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Blue Planet II continues to grow in viewers for series high
The broadcast about the world's mysterious coral reefs tempted nearly 11 million viewers.
The latest episode of Blue Planet II has been the most successful of the series so far as the audience grew to nearly 11 million viewers.
Sir David Attenborough's wildlife series returned to screens on Sunday night for the third instalment and it attracted an average audience of 10.9 million viewers, according to overnight figures.
The hour-long BBC One broadcast about coral reefs peaked at 11.3 million viewers, and had a 44.6% audience share.
"In recent years, it's thought that half the world's coral reefs have been affected by bleaching." 😢 #BluePlanet2 pic.twitter.com/HzERzvlPyA— BBC One (@BBCOne) November 12, 2017
The first episode of Blue Planet II debuted with an average of 10.3 million overnight viewers, while the second had an average of 10.8 million.
This comes after the first episode of the series was found to be the most-watched programme of 2017 with 14.01 million viewers when also accounting for those who recorded the programme and watched it up to seven days afterwards.
The BBC had a strong night as the results programme of Strictly Come Dancing also drew in more than 10 million viewers according to overnight data.
An average of 10.7 million tuned in to watch as Ruth Langsford became the seventh celebrity to leave the show.
✨ @RuthieeL and @TheAntonDuBeke are a real class act. You'll be missed! #Strictly pic.twitter.com/tItNEI9ysM— BBC Strictly ✨ (@bbcstrictly) November 12, 2017
The 40-minute broadcast peaked at 12 million viewers and enjoyed an audience share of 44.3%.
The BBC's new drama series Howards End, starring Hayley Atwell and Matthew Macfadyen and based on EM Forster's 1910 novel, debuted with an average audience of 6.8 million viewers on Sunday night.
Over on ITV, The X Factor was seen by fewer than half of the Strictly audience, with an average of 4.7 million fans tuning in and a peak of 5.6 million.
The overnight ratings for The X Factor include those watching on ITV+1.
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Police are asking for the public's help as searches continue for a missing Whitby man.
Mervin Hill, 60, has not been seen since 10am yesterday when he went for a walk.
Also in news: Motorbike rider in 'serious but stable' condition after A171 crash
He is described as being white and of medium build, with a shaved head.
It is believed he may have been wearing a blue baseball cap, blue long sleeve t-shirt, blue jeans-like trousers, walking shoes and small blue back pack.
Also in news: Illegal fishing on River Esk tackled in new multi-agency approach
Anyone who has seen Mervin is asked to call North Yorkshire Police via 101.


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As you can see from the image above and the ones below, the currently-under-review plans for historic Domino Sugar refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, are quite stunning. But is top architect Rafael Viñoly's sustainable vision for the vacant 11-acre industrial site too grandiose for its own good?
Since the Domino Sugar refinery closed its doors after 150 years of operation in 2004, the big question has been, of course, what's next? The refinery site spans five blocks along primo waterfront real estate on the East River, so there's more than a bit of room to work with. Rafael Viñoly Architects' $1.5 billion plan, dubbed New Domino, is commendable: it repurposes the landmarked refinery building itself and flanks it with several high-rise residential buildings and a riverside park to create a whopping, 2.8 million square-foot, 2,200-unit residential complex. Thirty percent, compared to the normal 20 percent, of the units will be dedicated to low- and middle-income families.
What's more, RVA's vision is a sustainable one, one that in addition to the reuse of the historic refinery calls for a massive amount of open-to-the-public green space including a 1-acre open lawn along the East River. The buildings will feature green roofs that control storm water runoff and curb the "heat island effect." LEED certifications are also in the works — after all, they've got to keep up to speed with Battery Park City, another massive, LEED-happy, waterfront residential complex in NYC.


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How eProcurement Systems can Help Senior Living Operators Streamline Purchasing
Time is valuable when running senior living communities. Operations need to be streamlined as much as possible to help create efficiencies so that property staff can give residents and their families the attention they need.
For property managers, eProcurement systems can offer senior living communities a solution for better managing their spend."The business office manager or director is really pretty busy," says Patrice Danaher, a former senior living property manager who is RealPage Senior Living's Director of Product Development. "This person has varying skill levels depending on the company and its philosophy, and is typically responsible for handling HR, accounts payable, plus invoicing residents, and more."
Because more and more companies are relying on community staff to handle operations, streamlined invoicing and purchasing processes are critical, she says. Too often, managers are slowed by the traditional manual methods of accounts receivables and payables, and burdened by "rogue" purchasing practices that can exceed budgeted expenses.
Ops systems in can help eliminate 'rogue' purchases in senior living
Initiating an automated purchase order not only kicks off the ordering process but helps eliminate "rogue" spending – those additional purchases that may result through traditional processes or none at all. Automated purchasing prevents staff from going over spending limits because the purchase is controlled by an approval process that can go beyond the site level.
Rogue spending, says Danaher, often happens when the buyer – such as a maintenance tech or office staff member – isn't restricted to a purchase order, either made in advance or, at all. A lot of times, especially when making last-minute repairs or maintenance to a unit that is about to turn, a trip to the store for one item results in the purchase of three or four that may not be necessary. Afterward, a purchase order is initiated.
Automated spending levels and checklists keep expenses in line
With an eProcurement system, properties can dictate how the purchasing process works, to avoid overspending, says Sarah Upchurch, RealPage Vice President of Business Development.
For example, each time a unit is turned, there may be 20 things that have to be done, from cleaning carpets to touching up walls. The system enables the maintenance team or manager to see what has to be done, so that tasks aren't forgotten and last-minute purchases made, often at a higher price than if pre-ordered.
"If they're supposed to order paint for the walls and they forgot to do that, that person will have to go buy paint, and we've got rogue spending again," explains Upchurch. "If you set it up such that every time you turn a unit of a certain type the correct supplies are ordered, nothing ever gets left off. So you don't end up in that situation."
Accounting is seamless with electronic invoicing
With paper systems, purchasing limits can be exceeded and approvals take days. Paperless eProcurement solutions can harness expenses and save time, as invoices move through the approval process.
The electronic routing of approvals eliminates the need to send paper purchase orders from person to person to person. An electronic ordering process automatically sends copies to vendors, who can more quickly fulfill and send invoices back, along with delivery information.
"The biggest benefit is that at the end of that process, an invoice is sent from the vendor and automatically updates to the AP system, which eliminates the need for any data entry, and automatically routes if approval is needed," Upchurch says.
Online senior living solutions raise the bar on service
The senior living sector is unique from its multifamily counterparts because people with special needs are moving in, Danaher says. Highly personalized service and attention are the Gold standard today. How well a community attends to its residents is critical.
Solutions designed to relieve community managers and staff of the extra time it takes to procure necessary supplies and services that are vital to day-to-day operation can return valuable time spent on manual practices.
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The UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) will grow the strong supply of talented individuals needed to ensure that UK research and innovation continues to be world class.
Who can apply
This cross-UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) scheme will support early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential in universities, UK registered businesses, and other research and user environments including research councils' institutes and laboratories.
The FLF scheme welcomes applications from both UK and international applicants and individuals should use the person specification to assess and justify their suitability for the scheme. The support of the institution will be a critical component of all fellowships which will enable the fellow to transition to or establish their research/innovation independence in any area supported by UKRI.
The objectives of the scheme are:
- to develop, retain, attract and sustain research and innovation talent in the UK
- to foster new research and innovation career paths including those at the academic/business and interdisciplinary boundaries, and facilitate movement of people between sectors
- to provide sustained funding and resources for the best early career researchers and innovators
- to provide long-term, flexible funding to tackle difficult and novel challenges, and support adventurous, ambitious programmes.
These Fellowships support applicants from diverse career paths, including those returning from a career break or following time in other roles. We also encourage applications from those wishing to work part-time in order to combine the fellowship with personal responsibilities. Review panels will take into account time spent outside an active research or innovation environment, whether through career breaks, flexible working or as a consequence of working in other roles.
Length of support
The support offered will be long-term and flexible and will provide comprehensive package of support, including the fellow's salary and justified research, staff and training costs, with seven years of support available on a 4+3 model, with a review in year four. The case for support should make clear the long-term aims of the programme, and why they matter – while providing more specific plans and costings for the first four years.
For business applicants, those in the user community or other applicants, four years' support may be sufficient and there is no need to apply for a further three years of funding if this is not required. Successful applicants will have the intellectual and financial freedom to develop and change direction over this period.
How to apply
There will be six calls for these fellowships; two calls per year between 2018-19 and 2020-21 (financial years), typically awarding at least 100 fellowships per call across UKRI's remit (with the initial round being smaller, aiming to award ~50 fellowships).
This is a single scheme across the entire UKRI remit, with no ringfenced budgets for specific areas and no barriers to interdisciplinary or cross-sector research.
Timing of First and Second rounds
It is mandatory for the first round of this call that host organisations submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) for each of the applicants they intend to submit to the first round, by 7 June 2018.
Full applications must be submitted via the Joint Electronic Submission system Je-S by 16:00 on 3 July 2018 for the first round.
Full details are available in the Overview of the scheme and Completing the application form documents below.
|Planned timing / deadline
|Round 1 (~50 fellowships)
|Round 2 (~100 fellowships)
|JeS opens
|3rd April 2018
|w/c 17th Sept 2018
|Mandatory EoI closes
|7th June 2018
|4th October 2018
|JeS Application deadline
|3rd July 2018
|31st October 2018
|Shortlisting meetings
|w/c 26th November 2018
|w/c 13th May 2019
|Interview Panels
|w/c 21st January 2019
|w/c 17th June 2019
|Decisions communicated
|w/c 11th February 2019
|w/c 18th July 2019
|Mandatory latest start date for all awards
|1st May 2019
|1st February 2020
Call documents
- Overview of the scheme (PDF, 219KB)
- Frequently Asked Questions (PDF, 395KB)
- Completing the application form (PDF, 1.1MB)
- Assessment criteria (PDF, 196KB)
- Overview of the assessment process (PDF, 288KB)
- Career breaks and flexible working (PDF, 24KB)
- CV template (Word, 36KB)
- Data Management Plan template (Word, 92KB)
- Finance form for business costs (Excel, 169KB)
- Academic salary template (Excel, 85KB)
- NHS costs template (Excel, 59KB)
Further information
Queries not addressed by the guidance documents can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. However, UKRI cannot confirm eligibility prior to application, applicants must demonstrate how they meet the person specification as part of their submitted proposal.


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CFOUTPUT tag
has an attribute called
GROUP that lets you to
group output from your record sets before displaying it to the
browser. There are two ways to use the
attribute of the
CFOUTPUT tag. The first method
GROUP to remove any duplicate rows from the
query result set.[7] This is useful in
situations where the result set you return from a query contains
duplicate rows of data but you want to display only unique records.
Example 4-3 demonstrates what happens when you query
a table containing duplicate values and output the results without
using the
GROUP attribute of the
CFOUTPUT tag.
Example 4-3. Failing to Use the GROUP Attribute Results in Duplicate Values in the Output
<CFQUERY NAME="GetDepartment" DATASOURCE="ProgrammingCF"> SELECT Department FROM EmployeeDirectory ORDER BY Department </CFQUERY>   <TITLE>Using GROUP to remove duplicate records</TITLE>
Departments:
 <CFOUTPUT QUERY="GetDepartment"> #Department#
 </CFOUTPUT>
As you can see in Figure 4-2, executing the template results in many of the same values being output more than once.
This is easy enough to fix. To remove the duplicates from the output,
all you have to do is modify the line of code containing the
CFOUTPUT tag to read like this:
<CFOUTPUT QUERY="GetDepartment" GROUP="Department" GROUPCASESENSITIVE="No">
GROUP="Department" to the
CFOUTPUT tag tells ColdFusion to discard any
duplicate values in the result set and output only unique values. The
GROUPCASESENSITIVE attribute indicates whether
grouping should be case-insensitive or case-sensitive. This attribute
is optional and defaults to
Yes. For our example,
GROUPCASESENSITIVE to
No in
case someone enters the name of a department using the wrong case.
The difference in output is shown in Figure 4-3.
It is important to note that using
GROUP to remove duplicates from the result set
does so after the result set is returned from
the database. You should consider how this might affect the
performance of your application if you want to return only a few
records from a large record set that contains numerous duplicate
values. In such a case, you should use SQL to remove the duplicates.
If you look at the code in Example 4-3, you'll
notice that we included
Department in our SQL statement. It is necessary
to sort the result set by the column being grouped. To see what
happens if you don't include the
clause, remove it from the query and execute the template.
As I mentioned in the beginning of this section,
GROUP can be used in two ways. The second way the
GROUP attribute can be used is to group like
records for output. This allows you to do such things as group the
output of a query by a certain field or fields such as age, gender,
department, color, etc. This is done by including (nesting) a second
set of
CFOUTPUT tags without the
GROUP attribute inside the first set. Example 4-4 shows how to use the
attribute of the
CFOUTPUT tag to group the results
of a query by
Example 4-4. Using the GROUP Attribute of the CFOUTPUT Tag to Group Records by Department
<CFQUERY NAME="GetEmployeeInfo" DATASOURCE="ProgrammingCF"> SELECT Name, Title, Department, Email, PhoneExt FROM EmployeeDirectory ORDER BY Department </CFQUERY>
 <CFOUTPUT QUERY="GetEmployeeInfo" GROUP="Department" GROUPCASESENSITIVE="No">
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GROUP attribute of the
CFQUERY tag lets you group your query's
result set by the specified column. In this case, we want to group
the query results by Department. It is necessary to use the
ORDER BY clause to order the result set by the
column being grouped. Failing to do so results in unwanted output.
Notice the second set of
CFOUTPUT tags nested
within the pair declaring the
GROUP. This creates
an outer and inner loop for looping over the result set and grouping
the output appropriately. Nested
CFOUTPUT tags may
be used only when the outermost
CFOUTPUT tag has a
value specified for the
QUERY and
GROUP attributes. If you attempt to nest
CFOUTPUT tags without using these attributes in
the outermost tag, ColdFusion throws an error. Additionally, if you
omit the nested
CFOUTPUT, the nested grouping
doesn't occur, and you end up removing any duplicate records
from the result set (just like our previous example). Executing the
template results in the output shown in Figure 4-4.
It is entirely
possible to group data several levels deep. Doing so requires nesting
several sets of
CFOUTPUT tags using the following
general syntax:
<CFOUTPUT QUERY="query_name" GROUP="column"> HTML and CFML... <CFOUTPUT GROUP="different_column"> HTML and CFML... <CFOUTPUT> HTML and CFML... </CFOUTPUT> </CFOUTPUT> </CFOUTPUT>
When ColdFusion encounters nested
CFOUTPUT tags,
it executes successive levels of nested loops to group the query
result set. In general, there are a few rules you need to keep in
mind when working with nested
CFOUTPUT tags:
[7] Don't confuse the
GROUP attribute of the
tag with the
BY keyword, because they perform entirely
different functions. The
BY keyword is discussed
in Chapter 11.
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When are you going to tell people? How will it change your life, and if you're the mother, your body? What needs to be done to make way for this new little person in your life?
Questions to ponder in the build up to Christmas. What are you going to tell people about his coming? How does Jesus being in your life change it? What do you need to do to prepare to make room for him?…


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Energy. What a loaded word! Mankind has been in search for this since the dawn of our creation. First mankind found fire, perhaps a bolt of lightening fell from the sky and gave mankind his first taste of energy. From that point forward, man has been in search of new and better forms of energy.
The internal combustion engine is perhaps one of the more useful forms of energy that man has created. From its humble beginning, this energy source has been transformed many times to create more power and to be more efficient. This energy source has been accepted world wide and it is used in many ways, but none more so than in the automobile. The internal combustion engine comes in two forms; compression ignition and spark ignition.
We will be analyzing the spark ignition system. It is important to understand how the energy is released in the engine. In the internal combustion engine the air or vaporized air/fuel mixture is drawn into the cylinder where it is then compressed. When air is compressed, the molecules are forced into a smaller space where they hit each other causing friction which then produces heat. The compression is a way to put energy in the form of heat in the fuel molecule. It takes energy to hold together the different atoms that form the molecular chain. For example, if you were holding onto another person and were being spun around very fast, you would expend energy just to hang on to the other person. In order for the fuel to release this energy, the fuel molecule must separate or break apart and then reform into a different molecular structure. Once the fuel molecule is broken, the energy that it used to stay together is no longer needed. This energy is now released. This freed energy is what powers the internal combustion engine. The compression from the cylinder is not enough energy to separate the fuel molecule by itself. The heat that is transferred into the fuel molecule makes it unstable, but more force will have to be applied to separate the atoms. For example, if two huge muscular wresters were locked together in combat it would not be easy to separate them. In order to separate these men you would have to apply more force to them than they are using to hold onto each other. If the referee wanted to separate the wresters and they were unwilling to part, he would have to use force. A stun gun that applied a spark of 100,000 volts would work. This potential energy is greater than the energy the wrestlers are using to hold on to each other with, so they would let go and separate. In the cylinder, even though the compression creates heat energy, more energy is needed to separate the molecular structure of the fuel.
Just like the referee with the wrestlers, we will need to use force in the way of electrical energy or high voltage spark to separate the fuel molecules and release their energy. But rather than a stun gun, we will use an ignition system.
There have been many different ignition systems used to supply a high energy spark to ignite the air/fuel mixture. The most popular system in use today is the step up transformer. The step up transformer uses a low voltage, high current pole, to create a high voltage, low current pole. This is done by using two different coils or windings of wire. The first coil is the primary; the second coil is the secondary (above). The primary is wound around a core for magnetic amplification. In newer transformers this core will be made of many plates of a ferrous metal, usually a soft iron, layered or laminated together. This gives better amplification than a solid core. The primary winding uses larger diameter wire with fewer windings. This allows the primary to have a very low resistance value. The secondary uses small diameter wire with many more windings. This makes the secondary have a high resistance value. The automotive coil is usually wound approximately 1 to 100, in other words, for every 1 winding of the primary the secondary has 100 windings. The primary winding usually has 1 to 4 ohms of resistance; where as, the secondary winding usually has 8,000 ohms to 16,000 ohms of resistance. The primary and the secondary are electromagnetically coupled so anything that affects either winding is mirrored in the other winding. The principal that the step up transformer uses is electromagnetic induction. To understand how this transformer works, let's look at the waveform produced by this device. This is the open circuit voltage or source voltage. The reason this is referred to as an open circuit voltage is the circuit has not been completed. There is no current flowing through the primary circuit at this point (Figure 3 Part A). The voltage drops abruptly when the module driver is turned on, thus completing the primary circuit to ground (Figure 3 Part B). This voltage drop will come very close to ground.
The initial voltage drop will depend on whether the electrical device used is a transistor or a MOSFET. If a transistor is used the voltage drop will be .7 volts to 1 volt. This is due to the resistance across the transistor's gate. A MOSFET will have less resistance across its gate causing less voltage drop, usually about .1 volt to .3 volts. The initial voltage drop is the voltage that is remaining in the circuit to push the current across the resistance of the module driver or gate (Figure 3 Part C). Once the module closes the driver, current starts to flow through the primary winding circuit. When current flows through a coil winding, all of the current is used to create a magnetic field around the winding (Figure 4). This magnetic field build up is inductance. The magnetic field is proportional to the inductance and the current or, in other words, the larger the current the larger the magnetic inductance. This current flowing through the primary coil winding allows the energy to build a magnetic field. As the magnetic field is building, it moves across the primary and secondary windings. This induces voltage in both the primary winding and the secondary winding. However, the effect of this induction is different within the two windings. As the magnetic field builds and moves across the secondary winding this induces electromotive force and frees electrons. This can be seen in the secondary waveform when the module driver closes; there are voltage oscillations at the beginning of the circuit being completed (Figure 5 with Figure 3). This is caused by the magnetic field moving across and inducing voltage in different windings contained within the secondary coil winding. Between the coil winding, or turns, there is capacitance. Capacitance occurs when two conductors are separated by space and current is flowing through the conductor. Electrical potential builds between the two conductors, the size of the conductors and the distance between these two conductors determines the capacitance. The turns in the coil winding are made of a conductor and space exists between these turns or windings. This allows the capacitance between the coil turns to build electrical energy.
The ringing is the energy changing between electrical energy and magnetic energy. Just like when a bell is struck, the ringing from the bell is loud when first struck and diminishes. These oscillations diminish into a steady curve that flattens out at the point the coil has become saturated. The saturation point will vary with the amount of current flowing through the primary. When the magnetic field builds and moves across the primary winding, the voltage that is induced into the primary winding frees electrons. However, since current is flowing through the primary winding these free electrons impede the current flow. For example; imagine a school hallway packed shoulder to shoulder with children running down the hallway as fast as they can run. Now imagine children entering the hallway from the classrooms located along this hallway. These children leaving the classrooms will impede the flow of children running down the hallway (above). Just like the children entering the hallway, the induced voltage in the primary winding creates resistance to the current flowing through the primary circuit. This induced resistance is called counter voltage.
Anytime there is resistance in a circuit there will be a voltage drop proportional to the resistance. This voltage drop can be seen at the bottom of the ignition coil waveform. This is what causes the slight rise at the bottom of the ignition coil waveform. If the oscilloscope voltage setting is lowered to magnify the bottom of the ignition primary coil waveform, the voltage drop of the waveform can be seen more clearly (Figure 7 Part D). Since the current flowing through the winding makes the resistance for the voltage drop, it mirrors the primary ignition coil waveform made with an inductive amperage clamp (Figure 7). Once the current rises to the point of the coil being fully saturated, the magnetic field is now fully built up completely surrounds the secondary winding. The saturation point of the ignition coil is based on the current flowing through it. The larger the current, the larger the magnetic lines of force. Likewise, the smaller the current, the smaller the magnetic lines of force.
The circuit then limits the current flowing through the primary winding, (Figure 3 Part E); however, the magnetic field still remains at full strength. Notice, that when current limiting is switched on, the voltage is still below the open circuit voltage (Figure 3 Part F). To accomplish this there is a resistor switched into the circuit to limit the current flowing through it. If the primary circuit has unwanted resistance, the time for the current limit to switch on will be longer. If the coil is shorted or has less resistance, the time for the current limit will be shorter. If the system is known, then this time to limit current will be an indicator of a problem. As the RPM of the engine is increased, the time between cylinder firing becomes shorter and the time to saturate the coil becomes less, thus, the current limiting will cease. [Note: Not all ignition systems have current limiting.] The module or PCM then commands the module driver off. This ends the current flowing through the primary winding. The magnetic field then begins to fall across the secondary winding.
When a magnetic field moves across a wire or winding, voltage is induced into that wire or winding. This induction makes electromotive force, EMF, which frees electrons and pushes these electrons through a circuit until they return to the secondary winding where they were produced. The amount of induction is proportional to the size of the magnetic field and the speed with which the magnetic field falls across the secondary winding. For a faster collapse of the magnetic field, a condenser is used. A condenser or capacitor will not allow direct current to pass through it to ground. However, alternating current is able to pass through these devices. A direct current that pulses very fast becomes alternating current and can pass through the condenser or capacitor. This allows the current in the primary coil circuit to pass through the condenser or capacitor to ground.
The condenser is connected to the primary winding (above). Once the current stops, the magnetic field falls back into the primary winding to stabilize the current within the winding. The faster the current in the primary winding dissipates through the condenser, the faster the magnetic field will collapse. The rapid movement of the magnetic field increases the induction within the secondary winding and the current, being pushed by a high voltage of up to 50,000KV, will look for a pathway or circuit.
The ignition coil's secondary is connected to the spark plug. The electrons move to the spark plug gap, however, this is an open circuit. When high voltage is pushing electrons across an open it will form a corona, or a low energy field, across the gap. The electrons will then start to ionize across the open.
To start ionization a very high voltage is required. Once the ionization occurs, the free electrons and the ions form a pathway across a gap. They create plasma (above). The plasma creates an easier pathway across the open. The plasma is a hot ionized gas containing about equal numbers of positive ions and electrons. The plasma is affected by the gas and pressure that comprises it. This ionization is the breakdown voltage.
An ion is a positively or negatively charged atom and is the result of the atom having lost or gained one or more electrons. (Figure 3 Part G). This is the break down voltage or the amount of voltage that was required to push the electrons across the resistance which, in this case, is the spark plug gap. The wider the spark plug gap or the more resistance between the spark plug electrodes, the higher the breakdown voltage will be. Once the electrons have bridged the spark plug gap the resistance drops, decreasing the voltage required to maintain the electron flow across the spark plug gap. Notice the ringing that occurs as the electron flow starts after the break down voltage (Figure 3 Part H).
This ringing or oscillation is created by the induction occurring across the windings and the capacitance between the turns. The transformer makes it very easy for the energy to change between electrical energy and magnetic energy. The breakdown voltage that starts the arc is very fast, about 2 nanoseconds, this fast energy spike starts the energy change between electrical and magnetic. The harder the spike to start the arc, the more oscillations will occur.
For example; just like a child in a swing, if the swing is stationary and you push it; the harder the push the higher the swing will move. The swing will then oscillate until the energy has dissipated (above). The swing can also be used as a model to show how the ignition coil changes electrical energy into magnetic energy and vise versa. The swing, being a mechanical device, needs a "push" or energy in order to move. Just like the coil's discharge, or "push", causes an energy spike. When the swing is in motion it is changing kinetic energy into mechanical energy and vise versa. Once the electrons establish flow, the voltage is stabilized and the oscillations will diminish into an even voltage (Figure 3 Part I). The electron flow is now established across the gap and it will continue until the secondary is depleted.
At the end of the spark duration note the rise in voltage as the spark burns out (Figure 3 Part J). This is caused by the plasma breaking down. The plasma creates an electrical pathway that has less resistance. As it diminishes, the resistance increases causing the voltage to rise. The induction that put electrical energy into the secondary coil winding is limited; much like filling a bucket of water, once the bucket is full that is all the water it can hold (left). The point of the ignition coil being fully saturated would be like the water bucket being totally filled.
If a water pump were used to pump the water out of the bucket under pressure then, the higher the pressure the quicker the water will be used up. Once the water is used up, there will not be any pressure left. This is like the secondary ignition coil. The more voltage or pressure the coil needs to push the electrons across the resistance in the circuit, the quicker the electrons are used up.
The time the electrons are bridging the spark plug gap is the burn time (Figure 3 Part G-J). This burn time will change according to the pressure it took to start the electrons flowing through the circuit. If the pressure is low the burn time will be longer. If the pressure is high the burn time will be shorter. Let's use a piece of rope to demonstrate this. Assume the rope is a set length, like the bucket of water is a set amount, and it is positioned in the pattern that the breakdown voltage and burn time makes (Figure 12). Then if the length of rope that is used to make the vertical line is longer, the horizontal line will become shorter. Likewise, if the horizontal line becomes longer the vertical line will become shorter. If the entire length of rope is shorter, just like when the ignitions coil's magnetic field is not fully saturated, the vertical and horizontal sections will be affected due to the limited amount of stored energy.
The breakdown voltage and burn time are influenced by the pressure or compression and the content of the gas that is in the cylinder. Under normal conditions this cylinder is filled with a gas comprised of ambient air; which is approximately 21% oxygen, 79% nitrogen, and hydrocarbons (gasoline) in a ratio of 14.7 parts air to one part hydrocarbons. The gas mixture in this cylinder is composed of atoms that will ionize or allow the spark to jump across the spark plug electrodes. Since these atoms ionize, if these atoms change the ionization will change. The amount of pressure or compression will change the density of the mixture which will also have an effect on the ionization. The turbulence within the cylinder will also change the characteristics of the ignition waveform. If any of these variables change; compression or pressure, turbulence, gas content, fuel, or water vapor, then the ionization that forms the plasma will change which in turn affects the spark waveform. This forms a window into the chamber so the technician can see what is occurring within the cylinder. Some examples are; lean air fuel ratio, rich air fuel ratio, pre-ignition, turbulence caused by cam timing or valves, EGR, water vapor caused by engine coolant leak, worn spark plugs, carbon tracking, resistance within the circuit, etc.. Once the technician learns how to view the waveform during the breakdown voltage and burn time, the waveform will reflect what is occurring within the cylinder.
At the point the electrical energy is not strong enough to keep the electrons flowing across the spark plug gap, the flow stops (Figure 3 Part J). Whatever energy is still left within the coil has to be absorbed by the ignition coil and the energy that is absorbed within the turns of the coil is dissipated by changes between electrical energy and magnetic energy. This is what causes the ringing at the end of the spark duration (Figure 3 Part K). The larger the voltage change and the more oscillations within the ringing, the more energy is left in the ignition coil. If there are no rings the energy of the ignition coil has totally dissipated. This ringing can be used to see how much energy was used or not used during the ignition coil discharge.
It is very important to understand each part of the ignition coil waveform and what went into making the amplitude or voltage change over time. Without an in-depth understanding of the waveform, you will not know what has failed. For a proper diagnosis of this waveform one must pay close attention to the smallest changes. Within the ignition coil's waveform there is more information than any other waveform produced on the vehicle.
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Do What Makes YOU Feel Great
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, Boudoir Sessions are popular this time of the year. A lot of ladies are intimated by the idea of this type of session and my response is always, "Do what makes YOU feel great." It can be you wearing a flower crown in a clawfoot bathtub, your favorite t-shirt in the woods or in the gym in pink athletic shoes. In addition to documenting her progress, Jenn wanted to celebrate her first fitness competition with a fun photo session. We did the session the day after her event and kicked off the morning with a couple beers and great music. She looked amazing in her pink high-tops AND her black stilettos. We utilized the gym equipment in ways I never thought possible....I will never look at a CrossFit box the same way!
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even as there are several single window initiatives taking shape all over the world, there are no clear standards or guidelines concerning this area. customs is increasingly being expected to participate in and take responsibility for single window implementations.
the document "single window: implications for customs administrations" [ru] describes the possible impact that developments around a single window environment has on the future of customs' business.
wco has developed single window data harmonization guidelines [ru] to provide single window environment developers with tools that can be used in order to achieve data harmonization and to develop internationally standardized data sets including the data element names, definitions, the united nations trade data element directory (untded) tag and the formats.
to support capacity building efforts, the wco has developed a compendium on "how to build a single window environment". the wco sw compendium was updated in 2017 and was endorsed by the council in the same year july session. the new title of the compendium, which still consists of two volumes, is "building a single window environment." the chapters have been re-named as parts (part i, part ii, etc.). each part focuses on a particular area of the sw environment, providing comprehensive guidance on that specific area. structural and editorial improvements have been made to some parts, and four new parts have been developed.
a new part viii entitled "data: ensuring quality, security & privacy", that focuses on issues relating to data quality, data handling and data confidentiality in the single window environment, has been added to volume 1. volume 2 includes three new parts, on public private partnerships (part ii), the integrated risk management approach as part of a single window environment (part viii), and performance management & sustainability (part ix). certain other aspects suggested by members have been incorporated in different parts, inter alia business processes related to e-payments, tax authorities and customs cooperation, and the re-engineering of business process in the initial stages of sw implementation, were also addressed in the updated version of the compendium. additionally, each part is intended to be separately downloadable by members and practitioners.
"a supplement edition to the wco single window compendium"on how to build a single window environment" was developed in 2015. the supplement provides a succinct approach to the single window concept, which would be useful to members and other stakeholders in the implementation/enhancement of single window environment. it would serve as a supplementary training package for national and regional technical assistance and capacity building activities".
the united nations centre for trade facilitation and electronic business (uncefact) has developed recommendation 33 [ru] on the subject, which is an important piece of work in this area.


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A mere ten-year-old girl who "killed herself to make her mother happy" has left behind a really heartbreaking note.
A 10-year-old left a heartbreaking note before she hanged herself saying her death would make her mum "the happiest woman in the world."
Cops in Mexico are probing the suicide of the child, named only as Evelyn Nicole N., which came on Three Kings Day – the Christmas-style festival celebrated by Spanish speakers on January 6.
A letter found by girl's body shows she believed she was the reason behind her father leaving the family home.
They note read: "Dear Three Kings, I only want to ask you my mum will be the happiest woman in the world after I will not be here any more as I am only a pain and ruin her life since I was born, as I was the reason my dad left our house."
The letter continued: "I want to ask my mum to be calm, not to work a lot, the best present I can ask is her happiness.
"I hope some day you remember me and in the sky, finally, you hug me.
"I think the best present for the Three Kings is if I kill myself.
"As you always said to me I wish you had never been born.
"I love you so much, mum, I know the Three Kings do not exist but I give you this great present."
In countries including Spain and Mexico, the festival of the Three Kings is when families give each other presents.
Authorities in the central Mexican state of Aguascalientes said the cause of death was strangulation by hanging.
Emergency services received a call claiming a girl had killed herself at 10.18pm on Sunday.
Neighbours said the girl did not appear to be depressed or have any problems in the days leading up to her death.
The investigation is ongoing and local reports claim the police are looking to charge the mother.


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Christmas trees are great and all, but having to keep a half-dead tree alive in your house by crawling underneath and watering it every day really sucks. It's not like you can actually keep the thing alive; those needles are going to be everywhere by new years whether you like it or not.
Might as well make tree life support a little easier. This thing might look like a big present, but it's really just full of water. A tube runs from it into the tree's water reservoir, keeping it hydrated so you no longer have to deal with watering it on a daily basis. Just be prepared for a really disappointed kid when he opens this thing up Christmas morning and finds a few gallons of tepid water rather than the PS3 he asked for.
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During the Thanksgiving weekend I had the privilege to volunteer at my old high school to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the school opening in 1963. It was an exciting day, I was able to talk to old classmates, classmate's parents, and teachers. I even got some hugs from those teachers that truly made a difference in my life while attending CASS, I was surprised and quite flattered to say the least.
I sold merchandise celebrating the 50th and loved hearing all the stories, especially from those that went to school at CASS in the 1960's. One lady's story stuck with me: she told me that she was never a very good student and failed grade 10 at a different high school. Due to her sister being incredibly smart, the two of them would have been in the same class if she had gone back to the same school. The lady couldn't handle it and said she was quitting school, however CASS was opening and it gave her the opportunity to continue with her education without having to be compared to her sister. She THRIVED at CASS and she told me that the teachers really cared about if she succeeded. She was able to maintain mid-seventies to low-eighties in her studies and even gained enough to start the Christian Fellowship club at CASS. Her story was a testament to just how dedicated CASS has always been to teaching and it's students and I am incredibly proud to be an alumna!
Below are some photos from the day including pictures of the decade rooms, and the opening of the time capsule buried 25 years ago by Students' Council.


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I first met Aaron & Chelsey 3 years ago while on a trip down to Havasupai Falls. My close friend from high school had invited us to go on the trip with this big group but they ended up not being able to make it. My girlfriend and I still chose to go on the trip with a bunch of people we had never met. It was an absolutely amazing trip, filled with absolutely amazing people. Aaron and Chelsey were newly married at the time, and the following year while on a guys trip to Escalante, Utah for some backpacking Aaron told me they were expecting. Their boy Weston is now 15 months old. I was stoked to be able to do their family photos at the Desert Botanical Gardens for them.
I shot two rolls of Kodak Portra 400 +1 for this shoot. Film is constantly pushing me to see light, and compositions better. I am super stoked with the way they turned out. This was my fourth time shooting film and I am absolutely loving it!


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Anyone who has moved to New York or other major cities have gone through the pain of dealing with Landlord's, agents and rent administration. Landlords require that you make 40 times rent and potentially, an up-front deposit of 6 months (No joke)!! The only thing worse than a six floor walk up with no air con is a rental dispute. Deposify removes the stress for all concerned and brings trust back into the relationship between landlord and tenant.
What they do?
Deposify handles rental deposits on behalf of both tenants and landlords, providing a digital dispute resolution to take away an awful lot of stress for all concerned.
- Landlords – Maintains property management a cashless and paperless process, including deposit management and keeps landlords compliant with security deposit laws.
- Provides Tenants with visibility of their deposit and enables swift resolution to disputes.
- Agents can leverage Deposify at no charge to reduce administration.
Deposify raised €1.1 Million to fund it's expansion in the US and has already partnered with People's United Bank – one of the Northeast's largest, community-based, regional banks. The volume and turnover in rentals in the US, coupled with strict deposit regulations, presents significant opportunity for Deposify to expand in the US market. Desposify was listed on the Business and Finance Elevation 100.
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The ProForm 380i Motorized 2.25HP Treadmill with iFit helps make fitness fun by bringing you the latest in interactive technology.
It features a 17" x 50" treadbelt; the speed control can change speeds from 0 to 10 MPH and the power incline allows you to adjust intensity from 1.5 to 10%. To let you know how you're progressing, four feedback windows display speed, time, distance, calories, fat calories, and pulse. Also included is an EKG2 grip pulse, a ProTech Cushioned deck, and two pre-programmed workouts. Comes with iFit adapter cable.
As always, please consult your personal physician before beginning any diet or exercise program.
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It's all about expanding your possibilities. It's all about expanding your creativity. To achieve these important goals, you need to expand your toolkit. With the right tools you can do magic! Just note that this magic works only with Raw files. Allow me to tell you a true story… A few days ago, my good […]Read More
A free step-by-step tutorial directly from the developer's desk // Nir Kaufman Intro All the filters in PSKiss Toolkits, create the result image on a separate layer. This fact should encourage you to try some extreme settings… I call this technique – Process And Withdrawal or simply: PAW. The principle is simple: Use the full […]Read More
Yigal Feliks, designer of the Night Palettes 1 presets and Wide Range B&W presets, shares some thoughts regarding night time photography. For the past couple of years, I've been working on a photographic series dealing with the changing of the arabic part in the city of Haifa, Israel. As many photographers, I was used to […]Read More
About cameras, formats and smart tips… My first digital camera was Canon Digital Rebel aka Canon EOS 300D. The price was reasonable, for $999 including the kit lens, with 6.3 MP and frame rate of 3 frames per second, it was a very good value for money, back in 2003. The camera was purchased in a photography shop […]Read More
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Four IBMC College students will be honored at annual CACCS Awards Banquet on Friday
IBMC College is pleased to announce Monica Burgos, Kathryn Katherine, Michael Moreno, and Rebecca Coulter will be recognized by the Colorado Association of Career Colleges and Schools (CACCS) for their outstanding academic achievements at their annual banquet on Friday morning.
This year's CACCS awards ceremony – held at the Art Institute of Colorado, 1200 Lincoln St. in Denver – will celebrate students in the Colorado career college system who excel in their programs and strongly exhibit three qualities: commitment, performance and leadership/professionalism.
Each student who is honored must have a serious and unwavering commitment to his/her academic and professional career goals. He/she must show high performance in the categories of attendance, grades, class activities and classroom work. Finally, he/she must demonstrate leadership and behave professionally, both in the classroom and within the community.
This year, Monica Burgos, an IBMC College student in the Paralegal program at the Greeley campus, was named the Student of the Year in the category of Specialized Trades. Rebecca Coulter, who attended the Colorado Springs campus in the Health Information Management program, was also named Student of the Year in the Allied Health Specialist – Administrative Medical category.
Additionally, two IBMC College Greeley campus students — Kathryn Katherine, Medical Assisting program, and Michael Moreno, Cosmetology program – will be honored with Meritorious Recognition in the Allied Health Specialist – Clinical and Cosmetology categories, respectively.
IBMC College is honored to have such a dedicated group of individuals as students and we congratulate Monica, Kathryn, Michael and Rebecca on their awards!


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The House Tour (Before)/
Happy Monday!
Today I thought I would do something a little bit different. I thought I would give you a BEFORE house tour. You see, I have something that a lot of people do not. I have the most amazing realtor and friend, Cara, and she was able to pull the listings of our home from the very first sale in 2004. Since the home was built in 2000, it shows where this place started before anyone got a real hand on it. So, check it out!
Pics from the original owner (the listing in 2004)
The listing from the guy we bought the house from (this is before he remodeled anything).
The listing from the guy we bought the house from (after he remodeled):
So there you have it! That is what I had to work with when we bought the house 5 years ago! And yes, the afters will be up soon!! :-)


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Name Change
Prior approval must be obtained from the national board when a church decides to change the slogan (identifier) name of the church. With the exception of some circumstances, the legal name of the church with the CRA is rarely changed.
Upon approval from the national board, the bank account information will need to be amended to reflect the new church name. The national office will complete the Foursquare letter of authorization and fax to the BCC for processing.
The amendment adds the new slogan name as an identifier on the account and allows for cheques written out to the new name to be processed to the account.


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Apps often have to ask a lot—fill out this form, enable this integration, keep up with these updates—before users can benefit from the app's full value.
After a while, necessary actions can start to feel like chores.
The key to motivating users to take meaningful actions over and over again is well-crafted in-app messages. Messages that can inform, guide, and delight keep users engaged from the first onboarding experience to the 100th time they log in.
A good in-app message can turn even the dullest actions can turn into aha! moments.
We'll explore how 10 apps have designed, positioned, and personalized their messages to users in ways that build deep, lasting engagement.
Amid crowds of confused travelers at the airport, a woman bee-lines for a sign displaying her name. Personalization can mean the difference between chaos and calm. It's a great onboarding tactic, but can be used at any stage of the user lifecycle to keep the learning going.
MailChimp's welcome page following sign-up is a masterful example. Large text introduces the user's arrival, calling her by name. Then a box presents two CTAs, signposting the user towards two key actions that will get her to create her first campaigns.
MailChimp continues to personalize the dashboard long after onboarding. Returning users see a friendly greeting, based on their time zone and first name every time they log back into MailChimp.
Create simple dashboards that give your users a clear way into your app. Personalize to build familiarity and encourage a sense of ownership that will lead to greater exploration and engagement.
When trying to gain feedback or more data from users, many apps make the mistake of using too many words. Exhaustive lists of options fill the screen and users get frustrated before they're even situated in-app. From there they're less keen to engage with your actual features.
Instead, try getting that initial info from users by asking them to select pictures that match their answers. Tumblr is a place where people share their images and stories, so to get users off on an engaging foot, they use a picture board to collect their preferences and start customizing their experience straight away.
Tumblr helps users log their preferences with images
No matter what your product, images can help users engage quicker. Try replacing your "what do you do?" survey with pictures showing people performing different roles. Or try adding images to surveys or your rating system so that users can respond impulsively and get back to work.
If you redecorated your entire house, you wouldn't invite your friends in without showing them around. At the same time, you know your choice of wallpaper is probably more interesting to you than it is to them. Same goes for your product redesign. You want to show users how to take advantage of new features, but you don't want to force them into every nook and cranny.
Dropbox solves this dilemma with their redesign tour. When you log in, a modal window pops up inviting you to explore new features.
The tour illuminates how each new thing fits into the Dropbox flow with descriptions placed unobtrusively at the side and bottom of the screen.
Most importantly, they give users the option to exit whenever they choose. They even have a modal with the option to exit after 2 steps.
If you've redesigned your app, create an open-house tour—arrange tooltips to guide but let users roam on their own so that they're making their own discoveries.
A high-level overview of a few features can be great for onboarding or introducing a product redesign, but when users are in a daily flow with your app, you want to ration out those tips so they don't feel like a to-do list.
Harvest, a time-tracking app for teams, offers users a single tip when they log into the app. The tip positions the value first, so it's quick to skim, and then follows up with a "get started" CTA that takes the user right where they need to go.
Users shouldn't feel like they're cramming for an app test — give a steady flow of bitesized tips so that they can actually take and learn from each one.
Most users are juggling a lot of apps and tools in their daily lives. Give them an easy way to get reoriented by helping them set goals at the beginning of their session.
Evernote uses a modal window to get straight to the point by getting users to log their daily goals.
They present three options that reflect their core value, giving users a choice without being overwhelming. Depending on what the user chooses, they then provide a tip. Click "Organize Your Life" and they give an effective way to add their Chrome Extension—they know users will be better organized if they can quickly load Evernote from their desktop.
Prepare users to achieve more in your app by orienting them as soon as they log in and reminding them what their goals are. It's a great way to create engagement right off the bat and build towards retention.
Engaged users will play around in your app and figure out how to use it best for their needs, but others will be more reserved, sticking to the pathways and actions that they discovered during onboarding without exploring further.
Get all users to engage further with give quick, easy suggestions to use the product better.
Spotify does this with a nifty top banner that offers single tips for more seamless interactions. Copying a URL triggers this shortcut tip, for example. Tips are triggered by certain actions, so they're always relevant to what the user's doing in-app.
Keep teaching users as they play by creating triggered tool tips streamlined to your UI. Users will feel stimulated and rewarded for taking action, which will motivate them to engage further.
When a user logs in, they don't want to spend time sorting through updates in order to get to their work. Keep a separate but visible place for new features and updates in your app's interface, where users can be tempted by new things but not distracted.
See how Slack hides their updates behind a little red gift box in the corner of the screen.
When users are ready to explore, the icon expands. A bonus—the content is super clear and user-driven. "Give your team a heads up" is a great piece of copy. It's colloquial and totally focused on the user's pain point, allowing them to see the update's value immediately.
Give users the power to get straight back to their work when they rejoin your app by keeping updates out of the way and letting users find them when they're actually ready to take action.
Sometimes app users will need to complete an administrative step before they're able to take advantage of your features. This can add a lot of friction to your UX. One way to lessen this friction is to position these administrative asks in helpful places and at relevant times.
Campaign Monitor, an email marketing tool for teams, needs users to complete the step of authenticating their company domain. With this simple pop-up, users are briefly halted on their way to sending their first transactional email — they're situated in context and the action is easy to complete just by clicking the link.
When users need help in order to use your tool effectively, don't wait for them to ask. Give a clear, contextual nudge right where they need it before a problem emerges.
Keeping track of free trials is a real chore. Each tool's trial expires at a different time—sometimes the user wants to upgrade, other times they want to escape before their card is charged. Helping users out with this management chore can score your app extra brownie points.
Accounting app Quickbooks leads by example by staying on top of users' trial status. During a free trial, a countdown sits unobtrusively in a top bar, yet its color makes it stand out on the page. It's easy to see and keeps the user constantly updated so they can focus on balancing their books.
Keep users aware of their account status without getting in their face, so they can actually discover the best parts of your app before the trial runs out.
The ultimate challenge for making app chores fun? Tax prep software. If an app can make you feel good while doing your taxes, you know it's doing something right.
Here, TurboTax makes filing easier and more fun by placing in-app messages and notifications as users complete stages. Messages, like the "You did it!" celebration message below, serve as markers through the prep process, to give users a sense of progress.
With these notifications, TurboTax makes something objectively dreadful kind of pleasant. Every app has some actions that just aren't that fun, but if you can use them to build a relationship, you'll set yourself apart from the competition and users will be more likely to stick around for the fun stuff.
Don't say anything at all. Chores have no place in your app. Part of your work as you design and test your app is to put yourself in the user's shoes. Delve into every tiny action the user has to make in order to use your features to their full potential, and make sure every single one is serving a purpose — to deepen their engagement and get them to stick around.
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The World Map
The World Map is an important part of Elvenar, so you will visit it quite frequently.
While exploring the World Map you will discover many different Provinces and other players' cities surrounding your own. Elvenar is a mysterious world full of secrets, but it is also peaceful. So don't hesitate to get in touch with your neighbors and the area around you. Actually, you can visit any city, right from the start.
Scouting Provinces
When you enter the World Map for the first time, you will immediately notice that most of the world is still unknown to you. In fact, the World Map is not much more than a rough draft, at the beginning. However, you can frequently send Scouts to bordering Provinces in order to gain more information about them. The Scouts will tell you how easy or hard it will be to scout a Province and will demand a lot of Coins for their efforts, but they are definitely worth the price.
Hover over the Province to see the cost of scouting:
Click the Province to open the Scout's Note:
Click the Scout button to commence scouting:
Once their work is done, the scouted Province gets a lot more detail and color. But most importantly, you can take a look inside it and search for Relics.
In addition, all bordering cities of that Province will also become "discovered". As a result, trading with those neighbors becomes cheaper and you will be able to start giving them Neighborly Help.
|Hint:It is advisable to scout only the number of Provinces needed for the next chapter in the Research Tree. The cost for fighting or trading to complete the Province will increase with each newly scouted Province. And in later Provinces you will need Orcs to be able to "negotiate" (produced in Armories level 20 and above).
When you enter a Province you previously scouted, you can see more detailed information about it. While on their mission of discovery, your Scouts will spot interesting people and will mark their location with an exclamation mark.
At first, all Provinces may look alike, but, if you look closely, you will see each Province type has its own special terrain, depending on the Relics it contains. You may collect those Relics either by negotiating an Encounter, or fighting it. But, be aware, the enemy units you will find on each Province type will also differ, so, be prepared!
|Provinces Overview
|Basic Goods
|Crafted Goods
|Magical Goods
Province Distance
The further you go, deep into the World Map, the more distant you get from your city. This means that not only will Scouts take longer to reach far away Provinces, but also it will cost you more Coins to scout them.
The Province Distance will also influence the ranking points you get by solving each Encounter. You will get 1 ranking point per Encounter * Province Distance. For example, if you solve an Encounter on a Province, 3 Provinces away from your city (Distance 3), you will get 3 ranking points.
Fighting and negotiating will get progressively harder the further away you get from your city, requiring that you need to keep upgrading your city to cope with the demands.
|Hint:After entering each province sector you will be able to see how far that province is by looking at the ranking points it will give you when finishing the encounter successfully.
Collecting Relics
On each Province, you will meet a merchant who may offer you a Relic. And you just can't have enough of these magical objects! But of course, they will come at a price. You may take the merchant's offer or maybe, you can find a way to use your troops to get the Relic and save your resources. It's up to you!
No matter how you get the Relic, it will always increase your knowledge! In other words, for every Encounter you solve, you will receive a Knowledge Point you can spend in Research Tree, to unlock technologies faster, or invest in Ancient Wonders. The World Map is a great source of knowledge, you will see!
|Hint:By collecting Relics you can also increase the production boost for your boosted Goods.
Completing Provinces
By completing Provinces you can also get additional rewards: Province Expansions and/or Rune Shards.
- You will receive a Province Expansion as a reward, when you solve all encounters of a certain number of Provinces. A tooltip in the Buildings Menu, on the Province Expansion, will show you how many "Completed Provinces" you have and how many are "Required for the next Expansion."
- After researching the first Ancient Wonders' Technology, every time you complete a province you will also get a random Rune Shard for one of the unlocked buildings, which you can find in the Ancient Wonders' Menu.
Neighboring Cities
As said before, by exploring the World Map, you can both scout Provinces and visit every city right from the beginning!
You can take a look into other players' cities, in order to get inspiration for you own, but once you "discover" those cities, you will also be able to give them Neighborly Help.
At a certain point in the game, if you take a closer look, you may notice each neighbor has a different image representing their city. This is due to the fact that, when a player reaches a new Chapter, the map reflects the city´s development.
|Cities Overview Elves
|Cities Overview Humans
The World Map is also the place where Tournaments take place! You can enter them only if you belong to a Fellowship. Every week, Tournament Events take place in your solved provinces of one type, which will rotate every week. This is also a great opportunity for you to get additional Relics, Knowledge Points and Rune Shards and, if you are one of the best, additional Ranking Points!


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Kauri Bay Boomrock Wedding, Clevedon | Mark and May
May and Mark had a beautiful Catholic wedding ceremony at Sacred Heart Parish in Ponsonby, followed by a stunning reception at Kauri Bay Boomrock.
Family is incredibly important to this couple, with both families in attendance for the bride and the groom during the preparation. It was a busy morning, but so beautiful to see just how much this marriage meant to everyone - not just the two of them.
Among the countless beautiful moments throughout the day, one that really struck a chord with me was Mark's reaction when he saw May for the first time in the church. Now Mark is a pretty cool customer - he didn't show a spot of nerves or much emotion at all whilst he was getting ready with his groomsmen. He was calm and collected - at least that's what he showed on the surface. However, that all changed the second May entered the church, tears spilling down his cheeks and the handkerchief doing what it was there for. It was an absolutely perfect display of his love for his stunning bride.
A full Catholic Mass, regular wedding-day delays and Friday afternoon Auckland traffic caused the afternoon to run quite a lot later than scheduled. Despite this, the wonderful staff at Kauri Bay Boomrock still gave us plenty of time to enjoy the stunning sunset we were treated to after a day of heavy grey skies. Along with the team from Deerlight Media, we were in photography heaven as the sun slipped away below the horizon.
The way Mark and May were able to remain cool under pressure and absolutely enjoy their day and each other, is a testament to their characters and definitely telling of the kind of loving an supportive couple they are.
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Ceremony - Sacred Heart Parish Ponsonby
Reception - Kauri Bay Boomrock
Hair + Makeup - Tineall Love Makeup Artist
Cake - Flamingo Whisk
Florals - Dianna Marie Think Flowers
Bride's dress - Bridal Brilliance
Bride's shoes - Rachel Simpson
Bride's earrings - Swarovski
Rings - Michael Hill
MOH's dress - Boohoo
Bridesmaid's dresses - ASOS
Men's suits - Munns
Festoon Lighting - Pretty Lights Production
Videography - Deerlight Media


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|Checa had made a promising start in Race 1
Photo: Alstare Ducati
Alstare Ducati are reporting that Carlos Checa is OK after being concussed by his Race 1 incident with Marco Melandri. Checa was knocked unconscious by the crash, in which, fighting for a podium he overshot himself slightly and hit Melandri's rear wheel sending both the Italian and himself into the ground. Melandri fortunately went down quite softly and showed commendable sportsmanship as he ran to an unconscious Checa to see if he was OK. Checa was taken to the medical centre, where he had no recollection of the crash.
It was decided that Carlos would be flown to hospital in Melbourne for further check ups, Alstare reporting late last night that he would stay in hospital overnight despite having no major injuries. It had been a difficult week for the Alstare squad, with Checa originally being unwell with a stomach bug and Badovini going down hard in testing, setting his Panigale alight. Both Checa and Badovini fell on Friday, Checa claiming it was one of the biggest highsides of his career. It was announced on Saturday morning that Badovini would have to cease participation in the weekend after it was found he had broken bones in his foot. Things had started to look up for the team as Checa stormed to pole position, however the joy was short lived.
Team owner, Francis Batta said: "To win Superpole yesterday at the first race with this new bike was an excellent result and a testimony to all the hard work everybody has put in. It's clear that our bike is down on speed compared to our competitors, so Carlos has been having to make up for that on the brakes and in the turns. We need to improve our speed so that Carlos and Ayrton can compete with our rivals. This bike is very new for all of us, but we are working as hard as we can and making progress every time we go out on the track. I'm sure we will keep improving and be in a good position to challenge for podiums next time out."


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A delicious little side dish that is almost too simple! I often get carried away with trying to make my sides too flamboyant so it's good to get back to hearty basics with this brilliant smashed potato dish. So as to avoid anyone accusing you of having lumpy mash, this dish is supposed to have a bit of texture. It's fantastic!
750g waxy potatoes
3/4 cup parmesan cheese (finely grated)
salt & pepper
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
Fill a large pan with water and bring to a rolling boil. Cut the potatoes into big chunks and cook them until tender. Reserve a cup of the liquid then drain. Roughly mash the potatoes being careful not to make them too smooth. Stir in the olive oil and season well with salt & pepper. Serve hot!
Serve with anything you like. I love them with Italian herb sausages in tomato sauce or some kind of stew – maybe my lovely slow cooked lamb shanks.


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Keith and Beverly Brungardt, Hays, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Amy Renee Brungardt, to Jason Lyndell Janzen, son of Ken and Brenda Janzen, Henderson, Neb.
Grandparents of the couple are Vitus and Gladys Brungardt, Hays, the late Gertrude Brungardt, Julian and Norma Huser, Victoria, Ivan and Polly Yoder, Burrton, and Marvin and Katherine Siebert, Henderson, Neb.
The bride-elect is a 2009 graduate of Fort Hays State University. She teaches at Sunnyside Elementary, Dodge City.
The prospective bridegroom is a 2006 graduate of University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He teaches at Dodge City High School.
A June 4, 2011, wedding is planned at North Oak Community Church, Hays.


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BOBC Bonner Online-Bibliographie zur Comicforschung
Danky, James und Denis Kitchen (Hgg.): Underground Classics. The Transformation of Comics into Comix. New York: Abrams, 2009. (143 S.)
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The impact of American underground comix is profound: They galvanized artists both domestically and abroad; they forever changed the economics of comic book publishing; and they influenced generations of cartoonists, including their predecessors. While the works of Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman are well-known via the New Yorker, Maus, and retrospective collections, the art of their contemporaries such as Gilbert Shelton, Trina Robbins, Justin Green, Kim Deitch, S. Clay Wilson, and many other seminal cartoonists who came of age in the 1960s is considerably less known.
Underground Classics provides the first serious survey of underground comix as art, turning the spotlight on these influential and largely underappreciated artists. Essays from curators James Danky and Denis Kitchen, alongside essays by Paul Buhle, Patrick Rosenkranz, Jay Lynch, and Trina Robbins, offer a thorough reflection and appraisal of the underground movement. Over 125 original drawings, paintings, sculptures, and artifacts are featured, loaned from private collections and the artists themselves, making Underground Classics indispensible for the seriousminded comics fan and for the casual reader alike.
Table of Contents
Jay Lynch: Introduction (13)
James Danky and Denis Kitchen: Underground Classics (17)
Patrick Rosenkranz: The Limited Legacy of Underground Comix (23)
Trina Robbins: Wimmen's Studies (31)
Paul Buhle: The Undergrounds (35)
The Plates (46)
Listing of All Works in the Exhibition (138)
Index (142)
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Jackson's 'Painting' Not a 'Pain' at OCMA
What comes to mind when you think of the word "painting?" Do you recall the lush impressionist landscapes of Monet and Renoir? Perhaps the mess you made with your fingers as a child? Since last Sunday, the Orange County Museum of Art's otherwise spotless interior has been splashed with paint of every color. Yet, the first retrospective devoted to Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Richard Jackson, OCMA's newest exhibition proves to be much more than spilled paint.
Including eight not previously exhibited in the United States, the exhibition is composed of 11 large-scale installments as well as many other artworks such as Jackson's own sketched diagrams of such installments and several sculptures. This groundbreaking exhibition delivers the message that a painting may not necessarily be confined to one particular canvas, nor is it always an inalterable art object.
"I needed to expand painting physically … I thought that if you use the whole environment that the painting is in, then you could paint around the corners, you could do all kinds of things other than a rectangular format," Jackson told OCMA director and exhibition curator Dennis Szakacs in a 2010 interview.
The idea of an installation, which in Jackson's work often occupies an entire gallery, in itself removes the common conception of a great work of art as unchangeable and permanently complete.
Four copies of the word "painting" in neon lights mark the beginning of the exhibition, each illuminating a different part of the word to display the exhibition's title, "Ain't Painting a Pain," and demonstrating that words, like the medium of painting, can be robbed of their original function.
Many of the works in "Ain't Painting a Pain" allow the viewer to get extremely close, some begging the viewer's interaction. Jackson's "painted environments," common in his earlier work, are mazes made up of larger-than-human-sized canvases covered in huge splotches of paint and facing inward toward the viewer as he or she ascends the path created by the canvases. The painted environment featured in the OCMA exhibition includes paint drippings on the floor of a path created by a series of enormous canvases.
This work "allows you to experience the painting by walking into the painting," explains a stylishly dressed tour guide before warning his audience that they may get wet if they choose to enter it.
In "5050 Stacked Paintings," an installation which occupies the adjacent room, around 5,050 painted canvases are stacked on top of one another to create a monumental work of art in which the canvases themselves, rather than what — if anything — is depicted on them, demonstrate the meaning of this artwork.
Not all of Jackson's work refers specifically to painting. "1000 Clocks" is an installation made up of four walls and a ceiling of square clocks showing the current time. With each passing minute, all 1,000 loudly tick.
Several of the works on display in "Ain't Painting a Pain" also pay homage to famous artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Georges Seurat and Jacques-Louis David, offering renditions of some of their most famous works and ideals. David's "The Death of Marat" from 1793 comes to life in an installation of the same name, which features an Apple laptop computer and a modern style bathtub.
As you exit the museum, you might notice what first appears to be an ominous black figure interacting with the building itself. Stepping further away, you notice that it is a colossal sculpture of a dog urinating on the institution. A long, thin, yellow splotch of paint covers a small section of the building beside the animal, further indicating the infinite possibilities for the place of painting in society, such as outside the art museum itself.
"Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain" will be on display until May 5, and has already drawn significant attention from its many eager visitors.


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It seems that the A380 isn't the only plane that gets fitted with lounge bars. Not to be outdone by the giant of the skies, the 777 is seeing the birth of a Sky Lounge with China Airlines.
'Sky Lounge' is a self-serve bar and social area located in the first galley of the China Airlines 777. During in-flight, passengers can choose to walk up to the lounge to enjoy food and drinks while chatting with other passengers. The bar is divided into three sections. From left to right: tea area, alcohol area and coffee area.
Whilst it can't be as massive as, say, the Emirates bar at the end of the A380's upper deck, I find it very thoughtfully designed. I particularly like the idea of providing books on both ends of the lounge.
The new China Airlines 777-300ER should be starting operations at the end of this year.


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In this instructable, I will show you the steps to make an internet connected motion detector.
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Step 1: Parts and Tools
Here are the parts and tools that you will need to make this project:
PIR motion sensor
Jumper wire
Linkit ONE Board and WiFi Antenna (Included with board)
Step 2: Download Drivers
Here are the steps to get it set up.
1. Download latest Arduino IDE: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software 2. Install Arduino IDE, open preferences, find additional boards manager and paste: http://download.labs.mediatek.com/package_mtk_link... into the text box. 3. Go to Tools --> Board --> Board Manager. Scroll down until you see "Mediatek Linkit One" and click it, then you should see an install button, click it. 4. Download USB drivers from: https://labs.mediatek.com/site/global/developer_to... , Unzip the file, and open the "Drivers" folder and double click the .mpkg file to open it. This will take you through a setup wizard, just accept the terms and conditions and press continue whenever you can.
Step 3: Wiring
Using jumper cables, wire the "signal" pin of the PIR sensor to A0 on the Linkit ONE board, PIR "negative" to the GND pin on the Linkit ONE, the PIR "positive" to the 5v pin on the Linkit ONE, The LED's negative to a "GND" on the Linkit ONE, and the LED's positive to pin 13.
You will also need to connect the wifi antenna. Do this by taking the thin rectangular antenna and plugging it into the middle UFL connector labelled "WiFi/BT ANT"
Step 4: Upload Test Code
Upload this test code to the board. This is to test the circuit, and find the IP address.
You will need to change a few parts of the code for it to work. Change the "your_ap_ssid" in #define WIFI_AP "your_ap_ssid" to your WiFi network name. Then, change the "your_password" in #define WIFI_PASSWORD "your_password" to your WiFi password. Keep the quotation marks around both of the parts that you just changed.
Now, press upload. Once uploaded, open the serial port. In the serial port, there will be an IP address. Paste the address into a internet browser, and press enter. You should see a counter saying how many times the code has looped. Keep this page open because you will need the IP address for the final code.
Step 5: Upload Final Code
Upload this code to the board. Once uploaded, go back to the internet browser and paste the IP address from the last step and press reload. You should now see a webpage that says "Motion Detected" or "Motion Stopped". If so, everything is working.
Step 6: Done!
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Very Cool...Does this work on the Raspberry Pi too?
Great project. There are so many potential applications for a wireless motion sensor.