The first choice you need to make is about containers. If you have a windowbox and you do not turn it round regularly most of the growth and flowers will be away from the window and towards the outside.
This will give a good display when viewed from the outside, but not from the inside. I turn my windowboxes every 2 or 3 days. So if you decide you want to turn your boxes the next thing you have to remember is that they can be heavy. That is why I have restricted myself to plastic windowboxes.
If you want to have a good display of flowers from inside as well as outside, and cannot lift heavy weights then it is better to restrict yourself to pots. These can easily be turned a little every day, and this requires very little strength, also there is a greater variety of shapes, colours and sizes.
The photograph below was taken early one Sunday morning. The hoverfly was just covered in pollen, and totally oblivious to me while I took the photograph. I like having hoverflies around as it is a joy to watch their skillful flight, and their larvae, though ugly and slug-like, are really just aphid eating machines. So they keep my flowers relatively free of aphids.
Clay, plastic, wood, or metal window boxes?
it does not break easily, so can stand a lot of bumps and knocks when I turn them.
For my pots I choose clay because I like the colours and the glazes, also on natural terracotta I like the weathering patterns.
Before you buy anything though it is a good idea to measure the maximum size that your windowsill can take. I know this to my cost having returned home with a lovely terracotta pot that is just a little too wide.
The choice here is between containers that have their drainage trays attached and those that have separate drainage trays.
The advantage of an attached tray is that it looks part of the container. The disadvantage can be that you cannot see how much water, if any, has drained through until it starts to overflow.
If the overflow will cause a nuisance to others then it might be better to get containers with separate drainage trays so that you do not drip water on your neighbours or passersby.
The photograph below shows a Bombus terrestris on Scabious. The scabious was unplanned, and grows in an overcrowded windowbox. It hangs over the side as there is no space, but the bumblebees and hoverflies don't mind.
Normally I dead head my flowers, but I am leaving the large seed head of the scabious for the birds to eat in the winter.
You will provide the main source of water for your windowbox, so if you are going away, especially during the summer, you will need to either get someone in to water your plants, or set up a watering system. Or you can ask the neighbour above to water them from above!
Again nurseries have a huge range. However unless you are growing orchids or acid loving plants such as heathers and rhododendrons, usually the cheapest standard compost is good enough.
Many of the composts also contain a slow release fertiliser too, but if the compost has been lying around for a long time it is best to add your own.
If weight is a problem you can add vermiculite or pearlite to the compost.
Garden soil is not usually a good idea as it becomes very compacted after a while, and is very heavy.
My overcrowded windowbox that I planted with a butterfly/bee mix of seeds.
Just as you are the main source of water, so you will be the main source of fertiliser for your windowbox. And as with composts, unless you are growing something with special needs it is probably best to choose a general purpose fertiliser, or one that promotes flowering.
I use one for tomatoes, but more dilute than that required for tomatoes which are very greedy plants.
This year I tried one that promotes flowering, and this also produced very good results.
Ladybirds are lovely, and provide a great service by eating aphids. The larvae of ladybirds are usually black with spots and don't look much like the adults at all.


President Trump, Prime Minister May Give Press Conference After Bilateral Summit After a tumultuous few days where President Trump lashed out at European allies, he and British Prime Minister Theresa May met for a bilateral summit and then held a joint press conference.
After a tumultuous few days where President Trump lashed out at European allies, he and British Prime Minister Theresa May met for a bilateral summit and then held a joint press conference.
It has been a tumultuous few days in Europe for President Trump. He has lashed out at European allies, including U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May, although he had a bit of a different tone when he was standing next to Prime Minister May at a news conference that is just wrapping up as we speak. I'm joined now by NPR London correspondent Frank Langfitt and NPR White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, both of whom are in the U.K. monitoring this meeting. Good morning to you both.
GREENE: So, Ayesha, I want to start with you. The president - President Trump gave this interview to The Sun newspaper which sounds like it was the talk of the town in London this morning. He was criticizing the prime minister's handling of Brexit. He was praising one of her political rivals. He trashed the (laughter) mayor of London. How did these two leaders handle what seemed like it was the elephant in the room coming into this meeting?
RASCOE: President Trump basically said that - he didn't dispute the things that were said in that interview, but he said that they left out all the very nice things that he said about the prime minister. We see this a lot with President Trump where he basically - he likes to say that he has very good relationships with leaders personally and that he likes them. But he can be very, very critical of the leaders and what they're doing basically when they're not in the room, like on Twitter and in interviews. And that's kind of what happened here. So basically he was saying it's not as bad as it seemed, and he wasn't personally criticizing Prime Minister May.
GREENE: Frank Langfitt, the prime minister in a very difficult spot. I mean, in a way, President Trump was hitting her when she was down, facing a political crisis over Brexit. So she was standing there at a very tough moment for her and her government.
LANGFITT: Yeah. It was extremely awkward, and initially she didn't even address anything that he had said in the newspaper. And it was as though it was a parallel universe. And it was really only in the Q&A's that she was forced to kind of, you know, acknowledge what had happened.
GREENE: Well, let me turn to one big issue, Frank Langfitt, and it is immigration because these two leaders seem to have some distance between them on how they view it - because President Trump had made some comments in that Sun interview about immigration, in his view, being bad for Europe and the U.K. So what did we hear from these two leaders on that topic?
LANGFITT: Well, I thought it was really fascinating. From Prime Minister May, you heard sort of a liberal European approach - some of Europe. And that is that it's been a positive - has had a positive impact. And certainly many people in London - it's a very multicultural city - would feel that way. Here's what Prime Minister May said.
GREENE: Did not sound like Prime Minister May.
TRUMP: Never had difficulty. Never had problems. It's a very sad situation. It's very unfortunate, but I do not think it's good for Europe. And I don't think it's good for our country.
GREENE: OK, so that was President Trump there. Yeah.
GREENE: Let's listen to Theresa May now, if we can.
PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY: Over the years, overall immigration has been good for the U.K. It's bought people with different backgrounds, different outlooks here to the U.K. and has - and we've seen them contributing to our society and to our economy.
LANGFITT: Well, so you can see there's a dramatic difference there, David, between President Trump's view, which is immigration a huge issue in the United States and seeing it more in terms of changing the culture of a country, creating threats in terms of terrorism. And Prime Minister May is more of a liberal Western European approach, which would be the advantages that immigration has brought to major cities here. Now, it's important to point out that there are European leaders who would very much agree with President Trump on this issue. You'd see them in places like Hungary - certainly coming to power in Italy as well as Austria. So you get this very different - gosh - this cleavage in the Western world about immigration. Good, bad - what are the risks?
GREENE: Well, I want to turn to another topic, and it is Russia because President Trump is moving on from here. He's going to go to Scotland for the weekend and then move to Helsinki to actually meet with Vladimir Putin. And this is such an interesting moment because, in the view of many, the president has been, you know, criticizing these important European alliances at a moment when, you know, Vladimir Putin - that might be something that he would love to be seeing. So, Ayesha Rascoe, how did the president take on his relationship with Vladimir Putin in Russia as he was standing here with a European ally?
RASCOE: President Trump really - and, for me, it was one of the strongest defenses that I've seen President Trump do of his treatment of Russia. And basically what he said was, yes, the media is focused on my criticism of NATO, but the bottom line is I'm getting them to spend more on the military. I'm getting them to do - and we're united in that. And that Russia is not going to be happy about that bottom line - that I'm getting all of these allies to invest in military, presumably, to deter Russia. And he said that he also, of course, is investing in energy and things like that. And he pointed out that he - that the U.S. did expel those Russians who were in the U.S. - 60 Russians who were in the U.S. after there was that chemical attack in London. So I think that that - so he made a very strong case that he is doing - that he is actually being tough on Russia, but he did follow it up with his usual. He wants to have a good relationship with Putin.
GREENE: And I was also struck. Didn't he bring up the question of Russian meddling in the U.S. election himself? Not even asked about that.
RASCOE: ...Calls the witch hunt, which is the Mueller - his words, quote, "the witch hunt" - the Mueller investigation. And what he says is that that is part of what is keeping the U.S. from being able to have a good relationship with the U.K. So he basically, as an aside, said, also we shouldn't have this Mueller investigation. Kind of threw that in there, and that's also harming the U.S. relationship with Russia. Obviously there are a lot of people who would disagree with that and feel like President Trump should be harder on Russia when it comes to the Russian - when it comes to election meddling.
GREENE: Frank Langfitt, what is the European view of this meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump that's going to happen in coming days?
LANGFITT: Well, I think among the liberal Western European countries, they'll be focusing on it incredibly closely. And what they want to see is after the president has gone to NATO and bashed allies, come here and undermined the leader of a incredibly important relationship to the United States - when he goes to Helsinki, what's he going to say about Vladimir Putin? Will he undercut him, or will he greet him very warmly and say wonderful things about him? And I think that people will look very closely at that to see where, you know, President Trump's real interests lie.
GREENE: All right. Speaking to NPR's London correspondent Frank Langfitt and NPR White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, both in the U.K. covering President Trump's visit to Europe which moves from here to Scotland for the weekend and then to Helsinki for that big meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Thank you both very much for your reporting.


I was initially misled by the title of this book when I saw it in the O'Reilly catalogue: I was expecting a book about the general problem of visualizing data, but what arrived is a book about the use of the open-source software program, Processing.
I wrote this book because I wanted to have a way to make the ideas from Computer Information Design, my Ph.D. dissertation, more accessible to a wider audience. More specifically, I wanted to see these ideas actually applied, rather than limited to an academic document on a shelf.
This was an excellent reason and also shows an understanding of what generally happens to Ph.D. dissertations!
However, for the generalist reviewer, there's a problem: how do I make the value of the text known when I am unfamiliar with the programming environment it deals with? Clearly, I can only address myself to the success or otherwise of the pedagogic purpose of the text.
As usual with O'Reilly products, the book production is excellent: the serif font is excellent for reading and there are numerous colour illustrations and graphs. The index is professionally done and comprehensive.
Fry begins with outlining the 'seven stages of visualizing data': acquire; parse (i.e., provide structure for the meaning of the data); filter to remove data not of interest; mine to discover patterns; represent with lines, bar graphs, etc.; refine to make the basic representation clearer; and interact - 'add methods for manipulating the data'. The author notes that these steps are not to be followed slavishly and that in some projects not all of them will be needed; nevertheless they consititute a valuable checklist.
From this elementary beginning the book moves on to an example of the process and then, in a succession of chapters, to the use of Processing for mapping, time series data, correlations and other relationships among data, scatterplot maps, trees, and networks. The final three chapters deal with the aquisition of data, parsing and using Processing with Java.
I had hoped to find some examples of the output of Processing either at the download site or on the O'Reilly site (which is usually good at providing this kind of thing); however, I failed. On the other hand you can see some Processing-produced video clips, which illustrate the power of the system. Look at the videos of flocks of birds: it's quite amazing what imagination can produce with data.
In all, if you want to get to use the Processing environment, this is a very good and very authoritative place to begin.


The second question in the quiz for a full-stack developer is about sequences in Oracle. Do you think you really understand them? Check it out.
Correct answer for the first question is published.
What numbers are generated (ACCOUNTS_SEQ.nextval) by a sequence in Oracle that is created by the following script?
start with 10 takes care of that.
ACCOUNTS_SEQ.nextval is executed on node A. Numbers 1-20 are cached on node A. 1 is returned.
ACCOUNTS_SEQ.nextval is executed on node B. Numbers 21-40 are cached on node B. 21 is returned.
ACCOUNTS_SEQ.nextval is executed on node A. There are still 19 values cached so the next cached value is returned which is 2.
From the user perspective values are not ordered: 1, 21, 2.
The above example with two nodes shows clearly that there is no guarantee that the next value will be 51 as the statement can be processed by the other node.
Even if you have only one node, 51 is not guaranteed. As I already wrote, values are cached. It can be the case that when 50 is returned, there are still 9 numbers in the cache - 51-60. Then the node is restarted. The cache is lost with those 9 numbers. 51 is impossible to get, ever. The next value will probably be 61.
That is the whole point of sequences. If there were not unique, they could not be used as values in primary key columns which is probably the most popular seuquences usage.


How do I specify the object to return from an expression tree method?
I'm trying to create a method using an expression tree that returns an object, but I can't figure out how to actually specify the object to return. I've tried reading this, but the return value doesn't actually seem to be specified anywhere.
I've got all the assignments & stuff down, but how do I specify the object to return from a method created using expression trees?
The types of the label target and the goto expression must match. Because the label target has a type, the label expression must have a default value.
There is a much easier way to do this in cases that return an existing parameter or variable. The last statement in a Block Expression becomes the return value. You can include the ParameterExpression again at the end to have it returned.
expressions.Add(structVar); //This is the key. This will be the return value.
It's worth mentioning this example works if StructType is a struct. If it is a class, you just call the constructor and initialize structVar first thing in the BlockExpression.


What becomes a legend most? Shoeboxes. And when the legend is glamorous hoofer Ginger Rogers, shoes are more important than swathing yourself in yards of black mink.
And so, Ginger Rogers admits, without batting an aquamarine eye, that she owns 100 dozen pairs of shoes.
The keeper of the Ginger legend has fox-trotted into town for an American Film Institute (AFI) benefit, a gala ball, and the presentation of one of her nostalgic gowns from the movie ''Top Hat'' in a Smithsonian Museum ceremony.
What the Smithsonian got was a pale gray marquisette and silver paillette gown she wore to dance ''The Piccolino'' with Fred Astaire in their romp across the Venice canals. What they didn't get was a new Ginger Rogers wing, filled with rooms full of shoes.
Miss Rogers arches one foot - in its size 5 1/2 vanilla-leather, high-heeled pump - as she talks about today's movies, breakdancing, her autobiography, and the joy of work.
In films, she concedes that ''some things that are done are quite interesting and exciting. 'E.T.' was a good thing because it got some of the youngsters back into seeing values and love and affection and friendship and caring.'' She also praises the film ''Tender Mercies'' and its Oscar-winning star Robert Duvall.
After a half-century of stardom, the Ginger mystique is still there: the waves of gilded hair falling just below her shoulders, the aqua eyes framed in long dark loops of eyelashes and violet eye shadow, the peachy-tan skin etched pleasantly with years of experience, and the movie-star mouth glistening with fuschia lipstick.
Aside from the three dozen American Beauty roses behind her, sent by an admirer, Ginger Rogers is virtually the only spot of color in this blond-on-blond hotel room. It is like one of the all-white, art-deco sets used in so many Rogers-Astaire musicals - a perfect foil for the star. Today she is wearing a violet ultrasuede suit. On her hands, as she pores over black-and-white glossy photos of herself from the AFI gala, are several rings, including a diamond (to use F. Scott Fitzgerald's phrase) as big as the Ritz. From time to time during the interview she glances over a Washington Post story on the gala and flips again through her glossies.
Her image has changed since she started out on Broadway in the '20s as a boop-oop-a-doop flapper with gingery auburn hair, worn bobbed. It wasn't until she went to Hollywood in the early '30s and teamed up with a polished young dancer named Fred Astaire in ''Flying Down to Rio'' that the Ginger whom generations have applauded was born. Out of that movie came the glamorous blonde with the talent for dancing up a romantic storm - and a line of saucy patter that moved as fast as her feet.
Fans of their movies remember the effortless perfection of their dancing. Ginger Rogers remembers dancing to the farther shores of weariness - dancing until her feet bled.
She wore what comedian Steve Martin would call ''cruel shoes'' - usually freshly dyed to match her costume and still damp as she danced. In those days, there was no Screen Actors Guild to keep the studios from demanding endless hours of shooting.
Is the aura of glamour that shimmered over an earlier Hollywood gone forever?
She gazes out from her suite at the Watergate Hotel toward the Potomac River, olive green and swollen high with rain. It reminds her, she says, of her favorite home - a brown-shingled house on the rampaging Rogue River in Oregon.
So, after five years touring with her one-woman show through the United States, Australia, England, Canada, France, Argentina, and Mexico, she began working recently on her autobiography. Today she is 500 pages into it - writing it herself on a word processor for four or five hours a day after her morning game of tennis.
It will not, she says, be one of the current crop of Hollywood-confidential sizzlers that tell all and name names on the way up the best-seller list. She may talk about her 73 films and five marriages, but she'll do so discreetly.
''Does that tell you anything?'' says the star who was dubbed ''Ginger'' for a reason.


Daniel Block, in his commentary on Ezekiel, speaks of a style in that book of resumptive exposition, in which a theme is initially dealt with briefly, and later examined in much more detail. Zechariah also seems to reuse imagery.
In Zechariah 14, the prophet proclaims that the Mount of Olives will be split in half, and the Israelites will flee through it. In an earlier vision, Zechariah had already seen four chariots come out from behind two bronze mountains, presumably by passing between them. The similarities are unmistakable, but what to make of the connection I am not sure. And it is odd to think of the people fleeing, for it sounds as if they are fleeing away from Jerusalem; and how this fits into the prophecy, I am not sure.
Also, the Mount of Olives in the Gospels is a favorite spot of Jesus's. Indeed, the coming of the Lord and his standing on the mountain are here prophesied (in both verse 4 and 5). However, the events described are not ones I would recognize from the time of Christ.
What is the connection between these two two-mountain passages? Does that explain in any way why the people flee, and whether they are actually fleeing away from or to Jerusalem? Does the coming of Christ fit into this prophecy?
I have read several commentaries on this portion of scripture and see it causes a lot of confusion because the most probable meaning is that it is not associated with the first coming of Messiah but the second coming. Originally I may have fell into the 'destruction of Jerusalem' trap because Jesus spoke about the destruction of Jerusalem while sitting on 'Mount Olives' (Matth 24:3) However this is also followed by warning of his second coming, so there is no need to go that direction.
First, because during the destruction of Jerusalem under Tutus half were not spared and delivered and although it may be symbolic the symbolism just does not seem to fit well. Second, the Lord's appearance to save his people 'when all the nations are arrayed against them' is too similar to the images that revelation sets up concerning the second coming of Christ. Third, the fact that so many commentaries differ in their view on the meaning of this chapter is similar to how varied commentaries are on the book of revelation so the uncertainty indicates future fulfillment which is always unclear.
From the standpoint of assigning this to his second coming, the Mountain being split and the people running from Jerusalem has no direct relation to the earlier two mountains. Actually in this context the mountain is simply some large barrier that is preventing escape under impending doom. On one side are enemies and the other a barrier. I can't help but accept those commentaries that think the passing through the Red Sea is being alluded to. In this sense the second coming of Christ, will make an appearance when the world is arrayed against the invisible church. At his appearing a horrible earthquake (a recognition of his power) will cause the barrier to open up and create a valley of escape, just like the passage through the Red Sea.
I do not really dare to say anything more because I confess much about end times prophecy is unclear to me and I do not follow anyone (yet) who pretends a detailed account of what will occur.
Christ coming with all his holy angels is a major indicator of his second coming. One could take it more generally and say it is not the second coming but a symbol of his saving his people over and over again until the second coming but that does not explain a 'running out' of Jerusalem. That idea would indicate a running to Jerusalem. No, I think we are talking about the end of the age, where the unexpected direction indicates nothing logical about the old way of life. It the end of the world has arrived and the old Jerusalem will be made new to be a new habitation, the old one no longer having significance at the close of human history as we know it.
The reference is liturgical. The penultimate feast in the year was atonement, the Day of Coverings. The goats were divided and the veil was opened. Israel's journey from Canaan to Egypt follows the same pattern. In that case, the blessings and curses are the "divided" mountains Ebal and Gerizim, and the veil is the Jordan.
The reference is also architectural. The Temple's legs - at least in Solomon's day - were the bronze pillars. They "stood" on the crystal sea, the bronze laver, above the bronze altar, a miniature Sinai, replicating the structure in Exodus 20 (the Lord is upon the sapphire sea).
So, just as the Temple, having legs, became a permanent Tabernacle in the Land, so the Temple's fulfilment split the four-cornered Land in two (we do see an altar being split apart in 1 Kings 13:5). All the Old Covenant saints ascended as "bridal smoke" into the Holy Place in heaven, and all the "sons of Korah" were swallowed by the Land as ashes. As the mountain splits to the north and south, so the movement of the saints is east to west, reversing the movement from the Garden in Genesis.
The observation above about the brass mountains is excellent. They are the "atonement" step in the initial cycle of the book, which is then replicated in the entire book. The horses are the beginning of the Restoration Covenant and the second Temple. The divided mountain is its end in the first century. Zechariah, like Kings and Chronicles, is founded upon and bookended by architectural events.
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The number of bit operations needed to add two n-digit numbers is of order n. The number of operations m[n] needed to multiply them increases just slightly more rapidly than n (see page 1093). (Even if one can do operations on all digits in parallel it still takes of order n steps in a system like a cellular automaton for the effects of different digits to mix together—though see also page 1149.) The number of operations to evaluate Mod[a, b] is of order n if a has n digits and b is small. Many standard continuous mathematical functions just increase or decrease smoothly at large x (see page 917). The main issue in evaluating those that exhibit regular oscillations at large x is to find their oscillation period with sufficient precision. Thus for example if x is an integer with n digits then evaluating Sin[x] or FractionalPart[x c] requires respectively finding π or c to n-digit precision. It is known how to evaluate π (see page 912) and all standard elementary functions to n-digit precision using about Log[n] m[n] operations. (This can be done by repeatedly making use of functional relations such as Exp[2x]==Exp[x]2 which express f[2x] as a polynomial in f[x]; such an approach is known to work for elementary, elliptic, modular and other functions associated with ArithmeticGeometricMean and for example DedekindEta.) Known methods for high-precision evaluation of special functions—usually based in the end on series representations—typically require of order n1/s m[n] operations, where s is often 2 or 3. (Examples of more difficult cases include HypergeometricPFQ[a,b,1] and StieltjesGamma[k], where logarithmic series can require an exponential number of terms. Evaluation of BernoulliB[x] is also difficult.) Any iterative procedure (such as FindRoot) that yields a constant multiple more digits at each step will take about Log[n] steps to get n digits. Roots of polynomials can thus almost always be found with NSolve in about Log[n] m[n] operations. If one evaluates NIntegrate or NDSolve by effectively fitting functions to order s polynomials the difficulty of getting results with n-digit precision typically increases like 2n/s. An adaptive algorithm such as Romberg integration reduces this to about 2^Sqrt[n]. The best-known algorithms for evaluating Zeta[1/2 + I x] (see page 918) to fixed precision take roughly Sqrt[x] operations—or 2n/2 operations if x is an n-digit integer. (The evaluation is based on the Riemann–Siegel formula, which involves sums of about Sqrt[x] cosines.) Unlike for continuous mathematical functions, known algorithms for number theoretical functions such as FactorInteger[x] or MoebiusMu[x] typically seem to require a number of operations that grows faster with the number of digits n in x than any power of n (see page 1090).


My pole bean leaves are being shredded by something. What can I do?
It is hard to say what it is being shedded by - possibly a raccoon, but it could be several other pests as well.
But, you can try a few things to deter them, such as sprinkling cayenne pepper on the plants, placing citrus peels around the plants to treating the area with predator urea (available at garden nurseries). These methods will deter most mammals that cause this kind of damage.


This article is about the species. For a specific instance of this species, see Staravia (disambiguation).
Staravia (Japanese: ムクバード Mukubird) is a dual-type Normal/Flying Pokémon introduced in Generation IV.
It evolves from Starly starting at level 14 and evolves into Staraptor starting at level 34.
Staravia is a grayish-brown, avian Pokémon with black and white markings. Its head and upper body are primarily black with an "M"-shaped pattern over its white chest. On its forehead is a grayish-brown spot, which is smaller on the female. On its face is a white, mask-like marking with a pattern of spikes along the lower edge. It has small, black eyes with white pupils and a long, orange beak with a black tip. On the back of its head is a long tuft of feathers, which curves forward. The lower halves of its wings are black, and it has black tail feathers with a single white feather in the center. Its orange, anisodactyl feet have black talons.
Staravia lives near forests and fields, where it hunts for Bug Pokémon. Aware of its own weakness, it forms flocks of its own kind and cries noisily if left on its own. However, these flocks can be extremely territorial. When two different groups meet, they will fight fiercely.
Ash's Starly evolved into a Staravia in A Staravia is Born!. It then evolved into a Staraptor in Pursuing a Lofty Goal!, during the Squallville PokéRinger competition.
Staravia debuted in Following A Maiden's Voyage!, where it was being examined at Professor Rowan's lab alongside a Starly. It escaped during a fight between a Piplup and a Chimchar, two of Rowan's starter Pokémon, but it later returned with Chimchar in tow.
A Staravia appeared in A Relay in the Sky!, under the ownership of Orson. It was seen participating in the Pokémon Sky Relay alongside the other members of its evolution family, Starly and Staraptor.
Multiple Staravia appeared in the Hoopa's Surprise Ring Adventures short Flying in the Air. They were among the immense Flying-type Pokémon summoned by Hoopa to create wind for Ash and Pikachu, but their combined Gust was too much for them and sent them blasting off.
A Staravia appeared in the opening sequence of Zoroark: Master of Illusions.
A Staravia appeared in a flashback or a fantasy in The Forest Champion!.
A Staravia appeared in Battles in the Sky!.
Three Staravia appeared in A Full-Strength Battle Surprise!, where they fled from Team Flare as they conducted an experiment.
A Trainer's Staravia appeared in Till We Compete Again!.
DP013 Staravia Dawn's Pokédex Staravia, the Starling Pokémon. Staravia flies over forests and fields, and travels in large flocks.
Staravia in Diamond and Pearl Adventure!
In Stunning Staravia & Stinky Skuntank I, Team Galactic's Grunts used several Staravia to battle Paka and Uji in Veilstone City so that they can find their client, Platinum, and use her for a ransom. They were defeated by the combined efforts of Paka, Uji, Diamond, and Pearl. They were next seen being used to capture Mesprit at Lake Verity. They reappeared in Mixing It Up with Machamp.
A Trainer's Staravia appeared in Bombastic Bibarel & Heroic Hippopotas.
A Staravia appeared in a flashback as a Pokémon trained by the International Police in Innocent Scientist.
Jun owns a Staravia that first appeared in The Mystery Boy, Jun!!. It later evolved into a Staraptor.
Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Staravia in that game.
Gust Flying Getting the Pre-Contest Titters!
Staravia came to the Beach Zone to play. His favorite Attraction is Pelipper's Circle Circuit.
For other sprites and images, please see Staravia images on the Bulbagarden Archives.
Staravia is based on an adult starling. However, its features seem to be based more on an adult northern lapwing.
Staravia is a combination of starling and avian (pertaining to birds).
Mukubird is a combination of 椋鳥 mukudori (gray starling) and bird.
Mandarin Chinese 姆克鳥 Mǔ Kè Niǎo Transliteration of its Japanese name. The last character means "bird".


UX Designer, illustrator & terrible musician. Currently trying to nail hyperrealistic charcoal portraits - my friends suffer the consequences.
Worst meetings ever — a practical guide!
TL;DR — design systems are a great way to maintain consistency and speed up development. Side effects are that they limit designers’ creativity, bias way-of-working towards converging on solutions too rapidly, and can become rigid.


Rina Piccolo recently got hit with one of the long-standing problems/concerns of newspaper comic strip creators: she lost a paper. The Chronicle Journal of Thunder Bay, Ontario dropped Tina's Groove. That's a harsh pill to swallow in these days or declining newspaper sales who are cutting costs (like comics) all over the place. But to make the matter even worse, they replaced it with For Better of For Worse, Lynn Johnston's long-running strip that has been in re-runs since 2008.
Let's add a little context.
The Chronicle Journal actually switched up their comics section early this year. For Better of For Worse was a long-time staple of the paper, and Johnston was in town for a gallery exhibit of her work in January, but that strip was dropped shortly afterwards. Also dropped were Garfield, Non-Sequitur, Frank & Ernest, Flo & Friends and The Wizard Of Id. New additions included Sherman’s Lagoon, Bizarro, Between Friends, Intelligent Life, Mother Goose & Grimm and Tina’s Groove. As with any comics line-up change, letters were written about all the bad decisions the editor made.
Back in February, one of the letter-writers noted that it was a bit harsh to drop Johnston's strip literally a week after her visit. Particularly as Johnston is Canadian, and The Chronicle Journal should support Canadian values over U.S. ones. The same commenter also pointed out that Piccolo, too, is Canadian and her inclusion made more sense than Intelligent Life, which makes frequent references to U.S. holidays and culture and wouldn't always resonate with a Canadian audience.
Some old faces have returned to The Chronicle-Journal comics page. Flo & Friends, Non-Sequitur and For Better or For Worse are back in the daily comics page.
The decision to bring them back was made after careful consideration of reader feedback - both good and bad - in response to the introduction of several new strips last month.
The wry and topical Non-Sequitur has a unique take on everyday life that its fans support passionately. The older characters of Flo & Friends gives us a grin for all generations to enjoy.
From 1979 to 2008, For Better or For Worse followed the lives of the Patterson family. The re-run of their stories by Canada's Lynn Johnston are still enjoyed by readers new and old.
No mention was made of Piccolo or Tina's Groove.
It's somewhat telling that much of the language used speaks to the comfort of the status quo. "Old faces have returned..." "Older characters... for all generations to enjoy." "Re-run(s) are still enjoyed..." Their current readership apparently doesn't like change all that much, and wants to see the same comics they've enjoyed in the past. In some cases, literally the exact same ones. And the newspaper is willing to cater to that mindset.
Newspaper readership has been declining for a couple of decades now, and they've spent much of that time bemoaning their situation and how they can't seem to turn the tides of falling sales. But if, two decades on, they continue catering to a "let's not change anything ever" mindset, they've got no one to blame but themselves.


Regulars on Angel City’s vibrant and varied music scene are no doubt well-aware of our own Rock-N-Soul standouts, The Diamond Light. The foursome has been tearing up the stages from Silverlake to West Hollywood in the last couple months and just debuted their song “Dusty Walls” on MTV’s ‘Catfish’. Your girl in music caught up with most of the group to learn how they make their live show rock.
Share your go-to pre-show ritual.
Griffin: A nice porter beer to calm any nerves.
Brian: Thai town feast – 2 Thai beers and a big plate of pad see ew at Ruen Pair.
Griffin: Talking to fellow music lovers.
Brian: Glass of Jameson and good conversation with friends.
Trevor: New Fuzz Pedals. Open Tunings. Jammage.
Brian: Getting into to the sexiest pocket with my main man Ian Ochs.
Griffin: Knowing it could fall apart at any moment and how you’re going to build it back up again.
Complete this sentence: My favorite song to play live is____.
Griffin: Oklahoma ’47 – as of late.
Let’s part with a favorite memory or craziest gig story.
Brian: Griffin got a bloody nose mid set and transformed his white telecaster to a nice deep red. People thought he was a coke head but really he was just shredding too hard.
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In marketing campaigns that try to one-up each other, wireless operators are all claiming to have 4G wireless networks. So who truly has a 4G network?
Earlier this week, T-Mobile USA, the fourth largest cell phone operator in the U.S., launched a marketing campaign calling its newly upgraded network "America's Largest 4G Network."
The claim has ruffled more than a few feathers at T-Mobile competitors, namely Sprint Nextel, which has been helping its partner Clearwire build a nationwide network using a technology called WiMax that it claims is 4G.
Verizon Wireless is also building a "4G" network using a different technology called LTE or Long Term Evolution. It plans to launch this network in 38 markets by the end of the year.
So is T-Mobile's upgraded network actually 4G? Technically, the answer is no. But it's important to point out that neither is Sprint's nor Verizon's.
While current versions of WiMax and LTE are typically referred to in the industry as "4G," they do not actually meet the International Telecommunications Union's strict definition. The ITU, an agency within the United Nations, is the international standards body that officially designates wireless technologies as 1G, 2G, 3G, and now, 4G. Last month, the group certified future implementations of LTE and WiMax as 4G. But it did not certify current implementations of these technologies as 4G.
To be legitimately considered a 4G technology by the ITU, the network technology is required by the agency to be IP-based and use orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). The other main requirement is that the technology needs to support peak download speeds of 100Mbps. The current flavors of LTE and WiMax are not that fast. And neither is the technology T-Mobile is using, which is called HSPA+.
That said, the network upgrades all four major wireless carriers have implemented have made their networks faster. Average 3G services offer between 700Kbps and 1.5Mbps. Sprint's WiMax service, built by Clearwire, offers average download speeds of around 6Mbps, Sprint has said. And Verizon claims that tests indicate it is getting download speeds of between 6Mbps and 12Mbps on its precommercial LTE network. T-Mobile's HSPA+ network also gives a significant boost, with speeds between 3Mbps and 7Mbps.
It should be noted that AT&T, which plans to test LTE next year, has also upgraded its network to HSPA+. AT&T is not claiming that its upgrade is 4G. But it is the same technology T-Mobile is using, and it offers the same speedy downloads.
So what does this mean for consumers? Well, there is no doubt the marketing terms being thrown around are confusing. First and foremost, consumers should recognize that all four major wireless carriers are in the midst of upgrading their networks, and that all these next generation networks should provide comparable speeds.
But there are a few caveats consumers should be aware of.
Current 3G phones on any operator's network will not take full advantage of the new network upgrades. You will need a new phone that is WiMax compatible for Sprint, LTE compatible for Verizon, and HSPA+ compatible for either T-Mobile or AT&T. Sprint already sells two 3G/4G smartphones, the HTC Evo and the Samsung Epic. T-Mobile has just introduced two HSPA+ handsets, the HTC G2 and the HTC MyTouch. Neither AT&T nor Verizon have announced handsets that use their latest network technologies. Verizon has said it expects to have LTE handsets on the market by the end of the first quarter of 2011. AT&T has introduced a wireless laptop card but hasn't indicated when its HSPA+ handsets will hit store shelves.
Network performance is also affected by multiple factors, in addition to network technology. The upgrades boasted of by carriers will no doubt boost performance for new devices. But how much of that is felt by consumers depends on lots of factors, including how loaded the networks are. Wireless is a shared medium, so the more users sharing the resource, the less bandwidth is available for individual users.
Network coverage is a major factor consumers need to consider as well. If you have a "4G" phone, it will get the full benefit of that fast network only if you are using it in an area where there's 4G coverage. Otherwise, the phone falls back to the older generation technology. Sprint (via Clearwire) and Verizon Wireless are building new networks using new technologies. So it will take them a little while to build the networks to meet their current 3G footprint. Clearwire is in more than 55 markets today and is adding more each week. Its goal is to reach 120 million potential customers by the end of 2010. Verizon plans to be in 38 markets across the country and offer service to 110 million potential customers by the end of 2010. And within three years it will be everywhere its 3G service is available today, covering 285 million potential customers. T-Mobile's HSPA+ network is in 65 metro areas today and is available to 120 million potential customers. And by the end of 2010, the company has said, it will be available in 100 markets to more than 200 million potential customers. AT&T's HSPA+ network will reach 250 million customers by the end of the year and will be available everywhere its current 3G service is available. So in terms of coverage, AT&T will have the largest, fastest wireless network in the U.S. this year, regardless of whether you call it 4G or 3G.
T-Mobile's claims of the "Fastest 4G network in America" come as wireless operators try to one-up each other to win new subscribers. In an era when U.S. mobile phone penetration is nearly 100 percent, claims of faster networks and hot new devices are what carrier marketing teams use to set themselves apart from the competition.
Previously, operators may have competed on price or network reliability, but today they're competing on speed and cool devices. This trend is largely driven by consumers' appetite for smartphones, which are data hungry devices.
There is no question that wireless operators are playing fast and loose with their marketing claims. And it's likely that the advertising wars will only get noisier, which will make it even more confusing for consumers to decide which device and which carrier is best for them.
Discuss: Will the real 4G please stand up?


Given how many weight loss options you have to choose from, it could be overwhelming to think about losing weight. People who enjoy success do so by following the simplest and most direct path. The following article below are just what you need to make a weight loss plan for successfully losing weight.
Walnuts are great snack to keep around when you are on a weight loss program. It has been proven that those who have walnuts provided a longer than those who do not. Walnuts are also make a great by themselves.
Try eliminating read meat from your diet. It can be very healthy for your heart to eliminate the saturated fats and cholesterol found in red meat. Try lean meats instead of red meats. This includes fish and poultry.
TIP! Get outside and go walking for exercise. You will get some nature time and you will burn a good amount of calories.
Focusing on making positive changes is an easy way to stay with your diet. Instead of avoiding the doughnut shop each morning, invent a new habit and stop somewhere for fresh fruit instead. It’s a lot easier to develop new habits than trying to break bad ones.
You will have better chances in losing weight if you spend most of your time with friends who are regularly active. Someone who won’t get off the couch potato might have the opposite effect.
You should find alternative ways of transporting yourself rather than driving in order to lose weight. If you exercise while transporting yourself by walking, bicycling or running, you will burn lots of calories. Calories are stored by the body as they build up. You can prevent this from happening by burning as many calories as you can.
TIP! Work your way around bad weight gaining habits by adapting to new weight loss habits. Making positive changes in your diet is a great way to make sure the diet sticks.
Walking is an effective way to take off extra weight. It does double duty for your blood flowing and your appetite smaller.You can burn up to 500 calories per half hour stint.
This can boost your success and build up your progress. It helps keep you motivated to stay at the motivation needed to maintain your size you are currently at or lose more.
Monitor your calorie intake. It’s as simple as buying a spiral notebook. Turn the notebook into a personal food journal. Do not forget to include the amount of servings and calories from the food that you eat during the day. This helps you keep track of your eating habits so your overall progress can be monitored.
TIP! Learn techniques to handle the stress in your life. The human body stores calories and fat for defense against stressful situations.
Don’t take pills that promote quick and effective weight loss. Any weight loss you lose quickly will probably be gained again once you are no longer taking the supplement.
One awesome way to take off the pounds is to run on the beach. Running on sand is harder than running on most other surfaces.
TIP! Weigh yourself consistently. This helps you see how well you are doing! Track your progress with a journal or notebook.
It is generally accepted that a pound of muscle mass burns more calories than fat. Having an abundant amount of muscle on your physique will assist you to lose weight without exerting as much work. Strength training a couple of times weekly will help build muscle.
Eating a healthy meal before heading out to a holiday party will keep you from over-indulging in finger foods once you get there. This will prevent you from cracking when you see the cakes and fattening foods offered at the party. Try drinking wine instead of high-calorie beer or mixed drinks.
TIP! A small amount of sugar, less than 200 grams, after working out can be quite useful. Keeping sugar intake to a minimum after your workout, while maximizing your protein intake, your body will be able to more efficiently use the proteins to rebuild your muscle.
As time goes on, you will realize exactly when your body is actually hungry or if your brain is just craving something. You would be amazed at just how much food you eat when you do not actually need it.
A great way to get some exercise while accomplishing a necessary task is to clean house daily. You can lose fat by burning calories while doing housework.
Incorporating a physical activity in any meal is a good way to shed weight. Are you considering going on a picnic? Walk there and do it at your local park. If you have the free time, planning some meals around a physical activity is a great way to work off the food and lose weight.
TIP! Science tells us that muscles burn a lot more calories than fat, up to four times as many! If your body is predominantly muscle, you can burn more calories while going about your daily activities. Strength training that is done two or three times weekly will help you build muscle.
A dietician or nutritionist can help you to design a healthy lifestyle. A dietician is mainly a teacher who will help people about how to make healthier choices based on the nutrition of the food. A substantial portion of weight loss is eating foods that are healthy food.
The best way to lose weight is to exercise more movement into your life and eat less.
Distraction while eating can lead to excess pounds. If you ignore what you’re putting in your mouth, you won’t lose any weight. Stay aware of the amount of food you eat at each meal or snack, and you will likely find yourself eating less.
TIP! In order to eat healthy, make your meal portions smaller. A healthy weight can be achieved easier and quicker by doing this.
Try putting exercise often if you are attempting to lose weight. Even if you have a very busy schedule, you can incorporate things like strength training and aerobics into many of the tasks you do every day. For instance, you can do squats using your kitchen chair while you wait for your food to finish cooking.
There are many easy methods to help you lose weight. Keep the information you learned in this article and put it to good use over the next few days. You will notice how effective they are almost immediately. In a matter of weeks, you will have developed the healthy habits that are going to bring your to your ideal weight.
As time passes, you should learn to understand the clues that tell you that your body truly requires food, as well as those that let you know that you are simply fatigued, upset or experiencing a craving. You would be amazed at how often people eat because they are sad and for other reasons other than hunger.
TIP! Eating a variety of food is important when losing weight. Eating the same meals all the time can create boredom and undermine commitment.


The product is made using wood laminated board (plywood), neodymium magnets. Use Tools - carving knife, jigsaw, drill machine.
Additional materials-abrasive paper, adhesive glue. The product is left in its natural color. Decoration made with wax.
The product is made using wood laminated board (plywood), neodymium magnets. Use Tools - carving knife, jigsaw, drill machine. Additional materials-abrasive paper, adhesive glue. The product is left in its natural color. Decoration made with wax.


February 15, 2010 Dan O.
A film for all cougars saying it’s alright.
Dustin Hoffman (in his first major film role) turns in a landmark performance as a naïve college graduate who is seduced by a middle-aged neighbor (Anne Bancroft) but ends up falling in love with her beautiful, young daughter (Katharine Ross).
I have heard and seen many great things about this movie and how great it truly is, and to be honest I can’t quite say I will go against that but I won’t call it the greatest.
The film starts out as a great and wonderful comedy that is all about being awkward and very situational. The writing here is top-notch with a lot of funny little quirks to go along with a lot of ironic humor. But the best thing about the screenplay that it also speaks a lot about actually staying committed to one person for the rest of your life, which I found to be the most brutally honest aspect of the film.
I feel like the problem here is that the genration gap is the big problem. This film was back in the 60’s where everything was goody goody and of course this movie was hilarious back then. But now looking at it the satirical look at these characters doesn’t quite hold up since it does seem a bit dated now in the 21st century. Also, the score from Simon & Garfunkel had its moment, but the same song was played about 4 times in this movie and I found it to be a bit annoying to say the least.
Director Mike Nichols does give out a great job here at the directing chair and shows that he knows how to direct. The way he positions the camera in some scenes, it was very different at the time and can still be viewed as different nowadays but the way he uses these camera angles to convey a sort of emotion works so well. The way the film changes at the end with the drama and sort of romantic comedy way did push me back a little bit but not too much to where I was totally appalled.
Hoffman is very good here in his first big role. He plays this character Ben with such awkwardness, that you can’t really at all hate this character cause he is just way too nerdy but at the same time funny. In my opinion I found Anne Bancroft to be actually very better-looking than her daughter and she plays this role with such sexiness and deviously, that she is probably one of the better female performances I have seen in awhile.
Consensus: The Graduate doesn’t quite hold up today as it did back then, but still has gret writing, inspired direction, and wonderful performances from Hoffman and Bancroft.


Could you please clarify my below doubts on power supply to a car head unit in modern cars.
1) Is the power from alternator rectified and supplied to the head unit?
2) Is the battery directly connected to the head?
3) Is the battery power boosted to 14.4 volts and supplied to the head unit.
4) Is the accessory power regulated and provides constant 12 V.
5) In what circumstances does the head unit use accessory power and direct battery power.
Modern cars are no different to old cars, the radio connects direct to the battery (may be via the ignition switch) - no reason to do anything else.
On the car head unit and as per the ISO 10487 connections there are two power connections- direct battery and Accessory power (A4 and A7 respectively). No sure how they're used to power the head unit.
One is permanent power, the other switched power - it's been standard on car radios for decades (the un-switched one powers the clock and maintains memory).
You can connect both together, and to permanent power, if you wish - but the radio won't turn OFF with the ignition then.
The full-time power input usually draws just a few tens of uA, while the switched power could be up to a couple of A.


I recently read a news item that I like.
From the pages of Micromega, the director Paolo Flores D'Arcais, the writer Andrea Camilleri and the Literature Nobel Dario Fo and others subscribed a request to the political opposition to make a practical Republican self-defense 'solemnly and immediately proclaiming a systematic and permanent blocking of the Parliament on all measures and by all means that the law and regulations provide, up to Berlusconi's resignation and subsequent elections'.
The following motto, which has become the slogan of the Italian current political moment: If not now, when?
Blocking of the parliament, this is a coherent action.
The only one, if you have a minimum of intellectual honesty, facing with the majority in power in today Italy.
I like these words even more than the news above.
I love those phrases that can best sum up a moment of particular significance.
Once uttered, they become universal and valid for every place: in Tunisia as in Egypt, in Algeria as in Libya, in Yemen as in Iran and so on.
Yet here, despite repeated upheavals in the streets, most of the current parliamentary opposition - except rare exceptions as Antonio Di Pietro - shows some difficulties to consider the so-called radical choices.
However, observing the last years of government, what is most radical of a party ruled by an absolute and unquestionable guy as Berlusconi is?
I repeat again, the coherent action is one and only one, and it makes me happy to know that is officially required by such a list of signatures.
If not now when, Noah said, watching the rain pouring outside the window, before starting to build the ark.
If not now when, the Beagle Boys agreed on seeing Uncle Scrooge going to search of yet another treasure with Donald Duck, before to attack and rob him.
If not now when, the mirror said to pirate Black beard advising him to shave, before going on a first date with the daughter of the Red Corsair.
If not now when, Roberto Benigni must have thought before running and jumping like a madman when he was awarded with the Oscar.
If not now when, are the exact words Michelangelo Buonarroti heard in his dream the day before deciding to paint the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.
If not now when the little old woman cried to spider man asking him to climb up and pull down his cat from the tree.
If not now when, Captain Kirk asked on a planet that was to explode to the phlegmatic Mr. Spock, because he was uncertain whether or not to start the remote transport.
If not now when, it is rumored Jack Kerouac have replied to a motorist who had asked him why he went around the country alone, and especially so young.
If not now when, Popeye have thought before eating his first plate of spinach - food that in his youth he did not like at all, this is a scoop… - and then run to save Olive Oyl from Bluto.
If not now when, Captain Nemo - called by the crew Captain “Churl” Nemo, another scoop… - before leaving for a trip of no less than twenty thousand leagues have replied to the gas station attendant who asked him why he wanted full gasoline.
If not now when, those who know when it comes time to do the right thing said and cried and always will say and cry.
And if not now when, many said and cried and always will say and cry to them, waiting they do the right thing.
If this were not enough, as far as I'm concerned, if not now when I said when I gave my first kiss to my partner.
The News: IF NOT NOW, WHEN? Modest proposal to parliamentarians of the opposition.


BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Six cows that tested positive for brucellosis - with a ''B'' brand on the left side of their necks - were the first of Jim and Sandy Morgan's herd of cattle to be loaded on to trucks Monday, bound for slaughter. The 300 cows and bulls from the Morgan ranch south of Bridger were loaded onto six trucks Monday to be taken to Cimpl Packing in Yankton. The 284 calves from the herd were to be shipped Tuesday to Modesto, Calif., where they will be made into veal. Sandy Morgan and her mother, Connie Malcolm of Emigrant worked in the 103 degree heat, helping five Montana Department of Livestock brand inspectors sort, herd and load the cows - cattle from her grandfather's genetics lines - onto double-decker cattle trucks. ''It's devastating,'' Sandy Morgan said. ''You're OK as long as you pretend they're going to summer grass.'' The U.S. Department of Agriculture offered the Morgans $423,000 in compensation for the nearly 600 cows, bulls and calves - an amount the Morgans say isn't nearly enough. The destruction of the animals is required by the USDA to preserve the state's brucellosis-free status, following the discovery in May of seven infected cows in the herd. One cow was euthanized in Iowa in May. The rest of the herd tested negative for the highly contagious disease, which causes cattle to abort, but may have been exposed to it. ''It's a difficult decision, and nobody is happy,'' said acting State Veterinarian Jeanne Rankin. ''We need to protect the 2.4 million cattle in Montana and the livelihood of these other ranchers.'' Dr. Ray Randall of Bridger Veterinary Clinic said the Morgans may have an argument over how much they were paid, but he said the alternative of rejecting the buyout was unacceptable. ''If other ranchers had had to go through all the testing, they would be mad at the state and mad at the feds and mad at the Morgans,'' he said. Rankin said the cattle industry needs to step up now. ''We appreciate the sacrifice of the Morgans and the Hergenriders and we want the industry to step up to the plate to restock their cattle, if necessary,'' Rankin said. Karen Hergenrider of Belfry grazed some cattle with the Morgan herd and was also paid by federal officials to destroy those cattle. Montana remains on sort of a brucellosis probation. If one more cow tests positive in the next two years, the state will lose its brucellosis-free status.


Is Fernando Torres Moving To Australia?
From Atletico Madrid to the A-League.
Fernando Torres just finished his time at boyhood club Atletico Madrid, and he's now a free agent. The world is his oyster. Torres is 34 years old, and he's obviously coming to the twilight of his career. But, as he showed for Atletico this past season in La Liga and the Europa League, there's still life in him.
Torres also announced that he's going to reveal his next club tomorrow morning. With the anticipation building around Torres’ decision, one destination looks very likely.
There are plenty of rumours about where he will go. A lot of the rumours are linking him to a move to the J-League or MLS. But there's one location that seems to have a bit more substance to the rumours.
Torres is set to move to the A-League in Australia. Yep, "El Niño" is moving down under. Well, according to a few reports.
Football Federation Australia (FFA), the governing body of soccer for the Aussies, is apparently willing to foot some of the bill to bring Torres to the A-League, with the club he signs for paying the other half. It's believed that Torres wants $4 million a season.
The A-League has hosted a number of elite players who had significant success abroad. Dwight Yorke, Alessandro Del Piero, Emile Heskey, Robbie Fowler and Juninho are just a few names of players with incredible pedigrees who graced the pitches of the A-League. Whilst not all of these players were incredibly successful with their stints in Australia, they brought plenty of international attention to a league that was still growing.
There are two teams that can afford Torres in their lineup: Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory. Sydney FC have had plenty of experience with marquee players, with Yorke, Juninho and Del Piero all playing for the Sky Blues. Yorke was the most successful out of the three as he won the league with Sydney in the first-ever season of the A-League, assisting Steve Corica for the game-winning goal against the Central Coast Mariners.
As for Melbourne Victory, they are the most successful club in A-League history, winning four championships since the inception of the league in 2005. Melbourne's also the reigning champions, as they defeated Sydney FC in the semi-finals and then beat the Newcastle Jets in the grand final.
Sydney FC sold two of their star players recently, so they have plenty of money to fund the move for Torres. Bobo, their marquee striker, moved to Turkey, while Adrian Mierzejewski, the A-League player of the year last season, moved to China. The marquee position means that the player’s wages falls outside of the salary cap, and the Sky Blues are notoriously known as the league’s glamour club for the amount of money they always have in the piggy bank.
Melbourne Victory also sold their marquee striker, Besart Berisha. Berisha moved to J-league side Sanfrecce Hiroshima after spending seven years in Australia. Berisha is also the leading goalscorer in A-League history, scoring 116 goals during his tenure with Brisbane Roar and Melbourne Victory.
Both clubs have gaping holes in the striker position, and Torres fits the bill for both clubs perfectly. With the governing body of soccer in Australia willing to pay half of Torres’ wages, it is a logical deal for either Sydney FC or Melbourne Victory to sign him. At 34, Torres still has a few years left in him to run around and kick a ball on a field. Whether he does that in Australia remains to be seen, but out of all of the places he could go, Australia seems to make the most sense.


U.S. based company is looking for a talented, flexible and artistic web developer to maintain and create websites in various styles for our U.S. marketing company. The ideal candidate is a hands-on professional with knowledge of basic HTML and advanced Wordpress skills.
Starting pay is $5/hour but if we are happy after the first full month we are willing to give a raise. We will also start with 20 hours per week but if we are happy with the work we will raise it to more hours if the person we hire would like.
A good command of English (fluency and writing) is necessary to be able to understand the directions from our marketing team and to work with our weekly type revisions.
We need someone that can design logos as well as other graphics.
We'd also like the developer to have a backup power generator in case the power runs out and you are on a deadline. This has been a problem with other hires we've made in both India and the Philippines.
This is a part-time, freelance position and we'd like the person to work during the hours of 9AM to 1PM EST. (New York Time), Monday - Friday.
Here is a summary of ABSOLUTE requirements. If you cannot meet them, we would respectfully ask you to pursue a different job posting.
We are hoping to hire someone as soon as possible.


The context: As Alex Chilton's songwriting partner in power-pop legend Big Star, Chris Bell was an overlooked member of an overlooked band—not an enviable position, considering his ambition and genius. When Big Star collapsed in 1975, Bell—wrestling with his faith, his sexual orientation, and his capsized dreams—retreated to the French Alps to work on I Am The Cosmos, the record he was convinced would make him famous. It never even had a chance to flop; far too raw and erratic for radio, the album was rejected by everyone except the small New York label Car, which released the title track as a single in 1978. Bell died in a car crash soon after. One of the most haunted, enigmatic albums of the '70s, Cosmos wasn't officially released until 1992, when alt-rock's namedropping of Big Star was at its peak.
The greatness: Bell is often painted as a doomed pop-poet, but he was much more than some stateside Nick Drake. True, Cosmos is steeped in agony and arpeggios, but it's punctuated by stormy rockers like "Make A Scene" and "I Got Kinda Lost," songs that would've been at home on Big Star's Radio City (or even a Real Kids anthology). At points, Bell seems to be trying his damnedest to beat the letdown and dread that was swallowing his life: The slapdash boogie and barrelhouse piano of "Fight At The Table" masks some weirdly sad lyrics, while "You And Your Sister"—complete with wrenching backups from Chilton—is a brittle, off-kilter ballad that threatens to derail or dissolve at any moment. With Bell's echoing, exposed-nerve vocals and piercingly personal ruminations on matters celestial and sexual, Cosmos is John Lennon's Imagine from another dimension. In Rock And The Pop Narcotic, Joe Carducci calls Big Star's music "pop out of time"—a phrase that fits Bell's solo work all too well.
Defining song: On the surface, the Jesus-fixated "Look Up" is one of Cosmos' more forgettable songs—but it stabs deeper into Bell's soul than the rest of the record combined. Buoyed by woodwinds and all the innocence of a Sunday-school hymn, Bell sings, "Look up, look up / You'll see the sky / Look up, look up / He's the life / Waiting to love you / Wanting to reach you" until his voice trembles and cracks in pain. The song's droning quietude bares Bell's spiritual chaos, and shows just how brave he was to commit it to record.


(NaturalNews) The ketogenic diet is a medical diet that is high in fat and low in carbohydrates, and is sometimes used in the treatment of epilepsy. According to emerging research, it may also hold potential for the treatment of a wide range of other chronic disorders, including cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
Strictly defined, a ketogenic diet is one that pushes the body into a state of ketosis, or burning fat to produce molecules known as ketones. In the absence of sufficient glucose, the brain is able to use ketones for most of its energy needs. Research suggests that when followed properly, most ketogenic diets are safe, with minimal side effects.
The ketogenic diet was originally developed as a treatment for epilepsy in the early 20th century, in an attempt to safely mimic the seizure-suppressing effects observed in epileptic patients who fasted completely. Although the diet fell out of favor as a treatment following the development of anti-convulsive drugs, there has been renewed interest in recent years among those seeking alternatives to pharmaceutical treatment.
The traditional ketogenic diet contains four times as much fat as it does protein and carbohydrates combined. More recently, researchers have studied a more permissive modified Atkins diet (MAD), which instead contains 50 percent fat. Studies indicate that both forms are effective at suppressing the symptoms of epilepsy in about 50 percent of patients.
With renewed interest in the ketogenic diet, researchers have started studying its effectiveness in treating other conditions as well. One of the most promising areas of research is into its potential to slow the progression of cancer – although notably, no study has suggested that the diet alone is enough to cure cancer.
What researchers did find is that in conjunction with other cancer treatments, the ketogenic diet can slow the progress of many cancers, including those that have metastasized. It also appears to improve quality of life during cancer treatment.
It is unclear why the ketogenic diet slows tumor growth, but part of the effect may come from the diet's tendency to help regulate metabolic disorders such as obesity, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. In fact, reductions in blood sugar levels on the ketogenic diet are so substantial that they enable many patients to reduce or even discontinue their diabetes drugs.
For life-threatening conditions such as cancer and diabetes, it is important that any changes to treatment regimen be made under the supervision of a trusted health professional.
Another promising, though preliminary, area of research is into the benefit a ketogenic diet may provide to patients with Alzheimer's disease. Part of the reason this is considered a treatment with high potential is that Alzheimer's disease shares many features with both epilepsy and type 2 diabetes, including seizures, insulin-resistance-linked inflammation and an inability by the brain to use glucose properly.
Research has shown that a ketogenic diet improves coordination and balance in animal models with Alzheimer's. When the diet is supplemented with extra ketone esters, animals also show improvement in some of the brain damage associated with the disease. Human trials have shown improvement in cognitive symptoms among Alzheimer's patients whose diets are supplemented with ketone esters or with medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs).
MCTs are a form of fat found in high quantities in certain foods such as coconut and palm oil, that can induce the body to produce more ketones without entering ketosis.
Researchers are currently conducting and recruiting for several controlled human trials into the MAD plus MCT for Alzheimer's patients.
The ketogenic diet has also shown promise in treating autism, GLUT1 deficiency syndrome, glycogen storage disease, migraines, multiple sclerosis, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, Parkinson's disease, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and traumatic brain injury.


How to force Windows to install an old-version driver?
For purposes of some troubleshooting, I want to make Device Manager accept an older version of a driver. If I uninstall the device and include "delete driver" and restart, it comes back with the current Windows Update version of driver, and that's not the one I want to use.
Previous versions of the executable driver installer won't overwrite the new one. If I use the administrator's version of the driver and try to update driver in DM, it tells me that the best driver is already installed?
Go to Device Manager. Search the Device.
here are old ones to use.


Will Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Have Their Baby at Frogmore Cottage?
Will Meghan Markle Give Birth at Frogmore Cottage, Instead of at a Hospital?
In advance of Baby Sussex's arrival, the Daily Mail is reporting that Meghan Markle is considering a midwife-led home birth rather than give birth in a hospital.
"It is her favoured choice," a source said, "but it obviously depends on how things are nearer the time."
This isn't actually all that surprising: reports indicated that Meghan was working with a doula as she prepped to deliver.
Despite a ton of speculation, no one really knows where Meghan Markle is set to deliver her first child with Prince Harry. Now, the Daily Mail is reporting that Meghan Markle won't be headed to a hospital at all and wants to have a midwife-led birth at Frogmore Cottage. Sources also say, "Harry and Meghan...have not ruled out a hospital delivery because a woman having a baby over the age of 35 is at an increased risk of premature birth or the need for an epidural or caesarean."
"It is her favoured choice," a source added, "but it obviously depends on how things are nearer the time."
For context, there's been speculation about where Meghan is going to deliver: Will it be the Lindo Wing, where Kate Middleton has delivered her three babies? (The staff was recently told not to take vacations in April.) Will it be closer to where she and Harry live in Windsor, perhaps the Frimley Park Hospital where Sophie, Countess of Wessex delivered? And, quite obviously, the British royal family is not saying, first and foremost for security reasons.
Queen Elizabeth apparently had home births when she delivered (of course, this was many decades ago at this point). So it's not outside of royal tradition to have a home birth, and they very likely have the very best medical care around. It might also be a little more private, and allow Harry and Meghan to choose how and when to share the news without undue pressure. When William and Kate went into the hospital, it was often reported, and crowds would gather outside the hospital in anticipation. Reportedly, Harry and Meghan felt that this setup was like a "goldfish bowl."
Either way, it's going to be a wonderfully busy and hectic time for the mom-to-be.


Who were the first people to live in Italy?
When it comes to genealogy, people are often interested in finding out how far back in time they could theoretically trace their ancestors if all of them had some sort of written chronology (just theoretically speaking, of course, as written documents only came up “recently”). So how far back could one go in Italy? Who were the first people to actually live in Italy? Nobody can give you a 100% exact answer to that, but it is known that people lived in Italy as far back as 200,000 years ago. However, those were not the same kind of people we know today, there were a different species even – called Homo Erectus. The modern people, the Homo Sapiens Sapiens only turned up in Italy about 12,000 years ago. Scientists who did genetic tests on remains of those people found out that those people originally came from West Asia.
Some time around 5,000 BC, i.e. about seven thousand years ago, people from Greece came over to Italy in their boats. These people, of course, brought knowledge, tools, and even animals with them. Over time, they spread North and populated more and more of the country. More information about what happened in more recent times in Italy can be found in Italian History 101.
Tracing your Italian heritage – How far back can you trace it?
So basically, if you know that you have some sort of Italian heritage, you can assume that your very early ancestors were either from Western Asia or Greece. That is quite an impressive heritage – unfortunately you will never be able to trace your heritage back that far. People who are lucky enough to be born into a family that has good documentations over the centuries (e.g. in official registers) might be able to trace their family back into the Middle Ages, but not very much further as official, written documentations, like birth, marriage, death, did not start until the Middle Ages, and even then not everybody was accounted for. For a long time it was only people of a certain “worth” that were documented.
People with an Italian surname in the USA will often have an interest in tracing back their family's history. First, you will have to find out when your ancestors did come to the USA – which can be fairly easy if it was your parents, grandparents or your grandparents' parents who were the immigrants.
Basically, Italians were not such a big group of immigrants until fairly recently, i.e. 1861. So you have good chances of actually being able to trace that back. With the help of the internet (and maybe with the help of your family's documents if there are any), you can then start working on tracing your actual Italian ancestors from long ago. It can be a very time-consuming process, but the results can also be very rewarding. These days, you also have the option to pay a professional to trace back your family tree for you.
What's in an Italian name?
Italians have a few traditional guidelines when it comes to naming their children – this can help, but can also be confusing if you find plenty of people with the same first name and even the same surname. The general naming rules for Italian children are that the first son is named after father's father. The first daughter is named after the father's mother. The second son is named after his mother's father, and the second daughter is named after her mother's mother. If there ever was a third son or daughter, then other names from other family members were chosen.
Imagine two sisters. Both of them have their second son in the same year. So they end up having boys of the same age with the same first name – but they will have a different family name. If you find such a cluster of similar first names but with different surnames repeatedly in the same geographical region, then you can assume that there must have been some common ancestor. But of course it can also all become quite confusing and many different factors have to be taken into account.
Like most other countries, the Italian used surnames to be able to keep people apart. There are family names that describes someone's relation (e.g. di Pablo – son/daugther of Pablo), their profession (e.g. Contadino – the farmer), their original home (e.g. Romano – from Rome), or someone's physical appearance (e.g. Basso for a short person).


Tim and his friend Blake were traveling to Houston in order to purchase a used car they found online. Since it was an all-cash deal, they were carrying $27,000 in twenty-dollar bills in a shopping bag. But as they got closer to the meeting place, they were stopped by the police for speeding. The officer, noticing a stack of twenties protruding from the bag, asked the men what they were up to. Not believing their story and suggesting they were actually making a drug transaction, he pressured them into handing over the cash. The officer informed the driver that they were heading to a "known drug spot."
Neither of the men were arrested or charged with a crime, but now they're $27,000 short and not sure if they'll ever see their hard-earned money again. Can the police do this? Believe it or not, in some cases they can.
Although highly controversial, civil asset forfeiture laws allow the police to take (and keep) large sums of cash or property suspected of either being used to commit crimes or obtained through criminal means (e.g. goods purchased with "dirty" money). Civil asset forfeiture laws differ by jurisdiction, but generally don't require proof of the property owner's guilt (although some state laws do require a conviction).
Unlike criminal asset forfeiture -- a less-common action in which property used or derived from a crime is forfeited only after a conviction for that crime -- civil asset forfeiture usually doesn't require a conviction or even criminal charges. The majority of such forfeitures are related to suspected illicit drug or organized criminal activities. Technically, it involves a lawsuit by the government against the property itself -- or, in legal terms, in rem. As strange as it may seem, the inanimate property (whether it's a yacht or a bag of cash) is the defendant in such a proceeding.
It depends on the jurisdiction, but typically the police (the plaintiffs in such a proceeding) are only required to show that there is a preponderance of the evidence suggesting the seized property was involved in wrongdoing. This is a much lower standard of proof than what's required for a criminal conviction (beyond a reasonable doubt), which is why property is so often seized from individuals who are not convicted of (nor charged with) a crime. Even if the owner of the property is tried for a crime related to the seized property, there's no guarantee they'll get their property back upon acquittal.
The seized property is usually sold at auction, with a majority of the proceeds (as well as any seized cash) going straight into the police department's coffers. State laws differ in this regard, although some states allow 100 percent of the seized property to be used for law enforcement and others earmark the proceeds for education or other purposes.
Under federal law, the government must send written notice to "interested parties" (i.e. property owners) within 60 days of the seizure, although deadline extensions are often granted by courts. If a claimant (typically the property owner) sends a claim to the agency seizing the property, the government has 90 days in which to either file a formal civil complaint ("in rem") against the seized property or obtain a criminal indictment for a criminal forfeiture. Failing either of those actions, the government is required to release the property.
Since the action is against the property, the owner (or "interested party") generally has no right to counsel in these proceedings. One exception is if the seized property is the owner's primary residence.
What is Civil Asset Forfeiture and Equitable Sharing?
In July 2017, the Department of Justice announced plans to revive the Equitable Sharing Program, allowing greater collaboration between federal agencies and state and local police. The program allows federal agencies to take control of the assets seized through such federal/local collaborations and then return 80 percent of those funds back to the state agency (typically a state or local police department). This controversial program effectively allows local agencies to get around state laws that often limit the percentage of seized assets they're allowed to keep.
For example, Indiana state law prohibits law enforcement agencies from using any forfeiture proceeds. But under this program, Indiana police could simply enlist the help of a federal agency, have them seize the property, and then recover 80 percent of the proceeds to use within their police department.
However, a 2019 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Timbs v. Indiana) held that fines -- including assets seized after an arrest -- can't be excessive and can't be used as a way of generating revenue. The respondent in the case, Tyson Timbs, was arrested for the sale of heroin and his $42,000 Land Rover (purchased with the proceeds of his late father's life insurance policy) was seized. The Court pointed out that this far exceeded the $10,000 maximum fine for his drug offense.
While the Court didn't address the constitutionality of civil asset forfeiture in general, it ruled that the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause is in fact applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment (and that this is an example of an "excessive fine"). It remains to be seen how this will play out in the bigger picture, but it likely will prompt state and local jurisdictions to limit their seizure of assets in the future.
Having something of value taken away from you by the police can be infuriating, especially if you haven't been charged with a crime. If you believe your property was unjustly taken from you, you may have some legal options for getting it back. Learn more about civil asset forfeiture and protect your rights by meeting with a local criminal law attorney.


The World Health Organization bungled efforts to halt the spread of Ebola in West Africa, an internal report has revealed, as US President Barack Obama named a trusted political adviser to take control of America's response to the epidemic.
The WHO draft report, which was obtained by The Associated Press news agency on Friday, pointed to serious errors by an agency designated as the international community's leader in coordinating response to outbreaks of disease.
The document - a timeline of the outbreak - found that WHO, an arm of the United Nations, missed chances to prevent Ebola from spreading soon after it was first diagnosed in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea last spring, blaming factors including incompetent staff and a lack of information.
Its own experts failed to grasp that traditional infectious disease containment methods would not work in a region with porous borders and broken health systems, the report found.
"Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall," WHO said in the report.
"A perfect storm was brewing, ready to burst open in full force."
The agency's own bureaucracy was part of the problem, the report found.
It pointed out that the heads of its country offices in Africa are "politically motivated appointments" made by the WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Luis Sambo, who does not answer to the agency's chief in Geneva, Dr. Margaret Chan.
Dr. Peter Piot, the co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, agreed that WHO acted far too slowly.
"It's the regional office in Africa that's the front line," said Piot, interviewed at his office in London. "And they didn't do anything. That office is really not competent."
WHO declined to comment on the document, which was not issued publicly, and said that Chan would be unavailable for an interview.
She did tell Bloomberg News that she "was not fully informed of the evolution of the outbreak. We responded, but our response may not have matched the scale of the outbreak and the complexity of the outbreak".
Meanwhile, Obama moved to step up the US response to the disease, naming Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, as the administration's point man on Ebola.
Klain is a longtime Democratic operative who also served as a top aide to Vice President Al Gore. He does not have any medical or public health expertise.
But the White House said he would serve as "Ebola response coordinator," suggesting his key role will be to synchronise the actions of many government agencies in combatting the disease.
Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall.


Will later model (5,2) logic board fit earlier MacBook?
I have an excellent computer, Macbook Intel Core 2 Duo (P7350) ("Penryn"); Early 2009 Model 5,2; 13 inch screen; 2 GHz processor(s); 6 GB of RAM.
Problem: The audio out socket has decided to no longer function; it seems to be that the metal contacts have sprung apart and do not wish to return to the normal closed position. This means the internal speakers do not work, among many other things.
I was looking for solutions, when it occurred to me that I could purchase the 2.13 GHz logic board from iFixit to effect a cure - plus it would be slightly faster and I'd have a spare logic board. I realise this is expensive, but I cannot see how else to fix the audio out problem - and I don't wish to start fiddling with the logic board (to which the audio-out is soldered directly) without a replacement for said logic board.
So, my question is: will the later 2.13 GHz (Model 5,2) logic board fit the holes and insides of my (slightly earlier). Given that iFixit does not have the older 5,1 model logic board for sale, but does have the later 5,2 model for sale, I was wondering if anyone knew whether the "holes" all lined up?
There not much difference between the 2 logic boards. According to Mactracker the two boards have the 1066mhz bus, the same graphic card, etc. The only difference I can see is that the 2.0ghz use PC-5300 and the 2.13 the PC-6400. Also, according to Powerbookmedic.com the two boards are compatibles.
Click the "See Compatibility List" link.
This (as far as I can tell) is the final version of the A1181, which uses the SATA version of the optical drive (smaller socket on the logic board than the older A1181s). I've dealt with hundreds of A1181s, but for some odd reason I have never come across one of these boards...it makes me think they must not have manufactured too many of them. I only found out they even exist because I accidentally bought a bunch of SATA optical drives with the smaller cable, and because of that I realized they would not work on my older A1181s and were meant for this model instead.
Yes the 2.0 early 2009 and the 2.13 mid 2009 are the last 1181 models before the white unbody 2.26 late 2009. Did'nt know about the optical drive sata cable thanks rdklinc.
Thanks for those answers. It looks like I can purchase one (from iFixit) and I hope it'll all fit in! THEN I can see if I can fix the audio out on the older board.
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At the time of this writing, the only states that do not charge a state income tax are Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. If you live or earn money in one of the other 41 states or the District of Columbia, you may need to file a state income tax return by the April deadline. It is a separate and independent requirement from filing your federal tax return and failure to file it on time may result in interest and penalty charges.
Several states allow automatic extensions of time to file your personal income tax return only if you first obtain an extension to file your federal tax return. However, in most cases, you must make a separate request for it by the April deadline. Some states, like Massachusetts for example, don't require you to obtain an extension if you don't owe any tax. But just like your federal return, if you are due a state refund because of too much employer withholding, you will not receive it until you file. On the other hand, if you thought you didn't owe tax but actually do, you may face some additional penalty or interest charges.
TurboTax Easy Extension makes it easy to file an extension for both your federal and state tax returns.
If you fail to file a state income tax return by the due date, it's still better to file late than to not file at all. Generally, the penalties charged on the tax you owe increase over time, but you can minimize them by filing your state return as soon as possible. If your state does charge late-filing penalties even for returns that report a refund due to you, filing sooner rather than later will minimize the amount of penalties deducted from your refund.
Many states offer tax amnesty programs as an incentive for taxpayers to voluntarily pay past-due taxes. Generally, amnesty programs provide you a limited time frame in which you can pay your taxes and receive a waiver of all interest and penalties. In some cases, states are reluctant to waive penalties if you had an opportunity to participate in an amnesty program but still file your return at a later date.
State tax penalties can be just as harsh as those imposed by the IRS. In the most severe cases, the state can even prosecute you for a crime if it believes that your failure to file tax returns was part of a fraudulent scheme. Just like other crimes, the punishment can include time in jail.
However, the majority of taxpayers who don't file their state returns are subject to penalties, interest and other fees in addition to the amount of tax due. And since your account is charged on a monthly basis, the longer you wait, the more you'll pay. Some states can even put liens on your property, seize your assets, garnish wages and intercept a federal tax refund if too much time passes without any tax return or tax payment.


We have a number of custom plugins and I wish to run one of them before another one. How do I control this and how are they ordered by default?
I can't seem to find anything in the IConfigurablePlugin interface that allows me to do this or any documentation around this.
The order is not guaranteed, you may want to use an orchestration plugin that the other plugins register in their Initialize() method and then the orchestration plugin could handle the AfterInitialization event on the plugin manager ( https://community.telligent.com/community/10/w/api-documentation/60576/pluginmanager-in-process-api-service ) to execute dependent code on the registered plugins in the correct order.
Do you have any example of using this to register my plugins?
I’ve looked at the link but it’s not clear to me how I would go about doing this.
In each plugins initialize method, retrieve the registration plugin by its type from plugin manager's Get<T>() method and call a public method on that plugin to register the child plugins requiring orchestration.
An alternative approach is to define a new plugin interface (just needs to inherit from IPlugin) and provide an OrderNumber and Execute method on it. In an orchestration plugin, in an AfterInitialize handler (handling the event on Plugin Manager), retrieve all implementations of the new plugin interface from plugin manager via it's Get<T>() , order the results, and call execute.
Let me know if that helps. If not, I'll try to setup a code example.
I've read over your response a few times but I'm not 100% sure I understand. I get the idea of an parent plugin that registers the child plugins or an interface with an order number but I'm not sure how this would work as won't my plugins still be picked (since they implement the IConfigurablePlugin interface) and therefore perhaps registered twice, once by my orchestrator / interface with order number and once by the platform? I think a code sample would be really useful if you have one to hand.
Here's a code example. It defines a new (custom) plugin type IOrchestratedPlugin and a service plugin, PluginOrchestration, to allow plugins to define an execution order (relative to all other IOrchestratedPlugin implementations). The PluginOrchestration plugin loads all IOchestratedPlugins after plugins are initialized, sorts them by their order number, and calls their Execute() method where the dependent/order-specific logic should be implemented.
// Register to execute orchestrated plugins after all plugins have been initialized.
Great, thanks Ben. I'll give this a go. So I guess as the plugins implement IOrchestratedPlugin and not IConfigurablePlugin then this is why the platform doesn't pick up the plugins and regsiter them already?
They still need to be enabled when deployed. A plugin could implement IOrchestratedPlugin and IConfigurablePlugin (and any number of other plugin types) as well.
Ok. I'll let you know how I get on. thanks.