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The predecessor of JSECS is the Hong Kong Joint School Electronics Society (JSES). The JSES was founded on 21 November 1979 by a group of enthusiastic students who had strong interests in electronics. Mr. P. K. Tao, an experienced physics teacher and textbook author, was the teacher advisor who supported the founding of the society. As a local student organization, the JSES was the pioneer in the field of technology. At the infancy stage of the Society, the number of member schools was around 20.
In those days, the development of personal computers had just started but was far from mature. Many science students in secondary schools were interested in electronics, especially in building analog amplifier circuits, designing digital logic circuits, and writing assembly codes for rudimentary microcontrollers. The major activities organized included seminars in electronics, hands-on workshops on building electronic circuits, inter-school quizzes, and social gatherings, etc.
Due to the emergence of personal computers in early 1980's, the secondary students in Hong Kong had gradually developed their interests further from pure electronics to an integration of electronics and computer. In view of this, the Society had shifted the focus to the integration of electronics and computer technology. The JSES was renamed as the Hong Kong Joint School Electronics and Computer Society (HKJSECS) in September 1983. The Society grew steadily over years during this period.
The 1st Joint School Electronics and Computer Exhibition was held from 23rd to 26th August 1984 in the Hong Kong Polytechnic, with the theme “Home Computerization”. The Exhibition eventually developed into an annual event of the Society. Representatives from member schools displayed and presented their projects in the exhibition gallery. The Exhibition is generally recognized as a rendezvous for the exchange of knowledge and building of friendship.
Certain educational activities were held every year. Seminars on recent developments of electronics and computer technology, visits to local universities, and visits to the manufacturing or technological facilities in the industry, were welcomed by the members. The Society also gained public attention by participating in “0011”, a 13-episode educational television programme, aired on HK-TVB in 1983.
Walkathon, Christmas Camp and Annual Ball had become the three traditional social activities of HKJSECS during this period. Funds raised by the Walkathons were used to subsidize the daily expenditure of the Society. The Christmas Camps provided a great opportunity for the committees and members to familiarize with each other such that solid working relationship was enhanced. The Annual Ball was also one of the most favourable social activities among the members.
With the popularization of computer technology and the Internet in the general public in mid 1990's, HKJSECS continues to stay on the cutting edge of technology. The number of member schools augmented rapidly to 103 in 1996, and the activities of HKJSECS became increasingly diversified.
In 1994, HKJSECS joined the Hong Kong Education Information Network (HKEIN) as a project partner with the Department of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUIE). The HKEIN project provides teachers with Internet connections and services such as email and FTP in Hong Kong, which access to the Internet was extremely scarce at the time1. The HKJSECS website went online in March of the same year.
With the support of HKJSECS, the HKEIN was extended as the Hong Kong School Net (HKSN) in early 1996, providing low-cost Internet connection services to secondary school students in Hong Kong2. More than 2000 teachers and students were the beneficiary of the project3. The project eventually evolved into the Hong Kong Education City (HKEdCity) in 2000.
Following the establishment of the School Net, the School Homepage Project was started in 1997, providing technical assistance to members schools for building their school websites.
1. Fong-Lok Lee, Chi-Chung Lam. Towards Online Learning - The Hong Kong Perspective. CUHK.
2. WONG Po-Choi (2000). 香港互聯網的教育應用及發展. Department of Information Engineering. CUHK.
3. CUHK (2000). CUHK: Father of the Hong Kong School Net. Retrieved January 2011 [Link].
As of today in the 21st century, electronics and computers have vastly penetrated our daily lives. We are very proud of our former committee members for their great vision back in the time, introducing state-of-the-art computer technologies to the public. In the new century, HKJSECS received challenges in transforming the role of the Society. Students and the public were well aware of the rise of computer and information technology in this era. Consequently, HKJSECS transformed from the role of a promoter to the role of a facilitator.
The Hong Kong Outstanding IT Student Award was introduced in 2005 to recognise the aspiration and achievement of students contributing to information technology. Assessment criteria include the candidate's own achievement, aspiration and insight, and knowledge in the discipline. The candidates were invited to hold a public speech and attend an on-stage quiz on information technology during the annual Exhibition. At the same time, the Exhibition moved its roots from city halls to shopping arcades in order to attract a wider audience.
To promote teamwork among students, the Award was replaced by the Hong Kong Outstanding IT School Award in 2009. The new Award was a project-based competition, aimed at enriching students' knowledge in information technology. Students formed teams and proposed innovative products, demonstrating them at the annual Exhibition. The quiz component from the previous Student Award formed a separate competition as the Inter-school Information Technology Quiz in 2011.
With the advancement of video production equipment, which heavily involves computers nowadays, the Hong Kong IT Culture Short-film Contest was held in 2007. Students entered the contest in teams and attended workshops dedicated to the contest. The contest later evolved into the Joint School Short-film Exchange Programme as a regular annual event. Another milestone event in 2007 was the HKCEE CIT Seminar, later the HKDSE ICT Seminar, held in response to an increasing popularity of computer-related subjects in the public examination.


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National Park is the strongest protection you can give to valuable nature. The reason for creating national parks is to preserve valuable nature for Sweden and the world.
Foreign hunters who come to Sweden to hunt must pay the 300 SEK hunting permit fee.
The Right of Public Access gives everybody the freedom to roam the Swedish countryside.
National Park is the strongest protection you can give to valuable nature.
Off-road driving often leads to environmental concerns such as soil compaction, erosion and damage to vegetation. Off-road driving on bare ground with an ATV or other vehicle is prohibited – with a few exceptions.

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[17:10] Today has been a rather useful day. After last night it really needed to be. I got back from Tesco and tried the washer. It seemed to be working OK until it just suddenly decided to trip half the electrical circuits in the house, with a load of (sacrificial) washing inside sodden with water and detergent. I managed to get the washing out, scoop out enough water to reset the breakers, and drain the drum. I then had a go at getting the washer to spin the wet washing a bit. After a few minutes of spinning (making a fair racket) things got really, really loud, so I turned it off at the wall and eventually managed to get the washing out. It was cold in places, and so hot it was steaming in others. This didn't feel right, given the washer shouldn't have been heating anything at this point. So, given the drum is hard to turn by hand, keeps tripping the breakers, and makes a worrying sound when spinning, I decided it was time to get a new one. That was what I tried to do for the first half of this morning at work. After having met the bathroom fitter again before work and talked about adding a wall-mounted heater and a shaver socket (mostly to charge my electric toothbrush) I headed into work to double check reviews of various washers, paying attention (I hope enough!) to the various programmes they have. I found someone with a Which? online account and checked the reviews of the ones I was interested in. Got to my desk and make sure the one I'd settled on was available from the place I wanted to get it from. Went to the discount site for my workplace and ordered a top-up for the 'giftcard' I used to pay for my television. The washer is £369.99, plus £20 for removal of the old washer. I found an online voucher code for £20 off (making the removal free, hurrah!). Pay £40.40 to the discount site for £370.00 (round numbers only when adding value to cards), then realise that the giftcard won't have the balance on it until Thursday morning as it was after 11:00 when the transaction went through. Discover on the store's site that the sale on the washer and the £20 voucher both expire tonight. Contact the store via the online chat and am told there's nothing to be done about that. Contact the discount site via their online chat and be told there's no way to expedite the giftcard balance top up... but that I can get a refund on that and go with "instant vouchers" which are what they say on the tin. Get refund for giftcard top up (will take three days), and attempt to get vouchers, to find they only come in minimum amounts of £25 (£25, £50, £100, £200, £1000). Order £375 of instant vouchers for £345 (still 8% discount), head over to the store's web site and order the washer.
On top of that, negotiating £1012 of the cost of my external wall insulation was a nice thing to do this afternoon. In the meantime I managed to get the initial build of two VMs done, go for a recovery run at lunch time, and even get a UPS configured and monitored by our Observium setup. I've got lots more to do tomorrow, but for the moment I'm off home so that Cormac can come by and collect the camp bed I slept on over Christmas, as well as his skiing goggles and gloves which he let me borrow last week.
[17:00] Well, I'm back from skiing and I'm not dead. Although I do have a few bruises. I was only cross country skiing (not knowing how to downhill/alpine ski), but after two days of too much snow (and the piste-bashers not clearing any langlauf routes) I was able to start getting out and racking up the kilometers/distance. Rachel, lovely person that she is, split her time between downhill skiing and cross country with me. We had a lovely chalet, shared with Andy (Andrew) and Andy (Andrea) as well as two older gentlemen (with whom we got on quite well), a host who cooked us some delicious breakfasts, afternoon teas, and dinners), and the scenery was incredible. Other than the valley getting snowed in for a day or so, my inability to stay on my feet when going around langlauf route downhill corners, and a feeling of missing out when the other three were up on the downhill routes, it was a fantastically wonderful holiday, and I might even want to go again... possibly having learned a bit of downhill skiing in a snowdome or similar beforehand.
The main reason why I might not be doing that any time soon (by which I mean the next year or three) is that this morning was the start of my shower room refurbishment, and I'm in the final stages of agreeing a start date for a company to come and apply external wall insulation to my house, at a considerable expense. Until my finances have recovered from those rather major hits I'm not sure I'm going to be doing more than some long weekends away in this country, and making my own entertainment with paper cups, sticky-back plastic and drinking straws.
Anyway, it's time to go home, go to Tesco, then test the washing machine with a sacrificial load (which I might not get back without a fight) as it may be on the way to being completely broken in a terminal way.
[15:40] Short entry as I'm away off home very shortly. Thence to the train station, to Croydon, and off cross country skiing for all of next week. But anyway, today was mildly useful in that I got three servers built, one of them twice due to 'issues', did a pretty hard interval session at lunch time which I decided to do on the track to ensure I didn't get bothered by pedestrians, and worried and stressed about my Red Hat Satellite install, which I upgraded yesterday and have since had a number of issues with. Hopefully it'll be OK for the next week and I can deal with anything that might ahve gonr wrong with it when I get back. Hopefully nothing will have.
Last night I went home via Keith's house and helped Sarah (housemate) rescue large chunks of his shed roof and then tie down the rest of the roof with boat ties so that hopefully nothing else flies off before he gets back.
I'm actually quite tired now that I think about it. I think this is the first week in a long time when I've run every day. The last time was probably when I did that 10K for ten days thing, and then started on the 15K for fifteen days (which I stopped when I started getting nose bleeds or something like that).
Anyway, that's it for the moment. I'm off, as I said. When I get back, the Monday I come back into work is the first day the bathroom fitter starts on my shower/wet room and converts it into something a little better in terms of fittings and fixtures, flooring and heating. Here's hoping. I'll give you something of a running commentary, as well as a debrief on next week as and when I have time. There might even be photos. Don't think I've forgotten about putting up photos of Kenya/Tanzania/Zanzibar. I just need a bit of time. See you soon.
[17:20] It was so windy last night and this morning that the side gate to my house managed to slip its deadbolt twice (04:30 and 05:00). I'm going to have to properly secure it while I'm away next week or it'll probably bang itself off its hinges by the time I get home. In any event, that and the wind itself contributed to me not having a great second half of the night's sleep. The wind played a factor in how tired I was after I got up at 06:00 and ran for an hour and a half around a ten-and-a-bit mile circular-ish course, too. Starting in the dark, windy morning with a headtorch on to help me see fallen branches at least made me feel worthy, if not a little bit fitter by the time I'd finished. Or maybe just tired. This is a hard week of running every week day, and every day since last Saturday, because of my taking 'time off' (read: cross country skiing almost every day for a few hours) next week. Hopefully I have the measure of it.
Other things that happened today is that I got the train times I need for tomorrow evening to get to Rachel's place while meeting a friend at St. Pancras station, getting a printable voucher for a preferential rate on the money I want to exchance at the airport, printing everyone's boarding passes, and getting three new VMs ready for Ansiblisation tomorrow so that they're usable the week I'm away, rather than only coming into being after I get back.
Now I'm heading off to help someone rescue the roof of a shed which partially blew off last night. Then I'll head home and pack, and relax with whatever remains of the evening.
[18:00] Today started very early with my next door neighbours having an argument at 04:00, which carried on until about 05:30. So that was good. Then I had an hour of people looking at my house and generating an EWI quote that's the most expensive one yet. I'm unlikely to go with them. After all of that I cycled into work, had a morning of fighting with Ansible as a whole slew of edgecases came up when I tried applying what I thought was good Ansible roles, tasks, and playbooks, to my actual servers (rather than the test VM server I got them all 'working' on). Then it was lunchtime and a track session at which I think I performed reasonably. My coach was there coaching myself and others, so it was good to get some feedback. Once I was back in the office and showered and stuff I got the rest of my Ansible stuff done and dusted, did a few things manually which also got shunted into various locations so they won't be an issue next time, and even had time to eat my lunch before 15:00.
I've had an afternoon of working through emails, and figuring out what else I need to do before the end of the week. Now it's time to go home, have a good long rest, and think about whether I do my morning run before work or cheekily extend my lunch break tomorrow (it'll be the former, I imagine).
[17:40] Today mostly consisted of fiddling with Ansible and getting old roles to do new things, then prodding people repeatedly until they gave me the information I needed (mostly to do with users, groups, UIDs, and GIDs). I honestly think I might, finally, have everything I need to run Ansible over the five new physical servers I kickstarted last week. I'm going to take another look at everything in the cold light of tomorrow morning and then unleash the playbooks and see what happens.
Before that, tomorrow, I have another company coming round to look at the house with a view to giving me a quote for external wall insulation. That's at 08:00, so the chances are I won't get into work much before 09:00. That's OK though as it was only this morning when I was needed in a bit earlier than usual in case something went wrong during some planned maintenance.
Recovery run at lunch time, which was a great way to break up the day. The sun even came out. Tomorrow is track day, which should be a bit of a lung-stretcher.
[18:20] I'm trying to remember what happened over the weekend. After Friday night with Rachel (which was wonderful, and also involved curry), we woke up horribly early so she could get to somewhere south of London to play hockey. All the trains in the direction she wanted to go were cancelled, so she ended up having to get a train somewhere else, then a coach, then the Tube. It all worked out in the end, but it wasn't the smoothest of journeys. Meanwhile I went and did parkrun, reasonably, and then got on with a weekend of tidying, washing clothes, and going to Tesco. The washing machine gave me a bucket load of grief, making rather worrying sounds during the spin cycle, and then when I tried to use it empty to see what was happening, giving a good impression of breaking utterly, when in fact it was tripping a circuit breaker in the house distribution box instead. Basically, I'm going to try it again with a proper load when I get back from skiing and not overload it and hope very hard that it finishes its cycle and gives me back my clothes not covered in bits of mechanical innards, unused washing liquid, or more water than would be the case if the spin cycle had finished successfully. Let's just say I called my parents a lot, and worried about more financial outlay on top of the shower room refurbishment and the EWI quotes I've only got a few weeks to commit to one of before they expire.
I also spent a lot of Friday evening and Saturday using the FLIR camera from my council to look at my house and others on the same road. It confirmed my understanding that my house leaks a lot of heat because it's single skin, and the houses with EWI are doing a better job of keeping their heat inside, even when they're hotter inside than mine. I definitely want to get EWI installed... it's just a case of whether and when I can afford it. On Sunday I did my long run for the week, then popped around to a friend's house to let him look at his house extension-in-progress to see where the heat leaks were. That was quite interesting. I'm afraid all other parts of the weekend were spent relaxing on the sofa and either reading or watching large amounts of The Good Place.
This morning I was incredibly tired for no sensible reason I could think of. Given I had a cheque to pay in I stayed in bed a little later, then headed out in time to get to the bank for 09:00 to do so. After that I got into work where I've spent the entire day translating a set of build instructions for servers being tasked with running Oracle into a set of Ansible tasks. Other than some rather complex bits I needed help with from better minds than mine (and still they needed to look a few things up, which made me feel better) everything went off reasonbly smoothly and I'm ready to run everything against the real servers tomorrow, I think. At one point my brain got so clathered that I needed to get out of the building and go for a run, which was good as that's what my training plan said I had to do, too. It's going to be a tough week running wise as my coach is compressing seven days into five as I won't be able to train on Saturday (travel) or Sunday (probably doing other things/unable to run on snow).
For now though I'm going to head home and do very little for the remainder of the day. Tomorrow will see a bit more Ansible configuration (mainly user creation, I think) then I'll try running my playbook against the five servers and see what happens.
[17:05] I managed to rescue a fairly unproductive day with a rapid amount of work in the last few hours before it was time to write this and go home. Over lunch I also got a lift out to collect the FLIR (forward looking infra-red) camera from my district council so I can look at my house (and other people's houses, and Rachel, and random objects) tonight and this weekend. So yes, today was dull, then useful.
Rachel arrived last night and there was much rejoicing. I certainly didn't want to come to work this morning and was in fact slightly late in the end. Not that it mattered. I left Rachel at home doing important things (in fact she got up well before me this morning to have a Skype call) and I'm just about to leave and stop her doing important (work) things and do important (not work) things with me instead.
Over the weekend we'll be apart as Rachel has to go and play hockey back in London and then see friends and things. I'll be running variously, contemplating my EWI quotes, and reading a lot, I hope. Also Tesco, of course.
[17:40] With working Kickstart configurations from yesterday it was pretty simple to go over to the other server room this morning and get the remaining two servers up and running after I'd configured their BIOSes and DRACs. Of course, nothing's 100% simple, so I had to track down someone in Networks to get the network connectivity sorted out before everything could go ahead, but that didn't take long. Over lunch I had a nice 35 minute recovery run, which wasn't quite as relaxing as had been hoping, but at least it wasn't raining. I still need to work out what new Ansible roles to apply to the - now five - new servers I've just built, but that's a project for tomorrow, I think. I also built a new VM for someone too, but all I did there was run up something from the template, increase the disk size, and then hand it over.
Rachel's soon to be on her way here, if she doesn't miss her train, and then we should have a lovely evening together, she'll work from home tomorrow (which will mean I'll be leaving work as soon as humanly possible tomorrow afternoon) and then we'll have Friday evening together, too. She can't stay for the weekend (when I have the fun of the thermal camera to play with) as she has hockey and then a friend to see, so I'm lucky to get her for two nights in the week instead. I should have been going to Croydon again, but the camera only being available over the weekend has put paid to that. I'll be there next weekend (at least for some of it) before we go skiing, so that'll be some small payback.
[18:00] A long and hard, but ultimately rewarding day all told. Most of it was spent fighting with two different configurations of Dell server such that I could get RHEL7 installed on them via Kickstart. To cut a long story short, the problems were firewall related, and BIOS/UEFI related. I've solved both of them, as well as some niggly other issues which I think were just down to finger fumbles. In between all of that I went and did my lunchtime hill sprints with lots of company, with even my coach getting in on the running action, too. It turns out he got divorced over the last few days/weeks, after only 8 weeks of marriage. We had a good mutual commiseration thing going on on the warm up and warm down runs.
Anyway, I'm off home now to relax after today's trials and tribulations, and to look forward to a nice simple recovery run tomorrow lunch time. In other news Rachel's on her way to be reunited with a bike we thought had been stolen from East Croydon train station, even though it was pretty much impossible anyone could have wanted it. The British Transport Police had spotted that it hadn't been locked and simple took it away. Rachel had had the foresight to register it so they (eventually!) got in touch, which was good. She's coming here tomorrow, too (against my wishes (sort of) as I'd promised her she wouldn't have to until March, as a break from traveling quite so much) which will be wonderful.
[18:25] I tried installing my first RHEL7 servers on physical hardware this morning. Networking has been the bane of my life as a result. Don't get me started on dracut and its blind, silent, DHCP requesting to try and continue the install process. Suffice it to say I've had to bite the bullet and get straight into Kickstart for RHEL7 a little earlier than I thought I would. It may save me tons of time in the long run, but it does feel like I've wasted most of the day otherwise. Still, I did get a good run session in at lunchtime (track, intervals), and there's every chance that I may make good progress with at least two of the servers tomorrow morning because of my staying late this evening. We'll see.
Anyway, I'm here far too late and I really should go home and forget about the day a bit.
[17:15] I'm getting better. Slowly but surely I'm coughing and blowing my nose just a little less, and feeling a smidgen stronger when I run. On Friday evening when I head to Croydon I wasn't feeling all that brilliant, but by the end of the day today I have to say I'm not feeling totally terrible. Between times Rachel and I have had a nice time together, and been reduced to watching Netflix on her mobile phone as her new laptop just refuses to work reliably on her home broadband connection. I'll be taking home her old laptop (now installed with linux) the next time I go in the hopes it'll behave better (and work better with the monitor I took there a while back, which is now married to an HDMI->VGA adapter which isn't doing the right thing either). Anyway, we spent time together keeping warm and quiet, got some logistics done for various things, ran a few times, got cold, and hot, and a little bit muddy, and then I came back to work again this morning on a tram, two trains, and a bike. All seems well, I've got a significant number of ducks lined up that I need to make a start on knocking down this week (which could see me out of the office quite a bit and in various server rooms), but for the moment I'm going to head home, go to Tesco, and then settle in for the night.
In other news, Cormac has lent me some skiing goggles and gloves, which should make my skiing experience in two weeks from now just a little bit more enjoyable, I hope.
[15:30] So, I should have been back at work on Tuesday, following a lovely bit of time off, Christmas with my family at my house, a sub-40 min run at a new year's eve 10K, and all kinds of fun with Rachel. What happened instead was a considerable amount of worry on my part about various personal things, a Christmas with my family that was absolutely lovely other than each one of us in turn being struck down by the plague that my nephew brought to the house, and then Rachel arriving and having to look after me as I succumbed to the virus just before new year's eve and into the new year. Really, it was a lovely family time, but we all could have done without feeling absolutely rotten for a part of it. I'm just incredibly glad that Rachel didn't get it from me. We seem to have parallel immune systems, which means we don't get what the other does (and can therefore look after the other person when they're ill). Rachel got to run the new year's eve 10K and come first woman in her age group and third woman over all, and I got to be very proud of her. I got to spend four or five days confined to the sofa reading lots and lots of books and being unable to control my temperature. Christmas was wonderful, when at least a few of us were capable of enjoying the festivities and the food, but with two in a row now striking down members of the family we're going to have to seriously think about what happens in 12 months time.
The plague, or whatever is was, has meant no serious running for me since the 29th of December, and I'm starting to feel a bit antsy (which is probably a sign that I'm getting well). I'm also quite paranoid that I'll have put myself back by over a week in terms of cardio and general fitness. I can't see it happening any time soon, but while I was most ill (and even now) I had the strong feeling that I really needed to get back into a gym and move some heavy weights around for a few months. Squeezing that into my life at the moment might prove to be a little difficult, though.
Anyway, one of the upshots of the festive period was me making proper plans to head to see Rachel on weekends for a couple of months, to give her a long-overdue break from traveling (to see me). Although there'll be some breaks for holidays, or me getting a thermal camera to look at the house one weekend, or her wanting to see other people, there's a good chance she won't get to come here until the beginning of March, which I think is pretty cool and well past time. This means I'm off to see her this evening, cough and all.
And finally, as a result of being off work for the first three days of the year all of the panics and issues and things seem to have been mostly sorted and I've just slotted back into the flow of things without much of a ripple. There'll be some actual physical servers to configure early next week, I'd imagine. But nothing too problematic to deal with.

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2016 wasn’t exactly a banner year for humanity. It was, however, in our humble opinion, the best one on record for television. The ever-growing number of outstanding programs released to an ever-growing number of outlets may be problematic for bars, restaurants and our life spans, but none of that will stop us from enjoying our Netflix and chill lifestyle anytime soon. The holidays are a particularly good moment to catch up, and to aid you in this endeavor we’ve compiled a semi-exhaustive list of the top shows of 2016. Find the ones you haven’t yet watched (Fleabag!!!) and queue them up for some post-turkey-binge bingeing.
It seemed to come out of nowhere. We remember being mildly excited that the show was bringing Winona Ryder back to the screen, but little did we know how obsessed we'd soon be with Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven. Perhaps because of its use of pastiche, the show was instantly familiar, and just months after its release, Stranger Things already feels like a classic.
You can stream season 1 of Stranger Things on Netflix.
It's been a bit polarizing among our social circles, but we love this show so much. As Mel Brooks once said, "Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die." Fleabag is hilarious, but there's a depth and a sadness beneath the jokes that will keep you riveted. It also manages to comment on modern feminism in a way that feels authentic to the story and character as opposed to contrived in order to send a message.
You can stream Fleabag on Amazon.
The Night Of had us staying up well past our bedtimes on multiple occasions—the story line is so compelling and at times also incredibly chilling. In light of recent political events, the first season of this show might pack an even bigger punch when watched the second time around. The entire cast is great, but John Turturro steals every scene.
You can watch The Night Of on HBO.
Nothing has given us more nightmares than Black Mirror. Monsters, serial killers and whatever other scary things might be portrayed on our other favorite TV shows can't compare with this terrifying version of an only slightly twisted reality. For many of us, the story lines feel inevitable. For others, real life is more frightening than anything the show's creator could dream up. As Vanity Fair recently posited, "The worst-case scenarios of Charlie Brooker's techno-dystopian parables don't seem too grim to an audience already living in hell." Yikes.
You can watch Black Mirror on Netflix.
Our affection for this show has been helped by our obsession with lead actor Rami Malek (did you know he has an identical twin?!), but that isn't to say we weren't hooked into the story in a more general sense as well. Mr. Robot won a host of awards this year (Emmys, Golden Globes, Critics Choice and more) for good reason, and it's definitely prime holiday-binge material if you haven't yet had a chance to tune in.
You can watch Mr. Robot on USA's website with a cable subscription or buy episodes on Amazon.
After one of the greatest cliff-hangers in TV history, Game of Thrones returned for a sixth season that did not disappoint. If you're one of the very, very few people who haven't gotten around to GOT yet, we suggest you invest the bulk of your holiday break in watching it (though technically you have months and months, as season 7 won't air until summer 2017—sadface).
You can watch Game of Thrones on HBO.
After this election season, most of us want to detox entirely from anything political, at least throughout the holidays. Those who have to laugh so as not to weep, however, should consider bingeing on Veep. Sadly, the show isn't as much of a parody as it once was (reality has become crazier than anything the show's writers could dream up), but both the dialogue and the performances are genius nonetheless.
You can watch Veep on HBO.
This is not by any means popcorn fare. Therefore binge-watching it isn't necessarily a recommended holiday activity for those who use vacation time to escape existential despair. It's important viewing, though, and perhaps now more than ever. So, those of you who've yet to tune in should toe-dip sparingly if you have the emotional capacity to do so in your downtime.
You can watch Transparent on Amazon.
We know a lot of people for whom this show got lost amid the clutter this year. If you were a Breaking Bad fan, however, seasons one and two of Better Call Saul are worth moving to the front of your binge queue. Bob Odenkirk is a genius.
You can watch Better Call Saul on Netflix.
This series had everything—true crime, Kardashians and David Schwimmer. How are we not still talking about it?
The People v. O.J. Simpson will be available on Netflix in early 2017.
This is another show you may want to skip for now if you're burned out on the political sphere. If you haven't yet watched it, however, you might want to do so if for no other reason than to find out why Vanity Fair is currently asking if Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner are plotting "a House of Cards–style game."
This season so accurately depicts life within a grown-up partnership that many of the show's best moments elicit a knee-jerk "It's not just me!" reaction. It also somehow manages to portray these realities in a way that never feels as tedious as it might elsewhere on TV (or IRL). Between its two seasons, Catastrophe has sadly only put forth 12 episodes, so this is an easy one to binge on over the break.
You can watch Catastrophe on Amazon.
John Oliver is our biggest crush on TV. Though his audience likely agrees with all the viewpoints expressed so eloquently on the show, what he's doing is still important. If you haven't yet seen it, we suggest watching these clips from the season 3 finale.
You can watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO.
Samantha Bee is just the type of "nasty woman" we need on TV right now, skewering politics and current events with a feminist bent. If you're not watching, please do so immediately—the more female voices to which we give a public forum, the better.
You can watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS.com with a cable login.
You can watch You're the Worst on Amazon.
We wish we had thought of this concept, which so brilliantly skewers the culture of The Bachelor with a little help from one of the show's former producers.
You can watch UnREAL on Hulu.
This show may soon feel even more retro than it already does, given Trump's determination to repair relations with Russia. (Though to be fair, if Trump were president in the '80s, he likely would've been demanding a Russian rather than Muslim registry, but anyhoo.) Keri Russell and real-life beau Matthew Rhys have a palpable chemistry that makes the intrigue of this show all that much more compelling.
You can watch The Americans on Amazon.
If one were to judge by women's media coverage, the Gilmore Girls revival would undoubtedly be considered the most highly anticipated show of 2016. Though it hasn't yet premiered, we figured we'd be remiss not including it on this list.
You can watch Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life on Netflix November 25.
Despite its artsy aspirations, The Affair is a pretty straightforward soap at this point, which isn't to say we aren't addicted regardless (or maybe even because?) of this fact. We should warn anyone who has yet to watch that you will inevitably end up questioning why any woman (let alone, two women) would be into Noah, while simultaneously feeling like you might be into him, too. Ugh. This will then make you question your entire dating history.
You can watch The Affair on Hulu or Showtime.
We're so glad you stuck through this entire slideshow so we could get the chance to rave to you about how great Chelsea is. Don't laugh, but we learn a lot from this show, and we love Chelsea Handler's unrivaled ability to own who she is, no matter how unpopular her version of womanhood (single, childless) may be in 2016. The show is also far more emotional than you might anticipate—check out the post-election episode or the Shannen Doherty episode to see what we mean.
You can watch Chelsea on Netflix.

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Are the days numbered for the head of Naples Community Hospital? The medical staff voted no confidence in CEO Alan Weiss Thursday night, but the NCH board of trustees ultimately holds the power to determine whether this happens or not.
Board members denied an on-camera interview with WINK News when asked for comment, but the board did provide a statement Friday.
The board also said it has not received notification from the medical staff regarding its meeting and no-confidence vote. The board has a meeting scheduled Wednesday next week.
More concerned people told WINK News they are not happy with how management operates at NCH. This in part with the ongoing controversy surrounding the proposed pilot program that would require all patients get their care from NCH doctors only.
“We need to get a new administrator to guide this hospital in the correct direction,” said Dr. Ronald Garry of Naples Premier Concierge.
Garry said out of his 15 plus years working as a doctor in Naples, he has never seen something as controversial as the proposed policy and the impact it is creating in the community and at the hospital.
NCH medical staff met, and they all agreed in a unanimous vote to have Weiss and Chief of Staff Kevin Cooper step down from their executive roles at the Naples hospital.
Some patients don’t understand why the board continues to support Weiss and Cooper if the entire medical staff have collectively disavowed them both.


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Jade Robinson lets fly with a volley as John Soares looks on at the International Futbol Scouting Academy pilot program last week.
International Futbol Scouting Academy brings top-class coaching to the North Island.
PORT HARDY—A small squad of soccer standouts got some top-class coaching last week as the International Futbol Scouting Academy kicked off a pilot project in search of the next Kevin Wasden.
Victoria-based program director John Soares and coach Carlos Almeida took a dozen youngsters through their paces at Gwa’sala-’Nakwaxda’xw school. And the group clearly made the grade, as the Academy will return to Port Hardy in early July, opening up to additional applicants.
Soares brings a wealth of experience from his years as a professional player in Europe, playing alongside the likes of Portuguese legend Luis Figo, 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year.
He also built up a slew of connections with coaching staff at some of the biggest clubs in the world.
His academy searches for the crème de la crème of young talent in western Canada and connects them with scouting programs at some of Europe’s football titans; clubs including Benfica, Barcelona, Porto, Sporting Lisbon and AC Milan.
The program introduced the youngsters to a series of drills and testings, developed by leading coaches. Each participant received a personalized assessment highlighting their strengths and weaknesses.
Soares uses these assessments to recommend players for development programs and tryouts with the European sides, with the hope of getting scholarship and professional interest for the elite players.
Each player at the Academy also receives a nutritional information package, advising them on food choices and hydration, again modelled off the professional standard.
Soares explained that he had been on the North Island 10 years ago, when he was involved with a program in Port McNeill. “Small places always produce great players,” he said, adding the pilot group had impressed. “They’ve worked so hard; it’s unbelievable.
Almeida said the pilot scheme had gone well and they had lined up further programs in Victoria in the coming weeks.
Both coaches and local organizer Scott Harris expressed thanks to the Gwa’sala-’Nakwaxda’xw Nations for facilitating the use of the school for the program.
The Academy will return to Port Hardy July 2-6. A registration of $250 per player for the five-day course includes a jersey and shorts, as well as the written assessment and nutritional package. The program is limited to 20 players per age group, with priority for players recommended by their coach.
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"Attribute error: pyo server not created"
I have seen on the forum that many people have met the same problem over the years but I have not been able to determine from that what was the source of the problem nor what solutions could be brought to it.
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I wish YouTube had existed when I was younger.
It’s not because of the YouTubers (God help us all). It’s not even because of the instant access to billions of music tracks, although that would have been incredible. Unbelievably, It’s not even for the cat videos.
I’m thinking of the massive amount of YouTube tutorials that exist on every subject imaginable.
Whatever the subject is that you’re looking to learn about, a simple search on YouTube for related tutorials always reveals gold. Whatever it is you’re trying to do, somebody else has already created a video guide and uploaded it. It’s a great way of learning something. It’s always going to be easier to learn something by watching someone else do it, rather than trying to decipher written instructions in a book.
Youtube suits me. My method of learning something is to find a handful of tutorial videos, download them onto my phone, and watch them on to the train.
Like everything in life, some of the styles weren’t to my taste. A poorly recorded video or a presenter with an annoying voice is an instant turn-off.
So, when you find out the content you want to watch, how do you organise it? There are two ways to keep the tutorials you want to watch organised. One is to use YouTube’s playlist function. The other is to download it yourself so you can watch it offline. This latter option is handy if you want to save data on your phone, or are going somewhere without a signal.
Let’s say you want to find a bunch of videos on how to make filled doughtnuts. Search for exactly that.
You’ll notice that moving the mouse over a search result brings up three dots on the right. Click on those, then select ‘add to playlist’.
At this point, you need to create a new doughnut related playlist. Fortunately, Youtube playlists are easy to create and maintain.
Click on create new playlist, and then name it. That’s it. You’ve created a playlist and added your first video to it! Now, go adding all the other useful videos to this same playlist. You now have all your tutorial videos in one handy playlist.
The great thing about this is that you can log in to Youtube on any device, and those same playlists will be accessible. Simple and effective.
The second option is to download the files and copy them to your phone or tablet to watch at your leisure. This is handy if, like me, your commute goes through some areas with a crappy phone signal, or if you want to save data.
We can get add-ons for your browser to download YouTube videos but I’ve found them to be a bit hit-and-miss.
The best option is to use a site like Youtube to MP4. Simply paste the link for the video you want to download, click ‘convert’ and you will be given an instant download.
There are a few sites that offer this service, and they’re all free.
Whichever method you use, getting access to the knowledge available on YouTube will improve your chosen subject no end. Whatever you’re planning to learn, good luck!
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It’s not surprising that so many pregnant women feel anxious and stressed about birth. We are surrounded by negative birth stories across the media and birth TV – it’s all drama! This coverage creates a distorted view. Sadly we are rarely going to see a calm and positive birth on television, because it makes for rather boring TV!
Fear and anxiety trigger cortisol, adrenaline and other stress hormones, which will inevitably lead to a more challenging birth. Hypnobirthing gives you the chance to turn this around, with practise.
Hypnobirthing provides simple, practical techniques and strategies to reduce stress and anxiety in pregnancy. Hypnobirthing increases the flow of endorphins, dopamine and serotonin – the relaxation and ‘feel good’ hormones. Simple but powerful techniques through pregnancy can enable a much gentler start and birth flow, minimising pain in birth. These techniques enable mothers to feel more aware and in control, however and wherever they choose to birth their baby.
When we understand how our body and baby are designed for birth, how the birth hormone oxytocin is key, and the most effective ways to keep it flowing, we are well on our way to a positive birth (even with a medical condition that requires extra support).
Partners play an important role in helping oxytocin flow. Couples can learn hypnobirthing breathing and relaxation techniques and massage. These strategies help the birthing mother relax deeply before and during birth.
It’s important to acknowledge our fears in order to let them go – and myth busting does matter! Did you know that hypnobirthing mothers are significantly less likely to tear and significantly less likely to have an induction?
Hypnobirthing fear release and confidence boosting audio tracks including affirmations are an important tool as is a hypnobirthing birth plan. Specific hypnobirthing audio can help a breech baby turn, or a mother to relax before a c-section. Daily practise is key – helping us let go of daily stress and worry, and to maintain optimism.
A good birth is also about attitude. When we have access to accurate information, we can feel confident in our decisions and know the right questions to ask. We are empowered and at the centre of our birth, which makes an enormous difference to our experience. Confidence boosting and assertiveness techniques are practised, so women (and partners) feel calm, excited, optimistic and equipped for birth, however their birth flows.
Environment matters. Our mind affects our body – so everything we see and hear in our surrounding physical environment impacts how we feel, which in turn has a hugely powerful impact on our birth. We know that birth flows smoothly when we feel safe, which is why many consider a home birth (which is very safe). Others stay at home as long as possible before attending a birthing centre, a dark, calm, quiet room with a pool, and a midwife who is a reassuring presence in the room. Your mind can let go easily and quickly and your birthing body can just take over.
In a nutshell – stop watching birth TV! Stop googling symptoms! Choose to read positive birth stories. Choose the calmest place for your birth. Surround yourself with people who support your birth plan. (Do you need to speak to a Consultant Midwife for extra support?) Spend time with women who’ve had a good birth – you will learn a lot from them. With your partner, practise hypnobirthing breathing and drift off with hypno tracks daily, and you will be well on your way to an amazing birth!
Rosie Goode is one of the UK’s leading Hypnotherapists and founder of London’s renowned Hypnobirthing Works. Rosie works both in the private sector and for and with the NHS. Rosie and her team of experts deliver a timetable of intimate group and private Hypnobirthing courses with bespoke methods tailored to every client’s’ needs. Rosie’s passion in helping couples through an empowering, positive and confident birth has led her to supporting over 2,500 couples towards the best possible birth. For more information or to book a ‘Hypnobirthing Works’ course with Rosie or to order some of her relaxation downloads, please visit Hypnobirthing Works.
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Tyler Baltierra Gushes Over Catelynn Lowell Following Cheating Scandal!
Looks like Tyler Baltierra and Catelynn Lowell are still going strong! The Teen Mom OG star posted a loving message to his wife following the bombshell cheating scandal.
"God I love her," the reality star wrote on his Twitter page, retweeting a funny video that Cate posted on her Instagram.
Just last week, Tyler and Cate were in the midst of an explosive cheating scandal after a blind item on Crazy Days and Nights claimed that he was unfaithful in their marriage.
The couple then took to Twitter to shut down the accusations. "We really tried keeping that a secret too! Well I'm sorry, I couldn't resist her/him...[I don't know] it was dark & I was drunk," he jokingly wrote on Twitter.
And Cate wrote, "Well since it's out in the open @TylerBaltierra did cheat on me he's busted!"
What did you think of Tyler and Cate's cheating scandal? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section!


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To get your university journey off to a great start, and to help you maximise your first year, we have compiled a bucket list of things to do as a fresher.
Starting over can always be challenging. As a fresher, you’re at the beginning of your university journey, and for many of you, it will be your first taste of independence. It will probably be the first time where you will learn how to seriously budget, as well as cook for yourself and do your own laundry. But don’t feel too overwhelmed, as these small but important tasks, are part of many that lay the foundation into becoming a fully-fledged grown-up.
University friends are usually friends for life. But regardless of whether you become bff’s or not, it’s always good to meet new people.
You may learn a new skill, find a new passion, or just have fun. Plus, it can be a great way of meeting new people.
There are many student societies you can be a part of while you are a London Campus student, such as Mentoring Society, BeCULC, Merchandise and more. We also organise a range of trips and activities throughout the year, both on and off campus. So get involved.
Embrace the new and get stuck in. Not only because it can be character building, but stepping out of your comfort zone may lead to positive life changes and discovering new things.
Independence can be daunting, but it is something which you should definitely embrace. Enjoy your freedom.
and last but not least…attend Fresher’s Week!
Fresher’s week is a great way to kick start your journey. From Monday 3rd October, we will be hosting a whole array of fun activities for you to get involved in. The first night will consist of a Movie night with free ice cream. The following night, and one not to be missed is our Spitafields Karaoke Night – which is a great way to explore what’s local to the campus, as well as one of the trendiest parts of London Town. Don’t miss out on the Fresher’s fair and Jack the Ripper pub crawl!
Don’t forget to purchase a wristband, to get the best value for money and to guarantee entry to all of our Fresher’s Week events.
So here is our bucket list to get your first year off to a fulfilling start. We hope you enjoy your first year at the London Campus. Remember to maximise your time at University, and remember to have fun learning.

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Credit cards give you cash back or airline miles. Ebates gives you cash back (or a “Big Fat Check” as they call it). But a new app called Bumped gives a fresh idea to the loyalty game: stock in the very companies you shop at.
Bumped is a new loyalty service (“app”) that provides fractional shares of companies as you spend money at those same companies. The dollar amount of fractional shares you earn is comparable to other cash back programs - for me, various brands offer 1%, 2%, 3%, or 5% of the amount I spend.
Bumped loyalty selection screen showing percent earnable.
Get free stock when you spend with the brands you love.
Fractional shares, no fees. So you can own what you love.
These differ only slightly from the list of brands on the Bumped support website. I’ve also noticed on some screenshots on other review sites brands that are not available to me, such a Burger King or Lowe’s. This may be a regional thing (even though there are Lowe’s and Burger Kings in my area) or maybe there’s no rhyme or reason why some people get some brands and others get other brands.
You can select one brand from each category. At first, I thought I could only select one brand total, but I can actually choose 13 brands since I have 13 categories.
Oh, and Willamette Valley Vineyards - which seems to be the odd one out of the brands listed above - is in Oregon, way far away from me.
What are the requirements to join Bumped?
Bumped is currently in beta and requires an invite. The invite is not as prestigious as it sounds - you simply have to sign up on the waitlist on the front page of the Bumped website.
It doesn’t take long, either. I joined the waitlist on a Saturday and received my invite two days later on Monday. I was even able to complete all the registration required (which includes signing up for their brokerage account) to start earning stocks on the same day - I even earned stock for purchases I made over the weekend since the transactions posted on Monday!
Since you do have to use their brokerage account in order to receive stocks, there are some legal requirements. Namely, you need to be 18 years of age, a U.S. citizen, or a Permanent Resident with a valid social security number. Yes, you have to provide your SSN. Uncle Sam will want his cut of anything you earn (more on this later).
Are there any risks to using Bumped?
You give up some privacy. This is true with any loyalty program. Bumped will, if they don’t already, undoubtedly mine your transaction data and sell the aggregated results in some form or another. Personally, this doesn’t bother me and I have no problem with loyalty programs doing this; you may have another opinion.
You have to link to your bank account(s), and that link could somehow become compromised. Thankfully, this is largely mitigated due to the fact Bumped doesn’t interface directly with your account via a service called Plaid. Bumped never has access to your login info. However, you do have to enter your username and password when linking your account, which is unnerving.
Screenshot of disclosure before you enter your bank login info.
There’s other risks as well, but I find them relatively minor to the ones above. The stocks you earn could lose value (potentially all the way to zero!). The stocks you earn could also do the opposite - which might make your tax situation more complicated! A lot of the stocks you can earn with Bumped are dividend stocks, so you will have to pay taxes on those dividends (which is not unlike paying taxes on interest earned with a savings account).
Taxes! Aren’t other referral programs tax-free?
Be forewarned about what I’m about to say: I am neither a tax expert nor a tax professional, so take everything I say in this section with a grain of salt. If a tax professional says something contrary, believe them before you believe me.
The IRS typically treats cash back and other rewards as rebates rather than income. The stocks you earn therefore would be considered rebates. You will only face taxable events in two situations: when you sell the stocks, or when the stocks earn dividends. When you sell the stocks, you should subtract their purchase cost from their sale cost and only pay taxes on the difference.
For instance, say you spend $100 and earn $1 in stock. That stock doubles in price to $2, and then you decide to sell said stock. That means you’d only pay taxes on $1 - the difference between the $1 you earned and the $2 sale price. Note that you could potentially pay less tax if the price drops in half to 50¢.
Again, I am neither a tax expert nor a tax professional. Consult a tax professional for tax advice rather than a random blog on the internet.
How much have I received?
Screenshot of my current balance.
Can you link a credit card with Bumped? Will you still get credit card rewards?
Yes, absolutely to both questions! In fact, do to the nature of how the rewards are processed for both the Bumped app and credit cards, the rewards stack. For instance, if you get 1% from Bumped and 1.5% from your credit card, you’ll get 2.5% total!
Don’t have a cash back credit card? Check out either the Chase Freedom Card with 5% cash back categories, 1% cash back everything else plus a $150 bonus. Or don’t want to worry about categories? Check out the Chase Freedom Unlimited with unlimited 1.5% cash back and a $150 bonus. Or do both!
Currently, Bumped does not have a referral program. If and when they do, I’ll be certain to include a link both on this review and on my referral links page.
How do you join Bumped?
First, you have to sign up on the waitlist on the Bumped website. Once you receive your invite (it only took two days for me) you sign up just as you would any other service. You will have to provide your social security number (so tax-paying US residents and citizens only) and link your bank account. This is all through either the Android or iOS app - no website access right now.


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Will my child be interviewed as part of the application process?
Do you have a wait list?
Do you accept or require letters of recommendation?
What kind of testing is required to apply?
At what age level does Parish begin?
Students in middle and upper school are individually interviewed during their shadow visit.
We have wait pools at almost every grade level. This year, we had 75 students in the wait pool for 9th grade. The pool is not prioritized – if we get an opening, we fill the opening based on need of the class (gender, special skill, etc.).
Letters of recommendation are required from current teacher (PK-4) or English and Math teachers (5-11.) Additional letters from coaches, scout leaders, and others are accepted and added to the student’s file for consideration.
PreK is by observation, K-4 take the CATS test, 1st takes the AABL, and 2-12 take the ISEE.
Feel free to contact us at 972.239.8011 or admission@parishepiscopal.org.
Parish offers a PreK 1 grade level. This grade level is for students who have turned 3 years old by September 1st the year they would attend. Both our PreK1 and PreK 2 (for students who have turned 4 by September 1st) are required to attend school 5 days a week from 8:00 am – 11:45 am, but have the option of staying until 3:00 pm 0-5 days.


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Nanxi Kong, Adam Sanders, Malte Rösner, Robert Friedrich, Frank Dirksen, Elisabeth Bauma et al.
This contributed volume presents the research results of the program “Small machine tools for small work pieces” (SPP 1476), funded by the German Research Society (DFG). The book contains the final report of the priority program, presenting novel approached for size-adapted, reconfigurable micro machine tools. The target audience primarily comprises research experts and practitioners in the field of micro machine tools, but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.

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Kansas City Cold Storage is centrally located in the heart of the Midwest with easy access to all major highways providing frozen, cooler and dry food distribution.
We receive and dispatch hundreds of tons of perishable products each day. Goods in cooler, freezer and dry storage occupy millions of cubic feet of space. You couldn’t personally select a better frozen food distributor.
Kansas City Cold Storage operates its own truck line with many types of refrigerated trucks available to ship anywhere within the Midwest. Our refrigerated fleet covers the entire Midwest under interstate authority.
Regional consolidation and redelivery for all Major Grocery Warehouses and Distribution Centers. Including but not limited to Associated Wholesale Grocers-Kansas City, Walmart Distribution Centers-Moberly, Ottawa and Harrisonville, Sysco-Olathe, Aldi-Olathe, Target-Lawrence, U.S. Foods-Topeka and many others.
We have designed our shipping facilities to meet the needs of the mass supplier. Indeed, our in-out service is much faster than most storage facilities – a turn-around time of as little as three hours as compared to the industry average of 8 hours.
Contact us and we’ll tell you more about how we should be your frozen food distributor.

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Keith, you need to reset the time offset (use auto detect) using the "Profile" tab.
The other day, I think I found where I can change it for everyone. But then the people that fixed would be off.
Hi guys...I don't seem to have that same profile list with autocheck in it...advise.
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NEW for 2019: The LibertyLink® GT27™ system was created with high-yielding elite genetics combined with a herbicide-tolerant trait stack and features tolerance to both glyphosate and glufosinate. The LibertyLink® GT27™ soybeans provides growers with exceptional yield performance coupled with outstanding weed control. Merschman Seeds is offering a full range of top yielding varieties from Group I to Group IV. As we ramp up supplies in all maturities, LibertyLink® GT27™ will replace our LibertyLink® single trait offering in the future.
LibertyLink® GT27™ soybeans offer triple stack tolerance to Liberty®, glyphosate, and the first HPPD based herbicide for soybeans, pending EPA approval. Use of HPPD herbicides on this product is prohibited, pending EPA approval. Being the first soybean technology enabling the two leading weed control solutions in the same bag, the LibertyLink® GT27™ soybeans are the most effective weed control solution for soybean growers.
Weed control programs for the LibertyLink® GT27™ system are based on non-volatile chemistries and low drift risk to minimize off-target concerns for peace of mind. Rest assured, Liberty® and glyphosate come with fewer application restrictions on buffers, rain, wind, time of day, and date for easier weed management.
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Rey Campero Jabali is a high risk, high reward Mezcal. It uses the agave Jabali which is one of the rarer Silvestre agaves.
Wahaka Jabali is made with agave Jabali, which takes its name from the Spanish word for “wild boar” because the maguey’s thorns resemble a boar’s teeth.
Del Maguey Jabali has a bright, beautiful acidity with high floras of sweet violets, herbal notes of tarragon, and it finishes with hints of sandalwood.
El Buho Especial Jabali is a small-batch mezcal that has very limited releases. The first release of this was in 2017. If you see it, try it.


text: A bunch of beads, chains, sparkles, rhinestones, and colored strings make up these ethnic necklaces. We combine anything when it comes to ornaments! The fantasy is unlimited!

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Computer man bag, how to choose?
Le computer for man bag became an indispensable accessory for the urban young on his way to work. Indeed, many companies lend a computer to their employee to work at home, making his mandatory transport.
Here are some tips to help men moving often with, to choose his support.
Il many types of bags of computers to different design (color, with handle, handle or shoulder strap…), various materials (leather or imitation, canvas, suede,…) of different sizes and brands.
First what means of transportation do you use regularly to go to work, or while traveling. For example: bike, bike or even walk it is better to opt for material resistant to water as the fabric or leather in inclement weather. In public transport, go for a computer bag for man with the pockets closed with zip to avoid attracting the eye.
What do you intend to match it, the choice of colours is wide. Do you want a discreet product in line with your coat or are you rather contrasts with a fancy accessory that makes the difference?
If you rather hipster, you’ll surely like Herschel brand covers or bags Royal RepubliQ. Rather casual, opt for the Zign, Your Turn, Guess or Azzaro classics. Rather dandy, made the difference with colorful products Enter or Sandqvist.
Selection of menswear trend computer bag.
Be careful in the choice of material, the best leather comes from France, Italy, Belgium or Germany, scrutinize the quality of Assembly of the product (seams, metal parts).Always for the computer for man leather bag, is it waterproof especially not, it would change its appearance in an irreversible way.


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3.25 ounces (92 g.). Individually wrapped assorted sour hard candy.
These come in 5 flavours: Black Cherry, Watermelon, Blue Raspberry, Lemon and Apple.
This bag contains approximately 15 pieces.
Corn Syrup, Sugar, Microencapsulated Malic Acid (Malic Acid, Hydrogenated Palm Oil), Citric Acid, Gum Acacia, Soybean Oil (Processing Aid), Ascorbic Acid, Artificial Flavors, Carnuaba Wax, Corn Starch, Blue 1, Red 40, Yellow 5.


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At last! An ocean view, two-bedroom condo. It is located in the El Delfin section of Mazatlan. For those who do not know where El Delfin is located, it is at the far north end of Mazatlan, just north of the Pueblo Bonito Emerald Bay Resort. El Delfin is still a gravel road, but is serviceable year round and it will be paved, we just don’t know when. Built about 35 years ago the El Delfin Condos have always been popular with people who wanted to be on the beach, but in a quieter area with no night clubs to disturb their peace and quiet.
This condo is two bedrooms and two baths with a beautiful ocean view. It has a nice balcony overlooking the ocean and pool area. It is also being sold completely furnished. Just bring your bathing suit and shorts! It features a lot of closet space, a small pantry off the kitchen and a good sized utility/storage room. The complex has plenty of off street parking and a very nice pool and deck area right on the ocean. There is also an elevator if, like me, you have bad hips and don’t enjoy stairs.
This great ocean view condo is ready to go for only $200,000 and the association fees have been paid for 2009 already. On a two bedroom condo in this building the association fees are $6,200 Pesos per month, or about $496 USD as of Jan. 8, 2009. If paid yearly there is a discount and a year is only $5,580. (Or about $465 per month.) While they appear to be high they are not because this includes on site manager, water, gas, electricity, taxes, insurance, and once a week maid service. There is a bank trust in place already so that will save you an additional $1,600 to $1,700 USD.

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text: Your evening entertainment is, once again, your choice. The Barn is a wonderful place for parties, accommodating up to 120 people, it has ample room for a live band or disco. You may decide to take advantage of the rural setting and have a traditional Twmpath (Welsh Barn Dance), which is guaranteed to get all your guests dancing and enjoying themselves. Alternatively, you may prefer some quieter background music to relax and reflect on your day.


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I'm not going to talk about whether or not likes are useful or if you should invest the money to get sorts. A couple of years ago an assured course to "riches" was to build a page with numerous thousands or numerous likes and also message material a few to many times a day. How Increase Likes On Facebook Page: You might get a Great Deal Of natural traffic in this manner. Facebook does not work like this any longer.
if you are developing a web page and you desire individuals liking it to be potential customers, you need to approach like as you would certainly any other paid promo of Facebook.
To begin recognize your excellent customers' issues, discomfort factor as well as view of the globe.
For the ad, deal value if the person likes your page. This is like a much easier and also much less dedication compared to putting in an e-mail address. "If you wish to see even more material about xyz, like and follow us ". (not the very best copy, however you understand.
An additional method to get rather legitimate likes is to use the "want to welcome function" built into Facebook. To do this usage or create a preferred Meme or video clip (develop, don't steal) and promote it as an involvement advertisement.
If you get the designated interaction, lots of people will "like" the post (or react to it). On the article you can click the likes and also it will show you a pop- up box where you can independently invite individuals to then such as the page. In several specific niches this functions quite possibly as well as a big portion of individuals you invite will like the page additionally. This is an excellent process, but the limit is around 500 invites a day.
You can do this by hand or there is a chrome plugin that is paid (I have no affiliation) that automates the invite process. One I've made use of is called Invite every person that reacted on your blog posts.
Don't do this. It's spam. It protests Facebook Regards To Service. I see this working practically daily. What spammers do is obtain photo (or number of pictures) of something expensive like a truly good motorhome or a watercraft or great cars and truck. They develop a web page that is related to the image. After that they upload a small cd of image of the item.
1. To celebrate 10 variety of years in organisation we are distributing 10 of these (Motor Home, Boat, cars and truck, etc) to random people who follow us on Facebook. To be entered to win, Like and share this post as well as like our page.
2. We have 10 remaining (last years' design) (automobile. vehicle, Motor home, motorcycle, Motor home) that we can not offer. So we've make a decision to give them away to arbitrary people that are followers of our page. To enter like our page, share and also tag a person in this message.
You understand. It's surprising just how well these work and also the amount of people I 'd think about smart remark like as well as share these articles.
This is a semi - spammy way to do it. If you just require likes for social proof. I've heard this called the "love" strategy. Develop a like campaign as well as use a photo that any person can like. Like a heart or some pups. In the message you say something like. "Like to share the love/cuteness/etc" or "like if you are happy you have today", or something universally really feel excellent an inspirational.
- Promote this to inexpensive countries. (Let me google that for you) Look it on Google and also you will locate lists.
- You should see likes for as soon as cent or much less. Put as a lot into this spending plan as you desire and also develop a web page with a bunch of economical likes.
- You will most likely have to keep some budget plan to keep this degree of likes because these sorts of likes start to disappear quickly after.
As you understand many people see a page with a great deal of likes and assume it's preferred. They don't aim to see if the likes are genuine or individuals anything like themselves.


text: Mongolia’s Orkhon Valley is the cradle of nomadic culture. Ancient Turkish, Russian, Chinese and Mongol tribes once crossed its grasslands, and their descendants survive today. Orkhon is inspired by its expansive horizon — a symbolic meeting of mountains and valley, and an homage to a terrain that links East and West.


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