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Just a quick update, downloaded Akula's AR:SE rules and Grekwood's free rules, thank you gentlemen. LEGENDS both. Also downloaded the Crooked Dice free cabin, my first go at card scenery.Fingers crossed or at least not cut off.
Tonight is game night for the WNI (Wednesday Night Irregulars) so no painting or construction this evening, but there will be zombie mayhem thanks to my christmas pressie of Zombicide.
Sheldon our resident analist has already painted his copy of Zombicde, but he only one-coated and washed his zombies, not good enough for me as I will be using my zombies for ATZ, so they need to be painted properly.
In the words of the DUDE "take it easy"
A journey into zombie wargaming and blogging with a Welsh slant on things.
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
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Good luck with the buildings. There is a plethora of free card buildings on the interweb and there is also a free sample of the excellent Stoetzels Buildings available from Wargames Vault:ReplyDelete
Thanks for the link, more fingers will be sacrificed in the name of zombie wargaming.ReplyDelete
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this phone is not good. it doesnt have slot for memory card, no autofocus camera, no flash, no side volume control keys, no 16 million color TFT screen, no document viewer, no symbian interface, no bluetooth, no infrared, no wifi, no radio etc. so dont buy it. its a waste phone without these features.
i've just reieved this phone and i love it!! battery life is great and it i such a nice east handset to use!!
phone colors are nice and brite. phone screen is large and easy to see. although the plastic material used to make the phone is to light(not enough weight) slips out of my hands but easy to hold on to when making calls. the speaker sound is excellent. buttons are easy to push.wallpaper and themes are nice. ringtones are good. camera has three settings for photo size plus zoom. video is to short but good. both camera and video are excellent and very clear, easy to use. excellent phone for the price.
this's not a phone i think that nokia will loose all what has built during theses years
I bought this phone two weeks ago. I have had no problem with it. A cheap phone for basic needs. I don't think it's right complaining about features not included in this phone. Better buy an expensive one for such.
Good & simple mobile phone with long battery life and bad rubber keyboard.
my girl friend just have this phone thru Globe plans,and she's not satisfied about it,cause it doesnt have any means data transfering...
6180, 01 Nov 2008if you people want a phone with all these extra features, spend some money....otherwise relax ... moreif other brand sell less number but give us high feture model in this price band then whyn,t nokia the no-1 brand in india
This is really an excellent hand set. though it has 32MB built in memory but has no data connectivity other than EDGE/GPRS. It has to have at least FM Radio and cable connectivity. Above all this is excellent.....
I just ordered this phone today... not expecting a lot but needed something until I renew my contract and am eligible for an upgrade. I'm not expecting much because this phone doesnt promise much! It isn't meant to! Its a low cost phone for anyone on a budget... so stop crying, read the specs before you buy and you wont be disappointed!!!! If you want a phone with endless features then buy a phone with endless features... it isn't rocket science people.
i was today buy it in the philippines 2950 peso means 45 euro around super!plus 1year warranty!when u wany a phone by this phone when u want a laptop do not buy it!
k3n1, 04 Nov 2008does this 1680 classic have bluetooth, and usb port?i think this phone is wow atleast it has a wap and a camera.be greatful if you have it
Anonymous, 31 Oct 2008I'm not very happy with my new phone. not as user friendly. how the heck do you cange the ri... moreIf you go to settings. Select the Tones botton. Then change it. It is freekin easy.

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This is a music website for the discovery of new and old music and to get people to talk abut music in general. Some elements that i would like to include in my website are things like the Blog page and the parts where you can look up and discover new and old music. One of the elements in our website is going to rely on people looking at posts and liking them so a blog type page is going to be essential. Also, the main theme in our website is music, and we would like to include sections where people can just browse through existing music and read up on news and gig info.


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We as sensible cyclists use Ortlieb panniers. They are very waterproof and fit on most bikes easily, but when they are half empty they are floppy and look untidy. You often need to scrabble about on the floor to pack them. This is true for most panniers using lorry/truck covering sheets. The owner of the Hotel Neuhaus in Neuhaus near Cuxhafen on the Elbe Cycle Way* noticed this and fitted hooks to take panniers on the walls or radiators of his rooms.
On a bike underway panniers are utilitarian and you can forget about them. However if you need to carry your panniers up to your room using the loops on top of the bags you shortly notice that the blood circulation in your fingers is seriously restricted. It is not pleasant. The owner of said Hotel Neuhaus has developed a trolley on which you hang your panniers to transport your bags from the bike storage area to your room. He is investigating patenting the device. The hotel sounds like a good place to visit. The owner also offers baggage transfer for groups. The hotel's website is www.hotel-neuhaus-oste.de. The big snag it's in German, so use Google Translator.
*BTW it is better to cycle up the Elbe rather than downstream as the prevailing wind is from the west.
Comments about cycling, and cycle and bicycle touring in Europe - routes, carriage of bicycles by public transport, hotels, hostels, camp sites, bicycle rental, bicycle hire, life in Viernheim, Germany and living in the time of peak oil.
Saturday, March 12, 2016
A hotel porter for cyclists or where can I hang my panniers?
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This paper analyzes the moisture accumulation and the increase in the effective thermal conductivity of a fibrous insulation slab due to moisture migration. The problem is modeled as a transient, multiphase flow, with variable properties, in a porous slab with impermeable, adiabatic horizontal boundaries and permeable vertical boundaries, A detailed investigation of the interaction between condensation rate, temperature, liquid content, and vapor density fields is presented. The influences of different humidity levels at the boundaries of the insulation slab are investigated in detail and the importance of the Peclet and Lewis numbers on the condensation process is demonstrated. The analysis shows that condensation, and the resulting augmentation of heat transfer, is a serious problem at large Peclet numbers (Pe > 1). Furthermore, the increase in the Nusselt number for fibrous insulation due to condensation is found to be minimized by designing an insulation slab which has a low Lewis number.
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Jojo, 28 May 2014Hey guys can you please tell me which phone I would buy, is this LG l70 or xperia M? ..special... moreLol, I have to choose between the same 2 phone myself, as they are the same price. I will go for the LG L70 because I think it offers faster UI. I want a phone that doesn't lag. Also battery life on this phone should be excellent which is my second priority.
Hey. I am about to get this phone and I wanted to know does it support heavy games? Also does it support subway surfers and temple run?
AnonD-262301, 18 May 2014How many free internal space is?pantech discover has 16gb internal space from which around 13gb is free for user while lg has 4 gb and 1.5 gb free for user
underdog, 27 May 2014The SIM is regular size, not mini SIM. The battery life is pretty good. The IPS screen is n... moreA normal sized SIM is the size of a credit card, it is a mini SIM
I'm buy this phone today but i'm not shure for gorila glass... It's really have ? pls reply
Hey guys can you please tell me which phone I would buy, is this LG l70 or xperia M? ..specially when it comes to camera??
underdog, 27 May 2014The SIM is regular size, not mini SIM. The battery life is pretty good. The IPS screen is n... moreBut your "regular size" is called Mini sim for the world. So before you write something, read first or just ask google.
The SIM is regular size, not mini SIM.
The battery life is pretty good.
The IPS screen is not "true IPS", it doesn't have enough contrast and viewing angles are not that big. Samsung offers better screens even on the low end phones like this one from LG.
Yea its a nice phone performant cute design but i wouldnt recomand this phone because its have one problem all the apps that u install it goes on phone memory... and it has 4 gb 2 is the android system 1 all that apps preinstaled. i have a 32 gb card and cant use it, only for photos videos music
Two weeks now with this realy cheap phone. I paid for it brand new 110 Euros and is such good value for this money.
Good features:
-very good battery life, two days with moderate use, maybe three if you don't play and surf the net as much as I do
-preaty good optimization of the OS, its really hard to find lag, maybe in the phonebook and call history has a little delay but I experienced this even on quadcore phones
-the games are working decent, not blazing fast but smouth
-nice software implemantation like quicq memo, qslide, knock code, it also has NFC
- solid built, gorilla glass, and the back cover is very greapy and fingerprints resistent
- the Internet works realy good, the pages take little time to load
And now the things I don't like about this phone:
-limited memory to 1.4 Gb, you can't install to much apps and large games like Asphalt and if you move some of your apps on the memory card they tend not to move entirely, some data remains on the internal memory
- the camera takes acceptable pictures only daytime and with perfect like but the noise level and the clarity are bad
-doesn't have ambient light sensor and is annoying because I have to manualy put the screen on maximum light every time I'm using it in direct sunlight
-screen resolution is a bit outdated, it should be at least qHD
-the speacker is loud but not clear and I can hear distorsions when I talk with somebody and the coverage is low, it could be only a falt on my device not a general one
In conclusion, it's a good device with the latest Android, decent battery life and a cheap price. It worths buying it if you accept that it can not be used to play top games, store hundreds of apps and take beautiful captures.
jn, 06 May 2014Wich one should i buy and why ? LG L70 or the Samsung Galaxy s3 mini? if you have more money in hand,better choose samsung
One week in use. Why spend hundreds of euros if there is the lg l serie. affordable and every euro worth. i like it, it,s fast, clear view, nice battery use. Fantastic!
AnonD-133140, 21 May 2014No LED for notificacions,why LG ??Notification LED is supposedly included in home button. ;-)
There's a total memory of 1,50 GB and you can only use 1,3 GB of it for you personal files! RIDICULOUS! Why does it say 4 GB when it's not!
francolazis , 18 May 2014Would love 2 knw which should I get pantech discover or this phone. Only problem I feel is in... moreHow many free internal space is?
Would love 2 knw which should I get pantech discover or this phone. Only problem I feel is internal space and camera 4 lg. Please help
Anonymous, 10 May 2014how much free space remains with kitkat and only 4 GB ROM ?really little ,man!
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Great RAM at a great price. I'll wait a few months and pick up 2 more sticks to fill out the slots I have open.
I overdid the ram, probably a bit too much unnecessary amount of memory. However, I intend to stick one of them into another computer one day or something. The price/gb is worth it which is why I bought two of them. For now, it helps me run a lot programs at least. Originally had a 4gb ram laptop with a processor capped at around 2,150mhz, apparently I'm using slightly above 25% of the ram which means that 8gb was probably enough for me
Pro-decent speed and memory. Con-Excessive and maybe a bit more pricey than cheaper options.
Super fast ram so I won't need to upgrade anytime soon. Highly recommend.
No complaints, does what it promises, easily runs at 3200mhz on my ASUS Z270E
Great RAM. Currently running at 3200mhz using MSI BIOS version 7A34v1F.
R7 1700 compatible after bios update with motherboard set to 3200Mhz with ease what a deal newegg at 114.99 sweet.<1 year later not a single issue was at proper speeds after 1st bios update. I just kept updating bios for stability and RAM function.
Matches my build aesthetic. Currently overclocked to 2933 MHz without having to change voltage or timings. Tried 3200 MHz with stock timings but it put the PC into a boot loop so just keeping at 2933 MHz for now.
The infamous category: RAM for Ryzen. I picked this kit up because it was on "sale", and I'm almost certain I got Hynix die for my trouble. Regardless, I expected some kinks and obstacles with the RAM heading into this build, so I wasn't blindsided when I couldn't get the system to boot stably at 3200MHz. 2933MHz ended up being the safest speed for these sticks so far, and that's fine with me. Perhaps, with a later BIOS update, I can squeeze out that extra couple hundred, but for now I'm happy.
RAM is RAM. Not the cheapest, but not G.Skill's fault. Simple design goes with the motherboard, so it's fine.


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Link Up is a hands-on music curriculum for students in grades 3–5 that explores orchestral repertoire in the music classroom while preparing students to sing and play recorders or string instruments from their seats in a culminating St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Link Up concert at Powell Hall. If you are teaching recorder, singing, or beginning violin, this curriculum is a must!
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Ephemera by Hope Meijer (Hopemeijer)
Fandoms: Adventure Series - Enid Blyton, Paul Temple - Francis Durbridge
14 Oct 2018
"I feel like a schoolgirl with a silly crush. He's a high-ranking policeman based in London and I'm a widowed mother of now four children. But it's nice to dream."
Allie Mannering/Bill Cunningham - Series of letters, journal entries, telegrams etc chronicling their relationship. Slight crossover with Paul Temple.
All Change by Beecharmer
Fandoms: Enid Blyton, Famous Five - Enid Blyton, Chalet School - Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
02 Jul 2013
Daft saga covering relationships and lives of various Enid Blyton and Chalet School Characters. Was orginally written as a Chalet School story, but was hijacked by Enid Blyton characters. Written a few years ago, will take a while to repost, complete story posted on Sally Denny Library under All Change (Reorganised). http://www.sallydennylibrary.co.uk/viewstory.php?sid=81
This may go into more detail of Enid Blyton parts than the original did. There are many children's book cameos not listed in character list, but will in general be about the people listed there. Meant to be taken in good humour, intentionally daft in parts but does have sad parts, and melodramatic ones too. The characters in first chapter are all around 16, 17, 18


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Everyday makeup without foundation
(Cosmetics) Base: Inglot (not necessery) | BB Cream: Maybelline | Concealer: Maybelline | Primer: Revlon (not necessary) | Powder: Max Factor | Bronzer: Bell | Blush: Max Factor | Eye Shadow: H&M (similar here), L'oreal | Mascara: Maybelline | Lip Balm: Nivea | Lipstick: Revlon or Inglot
Every time before going out I need to put some makeup on. Maybe not too much, but I feel a bit weird without it. I've found a way to do a very light, soft and quick makeup for everyday. It's good for school, work and also for shopping or meeting friends.
The first thing I use is Inglot makeup base, although it is not necessary. I spread the base on my whole face with a sponge or just with my fingers. Next, I apply Maybelline BB cream with my fingers, gently patting it into my face. The effect will be like after using foundation. Instantly rub it on your whole face. Now I use Maybelline concealer. I put it under my eyes and next to my nose using the sponge. With a powder brush I spread Revlon anti shine primer or I use baby press powder (don't laugh! It also makes the skin matt), but it's not necessary. Use it when you feel that your skin is too oily. Than with the same brush I put Max Factor powder on the face. If you've got a brush for blush/bronzer it will be useful now to put blush first. I use the Max Factor one on the cheek line. Now Bell bronze powder and highlighter I apply as shown in the photo.
It's time for eyes now. First I take my H&M eyeshadow and with a brush for eyeshadows I spread it on both eyelids. On the top I put a little bit of L'oreal gold eyeshadow, which after application looks like glitter pigment. For the lashes I use Maybelline rocket mascara. If you don't have thick eyebrows then use an eyebrow pencil. I only use an eyebrow brush to arrange them. For the lips I take Nivea lip balm to make my lips soft before I use lipstick. To finish this makeup I usually use Revlon light pink lip pencil or Inglot nude lipstick. It depends on my mood ;)
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Markers of endothelial dysfunction in patients with severe sepsis resuscitated with hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.42 vs. ringer's acetate
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- Published: 1 October 2015
- Endothelial Dysfunction
- Severe Sepsis
- Endothelial Damage
- Hydroxyethyl Starch
- Grant Acknowledgment
The Scandinavian Starch for Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock (6S) trial [1] showed increased mortality in patients with severe sepsis resuscitated with hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.42 (HES) vs. Ringer's acetate. The underlying pathophysiological mechanisms are, however, not fully elucidated. The endothelium may be important for the effects of fluid therapy, and the different fluids may impact the endothelium differently.
We aimed to investigate associations between HES vs. Ringer's and plasma biomarkers reflecting endothelial damage and function, including its natural anticoagulant systems, and if they were associated with 90-day mortality. We hypothesized that allocation to HES increased endothelial dysfunction and hence mortality.
Six biomarkers: soluble trombomodulin (sTM); syndecan-1; soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L); plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1); tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) and protein C were assessed in a subgroup of 208 patients from the 6S trial [1]. We analyzed differences in plasma concentration from baseline to day 2 after randomisation in the two intervention groups using linear or logistic regression models. Multiple imputations were used for missing data and the analyses were adjusted for stratification variables (university hospital, shock and hematologic malignancy) and baseline SAPS II and use of plasma.
At baseline the HES vs. Ringer's groups were comparable regarding age (median 66 vs. 66, p = 0.69), disease severity (SAPS II (52 vs. 55, p = 0.73)) and type of admission (surgical 45% vs. 39%, p= 0.35). Also, the baseline concentrations of the biomarkers did not differ between the intervention groups. The masked trial fluid was administered in comparable volumes in the HES vs. Ringer's groups in the first 2 days (2250 ml vs. 2500 ml; p = 0.73). In both adjusted and unadjusted analyses the Ringer's group had a higher increase in plasma sTM (baseline to day 2) as compared to the HES group (1.78 ng/ml; 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.88 to 0.67; p = 0.002). However, sTM was not associated with mortality; increase in PAI-1 was the only biomarker change associated with 90-day mortality (odds ratio for 1 unit increase was 1.04; 95 % CI 1.01-1.08; p = 0.01).
We could not confirm that HES increased endothelial dysfunction in this population. On the contrary, the Ringer's group had higher circulating sTM concentrations on day 2 indicating increased endothelial damage. Thus, the increased mortality observed with HES in patients with severe sepsis may not be explained by endothelial dysfunction.
Grant Acknowledgment
The 6S trial was funded by the Danish Research Councils and Rigshospitalet and supported by the ACTA foundation and B Braun Medical. We warmly thank all the members of the 6S trial group.
Authors' Affiliations
- Perner A, Haase N, Guttormsen AB, et al: Hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.42 versus Ringer's acetate in severe sepsis. N Engl J Med. 2012, 367: 124-34. 10.1056/NEJMoa1204242.PubMedView ArticleGoogle Scholar
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The opex and capex benefits of software-defined networking (SDN) realized from facilitating the separation of the data, control and management planes (to allow for the orchestration and management of network resources from a central location) are widely accepted. All of us as subscribers stand to benefit from this transformation as this centralized view of network resources will create a manageable, easy-to-automate, flexible platform allowing Carriers to allocate on-demand resources and define services in real-time to keep up with our ever-changing approach of adding and using content from the Internet. One of the major hurdles to achieving these, however, is that current SDN standards, including the industry favored OpenFlow, have not yet been augmented to specify carrier-grade functionalities.
The road ahead for OpenFlow is not unprecedented. As an industry, we transformed Ethernet from the LAN to being a WAN technology and created Carrier-Grade Ethernet. For OpenFlow to be adopted by carriers, it must also go through a similar transformation of becoming "carrier grade." To get there, several extensions need to be made to the specification, such as traffic, various types of OAMs (Ethernet, MPLS, BFD), protection switching with fast re-route times under 50 msec, timing and synchronization, L2/L3 VPN, and detailed statistics collection, to name just a few.
In our industry, transformational changes like this make for an exciting chapter ahead that will be marked by significant industry-wide collaboration and an infusion of creativity and innovations to arrive at carrier grade SDN / OpenFlow that will go live into carrier networks worldwide.
Here, however, is the dilemma: there is tremendous interest and pent-up demand to start this network transformation, though clearly the ecosystem and the supply chain are not in place. How do we minimize risk in R&D investments made in an environment where changes will emerge as standards solidify while enabling the industry to innovate? Given that the end goal is to enable a software controlled network, we should start with flexible and programmable data path hardware architectures that can be upgraded in field via software. This strategy will allow carriers to start system deployments before the standard is finalized, and to add new functionality through software upgrades as requirements and implementation models inevitably evolve.
Let's take a deeper look at MPLS-TP OAM and the new extensions needed to OpenFlow as we pave the way to carrier grade SDNs. MPLS-TP has explicit requirements for fault monitoring and protection switching, while OpenFlow currently has no explicit support for fault monitoring or failure recovery.
Fault Monitoring
Fault monitoring is performed in the NNI to UNI direction. OAM packets will be extracted from the MPLS-TP traffic streams and redirected to monitoring entities at the appropriate level, e.g. section, LSP and PW. Fault monitoring with Y.1731 makes use of entities called RMEPs (Remote MEPs or Maintenance Endpoints). RMEPs monitor the 'liveness' of a connection between a MEP and its peer MEP by terminating and processing the continuity check messages (CCMs) being transmitted by the remote end. Extensions needed to the OpenFlow specification are:
- The OXM MATCH fields need to be extended to allow appropriate matching on OAM-specific fields in the OAM packet; for example, in CFM, MA_ID, MEP ID and MD levels.
- A new ACTION type would need to indicate that OAM processing is required. This new ACTION type would be contained in the ActionSet for the bucket of the INDIRECT group representing the RMEP. The new ACTION type would be specific to the OAM processing required; therefore, there would be several ACTION types, (e.g., MPLS_OAM_CCM, MPLS_OAM_DMM).
The figure below outlines the fault monitoring function, and illustrates both real-time and non-real-time scenarios. CCM in the real-time scenario shows how the fault monitoring function is represented by a group, which is the watch group for the corresponding worker or protector entity.
MPLS-TP OAM Fault Monitoring
Monitoring Packet Generation
Packet generation is performed in the UNI to NNI direction. OAM packets will be generated at a particular frequency and inserted into the appropriate MPLS-TP path. Y.1731 requires that monitoring packet generation must support 3.3ms intervals. It is clear this cannot be achieved using the normal OpenFlow method. Enhancements to the OpenFlow controller (to make it capable of instructing the switch to generate these messages autonomously and allow the packet generation capability to be linked to the group bucket entities with attributes such as state, frequency, etc., for the working and protection flows) need to be considered.
Protection Switching
Due to the real-time requirements of protection switching as specified by linear protection G.8131 and RFC 6378, the protection switch must be performed autonomously by the switch without interaction with the controller. Extensions to the OpenFlow protocol would be needed to facilitate the controller specifying the protection switching capabilities of a particular protection entity. The linear protection (LP) stack would need to indicate that the switch is to perform protection switching automatically upon signal failure (notified by CCM failure). This would be achieved by extending the attributes of the bucket to contain an attribute that specifies whether automatic switching is permitted based on the bucket watch group.
Protection Switching and Fault Monitoring UNI to NNI
Bringing it all Together
The MPLS-TP example illustrates that there are some significant challenges to implementing SDN in carrier networks via OpenFlow. In addition to MPLS-TP OAM, numerous other critical requirements, such as timing and synchronization, traffic management, etc., also drive similar augmentations to OpenFlow in order to address the needs of carrier networks.
The way to overcome them is to leverage a programmable data path architecture. A programmable data path also needs to be complemented by software developed to meet strict real-time Carrier Ethernet requirements, in addition to providing the flexibility and ease of use needed to quickly add new features as standards evolve.
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Audi in the end can not succeed?
SAIC Volkswagen Audi on the matter can be described as a hubbub, first in November 11th suddenly broke the news SAIC-Volkswagen is signing with Audi, the Audi will be the next as SAIC Volkswagen under the third brand related models of production and sales. November 14, SAIC issued a public announcement confirmed the SAIC Volkswagen and Audi's cooperation, sit real "scandal." "The December 1 will not be interrupted with a clear response to cooperation with SAIC-GM, Audi dealers in China will take suspended action to extract the Audi-related models in the end." Finally, the FAW-Volkswagen Audi dealer collective " The two sides finally reached an agreement in Beijing, agreed to temporarily no longer create a new network and give dealers compensation; and dealers need to mention the normal car sales; the same time SAIC Audi project was shelved, but before the end of March next year will restart negotiations. In the end in March 2017 SAIC Volkswagen Audi can become a matter, FAW-Volkswagen Audi dealers turn in what way, perhaps only until March this year to be announced.


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I was around 15 when 802.11g first became
widely available affordable and I immediately had preconceived ideas that stuck with me for quite a few years until I started digging into the nuts and bolts last year. Arguably they weren't terrible notions but certainly a bit utopian. These notions led to some pretty fundamental errors in my early home network design that still semi-exist until I fly back to England next year and revamp my parent's home network.
If it's connected at 54mbps (802.11a or g) that's still only half a standard ethernet connection!, I'll take that!
Wrong! Even a decade on despite the immense improvements to Wireless it is still only half-duplex which means it cannot send and receive information on the same stream simultaneously without investing some serious time and money into additional antennas and hacking chipsets. This means my 54mbps connection is effectively halved to 22 mbps before I've even selected a file to transfer and assuming there's no-one else using the medium (Wireless connection) near me.
If channels 1, 6 and 11 are being used by my neighbours I could at least use channel 3 to avoid *some* of the interference and that'll be better for everyone!
I'm afraid not younger Ric. That was a nice idea you had after reading that only channels 1, 6 and 11 would not interfere with each other but by placing your Access Point on channel 3 that means the neighbour's APs operating in channels 1 and 6 can't see/speak to your AP at all and as far as they're concerned, you all won't know each other exists. This leads into something called (Figure A) Adjacent-Channel Interference (ACI) and is actually worse than (Figure B) Co-Channel Interference (CCI)!
This is a prevalent problem in homes, offices, cafes and just about anywhere; with the 2.4Ghz unlicensed spectrum being limited to just three – four if you live in Japan – non-interfering channels it's difficult to co-exist with your neighbours in harmony let alone a group of shops and cafes offering free Wi-Fi next to each other. Imagine then what is going to happen in a large office with 30+ APs all trying to play nice with each other.
The solution: upgrade all your equipment to 5Ghz as soon as you can to utilise the 23 (country dependant) non-overlapping channels which is a bit easier in your home but for a Cafe who has no control over what devices their patrons use and for an office that supports BYOD that's extremely difficult. I've done a brief scan on 3 different residential homes this week and detected zero home routers using the 5Ghz band and the channels, and the 802.11n standard that runs in it, have been around for years. As Scott Stapleton points out in his post, we all expected things to have moved on a little quicker by now.
As you can guess I'm going to split my assumptions into two parts with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology and client capabilities covered in the next part. I'll sign off with a picture I took a couple of months back when I loaded up inSSIDer on my Galaxy S3 at a local cafe. After reading this post it should help with realising just why you should move to the 5Ghz spectrum as soon as possible if you can.


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That Sinking Feeling
They tell tall tales in Texas!
A family lived in a heavily wooded, sparsely populated area about 40 miles east of Austin, Texas. One day the lady of the house (who was not a native Texan) heard squealing outside, looked out her window and saw that a coyote had cornered a rabbit and was closing in for the kill. Having never seen a coyote before, she thought it was a neighborhood dog that planned to end the bunny's sunny afternoon. She rushed out the kitchen door, grabbed the coyote by the nape of the neck with one hand and the rabbit with the other hand, lifting them both into the air.
The rabbit settled down quickly, so she put it on the ground and watched it hop away. This left her with an agitated coyote in the other hand. Her husband, observing her predicament, emptied some Mad Dog 20/20 (an inexpensive, fortified wine) into a doggy dish and yelled for his wife to bring her new pet to the porch. The coyote lapped up the Mad Dog; not just the first bowl, but the entire bottle. Once it had its fill, the coyote sauntered unsteadily into the woods, seemingly satisfied with the substitution of cheap wine for terrified rabbit.
The next day, the woman was outside tending her tomatoes when she felt a tug on her skirt. She looked down to find the same coyote, carrying a rabbit gently by the nape of its neck. Apparently, the coyote had developed a taste for MD 20/20, and established that the price of his desired drink was another rabbit! [Condensed from a story told by Terry Moore, Lake Bastrop, Texas]
Sometimes truth is stranger than tall tales, even in Texas. Decades of drilling for oil and gas in the Permian Basin of western Texas have left an extremely unstable landscape. Fresh water has found its way deep underground, dissolving salt layers and creating two infamous Winkler sinkholes, known as the Wink Sinks. Wink Sink 1 formed on June 3, 1980, measuring 360 feet across and 112 feet deep at the time of its collapse. Wink Sink 2 was formed on May 21, 2002 about a mile south of Wink Sink 1. It has expanded from an original surface width of 450 feet, and now stretches between 607 to 820 feet across. Various studies indicate that these sinkholes continue to gradually expand, swallowing earth, rocks, fences, a water line and a utility pole. In addition, more sinkholes could form (Wink Sink 3?), and the two large, existing sinkholes could eventually converge into a single monstrous pit.
Because it appears that the sinkhole dilation has not stopped, geophysicists continue to monitor the situation; the area around the two sinkholes contains a wealth of oil and gas production equipment, construction installations and hazardous liquid pipelines. The populations of the closest towns (Wink and Kermit) are taking the situation in stride, although the combined collapse of the Winks could be catastrophic. These tranquil, close-knit communities have clean streets and friendly people, but continue to suffer from the two severe depressions. One more major degeneration of the right water soluble mineral sediment and Wink just might vanish as quickly as its name.
To date, the only casualties of the Wink Sinks have been inanimate objects, but just in case humans tread too near there are existing ICD-10-CM codes for:
W18.42XA Slipping, tripping and stumbling without falling due to stepping into hole or opening, initial encounter
W17.2XXA Fall into hole, initial encounter
Y92.820 Desert as the place of occurrence of the external cause
There is usually a kernel of truth in every tall tale. The key is to extract that kernel, analyze it and take the lesson to heart. For example, there is Pecos Bill: he fell out of a wagon crossing the Pecos River, was raised by coyotes, used a snake as a lasso and died when he laughed himself to death at a city boy pretending to be an outlaw. But in all of Pecos Bill's mythical adventures, he never fell into a gigantic hole in the west Texas desert!


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5 Best hotels in Subic bay
To continue with our posts regarding our recent trip diving in Subic Bay in the Philippines, we thought we would run through some of the great resorts in this amazing place.
Located only 1 hour drive from Angeles city and 3 hours from Manila, the resort is a very popular beach hangout for all sorts of visitors. Whether you are a foreigner, local or expat, Subic Bay is in a great location and offers it's visitors so much.
Flying with Air Asia
During some of our recent trips we have managed to save considerable money by flying with Air Asia as our regional airline within Asia.
Normally try we to fly with the larger full service carriers, but as we had a lot to fit and wanted to maximize our spend we thought on these occasions we would try one of the largest low cost carriers (LLC's) in Asia. So when booking our recent trip diving in Subic bay, we decided to give them a go. (more…)
Diving in Subic Bay Philippines
Diving in Subic bay may not be the obvious choice when looking at the Philippines as a dive destination. Most people will probably think of Cebu, Coron Bay or Puerto Galera. But being located only 1hr from Clark international airport and around 3hrs from Manila, Scubic bay is certainly well connected.
Ease of reach is not the only reason we chose this bay for our latest sub aquatic adventure, no as well as massive travel addicts, we are also big fans all thing military. And this is is the big thing Subic is famous for. Diving here gives the opportunity to dive on one of the bays many wrecks, left over from the various wars.
There are numerous dive shops in Subic bay and after careful consideration we chose El Coral Reef Dive Center. A few things attracted us to this shop.
Orangutan Husbandry Borneo
This has long been on my list of things to do before we die, ever since I first saw the place on a documentary as a child, I have dreamed of coming here. Even before hearing about this place I had desires on getting up close and personal with these magnificent creatures.
Safari in Bhutan
Who doesn't crave for a little time away from their chaotic way of life?
Well what about this is sample itinerary for a safari in the wonderful country of Bhutan. In case your wondering Bhutan is a small landlocked country in SE Asia


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This beautiful, four-bedroom, two-bathroom villa enjoys an enviable, south-facing position overlooking a picturesque lake.
It offers the opportunity to take in the beautiful sunsets from it's own large private pool and 21 ft sun deck.The lanai area is very private and peaceful and benefits from the sun ALL DAY - early morning until evening. (The sunsets are breathtaking!!)
With two separate living areas in addition to an open-planned kitchen/breakfast room it offers ample room for eight people. There are four bedrooms and two bathrooms,the second bathroom having direct access to the screened pool and deck area. Our home also has FREE WIRELESS INTERNET connection!!
The master bedroom is furnished with a queen-sized bed,cable TV and has a large en suite bathroom with a generous sized walk-in closet.It also has two vanity units,an oval tub,large shower and separate toilet.
Guest bedroom two is furnished with a king-size bed and has a TV/DVD/Video. Bedrooms three and four both have two twin beds.
Built in 2002, this fully-equipped villa, situated in a quiet secluded residential area,has everything for your comfort and enjoyment. For tennis players there are FREE courts within the Sabal Harbour community and a community swimming pool with clubhouse,children's play area, volley ball and basket ball courts.
It is minutes from some wonderful championship golf courses - including the Arnold Palmer designed Legacy Golf Club. For shopaholics there are some great malls and factory/discount stores and there are excellent restaurants close by.
The beautiful award winning Gulf Coast beaches are a short drive away,Tampa/Busch Gardens 45 minutes, and the attractions of Orlando/Disney 90 minutes.
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'Currency matters' when buying property abroad
Tuesday 12th March 2013
When investing in a home overseas, many people fail to take into consideration the impact that fluctuating exchange rates can have on the price of a home, so this week we have decided to take a glance at 'currency' matters.
The property market in the USA, for instance, has been rapidly improving, with property prices appreciating across many parts of the country in recent months. But aside from higher property prices, Brits have also had to deal with the depreciating strength of the UK pound against the dollar, which currently stands at $1.49, representing a major decline on the almost $2 to £1 achievable in 2007. This means that now is potentially not a great time to negotiate a property deal in the States.
It's also worth recalling that there are a number of countries whose currencies are pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate of $2 to US$1, including countries in the Caribbean, Central and South America, UAE… offering weaker bargaining power.
Yet there are signs that the US dollar may actually strengthen against the UK pound later this year. If this proves to be the case, then even if the price of a property purchased now in America, or anywhere pegged to the dollar, remains static, investors and second homeowners will make a loss from the weakened exchange rate, assuming funds are repatriated back into the UK.
If you do not plan to buy property in the States now, but may do so within the next couple of years, you could consider taking out Forward Contracts, a tool to freeze exchange rates, rather than gamble on volatile currency markets.
US Dolar:
GBP/USD has been steady these last 24 hours, according to UKForex. It's traded a range between 1.4860 (a 2.5 year low) and 1.4940 post US NFP on Friday afternoon. There was little by way of economic data yesterday but sentiment towards the pound, the contrasting prospects for monetary policy from the US Fed and Bank of England and the run of strong labour data from the US recently is likely to keep cable on the back foot and even under 1.5000 for the foreseeable future. UK manufacturing and trade balance data is up today at 9:30 and if any weaker than expected it could mean GBP/USD tests yet further lows. The pound opens this morning at 1.4902 vs. the USD, a little off of its recent lows after risk appetite has improved mildly through the Asian session.
Little happened in EUR/USD yesterday and overnight. It's traded a narrow 30-40 pip range. It' been either side of the 1.3000 big figure over this time and remains lowly after French Industrial Production printed below market expectations yesterday; coming in at -1.2% m/m vs. expectations for -0.1%. The German trade balance was also announced and showed the country's surplus to be $15.7 billion vs. expectations for $17.9 billion. Neither release had much of an effect on the single currency. Near term EUR/USD is unlikely to make a convincing break above 1.3000, this as Italian bond yields edge higher in response to the inconclusive Italian election result in February and the Fitch downgrade last week. EUR/GBP has climbed ever so slightly on the mild euro negative sentiment and after starting the day yesterday at .8700 it opens this morning at .8730.
Aussie and Kiwi Dollars:
The commodity currencies have made small gains overnight as risk appetite in Asia has turned a little more positive, although not for any particular reason. In data released overnight business confidence (gathered by NAB) showed a slight pull back in February, although it was up on late 2012. It was largely shrugged off though. NZD/USD tracked its cousin higher and ended up trading to a high of .8272. The NZ finance minister was on the wires yesterday though and referred to the recent drought in the country potentially having a detrimental impact on the country's GDP. The kiwi has fallen slightly in response to these comments. GBP/AUD has fallen to open the London session at 1.4495 whilst GBP/NZD trades at 1.8090 currently.
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During Escondido's State of the City Address on February 28th Forgotten Barrel and owner Rodger Grove were recognized for his contribution to historic preservation of the former Ferrara Winery.
The Ferrara family began making wine prior to Prohibition, and is recognized as one of the oldest grape-growing, wine-making families in San Diego County. After the repeal of Prohibition, the Ferrara Winery, located in a residential neighborhood at 1120 W. 15th Ave., re-opened and established itself for the next several decades as a prominent winery specializing in the Muscat varietal that grew especially well on the property. The State of California designated Ferrara Winery, as a state historical point of interest in 1971.
Unfortunately, business and production at the Ferrara Winery declined around the early 2000s, and the winery closed permanently in 2008. Parts of the property were sold off, and the winery fell into disrepair. The property sat vacant for many years, and it was expected that an investor would eventually purchase it to develop into a housing subdivision.
In March of 2016, Rodger Grove, the owner of a winery called Forgotten Barrel with locations in both San Diego, and Napa Valley, purchased the Ferrara Winery property with the purpose of bringing the historic winery back into operation as the new home of Forgotten Barrel Winery.
Mr. Grove has been working on substantial restoration of the property over the past two years and has passionately focused on preserving its historic nature. Forgotten Barrel Winery officially opened in June of 2017, welcoming visitors back into the original Ferrara Winery tasting room that had been dark for many years. All around the property, which includes vintage farm equipment, barns and a chicken coop, visitors, can enjoy artifacts preserved from Ferrara Winery. Chandeliers, old doors, signs and barrels have been repurposed to create an authentic experience. The winery is now a beautiful location to host weddings and other special events.
Forgotten Barrel Winery has become a popular destination in the heart of Escondido. They produced their first wine made on the property in the fall of 2017, and the label proudly touts the historic Escondido property as its home.
Forgotten Barrel Winery intends to continue the Ferrara Winery legacy of making delicious tawny port using a winemaking process called Solera which means each year new wine is blended into prior years wine year over year. To further the historic preservation of the Ferrara legacy, Forgotten Barrel has also brought the original "Muscat of Alexandria" vines on the property back to life. This is the only varietal grown within the City of Escondido, and they will be bottling it this year.
In addition to its winery, Forgotten Barrel is also heavily active in volunteer efforts. They are strong supporters of the Escondido History Center, and have participated in the 2017 Grape Day Festival, the City sponsored Wine Tasting at Cruisin Grand, and dozens of community events.
Forgotten Barrel has quickly established itself as not just a winery, but an important part of Escondido history. Without the Forgotten Barrel's efforts, the Ferrara Winery property would most likely not have survived, and would have eventually been all but "forgotten".
Forgotten Barrel now occupies the former Ferrara Winery, which was designated a California historic point of interest in the late 1970's and a historic site by the city of Escondido in 1989. The winery, was established in 1886 as one of San Diego county and Southern California's first vineyards. The winery was purchased in 1928 by George Ferrara, banking on the repeal of prohibition by President Roosevelt.
The winery reopened in 1932-33 with the passage of the 21st amendment. During the next 75 years, Ferrara Winery grew to prominence in the California wine industry. It was operated by 3 generations until 2010. Forgotten Barrel restored the historic property and opened the tasting room in 2017 and will continue to tell the story of the Ferrara family and the history of this amazing California landmark.
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Understanding High Frequency Trading (Video)
Earlier this week I went into discussing how high frequency trading was yielding certain investors billions of dollars in profits. What I didn't include in that article though was the basis for understanding high frequency trading, what it is exactly, how it works, etc. Today's tech ticker though has a phenomenal stock education video explaining just that.
High Frequency Trading Education
From today's Tech Ticker here are three great points to break down the main facts and help clear up any confusion regarding high frequency trading:
- It's a good thing: High-frequency trading provides liquidity and helps ensure the "certainty of orders," Sussman says, by giving investors rapid response to their buys and sells. In this regard, computer-driven high-frequency trading makes for more efficient markets vs. the old days, when human "specialists" could sit on a order for seconds or even minutes before executing.
- It's huge: TABB estimates high-frequency traders are involved in 73% of all U.S. equity volume today, up from 35% in 2006. The research firm estimates high-frequency traders have generated $21 billion in annual revenue over the past 12 months. (Notably, high-frequency trading isn't new it's just getting more popular as the cost of computing has come down and barriers to entry fall.)
- There's a difference between high-frequency trading and "flash orders": This is key because many recent reports have wrongly conflated the two. "Flash orders" – provided by electronic exchanges such as BATS and Nasdaq OMX – give the recipients an advantage by providing them a look a buy and sell orders a fraction of a second before they are made available to everyone. Flash orders slow down execution and increase uncertainty, Sussman says. "The problem with flash orders is it introduces the same level of uncertainty as sending orders to a human being," he says. "It's an intentional slowing of your order" — even if just by milliseconds.
Understanding High Frequency Trading
And with that said to fully understand the ability to take advantage of milliseconds of time to make profitable trades via super computer here is the education video on high frequency trading (RSS and Email Readers click to view this article on STTG to watch the video).
The real problem is not so much the high frequency trades but the flash orders. Explained in the video these order types are designed to exploit flaws that more or less screw over the average retail investor.
UPDATE: NASDAQ, BATS to stop offering flash trading. SEC Moving towards banning the practice all together.
High-Frequency Trading 101: The Good, the Bad and the Truth
Aaron Task
Yahoo Tech Ticker, Jul 30, 2009 10:46am EDT


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Friday, February 10, 2012
Cataclysm Miscues: V: Flow
Past posts:
Cataclysm Miscues: I: Healing & Mana Potions
Cataclysm Miscues: II: Hemet Nesingwary
Cataclysm Miscues: III: Targeting
Cataclysm Miscues: IV: Professions
Game Flow:
For an expansion that felt more like a patch (more on that in a later post) designed to tighten up the flow of the game to be easier to find things when leveling by connecting the zones from one to the next they seemed to have lost their focus when it got to the actual current level of the game and the actual new content.
Gone where the days of looking all over the place for where you need to go to quest next, the flow of the game was tightened up so well that you could pick a direction and move in it as a new player and never once run out of quests or get lost on where to go next.
Each area was kind enough to give you lead in quests to the next area which was so generously connected to the current area you where in. That was all the redesign of the old world, something take took a page out of BC and wrath design when recreating it. They noticed people liked connected areas. Cataclysm was five new zones. Cataclysm zones were not connected.
That is also where cataclysm lost the flow of the game and the new connected design it seemed to want to push. 1-60 was nicely connected now. 60-70 and 70-80 had always been nicely connected as they where self contained for the most part. What cataclysm bought us was a mishmash of zones added to the game and presented as the new areas.
One area was out in the ocean, one had been on our map seemingly forever, as was another but we just could not see it by name, another was in the center of the ocean but underground and last but not least we had a zone that no one had a clue was an entire zone, it was just a giant door to grim batol as far as we knew.
Not exactly the flow that this entire redesign had in mind for us. For all the effort put into the old world redesign to make sure that everything was connected they let the new areas ruin that new found feeling of an actual designed world.
We all just played along with it. Making SW or Org our home and hearthing back there to port wherever we needed to go to but it just never felt right. It never felt like it was a new area we where exploring. It had the feeling of us visiting new found area's, sure, but not exactly connected areas in terms of expansion.
The new zones don't feel like a collective group of zones that represent an expansion in a flow we are comfortable with. I've mentioned our comfort zones before and that is one of them.
There were two continents we used to bounce between while questing. Now that is no longer needed. Once you start quests on one continent you can continue until 60 on that continent if you wanted to. In fact, with the new design it is entirely possible to never even realize another continent is even there.
So with the old world being one questing flow, the outlands being one questing flow, and northrend being one questing flow we enter cataclysm and just feel as if we are all over the place. We know these areas are connected by events. We know these areas are connected by expansion. We just never get the feeling we had with old world leveling, outland leveling and northrend leveling. The feeling that these things actually belong together.
Each of these zones in and of themselves could have been added at any time in the game one at a time as new daily quest hub sort of places. On their own, they are all fine. It is calling them connected that just feels a bit off. It is making them leveling areas after making all other leveling areas connected that feels a bit off.
I don't mind the bouncing around. I don't mind that I finally got to see hyjal. I don't mind that I finally got to see uldum. I don't mind that I finally got to see what was behind the grim batol door in the wetlands. I am sure most people are happy with all of that. But it does feel kind of odd, as if something is off with it, that all of these long lost places are connected when they really aren't.
The next expansion will be on a new continent which will make sure we do not have that detached world feeling again but for cataclysm the world is all over the place.
So if you are playing cataclysm, like it or not is irrelevant, and you ever felt like some things just did not seem right then perhaps this is one of those things you subconsciously noticed. While not game breaking the lack of a constant or connected flow of the new areas is one of the miscues of cataclysm.
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Your posts are really helping me identify what seemed off in Cataclysm! Thoroughly enjoying this series, thank you.ReplyDelete
And it wasn't just the questing flow that was disrupted, it was the STORY flow as well. Despite questing through the new areas, I never really felt like I understood the story of the Cataclysm very well. It turns out it wasn't enough to play the game, there were defining arcs that disappeared into the novels, then back into the game and gone again. It was all very confusing and fragmented.
Why was Nozdormu suddenly back? Who
decided the dragon soul was the way forward? Where did Aggra comefrom?
There are a lot of open ends, like what happened to neptulon after throne. The abyssal maw was supposed to be the next part of his story, but they just abandoned it.ReplyDelete
I was actually looking forward to more about the waterlords. Would have been interesting to see what they would do with the vanilla rep from them if they did add it.
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Simple ideas to get kids moving are the best! Egg racing could not be simpler – all you need is a spoon and an egg. We use plastic Easter Eggs, but you could use real eggs (I'd recommend hard boiled!).
Give each child a plastic egg and a spoon – then try one of these ideas!
Egg Race Ideas
- Simple race. Walk (easier to balance) from one point to another (we did the fence to the driveway), holding the spoon with the egg balanced on it. Winner is the first one to get to the end point without dropping the egg. Or dropping the egg the fewest times. For older kids, let 'em run!
- Relay race. Set up two (or more) teams with at least two children on each team. Designate a start point and an end point. line the first two racers up at the start, and the second at the end. Have the first children race to the endpoint, where they will hand off the egg to the next racer. Tip: make sure the "hand off" is clear. Decide whether you want the racers to hand off their eggs (harder) or have the second racer ready to go with their own egg and spoon.
- Obstacles. Add some obstacles to the race. Something simple is better – a jump rope for the kids to step over, cones to weave in between. I don't like to use anything that significantly increases the chances of either falling or crashing into each other!
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SRINAGAR: Chief minister Mehbooba Mufti indirectly admitted that "disproportionate force" was used on thousands of people mourning the death of legendary Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on Saturday.
"Disproportionate use of force for crowd control results in loss of precious lives and grave injuries which should be avoided at all costs," said an official spokesman, quoting Mehbooba.
She asked police and paramilitary troopers, the spokesman said, to follow Standard Operational Procedure laid for dealing with street protests.
Mehbooba had asked the government forces to follow the SOP when five civilians were killed in Kupwara in April in the aftermath of an alleged molestation of a minor girl by a soldier. However, despite her repeated insistence on adherence to SOP, the forces have been violating it. Mehbooba is the Home minister and chairperson of Unified Headquarters, the grid comprising army, paramilitary forces, intelligence agencies, police and civil administration.
"I express profound grief over the tragic death of the youths and extend my heart-felt condolences to the bereaved family members in their hour of immense grief," Mehbooba said while appealing for calm and asking people to cooperate in restoration of normality.
"Violence only brings miseries to the people and tragedies for the victim families," she said, and appealed people, especially the youth, "not to fall prey to the machinations of the vested interests who play politics over the dead bodies of Kashmiris."
She also prayed for early recovery of the injured including civilians and the police personnel and asked the health authorities to provide best possible treatment to them, the spokesman said.
Government will stand firm: Ram Madhav on Kashmir situation
While Mehbooba admitted the government forces used disproportionate force and expressed condolences with the families of the people killed in street protests, her ally BJP talked tough, with its leader Ram Madhav saying the "government will stand firm, eruption or no eruption".
"Government WILL stand firm, eruption or no eruption (sic)," he said in a tweet.
"We will always try, be it the state government or the central government, to work for peace and security of the common man of the Valley and also to create atmosphere for development of the state.
An uncompromising fight against terrorism is part of it and important," he later said.
Madhav, a party general secretary, is the organisation's pointsman for the state.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh, who is MP from Udhampur, praised the security forces and appealed for peace saying all sections of society must come together in the fight against terrorism, regardless of their political ideology.
"We are proud of our security forces.
They have achieved a major success on the counter terrorism front", Singh told reporters in Jammu.
"The fight against terrorism is universal and it has to be fought collectively and all sections of society regardless of their ideology must come together and unitedly fight it," he said.
"We appeal for maintenance of peace.
The fight against terrorism is collective and requires a united effort of all stake holders in J&K," he added.
On providing security at living places for minorities, including colonies of Kashmiri Pandit employees in the Valley, he said, "The protection and safety of these places is responsibility of the Government and society.
They should be provided full security."


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A BPO executive's work can broadly be classified into voice and non-voice. The voice BPO executives are responsible for handling inbound and outbound calls that includes dealing with customer queries and sales.education Updated: Aug 27, 2013 17:33 IST
The lowdown
A BPO executive's work can broadly be classified into voice and non-voice. The voice BPO executives are responsible for handling inbound and outbound calls that includes dealing with customer queries and sales. The work of non-voice BPO executives ranges from performing data processing, research, human resources services to providing tech support. The BPO industry has evolved over the years and an executive's job role has witnessed significant changes. A career in the BPO sector is no longer viewed as a stopgap option. According to various industry estimates, the BPO industry is growing three-fold and so are the opportunities in the sector. There has been an inflow of high-end work across the existing and new sectors, leading to increased job opportunities. Also, several global companies like IT, knowledge management and financial services continue to outsource work to Asian countries, opening up a wide array of opportunities for youngsters
Typically a BPO has three shifts — morning, evening and night. So an executive's schedule might vary according to his/her shift. Usually, shifts are eight-nine hour long depending on the process. There is a quick meeting with the team leader (TL) to discuss the day's strategy after which work begins. There are regular training sessions on various industries and changing technologies to keep employees updated. At the end of each day, there is a wrap-up meeting with the TL to inform him about activities closed and targets achieved
The payoff
A beginner's salary can be as basic as Rs. 15,000 per month, which can go up significantly, depending on the level of his/her expertise and performance
n Good communication skills combined with technical knowledge
n Willingness to learn and work in shifts
n Ability to grow and lead a team
n Expertise in various verticals such as banking and financial services, telecom, healthcare and analytics
Getting there
You can get into a BPO after finishing school or college. The qualification of a BPO employee depends merely on the job profile required for particular operation/process. Once you are inducted, you will have to undergo dedicated training to match up with the business requirements. Students can opt business management courses with specialisation in business process management (BPM). Several universities have diploma/degree course in BPM which helps students learn everything about the BPO sector and other outsourcing industry paradigm
Institutes and URLs
Most of the BPOs have a compulsory training period, irrespective of the degree an applicant has. Some institutes that specialise in this segment are:
* Hero MindMine, New Delhi;
* Accenture, United States and Canada;
Pros and cons
* A lot of competition
* Even if you don't perform well, you won't be fired. Instead, you will be shifted to a different process or sent back for training
* You can imbibe a lot of knowledge, depending on the industry
* Constantly rotating schedules
* Decent remuneration packages, even if you are an undergraduate
The BPO industry is in a state of continuous transformation. As an industry that largely depends on human capital, shortage of skilled labour remains a challenge ---- Manuel D'Souza, director- human resources, Serco Global Services, Gurgaon
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STOCKHOLM--Finland's Nokia Corp. NOK, -0.17% is set to receive additional patent royalties from Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE) after extending its patent license agreement with the South Korean company.
The two technology companies extended an existing patent license agreement that was set to expire later this year for another five years, Nokia said in a statement on Monday.
Under the new patent agreement Samsung will be paying additional compensation to Nokia, with the sum to be decided by arbitration during 2015, Nokia said.
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With three quarters (75%) of global travellers saying that they would likely travel somewhere renowned for its great food and drink when choosing their next travel destinationi, culinary travel is a trend on the rise. The joy of trying and eating delicious new dishes while travelling can make a trip to remember. Booking.com, the global leader in connecting travellers with the widest choice of incredible places to stay, uncovers the top food destinations around the world, as endorsed by Booking.com travellersii. Now you can discover these gastronomic hot spots on your next getaway.
Foodie favourites: the global hotspots
Among the over 120 million real traveller reviews on Booking.com, food stands out as a clear passion for many, representing a central theme in countless reviews. The data reveals Asian and South American flavours feature highly in the top ten foodie favourite destinations with Greece, Australia and Spain also included. Hong Kong, with its famous dim sum, Sao Paulo with Brazilian barbeque and Tokyo, whose restaurants have accrued more Michelin stars than New York and Paris combined[i], top the list.
Top 25 cities globally endorsed for food by Booking.com travellers
Gastronomic tourism
Booking.com reveals that when choosing their next travel destination, the majority (75%) of global travellers would likely travel somewhere known for its great food and drink. It's millennials who are the most keen to combine travel and food, with 79% of travellers between the ages of 18 and 34 considering travelling somewhere that's specifically known for its gastronomic delights[i].
Almost one in 10 (8%) people have travelled in the last year to fulfil their hobby of fine dining and seven percent for their passion for wine. Millennials are most keen on seeking out food passions whilst travelling, with one in 10 (10%) combining their love of street food with travelling, compared to only four percent of those travellers aged over 55[ii].
Pepijn Rijvers, Chief Marketing Officer at Booking.com comments:
"Culinary travel is an ever-growing trend, with travellers planning trips centred on taste-inspired exploration and seeking to fully immerse themselves in the local culture, of which food plays a huge part. Not only are people looking for luxury gastronomic experiences, but also sampling local and street food.
By using real traveller reviews, of which there are over 118 million on Booking.com and growing each day, we're able to help travellers to discover the best places to explore as recommended by fellow travellers from the best neighbourhoods and dishes to try to discovering hidden gems beyond the mainstream culinary destinations."
[i] According to data collected by Booking.com with 12,781 respondents across 13 markets in September 2016. Respondents had to be 18 years of age or older, had to have travelled at least once in 2016 and had to be planning at least one trip for 2017. All respondents had to consider themselves part of their travel decision-making process.
[ii] To find the top 25 destinations, Booking.com looked at destinations that had the most endorsements for 'food' by global Booking.com travellers, which needed to have over 300 endorsements or more for 'food' between 1 January 2016 – 31 December 2016 to be considered.
[iii] http://uk.businessinsider.com/cities-with-the-most-michelin-stars-in-the-world-2016-12/#2-kyoto-japan-135-stars-17
Source: https://globalnews.booking.com, 19 June 2017
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The best thing about Adolescence is that it eventually ends.
The real life journey that runs from age 13 to 19 starts with a bang. Seemingly overnight, your body is no longer fully under your control. Extra hair, pockets of fat, and pimples have appeared as if by magic. Everything is different. Everything is harder. You're in for an emotional, seven-year grind.
Everyone is familiar with Adolescence, those years of being a teenager. All the things that make these years memorable are the things that make it horrible. It's a confusing jumble of new experiences, confusing emotions, and a sudden desire to yell at your mum. What makes Adolescence "the worst" may vary in their specifics from person to person, but for the most part it has to do with the volume and frequency of things that are changing for you. It's a weird but crucial time. Getting through Adolescence is vital to becoming the best version of yourself.
Even though this experience is mandatory, we feel compelled to review it.
Heathers, 1988
Even if you're excited to grow up, the in-betweenness of Adolescence is a nightmare. Nothing stays the same, and sometimes it feels as though that unsteadiness will last forever. You don't even feel like your old self. The things you used to like suddenly feel childish. Your hobbies become a waste of time. All those macaroni paintings you gave to your mum? They were bullshit. In the middle of maths class you will suddenly remember making them, and you will be ashamed of how proud you were. Your face will glow red, and Matt will turn around and say, "Are you OK dude?" You aren't OK, but how could you possibly explain what you're feeling? You are sure that no one understands this feeling. This kind of pain is new, you tell yourself, because it is new to your hormone-addled mind. You are sure no one in the world has ever felt like this before.
Adolescence is a vampire, trying to suck the life out of you, and you have to fight and kill it. As it drains you, you'll be even more convinced that no one understands how you feel. You are in the multi-stage boss fight of being a teenager. When you've figured out the attack patterns on your psyche, Adolescence will rise anew, an unholy beast, taking new forms and finding new ways to hurt you. It doesn't just come from yourself. Adolescence makes the people you thought were your friends into monsters. That is because adolescence introduces a new currency into your life: The idea of being "cool".
Kimi Ni Todoke, 2010
As a child, "cool" is a distant dream. It's a thing that teenagers are and you are not. You play with dolls? You like wrestling? That's lame, your teenage acquaintances say. Little do you know that no one really knows what cool is. They just know what it's not. When you become a teenager, coolness becomes a vitally important social currency, one that determines if you eat lunch with that guy who listens to great records and has a cute freckle under his right eye, or if you eat lunch alone in the bathroom. There is a constant calculus happening under the surface of every action and interaction determining whether or not you are cool, but you'll never know those calculation's results. Coolness is invisible, an electric current that marks you as an insider or an outsider. Because everything is changing - your appearance is not even static from one day to the next - the under-the-hood maths of what makes things cool will constantly change. Today, having to buy a bra might mortify you. Tomorrow, it's going braless that makes you a freak. The same kids who beat you up for reading comics will come to school wearing Superman T-shirts. The only thing to do is go along with the herd, even if it doesn't make sense, because at least then you aren't alone.
Adolescence tempts you to be the worst version of you. You might already know that giving up parts of yourself to be well-liked is uncomfortable, and if you don't, you'll learn quickly. Turning a blind eye when a friend gets bullied doesn't make you feel good, even if you know you will be rewarded with an invite to Johnny's party, even if Johnny's parties kind of suck. The beer is mostly foam and the guys get super gropey. No one is really getting drunk, but they're pretending to be, and that makes them impossible to talk to. At the time, you think this is better than being alone, when instead you should be wondering if it was worth the cost of watching your old friend Lisa get pelted with spitballs.
Back of the box Quote
"I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger."
type of game
Real Time Strategy
First kisses, dates, crushes, joints and getting really into your first favourite band.
Unceasing emotional turmoil, acne.
GnRH, published by the pituitary gland, with support from LH and FSH
Your emotions, body chemistry and reproductive organs
Release Date
Age 13, give or take.
Seven interminable years.
The threat of social ostracisation is real, and terrifying. In the thick of Adolescence, you have no idea how short your teenage years will be. Having a miserable experience for seven years is absolutely nothing compared to the entire rest of your life. When you're a teenager, that stretch of time is dilated such that each second feels as though it lasts a century, and every moment when you feel like you're utterly alone, more alone than anyone in the universe, is like being stabbed in the heart. It's easy to end up being a bully to avoid feeling as though no one likes you, but you'll usually discover that succumbing to peer pressure gives you the same nausea as not having friends.
While in the midst of Adolescence, you may remember the day you turned 13, expecting somehow to be transformed into a more confident, exciting person: The kind of person who went on dates and told their parents to get out of their room; the kind of person who read poetry and had smart things to say about literature. None of that will necessarily happen. For me, something better happened. Every time I got made fun of for the things I liked or who I hung out with, for each romantic rejection, I amassed a skill set of ways to handle my feelings. Years of being challenged pushed me into being a better version of myself.
Being a teenager will occasionally make you long for the pre-teen prequel years. I longed to be that bushy-haired 13-year-old again, the one who had enthusiasm for books and video games and anime. Being a teenager sucked that zest for life out of me, and as I emerged out the other side, I wanted it back. I could not have realised that had I not completed Adolesence, even if it meant losing myself for a little while along the way.
Clueless, 1995
Adolescence happens to you whether you like it or not. What you learn about yourself when it's over will vary. There's a possibility that you'll become cruel, and want to punish the world like the world punished you. It's easy to be that way - even if the circumstances of your pain make it seem more intense than it actually is, it's still real that you felt rejection, were mocked or bullied, or felt alone. It may even be that you did go through extraordinary hardship, made even harder because you didn't have the tools to deal with stress, or loss, or adversity. To live through a lot of small firsts, such as first pimples and first crushes, while you are dealing with huge firsts, such as your first dead friends, is a huge load. It isn't fair. No matter what, you have to find a way through it. That's what Adolescence is. It's finding a way through.
Persona 5, 2016
When the credits roll on Adolescence it's a relief. Not just because holy shit, it's finally over, but because it's when you realise that everyone went through what you just went through. All the times you thought you were suffering alone, so did someone else. It's almost funny to imagine how much easier it all would have been if you'd shared how you felt with each other. Adolescence is nothing more than filling out an elaborate skill tree in a lot of ways, unlocking new forms of emotional maturity. It arms you with the tools you need for the next stage of life. Spoiler alert: What comes after is way better.


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Mother's personalized family tree necklace features a beautiful sterling silver filigree tree charm surrounded with your loved one's names hand stamped on a thick sterling open faced washer. A wonderful personalized gift for mothers or grandmothers to keep her family close to her heart. Hangs on a sterling silver chain of your choice.
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aviate is a loose collective of artists and DJs formed in Ithaca, NY, who create opportunities to showcase new talent by throwing arts and music events in club venues.
HOME is the first aviate party in NYC, held May 31 at the club FUN (see directions), located in lower Manhattan. HOME features over 50 visual artists who have been asked to base their works on the domestic interior; these works vary from large-scale film/video, sculpture, installations, and photography. Included in the melee will be recipe card memos, fridge drawings, live laminating, futon TV, movies about furniture catalogs, animated cookbook illustrations, baking pan pictures, disposable clothesline souvenirs, and much much more!
To view the always evolving list of artists, click here.
HOME is also featuring musical acts ranging from live experimental laptop performers to DJs spinning electro, hip hop, breaks, house, and drum n bass.
To view the current and always updated list of musical acts, click here.
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Chemical free soap scum remover! I saw some posts on Pinterest for cleaning soap scum on bath fixtures. The post that had the recipe that I followed was from www.healthextremist.com. I tried one of the recommendations and it was so easy and worked so well! It's been a good month since I've cleaned my fixtures this way and they still look like I just cleaned them! YAY!
All you need is 1/2 of a lemon, baking soda, and a damp washcloth.
- Rub the lemon all over the fixture being sure to squeeze slightly to release some lemon juice.
- sprinkle some baking soda onto the fixture and rub it all over with your damp washcloth.
- Repeat a couple times until the soap scum is removed.
THAT'S IT!!!!! So simple, easy, and budget friendly! No nasty chemicals needed! I hope you love it!
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ANDREW STEMEN, farmer, P. O. Elida, is a native of Fairfield County, Ohio, born in 1825, son of Peter and Mary
(Blosser) Stemen, who were natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania respectively; they were married in Fairfield County,
Ohio, and came to Marion Township, this county, in 1838, where they lived and died. Our subject, who is the eldest
in their family, was married, January 17, 1848, to Miss Jane Sakemiller of Sugar Creek Township, born in 1827 in
Fairfield County, Ohio, daughter of Jacob and Rachael (Fry) Sakemiller (both now deceased), natives of Pennsylvania,
and of German descent, and who came to this county in 1831. To our subject and wife have been born twelve children:
Isaac, Mary, Rachel, Jacob, Peter (deceased), Andrew, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Anna, Samson, Simeon and Noah. Mr. and
Mrs. Stemen are members of the Mennonite Church.
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Several 'beaches' now dot the eastern shore of Fripp Island. and none of them is crowded. There is a new 'boardwalk' leading to the ocean at the north end and that access has become quite popular for those tourists renting at the larger oceanfront homes on the island. Center island at Rock Beauty is the easiest to traverse because it is fairly flat and close to the Resort activities of the food court, 3 pools, restaurants & washroom facilities.
The south end has 'grown' considerably over the past year. Where there was a rock revetment 15-20' high where the fishermen caught their flounder, spot tail, & crabs – it has accreted & is now only just a few feet below the road height. With 30 beach accesses, there is plenty of room on the beach for all of the tourists & Fripp Island folks – and even the dogs (on leaches) are enjoying the season. At the beginning of May, our beach water temperature is presently at 74°F but by August this will surely go up to high 80's & 90's – so come on over and visit this gated community while the weather is PERFECT.


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Letters to the Editor
Dorris letter: Fire propaganda
I am a bit concerned, writing this before I have time to request the full incident records for the Pioneer Fire under FOIA. However, I believe it is critical to speak while the smoke is still in everybody's lungs.
This newspaper has done a great job promoting the USFS, NIFC, BLM, etc. fire propaganda. A long article about how we have to live with sagebrush and barren hillsides due to increased fuel volatility, rising temperatures, higher winds, etc. The recent "Smoke Waves" article is more of the same.
I happen to be a U.S. citizen who still believes our country can solve problems, and I believe we have a very simple, tried and proven solution available to us. We need to attack and extinguish fires before they grow to 10 acres. We could have washed the Pioneer Fire off the hillside with SEATs from McCall and Boise, and helicopters from McCall, Garden Valley and Boise; probably for less than $10 million. Instead, the fire is over 181,000 acres, and upwards of $70 million. We need to look in a different direction and quit swallowing the last 30 years of fire propaganda.
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From its origins in Pasadena in 2008, HAILEY BOUTIQUE instantaneously distinguished itself by combining British heritage with directional, modern design. Today, the brand has become synonymous with innately wearable clothing that innovatively melds classic tailoring with an edgy yet understated New York aesthetic.
Inspired by a desire to create beautifully constructed clothes, HAILEY BOUTIQUE prides itself in the time-honored techniques of supremely skilled, local manufacturers at some of the oldest factories in the country. The importance of quality, expert craftsmanship and attention to detail resonated deeply, informing the brand's core philosophy.
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