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The Leopard
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster
Alain Delon
Claudia Cardinale
Rina Morelli
Paolo Stoppa
Photos & Videos
Film Details
Technical Specs
In the spring of 1860, Italy's movement for unification reaches its peak as Garibaldi's Redshirts invade Sicily and crush the Bourbon monarchy. Plebiscites are set up in which Sicilians vote in favor of joining the rest of the peninsula in forming the United Kingdom of Italy. Most strongly affected by the political upheaval is Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, who realizes that the inevitable change will mean the end of the privileged class. Aware that he must endure certain changes to preserve vestiges of the dying aristocracy, he accepts the rising middle class. Consequently, when his favorite nephew, Tancredi, falls in love with Angelica Sedara, the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois, Don Fabrizio resolves to support the match, despite the fact that Concetta, one of his three daughters, loves Tancredi. To restore wealth to the Fabrizio family and provide dowries for his other daughters, Don Fabrizio arranges for Concetta to marry Angelica's wealthy tradesman father, Don Calogero Sedara. He refuses, however, to take a senate seat in the newly-formed government, explaining that he is a man caught between the old and the new, and ill at ease in both. Tancredi introduces Angelica to Sicilian society at a lavish ball. After watching the ambitious girl relax in this new life of luxury and beauty, Don Fabrizio leaves the ball and strolls quietly in the gathering dawn--a proud but lonely figure in a changing world.
Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster
Alain Delon
Claudia Cardinale
Rina Morelli
Paolo Stoppa
Romolo Valli
Lucilla Morlacchi
Serge Reggiani
Ida Galli
Ottavia Piccolo
Pierre Clementi
Carlo Valenzano
Anna Maria Bottini
Mario Girotti
Leslie French
Olimpia Cavalli
Marino Masè
Sandra Chistolini
Brook Fuller
Giuliano Gemma
Giovanni Melisendi
Howard Nelson Rubien
Lola Braccini
Ivo Garrani
Vittorio Duse
Carlo Lolli
Franco Gula
Giovanni Materassi
Carmelo Artale
Anna Maria Surdo
Alina Zalewska
Winni Riva
Giuseppe Spagnitti
Rosolino Bua
Dante Posani
Stelvio Rosi
Tina Lattanzi
Marcella Rovena
Rina De Liguoro
Valerio Ruggeri
Carlo Palmucci
Giorgio Adriani
Gaetano Amata
Maria Angelini
Bice Brichetto
Riccardo Caneva
Suso Cecchi D'amico
Enrico Cignitti
Albino Cocco
Roberto Cocco
Nino Cristiani
Emilio D'andria
Alberto De Rossi
Franco Ferrara
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Massimo Franciosa
Brad Fuller
Mario Garbuglia
Alessandro Gasparinetti Maj.
Ferdinando Giovannoni
Laudomia Hercolani
Stephan Iscovescu
Goffredo Lombardo
Giuseppe Maccari
Véra Marzot
Francesco Massaro
Enrico Medioli
Mario Messina
Pietro Notarianni
Amalia Paoletti
Giorgio Pes
Lamberto Pippia
G. B. Poletto
Sydney Pollack
Enzo Provenzale
Rinaldo Ricci
Nino Rota
Giuseppe Rotunno
Sartoria Safas
Umberto Sambuco
Bruno Sassaroli
Gilberto Scarpellini
Piero Tosi
Giuseppe Verdi
Luchino Visconti
Photo Collections
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Costume Design
The Leopard (1963) - The Leopard
The director set about preparing the film with his usual meticulousness, immersing himself once again in a historical period to which he had already devoted a great film, Senso (1954). Visconti and his screenwriters decided to follow Lampedusa's book faithfully, except for two major changes. They added a sequence of Garibaldi's victory at Palermo and omitted the ending of the novel, which moves forward in time to show the death of the main character, Prince Fabrizio Salina, and the decadence of his family. Visconti chose instead to use the long sequence of a ball to intimate the future fates of his aristocratic characters. "What I wanted to tell," the director said, "was the story of a man and of the decline of a society, through his consciousness of it, within a specific historic atmosphere." To ensure this atmosphere, Visconti insisted on filming the entirety of The Leopard -- interiors as well as exteriors -- in real locations, refurbishing them as needed to recreate the 1860s. Most of the film would be shot in Sicily, except for the interiors of the Prince's palace at Donnafugata, which were done at a palace in Ariccia (near Rome).
Obliged to seek American financing for what would be an enormously expensive production (the final cost was estimated at about four and a half million dollars), Lombardo struck a deal with 20th Century-Fox. As part of the agreement, The Leopard was obliged to take on an American star. Visconti originally wanted either Nikolai Cherkasov (from Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, 1944) or Laurence Olivier, neither of whom was available in any case. The director was outraged when he learned that Lombardo, behind his back, had gone to America to secure the services of Burt Lancaster. (Fox also suggested Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and Spencer Tracy, according to Lancaster biographer Kate Buford.) Resentful that Lancaster, whom he belittled to others as a "cowboy" or "American gangster," had been imposed on him, Visconti received the star coldly on the latter's arrival in Sicily. Left to his own devices, and determined to do well in a role that was a radical departure for him, Lancaster spent a month becoming friendly with the remnants of the local aristocracy, soaking up their mannerisms, only to conclude, at the start of shooting in May 1962, that the imperious Visconti himself (fourth child of the Duke of Modrone) was the ideal model for Prince Salina.
Visconti's commitment to authenticity impressed Lancaster. Rehearsing a scene in which his character was supposed to open a dresser drawer, the actor did so to find it filled with tailored silk shirts. "Does the camera see these?" he asked cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, who replied, "No." Lancaster asked Visconti why they were there. "You're the prince," the director told him. "Is for you to touch." For the actor, this incident (recounted by Gary Fishgall in Against Type: The Biography of Burt Lancaster) came to symbolize the lengths to which Visconti would go to recreate the atmosphere of the period as the real Prince Salina would have experienced it, enabling Lancaster to immerse himself in his role.
A turning point in the relationship between director and star came at the beginning of work on the ball sequence. Visconti wanted to start with the climax: the Prince's waltz with the beautiful Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), a rich bourgeois' daughter who is about to marry into the noble family. Lancaster, who had injured his knee, went through a first take less than smoothly. Furious, Visconti whisked Cardinale off the set for a drink, saying within earshot of the cast and crew, "We'll come back when Mr. Lancaster is ready." An hour later, the actor sent word, and the scene went off perfectly, Lancaster managing to conceal his pain and humiliation. Later, he had a private conversation with Visconti during which raised voices could be heard from outside the room. What was said is not known, but the result was a new understanding and respect between the two men that grew into a lifelong friendship.
Production lasted seven months. Over a month was devoted to the ball sequence alone (it had to be filmed at night, because of the summer heat), with results that fully justified Visconti's perfectionism. The ball is one of the great set pieces in cinema, an astoundingly fluid and complex sequence in which all the themes of The Leopard converge, together with the three classes of the aristocracy, the bourgeoisie, and the military. According to screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, "At heart, the novel is the story of the first time that different social classes mix." The ball sequence brilliantly dramatizes this historical moment, staging it as a spectacle that unfolds under the view of the pensive Prince, who, loathing the shallow, self-satisfied guests parading before him, retires privately to contemplate his own death.
Visconti prepared a 205-minute cut, which he whittled down to 185 minutes for the premiere at the 1963 Cannes festival, where The Leopard won the Palme d'Or. The film went on to worldwide commercial and critical success, though not in the United States, where 20th Century-Fox released it in a 165-minute version with inferior color. The English dubbing was supervised by Sydney Pollack, who pronounced the result "lousy," despite the advantage of Lancaster speaking his own lines; he is voiced by another actor in the Italian version.
Dubbed or not, for Lancaster, it was the role of a lifetime. Despite Visconti's initial misgivings, Lancaster inhabits the part so perfectly that it's impossible to imagine any other actor being better in it. He came away from The Leopard with a newly mature sense of artistic purpose. Of Visconti, he said, "He opened for me a new world and a new way of doing things."
Producer: Goffredo Lombardo
Director: Luchino Visconti
Screenplay: Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Medioli, Massimo Franciosa, Luchino Visconti, based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno
Film Editing: Mario Serandrei
Art Direction: Mario Garbuglia
Music: Nino Rota
Cast: Burt Lancaster (Prince Fabrizio Salina), Claudia Cardinale (Angelica), Alain Delon (Tancredi), Paolo Stoppa (Don Calogero), Rina Morelli (Maria Stella), Lucilla Morlacchi (Concetta), Romolo Valli (Father Pirrone), Pierre Clémenti (Francesco Paolo), Giuliano Gemma (Garibaldian general), Serge Reggiani (Don Ciccio).
by Chris Fujiwara
The Leopard (1963) - The Leopard
The Leopard
The Leopard is adapted from the 1958 novel of the same title by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957). Set during the Risorgimento (the movement for the reunification of Italy in the 1860s), the story concerns Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, a Sicilian nobleman who witnesses his way of life changing before his eyes. His favorite nephew Tancredi joins Garibaldi's fighters and later falls in love with Angelica, the beautiful daughter of Don Calogero, a ruthlessly ambitious middle-class politician. While Don Fabrizio recognizes in the young couple's union the political future of Italy, he is increasingly haunted by the decline of his social class and his own mortality.
The novel, which wasn't published until a year after Lampedusa's death, immediately became an international bestseller; its English translation is still in print today. However, at the time The Leopard was widely criticized in leftist circles for its nostalgic view of the nobility. A prince in real life - albeit one who had fallen on hard times - Lampedusa identified personally with the fictional protagonist, who was inspired by his great-grandfather. The film's director Luchino Visconti, who was also a nobleman, clearly identified with both the author and Don Fabrizio. At the same time, as an avowed Marxist, Visconti introduced a concrete historical dimension to the film beyond what was already present in the novel, most notably in the siege of Palermo. So while on the surface the film has all the trappings of a lavish costume drama (a star cast, a spectacular battle sequence, achingly romantic love scenes, lavish dinners and costume balls), it has an underlying scope of vision and an intelligence that most costume dramas lack.
One striking feature of the novel that cannot be reproduced in the film is its narrative voice. While the time of the novel spans from 1860 to 1910 and much of it closely follows Don Fabrizio's thoughts, occasionally the narrator reminds us of the present, using an airplane as a metaphor or alluding to "Eisenstein's baby carriage." During the ball sequence, for instance, Lampedusa writes: "From the ceiling the gods, reclining on gilded couches, gazed down smiling and inexorable as a summer sky. They thought themselves eternal; but a bomb manufactured in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was to prove the contrary in 1943."
In one respect, however, Visconti's film is arguably an improvement over the novel: the novel's last two chapters detail the death of Don Fabrizio and, some twenty years later, Angelica's visit to Concetta in their old age. The film closes instead with the magnificent ball sequence, lending the story a tighter dramatic unity. Visconti's film has sometimes been compared to Proust, and not unreasonably so; it is a cornucopia of painterly compositions and faces, but its visual beauty is no mere window-dressing. The film's images - the soldier lying dead in the garden, the mistress that greets Don Fabrizio at the brothel, the Salina family covered in dust during their visit to the chapel at Donnafugata - no matter how fleeting, leave an indelible impact on the viewer. By the end of the film, it seems as if we too have accumulated a lifetime of impressions, paralleling in purely cinematic terms the process of memory treated more explicitly in the novel.
The film represents a peak of achievement for all involved. Visconti's direction displays a remarkable integration of setting, decor, camera movements and blocking of actors. Burt Lancaster not only fits the physical description of Don Fabrizio in the novel, he plays the character convincingly and movingly. Some critics have argued that Lancaster was too young and vital to play the Prince confronting death at the ball; while this is true to a certain extent, it should be kept in mind that in the novel the character does not die until 1888, twenty-six years after the ball sequence takes place. The point is less the immediate proximity of death than Don Fabrizio's acknowledgment of its necessity. Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale are likewise memorable as the opportunistic Tancredi and the carnal Angelica. The many smaller roles that populate the film suggest that not the least of Visconti's talents was his eye for striking physiognomies. Nino Rota's richly melodic score is appropriately nostalgic and operatic. Giuseppe Rotunno's cinematography cannot be praised highly enough; this is, at risk of hyperbole, one of the most beautiful color films ever made. As much as I admire other films by Visconti, particularly Ossessione (1943), La Terra Trema (1948), Senso (1954) and Rocco and His Brothers (1960), to me The Leopard is probably his masterpiece.
Criterion's new high-definition transfer, supervised by Rotunno, was made directly from the Technirama negative. Technirama was a process developed by Technicolor using a horizontally fed 35mm negative like Vistavision. The resulting image, which was 8 perforations wide, was also anamorphically squeezed to produce a wider aspect ratio. The superior clarity and definition of this process works greatly to the film's artistic advantage, giving the painterly compositions of director Visconti and cinematographer Rotunno a sumptuous tactile quality. The richness of color and detail on the DVD are a revelation, especially those accustomed to the murky DeLuxe color process used on the old English-language prints distributed in the U.S. The few imperfections in the surviving film elements are extremely minor and easily forgiven. The mono sound is occasionally distorted, but on the whole it works more than adequately. Peter Cowie's audio commentary track accompanying the film is absorbing and illuminating, as usual; among other things, Cowie helpfully reads a number of passages from the novel and talks at length about Visconti's career in general.
Disc Two contains the bulk of the special features: A Dying Breed, The Making of The Leopard, a set of cogent interviews with the surviving cast and crew; an interview with the film's producer Goffredo Lombardo, who among other things expresses interest in filming a sequel (!); an interview with scholar Millicent Marcus, who provides an excellent overview of Italian history as it relates to the film; and lastly, trailers, newsreel footage, production stills and promotional materials.
A new of transfer the 161-minute English-dubbed version has been included on Disc Three. Now that we have the full Italian-language version, the dubbed version is of interest mainly as a historical curio; hearing Sicilian nobility speaking in American English somehow robs the film of a little of its operatic grandeur, makes it seem like more of a prosaic costume drama. While one would think that hearing Burt Lancaster's own voice would enhance his performance, paradoxically the opposite is true; in the English version he comes off as a little stiff; with the carefully dubbed Italian voice, the vitality of the character shines through more fully, and Lancaster's transformation into Don Fabrizio is complete. The video transfer, while not bad, is no match for the Italian version. Still, I'm glad that Criterion decided to include it.
This is, in my view, the DVD release of the year.
For more information about The Leopard, visit Criterion Collection. To order The Leopard, go to TCM Shopping.
by James Steffen
The Leopard
Location scenes filmed in Sicily. Opened in Paris in June 1963 as Le guépard; running time: 185 min; in Rome in March 1963 as Il gattopardo; running time: 205 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Voted One of the Year's Five Best Foreign Films by the 1963 National Board of Review.
Winner of the Palme d'Or for Best Film at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
Released in United States Summer May 29, 1963
Re-released in United States May 6, 2005
Released in United States 1983
Released in United States September 1991
Released in United States October 1999
Released in United States May 2010
Released in United States June 2010
Shown at Venice Film Festival September 3-14, 1991.
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (Restored Print/Cannes Classics) May 12-23, 2010.
Shown at Los Angeles Film Festival (Film Foundation Screening Program) June 17-27, 2010.
Original full-length 205-minute Italian version re-released on May 6, 2005 in Los Angeles by Criterion Films.
Began shooting March 4, 1962.
Completed shooting October 1962.
2010 restoration with the support of Cineteca di Bologna, L'Immagine Ritrovata, The Film Foundation, Pathe, Fondation Jerome Seydoux-Pathe, Twentieth Century Fox and Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale. Restoration funding provided by Gucci and The Film Foundation. Digital Picture Restoration, Colorworks. Sound laboratory services, L'Immagine Ritrovata.
Released in United States Summer May 29, 1963
Re-released in United States May 6, 2005 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States 1983 (Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Special Programs) April 13 - May 1, 1983.)
Released in United States September 1991 (Shown at Venice Film Festival September 3-14, 1991.)
Released in United States October 1999 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (Classic Film Retrospective) October 21-29, 1999.)
Released in United States May 2010 (Shown at Cannes Film Festival (Restored Print/Cannes Classics) May 12-23, 2010.)
Released in United States June 2010 (Shown at Los Angeles Film Festival (Film Foundation Screening Program) June 17-27, 2010.)
The Leopard (Criterion) - for assembling a stunning edition for the home video debut of Visconti's masterpiece


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IoT based Smart Switchboard
GOOGLE Assistant
Control your Lights & Fan
Home automation has become very common now days and people are using IoT to automate everything in their home. Today, I am going to explain you how we can create a cheap google assistant based smart home appliance control system which you can also sell as product.
After going through this project details you will be able to build a smart, low cost, wifi enabled devices that lets you control home lighting,electronic devices in your home from your android phone anywhere, anytime and also you can check the status of your lights, Fan, TV, etc. Yes, your existing switchboard can get smarter with just a small change and NOT much cost.
Hardware Components:
- Arduino UNO
- ESP8266 WiFi module (ESP-01) /NodeMCU
- Relay Module 5 volt
- Wires for connection
- AC to DC 5 volt power supply
- LM1117 or AMS1117 3.3V regulator
- AC appliances
- WiFi router
- Soldering iron
- Wire cutter
- Screw driver
- Multimeter
- Electrical tape
Connect ESP8266 with Arduino for Programming
Programming ESP-01 |
- VCC: Power supply pin of ESP-01 which can be supplied with 3.3V DC
- GND: Ground reference pin of ESP-01
- TXD: Used as UART Transmitter pin or GPIO 1
- RXD: Used as UART Receiver Pin or GPIO 3
- RESET: It is used to reset the Module and it is an active LOW pin.
- CH_PD: It is the chip enable pin which is an active HIGH pin.
- GPIO0: This pin serves two purposes. One is as General purpose Input/output and other is to enable Programming mode of ESP-01 when connected to ground
- GPIO2: This is a General purpose Input/output pin.
Connect the ESP8266 module with Arduino UNO as shown in the figure above, make sure that Rx is connected to Rx and Tx is connected with Tx as ESP-01 module is not 5 Volts tolerable use voltage divider for Rx. When you want to program the board check first if GPIO0 is connected to ground otherwise you will not be able to upload any code to your ESP-01
Enable pin should also be supplied with VCC and optional for RST.
Setup Arduino IDE
Install Blynk library for arduino IDE following this link here
After installing suitable library open new sketch and copy the code given below:
Edit SSID, PASSWORD, Authentication Key with yours before uploading to your ESP8266 module
Don't just copy paste, try to improve the code and the code is self explanatory if something not understood do let me know
#define BLYNK_PRINT Serial
#define RELAY_PIN_1 2
#define PUSH_BUTTON_1 1
#define VPIN_BUTTON_1 V2
#define RELAY_PIN_2 0
#define PUSH_BUTTON_2 3
#define VPIN_BUTTON_2 V0
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <BlynkSimpleEsp8266.h>
char auth[] = "bccggllfyufjvbbm";
char ssid[] = "Free";
char pass[] = "12345678";
BlynkTimer timer;
void checkPhysicalButton();///
int relay1State = LOW;
int pushButton1State = HIGH;
int relay2State = LOW;
int pushButton2State = HIGH;
// Every time we connect to the cloud...
// Request the latest state from the server
relay1State = param.asInt();
digitalWrite(RELAY_PIN_1, relay1State);
relay2State = param.asInt();
digitalWrite(RELAY_PIN_2, relay2State);
void checkPhysicalButton()
if (digitalRead(PUSH_BUTTON_1) == LOW) {
// pushButton1State is used to avoid sequential toggles
if (pushButton1State != LOW) {
// Toggle Relay state
relay1State = !relay1State;
digitalWrite(RELAY_PIN_1, relay1State);
// Update Button Widget

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Tickets to Dispatch's Two MSG Shows This Weekend Averaging $70 on Resale Market
July 7, 2015
(UPDATE 7/7/15) Vermont indie folk outfit Dispatch is bound for the boroughs this weekend. The trio is scheduled to play two shows at New York City's Madison Square Garden on Friday and Saturday, and it's bringing big ticket demand to the secondary market. Also featuring one-off performances by Dr. Dog and John Butler Trio, the average secondary price for Dispatch tickets over its two-show stay at MSG is $69.93.
Both shows own nearly identical ticket averages, though fans will find cheaper tickets for Saturday night's performances. The average price for July 10 Dispatch tickets at The Garden is now $69.45 and the get-in price starts at $21. The following night, tickets average at $70.32 but get-in price is listed for just $11. Dr. Dog will support atFriday's gig while the John Butler Trio takes the stage on Saturday.
Dispatch is heading to Midtown Manhattan in support of DISPATCH: HUNGER, its program devised to raise awareness about national hunger in the United States. For every ticket sold through the primary market, $1 will be donated to the DISPATCH: Hunger campaign, which aims to benefit starving Americans across the country.
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Dispatch Tickets for Upcoming MSG Shows As Low As $16 on Secondary Market
Influential indie rock outfit Dispatch will be briefly hitting the road next week, and the trio is bringing its eclectic sound to New York City's Madison Square Garden on July 10 and 11. The two midtown Manhattan gigs are the only shows scheduled in North America this year and the first since the band's five-show trip across Australia in April. The short engagement has elicited enough hype to generate ticket demand on the secondary market, though fans can still get in cheap at both gigs when searching resale outlets.
According to TicketIQ, the average secondary price for Dispatch tickets over the two-show MSG residency is $72.64. Dispatch's first show on July 10 will be the cheaper of the pair with a ticket average of $68.52 and get-in price starting at $16. The following night, tickets average at $76.03 and the cheapest available ticket is now $21.
Both shows at Madison Square Garden will run under the "DISPATCH:HUNGER" moniker, which is being used to raise awareness on the country's impoverished that lack the ability to attain food daily. $1 from every ticket sold via the band's website will go to families suffering from hunger in the U.S. Just one show was originally scheduled for July 11, but overwhelming demand made the band add a second date the night prior.
Dr. Dog will open up the July 11 show. Dispatch's second and final gig in New York on July 11 will see the John Butler Trio support.


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One of my favorite songs is the title of this post. It is by Jill Scott, I love that song. It reminds me of how much I keep moving and believing not settling for a life less than what I deserve. I went to see Seven Pounds with Will Smith and Rosario Dawson yesterday, I liked it. I found it to be a moving love story but you should see it for yourself. It also reminded me of not settling for a life less than what you are capable of and ensuring that you define what makes for a fulfilling life for you. What is fulfilling for some isn't for others and I don't believe in abc 123 lives. abc 123 lives are those in which you fill in the blanks and think you will be fulfilled (i.e.: go to college, get a good job, marry the safe person etc. etc. etc...). For some that works and it gives them a sense of security however for me I have chosen to walk a different path to fulfillment. I find joy in so many things so I am going to list just a few below:
1. The color purple - it is so rich and regal it just fills me with this great feeling. I always feel like I am royalty when I wear it.
2. Good wine, Good conversation and Good food - these 3 things together make me giddy like a school girl. In years past I have cooked for all of my friends on my birthday. I have also required that they dress up, bring a friend and plan to enjoy the evening just loving and talking with each other. It has always brought me great joy.
3. Shiny sparkly things - Listen it has taken me some time to embrace my feminine side but honey now I fully embrace who I was designed to be and I just think I look great with shiny sparkly things in my ears. Not garish things mind you but simple elegant shiny baubles.
I hope everyone reading this continue to seek joy in all things and enjoy your days they are either limitless or numbered depending on your view.


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New Heroes and Revamped Heroes
1. New Hero: Carmilla, the Shadow of Twilight, will be available on ).January 17 (Server Time). Diamond 599, BP 32000, Launch week 30% Diamonds OFF.
-Free access to hero becomes unavailable when she is out in the Official Server.
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Hero Specialty: The old one from the deep sea, and the Mecha operator.
Skill 1 [Annihilate]: Atlas smashes the ground and causes 3 explosions. Each explosion deals Magic Damage to enemies. Ejected State: If Atlas has ejected from his Mecha Sentry, both himself and his Mecha will cast this skill.
Skill 2 [Perfect Match]: Atlas Ejects from Mecha Sentry, increasing his Movement Speed. Mecha Sentry will follow Atlas with an increasing Movement Speed. Atlas will return to the Mecha once they meet, dealing Magic Damage to targets nearby and state, reducing the damage received. Use Again: Atlas orders his Mecha Sentry to catch up with him faster.
Ultimate [Fatal Links]: Atlas hurls chains at all nearby heroes and starts charging. Enemies hit by the chains will be slowed down (decays continuously). Use again: during charging, Atlas drags all targets toward him, then plonks them into a target place, dealing Magic Damage.
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Weekly Free Heroes & New Skins
1. Carmilla's new Skin "Wisteria Countess" will be available on January 17 (Server Time). Diamond 269. Launch week 30% Diamonds OFF.
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3. Odette's new Skin "Auspicious Charm" will be available on January 22 (Server Time). Diamond 749. Launch week 30% Diamonds OFF.
4. No Adjustments in Fragments Shop.
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Lancelot's Sacred Statue "Soul Blade" will be available on January 18 (Server Time).
Alice's Advanced Sacred Statue "Queen of Scourge" will be available on February 1 (Server Time).
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Painted Skin of Valir's Shikigami Summoner will be available on January 15 (server time). Painted Skin of Akai's Monk will be available on February 1 (server time).
7. 8 Free Heroes: Server Time 1/10/2020 05:01:00 to 1/17/2020 05:00:00 (Tap the Settings button on the top-right corner of the home screen to check.)
Faramis; Alpha; Bane; Lapu-Lapu; Minotaur; Pharsa; Gusion; Aldous
6 Extra Starlight Member Heroes: Karrie; Lesley; Argus; Chou; Belerick; Lylia
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Lolita; Bruno; Aurora; Karrie; Leomord; Lesley; Gusion; Terizla
6 Extra Starlight Member Heroes: Hayabusa; Angela; Estes; Harith; Vale; Granger
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Kadita; Lylia; Johnson; Grock; Gatotkaca; Jawhead; Hanzo; Vale
6 Extra Starlight Member Heroes: Roger; Valir; Guinevere; Hanabi; Lolita; Natalia
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X. Borg, Fanny; Johnson; Hilda; Zhask; Hanabi; Uranus; Badang
6 Extra Starlight Member Heroes: Cyclops; Thamuz; Aldous; Claude; Faramis; Helcurt
8 Free Heroes: Server Time 2/7/2020 05:01:00 to 2/14/2020 05:00:00 (Tap the Settings button on the top-right corner of the home screen to check.)
Hayabusa; Hylos; Irithel; Bruno; Clint; Minsitthar; Belerick; Esmeralda
6 Extra Starlight Member Heroes: Moskov; Gatotkaca; Sun; Uranus; Diggie; Martis
8. Arcade Mode [Magic Chess]: New map [Breath of Spring] will be available on January 24 (Server Time). Diamond 899. Launch week 30% Diamonds OFF. The Magic Chess will also be launched by then.
Hero Adjustments
Cloud Walker: Crit Chance increased from 20% to 40%. Crit Damage decreased from 160% to 140%.
Defiant Sword: Energy adjusted from 35 at all levels to 40-30.
Rhapsody: Basic Damage decreased from 30 to 20. Damage Growth increased from 26 to 28.
Chrono Dash: CD decreased by 1s at all levels.
Thunderclap: Damage Reduction Duration increased from 3s to 5s.
Lightning Bomb: Reduced the movement speed.
Fire Missiles: Basic Damage decreased from 40 to 30. Damage Growth increased from 12 to 14.
Basic HP increased by 100.
Baxia Mark: Damage Reduction adjusted from 28-56 to 35 at all levels.
Crossbow of Tang: Physical Attack Bonus decreased from 60% to 50%.
Spiral Strangling: Basic Shield increased from 300-450 to 340-540. Magic Power Bonus decreased from 100% to 70%.
Changed the hero role to Fighter/Mage.
Sanguine Claws: Slightly increased the width of this skill so that the visual effect can align with the skill effect better.
Bats Feast: Magic Power Bonus increased from 10% to 15%.
Volley Shot: Physical Attack Bonus decreased from 105% to 100%.
Puppet-on-a-String: Now the debuff can be removed by "Purify" correctly.
Iron Hook: Fixed an issue that this skill could be blocked by teammates.
Optimized the skill animation.
Battlefield Adjustments
1. Mayhem Mode will be accessible for a limited time. Don't miss out!
Added New Heroes: Fanny; Lesley; Kimmy; Esmeralda; X.Borg; Ling; Lylia; Baxia; Masha; Wanwan
New Event and Features
1. [Lunar New Year Red Packet (Tickets)] Event Time: January 17 – January 25 (Server Time). Complete event tasks to accumulated tickets. Log in on January 25 to claim all the tickets you earned!
2. [Martis's Music Party] Event time: January 25 – February 9 (server time). Complete tasks to get the chance to win "Guitar Hero" Battle Emote and the Special Skin "Deathrock". Party time now!
3. Starlight Member Privileges Trial Event
A. Come try the Privileges of Starlight Member!
B. At the end of the trial, you will get the chance to purchase Starlight Member Trial Card at a super low price!
System Adjustments
1. Now you can complete "win matches" daily tasks by reaching top 3 in CHESS-TD or top 4 in MAGIC CHESS.
2. Redesigned the sandbox of Arcade Lobby.
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1. Fixed an issue that the Arcade Lobby might be wrongly displayed when returning to the Main Lobby.
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By Steve Knowles
How many public organisations do you know who can raise an estimated bill, make you bankrupt on this fictitious liability, and then refuse to remove it when it is proven to be wrong?
HMRC can, and do.
If a taxpayer fails to complete a tax return for a number of years, HMRC will raise determinations. The taxpayer has three years after the filing date for the return to submit it; if they miss this deadline then HMRC's instructions to staff are very clear:
- If the tax on the return is less than the estimated determination then the determination will stand and the taxpayer has to pay the higher amount.
- If the tax on the return is more than the estimated determination then the return is passed to a compliance unit to consider making a discovery assessment to recover the lost tax.
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- A new iOS 16 feature lets you unsend text messages on your iPhone.
- After you send an iMessage, you'll have 15 minutes to unsend it and delete it from everyone's phone.
- Unsending only works when you're texting another person who has iOS 16 or newer.
iOS 16 comes with a lot of new features, and the flagship addition is a game-changer for the butterfingers among us.
iPhone users can now unsend their text messages. This lets you remotely delete a text message you've sent, even if the recipient has already seen it.
Here's how it works.
How to unsend a message on your iPhone
Once you send an iMessage from your iPhone, you have 15 minutes to unsend it. Unsending your message will delete it from your phone and from any device you sent it to. In its place, you and the recipient will see a message saying that a message was removed.
Unfortunately, there are some drawbacks. You can only unsend iMessages — in other words, you can only unsend texts that you send to other Apple devices. This means that you can't unsend messages when texting an Android phone.
And even if you're texting another Apple device, they need to have updated to iOS 16 (or iPadOS 16 or macOS Ventura) for it to work on their end. Otherwise, unsending your message will delete it on your end but not theirs.
To unsend a message you've just sent, tap and hold your finger on the message. In the menu that opens, tap Undo Send.
Your text message will explode into blue dust. Once it's gone, everyone in the conversation will only see a notice saying that a message was deleted.
You're now free to send a new message in its place, or just leave the chat as is.


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Tom Blachford and Brooke Thorn hanging out together in store.
Each absolutely nailing it in their own right, Tom Blachford and Brooke Thorn have both brought their A-game to deliver incredible new work to Modern Times.
Photographer Tom Blachford recently delivered some works from the second series of 'Midnight Modern', including this seriously amazing shot of the Kaufmann House by night. I actually can't describe how incredible this image is….
Anyway, not long after, ceramicist Brooke Thorn dropped by with a selection of her 'Serving Suggestions' ceramics range in the most beautiful deep sea blue glaze.
In a surprise moment, when we paired them together, each one brought out the beauty in the other. The palette of Brooke's ceramics brought out the midnight hues in Tom's photographic masterpiece and it just worked!
This inspired us to create some more unlikely pairings of Tom's photography with Brooke's ceramics. Here are some of our favourites!
L-R: 470 W Vista Chino Side by Tom Blachford, Small Shallow Dish by Brooke Thorn
L-R: 1070 E Apache Front by Tom Blachford, Large Jug by Brooke Thorn
L-R: 977 N Rose by Tom Blachford, Teardrop Bottle Vase by Brooke Thorn


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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Depending on how you look at it, this campaign is either brilliant and innovative, or misleading and dull. One thing it's not, however, is lacking in buzz.
The National Hockey League's Florida Panthers unveiled a campaign last week in which sports super-agent Drew Rosenhaus -- he of the Burger King and ESPN commercials -- announced that he had been retained by fans of the hockey team to renegotiate season-ticket prices for the 2009-10 season that begins in October. Mr. Rosenhaus first made the announcement on his Twitter feed, then followed with a traditional press release that included quotes from himself and Florida Panthers advisory board member and season-ticket holder Nat Levine. The Panthers quickly followed with their own Twitter message saying the team had no comment.
Several media outlets and blogs initially reported the announcement, albeit some with a dose of skepticism.
In reality, the Panthers hired Mr. Rosenhaus for the campaign in which he persuades management to lower season-ticket prices. The initial announcement last week was followed by a viral campaign that included video on YouTube and FloridaPanthers.com of Mr. Rosenhaus "negotiating" with team management. (The team is owned by Sunrise Sports & Entertainment.) Today, the team officially declared that the "negotiations" with Mr. Rosenhaus have concluded, and that a new season-ticket pricing structure was put in place that includes a $7 per game upper-bowl season ticket, and a $35 per game lower-bowl season ticket.
Campaign to continue
The campaign will continue over the next two months with media buys on TV, radio and in print, featuring Mr. Rosenhaus (who was the inspiration for sports agent Bob Sugar in the film "Jerry Maguire") talking about the benefits and affordable pricing he has secured for Panthers fans.
"It's an exciting and captivating concept, and the advertising spots are really very entertaining," said Panthers President Michael Yormark. "First of all, we knew simply by having Drew Rosenhaus involved in our campaign that we would capture the attention of fans and media outside our usual circle. That said, beginning it virally was very important, as it allowed us to steadily raise the awareness of our campaign through those channels that we don't normally have access to. ... Now it's time to supplement that through some more traditional outlets, and we think the TV commercials and radio spots are going to engage and entertain the sports fans that we are looking to capture."
"From a pure brand-messaging platform, 'faux' campaigns done well can be very successful," said Jim Spinello, VP-digital services and youth culture for Chicago-based sports-marketing firm Revolution. He added: "By leveraging Rosenhaus' digital reach, the Panthers can engage younger fans on platforms that they are getting a lion's share of their information from. Taken in the right context, I'm a big fan of tongue-in-cheek campaigns like these and think they can build brand equity."
Michael A. Neuman, president of New York-based Amplify Sports and Entertainment, agreed.
"It's a brilliant idea," he said. "Recession pricing is a very relevant topic now and besides poking fun at themselves, the Panthers are addressing the issue head on, with humor."
But not everybody had the same reaction.
Will it succeed?
"The execution is rather dull," said Bob Dorfman, executive creative director at San Francisco-based Baker Street Partners. "But ultimately, the success of the campaign will be determined by whether or not the price reductions and other fan benefits are significant enough to motivate fans to buy."
The Panthers have struggled to draw fans to the BankAtlantic Center, despite being located in Sunrise, Florida, less than 45 minutes from the large population centers of Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The team averaged 15,600 fans per game last season at the 19,500-seat facility and hasn't made the NHL playoffs in eight years.
David Hyde, sports columnist for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, recently ripped the team's ad effort. "They're really saying: 'We know we don't have a team to market, or any players you're interested in watching and no one wants to pay our ticket prices anymore, so let's push the humor to the outer edges so our fans get a chuckle even if they don't really understand it,'" he wrote.
Mr. Yormark said the team has already achieved great success judging by the national response to the campaign.
"If we simply sent out a press release ourselves or released a statement on our Twitter, the impression would likely have been limited more to hockey fans and the media that covers us regularly," he said.


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A new set is being built for What We Do in the Shadows in Toronto right now
If you're a fan of What We Do in the Shadows, then this one is for you because a new set is being built for the show in Toronto right now.
Although it appears to be a church, someone on the show's construction crew told blogTO that it's actually the vampires' home that is currently in the works at 65 Heward Avenue in the Six5 Studios parking lot for everyone's favourite mockumentary comedy horror television series.
Of course, no details have been released as to what exactly will be filmed here, however as anyone who watches the show probably knows, it is filmed in Toronto despite taking place in New York.
For the show's first season, the Cranfield House at 450 Pape Avenue was used for exterior shoots of the vampires' residence. This historical landmark was also the filming location for It, Orphan Black and many other productions.
After the property was sold, filming moved to a set built in the parking lot of the studio, also in Toronto.
I'm watching What We Do in the Shadows and I'm like damn Staten Island looks nice but it turns out it was filmed in Toronto...Makes sense
— Kozmo's Quarantine Adventure (@kozmos92) April 16, 2020
Written by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, What We Do in the Shadows follows Nandor, Laszlo, Nadja, and Colin, four vampires who are centuries-old and must learn to interact with the modern world and with other supernatural beings.
Just spotted our Corktown condo and some local Leslieville spots in What We Do In The Shadows, always had a witch problem here in East Toronto. @theshadowsfx @AJemaineClement
— Frances Harvey (@JaneAero) June 4, 2020
While filmed in Toronto, the show, which is a spinoff of the 2014 movie of the same name, has seen its four vampire roomates move from Wellington, New Zealand to Staten Island, New York.
The second season premiered in April of this year and in May, it was renewed for a third season, which will most likely include that mysterious church.
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- 2 eggs
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- 3tsp rice flour
- 2tsp almond milk
- frozen berries
- small banana
- 3 dates
- cinnamon / vanilla
- baking powder
- anything else - orange/lemon zest if you wish
- STEP 1Pre-heat the over to 200˚. Mash the pumpkin and add the eggs. Add all the ingredients and mix well. Cut the dates and add them with the frozen berries and the banana in the end.
- STEP 2Put some coconut oil or butter in the pan and pour the mixture. I used a small pan (20x20cm).
- STEP 3Bake for around 20 minutes but check on it as my over is a little bit strange. Top with coulis, fruits, tahini or honey. Put some nuts or coconut flakes on top and enjoy!


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To see all of our current studies, please visit the Pittsburgh Vaccine & Clinical Trials Unit website.
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LiveChat Software has added accessibility features in its Chat Widget to ensure that the chat section is keyboard-accessible and text-to-speech reader-friendly. In addition, all default color settings that users can choose for the chat have a contrast score of 4.5 or higher. This means it's now fully compliant with WCAG 2.1 levels A and AA.
"LiveChat's Chat Widget serves businesses from almost every industry. Customer service and business communication touch everyone at some point in time. So it's even more important to ensure that anyone can use the tools that we as businesses offer our audiences. Furthermore, we firmly believe that all changes toward better accessibility ultimately benefit the general user experience of our products and the people that communicate through them," said Konrad Kruk, product owner at LiveChat, in a statement. "In LiveChat's case, the most demanding areas in our Chat Widget related to accessibility were keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and visuals. Next, we would like to work on accessibility features for our other applications, including LiveChat's Agent Application."


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NFL Football Acronyms – Abbreviations
Ever looked at an NFL football boxscore and seen an abbreviation or acronym and wondered what it meant? Your're not the only one! Whatever you may be looking for having to do with NFL acronyms can be found here. If not, email us at email@example.com and let us know what you're looking for and we'll find you the answer!
+: Plus the points (underdog)
–: Minus the points (favorite)
-20: Punts inside the 20 yard line
AFC: American Football Conference
AST: Assisted tackles
ATS: Against the Spread
ATT: Attempts
AVG: Average
BAS: Abbreviation for BetAnySports, which offers -105 odds on your bets instead of -110!
BLK: Punts or field goals blocked
C: Completion
CAR: Carries
DL: Defensive Lineman
DPOY: Defensive Player of the Year
F: Fumble or could be used for "final"
FFUM: Forced fumbles
FG: Field goal
FGA: Field goals attempted
FGM: Field goals made
FUM: Fumble
FUMR: Fumble recoveries
INT: Interceptions
INTTD: Interceptions returned for touchdowns
K: Kicker
KR: Kick Return or Kick Returner
LG: Long or longest
LOST: Lost fumbles
ML: Moneyline
NFC: National Football Conference
NO: Number
OL: Offensive Lineman
PCT: Percent
PD: Passes deflected
PR: Punt Return
R: Rushes
RUSH: Rushing attempts
RB: Running Back
POSS: Time of possession
QB: Quarterback
QTR: Quarter
S: Safety
SACK: Sacks
SOLO: Solo tackes
SU: Straight Up (No point spread involved)
T: Tackles
Tack: Tackles
TB: Touchback
TD: Touchdown
TGTS: Targets (As in how many times the receiver was thrown to)
TP: Total plays
TOT: Total
XPA: Extra points attempted
XP: Extra point
XPM: Extra points made
Y/A: Yards per attempt
YDS: Yards
NFL Team Name Abbreviations:
ARI: Arizona Cardinals
ATL: Atlanta Falcons
BAL: Baltimore Ravens
BUF: Buffalo Bills
CAR: Carolina Panthers
CHI: Chicago Bears
CIN: Cincinnati Bengals
CLE: Cleveland Browns
DAL: Dallas Cowboys
DEN: Denver Broncos
DET: Detroit Lions
GB: Green Bay Packers
HOU: Houston Texans
IND: Indianapolis Colts
JAX: Jacksonville Jaguars
KC: Kansas City Chiefs
LAC: Los Angeles Chargers
MIA: Miami Dolphins
MIN: Minnesota Vikings
NE: New England Patriots
NO: New Orleans Saints
NYG: New York Giants
NYJ: New York Jets
OAK: Oakland Raiders
PHI: Philadelphia Eagles
PIT: Pittsburgh Steelers
SEA: Seattle Seahawks
SF: San Francisco 49ers
STL: Saint Louis Rams
TB: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
TEN Tennessee Titans
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Activists target Toronto gas station to protest animal cruelty at annual Iditarod race
Activists in Toronto are protesting an annual dog sledding race by pouring fake blood on the ground at a Mobil gas station at 449 Carlaw Ave.
On Wednesday, a group of concerned citizens took to the streets to show their unease toward the gas station's parent company, ExxonMobil, who is a major sponsor of the Iditarod dog sledding race which protestors say "perpetuates human entitlement over nonhuman animals."
"How many of them die and/or are killed?" Nicole Ada, one of the organizers of the event, said in an email.
"We will continue to be a presence until this race (which uses dogs against their will), and the dog sledding industry as a whole, collapses."
The group claims that more than 150 dogs have died as a result of the Iditarod race since it began in the 1970s and that the dogs live in outdoor warehouses with minimal protection from the elements all year round.
They also said that the dogs are often on chains or in caged enclosures.
On their website, Iditarod state they are "committed to celebrating these elite athletes and using lessons learned to benefit dog health for the millions of pet owners," adding that they take great pride in providing and promoting excellence in dog care before, during and after the race.
The website also says that "during the race, well over 10,000 veterinary examinations take place to ensure that every dog is healthy and receiving the care it needs," among other health checks.
The race occurs on the first Saturday of every March in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Due to the retirement of the current subagent, the vehicle licensing sub-agency, located at 100 E. Jewett Blvd, White Salmon, WA has closed.
Below you will find a list of vehicle licensing agents who can assist you in the interim:
Klickitat County Auditor
Hours of operation:
205 S. Columbus Ave, Room 203 Goldendale 45.7 miles
Monday- Friday (8:30a.m.- 4:30p.m.)
Skamania County Auditor
240 NW Vancouver Ave., Room 27 Stevenson 23.5 miles
Monday- Thursday (7:30a.m.- 5:15p.m.)
If you had vehicle renewal or title work sent to the White Salmon office, please contact the Klickitat County Auditor.
Brenda Sorensen, Klickitat County Auditor, commented: "We recognize and apologize for the inconvenience this closure will cause the public. It is our intent to secure a replacement license sub-agent appointee within the next few months; applicants will be required to participate
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Additional information is available by calling 509-773-2315 or 509-773-2312


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I was about to write a feature on Borobudur in Indonesia. The 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple ruins with stupas and statues in Magelang, Central Java, is the world's largest Buddhist temple, and also considered one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world. With the historical landmark so near, I can see from my social media timeline, many Malaysians visiting the UNESCO World Heritage site, probably as a bucket list destination.
By a happy coincidence, I gained a recent Instagram follower named @sarasvati_borobudur_hotel. I contacted them and found out the account is run by the management of the hotel. A nice person by the name of Emir responded and a helpful Bambang sent me pics to feature. Touted as a boutique hotel with colonial design, Saraswati Borobudur Hotel offers free wi-fi, an outdoor pool and a restaurant. It also provides bicycle rental and Javanese arts classes. More importantly, it is a short walk or bicycle ride from Candi Borobudur. (see map at MyCen Hotels). I asked Emir if Saraswati is spelled with a V or W. He said they were registered as Saraswati but are in the process of changing to Sarasvati.
Check for low room rates and availability of the Saraswati Borobudur by Agoda or by Booking.com
See the special page on Saraswati Borobudur Hotel for more pics, and to book at http://www.mycen.my/borobudur/
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Coronavirus hitting the Americas hardest, World Health Organisation says
By John Revill and Stephanie Nebehay
The Americas are bearing the brunt of the global coronavirus pandemic at present, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said, with North and South America currently having four of the 10 worst-hit countries in the world.
The disease was "highly active" in Central and South America, the WHO's top emergency expert Mike Ryan said, highlighting problems in Brazil and Mexico. The current situation in Brazil, now one of the global hotspots for the virus, was of increasing concern especially in heavily populated cities, he said.
The country's health system was "still coping", although some intensive care units were at a critical stage and under heavy pressure with more than 90 per cent bed occupancy rates, Ryan said.
Mexico meanwhile has nearly 130,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and more than 15,000 deaths, the WHO said.
Brazil is the second worst-hit country in the world, with more than 800,000 cases and 41,000 deaths, according to a Reuters tally.
Both countries lag behind the United States, the worst-hit country, which has had more than 2 million cases and nearly 114,000 deaths.
"We are very much in the upswing of this pandemic, particularly in the global south," Ryan said. "Some countries are having trouble exiting the so-called lockdowns as they are seeing an increase in cases."
It was possible the disease was spreading again as societies reopened and people began meeting again, especially when there was inadequate testing and social distancing was insufficient.
Still, he acknowledged the pressures on countries to get back to normal especially to reduce the economic damage the crisis has wrought.
"There is a careful balance between keeping people at home... and the untoward effect of that on [the economy] and society. That is not an easy balance. There are no correct answers," Ryan said.
Ryan said that although some countries appeared to be over the worst of the virus, clusters of the disease were still occurring.
Beijing records first locally transmitted case in weeks
China's capital is suspending plans to restart classes for the first three years of primary school next week amid reports of new cases of community transmission in the city.
Beijing's municipal government said it wants to ensure the health and safety of students and teachers.
Local authorities on Thursday announced a 52-year-old man had become the city's first confirmed case of local transmission in weeks after he arrived alone at a clinic complaining of fever.
The official Xinhua News Agency said another two cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Beijing on Friday.
The man whose diagnosis was announced on Thursday had reportedly visited a market on June 3. The hall where he shopped has now been closed for disinfection, state media reported. It wasn't clear if there was a connection between the three new cases.
Hard-hit Italian region records more cases
In Italy, the northern region where Europe's COVID-19 outbreak began has registered for another day by far the most new coronavirus cases in the country.
Italian Health Ministry figures showed the Lombardy region had 272 confirmed cases in the 24-hour period ending on Friday evening. The region with the next-highest daily caseload, Emilia-Romagna, reported 33 new cases.
Nationwide, Italy had nearly 400 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 236,305. The Health Ministry's daily update included 56 virus-related deaths, raising the country's death toll of people with confirmed infections to 34,223.
Authorities say since many people with COVID-19 symptoms weren't tested, the actual numbers of infections and deaths are likely to be significantly higher.
Ukrainian President's wife tests positive
Meantime, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says she is infected with the novel coronavirus.
First lady Olena Zelenska wrote in an Instagram post on Friday that her husband and their children have tested negative.
She said she feels good, is receiving outpatient treatment and is isolated from her family "in order not to put them in danger".
Ukraine has so far reported more than 29,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, including 870 deaths. The government started gradually easing lockdown restrictions in late May with the resumption of public transportation and the reopening of malls and gyms.
US agency gives public virus-prevention pointers
Health officials in the US have released long-awaited guidance for Americans who want to reduce their risk of coronavirus infection while attempting some semblance of normal life.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention suggestions include: Take the stairs, not the elevator, down from your hotel room. Encourage people to bring their own food and drinks to your barbecue. Use hand sanitiser after banking at an ATM. Call ahead to restaurants and nail salons to make sure staff are wearing face coverings. And no high-fives - or even elbow bumps - at the gym.
The CDC also offered tips for organising and attending big gatherings such as concerts, sporting events, protests and political rallies.
Those guidelines are "not intended to endorse any particular type of event," the CDC's Dr Jay Butler said.
The guidelines are long overdue, some health experts say.
Norway to keep border with Sweden closed
Norway's government says it is keeping travel restrictions in place for visitors from Sweden, which did not impose a lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic.
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said on Friday that the more than 1600km-long border between the Scandinavian countries would remain closed.
Solberg said the sole exception would be Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea where the reproduction rate of infections was low.
"I realise this is a big disappointment," she said. "But the restrictions are based on objective criteria that are the same for everyone."
Unlike in most European countries, Swedish authorities advised residents to practise social distancing and only banned gatherings of more than 50 people. The nation's schools, bars and restaurants never closed during the pandemic.
India overtakes Britain for coronavirus cases
Meantime, India's coronavirus caseload has become the fourth-highest in the world, overtaking Britain, by adding 10,956 new cases in yet another biggest single-day spike.
India's two-month lockdown kept transmission low but in a large population of 1.3 billion, people remain susceptible and the campaign against the virus is likely to go on for months, Balram Bhargava, director-general of the Indian Council of Medical Research, said.
India's lockdown was imposed nationwide in late March but has eased since, and it is now largely being enforced in high-risk areas. The new cases rose after India reopened shops, shopping malls, manufacturing and religious places.
Subways, schools and movie theatres remain closed.
The increase reported on Friday raised India's confirmed cases to 297,535 with 8498 deaths.
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Dude, Where's My Car?
I swear this is a true story and not made up for marketing reasons.
I walked to work this morning, and left the car keys for my friend to drive in later. At 11:31 AM, I get a call. "Dude, your car is gone." And I'm like nah, nobody steals cars anymore, particularly not 2020 Hyundai Sonatas. So I tell him to check again and go over exactly where my spot is. 11:35 AM, I get another call. Still no car.
So then I think I'm dumb and probably parked it in the wrong place. A quick trip over to my.comma.ai shows this is not the case.
It occurred to me the fact that the video was uploaded was suspicious, since that car is 5 stories underground with no reception. So it must have gotten reception at some point, in fact, it might even still have it now. A jump into the comma connect app, and…
There it is, "comma Sonata current" with a green circle online. Since I have comma prime, I clicked on it, which triggered a screenshot.
Totally not where I parked it. I parked it inside. The car is outside! And it's with friends…this is a tow lot.
I called the building, they gave me the towing company number. The towing company confirmed the car was towed due to a "lack of a parking pass." But a quick trip back to my.comma.ai (you can also do this in the app), showed a parking pass, clear as day, just 2 minutes earlier!
While going to get the car back, which they wanted $332 for, I compiled this in an e-mail and sent it to Sonder, where I was renting the apartment from. E-mail with screenshots sent at 11:52 AM, full reimbursement at 12:11 PM. Really good on Sonder!
That's a over a year of comma prime paid for, and a headache that was very quickly dealt with. I'm really proud of our team here at comma for building stuff that was so usable during an annoying situation.
Now that's what you can do with the public stuff, internal logs were needed to show what time the towing actually happened, which was around 3 AM last night. It reconnected to the network at 3:08 AM.
We are working to make this feature public, a timeline of car connectivity. We are also working on "comma security." This experience was pretty good, but imagine I got a text at 3AM and could have prevented this whole situation. Turns out the parking pass was on the floor.
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The proposal to construct the long-awaited Stad Ship Tunnel in Norway is on the verge of fruition, with support being rendered by the government for the latest design submitted by Nordfjord Vekst.
The government of Norway approved funding of NOK1.6bn ($274m) for the construction of the tunnel in April 2013. Construction of the tunnel is expected to commence in 2018 and last for four years.
The proposed tunnel project is part of the Norwegian government's National Transport Plan for the period 2014-2023, which aims to identify projects to transfer 25% of all goods transported by road to sea and rail modes.
Stad tunnel will be the first tunnel in the world to be built exclusively for shipping. It will bypass the Stadlandet (Stad) peninsula in Selje and connect two fjords, averting ships from the harsh weather conditions at Stadlandet on the western coast of Norway. It will be located near the towns of Teigen and Berstad, between Bergen and Alesund.
Purpose of the Stad Ship Tunnel
The Stadlandet (Stad) peninsula in Selje is a major bottleneck for ships due to the adverse weather conditions. The highest wind speed in the country is witnessed in this foreland, with extreme conditions occurring 90 to 110 days a year.
Related project
Fjord Line's MS Stavangerfjord Cruise Ferry, Norway
MS Stavangerfjord will be the first cruise ferry to operate on engines fuelled solely by liquified natural gas (LNG).
The Stad peninsula serves as a mountainous divide between the Norwegian Sea to the north and the North Sea to the south. It is a mountain plateau with the highest point reaching a height of 645m.
Nordfjord Vekst has announced that the waters of the Stad peninsula have so far caused 46 accidents and near-accidents, and 33 deaths since the end of the Second World War.
The tunnel project will primarily improve safety and enable the country to achieve more environment-friendly transport on the coast. The tunnel is also expected to become a major tourist attraction, which will further boost the local economy.
Details and construction of the Nordfjord Vekst-designed tunnel
The tunnel will measure 45m in height, 36m in width and will span a length of 1.7km. It will be capable of accommodating large cargo and passenger vessels of up to 16,000t.
The project will include the construction of a cofferdam at each end of the tunnel. Excavation works will be carried out using the drill and blast method at sea level.
The cofferdams will be removed upon completion of the excavation works, enabling the water to flood a deep channel measuring 12ft for navigation.
History of the Stad Ship Tunnel project
The idea for the construction of the ship tunnel was conceptualised in the 1980s. Up to 18 separate studies to assess the value of the project have been carried out to date.
Related project
Port of Long Beach Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project, USA
The Port of Long Beach Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project is an ongoing $1.2bn project to upgrade two old container terminals at the port and conjoin them into one advanced and green terminal.
The year 1985 saw the formation of the Lottlag (LL) Stads Skipstunnel ('Stad Ship Tunnel Partnership') involving both public and private sector organisations to elevate the project. The site proposed was from Vanylvs Fjord west to Molde Fjord.
The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) carried out investigations in geological engineering, design of rock support and numerical modelling for the tunnel from 2001 to 2007 under a contract from the Coastal Development Authority.
The project formed part of the National Transport Plan (NTP) in 2002, but was rejected due to funding issues.
The proposals made so far for the tunnel since the early years have expanded the size of the tunnel to accommodate bigger vessels. A proposal in 1984 was made for the tunnel to accommodate vessels of up to 600t. The size increased to 50,000t in 2007, in another proposal. The plan to accommodate vessels of 16,000t was put forward in 2007. The current proposal by Nordfjord Vekst also features 16,000t vessel capacity.


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Avis Rent A Car has introduced 'Avis On Location' to provide corporate clients with on-site vehicle rentals in the USA and Canada. Based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and pilot tests conducted with several major corporate customers, Avis On Location enables the company to rent vehicles and accept returns on corporate campuses and at virtually any location.
Avis On Location is designed to serve the hourly, daily and one-way rental needs of commercial accounts and is integrated with clients' corporate travel rental car programme and Avis Preferred, the Avis counter-bypass programme. Business travellers simply use their smart-phones to reserve, pick up and return rental vehicles and an electronic receipt is automatically issued when the rental is completed.
"Whether it's to support environmental programmes that encourage employees to use mass transportation or to enhance employee safety and productivity, many companies are looking to have rental vehicles available within their campus facilities," said Tom Gartland, Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Care for Avis Budget Group, parent company of Avis. "This RFID-based platform that we have developed represents the most scalable, flexible and customer-friendly solution ever offered."
Avis On Location is available to serve commercial accounts in the USA and Canada. The programme is free to join and vehicles can be picked up immediately after enrollment. No membership card is needed. The programme is available on all car classes and vehicles are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Avis expects to expand Avis On Location into selected corporate-campus locations over the coming months, place additional cars in local market settings and consider other sites into which it may deploy this technology to make rentals available.


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High Temperature Resistant applications
Nickel alloys have a wide range of applications in thermal processing. They show extreme strength and stability in high temperatures, and resistance to corrosion caused by intense furnace atmospheres.Applications include furnace components such as belts, anchors and carriers used in heat treatment processes.
Most demanded alloys include:
Pyrostan 330
Pyrostan 330Nb
Pyrostan 8020 Nb
Pyrostan 22
Pyrostan 59
Pyrostan 82
Pyrostan 276
Pyrostan 600
Pyrostan 601
Pyrostan 625
Pyrostan 718
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People's Church welcomes and supports individuals from all gender identifications and sexual orientations: bisexual, gay, lesbian, straight, and transgender. We ARE standing shoulder to shoulder "on the side of love" as we walk together into a more just, equal, and loving congregation, community, nation and world.
As we commemorate Humanist Day, we boldly emphasize the potential value and goodness that is within us as human beings, who strive to meet common needs.
Dr. Louis Yock, is the minister of People's Church Unitarian Universalists and in this role, is responsible for delivering a portion of Sunday services, pastoral care, conferring with all committees and providing spiritual leadership for the congregation.
Effective August 1, 2021
If you are feeling ill or have been exposed to COVID- please DO NOT come to Church for any reason. Please seek immediate COVID testing. Please inform Lou if you test positive for COVID and have been in the Church building in the previous two weeks.


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Model: | HY-2615H30 |
Scope Of Application: | Two-in-One machine,auto forming & curling machine,PLC & Servo motor control,Robot feeding & Picking up products; for cylinders made of PVC, APET, PETG and other transparent plastic materials; Making ideal cylinders for packaging candy, gift, toy, statione |
Features: | Specially for printing cylinder boxes |
Printing cylinder welding and curling machine
Mainly applied for automatic cylinder edge curling for materials like PVC, APET, PETG, PP and other plastic; also known as plastic cylinder automatic curling machine, plastic cylinder automatic crimping machines, automatic paper cylinder curling machine, paper materials cylinder automatic crimping machines, automatic paper tube or cylinder curling machine, plastic cylinder crimping machines.
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Technique Specification
Model HY-2615H30Material PVC, PET, PP, PETG ,APET
Power 4500W
Dia. 50-200mm
Length 100-300mm
Film thickness 0.2mm-0.5mm
Productivity 4 pcs/second (on double side end curling)
Dimension 5500*5500*1600mm
Air pressure 0.5-0.7 MPa
Power supply 3P 5wires 380V/220V 50/60Hz
The manufacturer have the right to modify the design and parameter without prior notice
Features of
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HIPOWER Full Automatic Cylinder forming and Edge Curling Machine with robot arm and have good performance that cylinder edge curled with exact even diameter and length; Full colsed visual studio to avoid secondary product contamination; cooperated with HIPOWER HY-200H or HY-200H1, automatic and no manual production line is realized.
Full Automatic Cylinder Edge Curling Machine adopts robotic manipulatos to feed or take materials automatically; can meet edge curling application for cylinders with the different lengths (80-300mm), diameter (40-200mm), and material thickness (0.25-0.5mm); wonderful edge curling effect, no scratch, and exact even cylinder height, with error range: ¡À0.05mm. Can construct production line with HIPOWER HY-2615(cylinder forming machine for painted sheets) and HY-200H(Full Auto Cylinder Forming Machine)
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For selfies, the phone affords a 5MP camera at the entrance. As for the entrance-dealing with selfie digicam, surprisingly sufficient, though it is just a 5MP digital camera, the standard is used. It's paired with a 2MP depth sensor with f/2.Four aperture. Realme C11 is outfitted with a twin rear digicam system comprising a 13MP essential sensor with an f/2.2 aperture. The characteristic also takes 8MP shots in distinction to the 13MP used by the standard model. We get a bit hotter and extra colorful photos consequently, though they are filled with noise and present far fewer particulars. The smartphone may also be purchased with easy EMI choices together with each commonplace EMI and no-price EMI. Customers can further increase the storage by as much as 256GB by adding a microSD card.
That is undoubtedly a low-end telephone, with a relatively weak MediaTek Helio G35 processor and only 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. It is offered in a single configuration, with 2GB RAM. A single speaker on the bottom. There shall be 5% cashback on Flipkart Axis Financial institution credit card and 5% off with Axis Financial institution Buzz bank card. The brand new Realme phone unveiled last month will probably be out there for purchase by Flipkart and the Realme India webpage. For Realme C11, no-cost EMI starts at Rs 834 per month. Probably because it only has 720×1560 pixels, in comparison with 720×1600 pixels on the Realme C3. So, with its good mix of worth and hardware, does Realme C11 succeed at Rs 7,499?
Realme C11 is priced at Rs 7,499. The phone packs 2GB RAM and 32GB internal storage. The handset drops right now with a Php 4,990 worth tag making it an attractive purchase for those on the lookout for a new cellphone, this "new regular." And since you're right here already, we guess you might have this phone in your prospects. However, we would have favored if there was great glass safety in the front. Coming to the 5-megapixel snapper on the entrance, the camera takes good selfies in daylight with natural pores and skin tones. Or you may just use it for media consumption, or higher yet, for individuals who need a gadget for their online courses, you've got realme c11 all-day battery life. As part of today's sale, consumers can avail 5% off of as much as Rs 1,500 with an HSBC bank card.


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Healing Trauma – Are You Frozen In Time?
One of the best audio cd's I've heard on trauma and how it's stored in the body is by Peter Levine. He's a leading expert in understanding and treating trauma.
As mammals our natural response to anything traumatic is fight, flight or freeze. As humans we judge ourselves for freezing, but in nature it's actually a survival mechanism, as it means the predator may think an animal is dead and while going away to get cubs the animal can then flee. After the freeze response animals shake out the frozen energy and then carry on as if nothing had happened.
As humans we judge ourselves as wimpy if we tremble and shake, we have the ability to numb it out or stop it. But it's a natural biological response to a frightful situation.
In doing any kind of healing of trauma which creates trapped energy in the brain and body, I tend to find I go through a period afterwards where I get angry, I make sure I move my arms to release the energy as if fighting, or I get on my rebounder and jog as if I am fleeing. It tells the brain that the situation is over and I got away. It is the response that should have happened if I hadn't frozen in the situation where I wasn't able to get away.
David Berceli's trauma releasing exercises works on the same premise.
School Days
One example I have recently released was in my early school days, we had a particularly nasty headmaster who really shouldn't have been in charge of a school, but that was the way they did it in the 1960s, and I'm sure it was worse for some the further back through the 20th century you went.
5 minutes before the bell rang at play time and lunch time, there was a *freeze* bell. So as kids we literally had to freeze like statues and the headmaster walked around to make sure we were all frozen. If we weren't, we were punished.
We literally were locking into our muscles the trauma of powerlessness around being *prey* for this man.
School was a great place for making children sit still, and you were naughty if you were fidgety or moved around a lot, which is what our body's want to do to release tension.
Frozen In Time
Healing trauma is about freeing up the trapped energy in the brain and body that keeps you frozen in time, and creates stress symptoms that play out as emotional and physical disturbances.
Frozen Trauma means that we may have problems regulating our energies, because we have found ways to avoid feeling that trapped energy, be it disassociation, addiction, anxiety, depression, and disease.
The energy is always pushing for release.
But once safe and out of the dangerous situation, the energy that has been encapsulated can be released, and the learnings can be assimilated into your being, integrating the wisdom and power that you had to give up in order to survive.


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Figuring out how to cool a room with no windows is quite a big puzzle. After all, the windows are usually responsible for venting out warm air and bringing in cooler air. The lack of windows is therefore definitely a problem. Nevertheless, it's a problem you can work around with a few good hacks.
If you can't stand the temperatures in that windowless room, you can find out why they are so high and how to solve the issue in the sections below.
This section focuses on why you may be feeling the heat in the windowless room.
The most probable culprit is the lack of ventilation. Unlike a room with multiple windows, a windowless room has fewer entry and exit points for air. As such, even if heat builds up in the room, there are no opportunities for the hot air to leave the room and be replaced with fresher air. Consequently, the heat will keep building up until you have no option but to leave the room and look for solutions.
Humidity may be another reason why there's unbearable heat in that windowless room. However, this is only when the relative humidity is high, and the water vapor is at capacity or near capacity. This simply means that the air cannot hold any more water vapor.
On the other hand, our bodies cool down when we sweat, and that sweat is evaporated into the air. If the relative humidity is 100% or close to that, your sweat can't evaporate. Consequently, your body can't cool down, and you will feel the heat until you find an alternative solution.
Most air conditioners also reduce the humidity levels in your house to ensure more effective temperature regulation.
If the temperature outside is high – you might not even know when it would hit you. If the house wall is 'baked' under the midday sun – your windowless room will get the heat inside with no chance of letting it out. It will get hotter during the night for the same reason.
You may also have incorporated radiant heating systems in the room's walls, floor, or ceiling. These will, of course, raise the overall room temperature to unbearable levels due to the lack of ventilation. However, in this case, one of the solutions for how to cool off such a room with no windows is fairly simple: just shut down the radiant heating system.
Another solution is to install cooling devices that thrive in such conditions. Some examples of the same are listed below.
Ductless AC units are an effective way of cooling a windowless room. In fact, there isn't much difference between how they work and how central air conditioners work. However, instead of distributing the cooler air through a system of ducts that connect to the whole house, ductless AC units directly dump the cool air into the room.
These units will typically come in two pieces, and you can only install them on an exterior wall. One of these components is an exterior conductor, while the other is installed on the inside of the wall. There also needs to be a connecting pipe that goes through a hole in the wall.
Tower fans tend to come with a tall narrow build instead of the circular look of most other fans. While the base is stable, the rest of the fan rotates so it can blow air to almost all corners of the room. Also, they don't actually cool the room's temperature. Instead, they create a wind chill and ensure warm air doesn't stay around you for too long. As such, you will feel as if the room is much cooler than it is.
As for the ceiling fans, they basically work the same way as tower fans. They keep the air in constant motion and create a wind chill that will leave you feeling cooler. If your windowless room is fairly compact and you need to find the best ceiling fans for small rooms, we've linked to a list of options. The information provided should also tell you what parameters to look for when comparing and purchasing such devices.
Another method for how to cool off a room with no windows is to use evaporative coolers. According to Energy Saver Trusted Source Evaporative Coolers | Department of Energy In warm climates with low humidity, evaporative coolers can be a cost-effective cooling strategy. www.energy.gov , these devices provide a natural and energy-efficient cooling method not just for windowless rooms but also for other rooms in the house.
Also, these devices pass the hot air in the room over pads with water or ice. The heat in the air is expended while evaporating the water, leaving only cool air and water vapor behind. After that, the machine can push the now cool air back into the windowless room.
Reviews by people who have solved similar issues by using an evaporative cooler indicate that the Hessaire MC37M is reliable for the job. It's compact, easy-to-use, and can cool a 950 square feet room or smaller quite efficiently.
Through-the-wall AC units are slightly different from window ACs in that they need to be installed in a hole on the room's exterior wall. Everything else about the cooling process is similar to other AC units where the air is sucked in, pushed through cooling coils with refrigerant that absorb the heat before the air is redistributed in the room. Furthermore, the absorbed heat is released outside the house.
Those of you who need to find the best through-the-wall air conditioners and are confused by the parameters that would make a device great for the job can look through the provided link for tips.
Portable AC units are another possible solution. They're not different from through-the-wall and window AC units in how they function. Nevertheless, unlike these two alternatives, portable ACs don't need permanent installation.
They come with ducts that you can run through doors, windows, walls, ceilings, or more. As such, you can drill a hole in the wall or vent the device through the door into a room with windows and better air conditioning. That said, if you're going to drill a hole in the wall, there may be other solutions more suited to that.
Also, according to reviews, the Whynter ARC-14S is one of the most suitable and reliable portable AC units for cooling a windowless room. It has three modes, i.e., air conditioner, fan, or dehumidifier, that work based on the conditions in the windows room. Furthermore, it's effective at cooling 500 square foot windowless rooms or smaller.
You can also learn how to cool a small room with no windows without purchasing any expensive equipment. Here are a few tips.
If it's the bedroom, you don't even need to cool the entire room before popping in to sleep. Just pick your sheets, fold them, and put them in a resealable bag. Think ziplock bags but bigger. Once done, put the bag in the freezer, wait a few minutes, take them out, and spread them on your bed. Consequently, your bed and the room will feel as cool as a cucumber at the beginning of the night.
Conversely, if the windowless room is near the kitchen, the ripple effect is that the more you cook, the hotter the room will be. This is because cooking requires heat, and once the hot air has moved into the room, it will have nowhere to go due to the lack of ventilation. As such, if you reduce your cooking, you reduce the heat that ends up in the windowless room.
You can also use bathroom exhaust fans, with the prerequisite being that the room next to the windowless room has cooler temperatures. As such, when the exhaust fan pulls the hot air from the windowless room, it will immediately be replaced by cooler air from the adjacent room.
For those who need to find top-tier bathroom exhaust fans, this link should tell you what to look for as markers of quality.
Next, if you know the hot air doesn't actually originate from the windowless room, you can close the door to keep it from coming in. One example is when the windowless room is next to the kitchen.
The heat in the room is likely bothering you because you can feel it, and therefore, your thermal comfort is low. However, if you regulate your internal temperatures, then the heat in the room may not be quite as bothersome. You can use several approaches for this, e.g., showering with cold water, taking a cold beverage, wearing light and breathable clothing e.t.c.
Have you ever noticed the back of your phone tends to feel warmer after extended periods of use? This is true for all electronic appliances. They heat up during use, and this could be the reason why the room is so hot. Consequently, using fewer appliances or shutting them down altogether will result in a cooler room.
If you already have a set of two fans, there's a way to set them up to maximize the cooling effect on the room. One has to be set up facing the ceiling while the other should face the open door.
According to Sciencing Trusted Source The Scientist Henry Hess Invented What Kind of Devices? | Sciencing Henry (also known as Harry) Hess was a geologist born in 1906. He worked as a professor at Princeton, was in the Naval Reserve during World War II and helped develop the U.S. Space Program. While Henry Hess did not invent any devices, he is known for coming up with the Theory of Plate Tectonics. sciencing.com , hot air tends to rise since it's less dense than cooler air. The fan pointed towards the ceiling will force the hot air to be more evenly distributed in the room. On the other hand, the fan facing the doorway will force the hot air out of the room, replacing it with cooler air.
Windowless rooms also have less light, so we understand the need to leave your lights on. However, like other electric appliances, these lights generate heat as they work. That said, LEDs and compact fluorescent lamps generate less heat. Consequently, if you're using incandescent lights, you should replace them with these two alternatives.
If you have a room on the sunny side, your best decision would be to cover it from the direct light with plants, trees, and practically anything that deflects the rays. You would be surprised how the temperature in the room would change for the better.
This write-up shows that figuring out how to cool a room with no windows is not difficult. There are multiple solutions, some of which are inexpensive or require no additional investments on your part. Our advice is to use a combination of these solutions until you achieve the ideal temperature for your windowless room.


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Sadan Spikes An Ace, Takes Small Pot
Livello 32
: 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante
On one of the few hands to see a flop, Sean Getzwiller called Sadan Turker's preflop raise of 340,000 and the dealer spread the across the felt.
Getzwiller checked and Turker fired a bet of 375,000 into the middle. Keeping with his apparent strategy of refusing to three-bet, Getzwiller mucked his hand and Turker took the pot. He flashed the ace of spades as he collected the chips and Turker appears content to capture the small pots in this battle.