hours of action-packed On-Rails arcade-style game play.
• RPG Style Progression System allows you to FREELY acquire, pilot and level-up 3 unique jet-fighters while unlocking 18 different types of Afterburner and Weapon upgrades.
• Optional In-App Purchases allow you to skip the RPG grind and instantly acquire any of the playable fighter jets. In addition, you can Restore your existing purchases to unlock content on multiple iOS devices.
• Game Center support: with 7 Leaderboards and 18 elusive Achievements that demand an additional 10+ hours of game play.
• Team up with friendly AI wingmen in the later stages of the game, and watch as your enemies fall before your elite squadron, known as the "Flying Benjamins".
• Highly Stylized and Action-Oriented Storytelling is told through the radio of your fighter jet. Alternatively, all voice banter can be turned OFF in the "Options" menu of the game, creating an even faster arcade-style experience that is accessible to everyone with no language barrier.
• Over 30 minutes of memorable original music will dynamically accompany your On-Rails cinematic experience.
• Adaptive AI and Randomized Enemies with Dynamic Difficulty: provide for a near endless replay value, as your opponents constantly change and adapt to your style of game play each time you engage a new or existing mission.
This game is usually $19.99 but it's free right now.
Private Note
Keep your secrets safe and secure with this handy app.
Private Note provides a wonderful way to hide your notes. When someone open this App, they can only see a simple text view, and they will regard this app as a simple text editor. Actually, you can easily type password in this text view to access your real notes.
You can hide some notes you don't want anybody else to see, like bank account, phone number, some plan, whatever else. No one will find these notes.
• Protect your private notes with a fake text view
• Sync with Dropbox
• Unlimited to create notes
• Custom font and font size
• Custom fake content
• Link for link/email/phone number on note
• Open notes in other apps
• Full screen writing
• Quick open last note
• Safely store
• Use fake text view as quick note
and more….
Save $1.99 by downloading this app soon.
Wish you were Instagram-famous? This app claims it can make it happen…
InstaLove lets you become FAMOUS on Instagram!
The app uses the power of users to like and follow. Each time that you choose to follow some, you get coins, this is the same when you like an image, you get a coin.
You can promote your account and have it seen by millions of other users. Find people to follow based on your interests.
$0.99 is a small price to pay to be insta-famous, but free is even better.


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Pediatric Osteochondroma
Osteochondroma is a benign (noncancerous) tumor that bulges out at the end of the bone near the growth plate (area of growing tissue at the end of long bones).
What is Pediatric Osteochondroma?
Osteochondroma is the most common form of benign tumors in children. The bulge is caused by extra bone and cartilage that can grow on the surface of any bone, but it most commonly forms around the knee or upper arm. Osteochondromas can be located near nerves and can possibly cause nerve compression and numbness in the surrounding areas.
What are the signs and symptoms of Pediatric Osteochondroma?
Osteochondroma often has no symptoms and can go undiscovered for years or decades. If there are symptoms, they can include:
- Changes in growth patterns, especially slowing down
- Muscle weakness due to nerve compression
- Noticeable bump/bulge under the skin
- Pain
What are the causes of Pediatric Osteochondroma?
The exact cause of osteochondroma is unknown, but some experts believe there is a genetic abnormality that occurs during development in the mother's womb.

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You can change the theme of an existing layout. When you change a layout's theme, the attributes of the new theme are applied to all objects on the layout, with the following exceptions:
•For objects containing text, the font color and font family change to the default style defined in the theme. However, all other text properties, such as text size, are retained.
•Buttons created using versions of FileMaker Pro Advanced or FileMaker Pro earlier than version 12 retain their original formatting.
•If objects on the layout and the layout background are filled with an image, the image is retained. However, layout parts filled with an image display the fill defined in the new theme.
1. In Layout mode, display the layout you want to change.
You see the name of the current theme in the layout bar.
2. In the status toolbar, click to display the Change Theme dialog box.
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Select a theme in the Layout themes list to display a preview of each theme.
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Click Import Themes, choose the file containing the theme(s) you want to import, and click Open. Select one or more themes in the Import Themes dialog box, and click OK. Then select a theme in the Layout themes list.
•The styles of layout objects are controlled by the layout's theme. If the pre-designed themes do not display the object styles you want, you can create a custom theme. For information about creating a theme, see Saving and managing layout themes.
•If you change the theme of a layout and then undo the change, you have two levels of undo. The first undo keeps the new theme but reveals any attributes previously applied to your objects that were not saved as styles. The second undo reverts to how the layout looked before you changed the theme.
•When you change the theme of a layout:
•if the same name is used for saved custom styles in the old and new themes, the attributes of the new theme's style will be used (style names are not case sensitive)
•any unsaved changes to styles stored at the layout level are deleted
•Some themes have additional predefined styles for some objects. If you switch to a theme that doesn't support additional predefined styles, any objects formatted with additional styles are reset to default styles. If you later switch to a theme that again supports additional predefined styles, objects retain the default style setting. You can use the Styles tab in the Inspector to reapply the additional predefined style.
•Occasionally FileMaker Pro Advanced software updates include formatting changes for the predefined themes. If a solution uses an older version of a predefined theme (or a custom theme based on an older version of a predefined theme) and you have write permission for the file, formatting changes are applied automatically when you switch to Layout mode, switch to a different layout, or change the layout's theme.


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GridSample is a tool to select clusters for household surveys using gridded population data.
This tool may be used when a gridded population dataset is more accurate than the census sample frame, the survey design calls for spatial oversampling to improve small area estimates, or when custom-sized clusters are needed
With the GridSample tool, you can design and implement household surveys from gridded population estimates in low- and middle-income countries.
It provides practitioners with timely, open-access gridded population sample frames and easy-to-use flexible sampling tools. For help, visit the Tutorial page or click on "guidance text" on each tab of the GridSample Tool.
GridSample was developed by the Flowminder Foundation.
Flowminder is an award-winning non-profit organisation whose mission is to enable decision makers to access the data they need to transform the lives of vulnerable people, at scale.
The tool is created with support from the WorldPop team at University of Southampton and the GRID3 programme, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK's FCDO.
Flowminder has pioneered the use of big data, including the use of mobile operator data, to tackle development and humanitarian challenges.
Flowminder partners with decision makers and key stakeholders in national and international data systems to produce high-quality data, strengthen capacity, develop new methods and tools, and leverage non-traditional and novel data sources to deliver projects that improve the lives of vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries.
Case studies
Surveys for Urban Equity (SUE)
Kathmandu, Nepal
World Food Programme (WFP)
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
World Vision International (WVI)
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In this video of VMware's Martin Klaus, he covers VMware's vCenter Operations and how it can help you manage your vSphere infrastructure. This video was taken at the 2011 Carolina Summit VMware User Group in Charlotte, North Carolina. To keep up to date with what Martin is doing, you can follow him on Twitter at @mklausvm.
VIDEO: A Practical Guide to vCenter Operations by VMware's Martin Klaus (@mklausvm)
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Is Sheriff Valenti to be trusted now? What about Tess and her creepy dad, Ed? Sheriff Valenti is spying on the kids, the kids are spying on Tess, where does all this espionage lead to? Join hosts Aliza, LaRena and Lisa to find out as we discuss Roswell season one, episode eighteen – Tess, Lies and Videotape.
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Epic 10-Year Time-Lapse Video of the Sun Is a High-Definition Audiovisual Masterpiece
The video is a compilation of 10 years of images collected by the U.S. space agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
(TMU) – NASA has released an absolutely epic time-lapse video of the Sun that depicts 10 years of changes that it has undergone over the past decade.
And with many of us remaining indoors, the 61-minute-long NASA video showing an entire decade of the massive star is truly time well-spent – especially for some of you who are watching reruns of The Office for the fifth time.
The video is a compilation of 10 years of images collected by the U.S. space agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which marked a decade of watching the Sun for ten years as of June 2020.
As of Monday afternoon, the video had already racked up 1.9 million views since it was uploaded on Wednesday.
"This is utterly incredible," one user wrote in the comments section.
"That's insane – almost looks unreal," another wrote.
Unlike us humans, the SDO spacecraft is capable of safely fixing its gaze on the sun and watching all of the events that happen on the solar body – from its outburst-like flares to its massive mood swings, as well as extended periods of relative calm.
The time-lapse images were taken at an extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 17.1 nanometers in order to capture the outer atmosphere.
Every so often the video cuts out for a split second or shows a small bit of black passing along the disc of the sun. This is due to the Earth or Moon eclipsing the SDO as it passes between the spacecraft and the sun.
The SDO was able to capture massively high-resolution images of the sun every 0.75 seconds, and took one photo from every hour of footage to make the video – resulting in this stunning hour-long video.
"From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years," NASA said in a statement.
So if you can, make sure that you watch the video on a display with 4k resolution at the maximum height of 2160 pixels.
Likewise, you'll also want to plug in your best sound-bar or Hi-Fi surround sound system, because the video is accompanied by a nice and spacey music track titled Solar Observer by German composer Lars Leonhard, who produces "ambient, dub-techno, and deep-atmosphere" music for labels as well as for NASA, according to his official Facebook page.
In 2016, the U.S. space agency also released a time-lapse of Mercury zooming past the Sun in a rare transit.
Sometimes we need a reminder to tell us that in the grand scheme of things, our troubles are quite temporary and they, too, will pass. Indeed, for some entities in this universe, a decade can come and go in the blink of an eye.
And for the sun, which has existed for about 4 and a half billion years and is expected to last another 5 billion years, a decade's time is less than a drop in the bucket.
Once again, we highly recommend that you take the time to immerse yourself in the mesmerizing display compiled by NASA – you'll walk away from the experience with zero regrets.
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Twelve Keys to Prayer
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With all of the information available about prayer, people wonder how to sort through it all. How do we learn to pray? When should we pray? What do we pray about? InTwelve Keys to Prayer Abbot Jerome Kodell gathers down-to-earth points about prayer from the experience of holy Christians through the centuries and shows how they can be used by anyone who desires to grow closer to God.Abbot Kodell's keys range from true prayer, like true love, is a decision not a feeling," to *prayer is not a matter of thinking but of loving; to *no one with a prayer life says that prayer doesn't work. - Supportive and practical, they remind us that we will learn to pray well only after we begin to pray.Jerome Kodell, OSB, is Abbot of Subiaco Abbey in Arkansas. He has written on biblical and monastic topics and is author of The Eucharist in the New Testament from the Zacchaeus Studies: New Testament series, and The Gospel According to Luke from The Collegeville Bible Commentary series of books, published by The Liturgical Press."


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There's no shortage of recent comedy films that revolve around male friendship, so where are the equivalent movies about women? When it comes to comedies about adult female characters that don't primarily focus on romance, what are our choices? The House Bunny? Baby Mama? The Sex and the City movies? Not exactly God's plenty, and I liked The House Bunny. I ask because I'm trying to figure out whether Bridesmaids looks better simply because there are, criminally, so few films like it. Probably not. I think this explosively funny comedy would stand out even if there were a zillion other movies like it. Still, the scarcity does help you appreciate it all the more.
Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig doubles as co-writer and star. She plays Annie, a Milwaukeean who's been financially and emotionally gutted by the failure of her bakery business and now earns $175 a week clerking at a jewelry store. Further upheaval greets her when her lifelong best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph) announces her engagement. In the midst of offering her sincerest congratulations, Annie lets out an anguished cry of "What is happening?" As Lillian's wedding date draws nearer, Annie — whose perpetually unkempt hair mirrors her chaotic life — does her best to screw up both her role as maid of honor and her budding romance with an adorable Irish state trooper (Chris O'Dowd).
Beautiful in a delicate, fawnlike sort of way, the 37-year-old Wiig is known for playing ferociously mannered, eccentric characters on SNL and in other movies. You can see flashes of that here in stuff like her bug-eyed impression of a penis. Overall, though, she dials herself down into a life-sized performance that captures Annie's ambivalence — her genuine happiness for her friend mixed with self-pity, jealousy, and fear of losing Lillian. That explains the death grip she keeps on her champagne glass during the engagement party. A great early sequence shows Annie baking herself an incredibly elaborate single cupcake topped with a giant marzipan orchid and then eating it, her face a study in frustration. More demonstratively, there's a magnificent bit later on when Annie's latest misfortune (a minor car accident) sends her into a paroxysm of impotent rage and despair. Wiig's portrait of edginess and discontent is vivid and haunting. If all the jokes were removed from the script, we'd easily see this as the excellent dramatic performance that it is.
But why would you want to take the jokes out? The set pieces (orchestrated by director Paul Feig) are uproarious, most notably an airplane ride when Annie's fear of flying drives her to get royally smashed and a fitting at a bridal shop where an outbreak of food poisoning consigns some pretty dresses to a wholly undeserved end. Even the tiniest supporting roles contribute laughs: an uncredited Jon Hamm as Annie's awful sometime sex partner, Matt Lucas and Rebel Wilson as her bizarre British roommates, and co-writer Annie Mumolo as a terrified airline passenger. A fine crew of TV actresses portrays the other bridesmaids, including The Office's Ellie Kemper as a bushy-tailed newlywed and Reno 911!'s Wendi McLendon-Covey as a jaded mom. (The latter on her sons: "When they reach that age, they are disgusting. They're sticky, they smell bad. … There is semen everywhere. Last week I cracked a blanket in half.") Best of all is Mike & Molly's Melissa McCarthy, who steals scenes left and right as the groom's deadly serious, foul-mouthed, straight-shooting sister. After solemnly relating a ridiculous anecdote about conversing with a dolphin during a near-death experience, she spots a tall bachelor passing by and vows in the same tone of voice, "I'm gonna climb that like a tree."
Intensifying Annie's sense of inadequacy is bridesmaid Helen (Rose Byrne), the groom's boss' wife who has only known Lillian for a short time yet declares Lillian to be her best friend and showers her with expensive gifts. Gratifyingly, Helen later turns out to be more complex than she seems, but Annie's instant dislike for her leads to all sorts of comic business like an excruciating exchange at the engagement party when Annie and Helen try to one-up each other with their toasts. Later on, Helen's largesse brings on a total meltdown by Annie at the bridal shower, which is followed by a furious row between Annie and Lillian, and even though their dialogue is funny, you can hear how it hurts these BFFs to be screaming at each other. Despite its wedding backdrop, Bridesmaids is not a romantic comedy but rather a movie about a friendship that's severely tested by change. It's sealed by an authentically moving reconciliation scene in which Annie owns up to what a mess she's made of her life.
That degree of self-awareness is just one of many things in this movie that's sorely missing from all the Kate Hudson and Jennifer Aniston and Katherine Heigl vehicles we've been subjected to. We wouldn't have such a dysfunctional relationship to our female-centric comedies if more of them were made with the same intelligence and depth of feeling as this one. The sweet, blissful buzz that accompanies the end of this comedy masterpiece will make you feel like you've just watched your own best friend get happily married.
Starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, and Rose Byrne. Directed by Paul Feig. Written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig. Rated R.


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The Baxter Media team has travelled the world over, capturing great photos along the way. And now we want to share these with you!
Easy to download and easy to share, images are perfect for any project – social media, travel related websites, or as background images with your conferencing tool. Just select the image of your choice to reveal the share icons or download button.
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On April 28th, State of Decay will become available on store shelves for the very first time. While State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition will also be available digitally on the Xbox Store, Microsoft and Undead Labs wanted to do something special to mark the occasion.
In State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition, your knife is your weapon of last resort. You carry it with you everywhere, it remains in your inventory no matter which character you play, and it'll never break. As potentially the only thing standing in between you and death at the hands (and mouths) of an undead horde, a little extra attention to your knife seems in order.
For that reason, we've worked with select retailers in the U.S. to offer the following unique pre-order bonus in-game content:
- GameStop will get "The Avalonian" – A true work of art, taken off the body of a fantasy enthusiast whose excitement at having real zombies to stab with his enchanted dagger was tragically short-lived.
- Amazon will get "The Android" – A next-generation box cutter infused with the best that modern technology has to offer. Ergonomic grip, perfectly-angled blade, and an edge that never wears out.
- Best Buy will get "The Australian" – Now that's a knife! Intimidate crocodiles and street punks alike with this replica knife, straight from the wilds of Hollywood.
For pre-order details in other regions, please check with your local retailer. We're also offering a host of other State of Decay goodies for old and new fans alike.
- If you bought the original State of Decay on either Xbox 360 or PC, enjoy a 33 percent discount (that's $10 off) when you purchase State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition via the Xbox Store or Steam.
- Previous owners ALSO gain access to an exclusive new character named Gurubani Kaur. She comes equipped for the zombie apocalypse with two unique swords and a special, permanently-suppressed rifle.
- Regardless of whether you're a returning fan or a new player, early purchasers via digital or retail can grab a limited Day One edition that includes the "Prepper's Pack." This bundle of exclusive content includes an SKS Survivor firearm, a Folding Axe melee weapon, and a Prepper-friendly SUV.
From Undead Labs and Microsoft Studios, thank you to all of our dedicated fans!


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An Intensive 5-Day Training Course
API 653 : Tank Inspection, Repair Alteration
and Reconstruction (API Exam Preparation Training)
Scheduled Dates
|22 - 26 Jan 2024
|Dubai - UAE
|19 - 23 Aug 2024
|Dubai - UAE
|02 - 06 Dec 2024
|London - UK
Why Choose this Training Course?
Why Choose this Training Course?
This training course will focus on learning the API 653 tank inspection Code as well knowledge of the API 571, API 575, API 650, API 652, API 651, API 577, ASME Section V and ASME Section IX. The delegates will further receive instructions on how to take the API Exam, as well as understanding of the material.
Topics include:
- Tank Shell and bottom Min. Thickness Calculation
- Maximum Allowable Fill Height Calculation
- Brittle Fracture Considerations
- Tank Joints Design, fabrication and welding
- Cathodic Protection and Methods of Cathodic Protection
- Surface Preparation and Lining Application
- Impact Test Requirements and Determination
- Development and Review of Welding Documentation
What are the Goals?
What are the Goals?
The aim of this comprehensive training course is to provide the delegates at the end of this training course with:
- Enough knowledge and skills to pass such exam and attain the API 653 certification
- Identify the API 653 Scopes, Suitability for Service, evaluation of the tank Shell and Min. accepted thickness also the maximum allowable fill Height
- Evaluation of the tank Bottom, including settlement and release prevention Systems (RPS)
- Recognize the reasons for Inspection and Causes of Deterioration
- Determination of Need for Cathodic Protection and Methods of Cathodic Protection
- Employ post weld heat treatment, identify the charpy impact testing
Who is this Training Course for?
Who is this Training Course for?
This training course is designed for professionals interested in getting the API-653 certification as well as:
- Storage Tank Inspectors & Engineers
- Plant Inspectors
- Inspection & Corrosion Engineers
- Process Engineers
- Inspection Engineers for Newly constructed and reconstructed tanks
- QA/QC inspectors
- Maintenance & Mechanical Engineers
- Inspection Testing Engineers
- Fabrication Engineers
How will this Training Course be Presented?
How will this Training Course be presented?
This training course will be conducted along workshop principles with formal lectures, videos and interactive worked examples. Each learning point will be re-enforced with practical exercises and ample opportunities for discussion and sharing of experiences.
The course instructor may modify the above training methodology before or during the course for technical reasons with no prior notice to participants. The classroom training of the API 653 Training Course consists of 5 days of training including the final practice exams
Daily Agenda
Day One
- Introduction and Review of API 653 Body of Knowledge
- API 653 Scope coverage & Definitions &Suitability for Service
- Tank Shell Evaluation and Thickness Calculation for Welded Tank Shell
- Maximum Allowable Fill Height Calculation
- Tank Bottom Evaluation and release prevention Systems (RPS)
- Minimum Thickness for bottom and annular Plate Ring
- Tank Foundation Evaluation
- Brittle Fracture Considerations
- External & Internal Inspection and ultrasonic Thickness Inspection
- Design Considerations Reconstructed Tanks
- Tank Repair and Alteration
- Example problems calculations
Day Two
- API 653 tank Dismantling and Reconstruction
- Welding s and Examination Testing requirement for the tanks
- Evaluation of Tank Bottom Settlement
- API 650 scope
- General Material Requirements
- Tank Joints Design
- Tank fabrication and welding
- Tanks Inspection, Testing, and Repairs
- Methods of Inspecting Joints
- Example problems calculations
Day Three
- API 575 Scope and definitions
- Types of Storage Tanks
- Reasons for Inspection and Causes of Deterioration
- Methods of Inspection and Inspection Scheduling
- API 651 Scope and definitions
- Corrosion of above-ground Steel Storage Tanks
- Determination of Need for Cathodic Protection and Methods of Cathodic Protection
- Design of Cathodic Protection Systems
- API 652 Scope and definitions
- Surface Preparation and Lining Application
- Recommended Inspection Parameters
- Example problems calculations
Day Four
- ASME IX Welding Procedure Qualifications WPS & WPQ & PQR
- Welding Processes
- Welding Essential &non-essential and supplementary essential Variables
- P-Numbers and S-Numbers, F-number and A-number
- Welders test positions & Diameter & thickness qualification and position qualification
- Alternate F-Numbers and Alternate P-Numbers
- Damage Mechanisms Affecting Fixed Equipment in the Refining Industry API 571
- Example problems calculations
Day Five
- Continue API 571 Damage Mechanisms Affecting Fixed Equipment in the Refining Industry
- Welding Inspection and Metallurgy API 577
- Hot Tapping and In-Service Welding
- ASME Section V - Non-destructive Test Methods
- Radiographic & Liquid Penetrant & Magnetic Particle and Visual Test examination
- Final Practice Exam
- On successful completion of this training course, a PetroKnowledge Certificate will be awarded to the delegates
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Low hs-CRP associated with lower risk of adverse outcomes in primary prevention cohort
Associations between very low concentrations of low density lipoprotein cholesterol, high sensitivity C-reactive protein, and health outcomes in the Reasons for Geographical and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) studyLiterature - Penson PE, Leann Long D, Howard G, et al. - Eur Heart J 2018; published online ahead of print
Introduction and methods
Reduction in plasma LDL-c has repeatedly been associated with improved cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality in primary and secondary prevention. However, CV risk is often not entirely eliminated, even when LDL-c target values are met [1]. It is hypothesized that the residual CV risk may be due to inflammation [2].
In this analysis of the REasons for Geographical And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study [3], the relationship between high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), LDL-c and clinical outcomes was investigated, in patients with similar LDL-c levels and a high baseline 10 year risk (Framingham-CHD ≥10% or ASCVD ≥7.5%). REGARDS is a longitudinal cohort study that recruited 30,239 non-hispanic black or white participants, aged ≥45 years between 2003 and 2007. Outcome measures included all-cause mortality, incident coronary heart disease (CHD), and incident stroke.
Main results
- Out of 6,136 eligible participants, 5% had low LDL-c levels (<70 mg/dL), the rest had LDL-c ≥70 mg/dL. There was a significant non-linear relationship between LDL-c levels and all-cause mortality.
- In individuals with a 10-year Framingham score ≥10%, compared with the referent group (LDL-c ≥70 mg/dL and hs-CRP ≥2 mg/L), patients with LDL-c ≥70 mg/dL and hs-CRP <2 mg/L, had the following outcomes: HR for all-cause mortality: 0.86 (95%CI: 0.71-1.03), HR for incident stroke: 0.69 (95%CI: 0.47-0.99), HR for incident CHD: 0.71 (95%CI: 0.53-0.95) and HR for CHD death: 0.70 (0.50-0.99).
- Individuals with LDL-c <70 mg/dL and hs-CRP ≥2 mg/L had the greatest risk of all-cause mortality compared with the referent group (HR: 1.37, 95%CI: 1.07-1.74) and of CHD mortality (HR: 1.35, 95%C(: 0.97-1.88).
- Participants with LDL-c ≥70 mg/dL and hs-CRP <2 mg/L were at lowest risk of all-cause death (HR: 0.75, 95%CI: 0.67-0.85) and CHD mortality (HR: 0.67, 95%CI: 0.54-0.85).
- Similar results were observed in the group of participants with an ASCVD score ≥7.5.
- Various statistical analyses did not reveal a significant association between lower LDL-c levels and incident CHD or incident stroke.
In a primary prevention cohort, the combination of LDL-c ≥70 mg and low hs-CRP (<2 mg/L) was associated with a reduced risk of stroke, CHD, and CHD-death, compared with patients in the same LDL-c category and high hs-CRP levels. LDL-c levels below 70 mg/dL were not associated with protective effects, in several analyses. These data support the important role of inflammatory processes in the pathogenesis of CVD.


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You may disagree but I think that they missed out.
He never said if he'd indulged and I didn't ask. It wouldn't have been the gentlemanly thing to do.
I apologize for the quality of the photo – but, hey, it is over 50 years old and the camera would have been rough and ready. Here is a blown up shot of my granddad. He's the guy in the middle with the fabulous nose. He kept that nose and that body shape for all of his life. Always remaining trim and with a beak that somehow didn't mar his looks.
This last photo was taken in 1975. And yes, the boy in the picture with the NHS glasses is me. The girl is my oldest sister. I have no idea where this photo was taken or by whom. It can't have been my Nan because our heads are all in shot. She'd have cut them off or else chopped off our feet instead.
His presence always made us feel safe as kids. I think that comes over in the photo. Wherever we are, we're more than happy to be there.
He'd have been 90 today.


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Carbon capture technologies play a critical role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and factories, while harnessing carbon dioxide (CO2) for other energy production.
With the support of a grant from the Department of Energy, Miao Yu, the Priti and Mukesh Chatter '82 Career Development Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will develop a novel porous material capable of capturing even very small concentrations of CO2 in the air and collecting the gas for further use
This challenge is more nuanced than it may sound. Yu and his team will use amine molecules to trap the CO2, but the bond formed during that chemical reaction must be broken so that the gas can be gathered. And in order to do that, the material has to be heated. The problem, Yu said, is that when the amine molecules are heated they will evaporate.
Yu and his team will take a unique approach that involves loading amine molecules into a porous material, such as carbon or silica, through which CO2 can pass and get trapped. Another porous coating will cover this material, trapping the amine molecules inside.
"The porous coating will have a pore size smaller than the amine molecules, so they can't get out," said Yu, who is also a member of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Rensselaer (CBIS).
The material will be electrospun into porous fibers, which can be woven into mats that could be hung vertically so that air could easily pass, or be blown, through them.
In addition to reducing carbon emissions, Yu believes this technology has the potential to generate clean energy in remote places or after natural disasters.
"In those areas, we can use this technology to capture CO2 from the air and then combine that with the hydrogen generated from solar energy in order to produce liquid fuel," Yu said.
This work furthers Yu's research aimed at making carbon capture technologies that are more efficient and cost-effective. In his previous work, he's developed membranes capable of capturing CO2, while filtering-out other molecules like water.
"Professor Yu's approach to capturing carbon in new and novel ways plays an integral role in developing the next generation of clean energy technologies," said Deepak Vashishth, the director of CBIS.


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Safety and Security in the Critical Assets of the Oil and Gas Industry
Oil and gas are valuable resources. Therefore, it is all the more important that their processing and distribution is carried out as efficiently as possible.
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) technologies help in optimally checking infrastructural facilities, conveyor systems, compressor stations, wells and pipelines for fatigue and loading. This enables the detection of ongoing damage and the prediction of the structures and components' lifetime, which results in saving costs and facilitating operational excellence.
Monitoring and testing oil and gas infrastructures and components with HBM measurement systems and turnkey solutions can be a suitable option for many applications, including the following:


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The meteoric rise of internet sensation Ken Bone brought about costumes, memes and general online admiration. He was a speck of authenticity and optimism during what was a heavy, and at times, brutal second debate.
But his fifteen minutes of fame are coming to an end as detractors have shared his browsing history, online comments and basic humanness with the rest of the world, showing that even this hero is a simple man.
Without considering the fickle mind of internet fans, Ebay proudly endorsed him on Imgur, a photosharing website closely related to Reddit, without actually reading the commentary that came out of Ken's "ask me anything" Reddit session.
As the backlash against Ken began to swell, Ebay pulled the photo ad to negate any negative associations, proving once again that brand and ambassador vetting is important.
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Above the Spiral
I frequently say "I'm spiraling" to indicate that I'm about to go into an episode. My episodes are not typical for bipolar for most people. They are very similar to panic attacks, anxiety attacks, and sometimes psychotic breaks. I get a feeling that I'm suddenly sinking down, and I know I'm headed for an episode. This painting is the feeling that the spiral is waiting below me to suck me down into darkness. There is rain in the house, and it's raining on me even though I have an umbrella. I can see out the window that the earth is still beautiful, just not where I am. This speaks deeply to me because I rely on remembering that just because my view is dark, the world outside me doesn't change when I go into an episode. It's the same world whether I'm happy or sad. Everything feels awful sometimes, but that doesn't mean that everything actually is awful. The awful is just inside me wherever I am. When I come back and the awful goes away, I get my beautiful world back. I see that I'm lucky and loved. I see that I can do this.
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In this painting, the volcanoes represent the eruptions of intense feeling that I experience. On the road, I'm traveling and illuminated only briefly on my way. I give thanks for the light of this one moment. Under the road, I see myself as a child in my childhood kitchen. The painting on the wall is a picture I used to draw over and over, a red canoe on a lake with a little grass nearby. It was the only picture I was good at. I drew and painted it over and over. I could put myself there in my head, and it was so beautiful. The clock on the wall above my head is set to 12:34, because I used to make a wish if I looked at a clock at 12:34; 1,2,3,4… get it? It made sense as a child. Making wishes has always been important to me. I don't expect them to come true, but I enjoy the momentary practice of the belief in magic.
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Perspective; Earth From a Distance
Being able to find your place in the universe is what mindfulness is all about. I love space, and I love physics. They resonate deeply with me because they're such vast concepts. I am so much smaller than the whole of existence. Infinitely smaller. The more I realize the minuscule scale of my impact on the universe around me, the more free and happy I feel. Everyone thinks they're so god damned important. Yes, you do too. Take a step back for a minute and face existence. You are tiny. You are a mote of dust on a pinprick of a planet orbiting a medium star in a small galaxy that's one of billions and billions, all separated by an unimaginable amount of empty space. That's how small you are. That should be the best news you've ever heard. If you're that small, you don't matter that much. Your impact is small. The pressure is off. You don't have to live the perfect life. The universe could get on just fine without you. You're free to find your own meaning in life, to make it mean anything you want. Meaninglessness is what frees us to create our own meaning. That's such a beautiful idea. This fish in space is me, getting a dose of perspective. It feels so good. I'm free.
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Looking Up
I painted this in a very deep depression when I was on a medicine called Latuda that gave me three months of psychosis. Latuda is a very highly-esteemed drug, known for its minimal side effects. My experience was very abnormal, so don't be afraid of trying this drug if your doctor recommends it. Every brain is different; different meds work for different people. In my case, Latuda gave me hallucinations and kept me from sleeping, so I had mania and psychosis almost every day. My mania is rarely the fun kind. It's called dysphoric mania (opposite of euphoric), and it means I am very deeply upset with racing thoughts, and I'm full of energy and negatively inspired passion. I went so far down the spiral that I spent my days fantasizing about my death. Some nights I was in so much pain that I laid in bed clutching the covers as hard as I could to keep myself from going into the kitchen, getting the serrated bread knife, the largest and sharpest knife we own, and slitting my own throat. I absolutely had enough strength in those moments to follow through with that simple, quick act. Fortunately, I also had enough strength to stay in bed and continue to feel my soul burn. In such an ugly place, I wanted to create some beauty to aspire to. I was deep in the sea of emotional torture, but I had to keep my face turned toward the sun. I had to be able to hope. I took the tiny bit of hope I still had, and I put it into this painting. When it dried, I hung it over my bed. I needed just a little bit of hope to hold on to.
This is my first painting. I painted it when I was a senior in high school. I was inspired while driving home in the rain, listening to a song called "No Doubling Back". I had just broken up with Abigail, my first-ever girlfriend. I had come out as a lesbian only six months before, and even as liberating it was to finally be with a girl, I knew we wouldn't work. She was deeply in love with her best friend, and she wanted to move on, but wasn't ready yet. I knew it was time for us to end. It's always tough to leave a relationship, but I knew I'd made the right choice. Driving home, singing along with the song, I smiled. An image came to me of a goldfish swimming down the highway in the rain. It was a happy goldfish. It knew that it was moving in the right direction. I came home, grabbed an old box of crayons and an older box of watercolors, found a brush, filled a glass of water, and sat down to paint. It flowed out of me quickly. I was full of energy. I felt like I had done my first truly adult thing, and the idea of beginning my adult life was liberating in the extreme. I had college ahead of me, and then adult life. Freedom. The great feeling I had then, during the creation of my first painting, still comes to me whenever I paint. Twenty-two years later, and I can still tap into the beautiful, hopeful, optimistic headspace that I first found at the age of eighteen. If that trend continues, I will paint until I die.
When I was twenty, I drove with my parents to the Davis mountains in far west Texas. We walked in the mountains, swam in a cold, freshwater spring in the desert of Balmorhea, and drove to Marfa, Texas, to see the Marfa Lights. In the vast, empty desert of Marfa, there is an unexplained phenomenon where lights appear in the sky over the mountains at night and dance around. They dart, change colors, multiply and combine again, and though I have seen them, I claim absolutely no knowledge of what they are.
Everyone likes having an explanation for the things they experience, and when we don't have one, we make one up, usually out of educated guesses and our capacity to reason. When we got to the viewing platform a little after sundown, we were with about twenty other visitors, all of us surrounded by nothing but silent, empty desert. Before the lights even appeared, everyone had their own version of the truth about what these apparitions were. When the lights started, the group erupted with refined theories and arguments based on the lights we were seeing, which were changing minute by minute. After an hour of watching this fantastic show of erratically dancing orbs of colored light, the people on the viewing platform started to go quiet. After another hour, they were starting to admit doubt, and another half hour later, no one claimed any longer that they knew what the lights were, and no one even ventured a guess past that point. The less certain we became as a group, the more uncomfortable everyone became. We had no knowledge of what this phenomenon was, and that made everyone feel extremely vulnerable. The Marfa Lights were a powerful and very creepy thing to experience. I've relived those moments watching them in the desert many times, and it captures my imagination. I still have no idea what they are, and they continue to this day. This painting is my imagination of those lights as beings, ephemeral, glowing creatures swimming through the sky in front of the Davis mountains. For me, it's as good an explanation as any.
It's Good To Be In Love
This was painted for Sophie, my first real girlfriend, whom I met during my freshman year at Oberlin. The song at the top is by Frou Frou and the title is "It's Good To Be in Love". The part of the song written out goes with the words "It's good to be in love/it really does suit you/just like everything". For a week before we finally said "I love you", we played that song over and over, and sung along without ever making eye contact, because we were both so afraid to say those three magic words. What if the other person didn't say it back? It was a big risk for two eighteen-year-olds. In this painting, the goldfishes are me and my girlfriend facing the rain together. We're looking through the window and seeing the future. The road with a red shoe is me on my path, leading into a musical rainbow of this new relationship, with the script for the part of the song that says "I'm happy you're in love". It ends in an elegant high heeled shoe, her favorite pair. Finally, the question mark. How will this end? Just like with Holly, looking to the future gave me so much comfort and happiness. We never talked about marriage, but at eighteen, we both knew we were too young to make that commitment. I secretly thought we would stay together for a long time, break up, go a decade without seeing each other, and then cross paths somewhere. Europe, maybe. She'd be beautiful as ever and we'd both be fantastically rich from our singing careers, and we would never leave each other again.
I painted this when I was in a long distance relationship with a woman named Holly. Long distance relationships really, really suck. We were so in love, and separated by over a thousand miles. We were both in college and starting to plan our future together. We held on tightly to those conversations because it hurt so much to not be able to see each other in person. That much love combined with that much distance is excruciating for anyone. I told her I wanted us to live in California, in a turquoise house with an avocado tree and a garden. She would get a job as a marching band director, I'd sing opera for a living, and we'd live happily ever after. I wanted to do domestic things with her; cook, wash dishes, buy potholders together, lay in her lap while watching TV. We were in love with the fantasy of our future as well as with each other. I painted this so that I could see our future, hang it on the wall, and daydream about Someday.
Parts of a Whole
Everything fits together. We are each a tiny part of the whole of the cosmos. It makes me so happy to think about that: I'm small, so small, and I'm part of something bigger than I can comprehend. There's a quote about that from astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson that I love: "We are all connected. To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe, atomically." That fundamental interconnectedness of all things is the most beautiful thing I know. This painting is the parts of a whole, and it could be on any scale. We are all a piece in a three dimensional, moving puzzle. We are all part of something grand.


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President Lee's comments on 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender
"At that time my brothers [Taiwanese people], who were beyond doubt [acting in the capacity of] Japanese person[s], fought for the motherland [Japan]."
"Japan and Taiwan were the same country then. Being the same country, it's of course not true that Taiwan was involved in the war of resistance against Japan."The United Daily News did it's best to suggest Lee was suggesting he is Japanese, today and forever. China Times too. Meanwhile the government run CNA parroted Chinese claims that Lee was destroying Taiwan-China relations and, in another article, used the familiar "scholar" quote headline to claim that Lee can't tell the truth from fiction and has unclear logic. (You can read more of this particular scholar's comments here.).
Meanwhile, Tsai Ing-wen said Lee was speaking from his historical perspective, while Mayor Ko pointed out that all parties in the kerfuffle were speaking truthfully from their perspectives. Ko's comments showed a lot of maturity I think.
My view is that Lee correctly sees he has much great political capital and influence in Japan than in Taiwan, so he is using that capital to try and tug at Japanese heart strings and bring Japan to express greater support for Taiwan's continued independence. Meanwhile he figures that in Taiwan the worst thing that will happen is his comments will force the KMT to make itself look even more China-oriented, which can only help the green camp.


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Advice and Whiskey with Jen Leonard of Tie & Timber Beer Co.
Jen Leonard and her husband, Curtis, wanted to get out of corporate life in Denver, so they decided to start a brewery in Curtis's hometown of Springfield.
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"We could see how invested this neighborhood is in their community. That's what we wanted for our business. We want to be a part of it and grow with it."— Jen Leonard
"The universe dropped this in our laps, and it's up to us to see if it's going to work out. That's when we started pulling the numbers together."
"We could see the vision of what this little area could turn into. The neighborhood I lived in in Denver felt like this with places for neighbors to walk to."
"What we didn't know is if [residents] would accept a brewery in their neighborhood."
"We did the survey and got people we needed to get into touch with. We just had great reception; people were really excited for it."
"We could see how invested this neighborhood is in their community. That's what we wanted for our business. We want to be a part of it and grow with it."
"In Denver, neighborhood breweries are all over. In Springfield that was not the case. It was important to get involved in the community, address their concerns and make them a part of what we were building. That was probably the smartest thing we did."
"Here, one of the unique things of being in the neighborhood is that we've had baby showers here, and we've had families that bring their kids here. It's more intimate than if we were in a busy area."
"We wanted to do something together. We wanted to be a part of a community and be impactful in a community."
"Do your homework and understand it's a lot of hard work. This is not glamorous at all, being a small business owner. Be prepared for the amount of work, but don't be scared by it."
"We did go in a little blind, but when we saw all the support and answered questions personally, we could see that this was a good fit for us and what we wanted to do."
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A really wonderful hardy bulb from South Africa which seems to have been forgotten about. It produces bright red flowers on 50cm tall stems in late summer. Legend has it that a Dutch ship carrying bulbs was wrecked off the coast of Scarborough and hence the name. It wasn't uncommon for a ship in this state to be looted, but I like to think that some kind hearted locals saved the bulbs and grew them in their gardens doing the required hardiness trials and at the same time making their gardens look really pretty.
Cyrthanthus elatus - Scarborough lily 3 x bulbs
- Scarborough lilies can be grown outside in either full sun or part shade either in the ground or in pots. If growing in the ground choose a sheltered position and incorporate grit when planting to improve the drainage. If growing in pots, which is probably best, grow in a good multipurpose compost and water regularly. Scarborough Lilies will also benefit from regular liquid feeds during the growing season.


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Academia and science are both in the throes of a crisis, marked by several inefficiencies directly impacting our scientific prowess and research capabilities. The subject of stagnation within universities and academic institutions is taboo, and there is no place in this system for dissenting intellectuals who challenge the status quo or the quality of scientific research.
Decentralized science (DeSci) aims to disrupt these systems for good reason. DeSci paired with blockchain technology has the potential to upend existing funding schemes and enhance collaboration between stakeholders in scientific endeavors.
Access to scientific reports and research is a highly contentious issue. In the digital age, the scientific publishing industry has created a fortified oligarchy that threatens the integrity of scientific innovation. The sector benefits from publicly funded research to achieve more significant profit margins than Google, Amazon or Apple. Instead of advancing science, these publishers conceal government-funded research behind locked paywalls and charge high subscription fees for access.
Defined by the mantra "publish or perish," scientists have become entangled in a game where their career prospects depend more on the publication of their work in prestigious journals than the merits of the work itself — a self-referential hierarchy that is carefully maintained by publishers to drive revenue. To gain this acceptance, scientists tend to publish the most eye-catching and unexpected results, feeding into what has been called the "reproducibility crisis in science."
In a 2016 survey conducted by Nature, 70% of researchers noted that they have tried and failed to reproduce their colleagues' experiments. This inability to reproduce experiments threatens the foundation and accuracy of scientific literature. This flawed system leads to an environment that fosters exclusivity and discourages data sharing among the scientific community, directly impacting the quality and caliber of the research produced.
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From these fragilities came the birth of the open access movement, a campaign to make scientific content freely available to the public. The movement began in the early 2000s and sought to release papers from behind publishers' paywalls. Over the past two decades, the movement has made steady progress, with a growing amount of academic research now available on an open basis. Nature's recent announcement that authors from low- and lower-middle-income countries will be able to publish in its pages for free reflected the movement's positive impact.
Despite these advances, "open science" has inherited many of the same limitations as mainstream science. Scientists may still be afraid to comment on a senior colleague's research paper under their own name for fear of repercussions. This makes it less likely for scientists from disadvantaged backgrounds to participate in open science and could worsen existing scientific inequities. These issues are further exacerbated by publishers charging article processing charges (APCs) to make an article open access. As publishers raise APCs, institutions face direct financial pressure and must limit the number of grants they award.
Web2 protocols such as Git emerged to counter the restrictions of centralized version control systems and create an open-source alternative that enables software teams to create projects of all sizes with efficiency, speed and asynchronicity. This approach increases transparency and verifiability while also opening up new avenues for collaboration.
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Web3 protocols such as the InterPlanetary File System have also emerged in response to the centralized web — the latter of which lacks privacy, sells our data to third parties and is prone to single points of failure. Both of the above inventions arose directly from the limitations of pre-internet scientific research.
Decentralizing science has no inherent economic incentives. It is a restorative mission to increase scientific funding, eliminate reliance on profit-hungry intermediaries and increase collaboration across the field. Decentralized entities and tools such as decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), quadratic funding and crowdsourcing can help scientists unlock alternative ways to fund more diverse scientific ventures. By disseminating scientific discoveries publicly via scalable tokenomics, DeSci can eliminate profiteering middlemen, such as publishers, and reshape the scientific publishing industry for the better.
Most importantly, DeSci harnesses the power of crowdsourcing, which enables scientists to pool their hypotheses and data to solve problems faster and more efficiently. Crowdsourcing platforms, originally designed to help machine learning engineers, are making larger data sets available for scientific studies and increasing the diversity of research projects. Those institutions using Web3 and blockchain tools will flourish, making traditional academic systems less optimal and attractive.
One thing is certain: Blockchain and Web3 are going to reshape academia for the better by providing scientists with the tools they need to efficiently and effectively produce disruptive research.
Matteo Manzi is the lead quant researcher at CrunchDAO. He has a background in machine learning and dynamical systems and was the co-founder of Poincaré Trajectories, which integrated into CrunchDAO in October 2022. Matteo graduated with a master's degree in space flight with a talent scholarship from Delft University of Technology, worked as a researcher in the Horizon 2020 program by the European Commission in the United Kingdom and later worked as a flight dynamics software engineer for the Space Debris Office of the European Space Agency.
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I took a bit of an unusual approach when selecting a recipe to share with you today. I picked the yummy strawberry-cantaloupe salsa that topped her Jamaican Jerk Burgers and combined it with the grilled chicken from her Coffee-Spiced Grilled Chicken and turned them into a hybrid recipe: a main dish salad! It was 105 here in San Antonio on Saturday, so a refreshing and light salad was exactly what I wanted to make for our dinner. This salad was full of flavors thanks to the spice blend on the chicken and the sweet-spice of the fruit salsa. I served the salad with simple cheese garlic bread.
I tweaked the spice rub on the chicken just a bit to add a few more spices that I thought would pair well with allspice and ginger. The only tweak I made to the strawberry-cantaloupe salsa was to use lime juice instead of lemon and sub in a hatch chili for green bell pepper since I can't eat bell pepper. The flavors in this salad paired very well together: a little sweet, a little spicy...and a little bit of salt from the addition of some crumbled feta.
Salad With Strawberry-Melon Salsa and Coffee-Spiced Grilled Chicken
Step 1: Make a wet rub for the chicken by combining the following ingredients in a large bowl: 1 tbs. olive oil, 1 tbs. instant coffee, 1 tsp. allspice, 1/2 tsp. ginger, 1 tsp. sea salt, 1/2 tsp. smoked paprika, and 1/2 tsp. cumin. Stir to combine. Add two boneless chicken breasts and coat both sides in this mixture. Refrigerate for 2-4 hours to let the flavor permeate the chicken.
Step 2: Make the fruit salsa by combining the following ingredients in a medium bowl: 1 cup chopped strawberries, 1 cup diced cantaloupe, 1 tbs. finely chopped cilantro, 1/2 finely diced hatch chili, 1/4 cup finely diced red onion, and the juice and zest of one small lime. Stir well to combine and refrigerate for 2-4 hours.
Step 3: When you're ready to make the salad, cook the chicken. You can grill it, but I pan-seared it in 1 tbs. olive oil in a non-stick pan over med-high heat. NOTE: I noticed the coffee aroma of my wet rub was very strong, so I rinsed my chicken and seasoned with salt and pepper just before I cooked it! While the chicken is cooking, prepare the salad.
Step 4: Put 4 cups red leaf lettuce, 1/3 cup julienne carrot, 1/4 cup crumbled feta, 1/3 cup chopped candied pecans and about 1/2 cup Newman's Own Light Raspberry-Walnut dressing in a large bowl. Toss to combine and divide the salad between two plates. Top each with about a cup of the strawberry-cantaloupe salsa. When the chicken is cooked, sliced it and place on top of the chicken.
This salad was refreshing and delicious, and the vibrant colors just popped off the plate! Rinsing the chicken was a good call, because the coffee flavor was still pretty prominent in the chicken. Next time, I think I'll reduce the amount of coffee in the rub to 1 tsp. to avoid having to pre-rinse the chicken before cooking. As you can see, the chicken comes out golden-brown and moist. And the fruit salsa? It's so good...sweet and just spicy enough!


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Moscow aims to boost settlements in national currencies with SCO countries instead of the dollar and euro
Russia has offered countries belonging to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to join its financial messaging system (SPFS), the Russian equivalent of SWIFT. Moscow wants to boost the volume of settlements in national currencies, the country's Economic Development Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said on Tuesday.
"In order to ensure uninterrupted cooperation between our banks, we suggest that members of the organization join the Russian financial messaging system," Reshetnikov said in his video address to participants at the SCO forum in Uzbekistan.
Reshetnikov noted that SCO countries need to continue to promote full compatibility of national payment systems and boost the volume of mutual settlements in national currencies.
"We already see positive results, for example, a quarter of the trade turnover between Russia and China is settled in rubles and yuan," Reshetnikov said.
The SCO currently comprises eight member states: China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan, while its partners and associates also include Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, Mongolia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Turkey and Sri Lanka. The organization's work focuses mainly on security issues, but it also deals with regional development tasks.
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Russia has been actively promoting its domestic financial messaging system ever since being cut off from SWIFT as part of Western sanctions imposed on the country over the conflict in Ukraine. Both facilitate financial transactions between banks, but Russia's SPFS was used only in Russia up until this year, while SWIFT is an internationally adopted system.
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The immigration site was down for two days. I kept trying to get on but no luck. Then finally by Thursday it was up again but it still took me all of Thursday and most of Friday to prepare all the documents. Now we will just pray that they will come through quickly. It's quite a process even after we've applied.
The Church wants us to be legal in every way so missionaries simply cannot do missionary work until they have either the Special Pass or the Work Permit. Also, the Church does not pay bribes. If it did, we'd probably have had the work permits already. But we want to be legal in every way.
Besides working on passes, there was a myriad of other things to do. Young missionaries kept coming in needing things and it's important to stop and visit with them. They are so young -- some only 18 -- and they need that grandmotherly visit. By the way, the young missionaries are also called "Elder" just like the Senior Missionary men are called "Elder." It has nothing to do with age. It's an office in the priesthood. I always put that in the cover letters I write to Immigration because it can be confusing to those unfamiliar with our terminology.
On Friday our drive to the mission office only took 22 minutes! That was an absolute record. Of course on the way home it took an hour. You just never know with the traffic.
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Boards welcome public comment on state of mental health in Alaska
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – Over the course of a few days this week, the public will have the chance to discuss with officials the state of mental health here in Alaska and what can be done to improve conditions for people in both rural and urban communities.
"I think the answer," said Bev Schoonover, of the Alaska Mental Health Board and Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, "is folks working together, and there's a lot of folks working together on these issues in Alaska – statewide, locally, and within rural communities and tribes."
The Alaska Mental Health Board and Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse had its first gathering of the week on Tuesday, the first of three days dedicated to reviewing and discussing various facets of the topic of mental health.
An arm of the state's health department, the boards are charged with planning and coordinating portions of the behavioral health services funded by the state of Alaska. Discussions on this first day of meeting included items such as current and future legislation – consider HB 181, which would amend law to "encourage" review of mental health science for grades kindergarten through 12th in all public schools – and needs for improving health care in Alaska.
One of the items mentioned regarding the latter was "filling the gaps" in the mental health care system as a whole, including improving behavioral workforce development, housing opportunities, transportation options, and access to services in general for rural communities.
"People are welcome to come down to the Dimond Center or they can call in," Schoonover said, "but we're always taking public comment, and anyone who wants to share their ideas and thoughts with us about this and the state-funded behavioral health system, they can always reach out to us."
The meetings through Thursday are open to the public, and public comment will be open from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Dimond Center Hotel. You may also call in by dialing (800) 315-6338, code number 58920#.
The full agenda can be found here.
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RUSSIA: Airport shuttle service operator Aeroexpress put its Stadler Kiss double-deck electric multiple-units into revenue service on the Moscow Kievskaya – Vnukovo Airport route on October 27. The new units will also be introduced on the Moscow Paveletsky – Domodedovo Airport route during November.
The 1520 mm gauge Class ESh2 EMUs are part of Stadler's Kiss family, but are larger than their 1 435 mm gauge counterparts at 5 240 mm high and 3 400 mm wide. They have a maximum speed of 160 km/h, and are winterised for use in temperatures from -50˚C to +40˚C.
In February 2013 Stadler beat Alstom and Škoda for the contract to supply 3 kV DC units to increase capacity on Moscow airport services. The original €350m order covered 16 four-car and eight six-car EMUs, with two options for a total of 60 cars formed as 13 units. The first of the units were delivered from Stadler Rail's Altenrhein factory in Switzerland in September 2014, and the rest supplied from Fanipol in Belarus.
Aeroexpress was then hit by the effects of a fall in oil and gas prices, the imposition of international sanctions on Russia and the decline in the value of the rouble, with ridership down from 19·7 million passengers in 2014 to 11·6 million in 2016. As a result the order was reduced in May 2016 to two four-car and nine six-car EMUs worth €184m, backed by a loan from Gazprombank.
Stadler supplied five of the surplus four-car units to Azerbaijan's ADY, and four four-car units to Georgian Railway.


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