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My daily commute on the central line was brightened up immensely this morning as I read an article in Metro that Minority Report-style advertising will be here in a just a few years time – by 2015, in fact.
The technology available for “gladvertising” (for that is the term being used) would take the definition of “interactive advertising” to a whole new level.
The gist of the article is that talking digital billboards containing cameras backed by advanced emotion recognition software will detect your mood and target you with an advert. Going one step further these billboards will link with your smart phone to access personal details such as body shape, anniversaries and favourite foods.
There would be no limit to the new business opportunities open to marketers of all disciplines with this sort of technology available. On top of this affiliate marketing could become more intelligent than ever and become totally personalised to truly suit the individual.
It would be like walking the streets with the constant fear of bumping into a really embarrassing drunken mad friend who never knows when to shut up.


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industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Nearly half of Korean men begin losing their hair in their 20s according to a recent survey.
The survey done by Neilson Korea of 801 on Korean men aged 25-45, showed that 43.5% of men in their 20s and 30s have already suffered hair loss.
Korean men have also seen an increase of 7.5% of men seeking hair loss treatment since 2012.
Half of the respondents identified stress as the reason for their hair loss followed by genetics.
In addition, 72% of the respondents said they were dealing with stress, with those in their 30s and 40s having the highest percentage.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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Good assemblers such as yourself are not easy to come by. Do you want to make some decent money and have opportunities to travel around the world?
Our door is always open for hard-working people.
Payments are always sent in time and enough work will be provided throughout the entire year.
With us, you can travel abroad. We are active in more than 27 countries.
We take care of transportation, accommodation, documentation and registration in the destination country.
We will arrange training for you! Lack of experience is not an issue. All that matters is that you want to work.
If you’re not sure whether you’d be able to handle the work, you can try it out at our recruitment.
Team spirit. You will be working in a great team alongside experienced assemblers.
Growth opportunities. You can work your way up from an assistant assembler all the way to a project manager.
What Would Assembly Operations Involve for You?
Preparation of steel frame, stackers and rack systems of all types.
Good physical condition and endurance.
Manual prowess and aptitude for working with your hands. That is a recipe for good work for us.
What Is Advantageous When Applying?
Vocational certificate in the field of locksmithing, machine locksmithing, tin-working, construction, pipe-working, tool-working, machining, scaffold-working or bricklaying.
Knowledge of English/German/French or Spanish.
As one of the largest companies in the rack system assembly field, we are a reliable employer.
We send payment to your account on the 13th day of each month.
We appreciate when workers are hard-working, loyal, punctual and forthcoming – we go out of our way to reward them beyond the arranged salary.
This is a part of a motivational loyalty program aimed at all hard-workers – assemblers at construction sites who have been successfully working for three years.
We are more than successful on the international market. We offer our employees a guarantee of workload throughout the entire year on multiple underway projects. Our contracts are always arranged for at least a year in advance.
We develop our own devices and technologies.
We work with modern and high-quality tools made by Hilty, Makita, Leica, Nedo.
We own and rent high-end machinery made by Riwal, Statech, TVH, Boels, Ramirent Naboen, Stabel.
as well as a daily shuttle service between the construction site and the place of accommodation.
For projects abroad, we rent fully furnished houses, including (if at all possible) Wi-Fi connectivity to allow you to communicate with your family. We always try to arrange accommodation as close to the construction site and as high-quality as possible.
Prior to your departure for a project, our team reliably handles for you, as well as any and all documentation and mandatory registration, passes and permits for the country in question.
It is our task to create a good background. It always includes providing cars for the purpose of transportation around the construction site, from the place of accommodation to work and for shopping.
If the answer is yes, just fill in the form and add your CV. If you meet your requirements, we will invite you for a job interview.
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We provide temperature controlled storage for samples, vaccines, medicines and a range of other sensitive and high value inventories.
Our pharmaceutical refrigeration containers have been used in medicine board approved sites, making them eminently suitable for the storage of temperature sensitive medical and scientific samples.
To order your samples strorage for hire, rental, lease or purchase, contact our expert samples refrigeration sales team now or ring us on 0800 085 2298.
All of our premium temperature controlled sample storage solutions include a range of key features at no additional charge for hire/rent or purchase.
We can provide custom sample storage with additional access, tailored sizing etc. Give our samples storage experts a call on 0800 085 2298 now to see how we can help.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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Nokto theme contains two variants one for GTK and other for Gnome Shell. Basically GTK version is derived from zen-suite and zen-nokto, Gnome Shell theme version got few assets from ACID theme. Both variants are compatible with their latest versions. Developer used boje metacity in this theme, Also some Gnome-shell extensions has been themed. Many things fixed in this versions, visual improvements and also shell search.
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OK, please get your credit card ready and call me!
Within Australia, you can call me on 1800 726889 during business hours. Outside Australia, you can use +61 8 7225 1126. My timezone is GMT + 9.5hrs. You can also call my mobile if you want to. 0407 712 883.
Please note that if you use this option, I will process your credit card payment over the internet, and it will appear on your bill as "paymate". So if you are wanting to do your credit card payment over the phone because you are worried about internet security, well, this won't really help you.
I would point out that PayPal is a much safer system than Credit Card Over Phone. With PayPal, I never see your card details. Compare that to what happens when you ring my office : someone here has to write your card details down on a piece of paper. Now, if someone breaks in here and gets that paper, they can use it just like someone that had stolen it from the internet. And it's MUCH MUCH easier to break in to my office than to break in to PayPal. All you need is a crowbar or a brick. It's also a lot easier to tap a phone call than break in to PayPal, so someone could be listening in when you tell me your card details. So if you really want to be safe, use PayPal. If you are scared of the internet, ring me and I'll do it for you, with the same level of security as using your credit card in any other shop or restaurant. But honestly, it's safer to use PayPal.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Born in London in 1934, Anthony Gilbert took up composition seriously in the early 1960s after five years of study with Alexander Goehr. For ten years he was closely involved in the promotion and publication of new music in London and then moved to the North West of England, first as Granada Arts Fellow at the University of Lancaster and then to establish a new composition department at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he was Director of Composition Studies until his retirement in 1999. He has a close association with the musical life of Australia. Much of his later music owes its origin to the birdsong of this land and much, too, has its technical roots in the classical music of the Indian subcontinent, in which he has been interested for three decades.
His compositions cover a wide range of forces and forms. He has written for most of the major ensembles and soloists, including the Arditti Quartet, London Sinfonietta, Manchester Camerata, Hallé Orchestra and Lindsay Quartet, and received major commissions from the BBC and from the Cheltenham Festival and Staatstheater Kassel, to mention just a few.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


text: Akiuk Memorial School is committed to excellence in athletics as part of a larger commitment to excellence in education. As stated in our school mission statement, the goal of our athletic programs are to offer students the best opportunities to participate utilizing both Yup'ik and English instruction. At Akiuk, we do things"The Grizzly Way". Our guiding principles are superior citizenship, sportsmanship, and dedication to positively representing the Kasigluk community. Athletic programs carry health and education value to our school and community. We are therefore committed to presenting athletic opportunities that promote and support the educational, emotional, physical, and social development of Akiuk students.


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FES was to design, install and commission an Automatic Sprinkler System to Ordinary Hazard Group 3 “Life Safety” to BSEN12845.
It is facilitated by twin tanks giving an effective capacity of 71m3 and a twin electric pump set, covering all areas of the site.
Our design incorporated the existing Grade B listed building, new teaching block and new PE block. The design had to be sympathetic to the existing building while meeting industry standards. We worked closely with the architect through to achieve this.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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An executive with the ability to communicate clearly through the written world can reap many benefits.
Writing is often seen as a creative task outside the realm of executives. After all, no executive has never been praised for her writing skills. While there have been a number of high-profile executives who have published bestselling books -- Sheryl Sandberg being the best example -- they are more the exception than the rule.
This is an unfortunate reality because we live in a content-driven world where more than 3 million blog posts are published every day. An executive with the ability to communicate clearly through the written world can reap many benefits, including more press interviews, speaking opportunities and strategic partnerships.
Executives, however, often lack the time to write. How could an executive find the time to write? By building a habit. Here's how you can get started.
Do it first thing in the day.
In theory, you could write anytime you are in front of your computer. You could write when you are on a lunch break, in between meetings or after you come back from work. The best time you could use for writing, it turns out, is the morning.
The morning offers several benefits that can't be found at other times of the day.
First and foremost, you have more energy to spend on a creative task like writing (assuming you sleep enough hours). Second, you are less stressed, which also liberates your mind to express itself more freely. Finally, you face no meetings, calls or emails at this time of the day.
If you combine a morning writing ritual with the next three tips, you will face little friction from your own mind or your surroundings (e.g., family, coworkers, etc.), letting you write without restrictions.
Do it for 30 minutes.
A habit shouldn't take you more time than you can offer to it. Sure, writing for two hours could bring you greater rewards, but you're not a professional writer with unlimited time. You need to make the most of your writing time.
I recommend 30 minutes as a modest time frame that will help you kick off your writing habit. Setting up a specific amount of time beforehand will help you enter a state of deep focus that an open time schedule won't. What's more, everyone in your organization (and even your family) will know you shouldn't be disturbed.
You can use a 25-minutes Pomodoro if you like, but 30 minutes will probably fit better in your calendar and will give you more time to warm up your writing skills.
Focus on a strict length -- 500 words.
With 30 minutes set up for writing, you want to crank out as many words as you can, regardless of its quality. A problem you will likely face, however, is the blank page -- often cited as one of the main creativity blocks writers face.
To help you guide your energies, focus on writing not more than 500 words. By focusing on that number, you're establishing a parameter of success; a KPI if you will.
What's more, the seemingly small volume can compound to great success: If you write every day, at the end of your first month you will have written 15,000 words, the length of an average non-fiction book, or many blog posts.
If you have gotten to a C-level position in any organization, you must have lots of experience and knowledge about your industry -- exactly what you need to use when you write.
When you sit down to write then, write about what you know. Don't reinvent the wheel or try to imitate Malcolm Gladwell. Write about the problems and challenges you face daily, the situations you observe and the lessons you learn from being on the trenches. After all, writing doesn't ask for Pulitzer-level journalistic research or prose.
After a while, you can improve the content to focus on more complex subjects; when you are just getting started, however, start small by talking about everything you already know.
Don't hold yourself up -- be vulnerable.
As an executive, you must represent your organization with a professional attitude. This, however, doesn't mean you shouldn't write like a robot. Your audience -- potential customers, partners and journalists -- wants to get to know you.
A good tip when you write is to think as if you were writing to a friend. Not only will this help lower your writing standards, which at first will help you break from the "blank page" spell mentioned above, but it will allow you to communicate in a personal way.
While you don't want to say anything that can compromise your organization, you still want to express yourself freely, sharing your opinions, experiences and even failures.
The best part is, you will look much more relatable and real than most executives who hire ghostwriters.

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It might seem strange to go on a tour in your own hometown, but that's exactly what board members of IN FLUX had in mind when they started planning the IN FLUX Cycle 3 Multi-City Tour slated to take place on Saturday, June 22.
Kirstin Van Cleef, who founded IN FLUX and continues to manage the program for Scottsdale Public Art, says she hopes the tour of public art installations from Scottsdale to Glendale (and everything in between) will help locals to better see the Valley as a unified whole.
For the past three years, IN FLUX has been successfully supporting temporary public art projects in vacant spaces. The program started out as a limited invitational for artists to install in Scottsdale's empty storefronts, but since then it has evolved into a Valley-wide initiative that utilizes several kinds of unused space.
IN FLUX is as much about fostering artists as it is about bringing art to the public, Van Cleef says. "A lot of times, these installations end up being stepping-stone projects for the artists or giving them a new way to work."
The Cycle 3 Tour will showcase 13 installations, and most of the artists will be along for the ride to mingle and discuss their work. But that's not the only perk.
Leslie Barton and Micheal Weakley will be serving as tour guides for the day. Barton's a local stand-up comedian and performance artist, and Weakley recently won first place in the Arizona Republic's storytelling series.
If the entertainment isn't enticing enough, the tour also include coffee, lunch, free entry to SMoCA, happy hour specials, and road trip bingo (with prizes from local businesses).
For more information, visit the Facebook event page or the IN FLUX website.

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It’s been pretty quiet as of late around the Cowboys camp, that is if you don’t include the mishap this past week with the team not being able to seal the deal to get Dan Reeves to come about to be a consultant. Nevertheless, Jason Cole at Yahoo had an interesting piece on Thursday about Terrell Owens and the issues with him coming back in 2009.
The article says that two sources at the Pro Bowl told Cole that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had a couple veteran players to his home to talk about and see if Owens could be handled and kept around as a part of the team this next season. There was a lot of tension at the end of the season with Owens and QB Tony Romo and TE Jason Witten.
“I really believe that Jerry is going to get the message from people that Owens just can’t work there,” one of the sources said to Cole. “It’s just a bad, bad situation.” Owens is still a big part of the Cowboys offense, and has over 1,000 yards receiving in each of the last three seasons. If the tension between Owens and some of the key players on the team cannot be resolved, Jones’ only choice may be to shop T.O. around or flat out release him.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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Worcester, Mass. : Published by the society, 1957.
Clergy > Middle Atlantic States.
Clergy > New York (State).
Author: Weis, Frederick Lewis, 1895-1966.

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After a year of preparation and two false starts, I finally got my Winter War Campaign off the ground yesterday at the Hobby Bunker. It is funny that when I look back the easy work was painting the figures and getting the terrain together, the really tough work is campaign design. I really have to admire the work put in by Rich Clarke in his "Pint-Sized Campaigns". Not only do you have to have a grasp of history but you have to be able to design an interesting campaign.
After reading around the Winter War, I decided that Battle of the Raate Road would best lend itself to a short but interesting campaign for Chain of Command using the At The Sharp Edge campaign supplement. Here we have a 5 day battle fought over a relatively small area between two very asymmetric and different forces under very adverse conditions.
Being a relatively novice WWII gamer, I felt it best to stick as close as possible to the army lists and the campaign supplement as available from Too Fat Lardies. For the first two months of the Winter War the Soviets are rated as green and the Finns elite. This pits a large force of 62 men against a small force of 36 men, with the large force having a +9 advantage in supports. Sounds good but when it came down to it, it was an uninteresting experience for the Soviet player as he has lots of men but very little command ability and very few tactical options. Historically correct maybe but boring to play.
The Too Fat Lardies games have an excellent cadre of players so as usual I referred my problem to the User Forum. After some discussion, I have made some modifications to my original plan to hope for a more interesting campaign. I plan to put together a pdf of the campaign when it is completed, but the general outline is as below.
Finnish CO Orders: You lead an elite Jããkiri platoon. Advance north to find where the Soviets are concentrated, then skirt along the Raate Road east 20 km to the Soviet command post at the Raate Border Station, attack the border station and kill General Viogradov, commander of the Soviet 44th Rifle Division. Along the way hary the Soviets forces.
Soviet CO Orders: You command a green force of Ukrainian recruits. General Viogradov has ordered the 44th Rifle Division to retreat back to the Finnish-Soviet border along the Raate Road. Your specific platoon has been ordered to provide rearguard action as the division retreats. Make your way to the border where you will join up with the 3rd NKVD Border Regiment.
The campaign structure is a unilateral 4 rung ladder. Scenario 2 and 6 from the main rulebook will be used for the 1st and 4th rung. The scenarios for rungs 2 and 3 will be selected according to the tactical situation, with the previous game's loser making the selection.
Victory for the Finns is taking the border station within 6 Turns, anything else is a Soviet victory.
Army lists: the official CoC lists for the 39-40 Soviets and Winter War Finns. To make the game more playable the Green Soviets will have 5 CD and able to deploy a complete squad in entrenchments.
Attrition will accumulate on both platoons. The CO's and yours Men's Opinion will be calculated after each scenario. The Platoon Leader's Outlook will be calculated after Turn 2.
Replacements can be called for once by the Soviets and once for the Finns.
A Wild Card will be available to each side during the campaign after Turn 3.
Terrain: No normal terrain. For Infantry, the road itself and it's edge is Broken Ground, the Forests, Hills, Lakes and Exposed Ground with Scrub is Heavy Going while the Snow is Really Heavy Going. All Vehicles are confined to the Ice Road.
I sort of screwed this up as I wanted to get the centre JOP (blue) in the exposed ground. Mike played it conservative and did not advance his markers up the table, I was a little surprised that he did not put down entrenchments for his infantry squads.
As usual I forgot to take any photos during the game, but I did advance my HMG team to within close range of one of the Soviet's deployment areas so was able to plink away with some success, I did take some casualties but was able to hold on until the Soviet's routed. Hard to see but I advanced my second LMG section through the woods in the far ground followed closely by one of my SMG sections.
Here we have one of the Soviet squads in light cover behind a snow drift, They did take some attrition but did not break. You can see a second Soviet squad in the far ground also behind a snowdrift. Just behind it is a BT7 Light Tank. It's firepower of 4HE was pretty useless I thought. A truck mounted Quad Maxim would have been the business!
Here is the 3rd Soviet squad in light cover, by now they have been a little chewed up. You can also see a Soviet Maxim entrenched in hard cover behind the fence. It is from in front of this fence that the 4th Soviet squad launched a heroic attack on my weakened LMG squad in the forest. It was 16d6 on 16d6, but the small size of my section caused it to be destroyed while the Soviets survived but with significant shock.
My SMG team advancing through the forest, ready to mop up the Soviets.
So our first game was a Soviet rout, as their morale fell to zero before they could withdraw. Certainly we identified that as set up this is a somewhat uninteresting game from the Soviet perspective, which I hope will be corrected by increasing the Soviets Command Dice to five. Mike was unlucky though, he only lost 21 men, but every time one of his squads had a kill on it, his test for wounding a leader failed and he had to take multiple morale tests which brought him down to zero in a little over two hours. Let's hope the next game is more interesting.
Great report! Awesome looking game!
Thanks, I hope the second game has all the bugs ironed out.
Really interested in this as I'm working on a WW2 project of war in winter on the Eastern Front. But in 6mm. Working on the terrain now and hope it looks as good as yours.
Look forward to seeing the board.
I'll keep an eye on this, looking good already!
Awesome looking game, love the gaming mat!
It is a nice mat, I think I may purchase the one without roads as well.
Great report! Nice to see someone playing Finns :) That change to the Soviet order dice sounds like a good change. With the original rules they are a bit boring to play as you said.
I like a defensive roll and can be patient, but the Soviets at 4CD do not do much.
That's a nice looking game!
Superb table John. I love CoC but it can be a bit tricky with elite vs poor. We quit our Arnhem campaign as the Brit paras just took it to the Germans. A couple of games I seemingly lost at setup. I hope you iron out the rough spot and have a great campaign.
Thanks Monty, we will have to see.
Hello John, I've been going back and forth looking through your page here and was curious if you ever put together your Winter War campaign pdf? I have a ton of Winter War stuff and want to get it rolling on the table. I have several questions concerning the handeling of the Finns. Any assistance would be be greatly appreciated. You may have answered some on the TFL Forum for CoC. Thank you.

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OUR MISSION: to inspire, empower and celebrate the work of advertising & marketing professionals in memphis, tennessee.
AAF Memphis is a not-for-profit professional association dating back to 1948. We serve as our city’s local chapter of the American Advertising Federation—the nation’s oldest national advertising trade association—and operate within the federation’s seventh district.
AAF Memphis’ membership roster includes the full spectrum of marketing communications specialties, including ad agencies, branding firms, in-house marketing departments, creative boutiques, media, production service providers, researchers and independent or freelance specialists.
Our club provides regular meetings featuring top-tier industry speakers, professional development and networking opportunities, and creative recognition through the American Advertising Awards (ADDYs™).


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I was hit by some surprising news today – Fundamental Forces’ most recent CD has been nominated by Earshot jazz for the Northwest Recording of the Year. What??? Not only that, but our esteemed reedsman James DeJoie has been nominated for NW Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year as well!
Now I have to say, my expectations are low… as Fundamental Forces are up against some ridiculously stiff competition, and most them have won awards in the past. So help us out with your vote, won’t ya? All you gotta do is click on the link below, check a few boxes and hit “Submit”. I’ll mow your lawn if you do!
This entry was posted in Fan Submissions, Newsletter on January 30, 2016 by Sunrise Pixels.
Photos from the 2015 Choochokam Arts Festival, Langley WA. Super fun on Whidbey Island!
This entry was posted in Fan Submissions, Photos on July 12, 2015 by Sunrise Pixels.
Here’s some great shots of our gig with Greg Sinibaldi on sax at The Royal Room earlier this month. Thanks to Steve Kennedy-Williams.
This entry was posted in Fan Submissions, Photos on June 30, 2015 by Sunrise Pixels.
We’d like to express our heartfelt appreciation to all who joined the sold-out celebration at Lucid last weekend. It was wonderful to be part of the party. Thank you for sharing the experience with us. We’ll post videos soon!
This entry was posted in Fan Submissions, Photos on April 15, 2015 by Sunrise Pixels.


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There is no one who does candid better than Karan Johar (the host) and his friends on the couch.
Season 5 of Koffee With Karan premiered on Sunday night (November 6) and the show did manage to live up to what it is infamously known for – spilling beans and churning juicy gossip. From SRK calling himself a fourth idiot to Alia’s confession that she is on a relationship break, the chat show is sassier, sexier and unplugged like never before.
As expected, SRK charmed viewers with his wit on the opening episode, and Alia chipped in with her spontaneity.
Taking a dig at Ranveer Singh’s forthcoming film Befikre, Khan said he was keen to know if “Ranveer was wearing a padded underwear” in the film. He admitted that he’d be impressed with the actor if he was not.
Known to have a humour that’s in your face, SRK seemed to be in no mood to mince words. On being asked why he skipped season 4 of the show, SRK replied, “Wanted the TRPs to drop a little of the show last year because I had taken them so high in the first one”. Be it his comment on how he has to justify his nationalism every time he steps out to how he feels that Alia is too good, too soon, everything King Khan said struck a chord.
Alia aced the quiz this time.
In a sporting gesture, Alia even took part in an impromptu quiz on the show. Remember her disastrous performance in the same show last season when she didn’t know answers to simple questions like the name of the president of India and many more? Alia aced the quiz this time.
KJo: If you could be invisible, which actress would you stalk?
Alia: Kangana Ranaut because she has a lot of lovely airport looks but I really want to know where she is going.
KJo: If not acting, what are the alternate career choices for Varun Dhawan, Ranveer Singh and Sidharth Malhotra?
Alia: Marketing head, clothes designer and Army.
KJo: Can you name three recent Bollywood breakups?
Alia: Sushant Singh Rajput and Ankita Lokhande, Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif. Somebody else might be breaking up in the next moment. So, let’s wait.
KJo: How would your matrimonial ad read?
Alia: Read the offer documents carefully before investing.
Talking about his present state in life, SRK said,”I am at rest, but not at peace. Peace is boring.” To all his wit and humour and philosophy about life, Alia served as the right contrast. She talked about how she was on a relationship break, and would rather prefer eating a pizza than going out with Ranbir or Ranveer.
Considering the first guests have set the bar high for others, it remains to be seen how Akshay Kumar fares with his wife Twinkle Khanna in the next episode.
Season 5 of Koffee with Karan airs every Sunday at 9 pm on Star World and Star World HD.


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Kanye West recently met US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, photobombing his wife Kim Kardashian’s selfie with the politician in the process.
Clinton, who is campaigning to be the Democratic candidate for the 2016 US election, appeared at a fundraiser in Hollywood on Thursday (August 6).
West and Kardashian were in attendance at the event, with Kardashian later uploading the Kanye-photobombed picture online.
Kardashian wrote in the caption: “I got my selfie!!! I really loved hearing her speak & hearing her goals for our country! #HillaryForPresident”.
Katy Perry recently expressed her intention to back Hilary Clinton to become the 45th President. Last year, she said that she would write a theme song for Clinton’s Presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, a pair of shoes allegedly worn by Kanye West are on sale online for $75,000 (nearly £50,000). The ‘Yeezy 1’ Nike trainers are said to be prototypes designed by the rapper himself and worn by West during his performance at the 2008 Grammy Awards.
The shoes are available via The Heat Check and are a US size 12 (size 11 in the UK).


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After 26 games Stockfish leads 6-0 with 20 draws. Srockfish's strength is amazing and really unexpected after the results of the premier division.
Stockfish started game 21 with an eval advantage than stayed below 1 for a long time. The position was open and the engines exchanged pieces gradually. The game reached a QN vs QN position on move 40 without anything exciting happening, and the expected outcome was a draw. On move 48 Houdini moved a pawn, Stockfish's PV recommendation was to start walking the king towards the center.
Stockfish's eval instantly jumped over 2 and then 3 as it forced a queen exchange. Houdini continued to move its king to the center, realization that it was in trouble came two moves too late. The knight ending was far from trivial but both engines agreed that Stockfish was winning.
The black king had to choose a side, it chose the queen side and Stockfish captured two pawns on the king side before the game was adjudicated. After reading the comments on the chat it is still not clear whether g6 was a blunder or whether Houdini would have lost in any case. The win was not obvious and hard to spot in advance.
Stockfish offered a rook for a bishop in game 22. Surprisingly the game became drawish very quickly. Houdini's king was exposed to attacks, Stockfish used this to capture a pawn. Eventually the engines exchanged pieces reaching a R vs B drawn ending.
Game 23 was a King's Gambit, always an interesting opening to watch. In this variant black had two advanced pawns on the king side, facing white's exposed uncastled king. Stockfish's defense was to sacrifice a knight to eliminate the pawns, leaving the king side open. Stockfish had more space and its pieces were more active on the king side despite being a piece down. Houdini's eval remained over 0.5 for a while, after exchanging most pieces evals came down to 0. The game reached a pawns vs knight tablebase draw.
In game 24 Stockfish kept its king side pawns by trading the white knight for a bishop as soon as it could. The black queen side was undeveloped, and on move 11 Stockfish offered a whole rook with the simple Nxc7 fork. Analysis in the chat suggested that the black counter was g3. Houdini thought for a long time about how to continue.
After 20 minutes Houdini decided against taking the rook. The position gradually stabilized. Houdini was a pawn down, Stockfish let go of the f pawn but still had a pawn majority on the king side. Both kings left the exposed king side, and neither was in danger. Houdini had a bishop pair, though not very active. Stockfish had an eval of 1.5, but it only fluctuated without increasing.
Stockfish's eval started to increase, it wasn't clear why at first. Stockfish found a great square for its knight at f3, hitting the h pawn and restricting the white rook. The black king moved off the back rank to avoid check threats and the white d pawn blocked any attempts by Houdini to attack on the long diagonal.
Houdini tried to apply pressure on the black g pawn, and then there was a RB for Q trade and Houdini added a bishop for pawns sacrifice to expose the black king to checks. The Q vs RBN position was hopeless for white, the game was adjudicated a few moves later. An incredible win for Stockfish, very difficult to really understand. Houdini with 5 losses in 24 games, seems to be much weaker than Stockfish in this superfinal.
Evals stayed close to 0 in game 25, the engines exchanged pieces until reaching a BN vs BN drawn position. Game 26 started with low evals as well. Most pawns remained on the board and the engines shuffled behind the pawn lines. On move 39 Houdini gave a pawn on the queen side and opened a file.
Houdini couldn't get the pawn back, moreover it was Stockfish that took over the open file. Stockfish's eval was over 1 when it gave the pawn back, creating a passer that could be backed from behind.
Houdini tried to counter on the king side, opening up files and threatening the black king. As a result its own king was exposed and Stockfish could use the same open files for an attack of its own. There were two cases of 2-fold repetition where Houdini's eval dropped to 0, Stockfish made up its mind each time to avoid a draw and its evals were over 2.
Stockfish exchanged bishops and started to capture the white pawns. Houdini's position crumbled and Stockfish was soon 3 pawns up. Houdini finally captured the queen side passer, exchanging queens as well, and the game was adjudicated just before Stockfish won a piece. The third opening in a row that Stockfish wins one of the two games and draws the second.


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"Give the show a chance, because it's going to open your eyes to the glossary, the index of Wookieepedia. You're going to learn about every other character or creature that you want to know, and we're going to help you with that, and it's going to make you a fully rounded Star Wars fan."
Thanks to the careful coordination of the Lucasfilm Story Group, the Star Wars franchise is currently managed as one interconnected timeline spanning movies, TV, books, comics and video games. Characters in one medium can show up in another at a moment's notice. Pay close enough attention to all the Star Wars things, and perhaps you'll begin to grasp the master plan for how all the pieces interlock into one cohesive galaxy.
Set six months before The Force Awakens, the premise of Resistance seems custom-built for Star Wars cameos. "We treat the Colossus like it's a gas station in the middle of nowhere," explains executive producer and supervising director Justin Ridge. "They're a truck stop and you have a bunch of different truckers and pilots and people from different backgrounds."
"They can't run into everybody. I don't even run into people in my neighborhood," warns executive producer and head writer Brandon Auman, trying to manage expectations. "If you start bringing in too many characters from the books and the novels and this giant massive galaxy, it starts getting a little fan-fiction-y."
Instead, cameos are limited to characters that "feel organic and natural," Auman says. "It can't just be 'here's the cameo' just because we can do it."
Plenty of characters you'll recognize will cameo in Resistance; those already confirmed include Poe Dameron, BB-8, Captain Phasma, Leia Organa and C-3PO. But what about all those characters from the backgrounds of Star Wars movies that you just missed because you were paying attention to the story? Or all the characters in the books and comics you never read? Which of them are most primed to organically step into the world of Resistance?
Each character profile includes one key appearance for you to track down for homework, usually whichever story features them most prominently. And because you'll be asking: Yes, every detail in this article is meticulously researched and absolutely true.
A few months before the events of Resistance, BB-8 had a girlfriend, an astromech named IVEE, or as she calls herself, "RAH WHEEO EEP BREET!" Some people assume that IVEE is little more than a cute green version of R2-D2, and those people are right.
Star Wars Resistance takes place during a tough period in BB-8 and IVEE's relationship... recently BB-8 inadvertently got IVEE killed. Here's how that story goes: An X-Wing pilot in Poe Dameron's Black Squadron named Jessika Pava is infamous for losing her droid co-pilots in battle — and all the droids on the base collectively refuse to work with her. BB-8, hoping to spend more time with IVEE, talks her into volunteering for the vacancy. Sure enough, on her second combat mission, IVEE heroically throws herself in front of a missile to save Pava, and her droid body is blown to pieces. A fragment of IVEE's remains is delivered to a devastated BB-8, who blames himself for her death. But that fragment happens to be IVEE's tiny processing unit: her brain.
The Poe Dameron comic left that thread dangling, never revealing what BB-8 chose to do with IVEE's brain. BB-8 has plenty of internal storage compartments; does he carry her tiny brain around everywhere he goes? Is he looking for just the right droid chassis to use as a body to bring IVEE back to life?
You can be sure the racers of Resistance would lose their minds to meet the most legendary racer in the galaxy: Lo Re Anno. There's just one big problem: More than 30 years ago, while racing against Han Solo, Anno entered an ancient wormhole machine thing to leave the galaxy for good. She had finally joined the rest of her ancient racing species in a realm beyond space and time, known only for its giant lightning jellyfish.
A few minutes after leaving the galaxy forever, Anno came back through the wormhole with a fleet of ships to save Han Solo, then left again forever — for reals this time.
Sure, Loo Re, we believe you.
Not only is this giant lobster's name Therm Scissorpunch, he also demands that everyone use his full name at all times. Therm can be spotted — ahem — Therm Scissorpunch can be spotted next to Lando at the Sabacc table in Solo: A Star Wars Story, but his cult potential transcends that brief appearance.
In a busy crowd, Kaz bumps into Therm Scissorpunch, who exclaims: "Watch it."
"My name is not dude. It's Therm Scissorpunch," scoffs Therm Scissorpunch.
"Say my name — my full name," Therm Scissorpunch growls, raising his clenched scissorfist.
"Sorry, Therm Scissorpunch. I'll watch where I'm going."
"Apology accepted," says Therm Scissorpunch with a nod, as he disappears into the crowd.
Therm Scissorpunch action figures will fly off the shelves.
Cardinal is a crimson-red Stormtrooper, not to be confused with the crimson-red TIE fighter pilot named Major Vonreg in the Resistance premiere.
So, two different action figures.
One of the most frequently recurring Star Wars villains yet to appear on screen is Rae Sloane, an Imperial Admiral at the time of Return of the Jedi who went on to consolidate the Empire's remnants and help found the First Order. Sloane could be for Resistance what Thrawn was for Rebels: a complicated villain, equal parts ruthless, ingenious and principled. The movie villains of the First Order — Kylo Ren, Captain Phasma, and General Hux — have nothing on Sloane. Oh, and Supreme Leader Snoke can go choke on a pretzel.
The implied political rivalry between Sloane and Snoke sets up a vast, uncharted frontier for stories in the Resistance era to explore. Sloane stands for a shockingly progressive vision of the Empire — and not just because she's a powerful woman of color. She believes in ruling through order rather than fear, in diplomacy over destruction, and in utility instead of theatrics. She works to abolish the Empire's slavery of nonhumans and refuses to build herself a cult of personality. In other words, she must effing hate that Snoke guy.
Numerous stories set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens set Sloane up as the leading candidate for the new Emperor of the First Order, but none of them have explained how Snoke ended up on the throne instead. (Or literally any backstory for Snoke.) Maybe her emails?
One of Kaz's racing rivals in Resistance is named Freya Fenris. Wouldn't you know, there's another character with the same last name and same blonde hair color who crossed paths with Han Solo decades earlier? According to the official Solo movie guide, a smuggler named Astrid Fenris was among the patrons at the gambling lodge where Lando met Han. The guide even gives Astrid a backstory as a snake oil saleswoman; she's been peddling special bottled mineral water that's actually just regular water.
Her actual appearance in the movie, however, is elusive. Was she left on the cutting room floor? Even though you go through those scenes frame by frame, over and over, scanning every face in the background, you can't find her. You think you see half of her face in one shot, but you compare your screenshots to the book and realize nope, that person has different bangs.
But that tiny bottle of clear liquid Beckett pours into his cup... could it be...?
You know there must be a reason Lucasfilm gave these two characters the same last name so you look again. And again. And then, in the background, behind Han's right shoulder, you see it. The blur.
There she is. Plain as day, the Corellian stripe on her pants and everything.
So if you see Freya Fenris drinking fancy bottled water in Resistance, remember: Astrid might be hiding in plain sight.
You immediately recognize the silent catfishy X-wing pilot who walks past the camera five minutes into the Resistance premiere. "Ello Asty," you whisper in disbelief, as the character's final words in The Force Awakens come back to you: "I'm hit!"
You know logically that this story is set six months earlier than the battle at Starkiller Base, but you witnessed this brave Abednedo's demise, and nothing has prepared you to see him living and breathing again in front of your eyes. Like spotting your late grandfather in a home movie, Asty is both alive and dead in the same moment. "But no damage!" echoes his voice from beyond the grave. "Roger," you quote back to him, tears in your eyes, remembering wistfully that J.J. Abrams named Ello Asty as a tribute to the Beastie Boys' fifth studio album, Hello Nasty.
Then you realize — what if this isn't Ello Asty at all, but that other Abednedo pilot who survived the battle of Starkiller Base? The one who miraculously lived all the way to the end of The Last Jedi? The one who Lucasfilm created because it was cheaper to reuse Ello Asti's animatronic costume than to create a totally new alien character? What if it's C'ai Threnalli?
At first C'ai just snuck into the background crowd at the end of The Force Awakens, but in The Last Jedi, he insinuates himself into Poe Dameron's inner circle. C'ai battles as Poe's wingman, holds a blaster in the mutiny against Admiral Holdo, boards the Millennium Falcon as one of the few survivors of the Resistance and, finally, gets a big hug from Poe.
That hug belonged to Ello Asty. "I'm hit... I'm hit... I'm hit" — that horrible moment replays in your mind over and over. If Ello had survived, C'ai never would have existed.
But seriously, is it Ello Asty or C'ai Threnalli?
When our intrepid TV Guide writer dropped this question on the show's three executive producers, they froze. At first they seemed anxious about accidentally spilling Lucasfilm Secrets™ — but quickly realized that their refusal to answer could arouse suspicions of a deeper conspiracy. What other Lucasfilm Secrets™ about Ello or C'ai or perhaps a third unnamed Abednedo pilot could they be hiding? The executive producers interrupted the interview to ask a lurking Lucasfilm publicist for permission to divulge this information: the scoop of the year.
TV Guide can exclusively confirm it's Ello Asty.
Star Wars Resistance premieres Sunday, Oct. 7 at 10/9 on Disney Channel.
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The NEI AGI Seminar Series in Neuroregeneration explores topics relevant to regenerative neuroscience, with special emphasis on the visual system. Lectures take place on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
Joshua R. Sanes, Harvard University. “Cell types and retinal circuits.” November 2, 2015, 3-4 p.m. Lipsett Amphitheater. Summary and archived video.
Dennis O. Clegg, University of California Santa Barbara. “Stem cell therapy for ocular disease.” February 11, 2016, 4-5 p.m., Lipsett Amphitheater. Video.
John Flanagan. Harvard University. “Molecular cues for axon guidance and regeneration.” April 6, 2016, 4-5 p.m., Porter Neuroscience Research Center (Building 35A). Video.
Carla J. Shatz, Stanford University. “Stanford Critical period and neural plasticity.” October 25, 2016, 3-4 p.m., Lipsett Amphitheater. Video.
Andrew Huberman, Stanford University School of Medicine. “Visual restoration: bridges and gaps to curing blindness in humans.” January 24, 2017, 3-4 p.m. Lipsett Amphitheater. Summary. Video.
David Gamm, University of Wisconsin. “Production, characterization, and application of stem cell-derived photoreceptors.” June 6, 2017, 3-4 p.m. Lipsett Amphitheater. Video.
Jeffrey Goldberg, Stanford University. “Optic Nerve Regeneration: Uncovering Molecular Pathways.” September 25, 2018, 3-4 p.m. Lipsett Amphitheater.
Michael Dyer, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. December 13, 2018, Noon-1 p.m., Lipsett Amphitheater.


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We are an Apigee Edge user and we need to white-list the server IPs for the API calls. How can we get these?
So you are looking for Apigee IPs? correct?
I have tried to contact help@apigee.com (as recommended in another post). For they have been silent for 2 days now.
We are hitting a clients API as the Backend Service URL and they need to whitelist the servers for those calls.
But just proxying to this endpoint (http://api.hostip.info/) will fetch the IPs, hope this helps!
I am assuming that the IP white listing will be done by Backend Team.
In this cases, the whitelisting should be done for public IP or proxy server.


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In this tiny section of the coastline of WA, 200 trees have been planted with thanks to the support of builder John Kelly from G.J. Gardner Homes Metro-East. While the coastal reserve is very narrow and rocky it was in great need of re-vegetation.
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In times of economic instability people often turn to precious metals like Gold and Silver to protect their wealth. Up to 1976 the United States had coins minted for circulation containing Silver, and these are now quite popular for investing in Silver.
The reason they are so popular is that they tend to have a lower price tag then your standard bullion coins. This lead the coins to earn the name "junk" silver. in recent years people have gained a large respect for these coins and they have since adjusted in price to be more on par with Silver's going rate.
It is very rare to find Silver coins in circulation anymore as many people have searched through them, and banks have started using automatic sorting machines that set the silver coins aside, but it is still good to know what you are looking at, and what you are looking for.
Quick Reference: Just below is a quick reference table for your convenience. Feel free to print this for your personal use, but if you use it on your own website, blog, emails, etc. please include a link to this article. Thank you.
Some resources to get you on the road to Gold and Silver investing safely, intelligently, and hopefully profitably.
Important words and phrases in the world of Gold and Silver investing. If you don't understand some of the words or phrases, use this as your reference.
This is an article similar to the one you are currently reading but it highlights the Gold coinage of the United States.
While the confiscation tactics are often geared towards Gold investors, there are sales people that will tell you whatever they need to so you will purchase their goods. People will tell you that their very expensive, often overpriced, rare coins are worth the price because they cannot be confiscated. They will tell you that they have this magical ability to evade being seized in the event that the government needs your Silver. These are all lies.
Firstly, I highly doubt that confiscation will occur as we no longer have a currency backed by Gold or Silver (which was the case when the original confiscations occurred). So all of the countries that are holding our currency cannot come running to us asking for Gold and Silver, like they did when the original confiscations occurred.
Secondly, these assumptions, and that is what these sales people are doing, are founded on the fact that President Roosevelt exempted coins that were numismatic in nature. This does not mean that a future President would exempt them again, assuming a confiscation ever did occur. Don't be fooled by these con artists, there are plenty of honorable Gold and Silver dealers out there who would love to do business with you and not keep you up at night worrying.
This is a quick reference table to help you quickly identify which US coins are Silver and how much Silver content they have.
World War II provided many obstacles for America. One obstacle was America's need for the metal Nickel. Because Nickels are made from - Nickel, it seemed a huge waste to put this vital metal into our coins, so they substituted the Nickel in Nickels with Silver. The only years that Nickels have ever been minted with Silver are 1942 - 1945. These are often referred to as "Wartime Nickels."
Just like nearly every other very old coin, these coins are quite scarce and run a high premium. These coins should be purchased for their beauty and historical significance more-so than their silver content as you will pay a hefty price for even a bad condition one.
Purchasing these Dimes in awful condition will still cost you a fairly decent amount. We would not suggest investing in these coins for Silver content, but if you have an appreciation for beautiful coins and history, then these make wonderful collectibles!
These Dimes depict Lady Liberty sitting on a rock and holding a shield that reads "LIBERTY" across it. These Dimes carry a relatively high collectors premium and tend to be somewhat rare compared to the newer Dime issues. There are also different versions that exist called "varieties" that feature small differences like different sized dates. These are a good coin to begin with if you want a nice historical coin that won't necessarily cost you a few hundred dollars.
The Barber Dimes are very popular dimes among collectors. They feature the portrait of Liberty as depicted by Charles Barber. These Dimes are more scarce than their more recent counterparts, and this creates a higher premium on these coins. You may still find bad condition specimens of these Dimes with a relatively low price tag but you will still most likely pay more for this coin than you would for a newer Dime.
These Dimes are often called "Mercury Dimes" because of the image on the coin, but the image is actually of Liberty with Wings on her hat. The wings are supposed to symbolize freedom of thought. These Dimes are more highly collected due to their increasing rarity, so these are being less invested in for their Silver and more-so for their rarity.
You can still get these in a lesser condition for about the same price you can get one of the newer Roosevelt's but don't expect a great condition coin for only the price of its Silvers content.
These are the most common of the Dimes that you will receive if collecting Dimes for Silver content. These Dimes had the highest mintage rates out of all of the other Silver dimes and they are the most current ones made. These are often referred to as "junk silver" or "junk dimes" because of their relatively easy availability. Any Dimes that you may get that are older than these tend to have a higher value than what the silver in them is worth.
This is their "collectible value" or "numismatic value." Any made after 1964 are just worth 10 cents, and that is because Congress passed the law that removed Silver from them.
More Information: Article on American Silver Roosevelt Dimes.
Very much like the Draped Bust Dimes, these Quarters are extremely scarce and will carry a very high premium. The Obverse of the coin features a portrait of Ann Willing Bingham, wife of Senator William Bingham. These coins also came in different varieties, so it is highly suggested that if you do purchase any of these coins, you do so from a reputable dealer. These coins are fantastic to collect for their historical value, but very impractical as a Silver investment due to their very high premium.
While these Quarters will be less scarce than the Draped Bust, these are definitely a collectors coin more-so than an investment coin. These coins began featuring Lady Liberty on the obverse and are stunning coins. Capped Bust Quarters are very scarce in comparison to newer Quarters and carry a high premium as well. They are a historically significant coin for America because it was the first series to use the collar method that is used today. These coins also come in varieties so it is important to purchase them from a reputable dealer.
The Seated Liberty Quarter features Lady Liberty Seated on a rock and holding a shield with "Liberty" inscribed across it. These coins are still relatively available but still carry a decent premium. I would not suggest purchasing these only for Silver content, but if you want a nice historical coin that is still relatively affordable then these are a good place to start.
Barber Quarters, much like Barber Dimes, are a more pricey coin to buy when compared to more recent coins, but are a more inexpensive way to own a piece of Silver history. You will still pay a decent premium on the coin in good condition because of its numismatic value, but it is a very fine piece of history that can still be had at a very reasonable price.
The Standing Liberty Quarters are a great way to own a piece of recent history, while investing in Silver at the same time. For a decent to good condition coin you will pay a bit of a premium because they are still relatively rare, but in a more regular to bad grade version of the coin you will pay a modest premium compared to its Silver content. I enjoy purchasing these in lower conditions because of the price difference. They are still relatively old, and poorer conditions can be gotten at a modest premium over the silver value.
If you are buying American coins for their Silver content then you will most likely end up with many of these. They have modest premiums, excluding key dates, and they are widely available even in the best conditions. These are very popular coins with Silver investors, but few consider that they will eventually have a historic value to them just as all previous coins do.
This is an extremely rare and hard to come by coin. Even a poor condition will cost you multi-hundreds of dollars. The coin's obverse depicts Lady Liberty with her free flowing hair.
Even these in some of their worst conditions will run you an easy $25.00. This is due to their relative rarity and historical value. There are many different varieties, so if you stumble upon one of these ungraded, then you may want to send it into a reputable coin grader to see if you've struck gold!
This Half-Dollar, like the other coins in this set, feature the wife of Senator Bingham. These coins are beautiful and historic. They will run you $100 dollars easily in bad condition. Again, not exactly the most practical for Silver investment, but lovely coins nonetheless.
The Seated Liberty Half-Dollar is a lovely coin, but unfortunately a lovely example will cost you a hefty sum of money. To complicate things, this coin has many different varieties, some making the coin slightly more expensive, others making the coin astronomically more expensive. This coin is wonderful for collecting, but probably wouldn't make a good Silver investment coin if you plan on having silver in any substantial quantity.
The Barber series is quite popular among collectors. Nice examples will cost you big while decent examples can range from the low to mid hundreds. Low quality examples can be had for less than $100.00. Again, not very practical for Silver investment, but great for coin collecting. This is one of the more regal looking coins minted by America in my opinion.
High grade versions of this coin are very expensive, but low quality ones are relativly available and put you closer to the Silver investment category. If in very bad condition, some can be gotten for less than $10.00. This is still a premium over the price of Silver (as of the date of this writing.) but it is not too horrible.
These half-dollars are very popular among collectors. Much like the Walking Liberties these can be had in low grade conditions at very affordable prices and are a good way to get your Silver investment building. Mid-condition will definitely be more pricey but is a good step towards having a Silver investment and coin collecting.
The Kennedy is about the most popular Silver investment choice that people make. This can be heavily attributed to availability. The 1964 versions are 90% silver and the 1965 - 1970 versions are 40%. The 40% can be had for about the going price of Silver, and sometimes cheaper because they are less popular, and more available. This makes the 40% coins ideal for investing in Silver.
Roughly only 162,000 of these were minted, so these are going to obviously be quite rare. These were one of the first coins minted in the United States of America. If you have one of these you need not worry about investing in Silver!
Another rare specimen of an early dollar, be ready to drop $1,000.00 for a low quality specimen that is so bad you'd barely be able to recognize it was a coin.
A beautiful coin, and one of my favorite designs. Even a terrible grade will run you a couple hundred dollars. I wouldn't suggest buying this for silver investment but I certainly would get one for collecting. This design first appeared on the Gobrecht dollars, but so few were actually minted I didn't put them on this list.
The Trade Dollar was originally issued to compete with foreign coinage during trade between countries. Due to some very complicated matters the coins became very unpopular during their time in America and were basically forgotten about until the early 1900s. The coins are now highly sought after. Many that you find may have cuts into them. These are called chop marks and were the marks of Asian assayers to guarantee the purity. Due to their new found popularity these coins will be quite expensive.
These are some of the most available Silver Dollars on the market due to their long run and large amounts of production. If you are to invest in Silver Dollars these would be a great choice in lower condition. Due to a recent surge in demand for higher quality ones you will pay a much higher premium for those grades.
The Peace Dollar is another popular series of coin. This coin has a lot of controversy about it due to its design, the time period it was released in and the newly realized 1964 versions. Supposedly all of the 1964 dollars were melted down, but rumors exist that some may be hidden away by their owners. Currently it is illegal to own one of the 1964 Peace Dollars.
These 40% Dollars can be worth a bundle in high grades. If you decide to add some of these for a Silver investment then you must know that only the San Francisco mint made Silver ones.
This is a good resource. Some not to be found in circulation coins were missing, like the silver 3 cent piece, the half dime, and the twenty cent piece. But, these are too valuable to concern oneself with silver content. You covered the important ones.
Will definitely bookmark this site for info on silver coins. Well done.
Wow, there is some really great information in here. I was totally unaware of confiscations until this artile. I've always enjoyed searching for Silver Wartime nickels in rolls from the bank. The show up surprisingly often. Voted beautiful and up!
Thanks for the hub. Based on your information, I consider myself rich as I have a lot of coins mentioned in the hub, some from 1800s.When I think that some of them are 90% silver, I know I need to keep them until I can negotiate a decent offer. A friend asked me about my coin collection and I was willing to part with it because I needed money. However,now that I know how much silver I have in the coins,I will not part with them easily.
Thank you for the lovely comment Research Analyst! It is really fun when you are searching through your change and you find a piece of silver in it. It's like a mini treasure hunt. I'm glad that I could provide this information to you.
this is a great resource for identifying U.S. Silver Coins, especially now in such a down economy people are looking for ways to invest their money into valuable coin collections.
Thank you so much for your compliments. It makes me very happy to hear that this may assist you in some way. At the very worst, this is just something fun to know. I'm glad to hear that people may actually use this. I've hears some stories from very prominent hubbers that wrote these fantastic hubs and spent tons of time but few actually reference it. I did spend a lot of time and hope that it serves you and any other readers well.
What a great hub! I can really appreciate a piece of work I know has taken a lot of time and effort. It's answered a lot of questions for me. Wow, seriously great job! I will refer back to it, definitely.
@Army Infantry Mom: I tried very hard to put together as comptrehensive a list as possible. I've been working on it for quite a few weeks now, but it really came together nicely. I'm really glad that you enjoyed it and I hope that it helps your son out.
@VioletSun: It's always neat finding special coins in the change. I always search through my change to see if I can find any goodies. I'm glad that I was able to share my knowledge with you.
I am not a coin collector, but have on occasion wondered what adds value to a coin just in case I should be lucky and find a rare coin with my change. LOL!
Informative article, I learned something new today.
Wow,..you covered just about everything. I appreciate the time it must have takin you to put this together. My younger son is intrested in coin collections,..this will benefit him well. Props to you !!!


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Vatican 2014-09-30 -- Cardinal John Tong, the Bishop of Hong Kong, has called for peace as tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters extended a blockade of Hong Kong streets on Tuesday amid protests for the city’s leader to step down.
The mostly student protesters have called for the resignation of Leung Chun-ying after last month’s ruling from Beijing to vet candidates wishing to run for Hong Kong's leadership in 2017.
While Leung has said Beijing would not back down in the face of protests it has branded illegal, he also said Hong Kong police would be able to maintain security without help from People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops from the mainland.
Over the weekend, riot police shot pepper spray and tear gas at protesters but withdrew on Monday.
Tuesday’s protests come one day ahead of the national holiday, Chinese National Day.
“There is a great determination among the people,” he said, noting that some estimates are that as many as 200,000 have taken to the streets.
A number of local Churches have been hosting prayer vigils, with Mass being celebrated Monday night at the main cathedral. Churches have remained open for the evening, Fr Mulroney said, becoming “respite centres” – offering protestors places to eat, sleep, pray, etc.

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Most of us don’t even know what software development means. Let me explain. Basically it means that someone works to develop or create new software, usually to meet the needs of business owners, for the personal use of the user, or to supply the potential needs of a client.
Developing new software usually is perceived as ‘computer programming’ to most people. That is only part of the process. There is much research that has to be done in the development of new software programs. This often involves many modifications, engineering and re-engineering, and maintenance of the finished product before it is declared ready for use by the general public.
The software developer is usually someone who’s main concern is with the many facets of the process. Their involvement is often guided by lead programmers during the developing of the software programs. It often takes a long time and no small amount of luck to develop a program that is finally free of glitches typically found in new software programs.
Programmers are the people who typically write the source codes, and the developers are often involved in many other aspects of the process, including, but not limited to specifications, designs, implementations and maintenance to name a few. Certain employees may have a single responsibility in just one of these phases of development, yet in a smaller place of business, it might be that just one employee would take on all of the tasks involved.
Companies take different approaches to how they develop software. Often it is regimented and structured when it pertains to business software. Other companies develop the software one step at a time. However the approach, there are some of the same combinations of methodologies used in the development of new programming.
A methodology in software language means a framework is developed that will structure the development process of new informational systems. Many frameworks have been used over a period of years, and what might be right for one project may not necessarily work for another. This is why new frameworks are being developed and used more often.
The same strategies are employed in both large and small companies. All involved employees would meet to discuss requirements, and proposals and recommendations are usually made at this time. The design work is worked out and clarified. Anything that needs to be updated is done now, and the developers can begin the job or working on the system. Once all this is completed, the system is delivered. Security measures are tested, and any glitches or bugs are worked out to everyone’s satisfaction. The system is deemed complete and is now ready to be distributed and used.
So, there you have it. The capsulized version of how new software is developed, and a brief discussion on who does the work that brings new and exciting developments to the software field. Assuredly there is a lot more to it than what I have discussed, but I think I have included enough information to give one a general idea behind it all.


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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Bain Capital and Cinven have won control of Germany’s Stada (STAGn.DE) with a sweetened 5.3 billion euro ($6.2 billion) bid for the generic drugmaker, in the largest takeover of a listed German company by buyout firms.
Months of uncertainty for Stada ended as investors tendered by the Wednesday deadline 63.85 percent of its shares, more than the 63 percent minimum acceptance threshold, the private equity groups said on Friday.
“We are pleased that the question of the future ownership structure has now been settled,” Engelbert Coster Tjeenk Willink, Stada’s chief executive, said in a statement.
Buyout firms have been flush with cash after selling assets and borrowing cheaply and healthcare is a prime target for them due to its reliable cash flows and long-term growth prospects.
Although the Stada bidders had lowered the minimum level from 67.5 percent, after their first offer yielded acceptances of only 65.52 percent, the second attempt was still “very, very close,” a banker familiar with the process said.
Bain and Cinven had also sweetened their offer by 25 cents per share to 66.25 euros last month, adding around 16 million euros more for Stada, after their earlier bid fell through.
Both offers were supported by Stada’s management, which previously ran an auction in which Bain and Cinven beat a consortium of buyout groups Advent and Permira.
At less than 10 percent, private equity ownership of healthcare firms with over 100 million euros in sales is well below other sectors in Europe, McKinsey said in a recent study.
Buyout firms have been discouraged by a patchwork of national healthcare rules, but interest is on the rise, it said.
Shares in Stada jumped more than 13 percent, ending Friday’s trading session at 72.55 euros, well above the offer price amid speculation that minority shareholders can extract an even higher price from the private equity groups as they seek to take full control of Stada.
If Bain and Cinven manage to cross the 75 percent threshold, it will allow them to tap into Stada’s cashflow to service their debt, but they would also then have to make a buyout offer to minority shareholders, who could demand a mark-up in court.
A takeover was put in doubt when the bidders warned they were struggling even more than before to galvanise private individuals holding some 25 percent of Stada. But hedge funds, which had held on to shares in the hope of fetching an even higher price from Bain and Cinven once the pair have gained control, appeared to have yielded.
Sources have said that Bain and Cinven would look into buying more healthcare businesses to combine with Stada over the medium term, seeking cost cuts that would make the extra cost of their investment in Stada worthwhile. Sanofi’s (SASY.PA) European generics business, which the French drugmaker will put up for sale later this year, will be among the assets targeted, sources have said.


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This downtown Seattle hotel is close to shopping, theaters, and some of the city’s signature culture. The Paramount Theatre is a block away, and the Washington State Convention & Trade Center and shopping at Pacific Place are within two blocks. Pike Place Market is within approximately one-half mile.
Hyatt At Olive 8 features a full-service spa, and a 24-hour fitness center. This downtown Seattle hotel also has a restaurant and bar and a coffee shop and offers room service. The hotel includes an indoor pool and a spa tub. This smoke-free property also offers a concierge desk. Business services, a computer station, and free WiFi in the lobby and public areas are available.
Hyatt At Olive 8’s guestrooms feature iPod docking stations, complimentary wireless Internet access , complimentary wired high-speed Internet, and 37-inch flat-panel TVs with cable channels. Bathrooms have glass-walled showers and provide hair dryers and bath amenities by Portico. Beds have pillowtop mattresses and down blankets.
Elaia Spa at Hyatt At Olive 8 features treatments using organic ingredients, some sourced within the Pacific Northwest. The spa offers massage, facials, nail services, and body wraps. Guests can relax in the spa's sauna and steam room.
A good thing to remember about downtown Seattle is that there is a lot of noisy traffic and if one is a light sleeper, like me, it is best to not stay on a lower floor. For a few extra dollars, one can get a corner room with big windows on both sides and a great view. We unfortunately were in a 4th floor room and the traffic noise was quite bad. Through a series of other problems involving the lock to our room, the hotel moved us to the 12th floor on the corner with a slightly different orientation. Nice room, quieter. Very comfortable bed. Great view. We were treated with great care by the staff. We ate two evening meals and breakfast in the restaurant. Great food, great service.
Beautiful and quiet hotel in a great location. Had all of the amenities anyone could ask for. Check in and out was a breeze and easy valet parking (wish it were cheaper but what do you expect for being downtown). Loved everything from the walk-in shower to the beautiful built in closet and comfy bed. We will absolutely be back!
This is probably the worst experience I’ve had when staying in Seattle! I was surprised to find that there was charge on my bill that wasn’t mine! I didn’t even eat breakfast and was charged for it! I came to Seattle this trip to run for charity which I do often about once a month! I’ve stayed at several different places always been treated well and gotten extremely great service! This trip was horrible from parking to checkout. No offer to help with luggage, the check in line was long and for the time of day that’s crazy. The room was clean however I had one towel for two people. There was a fridge but no microwave and the coffee maker wasn’t working either! The last straw had to be the fact that my bed only had sheets on it! No comforter. Seriously I was beyond dissatisfied. Will take my business to another establishment and will be sharing my experience with my friends and family who also travel to Seattle often and ask how my stay was!

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Since I started writing for Rockfreaks.net I have almost exclusively dealt with metal in its many forms. The gig I went to a couple of days ago in Copenhagen has to be the furthest I've ever moved away from my comfort zone. Sure, the French shoegazers in Alcest started out as a black metal band and there were still traceable metal elements in their first three records, but now on album number 4 they've completely abandoned screamed vocals and blasting drums in favor of a full-blown shoegaze/post-rock sound. Unsurprisingly, the support bands for their 2014 European tour - their first headlining tour to visit Denmark - were bands who sound very foreign to me. Nevertheless, I have developed an open mind and as you may read further down, if you wish, I ended up having an incredible night.
The Fauns describe their sound as "Indie Noisepop", a description that certainly makes sense when hearing the British group for the first time. It makes all the sense in the world that Alcest would bring this band with them on this tour. The music is dreamy, easy on the ears yet quite noisy at the same time. There's a shoegazy atmosphere surrounding the band, with especially the lead guitarist stationed on the left side of the stage as well as the singer in the middle really embracing the emotional nature of their music. Alison, the singer, has an incredibly gentle voice that further enforces the dreamy nature of the band's sonic universe. Unfortunately though, I enjoyed the music a lot more when I closed my eyes, because there wasn't much of a performance to behold. When Alison wasn't singing, she often stepped back and looked to her bandmates on either side of her microphone stand. The only one who really stood out as a performer was the lead guitarist to the left who went all in on emotional credibility and really lived his music. On the other side of the stage, there was neither engaging physical movement, interaction or any clear emotions to spot. With Alison looking insecure rather than charmingly frail and gentle, the band didn't come off as a particular rehearsed unit. And it was a shame, because their music is the perfect foundation to build a good introverted show upon.
It was time for me to get surprised, and as it turned out no one could've done that better than Hexvessel. Formed by the British Mat McNerney, who has previously played in the black metal bands Dødheimsgard and Code, the otherwise Finnish band Hexvessel play a really interesting form of psychedelic folk music that ocassionally adds hints of stoner rock for the heavier passages. The sextet took the stage in convincing manner, with Kimmo Helén's keyboard facing McNerney in order to make room for everything. McNerney proved to be a great frontman, both when adressing the crowd with mysterious messages such as: "Now we have some woods to conjure", but also as he performed with an amazing presence on stage, showed genuine feelings and practically lived the tales of mystical forests portrayed by the group so convincingly. From the magnificent "Sacred Marriage" through the heavier "His Portal Tomb" and many other great tunes, Helén pulled out both a trumpet and a violin in exchange for his keyboard to add more folky elements to the already impressive sound. McNerney's voice was absolutely phenomenal: the range, the feelings behind the words he sang and the power, as proven when he often sang with little to no instrumentation backing him up. I was pretty much blown away by the authenticity, originality, skill and stage presence the Hexvessel proved to possess, and considering that I don't normally like the genres that Hexvessel have mixed together in their music I have to applaud Hexvessel and implore anyone to explore this great band, both on record and in the live setting.
As positively surprised as I admittedly was at how much I liked the two previous bands, this night was all about Alcest. I am most definitely an Alcest fanboy, even though their latest offering, "Shelter", hasn't hit me the way the other three albums did because of its departure from the realm of metal. Nevertheless, the last time I saw Alcest I wasn't entirely convinced, so I was very, very excited to see what the French shoegazers led by mastermind Neige had planned for us all. Along with the only other member of the band, Winterhalter on drums, Neige had brought his regular touring members consisting of bassist Indria Saray and rhythm guitarist Zero who also provided some great backing vocals.
Opening everything with "Opale", the lead single from "Shelter", two things immediately became clear to me: first of all, the new sound works absolutely wonderfully in the live setting, and second, whatever I had to complain about the first time I saw Neige and co. live was completely gone. The sound was absolutely perfect, as it was during all three bands this night at BETA; the vocals were perfectly placed in the mix and nothing was too loud. And I had forgotten my earplugs! Neige proved to have evolved massively as a frontman as he made everyone feel at home in front of the stage and showed how much emotion he puts into writing and performing his very personal music. Zero and Saray performed well, but naturally let Neige have most of the spotlight. The setlist was pretty much perfect: with this tour being a promotional tour for the new album, it wasn't surprising that five new songs were played, but with seven songs from the first three albums interspersed between the new tracks, no one could have been disappointed with the material presented. The first half of the show was a mix between songs from "Shelter" and last year's "Les Voyages De L'Âme", while the second half brought back songs from the first two records. Needless to say, this fanboy was in absolute ecstacy throughout the ordeal, and during the several climaxes, the highlight of which being "Là Où Naissent Les Couleurs Nouvelles" specifically when Neige turned to screamed vocals, a tear or two were dropped.
After the iconic title track from the first album, "Souvenirs d'un autre Monde", Alcest left the stage briefly in order to come back and play one last song, the fantastic closing track "Délivrance" from the new album. It is an incredibly etheral piece that perfectly ended a night that I had never thought would be as good as it was. This is obviously a fanboy's rambling worship of one of his favourite bands, but the quality of Alcest's music and the authenticity with which they performed their tunes on this evening simply cannot be understated. Neige is a magician, and this was not the last time he and his band have put me under their wonderful spell.
As a last note, I feel I have to applaued the guys at BETA and the sound engineers brought to the show by the bands for managing to create such an amazing sound. As mentioned, I had forgotten my earplugs, but when stationed towards the back of the room the sound was perfect without earplugs, and it was wonderful to experience such freedom while having ones ears invaded with sweet, sweet tunes.


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The forest is dark, dank, humus-perfumed.
like the path you despair to follow, right?
the bar that you dare not eat. Not yet, anyway.
each with more prudence than you possess.
How is it we decide we are lost?
for grace, you stew, how will this end?
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I've read countless emails and posts inquiring where to find royalty free music and Foley effects. There are numerous companies producing royalty free audio, some fair, some good and some excellent. Then there are applications such as Soundtrack Pro, Garage Band and Sonic Fire, which is a hybrid of sorts, that enables you to create your own music and effects. Soundtrack Pro and Garage Band are quite good but demand a feel for music and rhythm as well as a great deal of time in order to produce the right cut for your project.
Having been referred to the Sound Ideas website I found yet another company producing royalty free effects and music. They have a very large and seemingly limitless library of different music forms and effects to choose from so, this time, I focused on the Foley effects rather than the music. Being a diver I chose their 'Underwater' series package to evaluate, but keep in mind that quality in one series is usually indicative of quality throughout a companies productions.
The Sound Ideas 'Underwater Series' falls into their specialty sound effects collections and consists of 3 CDs and 1 DVD bearing with them roughly 500 different sound effects relating to the water. In this vast collection you will find an abundance of Foley FXs of a variety of scuba sounds, diving and swimming, boating, sinking ships and underwater avalanches. There is also plenty of audio of watery ambiance, caves, lava and explosions, waterfalls, sonar, beach and ice sounds and household appliances like bathtubs, toilets, washing machines and various water pours. If you want a clip of someone screaming underwater, that's here too.
According to the information on the Sound Ideas website, the majority of these sound effects were recorded from an underwater perspective using a pair of state-of-the-art B & K hydrophones and the collection also includes a DVD version of the CD content, offered in broadcast WAV format that has been embedded with a full set search metadata. All the files have been mastered so that the sound effect descriptions, categories and other library information is stored within the file, making it visible and ready for immediate use in many different software applications in both the PC and Apple platforms. These 16 bit 44.1 K BWF files can also be played on any conventional WAV media player.
Foley FX CDs and DVDs are not hard to come by as many companies do produce them. It has been my experience that they are all far from equal. Even many of the sound FX in Soundtrack Pro and Garage Band sound, to me, as if they have little bass support.
Some collections sound good, some great and some, downright cheesy. For those familiar with Howard and Michelle Halls' brilliant IMAX production "Isle of the Sharks", Foley effects were used generously throughout the film. I thought each effect used in this film sounded wonderful. As I scrolled through many of the royalty free sound effects in the Underwater Series collection I was pleased that each of the audio effects' sounded rich and full. They reminded me of Howard and Michelle's film. There was a good spread throughout the frequency range with a strong bottom end where and when it was needed. While I can't state that I sat and listened to each and every effect, I heard none of the whiny tinniness that I have often heard in a great many other collections.
My bottom line is that, while this is the first collection from Sound Ideas I have heard, I look forward to previewing many of their others. The Underwater Series is not cheap but then quality rarely is.


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