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World Sword Swallowers Day was founded by the Sword Swallowers Association International (SSAI) and is co-sponsored by Ripley's Believe It or Not! locations around the world.
On World Swallowing Day last year, 22 performers swallowed more than 138 feet of steel at 10 Ripley's Odditoriums.
Why World Sword Swallower's Day? "We sword swallowers risk our lives every time we swallow swords, but many people don't believe it's real, or they think the art has died out," explains Dan Meyer, a sword swallower who has been featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!.
"We established World Sword Swallower's Day to raise awareness of the medical contributions sword swallowers have made to the fields of medicine and science, to honor veteran performers, to raise funds for esophageal cancer research and the Injured Sword Swallower's Relief Fund (with donations matched by Ripley's), and to correct myths by putting on sword swallowing demonstrations for the public and media around the world."
Why is Ripley co-sponsoring it? "Because it's great entertainment," said Tim O'Brien, VP of Communications for Ripley Entertainment Inc. "Sword swallowers and Ripley go way back to the very first Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium, set up at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933. There, three performers, two of whom were ladies, mesmerized the huge crowds. Ripley's has been home to sword swallowers around the world ever since."
"It's a huge honor for us to carry on the great tradition of sword swallowers who have performed at Ripley's Believe It or Not! museums over the years!" Meyer explains. "In light of this, SSAI is sending out an open invitation to all sword swallowers around the world to contact us and join us in swallowing swords at Ripley's Believe It or Not museums and other locations on the 26th!"
About Sword Swallowing
The art of sword swallowing began more than 4,000 years ago in India, and requires the practitioner to use mind-over-matter techniques to control the body and repress natural reflexes to insert solid steel blades from 15 to 25 inches down the esophagus and into the stomach. With the demise of the traveling circus sideshow over the past several decades, there are currently less than a few dozen full-time professional sword swallowers actively performing the deadly art around the world today.
About the Sword Swallowers Association International
Founded in 2001 to preserve the art of sword swallowing, SSAI (www.swordswallow.org) is comprised of sword swallowers from around the world and maintains a website with general information on sword swallowing for the general public at www.swordswallow.com.
About Ripley Entertainment
Ripley Entertainment Inc. (www.ripleys.com), keepers of the venerable Ripley's Believe It or Not! brand, is a global leader in location-based entertainment, entertaining more than 13 million annually at its 80-plus attractions in 11 countries. In addition to its 32 Believe It or Not! Odditoriums, the Orlando, Florida-based company has publishing, licensing and broadcast divisions, best-selling books and the popular syndicated cartoon strip, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, that still runs daily in 42 countries. Ripley Entertainment is a Jim Pattison Company, the third-largest privately held company in Canada.


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Iranian leader pledges 'constructive engagement'
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- He pledged %27constructive engagement with the world%27
- Rouhani said nuclear weapons had no place in Iran%27s security strategy
DAVOS, Switzerland -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said he was hoping for "constructive engagement " with other nations in remarks Thursday at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting.
But in an interview with CNN before his speech, he lashed out at nations that are sanctioning the Islamic regime over its pursuit of a nuclear program.
"When it comes to sanctions, have they been successful so far? Sanctions first and foremost are illegal," he told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an interview at the forum of world leaders. "And a Congress which claims to be making laws should not contravene international laws."
Sanctions were approved by the United Nations Security Council to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear centrifuges, which can enrich uranium into material for an atomic bomb. When passed, the U.N. declared Iran's program was illegal because it failed to abide by provisions Iran signed in an international treaty.
A Republican-led effort to strengthen sanctions against Iran has more than enough votes to pass the chamber. Democrats and Republicans in the Senate say the measure is needed to guarantee that Iran abides by its vow to curtail some of its nuclear program that the United States suspects is aimed at making an atomic bomb.
"We are not afraid of threats," Rouhani said. "And the language of threats is ineffective when it comes to Iran. The language they need to choose should be a legal one, a respectful tone of voice when addressing the Iranian people."
President Obama has opposed the measure because he says it threatens delicate negotiations with Iran to limit some of its uranium enrichment in ways that stretch the time needed to make bomb-grade uranium. Obama said a pact reached in Geneva with Iran limits its ability to make such uranium.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Wednesday that the Obama administration is mischaracterizing the deal.
"We did not agree to dismantle anything," he told CNN.
He says the terminology used by the White House to describe the agreement differed from the text agreed to by Iran and the other countries in the talks that included Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany.
"The White House version both underplays the concessions and overplays Iranian commitments" under the agreement that took effect Monday, Zarif said in Davos.
Officially, Rouhani has arrived in Davos to hold out a hand to investors and senior oil industry executives, but he said Thursday in his address from the event's main podium that he was announcing a fresh program of "constructive engagement with the world" that hinges on boosting economic development with foreign partners.
He said that the key to achieving peace in the Middle East was linked to economic growth in a region he described as being "engulfed in flames."
Rouhani also cautioned that the "U.S. must accept Iran's historical realities," which may be a veiled reference to the country's determination to pursue a nuclear program on its own terms.
"I strongly declare that nuclear weapons have no place in our security strategy," he said. "We have no plans in that direction," he said.
Rouhani, who is making his first trip to Europe since his election this past summer, said the dialogue at the Swiss mountain resort would help "to improve the world's management."
"No one (country) can live alone" and expect to solve the world's problems or "consider its dominance as permanent," Rouhani said.
He said he was elected with a mandate to pursue economic development and democracy.
Prior to his departure for the 44th annual gathering of many of the world's most influential and high-profile politicians and corporate bosses, Rouhani told reporters: "Iran's presence in the Davos meeting will be very effective in expressing the Islamic Republic's views on economic issues as well as political, regional and international ideas."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was also due to speak at Davos. Netanyahu has been warning world leaders that the Iran deal reached with the USA and others was a bad deal that allows Iran to continue to enrich uranium at just below bomb-grade. It would take little time to make bomb material, and the deal does not have proper verification in place to ensure that cannot happen.
Netanyahu says Iran must be forced to dismantle its nuclear centrifuges to ensure it cannot make an atomic bomb. Such dismantling was what the U.N. Security Council demanded in its sanctioning of Iran, but Obama has not pushed for that.
It is unclear if Rouhani and Netanyahu will buck the expectation that a meeting between the two leaders won't take place at the summit where informal, but high-level, talks involving leaders of governments and the business community often occur in the shadows of the official program.
Rouhani did not directly address Israel in his speech. In the past, Netanyahu has warned the West about Rouhani's intentions over a proposed nuclear deal, calling him a "wolf in sheep's clothing."

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Breakfast "extravaganza" at El Zarape
The big, yellow sign stretched across the corner of El Zarape on Adams Avenue used exactly that word, "extravaganza." How to resist such promise? Feeling partied-out and in need of a substantial breakfast, I ventured out to the Mexican restaurant over the weekend. I had really forgotten just how exceptional the decoration is inside "the other El Zarape." Perhaps they went a little over the top with the whole Mexican folk art decor, but everything in there suggests quality. The tiling is flawless and artistic, the wrought-iron chairs have a pleasing weight, even the marble-appointed bathrooms have class.
All of which would be rendered moot if the breakfast wasn't any good. The extensive selection surprised me. There were a lot of conventional favorites (french toast and whatnot) as well as the expected Mexican flavors. A typically Californian sense of fusion pervaded the whole. Unexpected dishes, like vegetable-stuffed crepes served with eggs ($8.99) threw the occasional curveball into the mix.
A shrimp omelet ($10.95) was made of fluffy eggs stuffed with shrimp, cheese, and tomatoes. The whole apparatus had been topped with white sauce and sliced avocado. Although rich, it wasn't unmanageable. Steak and eggs ($9.99) included a small-ish portion of steak that tasted of carne asada but had the look of a sirloin tip rather than the skirt steak that's usually used in the preparation of the "grilled meat." Both dishes came with potatoes, which had been griddled with red and green peppers before being served cold, and a cup of chopped fruit.
The cold side dish was something of a disappointment, but the preparations of both dishes were on point. Pancakes, french toast, or crepes with fresh strawberries, bananas, and ice cream would have spelled disaster for me, but it's worth noting that El Zarape hasn't neglected sweet breakfast.
The coffee was hot and plentiful and, had I been in the mood, I could have indulged in plenty of brunchtime cocktails from the restaurant's full bar. In the past, I've found that El Zarape's bar has exceeded the food in terms of quality, though the breakfast was both more reasonable and more satisfying than I remember the other fare as having been. With its cheerful ambiance, generous portions, and potential for sunrise drinking, I'd give El Zarape's weekend breakfast extravaganza (which begins ambitiously at 6:30 AM) my endorsement. Until now, the big El Zarape hasn't managed to make a compelling argument for itself as an alternative to the small El Zarape in University Heights. The bar has always been good, but the food always had the unfortunate designation of "not as good as the other one, but more expensive." The expanded breakfast menu might change things in the El Zarape family.
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It had all the earmarks of another disappointing loss.
Having blown a two-run lead as a result of a pair of solo homers (by Jason Giambi and Ty Wigginton) off of Mark Buehrle, the Sox found themselves tied 2-2 with the bases loaded and two out in the bottom of the eighth inning Wednesday night. Brian Bruney was on the mound facing Wigginton, who unloaded for the long blast his last time up.
Not exactly the guy you'd choose in an attempt to close the door, Bruney did the job by forcing Wigginton to hit into a double play to end the inning. A huge relief.
That said, it was one thing to close the door because Sox pitching has been their saving grace. It was quite another to think, with all their recent missed opportunities, that they could actually muster a run to take the lead and hand it over to Sergio Santos to clinch the win.
But they did it. Carlos Quentin led off the top of the ninth with a single, coasted to third on a Paul Konerko base hit and scored on an A.J. Pierzynski sac fly that just scored CQ (pictured above). It certainly wasn't a powerful offensive display and my heart sunk a bit when Alexei Ramirez struck out after the two singles. I had visions of Quentin being stranded at third, like so many White Sox baserunners have so far this season. And as we hoped Santos shut down Colorado 1-2-3 in the ninth for his 16th save and the 3-2 victory.
The yo-yo season moves on. After Tuesday night's controversial defeat, we're on the rebound again, back to three games under .500 and four games in back of the Tigers who got clobbered by the Mets.
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Kinds (this is not the definitive name) will be a language extension adding a kind level and some kind polymorphic support to Haskell.
What does this extension do?
Haskell defines kinds as
κ ::= * | κ -> κ. Nowadays, programmers use type-level computation more often using GADTs and type families. The need of a well-kinded type-level computation has become bigger. This extension provides a simple mechanism called promotion to populate the kind level.
Each time the user defines a promotable data type at the term level, he will be able to use it at the type level too. For instance, the user can write the following example:
data Nat = Zero | Succ Nat
data Vector :: * -> Nat -> * where
VNil :: Vector a Zero
VCons :: a -> Vector a n -> Vector a (Succ n)
data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a)
data HList :: List * -> * where
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You first need to get the sources and checkout the branch:
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Which data types are promotable?
A data type is promotable if its type constructor and data constructors are. A type constructor is promotable if it is of the form
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There's an old saying that goes, "The devil is in the detail." This makes detail sound like something decidedly unpleasant, but in the case of the new Classics Index Collection from Frédérique Constant, the extraordinary design features, unbelievably attractive pricing and technological marvels built into each model mean that, when it comes to these watches, "the detail is utterly delightful."
No fewer than nine unique automatic models make up the new Classics Index Collection; each utterly individual in appearance, yet all with sleek, clean lines, elegant and rich yet uncluttered dials and an exciting combination of raw materials that blend perfectly together to make each watch appear to be a combination of classic art and modern-day architectural genius.
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Every watch in the Classics Index Collection is powered by the FC-303 automatic caliber with 26 jewels. The 28,800 alternances per hour and 38-hour power reserve ensure ultra-accurate and unfailingly reliable service.
The brilliantly polished two-part case measures 40mm in diameter; these mid-size watches sit comfortably on the wrist and are equally easy on the eye. Convex sapphire crystals protect dials, and every model in the range is water resistant to 50 metres. All models feature hour, minute and seconds hands, as well as a date window next to the 3 o'clock position on the dial, and all features can be accessed through the single screwed crown. Finally, the indexes and numerals for every model are carefully polished and delicately hand-applied.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Friday evening crop
Danielle, our new neighbour, came over for supper, and I went up to the roof to pick tomatoes for the buffalo mozzarella I brought home. She's going to catsit while we are in Rockport next month. She seemed to take the beshirted cat in her stride. Her cats seem quite normal by comparison. Maybe it's us.
I have a squash. Who wants it? I find squash deeply boring, unless they are butternut or pumpkin. Good for stuffing. Um. Farcie. If the squash get big I'll stuff them with lamb bits and currants and pine nuts and rice.
Many dead leaves were taken off the tomatoes. Many.
Three more cucumbers.
The black cherry tomatoes are starting to show some colour at last. Interesting that they are so slow.
And that's about all there is to say. One can only say so much about cucumbers and tomatoes.
On the hottest of Saturdays, we make our way in the early evening to Queens, heart of, for a wedding. From Brooklyn. There is no straight line subway. Subway tunnels and platforms are like stifling hot wet death. In wedding outfits. Maybe we should just wear bathing suits and change there.
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Marie darling. Two words: Car Service. No shame, just comfort.ReplyDelete
Lisa darling...thank you! Um.I really hadn't thought of that!!!ReplyDelete
Someone should write a post on "car service". For the rest of the non-NYC world, it's a complete mystery.ReplyDelete
Summer squash is wonderful! Eat it raw; make noodles out of them w/a spiralizer or peeler and toss in a pesto. Perfect summer meal. No stove, no fuss.ReplyDelete
The plants are looking great! That is the frustrating thing about Queens, so hard to get to with public transportation. I'll take your squash, I love it. :)ReplyDelete
Webb, its 'black car' or TLC. They're not yellow, used to be all black town cars -now they come in all sizes, usually with a sticker to ID them. They're not supposed to pick up fares, just called-in rides. The price is somewhat malleable. As for dispatch, that's another whole thing -I think WNYC did a story on them a year back or so, consider Googling it.ReplyDelete
But what it comes down to -you call, give your address, they pick you up.
Zukes not me favorite, but I do the fry em with garlic and o. oil thing. My wife makes a salad with raw zukes sliced thin, lime, mint and red onions.
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German Scriptwriters Attack 'Greens, Pirates, Left-wingers And Internet Community' For Daring To Have Different Views On Copyright
from the yet-more-entitlement dept
The German series "Tatort" ("Crime Scene") has been running since 1970, and remains one of the most popular programs on German television. Given this venerable position, it's perhaps not completely surprising that its scriptwriters -- 51 of them -- have written an open letter complaining about the supposedly negative attitudes of some groups to copyright (German original). But what is noteworthy is the tone and content of the letter.
It's addressed to "Dear Greens, dear Pirates, dear Left-wingers, dear Net community" -- as if these share a common position on copyright reform, which indicates just how little the authors of the letter understand their respective policies. The letter itself is framed in terms of what the scriptwriters term "life lies".
The main "life lie" concerns the idea that the term of copyright needs to be shortened to make it fit for the digital age, where huge numbers of people are creators as well as consumers:
Not only does the author suffer expropriation through a reduction in the copyright term and is thus dramatically worse off, no, this proposal doesn't even change the situation of the supposedly innocent end-user one bit: your illegal downloads or streams concern mostly the absolutely latest films, music, books, photos and designs -- and not works that are, say, 20, 40 or 60 years old. A shortening of the copyright term would change nothing for this problem, and would be purely symbolic: look, we have taken something away from the authors....
This shows an extraordinary lack of understanding on the part of the Tatort scriptwriters. Nobody is suggesting that reducing the term of copyright will "solve" the problem of unauthorized downloads: it addresses a completely different question to do with the re-use of copyright materials, something the signatories of the letter seem unable to grasp.
But more remarkable is the sense of entitlement -- the idea that authors have a right to a copyright term that for practical purposes is typically in excess of one hundred years (life plus 70 years in most jurisdictions.) They call any reduction of copyright "expropriation", and seem blissfully unaware that this necessarily implies that the repeated extension of copyright from the original 14 years of the 1710 Statute of Anne was a similar "expropriation" of the public domain.
The point here is that there is no reason why the term of copyright should only increase, or why it should not be reduced back to its original levels, or even beyond -- it's for society to decide how long the state-backed monopoly ought to be, and how much incentive is needed to encourage creativity. The scriptwriters' view, as laid bare in this open letter, reveals an indifference to the public's thoughts that borders on contempt.
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- 2.2 Highways
- 2.3 Streets
- 2.4 Non-drivable
- 2.5 Types of segments (Roundabouts)
- 3 Special case roads not covered
- 4 Legend
Road type designations in Waze should be determined by the physical layout and use of the road, not by the name of a road.
Road types do not affect naming.
Some road type classifications are influenced by city size, traffic density, and regional conventions. For example, in a very large city a primary street may have three or more lanes in each direction on a divided road. While in a town of dirt roads, the only paved single lane street could be a primary street.
While editing the maps, you may notice that some of the roads are not labeled properly. This means, the road type might be wrong (a highway is marked as a street) or that one road has a few road types (a highway is marked as Freeway, highway and primary at different segments).
The importance of proper labeling is in two aspects:
- When viewing the map, the 'bigger' roads should appear at the far zoom levels. Without proper labels, the 'zoomed out' display can be very confusing.
- When planning a route, major roads will get priority over smaller roads.
Before editing
Be sure that you are completely familiar with the articles on:
- The Waze Map Editor
- Creating and Editing street segments
- Junction Style Guide
- Creating and Editing a roundabout
Starting Point
Naming conventions can be useful as starting point when determining a road type. Be aware that there are many regional naming variations. Remember that this is only guide on where to start when determining a road type.
- Freeway Freeway
- India ~ Major Highway Major Highway
- India ~ Minor Highway Minor Highway
- India ~ Primary Street. Primary Street
- City street ~ Street. Street
- Exit ~ Ramp Ramp
- Unnamed ~ Parking Lot Road Parking Lot Road
Road Type Classifications:
Freeway Freeway
Currently listed under Expressways.
Freeways have strict classification rules.
- Multi-Lane, divided road
- No cross traffic.
- No stop lights (except for ramp meters).
- No stop signs.
- No parking.
- No stopping (except for toll booths, freeway access metering)
- Highest speed limits. (relative to region)
- Some have minimum speed limits.
- Limited access
- Access restrictions vary by state but some typical restrictions are
- No pedestrians
- No bicycles
- No mopeds
- Entrance ramps are typically designed with an acceleration zone so that cars can accelerate up to freeway speeds before merging into freeway traffic.
- Exit ramps are typically designed with a deceleration zone so that traffic can exit the freeway at freeway speeds without obstructing traffic, then have sufficient distance to slow down before any turns.
- Access restrictions vary by state but some typical restrictions are
For information on how to best layout freeways and their junctions, please review the section on freeways in the Junction Style Guide
Highways are typically numbered or named roads that can be followed to get from one city to another.There are two main Highway labels in Waze, Major and Minor.
One differentiation between Major and Minor is the design and use of the road. A Major Highway is purpose built for the expedience of thru traffic. A Minor Highway could have a diverse range of priority placed on the flow of thru traffic.
- Indian Highways should typically have a Major Highway or Minor Highway road type.
- All Indian State Highways deserve a Highway road type.
Major Highway
Purposely built as a major throughway.
- Higher speeds. Speed limits should be near or equal to Interstate or Freeway speed limits in the same area. (typically within 10-20 Kmph)
- Multiple lanes in each direction.
- Separated directions of travel.
- Turning traffic is typically limited to specified turn lanes or freeway style ramps to minimize obstructions to thru traffic.
- Partially limited access with few minor streets intersecting with this road. Intersections are most often with primary roads or other highways.
- Can have stoplights or freeway style interchanges.
- No stop signs
- Pedestrian crossings may be limited.
- Local business access is often restricted to frontage roads or other streets.
Typically roads with numerous side streets, parking lot accesses, residential driveways, low speed limits, undivided, or shared center turn lanes are not Major Highways.
Minor Highway
Minor Highways vary widely from large multi-lane roads with stoplights and higher speed limits, to small residential streets with stops signs.
Some minor highways may zigzag thru an area with many turns on local streets.
A Minor Highway thru the main street of a small town often retains focus on local access with pedestrian traffic and on street parking.
As a good note, remember that in major construction zones for Highways under construction, often Waze will try to route you through the construction, as if its the only route, since it prefers highways.
- All entrances to or exits from freeways.
- A proper freeway style ramp onto or off of a Highway.
- Not for at grade "street" connectors.
- Not for turn lanes.
- Roads connecting a highway with a rest/service/parking area should be treated as ramps as well and named accordingly (e.g. "Exit to Service Area").
Cloverleaves/Loop Junctions
India has a lot of new cloverleaf junctions, otherwise known as Loops, as pictured at the right, but many of them can be confusing to drivers and aren't properly connected or labeled. Also, please note that the Waze TTS (Text to Speech) engine uses the term "Exit" when referring to a ramp to get off a Loop, Highway or Freeway. If you see the term "Exit:" at the beginning of a road name, please delete that part but keep the rest.
Ramp names do not appear on the client application map, but only in the navigation instruction for route directions.
Information on how to lay out ramps and set the proper angles from the main road can be found in the Junction Style Guide.
Primary Street
- Usually given higher priority for right of way with traffic controls.
- Primary streets may have less residential driveways.
- A town's "Main Street," if it is not a highway, is typically a primary street.
A primary designation is very relative to population and traffic densities. In the smallest rural town, a primary street may barely be wide enough for two cars heading opposite directions to pass each other. In dense urban areas primary streets may need to be a divided road with multiple lanes of traffic in each direction having traffic controls at every intersection.
Usually for local travel within a town.
- Any road that traffic will be routed onto.
- At grade connectors & turn lanes when separated by enough distance from the streets that one is needed for proper GPS tracking.
A road that is not paved.
Marking a road as "Dirt Road" will have the following consequences:
- Road name will not display in client.
- Routing will be restricted to avoid this road if user has disabled the use of dirt roads in client settings.
Parking Lot Road
Parking lots, along with other publicly accessible roads such as alleys that should not be used for traffic routing unless directly at the start or end point of a route.
- Do not map the rows within parking lots because it clutters the map. See this additional page for more details on how to map parking lots.
- Parking Lot roads have a transition penalty when exiting the Parking Lot road segment. This should prevent Waze from routing you through a Parking Lot as a shortcut.
- Use Parking Lot road type for all necessary segments in the Parking Lot.
- The proper use of parking lot roads can also help to avoid automated traffic jam reports as well as Map Problems related to Wazers driving in unmapped parking lots. Draw in the drivable portions of the parking lot that are near streets and other roadways. This will prevent the Waze routing server from assuming you must be on the main road when in fact you are stopped in the parking lot stopped.
Additional information on this topic can be reviewed in the forums.
Private Road
Private roads are useful for the following situations:
- Gated communities with controlled access
- Schools and Universities
- Military Bases
- Roads within apartment complexes and trailer parks
- Businesses with controlled access (gates / guard)
Private roads function in a similar way to Parking Lot roads using a transition penalty when leaving the Private Road. This transition penalty to keep Waze from incorrectly routing Wazers through a private area as a shortcut.
When mapping Private roads, all of the road segments within the Private area should be of the Private Road type. Private roads do not suppress automated traffic jams in the Waze application.
Your car should not be here!
- These may be useful for points of reference when navigating such as seeing on a map where a turn is in relation to a railroad crossing.
- When Waze users travel on a non-vehicle route such as a bicyclist or mass-transit rider, marking these routes can be useful to explain the GPS traces that result.
- If a base map scan has non-drivable routes on it, it is important to mark these to prevent traffic routing onto them.
- Non-drivable routes should not have any type of junction with a drivable road. When crossing a drivable road, the non-drivable road should be bridged across without a junction between them and set at a different level.
Walking Trails
Also bike trails
Pedestrian Boardwalks
Trains, Light Rail
For aircraft at airports
Types of segments (Roundabouts)
Roundabouts have few principals:
The first one, each node on the roundabout can only be connected to no more than one segment.
Each connection has a spectrum that exists in order to notify the Client on how to define the message (Go straight, exit through the 2nd / 3rd / 4th exit).
Each connection has a spectrum that exists in order to notify the Client on how to define the message (Go straight, exit through the 2nd / 3rd / 4th exit).
The system will include the radius border from the center and notify the user accordingly.
For more information on when to create a Roundabout or a loop instead, please review the Junction Style Guide.
For information on what type of road to set a Roundabout to, please review Creating and Editing a Roundabout
Special case roads not covered
There are a number of other types of roadways and lane types which are not directly covered with the current options above. In some cases there are plans to add some of these special cases, but in the mean time the following guidelines are the best that can be done with the current settings.
Bus or cab only lanes
When a road or lane is designated for bus or cab use only, mark that road segment(s) as a Private Road to prevent the Waze router from using that segment(s) for general traffic, since the majority of the users will not be able to use that lane. It is also advisable to set the turn restrictions to prevent turns into that segment(s), but permit turns exiting the segment.
If a road is one-way, but allows bus or cab traffic to flow the other direction, leave the road as one-way with the normal flow of traffic. There is no need to create a second road traveling the opposite direction for the bus and cab-only traffic.


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What's the worst thing about crashing your car while driving drunk without pants? The Internet. This son of a wealthy Brazilian businessman found out the hard way that Johnny Walker, no-pants-driving and a late-model Camaro, shaken together, forms a stiff cocktail of online shame.
The kid, apparently driving under the influence, somehow crashed into a park in the Brazil suburb of Sao Bernardo do Campo. First responders wrapped a towel around his waist, below which he was indeed naked, as they led him from the wrecked car.
According to news reports, this isn't the first such accident for Senhor No Pants. Earlier this year, he crashed his father's Ferrari F430.


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J. Caleb Mozzocco is a way-too-busy freelance writer who has written about comics for online and print venues for a rather long time now. He currently contributes to Comic Book Resources' Robot 6 blog and ComicsAlliance, and maintains his own daily-ish blog at EveryDayIsLikeWednesday.blogspot.com. He lives in northeast Ohio, where he works as a circulation clerk at a public library by day.


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Graduate students engage in research as a fundamental part of their curriculum through participation in our five Graduate Research Groups:
Master of Architecture students in the 3 1/2 year track begin their exploration of the Graduate Research Groups at the start of their third year in the program, and must enroll in courses from at least one of the GRGs during their last three semesters. Students in the 2-year track enroll in GRG-affiliated courses immediately upon entering the program.
Students must commit to a single graduate research group (GRG) each year of their MArch. Students must declare their intended GRG at the conclusion of the prior year. Changes from GRG to GRG mid-year can only be accommodated, if space is available.


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Who are elected?
'And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him, for this is he.' 1 Samuel 16:12
Suggested Further Reading: Psalm 23:1–6
I have laboured in your presence to preach up the privilege of strong faith; I have urged you to strive after full assurance of faith; but never let these lips say a word or a syllable against that holy carefulness which makes a broad distinction between presumption and assurance. Depend upon it, privilege preached always without precept will breed a surfeit and lethargy in God's people: what we want at certain seasons is, not a promise, but a telling, burning word of self-examination, the flavour of which we may not like, but which shall work in our souls spiritual good of a more lasting sort than sweet comforts would bring to us. Examine yourselves, dear friends, then, by this. I do not ask you whether your hearts are perfect—they are not; I do not ask you whether your hearts never go astray, for they are prone to wander; but I do ask you: Is your heart resting upon Jesus Christ? Is it a believing heart? Does your heart meditate upon divine things? Does it find its best solace there? Is your heart a humble heart? Are you constrained to ascribe all to sovereign grace? Is your heart a holy heart? Do you desire holiness? Do you find your pleasure in it? Is your heart bold for God? Does your heart ascribe praises to God? Is it a grateful heart? And is it a heart that is wholly fixed upon God, desiring never to go astray? If it be, then you have marks of election. Search for these, and add to all your searching this prayer, 'Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.'
For meditation: Earlier in this sermon, Spurgeon illustrated the marks of election from Psalm 23: a heart that is believing (v 1), meditative (v 2), humble (vv 2–3a), holy (v 3b), brave (v 4), contented and grateful (v 5), constant (v 6). Can you see these marks in yourself?
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Law abiding gun owner shoots man after dog runs in front of pickup
Just like George Killerman, another blood thirsty asshole from Florida armed himself, got out of his truck, and shot an innocent person:
A man walking his dog was shot in the leg by a disgruntled motorist when the animal lurched into the road, forcing a pickup to stop.
St. Petersburg police are searching for a man who shot Peter Harbachuk, 46, on Friday after his dog got off its leash.
The 4-year-old dog wiggled her way out of the leash and jolted across the road near 88th Avenue North and Seventh Street North, running out in front of a dark pickup truck.
The truck stopped, and a woman got out and yelled at the couple, St. Petersburg police said.
Minutes later, the woman got back in the truck and a man stepped out. He had a gun.
"Some dude hopped out and he pointed a gun toward my head," Harbachuk said. "I said, 'Hey. This doesn't have to go down like this.'"
The man lowered the gun a bit, closed his eyes and squeezed the trigger, he said. He and the woman quickly sped away, and police and paramedics arrived soon after.
Police said the man is 30 to 35 years old, about 5-foot, 10-inches tall, about 200 pounds, clean-shaven and muscular. The woman is 25 to 30 years old, about 5-foot, 5-inches tall, petite and has short, brown hair. [comment: no description of race/skin color is provided]
It's only a matter of time before the gun fetishists/apologists blame video games, bath salts, Hollywood, Union Thugs, Obama, Benghazi, etc. In the world according to gun fetishists/apologists, gun owners are "law abiding" up to the point where they shoot someone and then they are "crazy".


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Last night, the Miami Heat ended the Eastern Conference Finals with a 19-4 run in under four minutes to beat the Chicago Bulls in five games. If you were fortunate or unfortunate enough — I haven't decided which it is for me — to have watched the entire game, then you would have witnessed equal parts masterful comeback and epic collapse. It felt not quite like a train wreck but like a beautiful performance of something that was wholly revolting. Jeffrey Dahmer on ice.
Forgive the exaggeration, but even 18 hours after the buzzer, I'm still recovering. There is so much good to say about this game, but it is terribly hard to admit to it all. It may well have been the most astonishing comeback in NBA playoff history. The Heat were — have been, throughout the playoffs — what we were so afraid they would be all season long, and it shouldn't come as a surprise.
None of it should. But still, the way that they clinched the East last night was so frighteningly sudden and authoritative, it felt like a coup. The team that the vast majority of America wants to see fail became the team that couldn't. When Rose missed his second free throw (towel toss and all) I looked across the room at a friend who knows very little about the NBA and actually said to him, "I need for you to know how awful that was." He didn't know.
I can't think of another instance, maybe in any sport, in which a country has been united against a certain group of men playing a certain sport. As much as a Sox-Yankees of Celtics-Lakers game might feel like a one-sided affair for, say, a Boston fan, it's really not. Those teams have their fan bases, and the remainder of the audience could not really give a shit.
The Dallas-Miami series is a different animal entirely. Even neutral parties — like my friend — have a faint sense of the fact that they're not supposed to root for number 6 on the Miami team, and that shallow reasoning is enough to make it a legitimate Us vs. Them. And even those who know that rooting against a team for being rational adults who want to succeed is, well, irrational, are still happy to quietly occupy the Us side. The ranks of Us swell as They continue to win.
Beyond that, the final series we're now treated to is begrudgingly satisfying for two reasons: it's simply going to be great, and They might still lose.


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In the new Visio, we have re-envisioned our Unified Modeling Language (UML) templates in a fresh, modern way. In an earlier post, we talked about our whole new approach to the UML templates. We updated our five most popular UML diagrams, with all new shapes to make it easier and faster to create beautiful, professional diagrams. Our new UML templates allow you to create class, sequence, state machine, activity and use case diagrams that match the UML 2.4 standard.
The new UML templates focus on a freeform, on-canvas experience. Each template takes advantage of the full capabilities of Visio, including shape effects and themes, as well as collaboration and commenting to share your diagrams across your organization.
In this article we'll introduce each of the new UML diagrams and present a few tips about using the new model.
Class Diagram
The UML Class diagram template lets you build static structure diagrams. These diagrams can be used to develop a model of the classes and objects in your software program. Combined with the commenting and collaboration features, it's now easy to work with coworkers and review software designs.
This diagram features the basic class, member and divider shapes as the foundation of object-oriented classes. Special interface and enumeration shapes are also available. A package shape can be added to visually group classes into an expanded package or collapsed package.
Relationships between classes, interfaces and enumerations can be represented using the seven relationship connectors: inheritance, interface realization, association, directed association, aggregation, dependency and composition. If you need to change the relationship type after the connector is on the canvas, use the right-click menu to select one of the other types. Multiplicity shows the quantity relationship between the objects. You can use the right click menu to show the multiplicity text boxes. Edit these text boxes to represent the multiplicity of the relationship.
Tip: Use the note shape to describe classes or information about the implementation detail.
The class shape uses the list data structure to organize members and functions in each class. (This model is very similar in the database shapes.) New members can be added to classes using the three methods:
- Add or remove members by dragging them in or out of the list shape. A green highlight rectangle appears around the class shape to denote membership, and an orange insertion bar indicates the specific position that a new member will occupy in the class.
- Select a member shape already in the class, then use the right click menu to insert a member shape before or after the selected shape.
- Click an insertion triangle on either side of the class shape to insert a new member at the highlighted position.
Use the separator shape to divide data members and functions within your class. To resize, use the yellow control handle on the right side. This will resize the class shape and all members together.
Show the template parameter or stereotype by selecting the class shape, then using the right click menu to show these properties.
All UML diagrams are fully themeable. You can easily adjust the style and tone of the diagram by changing the theme. The class shapes have an additional feature: embellishment levels that can be changed using themes. Each embellishment level has a different style from traditional and conservative (low) to modern and fun (high).
Sequence Diagram
The UML Sequence diagram models interactions and events in a process arranged in a time sequence. It can be used to show steps in a process by different actors or it can show how data passes between objects in a system.
Use an actor or object lifeline to represent participants in the system. Each lifeline contains a set of connection points where messages can be connected to each actor or object.
There are four types of message connectors in the shapes pane: message, return message, self message and asynchronous message.
Tip: Use the right click menu to change a message type between synchronous and asynchronous. A message can become a self message if the origin and destination is the same lifeline.
Use fragment shapes to encapsulate loops, optional fragments, alternative blocks or sub processes.
Use the activation shape to show when a lifeline is initiated. Drop this shape onto the lifeline and connect messages to it.
State Machine
Use the UML state machine diagram to show the sequence of states an object goes through during its lifetime. Model the state with one of four state shapes. Use the initial state and final state to show the beginning and end of the lifecycle. Use choice shapes to show transitions between states.
Tip: Add text to connector shapes to label states and conditions.
Activity Diagram
A UML activity diagram is a special case of a state chart diagram in which all of the states are action states and the transitions are triggered by the completion of actions in the source state. Use an activity diagram to describe the internal behavior of a method and represent a flow driven by internally generated actions.
The new activity diagram template uses the cross-functional flowchart shapes to show each participant in the system. The swim lanes will resize with contents and dynamically adjust when a new lane is added.
Use the standard UML notation to model the process from initial node to final node. The new shapes make it easier to stay organized and create great-looking, easy-to-follow diagrams.
Tip: Use auto connect to add new steps in the process:
Use Case
Apply UML Use Case diagrams to model interactions within and between subsystems. Connect the actor shape to use case shapes using the auto connect tool. The connectors describe the relationship between the actor and use case shapes. There are five connectors: association, dependency, generalization, include and exclude. The subsystem shape visually represents the use cases within it.
Tip: Use Find Shape to add icons for different actors in the system. See the Find Shape help article for more information about using this feature. In the example above, a bank shape replaced the actor shape.
Benefits of the new shapes
With the new Visio UML templates, you can quickly create beautiful professional diagrams that show class, sequence, state machine, activity, and use case and also adhere to the UML 2.4 standard. The templates allow you to easily share and review diagrams of complex systems. The new diagrams are more extensible and flexible, and now you can apply the powerful features of the Visio engine to UML models, such as auto connect, replace shape and commenting.


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We see digital from both the customer and the enterprise perspectives:
Digital customer, where we are changing how our clients engage and interact with their customers, patients and students
Digital enterprise, where we are helping clients fundamentally rethink their strategies and enable new operating models and business processes, create connected product platforms, and improve their analytics and collaboration capabilities to enhance productivity.
Digital customers, digital channels, and digital markets are accelerating the pace of change in each industry, and we believe this will continue. We are helping our clients thrive in this competitive environment.
Accenture Digital works with many industry leading clients, including eight of the top ten global retailers and nine of the top 10 in banking, as well as all of the top 10 companies in consumer products, telecomm and pharmaceuticals.
We have helped our clients capture more than $100 billion in commerce and sales worldwide—from hotel reservations booked, to consumer electronics purchased, to business-to-business transactions completed.
Accenture and Lacoste: Establishing a digital presence in China
Accenture is helping Lacoste quickly establish an optimized digital presence in a strategic market with the cloud–enabled, multichannel Accenture E-commerce Solution for China.
Lacoste selected Accenture due to its multichannel platform, excellent track record in navigating the legal and cultural challenges related to launching online businesses in China, and ability to deliver quality online experiences to Chinese consumers for other brands and businesses.
Through close collaboration, Accenture is helping Lacoste achieve its goal of turning China into its largest retail market through an optimized digital presence.
Digital channels hold the potential to vastly expand the customer experience, yet many companies' omni-channel capabilities have not kept pace with the digital evolution.
To create the relevant, customized experiences consumers demand, companies need cross-channel order visibility, internationalization services, segmentation, predictive analytics, dialogue marketing and personalization capabilities. We have found that achieving consumer relevance across all channels, consumer intent segments and geographies is a key differentiator between high and low performers.
Maintaining relevance—what we call the "R Factor"—requires actionable data insights, segmented content and enabled technologies, as well as continual monitoring and response to new consumer insights.
The Accenture Omni-channel Commerce Solution provides unique end-to-end capabilities that help you drive revenue and optimize your operations – combining our industry know-how, technology insights and global scale.
It means you reap the benefits of more integrated, scalable technology and back-end processes, as well as leveraging cross-channel marketing expertise, greater organizational flexibility and collaboration.
Why creating an integrated customer experience is key to sustaining a strong competitive advantage.
This video illustrates how UPS has engrained the customer experience attitude through employee engagement and aligning business and functional goals. It outlines how customer satisfaction reporting received from new processes and support for its business units has led to its success.
Digital Strategy & Business Architecture
Digital Sales
Digital Customer Services
Accenture and Lacoste: Establishing a Digital Presence in China
Accenture is helping Lacoste quickly establish an optimized digital presence in a strategic market with the cloud–enabled, multichannel Accenture E-commerce Solution for China.
Lacoste selected Accenture due to its multichannel platform, excellent track record in navigating the legal and cultural challenges related to launching online businesses in China, and ability to deliver quality online experiences to Chinese consumers for other brands and businesses.
Through close collaboration, Accenture is helping Lacoste achieve its goal of turning China into its largest retail market through an optimized digital presence.
Accenture helps mBank revolutionize user experience in online banking
Accenture's collaborative approach and unified global team helped Polish online bank mBank rebuild its online presence from scratch.
Managing Director, New mBank Project
Discover how social helped the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) change the game
The ARU has partnered with Accenture to use cutting-edge technology—including analytics, mobility and innovative cloud-based customer relationship management systems to build a unique experience for its members and fans and create a vibrant commercial future for the organization.
The other aspect of digital focuses on the Digital Enterprise. Here, we are helping our clients to enable new operating models and business processes, connected product platforms, analytics and collaboration capabilities to enhance productivity.
An enterprise rooted in digital can significantly enhance productivity by freeing up employees to handle higher-level priorities and drive continued innovation. A digital enterprise is not just a computerized business, organization, or government - it is an entity that incorporates digital technologies to create results and solve problems for its stakeholders through innovative strategies, products, processes and experiences.
Having undergone a digital transformation, organizations will be able to offer new products, services and value to customers, patients and citizens that were not even imagined just a few years ago. We are helping our clients unleash the potential of digital.
A key feature of the digital enterprise is its ability to bring people together, regardless of location. In this video, Accenture Chief Information Officer Andrew Wilson describes how leveraging internal social collaboration tools is integral to driving business forward in the digital era.
Digital Strategy & Business Architecture
Digital Corporate Functions
Digital Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Operations
Digital Connected Products
The IIoT generates data essential for developing corporate operational efficiency strategies – which points to a key capability organizations must master in order to transform their enterprise digitally: in a research report from Accenture and GE, nearly two-thirds of industrial companies said they use big data analytics to monitor equipment and assets to identify operational issues and enable proactive maintenance.
Thames Water: Using data to optimize the UK's largest provider of water
Thames Water is responsible for supplying public water and wastewater management for much of Greater London and the Thames Valley. By using Accenture's Smart Grid services, the company can access real-time data to improve their overall performance.
Thames Water aimed to use data to provide efficient, high-quality customer service. Accenture will help by creating a single view of the company's operating systems and assets, such as pipe and treatment facilities.
Between September 2013 and March 2015, Accenture will implement advanced analytics, which will enable more efficient water sourcing and remote asset monitoring. The data will help the utility giant anticipate equipment failures and respond in near real-time to critical situations, such as leaks or adverse weather events.
Michael (Mike) R. Sutcliff
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And no doubt conning stupid people - whilst inviting ridicule from everyone else for offering a SPURIOUS link:
"Watching pictures and videos of the ongoing Kilauea eruption in Hawaii are both fascinating and sad at the same time. People are amazed at how much destruction just this one volcanic eruption is causing. Yet, think about the massive destruction that was caused by the great deep bursting forth (Genesis 7:11) at the time of Noah's flood. It's not hard to understand the major role this played in causing a global catastrophic flood!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... a8544dc762"
I was half expecting some YEC fantasist to start gushing about this volcanism - which is destroying people's homes (but why waste a propaganda opportunity for the YEC version of Noah's Flood). After all a newsworthy volcanic eruption on US SOIL (like Mt St Helens) doesn't come along every day - or every year.
The ongoing events in Hawaii (earthquakes too which might be implied by Genesis 7:11) don't make me think of the 'one-off' event of Noah's Flood in Genesis (which says nothing about anything like sulphur dioxide). But I'm not a YEC propaganda merchant working for Ken Ham.
Stand by for some effusive comments on Purdom's Facebook post.


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New students will begin arriving at St. Bonaventure University Aug. 21 for Welcome Days 2014, a four-day program hosted the weekend before classes begin.
Thursday, Aug. 21, is "A Day of Gathering." New students will move into their residence hall during the day and then will officially be inducted into the Bonaventure family at the Candlelight Ceremony Thursday evening. The 9 p.m. program will be held on the steps of De La Roche Hall.
On Friday, Aug. 22, students participate in "A Day of Classes." Presentations and activities will help them prepare for their first semester and outline expectations for Bonaventure students throughout their academic career.
On Saturday, Aug. 23, and Sunday, Aug. 24, students participate in "A Day of Service" and "A Day of Involvement." The freshman class will participate in service activities in the surrounding community and on campus and attend workshops hosted by clubs and organizations on campus.
One of the service activities in particular will tie in with this year's All Bonaventure Reads book, "The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change." Adam Braun's debut book chronicles his journey from high finance to founding a non-profit organization that has built more than 200 schools in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Freshmen have been asked to bring a donation of school supplies when they come to campus in order to create school packs for refugee children being served by Saint's Place in Rochester. St. Bonaventure has partnered for many years with Saint's Place, which assists refugees from war-torn countries seeking asylum in the United States. These legal immigrants arrive in Rochester through the Refugee and Immigration Department of the Catholic Family Center.
"Like the children featured in 'The Promise of a Pencil,' these children know the value of an education and cannot wait to start school in the United States," said Chris Brown, director of the university's First-Year Experience program.
In another service project, students will partner with BonaResponds and its Warm Snuggly Blanket initiative, which is an ongoing project to deliver blankets and letters of support to people who are undergoing cancer treatments.
St. Bonaventure's upperclassmen will begin arriving Aug. 23, and Transfer Student Orientation is planned for Aug. 24. Fall classes begin Monday, Aug. 25.
About the University: The nation's first Franciscan university, St. Bonaventure University cultivates graduates who are confident and creative communicators, collaborative leaders and team members, and innovative problem solvers who are respectful of themselves, others, and the diverse world around them. We are establishing pathways to internships, graduate schools and careers in the context of our renowned liberal arts tradition. Our students are becoming extraordinary.
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Floorball is a fast and exciting game that promotes end-to-end plays with quick transitions and fluid game play. The rules stress the importance of safety and sportsmanship and are designed to limit the chance of injury without decreasing the speed or skill of the game.
Why is Floorball good for Hockey Players?
Below is a brief summary of the rules of floorball:
• Stick must remain below waist
• Ball is played below knee level at all times
• No body contact, no blocking/screening of opposing players
• Stick-on-body contact or stick-on-stick contact is not permitted
• No hitting, lifting or pinning of opponents' stick
• Free hits similar to a free kick in soccer are given for minor rule infractions
• No offside or icing calls
• Game is played with five players and one goalie per team on the court at a time
CLICK HERE to download What is Floorball brochure
Floorball sticks are engineered for superior stickhandling, ball control and shooting. They are lightweight, inexpensive, durable and non-marking. A floorball stick should reach about two centimeters above the belly button of the player. The official ball is 72 mm in diameter, weighs 23 g and is made of hard plastic with 26 evenly distributed holes, similar to a whiffle ball. A floorball net is 160 cm wide by 115 cm high, similar to the size of a hockey net. Floorball players do not wear any protective equipment – only a t-shirt, shorts and athletic shoes are required. Players may wear protective eyewear but it is not mandatory.To purchase floorball equipment, Visit Salming Canada
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Just a very quick post as I keep noticing pictures here and on the feed where the skirt prims are a different color than the textured part, or leg prims for shorts don't match etc.
So for those of you that buy articles (or have some from long ago) that the prims don't match the textures, it is apparently a Windlight issue. This was going on before Havok 4 so it isn't that.
ANYWAY - All you need to do is tint your prim a light shade of gray so that it is no longer WHITE — which is what windlight wants to reflect too brightly for our avatar and human eyes.
I read this a few weeks ago in a blog. Sorry I have no idea who to credit, but it really works. I use it all the time with photos. Some designers are doing this FOR us now. I noticed that the group outfit from Samara last week had no problem when I went to take photos and sure enough I looked and it had a tint on the prims.
Designers, if you are using Windlight - now incorporated into the regular client but not OnRez - you can test this easily yourself. I hope it helps.
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Norooz is a colorful children's app that uses age-appropriate language and interactive features to explain the official start of the Persian New Year and the many traditions surrounding this festive holiday, which has been celebrated by Iranian people for more than 3,000 years.
In the Norooz app we introduce not only Norooz and the spring equinox, but many other events and traditions related to the Persian New Year. For example, children will learn about Chaharshanbeh Soori, also known as the festival of fire, which is held several nights prior to the equinox; they will gain an understanding of a Haft Sin traditional table setting; and they will find out what happens on the 13th day of Norooz.
To strengthen learning, we've included several interactive features, including a make-it-yourself Haft Sin table and a hands-on explanation of the spring equinox that helps children understand the earth's revolving relationship with the sun.


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Filtered Pipes: Savinelli balsa system
Posted by Renia Carsillo on 4th Sep 2014
Chances are pretty good you're familiar with the largest tobacco pipe maker in the world, Savinelli. The brand has set the standard for smoking pipes since its creation in 1876 when the founder, Achille Savinelli, opened up his store front in Italy.
Savinelli's Convertible Balsa System
One of the many things that sets Savinelli apart from other pipe makers is the signature convertible balsa system. Most Savinelli pipes have this feature, although not all, so check your chosen pipe's product description first.
Convertible refers to the ability to use the filter or remove it and use a spacer piece to smoke your pipe unfiltered.
Why balsa wood filters?
When you hear the word "balsa", your first thought is probably not about pipes. It's the same material used to make small
airplanes. Balsa is naturally porous, which allows it to absorb the majority of the moisture and smoke impurities from the tobacco, without the need to use chemical elements or paper. This unique wood can do this without altering the aroma or flavor of the tobacco, which sets balsa filters apart from other pipe filters like charcoal.
Popularly hailed as the most absorbent wood Mother Nature has to offer, Achille Savinelli and his team were clearly inspired in creating the convertible balsa system. The use of this unique material can't be underestimated. No matter how hot you smoke, the tongue bite is eliminated (although we can't help you with the hole you might burn in your beautiful Italian pipe). In addition, the gurgle caused by moisture build up many new smokers grapple with is no longer an issue.
Another benefit of balsa wood is it's apparent ability to help reduce toxins inherent in smoking tobacco. According to tests by the EURATOM Research Center of Ispra, Italy, the filter has the ability to absorb up to 77% of the nicotine and 91% of the tar contained in the pipe tobacco, without altering flavor. This makes Savinelli's convertible balsa system ideal for smokers who want to cut down on nicotine and tar, without sacrificing the experience they love.
IF committing to a filtered pipe is more than you can handle, fear not. In place of the filter, an adapter can be inserted into the tenon which allows you to smoke your Savinelli unfiltered. This particular feature makes Savinelli a particular favorite among new smokers.
Whether you are an experienced pipe smoker or a newbie, the Savinelli Convertible Balsa System is a perfect choice.


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"Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices." George Bernard Shaw
As kid I was told by a teacher that I "should be a monk." Because I was very quiet. Meant as a joke but it has left it's mark in me (a good mark I mean). You know, jokes that adults make sometimes get taken seriously by unwitting kids. I really thought I'd become a monk (even a saint!). Since then I've lost my faith, (well, it transformed really, into something it wasn't before) and I don't know any suitable monastic communities to attach myself to with my present beliefs.
And now I've learnt that the cornerstone of the monastic life are the vows of "poverty, obedience and celibacy" (not silence, lol). And the part of me that is still a bit of a monk wants to make sense of these, reconcile them with my lifestyle that isn't celibate, doesn't shun money and doesn't obey any sort of Church hierarchy. I like the idea of a life dedicated to contemplation and spirituality, but something that's more involved with the world, not hidden in a cloister.
And so here are my thoughts:
I made a connection the other day between the subjects in the title. The monastic vows being celibacy (sex), poverty (money) and obedience (power). The hope of those that make monastic vows is to deny the influence of the three sources of "sin": money, sex and power. If truth be told these three things are, perhaps, the most contentious and controversial subjects, and many problems, especially in human relationships are based upon these three (those monastics were on to something I think). If these three can be resolved then most human problems and relationship issues are most probably resolved.
So the answer according to monks and nuns? Deny them. Renounce them. Renounce personal ownership of wealth and problems of "having too much" or "not having enough" go away, and because there is "an eternal wealth awaiting us beyond this world". Renounce sexuality and those wayward urges don't have a place to intefere with the important things in life (like praying). Renounce personal will, defer it to a "higher power" and you don't have to worry about making the wrong decisions or taking responsibility for something too big for you.
But this, in my view, only sweeps problems under the proverbial carpet. Money, sex and power will not go away. Thousands, millions of people have taken these vows and the problems still exist. Small groups of people have managed, with mixed results, to find a little pocket away from all these "bad influences". But they have not managed to effectively resolve these issues for the world.
Energy cannot be destroyed, it can only be changed or diverted. The energy that money, sex and power represent cannot be effectively renounced. It is still there, being repressed. Being dammed up and fit to burst! Engineers know that rivers cannot be stopped but only diverted, unless you stop the rain (ask a miracle from God).
The conventional way is to get carried away by these currents. Put in other terms we become ruled by money, sex and power. We become their servants and they are the driving forces behind our lives, our raison d'etre.
Two choices: to resolve these powerful forces by denying them (even if, really, they cannot be denied) or just don't bother to resolve them and be controlled by them (seemingly easy but fraught with problems).
But a third choice remains: to embrace these forces and to redirect their energies to positive ends. A working principle that means that money, sex and power creatively serve human life and relationships instead of being forces that rule human life. Instead of reducing human life to these dimensions, or cutting them out of human life altogether they can become forces to enhance a more whole way of being human.
Jesus said "Man was not made for the Sabbath but the Sabbath for man." Religion, and any of the vows that go along with it, are made for us, not us for them.
We don't have to make vows of poverty, obedience and chastity. We don't have to resign ourselves to greed, domination and lust. We just have to put money, sex and power in their proper perspective; in service of life.
And so, hear me now and my monastic vow*…
I vow to take responsibility for my wealth, enjoy it, not be controlled by it and apply it in the service of life.
I vow to take responsibility for my sexuality, enjoy it, not be controlled by it and apply it in the service of life.
I vow to take responsibility for my power, enjoy it, not be controlled by it and apply it in the service of life.
And not a robe in sight…
*vows more as an process ongoing process rather than rules to live by! Can anyone be that perfect?


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A Guide to Norwegian (and Some Swedish) Candy
I don't eat much candy. Unless it's not American*, in which case, I am all about eating candy. Faced with nearly 30 kinds of candies that are popular in Norway, I reverted to my excited five-year-old self after a prolific night of trick-or-treating.
Until I ate the salty licorice**. But I'll get to that in a bit. (I made our interns Will, Haley, and Shell eat it too. What good sports they are.)
Click through the slideshow to get an overview of popular Norwegian (and some Swedish; there's candy overlap between these neighboring countries) chewy candies, hard candies, chocolate bars, chocolate not-bars, and licorice from major candy companies Freia, Nidar, and Brynild Gruppen.
Notes: Many thanks to my boyfriend/candy mule Kåre Sandvik for hauling about 10 pounds of candy over his 11+ hour flight from Norway to New York. That guy is a keeper.
Some of the candy photos aren't scaled with their respective packages since the photos would otherwise be too small. It'll be obvious because the candies will look...huge.
* I'm not anti-American candy; it just doesn't interest me as much as non-American candy since I'm already used to it.
** Unfortunately, salty licorice gets the shaft in this post because no one in our office likes salty licorice. It's a bit of an acquired taste....Or completely an acquired taste. Salty licorice-lovers, I hope you understand.
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The political drama in Pakistan that started with a protest march to Islamabad last weekend and a sit-in outside Parliament ended Thursday as the government and the protest leader signed an agreement.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, a moderate Islamic cleric recently returned from Canada, played off the frustrations of the nation as it faces ongoing violence, corruption, and power outages ahead of a general election. He amassed tens of thousands of followers in a call for the dismissal of the government. On day four of his protest, after Mr. Qadri claimed that the demonstrations could turn into a Tahrir-Square-type revolution, the government conceded to meet with him and draw up an agreement.
When Qadri exited the meeting he told his supporters: "You are victorious, and your sacrifices were worth it in the end," before letting them know they could go home.
But observers say the agreement doesn't really meet any of Qadri's demands and merely speeds up points that already exist in the Pakistani Constitution, raising the question of whether Qadri really won anything.
"The agreement is a complete surrender by Qadri because the government is still in power. He had no choice but to accept what was offered to him," says Hamid Mir, a political talk show host based in Islamabad. Mr. Mir added that he considered this a win for Pakistan's democracy: In the past such attempts to derail the government have been supported by the opposition, but in this instance, Pakistan's political parties, including the opposition, united to strike down his move, he says.
The agreement does not include an agreement for Parliament to dissolve, the government to resign, or a prevision for the judiciary and military to play a part in choosing the caretaker government to be installed between the time the current government's term expires and the elections, as Qadri and his supporters called for. The agreement did, however, promise Qadri's political party a say in choosing the caretaker government.
"People of Pakistan came out on the roads for a revolution that did not happen," Mir says. Adding that he fears that in the coming days other nonstate actors could attempt to copy what Qadri did, with their own list of grievances.
"It was very sad to see the government officials standing with him, hugging him, and giving him so much importance after they reached an agreement – this has set a very bad precedent," he says.
Like it or not, say some analysts, Qadri has now become a political stakeholder and will keep in check the government that many in Pakistan perceive to be corrupt.
"The agreement will create the necessary pressure on the government to act according to the Constitution, which is a good thing," says Fahd Husain, a senior journalist based in Islamabad. "However, it does show that the government only acts under pressure," Mr. Husain added.
Many suspect that Qadri is a front for Pakistan's powerful military because of Qadri's history of supporting Army rule in Pakistan. Both Qadri and the military have publicly denied such claims
"The conventional wisdom is that it's the military – because we have seen them resorting to such tricks in the past. But it did not seem like a sanctioned top-to-bottom sort of operation," says Zarrar Khuhro, editor of an English news magazine in Pakistan adding that "it is necessary to distinguish between an institutional support and individuals support. And Qadri may have enjoyed the latter."


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KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The Afghan government released 65 prisoners from the former Bagram prison Thursday the U.S. military said were linked directly to U.S. and allied troops.
Officials said the release could jeopardize U.S. aid to Afghanistan and worsen already fragile relations between Washington and Kabul, the Wall Street Journal reported.
U.S. officials had urged Kabul not to release suspected insurgent detainees, saying they likely would rejoin Taliban operations.
Abdul Shakor Dadras, a member of the Afghan panel that reviewed detainee case files, confirmed 65 detainees' release on Thursday. Dadras earlier told the Journal the release followed a "long investigation" by Afghan authorities.
Concerning the possibility some of the released detainees would rejoin the insurgency, Dadras said: "Given the kind of geography Afghanistan has, nobody can guarantee who will join with the Taliban or the Afghan government once they are released."
The U.S. military in Afghanistan said some of the freed detainees were "directly linked" to operations in which 32 American or coalition service members were killed or wounded and 23 Afghan security personnel or civilians died or were injured, CNN reported.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul called the release "deeply regrettable" and said the Afghan government "bears responsibility for the results of its decision."
In a statement before the release, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan said the detainees should be referred for prosecution in Afghanistan.
"Violent criminals who harm Afghans and threaten the peace and security of Afghanistan should face justice in the Afghan courts, where a fair and transparent trial would determine their guilt or innocence," the statement read.
Releasing the detainees violates agreements between the United States and Afghanistan and is "a major step backward for the rule of law in Afghanistan," the statement said.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai already had angered U.S. policymakers by refusing to sign a bilateral security agreement that would allow the United States and its allies to maintain a military presence in Afghanistan to conduct training and counter-terrorism missions after withdrawal of coalition forces at the end of the year.
U.S. lawmakers have said the release of the detainees may jeopardize aid to Afghanistan, which depends on donor assistance to fund government operations and the salaries for army and police.
The 65 prisoners are from a group of 88 detainees the Afghan government had decided to release. Afghan authorities have already released hundreds of prisoners since the Bagram prison near Kabul, once a U.S. prison, was handed over to Afghanistan in March 2013. The facility is now called the Afghan National Detention Facility at Parwan.
In Washington, U.S. State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf, in her media briefing Wednesday, said the 65 detainees are "dangerous" and pose threats to the safety and security of the Afghan people and the Afghan state.
"There is information linking each of them to terror-related crimes, including the use of improvised explosive devices," she said.
Harf said the United States has been concerned because of how the prisoners' cases were considered by the Afghan criminal justice system.


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Did you know that you can do hexadecimal arithmetic in Google? I didn't, but I knew that Google's calculator feature would often just do 'the right thing', so I decided to try it out. I wanted to use the Google Chart API to create a grouped bar chart. I wanted each of the four bars […]
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