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Preface: Five establishments in Kolkata have decided to pay their tribute to the Monsoon season, by introducing a curated Monsoon festival, you would die to be a part of! Read on!
Think of Tea and a plethora of imaginative thoughts come pouring onto your grey cells like Walter Mitty. You're either imagining yourself right atop the cold mountains, sipping a hot cup of replenishment outside your balcony; or just sitting by the window sill on a dull rainy day, thoroughly consumed by penned emotions evoked from a book as you sip your cup of dreams.
Come monsoons and we Indians get obsessed with a cup of good ol' Cutting Chai, accompanied with some hot and crispy goodness' coming straight from our kitchen, isn't it?
I mean who could resist a plate of scrumptious pakodas, fries, or just a simple sponge cake, and how could I even forget about the iconic combination of Bun Maska with my cup of steaming hot Ginger Tea!
You don't really need a reason to enjoy a cup of tea anyway, but, when you contemplate, monsoons do play a catalyst when it comes to savoring the most beloved beverage in existence. And it's not just your milky concoctions I'm talking about, but also the liquid gold per say.
Well, 5 establishments in Kolkata have taken it upon themselves to bring out our inner Petrichor this monsoon by giving us a curated food festival that stands as a tribute to the pitter patter!
1) Monsoon Chai Evenings, JW Lounge
Giving our evening tea a little makeover, JW Marriott Kolkata has introduced a High Tea that's very apt for the Monsoon season.
The Monsoon Chai Evenings is a month-long affair from July 24-August 24 between 4pm-6:30pm that gives the perfect Tribute to our Chai.
Patrons would be greeted to a selection of artisanal teas that are served with chili, cheese or herb rusks alongside a vegetarian or non-vegetarian titbit platter.
My non-vegetarian platter comprised of the open lamb slider, Grilled Chicken Supreme, Cheddar Baked Nachos, Onion Frittata and some good ol' moong daal pakoda popcorn, with a sweet stack of the Imarti tower. All these are priced at INR 555++, which I think is pretty good for a luxurious Tete e Tea!
On Till: August 24, 2018
Timings: 4pm-6:30pm
Pocket Pinch: INR 555++
2) Spiced Ice Tea Festival, Cafe Pranah
Humid weather of Calcutta killing you? Well, if you want a completely healthy, unadulterated and refreshing tryst to your Chai time, then head out to Cafe Pranah, down Hazra for a unique Spiced Ice Tea festival that comprises of over 7 varieties of Ice teas for you to get replenished and hydrated through the month. Here are some of the Ice teas you could savor from the menu:
- Orange and Cinnamon: Brewed Cinnamon tea sweetened with orange juice. It is good for people trying to lose weight as it increases the body metabolism.
- Curry Leaf and Honey: Honey flavored green tea with mashed homemade curry leaves.
- Pepper and Vanilla: A dessert tea that is brewed with Assam tea, flavored with real vanilla and black pepper. Pepper is good for sinus and throat problems while Vanilla acts as a nerve relaxant.
- Gandharaj and Chilli: This green tea based iced tea is a very good hangover curer and is a powerhouse of antioxidants. It has shavings of Gandharaj zest with honey as a sweetener.
- Wild Berry and Nutmeg: This tea comprises of home-grown mint, berries, and nutmeg. Nutmeg is a very good nerve relaxant and blends perfectly with wild berries.
- Red Chilli and Pomegranate: This tea is a concoction of pomegranate seeds, red chili with a hint of ginger. Pomegranate seeds act as immunity boosters and increase the hemoglobin. Chilli, on the other hand, opens up our senses/tastebuds.
- Mint and Ginger: Home brewed Assam tea, flavored with homegrown mint and young ginger that acts as a good digestive aid.
On Till: August 31, 2018
Timings: All day
Pocket Pinch: INR 109 onwards
3) Sly Tea Festival, Slyfox Gastroclub
Remember the time we used to sit for hours outside college over glasses of hot cutting chai and munching on basically every kind of street food we could think of? Well, the newly opened Sly Fox Gastroclub in Sector V Salt Lake brings back the same nostalgic essence with their Sly Tea Festival. The curated Sly tea menu is over and above their regular High Tea menu, where patrons can savor 5 vegetarian/ non-vegetarian street food munchies over unlimited cups of cutting chai. While the Vegetarian Menu is priced at INR 295++, The Non-Vegetarian menu is priced at INR 345++
On Till: August 10th, 2018
Timings: 3:30pm- 6pm
Pocket Pinch: Veg Menu- INR 295++; Non-Veg Menu- INR 345++
4) Monsoon Magic Tea Festival, The Tea Trove
Monsoon Magic is a one-month long health tea festival initiated by Calcutta's favorite tea-brand- The Tea Trove– for patrons to savor a delectable spread of teas that replenish the mind, body, and soul.
You could go for flavors like the Green Mango Tea, Durbari Kahwa, Assam Masala, Sweet Ginger, Rose delight or the Rosehip Hibiscus. The festival is ongoing at all The Tea Trove outlets across the city. You could even pick up a packet of these curated teas on the menu too!
On Till: August 15th, 2018
Timings: All Day
Pocket Pinch: Starting INR 287/100gm packet, else Ala Carte
5) Monsoon Adda, The Novotel
Experience the essence of a typical Kolkata Adda this monsoon with Novotel Rajarhat, as they bring to you their 2-week Monsoon Adda promotion. Patrons get a chance to rejoice the quintessential cutting chai and vegetarian/non-vegetarian accompaniments for a stellar price of INR 249 and INR 299 only!
On Till: August 14th, 2018
Timings: 3:30pm-6pm
Pocket Pinch: Veg Menu- INR 249; Non-Veg Menu- INR 299
So there you go, guys! Sip, Savour and Enjoy your Monsoons like never before!
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Proper Overhead Crane Inspections: Don't forget the runway!
During the life of your top running or underhung crane, you need to inspect the condition of the runway on which it operates for damage or wear. Depending on the frequency of use, ratio of nominal wheel load and available load capacity for the runway, these inspections may need to be performed more often than you might normally think. The typical requirement for a runway on any crane is once a year. With heavy class D or E cranes and for any crane operating in a harsh working environment, you should make an inspection more often, and in some cases much more often.
Runway inspections should include:
- General condition of the rail tread surface for the full length of the runway
- Rail splice conditions and bolts
- Rail fasteners including bolts, clips, or hook bolts
- Rail span inspection for parallelism
- Crane endtruck wheel condition
In some situations, rail elevation for levelness should also be checked.
These runway inspections and any subsequent repairs can save your company or organization thousands of dollars in down time, emergency repair or damage from accidents.
Failure to make timely inspections can lead to endtruck/girder or runway cracks or fractures, broken tie-backs and other serious damage.
Eroded rail running surface.
Broken and missing splice bolts.
Broken or damaged splices can cause immediate and catastrophic wheel or wheel bearing failure.
Fractured and eroded rail splice.
Broken and deformed splice joint.
Repaired rail splice.
Engineered Lifting Systems recommends that companies have a runway inspection once a year for cranes that are used in production. Also, a comprehensive report should be created and reviewed by a designated person at the facility in order to develop a course of action for any repairs needed to maintain the runway structure as well as determining the frequency of future interim inspections based on likely wear and tear.
Engineered Lifting Systems offers expert crane inspection and uses laser alignment, laser span (distance), and laser level for the most accurate evaluation and repairs of runway rails whether top running or underhung type.
There is no substitute for proactive periodic crane and runway inspection for a safe and productive workplace. Save money, save time and avoid accidents or injuries. For more information or assisting with your crane inspection requirements, please contact Eric Brown.

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Pesarattu - Green Moong Dal dosa made with made with only lentils, green chillies and Garlic.This is a great Vegan, Gluten Free, high protein & low carb breakfast dish.
I ate pesarattu almost everyday during my pregnancy to keep my sugar levels in check.They are great for people with diabetes!
Variations of Pesarattu
In the northern part of india, a version of pesarattu is made with yellow moong dal. The crepes are called chillas which are usually stuffed with grated paneer and served with sweet and sour tamarind chutney.
Down south, Moong Dal Chila are called Pesarattu.These crepes or dosas are made with green Moong dal (with the husk).It's served with a filling of potato and a side of chutney such as peanut chutney or coconut chutney.
Though the healthiest way to make lentil crepes is with sprouted Moong Sabut i.e. Sprouted whole Green Moong Dal.This is the most nutritious and the best way to make this dosa.
Pesarattu recipe is often suggested for people with diabetes and folks on diets.It's a great replacement to normal carb heavy dosas.
How to make Pesarattu - Green Moong Dal dosa
Step 1- Soak the Dal for 2-8 hours.I often do this overnight.
Step 2-Grind the dal along with the green chilli, garlic, salt & asafetida. Pesarettu batter doesn't need to be fermented.
Step 3- Heat the tawa, spread the batter like dosa on it.Add a few drops of oil/ghee.Flip and cook the other side and serve hot!
Shortcuts and Tips
- When in hurry, make the Moong Dal Chila with the yellow moong dal because this needs the minimum amount of soaking.
- If you are using a cast iron tawa, add little bit of oil on the tawa, spread it with halved onion.This simple trick makes the tawa nonstick!
- 1 Cup Moong Dal split
- 1 teaspoon Hing
- 1 Green Chilli
- 1 Clove Garlic
- Salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon Oil
- Soak the Moon Dal for 2-8 hours.
- Discard the water.Add the soaked moong dal along with hing, green chilli, garlic and salt.Grind it into a thick batter with ¼ Cup of water.
- Spread on a hot tawa.Add a few drops of oil.Flip and cook the other side.
- Serve with chutneys or podis.
Burn Notice
The major reason for the burn notice is brown caramelized bits on the pan.
No Deglazing- Burnt bits left in the pan after sautéing. When you make a recipe that calls for sautéing or browning before pressure cooking, make sure you deglaze. Deglazing is a way of getting more flavor but in this case, more importantly it's to avoid the burn notice.
To deglaze- After you have finished sautéing, add the liquid to the pan and using a wooden or silicon spatula, rub the bottom of the pan so all burnt bits get mixed up in the liquid. Only after than, pressure cook.


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Premiere of new video from massive '1977' album
Kölsch's recent '1977' album continued Kompakt's masterful touch for releasing epically, emotional house and techno, the likes of piano dazzler 'Der Alte' and analogue techno heart warmer 'Opa' winning the affections of everyone from Solomun and Laurent Garnier to Eats Everything and Pete Tong.
In fact, if you want an indication of Kölsch's ever popular touch then consider that he's shifted over a million records (helped no doubt by 2007's massive 'Calabria', which he wrote under the moniker Rune RK) and Lady Gaga once warmed-up for him - all this while never straying far from his love of underground house and techno.
We have the exclusive video premier to 'Goldfisch', the sunny anthem that's been destroying festivals and clubs all summer, and there's a cheeky heart hands from Kölsch at the end in recognition of its loved up vibe.
Catch Kölsch playing at the 20 Years Kompakt Party at Fire, London, on Friday 25th October alongside Kompakt boss Michael Mayer, Robag Wruhme, Pachanga Boys, Sascha Funke, Blond:ish, Terranova, Walls and Saschienne. Get your tickets here now.


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A drunken driver who plowed into and killed a local homebuilder as he rode a bike in his gated neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon in 2015 was sentenced Friday afternoon to 4½ years in prison.
Coulter Cook, 27, pleaded guilty in August to vehicular homicide and driving while intoxicated in connection with the death of 59-year-old Reed "Bart" Rutledge. His plea agreement capped his sentence at six years. Prosecutor Alfred Quintana asked the judge to impose the maximum sentence, while Cook's defense attorney Erlinda Johnson asked the judge for probation.
Second Judicial District Judge Brett Loveless said he recognized that while Cook had no criminal history and expressed "a great deal of remorse," he also "got behind the wheel of a car and drove in a neighborhood and killed a man." He also pointed out that Cook's crime was set in a society packed full of messages reminding citizens about the destructive consequences of driving drunk.
Cook described his own actions as "reckless" and "irresponsible" as he told the judge and a full courtroom that an apology would not begin to describe how terrible he feels.
"I would never ask for or expect forgiveness for the damage that I have caused," he said. "My only hope is that the victims of my terrible mistake who are still here will one day find peace and happiness in their lives."
According to police, witnesses reported seeing a truck swerving and bouncing between the curbs on a street in the Tanoan community at around 2 p.m. July 19, 2015. The truck hit Rutledge as he rode his bicycle, dragging him about 150 feet. Quintana said a blood test taken about four hours after the collision found that Cook's blood alcohol level was 0.23 percent.
Rutledge's daughter told the court about the man her father was, and the way his death has impacted her family.
"I remember watching my mom crumple to the floor as a scream exploded from my mouth that I wanted to stop but couldn't," Rachel Rutledge said, describing the day her father was killed.
Rutledge's wife, Jeneen, said she thought the sentence was insufficient and said it was "ludicrous" that the state continues to allow drunken driving fatalities to happen. "Another family's going to go through this and we're going to say, 'Why?' " she said. "This is why."
Rachel Rutledge said nothing would bring her father back. "It's just not enough,' she said. "And it's never going to be enough."
Johnson declined to comment on the sentence following the hearing.


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I have been associated with the Midwives of New Jersey since 2013. I am happily married to my soul mate and biggest supporter for 7 years, Jonathan.
When I became pregnant with my son, in 2013, I knew that I wanted a natural, stress free birth. I was fortunate enough to come across The Midwives of New Jersey, and with them as my provider, had an awesome birth experience. My son, Brayden, was born through a beautiful waterbirth at Morristown Medical Center. When I became pregnant again with my second child, and knowing how uncomplicated my first birth was, I decided to have my daughter, Audrey, at home and have a waterbirth, with complete support of the Midwives.
It was after this, that I decided to pursue a new career, as a Midwife Assistant. Knowing how wonderful the Midwives and doulas were for me, I knew I wanted to be that person to help and assist mothers with having the wonderful experience that I had. I am now a certified DONA Doula, and look forward to utilizing my training and experience to help pregnant mothers.


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The State of California finally adopted permanent cannabis regulations earlier this month. In a series of posts, we're going to cover the highlights of each agency's permanent rules so that you know what big changes to expect during 2019. This post will cover the main changes (in our opinion) regarding the California Department of Public Health Manufactured Cannabis Safety Branch's ("CDPH-MCSB") permanent regs. Without further ado:
No more Farm Bill hemp-CBD ingredients or additives. It's no secret that the California Department of Health Food and Drug Branch ("FDB") has an issue with hemp-CBD. Specifically, an FAQ that issued from FDB last year made clear that FDB prohibits hemp-CBD in "Food" for humans and pets. Now, CDPH-MCSB is following suit (indirectly). Pursuant to new regulation 40175(c), "a manufacturer licensee shall only use cannabinoid concentrates and extracts that are manufactured or processed from cannabis obtained from a licensed cannabis cultivator." What this means is that using Farm Bill hemp-CBD as an ingredient or addictive to cannabis manufactured products is not allowed unless it comes from a licensed cannabis cultivator. The protections of the Farm Bill won't apply.
Owners and financial interest holders. I recently wrote about how it's unclear as to how far the state will now go in finding and vetting entity owners and entity financial interest holders, especially since the Bureau of Cannabis Control ("BCC") articulates in its rules that it intends to locate and vet every human possible in pretty much any ownership structure. But what about MCSB? MCSB entity owner regulations now state that "if the owner . . . is an entity, then the chief executive officer and members of the board of directors of the entity shall be considered owners," and for financial interest holders, MCSB rules mandate only that "financial interest holders shall be disclosed on the application for licensure." On balance, the BCC's owner and financial interest holder rules are much more aggressive than MCSB, and the BCC's comments to its owner and financial interest holder rules was that all agencies would apply the same standards for vetting. However, this clearly isn't going to be the case if stakeholders go off of a plain reading of the law. Though it will be strange, the MCSB will very likely stick to its minimal vetting requirements while the BCC goes full bore on retailer, distributor, and lab owners and financial interest holders.
Changes in ownership. Again in contrast with the BCC, the MSCB is going to be much easier on changes in ownership of licensees. Under BCC regulations, if there's a full buy-out of all existing owners, the entity can no longer operate while the change of ownership is being reviewed and processed by the BCC. The MCSB however has no such standard, at least not one that's codified under the new regs. Specifically, for any changes of ownership or changes to financial interest holders, the MCSB expects the following protocol:
"The licensee shall notify the [MCSB] of the addition or removal of an owner through [the agency's online system] within 10 calendar days of the change; Any new owner shall submit the information required [by law]; The [MCSB] shall review the qualifications of the new owner in accordance with [state law] and these regulations to determine whether the change would constitute grounds for denial of the license. The [MCSB] may approve the addition of the owner, deny the addition of the owner, or condition the license as appropriate, to be determined on a case-by-case basis; An owner shall notify the [MCSB] through [the state agency's online system] of any change in their owner information . . . within 10 calendar days of the change; and a licensee shall notify the [MCSB] through [the state's online system] of any change in the list of financial interest holders . . . within 10 calendar days of the change."
Labeling. Labeling is still just as intense and comprehensive as it was under the emergency regulations. Now though, manufacturers need to ensure that, if a product container is separable from the outer-most packaging (e.g., a container placed inside of a box), the product container includes the following: (1) For edible cannabis products, topical cannabis products, suppositories, or orally-consumed concentrates, all information required for the primary panel except for cannabinoid content, and (2) for inhaled products (e.g., dab, shatter, and wax), the universal symbol (which is the black triangle with a cannabis leaf and an "!" with "CA" underneath). We also now (finally) have specific labeling requirements for pre-roll and packaged flower that didn't exist before outside of the statute, itself. Overall, there are additional technical change requirements for labeling, including the weight of the product now needing to be in metric and U.S. customary units, specific labeling for flavoring in line with federal law, and more specific labeling restrictions for cannabinoid content.
Packaging. Until 2020, manufacturers are off the hook for providing child resistant packaging ("CRP"). Until then, retailers will bear the burden of CRP through the continued use of CRP exit packaging. Once CRP for manufacturers kicks in though, they'll need to adhere to a litany of requirements, including compliance with the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 Regulations.
New product definitions. Via the permanent regulations, MCSB has introduced a number of newly defined terms, which is ultimately better for licensees so that confusion doesn't abound as product development continues. For example, we now have as recognized definitions like:
- "Infused pre-roll," which means "a pre-roll into which cannabis concentrate (other than kief) or other ingredients have been incorporated";
- "Kief," which means "the resinous trichomes of cannabis that have been separated from the cannabis plant"; and
- "Orally-consumed concentrate," which means "a cannabis concentrate that is intended to be consumed by mouth and is not otherwise an edible cannabis product. 'Orally-consumed concentrate' includes tinctures, capsules, and tablets . . ."
OSHA training. Given that cannabis remains federally illegal, people often think that violating one federal law somehow gives you a license to violate every federal law, which is entirely untrue. Under the permanent MCSB regulations:
"for an applicant entity with more than one employee, the applicant employs, or will employ within one year of receiving a license, one supervisor and one employee who have successfully completed a Cal/OSHA 30-hour general industry outreach course offered by a training provider that is authorized by an OSHA Training Institute Education Center to provide the course."
Clearly, safety and federal compliance in the workplace still applies, even to cannabis operators, which is now demoralized under the permanent MCSB rules.
Changes to operations that now require state approval. As the state moves along with licensing and enforcement, it was inevitable that certain licensee actions would first require state approval. What this usually means is that major changes to your business or SOPs can't go down without the state's blessing, which can take weeks or months to secure. Specifically, for the MCSB, licensees will now have to report to and clear with the state the following action items before the licensee pulls the trigger on them (all to the tune of a $700 change application fee, which is non-refundable):
- the addition of any closed-loop extraction method;
- the addition of any other extraction method that necessitates a substantial or material alteration of the premises;
- the addition of infusion operations if no infusion activity is listed in the current license application on file with the [MCSB] (you'll also have to tell the state about "any changes to the product list on file with the [MCSB] and provide a new product list within 10 business days of making any change" to the products you're making"); or
- a substantial or material alteration of the licensed premises from the current premises diagram on file with the [MCSB].
Importantly, a "substantial or material alteration" includes: "the removal, creation, or relocation of an entryway, doorway, wall, or interior partition; a change in the type of activity conducted in, or the use of, an area identified in the premises diagram; or remodeling of the premises or portion of the premises in which manufacturing activities are conducted." Be advised!


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This piece was originally written July 12, 2009, just after my daughter's second birthday.
I just know that if Beach Party Barbie were alive, she wouldn't be my friend. Even before I took her out of her pink-bedecked box with the plastic window in front, I admit I detested her perfect body, her long, silken blonde hair, her unrealistically shaped body. If you ask me, every woman secretly hates Barbie, at least a little bit. Doesn't she represent an unattainable goal, born of an era when women were judged by their looks rather than their brains and hearts.
Today, I attempted to make a Barbie cake. I remember seeing these cakes in bakery windows, Barbie's arms reaching out, as if to greet her adoring fans, as she stood on a paper doily, cloaked in rich buttercream frosting, a strapless gown artfully piped onto her body by the baker's steady hand. I wanted one so badly, but birthday cakes in my childhood home tended toward the practical rectangle or round variety, decorated with homemade frosting and candles.
For my daughter's second birthday, I knew I was destined to make her a Barbie cake. But like I said, Barbie and I don't get along. I think she may have been sneering at me behind those thick, glossy lips of hers. The cake baking was a near disaster, with the batter nearly spilling out over the edge of the cake pans: then, the cakes came out the wrong size, and when I inserted Barbie through the middle of the cakes, her chocolate "skirt" only reached mid-thigh. Then there was the frosting, which I carefully whipped and cooked in my double boiler, meticulously setting my kitchen timer so that my "seven minute frosting" was authentically cooked for seven minutes. I tried to do everything right, but it came out all wrong. As I was globbing on the lumpy frosting, watching it drip sadly down the side of Barbie's bundt skirt, I had to bite my lip from bursting into tears. My Barbie Princess cake was more like a Barbie-Floating-in-a-Toxic-Cloud-of-Misshaped-Pink-Asbestos cake. This would never do.
I think my husband's exact words were, "Don't bail on Barbie!" He knew I was ready to give up. I had given it my best shot, but Barbie won. Her glassy eyes stared at me in a victorious glare, and I knew she had defeated me. Even inside the clump of chocolate mess I had attempted to create, she still looked magnificent, long blonde hair billowing defiantly over my asymmetrical mess of a cake. I started thinking things like, "There's always next year. Next year, I'll get a better Barbie."
My husband can do many things. He knows how to build things, how to fix things, and how to deconstruct and rebuild things. But watching him work magic with pink whipped frosting positively makes my heart go pitter-pat. Like a sculpture, he took Barbie, set her straight, fashioned a bedazzling stage for her out of a cardboard box and some foil, and he made all my Barbie cake dreams come true. And as I watched him, I realized that in some ridiculous way, this Barbie cake represents all my shortcomings, and why, for some unexplicable reason, I was lucky enough to have married the one person in the world who knows just when to step in, smooth out my imperfections and add a few sprinkles on top, just to add sweetness.
My daughter's birthday cake was not a disaster after all. She loved it. She shouted, "PRETTY!!!" when she saw it. But you and I know that the Barbie cake wasn't for her; it was for me. I had my childhood dream fulfilled today. I thought I could do it myself, but I needed some help from my very own Prince Charming.
Happy birthday, sweet daughter. Next year's cake can be just for you.


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Fraser Valley – This really should not come as a surprise, as one just has to see the current vibe in social media posts. No one has any extra cash to spend, and that is directly hitting charities.
Yes we may sound like Scrooge, but this is where reality sets in.
A VanCity report says we in BC, just can't afford to give as much money to charity as we used to. BUT, we are volunteering our time (see, there is the silver lining).
According to Senior Vice President of Business Development at Vancity, Linda Morris, holiday donations have dropped by 25 per cent in the past five years, with just 59 per cent of us now making donations compared to 79 per cent in 2011.


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ESPN just concluded their month long Michael Jordan documentary "The Last Dance", which turned out to be a hit in the ratings as they gave a behind the scenes look at Jordan's historic run with the Chicago Bulls during their rise to prominence and back-to-back three-peats.
That got us thinking, if a documentary was put together on a big event/moment in Pitt sports history, which would you be most interested in watching?
There has been plenty of heartbreak, but also some great life-affirming moments and historic runs throughout the school's history.
We came up with some storylines, both good and bad, that we think would be deserving of at least a few episodes of a miniseries, so register a vote and let us know what you think.
While the negative stories would certainly warrant one, but I would just rather have a positive story that covers the entire program. I voted for the rebirth, but Connor's story would make an excellent one.


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bagus sutan posted a topic in Using FusionWidgets XTHi, I'm trying to make realtime led gauge and I'got this one problem (the others work fine). When I set <value>0</value>, the led gauge just silence, did nothing, no activity but when I set <value>4000</value>..viola it runs very smooth showing realtime value. is anything wrong or a bug? and I have to write the dataStreamURL=pass.asp in lower case (it doesn't work in upper case)? regards, Bagus Sutan
Hi, I attached the bulb image. As you see, i want the label inside which change base on the value to put on the right of the bulb (not just a static label). Thanks for the help. Regards, Bagus Sutan
Hi, I tried the xml but i's not what I'm up to. I want the label on the right follow the value of the range as stated. Thx.
Hi, What I meant here, the label of the value as I replaced the value with the label='Low' and activate useColorNameAsValue='1' but I want to put the label on the right of the bulb (bottm as default position)? Thx.
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bagus sutan posted a topic in Using FusionWidgets XTHi, 1. How can I put the label position on the right of the Bulb? 2. Can I write custom tooltips like if the range 0-1 tooltip='Low' and range 1-2 tooltip='High' Thx.
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bagus sutan posted a topic in Using FusionWidgets XTHi, I'm developing a page with led gauge but actually i only need the realtime value and not the led. is it possible? to hide the led bar? Regards, Bagus Sutan
Hi Basundhara Ghosal, Sorry I missed that chapter. 1. Can ClickURL properties open new window? for example open page "well.asp?well=KXX01" 2. Why the width 100% sometimes work and other time doesn't (I have to refresh the page again). is it a bug? regards, Bagus Sutan
Hi, Sorry to bring the issue again. I've developed the chart above with dual Y-line style, but the format number the right came up with 40.000 instead of 40 K Regards, Bagus Sutan
Thank you for the reply and it's very helpful. regards, bagus sutan


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BBC News reports that troubled US carmaker General Motors has announced a loss of $6bn (£3.98bn) for the first three months of this year as a massive slump in sales hit revenues.
The loss is almost double the $3.3bn loss recorded a year earlier, while revenue of $22.4bn is almost half that posted in the first quarter of 2008.
The company also said it burned through $10.2bn of cash in its attempts to stave of bankruptcy.
The carmaker has taken billions of dollars in aid from the US government.
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4-23-19 Tonight we're headed down to Texas, to talk with Gary Gordon, owner of Breaking Brew Meadery in Farmers Branch, Texas. Gary and his family got involved with mead via beer. He gave his son at beer kit on his 21st birthday, and that got the ball rolling. After 5 years of making beers, he got really interested in meads and ciders. They were really interested in how fast mead was taking off, and realized that craft beer drinkers are open minded about trying new things, and the meadery idea was born. Once they realized the equipment costs were lower for mead, that really got things going. Breaking Brew Meadery currently makes 10 session meads, and is getting ready to release six full meads, and is poured in two taprooms. We'll talk with Gary about his meadmaking ideas, and delve into his adventures in starting a meadery.
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The wifey and I spent our Sunday at church with some friends, followed it up with a nice little lunch at a local sandwich joint, and then spent the next three-ish hours losing our open house virginity to the city of Seattle.
Thought I'd share with you today a little bit of my experience, but first you need a few background details about our search parameters. Our price range that we put in on Redfin was $300-$425K (the upper end being out of our range for sure, but still fun to look at). We only looked at houses in the northern Seattle area (Greenlake and around UW for those familiar). We didn't care about sqft, bedrooms, or bathrooms.
House 1:
It's a 1bd/1bth home listed at $385k. While GN and I have no desire to buy a one bedroom house, we saw in the pictures there was an unfinished basement and a finished attic. The potential for a second and maybe even third bedroom was there. That was, until we walked in the house. The realtor said it best, "the pictures oversell the house and leave most potential buyers disappointed". Reality was, the attic was about 5 feet tall and could only be used for storage, and the basement was about 7 feet tall and had a crappy layout. The main floor was great, and ya can't beat the location (two blocks from the coolest lake in the city), but there is no way we are paying that much for only three livable rooms.
House 2:
It's a 3bd/2bth 1,600 sqft house in a northern seattle neighborhood listed at $400k. It had the best paper stats of any of the houses we'd seen (2 baths in Seattle is not easy to find in our price point). I was sad when we pulled up because the first thing I noticed was how small the windows were on the front of the house. This meant natural light would be limited. Unfortunately, that wasn't where the awkward ended.
The kitchen was completely renovated and really nice, but it was no joke, the longest kitchen I've ever seen in my life. Just look at some of the pictures, it's insane. While a big kitchen is great, this one just took up too much precious space. Did you see the size of that living room? It's the size of a freakin' closet! The best part of the house (the kitchen) ended up being the worst part.
House 3:
It's a 2bd/1bth 1,060 sqft house with an unfinished basement that would add another 900 sqft of living space if finished, listed at $375k. The curb appeal was pretty good. The driveway was epic, could park like 6 cars in tandem. The main floor's layout was a nice open concept and had been recently renovated. We went down to the basement, and although it was intimidating, it was pretty easy to see the potential. The ceilings were tall enough it could be rented out as a MIL unit and bring in $1,000/month in rental income.
The attic, however, was a nightmare. It was completely unfinished. In fact, it looked like the previous owners brought bags of dirt from outside and tried to insulate the attic floor with it. What's more, the ceilings were too low for the space to be livable. If we bought the place, we'd have to finish the attic, and it didn't make much sense pouring thousands of dollars in to an unlivable storage space. GN started dry heaving at the site of the attic, it was that bad. It was also the only house we looked at with no back yard.
We looked at two more houses that were well outside of our price range ($550K and $650K) and loved both. No surprise right? The most important thing we learned during our open house extravaganza is that you HAVE to go in every single house. The curb appeal, although important, is totally irrelevant. Some cute houses were disasters inside, and some ugly houses had potential. When you are looking at houses that are 60-100 years old, layouts are often funky and unpredictable. Drive by house hunting is pretty much worthless for these types of homes.
We still aren't ready to buy a house, but it was fun getting out there and seeing what Seattle had to offer. I'm sure we will be frequent open house visitors over the next few months so we can figure out exactly what it is we are looking for. But for now, we like renting just fine . 🙂


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Friday, June 25, 2010 6:00 PM ET | By Angela Rosa
(SoapOperaNetwork.com) — "All My Children" Episode Recap – Friday, June 25, 2010.
Angie's health continues to decline and she's starting to have attacks of visual disorientation. She does some research and discovers she might have Acute Viral Outer Retinopathy. Angie and David argue on how to run the hospital. He gets on her case regarding the little boy she saved from the week before without even thinking of the consequences of his safety. Angie asks Natalia to track down the patient for her.
Jesse awards Natalia with a ceremony for making detective.
On the Next All My Children…
- Bianca wants David to take the fall.
- Does Erica think David would try and kill her?
- Angie confides in Jake.
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Astronomers Hedge on Big Bang Detection Claim
By DENNIS OVERBYE
A group of astronomers who announced in March that they had detected space-time disturbances — gravity waves — from the beginning of the Big Bang repeated that claim Thursday but conceded that dust from the Milky Way galaxy might have interfered with their observations.
The original announcement, apparently heralding what they said was "a new era" in cosmology, astounded and exhilarated scientists around the world. At a splashy news conference on March 17 at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., the talk quickly turned to multiple universes and Nobel Prizes.
But even as reporters and scientists were gathering there, others convened on Facebook and elsewhere to begin picking apart the findings. What ensued was a rare example of the scientific process — sharp elbows, egos and all — that has played out over the last three months.
If indeed true, the detection of those gravity waves would confirm a theory that the universe began with a violent outward anti-gravitational swoosh known as inflation — a notion that would explain the uniformity of the heavens, among other mysteries, and put physicists in touch with quantum forces that prevailed when the universe was only a trillionth of a trillionth of a second old. The idea once seemed like science fiction, but the astronomers' findings put it almost tangibly in reach.
As everyone involved said at the time, however, the results needed to be confirmed; it was far too soon to book travel to those other universes.
Now, after weeks of public and private wrangling, discussion and debate with peer reviewers and other astrophysicists, the group, which goes by the name Bicep, has published its official paper in the journal Physical Review Letters. The authors, led by John Kovac of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, write that they stand by their original claim — but they also now acknowledge it is possible that dust in the Milky Way galaxy might have interfered with their observations, producing much or even all of their signal. Read the rest of this entry »
Rumours swirl over credibility of big bang ripple find
Has the recent discovery of gravitational waves been reduced to dust? Not so fast.
The news that ripples in space-time, called gravitational waves, had been spotted stunned the physics community earlier this year. This week, rumours began swirling that the scientists who reported the find have now admitted to making a mistake. The team missed a key detail in its analysis of galactic dust, the rumours suggest, making it more likely that the signal came from a source other than gravitational waves.
But the team's response to this claim is unequivocal: "We've done no such thing," says principal investigator John Kovac at Harvard University. The validity of the discovery won't be known until another group either supports or opposes their finding, which could happen later this year.
In March, the BICEP2 collaboration announced that it had seen an imprint on ancient cosmic light that it says was created by gravitational waves. Those waves are thought to be products of inflation, a period of rapid growth during the first sliver of a second after the big bang. The finding was hailed as a smoking gun for the theory of inflation – and as evidence that theories of a multiverse may be true. Read the rest of this entry »
Lectures on Inflation
TASI Lectures on Inflation
Daniel Baumann
In a series of five lectures I review inflationary cosmology.
I begin with a description of the initial conditions problems of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmology and then explain how inflation, an early period of accelerated expansion, solves these problems.
Next, I describe how inflation transforms microscopic quantum fluctuations into macroscopic seeds for cosmological structure formation.
I present in full detail the famous calculation for the primordial spectra of scalar and tensor fluctuations.
I then define the inverse problem of extracting information on the inflationary era from observations of cosmic microwave background fluctuations.
The current observational evidence for inflation and opportunities for future tests of inflation are discussed. Finally, I review the challenge of relating inflation to fundamental physics by giving an account of inflation in string theory.
Read more at http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.5424v2.pdf
BICEP2 2014 Release Frequently Asked Questions
BICEP2 I: DETECTION OF B-mode POLARIZATION AT DEGREE ANGULAR SCALES (PDF)
About the detection
- Have you detected B-modes from inflation?
We have detected B-mode polarization at precisely the angular scales where the inflationary signal is expected to peak with very high significance (> 5 sigma). We have extensively studied possible contamination from instrumental effects and feel confident we can limit them to much smaller than the observed signal. Inflationary gravitational waves appear to be by far the most likely explanation for the signal we see.
- Couldn't it just be galactic emission or polarized dust?
The data disfavor this. The best current models of polarized galactic emission in our observing region show it to be much fainter than the signal we see. Also, there is little evidence for correlation between our B-mode maps and the predicted pattern from the galaxy. Finally, within our own data, the "color" of the B-modes found by comparing different frequencies is consistent with CMB but disfavors galactic contamination.
- Have you detected a gravitational wave?
The frequency of the cosmic gravitational waves is very low, so we are not able to follow the temporal modulation. However, we are indeed directly observing a snapshot of gravitational waves through their imprints on matter and radiation over space. Ordinary density perturbations cannot create the pattern we observe. The presence of a water wave can be detected by feeling its up-and-down motion or by taking a picture of it. We are doing the latter.
About the science
- What is B-mode polarization and how is it generated by inflation?
Measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background at different points on the sky determines a direction and polarized intensity (the polarized intensity of the CMB is less than 1/1,000,000 its total brightness). This can be visualized as a map of little line segments at every spot on the sky, the patterns of which we analyze. B-mode polarization is essentially the swirly part of that pattern (known mathematically as the 'curl'). For the density fluctuations that generate most of the polarization of the CMB this part of the primordial pattern is exactly zero.[This is because density flows in the early universe go into or out of dense regions, and the polarization lines up with these flows in a way that doesn't swirl, producing only so-called E-mode polarization. To generate a B-mode pattern in the early universe you need gravitational waves.]Inflation magnifies quantum fluctuations, which exist even in vacuum. The quantum fluctuations in the inflation field itself ("inflaton") become the density fluctuations seen in the CMB and at much later times in galaxy distributions. During inflation, the quantum fluctuations in gravity ("graviton") become long wavelength gravitational waves that produced the B-mode we see.
- Wasn't B-mode polarization detected last year?
Yes – but a different kind. Last summer the 10-meter South Pole Telescope announced the first evidence for B-mode polarization in the CMB on arcminute scales which arises from thelensing, or bending of light, by gravitational attraction of structures formed in the relatively recent universe. Recently a second telescope, Polarbear, has also detected this effect. Our data sees this lensing effect too, but what is critical is that we see strong B-mode polarization at the much larger angular scales–2 to 4 degrees on the sky–where lensing is a tiny effect but where inflationary gravitational waves are expected to peak.
- Didn't Planck find that r < 0.11? Do your experiments disagree?
Our measurements don't disagree. Constraints on the gravitational-wave background level r reported from Planck and previous experiments are not from measurements of B-mode polarization. Instead, they come from the CMB temperature measurements which show surprisingly low power at the largest scales, implying little room for an additional contribution from tensors in the context of the simplest models. B-mode measurements like ours aim to directly measure the inflationary gravitational-wave pattern itself at the degree angular scales where it should peak. The tension between the high level of B-mode polarization we see and the apparent low power at large scales may be a statistical fluke, but many possible extensions to the simplest model could also relieve this apparent tension.
- Are you claiming you've detected running of the spectral index?
No. Running is a commonly-studied modification to the simplest Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model in which the slope of primordial spectrum is allowed to change from large to small scales, but it is only one of the possible model extensions that could relieve tension between a high value of r and the low large-scale temperature spectrum. We only choose it as an example because it is simple and familiar from analyses by Planck and other teams. We anticipate that cosmologists will think broadly about possible parameter shifts or model extensions.
- Will your data/maps be made public?
Yes. The papers describing the results we present today are available for download on our webpage right now (and will be on arXiv tomorrow morning). The B-mode results and the information needed to do cosmological analyses with them are available for download now. The maps we've shown, including the high signal-to-noise images of B-mode polarization, will eventually also be released in digital form with the information needed to re-analyze and compare them to independent observations (though this will take us a while).
About the project
- Why the South Pole?
Water vapor in the atmosphere absorbs microwaves, making detailed studies of the CMB impossible from most places on earth. The South Pole is near the middle of the Antarctic plateau, the driest environment on the planet. At an effective altitude of over 10,000 feet (~3000 meters), stable weather patterns and winter temperatures averaging -72F (-58C), the South Pole is the closest a ground-based telescope can get to being in space. The patch of sky we study is visible from the South Pole continuously, 24h each day for the whole year. The National Science Foundation's US Antarctic Program, which operates the South Pole Station, provides excellent infrastructure, communications, and support for the small team needed to run our telescopes, including our winterover scientists Steffen Richter and Robert Schwarz.
- Who funds BICEP2 / this project?
BICEP2 is funded by the National Science Foundation. Like the other telescopes in our BICEP and Keck Array series of experiments, NSF has supported its construction and operation, and also runs the South Pole Station where all our telescopes observe. The Keck Foundation has also contributed major funding for construction of our telescopes. NASA, JPL, and the Moore Foundation have generously supported the development of the ultra-sensitive detector array technology which make these measurements possible.
- Who leads BICEP2?
John Kovac has led the BICEP2 experiment. Clem Pryke has led the analysis that produced today's results. Jamie Bock contributed the optical concept for the experiment and developed the detector array technology. Chao-Lin Kuo designed the polarization sensitive detectors used in BICEP2 and is leading the next major telescope in this series, BICEP3. BICEP2 is the second stage of a coordinated program, the BICEP and Keck Array series of experiments, developed for the South Pole. This coordinated program has a co-PI structure. The four PIs of this series are John Kovac (Harvard), Clem Pryke (UMN), Jamie Bock (Caltech/JPL), and Chao-Lin Kuo (Stanford/SLAC). All have worked together on the present result, along with talented teams of students and scientists. Other major collaborating institutions for BICEP2 include UCSD, UBC, NIST, University of Toronto, Cardiff, and CEA.
- What does "BICEP2" stand for?
Officially, "BICEP2" is not an acronym. It's simply a name.
- How big is your team?
Although we have twelve collaborating institutions (see above) the core team working on this result has been relatively small for a major science project–a few dozen people. We'd like to particularly highlight the contribution of our dedicated graduate students Randol Aikin, Justus Brevik, Kirit Karkare, Jon Kaufman, Sarah Kernasovskiy, Chris Sheehy, Grant Teply, Jamie Tolan, and Chin Lin Wong. Our project postdocs have also included Colin Bischoff, Immanuel Buder, Jeff Filippini, Stefan Fliescher, Martin Lueker, Roger O'Brient, Walt Ogburn, Angiola Orlando, Zak Staniszewski, and Abigail Vieregg.
- Are there competing experiments?
Indeed yes, this is a highly competitive field. There are currently about a dozen ground-based and balloon-borne telescopes that are targeting the goal of measuring B-mode polarization. Many of them are described in this recent review. In addition, polarization data from ESA's Planck satellite are eagerly anticipated. We look forward to results from these experiments which we hope will confirm and further extend the detection we report today.
- What comes next?
In the coming months our team plans to release improved data from the Keck Array, which will further test the BICEP2 detection at 150 GHz and add improved sensitivity at 95 GHz to further constrain foregrounds. By the end of this year the Planck satellite will release its polarization results. Of course we look forward to hearing results from other experiments which can test these results, and extend the frequency and angular coverage. We expect rapid progress. On a somewhat longer timescale, a detected signal at this amplitude raises exciting possibilities for studying inflation through more precise CMB polarization measurements over the entire sky which will spur the community to develop a new generation of ground-based and space-borne experiments.
Andrei Linde: Inflationary Cosmology after Planck 2013
I give a general review of inflationary cosmology and of its present status, in view of the 2013 data release by the Planck satellite.
A specific emphasis is given to the new broad class of theories, the cosmological attractors, which have nearly model-independent predictions converging at the sweet spot of the Planck data in the (ns, r) plane.
I also discuss the problem of initial conditions for the theories favored by the Planck data.
Three decades ago, in inflationary theory looked like an exotic product of vivid scientific imagination.
Some of us believed that it possesses such a great explanatory potential that it must be correct; some others thought that it is too good to be true.
Not many expected that it is possible to verify any of its predictions in our lifetime.
Thanks to the enthusiastic work of many scientists, in inflationary theory is gradually becoming a broadly accepted cosmological paradigm, with many of its predictions being confirmed by observational data.
The new data release by Planck 2013 stimulating the development of new cosmological
theories, by changing the goal from finding various complicated models capable of describing
large local non-Gaussiantiy to the development of new elegant models of inflation capable of
explaining increasingly precise data in the (ns, r) plane.
Just few months ago, we did not know many good inflationary models which would naturally predict the data favored by Planck 2013.
Now the situation has changed. The existence of the universal attractor regime for a large set
of different inflationary models does not guarantee that we are on the right track, but it is
hard to ignore that all of these cosmological attractors point in the same direction, and their
predictions converge at the "sweet spot" in the (ns, r) plane preferred by WMAP9 and Planck 2013 (…)
… Read more at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.0526v1.pdf


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JAC 10th, 12th Board exams 2021 dates announced
New Delhi, Jan 05: The JAC 10th, 12th Board exams 2021 will begin in March. More details are available on the official website.
The Jharkhand Academic Council will hold the matriculation and intermediate board exams from Macy 9 to 26 2021.
JAC chairman Arvind Singh said that although the exams unlike previous years, have been delayed this time due to the pandemic, the results will be declared on time so that students do not face any problems in taking admissions in colleges.
It is up to the district level examination centre fixation committee to decide on the number of centres. The number is going to be higher this year since several norms such as social distancing have to be followed, he said.
Students are already in the process of filling up the examination forms and the last date for the same is January 22. In case the process is not complete, a candidate can fill the form by January 30 2021 by paying a late payment fee.


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Savera Nadeem is a Pakistani actress, producer, director and presenter. Nadeem was born in 1974 in Lahore and grew in London, Karachi, and Lahore, She has a Masters in English Literature from Kinnaird College, Lahore, and studied directing at the National School of Drama, Delhi. Nadeem also has a background in classical music.
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In an environmental movie, I'd probably be the villain. Or at least, one of the lazy sheeple throng the hero delivers his anvilicious lecture to at the end, once he's shown them the errors of their skeptical attitudes and patronage of McDonalds. Case in point: I recently discovered that about two years ago, a kayaking expedition was put together for the express purpose of proving the Los Angeles River represented "traditional navigable waters". It succeeded, officially taking away oversight of the river from the evil Army Corps of Engineers and giving it instead to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency under the auspices of the Clean Water Act.
I should be applauding these plucky underdogs who defied uncaring authority to change the world, and yet all I could think of was… "seriously?" This is what the idea of a "navigable river" has come to?
I mean, the legal definiton of the term is "Waters that provide a channel for commerce and transportation of people and goods." And while the L.A. River is well known for transporting goods in a post-consumer sense, I believe putting it into the same category as the Mississippi is stretching things a tad. No, I don't think the tours qualify, either.
I'm aware there are parts of the L.A. River that are actually quite scenic, even parts that were never jacketed in grafitti-covered concrete and show a glimpse of what once was. Hell, even the concrete parts like those out by Griffith Park look a lot better than when I was a kid, with actual greenery having taken root in the channels. But there's an underlying ambition here to really, really overhaul the river over the next few decades, turning it into scenes like this:
Is that better than what we have now? Well, yes–it would be hard to be worse. But not only does that still look fairly choked with concrete, I'm sort of missing an important element here. Where are the walls? I mean, it's easy to imagine chortling developers who strangled an innocent natural waterway for kicks, but uh… there was a good reason the Engineers did what they did. Every so often, the Los Angeles River goes fucking berserk, and arguably the only reason we haven't had repeats of 1938 are those cement straightjackets making sure the casualties stay confined to people stupid enough to not understand words like "storm drain" and "flood control". Which is why proposal graphics like this terrify me:
The other 99% of the time, I wonder where all this water is supposed to be coming from. But I probably shouldn't worry much, considering this is something estimated to take anywhere from 25 to 50 years, assuming they even find the money to do it.
It does look pretty, and I've seen some amazing transformations in my time–Old Town Pasadena comes to mind–but overhauling the River makes that particular project look like tinker toys, and doesn't bring up the spectre of Atwater being renamed Underwater with the next heavy rain.
It could happen, though. The fish will swim, the pigs will get their wings, and we can all look forwards to a new era of kayak-borne commerce in our childrens' future.


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Rackspace is acquiring signed an agreement to acquire Datapipe, one of the providers of managed services across public and private clouds, managed hosting and colocation. This acquisition, the largest in Rackspace history, brings important new capabilities to Rackspace and will enable the company to better serve customers of all kinds, globally and at scale.
According to industry surveys, the vast majority of companies operate across three or more clouds today, and will do so for years to come. Customers have been asking Rackspace to rapidly expand its abilities in managing multiple clouds at scale, and with the acquisition of Datapipe, Rackspace will be able to meet this growing demand.
Experience serving high-profile public sector customers, including the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy, and Treasury, as well as the U.K. Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice, and Department of Transport. Professional services, software and tooling that will help better serve enterprise customers. Data centers and offices in key markets where Rackspace today has little or no presence, including the West Coast of the U.S., Brazil, mainland China, and Russia. Traditional colocation services across four continents, to reduce cost and risk for customers moving applications out of their corporate data centers. Managed services on the Alibaba Cloud (the largest in China).
By the same token, Rackspace brings new capabilities to Datapipe customers, including: Deep experience in Microsoft, VMware, and OpenStack private clouds, including new service offerings for Azure Stack and VMware Cloud on AWS
Managed Google Cloud Platform. Managed services for enterprise applications, including those in the Oracle and SAP ecosystems, and those used in digital marketing and ecommerce.
"Our customers are looking for help as they spread their applications across public and private clouds, managed hosting, and colocation, depending on the blend of performance, agility, control, security, and cost-efficiency they're seeking," said Joe Eazor, CEO of Rackspace. "With the acquisition of Datapipe, we're very pleased to expand the multi-cloud managed services we provide our customers, while also opening doors to new opportunities across the globe."
Founded in 2000, Datapipe is a pioneer in managed public cloud services. It is a growing and profitable business, based in Jersey City, N.J., with 825 employees and 29 data centers in nine countries. Datapipe serves the complex needs of many large enterprises, including Johnson & Johnson, McDonalds and Rubbermaid.
"We are very proud of the business we have built and the innovations and successful customer outcomes we have been recognized for, and the future of Datapipe will be even brighter in combination with Rackspace," said Robb Allen, founder and CEO of Datapipe. "Customers need guidance using public cloud infrastructure from Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. They also need help navigating the use of private clouds, managed hosting and colocation solutions, often in combination, as they move critical applications out of their corporate data centers. The combination of complementary capabilities and resources from both of our companies will create the world's leading provider of multi-cloud managed services."
Rackspace and Datapipe are remarkably similar. Both companies have been positioned as leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant assessments of providers of managed cloud services, and in industry rankings by Forrester and other leading analyst firms. Both companies are known for their technical expertise and managed services across multiple clouds, exceptional customer service, profitable growth, and engaged workplace cultures. Rackspace intends to build on the industry leadership the two companies have established in reliability and support, to create a new level of end-to-end customer experience.
Pending regulatory approvals, Rackspace's acquisition of Datapipe is expected to close in Q4 2017. Rackspace will develop a comprehensive integration plan and will take great care to maintain and enhance the exceptional customer outcomes that both companies are known for. Rackspace looks forward to welcoming the talented employees from Datapipe.
Both companies are privately held, with Rackspace owned by affiliates of certain funds of Apollo Global Management, LLC and certain co-investors. The majority owner of Datapipe, Abry Partners, will receive equity in Rackspace. Brian St. Jean, Partner at Abry, described this transaction as "a measure of our confidence in the bright future of Rackspace when combined with Datapipe." No additional terms or details of the transaction will be publicly disclosed.
Citigroup is acting as sole financial advisor to Rackspace in the transaction and has committed to provide incremental Senior Secured Credit Facilities, which will be used in part to refinance Datapipe's existing indebtedness and pay related fees and expenses. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is acting as legal advisor to Rackspace.


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The walkway is designed to cut the distance and time needed to hike to the airport's furthest gates.
Oslo Airport is to get a "moving walkway" in an effort to reduce the amount of time airline passengers spend walking "and to improve their overall experience", airport operator Avinor says.
The walkway will be installed on the pedestrian bridge leading to domestic arrival and departure gates B1-B8 – the furthest walking distance away from the central terminal area.
To cut the walking time, a moving walkway is to be installed in both directions. A delivery contract has been signed and work on installation and upgrading the area has already started.
"The provisional permits for the pedestrian bridge and the B gates have been extended until the end of 2021 with our intention to make this structure a permanent one," says communications manager Joachim Westher Andersen.
"We have listened to passengers' feedback about the distance they have to walk, and we are now installing a moving walkway in order to improve their overall travel experience."
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However, until around November 7 the passenger bridge will be completely closed in order to undertake the construction work.
A "pedestrian bridge bus" will be provided during this period, which means that passengers leaving Oslo will have to use the shuttle bus when they are due to depart from one of the B gates.
"We have set up a separate shuttle bus gate in the domestic terminal," Westher Andersen explains.
"Passengers departing from one of the B gates will see signposts showing them the way, and the buses will provide a continuous shuttle services for B-gate passengers. The rerouted course for passengers will be well marked during this period."
Passengers arriving in Oslo on flights that park at one of the B gates will, until December, be collected from their planes by bus and driven to the arrivals hall or to a transfer point if they are in transit.
"According to our plans, the 'pedestrian bridge bus' will not take any longer to reach the B gates, although it might be wise for passengers departing from one of the B gates to allow an extra five to ten minutes in order to walk from the central area in the terminal," the communications manager advises.
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Fakery claims and staged scenes: has Love Island become too manipulative?
Re-shot scenes and unnecessary upset mean the ITV2 show risks falling apart at the seams, says Frances Taylor
A shock Love Island dumping might be about to happen.
Despite being devoted to one another for several years and utterly loyal (yes, even more so than Georgia), there's a risk that fans could be about to break up with the ITV2 show.
Already this series, producers have risked the wrath of viewers after thousands complained to Ofcom about their misjudged decision to show out of context footage to Dani of her boyfriend Jack in Casa Amor. It was not only lazy, it was also mean-spirited.
Now, Laura is going through a similar ordeal. After Georgia and Jack went on a date, a line was drawn when Jack said Georgia kissed him and Georgia was adamant that it was the other way around.
Laura was caught in the middle not knowing what to do, and now, she's been left questioning things further after new boy Idris told her during Tuesday night's show that he watched the footage of the pair's date and it confirmed that it was Jack who initiated the kiss with Georgia.
We have no idea what Idris was watching, but it wasn't what we saw.
This could all be resolved if producers decided to send footage of Georgia and Jack's kiss into the villa. In a poll of over 5,000 RadioTimes.com readers, 88% of fans said they wanted the date replayed to the islanders so that Laura could see that, actually, it was Georgia who very much went in for the kill with Jack.
So why are the producers so reluctant to show the clip to the islanders? Well, now we have an idea.
It turns out that the end of Georgia and Jack's date was filmed at least twice (who's to say it wasn't repeated three or four times?). Love Island tripped themselves up by replaying the date from several angles on Aftersun, leaving viewers in no doubt that the same scene was shot multiple times.
The first thing this throws up is: maybe Georgia has been telling the truth all along? Perhaps for the second (or third) take, Jack went in proper and snogged her face off?
But secondly, and arguably more importantly, it risks being an exposure too far for the show. What Love Island has always done so well is maintained a level of authenticity – when watching, you feel that even if two people have been encouraged to chat alone on the day beds, the conversation they're having is only happening once.
Of course we always knew that the hand of the producer was involved in the making of Love Island. Reality shows such as this don't just happen – there needs to be some slick editing involved, some slightly heightened drama between its cast – and you might expect some re-shooting of inconsequential scenes, say during one of the boys v girls challenges that take place outside of the villa.
But multiple takes of a key date scene that has resulted in people being called liars and a relationship in the villa breaking down? That feels like a step too far.
The revelation that important moments like this are shot several times begs the question, what else is fake about the show? Was Idris poked by the producers to drop that bombshell on poor Laura? He might be a pro boxer, but he isn't a good actor: delivering the lines to Laura about Georgia and Jack's date felt very inauthentic.
And all the contestants in the Beach Hut saying "laying it on Factor 50 thick"? Call me cynical, but is that some incredibly subliminal product placement by show sponsors Superdrug to flog sun cream?
That might sound slightly conspiratorial, but it's now impossible not to ask these questions about how the programme is made – including what the Islanders are and aren't being asked to say. And that's something that's hard to come back from.
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Take Big Brother for example. The news that Rylan Clark was leaving the CBB house in order to attend X Factor rehearsals back in 2013 was the straw that broke many Big Brother fans' back. If a contestant can just walk in and out of Big Brother on a daily basis, what even is the point of a show that purports to cut them off from the real world?
So if a programme all about dating features staged interactions and re-shot dates, what are we all doing getting so invested in the Islanders' love lives for? If it's not real, what's the point?
The recent revelations have unravelled some of Love Island's tightly-stitched threads. The show might be the biggest its ever been, but it won't take many more controversies for everything to fall apart at the seams.
A Love Island spokesperson told RadioTimes.com: "The opinions they have and the relationships formed are completely within the control of the Islanders themselves."
Love Island airs daily at 9pm on ITV2


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Customized house number and name plaques, and tableware are among the brightly painted pottery pieces created in this little shop. The salt-fire pottery and porcelain from Jon Faulkner is also worth a look. Head to the back of the store to see Bermudian artists at work in the open studio.
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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 05, 1987
Mark: Hmm...nothing that exciting here...okay, let's play a record instead of the news! We're back with baby boom chronicler Dan Asher, here to discuss the generational politics of '88! Dan Asher: Thanks Mark. As I was saying before the break, this is the first presidential election in which the baby boomres are positioned to usher in a new generation of leadership! Next year there will be 72 million potential boomer voters, and as Hart demonstrated briefly in '84, there are generational themes that resonate deeply with this otherwise disparate group. Anyone who can tap into those commonalities who can lead the boomers into the future, has got an excellent chance! The big question is who. Who can do it? Who can combine the free spirited irreverence of the '60s withthe hightech hardheadedness of the '80s? Ron Headrest: T-t-talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation!


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Are you looking for Energy Performance Certificate And Renting….
Throughout the UK Energy Performance Certifications are generated utilizing common methods and also energy assumptions which permits structures to be compared with an additional relatively. By doing this it enables owners, potential buyers or occupants to watch the projected energy usage and carbon rankings over an annual basis, so they can think about the total energy effectiveness and also fuel costs as component of their investment or living costs.
All Energy Performance Certificates are accompanied with a recommendations report which outlines cost-effective measures that can be put in place to improve the overall energy efficiency rating of a given property. A typical recommendation could be to upgrade a building's heating system, increase insulation levels in a loft space or to upgrade single glazed areas to double glazing.
The Power Efficiency Certification is essential as greater than 50% of the UK's power usage and also carbon emissions are produced incidentally that we light, warmth and also usually use structures. Relatively tiny adjustments such as mounting reduced power or LED lighting in all electrical outlets of a structure can have an extensive result on energy consumption.
When is an Energy performance certificate required?
Your residential or commercial property's EPC needs to be available to prospective customers as soon as you start to market your building up for sale or lease. EPC Certificates became a regulative need in April 2008. You have to get an accepted Domestic Power assessor to generate the EPC
A requirement on all domestic properties, that are either being marketed, built, or rented out, as well as need to be provided to a potential buyer or tenant for free.
Are there any cases whereby my building may be exempt?
The answer is yes! The adhering to circumstances consider your home exempt.
Some provided structures.
Building due for demolition causing website due for redevelopment.
Structure to be offered or leased with uninhabited ownership.
Places of worship.
Industrial sites, workshops and also non-residential farming structures that have a low energy need.
Stand-alone commercial buildings with a complete helpful flooring space of much less than 50m ².
What are the penalties for not having an EPC?
As from the 1st April 2018, there will be a requirement for any properties rented out in the private rented sector to normally have a minimum energy performance rating of E on an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). The regulations will come into force for new lets and renewals of tenancies with effect from 1st April 2018 and for all existing tenancies on 1st April 2020. It will be unlawful to rent a property which breaches the requirement for a minimum E rating unless there is an applicable exemption. A civil penalty of up to £4,000 will be imposed for breaches.
This guidance summarizes the regulations: Find out more
You do not pay anything until the survey is has been fully carried out and that you are happy with the service. Invoices will be issued at this point.
What is your Energy Performance Certificate process? Energy Performance Certificate And Renting
- Upon arrival to the property, the power assessor will present themselves, carry and also clarify the process out a health & security threat analysis for safety objectives.
The assessor will certainly call for accessibility to all of the spaces in the building, including (where suitable) loft hatch, room in the roof, extensions, sunroom, electric and also gas metres.
The assessor will draw a sketch strategy of the total floor location of the residential property. Once this is done they will overcome each space taking specific dimensions and capturing all pertinent data (Home age, construction products, Wall surface densities, furnace & controls, warm water cylinder details, water cyndrical tube insulation, Second heating systems (if suitable), Flooring building and construction, glazing kind and also low energy lights.Please keep in mind that we value your home in all times as well as will certainly make sure that it will certainly be left as it was before we performed our survey.
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The Assessment
Among our certified EPC assessors will see you at your premises. The study will take commonly in between 1-2 hours to finish.
We will publish your Commercial EPC to the government register within 24-48 hours of leaving your property and send you a copy directly via email.
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Focus 360 has 10 years' experience in offering SAP assessments to a selection of customers based in Bristol as well as all over the UK.
We offer a consultancy method to compliance and constantly have your needs at the forefront of what we do.
We are well versed when handling challenging growths and are yet to be beaten by a hard score to date.
At Emphasis 360 Energy we finish both layout stage as well as as-built components of your SAP Calculations in Bristol as well as we will certainly email your record within your due dates.
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Most of the projects we handle require a renovation score of 40% or over which we have actually constantly handled to attain regardless of occasionally having limited budget restrictions laid out to us.
For this reason alone, we are certain that you won't be dissatisfied in what we need to offer.
We comprehend that you have due dates to satisfy so always provide the exact same day response. In addition to this, we offer a 48-hour fast track service and also exact same day EPC Certification as common, so you won't be maintained waiting.
SAP Calculations (Conventional Analysis Procedures) are a building policy demand as well as the UK federal government's selected method for examining the energy efficiency of all new develop houses, extensions and conversions.
Once SAP Calculations in Bristol have been successfully completed on a dwelling an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is generated. The energy performance certificate is an additional document required for building control sign off and is a legal requirement when selling or renting out a home.
AP rating is a way of comparing the energy performance of various homes and is racked up on a score scale between 1 and also 100 (100 standing for a home with a zero-energy cost and also 0 with a high energy price). Usually, the higher the SAP rating, the reduced the gas cost and also associated co2 emissions (CARBON DIOXIDE). From the SAP calculations, we are able to work out a power cost for a provided residential or commercial property. This is formed by analyzing the building and construction of the home, its heater, internal illumination as well as any type of eco-friendly innovations installed.
SBEM Calculations (Simplified Building Energy Model) is a tool that is used to analyse the compliance of your new non-domestic building with Part L of the building regulations (England and Wales) and equivalent regulations in Scotland, Northern Ireland.
The SBEM estimations procedure is assembled by considering the proposed buildings use of materials, heater, cooling, warm water, air flow and also illumination services. Along with this the calculation likewise considers what renewable energy resources have actually been utilized, such as solar photovoltaic or pv, solar thermal, ground/air-source home heating.
When this data is modelled in our government accepted software, we can offer a precise understanding of what the structures energy performance and carbon discharges will certainly be. This outcome is measured against a notional building of the very same dimensions with any luck permitting good and also innovative design to prevail. By collectively gauging the textile, solutions, illumination, reduced and also renewable carbon technologies to a notional structure we can permit some payment in between the various components.
Who needs SBEM Calculations?
BEM Computations are an obligatory requirement for any heated new build industrial residential property which goes beyond 50m2 in dimension. In enhancement to brand-new develop industrial structures some restoration and extension projects will certainly require an SBEM computation.
Layout Stage:.
Building control will require a style phase SBEM calculation to be submitted at the very same time as your building regulation application. Structure control will not let the structure commence without receiving both papers.
As-built stage:.
Building control will call for both the style phase SBEM Estimation as well as Industrial EPC once the structure has actually been created. Building control will unlikely authorize the structure off without both records.
Air testing (Also known as Air Permeability, air leakage test and pressure test) is a measure of showing how good your building is at keeping the head in and the cold out.
All new growths in the UK are needed to have an air examination lugged as part Approved Record Part L (England and also Wales) and also section 6 of the technical manual (Scotland).
When the structure has actually been completed and also before the occupier moves in, the Air test will certainly always be brought out.
In essence, the reduced the air leakage, the far better the building is at shutting out the cool as well as the reduced the power expense will be. However, having a 100% air-tight building is not essential an advantage as troubles might take place such as mould as well as condensation. Striking an equilibrium in the outcome is key.
You can select not to evaluate all stories on a bigger website, but it's worth noting that the SAP rating will be penalised on those not evaluated. This is commonly referred to as confidence aspect.
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Treatment Bristol as well as the bordering locations, Emphasis 360 Power has one decade' experience offering energy performance certificates (EPC's) in Bristol and also throughout the south-west. Energy Performance Certificate And Renting
We provide both residential as well as industrial EPC certificates to a vast number of customers including estate agents, lawyers, home proprietors, facility managers as well as the public.


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Post in my Comments something you would like to do with me someday (i.e., between June and September).
Then post this meme in your journal to find out what people want to do with you.
I'm very interested in seeing responses.