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a deuce of a
a deuce of a (something)
An exceptionally bad or difficult thing, activity, or person. This is a deuce of an assignment—I can't understand the first thing about it! Boy, that is a deuce of a haircut. You're going to go out in public like that?
a (or the) deuce of a —something very bad or difficult of its kind.
1933 John Galsworthy The End of the Chapter It seems there's a deuce of a fuss in the Bolivian papers.


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The city of Philippi in the New Testament was a Roman colony. This is significant for the residents of that city. It meant that because it was a colony of Rome, they held dual citizenship with Rome. They were citizens of Philippi and citizens of Rome. As Roman citizens, they had many privileges not given to non citizens and they saw Ceasar as a god and they looked forward to him coming to their city. The Apostle Paul uses this as an example to teach a spiritual truth to them and to the believers in Jesus Christ that lived among them. He wrote this in Philippians 3:17-21, "17 Brothers and sisters, together follow my example and observe those who live by the pattern we gave you. 18 For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears, who live as enemies of the cross of Christ [rejecting and opposing His way of salvation], 19 whose fate is destruction, whose god is their belly [their worldly appetite, their sensuality, their vanity], and whose glory is in their shame—who focus their mind on earthly and temporal things. 20 But [we are different, because] our citizenship is in heaven. And from there we eagerly await [the coming of] the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21 who, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself, will [not only] transform [but completely refashion] our earthly bodies so that they will be like His glorious resurrected body.Amplified Bible (AMP).
Paul shows us that while citizens of one place, believers are also citizen of heaven and we too, await the coming of our God, Jesus Christ in His promised return to receive the church to Himself. As citizens of heaven, we have all the privileges of them citizenship beginning with eternal life in the presence of our Lord. So, remember that where ever you live, you also are a citizen of heaven because of what Christ has done for you. Trust Him, it is worth it.

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Autumn Sign-ups
Please fill out this form and return it, along with a check for the correct amount, to:
Doko Farm
2101 Cedar Creek Road
Blythewood, SC 29016.
You will receive an email confirmation, once we receive your form and payment.
Phone Number:
Pick-up Location: [ ] Baan Sawan Thai Bistro [ ] Doko Farm
Doko Farm Heritage Meat CSA Autumn Share:
[ ] Heritage Hen ($182 per 3 month share): This option includes a 6-8 pound Narragansett heritage turkey hen in the November share.
[ ] Heritage Tom ($238 per 3 month share): This option includes a 13-16 pound Narragansett heritage turkey tom in the November share.
[ ] Member's Choice (Price will vary): There is no heritage turkey with this option. Instead you will receive another item of your choosing, in the November share.
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Please stay tuned! Coming your way starting in January!
- series for teens
- vision board
- stress management series
Please come join us for our 2 hour Workshops. Teenagers, Children, Couples and even colleagues are all welcome!
|Getting ready to do our happy boxes!
|I was amazed to see they ALL knew exactly what they wanted to do!
|Mobile in the making
|On this mobile the girls wrote all the things they love!
|The tree of gratitude.
|Participants wrote on the hearts what they were thankful for.
|They were given a deck of cards with all 24 strengths and were asked to create a something showing their stronger strengths.
Thank you all for participating and thank you Caroline for facilitating with me.
|Here is who I am and who others think I am.
|I choose the adjective I like best.


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RIPIT is the electronic project of Nyko Esterle. Ranging from harsh breakcore mahyem to raging chaotic beats, he also knows how to subtely twist your brain with other audio cookies included in a warp of Dub, ambient, hiphop or metal thrue his different side projects.
Nyko Esterle started his musical activities in 1994, playing guitar in a nameless Black Metal 2 pieces band alongside Yov Moor (Antaeus, Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition). After a short non productive period, he came back in early 1998 with his all electronic project RIPIT (and also various sub-projects as digital black ritual noise Omnivorus, total shit noise core Autoskato, digital grind Orgiak, improvisation noise ensemble ARME and few others) releasing tons of tapes and CDr in the home-tapers international scene.
Since then he performed over 300 shows in Europe and North America in different bands and solo and have his name on over 100 record covers (as musician or ingeneer). He took parts in different bands/project such as SIKHARA, BLACK ELF SPEAKS (stoner rock opera side projects of The Usaisamonster), DESECRATOR (buldo grind kings of Paris), PETRIFIED (digital brutal death one man band). He's now mostly playing in SOLAR SKELETONS, FUJAKO (on Wordsound Digital), EXTERN YKON, CINEMASSAKER (www.v-atak.com) and the European RADON ENSEMBLE backing STEVE MACKAY (Sax player for the Stooges and Violent Femmes). He also recorded numerous collaboration works with Gamaboy, Mike Watt (Minutemen, The Stooges), Marshall Allen (Sun-Ra Arkestra), Sikhara, Rko, Hop-Frog, Jason Lafarge, Ed Wilcox, Vinnie Paternostro, Sam Lohman, Koonda Holaa, Otto von Schirasch, DJ Urine, Error, Jason Forrest, Hecate, Skatolo, a034 and more !
Beside his musical projects, Nyko Esterle is also a sound ingeneer, running the Silent Block Studio in Brussels, he also worked in mastering studios and as a live sound man for belgian bands such as Parade Ground, Raxinasky, Duflan Duflan and Le Prince Harry.


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|Sighting Report
|Occurred : 2/3/2011 20:40 (Entered as : 02/03/2011 8:40)
Reported: 2/3/2011 9:11:01 PM 21:11
Posted: 2/8/2011
Location: Gilbert, AZ
Shape: Disk
|2/3/2011 Gilbert AZ shaped disc with glowing dim redish light few seconds
I was driving in my car and I noticed a hazy redish light glowing but dim that is what caught my eye. (Not like a helicopter red light) The shape reminded me of a womens large rimmed hat the craft must have been tipped because I saw the top that is where the light came from. I did a u-turn I wanted to get a better look or follow it. It was gone?
Then when I got on the 205 freeway I noticed large glowing orbs of light that dissapeared. I thought maybe its foggy out? But its it a clear night and this is Arizona we are not known for fog. This totally looked like what I'v seen in drawings.
I don't know if anyone else saw this but its not the phoenix light thing at all. This was a ufo and it was fast it vanished!
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))


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Our catering facilities are open to all students and staff at the following times:
- Before school from 8:15am
- Break 11.10am-11.25am
- Lunch 13:25-14.00
The school kitchens and dining rooms are first-rate, modern facilities for students and staff. The dining rooms serve nutritious foods, cooked in healthy ways. The school caterers have worked extremely hard to ensure that the school meets the government's food and nutrition based standards for school lunches. Some families will qualify for free school meals. Please see below for more information.
Food is available in the dining room and students can buy a variety of different breakfast items before school and at break ranging from bacon sandwiches to fruit pots, yoghurt and cereal. At lunchtime students and staff are offered the option of a meal deal including a main course with dessert and drink along with a variety of smaller items such as sandwiches, paninis, soups, pasta pots, jacket potatoes and wraps.
The canteen serves a three week rotational menu which changes twice a year, serving a variety of different meals every day, which always includes a vegetarian option. The menu can be downloaded below:
Carr Hill High School & Sixth Form Centre operates a cashless system and the school has implemented a way to view exactly what your child has been eating and what their current balance is on their cafeteria account. The system allows parents to view the most recent 30 day period and is updated every evening around 5pm.The system is called ParentScope. In order to view this information you will need to set up a ParentScope account via www.lcrltd.com/carrhill and input the unique pupil number (UPN) of your child. There is a helpful guide that you can download from www.lcrltd.com/carrhill/parentsguide.pdf which will take users through the process step by step. If you do not have a UPN for your child/children contact the Finance Team via email@example.com or 01772 689002.
Packed Lunches
Students may bring a packed lunch to school. Packed lunches, sweets and chocolate bars should not be eaten on the school corridors or in the school grounds – only fruit, water and fruit juices may be consumed outside the designated packed lunch rooms. This ensures students sit down to eat and minimises litter around the site.
All pupils are encouraged to drink unflavoured still water to re-hydrate themselves. No fizzy drinks are allowed. It is not the school's policy to dictate to parents what the content of packed lunches should be but the importance of eating sensibly and healthily should not be understated. Packed lunches can be eaten in three locations: the picnic area between the Hall and the Dining Hall; the Hall and the Benches area.
Free School Meals
Would you like to save £342 a year?
Some families qualify for free school meals – a saving of up to £11 per week.
If you are in receipt of benefits such as income support, jobseekers' allowance, child tax credit or state pension credit your child may be entitled to a free school meal.
Further details are available by calling 01524 581 207. In one phone call you can check if you are eligible, apply and be awarded free meals without having to complete any application forms.
In exceptional circumstances, if you wish your child to go home for lunch please complete the appropriate request form and return it to school. Please note that if you give permission for your child to go home for lunch, responsibility for your child's safety, welfare and behaviour passes to you until your child returns to school. The lunchtime period is only 40 minutes long so unless your child lives very close to the school it is usually impractical for them to go home during this period. No students in Year 7 to 11 will gain permission to go to any external food outlet for their lunch. Students who do not go home for lunch must stay on the school premises throughout lunchtime unless they have the permission of the Headteacher.
The School Nurse
The school nurse holds a 'Drop In' at Carr Hill High School every Wednesday lunchtime. The confidential 'Drop In' service is open to all students, no appointments are necessary. All students can call to see the school nurse to discuss any concerns/ issues/ worries that they may have about any aspect of their health: physical, mental, emotional and sexual health.
Role of School Nurse
- To assess, protect and promote the health and well-being of school age children and young people.
- To offer advice, care and treatment to individuals and groups of children and young people and the adults who care for them (Every Child Matters, DH, 2006)
- To empower young people to take responsibility for their health care choices
All students at Carr Hill High School are expected to complete homework in national curriculum subjects (with possible exception of PE & PSHE). All homework set along with the deadline for completion is available on the Show My Homework site.
Homework Club
A Learning Manager (Mr Bamba or Ms Hart-Smith) is available in the HUB every evening, to enable students to access all the facilities we offer in school. The homework club runs from 3.10 until 4.30 Monday – Thursday and 3.10 until 4.00 p.m. on a Friday.
Students will be encouraged to use the books and computer facilities to complete their homework/coursework/private study in a warm and friendly environment. A member of staff is on hand to help them, contact teachers and subject specialists on their behalf with any issues that may arise.
The learning managers are also offering a drop in service before school and at breaks for students to resolve any problems that may have arisen. They should come to the office in the HUB.


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MariaDB 10.1: Better query optimization for ORDER BY … LIMIT
For some reason, we've been getting a lot of issues with ORDER BY optimization recently. The fixes have passed Elena Stepanova's scrutiny and I've pushed them to MariaDB 10.1. Now, MariaDB's
ORDER BY ... LIMIT optimizer:
- Doesn't make stupid choices when several multi-part keys and potential range accesses are present (MDEV-6402)
- Always uses "range" and (not full "index" scan) when it switches to an index to satisfy ORDER BY … LIMIT (MDEV-6657)
- Tries hard to be smart and use cost/number of records estimates from other parts of the optimizer (MDEV-6384, MDEV-465, MySQL Bug#36817)
- Takes full advantage of InnoDB's Extended Keys feature when checking if filesort() can be skipped (MDEV-6796)
so, if you are struggling with poor optimization of
ORDER BY ... LIMIT queries, help might be underway.
I have to admit that optimizations for
ORDER BY... LIMIT are still far from perfect (both in MySQL and in MariaDB). The code is old and ugly and having spent some time debugging it, I can easily believe that it still does a poor job in some cases. The good part is that now we have some fresh knowledge of the ORDER BY … LIMIT optimization code, as well as RQG scripts for testing ORDER BY .. LIMIT queries. If you have any issues with ORDER BY LIMIT optimization, we will appreciate to see bugs filed for them.
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A discovery - Index Condition Pushdown can cause a slowdown after all
MariaDB 5.5 and then MySQL 5.6 got Index Condition Pushdown (ICP) optimization (initially coded by yours truly). The idea of ICP is simple: after reading the index record, check the part of WHERE condition that can be computed using index columns, and only then read the table record. That way, we avoid reading table rows that don't satisfy index condition:
It seems apparent that ICP can never make things slower. The WHERE clause has to be checked anyway, and not reading certain records can only make things faster.
That was what I thought, too, until recently Joffrey Michaie observed the contrary "in the wild": we've got a real-world case where using Index Condition Pushdown was slower than not using it: MDEV-6713. The slowdown was about 20%, both on MariaDB and MySQL.
From what I could investigate so far, the slowdown is caused by these three factors working together:
- a
VARCHAR(255)column in the index. MySQL's in-memory data representation for VARCHARs is not space efficient. If a column is defined as VARCHAR(255), any value will occupy the entire 255 bytes.
- InnoDB's row prefetch cache. When InnoDB detects that one is reading a lot of rows from an index, it pre-fetches index records and stores them in an internal cache. The cache uses the inefficient in-memory data representation.
- Design of MySQL's
Itemclasses. One can't evaluate an expression over a table record that is in InnoDB prefetch cache. Expression evaluation functions expect to find column values in the table's "primary location", internally known as table->record[0]. In order for ICP to check the condition, index columns have to be copied to table->record[0], first.
I hope we will be able to investigate this problem and post more about it soon. For now, the news is that ICP can cause a slowdown, when the index has big VARCHAR columns.
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I really meant to sell ALL of the EAPG and American Brilliant pieces from our Janvier Road bungalow.
I really did.
I mean, who needs old-fashioned, elaborately patterned glassware from 100 or more years ago?
Someone who holds them in her hand for the first time in decades, and watches as they sparkle and shine in the light, that's who.
Someone who suddenly senses the artistry and skill of the person who lovingly created these pieces, one at a time, working close to furnaces ("glory holes") that reach 2,000 degrees farenheit.
Someone who suddenly comes to appreciate their spectacular beauty, history and superb quality – attributes that are next to impossible to find today.
But books and websites can tell you only so much about these precious relics from an earlier time. You really do need to get up close and personal.
So off I went to The Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center in Millville, NJ.
What a fascinating place it is!
My visit inspired this shameless plug for one of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City area's best-kept secrets. (See below for a list of museums in other areas of the country.)
Tucked into rural Cumberland County, New Jersey, and just a minute or two from the City of Millville (more on that in a minute), "Wheaton Village" is a forested wonderland of glass workshops, boutiques and galleries and the spectacular Museum of American Glass. There's even a store that features Christmas decorations all year long!
But my focus was that museum.
With more than 7,000 objects from the 17th Century to the present, it's an absolute must for those who love vintage and antique glass.
And if you don't love vintage and antique glass?
You will, by the time you leave.
Naturally, I made a beeline for the EAPG and American Brilliant rooms.
I was hoping to spot some patterns of the nappies, celeries and other pieces I unpacked from the attic.
And sure enough, there was my EAPG Duncan & Miller water carafe!
And my EAPG Imperial creamer!
And some Brilliant items I wish I owned!
There are rooms devoted to antique bottles, EAPG and American Brilliant – as well as modern pieces by renowned glass artists. You'll even find the world's largest bottle!
There's even a section devoted to quirky carnival glass!
Wheaton is a celebration of America's — and New Jersey's — first industry.
Thanks to New Jersey's abundant natural resources (sand, silica, wood and soda ash), glassmaking was a no-brainer for the early settlers.
In 1789 Caspar Wistar founded the first glass factory in nearby Salem County. And by 1888, Dr. Theodore Corson Wheaton had established a pharmaceutical glass bottle company in Millville. From there, the industry spread throughout the nation.
Glassmaking in action.
Throughout the day, there are demonstrations of glassblowing, and you can watch a glassblower create a beautiful wine goblet. You can even interact with resident glass artists at workshops held throughout the year.
But wait! There's more!
(Required language in a shameless plug!)
Just a mile or two down the road is the adorable City of Millville's Glasstown Arts District, where you can take a pontoon boat ride down the serenely beautiful Maurice River (that's "Morris" to the locals), take in a show at the restored Levoy Theatre, or wine and dine on High Street, then stroll among the plentiful art galleries, bookstores and — of course — antique shops. And you can spend the night at the Country Inn by Carlson® just at the entrance to Wheaton Village.
If you're interested in learning more about antique and vintage American glass, or if you just want something different to do with the family, consider a visit to a glass museum like Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center!
If you love learning about antiques as much as I do, follow the blog so you won't miss the next article. And enjoy the hunt!
Other well-known glass museums in North America
The Corning Museum in New York
Museum of Glass, Seattle
Ohio Glass Museum & Glass Blowing Studio
Huntington Museum of Art
Historical Glass Museum, Redlands, California


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A place to post reports from any of PGRC's group workouts.
A place to post reports from any of PGRC's group workouts.
Thursday 9/18/08 UMD track workout
Attendees- Monica, Chris, Bob, Cindy, Dave B, Dave F, Laurie, Lucy, Gene, Nicole, Amanda
Workout- 9×400 at 8:00pace. Several of us completed this workout with Monica (part of the Hal Higdon 1/2 marathon program she is following). Others did their own workouts.
Notes- Excellent weather, great group, tough workout (including fence climbing).
Thursday 9/25/08 UMD track workout
Attendees- Monica, Chris, Michael, John, Gene, Cindy
Monica & Cindy– 2 x 2 miles at 8:30 pace, 3-4 min break in between
Chris & Michael– 400s (72-75s)
Gene- looking good!
John- "ouch" my hamstring hurts workout
Notes- weather.com said 100% chance of rain. But, it didn't rain at all. Nice cool evening.
Thursday 10/02/08 UMD track workout
Unfortunately the track was unavailable due to a soccer game (not listed on the calendar posted at the track). So, Nicole, Kent, and Cindy followed Dave F on a tour of College Park for about 6+ miles. Apologies to anyone who came late and couldn't find us!
Thursday 10/15/08 College Park workout
Since the track was closed for a soccer game, we met at the ice arena in College Park. Monica, John, Dave B, and Cindy ran approx 5 miles on paths near Lake Artemesia and in the surrounding hilly neighborhood past John's house and Gene's house, arriving back at the ice arena just before dark. Gene ran over from his house and joined us for part of the run. It was kinda hot and humid for mid-October. Join us next Thursday as we return back to the track for one last run.
Attendees- Sharyn, Ginny, Tracy, Ian, Dawn, Gerry , Lisa and Kirk
The 10K program has started their Tuesday night speed workouts at PGCC – Great job!!! (Yes it was hard and a little cold…)
Looking forward to next Tuesday!
Thursday 11/13/08 College Park workout
We managed to avoid the rain, and it turned out to be a pleasant evening for a run. Dave F, Monica, John, and Cindy enjoyed an easy 5 mile run through College Park and the UMD campus.
Thursday 12/18/08 College Park workout
I've been remiss in posting the Thursday workout reports, but rest assured the crew hasn't missed a week. Even last Thursday when it was pouring rain and VERY chilly, John, Monica, and Cindy toughed it out. We were happy to have Kent back this week with the regular crew (Nicole, Dave B, Dave F, John, Cindy; but no Monica). With new reflective running vests and lights, we were styling on our 6 mile run.
Thursday 3/12/09
We are still running every Thursday night, although I haven't been posting any reports. The hardworking, dedicated Thursday night crew has made it through the cold dark days of winter and we are looking forward to running in daylight this week.
Thursday 4/23/09 College Park workout
A lovely but warm day for running. The UMD track is still closing too early for our workouts (but hopefully that will change!) so we had to make up our own fun workout. This week we did a fartlek run in which each of the four of us took turns leading the group for a short burst at the leaders desired pace and distance.
Thursday 5/7/09 College Park workout
All of the regulars– John, Dave F, Dave B, Monica, and Cindy– reported for duty. A pleasant 5.5 mile jaunt around the lake and through College Park (although Cindy was still tired and sore from Saturday's 50K). We hope to have some other PGRCers join us sometime!
Sunday 5/31/09 ABC 8am workout
Six runners showed up for this morning's long run. Deon, John, and Cindy ran 10 miles, and the three Daves ran 15+ miles. It's starting to get warm and humid 😦
Thursday 6/23/09 College Park workout
Back at the ice arena this week after last week's Buddy Attick races. Since it was hot out, we tried something a little different. We jogged over to the back entrance to Greenbelt Park and did hill repeats in the shade of the park. After 8 repeats we were nice and exhausted and jogged/walked back to the start.
Thursday 8/13/09 College Park workout
The hill workouts continue! This week a stalwart group of four – including one newbie- came out despite the virtual monsoon conditions. Well not quite monsoon, but very steady hard rain. Although we were soaked, we were not deterred (too much) and managed 6 reps up the hill in our soggy shoes and shorts before jogging back to the ice arena.
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View a message from CarneyKelehan regarding the current COVID-19 situation. READ MORE
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For more than four decades, the attorneys and legal professionals at Carney, Kelehan, Bresler, Bennett & Sherr have built a reputation for providing best-in-class service and working tirelessly to meet the legal needs of our wide array of clients.
With law offices in Columbia, Md.; Annapolis, Md.; Westminster, Md.; and Salisbury, Md., we combine the legal expertise of the firm's tested veteran attorneys with the know-how and energy of our vibrant young lawyers and professionals in order to respond seamlessly and completely to the particular and changing needs of our clients and community.
CarneyKelehan has developed a thriving general law practice with several sub-specialties. Our lawyers are experienced in education, public school, real estate, land use and zoning, trusts and estates, taxation, business, labor, personal injury, worker's compensation and litigation in state and federal courts.


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Cheetah shaped nutcracker made of antique look brass.
Size: 300 - 500 grams (approximately)
Our antique look brass nutcracker collection delight customers in Norway and Sweden through a timeless online shopping experience.
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Craft Your Costume
Some like to buy their costumes and others love to create! For those who like to craft their way to Halloween, Pinterest is one of the best outlets for costume-making inspiration. Whether you're staying indoors or going to a party, Halloween is always a good excuse to relax and have a little fun with your outfit. Buying your costume can be expensive, but when you create your costume, you can give yourself a little more flexibility with the price. A few years back, I ran into a Big Bird Halloween costume and decided to take it upon myself to create this crafted costume. Here is how I created my Big Bird costume:
First I purchased everything I'd need:
· Long yellow boas from the party store
· Nude colored leotard
· Yellow shorts (unless you own some – you can get these for about $10)
· Orange tights
· Fabric for the feet
· Stuffing for the feet
1. Place a thick piece of cardboard in between the leotard
2. Warm up your hot glue gun and make a line of glue – place boas on line of glue
3. Cover the entire leotard with glue and the boas and let cool. Make sure to try it on as you go so you can stretch it out and find places where there are holes and make sure you're making the pattern you'd like
4. This is the hardest part. For the feet, you'll want to cut the desired shape in four pieces. Take two of the pieces and place them together. Hand-sew or use a sewing machine to sew the feet shut (like a little pocket) or like you would to create a pillow case. Leave a small opening for your feet to go in, and your ready for your Halloween night!
It's always fun to have a friend or two that dresses up with you. If you have a friend or a partner that you'll be celebrating with, consider having them dress up as the cookie monster – like my sister did at my Halloween party!
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My wifi was working fine until I bought a new D-link router. At first I connected fine, but I didn't have the networking I wanted, so I put in their installation CD and that's when everything went to H_ _ _! Something about it corrupted my system. So I installed new drivers. Forget resetting the D-link etc. I'm angry about the router! ! ! Now, I just want my laptop to work when I travel and I get nothing anymore. Can you help me? It used to work fine. . .
What's not working? I understand your anger, but we can't fix it if what don't know exactly what's wrong.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams
I Show there is a wifi spot available and see the signal, but I cannot connect. I have tried manually, automatically, everything. When I go to the control panel and look at it, it shows it is working properly. I've been through the troubleshooter. Wish I could tell you what's wrong. I believe the CD from D-link corrupted my drivers. So, I reinstalled the drivers. But now I don't know why I can't connect! Support at D-Link says: "Too bad - you've got a faulty laptop." Nope - I don't believe it. It worked great every time until I put their CD in it!
Try doing a factory reset on the router. Small button on the back usually and a ball point pen should do it. Then, don't use their disk. Let Windows rediscover the router and try and connect.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams
Do you have a site with drivers you particularly like? Can you lead me through specific steps that will totally clear my computer of all drivers associated with wifi, then install new ones? Clearly, when I installed new drivers, I must have done something wrong.
Here is what I have done so far:
-Checked the wifi button on laptop
-reset router by unplugging, retsetting with ballpoint pen, rebooting from my fiberoptics system (I do not have a motem)
-cleaned off (I thought) all old files associated with wifi and installed new ones at the HP site
-Checked my wifi connection properties to see if wifi was operational (computer said it was) and run the troubleshooter
-tried the wifi connection outside of the one I have in my house. (Laptop receives the new information and the signal, but will NOT connect).
-thrown OUT the D-link CD
-tried to connect manually at several wifi locations
-given up
Maybe there is nothing else I can do.
I like this program for cleaning stuff out. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/do... Use the Maximum strength setting. When installing do not allow it to install the Yahoo toolbar. Just take the mark out of the button.
Then use the program to clear out all the D-link wireless stuff.
BTW, in spite of what D-link says, it could be a bad router.
Can you go somewhere where there is a wireless connection outside you home and try to connect?
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams
I have had a similar problem. The DLink software hijacks the Windows configuration software. Mine is for a USB wireless adapter. If the adapter is not installed it does nothing. Part of the Windows configurator does not work. It shows no connection.
Yes Fred, I've been looking around and I see many problems like this with the D-link router(s). I have never gotten my laptop to work wireless with it and D-Link has worn me out. (I can use everything I have hard-wired). I cleaned up my laptop and it works just fine wireless elsewhere. D-Link won't take responsibility about the router, but then I always get a very foreign voice on the other end. I wonder if the company realizes the extent of the "bad press!"


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Universities, colleges, research institutes and their affiliated researchers represent our main applicant groups. But many others can also apply for funding from us – special interest groups, private companies (except sole proprietors), associations, municipalities, county councils, and other government agencies that are not higher education institutions.
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Edward Leicester Atkinson
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Edward Leicester Atkinson
by Herbert George Ponting
gelatin silver print, 15 September 1911
12 1/8 in. x 15 in. (308 mm x 381 mm)
Purchased, 2010
Primary Collection
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- Edward Leicester Atkinson (1882-1929), Surgeon; member of British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Sitter in 2 portraits.
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- Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935), Photographer and antarctic explorer. Artist associated with 13 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
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The Royal Navy surgeon Atkinson joined Captain Scott 's Terra Nova expedition as medical officer and parasitologist. He travelled to within 293 miles of the Pole as part of the support party for the final push. On his return to the base-camp at Cape Evans leadership fell to him as sole remaining officer. He led the search party that found the bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers on 12 November 1912.
Scott enthusiastically described his scientific studies: 'Atkinson is quietly pursuing the subject of parasites. Already he is in a new world…Constantly he comes to me to ask me if I would like to see some new form, and I am taken to see some protozoon or ascidian isolated on the slide plate of his microscope.'
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- Scott of the Antarctic (16 August 2011 - 22 April 2012)
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Current affairsAsquith's Liberal government introduces the Parliament Act to curb the powers of the House of Lords following the clash between the Commons and Lords over the 1909 People's Budget. The Act removed the Lords' power to veto bills, reduced the length of Parliament from seven to five years, and provided for the payment of MPs.
Art and scienceErnest Rutherford discovers the structure of the atom. The New Zealand born physicist working in Manchester showed with his Nuclear Model that electrons orbited a nucleus composed of protons and neutrons. The discovery paved the way for nuclear physics.
InternationalThe Polish Chemist, Marie Curie, becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for her discovery in 1898 of the radioactive element, Radon.
The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre. The masterpiece was missing for two years, during which time suspicion fell on avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire and his friend Pablo Picasso, before Vincenzo Peruggia, an employee of the Louvre, was arrested in Florence.
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Skipper Gibbs? Arsene Wenger's Craziest Captains
Roy Keane knows a thing or two about how to lead a team. So it was no surprise to see the former Man United captain berate Arsene Wenger's decision to give Kieran Gibbs the armband half way through Arsenal's walloping at Bayern Munich last night. Here we rate some of the more questionable captains of Arsene Wenger's reign. Mikel Arteta … Read More »


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Thu, 20 November 2014
The NFL's pioneering sports betting podcast series roundtable couldn't quite wait until Thursday Night football to break down Week 12 NFL lines, so they happily uploaded their thoughts early. Host Gill Alexander, WagerTalk.com's Marco D'Angelo, and Ace aka Gianni The Greek welcome perennial show staple Richard Stand, 2010 Hilton SuperContest champion back to the show, to analyze the Baltimore Ravens at New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants, Detroit Lions at New England Patriots, Miami Dolphins at Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings, and more matchups from a handicapping perspective. Plus, the big favorite that's most likely to lose outright and the game you should steer clear of entirely, on Thursday's Beating The Book (November 20, 2014).
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Moon Author's Review
Michael Layne: considered by many the top ceramist in the parish and has exhibited at galleries in Kingston countless times. Layne was born and raised in Portland, studying at Titchfield High School and then going on to Edna Manley College in Kingston to concentrate in ceramics. Today Layne teaches art at Titchfield High School and works out of his home studio (open by appointment), where he creates works that include large bottles, bowls, and vases assembled with clay slabs, decorated with oxides, and single fired.


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It's been decades since the first Labyrinth was in theaters. It's been a huge cult hit ever since and has received numerous editions for the home video market. Now, years later the film is getting an official sequel. Tri-Star is preparing to give the world that Jim Henson created an updated part two that will be scripted by Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy).
No word has been leaked about casting or where the story will take us, but Don't Breathe director Fede Alvarez has been tapped to direct the upcoming film. Alvarez is already set to direct The Girl in the Spider's Web and this will serve as his follow up project. Early reports are saying that this will be a totally separate story from the first and won't have anything to do with the characters portrayed by Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie in the original film.


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KATSINA STATE, Nigeria — Dr. David Nsimma works quickly. His patient, Maryama Aliyu, is bleeding internally and slipping into shock. Pregnancy-related injuries are causing blood to seep away from her vital organs and pool in her lower body. If Dr. Nsimma does not find a way to staunch the flow of blood, Maryama's organs may fail, and she could die.
Just three months ago, a woman in her condition here at Katsina General Hospital in northern Nigeria would have had a poor chance of survival. Today, however, Dr. Nsimma looks calm, even confident. He and his colleague, Dr. Natalya Adamu, are fitting Maryama's legs and waist into a thick blue neoprene outfit. Known as a non-pneumatic anti-shock garment, or ASG, this relatively simple but effective device was recently donated to Katsina General's maternity ward by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. And it may very well save Maryama's life.
A relatively simple life-saving intervention
By applying pressure to the lower half of the body, the ASG prevents blood from concentrating in the lower half of the body and forces it upward, so it can nourish the heart, brain, lungs and other vital organs. In addition to warding off shock, this process keeps the patient stable while she waits for a blood transfusion.
|"Within the short few months of this intervention, we have seen dramatic results. "
--Dr. David Nsimma
"Within the short few months of this intervention, we have seen dramatic results," says Dr. Nsimma, sitting down in his office at the hospital now that Maryama has stabilized. "In the past, we would lose these women."
Nigeria, like much of sub-Saharan Africa, is a dangerous place to become a mother. The risk of dying in childbirth is a hundred times higher than what it is in most high-income countries. Each year, around 37,000 Nigerian women die bringing children into the world. That is more than 100 deaths a day from preventable causes.
These numbers reflect a lack of adequate obstetric care for women, a problem that the Nigerian Ministry of Health and UNFPA are working together to resolve. UNFPA has donated beds, medicines, surgical equipment and contraceptives to maternal hospitals and clinics throughout northern Nigeria. Thanks in part to advocacy work by UNFPA, maternal health services have been entirely free in Katsina State since 2004. This removes one of the greatest barriers to women obtaining proper obstetric care here in Nigeria, one of the 20 least-developed countries in the world.
The work to help pregnant women does not stop at these preventive measures. One of the primary goals of the partnership is to enhance the ability of medical personnel to save the lives of women who are already experiencing an emergency situation, such as an obstetric haemorrhage. To do so, UNFPA supports the Emergency Life-Saving Skills Initiative (ELSSI). This course trains doctors and nurses working in the maternity units of hospitals and health centres in the proper handling of various obstetric emergencies. It includes a section on the use of the anti-shock garment, as well as on another important life-saving breakthrough: magnesium sulfate.
Another important breakthrough
Injections of magnesium sulfate are a highly effective treatment for eclampsia, a dangerous complication of pregnancy. Though its exact cause is unknown, eclampsia is both more common and more dangerous for women living in developing countries. The primary symptom of eclampsia is severe convulsions, known as eclamptic fits, which can occur before, during or after labour. The convulsions, in addition to the difficulties they present to a smooth delivery, can lead to either kidney or heart failure, both of which can be fatal to the mother. When injected, magnesium sulfate typically causes the convulsions to cease, stabilizing the mother and often allowing for safe delivery of the child. It also greatly speeds recovery time.
"We've seen that patients used to stay in the hospital for two to three weeks," says Baba Samaila, UNFPA Adviser in Katsina. "Now, they are home in two to three days."
Nana Abdullahi is a living example of the difference made by magnesium sulfate's introduction to hospitals here. The 18-year-old mother of two had an eclamptic fit shortly after her most recent delivery. Nana's sister, Gaje Ganuwe, managed to get her unconscious, convulsing sister to the hospital on the back of a motorcycle taxi.
"We were very scared. We thought it was a spirit," says Gaje. "We were crying because we thought that she was going to die."
Dr. Idriss Jamo, medical director of Kankia General Hospital, treated Nana. Dr. Jamo had completed the UNFPA-sponsored ELSSI training, and his hospital is equipped with magnesium sulfate. He promptly administered the drug, and the fit stopped. Nana was soon back at home with her children.
Without the injection, Dr. Jamo estimates the chances of survival in a case like Nana's would have been only 60 per cent. Now the odds are much better.
"[Since] we began using magnesium sulfate," he says, "we have lost only one patient."
Demand outstrips supplies
For all their success, doctors and nurses do have one complaint about the new emergency materials: there are not yet enough to go around.
"It's not enough," says Dr. Jamo when asked about the quantity of anti-shock garments his hospital has on hand. "Some patients have to queue to wait for the next one. Sometimes we even have to take the ASG off one woman to put it on another."
As the government and UNFPA bring these new interventions up to scale, these shortages should decrease. Yet the fact that new medical options have been so quickly integrated into treatment plans here is clear demonstration of how badly they were, and are, needed. Anti-shock garments and magnesium sulfate may have been unheard of in northern Nigeria a few months ago. But they have already become a life-saving necessity.
— Arthur Plews


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Costa Rica actually hosted the start of what was later to become the peace accords that eventually ended the region's conflicts.
Yet, two decades after stability returned in the rest of Central America, I found in Costa Rica a country at times aloof, and at times hostile, towards its poorer neighbours elsewhere in the region.
"A lot of people here in Costa Rica don't understand about a person from another country, because Costa Rica has a blessing," Cesar Melendez, a Nicaraguan actor and playwright, told me.
Worker's tale
Mr Melendez came to the country with his teenage parents when he was a small child.
He now tours, playing to audiences in local churches and universities as well as packed theatres, with his one-man play - "El Nica" - about an impoverished Nicaraguan migrant worker, "Jose".
"El Nica talks about the human drama of the immigrant and the way Nicaraguans are treated by many people here," Mr Melendez says.
"Nicaragua has had lots of problems, and for us Costa Rica is like a paradise."
For the purposes of researching the play, Mr Melendez disguised himself as an illegal migrant and paid "coyotes", or guides, to take him and others along the tortuous and at times dangerous route through the mountains that divide the two countries.
"Jose" makes the same journey and, in one of the play's most emotive scenes, loses his baby daughter when she slips from his arms as they cross a raging river.
"I am trying to shock people and challenge their prejudices," Mr Melendez says.
Despite their common language and culture, Central America remains a divided region - with one country often rivalling its neighbours.
"You can see this in the negotiations with the US over free trade," says Lorna Chacon, a journalist based in San Jose.
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua all signed up to the US-Central America Free Trade Accord, or Cafta, with the Bush administration at the end of last year.
Each country negotiated bilaterally with Washington. Costa Rica took until mid-January to agree on its terms of entry.
Many politicians in Central America, even those who resisted US pressure in the 1980s to join the anti-communist insurgency war against the Sandinista rulers in Nicaragua, now firmly believe that trade barriers must be lifted from all sides.
"The cold war is over - and that means there is no such thing as foreign aid," said Oscar Arias, the former president of Costa Rica who won a Nobel prize for his peace plan for Central America.
"We now have to rely on two basic instruments for our future development - trade and foreign investment. If we cannot have a market like the US market, if we cannot export our goods, then we have no choice but to keep exporting our people," he told the BBC.
And that is a lesson that every poor Central American, like "Jose" and others, knows all too well.
Mike Lanchin reported from Central America for the BBC in the 1990s.
His four-part series Legacies of Rebellion was broadcast on BBC World Service.


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Are Negative Keywords Part Of Your Google AdWords Strategy?
"Everyone knows this one." I hear you saying.
I cannot place enough emphasis on the importance of making this one of the very first things you do when setting up your campaigns.
If you already know about negatives, then great.
Though if you're a little hazy on them, then you should know that all good negative keywords specify which keywords you do not want your ads to trigger for.
I am frequently appalled when I find that customers are often paying for keywords that are totally unrelated to their business.
It's not uncommon clients of Google to be burning through thousands of dollars or more each month through not correctly utilising negative keywords. Or worse still, not using them. Ouch.
Using negative keywords properly is an absolute essential in any campaign.
I have personally inherited numerous AdWords accounts on "life support" and this is one of the key indicators that the patient (client) is in serious trouble.
I cannot stress enough that this element is one of the most overlooked tools. Business owners simply forget to add them!
Don't be one of them. Start building your list today!
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Negative keyword: Definition
A type of keyword that prevents your ad from being triggered by a certain word or phrase. Your ads aren't shown to anyone who is searching for that phrase. This is also known as a negative match.
For example, when you add "free" as a negative keyword to your campaign or ad group, you tell AdWords not to show your ad for any search containing the term "free". On the Display Network, your ad is less likely to appear on a site when your negative keywords match the site's content.
- Select Keywords and Targeting > Keywords, Negative.
- Click Make multiple changes.
- Select My data includes columns for campaigns and/or ad groups or Use selected destinations. …
- Type or paste your negative keywords in the grid.
- Click Process.
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text: English batsmen should be scared. South Africa's bowlers look menacing. Morne Morkel is picking up form at the right time, Andre 'King of Frustration' Nel is as angry as ever (he has much to be angry about), and Bat-breaker Ntini could soon be yelping like a demented puppy. Oh, and there's Dale Steyn, too.


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By Shannon Quesnel
A former Keremeos man was given a suspended sentence for arson Friday.
Inderjit Chima, 37, attempted to burn down his restaurant, the former Riverbed Bistro in Keremeos, on May 26, 2011 using a small jerry can filled with $10 worth of gasoline. Even though no fire was set he was charged with arson and having incendiary materials. He was also charged with assault.
His case was originally set for trial in Penticton Provincial Court but he instead pled guilty to arson in relation to inhabited property. The other charges of possession of incendiary materials, arson: damage to own property, assault and uttering threats were dropped.
Crown lawyer Deb Drissel and defence lawyer Marty Johnson made a joint submission for a suspended sentence and 18 months probation which Judge Greg Koturbash granted.
The Crown had lined up Chima's wife and his child as witnesses but neither appeared in court. Three other witnesses, two RCMP officers and a civilian, were waiting outside the courtroom but were not called in.
Drissel said Chima was very drunk on May 26, 2011. He had been in an argument as well. One witness saw him with the jerry can and heard him make a threat.
"He said he was going to light it up," Drissel explained. Several customers and Chima's wife were in the building at the time. There were also apartments upstairs.
"Fortunately, you didn't have something to start the fire," Korturbash said. A police investigation found no sign of a lighter or other ignition device.
At least two employees pulled the jerry can away from Chima but not before he emptied it along the sides of the building. Chima fled the scene on foot after assaulting a family member. RCMP officers arrested him at his home.
Part of his probation means Chima cannot have, consume or buy any alcohol. Johnson asked the judge if that part could be modified.
Chima and his wife now operate a restaurant in Surrey and instead of having alcohol delivered she buys it herself at a liquor store. She would like her husband to share the workload. She wants him to have the court's permission to buy liquor and deliver it to the restaurant.
Korturbash refused the request.
"Your client went off the rails," he said. "A bottle in your hand is a recipe for disaster."
To contact a reporter for this story, email Shannon Quesnel at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 250-488-3065.


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I had an outfit all planned last week. My husband took pictures of it last Thursday. I was going to write my Style Interpreting Art post today using this amazing picture.
However, before I got my photos off the camera my husband deleted them. Why? So he could take pictures of this:
My best friend from college, Rachel, ran her very first half marathon yesterday in Cleveland, Ohio. Since I was there when she ran her first 10K and her first 10 Mile race, I knew I had to be there for this.
So I was. And we had a great time.
So I forgive my husband for deleting my photos so he could get up at 5:00 AM to cheer and take pictures and be there for us.
Regularly scheduled programming will continue tomorrow.


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Tonight's (18 November) OGS Ottawa Branch meeting at Library and Archives Canada, Room 156, is Unlocking the riddles of Welsh Ancestry - A Set of Keyes. It will presented by Helen Whyte, a professional genealogist who has done extensive research on the Social, Historical and Geographical links to Welsh Ancestors. The meeting starts at 7:30 pm.
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Last updated on October 28, 2018
Libinput is a library to handle input devices in Wayland and X.Org. It can be used as a drop-in replacement for evdev and synaptics in X.Org, and it is supported by a wide range of desktop environments, including GNOME and Xfce. In this post, we will see how to enable natural scrolling for trackpads using libinput. We will also leave mouses alone, i.e., no natural scrolling for mouses.
First, we need to know the name of the trackpad to enable natural scrolling for. This can be easily known by executing
xinput --list. My output includes the following:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ bcm5974 id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
It is easy to see that my trackpad is


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When the market is down and everyone is worried about spending money – suddenly everything is about the price. Because the economy is slow and there is more competition for similar products the first thought that people think of is how much can I reduce this product for and still make a profit.
But wait lets stop and examine the logic here!
Has the value of the widget or our product changed, No. But we are concerned that the perception we get from the client has.
Basically people buy things for three reasons. They "need" them regularly, like food. We all go to the supermarket still. Or we buy things because we "want" something, the latest phone, or plasma screen, or car? Thirdly we are "sold" a product by sales-people.
So going back to our value principle what can we do to change the customers perceived idea of the value of what we are selling.
Instead of reducing the price of our product – why not increase the Value of the product. If we are reacting to people because we think they only care about cost, we are missing a very big opportunity to show the client that the value of our product is greater than the competitions and therefore we can justify being slightly higher priced.
By increasing the quality and even the quantity of the product, the customer feels that they are getting a better deal from you (getting more stuff for their money) than from another vender who has reduced just his price.
A vender reducing the price in the down time now has to increase the price for the same widget when the economy changes. You maintained the status quo. Your prices didn't change but your perceived value did.
As an example; recently we were working on a project for a client and followed the logic above. In adding perceived value we offered to actually do more for the client – providing greater service but for the same cost.
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HG IOPS Intensive
HG IOPS Intensive
- Intel 2x Xeon Gold 6132
- 28 core/ 56 thread
- 2,6 GHz/3,0 GHz
- 192 GB DDR4 ECC 2666 MHz
- 4x960GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps bande passante (burst 10 Gbps) illimitée
- vRack: 10 Gbps
Optimised for extremely fast disk access and minimal latency
Some specific applications require a high-performance storage medium in terms of IOPS (I/O per second).
The HG IOPS Intensive server is designed for mass analysis tasks, digital simulation projects, and very high definition video applications. It also enables a high-performance e-commerce site to be powered and maintained. Thanks to their low latency and extreme speed, the NVMe SSDs that this model is equipped with will be more than able to meet your requirements. They are, on average, six times more efficient than SSDs in SATA.
Increase the transformation rate of your business by improving yields, to better serve your goals and requirements. With scores of up to 587,000 IOPS in read and 184,000 IOPS in write, you can accelerate NoSQL databases, search engines, data warehouses, real-time analysis, and disk-based caching applications.
HG Big data & Analytics solution
HG Big Data and Analytics Solutions
- Intel 2x Xeon Gold 6154
- 36 core/ 72 thread
- 3,0 GHz/3,0 GHz
- 192 GB DDR4 ECC 2666 MHz
- 8x800GB SSD
- 1 Gbps bande passante (burst 10 Gbps) illimitée
- vRack: 10 Gbps
A high-density server, designed to manage massive data processing.
Used alone or as part of a cluster, the high-density configuration of this server will allow you to effectively manage your dynamic workloads. It is suitable for both intensive computing (HPC) applications and data analysis solutions.
Designed for high availability and fault tolerance, this server relies on OVH's private vRack network to ensure smooth exchanges between your machines (up to 3Gbit/s) within a secure VLAN. It is therefore ideal for building a data lake. The vRack will also allow you to develop your infrastructure by interconnecting it with OVH's Public Cloud offerings (to create an overflow system, for example).
This model, dedicated to big data, is compatible with the most common data processing platforms, such as Hadoop, SQL and NoSQL databases. It also facilitates the management of databases such as Apache Cassandra, Microsoft SQL Server, and MongoDB.
HG IA & Machine Learning
AI & Machine Learning
- Intel 2x Xeon Gold 6132
- 28 core/ 56 thread
- 2,6 GHz/3,0 GHz
- 96 GB DDR4 ECC 2666 MHz
- 2x480GB SSD
- 1 Gbps bande passante (burst 10 Gbps) illimitée
- vRack: 10 Gbps
- 1 x GPU Nvidia V100
Designed for processing parallel calculations required for automatic learning
Today, more and more companies are developing through machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Designed to help you in the digital transition of your business, this HG Machine Learning and IA server is the ideal way to increase efficiency and agility.
Equipped with the latest generation of high-performance components, this platform makes it possible to unleash the full potential of the Nvidia Tesla P100 graphics card – the most widely used accelerator in the world for parallel intensive computing. Take advantage of all the deep learning frameworks accelerated by the Tesla P100, and more than 450 HPC applications.
Expand your business with frameworks such as Caffe2, Cognitive toolkit, PyTorch, TensorFlow and many others. These are based on libraries accelerated by the Tesla P100, such as cuDNN and NCCL, which specialise in delivering optimal learning performance.
HG In-Memory database
HG In-Memory Database
- Intel 2x Xeon Gold 6132
- 28 core/ 56 thread
- 2,6 GHz/3,0 GHz
- 1,5 TB DDR4 ECC 2666 MHz
- 2x6GB SAS
- 1 Gbps bande passante (burst 10 Gbps) illimitée
- vRack: 10 Gbps
Designed to manage large workflows in memory
Data is usually stored on a hard disk or SSD and then transferred to RAM when it is used. These numerous disk accesses can slow down the process, especially if the RAM is not large enough.
The HG In-Memory Database configuration is the ideal solution if you are looking for a server that is optimised to support an In-Memory Database Management System (In-Memory DBMS). This system is used to improve the performance of requests and applications that access data. In fact, these are stored in memory, to limit their access to the disk.
In-Memory Database Dedicated Servers are based on an architecture tailored for big data and oriented towards streaming analysis, such as Apache Spark, Redis or SAP HANA.
Any calculations that require a lot of memory, as well as machine learning tasks, can be handled by this Dedicated Server.


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Welcome to your weekly fix of UK and Irish escape room news covering everything that this site has discovered in the last seven days!
Exit Games is always on the look-out for new rooms or venues that are opening, references in the media or anything else that might be of interest to the readers, so please do send an email if you spot anything of interest. That applies to owners too – feel free to send me your news for inclusion here. Don't be shy!
On to the news
- West Midlands
- Get Out Alive in Rugby has been open since Easter this year but has only just appeared on this site's radar. It seems to operate mainly during school holidays so if you want to check it out then you might want to get your skates on.
- East of England
- Escape Basildon is the latest foothold for the Escape brand further and was spotted by the local press. Looks like it will have two games – OverThrone and the Magic Emporium.
- Maldon Escape Rooms is the latest venture from the group that brought you the nearby Chelmsford and Bishop's Stortford Escape Rooms. Their first game, Rob the Bank, opens in a fortnight.
- Room Escape Southend closed The Mummy's Tomb yesterday and will be opening A Haunting on West Street in around three weeks.
- South West England
- Bath's Escape4fun opened their second game, Action Escape Room, which sees you finding the star of the show
- The Bournemouth Echo collated a list of games to play across Dorset. Usual caveats apply about non-enthusiast-generated lists!
- A new company has popped up in Pool, Cornwall offering mobile escape rooms. UnSafe Games first offering is the 12:15 Project.
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Escape Rooms Scarborough has opened Terminating Here, a London Underground themed game.
- Northern Ireland
- Escape Rooms Belfast opened a second site in the city about a month ago, launching two copies of their popular Diamond Heist game that was previously available in Edinburgh.
- East Midlands
- Rob and Chris Escape is a temporary escape room in Hinckley, Leicestershire that has been set up in aid of the Big Issue Foundation as part of their London Marathon fundraising. They're running The Facility for the next few weeks but hint that it's very portable so might be able to run it on a mobile basis if you ask them.
- Escape Asylum 2 open their new venue in Leicester with two games available: RIIITUAL and Phobias. It's interesting to see that they're actively encouraging alcohol at the venue with a co-located bar.
- South East England
- The Marlowe is launching an escape room in Canterbury at the Marlowe Kit building. Marlowe's Ghost opens next month and, unsurprisingly, builds on the stories of the city's famous playwright.
- Exciting Escapes opened their third venue last week with two games taken from their existing portfolio – "Murder at the Movies" and "Dark Deeds and Groceries". If you're disappointed by the lack of new offerings for Portsmouth, worry not – the website makes it clear that new games are in the work for the venue and should be available later this year!
- Blog posts
- Escape Goats
- The Logic Escapes Me
- Escape Room Tourism
- The Disco Messiah
- Immersophenia
- Exit Games UK
- Lock Us Up
- The DARKE side of the room
- The "Great" Escapees
That's all I'm aware of. If any of the above is incorrect or if you're aware of other news, significant discounts or competitions, then let me know via email or in the comments below and I'll include updates in the next edition.
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Netflix chief content officer: original is where it's at
Streaming Video On Demand (SVOD) market leader Netflix knows what it's content strategy needs to be if it's going to outpace its rivals: original, original, original. The company, which shot to international superstardom over the last few years, and makes up one quarter of the oft-discussed 'FANG' powerhouse (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) has announced that 85% of its content spending is on original programming. That's very good news for viewers and investors alike.
Netflix's share price has appreciated by 71% this year alone!
SOURCE: Yahoo Finance
Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer, says 85% of Netflix's "up to $8 billion" spend will go on its own original shows in 2018. According to Sarandos, this means the company will have about 1,000 originals on its platform by the end of the year, with almost half (470) being added between now and then.
These originals – which are watched by more than 90% of Netflix's customers – are fast gaining a reputation as some of the best programming around. They include breakout successes like 80s tribute supernatural horror Stranger Things and Natalie Portman science fiction blockbuster Annihilation. The Monday before last alone, the company announced a second series of its 1970s reboot Lost in Space and a new horror anthology from Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo de Toro.
Explaining how the company keeps scoring wins with its original content, Sarandos said: "The creators we're talking to, they watch Netflix and they want to be on our network. It's a great time to be a producer, that's for sure. The way we can secure those shows is having a great reputation with talent, having a brand people want to be associated with, and a good track record of delivering."
The main value in original content from a business perspective, of course, is quite simple: when it's done well, it results in a blockbuster product for which there is huge demand, and which cannot be accessed anywhere other than your platform. Years down the line, when there are no more conversions to be had from this programming, platforms can license out older series to terrestrial TV channels. All in all, it's a win-win, and Netflix is doing it better than anyone else out there.
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Ah once again I find myself apologies to y'all for my lack of posting…so I am sorry. I was working all weekend and Emmer is having some wicked strange symptoms so off to the doctor we go this afternoon….which I will ofcourse be updating everyone with the outcome this evening I hope it is my just being a nuerotic mama…she has a rare form of the flu 🙂 yay!
Well today I really want to go over our budget with everyone, where it is versus where I would like to see it at I feel like since this is a blog about going from foreclosure to frugal that we should discuss this at least a little bit 🙂 Let me start with I absolutely SUCK with a budget and as such I cut up my cards (debit) last night and trashed them! This is a huge step for me. We will be getting a prepaid debit and loading only enough for gas on it and then automatic payment from the online banking for all the bills and cash for the groceries, I am seriously hoping this will curb the spending. Because quite frankly I blow at the plastic money, I always have! Now give me a thousand dollars cash and I will have 700 at the end of the month LOL…
So here it is (and yes I know its bad)
Ideal Cash Flow Plan
4150 Monthly Income
Charitable Donations 400
Savings 280
Housing 1575
Utilities 400
Food 380
Transportation 600
Debts 400
Medical 115
Reality for this month
4150 Income
Charitable Donations 0
Savings 225
Rent 1575
Utilities 423
Food 700
Transportation 791
Debts 0
Medical 0
Misc 400
Total 4114 35 roll over to groceries for march
Thats PATHETIC!
its the exact same amount of money just distributed in a very ineffective manner 😦
Our goal for March is to pay insurance in full, pay bills (obviously) and rock the savings since we will be getting 500 off rent for three months…end/beg of each month I will be doing this to see how we do 🙂 and let you follow along! Please make your own budget and show me I would love to see what everyone else does 🙂
Now for a YUMMY thrifty treat!
Home Made Falafel
stolen from Epicurious
1 cup dried chickpeas
1/2 large onion, roughly chopped (about 1 cup)
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro
1 teaspoon salt
1/2-1 teaspoon dried hot red pepper
4 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon baking powder
4-6 tablespoons flour
Soybean or vegetable oil for frying
Chopped tomato for garnish
Diced onion for garnish
Diced green bell pepper for garnish
Tahina sauce
Pita bread
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1. Put the chickpeas in a large bowl and add enough cold water to cover them by at least 2 inches. Let soak overnight, then drain. Or use canned chickpeas, drained.
2. Place the drained, uncooked chickpeas and the onions in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Add the parsley, cilantro, salt, hot pepper, garlic, and cumin. Process until blended but not pureed.
3. Sprinkle in the baking powder and 4 tablespoons of the flour, and pulse. You want to add enough bulgur or flour so that the dough forms a small ball and no longer sticks to your hands. Turn into a bowl and refrigerate, covered, for several hours.
4. Form the chickpea mixture into balls about the size of walnuts, or use a falafel scoop, available in Middle-Eastern markets.
5. Heat 3 inches of oil to 375 degrees in a deep pot or wok and fry 1 ball to test. If it falls apart, add a little flour. Then fry about 6 balls at once for a few minutes on each side, or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Stuff half a pita with falafel balls, chopped tomatoes, onion, green pepper, and pickled turnips. Drizzle with tahina thinned with water.
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text: Written by Veritech on May 16, 2015. Posted in accident reconstruction, failure analysis, Misc., Uncategorized DOT announces $10M fine for Graco car seat recall Graco Children's Products has been fined $10 million after the company failed to provide timely notification of a defect in more than 4 million car seats. Graco must pay a fine of $3 million immediately to the Federal Government and an additional $7 million is due in five years unless they spend at least the same amount on new steps to improve child safety. The penalties close an investigation launched last year by the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) into whether the company failed its obligations, under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, to begin what ended up as the largest ever recall of child seats. The seats had buckles that could stick or become stuck in a latched position, potentially placing child occupants at risk in an emergency. Parents need to know that the seats they trust to protect their children are safe, and that when there's a problem, the manufacturer will meet its obligations to fix the defect quickly. Graco will create a plan and procedures for addressing certain targeted performance requirements, which may include methods to increase effectiveness of consumer product registration of car seats, which allows parents to be notified of defects, identifying potential safety trends affecting car seats industry wide and launching a child safety awareness campaign. According to NHTSA, on average, only 40 percent of people who have recalled car seats get them fixed. That's in comparison to an average of 75 percent of people who have recalled light vehicles, for which registration is required by law. The company also must provide certification from an independent, third-party that it has met its cost obligations; if Graco fails to meet those obligations, it must pay the balance of the $10 million civil penalty. The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act states that once a manufacturer knows or should reasonably know that an item of motor vehicle equipment, such as a car seat, contains a safety related defect, the manufacturer has a maximum of five business days to notify the agency. Once it notifies NHTSA of a defect, it is required to launch a recall. Under the consent order issued today, Graco admits that it did not provide the required defect notice. Under pressure from NHTSA, Graco recalled more than 4 million convertible and booster seats with defective buckles in February 2014, and nearly an additional 2 million rear facing infant seats in June. NHTSA launched an investigation into the timeliness of Graco's decision making and reporting of a defect in those recalls in December. With this consent order, Graco is required to pay a $3 million civil penalty, and to commit at least $7 million to meet targeted performance obligations, over the next five years. Those obligations may include: · Improving its assessment and identification of potential safety defects. · Creating a scientifically tested program to increase effectiveness of child seat registration programs. · Revising its procedures for addressing consumer safety complaints and speed the recall of defective products. · Launching a campaign to disseminate safety messages to parents and caregivers by producing media products to incorporate in child safety campaigns.


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A 14-year-old girl from Worcester is facing her second Christmas on the list for a life-saving heart transplant.
Anna Hadley, of Red Hill, is one of 48 people in the county on the waiting list for an organ transplant. She has restrictive cardiomyopathy and has been on the list for 18 months.
She said: "Christmas Day is always spent at home with my family. I love opening my presents on Christmas morning. My favourite part of Christmas dinner is the sprouts, I always eat those first.
"One of my favourite thing about Christmas is sitting on the couch, in front of the fire with a hot chocolate watching a Christmas film like Polar Express.
"I treat every day the same and don't think about the heart transplant at all. Christmas is such a great time and I have wondered what a Christmas day might be like inside hospital.
"I can't really go abroad because I need to stay in the UK, just in case a donor is found. As soon as I am allowed, I want to go skiing and have a snowy Christmas.
"I was diagnosed with heart failure one month before going on a school ski trip, which then had to be cancelled. So I am determined to fulfil that dream of skiing down a mountain.
"Christmas Day is the one day each year when we offer gifts to our own family, but every day we can offer the biggest gift of all to everyone else by being registered as an organ donor. There is no greater gift than life and everyone could save nine lives though donation.
"It's so important for families to share donation wishes because too many valuable organs are lost, while thousands of people are waiting for a life-saving transplant.
"I am lucky because I feel quite well most days and hope that continues.
"If a donor is found then I am ready and excited about receiving a healthy heart and getting back to playing hockey again.
"I don't think there is a better New Year resolution anyone could make than registering as a donor and telling family and friends about it."


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The media mogul told an interviewer on Sky TG24 TV that Angelino Alfano, his political heir and former justice minister, is his choice to head Italy's next government. For months, Mr Berlusconi has been coy about whether he wants a fourth term as premier. "If we win, the premier will be Angelino Alfano," Mr Berlusconi said.
Front-runner in polls testing sentiment for the Feb. 24-25 elections is centre-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani. But it appears unlikely he will win enough votes to govern alone.
A potential coalition partner is caretaker Premier Mario Monti, who is heading a centrist ticket and trailing both Bersani and Berlusconi in polls.
Mr Monti, an internationally respected economist, was appointed in late 2011 to replace Berlusconi, who resigned as Italy risked succumbing to the Eurozone debt crisis. Bersani proved to be one of Monti's staunchest allies in Parliament, backing him on pension and labour reforms. Those measures, including raising the retirement age and making it easier to fire workers, were bitterly opposed by Italy's unions, traditional allies of the political left.
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THE URL: http://whitepages.addresses.com/results.php?ReportType=34&qc=Kissimmee&qf=John&qn=Haber&qs=FL&qk=100
The evidence is a P.O. box connected with "John Titor". In my opinion this is the best black and white evidence behind the identity of John Titor.
This url is my evidence behind the true identity of John Titor. Click it, view it, bookmark it, take a screenshot of it, save it (it may change or disappear at any time).
He has been connected with John Titor in the past, in this video:
THE VOYAGER VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9e7lmuWLI
This video is in Italian but I have the translation, I will upload the translated version in the future.
Until now no concrete connection has been made with John Rick Haber and John Titor except being the brother of Larry Haber the lawyer for The John Titor Foundation, and except for wanting to be on the Voyager John Titor televison show so badly that he flew in to Florida to be there by his brother Larry Haber while they interviewed him, But thanks to my newly uncovered evidence, THE URL: http://whitepages.addresses.com/results.php?ReportType=34&qc=Kissimmee&qf=John&qn=Haber&qs=FL&qk=100)
Black and white concrete evidence exists, which clearly connects John Rick Haber with John Titor. Voyager's private investigator Mike Lynch said he believed Rick Haber was probably John Titor but he didn't have enough evidence to prove this. Is John Rick Haber John Titor? Has my newly uncovered evidence proven the identity of John Titor? I only ask that you judge for yourself, as for myself my opinion is that John Rick Haber is John Titor, I consider myself an investigator and professional investigator Mike Lynch and I have come to the same conclusion.
One negative response already, for those that don't know new evidence when they see it, you probably wouldn't believe my evidence if I filmed the c204 in Haber's basement. The P.O. Box with the 'John Titor' company is newly uncovered evidence, it is new, you will not find it having been posted in forums previous to this day because it never was, I regularly visit the time travel forums and it has never been mentioned, ever, please look at the URL and judge for yourself, if you consider my evidence for a long enough ammount of time, along with what was uncovered by Voyager's Mike Lynch, you are likely to see the truth.
To the die hard Titor fans, probably nothing will convince them even if Haber admitted to being Titor. To those disappointed in my findings, I suppose I wish I found a more interesting name? I could have pulled a name out of thin air but all the evidence points at one person and I will always focus on the unbiased truth wherever the evidence leads me.
Thanks to all those that e-mailed me tips, help and other information, I will currently keep you anonymous due to those that might want to target you.
The deserved karma upon all, may all sinister hoaxes be thwarted.
...and this is my music page: http://myspace.com/razimus
--- John Razimus Hughston on 2:35 AM March Friday the 13th 2009.
"I can't believe it. You actually did find the evidence! Thank you Raz. Thank you for finding this. I have wondered about it for SSSOOOOO long. I actually prayed that God would show me the truth and reveal who he was. I NEEDED to know so much and he obviously wasn't talking."
--- Pamela (John Titor contactee).
That alone makes it worth it for me, I'm glad the response has been mostly positive. I will take a break before my next hoaxhunter episode, but Pamela answered so many questions I will be making one last Titor episode to wrap up the things I couldn't fit into the last 10 minute video, the 10 minute limit at youtube is annoying. Here's another comment...
"This is all very interesting... The best debunking I have seen yet. I think it's about time someone comes forward on this one. Hell... if I did it I would be proud as hell..."
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text: How to write a sales letter for advertising? The constituent elements of effective ads: Enter more contact information in the newsletter. Do not limit yourself to only mobile and landline phones, be sure to provide Your e-mail, skype, ICQ number and so on. Potential clients prefer the telephone as a way to communicate, someone prefer to write an email or use alternative forms of communication. The more types of contacts will be placed in the letter - the better will be Your newsletter. Remove all irrelevant information from advertising (from Your list), leave only the most important points. Otherwise, few people dare to read boring, monotonous and not bearing semantic loading of the text. The title should contain a brief description of the goods or services that You offer. For example, if You sell German cars - You should not write in the header "Good day!", the best solution would be to write — "the Latest model German cars." 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You are planning to hold any kind of shares, indicate this in Your letter. It is known that men love gifts as well as discounts and various bonuses. If You decide to offer them, thus You can significantly increase the number of responses from this ad. Your benefits. When writing a letter, don't forget to share all their advantages, they need to reflect in Your newsletter. Do not be shy, talking about their advantages over your competitors if You do something better than them — it's worth sharing for sure! Encourage the buyer to action . Think about how you can encourage the person to immediately contact You after reading Your advertising letter. As a rule, after receiving e-mail newsletters people record contacts Your company and then forget about it, shelved. It is important to encourage the client to contact you. 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When creating the advertising message for Your advertising it is undesirable to include in your text are boring words like "crisis", "discounts", "commercial proposal" for potential customers, they are of no interest. When a potential customer, looking at Internet mail, notes the accumulation of a huge number of messages, it delays your look only for letters whose themes are the most attractive and interesting, and the rest of the messages waiting for immediate removal. For example, if You specify the subject — "You have a broken TV?", the recipients of the message whose TV really is defective, immediately want to open Your ad. Enter the price, if services are inexpensive. Do not specify the price if they are expensive. Let's say Your business is refilling printer cartridges, and the cost of your services is just 300 rubles — be sure to write about it in Your newsletter! 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text: michaelpthompson Report post Posted April 5, 2019 OK, this probably sounds a bit weird, but I made up some pack bait out of canned corn, strawberry jello, and bread crumbs. I haven't had a lot of time for fishing, so I have only used part of it. I kept it in the car, since the temps were pretty low, but we've had a few warm days now, and I spotted a bit of mold on it yesterday. Only a little, but it made me wonder. I know carp and catfish can and will eat decaying vegetation. Will slightly "off" bait turn them off, or make them sick, or something? Can I continue using this another day or two, or should I pitch it and make a new batch? Any advice appreciated. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites