![]() ![]() Also, just like the "Xtreme" version, this one has 0 calories. It has the same fat-burning benefits as regular Redline, plus mood-enhancing and appetite-suppressing ingredients. ![]() Redline PrincessĪnother powerful Redline energy drink - Redline Princess - is specifically made with weight loss in mind. You can grab a 24-pack of the triple berry falvor here. That means every ounce of it packs 39.5mg of caffeine, making it the energy drink with the most caffeine per ounce - that isn't an energy shot that is. ![]() How much caffeine is in a Redline Xtreme energy drink?Īn 8-ounce bottle of Redline Xtreme has 316mg of caffeine. As an added benefit it also has 0 calories per bottle making it a great energy drink for weight loss too. Most people feel the energy boost within minutes of drinking it, so it's a great option when you need to spike your energy levels as fast as possible. Redline's claim to fame is their super fast-acting formula. Also, if you aren't keeping an eye on your caffeine consumption, you can easily consume too much and experience some adverse effects - like insomnia, nervousness, restlessness, increased heart rate, and nausea.Īnyway, this energy drink guide takes all of the caffeine guesswork out of the equation! It will tell you exactly how much caffeine there is in the most popular energy drinks - and it will also tell you their calories.Īlso, just so you know, I organized the list based on the energy drinks with the highest caffeine content to the lowest. However, many times they also have some downsides, like excessive calories and/or added sugar. This guide features 25 different energy drink options ranging from 350mg a drink to 260mg a drink.Įnergy drinks are a great coffee alternative, whether you're looking for something to enhance your workout, power you through a busy day, or keep you focused on the task at hand. If you've ever wondered how much caffeine is in the most popular energy drinks available, this list is for you. ![]()
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![]() In Game 3 against Golden State, the Pelicans blew a 55-point fourth-quarter lead in less than four minutes (all numbers approximate) in such an unsurprising meltdown that (a) I had to catch a 6:11 a.m. The Joe House/Other Shoe Theory Award for Worst But Most Inevitable Playoff Loss Peak Dumbleavy in 2009 and the unforgettable 2007 contest when Tim Thomas played 30 minutes without ever crossing either 3-point line. ![]() Game 1 of Clips-Spurs featured two all-time Blake dunks the best-ever CP3-and-Blake-peaking-in-the-same-game performance Aron Baynes being defiled in so many different ways that everyone in Staples Center kept waiting for the Gimp from Pulp Fiction to climb out of a trunk a Jamal Crawford heat check an uncharacteristically tremendous crowd (about 99 percent pro-Clips, which is atypical) and everyone realizing at the same time, “Holy shit, the Clips might be able to make the Finals with seven guys!” In 10 years of owning Clips season tickets, that’s the fourth-best Clips game I’ve ever attended, trailing only Game 7 of Warriors-Clips in 2014, LeBron vs. The Game of Thrones Award for Most Enjoyable Viewing Experience And throw me nice, crisp passes right at my chest. Stand under the basket and rebound for me, please. Let’s rip through a few quick Round 1 awards. ![]() Before we tackle a few mailbag questions, I need to jack up some shots to get loose. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Best Beer Shops in the South, Southwest, Southeast and Texas 504 Craft Beer Reserve
![]() Convention staff reserves the right to ask an attendee wearing the said costume to adjust it or remove it. Lexington Comic & Toy Convention has the absolute right and sole discretion to determine whether a uniform costume is permitted or too close to a real-world uniform. We ask that you be respectful of other attendees.Ĭostumes that may be confused with LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OR OTHER EMERGENCY RESPONSE PERSONNEL UNIFORMS are not permitted. You may wear a costume that is an accurate representation of an existing character in fandom however, shock costumes, or costumes that have the sole purpose of offending and disrespecting other individuals, cultures, or religions in any way, are not tolerated. We do not allow the use of hate symbols on costumes. Some costumes from anime, comic books, sci-fi, video games, and other sources may contain questionable material. YOU MUST WEAR SHOES AT ALL TIMES! The escalators love to eat bare toes. Public exposure or flashing results in removal from the event. If you wouldn’t want your grandma to see you out wearing it, don’t wear it here. Skimpy/sexy/edgy is probably okay, but you know when you have crossed the line. A prop is anything you are carrying to add effect to what you are wearing.Īll costumes must be PG during the day and PG-13 at most in the evenings or at adult events. Please refer to our Weapons Policy for more detailed information on this but if you are in doubt, leave it at home.Īll props must be deemed safe by our prop inspection station (Level 3 between the Hyatt entrance and the escalator) to be allowed inside the convention. Guns must have an orange blaze at the tip of the barrel. NO REAL weapons of any kind – No real swords or guns permitted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “My learning in music started with my mother and father,” he said during a 2012 interview with jazz bassist Jonah Jonathan. Spike Lee confirmed his father’s death via Instagram, sharing a series of black-and-white portraits taken by younger brother David Charles Lee.īill Lee composed scores for several of Spike Lee’s early films, including “She’s Gotta Have It” (1986), “School Daze” (1988), “Do The Right Thing” (1989) and “Mo’ Better Blues” (1990).īorn William James Edwards Lee III in Snow Hill, Ala., on July 23, 1928, Bill Lee was the son of two musicians. If you can make a living doing what you love, then you’ve already won.Bill Lee, a jazz bassist who played with Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin and Duke Ellington, who was also the father of filmmaker Spike Lee, died at his Brooklyn home Wednesday morning. There’s going to be highs and lows and you just have to understand that if this is what you’re doing and it is what you love, then you’re blessed because the majority of the people on this earth go to their grave hating their job and not ever getting to do what they love – don’t be one of them. “You’ve got to not be discouraged and understand that it’s a marathon not a sprint,” he says. They have to.”Īs for knockbacks? His advice is simple – don’t let them consume you. We just have to keep at it because ultimately everybody needs to tell their own story. Nothing can happen overnight, it’s gradual. But we are getting more opportunities for men and women of colour. “As a person of colour, you still have to work extra hard. “This world hasn’t changed so much,” he admits. With that being said, Lee, more than most, is aware of the challenges faced as a black creative in Hollywood – it did after all take him 33 years and four nominations before he finally got his hands on an Oscar. You can no longer say ‘I need all this money’ to create something, you don’t. Some young filmmakers are making feature films on their cellphones. “I’m not saying it’s easy but it is a lot easier. “There’s much greater opportunity to be a filmmaker today because everybody has all these different platforms to create content,” he explains. Today, he has yet another strong message, this time for young filmmakers of colour who dream of his success. Earlier this year, the 62-year-old visionary won his first Oscar, taking home the Best Adapted Screenplay award for the most recent Spike Lee joint, Blackkklansman – a politically charged, humorous true story of a black police officer who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.Īs with everything he does, Lee dedicated his Oscar to his people, using his speech as an opportunity to recite significant moments in African American history in honour of Black History Month. To mark the occasion, Lee threw one of his famous block parties in his hometown – ‘Da People’s Republic of Brooklyn’ as he calls it – inviting over 20,000 people, including the cast and crew, to the same neighbourhood the film was shot in 1989. For over three decades, Lee has been pushing boundaries with provocative yet necessary narratives of the African American experience through his catalogue of both indie and feature films – a prime example being the monumental Do The Right Thing, which celebrated its 30 year anniversary on June 30. Of course, this isn’t the only history making moment in the filmmaker’s career. After the game, they had me on television wearing it and then it blew the fuck up.”įrom that moment onwards, New Era began creating an array of different colours for each team – including their latest 2019 collaboration with Lee, which launched last Friday. “At first they said they couldn’t make any other colour, but then the late owner of the New York Yankees team gave them the okay. “Nobody had ever asked for a different colour hat before that,” says Lee, explaining how he set a new precedent for the brand by becoming the first person to wear a non-navy (the team’s official colour) Yankees hat. ![]() And most definitely why New Era CEO Christopher Koch granted Lee’s wish for a red New York Yankees cap – an extremely unorthodox request at the time – to match his red jacket for the 1996 World Series baseball games. Perhaps that’s why he is hailed as a change-maker in both film and streetwear fashion. The director, who strikes a firm presence in every room he graces – whether you’re familiar with his accolades or not – epitomises originality in his craft, his persona and his style. Pioneering filmmaker, provocateur and die-hard Yankees fan are just a few things that come to mind when describing Spike Lee. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is nothing within walking distance aside from a handful of resorts, but a 15-minute cab ride gets you to dining, shopping, and nightlife in Playa del Carmen. The Grand Velas is located on a gorgeous white-sand beach off the Cancun - Chetumal road that runs along the Riviera Maya coast. What Are the Design and Scene Like at the Grand Velas Riviera Maya? The 90 huge suites also feature contemporary Mexican artwork, large terraces, and stunning bathrooms with dark-wood sliding doors. It’s the most luxurious of all buildings, with three restaurants, a beautiful infinity pool, and private plunge pools in every room. Unlike the Ambassador and Zen sections, the Grand Class is adults-only. It’s busier than the Zen building because of its proximity to the beach, but the hotel’s stretch of sand is 1,000 feet long, the pool is huge, and the room count is relatively low (491 suites spread out in three buildings), so the resort does not necessarily feel crowded. The Ambassador is home to the largest pool complex and to several restaurants, both casual and formal. It’s the least luxurious of the three sections, but here that only means rooms are a tad smaller (1,100 square feet) and overlook the jungle instead of the sea.ĭown the road, right on the beach, are the Ambassador and Grand Class sections. The Zen section is the first one off the road (but that means it’s still a two-minute drive from the main entrance), and has a hushed vibe despite being family-friendly, with dimly lit pathways covered by palapa roofs, a stylish pool complex playing soft music in the background, and the hotel’s top-notch spa. ![]() The resort is comprised of three separate areas - Zen, Ambassador, and Grand Class - all hidden away amid the lush grounds. It is set on 86 acres of beachfront mangroves outside Playa del Carmen - but the jungle is so thick and the path to the main road so long that the resort feels a world away from the hustle and bustle of more touristy areas in Playa del Carmen, located just a short drive away. The Grand Velas is one of the top three hotels in Riviera Maya, a region known for its luxury resorts and gorgeous beaches. ![]() ![]() ![]() Check out this thread for more information: What is the fool proof way to convert some string (utf-8 or else) to a simple ASCII string in python Unfortunately, the string.encode() method is not always reliable. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky You may want to brush up on Unicode and UTF-8 and encodings. With codecs.open('config/index/'+index, 'r', 'utf8') as findex:Ĭursor.execute('SELECT COUNT(id) AS nbr FROM artistes WHERE nom=%s', (artiste,))Ĭursor.execute('INSERT INTO artistes(nom,status,path) VALUES(%s, 99, %s)', (artiste, artiste + u'/')) Sql = mdb.connect('localhost','admin','ugo&( ','music_vibration', charset='utf8') It may actually work better if you used codecs.open() to decode the contents automatically instead: import codecs Use unicode objects, not str objects when querying or inserting, but use sql parameters so the MySQL connector can do the right thing for you: artiste = code('utf8') # it is already UTF8, decode to unicodeĬ.execute('SELECT COUNT(id) AS nbr FROM artistes WHERE nom=%s', (artiste,))Ĭ.execute('INSERT INTO artistes(nom,status,path) VALUES(%s, 99, %s)', (artiste, artiste + u'/')) You also really don't want to write out the UTF-8 BOM, unless you have to support Microsoft tools that cannot read UTF-8 otherwise (such as MS Notepad).įor your MySQL insert problem, you need to do two things:Īdd charset='utf8' to your nnect() call. You'd want to use codecs.open() instead, which returns a file object that will encode unicode values to UTF-8 for you. If you instead build up unicode values instead, you would indeed have to encode those to be writable to a file. Just write your data directly to the file, there is no need to encode already-encoded data. UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) > data.encode('utf8') # Try to *re*-encode it ![]() > data = data.encode('utf8') # encoded to UTF-8 That is what is failing here: > data = u'\u00c3' # Unicode data When you try to do that, Python will first try to decode it to unicode before it can encode it back to UTF-8. You don't need to encode data that is already encoded. ![]() ![]() Small Container (preferrably with lid) if only using alcoholįirst things first – take your pen apart.Įven if you think the ink is completely dried up it will still have some life in it – mine did even after 8 years of dry-time.Also – do NOT use nail-polish remover – you WILL ruin your pens if you do. Rapido-eze cleaner OR Isopropyl Alcohol (91% or higher) – I used the alcohol throughout all of this.The Koh-I-Noor Syringe Cleaner Kit with Point Starter and Nib Key (between $10-15 alone w/out Rapido-Eze cleaner).What you need to clean Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph Pens: I’m not making promises and I take no responsibility for anything you encounter BUT – the following details my process of saving (yes, SAVING) all three of my pens and if there was hope for my incredibly abused pens there might be for yours too… and what have you really got to lose? So if you’ve just picked up some pens on eBay that were not as great as thought or you’ve been squirreling away your shame for the past 8 years like me – there’s hope. Short answer: I left a 0x3/.25 Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph with ink in it ( absolutely no cleaning what-so-ever AND a bent freaking cleansing wire – yep, that’s right – BENT WIRE!) alone for 8+ years and my 0/.35 and 2/.60 pens with a “half-ass” external and ink-cartridge cleaning for 5+ years. So – those of you who are searching for the following information – you’re probably thinking “ Well, but just how dead is dead?” and “ Can I really save my pen?“. I would also advise picking up a copy of “The Technical Pen” by Gary Simmons if you’re serious about pen care because he’s got an excellent “manual” of sorts in the front of this book. If you just want to find some basic information about normal cleaning (video) or a copy of the instruction sheet that came with the pens just click on the links. hence why I just spent 4 hours reviving 3 “dead” pens. They’re a pain in the ass to most because they are not the typical “one-use” experience most people are used to. So, before you stop reading because this is of no interest to you – at least know this – Rapidograph pens are expensive but exquisite. In summary:Ĭleaning your pen - the insides of the pen get somewhat stained blue.While this will probably only be interesting to anyone who is actively searching for “ How to Clean a Rapidograph Pen” or “ Can you save a Rapidograph Pen with dried ink in it?” – I feel compelled to create this post because if you are one of these sad and frustrated people, there’s not a lot on the net that really goes into how to rescue so-called irreparable Rapidograph Pens. ![]() At least as good as the sample written in registrar's ink I had put next to it. I left a sample of writing in a sunlit window for a month and the colour was still strong afterwards - if there was any fading it was barely perceptable. Resistance to fading in sunlight is also good. Pouring water on the page results in a slight bleeding of blue dye, but the writing remains perfectly legible. The best bit is that, once dry, the ink is almost completely waterproof. As I write the colour is a vibrant turquoise-blue, but it dries to a more restrained greyish blue. Curiously, over time a faint blue bloom forms around the nib area of the pen. (This bodes well for its permanence on paper). As other reviewers have noted, it contains a very fierce dye which will stain things if you are careless with it. I find that it writes OK in my pen (a humble Hero 616), not particularly dry but not excessively wet either. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Īccording to the Koh-i-noor catalogue, this is an indelible ink intended for documents which will be archived. ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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At the end of the 19th century, Joseph Lister and his followers expanded the term "antisepsis" and coined "asepsis," with the justification that Lister had initially "suggested excluding septic agents from the wound from the start." Generally, however, asepsis is seen as a continuation of antisepsis since many of the values are the same, such as a "germ-free environment around the wound or patient," and techniques pioneered under both names are used in conjunction today. Until the late 19th century, physicians rejected the connection between Louis Pasteur's germ theory that bacteria caused diseases and antiseptic techniques. Procedures for implementing antisepsis varied among physicians and experienced constant changes. In the past, antiseptic operations occurred in people's homes or in operating theaters before a large crowd. The line between antisepsis and asepsis is interpreted differently, depending on context and time. Joseph Colt Bloodgood and several others began wearing them for that particular purpose. These gloves became a part of the aseptic surgery standard when Dr. The damage to a surgical nurse's hands compelled him to create the earliest form of the surgical gloves with the Goodyear Rubber Company. In his department at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he enforced an extreme hand washing ritual consisting of soaking in harmfully strong chemicals like permanganate and mercury bichloride solution as well as scrubbing with stiff brushes. Additionally, Halsted would sterilize the operation site with alcohol, iodine and other disinfectants and use drapes to cover all areas except for the site. This helped to prevent the introduction of infections into open wounds. Preceding modern-day scrubs attire, Halsted implemented a no street clothes policy in his operating room, opting to wear a completely white, sterile uniform consisting of a duck suit, tennis shoes, and skullcap. īut, everything from operating room uniforms to gloves was pioneered by William Halsted. ![]() Ernst von Bergmann also introduced the autoclave, a device used for the practice of the sterilization of surgical instruments. Lawson Tait shifted the movement then from antisepsis to asepsis, instilling practices such as a strict no-talking policy within his operating room and drastically limiting the number of people to come in contact with a patient's wound. It was not until after reading of the findings by Louis Pasteur that Joseph Lister introduced the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic, and in doing so, reduced surgical infection rates. ![]() Despite this, many hospitals continued to practice surgery in unsanitary conditions, with some surgeons taking pride in their bloodstained operating gowns. Ignaz Semmelweis showed that hand washing prior to delivery reduced puerperal fever. The modern concept of asepsis evolved in the 19th century through multiple individuals. The term often refers to those practices used to promote or induce asepsis in an operative field of surgery or medicine to prevent infection. Even in an aseptic state, a condition of sterile inflammation may develop. fungi, bacteria, viruses), not just those that can cause disease, putrefaction, or fermentation. Ideally, a surgical field is sterile, meaning it is free of all biological contaminants (e.g. The goal of asepsis is to eliminate infection, not to achieve sterility. The modern day notion of asepsis is derived from the older antiseptic techniques, a shift initiated by different individuals in the 19th century who introduced practices such as the sterilizing of surgical tools and the wearing of surgical gloves during operations. There are two categories of asepsis: medical and surgical. Asepsis is the state of being free from disease-causing micro-organisms (such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses, pathogenic fungi, and parasites). ![]() |
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