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Stay is a command many dog owners use regularly; however most professional dog trainers don’t use “stay” as one of our commands. It may sound strange, but there is good reason why. Let us explain: Most stay comes after a “sit” or “down.” At that moment, the dog has to think about doing two separate commands, which is more difficult for the dog to retain. Ultimately the dog will break one of those commands. Maybe you use “stay” to keep your dog in one area. This may work for a short period, however what pictures does the dog have of what stay really is? Most dogs will lose focus or get bored of being in one area so they will lay from side to side or get up and turn. There is no focal point for the dog of what “stay” is, and will become misconstrued. Over a period of time “stay” will become a much larger area. This is not what we intended when we set out to teach this command.
What is the solution? Teaching the dog that stay is implied with commands like sit, down, and place. For example, down means to stay laying down until released or called. It is much easier for a dog to learn implied stay then “stay” itself. This is because once the dog knows commands like down, sit, and place we can see if they break a command and so can the dog. This makes the dog more successful as opposed to teaching a secondary command with it. Now, if you use “stay” already as one of your commands don’t worry. It is not too difficult or too late to teach an implied stay.
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Updated: March 21, 2017


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North Korea declared waters along its disputed sea border with South Korea a "firing zone" Monday and warned ships from the South to stay away from the area, which was the scene of a deadly clash last month. The naval command in Pyongyang accused the South of "reckless military provocations" in the area in an attempt to hold on to what it called an illegal border. It accused its neighbor of violating its waters and staging military drills in the area and vowed to protect its border by force. North Korea does not recognize the sea border, drawn unilaterally by the United Nations at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, and has long claimed that it should be redrawn farther south. The dispute led to deadly skirmishes in 1999, 2002 and last month. In the November incident, ships from the two sides exchanged fire in the disputed waters, leaving one North Korean sailor dead and three others wounded, according to the South. Pyongyang said Monday that it was designating the area a "peacetime naval firing zone of coastal and island artillery units" for its military, which apparently means that artillery shells could land in the waters at any time. "All fishing boats and warships are required to take security measures by themselves in that zone to protect themselves," the naval command said in a statement, carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency. It said it was taking the measure to cope with a "grave situation" in the disputed waters that it blamed the South for creating. South Korea's Defense Ministry said it had no immediate comment. Relations between the two Koreas soured badly after South Korea's conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office last year with a pledge to get tough on the North's nuclear ambitions, and he halted unconditional aid to the impoverished neighbor. An angry Pyongyang suspended reconciliation talks and joint projects. But in recent months, the North has sought to reach out to Seoul in what analysts said was an attempt to win badly needed aid following UN sanctions for its nuclear test in May. Ties between the sides have shown signs of warming amid Pyongyang's conciliatory attitude, with the South last week shipping the antiviral drug Tamiflu across the border to help North Korea fight swine flu. It was Seoul's first direct aid to the country under Lee. The two countries are still technically at war as the Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.


EE says it is on track for a million 4G customers this year
Tuesday 23 April 2013
"4G is going to replace bad broadband," declared Olaf Swantee, the chief executive of the mobile giant EE, as he claimed that the signal from his new super-fast 4G phone network is so strong that customers are not bothering with wi-fi – even in the home.
Some 37 per cent of customers use less or no public wi-fi when they have 4G in their pocket, and one in five use less home broadband, according to EE's research.
Mr Swantee insisted that take-up of 4G is on track as he reported that 318,000 have signed up since its October launch, after refusing to give numbers at the last quarterly results in February.
EE, owner of T-Mobile and Orange, should hit a million 4G customers by Christmas.
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All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings (CD with ISBN and CIP number and online).
Beside that, in 2015, we have secured the partnership of the following journals:
- Electronic Markets- The International Journal on Networked Business
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- International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
- International Journal of Organisation Design and Engineering
- Organizacija – Journal of Management, Informatics and Human Resources
that may facilitate the publication of enhanced versions of further selected papers.
Selected papers will be published into the book under Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation section by Springer (Indexed in Thomson Reuters and Scopus).
What this means to you is that these journals will work with us to try and progress the best Bled contributions to meet their scope and standards for publication. Based on quality and thematic match, the journals will preselect promising contributions prior to the conference. At the event there will be dedicated sessions where the authors and the (guest)-editors of the journal can discuss the next steps to be taken to progress the contribution towards acceptance. Although we cannot provide guarantees that the selected papers will be automatically accepted for publication in the journal, we do believe this process does offer the best conditions to achieve this goal.
We are looking forward to your submission. Please not that submission deadline has been postponed to February 2, 2015.

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Agent Robert B. Hutchings
Born December 7, 1943, in Boston, Massachusetts, Robert B. Hutchings served as a Deputy Sheriff in Sacramento County, California. He later moved to Utah and joined the Utah Department of Public Safety on January 2, 1974. He served as an Agent with the Narcotics and Liquor Enforcement Division. Agent Hutchings was assisting the West Jordan Police Department in a drug investigation.
The investigation included a drug buy of cocaine at 588 East 17th South, Salt Lake City, Utah. Investigating officers had obtained an arrest warrant for Ricky Milton Larsen, 28, issued by the Salt Lake County Attorney’s Office and signed by City Judge Melvin H. Morris. Officers decided to make another felony case against Larsen, prior to serving the warrant. It was agreed that Agent Mark Ridley would attempt to buy a quantity of cocaine from Larsen. Officers outside the residence would listen to this transaction by means of a hidden transmitter placed on Agent Ridley. Upon completion of the drug buy, Agent Ridley was to signal the other officers that the transaction had been made successful by saying, “It’s cool.”
Shortly after 8:00 p.m. on July 20, 1976, the buy went down as planned and upon announcing “Its cool,” Agent Hutchings and West Jordan Chief Lance Foster kicked the door in. Larsen immediately produced a 12 gauge shotgun and shot Agent Hutchings in the upper left chest. Agent Hutchings returned four rounds of fire from a .380 semi-auto pistol and Chief Foster fired nine rounds from a 9mm submachine gun.
Agent Hutchings was dead on arrival at Holy Cross Hospital and Larsen was dead on arrival at LDS Hospital. FBI analysis of the bullet which killed Larsen proved that it had been fired by Agent Hutchings. About 1,000 various pills, quantities of cocaine and marijuana, and over $3,000 in cash were seized following the shooting. Robert B. Hutchings was survived by his pregnant wife, Janet, three sons and three daughters.

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The third book (counting Demonsbane) written for Diablo is The Black Road. The book tells the story of Darrick Lang who was abused as a child by his father. Because of this Darrick and his best friend Mat Hu-Ring escape from their childhood town and head to Westmarch. At Westmarch Darrick meets a master fencer and proves to be a very good fencer although insubordinate. After his fencing master died, Darrick and his friend Mat join the Westmarch navy and Darrick even manages to get promoted to officer.
As an officer, Darrick led several missions with one of them being to rescue the King's nephew from the hands of the pirate Captain Raithen. While on this mission Darrick and Mat saw Buyard Cholik (an ex Zakarum priest) release the demon Kabraxis. They tried to flee but Kabraxis wasn't having none of that. He chased after them causing Mat to fall off a cliff.
Darrick holds himself responsible for this and gives into drinking. He journeys from town to town until he meets with Taramis Volken, a demon hunter. With the help of Taramis, and a sword called Stormfury, Darrick manages to kill Buyard and Kabraxis.
The book is written by Mel Odom who has also written many famous novels including the Blade, Buffy, and Angel series novels.
My opinion of the book was that it was pretty well written, but I did not really like the main character. He comes across as irritating especially in the late parts of the book where he constantly whines about his father. Given that, the story is very good and creative and any Diablo fan will have a good time reading this book.
The book can be found below in it's original format:
Or if you prefer to get more value for your money, you can get the Diablo Archive which contains The Black Road and 3 other Diablo novels:

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Dr. Soraya L. Valles is an Assistant Professor of Physiology in the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. She received her ph.D in Biological Science at the University of Valencia, spain. Dr. Soraya L. Valles has 59 over peer reviewed publications, 11 book chapters and Over 40 invited talks or selected as oral communications at national and international conferences and academic institutions.

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Introduction: Emergency department (ED) crowding adversely affects multiple facets of high-quality care. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts mandates specific, hospital action plans to reduce ED boarding via a mechanism termed "Code Help." Because implementation appears inconsistent even when hospital conditions should have triggered its activation, we hypothesized that compliance with the Code Help policy would be associated with reduction in ED boarding time and total ED length of stay (LOS) for admitted patients, compared to patients seen when the Code Help policy was not followed.
Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of data collected from electronic, patient-care, timestamp events and from a prospective Code Help registry for consecutive adult patients admitted from the ED at a single academic center during a 15-month period. For each patient, we determined whether the concurrent hospital status complied with the Code Help policy or violated it at the time of admission decision. We then compared ED boarding time and overall ED LOS for patients cared for during periods of Code Help policy compliance and during periods of Code Help policy violation, both with reference to patients cared for during normal operations.
Results: Of 89,587 adult patients who presented to the ED during the study period, 24,017 (26.8%) were admitted to an acute care or critical care bed. Boarding time ranged from zero to 67 hours 30 minutes (median 4 hours 31 minutes). Total ED LOS for admitted patients ranged from 11 minutes to 85 hours 25 minutes (median nine hours). Patients admitted during periods of Code Help policy violation experienced significantly longer boarding times (median 20 minutes longer) and total ED LOS (median 46 minutes longer), compared to patients admitted under normal operations. However, patients admitted during Code Help policy compliance did not experience a significant increase in either metric, compared to normal operations.
Conclusion: In this single-center experience, implementation of the Massachusetts Code Help regulation was associated with reduced ED boarding time and ED LOS when the policy was consistently followed, but there were adverse effects on both metrics during violations of the policy.

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The new chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court is set to take office.
The installation ceremony for Justice Rita Garman will take place this morning at the Vermilion County Courthouse in Danville.
Garman has been a judge since 1974.
She was unanimously elected by her colleagues on the seven-member court. She'll become the first of the state's top jurists to serve in virtually every judicial capacity.
She'll be the 119th chief justice and the second woman to hold the post.
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“(Hi)Stories of Exhibition Making / 1960 – 1990”
Sunday, 04.09.2016, National Museum
- Exhibitions at Makerere Art Gallery (George Kyeyune)
1938 will be remembered as the year for the first art exhibition in Uganda at Namirembe Synod Hall. The enthusiasm it generated led to the founding of the Makerere Art School in 1940. A community of active art practitioners soon emerged and the demand for exhibition space soon became evident. The Uganda Museum exhibition space (1962) and Nommo Gallery (1964) were a response to this demand. It is however the Makerere Art Gallery (1969) that became distinctive because of its focus on extending the boundaries of knowledge in art. It has, since its opening, maintained a non-commercial gallery stance. Its location within Makerere art School made it a perfect choice for exhibiting a diversity of art forms by staff and art students who came from the region of east Africa and beyond. Its collection is the finest in the region and a magnet to researchers in visual culture. The gallery has however had challenges that resulted from the turbulent political periods of the 70s and 80s, a shoe string budget as well as lack of qualified staff to run it. This paper examines the trials and tribulations of Makerere Art gallery and shows how it has managed to recover from its difficulties to become a vibrant centre for visual culture within Makerere campus.
- Overview on the very recent history of exhibitions and festivals in Kampala in the current decade (Katrin Peters-Klaphake)
This presentation takes a look at recent exhibitions and art festivals in Kampala against the backdrop of a brief historic reflection on exhibition activities in Uganda and a side look at exhibitions of Ugandan art abroad. The art scene in Kampala undoubtedly is very vibrant in this current decade, a fact that certainly also has a lot to do with perception, audiences and new media. While the documentation of exhibitions in the past is quite fragmented and scattered – or simply not available or accessible – these histories provide an important context and some open questions.
- Exhibition making in the 1960s: The Nommo Gallery (Sidney Kasfir)
The Nommo Gallery, founded in Kampala in 1964, has seen war and upheaval but has managed to remain open continuously for 52 years. Kasfir will discuss three artists who began their careers there in the late 1960s in exhibitions she curated: Francis Nnaggenda, Richard Ndabagoye, and Jak Katarikawe.
- Exhibition making in Nsukka and Enugu, Nigeria: 1970s – 1990s (Ozioma Onuzulike and Chijioke Onuora)
This paper tells the hi(story) of exhibition making in Enugu and Nsukka (the political and educational capitals of Nigeria’s eastern region, respectively), beginning from the immediate postcolonial epoch of the 1960s, through the post-war period of the 1970s to the military era of the 1980s-1990s. It seeks to provide insights into the key venues or spaces available to modern and contemporary artists in both towns (which, incidentally, are located only about an hour’s drive apart) and the factors at play in artists’ decisions to use them. It also examines the factors that shaped how exhibitions were conceived, executed and documented, as well as the socio-economic and political conditions that shaped artists’ subject matters during these periods.
- Exhibition making in the 1960s: Mbari Mbayo and Oshogbo (Katharina Greven)
- Exhibition making in the 1980s: Iwalewahaus (Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi & Nadine Siegert)
Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth, is until today a place for the production and presentation of modern and contemporary art. By doing exhibitions, academic research and teaching, by taking care of the collections and the archive as well as providing residencies for artists, recent developments in contemporary African and African diaspora culture are presented and refined together with artists and institutions. In our presentation we want to give an overview of the most important shows and also reconstruct what these shows meant not only for a local public but also on a national and international level. We thereby want to broaden and complicate the narration of exhibition making of African Modernisms in the 1980s by adding the perspective of an institution that is strongly shaped by its founding director Ulli Beier and his conceptualisations of African arts but also by the fact that the institution is located in Germany and part of a university.
- Africa ’95 and its legacy (Moses Serubiri)
The paper presents an analysis of africa 95 through its curator Clementine Deliss’ anthropological research in Senegal and Uganda, attempting to show how its anthropological strategies shaped the curating of contemporary art from Africa.
The symposium takes place within the framework of Kampala Art Bienniale 2016. It is organized by the members of the international research project “African Art History and the Formation of a Modern Aesthetic”, who held their second workshop entitled “Art History Rewritten. Contributing to the History of Postcolonial Modernism” in Kampala.
Contact: Nadine Siegert email@example.com / Siegrun Salmanian firstname.lastname@example.org
Download program as PDF: PublicSymposiumKampala2016
Kampala Bienniale Program

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On a beautiful summer morning, more than 200 Bridgewater faculty, staff, students and local residents celebrated the completion of a $14 million dollar student housing project on the rural campus of Bridgewater College.
The new “Stone Village” as named by the college for its past President, Mr. Phillip Stone, will be a complex of five, two-story, colonial-designed housing that will be on the cutting edge of energy efficiency and minimize its environmental impact on the rural campus. The housing is registered as a potential Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver project and incorporates such green features as high efficiency HVAC, occupancy sensor lighting, recycled building materials and even the interior paints that were used were all environmentally friendly to improve indoor air quality.
Speaking for Rural Development, newly appointed Deputy Under Secretary, Doug O’Brien commented, “Not only is this project easy on the environment, it will also allow Bridgewater College to save money on its operation into the future.”
Much of the environmentally green design was a result of direct consultation with the students currently attending college at Bridgewater. “We asked the students what type of housing would you like us to build and their answer is exactly what we have here today,” said College President, Mr. George Cornelius.
In addition to the Stone Village Housing, the Rural Development Community Facilities funding is also being used to renovate and expand two existing student housing buildings to help accommodate a total of 87 additional students for this fall’s enrollment.


That's right people! This month's jam is for all!
Filson, bluegrass, friends, flannel - the list goes on. Come to pick, listen or shop! House bass confirmed.
Sidenote: As you might have noticed, we will be taking June & July off for Summer fun. See you in August!!!
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Sort of a pedantic title, we know, but seriously: Saladin, a house producer from Chicago may likely have been the biggest EDM juggernaut that not nearly enough people were paying attention to in 2017. It’s time to rectify that now, dear Your EDM readers, with his most recent track, “Noize” and his fiery EP full of big room anthems, Feel My Bass, out January 8.
It’s definitely not as if no one was listening to Saladin in 2017. He charted heavily both on Billboard (one of his tracks recently hit number three on the Billboard Breakout Hits chart) and Beatport. He’s worked with hitmakers like D.O.D., Laidback Luke and Don Diablo, made tracks for Play and Phunkjunk Records and is a regular guest DJ on Chicago’s Dance Factory show on FM radio. In the Chicago house scene, Saladin is kind of a big deal, and since Chicago is the only deal when it comes to house, that makes this more than upcoming producer a big deal in the international house scene as well.
Saladin says he is most influenced by 80s new wave and, of course, Chicago house. This is reflected in the almost all his 30 tracks released in 2017 but he also incorporates progressive house, dark techno and hardstyle into his work. With his last release of the year, “Noize”, however, he’s really amped it up in his last release of the year. This track plays like a big room banger, and it was certainly meant to be such, as it was released right before the new year. With all the sirens, screeching 90s-style synths and complex buildups and breaks, one can almost see the baloons and confetti dropping on the crowd as this track is played at midnight. It’s definitely a big room hardstyle anthem and a great way for Saladin to cap off 2017.
It doesn’t seem like the house train will be slowing down any time soon in 2018 for Saladin, so there’s still plenty of time to get on board. In less than a week, the fastest moving house producer in Chicago will be releasing an EP on Phunk Junk called Feel My Bass, and it’s got lots of styles from progressive house to more high-voltage hardstyle. Check the preview below and in the meantime the year in Chicago house can be summed up by looking at Saladin’s top tracks on Beatport, where Feel My Bass will also doubtless be dropped on January 8.


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Title: At PizzaExpress Live – In London
Format: 2LP and CD digipak
Record Label: PX Records
Design and create 2LP and CD digipak. The 2LP and CD 16-page booklet features band photos and sleeve notes.
In collaboration with Storey London Design.
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High Point, NC– Freud America, Inc. announced the launch of their new and improved website (www.FreudTools.com), featuring a dramatically enhanced design with premium look and the latest in web technologies, making it easier for customers to navigate and quickly find critical information to make informed purchasing decisions. The new website includes an easy to use product search and selection capability with drill down filtering engines so that visitors can easily locate products by machine, product size/diameter, material, and product category. In addition to the enhanced search capabilities, the new website provides visitors with the ability to “Learn More” and “Compare” products when researching the solution that best fits their needs. The new website also includes an “Information Center,” which provides all product support, catalogs, posters as well as videos and FAQs. Launching late Fall is “Freud Club,” a subscription-based club designed to inspire and educate the woodworker. “Freud Club” will be a great place to learn about products and projects with woodworking and technical experts, view training videos and access special deals from Freud.
For more information, please visit www.freudtools.com.

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Ningbo Old Bund
Introduction to Ningbo Old Bund (宁波外滩)
The Old Bund of Ningbo is located at the conflux of Yong River, Fenghua River, and Yuyao River. It opened up since 1844 and was the earliest district opening up to foreign trades, even 20 years earlier than the Bund in Shanghai. It is noted as one of existing China bunds with a history of hundreds of years. The Old Bund records the development of Ningbo in modern history. The architectures here feature the combined style of both western and eastern. It has been a landmark in Ningbo city.
Ningbo is a city with a rich maritime history, with a deep water port. Because of the city’s location, it had dominated the trade in the region, making it easy to transport materials, such as cotton. Today, it’s not as busy. And river traffic is certainly nowhere near that of Shanghai. However, there is still a bit, and it’s a nice place to just spend a couple of hours. Particularly in the evening, when the area comes to life with restaurants, bars, and cafes.
Jiangbei District, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China
Ningbo City Exhibition Hall, Ningbo Art Museum, Huaishu Road Cultural Leisure Street
1. It can be accessed by Bus No.1, 4, 8, 18, 19, 20, 331, 370 and 541.
1. Avoid visiting during school holidays and Golden Week in October as there will be large numbers of local tourists.
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Lawmakers Debate Helmet Law
Nebraska lawmakers debated for the second time this week, a bill that would repeal Nebraska's law that motorcyclists wear helmets.
Lawmakers stopped short of a first-round vote on Tuesday, but comments from lawmakers and approval of an amendment suggest that the vote on the repeal measure (LB200) will be close.
Almost annually for the past 20 years, state senators have failed to repeal the helmet law. Senator Charlie Janssen of Fremont introduced the repeal measure. He said after debate Tuesday that the vote was too close to call.
The amendment approved would require that motorcyclists have insurance for long-term care. A proposed amendment would require more insurance – at least $1 million to cover injuries.
Some lawmakers in favor of the repeal argue the law steers motorcyclists away from Nebraska, which means a loss of revenue.


2Z drops the album preview for ‘Nostrum‘. Check it out below!
This album preview gives you a taste of the kind of songs they will be releasing. ‘Doctor‘ has that strong rock beat that allows you to easily bop along to. ‘25‘ has that beautiful electric synth that goes well with their tone of voice. It also has that melody that one would love to listen to. ‘Not Bad‘ has that punk vibe that one would have fun listening to.
Meanwhile, they are set to make their hot return on May 5th. Which track caught your attention? Let us know in the comments below!
All Access Asia will keep you updated, so stay tuned!


Cooler Master, an industry leading chassis, thermal solution, peripheral, and accessory manufacturer, announces its new models to the liquid cooling market.
Easy Liquid Cooling with Advanced Performance
Seidon 120XL and 240M, designed from the ground up to be an extremely compact solution that is accessible to all. Affordable can often be a stigma, but quality remains a high priority with Seidon 120XL/240M. It has a high performance waterblock that is machined out of a single block of copper with special Micro Channels that maximize heat dissipation. The integrated pump / waterblock combo assist in saving valuable space around the CPU socket while providing performance and reliability that is similar to air-based CPU coolers. Operating between 600 and 2400 RPM, the included two 120 mm PWM fan ensures that there will be plenty of options for balancing performance and noise to a user's needs.
Simple Setup & Maintenance-Free
True to the All-In-One moniker, Seidon 120XL/240M is a self-contained unit that requires minimal setup for installation and use. The pump and radiator ship pressure tested, pre-filled, and sealed directly from the factory to provide maintenance-free operation for years. This ease of use extends to its support of the latest Intel and AMD sockets; including the latest Intel LGA 2011 and AMD FM2 sockets.
The Seidon 120XL/240M will be available on 22th January, 2013. Price and availability may vary by region.
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Survey: Gamer attitudes to blockchain and cryptocurrencies
Incredible insight from over 500 gamers reveals key attitudes towards the blockchain and cryptocurrencies
Incredible insight from over 500 gamers revelas key attitudes towards the blockchain and cryptocurrencies
With so much focus on the future of the blockchain and games, there has been very little insight into the gamers themselves.
We’ve undertaken (probably) the largest ever survey of gamers and their attitudes towards the blockchain in order understand what makes them tick. This survey gives unparalleled insight into the minds of over 500 gamers from across the globe and is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of the blockchain and cryptocurrencies in games.
In this survey you’ll discover:
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110 ml water
1 ½ tablespoon LaksaRomin
100-110gm choy sim/ pak shoy - cut
200-215 gm medium or firm tofu - cut into small cubes
a pinch of salt - if desired
Using a wok or deep pan, add tofu cubes, LaksaRomin and coconut cream or if using coconut milk, only use the white fat. Leaving the can of coconut milk in the refrigerator will separate the fat.
Add water and turn on fire to medium, cover the wok.
Once simmer, stir and lower the fire and allow to simmer for 10 minutes. Stir in between cooking.
After 10 minutes, add salt if desired and add choy sim or pak choy. Stir until cooked.
Serve over a bowl of warm vermicelli noodles or rice.
Garnish with coriander if preferred.
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|2nd Ave West at Third Street Two of the many crosswalks in the
downtown core where potential danger lurks for pedestrians
The correspondence to Council makes note of the frequent occurrence of injuries to pedestrians and highlights the potential causes to such areas as winter darkness, driver inattention, traffic congestion and low visibility when it comes to pedestrians.
Towards the visibility concern, the Lions note for Council that their organization is investigating the cost of purchase for reflective armbands, which the Lions are considering as a project to distribute to Senior Citizens and other vulnerable pedestrians within the community.
Their correspondence to Council also puts the spotlight on an area of the city which the Lions believe requires more light, that being the heavily travelled Second Avenue Corridor, which they describe as very poorly lit.
From that they have issued a call for "the City to contact the Department of Highways and request immediate improvements to the street lighting along the busy and dangerous corridor."
|The busy corridor between 1st and Five Corners brings vehicles
and pedestrians together at many crossing points through the
downtown core of the City
Of the main travel areas around the city, it is the Second Avenue corridor that has been the subject of much attention, with incidents between pedestrians and vehicles becoming almost a weekly item for the Police reports, with the most frequent area for problem crossings running from 2nd to 9th street through the downtown core.
The full letter from the Lions to City Council can be reviewed below:
The issue of pedestrian safety in the city has been a frequent theme for many of the City's Council members in the past, you can review some of those conversations from our City Council Discussion archive.
For more items of note related to the work of Emergency Responders in the Northwest see our archive page here.
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It’s … getting … hard to breathe … up … here …
… is that … a … yeti?
What is Dicey Peaks?
Dicey Peaks is a press your luck, dice rolling game that has a little exploration to it and is published by Calliope Games. Scott Almes (The Tiny Epic ______ games and Harbour, Best Treehouse Ever) designed the game for 2 to 6 players, ages 8 and up, which plays in about 45 minutes.
Dicey Peaks Components
In the box, you’ll find:
- 6 Climber pawns
- 6 Oxygen marker tokens
- 6 Oxygen game boards
- 29 Mountain hex tiles, divided into five levels (8 Level Six, 7 Level Five, 6 Level Four, 5 Level Three, 3 Summit tiles)
- 13 Frosted dice (4 white, 4 dark blue, 5 light blue)
With the Oxygen markers and the Oxygen game boards, you keep track of the life-giving gas that’s available to you. Too much or too little and you’re unable to move on your turn. The oxygen level also becomes very important on your final push to the summit, but more on that in the How to Play section. Like the Oxygen marker, the Climber pawn is very detailed and made from heavy plastic. Both are nice and feel worthy of a mountain expedition.
The Mountain hex tiles are nicely printed, on luxuriously thick cardboard. On the back side, they have a number designating which level they belong on and the opposite side, a benefit or penalty that will be revealed during play. Six of the level six tiles are placed, 5 of the level five, and so on, meaning two random tiles from each level are removed from the game and placed in the box, making for a unique game each time. At the top, the 3 Summit tiles are randomly placed with two false summits and one winning summit somewhere at the top. When all assembled, the backs look like an actual mountain. It’s a neat outcome.
Finally, there are the dice. They are frosted and somewhat opaque. It ends up being a pretty cool look, like the dice are half frozen. The dice are divided into three colors, white, light blue, and dark blue, and each color has its own unique distribution of icons. The white dice have more pickaxes, for a higher likelihood of climbing, the dark blue have more tents, for a higher likelihood of resting and the light blue have an equal distribution of outcomes.
How to Play Dicey Peaks
The goal of Dicey Peaks is to be the first player to reach the summit with the flag on it. To do that, you’ll have to roll dice, manage oxygen, and trust in a bit of luck to reach the top first.
A Simple Game with Tough Decisions
On the face of it, Dicey Peaks is, essentially, roll & move. However, there’s so much more to that. Players must decide which dice to roll, whether to climb or rest, manage their oxygen levels, move cautiously up the mountain … all while avoiding a Yeti.
Players begin by choosing five dice to roll. Dice have four different faces: pickaxes, which are used to climb; avalanches, which can cause you to bust when climbing; tents, which allow a climber to rest; and yetis, which will slow you down when climbing, allow others to catch up, and can cause you to bust when resting. The four white dice have three pickaxes and one each of the other faces. The dark blue dice have three tents and one each of the other faces. The light blue dice have two tents, two pickaxes, and one each of the avalanche and yeti faces.
If you plan on climbing, it’s best to take the four white dice and a light blue die to increase your odds of rolling pickaxes. After your first roll, you must decide if you are climbing or resting, based on your first results. If climbing, you must set aside all pickaxes and avalanche dice, as well as any yetis. If climbing, set aside any tents and any yetis. After making your decision and setting dice aside, you may continue to roll by drawing dice from the pool and any dice you did not set aside during your previous roll.
When you are satisfied with your results, announce you are done rolling and take the appropriate climb or rest actions. If climbing, move your oxygen meter down by the number of pickaxes you rolled, then move your climber ahead (always move left to right on every level of the mountain). Then turn over the hex you’ve landed on and perform its action. If the tile had already been turned, just perform the action on the tile you stopped on. If the action moves you forward or back, you just move. In this case, you don’t flip a tile or perform a second action.
If you are resting, move the oxygen tank up one spot on your oxygen meter for each tent you rolled. It’s important to note that you may never earn more oxygen than the level of the mountain you are on. For example, on level three of the mountain, you may only increase your oxygen meter up to three spots, depending on your roll. It is impossible to rest when on the summit tiles.
Mountain Climbing Is Fraught with Peril
It is possible to bust when rolling dice. If you are climbing and you accumulate three avalanche dice, you bust and lose your progress for that turn. You can also bust when climbing by accumulating more pickaxes than the oxygen you have available on your oxygen meter.
When resting, you can bust by accumulating three yeti symbols. You can also bust if you earn enough tent-sided dice that it would push you above the maximum level on the oxygen meter.
Further, no matter if you are climbing or resting, if you roll a yeti on your turn, all climbers behind you are allowed to move forward one space without spending any oxygen. These climbers don’t flip tiles or perform actions on their new tiles. Climbers ahead of you (or on the same tile) are not affected.
Reaching the Summit
As you climb higher on the mountain, tiles are more likely to provide punishment, slips back downhill or loss of oxygen. It’s a challenge. On top of that, your strategy for resting becomes more important. With oxygen loss on tiles and movement, sucking away your O2, you must really plan your summit strategy well.
Just one of the three tiles at the peak is the winning tile. The other two are false summits. The real issue is, once you begin your summit drive, you can neither rest above level 3, nor return to a safe altitude to recover oxygen. What you summit with is all you are going to have.
As if that wasn’t tough enough, even though you may only be moving a single tile in movement, you must lose one oxygen for every single pickaxe rolled. Busting rules still apply. If you don’t find the flag, you remain on the turned tile and hope that you have enough oxygen for a second (or third) discovery. If you run out of oxygen on the summit, it’s game over, man. Find the flag and your accomplishment will be celebrated for all eternity … or at least until you reset the mountain for another game.
Why You Should Play Dicey Peaks
Press your luck games are great. Anyone can play and, unless your luck is consistently horrible, you can typically be competitive in a game without a huge amount of strategic thinking. Dicey Peaks is true to that generality, with some very important exceptions. The yeti dice are a great catch-up mechanism that not only does a good job of keeping everyone relatively close to each other, it’s possible for someone to bust several times at the beginning of the game, yet still win thanks to the yeti. What’s more, the notion of gambling what you’ve earned with great reward and disastrous loss on the line makes the decision to keep rolling ridiculously fun.
We loved the tile layout of the game and all the components, which all really added to the theme of Dicey Peaks. The tiles are really nice and the dice are just gorgeous. What’s more, the climber and oxygen tank tokens are top shelf.
A press your luck game is fun enough on its own, but the oxygen management portion of the game and the commitment each player has to make to climbing or resting adds a challenging element to the game. In Dicey Peaks, at first, everyone starts out care-free, adventurous, and ready to roll and reroll to make plenty of progress up the mountain. But as oxygen dwindles and the altitude thins, strategies tighten up and luck is pressed less and less.
Because press your luck games are so dependent on, well, luck, it’s nice to have one that strategy is so important in. As you prepare to summit, the oxygen you have, the dice you choose, and the tiles you must traverse become incredibly important and adds a healthy dose of stress and anxiety to the game (but in a fun way).
Dicey Peaks is a unique game for both Calliope and Scott Almes; neither have done a game like this before. Nevertheless, the result is a very enjoyable game that will find its place at the table, whether you’re playing with your family or your game group.
Dicey Peaks retails for $29.99 and will be available the first week of November.
Disclosure: GeekDad received a copy of this game for review purposes.

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The loess created alleys through which soldiers had to march, and which made them vulnerable to attacks from above.
|Battle of Emmendingen|
|Part of the War of the First Coalition|
Moreau's troops withdraw through the Val d'Enfer (Valley of Hell)
|Republican France||Habsburg Austria First Coalition|
|Commanders and leaders|
Michel de Beaupuy †
Wilhelm von Wartensleben †
Unknown number engaged
Approximately 10,000 engaged
|Casualties and losses|
1,000 killed and wounded|
approximately 1,800 captured;
2 artillery pieces
|1,000 killed or wounded|
At the Battle of Emmendingen, on 19 October 1796, the French Army of Rhin-et-Moselle under Jean Victor Marie Moreau fought the First Coalition Army of the Upper Rhine commanded by Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen. Emmendingen is located on the Elz River in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 9 miles (14 km) north of Freiburg im Breisgau. The action occurred during the War of the First Coalition, the first phase of the larger French Revolutionary Wars.
After a summer of parrying between the two sides, the French were already withdrawing through the Black Forest to the Rhine. In close pursuit, the Austrians forced the French commander to split his force so he could cross the Rhine at three points via the bridges at Kehl, Breisach, and Hüningen. By mid-September, though, the Austrians controlled the approaches to the crossings at Breisach and Kehl. Moreau still wanted half his army to approach the Austrians at Kehl. The rugged terrain at Emmendingen complicated fighting, making it possible for the Habsburg force to snipe at the French troops, and to block any passage toward Kehl; rainy and cold weather further hampered the efforts of both sides, turning streams and rivulets into rushing torrents of water, and making roadways slippery. The fighting was fierce; two generals died in the battle, one from each side.
Habsburg success at Emmendingen forced the French to abandon their plans for a three-pronged, or even a two-pronged, withdrawal. The French continued their retreat through the Black Forest mountain towns to the south, where the armies fought the Battle of Schliengen five days later.
Initially, the rulers of Europe viewed the French Revolution as a dispute between the French king and his subjects, and not something in which they should interfere. As revolutionary rhetoric grew more strident, they declared the interest of the monarchs of Europe as one with the interests of Louis XVI and his family; this Declaration of Pillnitz (27 August 1791) threatened ambiguous, but quite serious, consequences if anything should happen to the royal family. The position of the revolutionaries became increasingly difficult. Compounding their problems in international relations, French émigrés continued to agitate for support of a counter-revolution. Finally, on 20 April 1792, the French National Convention declared war on Austria. In this War of the First Coalition (1792-1798), France ranged itself against most of the European states sharing land or water borders with her, plus Portugal and the Ottoman Empire. Despite some victories in 1792, by early 1793, France was in crisis: French forces had been pushed out of Belgium, the French king had just been executed, and there was revolt in the Vendée over conscription and wide-spread resentment of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. The armies of the French Republic were in a state of disruption; the problems became even more acute following the introduction of mass conscription, the levée en masse, which saturated an already distressed army with thousands of illiterate, untrained men. For the French, the Rhine Campaign of 1795 proved especially disastrous, although they had achieved some success in other theaters of war, including the War of the Pyrenees (1793-1795).
The armies of the First Coalition included the imperial contingents and the infantry and cavalry of the various states, amounting to about 125,000 (including three autonomous corps), a sizable force by eighteenth century standards but a moderate force by the standards of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. In total, the commander-in-chief Archduke Charles' troops stretched from Switzerland to the North Sea and Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser's, from the Swiss-Italian border to the Adriatic. Habsburg troops comprised the bulk of the army, but the "thin white line" of Coalition infantry could not cover the territory from Basel to Frankfurt with sufficient depth to resist the pressure of their opponents.[Note 1] Compared to French coverage, Charles had half the number of troops to cover a 340-kilometer (340,000 m) front that stretched from Renchen near Basel to Bingen. Furthermore, he had concentrated the bulk of his force, commanded by Count Baillet Latour, between Karlsruhe and Darmstadt, where the confluence of the Rhine and the Main made an attack most likely; the rivers offered a gateway into eastern German states and ultimately to Vienna, with good bridges crossing a relatively well-defined river bank. To his north, Wilhelm von Wartensleben's autonomous corps[Note 2] covered the line between Mainz and Giessen. The Austrian army consisted of professionals, many brought from the border regions in the Balkans, and conscripts drafted from the Imperial Circles.[Note 3]
In January 1796, the French and the members of the First Coalition called a truce, ending the Rhine Campaign of 1795; they understood it was temporary. This agreement lasted until 20 May 1796, when the Austrians announced that it would end on 31 May. The Coalition's Army of the Lower Rhine included 90,000 troops, mostly Habsburg and Reichsarmee (Imperial) troops mustered from the states of the Holy Roman Empire. The 20,000-man right wing under Duke Ferdinand Frederick Augustus of Württemberg stood on the east bank of the Rhine behind the Sieg River, observing the French bridgehead at Düsseldorf. The garrisons of Mainz Fortress and Ehrenbreitstein Fortress counted 10,000 more. Charles posted the remainder of the Habsburg and Coalition force on the west bank behind the Nahe.[Note 4] Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser led the 80,000-strong Army of the Upper Rhine. Its right wing occupied Kaiserslautern on the west bank, and the left wing under Anton Sztáray, Michael von Fröhlich and Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé guarded the Rhine from Mannheim to Switzerland. The original Coalition strategy was to capture Trier and to use the position on the west bank to strike at each of the French armies in turn. However, news arrived in Vienna of Bonaparte's successes. Reconsidering the situation, the Aulic Council gave Archduke Charles command over both Austrian armies and ordered him to hold his ground and sent Wurmser to Italy with 25,000 reinforcements. The loss of Wurmser and his troops weakened the Coalition force considerably.
On the French side, the 80,000-man Army of Sambre-et-Meuse held the west bank of the Rhine down to the Nahe and then southwest to Sankt Wendel. On the army's left flank, Jean-Baptiste Kléber had 22,000 troops in an entrenched camp at Düsseldorf. The right wing of the Army of Rhin-et-Moselle was positioned behind the Rhine from Hüningen northward, its center was along the Queich River near Landau and its left wing extended west toward Saarbrücken.Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino led Moreau's right wing, Louis Desaix commanded the center and Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr directed the left wing. Ferino's wing consisted of three infantry and cavalry divisions under François Antoine Louis Bourcier and Henri François Delaborde. Desaix's command counted three divisions led by Michel de Beaupuy, Antoine Guillaume Delmas and Charles Antoine Xaintrailles. Saint-Cyr's wing had two divisions commanded by Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, and Taponier.
The French grand plan called for two French armies to press against the flanks of the northern armies in the German states while simultaneously a third army approached Vienna through Italy. Jourdan's army would push southeast from Düsseldorf, intending to draw troops and attention toward themselves, which would allow Moreau's army an easier crossing of the Rhine between Kehl and Hüningen. According to plan, Jourdan's army feinted toward Mannheim, and Charles quickly reapportioned his troops. Moreau's army attacked the bridgehead at Kehl, which was guarded by 7,000 imperial troops--troops recruited that spring from the Swabian circle polities, inexperienced and untrained--which amazingly held the bridgehead for several hours, but then retreated toward Rastatt. On June 23-24, Moreau reinforced the bridgehead with his forward guard. After pushing the imperial militia from their post on the bridgehead, his troops poured into Baden unhindered. Similarly, in the south, by Basel, Ferino's column moved speedily across the river and proceeded up the Rhine along the Swiss and German shoreline, toward Lake Constance and into the southern end of the Black Forest. Anxious that his supply lines would be overextended, Charles began a retreat to the east.
At this point, the inherent jealousies and competition between generals came into play. Moreau could have joined up with Jourdan's army in the north, but did not; he proceeded eastward, pushing Charles into Bavaria. Jourdan also moved eastward, pushing Wartensleben's autonomous corps into the Ernestine duchies, and neither general seemed willing to unite his flank with his compatriot's. There followed a summer of strategic retreats, flanking, and reflanking maneuvers. On either side, the union of two armies--Wartensleben's with Charles' or Jourdan's with Moreau's--could have crushed the opposition. Wartensleben and Charles united first, and the tide turned against the French. With 25,000 of his best troops, the Archduke crossed to the north bank of the Danube at Regensburg and moved north to join his colleague Wartensleben. The defeat of Jourdan's army at the battles of Amberg, Würzburg and Altenkirchen allowed Charles to move more troops to the south. The next contact occurred on 19 October at Emmendingen.
Emmendingen lies in the Elz valley, which winds through the Black Forest. The Elz creates a series of hanging valleys which challenge the passage of large bodies of troops; the rainy weather further complicated the passage through the Elz valley. The area around Riegel am Kaiserstuhl is noted for its loess and narrow transition points, which greatly influenced the battle.
The loess created alleys through which soldiers had to march, and which made them vulnerable to attacks from above.
The better part of the French army debouched through the Höll valley. Desaix's left wing included the nine battalions and 12 squadrons of the Division St. Suzanne by Riegel, straddling both shores of the Elz. To the right, between Malterdingen and Emmendingen, Beaupuy commanded a division of 12 battalions and 12 squadrons. Further to the right, by Emmendingen itself, and in the heights by Heimbach, stood Saint-Cyr; around this stretched the Duhesme's Division (12 battalions and eight squadrons). Further to the right of these, in the Elz valley by Waldkirch stood Ambert's division and the Girard brigade; by Zähringen, about a mile away, Lecourbe's brigade stood in reserve, and, stretching northward from there, a mounted division of 14,000 roamed the vicinity of Holzhausen (nowadays part of March, Breisgau). These positions created a line about 3 mi (5 km) long. On the far side of Lecorbe's brigade stood Ferino's 15 battalions and 16 squadrons, but these were well to the south and east of Freiburg im Breisgau, still tramping through the mountains. Everyone had been hampered by heavy rains; the ground was soft and slippery, and both the Rhine and Elz rivers had flooded, as had the many tributaries. This increased the hazards of mounted attack, because the horses could not get a good footing.
Against this stood the Archduke's force. Upon reaching a few miles of Emmendingen, the Archduke split his force into four columns. Column Nauendorf, in the upper Elz, had eight battalions and 14 squadrons, advancing southwest to Waldkirch; Wartensleben had 12 battalions and 23 squadrons advancing south to capture the Elz bridge at Emmendingen. Latour, with 6,000 men, was to cross the foothills via Heimbach and Malterdingen, and capture the bridge of Köndringen, between Riegel and Emmendingen, and column Fürstenberg held Kinzingen, about 2 mi (3.2 km) north of Riegel. Frölich and Condé (part of Nauendorf's column) were instructed to pin down Ferino and the French right wing in the Stieg valley.
The first to arrive at Emmindingen, the French secured the high point at Waldkirch, which commanded the neighboring valleys; it was considered, at the time, a maxim of military tactics, that command of the mountains gave control of the valleys. By 19 October, the armies faced each other, on the banks of the Elz from Waldkirch to Emmendingen. By then, Moreau knew he could not proceed to Kehl along the right bank of the Rhine, so he decided to cross the Rhine further north, at Breisach. The bridge there was small, though, and his whole army could not pass over without causing a bottleneck, so he sent only the left wing, commanded by Desaix, to cross there.
At dawn, Saint-Cyr (French right) advanced along the Elz valley. Nauendorf prepared to move his Habsburg forces down the valley. Seeing this, Saint-Cyr sent a small column across the mountains to the east of the main valley, to the village of Simonswald, located in a side valley. He instructed them to attack Nauendorf's left, and to force him to withdraw from Bleibach. Anticipating this, though, Nauendorf had already posted units on the heights along the Elz valley, from which Austrian shooters ambushed Saint-Cyr's men. On the other side of the Elz valley, more Habsburg gunmen reached Kollnau, which overlooked Waldkirch, and from there they could fire down on the French force. The fighting was swift and furious. The superior Austrian positions forced Saint-Cyr to cancel his advance on Bleibach and withdraw to Waldkirch; even there, though, Nauendorf's men continued to harass him, and Saint-Cyr retreated another 2 mi (3 km) to the relative safety of Denzlingen.
The fighting went no better for the French on their left. Decaen's advanced guard proceeded forward, albeit cautiously. Austrian marksmen fired down upon the column, and Decaen fell from his horse, injured. Beaupuy took Decaen's place with the advance guard. At midday, Latour abandoned his customary caution and sent two columns to attack Beaupuy between Malterdingen and Höllental (Val d'Enfer), resulting in a fierce firefight. After giving an order to retreat along the Elz, Beaupuy was killed and his division did not receive an order to retreat, causing additional losses for the French.
In the center, French riflemen posted in the Landeck wood, 2 mi (3 km) north of Emmendingen, held up two of Wartensleben's detachments while his third struggled over muddy, nearly impassable, roads. Wartensleben's men needed all day to fight their way to Emmendingen, and during the shooting, Wartensleben's left arm was shattered by a musket ball. Finally, late in the day, Wartensleben's third column arrived and threatened to outflank the French right; the French retreated across the Elz river, destroying the bridges behind them.
At the close of the day's fighting, Moreau's force stood in a precarious position. Left to right, the French were stretched along a jagged, broken line of about 8 mi (13 km). Decaen's division stood at Riegel and Endingen, at the north-eastern corner of the Kaiserstuhl, no longer of any assistance to the bulk of Moreau's force; Moreau had also lost an energetic and promising officer in Beaupuy. On the right, Saint-Cyr's division stood behind Denzlingen, and the left stretched to Unterreute, a thin line also separated from the center, at Nimburg (near Tenningen and Landeck), half way between Riegel and Unterreute. The French line faced north-east towards the Austrians; despite Habsburg successes throughout the day, the Coalition forces were unable to flank the French line, and the French consequently were able to withdraw in reasonably good order to the south.
Both sides lost a general: Wartensleben was shot with a musket ball and died of his wounds (eighteen months later in Vienna) and General of Division Michel de Beaupuy was hit by a cannonball and died immediately. Out of approximately 32,000 troops who could have participated, the French lost 1,000 killed and wounded, and close to 1,800 captured, plus the loss of two artillery pieces. The Austrians sent 10,000 out of 28,000 troops available (36%), and lost about 1,000 killed, wounded or missing (10%). Smith estimates the French troop count based on united count of Ferino and Moreau at the Battle of Schliengen, four days later.
The only way to reacquire the crossing at Kehl, Moreau needed to send a sizeable force against Franz Petrasch, who had held the approaches since September, and this force was no longer available after Emmendingen. By controlling the eastern access to the Kehl/Strasbourg crossing, Petrasch forced Moreau to march south; any retreat into France would have to occur via the bridges at Hüningen, a longer march, not at Kehl and Strasbourg.
The lack of bridges did not slow the Coalition's pursuit. The Coalition forces repaired the bridges by Malterdingen, and moved on Moreau at Freiburg im Breisgau within 24 hours. On 20 October, Moreau's army of 20,000 united south of Freiburg with Ferino's column. Ferino's force was smaller than Moreau had hoped, bringing the total of the combined French force to about 32,000. Charles' combined forces of 24,000 closely followed Moreau's rear guard from Freiburg, southwest, to a line of hills stretching between Kandern and the Rhine. Skirting the mountain towns, Moreau next engaged the Archduke at the Battle of Schliengen.[Note 5]

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The problem of soccer hooliganism has its roots deep in social development and is associated with aggression and maturation rituals. Furthermore, the media has negatively impacted the problem by publicizing, and exaggerating hooligan activities.
Although the exact definition of hooliganism is rather open-ended, it can be characterized as violence toward opposing fans, players, and refs or destruction of objects inside or around the stadium. Violent incidents that occur following a game that fans perpetrate are also often considered acts of hooliganism (Soccer 2).
What we know today as hooliganism began in Britain in the late nineteen-sixties. Riots, field invasions, beatings, and deaths were characterized by the media as "football hooligans," and thus came era of violence to soccer. As shocking as the violence was at that time, soccer and violence have gone hand and hand since the thirteenth century. The game used to be played for a variety of reason disputes over land, conflicts between neighboring tribes or just simply to engage in manly aggression. Often times in Scotland, a "football" match was a precursor to a raid into a neighboring town. Since this time, soccer has been refined greatly especially in1828, when Dr. Thomas Arnold established formal rules for the game. The game continued to be refined, and was seen as a game of the upper class until the game gained popularity with the middle class in the early twentieth century. (Soccer 4)
Although sporadic violence occurred from 1900 to 1960, it was attributed to nothing more than overzealous, or drunk fans. In the 1964 soccer season, fan began to take on a rather peculiar pastime called "taking ends," where fans on one side of the stadium would rush the opposing fans' side and try to take control of their section. These acts of violence, team identification, and ritual aggression developed in a few short years into the social epidemic of soccer hooliganism. (Soccer 7)
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Cannabidiol or CBD oil is stemmed from cannabis, which is the title of among nature’s greatest blooming plants, so it has many health advantages. Cannabidiol or even CBD is certainly not only anti-inflammatory and also anti-oxidant, yet also safeguards the heart, regulates rest styles and lessens seizures in youngsters. It is actually a phytocannabinoid discovered in 1940. It is one of the 113 known cannabinoids in marijuana, as well as represent much more than 40% of the cannabis plant’s extract. The vegetation is in a number of places worldwide, featuring Canada and the United States. The purest CBD oil comes from Canada, where it is actually utilized primarily for the treatment of kids enduring from confiscations.
Some firms have claimed that CBD can treat these illness, when definitely they are recommending to the sign relief that the CBD offers. No pharmaceutical provider has actually created any evidence that CBD can reduce blood stream stress, and no one professes that CBD is actually a “cure” for higher blood stream pressure either. CBD oil UK
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Dr. Chunli Ren
Chunli Ren, Ph.D. Vice President of Regulatory Affairs
Dr. Ren Chunli has served as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at IASO since March 2021. Dr. Ren received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Southern California. Previously she held senior Regulatory Affairs positions at CStone, GSK, Roche and other leading companies with over 12 years of broad regulatory management expertise and IND/ NDA filings experiences spanning across biological and oncology products. She has led CStone 's team to complete more than 10 IND/NDA filings.


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Indicative Demolition Schedule Update
The Asbestos Response Taskforce has released the fourth update to the Indicative Demolition Schedule, the third update for 2016.
The Taskforce remains committed to keeping the community informed about the roll out of the Mr Fluffy demolition program.
The regular release of the Indicative Demolition Schedule is a useful way to keep homeowners, neighbours and the general public informed about planned demolitions.
As at 7 December 2016, 502 houses had been demolished across Canberra through the ACT Government program. The release of the updated Schedule reflects indicative planning for the demolition of a further 388 properties through to late 2017.
The Schedule will continue to regularly updated and publicly released.

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Recent research conducted by the Kessler Foundation describes Actual Reality as a new tool for assessing performance of activities of daily living (ADL) in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The research’s results appear in the article “Actual Reality: Using the Internet to assesses everyday functioning after traumatic brain injury.” The study was designed to examine the use of actual reality in the TBI population.
A news release issued by the foundation notes that study authors included Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, of New York University and Kessler Foundation, and John DeLuca, PhD, senior VP of Research & Training at Kessler Foundation, and professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
During the study, the researchers investigated the feasibility of using everyday technology, such as computers and hand-held devices, to assess how patients perform the common technology-based tasks that are key to daily function; meaning functional ADLs. The release explains that actual reality uses Internet-based technology to assess an individual’s performance on “instrumental” ADLs (iADLs). The study encompassed a total of 10 patients with TBI who were compared to 10 controls. Participants were assessed for their ability to perform an actual reality task involving an online purchase of a cookie assortment for a birthday party. Participants were also assessed for prior Internet experience, and underwent testing for functional status, affect symptomatology, and quality of life.
The results indicate the TBI group experienced greater difficulty in performing the Internet-based task.
Goverover adds that the researchers’ findings “are consistent with studies that show a positive relationship between cognitive impairment and functional disability.” Goverover is a visiting scientist in Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler Foundation.
Goverover emphasizes in the release that in order to help individuals achieve independence, rehabilitation professionals require the appropriate assessment tools to guide the development of practical interventions.
“This initial study demonstrates that actual reality is a potential tool for capturing the status of everyday functional activity in individuals with TBI. More studies are needed to support inclusion of Internet-based tasks in clinical assessments of iADLs in the rehabilitation of people with TBI,” Goverover says.
Source: Kessler Foundation


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With Numb3rs confirmed as canceled
as of pretty much right now, it puts to end months of speculation among fans and critics alike. What I don't get is why critics, even though they've been giving the show much praise since it first came out, would suddenly turn on the show this
past year, like a dog biting its master? Was it that bad, that they all decided it had to go? Did they just get tired of it and decide to show love to that nice young thing on FOX
Actually, the end of Numb3rs was long coming. It's easy to say that it's all the critics' fault, since they were all pretty much in agreement that the show should be canceled, but there were a few other factors that contributed to it. The critics were just calling it like it is. First of all, like most dramas on CBS's schedule, Numb3rs was expensive to make. The only reason it lasted six seasons instead of five was because Without A Trace was even more expensive when they were considering canceling something last year.
Truth be told, I've always considered every new season of Numb3rs to be a small miracle. It seemed too good to be true that a show about using mathematics to solve crime would have such a wide audience. And after small miracles five years in a row, their luck had to run out sometime. It helped that the show's season finale, now series finale, brought many things to a close in such a satisfying way that it could work as a series finale in a pinch. I just wish I could've seen more of Larry in the last season.
There were also other clues as to what was going to happen to Numb3rs. Generally, when a series is given a shorter episode order, it means trouble. Numb3rs was reduced from a full 22 episodes to 16 episodes
during its last season, and the writers found they had to quickly wrap up the storylines they'd started, just like they did in the interrupted season four. Not only that, but once Numb3rs had finished its season, it was replaced by the brand new Miami Medical, yet CBS teased and tormented fans
by saying they were still considering renewal for Numb3rs (probably to keep fans from organizing a write-in campaign). Incidentally, the new show was canceled as well.
It was reported a while back that the star of Numb3rs, David Krumholtz, was filming a pilot for FOX
and that may have factored into the decision to cancel Numb3rs. But hey, if you're going to cut episodes from a show, you gotta realize that actors have to work, too, if they want to eat. And I'm sure some of the people working on the show weren't too happy with only taking home 8/11 of their usual paycheques when all was said and done.
Not only that, but earlier this week, it was reported that the sets were being taken down
, and even the show's creator was ready to throw in the towel, convinced that the show would not receive a seventh season
Despite those reasons, I'd like to get emotional for a moment.
Thanks a lot, you damn critics. It's your own damn fault my Numb3rs got canceled.
There. I think I feel better, but I'm not sure.
(Incidentally, does anyone want to follow Cheryl
? She's currently at 666 followers, the Twitter of the Beast
In fact, a lot of shows got the chopping block this year. CBS seems to be giving the axe to a lot of dramas that have lasted a few years. Ghost Whisperer and Cold Case are this year's victims as well as Numb3rs; as mentioned above, Without A Trace was dropped last year. It could be that CBS is going to shift its focus away from dramas, or it could be cutting older dramas to make way for newer ones which cost less to make. CBS will reveal its new autumn schedule within the next day.
With CSI still on the air, there is still a science-based crime drama for the geeks to fawn over. It just sucks that Miami's writing sucks, and that the entire CSI franchise regularly fudges a few important details about the equipment they use to help solve crimes. For one thing, fingerprints don't match so quickly in real life, no matter how good a computer you have. For another... well, there's this
xkcd comic strip, which can explain it better than I can.
I've always found Numb3rs to be more realistic than CSI, even during the second season when it seemed like Charlie was relying upon the supercomputer far too much. He'd spout his simple explanation of the mathematics he was proposing to use, and then he would say he's getting the supercomputer to crunch it, or he'd say the supercomputer was already on it, etc. Sure, it was disappointing, but at least he was still using math to solve crime even if the calculations were done in the background. I was happy in season three, when "Call me Millie" decided to limit his use of the supercomputer. I think the writers must've realized that the fans like it when Charlie does his own math.
Even if Numb3rs was granted a seventh season, I didn't think it would ever be granted an eighth season. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the drama, whether it's the crime drama, the medical drama, or anything else, is going to fall out of favour by the end of the 2010/2011 season, and that by autumn of 2012, even CSI is going to be gone. How do I justify this bold statement? Well, I've believed in this grand prediction since January of this year, but I've never had anything strong and solid to back up my belief until this past week, when Law & Order was canceled. Law & Order, which lasted a couple decades and predated the modern crime drama by about half that, is gone. Sure, the two remaining L&O shows will remain on the air for another season, and there'll be a new Los Angeles spin-off, but the original show has been dropped from NBC's autumn schedule.
Even long-running action shows like 24 were canceled this year. So what's going on? Will new, younger shows be considered? Will game shows suddenly revive once more, as people hit hard by the recession desperately do whatever they can to get on these shows and win money, while television studios realize that they can pay out substantially less to contestants than they would to big name stars? After all, Fear Factor gave out $50000 in an episode to the winning contestant, which is a lot cheaper than Charlie Sheen's rather substantial windfall
per episode of Two And A Half Men.
Well, a lot of younger shows will be considered. Turns out each network (so far) has announced their own share of new dramas, including another medical drama
that is bound to fail, a legal drama
that seems to be a new version
of Law & Order: Trial By Jury and which promises to do right what L&O: TBJ did wrong, and a show on ABC that looks like a cross between Lost and Heroes
. Sadly, there seems to be nothing new on the schedule that would appeal to geeks like Numb3rs did, but there's good news. One less television show (two, once Doctor Who wraps up for another year), means that there'll be more time for anime, and more time for this year's big autumn and winter game releases. (Okay, I agree. That's weak, even for me.)
The final season of Numb3rs releases on DVD sometime this autumn.


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BRAD’S B.O. IS THE PITS!
Hunk letting himself go after losing to Angelina
BRAD PITT is down in the dumps — literally — after his losing custody battle to Angelina Jolie turned him into a stinky, grungy slob, say sources.
Once the sexiest man in Tinseltown, the 58-year-old stud shocked the crowd when he showed up to Judd Apatow’s celeb-studded 54th birthday benefit at the Hollywood club Largo at the Coronet in raggedy jeans, a camouflage jacket and bucket hat on Dec. 7.
“He can still turn on the style and scrub himself up when he needs to, but in his downtime Brad seems to take pride in being grungy and foul,” spills an insider.
“He’ll wear the same baggy pants and shirt for weeks on end without washing them, doesn’t bother grooming and even ditches deodorant!”
On his off time, the Troy swordsman hangs at offbeat rock gigs and seedy clubs, where the light is dim and he can go without being recognized, say spies.
He also holes up in his art studio, where he’ll chain-smoke and drink coffee all night while pigging out on junk food, says the source.
Pals claim Brad’s always been this hippie but it’s gotten worse since ex Angelina Jolie scored a huge custody victory in 2021.
“When Brad lost 50/50 custody, he started to let himself go appearance-wise even more than usual,” tattles the insider.
Judge John Ouderkirk had previously given Brad joint custody, but he was removed from the divorce case for not revealing a business relationship with Pitt’s lawyers.
That voided his decisions on Brad and Angie’s custody for their five minor children.
“Now Brad’s going to have to start the legal process all over again,” notes the insider. “You really can’t blame the guy for feeling bad, but people wish he would pay more attention to his hygiene because it’s atrocious.”


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Lake Fort Smith State Park will host Cold Blooded Critter Weekend, a celebration of snakes, frogs and turtles, today through Sunday at the Lake Fort Smith State Park visitor center, 15458 Shepherd Springs Road in Mountainburg.
Today’s events begin with Turtle Topography at 4 p.m. and continue at 7 p.m. with Spring Peeper Hike.
Saturday’s programs kick off with Snake Safety and Awareness at 12:30 p.m., followed from 1-3 p.m. by Reptile Mania. The free program addresses facts and myths about snakes and details conservation efforts in Arkansas. Members of the Arkansas Herpetology Society, Brad Birchfield and Jeremy Sloan are active in education, conservation, and reptile husbandry.
At 3 p.m. is Frogs Abound, a free program on the diverse species of frogs that inhabit Lake Fort Smith and an up-close look at several different specimens.
Events conclude at 12:30 p.m. Sunday with Critter Crunch, in which the display reptiles are fed.
For information, visit www.arkansasstateparks.com/lakefortsmith/events/.


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(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) arrested a man after responding to a family disturbance in eastern Colorado Springs on Wednesday evening, Oct. 19.
Shortly before 6:20 p.m. on Wednesday, officers were called to a family disturbance in the 2200 block of North Chelton Road, which is near North Academy Boulevard and Maizeland Road.
When officers arrived, an investigation found probable cause and arrested the suspect, Joseph Teakell, for an apparent and previous domestic violence incident.
CSPD said the suspect was apparently non-compliant during contact and “with the use of force, the suspect was eventually taken into custody.”
During the arrest, the suspect sustained injuries, which were treated at a local hospital.


Freshly returned from the LinuxCon Europe Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel project, has just published a short continuation of the interview with Dirk Hohndel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist at Intel.
We reported earlier this week that Linus Torvalds claimed while talking with Dirk Hohndel at the LinuxCon Europe conference, which took place in Dublin, Irland, between October 5-7, 2015, that next year, 2016, will be the year of the ARM laptop.
According to Mr. Torvalds, most tech news websites misunderstood his point of view on the matter of computers powered by the ARM architecture. What he was really trying to say was that he would like to see a real ARM computer that you can develop on, preferably one powered by an ARM64 (AArch64) processor.
- The anatomy of a powerful desktop with an ARM chip
- Linux, not Microsoft, the real winner of Windows Server on ARM
- Shenzhen Xunlong Software & Canonical Launch Orange Pi App Store for Ubuntu Snaps
- Microsoft's .NET Core slowly marches onto Raspberry Pi 3
- Debian-Based Q4OS Linux Distro Now Available for PINE64 Single-Board Computers
- Mainline Linux on 64-bit ARM Amlogic SoCs, and TV Boxes such as Wetek Hub / Player 2, NEXBOX A1 / A95X, etc…


PARIS – French radio says a small blaze broke out in a building under renovation near a major Paris train station.
France Info says Friday that the fire was quickly controlled by workers and there were no injuries. Video posted to social media showed black smoke pouring from the top of a building. Its authenticity could not immediately be determined.
Messages left with Paris' fire service were not immediately returned.
Paris sees thousands of fires every year.


Absorption of UV radiation by a molecule excites it from a vibrational level in the electronic ground state to one of the many vibrational levels in the electronic excited state. This excited state is usually the first excited singlet state. A molecule in a high vibrational level of the excited state will quickly fall to the lowest vibrational level of this state by losing energy to other molecules through collision. The molecule will also partition the excess energy to other possible modes of vibration and rotation. Fluorescence occurs when the molecule returns to the electronic ground state, from the excited singlet state, by emission of a photon
Perkin Elmer Luminescence Spectrometer
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The luminescence is passed through a similar monochromator, which can be scanned over the range 200-900nm. Holographic gratings are incorporated on both monochromators to reduce stray light. Synchronous scanning is available with constant wavelength or frequency difference. Excitation spectra are automatically corrected and sensitivity is specified as a signal to noise ratio of 500:1 rms using the Raman band of water with the excitation at 350nm and 10nm excitation and emmission bandpass. The excitation slits (2.5 - 15nm) and the emmission slits (2.5 - 20nm) can be varied in and selected in 0.1nm increments. In the phosphorescence mode, delay and gate times can be varied with a minimum total period of 13.0msecs. Excitation and emmission polarizers consisting of two filter wheels each with horizontal and vertical polarizer elements are also included.


When the video of the attempted kidnapping of a five-year-old girl circulated on social media on Friday, many commented how brave the man who saved her from being taken was. In true South African spirit, the hero has been located and is a resident of Johannesburg. Dishal Sooku is being celebrated in many facebook posts as the hero who risked his life to save the young child, who could have easily been loaded into a vehicle and kidnapped.
Many have called him a saint. Others have thanked him for his bravery. He acted instinctively as soon as he noticed the man grab the child. Sooku is a sensei and is well-versed in martial arts, according to a Facebook post on Jikishin Ju-Jitsu.
Guys our hero of the month ..
Dishal sooku who bravely saved a young girl who was about to be abducted ..
He jumped over…
The incident unfolded in Florida, Johannesburg on Thursday. In video footage you can see a man jump over a balustrade at a restaurant and grab the unsuspecting child. There are two women with the child, one grabs the child from across the table to keep the man from taking her. In seconds there is another man, now identified as Sooku, who lunges for the suspect and keeps him in a choke hold until he is subdued. In the meanwhile, the child is taken away.
It is horrific to watch how quickly the incident unfolded. Other videos released later show the beaten up suspect, who is heard praying and mumbling incoherent sentences. The man was arrested and appeared in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court on Friday morning facing charges of assault, not attempted kidnapping. .


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Bendel Insurance FC of Benin on Friday consolidated their promotion aspiration to the Nigerian Football Premier League with a home victory over Vandrezzer FC of Lagos.
Insurance pipped their visitors 1-0 in the week 22 match of the Nigerian National League to end their campaign at the second tier league on a good note.
Benjamin Tanimu scored the only goal in the 45 minute of the play via a spot kick, after his teammate was brought down in the 18 yard box.
Several efforts to double the lead were denied by the resilient Lagos team.
Insurance amassed 49 points from the 22 matches following the victory.