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Cleaning your outdoor Camping and Glamping fabrics
For many years OUTDOOR SEWING SOLUTIONS has repaired or refused to repair Awnings, tent and other covers that have been commercially cleaned.
Due to the heavy use of chemicals used in the cleaning process, we have people bringing in Awnings with rotting threads and brittle fabrics.
Commercial cleaning damage
When too many chemicals or the wrong chemicals are used it turns the material very brittle and ages the fabric.
The fabric has the tendency to crack and tears from that point very easily.
The fabric seems to also rot earlier than one would want from a quality awning, tent or Glamping product.
In the cleaning process, the threads just rot away quickly, far faster than the fabric its self.
OSS will refuse to repair 1 out of 20 awnings due to the quality of the material.
Restitching is common for us to do if the material is still OK, but we do refuse to repair some items as we know it is very likely that the fabric around our repair is not in good condition and will possibly rip around the repair.
Canvas Cleaning for Caravan awning, tents and sails
Trees, birds, seaspray, car exhaust, mould and dogs are just some of the culprits for staining awnings, so as far as is practicable, protect your awning from trouble.
Cleaning services for canvas products is limited in the UK with many issues of damage and loss in the post items when people send their valuable camping items away for cleaning.
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- Erect your tent, Caravan awning or sail at home and with a hose and cloth clean off any dirt you may have on the awning.
- Clean with Iosso in a bath and drip dry over the bath
- Treat with Wet & Forget by spraying on with your Garden Sprayer
- Reproof if required with reproofing such as Grangers Fabsil. There are many options for sale at your local outdoor shop or on the Internet. OSS do not currently recommend one product.
Do not ever water jet your outdoor materials as this will only damage the materials and remove any waterproofing the materials might have.
Always wait until the canvas is dry before dealing with mud or dirt when it can usually be removed with a stiff brush. Stubborn marks can be tackled with plain water, but anything stronger should be avoided if possible. If too unsightly, try soap and water but never detergent. Any area touched by the soap solution will have to be reproofed.
Windows with water and wiped with a soft cloth to remove drips.
Small patches can be treated with an aerosol proofer and should be applied when the awning is dry and in a well-ventilated place. Note the proofer contains solvents which are highly flammable. For larger areas, it may be better to use a soft paintbrush. Ideal conditions are a warm, dry day, but avoid hot sun which will dry the proofer out too quickly. Do not forget to protect vinyl windows, mud walls, grass and tarmac while using products which contain spirit-based solvents. Do not pack the awning away until the solvent has completely dried out.
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Guarding the Guardians of the Guards
Disturbed about the obvious disorders of education, groups of citizens have organized themselves as guardians of education and monitors of texts and techniques. They are no doubt decent and well-meaning people, but their understanding of "education" is as thoughtless and self-serving as that of the self-styled professionals of education who brought those disorders upon us.
These guardians of education, while they differ in some ways, all seem proponents of the back-to-basics frenzy, in which we find no merit. We champion mastery, and we mean mastery, not minimum competence, in language and number not because it is the goal of education but because it is absurd to imagine an educated person who lacks it. Having that mastery, we can make of knowledge the raw material of thoughtfulness and judgment. Lacking it, we can make of knowledge nothing more than the substance of training and the content of indoctrination.
The back-to-basics enthusiasts, who never fail to note the paramount importance of being able to read want-ads and to write letters of application, treat the skills of number and language as subdivisions of vocational training to be imparted and done with, as though reading a micrometer and reading a paragraph were acts of the same nature. In one sense, literacy is a trivial skill, easily acquired and neither more nor less valuable than those darlings of the schools, the "life skills," things like shoe tying and crossing at the corner. In another sense, it is an endless and demanding enterprise that is also the ground of our knowledge and understanding, but an enterprise little likely to entice the minds of those taught literacy as a life skill.
All unwittingly, therefore, the guardians preach the same degradation of literacy that the educationists have so long practiced, and, strange as it might seem at first, for the same reason. The greatest mischief done in the schools is the attempt to inculcate certain presumed "values," but the guardians understand that less than perfectly. They fancy that the mischief lies not in the inculcation of values but in the inculcation of the educationists' values rather than the guardians' values. All would be well, they imagine, if only the school would foster the "right" values. And that is why they must make of literacy a "basic" life skill rather than a way of life. If you want to foster in children certain values and preclude others, you must take care that they do not develop an appetite for knowledge and the skill to make of it the raw material of thoughtfulness and judgment. Jefferson's words are an assertion of faith, not fact; fact may be "self-evident," but "truth" is not. If it were, earth would be fair, and all men glad and wise.
There is a momentous difference between coming to believe what we have often been told and deciding, as Jefferson did, out of knowledge and thoughtful judgment, to "hold" something true. The former is a kind of slavery and easy to achieve; the latter is difficult, for it requires knowledge and governed intellect, in other words, an education, but it is freedom.
Freedom is, to be sure, frightening. There is no telling what values free people will choose to hold. Decent and well-meaning guardians of values were horrified by the monstrous principles of the Declaration of Independence. It is, of course, out of fear that the guardians preach the inculcation of values, fear of knowledge and thought.
Most of the guardians urge things like the study of history and economics "emphasizing the benefits of the free-enterprise system." We wholeheartedly share the guardians' devotion to the free-enterprise system, but they obviously don't share our equal devotion to the study of history and economics, which will inevitably bring the knowledge of some facts, events, and ideas that are not at all conducive to our wholehearted devotion to the free-enterprise system.
When we study history from a certain point of view, we do not study history. If our students some day discover, as in fact they will, that we were sometimes mistaken in our knowledge of history, they will probably forgive us. But if they discover, as in fact they do, that we have misrepresented or omitted knowledge in the service of some values, they will learn to distrust both us and those values, as indeed they should—and apparently do.
If our values are grounded, as we usually imagine they are, in evidence and reason, then those who can see the evidence and who know the ways of reason are likely to adopt them. However, if we find ourselves tampering with the evidence and tempering the power of language, the medium of reason, then perhaps we ought to reevaluate our values. Should that prove unacceptable, we should at least be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the State to promulgate our values but by forbidding the State to promulgate any values at all. If the State can espouse some value that we love in spite of evidence and reason, it can, with equal justice, espouse others that we do not love.
The guardians do differ in one important way from the educationists. The guardians have lost their nerve, while the educationists still have plenty. The guardians, although they often wave the flag, do not truly hold the most basic value of a free society: the belief that, given the choice, knowing and thoughtful people will choose to continue in a free society. Those who do hold that value must guard against the guardians. But not in the classroom.
Richard Mitchell is the author of Less Than Words Can Say and the publisher of the Underground Grammarian, from which this column is adapted.
This article originally appeared in print under the headline "Guarding the Guardians of the Guards".


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in a statement Clive said: "I was born and bred in Barnsley and run my business in the Oldtown Ward. It is the longest established photographic studio in Barnsley. I am a passionate campaigner on educational, social and economic issues and have a deep commitment to the town and its people. I am keen, enthusiastic and full of ideas of how to regenerate and improve prosperity in Barnsley. My father came from Dodworth and mother from Worsbrough Bridge . I attended Holgate, when it was still an exceptional school. I believe that growing up in Barnsley is important because over many years our community has endured in ways that people who come into the town are unable to fully appreciate. As a result in the same circumstances their judgements are not ours. Politicians and Councils tell us what they want us to know, not what we need to know. The whole truth' seems to be absent from today's politics. We are entitled to honesty from the people who represent us and I promise that you will always get the full picture from me." Clive is a member of the the ward's Community Partnership, Old Town Residents Association, the Crime & Safety Group and regularly attends the Pogmoor Residents association and Honeywell TARA meetings. Among his hobbies Clive keeps rare breeds of hens and shows pedigree dogs. One of his dogs came third of its class at Crufts. |


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'A coward and a monster': Man accused of hiring hit man gets life in prison for 1992 slaying of wife in La Mirada
Even now — almost a quarter century since the killing — Martha Guzman still obsesses over the last seconds of her younger sister's life. How did she feel before the bullet tore through her eyes as she sat in her car?
Terrified, ambushed, trapped?
"I replay it over and over in my mind," she said, biting her lip to choke back tears.
In 1992, her sister, Vicki Ghonim, was 17 — the new mother of a 6-month-old boy, who was in his car seat behind her when a gunman shot her in a parking lot at Creek Park in La Mirada. Prosecutors say the shooter had been hired by Vicki's husband, Morrad, who paid to make it look like a botched robbery.
At a court hearing Monday, before a judge sentenced Morrad Ghonim to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Guzman walked to the lectern to address her former brother-in-law.
"Morrad, you're a coward and a monster," she told him. "You deliberately put your son in danger … to make your story more believable."
He didn't look at her, but swallowed hard.
"We now know the truth and find some peace in that," Guzman told him. "You're finally going to be held accountable."
Ghonim, 43, had said at the time that the shooting occurred after his wife exchanged words with a group of people he thought were gang members catcalling her. The shooter — or shooters — he said, had been hiding behind bushes so he never got a look at who had attacked his wife.
The case remained unsolved for years until DNA tests on clothing recovered from the scene found a genetic match to a prison inmate serving time for burglary — Leon Martinez. Initially, Martinez told authorities his dead friend was the gunman, but he eventually confessed to shooting Vicki, saying her husband had hired him as a hit man. At last month's trial, Martinez testified that Ghonim paid him $20,000.
During Monday's hearing in Norwalk, Ghonim — who had relocated to Antigua and married his third wife, a beauty queen, before his arrest in this case — stood to address the judge. He spoke emphatically and with his hands, as if he were, himself, an attorney. He demanded a continuance so he could have more time to prove his innocence.
"I didn't do anything," Ghonim said. "I loved her."
Ghonim said he'd never met Martinez and reminded the judge that at the time of the slaying he was a 19-year-old working at Little Caesars Pizza. How, he asked, could he have scrounged together so much money to hire a hit man?
Ghonim also accused a detective who investigated him of manipulating Vicki's family and pitting them against him.
"The family loved me so much," Ghonim said, turning to the audience, where Vicki's mother and father cried quietly.
At one point, Ghonim's hands started to shake, his voice cracking. Superior Court Judge John A. Torribio asked him to sit and compose himself, before denying his request for a continuance.
Ghonim's attorney, Alan Eisner, asked the judge to consider his client's lack of a criminal record as a mitigating factor in deciding a sentence. According to a probation report, the only thing Ghonim had on his record before the murder conviction was a misdemeanor grand theft conviction, for which he was sentenced to three years of probation. And yet, the probation officer wrote in the report, the gruesome murder spoke for itself.
"His plan to execute his wife," he wrote, "shows his heinous and callous behavior and shows he does not value life."
As the judge read the sentence, Ghonim rested his forehead in his hands and plugged his ears with both of his thumbs. He sighed twice.
Martinez, 43, who was convicted last year of Vicki's murder, agreed to give evidence against Ghonim in exchange for a sentence of 28 years to life in prison instead of life without the possibility of parole.
During Ghonim's trial, Martinez testified that Ghonim asked him about killing his wife on the first day the two men met through a mutual friend. Martinez said he agreed to kill her and they settled on a price.
Martinez also testified that he was high on cocaine the evening of the killing but said he remembered walking up to the window, pulling the gun from his pocket and firing at Vicki's head from a few feet away.
As Vicki pleaded with him not to hurt her baby, Martinez said he shot her again and again, eventually shooting her in the eyes. Martinez testified that Ghonim then handed him an envelope of cash, reaching over his wife's slumped body.
The defense attacked Martinez's credibility, noting he had changed some details while on the witness stand. During previous interviews and court appearances, Martinez had said that Ghonim paid him a lot less — once he said $500, another $10,000. When the defense challenged him on the inconsistent statements, Martinez said, "My memory ain't that good at all."
Jurors convicted Ghonim of first-degree murder.
On Monday, Ghonim reminded the judge of some of the inconsistencies, saying Martinez "can't even keep up with his own lies."
After the hearing, Eisner said he expects his client to be vindicated during the appeals process.
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Though we knew it but already, but good to see "Engadget" confirming the same in their review of iPhone 5S. Apple has increased iPhone 5S sensor size by mere 15%, decreased aperture to F/2.2 and boasted about increased "pixel" size as if it is only thing image quality is dependent upon. Anyways, while Engadget sees no to slight appreciable change in daylight imaging quality over iPhone 5, but perhaps this has helped iPhone 5S in low-light imaging. But while compared to Lumia 1020, it still showed more noise and fewer details.
Even so, our sample shots still showed more noise and less detail than the same images taken with the Nokia Lumia 1020. The 5s also does a good job of reproducing color, but it's not the best performer in this category, either.
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Nothing can improve your website reach more than you telling people to visit it, but there are things you can do to improve the ability of people to find your page when they are looking for your services using SEO.
SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization, which doesn't really explain much. It is an umbrella term that explains how you leverage your website to be found naturally, or organically (without paid search).
Some of the items you can fix easily, without any programming knowledge. Other issues will have to be addressed with your website host or developer. We'll start with the easy ones that you can control.
H1 tags
H1 is the HTML word for the most important heading on your page. You should have an H1 Heading on every page and it should be descriptive of the information on the page. It can be a phrase or short sentence and should be 50-65 characters long. There are many WordPress plugins to help you audit the SEO factors. Yoast SEO is a popular plugin, but I prefer SmartCrawl by WPMUDEV. WordPress will automatically assign the title of your page with an H1 tag.
Content is the Bread and Butter of your SEO 300
The minimum content length you should shoot for is 300 words per page. Without words, your pages and posts will have a hard time ranking for your keywords. As a base for any article best practice suggests a minimum of 300 words, with 1000 being a good benchmark and 1600 is optimal. Numerous studies have uncovered that longer content tends to perform better than shorter content, with pages having 1000 words or more performing best. Optimizing your content for search engines is what you're going for, a proven bi-product is that high-quality long-form articles also tend to get shared more on social platforms.
Use of your keyword
- Make sure you use your keyword in at least one sub-heading. A sub-heading is H2 or below in HTML lingo. If you write a blog you probably know how to change a sentence into an H2 tag. If not, you can easily Google it.
- Make sure you use your keyword phrase in your page title (H1 tag).
- Use your keyword phrase in the first paragraph of your page.
- The use of your keyword should be between 1% – 3% of the words on your page. No keyword stuffing!!!
- Use your keyword phrase in your meta description
- Use your keyword phrase in at least one image on your page
Meta Description
The Meta description is a short description of the content on the page. It is shown on Google search results along with the title of the page. Your meta description should be 135 – 300 characters long.
Add Alt Text to your Images
Alt Text, or Alternate Text, are the words that go with your images to Google. Alt text was implemented to help people with sight impairments to navigate and "see" the images on a website. Google started to use that feature to help the search algorithms. You can add the "Alt Text" to an image when you upload it or later from the Media Library on your WordPress website.
Some of the things you can do, or ask your Webmaster to do:
Have an SSL Certificate
Google will punish a website without an SSL certificate. Not only will not having an SSL certificate mark you down in the search rankings. It will also negatively impact your trust rating with users.
Have your server use HTTP/2
HTTP/2 enables more efficient use of network resources and a reduced perception of latency by introducing header field compression and allowing multiple concurrent exchanges on the same connection.
Use WebP image formats
WebP compression uses predictive coding to encode an image. Predictive coding uses the values in neighboring blocks of pixels to predict the values in a block and then encodes only the difference. We use Smush Pro software to compress images and serve them in WebP format. "Serve images in the next-gen format" is a Google Page Speed recommendation.
Ensure your links have descriptive text
Descriptive links provide users with the proper context of where clicking on the link will take them. This helps search engines and people with sight impairment. Screen reader users often navigate websites using the tab key, so providing descriptive text on buttons and other links is necessary.
Add links to your page
Your goal should be to include external links as well as internal links. An external link is to another page on a different website. Standard practice is to set these links to open on a new tab. You should also include rel="noopener" to the external links which will keep your website safe. An internal link is to content on your website. You should add these in your articles to point to other articles and pages on your website that would be helpful for your readers. We normally open these links in the same tab. Google likes it when people spend more time on your website and when you lead people to more content.
There are many more technical attributes that your webmaster can use to help improve the SEO of your website. We have specialized tools to dig deep into the website and server characteristics to make the most of your SEO efforts. But, the biggest bang for your buck will come from your efforts to make your content clear, readable, and interesting.


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It's Carnival season in New Orleans, and the countdown to Mardi Gras is in full swing! What does this have to do with Web Design Relief and building your author platform? Plenty!
Mardi Gras celebrations are excellent resources for clever tips on how to jazz up your marketing and promote your writing with style throughout the year.
Show off your effervescent personality. Fat Tuesday is all about exuberance! Your marketing and promotional efforts should be too: bigger, bolder, more attention-grabbing, more fun. People like to go where the party is—and if that's your author website, good for you!
Of course, not every writer is comfortable embracing the full Mardi Gras sensibility for his or her marketing efforts. But here's a party favor for you to take home today: The more entertaining your online personality is, the more likely you will see an increase in your number of friends and fans.
Embrace artistic flair. When we think of Mardi Gras, we think purple! Gold! Green! We think of fun, bright colors that welcome revelers. And there's no reason why your marketing efforts can't be as lively, engaging, and alluring as the Mardi Gras promotions that capture the attention of tourists around the world.
Toss gifts to the crowd. We'd be remiss if we didn't mention the Mardi Gras tradition of collecting plastic bead necklaces. The lesson here: People get excited about free stuff. If you are hosting regular giveaways on your author website, you may find more people wanting to join your krewe. Keep your contests simple: Tell your fans that by leaving a note on your Facebook page or adding their names to your mailing list, they're automatically entered to win!
Be dependable (on schedule). Most people know that Mardi Gras celebrations always happen in the weeks leading up to Ash Wednesday. By being dependable—by posting regularly on Facebook or another social media account, and by updating your blog regularly—you make it easier for your fans to develop a pattern of checking your site and stay excited about your writing. And when they are regularly rewarded with fresh content, they will be likely to come back for more.
Enjoy yourself! Creativity, good energy, and a genuine sense of playfulness will go a long way toward bringing people to your site. If you're not having fun with your marketing, step back and consider what you can do to make your promotions more enjoyable for everyone—including you. Your positive energy will go a long way toward success. Read more: Social Networking For People Who Hate Social Networking.
So whether or not you'll be dancing in the streets and celebrating Carnival season this year, we hope you'll consider some of these lessons from Mardi Gras revelers. And remember: Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Zheng Dinghe, 64, was a retired worker from Guizhou Province Foreign Trade Transportation Company. He lived in the dormitory of Yongjiang Instrument Plant on Youzha Street. He was once sent to a so-called legal study class for brainwashing in 2002 because of his belief in Falun Dafa. After he was released from the brainwashing class, he was taken directly to Nanming District Detention Center where he was jailed for over forty days.
In September 2005, Zheng Dinghe went to Shenzhen to visit his daughter and was arrested there. On December 4, he was taken back to Guiyang City by the 610 Office and Youzha Street Police Station. Without any legal procedure, he was thrown into the Lannigou Detention Center the same day. On February 18, 2006, the police sent him to the 368 Hospital for emergency treatment, without notifying his family. The second day, at around 9:00 in the morning, Zheng Dinghe's son received a notice that his father had died in the hospital at 7:10 that morning.
When Zheng's family rushed to the hospital, they saw that his ears, mouth and nose were stuffed with cotton. His body had shrunk in size. He was only skin and bones. His hands clenched tightly. His right toes were opaque and rotten to the point that bones could be seen. The doctor said that Zheng died of a heart attack at 7:10 a.m., and that they issued a warning to the family earlier on. Strangely enough, the family had never received any warning from the doctor.
That day the police attempted three times to carry away Zheng's body for cremation, but they were firmly rejected by the family. Zheng's son said he wanted his mother to take a last look at his dad.
Zheng's wife, Wu Minmin, 60, is a retired worker of Yongjiang Instrument Plant. She was once jailed in Zhongba Farm for three years because of her belief in Falun Gong. On November 16, 2005, she was arrested again by the 610 Office, Youzha Street Police Station, the residential committee and Yongjiang Instrument Plant. As of today, she still remains in detention at Lannigou Detention Center.
Zheng Dinghe became a very healthy person after he practiced Falun Gong. However, he died within just two months of being detained. There are a lot of suspicious points about his death.
First, the doctor said he died of a heart attack. However, he never had any heart problems.
Second, During Zheng's over two months of detention in Lannigou Detention Center, his family paid over 1,000 yuan for his living expenses. Why was he so skinny and even shrank in size?
Third, his toes were opaque and bones could be seen. Why were his toes so badly rotten? Why would he clench his hands so tightly? Is that because he could not bear the torture?
Fourth, why were his nose, mouth, and ears stuffed with cotton? Is that because the police wanted to hide bleeding from those places?
Lastly, the doctor said they issued a warning, but Zheng's family never received such a notice. Why would the doctor tell such a lie? Or maybe the doctor was telling the truth, but then why would the police withhold such notice from the family?
Over the past six years, nearly three thousand Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted to death, and numerous people have had their families broken apart. This persecution is not only persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, but also persecution of human laws and morality and a devastation of humanity and kindness. We call for all kindhearted people to join us in stopping this persecution.


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Those Who Defend the Poor Demand More Money
Massachusetts' courts are in a critical state. An increasing number of state-appointed lawyers who defend poor, or indigent, people are refusing to take on new cases. These bar advocates are fighting for higher pay and cost of living adjustments that the state hasn't made for decades.
Last summer, a similar impasse caused a virtual shutdown of Hampden County courts. Now, about two-thirds of bar advocates in Suffolk and Middlesex counties have stopped taking on new cases.
Meanwhile, the Committee for Public Counsel Services is urging the House to implement pay raises now, before moving any bills. Bar advocates say many judges are continuing or delaying cases until September, perhaps in hopes that the crisis will be resolved by then.
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Borgeson 999053 Power Steering Conversion Kit Fits 67-77 Maverick/Ranchero
Borgeson 999053 Power Steering Conversion Kit. Manual To Power Steering Conversion Box. Power Steering Conversion Kit; Kit; Incl. Power Box; Hoses; Drag Link Adapter; Rag Joint; Modifications Required For Installation. WARNING CA Proposition 65: Yes.
Borgeson has manufactured this box to bolt directly to the factory mounting location and to fit the stock pitman arm without any interference or modification of the shock tower. The factory column will need to be shortened and collapsed 3 for clearance. Cars with factory power steering will require either a drag link adapter or a manual steering center link.
Eliminate your leaky control valve and feel the road with a new integral power steering conversion from Borgeson. The Borgeson Universal Company has been manufacturing steering universal joints and components for the industrial, automotive, military and aerospace markets since 1914. Borgeson has continued to develop and produce the most dependable steering components available.
For this reason, we usually cannot cancel an order once it's placed. Compatibility chart and application-specific wording in this listing are based specifically for USA market vehicles. Fitment is not guaranteed on international vehicles, as many manufacturers use region-specific options. Please do not add notes to your order. Our systems are automated, and the notes are not read. New items must be in original packaging(including plastic wrapped items), uninstalled, and in factory new condition. We only sell factory new parts, no exceptions. Stuff happens, but when it does, we'll take care of you. The item "Borgeson 999053 Power Steering Conversion Kit Fits 67-77 Maverick/Ranchero" is in sale since Thursday, November 5, 2020.This item is in the category "eBay Motors\Parts & Accessories\Car & Truck Parts\Suspension & Steering\Power Steering Pumps & Parts". The seller is "21-motorsports" and is located in Locations all over the USA. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Viet nam, Uruguay, Israel, Ukraine, Cayman islands.
- Brand: Borgeson
- Manufacturer Part Number: 999053
- Fitment Type: Performance/Custom
- Warranty: 3 Year
- Interchange Part Number: BLCC999053
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- Core Charge: None
- CA Propostion 65: Yes
- Country of Origin: US
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- Merchandising Name: Power Steering Conversion Kit
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How to Configure Network Adapters for a Virtual Machine
Applies To: Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1
You can configure one or more virtual network adapters for a virtual machine. You can use this procedure when modifying a virtual machine or template or configuring hardware profile settings from the New Template Wizard or the New Virtual Machine Wizard.
To add and configure a virtual network adapter for a virtual machine:
You can configure virtual machines to use one or more virtual network adapters that connect the virtual machines to internal networks or to external networks after the virtual machines are deployed on a host. To add a virtual network adapter, in the left pane, click Network Adapters, click Network Adapter on the top menu, and then select one of the following:
Emulated network adapter
Emulated network adapters are available on all of the virtualization software platforms and allow virtual machines to be connected to virtual networks. Virtual networks can be connected to other virtual machine network adapters and to host network interface cards.
Synthetic network adapter
Synthetic devices are new with Hyper-V and provide better performance than emulated network adapters. Synthetic network adapters require Virtual Guest Services (VGS) to be installed on the virtual machine. VMM installs VGS for all supported guest operating systems.
In the left pane, click the network adapter, and then, in the results pane, configure the following options:
Under Connect to, select the network switch to use for the virtual network adapter, and then specify the following connection requirements:
Network location. Select the network to which you want to connect the new virtual machine. This setting is used by placement to determine equivalence between virtual networks across different hosts. Virtual networks determine their location from the host network adapter associated with them. You can link multiple host network adapters to multiple virtual networks and have one address set as the location. This allows a virtual machine to move and retain the correct connectivity.
Network tag. A tag is a virtual network property that allows you to define precise constraints on the network access of a virtual machine. For example, a host may have two network adapters, both with connectivity to the same network, but one dedicated to a Backup network. The Backup virtual network can be configured to have "Backup" as its tag.
Port group. For VMware virtual machines only, and new in VMM 2008 R2, after selecting a network switch, select the port group to use on that switch. VMM surfaces the port groups configured in VirtualCenter for use with ESX Server hosts and virtual machines.
Enable virtual LAN identification To enable virtual LAN identification, optionally select this option and then specify a VLAN ID.
Enable virtual network optimizations. New in VMM 2008 R2, this option allows you to take advantage of network optimization capabilities that are available on Hyper-V hosts that are running Windows Server 2008 R2. For information about this feature and the hardware that supports it, see your Windows Server 2008 R2 documentation. After a virtual machine is deployed, this feature is displayed only for virtual machines deployed on a host running on Windows Server 2008 R2.
Ethernet (MAC) address. Like the MAC address on physical computers, a virtual MAC address on virtual machines uniquely identifies each computer on the same subnet. The following options are available for MAC addresses:
Specify whether to use a dynamic MAC address or assign a static MAC address:
Dynamic. Select this option if you want to enable a dynamic MAC address for a virtual machine.
Static. Select this option if you want to specify a static MAC address for a virtual machine. Type a static MAC address in the field provided.
You can assign a static MAC address from a pre-defined pool by selecting the Static radio button, and then clicking Generate. To change the MAC address range from the Administrator Console, in Administration view, click Networking, and then double-click Global Static MAC Address Range.
To allow the guest operating system of a Hyper-V virtual machine to provide an alternate MAC address to the one that the virtual machine provides, select the Enable spoofing of MAC addresses check box. This option is new in VMM 2008 R2. In Windows Server 2008, this capability is automatic in Hyper-V. To adhere to the "secure by default" principle, in Windows Server 2008 R2, the feature is turned off by default.
Because no host has been selected during virtual machine creation, this option always is displayed in the New Virtual Machine Wizard. After a virtual machine has been deployed, the option is displayed only on virtual machines deployed on Hyper-V hosts running on Windows Server 2008 R2. Spoofing of MAC addresses is always available for Hyper-V virtual machines on Windows Server 2008–based computers


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Arjun Appadurai: Is Modernity Still At Large? Global Cultural Flows in the Digital Era
Liberal Arts Division, RISD President, and Center for Social Equity + Inclusion
Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 6:30pm in the 20 Washington Place RISD Auditorium. In this lecture renowned socio-cultural anthropologist Arjun Appadurai will revisit some of the key propositions about globalization, modernity, and contemporary cultures first offered in his groundbreaking book Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) in light of recent developments in the digital, political, and economic spheres.
Arjun Appadurai is the Goddard Professor in Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, where he is also Senior Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge. He serves as Honorary Professor in the Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Tata Chair Professor at The Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai and as a Senior Research Partner at the Max-Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen. He was previously Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives at The New School in New York City, where he also held a Distinguished Professorship as the John Dewey Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences. Arjun Appadurai was the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at The New School from 2004-2006. He was formerly the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center on Cities and Globalization at Yale University. Appadurai is the founder and now the President of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research), a non-profit organization based in and oriented to the city of Mumbai (India).
Decolonizing Design, Repair, and Mapping Indigenous Futures | A Conversatoin with Tristan Schultz
Liberal Arts Division, RISD Museum, and NCSS Graduate Program
Lecture, March 21, 2019. 6:30 pm, Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center/RISD Museum. In this discussion, Tristan Schultz will discuss his work with the decolonizing design group. He will also discuss his research on repair and maintenance as radical eco-design strategies and consider the role that indigenous futuring could play in expanding our understanding of sustainable futures.
Tristan Schultz is a Lecturer and Convenor of Visual Communication Design in the Design Futures Program at Griffith University, Tristan is an Australian/Aboriginal interdisciplinary designer, strategist and researcher with a Master of Design Futures (Hons) and PhD Candidate. Recent research has focused on how design has been, and still is implicated in ongoing colonialism, particularly in relation to Aboriginal cultures in Australia.
He is also the founder and co-director of Relative, a forward-thinking, strategic design practice with a focus on using up-to-date research and community engagement processes to help people understand complex challenges and to support behaviour changes.
Break Pot: Benefit St.
Liberal Arts Division, RISD President, Center for Social Equity + Inclusion, and RISD Museum
Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 1 pm in the RISD Museum Upper Farago Gallery. Amy Lee Sanford, a Cambodian-American artist with an international reputation, participates in the RISD Museum's exhibition "Repair and Design Futures" through a powerful, one-afternoon performance of a gallery installation entitled Break Pot: Benefit St., a shortened version of the six day durational performance called Full Circle.
Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and raised in the United States, Amy Lee Sanford holds a degree from Brown University in the Visual Arts. Her work references the deep personal significance of family separation, cultural destruction and death associated with the Cambodian genocide in the 1970s, and the long, slow process of reconstruction in the decades that have followed. She investigates the intersection of trauma and healing, the healing processes of repetition, recollection and repair, and the defragmentation of history. Sanford has been in numerous exhibitions internationally, most recently Memory | Commitment | Aspiration (Arkansas, 2018), Cinerama: Art and the Moving Image (Singapore, 2017-18), Love in the Time of War (San Francisco, 2016) and Images Biennial: An Age of Our Own Making (Denmark, 2016). This piece is a particularly powerful evocation of individual, social and cultural repair. The performance takes place over three hours; visitors are welcome to drop in for part of it or stay for the duration.
Photo credit: Amy Lee Sanford, Full Circle (Day 3) Amy Lee Sanford - 2012 Durational Performance.
An Evening with Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright Lynn Nottage
Liberal Arts Division, RISD President, Center for Social Equity + Inclusion, Experimental and Foundation Studies Division, and Fine Arts Division
Monday, November 5th, 2018 at 5pm in the RISD Auditorium. The President's Office and Social Equity and Inclusion Initiative welcome Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and educator Lynn Nottage to RISD. Nottage engages some of our most intractable problems, both on and off the stage, and her practice is characterized by extensive research while writing and continued involvement with subject communities once the work is complete.This event is sponsored by the Office of the President, the Social Equity and Inclusion Initiative, the Division of Liberal Arts Humanities Fund and a Research Collaboration and Event Grant, the Division of Experimental and Foundation Studies and the Division of Fine Arts.
Lynn Nottage is among the most celebrated of contemporary American playwrights and the first female to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice (for Ruined in 2009 and Sweat in 2017). She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant," a Guggenheim Grant, the Doris Duke Artist Award, PEN/Pels Award, National Black Theater Fest's August Wilson Award, the Helen Hayes Award and many others. Following her studies at Brown and Yale Universities, she worked as an advocate with Amnesty International, where she found her artistic voice, and has since produced a body of work that makes "injustices too familiar to be ignored." She is a co-founder of Market Road Films production company and a faculty member at both Columbia School of the Arts and the Yale School of Drama.
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We here at Nerdist enjoy our burritos, mostly because theyâre tasty, warm, cuddly… wait, cuddly?! Yes, now snuggling with your very own larger-than-life burrito can be a reality with this Super Burrito Body Pillow.
A burrito pillow makes perfect sense since tortillas are really just warm, comforting blankets for all that delicious filling. This three-foot-long huggable ode to the burrito consists of a fleece and felt filling of beans, salsa, sour cream, guacamole, rice and meat, complete with a silver lame faux foil wrap.
The pillow was first custom made by artist Lauren Venell for an issue of The Bold Italic magazine and is currently available in their online shop. According to Venell, this pillow âmakes an excellent body pillow or imaginary friend.â Yes! Yes to a burrito as an imaginary friend! Take this pillow for long walks on the beach, use it to cruise the carpool lane, make it weird and go eat burritos together!
In case having a burrito as a companion by your side isnât enough for you, thereâs always the option of becoming a burrito with Venellâs other creation, the burrito costume. Eat a burrito, while wearing a burrito, ANDÂ hugging a burrito. Now thatâs almost too meta, even for us.
We're not the only ones who enjoy our burrito. Check out our recent episode of Nerdist: Presents, where some of our favorite folks shared what's inside their ideal burrito!


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Shane Hedges moved to DC when he was sixteen to serve as a page in the US Senate. He fell in love with the city and developed his skills as a respected corporate executive and public affairs strategist. Before real estate, Shane ran Washington's preeminent experiential education with operations on five continents. Shane received his MBA from Maryland and lives to help people achieve their goals and fulfill their ambitions. Whether buying or selling a home on your behalf, Shane wants your real estate transaction to succeed. He is skilled a seasoned negotiator, an adept strategist, and an astute business leader.
Shane Hedges is proud of his past service on the Board of Directors of the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing and the DC chapter of the American Marketing Association. Most importantly, Shane engages as a dad for his children and their schools, serving in a variety of volunteer positions in their schools. Whether you need a place to call home or an investment in your future, Shane looks forward to helping you succeed in Washington's fast-paced market.


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If your products require taxes, you'll first want to create a Tax Rate in PayLink, after which you can assign to individual products. When a customer makes a purchase, they will automatically be charged for the product + tax.
The links section represents how many products the tax rate is assigned to. For example, "10 links" means that the tax rate is assigned to 10 different products, and "0 links" would indicate that the tax rate is not currently applied to any products.
1. Once logged in, navigate to Products 〉 Tax Rates.
2. Click on Create New.
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Shannon Hughes brings over 30 years of experience working in the legal and title industry. Shannon began her career at Potestivo & Associates, P.C. in 2007 as a Michigan REO Coordinator. Since then, she has been promoted to many different roles, including Illinois REO Coordinator and Remote Closer. She most recently served as the firm's Illinois REO/Closing Services Supervisor before assuming her current position of Illinois REO/Closing Services Manager.
Shannon says that her biggest career accomplishments involved taking her experience from her previous career paths and using those skills here at Potestivo & Associates, P.C., where she now serves as Manager. In one of her previous roles, she was also recognized by the Oakland County Bar Association as a paralegal and granted membership due to her experience in the legal field, and not just based on her education.
She enjoys volunteering in the community including at the local food bank, Hospitality House of Walled Lake, TheDrewCrew (a foundation started to help a young man in the community who became paralyzed in high school), local municipal activities for Commerce Township and Walled Lake, Rebuild Together of Oakland County, War Dogs Memorial in South Lyon and numerous fundraisers to help members of the community in need along with national charities like St. Jude, Alzheimer's Association and ALS Association of Michigan.


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By going on an unusual weekend journey excursion this season, you can break the monotony, the restrictions, and the imprisonment. Continuous working hours and recurrence of the same routine reduce originality and quality targets for each of us over time, as seen by the decreasing productivity levels. To recover from this exhaustion, go on a journey that will get you as near to nature as possible, such as weekend hikes from Delhi. You'll never run out of experiences to make your holiday in the hills unforgettable thanks to the vast selection of trekking excursions around Delhi. These hikes are ideal escapes from the commotion of Delhi city, providing lots of possibilities for adventure seekers, photographers, and those seeking tranquility. During the summer, you'll discover pine forest encircling huge meadows wrapped in silky sheets of grass as well as flower beds on virtually every hike.
1. Patalsu Peak Trek
At a height of 4,220 meters, the Patalsu peak hike offers snow and some of the most magnificent views of the Dhauladhar mountains. The Patalsu Peak offers the trekker a diversity of options before leading them to the summit, where they will be rewarded with breathtaking views of the Himalayas Trek as well as the Dhauladhar range's snowcapped summits. To keep yourself going for the rest of the journey, have a nice and light lunch. In the presence of an expert local guide, learn fascinating facts about the mountain region and much more. Trek to a height of 13,800 feet for spectacular views of the Dhauladhar mountains.
2. Triund Trek
The Dhauladhar range's snow-capped peaks on one side, as well as the deeply beautiful Kangra valley on the other, excite hikers, unlike few others. The ascents are tough and a beginner's pleasure on one of the shortest hikes on the list. The journey attracts a lot of bird-watchers, and the evening sky entices you to set up camp for the overnight. The lit village below is just breathtaking. Trekking from Triund, Dharamsala's crown gem, is best accomplished between March and December and is among the most popular trekking destinations near Delhi.
3. Bijli Mahadev Trek, Kullu
The famous temple of Bijli Mahadev is located in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is situated in the Kullu Valley at a height of around 2,460 meters. In the lovely city of Manali, discover the city's nature trails and learn about its mysteries. With the Bijli Mahadev walk, you may enjoy the companionship of big trees and lovely scenery. Be at Kinja town in the Kullu area. There, you'll meet your guide and begin the journey to the Bijli Mahadev temple. As you travel through the lush woodlands, take in the breathtaking vistas of the mountain ranges. Get hassle-free transportation and drop-off from your accommodation to the Bijli Mahadev Trek's beginning point.
4. Nag Tibba Trek
The Nag Tibba mountain, located in Uttarakhand's Tehri Garhwal area, is among the most well-known hikes near Delhi. This weekend's trip is seeing increased foot traffic and provides spectacular views of the Bandarpoonch, Swargarohini, Gangotri, as well as Kedarnath mountain ranges along the way. The relatively straightforward trails carved along the mountain make this a great first trip. The hill is covered in thick Deodar woods, and the ideal months to visit are February to June and September to December. The Nag Tibba trip is circular in form, with several beginning and finishing sites to guarantee that there is no overlapping. The lush meadows conceal areas that serve as a serene backdrop.
5. Tosh Valley Trek
If you have a long holiday weekend forthcoming, Tosh Valley Trek may be the ideal experience for you, since it offers fascinating hiking near Delhi. This short walk provides a classic Himachali experience in the shape of beautiful scenery formed by the flowing Tosh River as well as the lush flora of the valley in only a few minutes. Because the whole trail is gorgeous, you will have several photo chances while hiking up it. And once you see the magnificent Tosh Waterfall and drink its clean alpine water, you will be able to forget about your wearness.
6. Bhadraj Hill Trek
Bhadraj Hill is one of the greatest sites for hiking near Delhi for those who want to try their luck at the game for the very first time. It is a small and well-balanced trip. The track is also known as the 'Milkman's Trail,' since it is the daily route traveled by the milkman who serves the Bhadraj hamlet. This path runs for two days and one night across the undulating meadows and woods on the northern side of Bhadraj Hill. Backpackers can set their tent for the night at the settlement of Dudhli, which acts as a rest break in between. The path itself is extremely simple and can be ascended without difficulty by novices.
Planning to do a Kedarkantha trip? Want to know more about various plans? Check here- Kedarkantha Trek


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Penderyn are delighted to announce that our Rhubarb & Cranberry Brecon Gin won Best Welsh Flavoured Gin in the Country category of the World Gin Awards. This means that it goes forward to the World's Best Gins Awards announced on the 27th February at the Gin Magazine Dinner in London. These are the first gin awards of 2020, and we're very happy to have won as there are a large number of flavoured gins produced in Wales.
You can buy the award-winning gin by clicking here.
Stephen Davies, Penderyn's CEO, said:
'This is great news as it is the first award for our new range of Flavoured Gins which are proving very successful. We look forward to the results of the Best Gin awards in February.'
Last September, following on from the multi-award-winning success of our Brecon Special Reserve Gin and our Brecon Botanicals Gin, Penderyn launched three new flavoured gins – Rhubarb & Cranberry, Rose Petal and Chocolate Orange. The flavoured gins are based on our Brecon Special Reserve gin (which won Gold at the 2017 Spirits Business Global Gin Masters) and are bottled at 37.5% abv.
Laura Davies, our Distiller, who created the gins said –
'The award-winning Brecon Gin series has been expanded using Brecon Special Reserve as a base for three exciting flavoured expressions. These flavoured and coloured gins have been created with balance and creativity and will hopefully create more interest for our regular Brecon Gin customers, and bring new drinkers to the brand and the category.'
Tasting Notes
Rhubarb & Cranberry
A burst of tangy rhubarb blends with bittersweet cranberry to give a fresh and fruity gin. Aromas of juicy grapefruit and fresh strawberries swirl on the nose, while juniper mingles with coriander and sweet orris root in the mouth, leaving a dry lingering finish.
Best served with ice and chilled tonic water. Garnish with frozen strawberries and cucumber.
Rose Petal
Rose petal and strawberries married with tart fresh raspberries and juniper. Hints of liquorice and angelica root swirl, whilst spicy cinnamon and coriander aromas blend with refreshing notes of sunny citrus fruits.
Best served with ice and chilled tonic water. Garnish with a slice of pink grapefruit and fresh mint leaves.
Chocolate Orange
Rich velvety chocolate swirls around this gin. Powdery cocoa and silky vanilla succumb to zesty, sweet orange bursts and an unmistakeably full-bodied juniper, Dry cassia bark balanced with smooth fresh cream lingers in the mouth.
Best served with ice and chilled tonic water. Garnish with cinnamon and a twist of orange.


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Director's Notes (Marioguy1 (talk))Hey Guys! Marioguy1 here! I'm going away for the rest of this month but before I go, I would like to extend thanks to several people:
Thank you to all of these people, and now you can continue reading the issue! Upcoming Games (Paper Yoshi (talk))Hello, 'Shroom readers, and welcome to the August Issue! The last few weeks have seen a rise in Nintendo news, especially due to a fall in the 3DS's price. And before you think the early adopters got ripped off by Nintendo, the Japanese company decided to reward those loyal fans by giving them the opportunity to sign up for the... Ambassador ProgramThe current 3DS owners who connect their handhelds to the Nintendo eShop before August 12th will be able to download 20 classic games from the shop. From those 20 games, 10 are NES titles, while the remaining 10 are GBA titles. Among the unveiled games, there are Mario titles such as Super Mario Bros. and Mario Kart Super Circuit, Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 from the Yoshi series, and WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ representing the Wario series. Ambassador Release Dates
E3 Games UpdatesOn July 28th, the day Nintendo announced the 3DS price cut, two upcoming games had their final names revealed. Mario Kart 3DS and Super Mario 3D are now, respectively, Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land. They also fixed release dates for those highly anticipated Mario games. One day prior to Nintendo's big announcement, SEGA revealed exact release dates for the Wii version of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, along with the final boxart for said version. Updated Release Dates (NA and Japan, unless noted otherwise)
And this is all for now! Remember to stay tuned to Upcoming Games for more news on the games you'll be playing soon! See you in September! Tip of the Month (FunkyK38 (talk))Tip of the Month: Work together with others on large projects for games that are older. If you can find a group of users who have a game that needs its information filled in, you can all work together on it and it will take less time than if one user did it alone. NIWA News (RAP (talk))
Anniversary Announcements (Ralphfan (talk))The awards show was held this Friday! Thanks to all the presenters, you guys were great. The Mafia game is still going (at least it was at the time this was written) and you can check in here to see what's going on with the Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament. There isn't a whole lot about the Awards in this month's section because it was written before the ceremony. Fear not, next month's issue will include lots of special sections related to the awards. Forum Update (Ralphfan (talk))The Awards ceremony took place on August 12. To make it the highlight of the day, the Mario Awards V board was upgraded from a Child Board to a Main Board and placed at the top of the forum. Stooben's Mafia game is finally over. Somebody should've revived me. The Aliens, MCD, QuizmoManiac, Phantoms, Lario, Tucayo and Mijzelffan won. Lario, Tucky and Mij were the first three to win and Quizmo was next. |


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KABUL: 17 members of Loya Jirga were tested positive for covid-19 and were shifted to the hospital for treatment.
Ministry of Public Health Deputy Spokesman Nurullah Tarakai said that 17 members of the Consultative Loya Jirga members were tested positive. He said that out of 3,620 members of the Jirga, 17 of them tested positive.
According to the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), 54 new positive cases of covid-19 were also recorded across the country in the past 24 hours.
1,497 suspected samples of covid-19 were tested, in which 54 were reported positive.
Five patients lost their lives to the virus, the ministry said, adding 57 others were recovered during the past 24 hours.
Afghanistan has 37,069 confirmed cases since the outbreak of the coronavirus around six months ago. 25,960 patients have recovered and 1,312 lost their lives.


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GOG Are Up To Something, Teasing Things
I'm probably falling into a marketing trap. The GOG people are watching the Internet for a mention of GOG, and now I've just pinged RPS on their global map of suckers. I don't care. Fill me in on your spreadsheet, if you must. You have my attention. On Thursday, 18:00 GMT they'll be hosting a live press conference on their website to talk about "an exciting new direction that the digital distributor formerly known as 'Good Old Games' will be taking." How many more directions can one company take?
The last time the direction was to drop the "Old" part of their name, so they could host new games on their digital distribution service. If they drop either "Good" or "Games" I'd expect uproar from the community, so I don't imagine that will happen (I'm like Michael Pachter, me). The video below says "we took digital downloads and we made them analogue", which only makes sense in a bizarro universe where digital distribution came first. It's also clearly mocking the self-important tone of Apple's ads.
If digital distribution isn't thrilling enough for you, after GOG have left the stage CD Project will appear to thrill us with news about The Witcher 2, their mod-tools, and they promise some information on the Cyberpunk inspired RPG they've been making. We should find out what it's called, a boon for the good people whoadd games into online shop databases. Keep up the good work, chaps.


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Frame offer three interesting MIF parameters that let you shift text around: FDX, FDY, and FDW (horizontal, vertical, and width). Width is available through the Character Designer, so I won't cover it here. The other two are not; however, you can add them to a character definition by editing the MIF. (And rest assured they are on my wish list.)
To see how it works, create a character tag called MyTag. Save the file as MIF and open it as text. Search for the string MyTag. As you look down the specification, you will see either FDW alone or all three, and they look like this:
Over the years I've noticed that some versions or platforms include all three, and some, such as Macintosh 7, contain only the FDW. But no matter, as you can add or modify the FDX and FDY values by hand. Note that:
Caution: If you later edit the character tag via the Character Designer, the manually added X and Y shifts will be deleted.


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This man (right) is dead.
His name is Alan 'Fluff' Freeman and he spent about half a century playing pop music on the radio.
He didn't exactly invent pop music but he would have been good at taking it to Dragon's Den and he did invent the phrase 'pop pickers'.
He also presented the Radio One chart countdown when it was still a countdown of the chart (instead of a load of chat and phone-ins), and was a radio DJ in the proper sense of the term, rather than T4 presenter with a good agent.
Basically he was a bit like John Peel except, it seems from this morning's media coverage, without all the fuss.
Here are some bits:
Fluff introducing The Beatles on Top Of The Pops in 1967


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We're a team of folks passionate about cloud services and world-class developer experiences.
- Fully remote, globally distributed.
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We're also supported by angel investors with experience at Sequoia Capital, Voyager Capital, Auth0, Dropbox, Brex, Uber, and Splunk.
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Last week, Festival Squad stumbled upon a new shuttle company in Denver called Mile High Tailgators. The company, started earlier this year by Joe Ozimek, is one that takes a unique spin on getting its patrons safely to and from Red Rocks. Unlike most shuttle companies headed to Red Rocks, Mile High Tailgators will provide you the full tailgating experience at no extra charge. I personally had the pleasure of getting a ride with Mile High Tailgators to see ODESZA and I am here to tell you all about it.
The Plan
Since we were doing this trip as individuals versus a group, Mile High Tailgators had us meet at a local bar in the Denver area. All 11 people arrived and had the opportunity to meet eachother or grab a drink/food inside the bar and get comfortable. The Mile High Tailgator van is all seats, and it was pretty comfortable. We made sure we had everyone, we signed waivers and we were on our way.
Stop One: Prepping for the Pregame
Something that stood out to me about Mile High Tailgators is that we made one stop at a liquor store to get fully prepped for the tailgating ahead. While Mile High Tailgators will not provide alcohol or food, they'll provide all the fun. Stopping was essential for some of us who needed to grab lemons, mixers of extra beer. After a quick pit stop we were on our way.
Stop Two: The Box Office
What I appreciated about this stop was the serious consideration that this company had for its riders. The box office stop took about 3 minutes, but it made the day for those who needed to pick up their tickets. Rather than have this group walk back to the entrance, we pulled over, let them grab their tickets and then were ready to get set up.
The Tailgator Party
Now this is the bread and butter of Mile High Tailgators: the party. As soon as we got to the South Lot, we parked next to the other shuttle buses and hopped out. Our group waited around for about 10 minutes as the Mile High Tailgator team set up the following:
- DJ mixer + speakers
- Canopies for shade or rain
- Bags
- Table with cups for flip cup or beer pong
- Grill (in case anyone wanted to make food)
- Ice with a cooler to throw in your beers or anything else to keep cold
Once we were set up, the party was in full gear. All the other people around us from other shuttles came over to get in on the fun. We were the life of the South Lot for sure because not one bus had the set up that we did. After a couple of hours of making new friends, playing beer pong and dancing to some music, we were ready to go inside. Anything we wanted to leave behind (jackets, backpacks, food, beer, etc) could be left with the drive who would remain in the same spot the whole night.
Heading Home
When the night was done, we were able to find the shuttle van and we even had a little dance party in the lot as we waited for our group to come back. Leaving the lot was easy and we headed back to the same bar that we started at, and everyone went their separate ways.
All in all, I had an awesome time. I was able to get to and from Red Rocks stress free, I was able to have a full pregame/tailgating party before entering into Red Rocks, I was able to leave my things behind and get home hassle free.
What makes Mile High Tailgators different?
Pretty much everything. I have used other limo type shuttle services before, and all they do is take you to and from Red Rocks. In fact, some of them drop you and all of your stuff off and then leave to grab another group. We actually saw this happen a few times. But even if they don't leave you stranded, when you get there, you have nothing to do but wait because the only fun is on the bus in transit. I have also gone the uber route. Getting there is simple, but getting back is a nightmare that I wouldn't wish upon anyone. Mile High Tailgators offers affordable transit with a complete party attached. Whats not to love? Need pricing and more info? Check out our first article, or head to the Mile High Tailgator website where you can book online.
Thanks Mile High Tailgators, for the BEST Red Rocks experience to date! We'll see you again soon! Party professionally and SQUAD UP!


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Nearly every state has at least thought about authorized sports activities betting; however, the truth is that full online sports activities betting will not come to more than a dozen states for a very long time as a result of deep-seated political opposition to gambling or complex tribal relationships. The news meant that GAN would now not be offering the digital wallet for FanDuel Sportsbook-dissatisfied traders, who had despatched GAN's inventory soaring during the primary half of 2020 on hopes that the return of professional sports in the course of the pandemic would substantially increase online gambling. I prefer to bundle together several gamers who have an opportunity to win but aren't essentially at the highest of the "favorites" checklist. A service provider who purchased more books than they'll sell places the extras back on the wholesale market as seconds hoping to recoup some of their cash.
DMD is a clean-examine company that intends asset acquisition with one or more businesses. The outcomes showed that a series of small requests, adopted by the significant requests, labored much more efficiently than a large request at the outset. Shares of GAN tumbled in August after the corporate introduced that a big buyer, FanDuel, had deployed its proprietary digital wallet. "SGMS is a gaming tools company specializing in slot machines and immediate lottery merchandise. In May, SGMS publicly-listed SciPlay Corporation (SCPL), its online social gaming enterprise. The corporate has developed 1000's video games for its core business and since 2012 has monetized them via the web- and cell-based social gaming platforms. Just lately, the company entered into a definitive enterprise combination settlement with Genius Sports Group Restricted to combine.
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CineLux Plaza Theatre
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Located in the Plaza shopping center and opened in the late-1960's, the Plaza Twin cinema was actually two single screen cinemas which faced each other. Each was twinned in the 1970's and the result was 4 auditoriums (or two twin cinemas depending on how you want to look at it.)
In the late-1990's both twin cinemas were renovated with new seats and larger screens. The operator, CineLux Theatres, added stadium seating in the summer of 2003 and by 2017 it was operating as a 5-screen theatre. In 2019 another 3-screens were added.
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Actually, one of the two original auditorium buildings made it into the early 1990s as a single screen. It was then twinned, with FXC Communications—a company run by (the late) John Bondi—a former Fox West Coast executive—doing the work and equipping the venue. Ever the showman, John insisted that both new screens be equipped with plush, red waterfall curtains.
Cinelux recently underwent a remodel to up the screen count to 8, which it sorely needed.
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Now, this report comes via Al Jazeera, but was printed in the Jerusalem Post, which is kinda weird. Like the story itself
The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a suspected nuclear site under construction.
The sources were quoted as saying that Israeli F-15 and F-16 jets provided cover for the US planes.
The sources added that each US plane carried one tactical nuclear weapon and that the site was hit by one bomb and was totally destroyed.
I could be wrong, but it appears to be saying that the U.S.A.F. dropped a nuclear weapon on the site.
Surprisingly, most of the DUmmies don't believe it. Let me get my ice skates for that former brimstone lake.
Check more on the story at Memeorandum.


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by Linda Dort
When it comes to providing information about a property or transaction, Realtors should stay away from exaggeration, giving false facts, or covering up or avoiding facts. Don't use Photoshop if the grass is brown, or there is a power line in the backyard.
Realtors are only obligated to disclose adverse factors that are reasonably apparent to someone with expertise in the area of real estate you practice. We aren't obligated to make discoveries about existing issues in a property, or to give advice on anything outside our area of real estate or give up a confidentiality no matter if it is in an agency or non-agency relationship.
Real estate transactions are unilateral agreements – another word both parties are giving something of value to the other. As REALTORS we cannot be involved in the appearance of short changing the other party to the transaction.
Read all of Article 2 from the REALTOR® Code of Ethics below
Article 2 (Case Interpretations for Article 2)
REALTORS® shall avoid exaggeration, misrepresentation, or concealment of pertinent facts relating to the property or the transaction. REALTORS® shall not, however, be obligated to discover latent defects in the property, to advise on matters outside the scope of their real estate license, or to disclose facts which are confidential under the scope of agency or non-agency relationships as defined by state law. (Amended 1/00) [listen]
- Standard of Practice 2-1
REALTORS® shall only be obligated to discover and disclose adverse factors reasonably apparent to someone with expertise in those areas required by their real estate licensing authority. Article 2 does not impose upon the REALTOR® the obligation of expertise in other professional or technical disciplines. (Amended 1/96)
- Standard of Practice 2-2
(Renumbered as Standard of Practice 1-12 1/98)
- Standard of Practice 2-3
(Renumbered as Standard of Practice 1-13 1/98)
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REALTORS® shall not be parties to the naming of a false consideration in any document, unless it be the naming of an obviously nominal consideration.
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Factors defined as "non-material" by law or regulation or which are expressly referenced in law or regulation as not being subject to disclosure are considered not "pertinent" for purposes of Article 2. (Adopted 1/93)


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- Authors: Davis-Gardner ME. et al.
- Year: 2020
- Journal: mBio 11 e3080-19
- Applications: in vitro / DNA / FectoPRO
- Cell type: CHO
Description: Chinese hamster ovary cells
Seeding: 3x 10^6 cells/ml at the time of transfection. DNA : 0.56 µg/ml. Five days post-transfection. the medium was collected for protein purification
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) can prevent and control an HIV-1 infection, but their breadth is invariably too limited for use as monotherapy. To address this problem, bi- and trispecific antibody-like constructs have been developed. These engineered antibodies typically have greater breadth than the native bNAbs from which they were derived, but they are not more potent because they do not, in most cases, simultaneously engage more than a single epitope of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env). Here, we describe a new class of bispecific antibodies targeting the V2-glycan (apex) and V3-glycan regions of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env). Specifically, bispecific antibodies with a single-chain (scFv) form of the CAP256.VRC26.25 V2-glycan (apex) antibody on one antibody arm and a full V3-glycan Fab on the other arm neutralizes more HIV-1 isolates than the bNAbs from which they were derived. Moreover, these bispecific antibodies are markedly more potent than their parental bNAbs, likely because they simultaneously engage both the apex and V3-glycan epitopes of Env. Our data show that simultaneous engagement of two critical epitopes of a single Env trimer can markedly increase the potency of a bispecific antibody.IMPORTANCE Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) can prevent a new HIV-1 infection and can at least temporarily suppress an established infection. However, antibody-resistant viruses rapidly emerge in infected persons treated with any single bNAb. Several bispecific antibodies have been developed to increase the breadth of these antibodies, but typically only one arm of these bispecific constructs binds the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein trimer (Env). Here, we develop and characterize bispecific constructs based on well-characterized V2-glycan and V3-glycan bNAbs and show that at least one member of this class is more potent than its parental antibodies, indicating that they can simultaneously bind both of these epitopes of a single Env trimer. These data show that bispecific antibody-like proteins can achieve greater neutralization potency than the bNAbs from which they were derived.


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On May 21, 2019, Apple introduced its first 8-Core MacBook Pro, which it says are its fastest MacBook Pro models to date. It will be available in the standard 13 and 15-inch size configurations, the 2019 MacBook Pro doesn't feature external changes, continuing to use the same design that was first introduced in 2016, but along with internal improvements, the machines have a couple other upgrades.
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The new MacBook Pro models use the latest Intel processors, introducing an 8-core option for the 15-inch MacBook Pro for the first time. While the 15-inch models use 6 or 8-core 9th-generation chips, the 13-inch MacBook Pro is equipped with a quad-core 8th-generation chip.
Apple says the new 8-core 15-inch MacBook Pro offers two times faster performance than a quad-core MacBook Pro and 40 percent faster performance than a 6-core MacBook Pro.
The other major change to the MacBook Pro concerns the keyboard, which is now using an upgraded butterfly mechanism made from new materials. Apple says this updated keyboard will significantly cut down on key failures that have been prominent in prior MacBook Pro models.
Aside from upgraded chips and the new butterfly keyboard that's been introduced, the 2019 MacBook Pro models are the same as the prior-generation 2018 MacBook Pro models.
13-inch MacBook Pro machines feature Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655, while 15-inch models are equipped with built-in graphics and either a Radeon Pro 555X/560X graphics or Radeon Pro Vega 16 or 20 graphics. 4TB of SSD storage is available in the 15-inch machine, while the 13-inch machine can support a 2TB SSD.
Up to 32GB RAM is available in the 15-inch MacBook Pro, while the 13-inch model maxes out at 16GB. An OLED Touch Bar with Touch ID continues to be included along with a larger Force Touch Trackpad, and all new machines offer four Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports.
The Touch Bar and the Retina display of the MacBook Pro feature support for True Tone functionality that adjusts white balance to match ambient lighting, and other display features such as wide color support are included.
A T2 chip continues to offer enhanced security with secure boot and on-the-fly encrypted storage along with support for hands-free Hey Siri commands. All day 10 hour battery life is still supported, and there's a Touch ID button for unlocking your Mac with your fingerprint.
The new and updated 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and 15-inch MacBook Pro are priced at Rs 1,59,900 and Rs 1,99,900, respectively. The Mac notebooks will be available through Apple Authorised Resellers in India later this week.