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Towards the end of her tribute to the songs of Lata Mangeshkar, titled 'Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh', Sadhna Sargam brought in a note of self-effacement. "It's really tough to sing her songs," she said. "I'm just trying." The question, though, was whether points should be given, on the concert stage of a prestigious festival, for merely trying.
One of the songs Sadhna rendered was Kuch dil ne kaha, the delicate Hemant Kumar creation from "Anupama" . Like she did with every other song, Sadhna gave this number her all — but can this fragile composition really sustain a full-throated rendition? Where was the hesitation, the holding back, the tentative tiptoe into a hitherto unfelt realm of emotion — and without these, was this really Lata's Kuch dil ne kaha or Sadhna's? While it's true that the effects in a recording studio cannot be duplicated in a live show, shouldn't there at least be a stab at an approximation?
The audience, however, responded lustily to the cavalcade of cannily chosen hits, though not as much as anchor Harish Bhimani hoped. After a medley comprising the foot-tapping Gore gore and Shola jo bhadke, he joked, "Had this not been The Hindu audience, there would have been a few Bhagwan Dadas dancing near the stage." (Long-time Chennaiites were left smirking into their handkerchiefs at the blasphemous image of people cutting loose in the prim aisles of The Music Academy.) Before the medley, Bhimani situated Gore gore (whose Tamil equivalent, Ayya saami, was belted out by M.L. Vasanthakumari) in its moment in history.
Lata Mangeshkar was renowned for not accepting songs that hinted at ribaldry, and this number was about what Bhimani termed "Adam teasing." The music director C. Ramchandra told Lata that she would be right to refuse to sing the song if she so desired, but then her fans would say that Lata always sings the same type of songs. That spurred the singer and a hit was born.
If the purpose of the concert was simply to remind us of an era of marvellous music, Sadhna Sargam and Harish Bhimani performed their parts with clinical efficiency. They were accompanied by the singer Chetan Rana, who sometimes struggled to maintain pitch. The performance began with Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai from "Guide" , and touched upon several hits — Aaja re pardesi, Kora kaagaz tha, Aap ke nazron ne samjha, Naam gum jaayega, Dil deewana, Chandan sa badan, Bindiya chamkegi, Kuch na kaho and Jai Jai Shivshankar. Some of the selections — Ek tu jo mila, Pardesiyon se na akhiyan milana, Tere liye from "Veer -Zaara" — were mystifying in their inclusion over so many more worthwhile compositions. But it was gratifying to listen to Ja ri ja ri O kari badariya, from "Azaad", an ambrosial composition that doesn't feature much in compilations of Lata's hits. And when Sadhna launched into Suno chhoti si gudiya ki lambi kahani from "Seema", I wondered why she didn't opt for Manmohana instead. There was no representation from Lata's prodigious classical-tinted output, and the absence was especially felt at the august stage of The Music Academy.


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What a fantastic day at West Devon, and although we started with a little misty rain, the sun was soon shining on the two revised courses, and what courses they were. In addition the ladies did us proud, with a plentiful supply of burgers (for Roger, obviously), bacon, sausages etc, as well as drinks and something I have a little bit of a weakness for…. CAKE.
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Our classes cater for students just starting out in dance, through to those who have been dancing for many years. We provide small class sizes of 8 - 16 to ensure each student has a tailored dance experience.
GROOVING KIDS is a fun filled class incorporating a variety of dance styles such as jazz, basic hip hop moves (to get you ready to progress to the Hip Hop classes), kicks, stretching and dance skills.
HIP HOP makes use of many components and techniques of dance found in Urban Dance. These include Popping, Locking, Breaking and Isolation exercises, teaching dancers how to move different parts of their body separately.
ACROBATICS is a beautiful, dynamic and spectacular art form for both girls and boys that develop student's courage, strength, stamina, coordination and much more. This discipline is taught using specialized acrobatic mats and equipment. The limbering and stretching skills are exceptionally beneficial for all dancers and the skills gained help give the professional student a variety of tools and tricks to use in all dance genres.
STRETCH & SKILLS class is a very simple class with one purpose, to stretch and learn skills to help you improve in your dance classes! It is a nice class: it helps stretch your muscles and ligaments, and begin to warm up your muscles by stimulating blood flow. Improving your flexibility not only leads to a greater range of motion for your muscles, it also relieves stress, improves your performance and even prevents injury.
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At half time, my boy wanted some popcorn which happens to be sold in bags which we make at Direct Packaging.
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NYK Readies New Rust Management Technology
Japanese shipping company NYK has signed a memorandum of understanding with Toyokoh Inc. to develop a maritime business for Toyokoh's CoolLaser technology.
NYK aims to use the technology to reduce the maintenance workload of deck crew in managing rust and also to reduce drydocking costs by reducing the need for sandblasting.
Toyokoh has been developing the laser-based rust removal technology to remove rust from steel structures since 2008. It can remove rust quickly (even in narrow spaces), eliminate any salinity and reduce dust and waste, says NYK. The two companies will develop a device, system and measures that suit the maritime industry by studying the impact of lasers on steel material and coating adhesion, in addition to safety measures and improvements. Then a ship trial will be conducted.
The move is part of a growing number of associations for NYK designed to further innovation. In July, ClassNK granted an Approval in Principle to NYK and Japan Marine United for their joint project on the concept design of an LNG-fueled 200K DWT bulk carrier. The design is based on a 200K DWT bulk carrier developed by JMU. Despite its added weight due to the increased amount of equipment such as its LNG-fuelled tank and LNG fuel supply system, it provides more cargo hold capacity.
In March, NYK conducted a ship-to-shore connection test for a navigation support tool designed to boost communications during emergencies at sea. The system, J-Marine NeCST, has been developed in cooperation with the Monohakobi Technology Institute and Japan Radio. For the test, a fire was presumed to have occurred on the cruise ship Asuka II operated by NYK Cruises. The two J-Marine NeCST systems, one on board Asuka II and the other at NYK's Crisis Management Center in Tokyo, were connected via the internet, the fire emergency function was activated and an emergency checklist and fire control plan were immediately shared on synchronized screens.
Last year, NYK and Norwegian Partner Dualog entered into a collaboration with the NTT Group (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT DATA Corporation), on a proof-of-concept experiment for a next generation onboard IoT platform. The collaboration began in September 2017 for an experiment focused on validation of:
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• Remote distribution and management of onboard applications
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The European Composites Industry Association (EuCIA) reports that it recently focused on sustainability in composites as part of a Lightweight, Durable and Sustainable Composites seminar held in Brussels, Belgium, at the end of October.
According to the association, sustainability is a key driver for the use of composites, and there is a need for life cycle assessment (LCA) methods that provide reliable, reproducible results. However, LCAs which evaluate the environmental benefits of composite products throughout their life cycle are a valuable tool, but they are often complex and expensive and the results are dependent on the LCA system and the data employed, according to EuCIA.
As a result, the European Commission (EC) is currently working on a method to enable the quantitative assessment of the environmental impacts of products throughout their life cycle – the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). Michele Galatola, product team leader – DG ENV, Expert LCA, at the EC, and coordinator of PEF pilot phase, presented an update on this initiative at the seminar and suggested that main deliverable of this project should be detailed rules which must be followed in order to calculate the environmental impact of a product.
Seminar attendees also listened to presentations on topics including:
An overview of EuCIA's Eco Calculator was also provided. This online tool was developed by EuCIA for use in calculating the environmental impact of the production of composite products.
'Promoting the sustainability of composites is a long term strategy for EuCIA,' said Roberto Frassine, president of EuCIA. 'Three years ago we started an ambitious project of building an Eco Calculator. This has now been available for one year and is free of charge to the industry. We are about to launch further projects, including a survey on composites recycling strategies that are used around the world. We strongly believe that sustainability and the circular economy are key to the future development of the composites industry.'
A video of the Lightweight, Durable and Sustainable Composites seminar is available online. It is free to view for members of EuCIA member associations, and €50 for non-members. Register here.
This story is reprinted from material from EuCIA, with editorial changes made by Materials Today. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Elsevier.
ASTM International is running a seminar on sustainability on 11 April 2018, San Diego, California, USA.
Taking place in Colorado, USA, the seminar will take place in conjunction with the standards development meetings of the committee.
The EPMA says that registration is now open for its Systematic Approach to Quality Management seminar.


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** Annual Stormwater bills were mailed in January 2020, with payments due by February 21, 2020. Cash, check (made out to "Town of Colchester") and debit/credit card payments are accepted by the Town Clerk - Learn more by visiting the payment options page. This year's fees cover the town's fiscal year time period of July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020.
A 1% penalty is added monthly to delinquent accounts. Information about the fee structure and the stormwater utility budget can be found below.
The Town of Colchester adopted a stormwater utility as part of the Department of Public Works on July 1, 2017 to better address our community's water quality needs. The utility's budget, planned projects, fee credits, and educational information can be found in the links to the left. Under a utility structure, funds are collected from all property owners, including those that are tax exempt, through annual fees billed in January.
Utility Fees:
Base Fee: This is the minimum utility fee of $52.00, paid by single family, duplex, and triplex properties, as well as vacant or undeveloped sites. This fee is based on the average amount of impervious surfaces on these types of properties, which is one-tenth acre.
Base Fee Capped: These are properties in the above category that have more than one acre of impervious surface onsite. Their fee is "capped" at one acre, which is $520.00 (10x the fee for one-tenth acre).
Directly Assessed: These are commercial, educational, institutional, industrial, or other developed properties who pay $52 per tenth-acre of impervious surface onsite. Properties in this fee category are eligible to apply for fee credits up to 50% of the site's fee (learn more about fee credits).
Impervious surfaces are areas that cover the natural ground and do not allow for easy infiltration of rainfall; they include any paved areas (driveways, sidewalks, parking areas, roads, buildings) and dirt, gravel, or other compacted areas (parking areas, roads).
Stormwater Management
Stormwater management is important both because of what stormwater carries and how fast it moves. Water has tremendous power and can cause erosion, property and roadway damage, river bank instability, and other safety concerns when moving quickly. However, the primary concern is that when rain falls and water rushes off of our roads and driveways, it also picks up oils, debris, bacteria, and nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus naturally found in soils. This stormwater carries these pollutants to our streams and rivers, which all drain to Lake Champlain.
These nutrients accumulate and can cause cyanobacteria, algae blooms, and threaten the quality of our water bodies. More information about water quality concerns can be found here. Numerous waterways in our community are considered impaired by the State of Vermont, by sediment, bacteria, phosphorus, or chloride, and as a result the town has millions of dollars worth of required investments to make in our stormwater systems by 2036. The stormwater utility was specifically adopted to ensure the community has the technical capacity and financial resources to meet these long-term obligations. For more information about program funding and grants received, please click here.
Below is a large culvert helping to direct stormwater to the Lake. This one is located underneath the Town's bike path.
Water Quality Testing
During the summer months, the town tests for bacteria at Bayside Beach and other locations twice weekly. More information can be found here.
Note: The VT Department of Health currently tests for blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria (the town does not test). Visit the Department of Health website to view their interactive map. Select "Colchester" from the dropdown menu to see current testing results. ______________________________________________
If you have questions about the stormwater utility that are not answered by this website, please contact Karen Adams.
Colchester Water Quality Hotline: 802-264-5628
An example of erosion around a Town-owned culvert.
- Repair, replacement, and construction of stormwater and drainage improvements town-wide
- Summer water quality sampling at 9 locations around town, twice weekly -results are posted online weekly
- Street sweeping, catch basin cleaning, and all other regular system maintenance
- Planning studies to scope improvements for areas in town in need of upgrades or retrofits
- Education and outreach activities, including in a regional group called "ReThink Runoff"
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My baby puppy Delight has become a mama of four vicious mean puffballs.
Last night my puppy Delight gave birth to her first, and hopefully only, litter of puppies. She had four little fierce beasts. None of them look like her, as she is brown and white, and the puppies are all black and white. They take after their daddy, who is the dog next door.
I had not intended to breed Delight, but a windstorm with gusts of 50 MPH plus a few months ago blew down all three fences in my yard. I discovered the back neighbor had a pit bull dog. They put their fence up that day because I suppose they know the danger of having an unfenced-in pit bull.
One of my next-door neighbors had an unfixed male dog. It took several weeks to get the fence permanently fixed, and the temporary re-erection of the fence left unseen holes that the dogs kept going back and forth through, and so it resulted in last night's births.
I live alone and I had been afraid Delight would give birth while I was not home, or be in labor at a time when I would need to leave for work. The timing could not have been better as it started on Saturday and I am off today, Sunday.
Had I not been there to calm her and keep her in her box, I am sure she would have lost at least one and perhaps all of the puppies. The first birth was the hardest, and it took so long that I had looked up an emergency vet on my computer. Just as I was about to call, the first baby came out. During the labor and birth process, Delight kept trying to jump out of the box and run away, and once jumped off the bed with puppy one dangling by the umbilical with the afterbirth still inside. Fortunately, I grabbed her before she could run off and put her back in the box.
The first puppy's delivery was difficult and took a long time. Even then, the puppy came out, but the afterbirth took a long time. The puppy was starting to turn purple-blue and I was afraid it might die, not to mention Delight. Then Delight jumped out of the box and off the bed dangling the puppy. I prepared to cut the umbilical cord myself with some medical scissors from the days of Dad. I had just washed the scissors with alcohol with the afterbirth came out.
Delight had the second puppy relatively easily, at lease compared to number one. Then she seemed to relax for awhile and the two new girls got comfortable. I changed the bloody bedding. I had sat with her for several hours by this point and I took a break. When I came back a little while later, she had jumped out of the box, and given birth to two more puppies on my bed. My blanket is soaked with blood and other biological fluids, and I need to go to a laundromat as my washer is not big enough to wash that big blanket.
The box Delight gave birth in is produce box I got from Costco several weeks ago just for this purpose. After taking my blanket away for washing, I pulled out a sleeping bag and used that for a blanket. I put the box on my bed and laid down next to her and fell asleep.
When I awoke, I found my kittah Apophis sitting next to the box. The night before, Apophis had been right beside me and Delight and seemed alternately unconcerned and fascinated at what was going on.
My current plans for the four are to keep one of them, let the next door neighbor have one, if they want one, and find homes for the other two.
I'm considering naming one of the females "Dorcus", because Dork.
Delight has become a significant part of my life. She came to me last year when I came home from about two weeks in hospital following having a piece of my right foot cut off due to infection. As I walked up to the porch from the Taxi bringing me home from the hospital, she was on my front porch. She was then about four months old, as showed by her teeth. She did not have a chip and nobody in the neighborhood knew who she belonged to. After debating with myself whether I was going to keep her, I kept her.
My previous dog, Norman York Tzu, had recently died at age 18, about three months after the death of my father at age 88. For a time, it was a real question who would die first, Norman or Dad. I think it's better that Dad went first because Dad would not have reacted well to losing Norman during what was pretty obviously his last days. In addition, the death of Norman began the only period of my life where I did not have a dog.
I was in a very deep depression when Delight had come to me. I had lost both Dad and Norman, had my foot chopped upon, and I was having a hard time finding employment and was fearing homelessness. My immediate family had abandoned me (which is a story for another time), and I was feeling completely alone. Delight, along with my cats, was the only thing I felt gave me any meaning or purpose to live and they kept me from giving up in those dark days, which I now consider the worst days of my life.Then Delight came down with a case of parvo and was well on her way to death when I set up a GoFundMe which raised enough for her treatments. I was literally at the vet and within a few minutes of giving the approval to have her put down when I got a notice that enough had been contributed to starting her treatment. She literally would not be alive now without those of you who helped me and Delight then, and these puppies are a result of you.
I video recorded much of the birth of the first puppy, took many pictures of the birth of #2, and although I missed #3 and #4, I have and will continue to take more pictures and videos. I plan to post the video of the birth soon
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VAVOOM (472 Queen West, 603-0297) Anyone familiar with the late Blue Jay — a greasy spoon notorious for its pirogis — will be shocked by its transformation into a chic eatery featuring contemporary fare with more flair than most. With its recent second makeover, this comfy space glows even more glamorously. Best: massive grilled pork chop stuffed with spinach, apricots and pistachios alongside shallot-kicked pureed spuds Mornay-sauced "deconstructed" vegetarian lasagna top-notch Caesar salad — two slightly bitter romaine halves drizzled in mild, creamy horseradish dressing with whole grilled Roma tomatoes and smoky pancetta roasted pear stuffed with tart beet ice cream over flourless chocolate cake. Complete dinners for $40 per person ($15 at lunch or brunch), including all taxes, tip and a glass of wine. Open for lunch Wednesday to Friday noon to 2:30 pm, and for dinner Tuesday to Friday 5 to 11 pm, Saturday and Sunday 6 to 11 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday noon to 3:30 pm. Closed Monday and holidays. Fully licensed. Access: short ramp at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN
VERVEINE (1097 Queen East, 405-9906) Downtown comes to Leslieville. This mid-size bistro from the folks who created Mistral serves classic European cuisine with contemporary spin. A smart room, smooth service and a kitchen with potential make this neighbourhood noshery a hit. Friday/Saturday reservations recommended. Best: mussels steamed in mango butter garnished with slivered spring onion maple-glazed chicken with grilled corn 'n' fresh fava succotash Provimi veal-liver terrine daily lunchtime $7 sandwich specials with first-rate frites bratwurst and rosti sauced with caramelized onion jus at brunch. Complete dinners for $40 per person ($20 at lunch or brunch), including all taxes, tip and a glass of wine. Open for dinner Tuesday to Saturday 6 to 10 pm, for lunch Wednesday to Friday noon to 3 pm, and for brunch Saturday 10 am to 3 pm and Sunday 10 am to 4 pm. Fully licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN


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This gift box contains a complete set of our unique spiral fish design kitchen textiles – apron, oven gloves and tea-towel. All 3 items come beautifully presented in our Rick Stein branded navy blue gift box which can be re-used.
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2018 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited Ultimate Denver CO
The Santa Fe is already an amazing vehicle, but the Limited version of it is extraordinary. It truly has the looks, feel and the features that you need in an SUV. If you're feeling adventurous to purchase a new vehicle this year, you may want to contact Arapahoe Hyundai serving Denver Centennial Littleton Colorado so that you can take an up close and personal look at the 2018 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited Ultimate. Here's some additional information about it that you can read before you decide whether it's the best option for you or not. They don't call it the "ultimate" for nothing.
2018 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited Ultimate: Interior
The first thing that you will notice about this vehicle is that it has an enormous seating capacity. Most vehicles in its class and even some that are out of its class don't even seat that many people. You can fit up to seven people in this vehicle, so you can definitely use it as your vacation car. The seating is definitely something you should be in awe over. Another amazing fact about this model is that you get great cargo volume. You'll have 80 cubic feet behind row one, 40.9 behind row 2 and 13.5 behind row 3. That's more than enough room for you and your passengers to go wild and load up with everything that you own. The interior of this model is one that will absolutely spoil anyone who gets into it. Some of the features that you can look forward to enjoying are features such as the HVAC vents, Dual Front Automatic Temperature controls, leather seating, tilt and telescopic steering wheel and so on. When you get into this vehicle, you're going to forget that you're in a car and feel like you're in your home. In fact, you may have a little trouble getting out. Contact a Denver area dealer serving Denver Centennial Littleton Colorado to find out more.
Arapahoe Hyundai is your best bet.
2018 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited Ultimate: Exterior
The exterior on this model is absolutely gorgeous. It is like a breath of fresh air. The body is just chiseled and contoured in all the right places, and the rims give it a super-elegant appeal. The color that you choose for it can enhance the classiness. Gray, Black and White are always good when you're trying to be classy. The colors that you have to choose from are options such as Regal Red Pearl, Storm Blue, Monaco White and more. Some of the exterior features that you will get on this model are features such as the rear and lower front fascias, the roof rack side rails, heated side mirrors, chrome tipped dual exhaust, smart liftgate and so much more.
Limited Ultimate: Mechanical Features
The mechanical features are plentiful on this model, and the tech is overwhelming. Just a few of the technological features that you will have access to in this model are features such as Bluetooth, USB, HD Radio, SirusXM, 8-inch touchscreen navigation and more. That's enough to keep you and your passengers busy for a very long time.
Hyundai Santa Fe Limited Ultimate: Powertain
The Ultimate has plenty of power for you. All you have to do is buy one and unleash it. This model comes with a 3.3-Liter V6 option that can get you going at up to 290 horsepower. You can request a front wheel drive or all-wheel drive version of the vehicle, as well.
Hyundai Santa Fe Limited Ultimate: Safety Features for 2018
Hyundai made a strong effort to keep its new cars as safe as possible for its customers. In doing that, it added many new features that would increase the level of protection that each of its customers had on them. Some of the features that you will have access to in this vehicle are features such as Blind Spot Detection, Rear-View Camera, Lane Departure Warning, Smart Cruise Control, Rear Cross Traffic Alert, Traction Control System and more. The list is really too long to try to share in one message. You'd have to personally look at it at a Denver area dealer serving Denver Centennial Littleton Colorado.
Test Drive the 2018 Ultimate Today
If you're ready to take your family on the ultimate trip in a 2018 SUV that dazzle and coddle them at the same time, then you must take action now. Please contact a Denver area dealer, Arapahoe Hyundai, and schedule a test-drive of the vehicle today. Taking it on a test-drive is the only way you will know if it is right for you. You'll get to spend some time in the driver's seat cruising around town with the salesperson by your side so that you can ask any questions that you may need to ask. You can spend that time experimenting with all of the gadgets, gauging the comfort and performance or figuring out how you're going to deliver the good news to your family when you find out that you get to take this vehicle home. If the model fits your taste, you can let the salesperson know immediately, and he or she will introduce you to the finance department. The finance department is your ticket ultimate vehicle ownership. Don't wait another minute. Get on the phone and dial the dedicated number or fill out an online form if you prefer text communication.


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A few years ago I was involved in the porting of a sw towards internet ( trenty .... ) and when we started to do live tests over a real internet connection, loading of pages was not so stellar ( by that year ).
There were some obvious complaints.. when I checked, the images / background were BIG and wasting a lot of download band.
When I pointed out the fact, and asked to trim them ( a full blue single color background jpg was absurdly huge, just myself could trim it down by a 20 to 30 factor ) I was told no no no, that's not a problem...
Welcome to the reality of web design ( aka wasteful practices , that should make any decent programmer shiver )
The way I see it, this is an awful trend that needs to be corrected to whatever extent is possible. I do feel I have to watch what I say at work on this topic, how I say it, and who I say it to, so as not to burn bridges, but I feel it's extremely important to stop making such stupid design decisions.
you can install the broker luna OS in webos 2.2.4 ?
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[QUOTE=joshua764;3447080]you can install the broker luna OS in webos 2.2.4 ?
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if you mean the browser (not broker) nope, it requires a certain amount of newer libraries, so all those would be required too
The webOS browser gas always had a problem: The reload issue. There is apparently some kind of 'client-server' model used here that easily breaks. webOS is itself sort of a web browser, so I guess the OS is passing the data for display in a card and this is where the problem arises. That said, the browser is quite nice when it works. This is despite it's low score on any modern HTML test. It should be noted that HTML5 was being developed when webOS was released. The standard wasn't finalised until 2014...
As we all know, many webOS apps are basically HTML+javascript, using special services to access hardware features. This is one feature of HTML5: Rather than simply displaying content or even being interactive, it can talk to GPS, gyros etc. to enhance the experience or interactivity.
Someone recently tweeted and interesting post about web apps vs native:
[url]https://remysharp.com/2016/05/28/state-of-the-gap[/url] (doesn't load on my webOS devices, ironically!)
Alan is talking about the sheer amount of data coming down the pipe. Those who remember the start of the home computer revolution will recall how programmers performed virtual miracles to maximum value from tiny amounts of memory. Now memory is cheap, processors are out performing what used to be known as super-computers and data lines are superfast. Like the gas-guzzling era of American motoring, web designers are sending all these large files because they can. Certainly ad agencies are desperate to fill our screens with dynamic ads and of course, tracking. There is something of a crisis at the moment as ad-blockers are used more and more because they don't just remove annoying ads, but speed up the browsing experience. I know I don't bother looking at the Verge on webOS. On the desktop, with noscript, you can see just how many different services are on any particular page. In a world where we expect everything on the internet to be free, ads are about the only revenue model that seem to work, but everyone's getting fed up with it and some of those ad companies are basically serving malware.
Here are my tips to improve the experience:
I'm quite fond of the file from here: [url=http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm]Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File[/url] You can sign up for updates. (use Internalz Pro to stick in your /etc folder)
Add in: [url]https://pivotce.com/2015/06/15/tip-edit-your-hosts-file-for-access-to-old-palm-servers/[/url]
There are also ad blockers in Preware: Search for ad block or Max blocker (the former seems most recent, but that was 2012... maybe they can be updated?) I don't know how they work, but might also modify the HOSTS file.
Now, if anyone can get QT5.6 on webOS, we may be able to use the LuneOS browser...
There are actually quite a complex question, and I'm going to hint on several of the answers...in no particular order:
It is true, that pictures say more than a thousand words (although you may be surprised to hear that so do books). But this is only true if the picture is meaningful and has purpose. The current trend of having between one-third and two-third of the screen covered by a header-image is, in my opinion, simply bad design. The ironic thing is, that - according to the designers that I heard defending this - is, that it's caused by mobile: mobile users, they argue, are used to scrolling through their content, so there is no reason to try and fit all content on a single screen.
But mobile has created another problem with large and plenty images as well and that is called - in Apple marketing terms - retina. On rentina-displays your 100%-default images will actually look worse than on a non-retina device. The reason for this is simple: on retina the image is shown blown up two times. However, rather than using a nearest-neighbor algorithm, they use a bilinear algorithm for the scaling. As a result, hard edges are softened out and the overall image will look blurred and kind of bad...this is especially visible on logo's (and often flat design in general). So to make sure that your site looks as good as that of the competition for users visiting the page on a retina device you have to deliver the image at 200%.
The problem with delivering the image at 200% is, that while it will look best on all devices, you will also waste a lot of bandwidth. To solve this, you will want to deliver a different image depending on the screen size, the dpi, etc. While this is possible using CSS, it is not foolproof, and certainly can't be relied upon for every device and every browser...some browsers will simply load both assets, thus resulting in a bigger rather than a smaller page-load.
So the general solution is to use a javascript script. This script, however, will have to do several DOM manipulations (which is slow), load assets, etc. And to make matters worse, many of these scripts are used in a blocking manner, causing the page to load extra slow.
Another solution to the retina problem is the use of font-icons. They have a lot of advantages, like smooth (but crisp) scaling or having multiple colored icons with a single asset (allowing for some nice CSS color transitions when pressing a button). Font-face, however, doesn't work on webOS (even though it's standard was already defined, at least at the time of the Touchpad), so websites that use this solution a lot tend to be difficult to navigate on our devices.
Ok, so I've now blamed Apple, Palm, and web-designers...I think it's time to throw Google in the mix as well: statistics. Many - if not most - websites nowadays gather statistics for users, adds, and everything else they can think of. And in many cases they use scripts provided by the big G, and those scripts are, well, not that fast but do send a lot of information over your precious network. I have seen simple sites that were so slow on my desktop computer simply because they loaded about ten Google scripts in the header.
But talking about javascript...things will get a lot worst once JS6 (AS6) gets adopted. It is unlikely that everyone will use polyfills (for the features that actually can have polyfills), and even if they do, it will only be a short bandage. Now personally I'm not happy with the direction that JS6 is taking, and here too I somewhat blame Google who, to be honest, seems to really despise JavaScript, but are now - or that is at least what I feel - using all their might to force javascript into something that is not javascript (and no, javascript does not need, nor should it have, class-based object-oriented programming).
In short: I remember when (PC) games fit on a single diskette, when they started to need multiple disks, when they started to need CD's, when multiple CD's were needed, when they went to DVD and quickly to multiple DVD's. And now that DOOM has grown from 2,393KB (0.002282GB) to 57,671,680KB (55GB) I think we simply have to face the fact that as with games, there's probably no turning back with these internet-trends either, even though every website has basically turned into bloatware at this point.
Just some thoughts on a very complex subject matter.
I don't recall the constant reloading in the earlier versions of webos. Must be something introduced in the later versions and they never got around to fixing it
Edit: By the way I also use a no longer supported desktop browser. I works fine on most simple websites but when it come to news sites and blogs like the verge it's a struggle, downloading forever. I started using using an extension called scrpit keeper to block unnecessary scripts and it has helped tremendously.
So I was wondering if someone who knows how can try to implement something similar for the webos browser. I don't know anything about coding, but I assume it would be quite difficult if not impossible
And since google pretty much controls the Internet they could help by dinging websites for being too heavy, ranking them lower in search results. Probly they don't care tho, everybody is supposed to be using the latest browser and fastest intertnet
Bandwith wasting surely is a problem, but not one we as a community of legacy device users suffer alone. Everybody suffers from it, as soon as reception or bandwith gets limited, and I myself have never seen the rendering time on our devices as problem while usage.
But a very serious problem is the forced ageing of the WebOS devices by those setting the defacto standards of the modern Web, turning of APIs without technical need, updating sw-libraries at a rate you'll soon have to update your desktop browser more often than Adobe Flash in its last days, metaphorically speaking ;)
For me this feels like Browserwars reloaded, only that its not two companys trying to convince the users of their superiority, but all still active companies against reliable longterm solutions and the user (somehow you have to be convinced to buy smth new. So lets make everything older 2years unusable)
We as a community of legacy device users have to find a way to get a browser app that can keep up with that or at least doesn't fall behind that much to get rendered unuseable by this strategy.
As preemtive said, we discussed this thus far in [URL="http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-apps-games/330810-request-uptodate-webbrowser-app.html"]http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-apps-games/330810-request-uptodate-webbrowser-app.html[/URL], that we need to get QT 5.6 on WebOS 3.0.5 to have a chance to piggyback the luneOS Browser development, which would give us all we need to stay close to the edge.
So please, could someone get involved for this to be done?:o
I would be really glad, if all I had to worry about while surfing with the touchpad, were download and rendering time, instead of �will the next page load?� and if it does, �will it allow me to do what I came here for?� :)
I'll take responsibility. For dragging my feet.
I finally got started on a build environment VM (and my sleeping habits reduced). I'll post an update on Friday.
[QUOTE=hfGermany;3447125]I would be really glad, if all I had to worry about while surfing with the touchpad, were download and rendering time, instead of �will the next page load?� and if it does, �will it allow me to do what I came here for?� :)[/QUOTE]
And then the "Please BrowserServer, don't crash! Please don't crash!"
[QUOTE=dkirker;3447132]And then the "Please BrowserServer, don't crash! Please don't crash!"[/QUOTE]
Hmm, I am not understanding this server business. Is this a physical server somewhere that someone is maintaining for webos? and who maintaining it, Hp?
Or is there a global browser server for all phones. If so how come the other phones don't crash, its because webos so old?
Silly questions I know, but I would like to understand how this works.
The browser on the device is split between a client process for the UI, and a server process that actually downloads and renders the content. That's the server everyone's talking about.
[QUOTE=dkirker;3447131]I finally got started on a build environment VM (and my sleeping habits reduced). I'll post an update on Friday.[/QUOTE]
Like most of the talented webOS developers, you already have a coding job, so it's understandable that finding time must be difficult.
Many services that don't or never had webOS apps, do have web interfaces and of course there is rising interest in web apps. A modern browser could bring many services back to webOS - a new lease of life while we await LuneOS.
If you pull this off, I suggest adding a donation link!
[QUOTE=Preemptive;3447141]Like most of the talented webOS developers, you already have a coding job, so it's understandable that finding time must be difficult.
Many services that don't or never had webOS apps, do have web interfaces and of course there is rising interest in web apps. A modern browser could bring many services back to webOS - a new lease of life while we await LuneOS.
If you pull this off, I suggest adding a donation link![/QUOTE]
Yeah! Should hit the Instagram and Facebook bits, since those apps aren't really working. Which does suck. :(
I found that, on Touchpad WebOS, the Advanced Browser worked a lot better than the standard Browser.
There is a PreWare patch to redirect all browser calls to the Advanced Browser.
Unfortunately, with HP App Calalogue no longer available, it is no longer possible to purchase the Advanced Browser.
Hello guys,
dunno how is progressing the backporting of the browser but I think I may have found the holy grail to a lot of porting to legacy devices
go check the ipk of this telegram client for a pre3... it includes a full port of qt5...
libQt5WebKit <<<<<
+ a new libexif , libjpeg , libopus , libswresample , libavcodec , libavformat , libavutil
Very interesting
the very interesting thing is that's working like a charm on a Go... (now if just I find a way to force the virtual kb to open....)
But what is the point?
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A heat wave in Australia caused the deaths of many adult Flying Foxes, some of which were nursing mothers. This left a lot of baby bats as orphans, which has made for quite the task for the Australian Bat Clinic and Wildlife Trauma Center.
Swaddling the bats helps them to feel safe and secure, and giving them nipples to suck on gives them the feeling that they're still attached to their mothers.
After a few months of hand-raising and tender, loving care, the staff at the Bat Clinic will release these little guys into the wild, in the hopes that they will grow up to make little bats of their own. There are 60 species of Flying Foxes, many of which are threatened because of illegal hunting, being persecuted as pests, or environmental factors such as the heat wave that unfortunately took the lives of the parents of these babies.
In spite of the saying "Blind as a bat" and the "folk wisdom" that causes people to believe that bats don't see well (or at all), these Flying Foxes depend on their keen eyesight and smell to find food. They feed primarily fruit, as well as pollen and nectar.
Now watch this video and try not to weep over the fact that you'll probably never have a job that involves playing foster mom to baby bats.


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The final part of my essay on Robert Frank, written 20 years ago and published on the web in 2000 looks at his iconic book 'The Americans' which changed photography after its publication in 1958/9.
The discussion of the pictures and their sequencing owes a great deal to other photographers, including two whose workshops I attended in the 1990s, Charles Harbutt and Leonard Freed and many others, but I think I added a little of my own. I've come across parts of it on various web sites since it was put on the web, and I'm told it was widely plagiarised in student essays, at least in the years following its publication.
The Americans
'The Americans' was turned down by New York publishers, but Frank took it to Delpire in France. There, Robert Delpire only persuaded the company to publish in 1958 by threatening to leave the family firm if they didn't. The French edition was not entirely successful as a book, including texts by a number of well-known writers which had the effect of making the photographs seem like illustrations rather than a coherent work in their own right. The following year it was published by the Grove Press in America, in a form that respected Frank's vision and which has been followed with minor revisions in later editions. Sales were poor and the reviews were vituperative, but the book has been republished in many editions and has I think been continuously in print.
The Grove Press edition had an introduction by Jack Kerouac, who Frank had recently met: 'That crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral, that's what Robert Frank has captured in tremendous photographs taken as he traveled on the road around practically forty-eight states in an old used car (on Guggenheim Fellowship)…' Kerouac continued for five pages, showing a clear knowledge of Frank's work and an understanding of what he was trying to do, concluding with some short sentiments which have been often been quoted, among them 'Anybody doesn't like these pitchers dont like potry. See?' and his description 'Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.'
The work starts with a picture of the front of a building, an American flag draped across its front and two windows, in each a person. Both are apparently female, though both are obscured. Taken during a parade at Hoboken, the bottom edge of the flag visually cuts off the head of the figure at the right, preventing us and her from seeing. On the next page, the City Fathers line up, probably for the same event, on a stand behind a rail with a flag pinned to it. Soberly dressed old men, hats and coats against the cold, the man at the back stands with eyes closed, apparently totally elsewhere in his thoughts as his lips pucker into a kiss.
Next on a balcony in Chicago, a demagogue raises both fists, arms outstretched, above a very bored looking sculptured head in a frieze below. Cut to a car park in a field in South Carolina, black men attending a black funeral, heads titled, hands to cheeks, lost in thought probably during an address. One man clearly has his eye on Frank, wondering what this white stranger is doing. Next to a rodeo in Detroit, a white man in a cowboy hat, in profile, smoking a cigar, hand also up to his face, behind him two women apparently subservient; we turn the page and a uniformed man is dragging a woman on his arm (probably his wife, though it almost looks like an arrest) along the street in Savannah. The uniform leads us to the doorway of a Navy Recruiting office, though which we see the flag on the wall and the end of a desk with two feet resting on it.
Already we begin to see some of the ways Frank is building a story, using montage – the recurring element of the flag, the orator followed by the listeners. A couple of other motifs have also been presented – the car and the American Dream, but have yet to reappear. Frank concentrates on the ordinary, the things you see on the road and along its edges, but he also deals with real issues, whether of race, as in the pictures of the black nurse with the white doll-like baby in Charleston, South Carolina or the trolley in New Orleans with whites at the front and blacks at the back, or spiritual emptiness in the 'Merry Christmas' signs at the fast food Ranch Market in Hollywood or the plastic crosses, 'Remember your loved ones' on sale for 69 cents. A petrol station forecourt, the pumps like figures in a religious procession, carrying a tall banner that says S A V E in heavy capitals. It takes a second look to see the lightly written G A S in the gaps.
Perhaps the two most famous of the pictures using the flag are from a Fourth of July celebration in New York, where the giant hanging flag is shown to be patched, torn and threadbare, and a of a man playing a tuba at a political rally, rendered anonymous, the bell of the instrument replacing his head, and growing out from this a pole with the flag spreading out. These pictures are used to start the second and third loose sections of Frank's book – the first also starting with the flag.
We think back to the rodeo picture when we come to another vision of the Wild West, a bar in Gallup, New Mexico, taken from a low viewpoint, perhaps even shot appropriately from the hip. The picture is at an angle and slightly blurred, half obscured by the looming back of a man close to the camera. Across the bar a man stands alone and desperate, hands perhaps just in pockets or on his hips, but giving the suggestion of a gunfight that is ready to start. Later we see an immaculately dressed cowboy on the streets of New York, seated not on a horse but on the edge of a litter bin.
Another of the motifs, or in this case perhaps more of an icon, is the jukebox. It glows weirdly like an alien visitation in a New York bar, leers obscenely among apparently drugged kids in a Candy store. An ornate model dominates a wooden shack bar in Beaufort, South Carolina, with bare tables and chairs and a small black baby escaping from his mattress on the floor.
At Long Beach, California, Frank came across a car covered with a white cocoon in front of a low plain building with two palm trees. Here the car is clearly an altar, the trees forming the columns and roof tracings of a church dedicated to the Holy Motor Spirit; next we have the site of a car accident; a blanket covering some bodies at the edge of Route 66, four people in a line looking at the and a row of buildings back form the road; next a road in New Mexico stretching into the distance, its centre line absolutely vertical.
A woman needs on the banks of the Mississippi at dusk, her white robes contrasting with her black face; kneeling she holds a white cross. The next picture is captioned 'St Francis, gas station and City Hall – Los Angeles, and St Francis is silhouetted in the foreground holding up a cross. Next come three crosses marking the site of a highway accident, lit by a shaft of sun from a cloudy sky. We get an assembly line at a car factory, followed by a political assembly line at a Chicago convention, a fine row of urinals and a black man cleaning the shoes of a white businessman in a men's room…
I'm conscious of how much I'm not pointing out in these pictures; this is a book every photographer or anyone who wants to be a photographer should own. All eighty three of them are worth close study, although they work together to produce something much greater than their sum. Despite the mauling it received on publication – it showed a personal view of America and one that was distant and uncongenial to comfortable middle-class America who were, by and large, both the major cultural producers and consumers – and poor sales at the time, it has become a classic. It marked a new vision in photography, a shift in the paradigm, and, as often happens it took some getting used to. To modern eyes it is difficult to see how critics could fail to see the good points in Frank's work – the irony, the capturing of the essence of the small towns on the road, and even the humour of some of his work. Students of photographic history will certainly also be amused by his deliberate introduction of references to other photographers, with at least one carefully taken 'decisive moment' and a couple of pictures that are pure FSA.
Of course the clearest stylistic reference is, as Tod Papageorge pointed out, in his ground-breaking 'Walker Evans and Robert Frank – An essay on influence' to the work of his mentor, Walker Evans. The debt is at its strongest to Evans's own work with a 35mm camera, particularly to his pictures of people on the streets, where there are many pictures which could well have been taken by Evans. As Papageorge points out, various aspects of the design of 'The Americans', not least its title, also clearly derive from Evan's masterpiece, 'American Photographs'.
Later Work
After 'The Americans', Frank turned most of his attention to film, although continuing to take some still pictures, despite stating later that in 1960 he decided to put his camera 'in a closet'. His first film in 1979 was the only film which allowed the beats to present themselves on screen, 'Pull My Daisy', starring poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, artist Larry Rivers and musician David Amram. Kerouac contributed an act of his never completed play 'The Beat Generation' as the screenplay and also appeared as a narrator. Better known is his controversial 'Cocksucker Blues' about the Rolling Stones, though this was never commercially released, and probably more known about than actually viewed (there is a poor digital copy on YouTube.) Altogether he directed around twenty films, as well as acting in some, and being an editor and writer.
Frank's photographic output was increasingly linked to the problems of his family, including the death of his daughter, Andrea, in a 1974 plane crash in Guatemala and his son Pablo's mental illness. Increasingly his pictures were carefully constructed but also captioned with texts, often crudely scrawled or scratched on the images. There is a raw emotionalism and outpouring of grief that is sometimes hard to bear in such texts as 'She was 21 years old and she lived in this house and I think of Andrea every day.'
More recently he worked on a series of photographs of common tools and objects, referring back to the series produced by Walker Evans for 'Fortune' magazine when Frank was working as his assistant.
When I wrote this the only other widely available book of Frank's photographs was The Lines of my Hand published in 1972 which included a range of his work but lacked the coherence of The Americans. In 2003 came London/Wales, and in 2008 a revised edition of The Americans with most images uncropped and some variants. In 2009 Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, gave us scholarly essays with a great deal more information (and more pictures) about Frank and his work. From 2010 on Steidl published a series of half a dozen 'Visual Diaries' with photos from his early career together with the later more personal images. But despite all this, The Americans in its earlier editions stands out as the essential Robert Frank and the book that changed photography.
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Chancellor must act at Budget to invest in affordable housing as housing crisis reaches new levels with rent and home ownership increasingly divorced from earnings
The vast majority of local authorities (92%) are failing to meet affordable housing needs, according to a new report from IPPR, the progressive policy think tank. The report calls for action from the Government, including allowing local authorities to borrow to invest in the building of a new generation of council homes.
IPPR's new report, shows that there is a lack of affordable housing being delivered in the vast majority of area across England as local authorities also fail to build enough homes to meet the need for overall housing need. More than two thirds (67%) of local authorities failed to meet housing demand in 2015/16 according to the Government's new projections.
The research also shows that whilst the range of housing products available have increased, models for rent, ownership and intermediate housing have become increasingly divorced from earnings and linked to out-of-reach market prices. This means affordable housing is out of reach for all bar the highest earners in many areas, posing significant problems for those on low incomes.
The new IPPR report, which examines the affordable housing markets in four combined authority areas (Greater Manchester, West Midlands, Tess Valley and West of England), further finds that:
- In only Tees Valley does house-building meet estimates of need. The west of England would need to build an additional 1,060 homes a year, and the West Midlands 2,812. This imbalance between supply and need is greatest in Greater Manchester, which misses its target by 42% or 4,518 homes.
- House prices are out-of-reach for many on average incomes. Median monthly rents do not become affordable (using the 35% of net monthly income measure) until after tax earnings of £33,167, in the west of England, £19,131 in the West Midlands and £18,959 in Greater Manchester.
- Most affordable housing products across combined authorities are out of the reach of single people.
On a national level the Government should take immediate action to boost affordable housing supply, including:
- Supporting a large-scale council house building programme by removing the arbitrary cap placed on borrowing through the Housing Revenue Account (HRA), allowing local authorities to borrow to invest in the building of a new generation of council homes.
- Adopting a threshold of 35% for affordable housing applied to all private developments nationally, with a higher threshold of 50% on all public land, in line with the approach adopted by the Mayor of London. Further to this, on a local level the IPPR report recommends that city-region Mayors should establish combined authority-wide Mayoral Housing Companies, using them to bring land to market for social and affordable rent and using mechanisms to capture public value from the land and that local authorities and local authority pension funds should work together to combine their land and investment to build affordable housing.
Furthermore, the Government should:
- Devolve great powers to Mayors to deliver the housing their regions need, including greater flexibility in the pooling and coordination of housing funding streams; the retention of stamp duty receipts on all new-build properties, to top-up housing investment funding; and council tax flexibility on empty sites and empty homes to accelerate the process of bringing unused homes back into use and putting unused planning permissions into action.
- Devolve a proportion of the budget for the Help to Buy Equity Loan Programme to combined authorities for the Mayors to use as they see fit.
- Re-allocate funding for the Starter Homes programme to a programme for investing in genuinely affordable homes for rent and devolve the appropriate proportion to the combined authorities.
Darren Baxter, Researcher at IPPR, said:
"This analysis shows that not only are local authorities failing to build enough affordable homes, those which are being built are often out of reach of those who they are intended to support.
"The newly elected Mayors should use their powers to take on the housing crisis and get their local councils building, including working to bring land to market for social and affordable rent.
"If it is serious about tackling the housing crisis, government will work with Mayors to ensure they are equipped with the powers they need to drive local house building programmes their regions need."
Luke Murphy, Senior Research Fellow at IPPR, said:
"The decades long failure to build enough homes has seen housing become ever more unaffordable.
"But as this report makes clear, it's not just about how many homes are built but how affordable they are too.
"The Chancellor should use the Autumn Budget to provide city-region mayors and local authorities with the powers and resources they require to build the affordable homes their communities need."


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Construction underway at Bahrain Airport terminal
The terminal, announced as a part of Bahrain's Airport Modernisation Programme, is being constructed by a $1.1bn Arabtec-TAV joint venture
Bahrain Airport Company confirmed construction works for a planned new terminal are underway at Bahrain International Airport.
Consequently, the airport's Car Park D will be closed starting 8 February, in order to allow construction activities progress smoothly.
The parking lot is scheduled for reopening on 20 February.
Last month, Bahrain's Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications announced it will carry out an extension programme at the Kingdom's international airport.
Contracts have been signed to carry out the Airport Modernisation Programme at Bahrain International Airport, Kamal Bin Ahmed Mohammed, the country's transport minister, and Mohammed Al Binfalah, CEO of Bahrain Airport Company, said.
This includes the appointment of a main contractor for the $1.1bn (BHD414.1m) construction of a new terminal building, the main services building, and aircraft bay, to a joint venture between the UAE's Arabtec and Turkey's TAV Construction.
The announcement was made on the sidelines of the Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS) 2016.
In a statement released on 7 February, Bahrain Airport Company said it is working with its facility management arm, BAC Facility Management (BAC FM) in addition to key stakeholders at the airport, to ensure minimum disruption is caused to passenger movement and effective alternative parking solutions are implemented.
The company will also provide the 'Overflow' car park as an alternative to Car Park D, organise shuttle buses, and increase the frequency of pick-ups and drop-offs to allow for smooth passenger movement.


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Meet Laura Miller
Laura Miller is the new program principal at Dorseyville Middle School.
We asked Mrs. Miller a few questions to get to know her better.
What has been your favorite part about Fox Chapel Area so far?
The supportive colleagues and staff, and being back in a middle school working with students!
Who was your favorite teacher growing up, and why?
Mr. Campbell, for his sense of humor, and he connected with us as students.
What led you to a career in education?
No real specific situation led me to education. I remember in high school just all of a sudden wanting to go into education after talking about being a lawyer for years. I'm so glad I chose education!
Do you have a favorite cafeteria food?
So far, it's been the chicken salads.
On the weekends, what can you be found doing?
Spending time with my family (husband, Matt; daughter, Mia; and son, Cole), working out, catching up on housework, working on assignments, and if I'm lucky, doing some shopping!
What's one thing that people would be surprised to know about you?
My sister and I are first-generation American citizens. Both my parents were born in Italy. I speak and understand Italian.
Favorite vacation destination?
Any Caribbean island, but I loved Curacao.
What three things are always in your refrigerator?
Fruit, yogurt, and coffee creamer
What's the one thing you can't live without?
Coffee (even though I only drink one or two cups a day)
If you could have anyone narrate your life, who would it be?
Ellen DeGeneres
This or That?
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I have an obsession with nice pens!
Coke or Pepsi?
Dog or cat?
Not a pet person
Netflix or YouTube?
Ocean or mountains?
Winter or summer?
iOS or Android?
Dine-in or delivery?
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Today we're going to review Tech 21's self-healing impact shield. This is a plastic screen protector for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and based on our experience with screen protectors, this one is probably one of the easier ones to install.
With this Tech 21 screen protector, we were pleasantly surprised at how quickly the screen protector healed itself from minor scratches. We did have a couple of issues with the build and fit of the screen protector but it generally gets the job done.
Based on our time with the screen protector, we gave it a score of 4.2 Eh's out of 5. When compared to other self-healing screen protectors, the Tech 21 Impact Shield, Self Heal scores higher than InvisibleShields HDX by a little bit. If you'd rather read the rest of this review, head over to our website and if your trying to figure out which iPhone screen protector to get, check out our comparison tool. We go through lots of different screen protectors to see which one is BEST!
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- Minor diffusion of screen
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In terms of design, this is a fairly thin screen protector that covers most of your iPhone's touchscreen which seems silly to us. Even if you're slightly off with your installation, you're still going to expose parts of your touchscreen. What seems even sillier is that Tech 21 includes an installation tool to help with the installation.
With that being said, the installation tool is better than trying to thumb the installation of the self-healing screen protector. Removing/reapplying the screen protector isn't too bad but be careful how much you bend the screen protector as the corner that we used to peel back didn't sit flush on the screen any more.
Dust removal isn't too bad but Tech 21 doesn't include any dust removal tools. You might be able to get away with using a removable sticker or some painters tape.
The last thing we will talk about in terms of design is the inclusion of BulletShield, which is a BASF polymer found in bullet proof glass that absorbs and dissipates impact. These polymers make the Impact Shield seem really tough but as you'll reading the next section, it's not invincible.
Protection – Bulletproof polymers did nothing against Bertha (our steel ball)
In terms of scratch protection, the Tech 21 impact shield will heal up from minor scratches. Deeper scratches or gouges will be permanent as we've discovered from our Santouku test and metal file test. One of the neat things that we noticed was how quickly the this screen protector healed up when compared to the HDX. Tech 21 uses the term "Anti-scratch" on their product description…I'm not so sure about that.
In terms of impact protection, the Tech 21 Impact shield will protect your iPhone from breaking in general. At 22 inches, it was fine. at 24 inches it was fine, at 30 inches it was fine. At 36 inches, it failed. Now some of you might be thinking, why didn't you do smaller increments with the drops? Well, we were caught up in the moment and in a moment of weakness, we thought that the BASF bulletproof polymers were going to be pretty incredible. They were not.
Functionality – "Perfect optical clarity" Uh-huh…
For the functionality of the screen protector, we did notice a bit of glare but it was bearable but the one thing that bothered us was the "perfect optical clarity" of the screen protector as we did notice a slight diffusion of the iPhone's touchscreen.
For the sensitivity of the iPhone's touchscreen, we didn't notice any changed though the screen protector does have more of a "plastic" feel as your fingers don't slide as easily across the screen.
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This international collective whirls together new music, movement and imagery in an intermedial performance on history's endless rotation. "Everywhen" orbits around two sides of life - the personal and the political. An often caring, gentle and well-meaning personal life is contrasted here with the reality of the social individual, who can often be sinister, vengeful and hateful. But how can we be critical to our own worldviews when they are created by those closest to us?
A woman as a loving mother who also promotes murder and slavery; a loving couple involved in the propaganda of a perverse ideology; kids that give a fascist salute as if in play. Something is wrong in these scenes. Images of everyday families, mums and dads with their children, tiny groups of people, close to each other, face to face with the threat of history repeating itself.
Our memories often surface suddenly, changed, idealized, and sometimes they even erase themselves spontaneously. By leaving out key events and rewriting history, a barrier is built between the new generation and older people, and this makes it too easy for history to repeat itself. Is it even possible to stop history from repeating itself when ideology is written into the body like DNA? An intimate situation in a frightfully familiar context.


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Ask the doctor: How do I prevent my breasts from sagging post pregnancy?
Dr Ragini Agarwal outlines four simple steps that can help keep your bust perkier and firmer after pregnancy and breastfeeding.
If you're a mother, you know how pregnancy can be harsh on your breasts, especially if you have breastfed your baby for the first year of your newborn's life. The medical term commonly used for sagging breasts is ptosis and before we get down to preventing sagging it is important to understand why it happens.
During pregnancy your breasts become heavier and fuller and just like the rest of your body, the breast tissues and ligaments stretch to accommodate the new baby and facilitate breastfeeding. However, there is not a single reason alone that could lead to saggy breasts.
- Genetics: Just like your health, your genetics also play a role in determining if your twins will sag later or not. Women who are blessed and have heavier breasts are more prone to have saggy breasts than others.
- Weight: Women who are overweight also tend to have saggy breasts than women who are in shape, which is why it's important that you keep a check on your weight during pregnancy as your breasts tend to be fuller and bigger when you are pregnant.
- The number of pregnancies you've had: Breast sagging could also be common in women who've had multiple babies.
- Your age: Age plays a role here too and breasts tend to sag with age. Studies say that smoking also has a role to play in breast sagging and women who're chain smokers might have saggy breasts.
Preventing your breasts from sagging after pregnancy
While it's true that sagging of your breasts depends on a number of factors such as age, the number of children you have and your genetic history, there are a few ways in which you can prevent it.
Theindusparent spoke to Dr Ragini Agrawal on the precautions that a woman should take should take to prevent the breasts from sagging. She says, "Sagging can be a big problem after pregnancy for breastfeeding mums, especially if the right precautions and care is not taken right from the first day. There's no point applying firming creams afterwards as the damage has already been done."
Dr Ragini Agrawal, leading gynaecologist and Clinical Director of W-Hospital, outlines four simple steps that can help keep your bust perkier and firmer after pregnancy and breastfeeding.
#1 Giving your breasts the right support
Support is a very, very important factor, especially after the baby is born and a woman starts breastfeeding. "This is why it is important for you to wear the right bra and one that supports your assets well, especially when you are feeding and your breasts are heavy with milk," says Dr Agrawal. While choosing a bra, go for wider straps and look for a support band around the bottom of your breasts. Also, check if you have the right cup size.
#2 Keeping your skin hydrated inside out
"Hydration is key and the more you keep your skin hydrated from the inside as well as outside the better it is for your breasts," says Dr Agrawal. Have at least 10-12 glasses of water in a day and invest in a good moisturiser to keep your skin pliable and rebound after pregnancy easily. While there are number creams and lotions specifically directed at pregnant women, Dr Agrawal says that coconut oil could be excellent to use during pregnancy.
Continue reading to know more about how to prevent sagging of breasts.
#3 Monitoring your weight gain during and after pregnancy
It is very important to monitor your pregnancy weight and keep a check on the amount of weight that you have gained. However, don't go on a calorie-restricted diet, but avoid having foods high on sugar such as ice-creams and high calorie foods such as chips, nachos and pakoras.
Remember the weight you gain during pregnancy spreads throughout the body including your breasts and the larger they become during pregnancy, the more they sag later on because of the stretched skin. Similarly it is important for you to loose your post pregnancy weight, but in a gradual fashion. This will help you adapt to the new weight and would also help your stretched skin bounce back, which will reduce your risk of sagging.
#4 Exercising Regularly
Another great way to prevent sagging of your breasts is to do exercises that focuses on strengthening/lifting your chest muscles as well as cardiovascular exercises."It is also important for you to exercise your pectoral muscles to prevent sagging of breasts," says Dr Agrawal.
Besides, following a healthy lifestyle which is complemented with diet and exercise would help you maintain a healthy BMI, which would prevent weight gain and stretching/sagging of skin. You can also lift your breasts by tightening and strengthening the chest muscles. Women who are breastfeeding should eat more fruits and vegetables rich in antioxidants as well as foods high in vitamins like B and E to prevent sagging.
Dr Ragini Agrawal is a gynaecologist and the Clinical Director of W-Hospital, the largest multi-specialist hospital for women in Delhi and NCR. Over a long career spanning 25 years and counting, Dr. Ragini has garnered a deep insight into women's mind and body functions. She asserts that many of women's physical problems are manifestations of deep rooted emotional and psychological issues.
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Sign Element : Earth
Best Mate: Rabbit, Horse & Pig
Worst Mate: Ox
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Creative Goats (Sheeps) signs love the obscure and are most at home in their own imaginations. Unorthodox religions are also of real interest to them. Even so, Goats are very capable and revel in the opportunity to think outside of the norm. Don't expect much organisation here, though; that's a quality that tends to prevent many business endeavours for this dreamy type. Think craftsperson or artisan when looking at the Goat, and don't overlook their considerable charm, which often carries the day.
It may be their artistic temperament that causes these goats to feel insecure. These highly-strung creatures need to feel loved and admired lest they start worrying incessantly. Being a considerate person - they think before they act, and are troubled if they think they have unknowingly hurt someone else. If they have caused unforeseen problems or accidentally let someone else down, the chances are they will step forward to remedy the situation and re-establish the troubled friendship. It is this gentle and trust-worthy side of their character that not only helps they to maintain a good social circle, but also enables they to deal with life's ups and downs. However, this sensitive streak can also lead to bouts of anxiety over seemingly inconsequential things. It's this angst that can wreak havoc on the Goat's love life. The mere thought of another failed romance can put the Goat off for good, leaving this one-time lover a lonely heart. Why these woes? Goats are determined to avoid conflict at all costs, even if the price is relationship bliss.
If the relationship is going well, however, Goats won't hesitate to tell their partner what they need -- and they can be quite insistent about it too. That said, Goats don't mind if their partner's in control every now and again, the better to indulge their lazy, hazy side. Appearances are also important to the Goat, which may explain why these people can spend hours preening and posing.
Goats are sensitive to the world around they, perhaps even too sensitive, as they
often misinterpret situations. When faced with the unexpected they can be
hesitant and nervous, since they are a peaceful person who tries to avoid
unnecessary conflict. They also have the nature of a wanderer and are happy to
set off on journeys to meet people and to see the world. As long as they do not
head into strife-torn territory or are confronted by troublemakers, they travel
confidently. their journeys also have a more unconventional, spiritual
dimension; they hold strong beliefs themselves, and are stimulated by the
beliefs that guide others.
It is often the simple things in life that give them the most pleasure; a wonderful view, a beautifully created object or an inspiring piece of music will keep they happy and entranced. This dreamy side of their character could account for the fact that they do not like to make rules any more than they like to live by them. The last thing they want, or need, is to be held to a strict timetable. The urge to follow their instincts also reveals an obstinate streak, and this desire to find their dream can make they dissatisfied with what they already have. Sometimes good opportunities do come their way but they hold back, as it is hard for they to make a quick decision. Life's comforts are important and they do not want to put them at risk.
Goats would be well-served by learning to relax and let others take over from time to time. Once they realize that their friends and lovers won't go away if they choose to take it easy, life will be a whole lot more enjoyable. Graze away, little Goat!
The most compatible match for a Goat is the Pig or Rabbit.
Goat signs have an ability to turn their fortune around - just when everything seems
bleak, something or someone turns up to help. Try to avoid routine jobs or ones
that demand continual decision-making. They have a relaxed approach to life, and
although they can take responsibility, giving orders is not their strong point.
Rigid schedules make they feel trapped, and their easy sense of timekeeping
could land they in trouble in a strictly regulated job.
is likely that they have a flair for art and design and enjoy creative work that
also gives they flexibility. The idea of having to fight for a position or
compete with others induces worry and stress, so choose something that gives they
an element of freedom and peace. When they are both comfortable and stimulated they
can adapt well, and once they have found the right niche their talents will
are suited to a career in the arts, advertising or research. They would also be
a good designer, writer, librarian or philosopher.
Goat signs need to feel secure in love and if their partner behaves indifferently it can leave they feeling very unsure of themselves. They have an emotional nature and are easily moved to tears, although it is often hard to explain why.
this, however, the Goat signs lack the confidence to express their emotions, and as a
result they may miss good romantic opportunities. The pressure of approaching
strangers or making conversation with new acquaintances makes they
uncomfortable, and they are more likely to meet a partner through friends.
do not like to feel overpowered in a relationship, nor do they relish having to
abide by strict terms or conditions. They are gentle and romantic, in need of
protection, but equally their creative spirit should not be suppressed. On the
other hand, their partner may find their unconventional nature or hesitancy
irritating but often this is forgiven because they have a kind heart. At times their
absent -mindedness can be interpreted as thoughtlessness, but it is not in their
nature to upset others intentionally.
|Famous Goats (Sheeps)
Jane Austen, Anne Bancroft, Cilla Black, Elkie Brooks, Coco Chanel, Nat "King" Cole, Catherine Deneuve, John Denver, Ken Dodd, Douglas Fairbanks, Mel Gibson, Paul Michael Glaser, Mikhail Gorbachev, Larry Hagman, George Harrison, Hulk Hogan, Isabelle Huppert, Julio Iglesias, Mick Jagger, Paul Keating, Ben Kingsley, Franz Liszt, John Major, Michelangelo, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Nimoy, Robert deNiro, Oliver North, Des O'conner, Michael Palin, Keith Richards, William Shatner, Freddie Starr, Lana Turner, Mark Twain, Rudolph Valentino, Vangelis, Terry Venables, Lech Walesa, Barbara Walters, Andy Worhol, John Wayne, Tuesday Weld, Bruce Willis, Debra Winger.
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EdjSports' Frank Frigo is among the experts quoted in this article discussing the implications of going for a 2-point conversion in the final minute to win the game instead of sending it to overtime. Since 2016, more teams have tried to win with a 2-point conversion in the final minute than in the previous 22 years combined.
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1 What? No comments? It seems…
What? No comments?
It seems a shame. Still, the analysis for choosing to go for two for "The Win" over kicking for "OT" is straightforward: Take the option that gives you the best winning percentage. Since two-point conversions are only slightly below a 50-50 proposition and extra points have about a 96% success rate, it turns out not to matter that much which you choose.
If you convert either way, the opponent is trying to get into field goal range in the final seconds. If they are down by 1, they get to play four down football everywhere, which improves their chances a bit. But if that's a factor, then they've used more time to get to fourth down, and are more likely to run out the clock before getting into range.
The only surprising thing in the article is that some coaches make their decision at the start of the drive, when they don't know how much time is going to be left. That implies that they do not think time remaining is an issue. They might be right: other factors (your kicking game, your strength/weakness on two-point conversions, your perceived chances in OT) might swamp any considerations of time remaining.
2 I'll comment, dammit!
It's that very desperation if the opponent is down 1 that scares me. THEY FREAKIN' HAVE TO SCORE. Now, they may panic, or maybe they're a run-first team with an inconsistent QB unable to move 50 yards in 30 seconds, and you're in good shape. Maybe the weather's nasty and their kicker's iffy.
But facing Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady with 30 seconds and a timeout? I might prefer my chances with a tie, assuming a kickoff to the 1 YL will leave them about the 20 with a few seconds ticked off the clock, so the play-call will be to take a knee and regroup. If we win the coin toss and get a TD, game over. If we get a FG, things continue. Same if the other team wins the coin toss. That all seems 50/50 to me.
But my sense is that some teams/players are inherently more dangerous and if you put a gun to their head (a 1 pt lead, clock ticking), they might just make you pay for it. Deep pass. DPI.
I'd still go for it, I think, but as a fan, sitting helpless at home, I'm climbing the walls.
3 You're not wrong. Since 2009…
You're not wrong.
Since 2009, teams that start drives down 1 or 2 points with 0:30-2:00 left score about 30% of the time. Teams that are tied with the same range of time left score about 22% of the time.
Using the simplified numbers of extra points being automatic and 2-point conversions succeeding half the time, you get this:
Go for two: win 35%
Extra point: get OT 78%, win 39%
Add in the non-zero chance of a turnover leading to your own winning score, and the extra point looks to be the better option.
But these numbers are all averages. It doesn't take much to swing the balance the other way. If you think your team is especially good at 2-point conversions, or like don't like your chances in OT for some reason, go for two.