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Have you ever been struggling with an nth obscure project, thinking : "I could do the job with this language but why not switch to another one which would be more enjoyable to work with" ? In his awesome blog post : The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y", Erik Bernhardsson generated an N*N contingency table of all Google queries related to changing languages. However, when I read it, I couldn't help wondering what the proportion of people who effectively switched is. Thus, it has become engaging to deepen this idea and see how the popularity of languages changes among GitHub users.
Dataset available
Thanks to our data retrieval pipeline, source{d} opened the dataset that contains the yearly numbers of bytes coded by each GitHub user in each programming language. In a few figures, it is:
- 4.5 Million GitHub users
- 393 different languages
- 10 TB of source code in total
I invite you to take a look at Vadim Markovtsev's blog post : Spaces or Tabs, if you want details about which repositories and languages were considered.
To have a better understanding of what's going on, I find it nice to visualize developer's language usage history with a kind of Gantt diagram.
Note that the colors represent proportions of source code in each language. We can already deduce several things from this diagram:
- The user's favorite language is Scala and they are stuck to it.
- They tried Go, but did not really get along with it.
- They ran an important project in Java but they'd rather code in Scala. Using Java might have been a constraint to complete a single project.
Of course, it would be wrong to conclude from this diagram that the guy moved from Java to Markdown, in 2014. More generally, since it is absurd to give up a programming language in favor of a markup one, we want to avoid any comparison between the languages that don't have the same purpose. That's why we focus on the sample of 25 main programming languages throughout the rest of the post.
We did not include javascript because …
The first reason is that 40% of Github users we analyzed had JS in their profiles, and the proposed transition model becomes useless. The second is, citing Erik, "(a) if you are doing it on the frontend, you are kind of stuck with it anyway, so there's no moving involved (except if you do crazy stuff like transpiling, but that's really not super common) (b) everyone refers to Javascript on the backend as 'Node'". Our data retrieval pipeline could not distinguish regular JS from Node and thus we had to exclude it completely.
You will surely agree that "Hello world" GitHub repositories do not really count as switching to another language. So, we decide to quantize the contributions in our dataset in order to reduce the noise. For this reason, we represent the distribution of GitHub contributions per byte size in the following bar plot.
As we can see, it has a very long tail and most of the contributions are tiny ones. To approximate the distribution, we apply kernel density estimation, which is the orange curve in the last figure. Finally, we get the quantization by dividing the area under the curve into 10 equal parts. The groups are numbered starting with 0.
Now after filtering and quantizing our dataset, we can proceed with building our own transition matrix.
Minimum-cost flow problem
For every GitHub user, we aggregate annual vectors ; we will call them reactors where each of the 393 elements stands for the number of bytes coded in the corresponding language that year. After normalization these reactors resemble histograms which we need to compare with each other.
An elegant approach to this problem, which is effective both in coding and computational time, is offered in
PyEMD: a Python wrapper for the Earth Mover's Distance which is Numpy friendly. This distance measure – better than the euclidean distance for histogram comparison – is particularly interesting because it is based on Linear Programming (LP). Indeed, it can be seen as the solution of the following transportation problem, where
We can see that for every pair of years, the numbers of bytes are either considered as "supplies" or "demands". Besides, since
it becomes a cost-minimization flow problem. It's formulated below.
Let's go a little aside here. First, "costs" of the edges are set equal to 1 in order for us to be unbiased. Second, to reduce our problem to the classical flow minimization formulation, we have to add an artificial source and sink on both sides of our bipartite graph to ensure flow conservation. This is not a critical point; the last slides Stanford's CS97SI describe that transformation.
Transition matrix
Here is the core code to compute the transition matrix between two consecutive years for a specific GitHub user. The main function we use is
emd_with_flow which is provided by the
PyEMD package.
def get_transition_matrix_emd(user, year):
# lang2keep is the list of the 25 programming languages we kept
# stairvalue() is the step function that comes from quantization
# Build user's reactors for year and year+1
reactors = zeros((len(lang2keep),2), order='f')
for ind, code_in_lang in enumerate(dataset[user]):
lang = code_in_lang[0]
if lang in lang2keep:
for y, qtt_coded_year in code_in_lang[1]:
if y == year:
reactors[lang2keep.index(lang),0] = stairvalue(qtt_coded_year)
elif y == year+1:
reactors[lang2keep.index(lang),1] = stairvalue(qtt_coded_year)
if (sum(reactors[:,0]) == 0) or (sum(reactors[:,1]) == 0):
# no transition to consider
P = zeros((len(lang2keep), len(lang2keep)))
return P
# Normalization of reactors
for i in [0, 1]:
reactors[:,i] = [j/sum(reactors[:,i]) for j in reactors[:,i]]
# compute the Earth Mover's distance between the 2 reactors thanks to the emd_with_flow function
distance = np.ones((len(lang2keep), len(lang2keep)))
dist, P = emd_with_flow(reactors[:,0], reactors[:,1], distance)
P = np.asarray(P)
return P
Function to compute a transition matrix in Python
Finally, after summing the flow matrices over users and over the last 16 years (we will consider yearly transitions below), we obtain the resulting transition matrix. Let's now compare it to the contingency table compiled by Erik from Google queries. The following figures were plotted using Erik's script.
Compared to Erik's table we've got some elements on the main diagonal of our transition matrix. We will see later how to take an advantage of it. However, although the dataset we used is different, we notice many relevant similarities and perceive the same kind of language profile.
GitHub "LanguageRank"
Since we have our flow matrix, we want to know which languages are the most and the least popular. It is possible to calculate centrality measures on the represented graph, e.g. the eigenvector centrality. Indeed, these measures convey the relative popularity of languages in the sense of how likely people coding in one language would switch to another. We will take the approach of calculating the eigenvector centrality. If you need further explanations, I invite you to read Vadim's PageRank analysis in his blog post about the GitHub Contributions Graph.
- Our flow matrix contains strictly positive elements, which is a sufficient condition to make it irreducible ; there is always a way to reach all other languages from any given one. Thus, according to Perron–Frobenius theorem, we are looking for the greatest eigenvalue and its corresponding eigenvector.
- We can use the Power Iteration algorithm to find the dominant eigenvector. Nevertheless, in addition to be irreducible, the matrix needs to be stochastic and aperiodic.
- Our flow matrix becomes stochastic when removing the main diagonal and normalizing the rows. The greatest eigenvalue is now equal to 1.
- Finally, to make our matrix aperiodic and well conditioned, there is a famous trick introduced by Larry and Sergey in 1998. It is well explained in Stanford's CS246 but to make it short, it mainly consists of updating our flow matrix using the following formula:
- β is called random walk factor and is set to 0.85
- N is the number of languages
Power Iteration
After these steps our well conditioned flow matrix contains an approximation of the probabilities of switching between languages, and we can proceed with the power iteration. This algorithm consists of the following matrix multiplication until convergence to the dominant eigenvector:
Below, you will find the code that returns the wanted dominant eigenvector.
def power_iteration(A, nb_iterations=100, beta=0.85):
u = np.random.rand(len(lang2keep))
u = np.reshape(u, (len(lang2keep), 1))
A = A * beta + ((1 - beta) / len(lang2keep)) * np.ones((len(lang2keep), len(lang2keep)))
for _ in range(nb_iterations):
u_next = np.dot(A,u)
u_next_norm = sum(u_next)
u = u_next / u_next_norm
return u
Power Iteration algorithm, Python.
Most popular languages on GitHub
At last! Here is the reward: the stationary distribution of our Markov chain. This probability distribution is independent of the initial distribution. It gives information about the stability of the process of random switching between languages. Thus, no matter how popular the languages are at the present time, the hypothetical future stationary state stays the same. Here is the popularity ranking of our 25 languages used on GitHub:
|Popularity, %
|Source Code, %
|Visual Basic
|Common Lisp
Popularity of languages according to centrality measure on GitHub
Python (16 %) appears to be the most attractive language, followed closely by Java (15.3 %). It's especially interesting since only 11.2 % of all source code on GitHub is written in Python.
In Erik's ranking, Go was the big winner with 16.4 %. Since Erik based his approach on Google queries, it seems that the buzz around Go, which makes people wonder explicitly in blogs if they should move to this language, takes a bit of time to produce projects effectively written in Go on GitHub.
Furthermore, C (9.1 %) is doing well according to Erik's grading of 14.3 %, though it is due to the amount of projects coded in C on GitHub.
Although there are ten times more lines of code on GitHub in PHP than in Ruby, they have the same stationary distribution.
Go (3.1 %) appears on the 9th position which is largely honorable given the small proportion (0.7 %) of Goprojects which are hosted on GitHub. For example the same proportion of projects are written in Perl, but this language doesn't really stir up passion (1.9 % popularity).
What about sticking to a language ?
If we keep the main diagonal of our transition matrix before applying the power iteration, we obtain slightly different results. It mainly decreases top languages popularity while raising the smaller ones'. Indeed, it seems reasonable to believe that developers who invest their time in mastering languages on the fringe of the others tend to stick to them unlike with the popular ones.
In the rest of the post we will consider our first representation of the dominant eigenvector.
Back to the transition matrix
Erik's transition matrix is sorted so that the most popular languages appear at the bottom. We sort ours in the same order to compare them:
This is our matrix independently sorted:
- Developers coding in one of the 5 most popular languages (Java, C, C++, PHP, Ruby) are most likely to switch to Python with approx. 24% chance on average.
- Besides, according to Erik's matrix, people switch from Ojective-C to Swift and back with greater probabilities - 24% and 19% accordingly.
- Similarly, a Visual Basic developer has more chance (24%) to move to C# while Erik's is almost sure in this transition with 92% chance.
- Users of Clojure, C# and, above all, Scala would rather switch to Java with respectively 21, 29 and 39% chance.
- People using numerical and statistical environments such as Fortran (36 %), Matlab (33 %) or R (40 %) are most likely to switch to Python in contrast to Erik's matrix which predicts C as their future language.
- One common point I found with Erik's results about Go is that it attracts people who gave up studying Rust.
Over the last 16 years
As we mentioned earlier, before summing the transition matrices over time, we now consider specific years and examine how these yearly matrices look like. Do they express the same language profiles? How has it been evolving since the early 2000's? Here is a sample of 4 matrices from various timeline intervals:
Temporal evolution of transition matrices
In the end, the evolution of these matrices over time seems to be affine, and we observe the same language profile every year. Thus, to highlight the time-line of this language profile, we apply the power iteration to each matrix. Earlier, we averaged the stationary distribution over the last 16 years but now we look at its chronological sequence. The resulting series of the dominant eigenvectors is presented below on the stack area plot.
The thickness of each band corresponds to the value in the dominant eigenvector. The bands are sorted by the averaged popularity which we calculated before.
- The first two languages, Python and Java have the same profile. They have been taking the place of Cfor 15 years. Indeed, the aggregation of these first 3 layers gives a straight one.
- The attractiveness of C++ dropped prominently in 2008 when languages like Java or Ruby started growing rapidly. Nevertheless, it has been sustaining its popularity ever since this period.
- I definitely support Erik's conclusion that Perl is dying.
- Apple presented Swift on WWDC'2014 and it was supposed to replace Obj-C. So Obj-C adoption should start to decrease after that event, but the sum of both languages should remain the same. Looking at the figure, this hypothesis turns out to be right.
- Ruby appears to have had 6 years of glory starting from 2007. It might be explained with the launch of the web framework, Ruby on Rails (RoR), which reached a milestone when Apple announced that it would ship it with Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" - released in October.
- Regarding Go, the popularity stays relatively low. However, the dynamics is clearly positive.
Update 1
I read some concerns about the language verbosity bias after publishing the post. They are fair: the global quantization scheme may give an advantage to verbose languages like Java in difference to condensed ones like Haskell. I quantized each of the languages independently and re-run the rest of the analysis. As you can see in the table below, nothing really changed; Ruby and C++ exchanged the position, but their ranks are really close to each other. The final history plot looks exactly the same.
Update 2
I have added the missing three languages : Cobol, Kotlin, and Common Lisp.
I used the following Jupyter notebook to prepare the post:
It would be more appropriate to see Erik's contingency table as a kind of the second derivative of the languages distribution problem while our flow transitions are like the first derivative. That is, first you google, then you try to write an OSS project, and finally the languages distribution changes.
I want to thank my tutor at source{d}, Vadim Markovtsev, for his guidance all along this study, as well as people working with us for their patience in giving me valuable insights.
This post was written by Waren Long. Follow him on Twitter: @warenlg.


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As someone who often wears sneakers (like, I'm talking Nikes) to work, I don't feel that I have the proper fashion badge to be doling out advice to anybody. As a little girl, cowgirl boots and a ballerina tutu were my go-to, diva outfit for things like school and church. Clearly, I walk to the curve of my own catwalk and it doesn't always pan out so beautifully. But that's why I adore Ariel and her entire blog. See, she has this vibrant way of playing with different looks and making each one exciting and accessible to read, even if you are someone who wears cross-trainers to work. Posts aren't about the latest handbag or the most expensive, high-fashion shoes (though they do appear in spurts), but rather, each post details a unique look and how to wear it in your own way. There are plenty of fashion bloggers out there, but few have the style that Ariel does.
But alas, I've talked too much again. Let's take a look at my Q&A with Ariel below. Then, check out her Facebook page to get frequent updates and don't forget to visit her blog for the latest post on NYE styles!
You live in Chicago now but have resided in NYC before, right? How has each city influenced your style?
Yes! I have lived in both cities. New York definitely inspired me to dress a bit more eccentric. And of course to wear mostly black. In New York I was always more dressed up as well. Moving to Chicago I definitely began dressing more casually... and more androgynous. I used to love wearing over the top/sexy dresses. Now i prefer distressed jeans and and a t-shirt.
Favorite NYE and what did you wear?
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I think New Year's Eve is kind of like a hallmark holiday in terms of how hyped up it is. But at the same time it does have a lot of significance. People love to bid farewell to the current year and ring in the new year with a bang. And that's how I'd say it translates into fashion... you want to wear something exciting and memorable as part of the celebration.
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4. EQ skills 6-10: How to cope with change
Written by Rachel Green, Director, The Emotional Intelligence Institute, accredited user of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso-Emotional-Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) and international leader in emotional intelligence coaching.
Whether people have a low EQ, an average EQ or a superior EQ, they will still face changes on a regular basis at work and in their lives generally. There is no avoiding change.
Change is all around us, some of our choosing, much of it not. Just walk along any city street on your way to work and you will be surrounded by change.
Change is happening very fast too, probably faster than ever before in history. Keeping up with the speed of change and the types of change can be overwhelming at times.
It is important to manage the emotions associated with the changes.
Changes in the workplace are now happening all the time.
Workplace change no longer is an occasional event we have to deal with, but an ongoing pattern of change.
How we cope with change, though, is critically important for our emotional wellbeing and health. There is a lot you can do to manage change, simply by applying some emotional steps based on the principles of emotional intelligence and EQ.
This is the second article in a two-part series on the applications of emotional intelligence to managing change.
The first article covered EQ skills 1-5.
This second article covers EQ skills 6-10.
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EQ skills 6: Find out the reasons behind the changes
You may not want to change because you can't see a need to change.
Find the people who are instigating or wanting the changes and discuss their reasons with them rather than pre-judging them or dismissing the change out of hand.
However, see No 7.
7. Accept change without knowing the reasons
Sometimes, particularly in the work situation, you may not know why a change is being implemented.
When you ask the more senior people involved, they may not know either.
Instead of filling with resentment, which can harm you, sometimes it can be better to get on with the change and accept that you might never know.
This is emotional intelligence in action. You are taking care of your emotional wellbeing rather than getting stuck in resentments.
EQ skills 8: Understand the transition process
Change can induce a range of feelings in people. Even good changes, which you've chosen and you know are the right changes for you can result in anxiety or fear. These feelings are a normal part of the change process.
I can think of three major decisions I've taken in my life: getting married, emigrating to Australia and leaving a secure job I'd been in for 10 years. All of these decisions and changes resulted in some levels of anxiety, at some stage, even though all of them were three of the best decisions of my life and absolutely perfect for me. Did this mean I was low in emotional intelligence? No, not necessarily. Emotions are a normal part of change, good or bad. However, it is what I did as a result of the anxiety that would reflect my level of emotional intelligence.
When emotions, such as anxiety arise during change, the whole situation can be easier when you acknowledge the emotions, tolerate them and move through them. In this way change will be easier to cope with.
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EQ skills 9: Don't take change personally
When work changes are forced on you, such as redeployment, restructuring or redundancy, realise it is not likely to have anything to do with you.
The decision has probably been made for economic reasons, policy changes or political manoeuvring and not because your previous work has not been of value.
The people making the changes may not even know you! So have a slogan on your screensaver to remind you: "It's not personal. It's policy".
This is an emotionally intelligent way to helping yourself.
EQ skills 10: Take charge of your own change management
There are organisations, managers and supervisors who impose change on others in a very poor way.
As a client said to me recently, "Whatever the best practice in change management is, our organisation is the opposite".
Workers had not been consulted about changes, warned about changes or had the future explained to them.
Don't let poor change management sweep you away. Take control of your own change management.
- Start writing a list of all the good things you've achieved in the past year on the job.
- Tell other people the good things they've done.
- Get together as a group to say goodbye to the good and bad sides of what is changing.
Invent your own coping with change rituals.
Just because other people don't manage change in an emotionally intelligent way, it doesn't have to stop you from managing it well.
Develop your own or your leader's emotional intelligence
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Festive Alcohol Free Glögg
Hello! It was in Washington D.C that I was first introduced to Glögg by a really good friend who became later my flatmate, and my sister from Sweden. It was a cold Winter night, we were having dinner, a delicious Karkandji and we had some alcohol free Glögg from Ikea with almonds and raisin. I have since been obsessed with it and longed to make one day my own version. I checked recipes at different places, including German Glühwein and its alcohol free equivalent, Kinderpunsch, French Vin Chaud and of course Scandinavian Glögg. This recipe is inspired by all of those places, with as usual, my very own Saharan modern-day nomad take on it. For example, to keep it added-sugar-free, I replaced sugar with dates, and have it alcohol-free, the wine and spirits with homemade grape juice and karkadé or hibiscus flowers, a very popular drink from my own country of Chad. It is also called Almardeb, hibiscus tea, roselle, sorrel or red sorrel.
Ingredients for about 1.5 L
2L of red grapes juice homemade (preferably) or storebought
1 glass water
1 tea spoon freshly grated ginger
2 cinnamon stick
10 g Karkadé
10g allspice (whole)
5g cloves (whole)
5g cardamom (whole)
Peel of one orange
Freshly squeezed juice of one orange
50g blanched almonds finely chopped
5 medjool dates, pitted and very finely chopped
1 handful raisins
The day before, pour the water in a pot, and bring it to boil with the karkadé, cinnamon, allspices, cloves and cardamom, and let it boil for 10 minutes. Turn off the heat, allow it to cool and rest at least 24 hours in the fridge.
If you would like to make your own grape juice like me, all I do is to throwing the grapes in my Vitamix with filtered some water, more or less depending on how thick you would like your juice to be. You could also of course, use a juicer as well.
The next day (or later), bring to boil the spicy karkadé, red grapes juice, orange juice and orange peel. Simmer for 30 minutes. Sieve and then add the raisins, dates and almonds. It is ready and the perfect drink to enjoy the last week before Christmas. It is also the perfect match with festive cookies (chesnut or gingerbread for example).


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Squooshi Family Starter Kit
A fantastic way to feed your bub home made purées and yoghurt with the convenience of a pouch! Particularly good for babies who don't seem to want to be fed with a spoon :) It does need a hand wash in addition to the dishwasher to feel completely clean but other than that it has been an essential part of our feeding routine for our 9month old baby.
The animal Squooshies have been great - my little one has taken to eating from them with the chewy silicon tops we also bought. They are easy to fill and clean, the only complaint I could have is that they don't fit more in! But my little one is a very hungry caterpillar!
Great to use
These are super cute and the practical! Definitely use them a lot, especially to take yoghurt with us on the go! Only thing is the smaller ones are a bit fiddly to clean. But great purchase. :)


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Best of Milton Auction & Party set for Sept. 12
A celebration is planned for the 10th Annual Best of Milton Auction & Party on Saturday, Sept. 12, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Milton Fire Hall, 116 Front Street in Milton. The party will aim for an atmosphere of cool elegance, in pale blue and shimmering silver as they celebrate this anniversary in style.
The evening will feature silent and live auctions, hors d'oeuvres prepared by Almost Home Cooking and dessert including King's Homemade Ice Cream. A cash bar will offer a selection of wine, Dogfish Head beer and soft drinks. Live music by Vince Verrassi and Ken Cicarale and dancing will be a highlight.
Area businesses, artists and individuals have donated a variety of items and experiences. There will be original art, crafts, antiques, books, excursions, gift certificates for restaurants and salon services, items and services for the home and garden, collectibles and gift baskets.
To reserve a ticket in advance, contact the Milton Historical Society at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (302) 684-1010. Tickets cost $20 and may be purchased at the door.


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Dahlia - Arabian Not
Dahlia - Arabian Not
Arabian Not* Dahlia Tubers
*Please note that the true name of this variety is unknown. The grower we originally received this variety from was not able to identify it. We named it Arabian Not but this is not the true name of this variety.
Color: Raspberry Purple
Flower Size: 5.5"
Plant Height: Approximately 50"
Best For: Floral Design, Market Bouquets
Dahlia tubers purchased from Summer Dreams Farm will ship out in early April, weather permitting. For more information on how to grow dahlias, check out the Dahlia Care section of our website!
All dahlia tubers that we offer are grown with care on our farm in Michigan. We do not resell tubers from other growers or import dahlia tubers from abroad. Because of this, when purchasing from Summer Dreams Farm, you can be sure that you will get what you order.
We are proud to share that all of our dahlia plants and tubers are inspected by the State of Michigan Department of Agriculture prior to shipment to assure the quality of the product you receive.
Due to weather and Department of Agriculture requirements, we are unable ship tubers early and our tubers are only available to ship within the United States.


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Building industry
Top quality for top results
There are many different aspects which have to be considered before starting with the realization of a wooden floor. Maccani offers its assistance from the very beginning: from the definition of the costs and the customer's needs to the final finishing. Thanks to an efficient and clear processing chain, every customer will have the chance to follow every single realisaztion phase. To valorize each stage of Maccani's processing phase, means to give value to the customer's needs.
Analysis of the terms
By analysing the terms of the contract, you can understand almost every aspect: Maccani's working experience allows you to get a quick and economic quotation with no extra-costs. This means great security for each customer.
Work planning
As soon as the offer has been aproved, every working phase will be precisely defined. We choose the staff and organize every logistic aspect concerning the supply of materials and their timely delivery.
On site, our professional workers will perfom the installation in workmanlike manner. By having a look at the final result, the customer will apreciate both the aesthetic as well as the functional aspect of what Maccani invested from the very beginning: experience, professionalism and concreteness.
Maccani features 15 employees, 15 sales agents operating at national basis, as well as 35 CO.PA.MA (Consorzio Pavimentisti Maccani) - associated craft businesses: specialized layers operating in accordance to the company's values, from which they recieve an ongoing training and professional updating.
Our floors' materials:
The mostly used one, always finds several applications amongst resilient floorings. Linoleum is made of materials of natural origin, such as wood flours and linsee oil, which are applied on the jute fabric. An excellent solution for kindergartes, schools, offices and hospital floorings.
PVC stands for polyvinyl chloride, the most versatile plastic material known at the time. Thanks to its characteristics of flexibility and extreme recyclability it can be used in several applications in the sector of resilient floors.
Rubber enriches the resilient floorings with its natural features: comfort, stability, environmental friendliness, sound insulation, minimal maintenance and safety.
Great for all those applications where floors are extremely stressed.
Main material for any type of flooring. It is versatile, natural and resistant. It can also get a modern look if used targeted (for ex. in biobuilding).
Laminate floors feature an excellent connection between aesthetik and funktionality: varity in colours and cost-effectiveness are just of its advantages.
Its the classic floor solution, which is often used in the contract sector. The combination of aesthetic and functional aspects are its main features.
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- Clinics and hospitals
- Borgo Hospital Trento / Verona
- New Hospital S. Anna / San Fermo della Battaglia (CO)
- New Hospital Acuti in Piario (BG)
- Social welfare facilities in San Daniele del Friuli (UD)
- Residence for Elderly Canal San Bovo (TN)
- Cles Hospital, Cles (TN)
- Clinic "Villa Ragionieri" / Sesto Fiorentino (FI)
- USL n. 8, Asolo and Castelfranco Veneto
- Civil Hospital Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
- Regional Hospital "Villa Rosa" fraz. Vigalzano Pergine (TN)
- Centro Soggiorno Mocenigo / Lorenzago di Cadore (BL)
- Residence for Elderly San Vigilio / Spiazzo Rendena (TN)
- Residence for Elderly Giudicarie Esteriori / Bleggio Superiore (TN)
- S.Chiara Hospital: trasfer of the Orthopaedic Trauma Centre to S. Chiara Hospital in Trento
- Policlinico University of Padova
- Degenze e Nodo del Traffico / Padova
- Sanitary District: building in via Amba Alagi, Bolzano
- Institutes and Schools
- School Complex Canal San Bovo (TN)
- Trento University - Faculty of Sociology
- University Village S. Bartolomeo, Trento
- Free University of Bolzano
- Gasteiner School Bolzano
- Floriani Institute Riva del Garda (TN)
- Edmund Mach Foundation (boarding school, Agricultural Institute) San Michele all'Adige (TN)
- Elementary School "Amabile Girardi", Fornace (TN)
- New Nursery Valle Ziano di Fiemme (TN)
- Secondary school "Gemelli" a Massanzago (VI)
- Barbarani Institute Verona
- Kindergarten Dro (TN)
- Nursery "Peter Pan", Ispra (VA)
- School campus Moena (TN)
- Elementary School San Michele all'Adige (TN)
- Elementary school A ldeno (TN)
- Kindergarten Segno (TN)
- Nursery School Dro (TN)
- Primary School Scurelle (TN)
- International School for Advanced Studies,Trieste
- Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Padova (PD)
- Regional Professional School, Bolzano
- Kofler Foundation in Bolzano
- Elementary School Ronchi, Valsugana (TN)
- Gym Carisolo (TN)
- Elementary school Falzes (BZ)
- Rosenbach Nursery Bolzano
- Rodari Preschool Bolzano
- Accommodation for students, Via Weggenstein, Bolzano
- Public buildings
- I.P.E.S. social housing
- via Roma 2 / via delle Terme a Merano (BZ)
- Protected Psychiatric Accommodation in Bolzano, Via Dalmazia
- I.P.E.S. accommodations, Via Cademia Ortisei (BZ)
- I.T.E.A. - Housing
- Nursery at Spini di Gardolo (TN)
- I.T.E.A. - headquarter, Via Guardini, Trento
- Centre for Civil Protection Borgo Valsugana (TN)
- New town hall Faedo (TN)
- C.C.I.A.A. headquarter, Trento (TN)
- Palazzo ex compartimentale stazione S. Lucia a Venezia
- Palazzo della Regione FVG a Udine
- New Courthouse Brescia
- Marco Polo Airport: Airport terminal
- Passeggeri Tessera (VE)
- Social Housing Monte Cucuzza, Potenza
- Cultural buildings
- New Theatre Giovanni da Udine
- New City Theatre of Vicenza
- Multiplex Cinema of Via Darsena, Ferrara
- Private Housing
- Wine Cellar VIVALLIS S.c.a. Nogaredo (TN)
- Menfi Beach Resort contrada Bertolino at Menfi (AG)
- Villa Waiz a Roncegno (TN)
- Magneti Marelli headquarter at Corbetta (MI)
- Water Park Gardacqua a Garda (VR)
- Film Studies Pontini - Rome
- Grand Hotel Terme di Comano, Stenico (TN)
- Factory Tripoli (Libya)
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As a brand ambassador for MTA Travel, I know you expect me to have good things to say about them, but one of the things I pride myself most on is my integrity, so you can rest assured that everything I have to say here is straight from the heart.
Firstly, a little background. Unlike a traditional travel company, MTA's agents are home-based, a model that revolutionised the industry back in the 90's when Roy and Karen Merricks founded it. Although MTA isn't as instantly recognisable as other travel brands, with over 380 agents around Australia there's a good chance there's an agent just around the corner.
I've had the pleasure of working with MTA for a number of years and am impressed by how fun-loving and passionate about travel all their agents are. Of course, they look after all my travel, which is not only convenient but also makes me feel a little bit spoilt. Not only do the agents give me fantastic recommendations, but they also know to ask for the extras, and occasional upgrades that make travel a little indulgent. And the MTA app is great, — it reminds me of my (rather frequent!) upcoming flights, stores all travel documents and even checks me into flights.
While I hate to single out a particular agent as so many have impressed me, it is a conversation I had with longtime MTA agent Maxine and her partner John that I think best illustrates what's special about MTA. They explained to me that after many years of booking travel, guiding groups and their own explorations, they'd developed a method of matching travellers with their perfect travel experience using what seems to be a mix of science, genuine care and intuition.
Fun fact — you can also book a ticket to space on a Virgin Galactic rocket with MTA!


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Wrapped In Love....
Posted on Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 11:41AM
Life takes so many twists and turns. One day your up, the next your down. My month has been like that. I know that life brings changes and that "there is a season for everything" so I have learned to roll with the punches for the most part.
Sometimes though, it is good and necessary to stop for a second and realize the big picture. What your life really means and what you hold to be most important and valuable. I had a moment like that this past week as two major events collided in my life.
On August 9th I lost one of the best friends that I had. It was sad and I knew that life had changed for me with Jeannette's loss. I knew that I would miss her always but I also knew the gifts she had given me were lasting.
On August 18th, 43 years ago I gained another friend. We are still together, him and I and as these two events in my life presented themselves to me within a week of each other I was forced to take a deeper look at what this mystery of life is all about.
On March 2, 1962 Jim and I declared our "puppy love" by announcing we were going "steady". Seems so funny now. I don't believe anyone uses that term anymore. Going steady at 15 years old and dating for a few months while I was just 14. Today I think of that as being a baby. Back then I thought I was all grown up. I had a lot to learn about life and love.
Over the years we dated, broke up, got back together and then in 1968 we decided to get married. So young back then, so naive, so sure we could conquer the world. We grew into adults together, learning about life and love from each other as we traveled a rough and rocky road sometimes. Even in the tough times, as I look back now, I know what got us through was that we liked each other, way before we ever loved each other. I don't even think back then we really knew what love was. Passion maybe, but not love. Love grows....just like families and friends and pets. You have to do the time to get the results. And you have to do the work...Not saying it was always easy.
From that friendship we grew a family...we had pets we took care of parents, we lost my brother at a young age and now we have lost two very close friends.
The good news is that we have wonderful and loving children. Jenna and Chris are kind and sensitive and caring. They treat us with great respect and continue to include us in their lives on a regular basis. When I think of them and how they conduct their lives I am so proud of both of them. A few years back we were lucky enough to adopt another "son". Luke came to us through Jenna and he is so easy to love and just fits right into our life like he's been here forever. Now we have Liam.....the gift of a lifetime of learning how to love. There is no learning with him though. It oozes from him. He brings sunshine and laughter every time we are with him. I often ask myself how one tiny little person can breath so much joy day after day. I don't have an answer but I do thank God each night for the gift of him.
Jim and I are now in a place in our lives where we are free to choose how to live and where to go. We own two homes, travel whenever we want, where we want and I must say we have seen some wonderful sights, mostly though Maine is what draws us and our family. It is a haven in a beautiful space. I always say as the years pass, we live a charmed life. I wouldn't want to be anyone else but me. A friendship that started almost 50 years ago has grown into a love affair of a lifetime. Not many people get to share what we have. I will tell you it has not always been a party, there were several "don't let the door hit you in ass on the way out" days, but we always managed to work through those. In the end, the friendship won out.
So last Thursday as we celebrated our anniversary in Portsmouth, New Hampshire at a beautiful hotel that Jenna gave us as a gift for Christmas and with both of the kids driving up to meet us for dinner, I knew that I was wrapped in love. Love is the greatest gift. I have been wrapped in it by Jim for all these many years. My children continue to wrap me in their arms each time we meet and part. Now Liam puts out his little arms when he feels the need and says "hug" and I bend down to him and he squeezes me tightly. My dog and my friends let me know each day that I am also wrapped in love with them. Jeannette will be with me each time I see a white butterfly. I have learned a lot about love with Jim....and we have moved forward together to hopefully share our love with all who are a part of our world.
Wrapped in Love....it feels good and warm and snuggly, like
the new winter coat, wrapped in a great big box, on the bed of the hotel room, a surprise. Once again a reminder of Jim's love for me. And then I wrapped him in a hug.
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Getting to know you throug this journey of your life, makes me so happy for both of you and for your family. You have been blessed and the best part is that you know and appreciate it each day. I wish you all long, happy and healthy trails for many more years.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 06:23 PM:
Chris Dunham
Oh, that's from me....
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 06:24 PM:
Thanks Chris. Such a lovely comment. You have become such a good friend. Wishing you the best always. xoxo
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Find the Perfect Summer Camp for Your Child at L.A. Camp Fair 2019 Saturday, March 9 at UCLA! Admission is Absolutely FREE!
THE CAMP FAIR AT UCLA IS TAKING PLACE SATURDAY MARCH 9 AT PAULEY PAVILION AT UCLA! Get your FREE TICKETS TODAY!
Make your plans to join us Saturday, March 9 from 12:00 to 3:00 PM for L.A. Camp Fair 2019 at Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA.
Over 50 summer camps and programs will be on display at the UCLA Los Angeles Summer Camp Fair.
You will be able to go booth-to-booth meeting camp counselors, directors, and staff from over 100 participating camps and learn about their programs.
There will also be games, prizes, raffles, and animals to play with for the kids, not to mention delicious food and an all-around good time.
Presented by L.A. Summer Camps.com, the L. A. Camp Fair 2019 at UCLA is greater Los Angeles' best camp expo!
If you're looking for a safe and fun summer camp experience for your kids this summer, you won't want to miss this event.
Camp Fair Details!
• What: L.A. Camp Fair 2019
• When: Saturday, March 9, 12 PM to 3 PM
• Where: Pauley Pavilion at UCLA (Use the Main Entrance at Pauley Pavilion)
• Address: Pauley Pavilion, 301 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
• Admission Price: FREE!
• Parking: Park in Parking Lot 7 at UCLA for as little at $3 for one hour, or there is also free parking for 2 hours at the Broxton Public Parking Lot in Westwood Village (approximate 15 walk to Pauley Pavilion).
Exhibiting Camps
One of the best things about attending a Camp Fair is you don't have to contact all the camps one-by-one for more information. All the camps are together in one place for your convenience instead. L.A. Camp Fair 2019 at UCLA is like a one-stop-shop for finding the best program for your child all in one place!
When all is said and done, you can expect to see over 100 summer camps and programs at the 2019 UCLA L.A. Camp Fair event. And if you operate a summer camp and want to exhibit at L.A. Camp Fair 2019 at UCLA, please compete this registration form to reserve your booth. Space is limited and going fast!
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You don't have to pay a dime to attend L.A. Camp Fair 2019 at UCLA. You visit with all these great camps, meet their staffs, learn all about their programs and enjoy the UCLA Camp Fair absolutely free.
However, if previous Camp Fairs are any indication, the upcoming March 9 UCLA Camp Fair is going to be huge which means you'll need free tickets to get in.
It's important you download your free tickets ahead of time because space is limited and we want to make sure we have room for you. Get your free tickets today!


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By Nofisat Marindoti
The Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has revealed that the Federal Government has approved the sum of $41.5million for the completion of Ilesa water Project.
Aregbesola disclosed this during a courtesy call at the palace of the Owa-Obokun Adimula of Ijesaland, Oba Dr. Gabriel Adekunle Aromolaran in Ilesa on Wednesday.
Mr Governor thereby implored the residents of the State to vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the coming governorship election to prevent the money from getting into the wrong hands.
Aregbesola also stated that the two major markets in the town would be developed within the next two weeks.
"I have awarded the markets to the contractor and given him two weeks to do the job. If the markets are not developed within the stated period, I promise to take over myself. "
In his address, Oba Aromolaran prayed for the success of the party at the poll. He also urged the party's candidate not to forget the traditional rulers if he gets into power.
"I wish you success and God's guidance. I pray God bless your aspirations and crown all your efforts with success."


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Developed by the Danish studio Sirius Games, "Escape from Paradise City" is an explosive mix between RPG, management and Real-Time Strategy.
The game action takes place in a vast city, superbly rendered and bustling with life: Paradise City.
It is also one of the most dangerous cities in the world, where various mobs and numerous gangs clash in the struggle for control of the city's districts and resources.
In an atmosphere that combines the underworld and the fantastic, the player will be required to infiltrate the gangs of Paradise City for the NSA (National Security Agency).
The character the player chooses to incarnate will develop as he claws his way up the echelons of the underworld.
His influence on the city, the businesses, the payoffs and the number of confrontations with rival gangs, will enable him to gain experience and become powerful enough to take control of a district and a real gang in order to protect strategic points in his territory.
Once he is established in his patch, the player must extend his influence to other parts of Paradise City. To do this, he must manage his new territories in the best way he can, achieve various missions, recruit numerous henchmen, defend himself against attacks from opposing gangs, run his businesses with optimum efficiency and consider carefully which other districts to annex, depending on their resources, their features and also on the skills associated with them.
Once established in a district, the player will have to extend his influence over other districts in Paradise City... where the gang war raging for control of the metropolis is led by a violent, highly organized secret society at the head of which are a coterie of terrifyingly dangerous and powerful figures that, it seems, no bullet will stop.
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Whatever you were told earlier, the arcade genre is not only for retro gamers. Sure arcade used to be a big thing in the past, but we believe it never went out of style. Intuitive controls and increasing difficulty, combined with feeling awesome after a completed level is something a lot of gamers will appreciate.
Role Playing / RPG
The RPG genre lets you, the player, experience a story through the eyes of a main character. They usually have rich narrative elements and can unfold within settings like futuristic universes or fantasy worlds. A good RPG will completely immerse the player in a virtual world through great story-telling.
We're not saying you're going to be the next Rambo or Chuck Norris, because that's just impossible, but you'll definitely feel like one in these games. In most action games you are in control of all the excitement happening around you, requiring some decent motor skills most of the time.


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Enhancing TCP performance over satellite channels
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- Corporate Authors
- Defence Research Establishment Ottawa, Ottawa ONT (CAN)
- Abstract
- In general the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) works well while establishing end-to-end connections for common Internet services. However, three are two problem areas associated with performance over satellite channels: propagation delay and channel noise effects. Noise is a common problem in wireless technologies and consequently the bit-error-rate (BER) is significantly higher than in wired networks. TCP is particularly vulnerable to BER because it is a reliable protocol. TCP will retransmit lost or corrupted data when errors are detected. However, the main design goal was to avoid congestion-collapse in networks. The protocol has no means to decide whether a loss event was caused by congestion (buffer-overflow) or by corruption (noise jamming). Nevertheless, TCP should react in a different way, depending on the type of errors: it should immediately retransmit outstanding data if the loss was caused by noise, and it should reduce network traffic if congestion was the reason for dropping data-packets. Currently every loss indicates network congestion for the TCP standard version defined in RFC 0793. As a result it will reduce its sending rate significantly by invoking congestion control algorithms, regardless of the source of errors. TRUNCATED
- Keywords
- TCP/IP;Transport protocols;Transport Control Protocols/Internet Protocol;TCP performance;IETF RFC 0793
- Report Number
- DREO-TR-2000-079 — Technical Report
- Date of publication
- 01 Nov 2000
- Number of Pages
- 54
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- CANDIS No
- 514964
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Ok so I probably need a catchier title but regardless it pretty much sums this post up. A few weeks ago I was approached by The Blind Foundation to share a recipe for their upcoming Bikkie Day on the 2 July. Being an avid lover of bikkies and puppies I could hardly say no although being the terrible person that I am I procrastinated until the week before to actually make a recipe to share. Partaking in Bikkie Day helps to raise money for the breeding and training of Blind Foundation guide dogs. If you register ASAP you might be able to get a nifty wee puppy shaped cookie cutter just in the knick of time! Here is a super cute picture of a trainee guide puppy to get you in the mood.
Guide dogs act as the eyes for Kiwis who are blind or have low vision and help navigate obstacles such as traffic and hazards, keeping the person they are guiding safe. They are also taught to locate frequently visited destinations and how to travel on public transport, giving the Kiwis they guide independence and confidence to live the life they choose. Turns out it also takes up to two years to train a puppy to its full guiding potential so they need all the help we can give them. Once fully trained the Blind Foundation provide them totally free to those in need.
So to host your own Bikie Day, and help puppies likes these cute chaps become fully fledged guide dogs visit bikkieday.org.nz!
Now the general idea was to create doggie shaped cookies for this recipe but turns out the only animal kingdom based cookie cutter I had was a butterfly. Also these are delicious and we shouldn't be shapeist towards the melting moment. I daren't even get into the debate as to whether these even qualify as a bikkie/biscuit (I personally think they are only just on the very fringe of qualifying on the sole basis that they certainly are not a cookie). Since first making these I've made about four batches and I am pretty sure Dylan has scoffed every single one of them.
I found the OG form of this recipe in Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh (also known as my current favourite dessert book). I've always loved a good old melting moment and when I saw the inclusion of rhubarb in the filling I knew it was meant to be.
In order to get some resemblance of symmetry in my biscuits I weighed out each ball so that it weighed 15g give or take one or two grams. To save your sanity you could just use a measuring spoon to get an approximate or you could make them three times the size so you have fewer balls to roll out. The filling is also quite sloppy so once assembled pop them in the fridge for an hour or so to form up so they don't expel all the filling on the first bite!
Rhubarb and Raspberry Melting Moments
Makes 14 yoyos
Adapted from Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh
175g plain flour
65g cornflour
65g icing sugar
170g butter, softened (I use salted)
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
90g rhubarb, sliced into 2cm pieces
1 tablespoon white sugar
60g butter, softened
130g icing sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
Two tablespoons freeze dried raspberry pieces
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees on bake and line a baking tray with baking paper.
In a small oven proof dish place your rhubarb pieces and sprinkle over the white sugar. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes until the rhubarb is soft. Remove and leave to one side to cool.
In a standing mixer with a paddle attachment cream the butter and vanilla together until the butter pales. Add in the icing sugar and whip for another couple of minutes before adding the flour and cornflour then mix until only just combined. Bring the dough together with your hands then portion and roll out out 28 15g balls.
Place half of the balls spaced out evenly on the baking tray and press each one down slightly with a floured fork. Bake for 15 minutes until they are have just the slightest touch of golden to them. Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool. Repeat with the remainder of the dough balls.
To make the filling whip the butter in the standing mixer until pale and then add the rhubarb and mix on high until most of the rhubarb has broken down and the butter is a bright pink. Add in the icing sugar and vanilla and beat again until smooth. Add a spoonful or two more of icing sugar if it is too sloppy.
Transfer the icing to a piping bag fitted with a round tip (or just use a butter knife) and pipe generous dollops of filling onto half of the cooled biscuits. Sprinkle over the raspberry pieces and then gently place the remaining naked biscuits on top. Leave to cool in the fridge for an hour or so before devouring.
Enjoy! X (and don't forget to support the Blind Foundation and Bikkie Day!)


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Peace, Love & Cupcakes: Woodstock's Sweetest Treats
All I really want in life is peace, love, and a tie-dye vanilla cupcake with tie-dye buttercream frosting (pictured above). Actually, no. Make that a Blood, Sweat, and Tears cupcake. I love that fudgy brownie cake with a sweet-salty peanut butter swirl, crowned with a swirl of double-fudge frosting.
Wait, I changed my mind. I think I need the Joe Cocker cupcake, the one with vanilla bean butter cake, topped with caramel buttercream, a drizzle of caramel, and sprinkle of sea salt.
Actually, I'll just take all 3—plus a Pretzel Hippie Chipper Cookie Sandwich on the side, since they're pretty much my favorite thing ever. They don't photograph as well as the cupcakes, but imagine the deliciousness 2 chocolate chip-pretzel cookies sandwiching a generous layer of pretzel-peanut butter cream. The whole affair is rolled in chocolate sprinkles. It's ridiculous.
This little treasure trove of a bake shop is tucked into one of those little alleys that makes the town of Woodstock such a fun place to explore. Follow the cheerful pink signs, and bring back an extra cookie sandwich for me.
Peace, Love & Cupcakes is located at 54F Tinker Street (across from Woodstock Photography Center and down Cupcake Lane). Store hours are generally Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 6pm, or until they sell out, but you can always call in an order with 3 days notice for any day of the week for pick-up at the shop: 845-247-3687.


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Mikisiti Saila/
Cape Dorset 1939 - 2008
Mikisiti is the son of the famous Cape Dorset sculptor Pauta Saila. Mikisiti has been exhibiting for more than 35 years and his work is held in collections accross North America. He is known for his graceful minimalist representations of wildlife, particularly loons.


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My friends in the John Day area raved about the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness, so when my travels found me on Highway 26 in northeastern Oregon, I knew it was my opportunity to explore yet another area.
My friend enticed me to the area with the promise of larch trees.
I'd seen them turn yellow earlier this season, but seeing their reflection in an alpine lake was also on my bucket list. I was hopeful, but with an intermittent weather day, I wasn't overly optimistic.
Oh Mother Nature, are you teasing me?
No second chances on a day like this. YES, larch reflection on Strawberry Lake!
Strawberry Falls were quite a surprise. I didn't anticipate such great flow this late in the year.
Waterfall plus larch is a WIN WIN!
Little Strawberry Lake was very green.
The surrounding mountains were quite colorful, but with all that scree, not very hiker friendly.
When the sprinkles turned to something a bit more serious, that was my cue to turnaround.
I'd seen these plants minus their leaves when I was further north, so was pleased to see these lining the trail.
Strawberry Lake welcomed me back with this scene. Oh my! Perfect light, reflection and composition.
Hike Details:
- Date Hiked: 10/10/16
- Mileage: 7+ miles round trip
- Elevation Gain/Loss: approximately 2000′
- Trail Conditions: Near excellent (gentle grade, no down trees, but a lot of deadfall in the forest, heavy use by horses, nothing too technical)
- Solitude: Saw one couple near the trailhead
- Bugs: None
- Precip: Intermittent
- Temp: Chilly and damp
- Jan's Cherry Picker Delight Scale: 4 cherries (out of 5)
- Jan's Jaunts in Oregon
- Oregon Hikers – Strawberry Mountain Loop Hike (NOTE: the 2015 Canyon Creek Fire did NOT reach the trail from the campground to Little Strawberry Lake)


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EX752M TTI DC Power Supply
The EX752M is a 300 Watt DC Power Supply from Thurlby Thandar. Supplies DC Voltage and Current to test, design, and troubleshoot electric and electronic circuits. Applications include Burn In, QA, ATE, Research, Design, and Education to name a few.
Additional Features:
- Dual outputs with three modes of operation: 2 x 75V/2A; 1 x 75V/4A; 1 x 150V/2A
- Power: 300W
- Load regulation: <0.01% of max. O/P for a 90% load change
- Line regulation: <0.01% of max. O/P for a 10% line voltage change.
- Output impedance: Typically <5mΩ in constant voltage mode. Typically >20kΩ in
- constant current mode
- Ripple & Noise (20 MHz bandwidth): Typically <2mV RMS, <10mV pk-pk, (CV mode)
- Transient Response: <200μs to within 50mV of set level for 90% load change.
- Temp. Coefficient: Typically <100ppm/oC.
- Independent digital voltage and current meters for each output with 100mV and 10mA resolution
- Constant voltage or constant current operation
- Compact design uses less bench space
- Silent fan-free cooling
- DC output switches, automatic mode indication
- Touch-proof safety terminals
The EX752M is a dual output 300 watt PSU with Multi-Mode capability. This enables it to operate as a dual power supply with two independent and isolated outputs, or as a single power supply of double the power.
As a dual, each output provides 0 to 75V at 0 to 2A (mode A). As a single, the output can be selected as either 0 to 75V at 0 to 4A (mode B) or 0 to 150V at 0 to 2A (mode C). In single modes, the unused half of the unit becomes completely inoperative and its displays are blanked.
Because of the higher voltages it can produce, the EX752M uses special safety binding posts which can accept spade terminals, 4mmplugs, or bare-end wires without exposing any metal parts.


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Key works from his 40 year career, during which he has redefined the status of the object in art.
In his early work, Haim Steinbach explored the limitations of Minimalism, painting calculated placements of coloured bars around monochrome squares. But as his career progressed, he decided to abandon painting and turn his focus to material linoleum, which he used to recreate a range of historical floor designs.
By the late 1970s, Steinbach was interested in how space could be used within structure, as well as the daily rituals of collecting and arranging objects. He began to place items drawn from a variety of contexts onto different kinds of shelving units - anything from handmade constructions to modular building systems.
Here, a series of Steinbach's new works - made specially for the Serpentine Gallery - are shown alongside reconfigured versions of his historical installations and a number of grid-based paintings from the early 1970s.


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We are witnessing corporatization of healthcare for a decade, which has led to the cutting of costs and maximization of profits. This is what Dr. Suneel Dhand, physician, author and speaker believes. He says that this approach hasn't benefitted the patients at all. This can be seen every day in hospitals and clinics due to departmental mergers, loss of personal touch and staff cuts. Healthcare seems to be progressing with improving patient-provider communication, value-based healthcare, telehealth software, etc. But, healthcare is following factory-like processes and patients are losing due to this approach.
We need to improve healthcare quality and patient experience. Dr. Dhand says that he is optimistic about healthcare coming full circle over the next few years. Everyone is eventually going to realize that excessive administrative C-suite approach focusing only on the bottom line at the expense of patient experience is not going to sustain.
He suggests that patients can give an online feedback and write reviews if they come across suboptimal service. It's far more effective than verbal feedback to someone who may not be able to understand your concerns. You can be polite and firm while communicating your message. No company likes a negative feedback and no organization can ignore one.


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South Bend Police investigating armed robbery on Stanfield Street
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- South Bend Police are investigating an armed robbery that happened Sunday evening in the 1100 block of Stanfield.
The victims told police they arrived home around 10 p.m. when three suspects approached them. One of the suspects had a gun.
The suspects took cash, wallets and other items from the victims.
The suspects are described as:
- Black male, short with a thin build, possibly late teens or early 20s, wearing dark clothing.
- Black male, short dreads or twists, possibly early to mid-20s, carrying a gun.
- Black female, heavy-set, possibly early to mid-20s and wearing dark jeans.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the South Bend Police at 235-9201 or Crime Stoppers at 288-STOP.


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Development on Holiday Inn & Arlington Center
Snell is seeking to rezone both the Holiday Inn and Arlington Center properties as one large parcel. Snell is currently seeking to rezone both properties, combining the two parcels into one to maximize its development potential. The first phase would include conversion of the existing office building to apartment homes, while also potentially adding additional apartments in a separate structure. Phase I is planned to be completed with the hotel in operation, after which Phase II would include replacing the hotel with new apartments. The entitlement process is scheduled to begin in 2018 and last approximately four years.


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JACoW Team Meeting 2018 | 3 - 7 December | Cape Town, South Africa
The 2018 JACoW Team Meeting was hosted by and on the premises of iThemba LABS, near Somerset West in South Africa.
A Team Meeting Working Group, coordinated by Christine Petit-Jean-Genaz , developed the TM'18 programme together with the Board of Directors. Garrett de Villiers and Naomi Haasbroek managed the local arrangements and David Button the programme.
Attendance at Team Meetings: Team meetings are organized for team members in line with the JACoW Terms of Reference and Boundary Conditions. Attendance at meetings is a boundary condition for membership of the JACoW Collaboration and publication of conference proceedings on the JACoW site.
Programme: The TM'18 programme covered not only electronic publication issues, but also the wider field of conference organisation (SPMS, Indico, delegate and exhibitor registration, organisation of OC/SPC meetings, etc.) as well as the very complex IT issues.
Pre-Team Meeting: An invitation only pre-team meeting for the JACoW Management, SPMS and Indico developers and super users, was held on Sunday 2 December and Monday 3 December, also at the Lord Charles Hotel in Somerset West.
Special Kickoff Session: Prior to the Team Meeting proper, a special kickoff session was held for all participants at the Lord Charles Hotel on the Monday from 16:00 to 18:00.
Accommodation: A block of rooms was reserved at the the NH Group Lord Charles Hotel, in Somerset West.
Registration: Delegate registration was done via an Indico event based at CERN.


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"I thirst."
Read John 19:28-29, Psalm 69:21,
Zechariah 12:10
Several times the Gospel writers say the events of the crucifixion happened to fulfill Scripture. Jesus sipped the sour wine. His bones were not broken, which would have sped up the dying process. His side was sliced open, and the water separated from the blood that spilled out showed he had died. Why was it necessary to fulfill the Scriptures?
Doubters might say that Jesus, sweet but deluded, had sacrificed himself unnecessarily. They might say there was no divine plan from before creation to redeem humanity from sin and death. They might say it was all miserable happenstance, a bad turn of events.
But as the pivotal point in all history, the crucifixion was no accident. And to prove it, the Author of the plan had it written down hundreds, even more than 1,000 years before it happened. Bible scholars point to over 300 Old Testament prophecies of the birth, life, death, and resurrection of the Messiah.
And for it all to be proven true for those of us who stand on the A.D. side of time, Scripture was fulfilled. Down to the last sop of vinegar. Down to the last spear point.
PRAY Lord, thank you for the details of the crucifixion proving Jesus' humanity, the reality of his death, and your divine plan over it all.


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New memberUsername: Daniel_badon
Bc Canada
Post Number: 10
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looks like the power source is doubled.
anyone who can analyze what is going on here?
2)i know there are some deck design as soon as you turn on the power a motor will be on also.
if one left it on for one week the motor will be burn to death.
anyone who knows the reason for this design?


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Give the Primo Experience, and more! Call us about our other Primo gift-giving ideas, such as our current and vintage Pig Day T-shirts, DownEast Cooking cookbook, and more.
Scosso Vive . . . in italian . . .
Front side bears the slogan. Backside a unique Pig Day design for 2016 by artist Mark Kelly.
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A distant father confronts a heroic but troubled past-life as an '80's TV show mascot named Pombo.
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A Quiet Place: Telling a Story with Sound
I loved this film. It's particularly interesting to learn about the adjustments the writers made to the screenplay. Sound always plays a particularly important role in the horror genre, but A Quiet Place takes this a step further, making sound …
A beautifully animated student film by Sheridan graduate, Patt Jewanarom. Student films are often unfinished, but in this case I think it makes for a more enjoyable short, at least for animators. 🙂
Breakbot: "Another You"
Breakbot and Ruckazoid merge, creating Breakazoid, a cosmic pimp, who distributes his love to humans by taking them across the galaxy on the planet love in this stylish music video by Olivier Lescot.
Kali Mata
Bengal, 19th century. At the edges of the Kali temple, the British India's army led by the implacable W.H.Sleeman is about to wash against the last representants of the ancient stranglers assassin's brotherhood, the Thugs.
Monty Granito's Awesome Comic Book Story Animatics
Featuring scenes with Batman fighting thugs, Spider-Man and Winter Soldier taking on Thanos, and Captain Marvel duking it out with Venom, these animatics are full of great ideas and possibilities executed masterfully.
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Spungella is Making Excellent Animation Videos on YouTube
YouTube seems over-saturated with video essays on film analysis (You may have noticed we've stopped posting them as often as we were). Animation has been largely overlooked save for a few great videos, like this one about Chuck Jones. I've …
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Get into the Christmas spirit and join us for a fun day designing and making a wonderfully luxurious door wreath and a spectacular table centre arrangement.
We will be using pure silk ribbons, cinnamon sticks, dried oranges, lemons and limes. Plenty of bling available if that is your thing or more simple frosted twigs and accessories in various colours. You can choose from a wide range of gorgeous foliages, gold sprays and roses to add the wow factor.
You will also learn how to make a beautiful table centrepiece. It can be round or rectangular, your choice. Please state colour of roses required. Other materials as above.
Tea, coffee, fizz and mince pies available to keep you refreshed.
Only four places per class so you can enjoy individual help and advice. £45.00 per person.
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Price: $399.00
Manufacturer: Innova
Shipping Weight: 20.00 lbs
There have been some nice changes to the Innova Twist models this year. They now have removable seats, and Innova is producing them in a material that has some nitryl coating on the exterior, as opposed to the bare nylon fabric they had for the previous nine years. This coating lets the boats dry faster, and allows for easier clean-up. And while the new fabric does add a tiny bit of weight, among the better quality inflatable kayaks Twists remain the lightest you can buy. We still recommend that you refrain from paddling these models up onto rocky shores repeatedly, because this can abrade the underside and these do not have as much rubber coating as the Seawave, Solar, Safari, or Halibut kayaks.
The new colors will be either red & gray, or a lime green & gray two tone. The older yellow and camo patterns have been discontinued.
The Twist Inflatable Kayak is Innova's shortest solo inflatable, yet is remarkably adaptable not only to taller bodies, but even for use as a self-support overnight boat too. The 8'6" length is engineered just right. The Twist Solos' weight is a super low 17 pounds, and the width is about 31".
Tube diameter is 9" and the inside width is 13". Twist's do come with a removable, bolt-less tracking fin, and yes, it makes a huge difference in tracking on a hull this short.
Innova Twist Inflatable Kayak Strong Features
The strongest features of this kayak are its insanely low price - down $50 from last year - and its unbelievably small packed size. For backpackers who want something that can easily be carried into a mountain lake or gentle stream, the Twist, a quality foot pump, and the paddle add up to no more than 22 - 23 pounds, allowing leeway for food and drink too.
There is a three-stepped inflatable footrest that you can remove if you wish. The 2017 inflatable seat is now removable in case you are camping and want to use a drybag as your backrest. This backrest is fairly comfortable as long as you get it fully inflated. The solo and tandem Twists come with a nylon stuff sack and basic patch kit, and the removable tracking fin as mentioned above.
One last detail we want to note is that most Innova seats, and especially the footrests, will tend to get soft overnight or at best over a couple days. This is not a defect, it's due mostly to the tube & twisty-valve design of the area where you inflate these components. In most cases a footrest requires no more than one puff of a pump to firm up, and a seat no more than two.
Innova Twist - All Accessories 10% off
Please note that any accessories purchased with your boat are 10% off, and also note that our shopping cart as yet does NOT reflect these discounts - it will show a higher total so we will adjust the bottom line before ringing the transaction through. If for any reason we manage to forget, we will enclose a refund check for the difference inside the box with your receipt.
The standard Twist solo color for 2015 is red with a hint of orange as shown in the first picture, and a gray interior.
Free UPS ground shipping is for the lower 48 States only. Important: Our shopping cart will show a shipping fee, but we will subtract it from the total before capturing your funds.
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John Epperson Leaves Lypsinka Behind For Play
In the American premiere of Wallace Shawn's Evening at the Talk House, John Epperson plays Ted, a composer who performs some incidental music on the piano, banters with the fellow guests gathered for a reunion, and reveals a dark, startling secret.
For some theatre fans, it will be equally startling to see Epperson in this sort of role. After all, he is best known as Lypsinka, a wildly stylized, lip-syncing chanteuse that he has performed (in drag) for 35 years.
Epperson was surprised himself when Shawn invited him to be in the ensemble piece that also features Matthew Broderick, Michael Tucker, Jill Eikenberry, Claudia Shear, Annapurna Sriram, and Larry Pine. (The New Group production plays at The Pershing Square Signature Center through March 12.)
"He said that his plays are an acquired taste, and he thought I might not appreciate it," the actor recalls. But Shawn also told him that though he had written the script several years ago – it premiered at London's National Theatre in 2015 – he felt it was timelier than ever.
Set in an old theatre hang-out, the one-act show brings together the participants in a fictitious, failed drama, Midnight in a Clearing With Moon and Stars, for a 10th-anniversary party. But in this sociopolitical parable, the world has changed in the past decade: theatre has all but died, entertainment is entirely escapist, and enemies are everywhere. Think Kafka at the Players Club.
"It's not a backstage musical," says Epperson dryly of the darkly haunting reunion that makes Follies look like a tea party. "Ted is a fairly quiet, though opinionated, person who doesn't have a whole lot to say until he blows his top and suddenly this other side of him is seen. And when he does, I told Scott [Elliott, the show's director] that it feels like a Bette Davis moment, like in The Star, where she's fairly low-key until she gets into a scene with her sister and her brother-in-law and she suddenly turns on them."


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A 14-minute Uncharted fan-film featuring Nathan Fillion from Serenity and Stephen Lang from Avatar recently made its way online, giving fans of the popular video game series a short tease about what could have been and what could be if Hollywood had decided to make a proper movie based on Naughty Dog's popular third-person action-adventure series.
It's crazy but in some sequences Fillion actually looks just like Nathan Drake from Uncharted 4. He also seems to put in the work and effort to imitate Nolan North's depiction of the beloved hero.
Stephen Lang also chums it up as Sully, giving Nate some much needed backup when things get tough.
Write and director Allan Ungar along with Jesse Wheeler really seem to know how to capture the essence of Naughty Dog's Uncharted series, mixing in rough-and-tumble fight scenes with shootouts and a short getaway. It's rather action-packed for just 14 minutes. You can check it out below.
The story is wholly original, picking up where Nate is captured by some sort of Mexican kingpin who wants him to hand over a special relic. Nate, however, manages to escape and make his way to the second floor where he sifts through some files, finds some clues and makes a rather daring escape with a pistol in hand and a lot of luck at his back.
It's a much better depiction of the Uncharted franchise than the dolor hodge-podge of a mess that was Uncharted 4. You can tell that Ungar really respected the kind of tone that Amy Hennig brought to the original trilogy when she was at Naughty Dog before getting kicked out. Hennig managed to mix comic timing with adventure thrills without ever dragging down the pace, and this was something that Ungar seemed to capture almost perfectly within the 14 minute run time.
It's violent enough to keep you engaged, but lighthearted enough to ensure you don't come away scarred and jilted.
Also, unlike Uncharted 4, the fight scenes in the short film actually made sense and were actually entertaining instead of being nonsensical and frustrating.
The fan-film also avoids following in Druckmann's footsteps, where he tried to strip away the charismatic charm that Nolan North brought to the role; instead Ungar and Fillion actually dive headfirst into the character so that you actually care about and root for Nate.
It's obviously Ungar's proof of concept bid in hopes of getting Hollywood to take notice. Could it work? Absolutely. Is Ungar the right mind for the job? Looks like it. Is Fillion the right guy for Drake? I've got no qualms.
The issue, obviously, is that Hollywood and Naughty Dog are probably not too keen on a fan-film that actually gives fans what they want. Naughty Dog has an agenda to push and it doesn't include making fans happy, or in the words of Neil Druckmann, "having fun".
Fillion seemed to really enjoy taking over the role from Nolan North, and he seemed to put a lot of heart into this little indie project.
With a bigger budget and a full-length feature, this could easily be a great popcorn-night date flick, family flick, or all around good-time film. It's a shame that we'll likely never see it come to fruition.