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We take your privacy very seriously, and will take all reasonable steps to protect your personal data, but please be aware that any data which you send to our site is sent at your own risk.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, processed and/or stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA").
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
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I thought you might get a kick out of this article about the making of
"Lady & the Tramp". It is from the magazine "American Artist", May 1955, and written by one of Disney's great background painters, Ralph Hulett.
The text won't offer a lot of new infos to most of you, but it is a fun look behind the scenes, from an insider's perspective in the mid fifties.
Then more original drawings from the film.
The first six are by Milt Kahl. The rough pre-animation drawings of Lady show how comfortable Milt was with such a realistic character. Potentially complicated anatomy covered with fur is beautifully simplified on this sheet.
The two close ups of Jock might have been drawn for another animator's scenes,
possibly Frank's. I just love their expression and mood, there is a real essence to them, and great clarity.
The beaver is one of my favorite characters. Those little beady eyes give him so much character.
I wonder what the story sketch looked like for the scene with Trusty.
An idea for a pose like this one is not easy to stage. But when you give it to Milt it becomes a piece of beauty. The slight variations in the design of the skin folds
is what makes this believable.
Milt redrew these poses of Aunt Sarah several times. She sure looks like a caricature of voice actress Verna Felton here.
Frank Thomas stages his characters beautifully in the first sheet.
He blocks in their appearances, almost like an architect's sketch.
This also solidifies the composition so that they relate very clearly.
The same can be said for the next two close ups of Lady. What's interesting here is that Frank used straight and curved lines to define the shapes of her ears.
You'd think something so soft would need curves only, but drawn this way, it shows more weight.
The small thumbnail sketches indicate the two main positions in the scene.
More thunbnails on the next sheet as Lady puts her head down.
Following is a drawing where Frank explores how her fur reacts in a frightened attitude.
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In the northeastern city of Liaoyang, 23 people were hospitalized with gas poisoning after ventilation in a metal casting factory was shut off following a power outage, according to state broadcaster CCTV. No deaths were reported.
Factories were idled to avoid exceeding limits on energy use imposed by Beijing to promote efficiency. Economists and an environmental group say manufacturers used up this year's quota faster than planned as export demand rebounded from the coronavirus pandemic.
A components supplier for Apple Inc.'s iPhones said it suspended production at a factory west of Shanghai under orders from local authorities.
The disruption to China's vast manufacturing industries during one of their busiest seasons reflects the ruling Communist Party's struggle to balance economic growth with efforts to rein in pollution and emissions of climate-changing gases.
"Beijing's unprecedented resolve in enforcing energy consumption limits could result in long-term benefits, but the short-term economic costs are substantial," Nomura economists Ting Lu, Lisheng Wang and Jing Wang said in a report Monday.
They said the impact might be so severe that they cut their economic growth forecast for China to 4.7% from 5.1% over a year earlier in the current quarter. They cut their outlook for annual growth to 7.7% from 8.2%.
Global financial markets already were on edge about the possible collapse of one of China's biggest real estate developers, Evergrande Group, which is struggling to avoid a default on billions of dollars of debt.
Manufacturers already face shortages of processor chips, disruptions in shipping and other lingering effects of the global shutdown of travel and trade to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
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Prices have risen "past the range of what China's electricity industry can bear," Li said.
China has launched repeated campaigns to make its energy-hungry economy more efficient and clean up smog-choked cities.
City skies are visibly clearer, but the abrupt way the campaigns are carried out disrupts supplies of power, coal and gas, leaving families shivering in unheated homes and forcing factories to shut down.
Shopping malls in the northeastern city of Harbin have announced they will close stores earlier than usual to save power.
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The DBus missing tutorial – DBus Activation
I'll explain the activation part of dbus, that's how you can request the dbus daemon to automatically
start a program that provide a given service. You will also find general dbus tips in there.
We have a program in /usr/bin/program-providing-servicename
providing service
, and we want that program to be started whenever dbus needs
that service (if it isn't already running). On the other end, we have a client that
wants to use the service, and doesn't care wether it's running or not, it just want to access the service.
See the end of the tutorial for credits, external links, changelog, and license.
Here is the layout we will use for our example program:
program- |-data- | |-Makefile.am | |-datafiles.[png,desktop,..] | |-org.gnome.ServiceName.service.in | |-src- | |-Makefile.am | |-server.[hc] | |-client.[hc] | |-server-bindings.h | |-client-bindings.h | |-servicename-infos.xml | |-configure.ac |-acinclude.m4
Let's see what goes in each file. The main purpose of all this is to install a .service file, which is used
by the dbus-daemon to launch a process owning a given service.
We need to retrieve the directory on the system in which to place the .service file. With modern DBuses (>0.30)
it is placed in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/
. The following m4 macro to expand the $datadir variable is useful. Put this
in your configure.ac file:
AS_AC_EXPAND(DATADIR, $datadir) DBUS_SERVICES_DIR="$DATADIR/dbus-1/services" AC_SUBST(DBUS_SERVICES_DIR) AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DBUS_SERVICES_DIR, "$DBUS_SERVICES_DIR", [Where services dir for DBUS is])
Then you need to place this code snippet in program/acinclude.m4
file, or append it to the existing one:
dnl AS_AC_EXPAND(VAR, CONFIGURE_VAR) dnl dnl example dnl AS_AC_EXPAND(SYSCONFDIR, $sysconfdir) dnl will set SYSCONFDIR to /usr/local/etc if prefix=/usr/local AC_DEFUN([AS_AC_EXPAND], [ EXP_VAR=[$1] FROM_VAR=[$2] dnl first expand prefix and exec_prefix if necessary prefix_save=$prefix exec_prefix_save=$exec_prefix dnl if no prefix given, then use /usr/local, the default prefix if test "x$prefix" = "xNONE"; then prefix=$ac_default_prefix fi dnl if no exec_prefix given, then use prefix if test "x$exec_prefix" = "xNONE"; then exec_prefix=$prefix fi full_var="$FROM_VAR" dnl loop until it doesn't change anymore while true; do new_full_var="`eval echo $full_var`" if test "x$new_full_var"="x$full_var"; then break; fi full_var=$new_full_var done dnl clean up full_var=$new_full_var AC_SUBST([$1], "$full_var") dnl restore prefix and exec_prefix prefix=$prefix_save exec_prefix=$exec_prefix_save ])
DBus needs a .service file to know what program to launch for a given service name.
That file has to be in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/
, add this snippet to your automake file:
# Dbus service file servicedir = $(DBUS_SERVICES_DIR) service_in_files = org.gnome.ServiceName.service.in service_DATA = $(service_in_files:.service.in=.service) # Rule to make the service file with bindir expanded $(service_DATA): $(service_in_files) Makefile @sed -e "s|@bindir@|$(bindir)|" $<> $@
The content of that data/org.gnome.ServiceName.service.in
file is the following:
[D-BUS Service] Name=org.gnome.ServiceName Exec=@bindir@/program-providing-servicename
In this file we generate glib bindings headers that define method stubs to be implemented/called by the server/client. DBus comes with
a tool called dbus-binding-tool
that can generate both client and server header files. Let's see what we
write in the Makefile.am in addition to the usual stuff:
BUILT_SOURCES = server-bindings.h client-bindings.h # We don't want to install this header noinst_HEADERS = $(BUILT_SOURCES) # Correctly clean the generated headers, but keep the xml description CLEANFILES = $(BUILT_SOURCES) EXTRA_DIST = servicename-infos.xml #Rule to generate the binding headers server-bindings.h: servicename-infos.xml dbus-binding-tool --prefix=server_object --mode=glib-server $<> $@ client-bindings.h: servicename-infos.xml dbus-binding-tool --prefix=server_object --mode=glib-client $<> $@
Code to use that stuff
Now you have your autotools setup to correctly prepare and install the service file, Dbus knows how to launch
the program corresponding to your service. If the program is already running, nothing happens. If the program isn't running,
dbus launches the program, waits for it to take ownership of the service, then executes the remote method and returns the result.
The following section will most likely be similar in some parts to the
dbus tutorial
The XML description
The src/servicename-infos.xml
is a description of the interface provided by service, here is a quick example, we
define one method that takes a string as parameter and returns a string.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <node name="/org/gnome/ServiceName"> <interface name="org.gnome.ServiceName"> <annotation name="org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.CSymbol" value="server"/> <method name="EchoString"> <arg type="s" name="original" direction="in" /> <arg type="s" name="echo" direction="out" /> </method> <!-- Add more methods/signals if you want --> </interface> </node>
means a parameter to the method,direction="out"
is a return valuetype="s"
means a string, see dbus tutorial for more types signaturesname="xxx"
is purely decorative- The annotation is the prefix used in the server binding, in this case, all our server method stubs will be prefixed by server_,
that means we will have a method calledserver_echo_string
to implement.
The server needs to #include "server-bindings.h"
the client needs to #include "client-bindings.h"
header. When we look at that generate header we can see how the XML
description has been translated to C method calls.
Server implementation
In the server, we must ensure that we will take ownership of the provided service, otherwise the activation procedure won't succeed.
In the class_init
of your GObject, you must install the dbus introspection infos, and in the init
function we will
register for the service.
#include <dbus/dbus-glib-bindings.h> /* Standard GObject class structures, etc */ typedef struct { DBusGConnection *connection; }ServerObjectClass; class_init(ServerObjectClass *klass) { GError *error = NULL; /* Init the DBus connection, per-klass */ klass->connection = dbus_g_bus_get (DBUS_BUS_SESSION, &error); if (klass->connection == NULL) { g_warning("Unable to connect to dbus: %s", error->message); g_error_free (error); return; } /* &dbus_glib__object_info is provided in the server-bindings.h file */ /* OBJECT_TYPE_SERVER is the GType of your server object */ dbus_g_object_type_install_info (OBJECT_TYPE_SERVER, &dbus_glib__object_info); } init(ServerObject *server) { GError *error = NULL; DBusGProxy *driver_proxy; ServerObjectClass *klass = SERVER_OBJET_GET_CLASS (server); int request_ret; /* Register DBUS path */ dbus_g_connection_register_g_object (klass->connection, "/org/gnome/ServiceName", G_OBJECT (server)); /* Register the service name, the constant here are defined in dbus-glib-bindings.h */ driver_proxy = dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name (klass->connection, DBUS_SERVICE_DBUS, DBUS_PATH_DBUS, DBUS_INTERFACE_DBUS); if(!org_freedesktop_DBus_request_name (driver_proxy, "org.gnome.ServiceName", 0, &request_ret, /* See tutorial for more infos about these */ &error)) { g_warning("Unable to register service: %s", error->message); g_error_free (error); } g_object_unref (driver_proxy); }
Now our server object is ready, and is available on dbus to answer remote calls. We must now provide an implementation
of the exported methods.
The server-bindings.h shows a marshaller declaration of type
. We must implement a function called server_echo_string
that respect this prototype. Note that the annotation is translated with a server_
prefix to the method, and the method name
is mangled to a C style name xx_xxx
. That method must return TRUE in case of success, or FALSE if an error occured, and in
that case, the GError must be set. The return values are given as pointers to the return location.
gboolean server_echo_string (ServerObject *server, gchar *original, gchar **echo, GError **error) { *echo = g_strdup (original); if (problem) { /* We have an error, set the gerror */ g_set_error (error, g_quark_from_static_string ("echo"), 0xdeadbeef, "Some random problem occured, you're screwed"); return FALSE; } return TRUE; }
Client implementation
The client-bindings.h
shows the prototypes of the function we can call to execute a remote request transparently.
Before the call a proxy object must be created, this is also shown. In real situations, the two pieces of code
would be placed in their own place, for example the creation of the proxy in the object contructor, and the method call in a callback
for a button, this is just an exemple to show the base mecanism.
/* Somewhere in the code, we want to execute EchoString remote method */ DBusGProxy *proxy; DBusGConnection *connection; GError *error = NULL; gchar *result; connection = dbus_g_bus_get (DBUS_BUS_SESSION, &error); if (connection == NULL) { g_warning("Unable to connect to dbus: %sn", error->message); g_error_free (error); /* Basically here, there is a problem, since there is no dbus :) */ return; } /* This won't trigger activation! */ proxy = dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name (connection, "org.gnome.ServiceName", "/org/gnome/ServiceName", "org.gnome.ServiceName"); /* The method call will trigger activation, more on that later */ if (!org_gnome_ServiceName_echo_string (proxy, "The string we want echo-ed", &result, &error)) { /* Method failed, the GError is set, let's warn everyone */ g_warning ("Woops remote method failed: %s", error->message); g_error_free (error); return; } g_print ("We got the folowing result: %s", result); /* Cleanup */ g_free (result); g_object_unref (proxy); /* The DBusGConnection should never be unreffed, it lives once and is shared amongst the process */
This first snippet shows a simple method call. First we get the dbus connection, then we create a proxy object that
will talk with dbus, and finally we call the remote method using the binding header. You see that the prototype is the
same as the one we implemented in the server, boolean return value indicating succes or failure,
pointers to method result values are passed after the parameters. In case of error (return FALSE) , the GError is set.
Now the activation bit, when you create the proxy nothing happens yet, but when you call the remote method, dbus will check to see
if the service exists on the bus.
- If the service already exists, the method is called, blocks until the result is returned.
- If the service does not exist, dbus searches the
files until it finds a
matching service descriptor.- When the service file is found, the method blocks, dbus launches the associated executable, wait for the executable to take
ownership of the service, execute the remote call, and finally returns. - When the service file isn't found, it returns an error.
- When the service file is found, the method blocks, dbus launches the associated executable, wait for the executable to take
The above procedure means that your program will block during the process launch, which can be bad, for example in case of a gtk mainloop.
Fortunately, there is also a way to do asynchronous calls, and very easily!
Client asynchronous implementation
Everything can be copied from the previous example, excepted the actual remote method call, this one now becomes:
[... Get the dbus connection, create the proxy ...] /* We now call the method asynchronously */ org_gnome_ServiceName_echo_string_async (proxy, "The string we want echo-ed", client_echo_reply, /* See below */ client); /* Of course, do not unref the proxy now, since we need it for the callback */
As you can see, we give the parameters directly, but instead of giving the error, and return pointers, we pass
a callback client_echo_reply
that will be called when the method call has finished. We can also pass
any user data as gpointer, here we pass the hypothetical ClientObject instance
Now we must implement the callback
static void client_echo_reply (DBusGProxy *proxy, char *answer, GError *error, gpointer userdata) { ClientObject *client = CLIENT_OBJECT (userdata); if (error!= NULL) { g_warning ("An error occured while calling echo_string remote method: %s", error->message); g_error_free (error); return; } g_print ("We got an echo reply, result: %sn", answer); }
That's it, that was a piece of cake! Now as you can guess, the async call will also trigger the activation, if needed,
but now your program won't block until the remote application has started, you can happily continue your mainloop, and be
notified when the remote program gives the answer!
What happens if the remote program fails to launch? Dbus has a timeout timer, if after a given time, no program
has claimed the requested service, the method callback is called with the GError set, that's it.
Python Service
You can also provide the service with a python program, here is an example:
#!/usr/bin/env python import gtk import dbus import dbus.service if getattr(dbus, 'version', (0,0,0)) >= (0,41,0): import dbus.glib class ServerObject(dbus.service.Object): def __init__(self): # Here the service name bus_name = dbus.service.BusName('org.gnome.ServiceName',bus=dbus.SessionBus()) # Here the object path dbus.service.Object.__init__(self, bus_name, '/org/gnome/ServiceName') # Here the interface name, and the method is named same as on dbus. @dbus.service.method('org.gnome.ServiceName') def EchoString(self, original): return original server = ServerObject() gtk.main()
Just save that as /usr/bin/program-providing-servicename
, make it executable..
Random comments
- The executable given in the .service file can be a normal binary file,
but also a!#/usr/bin/sh
-type file, like a shell script, or a python script - Never unref DBusGConnection
- The server's method prototypes must come before you include the server-bindings.h file
- ALWAYS use a –prefix with dbus-bindings-tool, otherwise problems will arise when mixing multiple codes that use dbus independently
- 2005-08-20: Update the automake snippet with BUILT_SOURCES, otherwise the header doesn't auto-build with make
Credits and links
- The original and official dbus tutorial
- Maybe outdated other EchoObjects dbus examples on Ross Burtonini's blog
- Official dbus Glib bindings API


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Data Collected
We're not in the business of selling, renting out or trading your data with 3rd parties. All data collected is used to provide you with the Service only, and all your private data and intellectual property is always yours.
We collect anonymous data from every visitor of the Website and Service to monitor traffic and fix bugs. For example, we collect information like web requests, the data sent in response to such requests, the Internet Protocol address, the browser type, the browser language, and a timestamp for the request.
For the Service, we ask you to register an account, log in and provide certain information (such as names and email addresses of your team members, your company name and address and your credit card information) in order to be able to store your task data as well as periodically automatically bill you & charge your card (credit card numbers are never stored on Slash7 servers, but are securely transmitted and stored with our payment provider).
We use cookies to store session information for your convenience. Cookies must be enabled to use the Website and the Service. We also store additional information which may contain personal information (like your time zone) in your local browser cache to ensure peak performance of the Service.
In order to take advantage of certain features of the Service, you may also choose to provide us with other personal information, such as your picture, but your decision to utilize these features and provide such data will always be voluntary.
Use of the Data
We only use your personal information to provide you with the Service to communicate with you about the Service or the Website. This includes both automated and manual processing of data.
With respect to any data you may choose to enter or upload to the Service, we take the privacy and confidentiality of this data seriously. Your data (in the Service) is specifically not shared between accounts (unless you specifically choose to) or with the public. We employ industry standard techniques to protect against unauthorized access of data that we store, including personal information. All off-site backups of your data are securely encrypted.
Please note that if you choose to share data (like sharing a board with a client), we are not responsible for any violation of privacy law you may be liable for.
We do not share personal information you have provided to us without your consent, unless:
- doing so is appropriate to carry out a user's request (for example, sharing a board with a client implies that you consent to share the data in this board with that client);
- we believe it's necessary in order to provide the highest quality of service;
- we believe it's needed to enforce our Terms of Service, or that is legally required;
- we believe it's needed to detect, prevent or address fraud, security or technical issues;
- otherwise protect our property, legal rights, or that of others.
The Service is operated from the United States. If you are visiting the Website from outside the U.S., you agree to any processing of any personal information you provide us according to this policy.
The Service may contact you by email. For example, we may send you promotional emails relating to the Service or communicate with you about your use of the Website and Service. If you do not want to receive email from us, please opt out of receiving emails at the bottom of any such email. Please note that for some emails (for example billing issues), there's no option to opt-out.
Sharing of Data
We don't share your personal information with third parties except as listed below. Other then the information outlined below, only aggregated, statistical data is periodically transmitted to external services to help us improve the Website and Service.
We listed below what data the third parties we share data with extract exactly. Feel free to check out their own Privacy Policies to find out more.
Communication when getting started with Every Time Zone, about new features, special offers relating to the service and recommendations on how to use the app:
- Drip: your name, email and aggregated account statistics (privacy policy)
Providing email support:
- Google Apps: email correspondence with you when you contact support (privacy policy)
- Helpscout: your name, email, aggregated account statistics and contents of your email correspondence (privacy policy)
Tracking errors and measuring performance:
- Datadog: aggregated account statistics (privacy policy)
- ScoutApp: your email (so we can contact you when there are performance issues) and aggregated account statistics (privacy policy)
- Honeybadger: your email (so we can contact you when there are performance issues) and aggregated account statistics (privacy policy)
- Papertrail: log files, does not include passwords or credit card information (privacy policy)
Transactional emails (Reports, Billing-related emails, etc.):
- Postmark: your name and email and account data inside emails (privacy policy)
- Stunning: your name and email (privacy policy)
Provisioning of application features:
- Stripe: your email, plan details and credit card information, as we do not store your credit card data ourselves (privacy policy)
Service hosting and data backups
- Amazon AWS: storing encrypted archives of backup data [this data is not readable by Amazon AWS] (privacy policy)
- Amazon S3: storing user avatars and file uploads (privacy policy)
- DigitalOcean: hosting of servers and databases including all customer data, but does not include credit card information [Some data, like passwords, is always encrypted by industry standard measures] (privacy policy)
- KeyCDN: hosting of user avatars (privacy policy)
Additionally, Slash7 uses third party vendors that provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage and other technology required to run the Website and the Service. While Slash7 owns the rights to the Website and Service, you retain all rights to the data you enter into the Service.
In order to provide the Service, we also share data with services that help us track errors and bugs, keep backups of log files and identify performance issues (these are listed above).
We employ and contract with people and other entities that perform certain tasks on our behalf and who are under our control (our "Agents"). We may need to share personal information with our Agents in order to provide products or services to you. Unless we tell you differently, our Agents do not have any right to use Personal Information or other information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us. You hereby consent to our sharing of Personal Information with our Agents.
If Slash7 is acquired or merged with an other company, or Slash7 sells the Website and Service to an other company, or if Slash7 goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information may be transferred to a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Slash7 or its assets may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
GDPR compliance and Privacy Shield
For a detailed list of data sub-processors under the GDPR please see above under "Sharing of Data".
Your Data Protection Rights Under The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following data protection rights:
- You can object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information, or request portability of your personal information. You can exercise these rights by emailing email@example.com.
- You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the "unsubscribe" or "opt-out" link in the marketing emails we send you. To opt-out of other forms of marketing, please contact us by emailing email@example.com.
- Similarly, if we have collected and process your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
- You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
Right to Access, Correct, Update, or Request Deletion of Data
If you want to request an export or deletion of your personal data, and have an account with us, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please note that we cannot delete personal data in open accounts when you're not the account owner, as this would prevent us from providing the service the account owner is paying for (We suggest that you contact the account owner of the Every Time Zone account in question to ask them to anonymize or remove your data).
We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
International data transfers
GDPR includes provisions on international data transfer mechanisms. In order to comply with these provisions we have certified under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks (please see below for details).
Data Retention and Deletion Schedules
Application Data and Backups
In order to accommodate customers who need older data restored, we keep backups indefinitely and cannot delete personal data form them as these are stored off-site, read-only and heavily encrypted and compressed. If we do have access or restore data to our production systems or for purposes of debugging, any deletions of personal data will be applied retroactively or the personal data will be anonymized.
Log files
We store server log files for (up to) one year for the purposes of debugging errors and helping customers find out when specific data changes happened and who did them; and for preventing fraud and providing the neccessary information when fraud is suspected.
Purchase Records and Invoices for our Services and Products
We keep copies of all purchasing records for tax and auditing purposes.
Personal Metadata
We keep personal metadata, given that the user allows us to process their data, which can be controlled by going to the Privacy tab in Settings & Profile.
When a user opts-out of a type of data processing we prevent additional data from being sent to the relevant data controllers. Every quarter, we contact our data processors with a list of users who have opted out of allowing us to process their personal data in the specific manner that we use their tools.
We will respond to Data Subject Rights Requests within the appropriate amount of time
Metadata collected by 3rd-party services
Some 3rd party services collect data independently from us, and have incorporated it as part of their service.
We do not store any copies of this data, and Data Subject Requests for this data must be submitted to the 3rd party service, since we do not control the data.
Slash 7's Internal Business Data
We keep all internal business data as long as it is relevant; internal business data may include the data listed above.
Data Processing Agreement
We do have a Standard Data Processing Addendum (DPA), which meets with GDPR requirements for agreements between Data Controllers (you) and Data Processors (us). We offer this DPA to our customers that operate in the EU. The DPA offers contractual terms that meet GDPR requirements and reflect our data privacy and security commitments to our clients. To ensure no inconsistent or additional terms are imposed on us beyond that reflected in our standard DPA and model clauses, we cannot agree to sign customers' DPAs. We're a small team so we can't offer individual changes to the DPA since we do not have a legal team on staff. Any changes to the standard DPA would require legal counsel that would be cost prohibitive, increase our prices and would put an undue burden on our other customers. The DPA is a part of our Terms of Service. By agreeing to our terms of service, you are automatically accepting our DPA and do not need to sign a separate document.
EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks
Slash7 LLC complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States. Slash7 LLC has certified to the Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/.
Slash7 is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives, under each Privacy Shield Framework, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. Slash7 complies with the Privacy Shield principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Frameworks, Slash7 is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, Slash7 may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
In compliance with the Privacy Shield principles, Slash7 LLC commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. EU and Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact Slash7 LLC at the contact address given at the end of this privacy policy.
Slash7 LLC has further committed to refer unresolved Privacy Shield complaints to an alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not addressed your complaint to your satisfaction, you may visit https://www.jamsadr.com/eu-us-privacy-shield for more information or to file a complaint (free of charge). To facilitate fast and convenient resolution of complaints, you agree to participate in on-line dispute resolution through JAMS Online Mediation (Endispute).
Under certain conditions, Privacy Shield provides the right to invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have not provided resolution. This is described in Annex I to the Privacy Shield.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make any significant changes in the way we collect or use information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Website or sending you an email. A user is bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when he or she uses the Services after such changes have been first posted.
Changes to this Privacy Policy may go into effect immediately to ensure that we can provide the Service without interruptions (for example, we may have to switch 3rd-party providers of application features on short notice if they experience technical difficulties or go out of business).
Questions and contact information
Should you have any question or concern, please write to email@example.com, or write to:
Slash7 LLC
PO Box 411
Pipersville, PA 18947
United States
If you need to contact a data privacy officer, please use the contact information above.


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Magnetic reproduction 2.5" x 3.25"
Open Edition Fine Art Canvas Prints
Small, Medium and Large Giclée Prints are hand stretched on medium or heavy duty stretcher bars.
Mini Giclée Canvas Prints are mounted and presented on foam board ready for framing.
Limited Edition Fine Art Canvas Print
Limited Edition Giclée Canvas Prints are hand stretched on heavy duty stretcher bars, signed and numbered by Michael Birawer.


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and FOX Sports Media Group Reach Expansive Multi-Year, Multi-Platform Rights
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
(Oct. 15, 2012) – With two full
seasons left on their current television contract, NASCAR and FOX Sports Media
Group (FSMG) announced today an extensive new eight-year, multiplatform media
rights agreement that ensures FSMG's broadcast of NASCAR racing through
Under terms of the
new agreement, FSMG also significantly increases its digital rights to include
"TV Everywhere" live race streaming of its portion of the season for the first
time ever beginning in 2013.
"NASCAR has been in
very good hands and has enjoyed tremendous success the last 12 years in large
part because of our fantastic partnership with FOX and FOX Sports Media Group,"
said NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France. "We are thrilled to be able to extend
our relationship in such a significant way for our track partners, race teams,
and most importantly, our millions of loyal and passionate fans. This extension
with FOX Sports Media Group helps position the sport for future growth as NASCAR
continues to be an anchor with one of the world's largest and most influential
media companies."
As part of the new
agreement, which takes effect in 2015, FSMG retains the television rights to 13
consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points races beginning each year with the
prestigious Daytona 500. In addition, FSMG retains the rights to the NASCAR
Sprint All-Star Race, the Daytona Shootout, the Duel at Daytona, the entire
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season and practice and qualifying for both
the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races
that FSMG broadcasts.
FOX also remains the
exclusive home of The Great American Race through 2022, a title it has proudly
held for the last six years and nine of the last 12.
"We're extremely
happy to have worked closely with Brian and his team at NASCAR over the last few
months to expand and extend our relationship for what is without question the
most popular motorsport in the country," said FSMG Co-Presidents and CEOs Eric
Shanks and Randy Freer. "NASCAR has been a staple at FOX for more than a decade
and we consider it one of the signature sports we cover. With our commitment
renewed, we look forward to presenting NASCAR thoroughly, professionally and
creatively for many years to come."
On the digital front,
FSMG gains "TV Everywhere" rights starting next season to live stream all FSMG
races, along with pre- and post-race coverage, race highlights and in-progress
race highlights to events it televises. This portion of the deal was made
possible by NASCAR's reacquisition of operational, business and editorial
control of its digital platform, a move that takes effect on Jan. 1,
"NASCAR fans' demand
and desire for NASCAR content stretches across all platforms and distribution
channels," France said. "As we've done with this FSMG extension, we will
continue to take the appropriate measures to ensure our fans have access to the
sport wherever they are and through all available devices. NASCAR is one of the
most accessible sports in the world and this new deal builds upon that in a very
significant way."
new and expanded television and digital media rights agreement with NASCAR
includes, but is not limited to:
An eight-year term from 2015 to 2022. The current FSMG/NASCAR rights
agreement began in 2006 and runs through 2014
Thirteen (13) consecutive points races beginning with the Daytona 500
on FOX- The Daytona Shootout; Duel at Daytona; NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race; and Daytona 500 Qualifying
- Full NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season
- Right to televise all practice and qualifying sessions for FSMG races
- Ability to re-telecast races on a FOX network and via video-on-demand (VOD) for 24 hours
- Right to ancillary programming including, but not limited to, a nightly NASCAR news and information show as well as weekend at-track shows
- Right to NASCAR branded pre- and post-race shows
- Extensive digital rights beginning in 2013, including:
-TV Everywhere – live digital distribution of all races FSMG has rights to broadcast
- Pre- and post-race coverage
- Race highlights
- In-progress race highlights
- Replays of FOX-televised races
Today's announcement
comes less than two months after NASCAR and FOX announced they are teaming up to
provide the sport's most expansive Spanish-language broadcast offering ever with
FOX Deportes' coverage of 15 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races starting in 2013. Of
the 15 race broadcasts, FOX Deportes, the No. 1 U.S. Latino Sports network, will
carry six NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races live, including, for the first time
ever, a Spanish-language broadcast of the Daytona 500 (Sunday, Feb. 24).


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Don't let a sore back, bad knees or lousy soil stop you from gardening. Elevate your garden for easier access and better gardening results.
The simple act of creating a raised bed improves drainage in heavy clay soil. Add in some organic matter to further increase drainage and improve the water holding ability for sandy soils.
And if your soil is beyond repair or you don't want to wait, a raised garden allows you to bring in quality soil and create a garden right on top of the existing soil or even paved areas.
The quality soil and easy access will allow for dense plantings without pathways. This means greater yields, up to four times more, in raised beds than in-ground gardens.
Raised beds also help conserve water. You'll concentrate your growing efforts in smaller areas and that means less water wasted. Increase the benefit by using soaker hoses or drip irrigation in order to concentrate water application to the soil nearest the plants, right where it is needed.
Make your raised bed a comfortable height. Elevating the garden minimizes bending and kneeling. Design raised beds in corners or edges suited for sitting or areas narrow enough to set a garden bench alongside for easy access.
Design raised gardens so they are narrow enough for gardeners to easily reach all plants growing within the garden. Or include steppers or pathways if creating larger raised garden areas.
Add a mowing strip around the edge of the raised bed. A narrow strip of mulch or pavers set level with the soil surface keep the area tidy and eliminate the need for hand trimming.
Select a material suited to your landscape design. Wood, brick and stones have long been used to create raised beds. Consider using materials that are long-lasting and easy to assemble, like Lexington Planter Stone (lexingtonseries.com). These stone sections can be set right on the ground, fit together easily, and can be arranged and stacked to make planters the size, shape and height desired.
Start a raised bed garden by measuring and marking the desired size and shape. Remove the existing grass and level the area. For taller raised gardens edge the bed, cut the grass short and cover with newspaper or cardboard prior to filling with soil. Be sure to follow directions for the system being installed.
Once the raised bed is complete, fill it with quality soil. Calculate the volume of soil needed by multiplying the length times the width times the height of the raised bed, making sure all measurements are in feet. Convert the cubic feet measurement to cubic yards by dividing it by 27 (the number of cubic feet in a cubic yard). For a 4 x 8 feet raised bed that is 2 feet deep you would multiply 4 x 8 x 2. This equals 64 cubic feet. Divide by 27 and you will need just a bit more than 1 cubic yard of soil. Don't let the math overwhelm you, most topsoil companies and garden center staff can help you with the calculations. Just be sure to have the raised bed dimensions handy when you order your soil.
The best part is that this one time investment of time and effort will pay off with years of gardening success.
Gardening expert, TV/radio host, author & columnist Melinda Myers has more than 30 years of horticulture experience and has written over 20 gardening books. Visit her website: www.melindamyers.com for more information and gardening tips.


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Let's have another great one and let's keep our blogging community happy and healthy.
2014 Round up
Blog Con 2 at York - it was great to meet up once more, meet new friends , and have a laugh! It seemed like a resounding success.Wargames Bloggers Quartely - contributing and being Editor for issue2 - great idea Millsy.
3rd in the 4th AHPC - great fun racing to the finish - and i got a load of stuff done
Really got some quality time in the man cave at the end of the year and starting to build up the Sudan collection
Gaming at Scarborough show - 6 participation games over the weekend - and great company too.
Managing to focus on only a few areas - Cowboys, Gangsters and Sudan - getting there with them all.
Not enough games overall - but there were a lot of real life things got in the way.. must try harder 2015I must do a 2015 targets to set out plans for next year.. see you on the ohter side.


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Eaton Valves considers privacy an important issue, so we build and operate our web services with the protection of privacy taken into account. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use one of our websites and some of the steps we take to safeguard it.
These principles apply to personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. By this we mean information that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address, e-mail address or other contact details.
Data collection
Browsing of our web sites and most other services do not require any personally identifying information.
We may collect limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your internet protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to better understand users' behaviour and to further improve our offerings.
Some of our services require you to register for an account, e.g. for appointments. We ask you for some personal information in order to create an account and we will use that information to provide the service.
When we require personally identifying information, we will inform you about the types of information we collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us. It is then up to you to decide if you want to provide the information or not.
Retaining and deleting personal data
This Section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.
1.1 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
1.2 We will retain your personal data as follows:
(a) Personal data category or categories will be retained for a minimum period of following your supply, and for a maximum period of following our end of use.
1.3 In some cases it is not possible for us to specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be retained. In such cases, we will determine the period of retention based on the following criteria:
(a) The period of retention of personal data will be determined based on its sole purpose.
1.4 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
Your Rights
2.1 In this Section, we have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.
2.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) The right to access;
(b) The right to rectification;
(c) The right to erasure;
(d) The right to restrict processing;
(e) The right to object to processing;
(f) The right to data portability;
(g) The right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
(h) The right to withdraw consent.
2.3 You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee. You can access your personal data by emailing us using the details provided at the end of this policy.
2.4 You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
2.5 In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
2.6 In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
2.7 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
2.8 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
2.9 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
2.10 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:
(a) Consent; or
(b) That the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract,
And such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
2.11 If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
2.12 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
2.13 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us.
Upon your first visit to our web site, a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people use our sites. We do this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people navigate our sites.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features or services on our sites may not function properly without cookies.
Cookies used by our service providers
3.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
3.2 We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. The relevant cookies are: Google Analytics.
3.3 You can view our cookie policy for more information about cookies
Our details
4.1 This website is owned and operated by Eaton Valves, design, hosting & maintenance by Silvertoad.co.uk
4.2 We are registered as Eaton Valves, and our registered office is: Eaton valve Products Limited
12 Mill End Close
Eaton Bray
4.3 You can contact us:
(a) By post, to either address given above;
(b) Using our website contact form;
(c) By email, using [email protected]


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Paul Gauguin Cruises
Owned by Pacific Beachcomber S.C., the leader in French Polynesia luxury destination resorts, Paul Gauguin Cruises operates the award-winning luxury cruise ship the m/s Paul Gauguin, which provides an exceptional cruise experience tailored to the unparalleled wonders of Tahiti, the South Pacific, and Fiji.
Launched in 1998, the renowned, 5+ star m/s Paul Gauguin was built specifically to sail the waters of Tahiti, French Polynesia, and the South Pacific and is the longest continually operating year-round luxury cruise ship in this enchanting destination. No other luxury ship in history has offered this level of single-destination focus and expertise on a year-round basis for such an extended period of time.
With more than 25 years of experience in the French Polynesian tourism market, Pacific Beachcomber is the country's largest luxury hotel and cruise operator in the region. In addition to The Gauguin, Pacific Beachcomber operates seven award-winning hotels and is committed towards achieving environmental and social sustainability. Most recently, Pacific Beachcomber opened The Brando, an award-winning luxury eco-resort on the private island of Tetiaroa, on July 1, 2014.


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These days, no popular movement goes without an Internet presence of some kind, whether it's organizing on Facebook or spreading the word through Twitter. And as we've seen in Egypt, that means that your Internet connection can be the first to go. Whether you're trying to check in with your family, contact your friends, or simply spread the word, here are a few ways to build some basic network connectivity when you can't rely on your cellular or land-line Internet connections.
Do-It-Yourself Internet With Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi
Even if you've managed to find an Internet connection for yourself, it won't be that helpful in reaching out to your fellow locals if they can't get online to find you. If you're trying to coordinate a group of people in your area and can't rely on an Internet connection, cell phones, or SMS, your best bet could be a wireless mesh network of sorts–essentially, a distributed network of wireless networking devices that can all find each other and communicate with each other. Even if none of those devices have a working Internet connection, they can still find each other, which, if your network covers the city you're in, might be all you need. At the moment, wireless mesh networking isn't really anywhere close to market-ready, though we have seen an implementation of the 802.11s draft standard, which extends the 802.11 WI-Fi standard to include wireless mesh networking, in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO laptop.
Advanced freedom fighters can set up a portal Web page on their network that explains the way the setup works, with Daihinia instructions and a local download link so they can spread the network even further. Lastly, just add a Bonjour-compatible chat client like Pidgin or iChat, and you'll be able to talk to your neighbors across the city without needing an Internet connection.
Back to Basics
Remember when you stashed your old modems in the closet because you thought you might need them some day? In the event of a total communications blackout–as we're seeing in Egypt, for example–you'll be glad you did. Older and simpler tools, like dial-up Internet or even ham radio, could still work, since these "abandoned" tech avenues aren't being policed nearly as hard.
In order to get around the total shutdown of all of the ISPs within Egypt, several international ISPs are offering dial-up access to the Internet to get protesters online, since phone service is still operational. It's slow, but it still works–the hard part is getting the access numbers without an Internet connection to find them.
Unfortunately, such dial-up numbers can also be fairly easily shut down by the Egyptian government, so you could also try returning to FidoNet–a distributed networking system for BBSes that was popular in the 1980s. FidoNet is limited to sending only simple text messages, and it's slow, but it has two virtues: Users connect asynchronously, so the network traffic is harder to track, and any user can act as the server, which means that even if the government shuts down one number in the network, another one can quickly pop up to take its place.
You could also take inspiration from groups that are working to create an ad-hoc communications network into and out of Egypt using Ham Radio, since the signals are rarely tracked and extremely hard to shut down or block. Most of these efforts are still getting off the ground, but hackers are already cobbling together ways to make it a viable form of communication into and out of the country.
Always Be Prepared
In the land of no Internet connection, the man with dial-up is king. Here are a few gadgets that you could use to prepare for the day they cut the lines.
Given enough time and preparation, your ham radio networks could even be adapted into your own ad-hoc network using Packet Radio, a radio communications protocol that you can use to create simple long-distance wireless networks to transfer text and other messages between computers. Packet Radio is rather slow and not particularly popular (don't try to stream any videos with this, now), but it's exactly the kind of networking device that would fly under the radar.
In response to the crisis in Egypt, nerds everywhere have risen to call for new and exciting tools for use in the next government-mandated shutdown. Bre Pettis, founder of the hackerspace NYC Resistor and creator of the Makerbot 3D printer, has called for "Apps for the Appocalypse," including a quick and easy way to set up chats on a local network so you can talk with your friends and neighbors in an emergency even without access to the Internet. If his comments are any indication, Appocalypse apps may be headed your way soon.
Tons of cool tech are also just waiting to be retrofitted for these purposes. David Dart's Pirate Box is a one-step local network in a box originally conceived for file sharing and local P2P purposes, but it wouldn't take much work to adapt the Pirate Box as a local networking tool able to communicate with other pirate boxes to form a compact, mobile set of local networks in the event of an Internet shutdown.
Whether you're in Egypt or Eagle Rock, you rely on your Internet access to stay in touch with friends and family, get your news, and find information you need. (And read PCWorld, of course.) Hopefully with these apps, tools, and techniques, you won't have to worry about anyone–even your government–keeping you from doing just that.
What do you think? Should we worry about how to communicate in the future? Do you believe the internet can be taken down?


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Seven and a half years ago today, Kristine and I got married in a beautiful little town called Shell Lake followed by our wedding reception about 45 minutes away even further north into the northwoods of rural Wisconsin at a retreat center called the Schwan Center. Today, I biked from Shell Lake 32 miles up through the snowy backroads and snowmobile trails arriving to meet Kristine, her parents, and our kids for a short mini-vacation at a cabin in the same conference center where we had our reception. Here's a recap of today's adventure mountain biking on snowy roads and trails in very rural parts of Wisconsin.
The basic story of the ride is that the roads got snowier and snowier as they became more rural. My Garmin worked great, but the route I had planned ahead of time didn't upload correctly to the device so I had to stop every now and then at an intersection to figure out which way to go. I just generally had to head north though, so it was fairly easy to navigate by the setting sun. Some of the roads were really easy to ride on because the snow was hard packed, but other roads which saw a lot of snowmobile and car traffic had really loose snow that was hard to ride on. I think you can tell by the graphs below the location of the most difficult roads by the spots where my speed and heartrate are lowest.
The graphs below are all screenshots from my Garmin data: http://bit.ly/hPSb0r
Route map – aerial view – look at all the lakes!
Garmin speed data – note the lowest speeds on the second half of the ride
Garmin heartrate data – low sections corresponding to low speeds
Lots of deer tracks in a field next to County Rd N
Beyond County Rd N, road getting snowier
Garmin bike navigation on the mountain bike in the snow
Frozen lake with beaver or river otter holes in the ice
Snowy roads, some good snow, some loose snow, the trick is finding the right snow
Looking the other way on the same road.
Pear lake – frozen with ice fishing house, snowmobile trails
Up close view of my mountain bike after the ride
Lastly, here is a video I took towards the end of the ride crossing the Namakogen River on State Hwy 77. If you easily get motion sickness, you may not want to watch!


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How I Started My Pen Collection
Back in 1989, my wife first gave me a very expensive pen. It was the Montblanc classique 163 roller ball pen. It cost her about US$130 to get that as a birthday gift for me. It was a big deal considering that I have been using the normal Papermate Kilometrico and BIC ball pens that cost about US$0.20. In those days, it was somehow a sign of an achievement in Singapore to carry a Montblanc pen. Everywhere you go, you would see the White Star Snow cap prominently protruding out of the pocket.
After using it for just over 6 months, I accidentally dropped the pen and broke the cap. I brought it back to Montblanc service centre and was told that I have to pay US$30 for the cap! I wouldn't want to pay US$30 for the cap! I mean the plastic cap! Worst, they are re-using the clip and I have to pay US$30 for the plastic cap!! I remembered I told them that it was like a day light robbery ! Obviously I left the store and proceeded to 7-Eleven store to buy a glue to glue the cap and reuse it again. Somehow the feeling wasn't as good as before because the glue along the crack can be seen miles away. Everyone would know immediately that I was carrying a cracked Montblanc. It was very disheartening and I stopped carrying it and later it disappeared till today. I don't have the slightest idea where I have put it or rather where I have lost it. So it was back to Papermate Kilometrico once again.
In 1995, I noticed that one of my customers was using a very special pen with a snake clip. Yes! It was Montblanc! I can see the white snow cap from a distant away. You can't possibly miss the logo! Throughout the conversation, I was only concentrating on the snake clip and was not interested in the conversation at all. I was like yeah here and yeah there. Deep inside me, I was telling myself that I must own this pen. The problem with me was that couldn't bring myself to ask the customer to show it to me. It was the first meeting with the customer. I was pretty sure that he knew I was looking at the pen. It was only one year later that he admitted that he was showing off the pen to me. I call him the %$#@ teaser. But he is my good friend now.
So whenever I travel, I would end up in Montblanc boutiques and check for the snake pen. Unfortunately, none understood me. For a moment, I thought I must be day dreaming seeing the snake clip pen. I gave up the thoughts of owning one until in 1997 I noticed a Dragon clip! I was very confused!! Was it the snake clip or a dragon clip that I have een the last time. Nobody could answer me. Suddenly it came to me that I could actually surf in the net to search for pens! To be frank, all these while it has never crossed my mind of searching pens in the Internet.
Reached home at about dinner time and immediately I fired my notebook computer until 7.00 a.m. the next day. Within that 8-9 hours of surfing, I managed to bookmark easily 15-20 pen shops mostly in USA. I was late for work naturally the next day but surprisingly I was still very energetic and continue surfing the web till 5.00 p.m. After that, discovered that the snake and dragon pen were actually Agatha Christie and Imperial Dragon respectively.
That night….armed with a credit card…I "attacked" the pen shops in USA and bought the Agatha Christie, Imperial dragon, Voltaire and some vintage fountain pens. I wasn't myself considering that I am quite a scrooge. It was like a voice telling me that I have to buy and buy and buy. That night I went to bed US$3000 poorer.
The best part of the buying was that I didn't even know what I am getting. All I care was that I should have the pens. Fine, Medium or Broad nib? Inked or dipped ? Box? Papers? and etc. I didn't even ask for all these. It did not cross my mind that I should know these. So finally the pens arrived 7 days later via Fedex, UPS, TNT, EMS and DHL. Both the Agatha and Imperial Dragon were inked as I can see the liquid ink through the transparent window. It didn't bother me because I didn't know!
It was only months later that when I found that there was a shop in Singapore that actually sells Fine Writing Instrument! The shop owner told me that I should pay for a new set instead of the inked pens. Ironically, I am been traveling around the world and asking for Snake and Dragon pens when I can actually get it from a store about 30 km away from my home!
Today I have pens…many pens….really many pens that I literally spent all my saving into pens! Of course, once in a while I have to spend some money on my other business….that is my Electrical and Mechanical business…
To all my pen friends, this was exactly how I have started with pen collection…..


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Ariana Eily received the Edgar T. Wherry Award at the Botany 2018 meetings in Rochester, MN for her stellar presentation on:
"A glimpse at genes critical to the Azolla-Nostoc symbiosis".
This award is given for the best paper presented during the contributed papers session of the Pteridological Section at the annual Botany meetings. Wherry was an American botanist and mineralogist, and president of the American Fern Society from 1934–1939. He published several guides on eastern North American ferns, and donated the royalties from these books to the Fern Society.
Congratulations, Ariana!


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Melbourne was still dark, under a light rain and with a temperature of 8 degrees Celsius, but these conditions did not stop thousands of Melbourne residents congregating at the Shrine of Remembrance, a national monument in the town center. It was 5 a.m. and a bugle sounded the start of proceedings.
It was April 25, 2012, the day Australia commemorates Anzac Day. On this day, people pause from their daily lives to remember the fall of 8,000 soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at the Gallipoli landings in Turkey, 97-years-ago during World War I.
Nowadays, ANZAC Day has also become a day of public admiration for all Australian servicemen and women, past and present. That is the way Australians value their military services.
A number of young Indonesian Military (TNI) officers — Maj. Agus Yudhoyono; Maj. Frega Wenas and myself, Maj. M. Iftitah Sulaiman S. — have accepted the Australian government's invitation to visit a number of military establishments as part of the annual Young Future Leaders 2012 program. Apart from being given the chance to see various attractions, there will also be interaction with Australian leadership candidates.
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Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the Twenty Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day
Today, on the commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day, I express my warmest greetings to every Tibetan inside and outside Tibet, united by our common language, race, traditions and customs while having a variety of ideology, behaviour and profession.
During the past 20 years 100,000 or so Tibetan refugees (mostly in India and 16 countries in the East and the West) have been earning their livelihood by agriculture, small business, handicrafts, etc., and their living standard is improving and they are becoming self-sufficient. Of special importance is the over 20,000 Tibetan youths who were provided with both the traditional and modern education, which are like the wings of a bird – are joining the mainstream of modern life. Our religion and culture – considered poison by the Chinese – are not only preserved and their centres firmly established in the Tibetan settlements in India, but are also spreading among peoples of different social strata and races and gaining much interest and respect in the East and the West. Regarding our political situation, we follow the democratic system and tread the path of freedom, not only in word but in deed. And considering that we were forced to leave our land and wander in other people's lands, the fact that we have achieved a lot of success for the benefit of both the society and the individual is worth remembering.
We must not, however, be content with what we have achieved so far, for we must still strive for greater progress. Especially, since the main reason why we are in exile is the welfare of the 6 million Tibetans. Learning from our past experiences – without being discouraged by our tragedy – we must persevere and carry on the struggle until the day the 6 million Tibetans are fully satisfied, and peace and freedom are fully restored to our land.
The Chinese, of course, say that we are against progress and revolution, against the Tibetan people and very oppressive, following the wrong path. It is not necessary for us to say repeatedly that these are lies, nor is there a need for us to lie. The free world knows that we have fought for change and reforms, what we have done to preserve our ancient culture and race and how we have tried to work, with justice and impartiality, for the welfare of our people; our actions are clear like a writing on a wall. If friends, enemies or observers investigate, it will be clear as to who is telling the truth, who is following the right path; and where it is that black is changed to white within only a year or two without a single basis for trust, and where earlier statements are contradicted by later ones and statements are like the words of a mad man.
We had no wish to challenge the Chinese military might, but the Tibetan masses in desperation, from 1955 onwards and in 1959, opposed, resisted and rose up in rebellion against the Chinese and cried: "Chinese Quit Tibet! Tibet Will be Governed by Tibetans!" This was a spontaneous feeling expressed by all Tibetans against the Chinese. But the Chinese declared that it was fomented and led by external opponents who were the paper tiger American imperialists and the expansionist Indians, and the internal enemies who were a few reactionaries. They forcibly suppressed the Tibetan national uprising and misrepresented to the world that the Tibetan people actually supported the Chinese.
Similarly, in China, many campaigns were launched from the 1950s onwards, such as the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, Learn from Tachai, which, as is known and accepted by all today, contained faults and mistakes and did not succeed but brought heavy losses. But at that time the Chinese said these campaigns were great successes. Moreover in China many old Chinese leaders who had worked for the Revolution for many years were purged under various pretexts and names; and when actual conditions necessitated their reinstatement they were appointed again on various excuses. In a short period it seems that in Chinese politics a person is purged many times and reinstated many times and thousands of reasons are given for the most unexpected changes. But, the Chinese are an intelligent people and can no longer believe the words of their leaders. Also, in the case of nations, the U.S.S.R., which was once a trusted and close friend of China, is now regarded as her chief enemy.
For a long time there were successive heavy losses and problems in the Chinese economy, education, and so forth. However to hide these problems, propaganda about great success was drummed up; even workers and common cadres were made to publicize statistics learnt by rote. The amount of energy spent on these could have moved mountains and churned oceans but all these efforts achieved nothing and only exhausted the people.
So now, in order to catch up with the rest of the world, to cope with realities and to modernize China, great changes in Chinese politics have taken place recently. And, particularly, since their propaganda failed, the Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping has been repeatedly making statements like: "seeking truth from facts", "if the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it", "if you have an ugly face, it is no use pretending to be handsome", "we must recognize our shortcomings and mistakes". Unlike the previous Chinese leadership, there now appears to be a desire for honesty, modernization and leniency.
The present Chinese leaders should give up the past dogmatic narrow-mindedness and fear of losing face and recognize the present world situation. They should accept their mistakes, the realities, and the right of all peoples of the human race to equality and happiness. Acceptance of this should not be merely on paper; it should be put in practice. If these are accepted and strictly followed all problems can be solved with honesty and justice.
During the commemoration of the last 10 th March Anniversary, I said that Tibetans inside Tibet who desire to travel abroad should be allowed to do so and those outside Tibet should be able to visit their country and meet with people. If this freedom existed, the truth about conditions on both sides would be clear to the Tibetans. This opportunity is the right of the Tibetans. Such a policy is also practicable and reasonable.
A beginning has now been made of granting such an opportunity for the Tibetans in exile to meet their families and relatives. It is their right and so this is welcome gesture. But, it is important that, besides the showcases, they must be permitted to see the actual conditions in Tibet, because so far the true conditions have been hidden from all foreigners who have visited Tibet. Such actions may serve the Chinese purpose a few times but will, in the end, bring only disgrace. This is clear from recent events in China. Therefore, I hope the Chinese will not resort to similar attempts when Tibetans visit Tibet in the future.
In short, to find the truth about conditions in Tibet from such visits we shall have to investigate whether all the conditions for a satisfactory meeting of the visitors and residents exist. I hope that any Tibetan who desires to travel outside Tibet will be able to do so without any restriction, and such an opportunity may not be denied on various excuses and pretexts as done in the past.
My statements, which have been based on our experiences of the past 20 years or so might not at first mean much to the present Chinese occupation forces and some Tibetan cadres, but if they discarded bias and chauvinism, and remembered past experiences, stopped being narrow-minded and egoistic and making statements like, "East Wind Will Prevail Over the West Wind", and instead considered the good and the bad aspects of the actual conditions and welfare of both the East and the West, I hope and believe that this statement becomes the basis for discovering the truth and thereby bringing improvement.
Finally, I would like to make special mention at this time of our 20 years in exile the assistance given by the Government of India to the Tibetan people in rehabilitating, educating and in preserving our culture and religion. We also deeply appreciate India's humanitarian concern and the warm relationship that exists between the two countries from centuries ago and in particular our religious and cultural relationship, which may be described as that of one between a teacher and student. The incalculable good-will and assistance that the Tibetan people have received from the people, the central and state governments of India at a particularly tragic period in the history of Tibet, will never be forgotten and will be accorded an important chapter in the history of Tibet as well as the history of world Buddhism.
The Dalai Lama
March 10, 1979


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WASHINGTON — The American-backed Syrian Democratic Forces captured two notorious British members of an Islamic State insurgent cell commonly dubbed "The Beatles" and known for beheading hostages, U.S. military officials said Thursday.
Air Force Col. John Thomas said that El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Amon Kotey were captured in early January in eastern Syria. The two men are among four members of the ISIS cell that captured, tortured and beheaded more than two dozen hostages including American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and American aid worker Peter Kassig.
The State Department has imposed sanctions on both men. They are believed to be linked to the British terrorist known as Jihadi John, the masked ISIS militant who appeared in several videos depicting the graphic beheadings of Western hostages.
Thomas, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said American officials have been able to interrogate the two detainees. And he characterized their capture as "certainly a big deal for America" as well as the families of the people the two men killed.
While the SDF discovered the two and captured them, the U.S. helped with biometric data and other tools to accurately identify them.
The U.S. has been training the SDF in border and internal security, including how to screen individuals and determine if they are foreign fighters or other enemies hiding in the population.
Their capture was first reported by the New York Times.
According to the U.S., Elsheikh traveled to Syria in 2012 and first joined al-Qaida's branch there, and then later joined ISIS. The State Department, in imposing sanctions on Kotey last year, said he likely engaged in executions and torture, including electronic shock and waterboarding, and recruited several British nationals to ISIS.
According to Thomas, the two men represent just a small portion of the hundreds of foreign-born ISIS terrorists from a number of nations that SDF fighters have captured or killed since October 2017.
He said that so far the future of the detainees is undetermined and it's not clear what the process will be for bringing them to justice.
U.S. officials did not provide any other details of the capture, but said the U.S. government works closely with its coalition partners on the disposition of detainees held by the SDF. They said those discussions are private and no additional information would be given.
Sotloff was kidnapped in August 2013 after crossing into Syria from Turkey. He was killed on Sept. 2, 2014, and a video was distributed around the world documenting his death. Foley, another American journalist, had been killed a month earlier by the Islamic State. Kassig was an American aid worker captured by Islamic State militants in 2013 while delivering relief supplies to refugees in Syria.