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Let it Be Me is the enchanting new romance from author, Kate Noble. It tells the story of Bridget Forrester, a gifted pianist, who is, unfortunately, plagued by a terrible case of stage fright and insecurity about her abilities, and Oliver Merrick, a man with a gift for discerning people’s talents and nurturing them.
Bridget, frustrated by the roaring success of her sister’s social debut compared with her own lackluster first season, has been declared a shrew and her “character fixed as ‘unpleasant.’ And there seemed little she could do but endure it.” Until, that is, she receives a letter from the famed Italian composer, Vincenzo Carpenini, inviting her to become his student when he returns to England for an extended stay. Bridget is elated. Finally, proof of her own worth! But after finding out that Carpenini has suddenly changed his mind and no longer plans to leave Venice, she is heartbroken and humiliated.
However, not one to simply accept defeat–at least when it comes to her heart’s desire–and assisted by the convenient collapse of a tree on her family’s townhouse, Bridget manages to persuade her mother, together with her younger sister, to decamp for Venice and warmer climes. When she arrives in Venice for her long-awaited music lessons, she is stunned to discover that the composer does not remember her at all. But Oliver, Carpenini’s friend and supporter does; and since Carpenini has foolishly risked both his career and Oliver’s with a wager against the Austrian composer Klein–the new favorite of the Marchese–Bridget’s sudden appearance is well-timed.
The blossoming relationship between Bridget and Oliver is lovely to read about. As Bridget’s passion for life and love flourishes, so does her ability on the piano. Oliver is unlike any other romantic hero I’ve ever encountered. Very much a beta, he supports and encourages Bridget, and believes in her in a way no-one else has. His character has a good natured temperament and a gentle sense of humor–somewhat refreshing after the big, bad alphas, who seem to get riled up over nothing.
Noble’s writing is lyrical and filled with musical metaphors and similes. Framing the relationship in terms of music was an enjoyable novelty. I particularly liked reading a historical romance set somewhere other than Britain or America, and I’ll admit I’m partial to the romantic setting of Venice. For those seeking a well-written, touching romance with a hero and heroine worth cheering for, I highly recommend Let it Be Me.
Meet the Roman Julio-Claudian dynasty of I, Claudius – the original dysfunctional family – and get ready for a history lesson unlike any you’ve ever had.
I, Claudius is one of the most beloved miniseries ever made and is a wonderful, blackly funny dramatization of the Robert Graves’ novel of the same name. It tells the story of the Roman Empire from the reign of the first emperor Augustus – a reign that brought a longed-for period of peace after over a hundred years of on-and-off civil wars – right up to the rule of the infamous Nero. It romps through seventy years of Roman history, all told through the eyes of an elderly Claudius as he records the history of his extraordinary family.
The BBC miniseries stars Derek Jacobi as our eponymous hero, although he doesn’t seem like much of one. Born with a club foot and terrible stammer, Claudius is alternatively mocked and ignored by his extended family. Claudius soon realizes the value of being underestimated, and as he grows, he hides his intelligence behind his physical disabilities and avoids politics as best he can. But in this family, even the ultimate underdog can’t hide forever.
I, Claudius features Brian Blessed as Augustus and Siân Phillips as Livia, the manipulative, conniving matriarch and Augustus’ wife. Indeed, this tale is as much Livia’s story as it is Claudius’. Livia is the true power behind the throne, delicately manipulating with a rumor here and a little poison there. She is the center of the wheel, turning her family’s fortunes and fate at will. Livia desperately wants her son, Tiberius, to follow in Augustus’ footsteps and become the next emperor of Rome. The problems with that grand plan? One: Tiberius is her son from an earlier marriage, not Augustus’ biological son. Two: Augustus has grandsons by his biological daughter, Julia, who precede Tiberius when it comes to inheriting. Three: Tiberius himself has no interest in being emperor – he’s a soldier through and through. But these minor impediments certainly don’t phase the mighty Livia. Despite her sins, Phillips manages to make you understand, if perhaps not sympathize with, Livia’s single-minded pursuit of power. There is a deeper motivation here beyond mere money and influence.
The miniseries also includes a young Patrick Stewart (with hair!) as Sejanus, the corrupt and power-hungry leader of the Praetorian Guard, and John Hurt in one of his most magnificently terrifying roles as the mad emperor, Caligula.
Bribery, corruption, murder, poison, blackmail, adultery, madness, lust – I, Claudius has it all.
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Everyone knows about the McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit in the mid-90s. Or at least, they think they know. Hot Coffee, a recent HBO documentary, strives to tell the truth about this case, and other civil lawsuits, that have been deemed “frivolous” and the impact of tort reform on the United States’ civil justice system. Sound kinda boring? I thought so too – at first.
As well Ms. Liebeck’s case, the documentary goes on to discuss Colin Gourley’s malpractice lawsuit and caps on damages; the prosecution of Mississippi Justice Oliver Diaz and the buying of judicial elections; Jamie Leigh Jones v. Halliburton Co. and the growing pervasiveness of mandatory arbitration.
The documentary concludes by examining how the plague of mandatory arbitration is swiftly erasing many individuals’ ability to take complaints to the courts. Own a credit card? Cell phone? Well, if you do, it’s almost certain you have signed away your right to a civil trial in your contract and if you ever have a serious complaint and feel entitled to claiming damages, you will be forced into secret mandatory arbitration with an arbitrator who – wait for it – has been chosen by the corporation itself!
Hot Coffee is an eye-opening, jaw-dropping documentary that exposes how corporations have spent millions on a propaganda campaign to distort the average American’s view of these civil lawsuits. This documentary will forever change what you think you know about “frivolous lawsuits” – in reality, what you’ve been told by corporations and doctors afraid of being sued.
The way that the individual’s rights have been infringed upon by mandatory arbitration, caps on damages, and corporate campaign contributions is unacceptable. Hot Coffee shows how access to the courts has been blocked by greed, corruption, and the power of special interests and how the U.S. civil justice system has been changed – maybe forever.
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I first came across Camilla Läckberg when she was mentioned in an article on Scandinavian mystery writers in Romantic Times. I became even more intrigued when I read the review on the front of The Ice Princess from Val McDermid –“Heart-stopping and heart-warming.” “Heart-warming?” That certainly made me pause. After all, “heartwarming” is not an adjective I expect to read describing a murder mystery, and a Scandinavian mystery at that, which tend to be characterized by their wintry settings and bleak atmosphere. But after finishing this book, I couldn’t help but agree with Ms. McDermid’s review.
The two protagonists and primary investigators –Erica Falck, a biography writer, and Patrik Hedström, a local policeman – both grew up in the sleepy fishing village of Fjällbacka, Sweden. This village, overrun by visitors from Stockholm in the summer, desolate and empty during the bleak winter months, has definitely seen better days. The Ice Princess is definitely not a “cozy” mystery, but the blossoming relationship between Erica and Patrik, as well as the various familial bonds that lace the narrative, help to temper the sadness and gloom surrounding the murder.
Following the sudden death of her parents, Erica returns to her hometown and soon discovers the body of a beloved childhood friend, Alexandra Wijkner, frozen in her bathtub. As a biography writer, Erica is seized with the impulse to write about her one-time, enigmatic friend and the reasons that could drive a woman who seemed to have everything to commit suicide. But, as any seasoned mystery reader will guess, Alexandra’s apparent suicide is only the beginning. As Erica begins to delve into Alexandra’s past, Patrik begins to investigate his own suspicions surrounding her death.
A picture of the victim begins to build. Alex was beautiful, blonde, icy, and remote – everything this reader wants in a Swedish noir mystery. And, like any good victim, she was hiding a deep, dark secret that somehow seems to involve the tragic figure of the town drunk, Anders Nilsson. No one in the village can understand how these two disparate figures were connected, least of all Erica and Patrik.
The Ice Princess features tragic childhood secrets, mysterious disappearances, and bribery, all set against the backdrop of the bleak Scandinavian winter. Fans of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will enjoy this mystery, although it focuses less on social issues and politics, and is more in the vein of a traditional mystery.
The novel has a wide cast of characters, and the author continually introduces new characters to keep her readers guessing. We meet Erica’s family, her ex-boyfriend, the victim’s family, and the motley crew of police officers at the local police station, including Mellberg, the pompous, slimy, self-obsessed monster of a police chief, who is both hilarious and horrendous at the same time.
This is a great winter read, perfect for a cold night, curled up with a blanket. Camilla Läckberg is one of Sweden’s bestselling crime novelists and The Ice Princess was her first novel. If you gobble this one up as quickly as I did, never fear! WRL has two more in the series, which have been translated into English.
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The Hour, a recent BBC period drama, has flown somewhat under the radar (at least when compared with the roaring success of a series like Downton Abbey), and it wasn’t until a colleague recommended it that I even became aware of the series. Set in 1956 at the BBC Lime Grove Studios in London, it follows the launch of an hour-long weekly current affairs television show, simply titled, The Hour.
The six-part miniseries stars Romola Garai as Bel Rowley, the independent (female!) producer of the show; Ben Whishaw (the new “Q” in Skyfall and star of Cloud Atlas) as her best friend, Freddie Lyon, a brilliant and passionate reporter; and Dominic West as the charming and well-connected anchorman, Hector Madden. This is the opportunity Bel and Freddie have been waiting years for – to be a part of a new breed of investigative news program that could change the face of news at the BBC.
But a chance meeting with a childhood friend and a hushed-up murder on the Underground thrusts Freddie right into the middle of a deadly Cold War conspiracy and the silent war being waged between MI6 and the KGB. As Freddie begins to investigate, the trio becomes embroiled in a tangled web of politics, ambition, and romance. But a controversial breaking story could spell the end for the program, just as it is beginning.
And in amongst all the secrets and spy-games, I even learned a fair amount about the Suez crisis in 1956 between Britain, France, Egypt, and Israel (something I wasn’t even particularly aware of prior to the show), as well as the rules regulating broadcasters at the time. To my surprise, there used to be a fourteen-day gag rule that prohibited news programs from debating or analyzing anything discussed in the Houses of Parliament until two weeks after the event. But our intrepid team manages to find a neat way around this limit to free speech.
The Hour is lushly produced with period sets and costumes and is a wonderful piece of escapist drama. It is full of quick-witted repartee and fast-paced dialogue. The love triangle at the heart of the story is nicely balanced by the Ian Fleming-esque intrigue that seems to follow Freddie wherever he goes. Best description? It’s like HBO’s The Newsroom crossed with John Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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The Song of Achilles was the first book I read this year, and come December, there’s a pretty good chance I may say it was the best book I read in 2013.
I studied Classics at university, and of course the Iliad was required reading. But I often had to admit, always a little sheepishly, that I was never really a big fan of the epic. I could never enjoy the long lists of ships, war prizes, heroes, and descriptions of violent, bloody deaths that fans of Quentin Tarantino would find familiar – and least of all the sulking, brutish, prideful Achilles. I always found myself cheering for the tragic figure of Hector instead – the prince of Troy who fights not for glory or everlasting fame, but to defend his home and family.
Ms. Miller begins her story with Patroclus, a sullen, awkward prince exiled from his home to the kingdom of Phthia, ruled by king Peleus. Patroclus quickly falls under the spell of the bright-eyed, golden-haired prince, Achilles. Achilles is intrigued by Patroclus and the two become inseparable. When Achilles is sent away to become a student of the ancient, learned centaur, Chiron, Patroclus cannot bear to be separated from his closest, and only, friend; and so he runs away from the palace and joins Achilles on the slopes of Mount Pelion.
The author handles their blossoming affection and romance very delicately and reverently. She does not beat around the bush in her explanation of Achilles’ and Patroclus’ relationship as many more prudish historians and translators have been wont to do over the centuries. Moreover, Ms. Miller gives her readers an opportunity to better understand Achilles’ motives for going to war and provides believable explanations where Homer remains silent. She fleshes out both his and Patroclus’ characters and gives added dimensions to a character, who, in the Iliad, is little more than the sum of his anger (μηνιν…ουλομενην) and pride.
One of the difficulties facing any modern adapter of Homer and his heroic epics is the omnipresence of divinities. Do you, as an author, ignore them, thereby stripping the stories of their heart and soul? Or do you portray the heroes living in a magical world, thereby making the story unrealistic to modern readers and difficult to reconcile with the grim, visceral effects of war? Well, Ms. Miller simply takes the gods in her stride. At the beginning of the novel, she deals with them matter-of-factly in Patroclus’ child-voice. It reminded me very much of how a child today might explain the existence of Santa Claus and his elves. He does not think twice about their existence, and consequently, neither do you. She writes with clear, evocative prose and I would agree with the Guardian’s review that the prose is better than almost all the so-called poetic translations of Homer I have ever read. The Song of Achilles is a must-read for any lovers of historical fiction, and Classicists too, whether they are fans of the Iliad or not.
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At sixteen, Millicent Graves has always known that she’s merely a cog in her father’s machine of Marrying Well. The only daughter of nouveau riche parents, whose family had the temerity to make a fortune from–wait for it–canned goods, she has known practically from birth that she must marry a peer with an exalted title, or frankly, any title at all. Enter the Earl of Fitzhugh, only nineteen, and the sudden recipient of a title accompanied by overwhelming debt, who needs to marry an heiress in order to save his estate from bankruptcy. Cue the marriage of convenience. But unfortunately for Fitz, he’s already in love with someone else. And unfortunately for Millie, who’s been raised to be “sensible” about love and marriage, she falls in love with Fitz almost at first sight.
Knowing how unhappy Fitz is to be selling himself on the marriage mart and losing all hope of being with his beloved, Millie makes a bold proposition. Partly to protect her heart and partly due to her youth, she suggests they wait a few years before consummating the marriage. Neither one is eager for children, and so the heartbroken Fitz readily agrees to her proposal. As the years pass, the work of saving a failing estate and reviving a stagnating business unites them, and the marriage, the greatest challenge either has known, begins to define them both. To their surprise, a deep and considerate friendship develops. But can their friendship ever turn to love?
Ravishing the Heiress is the second book in Sherry Thomas’ new series, which began with Beguiling the Beauty, featuring Fitz’s elder sister. (This novel is definitely worth a read too–not only because it is our first introduction to Millie and Fitz, but also because the story takes place in the unusual setting of a transatlantic liner crossing from New York to Southampton.) While at first glance, this book may just seem like another a marriage of convenience story, it is also a coming-of-age story for Millie and Fitz. It is about the importance of friendship in building the foundation for a meaningful relationship–a welcome antidote to books like the Fifty Shades series. And most importantly, it’s about the old adage that life is what happens when you are making other plans.
Thanks to Thomas’ skill, Millie is kept from being a milksop–by her quiet strength, her sensible nature, and her sincere, patient love for Fitz. Whilst Millie certainly longs for Fitz to reciprocate her feelings, she realizes how unlikely this is and chooses instead to focus on other things, such as her affectionate relationships with her sisters-in-law, her thriving business, and the genuine friendship she and Fitz share. She is a character you can admire. And since this is a romance, it’s no great spoiler for me to say that at the triumphant end, we finally see Millie’s patience and faithfulness rewarded as it should be. And boy, is the ending worth the wait!
Even though I stayed up late to reach the end, I wasn’t quite ready to let Millie and Fitz go and am now waiting impatiently for the next installment in the series, Tempting the Bride, in which they are sure to make an appearance.


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Discussion in 'Tomato Firmware' started by Twincam, Feb 8, 2019.
My current RT-AC3200 is configured as a normal TAP server [VPNS1] bound to my main subnet and excellent for offsite "Windows" access [Users really like that], and as a TUN [Site2Site] server [VPNS2]. I use this to support mates' networks [as it negates the requirement for device-installation of client OpenVPN software]. I have access to their routers so I can easily determine "what is what" from the "Device List" page on their "Tomato" routers.
Occasionally, I would like to remote-access devices on my secondary subnet. It struck me that if I had a 3rd OpenVPN server [VPNS3?] this would be a "piece of cake". I would create a new OpenVPN TAP server and bind it to the correct bridge.
I know there are ways round the limitation I describe as I could change the router configuration - even remotely but, if it were possible, the option for a 3rd OpenVPN server would be great; for me at least!
01) "Quick and Simple" to do.
02) Doesn't add too much to the FW images' size.
I'd be very happy to test. Thanks.
Edit: I also have an RT-N66U which is an obvious test vehicle. I know that is MIPS but it would be less disruptive [for me] to test on. In summary, I can test both MIPS & ARM builds.
As a side note, if you start to have many sites interconnected I suggest you look into tinc.
@Twincam a third OpenVPN server should be possible, probably not so much to change/add.


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Rebecca Greenstein, Executive Director of Opera Moderne, wears many hats and last night, as hostess of The Bohemian Bash, she also wore so many costumes that we lost count. If you have never met this amazing lady, allow us to introduce her. She hails from Texas and has degrees in music and vocal performance. She sings and dances and emcees just for starters, and does them all with special flair.
Last night she put together a fund-raiser in honor of Andreas Stadler, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, where we have heard and reviewed some pretty impressive lieder recitals (one coming up next Tuesday, don't say we didn't alert you). Ms. Greenstein does nothing by halves; the evening had such a variety of entertainment that no one could have left unsatisfied.
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New music and classical, it was all there like a bounteous buffet, from Mozart to Berio. And jazz too! Franz Hackl Jazz Quartet made quite an impression. And burlesque! Right down to the pasties. Did we forget anything? Oh yes, dancing at the after party--Jessie Bunting and the Hot Shim Sham Orchestra. Six solid hours of fun at the Czech Center. We wish we had space to mention all the talented folk who contributed to this amazing evening of entertainment. We just want to know who lit the fire under Ms. Greenstein. And if that sounds like the title of a song, she's probably writing it by now.

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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by miky94, Feb 8, 2019.
I'd like to 3d print a light and resistant folding frame, but maybe to increase flight time I should go on something bigger, because I don't think I could mount props larger than 8", perhaps 9", not 3 blades because I would have more vibrations right? maybe a 450mm is better for this purpose?
I'd use a 4S LiPo but I was wondering if a 6S would make sense, even if ESCs and motors are expensive. is there a rule to choose the right balance between capacity and weight?
going larger which motors do you advise?
^^ write up here does a great job I think detailing how to work out efficiency for given set of motors/props but doesn't get too much into battery selection itself.
Regarding the battery I have a lot of experience working with LiPos and discussing with others on the esk8 forum and here so can explain some of that and run some numbers to see if I can figure out if there is some best number to go with for a given set of requirements.
When talking the capacity of the battery you should really look at it in terms of Watt Hours (how many Watts can it deliver for how much time, 1 Watt for 1 Hour is 1 Wh). The number of cells in series or 4S vs 6S is telling you the voltage but without accounting for the mAh you don't know the actual capacity or Wh, if you have say a 1.5Ah battery (1500mAh) and it is 4S (3.7V nominal/average voltage) then you have 4 * 3.7 * 1.5 = 22.2Wh, if you have same number of cells but 2Ah battery it's 4 * 3.7 * 2 = 29.6Wh. Generally for esk8 application we aim to use around 8S - 12S batteries because at higher voltage we can get more watts without increasing the amps too much and it's basically the limit of the components on the ESC (60V hard cap on the MOSFETs I think, maybe MOSFET driver chip DRV8301/8302 is limiting as well), more amps is more energy lost as heat so generally speaking higher voltage is more electrically efficient. That said for quadcopters, based on the PDF linked above running the props at higher speed means more energy lost to drag on the edge of the prop instead of going into lift so lower rotor speed I guess is ideal to minimize losses.... anyhow yah some preliminary thoughts will let you know once I have a chance to do some calculating but curious to hear others with actual experience on larger craft chime in as well.
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if I understand, higher voltage is more electrically efficient but it means more RPMs then less props efficiency and more energy lost as heat, so what is better, high or low voltage?
I guess the answer is high voltage, that means more power, but using greater stator diameter and low KV motors which has more torque, mounting largest props, right?
but more cells also means heavier battery and maybe I don't need so much power since I'm looking for efficiency and lightness.
for the size of the build I'm thinking of probably 4S is the right choice, I have a 4500mah 30C 360g LiPo.
that said, I would not complicate things starting from zero but I'd use a well tested and reliable combination of ESCs/motors/props.
also for long flight time I've seen many build using Li-Ion batteries, what do you think about it?
for the motors if I understood I should look for highest stator width and lowest stator height right?
about props I know that larger is better but since I'm limited by frame size maybe increase the pitch would be an option?
yes I know it , unfortunately few components are free available.
anyway comparing LiPos at the same brand and capacity I've seen that increasing the cells the g/Wh efficiency increases.
watching painless360 endurance quad build series he didn't use a 4S even if it was more efficient in hovering and more powerful at 100% throttle. he tested it on an EMAX RSII 2306 1600KV which is 6S capable but specs say that it is for 5" or 5.5" props. so the reason is that using larger props it is too stressed?
in the following serie he ended up using DJI 2212 920KV E300 which were made for larger props.
I'm looking for the simplest way to connect PDB/FC/ESCs, I don't know if I should buy the PDB FCHUB-6S for the Matek F405, I've also seen 4 in 1 ESC boards. what do you think about that?
yes maybe a bit heavy but the greater height isn't a disadvantage for the torque?
@RENOV8R in your image I seem to see 4 separated ESCs.
I decided to use a 4S2P Li-Ion, 60A of continuous discharge current should be ok.
I don't know if to buy the Matek FCHUB-6S PCB or a 4 in 1 ESCs board, what do you advice?
Do you also know some wide and low kv (<1000) motor not expensive?
I'd opt for a 4 in 1, do you know any that can act as PDB with BEC for FC and other?
maybe a bit big motor, weights 100g and pull 15" props, it draws to much corrent for Li-Ion but perhaps using 10" the drawing decreases.
^^ these are the two cells I usually see people talking about on the esk8 forum but usually there we're looking at 10S4P or 10S5P to keep the discharge rate high enough to not be stressing the batteries (different application so different power requirements but just saying we usually only pull 3-4A while cruising but during initial acceleration can be 20A or for bigger guys going up hill 40A or more). It's a trade off in longevity of the cells vs flight time for a single flight and overall stability. The more overhead you have in the max discharge vs what you actually pull the better off everything will be.

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Say what you’d like about XML vs. JSON. (I like YAML) I’m still very excited about NuGet’s deeper integration with MSBuild. That’s because MSBuild is so much more than its antiquated file format. It’s an execution engine that enables you to define configuration and sets of data, transform that data, then process it using various tasks.
One of the frequently asked questions about Microsoft.Data.Sqlite is: How do I encrypt a database? I think that one of the main reasons for this is because System.Data.SQLite comes with an unsupported, Windows-only encryption codec that can be used by specifying Password (or HexPassword) in the connection string. The official releases of SQLite, however, don’t come with encryption.
I recently added a feature to Microsoft.Data.Sqlite to enable shareable in-memory databases. These are in-memory databases that can be accessed by multiple connections. Just remember to keep at least one connection open or the database will disappear.
One weekend back in February of 2014, I had the crazy idea to start implementing a SQLite ADO.NET provider as a portable class library. My initial goal was to better understand SQLite, ADO.NET, and unmanaged interop. I showed it to my team (the Entity Framework team), and we decided that it was strategically important to running EF on Windows Store and Windows Phone. My code eventually evolved into the Microsoft.Data.Sqlite package.
If you use Visual Studio, then you’ve probably crossed path with the Text Template Transformation Toolkit (or T4). For those who aren’t familiar with it, it’s a fairly straight-forward templating engine built into Visual Studio. The recent work on ASP.NET Core to enable cross-plaform web development, got me wondered what T4 might look like in this enviroment. Last weekend, I started hacking on Bricelam.TextTemplating, a T4 implementation for ASP.NET Core.


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Start off your visit on the 18th (Sun): go for a walk through West Martello Tower and then admire all the interesting features of Key West Garden Club. Get ready for a full day of sightseeing on the next day: admire the majestic nature at Fort Zachary Taylor, steep yourself in history at Truman Little White House, then examine the collection at The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, and finally look for all kinds of wild species at Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory.
To find traveler tips, more things to do, reviews, and tourist information, refer to the Key West road trip app .
Boston to Key West is an approximately 6.5-hour combination of bus and flight. You can also do a combination of train and flight; or drive. Traveling from Boston in November, things will get much hotter in Key West: highs are around 81°F and lows about 73°F. Finish your sightseeing early on the 20th (Tue) to allow enough time to take a bus to Marathon.
Kick off your visit on the 21st (Wed): look for gifts at Bayshore Clothing, look for all kinds of wild species at National Key Deer Refuge, and then enjoy the sand and surf at Bahia Honda State Park. On the 22nd (Thu), you'll have a packed day of sightseeing: kick back and relax at Sombrero Beach, look for all kinds of wild species at Pigeon Key Foundation, then look for all kinds of wild species at The Turtle Hospital, then look for all kinds of wild species at Crane Point Museum & Nature Center, and finally take in the architecture and atmosphere at San Pablo Catholic Church.
To see traveler tips, maps, reviews, and other tourist information, go to the Marathon attractions planning tool .
Traveling by bus from Key West to Marathon takes 1.5 hours. Alternatively, you can drive. In November, plan for daily highs up to 82°F, and evening lows to 72°F. Cap off your sightseeing on the 22nd (Thu) early enough to go by car to Islamorada.
Kick off your visit on the 23rd (Fri): shop like a local with Michelle Nicole Lowe Art Gallery, kick back and relax at Anne's Beach, look for all kinds of wild species at Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center, then get a taste of the local shopping with Old Road Gallery, then choose your vessel at Robbie's of Islamorada, and finally indulge your thirst for a good beer at Islamorada Beer Company Brewery and Tasting Room.
For maps, more things to do, reviews, and tourist information, read our Islamorada holiday planning site .
Traveling by car from Marathon to Islamorada takes an hour. Alternatively, you can take a bus. In November in Islamorada, expect temperatures between 82°F during the day and 72°F at night. Cap off your sightseeing on the 23rd (Fri) early enough to go by car to Miami Beach.
Kick off your visit on the 24th (Sat): wander the streets of Collins Avenue, take a stroll through Lincoln Road, appreciate the extensive heritage of Art Deco Tours, then enjoy the sand and surf at South Beach, and finally get to know the fascinating history of Art Deco Historic District. Get ready for a full day of sightseeing on the 25th (Sun): enjoy the sand and surf at Haulover Beach Park and then get a taste of the local shopping with Aventura Mall.
For ratings, traveler tips, reviews, and other tourist information, you can read our Miami Beach online journey planner .
You can drive from Islamorada to Miami Beach in 2 hours. Another option is to take a bus. In November, daytime highs in Miami Beach are 82°F, while nighttime lows are 70°F. Finish up your sightseeing early on the 25th (Sun) so you can travel back home.

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Moscow Business School is one of the leading business schools in Russia. It has the solid experience in holding business seminars, corporate trainings and off-site educational programmes. The academic staff of Moscow Business School comprises more than 100 practicing lecturers. The company has its branches in European and the CIS countries.
Campus in Moscow: 38A, Leninskiy avenue. Phone number: +7 (495) 646-15-05. Give us a call to learn more!

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Thank you so much, Jude. Your enthusiasm and understanding makes everything brighter. Your review makes me cry in a good way.
I meant every word of it. This is a very special book.

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We are all different, and so are our preferences for light. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have the lighting exactly as you want it, a light that adapts to your needs and personal preferences?
Now it’s a reality; the truly personal lighting solution.
Mimicking daylight, saving energy and energise you? e-Sense Tune does all that, and more.
e-Sense Tune is a plug and play-control system. It is an innovative, decentralised standalone-system. e-Sense Tune is a truly personal, wireless lighting control system that suits all applications where one user at a time is allowed to control the light.
It’s fast to install and easy to control – you just install the luminaires and everything is ready to go. If you want to expand the system, you just add another room, and another and another … scalability is fierce!
Another strong argument for this solution is information safety. This system is not online, which makes it more difficult to hack. If attacking the system, it has to be done while physically inside the room, as it cannot be done over the Internet.
e-Sense Tune is a true human-centric lighting solution, giving users the opportunity to work in a lighting environment that supports alertness and wellbeing. It is developed for any situation where one person “owns” the lighting and wants to adapt it to personal preferences and tasks. e-Sense Tune is intended for cellular offices, conference rooms or activity areas and can easily be combined with other types of control systems more suitable for large open plan offices.
The light is easily controlled with your phone or tablet. We have created an intuitive interface that’s really simple to use. Once you’ve made your settings, the lighting systems will automatically identify you and adapt to your personal preferences as soon as you enter the room. The system connects via Bluetooth Low Energy – Bluetooth Smart – and we have also developed a unique solution to make sure no users outside the room can affect the system.
Presence without a device gives a general lighting scene for cleaning services or similar.
The e-Sense Tune application incorporates four pre-set settings; Activate, with a cool, crisp, activating light, Focus with a warm, dimmed light, Adapt that gives a general light that adapt to the incoming daylight and Mimic with daylight-mimicking, a light that change intensity and colour temperature over the time of day.
In the app for e-Sense Tune for each user have the possibility to create and define two different personal lighting scenes. You can create various lighting scenarios for each connected luminaire in the room, both in intensity and colour temperature. A warmer light on the wall and a cooler over the desk, or vice versa.
The possibility with personal lighting scenes give the user the opportunities to set the lighting exactly as one want, and need. People over 45 years of age need twice as much light as a 20-year-old person and here e-Sense Tune can be set to meet every individual need.
Are you an Apple fan or do you prefer Android? No matter what, e-Sense Tune comes for both platforms, for phones and tablets. The same functionality and easy, understandable interface meets you in the application. As long as you have the device, the control is always at hand.
With the app for e-Sense Tune and a lighting system that includes the hard- and software required, you have a truly innovative lighting control in your hand, or in your pocket. The graphical interface is designed for ordinary users and very easy to understand even if you don’t have a clue about what Kelvin is.


text: This is a quilt for fabric lovers! The pattern for this lovely patchwork was prepared with the gracious assistance of Diana Boston and is illustrated with photographs by Julia Hedgecoe. It includes instructions for sewing the patchwork by hand with traditional methods. It can also be stitched by machine.

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LINCOLN — Energy produced by Prairie Breeze Wind Energy may one day benefit the City of Neligh.
The City of Grand Island is planning to purchase 100 percent of the energy produced from the recently announced Prairie Breeze Wind Energy III, LLC wind turbine electric generation facility.
Although Grand Island would be the singular purchaser of the energy output, there are conversations taking place between Grand Island and city officials in Neligh and Nebraska City to allow the other two cities to take some of the power generated by the wind farm.These negotiations are solely through the City of Grand Island.
According to testimonies at the Power Review Board hearing on May 22, no official contracts have been signed, but the City of Grand Island has signed a letter of intent with Invenergy, LLC, the parent company of Prairie Breeze Wind Energy III, LLC, who is overseeing the project. Prairie Breeze Wind Energy III, LLC went before the Nebraska Power Review Board and looked for conditional approval to move forward with the plans to begin building the facility.
The Nebraska Power Review Board did conditionally approve the request during the hearing despite the lack of a contract between the two entities.
Representatives of the City of Grand Island and Prairie Breeze Wind Energy III, LLC said the contracts would be signed in early June and that this was a rare circumstance. Tim Luchsinger, the utilities director for Grand Island said the contracts have not been officially signed because the city is still currently waiting on finalizing the power purchase agreement, but it must be finalized by the next board meeting on June 19. Since the project was approved, it allows the facility to move forward with lining up financing, construction crews and materials.
According to Invenergy, the cities of Neligh and Nebraska City are then planning to purchase from the city of Grand Island a portion of the output from Prairie Breeze III, through participation agreements with the City of Grand Island. Nebraska City would purchase approximately 20 percent of the project output, Neligh would acquire five percent of the project output.
Leroy J. Frana, general manager of Nebraska City Utilities and one of the Neligh City Attorney Joseph McNally, also testified in front of the board on behalf of the pending deal. The proximity to Prairie Breeze Wind Energy II, LLC creates a convenience and therefore lower cost for the City of Grand Island because of the infrastructure that is already in place.

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Will drones open up new wildernesses?
In 10 years’ time, accessible wilderness may include areas that are currently barely touched by tourism: remoter parts of Siberia, the Arctic Circle, the Sahara, Patagonia, Papua New Guinea and the Amazon will all feature in dinner party one-upmanship.
The major issue stunting development of wilderness areas now is accessibility, but I can see this becoming dramatically changed by the increased sophistication of drones.
10 years may be too soon to start transporting travellers by pilot-less drones into wilderness areas, although this will happen in due course, but the delivery of supplies to build and sustain remote camps and lodges should mean that it is more viable to bring low-volume tourism into some of the world’s remotest corners.
One upside of this trend should be wildlife conservation. It is probable that without tourism wild tigers would be virtually extinct today. High value, low intensity tourism gives a financial incentive to protect endangered species and provide alternative incomes for people who might otherwise encroach on their habitats.
The mini space race between the likes of Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Eric Anderson should finally have borne fruit in 10 years’ time. I see the significance of these space planes as being less about people having a brief experience of weightlessness, seeing the Earth from space, or even colonising other moons and planets, and more to do with speeding up international travel.
A flight from London to Sydney via space would revolutionise long haul travel. The long-weekend or brief business trip to Auckland or Melbourne could become viable. With several different projects working in this field, we seem to be on the brink of major breakthroughs.
Combining GPS with voice recognition and the enormous memory capacity of modern phones, I expect travellers will soon be able to go to any major city in the world and access a spoken Auto-Guide via their mobile phone, so that when they are walking down the street they can ask “How old is that building?” or “Tell me about the history of this street”, and hear the answers in their headphones.
The development that may make one of the greatest impacts on tourism is the autopilot car. In 10 years, these will be commonplace. Airports will run fleets of electric vehicles pre-programmed to take people to their hotel, office or home. Car hire, now generally limited to destinations where the road craft is relatively ‘predictable’, should become viable even in places like my home country of India.
People often hark back to the ‘Golden Age of Travel’, normally associated with the 1930s, an era of great ocean liners, flying boats, the Orient Express and Nile river boats. While some people are eyeing up the era of the space plane, others will be looking to go retro.
In the era of constant connectivity and apps for every eventuality, I expect the raw thrill of travelling ‘unconnected’ and incommunicado will become a significant, if niche, trend. Retirees, who recall taking gap years before the advent of the mobile phone, will rejoice in locking all devices away and heading off with a compass, folded map and a few nagging doubts, as their baffled children and grandchildren look on aghast.
Could tourists be back in Syria and Yemen?
The cliché is that those that can afford it will be heading off to space for their summer getaway. Here on Planet Earth, personal drones will follow our every move, relaying footage live on social media. Fly-drive holidays will be a thing of the past because computers will do the driving for us, and Virtual Reality will mean many won’t even bother to travel as they can experience paradise in their own backyard.
Once you’ve got on that plane (I’m assuming teleporting ourselves around the globe or universe will still be a few years off), we’ll still be looking for the same things: to escape the world in which we spend most of our time and find a different one in which we can relax, learn, challenge ourselves and have fun.
I doubt we’ll see much change in the traditional European holiday scene, except that Brits will have to join a different queue at immigration. But as far as adventure travel goes, the trend that started some 10 years ago will still be prevalent: ever-more inquisitive travellers heading further off the beaten path.
As a reaction to the huge increase in tourist numbers to mainstream sites, the demands for locations further afield will become greater than ever. In search of this, people will be willing to take more risks. We’re already seeing a rise in travel to locations that offer unspoilt wilderness and a chance to escape connectivity in places like Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Bolivia, Ethiopia, and more still heading to places that to many would seem beyond the pale, like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir and Venezuela.
Sadly, with these increases in tourist numbers, it is inevitable that we’ll see fragile environments, like the Antarctic and Arctic, and iconic sites, like the Taj Mahal and Angkor Wat, limiting tourist numbers. They’ll have to.
It would be a brave man who would claim to know the future as far as geopolitics and world security is concerned, but I sincerely hope that countries whose tourist industry were thriving 10 years ago but today have been snuffed out or severely blighted by war and terrorism – Syria, Libya, Mali and Yemen – will have made a comeback. They’re all fascinating destinations.
Will Virtual Reality make tourists bolder?
Over the next decade, I believe we’ll all take more responsibility for the impact of our travels. Increasingly, customers will expect their travel companies to measure and manage the impact their trip has, both in terms of energy consumption and the way the holiday affects the host community.
‘Labelling’ of holiday packages will become more regulated, like food labelling, so customers can really see what they’re getting and how it affects the world.
Travellers will be looking to understand the culture of the place they are visiting and experience ‘real travel’. Local homestays, ‘taster classes’ in things like cookery and crafts, and a move away from huge faceless hotels owned by multinationals will ensure the tourist pound or dollar goes back into the community, as well as giving travellers richer experiences.
Another antithesis to the ‘fly and flop’ will be an increase in various sports and challenges in people’s leisure time. Parkrun Tourism already exists. People increasingly want to summit mountains, cycle around islands, or do yoga on the beach while they’re away. That desire to use holidays to stretch both body and mind will become the norm.
The increase in camaraderie and participation in Parkruns, Tough Mudders, and Race For Life that we’ve seen in the UK over the last 10 years will have a big impact on travel abroad over the next 10.
Plane layouts will become more flexible, so friends and families can sit around a table, like on a train, to eat, play games and chat. I think people who want to sleep but not to pay for what a flatbed currently costs will be able to use a bunk.
VR headsets will give people a much better taste of what they’re signing up to before the book a trip. Customers will become more comfortable with more exotic destinations, as they watch drone footage and 360 video of it before they go.
When they arrive, their ‘translation earpieces’ will enable them to understand the locals easily, which will breakdown that fundamental language barrier and encourage cultural understanding and sharing. The future of travel looks bright to me.
Is travel going to become a giant Pokémon game?
The number of tourists exploring the world, most of which will be influenced by social media, could increase alarmingly if left unchecked, which will have a big impact on the Earth’s most celebrated travel icons and places of natural beauty, slowly being destroyed by travellers ‘collecting’ experiences, as if it is some sort of huge Pokémon game.
But, as they realise this, I predict they will be more willing to explore further afield, getting well off the tourist trail to discover those ‘hidden’ travel experiences that are less affected by mass tourism.
Technology will also no doubt increase in sophistication, as will the ability to make travel arrangements without the need of human interaction. Because of this, it’s likely that the relative cost of travel will continue to drop, which will fuel expansion. Then, of course, there is the thorny question of how we are to limit greenhouse gases, which could limit the amount of travel permitted.
In 10 years’ time, I’d expect South America to have been arising star, particularly Chile, and Russia too if it can get its act together. Antarctica, Svalbard and Greenland should all see an increase too, but hopefully in a very controlled way.
Will travellers move faster and pack more in?
Predictions are always tricky. Travel is affected by world events probably more than any other industry and in these unpredictable times, with so much conflict in the world and the dust yet to settle on Trump and Brexit, who knows what the future holds? One minute a destination can be booming, only to be wiped off the tourist map in moments as a reaction to an unpredicted event.
One trend that I can’t see changing, as it has been growing continuously for around 20 years now, is the desire to be active on holiday, rather than to fly and flop on a sunbed for a fortnight, as was the norm when tourism first went mass market in the 1970s. People want to try to pack in as much as we can for the duration of the holiday.
It isn’t just activities that are increasingly popular. People are also demanding to see as much of the country as possible and even want to visit two or even three countries on the same trip.
We expect Asia to continue to grow in popularity, with its perception as a safe area compared with other parts of the world.
One big change will be an increase in high-speed train travel, with China leading the revolution that shifts leisure travellers from using domestic and regional flights to trains. Seating in the Business Class carriages is already on a par with a premium cabin on a leading airline. Plans to expand this high-speed network from China westwards will make travelling along the Silk Road routes to Central Asia more popular.
The biggest advantage of this is that people will be able to cover much greater distances and enjoy a multitude of experiences on the same holiday, plus, of course, even at high speed, you see a lot more of the countryside from a train than you do from the seat of an aircraft.
Finding new destinations for people to discover is also becoming increasingly challenging as the world grows ever smaller. In Asia, we anticipate Timor-Leste, one of the lesser-known destinations, is set to become more popular. The capital, Dili, is 90 minutes from Bali. This is a destination in the making, with great beaches, colonial architecture, lush mountain scenery, and it's a paradise for divers and snorkelers.


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Ecommerce has about an 80% failure rate. Other researchers claim it’s as high as 97%. One of the reasons the failure rate is so high is because an ecommerce business can be easy to set up, for a small amount of money. Creating a store front is easy. Making it successful, on the other hand, not so much.
There are some common causes for ecommerce failures, and any one of them can be deadly. Check out the most common issues, and some examples of businesses that failed as a result.
While an online store can be opened for as little as a few hundred dollars, it cannot thrive with that little capital. Along the way, there will need to be more cash investments, either the founders or outside investors, if the business is going to make it.
The minimum startup cost for an online website that is competitive will be $5,000 – $10,000. Without the initial investment to make the site sleek, appealing and user friendly, an ecommerce site cannot be competitive.
Lack of financial prudence will kill any business pretty quickly. A typical example of this type of failure was a company called Ecomom, founded in 2007 and bankrupt by 2013. The concept was a good one, especially with the growing consumer demand for everything “green” and natural. The company sold products for new and expecting moms, as well as all natural baby food, clothing, and toys.
Founder Jody Sherman was able to get $1 million in startup funding. Unfortunately, he was not an accountant and, in fact, did not even hire a controller until 2011. While revenues were solid and growing, the cost of getting those revenues meant the company was actually losing money. When an additional $12 million was needed to turn around and scale, investors walked away – they were getting no return on their investments. In 2013, the company folded.
The lesson is clear: get the necessary financial/accounting expertise in the beginning. When it costs more to make and ship a product that you are charging, things will never end well.
This is, of course, a marketing issue. Costumers don’t just show up because the website has been built. Fortunately, a lot of marketing can be done for low or no cost – pay per click; establishing a strong social media presence, creating and maintaining a blog, or generating email subscribers.
Paid advertising, of course, can become costly. PPC and paid advertising may bring in an initial influx, but it is the content that will bring durable long-term results. Startups must show their value; they must solve customer problems, educate and entertain. Who will do all of this? Getting an amazing content marketer or contracting this function out will almost always be required. A startup founders may not have the skills, and they certainly will not have the time to do this well.
Nothing happens until visitors come for a look. And visitors don’t come for a look unless there is a strong, frequent, engaging and consistent marketing campaign.
One of the things that every ecommerce entrepreneur must do when contemplating a startup is sizing up the competition. It is nearly impossible for a startup to compete with established and global companies. Survival means finding a niche that is different from the Amazons and Walmarts of the ecommerce world.
This was the issue with the recent demise of Dot and Bo, a US-based furniture retailer. The target market was millennials, and it may have been the wrong one, because it was trying to market all types of furniture styles. The company actually raised $20 million. The biggest problem was the competition – the big box retailers who could sell for cheaper. Unable to find a buyer, the company folded on September 23.
Contrast that with another furniture retailer, EMFURN. It has a specific niche – modern furniture – and it has targeted the right audience. Do the research. Don’t move into a market that is heavily saturated. Check out the failure rates for your industry niche.
In 1999, Boo.com was born. Again, the concept was not bad – a sports clothing retailer that would be a one-stop shop for consumers. The failure was one of strategy, as the company decided to become a global Amazon of sports clothing.
The strategy failure was opening as if it were already a scaled company, which, of course, it wasn’t. The company folded a year later, when investors refused to ante up any more funding. Start small, be patient, and scale gradually.


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Geetika is currently the CTO at Jigsaw Academy, an online school for analytics with an overall IT industry experience of around 20 years. Prior to joining Jigsaw, she worked with Infosys in a wide spectrum of roles. She started out as a software developer working in manufacturing domain and then moved on to handling large IT projects in finance sector. She worked as a research scientist exploring various aspects of cloud computing and managed performance engineering aspects of prestigious SaaS based projects. She got a chance to handle a team on enthusiastic UI developers, but took it as an opportunity to familiarize herself with UX principles. She also took a short stint as handling IT quality, thus ensuring all arrows of software project development were within her skills quiver. Outside of Infosys, she has been an entrepreneur helping start-ups and NGOs in their “green” journey, helping children with productive environment friendly past-times and as a consulting architect and developer to a niche performance engineering firm. She holds a post graduate degree in Mathematics from IIT, Kanpur.
Vishal is the Founder & CEO of SMERGERS which is the World’s Fastest Growing M&A Deal Platform for SMEs. SMERGERS currently has 10000+ member network of Businesses, Investors, Acquirers, Lenders and Advisors from over 100+ Industries and 55+ Countries. Vishal is an ex-investment banker from Avendus Capital where he realized that the SME market has been completely ignored by traditional investment banks and hence started SMERGERS. Vishal started his career as an engineer went on to pursue MBA finance from IIM Bangalore. Prior to Avendus, he has worked with leading firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and National Instruments R&D.
Deepak is a hi-tech industry veteran and a quintessential entrepreneur having created several successful services and product businesses. He brings the perfect blend of product evangelism, engineering and thought leadership to a career spanning two decades. He has had vast exposure to product development, management, operations and strategic marketing. Deepak’s pet area is product development and he has pioneered several innovative and path-breaking initiatives that have helped companies realize business benefits through effective adoption of technology. Deepak holds a B. Tech (Computer Science & Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. When not obsessing over his latest ‘hot’ idea, Deepak enjoys travelling and is an avid photographer.
A Sales professional to the core, Stanley is an extremely energetic and effective team builder. His firm belief is that Team Motivation is the key to achieve your Goals & Aspiration. Stanley brings to the table his vast experience in the field of Direct Marketing/Retail stores (sales & operations). He currently heads the Sales at Webnish. Apart from meeting targets, he directly gets involved in the on-field activities. He loves traveling and is a movie buff.
Ravi Trivedi is Founder, PushEngage.com – a leading platform globally for browser push notifications, which serves customers in 115+ countries. Prior to this, he was Founder of CouponRani.com – top coupon site in India with over 1M unique visits. He is a Digital Marketer, and a growth hacker and loves to speak on the topic and help fellow enterpreneurs. He is an active angel investor, and has made 7 investments in companies like – Explara, MechMocha, Tookitaki, VentureSity, Collatebox etc.
Before returning to India, he worked as a Principal at Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, Raleigh, an early stage Venture Capital fund in North Carolina, USA. He ran the online division of a portfolio company, where he started his digital marketer journey. Before Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, he worked as Equity Analyst with Bank of America in New York. He was part of the team that was ranked runners up in the Alpha Hedge Fund Research rankings, 2007.
He started his career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard and has global cross-functional experience in marketing, consulting and engineering functions at Hewlett Packard. Ravi co-authored the book Web Services Security, and participated in creating web services standards. Ravi completed his MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business and has a Masters in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Bachelors from MACT Bhopal.
Shyam Swaraj calls himself a student of life and believes Happiness in and around him is most important for his Success.
He is a Marketing Maverick focusing on Optimizing Revenue, Reach and Brand Respect through Innovation. His favorite areas of research are Unconventional eCommerce, Relationship Psychology, Revenue Modelling and Simplifying Processes.
Innovative ways of using payments in the B2C sector interests him and is presently evangelizing adoption of Digital Payments.
A taskmaster by day, a party animal by night, a philanthropist by choice and a leader by default, this Duster-driving woman wears many hats. An F1 enthusiast and a sales veteran of 17 years, she drives her wheels like she drives our sales: Fast.
A Bangalorean by birth, Parents named me Bhargavi.
VTU was kind enough to give me a Distinction in Bachelor of Engineering degree though i hardly attended college.
Was aspirant to become a VLSI Design Engineer, but because of my talkative nature, opted for HR role.
Having more than 13years of experience in this Domain, started my career with Adecco Consulting followed by Mind Search, worked as One Man Army for Asklaila and Zopnow.
Acquired skills in the following areas: Performance Management, Training, Employment Law, Employee Grievances and Employee Acquisition.
I enjoy eating and traveling.
I am a State Level Philatelist having more than 3 Lacs Stamps in my treasure.
One of my best adventurous moment was – when I underwent a 3 days training at IAF to fly Sukhoi Jet Plane.
Prakash – Prakash Cellular Service.
Born to poor farmer parents, Prakash grew up in poverty and hardship, in a small village of Jodhpur, Rajashtan. Prakash did poorly in school so he dropped out around the age of 15. He decided to put a lot of his time into doing business and raising his family. With basic knowledge and little money, he came to Bangalore and did chorus of electronic jobs to earn his bread and butter. He immediately felt the requirement of a electronics market and he started to visualize an electronics center.
With passion, he improved his mobile and laptop repairing abilities and he opened Prakash Cellular Service. “As students we need to guide them properly, teach them new methods of livelihood, I hadn’t felt in any other discipline, So i choose smartphone and gadget industry seriously”. Prakash cellular service is a well name in smart phone and laptop repair in Bangalore, Karnataka. In these 15 years, Prakash has changed the lives of more than 2000 students by providing them training in laptop and smartphone repair.
Deepak is a technology professional with around 19 years of industry experience and is engaged with several technical and managerial consulting engagements with companies like Glassbeam, AskLaila. Deepak is also presently working on a travel experience solution as part of PaveIT Solutions LLP, the company that he started recently.
Before moving out of the mainstream corporate world, he has worked with various large IT companies like Cisco, Infosys and IMR(presently CGI) for about 15 years in both technical and managerial roles.
He volunteers for Multi Dimensional Learning Space(MDLS) under the umbrella of India Literacy Project(ILP) that focuses on quality, experiential learning for children studying in rural/non-metro areas. His primary interest is in equipping teachers with basic IT knowledge to enable them teach children in an effective way. He is also engaged with AdalBdal.com, an initiative to encourage sharing and reuse of various items of everyday life that helps a bit on ecology and helps deal with clutter.
Travel being his passion, he enjoys both driving and cycling tours. He is also into wildlife and photography(novice!).
Worked for about 25+ years in Sales & Marketing, Human Resources and financial services.
Now working since 6+ years from 2010 as an Insurance Consultant and help with consumer actions of genuine complainants.
• In early 2014 IRDAI decided to test knowledge of people working in insurance industry and held an All India competition, in which quiz I reached semi-finals, that is you could say top 20-30 in India.
• Launching NGO ‘i Consumer Action Group’ shortly to track IRDAI, insurers about products and explain in simple terms to public as also to action against them for Anti People policies.
I am also a Social Activist with a Human Rights & Consumer Action Group and do some social work when time permits etc; primarily helping Aged cheated by their children.


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On to the good stuff! Eko has his first confrontation with the Smoke Monster. Like Locke in Walkabout, Eko is not afraid of it. There is one critical difference, though: Eko sees a creature of dark smoke, while Locke saw a beautiful, bright light. Locke tells Eko about his experience in The Cost Of Living.
The Smoke Monster (aka Man In Black) seems to be ”scanning” Eko’s memories, as flashes from his past can be seen inside the smoke. Presumably, this is what he did to Locke in Walkabout and Juliet in Left Behind.
Smokey lets Eko live… for now. The next time he confronts him, he uses the body of Yemi and manipulates him into confessing his sins. Of course, Eko doesn’t care for manipulations and refuses to confess. The rest is history.
Two mystery women are shown among the images. The producers of the show have said that some of the images are from moments in Eko’s past that we hadn’t seen yet at that point. The mystery women could be the Nun from The Cost of Living, Amina, Eko’s mother or another woman whom we haven’t met. Note that none of these roles had been cast when this episode first aired.
Ben Linus will go through a similar experience with the Monster in Dead Is Dead. The scene is also referenced in the LOST: Via Domus video game and possibly in Fringe episode 4.04 Subject 9. The scene from Fringe (another Bad Robot show) shows Olivia Dunham facing off with a mysterious ”cloud” of energy, shaped as a familiar image from the past. The visual parallels are clear, as shown in the image below.
No less than five new music themes for Mr. Eko are introduced in this episode!
Eko’s main theme was released on the soundtracks as All’s Forgiven… Except Charlie, Church Of Eko’s and Leggo My Eko.
A new danger motif (starting at 2:31 in the video above) plays during Yemi’s and Eko’s death scenes. It’s released as part of Leggo My Eko, and as an exclusive (unused) soundtrack called Crash And Yearn.
A dark variation of the theme for Eko and Yemi (starting at 3:08) was released as Leggo My Eko. It plays when Eko is reminded of his brother, and when he confronts the Man In Black posing as him in The Cost Of Living.
Eko’s motif (at 3:58) is a four note melody that plays during various scenes involving Eko. It plays along with Locke’s theme in ?, when the two try to open the Pearl hatch. A soundtrack version was released as Eko Of The Past.
Another Eko theme (seemingly based on Eko’s motif) plays when Eko finds Goldie’s corpse, and when he talks to Richard Malkin in ?. Sadly, this theme was never released on any of the soundtracks.
Eko will earn himself a sixth theme in ?. The theme plays when the afterlife is discussed in ? and Three Minutes.
An early version of the ”rescue” motif, which plays during scenes involving the survivors’ rescue or contact with the outside world, is heard when Eko notices Goldie’s parachute.
Eko carries a scripture stick with dried blood on it. That just tells you everything you need to know about him. He’s definitely a different kind of priest.
A similar concept/metaphor is Eko’s (technically, Yemi’s) before-mentioned desecrated church in The Cost Of Living. Blood has been spilled in a holy place.
Eko asks ”Where did you find this?” about the heroin both in flashback and present time.
Flashback Eko is ruthless, but he has a soft spot for children – not unlike Sawyer (Confidence Man) and Ben (Dead Is Dead). The three characters all have traumatic childhoods in common.
Charlie also tells Eko ”It was my brother’s fault”. I’m sure Yemi could relate to that sentence in many ways. Both Eko and Charlie had complicated relationships with their brothers.
Eko and Charlie recite Psalm 23 at the burning plane. ”The lord is my Shepherd”… Jack Shephard’s candidate number is 23!
Eko repeats the 23rd Psalm before he’s attacked by the Smoke Monster in The Cost Of Living.
Michael is growing restless. He wants his son back, and he wants his son back now. Jack wants to wait; there’s too many storylines going on already! Training up an army wouldn’t have worked; the survivors were never prepared to face the Others, as proven after Michael takes off in the next episode (The Hunting Party) and later in Live Together, Die Alone.
We get our first glimpse of the already growing love between Hurley and Libby at the end of the episode. Hurley tells Charlie he’s interested in her in the next episode.
Cool to see this episode here. My favorite from the 2nd season.
What I find interesting, when watching it again, is how closely it ties into the story of Jacob and the Man in Black.
•	Two brothers, with two different people, representing each side of the scale. One of them left the group as a child, the other one stayed.
•	The religious context of the episode.
•	The importance of the Virgin Mary. A figure that reappears in the show, both in this episode and you could argue that whether Mother or Claudia from Across the Sea represents this. Or if The Heart of the Island is The Holy Mother. But that’s more far of.
•	The mispronunciation of the 23rd Psalm fits even more thematically of the show: “The shadow of the valley of death.” could easily tie it to The Man in Black, which made the first truly confirmed appearance of the show in this episode.
Which is kind of what happened to The Man in Black. He was once a human.
•	And the way Eko hugs his brother’s corpse is the same way Jacob does after he finds the dead body of his own brother.
Eko to Charlie: You told her you did not know what was inside the statue.
Man in Black: Your ship smashed through it, on its way inland. Broke it into pieces. That’s where you’ll find the Devil.
Locke’s, as well as many of the other Losties’ mistake was that they never really made an effort to help Michael get Walt back. They never made a real effort.


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Yeah living just tears us apart.
Long before Jessica Jalbert began recording under the solo moniker Faith Healer, she fostered a tight collaborative friendship with fellow Edmonton-bred polymath Renny Wilson. They’ve made boppy garage rock in Tee-Tahs, kicked up a racket in Punk Explosion, and even played in a scattering of cover bands. In 2011, Wilson was a key contributor to Jalbert’s solo album Brother Loyola.
ARTIST STATEMENT: I’m Jessica Jalbert. I’ve played in a bunch of bands over the past ten-ish years, and played/sung on lots of independent records. I put out an album in 2011 called Brother Loyola and some of great friends and musicians helped with it by lending their playing. One of those friends also engineered the album, that’s Renny Wilson. He’s got records under his own name as well as a project called Renny Wilson’s Punk Explosion, which I play guitar in if we’re in the same city. He was the bassist in my other band Tee-Tahs for a while, plus we both played in Jom Comyn, and a really dumb cover band called the Phantom Menace (deep cut). He’s one of my best friends in the world.
A long time ago we dicked around with the idea of starting a band together and I thought a cool name would be Faith Healer. We were at a cabin once and our friend Mary was talking about actual faith healers, and weirdo or not, I thought the concept was coooool and the name kind of slips off the tongue. But the band never happened and I still wrote a bunch of new songs that I wanted to release.
Those songs turned into the album Cosmic Troubles. I thought it was the right time to stop using my own name, and Renny wrote to me saying ‘hey, you should call this Faith Healer”. Until then I had forgotten about the name but liked the idea so I did it.
Now people are asking me “is Faith Healer just you? or is it a duo? a band?”. The short answer is that it’s just me. The longer answer is that for this album, Cosmic Troubles, the only people involved in the album were Renny and I. We both played all the instruments and sang all the harmonies, and he recorded the whole thing in his (very patient) parents’ basement. Sometimes I hit record on protools while he played the drums. He came up with a lot of great production ideas! But at the risk of sounding possessive, I wrote all the songs and get to make all the calls, and since we live across the country from one another, he isn’t currently playing in my band. Next time I do an album, I hope I can record it with Renny again because he’s great to work with and he knows all the best places for cheap food. Maybe we’ll even collaborate more on writing. But if I don’t record with him again, it’ll still be called Faith Healer. Thanks for listening!


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With substantial implications for health care and prevention policy, FPG is reporting that children who received high-quality early care and education in FPG’s Abecedarian Project from birth until age 5 enjoy better physical health in their mid-30s than peers who did not attend the childcare-based program.
The findings appear in Science and are the result of FPG’s collaboration with scientists from the University College London and the University of Chicago, where Nobel laureate James J. Heckman spearheaded an intricate statistical analysis of data from the Abecedarian Project. Not only did FPG and Heckman’s team determine that people who had received high-quality early care and education in the 1970s through the project are healthier now—significant measures also indicate better health lies ahead for them.
Previous findings from the Abecedarian Project have been instrumental in demonstrating that high-quality early education and care for at-risk children can have positive, long-lasting effects on cognitive functioning and academic achievement that extend well into adulthood. However, the new study differs by examining physical measures of health.
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NEW YORK: Hong Kong-based TCL Communication-owned Alcatel recently launched a stand-alone VR headset which means it does not require a separate smartphone like Samsung's Gear VR and has all the features integrated inside the device.
The headset features two 1,080x1,020 AMOLED screens, houses 3,000mAh battery on the back and works on a Unity-based SDK and app payment system.
The headset has eight-core CPU paired up with 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, Bluetooth, LTE and a suite of sensors including an accelerometer, gyro and proximity sensor, technology blog Engadget reported on Friday.
The company also unveiled Alcatel 360, a 360-degree camera which is equipped with dual 210-degree fisheye lenses and comes in rectangular and ball shapes.
The camera reportedly works by plugging it into one of the company's Idol 4, Idol 4S or Pop 4S phones.
Alcatel has also join hands with companies like Janut VR and Fraunhofer, which will provide pre-loaded games and other content.


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Where did this come from? A swiveling tablet which never came on the news? Today, Dell Inc., unveiled its first ever unique tablet computer with a swiveling screen that transforms into a laptop. Named, Dell Inspiron Duo, is the first convertible netbook and tablet PC with the screen that flips. The device was showcased during the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
On its first look, the gadget delivers the first look of a laptop revealed a 10-inch screen with a smart keyboard. Upon rotating the 10-inch screen and closing the top of the netbook it becomes a touch-screen tablet. The Dell Inspiron Duo is powered by a Dual Core Intel Atom N 550 processor and upto 2 GB of DDR3 memory. The branded tablet comes packed with Windows 7.
The swiveling tablet will go on sale later this year, while no price has been specified.
Dell has aimed to market the Inspiron Duo as a consumer device capable of delivering for both, entertainment as well as a productivity tablet. Running under the Windows 7 Home Premium, the tablet can support a wide variety of popular Microsoft Applications.
Dell Streak Tablet Coming to the U.S. Unlocked and Affordable in July!


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This book is a collection of papers presented at the Second International Symposium on Orbital Disorders, which was held in Amsterdam in 1973. Articles from ophthalmology, otolaryngology, general plastic surgery, neurosurgery, radiology, endocrinology, embryology, and anatomy disciplines are included. Critical review and discussion are unfortunately absent.
This wide-based view of orbital diseases, coupled with the grouping of articles in specific problem areas (eg, trauma, tumor surgery, reconstructive surgery), does make the book helpful to the surgeon dealing with orbital and periorbital lesions. Many of the papers will be of minimal interest to the practicing otolaryngologist, but the previously mentioned sections, as well as the portion dealing with radiology of the orbit, make it a worthwhile reference for otolaryngology training programs.


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Your little sweet pea is practically gargantuan compared to just a couple of weeks ago, when he was still invisible to the naked eye. Measuring about a quarter to a half-inch from head to rump, his head is his dominant feature. The rest of his body is making strides to catch up, thanks to budding arms and legs, which will eventually give rise to 10 sweet little fingers and 10 equally perfect toes. His facial features, like his eyes, nostrils and ears, are also beginning to make an appearance. In fact, those baby blues (or browns, or greens) are well on their developmental way, each sporting a lens, cornea, retina and iris by the end of this week. His wee intestines and lungs are beginning to take shape, and his brain, heart and other vital organs are maturing at a significant pace.
Whether you consult the Chinese Birth Chart or dangle your wedding ring over your growing belly, chances are you'll make guessing your baby's gender a nearly full-time job. Although these games are harmless fun, don't decorate your nursery just yet. Even trained ultrasound technicians are occasionally wrong, leading to a major shock come delivery!


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NAIROBI – South Sudan has grounded planes belonging to United Nations peacekeepers in a dispute over control of the airport in the capital Juba, the government said on Monday.
The move threatens to further delay the deployment of the latest 4,000 peacekeepers to be assigned to South Sudan, where civil war broke out in 2013.
“It was because the forces that were brought went to the airport to control the airport, which is not part of their mandate,” President Salva Kiir’s spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny said, explaining the decision to stop U.N. flights.
Government forces are currently in control of the airport. U.N. officials said later in the day they had resumed the flights after the government started approving them.
“Clearances are now being issued and UNMISS’ normal operations to protect civilians and build durable peace in South Sudan have resumed,” the U.N mission (UNMISS) said.
The U.N. Security Council agreed in August last year to deploy the so-called regional protection force of 4,000 extra peacekeepers, mostly from Rwanda and Ethiopia, after renewed fighting broke out between troops loyal to Kiir and those backing former Vice President Riek Machar.
The RPF was to supplement a 12,000-strong U.N. force already on the ground, but South Sudan has been reluctant to accept it, saying it has reservations over the nationalities of the troops and the armaments they can carry.
A small batch started trickling in three months ago, but diplomats said the latest dispute could bring further delays.
The U.N. peacekeeping mission known as UNMISS has been in South Sudan since its independence from Sudan in 2011. The country spiralled into civil war, with fighting along ethnic lines, after Kiir sacked Machar in late 2013.
The conflict has forced about 4 million people to flee their homes. Uganda currently hosts more than a million South Sudanese refugees, while over 330,000 have fled to neighbouring Ethiopia.

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