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This document highlights the main differences between the original EFL API (known from now on as Legacy API) and the new EFL API based on Eo objects (dubbed Unified API). The Unified API was introduced in EFL 1.21, early in 2018.
Both APIs can be used simultaneously, but support for the Legacy one will be dropped in the future, and therefore usage of the Unified API is strongly recommended in new code.
NOTE: Meanwhile the Legacy API is still the default, enabling the Unified API requires defining two compilation symbols,
EFL_BETA_API_SUPPORT, as can be seen in the tutorials and examples.
In the Unified EFL you no longer access the main loop directly. Each application may run in a different loop and therefor there be no single main loop. To access the main loop for your application retain a reference to the loop that was passed in to your main function as
event->object. To retain a reference, add the following code to your application:
Efl_Loop *main_loop = event->object
Programming guides: Unified EFL, Legacy EFL
efl_add(EFL_LOOP_TIMER_CLASS, ...) and destroyed with
efl_event_callback_add(timer_object, EFL_LOOP_TIMER_EVENT_TICK, ...).
ECORE_CALLBACK_RENEW or
ECORE_CALLBACK_CANCEL anymore. If you want a one-shot timer, remove it from the callback after it has fired once.
ecore_timer_interval_set/get() ->
ecore_timer_pending_get() ->
ecore_timer_reset() ->
ecore_timer_freeze/thaw() ->
ecore_timer_*() methods should not be used in new code.
Programming guides: Unified EFL, Legacy EFL
efl_add(EFL_LOOP_FD_CLASS, ...) and destroyed with
efl_event_callback_add(), possible events are
_WRITE and
fd and
fd_file properties .
ecore_main_fd_*() methods should not be used in new code.
Programming guides: Unified EFL, Legacy EFL
ecore_idler_add() ->
efl_event_callback_add(loop_object, EFL_LOOP_EVENT_IDLE, ...)
ecore_idler_enterer_add() ->
efl_event_callback_add(loop_object, EFL_LOOP_EVENT_IDLE_ENTER, ...)
ecore_idler_exiter_add() ->
efl_event_callback_add(loop_object, EFL_LOOP_EVENT_IDLE_EXIT, ...)
ecore_idler_*() methods should not be used in new code.
In the Unified Efl.Ui widgets are visible and set to expand by default whilst in Legacy EFL they had to be shown after the correct weight and alignment were set. This should not cause any need for code changes but should mean that UI setup code is much shorter.
Programming guides: Unified EFL, Legacy EFL
evas_object_resize() ->
evas_object_size_hint_min_set/get() ->
evas_object_size_hint_max_set/get() ->


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ZURICH, SWITZERLAND —Kraft Foods Inc. has opened its new European Biscuit Research and Development Center in Saclay, France. The facility represents a $20 million investment and will support product development for many European brands.
"France is an important market for biscuits in Europe and for Kraft Foods' snacking business globally," said Timothy P. Cofer, president of Kraft Foods Europe. "This investment makes good business sense, supporting us in our efforts to drive future biscuit innovation and growth. Consumers in Europe and around the world have long enjoyed our exceptional biscuit brands, and with the support of this new center we will be able to create many more delicious snacking moments for our consumers for years to come."
The center will provide support for the LU, belVita, Oreo, Mikado, Prince, Saiwa and TUC brands among others.
Kraft has 15% market share of the biscuit market in Europe, and the company's European biscuit business has been growing more than two times faster than the European biscuits market overall, according to the company.

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My wife and I have been visiting Marimar Estate Vineyards & Winery in the Sonoma County town of Graton for quite a few years now. We went back again this week and had another great food and wine experience. Founded by Marimar Torres, a member of the prominent Torres winemaking family in Spain, Marimar Estate … Continue reading A winery my mother would have loved
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Making a small fortune in the wine business
You've heard the old joke, right? Q: How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? A: You start with a large fortune and lose some of it. A clear sign of our dubious sanity is our decision to become wine importers and online retailers, despite not starting with a large fortune. Today … Continue reading Making a small fortune in the wine business
Top 10 Ways To Show Off At Wine Tasting
Wine tasting trips can be fun and exciting, especially if the destination is a superior winery located in a renowned wine region such as Napa Valley, Tuscany, Bordeaux, Rioja, or any of the New World regions (Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina). These trips can also be intimidating given the massive amount of science that gets shared … Continue reading Top 10 Ways To Show Off At Wine Tasting
Rioja, Oregon
The mother (and mother-in-law) of this blog-writing duo was born and raised in Spain and did not come to the United States until she was thirty years old. She brought with her a fierce pride of her homeland; nowhere was this fierceness more evident than in her preferred beverage: red wine from Rioja. She refused to … Continue reading Rioja, Oregon


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The Infection Control nurses are starting a project with support from the GP's to look at reducing urinary tract infections in care homes. The To dip or not to dip project has been successful in several areas of England including Halton and we are now introducing it for the St Helens and Warrington care homes.
We are currently in the process of providing training to all care home staff in St Helens and Warrington.
As you should all be aware the Department of Health have set a target to reduce Ecoli bacteraemia and urinary tract infections are the most common cause of this. By doing this project we hope to reduce the number of urinary tract infections reported.
Once you have completed your training session you will be given all your to dip or not to dip resources to help you start the project in your care home.
A copy of all the resources used in the training and for the project can be found at the bottom of the page.


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Jake Gaddis
I'm a senior finance and real estate double major, I've been a brother of Phi Sig since the spring of my freshman year. When I'm not in Blacksburg I'm usually sitting on the beach, cutting your grass, or trying to sell your house. But most importantly, at Virginia Tech, I'm DAMN PROUD to be a Phi Sig!


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Upcoming Changes to Primal Ancients
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Community Manager Tyvalir took to the forums yesterday to give some details regarding the upcoming changes to Primal Ancient items on the Public Test Realm. Instead of just being rarer versions of Ancient items with higher rolls, they will now roll perfect Ancient level stats and only start dropping after you complete Greater Rift 70 solo. Perfect stat ranges will also be kept when rerolling them at the Mystic. Along with these changes they will also be increasing the amount of Forgotten Souls that you get when salvaging Ancient items to 3 while Primal Ancients will salvage into 15.
Hey all,
As we mentioned previously, getting your feedback on Primal Ancients has been super helpful. We've heard some really good points, and along with this, we'll be making some changes to how these items work in an upcoming PTR patch.
Rather than increase the power they give you beyond Ancient items, Primal Ancients will now instead roll perfect Ancient-level stats tailored to the character class you're playing when the item first drops. Rerolling any of these at the Mystic will also yield only perfect rolls.
Along with this, these items will be even more rare than they currently are, and will only begin dropping after a character on your account has completed Greater Rift 70 solo (with separate unlocks for Hardcore and normal characters).
Finally, we hear you on wanting Ancient and Primal Ancient items to salvage into something more valuable. With the upcoming PTR patch, Ancient items will salvage into 3 Forgotten Souls, and Primal Ancients will salvage into 15 Forgotten Souls (yay reforging \o/).
We're looking forward to hearing your feedback once you've had a chance to test these changes. Thanks again, and happy hunting.
Keep in mind that this is all still subject to change as patch 2.5 is still on the PTR, so I encourage everyone playing on it to keep giving their feedback to help Blizzard tune and tweak this system.
How do you feel about these changes? Do you think it's a better solution? Or did you like the previous iteration better? Let us know in the comments below!


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- The merger deal is to be valued at 6.2 billion pounds.
- This deal follows CMA's nod to the Amazon and Deliveroo merger.
In a recent news, UK competition watchdog has given a nod to the merger deal between two food delivery behemoths, Just Eat and Takeaway.com. As per reliable reports, the clearance of 6.2 billion pound deal comes days after Britain's approval of Amazon's investment in Deliveroo.
It has been reported that the combined Just Eat Takeway.com JV has generated a funding of 700 million euros, produced in form of new shares and convertible bonds. Speculations have it that the acquisition deal was initially valued at USD 10 million but now it is being valued at 6.2 billion pounds.
According to a press release, it was mentioned that the fresh funding generated by the companies unitedly would be used to partially pay down debts, and revolving credit facilities currently being utilized by both of these companies while working extensively on the future opportunities that may arise.
Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it was unconditionally approving the companies' merger deal. Post analyzing the future of this deal, CMA further said that it is now clear that the deal would not reduce competition in the market.
Online food delivery services have been an eminent business in the world of tech as of now, as they bring together restaurants and consumers who are currently stuck at home, due to ongoing coronavirus spread and are craving for restaurant food. However, the governmental orders amended pertaining to lockdown given the rising cases have brought about a halt in the business growth of these companies.
Apparently, the shares in Just Eat Takeaway.com, which now trades as a special entity on the London Stock Exchange recorded a downfall of over 2% as on 23rd April morning, accounting to the massive COVID-19 outbreak.
Source credit: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/23/justeat-takeaway-7-6b-merger-approved-pair-pick-up-756m-in-new-funding/


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Last Monday morning, on our first official day of summer vacation, I packed the kids in the car and headed over to Classy Mommy's house. Colleen from Classy Mommy, Shannon & Sarah from Chester County Moms and I were helping to host a playdate and demo by a company called MobiStories that happens to be local to the Philadelphia area.
MobiStories makes apps for reading children's books digitally – you can use them on your iPhone or iPad or on your desktop computer. There's something for any kid within the ages 2-10 range and my boys (6&3) loved playing with these applications.
As we're pretty electronics savvy over here, my kids picked up playing with the iPhone app in no time. I downloaded their book, "The Marvelous Toy" and both of my boys took to it.
What's neat and different about this product is that it's interactive – the story is not only read to them but they flip the pages with their fingers and they can click on the various pages to interact and have things move and dance.
The kids had a fabulous time! MobiStories brought in a face painter and balloon twister. We had Chick-Fil-A for lunch, which is everyone's favorite!
Be sure to check out MobiStories both on the iTunes store and on their website! If you don't have an i-something, you can easily download their program right onto your website. Right now you can sign up for their free book, "Ship" right on their website.


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Los Angeles, CA — Police officers have an extremely high pressure job, particularly in large cities. At any minute they could be called to act in a dangerous situation, like a high speed pursuit or a standoff with an armed suspect. Officers are generally given a certain degree of leeway to use their own best judgment to resolve a volatile situation and restore order, but there are rules about the use of force by officers. Breaking those rules means that officers can face official reprimand and the possibility of criminal prosecution.
This week a letter from the District Attorney's office revealed that three LAPD officers who shot an unarmed man following a police pursuit would not face criminal charges for their actions. On December 13, 2013, Armando Corral, Leonardo Ortiz, and Michael Ayala shot Brian Beaird, 51, a total of 13 times following a police pursuit that ended in downtown LA. Both the crash and the shooting were captured live by TV cameras. A toxicology report from the coroner's office showed that Beaird, a national guard veteran, had multiple drugs in his system at the time of his death.
Because the incident unfolded at night, prosecutors have said that it can not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers couldn't possibly have interpreted Beaird's hand movements as reaching for a gun, rather than raising his hands to surrender.
Although the officers will not face criminal prosecutions, Police Chief Charlie Beck announced in December of last year that it had been determined that they had broken department rules about the use of force. They are currently suspended without pay. Last summer the city council settled a civil rights lawsuit from Beaird's family for $5 million.
No matter what charges you're facing, the worst decision you can make if you've been accused of a crime is to act as your own attorney. Though there have been examples of laymen successfully defending themselves, these are decidedly the exception rather than the rule. A qualified criminal defense attorney has years of training and experience arguing cases in court that can be an invaluable resource throughout the process of an investigation and trial.
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Abdollah, Tami. "No charges filed against LAPD officers who fatally shot man." http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/02/23/50014/no-charges-filed-against-lapd-officers-who-fatally/. 89.3 KPCC. 23 February 2015.
Mather, Kate. "LAPD officers won't be charged in fatal shooting of Corvette driver." http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-criminal-charges-corvette-shooting-20150223-story.html. Los Angeles Times. 23 February 2015.


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Felodipine-loaded poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) microspheres were prepared by two methods, the conventional emulsion solvent evapouration method and the quenching method. The aim of this work was to investigate the effects of process parameters such as emulsion type, drug loading, molecular-weight of the polymer, types of emulsion stabilizer and dispersed phase solvents, as well as preparation methods. The results show that, when conventional emulsion solvent evapouration method was used, the o/w-method produced smaller mean size and higher encapsulation efficiency compared with the o/o-method. The encapsulation efficiencies increased with an increase in the molecular weight and a decrease in crystallinity of PCL. The size of microspheres varied with the type of emulsion stabilizer used, smaller microspheres with PVA and narrow size distribution with Pol 237. The water solubility of the dispersed phase solvent was one of the critical factors in controlling the encapsulation efficiency and microsphere mean size. When water-soluble solvents such as acetonitrile and ethyl formate were used, the encapsulation efficiencies decreased due to higher evapouration rate. When quenching methods were used, in contrast to the conventional emulsion solvent evapouration method, very narrowly size-distributed but bigger microspheres were obtained.
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|Journal of Microencapsulation
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- Conventional emulsion solvent evapouration method
- Felodipine
- Microsphere
- Poly(ε-caprolactone)
- Quenching method
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Bioengineering
- Pharmaceutical Science
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Colloid and Surface Chemistry


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It's August! Which means it's nearly harvest time and the days of summer go by in a blur. It also means it's time for my round-up of things I'm loving:
Method Laundry Detergent
Or, really, any Method product. I love all of their stuff and use it nearly exclusively. Their laundry detergent smells amazing, and there are so many wonderful scents to choose from, gets the clothes clean, and smells even better after being dried on a clothesline.
All Linda Lael Miller Books
I started off my obsession with 'old-timey' western romances like this and now I just buy whatever she puts out next. The last crop of novels have had a more modern setting (although 'pantsuit' is used far too often), and any of her books are perfect for curling up on the deck or laying out on the beach.
Citronella Oil
It's summer. Which means bugs. Which means it's time to make some citronella candles! If you plan on making more than one, you'll need a big bottle and this guy does the trick and smells amazing. Not sure of a recipe? Check out my super strong citronella candles here. Don't forget to read the label and directions when it comes to essential oils! Although natural, natural things can cause harm if too much is used or used improperly!
Pearl Slides
These absolutely fabulous shoes! I ordered these on a fun whim from JustFab and fell.in.love. They're so comfy, look amazing, and the heel is a string of pearls. Anyone who knows me, knows my weakness is pearls.
And, really, just any yoga pants in general. I live in yoga capri pants or shorts all summer long, especially when working in the garden. I honestly love Fabletics yoga pants so much; they fit me perfect (nearly) every time and are affordable. While I had never owned a pair of Lulus before (I'm sorry, I haven't!), these yoga pants kick expensive brands butts!


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Today 13th November 2015, the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), the world's largest support network for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) announced a new partnership with 31 Local Enterprise Offices in Ireland. This will mean free access for Irish companies to Europe's largest database with up to 10,000 new business and technology opportunities in the EU and many other major global markets.
Speaking today at the announcement, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD commented: "This new partnership between the Enterprise Europe Network and the Local Enterprise Offices will provide Irish companies with an important gateway into the EU and a bigger footprint globally. I am confident that this new partnership will help our companies forge new international partnerships which will contribute to a boost in Irish exports".
The Enterprise Europe Network in Ireland is a joint partnership between Enterprise Ireland, Local Enterprise Offices, Dublin Chamber of Commerce and Cork Chamber of Commerce. Launched in January, the Network is co-financed under 'COSME', the EU funding programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs. The services are tailored for SMEs but are also available to all other businesses, universities and research centres.
Also speaking at the announcement Tom Hayes, Divisional Manager, Regions & Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Ireland said: "Today's announcement will open doors for Irish companies to foster new partnerships and access up to 60 international markets, get advice on EU funding and support on bringing their innovative products and technologies to a global audience. It is an important step in bringing Irish companies closer to our European counterparts, and will enhance the services that Local Enterprise Offices can offer Irish companies".
Oisin Geoghegan, Local Enterprise Offices commented: "As the first-stop shop for enterprise, the network of Local Enterprise Offices' role is to encourage a culture of entrepreneurship in Ireland. In partnership with the Enterprise Europe Network, Local Enterprise Offices across the country can now support SMEs in becoming more knowledgeable and competitive in global markets, leading to greater international business opportunities".
Information on the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) can be found on the dedicated Irish website www.een-ireland.ie as well as the EU website http://een.ec.europa.eu/. To access your local EEN advisor please contact your Local Enterprise Office, Enterprise Ireland or Dublin Chamber of Commerce / Cork Chamber of Commerce.
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The industry of commercial trucks is increasing with each day. Commercial truck financing is very beneficial when it comes to starting a business without a huge bank balance. Commercial truck financing can be used for various purposes. It can be very beneficial in the situation where
- You want to buy a new truck or an old one.
- You want to lease a new or a used truck.
- You want to get your truck repaired or upgraded.
There are various commercial truck financing terms associated with different financing options. But let us first take a look at what exactly are financing terms.
What are the financing terms?
To categorize financing terms, they are generally of two kinds. The two kinds are short-term financing and long-term financing.
The short-term financing includes short loans which are required to be paid within a year or so. This is also generally termed as working capital. The long-term financing provides larger loans that are supposed to be paid in more than one year. Generally, commercial truck financing terms stretch from 24 months to 72 (in rare occasions, 84) months.
The various commercial truck financing options have different terms. Let us now look into different commercial truck financing terms.
Different Commercial Truck Financing Terms
With the increasing demand for commercial truck financing, the options have also increased. It now covers options ranging from 0 down payments to having a good credit score. Let's look at the various options and their commercial truck financing terms one by one.
Zero down payment
Commercial truck financing gives you the option to buy or lease a truck even with a little money. You can always look for options with no money down. After you have matched the qualifications, you can avail of this option for both lease and truck buying. This requires you to pay more interest to the end.
So, what are the commercial truck financing terms if you choose this option? The terms will majorly depend on the lender in such a case. If you are approaching a traditional bank, you can expect a longer-term. If you are considering alternative options like online lenders, they will have a shorter term.
In general, you can expect a term anywhere between 1- 7 years.
Bad Credit
Are you worried that bad credit will be a hindrance if you want a loan for your truck? If so, you should explore options that will give you a loan regardless of your credit score. You are eligible even with bad credit, but it will cost you more.
This option isn't available in traditional banks, but some online lenders and companies offer this. The financing terms, in this case, will also depend on the lender. The loans of this category are classified as subprime loans.
Subprime loan lenders usually have a shorter financial term. They require frequent payments. This is done to ensure that you can meet your financial obligations.
Fair Credit
There is no option which you can't explore with fair credit. Fair credit gives you an edge in financing. With a fair credit score, you can approach traditional banks where they will give you good rates.
Semi-truck financing becomes the best option to explore with fair credits. It gives you a better rate and better terms. Fair credit also makes you match the required qualification without many issues.
The commercial truck financing terms on this one varies, but there is a possibility of negotiation. Repayment plans can last up to seven years in such a case. An important point to note is that the longer-term will require you to pay higher interests. If there is a possibility to negotiate and pay it sooner, go for a shorter term.
Commercial Truck Financing for Start-ups
If you are starting with the commercial truck industry, look for companies specializing in equipment financing. Start-ups need a tailored guide which is designed according to the needs of entrepreneurs.
Start-ups usually face a little difficulty in getting their loan approved. They are considered to be a risky investment. You have higher chances if you have been in business for a longer period. But this doesn't mean that financing for start-ups is impossible. Cardiff, Financial Pacific Leasing, Bryn Mawr Trust is known to provide commercial truck financing terms to start-up trucking companies.
In this case, the repayment and the commercial truck financing terms will depend on your qualifications. It is better to use credit for loan payment rather than paying it off for several years. The growth of start-up varies with each month, and thus this gives you flexibility on the terms.
Financing Fleet
If you have financed trucks successfully in the past, it will be beneficial in financing. There will be little or no objection from the lender's side if you already have a fleet. This gives lenders a sense of security. The lenders will consider your past experiences and evaluate them.
The commercial truck financing terms for a fleet can range anywhere from six months to six years. The longer terms will be convenient but will ultimately lead you to pay more. A shorter-term will cost you less but will burden your monthly payments. Choose your payment term accordingly. Look for one which will not burden you.
Financing of Semi-Trucks
In such financing, the lender will pay for your new truck, and you will promise to pay it back. Semi-truck financing is a separate category as they need more maintenance and careful handling. The lender, in such cases, will review your credit history. This is done to make sure that you are capable of paying it back.
The financing term for semi-trucks depends on the lender you are approaching. It could range anywhere between 4-10 years. If possible, consider going for a shorter term to ultimately save more.
The commercial truck financing terms depend on the type of financing you are opting for. It also depends on the lender and your qualifications. In most of the cases, longer-term causes you to ultimately pay more interest than the shorter term.
A shorter-term is a little burden on the monthly expenses, but it is the best option if you can afford it. Talk to your lender and try to negotiate wherever possible.


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December 20, 2018
In a letter to the Qatari Ambassador to the U.S., ADL explained that his government has a moral obligation to discourage anti-Semitic cartoons, as such hateful incitement constitutes a clear violation of Qatari law.
His Excellency Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani
Embassy of the State of Qatar
2555 M Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20037
Dear Ambassador Al Thani:
As you may know, ADL has long been monitoring international media outlets for anti-Semitic content, such as cartoons, and has documented them in articles and reports we publish and share with U.S. and foreign government officials.
I am writing you to raise concern about a broad array of anti-Semitic cartoons published in recent years by your country's newspapers, most notably on Qatar's al-Raya news site by cartoonist Umayya Juha. These cartoons, a sampling of which are included below, go far beyond questioning or critiquing Israeli policies and instead spread bigotry and hatred toward the Jewish people, drawing on some of the worst anti-Semitic themes and giving them new life.
We are bringing this to your attention because, first and foremost, your government has a moral obligation to discourage this sort of hateful incitement. Second, such incitement constitutes a clear violation of Qatari law, to which your government has a duty to respond.
Qatar's foundational 1979 press law prohibits – under penalty of closure, fines, or jail time – the publication of "any ridicule of or contempt toward any of the religions or their doctrines, including any motivation of sectarian, racial, or religious trends" or any content that harms goodwill toward a person through "defamation".[1]
Yet many of these cartoons do exactly that, portraying Jewish people as delighting in or even drinking Palestinian blood, most recently by Juha on 11 December and 18 September, while many others dehumanize or demonize Jews and/or the Jewish state by depicting them as animals, often monstrous ones, such as a snake, a wolf, or an octopus strangling the al-Aqsa Mosque. Some cartoons in the Qatari press propagate anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of Jewish world domination. Others make use of swastikas in ways that falsely suggest Israel is engaging in systematic and industrial-scale extermination of the Palestinian people akin to what Jewish people experienced in Nazi death camps.
The attached cartoons are only a small sample exemplifying the breadth and severity of anti-Semitic manifestations in Qatari cartoons, particularly those by Juha but by no means exclusively. ADL is a strong supporter of freedom of the press both in the United States and around the globe. At the same time, we insist that leaders have an obligation to stand up to hatred, and to uphold the standards set by their society. I respectfully urge your government to enforce its press laws equally and to stop turning a blind eye to this bigoted and dangerous defamation of the Jewish people.
Mr. Ambassador, recent tragic events have demonstrated that demonizing words and images have real consequences. Not only do such messages foment hate and make coexistence and understanding more difficult to achieve, but they can incite some to violence.
I look forward to your timely reply and hope we can work together to convey a strong message whereby defamation and demonization have no place in the Qatari press.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt
CEO and National Director
Anti-Defamation League
[1] Qatar's Law Number 8 of 1979 on Publications and Publishing, published in the official gazette on January 1, 1979. (http://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=414&language=en)


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I'm still adjusting to the local weather in Phnom Penh. The humidity is daunting and a drastic change after the time in South Africa and New Zealand. The Royal Palace complex is near my accommodation, and although I've walked past it many times, decided to take a tour.
Royal Palace Complex
The Royal Palace complex is spectacular! Since the 1860s (except the reign of the Khmer Rouge) it includes the royal residence of the King of Cambodia. Constructed in the mid-19th century and situated at the western bank of the Tonle Sap and Mekong Rivers, the grounds have abundant lush gardens with gorgeous tropical flowers. Buildings in the complex include:
- Silver Pagoda
- Throne Hall
- Moonlight Pavilion
- Chan Chhaya Pavilion
- Hor Samran Phirun, the Khemarin Palace
"The establishment of the Royal Palace at Phnom Penh in 1866 is a comparatively recent event in the history of the Khmer and Cambodia. From 802 AD until the early 15th century, the seat of Khmer power in the region rested at or near Angkor north of the Great Tonle Sap Lake. After being destroyed by Siam, the Khmer court moved from Angkor in the 15th century and settled in Phnom Penh and stayed for some decades. By 1494 the palace moved on to Basan, later Longvek, and then Oudong. The capital did not return to Phnom Penh until the 19th century and there is no record or remnants of any Royal Palace in Phnom Penh before the 19th century."
King Sisowath
King Sisowath (1904–1927) made several major contributions to the Royal Palace. He added Phochani Hall, demolished several old buildings, and replaced and expanded the old Chanchhaya Pavilion and Throne Hall with the current structures. Though some European elements remain, these buildings employ traditional Khmer artistic style and Angkorian inspired design, particularly in Throne Hall.
The next major construction was in the 1930s with demolition of the Royal Chapel and old Royal Residence and construction of the Khemarin Palace which serves as the Royal residence today. Since then, the only other significant additions have been the 1956 additions of the Villa Kantha Bopha to accommodate foreign guests and the 1953 construction of the Damnak Chan originally installed to house the High Council of the Throne.
Pagodas, Palaces, Halls, Pavilions
Built gradually, the complex has three main compounds divided by walls. On the north side is the Silver Pagoda, to the south is the Khemarin Palace, and the central compound has Throne Hall. Some of the buildings in the complex were dismantled and rebuilt as late as the 1960s and others date back to the 14th century."
Throne Hall
Throne Hall is where the king's confidants, generals, and royal officials once carried out their duties. Today it's a place for religious and royal ceremonies (coronations and royal weddings) as well as a meeting place for guests of the King. Constructed in 1917, the cross-shaped building has a crown of three spires, a royal throne, and busts of Cambodians kings of the past.
Moonlight Pavilion
Moonlight Pavilion is an open-air pavilion that serves as a stage for Khmer classical dance. It's easily seen from the outside and one of the most notable buildings of the palace complex.
Chanchhaya Pavilion
Chanchhaya Pavilion has a balcony used as a platform for viewing parades marching along Sothearos Boulevard. The current Pavilion is the second incarnation of the Chanchhaya Pavilion. Chanchhaya Pavilion dominates the façade of the Palace on Sothearos Boulevard. It serves as a venue for the Royal Dancers, a tribune for the King to speak to the crowds, and a place to hold state and Royal banquets. The 2004 coronation of King Norodom Sihamonihe was in the Chanchhaya Pavilion.
Silver Pagoda
Silver Pagoda is a compound on the south side of the palace complex. It features a royal temple commonly called Wat Preah which most notably houses a small 17th century baccarat crystal Buddha and a near-life-size, Maitreya Buddha encrusted with 9,584 diamonds dressed in royal regalia commissioned by King Sisowath. During King Sihanouk's pre-Khmer Rouge reign, the Silver Pagoda was inlaid with more than 5,000 silver tiles and some of its outer façade has Italian marble.
Khemarin Palace
Hor Samran Phirun, the Khemarin Palace, is the common English name for a building called Prasat Khemarin, in Khmer meaning the "Palace of the Khmer King." It is the residence by the King of Cambodia. Separated from other buildings in the complex and not open to the public, this compound is to the right of Throne Hall and the top of the main building has a single spired prang.
A Khmer guide led the tour and by the end, I was getting the names and history of the pavilions mixed up – at any rate, they're quite stunning and beautiful and it was a lovely place to spend the afternoon.
Tomorrow I'll take a tuk-tuk ride to Tong Sleng Museum and the Russian Market. More later…


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Desperate to end the bloodbath on the streets of Kingston from four days of shootouts between Jamaican security forces and supporters of a fugitive drug lord, US officials are negotiating his surrender to face federal cocaine trafficking and gun-running charges in New York, The Post has learned.
The lawyer of accused drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke has been in contact with US authorities about a voluntary extradition, a source said.
The source speculated that Coke wants to avoid being killed by Jamaican police and troops who are attacking his stronghold in the capital city.
As many as 49 people have been killed in Kingston since Monday, when Jamaican authorities stormed a slum where Coke resides after Prime Minister Bruce Golding decided to extradite him to face trial in Manhattan after months of opposing such a move.
Most of the dead were young men, gang supporters of Coke, who were killed when heavily armed security forces stormed the Tivoli Gardens slum that US prosecutors say served as a "garrison" for his supporters.
Up to 500 people have been detained in connection with the search for Coke, reputed head of a criminal organization known as the Shower Posse, which murdered hundreds of people by "showering" them with bullets during the 1980s cocaine wars.
"Security forces are under extreme pressure now," said Mark Shields, Jamaica's former deputy police commissioner, who now runs a private security firm. "We have urban war going on."
The US Justice Department calls Coke "one of the world's most dangerous narcotics kingpins," but in Jamaica, he also has cultivated the image of a Robin Hood whose minions dole out food and cash to poor residents.
Coke, 41, was indicted in 2007 in Manhattan federal court for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and cocaine, and for firearms-trafficking conspiracy. The charges, which became public only this week, carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison if he's convicted, and millions of dollars in fines.
The indictment, which only this week became public, said that Coke has since the early 1990s controlled a barricaded Tivoli Gardens, which is guarded by gunmen whom he controls.
"From at least . . . 1994, members of the organization have been involved in drug trafficking in the New York area, Kingston, Jamaica, and elsewhere," charges the indictment.
"Organization members purchase firearms in the United States and ship those firearms to Jamaica."
"Once those firearms arrive in Jamaica, Coke decides how and to whom they will be distributed. Coke's access to firearms, as well as cash, serves to support and increase his authority and power in Kingston, Jamaica, and elsewhere."
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Between spying on reporters and navigating new state marijuana laws, the U.S. Department of Justice has been preoccupied with some strange things lately. So it's nice to see DOJ getting back to basics – corporate crime and corruption
Today, a federal grand jury in North Carolina "will begin hearing evidence on whether North Carolina regulators looked the other way when toxic coal ask leaked from Duke Energy power plants. Coal ash is the sludge left over when coal is burned to make electricity, and there was a massive leak of its last month in the Dan River." According to the Raleigh News Observer, "Federal prosecutors have issued at least 23 grand jury subpoenas" and the grand jury is "set to meet behind closed doors from Tuesday to Thursday in the federal courthouse in Raleigh to examine documents, video and other materials with the Duke executives and 18 current and former N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources employees summoned to the hearing."
As we noted in an earlier post, North Carolina officials essentially blocked citizens suit, which were filed against Duke over these coal ash sites. The governor, who worked for Duke for 28 years, intervened apparently for the sole purpose of protecting the company. And since our post, we have also learned that, "[i]nternal emails between staff at North Carolina's environmental agency show state regulators were coordinating with Duke Energy before intervening in efforts by citizens groups trying to sue the company over pollution leeching from its coal ash dumps." Hopefully, voters have a long memory.
And then there's GM. Yesterday, another 1.5 million vehicles were recalled after last month's recall of 1.6 million cars with faulty ignition switches. GM's new chief, Mary Barra, said in a new apology video, "Something went wrong with our process in this instance, and terrible things happened." But this new "mea culpa" attitude might not be enough to stop criminal indictments.
Last week, DOJ "launched a criminal investigation into whether an ignition defect linked to 13 fatalities was ignored by General Motors for over a decade before it launched a massive recall last month." Notes Bloomberg, "Besides the U.S. Justice Department probe, GM must answer to Congress, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Transportation Department and lawyers the company hired to investigate itself." And also, their victims. Last Friday, "the first U.S. class action related to the ignition-switch recall" was filed in Texas federal court." We'll keep you posted.


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Beautiful Mountains to Visit in the USA
Poised swamp woods, tawny prairies, hissing seacoast dunes – all landscapes are rich in the old magic of the earth. Few, however, so grip us as mountains. The United States has a wealth of mighty peaks, shaped by tectonic spasm, grinding ice and gnawing water, which anchor vistas in the Appalachians, Rockies, Sierra and all the other great ranges of the country. Each claims its own special presence, but even a mere sampling of stunners from across the lower 48 – Alaska's wild mountains and the Hawaiian volcanoes deserve their own treatment – suggests the rarefied splendor of the continent's rooftop.
At 5,267 feet, Maine's Katahdin isn't the highest peak in the Appalachian Range – a number of summits in the Great Smokies and Black Mountains of the Southern Appalachians exceed 6,500 feet – but it is among the most commanding in appearance. Heavily engraved by Pleistocene glaciers, Katahdin sports broad cirques – ice-gouged amphitheaters – dropping from its crest; from certain perspectives, these broken bowls resemble a caldera, or collapsed volcanic crater, although granitic Katahdin is not a volcano. Because of its northerly position, the peak, famously climbed by Thoreau, has extensive above-treeline country. It's the centerpiece of big, primitive Baxter State Park, where you can hike to the summit or engage in some of New England's best technical climbing in between moose-watching outings.
Pilot Peak
The Absaroka Range of southwestern Montana and northwestern Wyoming is among the country's wildest and most aloof, linchpin as it is of the vast Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. One of its chief landmarks is 11,708-foot Pilot Peak, a lightning-rod spire situated close to the northeastern boundary of Yellowstone National Park. A textbook example of a glacially carved horn, Pilot Peak reared only a few hundred feet above the massive Yellowstone Ice Cap during the Pleistocene. Pilot Peak is strikingly visible to travelers approaching the park off the Beartooth Plateau – that lake-studded tundra highland abutting the rougher Absarokas – and peers at backcountry hikers in northeastern Yellowstone and the Beartooth and North Absaroka wilderness areas. Anyone trekking to Pilot Peak should be well-schooled in wilderness travel and comfortable sharing space with a healthy population of grizzly bears.
Mount Ritter
Among the grand peaks of an exceptionally grand mountain range, 13,143-foot Mount Ritter is visible on a clear day from a broad swath north and south along the spine of the Sierra Nevada. In sharp contrast to the pale, gleaming granite that makes up many High Sierra summits, Mount Ritter – and the rest of the toothy Ritter Range – is capped with black metamorphic volcanic rock. Mount Ritter and its near neighbors – Banner Peak to the northeast and the Minarets to the southwest – create an unmistakable profile from Mammoth Lakes and anchor the Ansel Adams Wilderness, a haven for hikers and backpackers.
Steens Mountain
Oregon has plenty of noble peaks, from iconic Mount Hood – one of the Cascades' most conical stratovolcanoes – to the bulky, striated Wallowas in the far northeast. One of the least-known of its major summits is 9,733-foot Steens Mountain, a gigantic fault-block whaleback of southeastern Oregon's Great Basin hinterland. Better than 30 miles long, the monumental ridge, defined by a sheer escarpment on its eastern face, dominates the horizon across many miles of semi-arid plain. Extensive Bureau of Land Management acreage on the mountain furnishes access to huge U-shaped gorges – the work of Ice Age glaciers on the Steens crown – floored with transfixing groves of quaking aspen. The parched Alvord Desert in the Steens Mountain lee provides further adventuring opportunities.
Hozomeen Mountain
Legendary mountaineer and Cascade Range expert Fred Beckey, writing in his authoritative "Cascade Alpine Guide," called Hozomeen "one of the classic landmarks of the North Cascades" on account of its "solitary location, vast local relief, and steeply pitched walls of the massive and spectacular summits." Jack Kerouac, who spent a summer fire-lookout season on nearby Desolation Peak staring at Hozomeen, wrote in his "Desolation Angels" (1965): "Hozomeen, Hozomeen, the most beautiful mountain I ever seen." Visitors to the Ross Lake National Recreation Area and the Pasayten Wilderness, the shared boundary of which Hozomeen dominates, are still tantalized by this fierce, twin-headed greenstone titan, which reaches 8,066 feet at its loftiest horn. Whether you're climbing Hozomeen or simply rambling its flanks, spare time for some of the other world-class summits in the vicinity, such as those of the immensely rugged Pickett Range – a bristling nest of fangs that might rightfully be called the heart of the North Cascades.
- SummitPost.org: Katahdin
- Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country; Marc S. Hendrix
- A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide to the Sierra Nevada; Stephen Whitney
- SummitPost.org: Mount Ritter
- SummitPost.org: Steens Mountain
- Cascade Alpine Guide: Rainy Pass to Fraser River; Fred Beckey
- Poets on the Peaks; John Suiter
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When comparing labor costs, "the devil is in the details."
This is the third in a series of articles looking at financial statements from the perspective of someone who has been asked to explain why one or more industry "benchmark'' numbers are so much better or worse than those at his or her own operation. This month's focus is on labor costs which, like food, may be initially considered somewhat straightforward. But on closer examination, labor costs are very often another area where the "devil lies deep in the details."
When most operators look at the components of their labor costs, the list of line items usually includes: salaries/wages; payroll taxes; benefits; employee meals; and other costs. Let's consider a few of the leading questions that might be asked about the first three of these items, where the biggest discrepancies often appear.
Some organizations treat senior department management salaries and related costs as an "other controllable expense." When comparing operations, make sure salaried personnel costs are either included or excluded consistently.
How much of the salary/wage component represents actual time worked, as opposed to "nonproductive" time? There are many situations where, because of longevity and/or collective bargaining agreements, employees receive generous benefits in the form of vacation, holiday, sick leave and personal days off. A sound analysis of this component will identify the percentage of work days that are "nominal" to ensure that two situations are comparable.
How much of the labor cost is attributed to temporary or, in the case of colleges and universities, student labor? It is important to separate these costs out, especially if temporary employees are not eligible for benefits or have a separate benefits package. They should be considered as a separate labor component, not lumped in with full-time workers.
How much of the labor cost is subsidized by local, state or federal governments? Many not-for-profit or government-operated institutions are eligible to receive funds, such as those from work study programs or "welfare-to-work" initiatives. In jails and prisons, for example, much of the work is performed by inmates. If such subsidies exist, they should be identified and taken into account.
What portion of labor cost is attributable to overtime? The recent difficulty in securing qualified personnel has resulted in a high level of overtime expense for many foodservice programs. A sound comparison will recognize overtime pay as an inflationary cost factor, and document to what degree it occurs.
Where collective bargaining agreements exist, are shift differentials and premium pay (for working weekends, holidays, etc.) levels a significant factor within the overall labor cost? Because of the complexity of the bargaining agreements, even senior managers often find it difficult to forecast and budget these costs.
Payroll Taxes
Payroll taxes should be directly comparable, but often aren't. After legally mandated costs are assigned, organizations can vary in the way they treat workers' comp insurance. For example:
- Some treat workers' compensation as a payroll tax (especially if it is a state-operated program); others charge it against benefits.
- Some organizations are self-insured and may or may not charge back workers' compensation to individual departments. This is especially true with schools, colleges and universities.
- Some organizations will show workers' comp as a separate line item under "other controllable expenses." (The reason often given is that they treat it the same as general liability insurance.)
- The manner in which workers' comp costs are calculated vary. Some organizations pass through the actual cost while others charge a percentage of straight-time payroll costs.
- And, for some organizations, insurance represents a subsidiary business enterprise. The expectation is that it will be financially self-sustaining if not a profit center.
The manner in which organizations treat benefits is literally all over the map. The biggest issue is usually whether or not the organization accrues vacation, holiday, sick leave and personal days off expenses. An analysis of a financial statement must clearly address the distinctions. Why?
- Because if such expenses are accrued, the foodservice program is charged for them on an ongoing basis. This gives a fairly accurate representation of actual benefit costs for each reporting period. But if those costs are not accrued, the foodservice program is not charged for that time in question until it is actually used. This creates what the accounting profession calls a "contingent liability."
- Another significant factor in benefits costs has to do with whether employees work a full 12-month year or, in the case of schools, work a nine- or ten-month year, yet receive benefits on a 12-month basis. FM
John Cornyn is a principal with the Cornyn Fasano Group, a foodservice management consulting firm located in Portland, Oregon. He and his partner, Joyce Fasano, coauthored the book Noncommercial Foodservice: An Administrator's Handbook.


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Another session from last week was this cutie named Kip. I first met Kip and his human, Kristie, at the Bay to Barkers event in July when they stopped by to have their photo taken. We had our session at Refugio park in Hercules and Kip was a great subject despite all the activity going on in the park and the myriad kids running by or on their scooters. You see Kip is a senior doggie and blind, but that didn't seem to slow him down much. Kip is Kristie's first dog and she only recently adopted him earlier this year after he was surrendered when his elderly owner was no longer able to care for him. A sad story, but with a happy ending as Kip clearly is devoted to Kristie. He repeatedly crawled into her lap for snuggle.
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Marquette's season to this point has been nothing short of a disappointment. Four games in, the Golden Eagles are 3-1, but about as disappointing as that record can get. The team's only convincing win of the season was by 43 against Grambling State, who Ken Pom ranks as the worst team in all of college basketball.
Thursday's 58-53 victory over New Hampshire sent as bad a message as a win possibly can. Marquette shot an abysmal 32.7 percent and 3-for-23 from beyond the arc against a team ranked 281 in Ken Pom. Overall, the Golden Eagles are shooting 38 percent from the field and 18 percent from three-point range this season.
So it stands to reason that a true road game against a solid Pac-12 squad in the Arizona Sun Devils Monday might overwhelm Marquette.
Everything Arizona State does offensively flows through 5-foot-10 sophomore point guard Jahii Carson. The Mesa, Ariz. native scores 23 points per game and is shooting 55 percent from both the field and three-point range this season. Marquette coach Buzz Williams called Carson a "true early entry" player in his post-game presser Thursday. The Golden Eagles will have to throw their best defender on him at all times in hopes of containing his elite scoring ability.
Carson doesn't do everything on his own, however. The Sun Devils, who score 86 points per game as a team, have two other double digit scorers. Six-foot-4 senior guard Jermaine Marshall scores 15.8 points per game. He shoots a stellar 43 percent from deep and provides ASU with a viable second option on the perimeter alongside Carson. Conversely, 7-foot-2 senior center Jordan Bachynski scores 14 points per game in the post for the Sun Devils. He will present Chris Otule and Davante Gardner with difficulty down low, and the foul situation between those three big men could play a major role in the outcome of Monday's game.
Rounding out ASU's lineup are junior forward Jonathan Gilling and senior forward Shaquielle McKissic. Volgograd, Russia's Egor Koulechov averages 20 minutes off the bench as a wingman.
Marquette's Big Question
Can Marquette make enough shots to win?
I was considering asking a question about Carson and shutting him down defensively, but Marquette's performance Monday will come down to its ability to make shots. The stats are gaudy, but here's another one to consider: Marquette hasn't made double digit field goals in a half since the Grambling game. Outside of that game, the team has made double digit field goals in just one of its six halves. Marquette needs to play a complete offensive game to have any chance of winning on the road against a game opponent in ASU.
Where will the shooting come from? Todd Mayo seems like a likely source. He has attacked aggressively his last two games to limited success, but seems due for big game. Who knows, maybe Jake Thomas can make a few long balls to get Marquette going early. He's got to do something to justify starting for the fifth game in a row.
Game Outlook
If Marquette plays anything like it has the last two games, this is a loss, plain and simple. However, Marquette will wake up on the road and make significantly more shots than it has the last two games. That being said, Carson is a star, and Marquette will struggle to shut him down all night long. The Sun Devils win a close one, 70-65.


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An ultrasonic humidifier carries a number of benefits over other types of humidifiers.
For example, they happen to be the quietest and hence the best types of humidifiers for spaces where silence is precious such as your bedroom, baby nursery, offices, condos, libraries etc.
Another thing: these units mostly produce cool, surrounding mist and you'll lounge in refreshing moisture all year round.
In comparison, humidifiers that emit warm mist (heated moisture) only can raise the room temperature making your rooms less habitable especially if you live in a zone with a warmer climate.
This guide will help you select the best ultrasonic humidifier for your needs.
You shall also discover our favorite ultrasonic humidifiers from what the market offers at the moment.
Read to the end.
What is ultrasonic humidifier?
An ultrasonic humidifier is a class of humidifiers that use ultrasonic technology (high-frequency sound vibrations) to generate moisture and spread it to the air.
The units have a built-in reservoir and a vibrating component such as a diaphragm.
It's the latter that vibrates at an exceptionally high frequency (it so high such that no human being can hear).
These vibrations cause microscopic water droplets to form and be blown to the air filling your environment with a nice, rehydrating humidity.
You certainly understand that unrestrained air dryness during winter can lead to horrendous effects such as dried up lungs, skin, sinuses and the like and it's imperative that you have a humidifier around.
Types of ultrasonic humidifiers
Majorly, you'll find the following types of ultrasonic humidifiers out there:
- Portable/personal ultrasonic humidifiers
- Console ultrasonic humidifiers
- Ultrasonic humidifiers for furnace
Let's briefly look at each of the above types:
Portable/personal ultrasonic humidifiers
These happen to the smallest and most lightweight.
They're pretty portable and thus convenient for your travels, car, or office usage.
A portable ultrasonic humidifier is a clever way to checkmate the crippling consequences of being surrounded by unsavory dry air such as nosebleeds and cracked lips before they get the better of you.
Console ultrasonic humidifier
Ultrasonic console humidifiers tend to be larger than portable models and often add moisture to the whole home (as opposed to a personal space like in portable humidifiers).
They typically come with wheels to allow you to push it to the position where it's most effective in distributing moisture.
You will find them quite effective. In fact, many of them moisten your space within a couple of minutes.
They are, however, costlier than portable models.
Ultrasonic humidifiers for furnace
These are essentially ultrasonic transducers that vibrate water making it a fine mist.
The vapor is then propelled into your furnace's plenum by a fan.
These types of ultrasonic humidifiers ensure there's adequate moisture in centrally heated homes and are mainly fixed to the furnace.
Ultrasonic Humidifiers Buying Guide
Ultrasonic humidifiers are widely available in malls, local convenience stores, online, and more.
Before you order one, however, there are several things you should beware of.
Keep reading.
Room to Moisturize
Size is a big thing and you have to put it into consideration…
How big is the room you want to use the humidifier in?
Is it a tiny bedroom? Or a medium-sized baby nursery? Or perhaps, a vast office space?
If you need a humidifier for the entire home, you should pick a console ultrasonic humidifier.
For smaller rooms and tight spaces, say office cubicles, you should be fine with a portable ultrasonic humidifier.
Ease of cleaning
There will always be a likelihood of residue minerals sticking to some parts of your humidifier because of how these models generate the water particles.
As a result, for any humidifier you intend to buy, ensure that cleaning it is as easy as possible.
Additionally, be sure to check out the manufacturer's guidelines concerning cleaning; the last thing you want is to damage your appliance by using harmful materials/solvents to clean it.
Size is important too
If you're a fervent traveler, research how easily it can be packed/carried around.
Here I'm assuming that you're choosing a portable model because the console ones can be too bulky.
Other questions to ask
- How long does one fill last? The longer, the less the disruptions at night.
- Does it diffuse essential oils? You might want to purchase a humidifier with an essential oils container to enjoy the multiple benefits of engaging in aromatherapy such as stress relief.
- Is the mist output satisfactory? You want to go for a unit with decent dispersal of mist.
- Design: Is it aesthetically pleasing?
Other features
When shopping for an ultrasonic humidifier, you should be keen on features that make it convenient to use.
We list some of them below:
- LED lights– Ultrasonic humidifiers with nightlights help bring glamour to your rooms. Some of them come with even seven different pleasing colors that you can customize to taste.
- Programmable timer-An ultrasonic humidifier with a programmable timer makes it easier for you to control how it works and the duration of the humidification operation.
If, for example, it takes 30 minutes to restore cozy humidity levels, you set it to run for 30 minutes.
This can help lengthen the lifespan of your appliance as it ensures that it only runs when needed.
- Waterless auto-shutdown-You risk damaging your humidifier if you, by chance, leave it to continue running when the reservoir is empty.
And because monitoring the water level continuously is often quite stressful, an ultrasonic humidifier with a waterless auto-shutdown is recommended.
Best Ultrasonic Humidifiers Reviews
So, to make your life simpler, we went out and found some of the best ultrasonic humidifier options suitable for small spaces, hotel rooms, baby's nursery, travel, and more.
We review them here…
Everlasting Comfort ultrasonic Humidifier
Kickstarting our ultrasonic humidifier reviews is this humidifier that's built for baby bedrooms (up to 500 sq. Ft).
The 1.6-gallon tank means it can run for 50 straight hours!
One of the things we like most about this model is the super high mist output- it can reach up to 9oz (270ml) per hour (one of the highest at this level).
We also like this that it is a humidifier/diffuser combo with a separate essential oil tray which means you can practice aromatherapy and benefit immensely health-wise and mentally from the experience.
The Everlasting Comfort ultrasonic Humidifier was built with your baby in mind.
It even comes with a blue LED nightlight to help create serene and soporific surroundings and cause him/her to doze off peacefully.
This humidifier has also been designed to safely operate in the baby's bedroom/nursery and should automatically turn off on running out of water thanks to the auto shut off.
The last thing that sets this model apart from the others is the unique design- the company has built it to work without filters making it an economical choice (no pricey filters to buy).
Overall, this is one of the very best ultrasonic humidifiers on the market.
- Very, very quiet.
- Operates smoothly.
- Excellent build quality.
- The tank is not translucent like in some models.
LEVOIT Ultrasonic Humidifier for Large Room
Levoit portable humidifiers are considered legends in reliability because of their world-class construction quality.
This is hands down the best portable ultrasonic humidifier designed to add moisture to larger rooms (maximum 753 sq. ft.).
The first highlight here is its hybrid mist feature- this unit can disperse either warm or cool mist depending on your needs.
Secondly, the mist is quite strong- in fact, it's at 300ml/hour actually better than in the famous Everlasting ultrasonic humidifier.
Neither is the tank too bad- the 1. 5 gals capacity will have it run about 20-36 hours without interruption.
Not to be outdone by other ultrasonic humidifiers, Levoit has as well added a handy essential oil features to facilitate your aromatherapy sessions.
Perhaps the greatest of them all is the built-in sensor. The unit will, thanks to this, measure humidity levels and automatically adjust them for you.
Lastly, this Levoit model comes with a pleasant LED digital display (with a display-off option), a useful 1–12 hour timer, and a working remote control.
And ooh, we love its compact size – it nicely fits on nightstands, desktops, or tables.
- Near soundless operation.
- You can turn off the display to fall asleep.
- Brilliant remote control.
- Perhaps they should adopt a top-filling tank design.
Pure Enrichment MistAire Ultrasonic Cool Mist Humidifier
In our opinion, the Pure Enrichment MistAire Humidifier could be the best multi-purpose ultrasonic humidifier.
It represents the best combination of humidification efficiency, features, pricing, and reliability that we've encountered so far.
This slim humidifier packs loads of punch despite its budget price.
The beautifully-shaped tank holds 1.5 liters (approximately 0.4 gallons) which translates to 16 hours of ongoing operation (for one full tank).
It also features a super sensitive touch control panel with 2 mist settings (low and high) to choose from.
And it's great that you can switch the mist direction when you wish to thanks to the 360-degree mist nozzle.
The integrated nightlight is wonderful too and will provide a soothing ambiance to make your baby sleep soundly.
We doubt that there's a better-placed unit to serve in medium-sized offices, bedrooms, and such rooms (up to 250 sq. ft.) as well as this model.
Its 5-year warranty is among the leading in the industry.
- Pretty looks.
- Easy to use.
- Works like magic.
- Only good for one-room operation.
URPOWER 2nd Version Essential Oil Diffuser
This is our most recommended unit for those who love immersing deep in the world of aromatherapy even as the winter weather plays dirty games with the indoor humidity.
You will kill the proverbial two birds with one stone here: add uplifting moisture and enjoy the best that therapeutic essential oils have to offer.
This super-affordable humidifier/diffuser hits all the right marks.
This little gem is to begin with lightweight and compressed enough to fit into just about any travel bag making it one of the best for your travels.
It also features 7 color changing lamps to calm your environment, a special nightlight to help you slip into slumberland effortlessly, programmable on/off cycles for convenient interval moisture disbursements, and obviously, an auto shut-off to shield it in case it drains fully.
Even better, this unit's state-of-the-art vaporizing diffusion technology will quietly release a pacifying fragrant mist for 6 hours (maximum) nonstop.
Just mix 100ML of water with a few essential oil drops and enjoy a 6-hour long aromatic treatment.
- Elegant looking.
- One of the easiest to use models.
- Whisper-quiet operation.
- Rarely lasts the whole night.
MZTDYTL Portable Mini USB Humidifier, 200ml Ultrasonic Cool Mist Humidifier
Because its USB powered, you can bring this model to dozens of places including your car, hotel room, beauty salon, conference room, reception center, pet room, hospital etc.
It produces a lot of mist and your surroundings will never again make you feel dizzy.
This multi-talented ultrasonic humidifier is perfect for tackling murderous humidity in a short amount of time.
It doesn't hold a lot of water (that rarely happens in portable units), but the best part is you have two separate mist speeds to use to bring about your comfiest humidity.
Indeed, the operation time is quite reasonable- you get 4.5 hours of steadfast moisture pump out with the first setting and double that duration (9 hours) in the second mode.
This device also features a colorful mellow night light to help you get a good night's sleep.
The 7 light colors change to create the right mood in the bedroom, home, office, hotel, car, and more.
There are other extraordinary extras including a water level window to help you check remaining water capacity.
- There's a handy auto shut-off.
- Super quiet operation.
- Exquisitely small (mini humidifier).
- No timer.
Wrapping it up
As mentioned at the start, an ultrasonic humidifier offers a number of benefits when pitted against other models including consuming very little electricity and being much quieter.
Having said that, proper maintenance is key for any humidifier.
The first thing that comes to mind is regular cleaning and disinfection- do it at the recommended time intervals as per your owner's manual.
The other crucial thing is ensuring that the tank is adequately filled at all times.
That way, you'll get the most out of your investment.


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Really bad news
Posted by Neal Stevens on October 06, 1998 at 18:03:38:
In a sudden and unexpected reversal, the Galveston Parks
Board is ready to abandon the USS Cavalla. Gene Lucas asked whether the World War
II vessels (Cavalla and destroyer escort Stewart) should not be removed. "What would it take to get rid of those ships
and convert that space to an RV park?"
Lou Muller, director, suggested that a covered pavilion to
honor veterans would be more appropriate.
"The ships were moneymakers in the past, but no longer attract many visitors."
Counsultant Bob Randall said, "From a risk management
point of view, I'd say get rid of them."
"Those things ought to be
retired," said Joe Jaworski, keenly noting that their
popularity was before IMAX theaters and other attractions were available for young people. Randall suggested they be used
as artificial reefs for fishing.
From the remarks above, it's clear that the Parks Board has
no further use for Cavalla, despite recent
assurances that she was going to get a moderate renovation. In twenty-six years, Cavalla never received any upkeep or
serious attention. The same paper signs that were hung in 1972 still identify her compartments. Galveston has milked her
for all she could give, now in serious disrepair and neglected, she no longer can bring in the cash. As in Galveston's past, anything that
doesn't have a dollar sign attached doesn't have a chance. It's ironic that Cavalla was compared with IMAX theaters, renown for
stunning recreations of historical events. If the Parks Board has their way, Seawolf Park will become
a third-rate trailer park and young people will go to IMAX theater to learn about history instead of
having a chance to see it in tangible form, firsthand.
So now a pavilion will stand in the might fighter's place.
Hey, while they're at it, maybe they can add a Coke machine with
a plaque to honor the men and women who gave their lives
in the defense of freedom!


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If your child needs immediate treatment for an orthodontic issue, Dr. Markey may recommend a one-phase or two-phase treatment plan, depending upon the problem, your child's age, their stage of growth and, of course, their stage of tooth development.
By completing a Phase I or Early Interceptive Treatment, as it can also be called, during childhood, you may prevent your child from needing extractions, surgical orthodontics, or other complex solutions later in life.
If there are no problems identified at your young child's consultation, we will request that we see them at 6-12 month intervals as part of our 'Observation' Program, monitoring growth and development, and determining if orthodontic treatment is needed as they mature. They'll join our 'Little Leaf Crew'. We want every stage of your child's care with us to be fun, even when it's the waiting period.
When we recommend a Two Phase Plan, to address an immediate concern, it'll often take this pathway:
Phase 1
Phase 1 of a two-phase treatment plan begins when your child does not yet have all of their permanent teeth. This phase may include the use of orthodontic appliances designed to help correct any harmful oral habits, intercept development issues, guide the growth of jaws and teeth, and establish a foundation for Phase 2 correction, making for a more effective and comfortable braces experience later on.
We may recommend a period of rest between Phase 1 and Phase 2 to allow the remaining permanent teeth to develop. Depending on your child's needs, Dr. Shane may provide a retainer for their use during this stage.
Phase 2
Phase 2 generally includes the use of braces (or aligners) to finalize the movement of teeth into their ideal positions. Having addressed your child's greatest orthodontic issues with a Phase I treatment, this second phase is more comfortable and often longed for, by your little (or not so little now) braces veteran, as they can see for themselves the wonderful outcomes possible with great orthodontic care.
To determine whether your child may benefit from one- or two-phase treatment, contact Three Leaf Orthodontics for an evaluation appointment.


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Fuzzit: Building Fuzzing into Continuous Integration Workflows
Far from new, fuzzing is experiencing a resurgence amid the complexity of delivering software faster — especially in the cloud.
One of the newest entrants to the market is Tel Aviv-based Fuzzit, yet another security startup from founders who gained experience with the Israeli Defense Forces.
Fuzzing involves feeding pseudo-random inputs into a program to see how it behaves and rooting out bugs. It's a process that hackers use as well to find vulnerabilities and exploit them.
"We focus on helping companies introduce fuzzing into their current CI workflows. We have integrations with any CI: GitHub, GitLab, in-house CI, Jenkins," said founder and CEO Yevgeny Pats.
His experience with a consulting company revealed that for many clients, doing their own fuzzing proves too onerous.
"The reason you need a third party is because of the workload of fuzzing. …Fuzzing is usually a long-running job. You can't run them easily in your CI without blocking your entire CI team. So you need to run fuzzing another place," he said.
Focused on Open Source
Pats founded the five-person company in early 2019. He also founded the anti-phishing automation platform Phish.AI.
It began as a consulting company, doing pen testing on web and mobile applications. After writing fuzz tests for clients and finding some bugs, they either didn't run the tests again at all or only ran them again after a year.
"Eventually they asked us to manage it so they could run the tests every time they push new code," he said.
Open source projects including Systemd, CoreDNS, Prometheus, the Envoy proxy are among its users.
Open source projects face particular challenges, he said.
"There's a lot of different people involved. [They might] use fuzzing with a pull request, but when they do the merge, they didn't have this version and now they can't find the developer. We help them find the crashes in the pull request when the developer can't be found and fix all those crashes," he said.
At Scale
The SaaS product enables users to run their current LibFuzzer, AFL (American Fuzzy Lop) target at scale with deep analysis. It operates on C, C+, Java, Golang, Rust and Swift.
It can work with any continuous integration (CI) tool. You can run quick regression tests on every pull request and long jobs that generate new test cases in the background.
You start by uploading a tar.gz file containing the compiled target for LibFuzzer, the coverage-guided, evolutionary fuzzing engine. With the Fuzzit CLI, you authenticate and push the binary to Fuzzit. Once it pushes the code to master, Fuzzit will run the code asynchronously without blocking the CI. If there are bugs found, it will alert you through your configured channel.
The platform updates logs every minute and merges the corpus every hour between all workers automatically. It focuses on making sure bugs are fixed and will alert you again if they are introduced again in a pull request.
"If you write five or 10 fuzz tests, we only run one version at a time. If you push a new version, we stop the old version and start the new version. It creates a corpus between the runs. Every time you push code, the fuzzer does not start at the beginning but starts where the old version stopped," Pats said.
To test multiple releases, you can use specific version-branch/tags to fuzz specific versions.
On-Prem, too
Fuzz testing has some interesting history, dating back to the 1950s.
More recent projects include Google's ClusterFuzz expanded into OSS-Fuzz, jointly sponsored by the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative to improve security in key open source applications; and Microsoft's Microsoft Security Risk Detection (formerly Project Springfield.)
And then there are companies like ForAllSecure, FuzzBuzz and Synopsys.
With ClusterFuzz, Pats said, "You have to manage it, set it up, own the server. The minimum cost is $600/month for compute power even if you aren't running any tests.
"You have to have GCP. With AWS or on-prem, you can't really use it. Our solution also works on-prem. We have a managed version."
At the low end, its price is $25 per month for two containers, with a free tier for open source.
Going forward, while the company focused on open source projects last year, next year it will focus on more enterprise features, such as making on-prem installation easier, integrations to internal ticket systems, and automation for big organizations.
An event called FuzzCon is scheduled to take place Feb. 25 in San Francisco, with speakers from Google, Microsoft, Synopsys, ForAllSecure and more. Find a GitHub resource for fuzzing here.
The Linux Foundation is a sponsor of The New Stack.
Feature Image: "Fuzz" by Dylan Luder. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.


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Tony the Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. did Letterman's Top 10 List. The Gwynn is big time! First QVC and now, late night talk shows! When they came out, they both got a really nice, extended standing ovation from the audience.
They did the Top 10 Good Things About Being Elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. I just watched it, but didn't bother writing down all of it. I'll copy it over later when it shows up everywhere else.
Not to be too much of a homer, but the Gwynn delivered his share of the list much better than Ripken. Cool as ice, our guy Gwynn is. Cool as ice.
Update [2007-1-11 10:59:17 by Dex]: We got a lot of photos of TV screens lately...
And here's the list, courtesy of our man Drama. Gwynn had the odd numbered ones and Cal had the even. For number 1, Cal set it up and Gwynn delivered the punchline...
- While traveling the country, I can shower with any team I choose
- Can now advertise my garage sales as "Hall of Fame garage sales"
- George Steinbrenner just offered me $20 million to play again
- On Bobblehead Day, guess who gets two bobbleheads?
- At any moment, there's a good chance Bob Costas is boring someone with stories about me
- It's nice to be mentioned in the same breath as Arky Vaughan, Burleigh Grimes, and Gabby Hartnett
- Free chalupa from Taco Bell if I mention them in my induction speech
- Made all those years playing in southern California's lousy climate worth it
- I can now admit I broke my streak in 1998 because I had tickets to "Les Mis"
- Get to be on national television-- even if it is this show


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Joint Press Release from the TU Dresden and the UFZ
New Centre for Water Research
The TU Dresden and UFZ join forces
Dresden / Leipzig One of Europe's largest centers for water research is being established in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt with a workforce that includes over 500 researchers: The 'Center for Advanced Water Research (CAWR)'. The cooperation agreement will be signed by representatives of the Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden, TUD) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) on 8 October 2013. Both partners see the benefits that will arise from the new Center in the channelling of existing resources, which will allow to address the global problems concerning integrated water resources management jointly. With the foundation of the CAWR, the partners' strategic cooperation will take on a new quality. The TUD and the UFZ have already been working closely together since 2006, most recently (since 2009) within the 'International Water Research Alliance Saxony' (IWAS).
Photo: André Künzelmann/ UFZ
Even though access to clean water has been recognized by the United Nations as constituting a basic human right since 2010, around three-quarters of a billion people throughout the globe are still suffering from acute water shortage. As the population continues to increase, these problems will become even more challenging in many regions of the world. According to current estimates, over two billion people will be living in regions with acute water shortage in 2050. Benefiting from over 100 years of research in Germany, appropriate approaches will contribute to the task of overcoming the challenges in the water sector. "The Center for Advanced Water Research has been founded to allow us to tackle these issues with the help of integrated approaches. Complex problems cannot be addressed using single solutions. Hand in hand with the most important partners in the field of water research and sustainable development we will make our scientific competences available to strategically develop training and successfully transfer our knowledge to practice, policy-making and society both at the national and international level.," explains Professor Hans Müller-Steinhagen, Rector of the Dresden University of Technology. Water is a core research focus both at the TUD and the UFZ. "For a long time now we have benefitted from successful cooperation within national and international projects, through training as well as from setting up the Water Science Alliance together – the alliance of the German water research community. With the Center for Advanced Water Research, the region Dresden-Leipzig-Magdeburg-Halle is emerging as an international pivotal point for water research," points out Professor Georg Teutsch, Scientific Director of the UFZ.
A comprehensive range of activities
At the Dresden University of Technology, with about 250 scientific employees including the incumbents of 25 professorial chairs in this field, water research is one of the key issues that the University has defined within the framework of the excellence initiative, building on its unique concentration of hydro-scientific competence.
In 2012, the well-established tradition of work related to the hydrosciences received new impetus through the establishment of the FLORES Institute of the United Nations University with its thematic focus on the "water, soil and waste"-nexus. Over many years the Dresden University of Technology gives students the opportunity to study in these areas, and on behalf of UNEP and UNESCO it has also provided in-depth, water-related, management-level training for people from developing and newly industrializing countries through the CIPSEM Postgraduate Centre. Water research is also a priority at the UFZ, which has around 280 scientific employees and 23 joint professorships in the water field alone. Since 2010, the UFZ has played an important role in the development and setup of the 'Water Science Alliance', a platform with the aim to strengthen the existing competences in water research in Germany as well as internationally. , Furthermore the UFZ is the coordinator of the Helmholtz Water Network bringing together national labs in the water field with their key university partners. Also, the TERENO (Terrestrial Environmental Observatories) and TERENO-MED (Mediterranean region) observation platforms maintained by the Helmholtz Association represent major research infrastructures contributing to the partnership.
Numerous joint projects
An interdisciplinary study conducted in the context of the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) with the aim of improving water quality in the Western Bug (the area where the Ukraine, Belarus and Poland have common borders) is one of the many examples of the fruitful cooperation between the TUD and the UFZ. The specific work performed within the framework of the IWAS model region of Eastern Europe included natural scientific research, social scientific research and the development of capacities and infrastructures for operators. The main thrust of the work was directed towards the investigation of the origin, transport and degradation of nutrients and pollutants, which was achieved with the aid of innovative approaches and by combining simulation models. In order to ensure that the results of the research are also put into practice, the political and socio-economic conditions of the Western Ukraine were also analysed and identified, for this is where the most important institutional and economic barriers to the implementation of the proposals are to be found at present.
Integrated Water Resources Management
The 'Center for Advanced Water Research' covers a wide range of topics: Research is conducted on scientific issues involving water quality, on the integrated management of water resources in dry areas and urban areas as well as on the social-scientific aspects of water policy, societal change and environmental change. In addition to research work, the Center will also be focussing on the implementation of knowledge and research findings. The 'Center for Advanced Water Research' unites the working groups previously established by the two partners. It is supervised through the offices of a coordination bureau and receives support from an international Advisory Board. Tilo Arnhold, Susanne Hufe
The opening and foundation ceremony:
Official opening ceremony for the foundation of the Center for Advanced Water Research (CAWR) on 8th October 2013, from 16:00 to 20:00, in the Dülfersaal of the Dresden University of Technology (Dülferstr. 2, D-01069 Dresden).
IWAS final conference on 9th October 2013 in Dresden http://www.ufz.de/iwas-sachsen/index.php?de=17427
(Journalists are welcome to attend both of these events. Please register your intention to come at: https://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=31925)
Further information:
Jörg Seegert
Dresden University of Technology
Phone: +49 351-463-35477
Elisabeth H. Krüger
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Phone: +49 341-235-1671
or through
Kim-Astrid Magister (TUD Press Office)
Phone: +49 351-463-32398
Tilo Arnhold / Susanne Hufe (UFZ Press Office)
Phone: +49 341-235-1630
Links to further information:
"Center for Advanced Water Research" (CAWR)
Water research at the Technical University of Dresden:
Department of Hydrosciences
International Water Research Alliance Saxony
Water research at the UFZ:
Water Science Alliance
Helmholtz Water Network
UFZ CIWAS Working Group (including brochures on water):
United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation 2013:
The Dresden University of Technology is one of the leading universities in Germany and Europe: It is highly reputed for its research activities, offers a broad range of first class study programmes and maintains close links with the worlds of culture, economics and society in general. As a modern, comprehensive university with 14 faculties, its scientific scope can be matched by only few universities in Germany. It is the largest university in Saxony. The Dresden University of Technology's large 'campus family' consists of approximately 37,000 students and 7,900 staff, of whom approximately 4,400 have budget-financed posts (including more than 500 professors), whilst the remainder are financed through third-party funds. http://www.tu-dresden.de/
In the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) ), scientists conduct research into the causes and consequences of far-reaching environmental changes. Their areas of study cover water resources, biodiversity, the consequences of climate change and possible adaptation strategies, environmental technologies and biotechnologies, bio-energy, the effects of chemicals in the environment and the way they influence health, modelling and social-scientific issues. Its guiding principle: Our research contributes to the sustainable use of natural resources and helps to provide long-term protection for these vital assets in the face of global change. The UFZ employs more than 1,100 staff at its sites in Leipzig, Halle and Magdeburg. It is funded by the federal government, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
The Helmholtz Association contributes to solving major and urgent issues in society, science and industry through scientific excellence in six research areas: Energy, earth and environment, health, key technologies, structure of matter as well as aviation, aerospace and transportation. The Helmholtz Association is the largest scientific organisation in Germany, with 35,000 employees in 18 research centres and an annual budget of around €3.8 billion. Its work is carried out in the tradition of the great natural scientist Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894). http://www.helmholtz.de/