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Because I didn’t watch the film and am aware that the soundtrack is based on situational events of the script, I’m treating this album as more of a journey, an escape. From what I have read about what each puts into this album, Shankar incorporates his Carnatic and Hindustani vocal styling, Ehsan delivers westernised rock and Loy brings in the electronic synths. Altogether the soundtrack contains six songs inspired by the Qawaali songs that originated in Pakistan and North India, as well as four bonus tracks.
The first track, “Sajda,” is a Sufi one that is performed by Rahat Ali Khan with support from Shankar Mahadevan and Richa Sharma; this track merges glorious tabla beats, strings, and dholak into an intoxicating rhythm that seems to contain all the elements that I like about Indian music. The second track, “Noor E Khudha,” is a soft, pleasing love ballad sung by Adnan Sami, Shankar Mahadevan, and Shreya Ghoshal. In this song, S E L arrange a Qawaali rhythm through the use of an acoustic guitar, creating a fresh-sounding melody that complements Adnan Sami’s haunting vocals. I find this particular track very moving.
The third and fourth songs, “Tere Naina” and “Allah Hi Raheem” are Qaawali numbers which contain repetitive but enchanting rhythms. “Tere Naina” is quite theatrical and romantic, with subtle orchestration, and it has a very infectious way about it. “Allah Hi Raheem,” on the other hand, has a strong male chanting chorus which focuses on Islam, a fundamental part of this film’s story. Shafqat Amanat Ali’s vocals and Rashid Khan’s enigmatic voice create memorably moving melodies. Traditional instruments, such as the harmonium, the tanpura, the sarangi, and the tabla generate a profound and lasting effect upon the listener.
The fifth song, “Khan Theme,” is entirely instrumental and delicately beautiful. Finally, the song “Rang De” is the only song that isn’t a Qawaali number but more of a rock number. Overall, the score intends to capture the intensity of this epic story, and the songs are diverse and beautifully inter-weaved into one another.


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TOSHULIN company was established in 1949 and since 1998 it has been a joint stock company. TOSHULIN, a. s. has developed further during recent years. TOSHULIN Russia Ltd was established as a subsidiary company in 2009 and it shall serve to support sales of our products in the Russian Federation and in SNG countries as well as to improve the quality of service of our machines and the quality of deliveries of spare parts. In the same year TOSHULIN, a. s. took over Strojimport a.s. company, which has been engaged in the machinery field on the important markets within the whole world for many years.
China is the independent section of TOSHULIN´s interests. At the current time the country belongs to the largest and most important markets with machine tools in the world. Therefore, it is natural that, as a manufacturer of worldwide importance, TOSHULIN wants to build its position on this market. The market position is connected with establishment of the filial company.

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Saw this today and thought it might be adaptable to the MM if someone wanted to try it!
Personally I am a little skeptical of how well it will work. The minimum I have seen for more conventional really low end engraver/cutters is 20W and he is working with a 5W.


text: Kate Kiefer Lee manages content for MailChimp, an email marketing company with millions of users around the world. She created a style guide called Voice & Tone for her team, which teaches writers to communicate with a genuine voice and adapt their tone based on the reader's feelings. Previously, a magazine editor and freelance writer, she presented at UX Thursday 2013, Detroit, Michigan; Beyond Tellerand 2013, Dusseldorf, Germany; Confab UK 2013, London, England; Content Strategy Forum 2012, Cape Town, South Africa;; and Confab 2012, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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All landscape design mistakes are easy to fix if they are spotted at the actual design stage but once they have been implemented in your yard or garden, some may be more difficult to correct than others. If you are currently wondering what you can do about the mistakes in your what should be ultra-chic, homey Toronto landscaping made by the previous owner of your home or perhaps ones you yourself have made in the past, take a look at our list of easily correctable mistakes below. With a bit of luck, the very errors you are trying to fix may be included in our list.
If the mistake you are trying to put right is in the following list, you are in luck! All of these errors are relatively easy to fix.
1. Placing Plants in Inappropriate Positions – Many homeowners in Toronto and all around the world have made the mistake of placing plants that prefer shade in full sun and vice versa, as well as planting trees too close to their property’s foundations. In the case of small shrubs and flowers, it is usually a simple matter to relocate them. As far as trees are concerned, if the mistake is realized while the specimens in question are still fairly small, they can also be moved without too much difficulty. More mature trees can be removed but this will require the help of a team of experts.
2. Not Considering What You Actually Enjoy Doing Outside – An easy mistake to make is that of focusing almost exclusively on aesthetics when creating a landscape design for your yard and garden. This can result in a beautiful flower garden, for example, when what you really wanted was a spacious patio and BBQ area for entertaining friends. Fortunately, such mistakes are relatively easy to correct although you may have to hire a professional landscaping company in order to make the changes concerned. Enlarging your patio, swapping lawn space for a pool and turning a couple of flower beds into a beautiful seating area are all well within the capabilities of an experienced landscaping contractor.
3. A Confusing Mix of Colours – When buying plants for a new garden, it is very easy to get carried away and choose dozens of different colours. The end result is often a confusing mix of colours. However, given the relatively low cost of replanting in Toronto, this is a simple mistake to put right. A quick visit to your local supplier followed by a couple of hours digging in the garden will soon have your garden looking great.
4. Lack of Planning – If you simply started constructing flower beds and laying turf on a whim, you can easily rectify the resulting uncoordinated effect by hiring a local landscape design expert to draw up comprehensive plans for you and to carry out all the necessary work. While it may involve spending more money that if you were to do everything yourself, the end result should more than justify the expense in our opinion.
5. Underestimating the Cost – Homeowners who get halfway through a landscaping project and then realize it is going to cost far more than they anticipated can easily fix the problem by dropping or reducing the size of some of the more expensive components of their design, such as water features, patio areas, and outdoor constructions.
If you would like to make sure that you get your landscape design right first time or you would appreciate some professional advice on how to make the landscape no-no’s disappear, give us a call at M.E. Contracting today. To start, you can also get brilliant starter ideas to discuss with our contractors from our landscaping showroom.
Give yourself ultra-chic yet effective space! Make the most of the bustling city landscaping in your Toronto home now.

industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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Can Carlos Villanueva Start Effectively?
The Cubs agreed to terms with 29-year-old career swingman Carlos Villanueva on Wednesday. With Scott Baker’s early season availability in question as he rehabs from April Tommy John surgery, Villanueva should have a chance at making the club’s opening day rotation.
The Orioles and Red Sox tagged Villanueva for nine runs and 14 hits (including three home runs) in his first two starts of the month (preceding Anthopolous’s quote). He would go on to give up 15 runs on 19 hits and seven home runs in 14 innings over his last three starts. It wasn’t the first Villanueva flameout Anthopolous oversaw: the righty carried a 3.67 ERA and a 3.32 FIP through his first nine starts in 2011 only to allow 20 runs on 33 hits and five home runs over his next four starts, earning a demotion back to the bullpen.
In Villanueva’s September swoon, the issues centered around his signature changeup. As I detailed at the end of August — conveniently, the exact end of Villanueva’s run of brilliance in the rotation — Villanueva’s ability to escape hitter’s counts with his changeup was a key to his success. He threw the pitch nearly twenty percentage points more often in hitters’ counts than pitchers’ counts against both righties and lefties. It’s by far his most reliable strike-garnering pitch, called a ball only 25.3 percent of the time career per Brooks Baseball — none of his other pitches check in under 34 percent.
But it’s a dangerous pitch to throw — at just 81 MPH on average, it can be crushed if left in the strike zone. Villanueva allowed 10 home runs on the pitch in 2012, with half coming in his September swoon. The pitch went from inducing three ground balls for every two fly balls to the inverse; a similar swing characterized his 2011 collapse as well.
There wasn’t much difference in the actual pitch location over Villanueva’s time as a starter, but rather how the pitch reached its destination. To me, this is an intuitive result — plenty of pitchers have good enough control to consistently attack the knees, but only the sinkerballers with the heaviest movement post the elite ground ball rates in the high-50s or better.
The question with players like Villanueva — former Pirates starter Jeff Karstens also comes to mind here — is typically stamina. Former Brewers manager Ken Macha talked about Villanueva needing “to build up” before the 2009 season, a season in which Villanueva received just six starts and limped to a 5.34 ERA in 96 innings. Villanueva never did experience a full 30-start season as a starter at any professional level — the closest he came was with 25 starts between Double-A, Triple-A and MLB in 2006.
The Brewers decided to convert him to relief after struggles in 2007 rather than send him back to Triple-A Nashville to start — Villanueva made just 11 Triple-A starts in his career. He threw 181.1 innings in 2006, but 2012 marked the first time he’s gone over 125 innings since (and just the third time overall). The decision to use Villanueva in relief was an odd one — his changeup-heavy arsenal screams starter. “To me, mentally, he was a starter,” Macha added, defending his decision to retry Villanueva as a starter during spring training 2009.
Is a lack of stamina the culprit here? Villanueva exhibited a small velocity drop over his period as a starter in 2012, but it was under a mile per hour and not statistically significant on a start-by-start basis. However, consistently elevating pitches — as Villanueva did in September — is typically a sign of fatigue. The increase in vertical movement on Villanueva’s pitches were all at least 93 percent statistically significant (p < .07) with the elevation on the changeup in particularly showing nearly 99.9 percent significance (p = .0011). The stamina argument makes sense given Villanueva's history, but the other explanation isn't any kinder: Villanueva's early success was merely small sample noise, we shouldn't expect him to be able to keep his changeup grounded, and constant home runs are simply a reality with the pitch. Without a changeup he can use to fire strikes and get into pitchers' counts, his otherwise fringe stuff is unlikely to make him a serviceable starter -- his fastball tops out around 92 and his breaking stuff is unimpressive. Still, the Cubs paid him $10 million over two years, an indication they will at least try to use him as a full-time starter. With Scott Feldman, Edwin Jackson and Scott Baker on hand, there seems to be a logjam, but Matt Garza is already on the trade block and Scott Baker may not be healthy to start the season. The Cubs risk little by seeing if they can squeeze 30-33 healthy starts out of Villanueva. Perhaps their conditioning program can get him ready for a full starting season and allow him to maintain a sharp changeup through more than just a couple months.
But Villanueva can still earn his contract should he fail and return to his swingman role. He’s been worth 3.3 RA9-wins over the past two seasons and 1.8 FIP-wins — between $5 and $10 million per season — in his swingman role with Toronto. He gives the Cubs flexibility to go with some upside, even if realizing said upside is unlikely.
We hoped you liked reading Can Carlos Villanueva Start Effectively? by Jack Moore!
Lines up with what I saw this year and last year. The Cubs have a very useful pitcher who has great offspeed stuff.
I wish him well in Chicago.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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“Samvirke” is a Norwegian word that means working together towards a shared goal. City of Bergen’s Samvirkesenter brings key actors to cooperate together on enhanced regional emergency management capability.
Population: second largest city in Norway at 280,000; 420,000 in the wider Bergen metropolitan region.
Geography: A mountainous region with steep slopes location on the Bergenshalvøyen peninsula on the western coast of Norway and sheltered from the North Sea by the surrounding islands.
Key hazards: transportation accidents, landslides, flooding, sea level rise, storms.
Key industries: shipping, energy, transportation, offshore petroleum industry, education, tourism and finance.
It all started with thousands of bicycles that hit the streets of Bergen as part of the 90th Union Cycliste Internationale Road World Championships in September 2017. The event brought the city to a nine-day lock-down with extensive road closures. A spectacle for 700,000 cycling enthusiasts, an event of this scale required a meticulous emergency management planning process. Road and business closures posed challenges not only to visitors and participants, but also to the citizens of Bergen.
With the city in an international spotlight, public safety provided the overriding priority. The complexity of the event caused Bergen to implement an intensive inter agency collaboration effort to mitigate additional risk. This work started two years before the event.
Innovating in real time, the municipality of Bergen brought together nearly 130 people from 31 different organizations as an emergency management team during the event. Core municipal staff were joined by the fire department, road administration, public transportation, the police, the military, civil defense, health, telecommunications and volunteer organizations from early morning to late night. During the event, the centre monitored the operation of the municipal assets and infrastructure through 24/7 surveillance systems tied to GIS maps with multiple layers for social and physical infrastructure. The goal of this surveillance was to address small events before they escalated.
The Samvirkesenter is the first of its kind in Norway and has garnered national attention and awards. It allowed key emergency management players to interact before and troubleshoot during and after emergency events. The centre was designed based on the core principles of emergency management in Norway which include responsibility, proximity, equality and collaboration. It introduced an innovative cross-organizational structure and an operational environment that fosters culture built on cooperation, coordination and collaboration. By having key public, private, volunteer and non-profit charity agencies in one room during the event, information could be shared immediately, establishing a shared situational awareness that led to efficient decision-making and implementation. The long-lasting legacy of this organizational innovation is increased efficiency: “What could take four days before, can now be fix in four minutes,” says Snorre Halvorsen, Bergen municipality’s project manager for the Samvirkesenter. During the event, incidents ranged from a water/hydrant leakage, stolen cars and traffic accidents to missing children.
The Samvirkesenter has continued its operation after the championship. The Municipality of Bergen has big plans for this continued operation with a focus on increased crisis management competencies and inter-organizational learning.
Moving forward, the Regional Civil Protection Centre and Emergency Management Cluster will continue to collect and share information through joint mapping and based on the resource needs, ensuring communication and coordination between actors. The centre will also focus on clarifying and recommending common guidelines for involved actors.
“There is an increasing need for interaction between the various players in the region, to meet the challenges of changing risk landscape. We need to bridge the gap between those who prevent emergencies, those who respond to emergencies, and those who study emergencies. Our vision for the emergency preparedness and management community is to create a single Civil Protection Region in Western Norway, which brings together practitioners and researchers to use their shared skills more effectively,” said Halvorsen.
The centre will serve as an enabling environment for developing crisis and emergency management competencies by fostering close connections between practitioners and researchers. A special emphasis on ensuring that this knowledge is accessible for the smaller, less resourced municipalities in the region will be placed. “The key is to keep this initiative organized from the ground level, bottom-up,” said Halvorsen.
The importance of partnerships with research institutions was recognized from the very early stages of the project. “The city of Bergen has a long history of very good collaboration with academic partners,” explained Halvorsen.
The Civil Protection Centre builds on the previous collaborative projects and brings practitioners and researchers for more effective mutual learning. Academic partners were embedded throughout the functioning of the Centre to ensure real-time and long-term organizational learning. For the example, the research conducted during the UCI World Championships by the “Høgskulen på Vestlandet” (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) led to a significant improvement on the issues of information sharing, situational awareness, and situation handling when collaborating real-time in the same room. These research results informed the direction for the subsequent development of the Civil Protection Centre.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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I visited Crete for the first time on the five-day trip that traditionally marks the end of one’s school years in Greece. In the craze of my youth back then, I remembered little of the island that was destined to become my second home since my partner back then who became my husband is Cretan.
Together we started travelling to and around Crete in 2006 and since then it has been one of our destinations every summer. Crete wins you over easily; it will enchant you from the first moment and seduce you with its beauty.
I will never forget our first big excursion on the island. We set out from Heraklion and ended up in Chania with the car windows down so we could enjoy the scent of olive tree and thyme travelling in the wind. All my senses were awakened. I enjoyed the changes in the landscape from lush green to bare rock in the blink of an eye, until at some point the endless blue of the sea around this island came into view.
Our first stop before descending to the southern beaches was Vrises. We ensconced ourselves in the village square and enjoyed the babbling water, the shade of the plane trees and the tastiest Greek coffee, made over the embers.
Our final destination was Loutro, a small, historic village, hidden in a cove, which can only be reached by boat or on foot. In Loutro you will not find cars, mopeds or anything else to disturb your peace. You will find only a small beach and the sea. But we were not bored even for a moment. We read books, leafed through magazines and newspapers, tasted great home cooked food and iced coffees while we enjoyed the wild landscape, we rented a canoe and discovered the caves and coves nearby, until we reached Marmara. We climbed to the only tavern there to enjoy the view and the delicacies we were offered.
A few days later we left Loutro, passed through Palaiochora and headed towards Elafonisi. The moment you first see Elafonisi from up high is unique! A place of unparalleled beauty, so special it takes the mind some time to conceive what the eyes see. We walked and explored the little island with the white sand, tiny sea shells, wild lilies surviving in the sand under the burning sun, and after our exploration we dived into the translucent, cool waters.
You cannot get enough of Elafonisi but the days were passing and we had to accept it was time to go. On our way up to Chania, we spent the night in a tent in Falassarna and enjoyed the unique sunset.
Our round trip ended with a short visit to Balos. We chose to go by car rather than by boat. At some point the road turns into dirt track and things get a bit bumpy but the experience is unique. As unique as the moment we descended to Balos on foot, gazing at this small paradise. A lagoon, all in turquoise, spread before us and I was totally enthralled by the view. After a quick dip into the emerald waters, we walked back up a seemingly endless number of steps and at the top I bought a slice of watermelon to cool myself down. In the end I had to share it with a rather impertinent goat!
If you ever find yourselves on Crete, do not pass by the local producers, who set up their stalls on the side of the road, without stopping. Thanks to them I have tasted the most fragrant honey, the tastiest Cretan olives and their herbs have seen me through entire winters.
I am in love with Crete, its people, its landscape, its food. Elafonisi was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. And I am longing to return soon to connect with nature and with myself, there is no place as peaceful or genuine as Crete. I have fallen in love with it years ago, and it’s a non-stop feeling.
Having studied anthropology, Litsa loves travelling, observing and discovering everything new.
Of Northern Greek descent, currently residing in Athens, she has lived in several cities in Greece and abroad.
Creator and administrator of fraulitsasworld.blogspot.com, a blog through which she shares stories from her everyday life as well as her love for decorating and handicraft.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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i-FX-G04-Y is the eco-friendly and high performing chiller that combines the advantages of full inverter technology with a low GWP HFO refrigerant R1234ze.
Dedicated to industrial facilities which require highly dependable operation, the new air-cooled chiller with full inverter screw compressors meets premium level efficiency values - EER up to 3,36 and SEPR HT up to 6,43 – in any operating mode offering the market a green product thanks to its full inverter technology and HFO refrigerant.
i-FX-G04-Y is the result of Mitsubishi Electric’s extensive approach to sustainability. Combining brilliant annual efficiency, thanks to the full inverter technology, with the use of a low GWP refrigerant, i-FX-G04-Y tackles both the indirect (due to the primary energy consumption) and the direct global warming impact, thus resulting in the perfect choice for any new, forward-looking cooling system.
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Last week we introduced MyPoints to you and this week we were asked to follow up and talk about some of the great Halloween Deals that MyPoints has going on!
I love saving money and right now you can score some pretty good deals at MyPoints. If you are still looking for a Halloween Costume you can save up 60% on Halloween clearance at Meijer and earn 2 points per dollar spent! At Kohl’s you can save 10-20% off Halloween Costumes for Babies and earn 2 points per dollar spent.
Another great deal I found was at the Card Store. Save 30% off Halloween Cards and Invitations and earn 3 points per dollar spent! Another great deal I found was at Kmart. Save up to 50% off Kids’, Women’s, and Men’s Halloween Apparel and earn 2 points per dollar spent! If you are still in the market for Halloween deals be sure to head over to MyPoints and check out all of their Halloween Deals.
Did you know about all of these Point-earning activities? They’re easy, free, and will get you closer to your next reward! If you haven’t signed up it is easy to earn points to exchange for rewards!
You can also earn up to 60 Points (once) when you complete your profile. A complete profile ensures that you receive the best and most relevant offers right to your inbox. It took me minutes to complete and was an easy way to earn points.
I found some rewards that I would like to redeem my points for.
Be sure to sign up for MyPoints if you are planning to online shopping this holiday season or if you are looking for a way to save money this holiday season!

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Says I am not whitelisted... ._.
Hrm, says your whitlisted, exactly how you spelled it and tried to connect.
I rebooted the server and removed and re added your name. Try again.
Maybe try with no caps? or with?
I love all the people interested. Haven't had this up for more than a couple days and already got people in there every day minecrafting it up. Keep it up people!
i want to Play Tekkit Lite because i have played old Tekkit over 6 months and i really like the new Lite One!
Make sure you have the IP in right. I have some people in it currently.
hi im Creepercannon i'm good at tekkit and would like to try a fresh server. I am very good at machinery and am a very good adventurer. hopefully You could add me.
Server is back up. It went down for a moment due to internet going down for a moment. It is back up though.
I want to start on a small server-- my first time on a tekkit serverbut I am familiar with Technic pack.
I would like to join. I'm new to online tekkit servers, so I thought a small server would be good to start. My Minecraft username is scoutzoey.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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Do you love light leaks? Want to achieve a ‘dreamy’ or otherworldly look? Then lens whacking is for you. But buyer beware, lens whacking not only exposes your cameras sensor to light and dust, and possible fracture, but also balances your lens between your fingers, unattached to the body of the camera itself. I’ve never broken a lens using this technique, and my sensor seems to be chugging along just fine, but this is not an endorsement of the safety of lens whacking, so you choose to do so at your own risk.
With that out of the way, what is lens whacking? Basically, its just detaching the lens from the camera, and recording. You still hold the lens in front of the sensor, but with careful, delicate movements of the lens, you can achieve light leaks and flares, and change the focal plane, creating a dreamy look reminiscent of old film cameras with light leaks. I find it perfect for memories, dreamscapes, spirituality and anything otherwordly, also, it’s really fun to do.
I used this technique in Flow, to visualise Uncle Tom Trevorrow’s deep spiritual connection with his lands and waters. The dreamlike memory aesthetic lent a retrospective sadness to the moment, as Uncle Tom searched for old drinking wells along the Coorong, which now dying from salination. It was featured in other parts of the documentary too, always to connote the spirituality and power of the Ngarrindjeri.
1 - a camera with detachable lenses. Preferably a lightweight smaller camera, dSLR’s are perfect for this, but you can use larger bodied cameras as well, its just more taxing on the arms/difficult (as you’ll be holding the camera body and lens in one hand).
2 - a wide to standard prime lens. I generally use my 50 mm, but shorter focal lengths work fine too. The longer you get the harder it is to balance the lens and avoid camera shake.
Note: Using a lens that is not made for your camera mount can make for an even better effect. If you get one that has a smaller mount than the one intended, you can fit the lens right up close to the focal plane This adds another level of control of your focus. While it is not prohibitive to use the same mount, its also quite cheap to get yourself a secondhand 35mm or 50mm pancake lens, or a cheap lens adapter just for the purposes of lens whacking.
Attach your lens to the camera body, set your aperture to wide open to get that creamy bokeh (or stop it down to cut light and possibly for sharpness depending on the lens) and set your focus to infinity. You won’t really be able to adjust your focus with the focal ring once you get started, instead, you will adjust your focal plane by moving your lens further from, and closer to, the cameras sensor. So now, turn your camera off, and then detach the lens. Turn your camera back on, lens detached, and your ready to go.
Be very careful when turning your camera on and off. If you are using a dSLR, make sure nothing is obstructing the mirror, which clamps shut and opens up when you turn your camera on and off, or to and from movie/stills mode. If something is obstructing the mirror (like a lens at an odd angle), the force of it opening or shutting may smash your valuable mirror, reducing your expensive camera to a paperweight.
Now use your palm, pinky and ring finger to cup the camera, and your thumb, forefinger and index finger to grip the lens. Use small delicate movements to slide the lens closer and further from the sensor, letting in light leaks and play with the focus. You can use your free hand to shelter the sensor from undesired light, and play with the amount you let in, or you can use it to help stabilise your camera. From here on in its all just about playful creativity.
I often find myself getting lost in the moment when lens whacking, searching for that perfect interplay of light and movement. Strong sources of light, or light points can make for very interesting background elements or light leaks. So keep in mind where the light is and look for that perfect angle. Happy hunting!
The stunning ability to reduce something that takes hours, days or months down to a few seconds. Timelapse is a discipline unto its own, somewhere halfway between stills photography and videography. Timelapse offers insight into things that the human eye cannot replicate, and that often go unnoticed. We have used this technique from Flow onwards, when Felix fell in love with time lapse.
In Flow it was used to show sunsets and clouds along the Coorong and lower lakes. We wanted to instill a sense of wonder and power in nature, and time lapse was a great way to create awe inspiring imagery. It has been used since then in various projects, most recently in the BTS for When Does the Light Turn On?, where it was used to show crowds within FedSquare over time.
While you can set up a video camera, no hassles, and just press record, then speed it up in your Non-Linear Editor, time lapse with a stills camera and an intervalometer allows much more creative control, and can be implemented over much longer periods of time.
2 - an intervalometer (some cameras come with them inbuilt, Canon cameras unfortunately do not) or a laptop with your cameras control software installed.
3 - a tripod or some form of stabilisation.
4 - Lots of time. Time lapse reduces hours into seconds, but your probably going to have to be there for those initial hours, and some.
Once you find your subject, and your beautiful frame, set your camera up on your tripod or stabilisation, make sure its anchored well and stable, you don’t want wind or instability ruining or adding shake to your time lapse. Don’t be afraid to spend a lot of time during this process, you’re going to have to wait around once its all set up, so its best to get it right the first time, and come away with a satisfying and beautiful time lapse.
Now you have to figure out your interval and settings. Its best to keep a couple of things in mind here. Get out your intervalometer or laptop.
When looking for a subject for time-lapse, keep in mind you are looking for change or motion. Whether it’s the movement of clouds, people crossing a busy intersection or the deepening shadows in a city-scape or landscape. Change and motion are what makes a beautiful timelapse. Otherwise it might as well just be a photo right?
First up, what is the duration of the event you are shooting? For the purposes of this exercise, and the writers atrocious mathematics, we’ll say it’s an even 10 minutes. Now you have to figure out how long you want your finished product to be. I generally go for around 10 seconds, of which I will only use maybe 3-6 seconds, depending on the purposes. Attention spans are short, and 6 seconds is actually exceptionally long for a single shot. Now, in Australia, 25fps is the standard for video(it differs slightly in other countries, at 24fps), which means, for every 1 second of finished product, we need 25 images.
So every 2.4 seconds I want an image.
Note; I find that in the field, if I’m taking a time lapse on the go, I will reverse engineer these numbers. I know I want 250 images for 10 seconds of time lapse to work with, then I decide my interval, depending on what kind of motion I want to capture, and then just times my interval by 250, to find out how long I’ll have to wait until it finishes.
Delay: Delay is the time until your time lapse starts. So maybe you want to wait 10 minutes until you start reeling off photos. Set it to 10” and your off.
Shutter: Shutter or length, controls how long your shutter is open for. You can set to 0 and it will just defer to the shutter speed setting on your camera. It generally only functions in bulb mode, and is useful for longer exposures (for smooth motion or night photography) that are harder or impossible to program into your camera.
Interval: Interval is the time in between your shots, which you calculated earlier, right?
Number: Number is the number of shots. Some intervalometers are limited to 99 shots, some to 99x99 (9801), and some 0-99, in which 0 represents infinity. You also calculated this earlier, right?
Timelapse requires a fairly strong understanding of exposure, but allows for a lot of play in regard to camera settings, particularly shutter speed. As the interval between shots is no longer 1:1 with their playback, you can start to lower your shutter speed below 1/25. You can push your shutter speeds to have your shutter open for seconds or minutes, depending on the interval and light environments. This has a profound affect on motion within your frame, making fluid motion and light trails. You’ll find that your shutter speed will have to be slightly shorter than your interval time. Otherwise the camera won’t be able to start taking the next still before the first one is done. You may want to leave a larger gap between your shutter and interval times to avoid overloading the camera and its writespeed (how fast it can record the image from the processor to you SD/CF card).
Everything else about exposure in timelapse is generally similar to the standard exposure triangle. ISO(Grain/noise), Aperture(Depth of Field), Shutter speed(motion). Generally speaking, don’t use high ISO’s in timelapse, especially for night photography, just increase your exposure time (shutter speed). This avoids unwanted noise being introduced to your images.
Note: When photographing a timelapse that changes over time, or attempting a good daytime>sunset>nightime timlapse, or the other way round, some photographers advocate using the Aperture priority mode, allowing the camera to pick the other two settings. This can nullify drastic changes in light, and sometimes introduces flicker, but is an option to consider depending on your subject matter.
Picture Quality: Depending on your purposes, you probably want to take high quality Jpegs, as opposed to RAW images. With such large numbers of photos, RAW can get unwieldy, and quickly fill up harddrive space. Its also harder to work with in post (although it can yield better results if you are attempting to grade or do effects work with it) and you will need better software/hardware to deal with a RAW workflow. High quality Jpegs from a dSLR camera are generally more than good enough to make a professional timelapse, in fact their resolution is so high that if you are outputting at 1920x1080, you can even do a ‘ken burns’ slide without losing any quality. If you have the time and resources to work with a RAW timelapse, lucky you.

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teeth of blade pitch 22mm.


text: It’s Monday! It’s time to blast into the week like you’re a forest-green Hotchkiss PL20, all bulbous and full of goggle-eyed determination. Have at it!


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American Whitewater's website, including the Rivers pages. You are a member, aren't you? If not, join online. Don't forget to include my name (Chris Bell) in the comments box at the bottom of the form!
TennesseePaddle.com. Excellent photos and brief descriptions of the rivers and creeks of the Obed/Emory watershed. Includes Clear Creek (multiple sections), Crab Orchard Creek, Crooked Fork Creek, Daddy's Creek (multiple sections), White Creek, the Emory (multiple sections) and the Obed (multiple sections).
East Tennessee Whitewater Club River Guides. Well done guides to Clear Creek ( Jett Bridge to Lily Bridge), the Middle Ocoee River, the Nantahala River, and the Tallulah River Gorge.
Atlanta Whitewater Club River Guides. Well done guides to Alabama's Little River Canyon, the Chattooga River, the Hiwassee River, the Nantahala River, the Ocoee River, and others.
Big South Fork: A Guide to Paddling in the Big South Fork. An online version of an eleven page National Park Service guide. Includes information on seven river segments and twelve access points. Requires a copy of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Canoe Camping Top 40. An incredible resource. Detailed descriptions of 40 continental U.S. canoe camping trips requiring a week or more to complete. Includes the Cape Fear (NC), the Duck (TN), the Edisto (SC), the Green (KY), the James (VA), the Oconee-Altamaha (GA), the Okefenokee Swamp (GA/FL), the Pee Dee (SC), and the Suwannee (FL).
Wildernet.com's description of North Carolina's New River State Park. Includes information on the park's campgrounds and and access points.
Carolina Canoe Club Canoe Camping Guide. Descriptions of the canoe camping options at nine North Carolina locations.
Dan Lyke's Virtual Ocoee Tour. The first of the virtual river tours. Nice photos and very detailed rapid descriptions.
Ed Ditto's Whitewater Amphibian Habitats of the Great Southeast. Grateful Ed picked up where Dan Lyke left off and created virtual river tours of Alabama's Little River Canyon, the Nantahala, the Ocoee and the Tellico.
Leland's Paddle Page. Not to be outdone, Leland picked up the virtual torch and used it to illuminate North Carolina's Green River and its drainages.
ChattoogaRiver.net. Photos and descriptions of section four of the Chattooga's major drops, plus additional interesting links.


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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (c1390) is hailed by fools as the best remaining example of literature written in Middle English. So, Chaucer likes to believe that he is the voice of Middle England, does he? NO! The Daily Mail is that. And it does not propagate his dangerous radically-modern view of diversity in British society either. He even spelled “Canterbury” incorrectly! He wrote “Caunterbury”, a ridiculous lack of research.
Chaucer was perhaps seen as a great figure for his times: Well, leave him there! There is nothing to be gained from reading The Canterbury Tales nowadays, absolutely nothing. You have got to move with the times linguistically, and, for all his “forward thinking”, Chaucer did not think about 20th-century readers when he wrote the Tales and ended up sounding more like a Scotsman or a Welsh! Ridiculous.
Of Ielousye, or any other tene.
Ther “never was no word” bitwene them. Ah, so he means that there was always lots of words bitwene them and fighting! The word order is also totally wrong here, and if he had been writing in the 2010ties Chaucer would have been mocked for being ignorant: so why is not everyone doing this now?! This is a great “tene” (annoyance) to us.
We therefore recommend that the QES spend all of their time gathering examples of double-negative confusion that were actually confusing. Even one! Then, when they have found one, they can try to find another. And another, and so on, forever, so that they will stop bothering other people.
“an horn”, “an housholdere”, “an Haberdassher”, “an hat”, “an hundred knightes/lordes”, “an hunteresse”, “an housbond”, “an hole”, “an hardy herte”, “an hateful wyf” and “an heir”.
He also had no idea about the correct placement of Es, writing “an halle”, “an hille”, “an hous” and “an hors”.
Mr Chaucer will probably protest that “everybody’s English is the same as mine so I don’t need to try and improve it to the PEF’s standard”, but this is like saying “because everybody uses Es this way and vomits onto the floor, it is acceptable to be sick onto the floor”. We will endungeonise him all the same, and ensure that nobody reads his woeful book. Of course, the 14th-century schooling system is ultimately to blame, so it will be disbanded. – Amen!
– The Canterbury Tales on-line?!

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


text: Ernest Concepcion (b. 1977) is a studio artist who works both in Manila and abroad. He spent several years in Brooklyn, New York, where he participated in a number of art residences including The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Workspace Program, the Bronx Museum of Art Artists-in-the-Marketplace (AIM) Program, the Artists Alliance Inc. Rotating Studio Program, the Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, the LMCC Swing Space Program at Governors Island and an artist residency in Beijing, China via NY Arts Magazine. A graduate of the University of the Philippines Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concepcion has produced a significant body of work with particular interest in experimentation in the fields of painting, sculpture, and installation. In 2011 he was both a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) finalist in the Drawing Category and a Nominee for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2012, he re-established his connections with some prominent Manila art galleries where he had two solo exhibitions, in West Gallery and Blanc Gallery respectively and participated in a number of major group exhibitions including an artist feature at The Lopez Memorial Museum. In 2013, he participated at El Museo del Barrio's La Bienal in New York, and had a solo exhibition in Minneapolis before returning back to Manila to exhibit at Art Informal, Secret Fresh and 1335Mabini Gallery. In 2014 he became a Light & Space Contemporary resident artist and held his first ever solo museum exhibition at the UP Vargas Museum showcasing entirely new epic scale works that not only marks a momentous return home for the artist but also became his ultimate artistic epiphany. He was given the 13 Artists Award by the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2015. He divides his time as a full-time artist working between Manila and Brooklyn.


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A lot of people complain about the smell of the round lipglosses, but it honestly does not bother me. In fact, I read so many reviews online saying it smells and tastes disgusting, that as soon as I got them in the mail,the first thing I did was smell them rather than check out the colour. But it honestly does not bother me,and to all those saying it taste horrible, you are not supposed to eat your lipgloss! If you happen to dislike the smell, the fragrance is really not that strong and it does not last on your lips. The packaging is really cute and I have not had any problems with the stopper as some people have said. The tip applicator is bent for easy application. I personally think that the mega shine lipglosses really are better in quality and the scent is more yummy, but both are very very good.
NYX mega shine lipglosses are pricier, I believe even double the price of the round lipgloss. BUT. mega shines have 6 TIMES more product in them. Yes!
To me, though, mega shines have less interesting shades than round glosses.
Mauve: a milky baby pink, which appears quite neutral on my lips, very very pretty. I like to pair this with strawberry milk. I would say this is more of a cool pink.
Pinky Natural: this is what I thought was going to be a bright bright pink. This is more of a neutral one too, on my very pigmented lips. Also, this is more of a rosy warm toned pink. This is very pretty too.
I really want to try nyx and the funny thing is one of the stores in my town sell's them and I still have yet to purchase anything. Maybe next month.
I really like the mauve color!


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I’m very pleased to welcome Lindsay Galvin, author of The Secret Deep, to Queen of Contemporary today! Lindsay has long been a friend of mine and it’s been wonderful watching her writing career blossom over the years. She’s always been very open and honest about both the hardships and successes she’s had whilst writing, and is a much-needed voice in the YA community.
One of my favourite characters in THE SECRET DEEP is Sam Banks. The story is dual narrative, told from the point of view of fourteen year old Aster and sixteen year old Sam, but it wasn’t always that way. Sam’s storyline was added later during edits. These two characters have different threads, which intertwine so you never see the same action from two points of view, but Sam’s quest becomes equally important to Aster’s in perilous ways.
I am a feminist and continuously aware of male and female representation in films, books and especially my books. I don’t want to see any more inequality and damaging representation, but there’s still such a long way to go especially in the movie industry. Many YA books are trailblazers in combatting this.
Creating women and girl characters as multi-faceted and complex as they are in real life felt natural. I still found myself slipping into tired stereotypes, but I was vigilant and made sure I edited them out. I wanted to include rich female friendships and family relationships, a variety of motivations, realistic flaws and struggles. Aster driving the action of her story came quite naturally and her character developed over five years. But what about adding a new boy into the mix? I certainly didn’t want him to save the day, or save her. Cue Sam.
I think it’s fair to say moody and mysterious heroes are common in YA and teen storylines. I’m a big fan of hilarious @broodingYAHero and the way it explores stereotypes – some of which I have loved reading just as much as I adore a love triangle. But I have often wondered where the ‘good lads’ are (that’s how my dad would describe Sam and the boyfriends I had he didn’t hate). These boys are out there already; I had brilliant writers such as Sarah Barnard, Patrick Ness, Rainbow Rowell, Non Pratt, and many others to inspire me.
Emotional issues that can be solved by a girl.
A need to arrive at the last moment to save the day.
‘Bad Boy’ personality traits with a good heart.
Excessive bravery or a sacrificial personality.
As I wrote my way into Sam, he felt very real to me. He’s flawed, but not in a way that a girl needs to fix, he’ll learn his own lessons. He’s got a serious lack of judgment at times because he’s sixteen and I throw some very weird stuff at him. He is both indecisive and reckless, but not without noticing it and freaking out. He’s brave but not without being understandably terrified. He loves his family above everything and is in awe of the girls that he recognizes are a lot braver than him. He notices girls are attractive but that isn’t all he notices about them. He never takes the lead at the expense of a girl and that’s exactly the way he likes it. He’s got a dry sense of humor.
What I hope above all is he feels real to readers.
Can you tell from the aesthetic I also think he’s very cute?
The best boss I ever had inspired me to fail.


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VX nerve agent, a chemical the United Nations classifies as a weapon of mass destruction, was used to kill the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a bizarre murder in Malaysia. The U.S. government will seek the extradition of former Guatemalan Vice-President Roxana Baldetti and ex-Interior Minister Hector Mauricio Lopez Bonilla on drug trafficking charges. Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras, said its board has approved settlements with investors in four more lawsuits in a U.S. federal court in New York. The top US military commander for the Middle East made a secret trip to northern Syria to meet a US-backed alliance fighting the Islamic State group. Nearly 10 years after a "doomsday" seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the world's largest repository built to safeguard against wars or natural disasters wiping out global food crops.
Radio Pangaea: That's Not Legal!

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H-Net network on the culture and history of New Mexico.
H-NewMexico provides a forum for discussion of the culture and history of New Mexico. It is a network for anyone who has an interest in New Mexico and the Southwest--a place to propose ideas, announce events, and engage in thought-provoking debate.
The Western Literature Association and the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies will sponsor two K-12 Teaching Awards to provide teachers with the opportunity to attend the Western Literature Association Annual Meeting in Estes Park, Colorado from September 18-September 21, 2019.
This talk is part of UNM Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections' People and Places lecture series. The talk is free and open to anyone. Invite your friends and join us for this 45 minutes lecture (leaving time for Q&A) which will be held in the Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room Thursday, March 7 from 5:30 - 6:30 pm.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Hines, Douglas Foster – Age 57, Elmsdale, passed away suddenly on January 2, 2017. Born in Dutch Settlement, he was a son of Jeannie (Ruggles) Hines, and the late Foster Hines.
Doug was the successful owner of Halifax Glass and Mirror. When not working, he enjoyed gardening, camping, putting up Christmas lights, but his passion was spending time with his grandchildren.
He was a loving husband, father, and grandfather, and will always be missed by his wife, Mary Lynn; sons, Matthew (Catie), Tyler, Coady; grandsons, Samuel and Joshua; brothers, Wally (Doreen), Glen (Sarah), Darren (Colette); stepfather, Ron Lowe; stepsisters, Nadine, Nancy, Susan; numerous extended family members and friends.
Cremation has taken place. A celebration of Doug’s life will be on Sunday, 2-4 p.m., in Milford Recreation Center, 2288 Highway No. 2, Milford. Memorial donations to IWK Health Centre Foundation would be appreciated.


text: The Centre for Environmental Rights is a non-profit environmental rights law clinic that helps communities defend their right to a healthy environment. It does this by advocating and litigating for transparency, accountability and compliance with environmental laws. We have been supporting this progressive team with communications solutions since June 2015, including facilitating their development of a brand narrative matrix and elevator pitch – by means of a positioning workshop – as well as through media sensitisation training and ongoing proactive and reactive media relations. This included the media launch of their seminal “Full Disclosure” report, which revealed that many prominent South African companies not only frequently fail to comply with environmental laws, but also often fail to disclose those non-compliances to shareholders.

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“Cowboys and necrophiliacs” almost made me snort my coffee. Gives a whole new meaning to “The quick and the dead”. I don’t think there is a better name. Nor will there ever be.
Coffee snorting is high praise 🙂 I aim to please.
I am in the research stage for the sign. Hopefully it will work out.
It is a bit like getting a gift when you find stuff you had forgotten all about!
It looks pretty good, and should be easy for you to get it ready for the table again.
I reckon that very little work should get it fitting in with my other terrain a little better.


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T74.22XD is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
The 2019 edition of ICD-10-CM T74.22XD became effective on October 1, 2018.
This is the American ICD-10-CM version of T74.22XD - other international versions of ICD-10 T74.22XD may differ.
T74.22XD is applicable to pediatric patients aged 0 - 17 years inclusive.
T74.22XD is considered exempt from POA reporting.


text: Daily Trojan, Vol. 126, No. 24, October 04, 1995.


text: HUD # 492-761410. Owner occupants $100 down. In town 3-2 with carport that has great bones and good layout that appears to have been in process of being remodeled. HUD homes are Sold As Is, without any guarantee or warranty by seller. All bids submitted electronically. Activation requires permission from HUD Field Services Manager. In cases where a plumbing deficiency exists, water turn-on may be denied. FHA Disposition for this property is IE (Insured with Escrow $4,950.00). (FHA 203B with repairs escrow). Buyers to verify all information.


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Factors Behind Data Storage Security: Is Your Business Vulnerable?
While GDPR intends to create a more harmonious internet, it might increase your risk of ransomware and of hackers pitting you against potential GDPR fines.
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) was developed a few years ago to replace the Data Protection Directive of 1995 in the European Union. After years of revisions, it finally took effect in May. The regulatory framework was enacted to protect the privacy of EU citizens, with GDPR fines and other regulations helping to maintain the rules. It is a noble goal and will likely have a number of positive benefits. However, it may also create a new set of risks that security experts and crisis management teams will need to prepare for. One of them is the likelihood that GDPR ransomware threats are going to rise.
Will the GDPR put companies on high alert about possible new ransomware attacks?
Ransomware has become a very serious threat. According to CSO Online, the global costs exceeded $5 billion in 2017. A number of factors have played a role in driving the explosive threat that it poses to organizations of all sizes.
Most laymen wouldn’t attribute the GDPR to an increase in ransomware attacks. However, some of the most astute cybersecurity experts have made this link. The potential for GDPR extortion is worth putting on your radar.
Trend Micro is one of the most prominent organizations to make such a bold prediction. According to a speculative post they published last December, a growing number of ransomware attackers are going to calculate the likely fine a company would face under the GDPR before issuing their demands. They will probably set their ransom demands just under the penalty threshold they would face. The likely outcome is that many companies would make the payment and never report the incident, for fear that EU regulators might find out and impose GDPR fines on top of it.
Other experts have claimed the opposite is likely to occur. They cite a provision in the GDPR that requires organizations to report any security breach, even if the impact is minimal. However, the likelihood that they will follow through on reporting could be low, regardless of the merits of the law.
Some organizations may decide that the risk of being fined is greater than that of quietly breaking the law and sweeping a GDPR ransomware incident under the rug. Also, they may make the argument that the ransomware infection does not qualify as an actual security breach. Some lawyers could argue that ransomware generally locks devices or freezes servers, but does not actually purloin encrypted data, therefore it would not actually qualify as a breach and does not need to be reported.
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These threats may be especially effective against very small and home-based businesses. Unfortunately, a growing number of malicious actors are targeting these types of businesses, and GDPR extortion is plausible.
This can be a huge concern for businesses of all sizes. GDPR ransomware attackers realize that home businesses cannot afford anywhere near the fines that the GDPR calls for and will act accordingly.
Ransomware attacks are likely to increase in the coming years, especially as EU regulators become more stringent about enforcing their policies. Organizations of all sizes must recognize that they may be put in a place where they need to choose between paying the ransom or accepting a fine for failing to meet compliance standards. The regulators may act with leniency, especially if the company is small. However, they should not operate on the assumption that they will get off with a mere slap on the wrist. On the other hand, they should consider the possibility that malicious hackers may continue to organize such attacks as long as they feel there is a chance that the company is in violation of GDPR requirements.
The only guaranteed solution is to make sure the network is strongly defended to prevent a ransomware attack—or any subsequent GDPR extortion—in the first place. Here are some precautions that can help them.
The VPNFilter attacks were organized against businesses with routers that had not been updated for quite some time. Resetting the router could significantly reduce the threat of these attacks. Of course, there are other forms of malware that exploit other vulnerabilities. However, fixing all weak points in your security infrastructure is key, so it is important to address every possible port through which a ransomware attack may be carried out.
According to Cloud Management Suite, securing IoT devices is one of the most important steps to prevent ransomware attacks. Recent figures show that 10% of ransomware attacks against SMBs are targeted at IoT devices. They should keep the IoT network architecture as simple as possible and regular monitor all incoming and outgoing data on all IoT devices to look for threats.
Hackers take time to understand the flaws in every application they can exploit. The older an application is, the more time they will have had to uncover them. This leaves you vulnerable to attacks. Make sure that your software is patched to prevent this from happening.
Since most organizations carefully encrypt their data, they are not so worried about hackers stealing and releasing it. Although some ransomware attacks do this, the majority threaten to destroy files instead. You can nullify their threat by making sure that your data is carefully backed up on another server that they will not have access to.
It is vital that you regularly scan incoming emails for all known malware threats. Email is one of the most common ways to distribute malware.
Hackers often spoof hotspots to trick people into providing information through them. Make sure that you carefully verify any hotspot that you’re using to prevent them from getting access to your machine.
While the threat of ransomware is never fun to think about, it doesn’t need to rule your life either. It’s simply a matter of being as aware as possible and taking whatever precautions you can to decrease your odds of getting hacked, and to keep your data secure. Hopefully, GDPR’s benefits will far outweigh the risks.
Ryan Kade is the editor overseeing contributed content at Smartdata Collective and contributes weekly column.

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The time for a national pharmacare program is now.
There are no ifs or buts about it: in a time where almost one million Canadians will be forced to choose between their heart medication and a roof over their head, the call for a unified drug coverage program becomes more crucial with every passing day. We already have universal healthcare, a system that has generally proved beneficial for Canadian society. So it only makes sense that the next step towards improving the wellbeing of Canadians would be implementing a program that provides affordable and accessible medication.
In an effort to bring affordable drugs to its citizens, the Canadian government has composed a health committee of six members, all with political backgrounds in Canada’s health care system, who are tasked with examining how to unify the drug care programs of each province. The committee will be speaking with the leaders of each province and gaining feedback from their citizens on how the government should go about designing and funding a program that not only works well with Medicare, but also compliments it.
At the moment, each province has their own system of providing medication to Canadians that involves third parties, private insurances, and business-minded drug companies. A system that not only serves to frustrate with the effort and time needed to actually complete the administrative work, but also drain a considerable chunk of one’s income.
A national drug care plan would hopefully change that and allow the poorest of Canadians to afford the medication they need. Furthermore, the program would reduce both the government’s public and private costs of supplying medication to Canadians.
Logically, it would seem that the switch to a single-payer, universal model, would be in everyone’s best interests.
But is it really quite so simple? Is Canada truly ready for a nationalized drug plan? Or is the road to more accessible medication destined to be more costly than it’s worth?
One of the main problems that the committee will be hard-pressed to tackle is the cost of switching the entire country to a single-payer system. Current public provincial programs would rise by an estimated 10 billion dollars per year, while private insurance costs would drastically decrease. As such, while there is strong political support for a national pharmacare program, the opposition is heavy from drug companies and private insurance companies.
Additionally, as evident from the current system that British Columbia has, the pharmacare program would not ensure that the best drugs would be affordable or accessible to the public but rather brands that aren’t quite as costly to dispense. This would mean that Canadians would be limited in what drugs they could afford and that they would still be forced to go through private companies in order to receive medication that might be more beneficial to their health.
Another problem is the issue of privacy. While a national pharmacare program would allow doctors and pharmacists a more cohesive system of finding and administering drugs, it would also be easy for any doctor or pharmacist, regardless of whether you are their patient, to access your medication history. This would mean that, should the pharmacare program be based off British Columbia’s current model, a pharmacist from Ontario would be able to access the medication history of a patient currently living in Alberta.
I’ll be frank — I agree with the government. As stated above, Canada does need a nationalized drug plan that is not only affordable but easily accessible for all incomes whether that be in the millions or nothing at all. Medication is not a privilege but a necessity, and a nationalized drug plan would ensure that this necessity is supplied for everyone. However, considering the number of concerns associated with this massive undertaking, I cannot confidently say that the outcome of this project will be truly altruistic in nature. Furthermore, if a national pharmacare program is to happen, the model for it must be better than British Columbia’s program in terms of both privacy and accessibility to drugs beyond simply the cheapest brands to produce.


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↑ Dragon fruit is on its way in Bangladesh. Viddler.
"Thanh Long or the Dragon Fruit"


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Tata Docomo comes with a new service for its users. Now all Tata Docomo users can share their balance with each other. It not a trick, infact its a service from Tata Docomo for its users to transfer balance from one Tata Docomo SIM to other. So its a genuine method and there is nothing to bypass.
First Go to Messages menu and create a new message.
Type BT<space>Mobile Number to which you wanna give talktime<amount you want to send.
Now send this message to 54321.
Please note that there are no charges for transferring balance. However the message will be charged as Rupee 1 per message. This mean that if you sent a message for message transfer and you don't have sufficient balance for making transfer, Then no hidden charges will be deducted but the Message charges 1 rupee will be charged. Try it and tell us your experience.


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Would this scare you too?
^IA. There's usually at least one story of someone getting hit and killed by a stray celebratory bullet on New Years night.


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There is a natural inclination to look back with the benefit of hindsight to find fresh patterns in history. Thus, for example, the period 1870–1990 can be viewed as Europe’s “HundredYear Civil War,” a perception not necessarily obvious to those engaged in that “war” at any particular time; and the Japanese have seen the Second World War from their viewpoint as variously a part of a “Hundred Years War,” a “Seventy-Five Year War,” a “Great Pacific War” and a “Great East Asian War.” More recent operations against Islamic extremists have been seen by some on both sides in an even broader context, as further iterations of a war spanning more than one thousand years and stretching from Tours to Acre, Lepanto, Khartoum, and now to New York and Bali.
While such revisionism may be fundamental to mankind’s learning process, the evidence of the past hundred years seems to be that we have an incorrigible reluctance and/or inability to make accurate assessments as to the likely length, meaning and outcome of military operations and what is or has been required to succeed in them. We have been poor judges of time and its patterns when it comes to military matters, or more specifically to campaigning, erring on the side of lethal optimism and wishful thinking in the face of the readily available facts. This suspension of critical faculties has led to serious distortions in preparing armed forces for the challenges that face them. It seems that Clausewitz’s urging—“The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgement that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish . . . the kind of war upon which they are embarking”—has been in vain.
The contention of this paper is that over the past hundred years military establishments, encouraged and directed by their political masters, have persistently underestimated the length and costs of their campaigns and have frequently had little idea of the actual nature of their undertakings. A common factor in this appears to be the desire that campaigns should be short, decisive and cheap; and therefore with less risk but a greater likelihood of popular support—to be “home by Christmas.” This delusion has often been reached irrespective of the 2 historical evidence and the analysis of current capabilities to the contrary. The desire and conviction that campaigns should, ought and in fact will be so, has often led to the creation of forces to fight on terms other than those which prove optimal in the event. The result is that those seeking a short, decisive and cheap campaign have very often laid the foundations for the opposite. Their unpreparedness and delusions have abetted costly attrition; and the resulting bill in international calamity, casualties and materiel has been shocking. There are some exceptions, and these may prove instructive models for our own future conduct.
Politically-tainted overoptimism has often led to fundamental misappreciation of the nature of a military undertaking. This deficit in imagination and understanding is then, with some resentment, often blamed on “mission creep,” or explained away with clichés masquerading as alibis, asserting that plans “never survive the first contact” or that readily predictable consequences could not have been known in advance. Many wars have ended up with objectives and rationales very different from those the belligerents began with, and events have indeed unfolded in unexpected ways; but forces are less able to deal with this unsurprising phenomenon if their own powers of anticipation have been neglected. A negative spiral of bad decisions and inappropriate action or denial may result from this negligence.
We should do better, and a more rigorous objectivity and self-analysis, perhaps beyond what hierarchy and the military culture of deference can muster, should be turned to shape and inform our armed forces. On the other hand, if this contention has substance, some might conclude that the serial misbehaviour of which defense establishments and their political masters have been guilty is so apparently irrational and foolish that it may in some way be endemic to the civil-military condition, and not amenable to correction by better training, education or more assiduous staff work. It is perhaps but a minor act in “the Human Comedy”—in short, we may be deep into “Norman Dixon country” or that dangerous, manic world of overconfidence described more recently by Dominic Johnson.4 Understanding our tendency to this condition may prevent us from being its victims, but we should certainly encourage our opponents to continue along this path of dysfunction.
On the other hand, effective leaders typically accept heavy responsibility and risks, withstand setbacks and criticism and still believe they are right. The confidence of a leader is vital to confidence in him by others, and in matters of war, these qualities come to the fore. As John Maynard Keynes observed more than 60 years ago, “In the case of the Prime Minister, this 3 blindness is an essential element in his strength. If he could see even a little, if he became even faintly cognisant of the turmoil of ideas and projects and schemes to save the country which are tormenting the rest of us, his superbly brazen self-confidence would be fatally impaired.

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All the DVDs on this page have the ORIGINAL, 1966 Kimba episodes with Billie Lou Watt as Kimba.
All have been restored using the best available vintage materials, and each episode is complete.
All Kimba DVDs on this page are the original Kimba. Using the best available materials, the original 1966 shows have been restored. Beware of other DVDs that are cheaply produced and have had their soundtracks replaced with poor music and acting.
11 DVD set: All 52 episodes, and a full disk of bonus features, plus a special book, all in a sturdy display box. Genuine, original Region 1 (US-made) DVDs from Right Stuf.
The Kimba Ultra Edition box set is a co-production of Tezuka Productions, Madman Anime, and The Right Stuf International, with some bonus materials supplied by White Lion Restorations. These DVDs are Region 1 and in NTSC format, which means they will play normally in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Unlike foreign DVDs offered elsewhere, these are guaranteed to play in all US DVD players and they will play at the correct speed.
These DVDs are all factory-made, factory-sealed, and brand new.
You can read a review of this set by clicking here!
plus $9 for Priority shipping to anywhere in the United States.
plus $22 for the cost of shipping to your country.
Kimba The White Lion — The Lost Episode!
Not included in the Ultra Edition DVDs!
Long sought-after by many Kimba fans, this lost version of the first Kimba episode has never before been available on home video in any form! Painstakingly restored by White Lion Restorations.
The lost original version of the famous first Kimba episode.
This is the famous dubbed version that was begun on the fateful night of November 9, 1965, the day of the huge Northeast blackout. Released to just a few TV stations, this version was replaced with a new performance by the same cast made almost a year later. The lost version has many differences and even additional lines that are not in the replacement version. This lost version has its own set of fans who have been looking for this episode for years.
This "lost episode" is NOT included in the Kimba Ultra Box Set, above. This DVD is in NTSC format (designed for the US, Canada, and Mexico).
You can read more about this lost episode by clicking here!
We have a few INDIVIDUAL 2-DISC SETS from the Ultra Edition Box Set described above. Limited Quantities! Get them while you can!
2 discs - 10 episodes - as contained in the Ultra box set. This 2-disc set is available individually here -- nowhere else! Genuine, original Region 1 (US-made) DVDs from Right Stuf.
Two Hearts and Two Minds.
The Hunting Ground - Tonga's pet lioness masquerades as Kimba's aunt.
The Trappers - The return of Viper Snakely.
Journey Into Time - The history of the white lions.
The Mystery of the Deserted Village - Orphan Kimba discovers he has a sister!
Dangerous Journey - Kimba's father appears in the sky.
Gypsy's Purple Potion - Kimba is nearly killed by a trusted sorceress.
The Revolting Development - The answer to the carnivore problem is found.
Adventure in the City - Kimba & Kitty chase Kitty's uncle into the city.
The Last Poacher - The problem of poaching in Africa.
Jungle Fun - Part 1. Claw's most successful attack on Kimba and Kitty.
The Pretenders - Part 2.
Running Wild - Massive antelope stampede.
2 discs - 12 episodes - as contained in the Ultra box set. This 2-disc set is available individually here -- nowhere else! Genuine, original Region 1 (US-made) DVDs from Right Stuf.
Destroyers From the Desert - Kimba battles the rampaging elephant, baboon, and lynx.
Such Sweet Sorrow - Tonga regains her senses.
The Day the Sun Went Out - The return of Kimba's sister.
Silvertail the Renegade - Kimba defends an aging lion from hunters.
The Extras disc from the Ultra Edition box set - filled with special features!
1 disc - lots of unique special features - as contained in the Ultra box set. This disc is available individually here -- nowhere else! Genuine, original Region 1 (US-made) DVD from Right Stuf.
If you already have Kimba on video, you can add this great disc of special features to your Kimba collection! This is exactly the same bonus disc that is included in the Kimba Ultra Edition DVD box set (above).
Genuine, original book from Right Stuf. This is exactly the same book that is included in the Kimba Ultra Edition DVD box set (above).
36-page book as contained in the Ultra box set. This book is available individually here -- nowhere else! High quality paper and printing from Right Stuf.
36 pages, 5.25 x 7.5 inches, brand new.
plus $2 for fast First Class shipping to anywhere.
This page was updated July 12, 2012.


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The Audiophiliac says "The Album is Dead" mantra surely isn't true yet. Some albums aren't merely slapped-together assortments of songs but rather cohesive works.
From the earliest days of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s up through the early 1960s, kids bought "45s."
The albums of the period typically had just a few good tunes, and the rest was crap. Then The Beatles changed the rules. Their albums were so chock-full of great stuff, you wanted to hear every tune. Sure, singles were still important, but most of the bands that mattered didn't rely on singles, and even The Beatles stopped putting out singles tied to a specific album (there were no singles released from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band).
I agree with one thing in Mark Cuban's "The Album is Dead" post--that the major labels and music business have a lot to answer for--but rushing to embrace the commoditization of music won't create an environment for artists to thrive.
Cuban's musings--"Consumers are buying music one track at a time. I think people will pay 99 cents to get a single rather than steal it. I think people would rather steal a full album rather than pay 10 dollars or more for it."-- may turn out to be true, but ultimately, we'll all be the poorer for it.
You oldsters may remember that in the '60s, albums sold for $3 to $5, which is a lot more than $20 in 2008 dollars. No one was whining that music was too expensive 40 years ago, and movie ticket prices in the '60s were $1 to $2.
If you applied the same pricing ratio to movie ticket/albums prices, CDs would be closer to $30 today. The ever-escalating price inflation of baseball, football, basketball, and Broadway show tickets are now many multiples of CD prices.
For some reason, people no longer want to pay for recorded music, but millions of Led Zeppelin fans would have happily paid big bucks for tickets for their recent London show.
"The Album is Dead" mantra surely isn't true yet. Witness Radiohead's In Rainbows and the Magnetic Fields' Distortion: these albums aren't merely slapped-together assortments of songs; no, they're cohesive works.
Mark Cuban is a businessman. He clearly knows how to make a buck, but if he was a big shot in the music business in 1966, The Beach Boys would have stuck with singles and never made Pet Sounds.
The "album," a collection of songs, goes back decades before the LP, to when multidisc sets of 78rpm records were popular. The discs were inserted in "pages" of the album, hence the name.
Sure, the LP vinyl record and CD are still referred to as albums, but according to Wikipedia, the album is almost 100 years old. For something to last that long, you'd have to hope it must have some intrinsic value.


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The vast majority of retirement books I’ve read focus on maximizing every dollar to actually arrive at retirement. They don’t look at the period of retirement itself.
The relative freedom from time constraints that retirement offers opens the door to a lot of things that would otherwise be impossible, and this is where How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free by Ernie Zelinski comes in. Rather than looking strictly at retirement savings as part of one’s plan for retirement, Zelinski looks deeply at the personal choices made in retirement as part of that plan.
It’s an interesting and fresh perspective on retirement, and Zelinski’s breezy and friendly tone certainly helps push it along.
If you do not plan for an active retirement, you’re setting yourself up for a difficult and expensive retirement. If you work until late in life under the pretense that you’re setting yourself up on easy street due to your big pile of savings, you’re going to find that you don’t have a lot of years to enjoy it. Instead, a much better path is to live relatively lean, work toward an early retirement, and plan for a retirement life that’s active and full of adventure.
A good retirement doesn’t involve sitting around and doing nothing all day. It means applying yourself to something that you’ve always wanted to apply yourself towards but never felt that you could due to the need to have an income-producing job. If this new activity produces income, great! If it doesn’t, it’s still filling your hours with lots of contentment and enjoyment of life, and not filling those hours with idleness or expensive activities.
So Many Worlds, So Much to Do!
Zelinski makes a challenging suggestion for anyone who’s retired. On the first day of retirement, unplug your television set and unsubscribe from cable. This will force you to be more active, which will improve your health. It will also push you to actually take on the big dreams you have rather than putting them off until tomorrow because there’s something good on television.
Some degree of physical activity is an essential part of a healthy retirement. Zelinski recommends a daily walk at a minimum – and preferably more than that. Long walks, bicycle rides, and other activity should be part of your life every single day. This will not only improve your quality of life, but the length of your life as well. If you allow yourself to be sedentary, you’ll gain weight and lose the energy you need to live an active and vibrant life. A walk through your neighborhood or through nature is also a free form of entertainment, something that can’t be said for many other forms of entertainment.
Much like physical activity keeps your body healthy, mental activity keeps your mind healthy. Zelinski recommends a commitment to lifelong learning in which you strive to learn something significant each day. One way to do this is to take a college course in a topic that’s interested you at your local community or public college. As an aside, I had a friend whose grandfather was in college at the same time as him. The grandfather actually wound up being in an assigned project group that I was in and my interactions with him were some of the best experiences of my college years. Going back to college does not mean you’ll be out of place.
A good, reliable friend is something invaluable to have, but you can’t build friendships by sitting at home alone. Seek out community activities related to things you’re interested in, or just get involved with a volunteer activity. Doing these things will essentially force you to meet like-minded people, and there are few better situations from which to build a friendship. A friend is a person who will be there for you when you need them and bring joy into your life when you don’t need them as much, and that’s an invaluable thing to have.
Retirement travel can actually be really inexpensive since you’re not tied to the traditional idea of the “tourist season.” You can travel to locations on your own schedule, not those of school calendars or professional guidelines. You can also travel like a migrant, meaning you can move slowly, scoop up deals as you go, and do things at your own schedule. This makes it easy to travel almost anywhere surprisingly cheap.
In my opinion, Zelinski’s best single piece of advice comes in this chapter: move to a college town. A large college offers tons of cultural opportunities, speeches, performances, groups, and countless other things to get involved in, most of them for free. The college town that I once lived in was a vibrant place with a lot of older people involved in the college community. You couldn’t go to an event without a lot of older people there, which made it interesting both for me and for them.
Don’t leave this world with songs unsung that you wished you had time to sing. The last thing you want to have in your final years are regrets of things that you could have easily done. Your retirement years are often the time to do those things. Most of the things that people wished they could have done are things that require time, and time is what you have in spades in retirement. Use it.
Is How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free Worth Reading?
Rather than approaching retirement as merely a savings goal, How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free looks at retirement as a period to capitalize not so much on the money you’ve saved, but the asset of time.
In other words, saving for retirement isn’t about saving money. It’s really about saving time. The more you put away for retirement, the more time you give yourself to accomplish all of the things you dream about accomplishing, whether it’s writing a novel or learning a musical instrument or camping in every national park.
It’s a great perspective and a useful one, and Zelinski writes about it with an irreverent and breezy tone that makes this a fun book to read, too. This one’s highly recommended to anyone within ten years or so of their retirement, on either side.
Check out additional reviews and notes of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free on Amazon.com.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Taking siggy requests again, I apologize if I don't have them done in time.
At the moment... trying out Red Moon and Ore no Kanojo no Uraomote.
Tales of Xillia in the ps3.
I am currently playing Modern Warfare 3 on the Xbox 360. But now, I shall stop.
I think I might be punishing myself by playing this... I remembered crying when I first played ToD on the psone.
Just ended beta testing The Secret World also and finished a ending 2/2 of Richard from PersonA Operaza no Kaijin.
"One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy.
Five for silver, six for gold and seven for secrets never to be told."
Hooked to Moon Breaker atm.
It's fun and it's FREE!!!


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Bees play a vital role in pollinating crops that help drive agricultural economies worldwide. With honeybee die-offs increasing in recent years, researchers are investigating the use of spectroscopy techniques to monitor concentration levels of potentially harmful insecticides. In this application note, we evaluate the effectiveness of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to measure trace levels of imidacloprid, one of a class of insecticides linked to honeybee loss.
Because of their role as pollinators, honeybees are a critical element of ecosystems worldwide, and contribute nearly $25 billion in crop value each year to agricultural economies in just the European Union and United States. Bee pollination from commercial honeybee colonies is crucial to growers of almonds, apples, blueberries, cherries and other fruits and vegetables. In the U.S., many growers rely on rented bee hives for successful planting seasons.
In recent years, high rates of honeybee loss have prompted investigation by government regulators and other researchers. Early in 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cited the insecticide imidacloprid as a threat to commercial honeybee colonies1. Imidacloprid is widely used for pest control in agriculture, turf management and home protection applications.
Ball and spoke model of the neonicotinoid molecule, imidacloprid.
According to ongoing U.S. EPA studies, imidacloprid traces at concentration levels greater than 25 ppb are likely harmful to honeybees. Additional studies will provide a more definitive assessment of imidacloprid exposure and other factors affecting honeybees. Many are skeptical that imidacloprid alone is to blame for bee colony collapse, citing other pesticides, parasites and hive management practices as contributing to the decline.
In SERS, analytes are adsorbed on a three-dimensional gold, silver or gold-silver surface such as a glass substrate prior to analysis, inducing a plasmon resonance effect that boosts the Raman signal intensity. SERS substrates from Ocean Optics amplify very weak Raman signals by many orders of magnitude, making possible trace level detection of samples such as explosives and pesticides. With prior success using SERS to measure low concentrations of other insecticides, we anticipated similar results with imidacloprid.
We tested the effectiveness of Ocean Optics gold and gold-silver nanosponge substrates, the former using 785 nm as the Raman laser excitation wavelength and the latter using 638 nm as the excitation wavelength. For the 785 nm Raman excitation setup we used a QE Pro-Raman spectrometer and for 638 nm excitation we used the IDRaman reader (discontinued product as of July 2017). Both configurations also included the Raman laser, a Raman probe and a sample holder.
For the measurements using gold substrates we prepared 1000 ppm, 100 ppm, 10 ppm and 1 ppm solutions of imidacloprid in acetone, added 10 µL of each solution per substrate, and let the substrate dry completely. For solutions preparation, faster-drying acetone is a better choice than water.
For the gold-silver nanosponge substrate measurements we prepared a 100 ppm solution of imidacloprid in acetone, added 10 µL of the solution per substrate, and let the substrate dry completely.
We made a series of measurements using the gold (AU) substrates, in a setup with 785 nm Raman laser excitation at 15 mW of power and the spectrometer integration time set for 3 seconds (Figure 1). The gold substrates work best for imidacloprid concentrations >4 pg, primarily because the gold substrates have a stronger background signal, making lower concentration measurements challenging.
Figure 1. SERS substrates increase Raman signal intensity significantly. This graph shows results using gold substrates to measure the insecticide imidacloprid.
For very low level imidacloprid concentrations, our new gold-silver (SP) nanosponge substrates are most effective. These substrates are based on a plasma-phase deposition of the gold-silver alloy onto a unique glass surface, and are distinguished by high sensitivity with low background noise. The low background noise makes it easier to discern Raman peaks at very low concentration levels. To test this, we used the gold-silver substrates in a setup with 638 nm Raman excitation at 21.2 mW of power and the spectrometer integration time set for 1 second (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Gold-silver nanosponge substrates have less background signal, making them a good choice for measuring very low concentrations of insecticides such as imidacloprid.
The lowest imidacloprid concentration we measured was 4 pg, which converts to 0.4 ppb. This is well within the 25 ppb concentration level that the U.S. EPA reports is harmful to honeybee populations.
We reported our experiment results in mass amounts (picograms) versus quantity-per-quantity measures (ppb, ppt and so on). This approach provides a more accurate analysis by accounting for the volume of the analyte, the concentration of the analyte in solution, the area of the SERS substrate, and the spot size of the laser (in our experiments, spot size varied from 25 µm to 158 µm). Also, for purposes of our calculations, we assumed uniform coverage of the analyte after deposition and drying.
Raman is a useful technique for fast, non-destructive analysis, with the enhanced sensitivity provided by SERS substrates allowing detection of trace levels of samples such as insecticides. Already, Ocean Optics modular Raman spectrometers and SERS substrates have demonstrated good measurement results for pesticides including thiram, malathion, phosmet, chlorpyrifos and carbophenothion.
In our imidacloprid measurements, we observed some differences in Raman peaks between substrates, most likely the consequence of different binding mechanisms of the analyte with the substrate material (nanoparticles for the gold and thin film for the gold-silver alloy), but also because the chemistries enhance certain transitions differently. In addition, some molecules will exhibit shifts in their Raman peaks depending on how they are oriented on the SERS-active surface.
As our testing has demonstrated, SERS substrates are a viable option for trace level detection. And, unlike many existing SERS products on the market, Ocean Optics SERS substrates are easy to use, affordable and can be mass produced with high repeatability for routine deployment in the lab or field.
 “Pesticide is threat to bees, EPA says,” Los Angeles Times, January 7, 2016.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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Post-publication peer reviewers had questioned data about the supposed fat-browning enzyme from the get-go.
The PubPeer discussion initially focused on the antibody Spiegelman’s group used to detect irisin. A commenter who claims to be Spiegelman described how the antibody was “misannotated” by the company, but still detects the cleaved form of irisin. Following suggestions by other commenters, Spiegelman posted data supporting his conclusion.
Spiegelman stands by the existence of irisin. “The lack of ability of the current investigators to find circulating irisin may reflect the sensitivity of the procedures,” he told MedPage Today this week (March 16).

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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Kurti, style quotient of women in India and the Asian sub-continent, is mostly worn with jeans, skirts and lehengas, sports a different look with different bottoms, accessories and footwear. People generally understand that kurti is of shorter length than the kurta, is of lighter material, worn tighter, with lengths of Kurtas being longer.
A kurti length can be anywhere from reaching waist height to ending 3 inches above the knee. A kurta starts from ending close to the knees to reaching calf height.
The material for kurti is lighter than that for kurta.
The fit of a kurti follows contours of the body closer than that followed by a kurta.
Kurtis are mostly worn by women. Kurtas are worn both by both men and women.
The kurti is generally worn with jeans, leggings, skirt and lehenga, shorts. The kurta is worn with a loose fitting pyjama, a loose salwar, a skin tight chudidar or a wrapped around dhoti of cotton, silk or khadi.
Universally accepted garment, females young, not so young, and old, are comfortable in wearing the stylish, fashionable kurti for the all-day comfort it provides.
The simplicity of design allows the fabric to be easily accessorized, allows any tailor to give a perfect fit, correctly and within a short time. Readymade kurtis are also very much preffered.
The bottoms accompanying a kurti could be any from jeans (chosen the most), leggings, skirt, lehenga, shorts or even the kurti converted into a reasonably good looking dress.
Where is the Kurti worn?
The Kurti is worn mostly in the Asian sub-continent in countries like India, Bangla Desh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan.
c) ending slightly above the knees are therefore carefully considered for a particular shape of body to seem fitting.
Art Georgette Silk Kurtis suit for the party and evening occasion because of their flowing looks. Kurtis of cotton, linen, khadi generally suit for casual wear and routine office and regular wear. The heavily embellished kurtis with decorated neckline, fancy beads, sequins, pearl work, lace borders etc. all contribute in making it appealing for wedding receptions and exclusive parties. The lightly adorned ones with designer motifs and patch work are the more informal occasions.
A choice of necks, from round, square, V, U, with light, embroidery or plain, a whole host of vibrant colours and pleasing hues, with options of sleeves, no sleeves, half sleeves and three fourth sleeves, and styles like double layered, Anarkali, tail cut, the kurti is an endearing choice for most women in India.
Unnati silks, Unnati Silks, largest Indian ethnic online shop for you to buy stitched apparel - the Kurta and the Kurti. Online shopping store with the widest range of ethnic Indian Kurta and Kurti. At Unnati Silks, you can buy handloom Kurta and Kurti online from the exclusive range – a unique, fancy, exclusive collection of stylish, trendy fashion, office, daily casual Kurta and Kurti in Printed cottons, Khadi cotton, Satin cotton (Sateen), Sico, Rajasthani, Pochampally, Rajkot, Punjab cottons, malmal cotton, art silk georgette, chiffon, Bagru Prints, Dabu Prints, Organic dyed, block printed, fabric varieties at attractive prices, wholesale and retail. You can purchase Kurta and Kurti online at Unnati silks and the products will be dispatched within 24 working hours of placing the order. We have free shipping and Cash on Delivery (COD) facility for Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Bhopal, Indore, Lucknow, Jaipur, Patna, Bhubaneshwar, Dispur, Itanagar, Kohima, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jullundur, Ernakulam and many other Indian cities and towns. We also do worldwide fast shipping or express shipping to countries like UK, Canada, USA, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Seychelles, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Myanmar, Mauritius, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia and many more.


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Our hairdressing services are offered at very competitive prices and all services are carried out by students under the full guidance and supervision of experienced hairdressing lecturers.
We are proud to announce our new range of products supplied by Matrix Haircare!
These students are working towards their Level 1/2 in Hairdressing. They have had thorough training on all hairdressing services before working on the public.
These students are working towards their Level 3 in Hairdressing, having already completed Level 2. They are improving and advancing their skills.
decide on the type of curl/movement or volume you want to achieve.
All colouring services require a skin test once every three months. This must be carried out at least 48 hours before the colour service.
A Keratin system that repairs, reinforces and stabilises the bonds of the hair shaft to enable the hair to heal itself! A luxurious ‘first aid’ treatment for chemical, sun and heat damaged hair. Sealed with a straightening process.
A unique Keratin smoothing system that penetrates deeply into the hair, enabling the natural process of locking in pigment and nourishing nutrients, so emulating the natural hair structure. Soft smoothing, including frizz control; the ultimate solution for unruly hair!
Sealed with a straightening process.


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It's been a fantastic fall season at Magic & Martini and we're thrilled with the enthusiastic support and reviews we're received. Our shows in Toronto are sold out through March 5 so we've added additional dates to help manage the demand.
We've just added performances for Saturday nights on March 18, April 15 and April 29. Tickets are available now and we're offering our subscribers a discount. Use the code secrets and get two-for-one tickets to our shows in Toronto, Oakville and Hillsburgh.


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Crystal Cocktail Bar, one of the most popular in the area belongs to the same company with Loucas Hotel.
Open from 10:00 am until 01:00 am, offers a long list of cocktails. Ideal place to enjoy your morning coffee with a nice view.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering