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On December 17, the National Labor Relations Board released a Division of Advice Memorandum finding that Uber's instruction that employees not comment about an ongoing employee class-action lawsuit, and that they contact in-house counsel if anyone contacted them about the case, was an unlawful directive to refrain from engaging in Section 7 activity. However, an internal litigation hold issued to employees informing them to preserve all communications with or about the plaintiff, a fellow employee, in the class-action lawsuit was not unlawful.
No-discussion directive. In an October 2, 2018, memorandum, the Division of Advice noted that Uber's instruction prevented employees from discussing the lawsuit or the common grievance from which it arose with one another, or with media or third parties. Even though Uber's handbook stated that employees were not restricted from discussing compensation, they would reasonably infer that Uber's repeated directive prohibiting discussion of the lawsuit or its underlying grievance superseded the handbook. The right of employees to communicate with one another and with third parties and the media about grievances and potential remedies to those grievances, including lawsuits, is a significant Section 7 interest. This was especially true in the context of a class-action lawsuit, where plaintiffs or plaintiffs' attorneys might try to contact members of the class.
Personal speech limited. Although Uber did have a significant interest in limiting who speaks on its behalf about a lawsuit, this directive went much further. "Instead of merely informing employees that they were not authorized to speak for the company about the lawsuit, the directive covers even the employees' personal speech," according to the memo. "The Employer's business interests could be protected with a much more narrowly drawn proscription that would not silence employees altogether." Thus, the region should issue a complaint that Uber's directive violated Section 8(a)(1), the Division concluded.
Litigation hold. However, the litigation hold was lawful under Boeing. It did not explicitly address protected concerted activity, but rather "all communications" with or about the plaintiff/employee, the memo noted. It was therefore tantamount to a facially neutral rule and a Boeing analysis was appropriate.
While employees would reasonably understand the hold to include protected concerted communications with or about the plaintiff/employee, and thus there was the potential that the hold would cause some chilling of protected communications, the hold did not require employees to produce the communications, but merely to preserve them for possible production. This significantly lessened the potential of the hold to chill employees from engaging in protected communications.
Erring on the side of caution. Uber also had significant legitimate interests in imposing the litigation hold. Like all parties to a lawsuit, it was legally compelled to preserve evidence, and adherence to that duty is key to avoiding liability and damages for spoliation of evidence. Although the Division found no cases specifically holding that an employer must produce the private communications of employees, this area of law is far from settled. It was appropriate for Uber to err on the side of caution in complying with its legal obligation to preserve all documents that might amount to evidence in the ongoing litigation.
Judicial system functioning. Further, broad litigation holds serve not just employers' interest in avoiding penalization for spoliation of evidence, but also the interests of plaintiffs, intervenors, and the courts. "The court system is reliant on parties preventing spoliation of evidence in their possession, and encourages liberal litigation holds," the memo states. "If employers must consider potential effects on Section 7 rights in imposing litigation holds, they may not comply as fully with their duty to the court, which in turn could interfere with the effective functioning of the judicial system."
The Division found that in this case, the broad litigation hold was both not unreasonable and not focused on employee protected concerted activity. There also was no evidence that the hold actually had chilled any employee speech. Accordingly, any impact on Section 7 rights was outweighed by the important employer and public interests at stake. Thus, absent withdrawal, the region should dismiss this allegation.
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Define your app in the cloud
The time has come to define our application in the cloud and make it appear in the application library. We have already created our docker containers as well as the configuration files we will need for our app.
Step 1 - Create a new app
Once you have logged in to the hive, you are able to create your own apps. You can do so by going to the library screen and clicking the + button on the lower right.
You will be asked for an id for your app. Be careful to use only allowed characters [a-z0-9_] within your id. The app id cannot be changed afterwards since it is how we identify the app later on.
Step 2 - Define general information for your app
Once your app is created, you will be directed to the app general information panel. Here you can enter a human readable name and description for your app. You can even put in a url to an image to use as a logo.
One thing that is really mandatory is the Git URL, since it will be used to load the configuration from the git repository we created earlier. Also make sure you indicate which architectures your tint supports and which versions of the fabric you want to support. For the latter, you are just fine checking 1.3.
You could change the app visibility to public, but we usually don't do that before the tint has been tested and we know that it works. Otherwise, other people might start using it, even when it is broken.
Step 3 - Define the containers
Next stop, defining containers. To create a new contianer, you can click on the + sign at the bottom right and select "New Container". You will be presented with a new panel where you can enter the information for the container.
Start with changing the name of the container (next to the cube icon) to something meaningful. Only use [a-z0-9_] here.
Set the image to the name of the docker container we created earlier. For example, in our case that would be bigboards/elasticsearch. You can forget about the architecture part of the name, since you already indicated which architectures you support. When installing, the system will look at the architecture of the node and append the architecture name to the image name.
We experienced some difficulties when using bridged networking. The problems we experienced had to do with other nodes not being reachable from within the bridged container.
At this point we advice you to use host networking.
Usually a container will have some ports it needs to be reachable at. You can enter those ports in the port mappings section. Make sure to press the save button after you have entered the information. You may leave the bindings field empty to bind on all interfaces. Beware that mapping the host port to a different port then the container will only work when using bridged networking, not when using host networking.
Environment Variables
Environment variables can be set using a key and a value. Again, make sure to press the save button to add it to the list.
Volume Mappings
Volume mappings are an important part of an app since this is where we define which resources from the host are being mounted into the container filesystem. We also use volume mappings to mount the configuration from our git repository into the container filesystem.
The following rule applies: - if the host path is a relative path, it is considered to be relative to the git configuration root - if the host path is an absolute path, it is considered to be absolute to the host filesystem
So if we would want to mount the config/elasticsearch directory from git into our container filesystem at /etc/elasticsearch, we will need to provide the following information:
On the other hand, if we would like to mount the /data/persistent_fs folder on the host filesystem into our container filesystem at /data, we would need to do something like this:
Watch out with persistent volumes since they are not removed when an app is removed. This means that all data stored in them will remain on the cluster, even when the app is removed from it.
Step 4 - Define a group
A group defines where a set of containers has to be installed on the cluster. You can add multiple containers to the same group, so it is not unreasonable to have groups like frontends, masters or workers
You can create a new group using the + button at the bottom right and select new group.
As with the container, the first step should be to change the name of the group:
Once that is done, you can continue to the placement expression. This placement expression is actually an ansible pattern and adheres to those rules:
The following patterns are equivalent and target all hosts in the cluster:
You can define one or more nodes using one of the following patterns:
You can also exclude nodes:
Node names are not the real hostnames of your cluster, since that would break the installation for other people who will very likely not have the same hostnames as you have. Therefor you should use n_seq_ for addressing nodes. Also watch out when going into the higher regions of node sequences. There are clusters with only 3 nodes, in which case a pattern like n3 or n4:n5 will fail.
The last part of a group definition is the list of containers. You can add a container by entering its name (mind the auto completion) and press the save button to add it to the list
Step 5 - Define a view
Views make it easy for users to reach out to the technologies installed on a cluster. They are a bit tricky to define right now since you need to get the url right, which can be a hassle sometimes.
You can create a new view in much the same way as you created a group or a container, using the same + button at the bottom right and selecting new view. And it comes to no surprise that the first thing to do is to define a name for your new view:
A view is a link to a website, so you need to enter a url in order to address it. Entering a fixed url is also possible, but not very flexible. So in order to make sure the view can always be reached, you can use variables here as well. For example, if you want to reach the node using the ip, you can do the following:
{{ nodes[hex.name + '-n1'].ip }}
That variable expression will take the hex name, append '-n1' to it and look it up in the nodes dictionary. Once that is done, the (public) ip is returned for that node.
Last but not least, add a description of the view to make it easier for users to know what to expect.


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A Quick Look at Stitch
Raymond Camden Originally published at raymondcamden.com on ・4 min read
As a developer, it can be quite overwhelming keeping up with all the cool platforms and technologies available to you. The flip side of that coin is that sometimes you discover really cool stuff and frankly you don't mind that you're a bit late. For example, a few days ago I was introduced to Stitch by MongoDB. This is a quite large product so I'm not going to over every detail, but it has some incredibly cool features that I'd like to share.
At a high level, Stitch covers three main functions:
- "Stitch QueryAnywhere", which is a fancy way of saying a simple way to access your MongoDB from various development platforms. I was seriously impressed by how this worked and you'll see a demo in a moment. Given that a lot of my work in the past has been "provide access to a backend database", anything that makes this simpler is a really good thing.
- "Stitch Functions", a serverless function as a service feature. In some ways this is a basic FaaS option but they provide some neat integrations here that make it stand out from others.
- "Stitch Triggers", which is basically a way to write functions that happen on certain events with your database.
Now along with all of this, you may have missed that they launched a cloud-based MongoDB service called Atlas. I gave it a try as well and it worked well enough for me to consider not worrying about running MongoDB locally again. It has a good free teir as well so that's a plus. For the demo code I'm going to share below, I used Atlas to quickly create a MongoDB collection of cats, because cats:
The interface pretty much just worked as you would expect, but I liked that they had a "Clone Document" feature as it made it easier to create sample data.
Let's first take a look at QueryAnywhere. This is a set of SDKs (JavaScript, React Native, Android, iOS, Node) that provides access to CRUD (read, write, update, delete, filter too of course) your data via a simple library. There is a full authentication system that handles anonymous users as well. Basically they make it easy to set your rules up (anyone can read, this type of user can add, etc) on their side such that your client side code is safe. Here is an example of the configuration I did for my Stitch app to allow anonymous users (default) to read my important cat data:
Once you have your data, and have setup access, their portal provides sample code for JavaScript, Android, and iOS (Swift) so you can quickly copy and paste in stuff to get going. Here is a simple Vue application I wrote:
const client = stitch.Stitch.initializeDefaultAppClient('app1-togyt');
const db = client.getServiceClient(stitch.RemoteMongoClient.factory, 'mongodb-atlas').db('cats');
const app = new Vue({
data() {
return {
created() {
client.auth.loginWithCredential(new stitch.AnonymousCredential()).then(user =>
db.collection('cats').find({}, { limit: 100}).asArray()
).then(docs => {
//console.log("Found docs", docs);
this.cats = docs;
}).catch(err => {
The first two lines set up my initial connection and specify that I want to work with
cats. In my
created hook, I do an anonymous login, find all cats, and then simply copy them to my Vue data. The front end just lists this out and if you want to see it in action, check out the CodePen below:
Note that I did have to include one additional script tag to load their library.
On the serverless functions side, what really impressed me here was the work done to make it easy to integrate with MongoDB. I guess that shouldn't come as a surprise, but given how nice it is to use a serverless function for easy access to a database, it's definitely appreciated. So for example (and I'm stealing this from their sample code):
var collection = context.services.get("mongodb-atlas").db("dbname").collection("coll_name");
var doc = collection.findOne({owner_id: context.user.id});
They also make it easy to reach out to other serverless functions (ditto the stealing):
var result = context.functions.execute("function_name", arg1, arg2);
They have a decent online editor with support for running tests as well. (Hopefully this won't be too tiny!)
The only weird awkward thing I found here was exposing a function over HTTP. For that you need to add a HTTP Service and it wasn't immediately obvious to me that that was the way you would do it. For my cats I whipped up this quick service:
exports = function(payload) {
var collection = context.services.get("mongodb-atlas").db("cats").collection("cats");
return collection.find({}).toArray();
And if your curious - you can see the result here: https://webhooks.mongodb-stitch.com/api/client/v2.0/app/app1-togyt/service/httptest/incoming_webhook/webhook0?arg=ray&x=1. (Spoiler - it's cats.)
All in all, I'm really impressed by Stitch and I plan to play more with it. I'd love to hear from my readers that are using it so please drop me a comment below if you've given it a spin.
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If you want to practice yoga you can either attend yoga classes or do it at home using yoga printable exercises. Yoga printable exercises with photograph of yoga poses, known as asanas, are good option for beginning with yoga at home.
Why Doing Yoga?
Yoga is a traditional discipline that focuses on both mental and physical health. Philosophy of yoga is based on a strong connection between the mind and the body. Thus, asanas are carefully created to promote overall health and bring peace of mind through controlled breathing. Some of the benefits of yoga are, maintaining a fit body, to achieve mental balance, to reduce stress and learn how to relax, gain flexibility and stamina, and to improve mental clarity. Considering the modern lifestyle it is not surprising that people are becoming increasingly interested in yoga. Nowadays, many gyms offer yoga classes and even private classes with yoga instructor or guru. Either way, it is recommended to be supervised while learning asanas because that way you can be sure that the technique is correct. On the other hand, if you are interested in yoga but do not have enough time to regularly attend the classes or there are no yoga classes available in your neighborhood you can do it anyway at home.
Practicing Yoga at HomeFor those who want to learn yoga poses at home there are various DVD's, books, journals and websites offered. However, it is important that any source you choose provides detailed instructions regarding the technique through pictures and words. Significance of this lies in a fact that performing incorrect asanas for longer period of time can have quite the opposite effect from desired. When you find appropriate material carefully follow the instructions while performing asanas outdoors or indoors according to your wish.
Important Things to RememberBefore you begin think of the aim of yoga and purpose of asanas. In order to become relaxed, energized and balanced you must have positive attitude and leave behind the burden of materialistic world. Yoga emphasizes importance of correct breathing while performing the poses. Breathing must be deep, controlled and rhythmic in order to increase oxygen supply. Nevertheless, each asana requires specific breathing technique thus you must be acquainted with this aspect of asanas before you start. Furthermore, each asana consists of three phases that include getting into pose, holding the pose and getting out of the pose. During certain stage you should inhale, exhale or hold your breath depending on the instructions. Keep in mind that every pose with its accompanying breathing phase aims to improve functioning of certain part of the body. Finally, in the beginning you should stay in a specific asana for minimally 30 seconds and steadily increase the time until you reach maximally suggested time for that pose. In case you feel discomfort at any point of training you can come out of pose and do it another time.


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Niki Caro is the type of all-encompassing director who clearly likes to fully immerse herself in the story that she's telling. With McFarland, USA, based on the 1987 true story about a team of novice runners from the economically challenged town in California's farm-rich Central Valley, her attention to detail makes you feel as though you're right there, for every emotional beat. As this group of young men give their all to build a team under the direction of Coach Jim White (Kevin Costner), their incredible work ethic inspired the town, and the unlikely band of runners eventually overcame the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team, but an enduring legacy, as well.
During this exclusive phone interview with Collider, director Niki Caro talked about why she was inspired to be a part of telling this story, why she passionately commits to everything that she does, cutting this film down to a manageable length (the first cut was over three hours), what she hopes people take from seeing this film, why Kevin Costner was the perfect actor to embody Coach White, and the most logistically challenging aspect of making the movie. She also talked about her next film, The Zookeeper's Wife, starring Jessica Chastain and about the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo that helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion, and what attracted her to that project.
Collider: How did you come to this? Did you just get the script, read it and respond to it?
NIKI CARO: It's a pretty ordinary story. I was speaking to Disney about another project, and they thought I would be good for the McFarland material. And when I read it, I was just inspired to do it. I was inspired by Coach White, of course, and what that team achieved in the '80s, and I was equally inspired by the legacy that they've left, which is enduring. I was also really inspired by the people of McFarland and the Central Valley, and that culture contributes so much to this country. I just wanted to take the opportunity to light that up.
You seem like the kind of filmmaker who totally immerses yourself in a project. Considering that, do you have to really respond immediately to something, before you take it on?
CARO: Yeah. It's like falling in love. I do commit really, really passionately. It's why I only work every five years. It's exhausting. Also, I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker. So, I choose very carefully. In some ways, I think they choose me, in a strange way.
Because this has so many story elements, with the coach and his team, this family finding their footing in a new town, each of the runners and their families, and even just the residents in this community. How difficult was it to put this film together at a manageable length, and still have everybody feel like they got their due in the story?
CARO: That's such a good question. The movie gets assembled as I work. When I first saw it, end to end, with every scene that I'd shot, it was three-and-a-quarter hours. Then, it became time to make some hard decisions. Everything in the movie, I felt was deserving of being in the movie. It was great performances and beautiful photography and good storytelling, but in the end, you have to decide where the money is, and I don't mean the cash money. It was absolutely unquestionably with those boys and their coach. Really, really sadly, other things had to go. There was a lot of time taken to explore the journey of the White family, and the girls in the White family, and their journey in this town. But, Disney wouldn't let me make a three-hour movie. That's the sad part of filmmaking. You have to let go of some stuff that's really good and has every right to be there, but has to gracefully step aside for the bigger agenda.
Is it nice to know that you can include those deleted scenes on the Blu-ray/DVD?
CARO: Yeah, that's the nice part of technology. It's our friend, in that regard.
The themes in this film feel like they could not only apply to any sport, but just to life, in general. What do you hope people take from seeing this film and learning about this really compelling true story?
CARO: Because of the way we told it, which is to be very, very specific and very, very authentic to those lives and to that story, that the movie becomes ultimately universal. I hope that it's a movie that is for everybody. I've seen it play for a bunch of audiences now, and I've seen how much of a feel-good movie this is. I sit with audiences and observe them crying and shouting and laughing and carrying on. It can be a very interactive experience. In many ways, movies like this are becoming rarer and rarer. Studios are more likely to make big, big, big event movies that are very heavy on the technology and the explosions and the eye candy. This is O.G. filmmaking, with real story and real characters, shot on film. That said, it's an amazing experience to watch a movie like this with a group of people, and collectively experience how good it feels when the underdog wins. In the case of these particular underdogs, you'll feel really, really good. So, I hope that people come away from this movie extremely entertained, amused, moved and inspired. I also, just for myself, hope that they come away with maybe a slightly better appreciation of what the people of McFarland, and other like that, contribute to this country. The scale of their contribution completely overwhelms me, and I'm really glad that I've been part of a movie that can talk about that.
How special was it to have Coach White and the real teammates for that final scene?
CARO: It was so fun, but it wasn't that special because they do that, all the time. With movies like this, it's a convention, at the end of the film, to do a "Where are they now?" To actually have the real guys would have been enough, but the acknowledgment that the real guys still live there and do actually still train with those kids, is what made it special.
Obviously, if you're going to make a sports movie, having Kevin Costner at the center of it gives it a certain credibility. What is it about him that makes him the perfect Jim White?
CARO: I joke that I couldn't believe it when I met the real Jim White because he looks like a movie star. He looks like [Clint] Eastwood, and he's all that. He's really dry, he's really smart and he's really decent, and he loves those kids and that community. He could have had the fanciest job in America, given what he achieved, but he chose to remain in McFarland because it was his home and those were the people he loves. So, when you've got a character like that, Kevin Costner is the ideal guy because he has all of the same qualities as Jim. He's a brilliant actor, a bona fide movie star, and a tremendously honorable and decent guy.
What was it like to watch the younger actors work with Kevin Costner, and him with them?
CARO: Kevin was so gentle and fatherly with them. In a way, he became their coach in movie life, but not their acting coach. He would never be so disrespectful as to tell them how to do their job, or to take over my job. What's even more interesting is what they brought out of Kevin. That tenderness, that humility and that realness that you see in Kevin, on screen, those boys brought that out of him. That's an amazing thing to watch.
With there being so many elements to making this film work, and so many details to everything, what was the most daunting aspect for you, as far as everything that you had to do to capture it properly? What was most logistically challenging?
CARO: It's an ordinary thing, but I completely underestimated it, which was having eight people in just about every scene, and the commitment to the idea that this was not a movie about a big white guy saving a bunch of brown people. All of those kids needed to have equal time and attention on camera as Costner. So, it wasn't a case of, "Okay, Kevin is the money, so we're going to shoot the shit out of him and the kids will be in the background." We were extremely careful to make sure that, with every single one of those kids, we had all the shots we needed, so that we could tell their story while telling Jim White's. And that's time consuming. That means every single person has to be on their game, all the time. We trained those boys to be on, all the time. They're such a gift to the next director they come across because they never, ever checked out. I could put the camera on them, at any time, and they were totally on. It was super cool.
Do you have any idea what you're going to do next?
CARO: I do. I'm working soon, actually, with Jessica Chastain on a movie called The Zookeeper's Wife.
What appealed to you about that project?
CARO: It's a true story. It's going to be challenging for me because it's a historically true story. I can't just go to the place and knock on the doors and eat with the people. I have a much bigger challenge on my hands to represent that life, as accurately as possible, when it happened in 1939. That's the big mountain I have to climb.
McFarland, USA opens in theaters on February 20th.


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Rostam Batmanglij Biography
Birthday: November 28, 1983
Nationality: American
Age: 36 Years, 36 Year Old Males
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Born in: Washington, D.C., United States
Famous as: Musician
mother: Najmieh Batmanglij
siblings: Zal Batmanglij
U.S. State: Washington
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Rostam Batmanglij is an American songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his association with the indie rock electronic recording project named Discovery. He first gained popularity for his work with the indie rock band Vampire Weekend which helped to establish him as an upcoming talent in the indie rock genre. The brother of filmmaker Zal Batmanglij, Rostam began making electronic music at the age of 14. A major in music from Columbia University, he plays keyboards, percussion, and guitar. In his decade long career with Vampire Weekend, he produced the band's debut album, 'Vampire Weekend', and the second album 'Contra', and co-producedthe album 'Modern Vampires of the City'; all the three albums were critically and commercially successful. His fans admired his skills in reshaping pop music with elements of West African guitar blended with unusual polyrhythms and joyful melodies. After the band earned significant recognition, he branched out and formed the recording project Discovery with his friend Wesley Miles. As a solo artiste he recorded the tracks 'Wood', 'Don't Let It Get to You', 'EOS' and 'Gravity Don't Pull Me' which earned critical acclaim. As a producer, he is quite in demand, and has worked extensively with artistes like Frank Ocean, Carly Rae Jepsen, Hamilton Leithauser, Charli XCX, and Santigold.
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- Rostam Batmanglij was born on November 28, 1983, in Washington, D.C., to Iranian parents who had migrated to the US. His mother Najmieh Batmanglij is a cookbook author, devoted to the traditions of Persian cuisine, and his father Mohammad Batmanglij founded Mage Publishers, a small press that promoted Persian culture. His brother Zal Batmanglij is an independent filmmaker.His parents had first met at a party in Tehran. They attended college together in the US. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, they moved to France where their elder son Zal was born. However, the rigidity of the French society troubled them, and they feared that their children would lose connection with their Iranian roots. The family, therefore, moved to the US, and settled in Washington, D.C.With Iranian culture remaining the focus of his parents' American lives, Rostam went to the Potomac School, a prep school south of D.C. He recalls spending a lot of time in school singing traditional songs with his teachers.Continue Reading BelowYou May LikeRecommended Lists:
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- Rostam majored in music at the Columbia University. There he met Ezra Koenig, Chris Tomson, and Chris Baio, with whom he eventually formed a rock band Vampire Weekend (2006), named after a movie of the same name. The band quickly found success with their brainy lyrics and melodious music.After he graduated, he produced the band's self-titled debut album, which was released in January 2008. At that time he was also working different jobs including an internship at the Oxford English Dictionary. The album included the singles 'Mansard Roof', 'A-Punk', 'Oxford Comma', 'Cape Cod Kwassa', and 'The Kids Don't Stand a Chance', which were appreciated by critics.Vampire Weekend's second album 'Contra', which was released in 2010, was again a commercial success. Rostam sang, played the guitar and keyboard, and co-wrote the songs.In September 2011, Rostam released a solo track 'Wood', which earned 4 out of 5 stars from Timeout Chicago's Brent DiCrescenzo. In November 2011, he sang a solo song, 'Don't Let it Get to You', which became the Hottest Record in the World on BBC Radio1.The band's third album 'Modern Vampires of the City' was released in May 2013, and was co-produced by Rostam and Ariel Rechtshaid. This was the first time the band worked with an outside producer.The year 2014 was a busy year for Rostam. First, he produced and co-wrote two songs for Hamilton Leithauser's solo album, 'Black Hours', which was released in June 2014. He then produced two songs—'Need Ur Luv' and 'Kingdom'—for Charli XCX. In December 2014, he remixed Ty Dolla Sign's song 'Stand For' into a new song 'Long Way Home'. Next, he wrote the original music for a play by Kenneth Lonergan called 'This Is Our Youth', premiered on Broadway.In 2015, he produced and sang the song 'Water' for Ra Ra Riot's fourth album 'Need Your Light'. He also worked with Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen on her third studio album, 'E•MO•TION', and co-wrote the fourth single, 'Warm Blood', which was released on July 31, 2015.In January 2016, he left Vampire Weekend to pursue solo projects. Rostam released two solo songs 'EOS' and 'Gravity Don't Pull Me', along with their music videos directed by him. That same year, he released a collaborative album 'I Had a Dream That You Were Mine,' with Hamilton Leithauser.Rostam and his brother Zal Batmanglij collaborated on the film 'Sound of My Voice', which Rostam scored and Zal directed and co-wrote. Rostam also composed an original piece for piano that was featured in Zal's film 'The East'.In 2017, he released two solo songs—'Gwan' and 'Bike Dream'—from his to-be-released solo album 'Half-Light'. On September 15, 2017, he released the album 'Half-Light', which was about his time living in New York. Its breathtaking choral and instrument arrangements, distinctive beats, and intricate wordplay made it one of the year's most arresting albums.The first song of the album 'Sumer', is built around a sample of 'Sumer Is Icumen In,' an Old English song that he loved as a child.In 2017, he also produced and co-wrote the song 'Listen to Your Friends' for the singer Declan McKenna's debut album 'What Do You Think About the Car?' Rostam is also involved with the electro-soul group Discovery which he had founded with his friend Wesley Miles.Recommended Lists:
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- The album 'Vampire Weekend' by the eponymous band sold over 27,000 copies in the first week of its release in the US, debuting at number 17 on the Billboard 200. By January 2010, it had sold nearly half a million copies. In the UK Albums Chart, it peaked at number 15.The band's third album 'Modern Vampires of the City' debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album sold about 10,000 units on vinyl alone, debuting at number 1 on the Soundscan Vinyl Charts. It also charted number 1 at the Indie, Alternative, and Digital charts.Recommended Lists:
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- 'Vampire Weekend's third studio album, 'Modern Vampires of the City' won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2014.Personal Life
- In 2010, Rostam came out as gay in an interview with 'Rolling Stone.' "As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity," he said. Since then, he has been openly gay, and talked about his sexual orientation in the magazine 'Out' as well.He said that Ed Droste of the band Grizzly Bear influenced him to publicly come out.He says he is proud of his Iranian roots, and in fact, plays a 12-string guitar tuned like an Iranian instrument called a "tar."Translate Wiki to Spanish, French, Hindi, Portuguese
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Overview of the Attacks on the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
On January 20, 2017, the same day that he was inaugurated, President Trump issued an Executive Order stating that his Administration would try to repeal the ACA as quickly as possible. Although Congress was not able to repeal and replace the ACA through the formal law-making process, the President and various agencies in the Executive Branch have taken significant steps to undermine different sections of the ACA. All of these attacks have the same effect: they make it more expensive and harder for people with disabilities and other pre-existing conditions to get health care.
For people whose income is higher than the level that would allow them to receive Medicaid but still low enough that insurance would otherwise be too expensive, there are two types of financial assistance that the government provides. One of these subsidies is the Advance Premium Tax Credits (APTC), which help people cover the costs of the monthly payment to their private insurance companies. The other is the Cost-Sharing Reduction (CSR), which helps people pay for the additional costs of their medical care that their insurance does not cover.
In October of 2017, the Trump Administration announced that it would stop paying for CSRs. The ACA still requires insurance companies to reduce these out-of-pocket costs for the people who get their coverage, but the federal government will no longer help insurance companies pay for these subsidies. As a result, many insurers increased costs for their plans to make up for the difference. These higher costs made insurance unaffordable for many people whose income is not low enough to receive assistance, but not high enough to pay such steep monthly costs.
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When people with fewer health care needs stop buying full coverage, insurance companies need to raise the price of coverage for the people who know they need to access health care services throughout the year. People with pre-existing conditions and people with disabilities end up facing the same problems as before the ACA, where they have fewer choices and more expensive health care. People who buy these limited plans are not much better off, since they have to pay much more for health care services as issues come up that they cannot predict. When they develop chronic conditions, their insurance does not cover the care they need, and they need to pay for these services on their own.
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These skimpier plans appear to cost less than traditional insurance plans because they are not what most people would consider to be insurance plans (see FamiliesUSA's fact sheet on these "sham" plans). Here's why we're concerned:
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400gr cabbage
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Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Deep cabbage in boiling water and leave to cook for about 10 minutes, until main vein will tender. Meanwhile, deep bread in to the milk to absorbing liquid. When cabbage will done, drain it and gently squeeze it by hands, to loosing the exceeding water (cabbage should not be to to dry!). Place it on cutting board, chop coarsely and transfer it in a bowl.
Add Parmigiano and Pecorino Romano Cheese, wrung bread, the egg, salt, black pepper and nutmeg.
Mixing well by hands and creating your croquettes, as large as walnut ( the dough will be moist, but sufficiently dense to create the croquettes). Pass them in the breadcrumbs one by one, and place in a dish. In a deep skillet hit the peanut oil on medium high fire, at the right temperature lowers the fire and frying the croquettes for few seconds on each side until golden brown. Put on paper towel to loosing the exceeding oil and serving!


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French designer Emmanuelle-Marie has been receiving very good praise as of late. She first created the label Malam three years ago, and has since been navigating her way through the fashion world.
Emmanuelle-Marie's original vision was for a refreshing new take on mainstream fashion. She sought to offer different and unique, yet wearable designs and prints.
The designer is known for using all types of fabrics to create her collections, but prefers vintage cloth. Her range of prints is often used on clothes with fun and flirty shapes, in both ready-to-wear and custom made garments. Some of her creations are limited addition.
Her collections, which are catered to both men and women, feature dresses, skirts, coats and jackets. All items are conceived and handmade in a studio, which is east of Paris.
Many of Emmanuelle-Marie's pieces are high-fashion, and display intricate prints in styles that women can wear every day, such as floaty dresses with bows and over-sized sleeves. These romantic items are often paired with biker boots, heavy make-up and gothic accessories to keep with the androgynous fashion trend of the summer.
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At this year's 13th International Conference of the Bled Strategic Forum (BSF), the European Network of Political Foundations (ENoP) had the opportunity to host a side event. In cooperation with ENoP's Slovenian member Društo Progresiva and Institute Dr. Janeza Evangelista Kreka the side event discussed the European consensus on development in practices, with a focus on political foundations as bridge-builders for the implementation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Among the discussants were ENoP board members, representatives of political foundations and EU institutions as well as local civil society organisations: Dr. Florian Lütticken, a policy coordinator at the European Commission (DG DEVCO), Sabina Wölkner, a representative of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, ENoP member foundation, and Ðuro Blanuša, a representative of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), as well as Gudrun Kopp, an active board member at ENoP, former Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and also former member of the German Bundestag.
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The Flowability Tester BEP2 has been specifically designed to address the specifications in and comments raised by the European Pharmacopoeia Chapter 2.9.36 and US Pharmacopoeia Chapter on Powder Flow. The BEP2 Tester provides a range of options for testing pharmaceutical powders including three of the four methods quoted in the pharmacopoeia – flow through an orifice, angle of repose and shear cell – in a single, cost effective unit.
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The widespread use of powders in the pharmaceutical industry has led to a proliferation of test methods for measuring powder flow.
The new harmonised chapters in the Pharmacopoeia on Powder Flow (USP Chapter and Ph. Eur. Chapter 2.9.36) list four well-defined methods for powder testing aimed at trying to bring about some degree of standardisation within the existing test methodology:
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The new Flowability Tester BEP2 provides a range of options for testing pharmaceutical powders including three of the four methods quoted in the pharmacopoeia – flow through an orifice, angle of repose and shear cell – in a single, cost effective unit.
In addition to providing the test methods detailed in the harmonized pharmacopoeia chapters, it is also suitable for flowability testing according to Ph.Eur. 2.9.16.
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The BEP2 is an easy to use, small footprint instrument with interchangeable cylinder, funnel, angle-of-repose and shear cell attachments. A description of each attachment can be found below.
Cylinder Attachment (Flow Through an Orifice)
Measuring the ability and the time taken for a powder to flow through an orifice of known size is a useful method of quantifying powder flow.
At the same time, it is important to recognise that the ability of the powder to flow through the orifice can be affected by factors other than the characteristics of the powder itself.
Such factors include the shape and material employed in the construction of the powder container, the diameter and height of the powder bed and the shape of the orifice concerned.
The Pharmacopoeia suggest that the use of a circular cylinder as the powder container encourages powder over powder flow as opposed to powder over container wall, minimising any effect brought about by differences in the material used to produce the powder container. As the title suggests, this technique is only suitable for materials that flow – not cohesive materials. Assuming this to be the case, then the Pharmacopoeia suggests that providing:
- The height of the powder bed (the 'head') is much greater than that of the orifice
- The diameter of the opening is greater than 6 times the diameter of the particles
- The diameter of the cylinder is greater than 2 times the diameter of the opening then any difference in results brought about by either powder bed or orifice can be considered negligible. The cylinder attachment has been designed to take all of these factors into account.
The cylinder attachment comprises a stainless steel cylinder measuring 76 mm long x 57 mm i.d. and having a capacity of 200ml. The bottom of the cylinder is sealed with a collar designed to accept discs having various orifice diameters.
The attachment comes complete with a set of 20 interchangeable stainless steel discs each containing a precision drilled hole in the centre covering the following sizes:
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20,22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 36 mm.
A shutter covers the hole during filling. This can be smoothly removed without vibration to allow the powder to flow through the selected hole. The cylinder attachment can be used in two ways:
- To carryout quantitative flowability tests based on mass vs time
- To determine the intrinsic flowability of the powder concerned in the form of a flowability index based on comparative measurements.
Funnel Attachment (Flow Through an Orifice)
In certain instances where, for example, the purpose of the test is to simulate flow in a hopper or other production situation, it may be preferable to use a funnel in the form of a truncated cone.
The funnel attachment is based on the stainless steel flow funnel and nozzle described in the European Pharmacopoeia (EP) Chapter 2.9.16 for flowability. It has a capacity of approx. 400ml. The attachment is supplied with three nozzles corresponding to aperture sizes of 10, 15 and 25 mm respectively.
Both funnel and nozzles are manufactured from pharmaceutical grade 316 stainless steel. The nozzles can be quickly interchanged using the connecting nut provided for that purpose.
The opening at the bottom of the funnel is secured by means of an adjustable shutter which is closed during the filling operation. The test is carried out in a similar manner to that of Method A (Mass vs Time) of the cylinder attachment
Balance Timer Attachment
By adding a balance and a timer linked to a micro-switch located on the shutter mechanism, it is now possible to conduct time vs mass tests using either cylinder or funnel methods without the need for an external stopwatch.
The balance/timer option allows the use of the unit in 4 modes:
- Determination of the flow time of a predetermined sample weight
- Determination of the flow time of a predetermined sample volume
- Determination of the weight of sample in a predetermine time
- Plot of time against sample weight (weight/time)
Angle of Repose Attachment
The angle of repose is the angle (relative to the horizontal base) of the conical pile produced when a granular material is poured onto a horizontal surface. It is related to the density, surface area and coefficient of friction of the material concerned.
The angle of repose attachment comprises a 100 mm diameter circular test platform together with a digital height gauge, having a range of 0-300 mm and an accuracy of 0.03 mm. The test platform has a protruding outer lip in order to retain a layer of powder upon which the cone is formed. Surplus powder is collected in a tray below the test platform. For this particular test, the funnel is normally equipped with a special 10 mm i.d. nozzle mounted 75 mm above the test platform.
If necessary, the contents may be stirred to assist in the powder flow. The tangent of the angle of repose (in degrees) can be determined by reading off the height of the powder cone in mm from the digital display of the height gauge and dividing it by 50.
Shear Cell Attachment
Shear cell methodology is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry to determine the flow properties of fine grained powders and bulk solids and how they will behave in bins, hoppers, feeders and other handling equipment. The ability of a material to flow through such devices is dependent on the bulk density of the material and its shear strength.
The shear cell employed with the BEP2 comprises a cylindrical chamber (manufactured from clear acrylic) measuring 140 mm i.d. and 32.5 mm high and capable of holding 500 ml of the sample. In the floor of the chamber, there is a 100 mm hole which can be sealed during the consolidation process using an acrylic disc provided for this purpose.The test is based on measuring the force required to shear a circular disc through a prepared sample of bulk material. It comprises two stages:
- Sample consolidation (bulk density measurement)
- Failure inducement (shear strength)
The sample is first subjected to a consolidated load such that the bulk density of the material can be determined – ideally, this should be similar to the loads experienced by the material in practice.
Alternatively, a standard reference can be employed e.g. 10 kilos. The acrylic disc sealing the bottom of the test cell is now removed and load steadily applied to the test sample by pouring sand through a funnel into a container of appropriate proportions resting on top of the sample until such time as the sample fails (shears).
The results should be expressed in terms of bulk density, shear strength and if appropriate, estimate of device outlet required.
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The fourth swarm sprint consists of two topics areas: developing synthetic technologies in the OFFSET virtual environments and identifying applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to discover and learn novel swarm tactics.
Developing Synthetic Technologies in Virtual Environments
Proposers will seek to develop and implement synthetic capabilities in simulation, representing potential future technologies, such as distributed "see-through-wall" sensors, passive swarm communications, or enhanced sensor/computing arrays, to enable and demonstrate novel swarm tactics. Proposed technologies could be near-term advances that are being prototyped in laboratories or far-term ideas that are primarily conceptual but physically grounded.
Artificial Intelligence for Novel Swarm Tactics
The researchers are leveraging artificial Intelligence for accelerating swarm tactics design. They will use the artificial intelligence frameworks via enhancements of the OFFSET virtual environments.
"With OFFSET, we are expanding the tactics available to warfighters, leveraging advances in autonomous systems to address complex challenges in urban environments," says Timothy Chung, program manager in DARPA's Tactical Technology Office (TTO). "Exploring and developing swarm technologies in virtual environments today can yield insights and impact for real-world breakthrough capabilities tomorrow."
DARPA also has awarded separate contracts for the third swarm sprint to Carnegie Mellon University and Soar Technologyn.
The third swarm sprint aims to augment the growing collection of swarm tactics in the OFFSET ecosystem, employing heterogeneous swarms of air and ground robots, and also to explore innovative technologies to enhance human-swarm teaming or how humans interact with autonomous swarms.


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Npower Announces Latest Price Increases
By Anne Lewis-Schneider
Npower are the third of the Big Six Energy Companies to announce price increases in the last two weeks. After the SSE and British Gas increases, comes yet another that is higher than both of the previous companies. Npower have made known that gas prices will go up by 11.1% and electricity by 9.3% adding �137 to the combined fuel costs a year. The increases so far have had a stormy reception from the public who will be hard pressed to pay the increased prices, which amount to a threefold inflation rate which surely cannot be accepted as fair.
The latest increases will affect 3.1 million customers who currently receive their gas and electricity from Npower, who have said that the increases are unavoidable due to the increase of raw material costs as well as covering government initiated subsidies which have to be collected via the billing of customers on their monthly fuel accounts. Npower also said that the increase was in part due to the cost of delivering energy to homes and the risks associated therewith had to be taken into account.
The main theme harped on by the three major energy companies that have increased their prices so far seems to be that the decisions have not been taken lightly and that they only want a fair return for the service that they provide. Increases in fuel and electricity are an area that has a high impact on the fixed income sector that fall into the lower income bracket. It is in these households that difficult decisions have to be made as to whether the family gets adequate food or adequate heating, as with the steep increases it is often a hard fought battle to try to do both.
Npower�s chief executive Paul Massara has given the by now standard rumble of knowing increases are unwelcome but doing it anyway. He has said that the company only aim to make a 5% profit in their retail billings which have once again been touted as fair in accordance with their reliable delivery of services to their customers, and any risks that they have to cover. He also stated that Ed Miliband�s price freeze would actually lead to higher prices in the long run because it would lower sustainability due to the increasing costs of supplying energy in a more efficient low carbon energy market into the future.
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What is the best tool to use instead of evernote?
reckoning replied to DobriyDruid's topic in Evernote General DiscussionsI'm not a big fan of Microsoft either but I've been really impressed since I moved over to Onenote, they've done a really good job. In fact now I've used it for a few days I've realised I'm getting many more features than I was for Evernote and all for free well worth the move. Im using it on iPhone, iPad and PC. They provide an Evernote to Onenote transfer tool to help as well.
Microsoft have released an Evernote to Onenote tool which makes it very easy to transfer all your notes.
windows How do you add a separator to the toolbar?
reckoning replied to reckoning's topic in Windows ArchiveThanks for the confirmation gazumped. I'll do as you suggest and raise a support request.
windows How do you add a separator to the toolbar?
reckoning posted a topic in Windows ArchiveHow do I go about adding separators to the toolbar? If I go into the "customize toolbar" option I see a separator option but when I drag it up to the toolbar it places something else there instead. It appears to be a space but if I click in the blank space a little blue rectangle appears. I've created a screenshot but when I attempted to attach it to this post it said I've exceeded my allotted disk space. How do I about freeing up my disk space so I can upload it? Thanks.
How do you view full tag names on the iPad?
reckoning replied to reckoning's topic in Evernote for iOSThanks Sentinel. Lets hope they get round to this.
How do you view full tag names on the iPad?
reckoning replied to reckoning's topic in Evernote for iOSHi Sentinel, Thanks for the reply. It's a shame the tags can't be viewed by hierarchy, especially after i'd spent so much time on the desktop organising them. The real problem though is not being able to view the tag names. I don't understand the reason behind this, overall the iPad is pretty well designed in my opinion but in this area it falls short. Why have 2/3 of the screen empty and then squash the important stuff onto the side preventing the information from displayed fully? Doesn't make sense. I'll just have to carry on doing what i've been doing then and just go through clicking on the tags until I find the one I want. Thanks
How do you view full tag names on the iPad?
reckoning posted a topic in Evernote for iOSHello, I have a couple of problems with viewing\using tags on the iPad. The most serious one is that I can't seem to figure out how to view the tags properly. If I go into the tags section I can see the beginning of the tag names but they are all squashed up all on one side of the screen and the rest of the screen is just unused grey space. I've tried dragging the tag section across into the empty area but it doesn't work. As you can see in the screen grab I have a lot of tags that start of with the same word so it's not possible for me to know which is the correct tag i'm after unless I can see the name of the tags. The second is that my tags are just appearing in alphabetical order rather than via hierarchical order as I have it set on the desktop. How do I get the tag hierarchy showing that I've set-up on the desktop? Thanks
(Archived) Local notebook uploaded and synced
reckoning replied to reckoning's topic in Windows ArchiveI forgot to come back to report on this issue. A couple of days ago support finally managed to fix my sync issues after all this time so i'm very happy now. My problem wasn't fixed by the 5.0.1 update but was caused by a ghost notebook that has now been exorcised. Burgers I completely disagree and its still something i'm having to resolve even now. As I said you don't have all the information.
(Archived) Local notebook uploaded and synced
reckoning replied to reckoning's topic in Windows ArchiveHow can you make a statement like that without knowing all the details? I'm still trying to determine exactly how far afield my notes have ended up myself and i've been chasing this up for a while. I wanted these notes to stay on my home computer for a reason. Not only have they gone up into the cloud on the Evernote servers, they synced down to my work computer, they've been backed up onto the universities file server and apparently I found out the other day they are also on some US backup cloud server as well. So when I say my files have been scattered around that's what I meant. I'm battling at the moment to try and get the sysadmins to remove any trace of these notes from their servers and also find out where else they have been backed up to on the internet. Maybe you can answer a question for me. If someone got hold of all my notes can they be simply be opened in Evernote? If they are strongly encrypted it would put my mind at rest that at least they would have some kind of protection even though they are out of my hands. Picard how are you getting on?
(Archived) Local notebook uploaded and synced
reckoning replied to reckoning's topic in Windows ArchiveHey Picard, Just so you know it took weeks before I heard anything back from support. I wish I had some good news to tell you but there's no fix unfortunately. All my private financial documents that were meant to stay on my home computer are now scattered on the web and on my work computer. The next step is to open a new email account and then a new evernote account and then start testing with that one.
(Archived) Local notebook uploaded and synced
reckoning replied to reckoning's topic in Windows ArchiveTicket number is 41151
(Archived) Local notebook uploaded and synced
reckoning replied to reckoning's topic in Windows ArchiveNo I don't want two notebooks with the same name. I just want the one single offline notebook on my home computer. This was how I had it for years up until a month or so ago. When the "offline" notebook started syncing it did create an online version of the same notebook with the same name, but that's because of this bug, not because I wanted multiple notebooks called the same thing. Once I ended up in this situation that's when I renamed the offline notebook to something else and then deleted the online version. The problem with this is that after a period time it starts uploading it again. Anyway this problem has been eclipsed by this second problem that i'm now having where it's just stopped syncing altogether. Still nothing from support since 15th August. Thanks GrumpyMonkey
(Archived) Local notebook uploaded and synced
reckoning replied to reckoning's topic in Windows ArchiveThings are just getting worse and worse with this. It's been going on for so long now and no-ones seems to be able to help. I've not heard anything from support since the 15th of August, and that was just a suggestion to give version 5 beta a try (it didn't make any difference). I was also told they would speak to the devs but I never heard anything back about that either. Things have got progressively worse and Evernote has basically stopped working now. It won't even sync. Any notes I create on my desktop just sit there and don't make it up to the cloud,laptop,phone etc, so at this point the software has just become usable as I can't access my notes. Bnf I've renamed the finance notebook a few times but it doesn't make any difference.
(Archived) Local notebook uploaded and synced
reckoning replied to reckoning's topic in Windows ArchiveI've just taken another look at Evernote in preparation of taking some screenshots and I forgot that I renamed the online version of the finance notebook to "finance-online". This currently has a number of notes from the offline notebook finance but far from all of them at the moment. I'm not sure it would give you any useful information at the moment as they are currently called different things and have a different number of notes in them.
(Archived) Local notebook uploaded and synced
reckoning replied to reckoning's topic in Windows ArchiveHello, EN support got back to me and have suggested I uninstall Evernote and install a later version, which i've now done. I can post some more screenshots if it helps but what is basically happening is this. I create a local notebook on my home computer called Finance. This holds all my financial documents that I don't want uploading to the cloud and copying to my work computer. This is something that i've had around for a few years and its never been a problem until recently. What happens is that after a while (days or weeks) this notebook will start to upload it's notes as if the notebook is an online notebook. The Evernote Portal and Evernote on my work computer create a notebook called Finance automatically and it has a green online notebook icon while my home computer continues to have an offline gray icon. Then my offline notes in the finance notebook at home start to get synced up to the cloud and then down onto my work computer. The other thing i've noticed is that the word (local) keeps getting appended to the offline Finance notebook on my home computer. I'm guessing this is because when it tries to sync it's already seeing an existing notebook called the same thing so it appends (local) at the end. I've seen it end up with over a dozen (locals) added on before i've renamed and removed them. gbarry, thank you very much for that. The first warning I get when my offline notebook goes online is that all my monthly usage gets used up so this will help.


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Firefighters respond to structure fire in Ventura mobile home park
Firefighters knocked down a fire at a residence in a Ventura mobile home park on Wednesday night.
The fire was reported at 10:23 p.m. in the 4400 block of Copland Drive inside the La Posada Mobile Home Park.
Crews arrived on scene and found a fire burning inside the one of the residences.
The fire was knocked down at 10:37 p.m., authorities said.
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Black Sea Bass Fishing Nantucket Sound
5/31/2019 - By Sam Brown. The Black Sea Bass is actually a member of the grouper family and each fish makes for a couple sweet tasting white meat fillets. They are known as "protogynous hermaphrodites" which means they start as females and end up as mature males. The males will develop a… SEE MORE