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I've made a change, and it's kind of a huge one.
I'm all about always changing and always improving on yourself, and that has manifested itself in trying just about every diet out there. I talked about my dieting and somewhat disordered eating patterns in a past blog post, and I talked about how I have found keto and how happy it has made me.
Well guess what, fam? I'm not happy anymore.
Keto works. It really does. I lost 20 pounds… a year ago. Since
then, I have pretty much maintained which is awesome! Except it isn't because I
developed some pretty serious food obsessions and restrictions in the last year.
I also started to obsess over the weight loss that I wasn't achieving and that
put me in a very bad headspace a lot of the time.
I have always struggled with food and putting myself on such a strict diet where I cut out an entire food group did good things to my body, but bad things to my brain.
I want to stress that keto did help me achieve some weight
loss, but as I started to fixate on the restriction, I would start binging more
often and I ended up yo-yoing a lot with my weight. I would lose 5 pounds, then
gain it back after a weekend of binging, then lose it again, rinse and repeat.
I realized a couple weeks ago that not only was this not healthy for my body, it was especially unhealthy for my mental health because I was in an endless cycle of restrict, binge, self loath. So I decided, once again, it is time for a change.
When I was fresh out of high school I tried a "diet" where I
wouldn't actually follow any strict diet rules, other than eating healthy, real
food. I ate mostly clean and tried to work out as much as my body allowed. I ended
up losing a lot of weight but that wasn't the thing that I cared about most. I
felt healthy, and I didn't feel deprived. One of the things I struggle with
most is feeling like I'm missing out, and feeling like as soon as the weekend
hits I can "cheat" and have some ice cream or pizza.
So I decided that I will give it a try again. I'm eating mostly healthy, whole, and real foods and allowing myself some wiggle room to have some ice cream if I really want it. The thing I'm happiest about is being able to have fruit, potatoes, and bread again. Keto is great, but I find if you put too many restrictions onto yourself it can backfire, especially if you have had disordered eating in the past.
I will be spending my days eating what makes me smile, and
taking care of myself.
I hope you will take care of yourself too.


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Organized by Habitat Macedonia and ROMA S.O.S. today the closing conference of the project "Roma housing rights for sustainable urban development" was held.
As part of the series of activities that were carried out within the framework of this project, was preparation of Initial Studies on the status of Roma housing in the Municipalities of Prilep, Shtip and Chair. The data should help in the preparation of policies by the competent authorities, as well as to strengthen the Roma community in the processes of social inclusion. The basis of these initial studies was a field survey covering 1,672 inhabitants of Roma settlements in the cities and obtained data on the conditions in the home, in the local community and determined the basic priorities for local development and the need to improve the conditions in housing. After that was prepared Study for sustainable urban development of substandard settlements in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture – Skopje, which was promoted for the first time today.
What did the speakers say?
Zoran Kostov (Habitat Macedonia) – This is just one of the many projects dedicated to improving the housing conditions of the Roma, which we have been implementing since 2008. With this project we defined the main problems and priorities for local urban development. The urbanization of substandard settlements is an area in which we remain to act, and I hope that in the realization of future projects we will have the support of all relevant stakeholders.
Aleksandra Savevska (Habitat Macedonia) – In addition to the preparation of the Initial Studies, three local leadership groups with representatives from the local population from the targeted municipalities have been established within this project, and we have held over 17 workshops wherein through a participatory process involving all stakeholders,ways were found to urgently resolve the problemswith housing of Roma and urban development.
Nesime Salioska (ROMA S.O.S.) – The joint recommendations for improving the situation of Roma housing from all three municipalities are as follows: it is necessary to invest in residential buildings or individual objects for living outside the surroundings, for families at risk ; placing public containers through the settlements, with the priority of the main streets; providing affordable financial instruments through which homes can be renovated and will provide a decent place to live without moisture in the premises, leaking roof or narrow space.
Divna Penchikj (Faculty of Architecture – Skopje) – We have resources, we have a large number of students and it is very important for them to start their education by helping these vulnerable groups of citizens.
Mabera Kamberi (Ministry of Labor and Social Policy) – There is still much work to be done to improve Roma housing. It is essential to prepare the Law on Social Housing because we believe that it will adopt certain measures that will enable the most vulnerable social categories to get a decent place of living.
Samka Ibraimoski (Minister without Portfolio) – A complete analysis of what has been achieved by the Roma Decade in 2005-2015 will be done, after which my Cabinet, in cooperation with the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, will come up with a plan that we will submit to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia about what needs to be done in the coming period. Our goal is to implement the recommendations given in the initial studies as soon as possible and to improve the situation of Roma housing.
The project started on December 15, 2015 and is being implemented by July 2017. The final beneficiaries of the project are the Roma inhabitants in the municipalities of Prilep, Shtip and Chair, as well as other socially excluded people in the domain of housing. The beneficiaries of this project are also the civil society organizations working with Roma and other socially excluded groups at local level, especially grass root organizations that provide direct help to citizens for realization of their human and civil rights, as well as local and central government, especially the departments which work on the preparation of action plans for housing and urban and local development.
The aim of the project is to increase the involvement and participation of the local community in the processes of social inclusion in housing, thereby further developing and implementing the human rights and EU priorities for housing, health, education, employment, legal and social protection .
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It started out as a typical dawn walk with Oz the poodle stopping at least twice every block to snuffle. We reached the crest of a hill and approaching from the west was "the man on the bicycle with the colored box". My breath flew away! I was filled by childlike glee! Sunlight beamed from my heart.
In order to fully appreciate this moment, here is some background. Fourteen years ago, Jeff and I moved to this town. I would get up before dawn to hike our dog before meditation. Often I would see this man on a bicycle, dressed in a black trench coat, black gloves, a black porkpie hat, sunglasses, black jeans, leather oxford shoes and a hand-painted wooden box mounted over the rear tire. Only his chin and cheeks exposed. Even in the heat of a summer morning, he was completely covered, riding with fierce attention in an eastern direction. At dusk, he would ride west, completely covered, colored wooden box, steady pace, single focused. Every time, the box was painted a different color; brilliant yellow, spring green, sky blue, rich cabernet, purple… Soon, I began to notice him pedaling in the background of my daily life. As I left the grocery store, he would be across the busy street riding intently west. As I got into my car, there in the distance he cycled, clothed in black, colored box, pinpointed focus, riding east. Each time, in the surprise, every concern flew away & joy soared. After two years of this, we moved out of the state.
Three years later, Jeff and I returned to town for a few months. Going about my business, surprise became delight when the black clothed bicycle man pedalled through the background of my view, sky blue box, heading west. No matter where I was, there he appeared; in black with yellow box riding east, in black with black box riding west… This forgotten character from a fairytale kept appearing when I was distracted, placing me outside of my limited view, waking me up, like from a dream. Such open delight; no questions, no concerns. After a few months, we moved on and again I forgot the experiences of this man intently cycling in eastern or western directions.
There is a Mind Training teaching: Regard Everything as a Dream. It can get you all confused, thinking that life IS a dream, rather than life IS LIKE a dream. People can get lost thinking this instruction means that Life has personal meaning, that the experiences of life are special for just ME to know. This confusion makes ME very Important & everyone else an ignorant fool. This confusion can result in separating ME from experience, separating ME from Them… We all know how this false sense of power can poison our mind and lead us to behave unethically, unkindly and eventually dangerously.
But this is not how the Mind Training instruction, Regard Everything as a Dream, is meant to be practiced. It says, look at experience, see how it comes/goes, see how it is like a dream. When we look at the experiencing, what do we see? What do we know?
This is not a beginner's practice. However, it is one that can bring life into practice. Experiences have consequences, they have causes and effects. And they last only in this moment, they are ephemeral. Connect to the experiencing, not the stories and ideas of where it came from, what caused it, or what it means.
It has been five years since being back in this area. Last summer, he cycled steadily in the background, dropped from a fantasy, unaffected by the oppressive heat, with directed focus, spring green box, shaking up my world of concerns. Released from whatever problem or rumination that was consuming energy, all of my distracted thoughts disappeared. Freed from the belief that experience is dull, patterned, and predictable, in that moment, butterflies pour out of my skin.
So, today on the morning walk, as Oz the poodle and I approached the corner curb, there was the man on the bicycle heading east – completely covered, gloves, sunglasses, porkpie hat, oxford shoes… I slowed my pace, so as not to cross the curb before he arrived and miss the opportunity. What that opportunity was, I had no idea, but it was welling up: fear, joy, tears, shaky hands, gratitude. After 14 years of being awakened into experience, what would happen when our paths actually crossed?
He was wearing an old black leather jacket, no trench coat. Change! My concerns & worries? Poof! Keeping a steady pace, he removed his sunglasses and smiled. Eyes gleaming, meeting, sparkling, filled with mischievous joy. He passed, steady pace, yellow box, hand-painted owl with spread wings on the back of his jacket. Everything changed. Nothing changed. Complete. Oz the poodle finished investigating the shrub and we returned home in the full dawn.
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When the media publishes statistics, La Rioja is usually at the bottom of the chart because we're the third smallest province in Spain, just ahead of Spain's two North African cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
We recently got a big boost to the top with the announcement of Logroño-La Rioja's appointment as Spain's gastronomic capital in 2012.
What usually happens in cases like this is for the local and regional government tourist bodies to organize a series of events. The private sector here usually waits for the government to open its pocketbook rather than take the initiative. This time, however, local business has taken the lead.
Somos Capital (an expression with the double meaning of 'We're the Capital' or 'We're Important'), created by the restaurant Tondeluna, owned by the Paniego family in Ezcaray, one of La Rioja's two 1-Michelin-starred restaurants and the Marqués de Vallejo hotel has organized a program of appearances by some of Spain's best chefs and food writers to celebrate this honor throughout the year..
Among the chefs who have accepted an invitation so far are:
- Juan Mari and Elena Arzak
- Andoni Luis Adúriz
- Quique Dacosta
- Paco Morales
- Lorenzo Cañas
- Marisa Sánchez
- Ignacio Echapresto
- Juan Ángel Rodrigálvarez
The last four chefs are from La Rioja, adding to the excitement.
Francis Paniego of Tondeluna hopes that Ferrán Adriá will accept, too ("He hasn't said 'no' yet").
The timetable for each event is:
6:30 pm a press conference with the week's guest
7:30 pm a short talk by the guest
9:00 pm dinner and wine pairing featuring some of the best Rioja wines, with the guest chef-inspired menu prepared by the staff of Tondeluna.
Five per cent of the total take for the evening will be donated to ARSIDO (the Down's Syndrome Association of La Rioja).
Each dinner and tasting costs 50 euros per person and is open to 50 guests.
I was pleasantly surprised to read about this and hope I can attend at least one of the dinners. It's going to be tough, however. The price is right, the chefs are the best in Spain and it's for a worthy cause.
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نویسنده: مطهره آخوندی | طبقه بندی:فضای مجازی،
Comments, The Personal Sphere of Expression
Exploration of Iranian Weblogs and Comments
Motahare Akhoondi
Mass communication studies MA student
IRIB University
In this paper I will discuss the comments as a feedback of weblog readers to blogger of weblog. This article will answer the questions below: what's the function of Iranian comments? And which issues are discussed in comment boxes? Do comment boxes function as an intimate and personal sphere for self expression and presentation or not?
All search engines can search all texts that are available for every one, but there are many contents that search engine can't find like the topics and discussions which are in the comment boxes. The same podcasts can't be searchable anyway.
Comment boxes, are hidden in most of Persian weblog services. As a result, comments of weblogs are the part that will be shown in case you click on comment box. So here is one of the safest places in blogging and exchanging the experience and some topics and words that if used in blog posts, it would be filtered. Comments are the most common feedback of viewers.
Key words:
Comment, feed back, ritual communication
این مقاله در کنفرانس بین المللی رسانه های جدید، تکنولوژی های جدید منامه پذیرش گرفت.
The digital age arrives with a set of big communication challenges for traditional mainstream media: new relations with audiences (Interactivity), new languages (Multimedia) and a new grammar (Hypertext). "José Luis Orihuela"
Weblogs as a personal media can be expanded like broadcasting media. It also has the potential to gather personal community for each blogger and putting comment in other weblogs is basic form to make such personal community.
Weblogs are popular in part because they enable easy, inexpensive self-publication of content for a potentially vast audience on the World Wide Web, while being more flexible and interactive than previous publication formats, print or digital. (Herring, Scheidt, Bonus, & Wright, 2005)
Weblog was initially used to write daily content but gradually it became specialized and subject-oriented. Here we take a look at comments found in memoir weblogs. These are weblogs to which people enter accounts of their daily experiments or personal observations.
Because most subjects posted in these weblogs are ordinary daily incidents they could be viewed as windows which show social changes and happenings and show them in the way they are perceived by ordinary people.
Also weblogs could be viewed as sources from which an oral history of a specific culture could be compiled, weblogs which are written by a blogger mirror the blogger's perspective and so are self egotistic weblogs. Unlike specialized religious, musical, political or cultural weblogs these individual perspective weblogs mirror the bloggers personality and through which it is possible to gain insight in to bloggers concept of his/her daily life and his or her identity.
Related Work
There are many researches on weblog realm, but all of them focus on posts, links and blogger. Comment study is a missing part. Gilad Mishne and Natalie Glance have worked on comments and analyses the comments for evaluating the post and weblogs.
And they argued comments are missing text in blogging and they found out comments constitute a substantial part of the blogosphere, accounting for up to 30% of the volume of weblog posts themselves.
In Iran there is no working on comments. All of the existent studies are about posts.
Literature review
The basic models of communication participate of sender, message and receiver.
The researchers just explain how the communicational systems perform in media especially in Weblogs. But no research explain how the audiences effect on blogger with just sending their feedback in Comment shape or another types like : catch the blogger online in Weblogs community, or keeping their online contact via chatting, or sending mail and so on.
Feedback: Weiner (1948) is the first person who mentioned feed back in communication studies.
He defines it as "the property of being able to adjust future conduct by past performance."(Brooks et all, 1976:147)
In other hand, Feedback is a kind of reflection of communicational message that the receiver reflect to the message of sender intentionally or not intentionally. These messages of audience let the sender to evaluate his communication situation with his audience.
Healthy communicational system use feedback for correcting communicational system. (Shokrkhah, 2000:80)
Comment: To pay attention to the reasons of the evidences and evaluation of news or process that broadcast as this column name or paper. (Shokrkhah, 2000:44)
Comment means interpretation, explanation but in blogging it means the audience can put their idea on the specific box as their feedback to posts. (Shamshirgar, 2007)
Some unique features of comment boxes are:
1) Not being searchable therefore can t be filtered?
2) It is the place that the feedbacks of the viewers can easily be shown.
3) It makes it a private place for viewers.
4) Most of the important discussion between bloggers and viewers can be made there.
The same thing in all types of Weblogs in each position is need of being commented.
History of Persian blogging
To understand how the Iranian blog sphere looks like, it is necessary to review the blogging history and Iranian blog services. The first Persian weblog was inaugurated in September, 2001 by Salman Jariri.(Wikipedia)
A wave of blogging began by the time "a manual of generating weblogs" was published in Iran by Hossein Darakhshan. Weblogs appeared quickly and 100 were generated during the very first year.
During the first years the number of weblogs exceeded 10000 thanks to Persian Blog services.
Hossein Darakhshan , one of blogging harbingers in his Weblog titled: "Sardabir-e-khodam" writes about politics, culture and himself in English and Persian. (Wikipedia)
history of Iranian blog services and a study of comment box systems
Free Persian language blogging service provider named PersianBlog began it's work in 2002.
Because most early Iranian bloggers held political views and biases blogging became known as a political expression. After 2003 this conception gradually changed by introduction of other types of weblog including video-blogs and photo-blogs and podcast .to gain an insight into Iranian blog services and their comment systems a history of their activity is given below:
Persianblog [1]was the first Persian weblog service provider which began its activity in June 2002 and was the biggest Persian weblog service provider until 2007.
From then and as a result of competition with other providers, Blogfa has acquired the first place .In 2007 Persianblog lost many of its subscribers and his domain was hacked.
They have recently included a private commenting icon in their services.
At the beginning the commenting service of Persian blog was relatively secure because it included a coding image icon for registering comments. It was then removed and so the possibility of receiving spam has since increased.
Blogsky[2]:On April 9th 2003 while many doubts still persisted regarding the first Iranian blogging service provider, the second such provider was inaugurated. Its simple but engaging appearance told of a fierce competitor. (shomaha,2009)
Better services and higher speeds have drawn many users to Blogsky in a way that 6000 bloggers registered in a span of 20 days.
Blogsky was hacked in the same year and many users backed off. In 2004 and as a result of invasive filtering of some blogs registered at Blogsky many users were disappointed with this provider.
Mihanblog[3] : Mihanblog was the third Persian language weblog service provider which was inaugurated in November 2004.
A special feature of this provider's services was that commentators could post their private comments on each post and also it was possible to group weblogs. Weblogs provided by Mihanblog are generally used by bloggers who post jokes, entertainment links and music downloads links. Some mishaps including deletion of archives and other glitches during 2005 and 2006 dispersed users.
The provided domain was bought by another group and after undergoing drastic changes it again entered service providing business. This time around with many additional services and trims, including a personal message inbox possibility of posting to the future ,9 commenting casts and password protected posts, each blog is a users identifier and a user can also post comments to one another and communication is thus made easier. Many interactions between users which was included in box comments (such as greetings and personal questions) were now included in personal message system.
Mihanblog currently holds second position among Iranian weblog service providers and 500th position in the world.
Parsiblog[4]: Parsiblog was inaugurated in August 2004 and it provides special features included advanced commenting system and electronic signing of comments and a system for tracking comments after they are posted and registration of commentators I.Ps and possibility of posting answers to comments through directors panel. Such facilities however were accompanied by bugs and technical problems and so were not greatly popular.
Blogfa[5]: it began in December 2004 and because at the time blogfa was backed it flourished unhindered without facing serious competition .In a span of 4 months 30000 active or semi active blogs were registered by it.
Apart from incidents which befell these blogs the provider was not seriously harassed and it now holds first position among weblog service providers. One shortcoming is it's commenting service which is easily filled with spams. Each weblog could be targeted with spam engines while being updated and the problem won't be mitigated even when an image coding icon in contrived. Increasing the rank of the page in particular in Google is the aims of these spam comments. (Azemati, 2005)
Wordpress is a foreign provider which has become popular with Iranian bloggers. What distinct this provider from Iranian providers is that the commentary page is not a separate web page and thus could be googled or otherwise searched. Also if a blogger uses strong language he or she could be barred by webmaster.
The in common parts in those mentioned blog services are: name, E-Mail, page Address, message and the option for saving the information in comment boxes. There is also a Smily box in near of all them.
In the early years of weblogs most interactions in the virtual world were through weblogs, commentary pages and more importantly emails and chartrooms. In recent years however other tools such as feed readers including Google reader, twitter and friend feed have brought in many more ways of interaction and have revolutionalized interactions in the virtual world. For example since feed reading was introduced in Persian weblogs users could express what they wanted to include in their comments through an alternative route namely by adding notes on share items. Comments have become smaller in this way and more people would be able to visit the post.. It is possible in twitter to express ones feeling in each instant using 140 characters and under the logo:
What are you doing?
Many regular bloggers now communicate with their audience through other ways. Participants in weblogs are usually called bloggers or commentators while they are referred to as followers and friends in twitter and friend feed respectively. They could offer feedbacks in each instant and drive a bilateral discourse in such a direction that it becomes a group interaction .Its in contrast to the conventional commentary page which was seldom visited simultaneously by the blogger and the commentator.
To avoid getting involved with these new and alternative tools of interaction in the virtual world we shall only considered posts posted during 2007 or earlier .when these alternative tools were not active yet and weblogs have a distinct identity.
In the initial research we have launched an on-line questionnaire to get a view of commenting habits of users. We asked those bloggers who posted comments in other bloggers weblogs to also attend the program .we were able to extract 304 answer sheets eventually.
In the second phase in order to put constraints on the sample we only contacted memoir weblogs .Because accessing all Persian memoir weblogs is not feasible we were driven to use a non-random sampling.
Our statistical population included Iranian memoir weblogs which were inaugurated before 2007. We have studied comments of three posts for each Weblog, these three being randomly selected from comments on that weblogs.
30 weblogs were selected through Purposive samples on different weblog service providers or from those who had personal domains.
Purposive samples comprised of subjects which are selected on the basis of specific characteristics .Those subjects which don't meet the criteria are eliminated from the sample. (wimmer et al,2005:126)
We allocated a quota of the sample to each weblog service provider to incorporate them all in our study. Later we found out that most bloggers who blog their memoirs subscribe to Blogfa.
In most weblogs the forum is not used as a peripheral place of communication (93%).
38% of bloggers post under pseudonyms.
29% of bloggers set their comment boxes in a way that they would need the blogger's confirmation before they are accessible .Another 66% don't require a confirmation and 5% have barred commenting in their weblogs.
Commenting habits: 13% use different names when posting comments. 18% always post comments when surfing through weblogs. 40% posted comment most of time and 33% only occasionally considering the feedback, 11% always and 21.5% usually and 28% occasionally.
Considering feedbacks: One interesting result is that people give feedbacks to other person's feedbacks given through comments and at times a feedback takes priority over a post and becomes the target of next comments.
23% of subjects read other peoples comments posted on other bloggers weblogs. 36% usually do that. 32% sometimes do that. 7% seldom do that and 2% never do that. 4% stated that they always answer comments posted on weblogs belonging to third parties. 10% stated they usually do this and 34% stated that they sometimes do this the statistics show that people not only read comments posted but also study feedbacks given to other peoples posts. This could affect the feedbacks given by themselves. Some stated that they even answer comments posted on weblogs belonging to third party bloggers.
Functions of comments
With observing 30 memoir blogs, we found the comment function below: getting feedback, communication in different levels with different aims including an overture to friendship or a means to a deeper friendship or strengthening an existing relationship, sharing experiences, announcing one's presence or asking permission to be present, also ritual relationship or advertisement.
Comment boxes are suitable way to communicate and to send feedbacks. E-mailing may not be easy for bloggers but comment boxes have facilitated web communication on their own account.
Feed back:
A majority have said that they share experiences in comment boxes.7% states they always do this.40% stated they usually do this. 29% said they sometimes do this .16% said they seldom do this and 6% said they never do this.
It became apparent that another function of comment boxes is to increase the number of visitors to a weblog .To the question that whether bloggers increase their visitors through this method a majority gave a positive answer .5% stated that they always do that 21.5 stated that they usually do that and 28% said they sometimes do that.
To the question that I inform others of my weblog being updated through posting comments in comment boxes 22% stated that they always do that,35% said they sometimes do that .This shows that bloggers use commenting to announce their weblog is being updated and increase visitors feedback in this way .
Ritual communications
Sometimes we communicate not to share information but just to keep a communication going and to communicate for its own sake.
According to James Carrey ritual communication is on the same level as sharing, participation, association, fellowship and adhering to a common belief.
Ritualistic concept of communication doesn't deal with distributing a message in time or space but tries to keep the society in a given moment. It doesn't intend to share information but to represent existence of a common belief. (Rothenbuhler, 1998)
In comments which convey greeting or valediction are seen galore. Sentences like hello? How are you? at first of comments and bye and take care at last of comments are so common. To the question that 'I am accustomed to greeting when posting comments'. 18% stated that they always adhere to formalities.20% stated that usually do.
22% said they sometimes do. 21% said they seldom do and 16% said they never do.
These results confirm preponderance of ritual communications in comment boxes. Sometimes we don't have any particulate opinion to convey and so we just announce our presence with a simple "hello" or by showing an icon. In such cases we are using ritual communication.
Subjects being discussed in comment boxes
Memoir weblogs are usually about daily events faced by the blogger and the blogger is the main subject of them.
Comments in such weblogs are not of a divisive and agitating nature. Comments could be divided into 4 categories on the basis of their contents. These are:
Individual –oriented comments, content –oriented comments, advertisements and spam, and expression of personal interests. Many comments however are individual –oriented and content-oriented .These latter comments only express the commentator's opinion on the subject of discussion in the post.
In exclusively individual-oriented comments the subject of comment is the individual and is unrelated to the content of the post. Because the blogger him/her self is the subject in most posts in memoir weblogs most comments are simultaneously individual –oriented and content-oriented apart from that there are comments which express personal interests of those who post them as well as their opinions on the entirety of the weblog, including back ground music, colors, frame, pictures, java codes, etc.
Spams and advertisement are unwilling comments which are posted to increase the visitor to a website, also to advertise a website or selling online. (Like movie, music & CD)
These comments are usually among first comments of a post because most these comments are forwarded to all updated weblogs subscribed to a service provider through a smart engine. Such commonly observable comments are mostly found in weblogs provided by Blogfa.
Clash of ideas could be mostly seen in political weblogs in memoir weblogs on the contrary sustained communication and mutual support could be mostly observed. The reason could be the fact that we are mostly unchallenged when talking about quotidian.
Are comment boxes a private venue for negotiation in memoir weblogs?
comment boxes play a great part in sharing experiments and sympathizing and ritual communication Because bloggers usually divulge different angles of their lives in post the audience conceives of those with whom the blogger deals in his/ her daily life and also his/ her habits and ideas in such a way as perceived by the blogger him/her self. It is not rare that a blogger writes about most intimate matters in his or her weblogs matters which he/she won`t dare forward in an actual or official gathering it's the anonymity of the blogger which encourages him/ her to write without inhibition and it has been seen that after a bloggers cover is busted then he/ she stops blogging or posting altogether to the question whether you think commenting webpage is a suitable place for exchanging ideas 1.8% totally confirmed this and 36% confirmed this as a general but not as an absolute fact. 23% didn't comment on that question while 21% rejected this notion and 3% rejected it totally. Contrary to these opinions is the following: 21% always delete comments when they are too intimate. 20% sometimes delete and sometimes keep to intimate comments, 21% seldom delete such comments and 15% never delete them. The subjects were asked in another question whether they delete an insulting comment 32% always delete such comments. 20% usually delete them 16% sometimes delete them, 18% seldom and the remaining 12% never deleted such comments.
Bloggers usually react to both insults and intimate comments in incorporate other peoples comments in their post. Only 21.5% and 4.5% stated that they seldom or never (respectively) incorporate other peoples comments in their posts.
Comment function in a blog allows for the reader to become a part of the blogger's script.
As a consequence in memoir weblogs the discussion in comments boxes are about blogger (person) or the subject of the post. and because of that many of comments are personal.
Commenting, on the other hand, takes a bit of the privacy away from the author and shares it with the audience, as was shown in the case of Jill's troll. (Nilsson: 2006:12)
But there are some more questiones: what is the definition of private message? Why do the authors delete private message as insulting message?
Comment and identity: 13% of bloggers are used to put their comments with different names and 61% of bloggers write with their nick name but 55% completely agreed that when they put comment they are their real identity.
As results showed even near one forth of bloggers, they use to use their nick name (which is not their real name: alias), but when they put comments in other blogs, they do as characteristics of their real identity. They hide themselves (the real self) behind the aliases.
On the question of whether one posts comments under his or her real name and identity or uses pseudonyms 55% said they use their real identity, another 36% lauded posting comments under real identity and no one was found who totally rejected this.
10% said they use pseudonyms when they post comment, and 6% totally agreed that they only used pseudonyms. 42% said their weblog character is the same with their real character and 40% reiterated this point. Only 7% rejected and 6% totally rejected this idea.
Khalili has worked on Iranian weblogs. She found out that: 57% of bloggers use the real name in writing weblog. This fact can prove that most of the bloggers don't like the virtual character. (Khalili, 2005:116)
Otherwise 43% of bloggers write with nick name, but when they put comment they show their real identity.
In this paper, we gave a categorization of comments and we have discussed that comment is a common way to send feedback to the blogger. And comment boxes are safe place for expression but so private messages can be deleted by blogger. Maybe with these private messages some of the extents of blogger can be shown and it can take the privacy away from the blogger. In fact blogger prefer deleting the comment.
Acknowledgements: The author wish to thank Saeid Reza Ameli, Mahdi Bakhshaei and Ali Reza Shirazi for many useful discussions and for their assistance.
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Located 20 km south of the historic centre of Lisbon, this is a place you can't miss! Visit Costa da Caparica and discover all the natural wonders and the authenticity of the people living in this small city in the south bank of Tagus river.
Known in Portugal for its wonderful beaches, this city hides a natural treasure that took my breath away – the Costa da Caparica Fossil Cliff Protected Landscape.
If you're like me and love beautiful beaches with fine sand, hiking among wonderful landscapes, admiring fishermen and their authentic quarters, then visiting Costa da Caparica is a must and something to do when you visit this part of Portugal!
What to see when you visit Costa da Caparica
When you arrive to this city, go to Bairro dos Pescadores (Fishermen's Quarter), more precisely to the end of the street Rua Parque de Campismo de Almada, to discover the wonderful beaches that stretch for 15 km of the coastline.
Even though you can walk along the stretch of fine sand for 15 km, I suggest you go for two small hikes to discover the photogenic houses located on the beach, admire the beautiful cliffs with bright colours and enjoy the wonderful views from the viewpoints.
When you're at the Nova Praia beach (in the above-mentioned street), you'll see to the left a small railway line used by the company Transpraia in high season (from June to September) to take people from this beach to Fonte da Telha beach, a 9-km long route.
Inaugurated in 1960, this small train gave the opportunity for visitors to enjoy the beaches further away from the centre of the city, this happened at a time when having a car wasn't as common as it is today.
Nowadays, this train is less used since there are many accesses for the different beaches and people drive there.
If you visit Costa da Caparica in low season (as I did), walk along this railway line for 1 km to admire the back of the fishermen houses and then make your way back through the fine sand of the local beaches so that you can have a different perspective of this place.
If you can, make this walk during sunrise or sunset – it's truly a magical moment!
As I mentioned before, the place that you can't definitely miss in this region is the Costa da Caparica Fossil Cliff Protected Landscape, located 10 km away from the centre of the city.
To discover this natural beauty, I suggest you go for a hike in a 15-km round walking route. If you're not used to long walks, you can just do part of the trail, stretching for 5 km (see map below).
In both cases, start your hike at Fonte da Telha village. For the longer route, head north, through the beaches, and then make your way through the forest to enjoy a totally different atmosphere.
Once you get to the route that will take you to Fonte da Telha, you'll have the opportunity to choose whether to finish your hike by going to the village or keep going until Adiça beach (that's what I did).
This walking route goes side by side with the beaches and will give you the chance to admire the beautiful cliffs while the part through the forest will take you to some viewpoints where you can enjoy some amazing views over this region.
After your walk, you should have lunch/dinner at one of the bars/restaurants located at Fonte da Telha. You can choose from the typical Portuguese restaurants, vegetarian cuisine, expensive or affordable places.
When I visited Fonte da Telha I went to the bar-restaurant Kailua Fonte da Telha that has many dishes to choose from (hamburgers, salads, vegetarian food, meat and fish) with prices higher than the average in Portugal.
Even though it was more expensive than usual, I loved this place and the time I spent there. Apart from having eaten delicious food, I had the opportunity to admire a beautiful sunset!
However, the most important thing is that you don't leave Fonte da Telha without admiring the fishermen working. At the beach, in the centre of the village, you'll find some fishing boats. You should wait for a while or ask the fishermen when will they go to the sea.
At sunset, I had the opportunity to see the tractors taking the boats into the water so that the fishermen could work.
At that moment, I saw a dog barking close to one of the boats and I didn't understand why he was acting like that.
When the boat went to the water, the dog stayed close to the boats that remained in the beach. The dog just stood there for several minutes, sad and without moving, watching the boats getting further away from the shore. Inside one of the boats was his owner that went to work, risking his life to bring "us" food to eat.
It's possible that this dog understood the risks his owner was taking and was afraid not to see him again.
When we're eating fish, we don't realise the risks people take just to put food at our table and what they do to survive…
Sadly, not a year goes by in Portugal without hearing about the death of fishermen that were taken by the sea while working in small boats.
I have a huge admiration for these authentic people, with generous hearts and living in a simple way. When I see people working hard like these people, I always remember my family that worked for a long time in agriculture.
What else to see when you visit Costa da Caparica
Capuchos Convent and viewpoint
Built in the 16th century, in a simple style, Capuchos Convent belonged to the Order of St. Francis. Franciscan friars lived here until the 13th January 1759, the date when they were murdered after being accused of plotting the death of the king D. José I of Portugal.
Since 1950, this convent belongs to the city of Almada and it is used today for exhibitions and cultural shows .
After having admired the interior of the convent and its gardens, walk for 350 metres (or drive) to discover the Capuchos viewpoint.
Located on a higher spot of Costa da Caparica (3 km away from the centre of the city), here you'll have the opportunity to admire the whole city, the Atlantic Ocean and get a glimpse of Lisbon, Serra da Arrábida Natural Park and Cape Espichel.
Before you leave Costa da Caparica, you should do like its inhabitants and go for a walk or run in the promenade for pedestrians and cyclists, located in the seafront. Don't hesitate to stop at one of the bars/restaurants to relax and enjoy the amazing and unique view over the sea.
What to visit close to Costa da Caparica
Cristo Rei
Located in Almada municipality, 9 km away from Costa da Caparica and facing Lisbon, Cristo Rei (Christ the King) is a sanctuary and a religious monument that represents the Sacred-Heart of Jesus. Inspired in Rio de Janeiro's Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer), this wonderful 110-metre high construction was inaugurated in 1959.
After climbing the 75-metre high pedestal, you'll have the opportunity to admire some of the beautiful monuments in Lisbon and, depending on the weather, Sintra-Cascais and Serra da Arrábida natural parks.
This is the perfect place to take some photographs of the famous 25 de Abril bridge and one of the best places to admire the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.
While visiting Almada, you can take the opportunity to admire the frigate Fragata D. Fernando II e Glória, the last ship in the Portuguese navy that used sails. It started its journey in 1843 after being built in Daman, India, a Portuguese territory from 1559 until 1961.
Nowadays, this ship is located at Cacilhas, an Almada quarter, facing Lisbon.
When visiting the frigate D. Fernando II e Glória, you'll find a ship which is considered as the eighth oldest sail-battleship in the world. During its 33 years of service, it sailed over 100 000 nautical miles (185 000 km), the equivalent to 5 tours around the world.
Information: to know the opening hours to visit this ship, click here.
Right beside this frigate, you'll find Barracuda submarine that served the country for more than 52 000 hours of navigation throughout 40 years.
To the left, you'll find miradouro do Farol (Lighthouse viewpoint) where you can enjoy the view over Tagus river, Lisbon and the bridge.
Next, take the street Rua do Ginjal that goes alongside with Tagus river for 1 km and where you'll find 2 restaurants (Ponto Final and Atira-te ao Rio) much appreciated for their dishes but also for the amazing view over Lisbon.
After the restaurants, you'll find Elevador Panorâmico da Boca do Vento (panoramic elevator) that I suggest you take so that you can continue your visit in the city of Almada.
Next to the elevator, you'll find Casa da Cerca, a typical manor house from the 17th and 18th centuries that was converted into a contemporary arts centre in 1993. This is definitely a place to visit if you like this kind of art and beautiful botanical gardens.
Information: to know the opening hours to visit this arts centre, click here.
Continue your visit in the castle's garden where you'll find the restaurant Amarra Ó Tejo. From here you can enjoy an amazing view over Lisbon, 25 de Abril bridge, the panoramic elevator and Cristo Rei.
Return to Cacilhas quarter, through the street Rua Cândido dos Reis, a street where you'll find several restaurants and the church Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso.
Where should you sleep when you visit Costa da Caparica and Almada
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When I went to visit Costa da Caparica, I spent a week at this beautiful apartment located in Bairro dos Pescadores.
You'll have at your disposal all the necessary amenities for a wonderful stay: Wi-Fi, equipped kitchen, washing machine and free parking. It is definitely a perfect accommodation for a couple that wishes to spend some amazing days in this region.
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Where should you eat when you visit Costa da Caparica
Kailua Fonte da Telha (Fonte da Telha)
Where should you eat when you visit Almada
How to get to / visit Costa da Caparica and Almada
By car: if you wish to move freely and visit all the places I've mentioned in this article, then I suggest you visit Costa da Caparica by car.
You'll find a big paying parking lot located at the street Rua Pedro Álvares Cabral (click here to see the prices).
In Almada, my suggestion is that you park your car in Cacilhas quarter, at the parking lot located next to the frigate D. Fernando II e Glória. Click here to see the prices.
When you exit the ferry, you'll find Almada's metro and buses that will take you to most of the places I've mentioned above.
To visit Costa da Caparica leaving from Cacilhas, take the bus 135 (click here to check timetable and ticket prices).
To go from Cacilhas to Fonte da Telha, take the bus 127 (click here to check timetable and ticket prices).
To go from Costa da Caparica to Fonte da Telha, take the bus 130 (click here to check timetable and ticket prices).
To go from Cacilhas to Cristo Rei, take the bus 101 (click here to check timetable and ticket prices).
To see the map of Almada, Costa da Caparica and Fonte da Telha with all the bus lines, click here.
When to visit Costa da Caparica
If you want to calmly enjoy the wonders of this region then I suggest you visit Costa da Caparica in low season, as I did. This region is a popular destination, especially for people living here and in Lisbon, which makes it difficult to get to the beaches, restaurants and even parking lots.
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So we got to be worried about gigantic cubes trapping us now? Not gonna lie…..this sounds like something I see out of the SyFy channel and thankfully it's not an Asylum movie or ripoff.
This is KADO: The Right Answer.
Chief Director: Kazuya Murata
Series Director: Masaki Watanabe
Script: Mado Nozaki
Unit Director: Ryo-timo
Character Design: Ako Arisaka
Cgi Director: Yasuhiro Kato
Director of Photography: Keiko Ishizuka
Producer: Kouichi Noguchi
Animation Production: Toei Animation
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
Plot Summary: Kōjiro Shindō is a highly-skilled negotiator working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As his plane at Haneda airport prepares to take off, a huge mysterious cube appears from the sky. 'It' expands rapidly, and absorbs the passenger plane and its 252 passengers. The cube's name is "Kado". A strange being called Yaha-kui zaShunina appears from within Kado and tries to make contact with humanity. Shindō, who was been absorbed by Kado, ends up taking on the role of mediator between Yaha-kui zaShunina and humanity. The Japanese government sends its own negotiator, Saraka Tsukai.
First Thoughts: OK…..so we got 2 episodes debuting for a show and at first, the first half of episode '0' was reminding me of ACCA from last season and I admit as much as I liked that show, that part was starting to drag before we get to the real plot of this show….a giant cube has trapped a plane with 252 passengers in there and they are trying to figure out to make contact with it and hopefully get everyone out of there alive. Yeah, this plot reminds me of one of those B-movie sci-fi movies you would see on late night TV and while at first I got a little bored, the official first episode kicked in and I'm now invested in this show. I really want to see what goes on next in this show although I will say that this isn't one to go for the characters as I barely remember some of them….hell, the one I do remember is the goofy scientist who is too into this and she's quite an head scratcher of a character. Oh, and yes, I noticed the CG in this as well, especially when we get close-ups of characters but not as noticeable.
I have the right answer for this and it is CONTINUE WEEKLY on a Medium-High Priority.
I'm MAK2.0 aka The Blue Hybrid and no, I don't take off my bro's pants off when he's asleep. That was kinda weird to me.


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Lielsalaca Lutheran Church
In 1777 a wooden church was started to build. In 1857 it was finished maintaining the roof of the old church, the walls were built anew under the old roof. Altar piece ''Ascension of the Christ was painted in 1847 by the apothecary of Limbaži K. Gelhārs. The walls of the church are decorated with the reliefs made by sculptor Gustavs Šķilters. The pulpit and part of the benches has been maintained since the 2nd half of the 18th century.
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SINGAPORE - The Ministry of Finance is conducting a public consultation on changes to the Income Tax Act from March 1 to 16.
It is asking for public feedback on the draft Bill, for an amendment to allow Singapore to implement what is known as the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), starting Jan 1 next year.
The ministry said in a statement: "This is necessary before Singapore can carry out her international commitment to commence automatic exchange of financial account information under the CRS in 2018."
The CRS is an internationally agreed standard for the automatic exchange of information, endorsed by OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), and the and Global Forum for Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.
More than 90 jurisdictions, including major financial centres such as Dubai, Hong Kong, Luxembourg and Switzerland, have endorsed the CRS and will commence the automatic exchange in 2017 or 2018.


text: I sold my fulltone soulbender a while back (still kickin myself ) and i've really been missin that tone... soooooo versatile, and so good at nailing some of my favorite page tones, but I got rid of it because I felt like having 3 fuzzes in my rig would just be ridiculous :NUTS. But I do currently have a fuzzface pedal in my rig (silicon), and as I recall, the tonebender circuit isn't quite different from a treble booster into a fuzzface circuit. I am currently without a treble booster (I get stupid when i sell pedals), but i've been jonesin to get one back in my setup to pair with my BoR. Now what i'm wondering is to save pedalboard real-estate, would running a treble booster like say the analogman beano boost into my silicon fuzzface yield a tonebender-like snarl?? I know AM puts the treble booster after the fuzzface in his sunface circuit, but I think that's a different type of sound. Any fuzz experts or treble booster + fuzzface users on the prowl??


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By BQ Desk
Auto fuel prices continue to surge in the country. Petrol prices have crossed the Rs 80-per-litre mark in the national capital.
A litre of petrol in Delhi now costs Rs 80.38, a record high, according to a tweet by ANI. It costs Rs 87.77 a litre in Mumbai. Diesel is now priced at Rs 72.51 a litre in Delhi and Rs 76.98 per litre in Mumbai.
The government is planning to adopt a wait and watch approach considering how the global oil market unfolds in a few days, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on the sidelines of Global Mobility Summit in New Delhi today.
Two major external factors are contributing to this unavoidable situation in India, he said. "First, for benefiting their own economy, the U.S. is strengthening the dollar," Pradhan said. "Indian currency is stronger compared to other currencies."
Another reason, Pradhan said, is that certain issues in Iran, Venezuela and a crisis in Turkey are putting pressure on oil production. Even Though OPEC has assured to produce additional 1 million barrel per day of oil from July, they haven't been able to meet their target. "These two basic factors are not in India's hand."
The rupee declined for the second straight week on Friday to test a record low of 72.10 a dollar as weakness across emerging market currencies and rising oil prices dragged it down further. Crude prices rose 29 percent from last year, according to Bloomberg data.
Kolkata Prices
- Petrol: Rs 83.27 per litre, up 39 paise
- Diesel: Rs 75.36 per litre, up 44 paise
Chennai Prices
- Petrol: Rs 83.54 a litre, up 41 paise
- Diesel: Rs 76.64 a litre, up 47 paise
Opposition parties blame the inflated taxes for the high prices of fuels and have announced nationwide strikes and protests next week. The Congress party demanded that the centre should cut their excise duty in a manner akin to the previous governments which cut rates whenever international oil prices shot up.
"Let's wait and not give any knee-jerk reaction," said Pradhan.
Almost half of the retail selling price of the two fuels is made up of central and state taxes. Prices have been on a high since mid-August, rising almost daily due to a combination of drop in the rupee value and the rise in crude oil rates.
Earlier in the week, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley remained non-committal on cutting excise duty to cushion the spiralling petrol and diesel prices, saying international oil prices are volatile and have not shown any linear movement.
The Centre levies a total of Rs 19.48 a litre of excise duty on petrol and Rs 15.33 a litre on diesel. Besides, states levy a value added tax on these fuels. The lowest additional tax on fuels is levied in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where a 6 percent sales tax is charged on both the fuel.
Mumbai has the highest VAT of 39.12 percent on petrol, while Telangana levies the highest VAT of 26 percent on diesel. Delhi charges a VAT of 27 percent on petrol and 17.24 percent on diesel.
The central government had raised its excise duty on petrol by Rs 11.77 per litre and that on diesel by Rs 13.47 per litre in nine installments between November 2014 and January 2016. The hike in excise duty was to shore up finances as global oil prices tumbled.
This more than doubled its excise collections from petro goods in the last four years—from Rs 99,184 crore in 2014-15 to Rs 2.29 lakh crore in 2017-18. States' VAT revenue from petro goods rose from Rs 1.37 lakh crore in 2014-15 to Rs 1.84 lakh crore in 2017-18. Fuel prices in Delhi are the cheapest among all metros and most state capitals due to the city's muted sales tax or VAT.
With inputs from PTI
This article has been previously published on BloombergQuint.
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Sunday, 19 October 2014
Why I don't 'get' superheroes
I just don't 'get' superheroes in quite a profound way. I find it hard to separate them from their origins in the hokey American pre-war pulp literature culture where heroes were circus-strong-man who wore leopard-spotted leotards (or, if they were really going to town, their undercrackers over a leotard). It was a chauvinistic era when the protagonists were always male, and women were (mostly) in distress or, at best, feisty but under-powered sidekicks (as in The Shadow). I value this culture for what it is, so I love Burton's Batman because it was magical, theatrical and embraced the nonsense of the genre. I also love Kick Ass, Guardians of the Galaxy and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comic) for these same reasons.
The modern trend of making superheroes realistic just leaves me confused. They continue to wear bonkers outfits while wondering around a gritty, realistic world. I can't help thinking why everyone around them isn't saying, "Uh, you know you look a bit weird dressed like that, right?". And injecting a lot of angst and dumbed-down psychology just makes it worse.
There are a few exceptions to my dislike. V has no superpowers and adopts the Guy Fawkes persona as it suits his anarchistic and political aims. Everyone he encounters is completely freaked out by his clearly outrageous outfit. The Watchmen are just unstable, have-a-go-heroes. Doctor Manhattan, arguably the only one with any supernatural abilities, is treated in quite a realistic manner. He is harnessed as weapon of mass destruction by America while being viewed with suspicion and fear. My point with these two examples is that they demonstrate a coherency to the level of realism. The world they live in, the heroes and the supporting characters around them are all treated with the same logic.
I realise that the huge success of the superhero genre in recent years means I am in a minority. Clearly it's hugely popular and the popcorn-chomping public love it. I'm just not one of them and continue to be left cold by the bulk of these raspy, frowning, cinematic offerings.
Oh, and just be clear, giant, genetically engineered, robot-armour wearing fanatics in space are absolutely fine in my book.
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Don't worry, your not on your own, I'm completely over Super hero movies. So sick of the glaringly obvious fact that the hero will never die....no matter how dire his situation is!ReplyDelete
To me, their just a different kind of chick flick, wherein stupid guy meets girl, stupid guy messes up relationship, stupid guy then spends the rest of the movie trying to -and succeeding to- woo her back. Why do people bother watching these types of movies when there is never any doubt of the outcome?.....no matter the obstacles they face throughout the 90 minutes or so?
You could easily rearrange the previous paragraph & replace a few words like "girl" to "villain" and you'd have a mostly done script for a Super Hero movie.
I better stop my rant now, I can feel a coronary coming on :)
I wrote a really long reply, pressed preview and it vanished! Rookie error.ReplyDelete
I think that superhero films are not very adventurous. Try 'All Star Superman' - there is a good animated film of it too - this is the sort of thing I'd like to see Hollywood try rather than attempting to emulate the brooding Nolan aesthetic. Forget about making Superman realistic, he should be punching tyrant suns.


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WSJM: Grants Announced For Baroda, Van Buren County
Congressman Fred Upton has announced a couple of grants for Berrien and Van Buren counties.
His office tells us the first USDA Rural Development grant in Berrien is $95,000 for the village of Baroda. It will be used to build a road through the industrial park. The park has 14 lots, 12 of which are sold to businesses looking to construct facilities. However, there isn't road access to all of the sites. The grant will change that. It's expected to lead to the creation of 20 jobs.
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1. Re: React/ JS API Viz Issuepatrick.byrne.0 Jan 23, 2019 6:01 PM (in response to Ben Hazzard)
Hello Ben,
Thanks for posting in the Tableau Community. I have not been able to find any information on the error that is returned.
I might consider also trying to post on the Tableau GitHub page regarding the error if you are able to reproduce it with a sample.
Issues · tableau/js-api-samples · GitHub
My comment will also bring this post back to the top of the feed. Hope this helps!
Byrne, Patrick
Community Manager
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2. Re: React/ JS API Viz IssueJohn Hegele Jun 21, 2019 6:08 PM (in response to Ben Hazzard)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Hey Ben,
I hope that you got this sorted out since I'm about 6 months late to this questions. But I stumbled across this searching for something else so wanted to chime in.
I'm pretty sure that the issue you're hitting here is that the way you're instantiating the Viz class is invalid. You are using:
var viz = new tableau.Viz(url)
The constructor for the Viz class requires three arguments: domNode, url, and options (see API Reference - Tableau ) and you are only passing one. You need to provide a value DOM node where the viz will be rendered, the URL of the viz itself, and any options you want to apply to the viz.
3. Re: React/ JS API Viz IssueVineeth Nair Nov 12, 2019 6:20 AM (in response to Ben Hazzard)
Hi Ben,
This is a really delayed reply but I came across this when trying to sort out a similar issue. If you have not already tried it then try changing
var viz = new tableau.Viz(url) to var viz = new window.tableau.Viz(<domNode>, url, <options>)
To find out what domNode and options are John has provided the best reference in the post above.


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New Zealand Wool Services International Limited's General Manager, Mr John Dawson reports that the combined North and South Island wool auction comprising 15,100 bales saw an overall firming trend with a 90.7 percent clearance.
The weighted currency indicator hardly altered, easing 0.25 percent, having minimal impact.
Mr Dawson advises that there were some price variations between selling centres reflecting localised covering requirements with the main driver continuing to be limited supply and firming Compared to the 16th Mid Micron Fleece 25 to 30.5 micron were firm to 2 percent dearer.
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First Lambs were 1 to 4 percent firmer except the finer types in the North which eased slightly.
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Well we are back at Smileez (Parkwood) this Thursday (1/2/18) 10am – 12pm.
This month I have decided to keep it low key as I have just come back from Thailand & am recovering from my Mummy Makeover.
I have a mountain of information about tacking plastic surgery in Thailand so if you are interested I will be blogging about it soon & discussing it at the LOL Mum's Event
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The monastery of Christ the Advisor, with the chapel of St. George at its entrance, is located in Happy Valley, within the British Sovereign Base Area. It is one of the most ancient Christian monuments on the island, dating back to 625 A.D.
The ruins of several older buildings used by the monastery testify to the antiquity of the institution. These ruins also preserved the legend around St. George the Advisor among the locals over the years. The monastery, which was looted several times during the Arab attacks in Cyprus, was eventually restored approximately 1300 years later, by a couple of believers from Limassol, who discovered its location via a vision.
The small church of St. George was restored by the couples' own funds, and the two of them stayed there to take care of as a monk and nun, renamed Gerondios and Polychronia. The name of the monastery is related to the nature of Jesus Christ as a "miraculous advisor", as described by the prophet Isaiah.
On the cliff above the chapel, in a wonderful location with lots of greenery, an impressive, modern monastery was built at the beginning of the 21st century. The monastery was populated by the monks from Machairas monastery, at the request of the Bishop of Limassol, Athanasios. The new monastery, named "Holy Monastery of Christ the Advisor" is forbidden for women, who can follow the ceremonies in the old chapel.
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Game 1
Warriors 73 Kings 54
The first game of the 1st set of matchups following the Holiday Break saw a surprise result, further proof that there are no easy wins in the PGBL. The Warriors have played well and consistently against their opponents the entire season up to this point, but I don't think many fans expected this type of win from them, as the Warriors dominated the Kings for an upset victory. This dominant team win from start to finish truly was a synergized effort, as 5 Warriors (nearly 6) scored in double figures during the game, moving the ball quite well on offense and effectively neutralizing Bill Zonios and his hot scoring touch. Sotiris Deliopoulos led the way for the Warriors in a breakout game, scoring an efficient 16 points, while Elias Kaltsidis exerted his will on the low post, getting several big rebounds while scoring 14 points himself. Both Deliopoulos and Kaltsidis contributed greatly to aid their team leading scorers Will Galiatsatos and Niko Papatsiaras, allowing both to contribute more on the defensive end. However, what made this win for the Warriors most impressive is that their team defense suffocated the Kings into their 2nd lowest scoring total of the season. That is definitely quite a feat, holding the high powered Kings to a low scoring figure, and if the Warriors continue to have great all around games like this one, they'll be a dark horse team to make some noise in the playoffs.
As for the Kings, Jimmy Kemmerer was one of the few bright spots, scoring 19 points, while the always steady Chris Kourelias dropped double digits. Unfortunately, however, Bill Zonios had an off night, and both Veronis boys were out again for this one, thus sinking the Kings in this game. The Kings had their first stinker of the season. It was just one of those days where nothing was going in. It happens. It's a make or miss game, and the Kings just had some bad luck. Shouldn't be a big deal going forward, as the Kings still have the talent to make another run at the championship and get a 3-peat.
Leading Scorers:
Sotiris Deliopoulos: 16 points
Elias Kaltsidis and Niko Papatsiaras: 14 points each
Will Galiatsatos and Aris Haritonidis: 11 points each
Jimmy Kemmerer: 19 points
Chris Kourelias: 13 points
Game 2
PAS Giannina 66 Tune Squad 59
The second game was a great, competitive battle that nearly went down to the wire, as 2 of the top 4 teams in the league squared off. Both teams traded buckets in a razor tight first half, and much of the same continued well into the 2nd half. Unfortunately, the Tune Squad got into some significant foul trouble as a team, with both Yioti Kasapis and Alexi Topalidis fouling out towards the end, which allowed PAS to ever so slightly pull away, while making clutch free throws down the stretch to pull out the win. Evan Tsiklidis once again came to play for PAS, scoring his 27 points via his typical methods: driving to the bucket while hitting his midrange and free throw shots. He also got some solid offensive support from teammates Niko Dinoulis and Costa Angelis, who both went for double digits in points. As for the Tune Squad, Ben Voudouris continued his impressive run of games, pouring in 31 points via a variety of different shots in a losing effort. Voudouris' current excellence in his play will certainly come up big in the postseason, as the Tune Squad now have 3 legitimate scorers (Voudouris, Louie Karapanagiotides, and Demetri Zanikos) that can be used to challenge the firepower of both the Kings and the Outlaws. Unfortunately for this game, the Tune Squad played slightly shorthanded, as they were missing both Demetri Zanikos (PGBL Rookie of the Year favorite) as well as PGBL vet Chris Voutsakis. Had the team fouls not caught up to them, the Squad could have perhaps forced overtime and squeaked it out, but PAS did an excellent job as a team in hitting their free throws went it counted the most. With the Tune Squad still having to play the Outlaws a 2nd time at season's end, PAS Giannina could even have an inside track to the all important #2 seed in the league, so long as they win out and secure their tiebreaker scenarios.
Leading Scorers:
PAS Giannina
Evan Tsiklidis: 27 points
Niko Dinoulis: 13 points
Costa Angelis: 11 points
Tune Squad
Ben Voudouris: 31 points
Game 3:
Outlaws 75 Revolution 52
The holiday break seemed to provide almost no rust towards the Outlaws and their winning streak, as they came out and took care of business against the Revolution, leading from wire to wire in this game. Both Jimmie Armentani and Laz Makrides did their thing for the Outlaws, as they both scored 23 points each. It was evident in this game in particular that both players love to share the ball, and despite currently competing against one another for the scoring title, seem to love playing together for their 1st year, and feed off of each other very well, as they are both willing to step back in the offense and assist for the other. The Outlaws have now extended their regular season winning streak to 17 games, and will secure the #1 overall seed for the PGBL playoffs if they secure 2 more victories before season's end.
As for the Revolution, they fought hard and played well for the most part in this game, as they kept it somewhat close within the 1st half, but did not manage to provide enough scoring power to compete with the 1st place Outlaws. Both Vangeli Carabeses and Jake Sotiros were the only ones to score in double figures for the Revolution, as they continue to battle with offensive inconsistency. Fortunately for the Revolution, they still have some time left to secure a win that'll give them safe passage into the postseason. Their final game against PAS Giannina could prove to be crucial.
Leading Scorers
Jimmie Armentani and Laz Makrides: 23 points each
Jake Sotiros and Vangelis Carabeses: 14 points each