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3 Tips to Give Your Yard a Spring Boost
Now that the winter chill is no longer here, it’s time to assess your landscaping and see what you can do to revitalize it for the spring season! Here are a few spring landscaping tips that will make your yard turn heads this year.
Aerate Your Lawn
Over time, your lawn might become compacted, especially with a lot of foot traffic or heavy debris. In such cases, you will need to aerate the lawn. Warm-season grasses like bermuda grass begin their period of active growth in summer, so aerating your lawn in late spring will ensure healthy, rapid growth in the holes you create. It is best to aerate the yard when the soil is moist, not saturated, and before doing any reseeding or fertilizing.
Grab the Fertilizer
Give your lawn its first round of fertilizer in the spring by about mid-April when the soil temperature reaches 55 degrees Fahrenheit. It is best to apply a light covering of a slow-release fertilizer. Be sure to read the fertilizer label for directions regarding watering before or after the application. Some fertilizers need moisture after application to break down, and other fertilizers may guide you to water the lawn before spreading.
Spread the Mulch
Applying mulch in flower beds and around trees goes a long way to help them retain moisture during the spring. It also helps to decrease the temperature of plant roots and insulates them should there be an unexpected freeze. Visually, it also adds a neat appearance to your yard. Apply around 3 inches of mulch while keeping in mind that if the layer of mulch is too thin, it will not successfully retain moisture or suppress weed growth. If you put down too much mulch, it will suffocate your plants. Professionals also recommend that mulch be kept 2-3 inches from the base of trees, shrubs and other woody perennials.
As your grass grows, don’t forget to pull out your mower and do a thorough inspection, de-winterize it, and sharpen the blades. Following these handy tips will go a long way to give your yard a boost this spring!
When it comes to buying a home, plenty of financial reasons make a convincing argument to make the move to buy. Emotional reasons, however, are really the more compelling force on why people buy homes.
Sometimes being in love with your home isn’t about making huge changes. Instead, it’s about learning to appreciate the little things. Paring down, brushing on a fresh coat of paint, hanging new curtains or just changing the way you look at things can make your home a happier dwelling. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we have a few thoughts on how to fall in love with your home again!
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At their core, nonprofits exist to build community around important missions. That community needs to be one defined by equity and belonging, where everyone is welcome and seen. In this episode, Nancy and Sarah talk with Roo Qallaq Ramos about racism and nonprofits and what we can do to build equitable communities.
Roo Ramos is an equity consultant based in Spokane, Washington. She is Iñupiaq (Alaska Native) and a survivor of the educational system, the juvenile justice system, and the child welfare system. Tara works on racial equity in the very systems she experienced. In 2020, Tara opened her own consulting firm called Redfox Consulting to help organizations across the spectrum build their cultural and racial awareness.
Questions to reflect on before you listen:
How does equity and racism connect with your mission and the community you have around that mission?
- What resonated with you about this conversation? What would you like to take back to your organization?
- Roo defines some key words: racism, implicit bias, and other terms. How would you define those words?
- What can you do to see more diversity around you?
- How could you bring this conversation to your board or staff to further conversation?

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I painted three side of this 20 ft high build with spray paint. there were some client request for images and the rest I just fill in with my imagination
I was commissioned to paint a steampunk based mural 25 ft long by 11 ft high.
I did all of this with acrylic paint and paint brushes.
I was also hired to do some interior design. I have experience in helping residential customers remodel their homes and also do the design.
the owner of the schooze coffee shop was looking for an artist and he contacted the Prescott chalk event staff and the lady sent me a message letting me know that the person was looking for an artist. If I was interested I should call the number. So I did. I went and met with the owner and he had a bunch of ideas. So I painted many different parts of the schmooze work space.
This was a fun small project inside a salon.
I was mentioned to the owner that I do this type of thing and the owner wanted to speak with me about providing an idea and a quote. She already had an artist she spoke with.
The owner liked my idea based on her input and the price was right.
This was done with acrylic paint and paint brush.

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Indie favorite Conor Oberst heads to the high desert on Thursday, Oct. 10 when he plays Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace along with fellow Coachella fest vets the Felice Brothers. The show is outdoors and general admission. Doors open at 6 p.m. 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10 Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, 760-365-5956, $20. Visit… [Read More]
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Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace has two major shows worth heading to the high desert for this weekend. On Friday, May 10, it’s a celebration of all things Jim Lauderdale with the fourth annual Jimfest.
I’ve been a Chris Shiflett fan for a long time–I’ve seen him with No Use for a Name, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and the Foo Fighters over the years.
Here is a red-hot concert tip for people who love to make the High Desert journey to the Inland region’s most-fun concert venue, the rocking Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace.
The last of the announced local shows featuring Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival artists go on sale Friday, March 15. Here’s the quick rundown:
C’mon get happy, because that chameleon of a songwriter Rufus Wainwright is headed to Pioneertown on Friday, March 8. Wainwright’s half-sister, Lucy Wainwright-Roche, will also be performing at the intimate show.
If you haven’t seen it yet, Goldenvoice released information about some of the shows Coachella 2013 artists are doing in the Southland around the time of the festival, including venues such as The Glass House, where Beach House, The Three O’Clock an more are playing, and the Fox Theater in Pomona.
Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace has two shows well worth the drive to the desert this week. Up first is Pappy and Harriet’s regular Gram Rabbit (the Joshua Tree-based band throws its annual Halloween ball at the venue) with Well Hung Heart on Friday, March 1.
The Cold War Kids are playing Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace on Friday, Feb. 15. The Long Beach-based alternative band, which most recently played at the Coachella Festival in 2011, is releasing a new album, “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts,” in April.


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GEO Secretariat Director Ryan on the Geospatial Hall of Fame.
2 February 2017
At the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad in India, GEO Secretariat Director, Barbara Ryan was honored with an award recognizing her passion, vision, knowledge, leadership and business acumen.
In addition to leading the second decade of implementation of GEOSS, highlights of Barbara’s career include her work leading her position as Associate Director for Geography at the USGS, where she was responsible for the agency’s remote sensing, geography and civilian mapping programmes, including the Landsat satellites. It was during this time she led the effort to change the decade-old Landsat data policy to full and open, an action resulting in many millions of scenes being downloaded globally.
Barbara has also served as chair of the international Committee on Earth Observation Satellites, which coordinates information from more than 100 civilian satellite missions, and in 2008 became Director of the World Meteorological Organization’s space programme.
The ‘Geospatial Hall of Fame’ platform celebrates and recognizes legends of the geospatial industry. The ten pioneers include Charles Trimble, founder of Trimble, a manufacturer of global positioning system products; Jack Dangermond, founder of Esri, the world’s largest GIS software maker and David Schell, founder of the Open Geospatial Consortium which champions use of open standards. Barbara is the only woman to be honored by an award.
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Abstracts This paper addresses the effect of spatial variations of ground motion with different wave propagation apparent velocities in soft and medium soil, and the influence of soil–structure interaction (SSI) on the pounding response of two adjacent bridge frames. Spatial ground motion time histories are simulated according to the Japanese design spectra and an empirical coherency loss function. In order to obtain a more reliable conclusion, three sets of spatial ground motions are independently simulated for each considered case. The ensemble mean girder responses obtained from the three independent time history analyses are used for the evaluation of the gap size required to avoid pounding between the bridge girders. The pounding behaviour of girders is analysed by using a combined finite element and boundary element method. The study reveals that both the ground motion spatial variation and SSI should be considered in the analysis of pounding responses of bridge girders.


Rep. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) defeated incumbent Republican Dean Heller in the race for Nevada’s U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday. Nevada is now the fifth state to have two female senators.
“Women are winning up and down the ballot. This is a historic night for us,” Rosen said in her victory speech.
Heller was one of the Senate’s most vulnerable Republicans this cycle, running for re-election in a state Democrat Hillary Clinton carried in the in 2016 presidential election.
After once saying he “vehemently” opposed Donald Trump, a figure reviled by many communities in Nevada, Heller aligned himself with the president and his policies. His 2017 vote to repeal Obamacare, in particular, opened him up to blistering attacks over the health care law and its protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
At a debate earlier this month, Heller claimed he personally authored health care legislation that would have maintained protections for pre-existing conditions. He said the issue was personal for him because his daughter had recently adopted a two-year-old girl from China.
“She does have pre-existing conditions, and I will protect those pre-existing conditions for that little Chinese girl,” Heller said.
But the bill he referenced ― which was narrowly defeated with the help of three Senate Republicans last year ― would have allowed states to end those protections.
Rosen, a freshman congresswoman who once worked as a computer engineer, made Heller’s Obamacare repeal vote a huge part of the campaign by accusing him of breaking his promise to Nevada voters about protecting people with pre-existing conditions. She also called the GOP senator a “rubber stamp” for Trump and his immigration policies, pledging to Latino voters in the state in Spanish-language ads that she would stand up to the president.
Heller and GOP outside groups countered by painting Rosen as an extreme liberal who supports sanctuary cities and hasn’t done enough to stop unauthorized immigration or gangs like MS-13. Trump even gave her a derisive nickname: “Wacky Jacky.”
Both campaigns focused on early voting and turning out their base to the polls ahead of the election. Ballots cast before Election Day usually account for approximately 60 percent of the vote in Nevada. That why Heller’s campaign held several rallies with Trump in rural parts of the state to help offset more urban areas like Las Vegas and Reno. Rosen, meanwhile, rallied with former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden.
The decisive advantage for Rosen may have been the fabled “Reid machine,” a network of well-organized volunteers, activists, union members and party officials dedicated to getting Democrats to vote. It’s named after former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, the de-facto party boss in the state, who hand-picked Rosen to run against Heller this year.
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As a child growing up, I made friends with other kids that I had things in common with – football, skateboarding, snooker, videogames. I also made friends with kids that lived close by, or I went to school with. These would be the friends that knocked on the door asking if I’d like to come out. We’d play games like “Kick the Can”, let one another ride each other’s bikes, or climb and jump off trees.
As I grew older, I came across and met more and more people. There were college friends, and university friends, and table tennis friends, and housemates, and Myspace friends. Once I graduated, there were work friends, New Zealand friends, Australia friends, Canada friends, and UK friends.
But in the end there are really only two types of friends – friends who want the best for you, and friends who don’t want the best for you.
Friends who want the best for you are your biggest cheerleaders. You can feel their love. They do nice things for you, and support you in your goals whatever they may be. The hold your hair when you throw up from drinking too much, and are the first to read your blog posts. They ask how your family are doing, and listen.
Friends who don’t want the best for you are the ones that explain why you won’t achieve your goals. They try to make you look bad in front of a group and disguise it as banter. They get a little bit giddy when you do something wrong or receive bad news.
It’s important once in a while to look at who you’re spending most of your time with. People who empower you to be the best and most fulfilled as you can be? Or those that are secretly hoping you screw up so that they feel a bit better about their own inadequacies?
Imagine if you were only friends with those people who wanted the best for you. There would be no-one holding you back, inhibiting you. In fact, everyone would be encouraging you, rooting for you with authenticity. They win if you win.
Peterson invites us to consider: If you have a friend that you would not recommend to your sister or your parents or your son, why would you have such a friend for yourself?
This post is for those in my life that want the best for me. I hope you know that I also want the best for you too.
Make friends with people who want the best for you.

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With Windows 10 coming to Xbox One on November 12, you might have forgotten about one other, long cool feature coming to the system: backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 titles.
Partially, anyway. Microsoft is basically running an emulator on the Xbox One, so not all games are compatible yet as the company needs to assure they work 100 percent reliably.
Up until now, Microsoft had only revealed a few titles to expect, but now we have the full list of 104 Xbox 360 games available when the new Windows 10 experience arrives Thursday.
Some notables include ‘Fallout 3,’ all of ‘Gears of War,’ ‘Borderlands,’ and ‘Mass Effect.’
Then there are some classic titles already ported from older systems like ‘Banjo-Kazooie’ and ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ (no, not that one *shudders*). One would hope the Xbox One is powerful enough to emulate games from the 90s.
It’s a decent selection of titles, and though it’s missing some obvious classics like Halo Reach and Bioshock 1 and 2; Microsoft says these are on the way soon.
In fact, the company says “this is just the beginning of a long list of Xbox 360 games,” and that it will announce more compatible titles regularly starting December.
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George and His Shadow
by Davide Calì
illustrations by Serge Bloch
One morning, when George walks into his kitchen, he finds someone sitting at his table. “Who are you?” he asks. “I’m your shadow,” answers the shadow. The shadow follows George—for a walk on the street, fishing on the pier at Coney Island, and everywhere else George goes.
Who is this shadow? Is he an annoying pest? Is he a friend? Or is he both?
"The short, clipped words and sentences complement Bloch’s illustrative approach perfectly. It’s as though the writer, Davide Calì, wrote the book with Bloch in mind."
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“Bibo’s translation of Calì’s text is smooth and sly. (...) Collage elements add to the visual slapstick, broad blocks of color hint at the light-versus-dark theme, and Bloch’s loopy line captures chairs, crockery, and city buildings with impulsive spontaneity.”
“Calì subtly explores friendship and solitude with panache and a refreshing lack of condescension. Bloch’s stylish computer-generated illustrations play with shape, color, and perspective, adding another layer of absurdism. Droll.”
“Reminiscent of the style and humor of Jon Agee’s books, this import from Italy (clearly set in New York City) is sophisticated in style yet deals with concepts (shadows and companionship) easily understood by young children... Compare and contrast with Mac Barnett’s The Skunk (2015).”
World: Harper Collins, 2017
Other editions: France, Italy, Spain
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What they ought to mention is, “Let’s punish Mark Zuckerberg.”
Those individuals are indignant. I am indignant too. We are all indignant. And with just right reason why.
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And the corporate failed, spectacularly, to do the fitting factor in 2017, when it did not prevent propaganda campaigns through Myanmar’s army from working on its social community. All the ones hateful posts and photographs, United International locations investigators stated, performed a “determining role” within the mass killings of a Muslim minority in that nation. Let that soak in: Fb’s provider performed a significant role in a genocide, and the corporate slightly lifted a finger to prevent it.
It is no surprise the calls to get a divorce Fb are collecting steam. Frankly, I am surprised it took goodbye.
“We’re a country with a practice of reining in monopolies, regardless of how well-intentioned the leaders of those firms is also,” Chris Hughes, Fb co-founder and Zuckerberg’s dorm roommate at Harvard College, wrote in a Thursday op-ed in The New York Instances. Politicians rallied round him, together with Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren. “It is time to #BreakUpBigTech,” Warren tweeted in reaction.
However let’s now not faux that breaking apart Fb will make the rest higher.
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And Zuckerberg, 35, is its unelected chief, with unilateral control over the company and sufficient balloting stocks to stave off just about any company coup. Breaking apart Fb “isn’t going to do anything to help,” Zuckerberg stated in a reaction revealed Friday.
“Other people suppose a breakup is the fitting way, but it surely incessantly backfires,” stated David Balto, a former coverage director for the Federal Business Fee. He labored at the crew that accused Microsoft of monopolistic practices 20 years in the past.
Again then, other folks have been indignant on the instrument massive for its competitive, aggressive techniques. They have been specifically disappointed that Microsoft bundled its Internet Explorer internet browser with its Home windows instrument, which powered many of the global’s PCs. Even though there was once again then, it did not occur.
“The extra suitable answer is setting up behavioral laws for all the trade, relatively than attempt to get a divorce a unmarried corporate,” Balto added.
So let’s prevent pretending that leaving Zuckerberg with the comfort prize of working the largest social community in the world can be sufficient to fulfill us.
It is time to admit that what we truly need is to look Zuckerberg punished. We would like the buck to stop at his desk. We would like the FTC’s possible advantageous of up to $5 billion in opposition to Fb (an insignificant nine% of the corporate’s gross sales last year) to include him too. We would like him to really feel one of the crucial ache we’ve got observed him by chance dole out to everybody else.
Fb declined to make Zuckerberg to be had for an interview.
“There is a lot those firms must have reckoned with previous,” stated Margaret O’Mara, a historical past professor on the College of Washington and writer of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.
She likened the temper round tech firms at the moment to how we felt on the flip of the 20th century, prior to a major antitrust suit broke up Standard Oil. “Simply as now, there was once a large number of debate about how you can nonetheless enhance loose endeavor and financial enlargement however but reckon with one of the crucial anti-competitive habits, and issues that might harm customers,” she stated.
An answer of types
In reality that punishing Zuckerberg may not repair our issues both, regardless of how cathartic it will appear.
As an alternative, Fb must be higher. And that’s the reason going to take paintings — greater than it kind of feels able to doing by itself.
It is going to require govt businesses to slap Fb so laborious when it screws up that its executives will concern extra about screwing up once more than following the now-abandoned motto, “Transfer speedy and damage issues.”
The toughest section, even though, can be that it is going to require us, the folk, to call for Fb be higher.
That would be the toughest little bit of all of it.
As a result of, after years of nonstop scandal, we are nonetheless telling Fb it is OK.
We are saying it is OK each time we log in, serving to Fb proceed rising its consumer base — which is up greater than eight p.c because the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke ultimate yr.
We are saying it is OK each time we click on an advert in our newsfeed, “like” one thing on Instagram or use Messenger to proportion a hyperlink to our buddies.
That is why I accept as true with Hughes that one thing should be completed. “If we don’t take motion, Fb’s monopoly will grow to be much more entrenched,” he wrote.
However breaking apart Fb may not do the task. We wish to power the corporate to modify. And we wish to do it once imaginable.


|Publication number||US8200278 B2|
|Application number||US 12/350,905|
|Publication date||Jun 12, 2012|
|Filing date||Jan 8, 2009|
|Priority date||Jan 8, 2009|
|Also published as||US20100173654|
|Publication number||12350905, 350905, US 8200278 B2, US 8200278B2, US-B2-8200278, US8200278 B2, US8200278B2|
|Inventors||Mark Cameron Little|
|Original Assignee||Red Hat, Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (10), Non-Patent Citations (12), Classifications (8), Legal Events (1)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for network communications. Specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to communicating enterprise service bus messages using cellular phone communication protocols.
A service oriented architecture (SOA) enables enterprises to integrate services, handle business events, and automate business processes more efficiently. For example, an SOA links information technology resources, data, services, and applications. An SOA can include an enterprise service bus (ESB). An ESB is an event-driven and standards-based messaging engine that provides services for more complex architectures. The ESB provides infrastructure that links together service and clients to enable distributed applications and processes. For example, an ESB can include one or more busses that logically interconnect available services and clients.
The ESB interconnects service and clients using different protocols such as hypertext transfer protocol, common object request broker architecture, Java™, file transfer protocol, and email. These protocols typically run over an Ethernet network and are not available to cellular phones that do not include Ethernet services. Alternatively, it may expensive to use these Ethernet-based protocols on a cellular phone.
The present invention is illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings in which like references indicate similar elements. It should be noted that different references to “an” or “one” embodiment in this disclosure are not necessarily to the same embodiment, and such references mean at least one.
The ESB communication system transmits and receives ESB messages using one or more of short message service (SMS), multimedia message service (MMS), enhanced message service (EMS) and/or Bluetooth™ protocols. A ESB communication system is a cellular phone, laptop, personal computer, server, and/or another device device configured to communicate ESB messages using one of the above protocols. Each ESB communication system includes plug-in modules for each of the SMS, MMS, EMS, and Bluetooth™ protocols to handle the transmission and receipt of ESB messages. Furthermore, the ESB communication system segments the ESB message for transmission according to the designated transport protocol and encapsulates each of the data segments for transmission.
In addition, the ESB communication system receives encapsulated data segments from another ESB communication system. The system decapsulates the received data segments and assembles the decapsulated data segments into an ESB message.
Each of mobile clients 102A-B, laptop 104, and computer 106 communicate with server(s) 110 using ESB communication modules 112A-D, respectively. In one embodiment, ESB communication modules 112A-D receive ESB messages from other modules (not shown) that process the ESB messages. ESB communication modules 112A-D prepare these ESB messages for transmission. In one embodiment, ESB communication modules 112A-D each prepare the ESB message for one of the plug-in communication modules that ESB communication module is configured to use. In this embodiment, each ESB communication module comprises one or more of the different plug-in communication modules, where each plug-in communication module communicates the ESB message using a different network protocol. For example, ESB communication module 112A for mobile client 102A includes cellular phone telephone network plug-in communication modules that allows mobile client 106A to communicate ESB messages one of SMS, MMS, and EMS protocols over CPTN 116. Mobile client 102B includes ESB communication module 112B that uses Bluetooth™ plug-in communication module 114B to communicate ESB messages over a Bluetooth™ network 118. Laptop 104 and computer 106 each have an ESB communication module 112C-D, respectively that each include transmission control protocol (TCP) plug-in communication module 114C to communication ESB messages over a TCP network 120.
Sever(s) 110 each have ESB communication module 112E with the appropriate plug-in communication modules to communicate with mobile clients 102A-B, laptop 104, computer 106, and services 112. In one embodiment, ESB communication module 112E comprises CPTN plug-in module 114A, Bluetooth™ plug-in module 114B, and TCP plug-in module 114C. Server(s) 110 communicates with mobile client 114A with CPTN plug-in module 114A, mobile client 114B with Bluetooth™ plug-in module 114B, and laptop 104, computer 106, and service(s) 112 with TCP plug-in module 114C.
As mention above, CPTN plug-in module 114A communicates ESB messages over CPTN 116 using protocols associated with this network. In one embodiment, CPTN plug-in module 114A using SMS, MMS, and EMS protocols.
SMS is a communications protocol that allows the interchange of short text messages between mobile clients using a Global System for Mobile (GSM) and/or Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) cellular telephone network. In these networks, an SMS client (e.g., mobile client 106A) transmits the SMS messages to a short message service center which provides a store-and-forward mechanism. The short message service center forwards the SMS message to the recipient. While in one embodiment, SMS is used between two different mobile clients, in alternate embodiments, SMS is used between clients and/or servers that can be non-mobile. As is known in the art, SMS sends messages between clients that are typically limited to 160 bytes. Furthermore, SMS messages delivery is best effort and can be unreliable, meaning that SMS message delivery can be delayed or the SMS message can be lost.
In an alternate embodiment, SMS can be used between a mobile client and a computer, where the computer transmits and receives SMS message embedded in emails. In this embodiment, short message service center embeds an SMS message coming from a mobile client into an email message. The short message center forwards this email to the designated email recipient. In the opposite direction, short message service center receives an email containing an SMS message. Short message service center extracts the the SMS message from the email and forwards this SMS message to the designated recipient.
MMS is a extension of SMS that allows clients to send and/or receive larger messages than SMS and the messages can include multimedia objects. The upper limit on MMS message size is larger than SMS, but MMS messages are typically limited to 300 kb. EMS is another extension to SMS that allows special text formatting, animations, pictures, icons, sound effects and special ring tones in the text message.
Bluetooth™ is a short distance wireless protocol for exchanging data over short distances between mobile and non-mobiles devices. Two Bluetooth™ enabled devices use a point to point communication by establishing a trusted relationship. In one embodiment, two Bluetooth™ enabled devices exchange binary objects using the ObjectExchange (OBEX) protocol. OBEX is a protocol that allows a device to establish a reliable transport to connect to another device and request objects (messages, files, etc.). In an alternate embodiment, the two Bluetooth™ enabled devices exchange messages using another protocol running over Bluetooth™ (Point-to-Point protocol, TCP/Internet protocol (TCP/IP), user datagram protocol (UDP), and Wireless Application Environment/Wireless Application Protocol (WAE/WAP).
At block 304, process 300 determines if the ESB message is greater than the designated transport size. For example and in one embodiment, if SMS is the designated transport, process 300 determines if the size of the ESB message plus a header size is greater than 160 bytes (maximum SMS message size). If the ESB message is greater than the designated transport message size, process 300 segments ESB message into multiple data segments at block 306. In one embodiment, process 300 segments the ESB message according to the size of a header that will be used for each data segment. The header used for the data segments is described further below. Execution proceeds to block 308. If the ESB message is less than the designated transport message size, process 300 uses the ESB message as a single data segment for encapsulation at block 308 below. Execution proceeds to block 308.
Process 300 encapsulates each of the one or more data segments into a message appropriate for the designated transport (SMS, MMS, EMS, Bluetooth™, etc.). In one embodiment, process 300 adds a header for each data segment. This header is used by a receiving process to decapsulate the ESB message data contained in the one or more encapsulated data segments. In one embodiment, the header for each of the data segments includes an ESB message identification, size of the ESB data stored in the data segment, the data segment identification, and end of ESB message indicator.
At block 310, process 300 transmits each encapsulated data segment using the designated transport. For example and in one embodiment, process 300 transmits the encapsulated data segments using one of SMS, MMS, EMS and Bluetooth™. Alternatively, process 300 embeds the encapsulated data segments in an SMS, MMS, or EMS message in an email and sends the email.
Process 300 applies transmit flow control to the transmitted encapsulated data segments in order to determine if the receiving device received the transmitted encapsulated data segments at block 312. In one embodiment, process 300 applies transmit flow control after the encapsulated data segments for that one ESB message have been transmitted. In another embodiment, process 300 applies transmit flow control after some, but not all, of the encapsulated data segments for that ESB message have been transmitted. In another embodiment, process 300 applies transmit flow control for encapsulated segments for more than one ESB message.
In one embodiment, process 300 applies the sliding window protocol transmit flow control. Sliding window protocol is used to keep a record of the encapsulated data segments sent and their respective acknowledgments received by both the users. Sliding window protocol is a variable duration window that allows process 300 to transmit a specified number of data segments before an acknowledgment is received or a specified events occurs. For example, if process 300 fails to receive an acknowledgment for the first transmitted data segment, process 300 resets the window and transmits a second data segment. In this embodiment, this process is repeated for a specified number of times before process 300 interrupts transmission.
Process 300 determines if one of the transmitted encapsulated data segments need to be re-transmitted at block 314. In one embodiment, process 300 determines that an encapsulated data segments needs to be retransmitted by failing to receive an acknowledgment from the receiving device (e.g., sever(s) 112, mobile client 104A, etc.). In alternate embodiment, a request to re-transmit an encapsulate data segment can occur if this data segment is lost or delayed. The receiving device signals to the transmitting device that one or more of the encapsulated data segments for a particular ESB message have not received within an allocated period. If a request to re-transmit is received, process 300 re-transmits the requested encapsulated data segments at block 316. Execution proceeds to block 314. If there is no requests for re-transmission of encapsulated data segments, process 300 ends.
As mentioned above, process 300 encapsulates each data segment of the ESB message for transmission using one of SMS, MMS, EMS, and Bluetooth™ protocols.
At block 504, process 500 decapsulates the data segment. In one embodiment, process 500 reads the header of the encapsulated data segment to retrieve the ESB message identification, data size, data identifier, and end of ESB message indicator. In addition, process 500 reads the data from the encapsulated data segment.
At block 506, process 500 stores the data from the decapsulated data segment and keeps track of the data segments. In one embodiment, process 500 stores the data in a buffer. In addition, process 500 keeps track of which data segments are needed for the ESB message identified in the data segment.
Using the information from the decapsulated data segment, process 500 determines if the ESB message identified in the decapsulated data segment is complete at block 508. If the ESB message is complete, process 500 assembles the ESB message using the one or more stored data segments. At block 514, process 500 forwards the assembled ESB message to the ESB messaging process module to process the received ESB message.
If process 500 determines that ESB message is not complete, process 500 sends a message to the transmitting device to re-transmit the missing encapsulated data segments at block 516.
Transmit module 610 transmits ESB messages as described in
Receive module 612 comprises ESB message compete module 614, retransmission module (R) 616, assembling module 618, decapsulate module 620, and receiving module(s) 622. ESB message complete module 614 determines if the ESB message is complete as described in
The exemplary device 700 includes a processing device 702, a main memory 704 (e.g., read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, dynamic random access memory (DRAM) such as synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), etc.), a static memory 706 (e.g., flash memory, static random access memory (SRAM), etc.), and a secondary memory 716 (e.g., a data storage device in the form of a drive unit, which may include fixed or removable computer-readable storage medium), which communicate with each other via a bus 708.
Processing device 702 represents one or more general-purpose processing devices such as a microprocessor, central processing unit, or the like. More particularly, the processing device 702 may be a complex instruction set computing (CISC) microprocessor, reduced instruction set computing (RISC) microprocessor, very long instruction word (VLIW) microprocessor, processor implementing other instruction sets, or processors implementing a combination of instruction sets. Processing device 702 may also be one or more special-purpose processing devices such as an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a digital signal processor (DSP), network processor, or the like. Processing device 702 is configured to execute the ESB communication system 726 for performing the operations and steps discussed herein.
The device 700 may further include a network interface device 722. The device 700 also may include a video display unit 710 (e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD) or a cathode ray tube (CRT)) connected to the computer system through a graphics port and graphics chipset, an alphanumeric input device 712 (e.g., a keyboard), a cursor control device 714 (e.g., a mouse), and a signal generation device 720 (e.g., a speaker).
The secondary memory 716 may include a machine-readable storage medium (or more specifically a computer-readable storage medium) 724 on which is stored one or more sets of instructions (e.g., the ESB communication system 726) embodying any one or more of the methodologies or functions described herein. The ESB communication system 726 may also reside, completely or at least partially, within the main memory 704 and/or within the processing device 702 during execution thereof by the device 700, the main memory 704 and the processing device 702 also constituting machine-readable storage media. The ESB communication system 726 may further be transmitted or received over a network 718 via the network interface device 722.
The computer-readable storage medium 724 may also be used to store the ESB communication system 726 persistently. While the computer-readable storage medium 726 is shown in an exemplary embodiment to be a single medium, the term “computer-readable storage medium” should be taken to include a single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributed database, and/or associated caches and servers) that store the one or more sets of instructions. The terms “computer-readable storage medium” shall also be taken to include any medium that is capable of storing or encoding a set of instructions for execution by the machine and that cause the machine to perform any one or more of the methodologies of the present invention. The term “computer-readable storage medium” shall accordingly be taken to include, but not be limited to, solid-state memories, and optical and magnetic media.
The modules 728, components and other features described herein (for example in relation to
In the above description, numerous details are set forth. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art, that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form, rather than in detail, in order to avoid obscuring the present invention.
Some portions of the detailed descriptions above are presented in terms of algorithms and symbolic representations of operations on data bits within a computer memory. These algorithmic descriptions and representations are the means used by those skilled in the data processing arts to most effectively convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. An algorithm is here, and generally, conceived to be a self-consistent sequence of steps leading to a desired result. The steps are those requiring physical manipulations of physical quantities. Usually, though not necessarily, these quantities take the form of electrical or magnetic signals capable of being stored, transferred, combined, compared and otherwise manipulated. It has proven convenient at times, principally for reasons of common usage, to refer to these signals as bits, values, elements, symbols, characters, terms, numbers or the like.
It should be borne in mind, however, that all of these and similar terms are to be associated with the appropriate physical quantities and are merely convenient labels applied to these quantities. Unless specifically stated otherwise as apparent from the above discussion, it is appreciated that throughout the description, discussions utilizing terms such as “receiving,” “segmenting,” “re-transmitting,” “encapsulating,” “decapsulating,” “creating,” “retrieving,” “storing,” “transmitting,” “assembling,” “requesting,” “accessing,” “forwarding,” or the like, refer to the actions and processes of a computer system, or similar electronic computing device that manipulates and transforms data represented as physical (electronic) quantities within the computer system's registers and memories into other data similarly represented as physical quantities within the computer system memories, registers or other such information storage, transmission or display devices.
The present invention also relates to an apparatus for performing the operations herein. This apparatus may be specially constructed for the required purposes or it may comprise a general purpose computer selectively activated or reconfigured by a computer program stored in the computer. Such a computer program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, such as, but not limited to, any type of disk including floppy disks, optical disks, CD-ROMs and magnetic-optical disks, read-only memories (ROMs), random access memories (RAMs), EPROMs, EEPROMs, magnetic or optical cards, Flash memory devices including universal serial bus (USB) storage devices (e.g., USB key devices) or any type of media suitable for storing electronic instructions, each of which may be coupled to a computer system bus.
The algorithms and displays presented herein are not inherently related to any particular computer or other apparatus. Various general purpose systems may be used with programs in accordance with the teachings herein or it may prove convenient to construct more specialized apparatus to perform the required method steps. The required structure for a variety of these systems will appear from the description below. In addition, the present invention is not described with reference to any particular programming language. It will be appreciated that a variety of programming languages may be used to implement the teachings of the invention as described herein.
A computer-readable storage medium includes any mechanism for storing information in a form readable by a computer. For example, a computer-readable storage medium includes read only memory (“ROM”), random access memory (“RAM”), magnetic disk storage media; optical storage media, flash memory devices or other type of machine-accessible storage media.
Thus, a method and apparatus for communicating ESB messages been described. It is to be understood that the above description is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive. Many other embodiments will be apparent to those of skill in the art upon reading and understanding the above description. The scope of the invention should, therefore, be determined with reference to the appended claims, along with the full scope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled.
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|U.S. Classification||455/556.1, 455/466|
|International Classification||H04W4/00, H04M1/00|
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In Honour of War Heroes: Colin St Clair Oakes and the Design of Kranji War Memorial.
At the end of World War II, a young British architect was appointed to design a series of cemeteries and memorials across Asia for the war dead. Colin St Clair Oakes, who had fought in the brutal Burma campaign, was the only veteran of the recent war among the five principal architects of the Imperial War Graves Commission. Completed in 1957, Kranji War Cemetery and Memorial in Singapore is a masterwork of Modernist architecture – a culmination of Oakes’ experiences in war and his evolution as an architect.
Richly illustrated with photographs, maps and architectural plans, and drawing on extensive archival research and interviews in Europe, Australia and Asia, this is a riveting account of a world shattered by war, and man’s heroic efforts to recover, remember and rebuild.
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Deputy of the My Step faction of the National Assembly of Armenia Ruben Rubinyan has posted the following on his Facebook page:
“In order to have a good understanding of what an indescribably rotten political system was established in Armenia before the revolution and how indescribably rotten certain sectors of that system remain today, it is enough to record the following:
The world is in a pandemic, along with all the hardships. The epidemic is growing in Armenia, and Prime Minister Pashinyan and his whole family are also infected. The government and several conscious citizens are doing everything they can to strengthen the fight against the epidemic and make it more effective.
Amid this, certain specific forces have started demanding a new government and have started speculating the issue of Artsakh, without any shame.
Today, it turns out that Gagik Tsarukyan has also spoken out, predicting the country’s perdition, talking about the issue of Artsakh and expressing willingness to collaborate with any political party or individual to save the country from the current authorities.
Move forward, Mr. Tsarukyan, the Republican Party of Armenia and the Country of Law Party are waiting for you.
As a deputy, I am not surprised at all, but as a citizen, I must say I am stunned by the scale of hypocrisy. We will surely overcome the coronavirus, and after that, we will remember and recall who did what and how they behaved.”


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By Mike Anderson, P.E.
I have to admit, the title of this article is a little misleading. Based on the title alone (and forgetting that you’re reading “Asphalt” not “Money”), many of you would have expected an article on how you could get your retirement savings to rebound in tough economic times.
But in the asphalt industry, recycled materials can have significant economic value to the contractor. As the amount of recycled material continues to increase in asphalt mixtures, it becomes even more important to understand how it can be blended with virgin materials to produce a mixture that will perform successfully in service. Proper asset (the recycled asphalt binder) recovery in the laboratory is a key first step.
Procedures for determining asphalt binder content in a mixture have largely progressed from solvent extraction to ignition oven procedures since the end of the Strategic Highway Research Program. However, the solvent extraction procedure is still needed as a first step in the process to recover the aged asphalt binder and determine its physical properties.
First, a sample of the asphalt mixture, pavement core, reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), or reclaimed asphalt shingles (RAS) is taken and heated for a brief time at 110º C (230º F) to ensure that any moisture is removed. Then the sample is weighed and the extraction/recovery procedure is started. There are a number of options for the extraction/recovery procedure, but the Asphalt Institute typically uses one of two methods:
- AASHTO T319 (ASTM D6847); or
- AASHTO T164 (ASTM D2172) in combination with ASTM D5404.
The AASHTO T319 procedure was developed during the Strategic Highway Research Program at Texas A&M University and later modified by the Purdue University/Asphalt Institute research team for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program project on RAP (NCHRP Project 9-12). It is an all-in-one procedure that extracts the asphalt binder from a sample, removes aggregate fines and proceeds to a recovery using a modified Rotavapor recovery procedure.
The advantage to this method is that it induces less solvent hardening of the recovered asphalt binder—meaning that the physical properties of the asphalt binder are not as negatively impacted by exposure to chemical solvents as in other procedures. The disadvantage of this method is that a smaller mixture sample size must be used—meaning that the amount of recovered asphalt binder is less than in other procedures. This could be an issue depending on the types of tests that will be performed on the recovered asphalt binder.
The AASHTO T164 procedure has been in use for many years and provides options for Centrifuge extraction (Method A), Reflux extraction (Method B) and other procedures. It is the extraction procedure with which the industry is most familiar. The advantage of using AASHTO T164 instead of T319 lies in the fact that a greater sample size can be used—meaning more asphalt binder can be recovered for testing using the Rotavapor recovery procedure (ASTM D5404). The disadvantage is that the greater sample size can lead to an increase in solvent hardening effects ? meaning the recovered asphalt binder may appear to be stiffer than it actually is.
Once the procedure has been completed, the recovered asphalt binder is drained from the recovery flask into a tin and is ready for testing to determine physical properties—a subject which will be discussed in the next “Lab Corner.”


November 10, 2021
Local officials work at the level of government closest to the people, and with that comes great responsibility and great challenge. While public officials at the state and federal level have faced harassment and threats for decades, this trend has now made its way to cities, with local leaders on the frontlines of these challenges. Driven by increasing polarization, the spread of mis- and disinformation and the growing influence and power of social media, local officials face everything from racist, homophobic attacks online to city council meetings that devolve into screaming matches. The COVID-19 pandemic, racial reckoning and other recent national crises pushed many things to the extreme and threats and harassment against local leaders are no exception. While a certain amount of disagreement is a healthy part of a functioning democracy, civil discourse in America has been increasingly in decline. Eighty-seven percent of surveyed local officials have noticed an increase in levels of harassment, threats and violence during their time in office.While more than 8 in 10 surveyed local officials have experienced some form of harassment, threats and violence, fewer than half work in an office with a strategy to handle these incidents. This report sheds light on the impact felt by local officials and their communities across the country and offers a three-pronged approach to help keep them safe from threats, while maintaining their mental and physical wellbeing.


Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that it had carried out missile strikes on bases housing US troops in Iraq in retaliation to the killing of General Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi top commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
Iran also threatened “more crushing responses” if Washington carried out further strikes.
It is reported that nine rockets hit the sprawling Ain al-Asad airbase in the country’s west, the largest of the Iraqi military compounds where foreign troops are based.
The attack came in three waves just after midnight, sources quoted by AFP said.
Iran swiftly claimed responsibility for the attack, with state TV saying it had launched “tens of missiles” on the base and promised “more crushing responses” if the US carried out further strikes.
Following the strikes, Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took to Twitter to say that “Iran took and concluded proportionate measures in self-defence” targeting a base from which a “cowardly armed attack against our citizens and senior officials” was launched.
“We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression,” he added.
The attack comes after the IRGC had called for a complete withdrawal of US troops from Iran, asserting that it would not differentiate between the Washington and Israel while retaliating against Soleimani’s killing.
“We warn US allies providing bases for the (American) terrorist army that any country serving as the origin of bellicose and aggressive attacks in any form against the Islamic Republic of Iran will be targeted,” the IRGC said in a statement on Wednesday.
It urged the US to recall all their soldiers back home to prevent more damage.
The Pentagon in a statement confirmed the missile attack, saying “Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against US military and coalition forces in Iraq”.
It further said that it would take all necessary measures to protect and defend US personnel, partners, and allies in the region.
The White House said earlier that it was monitoring the attacks, adding that President Donald Trump was also following the situation closely and consulting with his national security team.
“We are aware of the reports of attacks on US facilities in Iraq,” Efe news quoted White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham as saying on Tuesday night.
“The President has been briefed and is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his national security team.”
The attacks came after pro-Tehran factions in Iraq had vowed to “respond” to a US drone strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad last week.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had declared a three-day mourning for the deceased leader while vowing “severe revenge” on the US.
Soleimani was seen as the “godfather” of Tehran’s proxy network across the region and Muhandis, one of his top advisors, was the deputy head of Iraq’s Hashed al-Shaabi military network.
Many factions within the Hashed, which has been incorporated into the Iraqi state, have ties to Tehran.
Meanwhile, US Defence Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday the United States wants to de-escalate tensions with Iran, but the country is ready to finish any war that could be started.
“We are not looking to start a war with Iran, but we are prepared to finish one,” he said. “What we’d like to see is the situation de-escalated.”
US installations across Iraq had faced some 15 rocket attacks in recent months but none had been claimed.
As a result, the US-led coalition and NATO announced they were temporarily suspending their operations in Iraq.


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Reviews by Tensketch
Perfect for anyone looking for a stupidly fun coop gameTensketch | Jan. 6, 2013 | Review of Saints Row The Third - PC
Saints Row the Third is the first game in the series I have ever played. After reading many a review about it and being told just how much fun the game is, I decided it was time to delve in and give it a try. The first thing I noticed is that Saints Row is a game that can laugh at itself. It knows it's stupid and it doesn't care. From the get go, you are partaking in outrageous missions. 5 minutes in you're freefalling while having a very James Bond-esque gunfight with skydiving hitmen. From then on it's crazy minigames including riding a flaming quad bike that blows up everything it touches. To attempting to drive as fast as you can in order to keep a tiger calm. Almost every mission is insane and the game really doesn't care how outrageous things get. I beat the game in single player and thoroughly enjoyed it. But after that, my friend got it and the real fun began. The game comes with a fully working 2 player coop that allows you to tag along and play the entire campaign with a friend. The main story missions take place like normal, just with an extra player. But the minigames become hilariously fun. Now one of the other features the game has, is that you can download other players creations, and the more popular creations are pretty accurate celebrities. I found one of famed wrestler, Stone Cold Steve Austin. Anyway... Remember that tiger minigame I told you about? well in this game, while player one has to drive around as fast as possible, player 2 has to play a quick time even minigame in order to keep the tiger calm. I was the role of player 2. During the minigame, my friend tried a power slide around a corner, over shot it terribly and crashed into an alleyway, causing us to get very stuck. Naturally the lack of motion caused the tiger to become enraged in which I was informed that I had to tap the A button to calm it down. What ensued had me in stitches as while my friend was being mauled by a tiger, Stone Cold Steve Austin was attempting to calm it - By punching it in the back of the head. And that, to me at least, is the true essence of Saints Row the Third. To close, the game loses points for getting a little slow in the middle and appearing to run out of steam before the final, somewhat awesome, act. Oh, and driving half way across the city to a checkpoint, just to see a cutscene, is not a mission! Bad THQ, bad!
For those who cant afford Far Cry 3, this is your game.Tensketch | Jan. 6, 2013 | Review of Crysis - PC
As I write this review, the game is out of stock. However I will continue to write this review as if this is not the case. Crysis is a beautiful game. Even 6 years later, it is a beautiful game. It really did set the benchmark for graphics power at its time and it shows in games today. The story is a hardcore military shooter with an awesome sci fi twist. Normally fps games put you in a position where you are outnumbered and essentially a bullet sponge that must hide constantly to avoid an easy death. Crysis takes this stereotype and throws it out the window because from the get go, you are in a high powered suit which gives you insane superhuman powers. The powers range from armour, speed, strength and stealth and the game gives you access to them immediately. The best part about this game is it really does give you freedom to approach any situation as you please. Normally a game will tell you how to play in a scripted tutorial sequence ('activate stealth to continue' etc), in this game, if you want to approach stealthily, you can, if you want to blitz in at high speed and punch someone into the sky, go ahead! It's this kind of freedom that makes crysis such a fun game to play. You'll have such a great time playing it and figuring out what kind of a super soldier you are. Personally for example, I like to sneak in using stealth, then, once I'm close, activate strength and launch the nearest guard into another and then proceed to punch every piece of terrain at everyone around me, creating a storm of barrels, crates and cars that destroy everything in its path. It gets me killed more often than not, but I honestly don't care! the game is THAT fun! Those wanting to buy FarCry 3 and don't have the funds for it, get this game. You'll enjoy it long enough for you to save up enough money.
A return to form and a great game for any fan.Tensketch | Jan. 5, 2013 | Review of Sonic Generations - PC
The first game I ever owned was Sonic the Hedgehog way back in Christmas 92. It was the first game I ever played and one of the best games I'd experienced for years. I absolutely loved it. Fast forward to 2001 and I was in love with Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, they gave sonic a voice, a story and different campaigns, I loved it! Fast forward to 2008 and they'd made a black hedgehog have guns, sonic kiss a girl and then become a werehog. I was sick of him at this point and every time they'd release a game I plain didn't care. Probably the worst part about all of this is that Sega are fully aware of their mess ups. Every game that came out was received with reviews and fan comments basically destroying everything they had made. They tried to fix things with the release of Sonic 4, which brought back the old school gameplay that people like me love. Only problem was they were short and expensive so the fans complained they wanted something more like sonic adventure. So Sega was stuck with the following problem, the fans wanted something that was old school and retro, like the original sonic games, but modern and exciting, like Sonic Adventure. The answer? whynotboth.jpg And thus, Sonic Generations was born! The game gives fans everything they want, you get your old school levels mixed with a really well refined modern sonic. It has you playing 3 levels from each generation of Sonic, from the 2D megadrive days, the 3D adventure days, to the 'we have no idea what we are doing' days. It is a lot of fun blasting through a modern day reimagining of Chemical Plant Zone in 3D, blasting through at insane speeds which you actually have control of. Overall, if you are a sonic fan and you want to believe again, buy this game. Sega have worked hard on this game, get it now and enjoy it, before Sega mess things up again, you know it's going to happen.
short but sweetTensketch | Jan. 5, 2013 | Review of Aliens vs Predator Requiem - PC
I bought this game because I am a huge fan of the AVP franchise, I hate the films, but I love the games and comics. The two title species are perfect together and I love the fact that they throw the humans in as such easy to kill, fun to play bait. First off, as the other reviews have said, this game is short. Like, 3-5 hours short. I would strongly recommend for the best way of playing, to beat the Alien and Predator campaigns before jumping into the Marine. As the other campaigns are merely bonus missions and the Marine campaign has all the voice work, plot and action. The gameplay is your standard FPS style with each campaign offering different styles. As the alien, you are fast, but suffer from being a bullet sponge with no ranged attacks. You'll find it best to close in on your enemy as silently as possible before going in for the kill. The predator plays pretty much the same, you'll be outnumbered but your technology is what evens the odds, cloaking yourself and going for the execution kill is satisfying. The Marine is the scariest of them all. More often than not you'll be the guy who is stuck on his own just as a horde of aliens come bursting through a vent, resulting in you losing your cool and firing in rapid circles hoping that you hit something. Or being stuck in a room, thinking you are safe, not noticing the clicking and horrible squealing of a facehugger scuttling around the room getting ready to one-hit-kill you. The atmosphere in the Marine campaign is great, dark industrial rooms full of the Aliens vibe with tight claustrophobic corridors, including a no-doubt purposely designed pipe that will scare you every time. You'll know it when you see it. Only other things to mention is Lance Henriksen plays yet another Bishop and provides Alien fans everywhere what they want. Michelle Rodriguez plays Michelle Rodriguez. Seriously. That's all I can say about her. I love her but she is the same person in everything. I bought the game at full price when it came out, now it's a fraction of it and it goes even lower during sales or when you apply a voucher. If you are a fan of Aliens, Predators or just cant wait for Colonial Marines, get this.
An amazing new world and a game that dares to be different.Tensketch | Jan. 5, 2013 | Review of Dishonored Nextway - PC
Stealth and FPS are 2 words that seldom work together. Throw in the words steampunk and magic and you've got something that your mind is telling you should be a mess. But in reality, this game is far from it. One of the first thing I noticed when playing this game is that I got a very Bioshock feel from it, which is fantastic as it brings back all the memories of discovering a new world, one that has equal parts similarities and differences. The gameplay, as mentioned earlier is a stealth based fps with elements of magic and steampunk-esque technology. You'll find yourself utilising everything in your arsenal to succeed. In the first mission alone, you are given the chance to blink (a quick, short ranged teleport) across lamposts, stalking a guard before dropping down and plunging your knife into his back. It essentially marries the good parts of Assassins Creed with Bioshock. It is a difficult game to describe in writing without pictures. My only recommendation for anyone who is on the fence about buying this game is to check the games official youtube channel. The developers have released gameplay videos of them doing the same segment in both a non-lethal and lethal manner. It's what made me buy it and it should help you make up your mind. The only piece of advice I have for this game is to ignore the chaos rating, the game tries to force you to do a passive playthrough with the consequence of a bad ending but unless you are a stealth master with the patience of a saint you will find it incredibly difficult early on. Just play how you like, kill/dont kill who you want and then go for a perfect playthrough when you acquire more powers.
A Pleasant SurpriseTensketch | Jan. 5, 2013 | Review of Sleeping Dogs DLC Nightmare on Northpoint - PC
First things first, this DLC is short. Very Short. Secondly, don't expect your story to be expanded in any way, because it won't. The best way to look at this DLC is to consider it like Undead Nightmare on Red Dead Redemption, merely a bonus story. From the moment the DLC starts, you'll no doubt immediately recognise the piece of pop culture history this is directly parodying. Only interestingly enough, it comes with a Chinese horror culture twist. The DLC will take you about an hour and a half to beat and although it has extra side quest missions to do, there is virtually zero payoff for doing them. I recommend this for people who are massive fans of Sleeping Dogs and want to extend their time with it, albeit by only a little. Use a voucher.
Fantastic game.Tensketch | Jan. 4, 2013 | Review of Sleeping Dogs - PC DVD
This is one of those games that may have flown over quite a few peoples radars in 2012. Other people may have skipped it because they didn't want to buy what appears to be 'another GTA clone'. This game may have lots of inspiration from GTA but it stands out on its own very easily. Originally True Crime: Hong Kong, Sleeping Dogs has you playing an undercover cop trying to infiltrate the Triads. The storyline is very well done, pulling you into a tale of a person clearly torn between the loyalty of his job and the loyalty of his new found friends. The gameplay itself takes an interesting turn as you'll find yourself in a lot less gun fights and a lot more fist fights. Thankfully, the game adopts a very Arkham Asylum style of combat, in which Wei flows smoothly between opponents, offering different moves and counters which can be upgraded as the game goes on. The only downsides to this game for me is the soundtrack is a little too authentic, offering a small amount of radio stations each with a handful of songs. Furthermore the missions at times don't tie in very well, you'll play one and find the characters talking about someone as if you've seen them throughout the game when in reality, you have no clue who they are. Finally, they made a big deal of having Emma Stone in the game, but I must warn you, she shows up for all of 2 missions, beyond that, nothing. Overall I would recommend this game highly to anyone who wants to play a great story and a sandbox game with a slight twist in gameplay elements.


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You never know what bird species will be next to be declared a nuisance. In one Texas town it’s cattle egrets, according to Birders United.
Cattle egrets are protected during nesting season, but apparently the locals can try to scare them away from their chosen roost until then.
By the way, the Bartow vulture scare may be over, judging from the sudden reduction in the vulture population at Saddle Creek Park. Vultures are migratory and by now most of them have dispersed to nest. They’ll return next fall.


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Crystal Burkhardt, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP
University of Kansas School of Pharmacy
Crystal Burkhardt, PharmD, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCGP, is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Kansas, School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Practice and a Clinical Pharmacist at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Landon Center on Aging. She is the primary pharmacy preceptor for the Geriatric Interprofessional Teaching Clinic at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Her research interests include evaluation of interprofessional eduation and practice initiatives.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Workshop Description: During this workshop, we will demonstrate methods that optimize the interprofessional clinical learning environment (primary theme) by sharing an assessment tool that prioritizes patient and family integration in interprofessional practice (secondary theme). Interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) is essential to addressing the healthcare needs of the growing older adult population. Effective interprofessional (IP) practice models and team behavior assessment tools are needed to successfully implement IPCP. The Geriatric Interprofessional Teaching Clinic (GITC)…

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Grantland’s Official Supplemental Draft Report CardKevin C. Cox/Getty Images
With the whirlwind that is the NFL supplemental draft coming to an end, we would like to present Grantland’s Official Supplemental Draft Report Card.
Follow Grantland on Twitter or check out Grantland’s Facebook page.
Read more of The Triangle, Grantland’s sports blog.
Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org

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An Approximate Bayesian Reinforcement Learning Approach Using Robust Control Policy and Tree Search
Keywords:model-based Bayesian reinforcement learning
For autonomous robots, we propose an approximate model-based Bayesian reinforcement learning (MB-BRL) approach that reduces real-world samples within feasible computational efforts. Firstly, to find an approximate solution of an original undiscounted infinite horizon MB-BRL problem with a cost-free termination, we consider a finite horizon (FH) MB-BRL problem in which terminal costs are given by robust control policies. The resulting performance is better than or equal to the performance obtained with a robust method, while the resulting policy may choose an explorative behavior to get useful information about parametric model uncertainty for reducing real-world samples. Secondly, to obtain a feasible solution of the FH MB-BRL problem using simulation samples, we propose a combination of robust RL, Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS), and Bayesian inference. We show an idea of reusing previous MCTS samples for Bayesian inference at a leaf node. The proposed approach allows an agent to choose from multiple robust policies at a leaf node. Numerical experiments of a two-dimensional peg-in-hole task demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

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Is it still necessary to present this bass and doublebass, so important in the Jazz world?
As a reminder, Stanley Clarke got four Grammy Awards, and after having started playing rock, he shared the stage with Aretha Franklin, Art Blakey, Stan Getz or Gil Evans …
He became known in the 70s with Chick Corea’s fusion band Return to Forever. He then met a worldwide success with his album School Days, the first of a series of blockbusters who installed this virtuoso, one of the fastest on these two instruments, electric bass and double bass.
Stanley Clarke never ceased to renew his playing and music styles and thus continues to surprise, always in the right direction (!) his audience.
His latest album, The Message, released under the label Mack Avenue in 2018 was once again a success as his album D-Stringz was released by Impulse, in trio with Birelli Lagrene and Jean-Luc Ponty and was chronicled in these columns. (This repertoire was also played at the Seine Musical, but Stanley Clarke was replaced then by Kyle Eastwood)
So, it was necessary that Stanley Clarke came to La Seine Musicale and it will be done, next April 20 with a group totally unpublished, an acoustically dominant creation, carried by an unprecedented instrumentation.
The encounter promises to be exceptional, with a combination of oriental notes mixed with Western sounds and rhythms. All the colors of jazz, in short …
The line-up :
Stanley Clarke : electric bass & double bass
Beka Gochiashvili : piano
Cameron Graves : keyboards
Salar Nader : tabla
Evan Garr : violon
Buy your seats here!
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| Paige and Owen's Valentine's Outing |
Season 4: Love and Basketball, Episode 5
|Air date||February 1st, 2013|
|Written by||SHS Team|
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The episode opens with the Cupigs arguing who the better match is: Zoe and Owen or Paige and Owen. One of the Cupigs arguing in favour of Paige and Owen convinces the other of their opinion and declares themselves the winner of the debate.
The scene then shifts back to the party shown in the previous episode. Owen is hurt that Paige didn't tell him earlier that Margot and Tad were sending her away and the two decide to spend whatever time is left for her together. While the two of them plan to meet up the next night, Paige is grounded and finds herself unable to meet up with Owen. The Cupigs, noticing the dilemma, intervene and help Paige escape her bedroom in order to make her plans. When Paige and Owen meet up, Paige decides to put her credit card to use and splurge on a cruise for both her and Owen to go on for their date. When she uses her card, it comes back as declined. Trying to make the best of the situation, Owen shows her the thirty dollars he has with him and plans their date around it.
Following Owen to the arcade, Paige initially doesn't enjoy the games due to her preferred tastes and lack of interest but begins to have fun as time passes and she loosens up. Wanting a cheap dinner, Owen takes Paige shopping at the grocery store in order to stock up on food to eat on a romantic picnic. While the two begin to eat, Paige becomes offended when Owen calls her a snob. The Cupigs, who are watching from a distance, see the situation unfold before them and decide to step in to fix the situation by creating rain. Paige and Owen sit together in the rain as Paige admits to Owen that she's gotten used to him while Owen confesses that he's missed seeing her in Psych class.
Picking up roses for Paige on the way home, Owen drops Paige off before the two of them lean in for a kiss. Tad and Margot interrupt their moment, splitting the couple apart as Margot shoos Paige inside the house and Tad demands that Owen leave. Paige disobeys her mother and her mom's boyfriend by running back outside and taking Owen by the hands. Paige tells Owen that she likes him despite him having less money than her. The two share their first kiss before Tad catches up to the new couple and takes Paige home. Despite the intervention by Tad, Owen and Paige are both shown as extremely happy as they have now admitted their feelings to each other.
The episode ends with Tad and Margot announcing their decision to send Paige away to Monarch Prep as soon as they can in order to separate her from Owen and to correct her behavior towards them.
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Westport –Louisburgh – Delphi Valley
From Westport take the R335 to Murrisk where you will find Croagh Patrick Irelands holy mountain 762 meters high also the famine ship and Murrisk Abbey past the beaches and onto Louisburg. Past Louisburg at the crossroads go straight ahead for the wonderful beaches of White strand and Silver strand where the film Tristan and Izolda was made, watch it before you come and wonder at the marvellous scenery.
Back to the crossroads at Louisburg turn for Leenane down the majestic Delphi Valley past the lakes where Prince Charles stayed and fished for the elusive sea trout. Down towards the Killary fiord and on by Ashleeagh falls then make the decision turn right for Leenaune, Clifden, or turn left back into Westport
Westport – Achill Island
From Westport take the road to Newport and 1 mile on Mulranny road watch out for signs for Nephin Drive turn right and travel in by the Furnace lakes into the forest – Majestic Turn around in the forest and come back to the crossroads turn right by the Salmon research centre and back through the lakes until you come out onto the road to Mulranny onto Mulranny and after the village turn left at the sign for Atlantic Drive and enjoy the lovely scenery on this part of the drive, at the main road turn left for Achill, over the bridge onto the island and after the village turn left for Atlantic drive and this is the nicest drive in Ireland turn left for Keel and onto Keel bay with its breathtaking views and you are on Irelands highest sea cliffs (walk of 20 mins around the mountain) from Keel back to Keel and left for the deserted village and back to Westport. A wonderful day out.

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