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WooCommerce Order History Communication: This plugin facilitates the customers to ask order-related queries to the admin. The customers can contact the store owner for a particular order from the Orders section. This plugin helps the customer to send and receive messages along with the file attachments and keep the conversation history records. Furthermore, it makes information access easier to immediately resolve the customer's concerns.
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Integrate Order Comment System
This extension allows the store owner to easily add the order comment tool with the online store for customer convenience.
Comment Supports Attachment
This extension facilitates the user and the admin to make comments for any concern related to the respective order.
Enhance Buying Experience for Customer
The extension helps the admin to improve the customer's shopping experience with the immediate expert response related to their orders.
All-Time Access Of Order Communication History
The admin and the customer can access the order comment history anytime.
Why Use this module?
Customer satisfaction is the only key to thrive in such a throat-cut competitive era. Improve your customer's buying experience with the order comment tool. This tool appears only after placing the order that's a great function to easier admin's task, now admin needs to deal with genuine inquires of their customers.
Let your shoppers ask post-order concerns and receive an instant response. This extension helps the admin to know customers' online shopping behavior and needs. Moreover, it helps to boost sales with beneficial offers and customer engagement programs.
Integrate Order Comment Tool
This module helps the store admin to integrate an advanced order comment tool with their online shopping store to fourfold the business profit.
- As per the business need, the admin can enable or disable order communication for their store.
- The admin can define the order status for the customer for which the customer can add the comment.
- The store owner can do the email settings for themselves and their customers.
Supports the Attachment in Order Comment
This extension facilitates the customers to insert their comments, instructions, or special requests for the particular order in the attachments too.
- The customer can raise order-related concerns on any particular order.
- This extension allows the customer to send order attachments too.
- Customers can send jpeg, png, gif, pdf files for better understanding.
- This module facilitates the customer to receive the instant admin response on their queries.
Easy to View Communication History
This plugin helps to keep all the communication records saved as it is in the respective order view page to refer to and check further. The customer can check older comments on the order for their reference.
- The customers can check the communication history from the order view page.
- The customers will be able to view the comments on the order in one go.
- The admin can also check the history from the order view page.
- It helps to keep the complete conversation record for the store owner and the customer.
Instant Email Notification
Notifications are the key to keep the users updated. With the help of this module, the store owner and the customer will receive the email notification once any comment is added to the order.
- With the help of this module, the store owner will receive an email notification whenever the customer adds any query to their order.
- Similarly, the customer gets updated if the admin will add any comment on their order.
- This configuration is set by the store owner from the back-end.
- As per the business need, the admin can add allow or disallow the customer to receive the email notification.
- Also, the admin can enable or disable the email notification of the customers as well.
- Admin can enable or disable the order messaging extension for their store as per the business need.
- The customers can ask questions related to their specific orders.
- The customer can send the message along with the file attachments.
- Also, the admin is allowed to send message with attachments.
- The admin can define the order status for which the customer can add the comment.
- The admin will receive the mail after the comment is made on the order by the customer.
- Customers will also receive the mail once the admin has made the comment on their order.
- The admin and the customer both can view the conversation history.
- The admin can set the mail attachment type and size.
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Many Americans will forgo technology for several hours as they sit down around the Thanksgiving table on Thursday. Holidays and family time are often used to unplug from electronics and mobile devices and take a break from screens — unless, of course, there is a football game on it.
But hey, it's 2017 and no one needs a few anxiety-riddled hours of separation from their beloved smartphones, particularly if they could come in handy. Mobile devices can actually make the holidays and cooking Thanksgiving dinner a more efficient and stress-free event.
Here's how to integrate apps into your Thanksgiving dinner without your family giving you grief about it:
1. Recipes: NYT Cooking
The New York Times Thanksgiving 2017 page offers recipes and tutorials for everyone from the cooking novice to the culinary artist. Learn basic knife skills, how to brine and roast a turkey and how to cook the basics like cranberry sauce, potatoes, gravy and pie crusts.
Cultivated recipe collections for each classic Thanksgiving dish make picking the winning recipe a breeze. To get adventurous with the menu, try twists on classic holiday ingredients such as butternut squash with pecans and currants, sourdough stuffing with kale and dates and roasted pumpkin with cranberry, pecan and chile pesto.
2. Recipes and grocery lists: BigOven
BigOven offers more than 350,000 recipes to users, along with nutritional information, notes, suggestions, photos and reviews. The app goes a step further easing the meal planning process by allowing users to create grocery lists in the app and import recipes.
Recipes are broken into seasonal, course, ingredient, dietary lifestyle and equipment collections. Turkey recipes span the breadth of classic Thanksgiving turkeys, deep fried birds, the intricate "Turducken" and vegetarian stuffed tofu turkeys.
3. Set multiple timers: Minima Software's Timer+
Chances are, Thanksgiving dishes are going to go in and out of the oven and on and off the stove constantly.
Timer+ lets users run several stopwatches and timers at the same time, labeling them and setting some on repeat. Don't let any dishes fall under the radar and burn because someone wasn't alerted when it finished cooking.
4. Turkey cooking time: Safefood's Turkey Calculator
The turkey app calculates how long a turkey needs to cook based on the bird's weight and whether or not it is stuffed. Technology may seem to have cook time down to a science, but it never hurts to have a back-up pop up timer in the turkey.
If turkey crises pop up, as they often do, try calling Butterball's Turkey Talk-Line, an annual holiday service put on by the company since 1981 to answer customers' turkey-related questions with expert advice.
5. Ingredient alternatives: Gormaya's Substitutions
Substitutions offers more than 1,300 food and drink substitutions, helping cooks accommodate certain diet choices and food allergies and aversions. Categories with suggested ingredient alternatives include alcohol, seafood and meat, dairy, gluten, allergies, low fat, low carb, low sodium, vegan and migraines — a condition particularly common during the holiday season.
6. Conversions: Forward Leap's Kitchen Calculator
The kitchen math phone makes switching between weight and volume measurements easy. Users can distinguish measurements in terms of specific ingredients, such as ground, slivered or whole almonds and sliced, whole or mashed bananas. Chefs can also use the app to scale ingredients up for double and triple batches, because there's no such thing as too many Thanksgiving leftovers.
7. Catering: ezCater
So you dropped the ball. Maybe the turkey burned, maybe you just gave up after trying to juggle more than two recipes at a time. That's ok, because plenty of people are there to cook meals for you. The ezCater app will connect you to local businesses who can cater a group anywhere from 5 to 2,000 people, and your guests never have to know.

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Prominently-displayed 'Wilmington for Trump 2020' billboard vandalized overnight
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The prominently-displayed "Wilmington for Trump 2020" billboard in downtown Wilmington was vandalized overnight.
The sign, which overlooks the 'Black Lives Do Matter, End Racism Now' art installation on Third Street, was ripped to pieces. President Donald Trump's name is no longer visible and and the previous advertisement before it can now be seen.
A spokeswoman for the Wilmington Police Department said they are aware of the vandalized sign and are investigating.
The billboard was previously apparently in violation of federal campaign laws for not displaying who paid for it, but has since been updated. The New Hanover County GOP is now paying for the ad.
WECT has received calls and messages about political sign stealing going on through the city and into Brunswick County. State House Rep. Frank Iler said he's displayed signs for President Trump in his yard, only to find out they were stolen not long after.
However, Trump signs aren't the only ones being tampered with. We've also received reports of signs for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden being stolen in the Landfall community in Wilmington.
The Wilmington Police Department and New Hanover County Sheriff's Office said political sign stealing is illegal. If a sign is stolen and the owner wishes to file a report, they will investigate it.
Representatives of both law enforcement agencies said new technology, such as Ring doorbell cameras, can greatly improve investigators' changes of solving the crime. Without concrete evidence, however, the cases can prove tricky.
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Genome Browser
The Genome Browser allows you visualize different file types in a side-scrolling way, the features are rendered ordered by start from left to right. Each file will be represented as a track, several tracks can be added to the browser, and the current supported tracks are GFF, VCF, DNA Fasta and BAM. Tracks can be reordered, hidden or closed using the track controls (). One chromosome is visualized at a time, the top box represents the whole chromosome and the small box represents the area of the current region.
Figure 1: Genome Browser with all 4 tracks.
GFF Track
The GFF track is able to detect types to group features by genes (genes, transcripts, exons and CDS and the relationship between them by using ID and Parent attributes, see GFF3 Specification for more details ). Genes are in blue, the transcripts are the small red lines, non-coding exons are white boxes with orange border and exons with CDS are filled with orange color. Other non-grouped features appear in grey. GFF Viewer can be opened with the context menu option in the File Manager when selecting a GFF file and using the context menu option Show in GFF Viewer from the table when exploring a GFF file.
With the Features button controls you can classify the types for Genes, Transcripts, Exons and CDS, this will modify the Gene group visualization, by default these types will be set automatically. The checkboxes will hide or show the features, i.e. if you want to show only the genes, you need to uncheck the Transcripts, Exon, CDS, and Unclassified checkboxes.
A tooltip will appear on mouse hover, it will show additional information about the feature and the information is collected from the GFF file.
Figure 2: GFF viewer.
Figure 3: Feature controls.
Figure 4. Feature tooltip.
VCF Track
The VCF track shows the variants in the corresponding position and if you zoom in enough, the alternative nucleotide will be shown.
Figure 5: VCF track
BAM Track
The BAM track shows the reads of a BAM file and if the sequence track is active, will also paint the differences between the read sequence and the sequence track. If you click on the checkbox, if the BAM has paired reads, the pair will be painted one beside the other.
Figure 6: BAM track
DNA Fasta Track
The DNA Fasta or sequence track shows the nucleotides and is only shown on low region lengths.
Figure 7: DNA Fasta Track
Navigation is performed with the mouse, by left-clicking without releasing the button the scroll action will start, the just move the mouse to move left or right. Also is possible to adjust the region to a feature or gene by double-clicking on it. Zoom in and Zoom out from the current region is performed using the Zoom buttons on the Toolbar, If you zoom out enough, visualization will change and a histogram will show. The chromosome box can be used to select a new region either clicking or by selecting a new box area using click and drag.
Figure 8. Histogram, the small rectangle on the Chromosome box shows the region painted as a histogram.
It is also possible to find features on the GFF and the VCF track using the Search field in the Toolbar, the search results will be shown on a panel beside the Toolbar.
Figure 9: Toolbar
Also, you can add more tracks to the current Genome Browser using the Add track button. A window will appear the available files that can be opened with a Genome Browser as tracks.
Figure 10: Browse tracks to be added to the Genome Browser
Load files
Files must be loaded in order to be shown on the Genome Browser to do that just click on the File menu and under the Load sub-menu you can load GFF, VCF, DNA Fasta and BAM files. These files can be loaded in either with .gff or .gz extension.
A window will appear to select the file to import, use the browse button to select the file from the file system and finally click on the Load button to start the Load process, the load time depends on the file size.
Genome Browser can also be opened from a Table view, If you have already a file open in a table, use the context menu option Show in Genome Browser, by right-clicking on a row, a Genome Browser will be shown on the region of that feature.
Once loaded you may save the file, once the file is saved you can visualize it using the Genome Browser.
Figure 11: Load Files to see in the browser
Figure 12: Browse for GFF file
Figure 13: Open the saved file directly with the Genome Browser
Figure 14: Open the Genome Browser from GFF table


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On Tuesday, attorneys for Derek Chauvin presented body-camera footage showing George Floyd's arrest from May 2019, which occurred roughly a year before the arrest that ended with his death.
The video, which WCCO first released to the public in October, shows Minneapolis police's interaction with Floyd during a traffic stop. The footage came from retired Minneapolis police officer Scott Creighton's body camera; the ex-officer was the defense's first witness to testify on Tuesday.
Floyd, who was a passenger, allegedly swallowed several pills during the traffic stop. Paramedic Michelle Moseng testified he was hospitalized for two hours after the incident.
WATCH: Chauvin defense plays body cam footage of George Floyd being arrested in May 2019 by Minneapolis Police Officer Scott Creighton, who is now retired. It's labeled as evidence of the effects opioids may have had on Floyd during the arrest, not evidence of Floyd's character pic.twitter.com/9rK0smorKR
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 13, 2021
Last month, lead defense attorney Eric Nelson claimed Floyd's May 2019 arrest had "remarkable similarities" to the May 2020 arrest that resulted in his death.
During the May 2019 incident, officers reportedly discovered several opioid pills and cocaine in Floyd's possession. Paramedics at the time reportedly warned Floyd that his blood pressure was alarmingly high and took him to the hospital as he was at risk for a heart attack or stroke.
Nelson said he wanted to present evidence that he believes supports the theory that the white residue seen around Floyd's arrest during his May 2020 arrest was the result of Floyd swallowing at least one opioid pill.
Nelson noted that in both instances — as police drew their weapons — Floyd called out for his mother, claimed to have been shot, and put what resembled pills into his mouth.
The defense asserted that Floyd had a "pattern" of ingesting drugs as he knew it would result in him going to the hospital instead of jail. They also claimed he had a penchant for acting out during arrests.
Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill has allowed a portion of Floyd's 2019 arrest to be presented at trial. He barred speculation regarding Floyd's emotional state, but the defense may discuss his medical condition. Jurors are also allowed to see Floyd's blood pressure readings at the scene, comments he made to paramedics which pertain to his medical diagnosis, and a suspected illicit pill recovered from his car.
Chauvin, 44, a former Minneapolis police officer, is charged with third-degree murder, second-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in connection with Floyd's death. Three other ex-officers, Thomas Lane, 37, J. Alexander Kueng, 26, and Tou Thao, 34 are charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
On May 25, Minneapolis police officers were filmed arresting Floyd, 46, on suspicion that he used a counterfeit bill at the Cup Foods supermarket. After police pulled Floyd out of his car and handcuffed him, Chauvin was filmed forcing his knee into Floyd's neck for eight minutes.
Floyd was heard gasping for air and saying he could not breathe before he lost consciousness and died.
Hennepin County's official autopsy report stated that Floyd's blood had a fentanyl concentration of 11 nanograms per milliliter. While the medical examiner described the concentration as high and potentially fatal, they stressed that it does not mean Floyd died of an overdose.
The report also stated that there was no evidence "to support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation" in Floyd's death. Conversely, an independent autopsy asserted that sustained forceful pressure on Floyd's neck and back led to his death.
Both the county's and the independent report mentioned drugs in Floyd's system. However, the two reports listed his cause of death as a homicide.
The defense has argued that a "speedball" — an opioid and a stimulant combination — along with hypertension led to Floyd dying of cardiac arrhythmia. However, the prosecution said video evidence and expert testimony disproves Floyd was dying from a drug overdose, and that Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck for several minutes killed him.
Chauvin is being tried separately from the other three former officers. Their trial is scheduled to begin this summer.
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High product usage rates combined with high switching costs equal pricing power. Google Photos – the popular photo & video management platform for Android and iOS – has pricing power to spare.
Google ran the playbook perfectly. Years ago Google promised users of its Photos service that the service would remain free for life so long as users capped the resolution at which they stored their photos. Well, Google recently changed it's tune to where regardless of photo resolution, users of the service will have new photos and videos count against Google's 15GB free storage limit beginning June 1st 2021. Once users cross the 15GB storage threshold, they will be charged $1.99 per month for a 100GB Google One storage plan (more on Google One pricing below). At present, Google Photos stores approximately 28 billion new photos and videos each week and 4 trillion photos in total.
- Google has more than 1 billion Photos users.
- The company estimates that approximately 7% of Photos users will cross the revenue threshold in June 2021.
- Thus, an estimate for incremental revenue to Google as of June 2021 is $140 million per month or $1.7 billion per year (7% x 1 billion users x $2 per month).
- The one caveat is that Google Pixel owners will be able to continue to upload "high" quality (not "original" quality) photos to Photos for free after the June 1st 2021 deadline.
View an estimate of when you may eclipse your Google Photos free storage limit HERE
Google One. Google One pricing is unchanged starting at $1.99 per month for 100GB. The service has tiers: 200GB for $2.99 per month, 2TB for $9.99 per month and up to 30TB for $149.99 per month.
High switching costs. I doubt many users will switch photo management services as Google's leadership position in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing provides Photos users with a level of convenience unmatched by alternative photo management services.


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A British judge acquitted Amy Winehouse on Friday of assaulting a fan who asked to take her picture, a dose of good news in the beehived soul diva's tumultuous life.
District Judge Timothy Workman found the 25-year-old singer not guilty of punching dancer Sherene Flash in the eye after the fan asked to take her picture following a charity ball in September.
Prosecutors claimed it was a deliberate assault. But Winehouse said she had merely pushed Flash because she felt intimidated — and claimed she was too short to have punched the dancer in the face.
The judge said after hearing the evidence, he could not be sure the blow had been deliberate.
"The charge is dismissed and the defendant discharged," he said.
Winehouse, dressed in a conservative knee-length black skirt, gray jacket, white shirt and pearls, shrugged as the verdict was announced at London's City of Westminster Magistrates' Court. She remained in the dock until her lawyer spoke to her, apparently clarifying the verdict.
"I'm relieved. I'm going home," she said as she left court through a jostling pack of photographers and television cameras.
In a statement read by a spokesman, the singer said she was "very happy to move on with her life and put the episode behind her."
Winehouse, known as much for her chaotic lifestyle as her soulful music, appeared healthy and composed but fidgety during the two-day trial, at times singing to herself, fanning herself with a notebook and sitting cross-legged in the witness box.
Flash accused Winehouse of punching her after a ball in London's Berkeley Square. Prosecution lawyer Lyall Thompson said the backstage incident was "a deliberate assault by Miss Winehouse."
"I was scared," Winehouse said Thursday. "I thought 'People are mad these days, people are just rude and mad, or people can't handle their drink.'
"I think she was being overly friendly but that was intimidating," Winehouse added. "I was scared. I'm not Mickey Mouse, I'm a human being."
She also said that at "5 foot 2½ or 5 foot 3" (about 160 centimeters) and wearing ballet pumps, she was too short to have hit the woman in the face. Flash is 5 foot 7 inches (about 175 centimeters) tall and was wearing heels.
Prosecutor Thompson said Winehouse was under the influence of alcohol or "some other substance" when she hit Flash.
The judge it was hard to determine what really happened because most of the people who gave evidence about the incident had been drunk at the time.
"Whilst I accept that all the witnesses have endeavored to give an accurate account of the events, all but two of them were under the influence of alcohol to varying degrees," Workman said.
He said the medical evidence presented by the prosecution did not show "the sort of injury that often occurs when there is a forceful punch to the eye."
Winehouse's lawyer, Patrick Gibbs, said "the main injury here was probably to Miss Flash's pride."
Winehouse shot to stardom with the Grammy-winning album "Back to Black" in 2006, but her music has been overshadowed by reports of drug use, run-ins with the law and a tempestuous marriage.
She has kept a lower profile recently, spending several months on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia and moving from her home in London's Camden nightlife hub to a more sedate suburban neighborhood.
Earlier this month, Winehouse was granted a divorce from her husband of two years, Blake Fielder-Civil. She gave her name in court as Amy Jade Civil.


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Characterize LED thermal, electrical and radiometric/photometric performance using an accurate measurement test station that supports LED lighting thermal design.
Accurately describe the thermal properties of LEDs using an integrated thermal, photometric and radiometric testing station.
Combine thermal, radiometric and photometric testing of LEDs
Together with Simcenter Micred LED Tester thermal characterization hardware, Simcenter Micred LED Tester temperature-controlled test stage forms a combined electrical, thermal and radiometric/photometric testing station for LEDs and LED modules. This creates multi-domain compact models that can be used in Simcenter thermal design software.
Comply with JEDEC standards
These LED testing solutions conform to the JEDEC JESD51-52 standard and follow CIE technical reports 127:2007 and 225:2017. Real thermal resistance and light output metrics are measured as a function of real LED junction temperature over a wide range of forwarding currents. The process is fully automated. Third-party spectroradiometers help capture emission spectra, providing further input for precise modeling of LED package light output properties in lighting design.
Read this white paper and learn about the role of thermal transient measurement to characterize semiconductor thermal behavior.
The family of thermal characterization hardware solutions provides component and systems suppliers with the ability to accurately and efficiently test, measure, and thermally characterize semiconductor integrated circuit packages, single and arrayed LEDs, stacked and multi-die packages, power electronics modules, thermal interface material (TIM) properties and complete electronic systems.
Our hardware solutions directly measure the actual heating or cooling curves of packaged semiconductor devices continuously and in real time, rather than artificially composing this from the results of several individual tests. Measuring the true thermal transient response in this way is far more efficient and accurate, leading to more accurate thermal metrics than steady-state methods. Measurements only need to be performed once per sample, rather than repeated and an average taken as with steady-state methods.
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- Practice good dental habits. The American Dental Association advises adults and children to brush their teeth at least two times a day, preferably with ADA-approved toothpaste and a soft-bristled brush. This will help prevent plaque buildup on the surface of the tooth. Patients should also floss at least once a day to remove food debris.
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|"And I ran the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Marathon route - backwards!" Sakurako reports on a recent trip as Roadkill leads a high-humidity sunrise ramble to coffee in Kensington. Then it's Rock Creek Trail to Connecticut Ave, pause at another busy Starbucks in Chevy Chase for a pink drink, and proceed south to meet Danger Man. Hilly Leland St brings us to Bethesda, and then the Capital Crescent Trail to northwest DC. Vixen greets us as she zooms by. A path leads past the Dalecarlia water treatment plant.
"So where's the Historic Marker?" K2 shows us the first house she stayed in when she moved to DC for grad school three decades ago. Aromas of fresh bread and other delicacies drift from bakeries and kitchens along Yuma St NW. Beautiful impatiens form a waterfall of red-white-pink beside a front yard stairway. At a boundary stone on Western Avenue the crew stands behind bars.
|"Take me home tonight!" The late Eddie Money's hit song resonates at noon when we reach to Danger Man's car and beg a ride from him. He kindly agrees, so we wrap ourselves in space blankets like TV dinners to protect the car.
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BILLINGS, Mont. – Despite the U.S. Geological Survey's recent price increase, MyTopo, a popular online service to order waterproof, custom-centered topographic maps, confirmed its prices will remain at the same level they have been since the company began in 1999.
"Ten years ago USGS paper 7.5-minute maps cost $4 per quad sheet; today a paper quad map is $8. Our maps were always considered a value because the custom-centering allowed people to order one map instead of three or four quads to cover their area. Today, you can purchase a waterproof, tear-resistant map that is centered precisely on your area of interest and will last a lifetime for just a fraction more than a USGS paper quad," said Kevin Toohill, CEO of MyTopo, explaining why the USGS price increase is significant for topographic map users.
MyTopo provides an easy-to-use system to design and order custom topographic maps online. The maps are derived from the USGS 7.5-minute map series, with updates from the U.S. Forest Service, making them the most up-to-date and detailed topographic maps available. The maps can be centered anywhere in the U.S., customized with a choice of paper type, size, grid, datum, and personalized with a title and owner name. MyTopo prints and ships the map within 24 hours, for quick delivery to the customer's mailbox. The maps start at $9.95.
"Anyone who relies on topographic maps knows their area of interest will always fall on the border of at least two quads, requiring them to purchase and carry multiple maps," said Toohill. "We solved that common problem by designing a system to allow customers to center their map, and providing the convenience of online ordering and speedy shipping."
MyTopo's service includes Canadian topographic maps and U.S. aerial photography and TopoPhoto maps, which are hybrid topographic and aerial maps. MyTopo also provides professional mapping software, the Terrain Navigator Pro suite of products, and free online map browsing services.
Many popular Web sites offer MyTopo's products and services, including Geocaching.com, Remington.com, Geology.com, Realtree.com, The Digital Map Store, 4×4 Books, Forestry Suppliers and many more. To become a MyTopo partner, visit www.mytopo.com/partners.
MyTopo is a private company based in Billings, Mont. For more information, visit www.mytopo.com or call 877-587-9004.


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Iran state media put out a stunning report Saturday claiming that imprisoned Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is facing the death sentence for rape and extortion, not for apostasy and refusing to renounce his religion, as his lawyer, human rights groups and Western news media have reported.
"His crime is not, as some claim, converting others to Christianity," the deputy governor of the Gilan province, Gholomali Rezvani, told Fars, the semi-official state news agency.
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I remember the day you came into my life. That invisable string that has always connected you and I, will always be there. A day will not go by, that I don't think of you. We will be reunited again. Until then, you will be with Magnum, Meow Meow, and Buddy,they will keep you safe for me. I love you all and miss you all Love Mommy. June 29,2007 My sweet Ginger. Today is 1 year since we seperated and you went to Rainbow Bridge. I miss you more now then a year ago. I have kept everything that was e-mailed to me about you, from all the wonderful people at Rainbows Bridge who have visited you. I think about you everyday. I hope that you are well and not in pain anymore. You are still a very big part of me. In my heart we will always be together. I miss your sweet kisses every night. I love you. I hope that you and Ching are getting along. I now that you are helping him adjust at the bridge. Good night sweet girl, I love and miss you very much.July 29,2007. Hi baby girl I love you. I am sorry that it has been a few weeks since I last visited. Things have been very hectic. Sara and the boys moved back in with us for a short time. We had to ask them to leave, because Lucky was nervous all of the time. He tried to attack Bamm Bamm. We don't know why, he just kinda said that he did not want them here any longer. He is fine around all the other kids except for Sara's boys. We are trying to play catch up with all the bills, because Sara owes us for babysitting that she has not paid for yet. Anyway I hope that you are doing very well. We are all pretty good. I am looking into going back to school, just waiting on information. I still think of you everyday. I miss you so much. You are still a very big part of my life. I will always love you. Jasmine is still very hyper, I wish that she would calm down. She is the direct opposite of you. I call her a tomboy and a nutball. Lucky is still his self. Mac & maggie are both very bossy. We probably won't be doing any craft shows this year. I am going to miss that. Its late I will talk to you soon. I love you ginger girl. Love Mommy.August 22,2007 Good morning Ginger girl,I hope you slept well. It was a rough night for me. I didn't sleep much. I got some of the information that I was waiting for with the schooling. Still waiting on some more. I miss you. I saw a rainbow the other day and thought of you. Sometimes I am very lonely for you. Ana is not staying here anymore because school started. You would have liked her. She is a very sweet girl. Maggie even lets Ana pick her up. Lucky and Jasmine love her to death. We kinda miss her. Her and Marissa became good friends over the summer. The Barkers moved to N.C. last month. We haven't herd from them much. Joy is back from her vacation, she had a good time. I missed her. 2 months is a long vacation. Bob has been gone now for 8 months. It seems longer. We miss him very much. Things are so different at their house without him there. I think about you all the time. HAPPY BIRTHDAY my sweet Ginger, I love and miss you very much. Love Mommy. September 13,2007 Hi boogernose I was thinking about you all last night. I miss you very much. I am starting school soon. I hope that I can handle it with all the stuff that I already do. I wish that you were here with me. I miss you so very much. We are planing a trip to disney in November. Ana is going with us. I wish that you could have met her. She is a very sweet little girl. You would have liked her. She asks alot of questions about you. Jasmine is starting to get better about chewing up things. I wish she would calm down. She is still to hyper. I want her to be calm like you and Lucky. I lover her. There is still an empty place in my heart. I miss you so much. I love you my sweet Ginger girl. Love mommy. September 28,2007, Hi booger. I give you lots and lots of kisses, I miss that. I miss your kisses, so soft and so sweet. I started my new online course, boy is it alot of reading. I am doing pretty good with it. Everybody here is well. November 16-19 we are going to Disney. Ana and her mom and brother are hopfully going. We don't know yet. I miss you! I find myself thinking about you alot, and remembering things that we did together. It is still just as hard not having you today as it was when you passed. I will always long for you. I will see you again someday. I love you very very much. Love Mommy, Hugs and lots of kisses. November 25,2007 Hi baby girl I am sorry that I haven't visited you in a while. I think of you all the time. Things have been very hectic these past couple of months. I had to quit studing for a while because it kept giving me shingles because of all the stress with the house cleaning, Avon, getting ready for the holidays and trying to study. It is very difficult. I will start back after the holidays. I miss you. I wish you were her with me. Sometimes I am very lonely for you. I look at your picture all the time. I love you. You are my sweet girl. I love you. Love Mommy. December 23,2007 Merry Christmas boogernose. I hope you,Magnum,and Meow Meow have a very good Christmas. I love and miss you all very much. Daddy and I are moving to another house. I will still be able to talk to you. I wish you were here with me. Things are so hectic right now. I love and miss you very much. Love Mommy.January 16,2008 Hi my sweet girl. Happy New Year to you all. We made the move. Lucky and Jasmine are doing well. Daddy says that the new house feels like home, not to me yet. I miss the old house. HSBC now wants to talk to us, it is to late for that. I wish that they would of talked when we tried to. The new house will feel like home in time. I love and miss you all very much. February 27,2008 Hi sweet girl, I love you, and I miss you terribly. Friday Dulcey, Joy, Irma, Christina, and I are going up to Disney. No kids, yeah. Things have been so hectic I don't know whether I am coming or going. I had to stop my studying because I didn't have time. I picked up 3 more house cleanings, daddy wants me to get my license and bonding so I can start the business. I am trying. It just takes time and money. I am sorry that I haven't visited you in a while. I think about you everyday,I look at your portrait all the time wishing you were here. We are all doing well. We are trying to make our yearly camping trip plans for April, not many of us will be going.Maybe I can have a peaceful time instead of having to take care of kids. Well I have to go now, I have two houses to clean today work awaits. I love and miss you all very much. Love you Ginger. Love mommy March 22,2008 Hi baby girl. Tomorrow is easter, Ginny, Tim and the boys are her from N.C. They leave in a week. Joy is still waiting to have her hip replaced, she is in alot of pain. I feel sad today, I wish you were here with me. I miss you so much.I lost one of my cleaning jobs. Rachel and Jason are splitting up so Rachel said that she was not able to afford it by herself. I hope that they can work things out. All is well with us. Ginger I miss calling your name. I love you very much. Love mommy. May 5,2008 Hi baby girl, I miss you. We didn't get to go camping this year. The van was stolen in the first week of April. We didn't get it back from all the repairs until last week. All our extra money went to a rental vehicle and our deductable. It was not fun at all. Cleaning business is very slow and so is the Avon. We are doing well. I wish you were here. You would like the new neighborhood we live in. The cats and dogs are all well.I hope you are well. I have your pictures everywhere in my office. I think about you all the time, you are my sweet babygirl. Rissy misses you alot. You were a part of so many lives, we all miss you so very much. It has almost been 2 years since you went to the bridge. I wish for your sweet kisses all the time, and your precious looks. Daddy is calling me, I have to go for now. I love you babygirl, you will always be in my heart forever. Love Mommy. August 3,2008 Hi baby girl, I am sorry that I haven't visited you in a long while. After we last talked I went roller skating with Rissy,Ana, Omar,Rinzy and Dawn, I fell and broke both the bones in my wrist. I had to have a metal plate put in to fix one of the breaks. I have been doing therapy for two months now. It has not been much fun. I am back to work, playing catch up with all the bills. The Barkers were down for a couple of months. They are all well. The boys are getting big, Timmy is taller than Ginny now. I have to go now, need to get dog food. I love and miss you very much, Love Mommy September 5 2008 Hi baby girl, I love you. I am sorry that I have not visited you in a few weeks, things have been very hectic. The house that we are renting is going into foreclosure, so we are trying to find another place. We still have four more months left on our lease. Very stressful time, there is also another hurricane headed right for us, it is a cat 4 right now. We are trying to prepare for it. Not alot of fun. Well it is time for bed, I promise that I will visit you soon. Tell everyone hi and that I love and miss all of you very much. Love you baby girl. Love mommy November 15,2008, Hi my sweet girl, we moved back to N F M. With D's help we bought a manufactured home. I think that you would of liked it very much. It is in a community that is very quiet. It feels like home.I miss you so very much. The cleaning business is very slow and so is the Avon. Rissy is staying the night with us tonight. We have ceramics tonight. We are planing our camping trip for April, hopefully we will be able to go next year. We weren't able to this year. I wish you were here to go with us. I still think about you everyday. That invisible string that attached us is still there and will always be there. I am sending you lots of hugs and kisses. I miss hugging and kissing you. It is a good thing that Jasmine likes lots of hugs and kisses. I love and miss you very much. Love mommy. January 12,2009 Hi baby girl, it's a new year, the holidays have come and gone. Daddy spent Thanksgiving in the hospital. He is doing fine. Christmas was lonely without you. Dulcey and Joy went to N.C. to spend Christmas with Ginny, Tim and the boys. Not much has been going on which is a good thing. Lucky, Jazy and Mac & Maggie are all fine. The cleaning is still slow. I miss you. Wish you were here with me. I love you very much Love Mommy, February 22,2009 Hi baby girl. I was just thinking about you again, remembering some of the silly little things that you would do. I especially miss your sweet kisses. I miss you very much. Love mommy
June 1, 2009. Hi baby girl, I miss you very much. Please help Tootsie around there. She arrived on Friday May 29,2009. I am sorry that I haven't talked to you in a while. I think about you everyday.
Things have been pretty busy around here. Dawn had to move in with us because she lost her SS benefits. She has had to reapply and won't know anything for up to 6 months, so we have a housefull on the weekends. Connie will be leaving me soon as well. Lucky, Jasmine and Mac and Maggie will miss her and her boys. You would of liked her. She is kinda of prissy like you. Things are pretty slow with the cleaning and the Avon. I am hoping that it will pick up soon. I love and miss you very much. Love Mommy. July 22,2009. Hi baby girl, I love you. You have been at the bridge for
3 years now. Those are 3 very long years. I miss you very much. We are all doing well. Daddy is getting lawn mowing jobs, he is running me ragged. Now I clean houses, sell Avon, and weed eat
yards. I have been kept busy. I am very tired, I will talk to you later. I love and miss you.
Love Mommy.9/5/09 dear Ginger,this is rissy. you might not remember me, but i will always remember you.we all miss you down here,and i hope you are happy with Meow-Meow,Magnum,and my fishy,Shiny, that passed away a couple weeks ago. i have another fish now,and when he passes away,you will have another friend for company.i am thinking about you almost every day. i carry you around with me every day in my locket and soul. no dog will ever take your place.your the sweetest dog i have ever met, and proboly the only dog that gives people kisses on the nose on purpose.[exept Max, but i think he just likes boogers. you don't now Max, but you will see him some day]like i said, i will always remember you, and we all miss you!!!love marissa,mommy,daddy,lucky,and jazzyp.s.-my nick-name is rissy. December 25, 2009 Merry Christmas sweet girl. I am sorry that I haven't visited you in a while. We still have Aunt Dawn living with us. Her SS is in the appeal process. Rissy will be over here later today to open her gifts from us. Joy is in N.C. with Ginny, Tim and the boys this year. Dulcey is down here by herself. We all went to the cemetary yesterday together. Sometimes the holidays are lonely without you, magnum, meow meow, my mom and dad, and bob. Well I have to go now and continue cooking. I love and miss you very much. Love Mommy.
April 18,2010Hi baby girl. I am sorry that I haven't talked to you in a while. Aunt Dawn is still living with us. We just got back from our annual camping trip. We all had a good time. You would have liked where we went. We are going again in September. Lucky and Jasmine did good. It was jazzy's first camping trip. She did real good until at night when the critters come out. We could hear them outside of the tent, so she was confused about the noise. I had to give her benedryl at night so we all could sleep. Marissa went with us as usual. Stephen stayed home. Maybe he will go with us in september. We tried some new campfire recipes. I wish you were with us. I still think about you everyday. I love you very much. You are still my baby girl. I know you were there with us camping, and helping Jasmine understand that she was going to be okay. I may need you to help her again in september when we go again. I have to go for now. I love and miss you very much. Love Mommy. June 10 2010 Hi my sweet girl. I haven't been able to talk to you because my computer has been down. I just got it back yesterday. Tim, Ginny and the boys are down for a few days. The boys are so grown up. Ginny & Tim are doing well. Daddy and I are mowing quite a few yards in the park. I love you. I wish that I could give you lots of kisses. I miss your sweet kisses so very much. I love you, Love Mommy. November 2 2010 Hi baby girl I am so sorry that I haven't visited you in some time. I miss so very much. Anothe halloween has come and gone. The holidays are fast approaching. We went camping again in September. We all had a good time. Daddy is have he knee replacement surgery in December. I miss you so very much. I wish that you were stil here with me. I know that you are in a better place now, but I stil want you with me. I know that we had 17 years together. I wasn't ready to say goodbye yet. You will never know what you gave me in the years that we were together. I love you so very much. Love Mommy. April 20,2011 Hi my sweet girl. I love you. We are getting ready for our annual spring break camping trip. Would you please help Jazzy at night. She still gets alittle scared at night when she hears the critters. I wish you were here to go with us. George and his family are going with us again. We are all pretty excited about going. This year we are going to Manatee Springs State Park. I need a vacation. I am cleaning houses 5-6 days a week. Time for me to go. I have to clean a house. I love and miss you very much. Love Mommy July 4, 2011 Happy 4th of July sweet baby girl. I love and miss you very much. Not much has changed since the last time we visited. I am still working 5-6 days a week, which is a good thing. We are all doing well. Lots to do gotta go I love and miss you very much. Love mommy. June 30 2012, Hi my sweet babygirl. I know that it has been a year since I last visited you and I am so so sorry. I still think about you everyday. Daddy and I joined weight watchers 8 weeks ago. I have lost 7 pounds, daddy not so much. We just bought a pop up camper so we can start camping again. We had to ask aunt Dawn to move out. She was taking daddy's pain meds again.Things are still pretty busy. I am still cleaning 5-6 days a week. Lucky , Jazzy and Maggie are all doing well. Mac is doing well I hope since he is with you. Maggie and I miss him very much. I know that he is in good hands with you. One day we will be together again. I love you. You will always be my sweet baby girl. I love you. Love Mommy. June 16,2014, Hi my sweet ginger girl. I miss you so much. I think of you everyday. We are doing well. Lucky seams sad sometimes, I think he misses you also. Lucky is 10 yrs old this year and Jazzy is 8, and Maggie is 14.Time goes by so fast sometimes. I was looking at some pictures of you when you were a little girl. it made me miss you more. You were my special girl and you always will be. I love you baby girl. I miss all your sweet kisses. Love mommy. June 4,2016 Hi my sweet baby girl. It has been 10 years since you went to Rainbow Bridge. I miss you so much. Lucky is 12 now. He is starting to have troubles with standing and jumping up on the sofa. Jazzy is 10 and she still acts like she is 2. A never ending ball of energy. Rissy graduated tonight. Can you believe it, she is 18 and going off to college in August. Wow how time flies by. We have 3 new kitties now. Sophie she is free spirit, she likes to be outside. Allie is our social butterfly. She greets everyone, and last but not least we have Simon, he is not very trusting of people. We are hoping that he eventually will grow out of that. When we first got him, he wouldn't let anyone near him. He is getting better. I am sorry that I haven't been visiting you as much as I used to. Things just get overwhelming. I will try to visit you more often.I think of you everyday. I miss you so much. I love you my sweet baby girl. Love Mommy. June 2,2017 Hi my sweet precious girl. I miss you so much. Lucky is not doing so good right now. He has cushings disease and it is starting to affect his liver. He is 13 this year. He also has arthritis in his hips. The vet has put him on Tramadol twice a day. It helps him a lot. He is not stumbling as much now. I am afraid that he will be with you soon. Jazzy is doing good she is 11 this year and still acts like a puppy. The cats are good. Sophie keeps eating my plants, so I have to keep them outside. Allie and Simon stay out of trouble. I miss you so much. I miss all your sweet kisses. I love you my sweet girl. Love Mommy. 6/26/19 Hi my sweet baby girl, its hard to believe that you went to the bridge 13 years ago. I miss you so much. I am so sorry that I have not visited in so long. Please tell Lucky that I miss him. Jazzy is doing good. She is starting to show her age more now. She will be 13 this year. The cats are all good. Allie and Jazzy are my body guards when I have my chemo infusions. I have one more infusion to go and then the chemo is over. I love you so much. One day we will meet again, and we will all be together. hugs and kisses to you my sweet girl. I love you. Love mommy. June 11,2021, hello my sweet girl. I love and miss so much. Since jazzy passed we got another puppy. I was so lonely without her with me. The new puppies name is Angel. She is alot like you and Jazzy out together. We also have Buddy who is very lovey and cuddly. They both like to sleep on me at night. Problem is that Angel weights about 45 lbs and Buddy is about 25 lbs. That's ok. Daddy hasn't been doing very well lately. We are hoping that things will get better. So far this year has been quite a struggle. Hopefully things will get better. I just want you to know that I love you so very much. Good night my sweet sweet girl.
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The Little Grassy Get Down at SIU Touch of Nature Environmental Center in Makanda, IL is a family=-friendly music festival featuring mostly original acoustic Americana music from around the Midwest. The event takes place from October 7-9, 2022, and will feature The Wood Box Gang, Chicago Farmer and the Fieldnotes, the Burney Sisters, One Way Traffic, Miles Over Mountains, Miss Jenny and the Howdy Boys, The People V Hugh DeNeal, Taylor Steele and the Love Preachers, Carter and Connelly, Wil and Robert and much more.
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Golden Bamboo
Phyllostachys aurea
General Information:
This member of the grass family is native to southeast China but is fast growing all throughout the United States. It is most commonly used for its thick screening abilities since the plant grows in clumps that can reach 30 feet high. The golden bamboo has internodes at the base of the stems which aid in identifying it from other bamboo species. It has been shown to flower infrequently, but can go decades without flowering.
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The golden bamboo can be used medically to treat colds, fevers, urinary tract problems, and overheating.
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Golden bamboo is listed as a nonnative, aquatic and invasive plant and spreads through underground rhizomes which make it extremely difficult to eliminate.


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This is my third time posting David Lebovitz's Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream recipe, but it just never disappoints. I have fresh chocolate mint and orange mint in my garden this year. I have always used chocolate mint but I decide to do both this time. I think the mint flavor is stronger, so if you try it, you might want to cut back on the two cups of fresh mint leaves. Normally I am not a big fan of mint or ice cream for that matter, but this recipe is another thing altogether. It has none of the "extract" flavor that store-bought mint ice cream has. This is fresh, grassy, herbaceous deliciousness. If you don't have mint in your garden you can use any fresh mint, but for me there is nothing like the flavor of fresh chocolate mint.
Here is the recipe from www.davidlebovitz.com:
For the mint ice cream:
- 1 cup (250 ml) whole milk
- ¾ cup (150 gr) sugar
- 2 cups (500 ml) heavy cream
- pinch of salt
- 2 cups packed (80 gr) fresh mint leaves
- 5 large egg yolks
For the chocolate chips:
5 ounces (140 gr) bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
1. In a medium saucepan, warm the milk, sugar, 1 cup (250 ml) heavy cream, salt, and mint.
2. Once the mixture is hot and steaming, remove from heat, cover, and let stand for an hour to infuse the mint flavor.
3. Remove the mint with a strainer, then press down with a spatula firmly to extract as much mint flavor and color as possible. (You can also use well-washed hands to do it as well, making sure the mixture isn't too hot to safely handle.) Once the flavor is squeezed out, discard the mint.
4. Pour the remaining heavy cream into a large bowl and set the strainer over the top.
5. Rewarm the infused milk. In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, then slowly pour some of the warm mint mixture into the yolks, whisking constantly, then scrape the warmed yolks back into the saucepan.
6. Cook the custard, stirring constantly with a heatproof spatula, until the mixture thickens and coats the spatula. If using an instant read thermometer, it should read around 170ºF (77ºC).
7. Immediately strain the mixture into the cream, then stir the mixture over an ice bath until cool.
8. Refrigerate the mixture thoroughly, preferably overnight, then freeze it in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.
While the mixture is freezing, melt the chocolate in a small bowl over a pot of simmering water, or in a microwave oven on low power, stirring until smooth. Place a storage container in the freezer.
9. When the ice cream in the machine is ready, scribble some of the chocolate into the container, then add a layer of the just-churned ice cream to the container. Scribble melted chocolate over the top of the ice cream, then quickly stir it in, breaking up the chocolate into irregular pieces. Continue layering the ice cream, scribbling more chocolate and stirring as you go.
When finished, cover and freeze until firm.
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by Workpro Case Management Software on July 9, 2020
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Friday, November 27, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (9 a.m. start time)
Ragged Records & Music, 311 1/2 21st Street, Rock Island IL
Nearly two years of calamity have taught the Ragged Records crew how to adapt and survive. From moving their full operations to what was intended to be an expansion store, to rolling and adjusting to the COVID pandemic with weekend-only hours, the Quad Cities mainstay has carried on in its mission to provide locals with good music and the implements with which to make it and listen to it. Recently, three straight modified Record Store Day events (smaller monthly "drops" rather than one giant extravaganza) were carried out successfully, to the satisfaction of both customers and staff.
Now, COVID cases have risen once again in Illinois, and Phase 3 mitigations are in place. It's not exactly a safe time to be doing business, but Ragged, which has kept its best interests in mind as well as those of their patrons, has decided to go ahead with its Black Friday Record Store Day sale. "We had thought about canceling it," says staff member Jon Burns, "but our customers go wild for Record Store Day, so we figured we'd give the people what they want."
They've got a strategy. Vinyl hounds can park at Ragged Records & Music's Rock Island location around the corner from Rozz-Tox and a 45's toss away from the District. From 8 a.m. onward, numbers will be assigned to each customer as they queue at the door of the building. They may then retreat to the warmth and comfort of their hopefully heated vehicles to await the store's opening at 9 a.m. From 9 to 11, five browsers at a time will be allowed into the building as their numbers are called to dig through the exclusive Record Store Day releases – and only the RSD releases – that will be displayed in their own part of the store. "That way we can move people in and out real quick and keep it safe," says Burns.
From 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., the rest of the store will be open to browse, as well as whatever RSD carrion remains. The five-person limit will remain in place all day, and masks will be required, as has been the rule since RR&M reopened back in the summer. Hand sanitizer will be available.
De facto spokesman Burns was fairly optimistic on Ragged's ability to pull off a safe day of record sales. Staying open, he says, "was a tough decision this time around. It's been easy to do the previous ones safely because we were outdoors. But moving it indoors, with the small size of our store, presented some problems. I think this will work and be pretty safe. We'll have someone working the door and making sure things move smoothly."
Burns declined to comment on a rumor I had heard regarding certain extra measures the store may or may not be taking to ensure compliance and safety. All three of the men employed as Ragged's skeleton crew are musicians, but Idpyramid mastermind Dennis Hockaday has a reputation as a sort of sonic mad scientist. When I asked him about a rumor that he had developed some sort of "sonic disruptor" to deal with unruly patrons, he muttered something I couldn't understand and hung up the phone. Burns refused to comment.
I caught Andrew Cline outside the gates of the Rock Island Arsenal carrying an object that looked like a cross between a balalaika and a miniature auger, but he ignored my greetings, instead jumping into a black Tahoe with tinted windows that immediately sped across the bridge. I tried to ask owner Bob Herrington about the strange noises reported to be coming from Future Apple Tree Studios downstairs at odd hours of the night, but was stopped cold by his thousand-yard stare. Pat Stolley won't return my calls. Here's my visual approximation of what I saw at the Arsenal:.
Unfortunately, as a small store in a small market, Ragged can't stock all of the 131 releases, but it does its best. "We always try to order a majority of as many titles as we can. This time around might be a little lighter than previous RSDs." RR&M is ultimately at the mercy of its distributor. Collectors can still expect to find music as varied as Nick Cave's take on T. Rex's "Cosmic Dancer," the reissue of the Beastie Boys' early hardcore punk recordings, and a box set of 7-inch instrumentals from Ol' Dirty Bastard's Return to the 36 Chambers. Live recordings may be found from Lou Reed, Alanis Morrisette, and the Drive-By Truckers, and deep diggers may be interested in Hank Williams' 1952 radio audition.
Ragged Records & Music can be reached easily on Facebook, the phone number is (309)788-0898, and the e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com. The curious can find RR&M at RaggedRecords.org, and those seeking to investigate Record Store Day listings may do so at RecordStoreDay.com.


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When I launched my business back in 2012, LinkedIn was the only real social media platform for Business Development.
My strategy was simple – find, connect and engage with my ideal clients. Message them, get a rapport going, then email explaining what I can do for them and offer a meeting or call.
It was a hugely successful strategy and was the only way I grew my marketing consultancy, won retained clients, and consistently fed my pipeline.
Fast-forward 8 years and now all the social media platforms are in on the business development action.
It's been a wild ride that's given us all an absolutely incredible platform to share value, make connections and grow our businesses.
But it's also become extremely competitive, noisy and over-crowded.
Content Marketing has been a huge focus for millions of business owners for several years, and the combined effect is an absolute overload of information sharing.
It's loud, confusing and overwhelming, and has resulted in some very real problems for business owners.
In this blog I'm going to share two of the top ways social media could be harming your business, and what to do about it.
I consumed So Much Content over the past few years it made my head spin.
I was like a kid in a candy store, running from counter to counter stuffing my face with every conceivable flavour and variety of sweet content I could get my hands on.
I consumed so much information it threw me off course, distracted me, and made me believe I wasn't doing things right.
Bright-shiny-object-syndrome had me trying so many different strategies and chopping-and-changing my focus.
As a creative who loves change, all those wonderful new ideas were just too tempting for me to ignore.
On the plus side, I've tried loads of different tactics over the past few years so I really know what works and what doesn't and now I get to pass that valuable knowledge through to my clients.
On the negative side, it made me take my eye off the true strategic priorities for business growth
I was so busy consuming content and trying new things that I stopped harnessing the power of my own knowledge and expertise.
Worse still, I probably confused my audience because I wasn't moving forward with singular focus – my energy was splitting off in too many directions.
So I've stopped over-indulging in content.
I'm doubling-down on my 18 years' marketing experience and 8 years as a business owner and harnessing the power of my own knowledge and expertise to (a) grow my own business and (b) help other's grow theirs.
This was the best piece of advice I got last year and I've implemented it throughout my business (and my life) to amazing effect.
I've stepped off the manic content creation rollercoaster and am producing one or two pieces of thoughtful and focussed content per week.
I've developed a content plan based around the services I offer and the key messages I want to convey.
Rather than race around producing huge volumes of unfocussed content to feed the machine, I'm talking about the same cluster of topics on repeat, because people need to see / read things at least 7 times before they sink in.
I'm slowing down to give myself time to answer questions and follow-up on leads that are generated by the focussed content I create.
I'm nurturing my community this way, and demonstrating my true passion to help people realise their ambitions and grow successful businesses.
Instead of spending hours writing posts native to platforms that get lost in a sea of content, I'm focussing on blog writing and my own email list.
My content is packed full of my knowledge and expertise, and I want to be able to consistently share and re-purpose it – something that's extremely difficult with one-off posts all over the place.
And this leads in to the next big problem for business owners:
I found myself stuck on broadcast mode, sucked into an insatiable content-hungry vortex.
As a highly creative idea-generating person, I could write content all day long, it's my comfort zone.
Last year I realised I'd become my own social media manager.
I'd spend days and days producing content in my race to share as much value with my audience I possibly could…believing it was the best way attract clients.
There's a Content Culture that demands business owners be active across several social media platforms Every Single Day – weekends too people, don't even think about taking a day off or the algorithm will punish you for it! ?
The problem with manic creation is that it's a never-ending time drain that simply will not yield consistent results.
Don't get me wrong – it does work and should definitely be part of your overall strategy, I've won loads of work because of content I shared, but with no real consistency or reliability!
[CAVEAT: This strategy only works when you've done the ideal client work to truly understand who they are and how you most powerfully serve them. I help my clients work through this, so if it's an area you haven't fully tapped into yet, book a call to find out how I can support you]
Because I've slowed down and am no longer focussed on producing huge volumes of content, I have more time to properly engage with people.
I'm doing this in three ways:
I'm taking a genuine interest in what they are sharing and talking about.
Rather than focussing on what I have to say – I'm focussing on what they are saying.
I'm publicly engaging with their content with comments, shares, and tagging other contacts who may find their content useful.
Doing this is helping me learn more about them and form deeper and more meaningful connections.
I'm helping to nurture communities by bringing people together and being a catalyst for referrals and relationships to form.
The old adage 'People Buy People' stands true, and investing my time and energy into developing proper relationships with my ideal clients feels great and is generating far more consistent and reliable leads.
Ah the DM…a sacred space where we are super sensitive about being sold-to!
Never Sell On The DM.
I've tried this approach. It doesn't work.
I cringe when I think of the sales DMs I've sent in the past!
When I DM people now it's to have a proper chat, to talk more about something they've shared, to really connect with the person.
Again, I'm getting to know my ideal client, build a proper relationship, develop trust, and share very direct bespoke value.
In my DMs we are sharing challenges and war stories, talking about what we're working on, sharing ideas, referring work to each other.
My DMs have become a safe little space for me to feel part of a community AND to nurture leads through the journey to work with me.
In some instances I'm moving the relationship 'off-platform', away from the noise of social media so we can slow down and understand each other better.
And this is where email comes in…
Moving the relationship to email was my number one LinkedIn strategy back in 2012, and it's my number one strategy now too!
Email feels more intimate again, we're more open to chatting about business opportunities, it's easier to talk about about what I do, what they do, and how we can work together.
Yes, it's a time-consuming focussed approach – welcome to the world of business development!
People buy people. Relationships matter.
Taking your time to really nurture your ideal clients will result in mutually rewarding, meaningful, and long-term relationships.
This approach is, once again, resulting in a consistent stream of discovery calls which are in turn resulting in more opportunities for me to support business owners.
So what's working for me is less time broadcasting and consuming, and more time really connecting and engaging.
And yes, the irony that this is the exact strategy I successfully implemented in 2012 isn't lost on me.
Ah the joys of cyclical marketing!
I also feel better knowing I'm not contributing to the noisy overwhelm of social media, I'm loving having the time to really engage with my community, and the result is that I'm winning work with far more consistency and reliability.
I absolutely LOVE social media, and it will always remain a fundamental part of my business growth framework, but I'm back in control of my business development and nurturing my prospects 'in-house' rather than relying on platforms that change like the wind, are unpredictable and unreliable, and could collapse at any given moment.
I'd love to hear what your business development strategy is for 2020.
You can share in the comments or, if you'd like to start a proper conversation about it, drop me an email and let's see if we can help each other's businesses become more consistent and reliable!
I'm Sally Oddy
I'm a girl who fell into marketing 20 years ago and never looked back! I love popcorn, reading and working from home with my cats on my keyboard! (if you know, you know!) My mission? To help others express themselves in their businesses enjoying the impact and income they truly desire!
Let's do this together xx
Sally works with soulpreneurs, pouring over 20 years experience into their hearts, minds and businesses.
Passionate about living life on purpose, Sally is all about honouring and accepting the fullness of self.
In-powering her clients to experience life in beautiful, bold, expansive ways is how they create and attract abundance and success into their lives.
Guiding her clients to dive deeply into their vision and mission, Sally shares her aligned approach to building online businesses that have a deeply positive impact in the world.
Sally is a Yorkshire Lass who grew up in 80's South Africa and is on a mission to inspire you to fulfil your dreams and potential in order to create a more in-powered and happy world.
Find out about how to work with Sally privately in her unique Mentorships or in a supportive group setting in her Programs.
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Octopath Travels To The Top Of U.S. Sales Charts In July
The National Purchase Diary, or NPD, tracks retail and some digital sales for a variety of products, including video games. July saw releases for a lot of smaller titles, but it appears to be a success story for a popular Switch exclusive and Nintendo in general.
For June, Mario Tennis Aces came out as the best selling game of the month, but the momentum for the Switch keeps rolling to July. Octopath Traveler tops the U.S. charts this month for all platforms, meaning that the game sold the best at retail. As the title is published by Nintendo in the U.S. and Nintendo doesn't report eShop sales to the NPD, Octopath outsold every other game without taking digital into account. Considering the scope and budget of the game, the Square Enix-developed JRPG is probably one of their bigger successes. You can check out our Octopath Traveler review right here.
Octopath Traveler also pushes Nintendo over the line to being the best selling software publisher this year, according to the NPD Group. The Kyoto giant has five of the top ten slots in the NPD in July with games like Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8, and Mario Tennis Aces.
- Octopath Traveler*
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Mario Kart 8*
- Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
- Far Cry 5
- Super Mario Odyssey*
- The Crew 2
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege
- Mario Tennis Aces*
- LEGO Incredibles
- God of War 2018
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker*
- Call of Duty: WWII
- Detroit: Become Human
- MLB 18: The Show
- Minecraft
- Destiny 2
(Titles marked with * do not count digital sales.)
Following behind Octopath is the juggernaut Grand Theft Auto V, which remains near the top of every NPD monthly sales chart consistently. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker debuted fairly low, though without absolute numbers and eShop sales it is hard to tell how well it did. Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy debuted strong, debuting second on the Xbox One-specific chart and seven on the Switch's chart.
In terms of hardware, the Switch was the best selling platform both in terms of units sold and revenue. This is the seventh month that the Switch has come out on top in the NPD since its release in March 2017. The PlayStation 4 remains the overall best selling system of 2018 to date.
The August NPD will include releases like WarioWare Gold, We Happy Few, Phantom Doctrine, and Yakuza Kiwami 2.


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Beauty Buzz/Blog Biz | Dana Hinnant
Editor's Note:
Great news!! Today I'm thrilled to formally introduce you to Dana Hinnant Bold Blind Beauty's new Beauty Editor. If Dana's name sounds familiar it could have been from our most recent podcast episode #6. If you haven't had the opportunity yet take a listen. In the interim following is Dana's intro and below that is her bio. Enjoy! ~Steph
Beautiful skin doesn't come from makeup! Beautiful skin comes from a great Esthetician!~Unknown
Hello Bold Blind Beauties!
I am so excited to be your Beauty Editor! I've been writing off and on about beauty and wellness ever since I came into the beauty industry 20 years ago. I will tell anybody that I am a beauty junkie from way back.
My passion and love runs deep for the beauty industry. I attend industry events on a regular basis for continuous education, friends, and of course… Shopping! Since I am a member and an ambassador with the Professional Beauty Association (PBA) I have access to industry experts, manufacturers, and distributors within the industry. I can provide you with education and commentary on the trends, products, etc. related to the beauty and wellness world.
I can also share some of my personal experiences with products that end up on the The Best of Beauty Lists. Not only will you get my expert advice, I can also give you the perspective from a consumer standpoint. Long before I was a professional I was a consumer first.
In addition, I can share some VIB (visually impaired beauty) tips that may be helpful along the way. I look forward to this journey with Bold Blind Beauty!
Beautiful Regards,
Connecting With Dana:
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Author Bio:
Dana Hinnant, a Washingtonian native, whose journey into the beauty industry began 20 years ago after receiving her B.A. in Hearing and Speech Sciences from the University of Maryland in 2000. She received her aesthetics training at Von Lee International School of Esthetics in Baltimore, MD. She started as a local makeup artist and events coordinator with Alluring Looks, Inc. in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Her articles were featured in local publications such as Pose Magazine and Yndigo newsletter. In the mid-2000s, she was a volunteer instructor with the American Cancer Society's Look Good…Feel Better program, which landed her an esthetician position at an area day spa.
Over the past several years, Dana has worked with various non-profit organizations and small businesses. During her tenure as the President of the Health and Wellness division of the National Federation of the Blind DC affiliate, she utilized the platform to provide salon safety tips and skincare advice throughout the community. She was a consultant with the Ecumenical Health Council in Port Towns, MD doing beauty and wellness presentations at area churches and events.
In 2019, Dana received the Maryland Association of Community Service Award for Volunteer of the Year due to her community engagement work for The Arc of Prince George's County. In addition, she also received the Volunteer of the Year award for 2020 from The Arc of Maryland. She is a member and an ambassador with the Professional Beauty Association. Dana is one of the co-owners of Capitol Collective Consulting LLC which launched in April 2021.
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- The header image is a closeup of an esthetician's hands applying a face mask for a client during a facial.
- Beauty tips sign on a makeup table in a bright powder room with a pink tone.
- Author bio photo is a headshot of Dana wearing a black scoop neck top under a black jacket. She has glowng caramel colored skin and short dark hair.


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نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
1 مهندسی آب دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد و معاون پژوهشی پژوهشکده کاوش پی
2 دانشیار گروه مهندسی آب، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد
3 استاد گروه علوم و مهندسی آب ، دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد.
4 استاد گروه زراعت دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد.
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Water shortage in nature, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, often related to a decrease in water quality. This research is applied in loamy gravely field area which is located in 25 km away from city center of Mashhad in 1390-1390 and 1391-1392 cultivate years. The followed experimental design was randomized in split- split plot complete block in which four different levels of salinity (0.5, 5, 8 and 11 dS/m, are respectively in S1, S2, S3 and S4 levels) as the main plots, four irrigation levels as subplots (supply 125, 100, 80 and 50% water necessity, I1, I2, I3 and I4 Respectively) and two cultivars of canola (Hyola401 and RGS003) as the sub-sub plots in three places. Log -linear function of the entre salinity in I4 treatment yield higher is estimated grains application more than reality. Based on the results of quadratic functions and the higher order estimates are better than the other two functions .The coefficient of R2 determination values is shown that the rate of Hayola cultivars and RGS, quadratic function with R2=0/99 and R2 = 0/8 would be first level. In contrast, the minimum numbers of Hayola and RGS logarithmic and linear functions were respectively in the next ranking. The RMSE indices show that the total higher amount of Hayola cultivar and RGS are 12/5 and 8/17 percentage yield less (according to the CRM -positive) estimates of the real values while the quadratic function total amount of 11/7 and 6/4 % performance for less (due to the positive CRM) are have been estimated the actual values. Thus, according to the occurrence comparison these indices for different functions and a final ranking is assigned to a quadratic function, this function is optimized as a function of the combined conditions of low salinity and irrigation Cultivars of Hayola and RGS which would be introduced in Mashhad.
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The installable version of ESXi hosts is always installed in evaluation mode.
The evaluation period is 60 days and begins when you turn on the ESXi host.
The evaluation license provides the set of features equal to a vSphere Enterprise Plus license.
When the evaluation period ends, the ESXi host will disconnect from vCenter Server. All powered on virtual machines continue to work, but you cannot power on virtual machines after they are powered off. You cannot change the current configuration of the features that are in use. You cannot use the features that remained unused before the license expiration.
There is however an easy way to extend the license expiration period, or actually reinitialise the counter back to 60 days.
- Log on to the ESXi host via SSH
- Execute the following commands:
- mv /etc/vmware/license.cfg etc/vmware/license.cfg.old
- cp /etc/vmware/.#license.cfg /etc/vmware/license.cfg
- /etc/init.d/vpxa restart
As you can see in the below screenshots the evaluation period has been extended (Note: Date format is US (mm/dd/yyyy), procedure was executed on 02 OCT 2021):


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The new initiative will rely on tokenization of content to support a content creation industry.
New social-fi platform Million is set to launch by the end of 2022 with the aim to disrupt the content creation ecosystem in the Middle East.
Million is a social media application sitting at the intersection of community, the creator economy, and the emergence of Web 3.0. Built on a robust E2E (engage-to-earn) economical model, it's part of the next generation of social media platforms relying on a decentralized finance model and users' digital ownership of the content they create and monetize, giving them the freedom to create exclusive yet profitable content and foster a whole new decentralized economy around them.
"There has been a true paradigm shift unfolding with the introduction of cryptocurrency enabled by blockchain technology," said Julien Hawari, CEO, in a statement. "The tokenization of business is fueling the ability to create new economies, and Million is perfectly positioned to enter this world."
Because of the disparity between high engagement and poor revenue, many content creators have been looking for new ways to control their content and monetize their channels. A DeFi-based solution like Million offers just that as it gives creators digital ownership and direct control over their financial connection with fans, hence a direct engagement monetization. Therefore, the platform cultivates proximity habits within a vibrant community and encourages collective ownership, making the prospects for value creation and sharing limitless.
The E2E model will allow celebrities, stars, influencers, key opinion leaders, and their biggest fans to come together to create, collaborate, and share content through a hyper-engaged experience while generating passive income.
Its gamification strategy, incentives, and user journey will unlock digital and physical benefits through a tier status program, bringing together content creators and consumers for the first time. One of the benefits would be subscribing to a whitelist entitling a member to utilities and exclusive privileges post-mint, such as access to an NFT collection pre-sale.
Million is linked to a digital wallet with its own token named Milz, while content creators can create their own social token which value comes from belonging to the community. Their followers can therefore receive tangible and intangible products and services like NFTs, exclusive access, items, and more in exchange for their money. Fans can buy these fandom tokens and hold onto them as they rise in value, and then sell them for a profit.
"At Million, we believe in digital ownership enabled by blockchains to be the method to transform the creative industry for both creators and fans in the Middle East," said Franck Mandon, COO. "We aspire to offer the benefits of blockchain technology while providing a best-in-class user experience."
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Apple just surprised us with a new iPod touch that promises to be its fastest yet.
Powered by a speedy A10 Fusion processor, it's built for gaming and immersive augmented reality experiences on the go. It's also affordable, with prices starting at just $199.
The only problem is it looks just like the old iPod touch.
The rumor mill told us a new iPod touch would arrive in 2019, and that it would be more powerful than ever before. We were also hoping for a brand new design with a larger screen, Touch ID, and other new features.
But Apple only delivered one of those things today.
2019 iPod touch is all about performance
The new iPod touch looks exactly like its predecessor. All the improvements have been made on the inside, where an A10 Fusion chip — originally introduced in 2016 — is the star of the show.
That A10 chip makes the new iPod touch up to twice as fast as previous models, with three times faster graphics. And for the first time, it can be coupled with up to 256GB of storage.
"We're making the most affordable iOS device even better with performance that is twice as fast as before, Group FaceTime and augmented reality starting at just $199," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of Product Marketing.
"The ultra-thin and lightweight design of iPod touch has always made it ideal for enjoying games, music and so much more wherever you go."
It looks the same!
It sure is thin and light, but it looks exactly the same as the old model. That's not necessarily a bad thing — it is pretty — but it means you have to live with the same 4-inch display flanked by the same bulky bezels.
Apple did a similar thing with the iPad mini earlier this year; it packed newer internals into an existing package to give the aging tablet a new lease on life. But because the iPad mini is bigger than the iPod touch, the big bezels aren't quite as obvious there.
What's great about the iPod touch is that it's still cheap. At $199, it's the perfect iOS device for kids who want to play games, watch videos on YouTube, and listen to music but aren't quite old enough for an iPhone yet.
Order yours today
The new iPod touch is available today from the Apple Online Store in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Spain, and many other markets. The $199 price tag applies to the 32GB model, while the 128GB and 256GB models are priced at $299 and $399 respectively.