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Fuck the Dealer is a chill yet hilarious drinking game. As you might have guessed from the title, the objective of the game is essentially to give the dealer a hard time! This one is super easy to learn and is versatile; it requires little equipment and can be played with a few people or a huge group. It is a great game to have in your back pocket! So, round up a handful of friends and get ready to screw one of them! (or, get screwed by all of them)
What You Need:
- 3+ people (4 or more ideally)
- Deck of Cards
- Drinks of choice
Set it Up!
Set up is about as simple as can be for Fuck the Dealer. All players will gather around a table or in a circle on the ground. Assuming no brave soul volunteers to start as the dealer, we will use the deck of cards to determine the lucky player!
Each player should be dealt a single card. 2's are low, and Aces are high. The player dealt the lowest card will be the first dealer! If there is a tie for the lowest card, simply deal out another card to each person involved in the tie; the person with the lowest second card loses and starts as the dealer.
The dealer will gather and shuffle all cards.
Game Time!
The dealer will look to the person on his/her left and ask them to guess the value of the top card in the deck. If they manage to guess it correctly, the dealer takes 4 drinks. If they do not, the dealer tells them whether the card is higher or lower than their guess. The person will then take a second guess at the card's value. The dealer flips the card over after the second guess. If they got it right, the dealer takes 2 drinks. If they still get it wrong, they will drink the value of the difference between their second guess and the card's value. For example, if their second guess is 9 and the card is a King, they will take 4 drinks. If their second guess is 5 and the value is 2, they will take 3 drinks, etc. The card will go in the discard pile once flipped.
The dealer will then move on to the next player in the circle. The rules are the same each time:
- The person will guess the card value
- The dealer will either drink 4 for a correct guess or tell them whether the card is higher or lower than their guess
- The person will guess again
- The dealer will either drink 2 for a correct guess or the player will drink the difference between their guess and the card value.
The dealer moves around the circle, going through these steps with each player UNTIL 3 CONSECUTIVE players get both guesses wrong. Once this happens, the dealer passes the deck to the person on his/her left and they become the new dealer. The new dealer will start with the player the previous dealer stopped at. They will go around the circle as the first dealer did until 3 consecutive players get both guesses wrong. The game continues in this manner until the deck is out.
To start a new game, simply shuffle the cards and start over! Typically, the person who ended the last game as dealer will begin the next one as dealer. If this person really got screwed last game, someone can step up to the plate and take over as dealer.
That's it! It's pretty simple, but Fuck the Dealer is truly a blast! Sometimes a dealer switches after 3 rounds, and sometimes they get stuck as dealer for a majority of the game. Regardless of what happens, we are confident you will have a new passion for screwing the dealer after playing this one!
As always, please drink responsibly and have a great time!


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The OpenWest 2013 session schedule is up!
March 15th, 2013
Steve Meyers
While there may still be some minor changes, our tracks and session schedule is live! You can even choose which sessions you'd like to attend, and sync your personalized schedule to your various devices.
With 108 announced sessions so far, this will be our biggest year ever!
Our tracks this year include: Business, Cloud, CMS, Community, Data, Embedded, Geek Life, Javascript, Mobile, Ops, Perl, PHP, Python, QA, Ruby, Security, Tools & Techniques, and Web. We will also have hands-on security and embedded hardware labs each day presented by theTransistor.
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AFME recently published a new report, 'Impact of Regulation on Banks' Capital Markets Activities: An ex-post assessment'. While there have been many forward-looking studies examining how banks may respond to regulatory reforms, this study is the first that examines the actual impact of regulations 10 years on from the global financial crisis.
This member briefing examined key findings from the study. Members were joined in the Briefing by Nick Forrest, Director, Financial Economics, PwC, Michael Lever, Managing Director, Head of Prudential Regulations, AFME, Rick Watson, Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets, AFME and Pablo Portugal, Director, Advocacy, AFME


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Hydrogels are polymers that can maintain large quantities of water within their networks. Because of this, they can swell and shrink in response to changes in the environment such as voltage, heat, and acidity. In this sense they are actually similar to the plant cells, which are able to change shape as the amount of water within them changes in response to environmental conditions.
However, most hydrogels do this very slowly, and must absorb and excrete water to either expand or shrink in volume. The unique property of the hydrogel developed by the RIKEN team is that it acts like an artificial muscle, which does not contract equally in all directions. Rather, they contract in one dimension while expanding in another, meaning that they can change shape repeatedly without absorbing or excreting water.
The secret to the new hydrogel's property is electrostatic charge. Using a method that they published earlier this year, the team arranged metal-oxide nanosheets into a single plane within a material by using a magnetic field and then fixed them in place using a procedure called light-triggered in-situ vinyl polymerization, which essentially uses light to congeal a substance into a hydrogel. The nanosheets ended up stuck within the polymer, aligned in a single plane. Due to electrostatic forces, the sheets create electrostatic resistance in one direction but not in the other.
According to author Yasuhiro Ishida, "We originally designed this material to be stretchable in one direction, but we also found that at a temperature called the lower critical solution temperature, which we calculated to be 32 degrees Celsius, the polymer rapidly changed shape, stretching in length. Intriguingly, the gel did not change in volume. The substance underwent the change in shape in air and in a liquid environment, showing that it doesn't require the uptake of water. So in other words, it will work even in a normal air environment."
The team members were intrigued to find, additionally, that the process was very fast, taking just one second, with the rate of deformation, at about 70% per second, being higher than what has been seen in other hydrogels.
As a demonstration of how the polymer could be put to practical use, the group designed an L-shaped piece of polymer that can actually walk, in a water environment, as the legs lengthen and contract in response to changing temperature.
The group now plans to conduct further studies to create substances that can be used in practical applications. According to Ishida, "We are now planning further work to improve the properties of the substance. One idea we have is to use a hydrogel like this to make artificial muscles that could automatically open and close radiator systems as temperatures rise and fall. This could be used, for example, to prevent a device from overheating." The work was done by RIKEN in collaboration with The University of Tokyo and the National Institute of Material Science, who prepared the nanosheets used in the material.
- Youn Soo Kim, Mingjie Liu, Yasuhiro Ishida, Yasuo Ebina, Minoru Osada, Takayoshi Sasaki, Takaaki Hikima, Masaki Takata, and Takuzo Aida, "Thermoresponsive actuation enabled by permittivity switching in an electrostatically anisotropic hydrogel", Nature Materials, doi: 10.1038/nmat4363
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Emergent Bioinspired Soft Matter Research Team
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RIKEN Global Relations and Research Coordination Office
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How To Treat Hemorrhoid Pain
When deciding how to treat hemorrhoid pain, you should definitely consider your options before making any rash decisions. Many claim to have the answer. The question, however, is what is best for you.
There are a few different ways of how to treat hemorrhoid pain. You could go with an oral or a topical remedy. Both have their pros and cons. Each has a variety of options, also. This is both good and bad news. It is nice to know that there are several places that can tell you how to treat hemorrhoid pain. However, it is also sometimes frustrating to hear so many theories from so many sources.
Topical treatments are one way of how to treat hemorrhoid pain. They, as mentioned before, have their pros and cons. If you use a topical remedy, you will indeed have to re-apply rather often as it gets wiped off quicker than you may think. It can be somewhat messy. Most importantly, it is only a short-term solution. It provides quick, short relief and nothing after.
Oral ways of how to treat hemorrhoid pain also have their pros and cons. While it takes a bit longer to receive relief from these, it does offer the promising aspect of long-term recovery. It takes some time for your internal remedy to make its way though your system. However, it is definitely worth the wait. Figuring out how to treat hemorrhoid pain will help you to live a much more comfortable life.
There is no harm in using both topical and oral treatments. You can use topical to help you through until the oral does its job. We have suggestions for how to treat hemorrhoid pain here.
This video talks about how to treat hemorrhoid pain
Home Remedies for Hemorrhoids
There are several treatments that you can do for home remedies for hemorrhoids. Most of them will ease your pain if done correctly. Having home remedies for hemorrhoids is nice because you can avoid the expense of the doctor's office as well as the embarrassment of having such an ailment. Generally speaking, trying to solve physical ailments from home is a less expensive way to obtain relief.
There are several options for home remedies for hemorrhoids. They range from topical to oral. There is even argument that your thoughts and emotions can play a role in your current situation. Depending upon the severity of your situation, you should be able to find one if not more of these suggested home remedies for hemorrhoids useful.
There are topical treatments such as cypress oil or aloe vera gel. These both should provide some relief from the inflammation and pain. A sitz bath will soothe the area. These can be time consuming, however, they can also be worth it. And although it does not sound like fun, a cayenne and garlic enema should help to relieve the pain in most cases. These home remedies for hemorrhoids are definitely suggested.
There are some items to avoid as part of your home remedies for hemorrhoids. I would suggest to avoid taking harsh laxatives considering the delicate situation your back side is in. Also, try to avoid harsh surfaces and harsh toilet paper. You can moisten your toilet paper for some mild relief. Also, remember that products such as ibuprophen and aspirin can encourage bleeding – so do your best to avoid those as well.
Each of these suggestions have been proven to provide relief for many hemorrhoid sufferers. However, I would suggest looking for something a bit more long term in your home remedies for hemorrhoids. To start the internal healing, you need to look for home remedies for hemorrhoids that will provide you with long term results.
For my suggested Home Remedies for Hemorrhoids, click here.
Hemorrhoids Home Remedies
One should be very careful when using hemorrhoids home remedies. When dealing with your body or especially anything that could go wrong with your body, you should ensure that you know exactly what you are doing. Do not get paranoid and run to your doctor. Doctors are over rated. My point in saying that is simply to prompt you to do some thorough research on your hemorrhoids home remedies.
Generally speaking, people feel relatively safe when just applying solvants topically to this type of ailment. But if you use the wrong one, it can really aggravate your already upsetting situation. Some good ideas for topical solutions to use as hemorrhoids home remedies might include items such as cypress and aloe vera. It is also always recommended to use medicated wet wipes that have aloe and vitamin E on them. These will help you to feel better in between applications of your hemorrhoids home remedies.
One thing also to consider when it comes to hemorrhoids home remedies is to make sure you treat your ailment on the inside as well. Anything that is applied topically will only give temporary relief. After all, you cannot expect these topical treatments to actually heal your veins when they are not even applied close to them, now can you?
You will need hemorrhoids home remedies that treat your problem on the inside as well as the outside. So do some research about which remedy is right for you. These treatments should not be taken lightly. Do not despair though, we have some recommended hemorrhoids home remedies for your optimal relief and healing.
Define the Meaning of Hemorrhoid Cure
An actual hemorrhoid cure should be completely focused upon, well, curing your situation. Not disguising it. Not pushing it down deeper into your tissues. But actually its ability to really be a hemorrhoid cure.
What I mean by this is that if you have a real hemorrhoid cure, then your problems should not continue to flare up and down. It should simply not exist anymore. A real hemorrhoid cure will get right to the root of the problem and completely destroy it so it will not continue to resurface. Granted, you will have to take some hemorrhoid care tips and incorporate them into your life for your hemorrhoid cure to be completely effective.
Basically what I am talking about is your ability to both heal and prevent your situation from continuing to plague you. A hemorrhoid cure is the perfect concoction to get rid of hemorrhoids once and for all. A true solution will be able to get rid of both internal, external, and thrombosed types of your situation.
Clearly, some topical solutions are not going to satisfy the definition of an actual hemorrhoid cure. I mean, obviously topical treatments only go skin deep. You need more than that. In order to really get a true hemorrhoid cure, you need to attack the base of your problem and you need to strike quickly and effectively.
The best way to do so is to use a remedy that penetrates your blood stream to purify and circulate it better. Your hemorrhoid cure should reverse constipation and strengthen your veins. It should provide nutrition and help you to rid waste out of your system. Indeed, your treatment will need to focus on all of these problems in order to completely cure hemorrhoids.
Such a hemorrhoid cure seems impossible, but I tell you it is possible. So stop sitting on your hemorrhoid and take action to find relief.


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We all know them – shy girls and boys. They are not easy to read when it comes to an understanding if they like you or not. Perhaps they are simply too shy or haven't read our guide yet on how to tell someone you like them. Whatever the reason is, it can be quite difficult and frustrating process but don't give up yet. We have prepared a guide on how to tell if a shy girl likes you or not.
Getting to know if a shy girl likes you can be quite confusing. Yet, if you pay close attention, you will be able to notice some signs and giveaways. Sounds cool, right? Now you can finally solve this romantic puzzle.
1. You find her looking at you all the time: Catching someone looking at you a couple of times is completely normal. So, what does it mean if you see a shy girl frequently looking at you whenever you are in the same room or proximity to each other? There is no denying the fact that we like to see things we like over and over again to keep them in our memory and recall them in our minds. So, if you are having frequent eye contacts with the shy girl or if you catch her looking at you often, then there is a high chance of that shy girl liking you.
2. She makes up excuses to be near you: It is no secret that we like to be near the ones we like and enjoy their company without giving a second thought. When you are in your office, in school or your college which tend to be crowded and full of people, it can be difficult to know if someone is trying to come close to you. But, if you pay close attention to the people who surround you can easily find out the ones who always seem to present by your side. Shy girls often don't make the first move, and as such, they will hang around you in hopes of you making the first move making it a strong indicator that she likes you.
3. She likes talking to you and opens up to you: You will come across people who are open and will always engage in a conversation with you, and this is not an uncommon sight. However, Shy girls often are not outgoing, and it can be hard to engage in a conversation with them. However, if you find a shy girl who is more than willing to talk to you and engages in long discussions with you, then this is a big sign that she is comfortable and enjoys your presence. And also if she opens up to you freely which is a rarity amongst shy persons, this is another strong sign that the shy girl might be interested in you.
4. She looks her best when you are around: This is not only the case with shy girls, however, goes for all types of persons, and as such is no secret that we try to look our best if we wish to impress someone to make them notice us. As such if you come across a shy girl who always looks her best or tries to accentuate her looks when you are around, then this is a telltale sign that she is into you. They will often take extra effort and go the extra mile to make themselves look better, to attract you and make an impression upon you.
5. You find her complimenting you a lot: One of the clearest and strongest signs which indicated that a shy woman likes you is if she keeps complimenting you at all times. Shy girls normally will not open up and talk to people, let alone compliment them. Therefore if you find a shy girl complimenting you always for even the smallest of things, this goes to show that she is coming out of her comfort zone to make you feel good. As such, if you find yourself receiving an unhealthy amount of compliments frequently from a shy girl, the chances are that she is interested in you and wants to take things further.
6. You find her making accidental physical contact with you: If you find a shy girl making accidental physical contact with you in many instances, then her actions might not necessarily be random. Women often use the sense of touch as a tool to let the men know that they are into them or that they like them. And there is no denying the fact that Action speaks louder than words, as such the next time you find a shy girl making any physical contact with you, while you cross paths or during conversations, more often than not is an indicator that the shy girl likes you.
7. She changes her voice and body language when you are near her: Another way of knowing whether a shy girl likes you is, by observing her body language and overall behavior when you are near her. What happens is that our body language often changes a lot when we are near someone we admire or like. For women, her tone of voice will become much higher, she might blush, and she might even act childish, innocent and feminine to make herself more appealing.
8. You exchange a lot of texts on social media or through messaging applications: A shy girl might find it uncomfortable and unnatural to talk directly to a person she likes, however on the flipside, she might be comfortable through chatting and texting. As a result, if you find a shy girl sending you the first texts in a conversation frequently, asking you lots of questions about yourself and also shows signs of flirting with you, then this might be a huge indicator that she might be more than interested in you. Another sign is that she might also follow all your updates on social media and like all your posts as well.
These are some of the best signs which you can look out for in a shy girl, and you can use them to determine whether a shy girl likes you. If yes, great for you! if not, then perhaps you should read our article about why people might not like you. Thanks for reading.


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The activities of the Transport Panel are discussed and decided yearly during the winter Meeting of the TFEIP. Following the meeting a new work programme is put together for the following year. This work programme has to take into account the relevant activities which go on funded by the EEA, the JRC and other national bodies or research organizations, since no special funding is available within the panel.
For more info, see the following work programmes:
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Data on emission inventory projections, including activity are available from the LIFE+ project EC4MACS. Click in "key data" on the left column menu.
Updated information on NRMM compiled by the Danish Inventory team (Morten Winther). The information contains updated Tier 1 and 2 emission factors and detailed Tier 3 emission factors originating from the German Tremod model. This information is provided for consideration and review by the national experts.
|Note on updated method
|Word Document
|Spreadsheet with Tier 3 emission factors
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Updates to the COPERT model and methodology can be found at the Emisia website, clicking on Copert, under the section "Versions".
Updates to the HBEFA model and methodology can be found at the HBEFA website.
Updates on emission factors and other ERMES activities are available at the ERMES website. Please see the work-programme for the list of activities and the progress reports of new updates.


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Swedish EU Presidency Organises Conference on Environment Climate Chanage and Security
21 October 2009
On 14-15 October 2009, The Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) convened a conference on "Environment, Climate Change and Security - Facing the Challenges". The event, co-organised with several Swedish government agencies, was attended by about 150 participants, including representatives of the IES.
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Hayward was born Edythe Marrenner in Brooklyn, New York to Walter Marrenner and Ellen Pearson. Her maternal grandparents were from Sweden. She began her career as a photographer's model. She went to Hollywood in 1937, aiming to secure the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. Her screen name was chosen by her management because it was "as close to Rita Hayworth as we can get away with."


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So Jason and I don't watch a lot of TV. But when it's SYTYCD season, we're glued (I know, we're complete dorks about it). Sunday night (Jason's birthday) we got the opportunity to go see the top ten dancers from this season's show at the Erwin Center. The show was great. Amazing. Awesome. Wonderful. {Insert exciting adjective here}. Etc.
Here are some highlights from our fun night!
Joshua (who has some serious ups), the winner of SYTYCD season 4:
My favorite dance of the season, danced by Courtney and Mark (my favorite) and choreographed by Sonya (the song is 'The Garden' by Mirah – it's pretty awesome, you should check it out):
A very Tim Burton style dance with the whole group. I thought it had some interesting social commentary on class hierarchy:
Another of our favorite dances of season, inspired by Amy Winehouse (well, IMO), danced by Katee and Twitch, choreographed by Mia Michaels:
The top ten dancers:
And if you want to see more of the great pictures, here's a link to more pictures that Jason took.


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A Unique Gold Penny of Coenwulf Discovered in 2001
A gold penny or mancus of 30 pence of Coenwulf, King of Mercia (796-821 AD) was discovered on October 6th 2004. Found by an amateur metal detectorist, next to a public footpath beside the River Ivel in Bedfordshire in 2001, the Coenwulf gold penny was consigned to Spink by agreement with the landowner. As a single coin find, it is not subject to the Treasure Trove law. This extraordinary coin, the most important discovery in British numismatics for many years, is the first new Anglo-Saxon gold penny to come to light for almost a century. It is a significant addition to the very select group of seven gold Anglo-Sax-on pennies already known, all of which are in museum collections. These seven gold pennies survive from the three centuries from the introduction of the broad flan silver penny under Offa of Mercia (757-796) to the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066). The present coin, unique as the only gold coin of Coenwulf of Mercia, unique as the only purpose made Anglo-Saxon gold penny of clearly regal design, and unique as the only gold coin from this period with a London mint signature to be struck between the gold shillings of ca. 630 AD and Henry Ill's gold penny of 20 pence of 1257, is also the only English coin of any type to refer to the important extra-mural commercial settlement of Lundenwic. The coinage of medieval western Europe was one of silver with the exception of those parts of Christendom recovered from the Muslims. In about 670 AD, the coinage of silver deniers was inaugurated in the Frankish kingdom of Neustria, and by 700 AD silver had taken over completely in the West, a monometallism that was set to endure for five hundred years. Gold remained known, usually in bullion form, and was often available. Sums of gold were often referred to in documents and in wills, but these amounts were paid by weight, in the equivalent value of silver, or in Muslim gold coins. Only very occasionally, possibly for reasons of prestige, were gold coins actually struck. In England the term mancus, possibly derived from vanquish (engraved) an adjective used to characterize dinars in Arab records, came into use meaning an Arab gold dinar, and subsequently as a unit equivalent to the weight of gold of a dinar (4.25 grams) or the value of a dinar in silver currency, 30 pennies, at a gold to silver ratio of 10:1 The unique gold penny of Coenwulf is lot 493 in Spink's October Coinex sale, and it is estimated to realize between £120,000-150,000.


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Shotton 2nds dominated all aspects of their encounter with Wrexham at Bryn Estyn Road.
The Steelmen were 14 nil up in as many minutes through tries created with probing runs from Centre Craig Higgins and Winger Jason Parry, the extras coming from the boot of Higgins.
Higgins was on fire as he surged forward again after sterling work from the forwards, eluding numerous attempts at being tackled to touch down under the posts making the conversion a given.
Second row Peter Ketland scorched through with an elusive run to score on the half hour mark, finding form again after taking a season out last year.
Higgins scored again just before half time after picking up a loose ball out wide to give Shotton a
33-5 half time lead after Wrexham scored their only points with a consolation try.
Craig Higgins proved too hot to handle as he scored his fourth try virtually from the kick off.
Peter Ketland streaked away for another score as did Captain, Richard Grace, extras being nicely clipped over from the boot of Higgins once more.
A serious injury to one of the Wrexham team saw the referee blow up early after 70 minutes.
A comprehensive victory for Shotton who dominated all aspects of the game winning all their own ball at the scrum and Wrexham's too.
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Taiwan's Air Force scrambled several fighter jets Sunday when two military aircraft from China crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, according to the Ministry of National Defense (MND).
The Taiwan Air Force jets intercepted two J-11 fighter planes from the People's Liberation Army of China when they crossed the median line, MND spokesman Chen Chung-chi (陳中吉) said.
The Chinese fighter planes entered Taiwan's southwestern airspace at 11 a.m. and retreated to the west side of the median line after they were issued a radio warning, according to a statement issued by the MND.
According to local media, the incident triggered a 10-minute standoff between Taiwan and China warplanes.
Air Force Officer Wang Chun-hsiung (王純雄) told CNA that Taiwan's military has standard procedures for dealing with such incidents and will dispatch surveillance units if China's military aircraft enter Taiwan's air defense identification zone or cross the median line in the strait.
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said on its Twitter that the Chinese war planes made "intentional, reckless and provocative action" and violated a long-held tacit agreement by crossing the median line.
"We've informed regional partners and condemn China for such behavior," MOFA said.


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The 16th of may we played 9 holes and had a nice dinner at Gendersteyn.
We all had a lot of fun and some of us even lowered their handicap!
For the students who just started golfing it was a great opportunity to see what golf is all about.
After a lot of positive reactions, we would like to organise more of those events in the future.
Hopefully, a lot of you guys will join them as well!
See you at the next clubhour!


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A Canadian woman has been filmed abusing Chinese restaurant workers because they were unable to understand her order, telling them to "go back to China".
The unnamed woman was filmed flying into a rage at staff of the Foody Mart in Scarborough, Toronto, on Friday (2 June).
The footage was captured by Frank Hong and was uploaded to Facebook in the early hours of Saturday morning.
It has already been viewed nearly a million times.
The woman yells: "Go back to China! Go back to China.
"This is Canada, an English speaking country. If you're going to work here it's the law to know English and you know that."
She then turns to a man wearing a shirt, possibly the owner of the restaurant, and continues: "You look like a business man and you know its the law.
"It is the law in Canada that if you're going to work here you need to know the English language or the French language."
In fact, the employees of private businesses in Canada do not have to speak English or French. This stipulation only applies to workers in federal institutions.
"I would like to buy food but these people don't speak English," the woman continues.
Two other customers then offer to translate for her order. One of them suggests that she may be "looking for trouble".
She replies: "No I wanted to know how much things were so I could order something. All these people working here need to speak the English language. If not then [they should] go back to China."
Eventually, she is placated, and asks, via a translator, the price of some rice and vegetables.
Hong, who uploaded the footage, wrote on Facebook: "I never thought I'd hear those words in real life but this just happened as I was trying to get some food at a Chinese speciality store.
"After three minutes of constant, racist verbal abuse and after trying to intervene, I started to film this video. Racism and xenophobia isn't far from us nor has it gone away.
"As Canadians we think we are safe from these disgusting attitudes and behaviours but we aren't. It has only gotten worse recently."


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Following the success of his first debut in Munich, playing for the musically-gifted Elector Maximilian III Joseph of Bavaria, the six-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart set out for the imperial court of Vienna, arriving on 6 October 1762. He was accompanied by his parents, Leopold Mozart and Maria Anna Mozart, as well as his elder sister, Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart. The concert that the young Mozart would give at the imperial summer residence of the Habsburgs, Schönbrunn Palace outside Vienna, meant that one of the palace's many rooms (today numbering 1,441) could claim a significant place in the history of music. It also was, in a way, symbolic of the long-standing but strained relationship that Mozart would have with the Habsburg Imperial Family, for despite the many occasions his works had connections with important events in the life of the Imperial Family, he never attained the committed patronage he may have hoped for. This, in turn, set him on an arduous path of enquiry, trailing the royal courts of Europe for appointments and finally settling as a freelance composer in Vienna.
As Leopold Mozart reported to his landlord and friend, Lorenz Hagenauer, in letters clearly intended to be shared with the rest of the Salzburg community back home: "At 11 o'clock that same evening [10 October 1762] I received orders to go to Schönbrunn on the 12th. But the next day I received fresh instructions to go there on the 13th…." A member of the Imperial Family, Archduke Leopold of Tuscany [the future Kaiser Leopold II] was overheard by Leopold Mozart at the opera, saying that there was "a boy in Vienna who plays the keyboard so well…" and Leopold Mozart describes how Archduke Joseph [the future Joseph II] had been told of the concert of the Mozart children gave en route in Linz, who then told his mother, Empress Maria Theresia. The mention of "that same evening" is significant. It means that the summons to court for the Mozart family the same evening that Leopold Mozart overheard the talk about Wolfgang at the opera, shows the fame of the children had already reached the capital before they themselves announced their arrival.
The room where this legendary concert took place at Schönbrunn Palace, is traditionally thought to have been the so-called 'Mirrors Room' or Spiegelsaal. This important performance of the Mozart children, as Salzburg subjects before their Imperial Family, took place the year before what would be the Mozart's family own musical version of the 'Grand Tour' – which itself lasted over three years, from June 1763 until November 1766 – and took the Mozarts to many of the great European cities, including Munich, Mannheim, Cologne, Paris, London and The Hague. The Spiegelssal is on the beletage of the Palace, whose rooms back onto the Great Parterre, between the 'Balcony Room' and Maria Theresia's 'Chinese Cabinet', the last room in the East Wing. (Read more.)Share


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Hamagrael PTA's Movie Night is Wed., Nov. 8
This year's PTA Movie Night is November 8, 2017 starting at 6:30 p.m. Bring your pillows and blankets and join us for The Secret Life of Pets! Come see what hilarious trouble pets get into when their humans are away. Movie Night is held in conjunction with the Scholastic Book Fair and the Book Fair will be open until 8 p.m. Popcorn, […]
Hamagrael Fall Book Fair begins NEXT Tues., Nov. 7
The Hamagrael Fall Book Fair is right around the corner! It begins next week at the following times: Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 at 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
BC's 1st Annual Halloween Decoration Design Contest Winners
Four BC students were selected as winners of BC's First Annual Halloween Decoration Design Contest. Winners include: First place: Ella Traynor, Grade 8 Second place: Eric Jestel, Grade 8 Third place: Zephan Conway, Grade 11 Honorable Mention: Victoria Allen, Grade 8 The students earned recognition by designing and constructing a Halloween decoration that had the ability to be mounted on someone's front door. The […]
Slingerlands Monster Mash 2017
Pandas and mermaids and clowns, oh my. Take a look at some of photo highlights from the Oct. 27 event.
Glenmont's Halloween Ball
What Halloween fun! Take a look for yourself.
Snapshots of Eagle's Annual Spooktacular
Check out the SPOOKY fun.
SADD delivers an important message
Members of the BCHS chapter of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) are working to safeguard the future of BC students.
Spanish Immersion Day at UAlbany
BCHS students had the chance to practice their language skills, explore arts and culture, and meet other advanced Spanish students at the Albany campus.
Letter from Principal Bonacquist, Oct. 27
Dear Families, Tonight is our PTO sponsored 'Monster Mash.' This will be a costume Halloween party. We ask that children not wear masks (or face paint that covers the whole face) – we need to be able to recognize every child. We also ask that they not carry accessories such as wands, swords, etc. This […]
Letter from Principal Ksanznak, Oct. 27
Dear Parents, The Halloween Party Committee will be hard at work this afternoon putting the finishing touches on to get the building ready for our Hamagrael Halloween Party. The party will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and I look forward to seeing you tonight. Next week should be a busy one here at school with Halloween […]


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- For the functional stack language, see spl. For the Shakespearean language, see Shakespeare.
SPL is an esoteric programming language invented by StelK around December 2005. It is very similar to Brainfuck but it has some new instructions. It was made only as a hobby. SPL can handle only integers.
Command set
The SPL command set is that of Brainfuck with some alterations.
> Move pointer right < Move pointer left . Output the byte at the pointer , Input the byte at the pointer [ Jump past matching ] if the accumulator is 0 ] Jump back to matching [ unless the accumulator is 0
New instructions:
^ Load the current byte in the accumulator $ Wait for an input and put it in the accumulator
% Put in the current byte the result of the current byte%accumulator m Multiplies the current byte by the accumulator a Add the accumulator to the current byte s Subtract the accumulator to the current byte d Divide the current byte by the accumulator & Terminate the program immediately
To print text you can simply put it between "". So the classic "Hello World" program is:
"Hello World "
The new line character is also printed. Text between # and # is a comment. Comments can't be nested. (The current implementation allows you to match an [ or ] inside comments for interesting results.)
This asks a number and prints the numbers between it and zero:
"n: "|^[." "-^]" "
See also
- Brainfuck: The language from which SPL is born.
External resources
- Author's home page (ITA) (Includes somewhat buggy implementation.) (dead link)


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"Five million or so people have been diagnosed with, and are living with, congestive heart failure," said Dr. Kirkwood F. Adams Jr. "Because of changes in the age of our population, that number is predicted to double within a decade, and as a result, both the economic burden and the magnitude of CHF in terms of sickness and death will continue to grow. In the past, anemia has been a neglected aspect of the condition, and that needs to change if we're going to serve patients well."
Associate professor of medicine and radiology and director of the UNC Heart Failure Program, Adams prepared his remarks for delivery Thursday (June 6) at an American Medical Association briefing on anemia in New York City.
Raising hemoglobin levels through treatment with drugs that mimic erythropoietin, which boosts red cell production, might help CHF patients by improving heart function and improving their limited ability to exercise, the physician said. Researchers already have made significant progress in treating CHF in recent years, particularly with such drugs as beta-blockers.
"But up to 40 percent of patients can't take beta-blockers long-term, and so seeking additional treatments is still important," Adams said.
In people suffering from heart failure, poor blood flow contributes to systemic changes, including impaired kidney function, he said. For various reasons, patients often become anemic.
"We recognized this anemia in the past, but many physicians questioned whether it needed to be treated if it was only moderate," Adams said. "Recent studies, however, have suggested that anemia adversely affects heart function not only in dialysis patients but in CHF patients as well."
Among those studies have been clinical trials indicating that among hospitalized heart attack victims, depression of hemoglobin, even to a limited degree, was linked to increased mortality, he said.
"Then clinicians began looking at this in CHF and began finding that anemia-reduced hemoglobin was an independent predictor of adverse outcomes," Adams said.
Two recent small and preliminary studies have further shown that hemoglobin increased in patients treated with erythropoietin and that those patients' ability to exercise improved, he said. One study even suggested that the drug could cut time spent in the hospital.
UNC serves as the coordinating center for a national heart failure registry, UNITE-HF, composed of 15 academic medical centers that collect and pool patient data for study. Working with Amgen, a drug company, and registry data, Adams and colleagues have begun studying the effects of anemia on patients' physical activity and fatigue, how hormones affect anemia and quality-of-life issues.
"This focus on anemia is new, and it is definitely worth investigating because we believe it may make a difference with many congestive heart failure patients, and results so far have been encouraging," the physician said.
Note: To register for a noon EDT conference call June 6 about the briefing, e-mail email@example.com or call (312) 464-5980. Interested reporters should call 1-800-406-5345 a few minutes before noon to participate. Adams can be reached at (919) 966-4445 or firstname.lastname@example.com after he returns to Chapel Hill.
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Has life got you singing the blues? Millions of people world-wide suffer from some form of depression, with about 16 million adults having at least one major depressive episode during 2012. This means that slightly less than 7% of the population reported feeling severely depressed that year. Eleven percent of adolescents have a diagnosable problem with depression by the time they are eighteen and a whopping 30% of college students report feeling depressed enough that it disrupts their studies.
Unfortunately, the standard medical treatment, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), take an average of four to six weeks to start taking effect, and they have numerous side effects. Potential problems with SSRIs include: increased risk of suicide (especially violent suicide), increased tendencies towards violent crimes and hostility towards family and friends, increased abuse of alcohol and other substances and an increased tendency to impulsive acts with no concern for punishment.
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2015 Bonnaroo livestream schedule
UPDATE: Stream Bonnaroo 2015 here.
Bonnaroo 2015 is this week with four days of music and comedy from Thursday (6/11) through Sunday (6/14) in Manchester, TN. For those who can't make it, you'll be able to watch many of Bonnaroo's performers right here on BrooklynVegan.com via three different video channels. Live streaming begins Thursday at 7 PM Central (6 PM Eastern) and sets being broadcast over the four days include Courtney Barnett, Against Me!, Belle & Sebastian, My Morning Jacket, Billy Joel, D'Angelo & the Vanguard, Jamie xx, The War on Drugs and many more. Full list of confirmed streaming Bonnaroo performances below.
UPDATE: Stream Bonnaroo 2015 here.
While there won't be any Bonnaroo comedy sets streaming, Comedy Central has put together a Spotify playlist of bits from many of the comedians peforming at the fest this year, including Chris Hardwick, Jeff Ross, Kurt Braunohler, Reggie Watts, Michelle Wolf and more. Stream that below.
Channel One
07:15pm – Unlocking the Truth
08:15pm – DMA's
09:00pm – Temples
09:45pm – Glass Animals
10:30pm – TBA!
11:15pm – Courtney Barnett
Channel Two
07:15pm – Ryn Weaver
08:00pm – Dopapod
09:00pm – Iceage
09:45pm – Houndmouth
10:30pm – The Growlers
11:15pm – Benjamin Booker
Channel One
05:05pm – Royal Blood
06:15pm – Dawes
07:15pm – Guster
08:15pm – Alabama Shakes
09:45pm – TBA!
11:00pm – Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
12:45pm – deadmau5 (partial set)
Channel Two
05:05 pm – SOJA
06:05 pm – Against Me!
07:15 pm – TBA!
08:30 pm – Tears for Fears
09:45 pm – Ben Folds & yMusic
11:15 pm – Run the Jewels
12:15 pm – Earth Wind & Fire
Channel Three
05:05pm – Between the Buried & Me
06:05pm – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
07:15pm – Moon Taxi
08:15pm – Sylvan Esso
09:15pm – Atmosphere
10:15pm – TBA!
11:15pm – Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood
12:15pm – Mac DeMarco
Channel One
05:05pm – Rhiannon Giddens (partial)
05:45pm – The War on Drugs
06:45pm – Bleachers
08:00pm – My Morning Jacket
10:00pm – Sal's World
10:15pm – Hozier
11:30pm – Mumford & Sons
Channel Two
05:05pm – Trampled by Turtles
06:15pm – Jamie xx (partial set)
07:30pm – Gary Clark Jr.
08:30pm – Belle & Sebastian
09:45pm – Odesza
11:00pm – TBA!
12:15pm – TBA!
Channel Three
06:00pm – Bahamas
07:00pm – SZA
08:15pm – Atomic Bomb! Who is William Onyeabor?
09:45pm – Gramatik
10:45pm – SBTRKT
12:15pm – Tycho
Channel One
05:05pm – Twenty One Pilots
06:30pm – AWOLNATION
08:00pm – Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters
09:30pm – Billy Joel
Channel Two
05:05pm – Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear
06:15pm – Brandi Carlile
07:45pm – Spoon
09:00pm – D'Angelo and the Vanguard
10:30pm – TBA!
Channel Three
05:05pm – Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn
06:15pm – Jerry Douglas Presents Earls of Leicester
07:15pm – Rudimental
08:30pm – Punch Brothers
09:30pm – The Bluegrass Situation SuperJam feat. Ed Helms
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Amazing India School Bus Rickshaw
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The children in the world go to their school by many deferent ways as walking to their school, by bike or by bus. But in India has a deferent way from other countries in the world. They use many makeshift school buses to take the children to their school. The makeshift school bus made from a cage placed on the back of a rickshaw and in the rickety bicycles can seat up to TEN kids and ferry them to and from schools across the capital New Delhi. The vehicles – reminiscent of the child catcher car in blockbuster Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – This is one of the best way in the world for taking children to school.


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Amsterdam is a city that takes many steps to fight against pollution. It is known: the city is designed to encourage citizens to use their bike instead of their car. And this initiative should also please lovers of the environment. Joris Lam is a genius inventor who designed "Tree Wifi", a small Wi-Fi hotspot that only works when pollution is low.
This post is housed in a small birdhouse hung on a tree. If pollution is far too present, Wi-Fi simply does not work. An online interface also allows you to consult the air quality in real time. A beautiful invention that should motivate the inhabitants of the Dutch capital to pollute even less.
Video: DIY Professional iPAD + DSLR Photo Booth (April 2020).


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Gobnait Dempsey, PepsiCo HR, is seen presenting a "Little Junior" CPR training manikin to Gerard Doyle, Paramedic & Superintendent of St John Ambulance Glanmire.
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- Universal Orlando Resort™ - 5 min walk
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- Universal CityWalk™ - 28 min walk
- Universal's Islands of Adventure™ - 35 min walk
- Holy Land Experience - 39 min walk
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- Orlando, FL (MCO-Orlando Intl.) - 22 min drive
- Kissimmee, FL (ISM-Kissimmee Gateway) - 23 min drive
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Travelling with others
- Up to 2 children stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Free self parking
- Car charging point
- Free RV/bus/truck parking
- Free theme park shuttle
Payment types at the property
- Cash
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Free continental breakfast daily
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Microwave in a common area
- Outdoor pool
- Pool sunloungers
- Fitness facilities
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Segway rental/tour nearby
- Pool umbrellas
- Use of nearby fitness centre (discount)
- 24-hour business centre
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Conference space size (feet) - 625
- Conference space size (meters) - 58
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built – 2000
- Lift
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Television in common areas
- Braille or raised signage
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
- Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
- Wheelchair-accessible parking
- Assistive listening devices available
- Wheelchair-accessible public bathroom
- Wheelchair-accessible van parking
- Wheelchair-accessible path to lift
- Wheelchair-accessible registration desk
- Wheelchair-accessible pool
- Wheelchair-accessible meeting spaces/business centre
- Visual alarms in hallways
- Handrails in stairways
- Closed captioned TV
- Visual fire alarm
- Lever door handles
- Czech
- English
- Portuguese
- Spanish
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer (on request)
- 43-inch LED TV
- Premium TV channels
- Free weekday newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Free local calls
- Fridge
- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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This property uses eco-friendly cleaning products.Guests can rest easy knowing there's a smoke detector on site. Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
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Great experience. Very comfortable beds to sleep in (mattresses did not say!) when we got back to hotel late at night after shopping and from universal studio. Parking lot is big and free, which made our stay very helpful! However the free breakfast is pretty basic, machine made eggs, coffee, juice, toast and a pancake maker. For what we paid, this hotel is fine in value terms. It is a 2.5/3 star hotel, but we didn't mind since we were out all day (returning midnight) and just needed a bed to sleep in.
Decent mid-budget option not too far from downtown Orlando.
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Enjoying quality time with your partner is not an easy thing to do. Having a photo shoot can be a relaxing and fun experience when done right. We've done it before, and we would love to photograph you and your beloved one.
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Amazing Punta Cana Honeymoon Photo Shoot – Emilia & Aki
If you are planning to get away to a nice and warm Caribbean destination for your honeymoon and haven't thought of the Dominican Republic, you should! Punta Cana is the top destination for honeymooners who like to relax and also have fun like Emilia and Aki who came...
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I am head over heels in love with our photos from Punta Cana Photographer! He was a pleasure to work with from the very first email. My fiancé and I didn't know what to expect because we have never taken professional photos before but he made the experience so great and so fun. When he delivered the final photos, I almost cried. They were so pure and beautiful and I had no idea that's what he was capturing while we were there on the beach. I would choose him as my photographer over and over again!
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Investor buys New Haven's former Marlin Firearms site
NEW HAVEN >> A New York investment company has bought the former Marlin Firearms property in New Haven and is expected to upgrade the large site.
Time Equities Inc. purchased 85 Willow St. for $4.5 million this month, according to city land records.
Time Equities, the manager of which is Robert Kantor, has major investments across the country, but this appears to be its first purchase in Connecticut, according to its website.
The former gun manufacturing site has been occupied by a variety of small medical, educational and engineering businesses over the past few decades.
It is now known as the Marlin Business Center, where O,R&L Commercial out of Branford is a co-owner.
J. Richard Lee, a director at O,R&L Commercial, said there are 45 startups and social service agencies occupying the 16 buildings on the property, many with long-term leases.
He said it is his understanding that the new owners want to keep the tenants, but improve the site.
The city sees the upgrade as providing more business opportunities in New Haven at property that is currently underutilized.
Alder Anna Festa, D-9, who represents the area where the 3.4-acre site is located, said the city is still talking with Time about use of a parking lot at the corner of Willow Street and Mitchell Drive across from the multiple buildings that made up the former factory.
Lee said the business center had a year-to-year license agreement with the city for the tenants to use the lot in exchange for the center maintaining it.
Festa said the parking arrangement for the new owners "is a work in progress. There is no resolution" at this point.
Marlin Firearms, built in 1870, moved to North Haven in 1968 and left the state in 2011.
The old license agreement allowed the owners of the former Marlin Firearms property to use 120 of the 170 spaces at the Willow/Mitchell lot.
An estimated 60 to 70 staff and faculty from the East Rock Community School also use the parking lot and at night during summer it is used by fans of baseball games at a city field on Willow Street.
Lee said his understanding is that the new owners understand that the lot is a "city asset."
He said everyone wants to work out "an amiable" agreement for the tenants going forward.
The lot was also suggested as a potential site for Yale commuters as part of a pilot program to keep university workers from parking on city streets. Yale has to report back on the progress of that effort by the end of the year.
The agreement with Yale says if at least 100 commuters show an interest in a park-and-ride plan, it would develop a pilot program for either a carpool lot or an extended Yale shuttle service for its workers.


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Corporate Drive and Goosebay Drive Sewer Improvement Project
The City of Portsmouth has a sewer improvement project that consists of the replacement of existing sewer pipes in Goosebay Drive and also in Corporate Drive from Rye Street to Goosebay Drive (see project area below). The City received bids in March and awarded the construction contract to Sargent Corporation of Stillwater, ME. Sargent Corporation has substantially completed the sewer improvements and only minor punch list items remain. It is anticipated that final roadway pavement will be installed in the Spring of 2019.
The City will provide periodic project updates on this page as well as the citywide project map at https://www.cityofportsmouth.com/publicworks/projects.For project related questions or concerns, please contact Ray Pezzullo, P.E., Assistant City Engineer at 766-1755.
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Mediacorp OOH Media has partnered with Yeap Transport to offer coach advertising.
These "larger-than-life moving billboards" come in a variety of sizes and will be travelling island-wide, ensuring maximum on-the-road brand exposure. The coaches are generally used to fetch more than 7,000 students daily to and from International Schools such as Singapore American School in Woodlands, United World College in Tampines and Dover, and Canadian International School at Lakeside and Tanjong Katong.
Advertisers can expect to gain extensive exposure at multiple residential and city locations during a campaign period, targeting families, PMEBs and the affluent segments. For example, one of the routes covers tourist locations such as Sentosa Island, Orchard Road and upscale neighbourhoods such as Holland Village and Bukit Timah.
With OCBC's recent Christmas campaign last year, the coaches were used as moving billboards as well as to provide free shuttle services along Orchard Road to OCBC cardholders during the year-end shopping period. This not only amplified its branding efforts to a relevant target audience, it also left a positive impression on existing customers and the public alike.
Henry Goh, Head of OOH Media said: "A diverse inventory like ours offers advertisers a multitude of ways to connect, excite and engage with consumers on the move. This collaboration with Yeap Transport is one of OOH Media's efforts to bring innovative, relevant and appealing media platforms to our advertisers".


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Data from rain gauge stations, satellites, and sounding observations have been merged to estimate monthly rainfall on a 2.5-degree global grid from 1979 to the present. The careful combination of satellite-based rainfall estimates provides the most complete analysis of rainfall available to date over the global oceans, and adds necessary spatial detail to the rainfall analyses over land. In addition to the combination of these data sets, estimates of the uncertainties in the rainfall analysis are provided as a part of the GPCP products. The August 2012 GPCP v2.2 uses upgraded emission and scattering algorithms, the GPCC precipitation gauge analysis, and inclusion of the DMSP F17 SSMIS. The December 2012 update contains "recomputed" October 2012 values. NOTE: Due to a hardware failure, GPCP SG V2.2 and 1DD V1.2 have ceased production. The last processed month is October 2015. The follow-on GPCP V2.3 and 1DD V1.3 will soon become available, reprocessed back to January 1979 and October 1996, respectively. These new versions will be produced by at ESSIC in conjunction with NCEI (formerly NCDC).
The following was contributed by Angeline Pendergrass (NCAR), July, 2014:
"GPCP monthly data
The GPCP monthly dataset is a widely-used global monthly gridded precipitation dataset. It has global coverage on a 2.5 x 2.5 degree grid. The dataset begins in 1979 and continues through the present, with some delay for processing. It is used to calculate the climatology of precipitation, for comparison with climate models, and for analysis of changes over the recent past.
GPCP combines microwave and infrared measurements, and outgoing longwave radiation retrievals from satellites and, over land, also incorporates rain gauge observations. The available input data change over time as satellites are launched and retired and the gauge network evolves. The microwave satellite data in particular are thought to be quite accurate. Over land, microwave scattering data are used, while over ocean microwave emission measurements are used. The microwave retrievals are problematic over ice and at high latitudes, and are phased out starting at 40 degrees of latitude.
All GPCP versions are multi-satellite combination datasets. The analysis method changed from version 1 (described in Huffman et al 1997) to 2 (described in Adler et al 2003). Version 2.1 incorporated a substantial update of the gauge input dataset (described in Huffman et al 2009); version 2.2 included data from the SSMIS satellite (currently described only in the documentation, Huffman and Bolvin 2012).
GPCP "was formed to improve understanding of seasonal to inter-annual and longer term variability of the global hydrological cycle, determine the atmospheric latent heating rates needed for weather and climate prediction models, and provide an observational data set for model validation and initialization and other hydrological applications." (Gruber and Levizzani 2008). Some examples of studies that use the dataset follow. The climatology from GPCP is often used to validate climate models (e.g., Donner et al 2011, Giorgetta et al 2013) and reanalyses (Bosilovich et al 2011). It is used to study variations in precipitation at global (e.g., Allan et al 2013, Trenberth 2011, John et al 2009, Su and Neelin 2003) and regional scales (e.g., Giannini et al 2008). Wentz et al (2007) use the land data along with their own analysis over ocean to examine trends in global precipitation. It can be used to examine relationships between circulation and precipitation (e.g., Screen et al 2013, Frierson et al 2013, Loeb et al 2014, Johnson and Xie 2010).
Uncertainty is characterized via an error estimate of each datapoint available alongside the dataset. This estimate accounts only for the random error, and depends on the mean rain rate and the number of samples used to calculate it (Huffman 1997). Other systematic sources of error (such as the dependence on the observing system) are not quantified, though they are also present. The most important systematic errors are over ocean, where there are few regular surface measurements to provide validation of satellite estimates. There is a at least one attempt at validation using measurements from small islands (Pfeifroth et al 2013), though their representativeness is still in question (Wang et al 2014).
The key limitation of this dataset (like all merged-satellite precipitation products) is the indirect and complex nature of translating sparse satellite precipitation measurements into gridded precipitation estimates. Satellites can only indirectly measure quantities related to rain rate at the surface: microwave and infrared satellites measure brightness temperature, which is then converted to rain rate indirectly, while radars measure energy reflected by cloud and rain drops throughout the depth of the column. Then, these indirect measurements (along with direct gauge measurements over land) are used as an input to a complex algorithm that produces estimates of surface rain rate on a regular grid in time and space. Many of the data that go into the precipitation estimates are actually measurements of clouds, rather than precipitation itself. Also, the lack of rain gauges for ground validation over ocean introduces unknown systematic errors into this and all ocean precipitation estimates from satellites.
There is active debate about the possibility that the global-mean amount of precipitation in GPCP is lower than is necessary to balance other components of the global energy budget (see Stephens et al 2012, Wild et al 2012, Behrangi et al 2014, Trenberth et al 2009). Stephens et al (2012) and Behrangi et al (2014) argue that the GPCP dataset may be missing light rain over ocean, and may suffer from a lack of ground validation in the Southern Ocean in particular. The satellite estimates used in GPCP miss light rain events compared to CloudSat (Behrangi et al 2012, 2014b). Trenberth and Fasullo (2013) evaluate moisture flow from land to ocean in order to validate precipitation data (in combination with evaporation estimates), which captures orographic rain that isn't captured by the gauge network. These "missing" rainfall sources may help explain why GPCP has a lower global-mean precipitation than climate models.
A list of comparable satellite-gauge precipitation datasets was compiled by the International Precipitation Working Group, and can be found here: http://www.isac.cnr.it/~ipwg/data/datasets1.html. CMAP is another monthly dataset based on a different set of inputs (including satellites and also incorporating some NCEP reanalysis data, http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.cmap.html#detail). TRMM 3B43 is another monthly dataset with coverage from 50 N to 50 S with higher spatial resolution.
The uniform spatial grid of this dataset lends itself to comparison with climate models (though, see comments about regridding in GPCP 1dd description). To undertake this endeavor, one could compare climatologies over the same time period, or compare variations in time by examining model integrations forced with prescribed SSTs (AMIP experiments) and historical forcing. Trends can be compared between model experiments with historical forcing over the same period of record.
The most common mistake dealing with all precipitation data arises from its highly variable nature in both space and time. Precipitation datasets with different spatial or temporal coverage are fundamentally different, so care must be taken, for example, comparing the data taken from one station (a point in space) with a GPCP grid-box (which represents an areal average). In order to compare two precipitation datasets on grids with different resolutions, one should typically regrid one or both of the datasets to a common grid, no finer than the coarsest of the datasets being compared, using a regridding method that conserves the total amount of rain falling in an area. Often, the default interpolation in an analysis software package is bilinear interpolation (eg in Matlab), which is not conservative. One conservative regridding method is described in Jones (1999). The NCL language offers two methods to perform conservative regridding: area_conserve_remap or, the more robust, Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) regridding. See also the Climate Data Guide's regridding page (https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data-tools-and-analysis/regridding-overview).
Some corrections are made to GPCP v 2.2for changes in satellite and gauge dataset inputs over time. Different datasets and algorithms were used, with some periods of inter-calibration to minimize inconsistencies. No corrections were made for OPI's drift of equator-crossing time (GPCP V2.2 documentation, Huffman and Bolvin 2013, ftp://precip.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/gpcp-v2.2/doc/V2.2_doc.pdf).
There are many temporal features in the record that users should be aware of. Before and after 1987, the dataset has different inputs and algorithms (Gruber and Levizzani 2008). Microwave precipitation estimates became available in July of 1987. Different gauge products with different sampling are used before and after 1987. Different IR datasets are also used before and after 1987. New satellite data were also incorporated after 1997. See Table 2.2 of Gruber and Levizzani (2008) for a summary of input datasets.
Some known anomalies are also listed in the v2.2 documentation (section 9). These are:
- June 1990-Dec 1991: loss of SSM/I data (Gruber and Levizzani 2008) resulted in the use of a different algorithm
- August 1993-Jan 1994: bias due to a decrease in Meteosat IR images
- Jan 2000, extreme southwestern Greenland: unusually high rainfall estimates due to unusually high gauge rainfall at Nuuk, Greenland.
There are also spatial features in the dataset to be aware of. Satellite data are treated differently in different latitude bands. Equatorward of 40 degrees, SSM/I data are used. When missing, they are replaced with adjusted TOVS data. Between 40 and 70 degrees, a combination of SSM/I and TOVS data with bias adjustment that varies with latitude is used. Poleward of 70 N and S, adjusted TOVS data are used exclusively."##
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|Trend in rainfall from 1979-2013 in GPCP v 2.2. Only trends significantly different from zero at 95% are shown in color. The pattern in the Pacific largely resembles what is expected in response to ENSO, and may be related to decadal variability (Dai 2013). (contributed by A. Pendergrass)
|Climatological annual mean precipitation (mm/day) for 1979-2010. The areal mean for the entire grid is 2.67 mm/day. (Climate Data Guide; D. Shea)
|Top: Areal weighted mean of precipitation rate for 1979-2010. Bottom: zonal mean precipitation (mm/day). The thin horizontal line is the climatological long term mean. (Climate Data Guide; D. Shea)
Pendergrass, Angeline & National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified 27 Feb 2020. "The Climate Data Guide: GPCP (Monthly): Global Precipitation Climatology Project." Retrieved from https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/gpcp-monthly-global-precipitation-climatology-project.
Funding: NSF | National Science Foundation
Based at: NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research
A Project of: Climate Analysis Section in Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory


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Dogs are considered "man's best friend" because, for the most part, they are loyal and loving companions that enhance our families. A dog that is treated poorly or not trained properly, however, can be a threat to the community they live in. Sometimes, even good dogs bite, and whether the dog is known as a "good" dog or a "bad" dog, you must take action to stand up for and protect the rights that the law provides you, and you must do it within the time legally permitted under Illinois statute of limitations.
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The United States Military Academy at West Point is looking into whether 16 black female cadets violated rules against political expression by taking a photo in uniform with their fists in the air, an academy official told the Army Times. The photo features the women, all of whom are on the verge of completing their final year, posing in front of the campus' oldest barracks building in dress uniforms. Photos like this are apparently common at West Point as an homage to old-fashioned military
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South Sudan's leaders took the first tangible step toward peace in two and a half years on Tuesday, raising hopes the young country's nightmarish civil war could finally end. Opposition leader Riek Machar landed in the capital Juba on Tuesday and was sworn in as vice president, a major boost for the peace deal signed by Machar and President Salva Kiir last year. "It's the best hope that South Sudan has had in a very long time," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said of