Fortap (or at least down it) more quickly. With no explicit tutorial though, players are asking themselves how to slide in Fortnite.
As you might expect, it's obnoxiously simple once you know what to do. Keep reading our guide below to learn how. Don't forget to also check out our Fortnite Chapter 3 guide for more info on battle pass skins, the new map, other gameplay changes, and more.
To slide in Fortnite, you need to be running and press the crouch button. For PC players, the default is the CTRL key, but you may have changed it at some point in your key binding settings.
Keep in mind that you can only slide down angled surfaces, like hills, mountains, or perhaps roofs. I've found it a bit harder to pull off a slide on a gentle slope as opposed to a sharper angle. Also, the default setting is that you have to hold the crouch button rather than a toggle.
One option you can change is the "slide hold time" under the controller options section of the settings menu. This allows you to alter the amount of time you need to hold the crouch button before your character starts sliding (if applicable).
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bp.By Daniel Maurer </s>  release of the yesterday,Can I move and continue to receive this assistance? Housing Choice Voucher Program,has lived within the jurisdiction of the current housing authority of at least 12 months while receiving housing authority’s lease is for one year. After one year, the lease is renewed on a month-to-month basis unless landlord requires a lease for another year.
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A walkable community is well-designed and compact allowing people to walk to places like school, work, parks, and restaurants as a form of everyday transportation. A walkable community also supports other forms of active transportation such as biking, in-line skating, skateboarding, using mobility devices, and using public transit.
A walkable community addresses these components:
Halton Region Health Department Climate Change Champions describe many benefits of active transportation and provide examples of what you can do, such as taking a pledge (external link) to use active transportation, participating in Active and Safe Routes to School (external link), and completing the walkability checklist (external link).
Studies show that the way we build our communities benefits our health and well-being in the following . </s> They got Ted Cruz this time, and it's all caught on camera
It's just awful. Ted Cruz slips (looks like a ten or a five) to a 'delegate' who just happens to be in a crowd getting signatures from Cruz after a rally.
The rest of the story->
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“We’re continuing to grow,” Dineva said at Human Capital Institute’held in Dallas, TX, February 23-25.
During her presentation, “The Tesla Motors Story: Workforce Analytics in a Rapid Growth Environment,” Dineva revealed that the company embraces a startup mentality.
She said they are not profitable yet – they have no budget for HR analytics – but they are


So many people have approached me– at house meetings, in grocery stores, on planes — expressing their terror at what Trump can potentially do to our country. People ask regularly What's the strategy?What do we do?
Friend, we are at an important moment in history that's going to require all of us to stand up for our values and take action. If you're ready to join us, sign up for one of the town hall meetings and wsist. Will I see you there?


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Does SFR plan to stick to dice games, or do you plan to branch out into card games, board games, and the like?
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however, given what has recently happened to our guestimates on producing what should've been an easy release...


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Writing about the morning of August 21, 1911—106 years ago today—author Darian Leader observes, “No one raised an eyebrow when Vincenzo Peruggia turned up at work two hours late. How were they to know, after all, that this quiet, discreet house painter had just stolen one of the world’s most famous works of art?”
Peruggia, just twenty-nine at the time, kept the Mona Lisa in his Paris apartment for more than two years, before bringing it with him to Italy, where it was quickly discovered. Here’s a TV special that explores the crime in some depth, including historical recreations in full period costume (yes!) and a score that screams, “Please clap.”


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P.S. To Reply to Jimmy and Brady Sammons above, if you use the ring trick I just mentioned (near bottom),.
Thanks to Magic for figuring it out first.
The torus is what I attached the chain to.
WOW!!! U R GREAT!
I don’t know why u must put a null object… why you must use an explosion modifier… where is the logical line… BUT U ARRIVED WHERE I THINK NOBODY CAN DO!
How did you make the copy of your Pretty Chain? When I first made a copy, I did a ctrl+drag and that gave me problems with the inheritance tag. Then I used cmd+c/cmd+v and it worked.
Of course I can’t do it any better, but in cases like this, it would have been awesome to know Maya or 3Max or something.
can’t watch it, it seems to be private..
Great tut by the way!!!
I tyr to solve this problem but i cant
pretty chain is not follw the dynamic chain like a still image
plz somebody help me~?_?
can you post your project file somewhere? Maybe I can have a look and see what is going on..
maybe post it at c4d cafe…?
I created a scene, built a wall and a dynamic chain, all works fine but when I add the pretty chain it won’t follow.
I did add the null objects.
Maybe I can do a little video to show you and upload my project file later.
try playing with the mass
I removed the pretty chain on the lamp, I liked the ugly one better in this case…
Just watched the cineversity series on this concave shape problem. Be sure to do this too as it’s under free tutorials and explains some methods that might be also a good workaround in some cases.
when i fist try, the dynamic chain is upper than pretty chain becaus its not working
but really happy
really appreciated your tutorial! I found a slightly different approach without the need for an explosion object or the extra null object in hierarchy.
Basically I just split up the chain link into multiple sweep nurbs with ‘keep segments’ enabled, first one’s growth from 0-7%, next 8-15%, next 16-34% and so on…
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By the way nice tutorial. I was actually trying that out the other day. here’s a tutorial I made a while back.
thanks for the perfect TUT! Here is what i created… please make a comment how you like it!
For the people having trouble getting the Inheritance Effector to work, make sure you have ‘Render Instances’ ticked in the cloner objects. It seems to rely on that for some reason.
when i use the inheratince effector my nice chain wont move.
…place the inheritance effector right above your ‘nice chain’?
ahh thanks works now
woaaww.. now we are talkin’.. awesome.
* Fighting Tops – Spinning tops that really keep their balance. Concave bowl.
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Using spline dynamics and contraints.
No audio just video sadly.
Cool tutorial, I´m learning a lot from this site. Good work!!
Hello.. Great tutorial.. Can someone please tell me what I would use if I wanted to attatch a smaller ring to the end of the chain that falls freely with it? I can almost achieve this but gravity pulls the ring right through the chain..


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I’ve tried the truth. “It’s a long way, Mom, but I’ll get us there as fast as I can.”
I’ve tried lying. “We’re almost there. Why don’t you try to take a nap and when you wake up, we’ll be home!”
Remind me, Father, that Your love is sufficient to care for my parents. Sweet Jesus, You promised never to leave us or forsake us. I believe You. Help my unbelief. Holy Spirit, guide my father to the necessary things – rest, nourishment, the comfort of the familiar. Your peace is hard to find tonight, Lord. Yet I thank You, because I know peace will come.aregivers, caregiving, devotionals, focus, miracles, tension	| 2 Replies


Obviously, we all know about (or have been) boy crazy teenagers. But what should you do if you're a parent whose nervous about or dealing with a daughter desperate for some male attention?


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Ok, it's a form of exercise. But there's a whole world of fitness activities that gives you exercises. Yes, but there's a lot of mind, spirits and breathing. And where's the difference with yoga, then?
It's much more flowing. Ok, and Tai Chi?
No, it's much more on the floor. Ok, ok, I got it!It's barre on the floor!
No, it's not so dance-like. But wasn't it very popular among dancers?
Yes, but it's just because Joseph Pilates used to train dancers. Oh my god, there is a Mr. Pilates?


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camera systems~\cite{wilburn05,overbeck2018} and a mobile phone app~\cite{davis2012}.
We posit that prescriptive sampling is necessary for practical and useful IBR algorithms, and we extend prior theory on plenoptic sampling to show that our deep-learning-based view synthesis strategy can significantly decrease the dense sampling requirements of traditional light field rendering. Our novel view synthesis pipeline can also be used in future light field acquisition hardware systems to reduce the number of required cameras.
\subsection{Geometry-Based View Synthesis}
Many IBR algorithms attempt to leverage explicit scene geometry to synthesize new views from arbitrary unstructured sets of input views. These approaches can be meaningfully categorized as either using global or local geometry.
Techniques that use global geometry generally compute a single global mesh from a set of unstructured input images. Simply texture mapping this global mesh can be effective for constrained situations such as panoramic viewing with mostly rotational and little translational viewer movement~\cite{hedman17,hedman18}, but this strategy can only simulate Lambertian materials. Surface light fields~\cite{wood00} are able to render convincing view-dependent effects, but they require accurate geometry from dense range scans and hundreds of captured images to sample the outgoing radiance at points on an object's surface.
Many free-viewpoint IBR algorithms are based upon a strategy of locally texture mapping a global mesh. The influential view-dependent texture mapping algorithm~\cite{debevec96} proposed an approach to render novel views by blending nearby captured views that have been reprojected using a global mesh. Work on Unstructured Lumigraph Rendering~\cite{buehler01} focused on computing per-pixel blending weights for reprojected images and proposed a heuristic algorithm that satisfied key properties for high-quality renderinghigh-quality meshes whose geometric boundaries align well with edges in images, and IBR algorithms based on global geometry typically suffer from significant artifacts. State-of-the-art algorithms~\cite{hedman16,hedman182} attempt to remedy this shortcoming with complicated pipelines that involve both global mesh and local depth map estimation. However, it is difficult to precisely define view sampling requirements for robust mesh estimation, and the mesh estimation procedure typically takes multiple hours, making this strategy impractical for casual content capture scenarios.
IBR algorithms that use local geometry~\cite{chaurasia2013,chen93,kopf13,mcmillan95,ortizcayon15} avoid difficult and expensive global mesh estimation. Instead, they typically compute detailed local geometry for each input image and render novel views by reprojecting and blending nearby input images. This strategy has also been extended to simulate non-Lambertian reflectance by using a second depth layer~\cite{sinha12}. The state-of-the-art Soft3D algorithm~\cite{penner17} blends between reprojected local layered representations to render novel views, which is conceptually similar to our strategy. However, Soft3D computes each local layered representation by aggregating heuristic measures of depth uncertainty over a large neighborhood of views.
We instead train a deep learning pipeline end-to-end to optimize novel view quality by predicting each of our local layered representations from a much smaller neighborhood of views.
Furthermore, we directly pose our algorithm within a plenoptic sampling framework, and our analysis directly applies to the Soft3D algorithm as well. We demonstrate that the high quality of our deep learning predicted local scene representations allows us to synthesize superior renderings without requiring the aggregation of geometry estimates over large view neighborhoods, as done in Soft3D. This is especially advantageous for rendering non-Lambertian effects because the apparent depth of specularities generally varies with the observation viewpoint, so smoothing the estimated geometry over large viewpoint neighborhoods prevents accurate rendering of these effects.
Other IBR algorithms~\cite{anderson16} have attempted to be more robust to incorrect camera poses or scene motion by interpolating views using more general 2D optical flow instead of 1D depth. Local pixel shifts are also encoded in the phase information, and algorithms have exploited this to extrapolate views from micro-baseline stereo pairs~\cite{didyk13,kellnhofer17,zhang15} without explicit flow computation. However, these methods require extremely close input views and are not suited for large baseline view interpolation.
\subsection{Deep Learning for View Synthesis}
Other recent methods have trained deep learning pipelines end-to-end for view synthesis. This includes recent angular superresolution methods~\cite{wu17,yeung18} that interpolate dense views within a light field camera's aperture but cannot handle sparser input view sampling since they do not model scene geometry.
The DeepStereo algorithm~\cite{flynn16}, deep learning based light field camera view interpolation~\cite{kalantari16}, and single view local light field synthesis~\cite{srinivasan17} each use a deep network to predict depth separately for every novel view. However, predicting local geometry separately for each view results in inconsistent renderings across smoothly-varying viewpoints.
Finally, Zhou et al.~\shortcite{zhou18} introduce a deep learning pipeline to predict an MPI from a narrow baseline stereo pair for the task of stereo magnification. As opposed to previous deep learning strategies for view synthesis, this approach enforces consistency by using the same predicted scene representation to render all novel views. We adopt MPIs as our local light field representation and introduce specific technical improvements to enable larger-baseline view interpolation from many input views, in contrast to local view extrapolation from a stereo pair using a single MPI. We predict multiple MPIs, one for each input view, and train our system end-to-end through a blending procedure to optimize the resulting MPIs to be used in concert for rendering output views. We propose a 3Ddynamically adjusts the number of depth planes based on the input view sampling rate, rather than a 2D CNN with a fixed number of output planes. Additionally, we show that state-of-the-art performance requires only an easily-generated synthetic dataset and a small real fine-tuning dataset, rather than a large real dataset. This allows us to generate training data captured on 2D irregular grids similar to handheld view sampling patterns, while the YouTube dataset in Zhou et al.~\shortcite{zhou18} is restricted to 1D camera paths.
\section{Theoretical Sampling Analysis}
The overall strategy of our method is to use a deep learning pipeline to promote each sampled view to a layered scene representation with $D$ depth layers, and render novel views by blending between renderings from neighboring scene representations. In this section, we show that the full set of scene representations predicted by our deep network can be interpreted as a specific form of light field sampling. We extend prior work on plenoptic sampling to show that our strategy can theoretically reduce the number of required sampled views by a factor of $D^{2}$ compared to the number required by traditional Nyquist view sampling. Section~\ref{sec:sampling_validation} empirically shows that we are able to take advantage of this bound to reduce the number of required views by up to $64^{2}\approx4000\times$.
In the following analysis, we consider a ``flatland'' light field with a single spatial dimension $x$ and view dimension $u$ for notational clarity, but note that all findings apply to general light fields with two spatial and two view dimensions.
\subsection{Nyquist Rate View Sampling}
    \caption{Reference for symbols used in Section~\ref{sec:sampling}.}
    \hline Symbol   &  Definition\\ \hline
       $D$  & Number of depth planes \\
       $W$  & Camera image width (pixels) \\
       $f$ & Camera focal length (meters) \\
       $\Delta_x$  & Pixel size (meters) \\
       $\Delta_u$  & Baseline between cameras (meters) \\
       $K_x$  & Highest spatial frequency in sampled light field \\
       $B_x$  & Highest spatial frequency in continuous light field \\
       $z_{\min}$  & Closest scene depth (meters) \\
       $z_{\max}$  & Farthest scene depth (meters) \\
       $d_{\max}$  & Maximum disparity between views (pixels) \\


to Mount Zion. He was scheduled to play with Team In the Zone at the Breakdown Hoops Festival, but due to a neck injury that occured the day before the tournament, he unfortunately couldn't run with the team.
He had huge games against Ryan Reid while leading the team to a 95-91 win in double overtime against Lauderdale Lakes.
Eric Brown was the starting center for the inauguarl Team In the Zone in 2003.
He is a high-flyer who was a dunking machine recording 21 dunks on an array of alley oops while playing at the Division II Nationals where In the Zone went 5-3.
Eon Rivera was the starting point guard for most of the 2003 summer season. The lighting quick point guard has more guts than any player that's ever put on an In the Zone jersey.
He will take the shot at any time and plays with absolutely no fear.
He averaged over 17 points a game for Team In the Zone and put up 36 points against the Miami Tropics.
Rivera signed with Rend Lake Junior College in Ina, Illinois, after taking a year off from school and came off the bench in his freshman year.
hip, but after a year has decided to come home and will attend Florida Memorial College on a basketball scholarship.
Tony Roberts was a member of the inaugural Team In the Zone in 2002-2003. He played forward for the team and provided a multi-talented versatile player off the bench.
He did not play for Team In the Zone last year because he turned 19 prior to the September 1 cutoff prior to his senior year.
He helped lead them to a 24-5 record and a berth in the Regional Finals as a junior and was the starting point guard leading the team to a 28-6 record and the Class 6A state championship as a senior.
He helped lead the team to three wins over Krop, a win over Palm Beach Lakes, and a state title win over Winter Park.
Although a bit overweight, Boozer is a very good defender against opponents his size and makes it very difficult to get easy looks at the hoop.
He helped lead Norlandlongside Zachery Peacock while averaging 10 points and 9 rebounds a game.
Blake Hyden
A blazing fast guard with the ability to push the ball up the court very quickly, he thrives in an up-tempo style of play.
He's also a very good defender and is good at reading the passing lanes.
Up, up, up, up. That's Charlie Coley still rising in the air as this high flying forward dunks all over a defender.
He is an extremely athletic rebounder/shot blocker and long. Coley was the only Freshman named to the NJCAA Region VI Division I All-Region First Team. He averaged 11.7 points, 9.3 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game. He also shot 42.4% from beyond the arc. He will be playing next season (2006-2007) and completing his sophomore year at Dodge City CC in May 2007 in hopes of transferring thereafter to a Division I school in Florida.
A great defender, Joseph also possesses a good mid-range game and can only get better this summer. Joseph can hit the 15-footer with ease and is a good free throw shooter.
He helped lead Monsignor Pace to the Class 3A Final Four and will be a key player under Coach Mark Lieberman next season.
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IIT incubation plans on fast track to boost new business ideas
At a time when the govt is pushing for startup incubation, a culture shift is underway at the new IITs, which have put their plans on fast track. Rica Bhattcharyya&Prachi Verma | ET Bureau | April 29, 2016, 09:53 IST
“The idea is to push for more innovation among all IITs, including the newer ones. This will help generate confidence among students and faculty alike around innovation,” said SK Jain, director of IIT Gandhinagar.
While some students are running their own startups in the 3rd and 4th year of their undergraduate degree, several faculty members too are exploring the possibility of their own startup.
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Online learning platform Career Anna raises Rs 3 Cr funding


We are getting ready to get the kids passports. I have the paperwork filled out. It has been a funny couple of weeks though. The boys passports have expired. And I hadn' t even sent for Natalie's birth certificate. ( She is three) Then I went to get their social security card numbers for the paper work and I have lost them even mine. ( little miss natalie has hid them and can't remember where. She loves my purse.) So I had the priviledge of going to the Social Security office today. They are now on their way. I at least can finish the paperwork. This is the part that has made me dread the whole process. Obtaining the VISAS. But just take it one step at a time that is what everyone keeps saying. Well enough for nows


When I first saw this motorcycle, a couple of months ago, I got excited and immediately shot off an email…
"Creating anything that seems 'retro' can open you up to criticism for being a historicist, or of romanticizing the past, but we're just as excited to face the future. It's mainly a question of how something that is hand-made is actually put together in a small factory in Indiana."
Can you tell us a little bit about Janus Motorcycles and who's behind it?
Why start a motorcycle company?It's a leap of faith…any body try to talk you out of this?
No, I can't say anyone tried to talk us out of it, though they probably should have…
"Broughs have really been a big inspiration for us, both aesthetically and in terms of their manufacturing concept. Like many early twentieth century British motorcycles, Brough Superior took advantage of specialty manufacturers to supply them with their power train and transmissions."
"We design and build everything by hand in and around our home-town of Goshen, Indiana." Why go this route?Wouldn't it be easier to outsource a bit of this work and get some sleep?
One of the details that really caught my eye was the saddlebags. What goes into making your saddlebags?
What's been the most challenging aspect in building your bikes?
You've said, "Our bikes aren't replicas; we haven't designed them to exactly emulate a period from history." Can you elaborate?
I read someplace that you said, "I also come from an architectural, background, but one that has more use for Michelangelo than Mies."
Another one of your comments – which I really like, "Motorcycles are like architecture: they must be beautiful, functional and made to last…Motorcycles are about an experience. What makes that experience more powerful or moving or beautiful?
Vitruvius applied to motorcycles…
Who do you think is going to be the typical Janus rider?Urban or suburban riding?
What's was the process for building the bikes – strict pre-planning or making it up as you go?
Best compliment you've ever received about one of your motorcycles?
We've had some really funny comments like, "my granddad had one of those," but I think the best compliment was when somebody asked, "Is that a Janus?"
When do you plan to start selling your motorcycle and how much will they cost?
"When you are trying to sell small numbers of anything, quality and performance have to be your central focus. You just can't expect to sell three made-in-China exhaust systems and make a living at it. That is, I think, the heart of the renaissance in American manufacturing: initially small production runs focusing on the highest level of quality and performance."
The constant stress?No, that's not a good thing…
What do you like to do when you're not building bikes?


There are several different types of lymphoma.


If you are to locate love into the brand new 12 months then Sunday, Jan. 6 might just be the ideal time to get it.
Dubbed “Dating Sunday” or “Singles Sunday,” the superficial single’s vacation may be the online that is busiest dating time of the season, based on a few dating apps and internet sites. “It is the perfect trifecta,” stated Julie Spira, cyber dating expert and writer of “The Perils of Cyber Dating.” “You’ve got individuals coping with a breakup or who had been down through the vacations, you have all those New Year’s resolutions, along with the clock ticking down seriously to romantic days celebration. Oahu is the very first holiday that is lonely the newest 12 months.”
Sundays additionally are usually the busiest time of this week for web dating as a whole.
Spira said the casual single’s celebration has gained traction within the last 5 years as culture embraces online dating culture. “It is around cuffing period, the couple weeks prior to valentine’s, so people are actually seeking to find a partner,” stated Skyler Wang, a Ph.D. pupil of sociology during the University of Ca, Berkeley whom studies online dating sites in addition to sharing economy.
“these kinds of moments or vacations will also be produced by the web industry that is dating have more individuals to utilize more apps,” Wang stated. “It generates this looping effect where more individuals participate in it. once they find out about exactly how other people are performing”
Just How popular is Dating Sunday?
Professionals state that internet dating activity swells as much as 75 % on that time. The app that is dating predicts you will have a 69 % increase in brand new singles arriving at the software on Dating Sunday, in accordance with marketplace Watch. Match stated that the very first Sunday of the season can be probably the most trafficked time, calculating that users will be sending 1.5 million communications when you look at the 24 hour duration, marketplace Watch reported.
Tinder told Bustle this 1 Dating Sunday resulted in 44 million Tinder matches being made. Relating to a declaration from dating software Bumble to Global Information, Dating is one of Bumble’s busiest days of the year sunday.
Coffee Meets Bagel reports that initial week of January is one of popular time of the year to register for a internet dating service, adding that 11:30 p.m. could be the top hour for brand new member sign ups. Instances have actually changed as well as the real method we end a relationship changed along with it. Buzz60’s Tony Spitz gets the details.
therefore, how can I be noticeable?
As millions of People in america decide to try their smartphones, down load Tinder or Bumble and begin swiping, Spira and Wang offered four strategies for standing down between the ocean of singles: Start fresh. Get started having a palette that is clean swap out any outdated pictures. “If it’s been online and this hasn’t struggled to obtain you yet,” make use of that as an indicator to “push the restart switch,” Spira stated. Update your bio.
In the event that you acquired any brand new hobbies within the year that is past mention those, the specialist stated. Additionally, mention your dream travel locations. “speaking about travel areas, be it a hike up a mountain, have a bbpeoplemeet tendency to get plenty of reactions as it’s an excellent icebreaker,” Spira stated. Use numerous apps.
You’ll find so many apps that are dating there to pick from plus the professionals state having at the least three records can help optimize your likelihood of intimate success. Nonetheless, it is vital to utilize all the apps proactively. Do not play difficult to get.
Talk to individuals, change cell phone numbers and begin setting a romantic date to generally meet, Spira stated. “when you yourself have an incredible number of communications being sent, that is not enough time to try out coy. The only method the that Dating Sunday works is if you agree to fulfilling some body offline.”


Taking our leave of the Rectory Art House with this post. I loved the main staircase, and wanted a shot of it. With a lot of people in and out, of course, that meant having people in the shot. I imagine it was the shutter speed that led to this, but I like it. With some people clearly in motion, my eye is drawn to the woman pausing at the heart of the picture, a moment of stillness as she looks to her left.
It was my first evening using some of the features on the mobile. I have a pic in an upcoming blog from that night with a staircase outside. There are people on it moving faster than the nighttime shutter speed, and they have a ghostly look to them, but I took the shot more for the stairs.
I'm learning my way with this thing. It's just that moment with the woman still that makes that shot work for me.


Posted by robkraft on June 22, 2020
In a nutshell, the concept states that you may control two of the three project factors (Time, Cost, and Scope/Quality), but the third factor is mostly out of your control. Therefore you can:
Have the project fast and within scope (all features desired), but then it may exceed the desired cost,
Side Note: Quality as Part of Scope
I believe that scope includes the aspect of quality. There are two types of software quality. One is the richness of features as seen by the users of the software. The other is the robustness, integrity, and ease of maintenance of the code, deployed solution and ecosystem the solution runs in. Scope can be easily equated with the quality visible to the users of the software. But the quality of the ecosystem and maintainability of the source code is not so easily identified by users of the software. Even so, for purposes of this article, I think that both types of quality can be included within scope.
The problem with the introduction of uncertainty is that, by definition, the decision makers don’t know if the detrimental effects will come to pass; only that detrimental effects are more likely to happen when uncertainty is introduced. Therefore decision makers must decide if the change that is intended to reduce cost, reduce time, or increase quality, is worth the uncertainty that comes with it.
Proactively Reducing Uncertainty
When a project has a tight deadline, a team should be less willing to risk an option that introduces new technologies, and thus uncertainty. Also, when a project has high visibility or life-endangering impact
A team chooses a technology they have not used before. They choose to use .Net Core instead of the .Net Framework. They accept that there are uncertainties, which means risks, to successfully developing with the technology as well as deploying it and supporting it. They develop successfully but when they deploy they discover .Net Core is not supported on the server they deploy to. They realize they need to upgrade the OS on the servers in order to support their application, but the IT team won’t be able to perform the OS upgrade for several more months. This may be acceptable, but if the team had a tight deadline for the project then perhaps this project was not a good candidate due to the uncertainties that came with the new framework.
Here are a few good articles about the traditional benefits of the Project Management Triangle:
https://rapidbi.com/time-quality-cost-you-can-have-any-two/
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Should the developers fix the first app to work on Safari before starting work on the new projects?
Additional information may make decisions more difficult, but these are examples of the challenging decisions we face in software development. Many variables contribute to our decision and most variables can’t easily be measured in dollars and cents.
I once attended a meeting with several customers of our software application. We had a list of projects we could work on. Some projects were for adding new features and others for fixing problems. I’ll never forget what one business owner said, after another business owner had just argued that some of the problems in the software were costing them money and needed to be fixed first. He said:
“I think of my company like a bucket with holes. It has water, in the form money, pouring into it from the spigot, but it leaking. We can spend time fixing the holes, or we can run the water faster. Which way will get the bucket full the fastest?”
Programmer’s Parable – Gathering Requirements Up Front
The business owner asked the software developers to build a new web application for a single client. She said that the web app needed to be really fast. She told the developers this could be the first version of a new product that the company would build upon for years to come.
The team built a great site on time and within budget. They cached as much data as possible to make it really fast. The business owner was pleased. The customers was pleased. The developers were pleased because they had made everyone happy. But the cloud IT manager was not pleased. He noticed the price charged to the client barely covered the hosting cost of running the application in the cloud.
At the party to celebrate the success of the web site, the cloud IT manager asked the business owner if she had a plan to reduce the hosting costs so that the return on investment (ROI) could be earned more quickly. She laughed and said, “Of course I have a plan to improve ROI, but it is not by reducing hosting costs. Now that we have one client on board, I’m going to have the team add dozens more clients to the same web site. The incremental cost of adding each new client should be trivial, just like it is with our other products. Once we have more clients, the hosting costs will seem trivial!” She walked away to talk to someone else without recognizing the doomed expression upon the faces of the developers that overheard the conversation.
The Scrum Master saw the developers looking sad. He asked them why they looked sad. A developer replied, “She said she wants us to add more clients to the application.”, to which the Scrum Master replied, “Yes, I know. It is going to be the top priority in our queue for the next iteration. But why does that make you sad?” The developer took a deep breath and said, “Because the only reason our web app is so fast is because we cache so much data on the server to avoid database calls. The data cached is unique for the client. We didn’t know that we would be expected to support multiple clients on the same web app. We are going to have to redesign the entire app to support this. Plus we don’t know if we can make it as fast as it is now. If we had planned for the next release when we were developing the first version, we would have been able to avoid the complete rewrite that is now needed.”
Is it Agile if you engage in Big Design Up-Front (BDUF)? The answer to that question is to point out that this is the wrong question. In software, the question should never be, “Is it the Agile way?”. The question should be, “What it is the best way?”. Also, in this parable, the problem is lack of future requirements, not lack of future design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Design_Up_Front
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The software developers looked forward to making the desktop software available for download tomorrow. They had worked hard to create a high quality, robust program to support customer needs for many years to come. The business owner stopped by and asked if they had included the discount on purchases for his brother’s company into the software. The developers looked surprised. They did not know about this requirement. The team lead admitted, “I’m sorry, I forgot about it. You mentioned it to me when we had lunch a few months ago but I did not write it down.” The owner, said, “My brother will be one of our first customers, can you add this feature today before we release?” One team member, a mid-level software engineer, spoke up, “Yeah, I think we can make a few simple changes to show a discount in the desktop user interface (UI) only for your brother’s specific account number and it should work fine.” The response seemed to please the owner, but the software architect replied to the mid-level engineer, “I’m not so sure. That may create new problems.” He continued, addressing the product owner, “We will discuss it and get back with you.”
The developers made quick estimates and presented these three options to the product owners to make a decision:
Option 2: Delay the release for two weeks to allow the team to improve the design to support discounts that could be configured by business users without future changes to the code. The benefit would be a design that is more adaptable to changes in product discounts in the future and that the product discount logic could be shared with the mobile app. The drawback is that they would have to tell the customers the product release is delayed for a few weeks.
If the development team has other valuable applications to develop, then perhaps you should choose option 1 instead of option 3 because the return on investment (ROI) of another application is greater than the cost and eliminating the risks than come with option 1. Perhaps the business has another product that will earn a $100,000 per day once deployed. Should the developers spend a few weeks or a month making the first product better when it only brings in $5,000 per day instead of starting work on the second product that will earn $100,000 per day? If the profit earned daily is high, then you should probably lean toward option 1. If the profit earned daily is low, then you should probably lean toward option 2, assuming the application will be around for years to come. If developer costs are low; particularly if your developers have nothing else they could be doing with their time, then option 3 is probably a good choice.


So, is Vila a lazy, cowardly, selfish, irresponsible sod?
He is worth the extra effort. And by the time of Shadow, let alone by Aftermath, he's damned well earned his place, awkward, unwilling and sometimes out-of-control as it is ...
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DNA polymerase μ (Pol μ) is the only template-dependent human DNA polymerase capable of repairing double-strand DNA breaks (DSBs) with unpaired 3′ ends in nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ). To probe this function, we structurally characterized Pol μ's catalytic cycle for single-nucleotide incorporation. These structures indicate that, unlike other template-dependent DNA polymerases, Pol μ shows no large-scale conformational changes in protein subdomains, amino acid side chains or DNA upon dNTP binding or catalysis. Instead, the only major conformational change is seen earlier in the catalytic cycle, when the flexible loop 1 region repositions upon DNA binding. Pol μ variants with changes in loop 1 have altered catalytic properties and are partially defective in NHEJ. The results indicate that specific loop 1 residues contribute to Pol μ's unique ability to catalyze template-dependent NHEJ of DSBs with unpaired 3′ ends.
Figure 1: Structural features of the hPol μ Δ2 binary and precatalytic ternarynucleotide incorporation by hPol μ Δ2.
Figure 3: Electron density for hPol μ Δ2 structures.
Figure 4: Structural characteristics of the hPol μ apoprotein.
Figure 5: Biochemical characterization of wild type and loop 1 mutants of hPol μ.
Figure 6: Comparison of structural rigidity across the family-X polymerases.
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Supplementary Figure 1 Comparison of wild-type full-length and catalytic-domain (Pro138–Ala494) constructs of hPol μ in single-nucleotide gap-filling.
A steady-state polymerase activity assay was performed in order to compare wildtype full-length or truncated Pol μ constructs (5nM), on a single-nucleotide gapped DNA substrate (no enzyme control, C). The percentage of primer extension was calculated for each construct, at two different time points. The two constructs behaved indistinguishably in this assay.
Supplementary Figure 2 Protein engineering of hPol μ Δ2.
(a) Comparison of the X-ray crystal structures of mouse Pol μ (PDB ID code 2IHM1, purple) and mouse TdT (PDB ID code 1JMS2, orange). The relative positions of Loop 1 (green, from mTdT) and Loop 2 (red, from mPol μ) are displayed. (b) Ribbon diagram showing the ordered and disordered regions of Loop 2 in mTdT (orange) and mPol μ (red). (c) ClustalW3 sequence alignments of Loop1 and Loop 2 in mammalian orthologs of Pol μ. Loop1 is boxed in green. Regions of decreased sequence conservation in Loop2 are boxed in red, and were subsequently deleted by site-directed mutagenesis. His363 (magenta), Met382 (green), and Phe385 (cyan) are clearly marked. (d) ClustalW sequence alignments of Loop 2 in mammalian orthologs of TdT. Loop1 is boxed in green, and regions that are structurally homologous to the deleted region of Loop 2 in hPol μ are boxed in red. Phe401 is marked in cyan. (e) Structure of mPol μ (purple), displaying the location of Loop 2 (red), distal from the active site (marked by the incoming nucleotide, cyan), and the DNA binding cleft (khaki ribbon and surface rendering). (f) Structure of engineered Loop 2 from hPol μ Δ2 binary complex (blue), compared to mPol μ (purple). Residues Pro398-Pro410 were deleted, and β-strands 4 and 5 fused by addition of a glycine residue (labeled Gly410 and marked by an asterisk4.
Supplementary Figure 3 Activity assays with wild-type hPol μ and the hPol μ Δ2 variant.
(a) Comparison of wildtype and Δ2 variant hPol μ template-dependent synthesis activity on a single nucleotide gapped DNA substrate. (b) Comparison of wildtype and Δ2 hPol μ template-independent synthesis activity on a single-stranded oligo-dT DNA substrate. (c) Comparison of wildtype and hPol μ Δ2 during in vitro NHEJ assays. Top,DNA substrates used in the NHEJ assay. Bottom, ligation products of NHEJ synthesized by either wildtype or hPol μ Δ2.
Supplementary Figure 4 Implications of loop 1 flexibility for substrate stabilization during DSB repair by NHEJ.
(a) Model of a noncomplementary DSB substrate (purple) bound to the protein component of the hPol μ Δ2 pre-catalytic ternary complex (orange). The primer (strand P) terminus (blue) is unpaired, opposite the discontinuity in the template strand (strand T). The incoming nucleotide (cyan) is correctly paired opposite the templating base (magenta). Location of the disordered Loop1 is marked in green. (b) Hypothetical Loop1 conformations were manually generated for the single-nucleotide gapped ternary complex (green) and for a noncomplementary DSB substrate (red).
Supplementary Figure 5 Biochemical characterization of wild-type and loop 1 mutants of hPol μ.
(a) Uncropped gel from Figure 5b. (b) Uncropped gel from Figure 5c (top panel). (c) Uncropped gel from Figure 5c (bottom panel). All wells in (b) and (c) also contain human Ku (10 nM) and XRCC4/Ligase IV complex (20 nM) in addition to the indicated Family X polymerase (0.5 nM).
Supplementary Figure 6 The multiple cloning site of the pGEXM expression vector.
The vestigial thrombin protease cleavage site from the parental pGEX-4T3 expression vector is highlighted in blue. The Tobacco Etch Virus (TEV) protease cleavage site is shown in green, with a green line clearly delineating the actual site of cleavage. The BamHI restriction site between the two regions encoding the thrombin and TEV protease sites has been deactivated by site directed mutagenesis (blue asterisk), a silent mutation which does not affect the protein sequence. The multicloning site from the pMALX expression vector is shown5, with the pertinent restriction sites marked. Three TGA stop codons (red) are situated immediately downstream of the multicloning site, one in each reading frame. Locations of sequencing primers 5'pGEX and 3'pGEX are shown with directional arrows.


"We've seen the mature homebuyer increasing activity in our region over the last several years," said Sandy Garner, owner of the Bend, Oregon real estate company. "This is likely a result of the baby boomer generation beginning to look at retirement in a community like Bend. Having agents that specialize in this segment of the market will help us serve our clients even better."


Prominent women in Prince George's County gathered Thursday for the 34th Annual Women's History Month Luncheon hosted by County Executive Angela Alsobrooks.
The luncheon was held to celebrate the accomplishments of "visionary women" who make an impact in their local communities. WUSA9's Lesli Foster emceed the event and Journalist April Ryan was the keynote speaker.
This year's theme highlighted women who demonstrate " dedication, commitment and pride in Prince George's County," similar to the national themewhich is centered around women who have made strides to promote the use of nonviolence in society.
For the first time ever, Alsobrooks presented the "The Prince George's Pride Award" to women in the county who have demonstrated civic pride in their work and in their local community.
The Gladys Noon Spellman Scholarship Award was presented to a graduating senior in the county who demonstrates both academic and civic excellence.
The annual luncheon is open to influential women and men working in field such as the arts, business, the government and education.


I've been thrown back into the world of HPLC after I thought I'd left it behind 8 years ago!
Does anyone have any experience of this? What can we look at to stop this happening?
Mobile phase: acetonitrile and water
Column: C8, 4.6 x 150mm
It sounds like a carryover.
Try to run a blank injection after every sample. If this doesn't help try to wash your column with a different mobile phase which clean it of.
You have to see if 40:60 ACN/H2O helps. After it you do a blank run to equilibrate the column to its starter conditions.
After this 95/5 ACN Water. So u retain the storage conditions.


Home World_News-C19 Ellie Goulding: 'I was totally in love with Craig David for quite a long time'
 signs up with Zane Lowe on Apple Music to run through her 'At Home With' playlist. She informs him about how New york city influenced her upcoming album 'Brightest Blue', being tested by Drake and Jay-Z, caring Kate Bush, and how she did a duet with Craig David at her wedding event. She likewise discusses teaming up with Juice WRLD, Swae Lee, and Diplo on the album and exposes she has a whole album of tunes with mega-producer Greg Kurstin that has yet to be launched.
On Craig David Singing At Her Wedding Event …
I have actually constantly actually liked sincerity. I love openness in having the ability to discuss my music, my lyrics, my voice, even where my voice originated from. And I understood that there was a fascination with called much as you might about your idol, everything about the individual that you enjoyed. And I keep in mind when I was a kid, I wished to know whatever about the vocalists that I enjoyed. . He was my first pop gig in Birmingham and he took a look at me, although I was in the nosebleed seats method at the back, he certainly made eye contact with me. No, he did not. Yeah, however I can dream still. Appearance, it's full circle he ended up singing at my wedding event and it was simply like It was simply ideal. I did wind up increasing and singing on phase with him at my wedding event, which I have not confessed to anybody. I did in truth do that. When I first heard Bjork,
On Kate Bush …
I had a comparable sensation. She was among the important things that made me believe that possibly I might be a vocalist. She was a bit speculative, however she plainly had an affinity for popmusic And she sang in a manner in which wasn't quite or on paper quite to listen to, however voices have simply constantly impacted me. I was listening to Kate Bush as much as I was listening to Eddie Vedder since his voice had this insane result on me. I saw among the nights she played 20- something nights at Hammersmith Apollo. I played there a couple oftimes She declined to play the arena as a arena, she simply wished to do extremely intimate efficiencies. And yeah. I'll always remember it. She's not into people or phones recording, which is excellent. She's incredible.
On Being Tested by Drake and Jay-Z …
Drake and Jay-Z tested me on, this is dork minute, because, certainly, I'm a big Drake fan. Who isn't. Somebody came into my old flat in London and was like, "Oh, I swear this is you on this track." Simply believing it was somebody that sounded like me. He's like, "This is Drake's new album." And he puts a song on and it goes, (singing). Yeah. I was like, "Wait, that is me." And nobody had actually informed me anything, nobody had actually called us. And you understand what, it's Drake and Jay Z so they can escape with it. I was like, "You take it. You have it."…I've done that a few times, where people have used my voice, taken it from… I have a few tracks where it's just my voice, it's quite easy to rip it, whatever. And I'm like, " Appearance, I do not care. , if you desire to utilize my voice.." I've had producers message me on Instagram saying, " Can you send me some vocals?" And I simply send them. I do not care.
On How New York City Influenced Her New Album 'Brightest Blue' …
I was living in New York City for a number of years. When you're there, you have to be in a extremely particular state of mind. That was it with New York City. In some way in the middle of that mayhem, I discovered Brightest Blue, the album. And I believe it was a mix of leaving my roots behind and unexpectedly discovering myself. And now I travelled through New york city. It was more voyeuristic. It was more like I would simply be like, ooh, this is a enjoyable city. And I 'd go and play there and never ever actually immerse myself in it, which is actually true for each and every single city I have actually been to, I took it for approved a lot. And after that unexpectedly, I'm in a city. When you're there, you have to be extremely positive. It's odd. You need to have this type of additional layer of self-confidence … If I 'd remained there and after that I might have handled that type of larger world, however I felt like my heart was back here, back in London.
However then for some factor, when I returned to London with the music that I 'd composed, I enjoyed it. It didn't sound like it had actually been made in New York City I do not believe. I composed my second album in the countryside where I matured, and there's a lot fond memories and emotional things finished up in it. And I really think the method you are impacts the method your music sounds. When I was writing in this odd studio on Broadway, and it appears like I still had that inside me. It like a extremely dark studio. And they 'd constantly state, oh, so-and-so was in the other day, and so-and-so is coming tomorrow. I never ever saw a single other artist, however it was insane. Therefore I was type of there by myself, making music for a number of years. And yeah, which type of made the album.
On Her Song "Power", Composed With Jamie Scott …
Power was among those tunes that I simply accepted what itwas We composed the verses on piano and after that I composed with Jamie Scott. Jamie composed a lot of the early One Instructions things and then he worked with Nial and Harry and so he's done a lot of pop things. He is a lovely pianist, a lovely author, has an amazingvoice And he took a seat and composed and we have this piano thing, however you understand what? Someone was like, "Wait, that noises a bit like a Toto song." I imply, I didn't understand this and then we look it up and yes, it sounds like a song that was composed by the man from Toto, I do not understand.
On A Possible Album With Greg Kurstin …
Really, I have tunes that might wind up being another album. And I likewise have a whole album of tunes with Greg Kurstin that have actually never ever been launched. Yeah. I understand. Yeah, we have this entire album that I desire to launch at some point. Yeah, there's certainly choices. There's certainly choices.
On Working Together With Juice WRLD, Swae Lee, Diplo & & More …
It is a great deal of me on this one, which was actually crucial to me. I have actually been doing a great deal of cooperations. I call it on the surface area, since it's circumstances where I have not been with an artist always. for example, with Blackbear on Concern About Me, we just met on the video. When he sent his verse back, I understood it was the one. I desired the Brightest Blue side of the album to be a lot of me. And likewise, you return to old time partners, which I have actually recognized is so crucial. And I feel so fortunate to have those people that I have actually worked with for such a long time, in Fin, Starsmith, Jim Elliot. And Joe Kearns, who is among my best buddies is a total . The only artist I have singing with me on Brightest Blue is serpentwithfeet.
I'm making it sound more complex than it is. It's simply 2 sides to the album. Brightest Blue is all brand-new. Nobody's heard anything from that album apart from Power, now. And after that the other side of the album, I have my song with, God bless him, Juice Wrld. And with – Yeah. Gosh. Unfortunate. Juice Wrld, and with Swae Lee, certainly, with Near Me and Diplo. And after that I have actually got Stress over Me with Blackbear and after that I have actually got a song with Lauv on there. That was the side of the album which I desired to put out there. I didn't wish to reject, I didn't wish to take anything far from those tunes.
Yeah, precisely. And I listen to those tunes and believe, "Wow." I discover it hard to think it's me, and I love that I got to play that type of character. That's what's so incredible. I can still go on a song, I can still be on a song like that, and still get to do my own thing. It's so incredible that I get to have these various methods of working.
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March 17 (UPI) -- "AmMonday on the company's blog.,division, said. ""Without them, many businesses will simply grind to a complete halt," he said. "The worry is that with delivery volumes increasing and more people likely to fall sick, delivery networks could come under increasing pressure."


How the Retail Industry is out of step of Warfare
Introduction to the retail industry and category
(Read our recent in-depth look at the retail industry and category here) Today, the U.S. consumer has made adjustments to the faltering economy by altering their spending habits, while many of the nation’s largest companies and brands struggle as a result. Many are receiving federal bailout money, others are declaring bankruptcy – and only a few are looking for ways to win and grow market share.
(Read a new article on rebranding department stores here)
How can retail adapt?
The survey asked consumers about their habits, decision-making processes and b also asked questions about many specific industries, including the retail industry.
The Retail Industry Trends
For the retail industry, the most disturbing news from the research project is that 54.2% of Americans believe they have permanently changed their bad spending habits.
That usually translates to consumers buying less on credit, which has become more difficult to gain and less desirable at the same time.
Americans are working to reduce their credit card debt, having dropped it by 9.7% in first quarter of 2009, according to recent reports.
Upsetting stuff
What has to be more distressing for the retail market is that women are even more adamant about spending less and being financially conservative.
As detailed in the general report on the study, women have become the lynchpins on which any possible upturn of the economy depends.
The retail world will not be the same
The good news for the retail industry is that those with the most money – household incomes of more than $100,000 – and, therefore, the most to spend have a shared optimism in the retail system, as it were. Less of them believe they have changed their spending habits for good (only 34.6%) than any other demographic in the study.
The same pattern holds true for making decisions solely on price (44.9%), being less open to new things (only 11.5%) to having more job security (only 21.1% worry about it).
Bottom line: There is room for confidence, but what the retail industry will look like in future years is another question.
For years, the major source of retail shopping took place at a mall malls are a dying breed with a 6.5% decline in tenants’ same-store sales across malls nationwide.
There is less consumer traffic, and retailers such as Macy’s and J.C. Penney are struggling, while others – such as Sears – are closing locations.
In our study, 47.8% of Americans say they “avoid shopping at a mall.” Even 35.7% of those under the age of 29, those who usually shop at malls most often, avoid shopping at a mall.
The trend is for more outdoor shopping experiences, usually anchored by a large retailer such as Target or Barnes & Nobles.
The Retail Industry as a Category in Flux
Nonetheless, it means there will have to be evolving retail models. The largest threat will continue to be the Internet. It has become the largest issue – and greatest opportunity for some – that all retailers must ask themselves:
Are we gonline shopping? If so, it’s time to change the model because industries such as movie rentals (Blockbuster) and many others are dying because they were late to change.
There are certain industries in which consumer interaction is more of a given than others. In clothing, for example, stores will never go completely away as the in-store experience still plays an important role. Many still want to “try it on” before making a purchase.
Still, even those retailers must change their model. Gap recently reported its online revenue increased 13.1%, while total sales declined 7.4%. It doesn’t take an economist to understand where everything’s heading.
When asked if they had purchased a CD at a store in the last year, 51.8% of U.S. consumers said they had not, which speaks to the power of online music providers such as iTunes. It’s one of the reasons why entertainment retailer FYE has seen a 14% drop in sales and has closed 35 stores.
Retailers have developed a unique pattern when it comes to branding. The big box retailers, such as Wal-Mart and Target, have marketed distinctive brands (Wal-Mart is for the smart shopper; Target the smart shopper with style), while many of the smaller specialty stores automatically reflect their consumers by their simple specialty (such as a jeweler).
A specialty focus will help
The largest retailers, of course, outspend the competition but research has also shown that a down economy always favors the market leaders because consumers view them as safest choice.
Specialty stores, or retailers that have focus, also do well because consumers seek expertise or a simpler way to make choices.
That’s why retailers such as Toys R Us are doing well because they directly reflect their consumer. (Toys R Us reported an increase in comparable stores sales of 1.9%, more than the national average.)
The ones caught in the middle cannot match those billion-dollar advertising budgets and are too general to fight within the specialty market, especially as online shopping has become so dominant.
What are they to do? Put a stake in the ground and claim, “This is who are” and, most importantly, “This is who our customer is.” Right now, those retailers are failing to capture those with the most opportunity – the ones making more than 100K who are more optimistic – and move out of the shopping mall.
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Making time for play can help bring harmony

A. SQUABBLING and fighting is a normal part of growing up with siblings and it is perfectly natural for there to be an element of hierarchy and rivalry.
But it is also very understandable that this can cause a level of disharmony and can be very hard to listen to as a parlearn to get along better and co-operate more as a family unit - it will just take a little patience and tolerance.
Generally speaking, children below the age of seven find it more difficult to co-operate. They still live in a world where they are the centre, and their needs, wants and desires take priority. Older than this age, children should have learned and emotions, and how their actions can have an impact.
This may help you understand why your children are behaving this way.
Children love to play, especially with their parents and this is an excellent way of teaching children to have fun together, to take turns and to share toys, equipment, etc.
Try to make some fun time every day to give your children some of your time away from chores, housework, etc. Soundsas a single parent, to find the time. However, you will quickly see that it can be great fun for everyone and very rewarding.
This can also be a great way of keeping them focused and entertained and therefore out of trouble.
Try not to take sides or get involved in the rows. Again, easier said than done, but in time your children will learn the skill of problem solving and avoiding conflict as they grow and mature.
If they are continually roping you into their arguments, you may actually be compounding this behaviour. Try not to respond to tittle tattling - instead clearly explain that you are not going to get involved.
If someone is getting a little too overpowering, try focusing them in a task or diverting them away from the others to give them the space to calm down.
Keeping your patience and cool really is the key to helping them work through this phase.
It can be hard keeping four children happy and entertained but it is important that they learn from you. Your behaviour is key to how they learn to behave so a calm, collected and fair approach is essential.
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casts- priveledged, storied and talented, but standing just outside and apart the spirit of the Games.
If the best should represent us in every sporting endevour and the ideals of ameteurs competing in the Games is truly dead, then why not have professional boxers with title belts compete as well, or professional wrestlers, or grand masters in Taekwando? What folly would it be to see Dela Hoya fighting for Mexico in the Olypics against Kelly Pavlik or Paul WIlliams? Where are the opportunities for the unknowns striving for the same excellence, recognition and glory that these professionals already have in spades. It is borderline travesty of the professional order and our response as a global viewing public is to simplify it back to personalities and hype.
As you've pointed out SnappyTom, many people have missed the point of the article and have displayed the same type of attitude which is parodied in the article... funny that.
i don't agree with you because i think you shouldn't be so strict with them.
Personally, I find it stunning that the Aussie players calling the US players by their numbers was effective at all...I mean, how fragile a psyche and how big an ego do you have to have to be put off by that?
What's even more amusing are the posters who whine about the Aussies' hard fouls. Hard fouls? People, try playing Aussie Rules Football.
Maybe it had something to do with the Australians talking trash in the media before the game.
That's interesting. What did they say?
The Australians were by far the chippiest of all the teams that played the US. Fair enough, you do what you have to in order to gain an advantage. However, expecting hugs and kisses after the game is really a bit much. I didn't see any outward signs of disrespect from the American players, and I haven't heard similar quotes from other US opponents.
The reality is that what the Australians did probably crossed a line with some of the US players, especially since the chatter seemed to start with the exhibition game and continued through to the Olympic matchup. I had no problem with Boozer's takedown of Nielsen, given that Nielsen still seemed to be grandstanding and instigating even as the game got out of reach...in fact, it was rather enjoyable to see such a hypocritical display of "why me?" from a self-styled irritant who got some of his own medicine and was laying flat on the ground.
It's a peculiar form of sportsmanship to claim that anything goes during competition, and that all is forgiven the moment the match is over. Giving a heavy underdog license to disrespect a heavily favored team throughout, then crying for respect afterward? Last time I checked, respect had to be earned.
amen to that max. couldnt have said it any better.. </s> As if that wasn't enough to get the crowd into a frenzy, there was the sparkling Olympic Silver Medal performance of Rudy Fernandez with the Spanish National Team to get tongues wagging, including the Spaniard swingman's stunning dunk over Team USA's own manchild Dwight Howard. There was also a Summer League MVP performance by fellow rookie Jerryd Bayless to continue the Kevin Pritchard worship by the Rose Garden faithful.
Last season saw the Blazers do much better than expected and the All-Star play of Brandon Roy got him not just Oregon-wide, but national recognition as a player to respect. LaMarcus Aldridge proved himself as a player on the verge of similar fame with many solid performances as the inside punch to Roy's outside kick. Along the way, we saw the hatching of Travis Outlaw as a solid go-to scorer and perhaps the best bench injection in the league down the stretch of games. Late on we were reminded with glimpses of what Channing Frye can do on the basketball court with a solid finish to the regular season, followed by the off-season news that he was developing a three point shot to prove himself worthy of playing time.
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How much could you bet on bitcoin with?
A mystery investor has been reported to bet on bitcoin with about $1 million. The story, but the identity of the investor was not available. The bet was made by purchasing call options set to expire at the end of 2018, hoping that the value of bitcoin will reach $50,000 by then. It is an audacious bet on bitcoin, even despite the recent rally by the coin. If it were you, would you make the same bet?
What are the details of the bet on bitcoin?
The transaction was performed on the LedgerX exchange, a derivatives exchange that deals in, among other things, options. When call options are purchased, they give the buyer the right to purchase a specific asset at an agreed upon time in the future, or even before then. However, the options expire after the date passes and become useless. The opposite type of options are called puts, which give the owner the right to sell an asset at or before a specified date in the future.
Options are used by investors to make sure that they can hedge against risk by ensuring they pay their preferred price. For example, if Apple would like to ensure they pay a particular price for aluminium to be used on their next iphone, they would purchase call options with an aluminium manufacturer. When the date came, they would buy the aluminium at the agreed upon price, even if the market price for aluminium may have changed. In this way, Apple can plan exactly how much they have to spend for materials and not be shocked by changes in market prices.
As for the bet on bitcoin, the investor’s call options give them the right to buy bitcoin at $50,000 on or before the 28th of December 2018. They would have the right to purchase 275 bitcoin for $50,000 each, which would be a transaction of $13.8 million. The deal cost them $1 million for the options, which would not be a bad haul if it all works out. In fact, if bitcoin surpasses $50,000 and goes to, say, $75,000, they would still have the right to buy at $50,000.
On the other hand, if the prices don’t get to the $50,000 mark, they can choose not to buy the options. Remember, call options only give the investor a right, but it’s not mandatory. The only downside is that they would lose the $1 million investment if bitcoin fails to reach $50,000.
Is it possible for bitcoin to reach $50,000 in 2018?
According to many experts, they have predicted a $50,000 forecast for bitcoin in 2018. Some have even forecasted $100,000, although this may be a bit too optimistic. The adoption of bitcoin provides the support for such a prediction. Not only have bitcoin futures become a reality, now even Goldman Sachs are planning to set up a bitcoin trading desk in 2018. If other investment banks follow this trend, they may create enormous liquidity in the markets and push prices to and beyond $50,000.


Chase star Paul Sinha The Sinnerman's life from GP to comedy and marriage
Paul hasn't let his recent Parkinson's diagnosis stop him from living a full life and it's not affected his quizzing ability either
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Paul, 51, has had a very varied life before becoming a household name on the ITV show.
In his spare time Paul enjoyed quizzing and soon became a formidable opponent, eventually landing a job as a Chaser.
In 2019 Paul was diagnosed with Parkinson's, but he hasn't let the neurological condition affect him, regularly getting above 20 in the final chase and thrashing the team before him.
Here's everything you need to know about Paul's life alongside the Chase
One of Paul's early ambitions was to become a doctor and he succeeded.
During his time at medical school he became the'Slag Mag.'
Paul had always been good at quizzing, but during his time as a doctor he found it difficult to find the time to quiz and only really picked it up again when he quit medicine.
Paul has performed in nine shows at the Edinburgh Fringe and has played every major comedy club in the UK.
Quizzing and The Chase
After quitting his medical career Paul decided to become an expert quizzer and soon made appearances on a variety of quiz shows.
He appeared on Tu an Egghead, Mastermind and Brain of Britain.
In 2011 after gaining a name for himself on the quizzing circuit Paul was recommend to become a brand new Chaser by Mark Labbett and Anne Hegarty.
He joined the show as the fourth Chaser and soon built up a cult following.

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Riina empleó también la traición en su guerra, convenciendo con frecuencia a sus rivales a que se uniesen a él y asesinándolos cuando ya no le eran útiles o cuando sus ambiciones se incrementaban; algo que hizo incluso con dos de sus más leales y despiadados asesinos, Pino Greco y Filippo Marchese. En enero de 1983, tras decidir que Marchese ya no le era útil, Riina ordenó a Pino Greco que lo asesinara. Tres años después, es el mismo Riina ordenó a Vincenzo Puccio y Giuseppe Lucchese que maten a Greco a balazos tras comprobar como las ambiciones de este se incrementaban.
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We have been talking a lot about letting go of, or throwing away, our ideas of how we think the world should operate. The problems we are facing are only exacerbated by clinging to them. What Lao Tzu is offering to us is being one with the Tao. Being one with the Tao, or in harmony with the way things are, is all about returning to our common Source. Or, like Lao Tzu depicted it yesterday, drinking from the great Mother’s breasts.
I am going to keep my commentary brief today. Why? Because my posts lately have been overly long; though, I hope, illuminating. There isn’t anything really new to say today. We have been saying this all along.
We need to let go and let the Tao. If that sounds a whole lot like “let go and let God” good, that means you are getting it, somewhat. Not because the Tao is God. We covered that in a much earlier chapter. What is God, but our notions of how to make sense of it all? But, the Tao predates our notions of God. The Tao is before time and space. What are time and space but our notions of the way things are? Well, the Tao is before that, too. It is beyond is and is not. What is Lao Tzu trying to say here?
That we are still resisting. We still don’t understand that our ideas of what is, and is not, are holding us back from being in harmony with the Tao. Lao Tzu knows this is true; because he looks inside himself, and sees that it is true. Dare to let go of all these notions. Dare to look inside yourself and see.  What do you see?


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The indications of a new state of play episode for PS5 in early August are condensing. A recent schedule by VentureBeat editor Jeffrey Grubb suggests that the next episode of the Sony show will take place between August 5th and 11th. The information is consistent with previous reports: An insider had already reported last week that the next State of Play edition will take place on August 6, 2020. Sony could use the episode to present news about PlayStation 5. Among other things, fans are still waiting for the price and the final release date. As soon as the data is clear, the PS5 should be available for pre-order.
The next State of Play issue for PS5 is apparently in the starting blocks. How to get an updated one Appointment list by VentureBeat editor Jeffrey Grubb the new episode takes place in early August. He doesn't call a closer date. However, the arrangement of the appointment list suggests that Sony's next state of play show will take place between August 5 and 11. Rumors of a new edition of the web format were already in the past week: An insider reported that the next episode on August 6that 10 p.m.
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Huntingdon comic store manager crowned country's high street hero after nationwide vote
Adam Makey, store manager at Niche Comics, was named best independent story manager in the Great British High Street Competition
Niche Comics & Bookshop manager Adam Mackey with his award
Adam Makey, who has run Niche Comics & Bookshop in Huntingdon since 2011, was chosen as best ‘independent store manager’ in the Great British High Street Competition.
The store manager received £1,000 and was awarded a trophy by the Government'son December 12.
Niche Comics owners Adam Makey (left) and Guy Makey at the launch of their store in 2011. (Image: Keith Jones)
Adam said: “I’m very grateful to have won this award, it certainly validates all the hard work I’ve been doing to support the high street in Huntingdon.”
Adam was and his brother, Guy, were only in their twenties when both decided to open a comic shop in their home town.
Their store, housed in a 500 year old high street building, sells new comics, graphic novels, books, table top games and gifts for a range of age groups.
The enterprising duo are committed to bringing a younger generation into the local high street by running evening events and offering work experience placements.
High Streets Minister Andrew Percy said: "Adaminside their independent store (Image: Keith Jones)
The annual Great British High Streetims to celebrate work being done to revive the nation’s high streets.
This year’s competition saw a record 900 entries and 500,000 votes cast across 14 categories, with a final 12 ‘high street heroes’ that went through a month long public vote.
Winners in each category get a share of the £100,000 prize pot and will be provided with.