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At a solemn meeting dedicated to the 21th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov noted that over the past ’22 our independent of our development Uzbekistan’s economy has grown 4.1 times within this period, and in per capita terms it multiplied at least threefold, taking into account at the same time that the population of the country increased for this period by nearly 9.7 million people to reach the current 30.5 million approximately.
Notwithstanding the grave repercussions of the still ongoing global financial and economic downturn, the annual growth of the gross domestic product (GDP) has exceeded 8 percent in 2008-2013, while this indicator is projected at 8.1 percent in the year 2014. Very few countries around the world have been able to boast similar economic growth rates.
The real aggregate per capita incomes have enlarged 8.2 times for the independent development years.
Macroeconomic indicators have been maintained in balanced terms, so has the annual surplus of the State Budget.
The public external debt of the country does not top 16 percent of the GDP, while the internal debt has a zero valuation, amid the mounting volumes of exports and gold and currency reserves.
During the independent development period, capital investments equaling more than 162 billion US dollars in dollar estimates, including in excess of 56 billion dollars of foreign investments, have been drawn in Uzbekistan’s economy.
The volume of capital investments in 2013 is to make up 14 billion dollars in dollar estimates, which is 23 percent of the GDP.
Within a historically brief span of time, Uzbekistan has turned from a land with a one-sided raw-material based economy with a destructive monopoly of cotton production into a dynamically growing country with a modern industry advancing with speedy rates.
This is backed expressively by the fact that the share of manufacturing industry in Uzbekistan’s GDP amounts currently to 24.3 percent in contrast to the 14.2 percent back in 1990. In the meanwhile, the proportion of agriculture in the GDP has reduced from 34 percent to 17 percent in 2013.
During independence years, such novel sectors have been established in Uzbekistan as automotive industry, home appliances manufacturing, hydrocarbon-chemical production, pharmaceuticals industry, while the food and light industries, chemical industry, manufacturing construction materials and other sectors have undergone complete modernization and reorientation to the production of competitive goods with higher added value.


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The World Health Organization has warned that Ebola is now entrenched in the capital cities of all three worst-affected countries and is accelerating in almost all settings.
WHO deputy head, Bruce Aylward, warned that the world’s response was not keeping up with the disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The three countries have appealed for more aid to help fight the disease.
The outbreak has killed more than 3,860 people, mainly in West Africa.
More than 200 health workers are among the victims.
Speaking on Thursday, Mr. Aylward said the situation was worse than it was 12 days ago.
“The disease is entrenched in the capitals, 70 per cent of the people affected are definitely dying from this disease, and it is accelerating in almost all of the settings,” he said.
The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) reported a sharp increase of Ebola cases in the Guinean capital, Conakry, dashing hopes that that the disease was being stabilised there.
Speaking to the BBC on Friday, MSF President Joanna Liu called for urgent international action.
“We’re not winning the battle,” she said.
“To get ahead of the game we’re going to need to deploy much more massively than what we have done so far.”
At least one in 20 of those killed in the latest outbreak were medical workers, she said.

domain: medical


TOKYO, May 9, 2018—Canon Inc. ("Canon"; Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan; Chairman and CEO: Fujio Mitarai) announced today that it has concluded a stock purchase agreement with BriefCam Ltd. ("BriefCam"; Headquarters: Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel; President and CEO: Trevor Matz), to acquire BriefCam. BriefCam develops and markets video content analysis (VCA) software that utilizes proprietary Video Synopsis® technology. This transaction is conditional upon the clearance of necessary competition regulatory authorities.
Under Phase V of its Excellent Global Corporation Plan, a five-year initiative launched in 2016, Canon aims to embrace the challenge of new growth through a grand strategic transformation that entails reinforcing existing businesses as well as strengthening and expanding new businesses. As part of this, Canon has designated its network video solutions business, with network cameras at its core, as a new business that will drive future growth.
By welcoming leading VCA software company BriefCam into the Canon Group, Canon will have expanded its capacity to provide an even broader range of leading-edge technology and solutions in the fields of network cameras, video management software and video content analysis software. Going forward, Canon will continue to strengthen its network video solutions business with the aim of becoming the global industry leader.
Following this acquisition, BriefCam will continue to operate under the leadership of its current management structure and continue to provide its software to the market through its own sales channels.
BriefCam was founded in 2007 by Prof. Shmuel Peleg, Mr. Gideon Ben-Zvi and Dr. Yaron Caspi, based on the Video Synopsis technology developed at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Using BriefCam's Video Synopsis technology, video investigators can review hours of video in minutes and rapidly pinpoint people and objects of interest. Users can search through the synopsized video using such filters as object size, speed, direction and color, facilitating instant access to the images they wish to review. BriefCam's technology is already in use in over 40 countries and regions in law enforcement and public safety organizations, government and transportation agencies, major enterprises, healthcare and educational institutions, and local communities.


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Let's talk about stuff. What is stuff? Stuff is what life is made of. It is birth and death and everything in between. It is good and it is bad. It is what happens to you, what you make happen and what came before and after. It is scenery, it is dialogue, it is action, it is stillness. It is what is said and what is not said. If it affects you, it is your stuff. It is your lunch and your love affair, the spider in the room and the clouds in the sky. It is onion dip and skinny dip. It is sand and mud and worn carpet. It is yesterday and yesterday. It is about what happens to all of us, to some of us, and just to you.
I can tell you my story, I will tell you my story.
First, though, I want you to start, or continue, noticing. knowing and creating your stuff. We all start with two facts: we were born, and we are human. Being human means lots of stuff. I mean, there are many things involved in being human. From then on, it's all you.
You. Who? You. To see clearly, close your eyes. Rest. Take a rest from the visual, from the world your brain filters into what you see. Then convinces you that is reality, or, true.
Let's play a little game. It's not original, but we can play anyway. Close your eyes. No, don't close your eyes, you have to read this first. Take a couple of seconds to look around the place where you are. Make note of a few things because in a minute I am going to ask you to remember them. Pick five or six, enough that you have to work a little bit to hold them all in your mind.
After you have picked what you are going to remember and you are holding them in your mind, close your eyes and if you can, conjure up an image of the room, and use the items you remember to anchor the image. Once you have them there, do they remind you of a few more things you can add back in also? If you are not a visual thinker, do something else, such as seeing the names of your items as words, or hearing them, or assigning a musical note to each to make a little tune. It's your mind. Use it the way it likes to be used. You don't need to struggle with this. Geez. Just kinda do the best you can.
Ok, close your eyes, or cover them, or look at the ground. And think about what you decided to think about and then open your eyes.
now click this link
What is your stuff? What makes up your life, your present, your past, your many potential futures? I don't know. And I'd like to hear about it, and I'd like to help you do and be yourself so that you have something to say. It is all that.

domain: artistic


Cape Vidal, within the St Lucia Marine Reserve, offers an expanse of beach facing the Indian Ocean, a pretty curve of bay, holiday accommodation, and what would seem, from the number of people you see wading into the surf with their rods, some pretty good surf fishing. It was also, when we were there a few years ago, one of those curiously ‘white’ playgrounds, an anomaly in the rural African heartland – an echo, in a sense, albeit unlegislated, of the bad old days of apartheid. Looking through my photographs of the Cape, I was struck by how the orange […]
The Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park, up the north coast of KwaZulu Natal towards Mozambique, became South Africa’s first Natural World Heritage Site in 1999. Rob and I visited in December of 2012 – it was one of those rare places where a hippo might wander through your garden at night, where leopards hang about on the edges of town, while crocs are thick enough to form a bridge across the muddy water, if you’re dumb enough to try it. For one reason and another, I never seemed to have time to really work through the photos from the trip, […]
We have for today only one offering, photographically speaking: a tongue-in-cheek image of Table Mountain, masked by a garage forecourt – the city undisturbed by and unaware of its extraordinarily beautiful and majestic natural surroundings. The image may mildly amuse you, or it may leave you stone cold – I offer it merely as a pictorial token of life’s little ironies. For friends and family, all well on the home front here, and on the work front too. Oh, and we are booked to fly back to Canada via London on the 20th of April, for a two week visit […]
I’ll leave it to Rob to write about burst pipes in the deep freeze of a Toronto winter, and the generosity and kindness of neighbours and friends (Andrew, Jackie, Boyd, you know who you are). Instead, a word simply to note our brief escape from the city, here on the other side of the planet, for a night away, with dinner and breakfast, at The Cradle Hotel and Restaurant in the Magaliesberg. Accommodations, in a beautifully designed and modern, minimalist log cabin, were excellent; dinner gained mixed reviews (we suspect it was a skeleton staff for the holidays, and whoever […]
Early in November, I was in Cape Town on business. Jonathan and Hayley had just flown in from the UK with Gabriel, the last of our three grandchildren to be born within a miraculous twelve month period. We met up, together with my mom, for dinner in Constantia, and a few days later visited them at their rented holiday cottage in Simonstown. These are a few photos.
I took a nasty fall, last month when we were in Clarens – my heel flew off the wet iron edging to a step in the paving, and I landed heavily, one hand up in the air still clutching a jar of cherry jam I’d bought, and the other trying to break my descent. I had the Leica – fortunately in a protective pouch, as it was drizzling – on my belt, on the side on which I fell, and it was only when I sought to check the camera, some hours later, that I realised it wouldn’t start up […]
We saw, as the saying goes, more rhinos on the day we spent in the Pilanesberg with Mike and Karen Thompson than you could shake a stick at. Not that I would want to shake a stick at a rhino, assuming I had one. We saw these beauties on our way out of the reserve, after a day of wildlife spotting, across the river and far away, and then as the dirt road climbed the hill there they were, peacefully chomping, close enough to… Well, anyway, here they are then: four images of the Pilanesberg rhino.
After Clarens, and much wining and dining back in Johannesburg, Rob and I drove Mike and Karen, Hayley’s parents, to Pilanesberg, for a day of game watching and conversation and getting-to-know-each-other-better. We had a simply lovely time together, with two wonderful people. At the very beginning of our game drive, on the far bank of the first dam, we came across this pair of male impala, duelling for dominance, while a harem of females browsed unconcernedly nearby. The ground was arid, a dull sandy orange, much the same colour as the animals; the light was flat and the action was […]


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Imagine that the earth was going to be destroyed within five years, and that you were tasked with deciding what literary treasures to preserve? That is the background of the Tanakh that we have today. The Talmud records the bare bones of discussions where scholars fought for the inclusion of those writings that were dear to them, often against ferocious opposition from their colleagues. Amazingly, of all the possible things to include, the famous Rabbi Akiva chose a collection of bawdy wedding songs! What lay behind such an odd choice?
Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel used to say, “There were no days more joyful for the people of Israel than the Fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur, since on these days the daughters of Jerusalem would go out dressed in white and dance in the vineyards. What were they saying: Young man, consider whom you choose (to be your wife)?” Seven Days after Tisha b’Av, we complete our mourning, dancing over the abyss.

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Carrera Sunglasses: A Widespread Fashion Among Cinema And Tv Stars
Round, big frames are a perfect choice for a square-shaped face. You have a square shaped face if the face has sharper characteristics and a box-like outline. Subsequently, you will want to get a mirror and find out the size and shape of your face. To attain a classier style, purchase a pair of sunglasses that are egg-shaped, and with a dark tint. If you want to try a more audacious look, purchase horn-rimmed glasses that exhibit the great outline of your face. marc jacobs briller. The most essential thing you hope for is form a contrast against the outline of your face. Nearly everyone would like to think that we could slip on any sort of sunglasses and look appealing. Someone has a triangle-shaped face if your forehead is wide, but your cheek bones and chin become more tapered.
Steer clear of circular sunglasses as they will simply exaggerate the form of the face and on occasion make it look even fuller. A round or oval style of sunglasses would soften the facets of the face. The intial advice is to pick out a pair of shades that are in proportion to the width and height of your face. You have an elliptical face if the forehead is a little bigger than the chin, and the cheekbones create a slight angle to circular face. Someone has a rectangle shaped face if the face is square but a little stretched out. If you have a large face, you want to keep away from donning small glasses, since this will make your face look even broader. Sadly, that is not generally the circumstance.
These sorts will make the chin look more obvious and much more sizeable. gucci sunglasses. Equally, if your face is more lean, the dimensions of your glasses ought to be on the smaller side in order to stop being completely masked. To make your face appear more in proportion and a little more slight, endeavor to obtain sunglasses with a triangular or oval frame. tom ford aviator. Straighter lines crafts an equilibrium against the circular contour of the face. It creates a doll-face air and softens the lines and angles of your face. They will put emphasis on the lips and cheeks to present a very beautiful look. One has a round shaped face when the forehead is wide, especially with circular cheeks, chin and jaw line.

domain: design


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Maine-Endwell Voters to Decide Fate of $15M Capital Project Plan
A proposal to make millions of dollars in improvements to Maine-Endwell School District facilities is about to go before voters.
District officials say the $15.5 million plan won't require any more tax dollars from property owners. The referendum will be held Tuesday.
The proposal calls for the construction of two additions at Homer Brink Elementary School. The work would include four more classrooms and a new gymnasium.
Enrollment at Homer Brink has jumped by more than 100 students over the last three school years.
Other capital projects are planned at the district's three other schools and at the bus garage.
The school district has been building its capital reserve in recent years to cover the cost of future projects.
Voting on the capital project plan will take place Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Town of Union residents will vote at the district office at 712 Farm to Market Road in Endwell. All other district residents will vote at Maine Memorial Elementary School.
Contact WNBF News reporter Bob Joseph: email@example.com
For breaking news and updates on developing stories, follow @BinghamtonNow on Twitter.

domain: finance


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United States District Court, E.D. Washington
ERIC M. HARRIS, Petitioner,
STATE OF WASHINGTON, Respondent.
ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION
SALVADOR MENDOZA, JR. UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
the Court, without oral argument, is Petitioner Eric M.
Harris's Motion for Reconsideration, ECF No. 7. Having
reviewed the pleadings and the file in this matter, the Court
is fully informed and denies the motion.
Order filed July 9, 2019, the Court summarily dismissed
Petitioner's pro se petition for a writ of
habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, ECF No. 1, on
three separate bases, ECF No. 5. First, Petitioner failed to
name a proper respondent. Id. at 1; see also
Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004); Stanley v.
Cal. Supreme Court, 21 F.3d 359, 360 (9th Cir. 1994).
Second, as Petitioner conceded, he also failed to exhaust
available state court remedies before filing the petition.
ECF No. 1 at 2; see also 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b);
Baldwin v. Reese, 541 U.S. 27 (2004);
O'Sullivan v. Boerckel, 526 U.S. 838 (1999).
Finally, the Court ruled that the grounds on which Petitioner
based his petition-that he was prosecuted by information
rather than indictment-were “legally frivolous.”
ECF No. 5 at 4 (citing Gaines v. Washington, 277
U.S. 81, 86 (1928)).
Motion for Reconsideration, Petitioner contends that, because
a habeas corpus petition is an “original action”
and not an appeal or a “mechanism requesting the review
of [his] judgment of conviction, ” he is not required
to exhaust his state court remedies. ECF No. 7 at 1. As a
matter of law, that is incorrect-this Court is statutorily
prohibited from considering a petition for a writ of habeas
corpus unless and until “the applicant has exhausted
the remedies available in the courts of the State.”
See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(1)(A). Furthermore,
federal law clearly recognizes the jurisdiction of state
courts to adjudicate constitutional issues, providing for
federal habeas corpus relief only when a state court's
adjudication was “contrary to, or an unreasonable
application of, clearly established federal law, as
determined by the Supreme Court of the United States.”
28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1).
reasserts that his conviction and sentence are invalid
because he was not charged by an indictment in violation of
the Fifth Amendment. ECF No. 7 at 4. This contention is
wholly meritless. There is no federal constitutional
violation when a prosecuting attorney's criminal
information is substituted for the grand jury's
indictment. Gaines v. Washington, 277 U.S. 81, 86
(1928) (“Prosecution by information instead of by
indictment is provided for by the laws of Washington. This is
not a violation of the Federal Constitution.” (citing
Hurtado v. California, 110 U.S. 516 (1886)).
motion for reconsideration may be reviewed under either
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) (motion to alter or
amend a judgment) or 60(b) (relief from judgment). Sch.
Dist. No. 1J v. ACandS, Inc., 5 F.3d 1255, 1262 (9th
Cir. 1993). “A district court may properly reconsider
its decision if it ‘(1) is presented with newly
discovered evidence, (2) committed clear error or the initial
decision was manifestly unjust, or (3) if there is an
intervening change in controlling law.'” Smith
v. Clark Cty. Sch. Dist., 727 F.3d 950, 955 (9th Cir.
2013) (quoting Sch. Dist. No. 1J, 5 F.3d at 1263).
“There may also be other, highly unusual, circumstances
warranting reconsideration.” Sch. Dist. No.
1J, 5 F.3d at 1263. These standards apply in habeas
corpus proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 to the extent
they are not inconsistent with applicable federal statutory
provisions and rules. See Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545
U.S. 524, 530 (2005).
Petitioner has not presented newly discovered evidence. He
has not shown that the Court committed clear error or that
the dismissal order was manifestly unjust. Furthermore, there
has been no intervening change in controlling law and there
are no other circumstances warranting reconsideration.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:
Motion for Reconsideration, ECF No. 7, is
IS SO ORDERED. The Clerk's Office is directed to
enter this Order and provide a copy to pro se
Petitioner. The file shall remain closed. The Court certifies
that, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3), an appeal from
this decision could not be taken in good faith and there is
no basis upon which to issue a certificate of appealability.
See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c); Fed. R. App. P. 22(b).
A certificate of appealability is therefore
 Petitioner has failed to establish
that either of the two narrow exceptions to the exhaustion
requirement-where “there is an absence of available
State corrective process” or “circumstances exist
that render such process ineffective to protect the rights of
the applicant”-apply in his case. 28 U.S.C. §

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We all loved when we found our names printed on a Coca-Cola can or bottle on the shelves at the grocery store. According to some customer reviews seeing your name on a big brand such as Coca Cola, makes it more personal. “Share a coke” campaign first started in Australia in 2011. After the great success in the Australian market, the campaign expanded on another 80 countries around the world. In 2014 the “Share a Coke” campaign was introduced in the US market. This campaign boosted the sales in U.S. by 2%. This raise on sales hadn’t happened in a decade for Coca-Cola. The Coke bottles had common names such as Jessica, Matt, Alisha and more, some buzz words such as friends, BFF and more. For those who had a name that was not really common like mine, Coca-Cola would let people print their personalized “Share a Coke” bottles in some designated kiosks. Also you could go online on the Coca-Cola website and create your own virtual bottle and share it on social networks. A lot of pictures with the personalized Coke bottles were shared on the social networks using the hashtag #shareacoke.
In the US, the company printed bottles with the 250 most common names. In UK the company printed bottles with 1000 most common names. I was kind of surprised by this fact. Since US is a bigger country than UK one would think the number of names chosen to be printed would be higher. The personalized bottles were introduced in the US market in June 2014. They were sold on the grocery stores and vending machines. Lately, you barely see those personalized Coke bottles or cans on the shelves anymore. Coke is switching back to its standard labels in US. This campaign was only a temporary campaign.
What played a major role in this global success?
Coca-Cola made a temporary change in their production line globally, by customizing its product. I think what played a major role in this campaign was the supply chain management. Making a change like this on the bottles and cans, especially when this change is applied to the global markets, supply chain is definitely a major part of this success. According to a representative of Coca Cola, the “Share a Coke” campaign was a great success thanks to the supply chain flexibility. The suppliers had to change their processes to meet the companies demand and the whole innovation demands that expanded globally. Through this example the supply chain management can be seen as a profit driver instead of just thinking about it as a cost center.
This campaign was only temporary. Do you think next year Coca Cola is coming up with the same campaign or something else “more attractive” to increase the sales?
What do you think are some other factors that played a major role in the switch of the product line?

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JPM: Bresch calls out pricing transparency
- Mylan CEO Heather Bresch told a packed room at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco that it's time for the way the industry does business to change.
- The executive made headlines throughout 2016 for the sharp price increases of the company's allergic reaction medication EpiPen.
- Bresch talked about drug pricing and lessons learned during the EpiPen controversy at the 35th annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.
No one is letting Mylan and high-profile CEO Bresch off the hook for their role in the pricing debate that defined 2016. But unlike many in the industry, Bresch seems ready to turn over a new leaf and tackle the problem.
"The most valuable lesson I learned [during the EpiPen saga] was that the pricing model and business have to change," she said on Jan. 11.
While not pointing the finger at any one company specifically, the exec called out other companies that are taking small steps toward transparency of drug pricing, but not making big enough moves to create change.
"Many companies are saying that price increases below 10% are the answer," she said, while noting that a 9% increase to drug spending in the U.S. would still be $33 billion dollars.
Allergan CEO Brent Saunders has become the poster boy for these sorts of increases when he pledged to stop predatory pricing and keep the company's increases in single digits. Allergan announced several price increases at the end of the year – all about 9% each.
Several companies have followed Saunders' example, including Novo Nordisk and most recently Johnson & Johnson.
While the move has been praised by the industry, which has been pushing the message that innovation saves lives (and costs money), pushback from the public makes it clear that the step is not enough.
"If anyone is leaving this conference thinking it's business as usual, they are wrong," said Bresch.
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Transit service in and around Auburn is a viable means of transportation and is the second most popular way Auburn University students get to and from campus. No matter the transit you ride, it’s important to remember these points to arrive to your destination safely. Learn more about Auburn’s transit services here.
It’s not a school bus – Cars don’t stop.
Allow riders to depart before you get on.
Courteous transit etiquette ensures a comfortable ride for everyone on board. Please allow riders departing the bus to exit before you board.
Let the bus pull away before you cross the street, and cross the street behind the bus.
Cars shouldn’t pass on a double yellow, but they do. Watch out!
By law, drivers and bicyclists are prohibited from passing other vehicles on a double yellow line, BUT they sometimes do. Watch out for vehicles that may illegally pass a stopped transit.


Selfies have been ruling the Internet since the day cameras were incorporated into mobile phones. Smiling faces, casual winks, and candid looks have flooded all our social media feeds.
No matter how trivial they may sound, some selfies, especially the ones taken in an era when the term was not even coined, hold great significance. Some are just hauntingly miraculous – like this cat below clicking a selfie with its pals (just kidding).
For real, I chanced upon a truly marvelous selfie moment while reading famous NASA astrophysicist Carl Sagan’s book, Cosmos. Miracles don’t just happen every time. Sometimes, it’s one man’s vision that leads us to a miracle and Carl Sagan was one such man from the last century.
Story of the Pale Blue Dot
On Valentines Day (February 14) in 1990, NASA’s Voyager 1, a 722-kg (1,592 lb) robotic spacecraft launched on a mission to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space, took the first selfie of our very own planet, Earth.
After traveling for a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Voyager 1 was crossing the orbit of Neptune and entering into the uncharted space beyond the Solar System. At that moment, Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn Voyager’s camera just once towards Earth and take a photograph. It was the first time Earth took a selfie!
Here’s Earth’s first selfie. Notice that speck of white spot inside the brown band of sunbeam? That’s our home … our only home ever. I got goosebumps thinking about how all the human beings and animals ever born have lived and died on that tiny speck you see in the picture.
Sagan presented this image at a public gathering at the Cornell University in October 1994 and shared his reflection on how our everyday hustle and bustle on Earth is insignificant when put against the context of the vast, ever-expanding universe. This image is now known to be the greatest selfie ever!
Carl said, “To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
… cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
— Carl Sagan, 1994
The phrase ‘pale blue dot’ was also used as the title of one of Sagan’s books — Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. The phrase has now become a new backdrop for all intellectual conversations.
Even after 23 years of coinage, when two bright minds sit to ponder over politics, trade or other human aspects of this world, the conclusion often revolves around how all such conflicting set of ideologies, war, and violence have been taking place on nothing but a speck of dust floating in the fabric of spacetime, bound by the gravitational field of the Sun.
Take Pride in Selfies
So, the craze behind selfies may seek its inspiration in this story of how a NASA scientist had to convince his team to send a signal at light speed to a camera that was 6 billion kilometers away, mounted on a spacecraft, headed towards the vast unknown, to take a selfie.
Even the word ‘selfie’ was included in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013 and was recognized as the word of the year!
Selfies are the proof that we, as a species, have developed a technology that allows us to capture moments and be a part of it at the same time. Through selfies, we merge ourselves into our surroundings, become one with it, and celebrate by sharing the moment with fellow beings that live on this pale blue dot.
Another great example of historic selfies is Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin’s famous photograph of himself spacewalking outside the Gemini spacecraft in 1966.
This testifies the fact that the fashion of taking selfies is nothing new. In fact, there are more examples of selfies that date back to the days of daguerreotype cameras.
This photo was taken by American photography pioneer Robert Cornelius, who also made lamps, in 1839. Yes, the first ever selfie was taken by a lamp manufacturer 178 years ago! Robert used a daguerreotype camera, which was made of a box and a lens carved out from an opera glass.
Selfies Are Here to Stay
As we have realized by now, selfies are not something new. Rather, they are an integral part of the history of photography. However, the triviality that we attach to selfies is definitely new and there’s a good reason behind that.
Abundance is a curse. Too much of anything is harmful and there’s no exception in the case of selfies. We have been sharing selfies of everything and anything on social media and this has led to a clutter of selfies on the Internet. People are excited about their daily digital log and are constantly posting stories on Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp and more such social media platforms.
With Facebook having more than 2 billion users and Instagram with a little over 800 million followers, it is unlikely that the selfie phenomenon will fade away anytime in the near future.
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Let us know in the comments which of the above selfies you found to be the greatest. For now, go and take a selfie!
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Birmingham City Football Club has for a long time been hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Finally they have some good news to report – their grassroots football ticketing initiative has just begun and many at the club are hopeful that their fortunes will be changed along with those of local grassroots teams.
The struggling Championship side has just launched a scheme that will slash its ticket costs and at the same time inject some much needed cash into local youth and amateur football.
The plan is that small teams in and around Birmingham will sell BCFC tickets at a discounted price: £10 for adults, £5 for 13-18 year-olds and £3 for under-13s – for which they will receive 50% of the profits to help cover expenditure on pitch hire and maintenance, and to make improvements to facilities.
The idea was first broached by the Blues Collective supporters’ group which hopes these relationships will ultimately lead to an increase in Birmingham’s home attendance rate, which has almost halved since the club’s Premier league glory days back in 2011.
Of course, Birmingham City’s financial troubles have been at the forefront of fans’ concerns for a long time – while recently, the short dip into the relegation zone has put further strain on turnstile takings.
So could this plan be one to consider for all professional clubs that are experiencing financial difficulties?
The monetary benefits are clear, and who knows what effect it may have on the standard and amount of talent being helped through local grassroots teams – it’s certainly one for the FA to keep an eye on.

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If I was a betting man–and I am, given the right bet–I’d say that the odds are pretty good that right now is the time for you to start the process of refinancing your student loans.
How could I possibly know that without knowing anything about your financial situation?
Because there are many objective reasons why now is a good time to look into refinancing–regardless of your specific loan situation.
1. Super low interest rates
As with most interest rates, student loan rates are at nearly all-time lows right now.
Companies like Credible and LendKey advertise some of the lowest rates on the market, and unless your loans happened to be originated within a few certain year windows over the last 20 years, these rates are almost certainly lower than what you’re currently paying.
Even just knocking off 1% interest on your loan balance could save you thousands over the life of your loan–not to mention also lowering your monthly payments in the process.
2. New lenders offering better terms, rates, and more flexible underwriting
A few years ago, your options when it came to refinancing your student loans were extremely limited. Your options were basically limited to one of the big corporate lenders, or possibly find a local bank that was willing to take on your debt. Unfortunately, not everyone would do so and the institutions that were offering student loans were not exactly known as being the best–or easiest–companies in the world to deal with.
These days, as with most industries, technology has allowed a number of new companies to enter the student loan market and really shake things up. Newer companies are offering innovative solutions to simplifying the student loan refinance process, streamlining the steps to reduce overhead (and offer better rates and terms), and even offering innovative credit-checking solutions that differ from traditional credit checks.
All of this equates to better deals available to borrowers from a number of companies in the space.
A few standouts:
- Credible offers borrowers the ability to get rate estimates from multiple lenders in just a few minutes.
- LendKey connects you to local and regional not-for-profit credit unions and community banks that offer student loan refinancing, with available rates and terms in a few minutes as well.
3. You’re not getting any credit for your credit
One of the strangest things about federal student loans is that anyone is eligible–regardless of credit history, income, or other factors that would normally go into a lending decision.
This means that everyone who borrowers money within a certain time period gets the same exact interest rate. They’re set once a year and remain the same over the life of your loan unless you refinance.
So, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re paying an unnecessarily high interest rate, in part because your own credit history isn’t being used as a basis for your rate.
4. Every day you don’t refinance is costing you money
Think about this: If you could lower your interest rate by 1 or 2 percent by refinancing, then every single day that you wait to refinance costs you at least a couple of bucks in lost interest charges–which you’ll never get back.
Although the prospects of refinancing can seem a bit scary or overwhelming, don’t let that hold you back. Even if you could only save a little bit by refinancing, it’s essentially free money for just doing a little work and research. Even if refinancing translates to saving just $5 a day, that’s over $1,800 a year in savings.


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22 - 24 October
Hailed as the 'indoor festival with the outdoor spirit', Musicport is a three-day feast of sounds, culture, food and crafts from all over the world, on four stages in a gloriously restored Art Deco building overlooking Bridlington's extensive South Beach sands. Top artists include: Angelique Kidjo, Richard Hawley, The Imagined Village, Jah Wobble's Japanese Dub, Alejandro Toledo and his Magic Tombolinos, Martin Stephenson, Erik Mongrain, Marta Sebestyen, Malinky plus many more. There is lovely food, real ale, workshops, films and stalls, everything you need for a fantastic weekend.
Price:£89.50, concessions available
Contact:Ticket line (0845 373 2760; (musicportfestival.com)

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Councilor Gilbert and the Tulsa City Council honored three officers who saved the life a store clerk injured in a shooting on April 14.
The store clerk was working in a convenience store at 21st and 109th East Avenue when the shooting occurred.
Officers Justin Kerns, Craig Lagrone and David Weakley responded to the incident and acted quickly to address the urgent medical needs of the shooting victim.
The officers stopped the victim's bleeding and covered the wounds to stabilize the man before he was transported to the hospital.
The victim is now expected to survive, thanks in part to the skillful response of these three Tulsa police officers.
Councilor Ewing and the Tulsa City Council proclaim the month of May as Bike Month in Tulsa.
The proclamation reads:
WHEREAS: The bicycle is an economical, healthy, convenient, and environmentally sound form of transportation and an excellent tool for recreation; and
WHEREAS: Throughout the month of May, the residents of the City of Tulsa and its visitors will experience the joys of bicycling through educational programs, races, commuting events, charity events, or by simply getting out and going for a ride; and
WHEREAS: Creating a bicycling-friendly community has been shown to improve citizens' health, well-being, and quality of life, growing the economy, attracting tourism dollars, improving traffic safety, supporting student learning outcomes, and reducing pollution, congestion, and wear and tear on our streets and roads; and
WHEREAS: INCOG's Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee, the League of American Bicyclists, schools, parks and recreation departments, police departments, public health districts, hospitals, companies and civic groups will be promoting bicycling during the month of May.
NOW, THEREFORE, we, The Tulsa City Council, do hereby proclaim May 2014 to be Bike Month
IN WITNESS THEREOF, we hereby set our hands on this First day of May, Two Thousand and Fourteen.


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Detection of Presumptive Mycoparasites in Soil Placed on Host-Colonized Agar Plates in Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
The presumptive mycoparasites Trichoderma sp., Pythium
sp., Gliocladium sp. and Verticillium sp. were detected in 42
(51.2%), 2 (2.5%), 23 (28.4%) and 1 (1.2%) of a total 81 soils, respectively,
when soil samples were placed on sectors of potato dextrose agar colonized by
the appropriate host fungi. Most (81) of the soils in the study contained three
or more mycoparasities, but the frequency of detection on replicate host sectors
suggested that Trichoderma sp. and Gliocladium sp. were the more
abundant species in all soils in which they occurred. The type of host fungus
markedly influenced the efficiency of detection of the different mycoparasities:
Fusarium sp. was most efficient for Trichoderma sp. and Gliocladium
sp. and Rhizoctonia solani for Trichoderma sp. Only a single
host was suitable for consistent detection of each of the mycoparasite species.
to cite this article:
Y.Y. Molan , 2009. Detection of Presumptive Mycoparasites in Soil Placed on Host-Colonized Agar Plates in Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia. Asian Journal of Plant Pathology, 3: 22-26.
Soil-borne pathogens produce serious to the yield of losses in different plant
groups (Iftikhar et al., 2003). Micro-organisms
that colonized in the rhizosphere were classified according to their effects
on plants, some of these micro-organisms considered plant pathogens, whereas
others trigger beneficial effects (Mantellin and Touraine,
2004). Fungi with antagonistic activity toward plant pathogens had an essential
role in plant growth and health. A plant and site dependent specificity of the
composition of antagonistic morphotypes and their genotypic diversity was found
by Berg et al. (2005).
Mycoparasites and presumptive mycoparasites have biocontrol potential some
are responsible for natural suppressiveness of soils to certain plant pathogens,
examples being Pythium nunn in Pythium-suppressive soils (Lifshitz
et al., 1984; Martin and Hancock, 1986) and
Trichoderma hamatum in Rhizoctonia suppressive soils (Liu
and Baker, 1980). Many studies showed that root colonization by specific
fungi was found recently gave increases in plant growth, yield or a measurable
control of known root pathogens (Cook, 1993; Cook
and Baker, 1983; Linderman, 1986). Fusarium
species were economically important as pathogens on many agricultural, horticultural
and field crops grown in the world. Chet (1987) showed
that several species of Trichoderma were used successfully against certain
pathogenic fungi. Similarly, Harman (2000) showed that
Trichoderma sp. was used as commercial bio-fungicides to control a range
of economically important soil-borne fungal plant pathogens. The objective of
this study was to isolate the mycoparasitic fungi from soils of the region,
Saudi Arabia, that might be used as biological control agents as an alternative
to chemical control methods.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
This study was conducted in 2004-2005 at the Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Isolation of the Host Fungi
Initial studies (not described) involved comparisons of many potential host
fungi which were isolated from different host plants. Then 6 hosts were selected
to isolate the mycoparasities populations in 81 soils. These hosts were Fusarium
proliferatum, Fusarium sp., Botrytis cinerea, Sclerotinia
sp., Rhizoctonia solani and Pythium sp. Identification of
the different types of developed fungal isolates colonies were carried out and
identified based on microscopic morphologies according to Ellis
(1971), Kirk and Ansell (1992) and Samson
and Pitt (2000).
Isolation of Mycoparasites from Soil
Eighty one soils were collected from arable fields (47), garden sites (19)
and woodlands (15) in the Riyadh region of Saudi Arabia (Table
1, 2). Each sample was bulked from usually 2 or 3 subsamples
which mixed thoroughly and stored for up to 1 week in a polyethylene bags at
||Occurrence of different mycoparasites in 81 soils as determined
by detection on agar previously colonized by appropriate host fungi in Al-Dereia,
Al- Oiaina and Al Wasil wa Al Amaria regions, Saudi Arabia
|+: Present; -: Absent
||Occurrence of different mycoparasites in 81 soils as determined
by detection on agar previously colonized by appropriate host fungi in Al-
Kharj, Dayrab and Wadi Hanifa regions, Saudi Arabia
|+: Present; -: Absent
Plates of Potato-Dextrose Agar (PDA, 15 mL per 9 cm diam. plate) were inoculated
in the centrally with the different host fungi and incubated at 25°C for
different time periods, until the colony margin just reached the edge of the
plate. Then, each agar was cut into 6 equal sectors, which were placed separately
in sterilized plastic petri dishes. A sample of soil (0.4 mL, ca. 0.4 g), was
placed on the oldest part of each host fungal sector (Mullingan
and Deacon, 1992). The sectors were incubated again at 25°C and examined
after 7, 14 and 21 days of incubation. Mycoparasities were detected by the presence
of sporulation or other fungal structures on the host colony. Identification
were confirmed with pure cultures, obtained by subculturing of the mycoparasities
from representative host sectors onto plates of fresh PDA. The host sectors
were selected at randomized, so for any one soil they were usually from different
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The presumptive mycoparasities Trichoderma sp., Pythium sp.,
Gliocladium sp. and Verticillium sp. were detected in 42, 2, 23
and 1 of a total 81 soils, respectively of a total 81 soils when samples were
placed on sectors of agar colonized by the appropriate host fungi (Table
1, 2). Trichoderma sp. and Gliocladium sp.
were the more abundant species in all soils in which they occurred for the soils.
Of the 6 hosts used, Fusarium sp. was more efficient for Trichoderma
sp., Rhizoctonia solani for Trichoderma sp., Fusarium sp.,
for Gliocladium sp. Mullingan and Deacon (1992)
reported that, all earlier studies researchers have used a single host to identify
presumptive mycoparasites and thus probably underestimated the presence of mycoparasities
in soils (Foley and Deacon, 1985). Also, mycoparasites
could be detected and identified to at least generic level without the need
for subculturing (Mullingan and Deacon, 1992). Fusarium
sp., Botrytis cinerea and Rhizoctonia solani were gave different
patterns of detection of mycoparasities (Table 3). Trichoderma
sp. and Gliocladium sp., were detected on all areas and 2 hosts.
Trichoderma sp. was seen mostly on all hosts except Pythium sp.,
Verticillium sp. was seen only on Rhizoctonia solani. Comparison
of Table 1 and 2 shows that Pythium sp.
was reported only in Al-Dereia and Al- Kharj regions for one time. Only a single
host was suitable for consistent detection of one single mycoparasitie. These
results cannot be ascribed to chance, because in several soils a mycoparasities
that was not detected. Table 3 shows that the greatest likelihood
of detecting all the mycoparasities in any one soil was by the use of Fusarium
sp., for Trichoderma sp., Rhizoctonia solani for Trichoderma
sp., Fusarium sp., for Gliocladium sp. The hosts in this study
were selected for rapid, uniform growth on PDA and for the known abilities of
mycoparasities to grow across them in culture (Laing and
Deacon, 1991). Theses abilities were precisely matched by the results of
the soil survey. The hosts for future surveys could be selected on this basis,
or specific pathogens could be used to detected potential biocontrol agents
(Van den Boogert et al., 1990). But the best host
for detection of a mycoparasities may not be the best for its isolation into
pure culture. Trichoderma was detected in all 42 soils, Gliocladium
sp. in 23 soils, Pytuhium sp. in 2 soils and Verticillium
sp. in one soil (Table 3). Moreover, all soils had more than
one mycoparasities: 8 soils contained three types, 33 contained 3 types and
4 contained 1 type.
||Incidence of detection of different mycoparasites in soils
samples were placed on agar colonized by different host fungi
As an estimate of the abundance of each mycoparasities in each soil, Table
1 and 2 shows, the cases in which a mycoparasite was detected
on at least half of the replicate sectors of any 1 host. Overall, Trichoderma
sp. was detected in 51% of the samples of soil placed on host colonies and
Gliocladium sp. in 28% of all samples. In present study, only some of
previously reported soil-borne mycoparasites were detected (Deacon
and Henry, 1978; Foley and Deacon, 1985). Further
study, with different hosts and a broader geographical or ecological rang of
sites should resolve these issues.
Berg, G., C. Zachow, J. Lottmann, M. Gotz, R. Costa and K. Smalla, 2005.
Impact of plant species and site on rhizosphere associated fungi antgonistic to Verticillium dahliae
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, an Important Mycoparasite for the Control of Rhizctonia solani
in Potato. In: Biological Control of Soil-Borne Plant Pathogens, Homby, D. (Ed.). CAB International, Wallingford, pp: 77-91
Chet, I., 1987. Trichoderma
: Application, Mode of Action and Potential as a Bio Control Agent of Soil Borne Plant Pathogenic Fungi. In: Innovative Approaches to Plant Disease Control, Chet, I. (Ed.). Wiley, New York, ISBN: 9780471809623, pp: 137-160
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Making greater use of introduced microorganisms for biological control of plant pathogens. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol., 31: 53-80.CrossRef |
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Mycoparasitism by Pythium oligandrum
and P. acanthicum
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Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes. 1st Edn., Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, UK., ISBN-13: 978-0851986180, Pages: 608
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Isolation of Pythium oligandrum
and other necrotrophic mycoparasities from soil. Trans. British Mycol. Society, 85: 631-639.
Harman, G.E., 2000.
Myths and Dogmas of Biocontrol Changes in Perceptions Derived from Research on Trichoderma harzinum
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Authors of Fungal Names Index of Fungi Supplement. International Mycological Institute, Institute of CAB, Kew. Surry, UK., pp: 95
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Video microscopical comparison on mycoparasities by Pythium oligandrum
, P. nunn
and an unnamed Pythium
species. Mycol. Res., 95: 469-479.
Lifshitz, R., B. Sneh and R. Baker, 1984.
Soil suppressiveness to Pythium ultimum
induced by antagonistic Pythium
species. Phytopathology, 74: 1054-1061.
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Managing rhizosphere microorganisms in the production of horticultural crops. HortScience, 21: 1299-1302.
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Mechanism of biological control in soil suppressive to Rhizoctonia solani
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Just before spring officially begins, Yolo County offers a beautiful sign. Around mid-February, the almond orchards start bursting with pink-and-white blossoms. By early March, their petals start blanketing the ground with what locals refer to as the Yolo County snow.
For those itching for spring, the weeks from mid-February to mid-March are a great time to explore Yolo County. Visitors can use our self-guided map to make their way through the many almond orchards throughout Yolo County, taking in some stops along the way. Check out historic downtown Winters for its steakhouse, wine and beer tasting rooms, and the small shops along Main Street. Explore the Yolo Countryside with a drive through the lush Capay Valley to see more almond blooms, then take in a wine or olive oil tasting at Seka Hills. Stop by Davis to take in the Davis Farmers Market and stroll the UC Davis Arboretum.
Are you all about the almond? Those blooms and the much-loved nut will be the focus of the 2023 Capay Valley Almond Festival, Feb. 26, 2023.
The event includes activities from 8AM – 4PM throughout the Capay Valley including a parade, live music, food trucks, an almond-themed bakeoff and more!
This is the 108th year since the start of the Capay Valley Almond Festival. The first event was in October 1915, celebrating the almond harvest. In 1964, the Esparto Regional Chamber of Commerce took over the festival, moving it to the last Sunday in February to coincide with the almond bloom.
As you drive among the blooms, do keep in mind that the fields are private property and should only be viewed from the road. The large crowds that have come in the past have done considerable damage to farmers’ businesses, which is especially frustrating for them. We understand the desire to be among the blooms, but please DO NOT wander into the orchards. Make sure to read through our viewing tips here.
When? February through early March is the best time of year to view Yolo County almond blossoms.
Directions: From Sacramento, take I-5 north to Exit 541 (CA-16), then Highway 16 west to Esparto. From the Bay Area, exit west on Highway 16 from northbound I-505.
Photo etiquette: Do not trespass. Do not park or walk on private property, and do not pick or cut blossoms (both damage the trees, land and irrigation).
Be safe: Drive carefully and pull over to a safe spot to take photos. Highway 16 is a two-lane rural road without shoulders, and has few pullouts.
– Farmers pronounce it “aa-monds” not “all-monds.” They joke that they’re “all-monds” until they’re harvested by the tree shaker, which knocks the “L” out of them.
– Almonds were one of Yolo County’s top crops in 2021 with 45,100 acres harvested for a total value of $137,114,000.
-They are reliant on bees for pollination.
-Almonds were one of the earliest cultivated foods.
-California produces more than 80 percent of the world’s almonds.
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ROS Control is a set of packages and tools that allow you, basically, to send commands and communicate with the joints of your robot in order to be able to control them. For instance, you need ROS Control to move the wheels of a mobile robot, or to move the different joints of a robotic arm in an industrial plant.
What is Ros used for robotics?
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open-source framework that helps researchers and developers build and reuse code between robotics applications. ROS is also a global open-source community of engineers, developers and hobbyists who contribute to making robots better, more accessible and available to everyone.
How would you implement Ros control on a custom robot?
Some basic steps to start:
- You should write the URDF of your robot that describes the different links in your robot, joints and sensors, and different frames that it has. …
- Next thing is to write some nodes to read the sensor data and publish it in ROS topics.
How does Ros control work?
The ros_control packages takes as input the joint state data from your robot’s actuator’s encoders and an input set point. It uses a generic control loop feedback mechanism, typically a PID controller, to control the output, typically effort, sent to your actuators.
How do you connect the robot to RVIZ?
To run rviz and moveit connected to the robot, you have to make sure that it communicates with the same roscore as the robot drivers.
- Start roscore on the robot.
- Start the hardware drivers of the robot.
- Start rviz on that remote machine.
How do I connect to Ros?
Connect to a ROS Network
- Connect to a ROS network. To connect to a ROS network, you can create the ROS master in MATLAB or connect to an existing ROS master. …
- Exchange data. Once connected, MATLAB exchanges data with other ROS nodes through publishers, subscribers, and services.
- Disconnect from the ROS network.
Why ROS is important in robotics?
Why Should I Use Robot OS? ROS provides functionality for hardware abstraction, device drivers, communication between processes over multiple machines, tools for testing and visualization, and much more.
What can you do with ROS?
ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.
What is ROS technology?
Robot Operating System (ROS or ros) is an open-source robotics middleware suite. … packages containing application-related code which uses one or more ROS client libraries.
How do you control Ros?
- Add transmission elements to a URDF.
- Add the gazebo_ros_control plugin.
- RRBot Example.
- Create a ros_controls package.
- Start the controllers using roslaunch.
- Manually send example commands.
- Use RQT To Send Commands.
- Connect Rviz to Gazebo Simulation.
How do you control joints in Ros?
Basically you do the following:
- Add a link for each movable element of the robot.
- For each link add a joint which describes the union between the different links, which type of union is, and how one element moves in relation to the other.
- To be able to control with ROS you need to add the gazebo_ros_control plugin.
How do you make a ROS controller?
The list of procedures to create an ROS controller is given as follows:
- Create an ROS package with the necessary dependencies.
- Write controller code in C++.
- Register or export the C++ class as a plugin.
- Define the plugin definition in an XML file.
- Edit the CMakeLists. …
- Write the configuration for our controller.
What is PR2 robot?
The PR2 (Personal Robot 2) is an open and robust robot platform designed from the ground up by Willow Garage for software developers and researchers. By eliminating the need to first build a hardware system and then re-implement code, the PR2 allows software experts to immediately create new functionality on the robot.
What is PID controller in Ros?
The PID controller package is an implementation of a Proportional-Integral-Derivative controller – it is intended for use where you have a straightforward control problem that you just need to throw a PID loop at. It has one purpose and focuses on doing it well.
What is effort controller?
Yes effort controllers control torque in the case of rotary joints, or force in the case of linear joints. They are named that way since they are agnostic to the type of joint they’re controlling. Controllers are defined by the type of control input and the type of output they use to drive the joint.


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Frank, aka PCGuy, has published another one of his Truthful Tuesday posts, and this week Frank wants to know…
What pop culture phenomenon have you bought into?
It’s been a long, long time since I “bought into” any pop culture phenomenon. But when I was in college, I was very into the whole Tolkien thing: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I had a large poster of the Middle Earth on my wall, and eagerly followed the adventures of the fellowship.
Were you hooked right away, or did it grow on you over time?
I was hooked right away and have reread The Hobbit and the trilogy three times over the years, the last time being when The Lord of the Rings movies were released. I may now give it a fourth reread.
Did you initially get into it because it seemed interesting to you, or did someone recommend it?
I honestly don’t remember if someone recommended Tolkien to me, if I read about it somewhere, or how I discovered it.
Was it just a passing fancy, or are you still a fan?
I’m still a fan.


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January 25, 2024
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the last week, including:
January 15 2:32 a.m. A caller said he could hear a man screaming in the Skamokawa area, first near the Duck Inn and later around Redmen Hall. He couldn’t see the man and he couldn’t understand what he was saying. A deputy responded and spoke to an individual who was looking for his dog. The man was advised to keep his voice down as he had woken his neighbors, and advised to take care of himself and keep warm, but he refused. He was very concerned about his dog, who he said never wandered off. The deputy helped him look for his dog. 6:07 a.m. A Skamokawa resident reported that they were without water. The PUD was notified and water was restored at 12:11 p.m. 7:53 a.m. A caller said a vehicle had been parked in the day use area at County Line Park for three days. Attempts were made to contact the registered owner, but there was no answer. 8:13 a.m. A caller said cattle were loose in Middle Valley. He said it was the third or fourth time it had happened in the last month. Dispatch contacted the owner. 10:45 a.m. A Puget Island resident reported a power outage. The PUD was notified. 2:10 p.m. An East Sunny Sands resident said she had a broken waterline and asked to have her water turned off. The PUD was notified. 4:47 p.m. A caller reported a reckless driver spinning around in the parking lot of a Puget Island church. 5:27 p.m. A caller reported that a driver was speeding and spinning out in both school parking lots in Cathlamet. 8:30 p.m. A caller said there was no water in the RV park in Rosedale. The town was notified, but it turned out that a plumber had turned off the water at the park to fix a leak. 9:53 p.m. Deputies were on the lookout for a black Toyota Corolla involved in a hit and run. Cowlitz County was notified when deputies were unable to locate the vehicle.
January 16 4:27 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance aided a Puget Island resident who fell. No injuries were reported. 8:44 a.m. A caller said people were racing quads around the Glen Gate neighborhood and cutting cookies. A deputy responded at 10:29 a.m. and said he did not see anyone. 12:26 p.m. A caller said a Fed Ex truck was blocking both lanes of SR 4 a mile west of County Line Park. A deputy responded and reported at 12:44 p.m. that the vehicle was moving and making deliveries. 3:56 p.m. A caller said that an ATV rider was treating a street in Glen Gate like an ATV track, and possibly heading up and down Columbia Street as well. 4:50 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance aided a Beaver Creek resident who had fallen and was complaining of chest pain and trouble breathing. 6:30 p.m. A caller reported ATV riders trespassing on private property in Rosedale. He called back later to say the situation had been resolved. 7:13 p.m. A caller said that the top of Beaver Creek was very slick and road conditions were bad. The county road department and Wahkiakum Emergency Management were notified. 9:35 p.m. A Cathlamet resident reported a burst water pipe and three to four inches of water in her utility room. The public works superintendent was notified.
January 17 9:29 a.m. A person who reported an ATV rider on his land the previous day found damage to his property. The owner of the ATV was trespassed. 9:40 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance aided a Rosedale resident complaining of abdominal pain. 11:40 a.m. A caller asked for assistance after a vehicle owner was accidentally locked out of his car by his dog at a Rosedale business. 11:52 a.m. A wallet was found at a Cathlamet business and given to a deputy. The wallet was later returned to the owner. 1:42 p.m. A caller reported a giant rock in the westbound lane of SR 4 near the bottom of Abe Creek Hill. The Washington State Department of Transportation responded. 2:04 p.m. A caller found an elk with an arrow in its back in the West Valley area. The call was transferred to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. 7:51 p.m. A caller reported that a vehicle was on the side of Beaver Creek Road. The lights were on, but there were no occupants and no one was seen walking along the road. A deputy responded and the vehicle was tagged and taped. 8:13 p.m. A caller was concerned about her children’s safety after hearing of possible abusive behavior by their father’s girlfriend.
January 18 3:31 p.m. An individual was arrested after a domestic disturbance was reported at a Glen Gate home. 3:50 p.m. A caller reported a speeding driver in a white pick up on North Welcome Slough Road. 5:21 p.m. A caller reported a driver at County Line Park had not turned on his lights. At 5:23 p.m., the caller said the driver turned on his lights. 6:41 p.m. A Puget Island resident reported a power outage. 7:32 p.m. A caller reported a large rock on SR 4 west of Mill Creek Road and said there was an active landslide. State patrol and WSDOT were notified. 9:15 p.m. A caller said there were rocks and debris on SR 4 east of Nassa Point. WSDOT responded. 9:21 p.m. A caller reported a domestic disturbance at a Rosedale home. Deputies responded and observed no injuries and learned that there had been no arguing. 11:11 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance and a deputy aided a Rosedale resident who was hallucinating.
January 19 10:44 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance aided a Rosedale resident who had fallen. 11:08 a.m. A Beaver Creek resident reported that a protection order may have been violated. 4:01 p.m. A caller said unauthorized charges were made to a nonprofit bank account. It was determined that the charges were made to Amazon by a former employee in error. The former employee said she would rectify the matter, and it was resolved. 11:19 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance aided an ailing Rosedale resident. 11:53 p.m. A Puget Island resident said she could hear someone in her yard. Deputies responded and found nothing.
January 20 7:49 a.m. An Elochoman Valley resident said that people rafting on the Elochoman were anchored on his bank and arguing with people on the property. 10:11 a.m. A Deep River resident reported that a neighbor’s dog was loose and causing problems. 12:08 p.m. A caller reported an erratic driver in a silver pick up heading east on SR 4. A deputy was unable to locate the vehicle. 1:44 p.m. A West Valley resident reported hearing what he believed was a shot fired from a truck on his neighbor’s property. A deputy responded and determined that everything was safe and secure at the location. 6:08 p.m. A caller, concerned about vandalism, reported that a truck had stopped at the Grays River cemetery. 6:24 p.m. A caller reported that a pick up was on fire on Mullen Road near power lines. A deputy, the District 4 Fire Department, the PUD, the Cathlamet ambulance, the Grays River Fire Department, the Skamokawa Fire Department, and Skamokawa emergency personnel responded. 10:54 p.m. A caller said a vehicle was blocking the westbound lane of SR 4 in Rosburg and appeared to have been in an accident. State patrol learned that the driver had been taken to a residence on Fossil Creek Road and met a deputy at that location.
January 21 2 a.m. Skamokawa emergency personnel provided a lift assist to an East Valley resident who had fallen. 5:36 a.m. A person was found unconscious in a Puget Island home. The Cathlamet ambulance, the Cathlamet Fire Department, and the Puget Island Fire
Department responded. A deputy was requested when family members started yelling at responders. 3:31 p.m. A caller reported that five cows were on East Valley Road. A message was left with the possible owner. She called back to say they weren’t hers, but she said she was able to get them back on their property. 4:03 p.m. A caller asked for assistance after a person in the home threatened to harm himself. Personnel from a crisis team responded. 4:27 p.m. A Deep River resident reported that a dog was harassing wildlife and barking constantly for the last hour. 8:56 p.m. A deputy said that a driver at County Line Park would not cooperate, but eventually he was able to reason with her. She got warm in his vehicle while deputies got her vehicle started.

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This coming Sunday, Barcelona kick off their La Liga campaign as they face fierce rivals Villareal CF. The match is scheduled to take place at the Nou Camp, with a start time of 9pm CET. In this article, we shall be taking a look at the past encounters and exciting matches between both clubs, as Barcelona aim to start their campaign on the right track vs Villarreal. And we’re not talking about the great win in last July.
Villareal 4-4 Barcelona. 2/04/19
As recently as 2019, Villareal and Barcelona had a spectacular match which ended 4-4 at the Estadio de la Ceramica. Phillipe Coutinho had opened the scoring in the 12th minute, with a tap in assisted by Brazilian winger, Malcolm. Just 4 minutes later, Malcolm appeared again to score the second goal of the game, with a brilliant header across the wide post. With the blaugranas leading 2-0 however, Villareal eventually evened the score. Goals came from both Chukwueze in the 23rd minute and Ekambi in the 50th minute.
Furthermore, they then took a 4-2 lead, with goals coming from Spanish International Iborra in the 62nd minute and Carlos Bacca in the 80th. With the blaugranas looking done and defeated, in the 86th minute however, Gonzalez received a red card. This gave the blaugranas a lifeline, as Villarreal were now down to 10 men. This is exactly what occurred, as Messi then produced a magical free kick which brought the Catalans back into the game. It was not until the 93rd minute however, when Luis Suarez sealed the draw, scoring a beautiful goal from outside the penalty area.
Barcelona 5-1 Villareal. 9/05/18
This match was more one sided however, with the home team comfortably taking a 5-1 victory. New signing Coutinho had opened the scoring with an 11th minute goal. After a shot was blocked by Ousmane Dembele, the Brazilian was there to capitalise on the rebound and make it 1-0. Minutes later, fellow Brazilian Paulinho also made it 2-0. After Coutinho cut in on the right, a simple direct pass made to Paulinho had secured the second goal, bringing the blaugranas to a comfortable first 20 mins.
Before the end of the first half, Messi also made it 3-0, with a superb shot assisted by Andres Iniesta. In the second half, despite Sansone scoring in the 54th minute, Ousmane Dembele sealed the victory with two goals in the 87th and 90+3 minute. This was a relatively easy win for Barcelona, solidifying their place as La Liga leaders, while Villarreal battled it out in the bottom half.
Barcelona 3-3 Villareal. 22/05/05
One of the past matches between Villarreal and FC Barcelona that fans remember the most. It’s because of its intensity, pace and action all throughout the 90 minutes. With the match on edge all throughout the game, the goals and plays between players did not fail to disappoint.
Uruguayan international Diego Forlan had opened the game with a beautiful goal in the 16th minute. Assisted by Hector Font, Forlan’s finesse was too much for the young Spanish keeper Victor Valdes, bringing the ‘yellow submarines’ up by one goal. On the other side of the half however, after being fouled in the penalty area, Barcelona had a chance of making it 1-1 in the 24th minute. Despite this, Eto’o had failed to convert the penalty into a goal, as he struck the crossbar, thereby failing to execute the chance that came. Five minutes later, Villareal were 2-0 up with yet another goal by Diego Forlan.
Unlike Eto’o, Forlan managed to convert his penalty into a goal, taking Villareal into a comfortable lead. Before the first half had ended however, Barcelona brought it back. A header goal by Ronaldinho in the 33rd minute, followed by tap in by Giuly in the 36th. The second half saw Giuly’s second goal. A right footed shot in the 47th minute, before Forlan scored his hattrick in the 62nd minute. The match had ended 3-3, with Forlan impressing throughout the whole game.


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Local high school, college, and pro sports news in Gainesville, FL
Friday Aug 29 | via WRUF-AM Gainesville
The Columbia Tigers broke the hearts of the Gainesville High School faithful on Thursday night with a 44-43 overtime victory at Citizens Field. Comment?
Thursday Aug 28 | via WRUF-AM Gainesville
The Friday night lights will be turned on one day earlier than usual for a few local high schools. Comment?
Thursday Aug 21 | via WRUF-AM Gainesville
Florida hosts Idaho a week from Saturday. ** High school football is just around the corner too and a number of "fall classics" will take place in our area tonight and tomorrow. Comment?
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One more application for the upcoming Halloween is ready for you! This one is dedicated to your phone's safety, and it offers the spookiest pictures for your zipper lock screen. You can change them every day if you want to, and you can also use this creepy app after Halloween is over, if you are into horror and scary stories.
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I really have taken water for granted. I drink a lot of it, love to swim … and intellectually I understand that many people don’t have access to clean water … but (typical for an American), I still take it for granted.
This past summer I had the opportunity to visit the Galapagos on the National Geographic Islander. It was an incredible experience – one of the most enjoyable learning opportunities I’ve had in a long time. We were sailing on water, surrounded by water, swimming and snorkeling on water – and learned just how critical clean water is to the survival of the diverse species living in the Galapagos.
If that trip wasn’t cool enough, I was later invited to an all-female adventure rafting down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Mind you, I’ve never been camping in my life and now I was contemplating four nights under the stars with a serious hike out the Bright Angel Trail to end the experience. Of course, I said yes.
My time in the Grand Canyon was one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life. (Check out my Grand Canyon blog posts here, here, here, here, here, and here). Along the way, I came to appreciate access to water like never before. The river was for drinking, for washing, for bathing, and yes, for urinating. The drinking and hand washing water had to be filtered using a complex but portable device. We were hiking and in the hot desert sun each day, so staying hydrated was a must. Hiking out the Bright Angel Trail was tough, and I made sure to stretch my water to last until the next source. The first sight of a sink with running, fresh water was a luxury – and I hope that I can continue to be more serious about my water use and take it less for granted.
So what about all of those people in the world without access to clean water? I am inspired by great thinkers like Michael Pritchard whose TED talk is nothing short of miraculous to me. I’m hoping that by sharing my experiences and his solutions, I can encourage a few folks to both conserve water and support efforts to get clean water to the people who need it most.
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Hyundai is set to enter the hybrid segment in India. The Hyundai Ioniq hybrid sedan will be launched at the 2018 Delhi Auto Expo marking the Koeran car maker’s foray into the niche segment.
Over the past few months, Hyundai conducted an extensive market research to evaluate the feasibility of a new hybrid sedan for India. After receiving a positive feedback from prospective customers, Hyundai is now looking at assembling the Ioniq at their Chennai unit.
The locally assembled Ioniq will allow Hyundai to offer the product at a competitive price tag. Still, the Hyundai Ioniq won’t come cheap. It is expected to cost between Rs 25-30 lakh. Pricing in this bracket would allow the company to undercut their competition by as much as Rs 9 lakh, giving them a clear upper hand.
The Ioniq is about the size of a Toyota Prius and is powered by a 1.6-liter diesel producing 102hp and 146.4Nm of torque. A 42.4hp electric motor adds another 169.4Nm of torque, resulting in a combined output of 144.2hp and 315.8Nm. It uses a 6-speed dual-clutch transmission to send power to the front wheels.
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quote:Only if you take it literally. If a team is down 20 and comes back to within, say 6, I would say it is a brand new ball game. The trailing team is now in the game. If you take it 100% literally, then "brand new" would only be at 0-0. Geez.
I hate Joel Meyers"brand new ball game"! someone needs to tell him it makes zero sense unless the game is tied
quote:legit gripe but not of the magnitude to make someone hate him. joel is one of the best I've heard
But the "brand new game" thing is kinda retarded. Just because someone makes a little run, it's not a brand new game. It's the NBA, everybody makes a run.


AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ Corey Koskie hit an RBI double and Minnesota starter Joe Mays was strong through six innings Tuesday night as the Twins led the Anaheim Angels 2-1 in Game 1 of the AL championship series. A.J. Pierzynski hit a sacrifice fly for Minnesota in the second, and Cristian Guzman's fielding error gave Anaheim a run in the third. Mays faced the minimum through eight batters until Adam Kennedy and David Eckstein hit back-to-back singles with two outs in the third. Darin Erstad hit a lazy groundball right at Guzman that should've ended the inning, but the shortstop let the ball squirt through his legs for an unearned run. After that, Mays got back to work _ retiring 10 of the next 11 batters. Second baseman Luis Rivas made a diving stop of Garret Anderson's grounder and threw to first to end a perfect sixth. The Twins, 12-2 all-time at the Metrodome in the postseason, are making their first ALCS appearance since 1991. The Angels, coming off their first-ever playoff series victory, are in the ALCS for the first time since 1986. Kevin Appier, a 12-year veteran making just his third postseason start, came into the game 4-1 with a 2.34 ERA at the Metrodome in his career. But he labored through five innings, giving up five hits, three walks and throwing 94 pitches. Appier, who allowed two runs and struck out two, left trailing 2-1 and was replaced by Brendan Donnelly in the sixth. Torii Hunter lined a double to the gap in right-center field leading off the second and went to third on a wild pitch. Doug Mientkiewicz fouled out to third, but Michael Cuddyer walked on four pitches and Pierzynski _ who hit .438 with four RBIs in the division series win over Oakland _ hit a fly to center that easily scored Hunter. Appier settled down with a 1-2-3 third inning and kept the Twins from scoring in fourth after they got two on with one out, but he continued to struggle finding the plate. Rivas walked leading off the fifth, and Guzman smacked a single up the middle just beyond the outstretched glove of Eckstein at shortstop. Koskie doubled down the right-field line for his second hit, putting the Twins up 2-1. Mays, rocked for six runs and nine hits in 3 2-3 innings of Minnesota's 9-1 loss in Game 2 of the division series, trailed 3-0 after the first inning in that game on a three-run homer by A's third baseman Eric Chavez. But Mays needed only eight pitches to get through the first Tuesday, giving up a one-out single to Erstad but retiring Tim Salmon on a 6-4-3 double play.


Join us THIS SATURDAY, February 14, for Holy Hour, a chance for Reconciliation, and another GREAT concert at St. Mary's downtown! It all starts at 7, we'll see you there! Shaylee Simeone and Scott Mulvahill are Texas born, Nashville based singer/songwriters who started writing together in 2013 and decided that they liked the pairing enough to collaborate. shaylee&scott blend their voices and instrumental skills for a lush sound that is sweeping yet personal. They released their self-titled EP in 2014.
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Abi Chatten Bio
Abi Chatten is a famous TikTok Star. Abi Chatten was born in July 19, 2004 in England. Lip sync fashion, dance and comedy creator who became famous through her abbabex TikTok account. There are more than 1.1 million users on the social media platform.
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In April 2021, she made the duet video that was set on the song by Katy Perry called “I Kissed a Girl.”
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In December of the year 2020, she uploaded a video with the caption “i have wardrobes and wardrobes to show u, just follow me and stress about clothes with me pls.”
She was born on 2004, in England.
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SITREP Radio #30: SURVIVAL/Update 1.5 Release Date Confirmed
Finally we have confirmation of when Update 1.5 - SURVIVAL drops....
There was a “Massive” surprise this week as the guys over in Sweden dropped a Special Report broadcast into the laps of the community. DLC Expansion number 2, “Survival”, was the reason with another PC-only PTS going live later that same day for Season Pass holders. It’s fair to say that the hype was off the chart. Join (a very tired) Mike, Rob and Luke as they battle rogue-induced-fatigue to chew the fat regarding what they know about “Survival”. There is also news regarding the free 1.5 update that will be dropping, including details of new Named Weapons, brand new Named High End Gear Pieces, a new Gear Set, a new Gear Score, a much requested Stash Size Increase and a brief round-up of the key details from today’s State of the Game broadcast.
Mike is a huge lover of all things media based. From games to movies, comics and music. Preferably the alternative genre.
A bit of geek when it comes to TV, Movies, Podcasts, and Games.
I've been a gamer ever since I can remember. I started with a Commodore64, then Amiga1200, and various PCs. Consoles I've owned include SNES, Wii, GameCube, Xbox 360 and every version of PlayStation to date. My most played games are Team Fortress Classic, Championship Manager, early COD titles (don't mention Black Ops or MW3!) as well as almost all of the Gran Turismo and GTA series'.
On this episode, we talk RP system changes, and Apex Legends mobile!!
We're talking, mostly, about patch 6.1's story. Also just a little bit about third party tools.
This week Bob and Mel get are joined by Ayle and Rugs to discuss the Sunwell progress, Isle of Quel’Danas, and more!
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The film takes us on an island entirely populated by cheerful, flying birds – or almost full. In this paradise, red, a bird with a temper problem, quickly and Chuck Bomb always been volatile outsiders. But as the island of the mysterious green pig, is to visit are to this unlikely outsiders to figure out what the pigs.
Find out why the birds are so angry. If a populated island is visited by a happy, flying birds of the mysterious green pig, it’s up to three improbable outcasts – find out what the pigs – Red, Chuck and Bomb.
Directed by: Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly
Writers: John Cohen (story), Mikael Hed (story)
Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride
Genre: Animation | action | Comedy | family
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In the Grimms' first edition of Household Tales, from 1812, there were two versions of "Frog Prince", one in each volume. The first, "Frog King, or Iron Henry" is actually the version that we know today as "Frog Prince," and the original "Frog Prince" is now virtually unknown.
In "Frog King," there is one daughter who meets the frog after she loses her golden ball in a well, and promises him to eat off her plate and sleep in her bed in order to get it back (although she doesn't actually think she will have to follow through with that promise). Her father forces her to fulfill that promise, and after she gets frustrated, she lthrows the frog against a wall, and he transforms into a prince (ironically, not a King). The prince's friend Henry is then introduced (kind of randomly, IMO) as being so joyful his master is released from his enchantment, that he had ordered iron bands to be wrapped around his heart "to keep it from bursting with grief." As the prince and princess drive away, the breaking bands cause loud cracking noises.
In "Frog Prince," there are three daughters. The eldest discovers that a frog is making the water in their well murky. He offers to make it clear again if she will be his sweetheart, and she refuses. The same thing happens to the middle daughter, but the youngest decides making an empty promise is worth getting clear water. That night the frog comes to her, and of her own accord she reluctantly opens the door to him, and he sleeps at the foot of her bed. He does this for three nights; on the last she tells him she won't let him sleep there any more, but she wakes up to find he's transformed into a Prince, just because she allowed herself to be his sweetheart. They married and her sisters were jealous. This version was later excluded from subsequent editions of Grimms fairy tales.
Which version do you like better?
Also, for an interesting comparison of "Frog King" from the first to last edition, this page allows you to literally see each phrase/section side by side (way easier than trying to follow along in two separate books!)
(Also, thanks for those of you who have offered suggestions on our fairy tale summer reading post! Be sure to get in your suggestions if you haven't already!)
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Texts can be read in either of these books:
The Complete First Edition: The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated and edited by Jack Zipes
Surlalune's Frog Prince and other Frog Tales from Around the World

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text: A man who was recently arrested along with two other people is getting some attention. While all three mugshots were posted on social media, people couldn't help but share Ricky Deeley's photo. Ricky, along with the two others, was caught driving with all sorts of drugs in the car and with a suspended license. All three were arrested and taken to the Marion County Jail. The department always posts the arrest mugshots of people on their Facebook page and the post of these three has been shared over 4,000 times. The reason is because Ricky's ears are excessively large. People often referenced Dumbo when commenting on the picture while others wanted to know what planet he was from.

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MEPROLIGHT SELF-ILLUMINATED FLIP BACKUP SIGHTS
This backup plan is always in sight.
The Mepro FRBS is a tritium-enhanced set of sights – two or four smaller tritium vials, depending on the model, are firmly inserted on the large aperture side of the rear sight.
The self-illuminated front and rear backup sights are designed to provide the shooter with secondary sights in case the primary optics go down. The Front Sight post elevation is easily adjusted without tools.
Day or night, the tritium makes the Mepro FRBS a viable option.


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Ingredients1 h 30 m servings 509
Original recipe yields 10 servings (1 9x13-inch baking pan)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
- Combine 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, oats, melted butter, and 1 teaspooon cinnamon in a bowl; mix until well combined. Spread 1/2 of the mixture evenly in the prepared baking pan.
- Mix together apples, 1/2 cup brown sugar, white sugar, 1/4 cup flour, and 1 teaspoon cinnamon in a bowl; spread in the baking pan and dot with butter. Cover with the remaining oat mixture.
- Bake in the preheated oven until golden and crispy, 75 to 80 minutes.
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- Cook's Note:
- Granny Smith, Gala, or any other good pie apple will work as well.
Per Serving: 509 calories; 19.3 83.5 3.8 49 16 Full nutrition

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