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Looking through my collection yesterday I realized I don't seem to actually have the expensive Kotomi card (I have a poster with that image hanging on my wall and have every other Kotomi card so I guess my memory got confused, heh), but I do have a foil version of the expensive Fuuko card. I also have a couple Nanoha and DCII promo cards from Megami Magazine that I'd just casually tossed aside but apparently they're worth more than almost any card in an actual set.
Is buying single cards instead of packs worth it for this game? Can that Nanoha combo be activated reliably enough to build your deck around it or is it some random thing that may just happen once in a while? In Magic there's typically 1-2 cards out of 15 in a pack that are considered playable in a high level deck, and many of them are cheap commons, so it's obviously a pretty terrible value opening packs most of the time. What's the average number of playable cards per pack of WS? | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,752 |
The Farr Side: Top 10 songs of the year
They say it's sad to be single. Maybe they were talking about something else, because there's nothing sad about these singles. All year, they've monopolized the airwaves of various formats. More importantly, they ruled my playlist.
I'm a connoisseur of great music, particularly songs that stand out. Sometimes, it's a clever hook or a beautiful lyric. Other times, it's an irresistible beat or a message that too important not to share that pulls me in. Then, there are once-in-a-lifetime collaborations that blow everything out of the water.
The year 2018 was full of impressive tracks that managed to make me feel all those things and more. It's nearly almost impossible for me to compile such a list, but here are my picks for the 10 best songs of the year.
10. "Havana," Camila Cabello.
The breakout star of 2018. After leaving the successful Fifth Harmony vocal group, Cabello moved into a limelight with this song. I have to admit, though, I didn't like this song at first. It was too repetitive, but it's catchy vibe won me over the more I heard the track. This song was everywhere. Cabello found her groove and sold it to the world on her debut album, "Camila."
9. "Natural," Imagine Dragons.
Imagine Dragons has become of my favorite bands, with such massive singles as "Radioactive," "Demons," "Believer," "Whatever It Takes" and "Thunder" over the past few years. "Natural," from the band's fourth studio album, "Origins," follows that same path of success. Their brand of rock has set them apart from their peers, mainly because it's heavy on the percussion. Dan Reynolds is the best front-man on the scene right now. His vocal style is like no other. Couple that with the talents of bandmates Wayne Sermon (lead guitar), Ben McKee (bass), and Daniel Platzman (drums), you have an imagineable dragon impossible to slay.
8. "Come On To Me," Paul McCartney.
t 76, Sir Paul McCartney is proof that age is nothing but a number. The legendary artist was back on top with his 17th studio release post-Beatles album. "Come On To Me" is the lead-off single. For me, it's his best work since the singles from '80s albums "Tug Of War," "Pipes Of Peace" and "Give My Regards To Broad Street." Diehard Beatles's fans were appeased at similarities to "Sgt. Pepper" heard throughout the album, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 200.
7. "You Are The Reason," Callum Scott and Leona Lewis.
I love a beautiful ballad, especially when it's the culmination of two such talents like Callum and Leona. Duets this gorgeous are a rarity anymore. "You Are The Reason" harkens back to those beautiful pairings of Lionel Richie/Diana Ross, Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton, and Bill Medley/Jennifer Warnes in the '80s. Scott emerged from "Britain's Got Talent." His weekly performances broke the internet, but wasn't enough to win. First released in solo, this version came from the Deluxe release of his album, "Only Human."
6. "Move You," Kelly Clarkson.
This is Clarkson at her best and that's saying a lot considering her impressive hits repertoire. "Move You" was not an official single from "Meaning Of Life." The song is the B-side to Clarkson's Grammy-nominated single "Love So Soft." It was a mistake to not release it as a single. I loved it the first time I heard it. Her vocals, along with her band and backup singers, build with the song until it explodes.
5."You Say," Lauren Daigle.
What a powerful song. How I did not know much about this girl before this song is beyond me. Lauren is a phenomenal contemporary Christian singer-songwriter with a loyal fan-base. For her album, "Look Up Child," Lauren opted to 'lose her religion.' And, by that, she meant removing the labels, not her faith. "You Say" takes God's promises to heart to where you can believe in them, and yourself. If there were ever a perfect time for a song to come along, its this one and right now.
4. "Supermarket Flowers," Ed Sheeran.
I cry every time I hear this. It surfaced around the time I was losing my mom. Sheeran is one of the best current artists. He is a terrific singer, performer and songwriter. He's this generation's Paul Simon. "Divide," already had been a major success with "Shape Of You," "Castle On The Hill" and "Perfect," but it was this song that resonated so much with me. He captured a moment none of us are truly ever prepared for, coming home for the first time where a loved will not be. He got it right, down to emptying her coffee cup.
3. "Delicate," Taylor Swift.
Swift is one of the most dynamic singers of our time. Her growth as an artist has been fascinating to watch. "Delicate" was the sixth single from her mega-selling album, "Reputation." It's different from anything she had released before, which might be what interests me most about the song. It was her first single since she went "pop" to be released without much fanfare. It's less in-your-face than the album's first singles, "Look What You Made Me Do" and "...Are You Ready?" Yet, it's equally worthy of attention.
2. "The Middle," Zedd, feat. Maren Morris.
This is the perfect pop song. It's fun, upbeat and infectious. When I hear it, it plays in my head all day. We first heard this song in commercials in Christmas 2017. Zedd is one of the DJs responsible for putting electronic dance music on the charts and airwaves. What makes "The Middle" work is Maren Morris, who seems like an unlikely candidate for a song of this type, but the country star proved she's up to the task. The pairing was perfect and it became one of the biggest songs of the year. It has been nominated for Song and Record Of The Year for the 2019 Grammys.
1. "Shallow," Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.
Perfection. We know Lady Gaga can sing, but who knew about Bradley Cooper? He's awesome. "Shallow" is the first single from "A Star Is Born," which stars Cooper and Lady Gaga. The remake has garnered much Oscar buzz for both stars, but the music is another dimension. Cooper was brilliant to see past Gaga's persona and cast her opposite him in the film. No other female singer could have done what she has been able to do with this film. "Shallow" is a heartfelt ballad filled with raw emotion. It's real and the feeling expressed in the song captures that of Jackson and Ally beautifully from the film. Gaga co-wrote most of the soundtrack, including this gem. Although she was successful before "A Star Is Born," now she's a solidified actress much the way it was for Madonna when she landed the role of Eva Perone in "Evita." This song earned Cooper and Gaga three Grammy nominations, including Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Song and Record of The Year honors.
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Hilda H. Warner, 99, formerly of Norfolk
Funeral services for 99 year old Hilda H. Warner of the James Square Health and Rehab Center, North Syracuse, and formerly of Norfolk, will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the Buck Funeral Home in Norfolk with Rev. Harold Wheat presiding. Burial will be held in the Bixby cemetery, Norfolk. Family and friends may call at the Buck Funeral Home in Norfolk on Tuesday from 1 p.m. until the time of the funeral. Mrs. Warner passed away Saturday evening at James Square.
Mrs. Warner is survived by her son, Clark and Barbara Warner, Norwood; her daughter, Mrs. Diane O'Connor, North Syracuse; and her four grandchildren and her four great-grandchildren.
Hilda was pre-deceased by her two brothers, George and Martin Clark; and her sisters, Wilma Barkley, Edith Purves, Ida Colby, Frances Narrow, Blanche Hazen, and Eva Clark.
She was born in Dickenson Center on April 2, 1912 to the late Herbert and Maude Winters Clark, she married Walter Lister Warner on February 10, 1934. He passed away in 1996.
She was a homemaker and enjoyed doing crafts, spending time with her family and cooking. Hilda was a member of the Eastern Star, the Norfolk Home Bureau and the United Methodist Church Women's Group. Memorial Donations can be made to the Norfolk Methodist Church or to Hospice and Palliative Care of the St. Lawrence Valley.
Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at www.buckfuneralhome.com . The Buck Funeral Home in Norfolk is serving the family of Hilda H. Warner.
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Drobo Mini review: An underperforming and overpriced storage device
By Dong Ngo
November 30, 2012 9:06 PM PST
$1,282.28 MSRP: $649.00
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The Good The Drobo Mini is compact, can host four drives with dynamic storage scalability and protection, and supports both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0, and its drive bay design is excellent.
The Bad The Drobo Mini is very expensive, it's comparatively slow, hot, and noisy, it takes a long time to start up, and overall it's cumbersome to use.
The Bottom Line The esoteric Drobo Mini seems to strive to be unique mostly for the sake of uniqueness, and offers very little, if at all, in terms of usability considering its crazily high cost.
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The Drobo Mini is like no other Thunderbolt storage device I've reviewed before. For one, it's very compact, yet its four drive bays mean it can host up to four 2.5-inch hard drives. Secondly, it's the first multiple-bay Thunderbolt storage device that also supports USB 3.0, and the first Thunderbolt device I've seen that offers a ceiling storage space of up to 16TB, despite having just 4TB of actual raw storage at most, thanks to Drobo's flexible BeyondRAID setup.
And finally, it's got a slew of unique little features including an mSATA drive bay, a built-in emergency battery, a cool magnetic drive bay door, and many colorful LED status lights. There's also a little bit of money-saving: like most recent Thunderbolt storage devices, the Drobo Mini comes with the necessary Thunderbolt cable included.
On the down side, at the time of the review, the Drobo Mini bears a crazy price tag of $650 with no storage included; it takes a long time to start up; and it's noisier than most Thunderbolt devices I've worked with. In terms of performance, when hosting four high-speed 2.5-inch hard drives, the drive fell short in my testing when compared with its peers, using both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 connection types.
That said, if you don't mind spending money on uniqueness, the Drobo is available now, though you won't find it at Apple's store, where you'll find most other Thunderbolt storage products. For productivity, remember to also check out the alternatives on this list. For example, for just $500 the WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo offers slightly faster overall speeds, 6TB (or 3TB protected) of storage space, and a much more straightforward experience.
Measuring 7.3x1.8x7.1 inches, and weighing just about 3 pounds (with the four drive bays fully loaded), the Drobo Mini is the most compact four-bay storage device I've seen. This is mostly because it's designed to house 2.5-inch laptop hard drives and not the regular 3.5-inch desktop hard drives. The Drobo Mini is not exactly "the size of a deli sandwich" as described on Drobo's Web site, however; rather, it's about the size of a Mac Mini, slightly thicker and heavier, in fact.
The Drobo Mini comes with a crazy number of bright LED lights on the front that can be fun or annoying, depending on your mood. Dong Ngo
On the front, the Drobo Mini's drive bays are covered by a magnetic lid that stays on easily and firmly. It's a little hard to remove this lid, however, mostly because it's very smooth and kind of slippery, and there's no handle to grab. You just have to jiggle it around and eventually it'll come off, revealing the four drive bays. Each of the bays can host a 2.5-inch standard high-speed drive, be it a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD). Since standard high-speed 2.5-inch drives on the market are currently capped at 1TB, the Drobo Mini offers up to 4TB total of raw storage space, or 3TB of usable capacity with data protection. The drive bay can house a drive that's either 9mm thick (standard) or 7mm thick (ultrathin).
It's very easy to insert a drive or remove it from its bay; no tool is necessary, since each drive can be pushed in its place. To remove it, you just push again and it will come out. This is very similar to how you use an SD card with most digital cameras, which is as well-designed as can be.
Wrapping around each of the drive bays is a bright LED light that stay green when everything is in order. When something happens, such as a drive has crashed (or was pulled out during an operation), the color of the light will change to red. During a RAID rebuild, all of the lights of the four drive bays will be flashing green and amber. This is a helpful feature when something is not right. Most of the time, however, I find these lights too bright and they can be an annoyance when you want to keep the room dark. Especially considering that the Drobo Mini has even more lights.
It's true: also on the front, at the bottom edge, the storage device has three more LED lights, two little ones that show the power status (always green) and activity (flashing green), and a long blue light that works as a storage gauge: from left, it partially glows brighter to indicate how much of the total capacity has been used up. As you can imagine, all these lights make the front of the Drobo quite busy to look at, especially while the drive is starting up, when these lights are constantly flashing or changing colors or both. The good news is you can use the Drobo Dashboard software to dim these lights.
And the Drobo Mini takes a long time to start up, ranging from 1.5 minutes to a whole 4 minutes in my trials. Other Thunderbolt storage devices take just a few seconds to be ready. This in itself could make the drive a terrible choice as an external storage device when you are in a hurry.
On the back, the Drobo Mini has two ventilation fans on both of its sides. These fans run all the time starting from the moment you turn the drive on, and they're noisy. In fact, the Drobo Mini is the noisiest compact storage device I've used, rivaling even the Pegasus R6, which is a huge device, about six times the physical size of the Drobo Mini. Again, together with the excessive number of LED lights on its front, the Drobo Mini's noise could really be a nuisance for many users.
Also on the back, the drive has two Thunderbolt ports (which is standard for most Thunderbolt storage devices), a USB 3.0 port, a power port, and a power on/off button. It's important that you use this power button to turn the drive off. This is because if you unplug the drive from the power source, it won't turn off right away. The Drobo comes with a built-in battery that keeps it alive when the power goes out spontaneously, "for the data to be written to nonvolatile storage," according to Drobo. While this seems like a good data protection feature, in my trials it was, again, more of a nuisance.
The Drobo Mini comes with an mSATA SSD bay on the bottom, which may inspire you to spend more money on a feature that promises to boosts the drive's performance. Dong Ngo
When I unplugged the power to the drive to simulate a power blackout, the device would stay on though its fans turned off immediately, but it was also immediately dismounted from the computer, as though its Thunderbolt cable were unplugged. To be clear, if you are working on a file or copying data to the drive and the power goes out, the data will still be lost. Now when I plugged the power back in, the drive would turn back on with fans back on loudly, but would not be recognized by the computer for a few minutes; then it appeared to restart by itself, so would be another few minutes before it was back to normal. From the users' point of view, the built-in battery is quite useless and seems to only make life harder.
In addition to the four drive bays on the front, the Drobo also has an mSATA SSD drive bay on the bottom where you can install an mSATA SSD. Drobo calls this bay the Accelerator Bay, claiming that it will boost the performance of the Mini when an mSATA SSD is used. Whether this performance boost happens is to be determined -- I didn't try that out -- but for sure this will increase the total cost. On a good day, a 64GB mSATA SSD can be as cheap as $70, but larger drives will cost significantly more.
Setup and features
Generally, there's basically nothing to the setup process of a Thunderbolt storage device. For most of them, you just have to plug the drive into a power outlet and the computer, using a Thunderbolt cable, and that's it. Within a few seconds you can use the drive. With others, you might have to format the drive using the Disk Utility (Mac) or Disk Management (Windows), a process that takes less than a minute to do.
It's quite different with the Drobo Mini.
Out of the box, the Drobo Mini comes with no storage, but Drobo shipped the review unit with four 750GB Seagate Momentus 2.5-inch hard drives for me to use in testing. These are high-speed laptop drives that spin at 7,200rpm. It was easy to install these drive in the Mini's four drive bays, as mentioned above. The Mini also comes with a standard USB 3.0 cable and a foot-long Thunderbolt cable.
The Drobo Dashboard software shows the Drobo Mini's status in sync with the drive's front LED status lights. Dong Ngo
Using the drive as an external storage drive, however, required many more steps. First I had to download the Drobo Dashboard software from Drobo's Web site. During the installation of the software, it suggested that I cancel the process and install Java first, which I did. After that, I reinstalled the software from the beginning, and had to restart the computer to complete the installation.
The software took about 30 seconds to recognize the fully started-up, plugged-in Drobo Mini and took about 5 minutes to format it into HFS+. Now there was something interesting about this process. The Dashboard software, by default, suggested that I should pick 16TB as the total storage space of the Drobo Mini, while in fact with the four hard drives, it has at most 3TB of raw storage space. As it turn out, with Drobo's BeyondRAID, you can choose ceiling storage space of anywhere between 1TB and 16TB, regardless of the actual capacity of the Mini. As you use the drive, and the actual storage space runs out, you can then add more storage either via more drives (if you started with fewer than four drives) or via drives of larger capacities, up to the amount determined by the ceiling volume. Given that, there seems to be no benefit to picking less than 16TB as the initial volume size.
But there's no benefit to picking the highest amount, either, since each of the Mini's four drive bays supports a drive of 1TB at most. For that reason, it's kind of pointless to select a volume that's larger than 4TB. Having a "virtual" volume that's larger than the actual storage space can also be confusing since you end up thinking you have more storage that you actually do. Our review unit, with four 750GB hard drives, actually offers about 2TB of protected storage space with one-disk redundancy, or 1.3TB with dual-disk redundancy.
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Bregman, LeMahieu in starting lineup for American League in MLB All-Star Game
By Bill Franques
Category: LSU, Pro Baseball
BATON ROUGE, La. – Former LSU stars Alex Bregman and DJ LeMahieu will start Tuesday night's MLB All-Star Game for the American League at Progressive Field in Cleveland.
Bregman, who leads the Houston Astros in homers (23) and RBI (56), will be the AL's starting third baseman.
LeMahieu, in his first season with the New York Yankees, leads the American League with a .336 batting average and will start at second base in the All-Star Game.
The appearances of LeMahieu and Bregman mark the fifth straight year a former LSU player will participate in the All-Star Game.
LeMahieu will make his third All-Star Game appearance, his first as a Yankee. He was a National League All-Star in 2015 and 2017 with the Colorado Rockies, and he has won three Gold Gloves and one MLB batting title during his nine-year big-league career.
Bregman is representing the Astros in the All-Star Game for the second straight season – he hit the game-winning homer in last season's midsummer classic and was named the MVP.
LeMahieu, a native of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., played at LSU in 2008 and 2009 and signed with the Chicago Cubs after he was selected in the second round of the '09 MLB Draft.
LeMahieu hit .344 during his college career with 24 doubles, five triples, 11 homers and 87 RBI. He was named to the 2009 College World Series All-Tournament team, batting .444 during the Tigers' drive to the national championship.
Bregman, a native of Albuquerque, N.M., played at LSU from 2013 through 2015 and helped lead the Tigers to two College World Series appearances. The No. 2 overall selection by the Astros in the 2015 MLB Draft, Bregman was a two-time first-team all-American at LSU, and he was named the recipient of the 2013 Brooks Wallace Award as the nation's best shortstop.
Bregman started all 196 games of his LSU career at shortstop, batting .337 (265-for-786) with 56 doubles, 10 triples, 21 homers, 148 RBI, 153 runs and 66 stolen bases.
He was a finalist for the 2015 Golden Spikes Award, and he was named the 2013 National Freshman of the Year.
LSU's Major League All-Stars
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Alvin Dark, SS, New York Giants (NL) – 1951-52, 1954
Joe Bill Adcock, 1B, Milwaukee Braves (NL) – 1960
Albert Belle, OF, Cleveland Indians (AL) – 1993-96; Chicago White Sox (AL) – 1997
Paul Byrd, RHP, Philadelphia Phillies (NL) – 1999
Brian Wilson, RHP, San Francisco Giants (NL) – 2008, 2010, 2011
Brad Hawpe, OF, Colorado Rockies (NL) – 2009
Aaron Hill, 2B, Toronto Blue Jays (AL) – 2009
DJ LeMahieu, 2B, Colorado Rockies (NL)- 2015, 2017; New York Yankees (AL) – 2019
Will Harris, RHP, Houston Astros (AL) – 2016
Aaron Nola, RHP, Philadelphia Phillies (NL) – 2018
Alex Bregman, 3B, Houston Astros (AL) – 2018, 2019
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Q: how to create index to speed up data retrieval I have this query below it gets 6000+ row of items from the server the downloaded data is only 317KB but it takes almost 25 seconds or the IIS server time out.
-- Region Parameters
DECLARE @p0 Int = 0
DECLARE @p1 NVarChar(1000) = 'sample.user'
DECLARE @p2 Int = 0
DECLARE @p3 NVarChar(1000) = 'sample.user'
-- EndRegion
SELECT [t0].[Id], [t0].[DocNumber], [t0].[DocStatus], [t0].[Title], [t0].[SubmittedDate], [t0].[CreatedBy], [t0].[ApprovedByStep], [t0].[RoutedFor],
(CASE
WHEN [t2].[test] IS NULL THEN NULL
ELSE [t2].[ApprovedBy]
END) AS [HistApprovedBy]
FROM [TESTDB].[dbo].[SampleTable] AS [t0]
LEFT OUTER JOIN (
SELECT 1 AS [test], [t1].[RequestId], [t1].[DocType], [t1].[ApprovedBy]
FROM [TESTDB].[dbo].[SampleHistories] AS [t1]
) AS [t2] ON ([t0].[Id] = [t2].[RequestId]) AND (@p0 = [t2].[DocType])
WHERE ([t0].[CreatedBy] = @p1) OR (([t0].[DocStatus] <> @p2) AND ([t0].[CreatedBy] <> @p3))
ORDER BY [t0].[DocNumber]
I read that indexing can speed up data retrieval, how do I create an index of the sql query above? and if you any suggestions on how to speed it up. I would appreciate it.
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For reference Below is my LINQ
var vm = (from splTbl in SampleTable
join splsplHist in SamplesplHistories on
new
{
Key1 = splTbl.Id,
Key2 = 0
}
equals
new
{
Key1 = splHist.RequestId,
Key2 = splHist.DocType
}
into subsplHists
from subsplHist in subsplHists.DefaultIfEmpty()
where (splTbl.CreatedBy == "sample.user")
|| (splTbl.DocStatus != 0 && splTbl.CreatedBy != "sample.user")
orderby splTbl.DocNumber
select new
{
splTbl.Id,
splTbl.DocNumber,
splTbl.DocStatus,
splTbl.Title,
splTbl.SubmittedDate,
splTbl.CreatedBy,
splTbl.ApprovedByStep,
splTbl.RoutedFor,
splHistApprovedBy = (subsplHist == null ? null : subsplHist.ApprovedBy)
}
).ToList()
.GroupBy(x => new {
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The Dog Walker's Diary by Kathryn Donahue Blog Tour with Review & Giveaway (2 Signed Copies of The Dog Walker's Diary)
Title: The Dog Walker's Diary
Author: Kathryn Donahue
Cover Designer: Madeline Berger
Editor: Kelsy Thompson
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Daniel Ashe has reason to believe he is incapable of falling in love. He certainly has no romantic interest in Annie, the odd Irish woman he hired to walk his dogs – but every night he comes home to find she has left him a new and fantastical story about their secret lives. His dachshund is a buccaneer on the high seas, his retriever recounts a past life as a circus lion, and Daniel is cast time and again as a romantic hero.
As her stories become the highlight of his day, Daniel realizes that Annie is embedding hints about her own astonishing past, and he has to ask himself if he's truly incapable of falling in love after all.
Kathryn Donahue is a freelance writer and former tongue-in-cheek advice columnist for The Deepwell Press. Her humor essays have been published in First Sunday, and she won the Spotlight Award for her one-act play The Sty. Her debut novel, The Dog Walker's Diary, is a Forward finalist for Indie Book of the Year. It earned a coveted star review from Publishers Weekly, ( "… a diverting delight from beginning to end,") and a four star rating from RT Book Reviews, ("… one of the most remarkably unique contemporary romances this year.") Ms. Donahue is completing a new novel, and working on a screenplay.
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5 +++++ STARS
A Top 10 Read for 2018 and an All-Time Favorite Read
The Dog Walker's Diary is one of those rare books in which the storyline, the emotions, and the characters just come together flawlessly to create a perfect read! I will go ahead and tell you that this book is in the top 10 reads for me for 2018 as well as an all-time favorite read!
Who knew two people could fall in love by writing to one another in a dog walking journal!!! This is just one of the elements of this book that made it so very witty and clever. Daniel is a literary agent that has given up on love and somewhat on his own dream of being a writer. When he hires Annie, he really has no clue how much his life is going to change.
Both Daniel and Annie are quirky characters that will stay with me for quite some time. Oh my gosh, Daniel has a hilarious phobia of redheads, and guess what…Annie is an Irish redhead. He reaction to seeing her the first time is priceless and very FUNNY!
Not only is this a romance, but it's several stories wrapped up into one book. How the writer did that so well amazed me! For example, there were diary entries chronicling the secret lives of his dogs, along with some twists added in as well.
I have two favorite things in life…dogs and books! So, I couldn't wait to grab this book. I'm also a dog Mom to two yellow labs myself, and I had high hopes for this book. My expectations were blown out of the water. Donahue's writing was flawless. I always say there is a difference between a story and a book. A story captures my mind and my heart, and this book did that. Donahue is much more that just a writer; she is a storyteller. We don't have enough of those in this day and age, and I'm so excited to see what she has in store for her readers next!!!!
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Dog Diary
Thursday, 5:00 a.m.
Dear Annie,
Your stories are back in here, but during their short hiatus to my office I showed them to my boss. After reading them, Peter took off his glasses and said, "So you're telling me that this woman leaves you a new fairy tale every night?"
"Yes. Every night."
"Then you know what she is, don't you?"
"This Irish woman. Do you know what she is?"
I shook my head. "What are you talking about? What is she?"
"Wake up, Daniel. That dog walker of yours is a Scheherazade."
Annie, you didn't respond to my invitation, and in looking back I can see how easily it could be misconstrued. If I were a woman, alone and in a different country, I might not agree to meet a semi-stranger for coffee either, even if I had been entertaining him for days with fantastical stories.
So please, allow me to make myself less of a stranger.
I am known by a small but select group of females as a heartless jerk incapable of falling in love. Each in turn soon gave up on me, more with a sad shake of the head than with dishes flying. It has happened so often that I have to concede the ladies are right. Apparently I have skipped or tripped over some developmental step that makes me incapable of true intimacy. I've made my peace with that, and recently have been lucky enough to meet Victoria, a lady who seems to suffer the same affliction. (Does that make us soul mates or soul-less mates?)
Categories A Top Read of 2018, All-time Favorites, Book Tours, Christie's Reviews, Contemporary Romance, Excerpt, Giveaways, New Review, Romance
From the Baroness's Diary: The Happily Ever Afters by Cristiane Serruya Release Blitz with Excerpt
FROM THE BARONESS'S DIARY III: The Happily Ever Afters by Cristiane Serruya is available now! Find out more about this sexy reverse harem below, pick up your copy today, plus find out how you can read the first ten chapters and get some delicious recipes for free!
About FROM THE BARONESS'S DIARY III: THE HAPPILY EVER
I've been trying to get away from one man, I didn't think I'd end up with three.
I flee my abusive husband and travel to Italy to find Salvatore Di Luca, my long-lost love.
But the moment I set foot in Sicily, my life takes an unexpected turn: I meet Enzo, a dominant, broken-hearted man, and we connect at first sight. I couldn't have imagined he is Salvatore's elder brother and that they have a younger brother, Angelo, who thinks he is damaged for life.
It's more than a trip. It's a life-time journey.
All three of them want me and I want to heal their tortured souls and broken hearts. Before I even realize what is happening, we are entangled. Yet I am still married and the darkness of my past comes crashing down on us sooner rather than later, threatening more than our happiness.
But I won't go down without a fight—and neither will my Harem—because my journey won't be complete until forever belongs to the four of us.
If you are a fan of a romantic Reverse Harem Romance, you will love this scandalous, refreshing, and, of course, incredibly sexy story which involves three alpha Italian knights who will do anything for their baroness—ops, their Principessa. Buy this quick-blush, perfect bedside read by USA Today bestselling author Cristiane Serruya now!
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My hands pause on the vine and I shake my head hard, trying to clear her voice from my thoughts. It's not the first time this has happened to me and a hard shake of my head usually takes care of the problem.
"It's me, Chloé."
But not this time. A spark of hope flows through me as I slowly turn my head to her voice.
My dream takes a step forward, her boots crunching on the leaves I have been clearing. Because I have been tormented that my trip had been in vain and that I would have to wait to go to France and comb Paris to find where her friend lives. Only manual work under the sun could take her out of my head.
"Chloé?" I ask hesitantly, scared I am having a vision.
There's a storm inside me. A whirlwind of surprise and fear, threatening to drown me.
Why are you here? And from somewhere deep inside, another question whispers itself. Why did you take so long?
Emotions flit across her beautiful face. She looks older. Well, she's four years older than when I last saw her, but it's not that. There are delicate lines around her eyes now, as if she has begun to smile more, her face is leaner, more mature—even more beautiful, if that is possible—and her body seems to be thinner, more toned than it had been at the manor, but that is not something I can say for sure at a glance. Maybe it's her clothes, which are also more modern than the ones she wore in Beardley Manor but still very proper.
"Oui," she answers, clasping her hands so tightly together in front of her I can see her fingers getting white.
I clear my throat as I drop the shears into the basket at my feet. "Why have you come?"
It's not the reunion I have pictured in my mind. There's something different about her, something more timid than the woman I have given my body and my heart to.
"I-I have come to find you, Salvatore. You did not return and I-I—" Her voice falters as if she realizes only now she doesn't know why she has come all this way to find me. "I was tired of waiting and I am a bit impatient…you know."
I chuckle, but I still can't make myself meet her gaze. "Cara, we all knew you are a lot impatient."
"You did not come back to me."
I lift my head at the sound of her voice breaking and I see a myriad of emotions in her eyes. There's concern, desire, and hope, but none of the heat that we had once shared. "I am not under your thumb to do your bidding any longer, my lady."
Her eyes widen as the tone of my voice surprises her.
"You were never under my thumb, Salvatore, you were in my heart."
Her cheeks flush from her own declaration and I regret the cold sound of my words. I clear my throat.
I knew I would never have her as my own, but for a time it was like I owned her, body, heart, and soul. She was the lady of the manor, wife of the baron. But while he had her legally, her body craved mine and no matter how much time he may have spent with her, it was our time together that brought her to life, gave birth to her naughty streak. She belonged to me.
She is still mine.
"Cara," I say softly, stripping off my gloves. "I thought I would never see you again."
A tear escapes her eye as I meet her halfway, feeling the coolness of her hands as they run over the warm skin of my back. She is fresh and perfumed in contrast to my smell of dirt and sweat, but she doesn't seem to care. She never has.
I burrow my face into her shoulder and I breathe deep, taking in her scent—English roses, her favorite flowers. It has haunted me night and day since I left her in that forsaken manor with that bastard of a husband.
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About FROM THE BARONESS'S DIARY: THE EROTIC ESCAPES OF BARON BEARDLEY'S WIFE
An erotic, funny tale of a young woman in search of love.
At the tender age of 18, Lady Chloé de La Fleur was married off to 40 year-old Baron Beardley, a wealthy English peer, and taken away from the whirlwind of Paris and London societies to live in a forsaken manor way out of Warwickshire.
Young, beautiful, and voluptuous, the Baroness finds that in Beardley Manor innocent flirtations can become erotic sex escapades.
And soon Lady Chloe's diary pages are filled with her adventures—and misadventures!
If you are a fan of the romantic Misadventures Series and Calendar Girl, you will love this scandalous, refreshing, and, of course, incredibly sexy romance. The Erotic Escapades of Baron Beardley's Wife is the first installment of The Diaries Series, a quick-blush, perfect bedside read collection by USA Today bestselling author Cristiane Serruya!
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About Cristiane Serruya
USA TODAY and Amazon bestselling romance author Cristiane Serruya—or just Cris—is Brazilian and lives in Rio de Janeiro, with her husband, two teenage daughters, and Loki, her Shetland Sheepdog. She has studied in England, France, Italy, and Switzerland and graduated in Law, with a Master's in Business Law and a BA in Fine Arts. In 2012, she published her first romance, and is proud of the awards her novels have received. She still works as a lawyer, but writing has become an essential part of her life, and a fulfilling adventure, as it allows her to make friends all over the world.
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Big Talking Man (Kings of Castle Beach #2) by Marquita Valentine Release Day Blitz
Big Talking Man by Marquita Valentine
Series: Kings of Castle Beach #2
Publication Date: August 31, 2018
Growing up, Tate Prescott was just my older brother's best friend, but over the years he became my first love… and my biggest secret.
Yes, you read that right…Tate Prescott, The Tate Prescott, Hollywood Superstar and now the most sought after movie director in the industry is mine. We've hidden our relationship from the world for so long that it's become second nature. The last thing we wanted was a media frenzy to rain down on us.
But after my little brother drowned at sea and I became wrapped up in the guilt of knowing that his death was my fault, I shut down… and Tate left when I needed him the most.
Four months have passed since then, and now Tate's back in town, demanding that I give him thirty days to make our relationship work.
All I want is to forget about the mistake we made the weekend my brother died.
Only Tate's not so easily deterred and he's not just some big talking man from Hollywood—he's my husband, and he wants a second chance to prove to me that he can win back my heart.
I still want him. I still love him. But can I forgive him for abandoning me?
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Marquita Valentine is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of the Holland Springs and Boys of the South series.
Since first taking the plunge in July of 2012 to self publish, Marquita Valentine has appeared on the Top 100 Bestselling Ebooks Lists on iBooks, Amazon Kindle, and Barnes&Noble. She's been called "one of the best new voices in romance" (Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews) and her books have been accused of being "a sexy, fun, and slightly addicting contemporary read" (The Book Queen).
When she's not writing sexy heroes who adore their sassy heroines, she enjoys shopping, reading, and spending time with her family and friends. Married to her high school sweetheart, Marquita lives in a seriously small town in the south with her husband, two kids, and a dog.
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Categories Contemporary Romance, Romance
The Good Samaritan by RC Boldt Cover Reveal with Pre-Order Links
Title: The Good Samaritan
Author: RC Boldt
Cover Design: Cover Me Darling
Photo: James Critchley
Model: Charlie Garforth
The biggest story of her life is the one he wants to hide.
I'm homeless by choice.
I have no intention of returning to my former life after what I've done.
This—living among the filth and discarded remnants of others—is what I deserve.
As atonement for my sins, I give back; I help those who cannot help themselves. But it's always under the guise of anonymity.
Newspaper headlines throughout the city are clamoring to discover my identity. Including the beautiful woman who manages to see through my "armor."
She has the capability to put my entire life at risk.
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RC Boldt currently lives on the southeastern coast of North Carolina, enjoys long walks on the beach, running, reading, people watching, and singing karaoke. If you're in the mood for some killer homemade mojitos, can't recall the lyrics to a particular 80's song, or just need to hang around a nonconformist who will do almost anything for a laugh, she's your girl.
Categories Contemporary Romance, Cover Reveals, Pre-Order Links, Uncategorized
The Little Gate-Crasher by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer Book Blitz with Giveaway (Win a paperback copy of The Little Gate-Crasher (Open to US & Canada only)
The Little Gate-Crasher
by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
Mace Bugen might have been an achondroplastic dwarf, 43 inches tall with an average size head and torso set on small, twisted legs—but that didn't mean he was an idiot or a pushover. In truth, he was smarter than most; over the years, he learned to effectively turn what society in those days called a handicap into a powerful tool he could use to his advantage.
"When I was a kid," he once said, "I'd ask myself, Why is that guy on the football team? Why can't I be on the team? Why didn't God give me the height so I could be the hero?"
"Then at some point I figured it out: I gotta do something special to let 'em know I'm me."
In The Little Gate Crasher: The Life And Photos Of Mace Bugen, I remember my amazing great-Uncle Mace Bugen through his journey as a first-generation Jewish-American kid in working class Philipsburg, NJ to becoming the first celebrity selfie-artist—way ahead of his time.
Featuring vintage photos of Mace with his exploits, The Little Gate Crasher captures three decades of American pop culture, seen through the unique lens of Mace and his gate-crashing exploits.
Underneath his antics, we meet a complex man who continually defies others expectations and meets life on his own terms. Mace becomes a successful businessman and devoted son to his aging parents. But in his gate-crashing antics, we best get to see Mace's unique combination of guile, cunning and sense of entitlement, which he used to engineer photos of himself with some of the biggest celebrities of his day. If people were going to stare at him all of his life, he would give them something to see.
The Little Gate Crasher features over 50 vintage photos of Mace with celebrities, athletes and politicians, including Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Muhammed Ali, Richard Nixon, Jane Russel, Joe DiMaggio and more.
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Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer is an experienced educator, author and speaker. At Jewish Learning Venture, she works as Director of Whole Community Inclusion and leads disability awareness programs for the Philadelphia Jewish community. Her most recent book The Little Gate Crasher, a memoir of her Great-Uncle, who overcame society's prejudices about dwarfism to lead a remarkable life, was one of the national book selections for 2017 Jewish Disability Awareness & Inclusion Month. Gabby writes for and edits The New York Jewish Week's The New Normal: Blogging Disability and is also a featured Philly parenting blogger for WHYY's newsworks. Gabby holds a B.F.A. in theatre and creative writing from Emerson College and an M.A. in Jewish Studies from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
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Q & A with Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
How did you come up with the idea for this book?
"The Little Gate-Crasher" is a memoir about the most amazing person in my family—my Great-Uncle Mace Bugen.
My Grandmother Minerva, my Great-Uncle Mace's older sister, was a wonderful storyteller and told me many stories about her childhood as I was growing up—she had grown up in a completely different circumstance, as a daughter of immigrants who had recently come to America and who worked hard in their grocery store to make a living. It was the Great depression and every penny counted. My Grandma shared many stories about her brother Mace and how impressed she was by his ability to not pity himself for being a dwarf and to not think less of himself—even though others teased or jeered at him.
When my Grandmother died, Mace's photo album with his amazing celebrity photos was passed down to my Mom. My family and I would look at it and marvel as the unique history Mace created of pop culture from the mid-40s to the mid-70s—he had "celebrity selfies" with Ella Fitzgerald, Joe DiMaggio, Nixon, Ali—all of the famous athletes, politicians and entertainers of the era.
As I looked at the photos, I thought of Mace's story and wondered not only how did he manage to get these photos considering his limited mobility—but why? What did these photos mean to him and what we can learn from there?
A great story emerged—of a confidant man given a significant challenge who viewed himself as no less than anyone else, despite the message that society continually gave him.
What was your favorite thing about each character?
Writing this book allowed me to get to know more about my family than ever before. I discovered so many amazing things about my Uncle and also about my great-Grandparents, who raised him with unconditional love and the belief that he was no less than anyone else.
Do you have a playlist you listen to when writing?
Although I love music, I prefer silence when I write. Once I get in the flow, I don't want any distraction!
Any favorite foods/drinks you like while writing?
I'm a hard core coffee addict. I start my day around 6am with two strong cups—just black. That's my ritual before I sit down and start writing.
When did you know you wanted to be a writer?
My third grade teacher gave us a writing assignment and she recognized that I had some ability! She gave me time in class to continue to write stories. That belief in me at a young age gave me the confidence to keep writing. I've studied and written poetry and playwrighting and later came to nonfiction and memoir. This is my groove!
What are some are your favorite reads?
I am always reading! Right now, I'm really into memoir…I've recently read Roxane Gay and Anne Lamott. I also just read all of Elena Ferrante's "Neopolitan Novels"'—I couldn't put them down and stayed up into the night reading.
Categories Book Blitz, Giveaways, Non-Fiction
On a Tuesday by Whitney G Audio Tour with Review & Giveaway ($25 Amazon Gift Card)
On a Tuesday
by Whitney G.
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We met on a Tuesday.
Became best friends, then lovers, on a Tuesday.
And everything fell apart on a Tuesday…
Charlotte Taylor has three automatic strikes in my book: 1) She hates me. She also claims that I'm a "domineering jerk with a huge, overbearing ego." (I do have something huge. It's not my ego, though.) 2) She takes our mandatory tutoring sessions way too seriously. 3) She's sexy as hell…And a virgin.
At least, those were her strikes before our study sessions started lasting longer than they were supposed to. Until one innocent kiss became a hundred dirty ones, and until she became the first woman I ever fell hard for.
Our future together after graduation was supposed to be set:
Professional football for me. Law school for her.
But she left me at the end of the semester with no explanation, and then she completely disappeared from my life.
Until tonight.
Became everything, then nothing, on a Tuesday.
And now it's seven years later, on a Tuesday…
*This is a full length second chance romance, inspired by Adele's "When We Were Young"
I absolutely LOVE second chance romances, and I fell in love with this one instantly…actually, when I read the synopsis. Charlotte and Grayson spoke to me then!!!
Charlotte and Grayson should never have crossed paths. Grayson represents everything Charlotte hates in a man…an over inflated ego and one who has a revolving group of women he has sex with. Grayson doesn't date, so Charlotte definitely isn't a girl Grayson would normally go for. However, destiny has other plans for these two, and Charlotte is Grayson's new tutor who meets with him every Tuesday. Grayson is intrigued by her, and Charlotte can't stand him. First, she tolerates him, Then, she allows him to be her friend. Finally, she falls in love with him, just like he falls in love with her. Unfortunately, something tears them apart. Really this is where the story begins….
The book is told after the breakup with flashbacks showing readers how they fell in love and how it went so wrong, which is a bit of a mystery!
I really enjoyed how the story unfolds. It isn't insta-love, at least on Charlotte's part. Grayson has a way of getting under her skin, and his charm is what I loved most about him. He really is a good guy. He had his fun, but he learned the hard way who he could trust and who he couldn't. Charlotte is intelligent and beautiful, and is the perfect girl for Grayson. She definitely doesn't let him get away with things just because of his popularity on campus.
Part of what makes audio books so great is when narrators bring the story alive. However, I'm pretty picky when it comes to narrators. I have to say both Erin Mallon and Joseph Discher did a phenomenal job of telling this couple's story. They each had me engrossed in Charlotte and Grayson's story from the beginning.
The combination of a great book, great characters, and great narrators made this a 5 Star listen for me.
About Whitney G.
Whitney G. is a twenty-eight-year-old optimist who is obsessed with travel, tea, and great coffee. She's also a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of several contemporary novels, and the cofounder of The Indie Tea–an inspirational blog for indie romance authors.
When she's not chatting with readers on her Facebook Page, you can find her on her website at http://www.whitneygbooks.com or on instagram: @whitneyg.author. (If she's not in either of those places, she's probably locked away working on another crazy story.)
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Categories 5-Star Review, Audio Review, Audio Tour, Contemporary Romance, Romance, Second Chance Romance
Turn to Stone by Ariana Rose Release Blitz with Giveaway ($25 Amazon Gift Card)
Today we have the release blitz for TURN TO STONE by debut author, Ariana Rose. Check it out and get your copy or read for #FREE on Kindle Unlimited!
Title: TURN TO STONE
Author: Ariana Rose
Release: August 28
About TURN TO STONE
Their first run in would not be their last. Each time their paths intersected their connection was undeniable. She was seeking a love that only lived in her fantasies. He was seeking understanding from someone who would allow him to be the human he knew he was inside but couldn't show the world for fear of the cost.
With everything against them, would they be the one each other so desperately needed? Would people, time and circumstance keep them apart? Would he be able to break free of expectation and reclaim his life? Would she ever openly be able to finally love like she always dreamed of and……. Turn To Stone
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About Ariana Rose
Ariana Rose is a working wife and mother of two from the Minneapolis area. Her need to tell a good story has always been there but in earnest the last 6 years. She was inspired to take the leap to write a story by the encouragement of those who had come before her and those taking the journey with her. Turn To Stone is her debut.
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No potholes? Who is he kidding? Pledging to eliminate potholes is like pledging to eliminate baldness. It's virtually impossible.
Politicians everywhere have been making similar promises, but potholes tend to reappear. At least American motorists don't have to deal with as many potholes as Indian motorists do. The extent of the problem was underscored in early October when Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah ordered the Bengaluru Municipal Corporation to fill all the potholes in the city within 15 days. According to one report, 17,000 potholes needed to be filled. Several fatal accidents, caused partly by potholes, prompted Siddaramaiah to take action.
So Bengaluru is now pothole-free, right? No, not quite. Siddaramaiah had to extend the deadline to early November. But while those potholes were being filled, many more likely appeared. Perhaps Siddaramaiah needs to call Trump and find out exactly how to create roads that are "smooth, beautiful, no potholes." It might be as easy as building a wall. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,763 |
Represents a control that contains multiple items that share the same space on the screen.
The TabControl type exposes the following members.
TabControl Initializes a new instance of the TabControl class.
SelectedContent Gets the content of the currently selected TabItem.
SelectedIndex Gets or sets the index of the currently selected TabItem.
SelectedItem Gets or sets the currently selected TabItem.
TabStripPlacement Gets or sets how TabItem headers align relative to the TabItem content.
OnSelectionChanged Raises the SelectionChanged event.
SelectionChanged Occurs when the selected TabItem changes.
SelectedContentProperty Identifies the SelectedContent dependency property.
SelectedIndexProperty Identifies the SelectedIndex dependency property.
SelectedItemProperty Identifies the SelectedItem dependency property.
TabStripPlacementProperty Identifies the TabStripPlacement dependency property.
The TabControl is useful for minimizing screen space usage while allowing an application to expose a large amount of data. A TabControl consists of multiple TabItem objects that share the same screen space. Only one TabItem in a TabControl is visible at a time. When the user selects a TabItem, the content of that TabItem become visible and the content of other TabItem objects are hidden. You can specify which tab item displays with the SelectedIndex or the SelectedItem property.
The TabControl control is available as part of the libraries in the Silverlight Software Development Kit (SDK). For more information, see the Silverlight Tools.
To apply the same property settings to multiple TabControl controls, use the Style property. To change the visual structure and visual behavior of a TabControl, copy and modify its default style and template. For more information, see Control Customization.
Dependency properties for this control might be set by the default style of the control. If a dependency property for a TabControl is set by its default style, the property might change from its default value when the TabControl appears in the application. For more information, see Dependency Property Value Precedence. You can get the default style and template for ScrollViewer from TabControl Styles and Templates.
Setting a visual property will only have an effect if that property is both present in TabControl control's default template and is set by using a TemplateBinding. You can find a list of visual properties in the "Changing the Visual Structure of a Control" section of Customizing the Appearance of an Existing Control by Using a ControlTemplate.
The following XAML and code creates two TabControl objects, populates them with information, and handles the SelectionChanged event.
ti.Content = "This is the first TabItem's content."
ti.Content = "This is the second TabItem's content."
ti.Content = "This is the third TabItem's content."
ti.Content = "This is the first TabItem of the second TabControl."
ti.Content = "This is the second TabItem of the second TabControl."
ti.Content = "This is the third TabItem of the second TabControl."
'TabControl, rather than the top.
'Set the selected TabItem of tab1 to match tab2.
//TabControl, rather than the top.
//Set the selected TabItem of tab1 to match tab2.
topic "Prefixes and Mappings for Silverlight Libraries".
The previous example produces output that is similar to the following illustration. Two TabControl controls are shown, one with the first tab selected, and one with the second tab selected. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,764 |
Local is lekker: Exploring SA's holiday destinations
Sunday 8 November 2020 - 8:29am
It's that time of the year when families look for holiday destinations for the festive season. With the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns across the world, options this year are limited. But local is still lekker and supporting South African businesses will go a long way in rebuilding the tourism sector. Masego Rahlaga visited one of South Africa's beautiful holiday destinations. Courtesy #DStv403
HOEDSPRUIT - It's that time of the year when families look for holiday destinations for the festive season.
With the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns across the world, options this year are limited.
But local is still lekker and supporting South African businesses will go a long way in rebuilding the tourism sector.
If you like to get lost in nature, perhaps try out the Kapama Private Game Reserve for a much-needed holiday getaway.
READ: Limpopo tourism sector trying to entice tourists
Situated in Hoedspruit, Limpopo, it's just in-between the Blyde River Valley and Kruger National Park.
"Tourism as a whole is suffering in South Africa," said Christiaan Basson, the reserve's general manager.
"It's really something that I think the powers that be need to consider because it's the lifeline of this area. More than 80 percent of the people employed in this area are employed in the tourism industry."
Holiday destinations, however, aren't the only part of the tourism sector that suffered.
READ: Tourism association calls for COVID-19 high-risk list to be scrapped
"It affected aviation massively, irrespective of which carrier you are or which airline you represent," said Cemair's national sales and marketing manager, Shaniel Singh.
For Cemair it's also about grabbing opportunities as some of its competitors fight internal battles.
"The current aviation market has changed drastically in South Africa," Singh said.
"I think Cemair is placed in a strong position to grow and move forward."
* Masego Rahlaga visited one of South Africa's beautiful holiday destinations and filed this report.
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This lovely holiday home is very cosily furnished and is idealy located near the Veluwe and the Veluwe lake. Enjoy the great ambiance within the home and the calmness that the wood in which the holiday park is located, offers! Take a seat on the porch that serves as comfortable terrace with a cup of coffee, while you enjoy the beautiful view on the woods. The children can play football in the garden, play with other children on the play set or take a dive in the swimming pool, which is offered by the holiday park. There is something to do for everyone! The holiday home is situated on the edge of the Veluwe. At 10 minutes walking from the holiday home you'll find recreation area Zandenplas, a small forest pool with beach facilities. There are also beautiful hiking and biking possibilities in the area. These routes lead you along the most beautiful places of the Veluwe. For children there are fun activities in the area, for example Dolfinarium, Apenheul, Walibi World, Aviodrome and Koningin Julianatoren. In Nunspeet itself you'll find a subtropical swimming pool and an 18-hole golf course to complete your vacation. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,766 |
Barbara Hillary, the first black woman to reach the North and South poles, dies at 88
Barbara Hillary
SOUTH POLE, Antarctica — Barbara Hillary, the first black woman to reach the North and South poles, died on Saturday, Nov. 23 at 88.
Her death was announced on her website and Twitter account.
"She died in the season of 24 hour sun in the South Pole," the announcement said. Hillary, a cancer survivor and world explorer, had "suffered significant health decline in recent months," according to a tweet.
At age 75, the trailblazer became the first African American woman to make it to the North Pole. She reached the South Pole four years later when she was 79.
Born in New York City and raised in Harlem, Hillary was a retired nurse and editor-in-chief of a nonprofit, multiracial magazine in Queens.
After surviving breast cancer in her 20s and lung cancer when she was 67, Hillary decided to start traveling. After realizing that no black woman ever reached the North Pole, she aimed to be the first one.
An avid community activist, she made history books once again in 2011 when she became the first African American woman to stand on the South Pole.
Topics: Barbara Hillary
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using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class Bounce : MonoBehaviour {
float lerpTime;
float currentLerpTime;
float percentage = 1;
Vector3 startPos;
Vector3 endPos;
bool firstInput;
public bool justJump;
void Update () {
if(Input.GetButtonDown("up") || Input.GetButtonDown("down") || Input.GetButtonDown("left") || Input.GetButtonDown("right")) {
if (percentage == 1)
{
lerpTime = 1;
currentLerpTime = 0;
firstInput = true;
justJump = true;
}
}
startPos = gameObject.transform.position;
if (Input.GetButtonDown ("right") && gameObject.transform.position == endPos) {
endPos = new Vector3(transform.position.x + 1, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
}
if (Input.GetButtonDown ("left") && gameObject.transform.position == endPos) {
endPos = new Vector3(transform.position.x - 1, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
}
if (Input.GetButtonDown ("up") && gameObject.transform.position == endPos) {
endPos = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, transform.position.z + 1);
}
if (Input.GetButtonDown ("down") && gameObject.transform.position == endPos) {
endPos = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, transform.position.z - 1);
}
if (firstInput == true) {
currentLerpTime += Time.deltaTime * 5;
percentage = currentLerpTime / lerpTime;
gameObject.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp (startPos, endPos, percentage);
if (percentage > 0.8){
percentage = 1;
}
if (Mathf.Round(percentage) == 1) {
justJump = false;
}
}
}
}
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More E.coli cases found in Utah polygamous group's hometown
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah health authorities say they have confirmed additional cases of E.coli connected to an outbreak that previously killed two children in a mostly polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border, bringing the total number of cases to 11.
The Southwest Utah Public Health Department spokesman David Heaton said Tuesday that most of those affected are children, and all have gotten medical treatment.
He says the cause of the outbreak is under investigation, but contaminated drinking water has been ruled out. Officials are looking at possible contaminated food or exposure to animals. Residents are being warned not to drink raw milk or eat ground beef.
The sister towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona, are home to a polygamous group known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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UK Chamber releases guidelines to shipping companies on violence, aggression, verbal abuse and threats against staff on passenger ships
Published:29th February 2012
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The National Maritime Occupational Health & Safety Committee (NMOHSC), comprising the UK Chamber of Shipping and maritime unions Nautilus International and RMT, today released guidelines to shipping companies on violence, aggression, verbal abuse and threats against staff on passenger ships.
The parties to the NMOHSC believe that all staff, contractors and passengers on board any ship have the right to work and travel in an environment that is free of verbal and physical intimidation. Regrettably, in spite of the best efforts of companies, the possibility of such occurrences can never be dismissed. Today's guidelines aim to assist shipping companies, particularly those providing passenger services, in dealing with such instances.
The guidelines suggest policies to be adopted, deals with issues around the sale and consumption of alcohol, and outline the law, master's powers and how to liaise with police.
To download the full PDF, please visit the UK Chamber's publications page by clicking here.
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Bruce Byfield's subtle attack on our credibility was mentioned briefly the other day in a post about Acacia. The Managing Editor of LinuxToday (Brian Proffitt) seems to be mitigating Bruce's message, so it's worth you taking a quick look.
It is, admittedly, very easy to put the blame on companies out to do harm to Linux, free, and open source software. Because sometimes that blame is justified. When Mandriva's CEO called Microsoft out for attempting to co-op Mandriva's deal for pre-loaded Classmate PCs in Nigeria last November, the evidence was pretty overwhelming.
Now, there's suddenly a lawsuit against the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project in that same country, claiming patent infringement on the part of OLPC, and demanding $20 million. "Conspiracy theorists" might say this is just one more attempt to protect Microsoft's desktop share in Nigeria. Heck, I could get really crazy and point the finger at Intel, now that they're on the outs with OLPC. Or even… (hushed whisper) Mandriva. We know how evil they are!
In all honesty, I have no idea what's behind this lawsuit. It's probably just for money, in the classic ambulance-chaser style, and I will let it go at that until I hear differently.
Byfield would have the people who accuse Microsoft or any other company of deception labeled as conspiracy theorists. That label has a negative connotation, but I understand its application in this instance. Where I disagree with Byfield is how bad such accusations and speculations really are.
This Web site does not contain Microsoft bashing. Detractor will try to recruit stereotypes like "zealot" and "fanboy" to shoot down our message. This site delves into affairs where Microsoft actively sabotages — directly or indirectly — the Free software movement. This includes ridicule of standards bodies, bribery, threats, litigation by proxy, and many other examples. Novell has a big part of this charade ever since the deal with Microsoft in 2006 and it is merely the raison d'être for the site's existence.
We needn't keep our 'enemy' closer as much as we need to understand why the 'enemy' is trying to get closer to us — only to do damage from the inside as we witness time and time again.
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In Conversation with Helena Czernecka – Board Member of the Friends of the Museum of Moden Art in Warsaw
In Conversation with Helena Czernecka Board Member of the Friends of the Museum of Moden Art in Warsaw
Helena Czernecka is a Board Member of the Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Having graduated with a MA in History of Art from the Sorbonne University, Paris in 2016, she is currently studying Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2013–2019 Helena worked for art collections and galleries in London, Paris and Miami, including Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Almine Rech Gallery and the Margulies Collection. In 2019 she cooperated with Zachęta National Gallery of Art on the Polish Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale. She is a member of the Committee of the Starak Family Foundation's "Wena" grant programme. She is also the founder of the Friends' Art Prize presented during the gallery-share initiative FOAF Warsaw. In 2020, she was on the jury of the ING Polish Art Foundation art prize, as well as on the committee of the "160 scholarships for 160 years of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts" grant programme by Zachęta National Gallery of Art.
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SK: Tell us more about the Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw?
HCz: Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw was created shortly after the museum's first building opened in 2008.
Anyone can join and the proceeds from membership fees are entirely devoted to the society's goal of supporting the statutory activities of the museum; in particular, on building its collection and on supporting education activities.
We work towards creating a group of art lovers, philanthropists, collectors and professionals around the museum and facilitating an exchange of experience and knowledge between our members and the wider art community.
We organise a variety of activities for our members: artists' studio visits, guided exhibitions tours, private collections visits and trips abroad (Venice Biennale, Manifesta, documenta, Art Basel, Frieze, Fiac and many more).
SK: Could you describe your position, duties and responsibilities as a Member of the Board?
HCz: There are five of us (Aleksandra Auleytner, Michał Borowik, Katia Szczeka and Anna Tryc-Bromley) and we divide our responsibilities according to our experience. Because I have lived and worked in Paris, Miami and London, I am the contact point between the Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and our friends abroad. Last year, I organised trips to London, Paris and Turin, where among others we had breakfast and private tour of her exhibition with artist Goshka Macuga and Agata Ingarden gave as a tour of Palais de Tokyo. We also visited private collections and enjoyed guided visits in museums and galleries. Likewise, we hosted international guests in Warsaw during the Warsaw Gallery Weekend. Exchange is an essential part of our activity.
I am also involved with communications. During lockdown we have launched a series of interviews called "Przyjaciele pytają" (every Monday and Friday on Instastory). By introducing the silhouettes of members of our society, the museum's staff, artists, gallerists and many others, we hoped to create a sense of community within these troubling and lonely circumstances. "Przyjaciele pytają" became a communal safe space where people can share their experiences and thoughts as well as bits of humour and recommendations.
The Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw at the curator's guide, the exhibition "Never Again. Art against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st centuries", the Museum on the Vistula, 2019, private photo courtesy of Helena Czernecka
SK: What pushed you to become involved with the Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw?
HCz: After working in a commercial environment for six years I wanted to change the focus of my career to non-profit institutions and to explore the social role of art museums today. This is especially pertinent to Poland, where art can prove a powerful means of fighting the on-going discrimination of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. I highly respect the ethos of the Warsaw MoMA and its innovative approach to the social and political significance of art today. The director, Joanna Mytkowska, and the curatorial team set the highest standards, creating a progressive and inclusive environment with a profound understanding of the complexities of the contemporary world.
SK: You studied History of Art at the Sorbonne University in Paris. How has your education prepared you for your career?
HCz: You have to know the past to understand the present. I find knowledge of the history of art essential in my work. Personally, it also gives me a lot of pleasure to be able to trace the influences and references of a contemporary work of art.
SK: Why do you think it is worthwhile to become a member of the Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw?
HCz: It is important to support the organisations and institutions whose mission we believe in, to encourage participation and active engagement. By becoming a member of the Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (MoMA), you help to build the museum and to fund its collection and activities. It is also a great opportunity to discover contemporary art and meet interesting people; not only fellow members of the Friends of the museum but also artists, curators, gallerists, collectors and many others. As I mentioned, we organise a range of events spanning form lectures (such as our annual collectors' panel) up to international trips, artists' studio visits, viewing of private collections and guided exhibitions tours in the museum as well as in leading galleries and institutions in Poland and abroad. We build a community based on the exchange of knowledge and passion. And, as the Museum of Modern Art is currently constructing a new building in the very centre of Warsaw, it is an extremely important and exciting moment to join!
"Paint, also known as Blood", the opening of the exhibition, private photo courtesy of Helena Czernecka
SK: Who can become a member?
HCz: As Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw we aim at the highest standards of inclusivity. We offer different kinds of memberships tailored to various needs and possibilities. We recently introduced a special membership for students and seniors. Reconciling our members' different needs and perspectives is sometimes a challenge, one that I find stimulating, however. I learn a lot from trying to understand these various approaches.
SK: What do you consider to be the biggest achievement of the Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw?
HCz: In 2019 we celebrated our 10th anniversary. During all these years the number of our members is constantly growing and our programme spans more and more events. Yet the best is still to come. We are currently getting ready for welcoming the museum's new building located in the heart of Warsaw on Plac Defilad next to the Palace of Culture and Science. Designed by the architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners, the new museum is scheduled to open in December 2022 with a total area of ca. 20,000 sq m (ca. 213,000 sq ft), housing not only exhibition spaces but also educational areas for lectures, conservation and other restoration workshops, a cinema, an auditorium, a café, and a museum shop. Discovering the long-awaited new building of the museum together with all our members who supported us for better and worse through all these years will be definitely a very touching and exciting moment, one that I am very much looking forward to.
edited by Franciszek Bryk
Meeting with Goshka Macuga, the Kate MacGarry Gallery, private photo courtesy of Helena Czernecka
Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw is the partner of Allegro Prize – International Competition for Visual Artists co-organised by Allegro and Contemporary Lynx Magazine.
Miriam Cahn's work, private photo courtesy of Helena Czernecka
Alex da Corte's work, private photo courtesy of Helena Czernecka
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Agata Ingarden, Almine Rech Gallery, Board Member of the Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Goshka Macuga, Helena Czernecka, Margulies Collection, Palais de Tokyo, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
Krasoń
Founder of Contemporary Lynx (2013). Editor-in-chief of the Contemporary Lynx in print and online. The art historian with a Master of Arts degree in Arts Policy & Management (the University of London, Birkbeck College) and Master of Arts in History of Art (Jagiellonian University in Cracow).
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Q: How to set up my urls with posts/1, posts/2, etc? I'm following a few of the basic django blog tutorials. The part I am stuck on is how to set variables in my urls.
I want my urls to look like:
posts/1
posts/2
posts/3
Currently when i visit my index.html i see the list of blog posts (just the titles), and when I hover the cursor over each link it does show posts/1, posts/2, etc.
The problem is that when I click on these links, it basically just refreshes the page and does not show the detailed view.
my urls.py currently looks like this:
url(r'^posts/', index),
url(r'^posts/(?P<post_id>[0-9]+)/$', detailedview),
I'm not sure exactly what (?P[0-9]+)/$', does and I'm assuming this is the problem because detailedview is never being called.
This method is inside my views.py but again, it is never being called.
def detailedview(request, post_id):
targetpost = Post.objects.get(id="post_id")
context = {'targetpost': targetpost}
return render(request, 'posts/detailedview.html', context)
A: Your question about the second URL:
(?P<post_id>[0-9]+) is a regex that means "set the post_id argument to the value of any number with one or more digits (more info at https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html.)
The way to fix your problem is to add a $ to the end of the first pattern, so it looks like this:
url(r'^posts/$', index),
This will make it only match the URL /posts/.
There is also a problem with your view: the line
targetpost = Post.objects.get(id="post_id")
should be:
targetpost = Post.objects.get(id=post_id)
This will make Django look for the Post with the id specified in the variable post_id, rather than the Post with the id that equals the string "post_id"
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Home Civil Rights Greensboro Page 1
Sunday, Aug. 26,1990
Do the
South can, must end
discriminatory clubs
By FRANKLIN McCAIN
Special to the News & Record
CHARLOTTE — Our nation
has always been poised to believe the best and the worst
about the South. While history
shows that some of these beliefs are
based on substantial and documented evidence, the converse is also
true. A fair number of these beliefs
are based on myths and fabrications.
One widely held view is that the
South, guided by its past and inertia, is incapable of addressing racial
discrimination in an amicable and
fair fashion. I
would challenge that often repeated
assumption.
The recent
over the discriminatory
practices of Alabama's Shoal
Creek Country
Club — and of i
many private wlcoain
clubs in North Carolina — gives us
an opportunity to prove these stereotypes false. What we need, just
as we did at the time of the sit-ins,
are civic and business leaders not
afraid to stand up for what's right.
Greensboro News & Record
The question raised by the N.C.
A&T State University students
Feb. 1, 1960, was a simple one:
"Why aren't all citizens regardless
of race afforded equal access to public facilities and accommodations?"
Many responses emerged quickly
after the first "sit-in" to address
these demands. Most were a modification of the status quo. The advocates of fairness and true democracy
were too small in number or were
"shouted out" early on. An overwhelming majority of churches declared a sabbatical of silence when it
was time to stand up and be counted.
The business community initially
assumed a posture of aloofness, saying this simply "was not their fight."
But justice did reign, and it did so
because of the students' unrelenting
pressure and persistence, and the
leadership of honorable men such as
E.R. Zane and McNeill Smith.
The cost of denial and recalcitrance proved to be dear for Greensboro's business community; not only
would it suffer economic losses but
also it would lose something almost
as meaningful — the image of being
a progressive and enlightened city,
a good place to do business.
I know for a fact that there were
members of the business community
who wanted to end their discriminatory practices, but lacked the courage and commitment to break ranks
and do what was right. The expression, "evil triumphs because good
men stand aside and do nothing"
became a reality for me.
There is now a similar situation
with all-white country clubs and
dining clubs. I see this as an oppor-
(See Discrimination, E6)
Franklin McCain was one of the
four N.C. A&T State University
students who participated in the sit-
ins demonstration at the Wool-
worth's lunch counter in downtown
Greensboro in 1960. He now lives in
Charlotte, where he works as an
executive at Hoechst/Celanese
Corp.
Title Do the right thing
Date approximate? 2
Creator McCain, Franklin Eugene
Subject headings Greensboro (N.C.) -- Race relations
Topics Business desegregation
Description This article by Franklin McCain, one of the four original participants in the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, appeared in the August 26, 1990, Greensboro News & Record, and focuses discriminatory practices within private clubs in the south. McCain cites a recent controversy involving an Alabama country club, and notes that discriminatory admission practices serve as a barrier to full participation by blacks and civic and business life, since so many aspects center on these clubs. He argues that "change must come" possibly through business boycotts and other activities .
This article was clipped and saved in a scrapbook on race relations by Clarence "Curly" Harris, manager of the Greensboro Woolworth store at the time of the 1960 sit-ins.
Original format clippings
Original dimensions 9" x 11"
Source collection MSS141 Clarence Lee Harris Papers, circa 1916-1997
Series/grouping 6 Scrapbooks
Folder Folder 4: Scrapbook 9: Remembering Feb. 1, 1960, 1972-1989
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Full text Sunday, Aug. 26,1990 Do the right thing South can, must end discriminatory clubs By FRANKLIN McCAIN Special to the News & Record CHARLOTTE — Our nation has always been poised to believe the best and the worst about the South. While history shows that some of these beliefs are based on substantial and documented evidence, the converse is also true. A fair number of these beliefs are based on myths and fabrications. One widely held view is that the South, guided by its past and inertia, is incapable of addressing racial discrimination in an amicable and fair fashion. I would challenge that often repeated assumption. The recent controversy over the discriminatory practices of Alabama's Shoal Creek Country Club — and of i many private wlcoain clubs in North Carolina — gives us an opportunity to prove these stereotypes false. What we need, just as we did at the time of the sit-ins, are civic and business leaders not afraid to stand up for what's right. Viewpoint Greensboro News & Record The question raised by the N.C. A&T State University students Feb. 1, 1960, was a simple one: "Why aren't all citizens regardless of race afforded equal access to public facilities and accommodations?" Many responses emerged quickly after the first "sit-in" to address these demands. Most were a modification of the status quo. The advocates of fairness and true democracy were too small in number or were "shouted out" early on. An overwhelming majority of churches declared a sabbatical of silence when it was time to stand up and be counted. The business community initially assumed a posture of aloofness, saying this simply "was not their fight." But justice did reign, and it did so because of the students' unrelenting pressure and persistence, and the leadership of honorable men such as E.R. Zane and McNeill Smith. The cost of denial and recalcitrance proved to be dear for Greensboro's business community; not only would it suffer economic losses but also it would lose something almost as meaningful — the image of being a progressive and enlightened city, a good place to do business. I know for a fact that there were members of the business community who wanted to end their discriminatory practices, but lacked the courage and commitment to break ranks and do what was right. The expression, "evil triumphs because good men stand aside and do nothing" became a reality for me. There is now a similar situation with all-white country clubs and dining clubs. I see this as an oppor- (See Discrimination, E6) Franklin McCain was one of the four N.C. A&T State University students who participated in the sit- ins demonstration at the Wool- worth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro in 1960. He now lives in Charlotte, where he works as an executive at Hoechst/Celanese Corp. _ | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,774 |
Digital Archiving: What Is Involved?
e-journal output of any given source, thus selecting by producer rather than title. The second level of selection applies within each journal title.
What to Do When You Are Involved in a Car Crash One in every eleven drivers will be involved in a motor vehicle crash this year, according to the National Safety Council.
Supported and produced with funds from the Office of Child Development and Early Learning, a joint office of the Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Public Welfare and the Penn State Cooperative Extension Better Kid Care Program.
WHY DID THE USA GET INVOLVED IN VIETNAM?
why did the usa get involved in vietnam? things you need to include in your answer!!! your introduction - how did the us first get involved? how did the us first get involved? | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,775 |
namespace iTin.Export.Model
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public const string BackslashSeparator = "\\";
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Imagine returning from your honeymoon only to be called into your pastor's office and told you're banned from volunteering in church ministries, simply because you got married.
Nicholas Coppola is a member of St. Antony's Roman Catholic Church in Oceanside, New York, where he used to lead religious education classes, serve as a lector, and visit homebound parishioners. Nicholas is gay and has been out to everyone at church for years -- a number of parishioners even attended his wedding.
But after Nicholas got married, someone sent an ugly anonymous note to the bishop and suddenly he was banned from volunteering at church.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops claims they're not anti-gay. Just this week their spokeswoman wrote that "No one is carded at a Catholic Church. Shunning is not the Catholic tradition." Now Nichoas Coppola's bishop has an opportunity to prove it.
Bishop Murphy, please let Nicholas Coppola resume volunteering at his parish -- and make it clear that faithful gay and lesbian Catholics are welcome to participate fully in parish life in your diocese. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,777 |
BY SIGNING THIS DOCUMENT YOU WILL WAIVE OR GIVE UP CERTAIN LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO SUE OR CLAIM COMPENSATION FOLLOWING AN ACCIDENT.
In this Release Agreement the term "Wilderness Activities" shall include all activities, events or services provided, arranged, organized, sponsored or authorized by the Releasees including, but not limited to: hiking; backpacking; wildlife viewing; back country travel; orientational and instructional courses, seminars and sessions; accommodation; transport to and from the trail head or marshalling areas; and all other activities, events and services in any way connected with or related to these activities.
I am aware that participation in Wilderness Activities involves many risks, dangers and hazards including, but not limited to: travel on extreme terrain, particularly high, exposed ridge tops, steep pitches, or where the trail or route is less defined and therefore rough or unstable; travel in areas where fallen timber, shrubbery, branches, rocks, roots or other obstacles or hazards may impede or hinder travel; travel on or through boulder fields, avalanche and landslide paths, snow fields and glaciers; travel across or beside creeks, streams, rivers, ponds and lakes; encounters with domestic and wild animals, sudden and unexpected changes or variations in the hiking terrain; collisions with motor vehicles and natural or man-made objects; miscellaneous health problems related to over-exposure to the sun, insect bites, fatigue, stress, dehydration, exertion, high altitude, and lack of fitness. Participants may become lost or separated form their guide or party. Communication in the alpine or backcountry terrain is difficult and in the event of an accident, rescue and medical treatment may not be immediately available. Alpine and back country weather conditions may be extreme and can change rapidly and without warning. I am also aware that a further risk, danger and hazard of Wilderness Activities is negligence, inattention, or inexperience of other persons in the party and NEGLIGENCE ON THE PART OF THE RELEASEES, INCLUDING THE FAILURE ON THE PART OF THE RELEASEES AND THE PROVINCE OT SAFEGUARD OR PROTECT ME FROM THE RISKS, DANGERS AND HAZARDS OF WILDERNESS ACTIVITIES REFERRED TO ABOVE.
I AM AWARE OF THE RISKS, DANGERS AND HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH WILDERNESS ACTIVITIES AND I FREELY ACCEPT AND FULLY ASSUME ALL SUCH RISKS DANGERS AND HAZARDS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH, PROPERTY DAMAGE OR LOSS RESULTING THEREFROM.
TO WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS that I have or may in the future have against the RELEASEES AND TO RELEASE THE RELEASEES from any and all liability for any loss, damage, expense or injury, including death, that I may suffer or that my next of kin may suffer, as a result of my participation in the Wilderness Activities. DUE OT ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT, OR BREACH OF ANY STATUTORY OR OTHER DUTY OF CARE, INCLUDING ANY DUTY OF CARE OWED UNDER THE OCCUPIERS LIABILITY ACT, ON THE PART OF THE RELEASEES, AND FURTHER INCLUDING THE FAILURE ON THE PART OF THE RELEASEES TO SAFEGUARD OR PROTECT ME FROM THE RISKS, DANGERS AND HAZARDS OF PARTICIPATING IN THE WILDERNESS ACTIVITIES REFERRED TO ABOVE.
Any litigation involving the parties to the Release Agreement shall be brought solely within the province where the Wilderness Activities take place and shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of that province.
In entering into the Release Agreement I am not relying on any oral or written representations or statements made by the Releasees with respect to the safety of participating in the Wilderness Activities, other than what is set forth in the Release Agreement.
I CONFIRM THAT I HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD THIS RELEASE AGREEMENT PRIOR TO SIGNING IT, AND I AM AWARE THAT BY SIGNING THIS RELEASE AGREEMENT I AM WAIVING CERTAIN LEGAL RIGHTS WHICH I OR MY HEIRS, NEXT OF KIN, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, ASSIGNS AND REPRESENTATIVES MAY HAVE AGAINST THE RELEASEES.
Signed this ________ day of _______________, 200__.
Click on photo for information about the tour.
Send mail to tony@whiskeyjacknaturetours.com with questions or comments about this web site. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,778 |
import os
ACTIVE_LISTS = ('german', 'french', 'italian', 'english', 'spanish')
class StopWords(object):
def __init__(self):
self.stop_words_lists = {}
self.language = None
stop_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'stop')
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(stop_dir):
for file in files:
if not file in ACTIVE_LISTS:
continue
stop_file = open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'stop/', file), 'r')
self.stop_words_lists[file] = []
for stop_word in stop_file:
self.stop_words_lists[file].append(stop_word.strip().lower())
stop_file.close()
def load_language(self, language):
self.language = language
def is_stop_word(self, word):
if not self.language:
raise LookupError("No language loaded")
return word in self.stop_words_lists[self.language]
def guess(self, words):
currentWinner = ACTIVE_LISTS[0];
currentMax = 0;
for language, stop_word_list in self.stop_words_lists.items():
count = 0
for word in words:
if word in stop_word_list:
count += 1
if count > currentMax:
currentWinner = language
currentMax = count
return currentWinner
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Yuyuan Gardens: located at No. 132. Anren Street in the center of the Old City next to the Chenghuangmiao area in Shanghai, China, is considered one of the most lavish and finest Chinese gardens in the region. The garden is accessible from the nearby Yuyuan Garden station on the Shanghai Metro.
Jade Buddha Temple: is a Buddhist temple in Shanghai, China. As with many modern Chinese Buddhist temples, the current temple draws from both the Pure Land and Chan traditions of Mahayana Buddhism. It was founded in 1882 with two jade Buddha statues imported to Shanghai from Burma by sea.
Longhua Temple: is a Buddhist Temple dedicated to the Maitreya Buddha located in Shanghai, China. Although most of the present-day buildings date from later reconstructions, the temple preserves the architectural design of a Song Dynasty monastery of the Buddhist Chan sect. It is the largest, most authentic and complete ancient temple complex in the city of Shanghai.
Nanjing Road: is the main shopping street of Shanghai, China, and is one of the world's busiest shopping streets.
Xintiandi: is a car-free shopping, eating and entertainment district of Shanghai, China. It is composed of an area of restored traditional shikumen ("stone gate") houses on narrow alleys, some adjoining houses which now serve as book stores, cafes and restaurants, and shopping malls. Most of the cafes and restaurants feature both indoor and outdoor seatings. Xintiandi has an active nightlife on weekdays as well as weekends, though romantic settings are more common than loud music and dance places. Xintiandi means "New Heaven and Earth", and is considered one of the first lifestyle centers in China.
Suzhou is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Taihu in the province of Jiangsu, China. The city is renowned for its beautiful stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously designed gardens which have contributed to its status as a great tourist attraction. Since the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Suzhou has also been an important centre for China's silk industry and continues to hold that prominent position today. The city is part of the Yangtze River Delta region.
Zhujiajiao is a very vibrant ancient water village that is the focus of this article. Formed 1,700 years ago, Zhujiajiao was an important trading hub for the surrounding countryside, and many of the buildings that can be seen there today date back to the Ming and Qing dynasties. Traditionally, goods and people were ferried on the small canals from house to house, passing under the 36 ancient stone bridges that are all still in use by locals and tourists alike.
Ningbo is a beautiful & prosperous city in Zhejiang and also one of the most popular tourist cities in East China.
Qibao is a small town about two square kilometers in size which is crossed by two canals. Around the canals, a large number of traditional houses, shops and restaurants are found. Recently tourism has been actively encouraged and it makes a good daytrip from Shanghai city. Although Qibao can be touristy, prices are comparatively cheap.
Haungshan is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China. The area is well known for its scenery, sunsets, peculiarly-shaped granite peaks, Huangshan Pine trees, and views of the clouds from above. Mount Huang is a frequent subject of traditional Chinese paintings and literature, as well as modern photography. Today, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of China's major tourist destinations.
Luoyang was once one of China's Four Ancient Capitals, but the purpose of the visit here would be to see the Longmen Grottos.
Mount Tai is a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city of Tai'an, in Shandong Province, China. The tallest peak is Jade Emperor Peak (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Yùhuáng D?ng), which is commonly reported as 1545 metres (5069 ft) tall, but is described by the Chinese government as 1532.7 metres (5028.5 ft). Mount Tai is one of the "Five Sacred Mountains". It is associated with sunrise, birth, and renewal, and is often regarded the foremost of the five. Mount Tai has been a place of worship for at least 3,000 years. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,780 |
Enhanced the RAMP License Key menu to reflect whether the RAMP Manager has successfully established contact with Tuangru's License Server.
Prior to RAMP Release 3.13.0: Data Collector and Data Analyzer were grouped under Agents.
Starting with RAMP Release 3.13.0: Data Collector and Data Analyzer are grouped under RAMP Services.
Prior to RAMP Release 3.13.0: there was no indication in the GUI whether RAMP Manager was able to successfully contact Tuangru's License Server.
Starting with RAMP Release 3.13.0: RAMP License menu will indicate whether RAMP Manager has been able to successfully contact Tuangru's License Server.
With the release of 3.13.0, release 3.10 and earlier software releases are now declared to be End-of-Life. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,781 |
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By cambodgePosted on July 16, 2018
The Best The Onion (Satire) Ideas. The man who helped tank "star wars" but revived the mystery genre via "knives out" returns with his new muse,. The satirical website the onion has filed a brief in a supreme court case involving anthony novak, who was arrested after he spoofed the parma, ohio, police force in facebook.
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Writer/director rian johnson is too clever for his own good. — the onion (@theonion) may 25, 2022 it also flooded the homepage of its website with the stories, the same headline appearing over and over but next to different. The sharp whodunit killed at the box office in 2019, providing a perfect motive for director rian johnson and star daniel craig to return for the sequel, glass onion:
Writer/director rian johnson is too clever for his own good. The satirical website the onion has filed a brief in a supreme court case involving anthony novak, who was arrested after he spoofed the parma, ohio, police force in facebook.
The onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from america's finest news source. Writer/director rian johnson is too clever for his own good.
— The Onion (@Theonion) May 25, 2022 It Also Flooded The Homepage Of Its Website With The Stories, The Same Headline Appearing Over And Over But Next To Different.
Over these past few years, the phrase "eat the rich" has been. The onion is a humorous news program that satirizes popular issues; Writer/director rian johnson is too clever for his own good.
The Sharp Whodunit Killed At The Box Office In 2019, Providing A Perfect Motive For Director Rian Johnson And Star Daniel Craig To Return For The Sequel, Glass Onion:
Published september 29, 2022 alerts washington—interrupting his remarks wednesday at the white house conference on hunger, nutrition, and health, president joe. The satirical website the onion has filed a brief in a supreme court case involving anthony novak, who was arrested after he spoofed the parma, ohio, police force in facebook. In this issue of the onion, the news program criticizes the methods advertisers utilize in order to attract consumers.
Uvalde, Tx—In The Hours Following A Violent Rampage In Texas In Which A Lone Attacker Killed At Least 21 Individuals And Injured Several Others, Citizens Living In The Only.
Satirical essay with an increase in consumer culture and a minimal amount of common sense, the onion uses a satirical tone to draw attention to the consumer's gullibility. The man who helped tank "star wars" but revived the mystery genre via "knives out" returns with his new muse,. The onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from america's finest news source.
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Q: D3: SVG not being appended to body I was trying to follow an example from an answering member's jsbin by using their code as a template with my own modifications. Because nothing appeared at all, I tried copying and pasting their code directly, but that also didn't work. In fact, the svg element I wanted to add to the body wasn't even appearing at all. Finally, I wrote a very very simple script to test adding an svg to the body.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<style>
svg{
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
</style>
<script>
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width",500).attr("height",300);
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
However, even this didn't work when running it in Chrome from my laptop (from notepad++). My other much more complicated programs will run perfectly and the jsbin of this (http://jsbin.com/zeqecoge/1/edit) works as well. I'm pretty confused, and am wondering if I'm just doing something completely wrong somehow
A: You are not defining a body in the code snippet you posted, more importantly, when the script in the script tag is evaluated, there doesn't exist a body tag (that it knows of)
try this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<style>
svg{
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script>
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width",500).attr("height",300);
</script>
</body>
</html>
Note: I am not a html/js expert and I hope if I am wrong, someone will correct me. The behavior as a browser opens an html file is that it reads in the file from top to bottom, so when it gets to your script, you ask to select the body tag (and append etc etc) but there is no body tag that it has encountered. So the fix here is to not only add the body tag (so it exists), but also place the script within (or after) the body tag (so the computer is aware of it by the time it is evaluating your script).
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The handling time often varies depending on the item that is purchased. We estimate a handling time of 2-3 days, but most orders will ship 1 business day after the order is placed. Total delivery time includes handling time, the shipping method selected at checkout and the proximity of your shipping address to Detroit, MI. Shipping rates are determined by the size/weight of the item(s) purchased and the shipping selection chosen.
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If your order contains one or more items that are out of stock, the remaining items in the order will be shipped and your account will be refunded for the net price of the out of stock items. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,784 |
The following pricing is for single licences only. Bridge federations that purchase a single licence may not distribute it to its affiliated clubs.
Swedish VAT is 25%. This is added for customers inside the European Union with no valid EU VAT number.
Special Bridgemate reseller rates may apply.
When purchased at full price, the installation tutorial is included.
Special upgrade conditions apply if you have skipped one upgrade.
If you want help with some, or all, of the following, you may want to purchase the add-on installation tutorial (see pricing above inside EU or below outside EU; included when the licence is purchased at full price, i.e. not through a Bridgemate reseller).
Normal support for two years is included in the original purchase, and is applicable when you encounter problems. Such problems will be solved for free by e-mail or TeamViewer.
This installation tutorial goes beyond normal support, and will make the start-up at your club as smooth as possible. You can use the tutorial by yourself, or you can gather several tournament directors around your PC to spread the knowledge to more than one person.
We will use phone or chat to go through everything you need to make Magic Contest and Bridgemate work together. When the remote session is over, you will have a well functioning system where all parts work together.
TeamViewer is a program that allows your PC to be remotely controlled. Read the instructions on how to start TeamViewer 5.
Together with Bridgemates you may purchase Magic Contest at a special price. Please contact your Bridgemate reseller for more details.
Bridgemate resellers may charge a small administrative fee for support and upgrade due to money transfer reasons. This normally only applies to the 1-year package.
After the initial 2 years you can purchase additional support and upgrade packages according to the above pricing.
If you do not purchase a support and upgrade package you can continue using Magic Contest as is. There is no expiration on the latest valid version you have downloaded.
There are no discounts for years 2 and 3 when you have skipped one or more upgrades.
The new support and upgrade packages you buy are valid into the future, no matter the number of skips.
1 You must purchase two or three 1-year packages at full price. Example: Your version: 4.10. New version: 4.12.
2 You must purchase three 1-year packages at full price. Example: Your version: 4.9. New version: 4.12.
1+1 If you have skipped an upgrade, renewed, and again skipped an upgrade, you must purchase three 1-year packages at full price.
3+ You must purchase three 1-year packages at full price plus 25% of the one-year package for every skip from 3 and up.
There is an agreement between the Swedish Bridge Federation and Tomas Brenning on a national licence for Sweden. This means that non-associated Swedish clubs may not purchase Magic Contest or Ruter.
There is an agreement between the Norwegian Bridge Federation and Tomas Brenning on a national licence for Norway. This means that non-associated Norwegian clubs may not purchase Magic Contest or Ruter.
Therefore, the idea is to sell Magic Contest to Bridge Federations that will distribute the program to the clubs, free or at a symbolic cost. A federation that buys a single licence is not entitled to distribute this to its affiliated clubs.
Selling country licences requires analysing the need of a number of licences in the country, the need for continuous support and development, an agreement on a yearly support and upgrade fee, and so on. Please contact me for more details if this is of interest. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,785 |
Your Saturn Vue receiver hitch is just the beginning of your towing needs. AutoAnything also offers a wide variety of towing gear. Pick up a hitch ball and mount for your Saturn Vue receiver hitch. We also offer all the wiring hookups you need in order to run electricity to your Saturn Vue receiver hitch and whatever you're pulling behind. When you're pulling your heavy loads with your Saturn Vue receiver hitch, keep your driving performance safe. We offer brake controllers to stop your added weight, as well as air springs to support it. And remember, your Saturn Vue receiver hitch is always low-price when you shop with AutoAnything. And with countless Saturn Vue receiver hitches reviews to read, you'll discover real experiences from real customers like you.
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A Saturn Vue receiver hitch from AutoAnything is built tough to get the huge jobs done. Load your gear behind you with your Saturn Vue receiver hitch and save precious legroom. Your family will be happy, and so will you. And, your Saturn Vue receiver hitch will fulfill its duty every time. Feel free to load what you want when you choose between our receiver hitches, designed to handle varying weights.
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Century City – Hip and Happening
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If you don't have a clue what "new urbanism" means, you're in good company. The hippest Century City slickers would be hard pressed to define the urban design movement that has shaped the place they call home – not to mention hundreds, if not thousands, of new suburbs and cities the world over.
New urbanism, which started in the United States in early 1980s, is about "giving people choices for living an urban lifestyle in sustainable, convenient and enjoyable places". Wikipedia defines it as "an urban design movement which promotes walkable neighbourhoods that contain a range of housing and job types". And according to www.newurbanism.org, "new urbanism is the revival of our lost art of place-making, and promotes the creation and restoration of compact, walkable, mixed-use cities, towns and suburbs".
In a nutshell, it's about creating spaces where we can live, work and play.
In a city characterised by haphazard low-density urban sprawl – which adversely impacts the environment and results in people having to commute long distances – Cape Town's Century City is a breath of fresh air: orderly, accessible, self-contained, safe and swish.
Situated on 250 hectares, including a wetland conservation area and eight kilometres of canals, Century City is synonymous with Canal Walk, a premier shopping centre that is home to 400 shops and open seven days a week from 9am to 9pm.
Although regarded as a city within a city, the Century City Property Owners' Association describes Century City as "a mixed-use development combining office, retail, residential and leisure components in an integrated and aesthetically pleasing environment". Given that it's only 12 years old and still under construction, development is an apt adjective.
In a recent press release announcing the opening of the Crystal Towers Hotel [in December 2009] Greg Deans, a director of the Rabie Property Group which is responsible for the five-star hotel and much of the development of property in Century City, said the suburb has approximately 40 000 people living or working in the precinct and over 21 million people passing through Canal Walk Shopping Centre per year.
Century City also boasts 220,000 square metres of prime office space. Deans said that leading national and international businesses as well as numerous small- to medium-size companies have set up at Century City. Blue-chip tenants include IBM South Africa, Old Mutual Private Wealth and Growthpoint Properties, the largest listed property company in SA. Deans says clients of this calibre create a demand not only for luxury accommodation but for conferencing and meeting facilities that are slick and state of the art.
The Crystal Towers development includes an apartment tower made up of 91 luxury units, ranging from studios aimed at business travellers to larger apartments aimed at owner occupiers. Apartments are priced from R1,5 million to over R10 million for duplex penthouses. Deans said there had been strong interest in the apartments, with 22 already sold. Construction is due to be complete in March. Investors, he said, had the option of putting their properties in the Crystal Towers Rental Pool for short-term letting, which can potentially generate returns of over 10% a year.
Return on investment in Century City has always been strong, making it all the more attractive to investors and homeowners. Demand for property in Century City is always high. According to Deeds Office data supplied by Lightstone property professionals, over the past 12 months only 200 properties in Century City changed hands.
The average price of a freehold property in Century City last year was R2m, and the average price of a sectional title property was R1.4m. Century City comprises 90% sectional title and 10% freehold property.
Therina Gericke first bought property in Century City in 2004. At the time, she was working in the suburb and the prospect of living in a newly developed apartment a stone's throw from work held appeal.
She recently sold her apartment and upgraded to a house in a security complex in Century City, even though she no longer works in the suburb. Gericks sold her apartment for R970 000, having paid R560 000 for it.
The three-bedroom house which she just bought has two full bathrooms and a single garage. The erf is roughly 390 square metres, and she paid R1,3 million for the property. "Century City is cosmopolitan and central; it feels as if you're a 15-minute drive from anywhere. And even though we're close to the N1, we hardly ever hear the traffic. I also appreciate the developed infrastructure, with shops, gym and various other amenities nearby."
Proximity to the city centre is a major plus, too. Gericks says getting to work is a breeze. "On a bad day it can take me 25 to 30 minutes to get to work, but if I leave at 9am, it takes 10 minutes."
Being such an important business node situated on the N1, which is chronically congested during peak hours, Century City is serviced by public transport, with frequent buses and taxis ferrying people in and out of the suburb.
Yet this is to receive a welcome boost. A new R60m railway station is expected to be complete before May and Century City is also being included in the City's Bus Rapid Transit system to carry commuters to and from the CBD.
Melita Potgieter bought her two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment for R720 000 at the end of 2005. Like Gericke, she also bought to be close to her workplace in the new suburb. Her 72 square metre home has appreciated nicely since she bought and could now easily fetch R920k.
Potgieter says that while she's very happy with the suburb, she has been less than charmed with the contractor who built her home. Although she was not the first owner of the property, she and others in her complex have had issues with dampness and overflowing toilets, due to cheap and/or poor fittings. "I appreciate that the contractor is still coming back to fix these things, but I'd think twice about buying from them again."
Gericke says her only complaint about living in Century City is the noise pollution from Ratanga Junction. But not even the sound of thrill-seekers screeching and screaming all day would drive her away. "As long as I live in Cape Town, I'll live in Century City. We have a great retirement complex – Oasis Retirement Village – so maybe I'll end off there!" she chuckles.
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Columns - At Large, A Journal of Our Times
Sunday, 14 October 2007 13:35
By Charles Williams
Instead of nightly dosages of "unreality" television, inane sit-coms, endless gossiping goddesses, and media frenzy surrounding the misbehaviors of the notorious, we "desperately" need nightly televised Civics lessons! The news ought to concern itself with aspects of continuing education, because educational failure can no longer be tolerated if we are to truly progress as a cohesive society on the world stage.
How many know what the Electoral College is? Who are your congressional representatives? What congressional district do you live in? What is a unicameral chamber? Who are your Senators and Congressional Representatives in Washington, D.C.? What is a quorum call in the Senate? How many seats are there in the House of Representatives and the Senate? Who is your Mayor? What are your rights to public assembly? What are the Bill of Rights? What constitutional guarantees do you have? Too few of us can answer these questions. Why?
There are just too many uninformed Americans now, many of whom paid too little attention in class from K thru 12, if indeed they finished the 12th grade. These persons viewed education as a challenge to remain stupid rather than an opportunity to succeed. There were too many class clowns, too few qualified or interested in going on to college, too many adolescent male gang members, too many pregnant high school girls. Instead of assuming adult roles as contributing citizens in the majority culture, too many unwittingly fall victim to an insidious sub-culture of criminal behavior, which leads to an ever increasing prison population. These educational "drop-outs" are now the targets of the televised media charlatans whose messages resonate with the uninformed masses engendering hatred and bigotry disguised as enlightenment and conventional wisdom. These charlatans amass tremendous fortunes peddling their disingenuousness.
Every thinking person ought to be as angry as hell with the way our society is disintegrating, regardless of political persuasion. There is the absolute strangle hold by lobbyists in Washington whose influence with money and power circumvent the constitution and create the climate where selfish corporate interests supersede the voice of the people. We distrust our government and our elected officials. This shouldn't be. We chide the first century mentality of Islam, yet we embrace the first century mentality of Christianity and hold to the ancient parable of "an eye for an eye" in the twenty first century, where the internet has revolutionized the flow of information, space travel is an every day occurrence, and electric cars are replacing combustion engines. Mortgage agreements are nullifying, failed marriages abound, illegitimate children populate the culture, high school drop out rates soar, and soaring gasoline prices drain meager incomes. Yet the unscrupulous are getting richer.
America is now a place where fast food and obesity have replaced common sense in nutrition. We want something for nothing. Frivolous law suits abound, and lotteries create instant multimillionaires out of the sorely under-educated. No one wants to work anymore, and we chastise immigrants for their willingness to do work we no longer find meaningful. We have lost family, industry, and industriousness. Very few of our citizens are achievers in math and science. No where is this lack of achievement more prevalent than unto those who are chosen to lead. Education, scholastic achievement, and a history of decent accomplishments are no longer standards of qualification. We have relegated ourselves to absolute mediocrity and mendacity. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," the first line of the Declaration of Independence, is now edited to read: "We hold these truths- though frivolous amendment which will favor our political faction- self-evident to those whose lack of information- may tend to justify our position." This is a vengeful misinterpretation of anything resembling truth, honor, or decency.
To win, to overcome the opposition, to stay in political power no matter the means, this alone justifies any ends to maintain a status quo. We have become a sideshow on the global stage, a circus of never-ending exhortations and exhibitions, a shadow without form wrapped in a meaningless meanness of broken promises, inflated idealism, and massive distrust for each other.
And it all rests in the hands of the masses of uninformed citizens who elect and re-elect incompetent leaders to represent us. Our system of government cries out for reason, diligence, and fairness. Will this next major election bring us intelligent leadership?
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Spot check: keep a close eye on your moles – it could just save your life
While some of us fret over every freckle, others are blithely oblivious to the danger of skin cancer – but there is a middle way
Check your moles regularly is advice routinely trotted out by beauty journalists and dermatologists, but what, in practice, does it mean? The basics are that moles shouldn't change in size or shape (take timestamped photos every three to four months and store them in a dedicated folder on your phone, so you can monitor any developments). Their rounded footprint should not become jagged or irregular; any changes in colour or sensitivity should be reported soonest to your GP.
The NHS advises people to ask a pharmacist about moles, and it also has a mole care app. But in a Covid world it's easy to ignore minor changes in favour of helping to lighten the NHS load. If you've convinced yourself that you're making undue fuss it might be worth paying for a mole check service if you can afford it.
In a Covid world it's easy to ignore minor changes in favour of helping to lighten the NHS load
Last month, I visited my local SK:N clinic for precisely that. My consultant, registered nurse Sophie Reading, conducts mole checks on about 50 patients a week, from those with one isolated freckle (a single mole examination costs £50) to those with a top-to-toe constellation of moles (£140 for a full body check).
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Despite seven Britons dying of melanoma each day, most skin cancers are less dangerous and treatable if caught early, and Reading has intercepted plenty of developing cases, as well as reassured many perfectly healthy patients suffering from undue anxiety (she says the problem is rife since the pandemic).
Minor issues such as healthy mole removals are dealt with on site, whether by freezing, laser or excision. Complex or ambiguous findings are referred urgently to an NHS doctor and, where appropriate, to specialists for an emergency appointment usually within a fortnight. In any case, any concerning findings are photographed with a dermascope and sent to histology for investigation in the meantime.
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package com.facebook.buck.cli;
import com.facebook.buck.artifact_cache.ArtifactCache;
import com.facebook.buck.artifact_cache.NoopArtifactCache;
import com.facebook.buck.cli.OwnersReport.Builder;
import com.facebook.buck.core.cell.Cell;
import com.facebook.buck.core.cell.TestCellBuilder;
import com.facebook.buck.core.config.FakeBuckConfig;
import com.facebook.buck.core.exceptions.HumanReadableException;
import com.facebook.buck.core.model.EmptyTargetConfiguration;
import com.facebook.buck.core.parser.buildtargetparser.ParsingUnconfiguredBuildTargetFactory;
import com.facebook.buck.event.BuckEventBus;
import com.facebook.buck.event.BuckEventBusForTests;
import com.facebook.buck.io.ExecutableFinder;
import com.facebook.buck.io.filesystem.ProjectFilesystem;
import com.facebook.buck.io.filesystem.TestProjectFilesystems;
import com.facebook.buck.io.watchman.WatchmanFactory;
import com.facebook.buck.jvm.java.FakeJavaPackageFinder;
import com.facebook.buck.manifestservice.ManifestService;
import com.facebook.buck.parser.Parser;
import com.facebook.buck.parser.ParserPythonInterpreterProvider;
import com.facebook.buck.parser.ParsingContext;
import com.facebook.buck.parser.PerBuildState;
import com.facebook.buck.parser.PerBuildStateFactory;
import com.facebook.buck.parser.SpeculativeParsing;
import com.facebook.buck.query.QueryTarget;
import com.facebook.buck.rules.coercer.DefaultConstructorArgMarshaller;
import com.facebook.buck.rules.coercer.DefaultTypeCoercerFactory;
import com.facebook.buck.rules.coercer.TypeCoercerFactory;
import com.facebook.buck.testutil.FakeFileHashCache;
import com.facebook.buck.testutil.TemporaryPaths;
import com.facebook.buck.testutil.TestConsole;
import com.facebook.buck.testutil.integration.ProjectWorkspace;
import com.facebook.buck.testutil.integration.TestDataHelper;
import com.facebook.buck.util.ThrowingCloseableMemoizedSupplier;
import com.facebook.buck.util.concurrent.FakeListeningExecutorService;
import com.facebook.buck.util.environment.EnvVariablesProvider;
import com.facebook.buck.util.environment.Platform;
import com.google.common.base.Suppliers;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListeningExecutorService;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.Set;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
public class QueryCommandTest {
private QueryCommand queryCommand;
private CommandRunnerParams params;
private int callsCount = 0;
private Set<String> expectedExpressions = new HashSet<>();
private BuckQueryEnvironment env;
@Rule public TemporaryPaths tmp = new TemporaryPaths();
private static ThrowingCloseableMemoizedSupplier<ManifestService, IOException>
getManifestSupplier() {
return ThrowingCloseableMemoizedSupplier.of(() -> null, ManifestService::close);
}
@Before
public void setUp() throws IOException {
TestConsole console = new TestConsole();
ProjectWorkspace workspace =
TestDataHelper.createProjectWorkspaceForScenario(this, "query_command", tmp);
workspace.setUp();
ProjectFilesystem filesystem =
TestProjectFilesystems.createProjectFilesystem(
workspace.getDestPath().toRealPath().normalize());
Cell cell = new TestCellBuilder().setFilesystem(filesystem).build();
ArtifactCache artifactCache = new NoopArtifactCache();
BuckEventBus eventBus = BuckEventBusForTests.newInstance();
queryCommand = new QueryCommand();
queryCommand.outputAttributesSane = Suppliers.ofInstance(ImmutableSet.of());
params =
CommandRunnerParamsForTesting.createCommandRunnerParamsForTesting(
console,
cell,
artifactCache,
eventBus,
FakeBuckConfig.builder().build(),
Platform.detect(),
EnvVariablesProvider.getSystemEnv(),
new FakeJavaPackageFinder(),
Optional.empty());
ListeningExecutorService executorService = new FakeListeningExecutorService();
TypeCoercerFactory typeCoercerFactory = new DefaultTypeCoercerFactory();
PerBuildState perBuildState =
PerBuildStateFactory.createFactory(
typeCoercerFactory,
new DefaultConstructorArgMarshaller(typeCoercerFactory),
params.getKnownRuleTypesProvider(),
new ParserPythonInterpreterProvider(cell.getBuckConfig(), new ExecutableFinder()),
cell.getBuckConfig(),
WatchmanFactory.NULL_WATCHMAN,
eventBus,
getManifestSupplier(),
new FakeFileHashCache(ImmutableMap.of()),
new ParsingUnconfiguredBuildTargetFactory())
.create(
ParsingContext.builder(cell, executorService)
.setSpeculativeParsing(SpeculativeParsing.ENABLED)
.build(),
params.getParser().getPermState(),
ImmutableList.of());
env =
new FakeBuckQueryEnvironment(
cell,
OwnersReport.builder(
params.getCell(),
params.getParser(),
perBuildState,
EmptyTargetConfiguration.INSTANCE),
params.getParser(),
perBuildState,
new TargetPatternEvaluator(
params.getCell(),
params.getBuckConfig(),
params.getParser(),
ParsingContext.builder(params.getCell(), executorService).build(),
EmptyTargetConfiguration.INSTANCE),
eventBus,
typeCoercerFactory);
}
private class FakeBuckQueryEnvironment extends BuckQueryEnvironment {
protected FakeBuckQueryEnvironment(
Cell rootCell,
Builder ownersReportBuilder,
Parser parser,
PerBuildState parserState,
TargetPatternEvaluator targetPatternEvaluator,
BuckEventBus eventBus,
TypeCoercerFactory typeCoercerFactory) {
super(
rootCell,
ownersReportBuilder,
parser,
parserState,
targetPatternEvaluator,
eventBus,
typeCoercerFactory);
}
@Override
public ImmutableSet<QueryTarget> evaluateQuery(String query) {
Assert.assertTrue(expectedExpressions.contains(query));
++callsCount;
return ImmutableSet.of();
}
@Override
public void preloadTargetPatterns(Iterable<String> patterns) {}
}
@Test
public void testRunMultiQueryWithSet() throws Exception {
queryCommand.setArguments(ImmutableList.of("deps(%Ss)", "//foo:bar", "//foo:baz"));
expectedExpressions.add("deps(set('//foo:bar' '//foo:baz'))");
queryCommand.formatAndRunQuery(params, env);
}
@Test
public void testRunMultiQueryWithSingleSetUsedMultipleTimes() throws Exception {
queryCommand.setArguments(
ImmutableList.of("deps(%Ss) union testsof(%Ss)", "//foo:libfoo", "//foo:libfootoo"));
expectedExpressions.add(
"deps(set('//foo:libfoo' '//foo:libfootoo')) union testsof(set('//foo:libfoo' '//foo:libfootoo'))");
queryCommand.formatAndRunQuery(params, env);
}
@Test
public void testRunMultiQueryWithMultipleDifferentSets() throws Exception {
queryCommand.setArguments(
ImmutableList.of(
"deps(%Ss) union testsof(%Ss)",
"//foo:libfoo", "//foo:libfootoo", "--", "//bar:libbar", "//bar:libbaz"));
expectedExpressions.add(
"deps(set('//foo:libfoo' '//foo:libfootoo')) union testsof(set('//bar:libbar' '//bar:libbaz'))");
queryCommand.formatAndRunQuery(params, env);
}
@Test(expected = HumanReadableException.class)
public void testRunMultiQueryWithIncorrectNumberOfSets() throws Exception {
queryCommand.setArguments(
ImmutableList.of(
"deps(%Ss) union testsof(%Ss) union %Ss",
"//foo:libfoo", "//foo:libfootoo", "--", "//bar:libbar", "//bar:libbaz"));
queryCommand.formatAndRunQuery(params, env);
}
@Test
public void testRunMultiQuery() throws Exception {
queryCommand.setArguments(ImmutableList.of("deps(%s)", "//foo:bar", "//foo:baz"));
expectedExpressions.add("deps(//foo:bar)");
expectedExpressions.add("deps(//foo:baz)");
queryCommand.formatAndRunQuery(params, env);
Assert.assertEquals(2, callsCount);
}
}
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She was a regular on chanchan's IRC channel for a short while, after being doxxed on WTFux.
She eventually became a paywhore and got breast implants and other cosmetic surgery.
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Trail de Mirmande
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:date: 2015-03-31 17:36
:category: Résultats
:summary: Trail de Mirmande
|Montée vers l'église de Mirmande|
Montée vers l'église de Mirmande
De retour d'un week end sous le signe du soleil printanier du côté de Montélimar.
**Vincent Lauvergne** , répondit présent à l'invitation d'un ami, un petit Trail de 42 km avec 2000m D+.
Mais dimanche matin, l'organisateur annonce que le parcours a été modifié, et passe à 47 km et 2300m D+.
Après plusieurs possibilité et hésitations à reprendre le petit parcours.
Vincent boucle ces **47 km** en **6h44'11"** , pour le classement, c'est loin d'être la panacé.
**88ème sur 112 arrivants** . ( 330 au départ )
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Tribunal rules BBC journalist is caught by 'IR35' legislation
A First Tier Tribunal has ruled that Christa Ackroyd who presented BBC news programme Look North and was paid via a personal service company was caught by the IR35 rules resulting in additional tax and national insurance contributions being payable.
The IR35 rules in broad terms mean that those working via a personal service company have to consider whether, if the services were provided by the individual contractor directly to the client, there would be a contract of employment.
The tribunal looked at lots of factors pertinent to Ms Ackroyd's engagement and considered it significant that the BBC could control what work she did. She was engaged for seven years on effectively a full time basis.
Subject to any appeal and determination of final figures, the tax and NIC that Ms Ackroyd will be liable for amounts to around £420,000 before offset of corporation tax.
The IR35 rules were amended for Public Bodies (including the BBC) from April 2017 and the government has announced that it may make changes to the rules for the private sector as well in the future.
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(Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary - today Sînnicolau Mare, Romania - , 25 March 1881; New York, 26 September 1945).
Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist; by far the most important of Hungarian composers and responsible, with Zoltán Kodály, for the awakening of the interest in Hungarian folk music. While being thus occupied Bartók never neglected his engagement with Western art music. Initially his musical style was influenced by composers such as Brahms, R. Strauss, Debussy and Stravinsky. These influences gradually loosed their ground to the impact Hungarian, Slavonic and Romanian folk music began to exert on him, a consequence of his activities in the field of ethnomusicology. Notwithstanding these influences Bartók developed a distinctive personal style, a style to which the audience of his own days did not always respond, but which, towards the end this century, is met with more and more appreciation and admiration.
A selection from Bartók's vast output: Concerto for Orchestra, Dance Suite, Divertimento, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, 3 Piano Concertos, 2 Violin Concertos, Viola Concerto, the opera Bluebeard's Castle, the pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin, the ballet The Wooden Prince, Chamber Music: 6 String Quartets, Contrasts (written for Benny Goodman), Piano Music: For Children, Mikrokosmos, Sonatas, Bagatelles, Folk Song transcriptions and many other pieces.
-from the Philips Music Group Website
Gyorgy Ligeti
(Dicsozentmarton, Transylvania - 1923)
Ligeti was born of Hungarian Jewish parents in Dicsozentmarton, Transylvania, an area that has yo-yoed back and forth between Hungary and Romania. He received a fine musical education, first at the Kolozsvar Conservatory, and later at the Budapest Academy of Music. After his graduation in 1949, like his countrymen Bartok and Kodaly, he pursued field research in folk music; Romanian folk music in particular. In 1950, he was appointed Professor of Harmony, Counterpoint and Formal Analysis at the Budapest Conservatory, a post he held until he fled Hungary in 1956. During these years his published music consisted of arrangements of folk music or music in the folk idiom, although he was also working on more daring experimental music (as is evidenced from sketches and scores). The political climate made it impossible, as well as improvident, to publish any of the works in the style that was to bring him international recognition. However, it was during this period before the Hungarian uprising that the Bagatelles were composed. Although the Fifth Bagatelle is an outright memorial to the memory of Bela Bartok, all of these delightful miniatures bear resemblance to some of Bartok's own folkloric works, as well as a good measure of Stravinsky, particularly No. 4 and No. 6.
After leaving Hungary and settling in Vienna, Ligeti's stature as a composer continued to grow. He has held many important and prestigious posts throughout Europe. As for the Bay Area, Ligeti was Lecturer and Composer-in-Residence at Stanford University in 1972. Among his works is a piece for orchestra dating from 1974 entitled San Francisco Polyphony.
Krzysztof Penderecki
(Debica, Poland - 1933)
Penderecki is one of the most esteemed and widely discussed composers of our time. The development of his compositional style has reflected the evolution of new music from the avant-garde of the sixties up to the present day, while preserving his own distinctive voice.
Like other leading composers of our century, Mr. Penderecki has also built an international reputation as a conductor. In Europe he has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic as well as orchestras in France, England, Italy, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland, and his American appearances have included performances with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, among others. He also holds two permanent posts: as principal guest conductor of the NDR Orchestra in Hamburg and as music director of the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico.
After finishing his studies at the Krakow High School of Music, Mr. Penderecki immediately began his rise to prominence, winning all three prizes at the 1959 contest of the Polish Composers' Association. In early works such as Emanations, Strophes, and most notably the Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, he put himself at the forefront of the avant-garde, combining a highly experimental and expressionistic use of sound with a radical humanistic message.
The highlight of this first phase of Mr. Penderecki's work occurred with the premiere of his most famous work, the St. Luke Passion, in Münster Cathedral in 1966, the first in a series of liturgical works including Dies Irae, dedicated to the victims of Auschwitz (1967), Utrenja ("The Entombment of Christ" and "The Resurrection of Christ," 1970-71), and Magnificat (1974). Mr. Pendercki's style gradually turned toward simple structures and a more traditional tonal language in these works, moving toward a contemporary neo-Romanticism. Other works from this period include the Violin Concerto (1976-77), written for Isaac Stern, and the Te Deum (1980), dedicated to Pope John Paul II.
Mr. Penderecki also established his reputation as a musical dramatist during these years, first with The Devils of Loudun (1969), followed by Paradise Lost, premiered in Chicago in 1978. His third opera, The Black Mask, achieved a major success in its premiere at the 1986 Salzburg Festival, and with the opera buffa Ubu Rex (1990-91), adapted from Alfred Jarry, Mr. Penderecki has created a burlesque in the spirit of Rossini.
In the 1980's, Mr. Penderecki began to connect the acerbic sounds of his first period with the romantic gestures of the second, thus creating music of universal humanistic expressiveness. Among the most notable works of this period are the Cello Concerto No. 2 (1982), the Viola Concerto (1983) and the Polish Requiem (1984), a work which is the composer's memorial to the oppression of his country and a declaration of solidarity with its stuggle for freedom.
Mr. Penderecki has completed a number of symphonies and concertos in rapid succession since 1988, including the recent Symphony No. 5 (1991-92); the Flute Concerto (1992), written for Jean-Pierre Rampal; the Sinfonietta No. 2 for Clarinet and Strings (1994) and the Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra.
Two of his most recent works, the Violin Concerto No. 2 (1992-95), written for Anne-Sophie Mutter, and the newly completed Symphony No. 3, received their United States premieres at Carnegie Hall in the fall of 1996. His notable chamber music compositions have included Per Slava (1985-86), written for Mstislav Rostropovich, The Interrupted Thought for string quartet (1988), the String Trio (1990-91) and the Divertimento for Solo Cello. Among the numerous awards and prizes Mr. Penderecki has won are the UNESCO Award, the Great Art Award of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Prix Italia (in both 1967 and 1968), the Prix Artur Honegger, the Sibelius Prize, the Premio Lorenzo Magnifico, the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and a Grammy Award, among many others. He has also received two Emmy nominations for the A&E Network broadcasts from the Casals Festival. Nine universities, among them Glasgow, Madrid and Belgrade, have conferred honorary doctorates on Mr. Penderecki.
From 1972 to 1979, he was director of the Krakow High School of Music, and from 1973 to 1978 he taught at Yale University as well. He is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Royal Academy of Music in Dublin, the Accademia di Santa Cecelia in Rome, the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, and bears the Order of Merit of the the Federal Republic of Germany and has recently been named Freeman of the City of Strasbourg.
- from the CBC RadioTwo Website
(Pawtucket, Rhode Island - November 14, 1939)
Composer Wendy Carlos spurred electronic music to new commercial heights during the late '60s, popularizing the synthesizer with the enormously successful Switched-On Bach album. Born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on November 14, 1939, Carlos pursued her M.A. in composition under Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening at Columbia University's famed Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Following her graduation, she moved to Manhattan, where she found work as a recording engineer. In Manhattan, she met Dr. Robert Moog and, not long afterward, she began playing the Moog synthesizer.
Carlos released her first recording, Switched-On Bach, in 1968. A showcase for the Moog synthesizer, Switched-On Bach interpreted the legendary composer's most renowned fugues and movements via state-of-the-art synth technology; purists were appalled, but the record captured the public's imagination and in time the album became the first classical record to be certified platinum by the RIAA. It also earned three Grammy Awards. A similar effort, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, followed in 1969. In 1971, Carlos wrote the music for Stanley Kubrick's controversial film A Clockwork Orange, introducing the vocoder -- an electronic device designed to synthesize the human voice -- in her score. After 1976's Brandenburg Concertos 3-5, Carlos again worked with Kubrick, providing the score for his 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. Two years later, she wrote music for Tron, Disney's action movie about video games. Subsequent efforts included a spoof of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf recorded with Weird Al Yankovic and Switched-On Bach 2000.
- All-Music Guide
Al Bowlly
(Born Jan 7, 1899 in Mozambique. Died Apr 17, 1941 in London, England)
The most popular vocalist in Britain during the 1930s, Al Bowlly showcased a range of material unsurpassed by any contemporary other than Bing Crosby. He was also a true international recording artist: born in Mozambique to Greek and Lebanese parents, he was raised in Johannesburg, but gained his musical experience singing for a dance band led by Jimmy Liquime in India and Singapore during the mid-'20s. Just one year after his 1927 debut recording date in Berlin, Bowlly arrived in London for the first time, as part of Fred Elizalde's orchestra. That year, "If I Had You" became one of the first popular songs by an English jazz band to become renowned in America as well, and Bowlly had gone out on his own by the dawn of the '30s. During the next three years, he recorded over 500 songs and appeared with orchestras led by Ray Noble and Lew Stone. A visit to New York in 1934 with Noble resulted in more success; he appeared at the head of an orchestra hand-picked for him and Noble by Glenn Miller (the band included Claude Thornhill, Charlie Spivak and Bud Freeman, among others).
During the mid-'30s, such songs as "Blue Moon," "Easy to Love," "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "My Melancholy Baby" were sizable American successes -- so much so that Bowlly gained his own radio series on NBC and traveled to Hollywood to film The Big Broadcast of 1936, which also starred one of his biggest competitors, Bing Crosby. He was back in England that same year, appearing with his own band, the Radio City Rhythm Makers, as well as the orchestras of Sydney Lipton, Geraldo and Ken Johnson. Partnered with Jimmy Messini, Bowlly also branched out onto the London stage during the early '40s with an act called Radio Stars with Two Guitars. It was his last venture before his death in 1941, the victim of a German bomb exploded outside his apartment. Fifty years after his death, a British musical named Melancholy Baby toured the country with much success.
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For those of you who'd like to hunt down the music, you can find everything on the following albums:
The Shining-Original Soundtrack (Warner Bros HS3449) Lp
Gyorgy Ligeti-Concert for Cello & Orchestra/Lontano (Wergo WER60163-50) CD
Bela Bartok-Concerto for Orchestra/Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta (Deutsche Grammophon 415 322-2) CD
Krzysztof Penderecki Vol.1-St. Lukes Passion/Threnody/Polymorphia (Muza PNCD 017 A) CD
Krzysztof Penderecki Vol.2-Utrenja (Muza PNCD 018) CD
Krzysztof Penderecki Vol.4-Cello Concerto No.2/Awakening of Jacob (Muza PNCD 020) CD
Krzysztof Penderecki Matrix 5-De Natura Sonoris #'s 1 & 2 (EMI Classics CDM 5 65077 2) CD
Al Bowlly/Ray Noble(Monmouth Evergreen MES/6816) Lp
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Opening this issue is one of the world's most outstanding services: the award-winning Phelophepa train has been operating since 1994 in South Africa's remote rural areas, bringing healthcare to millions of underprivileged communities.
Our cover article explores some of the ethical and logistical challenges behind the proposal to start gathering personal data from Eurostar passengers, under the infamous PNR directive currently enforced on international flights.
We also catch up with Tokyo's valiant efforts to bring its railways up to scratch ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games, during which millions of people will descend on its doorstep.
In design, we look back at Moscow's history of building arguably the world's most striking railway stations, and profile a brand new technology called Evidentia that uses VR to allow architects to design better public amenities from the very early stages of construction.
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Q: Firewall status in resource monitor In resource monitor under network, there is a tab called listening ports which has a column called firewall status. It has values like
1)allowed, not restricted
2)not allowed, not restricted
3)allowed, restricted
My understanding is that the first one represents whether the incoming traffic will be allowed or not.
(when I tested after disabling the firewall, everything changed to allowed)
My understanding of the second one is whether there is a rule restricting that connection or not. But in this case, allowed, restricted gives no sense because when it is restricted how can it be allowed.
And also there is an option to either block or allow all connections that do no match any available rules.
could anyone please explain these things in detail please?
A: My understanding of Allowed/Restricted.
FW allows access to that port but with some restrictions.
For example, there is a rule in fw blocking access to that port for some IP addresses or allowing access from local subnet only.
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Galway United F.C. é uma equipe irlandesa de futebol com sede em Galway. Disputa a primeira divisão da Irlanda (Campeonato Irlandês de Futebol).
Seus jogos são mandados no Eamonn Deacy Park, que possui capacidade para 7.500 espectadores.
História
O Galway United F.C. foi fundado em 2013, substituindo o Galway United,com o mesmo nome,atualmente Disputa a 1° Divisão Irlandesa,com a sua "primeira" participação.
Ligações externas
Galway United F.C.
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If you live along California's Central Coast, March is not an usual time of the year to start thinking about going on a picnic—even if just about everywhere else in the country, people are still trying to dig out of winter.
We're lucky to live in an area as beautiful as Paso Robles Wine Country and even luckier to have beautiful spring landscapes to enjoy—and it doesn't hurt that with over 200 wineries, we always have new wines to taste. And we never have to choose between the two, because we can—and do-- spend the day wine tasting and picnicking.
If you're a member of the Paso Robles Wine Club, each of your regular shipments includes several wines that are perfect to take along on a picnic. Aside from enjoying the wine, packing a local wine into your next picnic basket is the best way to enjoy it. You'll revel in the natural scenic beauty of the Central Coast and with increased sensory perception, will find your palate more sensitive and open to the flavor profiles in the wine.
Wondering what to bring along for the perfect Paso Robles Wine Country picnic?
Pack Your Basket: While you'll want to pack foods that pair well with your chosen wine, you don't want to overlook the wonderful seasonal fare. For spring, a fresh goat cheese and a baguette, perhaps some sliced ham, fresh strawberries, even a simple tossed grain salad with baby spinach and fresh herbs are all foods that travel well and are satisfying. For dessert, pick up a jar of artisan jam or local honey to slather on the bread and a piece of good cheese from Rinconada Dairy.
Don't Rush Yourself: Of course, the reason you're packing a picnic basket is to enjoy eating it among the beauty of nature, but don't think of your day as just getting to a destination. The best discoveries come when you allow yourself the luxury of wandering and exploring at a leisurely pace. Don't forget to pack your camera—and a jacket—and plan on making plenty of side stops along the way.
Make Room for Souvenirs: One of the best things about living along California's Central Coast is being able to drive from one picturesque town to the next—and wander through each. Whether you're in the mood for a little antiquing in Cambria, a quick shopping spree in downtown Paso Robles, or a walk along the main road of historic Santa Margarita, make sure you leave a little extra room in your trunk for a trinket, be it a bottle of wine you've never tried or a vintage find for your garden.
One of the best times of the year to enjoy Paso Robles Wine Country is in the spring. Rolling green hills, colorful blooming quince, plum, almond and cherry trees dot the horizon and the wildflowers are in full bloom. Grab a bottle of wine from your latest Paso Robles Wine Club shipment (or one you've been saving for a special day), pack a picnic lunch and hit the road! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,804 |
PhD in "Intelligent image analytics for in-vivo micro camera applications in biophotonics"
Tyndall National Institute
Offerd Salary:€18,500
Contract Type:Fixed Term
PMO- 34 PhD in "Intelligent image analytics for in-vivo micro camera applications in biophotonics"
Contract: Full Time/Fixed Term
PIADS Centre for Doctoral Training PhD Studentships
We have a prestigious PIADS PhD position available in the Biophotonics Team under supervision of Simon Sorensen, Ray Burke and Stefan Andersson Engels. Students will join an exciting and well-established Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) hosted by IPIC (the Irish Photonics Integration Centre) in the Republic of Ireland (ROI), and in partnership with Queens University Belfast and the University of Glasgow. You will be based at Tyndall National Institute, and registered as PhD student at University College Cork. You will have access to an advanced structured training programme, to world class facilities and academic expertise that spans the partners in IPIC as well as the University of Glasgow and Queen's University in Belfast.
Project details: Intelligent image analytics for in-vivo micro camera applications in biophotonics.
Commercial micro camera technology is largely derived from the smartphone market and comes with a limited resolution and sensitivity. To adapt the technology for impactful clinical translation, there is a strong unmet need to enhance the image quality and to develop application-specific tools for tracking and classification. Examples include tracking anatomical features such as vessels in real-time and identification of biomarkers indicative of cancer from multispectral imaging. The primary operational modes can broadly be classified as surgical guidance (navigation) and diagnostics, each with a specific set of requirements. Algorithmic enhancements, in conjunction with multimodal and multispectral sensing schemes, can significantly improve both modes of operation.
This project aims to develop novel and intelligent computer vision algorithms for clinical applications, making emphasis on the use of deep learning, specifically for micro camera applications, which has a unique set of requirements and challenges and where the use of state-of-art approaches can be modelled as a domain adaptation problem. This project will initiate a new and impactful collaboration between BioPhotonics@Tyndall and the Centre for Data Science and Scalable Computing at Queens. This project complement and benefit from the hardware-focused collaboration with Prof. Woods' group in Queens.
First or upper second-class honour's degree (or equivalent international degree) in a relevant field, such as physics, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering or computer science.
Master's degree in a relevant field
Good programming skills and willingness to learn.
Highly self-motivated, be able to demonstrate initiative and have a desire to learn.
The candidate must demonstrate proficiency in English.
Desirable criteria
Experience with image analysis and AI
Experience with programming in Python and/or Matlab
Good mathematical skills and knowledge of mathematical modelling tools
Why Apply
As a student on the programme you will join a vibrant, supportive and engaging cohort of over 40 students and will have the chance to travel and attend a bespoke week long induction programme with students from all three partners, an annual Winter & Summer School and have access to advanced training courses in areas such as semiconductor fabrication, packaging, biophotonics and entrepreneurship. In addition, IPIC and PIADS have many industry partners that will open up many research and career opportunities.
Graduating PIADS doctoral students are equipped with the highest level of scientific and engineering research skills needed to address the challenges of developing new integrated photonic technologies for diverse applications, as well as with the entrepreneurial, leadership and teamwork capabilities needed to lead and operate at the highest levels in industry. The programme is a gateway to a vast array of career paths from data storage, semiconductors, telecommunications, biophotonics, medical technologies and more.
A fully-funded PhD position that includes a stipend of €18,500/year for up to four years and full coverage of academic fees. The successful candidate will be registered as PhD student at University College Cork.
Closing date for application is 28th February 2023.
Successful candidates may start their PhD position latest in September 2023.
For any informal queries, please contact Elisabeth Wintersteller at elisabeth.wintersteller@tyndall.ie
Further details can be found at: https: // www. ipic.ie/piads/
Step 1 - Clickhere to download and complete the Application form and indicate the Job Reference PMO-34
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Please note that Garda vetting and/or an international police clearance check may form part of the selection process.
The University, at its discretion, may undertake to make an additional appointment(s) from this competition following the conclusion of the process.
At this time, Tyndall National Institute does not require the assistance of recruitment agencies.
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Degradead
Style: Melodic Death Metal
Degradead - Information
Split: Active
Label: Metamorphik Records
Origin: Stockholm
Mikael Sehlin (Vocals)
David Szücs (Guitars)
Anders Nyström (Guitars)
Michel Bärzén (Bass)
Amit Mohla (Drums)
Similar Artists: Scar Symmetry Private: Engel In Flames
Artist Links: Homepage Facebook Twitter Youtube Spotify
David Szücs, Kenneth Helgesson and Michel Bärzén started thrashing together in 2000. Mikael Sehlin joined the band in September 2003, and the constellation that is today known as Degradead was completed in October 2004 with the addition of Anders Nyström.
In the beginning of 2005, using the band name "Septima" a demo was recorded, "Rest in Pieces" which included the songs: Day of the Dead, Resemblance of The Past, The Bloodchain, and Burned. In 2006 Septima recorded their second demo "Death Row" with six tracks including: "Relations to the Humanity" and "The Fallen". A selection of songs from both demos were later re-recorded to form the group's debut album "Til Death Do Us Apart".
Til Death Do Us Apart
A strong following in Sweden grew as Degradead consistently amazed their live audience. Jesper Strömblad of In Flames offered to work with the band when he heard the "Death Row" demo.
On Jesper's initiative, Degradead travelled to Gotheburg and recorded "Til Death Do Us Apart" in the IF studios. The album was produced by the H.O.R.D.E team, mixed and engineered by Björn Gelotte and co-engineered by Jesper Strömblad, Peter Iwers, and Daniel Svensson.
The result of the sessions is the finest of Melodic Death Metal records, which manages to achieve a balance between Death Metal, Thrash and catchy melodies and highlight the bands' signature sound. Mikael Sehlin uses his unique style of screaming through the first ten songs, 'Genetic Waste' to 'Reborn'. Finally, with the title track, "'Til Death Do Us Apart", placed at the end of the album, Degradead prove that they can handle the tranquility of an all-acoustic song.
Shortly after the recording, Degradead signed a contract with German label Dockyard1 and the album was released world-wide in the beginning of 2008. "Til Death do us Apart" became the most sold debut album on Dockyard1.
High praise for Degradead's "Til Death Do Us Apart" Jesper Strömblad (In Flames) says: "I had the opportunity to work with the band I would say is the future of metal… If you miss the classic Metallica, if you are tired of the New Wave of American Metal, this is the band for you. Don..t miss out on the most important release of the year… Degradead's debut album."
Germany's Rock Hard Megazine joins into the chant and gives the album "10 x Dynamite": "Finally a group from Stockholm emerges again which stands firm to it's roots and delivers us a fine bastard of old school tunes in the vain of Dimension Zero and modern choruses á la Soilwork."
Out Of Body Experience
In November 2008 Degradead headed north of Stockholm to Ludvika to record their second album "Out Of Body Experience" this time working with producer Jonas Kjellgren (Scar Symmetry & Carnal Forge). The album was mixed, mastered and finalized in December and a few short months later, February 2009, Dockyard1 released the album.
Jonas Kjellgren (SCAR SYMMETRY, CARNAL FORGE) who produced "Out Of Body Experience" at his Black Lounge Studios (now residing at Peter Tägtgren's Abyss Studio), gives his thumbs up for the album: "Out Of Body Experience", the second album of Degradead is action-filled metal with over the top pounding drums and necro-speedlicking guitars dancing on thunderous bass-lines! On top Mikael Sehlin delivers vocals to die for! That's f***ing kickass-metal!"
After a grand release party at Debaser Medis in Stockholm the album hit the official Swedish charts on 48, but also on a couple of genre and regional charts in Sweden: 6 on the Rock/Metal charts (right behind HammerFall, Lamb Of God and H.E.A.T) and 6 on the Gothenburg regional charts!
Next on the agenda was a video shoot for "Wake the Storm". To understand their dedication and insanity, it must be mentioned that they shot the video in 24 hours, leaving Stockholm at 5 am travelling 400 km north of Stockholm to Trollhättan and then returning the following morning at 6 am.
Shortly after the video shoot, Degradead went to Europe on their first European tour in Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium and Netherlands. The response of the tour was tremendous. Before they left the tour bus, another tour with Norwegian black metal band Satyricon had already been confirmed with multiple dates in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
Keep your eyes fixed on Degradead's website and myspace profile to find out the latest news of the band.
A World Destroyer
After A sucsesful year of touring in merch 2010, Degradead entered the studio once again with producer Jonas Kjellgren to record their third studio album "A World Destroyer". The album ended up mastered and completed in May but unfortunatley there where no release in 2010 due to some economc difficulties with the record label Dockyard1 which sadly went out of buisness shortly after.
While wating to release the record in some other way Degradead played at "Getaway Rock Festival" (Megadeath, Motörhead, Deftones) , "Arvikafestivalen" (In Flames, Hypocrisy) and last but not least they performed at Wacken Open Air (Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe)
During fall 2010 Degradead signed a record deal with Metalville Records. They released the single "Human Nature" in November 2010, containing two tracks from the new album. Shortly after signing with Metalville, Degradead played a tour in India, which made them the 21st international metal act to ever visit India. In 201 1 Degradead finally released their third studio album "A World Destroyer" and this was celebrated with a big release party at Debaser Medis in Stockholm once again. The album was a huge success and the top reviews where coming from all over the globe, which made 52 different radio stations play Degradeads music continuously in the United States.
Before releasing the album Degradead traveled to the other side of the globe to be one of the twenty first international metalacts to tour in India. The response was overwhelming!
After the release Degradead went on their first headlining tour in Russia, which gave the band a tremendous response.
Keep your eyes fixed on Degradead's website and myspace profile to find out the latest news of the band!
Degradead released their first DVD "Live at Wacken And Beyond" in January 2012 that gave them a gig at the Close-up boat and a headlining gig at the famous Nalen in Stockholm. Degradead headed out for their second European tour together with the legendary band Sacred Reich.
The End And The Beginning
After returning from the Sacred Reich tour, the drummer Kenneth Helgesson (one of the founding members) decided to quit the band. This brought a great amount of pressure on the others since they were on the verge of heading out on their biggest tour so far.
A massive headhunt was started for a new drummer and after two weeks of auditioning, the band finally found someone who showed no mercy and made a really good impression on them. The drummer was Amit Mohla and this was announced quickly since there was not much time till the European tour.
In October 2012 Degradead headed out as a special guest with the 80's trash metal icons Overkill. They also teamed up with 3 Inches Of Blood and Purified In Blood to play a supporting act tour at the "Killfest Tour 2012" which included 17 concerts in 18 days across eight different countries in Europe. Shortly after coming home Degradead headed out for their second Russian tour which was a yet again a fantastic tour.
The Monster Within
In January 2013 Degradead headed south of Sweden, to Skara, to record their 4th studio album. The band felt that a change was needed and so ended up recording with the famous Thomas "Plec" Johansson at his studio The Panic Room. Also, this was the first album with new drummer Amit Mohla.
Degradead released a video for the single "For Better Or Worse" in late June, recorded by director Owe Lingwall at Dreamday Media. This video became a huge success online!
The album was released on Friday 13th of September 2013. The 10 track listed album, entitled "The Monster Within" entered the official Swedish rock/metal charts at number 7 (followed by Queen, Black Sabbath, & Guns N Roses), which is the highest charts entry in the history of the band. "The Monster Within" also placed at #24 at Japans album import list. The band celebrated the release with a huge releaseparty at Debaser Medis in Stockholm with family, friends, and fans from all over the world.
Albums by Degradead
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Trump weighs action against Saudis as denials about Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance continue
A man passes through metal security barriers as he enters the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on Saturday. The Trump administration is weighing its response following the disappearance of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was also a U.S. resident. | AP
WASHINGTON/DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Saudi Arabia is running out of time to explain to the Trump administration what happened to journalist Jamal Khashoggi within its consulate in Turkey.
The administration increasingly regards Saudi Arabia's denial of any involvement of Khashoggi's disappearance as untenable, and President Donald Trump and his aides are more and more convinced that the Washington Post writer died after entering the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 to pick up a document for his wedding, said three U.S. officials who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Despite increasing pressure from Congress, Trump is reluctant to cancel multimillion-dollar arms sales to Saudi Arabia out of concern the U.S. ally will turn to Russia or China instead. But a range of other punishments are under discussion within the administration, from downgrading diplomatic relations or sanctioning Saudi officials to following major U.S. companies in withdrawing officials from an investment conference in Riyadh later this month.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow warned Sunday of "stern action" by Trump if Saudi Arabia is found responsible for Khashoggi's disappearance. "If the Saudis are involved, if Khashoggi was killed or harmed or whatever bad outcome here, he will take action. That has been his strategy. Believe what he says," Kudlow said on "Fox News Sunday."
The administration is holding off — for now — as the Turks and Saudis jointly investigate what happened to Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen and U.S. resident who wrote critically of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's regime for The Washington Post. Turkish officials have said they believe he was killed and dismembered in the consulate; the Post and New York Times have reported that a team of Saudi agents flew to Istanbul and left the same day of Khashoggi's visit.
Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud spoke on the phone to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and said no-one can undermine the "strong relationship" between the countries, according to a report carried by state-run Saudi Press Agency. Kudlow said on ABC's "This Week" that he expects Trump will get information about Khashoggi's fate and take action within the week.
Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, said Sunday it will retaliate against any punitive measures with even "stronger ones," according to a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. In a subtle reference to the kingdom's oil wealth, the statement noted how the Saudi economy "has an influential and vital role in the global economy."
Turki Al Dakhil, who heads the Saudi state-owned Arabiya news network, wrote in an article that U.S. sanctions against Saudi Arabia could wreak havoc on the global economy by taking oil prices to $200 a barrel and more. Faisal bin Farhan, a senior adviser to the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington, said on Twitter that these comments did not represent the Saudi leadership.
"The most powerful weapon Saudi has is oil and its investments," said Fawaz Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics. "I doubt Saudi will decrease the production of oil to the world economy because it will hurt itself and I doubt that Saudi will withdraw its investments."
Trump has ruled out halting arms sales, telling reporters at the White House on Saturday that the U.S. would be "punishing ourselves" by cutting off billions of dollars of revenue for American military contractors. "There are other things we can do that are very, very powerful, very strong and we'll do them," he said, without elaborating.
One U.S. official said options include sanctions against Saudi officials, ejecting some of the kingdom's diplomats from Washington or otherwise downgrading relations.
Another said Trump's national security advisers believe they can pressure the Saudis without destroying the diplomatic relationship, which is why they're waiting for facts to emerge, including the results of the joint Turkish-Saudi probe, before taking action.
The Saudi ambassador left Washington last week to return to Riyadh, and one of the officials said he was instructed by Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton to return to the U.S. with answers about Khashoggi's disappearance.
Trump has said since Friday that he plans to discuss the Khashoggi matter with Salman, but hasn't shown much urgency to place the call. He's also delegated conversations with Mohammed to aides, including Pompeo, Bolton, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who has developed a personal relationship with the de facto Saudi ruler.
The president's reluctance to hew a tougher public line reflects the close ties his administration has forged with Mohammed. The prince has twice visited the president in the Oval Office, most recently in March to kick off a glitzy investment tour of the U.S. that included stops on Wall Street and Hollywood.
Saudi behavior condemned elsewhere in the world has been ignored or tacitly encouraged by the Trump administration, including its involvement in the Yemeni civil war that has resulted in thousands of civilian deaths, its isolation of Qatar, a diplomatic spat with Canada, and Mohammed's detention of scores of wealthy Saudis in 2017 as part of an alleged crackdown on corruption.
Still, one of the officials said Trump is taking the Khashoggi matter very seriously and is waiting for hard evidence. Trump's close advisers believe that the Saudis were behind Khashoggi's disappearance, the official said.
Trump is under mounting pressure from Congress. Several Republicans have said arms sales should be curtailed, and Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said last week that he warned the Saudis himself that their relationship with the U.S. risks collapsing.
On Sunday, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, another member of the foreign relations panel, said that Trump risks sacrificing the moral high ground with other misbehaving foreign leaders.
"Our moral credibility, our ability to call Putin a murderer because he is, our ability to call Assad a murderer because he is, our ability to confront Maduro in Venezuela or any of these other human rights atrocities like what we see in China, all of that is undermined and compromised if we somehow decide that because an ally who is important did that we're not going to call it out," the Republican said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"If this is proven to be true, there is going to be a response from Congress. It's going to be nearly unanimous. It's going to be swift. And it's going to go pretty far," Rubio added.
Mohammed has already suffered symbolic repercussions.
U.S. corporations and news organizations including Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, have backed out of a high-profile investment conference scheduled for next week in Riyadh that has been styled as "Davos in the Desert."
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., won't attend the conference, according to a spokesman for the biggest U.S. bank. Ford Motor Co. Chairman Bill Ford canceled a multistop trip to the Middle East including a planned appearance at the Future Investment Initiative conference, it was reported, citing the company.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin remains on the agenda for now, drawing concern even from the president's own party. "I don't think he should go," Rubio said on a separate appearance on CNN's "State of the Union."
Kudlow said Sunday that Mnuchin's participation is under evaluation.
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About - Love in the Breath
About Julie Ann Horrox
Personal Transformation has always played a strong roll in my life; I was lucky to grow up in a family who were motivated to do well and were ever focused on making positive life changes. As a family churchgoer's, there was always focus on wanting to be a better person and making the world a better place for everyone. My grandparent's met at The Old Sunday School when they were both Sunday school teachers and I followed suit.
I grew in Macclesfield Cheshire nestled on the edge the Pennines Hills surrounded by the beauty of Nature, most weekends I spent walking over the wild moors, rolling hills and remote valleys with my father Godfrey, he taught me survival skills, deep love and respect of mother earth and for our native wildlife.
My Horrox ancestors can be traced back to the 1750s as cotton weavers in Chetham Hill, Manchester, they moved to Macclesforld in the 1920s because they could earn more money in the local silk mills.
I have a deep memory in my DNA of being removed from the land during the beginning of the industrial revolution, felt a strong connection to The Luddites. I remember a time of living in balance with nature on the land. I have Celtic Pagan blood form comes my redheaded Scottish great-grandfather.
The weaving of the spiritual with a love of nature with the unlimited potential to shift humanity forward is strongly woven through in my ancestry.
In the 8o's I trained in Fashion, as an intern working for Maureen Baker creating bespoke garments for Margaret Thatcher and The Royal family. I attended London fashion week modelling for Nina Bee, where learned to transform fabrics into stunning one-off garments.
My final collection at Fashion Colledge was a range of ladies traditionally hand-tailored coats and suits sponsored by the famous J&J Crombie Ltd, luxury woven woollens one of Britain's oldest brands.
In 1990 I was elected to be on The National Youth Committee of the Girl Guide Association. At one on our meetings, It was me who initiated the first major uniform change when we brought in Geoff Banks from The clothes show. In 1984 I became a Junior Fashion Buyer for Chain NEXT and worked closely with George Davis on a small buying team. After which I worked in the fashion industry for Corah Leicester, for other M&S Suppliers as a Senior Fashion Designer.
Later I transferred my skills in style manufacturing, colour into a successful interior design business. I opened my first shop in Macclesfield 'Julie Ann Porter Interiors' in 1992. I loved my job transforming homes for 'The Cheshire Set'. Outwardly I was achieving, but my inner world was a different story.
By 2000 I had gone through two divorces, I had terrible eczema, which became so unbearable I was on the sick and unable to work and was hiding from the pain of my past with recreational drug use, and had become a body artist in nightclubs, I was now in survival rather than flourishing as my past caught up with me and I was forced to face my inner world neglected by my focus on outer success during the previous decades.
I discovered Rebirthing Breathwork, in the year 2000 via truly a miraculous synchronicity. I was guided to a fantastic Rebirther in Manchester Christine McCallum who quite literally saved my life with her unconditional love and acceptance.
Slowly eczema began to clear up, as I learned how to nurture myself with the gentle power of the breath, I created more supportive and loving relationships. By 2003 I had my third child, qualified as a rebirthing practitioner and gained a distinction in Drama, Dance and Voice Therapy with The Artemis Foundation Bournemouth. Christina Artemis was an amazing teacher and mentor, she taught me so much, about The tarot, The Goddess and Archetypes, about psychotherapeutic principles of therapy work. I finally started to grow up to understand my past and to forgive myself and others.
In 2007 my love of beauty, design and creativity coupled with my passion for Spirituality, Human growth and Transformation lead me to open a shop and healing centre called BARAKA in Boscombe. This very was near to my home with my young children by the seaside in Dorset. It was an uplifting and inspiring place, for me and my customers; I filled it with crystals, handmade jewellery, colourful clothes from Rajasthan in India, Inspirational books, music and CDs.
Soon I was joined by The Moon Tree who took over the Healing Centre and created a beautiful art gallery in the basement.
In 2008 was very excited to attend my very first The Global Inspiration Conference (GIC) in Wales, where I met the founder of Transformational Breath ® Dr Judith Kravitz. She was a keynote speaker at this event and I loved her teachings on Abundance, she said all you have to do is be and breathe in life's natural abundance !!!
By 2010's GIC in Spain, I was offered a free Transformational Breath® session and was totally blown away by how much further you could go with the breath than I had ever experienced in rebirthing. That was it!!! No question as soon as the breath session was over I wanted to do the training. In October 2010 I closed the shop and I Graduated as a fully certified Transformational Breath ® Facilitator in spring 2013.
At my 'loveinthebreath' practice, I will help you to achieve permanent and lasting change. Whether your desire is for your body, your mind, emotions or simply to feel more spiritually connected more loving and accepting of yourself and what life has brought to you. My artist's drive to reimagine the ordinary and turn it into the extraordinary is fueled by a deep desire to change things for the better, for as many people as I can.
Over the last 22 year's I have gained a breadth of knowledge and have personal experience, using the breath and a variety of other tools form my Training with world-renowned Breathwork Teachers like Sondra Ray, Bob Mandel and Leonard Orr. They all have different approaches to help to clear mental and emotional blocks and to feel lighter and freer, I weave all of this experience into my sessions, workshops and pieces of training.
From late 2012 I began to only work with Transformational Breath® because I believe that everything that I have learned from training with Dr Judith Kravitz offers the best tools, techniques and approach for my clients and students.
If you are looking for permanent shifts then Transformational Breath® certainly lives up to its name, it's nurturing, brings peace and harmony, it has great detox effects, enables you to feel more comfortable in your own skin, it can guide you on your life path, enables more energy, vitality and facilitates you to opening up your creativity and to reach your full potential in life.
"I would love to support you to take the next step closer to the love that you already are! You are very welcome to join me for One to One sessions in the heart of Glastonbury."
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The rate of preterm birth has been increasing worldwide, including in Brazil. This constitutes a significant public health challenge because of the higher levels of morbidity and mortality and long-term health effects associated with preterm birth. This study describes and quantifies factors affecting spontaneous and provider-initiated preterm birth in Brazil.
Data are from the 2011–2012 "Birth in Brazil" study, which used a national population-based sample of 23,940 women. We analyzed the variables following a three-level hierarchical methodology. For each level, we performed non-conditional multiple logistic regression for both spontaneous and provider-initiated preterm birth.
The rate of preterm birth was 11.5 %, (95 % confidence 10.3 % to 12.9 %) 60.7 % spontaneous - with spontaneous onset of labor or premature preterm rupture of membranes - and 39.3 % provider-initiated, with more than 90 % of the last group being pre-labor cesarean deliveries. Socio-demographic factors associated with spontaneous preterm birth were adolescent pregnancy, low total years of schooling, and inadequate prenatal care. Other risk factors were previous preterm birth (OR 3.74; 95 % CI 2.92–4.79), multiple pregnancy (OR 16.42; 95 % CI 10.56–25.53), abruptio placentae (OR 2.38; 95 % CI 1.27–4.47) and infections (OR 4.89; 95 % CI 1.72–13.88). In contrast, provider-initiated preterm birth was associated with private childbirth healthcare (OR 1.47; 95 % CI 1.09–1.97), advanced-age pregnancy (OR 1.27; 95 % CI 1.01–1.59), two or more prior cesarean deliveries (OR 1.64; 95 % CI 1.19–2.26), multiple pregnancy (OR 20.29; 95 % CI 12.58–32.72) and any maternal or fetal pathology (OR 6.84; 95 % CI 5.56–8.42).
The high proportion of provider-initiated preterm birth and its association with prior cesarean deliveries and all of the studied maternal/fetal pathologies suggest that a reduction of this type of prematurity may be possible. The association of spontaneous preterm birth with socially-disadvantaged groups reaffirms that the reduction of social and health inequalities should continue to be a national priority.
Preterm birth is the largest risk factor for infant morbidity and mortality, not only in the immediate neonatal period but also in infancy, childhood, and even adulthood . It can affect physical health, cognitive and behavioral dimensions, making it one of the most significant challenges for modern public health .
Preterm birth can be subgrouped as extreme (less than 28 weeks), severe (between 28 and 32 weeks), and moderate or "near-term" (32 to 36 weeks). In 2005, a committee of experts organized by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA suggested the term "late preterm" for newborns with gestational age (GA) between 34 0/7 and 36 6/7 weeks [3, 4]. Concerning its determining factor, preterm birth is classified as either spontaneous, by preterm premature rupture of membranes (pPROM) or provider-initiated, when provoked by medical intervention via induction or pre-labor cesarean section .
Recent decades have seen a great increase in the survival of preterm infants, linked to technological advances in neonatal intensive care. The rate of preterm birth has also increased worldwide, largely driven by increases in late preterm birth, often associated with obstetric interventions designed to reduce maternal and fetal complications [3, 6, 7]. In the USA alone, more than half a million preterm births occur each year, making preterm birth an important national public health problem .
Brazil has a National Information System on Live Births (SINASC) that gather secondary data about GA at birth, therefore allowing the estimation of the prematurity rate for the country. However, this system still fails to provide a reliable GA estimate. Until 2010, GA at birth was collected in broad intervals of gestational weeks, and the prematurity rate was much underestimated (of 7.1 %) with local studies [9, 10] finding much higher values than those reported by SINASC. From 2011, although SINASC started to collect GA as a continuous variable, the method of estimation changed to rely mainly upon the last menstrual period (LMP) - a method that was previously reported as unsuitable within the Brazilian context . Birth in Brazil was the first Nationwide Perinatal Survey in the country, which allowed the analysis on the relationship between preterm births and obstetric interventions, especially the effect of cesarean sections on the rate of preterm births, using primary-data. Brazil has the world's highest rate of cesarean section - 57 % of all live births and nearly 90 % among women receiving private healthcare at childbirth, in 2013 - suggesting that many of them are for non-medical reasons. Leal et al. found that 45 % of low-risk mothers without obstetric complications, who gave birth to healthy infants, had cesarean sections.
This study aimed to describe the rate of preterm birth in Brazil by geographic region, childbirth healthcare provision (public or private), subgroups of gestational age and determining factor and to investigate risk factors for spontaneous/pPROM and provider-initiated preterm birth.
The "Birth in Brazil" study was a national population-based study of postpartum women and their newborns, carried out from February 2011 to October 2012. It recruited a complex sample of 266 hospitals, with 90 women interviewed in each hospital and a total of 23,940 puerperal women and 24,061 live births. Data were weighted by the inverse of the probability of inclusion of each puerperal woman in the sample. A calibration procedure was used to ensure that the distribution of puerperal women sampled was similar to that observed among the population for the year 2011. Further information on the design of the sample is detailed elsewhere . All women who had given birth to a live newborn, regardless of weight or GA, or had a stillbirth (with birth weight ≥ 500 g and/or GA ≥ 22 weeks) in one of the sampled hospitals during the data collection period were invited to participate. Face-to-face interviews were held with the postpartum women during their hospital stay, and data about the women and their newborns were collected from their medical records, and extracted from photographs of prenatal care cards. Women and newborns who remained as inpatients, including those transferred to other hospitals, were tracked by the study for as long as 28 days (for newborns) and 42 days (for women). More details on the data collection have been published elsewhere .
In the current analysis, we included all preterm and term live births from the "Birth in Brazil" study, defined as having a GA at birth of <37 weeks and from 370/7 to 416/7 weeks, respectively. We excluded 19 newborns with undetermined GA, and 595 post-term newborns (GA of 42 weeks or more). Our final sample was 2,771 premature newborns and 20,677 term newborns, as shown in Fig. 1. GA was calculated by an algorithm that primarily relied upon early ultrasound estimates .
The outcome was the incidence of prematurity, which we categorized as spontaneous/pPROM or provider-initiated. Spontaneous/pPROM preterm births were either with spontaneous onset of labour or with preterm premature rupture of membranes. Provider-initiated preterm births were initiated by labor induction or pre-labor cesarean section. Women with pre labor rupture of membranes who gave birth through labor induction or pre labor cesarean were also classified as spontaneous/pPROM births. We classified as induction of labor women with intact membranes who received medical intervention to initiate uterine contraction before a spontaneous onset of labor, irrespective of whether the type of delivery was vaginal or cesarean. Pre-labor cesarean sections were the sections with no spontaneous or induction of labor.
We evaluated the classical risk factors for prematurity including socioeconomic and demographic factors, previous preterm birth, smoking during pregnancy, pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), multiple pregnancy, and maternal/fetal conditions during pregnancy. We also evaluated factors that we suspected may play a role in the Brazilian context, including source of payment for childbirth healthcare, number of previous cesarean sections, and adequacy of prenatal care. We organized the variables using a hierarchical model proposed by Victora (1997) . For the first level, we considered the socioeconomic and demographic variables: "childbirth healthcare provision" (public or private); "age" (12 to 19, 20 to 34, or 35 years and over); "self-reported skin color" (white, black, or brown); "marital status" (living with partner or not); and "years of schooling" (7 or less, 8 to 10, 11 to 14, or 15 or more years). For the second level, we considered obstetric history variables: "parity" (nulliparous, 1–2, ≥3); "previous abortion" (yes, no); "previous stillbirth or neonatal death" (yes, no); "previous preterm birth" (yes, no); and "number of previous cesarean sections (none, one, two or more). For the third level, we considered maternal/fetal care and conditions during pregnancy: "prenatal care" (adequate-plus/adequate or inadequate/partially adequate); "pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI)" (≤18.5, 18.5–24.9, 25.0–29.9, or ≥30); "smoking during the third trimester of pregnancy" (no, <10 cigarettes/day, or ≥10 cigarettes/day); "type of pregnancy" (single, multiple); and the following pathologies: hypertensive disorders (chronic hypertension, pre-eclampsia and HELLP syndrome); eclampsia, pre-existing diabetes, gestational diabetes; severe chronic diseases; infection at hospital admission for birth (including urinary tract infection and other sever infection such as chorioamnionitis and pneumonia); placental abruption; placenta previa; intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and major newborn malformation (including anencephaly, hydrocephaly, spina bifida, gastrosquisis and other abdominal wall defects, cardiac malformations and multiple malformations). Women with the presence of any of these conditions were considered "high obstetric risk" and others were "low obstetric risk". Age, pre-pregnancy BMI, skin color, marital status, years of schooling, and smoking status were reported by the women at the time of interview. All other variables were collected from the patient's medical records. For approximately 20 % of puerperal women (4,763), pre-pregnancy BMI data were imputed via Sequential Regression Trees using the MICE (Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations) package from R Project software.
Women who gave birth in public or mixed-funding hospitals (but who were not covered by private health insurance plans) were considered to have received "public childbirth healthcare". Women whose birth was covered by a private health insurance plan, and those who gave birth in private facilities regardless of coverage by a health insurance plan, were considered to have received "private childbirth healthcare".
Adequacy of prenatal care was assessed using an adapted version of the Kotelchuck Index . This measures adequacy of prenatal care by two independent and distinct dimensions: initiation, and once service provision has begun. The expected number of visits was based on the Brazilian Ministry of Health's recommendations (of a minimum of six visits: one in the first trimester, two in the second and three in the third) and adjusted for the GA at initiation of care and at delivery. The measure for adequacy of received services is the ratio between the actual and expected number of visits. The dimensions were combined into a single summary prenatal care utilization index, with four categories. Inadequate care was defined as either prenatal care initiated after the 12th week of gestation or fewer than 50 % of the recommended visits being completed. All other categories required initiation of care between the beginning of pregnancy and before the 12th week of gestation: intermediate (50–79 % of recommended visits), adequate (80–109 %), and adequate-plus (more than 110 %) [18, 19]. We grouped "adequate-plus" with "adequate," and "intermediate" with "inadequate," to create a dichotomous variable.
The rate of preterm birth was calculated by dividing the number of live births before 37 weeks of gestation by the total number of live births. Differences in this rate were assessed by 95 % confidence intervals (CI), taking into account the sample weights and the clustering design. Differences in proportions of maternal characteristics for spontaneous/pPROM and provider-initiated preterm births, compared with those for term births, were analyzed by chi-square statistical tests with a significance level of <0.05.
We performed non-conditional multiple logistic regressions separately for spontaneous/pPROM and provider-initiated preterm birth. In the first multivariable model (Model A), all first-level variables were included. Those with estimated significance <0.10 were included in the second model, along with all second-level variables (Model B). In the third model, first-level and second-level variables with estimated significance <0.10 were analyzed with the third-level variables. All variables with a significance level <0.05 were retained in the final multivariable model (Model C). The results from all models were expressed as adjusted odds ratios (OR) with their corresponding 95 % CI. In all statistical analyses, the complex sampling design was taken into consideration. The statistical program used for analysis was SPSS, version 20.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, USA).
The overall rate of preterm birth in Brazil for the period 2011–2012 was estimated as 11.5 % (95 % CI 10.3–12.9), without significant differences by broad geographic region or type of childbirth healthcare (public or private), but was slightly higher in state capitals. Late preterm was the largest category, at 74 % of preterms, or 8.5 % of all births. Spontaneous/pPROM preterm births made up 60.7 % of all preterm births, and were because of pPROM in about one-third of cases. There was a higher portion of extremely premature births (5 %) in this group than among provider-initiated preterm births (2 %). Provider-initiated preterm births were 39.3 % of the total, due almost entirely (90 %) to pre-labor cesarean section (Table 1, Fig. 2).
Compared with term deliveries, spontaneous/pPROM preterm births occurred more frequently in adolescent women, women with lower levels of schooling, nulliparous women, and those with histories of fetal/neonatal demise, a prior premature infant, or no prior cesarean section. Provider-initiated preterm births were associated with private childbirth healthcare, maternal age of 35 or greater, higher levels of schooling, living with a partner, and prior history of abortion, fetal/neonatal demise, a premature infant, and prior cesarean section (Table 2).
Spontaneous/pPROM preterm birth was associated with inadequate prenatal care, multiple pregnancy, infection at hospital admission for birth, abruptio placentae, IUGR, and major newborn malformation. Provider-initiated preterm birth was more frequent in mothers with adequate prenatal care, elevated pre-gestational BMI, and in pregnancies with gestational or fetal pathology (Table 2).
In the adjusted analysis, only maternal age less than 20 and low levels of schooling were associated with spontaneous/pPROM preterm birth and remained in the model into the final analysis (Table 3). Of the intermediate variables, nulliparity, history of prior preterm birth, and lack of prior cesarean section were associated. Finally, of the proximal variables, inadequate prenatal care, multiple pregnancy, infection at hospital admission for birth, and abruptio placentae were associated (Table 3).
Maternal age of 35 or more and private childbirth healthcare were significantly associated with provider-initiated preterm birth. Of the intermediate variables, nulliparity, history of prior preterm birth, and two or more prior cesarean sections were associated. Of the proximal variables, multiple pregnancy, and maternal or fetal pathology were significant risk factors (Table 4).
The rate of preterm birth in Brazil in 2011–2012 was high, occurred predominantly as late preterm birth, and was most often spontaneous/pPROM in etiology. It did, however, have a high frequency of initiation by medical intervention, mostly by pre-labor cesarean section, with less than 10 % by induction of labor. Factors that accompany social vulnerability (adolescent pregnancy, low levels of schooling, and inadequate prenatal care) were associated with spontaneous/pPROM preterm birth. Provider-initiated preterm birth was associated with private childbirth healthcare provision and advanced maternal age, which are characteristics commonly related to greater levels of formal employment and higher levels of schooling and income. Pregnancies where the mother had an infection at admission for birth, which are usually subject to identification and early treatment during prenatal care, were at greatest risk of spontaneous/pPROM preterm birth. All of the investigated maternal and fetal pathologies—especially eclampsia and abruptio placentae—were risk factors for provider-initiated preterm birth.
This study has several strengths. First, it is the first to describe preterm birth in Brazil using primary data constituting a representative sample of the entire country. Second, GA was calculated with an algorithm based primarily on early obstetric ultrasound, which confers certain advantages over using date of last menstrual period, as the latter tends to overestimate the rate of preterm birth in the Brazilian population . Third, the classification of the initiation of labor and, consequently, of the type of preterm birth, was carried out by a careful cross-referencing of diverse data in the prenatal and obstetric medical records, increasing internal validity. Nevertheless, it is not without limitations. This study was conducted in institutions where more than 500 deliveries take place each year. It is likely that pregnant women who have a planned or unplanned out of hospital delivery or who deliver in a smaller hospital would have different risks for prematurity. However, given that more than 99 % of deliveries in Brazil take place in hospitals, and approximately 80 % are in larger hospitals, significant changes to the results presented would not be expected. For a small number of women, the GA was estimated by the birth weight (2 %) or by date of last menstrual period (1 %), which may have slightly overestimated the prematurity rate, but is unlikely to have introduced a significant bias to our estimates.
Our results differ slightly from those of a study of 20 public hospitals that are centers of excellence for high-risk obstetrics in Brazil . That found a rate of preterm birth of 12.3 %, with 35 % being provider-initiated. These discrepancies can be attributed to the characteristics of the hospitals, which are public and care for a disproportionately high level of women of lower socioeconomic status. Risk factors for spontaneous preterm birth were found to be comparable to those in our study.
The magnitude of the preterm birth rate in Brazil and the frequency of its determinant factors, both for spontaneous/pPROM and provider-initiated preterm birth, were quite similar to those found in US data, despite large differences in socioeconomic conditions and healthcare systems [1, 21]. The Brazilian rate of preterm birth was nearly twice that found in European countries [22, 23]. Furthermore, among premature, the provider-initiated component corresponded to approximately 40 %; 35 % among women receiving public healthcare at childbirth and 58 % among women receiving private healthcare at childbirth, denoting different models of obstetric care in the country.
Morisaki et al. , analyzing risk factors for preterm birth in countries with varying human development indices (HDIs), found an association at the individual level between spontaneous/pPROM preterm birth and lower social conditions for women. The authors were also able to show that the overall preterm birth rates were not related to the HDIs of given nations, but that provider-initiated preterm birth was more frequent in countries with higher indices. Within Brazil, provider-initiated preterm birth was more common in the south east, the region with the greatest HDI in the country (data not shown), and also in state capitals, which have more hospitals that are centers of excellence for the care of high-risk pregnancies and neonates .
The excessive medicalization of the management of labor and delivery is regarded as one of the characteristics of the current obstetric care transition in Brazil . With a low fertility rate, a predominance of non-communicable disease, an increase in maternal age, and a moderate burden of maternal mortality, Brazil as an emerging economy has also shown a large and continually rising rate of cesarean sections .
The contradiction between higher socioeconomic status and a greater frequency of maternal and fetal pathologies among provider-initiated preterm births can be explained by the more advanced age of these women, and a greater history of prior preterm births and cesarean sections, which probably leads practitioners to opt for expedited birth through an earlier intervention. For those women, who receive mainly private healthcare at childbirth, it appear that any potential risk condition become the motive to perform caesarean sections, despite some recent government effort to avoid it. The association of provider-initiated preterm birth with all of the investigated maternal pathologies may argue that there is a need for better national implementation of clinical protocols for appropriate indication of provider-initiated birth, with possible considerations such as waiting until term or after 39 weeks . The association of provider-initiated preterm birth with prior cesarean section is also important, given the high frequency of prior cesarean section in women with more than one child (55 %) and the high rate of repeat cesarean delivery, at 80 and 98 % among women receiving public and private healthcare at childbirth, respectively . Holland et al. . examined provider-initiated preterm birth in a cohort of late preterm infants in the US and concluded that 80 % of this burden of prematurity could have been avoided. The preventable cases were more likely to be insured and cared for by practitioners without academic ties who scheduled the cesarean section. Other US authors have estimated the rate of unnecessary provider-initiated prematurity at 50 % . In our study, it was not possible to evaluate the appropriateness of these planned interruptions in gestation. If we take as a basis studies by Bannerman et al. and Holland et al. , however, we estimate that a reduction of between 50,000 and 80,000 late preterm births might be achieved in Brazil.
Another important fact to highlight was the lack of induction of labor in provider-initiated preterm deliveries, despite the evidence of the benefits of labor for neonatal extrauterine life and colonization with maternal microbiota, which could attenuate the disadvantages facing preterm neonates .
The role of infection in spontaneous/pPROM preterm birth underscores the importance of quality prenatal care. Many authors point to the importance of preventive measures during gestation to minimize premature birth. We recommend the early initiation of prenatal care, especially among adolescents, the most vulnerable group. Domingues et al. found that late entry into prenatal care often makes adequate clinical care impossible because healthcare systems tend to follow the same established routine in these cases as for women who began prenatal care early, without a strategy that would counteract the delay and guarantee access to all effective interventions with the minimum of follow-up time.
Late prematurity was found at high levels in our study and represents three-quarters of all preterm births in Brazil. Given current knowledge about the crucial importance of gestational weeks 34 through 36 to the development of the neonate and the risks arising from late preterm birth [5, 31, 32] this should be a focus of public health policy. Immunological and pulmonary maturation occur during that period, and late prematurity therefore increases the risk of respiratory morbidity, longer hospital stays, neonatal ICU admission and death, as well as re-hospitalization, largely because of difficulties with breastfeeding and higher rates of neonatal jaundice and infections . Adverse effects on cerebral development may underlie the neurological complications described in the short term, such as inability to effectively coordinate the movements necessary for suckling, swallowing, and breathing, and, in the longer term, delayed psychomotor development and lower school performance [2, 20, 33].
Khan et al. analyzed the annual costs to society of late premature infants in the first 2 years of life, compared with term infants in the UK. They estimated that the financial burden per child was nearly 2,000 GBP over this period and argued for efforts to diminish this strain on the health system. In the USA, discussions about the projected fiscal toll of prematurity have identified the need for mitigation measures [4, 23]. Unfortunately, we are not aware of any studies that estimate the cost of prematurity in Brazil.
The high rate of prematurity in Brazil may be attributed to a high proportion of provider- initiated births, especially among women receiving private healthcare at childbirth. Its association with prior cesarean deliveries and all of the studied maternal/fetal pathologies suggest that the reduction of prematurity may be possible by supporting the postponement of intervention in cases without clear evidence of maternal-fetal benefit. The association of spontaneous/pPROM prematurity with socially-disadvantaged groups confirms that the reduction of social and health inequality should continue to be a national priority.
MCL made substantial contributions towards the conception, design, data acquisition, data analysis and drafted and critically revised the manuscript; APEP performed all data analysis, drafted and critically revised the manuscript; MNP, JAT, MTF, RMSMD, MABD, MEM and SGNG were involved in data analysis and in critically revising the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This research was guided by Resolution 196/96 of the Brazilian National Health Council, which provides guidelines and standards for human research under the research protocol CEP/ENSP - no. 92/10. Every care was taken to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of study data. All hospital directors and postnatal women went through an informed consent consultation and then signed the informed consent form.
Khan KA, Petrou S, Dritsaki M, Johnson SJ, Manktelow B, Draper ES et al. Economic costs associated with moderate and late preterm birth: a prospective population-based study. BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology. 2015. doi:10.1111/1471-0528.13515. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,812 |
…And that's exactly what's missing with most marketing folks who want to join a startup. You have to know (nearly) it all. You don't have to be good at everything, but you have to have enough exposure and experience at all levels of the marketing "stack" to be able to make good calls on how to spend your time, money and other startups resources in order to maximize the value you bring to the table.
I think there are some interesting parallels between the kind of well-rounded Marketer an early stage startup needs and the skillset an SEO professional needs to make them most likely to succeed. Arguably, this is true to an even larger degree in the SEO industry than in the startup world.
[…] there are some interesting parallels between the kind of well-rounded marketer an early stage startup needs and the skillset an SEO professional needs to make them most likely to succeed.
An SEO professional's skillset, however, must span across both the specialty (e.g. Marketing) and across disciplines (e.g. Marketing + Tech). Brian McDowell, Director of Search Intelligence and resident SEO guru at Conductor, talks about the unique nature of the SEO role and describes him or her as living at the intersection of Technology, Marketing, and Sales. By that he means that the most successful SEOs operate with one foot in Technology – working with XML sitemaps, sourcing technology solutions, etc. -, another in Marketing – promoting content, researching keyword terms, etc. – and a third in Sales–evangelizing SEO in the organization, recruiting guest posters, etc.
Looking at this in a slightly different way, by comparing SEO to other online Marketing disciplines, SEO spans across departments in the organization involving Tech, Product Management, Communications etc. while other disciplines such as Paid, Email Marketing, etc. do not, or at least not to the same degree.
A close look at responses from Conductor's recent joint survey with Search Engine Watch of 616 search marketers suggests that SEO professionals themselves are very much aware of the unique cross-functional intersection they occupy. When asked about their top natural search goals for the coming year, responses were spread widely across the spectrum with a broad representation of goal types across Marketing, Technology, and Sales, and little separation between the top responses.
There are definite benefits to developing yourself into a 'full-stack SEO'. If you are a small operation, you will be able to easily pivot from one element of SEO to another. If you are in the Enterprise and have specialized SEO professionals working for you, you will be better able to prioritize their efforts, giving you the maximum value from what they do. And a broader skillset and more intelligent resource allocation will equip you to better respond to algorithm changes.
If your mindset is not already geared toward developing yourself as a 'full-stack SEO,' consider making the adjustment to do so. Start by shifting your thinking and then focus on the vast educational resources the web has to offer, from understanding the business of SEO itself to learning what other goals and challenges other SEO professionals face. And, don't be afraid to tinker with new techniques and tactics that you pick up—the best way to learn is by trying. The benefits of being a well-rounded SEO professional will surely bear fruit in the long run, both in your strategic and tactical practice.
A version of this article appeared in Search Engine Watch on February 26th, 2013. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,813 |
Sea Rocket
Vision of the Future
UL Innovative Education Award program brings students together to build a "Sea Rocket." Despite being separated by more than 1,000 miles, students from Islesboro Community School working with the Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership partnered with the Chicago Eco House last month to kick off a year-long sustainability project. The partnership was forged after both organizations won our 2017 UL Innovative Education Award and attended a summit to collaborate on special projects that further their missions.
Both organizations refer to this collaboration as the "island students project" due to the similar challenges their students face in isolating neighborhoods: coastal Maine and inner-city Chicago.
The project will allow youth from both organizations to come together to use their skills to modify the "Sea Rocket", a low-cost submersible designed by HAWX Open Ocean to take vertical data samplings underwater. Currently, the Sea Rocket is dropped off a boat into the ocean, collects data on the way down, hits the sea floor, releases a weight and rises back up to the surface for data recovery... read more
Credit: Balint Porneczi / Bloomberg / Getty Images
In a neon-lit garage overlooking the marina in Point Richmond, California, the stubby white form of an experimental submarine with wings and a tail – a child's idea of a spacecraft – rests on a galvanized trailer. The blunt-nosed hull is 17 feet long and just large enough to accommodate a single man. It encloses a glossy black cylinder of wound carbon fiber that ends in a thick glass dome engineered to withstand the eight tons per square inch of pressure it will face sometime this year on its journey to Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the world's oceans – a place not visited by man for more than half a century. Beneath the cockpit, bright-red decals spell out the names of the men who plan to pilot the submarine and under their names in slightly smaller letters, a third credit. Designer: Graham Hawkes.
"This," Hawkes announces, "is Challenger." A sharp-featured Englishman in his early sixties, Hawkes may have designed more submersibles than anyone else alive – everything from torpedoes to revolutionary diving suits for oil exploration to an underwater "swimmer delivery vehicle" he's currently working on for U.S. special forces – but the vessel in front of him, known as DeepFlight Challenger, is unlike any of the other submarines he's worked on. "You're looking at a craft that is twice as deep as anything else," he says.
Hawkes had originally designed the submarine for Steve Fossett – commodities trader and professional adventurer – who intended to add a visit to Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, to his collection of firsts and world records. Hawkes was weeks away from completing the vessel when, in 2007, Fossett disappeared in a single-engine plane over the Sierra Nevada. Afterward, the submarine languished in Hawkes' workshop, awaiting the unlikely possibility that someone else with the money and nerve to use it would be found. Then, last year, Sir Richard Branson committed to funding the completion of the submarine – under the brand Virgin Oceanic – with Chris Welsh, a California real-estate entrepreneur and trans-Pacific yachtsman, as his co-investor and chief pilot. Read Full Article
Graham Hawkes, Former Bond Villain, Builds Personal Submarines for International Billionaires Like Sir Richard Branson
This is the DeepFlight Super Falcon, the submarine that men build whole docking yachts for. (Image via DeepFlight)
by Jack Smith IV
As Graham Hawkes describes it, he was sitting in the front seat of what is basically an underwater sports car when he was ambushed by a great white shark. He'd recognized the shark's behavior as a territorial challenge, and wanted to pull away, but unfortunately he had business magnate and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson riding shotgun.
"I remember Richard saying 'Get closer, get closer!' and I thinking 'I'm not going to face down a great white shark,'" Mr. Hawkes told Betabeat.
But when you're training your latest client on how to use their new personal submarine, the customer is always right, and there are some people you just don't say no to.
Mr. Hawkes is the founder of DeepFlight, a young company that makes recreational submarines for the kind of men who would want a $1.7 million underwater Ferrari.
"They want something unique, better than anything that exists," Mr. Hawkes said, "and if you want something exotic that no one else can do, you come to us."
Mr. Hawkes has a unique understanding of how to cater to men who resemble real-life Bond villains. After all, once upon a time, he was a Bond villain himself.
For the filming of the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only back in 1980, Mr. Hawkes was hired as a mechanical engineer to help with a scene in which Bond is attacked underwater by a small submersible. Considering Mr. Hawkes' expertise, they had him pilot the vehicle himself, resulting in his singular feature film debut.
Where does James Bond submarine designer Graham Hawkes get his ideas?
Graham Hawkes, British marine engineer and founder of DeepFlight, made the submarine that appeared in For Your Eyes Only. Here he talks about designing underwater craft, selling subs to Richard Branson, and nearly killing Roger Moore's stunt double.
Nothing's more relaxing than subaquatic life. I've taken probably 100 people underwater, from kids to kings, even my mother-in-law. What's surprising is everybody, without exception, goes into a quiet, relaxed state.
Function wins over design. Things need to look beautiful but also need to function. My recent DeepFlight Dragon submersible is supposed to look like an F1 car. But I didn't have that in mind until the very final touches.
The $1.5 million submarine that's modeled after a drone
Personal submarine modeled after a drone Thursday, 28 Apr 2016 | 7:55 AM ET|00:32
When submarine maker Graham Hawkes started designing his next generation of underwater cruisers, he decided to look to the skies instead of the sea. Hawkes, who built the "Mantis" sub for the James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only," was attending a drone conference a couple years ago and attendees were discussing the goal of one day constructing a manned drone. Read article and watch video.
Bling below the waves: 'A submarine of my own'
By Neil KoenigSeries producer, Life of Luxury
If you want to see how the truly rich spend their wealth, there are few better places to visit than the Monaco Yacht Show, held each year in late September. The principality's vast harbour is littered with huge yachts belonging to those rich people who are not only proud of the trappings of their station in life, but are always looking for different ways to display it. One story I heard was of a super yacht owner who had just found a new use for his vessel - the school run. But for some, a mega yacht on its own is no longer enough - you need the latest accessories too. Amongst the newest of these is a machine whose time, advocates say, has come - the "personal" submarine. Several of the latest models were on display in Monaco, including some from a small US company - DeepFlight. It was founded by the British engineer, inventor and entrepreneur Graham Hawkes, who has had an extraordinary career. Read article and watch video
Graham Hawkes on his Latest Underwater Flying Machine
Created by world renowned marina engineer Graham Hawkes, the all-electric powered DeepFlight Dragon offers a unique and exhilarating way to explore the underwater world.
The latest submersible to be launched by California-based company DeepFlight, the Dragon follows the resounding success of its predecessor the Super Falcon, which is owned by such distinguished figures as Richard Branson, as well as co-founder of Red Bull Dietrich Mateschitz and venture capitalist Tom Perkins.
Read article and watch Video
Personal submarine brings ocean exploration to all
CNN, December 21, 2015
The latest in personal submarines from DeepFlight makes ocean exploration as easy as playing a video game.
Underwater Flight, With Maverick Engineer Graham Hawkes
HOMEWOOD, CALIFORNIA IS a sleepy town, a bundle of homes surrounding a small ski area on the western shore of Lake Tahoe. In the summer, it's even sleepier, occupied primarily by vacationers seeking a respite from urban life in the quiet forests of the Sierra Nevada. In other words, Homewood is not where you'd expect to see one of the world's most technologically advanced recreational submersibles, yet there it is, the DeepFlight Super Falcon, basking on the dock, attracting open-mouthed stares from passers-by.
But then again, Graham Hawkes has never really been one for convention. As the designer of the Super Falcon, Hawkes sought a craft unlike any other, an underwater airplane rather than a sinking sphere.
Hawkes is a self-styled renegade, a complicated character who's led an unequivocally fascinating life. Read article
WIRED MAGAZINE: The Super Falcon, ready for underwater flight. Photo: Jeffrey Marlow
SCIENTIST AT WORK: Graham Hawkes; Racing to the Bottom Of the Deep, Black Sea
POINT RICHMOND, Calif.— AS a boy growing up in London in the early 1950's, then as a young engineer, Graham Hawkes often regretted having been born too late to join the machine-shop daredevils who flew into the sky on a shoestring and, almost as an afterthought, founded the aviation industry.
That melancholy gave way as Mr. Hawkes discovered the challenge of the emerging field of undersea engineering. His pioneering ideas soon made him one of the world's top designers of diving suits, submarines and undersea robots and helped him start a number of successful companies.
Here at a marina on San Francisco Bay, his 40-foot sailboat and black Corvette nearby, he is now embarked on a venture that for the first time joins his love of flight with his vision of the deep. If he is successful, his new vehicle will take him into the inky blackness of the ocean's deepest canyon, nearly seven miles down, his latest foray in a long effort to fathom the planet's last frontier.
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OPENING EYES TO THE DEEP SEA
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On the first day of class the lecture hall for Biology 1B was teeming with students. The unlucky ones shuffled into the course's several overflow rooms, containing video projections of the live lecture taking place just next door.
Ava Rezvani, a sophomore and intended integrative biology major currently enrolled in Biology 1B, was fortunate enough to secure her seat by arriving well before the class began.
By the end of the semester, that same oversaturated hall may attract very few. The rest may rely on webcast, which allows them to watch the lecture whenever — or wherever — they want.
In fact, Rezvani has seen it firsthand in previous semesters. Though she personally aims to attend all of her lectures, webcasted or not, she understands why many would not want to attend the 8am Biology 1B class.
In the past, students have enjoyed the convenience of webcast, as is evidenced by the notoriously empty lecture halls at the end of the semester.
With this increasing trend towards bringing technology into the classroom, one must ask: does it really belong there?
UC Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education is attempting to determine the value of emerging technologies — such as webcasting — for higher education.
The center conducted a study looking at the use of technology aids in Chemistry 1A, a large lecture course. The course, which has more than 1,000 students enrolled each semester, uses webcast, PowerPoint lecture slides, online homework and quizzing, and iClickers.
The study, headed by senior researcher Diane Harley, concluded that while students found the technologies to be a positive component of the course, student performance was not significantly affected.
In fall 2006, UC Berkeley embarked on a five-year technological advancement initiative to increase the percentage of classrooms with integrated technology on campus from around 25 percent to 90 percent, according to Benjamin Hubbard, the interim director of the university's Education Technology Services.
He said classrooms on campus range from the simplest, with baseline technologies like video playback and computer projection, to the most advanced, with customized technology like cameras for video capture.
Hubbard added that technology's usefulness as a teaching tool varies across disciplines.
For example, Ananya Roy, chair of the global poverty and practice minor, is progressive in her use of technology in class and encourages students to use Twitter in her GPP 115 class to tweet comments and questions she projects live during lectures.
Many science courses are also "tech-friendly" but in a very different way from Roy's class.
Biology 1A and Biology 1B are two large courses that employ technological tools such as webcast.
Mike Moser, the academic coordinator of Biology 1B, said that despite the positive aspects of webcasted lectures, students have been known to take advantage of the webcast and stop coming to lecture altogether.
Biology 1A faced similar problems since lectures became webcasted in 2008. To incentivize attendance, Michael Meighan, the academic coordinator for Biology 1A, said that the course implemented the use of iClickers in fall 2012.
Since then, Meighan said, student attendance increased from between 40 and 50 percent to 95 percent.
Although both Moser and Meighan agree that technological tools have improved student learning in their courses, not all lecturers feel that technology has a place in their classrooms.
Ethnic studies professor Enrique Lima said he believes that technology serves as a distraction in his classroom and obstructs teacher-student interaction.
"I know this generation is all about multitasking, but I honestly feel that students are unable to comprehend lecture material while also shopping online or surfing Facebook," Lima said.
In his Ethnic Studies 11AC course, Lima asks graduate student instructors to sit in the back of the classroom and monitor students who use laptops. If a student is off track, Lima tells his GSIs to call them out in the middle of lecture.
Ultimately, though, it is more than the iClicker-point incentive that draws many students to webcasted classes.
According to Rezvani, now four weeks into Biology 1B, students still crowd the lecture hall.
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Q: Adding three dots at the bottom of tag when text overflows This is my HTML code
<section class="mammaliaSection">
<p>ANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXT</p>
</section>
and this is my CSS code
#main section{
height:610px;
width:100%;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-size:cover;
position:relative;
}
section p{
position:absolute;
display:block;
width:325px;
height:150px;
font-size:36px;
display:block;
color:white;
margin-left:15px;
white-space:nowrap;
overflow:hidden;
text-overflow:ellipsis;
}
I want to add "..." at the bottom of p tag
Like so
My code shows three dots at the first line because of white-space:nowrap. Tried white-space:pre-line, but did not work.
A: You can't do that with only CSS. You must use some JS for that. Please take a look at a simple JQuery code for adding three dots at end of an paragraph.
while ($('p').outerHeight() > $('.text-box').height()) {
$('p').text(function (index, text) {
return text.replace(/\W*\s(\S)*$/, '...');
});
}
.text-box{
height: 100px;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="text-box">
<p>ANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL ANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL ANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL ANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL ANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL TEXTANIMAL </p>
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Hope this helps
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Timothy Zahn's Star Wars saga "Thraw: Alliances" makes its first appearance on our hardcover fiction best-seller list at No. 1. In it, Darth Vader makes an unlikely alliance with Grand Admiral Thrawn to serve Emperor Palpatine.
WOW! That makes SIX weeks at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. I'm told that's the longest run at number one by any title in five years!
Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility" makes its first appearance on our paperback nonfiction best-seller list this week. It looks at what causes white people to shut down and not have cross-racial dialogue.
@bheater Spent about a year on the best-seller list in Norway.
Which makes me want to move to Norway. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,817 |
Call recorder is a free Android app that enables the users to record incoming and outgoing calls easily. Today this amazing app is used by millions of people all around the world as it allows you to record your phone calls and unlike other ordinary call recording apps your recordings are kept private and never saved or shared with anyone else. The calls you recorded, will be saved on your phone and you can listen to it later on.
It records your calls automatically and save it in your device.
Users can search any call by name or phone number.
Anytime you can organise your call records and can view call records, along with date and time.
You can record your calls in any of your preferred format such as MP3, WAV, MP4, AMR etc.
You can share the recordings of any specific contact to Bluetooth, message, WhatsApp etc.
Different audio quality options are available so that you can choose for high quality or lower sample rate.
Uses get proper notification along with caller image.
In order to record better quality voice you can put your device on speaker.
This is very simple to use and helpful application offered to you for free. If you wants to install this app then click on the header or footer options and download it directly from 9Apps through APK.
After that download 3.2MB APK. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,818 |
Ed Hooks' theatre classes for stage and film actors are on hiatus. The Acting for Animators workshops, which require considerable international travel, make it impractical to teach regular, on-going acting classes at the same time.
However, as one of the entertainment industry's most highly regarded acting teachers, he will definitely resume regular classes in future. Until then you can stay abreast of his activities and class schedules via a subscription to one of his (free!) monthly newsletters. Each month he writes fresh craft notes, comments on important industry developments and announces his upcoming teaching schedule.
While regular acting classes are suspended, Ed remains available for private coaching via Skype. His rate is US$125 per hour, or US$525 for a 5-hour package. To schedule one-to-one coaching, contact him via the Contact page or by email him at edhooks(at)edhooks(dot)com. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,819 |
Where is the money for healthcare for all? Insurance companies, legal fees, and outrageous profits. Remove health insurance plans from insurance companies. Enormous pool of money there. Then proceed to the legal system. No need for expensive healthcare lawsuits if everyone is covered. No need to sue. Then regulate pharmaceutical and durable medical equipment profits, et voila. Enough money for universal healthcare.
Probably enough for universal basic income too. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,820 |
"Fried cauliflower tossed with tahini dressing gives this salad the unique taste of the Middle East."
Deep fry the potato sticks until crispy and golden brown, about 4 minutes. Remove, and drain on a paper towel-lined plate. Deep fry the florets in two batches until golden brown; drain on paper towels. Allow the cauliflower to cool until it's just warm.
Stir together tahini and olive oil in a large bowl until smooth. Mix in yogurt, lemon juice, vinegar, cumin, salt, and pepper. Add cauliflower, arugula, and lettuce; toss to coat with the dressing. Place salad onto serving plates, and sprinkle with the potato sticks.
Try this quick cooking fried 'rice' that actually has no rice at all!
I roasted the cauliflower and potato in the broiler rather than frying it. Garnished with black sesame seeds. Good, but probably not something I'd make again. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,821 |
Game Thread: New York Knicks vs Detroit Pistons 7:30 pm 11/16/2016 [Game#11]
detroit pistons game thread
(6-5) -- (4-6)
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Madison Square Garden, New York, NY MSG 7:30 PM EST
Possible starters:
Detroit Pistons New York Knicks
Andre Drummond - Right ankle sprain (QUEST) Lance Thomas - Sore left ankle (OUT)
Reggie Jackson - Left knee rehab (OUT) -
Deron Williams - Left calf strain (OUT) -
Game Preview
NEW YORK -- The Detroit Pistons answered questions about whether they could find a capable replacement for Andre Drummond in their frontcourt.
The New York Knicks answered inquiries about whether they can defend.
Now comes the follow-up for both teams.
Drummond may be out with a sprained right ankle Wednesday when the Pistons visit the Knicks, who are coming off their best defensive showing of the young season.
Drummond missed his first game due to injury since March 19, 2014. He had an MRI, which revealed no structural damage, and did not practice Tuesday. The injury is not serious and if he does not play in New York, Drummond will likely return Friday against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Without the league's leading rebounder, the Pistons recorded a 104-88 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder Monday night. Drummond's absence was compensated for by Aron Baynes finishing with 20 points (one shy of his career high) and eight rebounds.
"I put it back on everyone else. Everything they got me, I was in great position," Baynes said. "All the way through the team, they got me great looks and I just had to finish. On a couple of them, I didn't, so I still have some work to do."
Technically Baynes' comments are accurate since seven of his eight baskets were within 6 feet of the rim.
"He's a starting center in the NBA. He's just playing behind an All-Star," Detroit coach Stan Van Gundy said. "You look around at all the starting centers and Aron's a starting-caliber center in the league, so it's not surprising he played as well as he did."
Now comes a chance for Detroit to play well on the road. While the Pistons are 5-0 at home and each win has been by double-digits, the road has been a significant different story.
"Our defense at home has been great," Van Gundy said. "I'm not quite sure why we haven't been able to duplicate that on the road yet, but we're locked in at home."
Detroit was 0-5 on the road before taking a 15-point lead through the first quarter of Saturday's 106-95 road win against the Denver Nuggets. During their first six road games, the Pistons have allowed 105 points per game while averaging 94.3 points.
In their seventh road game, Detroit will encounter a team that gave up less than 100 points for the second time this season. The Knicks are 4-6 after getting a 93-77 victory over the Dallas Mavericks Monday night.
A week after naming former interim head coach and current assistant Kurt Rambis as "defensive coordinator," the Knicks held a team under 80 points for the first time since April 11, 2015, at Orlando and the first time at home since Dec 11, 2013, against the Chicago Bulls.
Kristaps Porzingis and Carmelo Anthony had 24 points apiece and the Knicks took control over the final eight-plus minutes of the third quarter. During the second half Joakim Noah watched from the bench as coach Jeff Hornacek moved Porzingis to center while using Justin Holiday extensively at small forward.
"I got to figure out ways to be effective on that end of the floor," Noah said.
Noah had six rebounds and was scoreless in 16 minutes. Noah has reached double-figures once and has been held scoreless twice, but any changes in the starting lineup are not occurring based on one half of Porzingis playing center and Anthony playing power forward.
"I don't think so. Noah does a nice job in there defensively," Hornacek said. "It may depend on the team (we're playing). Maybe we can go there (small) a little bit more often. But we're not, just because we were good in the second half doesn't mean we're going to change it."
The move worked as Porzingis exploited his height advantage on Andrew Bogut while the Knicks gave up a season-low 26 points in the paint.
"I'll keep playing the four if they play me at the four," Porzingis said. "And if I'm at the five, I'll try to be as productive as I can at the five."
Detroit took the first meeting with the Knicks when Tobias Harris scored 25 points in a 102-89 home win on Nov. 1. Drummond had nine points and 13 rebounds but has eight career double-doubles against New York.
The Knicks have won 11 of the last 13 meetings at home.
(cbssports.com)
nice thread! i'll hand over my initial comments about this match-up and game over to the godfather himself.
let's get it!
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Have to agree, Noah has to take some shots out of the high post and not just pass out of it. Holiday is waiting in the wings to take his job esp if his 3 is dropping, Horn likes him saying you only have to tell him something once and he does it.
Hornacek needs to get Holliday consistent minutes over the next few games. Too often does a guy start to carve out a role for us and then his minutes inexplicably disappear. We have no reason to not mix and match our 1st and 2nd units throughout the game.
Drummond is playing. ugh
rumor has it that ankle's still bothering him though. we'll soon find out. noah and KP have to work together and box him the hell out. that was one of the things i loved about RoLo, he made it so much easier for KP to grab some boards.
Starting to cringe every time I see Rose setup to take a shot. He needs to create for his teammates right now.
Rose finally gets one to fall. Our guys doing a poor job getting over screens
Beautiful drive, fake, and pass to Melo by Rose to give us the 2 point lead
KP feelin' it!
Porzingis with 9 points in the first 7 minutes of the game on 4 of 5 shooting.
nice. force them into another TO. now let's get them into foul trouble.
Our starting 5 looks electric out there on offense. Defense still leaves a lot to be desired.
i like this. everyone's getting involved in the offense. noah driving to the basket with the PnR. melo with the jam.
Noah with 9 boards in the 1st quarter
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Rolo outplayed Drum in our games last year. Noah having a good first with 5pts and 9rbs. Good start for the Knicks but Horn has that all bench squad in now.
not anymore. that didn't take long.
6-0 run by DET starting the 2nd and Horn calls a TO.
Thank god for KP.
the Q with the defense. crazy man to KP for the nasty stuff. i like it. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 9,822 |
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Performance Auto & Sound Magazine (PASMAG) is excited to announce its partnership with Driven Show at PNE Vancouver Forum (2901 E Hastings St, Vancouver, British Columbia) on Saturdaym June 15, 2019 (1:00 PM - 7:00 PM). A Tuner Battlegrounds #TBGLIVE competition will be integrated to the event as a unique award category, similar to a People's Choice award, and the Champion receives an exclusive print feature in PASMAG! Only pre-registered/confirmed competitors of the event are able to participate and join this online, bracket-style competition. Click here for more info
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James Creasey
(2017 Ford Focus RS)
Justin St Denis
(1999 Nissan Skyline R34)
Shafeen Jessa
(2003 Infiniti G35 Coupe)
Erik Vierstra
(2007 Dodge Charger)
Matt Watkins
(2005 BMW E46 330i)
Will Cai
(2015 Mercedes-Benz CLA250)
Brian Tsang
(2011 Infiniti G37xS)
Reggie Mah
(1999 Nissan Silvia)
Tris Cervantes Kuhne
(1994 Nissan Skyline GT-R)
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Sorts an fcm in alphabetical order of the features.
A fcm object whose features have been alphabetically sorted. Differs from fcm_sort in that this function sorts the fcm by the feature labels, not the counts of the features.
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Q: EditText crashes the app This is the XML file of my log in layout right now i have written only the layout part for my application no java coding.
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="@+id/LinearLayout1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@drawable/login_background"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context=".LoginActivity" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/login_heading"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="@string/tv_login_heading"
android:textColor="#000"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textStyle="bold" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/et_uname"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="60dp"
android:hint="@string/et_uname_hint"
android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
android:textColor="@string/tx_color" >
</EditText>
<EditText
android:id="@+id/et_pwd"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:ems="10"
android:hint="@string/et_pwd_hint"
android:inputType="textPassword"
android:textColor="@string/tx_color" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="30dp" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tv_register"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="@string/register"
android:textColor="@string/tx_color" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tv_settings"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="@string/settings"
android:textColor="@string/tx_color" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="30dp" >
<Button
android:id="@+id/btn_login"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="@string/btn_login"
android:textColor="@string/tx_color" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/btn_exit"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="@string/btn_exit"
android:textColor="@string/tx_color" />
</LinearLayout>
it produces the following error in log cat when i ran it through my phone micromax canvas a110
07-22 15:02:34.210: E/AndroidRuntime(26110): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{in.blogspot.pcnlap.sha_login_activity_2/in.blogspot.pcnlap.sha_login_activity_2.LoginActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #24: Error inflating class android.widget.EditText
I am thinking that it produces due to edit text at line 24. Anyone have idea to solve this?
A: I downloaded your project and run on my system.
As you told its causing crash on EditText
I replaced the android:textColor="@string/title_color" with android:textColor="@color/title_color
For that you need to make color.xml file under values folder and put the title_color value in this color.xml file.
This solved the problem and I can smoothly run your project.
Hope you got this.
Ask if you have further doubt..
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New Jersey Baby Born Missing Part Of Skull Is The First To Survive Fatal Exencephaly Diagnosis
He was given zero possibility of surviving beyond birth.
By Jennifer Nied
Courtesy of Maria Santa Maria
A New Jersey baby boy just became the first infant to survive exencephaly beyond birth.
An early ultrasound revealed part of the baby's skull was missing and his brain was exposed in utero.
The baby underwent surgery after birth to remove the damaged portion of his brain.
A seven-month-old baby boy born in New Jersey has defied the odds. He was diagnosed with exencephaly, a rare condition in which a part of the baby's skull was missing, during his mother's first ultrasound.
Maria Santa Maria, mother of three, learned early on her baby's chances for survival were essentially zero. "They always said there was no possibility of him making it," she told CNN. "I did feel like I was losing him."
Maria's doctors gave her the option to abort her baby, or if she was able to carry him to term and he survived birth, spend a few minutes with him. Maria chose to give birth to the baby, but her family began preparing funeral arrangements.
Most babies diagnosed with exencephaly are stillborn or live only minutes or hours after birth, according to research published in the Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences. The rare condition means a child's skull isn't fully formed, and the brain protrudes out of the skull.
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Lucas survived hours, and then days longer than expected and underwent an unprecedented surgery with Dr. Tim Vogel, director of pediatric neurosurgery at the North Jersey Brain and Spine Center. He removed the damaged part of the baby's brain, enabling the functioning portion to heal and prevent further damage.
The surgery was successful, and Lucas was able to go home with his family a few weeks later. Seven months later, he's living at home, growing, and getting physical therapy with Vogel.
"Moms always say, 'Even if we had him for five minutes, it was all worth it,'" Maria told the news station. "Thanks to God we got so much more than that."
Jennifer Nied Jennifer Nied is a contributing writer for Women's Health with more than 10 years of writing and editing experience, specializing in wellness, adventure travel, and fitness, with work appearing in Budget Travel, American Spa, Women's Health, and more.
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Epidemiol Health. 2021 Sep 16:e2021067. doi: 10.4178/epih.e2021067. Online ahead of print.
General populations are exposed to numerous environmental pollutants, and it is still unclear what pollutants affect the brain, accelerating brain aging and increasing the risk of dementia. The Environmental-Pollution-Induced Neurological Effects study is a multi-city prospective cohort study that aimed to comprehensively investigate the effect of different environmental pollutants on brain structures, neuropsychological function, and development of dementia in adults. The baseline data of 3,775 healthy elderly people were collected from August 2014 to March 2018. The eligibility criteria were ≥ 50 years of age and no self-reported history of dementia, movement disorders, or stroke. The assessment includes demographics and anthropometrics, laboratory test, and individual levels of exposure to air pollution. Additionally, a neuroimaging sub-cohort was recruited with 1,022 participants, during the same period, and brain magnetic resonance imaging and neuropsychological tests were conducted. The first follow-up environmental pollutant measurements will start in 2022 and the follow-up for the sub-cohort is conducted every 3-4 years. We found that subtle structural changes in the brain may be induced by exposure to airborne pollutants such as PM10, PM2.5, and NO2 in healthy adults. This study provides a research base for large-scale, long-term neuroimaging assessment in community-based populations.
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B. Merwan and Co. is a century old bakery and Iranian cafe in Grant Road, Mumbai, India. Their speciality is the Mawa cake pictured here. Mawa cakes are buttery tea cakes that are infused with cardamom.
. . . I think I would like them if it weren't for the cardamon . . .
I feel hot and humid and my ams ache just looking at the volume on that tray. Fantastic composition.
Mein erster Gedanke war: Hoffentlich hält der Bäcker das Blech in der Balance, ohne das einer dieser appetitlichen Kuchen herunterfällt!
Ein wunderbares Foto "aus dem richtigen Leben", authentisch, ungekünstelt und real.
Great photo capturing the moment. First time I've heard about mawa cake. I bet it will be tastier. With cardamommmmm.
Wonderful photo .. Amazing amount of cakes on that tray!
Lots of strength in this image Joshi. Wonderful.
Superb photo. I always like the ancient cloudy mirrors in these Iranis.
An outstanding photo. Everything from the facial expression to the pastries just looks great. The color tones really give the image a real life feel. Keep up amazing work!
Joshi….great tone – color !
Iranian Café? So they're Parsi?
The soft, diffused lighting makes for a beautiful image.
You just captured the right moment of this person.!
Proudly displaying his tempting creations!
I can almost smell… even taste those goodies!
Una luz y un ambiente verdaderamente únicos!
Lovely picture,…and delicious Mawa cakes too!
I would love to try the cake :) great image, Joshi!
These cakes sound and look amazing! I'd love to have one right now. Nice soft touch!
I really admire your use of light, throughout your work and in this image in particular. And this also inspired me to look up a recipe for mawa cake, which sounds delicious.
Here again, after a long break.
Your photos, or the last ones, are so great as usual.
Somehow you made this pic surreal.
Merwan is an icon in Mumbai. The worker looks like he is thinking….in how many minutes will this tray empty, making me go for another load?
He carries the heat of the kitchen with great strength.
I love how the focus is on the cakes with the baker holding his head high behind them.
As usally, a picture with big impact. It talks to us.
Would be interesting to taste. Nice portrait.
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Leslie Basham: Kelly Needham says that counterfeit friendship is hard to identify.
Kelly Needham: It's convincing, it looks similar, but it's not the real thing. So we need to figure out, then, what is the real thing and how do we fight for that, because it's very important to our lives as Christians.
Leslie: This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, author of Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together, for Wednesday, August 28, 2019.
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth: I am so happy to be able to welcome back to Revive Our Hearts my sweet friend Kelly Needham. You've heard her here on Revive Our Hearts before. She's been on the broadcast before with her husband, Jimmy, who's a Christian songwriter, recording artist, worship leader. Kelly and Jimmy have become dear friends. They've talked about their burden for adoption. We've talked about their family, and their kids …
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Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth: I am so happy to be able to welcome back to Revive Our Hearts my sweet friend Kelly Needham. You've heard her here on Revive Our Hearts before. She's been on the broadcast before with her husband, Jimmy, who's a Christian songwriter, recording artist, worship leader. Kelly and Jimmy have become dear friends. They've talked about their burden for adoption. We've talked about their family, and their kids are here with them today. Kelly, welcome to Revive Our Hearts. The whole family is here up from Texas.
Kelly: Yes, we're glad to be here with our kids this time.
Nancy: And the weather's a little different up here than it is down in Texas.
Kelly: It is. But we're always glad for that change, though.
Nancy: Well, we welcome you, and you've been such a sweet friend of this ministry. You blog at the True Woman blog often. You're going to be speaking at the Revive '19 conference just around the corner. Are you excited about that?
Kelly: I'm very excited. I love the Revive conference, so I'm happy to be there in whatever capacity. I'm really humbled to get a chance to serve in that way.
Nancy: And you're one of our Ministry Partners. How thankful I am for that. You and Jimmy have such a heart for the message of this ministry. You've been encouragers, prayer supporters, financial supporters. Our hearts beat alike in so many ways.
I really just feel like you're part of our Revive Our Hearts family. We welcome you to talk today about a different subject than we've addressed before, but one that I think is so important. You piqued my mind and my interest in this a couple years ago when my book first released called Adorned. It's on Titus 2 older women, younger women relationships. I know you have such a heart for that.
Kelly: Thanks very much.
Nancy: You're involved in mentoring younger women and the discipleship of college students. You have such a heart for that. No sooner was the book off the press than you said to me, I think it was in an email exchange, "Did you happen to mention in this book anything about some of the potential dangers or pitfalls of these relationships? How they can get off the track and can go in an unhealthy direction?"
I said, "Hmmm, no I didn't." This book was really long already, and we didn't have anything on that. I think I may have said I would love to have thought about that sooner, but I didn't.
In God's providence, you had a book on your heart that you were getting ready to write, and now it's just being released. The book is called Friend-ish. We're going to talk about what that means in a moment. The subtitle is: Reclaiming Real Friendship in a Culture of Confusion. How did this whole topic of friendship gone awry, you call it friend-ish, how did that even come to be on your radar?
Kelly: Well, I love friendship, and that's part of the reason that it became a concern to me. God has made me who I am through really great friendships.
Nancy: I'd say the same thing.
Kelly: Friends who love Jesus and have really pushed me closer to Him, that have been a support for me in hard times.
So when I was in college, I actually had a couple girls that I was mentoring. One of them was struggling with some stuff in a friendship of hers—a different friend that she lived with. I remember almost being shocked in the way that they were enjoying their friendship, that to me it was so unhealthy. But it was the first time I was seeing that.
Nancy: What were some of the things that made you think it was unhealthy?
Kelly: My first concern was when she called and asked me to hold her accountable to how much time they were spending together. She was struggling in her classes. She was not passing because of the hours they were spending together. The way she talked about it felt like an addiction that she couldn't break free of it.
She didn't see it as a problem so much as just something she had to learn to reign in. It became very ingrown. Their loyalty to one another was higher than any other loyalty, even to Christ. It led to some serious sin issues and other things.
I started to see that pattern happening not just in her. Over the years, I would see people in friendships where the expectations they had of those friendships were different than what I had known in my really great friendships. So it caused me to think, What's going on here? On the outside it looks good. They're in Bible studies together. They go to church together.
Nancy: So these are Christian friends?
Kelly: Christian friends. They're talking about Jesus, and they have an understanding of "I need community" that's important.
Nancy: Which is true.
Kelly: Which is very true.
Nancy: That is what Adorned was about. The message of women needing each other for their growth and their spiritual development.
Kelly: It's very, very important for all of us. I would not argue that. So that was the reason I became interested in it. Because I saw this community, good friendships centered on Christ, to be such a valuable thing that what I was seeing happening in these other relationships seemed to be off.
That was concerning because I wanted those people to enjoy really great friendships. I wanted to continue enjoying those myself. I started doing research, thinking about this, interviewing some of my friends who had been down those paths that had been very negative. Asking them how did that start, when did you start to see a change. So that's kind of where the idea came from.
Your book Adorned was a fabulous book, by the way. And it was a really great exposition of Titus 2. Part of the reason that I had anything to say on that was a lot of the negative friendships I had seen happen started as mentorships.
Nancy: Wow.
Kelly: I had seen that happen with a few of my close friends, and that was what prompted that email to you because that had become a concern for me.
Nancy: So what starts out as a really sweet gift and a good thing and healthy and helpful and constructive thing even for spiritual growth, can go awry and can become obsessive, or as you said, ingrown, and become something that is a war zone instead of a place for nurturing and growth.
Kelly: Exactly. I'm so thankful for humility. I don't know if you remember you actually asked me to read your book and see if there was anything in there that could have unintentionally led somebody astray. I don't think there was anything that was, but that's something too, that I want to be like Nancy.
When people have questions about my own book, I'm really grateful for that and for your concern for that. That was the year too that I think the conference was all on mentorship, so I think that's why it was heavy on my heart.
The Lord was growing in me a desire to put the guardrail up on the other side. Yes, we really need this. We need mentors, we need spiritual moms, we need sisters to walk alongside us, but ultimately we need Jesus. Our loyalty is first to Him and foremost to Him. This idea of making a good thing too great or too important isn't new in any context.
Nancy: It's such a strategy of the Enemy. He takes God's good gifts and makes them gods. Instead of God capital g, we look to these things . . . It can be sex, it can be marriage, it can be friendship, women friendships, mentoring. These good things that we need, and yet he can by misplaced affection, misplaced priority, make them actually our undoing.
I remember calling you or contacting you after I had seen this in a college student friend of mine who had contacted me and said, "I've become entrapped in this relationship with another college friend." It had turned into something really unhealthy. They both knew it. It actually ended up with some sexual overtones, and we'll talk a little bit more about how that can be a pathway for some women.
But what started out as such a gift and treasure, that we can encourage each other, we can motivate each other, we can help each other in different ways, became really a noose around both of their necks. I'm so thankful you've raised this concern, Kelly, and how'd you come up with the title Friend-ish? I think that speaks to what your whole concern is here.
Kelly: Yes. Well, we were looking for a title that would convey there's something good here but it's not quite . . . something's off with it.
Nancy: So you had to make up a word.
Kelly: Actually all credit for that goes to Jimmy, to my husband. He really was behind every title idea that we had. When you think about oh, that wall is reddish. You think it's not true red. It's reddish. It's not quite there.
The idea was what does it mean to be friend-ish. You look like you're friends. You're doing all the right things on the outside, but it's not quite there in the truest sense of what genuine companionship should be for those who follow Christ. It's off a little bit.
Nancy: Don't you think a lot of this is being influenced by some voices in the culture that are talking about friendship in a way that is different than the biblical concept of friendship?
Kelly: Oh yes, very much so. Especially now that we have social media and a lot of ways for people to watch the lives of other people—godly people and worldly people. We're seeing that influence, I think, translate even quicker.
I did a lot of research for this book reading secular books about friendship, trying to hear what some of the voices out there are saying. It was shocking to read what is becoming a new normal for friendship.
Nancy: Explain what that looks like.
Kelly: Sure. I would say some of it too, for context, just comes from we are seeing people not get married. We're not seeing families, at least in the world, we're seeing people not get married. We have the largest single population that we've ever had in our nation. You have a lot of people who are not getting married and having kids, so they're looking for a stability somewhere. They're starting to look to friendship.
Some of these books that I've read are giving examples of friendship that look like a marriage, that actually mimic this idea of marriage: they're exclusive, they're very physically affectionate, there's a lot of possessiveness. I think that for the Christian, that's something concerning. Our loyalties are first and foremost to Christ.
Nancy: So they're promoting a brand of friendship that is actually a knock-off of marriage? Would that be a way of saying it?
Kelly: In one of the books that I read for research, the woman talked about her best friend in a way that was trying to showcase how important that relationship is.
Nancy: So the woman's talking about a female friend?
Kelly: Yes, she's talking about a female friend, her best friend. She's trying to showcase, this is how important this is. She's talking to her husband and says to her husband, "You know I love you, but my best friend so-and-so is my soulmate."
The husband's response, she said, is, "Yes, I know that." So you're seeing even a loyalty in some of these friendships that supersedes even their marriages even if they do get married. There's actually a new, popular wedding photo that's going around that you'll see the bride and the groom next to each other. The picture is from the back, and the bride is holding hands intertwined with her maid of honor behind his back.
Kelly: A lot of the comments about it that you'll see on Pinterest or other places is, "This perfectly describes my relationship with my best friend." For some of them, for the world and those that aren't following Christ, to them marriage is temporary. We're seeing marriage and divorce rates so high that they don't see those romantic relationships as being lasting.
Nancy: They think that their girl friendships may outlast their marriage.
Kelly: They do. And for a lot of people that has been true—especially those who are not walking with the Lord. We're seeing a prizing of that relationship, of friendship. We're seeing an elevation of it. I think the most unhealthy form of it is usually that really exclusive, "this is my best friend, we're each other's best friend" relationship. They've formed this little, tight-knit inner circle. It mimics marriage. It's becoming a normal, celebrated form of female friendship that is getting modeled to younger women and young girls.
As a mom, that's something that has concerned me. I want my daughters to have good friendships. I pray for that for them. I want them to have intimate, close companionship that's important for their life.
Nancy: You're not saying, for example, if you're married that you don't have other friendships. Your husband shouldn't be your only friend. You're talking about something here that becomes a counterfeit for the good thing God wants us to really enjoy.
Kelly: Exactly. That's why I like the word counterfeit. A counterfeit of something looks like the real thing. If you talk about counterfeit money, it's not because it looks like money from Russia; it looks like our money.
Nancy: It's convincing.
Kelly: It's convincing. It looks similar, but it's not the real thing. We need to figure out what is the real thing and how do we fight for that because it's very important to our lives as Christians.
Nancy: What's a counterfeit type of friendship that's concerning you as you're looking at the lay of the land here? What you see happening in a lot of women's lives?
Kelly: I think the first one that's been one of the easiest to see is what we've talked about a little bit—mimicking marriage. We don't see in the Bible any other relationship besides the marriage union that is meant to be exclusive.
Nancy: And permanent.
Kelly: And permanent. Binding. Obviously, if my husband got a job across the country, I'm going with him. That should happen because we are now one flesh. The reason that that's important for that to remain is because marriage is shadowing something. It's shadowing Christ and the Church. That is important for us to maintain.
Nancy: The eternal relationship of Christ and His Bride.
Kelly: We need those distinctives to be there. That doesn't mean we don't need friends, but it means that our friendships are going to look different than what a marriage relationship looks like. One counterfeit is friendships that mimic marriage; they have the same kind of feel. There's exclusivity.
Nancy: We even read some about covenantal friendships. Like BFF, meaning we're committing to each other that this is a long-term relationship. What do you see is a problem with that?
Kelly: Sure. There's actually a new movement advocating for that from Christians. I think it's unhealthy, because friendships are not supposed to look like marriage. It puts pressure and expectations on that relationship that are not meant to be there. It often leads people into struggles with same sex attraction.
In some ways that shouldn't be surprising if you're taking two friends and you mimic the marriage relationship. Marriage is meant to be consummated in a sexual union. If we put the language around it of I'm falling in love with my best friend which you'll see in the world, talking about it that way. Or this is the love of my life, but they're talking about their best friend, or this is my soulmate. You're shaping how you think and how you frame that relationship in a way that shouldn't be surprising that we see people tempted to express their affection in real physical ways that are inappropriate for friendship.
We need physical touch and hugs from a friend. God has meant for us to be ministered to in that way in appropriate ways. But it easily becomes inappropriate and unhealthy and a form of bondage.
Nancy: My guess is there's two kinds of people listening to this conversation. There are those who are saying I know exactly what you're talking about; I'm in that kind of friendship, or I have a friend who's in that kind of friendship. They're saying, "Yes, you're right this is a problem."
I think we have some other people, maybe more my generation, who are listening and thinking, What in the world are you talking about? Because that's not the concept they have and they haven't seen maybe what you're talking about.
I do think it's probably more common among your thirties and down younger women. You've seen this with college students. I've seen this with college students. Younger single women. But it's not unheard of with more mature and older women, would you say?
Kelly: No it's not. In doing a lot of interviews for writing this book, I interviewed people sometimes via email, sometimes over the phone, that were in their forties and fifties. Sometimes these women were married and had been married for a long time, but some were experiencing loneliness in their lives that began to be met in a friend. They just clung really tightly to each other. In some ways probably in the beginning in a healthy way. That there was a really healthy linking of arms. Then it began to become ingrown, and they're looking to one another for things that they really should only be looking to Jesus for.
Nancy: That's a key point there. Whether it's in marriage or friendship with two women looking to that friend, that mate, anyone or anything to meet needs in our lives that ultimately only Jesus can meet.
Kelly: Exactly. That's a concern in any relationship. You can see that in a parent/child relationship as well. In any human relationship this can happen. I think maybe we're familiar with the experience of that in marriage. I'm thankful for the marriage books that exist that are helping warn of those things. They're not demonizing marriage. They're saying marriage is really important, but it's not ultimate.
My heart has been just to communicate the same thing with friendship. Friendship is really important and really needed, but it's not ultimate. We have the Fountain of Living Waters. In Jeremiah 2, God calls Himself the Fountain of Living Waters. He is the only Fountain of Living Waters. We cannot find the source of living water anywhere else. The concern that He had was His people had left Him to go to broken cisterns.
Nancy: And they can't satisfy.
Kelly: They won't satisfy.
Nancy: Not lastingly.
Kelly: Friendship, our children, marriage, ministry, anything else, these good things. But if we're going to it for life and our ultimate security and significance then it's going to disappoint. It's not God. We need friends ultimately to link arms with us to pull us back to the Fountain of Living Waters. I think that's really the primary counterfeit you see in all it's expressions is that a friendship begins to lure you away from the living waters of Christ, not toward it.
Nancy: Replacing Jesus, or bypassing Him even while you're doing Christian things together.
Kelly: Exactly. I think that's what's so tricky about it and why some people don't see it until they're too far down the road. That's why it's hard in mentorship as well. You're meeting with another woman, and you're talking about Jesus, and you're studying the Bible together. You're going to Bible studies and you're doing things together.
Usually, the first sign of when that has become unhealthy is . . . Let's say for example that woman who is mentoring you begins to mentor somebody new and you start to feel jealous or concerned that she won't be your mentor because she'll be somebody else's.
If it is so important to you that that woman is your mentor and only yours, it's a sign that they're becoming to you something higher than what a mentor is supposed to be. A mentor is supposed to lead you into more dependency on Christ, not them.
In friendship, too, when that friend makes a new friend, and you're jealous of them and you're concerned about that, or that close friend of yours moves away or gets married. You see their season of life changing, their limitations change, and you think . . . Internally, you have that sense I'm not going to be okay if that happens. That's a sign that something is wrong.
While there should be grief when a friend moves, that's healthy. I should grieve when my good friends move away or things change, but I'm not going to be ruined. I have Christ. He's my Rock. That's how we should feel about it.
I think what I see happen a lot is those life stage changes, or those moves, or that friend making a new friend, or something interfering with the friendship is it becomes something that totally distables you, ruins you. That's a sign that they've replaced Christ in some way in your life and that's not okay.
The answer is not cling to the friendship tighter. It's to cling to Christ. It's not to say that all of that friendship was wrong or negative and something good wasn't there. It's just time for a recalibration. We see it happen in a lot of these friendships. But it looks very godly on the outside, that's what can be so tricky about it.
Nancy: As you're talking I'm thinking that this may be more of a younger woman phenomenon, but all of us have had issues with friendships in or out of marriage where the friendship has become to us more than it could possibly be, more than it was meant to be. Then we lose the benefit and the goodness and the joy of what was intended to be a good gift.
I think no matter what age women are, this is a topic that we need to talk about. God made us, not just women, but women and men, He made us to be relational. He made us to function in community, but there's no such thing as solo Christianity, going it alone. So we're not talking about rugged individualism here, but healthy, life-giving friendships that point us to Christ instead of causing us to be selfish or asking something of the friendship that it can't possibly give.
You said you've seen this maybe in some of the women in their forties and fifties. I'm now in my sixties, and I'm thinking through some of my friendships over the years where they moved too much in this direction or there was an unhealthy dependence on that relationship.
I'll say something else, moms and grandmoms, a lot of your daughters and granddaughters, college students, young singles are struggling with some of these issues, so you need to understand this so that you can be the right kind of friend to those younger women in your life.
That's how we first connected on this subject because I came to you, Kelly, and said, "I've got a friend who's struggling with this." You had written on the subject, you had blogged on it. In fact, I gave my young college friend links to some of your blog posts that you had written for Revive Our Hearts because they were so good.
She read them, and she said, "This is exactly what I'm going through." I know it spoke to a need in her life, and I was so glad to have a resource to be able to share with that struggling young woman.
Kelly: Some of why I wanted to write a book it is I realized, as you said earlier, when I would talk to people about this, they were in those two camps. Either they were like, "Finally, someone is describing my life."
I got hundreds of emails from women when I first starting writing about this saying, "This is my life's story, and I've never told a soul because I've never known how to talk about this. No one's ever addressed it." At the same time, a whole other group of people are looking at me like a deer in the headlights going, "What in the world are you talking about?"
We need each other. The girls that I know that are struggling with this need their moms and their grandmothers. They need their ministry leaders at church to understand this so they can help disciple and train and shepherd them in what healthy community looks like.
Nancy: Well, your book is going to be a great tool in that. We're going to pick up this conversation tomorrow, but I want to just mention the name again. It's called Friend-ish: Reclaiming Real Friendship [not counterfeit but real friendship] in a Culture of Confusion. It's written by Kelly Needham. She's got a lot of wisdom.
This is a scripturally grounded book. It's going to help you think through these issues whether it's for your life or for the life of someone you're mentoring or encouraging or a daughter.
We're making that book available this week as our way of saying "thank you" when you make a donation to Revive Our Hearts. We're pouring into the lives of women around the world and addressing subjects like this. Your gift helps us do that.
So when you make a donation of any amount to Revive Our Hearts this week, we want to thank you by sending you a copy of Kelly's book. Be sure to ask for it when you call us at 1–800–569–5959. Ask for the book Friend-ish as you tell us that you'd like to make a donation to this ministry.
You can also visit us online. You can read a transcript of this entire conversation. You can see some other resources we've posted there that will be helpful to you as you're dealing with this subject. When you make your gift, be sure to ask for a copy of Kelly's book called Friend-ish. That's the word friend with i-s-h on the end—not quite friend friend-ish.
We're going to talk more about what that friend-ishness (there's a new word for you) looks like when we continue this conversation tomorrow with Kelly Needham. Be sure to join us again here on Revive Our Hearts.
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I don't have natural gas either. I went AC with a gas furnace. I have a 1000# tank in the back yard.
I won''t have nat gas available where I'm building either, but I may go with a dual fuel and bury a propane tank.
It's my understanding you have to buy the tank as apposed to leasing when you bury but that's not a bad thing. When you own your tank you can bid out the propane. If you lease a tank, other companies won't sell you gas, you are stuck with whomever owns the tank. Some companies won't sell you propane unless they own the tank, which I think is a crock. Another thing, you can't fill an above ground tank to more than 80% whereas when you bury it it can be filled to 100%.
I have one buried at my place in N.C. mountains , and used to have one at the house we lived in before this one. I just have a heat pump here.
I looked into burying a tank when I first moved in and they all said yeah, but you pay for burying it and digging it up if you don't want it anymore (no sales only leases). Maybe things have changed, but the cost of electricity to have the electric emergency heat come on during really cold weather is probably only a few hundred dollars a year, if that.
Face it, it only gets really cold in Tennessee a few weeks a year, mostly it's pretty mild during the winter and I have a gas fireplace that I supplement the heat with when it gets really cold.
A propane backup costs an extra $12-1,500 over heat strips, and will not save you any money on heat bills unless you have natural gas. It just gives you warmer air coming out of the vents, and may feel a little warmer. It is probably worth it if you have natural gas. Either way, I would get a variable speed air handler. I have had it, and it is worth it in my opinion.
That's good to know that there is that kind of increase in price to have a hybrid system, it's not worth it to me. If I had natural gas, "heat pump" wouldn't be in my vocabulary. My very first house that I owned had a heat pump and I think where I'm living today will be my very last house also has a heat pump. The circle of life!
I had a heat pump only when I first built my house 12 years ago. I replaced my entire unit with a heat pump/gas back-up. When it gets below a certain temp, the gas kicks on instead of the heat pump. I live in central Kentucky, and it gets too cold for a heat pump alone to keep up. Maybe something to look into next go around.
That's the way to go. But can be expensive.
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Science says your bedroom needs plants
1 Why should I put plants in my bedroom?
2 What should I add to my bedroom?
3 1. Areca Palm
4 2. Chinese Evergreen
5 3. Aloe Vera
6 4. Boston Fern
Houseplants are more than just pretty decorations. Science has proved that they actually improve the air condition in your home, and there's some plants that help your bedroom atmosphere in particular. NASA and the American College have put their brains together and come up with a list of the best plants for your bedroom. DM Design, quality fitted bedroom experts who love to see their designs accented by floral friends, guides you through the list:
Why should I put plants in my bedroom?
Let's look at the science behind foliage in the bedroom.
Ian Drummond, who is a gold-medal winner of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and an interior landscaper, commented to The Telegraph on the practicality of houseplants. He explains: "Many people now live in cities with no outside space. We all have this longing to have some green around us, and houseplants are the perfect solution."
Houseplants also naturally improve the aroma of your home, without a huge cost. Studies have shown that houseplants have been found to help with concentration, promote better sleep and reduce anxiety among people who live around them on a day-to-day basis too. The Plantsman, when reporting on a 2016 piece which was published in the RHS's journal, underlined: "As placing indoor plants in rooms is one of the simplest changes that can be made to enhance the environment, it stands out as a practical and affordable support for health."
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What should I add to my bedroom?
Here's a list of the top four plants who got the thumbs up from NASA and the American College for improving your sleeping space, plant them in a spacious pot that contains soil which has been well drained beforehand.
1. Areca Palm
This plant has many names; the Yellow Butterfly Palm, the Golden Cane Palm, the Bamboo Palm, Dypsis Lutescens, and Chrysalidocarpus Lutescens (which just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?).
More important than its many names, NASA has pointed to the plant as being one of its top 10 air purifiers. What's more, the plant has been said to be great for those who often have colds or sinus problems due to it regularly releasing moisture into the air.
The Areca Palm plant has long, feather-like leaves, which will bring a tropical splash to your bedroom. When placing Areca Palm plants around your bedroom, look for an area that subjects the plant to bright but indirect light — you'll know if it is being exposed to direct sunlight as the leaves will begin to turn a yellowish-green hue.
2. Chinese Evergreen
If you want to add some greenery to your room, but plant-care is not your forte, this next one's for you. One of the most appealing aspects of the Chinese Evergreen plant — also known as Aglaonema — is that it is one of the easiest houseplants to look after. This is because the plant can grow even in areas of low light — no need to worry about placing it in a dark bedroom then.
As for health benefits, the Chinese Evergreen plant removes more toxins in the air the longer it is exposed to the space.
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You can't practice benign neglect when tending to a Chinese Evergreen though. As well as keeping it away from bright sunlight (which can actually scorch its leaves), the plant should be watered regularly with cool water and fed with plant food once every three to four weeks.
Medicinally beneficial, Aloe Vera has been grown around the world for thousands of years. This is because the clear and cool gel of an Aloe Vera leaf can be applied to burns, cuts, rashes and areas of sunburn to provide instant relief and speed up the healing process.
It's not just great for medicine, it's also a wonderful air purifier, says NASA. This is because they release oxygen on a regular basis during the night, not to mention fighting against both benzene — an ingredient of detergents — and formaldehyde — found in varnishes — to ensure a room's air remains pure.
Aloe Vera plants don't like the cold and frost so much, as they are mainly made up from water. It's best to keep them indoors, in a place that gets plenty of sunshine. Furthermore
4. Boston Fern
With beautifully elegant leaves and natural ruffled look, the Boston Fern plant is a lovely view for your bedroom. It is also ranked in ninth place on NASA's list of the best air-purifying plants. A key reason for this is that the plant is very adept at removing formaldehyde from rooms.
Bear in mind that this plant is particularly sensitive to chemicals. Smoke which come from coal fires and wood burners can also be toxic to the plant, which means that they should be placed away from any spaces susceptible to draughts.
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With its hanging leaves, the Boston Fern is suited to sitting in a hanging basket, or on the edge of a bookcase.
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We are happy to announce that we will have Robotic Classroom in Woodbridge of Vaughan, Ontario.
We will host a Macrobots Program for kids over 7-year-old at The Play Cube.
TIME: Wednesday 18:00 – 19:30, March 20, 2019 — June 19, 2018.
On March 21, 2019, We hold a robotic workshop for students of Grade 5 to Grade 8 in Codrington Public School in Barrie, Ontario. Supported by the school, we hopefully will bring our robotic program to Barrie!
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Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth.
Find your group's next great read with Atria Book Club Bites: a free sampling of ten books guaranteed to feed your discussion. Great books, dear friends, and fascinating conversation are the key ingredients in any book club. To help you decide what to read next, dip into Atria Book Club Bites: a free sampling of ten books guaranteed to feed your discussion. You'll find excerpts from: The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult The Comfort of Lies by Randy Susan Meyers The Book of Lost Fragrances by M.J. Rose The Mapmaker's War by Ronlyn Domingue The Best of Us by Sarah Pekkanen Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger Heart Like Mine by Amy Hatvany The Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz Bird of Paradise by Raquel Cepeda Out With It by Katherine Preston Whether your club enjoys contemporary women's fiction, stories with moral and ethical dilemmas, or a fascinating memoir, we've got a great book guaranteed to get you talking.
Feeling restless in spite of her accomplishments and imminent marriage, Trudy is ostracized by her late nineteenth-century Milwaukee community when she falls in love with an enigmatic man and relocates to a California lighthouse.
From the author of Good Seats Still Available comes Substitute Thoughts, Kelly Hay's second collection of published poetry. This second compilation is seemingly an about-face from the first, delving into subject matter the reader merely glimpsed before. Good Seats was, for the most part, an encouraging exercise in hope and belief, purpose and love. But Substitute Thoughts takes the reader on a different journey, exploring the darker side of the human mystery, our depressions, our addictions, our heartache. It has been said "painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks " [Simondes]. In this collection, Hay paints an intimate portrait of life in the darkest shades of midnight from whence humanity's most discouraging nightmares come alive.
ALL IS VANITY is the second novel by Christina Schwarz, the acclaimed author of number-one bestseller DROWNING RUTH. 'A page-turner' New York Times Book Review As they reach their mid-thirties, Margaret and Letty, best friends since childhood, begin to chafe at their sense that they are not where they ought to be in life. Margaret decides to quit her job and whips out a literary tour de force. But as Letty, a stay-at-home mother of four, begins to feel pressured to make a good showing in the upper-middle-class Los Angeles society, Margaret sees a plot unfolding that's better than anything she could make up. Desperate to finish her book and hungry for acclaim, she pushes Letty to take greater and greater risks and sacrifices one of the things most precious to her... Like DROWNING RUTH, ALL IS VANITY probes into the mysteries of the human heart and uncovers the passions that drive ordinary people to break the rules in pursuit of their own desires. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,841 |
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Parades: Exhibition objects
https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/parades-exhibition-objects/
<p>p:empty{display:none;}h2.entry-title{line-height:1;font-size:1.375rem;font-weight:600;margin-bottom:0.5em;}.all-results p{margin-bottom: 0 !important;} Exhibition: Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen PigottNovember 4, 2006 to January 7, 2008 Objects 1 – 71 of 71 F1896.35a-b F1897.18 F1898.62a-b F1898.72 F1898.87 F1898.133 F1898.464 F1899.36 F1899.41 F1899.42 F1899.60 F1900.64 F1900.67 F1900.68a-b F1901.72 F1901.85 F1902.7 F1902.202 F1902.211 F1902.236 F1903.220 F1904.52 F1905.77 F1905.78 F1905.286 F1905.295 F1906.255 F1907.63 F1907.285 F1907.293 …</p>
Age Old Cities: A Virtual Journey from Palmyra to Mosul
https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/age-old-cities/
<p>Sackler, gallery 28 Journey to three cities in the Middle East—Palmyra and Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq—in this virtual exhibition organized by the Arab World Institute, Paris, and created in collaboration with UNESCO. These cities, among the oldest uninterrupted human settlements in the world, have recently been devastated by war. To preserve these …</p>
Mad about Painting
https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/mad-about-painting/
<p>Listen to a Smithsonian Sidedoor podcast about Hokusai and the Freer Gallery.</p>
Hokusai at 90
https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/hokusai-at-90/
<p>Explore two of Hokusai's last paintings in this interview with Smarthistory.</p>
https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/curators-choice/
<p>Frank Feltens, the curator of this yearlong exhibition about the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, picked some of his favorite works now on view. Check back in spring 2020, when other works by Hokusai are displayed.</p>
Dwight William Tryon, Twilight: Early Spring, F1893.12
A Perfect Harmony
https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/a-perfect-harmony-2/
<p>Gallery 11 Juxtaposing American and Asian art is a legacy of the founder of our museum, Detroit industrialist Charles Lang Freer. He believed in a universal language of beauty that resonated across time, space, and cultural diversity. Freer's taste in American art was formed in the Gilded Age, but he favored refinement over ostentation. In …</p>
Dedication Materials: Look inside
https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/dedication-materials-look-inside/
Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Cowles Collection
https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/meeting-tessai/
<p>Sackler Tomioka Tessai is a prime example of a modern Japanese painter. Contemporaries praised his works as being exceptionally modern, and they recognized parallels between Tessai's work and European postimpressionism. Paintings by Tomioka Tessai (1836–1924) were so esteemed that he was one of the first Japanese artists to have his works shown in the United …</p>
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<p>National Museum of Korea Investigation Report on the Seated Avalokiteshvara Curators and conservators at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul have recently conducted extensive research on this Buddhist image from the Goryeo dynasty. A preliminary investigation in 2008 revealed hidden dedication materials that were inserted into the sculpture centuries ago. A second, more comprehensive …</p>
Gallery Guide: Understanding South Asian Art
https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/gallery-guide-understanding-south-asian-art/
<p>The Indian subcontinent, known today as South Asia, extends as an inverted triangle from the snowbound Himalayan ranges toward the equator and includes the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan. Extending some eighteen hundred miles from north to south, and almost the same distance from east to west, the area is …</p>
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INTESA SANPAOLO AMONG TOP 100 LISTED COMPANIES WORLDWIDE IN TERMS OF DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
Intesa Sanpaolo is the only Italian bank included in Refinitiv's Diversity & Inclusion Index
The Bank ranks 76th among over 9,000 companies analysed
Milan/Turin, 16 September 2020 – Intesa Sanpaolo was ranked 76th in Refinitiv's Diversity & Inclusion Index, an international ranking of the top 100 listed companies with the most inclusive and diverse workplaces. The index draws on data from publicly available sources such as sustainability reports, financial reports, company websites and press releases.
Carlo Messina, CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo, commented: "The inclusion of Intesa Sanpaolo in the index recognizes the efforts we've made regarding equality, a commitment expressed in concrete terms such as the introduction of a specific KPI to reward those who manage with a view to gender equality, innovative corporate welfare initiatives, and projects to support people with disabilities. A workplace that is inclusive at all levels empowers people to better express their own abilities and makes the Group even stronger and competitive at an international level."
The Diversity & Inclusion Index published by Refinitiv assesses over 9,000 companies worldwide in a transparent and objective manner with regard to diversity and inclusion, on the basis of 24 metrics across four key pillars: diversity, inclusion, people development and disputes.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Intesa Sanpaolo
In terms of equal opportunities and inclusion, Intesa Sanpaolo has set a precedent: concrete tools have been introduced such as a specific KPI (management target) to reward managers who are attentive to the issue of gender equality, as well as programmes designed to accelerate career growth for women and specific training courses to promote inclusion. The integrated welfare system has developed over the years with a wide range of solutions – including the time bank, company nurseries, additional maternity/paternity leave, smart working, flexible start and finish times, and part-time opportunities – that address in practical terms the issues of time management and employees work/life balance. With the creation in 2018 of a specific structure reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, Intesa Sanpaolo's D&I approach was infused with new drive and method.
In addition to the well-established collaboration with the Marisa Bellisario Foundation and Valore D, Intesa Sanpaolo stands out for its numerous initiatives that promote gender equality, earning the Group a place in the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) that assesses the commitment and actions taken by major listed companies globally. It was also ranked #2 by Equileap Research among FTSE MIB 40 companies in the 2020 Gender Equality in Spain, Italy and Greece ranking. Intesa Sanpaolo also received the Diversity & Inclusion Award 2019, which rewards companies that promote policies to help vulnerable or disadvantaged groups enter the job market.
Some of Intesa Sanpaolo's main Diversity Management initiatives include:
· Adoption of the Women's Empowerment Principles – WEPs promoted by the UN
· KPI dedicated to promoting female talent included in the performance assessment of over 1,100 managers
· Survey on the topic of inclusion, conducted throughout Italy, and subsequent initiatives of targeted listening in many structures
· Definition of the Diversity & Inclusion Strategy
· Training for top management regarding the issue of unconscious bias
· Launch of a programme for long-term absentees, to establish a closer relationship during the absence (pilot project launched regarding long-term maternity leave)
· Recruitment of people with Down Syndrome for internships
· Specific projects to support empowerment and female talent
· Active participation by more than 65 Role Models in the Inspiring Girls initiative (in partnership with Valore D)
About Intesa Sanpaolo
Intesa Sanpaolo is one of the most solid and profitable banks in Europe, providing wealth management, consumer banking, corporate and investment banking, asset management and insurance. As the market leader in Italy, Intesa Sanpaolo serves nearly 12 million customers through digital and traditional channels. The Group's international subsidiary banks provide for an additional 7.2 million customers in Central Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Intesa Sanpaolo is recognized as one of the most sustainable banks in the world.
The Group believes that value creation should be interpreted broadly, supporting social purpose and driving the real economy. As part of its commitment to sustainable growth, Intesa Sanpaolo has created a €5 billion financing facility dedicated to the circular economy. The Group's large-scale project for economic inclusion and poverty alleviation includes a Fund for Impact to provide €1.2 billion in loans to those parts of society that find access to credit difficult. Intesa Sanpaolo is deeply committed to cultural initiatives that it promotes on its own and together with partners in Italy and abroad, including permanent and temporary exhibits of the vast artistic patrimony at the Gallerie d'Italia, the Group's three museums located in Milan, Naples and Vicenza.
Additional information may be found at group.intesasanpaolo.com | News: https://www.intesasanpaolo.com/it/news.html | Twitter: @intesasanpaolo | Facebook: @intesasanpaolo | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intesa-sanpaolo | Instagram: @intesasanpaolo
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Q: I can ssh from host1 into host2, but on host 2 I seem to have no connectivity to the network (no ping, no dns, nothing works) I assume it's related to a bad configuration on host 2 because a 3rd host plugged into 2'socket works fine. This is all wired in the same subnet with a switch in between.
'ping' produces 100% packet loss.
'arp -a' sees systems in the neigborhood with the correct IP and MAC address, but no hostname and sometimes things like:
? (192.168.4.99) at <incomplete> on eth0
route commands produce reasonable results (the same results on host 1 and 2, except for ip addresses(2) vs, hostnames (1)) and host 2 needs about 20s to produce the result vs. host 1 with almost no delay.
The ssh communication works fine - some data packets find their way back to host 1.
There is no firewall involved (rPi-s running raspian)
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*Host 1: Linux megapi 4.9.80-v7+ #1098 SMP Fri Mar 9 19:11:42 GMT 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux
*Host 2: Linux pumpi 4.19.97+ #1294 Thu Jan 30 13:10:54 GMT 2020 armv6l GNU/Linux
Where start debugging? This is a headless system embedded deep inside other hardware. Even swapping the SD card would be rather inconvenient. (poor choice of mine)
$ ip r
default via 192.168.4.1 dev enxb827eb69e3a9 proto dhcp src 192.168.4.50 metric 202<P> 192.168.4.0/24 dev enxb827eb69e3a9 proto dhcp scope link src 192.168.4.50 =metric 202
iptables-save does not produce any output
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Get maximum comfort and support when you need it with the Propet Cliff Walker Tall Strap Boot. Made of weather-resistant full-grain leather upper. Details: Weather-resistant, full-grain leather upper with Sealtex waterproof bootie construction, padded, mesh-lined collar and hook and loop strap closure for easy entry, lightweight, cushioned EVA midsole with ground-gripping rubber outsole. Medicare Approved - for reimbursement under the Medicare Therapeutic Shoes for Persons with Diabetes Benefit (also known as the Therapeutic Shoe Bill). Removable footbed - can be removed to accommodate custom orthotics. Antimicrobial - help prevent leading causes of foot odor. Waterproof - feet will stay warm and dry, specially designed to keep water out with Sealtex bootie or laminate construction. Material: Full Grain Leather, EVA, Rubber. Boasting shoes that were engineered for comfort, design and life, Propet is an American footwear company located in Washington State. They churn out men's and women's shoes that utilize the best in cutting-edge technologies like Motion Tech, Rejuve, and other great benefits. They specialize in a wide range of types, from outdoor and casual to athletic and even diabetic footwear to deal with nerve pain. Propet has a little bit of something for everyone. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,845 |
Responsive UI UX Designs for Web and Mobile Devices.
Responsive User Interface & Powerful User Experience contributes to success of any product or service. In Digital Products/ Services, Look & Feel, Intuitiveness & Ease Of Use are considered Keys To User Experience.
UI UX Team at Prologic Technologies practice Design Thinking Strategies to create Seamless UI UX Digital Design Experiences for Web, Mobile and Voice.
User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) both play a vital role in success of any digital product. Both of these are user-facing sides of any digital product and thus have to be designed very carefully.
We leverage user research, latest market trends and design thinking to create products that customers love to use.
Responsive User Designs is a necessity for your web and mobile digital products. Easy to use and device adaptive GUI increases user engagement and delivers a strong brand statement.
Our design team will help you choose the right UI UX framework whether its Bootstrap, AMP, React or Angular to design an optimized user interface for your web and mobile audience.
UX Designs are often confused as UI designing. User Interface Design is of course important but is not a synonym to User Experience Design.
We at Prologic Technologies, start working on User Experience Designs even before the GUI Design starts. Wire Framing, User Workflows and Interactive Prototyping undergo several iterations during product development.
Ease and intuitiveness of user interaction with your content on desktop or mobile is the key to user engagement. We truly believe that user experience is the top priority over price and brand value.
At Prologic Technologies, we continuously try innovative ways to enrich user experience leading to better product acceptability.
Next-Gen Hiring Solution Based on Video Resumes. Talent Acquisition On The Go!! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,846 |
The Ui Series mixers feature cross-platform compatibility with iOS,Android,Windows,Mac OS,and Linux devices,and can use up to 10 control devices simultaneously. In addition,the Ui12 and Ui16 each feature built-in HARMAN signal processing from dbx,DigiTech and Lexicon,including dbx AFS2,DigiTech Amp Modeling,and more. Both models feature fully recallable and remote-controlled mic gain and phantom power,along with 4-band parametric EQ,high-pass filter,compressor,de-esser and noise gate on input channels.
Both mixers offer 31-band graphic EQ,noise gate and compressor on all outputs,plus real-time frequency analyser (RTA) on inputs and outputs. Built in are three dedicated Lexicon FX busses: Reverb,Delay and Chorus. In addition,mixer controls include Subgroups,Mute groups and View groups,among others. The Ui Series mixers feature full Show/Snapshot recallability with channel recall safes. while security lockout features allow customization of device access to only specific functions and mixes if needed. Both mixers also offer independent network interfaces on board for simultaneous control by Wi-Fi and Ethernet,plus a floor-ready rugged chassis for live applications.
The Ui12 also features four XLR combo mic/line inputs,four XLR mic inputs,two channels of Hi- Z/instrument inputs,as well as a stereo RCA line input. A 2-channel USB media player is included,along with two balanced XLR Aux outputs,two quarter-inch headphone outputs with level control,plus balanced stereo XLR and quarter-inch main outputs. Two-channel USB audio playback is compatible with MP3,WAV and AIFF formats. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 9,847 |
Canadian Mounties seize reporter's files in raid
News Media Update CANADA Confidentiality/Privilege
Canadian Mounties seize reporter's files in raid
Police raided the home and office of a reporter in a terrorism investigation in an effort to discover her sources of information.
Jan. 22, 2004 — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided the home and office of a reporter for The Ottawa Citizen on Wednesday during a search for the identity of a source who leaked secret documents concerning a Syrian-born Canadian citizen suspected of terrorist ties, according to accounts in the Citizen and other news services.
The police raided the Ottawa home of reporter Juliet O'Neill, seizing her notebooks, computer files and address books and rolodex; they confiscated other records from her office at The Ottawa Citizen.
The raids were triggered by O'Neill's Nov. 8 front-page story detailing a Canadian intelligence dossier on Maher Arar, an Ottawa telecommunications engineer who was arrested in New York in 2002 by U.S. authorities. Arar was then deported to Syria, where he said he was tortured by Syrian military intelligence in an effort to link him to Al Qaeda. He was released and allowed to return to Canada last fall. He has not been charged with any crime.
O'Neill's article cited to an unnamed "security source" and a leaked document detailing Arar's statements to Syrian military intelligence officials. She reported that Arar confessed that he attended an Al Qaeda training camp in 1993. Arar says that the confession was extracted from him under torture. The police are seeking the identity of O'Neill's confidential source.
In addition, O'Neill may face criminal charges under Canada's Official Secrets Act, passed after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The law prohibits the distribution or unauthorized possession of sensitive government materials and carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.
Scott Anderson, the editor-in-chief of the Citizen, criticized the raids, which were authorized by judicial warrants. "It is a black, black day for freedom in this country. I am outraged. The Canadian government has a lot to answer for and it's using intimidation to prevent the search for truth. Canadians should be appalled at the Star Chamber mentality that's creeping into our justice system," Anderson told the CanWest News Service.
Officials in both Canada and the U.S. have said that Arar was seized based on information supplied by Canadian intelligence, according to a Jan. 22 New York Times article. Arar has called for a public inquiry into whether Canadian intelligence was involved in his deportation and he plans to file suit against the U.S. government for wrongfully expelling him to Syria.
© 2004 The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Return to: RCFP Home; News Page
San Francisco police memo: Officers told not to use bodycams during raid of journalist's home
Washington Times settles case involving Homeland Security's seizure of reporter's papers
A close look at the Bryan Carmody case
Appeals court affirms release of 'black book'
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Few additions at Chateau Briand Soest
Door: Dick Leseman
A young business, yet with many years of experiences, is pushing forward. Chateau Briand Soest makes no concessions when it comes to quality. Their sausages and meatballs are traditionally pure and delicious products.
Chateau Briand Soest was launched in 2018. Despite its young existence, it can boast on decades of experience. 23 years ago, Wim Voskuilen and his brother had a meat products business on the same premises. "We had a leading company producing smoked sausages, meatballs, and horse-meat sausages", reflects Wim Voskuilen. "My brother decided to sell the company seven years ago." The following years, Wim kept on working in the meat processing industry, until last year. In 2018, owner Sjan van Ettekoven approached Wim again to see if he would be willing to prepare his familiar meatballs and smoked sausages at his former premises. Wim completely stripped the building and refitted it with, in part, the familiar equipment he always used, especially the smoking cabinets, and also added hyper-modern production lines.
Meat like it used to taste
At Chateau Briand Soest, taste and quality come first. They prepare their smoked sausages, grilled sausages, meatballs, and tasty snacks in an artisanal way. With an obvious passion and according to the old and tested recipes with pure ingredients. "I don't make smoked sausages that can be kept for three months", says Wim. "A cutlet, these days, contains so many additives that it tastes like nothing. We produce meat like it used to taste, without lactates and acids, deliciously fresh. And you can taste that." Partner Wolter Snijder adds: "Knowing the provenance of the meat, ensuring animal- and eco-friendly production, resulting in honest and freshly prepared products with hardly any additives. Everyone wants them, but only few people can make them". They don't keep a large stock. Chateau Briand's motto is 'order now is producing now'.
The 'Kloeke Kip'
A great example of what Wolter Snijder means is the collaboration with the chicken company of the Kuijpers family in Venlo. "They are the farmers, we are the butchers. That is the entire chain", he emphasises. "They are currently building a whole new company in Horst, which has a unique concept. The chicks are hatched in the stable. They are reared in the stable and are slaughtered in the stable. The living animals are not transported anywhere and, in addition to this being more environmentally friendly, it also results in less stress for the animals. They guarantee not to use any antibiotics." This collaboration is formed under the name De Kloeke Kip. "Chateau Briand is the supplier, but the brand name is De Kloeke Kip", explains Wim. It is also important to note that De Kloeke Kip processes the entire animal and not just the most demanded chicken filet. "Thanks to this carcase balancing, we no longer have residual flows to Africa or import from India. We no longer need to ship meat to or from anywhere else", says Wolter Snijder.
Safeguarding food safety
January saw the merger of the company of Wolter Snijder and Chateau Briand. "My company in Wolvega manufactured all kinds of chicken products. Thanks to the growth we saw over the past year and the expected growth in the future, we decided to consolidate all activities of both companies here in Soest. Now we can ensure food safety and produce efficiently while guaranteeing the excellent quality, in high volumes and in new product groups. The collaboration was not a necessity but a well-considered strategy. "Quality always wins, but may need a bit more time", explains Wim. "This is what the future of the meat industry will look like: beautiful products with consideration for the environment and animal welfare while also safeguarding food safety. And for this, we look for partners, not for suppliers or buyers. Partners who think just like we do. Like Wolter with his Kloeke Kip. And like Simpel Desinfecteren, the company with a unique disinfectant method for the production areas. They provide input and support us when it comes to safeguarding food safety.
Low infection level
Wim is convinced about the application of the Nocotech system for the food industry. "When using a regular disinfectant, you always have to rinse the cleaned areas and objects. Nocotech by Simpel Desinfecteren produces a dry vapour. This vapour fills the entire closed off space and enters the smallest nooks and crannies of the machines and even the ventilation system. Rinsing afterwards is no longer necessary. We regularly test the space on the presence of bacteria. Ever since we started to use the Nocotech system in addition to the regular cleaning, the total germ count is always zero. Even on the floor, at the drain, we measure zero." According to Wim Voskuilen, the infection pressure with Nocotech remains exceptionally low. When it comes to food safety, the gentlemen of Chateau Briand Soest are adamant: "Food safety is not to be found in the additives you use, but in the environment you create."
www.simpeldesinfecteren.nl
www.chateaubriandsoest.nl
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