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Whitehorse is looking to ban mineral staking within city limits.
Mayor Bev Buckway confirmed talks were happening between municipal and territorial officials at the Association of Yukon Communities meeting, held in Dawson City earlier this month.
She wasn't sure how close they are to completing a deal, but Buckway was sure to mention that it was a different scenario than in Dawson City.
"It's not a placer mining industry, it's quartz claims," she said. "But it's surprising how much is already staked."
And the claims that are staked can't be taken away, Buckway added.
She listed Wolf Creek and the Copper Haul area as main hubs of mining-residential controversy in Whitehorse.
"People have a sense that the equipment might roll in and people are going to be drilling right underneath your bedroom window," she said. "But it's been productive discussions."
The eastern side of the Yukon River, by the hospital, is almost void of any mineral staking, Buckway added.
A ban would only affect new staking, she said.
Dawson City banned staking within its municipal boundaries back in 2003.
But that hasn't stopped controversy between placer miners and residents in the Klondike town. Miners still have rights to work claims already staked.
Such is the case with the contentious Slinky Mine on Dawson's Dome Road. Darrell Carey has held 19 claims along the residential road since 1998 and 1999.
Two years ago, the town lost authority over the mine when Carey passed through the territory's assessment process.
But Dawson does have a say over the road, which Carey wants to dig up during his search for gold. The town has accused Carey of trespassing. The case is before Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale.
More controversy came up again this year with another placer miner, Mike Heisey. Since 1980, he's held two claims that straddle the Klondike River in the residential Dredge Pond subdivision.
After a flurry of opposition during the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board's review of Heisey's new proposals for the Klondike Valley claims, the miner asked the territory to swap the claims for land title. Those talks are ongoing.
At the communities' meeting, Opposition Leader Liz Hanson called for a territory-wide ban for all municipal staking.
At the same meeting later that day, Premier Darrell Pasloski reaffirmed his support for Yukon's free-entry staking system.
But the government is willing to speak with any municipality that wants a staking ban within its boundaries, said Buckway.
Municipal councils must receive territorial approval for any staking ban. This restriction is one of many reasons why local officials want an overhaul of the Municipal Act.
Community Services Minister Elaine Taylor announced at the Dawson meeting that a review would begin this summer.
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With Kaiser Permanente's acquisition of Group Health Cooperative complete, many are curious what this means for them. In short, Group Health insurance members will see NO changes to their plans nor benefits for 2017, but all Group Health branding will be changed to Kaiser Permanente starting in March.
If you are one of the 650,000+ members whom are impacted by this acquisition, take a look at the Acquisition Q & A that Group Health and Kaiser Permanente have put together.
Here are some highlights from their Q&A page:
What are the next steps?
In March, you'll get a Kaiser Permanente identification card. Your member number will be the same, but you'll use this new card for all your health care services. Your existing card is still valid, so please continue to use it until you receive your new Kaiser Permanente replacement card.
Beginning in March, the Kaiser Permanente name, brand and logo will appear in medical centers, on employee apparel, on member identification cards, on public websites and more.
When will Group Health's name change? What will the new name be?
Now that the acquisition is complete, a name change (from Group Health to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington) will be filed with the Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner.
Beginning in March, the Kaiser Permanente name, brand and logo will appear in medical centers, on employee apparel, on member identification cards, on public websites and more.
Will existing Group Health members have the same coverage and benefits?
Yes. Becoming part of Kaiser Permanente does not change the 2017 plan or benefits Group Health members selected during 2016 Open Enrollment.
The acquisition does not affect 2017 premiums, benefits or cost shares.
Information about applicable name changes in your benefit booklets or coverage documents will be issued in a separate communication.
The three Questions and Answers above were pulled from the Group Health website. Please view the full list of Questions and Answers on their site as they've done a great job trying to answer your questions. Should you still have questions, give us a call and we'd be happy to assist you.
Kaiser Permanente was founded in 1945, and currently serves over 10.6 million members in eight states. Group Health Cooperative began in 1947 and currently operates as a non-profit in Washington state. Kaiser has pledged to give approximately $1.8B to the new not-for-profit Group Health Community Foundation to continue Group Health's legacy of helping Washingtonians achieve better health.
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame has announced the 122 modern-era players who have been nominated for enshrinement for 2022. Among the players are five with ties to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The #Steelers are well represented among the Modern Era nominees for the @ProFootballHOF Class of 2022. #PFHOF22— Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) September 22, 2021
Hines Ward has made it as far as a semifinalist in previous years. Ward spent all 14 of his NFL seasons in Pittsburgh and was selected to the Pro Bowl four times. Playing in three Super Bowls with the Steelers, Ward was the Super Bowl MVP for the 2004 season.
For the second straight year, former Steelers tight end Heath Miller has been nominated. Miller played tight end 11 NFL seasons all in Pittsburgh where he had two pro bowl selections.
Other nominations are nose tackle Casey Hampton, linebacker Hardy Nickerson Sr., and kicker Gary Anderson. Last offseason, Hall of Fame kicker Morton Andersen gave a ringing endorsement for Gary Anderson to enter the Hall of Fame in an exclusive interview with BTSC.
Modern-era finalists will be trimmed down to 25 in November and again to 15 in January before going down to 10 and then five during Super Bowl weekend in February. The five finalists and three senior finalists will undergo a 'yes' or 'no' vote and must receive 80% in order to be selected.
A complete list of all players who were nominated for 2022 can be seen below courtesy of the Pro football Hall of Fame.
BREAKING: The Modern-Era nominees for the Class of 2022 have been unveiled. The list is comprised of 122 players. Among the group are 10 first-year eligible players.— Pro Football Hall of Fame (@ProFootballHOF) September 22, 2021
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Recruit young, nurture, coach and develop into prized assets - that's a basic overview of the recruitment philosophy Tony Mowbray is looking to implement at Blackburn Rovers.
It's a refreshing approach and is a component of the club's long-term scheme of becoming a more self-sustainable project in the future. But there's no harm in acquiring a player over a certain age, is there?
Mowbray proved that last year through the signing of Stewart Downing. Told by Jonathan Woodgate he no longer had a future at Middlesbrough, Downing enjoyed healthy discussions with Mowbray, bought into the Rovers plan and while the move was initially treated with scepticism, the 36-year-old has defied expectations and proven that age is just a number when it comes to a seasoned England international.
Contract talks between Downing and the club remain ongoing, with both sides relaxed over negotiations as the former Boro midfielder takes time off with his family. Mowbray is optimistic a solution will be resolved in the near future, and if it's a possession-based system the Rovers chief is looking to implement, then a Downing-esque player is an important component.
Whether Downing opts to stay or not, his time at Ewood will be remembered fondly and the veteran has restored a drop of faith in signing players that are experiencing the latter stages of their career.
If the recruitment department are looking to acquire another golden oldie to supplement the current squad, there are plenty of ageing free agents that they could get their teeth stuck into.
Andrew Surman
The Bournemouth stalwart is similar to Downing in that he is versatile and can play in an array of positions, ranging from central-midfield to full-back and can even operate on either wing.
Surman made just five Premier League appearance as the Cherries were relegated to the Championship, ending a five-year spell in the top flight.
A knee injury hampered his involvement through October and November and while he never amassed a significant amount of time on the field, his calming and professional approach was valued by Eddie Howe during an increasingly difficult.
With accurate set-pieces in his locker, Surman would fit a high-intensity approach in midfield. The midfielder doesn't expect to be offered a new deal to stay at the Vitality.
Chris Martin
There was an element of surprise when it was revealed Martin was to depart Derby County, but given the style Phillip Cocu is attempting to execute, his immobility was one determining factor.
Nevertheless, the 31-year-old is still a proven goalscorer at this level, chalking up 11 across the 2019/20 season, and would offer an alternate outlet in attack.
A problem would be wages. It's unlikely Martin would voluntarily take a wage reduction and you could argue there are better, more financially attainable targets out there. Even so, he's a striker that the majority of Championship clubs would be happy to have on their books.
Kieran Lee
A contract could still be on the cards for Lee at Sheffield Wednesday but if that does not materialise, the combative central midfielder would be a coup for future buyers.
The 32-year-old has spent a tremendous eight seasons at Hillsborough, emerging as a fan-favourite and his commitment to the Wednesday cause was never questioned with his consistent, all-action displays.
Injury problems have come to plague him in recent years - Wednesday were guilty of rushing his return following hip surgery - but there is no doubting that on his day, he remains a sublime talent who can dictate games from deep, prevent opposition transitions and pop up with the odd crunching tackle or more importantly, crucial goal.
In an essence, he's an older version of Lewis Travis.
Rob Elliot
Goalkeepers are on the agenda this summer and Elliot would offer great competition between the sticks.
Predominantly a back-up option during his nine-year stint on Tyneside, Elliot has proven he is capable of competing as Premier League number one in the past and was named Newcastle's Player of the Season in 2016.
A serious knee injury at the conclusion of that campaign has since restricted game time, and fell behind Martin Dubravka and Karl Darlow in the pecking order. It's believed Elliot eyes a first-team opportunity, but his injury record would emanate caution.
The 34-year-old would also prefer to remain up north, with his family settled in Newcastle.
Andy King
There are a lot of central midfielders without a club currently, with King being a member of that group.
With a Premier League winners medal to his name, King spent the second-half of last season at Huddersfield Town and helped the Terriers to stave off relegation, producing an influential performance in the victory over West Brom.
King told the Huddersfield Examiner that he had already received offers from several Championship clubs as he weighs up his next career move.
His ambition lies in a top-half Championship club and King has proven he is still able to control matches. Should Mowbray retain a three-man midfield, it's an avenue worth exploring - although wages, once again, would prove to be a stumbling block.
George Friend
Middlesbrough have tabled a new contract offer for Friend, who has endured a rollercoaster period during his eight years at the Riverside.
The 32-year-old predominantly operates as a left-back but has been inclined to a role at centre-back, and proved under Woodgate's spell that he is capable of playing out from the back - an attribute Mowbray will be on the look out for in the market. Mowbray knows all about Friend as well, having signed him from Doncaster Rovers in 2012.
He is another one to struggle with injuries but under Neil Warnock, has regained form and fitness before helping Boro to Championship safety.
An imposing character in the dressing room, it's clear to see why Warnock is desperate to retain him.
Kamohelo Mokotjo
The defensive midfielder has been informed he no longer features in Thomas Frank's plans as Brentford prepare for a major rebuild over the course of the summer.
At risk of repeating myself again, injuries have been an issue. Mokotjo was a surprise omission from Brentford's play-off squad having been an ever-present throughout the season, with the Bees ultimately falling at the final hurdle against Fulham on Tuesday.
The 29-year-old has an excellent ability to read the game, break up play and disrupt attacks, while also being a reliable outlet in posession.
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This weekend marks one year since a Valley man, out for a bike ride, was hit by a car and killed while making his way down South Mountain.
Rob Dollar was hit and killed on October 29 by an alleged drunk driver, who admitted to drinking and smoking pot before the crash.
Over the last 12 months, the family of Rob Dollar has been processing the loss while starting the Rob Dollar Foundation, something he was talking about doing before he was killed.
Their mission is to educate drivers to give cyclists a three-foot buffer.
"To bring awareness to the motorist, to give these people three feet," said John Dollar, Rob's father. "Three feet is not something we're asking for. It's the actual law."
The Dollar family says they've already met with Phoenix city leaders about adding signage in town, reminding drivers of the law. They plan to lobby other Valley cities as well.
This Sunday morning the foundation is hosting the Rob Dollar Ride at South Mountain. It is open to the public and family friendly.
If you go:
Oct 28, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
South Mountain Park, 10919 S Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ


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Zhu, Bin B. and Yan, Jeff and Yang, Maowei and Wei, Dongchen (2014) Security analyses of click-based graphical passwords via image point memorability. In: CCS '14 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. ACM, USA, pp. 1217-1231. ISBN 9781450329576Full text not available from this repository.
We propose a novel concept and a model of image point memorability (IPM) for analyzing click-based graphical passwords that have been studied extensively in both the security and HCI communities. In our model, each point in an image is associated with a numeric index that indicates the point's memorability level. This index can be approximated either by automatic computer vision algorithms or via human assistance. Using our model, we can rank-order image points by their relative memorability with a decent accuracy. We show that the IPM model has both defensive and offensive applications. On the one hand, we apply the model to generate high-quality graphical honeywords. This is the first work on honeywords for graphical passwords, whereas all previous methods are only for generating text honeywords and thus inapplicable. On the other hand, we use the IPM model to develop the first successful dictionary attacks on Persuasive Cued Click Points (PCCP), which is the state-of-the-art click-based graphical password scheme and robust to all prior dictionary attacks. We show that the probability distribution of PCCP passwords is seriously biased when it is examined with the lens of the IPM model. Although PCCP was designed to generate random passwords, its effective password space as we measured can be as small as 30.58 bits, which is substantially weaker than its theoretical and commonly believed strength (43 bits). The IPM model is applicable to all click-based graphical password schemes, and our analyses can be extended to other graphical passwords as well.


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To start this week in the best way possible we decide to bring you another MasterClass Review. This time we decide to make an article for the bakers out there, so saying that it's time for the Dominique Ansel MasterClass review.
Celebrated for his innovative twists on classic desserts, Cronut® creator and James Beard Award-winner Dominique Ansel has been called the "World's Best Pastry Chef." In his MasterClass, Dominique teaches his essential techniques for perfect pastries. Learn his precise methods, add classic recipes to your repertoire, and explore texture and flavor inspirations to delight friends and family with your own decadent desserts.
The first time we heard that Dominic Ansel was going to have a MasterClass, we do not believe! The first thing that came to mind was that we finally have access to the secrets to the world-famous cronut. After we start reviewing the Dominique Ansel MasterClass, we rapidly understand that our dream of discovering the secret to the perfect cronut was down the drain.
Although you don't have access to the recipe for the cronuts you still have a lot of important information. With 17 lessons, in this MasterClass, you will learn the fundamentals of French Pastry. From the famous Dominique's Mini Madeleines to fruit tarts, chocolate cake, bonbons, or even the perfect croissant.
01 – Introduction
Meet your new instructor: James Beard Award-winning pastry chef Dominique Ansel. Step into Chef Dominique's bakery as he shares his vision for the class—to teach you the fundamentals of pastry and a curated selection of stunning desserts.
02 – Dominique's Journey: Beauvais, Boulud, and the Bakery
Learn Chef Dominique's unlikely path from a working-class town in Northern France to the pastry kitchen of a Michelin-starred Manhattan restaurant—and finally—his very own bakery.
03 – Mini Madeleines
Chef Dominique believes that there is a precise moment in which a dessert is at its best. Learn how to make mini madeleines, pillowy cakes that can be baked and served within five minutes—when they are at their peak.
04 – Fruit Tart Base: Vanilla Sablé Shell
Chef Dominique teaches you how to make a vanilla sablé shell that serves as the base for a set of stunning fruit tarts in the chapters to come. Learn to fonçage and blind-bake pastry dough for a tart shell that serves as the optimal canvas for endless variation.
05 – Fruit Tart Filling: Pastry Cream
Pastry cream is an indispensable part of a baker's arsenal. Learn to make Chef Dominique's classic version, and how to apply the infusion technique to create complementary flavors.
06 – Fruit Tart Filling: Quick Strawberry Jam
Chef Dominique teaches you to make a simplified strawberry jam that you'll use as a robustly flavorful second filling in the strawberry fruit tart.
07 – Fruit Tart Finishing: Classic Strawberry Presentation
For Chef Dominique, presentation is one of the most important elements in making pastries. Learn his techniques for selecting, slicing, and glazing fruit, and how to build a beautiful strawberry tart that will impress your family and friends.
08 – Fruit Tart Finishing: Modern Apple Presentation
Chef Dominique demonstrates his creative methods for piping pastry cream and peeling apples, as well as how to incorporate color and pattern to assemble an apple tart that is as visually arresting as it is delicious.
09 – Chocolate Cake Base: Biscuit
A favorite of Chef Dominique's, biscuit is a French-style sponge cake that is light and gluten-free. Learn Chef's tips for mixing, baking, and cutting perfect biscuit layers that will be used to build a delectable chocolate mousse cake.
10 – Chocolate Cake Accent: Swiss Mini Meringues
Learn Chef Dominique's method for making light and airy meringue and his technique for piping wonderfully crunchy meringue kisses. These mini meringues will be used in Chapter 12: Chocolate Cake Finishing.
11 – Chocolate Cake Filling: Mousse
Chef Dominique's silky dark chocolate mousse relies on smooth ganache and lightly-whipped cream. Learn his techniques for perfectly textured mousse that can be enjoyed on its own or as a layer for chocolate cake.
12 – Chocolate Cake Finishing: Assembly & Presentation
Learn how to assemble the cake, coat it with a stunning, slate-black mirror glaze, and top it with mini meringues for a finished dessert as intricate as it is whimsical.
13 – Bonbon Base: Tempered Chocolate Shell
Chef Dominique demystifies tempered chocolate by demonstrating two techniques that result in chocolate bonbon shells with a magnificently glossy finish.
14 – Bonbon Filling: Dark Chocolate and Banana Passionfruit Ganache
Learn how to make creamy, rich ganache that can be infused with flavors—like the banana-passionfruit variation in this chapter. Then, learn how to fill, cap, and unmold perfect bonbons.
15 – The Perfect Croissant
What the omelet is to savory chefs, the croissant is to pastry chefs. Learn the techniques that make for golden, flaky croissants – like dough lamination and making starter – and watch as Chef analyzes croissants from his team around the globe.
16 – Case Study: The Cronut®
Dominique takes you inside his New York bakery to share the origin story of the dessert that launched a thousand imitations – the croissant-meets-donut mashup Chef coined the Cronut® – and how you can use emotion to create your own memorable pastries.
17 – Thinking Creatively About Pastry
Chef Dominique concludes his MasterClass by showcasing some of his most inventive creations from Dominique Ansel Bakery and leaves students with parting words of encouragement and inspiration.
Similarly to what happened in all other MasterClasses, you will have access to a cookbook where you have the recipes and where you can take your own notes. With more than 50 pages, this cookbook is the perfect companion for the online classes. Here you will have all the recipes and important notes from Dominique as well as timelines for recipes. These timelines are very important because some recipes take several days to make.
Also, a great addition to this class is the interaction between the students and Dominique Ansel. You can put your doubts and photographs on the MasterClass platform and wait until Dominique Ansel answers you.
The Dominique Ansel MasterClass is another great class that is worth the investment. As we said multiple times, more than recipes you will learn techniques that will take your cooking skills to another level. Techniques you will use for the rest of your life!
In our opinion MasterClass is a huge and incredible project that will change the way people learn how to cook. If you really like food and you want to know more, you should definitely take a look at their website. You will definitely find something that you will love!
Like in all our reviews, this post contains affiliate links and we will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on our links. If you are planning to buy this MasterClass or some other, please use our links in order to help us in keeping this blog up to date, giving you the best reviews.
Dominique Ansel MasterClass is a great way to learn about pastry. A class were you learn the French pastry fundamentals that will take your pastry skills to a completely different level.


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Versele Laga Seaweed Grit
Seaweed Grit by Versele-Laga is a natural sea product, rich in minerals and trace elements, including iodine which is essential for good overall health. The seaweed grit stimulates the activity of the thyroid gland and promotes down moult of your birds.
For best results, administer Seaweed Grit all year round. Give 1 tablespoon of seaweed mixed through the Grit with Redstone every day and refresh daily.


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Welcome to the Gallery of Texas Limestone wall veneers and Cast Stone architectural accents used in residential and commercial applications, direct from the stone quarry and Cast Stone fabrication facility.
The following video will highlight a blend of limestone from our Texas quarries in varying shapes such as tumbled cobblestones (pavers), chopped four sides (free standing walls), sawn top and bottom (wall veneers), chopped four sides (wall veneer), sawn six sides (honed floor tiles) and cut stone wall caps.
The following is a partial list of projects that indicate the diversity of design possibilities using the oldest building material in the world.


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What's Behind all that Fatherly Wisdom About Smiling?
All that fatherly wisdom about smiling must be accurate because one thing's for certain, Father knows best! At least that's what my Dad told me. So, in honor of dear old (and young) Dads everywhere on this Father's Day, let's examine a few of our father's favorite quotes about smiling and why they make a lot of sense. While we are at it, do you and your dad a favor. Promise to take the best care of your smile, and come visit us soon at Sky Ortho!
A smile is a natural human response. In addition, it's a universal sign of happiness and acceptance. Did you know that science has found smiles to be contagious? For example, children smile as much as 400 times per day. Unfortunately, by the time we become adults, we only smile about 20 times a day. The good news is, those who smile more are happier and more successful.
Our parents encourage us to be happy as children. And Dad has some special advice he is passing on when it comes to our smile.
Fatherly Wisdom About Smiling
A Smile is the Shortest Distance Between Two People — Victor Borge
Even without words, when language fails us, a smile is like a bridge. It helps bring strangers together in a room. If all you have is a smile to rely upon, you have something very reliable. Smiles have been building networks for generations. In a sea of strange faces, all it takes is a single smile to begin building bridges. Imagine how powerful that smile can be. Your Dad was right. Look for a smile when you feel the most alone and you will find a friend among strangers. Not one word or 1,000 words can speak louder than a single smile and a kind gesture.
If You See Someone Without a Smile, Give Them One of Yours — Dolly Parton
A smile costs us nothing and it just might return the most benefits of anything we can give away. Dad might say, there is no need to be stingy with your smiles. But, of course, be smart and be safe. We can often change someone's day with a kind gesture or a simple smile. So even though changing the world for the better might be a tall order, try changing it one smile at a time. If we all work together, we might just make some great improvements.
When All Else Fails, Smile — Millie Florence
Sometimes nothing we do seems to make the moment better. That is when we just must smile. A smile shared between two people, even at the saddest moment, has a way of bringing hope and cheer to the heart. Try it sometime. When you are feeling sad, look in the mirror and start smiling at yourself. Yes, it will feel uncomfortable at first. But after a while, you will begin to feel that smile spreading. No, it is not a cure for depression, but it can help give you a temporary reprieve so that you can get out and find some help.
More Fatherly Wisdom About Smiling
Smile and the World Smiles with You — Stanley Gordon West
It sure feels like that, doesn't it? That is the power of a smile. Often it has the ability to spread quickly in a crowded place. It is like a tiny flame that soon ignites everyone around it. This is especially true at a school or family event where there are young people like a parade, concert, or theme park. The more innocent and untroubled the crowd, the more momentum a smile will have.
You Are Not Fully Dressed Until You Wear a Smile — Evan Esar
Most people in business will tell you that a smile can open doors. For that reason, it is so important to work on your smile when you are preparing for an interview. Never underestimate the power of your smile to melt the ice when meeting someone for the first time. Meeting a potential employer can be a bit uncomfortable. Rely on your smile to warm up the room and help this stranger get to know the real you.
Keep Smiling, It Makes People Wonder What You're Up To — Sean Keogh
When we smile, the neurotransmitters in our brain are activated and release dopamine, endorphins, and serotonin. This helps us to relax by lowering our heart rates, relieving stress, and boosting our mood. We also gain confidence. This is because people who smile more are seen as successful. Showing confidence through your smile, you are more likely to be perceived as confident in an interview situation, on the job, and just walking down the street. You also feel less stressed and more confident by wearing a smile more often. People want to emulate your confidence. They wonder what makes you so happy. Science tells us that a smile makes us appear to others as more intelligent, interesting, and successful.
Listen to Dad's Fatherly Wisdom About Smiling
You can't go wrong when you focus on improving your smile. The more confidence you have in your smile, the more confidence you will have overall. If you have issues with your smile, Sky Ortho has solutions that may be right for you. Contact us today to see if we can help you achieve the smile of your dreams. We accept many types of insurance and also have financial plans in place. Plus, Sky Ortho is open on Saturdays to help with your schedule.


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Introduction: Valentine Robot Dispenses Candy Kisses Using Picaxe
Below is a video of it working with the cover on the candy box off so as to better see the candy movement. I still need to do some tweeking of the code to get a better looking heart but it is not too bad now
Also follows a better video showing the servos processing the candy.
Step 1: Get Stuff
The components I used are:
- Picaxe 18M2 Project board - from Sparkfun - about 23.00
- 2 motors wheel combination - GM2 motor with wheel - Solarbotics sells for about 10.00 for each wheel/.motor
- a swivel castor wheel from Home Depot - 2.00
- a piece of 8 inch shelf board for the platform -
- 2 servos - Hextronic - Hxt900 - I had but I would say they cost about 5.00 each
- a box of Valentine Candy - 10.00
- a SN75441 motor control IC - I had but about 2.00
- misc wires . PCB, small pieces of scrap wood , hot glue, headers , zip ties
- 7 double A batteries
- a DPDT switch - Radio Shack
- battery holders - from Radio Shack
- most importantly - a bag of Hersey Candy Kisses.
Step 2: Create the Platform
I cut a 12 inch piece of 8 inch shelf board. Then cut the sides as shown . Each corner of the triangle shape is about 2 inches long.
Step 3: Prepare the Motors and Attach to the Platform - Also Attach the Swivel Castor
I soldered small lenghts of wire to the terminals on each motor and the used wire ties to attach to each front corner.
The smallest castor that I could fine was this one at Home Depot - it is 1 3/4 inches square.
Step 4: Prepare the Candy Box and Mount to the Platform
The arrangement of wood p[pieces and the placement of the servos was arrived at after a great deal of trial and error. Several other arrangements were tried but this is what I ended up with. It works pretty good but it does mess up once in awhile
A big problem was keeping the candies from jamming up in the box. Placing them in the box in single file solved this largely. And a great deal of code work was done to get the servos to be open long enough but not too long.
Hot glue was used to hold everything in place
I am sure there are better designs
The video in step one shows the candy being processed. The code for the servos follows.
Step 5: Add the Picaxe and the Motor Controller
I wanted this project to help me learn more about the Picaxe and motor controllers
So a lot of the code(especially for the motor controller) is from examples found at the LMR site http://letsmakerobots.com/ and various Instructables and other google searches.
To make wire connections easier, I soldered headers to the project board and to the PCB where I installed the SN7441 chip.
Step 6: The Connections and Power Sources
Here is what I did but not necessarily the best idea because I am pretty new to this stuff.
- I used two power sources. the 4.5 volts powers the Picaxe and the 6.0 volts powers the motors(2 servos and 2 wheels) . This done by attaching the the red and black wires from the battery holder to the appropriate inputs on the Picaxe board. The Picaxe documentation says the resistor must be cut if using separate power sources(see photo).
For each motor/servo there is a power and ground wire .S each pair is attached to the project board to the output pins that are used in the code. The control wires still need to be attached to the Picaxe pins.
The Picaxe site has pdf for the manuals . Manual number 3 has a good description of how to hook up servos and motor controllers.
I am only controlling on of the motors thru the SN75441 as I find I can control the robot pretty well that way.
The motor controller chip allows for speed control and forward reverse command. So I can do that with one motor. the other is just on or off. This works for me as the robot only makes left hand turns. A great deal more control would be had if I controlled both motors thru the SN75441.
Step 7: The Code
The Picaxe code I used is follows with comments thru out
v1 - 2/18 attempt to put all the code together
servo 7,91
servo 5,50
high b.2
main: ' the main loop
'drive forward short distance with no drop'
' drive forward and drop 3 pieces of candy
gosub straight
inc b2
loop while b2 <3
' left turn and drop 4 candy
' and then continue with turn for one cycle without dropping candy
gosub firstleftturn
inc b3
loop while b3 <5
' gosub leftturnnocandy
' inc b12
'loop while b12 < 1
' now at middle
' figure this out later
gosub nopower
' turn it around
gosub turnaround
gosub nopower
' left turn and drop 5 candy
gosub secondleftturn
inc b4
loop while b4 <4
' drive forward and drop 3 pieces of candy
gosub laststraight
inc b5
loop while b5<5
' turn wide
gosub lastleftturn
gosub nopower
goto main ' this ends the loop, the rest are only sub-routines
' subroutines
' --------------------------------------------
' one motor is on all the time
high B.1
' other is 100% during straight
' pwmout B.3, 99, 400 :low 4
high b.3 :low b.4
' go forwaed 1 secs and then drop candy
pause 2000
gosub dropcandy
' one motor is on all the time
high B.1
' other is 100% during straight
' pwmout B.3, 99, 400 :low 4
high b.3 :low b.4
' go forwaed 1 secs and then drop candy
pause 2000
gosub dropcandy
' one motor is on all the time
high B.1
' other is 100% during straight
high b.3 :low b.4
'pwmout B.3, 99, 400 :low 4
' go forwaed
pause 460
' one motor is on all the time
high B.1
' 50 %
'pwmout B.3, 99, 200 :low 4
' 70%
pwmout B.3, 99, 280 : low 4
pause 2500
gosub dropcandy
' one motor is on all the time
high B.1
' 50 %
'pwmout B.3, 99, 200 :low 4
' 75
pwmout B.3, 99, 245 : low 4
pause 1775
gosub dropcandy
' one motor is on all the time
high B.1
' 50 %
'pwmout B.3, 99, 200 :low 4
' 70%
pwmout B.3, 99, 280 : low 4
pause 2500
' first stop all
' turn off pwm
low B.1 : low B.3 : low B.4
pause 500
' open the shute gate and allow one to drop
servo 5, 93
pause 260
' close gate
servo 5, 60
' candy drops
pause 500
' move insides
servo 7,50
pause 350
servo 7,91
pause 1000
low B.1 : low B.3 : low B.4
pause 1000
high B.1 : low B.3 : low B.4
pause 12950
gosub straightnocandy
inc b11
loop while b11 < 6
' one motor is on all the time
high B.1
pwmout B.3, 99, 310
pause 10000
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A picture of Monroe was published in a magazine with the top of the page labeled, "What I Eat in a Day". The article explained her diet, and subsequently suggested women to, once more, diet and change their appearances for society. In a study done by the British Psychological Society 9, after testing 228 people – both male and female – and observing their attitudes towards their body and relationship of idolizing celebrities, scientists found that an unhealthy perception of one's body is highly correlated to how much an individual glorifies a certain celebrity body type. Further, suggesting that Monroe's dietary choices being published in a magazine must have influenced the way young women made dietary decisions too. Today, we still see magazines with lines such as, "tips and tricks to lose weight", or "10 flirting ideas to catch his eye", and it all started with magazines such as the one Monroe appeared in, encouraging unhealthy dieting to stay a certain figure.
In the renaissance, it was desirable for a woman to have large hips and a bigger belly, as a matter of fact, it was seen as a sign of wealth. Today, despite a few body positive role models, by societal standards, being stick figure thin is considered the ideal body shape for a woman. If you ever have the chance to take a basic anatomy class, you'll learn that women naturally store fat in the lumbar region; that's supposed to be there! Monroe was a size 14, yet, in today's beauty standards, her hip to waist ratio is considered too big. Luckily, Monroe wanted to advertise and push for her own beauty standards in the 50's. This was very courageous of her to go against director and film producer's suggestions to lose weight for roles "to become more desirable".
Unfortunately, all the pressure of Monroe being under the spotlight twenty four – seven, expected to live up to unrealistic standards of Hollywood producers, and at the same time coping with her traumatic past, Marilyn Monroe had cracked.
Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Brentwood home with a bottle of sleeping pills 10 nearby. It was ordered that she take one pill a night before bed but with a call to her psychiatrist at three in the morning and no seemingly helpful reply, Monroe had downed the bottle and willingly took her own life.
For many this was a complete shock; this woman had everything in life a person could want – multiple love interests, fame, money, talent, a nice house, anything at the reach of your fingertips – but the one, most important, attribute lacking was happiness. Science Journalist, Claudia Kalb 11, writes, "'What is clear is that Monroe suffered from severe mental distress. Her symptoms included a feeling of emptiness, a split or confused identity, extreme emotional volatility, unstable relationships, and an impulsivity that drove her to drug addiction and suicide — all textbook characteristics of a condition called borderline personality disorder." However, despite the shock, this did not come out of nowhere. Monroe's family had a lot of mental health issues, with grandparents who finished their lives in mental institutions, an uncle that had schizophrenia, and a mother that couldn't handle a child herself. This, and other consequences of her childhood where she went through 12 sets of foster parents, was neglected many times throughout her adolescence, and not to mention the sexual harassment and violence in the film industry, all lead to multiple mental health issues.
When interviewing Claudie Jan, a sociology major and film studies minor at Westminster College, on whether or not Marilyn Monroe made an impact in American history, this is what she had to say, "Absolutely! Marilyn Monroe made a huge shift in the way women perceived themselves and gave confidence to a group of people that were told not to love themselves in the first place. I know it's ironic to say that Monroe was an advocate for women's body positivity, but you have to take into consideration how big of a step she took for women in the circumstances she was put in. She also created a whole new way actresses approached characters to become successful. And needless to say, Marilyn Monroe's death encouraged the American public to talk about suicide and mental health a little bit more, a major taboo for her time period." I agree with Claudie that she was a very positive person, and I believe that she made a huge impact on today's culture. Even in the fashion industry, the way dresses are cut and the desire to have blonde hair most likely stems from Monroe's influences.
The legend of Marilyn Monroe will live on forever in American culture, and in our hearts. This impeccable woman certainly created a spot for herself in history, and will stay remembered for a very long time considering her impacts on women's beauty, confidence, sexuality, and societal standards. Marilyn Monroe was an enormous beauty icon and influenced what we perceive as beautiful today.


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Representatives of the peoples of the Amazon Forest, in concert with other segments of South American societies, gathered at the Meeting of Knowledge in Belém, capital of the state of Pará, in Brazil, between 20 and 23 October 2021. Enriched with contributions from the World Assembly on the Amazon and the Climate Crisis, the signatories of this document inform the Parties represented in Glasgow of three fundamental demands. We will articulate these below, after an introductory justification.
What follows embraces and expands upon Resolution 48/13 of the UN Human Rights Council, that recognizes the universal human right to a healthy environment. This Resolution was unanimously approved with long and enthusiastic applause on 8 October 2021 by the Assembly of that Council in Geneva by forty-three votes in favor and four abstentions.[1]
The three demands of the Peoples of the Amazon are located at the heart of this Universal Right, but also in a non-anthropocentric view of the world. They start from the following observation: after half a century of destruction by clear-cutting and degradation of the Amazon forest, deforestation has returned to accelerate in recent years. Thus, growing parts of the forest no longer have the environmental conditions of carbon sequestration, moisture, and integrity that allow it to regenerate and survive.[2] The Amazon Forest lives today on the threshold of a tipping point. As numerous scientists, including Carlos Nobre and Thomas Lovejoy, have repeatedly stated: "the turning point is here, it is now. The peoples and leaders of the Amazon countries together have the power, the science, and the tools to prevent a continental scale environmental disaster, in fact, a global environmental disaster".[3]
"A global environmental disaster": the Amazon is a critical element of the Earth system[4] and if peoples and rulers around the world allow the devastation to continue for a few more years, the planet will very soon be unable to recover to its greatest extent the remnants of its tropical forests, home to 80% of terrestrial biodiversity. Humanity and biodiversity as a whole will be mortally affected and destabilization of the climate system will accelerate again, greatly reducing our prospects for adapting to life on the planet. Conservation and restoration of the Amazon Forest are absolutely essential to the Paris Agreement's central goal, which is to contain average global warming "well below" 2 oC in relation to the pre-industrial period. The new NDCs presented at COP26 remain much lower than the minimum needed to contain global warming at levels compatible with the Paris Agreement's goals and with survival of our societies. Denial and climatic illusionism still prevail, especially in Brazil and in other governments of the nine Amazon countries. The most socially fair, safest, and most immediate -results strategy for curbing greenhouse gas emissions is to protect tropical forests, starting with the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest. And the fairest, most immediate, and safest strategy to protect the Amazon is to provide its inhabitants with the conditions they need to protect it themselves. From these findings and from this perception of an emergency situation, the three fundamental demands of the peoples of the Amazon have arisen.
Demand 1:
The peoples of the Amazon rainforest demand direct participation – as immediate beneficiaries and/or as providers of advice, based on their in-depth knowledge of the forest – in international negotiations and decisions, both public and private, to transfer resources for mitigation and adaptation concerning climate change, especially with regard to restoration of the Amazon Forest.
Concretely, this first claim is expressed below in more detail:
(a) The peoples of the Amazon Forest must have the right to formulate forest conservation and restoration projects that are entitled to such contributions;
(b) The peoples of the Amazon rainforest, through their own organizations, must have a seat, voice, vote, and veto power in the formulation, decision-making, and auditing for use of these resources;
(c) The resources destined to the Amazon through transfer mechanisms foreseen in the Paris Agreement must be explicitly destined to forest conservation, and not to subsidize agribusiness, with its false solution of replanting Areas of Permanent Protection (APPs);
(d) Loans are not transfers of resources. Loans should therefore not be conceptually accounted for as part of the Paris Agreement, as has been the case. These transfers of resources to the most vulnerable countries and peoples, under the UNFCCC, should be an instrument of climate justice, rather than a subterfuge to promote business in the financial sector (private banks or Multilateral Development Banks, such as the World Bank or the Asian Bank). These annual resources of US$ 100 billion to be disbursed by 2025 must come in the form of grants, that is, in the form of direct transfers to projects for protection and restoration of the forest, at the subnational level, in order to, indeed, promote the Paris Agreement's objectives.
Demand 2
We demand a boycott by the Parties to the Paris Agreement of commodities produced by corporations throughout the Amazon region.
There is a demonstrated incompatibility between the goals of the Paris Agreement and the globalized food system, whose combined emissions, on average, reach between 21% and 37% of global emissions of these gases for the period 2007-2016.[5] It is essential to understand this profoundly serious fact: destruction of the Amazon Forest and its reduction to a lever of the globalized corporate food system must be stopped immediately. This is a task that to which Paris Agreement has not given its due attention. A paper published in the journal Science shows that "even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the global food system alone would make it impossible to limit warming to 1.5 °C and difficult even to realize the 2 oC target. Thus, major changes in how food is produced are needed if we want to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement."[6]
The main problem in the region is agribusiness, with emphasis on the production of animal feed and the proliferation of ruminants. In the period 1990-2005, the opening of pastures was responsible for more than 80% of the loss of the Amazon forest in Brazil, for more than 60% in Colombia, and almost 40% in Bolivia (actually 80% as a result of the destruction perpetrated by agribusiness as a whole). If governments around the world really intend to contain global warming at non-catastrophic levels, a moratorium on the importation of commodities produced by corporations in the Amazon region is inevitable, as long as there are no valid and reliable mechanisms for the traceability of these products with regard to their association with deforestation. The time is now. Our boycott demand endorses and strengthens other ongoing proposals,[7] the effects of which have not yet been felt in large part by the omission of the Parties to the UNFCCC. Only under strong international pressure will the governments of the South American Amazon, hostages of agribusiness, align themselves with the Paris Agreement's objectives. And yet, it would be enough for these governments to end deforestation for their NDCs to place themselves among the most ambitious in the world.
Demand 3
Recognize the rights of the Amazon and nature.
The Amazon is the largest tropical forest and the most biodiverse ecoregion on the planet. Stability of the planet's climate and the possibility of preventing the sixth large extinction of life on Earth depend largely on survival of the Amazon. Governments, the United Nations, and financial institutions must stop treating the Amazon as a simple carbon sink and recognize the rights of the Amazon, its rivers, its forests, its animals, its plants, and all the non-human beings that inhabit it. When we discuss plans for the Amazon, the rights of nature should be considered and promotions of projects to replace a living forest with monoculture plantations should be ended.
The largest ecocide on the planet is taking place in the Amazon and national and multilateral authorities are being direct or silent accomplices of this ecocide. The governments meeting at the UNFCCC should condemn it, propose that the on-going crime of ecocide be recognized by the International Criminal Court, and request that this Court immediately begin trying the case of the Amazon regarding the crime of ecocide. It is impossible to think about solving the issue of climate if the companies, governments, and financial entities that have caused this ecocide are not sanctioned, by action or omission.
The Amazon is not an object but a subject of rights that has to be recognized as such by the United Nations system. We must overcome the prevailing anthropocentric vision, and generate mechanisms so that nature has a voice and representation in climate and multilateral negotiations through science, indigenous peoples, and all the inhabitants who want to save nature and not do business with it. The United Nations must convene an Earth Assembly to rethink sustainable development goals from a non-anthropocentric perspective. To face climate change, we must build democracies and ecocentric multilateral integration processes that consider all the components of the Earth community, because only in this way can we restore the Earth system's balance.
The national authorities gathered in Glasgow at COP26 now have one last chance to react to governments' inertia and lack of commitment to the core objectives that motivate this all-important meeting. We, peoples of the Amazon and around the world, have the right to rise up against crimes, existential threats, and the ever greater and more imminent risks caused by global trade in commodities that only benefit corporations and banks to the detriment of preserving the foundations of life on the planet.
[1] Cf. United Nations, UN News, Climate and Environment, 15/X/2021 <https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1103082>.
[2] Cf. Luciana V. Gatti et al., "Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements". Nature 506, 2014, pp. 76-80; Luciana V. Gatti et al., "Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change". Nature, 14/VII/2021.
[3] Cf. Thomas E. Lovejoy & Carlos Nobre, "Amazon tipping point: Last Chance for Action" (editorial). Science Advances, 5, 12, 20/XII/2019.
[4] Cf. Timothy M. Lenton et al., "Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system". PNAS, 105, 6, 2015, pp. 1786-1793; Will Steffen et al., "Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene". PNAS, 9/VIII/2018.
[5] Cf. Cynthia Rosenzweig et al., "Climate change responses benefit from a global food system approach". Nature Food, 2020.
[6] Cf. Michael A. Clark et al., "Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets". Science, 6/XI/2020.
[7] See: 1. Declaration of Amsterdam ("Towards Eliminating Deforestation from Agricultural Chains with European Countries", 2015), signed by the governments of Germany, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom. It urges agribusiness to eliminate deforestation associated with their activities by 2020; 2. "Forest Act of 2021"; see Richard Cowan & Fathin Ungku, "U.S. Congress Democrats target palm oil, beef trade in deforestation bill". Reuters, 6/X/2021; 3. Laura Kehoe et al., "Make EU – Brazil trade sustainable". Science, 26/IV/2019.


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In Tulum, Mexico, a very different train station is in the works. This train station's open design, inspired by the ancient Mayan culture, is a far cry from the urban underground.
Shaped like an arched dome, Tulum's station will be decorated with mesmerizing patterns of geometry, light, and shadow. The architecture is not only designed to be sustainable but also weather heatwaves and storms.
Designed for Extreme Weather
Tulum is located on the Yucatán peninsula which has seen an increase in tropical storms and hurricanes. Besides putting the population at risk, these weather events have proven highly disruptive, destroying buildings and interrupting transportation systems.
Tulum's station will be renovated with the environment in mind. With an open lattice roof, the station is designed to be cool and airy. A steel frame and fiberglass-reinforced concrete panels will not only let in natural light but also make the station resistant to harsh weather conditions.
An arched dome structure also makes the station aerodynamic. Besides minimizing potential damage during a storm or hurricane, the station's shape allows for natural air ventilation. This eliminates the need for air conditioning and reduces the station's carbon emissions.
The station is meant to coexist with the surrounding environment. Around the station, flora and fauna are abundant. Because of this, the station will be kept as small as possible, with a length of 200m, as to not encroach on its natural surroundings.
Inspiration from Indigenous Designs
Besides being resilient to the weather, the station's design reflects indigenous art and ancient Mexican culture in an extraordinary way.
With the use of geometry, symmetrical shapes, and angles, the train station imitates the carvings and sculptures of the Mayan civilization. The Mayas are known for their use of shadows and light in their art. At the ruins of Chichen Itza, a serpent's shadow appears on the Pyramid of Kukulcan during the spring equinox!
One of the building materials that will be used will be limestone, a building material traditionally used in pre-Hispanic cities. The limestone will be mixed with other substances in order to be firm and waterproof.
The construction of the station will begin in January 2022 and will likely finish by the end of 2023. Many look forward to the completed station, and its unique, environmental-friendly design will likely inspire future projects.


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Par santiontanon
Paragon (1831)
06-07-2020, 18:24
@Artrag: interesting! added reading that paper to my to-do list. Thanks a lot for the link! Also btw, which text editor you use? I added those screenshots, since theNEstruo uses VSCode and he added support for that, but I use Sublime, so I ported his script to Sublime. But it should be pretty easy to adapt to other editors. The Sublime script is basically 3 lines of text ( https://github.com/santiontanon/mdlz80optimizer/blob/master/... )
@Metalion, yes! speed optimizations are coming soon! my to-do list before the "v5" release is basically (1) finish a few compatibility issues with asMSX, (2) add and verify 5 more optimization patterns and (3) track and report time savings. So, that's coming to the optimizer soon! :)
Par Metalion
Paragon (1628)
07-07-2020, 11:34
Thanks, Santiontanon.
Too bad i have only Java 7 on my work computer, where I do most of my MSX development (don't tell my employer!). And since it's my work computer, I'm not allowed to update to a newer Java version.
I'll try your optimizer as soon as I can on my personal computer.
Par theNestruo
Champion (429)
07-07-2020, 12:48
Too bad i have only Java 7 on my work computer, where I do most of my MSX development (don't tell my employer!). And since it's my work computer, I'm not allowed to update to a newer Java version.
Ah... Java 7. The last good Java!
Keeping multiple Java versions has always been a problem because intrusive Oracle's installer... Fortunately, GraalVM Community can be downloaded as a simple zip Even more: you can keep the JRE folder only and ditch the JDK if disk space is an issue!
Par Grauw
Ascended (10820)
07-07-2020, 15:13
I recommend https://adoptopenjdk.net/ instead of Oracle's installers with weird licenses.
(Multiple versions side by side should be possible.)
Par santiontanon
Paragon (1831)
07-07-2020, 19:56
ah, Java versions
Going down to Java 7 might be possible, but there is a couple of places where MDL uses lambda expressions for convenience, and those would have to be replaced by traditional code. I wish there was an easy way to bundle a minimal JRE into a jar without making the jar automatically go from 900KB to 50MB
Par santiontanon
Paragon (1831)
12-07-2020, 02:53
I just uploaded a new release (alpha v5), with lots of updates (https://github.com/santiontanon/mdlz80optimizer/releases)
The main ones are:
- Better support for different assembler syntax (still not 100%, but these assemblers are not partly supported): Glass, asMSX, sjasm, tniasm (thanks to theNestruo!)
- Improved optimizer: it can now track time in the optimizations, there are more optimization patterns, and the patterns are a bit more flexible.
An example of how the time optimizations are reported can be seen in this image from sublime:
I don't know if this can be useful to others, but I'm super excited about it, since it has already helped me quite a lot in my current projects! :)
In the next release, I'd like to start focusing on more complex optimizations like register usage, etc. Let's see how far can it go :)
Par theNestruo
Champion (429)
12-07-2020, 09:50
I can confirm I've been able to successfully parse my relatively large tniASM project and find several optimizations in it! Yay!!!
Par santiontanon
Paragon (1831)
12-07-2020, 18:44
Wohoo! Great to hear! (and thanks for the 4 new patterns you just added in that pull request )
In addition to the improvements to the optimizer I mentioned, I'd like to start trying to parse sdcc output, which should not be too hard, and given the examples we saw above, the output of sdcc seems like it can be optimized significantly (not sure if the current version of MDL will optimize much for now, but we'll get there )
Par theNestruo
Champion (429)
12-07-2020, 19:17
Btw, as I review the changes one by one (instead of automatically applying them), I've found an edge case when using negative numbers:
ld b, -1 ld c, -7
If I'm not mistaken, the optimizer will output
ld bc, -7 + 256 * (-1), and b will end up with an incorrect value.
Par santiontanon
Paragon (1831)
12-07-2020, 19:47
Oh, I just tried it and you are right! The current optimization pattern says:
pattern: Replace ld b,n; ld c,m with ld bc m+n*256 0: ld b,?const1 1: ld c,?const2 replacement: 0: ld bc,?const2 + 256 * (?const1)
In the particular case you mention above, it gets the wrong value. Instead of #fff9, it loads #fef9 into bc. So, the safe way should be this:
pattern: Replace ld b,n; ld c,m with ld bc m+n*256 0: ld b,?const1 1: ld c,?const2 replacement: 0: ld bc,(?const2 % 256) + 256 * (?const1)
I'll make the update right away! And now that I think about it, the problem is not just with negative numbers, if ?const1 is >= 256, that will interfere with B unles we add the module operation. Good catch!


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Southampton have sacked manager Mauricio Pellegrino after last Saturday's 3-0 loss against Newcastle left the club just a point clear of relegation.
The Saints have endured a frustrating season under Pellegrino, who was only appointed last June. With just eight games left in the season, the board have taken the decision to try with a different man at the helm.
Claude Puel had secured a League Cup Final and top-half finish last season, but his style of play saw him sacked and replaced by Pellegrino.
The club confirmed the news in a statement today.
Southampton Football Club can today confirm that it has parted company with First Team Manager Mauricio Pellegrino. Assistant Manager Carlos Compagnucci and Assistant First Team Coach Xavier Tamarit have also parted company with the club.
Sky Sports News are reporting former Stoke boss Mark Hughes is currently favourite for the job.
SEE ALSO: Reports Emerge Of How Much Arsenal Dressing Room Hated Alexis Sanchez


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English Grammar : Interrogative clauses used as subjects or objects in sentences
S.N. Singh | March 28,2013 04:01 pm IST
In sentences if interrogative clauses are used as subects or objects, conjunctions 'if/whether'(yes/no type) and 'what/where/when/how/how much/etc.' are used and the clauses are transformed into assertive clauses/sentences.
1. The Principal wants to know how many students often remain absent from their classes.
2. I don't understand why the villagers blame the Government for all their failures.
3. Please tell me whether you know('Do you know—–?) anything about this case.
4. What some leaders say and what they do, does not have any authenticity.
5. What you promise me and how you promise me and why you promise me does not convince me.
N.B. The same interrogative words work as conjunctions and in 'yes/no' type of interrogative sentences the word'whether' works as a conjunction..


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Composer Biography
Ruth Lee is a composer and harpist currently based in Sheffield and Lincolnshire. Interested in mythology, nature and anthropology, she explores primarily acoustic and electro-acoustic soundworlds, ranging from traditional western notation to graphic scores based on photography and in-situ sketches. Frequently driven by narratives, sometimes found and at other times self-created, she has been described as a 'musical story-teller' with 'her own inner voice' (Sioned Williams, UKHA Review). Ruth currently enjoys creating work for solo and chamber groups, as well as collaborating with artists in other mediums to create multi-disciplinary works. She is a graduate of the University of York (First-Class BA Hons. Music 2019) where she was awarded The Wilfrid Mellers Prize for Music.
Ruth was shortlisted for The Night With… Call for Scores in 2019, working with The Hermes Experiment on her piece 'Storm Ending', and regularly composes and performs with The Arc Project. She recently collaborated with Lore Lixenberg on the piece 'Krummholz' for voice and prepared harp: an exploration of the krummholz zone, in light of the effect of climate change and the wildlife the zone supports. Other recent work includes collaboration with poets and spoken word performers to create multi-media audio-visual pieces. Ruth's music for chamber ensemble has been performed by her all-female trio 'Phantasia' as well as by The Chimera Ensemble on numerous occasions. Her work often fuses folk and contemporary classical styles and techniques, sometimes incorporating loop machine, and frequently including improvision in either the performance or the compositional process.
Selected by the United Kingdom Harp Association as an Emerging Artist of 2020-2021, much of her compositional output to date includes the pedal harp or clarsach. Ruth performed her piece 'Dyr', winner of the Iain Macleòid Young Composer Award 2019, at the Virtual Edinburgh International Harp Festival and will be performing a recital featuring her own compositions at the World Harp Congress 2022. Other accolades include First Prize at The Future Blend Project, First Prize at the Wales Harp Composition Competition and Winner of the Open/Under 25yrs category at the East Coast Musician of the Year.


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Jeremy Clarkson's ego has been boosted as he's beaten Steve McQueen to the title of greatest screen automotive icon.
A survey by Hyundai asked 2,000 Brits to vote for their favourite automotive stars. They also voted for their favourite car film and the best car TV show.
Here's how the results fell…
Former Top Gear host, Jeremy Clarkson, is known for his outspoken nature and controversial opinions. However, he still managed to beat the likes of Hollywood legend Steve McQueen, as well as a number of James Bond actors to the title of world's greatest automotive icon.
Steve McQueen is known as one of the most stylish actors to grace the big screen, with films such as Bullitt and The Great Escape featuring some of the most iconic car and motorbike scenes in film history – but even that wasn't enough to bag him the top spot with the British public.
Richard Hammond came in third place, while James May appeared sixth on the list.
Vin Diesel and Jason Statham were also in the top 10, along with fellow Fast and Furious actor Paul Walker, who died in a tragic car accident in 2013.
The other three spots in the top 10 went to James Bond actors, with Sir Sean Connery ranking in fourth, Daniel Craig in eighth and Sir Roger Moore in ninth.
A spokesman for Hyundai said: "Steve McQueen is nicknamed the King of Cool and he's responsible for some of Hollywood's most iconic moments, whether it's the bike scene in The Great Escape or the famous chase in Bullitt.
"But he plays second fiddle to Jeremy Clarkson, whose legendary adventures from behind the wheel of a car have crowned him as our favourite automotive screen icon."
According to the survey, the best car film of all time is The Italian Job, followed by Steve McQueen's Bullit and the Fast and the Furious franchise.
On the small screen, Top Gear was voted the best car TV show – another win for Clarkson.
Other categories included the most popular car chase, also won by The Italian Job, while the prize for most memorable motor was driven away by James Bond's Aston Marin DB5, just ahead of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the De Lorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future.
"The best cars and films are always the subject of fierce and fun debate," a Hyundai spokesman commented. "And thanks to the internet and streaming services, there is no shortage of shows and websites to keep us occupied."
Struggling with boredom in isolation? Here's how The Stig is passing his time…
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One former member of the women's national soccer team is shedding light on the reason for why the women's team is such an angry, Marxist brood, and apparently it all falls on purple-haired wokester, Megan Rapinoe.
Former USWNT goalkeeper Hope Solo claimed in a recent podcast that Rapinoe is the real mastermind behind all the woke posturing that the team engages in. One has to wonder why almost every single member on a team that plays sports in the name of our country often takes a knee against it. It doesn't make a ton of sense. Well, according to Solo, it's because Rapinoe makes them do it.
The former goalie and women's world cup winner claimed that Rapinoe is so adamant about getting the other ladies to do her woke bidding that she almost becomes a "bully." On an episode of "All of Us: The U.S. Women's Soccer Show," Solo claimed, "I've seen Megan Rapinoe almost bully players into kneeling because she really wants to stand up for something in her particular way."
Oh that's a shocker. Just kidding. This is exactly the kind of vibe that Rapinoe gives off. Now that we think of it, the sole U.S. soccer player to not kneel before the final game in Tokyo, Carli Lloyd, retired immediately after the Olympics. Coincidence?
Solo said Rapinoe's actions just put more pressure on the ladies, and "it's our right as Americans to [protest or not] in whatever way we're comfortable with," she added.
Solo, who has won Olympic gold medals with the women's team as well as a women's world cup, also claimed she felt as though the kneeling on the pitch is "divisive."
"I do appreciate the fact that there's no national anthem right before the game," Solo added, "to really remove that decision from athletes. Because that's very tough, it's tough." Yeah, yeah. It's quite tough to appreciate the country that has allowed you to play a ball game professionally. But hey, maybe they aren't ingrates. Perhaps Rapinoe is that domineering, and the lack of national anthem offers the other ladies a way out.
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Oh, a sports team should focus on their ball playing? What a revelation! Sarcasm aside, Solo gets it. Perhaps if Rapinoe were less focused on making her team earn far left PR victories, they could have received gold in Tokyo instead of bronze.


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Horror, not Honour, Killings
I know it's not the first such killing and know too that at this point, we have charges laid, but no real idea as to what happened, but the police chief certainly used enough buzz words to suggest that this was somehow planned. So, without harping on the specifics of this case, I just wanted to note a couple of things that have been running through my mind.
A short time ago I complained here about the phrasing on a funding announcement made by Helena Guergis.
This project aims to promote equitable, non-violent behaviour in the romantic relationships of adolescents by targeting the hypersexualization of girls as a root cause of dating violence.
I was roundly taken to task by someone who supports the program. Further investigation caused me to see that the program was much larger than this announcement would suggest, but I stand by my criticism for including that line.
You see the problem for me is this is considered a tiny little thing that people brush off, but they have a huge impact on developing a mentality that is just plain wrong. The victim is never, never, the cause of abuse because of gender, dress, attitude, etc. Yet lines such as the one included in the release reinforce that attitude.
It's more prevalent in this society than is realised and the last thing we should be doing is reinforcing it, especially with young women.
Did anyone see this story? Once you get past the horror of what happened to that little girl, consider the mindset of a family that would actually blame her for what happened. And lest you think this just happens with new immigrants, think again.
I listened to a call-in yesterday on the subject and was shocked as to how many callers barely avoided saying that they agreed with the incident in Kingston, but did take the stand that women are responsible for the actions of men.
One woman caller, a Canadian born Muslim, defended women being relegated to the back of a mosque, because after all, if they were together or in front, men couldn't control themselves from looking at them as they bowed to pray. And before you get too smug and think that this is a Muslim thing, the next caller was an orthodox Jewish woman, who basically said that women were segregated at Temple because men were unable to control themselves and women would just be too distracting. That's just the way it was.
Now those two examples hardly equate to the horrific stories I refer to here, but they illustrate a dangerous way of thinking imo.
The thought of 'honour' in anyway being associated with these crimes is abhorrent, but it's equally sad to know that some women in Canadian society would believe that they were responsible for another's thoughts or actions. The line in the announcement reinforces that thinking.
The horror of the first two stories has to do with tribalism and surely that is something that we can address openly and honestly in this country, without attacking religions or whole swathes of people. We must.
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Anyone that has a belief in honour killings should not be allowed in this Country. Let the women in, but not the men. Those men are raised to be cruel and they will never cease to be like that. I do not think the Koran has anything in it about Honour killing ..the men made it up, to suit themselves.
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- 10:13 p.m.
Oh anon, I think it's cute.... So should we exile all the religious right-wing bigots that don't mind abortion doctors being murdered?
So KNB, how to you deal with Men and Women being separated in Synagogues? I'm not talking about orthodox synagogues either....
I know that you seem to be trying to walk a fine line between "tribalism" and religion but I think it's a misnomer.
Religious practices seem to be the root cause.
- 10:14 p.m.
Apologize KNB, off-topic, but I thought you'd be interested in this.
Why the heck is Cannon mouthing off on this in advance of the DNA tests (the ones the woman have been requesting since day one of her ordeal)?
An already bizarre story continues to gather speed as it plummets deeper into the rabbit hole.
Exactly how does one clarify the statement, "Hey, I'm a Canadian" to qualify under Cannon's requirement that folks be "straightforward" about their situation?
Can Cannon prove beyond any doubt he's not an imposter absent a DNA test? Saying he is, having his family say he is, having Harper or his neighbors say he is, just won't cut it. I want a straightforward answer or I'm not buying it.
- 3:02 a.m.
- Karen said...
I don't disagree that religion is at the root of many things, specifically the disregard for women, c_wtf.
Honour killings are a more tribal thing though, but yes, at the base it may be religion, but the bastardisation of a religion, imo.
I don't understand how people follow any religion and when I heard those women speak, I was...um, sad I guess. What a miserable life. On one hand feeling responsible for another's actions and on the other, feeling somehow that there is a being in charge or overseeing yours.
Indeed, if I had my world, there would be no religion.
- 7:44 p.m.
"Indeed, if I had my world, there would be no religion."
That was Stalin and Hitler's view as well knb. And they did the best to implement their view, with Jews being singled out for special treatment by both.
Of all the places on the planet, it is no accident that women are treated best in the West, in a culture fashioned by Christianity. To the extent we abandon Christianity, as we're doing, we'll see a corresponding increase in the mistreatment and abasement of women.
- 11:35 p.m.
- Karen said...
jarrid, Christianity has hardly been the model of decency through the ages. To the extent that you would deem it more righteous than any other religion is precisely at the root of most problems.
Oh and the Stalin, Hitler analogy...please.
If you really want to go down that road, how is your desire to have Christianity be the dominant religion at the expense of others much different?
To the extent we abandon our humanity, not Christianity, we'll continue to see mistreatment of all.
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