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Unpuzzle is actually a superb puzzle game with a distinctive twist. We're utilised to putting things together until we obtain an outcome, however in Unpuzzle, the purpose is always to remove each and every piece. For this you'll need to watch the bits and determine from which way they're in a position to slide, and also no additional bit can be in their way outside of their screen. Some may simply be removed following a given number of motions, some may proceed just in 1 way, however the 1 thing they have in common: that they could be removed. Enjoy fun!
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Sometimes being a grownup is hard. Having to get up, get the kids to school, get yourself to work and then hosting or going to gazillions of parties/meets/school functions for the kids. Endless soccer games, basketball practices, hours waiting for swim practice to be over.
Don't you think maybe it's time for you to have a little fun?
How about an overnight or a weekend getaway? Nothing fancy, just a quick, carefree, affordable getaway where YOU can have all the fun. Think date night, or bachelor(ette) party, or even having an old college friends meet-up. Have a big family and tired of seeing your cousins only at weddings and funerals? Try organizing a weekend reunion in Greater Lansing. But only if they're game!
Here's some super fun ideas!
1. High Caliber Karting and Entertainment
For the high-speed thrill chasers you have got to try this. It's a new space at the Meridian Mall that features two indoor racing tracks and racing simulators and more, but did we mention racing tracks? 80,000 square-foot space. With speeds that can climb to over 50 mph, this is some serious racing.
2. Axe Throwing
Another High Caliber feature, you can test your skill at one of the eight lanes of axe throwing. This is not tossing darts. Start off with the 30-minute session unless you work out regularly.
3. Pocket Soccer
Right next to the bistro/bar at High Caliber, there's what looks like a giant pool table but in actuality is called pocket soccer. Kick the balls into the pockets a la billiards.
4. The Grid Arcade and Bar
Looking for a little retro pinball/video game action? The Grid in Old Town Lansing offers multiple games from old school pinball options, Ms. Pacman and Galaga and more. Add a really awesome bar, and it's all good. Michigan craft beers on tap and the most delicious artisan cocktails both with alcohol and without.
5. Escapology at Spare Time Entertainment Center
If you're more into the intellectual, puzzle-solving game playing, then an hour locked in a room to search for clues and piece the answers together to escape might be the perfect afternoon with your friends.
Adulting is hard. But Greater Lansing can help you feel like a kid again. Escape for a weekend and enjoy a grand adventure.
Discover diverse dining and exciting attractions, lively festivals and artsy neighborhoods, unexpected chill spaces and family play places all in the heart of Michigan. Love Lansing like a local and we promise, you'll love Lansing as much as we do!
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As a Database Administrator, we all are normally involved in Setting up SQL Server Transactional Replication on our environment.Apart from setting up Transactional Replication, performing a proper maintainence of the same is also very important. In this exclusive article, Satnam Singh, a Senior SQL Server DBA from Larsen&Toubro Infotech,Mumbai,India discusses one such Real World scenario which he used on his Production Servers to ensure that the performance of the database on the Reporting Server which was receiving data via Transactional Replication from the OLTP Server is excellent even after the Replication is re-configured.
Every year, we perform an activity named HotFix promotion wherein the vendor who has developed the Application performs some enhancement on the database. In order to perform this HotFix promotion, the Pre-Requisite is to break the Transactional Replication between the OLTP and the Reporting Server and once everything is promoted well, the same needs to be re-configured again. On the Reporting Server, we have build plenty of Indexes for better performance of the SSRS reports. Just FYI, the OLTP and the Reporting Server were in the same Data Centre in the United States of America.On the Reporting Server, we have kept SQL Server Indexes On a Secondary Data File kept on a Seperate Dedicated Drive of 200 GB, RAID 10 for better performance. The size of the Production OLTP Database is around 91 GB whereas the size of the Reporting Database is more than that i.e. around 130 GB, this is due to indexes contributing to an increase in size.
Since the Database Size is huge, therefore I would never recommend using the GUI for setting up the Transactional Replication, instead I would go for Replication without a Snapshot method wherein I would use the Database Backups to configure the Replication.Once the Transactional Replication is configured using the OLTP Database backup, I would loose all the indexes which were created manually against the Reporting Database for better performance. In order to ensure that I have all the indexes and statistics on the Reporting Server exactly the same as before the HotFix promotion, I performed the following steps:
- A day before the HotFix promotion started, I took the backup of all the SQL Server Indexes. In order to take the backup of all the SQL Server Indexes, I used the below T-SQL script
SELECT ixz.object_id, tablename = QUOTENAME(scmz.name) + '.' + QUOTENAME((OBJECT_NAME(ixz.object_id))), tableid = ixz.object_id, indexid = ixz.index_id, indexname = ixz.name, isunique = INDEXPROPERTY (ixz.object_id,ixz.name,'isunique'), isclustered = INDEXPROPERTY (ixz.object_id,ixz.name,'isclustered'), indexfillfactor = INDEXPROPERTY (ixz.object_id,ixz.name,'indexfillfactor') INTO #tmp_indexes FROM sys.indexes ixz INNER JOIN sys.objects obz ON ixz.object_id = obz.object_id INNER JOIN sys.schemas scmz ON obz.schema_id = scmz.schema_id WHERE ixz.index_id > 0 AND ixz.index_id < 255 ---- 0 = HEAP index, 255 = TEXT columns index --AND INDEXPROPERTY (ixz.object_id,ixz.name,'ISUNIQUE') = 0 -- comment out to include unique and AND INDEXPROPERTY (ixz.object_id,ixz.name,'ISCLUSTERED') = 0 -- comment out to include PK's ALTER TABLE #tmp_indexes ADD keycolumns VARCHAR(4000), includes VARCHAR(4000) GO DECLARE @isql_key VARCHAR(4000), @isql_incl VARCHAR(4000), @tableid INT, @indexid INT DECLARE index_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT tableid, indexid FROM #tmp_indexes OPEN index_cursor FETCH NEXT FROM index_cursor INTO @tableid, @indexid WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS <> -1 BEGIN SELECT @isql_key = '', @isql_incl = '' SELECT @isql_key = CASE ixcolz.is_included_column WHEN 0 THEN CASE ixcolz.is_descending_key WHEN 1 THEN @isql_key + COALESCE(colz.name,'') + ' DESC, ' ELSE @isql_key + COALESCE(colz.name,'') + ' ASC, ' END ELSE @isql_key END, @isql_incl = CASE ixcolz.is_included_column WHEN 1 THEN CASE ixcolz.is_descending_key WHEN 1 THEN @isql_incl + COALESCE(colz.name,'') + ', ' ELSE @isql_incl + COALESCE(colz.name,'') + ', ' END ELSE @isql_incl END FROM sysindexes ixz INNER JOIN sys.index_columns AS ixcolz ON (ixcolz.column_id > 0 AND ( ixcolz.key_ordinal > 0 OR ixcolz.partition_ordinal = 0 OR ixcolz.is_included_column != 0) ) AND ( ixcolz.index_id=CAST(ixz.indid AS INT) AND ixcolz.object_id=ixz.id ) INNER JOIN sys.columns AS colz ON colz.object_id = ixcolz.object_id AND colz.column_id = ixcolz.column_id WHERE ixz.indid > 0 AND ixz.indid < 255 AND (ixz.status & 64) = 0 AND ixz.id = @tableid AND ixz.indid = @indexid ORDER BY ixz.name, CASE ixcolz.is_included_column WHEN 1 THEN ixcolz.index_column_id ELSE ixcolz.key_ordinal END IF LEN(@isql_key) > 1 SET @isql_key = LEFT(@isql_key, LEN(@isql_key) -1) IF LEN(@isql_incl) > 1 SET @isql_incl = LEFT(@isql_incl, LEN(@isql_incl) -1) UPDATE #tmp_indexes SET keycolumns = @isql_key, includes = @isql_incl WHERE tableid = @tableid AND indexid = @indexid FETCH NEXT FROM index_cursor INTO @tableid,@indexid END CLOSE index_cursor DEALLOCATE index_cursor DELETE FROM #tmp_indexes WHERE keycolumns = '' SET NOCOUNT ON SELECT 'IF NOT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N''' + ti.TABLENAME + '''' + ') AND name = N' + '''' + ti.INDEXNAME + '''' + ')' ' ' + 'CREATE ' + CASE WHEN ti.ISUNIQUE = 1 THEN 'UNIQUE ' ELSE '' END + CASE WHEN ti.ISCLUSTERED = 1 THEN 'CLUSTERED ' ELSE '' END + 'INDEX ' + QUOTENAME(ti.INDEXNAME) + ' ON ' + (ti.TABLENAME) + ' ' + '(' + ti.keycolumns + ')' + CASE WHEN ti.INDEXFILLFACTOR = 0 AND ti.ISCLUSTERED = 1 AND INCLUDES = '' THEN /*ti.Filter_Definition +*/ ' WITH (SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF) ON [SECONDARY]' WHEN INDEXFILLFACTOR = 0 AND ti.ISCLUSTERED = 0 AND ti.INCLUDES = '' THEN /*ti.Filter_Definition +*/ ' WITH (ONLINE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF) ON [SECONDARY]' WHEN INDEXFILLFACTOR <> 0 AND ti.ISCLUSTERED = 0 AND ti.INCLUDES = '' THEN /*ti.Filter_Definition +*/ ' WITH (ONLINE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, FILLFACTOR = ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),ti.INDEXFILLFACTOR) + ') ON [SECONDARY]' WHEN INDEXFILLFACTOR = 0 AND ti.ISCLUSTERED = 0 AND ti.INCLUDES <> '' THEN ' INCLUDE ('+ti.INCLUDES+') WITH (ONLINE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF) ON [SECONDARY]' ELSE ' INCLUDE('+ti.INCLUDES+') WITH (FILLFACTOR = ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),ti.INDEXFILLFACTOR) + ', ONLINE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF) ON [SECONDARY]' END FROM #tmp_indexes ti JOIN sys.indexes i ON ti.Object_id = i.object_id and ti.indexname = i.name JOIN sys.filegroups fg on i.data_space_id = fg.data_space_id WHERE LEFT(ti.tablename,3) NOT IN ('sys', 'dt_') --exclude system tables ORDER BY ti.tablename, ti.indexid, ti.indexname DROP TABLE #tmp_indexes
Once the above T-SQL is executed, we will get a T-SQL to create all the indexes in the output. Also on the Reporting Server, since the Clustered Index resides on the Primary Data File itself therefore the above T-SQL has been written in such a manner that only the Non Clustered Indexes will be scripted out.
- Once the indexes has been scripted out,the next step is to generate a script of all the statistics present in the database on the Reporting Server. In order to take the backup of all the SQL Server Statistics, I use the below T-SQL.
SET NOCOUNT ON DECLARE @columnname VARCHAR(MAX) DECLARE @tablename SYSNAME DECLARE @statsname SYSNAME DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(4000) DECLARE @NAME VARCHAR(MAX) declare @i INT declare @j INT create table #temp ( tablename varchar(1000), statsname varchar(1000), columnname varchar(1000) ) insert #temp(tablename,statsname,columnname) SELECT DISTINCT OBJECT_NAME(s.[object_id]), s.name AS StatName, COALESCE(@NAME+ ', ', '')+c.name FROM sys.stats s JOIN sys.stats_columns sc ON sc.[object_id] = s.[object_id] AND sc.stats_id = s.stats_id JOIN sys.columns c ON c.[object_id] = sc.[object_id] AND c.column_id = sc.column_id JOIN sys.partitions par ON par.[object_id] = s.[object_id] JOIN sys.objects obj ON par.[object_id] = obj.[object_id] WHERE OBJECTPROPERTY(s.OBJECT_ID,'IsUserTable') = 1 AND (s.auto_created = 1 OR s.user_created = 1) create table #temp1 ( id int identity(1,1), tablename varchar(8000), statsname varchar(8000), columnname varchar(8000) ) insert #temp1(tablename,statsname,columnname) select tablename,statsname,stuff( ( select ','+ [columnname] from #temp where statsname = t.statsname for XML path('') ),1,1,'') from (select distinct tablename,statsname from #temp )t SELECT @i=1 SELECT @j=MAX(ID) FROM #temp1 WHILE(@I<=@J) BEGIN SELECT @statsname = statsname from #temp1 where id = @i SELECT @tablename = tablename from #temp1 where id = @i SELECT @columnname = columnname from #temp1 where id = @i SET @sql = N'CREATE STATISTICS '+QUOTENAME(@statsname)+space(1)+'ON'+space(1)+QUOTENAME(@tablename)+'('+QUOTENAME(@columnname) +')' -- --EXEC sp_executesql @sql PRINT @sql SET @i = @i+1 END DROP TABLE #temp DROP TABLE #temp1
Once the above T-SQL is executed, you will get the script of all the SQL Server statistics present in the database.
- Set up the Transactional Replication between the OLTP and Reporting Servers using the concept of Replication Without a Snapshot. I have already discussed the same concept in one of my articles published a couple of days back on the below link;
- On the Reporting SQL Server, please create a Secondary FILEGROUP which will host the SQL Server Indexes.
- Drop all the SQL Server Non Clustered Indexes on the Reporting Server using the below T-SQL:
<pre class="brush:sql">DECLARE @ownername SYSNAME DECLARE @tablename SYSNAME DECLARE @indexname SYSNAME DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(4000) DECLARE dropindexes CURSOR FOR SELECT ixz.name, objects.name, schemas.name FROM sys.indexes ixz JOIN sys.objects ON ixz.OBJECT_ID = objects.OBJECT_ID JOIN sys.schemas ON objects.schema_id = schemas.schema_id WHERE ixz.index_id > 0 AND ixz.index_id < 255 AND objects.is_ms_shipped = 0 AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM sys.objects WHERE objects.name = ixz.name) AND INDEXPROPERTY (ixz.object_id,ixz.name,'ISCLUSTERED') = 0 ORDER BY objects.OBJECT_ID, ixz.index_id DESC OPEN dropindexes FETCH NEXT FROM dropindexes INTO @indexname, @tablename, @ownername WHILE @@fetch_status = 0 BEGIN SET @sql = N'DROP INDEX '+QUOTENAME(@ownername)+'.'+QUOTENAME(@tablename)+'.'+QUOTENAME(@indexname) PRINT @sql --EXEC sp_executesql @sql FETCH NEXT FROM dropindexes INTO @indexname, @tablename, @ownername END CLOSE dropindexes DEALLOCATE dropindexes </pre>
- Run the T-SQL script for Index Creation on the Reporting Server which we have discussed in Point No 1 above.Please note that once the Index Creation script is executed, all the indexes will reside on a Secondary FileGroup hosted on a Seperate Drive of RAID 10 as discussed in the beginning of the article.
- Run the T-SQL script for Statistics Creation which we have just used above.
- Execute the job to perform the Re-Indexing and Update Statistics of the database. The scripts for the same is as follows:
Script to Re-index all the tables of the Database:
DECLARE @dbname varchar(1000), @parentname varchar(255), @SQLSTR VARCHAR (1000), @ctrl CHAR (2), @command varchar(1000) SET @ctrl = CHAR (13) + CHAR (10) DECLARE DBCUR CURSOR FOR select [name] from sysdatabases where name not in ( 'master', 'model', 'tempdb' ) order by 1 OPEN DBCUR FETCH NEXT FROM DBCUR INTO @dbname WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN select @command = ' use ['+@dbname+'] Exec sp_MSForEachtable ''DBCC DBREINDEX ("?")'' ' exec (@command) FETCH NEXT FROM DBCUR INTO @dbname END CLOSE DBCUR DEALLOCATE DBCUR GO
Script to perform the Update Statistics of all the tables in the Database:
DECLARE @dbname varchar(1000), @parentname varchar(255), @SQLSTR VARCHAR (1000), @ctrl CHAR (2), @command varchar(1000) SET @ctrl = CHAR (13) + CHAR (10) DECLARE DBCUR CURSOR FOR select [name] from sysdatabases where name not in ( 'master', 'model', 'tempdb' ) order by 1 OPEN DBCUR FETCH NEXT FROM DBCUR INTO @dbname WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN select @command = ' use ['+@dbname+'] Exec sp_MSForEachtable ''update statistics ? with fullscan'' ' exec (@command) FETCH NEXT FROM DBCUR INTO @dbname END CLOSE DBCUR DEALLOCATE DBCUR GO
- Once Re-indexing and Update Statistics is completed,please check the performance of the queries involved in the SSRS Reports.There might be few cases wherein a query might perform poor during the First Iteration but the performance of the same improves drastically when executed twice or thrice.
This was one such approach which I used in my Infrastructure to ensure that even though at any Point of Time, I am required to re-configure the Transactional Replication between the OLTP and the Reporting Server, it's performance remains the same to the state as it was before.
Many Thanks to all the readers for providing their valuable time in reading the blog post. My Sincere Thanks to my Team Members at L&T Infotech with whom I have spend considerable amount of time in developing this solution.If you have any valuable suggestions which can help us to improve this article, then please do let us know.
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1.21.5 De facto partnerships within Defence
The ADF requires serving members to report whether or not they are married or in a de-facto partnership. There is also incentive or even necessity to do so in the shape of specific housing arrangements, allowances, welfare and social support services etc. In the case of the death of a serving member, delegates may settle some disputes in respect to contentions of a de facto spousal relationship by reference to the ADF unit's records. However, care needs to be taken in using such information because the ADF now recognises interdependent partnerships which is a much broader term than de facto partnerships.
The ADF has issued its own administrative instructions (a Defence Instruction (General)) on the matter, Delegates should refer to DI(G) PERS 53-1 contained in Part 2 of Chapter 8 of the ADF Pay and Conditions Manual at http://www.defence.gov.au/dpe/pac/
which says, in part:
2. A member seeking ADF recognition of an interdependent partnership must prove that their partner is a person who lives in a common household with the member in a bona fide, domestic, interdependent partnership, although not legally married to the member. Where the interdependent partnership is recognised by the appropriate Service authority, a member may be eligible for financial entitlements and conditions of service which apply to a member with dependants as defined in PACMAN.
4. b. Interdependent partner—is a person who, regardless of gender, is living in a common household with the member in a bona fide, domestic, interdependent partnership, although not legally married to the member. This includes those previously recognised by the ADF under the previous Defence Instruction (General) PERS 53–1—Recognition of de facto marriages, as having a de facto marriage, and also allows for those now recognised on the basis that they are in an interdependent same sex partnership.
c. Common household—means a home in which the member and their partner normally live and in which they have pooled a significant amount of their household possessions for joint use as a consequence of establishing the partnership. The term common household does not include Service provided living-in accommodation.
d .Permanent basis—is when the member and their partner normally reside under the same roof, in the same locality, in a common household. Neither the member nor their partner is to be a member of another household. Specifically, for recognition purposes, the member and their partner are not to be living in separate localities, with the couple only spending time in the common household during weekends, holidays etc .
7.Not every relationship is one that satisfies ADF requirements for a recognisable interdependent partnership. The core requirements to be met prior to the member completing both the application for recognition of an interdependent partnership in annex A and the Statutory Declaration, including the four items of documentary evidence, in annex B, are that the member and their partner:
a.have lived together on a permanent basis, in a bona fide, domestic, interdependent partnership as per subparagraphs 4.b. and 4.d. for a period of not less than 90 continuous days; and
b.have maintained a common household as per subparagraph 4.c.
8.The Approving Authority may decide to recognise an interdependent partnership for a member and their partner who have not lived together for 90 continuous days, if they consider that the couple:
a.are temporarily separated because of Service exigencies or unforeseen circumstances;
b.lived together on a permanent basis, in a bona fide, domestic, interdependent partnership in a common household immediately before the member was formally notified of the event resulting in the separation;
c.continue to maintain their common household; and
d.commenced living together in the common household at least 90 days before the application for recognition of the interdependent partnership was submitted.
9.To receive ADF recognition of an interdependent partnership, a member, in addition to meeting the requirements in paragraph 7. or 8., is required to provide the Approving Authority with:
a.a completed Application for Recognition of an Interdependent Partnership form (see annex A);
b.a completed Statutory Declaration (see annex B) to attest that an interdependent partnership has been established and is supported by the existence of four items of documentary evidence, as detailed in annex B; and
c.those four items of documentary evidence
For the purposes of paragraph 9, the four items of documentary evidence must be selected from the following alternatives:
- Evidence of a will or life assurance policy which nominates your partner as principal beneficiary, or co-beneficiary with children;
- If your partner was, before beginning to live with you, in receipt of a Commonwealth pension or benefit from which they may be excluded by law, evidence that your partner has notified the relevant agency;
- Evidence that you have enrolled your partner in a health insurance scheme, or arranged to pay the Medicare levy because of his or her changed domestic status;
- You have named your partner as a person to be notified for Service purposes;
- Statutory declarations from next of kin or close relatives stating that they have regarded you and your partner as interdependent partners for a minimum period of 90 days, and giving any other information that they may consider appropriate;
- If your partner has no independent income, evidence of regular financial support by you for a minimum period of 90 days;
- Evidence that you as a couple regularly operate, a joint account;
- If you and your partner live in rented accommodation, either evidence that both names appear on the lease, or a statement from the landlord or agent declaring that he or she rented the premises at your address to a couple (rather than two singles or one person). If the accommodation is leased through the Defence Housing Authority, evidence that you have applied for an additional person to reside with you, and the subsequent approval. These documents must show a commencement date of a minimum period of 90 days prior to the application;
- Documents to show that you and your partner have purchased or are purchasing as joint owners, valuable property;
- Evidence of a recognised partnership from other Government agencies;
- One partner has changed his or her name by deed poll, or informally calls himself or herself by the name of the other partner (as shown by any documents which refer to him or her as Mr or Mrs "X");
- A copy of a birth certificate of any children of the union;
- Evidence of any financial arrangements for sums in excess of $1000 which you and your partner may have agreed between you (eg personal loan, payment of one or other's debts, guarantor of loan);
- Evidence that you or your partner has given the other partner access to their personal bank account(s) for bill paying purposes or power of attorney during any separation. lived with me since;
- Evidence of either one household bill in joint names, or two separate household bills, one in each partner's name.
Given the differences between Defence's criteria for recognising relationships and those in the SRCA, a delegate should not assume, in the case of a serving member, that if the relationship is recognised by the ADF for allowance and accommodation purposes, the employee's partner qualifies as a 'spouse' for the purposes of the SRCA. However, ADF recognition may be of some assistance when determining whether the couple meet the narrower criteria under the SRCA..


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Abinanti Bill Would Ban Guns for People on No-Fly List
"If you're not safe to fly, you're not safe to have a gun – its common sense," said Assemblyman Tom Abinanti (D-Greenburgh/Mt. Pleasant) who introduced legislation (A.8693) which would prohibit persons named on the FBI's No-Fly List from obtaining or renewing a license to carry firearms.
The No-Fly List falls under the federal government's terrorism watch list which is maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center within the FBI. Individuals who are suspected or known terrorists are placed on the list.
"This 'terror gap' poses a direct threat to the safety and security of all New Yorkers," said the Westchester Assemblyman. "New York must be proactive in order to reduce the problem of guns getting in the hands of the wrong people – this bill will do just that."
There has been an increase in calls to close the No-Fly List "loophole" following the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Just last month, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy issued an executive order banning those on the no-fly list from purchasing guns in Connecticut.
Senator Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) sponsors the bill in the Senate.
"Preventing individuals identified as a credible national security threat from being able to legally purchase a gun is a critical change that will help reduce senseless gun violence," said Abinanti.


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Told you the non-existent progressive policies would get the Villagers' blame! Krugman explains:
So, we're already getting the expected punditry: Obama needs to end his leftist policies, which consist of … well, there weren't any, but he should stop them anyway.
What actually happened, of course, was that Obama failed to do enough to boost the economy, plus totally failing to tap into populist outrage at Wall Street. And now we're in the trap I worried about from the beginning: by failing to do enough when he had political capital, he lost that capital, and now we're stuck.
But he did have help in getting it wrong: at every stage there was a faction of Democrats standing in the way of strong action, demanding that Obama do less, avoid spending money, and so on. In so doing, they shot themselves in the face: half of the Blue Dogs lost their seats.
And what are those who are left demanding? Why, that Obama move to the center.


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Why do you keep doing this to yourself?
Why do you keep tucking 'you' in and wearing a 'you' that is far from who you are?
Who sold the lie to you that you need to impress to be cool?
Who told you being 'cool' is the 'thing'?
So people are attracted to who they think you are but you know who you are and this version of 'you' you keep putting on is becoming a burden.
Keeping up appearances is wearing you out.
Just like a garment, it slips and people can see bits and pieces of the person underneath the person you are trying so hard to bury.
There is a slight dichotomy, who you are is swinging.
Pull the garment off.
"Their perception of me will change".
"I won't have their respect and love".
You didn't have their respect and love to start with.
The person they thought you were did.
Come out.


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Today we didn't go to the Cruise Show at the NEC. The show (which ran over the whole weekend) featured pretty much every major cruise line active in the UK cruise market, plus many others who have some presence. Luxury lines were especially well-represented, with Regent Seven Seas, Oceania and Azamara attending as well as others. We had tickets and had planned to go today (Sunday). So why didn't we?
Well, for a start we are already booked for next year – our 17-night cruise on Ventura in May/June – so we wouldn't be there to plan next year's cruise, and I got a feeling that a lot of the marketing would be aimed at that. What we were interested in doing at the show was hearing from the deluxe and luxury lines what they felt it is that justifies the much higher cost of their cruises compared with mass-market lines. For example, I was going to ask a representative from Azamara what it was that justifies per diem costs on their ships that are about twice the costs of a cruise on Celebrity Solstice. You certainly can't claim that Azamara ships are better than the Solstice class – in fact the opposite might well be true.
In the event I've decided that I don't need to ask the questions directly because I think I've already got the answers. I did quite a bit of research about these lines before the show, and I'm just not persuaded. For example, I now understand that Regent Seven Seas ships are all-suite. I'm sure they're excellent suites, but the truth is I just don't want to spend all that money on a suite. We've reached the view that a normal balcony cabin is what we want – it's big enough, and it has all the features we require – and we just don't want to pay more money for anything else. Similarly with spas and gyms – we don't do any of that on our cruises, so a line that markets itself as having extraordinary spa facilities isn't pushing our buttons at all.
I'm increasingly of the opinion that what I want to do is get the best deal I reasonably can for the cruise I want, which means a cabin that's good enough and itinerary that's just what we want. Then I'll happily spend lavishly on-board, knowing that I got the cruise itself for a good price.
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There's a status between final-round pick and bottom-rung, rookie free-agent cannon fodder that is not bad at all. There's no big money up front, but there is big opportunity.
Leonard Peters didn't get drafted, but he considers himself more fortunate than many who did get picked by NFL teams last weekend.
The former Kahuku and University of Hawaii safety said free agency is better because he got to select where he would go. And because money is not a priority for Peters, he got what he considers a great deal with the New York Jets.
"For me, the free-agent market worked," Peters said. "I took a cut on the signing bonus, but I had people calling me, and that was better for me."
Because he was in demand compared to other free agents, Peters weighed offers from Arizona, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Tampa Bay. One of his biggest considerations in choosing the Jets is that they told him he would be the team's only new safety. He also took an instant liking to coach Eric Mangini and others on the staff.
"I got a good feeling from them. When we talked it wasn't about football. They wanted to know about my tattoos and my Hawaii background. And I know Coach (Rich Miano) got his shot there years ago when he went there."
Miano, Peters' position coach at UH, was drafted by the Jets and played the first five of his 11 NFL seasons in New York. Peters will appear at the Hawaii speed and quickness clinics, coordinated by Miano, this weekend at UH. The sessions are today and Sunday, 8:30 to 10 a.m. Call 739-5444 for information.
Miano said he thinks Peters will charm football fans in the world's largest city. Although Peters has traveled the globe as a professional Polynesian dancer, next week's mini-camp will be his first visit to New York.
"He's a country boy, but he just has to do what he's always done. He's so grounded, and people can't help liking him. I think he'll be a Pied Piper, cult hero and role model," Miano said. "I'll just tell him that in New York you're never as good as they tell you you are and you're never as bad as they tell you you are."
Peters said he plans to remain in New York through June to acclimate, work out and absorb the Jets' ways of doing things.
The 6-foot-1, 225-pound Peters is one of four Kahuku graduates to get a free-agent deal after last weekend's draft. Offensive linemen Tala Esera (UH), Palauni Ma Sun (Oregon) and Tavo Tupola (Utah) will be trying out for the Dolphins, Redskins and Texans.
Five other Red Raiders were on NFL rosters last year, making Kahuku one of five high schools nationwide tied for the most alumni in the league in 2006.
"It speaks for itself," Peters said. "We've had great coaches and it's a great community. Who knew a little part of an island could produce so much? We didn't have any facilities, we just did what we could do with what we had. A lot of people were willing to sacrifice a lot."
Peters said former Kahuku and UH player Louis Santiago was one of the Kahuku coaches who inspired him most.
"He's still a mentor for me and a force in my life. I just had dinner with him last night," Peters said.
Peters -- injured through most of his Warriors career -- said he is the healthiest he has been since high school. A nagging Achilles' injury that hurt his NFL Combine performance is finally behind him.
"It's the greatest feeling. It helps so much to feel free to lift the way you want, work out the way you want," Peters said. "When I was on the mainland getting ready for the combine it was all technique stuff for the tests."


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There are four things students will need for their class. A project to work on, tools, fabric, and materials. You will see a list of good projects to bring on this page, along with projects that are not allowed. A list of seven basic tools will be given upon registration. While most are tools you may have around the home, some may have to be purchased. Any more advanced upholstery tools will be provided by our workshop. Fabric is an important part of upholstery! Any fabrics in our store are suitable for your project. Any materials needed, will be gone over on the first class. Upon regestration Students will receive 10% OFF any tools, fabric, or materials that students may need
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Property business plan is needed if you want to achieve long-term success. Actually, no matter what kind of business or investment you're doing, a plan is always needed. It's a basic key to achieve the goal in the first place. If you think property investment is a promising business, you need to make one through and solid plan so that your investment is going to be worth it.
Property business plan and how it works
Lots of people argue on what kind of plan that is ideal as property business plan. They try to create 'essay of pages' consisted of chart, index, and numbers. However, it's not always the case though. The best plan is the clear and solid one, meaning that it should be simple enough to understand and memorize. The plan should contain fact and strategies that will help you make the right decision. To make the best plan, you need to know first where you are in the current situation. Then, you need to determine where to go or how far the goal is. Only then, you can find out and create the best actions to achieve the goals you set.
Starting point – This is where you are and how you start. In this phase of plan, you should be thorough of all information such as the budget you're willing to invest in property. You need to calculate based on how much savings you have, and how you're going to spend it in the future. Next, this phase also include the availability of the time to invest whether it's weekly, monthly, etc. Then, you need to recognize your own knowledge as well as skills that will be helpful in building your property investment.
Where to go – In the next phase of property business plan is know where to go or set the goal. Since you've known your starting point, you need to set your destination. Every individual involved in business must have set their own goal such as earning stable monthly income within two years of property investment. This goal setting help you to improve your investment. In this phase, you need to calculate and manage your finance to make it clear where you're standing now. Then, you can make estimation in your thought of where and when you will achieve your goal.
Strategy making – The next phase is to create the best strategy. You've known where to start and where to go. So you need to know how to go from your starting to the destination. Recommended and basic strategy is to buy properties which gives you at least 10% ROI then you just need to wait for it. If you're willing to make another promising strategy, you can go for advanced strategy where you buy properties at discount, turn them into HMOs, use Flippinf properties strategies.
However, you need to make clear calculation of every moves you're going to take. Estimate each strategy and its risks so you can make the best backup plan if it doesn't work your way. That's how you make a solid property business plan works.


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Malcolm Mabo wanted to use his surname for a new clothing business. However, Mabo is no ordinary name. His father, Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo, led the landmark High Court case for native title in Australia.
The Mabo brand is made from Malcolm's surname and symbols from his traditional community. He applied for a trade mark to protect his brand.
Another clothing business, Mambo, opposed the registration of Malcolm's trade mark. At first, Mambo thought Mabo was too similar to their trade mark.
This is normal for businesses with well known brands, but Mambo wanted to talk with Mr Mabo and find a friendly solution.
It didn't take long for Malcolm Mabo and Mambo to come to an agreement and both businesses can now use their trade marks.
Mambo will re-release a 100% Mabo T-shirt, first distributed to celebrate the 1992 High Court decision. All profits will go towards helping Mr Mabo establish his clothing line in the North Queensland community of Palm Island.


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Chevalier Saga Tactics Details & Gallery Added
Quit storming my castle, I'm trying to sleep here!
Imageepoch has been pretty busy with their recently-announced JRPG titles as of late. You can read about Final Promise Story here, but they also recently updated Chevalier Saga Tactics' official website, so we've got some new info and media.
Brigadule Island is looked after by an alliance between Rana, Lutanian and Suncrest, the three kingdoms. This was a peaceful arrangement for a number of years until Bastania, the Duke of Lutanian, invaded Rana, killed its king and his family, and started the Principality of Bastania there. As it turns out, Rana's Prince Leurs escaped and had been living in Suncrest for fourteen years where he was raised by King Elio like a son. With the help of Rana soldiers, an army in Suncrest and King Elio, Leurs hopes to rebuild Rana.
The basic gameplay (strategy mode) is that of a turn-based strategy RPG, but with additional unique features like the 'castle storming' system - here, you can use ladders, catapults and other tools to invade a castle. Terrain will affect your strategy as usual, but there will be a 'half-auto' mode for newer players. There are a number of different classes, including fighter, wizard, acolyte, ranger, mage, assassin, cleric, berserker and many others. You can see these classes on the artwork page. These units can also be customized in ten different areas, including skills.
We also previously mentioned the 'online mode' where you control entire armies rather than individual units. These armies contain hundreds of troops, and you'll cooperate with others to take back your kingdom. You can also transfer units via 'Character Link,' which connects these two modes.
The PC version of Chevalier Saga Tactics will be free to play in which you purchase your items, but Imageepoch hasn't quite said what model the PS3 version will be yet, and there will be a smartphone version as well. The PC version will go live in August in Japan, preceded by closed and open betas in the spring. If you haven't seen the game's trailer yet, you can check it out here.


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Karan (Ashkay Kumar), a police officer whose brother is murdered by ruthless gangster Goli (Shakti Kapoor). Despite his best efforts, the only witness, Mona (Shilpa Shetty), is also killed. But Karan's plans for revenge are interrupted when he's ordered to work with Deepak (Saif Ali Khan), a famous actor training for his next role as a cop. The mismatched pair catch a break when they discover a crude dancer who looks just like Mona (Shetty again), and together they hatch a wild plan to bring Goli to justice.


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In this post, I mentioned that I was using Wordpress Database Backup to backup the databases from my WordPress installations. I was using this too email myself the dumps of the databases.
I have switched to using the Automatic WordPress Backup. This plugin will backup the themes, plugins, configuration files, uploaded files, and the dump of the database, to an Amazon S3 bucket. You can configure the plugin to keep a number days or weeks of backups.


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How NOT to mark a diode
A while back, I wrote about ambiguity in the markings on electrolytic capacitors. In doing that, I cobbled together a little image to illustrate how surface mount electrolytics are marked. Take a look at the image below:
Note how I have illustrations showing how tantalum and metal can electrolytic capacitors are marked. Further note, that I have the capacitor schematic symbol there too. Finally, note that all three are oriented in the same direction. I have the plus side on the left and the negative side on the right.
Now for comparison, I have two nearly but not quite identical 0805 SMT LEDs in the following photo. Look at the photo of the two LEDs below. I did not alter this image in any way. The mark on the LED image could be interpreted either way. The bump could be seen as pointing toward the cathode, since it is the cathode mark. Or, The line could be on the side of the cathode. That would make sense because the line on the schematic symbol represents the cathode.
There's one final thing to look at - wait for the punchline:
The punchline is that the cathode is on the left on both of these LEDs in the photo. I have empirically determined that to be the case, both by putting them on a board and by subjecting them to a diode checker. Punchline number two is that both are correct according to their respective datasheets. The following excerpts from their respective data sheets shows the problem.
And, drum-roll please ... The third punchline is that both of these parts are from the same manufacturer!
If your board uses SMT LEDs, send the datasheet with your assembly order. Include it as a PDF in your files set. It would also behoove you to double check your CAD library footprint against your specific part number datasheet. IPC says the cathode is pin-one and pin-one zero degree orientation is with pin-one to the left.
Duane Benson
Forward, the LED pick and place
Was there a machine dismayed?
Not tho' the engineers knew
Someone had blundered
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House Budget is an attack on SNAP, school meals, and low income households
The Montana Food Bank Network is committed to ending hunger in Montana, helping to provide food assistance through a network of nearly 150 local partners across the state. While the charitable food system plays a crucial role in the fight against hunger, it cannot make up for a weak social safety net – nor is it intended to.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is our nation's most important anti-hunger program, helping nearly 60,000 Montana households put food on their tables each month. It's also one of our most powerful and cost-effective tools to strengthen the economy and improve public health. And yet the program is under attack in the FY 2018 budget resolution passed by the House Budget Committee on Wednesday, July 19.
The committee specifically calls for $10 billion in cuts directed at agriculture, with reports suggesting those cuts would come primarily from SNAP, with an additional $150 billion in suggested cuts from dramatic downsizing and restructuring of the program. These cuts would abandon our nation's decades-long, bipartisan commitment to ensuring that no child in this country goes hungry.
In addition to slashing SNAP funding, the budget plan makes devastating cuts to programs that provide income assistance, job training, help for students struggling to afford college, and economic development. It also cuts $1.6 billion from the successful Community Eligibility Provision, which allows high-need schools to serve school breakfast and lunch to all children at no cost.
The harsh cuts to SNAP and other poverty-reduction programs in the House budget will pull the rug out beneath the most vulnerable in our society, including children, the elderly, low-wage workers, and people with disabilities. Cuts to these programs will hurt real Montana families and individuals. Non-profits, state, and other local programs will not be able to fill the gap left by deep cuts at the federal level, resulting in increases in health care costs, decreased productivity in the workforce, and worse academic outcomes for the next generation.
A federal budget reflects our nation's priorities and values. We urge Rep. Gianforte, Sen. Daines, and Sen. Tester to reject the vision for America outlined in the House budget and oppose harmful cuts to SNAP and other critical anti-poverty programs.
Gayle Carlson is the CEO of the Montana Food Bank Network


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[Read More : Why Not To Wear Bra While Sleeping: Reasons]
Wearing bra at night is a common matter of debate during the private talks of women. If you ask this question to 10 women, no doubt, you will get 10 different answers. But, if you ask any experts, they will say that wearing bra while sleeping is not a problem, if you are wise in selecting the most comfortable one.


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The Netherlands offer the # 4 best e-commerce landscape worldwide, according to the 'B2C E-Commerce Index 2017', published by UNCTAD. The UK ranked # 6 in the list, Germany was # 9. The Top 3 was taken by Luxemburg, Switzerland and Norway. France is not in the Top 10.
144 individual economies were studied on 4 components by UNCTAD (the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), that reflect the processes involved in an online shopping B2C transaction: web presence by merchants, internet access for users, payment methods and delivery.
These components were reflected in 4 elements that are part of the total index: The share of people using internet, the availability of secure internet servers (as a proxy for the readiness of a country to enable secure internet transactions), the share of people aged 15+ having an account at a bank or another financial institution and the postal reliability score (based on factors as quality of performance across all categories of postal delivery services, coming from the Universal Postal Union).
Holland reached a total index value of 95.9, good enough for rank 4. The UK scored 95.1, Germany 93.5. Number 1 Luxembourg reached a total index value of 96.5, 0.6 higher than the Netherlands.
The study confirms once again that the Netherlands (# 6 E-Commerce Market in the EU) offer excellent pre-conditions to set up and run an e-commerce business. In combination with the ease of entrance of the market, this offers excellent opportunities for cross-border e-commerce into the Dutch market, particularly for retailers in the neighboring countries.
Source: UNCTAD B2C E-Commerce Index 2017, October 2017


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Past events
30Mar '15
Digital Methods in Epidemiology
On 30 March 2015, the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene hosted a day-long meeting on 'Digital Methods in Epidemiology' to launch a special issue of International Health on the same topic.
02Nov '14
ASTMH 63rd Annual Meeting
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting is a leading forum for scientific advances in tropical medicine and global health. This year, the 63rd ASTMH Annual Meeting will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The Programme includes three pre-meeting courses in the area of basic sciences, clinical and global health.
08Jun '14
Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria (GEM)
Highlights from the seventh annual Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria (GEM), which held at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus from 8-11 June 2014. The meeting explored the genomic epidemiology of the host, vector and parasite, highlighting the practical relevance of this research to global health, including antimalarial drug resistance, insecticide resistance, vaccine design, and mechanisms of protective immunity.
13Nov '13
ASTMH 62nd Annual Meeting
CGGH members attended the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Washington, DC.
13Jan '13
WT Advanced Course on Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria (Bangkok, Thailand)
An in-depth course to provide and enhance skills required to undertake genomic eipemiolgy of malaria.


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Sid the Kid Broke Barriers; Expect More in His 30s
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Throughout his NHL career, Sidney Crosby has been about being the youngest to achieve everything possible. He was once the youngest player ever to score 100 points in a season. Was, at the time of his appointment, the youngest team captain in NHL history and was the 11th youngest to reach 1,000 points in his career. That was the way of Sid the Kid.
As he turns 31, he's not a kid anymore. He's a grizzled veteran of 13 NHL seasons, who suffered career-threatening concussions and an assortment of other bumps and bruises as the game has given him almost as much as he has given back.
Crosby didn't have to be good when he came into the NHL in 2005. He had to be great. He started his career at a time the league was coming off a year-long lockout NHL owners needed to restructure spending and finance as multiple franchises edged to the brink of folding. The beginning of Sid the Kid was a period when the NHL's golden scoring age had closed. Star power was in a vacuum as Wayne Gretzky had long since retired, Mark Messier played his last season just before the lockout, Mario Lemieux's skills had diminished to the point he lasted only 26 games into Crosby's rookie year and Steve Yzerman retired following Crosby's rookie year (2005-06).
And Crosby was great. He instantly became the star to which the NHL hitched its wagon and Crosby drove the Penguins to Stanley Cup glory in only four years.
Those days are waning but they are not gone. Crosby has been remarkably consistent the last four years and even played every game last season for the first time in his career. He's two years removed from winning the Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy as the NHL's goal-scoring leader and remains the NHL's active leader averaging 1.29 points per game.
Though Crosby is not done by any stretch, turning 31 is often the fulcrum where the great players' peak begins to shift from wax to wane. At that age, Gretzky scored 121 points, but only broke the century mark twice more in his career. Lemieux put up the last of his 100-point seasons then retired for the first time because of back ailments. The ageless Jaromir Jagr notched 74 points as a 31-year-old with the Capitals and Rangers and only beat that total twice more in the 13 years since. Messier had the last of his 100-point campaigns at 31, while Yzerman had 85 and never broke 80 again,
Only Gordie Howe truly excelled after 31 as the game itself leaned toward a more dynamic offensive product. In the 20 years that followed, Howe put up at least the 73 points he scored with Detroit 11 times, including an incredible 102 at 47 with the Houston Aeros of the WHA. Howe, though, is the exception but Crosby is still widely considered to be one of the two best players in the world beside Edmonton's Connor McDavid.
If there is anyone who will be surprised if Crosby, like Howe, plays until he's 50? He's got the drive, the will and is in better physical shape than most who came before. Because of his drive, there could be a time when people say 'Crosby is the oldest NHL player ever to…'. It is difficult to bet against him.
Until then, Crosby will continue to add to his totals and move steadily up the NHL's all-time lists – and potentially put another Stanley Cup ring or two (or three?!) on his fingers, before his photo hangs in a renovated bank vault in downtown Toronto where the aged remain ageless in the Hockey Hall of Fame.


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The Grey Lady Starts Charging Online
The New York Times is making a move to close their website to online viewers and make it pay-to-view. Subscribers will be able to see the website, and all of its content, but random browsers on the Internet will be fresh out of luck. Everything about this move makes me think The Grey Lady is on its way down. All print media has experienced a sharp decline, ever since the advent of the Internet. However, websites of these newspapers have been wary of making their systems pay-to-view because users could simply go elsewhere for similar content and get it for free.
Under the plan, to be launched in early 2011, people who read more than a certain number of articles in a month will be prompted to pay a flat monthly or annual fee for additional access. Print subscribers will have full access to the site
I think this is a bad idea, but there are certainly worse ways to do it.


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It does not matter because deep down, you don't believe it is feasible to have straight straight straight back together.
The thing is, in the event that you move forward and try to get back together along with your ex, you will find likely to be challenges. Your ex partner will probably distance themself. Your ex partner may end in a rebound relationship. Your ex partner may state something like, "Hey, possibly we have to stop seeing each other."
Your ex lover might distance by themselves away from you for just about any true wide range of reasons.
You can find going to be setbacks once you attempt to reconcile. This can be likely to take place.
Then you're going to hit one of these obstacles if you don't believe that it's possible to get back together with your ex, if you're just looking around for hope.
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There are two main means of evaluating progress.
First it is possible to think, "OK. I would like to be right here straight straight back together but there's nevertheless this big number of distance between us."
Having said that you'll state, "OK. I'm here. But we started method over right right right here and I've come THIS far."
It's much more efficient to consider how long you've come instead of how long there was nevertheless to get because so long as you're considering exactly how far there is certainly to go, you're nevertheless concentrated on what's missing, lacking and what exactly isn't there that you believe must certanly be here.
That attitude that is negative your progress in enabling straight straight back together just isn't really helpful, resourceful or inspiring. It is more discouraging than other things.
Therefore, that is not just exactly what you are encouraged by me to accomplish at all.
Alternatively, i really want you to consider how long you came.
Has your ex partner gone from perhaps perhaps not speaking with you after all to maybe conversing with you against time for you time?
Perchance you sometimes have heart talk but often he brings away. Often she goes cold you. However you DO talk.
That's progress. Provided that you're making progress, that's positively an indication that you're on the right track to have your ex lover straight straight back.
It doesn't need to be progress that is perfect. It's perhaps perhaps not like, "Oh, we separated and today abruptly, they have been like romancing me personally and using me personally on a weekend that is romantic."
Obviously, that could be progress, but that is definitely not the form of progress I'm talking about. If you're making any kind of progress after all like, "Hey, they wouldn't keep in touch with me personally and from now on they have been at the least available to conversing with me personally and offering me personally like little short-terse responses or something like that like that."
This is certainly woosa progress also it indicates that you really are on the road someplace. So progress may be the 4th indication that you might be on the right track to have straight right back as well as an ex.
5. You're creating positive interactions with your ex lover.
The 5th indication that you're on track to obtain right back using your ex is the fact that you are creating positive interactions using them.
By good conversation, we don't fundamentally mean, "Yay! Delighted enjoyable time. Every thing is fun and wonderful. " it doesn't necessarily have to be that way although it could definitely look like that.
By good discussion, after all that both of you are merely being genuine with one another– being truthful, available, transparent and vulnerable in sharing with each other.
Good interactions along with your ex MIGHT appearance like delighted enjoyable time.
It might additionally include the both of you crying and hugging one another and dealing with just just exactly how perhaps you've allow each other down in past times and just how you regret that many. Good interactions along with your ex could simply take wide range of types.
The denominator that is common positive interactions is the fact that they happen for a much much much deeper emotional degree than speaing frankly about activities, television shows or perhaps the climate (or other things that).
Good psychological interactions with your ex occur at a much deeper degree. You're talking about your psychological experience and what's taking place in that psychological world between both of you.
So long as you're having these good interactions, understand between you and your ex that you are healing the emotional gap. As that gap heals and closes in, what's going to occur is you'll fundamentally going to have straight right back together in a few kind. Keep that in your mind whenever it comes to whether or not you're progress that is making straight straight back together with your ex.
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Steroids used by Cheltenham teenagers to get "ripped" gym bodies
Serious concerns have been raised over an increase in Cheltenham teenagers using steroids due to an obsession to get "ripped" gym bodies. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) has reported a dramatic increase in those using performance or image enhancing drugs, with reports of people as young as 15 shooting up. In Cheltenham, fitness experts warned the trend of young people using steroids was not uncommon – and urged people to be aware of the risks involved. Side effects linked to steroid use range from acne, hair loss and shrunken testicles, to fertility, liver and heart problems. Emma Brace, a body builder from Cheltenham, said men as young as 16 in the town were using the class C drug which is legal to possess. "There is a growing trend these days for young people to think that popping a pill or injecting a substance will get them the bodies they crave," said the 44-year-old. "Unfortunately that is not the case. There is no magic potion or quick fix. "My first advice to young people who want to get into bodybuilding is to stay away from steroids. "There are serious side effects for people who abuse them. "There is no substitute for hard work and putting the hours in. The gains you will make by doing it naturally will stay with you for life." Drug and alcohol charity Crimes Reduction Initiatives said it had seen the number of steroid users visiting its UK needle exchanges go from just 290 in 2010 to 2,161 last year – a rise of 645 per cent. The bodybuilding craze has prompted health watchdog Nice to update its guidelines for needle exchanges in England, saying needles should be provided to under 18s. Alex Barton, manager of Simply Gym, in Wyman's Lane, said there was a lot of pressure on young men to look good these days. "We have definitely seen a big increase in the number of young men coming to the gym, and I think that comes from a pressure to look good. "Steroid use has never been a problem at our gym, but sometimes people do want to get big quickly – and that is why they might go down that road. "But there are risks involved and I would urge young people never to do something like that without having all the information. "Steroids don't get you fit. They just allow you to train harder and for longer. "There is no substitute for hard work and I would always encourage people to go down the natural route." Read more: http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Steriods-used-Cheltenham-teenagers-ripped-gym/story-20949072-detail/story.html#ixzz2yrn9edPN


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CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 19-year-old suburban man has been charged in connection with a robbery over the weekend in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.
Amari R. Jones, of Homewood, approached a 22-year-old man on the 400-block of West Melrose Street about 1:40 a.m. Saturday and demanded his property, police said.
The victim handed over his personal items and was then struck in the face by Jones, police said.
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It was 1997, and an ambitious, expensive and incredibly complex project — the design and construction of the National High Magnetic Field Lab's new 45-tesla hybrid magnet — was just months from its scheduled debut. Part resistive magnet, part superconducting magnet, this new tool would be leaps and bounds stronger than any other magnet on the planet.
Scientists across the world were eager to put a wide range of materials into the instrument to see what would happen to them at such high fields. Low-temperature physicists were particularly keen to combine those high magnetic fields with super cold temperatures. Such a unique experimental environment could help them learn more about the fractional quantum Hall effect, an exciting discovery that earned the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics.
There was, however, a problem. A trio of scientists and engineers at the MagLab was wrestling with an ornery piece of equipment — the very tool those physicists needed to make their experiments cold.
For more than a year, Eric Palm, Tim Murphy and Mark Jackson had tackled every puzzle the Portable Dilution Refrigerator (dubbed the "PDF" or dil fridge for short) had thrown at them. But each solution was followed by yet another problem.
The men were under immense pressure: If they couldn't make the new $250,000 contraption work, some of the cutting-edge science the hybrid magnet was designed to enable just wouldn't happen.
It was man against machine. And the machine was winning.
Helium is tricky
Dil fridges have been used with magnets for decades. They are special vessels of frigid liquid helium, with a section designed to fit inside a magnet and create an environment much colder than temperatures found in deep space.
Part of the dil fridge sits atop the magnet, while a long, cylindrical "tail" extends down into the bore, or center, of the magnet. A series of vacuum-insulated layers around the dil fridge, separated by stainless steel walls, keeps the temperature in the central "mixing chamber" of the dil fridge at just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. (See illustration.)
Helium, that lighter-than-air gas that fills our party balloons, is even more useful as a liquid — at least to scientists. When it liquefies, helium dips to negative 269 degrees Celsius (negative 452 degrees Fahrenheit) — colder than the far reaches of our solar system. Because some materials behave in interesting ways when they are that cold, scientists love liquid helium.
Thing is, it's tricky to turn helium into a liquid, and tricky to keep it from reverting to a gas. Particularly if it's in the center of a magnet.
Years ago, when resistive magnets first started reaching fields higher than 18 tesla, scientists using liquid helium noticed that something kept heating up their low-temperature experiments. They finally figured out that bubbles of helium gas were forming around those experiments, which were submerged in liquid helium. Rather than rising to the surface, the bubbles were being trapped at the center of the magnetic field, which was unfortunate because that is exactly where the experiment is located.
Helium is diamagnetic — repelled by magnetic fields. And liquid helium is repelled more than helium gas because it's more dense. So when an experiment is placed in liquid helium, in a very strong magnet, the liquid helium is repelled from the center of the magnetic field with more force than the helium gas is, leading to the creation of an unwelcome, warm helium gas bubble near the experiment.
Luckily, scientists found a way around this problem by reducing the pressure above the liquid helium so it could get even colder. This produces a "superfluid," an exotic liquid that has no resistance to flow and creates no gas bubbles.
Try, try again … and again … and again
However, the dil fridge built by Oxford Instruments for the MagLab's new hybrid magnet was a unique design. It required a custom solution.
The helium bubble was the last in a yearlong series of dil fridge problems that the team of Murphy, Palm and Jackson tackled. By the time they approached this final hurdle, the "D" in PDF had come to stand not for dilution, but for a four-letter word that more firmly expressed the team's frustration.
"The amazing thing was how many times we took that thing apart and put it back together," said Palm, who then headed the lab's Millikelvin Facility and is now deputy director of the MagLab. "It makes me ill just to think about it … we started hating that thing. At one point we seriously thought it was haunted."
The helium bubble stumping the team was forming in one of the insulating layers surrounding the dil fridge, transferring enough heat toward the central chamber to cause problems.
Week after week, the trio brainstormed about the bubble. They considered sucking it out with a kind of straw. They considered adding a special refrigerator to the helium bath that would cool only the lower part to superfluid temperatures. They threw idea after idea at the cold, pitiless, stainless steel canister, only to have each one strike it with a dull thud and fall dead to the floor.
"We were pretty worn out from problem solving," recalled Murphy, who then worked in the Millikelvin Facility. Murphy now directs that facility and serves as interim director of the MagLab's DC Field Facility, which houses the hybrid. "It becomes your nemesis. You solve one problem, you move forward a little, but you encounter another problem. … You just have to keep at it."
Keep at it they did. If at first you don't succeed, and all that. Problem was, they were a bit too tenacious: They were persistently, valiantly, tirelessly trying to solve the wrong problem.
Finding the right problem
Mercifully, the day came when Palm, Murphy and Jackson, an Oxford Instruments engineer assigned to debug the dil fridge, stopped thinking about the helium bubble. It was as if a camera zoomed out from the closeup they had long fixated on, revealing a wider, more telling view of the problem.
Murphy recalled the magical moment.
"One of us suggested, 'Well, why couldn't we just short it out with copper?' And all of us just looked at each other and said, 'Yeah, why couldn't we?'"
- What's a Dilution Refrigerator?
- Portable Dilution Refrigerator, DC Field Facility
You could almost see, Murphy said, the proverbial bulbs illuminate over their heads, little halos shining the light of reason on a central fact that their bubble fixation had for weeks obscured: They didn't necessarily need to get rid of the helium bubble. They just needed to get rid of the increased heat load it placed on the central chamber.
The walls between the insulating layers of the dil fridge were made of stainless steel, a material that doesn't transport heat well. But if they put copper between the offending helium bubble and the central chamber, that highly conductive material just might carry the heat into the liquid above the bubble and shield the dil fridge from the increased heat load.
To test their idea, they bought a few sheets of very thin copper for less than $100, somewhat crudely wrapped the copper on the stainless steel tail between the liquid helium layer and the adjacent vacuum layer of the dil fridge, and secured it with yellow Mylar tape. If the test showed promise, they would remove the copper, design and build a new part properly and reinstall it.
Turned out they didn't need to. The test worked so well, they left the jerry-built copper part as is. It (and the bubble) remains there to this day, effectively transferring heat up and away from the tail of the dil fridge.
"We solved the bubble problem by not solving the bubble problem," said Murphy. "We essentially sidestepped it by looking at what was important … the real important parameter was, 'Can we take the heat out?' "
For some 15 years now, the dil fridge has been performing a mind-boggling feat: Inside its central chamber — just a fraction of an inch away from room temperature — it is about as cold as it is possible to get. Stunningly, that temperature difference, achieved across so small a distance, is 500 times greater than the temperature difference between the Earth and the surface of the Sun.
Looking back, Palm said, a lab culture that encourages ideas from every corner was key to solving the dil fridge problem. Some organizations may prefer a more hierarchical approach, said Palm, but that can get in the way of creative solutions.
"Everybody's throwing out stuff, whether it's stupid or smart. Nobody takes it personally," he said. "You bounce stuff around until you find something that works."
This story was originally published in issue 10 of flux magazine, a discontinued publication of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.


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CTS Interview Experience - Hyderabad, 24-11-2018
I'm from Hyderabad and I have attended the cognizant (CTS) interview through off-campus drive.
First Round is generally as we all know APTITUDE test which was conducted by AMCAT. I took the test at home only (as they have sent me the test URL through the mail).
Basically AMCAT test pattern was,
Section - Difficulty level.
1) Quantitative Ability - Moderate.
2) Logical reasoning - Easy.
3) Verbal - Moderate.
It has a Sectional Cut-off.
All the above sections were easy but Verbal is somewhat tough compared to others. All we have to do is Time management, Questions were easy but we need to manage the time as it involves some critical calculations in Quants. This is a adaptive test, we cannot go back to the previous question and can't move to the next question unless you attempt the current one and also next question depends on the correctness of your answer to the current question i.e., if you answer correct then the weightage of the next question is high (tough question) else easier question with less weightage.
I have cleared the First round and got the interview location & date through mail.
My Interview venue was CBIT and I have to reach there by 10:00 AM.
So, the next round was Technical Interview which is a tougher one at-least for me, as the interviewer asked me some deep questions (don't panic guys it depends on the panel too :) ). I'm from CSE background.
Lets start with the questions discussed there.
Me: Good after noon Sir.
TR: greeted and asked me to sit.
TR: Tell me about yourself.
Me: Told.
TR: Asked me to write the program to eliminate the duplicates from an array.
i/p: a[]=[1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5].
o/p: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
He asked me to write only the logic not the entire program.
Me: Wrote the logic and he was impressed & satisfied with my logic.
TR: program to display the position of the given character in a string.
Lets say s="indiabix".
Input -'d'.
O/p: 2 (as the position (index) of the 'd' is 2).
Me: Wrote and he was satisfied.
TR: He started asking questions on all the programming languages that I have mentioned in my resume.
TR: Tell me about DML, DDL in SQL.
Me: Told.
TR: Diff b/w TRUNCATE and DELETE.
Me: Told.
TR: Asked me to explain all the JOINS in SQl.
Me: Told.
TR: Asked to write the sample UPDATE query.
Me: Wrote.
TR: Tell me about Abstract Class.
Me: Told.
TR: Tell me about Inheritance and what is the use of it.
Me: Told.
TR: Data types in JavaScript.
Me: Told wrongly and he corrected me.
TR: What is DOM (Document Object model).
Me: Told.
TR: What is diff b/w window and document.
Me: Told.
TR: Tell me about FINAL in java.
Me: Told.
TR: Difference between HTML and HTML5.
Me: Told but it seemed like he was not satisfied with my answer.
TR: Asked to explain about JSON.
Me: Told.
TR: Difference between Array and ArrayList in Java.
Me: Told.
TR: Asked me to explain about all the projects that I have done in my academics.
Me: Told.
TR: Ok chaitanya we're done thank you, he said and asked me to wait outside for result.
I have waited outside about 20 mins and finally 1 guy came & announced some names and asked them to leave as they are not shortlisted for further round. One more twist is that my name was also there (well that was by mistake by that guy) actually I was shortlisted for next round, he read my name by mistake and said sorry to me and said that you are shortlisted. I was happy and went for Next round which is HR round.
Me: May I come in sir.
HR: Yeah come in.
Me: Good afternoon Sir.
HR: greeted and asked me to sit.
HR: Tell me about yourself.
Me: Told.
HR: He asked me about my family.
Me: Told.
HR: Why I should hire you?
Me: Sir I'm good at programming and I want to showcase my skills in your company.
HR: Tell me the leadership qualities in you (as I have mentioned in my resume in strengths).
Me: Told.
HR: Do you like travelling?
Me: Yes sir I love to travel.
HR: What is the recent place you have traveled?
Me: Told.
HR: He gave me 1 paper and asked to read 1 sentence & explain to him.
Me: I read and explained to him (It was a declaration form that you should accept their terms like Should be ready to work on any technology, any domain, any location etc.
HR: He then asked me that am I ready for that.
Me: I said I'm OK with it.
HR: He asked me to sign on that paper and told to leave with smile.
Me: Thank you sir.
Nearly after 1 week I got a mail that I need to write one more online test to proceed further for their training needs (I was happy that indirectly they said that I'm selected). The very next day I wrote test which was debugging test where it consists of 7 coding questions which has to be solved in 25 mins. Those 7 coding Questions had already logic written in it all we need to do is to modify as per the question as it contains wrong logic and syntax. Its simple just we need to change syntax and correct the logic that's it.
After 1 week I got the mail that I'm selected :) and got the offer letter.
Hope My experience help you guys.
My advice is always give interview with smile and confidence because these companies mostly check our confidence levels we need not to be excellent speakers, what we are going to tell should be understandable by the interviewer. This is not only for this company but also for other service based companies like TCS, Infosys, Accenture. Make sure you prepare well with the contents that you have mentioned in your resume. Have the basics Strong and be confident, you will definitely get selected :).
P.S: Sorry if there are any grammatical mistakes. I'm not that good in English.
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