(PresidentialInsider.com)- President Joe Biden’s White House claims to be “deeply concerned” about the arrest of Democratic state Rep. Park Cannon who harassed Republican Governor Brian Kemp by standing outside of his office and repeatedly knocking and insisting she was let inside.
How would Democrats react if Republican politicians harassed Democrats at their doorstep?
In a statement, the White House criticized the arrest of the state legislator, citing her race as part of their concern over the matter. If race for some reason matters to you, as it seems to matter to Democrats, Rep. Park Cannon is a Black woman.
She was knocking on Governor Kemp’s office to insist she be allowed to witness the signing ceremony of a new voting bill, which she opposed. Cannon was forcibly removed from the building and arrested and is now facing two misdemeanor counts.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had a narrative to spin, however, and said that she thinks “anyone who saw that video would have been deeply concerned.”
Take a look for yourself.
What in the Jim Crow?!
Police arrest GA Dem Rep @Cannonfor58 apparently for trying to watch Gov Brian Kemp sign the new voter suppression bill.
Look at how they manhandle a black woman elected official.😳 She asks where they’re taking her. No response.pic.twitter.com/GwwQjGSsGZ
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. قاسم رشید (@QasimRashid) March 25, 2021
Some commentators claimed that police “manhandled” Cannon, but the video shows Cannon resisting arrest.
A woman harassing an elected governor gets arrested after refusing to stop what she is doing when told to do so by police officers. Is that so hard to imagine?
“The larger concern here, obviously beyond her being treated in the matter she was, is that law that was put into place,” Psaki continued.
Her arrest caused outrage among left-wing activists everywhere and gained support from far-left news commentator Don Lemon.
CNN Tonight described Cannon as protesting an elections bill that would “restrict voting access and give state officials more powers over local elections.”
“This is the face of the fight for your right to vote.”
CNN’s @DonLemon discusses the arrest of Democratic Rep. Park Cannon for protesting Georgia’s sweeping elections bill, which would restrict voting access and give state officials more powers over local elections. pic.twitter.com/izI5fqQ6Tl
— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) March 26, 2021
What CNN doesn’t tell you, however, is that the law does not restrict any single American citizen with the right to vote from having the opportunity to vote.
The new law changes identification requirements for people using mail-in voting and makes it illegal to give food or water to people standing in line to vote – something that is considered “Treating” in countries like the United Kingdom. It’s a fairly simple law that has precedent being used in other democracies and is designed to stop any person offering goods or services in exchange for a vote.
The law would also make it harder for people to commit voter fraud by requiring people to prove their identity before casting a vote.
Why are Democrats opposing the strengthening of America’s elections?


Jurors sometimes get the harshest punishment at trials / $15-a-day pay doesn't come close to making up for lost wages
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, December 16, 2001
A Napa house-painter did it - and figures he lost more than $3,500. A Santa Rosa seamstress worries that if she does it, she'll be gone 16 hours a day. A San Francisco small-business owner says that when his employees do it, he feels like he's paying another tax.
How can working people afford the time and money to sit on a jury? Often, they can't.
"When I started jury duty, I had a nice savings," said Jim Campbell, the painting contractor. "Now, I'm itching and scratching just to get by."
Campbell, 32, is one of countless citizens who end up paying out of their own pockets for the "privilege" of participating in the justice system. Many workers, particularly in small businesses, do not get reimbursed by employers for time lost to jury duty.
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Courts are trying to address the problem, but that -doesn't help jurors like Campbell, who -aren't compensated for lost wages.
"I was willing and able to do my duty. But how I ended up being one of those people is beyond me," said Campbell, who supports a wife and young daughter.
Financially, almost a year after serving on a federal jury in Oakland, "I'm still catching up," he said.
Jury pay in California has tripled in the past two years - to $15 a day. Federal courts pay $40. Both fees are taxable income.
"In three months, the only money I was able to bring home was $40 a day," said Campbell. "Plus one unemployment check that was more of a joke than anything."
Some courts are trying to help jurors by scheduling trials in the morning and forgoing long lunch breaks so people can work in the afternoon, said Karen Jo Koonan, a senior trial consultant with the National Jury Project West in Oakland.
On Jan. 1, 2000, most California courts adopted a system that allows prospective jurors to go to court just once. The "one-day/one-trial" system means that those not picked for a trial are done with their jury service for at least a year. Federal courts, however, do not follow that system.
Meanwhile, the government encourages businesses to support the jury system by paying employees their normal wages when they serve as jurors. States such as Colorado, Connecticut and Tennessee require companies to pay workers for at least part of jury duty, but California does not.
"There's nothing the courts can do to force employers to pay," said Koonan, past president of the National Lawyers Guild. "But a lot of jurors are under the misunderstanding that they can be fired for being on jury duty. The law says you -can't be fired or denied a promotion for serving."
A nationwide survey of 754 members of the Society for Human Resource Management showed that 88 percent of companies pay employees for jury duty. Many small businesses -don't have HR managers, however, so they would not be included in the survey.
Jurors are more likely to be paid their full wages if they work for the government, a nonprofit or a telecommunications firm, the 2001 survey found. The least likely to pay for jury duty were companies involved in business and professional services.
"Public agencies or larger companies usually pay unlimited jury duty, so when you have a case that's going to last a long time, you're going to have a lot of those kinds of people on the jury," said Koonan.
Mid-sized companies are more apt to cap jury duty pay at up to 10 days, she said.
Small businesses are less likely to pay for jury duty at all.
A just-completed survey by the Small Business Commission in Los Angeles found that 52 percent of small companies indicated "they would have to close their businesses for either the owner or their employees to report for jury service."
The survey also found that 73 percent of small businesses in Los Angeles do not pay employees on jury duty. Those businesses that do pay usually reimburse for just the first five days.
On one hand, he said, it's his civic duty to pay those who serve on juries. On the other hand, "I almost look at it as another tax, except worse," Hauge said, adding that he was speaking for himself, not his group.
"If I have a small five- to six-person company and someone is gone for a week, that puts a major strain on business," he said.
And what about self-employed people like Barbara Coole of Santa Rosa, who has just been summoned for a jury pool in federal court in San Francisco?
A low-income single mom who survives by sewing everything from Dickens Fair costumes to adult diapers, Coole figures it would cost so much to drive her 13- year-old truck that she would have to take the bus.
Traveling that way, she figures her day would last from about 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. "I would have to arrange for my daughter to be fed, sent to school, attended after school, fed and put to bed," she said.
"I do want to be part of making democracy work," said Coole. But "a jury of more than two days will be disastrous to me, my business and my daughter."
Some judges will excuse anyone with financial hardship, while others will ask them to document their difficulties.
"There are very specific requirements for being excused from jury duty," Koonan said. Those most likely to be excused include people who have a doctor's excuse or are the only ones able to look after a preschool-age child or senior citizen.
"Judges often do 'hardship screening' ahead of time," Koonan said, "to avoid having people walk out of jury duty if their pay runs out."
Walking away from jury duty is not a practical solution, either. Those who do so could face criminal charges.
Self-employed people like Coole may be asked by the judge how many employees they have, and if they can work on the weekend. Those who have no employees and are sole providers would probably be excused, Koonan said.
A Contra Costa County woman wanted out of jury duty this year, saying she was a lender and needed to reach clients in the morning. She was picked to be on the jury, and "quite upset at the beginning," Koonan said. "But it worked out fine."
In interviews of jurors after trials, she said, "They often say 'I thought serving would be a real hardship, but I managed, it was really interesting and I'm really glad I served.' "


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At NuvoH2O, we understand that hard water can wreak havoc on your home. From reducing the lifespan of your appliances to causing mineral buildup on your fixtures, hard water can be a major pain. That's why we offer high-quality whole-home water softener systems designed to help prevent and remove the effects of hard water. Most importantly, our systems utilize citrus instead of salt in order to eliminate the negative effects of hard water. This natural solution is not only effective, but it's also safer for you and your family.
So, what does this have to do with home inspections? Well, many people wonder if the inspector will check the water. The truth is, water quality testing is a specialized but simple test that checks a home's water supply for contaminants and pollutants, such as chlorine, lead, and coliform bacteria. Below, we'll explain a little more about water quality testing and how it can benefit you during a home inspection.
What is Water Quality Testing?
Water quality testing is a process that checks for contaminants and pollutants in a home's water supply. This test is important because it can help identify any potential health hazards that may be present in the water. While most water quality tests are performed by certified laboratories, some home inspectors also offer this service.
One of the main benefits of water quality testing is that it can help identify any problems with hard water. Hard water is water that contains a high concentration of minerals, such as calcium and magnesium. While these minerals are not harmful to your health, they can cause problems in your home. For example, hard water can damage your appliances, cause mineral buildup on your fixtures, and make it difficult to get your clothes clean. Fortunately, water quality testing can help you identify any problems with hard water before they cause serious damage to your home. If the test finds that your water is hard, the inspector will recommend that you have a water softener system like Nuvoh2O installed.
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FCA is reviewing the client assets regime for investment business and is proposing some fundamental changes. The paper covers:
- the client money distribution regime: FCA is considering a change to enable the insolvency practitioner (IP) of a firm that has begun insolvency proceedings to distribute client money based on the firm’s records (rather than agreed claims of clients). It says this would increase the speed of recovery and affect the amount returned to clients in most cases. While some clients will benefit, others would lose out, and FCA notes that other national regimes manage to achieve quick distribution without the negative effects that making this change in the UK will have. However, it says the changes represent the best it can do within its powers, although if the Government makes changes following the result of its review of the Special Administration Regime this may help;
- multiple pools: a proposal for a limited introduction of client money multiple pools for clearing member firms;
- client money rules and custody rules: proposals to change to the client money rules and custody rules. The changes relate to several parts of the rules, including reconciliations, delivery versus payment exclusions, buffers, unclaimed client money and assets and acknowledgment letters. The changes also clarify and restructure other client money and custody rules;
- disclosure: FCA proposes firms report to their clients at least annually on the client assets protections they provide them;
- mandate rules: FCA wants to increase the scope of the mandate rules by requiring firms to establish and maintain adequate records and internal controls for all mandates, including those not obtained in written form; and
- EMIR-related changes: FCA needs to make changes to bring the rules into line with the EMIR RTS on porting and indirect client clearing.
Comments are due by 12 August in relation to the EMIR-related proposals (so it can make its rules by the end of September) and otherwise by 11 October. (Source: FCA Consults on Client Money and Assets Review for Investment Firms)

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Millions of Americans were moved and inspired by Nelson Mandela. But only a handful ever worked for him.
Stanley Greenberg and Frank Greer, two longtime Democratic political consultants, make both lists. Just after their leading roles in Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential election, Greenberg, a pollster, and Greer, a media adviser, joined a nonpartisan delegation that conducted a 1993 election workshop for all of South Africa’s political parties. When a representative of Mandela’s African National Congress approached them after the meeting to work for his campaign in the nation’s first postapartheid election the next year, each quickly agreed.
From that day forward, few Americans saw Mandela from as revealing a perspective as they did. Greenberg spent more time on the ground, but both advised him in his 1994 campaign and subsequent presidency. And each, in a career of serving outsized personalities and incandescent achievers, recognized Mandela as a titanic figure distinguished by his distinctive blend of determination and empathy, idealism and pragmatism, sweeping vision and personal kindness. “In meetings where he was making enormous judgments that had immense consequences, he was also doing personal things for the people in the room,” Greenberg recalled this week. Greer said, “The more you got to know him, he was bigger than his public image, because he was so thoughtful and generous. I had rarely seen anybody who was so big of spirit.”
For each man, the opportunity to advise Mandela struck a deeply personal chord. Before beginning his polling career, Greenberg had lived in South Africa as a young political scientist, written an “impenetrable” book about it, and testified in Congress for sanctions against the apartheid government. Greer saw his work in South Africa as a culmination of his opposition to segregation (“our own system of apartheid”) in the Alabama of his youth. Both were conscious of their incongruous status as white Americans advising an African movement whose grueling racial struggle was symbolized by Mandela’s 27 years in prison. And yet both say they were welcomed, not least by Mandela himself.
Mostly, each perceived in Mandela a leader with an unmatched sense of proportion and perspective, who could peer distantly into history’s long arc without forgetting the humanity of those around him. Greenberg saw this combination most vividly when Mandela met with his closest advisers during the turbulent final days of the 1994 election that ultimately saw his selection as president.
The group sat in the ANC’s Johannesburg headquarters trading reports about armed attacks on voters and blatant vote-stealing by the Inkatha Freedom Party, a rival rooted in the Zulu tribe, in its stronghold of the northeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. Quickly, a sense of outrage grew around the table, fueled partly by memories of an assault from Inkatha supporters on the ANC headquarters itself only a few weeks earlier.
While the group bristled with demands to challenge the election results, Mandela said nothing. Instead, he circled the table, quietly pouring coffee or tea for his aides. Only after everyone spoke did Mandela finally intervene. He told the group there would be no protest, no press conference, no cloud over the results. “We will not do anything to make the election illegitimate,” he said simply.
To Greenberg, who recounted the story in his 2009 memoir, Dispatches From the War Room, the moment captured Mandela’s greatness. While his advisers were windswept by their (understandable) sense of grievance, Mandela recognized that with the ANC still headed for victory, it was more important to avoid questioning the validity of an election that consecrated the historic shift of power from the white minority to the black majority. “There was a calmness about him amid this madness,” Greenberg said. “He had his eye on the prize and this unbelievable mature judgment that let him “¦ go to obviously the right decision.”
Greer saw Mandela’s unique combination of gifts when he sat alone with him just before his sole 1994 debate with F.W. de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid president and the leader of the opposing National Party. The stakes were enormous, and yet Mandela surprised Greer by asking if he had any children; when Greer said he had a young daughter, Mandela asked if he had a picture of her. After Greer produced it, Mandela wrote her a note on the back, so that, he told Greer, the little girl would know why her father was so far from home. Then Mandela walked into the debate and sealed his victory with a dominating performance.
In power, the ANC has struggled to deliver on the initial campaign slogan Greenberg and Greer helped coin: “A better life for all.” Greer remains sympathetic to the ANC, but Greenberg, disillusioned with Mandela’s successors, now advises the opposition Democratic Alliance. Yet they remain united in the conviction that Mandela’s unique ability to advance his goal of a multiracial democracy, while tirelessly reassuring those who feared that result, allowed him to unify a nation that might have fractured into chaos. Mandela viewed empathy, concession, and pragmatism as servants to ideals, not their enemies — a lesson too many Americans have forgotten.
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First ever Post! + Pre Spring notes from the farm
As a self proclaimed creative person I decided that writing a monthly blog about the farms escapades could be of interest to some people and also healthy way to get some of the at times overwhelmingly thoughts out of my head. At the very least, maybe some of these notes will inspire you on your journey to connect with nature and build a more sustainable lifestyle. Please mind any grammatically errors...
March 20th is the first day of spring and at that time we will be in full swing. Leading up to this there has been a ton of preparation for the year to come. Personally I get a feeling of unease of not knowing exactly what will be to come. At the same time dealing with this feeling of uncertainty becomes a touchstone for personal growth. I remind myself that life itself is uncertain. If we new everything that was going to happen the day before it does life wouldn't be very exciting.
As i sit here looking at a small 12x12 box that holds 100,000 + tiny seeds that will be planted out filling our 20 acres of land I cant help but be in amazement that year after year this life cycle takes place. Plant seeds have a good outlook on life, their sole purpose is to grow fruit to carry on to the next generation. Their primary needs are water, soil, and sunlight and they will do their thing. Simple, powerful, and beautiful.
Anyways, our propagation greenhouse has the heat turned on to 60 in order germinate our first trays of the season. Leeks, sugar snap peas, and onions are already taking up about 1/4 of the 30x60 tunnel. As heating the tunnel with propane get expensive we offset the cost with a woodstove. Early in the morning i fumble across the ice and start the fire. Its a great time of peace and again i have to remember to stay in the present and not get carried away with all the jobs to come for the day.
Speaking of ice with days above 32, and nights in the teens it has created a layer of ice over the fields and the walkways that seem to be indestructible. The weather for this week will warm up to the 60s and mud season will begin along with the first day of Spring.
I think i am going to keep these posts semi-short as im sure 90% of the readers have dropped off already. Until then heat, germination, and more preparation for what is to come.

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A rat took aim at an August rally on the steps of New York City Hall. “No to rats,” read one poster. “Starve the rats”, read another. The third was a crowned pink rodent hanging on a black garbage bag throne.
This demonstration was not a generalization of my enthusiasm for rats. It was a gathering of sustainable waste activists. They had suggestions. Composting has the potential to solve the escalating rodent problem spreading across cities. “Our streets and sidewalks will be cleaner,” said Carlina Rivera, a member of the New York City Council.
Rats have long been the scourge of New York City, but the pandemic has made them the number one public nuisance.rise of al fresco dining And the delivery, coupled with waste reduction services, created very favorable conditions for them. Ushma Pandia Mehta, co-founder of consultancy Think Zero, said: The total number of rat complaints since the pandemic began 45,000a few months in the city receive 60% We are getting more calls about rodents than before 2020.
In response, New York City declared a crusade against rats and unleashed an anti-rats arsenal. We have expanded the availability of rat-proof waste containers and established new rules to limit the amount of time trash can hit the curb before collection. This reduces the amount of time rats have to tear through the ubiquitous black plastic trash bags.
Now, the city’s rat problem could hasten the revolutionary change in waste management that proponents and city council members have been trying to push for years.Organic waste advocates are harnessing the power of New Yorkers’ rat hatred to advance a series of bills known as Zero Useless A legislative package to expand composting services across the five boroughs.
“This will create the most tangible and workable path to achieving a very important benchmark,” said Sandy, one of the three council members behind the bills. Nurse says. “
largely 40% 100% of municipal waste is organic and theoretically compostable. City compost advocates say placing these materials, including food waste, in rat-proof compost bins can keep methanogenic waste out of both landfills and rat feet.
In addition to creating city-wide drop-off sites for organic matter and forcing sanitation departments to send zero waste to landfill by 2030, the bill also provides establish street compost pick-ups throughout the city, in addition to existing services in Nurse said the package, if passed, would create “the largest and most robust organic diversion set in the country.”
At the same time, the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Revived Enforcement of pre-pandemic regulations on commercial composting.and Preparing for launch A Queens-wide composting pilot program starting in October of this year. DSNY spokesperson Vincent Gragnani said in an email:
The bill fulfills a long-cherished ambition of zero-waste advocates. “With the Activist Network, I think we’ve always dreamed of getting there,” said Kristin Daz Romero, executive director of the Lower East Side Center for Ecology. Some of the bills have been reintroduced. Mouse-proof bottles were introduced many years ago. And environmentalists say composting has long been promoted as a rodent control.
still it was Rat control came to the fore for the first time this year when Nurse was appointed chairman of the Council’s Commission on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management amid a surge in rodent populations. Her conversations with her colleagues revealed the extent of the rat problem and the opportunities it presented.
Nurse claims there is enough support in the package to disable the mayor if he objects. But without public participation, such an ambitious plan could fail. “When you do recycling right, you get a valuable product,” says Oliver Wright, chairman of the Brooklyn Solid Waste Advisory Board (Swab).
This product can be used to offset the cost of waste collection in the form of landfill disposal cost savings. In 2021, the city’s Independent Budget Office estimates that recycling his 35% of organic matter will make disposal prices comparable to what it would cost to treat municipal solid waste. The massive investment in composting infrastructure on display in cities such as San Francisco can even drive costs lower than the cost of garbage collection.
The problem is that most of the residents need to participate in composting and recover what is collected to cover the cost of this program. Otherwise, it becomes a budget burden rather than a cost-cutting measure.
However, previous attempts do not inspire confidence. Pandemic-related budget cuts have disrupted many of the city’s existing composting operations, including an opt-in system that covers most of the city. Gragnani admits that even before the cuts, participation rates were less than ideal. 2018, less than 2% One-third of New York City’s waste is composted.
However, DSNY has tweaked this approach. Unlike pre-pandemic efforts, the city is automatically servicing the entire city rather than enforcing a sign-up process. All Queens residents who wish to participate simply leave a marked compost bin on the street. The city also distributes jerboa-resistant capsules free of charge. According to Gragnani, rats also appear in marketing strategies.
“This is a great opportunity to bring attention to people who care about hygiene issues that they might not otherwise care about,” said Wright, chairman of Brooklyn Swab. “People who don’t care about recycling, frankly, care about street rats.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/rats-new-york-citys-rodent-problem-compost-initiative Rats to the rescue: Will the pesky rodents finally be able to compost New Yorkers? | | New York


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19 September 2013
Clark Equipment have set up a permanent service capacity in New Guinea for our Omega customers. Clark Equipment New Guinea is now a registered company in New Guinea. Rob Shearman will head the operation.
Operations are going to be centered in the Port of Lae, the key hub of the region, and support customers in Port Moresby and throughout New Guinea.
Clark Equipment New Guinea will be established not only with a parts and service capacity, but will also have rental Omega Forklifts available to support the local port during peak operational periods.
Rob Shearman comments “Clark Equipment are committed to the region and supporting our Omega customers wherever they are, from the ports, to the islands, to the remote mines.”
“Our staff have done a great job looking after our customers remotely, but now it is time to have a permanent local capacity. Clark Equipment have made a big investment in not only staff but also the necessary parts, specialist tools, motor vehicles and now rental equipment to look after our New Guinea clients.”


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Floral Arrangements. Keepsake Wedding Cakes, Bouquets, etc. Everything you need for your perfect wedding. Remembering Our Loved Ones Headstone Saddles
My name is Lorraine Fountain-Lake and I am partners with my dear friend Kim Herrett. Together we have started our own company called Rain Bug Floral Creations. We make Floral Arrangements for Weddings, Valentines Day, Mother's Day, etc. Any Occasion including Christmas, Non-Christmas and "Our Furry Friends". We have now expanded into creating Hand Made Headstone Saddles for "Remembering Our Loved Ones".
Between Kim and I, we have raised 11 children and have lived to tell about it. We both live in Nova Scotia, Canada and we have both lived in Ontario in the past.

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The Operate phase of the DevOps cycle
Where the operations team performs tasks to keep the application online.
Now that everything is deployed into production and confirmed working, the operations team's main focus is keeping everything online. Ideally, this is done with a system that will monitor application load to detect spikes in usage and automatically scale resources up to keep up with the traffic. This can be accomplished with platforms like EC2 in AWS, but also on-premise with Kubernetes.
All PlanetScale tiers eliminate the need to maintain your MySQL infrastructure by allowing us to do it for you. Additionally, any production branches automatically have failover replicas so even if something fails with one instance internally, a backup is always available to take over while any necessary maintenance is performed by our teams.
On top of reducing the necessity of maintaining a MySQL environment, PlanetScale offers additional features that can simplify the jobs of the operations teams.
Any well-run operations teams know that backing up and restoring data is a critical task that must be taken seriously. A time will inevitably come when data is lost whether that is due to bad code or mistakes during the deployment process. Having a way to retain snapshots of your data at specific points in time for recovery is critical, and this functionality is built into PlanetScale databases. All databases on our platform have a daily backup configured automatically, regardless of which tier you are on. Additional backups and retention periods can also be configured, with the only additional cost being the storage used by the backups.
One thing that can be overlooked is the fact that backups are pointless if the data within them doesn't restore properly. Since we support the concept of database branches, and those branches are isolated instances of MySQL, restoring a backup will create a dedicated branch for the data to reside. This can vastly simplify the process of performing test restores. If you can quickly configure new environments using Infrastructure as Code tools, you can easily spin up entire production-like environments to fully test your application, which can dramatically improve the confidence of the operations team.
PlanetScale is built in Vitess, which is an open-source project that enables horizontal scaling for MySQL databases. If you are in the Enterprise tier, you have additional configuration options available to horizontally scale your database, further reducing the load on individual nodes as well as increasing performance and resiliency.
As this phase is predominantly about infrastructure and making sure the application stays healthy, its worth mentioning PlanetScale Boost, a fully integrated database query cacheing service that can be added to any database in PlanetScale to optimize the performance of queries that are executed frequently. When PlanetScale Boost is enabled for an organization, an additional server is added internally that provides an in-memory data structure where the results of common queries can be returned much quicker than if they were being read by the MySQL database engine. This can significantly reduce the complexity of managing similar infrastructure components by operations teams.
When creating databases or branches, you'll be presented with the option to select which region you'd like your database created in. After creation, you'll also have the option to create read-only regions. This adds a replica of your database in a specific geographical location to more quickly serve queries by users in that area. Traditionally this would require operations teams to set up additional data centers linked by VPN tunnels or private ISP networks to securely synchronize data, but this is all handled by PlanetScale without such complexity.
In this guide, we discussed the Operate phase and discussed features that PlanetScale offers to make the lives of Ops members easier. The last step in the DevOps cycle is the Monitor phase, where feedback and metrics are gathered for decision-making before the next iteration.


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Restore normal functioning of journalists in J&K: SAFMA
Viewing with concern the curbs on media by the Jammu and Kashmir government, the India chapter of the South Asia media commission today asked authorities to restore normal functioning of journalists in the violence-hit state with immediate effect.
By PTI: Viewing with concern the curbs on media by the Jammu and Kashmir government, the India chapter of the South Asia media commission on Thursday asked authorities to restore normal functioning of journalists in the violence-hit state with immediate effect.
"The restrictions of the type announced yesterday will only prove counter-productive. As we know from our experience of the emergency period, it will not serve any useful purpose either in the immediate or long-term context," Chairperson of the India chapter of South Asia commission K K Katyal said in a statement.
Expressing distress over reports of attacks on media services, he said, "Right now the gap in the free media functioning may be filled by vested interests through rumour mongering. Later, those perceived to be responsible for the decision will be politically damaged."
The media commission has been set up at the initiative of South Asian Free Media Association, SAFMA, to highlight restrictions on the media and other instances of high-handedness as also to monitor the content of its products.
In Jammu and Kashmir, Army troops have been deployed, mostly in three places outsides Srinagar city, and are engaged only in patrolling the streets.
Newspapers on Thursday failed to hit stands in the Kashmir Valley in the wake of imposition of curfew following violence.
The state government had on Wednesday cancelled curfew passes for media personnel restricting their movement.
The last time newspapers did not come out was in 2008, during the height of the Amarnath land agitation.


The 'Operation Caracas' Porsche 550 Spyder: Brother of the 'Little Bastard'
News of James Dean’s ill-fated romance with his petite Porsche spread well beyond the automotive community, but his wasn’t the only 550 with a tale to tell – that of the ‘Operation Caracas’ Spyder is just as fascinating.
James Dean and the ‘Little Bastard’ 550 Spyder might have spent just nine days in each other’s company before the fateful crash, but they’re undoubtedly one of the most famous pairings of man and machine in history, their names now eternally linked. Many accounts have been given of chassis number 550-0055 and its fate after the crash – some more ‘creative’ than others – but rather than undertaking the near-impossible task of separating fact from fiction, we thought it better to turn the spotlight onto one of its relatives. Meet 550-0030, a Spyder with a history just as interesting, if not as famous.
Starting life as one of the factory cars, it was soon enlisted for an assignment known internally as ‘Operation Caracas’. With the inaugural Venezuelan GP looming rapidly, the 550 was air-freighted to its destination (it was too late for the usual method of travelling by sea) where it was met by Porsche’s racing team manager and head of PR Huschke von Hanstein – who would go on to win the Targa Florio a year later in another 550.
Against such formidable opposition as Fangio in his 3.0-litre straight-six Maserati 300S, von Hanstein steered the underpowered Spyder (1.5-litre boxer-four) to a respectable eighth place in the South American race. Shortly after Fangio’s champagne had evaporated from the podium, the 550 was sold to a local Caracas privateer – a common practice to save Porsche’s sparsely-funded Rennsport division the cost of a return journey – and subsequently disappeared for several years.
The 550 resurfaced in 1963 on a Florida forecourt having been taken as a part-exchange… for a Ford pick-up truck. The new owner was thankfully more clued-up about the car’s potential. Bill Bencker, who was associated with American racing team and dealership Brumos Porsche, raced the Caracas 550 for a decade before the four-cam engine finally gave way.
It was then consigned to storage for a number of years before being bought by Brumos and restored to the full glory of its time with von Hanstein – and given the ‘Huschke’ licence plate it still sports today in his honour. Interestingly, red stripes were added to the tail-fins (with Porsche often entering four or more cars in a major race, different colours were used to allow the pit crews to differentiate between them), although these have since been removed to remain faithful to the adventure with von Hanstein.
Today, still in the ownership of Brumos, the car regularly makes appearances at top American events such as the Rennsport Reunion. While it’s often the more tragic tale that captures the prolonged attention of the public, the Caracas 550 story presents a welcome contrast to that of the ill-fated ‘Little Bastard’.
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Aug. 7, 2012
The University of Minnesota men's basketball team's Big Ten/ACC Challenge tilt against Florida State on Nov. 27 will tip at 6:15 p.m. CST, the Big Ten Conference announced today. The game, to be played in Tallahassee, will be broadcast live by ESPN2.
Minnesota and Florida State will be meeting for the eighth time, including the fourth time in the history of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Minnesota lost to FSU, 75-61, in the 2007 challenge, the only time head coach Tubby Smith has faced the Seminoles in his 21-year career.
The Gophers are 5-8 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge following last season’s 58-55 win over Virginia Tech at Williams Arena. Illinois (6-7), Michigan State (6-6), Northwestern (6-7), Ohio State (6-5) and Wisconsin (6-7) all have six wins in the history of the event. Penn State (5-6) and Purdue (5-6) join Minnesota with five victories. Duke holds the best record in the challenge at 11-2. Wake Forest is close behind at 10-2.
The 2012 Challenge will feature 12 games, all of which will be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU & ESPN3.com).
Minnesota returns all but one player from a team that finished the season 23-15 overall, and advanced to the NIT Championship game. The 23 wins during the 2011-12 campaign were the most at Minnesota since the 1989-90 team also won 23 (vacated years not included).
The Gophers have appeared in the postseason in four of the five seasons under head coach Tubby Smith. Smith will enter the 2012-13 season with 103 career victories on the Gopher sideline, joining just seven other coaches to win 100 games at the University of Minnesota. His current winning percentage of .602 (103-68) is the fourth-highest in program history. Smith is 490-213 overall in 21 seasons as a head coach.
Florida State returns two starters and four of its top five scorers – including ACC Tournament Most Valuable Player Michael Snaer – for the 2012-13 season from its team that won the ACC Championship and played in its school record fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament.
The Seminoles finished the 2012 season with a 25-10 overall record and a school record 12-4 mark in ACC play. The Seminoles defeated an ACC-high six ranked teams including both Duke and North Carolina twice and defeated each of the four Tobacco Road teams in the ACC (Duke, North Carolina, NC State and Wake Forest) in the same season for the first time since joining the ACC for the 1991-92 season.
The Big Ten captured the Commissioner Cup for the third consecutive event, including an 8-4 win advantage over the ACC last year. In the event of a 6-6 tie, the Commissioner’s Cup will remain with the conference that won the previous year.
Gophers Complete Recruiting Class with Brock Stull
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Kyle Lindsted Added to Gophers Coaching Staff
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Former Wichita State assistant helped lead team to three NCAA appearances after standout prep coaching career.


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Little Tokyo Design Week, a four-day architecture and design event taking place July 14-17, 2011, will honor Japanese design and technology and its intersection with trends emerging in Los Angeles. The event will promote sustainability and creativity as it pushes innovators, corporations and members of the artistic community to explore possibilities for a “New Urban Lifestyle.”
Programs and symposia will integrate community partners, restaurants and retailers with Little Tokyo’s Big Three cultural institutions: the Japanese American National Museum, the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, and the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Several exhibits will showcase student projects from USC, UCLA, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and the Art Center College of Design as new designs and projects are presented by sponsoring companies like Toyota.
A full schedule of events can be found on the event site.

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Before Jess was the new girl, there was Nick, Winston, Schmidt . . . and The Douchebag Jar. Originally devised to do nothing more than alter Schmidt's wardrobe, hairstyle, and personality, the Douchebag Jar has become an apartment-wide phenomenon, forever changing the way douche-like behavior is viewed, policed, and penalized. Compiled and annotated... more...
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Difference between Pulsar 220 DTSI and Pulsar 220 DTS-FI
Key Difference: Both Pulsar 220 DTS-i and Pulsar 220 DTS-Fi are models of motorcycles by the company named as Bajaj Auto. The Pulsar 220 DTS-Fi is Bajaj’s first fuel injected bike. On the other hand, the latest version of Pulsar 220 DTS-Fi uses a carburetor.
In July 2007, Bajaj started selling its 220 DTS-i model. In 2009, the company launched yet another version of Pulsar 220 that was tagged as the fastest bike in India. In 2010, the company released a variant of the Pulsar 220 known as Pulsar 220S (street fighter), which had almost all the features of Pulsar 220 except the front fairing.
The current version of Bajaj Pulsar 220 DTS-i comes in all black styling. It has a 3D chiseled logo, split seats and vertical stack twin projector headlamps. These features enhance the sporty look of the bike and give it an aerodynamic design.
This bike is equipped by a 4 stroke, 220 cc, 21 Ps, Digital Twin Spark Ignition engine and the company associated the bike with the most powerful engine its class, which gives highest output and mileage.
BBC World Wheels Viewers Choice Two Wheeler of the Year 2003 – IBBC World Wheels
BBC World Wheels Award for Best Two Wheeler between Rs. 55,000 to Rs. 70,000 – IBBC World Wheels
Bajaj started selling Pulsar 200 DTS-Fi in July 2007. DTS-Fi stands for digital twin spark fuel injection. It featured fuel injection and oil cooled engines. It was equipped with a digital dash and also a modern styling.
This model has also won the IMOTY Award in the category of Indian Motorcycle of the Year 2008 – All Auto Mags – Overdrive, AutoCar, BS, Bike, Top Gear and also the award for Bike of the Year 2008 – Overdrive.
The only feature that sets DTS-Fi apart from other Pulsars of the same section is that it is a fuel injected one and not available now. It is discontinued.
Currently, only one Pulsar 220 model by Bajaj is available, known as the Pulsar 220F or Pulsar 220 DTS-i.
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ELIZA Doolittle – strong of opinion, smiley of face, loud of tights – hails from Camden, north London, but she’s already made a name for herself in Liverpool.
“I love Liverpool,” she grins. “My first time playing was for Africa Express at the Academy with a whole bunch of bands and musicians. It was amazing because we all just jammed out on stage. Nothing was planned at all and we got to play with amazing African musicians playing instruments I’d never seen before at that time.”
This summer Eliza is back in the area to play Chester Rocks.
“I think this’ll be my first time in Chester,” she says. “My festival set is always a lot of fun! It’s just me and my band putting on our best show – festival crowds are always energetic and excitable which always gives the show a boost.”
Informed by the stresses of modern city life, teenage aggro, classic pop, old soul and the appeal of simple, strong melodies built from clanking percussion and jazzy licks, Eliza’s eponymous debut album was bursting at the seams with life and enthusiasm and vigour – just like its creator.
Raised by a piano-playing dad and singing mum, Eliza loved music from an early age. “There were always CDs at home that my mum had bought,” she says. “But the first album I remember going to the shop and spending my own pocket money on was Janet Jackson -- Velvet Rope."
She’s been writing songs since she was 12.
“Mr Mysterious was one of the first – I was listening to Destiny’s Child, and I thought I had to write about a boy. It actually put me off writing about boys forever,” she laughs. Another early composition was Without Your Presence’ which she still likes and wants to give to Leona Lewis. “It’s a bit of a diva song. It’s really pretty.”
Her precocious songwriting talent soon got her noticed, with Eliza signing a publishing deal at 16. As she matured, her songs began to flower into the magical blooms they are today – gorgeous pop songs which mine sounds from the 60s and 70s while managing to sound indisputably fresh.
“I’d like to be a pop musician in the proper old school vein of pop when there weren’t any different genres like there are now, it was all just pop music,” she says. "Stevie Wonder is perfect in every way. Hearing his music for the first time was like seeing a colour that doesn't exist. Carole King, her song writing is inspirational. She must be one of the most covered artists ever. I could name legendary amazing musicians all day that I love, Steely Dan, Al Green, David Bowie, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Kinks."
Of current influences, she demurs that she can’t really think of any. “There’s lots of things I do like, like Vampire Weekend, Kid Harpoon, or Arctic Monkeys. There are a few around at the moment you should get onto if you haven't already. Frank Ocean, The Weekend, Jamie Woon, Hall of Mirrors. But I don’t sound like them at all.”
When she plays in Chester, don’t be expecting any rock'n' roll antics from Eliza.
“Our best gigs are always the last night of each tour, because we completely let loose. My rider is lame though,” she admits. “I need to think of some yummy or interesting things to put on there.”
As for the name – well, Eliza is her first name. “I love my real surname but it isn’t very pop-starry,” says Eliza, explaining why she decided to use her childhood nickname as her recording alias. “And now I just am Eliza Doolittle, everyone calls me it.”
Tickets to Chester Rocks for the Saturday or Sunday are £47.50 each or £85 for both days and are available from www.chester-rocks.co.uk or by calling 01244 304 610.


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Talking to a colleague recently, he told me about a teaching case. The patient had almost died and a root cause analysis led to many important teaching points. He wanted to do an M&M presentation, and had to defy the hospital lawyers. The lawyers (at his hospital) told him that he should wait 8 years to use the case in a teaching conference.


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Congratulations on your new kitten! Below is a checklist of some items and ideas for making the transition as easy and peaceful as possible.
Kitten Arrival Shopping List
1. Cat Carrier: Make sure to buy a cat carrier that will fit your kitten as it matures to an adult. You can pad the bottom of the carrier for both comfort and as a precaution to accidents. Cat carriers make travel in the car and waiting in the lobby of your veterinarian’s office safer and more comfortable for your cat.
2. Dishes, Food and Water: Your kitten needs to be provided with fresh food and water, preferably in metal or ceramic dishes. Food and water dishes should be emptied and washed daily to prevent bacteria and germs from accumulating. Make sure to ask what kitten food your kitten has been eating and purchase the same type. This will help them avoid stomach upset in their first few days home. If you wish to transition to a different food, ask your veterinarian how this is best done.
3. Litter Box/Scoop: You’ll want to have a litter box ready and waiting and introduce it to your new kitty immediately. There are several different types ot choose from and many people like the covered variety, as it prevents litter from scattering all over the floor.
4. Grooming Set: A brush, a comb and nail clippers will come in handy. You won’t be using them during the first week, but after your kitten is all settled in, you’ll want to establish a grooming routine.
5. Toys and scratching post: Make sure to have a few toys that can entertain your kitten upon their arrival. Another good purchase may be a cat tree or scratching post that will stand up much better to needle-sharp little claws than your nice sofa and curtains. Make sure to get one with a heavy base that won’t tip if your kitten gets a little enthusiastic. Cardboard scratchers are also a great, inexpensive option.

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Creamy spring soup with goat’s cheese & prosciutto toasts
Contains pork – recipe is for non-Muslims only
Asparagus, peas and watercress blend beautifully in this vibrant green soup with ciabatta toasts – serve as a starter or a light lunch
- Prep:25 mins
- Serves 8
Nutrition per serving
- kcal 472
- fat 30g
- saturates 10g
- carbs 27g
- sugars 6g
- fibre 8g
- protein 20g
- salt 1.9g
- 2 tbsp olive or rapeseed oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 fennel bulb, chopped
- 200g asparagus, woody ends and all, roughly chopped (save the pretty tips for another recipe, if you like)
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- 1.2l vegetable stock
- 450g frozen peas
- 100g bag watercress, reserve some small leaves for the toasts
- small bunch parsley, roughly chopped
- small bunch mint, leaves picked and roughly chopped (or buy 1 large bunch and use half in the pesto, if making)
- 100ml double cream
- 1 large ciabatta, thickly sliced on an angle
- drizzle of extra virgin olive or rapeseed oil, plus extra for serving
- 1 fat garlic clove, squashed
- 150g pack soft goat's cheese
- 6 slices prosciutto
- 200g pesto, see recipe in tips or buy a good-quality fresh one
In a blender, whizz together a small bunch of mint leaves, a small bunch of basil, 100g flaked toasted almonds, 25g grated Parmesan, 8 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, the zest of 1/2 lemon and 1 small garlic clove. Season and add a splash of water if the pesto is too thick. Store in the fridge, covered with a layer of oil, for up to 1 week or freeze for up to 2 months.
Heat the oil in a large pan. Add the onion and fennel and fry gently for 10 mins or until softened but not coloured. Add the asparagus, garlic and fennel seeds and stir everything around in the pan for another 1-2 mins. Pour in the vegetable stock, season, and cover with a lid. Leave on a gentle simmer (but for no longer than 5 mins) while you prepare the toasts.
Heat the grill. Put the ciabatta slices on a baking tray and drizzle with a little oil. Pop the bread under the grill for 2-3 mins each side or until golden and crisp. Remove the toasts and rub the garlic clove over each piece of toast.
Add the peas to the soup, bubble for 1 min to defrost the peas, then remove the pan from the heat and add most of the watercress, the herbs and the double cream. Use a hand blender to blitz it to a smooth, creamy consistency. Check the seasoning - you will need to be quite generous.
Spread each piece of toast with a little goat's cheese, then top with a slice of ruffled prosciutto, a dollop of pesto and a few small sprigs of watercress. Finally, drizzle over a little olive oil. Serve the toasts alongside the soup, with a bowl of pesto on the side.


What you will learn: Create a project in Premier Pro, Import media, Edit using a variety of tools, Export finished standalone media file
Step 1 – Setup your workspace
- In your ‘Documents’ folder create a new folder for your project
- Inside this folder you will create four sub folders
- This folder will hold all the images, videos and sounds you wish to use. I recommend assigning a new sub-folder to each media type.
- This folder will hold your assessment paperwork including AV script and Copyright details.
- This is the folder you will export your final product to.
- This will be the folder that you create your Adobe Premier Pro project in.
- Place your media in your ‘ASSETS’ folder. It is recommended that you organise your media into folders to make it easier to find.
- E.g. Audio, Images, Video
It is important to organise your assets so you do not lose things. If you do this correctly, you can copy the whole folder to another computer (even from Mac to PC and vice versa) and it will work!
Step 2 – Create a new project
- Select ‘New Project’
- Give your project a name and save it in your ‘PROJECTS’ folder
Premier Pro has many views to work in. We will be working in the ‘Editing’ view. It is important that you are working in the correct field. The field you are currently working in will have a blue outline around it. Certain options are only available in certain fields.
These tabs are found at the top of your workspace. Most of your work will take place under Editing.
Useful options under other tabs:
The Learning tab contains Adobe created tutorials and materials to help you develop your skills in Premiere Pro.
Color allows you to adjust contrast, sharpness, temperature, white balance etc. of your media.
Effects transitionary effects as well as audio and visual effects are found here eg. Dip to black, cross dissolve, noise reduction etc. These can be selected from drop down menus and dragged into the timeline.
Audio adjust volume easily with slider bar.
Step 3 – Understanding the interface
- Top Right Field — Is a called ‘Program’, this preview of your work so far.
- Top Left Field — Is called ‘Source’, this is a preview of the single asset you wish to use. It also contains ‘Effect control’ – you will be able to scale, position, animate and control volume on your media items from here and make changes to other details such as size, colour, font, etc.
- Bottom Right Field — is called ‘Sequence’, this is the field that you will put your assets in in the sequence you wish for your video. The majority of your work will occur here. In this panel you can order and cut your media (photos, videos, sound), change their properties, and add effects.
- Bottom Left Field — is called ‘Projects’, this field will hold all the assets you want to use in your sequence, you can preview these in the ‘Source’ field. Your imported media files will be here. You can also import by browsing from your computer through “Libraries”
A view of the ‘Timeline’ workspace with media items imported. Pictures and added text in pink, audio in green and video in blue.
NOTE: the visual and audio portion of a video will be split in two by Premiere Pro. You can mute the audio (highlighted green M) or blind the visual and have only audio (toggle eyeball icon). You can also unlink the two by right-clicking and pressing “unlink” you can then trim, delete, cut one portion without affecting the other.
The scroll bar at the bottom and on the sides also work to ‘zoom’ in on your items. Dragging the circle ends of the bottom bar closer will allow you to see less of the overall video and let you focus on seconds of detail. This is very useful for pacing and trimming.
To order your items, you simply click and drag where you want your images/audio/text to appear in the video.
You can trim/crop the length of your media items by hovering your cursor at the beginning or end of its rectangle. A red bracket will appear; hold left-click and drag.
Step 4 – Import and organise your assets
- Select the ‘Projects’ field, then in the top left choose ‘File’ → ‘Import’.
- Locate your assets folder to import them into Adobe Premier Pro
Alternatively, you can highlight, click and drag your assets directly from the folder to the ‘Projects’ field.
It is recommended that you view your assets in ‘list view’, you can do this by selecting the option at the bottom of your ‘Projects’ field.
3. Right click on an empty space in your ‘Projects’ field and selecting ‘New bin’
- A bin is a folder. Use this to organise your assets by dragging them into folders.
Step 5 – Setup a sequence
- You will first need to select the sequence field, then go to File > New > Sequence.
- Under the ‘AARI’ dropdown open ‘1080p’ and select the ‘ARRI 1080p 25’ option
- Once created you will see your sequence appear in your ‘Projects’ field.
- You may create many different versions of a sequence with your assets without having to repeat steps 1-4.
- Your screen should now look something like this:
Step 6 – Add assets to sequence
- Simply select the asset you want from the ‘Projects’ field and drag it onto the timeline now in your ‘Sequence’ field.
- If prompted select “Keep existing settings”
- You will notice that your timeline is divided top and bottom
- The top labelled as ‘V1-V3’ is for visuals
- The bottom labelled as ‘A1-A4’ are for audio
- Be mindful that many videos also contain audio and this can be removed or edited separately.
You can lock a track by selecting the ‘Padlock’ icon, this will prevent you from accidentally altering that track
Similarly, you can hide a specific track by selecting the ‘Eye’ icon, helpful when seeing how only select assets play in the preview.
You can zoom in and out of your sequence by using the ‘-‘ and ‘+’ keys
Step 7 – Edit your assets
First, select the ‘Arrow Tool’ located in the box between your ‘Projects’ and ‘Sequence’ fields
In your ‘Sequence’ field, click and drag your assets along the timeline until you’re happy with the order that your assets will appear.
To edit a piece of media select the picture, audio, video file in the timeline, drag the video marker to a point on the timeline that includes the media file (if visual) so you can preview the changes.
In the above screenshot the selected media item has a light grey outline and the blue running bar is over it.
Drag your assets up and down to change which track they are playing in
- This is useful if you wish to layer different media during the same time. E.g. Text or Subtitles
To decouple audio attached to a video file right click on the video in your timeline and select ‘Unlink’ from the menu
- This will allow you to delete any unwanted audio by selecting only the audio track and hitting the ‘Delete’ key.
To trim the length or extent the length of an asset in your timeline.
- Click on the asset in your timeline sequence, a thick boarder will appear around it.
- Hover your mouse over either end of the selected asset → A red arrow icon will appear
- The direction of the arrow points to trimming or extending
To chop a video up and only use sections of it, Select the ‘Razer Tool’ from your tools field
- Click on your asset in your timeline sequence at a desired location to snip the video at that location
- You can make as many of these snips as you like
To delete the middle section simply select that section in your timeline sequence and hit the ‘Delete’ key
To remove the gap in your sequence without having to drag up the other assets that further down your timeline sequence right click on the gap and select ‘Ripple Delete’
This is particularly useful for sniping and editing recorded audio for your video within Adobe Premier Pro.
Step 8 – Adding text
Choose your desired location in the timeline by sliding the blue timescale bar left or right in your ‘Sequence‘ field.
Select the ‘Text Tool’ (T icon) from the same ‘Tools’ field you found your ‘Arrow Tool’ in.
Select anywhere on the preview in your ‘Program’ field (top right) and enter your text.
This text can be moved around until you’re happy with its placement by clicking and dragging it around in the ‘Program’ field.
Note that this makes a new item on the top track of the timeline in your ‘Sequence’ field. If you want to move this text to a later point in your timeline simply drag it along.
Step 9 – Edits assets and effects in source window
To change specific details of your assets such as colour or size simply double click on the desired asset in your timeline sequence.
This will open that asset in your ‘Source’ field (top left)
Note that text cannot be previewed in this field, however you can still access the settings for your text in the same manner.
In the ‘Source’ field select the ‘Effect controls’ tab to access the settings for your asset.
Effect controls can be used to change the size, opacity, position and a variety of other things with your assets.
When an asset is selected in a sequence, options will appear under Effects Control. Below is for an image.
Position → left number (640 in the image above) will move the selected media item horizontally, right number (868 above) will move vertically.
Scale → adjusts size of the image
Rotation → what it sounds like
You can edit these numbers but double-click or by holding left-click and sliding left or right. I’d recommend left-click as you can see in real-time in the preview window how your item is changing.
You can ‘animate’ your scaling/positioning etc Ensure the blue running bar is placed when you’d like the ‘animation’ to begin and then toggle the stopwatch on the left (blue toggled on) this creates a “keyframe” seen on the far right, play through to when you’d like it complete; adjust your scaling/positioning/rotation/opacity to the setting you’d like it to finish at; this will create another “keyframe”. These keyframes, create a smooth transition such as zooming, panning, fading or simply adding some movement to still images to make your video more dynamic.
*this keyframe method also works for fading music in and out*
When an audio piece is selected, the Effects Controls panel will look like this:
“Level” will adjust the volume.
Step 10 – Adding transitions
The effects tab at the top of the workspace will open a panel with drop downs of Premiere’s inbuilt effects. You can also find this list as one of the tabs on the Project part of the workspace.
Open the Video Transitions folder.
Once you find an effect you’d like to use eg. Cross Dissolve (selected above you can simply click and drag to the meeting point of 2 media items.
This will create an effect box within the media item boxes.
Effect durations can be trimmed down or extended by hovering at the beginning or end of this box.
*Some effects can only be placed between two items, some only at the beginning or end of items*
Step 11 – Exporting your video
To preview the final product of your video drag the timescale bar to the start of your sequence and press the ‘Play’ button in your ‘Program’ field (Alternatively, press the ‘Spacebar’)
Do not worry if it skips and lags, Adobe Premiere Pro is attempting to play your video before rendering it. Large files with many assets or older computers may struggle.
Once you are happy with your final product and are ready to export it
- Select your ‘Sequence’ field. This is important as it tells Premiere what to export. When your sequence is the focus, it should have a blue line around it.
- Go File > Export > Media in the top left-hand corner of Adobe Premier Pro
- In the window that appears, name your final video by double-clicking on the blue text next to the ‘Output Name’ option under the ‘Export Settings‘ box in the top left
- Select the ‘EXPORTS’ folder you created in your documents earlier as your export location and give your project a name.
- Click on the ‘Format’ dropdown and choose ‘H.264’.
- Click on the ‘Preset‘ dropdown and choose ‘Youtube 1080P full HD’
- Simply press the ‘Export’ and wait for your video to render. If you have multiple edits to export, you can chose ‘Queue‘ which will add the video to Adobe Media Encoder. You can do many videos at once this way or you can keep working on another edit whilst it exports.
- Navigate to your ‘EXPORTS’ folder in your documents and play your finished video.


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The Chicago DanceSport Challenge will offer a Team Match with cash prizes! Teams must consist of four couples. Each couple will complete in one of four dances, one from each of the four styles. If you want to create a team, contact Kelly Batchelor with your team name and the names of your team members. And if you need a few more people on your team, Kelly can help you find them, too.
Unofficial Rules for Team Match
- Each team must have a unique name.
- Teams must have four (4) couples.
- One couple on a team can be a Pro/Am couple or one person on a team can be a professional. All other couples must be amateurs.
- Each couple will compete in one dance from one style (Standard, Smooth, Latin, or Rhythm)
- Each couple will dance only one dance in a round.
- A round of Team Match will consist of 4 dances, one from each style.
- If there are more than 7 teams, elimination rounds (quarter-final, semi-final, etc.) will be danced, just like in regular competition.
- The final round of Team Match will include the top 6 or 7 teams.

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Rajkotupdates.news : Drinking Lemon Is As Beneficial: Drinking lemon juice in lukewarm water is purifying, energising, and soothing, according to Rajkotupdates. news. Lemon juice has the same health benefits as eating it.
Lemon juice and water both contain nutrients on their own. Do they, however, become healthier when combined? The quick response is “no”!
Rajkotupdates.news : Drinking Lemon Is As Beneficial As Eating It
Vitamin C, a vital component, is plentiful in lemon juice. Scurvy can be caused by a deficiency in vitamin C, as has long been known. This illness is frequently linked to past mariners who were unable to get fresh produce while on long trips.
Recently, we found low levels of vitamin C in Australian patients who were referred for surgery and admitted to the hospital. The community’s overall vitamin C levels might not be reflected in this, though. The factors that affected this group’s poor health may have also affected how much vitamin C they ingested.
Lemon water may help if you are vitamin C deficient. Vitamin C starts to break down at 30 to 40 degrees Celsius, which would have little effect on the levels in your warm lemon water but is negligible.
Additional Benefits of Lemon Water
Lemon juice might have additional benefits, although the proof collected thus far is conflicting.
- According to one study, those with high blood lipid (cholesterol) levels who drank lemon juice for eight weeks did not see any changes in their blood pressure, weight, or blood lipid levels.
- In contrast, when tea or water was combined with bread in a different trial, 125 mL of lemon juice caused a small reduction in blood sugar levels. When 30g of lemon juice was combined with water before the rice was consumed, a small investigation discovered something similar.
- Researchers found that the acidity of lemon juice reduces salivary amylase, an enzyme that normally starts to break down starches in your mouth. It takes longer for starch to convert to glucose and cross the intestinal wall into your blood in the lower part of the stomach.
- This may lead to a decrease in blood sugar rises in patients with diabetes, although it has not yet been tested.
Rajkotupdates.news : Drinking Lemon Is As Beneficial As Eating It – Does It Detoxify Our Body?
With or without the “assistance” of lemon water, your body detoxes on its own. The liver processes down toxins and excess nutrients, which are then removed by the kidneys and sent out of the body as urine.
No proof exists that vitamin C helps with this. Therefore, claims that drinking lemon water detoxifies you are untrue. If detoxification is something you really need, a liver transplant may prove necessary.
Do You Feel Active After Drinking Lemon Juice?
The short answer is no, other than the placebo effect of eating something you think is good for your health. However, if you don’t get enough of them, just like with other nutrients, you could feel tired.
When it comes to lemon water being a relaxing beverage, some people like warm drinks while others prefer cold ones. The best temperature to consume fluids is the one at which you are most likely to drink enough to stay hydrated.
Are There Any Risks?
Rajkotupdates.news : Drinking Lemon Is As Beneficial As Eating It. Since lemon water contains acid, some individuals worry that it can erode dental enamel. However, this extends to all acidic liquids, including orange juice and carbonated drinks.
The following methods are recommended by some dentists to lower the risk of acid erosion: * After drinking lemon water, rinse your mouth with tap water
- Chewing sugar-free gum to boost saliva production following
- Do not clean your teeth just after drinking lemon water.
- Using a straw to avoid direct contact with the teeth.
Lemon water may irritate the bladder and make some people feel the urge to urinate more frequently, especially at night, according to some specialists. They suggest shifting to plain water in that situation.
However, one study found that reducing patients’ intake of a variety of liquids, including lemon beverages, had no effect on bladder pain. Others claim that drinking lemon water makes symptoms of heartburn worse. This hasn’t been tested, though.
Rajkotupdates.news : Drinking Lemon Is As Beneficial As Eating It: If you enjoy it, sip some lemon water! If you don’t like drinking it, though, you are not losing out. Vitamin C is present in various citrus fruits as well as other fruits and vegetables. Lemon juice can also be added to meat, salads, or vegetables.

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PSA rapid test for use with serum, plasma and full blood samples
This PSA rapid test is a one-step immunochromatographic test for the detection of human PSA in serum, plasma or full blood samples. An increase in the PSA level can indicate the presence of a prostate carcinoma, which is why the PSA rapid test is often used in screening for the early detection of cancer. The Diagnostik Nord PSA test is very easy to use, and provides quick, reliable results.
- PSA rapid test for the detection of human PSA in serum, plasma or full blood samples
- Immunochromatographic cassette test
- Positive test results from a concentration of 4.0 ng/ml
- Relative sensitivity: 100%
- Relative specificity: 97.2% (serum), 95.1% (plasma), 95.8% (full blood)
- Easy to carry out
- Test results within 10 minutes
Carrying out the test
Take blood sample under normal laboratory conditions. Prepare plasma, serum as appropriate. Label the test cassette with the name and type of sample. Use a pipette to drop 100µl serum, plasma or full blood through the sample opening. Results can be read after 10 minutes.
Contains 10 PSA rapid test cassettes, individually foil-wrapped


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Nintendo's new Switch console hasn't had its innards completely detailed yet, but most of the games that were shown off during their recent unveiling event looked to be running at 60FPS.
Now we have some concrete details on Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which will be running at 900p when docked, and 720p for portable/undocked mode, courtesy of Digital Foundry. The site said there were considerable improvements over the E3 2016 build which was running on the Wii U, which had "serious performance issues".
Both the 900p and 720p resolutions will be locked at 30FPS, with the only times performance dips were noticed were "during very heavy alpha and post-processing effect situations, and possibly sometimes from streaming issues", reports VG247.
Keep in mind that Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be one of the most demanding Switch games on the market as a result of its open-world gameplay. Nintendo has already confirmed that the Switch's battery life varies across different games, pretty much confirming the Switch uses variable performance as the patents state. The Switch's on-the-go battery life is anywhere from 3 hours to 6.5 hours depending on the game that's being played.
In fact, Breath of the Wild will push the Switch's onboard custom NVIDIA Tegra SoC while in handheld mode, thus reducing its battery life--while playing Zelda the Switch's battery life is about 3 hours. This suggests that Breath of the Wild will leverage the Tegra's power moreso than most other games, especially since the perf is locked to 30FPS--which is fine for a handheld.
Read Also: Nintendo Switch hardware specs revealed
Earlier we predicted that developers would purposely hold back the docked versions of Switch games to ensure the handheld and docked versions delivered similar performance, and it seems that's what Nintendo is doing here--unless Breath of the Wild couldn't push 900p 60FPS in its current state.
That's somewhat unlikely given the power of the NVIDIA's Tegra chip. Even though the Switch uses a heavily customized Tegra SoC, the chip itself is rather potent, and is absolutely capable of delivering 1080p 60FPS gameplay.
The Nintendo Switch will launch on March 3, 2017 for $299. Check below for a catalog of everything we know about the console so far.
Everything we know about the Nintendo Switch:
- Putting Nintendo Switch launch games into perspective
- Stock Nintendo Switch JoyConGrip won't recharge JoyCons
- The new Zelda game takes up nearly half Switch's storage
- Zelda: Breath of the Wild runs at 900p 30FPS docked, 720p 30FPS undocked
- Nintendo Switch supports 2TB Micro SDXC cards
- Nintendo Switch online chat requires smartphone app
- Here's why Nintendo Switch doesn't come with any games
- Nintendo will soon charging gamers to play online multiplayer via subscription service
- Nintendo Switch UI revealed, let's take a closer look
- Nintendo Switch touchscreen has haptic feedback tech
- Nintendo stock drops after Switch unveil event
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Switch runs at 1080p when docked
- Nintendo Switch hardware specs revealed
- Nintendo Switch costs $299, coming March 3
- Nintendo Switch battery life is 2.5 hours to 6 hours
- New Mario: Odyssey game won't be Nintendo Switch launch title
- Zelda: Breath of the Wild is Switch launch game
- > NEXT STORY: The new Zelda game takes up nearly half Switch's storage
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The following 30-second commercial asks a very important question: “If I became a father at conception, then when did the life of my child begin?” It is an interesting conundrum that President Obama has managed to work himself into. I think that it’s a great question.
Here’s the background to the clip from Catholic News Agency:
The 30-second television ad begins with a clip of Obama’s Father’s Day speech at a Chicago church in which the Illinois senator discussed the problem of absent black fathers. “We need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn’t just end at conception,” he says in the clip.
Sen. Obama has voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which would have protected from infanticide those children who survive abortion attempts. He has also promised to pass the Freedom of Choice Act, which FRC Action says would “annihilate” every single state law limiting or regulating abortion, including the federal ban on partial birth abortion. …
Nammo said the FRC would like to see Obama acknowledge that life begins at conception and that fatherhood entails responsibility to the unborn. Further, the Family Research Council hopes Obama will renounce his support for taxpayer funding of abortions.
The man in the video clip is none other than Tony Perkins, a former state representative from Baton Rouge. These days, Tony is a rising star among evangelical Christian leaders. He currently serves as the president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian think-tank and public policy foundation (founded by James Dobson).


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FC: Jamestown, Rhode Island Summer 2010
1: This is our annual vacation in Jamestown. Nonni & Papa spent a few days with us before going off on their own vacation. We spent our first day with them having some fun in the sun at our favorite Jamestown beach. | Mackerel Cove with Nonni & Papa
2: We spent the day frolicking in the water and building sand castles, our usual beach activities. Oh, and Zoe buried her brother in the sand, at his request. The feather is courtesy of Nonni! It was a fabulous day at the beach as always!
4: Newport Kite Festival Brenton Point State Park July 10, 2010
5: Zoe made her own butterfly kite. Aidan was more interested in getting a Del frozen lemonade because it was sooooo hot that day!
6: The festival was great! We saw many amazing kites that day. We even saw some demonstrations with trick kites.
8: Pizza, pizza, pizza! Zoe & Aidan made their own pizzas for the first time!
9: Uncle Stephen, Auntie Christina, Colin, Grandpa & Mima came to stay with us for a few days.
12: Mackerel Cove A day at the beach with the kids
14: Crabbing was the favorite pastime on this day. The kids searched the rocks for crabs, dead or alive, to add to the Crab Shack they built. Their shack was very popular. They had many visitors by the end of the day. They were so proud!
16: After a day at the beach, we went over to Beavertail (stopping for ice cream at Spinnakers first, of course)! It was a great afternoon for walking and kite flying!
18: Mima and Grandpa still hold hands | Mischievous Boys | Is that Jeff up there? | Zoe made a new friend | Walking Newport
19: The Newport Arcade | The arcade is a "must do" for the kids when we go into Newport. As you can see from Aidan's face, he is already plotting which game to start with!
20: The Cliff Walk in Newport
21: We did the condensed version of the Cliff Walk starting at the 40 Steps and ending at Ruggles Avenue. The views were breathtaking! The house in the top picture is a dream house. Jeff and I saw it being built several years ago. And what a view it has!
22: Walking along the ocean, searching for shells & sea glass, catching crabs, skipping rocks...These are a few of our favorite things.

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