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Our Infinity Mirror Booth features a sleek and modern form factor coupled with the award-winning interactive Mirror Me software.
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The selfie mirror booth creates an amazingly popular one-of-a-kind experience for weddings and other high-end events.
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The core feature is the mirror's ability to play and speak a variety of different animations.
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Jelly Drop is a crazy fun. The game is Incredibly easy, but challenging too!
•"Pop" all Jellies with a limited number of taps
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Fly through the air with the greatest of ease and collect coins and compete with friends Share with friends on Facebook, Twitter, or Email to get your friends involved.
The app is integrated with Facebook and allows players to invite friends and compare scores with them. There is also "Unlock Kids" mode and "Play On" in-app purchases to allow players to bend the game rules and advance more quickly.
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As the spiritual successor to the proud Goblins, goblins king he been entrusted with the whole of their legacy, everything from ancient artworks to jewels to mysterious artifacts, some benign, some fantastical. Search the island paradise for indispensable objects and learn the tragedy of the vanished artifacts from its keepers.
Enjoy this narrated storyline as you trek straight into this mysterious place called "Versailles." Rummage through hundreds of items left behind by Antoinette, Rebecca's Cousin, who has disappeared has well. Free version.
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Test your abilities in intricate puzzles that will guide you to mysterious places throughout the world. This game with its charming characters, a gripping storyline and plenty of puzzles will become a real present for both experienced and unsophisticated fans of adventure games and hidden objects search games!
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Test your abilities in intricate puzzles that will guide you to mysterious places throughout the world. This game with its charming characters, a gripping storyline and plenty of puzzles will become a real present for both experienced and unsophisticated fans of adventure games and hidden objects search games!
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You've been hired for your most difficult case – stopping the fearsome figure of a headless knight, bent on terrorizing the city. Follow the clues that lead to De Lupe disappearance – and discover the dark secret behind the infamous Fire Knight - before it's too late!
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Mahjong Australia - Kangaroo Adventure is waiting for fans to relax and meditate. Immerse yourself into the soothing atmosphere of Australia, nice music and excellent graphics. Your task is to find pairs of not closed identical shields and remove them from the board.
Android Apps
Driving Bad
Driving Bad is a driving game inspired by the famous television series Breaking Bad.
You will have the opportunity to lead Walter White and Jesse Pinkman's RV speeding down the roads of New Mexico as you try to dodge vans, police cars and DEA patrols to get as much blue crystal as you can!
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Graffiti develops and manages an entertaining portfolio of apps and games available on the Android and IOS app stores for download.
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Sir Frederick William Pontin (24 October 1906 - 30 September 2000) was born in Highams Park, and attended Monoux from 1918 to 1922.
He had a successful career in the city's Stock Exchange, but during World War II, he was involved in helping to establish hostels for construction workers. Based on this experience, he decided to move into the holiday camp business after the war. He formed a company to buy an old disused camp at Brean Sands near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset in 1946. This was the beginning of the company he started, as founder and managing director of Pontin's Holiday Clubs.
Fred was knighted in 1976 and died in Blackpool aged 93.
Fred once wrote "to be successful, people must like you and you must like people", and he found this thought very helpful in his personal achievements.


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Professor Robert Lowe
Robert Lowe,
Ph.D. is Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Science, School of Informatics,
University of Skövde.
Robert coauthored On the role of emotion in embodied cognitive architectures: From organisms to robots, On the functional contributions of emotion mechanisms to (artificial) cognition and intelligence, The feeling of action tendencies: on the emotional regulation of goal-directed behavior, Enacting Emotions: Somato-sensorimotor knowledge, A computational model of cognitive interference without neural inhibitory mechanisms, Predictive Regulation: Allostasis, Behavioral Flexibility and Fear Learning, A Neurocomputational Model of Anticipation and Sustained Inattentional Blindness, Modeling Early Infant Walking: Testing a Generic CPG Architecture on the NAO Humanoid, and Embodied anticipation for swift re-adaptation in neurocomputational cognitive architectures for robotic agents.
Read his Google Scholar profile, LinkedIn profile, and ResearchGate profile.


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Mohammed Magariaf - President of Libya's parliamentMohammed Magariaf - President of Libya's parliament
Lawmakers in Libya have passed a law banning senior Gadhafi government officials from holding official posts.
The move comes after a week of rising tensions in Tripoli as heavily armed protesters surrounded the Foreign and Justice ministries demanding that the legislature pass the law.
The law is expected to exclude current senior officials such as the head of Libya's parliament - the General National Congress, Mohamed al-Magariaf, who served as Ambassador to India in the 1970s before he joined the exiled opposition to the Gadhafi government.
It remains unclear if Prime Minister Ali Zaidan, who was a diplomat in India around the same time, would be affected by the ban.
The law, which would be implemented by a committee that would decide whether officials fall under the exclusion criteria, goes into effect in 30 days.
Soon after the law was passed, Libyans broke into cheers as hundreds congregated outside the GNC, celebrating what many described as a victory. Celebratory gunfire rang across many areas of Tripoli as people drove around the city honking their horns and chanting in celebration.
Outside the Justice Ministry, armed protesters played music and danced as they prepared to sacrifice a camel, a Libyan tradition.
In March, armed protesters surrounded the GNC for several hours in an attempt to force lawmakers to pass the law. They later opened fire on the car of Magariaf, who escaped unharmed.


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Directed by Mimi Leder. With Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston. The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Felicity Jones is great but that mouth prosthetic is distracting as hell. I really did enjoy the movie, just wish they hadn't made the bionics so apparent.
On the Basis of Sex originally appeared on Adam Selvidge's Website on June 2, 2019.
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Today we found ourselves at APPARATUS Studio—a space devoted to unique design and unparalleled finishings—in Manhattan. It was inspiring and refreshing to interact with similar interior design modern visionaries. It's rare to find an incredible design resource like APPARATUS Studio which produces by hand in Manhattan. It is even more special to find out that APPARATUS Studio is a relatively new endeavor. APPARATUS partners Gabriel Hendifar and Jeremy Anderson have similar backgrounds as the founders of VT Home, so it should come as no surprise that we were inspired as we love to support entrepreneurial creatives who follow their dreams.
Apparatus Studio works in brass, glass, marble, porcelain, and wood, with a nod to the past, a bow to craftsmanship and a commitment to originality. They also collaborate with other brilliant minds such as local ceramicist, Alice Goldsmith and Cinnamon Projects for fragrance and art.
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Cooking as Self-Care by Dr. Munn Saechao, Online Therapist for Professional Women of Color and Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist in Mountain View, CA.
Self-care is such a big part of my life. I teach it and I live it and continually am learning new ways to engage in self-care activities that nourish my mind, body and spirit.
I don't have as much time to do this but when I do, one of the things I enjoy doing is cooking, especially cooking for others. There is something about cooking that I find so meditative and there is also something about sharing a meal and observing others enjoy what I've created that is deeply rewarding. At times I'll forgo eating because of the satisfaction I experience when witnessing how a good home cooked meal can make others so happy; this is especially true for loved ones.
I love cooking with simple ingredients and love color and presentation! Cleaning may not be fun but the process of cooking is, at least for me that is.
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Even to this day the crude fact of persecution is enough to give an honourable name to the most empty sort of sectarianism.--But why? Is the worth of a cause altered by the fact that some one had laid down his life for it?--An error that becomes honourable is simply an error that has acquired one seductive charm the more: do you suppose, Messrs. Theologians, that we shall give you the chance to be martyred for your lies?--One best disposes of a cause by respectfully putting it on ice--that is also the best way to dispose of theologians... (Section 53)
Jesus himself had done away with the very concept of "guilt," he denied that there was any gulf fixed between God and man; he lived this unity between God and man, and that was precisely his "glad tidings". . . (Section 41)
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is in self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, an instinct. (Section 57)
Finished this up during this morning's run and will have to pick up another Nietzsche text in six months, when I am ready to wade through some more.
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Star Wars Adventures Smugglers Run TPB
All-star writer Greg Rucka (The Old Guard, Wonder Woman) sets the galaxy's most infamous smugglers on a high-stakes mission that will require all their cunning and courage! Han Solo and Chewbacca team up for an exciting adventure in this thrilling middle grade graphic novel. Set between Star Wars: A New Hope and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, follow everyone's favorite pair of smugglers as they fly the Millennium Falcon on a top-secret mission for the Rebellion. Clues scattered throughout the story foreshadow events to come in Episode VII, The Force Awakens, adding extra depth to the grand Skywalker saga.


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In memoriam: Timothy E. Price, member of Virginia Tech Class of '01, corps of cadets
Army 1st Lt. Timothy E. Price, a member of the Virginia Tech Class of 2001 and corps of cadets, was killed by hostile fire in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7. He was 25.
"Tim was an outstanding person and cadet; one of the finest people you'll ever meet," said Col. Rock Roszak, USAF (Ret.), director of alumni programs for the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets. "His loss will be felt deeply by many people. Our thoughts and condolences are with his family."
Price was a resident of Midlothian, Va. He received his degree in forestry from the College of Natural Resources. Price most recently visited the Virginia Tech campus in April 2004, when he was one of four panel speakers who addressed Corps of Cadet students.
Local memorials are still being planned. Updates will be posted to the Virginia Tech homepage, http://www.vt.edu/, and the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets website, http://www.vtcc.vt.edu/.


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Review by Frank Plowright
A slightly slimmer hardcover than volumes one and two only features a pair of stories, both revisiting characters seen in previous books, progressing them beyond World War II to the 1950s, and in the case of Anna Kharkova, beyond.
Garth Ennis fairly zips through Kharkova's career since last seen in volume two, in what was originally issued in paperback as The Fall and Rise of Anna Kharkova, highlighting how quickly one could slip down the pole from hero of the Soviet Republic to work camp internee. A mission too far sees her shot down, and most of the remainder of the opening chapter is spent in a German prisoner of war camp. The conclusion to that is one of several surprises Ennis has in store for Kharkova, who has reason to be thankful she reassessed her attitude to her mechanic Mouse in the previous collection. Russ Braun has to accentuate the harshness of Anna's life, and age her twenty years over the course of the story, and he does so evocatively, spreading his own wings when it comes to the few flight scenes included this time. Anna's story is sad and distressing, and all the more powerful for that.
Sgt Stiles re-enlisted after World War II, and is now in Korea as part of the British contribution to the United Nations peace effort of the 1950s. As an older man with greater experience, he's now more reflective and inclined to consider the bigger picture, while his past weighs heavily. Although he's a neat character study, Ennis is really concerned with the tragic fate awaiting the Gloucester regiment, the story he wants to highlight. Having drawn Stiles' previous experiences, Carlos Ezquerra's art is a mixed blessing here. There are pages featuring great detail, but also many that look dashed off with little thought given to the layouts. This was also available individually as The Green Fields Beyond.
It's been noted elsewhere that with his war comics Ennis is single-handedly perpetuating a genre that's otherwise almost dead in English language comics. It's a shame, as immense pressure and unknowable circumstances reveal the truth of the person within, and if that's not prime dramatic fodder then what is? As with his other war material, Battlefields is deeply researched, and the resulting stories are wonderfully, and sometimes heart-rendingly, personalised. Ennis wants us to remember the heroism of those who've paved the way for our lives, often sacrificing their own to do so. As previously, the collection ends with his notes emphasising that and providing background information.


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Archive for December, 2011
We know what to do if we have a handicapped person. For instance a blind person has many resources. School for the blind, Braille, Seeing Eye dogs.
But what about a handicapped dog?
I've already told you about my paralyzed dog Isabel. And of course she now has many resources available to her because we love her and made sure we got as many as possible for her so her life is normal.
Well I found this incredible article while "stumbling" the other day about a seeing eye dog for a blind…dog. How wonderful is that? It brought tears to my eyes it made me so happy for Clyde and Bonnie, Get it? Bonnie and Clyde. They are adorable and this blind dog could not want for more. It is a great story, I hope you enjoy it too. Guide dog leads blind pooch – two are inseparable.
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So many of us love our pets especially our dogs to the point of distraction. We would do anything for them, we even give up our privacy and our time with our human partners. Well is it healthy?
This question is nicely answered in an article I wrote for Factoidz. I think you'll enjoy it.
We live in a country of animal lovers and statistics show that many of us sleep with our beloved pets. According to a recent survey of pet owners by the American Pet Products Association, nearly half of dogs sleep in their owner's beds. The survey found that 62% of small dogs, 41% of medium-sized dogs and 32% of large dogs sleep with their owners.
The survey also found that 62% of cats sleep with their adult owners, and another 13% of cats sleep with children.
But is it healthy to sleep with our pets? Of course obviously if you are allergic to your dog or cat you should certainly n… From: Is It Healthy to Sleep with Your Family Pet
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Even though you love your dog, you feel devoted and loyal, and you know your dog is giving you unconditional love and devotion in return, you can still be a stupid dog owner.
Let me explain.
You MUST be aware of what your dog is communicating. Is she telling you something is wrong? Is there some nuance that is different today than yesterday? Does it mean anything?
Let me tell you the story of Isabel, my paralyzed Belgium sheep dog.
This is her picture, Our Precious Belgian Sheepdog
At the time, Isabel was 5 years old. She was fast as lightning and loved running. Just for the sake of running, for the sake of speed. She also loved chasing the squirrels. She did not catch any, thank God, but she loved to give them a run for their money. Every day she ran and ran.
She also loved her daily walks. She lived for those walks. She and my husband, Jim would leave each day and be gone anywhere from 30-60 minutes. Jim allowed her to sniff the mailboxes and visit with every clump of grass that called to her. That takes time.
We had friends visiting us from England. I am using this as the excuse for this terrible incident to be allowed to occur. I consider myself to be an excellent dog owner, sensitive, alert and dedicated to their care and love.
Like I said, we had friends visiting from England. We live in the USA, in the northern state of Michigan. It was a wonderful visit. Nothing changed for Isabel, she still had her daily walks, and she still ran and ran in the backyard, chasing squirrels. This one day we were going to show our friends around a bit, and we left the house for the afternoon. Isabel had already had her run and walk and she was going to be staying home. We were gone until early evening, and then I began preparing supper. I first went up to feed the cat and realized Isabel was not with me. She ALWAYS came up the stairs to beg for the cat food can. I went to the top of the stairs to see where she was and she was sitting at the bottom of the stairs looking forlorn. I asked her what was she doing, why wasn't she coming for her can. She stood up and came up the stairs and happily got her can.
I continued on with dinner preparation, entertaining our guests and enjoying the evening. Isabel started to come into the kitchen and I noticed she was walking funny, her left back leg was sort of uncoordinated and faltering. I went to her and started checking her over for what could be the problem. I called to Jim to have him take a look and we couldn't find anything, but Jim recalled that she had not been very enthusiastic about their walk earlier that day. She just didn't seem herself, he said.
She continued on to her destination of the water bowl and seemed to be doing okay at the time. So we thought maybe with all her running she had strained something, we would keep an eye on her, but we went back to our guests.
We were all sitting around the dining room table having our meal, when Jim realized Isabel had come under the table and had wedged herself up against his legs and she was whimpering. We immediately, went into action and realized she was in trouble AND she was in pain. We tried to call her out from under the table, but she could not move herself. It was about midnight now, we called the emergency vet clinic and described what we were seeing and the day's events, (which were startling clear in hindsight). They said we needed to rush her into the clinic immediately, we were dealing with a spinal cord injury.
We placed her big soft pillow in the back of the van and we carried her out to the van, and we had her to the vet clinic in about 15 minutes. She cried when we lifted her and it was so obvious the pain she was in. I couldn't stop myself from crying. Our house guests were long forgotten.
The Veterinarian at the clinic examined Isabel right away, she had neurological deficits that were frightening and worsening quickly, they said the injury could be traveling up her spine toward her heart and lungs, she could die. They did a myelogram and Ct Scan of her spine. They found she had a severely ruptured disc in her spine and she had a lot of damage in her spinal column. They recommended immediate surgery to save her life. We did not even hesitate, DO THE SURGERY!
We did not understand that she might be paralyzed, we did not know how to care for a dog with this circumstance, we didn't think about anything but saving her life. She survived the surgery and then they said it would be another 48 hours to see if the damage traveling up her spine would stop and she would indeed survive. She stayed in the hospital for 3 more days with IV's and pain medicines and antibiotics, She was shaved on both sides of her spine and she was drugged and weak and she was the most beautiful sight to our eyes.
Both Jim and I would crawl into her very large cage and sit on her blankets with her. She had a bladder catheter in place and they were worried she wasn't making enough urine. Also she wouldn't eat or drink so they couldn't remove the IV. I asked them to let us try and we gave her mushed up food and water and she took it gratefully with that look that every animal lover recognizes. "why did you wait so long".
So from then on we went there every day to give her food and water, she was able to get the IV out and to get off the strong pain medicines. She got her catheter out the last day. That is when we were told she was incontinent (couldn't control the function of) her bowel and bladder. She was paralyzed and we would need to assume these functions.
They showed us how to sling walk her, using a strap under her belly and we had to be extremely careful due to the newness of her incisions and surgery. We also had to express her bladder to make her urinate and we had to keep her clean from the stools. We had to make sure her bladder was empty or she would develop urinary tract infections. And we were taught how to perform physical therapy on her so she could keep her muscles in good shape for when and if she ever walked again.
They told us it could take up to two years, but she had all her reflexes, so they were hopeful she would walk again. So off we go to our home with our baby and all the determination to be the best caregivers on the planet and terrified of what we were undertaking.
Well to bring this story to a close, let me just tell you that as of today's writing it has been 3 years, 2 months and 12 days. She is not walking. BUT…who cares?
She is the best dog in the world. She is happy and well adjusted. And she has the best parents alive. We love her. It is just simply all okay. We have mastered the art of diapering a dog, well enough that we rarely if hardly ever have an accident outside the diaper. We got her the wheels to enable her to be independently ambulatory. And she is the talk of the neighborhood.
Jim loves to tell the story of how when Isabel was ambulatory, we knew our two next door neighbors and the people across the street. Now…we know the entire neighborhood. As Isabel on her wheels and Jim walk by people will actually come out of their homes to speak with them and pet Isabel and make remarks about how wonderful it is and what a great person Jim is and how sweet Isabel is. All of that is correct of course.
Also before the accident, Isabel was very shy and standoffish. She would even hide behind Jim's legs when people or kids would approach. Now she is the one to say hello first and she knows she is the pride of the neighborhood. It is truly remarkable.
She is totally the wrong breed, it should not have happened to her. It is those short little dachshunds that are prone to these injuries, not a herding dog. But it happened. We theorize that it happened because of all that running and jumping and twisting and she just landed wrong one time.
We have forgiven ourselves for ignoring the subtle symptoms in our dog that we missed because we were too distracted with our out of town guests to notice. We love our Isabel and would not change a thing. We know she is not going to be one of the dogs that regains the ability to walk, but we don't care. Our lives have nicely settled into a routine that works for us all. We can deal with it.
Isabel is a dog, despite the fact that she is so remarkable. She lives in the moment, she has no idea anything is any different than it is supposed to be. She is happy and well loved. When people express their sympathy and sadness over her paralysis, I like to say, "hey don't feel sorry for her, it's me that changes her diapers"… Life is good.
If you take anything at all away from this…Love your dog and pay attention to what they are saying to you. And forgive yourself if you miss one now and then.
If you would like to see more pictures of Isabel you can visit the Squidoo lens I created for her. You would be welcome.
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A very frightening health crisis with my paralyzed dog, Isabel happened in the past month. I wanted to share with you so maybe you don't have to go through this with your dog.
Isabel became acutely ill. The usual dog symptoms of a paralyzed dog and urinary tract infection did not seem to be occurring and she has never been sick with any other symptoms so we were at a loss. We watched her closely for about a week and she just didn't get any better, The main thing we noticed at this time was lack of interest in her walk. She was still eating and drinking in fact she was drinking a lot, but not enough to worry us. Then she began having diarrhea, of course this is a huge concern because she for sure will get an UTI. A dog in diapers can not tolerate having diarrhea without infecting themselves. So I did my best to keep her clean and gave her Immodium to stop the diarrhea.
Next she developed vomiting several times. Nothing was in the vomit like undigested food or anything, but she stopped eating. She would still drink and a lot, more than usual, The thing to worry about with a dog with excessive thirst and urinating a lot is diabetes. So we were worried but still watching.
We decided she was having too many dog treats. Maybe her partially paralyzed bowel and being ten years old, was just causing her not to be able to cope with the harsh jerky treats. She wouldn't eat her chow but she still wanted her treats. We gave her the Costco Kingdom Pets Chicken Jerky Treats, in fact she has eaten them for years, long before her paralysis, so we thought nothing of it, in fact we were glad she would eat anything. Well then I saw in her vomit a bit of the jerky undigested and that was that. We stopped the jerky, She could only have her lamb and rice cookie treats from then on.
Well lo and behold she started to improve after a couple of days. No further diarrhea or vomiting and she slowed down on her water and she nibbled her regular chow at last.
Well coincidentally, one of her favorite treats was the Costco Kingdom Pets sweet potato and chicken jerky wrap treats. I thought the sweet potato would be much more gentle to her stomach and bowel. Our Costco stopped carrying it and so I went online to see if I could find them since we decided the other jerky treat was too harsh for her ten-year old paralyzed bowel to handle.
Wow, what a surprise I found! Do a search on Google for Kingdom Pets Chicken jerky dog treats. You are going to find post after post of concerned pet owners that have fed their pets these treats and they have sick dogs and some have dead dogs. It was shocking to us. I couldn't believe it. I was killing my beloved pet by giving her tainted chicken from China. Are you kidding me? Who can you trust?
My Isabel had every dog symptom listed on the websites, many many websites. Diarrhea, vomiting, excessive thirst, increased urination, lack of appetite, and lethargy. The next step for her would have been kidney failure and then death.
I actually believe her dog paralysis is what saved her because I blamed her partially paralyzed bowel on not being able to handle the treats. Not the treats causing the problem.
Here is an excerpt of the ABC's report on this subject:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about chicken jerky for dogs, saying some products imported from China may be associated with 70 reports of dogs who became ill or died. That number is up from 54 reports last year, the agency indicated.
Finish reading this ABC News Post Chicken Jerky Treats Linked to Illnesses in Dogs
I am happy to say she is healthy and completely back to normal. We caught it in time and for whatever reason paralysis or dumb luck the events of this story are having a happy ending. I do hope any of you reading this will save your dogs too.
Needless to say we went on an all out search for dog treats made in the USA. At first not such an easy task, but we did find a couple that Isabel likes. One is Steak House Treat Company's Lamb Cuts, treats for dogs, carried by Costco. The other is
Yummy Chummies, Wild Alaska Salman, Soft N Chewy that Costco also sells. Also cookies made with chicken, steak, peanut butter and lamb, lots of choices. She seems to like them all. She will never eat anything from China ever again. Neither will we!
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Online poker is a type of poker that is played over the internet. A poker with convenience in mind that you can easily access and play anytime and anywhere. If you love playing poker you will love playing in these places since it offers players a game that is true to its roots, basically the same poker game as anything but with a more modern feel. There are many reasons to play it and if you're itching for that poker action its readily available for you to play in right now.
The common benefits of online casinos and its main selling points are two things, convenience, and the bonuses that it offers. Although those things alone will already make you become a player in the online poker platform, there are actually a ton of benefits that you will realize later on with online poker. Some things are unexpected and some things that you will realize later on as you play the game. Below you can find those other benefits.
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Electric power generated from renewable energy sources in the U.S. will rise to nearly 23% in 2022, according to short-term guidance released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Renewables – including wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass, and geothermal energy – became the second-most prevalent U.S. electricity source in 2020, trailing only natural gas. New additions of solar and wind generating capacity in 2021 were offset by reduced generation from hydropower in 2020, according to EIA, keeping the renewable share of electricity generation flat from 2020 to 2021. To learn more, read, "EIA: Renewables will make up 23% of U.S. electric power generation next year."
Key Takeaways:
Findings from EIA's August short-term outlook:
- Estimate +14.7 GW of new wind capacity in 2020, +17.6 GW in 2021, and +6.3 GW in 2022
- Estimate +10.6 GW utility-scale solar in 2020, +16.2 GW in 2021, and +16.6 GW in 2022
- Estimate +10 GW small-scale solar capacity from 2021-2022
- Expect significant solar capacity increases in Texas
Path to 100% Perspective: Electric utilities and governments across the world are moving towards 100% carbon-free energy. To succeed, they need to not only increase renewable generation, but also to rapidly reduce the use of fossil fuels. Renewables and storage alone cannot rapidly decarbonize our power system fast enough. Optimizing power resources, renewable energy and future fuels is the way to pave the Path to 100%. Electricity generation in the United States was responsible for approximately 30% of CO2 generation in 2017. As other industrial sectors decarbonize they will become more reliant on utility infrastructure to supply carbon-free or carbon-neutral energy, in effect increasing utility load.
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And when I say evil I mean exactly that because I, more than most people, know how dangerous they can be.
My adult niece was a young toddler when another baby around her age pulled a common household disinfectant out from under the kitchen sink at her babysitter's house and sprayed it in her eye.
Both of them were too young to understand or explain what happened and by the time my niece got proper medical attention it was too late. Her eye was so badly damaged it had to be removed.
To ensure this never happens to someone you love, you can, should, and probably do, lock up your cleaning products. But even if you manage to keep them out of your child's reach you can't deny their environmental impact: chemical cleaners not only ultimately enter our water systems, they leave a residue that lingers on household surfaces. Many scientists are now questioning whether these residues are linked to everything from cancer to the increasing rates of childhood asthma and autism.
A necessary evil?
Absolutely not, says Judy Benson-Jones.
Judy contacted me a few months back hoping to spread the word about a revolutionary cleaning system that replaces chemicals with micro fibre technology. It's called Enjo and as soon as I looked into it, the science geek in me was immediately intrigued.
It actually took me a while to wrap my head around how Enjo works, but essentially it's a mechanical rather than a chemical cleaning system. You clean with nothing but water, using gloves and cloths that look quite ordinary but are actually composed of thousands of microscopically small fibres: the fibres are so tiny they can actually disinfect by removing up to100% of invisible bacteria as opposed to chemicals which kill it.
It sounds crazy but it's true!Judy gave me a bathroom glove and drying cloth to try out and when I did it honestly freaked me out a bit. I put on the glove and wet it and gave my (admittedly grimy and soap-stained) counter a once over. All the grime and stains lifted the same way they do when I really scrub, but I wasn't scrubbing – I was just gently wiping. I did the rest of the room and I dried everything afterwards with the cloth (which has a 2,500 thread count) and the joint was as clean and shiny as I have ever seen it.
Total cleaning time? About five minutes – swear to God.
The Enjo system, which uses color-coded cloths and gloves for different rooms of your home, is quite new, but appears to be taking the world by storm. It was pioneered in Austria in 1990 and is now sold by representatives (not in stores) on five continents. In 2006 it won a Gold Award at the Eco Products International Fair in Singapore where it was heralded as an innovative product that contributes towards environmental sustainability, while being economically viable.
What that means straight up is that, in addition to protecting your child, you save money because you never have to buy any cleaning products and you save the earth because neither cleaning chemicals nor the plastic bottles they come in, end up in landfill.
If the Enjo system intrigues you and you live in the Toronto area, please drop Judy Benson-Jones a line at email@example.com. She can tell you more about it and even help you host an in-home demo or party. You can also visit the Enjo web site for more information and to find a representative in your area.


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Can you feel the Wheel of the Year turning?
Can you feel fall in the air — the chilling breeze and changing leaves, the tell tale signs of winter's coming?
In this season of each day growing incrementally shorter, can you sense our inexorable movement, here in the Northern Hemisphere, toward Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year?
If you imagine the year as a circle, our Western, secular calendar marks four major seasonal turning points: Winter Solstice (the darkest day of the year) and Summer Solstice (the longest day of the year) — and in between the Fall and Spring Equinox, when the day is divided into equal parts light and dark. But the Earth-centered traditions (which are the 6th Source of Unitarian Universalism) invite us to attune our sensibilities more finely to the turning of the seasons. In addition to these four most obvious turning points, the ancient pagan traditions invite us literally double our sensitivity to the movement of the seasons: to notice, savor, and celebrate the midpoints (or "cross-quarter days") that lay between the solstices and equinoxes.
This week we find ourselves approaching one of these midpoints — Samhain or All Saint's Day, halfway between the Fall Equinox and the Winter Solstice. The Christian liturgical tradition celebrates a three-day festival of All Hallow's Eve (October 31), All Saint's Day (November 1), which honors all the saints, the holy men and women who have died, and All Soul's Day (November 2), which honors all the faithful departed.
Halloween or "All Hallow's Eve" (the day before All Saint's Day) is so named because the word hallow means "to make holy" — as in the famous prayer of Jesus that begins "Our Father, who are in heaven, hallowed be your name." Saints are those men and women who have been recognized as having lived hallowed, holy lives, so the day before their annual recognition day of All Saints is known as All Hallow's E(v)ening, which over time was shortened to Hallow-e(v)en or "Halloween." And in both Christian and Pagan traditions, this time of year, halfway between the Fall Equinox and the Winter Solstice, has been recognized as a liminal space — a threshold time.
And these days approaching this sacred time always coincide with my wedding anniversary of October 27. And because my wife and I honeymooned in Mexico, our wedding date meant that we were in the Yucatan Peninsula for Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), a three day commemoration of those who have gone before us that spans the U.S. version of Halloween, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day.
In Mexico, the ubiquitous homemade altars for Dia de los Muertos are both memorizing and macabre: flickering candle flames surround pictures of departed loved ones, along with flowers, food, and crosses. Fancifully dressed skeletal figures also abound. Thinking back on those homemade altars reminds me of the connection that is sometimes made in English between the words scarred, scared, and sacred. Although these words do not share a common etymological root in English, their similarity is striking, and worth reflecting upon.
Those scary Dia de los Muertos altars point to what is sacred: the memory of those who have died before us. And those memories are often scars on our hearts and psyches. Along these lines, Rudolph Otto gave a famous definition of the sacred as "mysterium tremendum et fascinans." He understood the sacred as that awe-inspiring, numinous mystery before which we both tremble and find fascinating, before which we are both repelled and attracted. And Samhain, All Saints Day, and Dia de los Muertos all recognize that death, which will happen to us all, is one of those aspects of the human condition that is "mysterium tremendum et fascinans": a mystery before which we both tremble and find fascinating, are both repelled and attracted.
Religion is one of our human attempts to make sense of such phenomena that are, at once, scarred, scary, and sacred. As the late UU minister Forrest Church used to say, "Religion is our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die." And there is arguably no better time of year to reflect on this existential reality than in the coming sacred, scarred, and scary days of Halloween, Samhain, and All Souls.
One of the most compelling ways of commemorating this time that I have seen is from one of my favorite contemplative theologians Cynthia Bourgeault. She sees an intriguing parallel with the well-known Spring Triduum (which is Latin for "three days") at the end of what Christians call "Holy Week," which commemorates the final week of Jesus' life and includes Maundy Thursday, Holy Friday, and Holy Saturday, which concludes with the Easter Vigil. The parallel Bourgeault sees is with what could be called the Fall Triduum of Halloween, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day. And for a few years now Bourgenault has been leading silent retreats structured around this Fall Triduum.
I've posted in the past about the unique characteristics of "The Spirituality of Winter" and "The Spirituality of Spring," and what is most interesting to me about this idea of a Fall Triduum is the difference in energy, focus, and theme from the spring version. And although Lent, the forty day period before Easter in the Christian tradition, is often observed as a solemn time, the word Lent comes from the root for lengthen, referring to the lengthening days of spring. So, rightly celebrated, one could argue, Lent should be less about penance and more about opening ourselves to potential transformation in our lives — opening ourselves to Resurrection energy, if that's not too loaded a word — preparing for fruition in our lives, like the flowering of spring after a long winter.
In contrast to the outward, energetic fruition of the Spring Triduum, Bourgenault writes regarding Fall Triduum, through which we will pass this next week, that:
the movement is more inward…. The days are shortening, the leaves are fallen, and the earth draws once again into itself. Everything in the natural world confronts us with reminders of our own mortality…. And yet in the midst of this broody season of dark and inwardness, the days do offer themselves as a journey, a progression we can take…. In the quiet, brown time of the year, these fall Triduum days are an invitation to do the profound inner work: to face our shadows and deep fears (death being for most people the scariest of all)…then to move back into our lives again…. I encourage all of you who have the inclination to keep these days as best you can for this quiet but extraordinary rite of passage.
Perhaps in the future, you may feel led to plan an extended spiritual retreat for the Fall Triduum. For now, the following is a meditation for experiencing this "thin" time and space that can be done almost anywhere:
With your feet flat on the floor, and your hands resting gently in your lap, allow yourself to relax. Take a few deep breaths in…and out. Relax your shoulders and neck. Become more fully present to this moment, this time and place.
Spend some time in contemplative silence (draw, journal, or take a leisurely walk in nature if you prefer). Give yourself some time to remember a few close friends or family members who have died before you.
Allow yourself to perhaps be surprised by whose face emerges for you.
Perhaps there is something you never got a chance to say to them, or something that has happened since they died that you can tell them now. (Whether this experience is for you, for them, or for both will depend on your belief system.)
Remember those beloved ones who have gone before. Remember the gifts and blessings they gave you. Then give yourself permission to respond silently to your beloved ones in the way that feels right to you.
The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg is a trained spiritual director, a D.Min. graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary, and the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick, Maryland. Follow him on Facebook (facebook.com/carlgregg) and Twitter (@carlgregg).
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The Recommend objective aims to complement and adjust existing capacities, policies, and initiatives for conflict prevention and peacebuilding, through an inclusive policy-practice dialogue and the development of policy recommendations. By involving EU and member state policymakers, and EU staff and other key stakeholders in Brussels and member states, the project promotes the advancement of policy recommendations into policy priorities. Similarly, the involvement of both civil society and security sector actors at the operational level ensures that the recommendations are validated and supported by those that, in due course, are expected to implement them.
The Project contributes to informing institutional and policy development of the EU and Member States in the area of the European Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and refinements to CFSP Guidelines related to conflict. This could potentially feed into the way EU agencies are organised, and positively influence EU institutional development and mandates. It offers practical guidance to governmental actors on the implementation of local ownership, gender inclusiveness, and multi-stakeholder engagement in (post-) conflict contexts.
In order to fulfill these goals, the project is undertaking four roundtable events in Mali, Yemen, Georgia and Ukraine, and it engages with policymakers in Europe through five policy dialogues in Paris, London, Barcelona, Berlin and the The Hague. Particular attention has been paid to the EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy (EUGSS), which was launched in june 2016.
Lastly, WOSCAP will organise its final conference in November 2017 in Brussels. Here , it will present its main recommendations that come out of the roundtables and policy dialogues.
Roundtable Meetings & Policy Dialogues
- Four roundtable meetings will be held to discuss case-specific recommendations in Tbilisi, Sana'a, Kiev & Bamako (May & June, 2017)
- Five policy dialogue meetings will be held in London, The Hague, Paris, Berlin and Madrid to discuss recommendations with EU member states (dates TBC)
- If you are interested in attending any of these events, please contact us.


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Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in
my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turn my collar to the cold and
When my eyes were stabbed by the
flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices
never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the
prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence
I was twenty-one years when I wrote
this song
I'm twenty-two now but I won't be
for long
Time hurries on
And the leaves that are green turn
to brown
And they wither in the wind
And they crumble in your hand
Once my heart was filled with the
love of a girl
I held her close but she faded in
the night
Like a poem I meant to write
And the leaves that are green turn
to brown
And they wither in the wind
And they crumble in your hand
I threw a pebble in a brook
And watched the ripple run away
And they never made a sound
And the leaves that are green turn
to brown
And they wither in the wind
And they crumble in your hand
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
That's all there is
And the leaves that are green turn
to brown
And they wither in the wind
And they crumble in your hand
Blessed are the meek for they shall
Blessed is the lamb whose blood flows
Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon,
ratted on
O Lord, why have you forsaken me?
I got no place to go
I've walked around Soho for the last
night or so
Ah, but it doesn't matter, no
Blessed is the land and the kingdom
Blessed is the man whose soul belongs
Blessed are the meth drinkers, pot
sellers, illusion dwellers
O Lord, why have you forsaken me?
My words trickle down from a wound
That I have no intention to heal
Blessed are the stained glass, window
pane glass
Blessed is the church service, makes
me nervous
Blessed are the penny rookers, cheap
hookers, groovy lookers
O Lord, why have you forsaken me?
I have tended my own garden much
too long
I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls
And from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets
To England where my heart lies
My mind's distracted and diffused
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you're alseep
And kiss you when you start your
And a song I was writing is left undone
I don't know why I spend my time
Writing songs I can't believe
With words that tear and strain to
And so you see I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you
And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go
I can hear the soft breathing of the
girl that I love
As she lies here beside me, asleep
with the night
And her hair in a fine mist floats
on my pillow
Reflecting the glow of the winter
But I've got to creep down the alley
Fly down the highway
Before they come to catch me I'll
be gone
Somewhere they can't find me
Oh baby, you don't know what I've
I've committed a crime, I've broken
the law
While you were here sleeping and
just dreaming of me
I held up and robbed a liquor store
Oh my life seems unreal, my crime
an illusion
A scene badly written in which I
must play
And though it puts me uptight to
leave you
I know it's not right to leave you
The morning is just a few hours away
They say that Richard Cory owns one
half of this whole town
With political connections to spread
his wealth around
Born into society, a banker's only
He had everything a man could want:
power, grace, and style
But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be
Oh I wish that I could be
Oh I wish that I could be
Richard Cory
The papers print his picture almost
everywhere he goes
Richard Cory at the opera, Richard
Cory at a show
And the rumor of his parties and
the orgies on his yacht!
Oh he surely must be happy with everything
he's got
But I, I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be
Oh I wish that I could be
Oh I wish that I could be
Richard Cory
He freely gave to charity, he had
the common touch
And they were grateful for his patronage
and they thanked him very much
So my mind was filled with wonder
when the evening headlines read:
"Richard Cory went home last night
and put a bullet through his head"
He was a most peculiar man
That's what Mrs. Riordan says and
she should know
She lived upstairs from him
She said he was a most peculiar man
He was a most peculiar man
He lived all alone within a house
Within a room, within himself
A most peculiar man
He had no friends, he seldom spoke
And no one in turn ever spoke to
'Cause he wasn't friendly and he
didn't care
And he wasn't like them
Oh no! He was a most peculiar man
He died last Saturday
He turned on the gas and he went
to sleep
With the windows closed so he'd never
wake up
To his silent world and his tiny
And Mrs. Riordan says he has a brother
Who should be notified soon
And all the people said,
"What a shame that he's dead
But wasn't he a most peculiar man?"
April come she will
When streams are ripe and swelled
with rain
May, she will stay
Resting in my arms again
June, she'll change her tune
In restless walks she'll prowl the
July, she will fly
And give no warning to her flight
August, die she must
The autumn winds blow chilly and
September I'll remember
A love once new has now grown old
Bad news, bad news!
I heard you're packing to leave
I come a-running right over
I just couldn't believe it
I just couldn't believe it
Oh, baby, baby
You must be out of your mind
Do you know what you're kicking away?
We've got a groovy thing goin', baby
We've got a groovy thing
I never done you no wrong
I never hit you when you're down
I always gave you good loving
I never ran around
I never ran around
There's something you ought to know
If you're fixing to go
I can't make it without you
No no no no, no no
No no, no no no no no
We've got a groovy thing goin', baby
We've got a groovy thing
A winter's day
In a deep and dark December
I am alone
Gazing from my window
To the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud
of snow
I am a rock
I am an island
I've built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need of friendship
Friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
Don't talk of love
Well I've heard the word before
It's sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber
Of feelings that have died
If I never loved I never would have
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room
Safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches
And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries


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A Deck or Patio for Your Northern VA Home?Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
Considering a deck or patio for your Northern VA home? You know you want to create an outdoor recreational space to be enjoyed by the whole family. Both a deck and patio can accomplish this, but what about the cost? That is the determining factor for many homeowners when choosing between a deck and a patio.
Of course, there is planning that you must do which will affect the cost of the project no matter which you choose:
- Consider the square footage you intend to cover. The space you intend to fill must be of a certain size to even accommodate a deck or patio, although a patio usually takes up less overall room. A patio is more labor intensive, however due to the fact that the land must be cleared and leveled in preparation of the stones or bricks. The deck will take up more space, but is easier to put up because it requires no landscaping.
- What design do you have in mind? A patio is usually either round or square and is laid at ground level. The deck gives you a few more options here, because it can be built on multiple levels and not just in line with the first floor. Experts, like those at Hal Co., can also help you design options.
- What kind of materials do you want to use? Decks are usually made of wood, specifically cedar, redwood, or other pressure treated wood, and alternatively a composite material. The cost of composite materials is a little higher, but they are becoming popular because of their ease of maintenance and long life span. Patios usually consist of tiles or bricks made of stone or concrete.
- How much maintenance do you want to do? Wood materials require regular sealing cleaning and painting. Plastic composite decking needs less maintenance. Patio materials are brick or stone and stand up to power washing and hard scrubbing, making them longer lasting in general.
- Who do you want to hire? Call professionals like Hal Co, and ask if they have licensing, insurance, and references. Ask for quotes, and get those in writing; be very careful – under quoting often leaves room for additional fees or problems down the road.
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原文:What does C++ do better than D?
Most of the things C++ "does" better than D are meta things:
C++ has better compilers, better tools, more mature libraries, more bindings, more experts, more tutorials etc. Basically it has more and better of all the external things that you would expect from a more mature language. This is inarguable.
As for the language itself, there are a few things that C++ does better than D in my opinion. There's probably more, but here's a few that I can list off the top of my head:
C++ has a better thought out type system
There are quite a few problems with the type system in D at the moment, which appear to be oversights in the design. For example, it is currently impossible to copy a const struct to a non-const struct if the struct contains class object references or pointers due to the transitivity of const and the way postblit constructors work on value types. Andrei says he knows how to solve this, but didn't give any details. The problem is certainly fixable (introducing C++-style copy constructors would be one fix), but it is a major problem in language at present.
Another problem that has bugged me is the lack of logical const (i.e. no mutable like in C++). This is great for writing thread-safe code, but makes it difficult (impossible?) to do lazy intialisation within const objects (think of a const 'get' function which constructs and caches the returned value on first call).
Finally, given these existing problems, I'm worried about how the rest of the type system (pure, shared, etc.) will interact with everything else in the language once they are put to use. The standard library (Phobos) currently makes very little use of D's advanced type system, so I think it is reasonable the question whether it will hold up under stress. I am skeptical, but optimistic.
Note that C++ has some type system warts (e.g. non-transitive const, requiring iterator as well as const_iterator) that make it quite ugly, but while C++'s type system is a little wrong at parts, it doesn't stop you from getting work done like D's sometimes does.
Edit: To clarify, I believe that C++ has a better thought out type system – not necessarily a better one – if that makes sense. Essentially, in D I feel that there is a risk involved in using all aspects of its type system that isn't present in C++.
D is sometimes a little too convenient
One criticism that you often hear of C++ is that it hides some low-level issues from you e.g. simple assignments like a = b; could be doing many things like calling conversion operators, calling overload assignment operators etc., which can be difficult to see from the code. Some people like this, some people don't. Either way, in D it is worse (better?) due to things like opDispatch, @property, opApply, lazy which have the potential to change innocent looking code into things that you don't expect.
I don't think this is a big issue personally, but some might find this off-putting.
D requires garbage-collection
This could be seen as controversial because it is possible to run D without the GC. However, just because it is possible doesn't mean it is practical. Without a GC, you lose a lot of D's features, and using the standard library would be like walking in a minefield (who knows which functions allocate memory?). Personally, I think it is totally impractical to use D without a GC, and if you aren't a fan of GCs (like I am) then this can be quite off-putting.
Naive array definitions in D allocate memory
This is a pet peeve of mine:
int[3] a = [1, 2, 3]; // in D, this allocates then copies
int a[3] = {1, 2, 3}; // in C++, this doesn't allocate
Apparently, to avoid the allocation in D, you must do:
static const int[3] staticA = [1, 2, 3]; // in data segment
int[3] a = staticA; // non-allocating copy
These little 'behind your back' allocations are good examples of my previous two points.
Edit: Note that this is a known issue that is being worked on.
Edit: This is now fixed. No allocation takes place.
I've focussed on the negatives of D vs C++ because that's what the question asked, but please don't see this post as a statement that C++ is better than D. I could easily make a larger post of places where D is better than C++. It's up to you to make the decision of which one to use.


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Penticton has engaged the services of a recruitment agency following Annette Antoniak's departure in February, while Keremeos is faced with a similar process with the recent announcement that CAO Laurie Taylor is moving on.
"Council governs and makes policy, while the CAO ensures staff carries out the policy or actions of council. The CAO oversees the financial and operational matters of the city and departments," says Penticton Mayor Andrew Jakubeit, who added the position is a very specialized one.
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I grew up on this show (along with the A-Team and many others) and just today after 20 years I realized something. Most of those jumps and explosions that Kit drives through were filmed with a remote control car! The wheels give it away, they do an amazing job preserving the scale of everything else.
I just can't believe its been a model all this time. I thought they had a tricked out car or something.
But to be fair not all the stunts are by an RC car, just... a bunch of them.
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Q&A: I'm afraid journaling will open up a "can of worms"
Answer by Alan Gordon, LCSW
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Sealing the can of worms as the GP you saw suggested is what likely lead to PPD symptoms in the first place. It is important to explore this pain, but make sure to do it responsibly. By that I mean either
A.) with the assistance of a therapist
B.) gradually and mindfully
C.) when you aren't feeling overwhelmed by new stressors.
Often people feel worse before they feel better, as it can be more immediately painful to expose oneself to emotional pain; but be sure to take it slowly so that you're able to tolerate the pain.
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