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Christmas Giveaway
SoftPetPaws is celebrating Christmas with a big Giveaway!
With $500 in cash to spend on your fur babies (or however you wish), this Christmas will surely be special for both of you!
The rules are simple:
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Example: $40 Spent give you 40 Entries (rounded up)
After 14 days (January 1st 2022), we're going to randomly draw a winner and announce it.
The random draw will be done live on our Instagram (@SoftPetPaws) and the winner will be announced on this page and on our instagram/facebook pages.
After being contacted, the winner must reply with the details requested regarding the payment, within 14 days. If we don't receive the details within 14 days, the draw will be repeated.
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Latino online dating portal and Latino event website partner
Posted by Elena del Valle on March 25, 2008
QuieroLatino homepage – click on image to enlarge
Photos: QuieroLatino, nocheLatina
In December 2006, Ariel Oxman and Joe Spector, students at the University of Pennsylvania at the time, started working on a new business concept, an online dating site for Latinos in the U.S. They entered a business plan competition and incubator program. When it came time to graduate, they passed up potential Wall Street jobs to dedicate all their time to QuieroLatino, the San Francisco, California company they established in June 2007.
NocheLatina website – click on image to enlarge
Beginning in February, QuieroLatino and nocheLatina, another website targeting young Latinos, have developed a partnership agreement. NocheLatina, based in New York, offers an event directory, a lifestyle magazine, music, and video content in English online for Latinos. According to Spector, the two websites combined receive several hundred thousand unique monthly visitors. He declined to disclose the financial impact, price range and terms of the partnership agreement.
Reach Hispanics online today with
"Marketing to Hispanics Online" audio recording
Identifying and characterizing the booming Hispanic online market
Joel Bary, Alex Carvallo and Matias Perel
Find out about
• The 16 million Latino online users
• Latino online users by gender
• What they do online
• Their language preferences
• How to reach Hispanic urban youth online
• What affects their online behavior
• What influences their purchases
Click here for information about "Marketing to Hispanics Online"
Joe Spector, co-founder, QuieroLatino
"QuieroLatino's users, comprised of single Latinos in the U.S., are involved with Latino culture and their local social scene," said Spector, co-founder of QuieroLatino. "By teaming up with nocheLatina, we're providing users with the most relevant entertainment options."
Since the QuieroLatino launch in early February, 1,000 people have registered on QuieroLatino and have looked at over 80,000 pages. There are about as many men as women registered to date. As part of the cross promotional agreement, QuieroLatino is providing visitors to nocheLatina with dating content and access to its singles database. NocheLatina in turn promises QuieroLatino visitors local information on nightlife, concerts and other Hispanic lifestyle content in Los Angeles, Miami and New York.
"NocheLatina is all about the socializing aspect of events and entertainment," said Alex Frias, founder and managing director of nocheLatina. "By working with QuieroLatino, we'll be able to help our users connect not only via events but online as well."
Alex Frias, founder and managing director, nocheLatina
Spector grew up in San Francisco. Prior to co-founding QuieroLatino, he worked as a banker at JPMorgan in New York City. He has a master's degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Oxman, whose family is from South America, grew up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. and received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was a Public Policy Fellow at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. He also started La Familia, a Latino peer mentoring program.
QuieroLatino, an English language website with some Spanish content, offers a free General Membership and a Premium Membership for a monthly fee of $24.99. General Members can create a profile, search for other members, rate profiles, and use the website's internal chat function. Premium Members can also message other users and upload videos to their profile.
NocheLatina provides an interactive portal for bi-cultural young Latinos. The nocheLatina website lists a presence in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New Jersey, New York, Orlando, Phoenix, San Antonio, and San Diego. NocheLatina is a division of Track Entertainment, an entertainment company that offers real life and digital programs.
Improve your outreach programs by understanding
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"Latino Identity and Situational Latinidad " audio recording
Presenters Diana Rios and Ph.D., Federico Subervi, Ph.D.
Find out
• Who is Latino
• Assimilation, acculturation and pluralism
• Hispanic culture dynamics affecting Latino
• Role of Latino identity
• Three factors that contribute to Latino identity
Click here for information on Latino Identity and Situational Latinidad

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The 2023 Creative Writing MFA Reading Series presents poet, translator, and Boise State Professor Clyde Moneyhun. He will give a reading from his new book in translation, "Witch in Mourning" by Maria Mercè Marçal, one of the most celebrated 20th century Catalan poets, at 7:30 PM on Friday, March 31, 2023 in the Great Hall in the Hemingway Center.
"Witch in Mourning" represents a monumental achievement, as Marçal's poems will appear in English for the first time. Maria Mercè Marçal i Serra (1952–1998)–a poet, feminist, political activist, essayist, translator and critic–wrote the collection "Cau de llunes" (Den of Moons), which won the prestigious Carles Riba Prize for poetry in 1976. She also authored "Terra de Mai" (The Neverland), which captured the first description of lesbian love in Catalan literature. She died in Barcelona in 1998 at the age of 45.
Clyde Moneyhun teaches writing, rhetoric, and literary translation. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, Moneyhun also publishes creative work, most recently translations of contemporary European poetry. He has taught at the University of Delaware, Stanford University, and the Universitat d'Alacant in Spain.
Free and open to the public, the Creative Writing MFA Reading Series invites renowned writers and thinkers to campus each fall and spring. Visiting writers give talks, readings of their work and conduct workshops with creative writing students.


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With the release of AutoCAD 2017, using the PDFIMPORT command, it is now possible to import PDF content directly into AutoCAD drawings. … Additionally, PDF underlays in drawings created with previous AutoCAD releases can be converted into editable drawing geometry using the PDFIMPORT command.
How can I convert PDF to AutoCAD for free?
How to convert PDF to AutoCAD online for free:
- Upload your file to our free online PDF to DWG converter. …
- The conversion process will start automatically after the upload is complete.
- Wait for the conversion to finish & then download your newly created DWG file.
How do I convert a PDF to AutoCAD 2019?
Import the Data from a PDF File
- Click Insert tab Import panel PDF Import. Find.
- In the Select PDF File dialog box, specify the PDF file that you want to import, and click Open.
- In the Import PDF dialog box: …
- Specify the insertion point if prompted.
What is the best PDF to DWG Converter?
Best PDF to AutoCAD converter of 2020: Free and paid, for Windows, Mac, Android and online
- AutoDWG PDF to DWG Converter.
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- Zamzar Online File Conversion.
- EasyPDF PDF to AutoCAD Converter.
How do I save an AutoCAD drawing as a PDF?
To Export Selected Layouts to a PDF File
- Press and hold the Ctrl key and near the bottom-left of the drawing area, click the layout tabs that you want to export.
- Right-click and select Publish Selected Layouts.
- In the Publish dialog box, in the Publish To: drop-down list, select PDF.
- In the PDF preset drop-down list, select the preset that you want to use.
How do I convert an image to AutoCAD?
JPG to DWG Converter
- Upload JPG-file. Click "Choose File" button to select a jpg file on your computer. JPG file size can be up to 50 Mb.
- Convert JPG to DWG. Click "Convert" button to start conversion.
- Download your DWG. When the conversion process is complete, you can download the DWG file.
How do I convert a PDF to DWF?
Use the Save As feature to select the output file format.
- Click on the large "D" located on the top left of screen.
- In the drop down list prompted, select the "Save As" feature.
- Set the "Save as type" to DWF or DWFx.
- Save the output file to the desired location.
How do I import a PDF into AutoCAD 2020?
Import the Data from a PDF File
- Click Insert tab Import panel PDF Import. Find.
- In the Select PDF File dialog box, specify the PDF file that you want to import, and click Open.
- In the Import PDF dialog box: …
- Specify the insertion point if prompted.
How do I import a PDF into AutoCAD 2014?
To Attach a PDF Underlay
- Click Insert tab Reference panel Attach.
- In the Select Reference File dialog box, select the PDF file you want to attach.
- Click Open.
- In the Attach PDF Underlay dialog box, select one page, or use SHIFT or CTRL to select multiple pages.
How do I edit a PDF in AutoCAD?
To edit a PDF drawing, do this:
- Open a new or existing drawing file.
- On the Application menu, choose Import → PDF.
- Press Enter.
- Browse to and select the desired PDF file using the file dialog box that has appeared.
- Click Open. The Import PDF dialog box appears.
- Click OK.
How do I convert DXF to PDF?
Convert a DXF drawing to a PDF document
- Open AutoCAD then click on Menu Browser->File->Open (or press Ctrl+O), browse for the dwg file you want to convert to PDF and click Open.
- You can print to PDF either from the Model view (your working area) or by using a predefined Layout.
Can I open a DWG file without AutoCAD?
Autodesk provides a freeware viewer program called DWG TrueView. In addition to opening DWG files, the software can also be used for plotting, creating PDFs, and converting from one DWG format to another. DWG TrueView can also be used to open, view, and plot DXF files.
How can I convert DWG file to PDF without AutoCAD?
First, locate a file system directory that has your DWG files, then simply right-mouse click and select Convert to Adobe PDF (Acrobat 8 Professional or Acrobat 3D version 8 must be installed first). Next, you will see a PDF with all views that were in the original DWG file.16 мая 2008 г.
How do I save an AutoCAD drawing as a PDF layer?
How to create PDF with Layers from AutoCAD File
- Click on Properties button next to it. Another window will pop up. Select Custom Properties and Click on Custom properties button. Another window will pop up.
- Tick the check box against "Include Layer Information"
- Press Ok, OK, Ok. Save Drawing at desired location. PDF will be created with Layer information.


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ResMed crashes after death rate increase
An attempt by ResMed to show that one of its ventilation therapies could be a lifesaver for heart failure patients has ended poorly, with a postmarket trial showing that the company's technology actually increased cardiovascular deaths.
ResMed's shares fell 15% on Wednesday as investors considered what the trial failure might mean for the company which will, according to EvaluateMedTech's consensus forecasts, lead the global anaesthesia and respiratory market in 2020.
The Europe-based Serve-HF trial enrolled 1,325 patients with moderate to severe predominant central sleep apnoea and congestive heart failure. Around 30-50% of heart failure patients have sleep apnoea, and this is known to be a significant comorbidity.
Serve swerve
Serve-HF's purpose was to show that ResMed's adaptive servo-ventilation technology could reduce mortality and morbidity, with its entry in Clinicaltrials.gov suggesting that the intervention could reduce the hazard rate by 20% compared with an untreated control group.
The trial showed no difference between the two groups on the primary endpoint of time to all-cause mortality or unplanned hospitalisation for worsening heart failure, and is therefore a failure on that alone. But worse, a higher annual rate of cardiovascular death was seen in the treatment group, at 10% compared with 7.5% in the control group.
According to Clinicaltrials.gov the devices used in the trial were the AutoSet CS 2 and the VPAP Adapt SV. Adaptive servo-ventilation is an algorithm incorporated by these devices that enables customised therapy by measuring the patient's respiratory rate and volume to determine the degree of pressure support needed. The ventilation level is adjusted through the course of the night.
A cached version of ResMed's website reveals that the AutoSet CS 2 was specifically designed for congestive heart failure patients with Cheyne-Stokes respiration and concomitant obstructive sleep apnoea.
A clinical decision
The devices are sold in Europe, and the company is revising the labelling for the ASV devices to warn against allowing people with symptomatic heart failure with left ventricular ejection fraction less than or equal to 45% to use them.
ResMed recommends that doctors consider discontinuing treatment in patients with symptomatic chronic heart failure and who have reduced left ventricular ejection fraction. "Whether to discontinue is ultimately a clinical decision," the company said in its advice to doctors.
AutoSet CS 2 and the VPAP Adapt SV are classified by ResMed as flow generators, and are part of a segment forecast to break the $1bn sales barrier this year, rising to $1.4bn in 2020, EvaluateMedTech data show. This makes up 57% of the company's total revenues, and the proportion is set to rise – although these forecasts were made before the Serve-HF data were revealed.
True, the products in the trial are just two of the devices in ResMed's dozens-strong flow generator portfolio, and they are not contraindicated for all patients – only in around 25% of the population in which they are used. But an increase in death in a trial intended to show the opposite is an alarming signal. ResMed's ambition to push into heart failure was understandable, but it might find that it has to stick to its core area for now.
Study | Trial ID |
Serve-HF | NCT00733343 |
To contact the writer of this story email Elizabeth Cairns in London at [email protected] or follow @LizEPVantage on Twitter


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Get on board
Join the Board of Trustees at Home-Start Glasgow North and help enhance their work in supporting and empowering families. Min age 18.
Home-Start Glasgow North are looking to expand their existing Board and are looking for volunteers from all walks of life, who reflect the communities they work in.
If you feel you could provide guidance to this dynamic charity, and can spare a few hours each month, to attend meetings or to engage in Board discussions via email and online forums, please click on the link here.


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The capital city of Providence, RI is full of history and perfectly combines both city and beach to make it an excellent destination for visiting families. We've rounded up a number of our favorite family attractions below and our Providence events calendar is packed with daily story times, museum exhibits and movie nights. Book your time in Providence today!
photo: Providence Children's Museum via yelp
Providence Children's Museum
This museum offers hands-on, play-based exhibits and programs that explore arts, culture and science, technology, engineering and math. The museum's hands-on learning environments and programs are designed for children ages 1 to 11 and their adult caregivers. Explore ice, mist and discover the swirling, whirling ways of water in an all-new water play environment! Explore a garden of native plants, a perfect place for a picnic lunch and for active outdoor play.
100 South St.
Providence, RI
Online: childrenmuseum.org
Providence Performing Arts Center
The Providence Performing Arts Center is one of the most visually-stunning venues in the country as well as one of the most prestigious destinations for performing artists and companies.
220 Weybosset St.
Providence, RI
Online: providencetheater.com
Museum of Natural History and Planetarium
The Museum of Natural History is Rhode Island's only natural history museum and is home to the state's only public planetarium. For more than a century the museum has served as a unique educational, scientific and cultural resource by offering exciting exhibits and programming that provide ways for children and families to learn about our world and its people.
1000 Elmwood Ave.
Providence, RI
Online: providenceri.gov
India Point Park
Located at the confluence of the Seekonk and Providence Rivers where they widen into Narragansett Bay, the Park is the only broad expanse of Bay shoreline in Providence accessible to the public.
India St.
Providence, RI
Online: riwaterfrontevents.com
photo: Shayna G. via yelp
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Located amid 40 acres of beautiful woodlands, the Roger Williams Park Zoo provides visitors the opportunity to see animals from all over the globe, some more than a million years old. Naturalistic surroundings are home to more than 100 species of animals including a Komodo dragon, as well as zebras, red pandas, African elephants, Masai giraffes, snow leopards, bears, flamingos, sloths, and more! Kids from two to 102 have the opportunity to feed giraffes and harbor seals, as well as an array of farmyard animals.
1000 Elmwood Ave.
Providence, RI
Online: rwpzoo.org
Historic Federal Hill
Sip a strong espresso at an outdoor cafe, grab a quick pizza for lunch or dine in style at a gourmet Italian restaurant in this historic section of the city, also know as Little Italy. You'll know you have arrived by the huge arched gateway, with a bronzed pine cone, which marks the entry to the neighborhood.
Providence, RI
Online: federalhillprov.com
Gondola Rides
Take a gondola ride through the Providence waterways with your family to see the sights of the Renaissance City like never before.
Online: gondolari.com
The Best Upcoming Events for Kids in Providence
If you're looking for events and activities, don't miss our local Providence events calendar, which has everything from story times to seasonal activities like apple picking, pumpkin patches, and Christmas tree farms.
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This study examined the role of specific pattern coloring, such as coloring books for adults, on conceptual, behavioral and physiological measures of anxiety. Undergraduate female students (n = 8) had ECG electrodes and a respiration belt attached and completed the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) at five time points; at baseline, after an initial autobiographical anxiety induction, following a passive relaxation condition, after a repeat induction and then after a coloring condition. The participants were randomly split into a control and experimental group; the control group free colored while the experimental group colored in a mandala pattern. Participants had the option of coloring before bed to test the effect of coloring on sleep onset latency. The electrodes and respiration belt measured heart rate and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) data and MATLAB transformed the raw data to produce heart rate variability (HRV) values. The self-report data indicated that the manipulation did not induce anxiety and that there was no reduction in anxiety after the coloring conditions. Physiological data indicated that the manipulation successfully induced anxiety, however, there was no significant reduction in anxiety. Although the results of this study were not significant, they suggest that with a larger sample size, it would be possible to see an effect of specific pattern coloring on the reduction of anxiety.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Hannah, "Are Coloring Books Really Just for Kids? Investigating Possible Effects of Specific Pattern Coloring on Conceptual, Physiological and Behavioral Aspects of Anxiety" (2016). Scripps Senior Theses. 804.


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28-Days-to-Lean Meal Plan
With the right plan and the right discipline, you can get seriously shredded in just 28 days.
Read articleIncreased muscle mass and significant weight loss really is possible with yoga. As part of my ongoing quest for new ways to meet my own potential, I investigated yoga with some surprising findings. From martial artists to the elderly, everyone can get great fat burning, and lean muscle building results from this often neglected form of exercise.
If you want to increase your muscle building capacity you know it's important to train hard and eat right, but you also need a lifestyle that affords plenty of sleep for recuperation.
On top of all that you need to free your mind of stress too. Only when mind, body and soul come together can you truly tap into your body's fitness potential. With today's hectic lifestyles, stresses at the office can dampen motivation and keep you awake at night. That's why many people are turning to forms of exercise that don't just get the blood flowing, but take care of the 'old noggin' too.
One such discipline that challenges users both mentally and physically is yoga, and you'd be amazed who's doing it in 2013!
Yoga became popular in the Western world in the 80's and since then various systems, DVD's and books have hit gyms and stores. Along the way yoga picked up its own image and many people, to this day, see it as "nothing more than a group of people in leg warmers getting together for light exercise while babbling about spirituality". It's a stereotype that limits many people's understanding of what they can achieve!
In yoga the only weight you lift is your own. By completing a routine of stretches and movements that rely on the push and pull between your own muscle groups, yoga has many incredible benefits including:
What a set of benefits! When your body is relaxed and you get good sleep, cortisol levels are reduced and growth hormone levels are increased. In other words: Yoga is a great way to burn fat AND gain muscle either as a standalone routine, or complimented with other forms of exercise.
Despite this, for many men and women, the idea of taking up yoga still feels intimidating. Being a 'newbie' in your local gym with others – who are probably experts – fills some with dread. The good news is you can do it alone at home. If I tell you that the worlds top pro wrestlers and MMA Fighters do yoga you might want to take a closer look.
I recently spoke to Diamond Dallas Page (DDP) about yoga. This guy is a three-time World Pro Wrestling Champion and star of new WWE DVD 'The Very Best of Monday Nitro Volume 2'.
DDP is the kind of athlete normally associated with heavy gym work, so it may come as a surprise to learn that he hasn't been on the bench press in years. His discovery came after attending a local 'power yoga' session to recover from a severe back injury, in an attempt to get back into ring shape. He tells me: "After yoga changed my life, I started seeing others adapt it to their own fitness level and I knew I was on to something. His own acclaimed system, 'DDP Yoga is a 'no nonsense' approach that is catching fire with athletes and fitness enthusiast around the world.
WWE Wrestlers, not known for mentioning other grapplers' products – or for doing yoga for that matter – have praised it. As a former wrestler myself, I'm hooked and big names such as Chris Jericho and Ryback have all sent messages of endorsement. The recent re-branding of yoga, pioneered by 'macho' type people such as DDP, has opened up the doors to people that wouldn't have previously considered doing it.
Another great thing about many of the various forms of yoga out there is that they can be done by elite athletes or overweight people trying to gain some control back in their lives. DDP proudly tells me that some of his students have lost over 140 lbs. and that yoga is also great for keeping in shape as life goes on. "At 57 years young, I can do things that most 20 or 30 year olds can't do. Being healthy, flexible and strong equates to quality of life. I believe it's never too late for anyone to become better at anything.
If you are not quite ready to try yoga in front of a crowd, get an instructional DVD. There's plenty to choose from and I'd certainly recommend DDP Yoga for anyone who wants a straight forward and extremely challenging routine.
As a regular gym goer I found the idea of exercising around my television a bit strange, but I have to tell you this feeling disappeared after 5 minutes! When you seek to get the best from your body consider anything and never be limited by old fashioned stereotypes.
So, what are you waiting for? Give yoga a try and see the wonders it can do for your mind and body. Need some proof. Check out the transformation of this U.S. veteran in this incredible video.


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Les Cactus, a Boutique Getaway, to Make Its Desert Debut
Plenty of places seem to sweat it when it comes to reconnecting with true retro character, but not Palm Springs, no way and no how. It's a confident city where style and design easily draw upon decades long gone, so much so that any new entry to the scene, be it a dress or a destination, instantly seems to possess an excess of wayback cachet.
And Les Cactus, which is readying for its Feb. 15 opening in the Warm Sands neighborhood, summons that evocative mood, and then some. Located in a 27-room property that trace its tony history back to the 1930s, the hotel also rocks the rock cred, for it draws its more-pretty-than-prickly name from a '60s-era song by Jacques Dutronc.
Eager to peek inside the airy abode, which brims with several you're-at-home-not-hotel touchstones? Saunter inside now, while humming "Les Cactus" or the vintage charmsong of your choice.


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It's not just a problem in America. Self-Righteous Hypocrates are everywhere!
Perhaps Drug Rehab Slipped Her Mind?
by Rod MacTaggart
An Australian member of parliament has called for the children of drug addicts to be permanently removed from their parents and offered for adoption. Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop wants to see adoption, rather than fostering, used to separate children from parents who are battling addiction. Excuse me, but has the honorable member completely forgotten about successful drug rehab programs?
Ms. Bishop, who is currently chairing an Australian parliamentary inquiry into the impact of illicit drug use on families, told the Australian Broadcasting Company's Four Corners program that the current system is skewed towards the interests of drug-using parents, and not their children. She said there are hundreds of parents who are desperate to adopt children and give them love and good homes, but "there is this 'biology first' principle."
By ignoring that successful drug rehab can keep a family together, and tossing "this biology first principle" on the trash heap, Ms. Bishop nullifies both the proven breakthroughs in the science of drug rehab, as well as one of the most primal urges of human history and experience – the urge for one's own biological parents, and children.
Ms. Bishop's detractors have been quick to speak up. Brisbane Youth Service spokeswoman Amanda Davies said there is no evidence that all people that use drugs are unable to parent their children. And Queensland Council of Social Service president Karyn Walsh said there is strong evidence that forced removals cause children long-term harm. "You can't just go removing children simply because their parents have a drug addiction," she said. "Children need to know their parents, and not all parents who have a drug addiction are bad parents, or incapable of parenting."
Victorian Child Safety Commissioner Bernie Geary put it best when he said, "There is nothing in my experience worse than a child who's sentenced to be without their parents for the rest of their lives. Children are better off with families in the long run."
And let's not forget the ultimate solution: if the parents do a successful drug rehab program that gets down to the bottom of why they're taking drugs and resolves those issues, they won't be addicts.
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All tools (except left-handed taps) rotate clockwise (M3) when viewed from the machine spindle looking down at the part.
Figure 3.10: Clockwise Tool Rotation |
Cutting tools remove metal by shearing action as illustrated in Figure 3.11 below. As the tool advances into the material it causes a small amount of the material to shear away, forming a chip.
Figure 3.11: Chip Formation Diagram |
The thickness of material sheared away by each cutting tooth is called the feed per tooth, or chip load. As the chip is ejected from the work area it carries with it some of the heat generated by the shearing process.
Figure 3.12: Chip Load |
A methodology for calculating cutting speeds and feeds is presented later in this chapter. One of the best ways to validate cutting speeds and feeds is to observe the chips created by the machining process. Chips should be curled and may change color due to heating.
After gaining some experience machinists are able to adjust cutting speeds and feeds based in part on the size, shape, and color of chips and on the sound produced by the cutting process.
Milling tools can advance through the material so that the cutting flutes engage the material at maximum thickness and then decreases to zero. This is called Climb Milling.
Cutting in the opposite direction causes the tool to scoop up the material, starting at zero thickness and increasing to maximum. This is called Conventional Milling.
Conventional milling is used often on manual machines because backlash in the machine lead screws causes the tool to lurch when climb cutting. This is not a problem on CNC machines because they use ball screws.
Conventional milling causes the tool to rub against the cutting surface, work hardening the material, generating heat, and increasing tool wear. Raking chips across the finished surface also produces a poorer surface finish.
Unless specifically recommended by the tool manufacturer for the material being milled, always use climb milling on a CNC. Climb milling produces far less cutting pressure and heat, leaves a better surface finish, and results in longer tool life.
Figure 3.13: Climb vs. Conventional Milling |


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Golf legend Tiger Woods was running late on the morning of Feb. 23 for a photoshoot with NFL legend Drew Brees and current rookie of the year Justin Herbert when he was involved in a one-vehicle accident near Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
L.A. sheriff Alex Villanueva stated that Woods had appeared to be driving at excessive speeds on this curvy road and running late could have influenced his decision to speed up. There was no sign of a crime so there would be no charges pressed.
Upon hearing about the accident, the sports world stood still for someone who has broken so many barriers for people of color. Athletes like Lebron James and Alex Rodriguez sent out prayers in the hopes that Woods would pull through.
Later that day, he was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center where they would do numerous surgeries on his lower right leg and ankle after he had open fractures on both his tibia and fibula.
The commissioner of the Pro Golf Association Jay Monahan stated that they took notice of what had happened and will plan the remainder of the PGA Tour accordingly based on Woods' condition.
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Growing up, my family always kept some English muffins around, whether they were in the pantry or the freezer. It's no surprise why. They're perhaps one of the best additions to a weekend (or weekday) breakfast.
These small, round, sourdough pieces of airy goodness are frequently eaten with either sweet or savory toppings, which can include jam or honey, sausage, egg, bacon, and/or cheese. And, of course, English muffins are an integral part of the famous Mcdonald's breakfast sandwich – the McMuffin.
While they're known as "English muffins" in the United States, they are known simply as muffins in England. And conversely, the muffins as we know them in the United States – the cupcake-like quickbread ones – are called American-style muffins. But, no matter which side of the pond you live on, one thing is for certain – English muffins are delicious.
So delicious in fact, that it's really easy to have eyes bigger than your stomach and get too many. What do you do if you've got a bunch that you can't eat right now. Can you freeze English Muffins to extend their shelf life? You can!
In this guide I'll explain exactly how to prepare them for freezing. I'll also tell you how to defrost them for the best results.
Can English Muffins be Frozen?
So, if you happen to have a lot of extra English muffins and you're worried that they may go stale, you may be wondering if you can freeze them. The good news is that yes, you can definitely freeze English muffins. In fact, English muffins freeze exceptionally well. It's no surprise now looking back and understanding why mom always kept them in the freezer!
Like other types of bread, freezing English muffins is a great way to prevent them from going stale.
So whether you have an opened pack you're afraid might go bad, or you want to keep a couple of extra packages in the freezer, you can store them in the freezer and they will retain their quality for some months.
How Long Do English Muffins Last in the Freezer?
How long English muffins can last in the freezer depends on a couple of things.
If they're frozen properly (more on that later), then you can expect them to keep their top quality between three and six months.
However, if they're not kept air-tight then that time could shrink. Also, another thing that can impact how long English muffins last in the freezer is if you're storing them unheated and/or by themselves.
If you plan on freezing them pre-assembled, i.e. if you freeze an entire breakfast sandwich, then the lifespan will likely be determined by the other ingredients that don't freeze as well. This could range from just a couple of days to a couple of weeks.
How to Freeze English Muffins
If you want your English muffins to last the longest at the highest quality, then it's important to make sure that you freeze them properly. Also, it can differ if they're store-bought or homemade English muffins. This is how you freeze English muffins:
Step 1: Preparing the English muffins to be frozen
Getting Started
Similar to other foods, the sooner you freeze English muffins the better. So, if you made a fresh batch of muffins, first, allow them to completely cool down before you prep them for freezing. As for the store-bought version, you should freeze them as soon as possible. So, if you buy a couple of extra packages, I recommended freezing them as soon as you bring them home.
Then, you should decide whether to pre-slice them or to freeze them whole. You can save a bit of time and make it a bit easier on yourself if you slice them beforehand and it won't affect their quality either.
One last consideration you should take into account is if you want to prepare it with toppings or make it into a premade sandwich or meal. Again, this will save time and can be a super convenient snack or morning meal. But you should be careful when considering which toppings to use. Some ingredients make for better frozen additions than others.
For example, toppings like lettuce, tomatoes, or other vegetables that don't retain their texture when frozen should be avoided. Things like cheese, meat, and scrambled eggs work much better as toppings when you plan on freezing them. My personal favorite is a copycat of the sausage egg Mcmuffin with cheese. It freezes very well and makes for a great breakfast whenever I need it.
Once you've figured out how and what you'll be freezing, it's time to get them prepared to be stored in the freezer.
Tightly wrap each individual English muffin (or prepared sandwich) separately in plastic wrap.
While you can wrap them as a batch, they won't stay good as long because of the pockets of air that will be trapped. So it's much safer to wrap them individually.
Also, it allows you to easily take as many as you need without having to defrost the whole bunch. And if you pre-sliced them, you can keep the two halves together. They won't be difficult to separate when you thaw them.
Step 2: Freezing the English muffins
After you have tightly wrapped them, you need to bag them and then place them in a suitable spot in the freezer.
You need to use a freezer bag for the best results. Not only does it offer more protection and the ability to squeeze out extra air, but it's the most convenient option too. You can simply unzip it and take as many muffins as you'd like.
After you've squeezed out all the air (or at least as much as you can), seal the bag and then put the bag in a suitable place in the freezer. The safest place for English muffins is in the coldest spot in the freezer. Usually somewhere in the back of the freezer is the best. Since it's the coldest and with the least temperature fluctuations, it will allow the English muffins to stay fresher, longer. Also, avoid storing them near foods that may have strong odors as they potentially could absorb some of those flavors.
Don't forget to label them with the date that you put them in the freezer. This is important to remember how long they've been frozen.
You should thaw them and eat them before their quality begins to suffer. For English muffins by themselves, you can expect them to be at a high quality for six months, but then after that, they'll likely start to degrade. For premade sandwiches, you should consume them within a few weeks to a month. A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is that sooner is better and eat the oldest muffins first, which is important if you're one that frequently cooks and freezes English muffins.
How to Tell if English Muffins have Freezer Burn
Like other foods, it's pretty easy to tell if English muffins have succumbed to freezer burn.
If ice is starting to form on the outside and inside of the plastic bag then there is a good sign that the English muffins have freezer burn. But, you should still check the muffins themselves to be sure. The biggest giveaway is discoloration. Typically freezer-burned areas will turn very white.
As for preassembled English muffin sandwiches, look at the state of the toppings. If they look discolored or dried out, then they're most likely freezer burned.
However, if the whole thing isn't freezer-burned then you can still salvage it. If it's only a small bit of it then you can remove it and eat the rest. Freezer burned food is safe to eat, but it has a bad taste and weird texture so it's best to avoid it if you can.
How to Defrost English Muffins
As a bread product, English muffins thaw considerably well compared to other foods and you have a couple of different methods that you can choose from. From fastest to slowest the methods are microwave, toaster oven, countertop.
In the Microwave
While defrosting English muffins in the microwave is very fast, it can leave the muffin a bit dry. However, to prevent this you can wrap the muffin in a paper towel when you microwave it. So, to do it, simply wrap each English muffin in a paper town and start by heating them for 20-30 seconds. The exact time will depend on the power of your microwave, however. So you may need to experiment a little bit to get it right. And if you'll be toasting them they don't need to be 100% defrosted. It's fine if you finish them in the toaster or toaster oven even if they're still a little cold.
In a Toaster Oven
You can defrost them in the toaster oven as well, but you should be careful not to use too hot of a setting. This may leave you with a toasted exterior and frozen center.
At Room Temperature
If you have time, the best way is to leave them out for a couple of hours on the countertop. This allows them to return to their original state and you can go from there.
Lastly, you can also forgo defrosting altogether, particularly if they're premade sandwiches. You can simply put them in the toaster oven or microwave and then eat them directly after.
Can You Refreeze Defrosted English Muffins?
It's safe to refreeze English muffins, like other bread. However, the end product is likely to be drier and ultimately lower quality. Avoid refreezing them if you can.
Other Storage Methods for English Muffins
You can keep English muffins at room temperature for about two weeks if they are tightly closed in the original packaging.
If they're opened then they can last for about three to seven days if they are kept in a sealed container or plastic bag.
For the best results, it should be in a cool, dark place. So put the sealed airtight container or bag in the pantry, bread box, or the fridge ideally.


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As often told here and elsewhere I acquired the dream of being a writer at an early age. Scifi became an early objective. By the time I had experienced Vietnam and read much of Kurt Vonnegut's work, dark humor had become a more likely focus. Watergate made that notion all the more likely. Still, I began a quest for a means to make the world a better place than those innocence destroyers, those illusion dispellers left me with as a cynical idealist. Easier said than done. I found no answer to regain a positive perspective or hopeful outlook. At least not until I encountered the philosophy of Nichiren Buddhism. That's all detailed in Waiting for Westmoreland, a memoir published several years ago now. But this post isn't about my faith, it's about an article I read on Brain Pickings by Maria Popova, from which I cadged and modified the title of my own post:
Some thoughts on Hope, Cynicism and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Here is what she says, in part
"To live with sincerity in our culture of cynicism is a difficult dance — one that comes easily only to the very young and the very old. The rest of us are left to tussle with two polarizing forces ripping the psyche asunder by beckoning to it from opposite directions — critical thinking and hope.
Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté.
Finding fault and feeling hopeless about improving the situation produces resignation — cynicism is both resignation's symptom and a futile self-protection mechanism against it. Blindly believing that everything will work out just fine also produces resignation, for we have no motive to apply ourselves toward making things better. But in order to survive — both as individuals and as a civilization — and especially in order to thrive, we need the right balance of critical thinking and hope."
Popova goes on to establish the task of storytellers, a group among which I count myself at least at times, to make things better.
What storytellers do — and this includes journalists and TED and everyone in between who has a point of view and an audience, whatever its size — is help shape our stories of how the world works; at their very best, they can empower our moral imagination to envision how the world could work better. In other words, they help us mediate between the ideal and the real by cultivating the right balance of critical thinking and hope.
I want to see myself, this site and my writing generally–as much as I can, to be congruent with this quote Popova cites from E.B. White,
"[W]riters do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life"; that the role of the writer is "to lift people up, not lower them down."
Read the article. It will make you think–think better thoughts.


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A number of people who pre-ordered Starlink broadband have complained that the tiny changes they made to their service locations on the Starlink website immediately delayed their delivery dates by a year or more.
The complainants say that using a new mapping tool to more accurately pinpoint their home sends a person who preordered right at the very back of the line. This problem is by no means new, as it is said to have happened to many people in the past.
According to user reports, if a person's address changes slightly, the delivery date of a pre-order will be pushed back to a later date, which applies to new orders. In addition, SpaceX warned customers last week that the persistent chip shortage is affecting the company's ability to deliver orders promptly.
There is considerable uncertainty about what is causing the delay or whether SpaceX will soon find a solution to the problem, with one person posting on Reddit suggesting that the 2021 delivery dates were already wrong and would not be updated until they had moved the pin on the map.
For more information, read the original story in Ars Technica.


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- FedEx announced they will again not apply additional residential surcharges for the 2019 Holiday season. They will have peak surcharges to shipments that qualify as over-sized, unauthorized or require additional handling.
- StarShip utilizes FedEx web services so those surcharges will automatically be reflected in our rate quote as a part of the total quote provided.
- UPS announced they will also not apply additional residential U.S. surcharges. They will have additional peak surcharges for contractual exceptions, large packages, over maximum limits or additional handling packages.
- USPS has no peak surcharges for the Holiday season but they do have a Holiday Page to purchase stamps, ship from home and shipping tips.
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"I'm on the wealthier side of people. We live in Berkeley, in the Bay Area, and if my family still feels like we can't afford 90 percent of colleges, then there's a problem with the system," remarked Felix Mousigian, a senior at Berkeley High School (BHS) in Berkeley International High School (BIHS).
Like many things, the inflation of college and university tuition has been steadily climbing, but over the last 20 years, the increase has become striking. According to a US News article, the average tuition and fees at private national universities have jumped 144 percent, out-of-state tuition and fees at public national universities have risen 165 percent, and in-state tuition and fees at public national universities have grown the most by increasing 212 percent — all since 2001.
In relation to rising tuitions, Erick Barrera Yoc, a BHS senior in Academic Choice (AC), said, "I think schools having an extremely high tuition rate is ridiculous because it makes them seem like a business and almost defeats their purpose. If you're paying more money to go there than you're gonna end up making after you graduate, it doesn't make any sense."
Barrera Yoc's sentiments are widely shared and, with college tuition reaching a rate unaffordable for many blue-collar families, the importance of attainable scholarships and financial aid has become further heightened. This is the case for Mousigian, whose college choices were predominantly determined by financial aid options, as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) estimated a possible family contribution that was much less than most colleges were expecting him to pay.
In order to determine how much aid to offer applicants, most schools use the College Scholarship Service (CSS), which is based on parental income and estimates how much your family can contribute. For Mousigian, this includes his father, mother, and step-father. However, in his case, the estimate was two to two and a half times what his family was actually able to contribute. Consequently, Mousigian was forced to apply solely to schools that looked at his FAFSA profile, which had a lower estimate, or his CSS profile based on the income of one household.
Mousigian reflected, "Personally, the list of schools I thought I would apply to in sophomore and junior year, compared to the schools I actually applied to in senior year, [was] vastly different. Only the UCs overlapped between where I thought I would apply and where I did — solely because of how much I didn't understand financial aid or the situation I would end up in."
Similarly, Barrera Yoc struggled with the financial aid system, as his parents' income made him ineligible for significant aid — despite the fact that the amount they are able to contribute is much lower than most tuition. He stated, "I wasn't expecting to get much government financial aid because my parents make above a certain bracket, which is usually what decides whether people really need financial aid. But they have four kids, three other siblings that have to go to college, so they can only afford to give me so much money."
Fernanda Padilla Colin, a BHS senior in AC, has also struggled with the financial aspect of college. She stated, "Cost is definitely one of the biggest deciders for people when picking colleges — especially if you're a low-income student. For me, I knew that my parents couldn't put a single penny towards my education, so I had to figure it out myself, and, by junior year, I started thinking about how I was gonna pay and what jobs I needed to get."
Padilla Colin also said that financial planning was an additional stressor in an already stressful year. "On top of applying for college, you have this extra pressure of paying for college, and thinking about, 'If I go in debt for this, will I be able to pay it back after I graduate?'"
That pressure is what prompted Padilla Colin to apply to the QuestBridge Match scholarship program. In the program, low-income students apply by filling out the common application, ranking colleges that partner with the QuestBridge nonprofit, and, if matched and admitted, receive full, four-year scholarships free of student loans. Through QuestBridge, Padilla Colin was admitted early to Rice University with a full-ride scholarship, alleviating much of her financial stress.
When reflecting on her feelings surrounding her acceptance, Padilla Colin remarked, "It feels amazing. College in general is a big worry, but I worried about paying for college even more, so knowing that I'm going to be able to go to the university that I want without having to pay a single dollar feels very rewarding."
Although full-ride scholarships are much more difficult to obtain, receiving financial aid directly from colleges is another great way to get financial assistance. By determining the colleges he wanted to apply to based on their financial aid programs, Mousigian was able to receive offers of significant financial aid from both Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado.
Mousigian stated, "It felt good to know that I'm getting money from schools, and I'm happy with the amount of aid I received. Drexel is a private school that normally has a pretty big tuition, but they offered me enough money that the cost [ends up being] equal to, or even less than, what it would cost me to go to a UC — which is around the most my family can afford. It's pretty cool to have the opportunity to attend a private school without having to pay that extra money."
Barrera Yoc also received financial aid packages from several schools. However, because of the financial limitations within his family, many schools are still out of the picture. He considers one flaw of financial aid programs to be equal access for students of all financial backgrounds. Barrera Yoc stated, "I don't think financial aid is easily accessible to all students. For kids like me, who are around lower-middle-class, I feel like aid falls short because their parents make a certain amount of money, but they still don't have enough money that choosing a college isn't determined by what they can afford."
Another flaw with many financial aid packages is the automatic inclusion of student loans, which can leave students in crippling debt after graduation. For Mousigian, the automatic inclusion in his financial-aid packages of student loans and work-study, in which students work for the school in some way while attending, presented some difficulties, as he was unsure if either were the right choices for him. However, he remarked, "I do understand it can be super difficult for colleges to find a fair process to create financial packages — even for one student — and they end up doing it for millions of applicants a year."
Conversely, Padilla Colin feels the main issue for QuestBridge and other programs like it is exposure, as not nearly enough students are aware of them. Padilla Colin stated, "There's a lot of [scholarship programs], which is amazing, but, a lot of the time, the outreach that the programs do just isn't enough — meaning a lot of students aren't given the opportunity to apply when they should be."
Despite these issues, scholarship programs and financial aid are one of the main reasons that higher education — especially at prestigious universities — remains somewhat accessible. With tuition constantly on the rise, paying full price out of pocket is an impossibility for most families and, even with financial aid, many students are forced to rely on student loans. Sharing information on obtainable financial assistance and getting students the help they need to pay for their college education needs to become a greater priority for high schools. Without proper education, many students will fall victim to the debt that often accompanies unmanageable student loans and lose their financial freedom before they've gained it.


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Journal of Photography & Video
Copenhagen, Dennmark, Spring 2002
The Photography of Rafaelo Kazakov
by Anthony Georgieff
It has become a commonplace to claim that photography is more often than not a
mixture between fact and fiction rather than just fact or just fiction: what a series
of writers in those easy pre-postmodernist times referred to as "faction." Founded on
the apparently contradictory nature of the amalgam between ceremonial elegance
and hell-bent mass culture, between internationalism and insularity, between what is
to be seen in a picture and what remains hidden to the eye, "faction" photographers
have tried to strip bare societal, political, economic, and purely artistic oppositions, to
shatter outdated stereotypes and replace them with new ones, to cut through
misunderstandings while putting forward ever more complicated questions rather than
providing straightforward answers.
Part therapy, part social survey and private investigation, such work is usually instilled
with tension of narrative rather than a desire to objectify. For what can be less objective
than "a photograph of a forest that looks pornographic, and a picture of a sex act that
communicates the serenity of a landscape"?
Bulgarian-born New York photographer Rafaelo Kazakov (the quote above is from one
of his artist statements) is taking a postmodernist view of the tradition of faction
photography. His "Glut" series (eight Cibachrome-Ilfochrome photographs mounted on
aluminum, 127x158 cm) is a radical departure from established faction cannons. For
one, his longing to escape from what he calls "the tyranny of subject matter," leads him
to a truly Surrealist situation where subject matter is all that matters: it attracts and
repels in equal measure, it uses what is trite and everyday to project the darker fears,
desires, and phobias of the subconscious. On the other hand, however, there is the
strong political element: these are photographs of food (perishable; that most common
of humdrum objects) that translate into abstract political ideas (similarly perishable; but
largely uncontrollable on an individual level).
Kazakov masterfully plays on the oppositionality between temporary, organic things
that decay even as they are made and the ostensible perpetuity of political ideas. One
invites us to look on, to test its authenticity. The other is taunting and nauseating: you
are almost led to think that the people, who propounded the kind of ideologies and
political systems that Rafaelo Kazakov's food compositions symbolize, were primarily
influenced by the quality of food that they ate...
It would be all too easy to arrive at the obvious answer: glut! But this is only part of
Kazakov's story, the easy part. His series addresses issues that have become central to
the postmodern experience in its totality (not just when it comes to photography and art
as such). If things are not what they appear to be but epitomes of other things, then what
is their true nature? Is a swastika just a swastika, like a sausage is but a piece of meat, or
is it the representation of something else, of a visual and artistic conundrum that politics
and philosophies are unable to explain?
Rafaelo Kazakov is lost in fantasy, obsessed with form, and torn between incompatible
dogmas and beliefs. His is a saturated visual experience that is maddeningly antiforgettable:
a performance that seeks to visualize what is possible, what is acceptable, and what is
sacrosanct, but that ends where it has started - to know the place for the first time.
Published in KATALOG, Journal Of Photography & Video, Denmark.
Spring 2002 issue, pp. 40-43


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"Given the pandemic last year, we were limited and only able to distribute gift cards. This year, we are back in action, with real, nutritious food going out to the people who need it," said Walter Smiley, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and event organizer. "We have been doing this a long time and each year the need grows. We are appreciative of all the people who come together to donate time and money to make this happen."
Food boxes featured frozen turkeys, fresh vegetables, stuffing mix, ground turkey and gift cards. Project Give Back partnered with local community volunteers and organizations to identify local families in need and bring the food to them. The organization also packed two U-Hauls full of food kits and made personal deliveries.
Project Give Back invited the Fairfax County Health Department to participate in the event. Their Mobile COVID-19 Testing Clinic was on-site to provide testing to attendees and volunteers. With winter holiday gatherings ahead, many took a COVID-19 test in advance of getting together with families this week.
Volunteers with the Fairfax County Health Department's Stronger2 initiative were also on site to help measure the health needs of the local community in the local neighborhood.


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Tragedy in classical theory is supposed to inspire both pity and terror, but the daily horror and violence of world news often leave us struggling to produce those responses. No one can really feel on cue the emotions apparently required of us by a daily news stream of anniversaries of bombings and economies on the brink. But a hippo being shot with a tranquilizer dart in a flooded city street is another matter entirely.
Jonathan Jones
Late on 13 June 2015 heavy rainfalls hit Tbilisi and the nearby areas. When people woke up in the morning 19 people would be dead, many families made homeless, a zoo destroyed and a city in shock. A landslide was released above the village of Akhaldaba, about 20 km southwest of Tbilisi. The landslide, carrying 1 million m3 of land, mud, and trees, moved down into Tbilisi and dammed up the Vere river at two points, first at a 10m wide channel at Tamarashvili Street and then at a channel under Heroes's Square, a major traffic hub.
The resulting flood inflicted severe damage especially on the Tbilisi Zoo; The city briefly became a wilderness full of dangerous beasts.
The zoo lost more than 300 animals, nearly half of its inhabitants: the majority were killed by flooding. Several surviving inhabitants of the zoo—a hippopotamus, big cats, wolves, bears, and hyenas—escaped from destroyed pens and cages to the streets of Tbilisi and a police unit was employed to round them up. Some were killed, others were recaptured and brought back to the zoo. The media ran footage showing the hippopotamus making its way to flooded Heroes' Square, one of Tbilisi's major roadway hubs, where it was subdued with a tranquilizer dart. On 17 June a white tiger remaining on the loose attacked and mortally wounded a man in a storehouse near the zoo. The animal was eventually shot dead by the police. An African penguin was found at the Red Bridge border crossing with Azerbaijan, having swum some 60 km south from Tbilisi.
Many Georgians condemned the foreign media's focus on the zoo and their indifference to the stories of the human victims. Catholicos Patriarch Ilia II, an influential head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, in his Sunday sermon, blamed the floods on the "sin" of the former Communist regime which, he said, built the zoo in its current location using money raised from destroying churches and melting down their bells. The causes of such a disaster, more realistically, can be found in the lack of water holding capacity along the rivers course due to deforestation, Soviet-era infrastructure, poor maintenance, weak planning controls and extensive and often illegal development that impacted the riverbed.
This project brought me to photograph the zoo and the animals that survived, the place where the new park will be built, the valley where Vere river flows, the spot where the landslide originated and some of the places where the topic of old infrastructures and of illegal residential development are more evident. Even if some years have passed and most of the consequences of the flood are no more visible, I have come across landscapes that suggest that some kind of catastrophe has just happened. Consequently I decided to create a narration that blends together a documentary account of the tragedy's aftermath and a visual reflection on the present Georgian panorama.
The book "The Flood", published by Void will be released in 2021.


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In the wake of Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects' just-launched Mission Walk comes a 55-unit family housing project being steered toward this empty lot at 474 Natoma in SoMa. The project, by Bridge Housing, is financed by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and features a rooftop deck, parking garage, and a central landscaped court. The units in the building will go from one- to three-bedroom units, and be available within certain income restrictions, specifically for families with 80 percent to 100 percent of the area median income.
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Reviews are in for Jonathan Spector's Eureka Day starring Academy, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Helen Hunt at London's The Old Vic. Katy Rudd (Camp Siegfried, The Ocean at the End of the Lane) directs the production, which began its run September 6 and will continue through October 31.
Susan Kelechi Watson (This Is Us) plays Carina, a recent addition to the board of directors at her son's new private school—where there's a mumps outbreak. Watson stars alongside Hunt (Our Town, As Good As It Gets, Mad About You) as Suzanne, Kirsten Foster (Life of Pi) as May, Mark McKinney (Superstore) as Don, Ben Schnetzer (Pride) as Eli, and Rachel Handshaw as Winter. As the parents end up in heated debate, and face a deluge of Facebook trolls, the play explores the struggle to find community consensus when no one can agree with the facts.
Read the reviews here.
Culture Whisper (Holly O'Mahony)
Evening Standard (Nick Curtis)
London Theatre (Marianka Swain)
The Telegraph (Dominic Cavendish)
Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.
Handshaw also serves as an understudy alongside Alex Cartuson, Shin-Fei Chen, John Vernon, and Pippa Winslow.
Rudd (Camp Siegfried, The Ocean at the End of the Lane) helms the creative team which features composer Jherek Bischoff, set and costume designer Rob Howell, lighting designer Jon Clark, sound designer Donato Wharton, dialect coach Penny Dyer, Baylis assistant director Aaliyah McKay, costume supervisor Deborah Andrews, props supervisor Emma Dymott for Roc Props, and wig, hair, and make-up supervisors Campbell Young and Helen Keane for Campbell Young Associates. Greg Shimmin serves as stage manager, joined by deputy stage manager Alex Burke and assistant stage manager Louise Quartermain. Video is by Andrzej Goulding with voice by Charlie Hughes-D'Aeth. Casting is by Jim Carnahan.
The production is co-presented with Sonia Friedman Productions (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child). Though the play may seem ripped from the headlines of 2022, it premiered at California's Aurora Theater in 2018 and played an Off-Broadway run at Colt Coeur in 2019.
Best known for her screen work, including As Good As It Gets and TV's Mad About You, Hunt is no stranger to the stage. She's appeared in Broadway productions of Our Town, Twelfth Night, and Life x 3; Our Town and The Taming of the Shrew Off-Broadway; and a U.S. tour of Love Letters, among others.
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have_tag/assert_select does not validate XML with periods in attribute names
Reported by T.J. VanSlyke | April 28th, 2008 @ 05:25 PM
While creating specs for a method to generate valid GraphML, I needed to use attributes with periods ('.') in their names (i.e. ''). However, as it stands, assert_select uses the HTML::Node.parse method to parse its input. This method does not allow periods in attribute names (the valid characters are represented by the regex /[-\w:\]+/). My temporary solution was to monkeypatch the HTML::Node.parse method in my spec_helpers.rb to accept periods by changing the regex to read /[-\w:\.]+/. However, that is obviously not a reasonable solution.
Is anyone aware of this issue? If so, is it a problem inherent in Rails or am I missing some kind of alternative XML parser which allows for this syntax?
Thanks all!
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I'd ask around on the Ruby on Rails mailing list.
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Construction has begun on a $199 million student housing development that will bring 368 "resort-style" apartments to the edge of Temple's campus.
The project, dubbed View II, is the second and final phase of Goldenberg Group's master plan to redevelop a 4.6-acre site at 1101 Cecil B. Moore Avenue that was formerly the John Wanamaker High School. When View II finishes construction in summer 2019, the site will include more than 1,800 beds and 40,000 square feet of retail.
Goldenberg announced the groundbreaking Wednesday afternoon. The by-right project will total 470,000 square feet and include one-, two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments that are fully furnished, complete with flat screen TV's.
Like the original View, which has 832 fully-leased rentals, View II will have a long list of amenities that one has come to expect in new mixed-use developments: A coffee bar, fitness center, an outdoor terrace, conference rooms, and bike storage.
Despite pushback from the community earlier this year, the development will also include 94 below-grade parking spots, as well as electric-charging stations.
Kevin Trapper, senior vice president for Goldenberg Group, said in Wednesday's announcement that the goal of the project is to "be a source of positive transformation in the neighborhood" while at the same time protecting the mostly residential communities near Temple from student sprawl.
View II is expected to be move-in ready by fall 2019.


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Local online advertising and VC dollars
Through a link from New Media Musings I found Terry Heaton's paper titled "TV News in a Postmodern World." I'm not sure what the title is about because the paper mostly looks at why VC dollars avoid localized web2.0 media ventures. Having recently gone down this road and found the same to be true, I am pleased to find someone who has done their homework on the issue.
By continually supporting only those business models that attract large numbers quickly, they are forcing basic top-down (1.0) laws on those of us who see greater value at the local level. So while the web and all that it offers is moving to a one-to-one or bottom-up paradigm, the world of the dollar continues to draw its influence and power from the top-down. This is beyond ironic, especially with venture capitalists who tout Media 2.0 applications.


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Governor Phil Murphy ordered that U.S. and New Jersey flags be flown at half-staff at all state buildings and facilities. The order began from sunset on Friday, September 9, 2022, and will last until sunrise on Monday, September 12, 2022, in remembrance of the nearly 3,000 innocent people, of whom almost 700 were New Jersey residents, that were killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks.
"On the anniversary of September 11th, we mourn the nearly 3,000 lives taken from us and honor the bravery of the many heroes who risked their lives that day," said Governor Murphy. "As we come together in remembrance, we will continue to be guided by the strength that has led our nation over the last 21 years. We will preserve the legacy of those we lost through our prayers, our actions, and by living up to our singular American ideal — that our greatest strength is the unity we find among our differences."


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ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY, vol.23, no.7, pp.10288-10308, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
Ships emit numerous of pollutants from their stacks. Those emissions have substantial impact on urban areas since they are located on the proximity of residential and commercial areas. Estimation of these emissions, their effects, and their health impact remains crucial for environmental planning. This study was conducted in Bandirma, where is a district with immense port activity. First, we calculated the emissions, originated from ships, at berth. PM10, NOx, SO2, and CO emissions were 182.4, 7,996.6, 1,681.6, and 239.6 tons, respectively. The total environmental cost of the emissions was euro41,146,400. Then, we employed air quality modelling by AERMOD. The concentrations of PM10, NOx, SO2, and CO were estimated on a 10 x 10 km domain, which covered the whole Bandirma district. This availed us to identify the most impacted areas by shipping emissions. Although the emissions were higher than other ports in the Marmara Sea, ground-level concentrations were lower. This was related to the effect of meteorology on pollutant dispersion. Consequently, we proposed administrative recommendations in order to manage the environmental impact of the emissions.


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At Quincy's moat the squandering village ends, And there in the almshouse dwell the dearest friends Of all the village, two old dames that cling As close as any trueloves in the spring.
To-day's house makes to-morrow's road; I knew these heaps of stone When they were walls of grace and might, The country's honour, art's delight That over fountain'd silence show'd Fame's final bastion.
Tired with dull grief, grown old before my day, I sit in solitude and only hear Long silent laughters, murmurings of dismay, The lost intensities of hope and fear; In those old marshes yet the rifles lie, On the thin breastwork flutter the grey rags, The very books I read are there-and I Dead as the men I loved, wait while life drags.
Its wounded length from those sad streets of war Into green places here, that were my own; But now what once was mine is mine no more, I seek such neighbours here and I find none. With such strong gentleness and tireless will Those ruined houses seared themselves in me, Passionate I look for their dumb story still, And the charred stub outspeaks the living tree.
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The subversion of language — contd.
For decades one of the most objectionable aspects of British tabloid journalism has been its sanctimonious determination to 'name the guilty man/men' whenever there's been a disastrous accident or a horrific organisational cock-up. This always seemed to me (and my academic colleagues) as a desperately wrong-headed way to look at complex issues. Often, these large-scale failures reflect not so much the deficiencies of individuals as the complexity of the systems in which they are enmeshed. So (we argued) they are more productively viewed as systemic failures.
But now, guess what? The phrase 'systemic failure' has been picked up by the government's spin machine — and used in a novel way: to ensure that nobody has to take responsibility for what goes wrong. It's not clear when this started but my colleague Ray Ison thinks it may have begun with the Butler Inquiry into the failure of UK Intelligence services in the run-up to the Iraq war. I've just looked at the report and can't find the word 'systemic' in it anywhere, but Ray's right in one respect. Lord Butler decided that the cock-up over intelligence about WMD was a "collective failure" and then used that to argue that it would be inappropriate to fire John Scarlett, the Chairman of the Joint Intellegence Committee which cleared the infamous (and ludicrous) dossier on which Blair took the country to war.
Whatever its provenance, though, it's clear that 'systemic failure' is now synonomous with "nobody's responsible, Guv."


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Gary Vaynerchuk's Advice for Building a Personal Brand
Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg, Blog, Industry Collaborations, New York City, Video
The Internet is democratizing business. You can start a business and boost your bank account by creating a personal brand. (And you can do it all while typing away on your laptop in your pajamas at 11 p.m.)
Gary Vaynerchuk, a man that likely needs no introduction because of the strength of his own personal brand, did just that. Chances are you've seen his popular DailyVee and #AskGaryVee videos, read his best-selling business books, or heard him speak. Vaynerchuk's storytelling has helped him scale his multi-faceted career as an influential serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, best-selling author, and CEO of VaynerMedia and VaynerX. Vaynerchuk shared his famously candid advice for how to build a personal brand with members of the tech community at a CornellTech@Bloomberg event led by Scarlett Fu, the anchor of "Bloomberg Markets."
Create quality content
Vaynerchuk regularly shares his personal and professional advice with his millions of followers and actively encourages others to develop their own personal brands through storytelling.
His advice? "First figure out if you are capable. Are you good enough at writing, video, or audio to tell your story? You have to find your medium," Vaynerchuk says. Next, remember to give more than you get back.
"I truly believe that the reason I've really popped over the last decade is that I give more to my audience that I ask for in return. I'm putting out the best stuff I've got every day. It's not a top of funnel," he says adding that creating great content has landed him meetings with media giants like Facebook's CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and Tumblr's CEO and founder David Karp. "It's ultimate brand arbitrage. It works because so few people do it."
Do what you know best
Vaynerchuk built his personal brand about subjects that he knows well: the current state of consumer tech, wine, and the New York Jets. Vaynerchuk notes that he prefers to discuss topics unless he is an expert in the subject. Choose a few topics that you want to be known for and make sure you study them and know it extremely well. As Vaynerchuk says, "don't be a headline reader" meaning instead of skimming the surface, learn as much as you can so you are truly an expert in your subject matter. Instead of trying to learn a bit about a lot of topics, work on thoroughly understanding the topics you are passionate about and want to make the focal point of your personal brand.
Consider starting on the side
You no longer have to work traditional business hours to start a business, Vaynerchuk explained. Whereas previous generations were limited to managing a business during "typical business hours," the Internet has enabled people to manage businesses online at any hour. "It's the options that we are now awarded by the infrastructure of scalable technologies that have no cost of entry to build a personal brand or business direct-to-consumer is just fascinating to me."
Vaynerchuk experienced that himself when he grew his family wine business from $4 million to $60 million, in part become he became a wine expert and started the popular online show, WineLibrary. Vaynerchuk didn't just want to be known for wine, growing his family business, or his motivational advice. He wanted to be known for his marketing and business advice so he expanded his personal brand by becoming an expert in specific topics and creating valuable content.
Vaynerchuk's advice can be polarizing, but one thing is clear: a strong personal brand can lead to career success.
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MEGARARE 1991 6B6-2 titanium armor helmet, prototype of K6-3 [RESERVE]
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Don't miss the opportunity to purchase the collection.
Titanium helmet 6B6-2 produced by VNII of Steel.
Full titanium helmet with titanium visor. One of the most mega rare varieties of this type of helmet. In original black color.
And most importantly - with the original rare label of the helmet manufacturer "VNII STALI" (stands for "All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of STEEL").
This is the past name of the Research Institute "Steel", the developer of all known helmets K6-3, Altyn, Rys-T.
The name "VNII Stali" existed from 1991 to 1993, and it was during this period that this helmet was produced. It means that this is the earliest titanium helmet of the 6B6 family (which included an army helmet 6B6s, 6B6-1 without a visor, 6B6-2 with a titanium slotted visor, well known 6B6-3 with bulletproof glass (K6-3), 6B6-4 policeman with a transparent visor, 6B6M with frontal reinforcement).
The weight of the helmet with visor is 3180 grams.
Helmet number on the dome # 7
It is intended for assault groups of special forces of the KGB / FSB of Russia, information is also known about the use of these helmets in the "VV" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Thus, before you is one of the first 6B6 helmet in history, released before 1993 in the 6B6-2 version.
The only helmet model in the world that has a slotted titanium visor.
This helmet is a rarer than all other titanium helmets, such as Tig, Altyn, K6-3, Tys-T, and they have not survived in sufficient quantities and may never appear on sale again.
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Just like Age of Sigmar, there are 3 main ways to play Kill Team, Open, Matched and Narrative.
Kill Team has something to offer all kinds of gamers – from matched play maniacs to die-hard fans of the narrative – with the core manual alone being absolutely packed with content for you to try in your games.
Here's what you can expect for each of the three main ways to play – open, matched and narrative:
Want to throw down models and have some fun? Kill Team has you covered. Kill Team is a really exciting game experience, providing loads of moment-to-moment action from the first turn to the last. You'll find picking up the rules easy, and the Kill Team Starter Set is a solid boxed game in its own right, letting you expand your selection of teams and Killzones at your own pace.
Open play Kill Team can be anything you want it to be. There are 3 missions for open play in the Core Manual to get you started, plus a host of ideas to inspire your future games. Maybe you'll pit one kill team against endless waves of Poxwalkers to see how long they survive. Perhaps you could enact daring prison escapes with your soldiers? You could even take your favourite moments from Black Library novels and re-enact them yourself.
Kill Team is a thrilling, fast-paced matched play game that's ideal for anything from a quick, 40-minute bout over lunchtime or to fully fledged tournaments. We've done our utmost to make this one of our most tightly balanced rulesets ever, with a specially curated unit pool, design insights from the team behind Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire and relentless playtesting.
While the rules for Kill Team are simple to pick up and master, there's plenty of tactical depth to explore, including how to make the most of the terrain and how you assemble your team. It takes very little to get started playing matched play Kill Team games – trying out and building a new list is often as simple as grabbing a single kit, while having all the rules in one Core Manual means you'll be able to research your foes in detail.
In fact, several events have already announced their plans for matched play Kill Team tourneys already – if you've never tried competitive Warhammer before, this could be the perfect place to start.
It's in narrative play that Kill Team really comes to life, as you fight thrilling missions linked together in campaigns. Every game you play will see your squad develop their abilities, as specialists progress through skill trees and even "normal" fighters increase in power.
Assembling a kill team as you would for matched play, you'll be battling against enemy players in campaigns of guerrilla warfare where victory hangs on a knife-edge, vendettas flare and operatives turn into battlefield legends.
Campaign play is still balanced, with the rules ensuring that your team can meaningfully grow and progress without snowballing – specialists cost more points as they improve, meaning you'll be able to choose between sending small squads of hardened veterans or larger units of fresher troops into each battle.
Kill Team campaign play is designed to be flexible enough to accommodate anything from two players to a larger gaming group.
Even if you've never got stuck in with narrative play before, you'll find Kill Team makes it easy thanks to a variety of tables that allow you to generate backgrounds and lore for your squad in no time – and if you fancy designing some of your own, you can do that too. We'll be diving into the roleplay and background generation in Kill Team in more detail soon.
However you want to play Kill Team, you won't have to wait long now – you'll be able to pre-order your copy in only a couple of weeks! To whet your appetite in the meantime, we'll have loads more previews – check back regularly on Warhammer Community, and see what we've revealed so far with the Kill Team Focus Index.
This really is a great move by Games Workshop, and it covers all bases. As I am all about the narrative, that is the way I'm sure I will play the most.
Let me know what you think in the comments down below
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Securing the future of mobility
Addressing cyber risk in self-driving cars and beyond
The Report
In this report, we take a closer look at the cybersecurity issues that could threaten the future of mobility, and offer perspectives on how these threats should be addressed. As automakers, technology companies, governments, and others place bets on the developments of the future of mobility, those moves could be for naught without a comprehensive understanding of the myriad cyber threats likely to emerge-- and a concrete plan to address them.
Viewpoints / key findings
Securing the future of mobility is a daunting challenge and the stakes are high. Throughout the development process, companies should strive to achieve three cardinal virtues of cyber risk management:
- Secure. In the spirit of "prevention" being worth more than a "cure," effective risk management begins with securing critical components and preventing system breaches or compromises.
- Vigilant. Hardware and software degrade over time, and both the nature and intensity of attacks can change. Consequently, security must be complemented by vigilance—monitoring to determine whether a system is still secure or has been compromised.
- Resilient. When a breach occurs, limiting the damage and reestablishing normal operations are much more easily and effectively done when there are processes in place to quickly neutralize threats, prevent further spread, and recover.
Thankfully, many of the cyber risks faced by the future of mobility have been confronted before. By taking the hard-learned lessons from other industries, the extended auto industry can keep itself ahead of hackers and other adversaries. These include:
- Leveraging enterprise IT processes for data privacy and data decommissioning
- Implementing encryption and code signing to protect the integrity of system software
- Developing standards of practice for secure development of critical vehicle systems
- Enforcing developed standards on their suppliers, similar to Payment Card Processors


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Esquire's John Mariani has revealed his favorite business-appropriate restaurants in all major U.S. cities. And you'll be interested to know Gary Danko and the "never boisterous" Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton are his San Francisco picks. While we're on the subject, where else do we like to seal deals around town? Your suggestions below in the comments. [Esquire via ENY]
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