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Pope Francis is to meet President Barack Obama when he makes his first visit to the US in September.
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will welcome the Pope to the White House on September 23.
"During the visit, the president and the Pope will continue the dialogue which they began during the president's visit to the Vatican in March 2014, on their shared values and commitments on a wide range of issues," said a White House statement issued today.
Those issues, it said, include "caring for the marginalised and the poor; advancing economic opportunity for all; serving as good stewards of the environment; protecting religious minorities and promoting religious freedom around the world; and welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into our communities".
The statement added: "The president looks forward to continuing this conversation with the Holy Father during his first visit to the United States as Pope."
When they first met last year Pope Francis received the president at the Vatican for a discussion that touched on several areas of tension between the Catholic Church and the White House, including religious freedom and medical ethics.
During an unusually long 50-minute meeting, the two leaders discussed "questions of particular relevance for the church in [the USA], such as the exercise of the rights to religious freedom, life and conscientious objection as well as the issue of immigration reform," the Vatican said in a statement afterwards.
Pope Francis will become the first pope to address a joint meeting of Congress on September 24.
On his flight from the Philippines to Rome in January, Pope Francis said he would canonise Blessed Junipero Serra at Washington's Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
On September 25 Pope Francis will address the UN General Assembly. He will also meet separately with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and with the president of the General Assembly, and is scheduled to meet UN staff in a town hall gathering.
In a statement, Ban Ki-Moon noted that the Pope's visit came during the United Nations' 70th anniversary, in which its members would make decisions about sustainable development, climate change and peace. He said he was confident the Pope's visit would inspire the international community to redouble its efforts for social justice, tolerance and understanding.
Pope Francis will participate in the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia on September 26 and 27.
The Vatican is expected to release the official itinerary of the Pope's visit to Washington, New York and Philadelphia about two months in advance of the trip.
During his pontificate, St John Paul II visited the United States seven times – two of which were fuel stopovers – making the country his most frequent foreign destination after his native Poland. He addressed the UN General Assembly in 1979 and 1995; Blessed Paul VI did so in 1965 and Pope Benedict XVI addressed the assembly in 2008, during his one US visit as Pope.
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Sonia Rykiel, fashion's 'queen of knitwear,' dead at 86
French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, who was known as the queen of knitwear in fashion circles, died Thursday at the age of 86 due to complications from Parkinson's disease, her daughter and French President François Hollande announced.
Rykiel had been suffering from Parkinson's disease for 20 years, a diagnosis she first shared publicly in 2012.
Hollande described her as a "pioneer."
"Her style will remain the symbol of the alliance between color and nature; fluidity and light," he posted on Twitter following her death.
Born Sonia Flis in Paris on May 25, 1930, Rykiel championed a casual, anti-bourgeois aesthetic when she opened her first ready-to-wear shop on Paris' Left Bank in 1968.
Her style featured quintessentially French Breton stripes, vibrant colors, and inventive knitwear techniques -- such as those employed to create her signature ribbed "poor boy" sweaters. Her designs proved popular, and were worn by the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Hardy.
In the ensuing decades, her eponymous brand would expand into childrenswear and menswear and a diffusion line, as well as a successful fast-fashion collaboration with H&M in 2009.
Rykiel's daughter Nathalie took the reins as managing and artistic director in 1995, and the brand has been designed by a number of young designers since then.

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Do you want to know more about the Six nations ?
The author lived with them for a while in 1882.
See what he thinks about their situation.
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The Indian's conditions of settlement
His meetings of council
His oratory
His physical mien and characteristics
His chiefs and their functions
His character, moral and general
His proneness to drink
His humor
His intellectual gifts
His pastimes
His trading relations with whites
His religion
His mode of life
His alleged commission of perjury
The Indian as a musician
The Indian as an artist
His schools
His missionaries
Considerations upon his standing as a minor
Reflections as to the possible effect upon him of enfranchisement
Concluding remarks
Addenda to section on enfranchisement
Note about the cover : Six-Nation Indians from crystalinks.com
The little production presented in these pages was designed for, and has been used as, a lecture. And I have wished to preserve, without emendation, the form and character of the lecture, as it was delivered.
This text was printed by Guardian Printing Office, 1882, Toronto.
As knowledge of the traditions, manners, and national traits of the Indians, composing, originally, the six distinct and independent tribes of the Mohawks, Tuscaroras, Onondagas, Senecas, Oneidas, and Cayugas. Tribes now merged in, and known as, the Six-Nations.
Possibly, they does not extend beyond the immediate district in which they have effected a lodgment, I have laid upon myself the task of tracing their history from the date of their settlement in the County of Brant, entering, at the same time, upon such accessory treatment as would seem to be naturally suggested or embraced by the plan I have set before me.
As the essay, therefore, proposes to deal, mainly, with the contemporary history of the Indian, little will be said of his accepted beliefs, at an earlier epoch, or of the then current practices built upon, and enjoined by, his traditionary faith.
Frequent visits to the Indian's Reservation, on the south bank of the Grand River, have put me in the way of acquiring oral data, which shall subserve my intention. And I shall prosecute my attempt with the greater hope of reaping a fair measure of success, since I have fortified my position with gleanings (bearing, however, solely on minor matters of fact) from some few published records, which have to do with the history of the Indian, generally, and have been the fruitful labour of authors of repute and standing, native as well as white.
Should the issue of failure attend upon my effort, I shall be disposed to ascribe it to some not obscure reason connected with literary style and execution, rather than to the fact of there not having been adequate material at hand for the purpose.
Mots clés : A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians, J.B. Mackenzie, conditions of settlement, meeting of council, their chiefs and function, trading relations with whites, religion, mode of life, missionaries


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The Management Contract of 31. March 2006, the initial management contract between the government of the Brussels capital region and the Employment Office of the Brussels Region (ACTIRIS), stipulates the goals to be implemented by ACTIRIS. The fulfillment of the management contract has led to numerous changes in the institution.
The joint administration (private and public actors) of the employment market was regulated in the Brussels capital region by the Decree of 26. June 2003. With it the contractual responsibility of Belgium to abide by Agreement ILO 181 of the International Labor Organization. Approximately 361 private agencies were empowered to implement job creation measures in the Brussels region. Should the public job creation service no longer maintain the domestic recruiting monopoly, the government would assume a creative administrative role.


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Draka Distribution, in collaboration with Twelve Entertainment, presents the film about the genius Egon Schiele, controversial and provocative artist, master of Austrian Expressionism.
At the beginning of the 20th Century Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two women will have a lasting impact on him – his sister and first muse Gerti, and 17 year old Wally, arguably Schiele's one true love, immortalised in his famous painting 'Death and the Maiden'. Schiele's radical paintings scandalise Viennese society while daring artists like Gustav Klimt and art agents alike are sensing the exceptional. But Egon Schiele is also prepared to go beyond his own pain and to sacrifice Love and Life for his Art. Art that inspires us up to this day.


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Discussion in 'Moopy Moop' started by octophone, Jan 6, 2019.
It's my fannyversary today. 2 years. Yay me.
Congratulations and conflapulations
I celebrated it today by not dying of poison gas
Aum at it again?
Congratulations octy!
I visited another volcano, this one I went right to the RIM of. I couldn't look into the hole itself though, there were too many emissions.
Do you still have to use that wand thing or is it all stable now?
Sorry to be so gynaecological on the Lord's day but I just can't stop myself
Every so often but not so much. To start with it was 2 wands, 3 times a day. I felt IMPALED.
Yay. Send nudes x
It's SUNDAY
I say YAY
Just a little bit
A time to SPECULATE
And PREVARICATE
About the state of Octy's CLIT
In a haiku...
Round trip to Brighton
Back within a week or so
Now I have a minge
That is a thread idea if ever I saw one! I'll start it off!
This is a pretty personal question but I am not one that is backwards in coming forwards. What is sex like with said vagina @octophone?
Dunno. Not had any since. And, oddly, feel no need.
There was a point where I thought I'd better get a shag in because, well, rude not to in a way but I'm over that now. It wasn't why I had it done and I haven't met anyone I'd want inside me in the interim anyway.
Were you a gay man before? I have to say I can't really remember...
I never identified as a gay man because I never identified as a man. I was/am borderline asexual but this was down to physical disgust rather than being an actual acer. When I did experience attraction there was no pattern of type, gender, anything: my two big crushes were Ed O'Brien from Radiohead and Sara Pascoe. Make of that what you will.
Sorry. I didn't think about that one.
Now I DO like Sara Pascoe. I'm not sure I'd slap my chipolata up her, though.
Quite all right, no apology required.
I don't want to appear crude but I'd go down on her like a thirsty spaniel.
A "wet spaniel" is going to be my new way of saying this too. AND you'd get a WET DOG NOSE to go with it.
LIKE A DOG EATING HOT CHIPS was my favourite analogy, especially as it was delivered in an Irish accent.
Catching up with last nights The Voice.
When did Will.I.Am get so FINE.
Well I'm hungover today
Also I think Mrs. Indie punched me in my sleep, because my nose bled quite a lot.
The question is, was she asleep as well and, if not, what do you do to earn a sock on the hooter?
I was probably snoring. Drinking related.
She won't admit to the punch, but it's highly likely. My face was covered in blood and I've had to wash the sheets twice.
P.s. happy fanny day
Yeah but he's so fucking annoying.
Moopy help. Have any of you been to the Canary islands? They have never appealed to me but I'm going away with friends the end of Feb and this is where we've ended up on.
Any recommendations on which island is nicest?
Worst holiday I've ever been on. I wouldn't go back if someone else was paying.
Hope you have fun
Surely not worse than MALTA?
ACHTUNG @Alla
¿Cuál es la isla canaria la plus bonita (), cariño?
I've personally always been scared of going there because of the GIANT KILLER FROGS and also they have rats the size of SHETLAND PONIES
Terrifying wildlife and certain death aside, I've never fancied it because I bet it's full of vile, noisy Brits chomping on jumbo sausage, barking orders for FISH Y CHIPS and sicking it all up on the plate but do correct me if I'm wrong
Oh I just posted on your fb, but we went Futerventura last Mid March. The weather was a real let down for me because it was just so windy it made it feel really cold. We only managed to get into the pool once in the week as it was so cold. The beach was empty because the winds were blowing the sand everywhere. Even just walking along the coast was hard with the wind blowing you the other way! I think that island is one of the worst though for wind.
Ok this sounds scary...
Made the mistake of watching I, Daniel Blake after my dinner. Now my eyes are all red and there's a pile of snotty tissues in the bin.
I also think the dog might have had double painkillers as well as double breakfast because he's just lying around the place, monged off his tits.
I've just seen your FB reply! I have read Fuerteventura is the windiest which has put me off.
What Zu said, essentially.
I guess if all you want is short haul guaranteed heat at that time of year and don't mind lying on a beach or by the pool all day, fair enough. But it had little else to recommend it.
It's all a lie, Rachey. The rats have never been implicated in an unprovoked attack on a human and the frogs are more like the size of German Shepherds. Or was it the other way around?
My twin was speared by a rhino while queuing for sausage. Oh I can smile about it now but at the time it was terrible
It was a shame as it was our first trip overseas with baby Kylie, and now probably our last overseas trip for sometime! We just wanted some sunshine which we didn't get.


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Last week, we showed you some unofficial set photos from Iron Man 3. Disney has now released the first official set photo, and while it won't blow anyone's mind, it's still nice to see all the various Iron Man armor lined up. For some reason, Tony Stark even has the Iron Man: Mach-1 armor, which I thought was lost in the desert. I also wish a couple of the pods didn't have the full armor, but just a suitcase or some bracelets.
Hit the jump to check out the set photo. The film stars Robert Downey Jr., Ben Kingsley, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Rebecca Hall, James Badge Dale, Ashley Hamilton, and Guy Pearce. Iron Man 3 opens May 3, 2013.
Here's the press release Disney sent along with the photo to announce the start of production:
Following in the footsteps of the record-breaking Marvel Studios' release "Marvel's The Avengers," production on the highly anticipated film "Iron Man 3," directed by Shane Black, has commenced production in Wilmington, North Carolina. The production schedule will also include locations in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, Miami, Florida and China.
Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1963, "Iron Man 3" returns Robert Downey Jr. ("Iron Man," "Marvel's The Avengers") as the iconic Super Hero character Tony Stark/Iron Man along with Gwyneth Paltrow ("Iron Man," "Iron Man 2,") as Pepper Potts, Don Cheadle ("Iron Man 2") as James "Rhodey" Rhodes and Jon Favreau ("Iron Man," "Iron Man 2") as Happy Hogan. Set for release in the U.S. on May 3, 2013, Marvel's "Iron Man 3" marks the second feature to be fully owned, marketed and distributed by Disney, which acquired Marvel in 2009.
"Iron Man 3" continues the epic, big-screen adventures of the world's favorite billionaire inventor/Super Hero, Tony Stark aka "Iron Man." Marvel Studios' President Kevin Feige is producing the film. Executive producers on the project include Jon Favreau, Louis D'Esposito, Alan Fine, Stan Lee, Charles Newirth, Victoria Alonso, Stephen Broussard and Dan Mintz.
The creative production team on the film includes two-time Oscar®-winning director of photography John Toll, ASC ("Braveheart," "Legends of the Fall"), production designer Bill Brzeski ("The Hangover," "Due Date"), editors Jeffrey Ford, A.C.E. ("Marvel's The Avengers," "Captain America: The First Avenger") and Peter S. Elliot ("Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer"), and costume designer Louise Frogley ("Quantum of Solace," "Contagion").
Marvel Studios most recently produced the critically acclaimed "Marvel's The Avengers," which set the all-time, domestic 3-day weekend box office record at $207.4 million. The film, which is currently in release, continues to shatter box office records and is The Walt Disney Studios' highest-grossing global and domestic release of all time and marks the studios' fifth film to gross more than $1 billion worldwide.
In the summer of 2011, Marvel successfully launched two new franchises with "Thor," starring Chris Hemsworth, and "Captain America: The First Avenger," starring Chris Evans. Both films opened #1 at the box office and have grossed over $800 million worldwide combined. In 2010 "Iron Man 2," starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson and Mickey Rourke, took the #1 spot in its first weekend with a domestic box office gross of $128.1 million.
In the summer of 2008, Marvel produced the summer blockbuster movies "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk." "Iron Man," in which Robert Downey Jr. originally dons the Super Hero's powerful armor and stars alongside co-stars Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges and Gwyneth Paltrow, was released May 2, 2008, and was an immediate box office success. Garnering the number one position for two weeks in a row, the film brought in over $100 million in its opening weekend. On June 13, 2008, Marvel released "The Incredible Hulk," marking its second number one opener of that summer.


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Renowned investor Warren Buffet has reiterated his stance on digital currencies, and has described Bitcoin in particular as a 'bubble'.
Warren Buffet has previously illustrated his doubts over the value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and now MarketWatch has reported that the billionaire investor has once again reiterated his stance in a recent question and answer session in Omaha.
MarketWatch cites that when questioned on cryptocurrency – and in particular, Bitcoin – Buffet criticized the market for digital coins, offering that "People get excited from big price movements, and Wall Street accommodates… You can't value bitcoin because it's not a value-producing asset."
Read: Bloomberg reports that Wall Street demand is fueling Bitcoin's growth to $6000 USD
Buffet reportedly described the cryptocurrency market as a 'mirage' – adding volume to comments from previous international investors such as Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who recently expressed his view that Bitcoin may well fail.
Buffet himself remained uncertainty as to what longevity Bitcoin may have – reportedly quipping that there is no way to estimate how far the cryptocurrency's price may sore, and offered his regard that Bitcoin is a "real bubble in that sort of thing."
Buffet's comments come on the back of a roller-coaster ride for cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin recently suffered harsh losses thanks to China's aggressive bans on ICOs and cryptocurrency exchanges, while Russian President Vladimir Putin's stern stance on cryptocurrency has seen some investors tighten their wallets.
Bitcoin, however, has seemingly managed to circumvent not only these odds but further has navigated yet another user activated hard fork in the form of Bitcoin Gold – despite a low that saw the cryptocurrency plummet back down to the $4000 USD mark, the digital currency has once again resumed pace and is in proximity of $6000 USD.
Read: The International Monetary Fund may develop its own cryptocurrency
What are your thoughts? Have you invested in Bitcoin, or do you have plans to in the near future? Be sure to let us know your opinion in the comments below!


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Forecasters warned us it was going to get windy Friday. But the weather got even wilder than most of us in the London region could have expected.
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Forecasters warned us it was going to get windy Friday. But the weather got even wilder than most of us in the London region could have expected.
There were reports of downed trees, damaged structures and potentially dangerous power lines across the city and throughout the region. Power outages hit Strathroy and some parts of London as the workday drew to a close, readers told us.
London Hydro estimated about 160 customers in "central London" would be without power until about 8:30 p.m. Friday. At about 4 p.m. Friday, local police issued a public-safety warning about the weather's toll on the region:
Our John Lund captured this image of an unusual Friday afternoon traffic jam near the intersection of Walnut Street and Forward Avenue just west of downtown:
Bill Grainger sent in this picture from his home near the Egerton-Hamilton Road intersection. The limb landed "right where I usually park my car or motorcycle.":
The damage extended far past the city limits. Katie Childs submitted this picture from a family member's home in Thamesford, between London and Woodstock:
A severe thunderstorm warning had been in effect for London and area for about two hours Friday afternoon, according to Environment Canada. A sunny Saturday with a high of 22 C was in the forecast — to be followed by a rainy Sunday.


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Little Mix's photoshoot for their debut clothing line at Primark
More details have surfaced about Little Mix's Primark Clothing Line. And to match that we have also found images of some of the clothing up for sale in nationwide Primark stores.
In case you don't know, Little Mix recently signed a deal with Penney's to release a clothing range in Primark (just for the UK at the moment)
A spokesmen said Primark are excited to announce that they will soon be launching an exclusive Little Mix kidswear range. The range will include age appropriate tees, leggings, sweats and accessories for girls aged 7-13 years. In stores from 20th September
Well know we have images of some of these accessories and clothes available..Click on each image to make them larger!.
They also have wristbands, a bracelet , a necklace and a bag.
WOW I LOVE THE CLOTHES! I can' t get them because I live in Belgium :c
hi i always wanted to meet you me and my friends are getting in a band and we'er singing wings
Heey I was wondering if the Primark clothing line with Little Mix is available to ship to Australia please let me know back 🙂 thanks ♥ and I love Little Mix they are just wow they are so talented and deserve what they wanted ♥
It not available there at the moment sorry
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Well fortunately, the good folks at the League of American Bicyclists have done an excellent job of refuting those claims. To backing up the League's arguments, Jay Walljasper of the Huffington Post wrote a great piece claiming that federal money on bicycle and pedestrian projects is money well spent.
Well now there's even more! An October 31st article by Joan Lowy of the Associated Press essential shreds any remaining credibility of the GOP claims that the TE program is full of wasteful spending. She even goes as far to say in the title that "GOP lawmakers spin funding tall tales." You can read the article in full here.
Also check out the Missouri Bicycle and Pedestrian Federations well articulated response to the revelations found in the AP article. In their response, MOBikePedFed makes the the very astute observation:
The fact check is unusual — every supposedly horrible example of Transportation Enhancements spending is completely debunked. Each example turns out to be either grossly exaggerated or completely misleading. That's not surprising, because Transportation Enhancements is the single largest source of funding for bicycle and pedestrian funding in the U.S. today, and those projects are important, popular, and much needed.It's great to read of the TE program and the spending of some of that money on much needed bicycle and pedestrian projects getting so much support. But there is something that you can do. People for Bikes, an initiative of Bikes Belong, has put together this petition for us all to sign. Take a minute or two to fill it out!
There are more than enough very good, very needed, projects to crowd out bad projects — and it looks like that is exactly what happened to many of the examples opponents have cited. They were bad and so they were turned down for funding entirely. That's a sign of a system that is working — but it hasn't stopped opponents from clogging the media airwaves and the public discourse with these fabricated examples.
Enhancements funding is used effectively and fills an important need in communities large and small, and ranging from urban to suburban to rural. Bicycle and pedestrian projects are inexpensive, cost-effective, popular with citizens, and well used. We always have plenty of money to build a new freeway through town or add an extra lane so that semi-trucks can get there a few minutes faster. And you're telling us we can't put in a sidewalk and a crosswalk on the state highway going through town, so that grandma can get from her home to the grocery store safely?


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Congressman Says Enough Silence On Gun Violence
"Thoughts and prayers" was one of the most widely used phrases in the wake of the Orlando shooting Sunday, perhaps most ubiquitously employed by those in high-ranking government positions. The sentiment lead the House of Representatives to hold a moment of silence for the victims of the attack, but one Congressman all too familiar with the devastating effects of mass shootings announced a bold and open rebellion against that silence, proclaiming that silence is part of the reason those 49 people were struck down by the shooter Sunday morning. The congressman from Connecticut's 4th district, where Sandy Hook Elementary School is located, Jim Himes, made a defiant speech before the House on Monday to denounce Congress' affinity for silence in the aftermath of mass shootings.
"Sometime today or tomorrow, this House will hold a moment of silence for 50 massacred Floridians, who had their bodies torn apart by a madman with a military grade weapon. Silence. That is how the leadership of the most powerful country in the world will respond to this week's massacre of its citizens," Himes said from the House floor on Monday. "Silence. That is what we offer in America that supports many of the things we could do to slow the bloodbath. Silence. Not me. Not anymore."
Himes' strong and moving statement set the tone for opposition within the House, which broke into forceful protest following the moment of silence held a few hours after Himes' speech. Speaker Paul Ryan lost control of the House as Democrats chanted "Where's the bill?" as a reminder of the lack of legislation enacted to prevent further gun violence. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke for her party members and iterated the frustration of Democratic leaders at the House's unwillingness to pass new gun restrictions. "The fact is that a moment of silence is an act of respect, and we supported that. But it is a not a license to do nothing," Pelosi told reporters after the brief protest."Members have just had enough of having one minute, a moment of silence on the floor, and then take no action."
The intense and vocal reaction by Democratic representatives could indicate coming legislation on gun control as a response to the shooting, particularly after the congressional elections in November. Democrats are expected to make gains in the House and potentially gain control of the Senate, which would streamline liberal gun control reform. Although previous attempts to change policies have not been successful, the impact and severity of this latest mass shooting could tip the scales enough to finally force reform from the stalemated Congress.


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Mulqueeny Eye Centers Friday Fun Fact
Why Do Animal's Eyes Glow In The Dark?
In some animals, especially those that go out at night, there is a reflective surface right behind the retina called the Tapetum Lucidum. The purpose of this reflective tissue is to act like a mirror. It reflects light as it enters the eye and allowing the rods and cones located in the retina another chance to pick up the limited amount of light available in dim lighting.
The Tapetum Lucidum is an adaptive feature that developed in animals who were hunters, primarily at night and early dawn when light is dim. Dogs, cats, deer, cattle, horses are a few of the animals who possess this feature. Humans (and some other animals) do not possess a Tapetum Lucidum because our retinas are designed for brighter light vision.
The other interesting fact about eye glow color or "eyeshine" as it is sometimes called, is that it is not the same for all species of animals and there are certain factors that can influence the color. For example, age, color of the animal's coat and eye color as well as the amount of zinc and riboflavin present in the pigment cells with the Tapetum Lucidum can all play a part in the eyeshine color that we see at night.
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I noticed that people start changing once they are in a relationship. That they change, on the outside and inside (well, more on the inside, except it`s one of those "really weird" relationships) and the thing that I want to discuss here is the phone dialogue style they adopt. You ever notice that? How all the people in the world say HI when they call you, but when two people involved in a relationship call, the first thing they ask is "Where are you?" Not "Hi!" or "How are you?" or "Hey babe" but "Where are you?". Sounds like the devil calling. And did you notice that conversations are usually shorter when one is talking to his/her loved one than in general? Why exactly is that? It`s like a completely different set of rules applies when you are "engaged" with someone and all of the sudden the basic conversational skills go out the window? Why do people get the feeling or the need to dominate people they should in fact encourage to be what they really are? On average, people talk less about their problems with their "partners" than with the people outside of their relationships. Why exactly is that?
I guess we all get them from somewhere. The patterns. From our "heroes", people we admire and look up to, parents, significant others… Where exactly does this pattern imprinting ends and where does the "invidivuality" begins? How do you know that we are treating someone cause we want them to treat like that and that we are not, in fact, copying patterns off of people we look up to. We copy something we think it works. And we neglect the fact that it works for somebody else. And that we all have to find our own way.
You are right, I do think too much. From now on, I`ll only think three hours a day and an hour and a half on weekends.
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Hilton Barrett opens innovative shearing shed at Brocklehurst
Central west shearing contractor Hilton Barrett has for the past 18 months been through a long process creating a shearing shed design that focuses on human and animal welfare.
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His design was open on Saturday, July 27 at Brocklehurst for the public to see and approximately 400 people turned up.
"It shows there's a bit of confidence in the industry and also awareness that things need to be done with infrastructure that we've got our staff working in," he said.
The contractor said he wanted people to see first-hand the design to get an understanding of how it works. Mr Barrett said if the shed isn't the best in Australia, it was "the most efficient shearing shed in the world."
He said some existing shearing sheds don't even have a flushing toilet or clean water for shearers to drink.
"If we want to keep people in the industry we need to dispense money into infrastructure to make sure we can keep the right one's in it," Mr Barrett said.
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He spoke with some of the industry's fastest and most efficient shearers in the consultation process.
"There was a base plan that we knew we needed to get," Mr Barrett explained about going into the research.
"It was about making sure it (the shed) worked for everybody, not just the shearer, the presser or the wool handler, it had to work for everybody and there were compromises made right across to make sure when we do go to work everyone wants to go to work and everyone is happy to be there."
This is the first shed of its kind and now that they are blueprints available, Mr Barrett said it can potentially save a farmer between $50,000 and $100,000 on a six-stand shearing shed.
"Because they've got a free set of blueprints a builder can now fit out that shearing shed," he said.
"That's what it (the project) was about. Not only building the shearing shed to make sure it was going to work but it was going to give something free to the farmers so they can save a fair bit of money on one of their key infrastructure for the shearing industry."
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As a shearing contractor, Mr Barrett goes through 250 staff each year and before the drought was shearing 700,000 sheep per yer.
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Mr Barrett said a shearer who shears 200 sheep will drink from eight to 12 litres of water a day.
To build this shearing shed at 20 x 24 metres working area for around $300,00 and depending on farmers input equals to three bales of wool for 50 years or 30 crossbred lambs per yer.


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With respect to hydrant Fire Flows for High-rise buildings that are sprinklered to NFPA 13.
I have researched a Multiple of standards NFPA 13,14,24,1142,and 101 in an attempt to locate recommended hydrant flows for high-rise buildings . Currently I'm attempting to gain access to SFPE Code Official's Guide to Performance-Based Design Review that is referenced in a number of the standards.
The following are excerpts from NFPA standards.
3.3.16 Municipal-Type Water System. A system having water pipes servicing fire hydrants and designed to furnish, over and above domestic consumption, a minimum of 250 gpm (950 L/min) at 20 psi (138 kPa) residual pressure for a 2-hour duration. [1141, 2012]
Which in this case I don't believe 1142 would not be appropriate standard.
Nfpa 14 has a higher level of water flow requirements:
Nfpa 14 10.1.3.2 For a combined system in a building equipped with
partial automatic sprinkler protection, the flow rate required
by 7.10.1 shall be increased by an amount equal to the hydraulically
calculated sprinkler demand or 150 gpm (568 L/min) for
light hazard occupancies, or by 500 gpm (1893 L/min) for
ordinary hazard occupancies, whichever is less
7.10.3 Maximum Flow Rates for Individual Connections.
188.8.131.52 The maximum flow required from a 21∕2 in. (65 mm)
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184.108.40.206 The maximum flow required from a 11∕2 in. (40 mm)
hose connection shall be 100 gpm (379 L/min).
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The British Columbia building code has a minimum residual pressure of 690 kpa or 100 PSI in standpipes but no GPM .
Our Municipal standard for fire flows is as follows:
Fire flows shall be based on the publication "Water Supply for Public Fire Protection - A
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that the minimum acceptable fire flows shall be:
Zone Required Fire Flow
Residential except Compact Lot Residential 60 l/s 900 usgpm
Suburban Residential 60 l/s 900 usgpm
Multiple Family, Compact Lot Residential, Comprehensive 90 l/s 1380 usgpm
Commercial & Institutional 150 l/s 2340 usgpm
Industrial 225 l/s 3540 usgpm
Maximum allowable pressure 1035 kPa 150 psi
Minimum pressure at Peak Hour Demand 300 kPa 43 psi
Minimum pressure anywhere in system during design 150 kPa 21 psi
Fire Flow and Peak Day Demand
Could you provide some guidance for hydrant flows for high rise occupancies from an NFPA perspective.


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Autonomous Network is a network where human intervention or input is next to zero or minimal. These networks are self-functioning, self-diagnosing and are programmed beforehand to perform in a certain style. It is completely capable of managing itself with all due respect and monitors its own steps as and when required.
Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and other data analytics techniques have encouraged automation to next levels. It is essential and significant to note that here the term network in the ' Autonomous Network' means more than just the sole network. It entails in itself the services, processes and other prerequisites that are necessary for an autonomous device to function uninterrupted. Where Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa are just a small version of how an autonomous network functions, there has been an advent of driverless, unmanned cars and drones for that matter to substantiate the grand entrance.
Siri and Alexa follow the instructions given by humans. It is a type of autonomous network but still involves a concomitant human instruction chain. When we talk about howDD function, it is a whole new world filled with fascinating technologies at disposal. It is this intriguing experience that has pulled companies apart from those that make cars into the field, for e.g. Google's Waymo, Tesla, Uber. Apart from these, there are the usual car companies competing against the others like Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors.
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While it is easy to discuss automation, it is actually a complex and complicated process. At the first step, automation caters to the newly built structure and then at the second step it is also required for it to handle the automation of any upcoming upgrades. In this scenario, the car companies that are going for partial automation are protected from the complexity. But as in the case of those raging to level 1, it is inevitable to build a comprehensive autonomous network with an added functionality of adaptability. Everyone is in search of immediate expertise and fast completion but this strategy is hardly of any use when working with autonomous networks. It is paramount that an autonomous network is built with utmost care and precision to avoid unexpected failures.


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The feature will be globally available on Android in the coming days.
Starting today, Instagram is launching a new feature designed to help you continue to view the content on Instagram while reducing the amount of data you use on your phone.
With this opt-in mode for Android only, you can view your content on Instagram with reduced image loading time, by reducing the amount of data that Instagram uses on your mobile phone.
How It Works: You'll now have three customizable options when for viewing high-resolution media and pre-loading videos. Go to "Settings," then "Account," then "Cellular Data Use" - and then you will be able to turn this setting on, which will prevent the loading of videos and high-resolution media in advance. Once this setting is enabled, you'll be able to choose among three options for how Instagram will show you high-resolution media including "Never," "Wi-Fi Only," and "Cellular + Wi-Fi".
Instagram noticed that people have different data usage patterns and plans, so the idea is to retain more users on the app with this new feature. This is also primarily meant to give more people the ability to connect with the people and interests they view on Instagram and provide an uninterrupted Instagram browsing experience to people in slow internet areas, while using less data. This feature will be globally available on Android in the coming days.


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WHY can't operation carry?
Yhx Yhx wrote: > f.png Why sourcecode as picture? Do it this way:
[vhdl] your VHDL code [/vhdl]
Where's the code for the full adder? Is it working?
Why do you have a full adder as a component, and why do you also use the
'+' operator?
> f2.png
What are the signals in there? You should have the signal names in the
screenshot? Or ist is a riddle for us to assign the signals to the
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I'm sorry The "BCD.txt" is my code, and my full adder is work correctly. What should i revise for this problem? Thanks a lot.


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New Queensland Reds coach Nick Stiles believes he can help the beleaguered franchise turn things around quickly and win Super Rugby's Australian conference next year.
Stiles has been appointed the Reds' full-time head coach, having shared the position on an interim basis with Matt O'Connor since round two this season.
The former Wallabies prop spent his entire playing career at Ballymore and has been on the books of the Reds as an assistant for the past six years.
Stiles will take charge of a squad laden with plenty of promising young players - many of whom he has had a direct hand in developing.
And some of the squad have depth of experience, such as incoming recruits Stephen Moore, George Smith and almost certainly Quade Cooper.
While the Reds haven't made the finals since 2013, Stiles believes there's no reason why that can't change immediately.
"The most important thing for us next year is we win our conference," Stiles told reporters on Tuesday.
"If you do that it means you're playing finals football and that's what we're here to do."
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Stiles beat out O'Connor, who has been released to pursue other head coaching opportunities, outgoing Crusaders boss Todd Blackadder and former England mentor Stuart Lancaster for the position.
He was also warmly endorsed by the Reds playing group and Wallabies coach Michael Cheika, who said he will serve as a mentor for Stiles going forward.
"It's an area we're looking to invest a lot more in, coaching around the country at all levels that flow into players playing at their best either for their state, province or the nation," Cheika said.
"With Nick taking over there ... I'm sure he's going to step up and do that really well and he'll have all of our support in the background so that they can be successful, as do all the Super Rugby teams."
Stiles, who coached back-to-back National Rugby Championship titles with Brisbane City, concedes the Reds have a mountain of work to do to become a Super Rugby force again.
Top of the agenda is improving Queensland's ball skills, and instrumental to that is the Australian Rugby Union's appointment of former All Blacks guru Mick Byrne as national skills coach.
"I first spoke to Mick Byrne a couple of months ago, we had a good chat in the stands (at Ballymore) watching the Wallabies train," Stiles said.
"From that, it was really pleasing to talk to him and discover we've got very similar passions around that individual skill focus and having Mick on board and based here at Ballymore is going to be a great asset to have."


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Artist: NAZARETH
Album: "THE NEWZ (CD)"
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One of the most influential rock bands from the UK, certainly the most important hard rock band from Scotland, Nazareth have delivered powerful rock music with no frills for nearly 40 years always delivering their music with an integrity and passion that their loyal fans could always rely on. They had various rock hits in the late `70s, including the proto-power ballad "Love Hurts" (one of the most famous rock ballads of pop rock history).Released in 1975, their classic album `Hair of the Dog' established Nazareth as an internationally popular hard rock band. Featuring their revamped version of the Everly Brothers' `Love Hurts' (one of the cases where the cover overshadows the original and it becomes "the classic version"). The album sold over a million copies in the U.S. Until the end of the `70s, the band continued successfully as a quartet, releasing a series of Top 100 albums. During the `80s Nazareth survived the hype of synth pop music thanks to their notorious hard work on the road, touring constantly despite of the trends. The 90s were better years for the band, critics started to recognize their value again, especially after many hip bands declared their love for Nazareth. Axl Rose and Guns N' Roses never made any mystery of their love for Nazareth (it's obvious how big is the influence of singer Dan McCafferty on Rose). GNR even released a cover version of "Hair of the Dog" on their album "The Spaghetti Incident".In 1999, Nazareth resurfaced yet again with `Boogaloo', until tragedy entered the picture. On the first date of the tour drummer Darrel Sweet died of a heart attack and the band vowed to never release an album after the tragic event... until now.In February 2008 a new album was released on the Hamburg based label Edel Entertainment entitled The Newz. The release of the album coincided with Nazareth's 40th anniversary tour which started on 25 January in Sweden and visits most of Europe, finishing on the 4 November in Norway.In 2008, thanks to the addition of Lee Agnew (son of bassist Pete Agnew) to the line up, Nazareth are ready to prove they are still on top form, ready to rock again as this was only the start...TRACKLIST:01. Goin' Loco 02. Day At The Beach 03. Liar 04. See Me 05. Enough Love 06. Warning 07. Mean Streets 08. Road Trip 09. Gloria 10. Keep On Travellin' 11. Loggin' On 12. Gathering 13. Dying Breed LINE-UP:Dan McCafferty – lead vocals Jimmy Murrison – guitar Pete Agnew – bass Lee Agnew – drums


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Game Pile: Hustle Cat
Hustle Cat is a 2016 Visual Novel by Date Nighto, which might normally get put in the 'otome' game category, except it's kind of deliberately not using that particular trope set. The story follows Avery Grey, a pronouns-of-your-choice (they for this review) human form that, as seems to be a trend so far, interrupts their life of Not Doing Anything at home by getting a job at a cat cafe. This cafe is staffed entirely by painfully cute people, and you wind up smooching one of them (or dead, or worse).
Did I say dead? Don't worry about it.
As with most games of its type, talking about plot specifics would involve digging into narrative spoilers, which I'm normally happy to do, but in the case of a Visual Novel is pretty much the content you turned up for.
You can get Hustle Cat on itch.io and Steam. It's a more expensive title here in Australia – $30, and the US price is $20. This puts it in the higher price bracket of visual novels, comparable to a Danganronpa game, which have voice acting, animation and mini-games. Without those other 'game' bits to recommend them, Hustle Cat offers itself to you as a very pure experience of here are hot characters, you can smooch them.
Some folk like Visual Novels because being a fan of Visual Novels is cheap. There's a bunch of good free ones, there's a few that are good and cheap, and there are some – very few – that actually crest into this space. For me, the VN has always been an entity of the affordable, and that means part of me recoils at paying that much for it. What if I don't like it? the fear creeps in the back of my mind. Visual Novels, more than other games don't have much to engage you except characters and story, and that means that this not-small purchase has to live or die on whether or not those are good.
With that in mind, I'd like to tell you why Hustle Cat is really good.
Hustle Cat sets its tone clearly when it lets you pick your pronouns – and even tells you that you can change them any time you want. It allows for he/him, she/her, and they/them, but it also doesn't actually attach a gender to that – characters never call you a girl, or a boy. You can be an enby who uses he/him or a girl who uses they/them. This is due to some awareness in the planning stages, and it serves the game well.
Hustle Cat's protagonist, Avery Grey is an explicit attempts to push back against the too-generic VN Protagonist that I see mostly as a convention of Japanese porn games rather than the English Language Visual Novel scene. Avery's a sweet character, and the world they inhabit is basically a much nicer version of the world we live in. One of my favourite details about Avery is that despite the overwhelming power over their life that the Cat Cafe seems to potentially have, there's no official reprimand or use of that power I ever see. The problem of doing poorly at work, or the rewards for doing well are completely meaningless – Avery cares about not disappointing their coworkers.
There's an interesting conversation to be had in this game about how you're trying to anticipate the game's idea of what it thinks you should be doing. I'm used to Visual Novels being pretty obtuse about finding routes, and with many of them the only real choice is to replay them and to make the opposite choice to what you did last time, pursuing something that makes the game react differently. I'm not a fan of this, but in Hustle Cat they lean into it – if your only option is to play the game six times, they'll try to make all six character options not dreadful, unlike a lot of VNs with their obligatory One Total Asshole character count. This makes Hustle Cat a hypertextual game, where each path's plot is informed by replaying the game, and knowledge of how other characters are living their lives gleaned from playing their route helps to inform you about what characters' behaviour really is. Graves' behaviour is by most standards bad, but when you see the outcomes of how it relates to the characters' lives, you might think otherwise.
Look, there's a lot in this game that I could unpack and talk about at length. There's a whole bunch of fascinating stuff put into this game and while I'd love to do it, there's only so much time. This blog isn't the Hustle Cat Show, after all. As with other series I've talked about and loved, Hustle Cat is a game with a strong, consistant framework for what it considers a good relationship, the appropriate use of violence, and acceptable uses of power. It's a Light Novel plot of a game, and it benefits from that rather than rails against it.
There's a list of things I wanted to talk about. Like seriously, here's the list:
- The game has a motif of being your own savior, but it also shows every character as someone rescued by someone else.
- There's a message undercurrent in the whole story about attaining power, and the ways to do it that are both legitimate and illegitimate.
- How who you are connects to how your power expresses itself. It presents an essentialism of self, expressed through magic.
- How do spaces exist to rules of the universe? What's the identity of a building to magic?
- The use of crossfades as sleep leading to a narrative following an extremely sleepy character.
- The literal power of trash
- The use of media as a way to communicate power – there's an undercurrent message of the literal power of words as containers of ideas.
- The notion of the curse and what, in this game, it does or doesn't mean.
- Acceptable violations of trust and exploitation.
See that? That's a big list! There's a lot to get into there! That's a podcast series worth of topics to get into! It would be a fool's errand to say that this game is simple.
Now, with all of that in mind, I'd like to tell you why Hustle Cat made me feel awful.
There's some small complaints. You know, no game is beef-free. Hustle Cat does not emerge unbeefed. One of my biggest beefs is the interface – it's hard to play quickly. You either have to rush the interface and miss bits, or you have to sit and wait for the slowly scrolling, timed text. I can understand why a director wants to control how the text is presented, but give me an option to speed it up.
And then after finishing the game and reading the wikis to see what I missed, I started to pick at the edges of my feelings. I started to wonder about it. Then I got thinking about things and examining my feelings and… and the cracks started to show.
First of all, there's the fact (spoiler!) that you don't get to see what kind of cat Avery becomes. I personally found this entirely acceptable – I didn't care, because to me, the alluring (hah) thrill of 'what if I turned into a cat' just isn't there. The story lacking in transformation for the player is a mark against it honestly. Transformation stories are normally a place for energetic consideration of gender themes, a thing that a lot of trans people relate to, which I know would be a selling point for my friends.
I mean, I also don't care about coffee, something the game makes a point of showcasing, and talks about getting to like coffee as a sign of a mature palate.
And if I'm going to be totally honest, the date options really aren't for me.
I mean…
Landry is like someone tried to make a character for me, or based on me, but grossly misinterpreted who I am, I want to kick Reese down the stairs, Graves is twice your age and as someone in his thirties I am extremely sensitive to that, Mason is hot but I feel she wants a girlfriend more than an enbyfriend or boyfriend and I don't actually feel a need to change her to date her, Hayes just has these flashing words over his head screaming I AM WORK THAT NEEDS DOING, and the Finley ending takes a single moment to make a special point about how superhero secret identities are bad, which, I – I mean, why would you take time out of your narrative to make that point.
It's like a personal attack.
Hell, in this game about dating someone who can turn into a cat, I didn't actually want to date or kiss anyone in the story except Avery, which is kind of awkward, because they never do.
Ultimately, this game isn't for me, and I didn't feel welcomed in it, and I didn't like the person it thought I was, but that's fine, because this game is overwhelmingly not for me. This game is systemically decent, crafted of the highest quality, and the fact it made me feel alienated, weird, damaged and alone is not the game's problem. It's my problem.
I liked this game more as a performance to do – showing my friends screenshots out of context. Watching as they liked these characters, as they thrilled at them. Watching as I could show them hey, this game about dating this person exists, and you can get it, that was fun. Genuinely, genuinely fun.
Then I stopped doing that, for spoilers' sake, and I started being in the story on my own. Alone with myself, thinking about how this game made me feel.
And I kind of felt like shit.
Strong recommendation, huh?
It's not the game's fault. Trust me, this game is a good game. It is really high quality. If you find yourself drawn to the visual aesthetic, you are going to find the rest of it works. You'd need the highly specific problems I do to really find the experience bad. Do not look at this game and think Talen felt bad when he played Hustle Cat, so it's Hustle Cat's fault.
Really, Hustle Cat is very much Queer Cutie media, and it's that very specific kind of Queer Cuties. It's a game that spreads its arm wide for the people like it and gives you a lot of game for your buck, and it's full of beautiful art and lovely pictures of cute cats. Its story is all about that Queer Cutie space, and it seems that as much as it makes me feel bad, if you're one of the people reading this, it will probably sing to your soul.
Check this game out, watch some Let's Plays, and seriously consider buying it. This is good smooch media. You should look at it and see how you like it.


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Archives: June 2013
Smoked Salmon Sandwich
Sometimes, it's the simple things in life that make us happy. This smoked salmon sandwich is one of them. Crusty bread lightly toasted, a layer of sour cream, lots of smoked salmon, and a few veggies. Tasty, filling, and healthy.
Makes 1 sandwich
2 thick slices of a crusty bread, lightly toasted
2 tablespoons Lilly Sour Cream
2oz smoked salmon (more…)
Fresh Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream Dill Dressing
A simple, refreshing salad, perfect for summer al fresco dining.
Makes 4 servings
1/2 cup Lilly sour cream
Juice from 1 lemon
2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper (more…)