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Shop / Dishes / Mini Heart Trinket Dish
Mini Heart Trinket Dish
These ceramic dishes are handmade, stamped and glazed. They are kiln fired, food safe and dishwasher safe.
They are a great little wedding or engagement gift to be used for rings or earrings; perfect on the window sill.
This item measures 2″
These are sold individually.
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The Last Tuesday Society invites you to join us on Tuesday 13th March for a look at the Cultural History of Absinthe with author Phil Baker.
Beginning with the 1905 Absinthe Murders, Phil Baker's book offers a cultural history of absinthe, from its modest origins as a herbal tonic through its luxuriantly morbid heyday in the late nineteenth century. Along with a number of fascinating but little known characters, who often died young, the absinthe scrapbook contains Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Aleister Crowley, Arthur Machen, Strindberg, Alfred Jarry, Van Gogh, Toulouse- Lautrec, Alphonse Allais, Ernest Hemingway and Picasso.
The Last Tuesday Society's full menu of this infamous green spirit will be available on the night.
Phil Baker is a writer and reformed absinthe drinker based in London. As well as absinthe, he has written books on Austin Osman Spare, William S Burroughs, Dennis Wheatley and Samuel Beckett, and more recently co-edited Lord of Strange Deaths: The Fiendish World of Sax Rohmer.


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Games and Activities for Mother's Day
Jigsaw Puzzles with a Mother's Day theme at three different levels.
for Mom - Online Coloring. Color the roses online and then print
to give to Mom. You can also print them as they are and color with crayons
or colored pencils. (flash)
Find the Differences Game: Find seven differences between the two pictures before time runs out.
Flower Drop Line up three of the same flowers to score and remove them from the game board. Don't let the flower tiles reach the top of the game board. (java applet)
Row Swapping Puzzle: Solve the puzzle by swapping the rows and the columns of the scrambled picture.
9- Piece Tile Swap Puzzle: Swap the puzzle pieces to put the picture back together. 36-Piece Tile Swap Puzzle
Flowers Off the Edge: Keep the flowers from reaching the edges of the play area.
M-O-T-H-E-R The letters that spell out the word "MOTHER" are hidden in the kitchen. Click on each letter as you find it. Let's really try to keep Mom out of the kitchen on Mother's Day (Javascript)
Mother's Day Dress-Up Bear Let's get Mom out of those sweats! Oh, unless that's what she feels like wearing. Use the mouse to drag the clothes on the Mamma Bear. This game was requested by Carly Bell. (Javascript)
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Accessible Accommodation
Chestnut Cottage – Sleeps 7
Downstairs – wide entrance hall, twin bedroom separate wheel-in-shower room with toilet (lever taps, and hand rails).
Open plan kitchen/diner/sitting room with patio doors leading to sun room and back door to fenced patio overlooking garden and pond.
Upstairs – galleried landing leading to twin bedroom and en-suite bathroom.
Maple Cottage – Sleeps 4
Downstairs – wide entrance hall, twin bedroom, single bedroom, wheel-in-shower room and toilet (lever taps, hand rails).
Open plan kitchen/diner/sitting room with patio doors leading to sun room and back door to fenced patio overlooking garden and pond.
Upstairs – galleried landing leading to one twin bedroom, one double bedroom and a separate bathroom.
Oak Cottage – Sleeps 7
Downstairs – wide entrance hall, twin bedroom, single bedroom, wheel-in-shower room and toilet (lever taps, hand rails).
Open plan kitchen/diner/sitting room with patio doors leading to sun room and back door to fenced patio overlooking garden and pond.
Upstairs – galleried landing leading to one twin bedroom, one double bedroom and a separate bathroom.
Disability Equipment
Special Needs/Disability Friendly Holidays
We have been accommodating the less mobile guest and wheelchair users for over 15 years. Individual needs will be catered for wherever possible.
Please feel you can discuss your requirements at the time of booking.
Other specialised equipment can be hired by guests locally and arrangements made for it to be in your cottage ready for your arrival.
Please discuss with Proprietors before ordering.
Please request that Ableworld ring proprietors direct as to when they can gain access to set up.
On guests day of departure Ableworld MUST take their equipment away by 10.30am.
Ableworld 01743 369427
Guide dogs ONLY by prior arrangement.
Guest Reviews
We are passionate about providing our less able guests with the best of service and facilities and all three cottages are designed and equipped to accommodate their needs.
The Newton Meadows team love to read the guest book comments; here are a sample of some recent entries.
Chestnut Cottage – Sleeps 4
July 2019
A really lovely place to stay, breaking our journey between Oxfordshire and the Llyn Peninsula. Chestnut Cottage provided everything we needed for a stay with our daughter in a wheelchair. The grounds and surrounding footpaths have given us a perfect introduction to a very picturesque part of the world. But, most of all, it's the people here we're most grateful to. Out "last minute" booking could not have been handled more smoothly or kindly by Lesley, and Bill and Janice have been so friendly, kind and considerate. A warm welcome was much appreciated- thank you everyone.
October 2018
As we both suffer from allergies it is such a relief to stay in a cottage without pot pourri, air fresheners, reed diffusers etc. etc,! Just fresh air – wonderful! We love the view from the sun lounge – wish we had such a lovely view at home.
August 2018
What a gem! So pleased Sally found this lovely location. You could not have been more welcoming or obliging. The cleanliness, convenience and facilities are excellent. The children have been in their element, able to run, play and explore in safety. It has been ideal for a family re-union. We've had such a good time and I am sure you'll see us all again fairly soon. If you'll have us. Many thanks for your thoughtfulness too.
July 2018
Up from Plymouth visiting family in the area. What an absolute gem of a place. Cottage is 1st class and the warm welcome we experienced has made me not wanting to go home. The view is outstanding watching the sun setting each night and so peaceful. Can't wait to come back. Thank you.
Maple Cottage – Sleeps 7
July 2019
Thank you for the welcome. The area is beautiful and plenty to do nearby or down the road. Hope to return at some point.
June 2019
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay – again – cottage is superb, facilities superb, lovely welcome and nothing too much trouble. Thank you – we will definitely stay again.
May 2019
Great little cottage as a base! Clean and tidy, very spacious and a lovely garden. Warm and comfy. Thank you for a lovely stay.
October 2018
Lovely Cottages! A great stay. Thank you!
August 2018
What a lovely holiday home. Home is the operative word. We felt so at home from the start. Thank you for all those little touches that make it so special and the wonderful garden, pond and wood. Absolutely fabulous. Thank you so much. We had a wonderful 4 days.
August 2018
Thank you for a lovely stay! We have been very comfortable. Cottage is spotless and there has been everything we needed. Highly recommended. Thank you for being so friendly and hospitable. We hope to visit again (even though this was my third time here).
August 2018
What an amazing place to stay with our family for a wedding at Pimhill Barn. The cottages had everything we needed to cater from ages 5 months to 88 years! Amazing grounds which everyone enjoyed exploring. We would love to come back again. Thanks for everything!
July 2018
Thank you for a wonderful stay! Fantastic cottage and a great opportunity to meet with family. A lovely wedding at Clive and reception at Shooters Hill Hall. We will certainly like to come again!
July 2018
Thank you for a wonderful stay at Maple Cottage! Bill was very welcoming and accommodating and having a wheelchair user with us, did everything he could to make our time as enjoyable and as convenient as possible – we were all so thankful! We came here for a long weekend for a stag do and the people and place definitely did not disappoint. We all thoroughly enjoyed our time here. We would recommend Maple cottage to anyone for whatever occasion it may be and once again thanks to all the staff for a wonderful stay and your hospitality.
Oak Cottage – Sleeps 7
July 2019
Stayed for a few days for our niece's wedding at Pimhill Barn. Arrived too early but still given a lovely welcome and served coffee by the pond. Gorgeous surroundings and friendly people. Will definitely recommend to friends and family. Ate twice at the Red Lion in Myddle and enjoyed each time ***
June 2019
Lovely place, very friendly staff, had a nice stay.
May 2019
Our family stayed in Oak and Chestnut for our daughter's wedding at Pimhill Barn just down the road. We also used the Garden Room for 3 days so that our daughter's friend could prepare all the flowers for the wedding. It was a perfect location for us all and worked really well as Newton Meadows is so close to Pimhill Barn. Lovely gardens too for some pre wedding photos!
Thanks very much all the team at Newton Meadows who were so helpful.
April 2019
Another enjoyable visit for all the family. We've managed to see a few National Trust properties and Ironbridge Gorge. Weather hot and sunny over Easter weekend.
October 2018
A lovely warm cottage. Very well equipped, extremely clean, loved our stay here. Many thanks.
August 2018
We had a most lovely stay in your cottages and will recommend them to friends & family, and you make people very welcomed. We will love to visit again.
July 2018
We had a lovely stay here. We had a group staying over for a wedding, we were glad to be staying in such a beautiful part of the country. The gardens are stunning and the cottage clean and comfy. Thoroughly enjoyed our stay & hope to be back soon!


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Former Governor Of Bihar and lawyer, Ram Nath Kovind is the 14th President elect, winning with a huge margin.
Samyak Sheth & Heer Khant
The NDA-backed Presidential candidate, Ram Nath Kovind has won over two-thirds of votes cast by an electoral college of MPs and lawmakers. He secured 65.65% of votes, getting 7,02,044 votes value while Meira's votes have a value of 3,67,314 in the electoral college. The total vote value of the votes is 10,98,903.
Ram Nath Kovind was nominated by BJP- led National Democratic alliance. A total number of 4,896 people cast their vote on Monday to choose between two Presidential candidates. Out of the 4896, 4120 were MLAs and 776 were MPs.
Kovind has won very easily without any barriers from the opposition candidate Meira Kumar, who is a former Lok Sabha Speaker and was backed by a 17 member-bloc of opposition parties.
This poll saw the highest ever number of voter turnout that stood at 99%. The polling was held simultaneously at 32 polling points.
Celebrations are in full swing in Kanpur, near Kovind's home who had an easy win.
Kovind will be sworn in as the 14th President of India at July 25. He is 71 years old.
He will be the first person from RSS and from Uttar Pradesh to occupy a seat at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Here are 10 points you need to know about him:
1. Ram Nath Kovind is currently the Governor Bihar and has been in this position for three years since August 8, 2015.
2. Kovind belongs to the Dalit community.
3. He was born on October 1, 1945 in Kanpur.
4. He is the former president of BJP's scheduled castes morcha.
5. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh in April 1994. He served two consecutive terms for 12 years till March 2006.
6. He represented India at the United Nations in New York 2002 and addressed the United Nation's General Assembly.
7. He was an advocate for the Central Government at Delhi High Court from 1977-1979. He was the Central Government's Standing Counsel in Supreme Court from 1980 to 1993. He practiced in Delhi High Court and Supreme Court for 16 years until 1993.
8. During his tenure in the Rajya Sabha he pressed the need for basic infrastructure for education in rural areas and aided in the construction of school buildings in Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand under MPLAD (Member of Parliament Local Area Development) Scheme.
9. He has served as the member of various Parliamentary Committees like Parliamentary Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment etc.
10. He was a member of the Board of Management of Dr. B.R Ambedkar University in Lucknow and a member of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
Quick Fact: Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was the only President of India who was appointed without contest.


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Selected books and broadcasting
Publishing and presenting
Planzer, S., & Lycka, M. (2019). A Gambling Lawyer's Perspective on Responsible Gambling. In H. J. Shaffer, A. Blaszczynski, R. Ladouceur, D. Fong & P. Collins (eds.), Responsible Gambling: Primary Stakeholder Perspectives. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Planzer, S., & Gall, F. (2019). Practical Licensing Guide: Switzerland. GamblingCompliance, 30 April 2019.
Planzer, S. (2017). Anti-Money Laundering and Online Gambling: Guidance on How to Implement Broad and Indistinct AML Notions in Regulatory Practice. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3048303.
Planzer, S. (2015). Gambling Law. In C. Baudenbacher (ed.), Handbook on EEA Law. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Planzer, S. (2015). New Swiss Gaming Act under Parliamentarian Scrutiny. GamblingCompliance, 30. November 2015.
Planzer, S. (2014). Switzerland: A controversial draft gaming act. European Gaming Lawyer, pp. 23-24.
Planzer, S. (2014). Glücksspiel-Regulierung und Glücksspiel-Sucht: Annahmen und Fakten. Die Nationale Glücksspielsucht-Forschung im Lichte des internationalen empirischen Erkenntnisstands (Gambling Regulation and Gambling Addiction: Assumptions and Facts). Bern: Weblaw (in German).
Planzer, S. (2014). Empirical Views on European Gambling Law and Addiction. Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation (Vol. I). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
"Simon Planzer's book "Empirical Views on European Gambling Law and Addiction" is a wonderful example of the application of evidence-based thought to gaming regulation and policy. Such analytic and well written work is essential if gaming regulation hopes to achieve policy goals. One hopes that it will find a place on every policy maker's bookshelf."
Anthony N. Cabot, Partner at Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP, Las Vegas, Former President of the International Masters of Gaming Law, Adjunct Faculty Member, Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Author and editor of numerous books and journals in the field of gaming law.
Planzer, S., Grey, H., & Shaffer, H. (2014). Associations between national gambling policies and disordered gambling prevalence rates within Europe. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 37(2), advance online publication 23 December 2013.
Planzer, S., & Wardle, H. (2012). What We Know about the Impact of Advertising on Disordered Gambling. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 3(4), pp. 588-594.
Planzer, S., & Wardle, H. (2012). What We Know about the Comparative Effectiveness of Gambling Regulation. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 3(3), pp. 410-416.
Planzer, S., & Wardle, H. (2011). The Comparative Effectiveness of Regulatory Approaches and The Impact of Advertising on Propensity for Problem Gambling. Report prepared for the Responsible Gambling Fund. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=204505.
Planzer, S. (2010). The ECJ on Gambling Addiction – Absence of an Evidence-Oriented Approach. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 1(3), pp. 289-295.
Planzer, S., et al. Division on Addictions Creates Data Repository. World Online Gambling Law Report, 8(3).
Planzer, S. (2009). Liga Portuguesa – The ECJ and Its Mysterious Way of Reasoning. European Law Reporter, 12(11), pp. 368-374.
Planzer, S. (2007). Place Your Bets – Towards a Policy of Responsible Gambling. European Law Reporter, 10(6), p. 206.
Planzer, S. (2007). Les Jeux Ne Sont Pas (Encore) Faits. European Law Reporter, 10(4), p. 126.


text: Show Hide image Politics 23 August 2012 How Occupy changed us The Occupy movement has changed the way we encounter every part of the city of New York. Sign-up The young man is reaching down to cup the bull's testicles in his outstretched hand while also twisting his face back towards the camera to capture the sheer rad-ness of his iconoclasm. The charging bull of Bowling Green Park is the symbol of Wall Street and today a crowd has gathered around it as if it were a sacred shrine. It is not a work of art that courts subtle responses. The bull's nose, horns and tail have been rubbed to a burnished shine; it is a neoliberal relic with powers to turn the average Joe into a master of the universe. A year ago, in a poster that spread across the city, the bull was shown at the head of a phalanx of rampaging riot police barrelling out of the surrounding mist; on top of the bull's back perched a ballet dancer on points. The poster asked the question: "What is our one demand?" Then it offered the hashtag #occupywallstreet and a date, 17 September, and the enigmatic instruction: "Bring tent." A few blocks north up Broadway is Zuccotti Park where, that September morning, the Occupiers started their protest, having crossed over Brooklyn Bridge and entered Manhattan, their route to the nearby One Chase Manhattan Plaza blocked. Part of me was hoping to find a last resistance still standing, a resolute rump returned to the site of former victories to keep the flame alight. However, when I reached the park, the space was filled with people but none of them were here to protest. Many were enjoying the shade under the trees planted in regimented rows. From here, one could get a clear view of the new World Trade Center reaching into the sky on the eastern corner. A large group gathered around a troop of street entertainers, who were encouraging members of the audience to step into the circle while the rest of the group rhythmically clapped. The spirit of revolution was decidedly absent. Street music At the top of the steps, a single guitarist strummed against the noise with a placard that read: "Protest is to be against something. Resistance is to do something about it." South, past Trinity Church, I encountered a small group of four men who had covered a shopping trolley with cardboard banners telling us that "Jesus will Occupy" and: "Support the troops, bring them home." This was a long way from what I was expecting. Had the Occupy movement been so effectively wiped from the landscape? Discreetly on one wall I found a notice from the landowners clearly recently affixed –which listed prohibitions for users of this "privately owned space that is designed and intended for use and enjoyment by the general public for passive recreation". These include the banning of tents, lying on the ground, the placement of sleeping bags, the storage of personal property, the use of bicycles, skateboards and Rollerblades. The protests lasted from 17 September to 15 November and barriers remained around the park until 10 January this year. Today, it is almost impossible to see that anything happened here at all. Throughout history, protests have rarely been commemorated in the places they occurred. Only if the rebels win are their first actions immortalised. But this was different, wasn't it? The relationship between the Occupy movement and the city is intense. The taking of Zuccotti Park, as well as St Paul's churchyard in London, revealed the secret dangers of allowing public spaces to be privately owned to this extent. Our cities have increasingly become places of conditional liberty –where you can be stopped from taking photographs, where legitimate gatherings are bustled off the pavement, where you can be thrown out of the shopping mall for wearing a baseball cap, where private companies are collecting data about you without you knowing. By taking land back – even for a few weeks – the Occupy movement has changed the way we encounter every part of the city, not just where the tents once stood. The protest has become a defence of the whole public realm and is not just about preserving the memory of what happened at Zuccotti Park or St Paul's churchyard alone. Living memory Rather than looking for auto-icons – such as the banners and posters that were assiduously collected by the Museum of London after the Met raid on St Paul's churchyard in January –we should look at how far the protest has extended elsewhere, feeding into the ways that we treat the city. There is no need for memorials yet. Leo Hollis's latest book is "The Stones of London: a History in Twelve Buildings" (Phoenix, £14.99) Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 27 August 2012 issue of the New Statesman, The end of the political cartoon? SUBSCRIBE More


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The 7 biggest unsolved mysteries in science.
Turbulence isn't a new word. You're probably more familiar with it as the word that describes the sudden bumpiness during a flight. However, turbulence in fluid mechanics is a whole different ball game. Flight turbulence, more technically referred to as 'clear-air turbulence', is caused due to the meeting of two bodies of air moving at different speeds. Physicists, however, have a much tougher time explaining this phenomena of turbulence in fluids. Mathematicians have nightmares about it.
Fluid turbulence is all around us. The jet from a tap that's turned on completely breaks into chaotic patches of fluid, different from the unified stream of jet we get when we only half open it. This is one of the classical examples of turbulence and is used to explain it to school students and graduates alike. Turbulence is ubiquitous in nature, occurring in various geophysical and oceanic flows. It's also of importance to engineers as it occurs frequently in flow over turbine blades, aerofoils and other bodies. Turbulence is characterised by random fluctuations in variables like velocity and pressure.
While there have been plenty of experiments and empirical data regarding turbulence, we're still far from a convincing theory about what precisely triggers turbulence in a fluid, how it is controlled, and what exactly lends it order through chaos. Making the problem even more difficult to tackle is the fact that the equations governing the motion of a fluid ? namely the Navier-Stokes equations ? are notoriously hard to analyse. Scientists resort to high performance computing techniques, along with experiments and theoretical simplifications to study the phenomena, but a complete theory of turbulence is still lacking, making fluid turbulence one of the most important unsolved problems in physics today. In fact, Nobel laureate, Richard Feynman, declared it as "the most important unsolved problem in classical physics." Quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg, when asked what he would ask God if given the opportunity, remarked: "I'll ask him two questions. Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer to the first."
A simulation snapshot showing turbulence in a jet
We got a chance to speak to Padma Vibushan recipient, Prof. Roddam Narasimha and this is what he had to say: "To this day we are unable to predict the simplest turbulent flows starting from the first principles of mechanics like Newton's laws, without ever appealing to experimental data about the flow itself. For example, it's not currently possible to predict the pressure loss in a pipe in which the flow is turbulent, but it's known thanks to clever use of data at some level obtained in experiments. The basic issue is that the turbulent flow problems we are interested in are almost always highly non-linear, and the mathematics for handling such highly non-linear problems does not seem to exist. There has been a widespread view among many physicists that whenever a new problem arises in their subject, it appears that somehow, like magic, the mathematics required for it is found to have already been invented. The problem of turbulence provides a counter-example to this rule. The laws governing the problem are well known and, for simple incompressible fluids under normal conditions, are embodied in the avier-Stokes equations. But the solutions remain unknown. It is clear therefore that current mathematics is singularly ineffective in solving the problem of turbulence. As Richard Feynman put it, turbulence remains the greatest unsolved problem in classical Physics."
Such is the importance of turbulence studies that a whole new generation of computing techniques have spawned in its wake. Solving, or even coming close to a theory of turbulence will allow science to make better weather predictions, design power efficient automobiles and aircraft and have a better understanding of various natural phenomena.
The Origin of Life
We've always been obsessed with studying about the possibility of life on other planets, but another question that has baffled scientists even more is how exactly did life as we know it originate on Earth? Though answering this question will have little practical application, the path to the answer could lead to several interesting discoveries in fields varying from microbiology to astrophysics.
Scientists believe that the key to understanding the origin of life could be in finding out how two of life's characteristic features - reproduction and genetic transfer ? could have begun as processes involving molecules that have the ability to replicate. This led to the formation of the popular 'primordial soup' theory, according to which the early Earth somehow had a mixture, a sort of broth of molecules, that were energised by solar energy and electrical storms. Over a long period of time, these molecules would have reacted to form the more complex organic structures that make up life. This theory was buoyed by the famous Miller-Urey experiment, wherein the duo succeeded in creating amino acid by passing electrical discharges through a blend of simpler elements such as methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen. The discovery of DNA and RNA, however, doused the initial excitement as it seemed impossible that the complex and elegant structure of DNA could have risen from a primitive soup of chemicals.
A school of thought exists that believes that the early world was an RNA world rather than a DNA one. RNA was found to have the ability to speed up reactions and remain unchanged and to replicate and store genetic material. But in order for RNA to be hailed as the original replicator of life instead of DNA, scientists would have to find evidence of elements that could form nucleotides - the building blocks of the RNA molecule. The glitch is that nucleotides are extremely difficult to produce, even in a lab's controlled environment. Again, a primordial soup seems incapable of creating these molecules. This conundrum led to another school of thought that believed that the essential organic molecules present in primitive life have an extra-terrestrial origin and were shipped to Earth from outer space via meteors, leading to the development of the 'panspermia' theory. Another possible explanation could be the 'Iron-Sulphur world' theory that proposes that life on earth has a deep sea origin, spawning from chemical reactions that occur in highly pressurised hot water found near hydrothermal vents with a volcanic nature.
It's quite remarkable that even after a good 200-odd years post industrialisation we're still not close to finding out how our Earth gave birth to life. There's been massive interest in this problem from research groups in interdisciplinary sciences, resulting in several initiatives to carry out directed research in solving one of science's biggest mysteries.
Protein Folding
A trip down memory lane will take us back to high school chemistry/physics class where we all learnt (mostly by rote) that proteins are extremely important molecules and are the building blocks of life. Protein molecules are made up of amino acid sequences that influence their structure and, in turn, determine the specific action of the protein. How a protein folds and assumes a specific functional shape is a long-standing problem in science. It's even been declared by Science magazine as one of the biggest unsolved problems in science. The problem in essence includes three parts: 1. How exactly does a protein evolve into its final native structure? 2. Can we come up with a computational algorithm to predict the structure of a protein given its amino acid sequence? 3. Given the large number of possible conformations how exactly does a protein fold so quickly? Over the past few decades, significant progress has been made on all three fronts, however, scientists are still to completely decode the driving mechanisms and underlying principles governing protein folding.
During the process of folding, a large number of forces and interactions are at play, driving a protein to reach a state of lowest free energy possible which lends it stability. Due to the sheer complexity of the structure and the large number of force fields involved, it's difficult to understand the precise physics of a folding process beyond small proteins. The problem of structure prediction has been attacked by a combination of physics and powerful computers. While they've achieved success with small and relatively simple proteins, scientists still struggle with accurately predicting the folded shape of more complex multidomain proteins from its amino acid sequence, known as a 'priori'.
DNA-binding domain
To understand the process, imagine being at a crossroad with a 1,000 different roads going to the same destination and you choosing the path that took the least amount of time to get there. A similar, but larger scale problem is the kinetic mechanism of a protein folding to a specific state amidst many possible structures. It has been figured out that random thermal motions play a major role in the rapid nature of folding and that the protein 'zips' through conformations locally, avoiding unfavourable structures, the physical route is an open question ? solving which could also lead to faster algorithms for protein structure prediction.
The protein folding problem is arguably the hottest topic today in biochemical and biophysics research. The physics and computing algorithms developed for protein folding have led to the development of new man-made polymeric materials. Besides contributing to the growth of scientific computing, the problem has resulted in a better understanding of diseases like Type II Diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's - diseases in which protein misfolding plays a part. A better physical understanding of protein folding could not only lead to several breakthroughs in materials and biological sciences but could also revolutionise medicine.
A Quantum Theory of Gravity
We all know that an apple supposedly fell on Newton's head and led to the discovery of gravity. Suffice to say, the world wasn't the same anymore. Then came along Albert Einstein with his celebrated theory of general relativity. He re-imagined gravity as the distortion of space-time, the fabric that makes up the universe. Imagine a heavy ball on a stretched bedsheet and another smaller ball a little further away from it. The big ball would press down on the sheet depressing it, causing the smaller ball to be drawn towards it. Einstein's theory of gravity worked wonders and even explained the bending of light. However, when it came to sub-atomic particles governed by the law of quantum mechanics, the theory threw up all sorts of weird results. Developing a theory of gravity that can unify quantum mechanics and relativity, two of 20th century's most successful theories, has become the biggest research topic ever since.
This problem has birthed some new and exciting areas in physics and mathematics. The area that has gained the most traction is 'String theory'. String theory replaces the notion of particles with tiny vibrating strings that can assume various shapes. Each string can vibrate in a particular mode lending it a specific mass and spin. String theory is incredibly complicated and mathematically deals with ten dimensions in space-time ? six more than what humans can physically perceive. The theory has been successful in explaining many of the oddities of gravity's marriage with quantum mechanics and has been hailed as one of the top contenders for a 'theory of everything'.
Another theory for formulating quantum gravity is 'loop quantum gravity' (LQG). LQG is relatively less ambitious, in the sense that it primarily aims to be a consistent theory of gravity without trying to achieve any grand unification of sorts. LQG imagines space time to be comprised of fine fabric stitched from tiny loops, hence the name. Unlike string theory, LQG doesn't involve added dimensions.
While both the theories have their own upsides and flaws, the theory of quantum of gravity remains an unresolved question because neither of the two has been proved experimentally. Validating any of the above mentioned theories is a major challenge in experimental physics.
The theory of quantum gravity might not have any noticeable effect in our daily lives, but it will be a true testament of how far we've progressed in science and allow us to make leaps in fascinating futuristic areas such as black hole physics, time travel and wormholes.
Riemann Hypothesis
In an interview, distinguished number theorist, Terence Tao referred to prime numbers as the atomic elements of number theory, which of course is a spot-on characterisation. Prime numbers have no factors besides 1 and themselves and as such are the simplest construction elements of numbers. Prime numbers are also extremely erratic and follow no set pattern. A large number (product of two primes) is used to encrypt the millions of secure transactions processed online. The prime factorisation of this number currently takes practically forever. However, if we were somehow able to tame the seemingly random nature of primes and better understand how they work, we could allegedly come close to actually breaking the internet. Solving the 'Riemann Hypothesis' could bring us ten steps closer to understanding primes and could have major implications on banking, commerce and security.
As mentioned, primes aren't exactly known for being well behaved. What Bernhard Riemann did in 1859 was find out the number of primes that are less than a given number. Riemann's solution is related to a function called the 'Riemann Zeta' function and the related distribution of points on the integer number line for which the function becomes 0. The hypothesis is concerned with a special set of such points called 'non trivial zeros', which are supposed to lie on a critical line. This hypothesis has been verified for more than a billion such zeros and could unlock the mystery surrounding the distribution of prime numbers.
Bernhard Riemann
Anyone in the mathematics circle will be aware that the Riemann Hypothesis is one of the biggest unanswered problems there is. Not only will the solution have a huge impact on science and society, it will also guarantee the solver a million dollar prize. The Riemann hypothesis has been listed by the Clay Mathematics Institute (a private philanthropic foundation dedicated to mathematics) as one of the seven Millennium prize problems. The internet is rife with attempted proofs of the hypothesis, all of which have been rejected as valid proofs by the mathematics community. Rest assured, the internet is safe, for now.
The Survival Mechanisms of the Tardigrades
Tardigrades are a class of microorganisms found abundantly in nature in regions spanning most climatic zones and altitudes across our seven continents. But these are not your common microorganisms, they're creatures with such extreme survival skills that all those survival reality TV shows seem dull in comparison. Let's start with a fun fact - tardigrades are the first animals that could survive the dangerous vacuum of space. A bunch of these creatures orbited in outer space on the outside of a FOTONM3 rocket. They were bombarded with all sorts of cosmic radiations and plenty of them made the trip back home to tell us their story!
Not only are these organisms surprisingly suited for life in space, they can also withstand temperatures ranging from just above absolute zero to way above the boiling point of water. Also, sample this: they can survive vacuum as well as the pressure at Mariana Trench - 11 kilometres deep in the Pacific Ocean.
Studies have attributed some of these amazing powers to the tardigrades' ability to practice forms of cryptobiosis - a state in which metabolic activity is severely slowed down. This state, called desiccation, allows the creature to lose water and almost arrest all metabolism. When blessed with water, the tardigrade simply regains its rest state and moves on in life as if nothing happened. Sure, this ability can help it survive deserts and droughts, but how does it help this water bear survive in space or extreme temperatures?
In its desiccated form, the tardigrade performs some life-saving functions. A sugar molecule prohibits cellular expansion and anti-oxidants produced neutralise the threat posed by oxygen-reacting molecules present in outer space radiation. The anti-oxidants can help repair damaged DNA and this ability could explain the tardigrades' knack for surviving extreme pressures. While all these functions present clues to the secret of the tardigrade's superpowers, we understand very little about how the tardigrade functions on a molecular level. There's little evidence about its evolutionary history as well. Does its flair for outer space survival point to an extraterrestrial origin?
Research about tardigrades can have exciting implications. If cryonics became feasible, think of the applications! Medicines and tablets could be stored at room temperature and perhaps, we could design a super-suit designed for extreme exploration. Astrobiologists will be able to stretch their parameters to search for life outside Earth. If a microorganism on Earth could test nature's limit to such an extent, maybe there are such organisms on places like Jupiter's moons, lying in an unactivated state, just waiting to be discovered.
Dark energy and Dark matter
The study of matter on Earth is an allencompassing field. It's a pity that all matter known to us makes up just about 5% of the known universe! The rest of the universe is "dark" and its major constituents are aptly named 'dark matter' (~27%) and 'dark energy' (~68%).
Any list of unsolved problems in science is incomplete without the mention of the mystery of dark matter and dark energy. Dark energy is the proposed reason for the acceleration of the universe. In 1998, when two different research teams confirmed that the expansion of the universe was accelerating, it debunked the then popular notion of gravity slowing down the universe's expansion. Theorists had, and still have, a headache explaining this, and in grand fashion named the possible explanation as dark energy. So far, no real contender has emerged for a correct explanation of the form dark energy takes. Current solutions state that dark energy could be a property of space and lend empty space energy, or it could be a sort of space-filling fluid that somehow leads to the acceleration of the universe, in the way that 'normal' energy cannot.
Dark matter
Dark matter is weird. It interacts with almost nothing, not even light, making its detection very difficult. Dark matter was discovered when researchers found oddities in the dynamics of certain galaxies. The known mass of the galaxy couldn't explain the deviations and they concluded that some form of invisible matter with gravitational pull existed throughout the universe. Dark matter has never been directly detected, but scientists have however observed the effects of dark matter via gravitational lensing (bending of light due to gravitational interaction with invisible matter). Thank god for dark matter's gravitational pull!
The constituent of dark matter is one of the biggest problems in particle physics and cosmology today. Scientists are of the opinion that dark matter is made up of certain exotic particles called 'WIMP' (or 'Weakly Interacting Massive Particles') that owe their existence to a theory called 'Supersymmetry'. Scientists also postulate that dark matter could be made up of baryons. Baryonic dark matter could be 'MACHOs' (or 'Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects') like small black holes.
While both theories - dark matter and dark energy ? arise from our inability to explain some observed features of the universe, they're in essence competing forces of the cosmos and both attract massive funding for large scale experiments. Dark energy repels and dark matter attracts. The dominance of either force will decide if the universe will expand forever or be drawn towards itself and ultimately implode in a rather interesting, Big Bangtype event, christened the "Big Crunch". For now, however, we're truly in the dark about both theories.
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Since protests toppled President Askar Akayev last week, two rival parliaments - the outgoing assembly and the new - have vied for legitimacy.
But on Tuesday, the upper house of the old parliament dissolved, following the example of the lower house on Monday. It said it wanted to ensure stability.
The new interim President, Kurmanbek Bakiev, praised the assembly's action.
"You have taken the right and historic decision," said Mr Bakiev.
"I hope your decision will bring calm."
It was controversy over the polls which saw the new house elected that fuelled last week's popular uprising.
In the immediate aftermath of the protests, the Supreme Court annulled the poll results and said the previous parliament had authority. But Kyrgyzstan's electoral body backed the new assembly.
Mr Bakiev had initially supported the old parliament, but switched his support to the new as it pronounced him prime minister. He had already been designated interim prime minister, but this move further boosted his legitimacy.
Mr Bakiev has said he wants to hold presidential elections in three months' time, but the Speaker of the new parliament says such a vote could only be held after talks had been held with Mr Akayev, because he had not formally resigned.
It is not clear where Mr Akayev is. Mr Bakiev has said he would enjoy all appropriate legal and constitutional guarantees if he returned to Kyrgyzstan.


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Tips in Terms of Building a Gaming PC
It is possible that there are so many people who lack the knowledge and understanding when it comes to building their own gaming PC and ask how to get a gaming PC. Being able to understand and comprehend the things that matter is important, especially since there still are a number of people who think that custom building a PC is more expensive.
Make sure you are to take the advantage and read along to specifically learn more about the very specifics and items that matter when deciding to build a gaming PC. Taking the advantage of these guides and advices from BLD surely is going to give you a heads up.
Right off the bat, what makes custom building your gaming PC great is the fact that you get to choose the type of motherboard you will be using. If you are going to choose and invest in an already built computer, chances are that you won't have any idea what motherboard is used unless you pry the computer casing open. Generally speaking, this is going to be where you will be connecting and attaching all of your hardware and other computer parts, a reason why you need to be specific about knowing what quality or brand the motherboard is prior.
Don't forget that gaming PCs heat up constantly when you use them, especially if you play games that have a higher specification demand, which makes it essential for you to consider and get advanced cooling systems to keep them from staying at high temperatures.
As a whole, you can then assure that you will end up and specifically choose quality materials and parts at the end of the day. This ensures that you will get to choose a somewhat lower-end specification just to meet your budget preferences. As a whole, small differences in terms of pricing may lead to sacrificing some performance if you choose to go with cheaper ones, but should still be able to manage and perform the game you fancy.
Another thing that makes custom building your gaming PC great and beneficial is the fact that you could choose and get parts swapped easily. If you want to choose and upgrade your hard drive, you could just choose to remove it and get the new one installed without the need to worry about voiding any warranties at all.
As a whole, it is easy for you to get things replaced should problems show up since each of these have a separate warranty. Having to consider custom gaming pc builder is going to be a great way for you to ensure that you will run the game of your choice in the most efficient means possible, so learn more about it here now.


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I wanted to post a quick tutorial for how we use the Sysprep
Creator tool.
Please be sure to select "How useful this was to you" at the top of the page.
Launch Sysprep_Creator_x64.exe
Choose your version of Windows (We are not running the newest version)
Under Completion Action - choose your option.
The executor is what launches the sysprep process and points to the unattend.xml
If you are running sysprep_Creator on the machine you are sysprepping, choose the "Delete Sysprep Creator at completion"
Click "Next"
Step 1
Type in a name (we use a . In this field
Type in your organization name
Choose your time Zone
Click on the Step 2
Step 2
Type in the username and password of a local administrator or one that you would like to have created
Choose how many times the computer can/will autologin after necessary reboots
If you are using the current profile on the system you are sysprepping as a template for all future users who login, you will want to be logged in as that account prior to sysprep and choose the "Copy profile of the user running sysprep"
Click Step 3 Tab
Step 3
- We do not make any changes on this screen since we join the domain as a post install task
- Click Step 4 Tab
Step 4
We use a KMS server so we want to check off that option and type in the KMS server FQDN
"Reset activation grace-period time" If your image is older and the timer only has a few days left, it can't hurt to check off this box
Click Create and choose the location you want to save the file(s)
We save theses in two places. A local network share and also place them inside the Samba Share of the K2000 under Drivers_postinstall\sysprep files so we can easily get to it from any machine.
Sysprep execution
Login to the account you configured the default profile you want all users to use.
Copy the Unattend.xml to c:\Windows\System32\sysprep
Copy the sysprep_executor_x64.exe to the desktop
Double click on the executor file on your desktop.
Accept the UAC prompt
Choose Shutdown - You don't want it to reboot before you capture the image
Click browse and navigate to c:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml
Choose Open
When you are ready, click "Start Sysprep" and let it finish. The system will Shutdown once complete
NOTE: I've noticed that I need to copy both files above to the desktop before trying to copy the unattend.sml to the sysprep directory.
If you have any questions, feel free to let me know. If you have any additional input for me to add (or if I am completely wrong) I'd be happy to edit this post


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NOTICE!! The bridge on Route 700/82 just south of campus is closed. If you use Routes 88 and 700 from Ravenna (or Route 82 from Garrettsville), you will need to use posted detours. You can also detour using the "three-mile square" route of Route 700 to Pioneer Trail to Ryder Road to Route 82 (just west of village) to work around the closed bridge. All other roadways are open (you can access Hiram from Aurora/Mantua using Route 82.)
The start of the fall semester signals the beginning of the football season and our team returns this year with brand new red uniforms. Come cheer on the team at the Homecoming Football game as the Terriers take on the Flying Scots from the College of Wooster!
Saturday - September 28th, 2013
Kick-off - 1:00 p.m.
Stop by the alumni hospitality tent for a free afternoon snack. The first 100 alums to stop by will receive a free Hiram T-shirt!
Come at Noon and enjoy lunch in Hiram's state-of the-art dining hall with the Alumni Executive Board! Our dining hall features all-you-can-eat selections from multiple stations and is located right near the football field. Entrance is a low $6.00 for adults and $3.00 for children ages 7 to 12. Children ages six and under are free!
Wear red that day to match the bright new football uniforms!
Terriers Ring Victory Bell After Win Against Westminster During First Home Game of Season
Register above to let us know that you're coming!
Other activities on campus that day include:
Remember Me
10/29/2020Networking Remix : Professional Positioning in a Pandemic with Kris McGuigan '01
11/4/2020WEBINAR: The Innovation Delusion
11/5/2020Remote Trivia!
11/11/2020A Conversation About Diversity and Inclusion
Hiram College Alumni Relations & Annual Giving P.O. Box 67 Hiram, OH 44234


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As AirNZ's engine issues continue to force flight delays and cancelations, we thought it would be helpful to find out exactly what's happening and what's being done about it.
The issue is with engines supplied by Rolls Royce, and has affected airlines around the world.
They now need to be checked more frequently than originally planned, which can mean changes to busy flight schedules.
In this video, Bruce Parton and Logan Horrell from Air New Zealand head down to the hangar to check the engines out and explain what's going on.


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Mazda is a soldier caught in a web of political and military struggles beyond his comprehension. Captured by the government, they sentence him to Lethe.
0/6 (Zero-Six)
Moolchi's absentee father sends him a most unusual gift--a stunningly-proportioned 'girl' who may or may not be made of flesh and blood.
Core Scramble
In a world plagued by monsters swarming through portals from other dimensions, a brave group of soldiers called Clarus Orbis battles the otherworldly threat.
Dr. Gangjae Lee clones his wife, whose astonishing beauty and sexiness captivates men. But a subquality clone of his wife interacting with other men is not such a great miracle. Together with others, Dr. Lee devotes himself to this project. But the story takes a different turn when…
A grand-scale masterpiece of life in a dystopian future: Aegis paints a picture of the love and friendship between the orphans Jino and Izare. Having gained independence from Revro, the earth secretly trains an army of boys. Jino and Izare are abandoned to the camp, and Izare silently sacrifices himself to keep his promise to Maria that he'd look after Jino. But Jino escapes the soul-killing cruelty of the camp. With Jino in his heart, Izare remains to become an ultimate weapon. The boys' lives and the secrets of the mysterious Maria gradually unravel in this epic Sci-Fi drama. For Earth, can peace and utopia be won? For Earth, can peace and utopia be won?
In the Starlight
Ever since Shinhye was young, when she used to sit on a hill watching the night sky with her father, she has always admired the stars and dreamed of what is out there in the universe. Suddenly, she is in the middle of it.


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Math - Math journals on Circles due tomorrow
Guest speaker - Miss Canada will be visiting our school tomorrow
Science Project - Presentation due Monday - You will need to work together to teach the class about your extreme environment.
Track Attack - Wed and Track Practice after school
Bake Sale tomorrow bring $1-$2 for treats
Field Trip notice and $
Canuck Day - wear those green, blue, and white colours to support our Canuck on their first playoff game.
Grade 7 Year book survey - see the link from yesterday.


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This is the most awesome store front ever! This is The Guitar Store in Southampton England, with its security grate pulled down. I think it is so creative and clever to use the grate as the front of a speaker! Plus, the knobs on the speaker go up to 11, rather than 10! You can see that in the bigger size image, which is here. So cool!
Lisa Hannigan – Lille
I love this video for Lisa Hannigan's new song, Lille! I think you guys will too, if not for the song then for the awesome pop up books! Enjoy!
confetti graffiti
Spanish street artist Eltono uses confetti and paste to make his cool graffiti art. Check out his blog for more pictures and information!
Coriandoli – Eltono – Cripta747 from EltonoVideo on Vimeo.
Via Hooked.
yum yum
Aren't these little knit sushi so cute and delicious-looking? I love them! You can get the pattern to knit some yourself from NeedleNoodles. Clever!
Via Black Eiffel.
rug inspiration
I came across this awesome crochet rug by Little Circus on >O<, and I feel really taken with it! I love the total mishmash of all kinds of colors and shapes! It's great knit and crochet inspiration!
a table and chairs that rule
These interesting chairs and table are by VivaTerra, and are made entirely from rulers and yardsticks. I like how they are made in a sort of vintage looking style too. Cool!
Via Apartment Therapy.
awesome phone charger!
I love this phone charger! Wires can get so tiresome and ugly – I love that MicroWorks turned the wire into a vine! However, they are not selling these chargers, but who cares? I'm going to make it a point to hit up my nearest craft store in the next few days, buy some fake flowers and leaves, and turn my phone charger into a beautiful flower vine! Easy! And pretty!
cuddly pin cushion
I saw these pin cushions on Penguin & Fish the other day, and I keep thinking about them! They are made by Lucy's Locket, out of sweaters! I especially like the turtle, it just seems so cleverly designed! Though the beaver is so so cute! There are a ton of other animals on Lucy's Locket, and I was amused and pleased to see that each pin cushion comes with the 3 beaded pins shown with them. :) Too dear!
Free People Valentine's Classics Playlist!
Today I bring you the last of our trio of Valentine's Day playlists, the Valentine's Classics Playlist! Enjoy!
Be sure to check out our Falling in Love playlist and our Breaking Up playlist too!
Happy Valentine's Day!
Free People's Best or Worst Date Ever Contest: Winner!
A hearty congratulations to the winner of the Free People Best or Worst Date Ever Video Contest, Molly! Check out her video below!
All of the entries we received were so special, it was really really difficult to pick a winner! You guys have had some crazy dates, good and bad! Thank you so very much to everyone who participated!
And if you weren't a winner, fear not! There are more contests and giveaways in the making! Stay tuned!
new category: how-to/DIY!
First off, I wanted to thank all of you who have already filled out our blog survey! It has been so helpful to us, and if you haven't already taken the survey, please do! It's really quick and fun!
We have been paying close attention to your survey responses, which leads me to my next point – there is a new category in our sidebar! The how to/DIY category is a new place where we will be sure to tag all of our how-to and DIY posts, so that you can easily find them all, in one place! I have gone through and marked our previous how-to and DIY posts, so you will find them there, and from now on, you can look for our new how-to and DIY posts in there too!
Thank you so much for your readership and feedback! It means so much!


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Talk:John Pennington III
From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.
This person is aka Edward Fox. There is someone with that name on Fur Affinity, but I'm assuming they're not the same individual. (The FA profile gives an age of 22, which would make them too young to have attended ConFurence 6-10.)--Higgs Raccoon 12:49, 26 June 2013 (EDT)


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Food Marketing in the
Age of the Millennial
Nine out of ten millennials consider food to be a pillar of wellness, and studies show they crave information about where food is grown, how it's processed and handling techniques. Food production brands need to tell their story and provide transparency in the way the products are brought to market.
The Celtic Food production team works with manufacturers to embrace the end-consumers' need for information. Through education and relevant content, we help tell the story of how food comes to market. From grain and processing, to cattle and poultry, we craft effective food chain campaigns that meet the needs of consumer products brands and their target audiences.
Our business-to-business campaign messaging is driven by content focused on education and an understanding of meeting the needs of partners on shelf and in-store.


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Sunday, 4 July 2010
Coming Soon: Brother Cedric Rides Again
Tune in this time next week to find out.
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Waiting for the report. But I have one question: what is the building and who makes it?ReplyDelete
First I thought it's a World Works Games' building, but now I think I was wrong. Any hint?
Chest of Colors: All About Miniature Painting
The church is built using WorldWorksGames' Cathedrae Noctis and Requiem sets. The surrounding cityscape and canal are from Streets of Himmelveil and Himmelveil: Canals. The crypts below the church, which will be revealed when we play the game (I don't want Steve to see them just yet) are built using the Lost Halls of the Dwarven King set and the undercrypts, which I hope Cedric survives to see, are built separately using the Ruined Undercrypt of Kelmarane set. Phew! Lot of work really. Unfortunately, my old printer caused geometry problems which are evident in gaps in the structures, but I am willing to turn a blind eye to them rather than print, cut and glue even more pieces.ReplyDelete
Wow, you have and built all these sets? Or was it a teamwork? This is an impressive achievement anyway.ReplyDelete
I started my WorldWorksGames' buildings and have a few of them but my collection is not even embarassingly small in comparison to yours.
I found that I have to resize one dimension of my prints by 1.068 to have the proportions right, otherwise it's nearly impossible to make the buildings look right. Unfortunately I made a few attempts before learning this...
For a longer period I lost my motivation to build the rest of my WWG stuff, as my hobby time wes drastically reduced and I also encountered some storage problems.
Well, I really love the buildings and whole cities in your batreps. Just checked the WWG site after reading your comment, wow, so many new sets were added to their catalogue...
Seems like some new motivation is growing... ;)
Chest of Colors: All About Miniature Painting
The build was mostly me, although my gaming buddy, Steve, has helped with some of it. I find I work in fits and starts, producing lots of stuff very quickly and then nothing for ages as my motivation diminishes. I am lucky that I have a printer that prints accurately now, but all my old builds were done on a printer that was out by about 1/8" in one dimension. I did not realise this for years though!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the compliments. I must say that buying and printing the WWG sets is addictive. I just wish that I could build them as fast or faster than I can buy and print projects!


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Lalit Narayan is the founder and owner of the communityhealth.in website. He is currently a graduate student in anthropology at Syracuse University, USA. He completed his MBBS from St. John's Medical College, Bangalore in 2007 and then worked as a medical officer at Tribal Health Initiative in Sittilingi, Tamil Nadu for two years. Other work experiences include six months as a Research and Communication Assistant at Centre for Public Health and Equity and five months as a Research Assistant studying stigma and mental health at the UCL-BALM Research Unit, Banyan Academy for Leadership in Mental Health, Chennai. Since his student days he has been active in the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan working mainly on website and communication issues. He is also a active member of the Medico Friend Circle. His interests include community health, anthropology, information systems, travel and digital photography. He blogs at bodypolitics.blogspot.com
You can contact him at lalit82[AT]gmail.com
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There's nothing like saving a buck or two when it comes to beauty products, but it's especially handy to penny-pinch during the holidays when budgets are spread thin. From new long-wearing liquid lipsticks to an ultra-relaxing aromatherapy bath, here are 13 of the best new drugstore beauty products to check out now.
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Cold Sore Prevention Remedy, $27, amazon.ca
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You're probably asking what that hideous styrofoam head is doing below. I picked it up at a garage sale for free over a year ago. It made it's way over 300 miles during our move earlier this summer, {try explaining to your husband why you must have the styrofoam head come with you, ha!}, and I knew i'd have a use for it eventually.
With the boutique i'm a part of coming up, I immediately thought that this would be great for modeling my hair clips and headbands on my table. I had some pink tissue paper {just plain tissue for gift bags} lying around and my trusty Mod Podged, so I made like I was 5 years old again doing paper mache, and covered my styrofoam head.
Please excuse the horrible 'before' photo, it was dark, gloomy and raining when I took this. Bad natural light means a crummy photo, but it was amazing weather!
What a transformation! Slightly shiny, new, bright, cheery, and most importantly useful. Can you tell that these two photos {'after' and 'in action'} we're taken on the day following the storm? Sunny skies, good natural light, much nicer photos. :)
Here it is modeling one of my Junebug Headbands. It's perfect! I'll be sure to post a pic of it in my table display next month.


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How we are funded
The statutory levy is at present set at 42p per registered patient. The statutory levy is used to fund all local activity and daily running of LLR LMC including payments made to LMC staff, LMC accommodation and backfill payments for any work carried out on behalf of the LMC to attend meetings or support for GPs, as well as paying for services including our legal advisor and the events we run.
The statutory levy is set by each individual LMC in accordance to what is required to fulfil and deliver the above requirements. The statutory levy varies from each LMC in regards to pence per patient, and our understanding is we are in the middle range in regards to what we obtain.
The formal explanation states Section 97 of the NHS Act 2006, as amended, sets out the arrangements for funding LMCs. This is usually referred to as the statutory levy and it requires the Commissioner to provide funds to the LMC and then to recoup these costs from contract holders. To that extent this levy is statutory and cannot be avoided.
The voluntary levy is currently set at 6p per patient registered patient. The voluntary levy contributes to the funding for the national activity including the conferences, national negotiators and payment of activity towards the GPC. The GPDF requests this money from LLR LMC, which is calculated based on population within LLR. The voluntary levy is voluntary, however, if individual practices opted out of this levy then their share would have to be made up by contributing practices.


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So. I entered into this with enthusiasm on 27/03/2017. Three days later I'm dejected.
The first instructions were to install a composite compiler/debugger called Eclipse.
When I did, using the instructions here: the java window was blank. An Internet search indicated that the solution was to add "private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L" before the start of the run code. That did not work. I tried running Eclipse from both the program files and program files x86 dirs. Same results.
I then used the files in the "provided course materials" – jre-6u2-windows-i586-p and stanford_eclipse32_windows (3.2). That would get the little karel Java applet to load, however pressing run did nothing. Not even with the correct (as far as I can tell) run code. With deliberate errors, the debugger says nothing. I'm sorta stumped at present.
- Should I continue trying to get this to work?
- Would being unable to get a simple compiler to work be a failure in a computer science course?
- Should I do one of the non Stanford intro courses?
Right, the last thing I tried was installing onto a clean Windows 7 VM and after making sure Windows was fully patched, things worked. The main machine I use refuses to run the program so I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling everything again on it. For the meantime, I'll be using the VM.
I got everything up and running the way I want as of 02/04/2017 and two days later, Assignment 1 is completed and I'm feeling happier about the whole thing. I'm on my way,
3 Months down the track…
I've finished this module. My coding's nicely formatted, logical, commented and compartmentalized and I don't feel like a nuffy.
What I developed is below. To run the programs, make sure you have java on your computer.
- Various Java Programs – Packaged Jar files
- Breakout – a little buggy – Packaged Jar file
- Hangman – Packaged Jar file
- Yahtzee (TM etc – learning purposes only) – Packaged Jar file
- Namesurfer – Packaged Jar file
- FacePamhplet. – Packaged Jar file


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Unlock the Positivity Challenge Motivational Posters
More Sims 4 Buy Mode
Allows you to buy Grin and Bear It; It Happened; The Sealinicorn, in repose; and Paradise Falls posters. The objects work just as if you had received them normally and are fully interactive. This is great if you were unable to complete the Positivity Challenge and do not feel like cheating to enable the items.
This is a selective clone of the 4 EA Posters to allow them to always be available. They will show up as separate items from the posters from the event. Since this is a selective clone of the objects (just the catalog entry updated) it should always work even if the base objects are updated.
Requires: Base Game, Fully Patched
Type: New Object (Selective Clone)
Found: Decorations ➡ Paintings & Posters
Cost: $940
First Uploaded: 14 December, 2018
Last Updated: 18 October, 2020
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1. Download: Click the File tab to see the download link. Click the link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract: Use 7zip (recommended), WinRAR (Windows) or Stuffit (OS X) to extract the file(s) from the .rar or .zip file(s). OS X also has a built-in utility for that (just rightclick).
3. Cut and paste the file(s) into your Mods folder:
- Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods\
- Windows Vista/7/8/8.1: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods\
Need more information?
- Anyone can use both .rar and .zip files easily! On Windows, use WinRAR.
- If you don't have a Mods folder, just make one.


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If you're haute and feeling lazy, you're definitely not going to dial up Dominos and ask for a $5.99 special. Nope, you're looking for something slightly more high end from a meal delivery service. Which is where the ingeniously named Caviar comes in. Caviar is part of Square's full suite of tools for businesses, enabling restaurants across the country to reach more customers, grow their sales and expand their reach, servicing major cities including Los Angeles (yes!) Atlanta, Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Manhattan, Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area (including East Bay & South Bay), Seattle, Portland and Washington D.C.
If you don't believe that the service serves the creme de la creme, just check out the chefs that have become affiliated with and chosen to partner with the app. Said chefs include Alain Ducasse – Benoit in Manhattan; Daniel Boulud – DBGB Kitchen Manhattan; Ivan Orkin – Ivan Ramen Manhattan; Ken Oringer – both Toro and Coppa, Boston; Ming Tsai – Blue Dragon, Boston; Rick Bayless – XOCO in Chicago and Red O in LA; Jose Garces – Amada, Buena Onda, Distrito in Philly; and Marc Vidal – Boqueria (Washington DC & NY).
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Here, we've selected 11 items that you're going to WISH you had for dinner tonight. The goods news: even if you don't feel like leaving your couch, it's possible!
- Sotto: Grilled Whole Orata, Tomato and caper bread salad, olive-pistachio vinaigrette, $27
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- Red O: 18 oz Prime Cowboy Ribeye Prime bone-in ribeye, fried sweet plantain, crema, traditional black beans, and spicy adobo butter sauce. $49
- Hamasaku: Hamasaku Nigiri 28 pieces of nigiri: (4pcs) Tuna Sushi, (4pcs) Yellowtail Sushi, (4pcs) Salmon Sushi, (4pcs) Albacore Sushi, (1) California Roll, (1) Spicy Tuna Roll. Serves 2-3 people. $65 (The Hamasaku Deluxe is 55 pieces for $180)
- BLD: Seared Tuna Niçoise Salad Fingerling potatoes, haricots verts, olives, spanish white anchovies, capers, hard boiled eggs, red wine dijon vinaigrette, $22
- La Pergoletta Restaurant Fettuccine Nero Di Seppia Al Frutti Di Mare Squid ink fettuccine, shrimp, scallops, mussels, calamari, clams, and tomato basil. $21.95
- Ledlow: Braised Beef Paleron $30
- Bar Ama: Beef Chile Pepper Fajitas $38
- Blue Plate Oysterette: Bouillabaisse Shellfish, brioche crouton, saffron ruoille, $27
- Mozza2Go: Prosciutto di Parma Pizza, $17
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04 Nov 2015 • by Natalie Aster
LONDON – The key factors fuelling the global paper chemicals industry growth include high consumption of, and demand for paper for tissue, printing & writing, paper board, newsprint, container board, etc. The demand for container board papers and printing and writing papers are high owing to enhanced consumption of papers in these sectors. The upsurge in sizing paper chemicals demand is also driving the growth of the pulp and paper chemicals industry as sizing chemicals increase the usage of recycled fibers to manufacture paper, and consume less water.
Geography-wise, the APAC paper chemicals market is recording the fastest growth as the region's leading emerging economies such as China and India are witnessing urbanisation and hike in yearly income. Caustic soda and soda ash have practically disappeared in North America owing to environmental security, but, its demand remains high in the APAC region.
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A smallish victory for Fourth Amendment protections comes today as the Supreme Court has struck down a Los Angeles ordinance that allowed police warrantless, on-demand access to hotel/motel guest records. This win is very limited, and the court's discussion of the issue at hand pertains solely to the Los Angeles statute and doesn't address the potential unconstitutionality of other, similar records sweeps granted by the Third Party Doctrine. Nor does it address the potential Fourth Amendment violations inherent to "pervasive regulation" of certain businesses — like the records legally required to be collected and handed over on demand to law enforcement by entities like pawn shops, junk yards and firearms dealers.
The 5-4 decision focuses on the specifics of the Los Angeles statute, and it's those specifics that are problematic. The court finds that merely accessing these records without a warrant isn't necessarily unconstitutional, but rather that any demand for records cannot be challenged and that any challenging party can be fined or jailed.
The questions presented are whether facial challenges to statutes can be brought under the Fourth Amendment and, if so, whether this provision of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is facially invalid. We hold facial challenges can be brought under the Fourth Amendment. We further hold that the provision of the Los Angeles Municipal Code that requires hotel operators to make their registries available to the police on demand is facially unconstitutional because it penalizes them for declining to turn over their records without affording them any opportunity for precompliance review.
Because there is no reasonable avenue to challenge these searches, business owners are really only given one option: comply. This has the potential to lead to abusive behavior.
A hotel owner who refuses to give an officer access to his or her registry can be arrested on the spot. The Court has held that business owners cannot reasonably be put to this kind of choice. Camara, 387 U. S., at 533 (holding that "broad statutory safeguards are no substitute for individualized review, particularly when those safeguards may only be invoked at the risk of a criminal penalty"). Absent an opportunity for precompliance review, the ordinance creates an intolerable risk that searches authorized by it will exceed statutory limits, or be used as a pretext to harass hotel operators and their guests. Even if a hotel has been searched 10 times a day, every day, for three months, without any violation being found, the operator can only refuse to comply with an officer's demand to turn over the registry at his or her own peril.
In the end, there's no warrant requirement. All that's needed is for the city's statute to provide an avenue for searches to be challenged. The court suggests administrative subpoenas but notes that it could take any form that similarly allows business owners to challenge the records search before the search occurs and helps prevent police from using the statute as a "pretext for harassment."
The dissent, written by Justice Scalia, claims that even this very narrow decision is too expansive. Scalia argues that the new requirement places an undue burden on law enforcement officers by potentially forcing them to obtain ex parte search warrants for every motel they visit, simply because they won't know in advance which owners will challenge the search. In a city with over 2,000 hotels, the dissent sees this as unreasonable and untenable.
The prevailing opinion refers to the dissent's fears as "overblown," stating that a vast majority of businesses will still be compliant with law enforcement requests. In both Scalia's and the government's eyes, any alteration of the existing statute can only lead to a majority of motel owners refusing instant access to registry information, but this narrow view turns rare exceptions into the rule and fails to consider the numerous options still available to law enforcement to perform unchallenged searches.
The decision doesn't demand warrants or subpoenas for every motel registry check. It only orders these measures be in place for when they are needed, giving business owners the chance to challenge warrantless searches without facing jail time or fines. This is more consistent with the Fourth Amendment, and it still provides the LAPD plenty of leeway to perform motel spot checks without worrying about extra paperwork. It's a small, extremely narrow win for the Fourth Amendment rights of Los Angeles motel owners, but beyond that, it's of very limited use elsewhere.
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Discussion in 'TV & Movies' started by Squire72, Apr 2, 2018.
got renewed for a second season!
More Neil DeGrasse Tyson space stuff!
One of my favourite scientists!
Physics is fascinating. I just wish that it could be explained in more simpler terms, so that I can grasp what I'm being told, lol.
I follow his YouTube channel. Both hilarious and educational
What do you think about Quantum Mechanics, if I may ask? And yes, this is a pick-up line. The one about your butt wasn't.
Really interesting, but I dn't understand much of it
I don't think scientists understand it entirely either, lol.
Do you think that quantum mechanics gives hints that some kind of God exists?
Richard Feynman once said anyone who says they understand quantum mechanics doesn't understand quantum mechanics, and I doubt anyone during his lifetime understood it better than he did.
No, on the contrary. If quantum mechanics has done anything, it is explaining how the universe can exist without a god.
I think that black hole singularities gives hints that God exists because it doesn't follow logical reasoning and God is and operates in ways or in a way that humans can't comprehend.
I think also that the cosmological constant gives hints that God exists because it can't be explained why it is there or where it came from.
The fact that we can't comprehensie it (yet), does not prove or even suggestie that there is a god. In the past people said "cloud goes boom! Must be god!" Now we know that it's just an electric discharge. At some point in time, we will also 7nderstan exactly what black holes are and how they work.
In fact, the idea of a body so massive that even light could not escape was briefly proposed by astronomical pioneer and English clergyman John Michellin a letter published in November 1784. So the theory existed well before the first black hole was actually discovered.
A few years later, the great French mathematician Pierre Simon Laplace came to the same conclusion independently.
But Einstein's Relativity theory predicted that it existed, giving it one of the first solid evidence.
That's true, but Einstein felt that even though his theory allowed for them, nature would not contain such objects.
Einstein has been wrong more than once
Yes, two things that spring to mind are his initial belief in a static state universe, despite his theory predicting a dynamic universe, and his disbelief in the randomness inherent in quantum mechanics. Many great thinkers have been wrong about a lot of things.
You are MarkFL, aren't you, lol?
Sure, if that makes you happy. I am he, I am you, you are me...
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Many factors go into choosing a laminate floor, and the information on floors can be difficult to find. However, with an investment in your home that is such a large factor, it is vital that you find out as much information as you can about the options for laminate flooring, in order to make a good decision. So many people choose a floor based on appearance or price (or both) alone, and then they end up unhappy because of some factor they did not consider when they made their choice. Here are some factors besides appearance that will figure into your satisfaction with your laminate floor.
Wear and Durability -- Laminate floors have a rating for wear, which in the United States is coded as AC with a number after it. The rating goes from AC 1 to AC 5, with AC 5 being the most durable. The most common rating is AC 3, and you should never choose anything below this level, unless it is in an area that gets very light wear indeed, as you will be very unhappy with the wear that your laminate floor will begin to show after just a few years.
Repeat pattern -- Some brands of laminate repeat after only a few boards; with a distinctive pattern, you may find yourself thinking, "Oh, there's that board again." More subtle patterns will look more like real wood, and will prevent guests with sharp eyes from noticing the repeats. Ask about the repeat and make sure that it is no more than one board in ten.
Toxins -- Laminate floors are made of wood dust (sawdust) and glue, with a photo of wood, and a clear wear layer on top. Some wear layers are made of melamine, which is usually safe unless you have a specific allergy to it. Others are aluminum oxide, which sounds scary but aluminum oxide is the fourth most common material on the planet. If you can touch a piece of sandpaper without ill effects, aluminum oxide is safe for your floor. (However, installation is a very different matter and you must take extreme care not to breathe either wood dust or aluminum oxide dust when the boards are being cut!) So the most important factor in toxicity is possible formaldehyde used in the glue. If you ask for the Material Safety Data Sheet in the United States (usually abbreviated to MSDS), this will show the amount of formaldehyde outgassing that is likely to occur. Remember that extreme heat will cause the formaldehyde to outgas faster, so if you are worried, you might set your heat very high and leave for a few days, then come back and air out your house thoroughly by opening a few windows and allowing the gases to escape.
Susceptibility to fading -- unless you live in a cave, you will receive sunlight on your floor. By checking the rating for protection from UV light, you can rest assured that your laminate floor will not have faded patches where the sun shines into your house.
Suitability of laminate for the area -- areas which receive a lot of moisture, such as conservatories, kitchens, or bathrooms, pose special problems for laminate floors. Because the laminate is made of wood dust and glue, too much moisture can easily warp the boards (as I found out when my water heater broke). Areas where a lot of traffic comes in from outside will need a rug or other floor to protect the laminate from dust and moisture (the rug will dry people's shoes and trap some of the dust).
Underlayment -- do not skip using an underlayment. Use a very high-quality underlayment as it will improve both the insulation (which means your floor won't be ice-cold in winter) and the sound absorption and transmission, because laminate floors can be very noisy. Do not get an underlayment with an integrated vapor barrier, because with a separate vapor barrier, you will get superior insulation and superior sound absorption (the extra air between the underlayment and the vapor barrier will provide additional cushioning against heat or cold and sound).
There are many kinds of underlayments: cork, which is one of the most environmentally friendly, and has a R-value of 3; foam, which comes in many varieties, including an ecologically friendly type; and various other underlayments. Do some research, and check with your laminate manufacturer.
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Ease of installation -- of course, if you are using a professional installation service, you may not care so much about how easy your laminate is to install, but if you are installing laminate yourself, you will want to make sure that you thoroughly understand the instructions and have tried out the installation before you buy the product. Otherwise, you may end up using language you would not want your neighbours to hear, and worse, you may find yourself having to have the unexpected expense of professional installation. Many stores will have seminars and practice sessions on installing laminate flooring, so be sure that you do not skip this, or you may find that your job will take much longer and be much more difficult that you budgeted for.
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General tips for laminate floor care:
Don't wear shoes (or allow others to wear shoes) inside the house. You can encourage this by setting out a nice, attractive shoe bench and providing some slippers for guests (and discreetly turning away when they take their shoes off so you won't see the holes in their socks).
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Vacuum and dust frequently. To keep my floors clean, I use a Roomba, which is great for picking up loose dirt, and run it twice daily. In five years my laminate floor shows absolutely no signs of wear. Loose dirt gets tracked around and will make microscopic scratches in your floors, which, over time, will cause significant wear. Daily vacuuming picks up all the loose dirt and prevents these scratches. (Don't forget the baseboards; dirt will fall off of them and get tracking into the wear layer of the floor.) If you have a regular vacuum, make sure that you use the hard floor attachment to avoid grinding in dirt into the wear layer of the laminate.
Use only a damp cloth to clean your laminate. Never use a floor cleaner, or any product containing wax or oil to clean your laminate floors. If you must use a cleaning product, call the manufacturer beforehand to discuss what kind of product to use, otherwise you could end up voiding your warranty.
Above all, do not rely on what the sales person tells you -- their job is to sell you a floor. If you do your research well in advance, read customer reviews, check with publications such as Consumer Reports (which reviews laminate flooring each August), and decide in advance what factors are most important to you, you can be sure that you will be satisfied with your laminate flooring for many years to come.