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I am so excited that it's another Coffee Lovers Bloghop! This card features Your Next Stamp's Thanks a Latte set. I just love how this card turned out! ~D
Friday, June 5, 2015
Thanks a Latte
I am so excited that it's another Coffee Lovers Bloghop! This card features Your Next Stamp's Thanks a Latte set. I just love how this card turned out! ~D
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LOVE THIS! Those fabulous stripes with the gorgeous summer colors - beautiful card!ReplyDelete
What lovely colors !!! The black and white with the flowers is perfect !!ReplyDelete
This is so pretty! Love how you used the florals on this!ReplyDelete
Love the mix of patterns...great design!ReplyDelete
This is so pretty! Love your design papers with these stamps!ReplyDelete
what a cute card.. Thanks for joining us at Your Next Stamp..ReplyDelete
What a great thank you card!! I love the pops of red and blue and the background paper. You really knocked it out of the park following the sketch!!ReplyDelete
Super cute card! Love all these bright colors!ReplyDelete
Awesome card!! Love the papers you used!! They look fabulous!! Have a great weekend :)ReplyDelete
A Mermaid's Crafts
Sooo pretty!ReplyDelete
What super fun colors...fabulous summery card!ReplyDelete
Thank you for linking up to the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop♡
Great summery card!ReplyDelete
Yes,this is ineed a Summer coffee card. Wonderful!ReplyDelete
I meet you again Indy on the other coffee lover blog hop and I love your card with that black and white stripes against lovely flower paperReplyDelete
clever way to make this awesome coffee card
Hugs and see you soon on my entry #125
Wow! I love the black & white chevron paper paired with the floral! I liike your colorful coffee cups too!ReplyDelete
Such a pretty card, Indy, love the roses and your colors...makes me think of summer for sure! Happy hopping!ReplyDelete
Love the patterned papersReplyDelete
The card is lovely. Well done.ReplyDelete
love how you pulled together the flowers. TFSReplyDelete
great color choices , fab design thanks for joining us at YNS too !!!ReplyDelete
Love this so cute!!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful card!!!ReplyDelete
Sweet summer colors!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous colors!ReplyDelete
Beautiful card! Love the contrast of colors.ReplyDelete
What a great card! LOVE those B&W chevrons and how they point to your gorgeous focal point. This is a great card!! BevReplyDelete
LOVE the roses with the coffee cups! Super card!ReplyDelete
Super cute. Love the design and papersReplyDelete
fabulous card, love the black and white with the colors opposite, So fun!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card design and love the vellum stamped sentiment!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous take on the sketch! Love the roses with the coffee!ReplyDelete
So cute! :-DReplyDelete
Fabulous creation, love it!ReplyDelete
Just gorgeous creation, Indy! The colors and patterns are just amazing- gotta love the navy stripes!ReplyDelete
Ermagerhd!! This is one of my favorite cards I've seen on the hop so far! Love the graphic chevron background with the floral print. Totally pinning this one!ReplyDelete
What a lovely card! Love the bold, graphic papers and fun layout of your card. Beautiful work!ReplyDelete
I would not have thought to put b&w stripes with the roses...but this is beautiful! Thanks for sharing! ~AnnieReplyDelete
Pretty card xReplyDelete
Gorgeous card!!ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful day,
Crafting With Creative M
Wow awesome card really really love it.ReplyDelete
Super cute! Love the background papers!ReplyDelete
Love your design with the bold stripes and floral. Very cool. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Love your bold color choices.ReplyDelete
What a pretty card! Love your take on the sketch and the papers you used are amazing!ReplyDelete
Beautiful card!ReplyDelete
so nice, love the floral paper!ReplyDelete
Beautiful card! Love the colors ♥ReplyDelete
LOve love, beautiful coffee card!!!ReplyDelete
love al the vibrant colors!ReplyDelete
Love the flowers with the black and white bg!ReplyDelete
wow - love the colors and layout! Thanks for joining in on the fun - happy to be one of the sponsors. Chris from a•muse|studioReplyDelete
What a fun and pretty look this card has - I love how you followed the sketch and the pattern papers you used are super lovely!!ReplyDelete
Love everything about your card! super cuteReplyDelete
love, love, love this card! everything is perfect from the coloring to the paper!ReplyDelete
This is so pretty!ReplyDelete
Thanks a latte for sharing this Summery love!ReplyDelete
Oh this is so fabulous, love the cups side by side and the great design.ReplyDelete
Super pretty, Debbie! Blessings!ReplyDelete
Definitely a summery card, with your great choice of papers. Thanks for joining in the fun and sharing your take on YNS's sketch challenge #15!!!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I love that beautiful floral paper against the bold chevron.ReplyDelete
Hi Indy!!! Great card!!! Gorgeous design!!! TFS!!!ReplyDelete
Indy, your card is just fabulous - love the bright colors!ReplyDelete
Your design reminds me of garden parties, it's perfect! :-) xReplyDelete


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I took another look at RSpec today. I tried to re-write the script using a test driven development method but am finding it harder to use than expected. I think I just have to shift my brain into programming TDD style. I really didn't come up with any good code, I must have started over at least 10 times. I started with things like it "should accept a parameter –operation that takes either 'add' or 'sub' as it's value" Then I would read RSpec docs and try to test tha…needless to say it's a good way to learn about RSpec albeit rather slow. Hopefully I can move my brain to this new style of thinking. It seemed so easy at first but once you try it, it's actually kind of difficult to do.
Here is the list of requirements I'm going to be working off of.
- it "should accept two parameters, an operation that is either add or sub and a time value formatted at least with one digit. It should also accept two arguments, an in_file and na out_file"
- it "should add or subtract time based on the set operation"
- it "should modify the time by the amount passed in as a parameter of –time"
- it "should read times and all other lines from the first file"
- it "should write modified times and unmodified other lines to the second file"
IF you can get these tests to pass, then you've got yourself a working program and RSpec test to go with it as well as some documentation!
Until next time…

subset: commoncrawl


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$675M Well Fargo team opens high-net-worth RIA
A $675 million Wells Fargo FiNet team has broken away from the wirehouse and launched an RIA with help from the independent consulting firm Fusion Financial.
Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth consists of partners Michael Landsberg, Lew Bennett and Anthony Dubbaneh. Also joining the Punta Gorda, Florida-based team is director of business development Faiza Kedir, Chief Compliance Officer Debra Cooper, advisor Flor Mendoza, planning associate Adrienne Moore, administrative assistant Lindsay Decker and portfolio analyst Tommy Williamson.
Landsberg was named to seven of the last nine Barron's Top 1,000 Advisors lists, including in 2018. He landed at 70 this year down one spot from 69 in 2017, according to the list. Dubbaneh ranked 297th on Forbes' Top Millennial Advisors list in 2018 as a member of Landsberg Bennett with $650 million in client assets and an average client account of at least $2 million.
Landsberg Bennett offers investment management, retirement income planning, asset protection strategies, estate and gifting strategies and personal risk management, according to a release. The firm listed eight employees on its latest Form ADV filed in July and chose Fidelity Clearing as its custodian.
The partners met while employed as advisors at Merrill Lynch, according to a press release.
"We have always considered ourselves independent," says Landsberg of his time at Wells FiNet, "but after exploring our options we decided that launching our own firm was the right solution for our clients."
Fusion Financial is a consulting firm founded in 2017 by HighTower veteran Mike Papedis that offers growth coaching, expertise in RIA launches and thought leadership, according to its website.
"The advisor landscape has become so complex and so deep with service-tech options and affiliation models, that it can be overwhelming — if not bewildering — for an advisor," Papedis says. "So we wanted to form a consulting business that serves the independent advisor guild that follows the life cycle of an advisor."
For Papedis, the independent space is the natural progression for advisors because it offers greater freedom and control over how firms are run combined with technology platforms comparable to those offered at the wirehouses.
"They are elevating the firm-to-client relationship by choosing to operate as an independent, fee-only, fiduciary advisory firm," he says.
Total advisor head count from all channels at Wells Fargo was 14,226 in the second quarter, down by 173 from the previous quarter, according to the bank's latest earnings report — matching an industry-wide trend of advisors moving away from the big banks. Wells pinned its losses on a slew of retiring advisors.
FiNet landed a three-person team with $400 million in client assets in March, however, partially offsetting recent losses.
Wells Fargo did not return a request for comment on the move.
Landsberg registered with Morgan Stanley in 1992, moved to Merrill Lynch in 1994 and landed at Wells Fargo in 2012, per FINRA BrokerCheck records. Bennett began his career with Merrill Lynch in 1999 and moved to Wells Fargo in 2012, per BrokerCheck. Dubbaneh began his career with Merrill Lynch in 2008 and also moved to Wells Fargo in 2012, per BrokerCheck.


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- Demographic:
- Seinen
- Genre:
- Horror , Mystery , Science Fiction , Supernatural
- Media:
- Manga
Gaki Jigoku is a completed manga by Hino Hideshi.
This graphic novel by one of Japan's most accomplished artists tells the unsettling saga of twin sisters born on a dark and stormy night in Tokyo: one normal, and one a demon baby with a taste for blood--a Hell Baby. Tossed into a garbage dump in a plastic bag, Hell Baby dies, but is brought back to life by an unworldly bolt of lightning. Hell Baby develops hard-earned hunting techniques to survive life among the wild animals who roam the dump. After struggling along for seven years, she seeks revenge for her fate and returns to the city, where she applies her hunting skills for survival--this time against the good citizens of Tokyo.
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When building tables people quite often use character fields to hold dates. A
style that is quite often used to format the date is this yyyymmdd. When
we come to take this data into a field of say smalldatetime then we can
encounter errors.
Active X Scripting Transform 'DTSTransformation__1' encountered an invalid data
value for col001 destination column
Insert Error, column 1 ('col001','DBTYPE_DBTIMESTAMP) status 6: data overflow.
Invalid character for cast specification
DateTime columns can be further complicated by our regional settings. If our
regional settings are set to UK English and we pass in a date of 10/24/2001
then it will fail because this would be interpreted as the tenth day of the
twenty fourth month. It would not fail if our regional settings were set to US
English though.
Inside our Active X script though we have a function which can interpret our
dates easily
Here is an example of how to use it on our yyyymmdd formatted string
' Visual Basic Transformation Script
' Copy each source column to the destination column
Function Main()
dim i_Day
dim i_Month
dim i_Year
i_Day = Cint(Mid( DTSSource("col1") ,7 , 2 ))
i_Month = Cint(Mid( DTSSource("col1") ,5 , 2 ))
i_Year = Cint(Left(DTSSource("col1"),4))
DTSDestination("Col001") = DateSerial( i_Year , i_Month ,i_Day )
Main = DTSTransformStat_OK
End Function


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Safeguarding and Child Protection
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children refers to the process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing the impairment of their health or development, ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe, effective, nurturing care and undertaking that role so as to enable those children to have optimum life chances and to enter adulthood successfully.
Child protection refers to the processes undertaken to meet statutory obligations laid out in the Children Act 1989 and associated guidance in respect of those children who have been identified as suffering or being at risk of suffering harm.
UMTA is committed to safeguarding children and promoting their welfare at all times. We will, therefore:
- Understand our responsibility to safeguard children and share any concerns that we may have about children
- Support children's development in ways that will foster security, confidence, and resilience
- Provide an environment in which children feel safe, secure, valued and respected, feel confident and know how to approach adults if they are in difficulties.
- Provide a systematic means of monitoring children known or thought to be at risk of harm
- Ensure that detailed and accurate written records of concerns about a child are kept and referred to the relevant authorities, when necessary.
UMTA will support children by:
- Encouraging the development of self-esteem and resilience in every aspect of life, through our moral and upright character education classes
- Promoting a caring, safe and positive environment.
- Liaising and working together with other support services and those agencies involved in the safeguarding of children, if possible.
- Notifying Social Care as soon as there is a significant concern of harm to a child
UMTA is also committed to preventing and combating extremism, which has no place in Islaam. UMTA utilities a holistic approach to achieving this as well as a specific focus through the delivery of its moral and upright character education, which teaches a wealth of Islaamic values including:
- Peace
- Love for your brother what you love for yourself
- Excellent manners, conduct and respect for all
- Keeping family ties
Uncollected Child Procedures
UMTA expects all children to be dropped off and picked up on time. In order to achieve this, we kindly request that parents/guardians drop their child 5 minutes before the lesson time and come to collect their child at least 5 minutes before their lesson is due to end. In the event that a child is not collected on time due to unforeseen circumstances, UMTA will:
- Reassurance to the child
- Under no circumstances allow for a child to be taken to a member of staff's home, or allowed to leave in the care of another parent, or anybody else, without parental consent.
- In the event that parents/guardians who usually pick the child up are unable to do so, the parent/guardian must advise UMTA how to identify a new person who is to collect their child; by physical description and a pre-determined password
- UMTA will contact the emergency contact person/s who is identified within child's record's and arrange for them to collect the child in the event that parents/guardians cannot be contacted
- If an hour after the agreed collection time no contact has been made with the parent/guardian or emergency contact, UMTA will contact the Local Authority (LA) Social Care team.
- A record of the situation will be kept, and UMTA will ask parents/guardians to sign and date it to confirm they are aware of the content of the Incident log
Missing Child Procedures
UMTA operates in secure premises and takes practical steps to ensure that children, staff and visitors who attend are kept safe. In the event that a child is missing, UMTA will:
- Immediately conduct a thorough search of the premises and surrounding areas
- Ensure that staff work together to locate the child
- Seal off exits and access CCTV, immediately
- Ensure that all those involved in the search have been given a description of the child and what the child is wearing
- If the search is unsuccessful, UMTA will ring the police, providing a description and keep searching the premises and surrounding areas
- UMTA will advise the relevant parents/guardians of the situation as soon as is reasonably practical to do so
- UMTA will record the event in the incident log and ask parents to sign it
Equality and Diversity
UMTA is committed to:
- Providing equality, fairness, and respect for all children, staff and visitors who attend our academy
- Oppose and avoid all forms of unlawful discrimination
- Taking seriously complaints of bullying, harassment, victimisation and unlawful discrimination brought forward by staff, parents, visitors, the public and any others during the course of UMTA operating hours.
Children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEN&D)
UMTA believes that every child matters and every child is unique. We welcome children from all backgrounds and those who have additional needs and our premises are Disability Accessibility friendly. Parents/guardians must read through our curriculum and policies carefully to ensure that it is suitable for their child. Parents/guardians with children with additional needs must clearly indicate this on their registration form, discuss their child's needs further with the UMTA leadership and a decision will be reached that serves in the best interest of the child.
Health and Fire Safety
UMTA operates in premises properly and appropriately equipped with fire safety prevention and evacuation procedures. Children, staff, and visitors are informed of fire safety procedures upon induction and long visits. Fire evacuation signs and extinguishers are visible in various locations across the premises.
First Aid and Emergencies
UMTA has qualified first aiders on site fully equipped to deal with any initial emergencies that may occur onsite, ahead of emergency services being called. Parents/guardians will be contacted immediately after the emergency services and provided with a full briefing of the circumstances.
Illness and medication
Children who are severally unwell should refrain from attending UMTA in order not to spread the illness amongst other children. Parents/guardians must attempt to provide all medication outside of UMTA hours. If medicines need to be administered by UMTA, parents must complete an authorisation form upon registration giving their consent and ensuring that this medicine is brought to the academy for all sessions.
See our updated 'UMTA Data Protection Policy 2020′


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St. Thomas VI 00801
St. Thomas VI 00801
This two bedroom, one bathroom unit is the located on the middle floor of our Frenchman's Bay home. The unit can comfortably sleep six people. There is a master bedroom with a king size bed and 2nd bedroom with 2 queen size beds, and a fully equipped kitchen. Every room has a spectacular view of the Caribbean Sea. On a clear day you will be able to see St. Croix. Each morning and evening you can watch the cruise ships as they sail in and out of the harbor. Walk out your back door to the pool and deck to have fun in the sun. Now with Free WI-FI internet access. Rates start at $100 per night.
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Characteristics of migraine: Migraine is a periodic recurring headache affecting the entire head or only one half of the head. Migraine pain is paroxysmal, often accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Migraine has a wide variety of forms, as well as a wide range of therapeutic approaches for its treatment. Migraine can have a plethora of causes, most commonly vascular anomalies in the brain (increased irritability, aneurysm, etc.), as well as changes based on disorders of the cervical spine area.
According to vascular theory, the cause is vasoconstriction with hypoxia of the brain and subsequent vasodilation, which leads to pain. Neurovascular theory describes a spreading wave of cortical brain activity depression, while current theories believe that the pain is caused by hypersensitivity and pathological activity of the trigeminal nucleus and its peripheral endings in the meninges. Symptoms of migraine start with prodromes, and an aura, and continue with migraine attack, which may result in status migrenosus. Therapy includes antimigraine drugs (5HT-1B/D agonists), analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, preventive beta blockers, etc.
However, there are also many migraines poorly responsive to treatment that clearly show none of the above causes and yet respond very well to overall detoxification of the body and treatment to support the liver function. This process probably reduces the level of certain substances in circulation, which may trigger vascular responses in the brain vasculature.
Using magnetic therapy in migraine
Biomag low-frequency pulsed magnetic therapy has a direct influence on the CNS activity, significantly alters metabolic conditions and improves microcirculation. This leads to detoxification and regeneration of the treated tissues and has a major influence on the quality of the blood supply in the treated area, which has a positive effect on the reduction of attacks and migraine pain.
Application of magnetic therapy in migraine
In migraine, analgesic frequencies of 4-6 Hz are applied to the head and cervical spine area for acute problems via a solenoid, while between attacks, we apply 50-81 Hz treatment to the abdomen and liver using a flat applicator and increase fluid intake.
Magnetic therapy and migraine - queries
Do you want to learn more about magnetic therapy applications for treating migraine? Contact us!
Do not hesitate to contact us. We will answer your queries regarding magnetic therapy applications for migraine.


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X-MEN via Game of Thrones: Concept Artist Imagines 'THE ORDER OF X'
Concept artist and illustrator Nate Hallinan loves the X-Men - and clearly loves fantasy tropes as well. While the X-Men and most of the Marvel Universe have been placed in all sorts of times and worlds in the past by Marvel Comics, rarely has it been done with this level of detail.
Borrowing from properties like Game of Thrones, Brave, and Lord of the Rings, Hallinan has re-imagined the team of mutant heroes in a fantasy medieval setting as "The Order of X." He continues to roll-out his digital paintings of the fully realized concepts, including extensive backstories like this one for Nightcrawler:
"(Kyrt V'wagnyr roughly translates from elven as Nightcrawler.) Kyrt never knew his real parents. He was found by a band of elves as an infant. They were on a twilight march, celebrating the new moon, when they found him crawling next to his basket on a riverbank. They happily adopted him seeing that he was part elf. His enchanting midnight appearance and mysterious abilities makes him highly regarded among elves. Magic runs deep in the race of elves but Kyrt's abilities are more potent than most."
Check out his homepage for links to all the other backstories, and his facebook fan page for more concept art and illustrations, and leaf through here for Cyclops, "Lady Grey," Colossus, Storm, and more from The Order of X.
Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!


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Neo4j Date Functions
BI BigData Readers,
Please accept my apologies for writing a new post after a long time. Lately busy with a lot of other technology-related and upgrades.
Lately working with Neo4j Graph DB to implement Customer Journey Analytics using event-based data. While implementing customer journey analytics, handled different scenarios with Neo4j dates and timestamps. This article I'll be showcasing a couple of examples to play with dates.
By the way following Cypher code snippets from Neo4j 3.4.9. Neo4j APOC Library is really strong and most of the help available there itself. Below code samples are using some important functions from APOC. You can still play with Temporal dates
Listing some useful Cypher statements to play with date functions including date difference for your reference.
// get system timestamp in epoch format you can use following Cypher statement RETURN timestamp(); RETURN apoc.date.currentTimestamp();
//get epoch value from date RETURN datetime('2019-02-04').epochMillis;
//system datetime RETURN apoc.date.format(timestamp()); RETURN apoc.date.format(timestamp(),'ms', 'yyyy-MM-dd hh-mm-ss');
//system datetime converted to Central timezone RETURN apoc.date.format(timestamp(),'ms', 'yyyy-MM-dd hh-mm-ss','America/Chicago');
//only system date RETURN date(apoc.date.format(timestamp(),'ms', 'yyyy-MM-dd'));
//convert Neo4j date to Central timezone RETURN date(apoc.date.format(timestamp(),'ms', 'yyyy-MM-dd','America/Chicago'));
//get date difference between two dates. RETURN duration.inDays(date('2018-01-01'), date(apoc.date.format(timestamp(),'ms', 'yyyy-MM-dd',"America/Chicago"))).days;
Hope this helps.
Happy Graphing..!!!
Sandip Shinde
Unix useful commands
- ls -lrt
- Tail -10
- Find the biggest file under current mountpointfind . -name "*" -exec ls -l {} \;|awk '{print $5}'|sort
- create directories recursively
mkdir -p /dir1/dir2/dir3
- Copy as well as make a compressed copy.
cp -c /file1 /dir/file2.Z
- Kill LOCAL sessions before shutdown
kill -9 `ps -ef|grep LOCAL|awk '{print $2}'
- removing files date wise
rm ls -l |grep 'Jul 18'|awk '{print $NF}'
Sql Server useful commands
Denodo useful Developer Commands/Info
In this area I will be posting Denodo useful commands/tricks. Below are few,
- context ('querytimeout' = )
context ('querytimeout' = '10800000')
Use above syntax at the end of SELECT statement to avoid default timeout which happens usually after 15 minutes.
Use it to get fields names and its data types
- MAP (,'$.Parent1.ChildElementName')
Useful in SELECT or WHERE clause to get info from JSON column
- Use CTE's or TEMP tables for intermediate data processing
- Escape character in Denodo is $. Useful when we search data with functions with REGEX
- Denodo Documentation: Select appropriate version. http://help.denodo.com/platform-docs/5.5/
- Support.Denodo.com : For Denodo customers to create case/ticket for questions/issues.
- DBeaver : I like this client tool because you will get to open multiple query windows and in each window you can run multiple commands at same time.
avoid time-out for Denodo ADO Net Source in SSIS
In SSIS, I was executing sql command in ADO Net Source of one of the Data Flow and was getting Time-out error after approximately 15 minutes. I used below clause after select statement.
context ('querytimeout' = '9000000')
Here time is in milliseconds (in our case, '9000000' is approx 2.5 hr).
For more info read "CONTEXT CLAUSE" in Denodo documentation in "Advanced VQL Guide"
Performance Tuning in SSIS for Denodo ADO Net Source
Assumption: You have Denodo driver installed on server. (I had used "DenodoODBC Unicode" version 9.03.04.00, when I created User DSN)
Below steps helped me import two million rows (6 columns with mostly int data) data in less than 4 minutes. Earlier it used to take more than one and half hour.
Here trick is to change User DSN settings. :):):)
- Click "Start" and type-in c:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe and hit enter in Search Programs and File to open "ODBC Data Source Administrator"
- In "ODBC Data Source Administrator", in "User DSN" tab select appropriate Data source from "User Data Sources" list. Click "Configure".
- Above step will open "ODBS Driver setup" window, Click "Datasource" button
- do below changes in "Advanced Options" window
- on Page 1
- in "Data Type Options", un-select "Text as LongVarchar"
- in Miscellaneous, change "Chunk Size" from 100 to 75000
- on Page 3
- in "The Use of LIBPQ library", change selection from "unspecified" to "yes" , click Apply, Click Ok.
- on Page 1
I hope this helps.
Logging by Triggers in SQL Server
We can alternatively use SQL Server feature CDC (Change Data Capture), but here I am providing one more way of doing it (custom solution).
Db Objects: (two tables and two triggers)
- TargetTableName: Table whose data we want to log
- LogTableName: Table where data will be logged. This table structure will be same as TargetTableName, and additionally this table will have three extra columns namely
- [log_action_type]
- [log_action_date]
- [log_action_user]
- [log_action_hostname]
- tl_TargetTableName: Trigger to log DML changes (Update and Delete only)
- tu_LogTableName: Trigger to avoid Delete or Update operations operations on logging table
use dbname go alter table LogTableName add [log_action_type] [char](1) not null; alter table LogTableName add [log_action_date] [datetime] not null default getdate(); alter table LogTableName add [log_action_user] [varchar](50) null; alter table LogTableName add [log_action_hostname] [varchar](50) default host_name(); go IF OBJECT_ID ('dbo.tu_LogTableName ','TR') IS NOT NULL DROP TRIGGER dbo.tu_LogTableName; GO -- ============================================= -- Author: Umesh Patil -- Create date: 2014/08/26 -- Description: Restirct Delete or Update operations operations on logging table -- ============================================= CREATE TRIGGER dbo.tu_LogTableName ON dbo.LogTableName FOR DELETE,UPDATE AS BEGIN RAISERROR ('Can not perform Delete or Update operations on UserTableName table, either disable/delete the trigger',16,1); ROLLBACK TRANSACTION; RETURN; END GO use dbname go IF OBJECT_ID ('dbo.tl_TargetTableName','TR') IS NOT NULL DROP TRIGGER dbo.tl_TargetTableName; GO -- ============================================= -- Author: Umesh Patil -- Create date: 2014/08/26 -- Description: Log DML changes (Update and Delete only) -- ============================================= CREATE TRIGGER dbo.tl_TargetTableName ON dbo.TargetTableName FOR DELETE,UPDATE AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; DECLARE @ActionType char(1) IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM deleted) BEGIN IF EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM inserted) SET @ActionType='U' ELSE SET @ActionType='D' END IF @ActionType='U' OR @ActionType='D' INSERT INTO [dbo].[TargetTableName] ([PrimaryKey_Column] --include all columns ,[log_action_type] ,[log_action_date] ,[log_action_user] ,[log_action_hostname]) select [PrimaryKey_Column] --include all columns ,@ActionType as [log_action_type] ,getdate() as [log_action_date] ,suser_sname() as [log_action_user] ,host_name() as [log_action_hostname] from deleted END GO


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Three Puppies Found in Milk Crate in Schenectady [UPDATED]
UPDATE: 9/26/2012 @12N: YNN has reported that the dogs tested positive for Parvo, a neurological disorder which they couldn't treat. The surviving two puppies had to be put to sleep. So very sad.
Another sad animal abuse story to report today - this time it happened in Schenectady where three puppies were found dumped on the side of the road in a milk crate. One of the three puppies was dead when authorities found arrived after receiving a call that the animals were there.
The surviving puppies are being cared for by a vet in Schenectady but it leaves us asking what is going on that people keep leaving animals for dead. Last week was just horrifying to learn that puppies had been nailed to the railroad tracks, but then today this. The puppies were found in the Mont Pleasant neighborhood.
We're getting very upset by these contant abuse stories. There are so many resources for surrendering unwanted animals to shelters in the Albany - and so many people willing to take them.
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco has been working hard for years to strengthen Buster's Law to punish people who commit these sort of crimes. Find out how you can help him pass stricter laws by visiting his site.
Schenectady police haven't released much more info, but if you know anything please contact them.


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Castor Oil To Treat Joint Pain
There have been lots of case studies about castor oil for over 50 years, including such uses as relieving arthritis pain, speeding the recovery of sprained ankles, bone spurs, backaches and chronically sore knees. Best organic remedies like castor and clove oils have also been used in the treatment of acne, swollen lymph nodes, and even as baldness cure. So, suffice to say castor plant oil is something that everyone should have on hand for whatever may happen.
Pure Castor oil
When using this supplement externally, for such maladies as sprained ankles, sore knees, and backaches, then typically that oil is used in what is called a castor essential oil pack. When it is applied to a joint, the natural and holistic essential oil begins to immediately dissolve things such as bone spurs and calcium deposits, while ignoring tendons, muscles, and cartilage in the surrounding tissue.
It is best to use a cold-pressed oil that can be found at your local health food store, as well as some supermarkets. This pack is commonly made of flannel material, they can also be made from wool or cotton. The material is then folded several times, to make a thick, absorbent pack, that you can then soak in this oil. You then take your castor soaked pack and place it on your sore knee, or whatever, and then on top of that you cover with a garbage bag, and then your heating pad. The warmth of the heating pad is to aid in the absorption of the castor essential oil. This needs to stay in place for at least 45 to 60 minutes, during which time you should take the opportunity to read a book and relax.
After you're done soaking your knee or sore back with your castor pack, you'll want to clean the area using water and baking soda mixed. You need not throw away this pack, you can keep it in the refrigerator in a Ziploc bag or a Mason jar. Then each time you need to use it, you can just add a few more tablespoons of natural oil, bring it up to room temperature, and get another treatment for your sore back, knee, ankle etc.
If the initial treatments of 45 to 60 minutes don't seem to be working as well as you think they should, you can extend the time to one and a half hours to two hours with no ill effects. The best time to take treatments would be later in the evening, just before bed, because it helps if you are in a relaxed mood when taking your castor natural oil. It is also good to take your treatments for four days in a row and then take a day off, then restart your treatment and continue for an additional four days. Even after your joint is feeling better, it's best to continue the treatment for an additional four days to ensure that your joint is fully healed, and your pain and suffering will be less likely to return. For additional information about castor oil, please check http://essentialoilsacademia.com article.
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I didn't want to wake Heikki up just yet. After a day's worth of harsh winds, the sun began to shine.
I took the scenery in, with no camera in sight.
Birches swung in the wind like crazy and the sun colored them in gold. It was 11 PM. The sun had no intention of going to bed and neither did I. It was too beautiful.
How can a storm rage on all day long and still I get to enjoy the last and first rays of the sun? I suppose it's best when observed through a window. The wind might pick me up and fly me away.
Heikki woke up eventually. So we took a few photos!
We're heading to another volunteer period in June, this time tackling said Hannukuru Wildrness hut. Major cleaning, paint jobs and photography.
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EASA/EU IFR Minimum Equipment and maintenance; your airplane might be IFR capable and you don't even know it.
How to cross the borders of Europe
Many pilots never did a cross-border flight during their flight training. I hope this post will help to learn about it.
Enroute IFR: Aeronautical Decision Making
Come along on an en-route instrument flight in Europe. From flight plan filing to takeoff and landing. A discussion of aeronautical decision making (ADM) and the Enroute IR.
Enroute IFR from Switzerland to Carcassonne
Being one of a handful EASA Enroute IR (EIR) holders in Europe, I feel slightly obligated to share my experiences with it. Soon, the EIR will be replaced by the Basic IR (with enroute module) and thus, this enroute IFR rating will live on. Instrument flights consist of three phases: Departure*, enroute and arrival/approach**. The…
The Benefits of Flying IFR – the EASA Enroute IR or Basic IR with enroute module
The Enroute IR (EIR) or Basic IR (BIR) can be a useful tool around the airspace of Europe.
Customs and Immigration at General Aviation Airfields
Customs and immigration services: When provided, a general aviation airfield gains the attention from foreign pilots and thus tourism and businesses in the regions of the airports thrive.
General aviation getaways: The Black Sea
This fly out was very special. Not only did we see fantastic landscapes and met wonderful people, we also discovered a new place to go on holidays: The Black Sea.
General Aviation getaways in Europe
There is a key to enjoying your pilot license. It is simple: You should visit the best getaways with your friends and family.
Cessna 175 Skylark makeover
A 1959 Cessna 175 Skylark gets its makeover for more VFR and even IFR adventures.
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Making Peace with European Air Law
Europe's Air law is transforming at such a fast pace, it challenges even experienced pilots. As a result, there is insecurity among pilots about which rules apply. EASA tackles this issue with the new Easy Access Rules for Air Operations, a document similar to the FAR/AIM in America. The new Air Operations Regulation is applicable law for all non-commercial non-complex…
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Que Sera, Sera – IFR Minimum Equipment in Switzerland
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There they were. Two big birds, that I had never seen before. They were very friendly and came running up to me, trying to tell me something. It sounded like they had a very urgent message. I was in a hurry to go to the grocery store, so I carefully avoided them and drove off.
End of story? Hardly!
When I came back, they were still there, and more than that, came running towards my car! They were determined to tell me what they needed to say.
Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim says the following about determination:
"Unswerving determination is one of the most important factors in reaching your goal, in reaching any goal. Only you can make determination work for you. And if you use it, your determination will attract to you all the other factors needed for your success – the right associates, the right information, being in the right place at the right time, and so on."
Well, Gwenny was definitely determined!
I was very impressed with these Jung Suwon-imals. How brave they were! How fearless! Again, Gwenny ran towards me and when I stretched out my hand, she (or perhaps really a he) came so close I could have touched her. All the while she was "talking", looking straight at me, and even trying to jump in my car!
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It's that time of year again: my family's annual progressive dinner! I can't tell you how much I look forward to this event. It's so fun to "hop" as we call it from one house to the next. The first house has appetizers, the second is dinner, and the third is dessert. It's a fun way to see everyone's Christmas decorations. In past years when my immediate family has hosted one of the "stops" we put Christmas lights all the way down our driveway which is a mile long. I just love the holidays so everything about it makes me really happy. What's even more special this year is that my 14 month old son will now be part of the tradition and hopefully love it as much as I did/do. I always looked forward to playing with my cousins and eating lots of good, homecooked food. Speaking of food, yep, this event really doesn't cater towards my maintenance plan. It's honestly worse than Thanksgiving because there is SO MUCH food for each house. I'm not kidding when I say the dessert is a mile long - and I'm not talking about some Kroger/store bought desserts. They are all homemade and look absolutely divine. I've already planned out how I'm going to survive, enjoy myself, and hopefully not see a weight gain. As a family we are going to hike tomorrow morning and then all my meals before dinner are going to have the least amount of calories, fat, starch, and meat as possible. I'm saving it all for the big meal. I'm sure I'll have a few fatty starches at dinner but there will be shrimp and salad so I'm going to eat the most of that. Then, I'm going to let myself enjoy it a little bit and at least try a bite of all the desserts I think look good. We'll see how well my plan looks the following day. Hope you all have a great weekend!
Breakfast -
1/4 cup Break-free egg, 2 40 cal slices of bread, 1 oz. turkey sausage
1 cup coffee with 2 tsp. fat-free creamer
Snack -
JC Anytime Bar
Lunch -
100 cal Thin Whole Wheat Bagel with 2 tsp. low-fat peanut butter
8 mini-crackers
Steamable Broccoli
Dinner -
3 oz. lean hamburger
3 oz. baked french fries (110 cal, 4g fat)
JC Triple Chocolate Cheesecake
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If there's a book you should read, Total Competition is it
When I get time, I enjoy a good read. It's great to unwind reading someone else's exploits, challenges and (sometimes) successes. Now and again, a novel might float my boat, however, mostly you'll find my nose in an autobiography.
Like everyone, I've read some good stuff and I've encountered some real turkeys. The latter are the books I don't even get half way because they're so dreary or they're not what I thought they'd be.
However, this blog is focused something so good I'm urging you to read it. Total Competition is an amazing read, and, to me, is highly influential. So much so, it's importance is up there with The Chimp Paradox by Dr Steve Peters. Their topics are entirely different; however, both are united in their educational value.
"Realising the success Ross and his teams achieved takes more than luck. And that's where it transcends the boundaries of F1, the topics could influence every industry; from accountancy to zoology."
Total Competition is a collaboration between Adam Parr and Ross Brawn. Adam is the former Chief Executive of the uber successful Williams F1 team, whilst Ross has steered Benetton, Ferrari and his own team – Brawn GP – to world championship success in competitive world of F1. Ross has also worked at Mercedes Benz F1 and Williams, whilst also technical directed the successful Jaguar sportscar team in the early 90's. A seriously impressive CV. Before you read on through this blog and the picking up the book, you DON'T need to be a fan of F1 or motor racing. What's also important to note - at this juncture - is I've never written a book review. I've found the exception; Total Competition.
Let's get straight to the point. The value you will garner from this read can shape and benchmark whatever walk of professional life destiny has taken you. I am a fan of F1 and of both writers, but I am speechless at what I learnt in the book from the lives Adam and Ross led, and the approaches they took.
The book takes the form of a Q&A; Adam asking the questions. Ross is in the perfect position to answer given the success he achieved, perspiration expended and hours procrastinating with the teams above. Ross also guided drivers including Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.
From reading Total Competition, you'll immediately appreciate Ross enjoys and values working as a team. When I relate to "he", it's inadvertent.
Realising the success Ross and his teams achieved takes more than luck. And that's where it transcends the boundaries of F1, the topics could influence every industry; from accountancy to zoology. The contents of Total Competition encapsulates change, strategy, attitude, culture, determination, managing conflict confrontation and trust (amongst numerous touchpoints).
Whilst I appreciate there has been a lot of editing to get this to the finished article, the questions are robust yet engaging, and I can imagine Ross answering in his charming, yet detailed manner - putting reasoned thought into them. Likewise, the questions get to the heart of the matter, referencing real life scenarios or strategic lessons, including Napoleon. If you can't put the book down, you know it's a good read. I was fortunate enough to read this whilst I was taking a family break in Italy. Feet up, book in hand who knows how many opportunities for ice cream I missed from reading this highly engrossing account.
In my office, I have a few reference books I keep close to hand. Total Competition rightly occupies a position with them. Would love to get my book signed.
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City of HendersonvilleHome Menu
Greenways and Bike/Pedestrian Trails
- Sanders Ferry Greenway Diagram
- Sanders Ferry/Drakes Creek Overall Greenway
- Sanders Ferry Greenway Project Description
- Indian Lake/Drakes Creek Park Greenways Map
- Bicycle Plan
Bicycle and pedestrian trails improve the quality of life for residents in our community. Some of the benefits for Hendersonville residents include:
- Having a bike/pedestrian trail in close proximity of where they work or live
- A place where residents can meet and discuss the events of the day
- An opportunity to exercise for people of all ages and abilities
- A place for families to safely walk and bike
- A chance to bike to work or run errands without the worries of traffic
- A unique way to take in the scenic beauty of Hendersonville
These types of alternative transportation have in development for some time. In fact, the Federal Government recognized this growing trend back in 1991.
Section 217 of Title 23 of the U.S. Code calls for the integration of bicycling and walking into the transportation mainstream. More importantly, it enhances the ability of communities to invest in projects that can improve the safety and practicality of bicycling and walking for everyday travel.
In 1991, Congress passed landmark transportation legislation, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), that recognized the increasingly important role of bicycling and walking in creating a balanced, intermodal transportation system.
The National Bicycling and Walking Study, published by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1994, translated this renewed interest in nonmotorized travel into two specific goals: to double the percentage of trips made by foot and bicycle while simultaneously reducing the number of crashes involving bicyclists and pedestrians by 10 percent.
High citizen input and high demand should ensure that Hendersonville will continue working on the development and construction of trails that will ultimately connect all parts of our city and provide safe and healthy opportunities for our residents and guests.


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Zooming in on your LCD can help you check focus before you roll a video shot.
You can then use the focus ring on your camera to tweak the focus. Make minor turns to find the ideal focus. If needed, adjust the aperture and ISO settings of your camera to refine the depth of field. When you're satisfied, you can either press the Zoom Out button or just press the Record button to roll the camera.Be sure to check out the book — Creating DSLR Video: From Snapshots to Great Shots


text: During the morning, people have coffee to stay energized. A boost of energy is not necessary during dinner, since most people are heading to bed afterwards. So what about lunchtime? If you are like me, the middle of the day can be the most draining. We are crashing from the morning coffee, tired from work, and we probably did not get enough sleep the night before to begin with. I have researched a few energy-boosting lunch foods that can provide a healthier alternative to another cup of coffee or an energy drink. There are many simple energy boosting lunch foods that can help us get through the rest of the day: Turkey, Swiss, and Avocado Sandwich This simple yet impactful sandwich is filled with energy. The turkey contains stress-relieving tryptophan and vitamin B6. Added oregano will provide a natural anti-inflammatory, which can relieve stress. The avocado is high in fiber and rich in monosaturated fats, which are good fats your body uses to create energy quickly. Swiss cheese contains vitamin B12 that boosts energy. Whole wheat bread takes longer to digest, which gives your body sustained energy. This sandwich is a complete wake up call. Melons You can pack your lunch with cantaloupe, honeydew, or watermelon. Since melons are filled with water, they keep you hydrated. Staying filled with water combats fatigue. Melons also contain energizing minerals and vitamins. Melons can be eaten as snacks throughout the day as well. Cottage Cheese Salad This simple salad is covered in health benefits. The cottage cheese provides protein, an excellent energy booster that keeps you full, and calcium. Bell peppers are rich with vitamin c, which aids our body's healing process. Tomatoes provide us with Vitamins A, C, K, folate and potassium. This salad will surely prepare you for the next half of your workday. Citrus Mint Iced Green Tea Aside from water, tea is a solid choice for a healthy energy boosting lunch beverage. Make some green tea of your choice. Add orange slices and ice. Garnish the beverage with mint, which is a natural stimulant that combats fatigue and depression. Green tea provides us with the energy coffee can offer without the crash or jittering. Along with these lunch ideas, be sure to include daily exercise in your routine. Exercising will make you have more energy. Try a yoga class near your job so that you can have an energy boosting lunch and an energy-boosting workout after work. By Tiffany Washington Resources http://www.health.com/health/article/0,,20410053,00.html http://www.linwoodshealthfoods.com/blog/article/10-energy-boosting-foods-to-get-you-through-the-day http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2864766/Feeling-Try-sharing-fondue-friends-Swiss-cheese-contains-vitamin-B12-boosts-energy-lifts-spirits.html http://www.healthline.com/health-slideshow/energy-boosting-foods?stickyLb=true&stickyLb=true#2 http://www.cookinglight.com/eating-smart/nutrition-101/foods-for-energy/picante-three-melon-salad-recipes http://www.beliefnet.com/Wellness/Health/9-Surprising-Health-Benefits-of-Tomatoes.aspx?b=1&p=2 http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_menus/recipe_slideshows/healthy_recipes_to_energize_your_afternoon?slide=7#leaderboardad


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Advantages and Disadvantages of Automating with Industrial Robots
Some call it the "fourth industrial revolution." Regardless of what you call it, the numbers are proof that robots are exponentially being incorporated into factories; Bringing with them incredible precision, productivity, and flexibility. Additionally, factories are also seeing a boom in collaborative robots that are able to seamlessly work hand-in-hand with human workers to further increase flexibility and efficiency. An Industrial Internet of Things is on the rise.
Globally, it is estimated that 1.3 million industrial robots will arriving in factories by 2018. The international market value for robotic systems estimated around 32 billion US dollars and the automotive division itself increased their robots by 43% in one year, from 2013-2014. Now is the time to get your foot in the automation door.
While the initial investment may seem intimidating, you will quickly experience all of the advantages.
Decreased Production Costs: A quick return on investment (ROI) outweighs the initial setup costs. With robots, throughput speeds increase, which directly impacts production.
Shorter Cycle Times: A lean manufacturing line is crucial for increasing efficiency. An automated robot has the ability to work at a constant speed without pausing for breaks, sleep, or vacations, and ultimately has the potential to produce more in a shorter time than a human worker.
Improved Quality and Reliability: Applications are performed with precision and high repeatability every time. It ensures the product is manufactured with the same specifications and process every time. Repairs are few and far between.
Better Floor Space Utilization: By decreasing a footprint of a work area by automating parts of your production line, you can utilize the floor space for other operations and make the process flow more efficient.
Reduced Waste: Robots are so accurate that the amount of raw material used can be reduced, decreasing costs on waste.
Attract More Customers: Reduction in schedule and cost attracts customers. Automation helps provide the highest throughput with least amount of spending.
Increased Safety: Robots increase workplace safety. Workers are moved to supervisory roles where they no longer have to perform dangerous applications in hazardous settings. Light screens or barriers are available to keep the operator out of harms way.
More Savings: RobotWorx has a ROI calculator to help you find out how much money can you save with a robot. In addition, improved worker safety leads to financial savings with fewer healthcare and insurance concerns for employers. Also consider quality and customer satisfaction, which means returning customers and more business.
Expert at Multiple Applications: Automation in the manufacturing industry is the process of integrating industrial machinery to automatically perform a variety of applications such as welding, material handling, packing, palletizing, dispensing, cutting, etc.
With any big financial decision, it is important to be aware of some of the difficulties you may encounter. Our representatives at RobotWorx are willing to do anything in their power to make sure your company can overcome some of these challenges.
Understanding the Big Initial Investment: The initial investment to integrating automated robotics into your business can be significant, especially when business owners are limiting their purchases to new robotic equipment only. The cost of robotic automation should be calculated in light of a business' greater financial budget. Regular maintenance needs can have a financial toll as well.
Identifying Your Needs: Incorporating industrial robots does not guarantee results. Devising a specific production plan from the beginning to the end is absolutely crucial. If a company has a bottleneck farther down the line, incorporating automation may not help achieve the goals needed. Here is a simple ROI calculator to help you decide if automating would be of benefit to your company.
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How to Identify Pitra Dosha
Pitru dosh or Yog is formed when Rahu and Ketu are with any of the Luminaries and are placed in the 6th, 8th and the 12th house in the horoscope. Sometimes, this yog is also formed in the 5th house if other planets do not show any beneficial aspects.
This Yog stop the person from his overall progress in all walks of life.
Astrological combinations and calculations are used to find out the exact problem and related solution of Pitra Dosha. Such astrological calculations are good, but they are far away and more complex to know for a common man.
Afterward how a common man can know whether he is under the bad influences of Pitra Dosha?
Here are some simple signs and methods mentioned in the ancient texts, which can be used to know a person in identifying Pitra Dosha:
- Children are falling sick frequently.
- Couples having problems in conceive the child.
- Repeated miscarriage
- Disputes among the family members without any reason
- The educational and career growth is obstructed and No success in life
Simple Remedies of Pitra Dosha
- Every Saturday, make rice balls of cooked rice and ghee. Feed these rice balls to crows and fish.
- Unconditional services to parents, old-age needy persons, sweeper and poor peoples.
- Always be calm and quiet throughout the life, should not to be angry in this life.
- Worshiping Lord Vishnu, particularly the form of Sri Ram, is a fine remedy to get relief from Pitra Dosh.
- Make Kanya Daan (perform the marriage of a girl), of a girl from Poor family.
- Perform Rudrabhishek (Rudra Abhishek) in the name of the KUL or ancestors [Pitru]
- On any somwati amavaasya (when amaavasyaa falls on Monday) go to peepal tree, offer one janeu to tree and one to Lord Vishnu. Pray to tree and Lord Vishnu. Then do 108 Parikrama of tree, with each Parikrama offer a sweet to tree.
- While doing Parikrama continuously chant the mantra "OM NAMO BHAGAWATE VAASUDEVAAYA". After doing parikrama pray again to peepal tree and Lord Vishnu for seeking forgiveness.
- Offer Milk, Water, Haldi [Turmeric], Kale Teel [Black seasom] and Ghee [All mixed] for a period of 40 day continually to a peepal tree early in the morning at the time of Sunrise. [While going to peepal tree or / and coming to house do not speak to any person]
Rituals for Remedy Of Pitra Dosha
There are certain rituals to be performed to ward off the negative effects of Pitru Dosh.
Narayan Nagbali Pooja
This Puja gives relief to a great extent. This Pooja is performed in few prescribed locations in the India such as:
(1) Trimbakeshwar in Nashik,
(2) Chandod near Vadodara in Gujarat,
(3) Haridwar.
Narayan Nagbali is to be performed at Trimbakeshwar which is the pride of place as mentioned in our ancient Purana.
This Puja at Trimbakeshwar is performed very nicely and will lasts for 3 days.
If you are from North India, then go to Haridwar on Amavasya day for Pitra Tarpan Ritual.
Pitra Dosh arises when the soul of departed forefathers are not get the illusion.
It mainly occurs when the dead forefathers and the ancestors did not get proper peace and salvation at the time of departing their souls.
According to Hindu mythology, it is believed if anyone from the family do not offer food and water to their ancestors, and ignore the ancestors in Shraadh Puja then Pitra Dosh is formed.


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I've read about the Hula Grill on Ocean City's boardwalk for a few years now and always intended to try it. The write ups make the place sound perfect: a chef who spent time in Hawaii, brings his Hawaiian influenced cooking back to the OC and serves up fresh fish dinners.
That's the spin. The reality was different.
I visited the Hula Grill on the first Saturday in August. On a Saturday in August, I expect any restaurant at the shore to be crowded. The Hula Grill had tables open, but was busy.
First things first, you order at the cash register and pay up front. Then sit and wait for your meal. The Hula Grill aspires to be a "sit down" restaurant, but is run more like a pizza shop. The staff, I felt, treated us as almost an annoyance and when the food finally came, there was no 2-minute followup "is everything ok, can we get you anything".
As for the dinner: I tried a mixed grill which had a crab cake (which I did not care for), some coconut shrimp (which were tasty) and a piece of fish. The fish, a piece of Ahi tuna, was so dry and overcooked, it looked and tasted like chicken breast.
I will give the salad that accompanied dinner high marks, but overall my experience (and the experience of my dining companions) was such that we'll skip this place from now on.
I'm much more interested in trying Opa, the crepe and gyro place run by a nice Greek family next door. More on that after I give it a try…
Hula Grill
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AM Linksplodge 10/21/09
- Above, Dezeen has photos of Karamel Sans, a typeface made by pouring liquid caramel onto glass.
- If people with undergrad theater degrees breaking out into song is your thing, well here you go: Grocery Store Musical by Improv Everywhere [via Laughing Squid]
- The wine industry in Australia partially blames a negative public image of chardonnay on the TV show Kath & Kim because they pronounce it "kardonnay." "Chardonnay has no social currency," a rep said. Oh also, they're going to make wines that are less friggin oaky. [via Coldmud]
- The Daily News has details on Bernie Madoff's life behind bars: he "eats pizza prepared by a convicted child molester."
- From The New Yorker: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec on Johannes Brahms: "His appetite for life was surpassed only by his appetite for food, which was surpassed only by his appetite for crossbreeding house cats with wild squirrels. Also, he smelled of cumin."
- Dianne Jacobs asks: Who is the best food writer today?


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Well these days multi-booting is common. GNU GRUB is a multiboot boot-loader software package from the GNU project. I have three operating system installed at work:
* Debian Linux
* FreeBSD 6.0
* Windows XP
As per my requirements, I keep rebooting into different oses. Recently I discovered grub-reboot command. As name suggest it reboots into the specified OS entry in Grub configuration file (menu.lst or grub.conf).
grub-reboot entry [options to grub]
- entry: Is the entry number in menu.lst / grub.conf file.
For example, if you wish to reboot in FreeBSD then you can type command (3 is entry for FreeBSD):
# grub-reboot 3
This is also useful to force remote computer to reboot in specific OS over ssh session.
Read the man page of grub and grub-reboot for more information.


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One type of bill that's almost guaranteed to be a dud (caution, bad pun setup) in the New Mexico Legislature is legislation restricting fireworks.
For instance, remember back in the hot dry summer of 2011, when the Las Conchas Fire was raging near Los Alamos, and Gov. Susana Martinez called for a bill that would give the governor the legal authority to impose a ban on all fireworks in the state? She got a bipartisan team of legislators to push such a bill, but it went down in flames (sorry, I can't help myself).
With what some believe could be another hot, dry summer ripe for forest fires in store, Martinez again is calling for a fireworks bill. She sent a message to the Senate last week that allows the Legislature to consider it in the current 30-day "budget session." The message applies to Senate Bill 94, sponsored by Sen. Phil Griego, D-San Jose, who helped derail the 2012 fireworks bill.
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The Spirit Mountain Casino. Photo from Facebook
The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon are planning to remove 80 people from the rolls, a dispute that's being linked to a dwindling casino per capita payment. The tribe operates the most profitable casino in the state, according to the Associated Press. Membership grew from 3,400 to more than 5,000 following the opening of the facility. Since then, the per cap has declined from about $5,000 to just over $3,000, the AP said. Removing people from the rolls could limit future decreases. "In my entire life, I have always known I was an Indian. I have always known my family's history, and I am so proud of that," Mia Prickett, who is one of those being removed, told the AP. A tribal spokesperson said the audit of enrollment records was requested by members. Get the Story:
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note to reader – the article below is based on this document from the British Medical Journal.
Johns Hopkins Scientist Slams Flu Vaccine
A Johns Hopkins scientist has issued a blistering report on influenza vaccines in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Peter Doshi, Ph.D., charges that although the vaccines are being pushed on the public in unprecedented numbers, they are less effective and cause more side effects than alleged by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Further, says Doshi, the studies that underlie the CDC's policy of encouraging most people to get a yearly flu shot are often low quality studies that do not substantiate the official claims.
The main assertion of the CDC that fuels the push for flu vaccines each year is that influenza comes with a risk of serious complications which can cause death, especially in senior citizens and those suffering from chronic illnesses. That's not the case, said Doshi.
When read carefully, the CDC acknowledges that studies finding any perceived reduction in death rates may be due to the "healthy-user effect" — the tendency for healthier people to be vaccinated more than less-healthy people. The only randomized trial of influenza vaccine in older people found no decrease in deaths. "This means that influenza vaccines are approved for use in older people despite any clinical trials demonstrating a reduction in serious outcomes," says Doshi.
Doshi's concerns echo those of Dr. Russell Blaylock, a neurosurgeon and author of "The Blaylock Wellness Report" who has deep concerns over the safety and efficacy of the flu vaccine.
Doshi's article "is a breath of fresh air," says Dr. Blaylock. "This article exposes in well-defined and articulate terms what has been known for a long time — the flu vaccine promotion is a fraud.
"Here's the bottom line," says Dr. Blaylock. "The vast number of people who get the flu vaccine aren't going to get any benefit, but they get all of the risks and complications."
Source: newsmaxhealth.com, The British Medical Journal, here is a PDF file of the original document – it is accessible only to subscribers.
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- iOS 11.0+
- tvOS 10.2+
- macOS 10.12+
- Xcode 11.0+
- Metal
You use textures to draw and process images in Metal. A texture is a structured collection of texture elements, often called texels or pixels. The exact configuration of these texture elements depends on the type of texture. This sample uses a texture structured as a 2D array of elements, each of which contains color data, to hold an image. The texture is drawn onto geometric primitives through a process called texture mapping. The fragment function generates colors for each fragment by sampling the texture.
Textures are managed by
MTLTexture objects. A
MTLTexture object defines the texture's format, including the size and layout of elements, the number of elements in the texture, and how those elements are organized. Once created, a texture's format and organization never change. However, you can change the contents of the texture, either by rendering to it or copying data into it.
The Metal framework doesn't provide an API to directly load image data from a file to a texture. Metal itself only allocates texture resources and provides methods that copy data to and from the texture. Metal apps rely on custom code or other frameworks, like MetalKit, Image I/O, UIKit, or AppKit, to handle image files. For example, you can use
MTKTexture to perform simple texture loading. This sample shows how to write a custom texture loader.
Load and Format Image Data
You can create a texture or update its contents manually, a process that's covered in the next few sections. You might do this for multiple reasons:
You have image data stored in a custom format.
You have textures whose contents need to be generated at runtime.
You are streaming texture data from a server or otherwise need to dynamically update a texture's contents.
In the sample, the
AAPLImage class loads and parses image data from TGA files. The class converts pixel data from the TGA file into a pixel format that Metal understands. The sample uses the image's metadata to create a new Metal texture and copies the pixel data into the texture.
Metal requires all textures to be formatted with a specific
MTLPixel value. The pixel format describes the layout of pixel data in the texture. This sample uses the
MTLPixel pixel format, which uses 32 bits per pixel, arranged into 8 bits per component, in blue, green, red, and alpha order:
Before you can populate a Metal texture, you must format the image data into the texture's pixel format. TGA files can provide pixel data either in a 32-bit-per-pixel format or a 24-bit-per-pixel format. TGA files that use 32 bits per pixel are already arranged in this format, so you just copy the pixel data. To convert a 24-bit-per-pixel BGR image, copy the red, green, and blue channels and set the alpha channel to 255, indicating a fully opaque pixel.
Create a Texture from a Texture Descriptor
Use a
MTLTexture object to configure properties like texture dimensions and pixel format for a
MTLTexture object. Then call the
new method to create a texture.
Metal creates a
MTLTexture object and allocates memory for the texture data. This memory is uninitialized when the texture is created, so the next step is to copy your data into the texture.
Copy the Image Data into the Texture
Metal manages memory for textures and doesn't provide you direct access to it. So you can't get a pointer to the texture data in memory and copy the pixels yourself. Instead, you call methods on a
MTLTexture object to copy data from memory you can access into the texture and vice versa.
In this sample, the
AAPLImage object allocated memory for the image data, so you'll tell the texture object to copy this data.
Use a
MTLRegion structure to identify which part of the texture you want to update. This sample populates the entire texture with image data; so create a region that covers the entire texture.
Image data is typically organized in rows, and you need to tell Metal the offset between rows in the source image. The image loading code creates image data in a tightly packed format, so the data of subsequent pixel rows immediately follows the previous row. Calculate the offset between rows to be the exact length (in bytes) of a row — the number of bytes per pixel multiplied by the image width.
Call the
replace method on the texture to copy pixel data from the
AAPLImage object into the texture.
Map the Texture Onto a Geometric Primitive
You can't render a texture on its own; you must map it onto geometric primitives (in this example, a pair of triangles) that are output by the vertex stage and turned into fragments by the rasterizer. Each fragment needs to know which part of the texture should be applied to it. You define this mapping with texture coordinates: floating-point positions that map locations on a texture image to locations on the geometric surface.
For 2D textures, normalized texture coordinates are values from 0.0 to 1.0 in both x and y directions. A value of (0.0, 0.0) specifies the texel at the first byte of the texture data (the top-left corner of the image). A value of (1.0, 1.0) specifies the texel at the last byte of the texture data (the bottom-right corner of the image).
Add a field to the vertex format to hold texture coordinates:
In the vertex data, map the quad's corners to the texture's corners:
To send the texture coordinates to the fragment shader, add a
texture value to the
Rasterizer data structure:
In the vertex shader, pass the texture coordinates to the rasterizer stage by writing them into the
texture field. The rasterizer stage interpolates these coordinates across the quad's triangle fragments.
Calculate a Color from a Location in the Texture
You sample a texture to calculate a color from a location in the texture. To sample the texture data, the fragment function needs the texture coordinates and a reference to the texture to sample. In addition to the arguments passed in from the rasterizer stage, pass in a
color argument with a
texture2d type and the
[[texture(index)]] attribute qualifier. This argument is a reference to a
MTLTexture object to be sampled.
Use the built-in texture
sample() function to sample texel data. The
sample() function takes two arguments: a sampler (
texture) that describes how you want to sample the texture, and texture coordinates (
in) that describe the position in the texture to sample. The
sample() function fetches one or more pixels from the texture and returns a color calculated from those pixels.
When the area being rendered to isn't the same size as the texture, the sampler can use different algorithms to calculate exactly what texel color the
sample() function should return. Set the
mag mode to specify how the sampler should calculate the returned color when the area is larger than the size of the texture, and the
min mode to specify how the sampler should calculate the returned color when the area is smaller than the size of the texture. Setting a
linear mode for both filters makes the sampler average the color of pixels surrounding the given texture coordinate, resulting in a smoother output image.
Encode the Draw Parameters
The process for encoding and submitting drawing commands is the same as that shown in Using a Render Pipeline to Render Primitives, so the complete code is not shown below. The difference in this sample is that the fragment shader has an additional parameter. When you encode the command's arguments, set the fragment function's texture argument. This sample uses the
AAPLTexture index to identify the texture in both Objective-C and Metal Shading Language code.


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Charlotte McKinney Is Smoking-Hot in New Topless Instagram Photo - Maxim
Photo: Josh Ryan
Last year, Charlotte McKinney revved our engines in a Ferrari-themed photo shoot captured by Josh Ryan.
The smoldering Guess girl and actress is back with a new topless Instagram photo that you don't want to miss.
Posing for famed photographer Tony Duran, McKinney's arms provide the only coverage as she clutches a lighter and cigarette in the tasteful-but-titillating shot.
Read and See More: https://www.maxim.com/women/charlotte-mckinney-topless-instagram-photo-2018-3