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It is obvious that the economy and change in working conditions for nurses is taking its toll and nurses may be nearing the tipping point, when their physical and emotional health concerns outweigh their financial concerns. Let's face it, people can only work 50-60 hours a week for so long.
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- Take an entire night to yourself, to be completely worthless. Order take-out, walk around in your jammies and just enjoy having nothing to do.
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- Make some comfort food. Cupcakes, cookies, cakes, pies; anything sweet and scrumptious is fair game!
- Get together with your girlfriends and commiserate. When you all share your dilemmas and get the frustration out in the open, it's a pretty sure thing that you'll be feeling better in no time.
- Go on a vacation. Whether you leave for a week or you take a five-minute mental vacation, sometimes an escape from reality is all it really takes to re-energize and rejuvenate yourself.
No matter what types of activities or lack thereof, refuel you and rejuvenate yourself after a tough workday or workweek, remember that relaxation is only a good night's sleep away.
Maintaining the balance between work and home can take many forms:
• You may be a workaholic who is addicted to the rush of work and taking care of patients, or feel that you can never do enough.
• You may be in a situation where you are working more than you want to and feel guilty about it.
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Whatever the case is, the stress can be very real and as you know stress can lead to poor health. I recently heard someone describe this situation as "our priorities don't match our responsibilities" and I would say that pretty much hits the nail on the head. Finding a way to line these two up may not make you less busy, but it does feel good knowing that what you are spending your time doing is what you should be doing.
In addition, your role as caregivers and/or managing caregivers will pretty much automatically guarantee you higher work stress than others, making a solid home life crucial.
Overall the advice is fairly simple sounding, things like accepting help, delegating, guarding your private time, planning times to spend together, etc. but they are all probably a little harder to implement. But sometimes just having the ideas in your head can be enough to get you started and remember, they say it takes 21 days to turn a behavior into a habit. Do you have 3 weeks to create a better work / home balance?
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Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford says an interim unit has been established to start work on the KiwiBuild affordable housing programme.
Taking the 'first steps' to implementing the KiwiBuild programme was another of the coalition Government's first 100 day promises.
The Government has said that the Kiwibuild programme will reside under the new urban development authority that is planned - but that's some way away as it needs enabling legislation.
So, in the meantime a unit has been set up within the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment to get the ball rolling.
"It will take at least a year to formally establish the urban development authority – which will be called the Housing Commission – but we're not waiting to get started on building the 100,000 affordable houses New Zealand desperately needs," Twyford said.
"That's why we've set up an interim KiwiBuild Unit within the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment so we can get cracking now while the legislation to establish the Housing Commission is developed."
He says the KiwiBuild Unit will be responsible for:
► Building KiwiBuild homes as part of redevelopment of state housing land, alongside new state and open market homes.
►Scaling up the building of KiwiBuild homes on underutilised Crown-owned land.
►Purchasing (or underwriting) new homes off the plans in private developments.
►Investigating major greenfield and urban regeneration projects, so that they can be progressed swiftly by the Housing Commission once established.
►Working with councils, iwi and private developers.
►Exploring innovative ways to address current constraints including alternative financing options and construction practices.
"Once established, the Housing Commission will take over as the driver of the KiwiBuild programme.
"New Zealand's housing market has failed to deliver affordable homes to first home buyers. KiwiBuild's ambitious programme will provide the opportunity for a step-change in the housing and construction sector," Twyford says.
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Cheap houses are built in factory and assembled on the lot. Land price is another story.
Prefabs are the way to go, but....impediments...reprinted here (it arrived, hehe in prefabricated form) with only dates changed.
The hurdles for prefab builds include:
- The need for a 10-year build guarantee (IIRC) by the prefabber, with associated insurance and backstopping costs
- BRANZ attitude to any new materials certification - many tests, several years, mucho pesos
- The existing Materials Cartel protection of 'their' patch - they can reasonably be assumed to throw various rocks on That path
- The limited number of actual Jobs (especially unionised), as factories tend to be highly automated and work around the clock - won't appeal to the blue-collars seeking work in 'em - or their puppet-masters
- And the land prices underneath are still foobarred by the brown-cardy set via Plans which limit supply, inject Time and thus Cost to development, and which change at glacial speed.
Just imagine the reaction of the current playaz to an announcement like This (thought experiment alert!)
"We are prefabricating a Hoosing Factory offshore. It will be highly automated, needing only a few top-flight technicians to keep it running. It will arrive onshore in February and will commence operations in April. The houses produced from this factory:
- will use materials proven overseas but new to NZ,
- will be manufactured to sub-millimetre tolerances,
- will be built under cover,
- will be assembled in 2-3 days on site by an experienced crew using battery-operated tools.
- The factory is expected to have a throughput of 20 houses per day, and will operate 20 hours per day for 360 days of the year.
- Maintenance crews will be flown in for a 5-day upgrade and maintenance window.
- Unit costs for the houses thus produced are expected to be in the region of $800/square.
- All houses will be serial-numbered and will come with a 20-year guarantee of weathertightness."
Ah, we can dream.....
Good Luck PT, we shall all help in the stock take and count the "Affordable Houses" your team has built in 2018 ...
Mr Twyford is still dreaming about these 100,000 affordable homes!
He should really wake up,and then he will be able to tell the truth.
Firstly this coalition will not be in power for 10years.
Secondly the people who he hopes to be able to sell these houses to won't have a deposit that is sufficient and Banks will not lend to them as they will not be able to service the loan for these 600k houses.
Thirdly, where are these houses going to be built?
Finally I doubt they will be large enough to House the families as they are only meant to be 100m2 and most of Labour's desired buyers have probably got 6 or more kids!
The Man 2,
Twyford a dreamer... of course he is. You know about as much as he does when it comes to the construction of affordable houses/homes. Kiwibuild and the construction of 100,000 standalone houses can happen within eight years quite easily. There were years during the 19 seventies and eighties where 40,000 homes were being built in a year under normal contract completion times. We now classify the majority of those houses as affordable homes the term created from a 9 year National government. Procurement specific to the Coalition government and controlled by the government for all house building materials will slash the cost of Kiwibuild homes for the fhb's. Building 40,000 homes a year is old school. Innovation and the latest construction techniques with US or Euro made building materials and chattels can provide Kiwibuild houses for US $200,000 plus. Fletcher's, CHH and Hardies would need to be placed in secondary roles with Kiwibuild. Their materials prices deserve the same fate as the former Fletcher Challenge. Twyford the dreamer is after 100,000 homes, some houses. For Twyford the dreamer 100,000 Kiwibuild homes in 10 years easily achievable.
Great, no excuses are acceptable then. I'll help Eco Bird count them.
No matter what happens it can't be worse than Nationals SHA's..
Great first steps, and just such a relief to see a government actually try and take steps to address the housing crisis.
The fact that the homeless percentage in NZ is at 1% is utterly shameful.
There is no housing crisis in NZ.
Standard of living in NZ is very high and ai think you need to go overseas to see what I mean.
You go and buy a rental and rent it out to someone evicted from 10 previous homes for not paying rent. With so many benefits going to parasites of society, and they still can't do something simple like pay the rent, it is shameful that some people can be so useless.
Its interesting that Kiwibuild is inside MBIE, who are responsible for the Building Code.
Maybe they can force some changes to the code, and the councils only check compliance with the code, a ridiculous idea.
Tell the councils to butt out, they dont check compliance for the cars.
However, somewhere I saw the comment that automation doesnt lower the price, just increases the throughput by 30%
Not suprising when you consider capital and operating costs for the machines.
On my little street I can find 9 different design philosophies but a single pitch roof on piles and particle board floor goes up suprisingly quickly. It isnt that hard.
I rather like the container design though.
I would like to see the government bulk buy materials that meet the high overseas standards and force BRANZ to accept them. These could then be brought in in bulk at half the local price. Nothing like a little competition to shake up the incumbents.
The government could also quality control the builds rather than the council and provide a self-insured guarantee.
Or just turn ComCom loose on the Materials Duopoly, with a well-funded trust-busting ToR. And adopt Aus or other international standards and bypass BRANZ entirely. It's quite ridiculous that local tests are needed for items to brave our local climate, which is much less extreme than that of (say) Cornwall, Scotland, WA or Queensland.
I enjoy giving the Building Industry a good beating but Im not sure our building costs are much different to the USA, the land of free enterprise and mass markets.
I glanced at US and NZ costing sites and exchange rate adjusted they are similar at around $2000 per sq metre.
Of course you can leave out luxurys like the kichen sink and indoor toilet and that helps with costs.
An economist may want to consider affordability of course but this is just a 2 minute glance
Not in Auckland now. Having recently been required to make an insurance claim it turned out that I needed to be insured for $3000 a sq meter or a rebuild was not possible. Incidentally the land is still worth as much if not more than the house. Good luck in building a decent family sized house in a good area now for less than $1M.
But 300 sq metres is probably expectations as well as necessities.
You may expect superior fittings, floorings and furnishings..
We went through that exercise a couple of years ago.
I too would like to see .gov do something (anything) cheaper than a private company which has to survive in the Darwinian environment of capitalism.
Nicely put Skudiv.
But what if gubbermint contract for houses in batches of 1000 for example and guarantee funding.
And what iif they take authority away from the Territorial Authorities?
Must be worth something, perhaps 15% off materials and labour?
In other words the companies may sharpen their pencils...
It does highlight the need to address monopolistic conditions, however. There's no Darwinian aspect to it if you don't have to worry about competition much at all.
Correct, a lack of competitive accountability creates a magical world where;
(a) it takes longer to do things quickly,
(b) it's more expensive to do them cheaply, and
(c) it's more democratic to do them in secret.
Certainly we do get great results from the government in some areas, too. E.g. Pharmac delivers medicine to NZers at far more cost-effective prices than private industry does to consumers in the USA.
Whereas we face high costs for building materials due to (so the commentators suggest) duopoly conditions.
Government is absolutely required, no problems there. But surely you jest about governments being more economically efficient.
1000mg Vitamin C tablets that cost US $10.99 in New York cost NZ$44.80 online in NZ. That's at least three times the cost.
Do you have some info that drugs are different?
Well, if I'd said broadly that governments were more economically efficient carte blanche I might be joking. Lucky for both of us I didn't, I guess.
You're using a dietary supplement as an example? Why didn't you choose prescription drugs instead, where it's widely identified that US consumers face far higher prices than folk outside the US? E.g. the Epipen, US$600 for a 2-pack in the USA vs. US$69 in the UK, back in January?
Do you have some info that suggests prescription medicine in the USA is cheaper on average than in other countries?
About page 9 they discuss the factors affecting affordability
They don't dwell on limited competition.
in fact limit the TA to recession planes and the 3 waters.
So they've taken how long to announce the setting up of a committee?
Exactly the letsundothis campaign has just started up, more grief for the team that's only talents appear to be to spend, form committees and repeal laws. They will be scrutinised on every misstep. You can tell it's getting to them as left leaning posters in other public forums are emploring people to give them a chance to govern. Yeah right.
Along with reduced immigration, no foreign buyers, future increases in interest rates, another crack in the dam. Wonder how many cracks the dam will take.
You're really winding up ttp, ain't you? ;)
TTP should be proud, the trolls are mentioning him in threads he's not yet posted in.
you sound jealous
Sorry, but the experience of Labour MPs in being successful financially is pretty much nil, and yet they are making these decisions for NZ.
They are going to come a cropper in this coming year, and you heard it from "The Man".
You can't keep making up these policies and have something to counteract the spending, because it doesn't work!
It's ok, the money for this will come from:
- ring-fencing property investments
- 5 year brightline test
- future wealth tax
You and your mob have had your snouts in the trough for 9 years, the benefits of which you have regaled us with for the last couple of years, and now you suggest its all due to the smarts of you and yours - wow
Time to give over and let someone else a turn at the trough
This is exactly the sort of comment that is ad-hom, divisive, and very off-putting to those of us who value intelligent, reasoned discussion on this site.
TM2 is simply pointing out that property, in his (InterWeb monicker big gender assumption there) experience of it, has served him very well. If you substituted 'Corner Dairy', 'Car Repair Shop','Horticulturist' or any of a thousand other occupations, no-one would take any exception. And pointing out that, as per our fave cat-hater, that Property has tax advantages is no defence. Those advantages are the law of the land and anyone is entitled to operate within them.
Your argument - "give over and let someone else [have] a turn at the trough" can be re-stated in a historical-rhyming POV as
"Liquidate the kulaks as a class".
And look how well That ended up....
TM2 and his ilk are not only trying to tell us they have made good incomes from our property market but they are also attempting to talk it up while disregarding the fact that this is totally irresponsible. Indeed, from my perspective absolutely unethical. Our property ponzi if it continues as it has, will eventually crash and very possibly bring much of our economy down with it.. The longer it continues, then the greater will be the crash. The very fact that they persist in spruiking the market is that they have too much skin in the game and have much to lose. It astonishes me that they persist. Surely very very few contributors and readers here will be taken in by their propaganda.
Didge the housing market is alive and well throughout most of NZ and good returns are still available.
Agreed very few on here will be taken in by positivity as many Just love to talk negativity!
I repeat, surely very very few readers here are likely to believe such baseless propaganda.
Didge, it's a fair assessment that those who put all their eggs in one basket will only talk about that one thing, so as to keep their ponzi - pyramid dream alive. It's their way of allaying their own insecurities and draw in as many Johnny's as possible to keep the dream afloat.
In the absence of such shallow dreams, the only way forward is common sense and logical thinking - some find this process too difficult.
I'm confident that very many readers would find THE MAN 2's advice on the property market to be very sound. Buy at the best price possible and start renting it out for a positive return; a scenario that is possible in Christchurch.
Even the Chinese property bulls in my chch office are saying there is no money to be made in chch because of Jacinda. I get much schadenfreude when all these landlords are ticked off. Labour must be doing something right.
Does seem like NZ's getting more partisan eh. Feels like the right is going full on Tea Party now, with National seeing their job being to obstruct and prevent things from happening, and their followers and disciples being out in force to support it.
Pretty much correct. Although I've always voted National, before this last election I'd never been a Party Member or contributed to their coffers. Now I'm involved and it feels good. Like coming out of the political closet. I don't doubt that I've lost fringe acquaintances from being more vocal, but I don't give a fat rats. The best bit is once people know what your views are they talk up about their own. 46% Is a great base to build on. All we have to do is bring a couple more percent over from NZ First and it's all on.
Interesting, on the flip side all anyone else has to do is pick up the wasted TOP and other leftish party votes, nick a couple of percent from National and NZ First, they're home and hosed.
Bearing in mind National voters tend to be older, how's the growth amongst the young going, to replenish the stock so to speak?
How many of that 46% voted for the devil they knew, how many are at risk of quite liking their dalliance with this particular devil and switching to this devil they now know? Seems remarkably chicken counting-y to me.
My concern is that further down the road does lie the rather ugly partisan example that the USA embodies now. National's pure obstructionism where they seem to have outright conveyed that they're going to try to prevent things being done...coupled with the veering toward almost outright propaganda...well, interesting times ahead, I guess.
The Republicans embraced this ultra-partisan model and it's kinda bitten them in the hiney now. This is a really interesting documentary on it, especially the comments of Republican strategist Frank Luntz and former speaker John Boehner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyloY0AexbM
National will likely need a partner party beyond ACT. They might be dreaming to think they can hold over 50% of the vote by themselves. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11957692
I recall watching Mike Moore in his 1990 concession speech, seeing the enmity towards National and thinking there is no way these parties can play nicely. It's been that way for the next 27 years except for Key's inexplicable support for Clark's ambitions outside NZ. The current government has made indecent haste in unwinding laws, some of it playing to their support base e.g. the school starting age. The 100 day Plan is dated management mumbo jumbo. I don't rate any of the Government ministers at all. Hopefully enough of the existing government support will agree at the next election to put this accident behind us.
Waymad, property investment has absolutely no tax advantages over other business's.
Not devisive comments at all!
What this site is designed for is to help people make financial decisions.
The reality is that many on this site definitely need financial assistance, and My suggestion is that they get alongside people that are financially independent to improve their lot!
I hasten to add, TM2, that my barb was pointed at 2otherguys. I'm in your camp, although not a property investor. Agree with the point of the site. But it seems to have become infested with common taters who add nothing to the threads but engage in ad-hom slurs and political point-scoring. I'd volunteer for a moderator's task but value my sanity too much........
The forum is an opportunity to debate points and everyone's perogative as to what they beleive or want to beleive.
The worrying thing for me is the continued negativity towards the country's property investors who have every right to purchase property to rent out to people who don't or can't buy!
This has been going on for many years and until recently they have been wrong.
Wish there were more participants from around the country than just Auckland because it would paint a far better picture of the situation.
I can tell you now that property investors are not bad people and are just going about trying to improve their financial postion, which everyone has the opportunity to do, if they wished to!


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The same model used by Mexico and Colombia to improve diplomatic relations – bringing the two sides closer through the involvement of subnational governments and NGOs – could also be used to improve relations between the U.S. and Russia.
More cultural interaction between American and Russian students might help to improve the overall state of U.S.-Russia relationship. Photo: TASS / Valery Sharifulin
Currently, amidst the deteriorating state of relations between Russia and the so-called Western bloc, specifically the United States, there's a new urgency to develop a solution or a bridge between these two powers. That is where the Latin American paradiplomacy model comes to save the day as a face saving option for both sides.
A direct arrangement between heads of state, for example, is very unlikely to happen now when all the efforts of the high commands of Russia and the U.S. are focused on topics like the Ukrainian crisis and the instability in the Middle East. Direct coordination of people-to-people exchanges at the highest level would be very unlikely even if the U.S. and Russia had the political will to get closer together in their relations.
When we say that paradiplomacy could be an option, it is because there are ways to get the two sides closer through the involvement of subnational governments, institutions and non-governmental organizations. For instance, consider the creation of a program where high-performing students not only from universities but also high schools could participate. This program should be for exchanges for summer or one-semester periods and involve language and cultural learning in both Russian and English.
The highlight of this program would involve learning about the other culture. It is this "otherness," after all, that is most of the time being demonized by the media. However, just learning about culture is not enough due to the state of the relationship between Russia and the U.S. This is true even if we take the first step to soften any tensions through the involvement of young people or young citizens who later would have another, more open mindset.
There is still the problem of finding a bonding element that would truly engage the students. Such an exchange program should be based on something more than just getting something like the knowledge of a different language. Students should also give something back, something important like their participation in social impact projects, helping others while in Russia or in the U.S.
These projects would be about community development and volunteer service in areas like literacy (teaching others your native language), exposing your own culture to young people in the other country, conservation of the environment, business development or entrepreneurship in communities in need of innovation, or even projects of restoration of public places. With these types of exchanges that go beyond receiving something like knowledge of a language, the Russians and the Americans that receive this international experience would obtain a life-changing growth and development phase for themselves and others.
In order to get the governments of both countries more involved, the program should be sponsored and also validated for credits on courses in several universities throughout the entire country, whether to satisfy minor, elective, major and university requirements.
The subsidies should be about giving housing in both states and financial aid through scholarships to get more students involved, so they could live a real language and cultural immersion in Russia or the U.S. Also, the program should be managed or controlled at some point by some state governments and their universities programs. Or, even better, the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education and Science or the Ministry of Culture could manage the program.
This program doesn't propose that the students engage in excursions to "sensitize" them about the other culture in addition to learning a language. Those programs already exist and they are not the right way to get people to acquire real awareness. What would be a good idea is for governments of the states or their sub-entities to work with partnerships and alliances with international NGOs that offer this type of exchange program. The government gets the scholarships and the NGO does the logistics.
One example of this is the summer program that the government of Mexico specifically through the Ministry of Social Development and the Mexican Institute of Youth launched through one international NGO called AIESEC this past July. The program was about Mexican young people going to Colombia to participate in workshops that treated topics like Prevention of Pregnancy during Adolescence and Promotion of the Respect of Human Rights. The Mexican government granted the selected students flight tickets, insurance and some money for minor expenses, while the NGO was in charge of the housing given by a host Colombian family and the food.
In this way, the students got the chance to really understand what the problems of Colombians were that they might not see in the news or in TV. They got to know a whole new reality of what it is to live in another culture, to help people in social matters and to live with a Colombian family. They also got the immersion that everybody aims to get when abroad.
The case of paradiplomacy between Mexico and Colombia, coordinated through their respective state institutions and NGOs, is just an example that could work for Russia and the U.S. In short, they wouldn't have to deal with each other directly, they could use intermediaries like NGOs and their ministries in order to make a real impact in their territories and in their citizens. They could soften their sharp relations in one shot.
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Trump's alleged involvement has undergone heavy scrutiny, with the special counsel arriving at the conclusion that Cohen told Congress that negotiations regarding Trump Tower Moscow ended in January. In reality, talks continued well into June of 2016 in an attempt to quell suspicion regarding Russian involvement in the previous presidential election. While Cohen already pled guilty to lying under oath and currently faces three years in prison, Buzzfeed's article has heavier implications. Its report is the first to allege that Trump himself personally oversaw Cohen's false testimony.
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President Halimah Yacob witnessed the signing of eight Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) between Singapore and the Philippines on Monday (Sep 9), covering a range of fields from education to infrastructure development.
The signing at Malacanang Palace in Manila, also witnessed by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, was part of President Halimah's five-day state visit to the Philippines.
One of the MOUs will enable education professionals from the Philippines to attend a programme on teaching and learning STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), funded by a S$640,000 grant from Temasek Foundation.
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Another MOU, signed by Singapore's PUB and the Philippines' Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System, will involve collaboration in areas of water management, technology exchange and capacity training for the next three years.
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Singapore also signed its first data protection-related MOU with a Data Protection Authority in Asean on Monday.
The MOU, which was signed by the Personal Data Protection Commission here and Philippines' National Privacy Commission, sets out how both sides will cooperate on and commit to mutual exchange of information and assistance in joint investigations, development of compatible mechanisms to facilitate cross-border data flows and exploring the use of sandboxes to test innovative data-sharing ideas.
During their bilateral meeting earlier, Mdm Halimah and Duterte reaffirmed the excellent and long-standing friendship between the two countries.
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When viewing .c files in MPLAB X V5.25 w/ XC8 V2.05, all of my register definitions have squiggly lines under them. I'm using Linux Mint 19. How can create a file path or where can I find the 4809.h file?
When viewing .c files in MPLAB X V5.25 w/ XC8 V2.05, all of my register definitions have squiggly lines under them. I'm using Linux Mint 19. How can create a file path or where can I find the 4809.h file?
>it's only the IDE that is unhappy with the symbols
It hasn't been happy for years.
So I tracked this down, since it was damnably inconsistent.
1) Chip-specific symbols (like USART_CHSIZE_gm )
There are actually two problems here:
- In order to support added-on "Packs", avr/io.h has a catch-all rule to find the right include file:
#elif defined (__AVR_ATtiny11__)
# include <avr/iotn11.h>
#elif defined (__AVR_M3000__)
# include <avr/iom3000.h>
#elif defined (__AVR_DEV_LIB_NAME__)
# define __concat__(a,b) a##b
# define __header1__(a,b) __concat__(a,b)
# define __AVR_DEVICE_HEADER__ <avr/__header1__(io,__AVR_DEV_LIB_NAME__).h>
# include __AVR_DEVICE_HEADER__
# if !defined(__COMPILING_AVR_LIBC__)
# warning "device type not defined"
This is apparently (and not surprisingly) not understood by whatever logic parses the source in the editor.
If you edit the source of io.h to add:#elif defined (__AVR_ATmega4809__) # include <avr/iom4809.h>
in an appropriate place, it will get happier (after you convince it to reparse everything.)
At least, if you're using avr-gcc. If you're using xc8, there's an additional problem. The compile command is something like:
"/Applications/microchip/xc8/v2.05/bin/xc8-cc" -mcpu=ATmega4809 -c -x c -D__ATmega4809__ -mdfp="/Applications/microchip/mplabx/v5.25/packs/Microchip/ATmega_DFP/2.0.12" -Wl,--gc-sections -Os ... main.c
Which works fine, but the IDE doesn't recognize -mdfp switch as creating a new include path, so when io.h ends up doing the #include <avr/iom4809.h> the IDE doesn't find it, so it can't see the 4809-specific defines. Adding an explict include path for the pack include directory fixes it (as does copying the .h to the "normal" avr directory.)
Grr. So - understood, might have workarounds, might be fixable...
The uint8_t issue is somewhat similar. It's not a problem using avr-gcc, but using xc8, the stdint.h file that gets included in a wrapper that the IDE parser doesn't seem to deal with very well:
#if __STDC_HOSTED__
# include_next <stdint.h>
# include "stdint-gcc.h"
Perhaps it doesn't understand "include_next"?
I just tried this:
#if defined (__AVR_ATmega4809__) #include <avr/iom4809.h>
...and I'm not allowed to edit the io.h file.
Also, where can I find the iom4809.h file? I want to open it and see what is going on inside it.
For me using avr-gcc v8 for atmega4809 the critical flag is "-mmcu=atmega4809". That provides flag to pull in the appropriate device-specs file which makes the right definition for io.h (namely "-D__AVR_DEV_LIB_NAME__=m4809"). I am using gcc8 via command line on linux, though, not MPLAB.
For me using avr-gcc v8 for atmega4809 the critical flag is "-mmcu=atmega4809". That provides flag to pull in the appropriate device-specs file which makes the right definition for io.h (namely "-D__AVR_DEV_LIB_NAME__=m4809"). I am using gcc8 via command line on linux, though, not MPLAB.
I just switched to GCC and put this at the top of my main.c file.
#define __AVR_DEV_LIB_NAME__ m4809
#include <avr/io.h>
Problem solved.
Problem solved.
See also: "how to install packs in the default places in the AVR CLI Toolchain, so you don't need to clutter your command line with system-dependent pointers to the packs directories": https://www.avrfreaks.net/comment/2526416#comment-2526416
DaveHardy wrote:I think you mean "part of the problem solved". How's your linking to the CRT and lc, lm, lgcc etc going?Problem solved.
I don't even know what those are. Are those Windows acronyms? I'm on Linux Mint 19 here and can't figure out how to change my signature. How do I learn all of these darn acronyms?
My point was that the intended way to use "device packs" is to invoke avr-gcc with a -B option to tell it where the device pack is. That reads a file that will define __AVR_DEV_LIB_NAME__ but that same file does about 10 other things which you won't be doing by just adding a #define to a source file so I wondered if the missing bits had bitten you yet like it not being able to find the C libs for the device or the C run time (CRT) etc.
For example, on this Windows machine with AS7 if I build for 4809 the command the IDE gives to invoke the compiler (and linker) is:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\toolchain\avr8\avr8-gnu-toolchain\bin\avr-gcc.exe" -x c -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -DDEBUG
-I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\Packs\Atmel\ATmega_DFP\1.3.300\include" -Os -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fpack-struct
-fshort-enums -g2 -Wall -pedantic -mmcu=atmega4809 -B "C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\Packs\Atmel\ATmega_DFP\1.3.300\gcc\dev\atmega4809"
-c -std=gnu99 -H -save-temps -MD -MP -MF "main.d" -MT"main.d" -MT"main.o" -o "main.o" ".././main.c"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\toolchain\avr8\avr8-gnu-toolchain\bin\avr-g++.exe" -o test.elf main.o -Wl,-Map="test.map" -Wl,--start-group -Wl,-lm -Wl,--end-group
-mmcu=atmega4809 -B "C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\Packs\Atmel\ATmega_DFP\1.3.300\gcc\dev\atmega4809" -Wl,-print-gc-sections
If you look at the -B location you see:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\packs\atmel\ATmega_DFP\1.3.300\gcc\dev\atmega4809>tree /f Folder PATH listing for volume OSDISK Volume serial number is 7AF3-B2D0 C:. ├───avrxmega3 │ crtatmega4809.o │ libatmega4809.a │ └───device-specs specs-atmega4809
Of particular interest is that specs-4809 file which contains:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\packs\atmel\ATmega_DFP\1.3.300\gcc\dev\atmega4809\device-specs>type specs-atmega4809 # # Auto-generated specs for AVR device atmega4809 (core avrxmega3, 16-bit SP) # # Generated by : ./gcc/config/avr/gen-avr-mmcu-specs.c # Generated from : ./gcc/config/gcc.c # ./gcc/config/avr/specs.h # ./gcc/config/avr/avrlibc.h # Used by : avr-gcc compiler driver # Used for : building command options for sub-processes # # See <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Spec-Files.html> # for a documentation of spec files. # If you intend to use an existing device specs file as a starting point # for a new device spec file, make sure you are copying from a specs # file for a device from the same core architecture and SP width. # See <https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html> for a description # of how to use such own spec files. *avrlibc_startfile: crtatmega4809.o%s *avrlibc_devicelib: %{!nodevicelib:-latmega4809} *cc1_n_flash: %{!mn-flash=*:-mn-flash=1} *cc1_rmw: %{mrmw} *cc1_errata_skip: %{!mskip-bug: -mno-skip-bug} *cc1_absdata: %{mabsdata} *asm_arch: -mmcu=avrxmega3 *asm_relax: %{mrelax:--mlink-relax} *asm_rmw: %{mrmw} *asm_errata_skip: %{!mskip-bug: -mno-skip-bug} *link_pmem_wrap: *link_relax: %{mrelax:--relax} *link_arch: %{mmcu=*:-m%*} *link_data_start: -Tdata 0x802800 *link_text_start: *self_spec: %{!mmcu=avr*: %<mmcu=* -mmcu=avrxmega3} %<mshort-calls %<msp8 # AVR-LibC's avr/io.h uses the device specifying macro to determine # the name of the device header. For example, -mmcu=atmega8a triggers # the definition of __AVR_ATmega8A__ and avr/io.h includes the device # header 'iom8a.h' by means of: # # ... # #elif defined (__AVR_ATmega8A__) # # include <avr/iom8a.h> # #elif ... # # If no device macro is defined, AVR-LibC uses __AVR_DEV_LIB_NAME__ # as fallback to determine the name of the device header as # # "avr/io" + __AVR_DEV_LIB_NAME__ + ".h" # # If you provide your own specs file for a device not yet known to # AVR-LibC, you can now define the hook macro __AVR_DEV_LIB_NAME__ # as needed so that # # #include <avr/io.h> # # will include the desired device header. For ATmega8A the supplement # to *cpp would read # # -D__AVR_DEV_LIB_NAME__=m8a *cpp: -D__AVR_ATmega4809__ -D__AVR_DEVICE_NAME__=atmega4809 -D__AVR_DEV_LIB_NAME__=m4809 %rename link old_link *link: %(old_link)--defsym=__RODATA_PM_OFFSET__=0x4000 # End of file
Within that you will see the
which is the equivalent of what you are doing but as you'll also see there is other stuff involved too and your simplistic solution is not doing this.
So I would suggest you get the packs and that will include the specs-4809 file and then use -B on the compiler/linker command lines to tell the tools where to find it and then it can read specs-4809 as intended.
So I would suggest you get the packs and that will include the specs-4809 file and then use -B on the compiler/linker command lines to tell the tools where to find it and then it can read specs-4809 as intended.
Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction. Just to clarify, a virtual terminal is the same thing as a CLI? You're compiling your projects with a terminal? There's a window at the bottom of MPLAB X that executes shell commands for me. I can see the -B you are referring to, but can't wrap my head around why it isn't linking or how to set it up. MPLAB X says I have DFP 1.3.300 installed for the megas. This is the output I get from the bottom window of MPLAB X when I build and clean a project. Any help is appreciated.
CLEAN SUCCESSFUL (total time: 51ms)
make -f nbproject/Makefile-default.mk SUBPROJECTS= .build-conf
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/dave/MPLABXProjects/SPI.X'
make -f nbproject/Makefile-default.mk dist/default/production/SPI.X.production.hex
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/dave/MPLABXProjects/SPI.X'
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This is part 2 of an interview with Adelaide-based author, Marianne Musgrove. Marianne's work is published with Random House Australia.
Marianne, does your background as a hospital social worker and social policy writer inform your writing?
Most definitely. I'm interested in issues that affect children and these were brought to my attention in my work as a social worker. That said, for me, the story is paramount. I set out to tell a good story and if children learn something along the way, all the better, but it's not my primary goal. Kids can always tell when an adult is preaching at them.
My background has certainly informed the kind of stories I write, whether it's coping with worries in "The Worry Tree" or dealing with a grandfather with dementia in "Don't Breathe a Word".
Was it your idea or your publisher's to submit The Worry Tree for the Family Therapists Award?
Generally speaking, the publisher is the one who submits books for awards although some awards allow the author to submit their work too.
Tell me about how The Worry Tree came to be translated into German and Bahasa.
Every year, there are several bookfairs around the world, eg, in Bologna, Frankfurt and Taipei. Publishers and agents go along to try and get each other to buy the rights to their titles. In this way, my other books were signed and will also be translated into Hebrew, Italian, Korean and Chinese.
I notice Henry Holt (an imprint of US Macmillan) are publishing The Worry Tree and Lucy the Good. How did that come about?
Random House Australia has an agent who operates in the US (sounds like a spy operation!). She pitched "The Worry Tree" to Henry Holt who signed it and printed an Americanised edition, only making minor changes, eg, 'favourite' became 'favorite'. As for "Lucy the Good", Holt wanted to make some changes to the plot so I rewrote it for the American market, a very common practice.
Did you set up your website or did your publisher help you with this?
I paid someone to do it. (I'm a bit of a Luddite, I'm afraid!) I had to negotiate with my publisher to use the text (you can download the first chapter of all my books) and graphics as I do not own the copyright to these.
How did you decide what content to put on your website?
I looked up many children's authors' websites and wrote a list of what I liked best. Then I looked at my budget and scaled back my grand plans. (Alas, the interactive worry tree will have to wait …) My main specifications were that it had to be funny, entertaining, useful and hopefully encourage people to keep buying my books.
Who is the main audience for your website?
Children, teachers, parents/guardians and aspiring children's authors.
Did you have input into the teachers' notes for Don't Breathe a Word?
I didn't write the first draft but I did have input after that. The notes were written specifically for a company called Australian Standing Orders aka ASO (a division of Scholastic Australia). At the time, I hadn't heard of Australian Standing Orders so when I was told ASO were buying my book, I couldn't understand why the Australian Symphony Orchestra would want so many copies!
Have you spoken to children in schools?
I've conducted a few school visits (mostly in Adelaide), generally for Years 3-5. I try to keep things interactive as there's nothing worse than a grown-up standing up the front droning on for forty minutes. Amongst other things, we make a living Worry Tree and I teach everyone "The Irritating Song" which goes down well with the kids, though less so with the teachers 😉
I also promote my books at festivals and fairs.
Do you market yourself to teachers and librarians? If so, how?
My website and word of mouth. I'm fairly busy writing but if a local school contacts me, I generally accept as I really enjoy the contact with the students.
How would you describe your 'brand' as an author? What is it that differentiates you from other children's book authors?
In a nutshell, I write funny books that help children. It's strange to think of a person being a brand but, in this day and age, it's how things are marketed. When I set up my website, I thought about calling it http://www.worrytree.com.au but was advised against this as my 'brand' is my name, not the title of my first book. As I was going to write more books, I went with http://www.mariannemusgrove.com.au instead.
I do write under a pen name. (I chose 'Musgrove' from the novel Persuasion.) I didn't want my real name to become a brand.
Have you given up your 'day job' to write full-time?
I do write full time.
If you could travel back in time to the moment before you sent off your first manuscript, what advice would you give yourself?
Get a manuscript assessment done first before sending it off to a publisher. Also, I'd tell myself to be patient.
Marianne, thank you.
Marianne Musgrove wrote her first full-length novel at the age of eleven: a romantic thriller featuring her unfortunate classmates. Although the unpublished manuscript met with only localised acclaim, she never gave up her dream of becoming an author. Marianne's first children's novel, THE WORRY TREE, is the winner of the Australian Family Therapists Award for Children's Literature 2008 and has been shortlisted for three other awards. Her latest novel, DON'T BREATHE A WORD, is a 2010 Children's Book Council of Australia notable book. She is also the author of LUCY THE GOOD and the soon-to-be-released LUCY THE LIE DETECTOR.
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Area of Circle
The area of a circle is an area, which is bounded by a circular line. For example, a circular garden that has a fence around it. The area of the garden is like the area of a circle and the length of a fence is like a circumference of a circle.
To calculate the area of a circle, we need to know its radius or diameter and the pi number (Ludolph's number), its value is 3,141592... In a circle, the diameter is d = 2 × radius "r". The elementary unit of the area is one square metre, it means the second power of one metre (1 m2).
d=2 × r, also r = d / 2
Area of Circle - formula
Area of Circle = (Ludolph's number × diameter2)/4
Area of Circle = Ludolph's number × radius2
A = (π × d2) / 4 = π × r2


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Brooke graduated from Indiana University in Indianapolis with a Bachelors degree in Communications in 2005. After taking several years off from academia to pursue her passion in photography, Brooke moved her family to Florida to take the first steps toward her life long career goal of becoming an attorney. Brooke proudly earned her Juris Doctorate from Nova Southeastern University in 2013. While at Nova, Brooke was an active member of PAD, SALDF, and FAWL. She was honored with the distinguished Sheldon Schlesinger Award for her outstanding trial advocacy skills and participated in the NITA deposition training hosted at Nova Southeastern University. She has experience working in commercial litigation, civil litigation and probate.
Brooke has successfully helped take on HOA's for erroneous and negligent billing practices, drafted operational agreements for new corporations, drafted and negotiated contract disputes, written commercial lease agreements, drafted and negotiated complex settlement agreements, drafted final will and testaments, administered formal and ancillary probate estates, taken clients through trial and post judgment collection procedures, and opened and closed guardianships.
What Brooke hopes to do now as she takes on this exciting new venture in her life is work with clients she truly has a passion for and connection with. In keeping true to why she went into law in the first place, Brooke has worked to ensure Bryant Law is a firm that clients don't feel intimidated by or bogged down with legalese, but comfortable talking with their counselor and getting straight forward answers. Most people need a lawyer at an already hectic and stressful time in their lives, and it is Brooke's intent to be the light at the end of the tunnel for her clients; part of the solution rather than the problem.
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Dear God,
Show us the little things:
the little moments,
the little encounters.
Remind us they aren't little.
Thanks God.
Today's Prayer by Sam Miller
Today's Photo by Glenn Sackett
Today's Photo by Glenn Sackett
WordsWorthRemembering is a project of the Spiritual Care office at Porter Adventist Hospital, in collaboration with Porter's Spiritual Ambassadors. WordsWorthRemembering combines inspirational, thought-provoking quotations, prayers and photos. All content is copyrighted.


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Like it, Love it, GOTTA Have It!: Mango Summer '13
You probably couldn't tell just by looking outside lately, but we're in the middle of spring, and summer will be here before we know it. Even though this spring wardrobe has barely been utilized I'm anxious to add a few new warm weather pieces.
Lucky for me, Mango's Summer '13 collection quite a few cute items. My budget doesn't allow for me to buy the entire line, so i I have to make due with just three. Here are my top picks:
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I live for printed pants, esp in light colors. They're great for adding flavor to an outfit without jewelry and look great with basic tops and shoes.
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Spring/summer nights means lots of outings, and you can't wear the same thing twice on Instagram! This green number is a summer alternative to the classic LBD.
GOTTA have it!
Nobody can work a white dress like I can. Okay, maybe Gwyneth Paltrow, but still. I'd switch this up one day with blue shoes, and nude or gold on another.


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Port Clinton Police adds first female full-time road officer
PORT CLINTON - The first female officer to patrol the roads full-time at the Port Clinton Police Department was sworn in Monday morning.
Amy Pugh, 28, joins Devin Woods, 25, who was sworn in last week, as Port Clinton's two newest officers. Both previously worked at the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office.
"We have a core group in our own department that does the interviews and both Devin and Amy came highly recommended from that committee," said Port Clinton Police Chief Rob Hickman. "I'm a firm believer that it's our department, not my department."
Pugh has been working in law enforcement for about four years, but said she knew it was something she wanted to do since high school after taking an elective class on basic criminal law and falling in love with the field.
"I never looked back. I graduated from the University of Toledo with my criminal justice degree and I've loved every minute of it," she said. "I knew it's what I wanted to do."
Prior to spending almost three years at the sheriff's office, she worked as a part-time officer for the Clay Township Police Department, where she got her start in 2014.
Pugh grew up in Lucas County, but now lives in Port Clinton.
"I love the area, the lake, being on the water," she said. "When the opportunity came to apply for Port Clinton (PD), I was like 'for sure.' I love this city, the people, everything about it."
While Pugh thinks of herself as just another officer, she does understand the importance of being the department's first full-time female road-patrol officer.
"I want to look at as just another assignment, but everyone else has been kind of hyping me up for it," she said. "My best friend tells me I'm making history."
"It's a big deal and I'm very proud of her," said John Pugh, Amy's father, who was there to see his daughter make history in Port Clinton as she was sworn in on Monday.
"I don't have any big shoes to fill, I have a high bar to set," she said. "But at the end of the day, I'm an officer. Gender doesn't matter."
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Datasets matching the tag boulder
Welcome to Boulder's Open Data Catalog. The purpose of Boulder Open Data Catalog is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the City of Boulder. We invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of Boulder's Open Data Catalog by contacting us to suggest additional datasets or building and submitting applications with the available data.
27 datasets found. Showing results 1-10 of 27 with the tag "boulder"
3D Buildings
3D buildings created using the city of Boulder's 2013 LiDAR data.
BVCP Future Land Use
The Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP) land use map defines the desired future land use pattern for the Boulder Valley regarding location, type, and intensity of development.
BVCP Planning Area (I, II, III)
The planning area I, II, III map defines the city's service area which sets the city's urban growth boundary and ensures a logical extension of urban services.
City Benchmark information includes the Benchmark ID, Location, Description, Elevations in COB datum from level circuits, and NGVD 29, NGVD88 datums. Elevation accuracy is within 0.10 ft. and should be…
Building Footprints
Building footprints generated using the City of Boulder's 2013 LiDAR data.
This dataset is located in our GIS data portal which gives you access to the most current and up-to-date data possible. Through…
City Floodplain
These data represent all floodplain delineations for which the city has records, as far back as the 1980s. The data also include current and future floodplains awaiting FEMA approval. These delineations…
City Limits
City of Boulder - city limits . Source – created from city parcel data layer.
This dataset is located in our GIS data portal which gives you access to the most current and up-to-date data possible.…
Historic Districts
Designated city historic districts and landmarks. Source – City Planning Department
Mapping Portal
Centralized portal to GIS and map information for the city. Provides access to zoning, land use, flood, annexation, wetlands, ownership parcel and other information. Displays comprehensive parcel information…
OSMP Lands
Property (Fee and Conservation Easements) owned by Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP). There is no public access on conservation easements.
This dataset is located in our GIS data portal which gives…


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A few months back… yes it was that long ago, the window dropped down rather swiftly when it was wound down. No problem I thought at the time, it's popped off the runners as before as I wasn't sure the securing clips were any good anyway. A few weeks back I bought a Triumph Drop Glass kit with new washers, clips and bolts etc. Now, with the weather finally being warm and sunny, I was able to to get the Corsair out of the garage for a bit of tinkering. I left the engine rough idle alone for the day as I wanted to fix the window winder mechanism and do other minor jobs.
Upon getting the drivers door card off I saw the problem, the glass had come out of the runner completely, hardly surprising as the metal was severely corroded. I removed the glass from the door first and then scraped off the glue and 'whatever' remnants on the lower edge of the glass with a plastic spatula/spreader. Then I could get to the glass holder bracket but had to be very careful as it was bending in half and I didn't want to break it.
It came out in one piece but was very fragile with lots of old crud and hardened glue in the groove that should have held the glass. Looking at the passenger side, for reference, that one was in good shape, not rusty and with a decent bit of rubber holding the glass in place. So the crusty bit of metal was put in my vice and I set about cleaning it up with a wire brush and a screw driver as a chisel/scraper.
Other tasks involved drilling and tapping a thread to finally secure the passenger side window winder (about 17 years late) and putting back the passenger side underlay and carpet. So a good day, the Corsair did drive out and then back in the garage, but still wouldn't idle for long before stalling.


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Standing in the biscuit aisle of a supermarket, you wouldn't think your dreams of being a musician would come true.
But 25-year-old supermarket worker Karina Ramage was signed on the spot by the music manager who created the boyband Blue.
Karina's been speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat about what happened, revealing how a combination of luck, flour, biscuits and Donald Trump all played their part.
"I feel in a bit of a dream," she says.
'Out of the blue'
Karina arrived for her shift with her guitar after a rehearsal when she bumped into Daniel Glatman, the 44-year-old music manager, who was there to buy biscuits and flour.
Karina says she's met Daniel before as a customer, "giving him a cup for his coffee".
"We got to chatting about music and he put me on the spot and said 'Let's see what you've got to sing'."
"It was completely out of the blue, I hadn't warmed up or anything."
Karina says she's always dreamed about singing in front of a music boss, just not in a supermarket.
She said: "20% of my life is Waitrose, the other 80% is gigging and busking, playing just about everywhere I can to push my music."
"And then the only place I'm thinking I'm not going to have anything to do with music is where I meet a music manager so it's really cool," she says.
Karina says she sang one of her favourite songs – Wasteland – a song she'd written herself about an issue which "means a lot".
The song is about sustainability and the environment and was written in response to Donald Trump.
"I wrote the song when Trump was on TV saying something about climate change not being real, and it made me angry and stressed," she says.
"When I wrote it, it was something I was worried about and a way for me to express and remind myself that I need to do better as well."
The song mentions how human habits are affecting the sustainability of the planet, with Karina adding "unless we change our ways, the planet will end up being some sort of wasteland".
The future
So what's next for Karina after this incredible moment?
"I would love to collaborate with other people and do some more songwriting."
Karina says she likes writing songs "that have a lot of meaning" and hopes her song makes people think about the environment.
"Hopefully people are thinking they need to get a reusable bottle!"
She adds that she's "already cut down on meat and dairy" and hopes other people will be doing things to save the planet.
"I think one person won't make a difference but millions and millions of people make a huge difference."
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The skeleton technology with the innumerable variations presents the structure of nature over and over again, including the starry sky and the incredible constellation. Among all the delicate human creation, the skeleton technology reappeared again and again, such as the Bridges, cathedral, building horizontal lace, maps, maze, even tattoo, etc. With the dazzling geometric patterns, the skeleton technology contains the strong and deep metaphorical meaning. In the watchmaking industry, skeleton technology condenses the technical refining meticulous process and artistic aesthetic feelings, with the state components, completely presenting the essence of watches, constructing amazing perfect movement.
Delicate Roger Dubuis Astral Skeleton Replica Watches
Roger Dubuis with skeleton as the theme, bearing the fake Roger Dubuis Excalibur series, revealed the replica Roger Dubuis Excalibur Spider watches, including the fake Roger Dubuis Spider Skeleton Double Flying Tourbillon watches, the fake Roger Dubuis Excalibur Spider Skeleton Flying Tourbillon watches, and the replica Roger Dubuis Excalibur Broceliande watches.
Exquisite Parmigiani Tonda 1950 Replica Watches
These wonderful fake Parmigiani Tonda 1950 Skeleton watches manifested the amazing complicated mechanism and characteristics of this series. Each slab and bottom plate of PF705 movement all with the exquisite skeleton and decoration. Setting all the supreme glory, this Tonda 1950 skeleton movement is the work that saluted to the concise ultrathin watches,, showing the high quality of Parmigiani.
Fantastic Blancpain Villeret Skeleton Replica Watches
38mm diameter case adopted the white gold material, and inside that is the skeleton movement, with elegant decoration and delicate sculpture, that are clear through the sapphirine crystal back, just like dancing volley.
In order to showing the wonderful visual effect of this white gold case replica Blancpain, the master need to adopted the different traditional watchmaking tools, through several hours, grinding the movement into extremely thin and slender shape.


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Speaker: James Doti, Ph.D.
President Emeritus, Chapman University
Course Relevance: Healthcare utilization is strongly dependent on the economy. This course examines current and expected California and local economics and provides human resources specialists and insurance licensees with a solid understanding of current and expected economic trends so they can build health insurance plans that best meet their clients' needs.
Course Objective: To present in detail the impact of various socio-economic forces, especially monetary and fiscal policies that will affect the state and local economies. Students, at the end of the presentation, should gain a greater understanding of these forces.
About our Speaker: James Doti earned his B.S. degree in Economics from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. He was appointed president of Chapman University in 1991 and served for 25 years. In September 2016, he returned to the Chapman faculty as President Emeritus and Professor of Economics.
Dr. Doti joined the Chapman faculty in 1974. In 1978, he founded the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research to provide data, facilities and support to encourage faculty and students to engage in research of high quality, and to widely disseminate the results. The Center's inaugural Orange County Forecast, presented in December 1978, was the first economic forecast in the US to be based on an urban econometric model.
Dr. Doti's articles have appeared in academic journals as well as periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His frequent op-eds appear in the Orange County Register, and he is a regular columnist for Orange County Business Journal. He is also the co-author of Econometric Analysis with EViews and Statistical Analysis with Excel. He is also the co-editor of a collection of readings in free enterprise that received the Templeton Honor Award for Scholarly Excellence.
Dr. Doti is a recipient of the Horatio Alger Award and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He has completed 60 marathons and climbed five of the world's famed "Seven Summits." Dr. Doti's most recent children's book, I Love You This Much, Nonna has been named on Kirkus Reviews' Best 100 Books of 2018.
Course Agenda (1 Hour Presentation):
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Ohio State Football
Ohio State: Photo gallery as Buckeyes ride to big win over TCU
ARLINGTON, Texas – In a back and forth affair that a number of Ohio State players and coaches described as a fight, it was the Buckeyes who landed the last blows in a 40-28 win over a talented squad from TCU.
Dwayne Haskins once again led the Ohio State offense, throwing for 344 yards and two touchdowns while running in another, in a gutsy performance that saw him under heavy pressure for a good portion of the night. The Buckeyes aren't perfect, but their record is as they prepare for Tulane next Saturday in Urban Meyer's return to the Ohio State sideline.
Lettermen Row was in attendance and we've got the sights from AT&T Stadium.
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by Tohru Fujisawa
Published in the US by TokyoPop
Slugline: There's a rose on her hip. I don't know what the "zero" is all about.
Rose Hip Zero is a series from the creator of GTO, which would normally be a great motivator for one to check this out, but not so much in this case. Rose Hip Zero is about an almost supernaturally competent female teenage assassin, Rose, and the bad boy cop Kyoji as they take on the teen terrorist organization ALICE. It is an exactly manga-by-the-numbers action story. With a teen girl in a school uniform who likes to do flips (no fan service there!).
There are a couple weird story bits, which in GTO reflected the wackiness of the main character and his effect on the world, but here just seem odd when compared to the terrorist-derived storyline and the implied stakes in the story. I tried to find out more about the story and series, but apparently this is the second of a three-series set. As far as I can tell, Rose Hip Rose, the predecessor story, has been released in the US, and Magnum Rose Hip, the successor is currently being serialized. I suspect they may shed more light on some of the things here.
While the art is nice, sometimes parts of it are mislaid so that the full impact of the story is lost. For instance, there is a full page spread, which is nice, but an important story bit is hidden in the crease so that you can't see it. So while this is a good action story, that's all that it is, despite attempts to try to draw you in and build a backstory.
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Rose Hip Zero
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Are you looking to build impeccable, functional upper body strength, balance and agility? If that is the case, then look no further than the Body Revolution Gymnastics Rings.
Lightweight, Versatile and Fully Portable, The Body Revolution Gym Rings are an increasingly popular tool being used for upper body work. Due to their instability, they maximise effort by minor muscle groups during gymnast pull ups and ring dips, leading to higher muscle definition, a high size to strength ratio and highly effective core strengthening.
Unlike weight training where strength is built through unilateral, isolated repetitions, gym rings build strength and agility through low impact movements with no fixed motion to reduce pressure and strain on joints, reducing chances of injury from sustained, repetitive movements.
The Body Revolution Gymnastics Rings are completely lightweight and portable, allowing you to take your workouts anywhere, whether that is a climbing frame or a tree branch in your local park.


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The Federal Government has released the results for the 101 unity schools in the country.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, approved the release of admission into Junior Secondary School 1 of the 101 Federal Government Colleges.
Adamu, in a statement issued by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Sonny Echono, said the release of results followed the 2018 selection exercise for placement of qualified candidates into Junior Secondary School One (JSS1) which took place in Owerri, Imo State.
The statement said the selection exercise employed the national merit criteria of 60 percent with a cut-off score of 146 and above, and equality of state of 30 percent of the colleges' carrying capacity.
The statement reads: "Due to the effect of insecurity in the North East and North West zones of the country which affected the filling of the colleges capacity, the Minister has also approved for supplementary examination to be held tentatively on 11th August, 2018, for such colleges to enable them fill their vacancies.
"Candidates are therefore requested to check their result at the Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja all Federal Government Colleges and also online at http://www.education.gov.ng releases or INTERVIEW TEST."


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George Gently (season 8) Full show download
George Gently season 8 is a popular TV show which is on the air since 2007. It is one more crime drama which has the elements of mystery. In this series the viewers will see the story of George Gently who is an inspector. In his work he is being assisted by detective John Bacchus. Together they are making everything possible in order to punish the criminal underworld and make it stand surety to the justice. Everybody who breaks the law has to bear responsibility and detective Gently will make everything that is in his forces to make the criminals be accountable for their actions. Those who watched the previous seasons would definitely like the continuation of this series.
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