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A well-maintained and quiet building, Belmont Chambers consists of (4) studio units (approximately 400 sq. ft.) intended for one person, (8) one-bedroom units (600 sq. ft.) which are available in two configurations are intended for 1 to 2 people, and (4) two-bedroom units (800 sq. feet) are intended for families and couples.
Each unit has a floor to ceiling height of 8 feet, wall to wall carpeting, linoleum in the bath and kitchen areas, dishwasher (except studios), garbage disposal, cable TV hook-up, storage area, energy-efficient heat and air-conditioning (at no additional fee). Several parking spaces are directly behind the building, and laundry facilities, and bicycle storage are also available to all residents on-site.
When the building was renovated in the 1980s a number of features were included to make the building as energy efficient as possible. Some experimental features have not been supported over time but passive features such as the lobby design and the significant amount of insulation, as well as improvements in the efficiency of the heat pumps have maintained the building's energy efficiency at a fairly high level.
Located diagonally across the street from the Symphony Road Gardens and steps from Symphony Hall, the Prudential Center, and Fenway Victory Gardens, there is convenient access to the MBTA's Green and Orange lines, and the #1, CT1, and #39 bus lines.
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in a New Era
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Chapter 5: FCPA enforcement
Mike Koehler
The previous two chapters provided a comprehensive analysis of the FCPA's anti-bribery and books and records and internal controls provisions. Yet just because these provisions may be violated does not mean that an FCPA enforcement action will result. To state the obvious, the enforcement agencies must first learn of the improper conduct. This chapter begins by highlighting the typical origins of FCPA enforcement actions including the prominent role voluntary disclosures play in serving as the basis for most corporate FCPA enforcement actions. Next, this chapter introduces you to the 'three buckets' of FCPA financial exposure. The first bucket is pre-enforcement action professional fees and expenses and you will learn the importance of the 'where else' question. The second bucket is fine, penalty and disgorgement amounts in an actual FCPA enforcement action and you will learn how such amounts are calculated as well as certain controversial aspects regarding these amounts. The third bucket is post-enforcement action professional fees and expenses and you will learn that a company's financial exposure rarely ends on enforcement action day. Of these 'three buckets,' while settlement amounts in an actual FCPA enforcement action tend to get the most attention, pre-enforcement action professional fees and expenses are often the most expensive aspect of FCPA scrutiny and enforcement. This chapter then analyzes and compares corporate FCPA enforcement and individual FCPA enforcement.
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Why events are truly the new niche media
One of the great delights of doing live event coverage is discovering things you didn't know you would be fascinated by. It's the unexpected delight of a passionate speaker, or one with a great story to tell, that you wouldn't have expected to pique your interest. In fact, it's pretty much exactly the same feeling I used to get from newspapers and magazines. You'd devour your favourite sections, and then find yourself unexpectedly drawn to something by a photo, a standfirst or an illustration, and find yourself sucked deep into a story about something completely new – yet fascinating.
Like most of the Drawnalism crew, my background is in journalism – and, as with so many others, I've largely left print behind for the delights of online news and other writing. And that's mostly great.
Sure, I have a huge range of content I can access – more than ever before. And that means that I can dive much deeper into the subjects that interest me that I could in the print-only days. But there's also a narrowness that's developing – a tendency to just find the things I knew I wanted to know.
Let me explain.
Website content: deep but narrow
The problem with websites – and I say this as someone whose working life has been dined by them for over a decade now – is that a "website" is essentially a fantasy construct. People don't consume websites, they consume individual pages from websites. And, as such, a website, even one that calls itself a magazine, doesn't really have that sense of discovery, of immersing yourself into a subject. In that way, digital has undermined what made print publications great, atomising them (as we say in content strategy circles) into an aggregation of articles, that is no more – and often a bit less – than the sum of its parts.
And, for me at least, events have stepped into the void left behind by magazines' old role in synchronicity and happy discovery. When I go along to an event, be it a few hours in the evening, or a three day-long conference, it immerses me in content in a way the web doesn't. I've built elaborate digital structures to bring me exactly the information I want on the subjects that are most important to me, so I'm rarely surprised by what I read. It's always something I already expected to get.
At an event, though, sometimes the speakers I was most drawn to in advance, don't bring me anything new. But those I paid no heed to will completely revolutionise my world. In my time live blogging I've learnt to mix sessions that look obviously interesting to me with ones I've shown no prior interest in, just to see what may uncover itself in that session. And I'm surprised and delighted more often than not.
The art of the unexpected: Live
This goes doubly so for my work alongside the Drawnalism team. I didn't expect to find myself fascinated by learning about the implications of open data on food safety -and if you've very have food poisoning, you'll understand why that might be important – or the role of tablet-based software in wind farm maintenance or farming parts tracking.
In the end, to borrow a metaphor, it's the difference between spear fishing for exactly the information your require, or opening the trawler net and just seeing what the sea throws up.
The digital world has been a boon to events – it's made it easier to arrange them, to find an audience for them – and to communicate the content of the event (that's what we're for, of course…). But it's also opened up an opportunity for them to step into an abandoned role – that of the vehicle that brings us the stories and ideas we didn't know that we wanted to know – and do it in the company of people with equally open minds. And what could be better than that?
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Movie Review: Iron Man 3
Iron Man 3 is the third and rumored final installment in the famous Iron Man saga. I watched this film out of just wanting to watch something to remove the stress of having a lousy boss at work. I really had my highest expectations about this film and, in a nutshell, it sort of not delivered it the way I preferred but it delivered something nonetheless.
The movie focuses on a post-Avengers world wherein Tony Stark is now a widely regarded galactic superhero where his merit in escaping the wormhole was his most highly known act in the battle for New York City. But unbeknownst the crowd, he secretly finds it hardly worthy of memory. Tony Stark, the filthy rich, arrogant bachelor of STARK Industries, suffers from severe anxiety as an after effect of his escape from the wormhole since it is to be remembered that he kinda died there.
His enemy, as shown in the trailers, is the Mandarin. Now I'm not into spoilers here but I was really disappointed with the film's character development for the Mandarin. And I really didn't like the other enemy here (clue: he was good in Memento) since I find him too weak and too non-human to be an enemy of the Iron Man film series. It may be just me. It may be not. But I really didn't like the whole conspiracy thing that went on with regards to the film's villains.
The movie mainly focuses on Tony Stark as Tony Stark and not so much as Iron Man. When you watch it, you might end up reminiscing about MacGyver, Mission Impossible, and James Bond at the same time. There was a purpose in doing this, I know, but as a fan of how the franchise developed, I can't help but feel as if it disappointed my inner geek. It satisfied my craving for a new direction in the franchise but I wanted, no, needed more fanservice. Sure, they made up for it with him showing his whole team of suits in one battlefield but they simply weren't enough.
Not to mention that the film has leaned towards a more romantic plot than heroic which isn't normally a bad thing but it is. Because this is Iron Man and not some hopeless romantic's story of honor, bravery, and getting the girl. Due to this plot, the whole film sort of gotten predictable and certain deaths were expected to NOT happen which came out as me being right.
It's also a shame about how the ending after the ending came out. I expected a bit more from it but I guess the funniest thing we still have from the after-credits Marvel movies is the one where the Avengers were eating shawarma. And that didn't require much to do.
I won't be mean though I sound like it. I wasn't really disappointed yet I seemed to write like it. Perhaps one big part of me wasn't so satisfied which I'd like to think is the geeky part.
Overall rating: 7/10
The movie couldn't have been better and that's the sad part; it was not so good that it can never be better. But it's still worth a watch if it's a finale you are waiting for.


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VERONA, Italy — In a country famed for its fine leather products and fashion sense, shining shoes was never a particularly exalted profession.
The practice was imported during World War II, when American and British soldiers paid young boys on the street to buff up their boots, sometimes in return for chocolate and cigarettes.
Even one of the ways to call it — "sciuscià," as described in Vittorio De Sica's 1946 movie of the same name — comes from the Neapolitan dialect that imitates the sound of the English "shoeshine."
And it was certainly never a woman's job.
But don't tell any of that to Eleonora Lovo. She is the latest example of how women have moved into the decidedly out-of-fashion trade, once exclusively the domain of men, and even made it hip.
Today the 43-year-old Ms. Lovo walks around Verona in black men's shoes, a stretchy below-the knee skirt, a white shirt and ample, black oval eyeglasses. From her forearm hangs a rectangular brown leather bag full of attentively polished shoes, which she picks up and returns to clients herself.
Ms. Lovo's laboratory is a corner of her family's living room. Sitting on a wooden chair on a recent day, surrounded by art books, beeswax, colored cream polishes, all sorts of brushes and a cuckoo clock, she started brushing off the dust and dirt from one of her "babies," and described the work that is her passion.
"I don't think it's a job for men only," Ms. Lovo said. "I have always loved men's shoes. They have a history, for the models, the ways they are sewed together. Women's shoes simply don't."
The second woman in Italy to gain renown for choosing the job in recent years, Ms. Lovo began her business out of her home, and at several business congresses, hotels and shoe fairs, in 2014. From there her reputation spread.
But before she started, she learned the art and craft of treating leather from books and at a local tannery, and started polishing shoes for her family and friends.
"While I was learning, I once ruined a friend's fine shoes," she recalled with anguish. "I couldn't sleep that night."
"My challenge is to give them a new life," she added, smiling, while cleaning a pair of decade-old brown American shoes with a blue microfiber cloth soaked in a delicate liquid detergent. "My favorite thing about my job is to see my customers' faces when they unpack their polished shoes."
While she polishes mostly men's shoes, Ms. Lovo owes her success mostly to women, she conceded.
On one hand, she has taken the place of the traditional Italian housewife, whose chores included cleaning shoes. Now most women work outside the home and no longer have the time for the task.
On the other hand, her very first promoters were her fellow soccer moms.
"Some moms first asked me to clean their leather bags, and then they spread the word," she said, explaining that women are also her principal promoters on social media. "Men, in turn, trust women for these kinds of jobs. For them, it's like entrusting their shoes to their mothers or girlfriends."
Ms. Lovo is not Italy's first shoeshine woman. In 2000, another female entrepreneur, Rosalina Dallago, 51, opened a shoeshine shop in Rome's city center.
A former model and later a restaurateur, Ms. Dallago has gently brushed the shoes of Italy's elites, including the actor Alberto Sordi and assorted politicians.
Her tiny, narrow shop, she likes to say, is nested between the "sacred" — the San Lorenzo in Lucina church — and the "profane" — the lower house of Parliament.
"You know, when I took over his shop, the 72-year-old owner gave me his brushes," Ms. Dallago said, gently passing wooden brushes made of horsehair. "It was a real baton passing. I felt like crying."
In 16 years, Ms. Dallago's career rapidly expanded. She has run a shoeshine corner inside Fiumicino airport, and another in a Roman club; had a 12-minute national television program; and held entrepreneurship courses for women. She collaborates with a female cobbler. All of her enterprises are managed by women.
Her business, portrayed as a glamorous and sexy new way of shoe-shining, made headlines in publications all over the world, from Germany to Japan.
Her fame, however, still did not generate much competition until Ms. Lovo came along, 500 kilometers, or about 310 miles, to the north.
"It's a job that makes your hands dirty, and stay bent all day long," Ms. Dallago said with a smirk. "Not many women, and people in general, like it."
Traditionally, shoe-shining is considered a humble job in Italy, one not in demand for decades. Its ranks grew even thinner in recent years.
While it is common to see shoe-shiners at international airports or in shopping areas in the United States or Britain, a city like Rome had fewer than 10 shoe-shiners even in the golden era of the 1950s. And all of them were men.
"It was a historically men-dominated job — only now things are changing a bit," said Tommaso Cancellara, the chief executive at Micam, Italy's main shoe fair.
Mr. Cancellara said that although shoe-shining was still considered a humble job and clients could be somewhat haughty in Italy, the use of professional shoe cream polishes was on the rise. Stores offering a barbershop, shoe-shining service and shirt shopping all together have opened since 2014 in cities around Italy.
"That to me suggests that Italians are fed up with the crisis, and at least enjoy a moment of personal joy," he said, adding that men no longer spend much money on holidays or clothing, but they do treat themselves a bit.
"They have their shoes professionally shined and go to the barber's shop," Mr. Cancellara explained. "I doubt any man complains it's a woman attending his shoes."
Being a woman in the profession, Ms. Lovo and Ms. Dallago agree, can indeed be an advantage. The latter recounted flowers or Cartier boxes she had rejected through the years, but she said none ever made her feel like the "Mata Hari of the year 2000."
Ms. Lovo has a different attitude.
"I am a gentleman woman," Ms. Lovo said, smiling under her salt-and-pepper disheveled bob. "I can't see well-dressed men walking in dirty shoes. That's simply why I started polishing shoes."


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Editor(s): A.M. Dattilo, J.M. Saavedra. volume 5, issue 1
This issue features an article on "Probiotics in Pediatrics: A Review of Concepts, Mechanisms, and Benefits" and commentary on the health economic implications. It also includes a highlights from the 19th IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, recent clinical nutrition abstracts and conference calendar.


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Gail Walker: How tragic death of Lorraine Burrows has shown us the absolute fragility of life
The sad and sudden loss of Lorraine Burrows on her way to work has resonated deeply for many, says Gail Walker
It can take the most dramatic, sometimes the most dreadful, circumstances to expose the unexpected truth of our lives and those of our companions. The tragedy of Lorraine Burrows showed not just how fragile life is, how arbitrary sudden death can be, but also how so many of us respond so generously to the human call of other's suffering.
The 48-year-old recruitment consultant was knocked down and killed in Belfast at 8am during last Tuesday's rush hour. Wellwood Street is one of those forgotten byways off Great Victoria Street, caught in the no-man's-land leading to Sandy Row. It should be a quiet location, for that reason, the bulk of the traffic pounding down those other thoroughfares.
She was going to work. A day just like another to be filled with the stuff of all our days - work, office gossip, the mid-morning break, the run-up to Christmas.
All over the city, everywhere in our country, regardless of location or job or politics or age, we are all heading off somewhere, to do something, usually with others, and all of us are subject to exactly the same ordinary twist of fate which, sadly, struck Lorraine down that morning.
By Wednesday morning, 24 hours later, thousands were reading her story and thinking - we all thought - "Yes, that's me".
Her tragic story resonates deeply. If you have avoided fatal or damaging disease and dodged the accidents reckless youth can be prey to, you do expect that by the time middle age is looming, you are entitled to anticipate something of a steady procession from then on. We start counting our years and think how many we might have ahead, all things being equal. We have survived.
Lorraine Burrows could have begun to think of a life without the early morning commute. Her husband Jonny and she could have imagined something like a trouble-free future, facing in to it together, with friends and family.
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Everything, in other words, the rest of us might imagine every day also. That doesn't make the ambition any less significant. Quite the reverse, in fact. Every dream of peace and happiness is coloured and nuanced with very deep and personal moods and experience, filled with very specific detail. We all know the lure of that hope because we share it, even if the form it might take is so very different for each of us.
We know the lure even more intimately when it is snatched away from us ourselves, or when we see it taken away from others. Illness, loss, financial ruin, abandonment - these eventualities occur daily and can often be the result of simple misfortune, a wrong turning, poor advice, genetic susceptibility. These things happen, as we say, and we can be thankful that, this time, it wasn't us in fate's cross-hairs.
But it is equally true that we are able to recognise the human cost in the pain of others.
When the peace of Wellwood Street was so dramatically disrupted a week ago today, people emerged from nearby houses and apartments to help, to give aid and succour. To do what they could, be it great or small.
"I heard a thump but didn't think much about it," one man said. "When I got round the corner I saw the lorry had pulled over and the driver was getting out. There was another witness and I saw a shape on the ground. At that stage I wasn't quite sure what had happened; it was only when I walked over I saw it was a person there."
He called the emergency services. Others were also doing so. A woman began to give CPR, under instruction down the phone. Then another person took over that task. "It was very tough," another man added.
Some of those present will have been of no practical assistance but felt they had to be there - if only to show that Lorraine was not alone and that what was happening was not a private grief, or of some minor or strictly private consequence.
It's an opportunity again to appreciate what you might call the more formalised structures of our collective caring - the air ambulance which came to Lorraine's aid, the on-the-ground paramedics who strove to keep her alive.
And while all of this was happening, Lorraine Burrows's loved ones were somewhere else, going about their business, as if nothing was amiss, utterly unaware that their lives too had already been changed forever.
Frequently, it is only in death that we can appreciate how remarkable so-called ordinary persons can be. Then, it is not only how it suddenly becomes apparent how much they - we - are loved; but also how much other people - people who do not know us at all - are prepared to become engaged in the deepest crisis we face, either as injured and dying people or as bereft survivors.
Lorraine's workplace, Keenan Health Care, closed and a statement expressed the sense of loss: "It is with the greatest of sadness that we have to inform you that our colleague and good friend Lorraine Burrows passed away suddenly this morning. We are all numb with shock. She will be sorely missed at Keenan. Rest In Peace, Lorraine."
As is so often the case nowadays, friends took to social media. One said: "Such sad news. Lorraine was always so lovely, bubbly and always looked out for you. She will be missed so much."
Another says: "Such a shock! Lorraine was such a lovely woman, she was always so nice and friendly and if you had any problems she would have tried her hardest to fix it she will be sorely missed."
Again, these are simple, common endearments, often heard and expressed, but they burn most intensely after a sudden death and bring to the bereaved, not comfort as such, but that other quality, that other invaluable asset, what people try to convey through offering their help in helpless and even hopeless situations. Solidarity.
Lorraine Burrows's death, completely unnecessary, untimely, premature, tragic and sudden, of course demonstrates the frailty of even the most self-confident, bright and vibrant of us. It shows, yet again, that no amount of love and care can stop the inevitability of accident once it is underway. It shows how unfair and desperate and sorrowful and hollow the experience of life can be.
But it also shows, as her husband Jonny has been remarkably able to express, that there are good people, that there is compassion, that there are selfless actions and a desire to stand beside those who are in most need.
It's not reaching for some kind of vain solace to recognise that Lorraine Burrows's death has brought all the better qualities we share as a community to the fore.
Hers was an unwanted and unwarranted public death. The public response to it, immediately, unhesitatingly, generously and courageously, has reminded us all, in this serious Christmas season, of our better selves.
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Peppermint Chocolate Swiss Roll
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Peppermint Chocolate Swiss roll
For the batter:
4 eggs, divided
1/2 cup + 1/3 cup sugar divided
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup water
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line a 10x15 inch jelly roll pan with parchment paper.
3. Grease the parchment paper with cooking spray.
4. In a mixing bowl, use an electric hand mixer to beat the egg whites until soft peaks (peaks will fall when you lift the beaters).
5. While mixing, slowly add in the 1/2 cup of sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.
6. In a bowl of a stand mixer with a whisk attachment, beat egg yolks on medium speed for 3 minutes.
7. Add 1/3 cup sugar and vanilla.
8. Beat for 2 more minutes.
9. In another bowl, mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.
10. Alternate adding the flour mixture and the 1/3 cup water to the egg yolk mixture in the stand mixer.
11. When thoroughly combined, fold the chocolate batter into the egg whites a little at a time.
12. Stir until completely combined.
13. Spread the batter onto the prepared baking sheet.
14. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
15. While the cake bakes coat your bowl with powdered sugar.
16. When the cake is complete, immediately turn it onto the towel.
17. Remove the parchment paper from the cake.
18. Starting at the narrow end begin to roll the cake up in the towel.
19. Let the cake completely cool.
20. Carefully unroll the cooled cake.
21. Spread the ice cream evenly over the entire surface.
22. Roll the cake back up in the same way you did before, but this time without the towel.
23. Cover the cake in plastic wrap.
24. Place it in the freezer for at least 3 hours.
25. When ready to serve add a chocolate ganache.
26. Enjoy!
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Well, the forecast was disgusting this weekend! Winds of 50-60mph with gusts of 90 for Saturday (and rain, with snow on higher tops) and winds of 60-70 with gusts of 100mph for Sunday.
Andy had been soloing at Lochnagar on Friday (maybe another 2 new routes) so dropped into mine for the weekend. I had thought about some new routing but the place I had in mind was a bit too low really (next time though if it gets colder!) so we decided to have a nosy up Clova way. We were sure the ice from last weekend would have thawed and that it would be too windy anway, but there was a slight chance that B Gully might be complete enough to climb then lower from, rather than top out into the gusting wind and having an epic!
Corrie Fee is a gorgeous wee corrie and as I'd not been there for years I'd forgotten how easy a walk in it is! If only it came into condition more often as it's only just under an hours drive away and almost a flat walk in.
As ever my eyes are drawn to the Buttresses rather than the ice falls but I can understand why folk like Look C Gully. However, B Gully Buttress, The Comb and a steep and heavily vegetated Crestal Clear were the routes that caught my eye.
Unfortunately, although B Gully was complete (just!) it looked a bit minging for my liking. The approach was bare of snow and was steep rubble, the snow looked dirty and the ice pitch looked VERY lean! Under the weather conditions (driving wind and rain) it was too dangerous to attempt (thankfully, as much as I love climbing, grotty gullies aint my cup of tea!) We took lots of photos of the cliffs, then found a wee howf under the rocks to take shelter in and eat some food and ponder over the guidebook. Simon Richardson wrote this section of the guide, not Andy and he didn't know the area well enough and I can understand why Adam is so keen on the place as it really is a very pretty corrie.
Only one of my photos turned out. The rest were all blurred due to camera shake from the wind. We didn't bother going up the hill as we've both been up these hills and even though I find the wind exhilarating, a cozy house and cuppy was calling.
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Good winter boots can be a great investment. However, quality boots can last for years with proper storage, cleaning and maintenance. Consider these tips for bringing new life to old boots:
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Good winter boots can be a great investment. However, quality boots can last for years with proper storage, cleaning and maintenance. Consider these tips for bringing new life to old boots:
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It's true, the mall is a one stop shop for just about everything! Need a new make up look? Trying something new? Or need a lesson on how to apply make up? Step with us behind the counter at Sephora!
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Pantone has gone with a "look-on-the-bright-side" shade — Living Coral — for its 2019 color of the year. The bright hue lends itself to "playful expression and experimentation in women's wear and men's wear," according to Pantone's press material about this year's win. "Living Coral evokes comfort and positivity in simpler color stories, and effervescence in patterned, textural and monochrome looks." As it relates to fashion, Living Coral paired with the right coordinating colors can be a punch of color for your closet this year!
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Toys are the cornerstone to any holiday gift for kids. Tic Tac Toys is a local toy store at Crabtree Valley Mall that offers brands from Melissa & Doug to Calico Critters, classic board games and chess to Rubik's Cubes, jigsaw puzzles and collectibles for all ages, and every Plush animal you can imagine. Stop in and shop for unique toys for your tots this holiday!
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What do you get the fashionista who has everything… everything! Here's a list of the top ten fashion and beauty buys for the fashionista in your life.
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We are attempting to standup FME server in an automated fashion using Docker to spin up Linux containers. Because of the linux containers, our workspaces can only run SQL Server JDBC reader/writers per FME. Plus, in order to spin up the containers quickly, we avoid using any ESRI dependencies. For one of the workspaces, we are using Spatial readers and Non-Spatial writers because we are just updating attributes based on the processing results. The JDBC writers work but are twice as slow as the native SQL Server writers. Do we have any other options for updating the attributes in these SQL Server tables that may give us a performance boost since we don't actually have to write any data?
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Our goal with the SQL Server JDBC format is to match the performance of the "native"/Windows-only format as closely as possible. Significant improvements have been made for the JDBC reader in the 2018.0 release but the writer has received less attention (aside from basic writing, for which we are blocked on Microsoft adding spatial support to their bulk insert driver).
Please consider reporting this to support (refer to PR#80354) to escalate the priority.
In the interim, you *may* be able to work around the slowness by manually constructing your UPDATE statements and sending them using a SqlExecutor transformer. This will be particularly effective if you can send multiple statements in a single request.
So after looking at this post, I ended up adding an index and using the SQL Executor.
This is a little faster on the updates than the writer, but I don't understand why.
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(CNSNews.com) – House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday dismissed as "a good soundbite" the notion that the crisis in Venezuela is evidence of the failure of socialism, arguing that Venezuela under Nicolas Maduro is not a socialist state but a "kleptocracy."
Ranking member Rep Michael McCaul (R-Texas) appeared to differ. While the crisis went beyond ideology alone, he said, it "highlights the horrifying impact of socialism."
"Those who continue to preach [socialism] or show sympathy do not understand its history and the abject suffering it has caused," McCaul said.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), like his chairman, rejected the argument that socialism is to blame, pointing to policies pursued by liberal democracies in northern Europe.
Chairing a hearing entitled "Venezuela at the crossroads," Engel began by describing the crisis as "entirely man-made," saying Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez had turned what was once one of the most prosperous countries in the Western hemisphere "off the edge of a cliff."
"The blame lies squarely with the crooked officials who have repressed the Venezuelan people for years – doing everything from throwing political opponents in jail to rigging elections to gunning down protestors in the street," he said.
"Now some consider it a good soundbite to say that Venezuela represents the failure of socialism," Engel said. "But we should be honest that Venezuela is not a socialist country; it's a kleptocracy – a kleptocracy. It's a cruel and oppressive regime, pocketing every dollar it can even if it means that the country's people are literally starving to death."
Minutes later, McCaul made clear his views, describing the regime in Caracas several times as a "socialist dictatorship."
"When Nicolas Maduro was handpicked by Hugo Chavez in 2013 it was clear that he would follow in his socialist dictatorship footsteps," McCaul said. "Since that time Maduro's policies, rampant corruption and violent crackdowns on peaceful, political dissent have turned Venezuela into a failed state."
McCaul cited soaring hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages, and U.N. estimates that up to three million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2014.
"The current crisis highlights the horrifying impact of socialism," he said. "Those who continue to preach or show sympathy do not understand its history and the abject suffering it has caused."
McCaul conceded that "the suffering of the Venezuelan people at the hands of the Maduro regime was not caused only by its ideology," characterizing the regime as a narco-trafficking-linked "mafia state backed by U.S. adversaries like Cuba, Russia, China and Iran."
Later in the hearing, Sherman returned to the socialism theme.
"There's talk here of Venezuela being a socialist country," he said. "I would say that various governments in Scandinavia have adopted policies of democratic socialism, and I don't think that there's anyone in this room who would call the Maduro regime democratic socialist."
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In his State of the Union address last week, President Trump said Maduro's "socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair."
"Here in the United States, we are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country," he said. "Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country."
The Democratic Socialists of America last November secured its first two members of the U.S. Congress – Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)
Fellow freshmen Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) – a member of Engel's committee who used her time in Wednesday's hearing to launch a combative exchange with U.S. special representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams – claims not to be a socialist.
Asked by a left-wing news program last week whether she considers herself to be a democratic socialist, she replied, "I consider myself a Democrat."
Last month, Omar characterized the Trump administration's recognition of Venezuela's National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó as interim president as "a U.S.-backed coup," and then called U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector "nothing more than economic sabotage designed to force regime change."


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Irrigation assets being created under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) will be managed and maintained by water users associations, Agriculure Secretary Shobhana K Pattanayak said today.
Irrigation assets being created under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) will be managed and maintained by water users associations, Agriculure Secretary Shobhana K Pattanayak said today. The government has charted out a roadmap for early completion of 99 identified projects under PMKSY, which will irrigate an additional 7.6 million hectares of farmland. "The assets once created by the government is continued to be maintained by stakeholders. There comes a challenge….We have ensured that all those assets which are going to put to use in the coming 3-4 years will have a mandatory water users association," Pattanayak said at an Assocham event.
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"The fundamental problem in the country is that whenever someone gets access to water, he shifts to water-intensive crops and this practice is not right. We must try to economise use of water," Pattanayak said. In dryland areas, he said, the government is emphasising on watershed approach and promote climate-smart agriculture by growing crops like millets and pulses.
The country can achieve self sufficiency in pulses produciton if farmers learn to optimise irrigation, he said. Despite constraints, India has made good use of water and today 45 per cent of the land is under irrigation, he added. Pattanayak also unveiled a knowledge report 'Achieving integrated water resources management: a local to national vision'.
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In response to rising tensions with Iran, twelve U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors recently arrived at al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
The deployment of the Raptors is part of a force buildup request by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) to defend American interests in the Persian Gulf region as a series of escalating incidents involving Iran have occurred. It is the first deployment of Raptors to Qatar. F-22s were deployed to the United Arab Emirates last year, where they participated in air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria.
The F-22 is a stealth fighter that carries both air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons systems and can be used in a variety of ways.
The Pentagon deployed B-52 Stratofortress bombers to the Middle East in early May, followed by the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf in response to unspecified Iranian threats to U.S. forces in the region. Additional Patriot air-defense missile systems were also deployed to the region, at the request of CENTCOM commander General Frank McKenzie.
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I wasn't sure what to expect from "Crazy Rich Asians."
In case you haven't read up on the hype, the movie is kind of a big deal as far as diverse representation goes (and a big deal, full stop, given how it smashed box office expectations on its opening weekend). It's the first mainstream Hollywood feature film with an all-Asian cast in 25 years.
On Sunday, I went to my hometown of Markham, Ont. to watch it with my mom, you know, for the culture. Despite the hype, I didn't really expect to love it as much as I did.
The experience of watching it was a bit surreal. I almost forgot the cast was all Asian. Rather than searching for the faintest glimmer of representation — the Asian sidekick, the nerd, or some other stereotype or trope — all of the main and supporting characters were Asians from different backgrounds. It was the first time in my life where I watched a movie and wasn't searching for the token Asian character and how they may or may not be a trope or stereotype.
Although my mom definitely liked it too, and teared up about three or four times while watching, she essentially admitted she didn't feel the same elated, warm, fuzzy fullness the movie left me with.
My mom and I are blood, but our experiences as youth resulted in our differences. I'm from Markham, Ont.— a city of 330,000 just north of Toronto with no racial majority, but a massive East Asian population. I grew up with many other Chinese classmates, but none who shared my particular heritage: Hakka Chinese, with parents who were born and raised in Jamaica, not China or Hong Kong. I was often told I was "not real Chinese" because I spoke English at home and didn't speak Cantonese.
That rejection from my peers made me embarrassed by my culture, and I shunned cultural (read: delicious) foods and opportunities to learn more about my lineage. Until I was in my early twenties, I desperately want to be "Canadian." Despite my family owning a Jamaican restaurant and maintaining deep ties to the Jamaican-Chinese community, I only sought out books, media and pop culture that was Western and overwhelmingly white.
For many second-gens, our lives are made up of blended ideas.
As I've gotten older, I've developed a greater appreciation for my heritage. Moving to Ottawa — a wonderful city, but far less diverse than my Toronto-area suburb — and being forced into the cultural isolation made me wish I knew more about myself, especially when I was asked to share with others.
The beautiful thing about "Crazy Rich Asians" is how well the movie illustrates the experiences of second-gens like me. For many second-gens, our lives are made up of blended ideas; the ones we choose to keep from our parents and those we accept from the country in which we are born and raised.
My mom, on the other hand, grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. While she was hardly one of a majority, Jamaica in the 1960s had a sizeable Chinese population, many of them Hakka. My mom, her brothers and their first cousins are only one generation removed from China and Hong Kong, where their parents are from. My mother understands Hakka Chinese, grew up eating the foods whose names I don't know in English, and had (and still has) many Hakka friends.
My parents came to Canada as teenagers, and both have a lot of Western cultural references from their youth. My mom, for example, was a mullet-sporting punk in the 80s who listened to Billy Idol and went to regular showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show when she attended the University of Western Ontario.
But both my parents, whether by circumstance or choice, maintained stronger ties to their culture than I ever did. It was presumably less important to them to see themselves reflected on screen. They assimilated without losing their culture, which remained a pervasive force in their lives even after they immigrated.
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The movie does have a lot of appeal for different generations, and I'd recommend seeing it with your mom too, if you can. Even though I'd argue it had more impact for me, the jokes and tear-jerking moments are commentaries on the family life we have together. And for those who don't share the same experiences of making dumplings or playing mahjong, it's a poignant, much-needed glimpse into aspects of a culture that are sometimes hard to describe.
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SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) has decided to bring back the lunch break and widen the minimum bid spreads from Nov 13, 2017, after a public consultation exercise, the market operator announced on Tuesday after the market closed.
Following the public consultation, SGX said it will not change its original proposals to:
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SGX launched the public consultation exercise on the rules in March, the strongest signal from the market operator that it was ready to reverse course on a number of moves that had generated controversy in the market.


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We sometimes underestimate the power words have. We use them casually. We shorten them so our communication is as fast and facile as possible. We seldom think back to a time when words were our only way of communicating with one another; we're in a digital age, where we can Skype with the touch of a button, where we can hop on a plane and cross the world without much thought.
But what if you didn't have that option? What if you were limited to only your words, if you weren't allowed the full freedom of the Internet, or even to leave your country as you liked?
Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour wrote a play that could travel the world for him, that could say what he wanted to say, that could see people for him, that could have the freedom he was denied. Unable to fly, his words fly for him.
'White Rabbit, Red Rabbit'
WHERE: Performing Arts Center, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany
WHEN: Through Saturday
HOW MUCH: $20 to $10
MORE INFO: 442-3997, www.albany.edu/pac
Soleimanpour's play, "White Rabbit, Red Rabbit," is hard to categorize — part storytelling hour, part confessional diary piece, part cry for help, part allegorical social commentary. What can be categorized, however, is how compelling it is, and how compelling it is comes from how very true and raw it is.
Soleimanpour, a young Iranian playwright, was, in 2010, unable to leave the country because he refused to do his two mandatory years of military service (and was therefore denied a passport.) Desiring to connect, he wrote a one-person show that can be performed by anyone, anywhere — no need for a stage or a set, just the barest of props.
The actor or actress taking on the part has one rule — they're not allowed to see the script before the performance. They're discovering it along with the audience. One would worry this would make for a haphazard performance, but strangely, it adds to the aura of the evening — the audience and the actor are discovering the playwright, much as he seems to be discovering us through his words.
New actor each night
The University at Albany has lined up a series of powerhouse actors over the four-evening run to read the piece — Chad Larabee on Wednesday, Benita Zahn on Thursday, Yvonne Perry on the Friday and Ward Dales on Saturday.
Larabee's performance was excellent — for a cold read, he stumbled infrequently (the sign of a talented actor, to be sure) and engaged the audience warmly and kindly throughout. It would be interesting to watch all four nights of the show, just to compare the four actors and what they'd bring to the part, but it also might not be as fresh after the secrets have been revealed and you know what the script — sealed in an envelope until the show begins — contains.
Since the run is so short, and the piece is so innovative and unlike most theater we see in the area, I highly recommend it. If Soleimanpour can't leave Iran, the least we can do is travel a few miles to see what he has to say when his words — the only part of him that can — are visiting us, briefly, here in our area.


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What To Consider When Selling Your Home Here In The United States
As any top realtor in this country is likely to know very well, there are many important facets that go into the successful selling of any given home. A top realtor can make a home sale happen, and there are many ways for real estate agents working in many parts of the country to spur such a process along. But for any top realtor to stay a top realtor, it is important to adapt to the changing times, especially when it comes to the use of technology.
After all, technology is present all around us, having become an influential and consistent part of our personal lives as well as in our professional ones. It only makes sense, then, that nearly 90% of all people looking to buy a home will first look at that home on some type of online platform. While nothing beats looking at a home in person, online databases of homes that are for sale all throughout the country can be quite important indeed, for top realtors as well as for their clients – people looking to sell their homes as well as


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OK, so here is my proposed 8 day emergency "I just saw a picture of myself in San Diego this weekend and I only have 8 days until I leave for Hawaii and I want to barf" eating plan. KNOWING THAT THIS IS NOT ENOUGH TIME TO MAKE ANY REAL CHANGE but wanting to at least feel better about myself, I am looking for hacks from successful paleos.
Coffee with cream (mostly decaf with a splash of the caffeinated)
Sipping broth during the day (both homemade and free-range store bought)
compressed eating window of 5 hours, meat with perhaps some green leafy (do get grass-fed)
maybe 1 piece of fruit a day if I have a sweet craving
Loads of water (completely normal for me).
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PSMF - Protein Sparing Modified Fast
Avoid all fruits/sugars, limit calories, mostly lean meat
High intensity workout every 2 days for 15-20 min if you want to retain muscle
It's not fun if you're not in ketosis, first few days will be hunger pains. I was able to drop 4-8 lbs a week while already lower bodyfat, but it's sheer willpower til you're in ketosis , must resist rewarding yourself for exercise too.


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Welcome to explorenobs Blog,
Explorenobs is a health-enthusiast and an adoring foodie. The Blog was started to Dietetic Directions as a way to share science-based information mixed with inspirational content for lifelong change. We are all about eating well and loving life.
We At explorenobs want you to have a healthy lifestyle that you can actually enjoy. Why? Because we LOVE food! And food shouldn't hold you back. explorenobs wants to help you enjoy what you eat, create healthy habits, and live a deprivation-free life that leaves you feeling great!
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Posted by Coach Dave Stricklin on January 07, 2014
One of the most fascinating concepts in all of basketball, especially during playoff time, is confidence.
As coaches prepare for their upcoming opponents they study dozens of video tapes, scouting reports, and detailed analytics as they organize their game plans.
However, the one thing they just can't prepare for no matter how much they study or practice is an opponent's individual and collective confidence.
This is one of the reasons why teams like this year's Wichita State, Florida Gulf Coast and LaSalle can seemingly rise out of nowhere to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament.
However, one of the pitfalls in discussing confidence is that many people don't realize that there are actually two different types - skill confidence, and competitive confidence.
Skill confidence is that confidence that comes from learning a particular skill and then practicing it thousands of times until improvement is obvious.
For example, I went to watch my eighth grade daughter play and was impressed by how many points she scored by getting to the rim and either finishing or drawing the foul (or both). But in the mean time I also noticed that she passed up several wide open jump shots. When I asked her about it later, she simply replied, "I didn't think I could make them."
Beginning the very next day we started going to the gym every night after dinner and shooting 200 perimeter jump shots. At first she wanted the doors locked so we could work out in complete privacy but after about three weeks her attitude totally changed. She started inviting her friends, her teammates and even members of my team to compete against her in shooting drills and games. Her skill confidence had skyrocketed!
Competitive confidence is that confidence that comes from successfully executing a learned skill during the heat of game competition.
The more intense the competition the greater amount of competitive confidence is required. To understand this, think of the NBA for a moment. There are literally hundreds of NBA players that can leisurely walk out on to the court and drain jump shot after jump shot.
Now once the game starts and the pressure of competition increases, that number of "shooters" is reduced dramatically. Then with the game on the line and in a "must score" situation, that original number of shooters shrinks even more. Finally, when a team is down two points in the final seconds of game 7 of the playoffs, there are only a handful of players with enough confidence to make that final shot.
Unfortunately, there are many players who want to display competitive confidence without first properly building their skill confidence. They like to think of themselves as "gamers," those mythical players who consistently kick butt game after game without ever working very hard in practice. It would be nice if that were possible but it's just not very realistic.
In his books "The Talent Code," and "The Little Book of Talent," author Daniel Coyle talks about a famous tennis academy in Russia who insists their pupils practice for years before ever competing against someone else. Compare this approach to the one we take in the United States where young athletes play hundreds of games each summer and practice only a handful of times. Is it any wonder why many of their skills erode under the heat of intense competition?
The next time you hear someone talk about confidence, know that they are probably talking about competitive confidence. But rest assured, those with the highest levels of competitive confidence have first spent thousands of hours in the gym building their skill confidence while improving their fundamental skills.


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The NSW Swimming Pool Register is now linked to the NSW Fair Trading Feedback Widget.
This is the red Tab on the side of the website with a smiling face, frowning face and light bulb.
You can leave a compliment, complaint or suggestion. These can be provided anonymously or you can provide your details.
If you are using the Widget to request our action (as per the trouble shooting tips - please use suggestion tab) please include your name, email address and location (of property/pool) Without these details we cannot respond to your query
This is a state-wide widget encompassing all Fair Trading services. If using the contact phone number, option #2 building services can provide basic assistance with this register.
Can't Find Address
The Pool Register relies on data from the NSW Spatial Services Address database. https://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/
If your address is not on SixMaps, it is not on the Pool Register
The search engine will default to the closest available address, please be mindful of this before entering information into the register.
Until the address is updated, pool registration and inspection details/certificates cannot be recorded for that address.
As local councils are responsible for property numbers, street names and types and suburb names under various legislation, the local council usually provides address updates to the Valuer General for the primary purpose of Land Valuation (i.e. the ValNet system). This then feeds into Spatial Services.
Otherwise the council, the owner, or someone on their consented behalf, can contact Spatial Services for assistance to update the address on the dataset by contacting email@example.com
Non-Approved Road Types
The NSW Addressing User Manual 6.10 (page 107) ROAD TYPES is a listing of the 52 road types (identifiers) that will return results when you enter the "street name" in the search field
There are however over 100 non-approved types (identifiers). Examples include:
Beginning with "The"
Containing "of"
The address search function struggles to recognize these abnormalities.
The workaround for these is to include the non approved type "identifier" with the "street name" in the search field (usually a no-no!)
For example, instead of 'Wrexham' you would need to type 'Wrexham circlet'
Spatial Services data is based on "land rates" property as defined by the Valuer General. Community title land does not fit that "rateable" definition.
This means that the Swimming Pool Register, which utilizes Spatial Services data, may not be able to be used to record the registration and compliance status of common area community title pools as the address may not be available.
Some Multiple dwelling residences return an address result with "Common Property" which can be used to record a common area pool.
The relevant council are required to keep a local register and council inspectors are still required to inspect these pools for compliance as part of their mandatory inspection program at least once every 3 years as legislated under the NSW Swimming Pools Act & Regulation.
Certifiers are still required to keep their own records outside the register, and are required to notify councils of the result of their compliance inspections. This provides the current alternative means for monitoring the compliance status of community title pools.
A certificate of compliance is not required to be attached to the contract of sale for a lot in a strata scheme or in a community scheme and that strata or community scheme comprises more than 2 lots pursuant to Conveyancing (Sale of Land) Regulation 2010
A certificate of compliance is not required to be attached to the residential tenancy agreement if the swimming pool is situated on land in a strata scheme or in a community scheme and that strata or community scheme comprises more than 2 lots pursuant to Residential Tenancies Regulation 2010.


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Action & Expertise combine to create Success… be sure you're taking one, building the second, and defining the third for yourself! @upyourtelesales
Yesterday was all about Expertise – today lets talk about Success.
- and defining the third for yourself
Success is an interesting thing; if you are judging your own success by looking at other people you are doing yourself a disservice. Yup – when you measure success in your career and life vs. other people you've got it all wrong.
What I'm telling you to do is look at your life ONLY and decide what will indicate success to you! Then go for it.
Is that a foreign concept? Well here are some examples, in no particular order, of answers some clients have given me when we are working on this:
- freedom
- financial security
- comfort for my family
- lack of worry
Why did I pick those four to share? It is because they don't look like typical 'salesperson success factors'. Most people expect some of the other answers I do hear:
- hit my goal for the year
- increase my paycheck
- earn insert award here
- be in the top 10
What may interest you is that when I hear the traditional answers, I ask What will that do for YOU? Which is when I get the answers from the first list, and yes – the answers match up 1 to 1, 2 to 2, 3 to 3, 4 to 4 between the two lists.
Yes that's right; the answers are from the same salesperson!
When you're deciding what success is, go past the surface and figure out the deeper result you are looking for in your life!


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Twisted downy shoots, the tea leaves range from green-chestnut to dark chestnut brown in colour.
This Indian black tea is best known for its unique flavor: nutty muscatel notes that resemble no other tea. This is the reason why this tea is considered the Champagne of teas.
Rich in flavour and in health benefits, this is a tea that you can enjoy every day.
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Special fuels that are sprayed into the atmosphere and catch fire on coming into contact with oxygen in air. Their blast effect is much greater than conventional explosives. Besides blast and fire-related causalities, most injuries occur from the sudden oxygen starvation.


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R500 Robotic Caterpillar
Global Specialties introduces the R500 Robotic Caterpillar.
Yorba Linda, CA, March 26, 2014 - Global Specialties today releases the newest addition to its robotic line....the R500 Robotic Caterpillar.
With all the fun of a toy, the R500 is far from just that! It is a fully-programmable-in-C-language, AVR processor equipped robot with an I2C bus system for expansion and custom modifications.
Perfect School Project
The R500 comes unassembled and requires a minimal amount of soldering which makes it a perfect school project.
Model R500
The Caterpillar is controlled by a powerful ATMEGA16 microcontroller that is programmable via open source tools in C. The robot comes with many example programs already written. Easily download them to the robot using the supplied USB interface and the RobotLoader software. Or write your own custom programs using the free open-source WinAVR software.
Easy to Use
The Robotic Caterpillar makes it so easy to download your custom programs using the included RobotLoader software and connectors. Even simpler, upload the sample programs already written for the Caterpillar and you will have it crawling around in the grass in moments!
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By Heike Kofler, Ph.D., Manager, Technical Customer Support
A rare disease is defined as one that affects a small number of people in a population and is generally serious, progressive, or chronic. Orphan drugs, or the drugs made in small batches for immediate medical attention, have the ability to be both life changing and lifesaving for patients suffering from a rare disease. Read this article for more information on orphan drugs and treatments.


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The photo collection of the previous year has been continued in 2019. All individuals have their unique index like K11m, where the last letter means sex: m – male, f – female, if it is known for certain. This is the continuation of a story in pictures of permanent annual monitoring of Short-toeds in Northern Ukraine which has been made for more than 15 years.
Category: Regions › Ukraine › Sumy Polissya ›
Northern Ukraine. STE in pictures in 2018Jul 31, 2018 / Comment
Currently, 7 nests of Short-toed Eagles are controlled in 3 Regions of Northern Ukraine. All those pairs have chicks this year. It is of great interest to know the final result of the reproduction season in this area. The gallery will be updated after the end of the season, however, now we can see some pictures of the old acquaintances again.
La Plume du Circaète: STE in Northern Ukraine (En)May 14, 2018 / Comment
The English (En) version of that article with links to more pictures:
• Konstantin PISMENNYI, 2018 – Le circaète dans le nord de l'Ukraine : état et avenir des populations, observations sur quelques couples et individus [The Short-toed Snake Eagle in Northern Ukraine, the population state and outlook, observations of certain pairs and individuals] // La Plume du Circaète n° 16-17: pp. 11-15.
STE in Northern Ukraine. Video & data on breeding. 2016Mar 26, 2017 / Comment
Short videos representing scenes of life of Short-toed Eagles in Northern Ukraine have been compiled from those that were shot in previous year. Also, you can view here a few tables containing statistical data collected in the region within 2004-2016 years and processed to a certain extent. They include: general breeding success, frequency of nesting tree change, distances between two nesting trees occupied by one pair in two consecutive seasons and between all nesting trees at the same breeding sites, nesting tree diameter, nest height, mean nest departure dates, reproduction rate of certain pairs.
Short-toed Eagles in Northern Ukraine. Photos of 2016Jan 31, 2017 / Comment
Here is the next annual gallery of pictures taken in Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy Regions of Northern Ukraine in 2016. Short-toed Eagles of local pairs monitored during more than 10 years are captured in them. All the birds are indicated in captions by a letter and a year of the first representation in photo galleries on our site, starting with A11 – the old, very striped and dark-spotted, rather small but aggressive female living in the Mizhrichynskyi Nature Park /map/.
Video and pictures of STEs in Northern Ukraine in 2015Feb 7, 2016 / Comment
This video is a compilation of various short parts of the filming done in Northern Ukraine during the last year's season from spring to fall. The shown moments of Short-toed Eagles' life are provided with explanatory subtitles. The second part of the annual photo gallery contains descriptions of behaviour and habits of local STEs as well. Please see them under each presented picture.
Reproduction of certain pairs within 10 years in UkraineOct 31, 2015 / Comment
How different reproduction of different pairs can be? Some adult Short-toed Eagles occupy the same sites from year to year. They had yet been identified in 2011 by photos taken since 2006 and according to previous and new observations. The birds had got indexes A11, B11 etc. although, in spoken communication we give them more harmonious names: for example, K11 is Barry, B11 is Ospry, and so on. Then later pictures of the individuals repeatedly got into the annual photo galleries. The natural identifying details are general plumage patterns, shapes of heads, wings, beaks and general silhouettes in flight from certain angles as well as signs of moulting. The number of the examined images should be enough to select the details and to collate them. Thus, now it is possible to compare the mean reproduction – – of pairs of individuals identified from year to year for certain, definitely without replacements of mates and without clear differences in objective conditions for breeding.