What are baby strollers doing in Buick showrooms?
For the first time in history, Buick is selling a minivan and, according to Buick officials, the family oriented vehicle is attracting younger buyers.
Parents, not just grandparents, are checking out the new-for-2005 Buick Terraza, said company spokesman John Wray.
BASE PRICE: $28,110 for base CX; $30,990 for CX AWD; $31,170 for CXL; $33,855 for CXL AWD.
TYPE: Front-engine, all-wheel-drive, seven-passenger minivan.
ENGINE: 3.5-liter, overhead valve, 60-degree V6.
MILEAGE: 17 (city), 23 (highway).
OPTIONS: Chrome, 10-spoke wheels $650; XM Satellite radio $325; AM/FM stereo with 6-CD changer and MP3 player $295; remote starter $165.
The pleasant-looking, seven-seat Terraza with V6 and available all-wheel drive is one of four new minivans at General Motors Corp. this year. But Buick's Terraza has the distinction of carrying the highest base price in the group that includes the new 2005 Chevrolet Uplander, Saturn Relay and Pontiac Montana SV6.
Starting manufacturer's suggested retail price, including destination charge, is $28,825 for a base, front-wheel-drive Terraza. Note that all Terrazas, even the base model, come standard with rear DVD entertainment system as well as a free, one-year subscription to the OnStar emergency notification service.
Competitors in the minivan segment include the 2005 Honda Odyssey, which starts at $25,710 without a DVD system, and the Dodge Grand Caravan, which starts at $23,550 without DVD system. Neither the Odyssey nor the Grand Caravan offers OnStar.
For decades, Buick has been known for its premium, five-and six-passenger sedans, sold in recent years to many buyers who are in their 60s and older.
The brand has never had a van before, but officials thought it would help bring younger buyers to Buick, Wray said.
At 17.1 feet long and 6 feet tall, the Terraza is a bit longer and taller on the outside than the top minivan sellers, the Dodge Grand Caravan and Honda Odyssey.
But the Terraza looks far less bland than many minivans, thanks to a sport utility-styled front end and roof rack.
Looks aside, the Terraza comes with the usual minivan features including a large, single-piece liftgate at the back that opens upward and second-row doors slide open as they do in other minivans. Passengers can walk, albeit hunched over, from the front to rearmost seats.
All the 2005 GM minivans ride on the same platform and have the same 200-horsepower, 3.5-liter, overhead valve, 60-degree V6 mated to the same four-speed automatic transmission.
But the Terraza also has automatic load leveling in the rear suspension.
In the test Terraza, an uplevel CXL model with all-wheel drive, the independent front MacPherson strut suspension and independent double wishbone rear soaked up most road bumps and kept them away from passengers.
The only outright jolts came when the 17-inch tires traveled over potholes.
Unfortunately, though, passengers could sense a heavy mass, particularly at the back wheels, when the test all-wheel-drive minivan traveled over certain bumps, such as speed bumps. This unsprung weight, as it's called, sometimes elicited a "ka-bonk" sound from the mechanicals in back that didn't convey a premium ride.
Still, the Terraza's high ride height was a bonus. At 5-foot-4, I just opened the door and set myself onto a seat. There was no strenuous climb to get inside.
And in the Terraza's driver's seat, I looked down on cars and through the windows of many SUVs in front of me to see what was ahead on the road.
The power rack-and-pinion steering has a mainstream feel, and the Terraza's 200-horsepower V6 sounds strong and confident during acceleration. Much of the rest of the time, engine sounds aren't noticeable.
Power comes on in steady, competent fashion, and the test Terraza merged into city traffic with ease. Passing on two-lane, country roads was comfortable, too, and shifts from the transmission also were made quite smoothly.
Peak torque of 220 foot-pounds comes at 4,400 rpm.
But there was an annoying, slight whistle sound that emanated each time the test Terraza accelerated through the first and second gears, and it seemed to come from somewhere in the engine compartment.
Comparison shoppers will find the Terraza's engine isn't as powerful as the Odyssey's V6, which generates 255 horses and 250 foot-pounds at 5,000 rpm.
The front-drive Odyssey, which has a five-speed automatic transmission for improved gas usage, also leads all minivans in fuel efficiency with a rating of 20 miles a gallon in city driving and 28 mpg on the highway.
The top rating for a Terraza is 18 mpg in city driving and 24 mpg on the highway for a front-wheel-drive model, which is about in the middle of the minivan field for gasoline use.
For example, it's close to the 18/25 mpg of the 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan with 207-horsepower, 3.8-liter V6 that generates 238 foot-pounds of torque at 4,000 rpm.
But Terrazas with Versatrak all-wheel drive are rated lower at 17/23 mpg.
Drivers don't need to do a thing to activate the all-wheel drive. The system notices when front wheels begin to lose traction and then automatically transfers some power to the rear wheels.
The system also can shift the power from one rear wheel to the other.
But the all-wheel-drive feature evidently resulted in Buick not getting one of the popular minivan trends of the past few years: Fold-into-the-floor rear seats.
The Odyssey pioneered third-row seats that drop down into a cavity in the floor, so they don't have to be removed and left behind.
This feature, which provides a flat load floor for easing items inside, has been copied by competitors, and Chrysler's vans now offer their own Stow-'n-Go seating that includes second-row seats that also fold flat into the floor.
But the Terraza's second- and third-row seats, while having seatbacks that fold down, must be removed entirely for the maximum cargo space, and I wrenched my back trying to lug them out.
Left inside with the seatbacks down, the second-row seats didn't sit flat, and I had to lift big items, such as furniture, over the contoured, hard plastic map pockets on the back of the second-row seats or risk damaging the van's plastic as well as the furniture I was placing inside the vehicle.
Wray said the company decided against fold-into-the-floor seats because officials wanted to have enough room under the Terraza's floor to fit the all-wheel-drive components. They also wanted to fit the Terraza's class-leading 25-gallon gas tank.
The Grand Caravan and Odyssey come with 20- and 21-gallon tanks, respectively, and neither is offered with all-wheel drive.
The Grand Caravan used to have all-wheel-drive but it was eliminated when Dodge added the fold-into-the-floor seats, Dodge spokeswoman Kathy Graham said. She added that only 3 percent of Grand Caravan buyers opted for all-wheel-drive.
As for my struggle to get the seats out of the Terraza, Wray said, "We believe most people will get the utility they need with the (seatbacks) folded down and remove (the seats) only occasionally."
The Terraza's interior passenger headroom and legroom is pretty much on par with competitors'. The Terraza's shoulder room is less because the vehicle is narrower than the Odyssey and Grand Caravan.
Too bad, though, that the 2005 Terraza doesn't include standard seat-mounted side airbags or curtain airbags.
Both of these safety items are standard on every Odyssey, and curtain airbags are offered as an option on the Grand Caravan.
But curtain airbags aren't available on the current Terraza, and side airbags are a $350 option unless buyers move to the upper-level Terraza CXL.
Families are the primary target buyers for the Terraza, officials have said.
Introduced late in calendar 2004, the Terraza has tallied 6,195 sales, the smallest number of the four new GM vans.
Last month, Terrazas were part of a safety recall of 14,600 GM minivans issued because they might not meet a federal standard involving the rear, parking brake. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the rear brake might come on during acceleration and coasting and make noise in certain circumstances.
NHTSA reported the Terraza received five out of five stars in frontal crash testing for driver and front-passenger protection.
In side crash testing, the Terraza earned four out of five stars for front-seat protection and five out of five for rear-seat protection. NHTSA said it did not have a rollover rating for the Terraza.


Syrian regime air strikes and artillery fire hit the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta for a sixth straight day Friday killing 32 civilians, as the world struggled to reach a deal to stop the carnage.
More than 450 civilians, including over 100 children, have been killed in nearly a week of bombardment that has been one of the seven-year Syrian conflict's bloodiest episodes -- and rescuers were searching for more bodies buried in the rubble.
The leaders of France and Germany urged Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose airforce is also striking Eastern Ghouta near Damascus, to back a 30-day truce at a UN Security Council vote.
The council delayed the crunch vote by over three hours to 1930 GMT, as negotiations went into high gear to avoid a veto from Syrian regime ally Moscow, which has been calling for "guarantees" that the ceasefire would be respected by rebel fighters.
Few of Eastern Ghouta's nearly 400,000 residents -- mostly living in a scattering of towns across the semi-rural area east of the capital -- ventured out on Friday.
An AFP correspondent in Douma, the enclave's main town, saw a handful of people stealthily crossing rubble-strewn streets to assess damage to their property or look for food and water.
He said rescuers carried a young boy wounded in the eye, blood trickling down his face, to one of the town's hospitals. "Will I see again?," he asked a doctor.
Death has fallen from the sky relentlessly since government and allied forces intensified their bombardment on Sunday and rocket fire soon forced everybody to run for cover.
Exhausted and famished families cowered in cramped and damp basements, exchanging information on the latest casualties of the government's blitz.
Some of the only people braving the threat of more bombardment were medical staff in those hospitals still standing and rescuers sifting through the wreckage of levelled buildings.
Fresh strikes on Friday, by the Syria regime and its Russian ally, killed at least 32 civilians, including six children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based war monitor, said the strikes targeted different areas of Eastern Ghouta.
The latest deaths brought to 462 the number of people killed -- including 103 children -- since the regime and Russia intensified their bombardment of the besieged area on February 18.
More than 2,000 people have been wounded.
Rebels have been firing back into the capital Damascus, where on Friday a hospital was hit, the official Syrian news agency SANA said.
Diplomats at the United Nations failed to clinch Russian approval late Thursday on a resolution calling for a 30-day truce to allow for humanitarian aid and medical evacuations.
They then announced that a vote would take place on Friday, but it was delayed twice amid staunch Russian resistance.
Negotiations were continuing to avoid a Russia veto of the text that would establish a truce to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and medical evacuations.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron wrote to Putin to ask him to back the ceasefire.
The latest text softens language in a key provision to say that the council "demands" a ceasefire instead of "decides".
It also specifies that the ceasefire will not apply to "individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated" with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group. A previous version simply mentioned the two groups.
"The UN says it is concerned and calls for a ceasefire, France condemns, but they have given us nothing," said Abu Mustafa, one of the few civilians on the streets of Douma Friday morning.
"Every day we have strikes, destruction. This would draw tears from a rock," said the 50-year-old, who was escorting a wounded person to hospital.
The enclave has been controlled by Islamist and jihadist groups since 2012.
The main rebel groups in Eastern Ghouta rejected in a statement released Friday any deal that would see them or other residents relocated.
"We categorically reject any initiative providing for inhabitants to leave their homes and be transferred towards any other location," they said in a letter addressed to Guterres.
The area is completely surrounded by government-controlled territory and residents are unwilling or unable to flee the deadly siege.
The dire images of civilian victims bleeding to death in understaffed hospitals and the scope of the urban destruction have shocked the world and drawn comparisons with the devastating 2016 battle for Aleppo.
The aid community has voiced its frustration at being prevented from assisting civilians in Eastern Ghouta, which has been under government siege since 2013.
"The blocking of this resolution is another failure to end human suffering in Syria, with the UN Security Council rendered impotent as this senseless war rages on," Thomas White, Syria director at the Norwegian Refugee Council told AFP.
Government forces have this month reinforced their deployment around the enclave in preparation for a ground offensive that White said would spark an even worse humanitarian crisis.
"If aid agencies are unable to meet urgent needs now, how can we possibly be prepared to tackle what is yet to come," White said.


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Four years after its formation the choir launched a traveling choir, VOICES OF JUBILATION, which has ministered domestically and internationally. In fact, its first tour was held in Japan. JUBILATION has been honored to perform with Queen Latifah at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships and at the Super Bowl.
A native of Newark, New Jersey, Reverend Dr. Stefanie R. Minatee - "Rev. Stef," as she is affectionately called, is the artistic director & founder of the Grammy(R)-Award winning choir, JUBILATION. She has built her life and career around music.
Upon graduating from Newark's prestigious performing arts high school, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in music performance with a certification in music education from Kean University. Afterwards, she spent nearly 30 years as a vocal education teacher in the Plainfield Public School District. Under the tutelage of Dr. Minatee JUBILATION has released six albums and holds the distinction as the last choir to have performed with the late music giant Ray Charles.
"From The Middle Passage: An African American Journey"
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Hi Mr.Reece if you go on your blog can you respond to this??????????? This year I am in Mr Penners class room which is 8-16. I am doing very well and I had a great summer how about you???????????
Convert these two sentences into algebraic using the above formula.
Sentence 1: Scott is 2 years older than Donald who turns 12 on June 21st 2006. Write this sentence in the format of mx + b = y, then convert it into an expression which allows us to figure out the age of Scott. Scott is 13 years old and Donald will be 12 years old.
Sentence 2: Elizabeth has $200 in her savings account. She makes $40 every two weeks babysitting for her next door neighbours. If Elizabeth saves all of her money solve for how much money she will have in one year? Elizabeth will have a total of $1160 in one year.
Question 2: Creation. You need to create two questions for your classmates that cover different concepts (ex: T-charts, patterns, equations, graphs etc.) that you have learned in this unit on Algebra. You then need to show how to solve the questions. Your mark will be based upon the lvl of question's difficulty, and the effort put into your answer.
Bobby has $500 dollars in his bank account and he earns $50 every month. His friend John has $250 in his bank account and he earns $75 every month. How much will Bobby and John have in their bank account in one year and who will have the most amount of money? Bobby will have a total of $1100 and John will have a total of $1150 and John will have $50 more than Bobby.
One day, Sandy and Lina decided to save money and buy a walkman for $150 and share it with each other since they were sisters. Sandy had $60 in her bank account and she would add $10 everyday for 10 days while Lina had $120 in her bank account but she would spend $10 everyday for herself for 10 days. On the 10th day, will Lina and Sandy have enough money to buy the $150 walkman and have leftover money? Or will they have to save more to buy a walkman? Sandy and Lina will have enough money in total to buy the $150 walkman and have $40 leftover.
Question 3: Reflection. You need to look back at the chart that we filled out during the first day of the unit. This is the chart where you coloured a topic red, yellow or green. You now need to pick one concept that you coloured yellow or red and reflect in words what new skill/idea that you have learned on this topic.
Can I use my words to create an algebraic formula?
I coloured this in red because I didn't know how to create a algebraic formula. So if I didn't know how to make one, I would probably not be able to make one from a T-Chart or use an algebraic formula to solve for an unknown. It was easier to make a formula when Mr.Reece had taught us how and it was helping me solve an unknown and make a formula by using a T-Chart.
Question 4: Preparing for the final exam. You need to think about the year that has past in mathematics and decide which topic is your weakest, and what you need to learn duriong class review in order to prepare yourself for the final exam. It is not enough to say fractions, instead pick your weakest area of fractions, say the subtraction or fractions, and give an example of what you don't understand.
Question 1: Formulas. We've learned how to write algebraic equations in the form of mx+b=y. Convert these two sentences into algebraic equations using the above formula.
Sentence 1: Scott is 2 years older than Donald who turns 12 on June 21st 2006. Write this sentence in the format mx+b=y, then convert it into an expression which allows us to figure out the age of Scott.
Sentence 2: Elizabeth has $200 in her savings account. She makes $40 every two weeks babysitting for her next door neighbours. If Elizabeth saves all of her money solve for how much money she will have in one year.
Question 2: Creation. You need to create two questions for your classmates that cover different concepts (ex: T-Charts, patterns, equations, graphs etc.) that you have learned in this unit on Algebra. You then need to show how to solve the questions. Your mark will be based upon the level of questions difficulty, and the effort put into your answer.
There are 500 chocolate muffins for sale at the bake sale. If there were 50 customers and the each got the same amount how many muffins did each customer get?
There are 12 dentists and 48 toothbrushes. How many toothbrushes does each dentist get?
Question 3: Reflection. You need to look back at the chart that we filled out during the first day of the unit. This is the chart where you coloured a topic red. yellow or green. You now need to pick one concept that you coloured yellow or red and reflect in words what new skill/idea you have learned on this topic.
Can I create a T-Chart for my pattern?
This topic I coloured red because I did not get how to do that.
Now I can easily do that because it is really easy now that I know what I am doing. I learned that you can solve a pattern by using a T-Chart.
Question 4: Preparing for the final exam. You need to think about the year that has past in mathematics and decide which topic is your weakest, and what you need to learn during class reveiw in order to prepare yourself for the final exam. It is not enough to say fractions, instead pick your weakest area of fractions, say the subtraction of fractions, and give an example of what you don't understand.
My weakest topic is fractions. Inside fractions I have trouble multipling fractions. I have always had trouble with fractions.
Elizabeth will have $5240 in her acount at the end of the year.
2. There are 156 cookies in a jar and Heather ate 4 a day. How many cookies would be left in the jar at the end of the month which has 30 days?
There are 20 Police Officers and 5 dozen doughnuts. How many doughnuts were left for the next day?
3. Can I use my words to create an Algebraic Formula?
I coloured this topic red because at the begining of the year I didn't understand how to do it. Now I can make an Algebraic Formula with words and it will make sence.
4. My weakest topic in math is doing Area and Circumference of a Circle, Triangle and Rectangle. I have trouble getting the answers for them.
mx + b = y. Convert these two sentences into algebraic equations using the above formula.
Sentence 1. Scott is 2 years older than Donald who turns 12 on June 21st 2006. Write this sentence in the format of mx + b = y, then convert it into an expression which allows us to figure out the age of Scott.
N + 2 = 13 N = 11 which is Donalds age since he has not yet turned 12.
Sentence 2. Elizabeth has $200 in her savings account. She makes $40 every two weeks babysitting for her next door neighbours. If Elizabeth saves all of her money solve for how much money she will have in one year?
Question 2: Creation. You need to create two questions for your classmates that cover different concepts (ex: T-Charts, patterns, equations, graphs etc.) that you have learned in this unit on Algebra. You then need to show how to solve the questions. Your mark will be based upon the level of question’s difficulty, and the effort put into your answer.
Question 4: Preparing for the final exam. You need to think about the year that has past in mathematics and decide which topic is your weakest, and what you need to learn during class review in order to prepare yourself for the final exam. It is not enough to say fractions, instead pick your weakest area of fractions, say the subtraction of fractions, and give an example of what you don’t understand.
Question 1: What is the difference between an algerbraic expression and an equation (Hint: One contains this and the other doesn't)? Give an example of both an expression and an equation.
An Algebraic expression is when you combine numbers, operatives, and/or free variables and bound variables. You get to choose the variable in an algebraic expression. An example: 5A X 6. In Algebraic equation, the variable is already given. There are two types of equations (from my knowledge), one step; 3E - 6 = 9, and two step; 3N = 1N +10. An example of an equation; 3H - 5 = 10. H = 5.
Variables are letters that represent the unknown, able to change. Variables are often contrasted with constants, which are known and unchangning. We use variables because Algebra is a method of finding the unknown.
To solve the first question, you need to figure out what a triangle equals on the first scale. First, take away four circles (each square equals two circles), which leaves five circles. Since there were five circles left, the triangle equals five circles.
To solve the second question, you need to figure out the value of the two N's. First, add the squares and triangles together. The total of the squares and triangles, together, was 22 circles. Then divide the 22 circles by 2. The answer was 11. Each N equals 11 circles.
The runner will finish in five minutes, the bicyclist will finish in six minutes, therefore the runner winning.
What is a variable and why do we use one in algebra.
I need to solve how much the triangular equals to solve the question. After that, I need to solve how much the 2 N's equal to.
Solving for first scale: Since a square means 2 circles and a circle means 1, and the left side of the scale in this diagram has 2 squares, that means 4 circles or 4 in all. So I take 4 circles away from the right hand of the scale, I will end up having only 5 circles left and a triangle. So that means a triangle is equal to 5 circles.
Solving for second scale: Since I have already solved the value of the triangle and I know what the value of the circle and the square is, I will be able to solve the value of the 2 N's easily. First I would have to add all the squares and triangles on the right hand of the scale, and it would come out of a total of 22 circles or 22 (since a triangle represents 5 circles and a square represents 2 circles.) Now I will have to divide the number 22 in half (because there are 2 Ns) and I will get 11. So the value of each N will be 11. The total value of both Ns is 22 circles.
Solve the following equations. Show all of the steps that are needed.
Question 5. For this question you need to create a T-chart and a graph to plot your data from this question onto.
You are having a race against your friend, except you are on foot and he is on his bike. You both know that if you are on bike you will be faster so your friend gives you a head start of 3 minutes. If you can run 400m per minute, and your friend can bike 700m per minute, who will be the first one to make it to the finish line 2000m away?
The runner will come in first in 5 minutes and the biker will come in second in about 6 minutes.


["issues",0,"fields","summary"] "Setting Personal WIP or WIP limits per user"
["issues",0,"fields","issuetype","description"] "A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed."
["issues",0,"fields","description"] "Hello JIRA team,\r\n\r\nI would like to propose an enhancement for JIRA that will IMO benefit all agile/lean teams out there. \r\n\r\n=========\r\nNarrative\r\n=========\r\n\r\nAS a team member\r\n\r\nI WANT jira to stop me from going above my defined WIP limit\r\n\r\nSO that I can stop starting and start finalizing\r\n\r\n================================================\r\nScenarios (examples based on classes of services aka CoS)\r\n================================================\r\n\r\nGIVEN an attempt to assign an issue to a user\r\n\r\nWHEN the issue is expedite and there is one current expedite issue assigned\r\n\r\nTHEN do not accept the assignment\r\n\r\nWHEN the issue is non expedite (fixed delivery date, standard or intangible) and there are two current non expedite issues assigned\r\n\r\nTHEN do not accept the assignment\r\n\r\n==========================================================\r\nImplementation proposal (applicable to any kind of scenarios including the above)\r\n==========================================================\r\n\r\nNote how the two WHEN can be expressed as a JQL filter, an operator and a result count. Let us call them Personal WIP rules:\r\n\r\nfilter, operator, count\r\n\r\nPWIP rule1: CoS = \"expedite\", <=, 1\r\n\r\nPWIP rule2: CoS in (\"fixed delivery date\", \"standard\", \"intangible\"), <=, 2\r\n\r\nThese rules should be assigned to user roles.\r\n\r\nSuppose some user (the originator) attempts to assign a candidate issue to another user or self (the target). The system will count the current tickets assigned based on the filter rules for the target user, will apply the filter rules for the candidate issue and if a filter condition is matched then the count will increase for that filter. The rules will trigger and only if the user can accept the ticket the operation will be successful.\r\n\r\nIn fact the target user should not even be presented as a candidate to resolve the ticket. At a minimum, as stated above, the validation of the submission should fail. The result should be an error like \"Could not perform this action. Personal WIP limit reached\"\r\n\r\nThanks!\r\n\r\n- Nestor"
["issues",0,"fields","status","description"] "This issue is newly created and is awaiting review from Product Management."
["issues",1,"fields","summary"] "worklog expand not working for REST search API"
["issues",1,"fields","issuetype","description"] "Issue that is likely specific to the installation"
["issues",1,"fields","description"] "Hello,\r\n\r\nWorklog details for a specific issue can be obtained from /rest/api/latest/issue/59022/worklog however it can't be obtained from the search API. The call /rest/api/2/search?jql=createdDate > \"2014/1/1\"&expand=worklog does not work as I would have expected. No worklog information will be returned.\r\n\r\nPlease my apologies if this is to be considered a feature request instead in which case feel free to change it to bug.\r\n\r\nIt would be great if JIRA REST API would return more detailed information for all bugs contained in a JQL. The \"expand\" parameter works with custom fields but I can't figure how to expand the worklog. Getting the results of the JQL and iterating one issue at a time to get the worklog details is overkilling.\r\n\r\nI know you can do this with paid plugins but such functionality I believe should be provided out of the box.\r\n\r\nThanks,\r\n\r\n- Nestor"
["issues",1,"fields","status","description"] "A resolution has been taken, and it is awaiting verification by reporter. From here issues are either reopened, or are closed."
["issues",1,"fields","components",0,"description"] "Issues affecting JIRA's REST API"
["issues",1,"fields","resolution","description"] "Support query has been answered, or issue confirmed"
\r\nSupport Requests are no longer handled by this system.
\r\nAs part of our ongoing effort to streamline support and make it a fairer system we are trying to centralise all support.
\r\nPlease create all Support Requests on our Support System .  If you have not used our support service before you will need to sign up for a new account.
\r\n\r\nIf you have been directed here by any documentation, please let us know in your support ticket and we will update the documentation.
["issues",2,"fields","summary"] "As a Lean Project Coordinator I would like a horizontal scrollbar on JIRA Agile Kanban Board"
["issues",2,"fields","description"] "As a Lean Project Coordinator \r\nI would like a horizontal scrollbar on JIRA Agile Kanban Board\r\nSo that the number of columns (value stream stages) can grow to any number\r\n\r\nI believe the original request for the Scrum rapid board was fair as much as this one.\r\n\r\nIdeally JIRA Agile should support a configuration that allows fixed board or scrollable board.\r\n\r\nIn the meanwhile we can use one of the hacks I described in http://thinkinginsoftware.blogspot.com/2013/11/jira-agile-extended-kanban-board.html which involves modifying the style after the page is rendered via a script that can be run from a browser plugin like https://github.com/nestoru/tampermonkey-jira-extended-rapidboard\r\n"
["issues",2,"fields","issuelinks",0,"outwardIssue","fields","summary"] "As a Scrum Master I would like a horizontal scrollbar on greenhopper Rapid Board"
["issues",2,"fields","issuelinks",0,"outwardIssue","fields","status","description"] "A resolution has been taken, and it is awaiting verification by reporter. From here issues are either reopened, or are closed."
["issues",2,"fields","issuelinks",1,"outwardIssue","fields","summary"] "As a Scrum Master I would like a horizontal scrollbar on greenhopper Rapid Board"
["issues",2,"fields","issuelinks",1,"outwardIssue","fields","status","description"] "A resolution has been taken, and it is awaiting verification by reporter. From here issues are either reopened, or are closed."
["issues",2,"fields","status","description"] "A resolution has been taken, and it is awaiting verification by reporter. From here issues are either reopened, or are closed."
["issues",2,"fields","project","name"] "JIRA Agile (formerly GreenHopper)"
["issues",2,"fields","resolution","description"] "The problem is a duplicate of an existing issue."
Q: How do I debug my application that uses JavaMail APIs? A: Turn on session debugging by invoking the method setDebug(true) on the Session object in your code. That will cause debug information to be printed to the console, including a protocol trace. If you passed the System properties to the Session when you created it, you can simply run your program with java -Dmail.debug=true ... If you think that you found a bug in JavaMail, send us this trace along with a test case that reproduces the problem, the platform you are using, the version of the JDK you are using, and the name and version of the mail servers (IMAP, SMTP) that you are using.
Solaris: where is the sudoers file?
Some would say /etc/opt/csw/sudoers, others /usr/local/etc/sudoers and I have even found it in /opt/csw/etc/sudoer. In fact I have seen people referring to /opt/sfw/etc/sudoers. The reality is that it depends on the environment.
So in this case the file is /etc/opt/csw/sudoers.
If you want to install sudo take a look at this post.
$ echo hello > test^?
Every time a command does not work from an environment but it works from the command line you need to look at the environment. So in running the 'env' command and comparing the results from such environment and command line we should be able to determine what is different and what needs to be changed.
It works for XLS and XLSX as well.
WIP limit versus batch size, fair comparison?
I thought I rather keep my statements in my blog for future reference. So here are they.
IMO WIP limit and batch size are orthogonal concepts.
You need column WIP limits to balance demand versus throughput (queues and buffers).
You need Personal WIP limits because of the poor performance of most of human beings with multitasking.
You need small batches because otherwise predictability will suffer and so you will fail on delivering the promise of the Just In Time system.
Small batching is difficult without controlling variability, which is hard to control for most complex software projects because of the nature of knowledge work.
Balancing demand versus throughput is a necessary step, otherwise you will find yourself "guesstimating" forever. The agile team will try hard to make smaller batches naturally. However variability will impact their ability to do so. As variability is slowly controlled the small batches can flow through the system at a constant pace without the need to create new issues and going beyond the WIP limits, especially the Personal WIP .
So the idea that it is OK to have multiple small tickets assigned to the same responsible person is not good. The limited WIP is needed to guarantee continuous delivery. Otherwise the team will find out that the small issue coming out of an epic might transform into an epic itself. At that point we do not want to open 10 new issues out of that one and get them assigned to the only four developers in our small agile team or put them in a queue that will never get burnt. We need to negotiate the smallest possible part that can be done and which will provide value (MMF). Most likely bunch of those 10 potential tickets can be reviewed as brand new specifications. The team will happily continue delivering value at a predictable pace. The team and stakeholders will be happy with the outcome of the combination of small increments of code AND limitted WIP.
The old process won't get killed with SIGTERM nor SIGKILL so I had to restart the box. If this ever repeats it should be probably a good idea to notify vmware of a possible bug.
After reading a lot about this issue here is a proposal to parse the typical --longoption type of arguments from bash .
# Use HEREDOC for multi line output. Note the backstick in a line after the closing EOF. You can include any type of quotation inside HEREDOC.


"Shearer had been to Alex Ferguson's house, spoke to him and assured him he wanted to come."
Few players can say they turned down Manchester United once, let alone twice, but Alan Shearer wasn't like most players. Shearer was the best English striker of his generation and one of the best in the world. He remains the Premier League's record goalscorer 11-years after retiring, with 260 goals in the division and over 400 across his career.
Shearer twice rejected the opportunity to sign for United, but in both cases neither party can have too many regrets. The first time, Shearer signed for Blackburn Rovers from Southampton £3.6m in 1992. He won the league with Blackburn in 1995 and ended up scoring an incredible 112 goals in 138 Premier League games for the club. United signed Eric Cantona a few months after missing out on Shearer, and won back to back league titles and the FA Cup.
In 1996, Shearer was on the move again, and chose to join Newcastle United, his hometown club. The striker cost Kevin Keegan's side £15m, a world record fee at the time, and would go on to score over 200 goals for the Magpies.
He didn't win a trophy during his 10 years with the club, but Shearer became a legend for his hometown team, something very few players achieve in the game. United, despite missing out on the striker, went on to have great success, winning every trophy possible over the following decade, and a historic treble in 1999. Shearer would have improved Alex Ferguson's team, but they coped fine without the prolific striker.
Former United chairman Martin Edwards has been speaking about United's failure to sign Shearer in 1996. Edwards, who worked at the club for over 30 years, claims it was Blackburn owner Jack Walker who put the brakes on the transfer. He also said that the player had met Ferguson and agreed to join United.
"I'd actually done a deal as far as Alan Shearer's contract was concerned, we'd come to a settlement" Edwards said on Beyond the Page on NBC Sports, where he was promoting Red Glory, a new book about his time at the club.
"Shearer had been to Alex Ferguson's house, spoke to him and assured him he wanted to come. The problem, I think, was with the chairman of Blackburn, Jack Walker, who was not a great fan of Manchester United, (we were) local rivals, both Lancashire clubs. He did not want Alan Shearer to come to Manchester United. Shearer was quite close to Walker, who was like a father figure to him, and I don't think Alan wanted to upset him by coming to United. And I'm not sure Jack would have let him come anyway, whereas he was happy for Alan to go to Newcastle, I don't think that was a threat to him."
Edwards then spoke about the club's failure to sign Gabriel Batistuta, the great Argentine striker who played for Fiorentina and Roma in the 1990s and 2000s.
Serie A was the top league in the world in the 90s, featuring the best players and the best wages on offer. Edwards claims United simply couldn't compete with the money available in Italy at the time.
"Ferguson was keen to sign Batistuta," the former United chairman said.
"We looked at the situation, but at that time, the wages Batistuta wanted, and of course we're talking net... I can't remember the figures now, (but) they would have jeopardised our wage structure at the club at the time, and therefore turned it down."
After missing out on Shearer in 1996, United signed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. When Eric Cantona retired the following year, the club signed Teddy Sheringham, and added Dwight Yorke the following summer. Those strikers, along with Andy Cole, helped the club achieve great success, so there can't be too many regrets about the players they failed to sign.


Why did the US commit more than 1,000 spies to the Rio Olympics?
The US provided more than 1,000 intelligence operatives and analysts to assist in security for the 2016 Olympic games. About 350 are working in Rio, the rest are working remotely.
The United States sent more than 1,000 analysts, law enforcement and special operations personnel from all 17 American intelligence agencies to provide additional security for the 2016 Olympics in the form of human intelligence, spy satellites, electronic eavesdropping, and social media monitoring.
Although security is most prominently a combined effort between the US and Brazil, there are 51 other countries supplying intelligence to the counter-terrorism effort. The majority of American intelligence agents are working remotely, while about 350 are actually on the ground in Rio.
"U.S. intelligence cooperation with Brazil has been excellent since 9/11," a senior intelligence official told NBC News. "We consider the Brazilians to be well-prepared and highly professional."
These measures follow the detainment of a dozen Rio residents for alleged ties to the so called Islamic State two weeks ago. Their terrorist activity was described by Brazil’s justice minister, Alexandre de Moraes, as amateur, but they had discussed attacking the Olympics.
On Saturday, security forces blew up an unattended bag in a controlled explosion, the Associated Press reported. There have been several bomb scares in the city the last couple weeks. A few blocks of the high end neighborhood of Leblon were shut down two weeks ago when a doorman reported a suspicious package in front of a building. A bomb squad came out and found that the sports bag only contained clothes.
Some spectators complained of long lines outside of venues Saturday due to airport-style security measures.
But Olympics organizers apologized later in the day, blaming miscommunication.
The attention to terrorism as a potential threat in Brazil is new. Brazil has significant problems with crime, but despite being the fifth most populous country in the world, its foreign policy has been historically neutral, making it an unlikely target for terrorists. But the string of terrorist attacks over the last year has created a cause for concern that did not exist previously, for example when Brazil hosted the World Cup in 2014.
Brazilians appear more worried about domestic issues than terrorists, even during the Olympics, although some defense strategists say that is because they have an “it couldn’t happen here” mindset.
“The Olympics brings risks of terrorism that weren't in Brazil beforehand because of the event's huge media saturation and opportunity for assaults on soft targets such as athletes and tourists,” John Friedlander, senior director at the Kroll security firm in New York, which analyzed risks for the Rio Games, told the Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Friedlander added that the risk of a terrorist attack is moderate, comparable to when Los Angeles hosted the Olympic Games in 1984. Ever since the L.A. Olympic games, the National Security Agency (NSA), America’s eavesdropping agency, has been the primary intelligence agency monitoring the Olympics as they are best suited to operating on the ground providing real-time warnings about potential threats, officials told NBC News.
The US has sent security forces to the Olympics before, and in similar numbers. In 2012 the US sent security forces to the London Olympics due to concerns that England, which was a target of Al Qaeda at the time, was underestimating the number of security forces it would need. It also provided aid to Greece in both planning and carrying out security during the 2004 Olympics, the first summer games after 9/11 when terrorism became a larger concern.
Brazil’s defense minister Raul Jungmann feels confident in the international of coalition of security’s ability to keep people safe.
"I can say, with complete conviction, that we couldn't be better prepared, Jungmann told the Los Angeles Times.


Two British political operatives were in regular contact with the Russian ambassador in London while they campaigned for, and met with, then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016, CNN reported Wednesday.
Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore were high-profile proponents of the 2016 campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, and Banks' donation of nearly $11 million to the pro-Brexit push is being investigated by the country's Electoral Commission.
According to CNN — which cited emails and social media posts – Banks and Wigmore attended a Trump rally in Mississippi with Nigel Farage from the United Kingdom Independence Party in August 2016, and traveled to Las Vegas for the final presidential debate in October 2016. Banks also told CNN he also attended a Trump event in St. Louis.
After the election, Banks and Wigmore were among a small group of Britons who visited the then-president-elect at Trump Tower in New York City.
Throughout the same period, Banks and Wigmore were in regular contact with the Russian ambassador in London, CNN reported, adding there is no evidence the Trump campaign knew about the men's contacts with Russian officials.
A few days after the Trump Tower meeting, CNN reported Banks and Wigmore met with the Russian ambassador to the U.K., Alexander Yakovenko. Wigmore says the only thing they provided the ambassador with was a phone number for the Trump transition team after the ambassador asked if they knew how to get in contact with Trump, CNN reported.
Wigmore and Banks appeared before a parliamentary committee Tuesday in London, where Banks told the committee he had "two lunches and one cup of tea" with the Russian ambassador, accusing committee members of being biased against people who campaigned for Brexit, and calling the investigation a "witch hunt." The committee meeting came to an abrupt end when both men refused to answer any more questions, CNN reported.
While they campaigned for, and met with, then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016, two British political operatives were in regular contact with the Russian ambassador in London, according to CNN on Wednesday.


- 답안작성은 반드시 검정색볼펜만을 사용하여야 합니다.
- 검정색 볼펜 이외에 임의로 다른 색깔펜, 연필 등을 사용시 채점에서 제외됩니다.
- 부적합한 필기류 사용으로 인한 불이익은 수험생 본인의 책임입니다.
- 답안은 반드시 답안지 양식에 작성해야 합니다. 만약 답안지에 표기하지 않고 문제지, 연습지, 기타 용지 등에 답안을 표기하는 경우는 모두 채점에서 제외됩니다.
- 답안지에 답안 표기시에는 문제번호를 적고, 해당문제에 대한 답안을 작성하면 됩니다.
- 답안지를 2장 이상 사용할 경우에는 답안지 하단에 (2-1) (2-2)로 표기합니다.
- 시험 시작 기준 30분 경과 후 퇴실이 가능하며 이후 입실은 일체 불허합니다.
- 정해진 시험시간을 반드시 준수하여 주시기 바랍니다.
- 시험당일 결석시 불합격으로 처리됩니다.
- Students should only use black pen to mark their work. The use of correction tape is NOT allowed.
- Use of any other colored pens or pencil will cause penalties.
- Students should use correction symbols to correct their work.
- Mark the number of the question you are answering to on the answer sheet before writing the answer.
- The test time is 60 mins per subject and students are allowed to go out of the classroom after 30mins have passed.
- If the student does not show to the test, they are automatically marked "fail" on their test and is required to pay the re-taking fee when applying again the next time.
Web Contents in English Edu.
- 응시자는 누구나 자유롭게 자습실 이용이 가능합니다.
- 고사장 위치는 대학원 건물입니다.
- 고사장 배치 명단표를 확인하여 본인의 시험과목, 교시, 고사장 등을 정확히 확인하시기 바랍니다.
- 결과발표는 약 20~30일 정도 소요되며 정확한 발표 일정이 정해지면 홈페이지 공지와 함께 서비스로 개인 이메일과 문자를 통해 알려 드립니다.
- 결과확인은 개인 종합정보시스템을 이용하여 개별적으로 확인이 가능합니다.


Industry traditionally thinks of Apple as a consumer brand, but it is now catering to the business customer.
Apple is pushing further into the enterprise, with a series of hardware and iWork software updates catering to the business consumer, from new iPad offerings to increased Pencil integration.
The company is carving a business niche with devices deployed in customer-facing settings. On-the-go workers can use Apple products in sectors like retail or restaurants, taking orders or conducting point of sale transactions.
Healthcare has also taken to Apple products as an alternative for clunky mobile workstations, using an iPad to offload work when appropriate. It especially caters to a fast-moving environment like a hospital.
A few years ago, Ochsner Health System began using iPads with doctors, complete with up-to-date reference apps and allowing users to take a device out of their pocket to offload some work when appropriate, said Dr. Richard Milani, chief clinical transformational office for Ochsner Health System, in an interview with CIO Dive. The devices also had healthcare technology system Epic's iOS app called Canto.
Ochsner also canvassed physicians to see what kind of tools they used and made sure they could access them when between workstations.
Apple has also found a home in back-end office operations. IBM has close to 300,000 Apple devices deployed; SAP has over 100,00 Apple units between iPhones, iPads and Macs.
Though industry traditionally thinks of Apple as a consumer brand, the company has worked for years to make inroads in the enterprise. Part of its push is in inking deals with big name enterprise vendors and creating business application offerings compatible with iOS.
Tools like mobile device manager alleviate IT hurdles and allow departments to deploy Macs or iOS devices in bulk, rather than requiring an individual device set (a nuisance when an organization is deploying thousands of Apple devices). Security introduced at the hardware level of devices also helps court enterprise attention.
Most IT organizations see iOS as the most secure mobile platform, said Annette Zimmermann, VP analyst at Gartner, in an email to CIO Dive.
Has Apple done enough for industry to consider it a true enterprise offering?
The iPhone is either No. 1 or 2 in terms in terms of market share depending on the market, in competition with Samsung for the top spot, according to Zimmermann. Apple iPad is the leading tablet for consumers and enterprises.
"Apple doesn't have the same level of enterprise support as all the big system providers but I would say it has improved over time," Zimmermann said. "Apple has many initiatives regarding enterprise app developments and partnerships with large business software companies like Salesforce, but hardware is still an important aspect of the enterprise strategy."


Fox tried something new: one R-Rated comic book movie followed by another, and the gambit worked.
20th Century Fox effectively launched the age of modern superhero movies with X-Men in 2000, but by 2014 the franchise had seen it all: ups and downs, prequels, spin-offs, and even a five-year hiatus between core films. The live-action adventures of Marvel's mutants had begun to look tired.
So Fox tried something new: an R-Rated comic book movie, and thanks in part to years of built-up fan interest, the gambit worked. Then Fox did it again.
With an eager star in Ryan Reynolds and a relatively tight budget of $58 million, 2016's #Deadpool became the highest grossing R-Rated film ever — and the highest grossing X-Men movie to date. Confident after that success, Fox didn't hesitate to to give director James Mangold the freedom to craft a proper R-rated sendoff for Hugh Jackman's final outing as Wolverine and #Logan quickly clawed its way to a box-office killing.
Suddenly, Fox looks like it knows what it is doing. Just as #Marvel set the standard for superhero origin stories, Fox has set the standard for the R-rated comic book movie.
Summarize the plot of Deadpool without bothering to describe all the fight scenes. The entire story, with flashbacks in chronological order, boils down to "Deadpool recruits Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead to find Ajax." Logan is similarly streamlined. The plot behind the two and a half hour runtime can be covered with one simple phrase: "An older Wolverine and ailing Professor X try to get X-23 to Eden."
That's very different from most superhero movies, which more often include half a dozen subplots stretched out over a dozen characters or more. In Iron Man 3, a PTSD-stricken Tony Stark, stripped of his armor, has to stop the Mandarin and his terrorist organization, while also dealing with a figure from his past who is working on a suspicious experimental regenerative treatment. That's not even to mention War Machine and Pepper Potts, much less the infamous Mandarin fakeout.
This plot-juggling act is a side effect of shared universe storytelling, with each installment serving as a stepping stone to the next. Fox's R-Rated films do away with this concept, treating each film as a standalone without catering to other movies.
At most, each film sets up its direct sequel. Their plots of Deadpool and Logan go from Point A through Points B and C, straight on to D. The MCU and DCEU (and even the core X-Men films) go from Point A to C, flash back to B, flash forward to D, then use Point E to set up the next film in the franchise. It's an unfortunate staple of Hollywood, and Fox's avoidance of the convoluted formula is refreshing, even reassuring.
Movies often cater to specific audiences, and the target is constantly moving. Hollywood has recently worked to satisfy Chinese moviegoers and officials, with China currently the second-largest box-office market. Films now regularly feature China-centric subplots and Chinese actors, and may even delete scenes to meet censor guidelines. But while pandering to China is a fairly new phenomenon, pandering to families is not.
"Four-quadrant appeal" means a movie offers something to basically everyone, and to that end filmmakers will often add a child (or childish) sidekick to accompany the main hero. Neither Deadpool or Logan fall into the parent-pandering trap with their young characters. You can have as many children in a movie as you want, but parents still won't bring their four year old kid to watch Ryan Reynolds brutally maim bad guys on a freeway.
Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Deadpool's rebellious and even obnoxious youngster, is pretty "normal" in many ways. Her sarcasm and devotion to her phone are recognizable to any kid (or parent).
Logan has a whole army of child mutants, but the obvious star was young Laura, code-named X-23. You can assume that being younger would make her more childlike than Negasonic Teenage Warhead, but boy would you be wrong. Laura earns that R-Rating just as much as Logan himself, hacking and slashing enemies using all four of her limbs. By keeping both characters quiet for most of their movies, they never got annoying or one-note, and treating them like full characters keeps them tuned into the story. See how that works out?
The interconnected web of Marvel Studios stories leads to a reduction in stakes. No matter the "danger" in a film, we don't believe MCU figureheads are going to bite the dust. Regular fakeouts don't help. Agent Coulson, Nick Fury, Pepper Potts, Loki (twice), and War Machine all reached the point of no return... then returned. DC's high-stakes gambits, such as Superman's "death" in Batman v Superman, and a resurrection foreshadowed mere minutes later, fared no better.
Deadpool and Logan are somewhat detached from the continuity of other films, so they could do as they pleased with their characters. Deadpool didn't go out of its way to slaughter any big names, but severe consequences still loomed. Logan, on the other hand, gives Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart a memorable send-off. These familiar characters die in emotional moments, giving the actors, and the movie, a definitive ending.
In the big-budget blockbuster landscape, genuine character development is hard to come by. Man of Steel and Batman v Superman both had a warped take on character development in hopes that the high-octane action scenes would keep audiences coming back for the inevitable sequels. The liberty of a standalone movie allows filmmakers to double down on characters rather than massive setpieces, which also helps them work with budgetary constraints.
Deadpool may not be the best example here, but even that was surprisingly character-focused. You got a strong sense of who Wade Wilson was, before and after his disastrous experimental procedure. Likewise, Colossus is defined by his almost comically-strict morals. Though the villains were underdeveloped, Deadpool was a learning experience.
Logan addresses many of the shortcomings of its predecessor. It doubles down on the lead trio, turned the villain into a legitimate presence, and sprinkled scenes of total silence between the highly-choreographed fight scenes. Without the quiet moments of character interactions to modulate the fast pace, the brutality of X-24 murdering Professor X and Wolverine would be boring. Thanks to those breath-catching pauses, it wasn't.
Fox has two more R-Rated movies in the pipeline: Deadpool 2 and X-Force, both featuring the Merc with a Mouth. The former will likely continue the tone of Deadpool, with loads violence and some decent character development, though one would hope the villains get a little more depth. At the same time, the core trio of Deadpool, Colossus, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead will be joined by Domino and Cable. Let's see if the new quintet can match up to its predecessor!
X-Force will likely be a little more restricted than Deadpool 2 – likely a more traditional action movie, with the much violence as you would expect from an R-Rated movie featuring a group of killers. Which is to say, what Suicide Squad should have been. If Fox's vision of the R-rated superhero film remains as clear as it is now, that's a target the studio is well-equipped to hit.
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Should you add weight with each set?
I am taking 2 weeks off from the gym, I am trying to come up with a new program from about 2 months. I just got done doing Mon.,Tues.,Thurs., Sat. which was chest,bis/legs,calves,abs/delts,tris,abs/back,traps. Before that I was doing a fullbody workout on tues,thurs, sat.
Is it better to add weight with each set on every exercise or do 2 warmups and stick with 1 weight and do 3 sets of 8 to 10 reps?� for ex. chest: bench press 135,185, 205, 225, 235 then the dumbell incline: 90, 95, 100 then incline flys 30, 40, 50 ect,� I am working on building new muscle growth, so I change up every 4-8 weeks.


England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight..
The traditional folk music of England is centuries old and has contributed to several genres prominently; mostly sea shanties, jigs, hornpipes and dance music. In the field of popular music, many English bands and solo artists have been cited as the most influential and best-selling musicians of all time. Acts such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Queen, Rod Stewart and The Rolling Stones are among the highest selling recording artists in the world. Many musical genres have origins in (or strong associations with) England, such as British invasion, progressive rock, hard rock, Mod, glam rock, heavy metal, Britpop, indie rock, gothic rock, shoegazing, acid house, garage, trip hop, drum and bass and dubstep.
Traditional examples of English food include the Sunday roast, featuring a roasted joint (usually beef, lamb, chicken or pork) served with assorted vegetables, Yorkshire pudding, and gravy. Other prominent meals include fish and chips and the full English breakfast (generally consisting of bacon, sausages, grilled tomatoes, fried bread, black pudding, baked beans, mushrooms, and eggs). Various meat pies are consumed such as steak and kidney pie, steak and ale pie, cottage pie, pork pie (the latter usually eaten cold) and the Cornish Pasty. Sausages are commonly eaten, either as bangers and mash or toad in the hole.
Common drinks include tea, whose popularity was increased by Catherine of Braganza, whilst frequently consumed alcoholic drinks include wines, ciders and English beers, such as bitter, mild, stout, and brown ale.


Does Infants' Socially-guided Attention Uniquely Predict Language Development?
The purpose of this study was to examine whether infants' social attention, as well as their joint attention behaviors uniquely predicted emerging language abilities. This longitudinal study examined attention regulation skills, joint attention behaviors, infants' expressive/receptive language (current), emerging communication abilities at 16- and 17-month-old (time 1); expressive/receptive language (subsequent) at 18- 19-month-old (time 2). Infants'sustained attention was measured by their attention control to a central stimulus in the presence of a distracter competing for their attention. Dynamic human face (upright, inverted) and abstract display with their matched voice tracks were used to separately measure infants' attention regulation to different types of events. Infants' sustained attention was estimated by their latencies away from central stimuli to distracters, as well as their fixation duration and gaze count on central events and distracters. It was found that infants' latency away from the abstract figure toward the distracter was the only variable that significantly negatively predicted current expressive vocabulary. Initiating joint attention was observed to significantly predict infants' abilities in current receptive vocabulary. The emerging language communication ability predicted expressive vocabulary at two times. In addition, infants' fixation and count to the upright speaker's face and eyes contributed significant amount of variance in initiating joint attestation. The fixation and gaze count on the distracter in the upright condition significantly predicted infants' emerging language skills.


In a similar vein, a USA district court in North Carolina also struck down a Republican gerrymander in that state.
In Pennsylvania, a recent court ruling reshaped congressional districts for this year's elections.
The Pennsylvania Massacre came in the wake of other special elections where, even if Republicans didn't actually lose, they saw their vote totals drop like Facebook stock.
What I mean is this: The Brennan report asks, what would it take to flip one more seat in each state?
In Wednesday's arguments, the majority of the justices appeared to agree that Maryland officials had created an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander in redrawing its 6th Congressional District after the 2010 Census.
Costa's plan, which would not require a Constitutional amendment, could be enacted at any time through 2020 and still be operative for the 2021 redistricting, he said. And the Supreme Court should step in to save democracy from partisan hacks. "Roscoe Bartlett was defeated in 2012 and no Republican has won in the district in the years since". It's since been held by a Democrat.
Accordingly, the plaintiffs in the Wisconsin case tailored their challenge to partisan gerrymandering to Kennedy's concerns, coming up with a mathematical standard (called the "efficiency gap") for determining how far mapmakers with partisan motives have strayed from fair decisions. According to the authors, the deck of district lines is so dramatically stacked in the GOP's favor that it will take an absolutely historic wave for the Democrats to win control of the House. Those maps were permanently adopted by the Legislature and governor in 2013. Gerrymandering can have significant influence on the outcome of individual congressional races-and for that reason alone deserves attention-but gerrymandered districts (or the lack thereof) did not singlehandedly swing Republicans into power during the 2010s.
Once seated, the commission would have the task of drawing maps for all three types of legislative districts, passing preliminary plans and, after public hearings, passing final plans by August 15 of, in this case, 2021. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wondered whether it wasn't "much too late" for the Republican challengers, even if they were successful, "for there to be any change for the 2018 election".
It is unclear why the Supreme Court added the Maryland case to the docket after hearing arguments in the Wisconsin case.
If the court decides that "proof of intent to act for political purposes" in redistricting is unconstitutional, wrote Mr. von Spakovsky, now a legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, "they will be turning the courts into just such weapons and usurping the authority of the political branches of government".
Tata Group, which once owned Air India, could reportedly go with Singapore Airlines to bid for Air India. This figure is expected to rise by another Rs 3,500 crore by the end of this financial year.
"And as it turns out, that's what they did, and it worked", Kimberly told reporters Monday.
Thanks in part to their gerrymander, Republicans now hold 63 of 99 seats in the Assembly and 18 of 33 seats in the Senate.
"The result of that is that the district went from 47 percent Republican and 36 percent Democratic to exactly the opposite, 45 percent Democratic and 34 percent Republican".
A number of Sixth District Republicans sued alleging the state legislature "targeted them for vote dilution due to their past support for Republican candidates for public office, violating the First Amendment retaliation doctrine".
Kennedy appeared unhappy with how Maryland Democrats manipulated the district's lines to give their party a 7-1 advantage in the state's congressional delegation.
In Pennsylvania's case, the state Supreme Court ordered a new map for this fall's election that levels the playing ground for congressional candidates. The time for the Supreme Court to address the problem is now. That case is still pending. This allowed Republicans to draw maps that were "voter proof", and would keep Republicans in power for the next decade, McGlone said.
Partisan breakdown: State House  116 Republicans, 64 Democrats. "Indeed, both Democrats and Republicans have decried it when wielded by their opponents but nonetheless continue to gerrymander in their own self-interest when given the opportunity". State House  63 Republicans, 46 Democrats, one vacancy. No one less significant than former President Barack Obama has blamed Democratic losses during his admininstration on "sharply gerrymandered districts that are very safely Republican".
Partisan breakdown: State Senate  26 Republicans, seven Democrats, one independent, one vacancy. Amendments have to pass through the legislature in identical form in two consecutive sessions and then be approved by voters. "If you're the intelligent man on the street and the court issues a decision" and the Democrats win, he speculated, "the intelligent man on the street is going to say, 'It must be because the Supreme Court preferred the Democrats over the Republicans.'". Without it, she said, state legislative leaders can pressure their colleagues to vote certain ways by threatening to draw them out of their districts.
Those Labour Party members and Labour-supporting blogs pushing the abuse are largely doing so in your name", they said. Another critic said: "I'm depressed Labour can't deal with this issue of antisemitism without imploding".
That 2.9 percent fourth quarter advance followed gains of 3.1 percent in the second quarter and 3.2 percent in the third quarter. The previous estimate for the rate of growth in the price deflator for personal consupmtion expenditures was unchanged at 2.5%.
He originally came into the United States lawfully in 2005, but was later convicted for "multiple weapons and firearms offences". ICE agents waited over an hour to notify local cops that a detainee had escaped their custody at Kennedy Airport, sources said.
The researchers stressed though that there was a big difference between the plastic toys exposed to different types of water. In some cases, they say exposing children to microbes like this can result in a stronger immune system.
The Planned Parenthood Keystone tweet has since been deleted, but it prompted plenty of responses from Twitter users. Planned Parenthood has called for Disney to create a cartoon-featuring an animated princess "who's had an abortion".
It is negative, as 28 investors sold RSPP shares while 78 reduced holdings. 67 funds opened positions while 124 raised stakes. Third Point Llc bought 750,000 shares as the company's stock declined 5.27% while stock markets rallied.
After making its debut in 1998, Dawson's Creek became and instant hit, and even produced one of the internet's most iconic memes, lest we forget.
Then, as is the character's custom, he starts breaking down the fourth wall. "I've grown to love the guy [talking about Sudan ]". What was the first thing he said before he dropped it? "For the record: i wasnt too busy to work on deadpool ", he wrote .
And Godin emphasized there was no agreement between the defence and the Crown that led to Bissonnette's guilty pleas. The National Council of Canadian Muslims, an advocacy group, said it was "extremely relieved" by the guilty plea.
Glaxo anticipates wrapping the strategic review of Horlicks and its consumer health care nutrition products by the end of 2018. ValuEngine downgraded GlaxoSmithKline from a " buy " rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Sunday, December 31st.
Foul play is suspected and their mother, Brittany Velasquez, was arrested on suspicion of two counts of murder, Forghani said. An investigation is still underway by the sheriff's office. "This is a devastating blow", Ensley said.
"Hot fellon" Jeremy went on to file for divorce in October a year ago , and has been publically loved up with Chloe ever since. The apparently broody couple have reportedly received the blessing of Chloe's business mogul father Philip and mum Tina.
The game is a twin-stick shooter, featuring up to 4-player support, including team and other various modes of play. It's not a bad selection of games by any stretch, but once again Xbox Games with Gold takes the honours.
A Florida woman has gone out on a limb for love and married a 100-year-old ficus tree in an attempt to save it. One of the guests at Saturday's nuptials was Ward 5 Councilman Fred Burson, who vowed to save the tree.
Prepare to suit up as the Parr family get their own video game in LEGO form. Lego The Incredibles is the result of a collaboration between Warner Bros.


ON24 announced a new online offering today. They call it Insight24. The easiest way to summarize the functionality is to refer to it as a searchable database of archived recordings. Any company can submit a link to an archived video, webcast, or podcast recording along with a description and some category information. The link and the description are listed in category-specific groupings and interested audience members can click through to the content.
The functionality is somewhat similar to my own WebEventSearch.com, so I was very interested to take a look at their implementation. One of the great things that ON24 has done is to use a "single signon" concept for collecting information from users searching the database. You only have to enter your identifying information once instead of entering it on each company's separate registration page for their content. Of course the information you enter is tracked and passed on to each content provider you visit.
ON24 only accepts recorded content for their listings database. There are no links to upcoming live events. I spoke to Cece Salomon-Lee, the Marketing Communications Manager at ON24, who told me that they only carry links to content produced within the last year. So you shouldn't find yourself trawling through long outdated webinars.
Search functionality lets you use keywords, category labels, and dates to narrow your results. There is no way to search within a returned list to further narrow it down. Topic categories are pre-established by ON24 and cover 31 topics heavily oriented towards high-tech B2B concerns. Cece said that they are not targeting any Business-to-Consumer broadcasts. Listings use a symbol to indicate whether they are webcasts with visual content or audio-only podcasts.
Audience members can send information on a link to another email address, they can assign a 1-5 star rating (much like Netflix) and can add tag words or comments. Interestingly, ON24 allows users to add anonymous comments, which has the potential for abuse over the long haul.
As a provider, when you submit a media link to the database you can tag it with up to three categories. Cece indicated that ON24 will verify each link to make sure it is appropriate and in the proper categories. That seems like a lot of manual labor if they want this to scale!
Adding webcasts recorded from ON24 live events is very easy, as you only need the ON24 event ID. However the database accepts links to recordings made with any technology, including ON24's direct competitors in the web conferencing industry.
Currently all listings are free, as ON24 tries to build up the library of available content. Eventually they plan to make this a revenue generating service, where they will charge for special placement (for instance, a banner sponsorship in a category) or for delivering a certain number of leads to the provider. Details have not been announced on when they might start charging or what the pricing model will look like.
There is a natural barrier to get past when starting up a service such as this. Providers don't want to spend time manually adding entries to the database until they see a lot of search traffic to make it worthwhile. And searchers don't want to bother using the service if there isn't a lot of content available. ON24 has the advantage of being able to seed the database with recordings from their large list of client events. But the first recording I tried linking to turned out to have been made withWebEx, so it shows that there is already a base of information from various sources.
Recorded content is starting to get a lot more attention in the web conferencing and rich media world. Insight24 should add some nice conveniences for users attempting to find and access information of interest to them.


As with most aspects of managing a company, a company's power to issue shares is subject to the COMPANIES ACT 1993 and to the contents of the company's constitution (if there is one). Subject to any restrictions in the Act or the constitution, the company's board of directors may issue shares, at any time, to any person and in any number, as the board chooses. Issuing shares is therefore entirely at the board of directors' discretion.
After a company has been registered, it must issue to the person or people named as shareholders in the application for registration the number of shares specified in the application to be issued to that person or those people.
If a company issues shares, it must deliver to the Registrar of Companies a notice in a prescribed form within 10 working days after the shares were issued.
If the company fails to lodge the notice as required, every director of the company will be deemed to have committed an offence and be liable to a penalty.
If a company is unable to issue shares because of restrictions in its constitution, the board of directors may issue the shares if it obtains approval from the shareholders in the same way as would be necessary to alter the constitution to allow the share issue. This is done by a special resolution of shareholders, which usually requires a 75 percent majority.
The company must give existing shareholders the option to buy any newly issued shares. This is called their "pre-emptive right".
If the shareholder declines to buy the newly issued shares then the shares are offered to outside buyers. If the shares are issued to outsiders on more favourable conditions than apply to existing shareholders, then the shares must first be offered back to the shareholders on those more favourable conditions.
There may also be provisions in the constitution, or in any agreement that may be in place, giving non-shareholders a pre-emptive right.
How are shares paid for?
By law a shareholder is not required to provide anything of value in exchange (consideration) for the issue of new shares, unless this is expressly required in the constitution. However, if consideration is required, it may take any form, including cash, promissory notes, contracts for future services, real or personal property or other securities.
Before shares are issued a company's board must decide what consideration, if any, will be required for the issue of the shares and the terms on which they will be issued. The board must be satisfied that the conditions are fair and reasonable to all existing shareholders.
At what point are shares deemed to be issued?
Shares are deemed to have been "issued" when the shareholder is registered on the company's share register (see How to maintain a company share register).
If the issue of shares would result in increasing the liability of a person to the company or in imposing a new liability on a person to the company, the issue will be void if it is done without that person's written consent.
The law dealing with shares and securities is detailed and complicated. Often large amounts of money are involved and many people may be affected by decisions taken. It is strongly recommended that you seek the services of a lawyer who is experienced in securities law before undertaking to issue shares in a company.


For many people, their employment provides them with a strong sense of professional satisfaction. For others, though, a job alone doesn’t give that feeling of complete fulfillment—but being able to juggle personal and professional responsibilities does. Our 1 Million for Work Flexibility community weighs in on why work flex is fulfilling—in so many ways.
Work flexibility gives you autonomy.
One of the biggest draws of work flexibility, such as flexible or remote jobs, is the freedom they offer in terms of time and location—no office required. To be able to work when you want as the day dictates, without having to report to an office, can allow you to work and travel at the same time—whether to the coffee shop down the road, to another city, or to another country altogether.
Work flex helps you take advantage of time.
Whether you have a 15 or a 50+ minute (or longer!) daily commute, those precious moments stuck schlepping to and from the office can be wasteful, even if you try to do something productive during that time period. Imagine all that you could do if you didn’t have to spend it smushed up against fellow commuters! Without a commute into the workplace, you can have a fulfilling life that isn’t spent stuck in traffic.
Work flex allows you to work when you’re at your best.
Let’s say that you’re a true night owl. You get your best big-picture plans during the late hours of the night, and produce your best presentations at 2:00 AM. So for you (and countless others), it simply doesn’t make sense to try to work a structured 9-5 schedule.
Work flex gives you time to smell the roses.
Particularly during the long winter months, many workers clock into the office in the morning when it’s dark—and then leave at the end of the day and it’s still dark. Not feeling the sunlight on your face during the workday can be very depressing. That’s why having a flexible job can be fulfilling, since you can take a break during your workday and step out into the sunshine, without your colleagues wondering where you went.
Work flexibility just makes sense.
It’s true: studies have shown that workers with flexibility are more productive, healthier, and yes, happier. Companies that allow their employees to work flexibly report higher retention rates, are in a better position to attract top-tier talent, and report great productivity levels from their workers. In short: flexible work works because it allows people to take care of their personal needs (i.e. caregiving for an aging relative, go back to school, be a better parent) and still have a career that they love and are dedicated to.
Readers, how has work flexibility helped you feel more fulfilled in life? Let us know by joining the movement and chiming in with your reasons why you’re pro-flex.


Viswanathan Anand gave nothing away to Magnus Carlsen who played white and was expected to push harder with his two points lead. When asked if the choice of King pawn opening by Carlsen was a surprise Anand said no.
Time might be running out and the throne slipping away but defending champion Viswanathan Anand made it clear that he will come back harder in the next game after drawing the eighth tie of the World Chess Championship rather easily, here on Tuesday.
"Of course the match situation explains itself and I guess it's my job to liven things up but I guess I will try in the next game," Anand said in the post game conference.
Anand gave nothing away to Carlsen who played white and was expected to push harder with his two points lead. When asked if the choice of King pawn opening by Carlsen was a surprise Anand said no.
"In general in a match you should not be surprised, but I had not prioritized 'e4'," the defending champion said.
Elaborating on the game, Anand said it was "generally a fairly solid system for white" but not entirely without chances if black played inaccurately.
"The only may be interesting moment was if I go Qg5, h4 is strong but after just Qd8 we liquidate to a drawn ending," he said.
When asked if he could have tried anyways, Anand said he had to be ready for all situations. "Obviously I had to be ready for any scenario that turned up but after d4 and c3 this is what I could do."
Anand said he was not sure about a Sicilian defense, considered a combative opening.
"I didn't know what really his intentions were, and even the Sicilian even if you want to play dry systems, they are available." Anand said he was happy with his opening preparation.
"I am quite happy with my opening preparation, get kind of a bonus evening before the rest day and so I will try and prepare something for the next one."
Carlsen said he did not mind the result.
"I didn't particularly mind the draw as was evident from my play, I was just hoping to set up one or two traps. I guess when you play matches its really different, there is still way to go but for now I am fine," he said.
The Norwegian was asked if he had an idol.
"I didn't have any particular idol in chess when I was young. As a young player I was also trying to play attacking chess. Sacrificing material all the time, bit different from my deeds today. I have been playing at top level for seven years. I have had some time to adjust to situation and develop my play accordingly," he said.
The game was played at a frenzied pace by Carlsen using an average of about 30 seconds for the first 20 moves.
"With the line I chose there was not too much to think about the moves, pretty much suggest themselves. It's basically more or less all been played before. I wasn't in any mood to think either so that influenced my decision," Carlsen said.
The ninth game will now be played on Thursday after a day's rest.


Does Hospice of Northern Virginia, Inc offer the following services?
We have had such a bad experience with Capital Caring service. My mom has gallbladder and liver cancer and is in her last phase of life. We chose Capital Caring service because a representative told us so many good things about the service. We were told that a nurse would come to visit my mom within two days of her discharging from the hospital and there was also a doctor to visit in a few days, but more than two days past and nobody even contacted us. Finally, I had to call the "hotline" which is supposed to be helpful 24/7. After 4 phone transfers and long waiting, someone told me that my mom was NOT even entered the system! Today is the 10th day since my mom left the hospital and entered Capital Caring's care, and there was no doctor showed up. A nurse showed up this afternoon and called a doctor who decided my mom needs morphine patch because she cannot swallow the morphine pills anymore. The doctor faxed her order to the drug store, but when we went to the drug store, we found out that we got the pills again! Then we had to call the "hotline" and tried to get the correct medication for my mom. To our dismay, the lady from the "hotline" spent a great deal time to order us just staying with what we currently have! She totally ignored our plead that my mom is in paining and she is moaning and a nurse confirmed it this afternoon and the doctor had agreed to give her patches because my mom cannot swallow pills anymore and the liquid morphine is not strong enough to ease her pain. Finally, the lady said she will see what she can do. The drug store closes in one hour and we haven't heard her back, so very likely she will do nothing. It is such a frustrating experience especially when I have to care for my mom 24 hours a day and see her suffer each day.


Where are you from? is an exhibition about curatorial and artistic exploration. It is an exhibition that acknowledges that the contemporary Portuguese artist wanders far from home, settling elsewhere in Europe, in the U.S., in Africa, or Asia for a time, absorbing ideas and influences and then bringing them back to feed the art milieu of Lisbon or Porto or Évora. This exhibition also acknowledges the journeying of the curators (Jane Gilmor and Lesley Wright), colleagues from central Iowa who travel, often, away from the Midwest to see art and artists in other cities, other countries, and on other continents. In this particular exhibition, the focus is on art they found in Portugal. The resulting exhibition takes that art on its own unexpected journey, from Portugal to Iowa.


A petition calling for Twitter and Facebook to suspend President Trump Donald John TrumpHouse Dems demand Barr cancel 'inappropriate' press conference on Mueller report DOJ plans to release 'lightly redacted' version of Mueller report Thursday: WaPo Nadler accuses Barr of 'unprecedented steps' to 'spin' Mueller report MORE's social media accounts earned over 19,000 signatures over the weekend after the president posted a controversial video featuring freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar Ilhan OmarGeorgia freshman Dem does not list Omar donation on election filing O'Rourke sweeps through Virginia looking to energize campaign Dem candidate in contested North Carolina race refunds donation from Omar campaign MORE (D-Minn.).
"Suspend [Trump] from Twitter and Facebook for inciting violence and engaging in hate speech," the petition, sponsored by the national Women's March organization, reads. "Remove his propaganda video targeting Congresswoman Omar."
The president last week posted a Twitter video with images of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack spliced between footage of Omar delivering remarks about Muslims in the U.S. The video drew a backlash with critics calling it inflammatory and raising concerns about Omar's safety.
Omar is one of the first Muslim-American women to serve in Congress, alongside Rep. Rashida Tlaib Rashida Harbi TlaibHillicon Valley: Mueller report coming Thursday | YouTube adds 9/11 info to Notre Dame fire video | New details on case against Assange | Thousands sign petition to ban Trump on social media | Conservatives side with big tech in GOP fight Dems rally behind Omar as Trump escalates attacks It's time for a 'Congressional Jewish Caucus' MORE (D-Mich.). She said on Sunday that she has faced an increase in threats to her life since Trump posted the video last week.
"Since the President’s tweet Friday evening, I have experienced an increase in direct threats on my life — many directly referencing or replying to the President’s video,” Omar wrote in a statement released Sunday.
As of Monday afternoon, the video was still up on Twitter.
Twitter has long held that most posts from public figures should remain online because they are "newsworthy," even when they violate Twitter guidelines against hateful or inflammatory content.
Facebook in 2016 announced a similar policy, saying they will not censor graphic material that is "newsworthy, significant, or important to the public interest — even if they might otherwise violate our standards."
Critics have raised concerns over Trump's social media accounts before, claiming he should not be allowed to blast out graphic or hateful content to his millions of followers when other users are held to different standards.
But the "newsworthiness" policies mean Facebook and Twitter are unlikely to take down his accounts any time soon.
A Twitter executive last month said the company is considering a new feature that will label tweets from politicians, including Trump, when they violate Twitter rules.
Facebook and Twitter did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment.
--This report was updated on April 16 at 5:23 a.m.


Follow this installation guide steps by steps or play the video to watch the installation.
If major work is done on the home, the water network must be flushed of all impurities to avoid damaging your mixer.
Before dismantling your old unit identify the hot and cold water lines, then shut off the water supply.
1 - Pick up the mixer and water-tight seal,place the seal on the basin and insert the hoses into the mixer hole on the basin.
2 - Place the mixer so that the water-tight seal is in contact with the basin. Hold the mixer in this position.Hint: use the hoses to hold the mixer firmly until it is attached.
3 - Take the tightening shim and its nut, now slide the locking nut along the threaded rod, positioning the seal towards the unit, then tighten the nut firmly.
1 - Pick up the plug-hole, for water-tightness, apply a sealing compound or silicon around the plug-hole, then insert it into the basin's drain hole.
2 - Screw the drain down onto the threaded part of the plug-hole, making sure to orient the drain axis towards the back. Check tightening to avoid any risk of leaks.
3 - Insert the pop up rod in to the back of the mixer.
4 - Connect the pop up rod and horizontal rod using the plastic connector.
6 - Use a metal saw to cut off the excess part of the extender, which could interfere with the drain.
7 - Make sure seals are present in the hoses. If not, add a fiber or rubber seal. Screw the left-hand hose onto the hot water faucet, and the right-hand hose on the cold water faucet. Tighten with a 19 mm open-end wrench. Make sure there are no kinks or bends in the hoses.
Open the two water supply faucets. Make sure everything is water-tight.


The film has some problems, many of which are compensated by Theron's strong performance. Her performance in itself is worth seeing, and she almost makes this a good movie, but not quite.
What about Theron's performance? It was very well-done, without question, but I don't think she quite deserves all the praise she has received. I think a lot of that praise has to do with her look more than the performance itself, and the look certainly impressed me too. She didn't look like the beautiful Charlize Theron that we're accustomed too. I didn't see Aileen, but instead saw an uglier Charlize the whole time. I doubt whether this performance would be heralded by so many if it were performed by a less attractive actress, which makes me wonder why they cast Theron to begin with. I know, it sounds like I'm criticizing Charlize when I'm really not. She was brilliant at times and is definitely in my top 5 of the year, but this performance is being touted as legendary (like Swank's Boys Don't Cry), which is not the case.
Theron's performance did hide many problems in the writing and character development. In fact, I found it to be a rather poor portrayal of a serial killer, and it unfortunately focused more on the person and less on the crimes she committed, resulting in a sloppy narrative. At times it seemed almost incidental that this character was killing people. It also seemed to hold back on really coming to understand why she did these things. It successfully showed that she was in pain, had a hard life, and we understood why she killed the first time, but not why she continued. Was it for money, for a car, to punish the assholes of the world? The filmmakers had such a great story, but they seemed to stop short when it came to turning it into a great movie.


If I am booking a flight for somebody else, is it usually possible to get frequent flyer credit for that flight?
Using American's booking interface, it complained when I tried to use my FF number with the other passenger's name. So, is the policy that only the person who flies gets the credit, not the person paying?
Generally, frequent flyer programs give credit to the passenger who actually flies. The person who books or pays for the flight, if different from the passenger, doesn't get anything.
A major reason for the existence of such programs is as a "kickback" to business travelers. The company pays for the ticket, but the traveler gets the credit. This is supposed to encourage the traveler to prefer that airline, even when another airline might be cheaper (and the traveler doesn't really care about the price because the company is paying).
As a rule, no, you don't earn miles for flights taken by others, even if you're paying the bill.
A few airlines, notably Etihad and Virgin Australia, have a "Family Membership" program where the nominated Family Head gets to pool all miles collected by family members; see this question for a partial list. I'm not aware of any American airlines supporting this though.
More common is the ability to transfer miles from one account to another, so your "somebody else" can collect the miles and then forward them to you. For example, I use this ability on Qantas to hoover up my kids' miles, since they can't make use of them anyway. Often this is only permitted between "family members" or even people living at the same address, but in practice there are no checks on this, other than the computers getting suspicious if you're accumulating new cousins on a weekly basis (this feature is sometimes abused as a way to sell miles to third parties, which is prohibited). American has this option too, although it's a paid service and the costs are kind of prohibitive at $12.50 per 1000 miles.
The person who flew the flight you paid for can also credit back the miles by purchasing something for you with those miles, whether it's a flight, a gift card or some overpriced knick-knack from the rewards catalog.
The main catch with all of these is that you can't earn status via somebody else's flying: to reach (say) a 50,000 mile Gold status, you have to fly those miles personally.
I know of no program where the credit goes to anyone but the traveller, although you can debit miles for a ticket to pretty much any another person (i.e. use miles or points to secure a ticket for someone else). In some programs you can transfer miles between program members in the same family, but that's about it.
Indeed airlines rely on the total number of miles being fragmented over a very large number of travellers so as to reduce the number of people with sufficiently many miles in their individual accounts to redeem a reward ticket.
How to Reduce the Price of an Awards/Points 'Free' Flight?
If I credit miles from my United flights to Singapore, can I still use the United app + precheck?


The system SHALL provide the ability to capture and output (documentation and display) vaccine doses that have been recommended by the system but not ordered or administered (including the date of recommendation) and reason for not ordering or administering.
Document deferral of vaccine for intercurrent illness: There are many possible reasons for deferring a recommended dose. For example, a provider could defer a vaccine dose for a patient due to an intercurrent illness. The provider would generally want to document that reason.
Document parent refusal or deferral of vaccine dose: Sometimes a provider orders a vaccine dose for a patient, but the parent refuses or defers. The provider or nurse would generally want to document the refusal/deferral, along with explanatory context.
Document vaccine recently given elsewhere: When a provider orders a vaccine dose for a patient but the parent gives a history of that vaccine having been given recently, the vaccine shouldn't be readministered. The provider would generally want to document that reason.
Premature vaccine dose: When a provider orders (or attempts to order a vaccine dose for a patient, but it is too soon for the next dose, the provider needs to be informed about the discrepancy between the order and the system recommendation. If the dose is nevertheless administered, the provider would generally want to be able to document the reason.


You will need: denim with lycra; decorative fabric; fusing; 1 zipper; 1 button.
Fusing: waistband, slit facing, buttn catch.
1.Apply the fusing to wrong side of waistband, button catch and slit facing.
2.Sew figure facing to front parts (do not forget to serge their lower edges). Topstitch pocket bag on pocket entrances, right sides together. Cut joining seam allowances to 0.5 cm (3/16") width. Turn the pocket bag into wrong side. Topstitch entrances on 0.75 cm (1/4"). Pin front parts on cut sides along marking, tack to entrances up and down. Stitch pocket bag from wrong side on the one-piece pocket bags with sides. Tack cut sides and front parts.
3.Sew front upper parts and front lower parts. Press allowances upwards and topstitch.
4.Sew front parts right sides together under slit mark along front middle seam, stop sewing 2 cm (6/8") before inside leg seam.
5.Press closure one-piece facing into wrong side. Sew the zipper under closure allowance. Sew zipper free band to right part to one-piece facing. Fold the button catch along the center its right side out, then serge along long and short edges. Topstitch closure one-piece facing onto the zipper on the burron catch (on garmant left part). Topstitch slit right edge catching facing.
6.Sew inside leg and side seams to notch marking. Sew back edge and unsewn part of font edge with one stitch. Press allwances apart, downward roundings.
7.Sew belt loops along long and one of short edges.
8.Sew the waistband and garment upper edge, right sides together; leave closure projecting allowance at waistband left end. When sewing, insert belt loop's raw ends between the garment and the waistband. Press joining seam allowance to the waistband. Fold the waistband its wrong sides out along the center, then sew short ends. Turn the waistband right side out, then topstitch strictly along joining seam on the garment right side. Topstitch belt loops overstitched ends on the waistband.
9.Fold slit facing along the center right sides together, then overstitch one short edge. Turn facing into right side and press them along the center. Sew facings to garment wrong side coinciding edges. Turn facings into right side, then topstitch along the marking.
10. Turn hem allowances into wrong side, then topstitch.
11.Make a buttonhole into waistband tight end, sew the button on the right one.