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4 "What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? 5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' 7 I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine [b]just persons who need no repentance.

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Out the Door in the 6th | Say Mar Say! - C'est Marseille! How can I give you a glimpse of our neighborhood in Marseille? I'll take a stroll out my door! Taking a right turn, I walk a few steps and take a left onto rue Paradis, a street full of fancy little clothing, furniture, and neighborhood service shops. The window displays are artistic, some of the prices breathtaking. Careful! The sidewalk is narrow and there are people waiting at bus stops and walking dogs and stopping and starting so you have to watch where you're going. Cars and scooters, if not parked willy nilly on the sidewalk, zip up rue Paradis in one direction, driving aggressively as if they have the right of way (and they do). It's a bourgeois neighborhood of shops and important institutions. After one block you find the stately Banque de France (equivalent to our Federal Reserve Bank) and across the way is an architecturally impressive bank building, La Caisse d'Epargne. In front of both is place Estrangin-Pastré, where you find a metro station, a once a week outdoor flower market, and parked scooters and public benches around a fountain. Confirming that the neighborhood has a serious purpose, nearby you will also find the Palais du Justice (the court house). I turn right on rue Peytral and pass the permanently barricaded United States Consulate that sits in Place Varian Fry, named after an American who spent a year in Marseille during WWII and saved 1,500 people from the Germans mainly by falsifying transit papers. We live in the 6th arrondisement (there are 16 in all) in a neighborhood named after the Prefecture building I am now passing. (There are many other neighborhoods in the 6th.) The Prefecture is a building usually found in the largest city in each department of France—Marseille's department is Bouches-du-Rhone—that represents the national government at the local level. In front of the 19th century Prefecture there is an unpredictably large and noisy modern fountain that is dramatically illuminated in bright colors at night. As one of the important symbols of the city, the Prefecture itself is also proudly lit at night. If I were to turn left towards the Vieux-Port I would be on rue Saint Ferreol, a pedestrian only street of about seven blocks that puts on show all the famous retailers. It's always jammed but especially so this week as the bi-annual government-authorized soldes (sales) are on in a big, big way. Instead, I retrace a few steps and turn onto rue Edmond Rostand behind the Prefecture. A sign hangs over the street: Quartier des Antiquaries. Rue Edmond Rostand is the place in Marseille for antique and bric-a-brac (brocante) dealers and art galleries. In fact it's a narrow street that closes on one Sunday every few months allowing the stores to spread their collectibles onto the pavement, making a rich display of whatever. I have taken you on a walk of one part of one arrondissement in Marseille. The 6th arrondissement has several other neighborhoods besides the Prefecture: Vauban that climbs up the hill to the iconic Basilique Notre Dame de la Garde, the roundabout Place Castellane (see Help Wanted at Place Castellane), the restaurants, bars, and cafés on part of the south bank of the Vieux-Port, l'Opéra Municipal de Marseille, and the Notre Dame du Mont neighborhood where you find La Plaine and the hip graffiti emblazoned Cours Julien with its inexpensive international restaurants, tiny theaters, bars, and music venues. There's so much more to see in Marseille. Where would you like to go next? This entry was posted on January 17, 2010 at 4:13 pm and is filed under France, Marseille, Marseilles, South of France, Travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Effectiveness of the National Program of Complementary Feeding for older adults in Chile on vitamin B12 status in older adults; secondary outcome analysis from the CENEX Study (ISRCTN48153354) Hugo Sanchez1, Cecilia Albala1, Lydia Lera1, Alan D Dangour2 & Ricardo Uauy1 Older people are at increased risk of vitamin B12 deficiency and the provision of fortified foods may be an effective way to ensure good vitamin B12 status in later life. To evaluate the effectiveness of a vitamin B12 fortified food provided by a national program of complementary food for older people on plasma vitamin B12 levels. Subjects and methods A random sub-sample of 351 subjects aged 65-67y from a large cluster randomised controlled trial provided blood samples at baseline and after 24 months of intervention. The intervention arm (10 clusters 186 participants) received a vitamin B12 fortified food designed to deliver 1.4 μg/day, while the control arm did not receive complementary food (10 clusters, 165 participants). Serum vitamin B12 and folate levels determined by radioimmunoassay were used to estimate the effect of intervention on vitamin B12 levels, adjusting for baseline levels and sex. Attrition at 24 months was 16.7% and 23.6% in the intervention and control arms respectively (p = 0.07). Over 24 months of intervention, mean (95% CI) serum vitamin B12 decreased from 392 (359–425) pmol/dL to 357 (300–414) pmol/dL (p < 0.07) in the intervention arm and from 395 (350–440) pmol/dL to 351 (308–395) pmol/dL in the control arm. There was no significant effect of the intervention on folate status. Our findings suggest that foods fortified with 1.4 μg/daily vitamin B12 as provided by Chile's national programme for older people are insufficient to ensure adequate vitamin B12 levels in this population. Chile has a long and successful experience with nutrition intervention programs; however, the Country's changing demographic and nutritional profiles require a constant adjustment of the programs. The ageing process of the Chilean population involve multiple repercussions on public health [1, 2]. The gradual deterioration of physical and mental health conditions that accompanies ageing is a result of genetic and environmental interactions, including lifestyle, dietary habits, physical activity, and the presence of disease. Nutrition plays an important role in modulating changes induced by aging on various organ and body functions. Older people are vulnerable to multiple micronutrient deficiencies, especially vitamin B12 [3]. Vitamin B12 (B12) and folic acid are essential dietary constituents that regulate key metabolic pathways required for myelin and neurotransmitter synthesis; they also contribute to red blood cell replication and maturation [4]. Liver B12 stores are sufficient to meet adult needs for several months since daily requirements are low (2.4 μg/day) and manifestations of deficiency are apparent only after an extended dietary inadequacy (1 to 2 years) [5]. In Chile, the prevalence of B12 deficit in older adults is high with estimates ranging from 25.4% to 54.1% [6–8]. The prevalence is greater in men than women [6] and increases with advancing age [5]. In 1998 the Chilean Ministry of Health established a program for older adults designed to maintain health and activity levels in later life, reduce acute morbidity and functional decline, and decrease health inequalities [9, 10]. The program includes health promotion, illness prevention, and poverty reduction initiatives [11], and a complementary feeding program for older people (called PACAM) [12], which aims to promote adequate nutrition across the life course. Since 1999, PACAM has delivered foods to adults over the age of 69 who are beneficiaries of the National System of Health Services [13] providing 1.7ug/day of vitamin B12. Since 2000, wheat flour has been mandatorily fortified in Chile with 2.0-2.4 mg Folic Acid/Kg. Bread is an important food staple in Chile and this programme is estimated to deliver 200–400 μg of folate per day to older people [14, 15]. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the national complementary feeding program for older people (PACAM) on serum B12 levels in older adults. Secondary outcomes of interest include serum folate levels and relevant haematological parameters. This is a sub-study of the CENEX study [16] which was a cluster randomised controlled trial design to evaluate the cost effectiveness of a 2-y nutritional supplementation (PACAM) and/or physical activity program delivered at the community level to 2799 eligible subjects aged 65.0–67.9 y in a factorial design with four distinct study arms: Nutrition intervention (PACAM) alone, Exercise alone, Nutrition plus exercise and Control [17]. Exclusion criteria of the CENEX study included unable to walk unaided, unplanned 3-kg weight loss over 3 months, planning to move house within 12 months, already enrolled in the national PACAM program or reporting a current consumption of PACAM program supplement and cognitive impairment defined as a score < 13 using a 19-item Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) [18] and scoring < 6 in the PfefferActivities) [19, 20]. At baseline, socioeconomic characteristics, history of chronic diseases and self-reported health status (SRH) were registered. Anthropometric measurements and physical performance were assessed as previously described [17]. A sub-sample of 125 randomly selected participants per group was invited for the assessment of blood indicators under fasting conditions. Blood samples were obtained from 491 individuals at baseline and from 394 participants after 2-y of intervention. The CENEX study was approved by ethics committees at Institute de Nutrition and Technology of Foods (INTA; University of Chile), Ministry of Health (Government of Chile), and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM; University of London). All study participants provided full informed written consent before being enrolled in the study. The intervention comprised 1 kg/month of a dried soup powdered (made of a mixture of grains and vegetables) and 1 kg/month of a powdered milk drink (made of low-lactose milk), both of which were fortified with vitamins and minerals (Table 1). The recommended daily dose is 25 g/day of dried soup and 50 g/day powered milk, both products providing jointly 1.7 ug/day of vitamin B12; approximately 58% of the daily reference nutrient intake (2.4 μg/day) [21]. Table 1 Nutritional composition of fortified foods Fasting venous blood sample were collected by study nurses. All blood samples were stored at −80°C and processed at the end of the study. The serum B12 and folate levels were determined in duplicate using radioimmunoassay (Dual Count Solid phase no boil Assay Siemens, LA). The red blood cell analysis included haemoglobin (Hb; g/dL), haematocrit (Hct;%), and median corpuscle volume (MCV; fL); these parameters were determined using an electronic particle counter (Cell-Dyn Model 1700 (Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Park, IL). We evaluated the groups' compliance with PACAM intake by counting the number of PACAM products retrieved monthly from the health centre, with 12 retrievals considered 100% compliance (i.e., the collection of 2 kg in 12 of 24 mo), as systematically documented in the records kept by health centre auxiliary nurses. The reference values proposed by Allen et al. [22] were used to categorise B12 status as deficient <148 pmol/dL, as subclinical deficient with levels between 148 and 221 pmol/dL, and as normal with levels >221 pmol/dL. We excluded participants from analysis of B12 status if they presented with baseline B12 values >680 pmol/L, as such levels suggest that the participants used vitamin supplements [23]. For folate, values below 7 nmol/L were considered deficient, 7 to 46 nmol/L as normal, and values >46 nmol/L as supraphysiological levels [23, 24]. The diagnosis of anaemia was made for haemoglobin values <13 g/dL in men and <12 g/dL in women [7]. Microcytosis and macrocytosis were considered for values <80 fL and >100 fL, respectively [25]. The five self-reported health status (SRH) response categories were regrouped into good (excellent, very good and good) fair and poor. At baseline and post-intervention, mean (95% CI) or median (IQR: p25-p75) plasma levels and status (percentage, 95% CI) of B12 and folates are reported. The differences between baseline and post-intervention mean plasma levels of B12 and folate are reported as mean differences and 95% CI adjusted for baseline levels and accounting for the clustered design in an intention to treat analysis. The statistical significance of the differences was analysed by Wald Test. All statistical analyses were carried out in STATA 12.0. From the 491 subjects initially evaluated, 490 blood samples allowed the measurement of vitamin B12 levels, from which 351 met the inclusion criterion for plasma B12 levels <680 pmol/dL: 186 (28% male) in the intervention arm and 165 (30.9% male) in the control arm. At 24 months, 31 participants from the PACAM group (16.7%) were lost to attrition, and 39 were lost from the control group (23.6%) (p = 0.07). A flow diagram is shown in Figure 1. Flow-chart for study. Participants collected 68% of total available food and adherence was 75%. Only one person did not comply at all and 61,6% complied most of the time. The baseline characteristics split by arm of intervention and gender are presented in Table 2. The intervention and control arms were well matched for age, gender, educational attainment, self-perception of health and haematological parameters at baseline. Table 2 Baseline characteristics of study groups In Table 3 baseline and final levels of B12 and folates are shown, along with the mean and 95% CI of the serum levels of B12 (pmol/L) and folates (nmol/L) by gender. B12 levels were significantly lower in men than women, both in the PACAM group (p = 0.02) and the control group (p = 0.05). No differences in serum B12 levels at baseline neither at 24 months were observed between PACAM and control groups. Serum B12 levels decreased between baseline and 24 months only in men in both PACAM (−39.4, p < 0.01) and control (−57.3, p < 0.06). No difference in the magnitude of the decrease between both groups was observed. Table 3 Baseline and post-intervention the vitamin B-12 and folates by group and sex No differences in serum folate levels at baseline neither at 24 months were observed between PACAM and control groups. Serum folates levels decreased significantly (p < 0.01) between baseline and 24 months in both PACAM (−8.3 nmol/L) and control (−7.2 nmol/L) groups, with no differences in the magnitude of the fall between both groups. Table 4 presents B12 and folate status by category and sex; this shows that the frequency of B12 deficiency was similar in the two groups at baseline and after intervention. After adjusting for sex, age, and baseline B12, the multilevel model indicated no significant change in B12 after intervention for either the PACAM or control groups (data not shown). No folate deficiency at baseline or post-intervention was observed. Table 4 Vitamin B-12 and folates status before and after intervention, by group and sex In terms of folate, the prevalence of values >46 nmol/L was 20.6% at baseline decreasing to 6.8% at 24 months. After adjusting for sex, age, and baseline folate, the multilevel model indicated a significant change in folate after intervention for either the PACAM or control groups (data not shown). The prevalence of anaemia was 8.3% at baseline and 7.5% at 24 months. Macrocytosis was 0.3% at baseline, increasing to 2.1% after intervention. The results demonstrate that the program did not significantly improve B12 status in comparison with the control group. B12 deficiency is relatively common among older people and is associated with metabolic, haematological, cognitive, and neuroconduction problems [26]. In a study recently published by our group, we found a B12 deficit of 12% using the cut-off of <148 mpol/L and 25.4% using the cut-off of <221 pmol/L [6]. Allen obtained similar results in an American population [27] and Loikas in a Turkish population [28]. The possible causes of B12 deficiency in the older adult population fall into two main categories: a) gastric atrophy associated with aging, which impedes the absorption of B12 from foods due to a lack of acid [29, 30], along with decreased levels of intrinsic factor, which is an essential element for B12 absorption in the ileum; and b) low intake of B12 containing animal products [31]. Preliminary data from an on-going study [32] suggest that the intake of B12 from foods in older adults is on average 5.4 μg/day. The average intake of foods delivered by PACAM is 25 g/day of powdered milk drink and 3 portions/week of dried soup. Therefore the vitamin B12 intake provided by the programme is about 0.7 μg/day, thus resulting in an intake of 6.1 μg/day. Therefore, considering the recommended daily requirements (2.4 μg/day) for older people it would seem that the deficiency observed in Chile is due primarily to gastric atrophy. One of the great challenges in nutrition program design at a population level is defining the best course of action for addressing B12 values below the acceptable limit (148 pmol/L). Studies of a Latino population residing in the United States have demonstrated normalised plasma B12 levels after adding fortified foods or supplements (F/S) >500 μg/day to the diet. In addition, it has been found that F/S in the crystalline form of the vitamin is the most effective, as it is well absorbed by individuals with and without gastric mucosa atrophy [33]. A possible weakness of this study was that the intake of PACAM products was not specifically quantitated; however, considering that the study was an effectiveness evaluation, no assessment of PACAM intake beyond the usual controls of the program was considered. Another potential weakness was not establishing the usual intake of B12, but Chilean data suggest that the average intake of B12 in older adults is above the daily-recommended allowance. After the intervention, the folate levels decreased in both groups, showing that PACAM fortification with folic acid has little or no effect. Taking into account that the absorption of folic acid is not influenced by age, and bread consumption in Chile is very high in all groups of age, it is possible to postulate that this decrease is due to a reduction in the amount of folic acid in wheat flour during the years when the CENEX study was carried out, as described by Castillo [15]. In Chile, the National Program of Complementary Feeding for the Elderly over the age of 70 provides 45.8% of the daily-recommended intake of B12. Our findings show that this amount does not ensure that this population maintains adequate levels of B12. Therefore, it is important to address a number of questions regarding the nutritional programs implemented in our Country: First, we should evaluate the true amount of micronutrients provided by the foods included in these programs. Second, we should evaluate the effectiveness of fortifying PACAM products with crystalline B12 in quantities greater than the RDA. Finally, we should review existing B12 recommendations for this age group. There is an international consensus on the need to target B12 in particular in nutrition interventions for older adults if foods are universally fortified with folic acid [34]. Chile has a long and successful experience in nutrition intervention programs; however, the Country's changing demographic, epidemiologic and nutritional profile requires a constant surveillance of the nutritional programs, carrying out periodic evaluations of the programs' impact on the target population. The high burden of illness associated with chronic nutrition-related diseases on a global and national level significantly affects national health budgets. This makes it even more important to evaluate the interventions and identify the most cost-effective course of action [35], without losing sight of the fact that nutrition and physical activity are fundamental for maintaining an active, healthy, and autonomous lifestyle and high quality of life for older adults. Albala C, Vio F, Kain J, et al: Nutrition transition in Latin America: The case of Chile. Nutr Reviews. 2001, 56: 170-176. Palloni A, Pinto-Aguirre G, Pelaez M: Demographic and health conditions of ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean. Int J Epidemiol. 2002, 31 (4): 762-771. 10.1093/ije/31.4.762. PubMed PMID: 12177016 Berry E: Chronic disease: How can nutrition moderate the effects?. Nutr Reviews. 1994, 52 (Suppl 2): 28-30. Carmel R: Nutritional anemias and the elderly. Semin Hematol. 2008 Oct, 45 (4): 225-234. 10.1053/j.seminhematol.2008.07.009. Carmel R, Green R, Rosenblatt DS, et al: Update on cobalamin, folate, and homocysteine. Haematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program. 2003, 62: 81- Sánchez H, Albala C, Hertrampf E, et al: Déficit de vitamina B-12 en adultos mayores:¿Un problema de salud pública en Chile?. Rev Med Chile. 2010, 138: 56-61. Olivares M, Hertrampf E, Capurro MT, et al: Prevalence of anaemia in elderly subjects living at home: role of micronutrient deficiency and inflammation. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2000, 54: 834-839. 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601099. Hirsch S, De la Maza P, Barrera G, et al: The Chilean Flour Folic Acid Fortification program reduces serum homocysteine levels and masks B12 deficiency in elderly people. J Nutr. 2002, 132: 289-291. Mardones SF: Algunos antecedentes sobre la inequidad en la situación de salud del adulto mayor en Chile. Rev. Méd. Chile. 2004, 132 (7): 865-872. 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Miller A, Furlong D, Burrows BA, et al: Bound vitamin B12 absorption in patients with low serum B-12 levels. Am J Hematol. 1992, 40: 163-166. 10.1002/ajh.2830400302. Scarlett JD, Read H, O`Dea K: Protein-bound cobalamin absorption declines in the elderly. Am J Hematol. 1992, 39: 79-83. 10.1002/ajh.2830390202. Sánchez H, Albala C, Lera L, Castillo JL, Verdugo R, Lavados M, Hertrampf E, et al: Comparison of two modes of vitamin B12 supplementation on neuroconduction and cognitive function among older people living in Santiago, Chile: A cluster randomised controlled trial. A study protocol [ISRCTN 02694183]. Nutr J. 2011, 10 (1): 100-10.1186/1475-2891-10-100. BioMed Central Ltd. doi:10.1186/1475-2891-10-100 Campbell A, Millar J, Green R, et al: Plasma Vitamin B-12 concentrations in an Elderly Latino population are predicted by serum Gastrin concentrations and crystalline vitamin B-12 intake. J Nutr. 2003, 133: 2770-2776. Johnson MA: If high folic acid aggravates vitamin B-12 deficiency what should be done about it?. Nutr Rev. 2007, 65: 451-8. 10.1301/nr.2007.oct.451–458. Christensen K, Doblhammer G, Rau R, Vaupel JW: Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. Lancet. 2009, 374: 1196-208. 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61460-4. Funding provided by: The Wellcome Trust, grant number 075219; Chilean National Fund for Science and Technology (FONDECYT) grant number 1070592. Nutrition and Public Health, Aging, and Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Avda. El Libano 5524, Casilla, 138–11, Santiago, Chile Hugo Sanchez , Cecilia Albala , Lydia Lera & Ricardo Uauy Department of Population Health, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK Alan D Dangour Search for Hugo Sanchez in: Search for Cecilia Albala in: Search for Lydia Lera in: Search for Alan D Dangour in: Search for Ricardo Uauy in: Correspondence to Cecilia Albala. HS and CA conceived the study. RU, CA, AD, HS applied for funding. All authors contributed to designing the study. HS, CA, AD, RU and LL critically reviewed and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Fortified foods Nutrition programme

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The previous generation looks stylish and has a great interior design with some cool colour trim combinations. It also drives nicely. The engines are economical and provide reasonable power, but if you're seeking more space, you could look at the C3 Picasso. What's the interior like? "A colourful and fun interior with character." The C3's interior feels fresh and modern with colour coded trim inserts and a number of personalisation options which were available to the new buyer. The materials used are reasonable with some stiff plastic surfaces which, although they lack a soft feeling, are well made and hard-wearing. The instrumentation is clear with three main dials and there's an infotainment screen with navigation on some models. Space up front is good and some C3s featured Citroen's Zenith windscreen which floods the interior with light and gives you an unrivalled view out. With 300 litres of boot space, it's big enough to hold several small suitcases for a weekend away. The boot is also bigger than its rivals, the Volkswagen Polo and Peugeot 207. The latest generation has far more dark plastic, which is offset nicely with coloured trim inserts and pieces of chrome. Like the exterior, it's quirky and will appeal to you if you're looking for something a little different. What's it like to drive? "It promises a comfortable ride and a good drive." The C3 is all about being comfortable. It's compact and easily manoeuvred in towns and villages, helped by its light steering and well-placed controls. It breezes along A-roads well enough and, even if you opt for the 1.1-litre version, it'll be able to cope with any type of road. The 1.4 and 1.6-litre petrol engines offer more performance, while the HDi diesels provide good levels of power and great economy. It's pretty much the same with the most recent generation, with comfort being the main focus, making it a good option for those who want a great ride with unique style in the small car class. Is it cost-efficient to buy and run? "One of the best value cars on the market to buy and run." It's impossible to fault the C3 on running costs. Both generations are affordable to buy when compared with rivals. All offer excellent fuel economy with the 1.6 HDi delivering up to a claimed 83 mpg and 78 mpg in the latest generation, although most will be in the upper 50s. Servicing costs are good with Citroen dealers offering special rates on cars over three years old. Parts aren't going to cost the earth either, while most insurance and tax costs are low even compared with similar rivals. It's definitely one of the best cars for the money and is perfect if you're prioritising costs. How reliable and safe is it? "The C3 has a better reputation for reliability than Citroens overall." Citroen is typically below average in reliability surveys, but the C3 has actually fared slightly better than the brand overall. Recalls for electrical and suspension issues will probably have been dealt with by previous owners during regular servicing. The 2010-2017 model only scored four stars for safety in the Euro NCAP crash test because of a lack of electronic stability control on some models, but the latest generation received the full five star award. Which one is best for you? Best for economy - 1.6 BlueHDI Best for family - 1.6 BlueHDI (100 hp) Platinum Best for fun - Latest generation 1.2 Flair Puretech If you're looking at the previous generation then opt for any 1.6 BlueHDI model for its great economy and superior power. Go for as high a trim level as you can find, such as Platinum, as you could still get a bargain. If you're going for the latest generation, the Flair version is the most stylish and has the best equipment but don't rule out all of its lower trim levels, especially if the original owner has added options that could be useful to you. 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Gov. Scott orders statewide look at reforming mental-health care Derek Gilliam Gov. Rick Scott put additional priority on reforming Florida's mental health system Wednesday with an executive order that mandates top state government officials to develop changes. The order directs the secretary of the Department of Children and Families to develop a statewide model to improve mental health services and streamline the current funding processes. "For the first time in our state, we are trying to look at mental illness on the front end and ensure we find the best ways to support individuals with mental health needs in their communities before they are committed to the custody or supervision of the state," the Republican governor said in a prepared statement. Scott had also signed an executive order in July that established a mental health pilot program in Broward County. Wednesday's directive expands that program to Pinellis and Alachua counties. The Broward County program was created with the goal of identifying "the availability and effectiveness of institutionalized care and [to] outline reforms." Part of the pilot program's goals is to find out how possible it would be to establish a system to coordinate all state, federal and local agencies. Currently, there's little sharing of information between agencies because of privacy laws regarding medical records. Jacksonville mental health professionals, advocates and government officials have been studying the local system of care for people experiencing mental health issues for months, including an ongoing two-year project with Jacksonville Community Council Inc. The Jacksonville Criminal Justice Behavioral Health Collaborative is also looking into how to best direct people to the available services. Last week, about 40 people attended a meeting at the Duval County courthouse where officials talked about a central receiving facility where all people in mental health crisis could be directed. Kristellys Zolondek, community engagement specialist at LSF Health Systems, said a central receiving facility could be part of a system that would help coordinate efforts between different agencies. LSF Health Systems is one of five managing entities that has been tasked with distributing millions of dollars of mental-health funding to community service providers, and is part of the Jacksonville Criminal Justice Behavioral Health Collaborative. "We are all working toward the same thing," Zolondek said. "We agree there needs to be a centralized system to identify clients." Denise Marzullo, CEO and president of Mental Health America of Northeast Florida, said she's "cautiously optimistic" about the governor's directive. She pointed out the governor vetoed needed mental health programs in Northeast Florida as recently as this last budget cycle. The Governor's Office this year vetoed $97,000 that would have hired SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery processors at the jail. Processors significantly increase the odds of a mentally-ill person obtaining benefits on the first try. Government assistance is cut off after 30 days of incarceration and it can be difficult for people with mental-health problems to reconnect to services. "Mental health hasn't been his top priority," she said. "I hope he is understanding the negative effects of an underfunded mental health system." Derek Gilliam: (904) 359-4619

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Did you start your business because you were good at doing Something, and then you decided to turn that Something into a business? Congratulations! That is wonderful, and it says a lot about you. You are a person who has the guts and gumption to take some risk, and that category is reserved for only a very special type of person. Most entrepreneurs started this way. This also means, as the business owner, you now wear all kinds of hats; a hat for sales, marketing, accounting and fulfillment. All the responsibilities of the business have fallen straight on your shoulders, at least for the moment. Let's say that you have started your business, and have been operating a few years. You have brought on some salespeople, and you are actively spending money on marketing. You sort of have an idea of how things should run in your business, but in a very broad sense. Now you want to take it to the next level, so somehow you need to ramp it up and start growing. Where do you start? The challenging part here comes up in a couple ways. First of all, people opening a new business for the first time have not necessarily attended a formal business school, and have not had the experiences in that particular School of Hard Knocks yet. Just because a person is good at doing Something does not mean they understand everything that goes into running a business: sales, marketing, accounting, training, and managing. There is a definite learning curve, and the sooner it can be learned, the better for the business. Second, there are only 24 hours in a day. As new business owners, the business is usually understaffed and overworked. Maybe it is even a one-man band with that one man wearing every hat. Time and time management becomes an issue. Where is a person's time best spent? Well, it seems the time best spent would be on the profit points of your business. Where is that? How do you know what to watch? How do you know what to manage? You start by tracking. Where are you now? Where are you going? What are the steps along the way? If your phone is ringing, you have probably been spending some money on advertising and have a sense that something is working because the phone is ringing. However, as the number of dollars spent increases, a nagging thought starts lingering in the back of your mind. "I wonder which advertising is really bringing in the phone calls." Knowing that some is working and some is not, you quickly become familiar with the adage which has been tied to merchants as far back as 1860, and the founder of the first department store, John Wanamaker, that "fifty percent of my marketing works. I just don't know which fifty percent," Who coined the phrase originally, who knows? That does not matter. What matters is that the same issue business owners faced almost a couple hundred years ago is sometimes still a real dilemma for business owners today. Have you ever had that gnawing in your gut as someone sits before you and gives an offer to do more marketing for you? They ask the stupid question, "Do you want to grow your business or not?" Sometimes I wonder what they would say if I answered, 'No, I'd prefer to just sink my business right into the ground.' That is kind of an annoying question, isn't it? The thing is, they have you in a Catch-22, and they know they are messing with your mind! Your brain tells you that you have to market, yet your gut tells you that you are sick and tired of spending money and not knowing whether or not it is working. This is the position we were in before we decided we needed to change. We were spending a lot of money on marketing and had all kinds of salespeople, but we had no way to measure who was selling what, nor did we know what the cost was to us per salesperson, per advertising source and per service and product we offered. We knew that if we had this information, we could make better decisions with our marketing and sales departments, and so we set out to tie it all together. How can I get more customers (generate new sales) and keep the ones I already have? How can I keep expenses from eating my profits? How can I keep a positive cash flow? To demonstrate my point a little more clearly, let's look at Ryan's company. Ryan and his brother, Ken, have had a gutter business for about 15 years in Poughkeepsie, NY. Ryan always kept good records, but he did not really know how to use all the numbers he had gathered. He said he was sick of "just making" payroll each week, and knew there was a way to get around that to even out the cash flow. It was not until they hired a business coach who was pretty savvy with numbers, however, that Ryan was able to pull his mind around the numbers and put them in an order that made sense. This particular company needed to do some price adjustments, and they were having a hard time justifying the increase in their minds; but when they looked at the numbers, they had to do what made sense for the company. They had to take a look at the industry as a whole to see what could be charged. They also had to determine their own gross margins to make sure that it was profitable for them. Then they had to really outshine their competition in both service and quality in order to justify their increase. It was a mind game for Ryan, and in the end he said he just had to "let the numbers decide". For him, that has taken away a lot of what can cause anxiety in running a business. Since they know their average close rate, based on the number of leads, Ryan is able to predict the number and dollars of sales, as well as the timeline for delivering on those sales. In their company, they want a turnaround time of two weeks to deliver on a sale. If he sees that there are a certain number of leads in Week 1, he knows that in Week 2 he will have a certain number of sales, which will mean a certain number of jobs for Weeks 3 and 4. Knowing the number of jobs each crew can complete in a week, he is able to plan the number of crews that will be needed to deliver on time for all of those sales. He also knows and can plan for the approximate cash flow that will come upon projected completion times of gutter installations.

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What Would You Do?: Summer 2014 Ratings The show didn't do very well in the ratings last time around but ABC's What Would You Do? is back for another season anyway. Will the ratings continue to fall? Will the show be cancelled or renewed? We'll have to wait and see. On What Would You Do?, John Quinones and his crew create controversial situations in public and film the reactions of regular people. The ratings are typically the best indication of a show's likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — typically around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest. How are your shows doing? Check the season rankings: ABC | CBS | CW | FOX | NBC 8/9 update: You can see the latest night's ratings in context. Note: If you're not seeing the updated charts, please try reloading the page. You can also see them here. Last season comparison: The previous season of What Would You Do? averaged a 0.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 2.95 million total viewers. Note: These are the final national numbers (unless noted with an "*"). These are different from the fast affiliate numbers which are just estimates of the actual ratings. The final nationals are typically released within 24 hours of the programming or, in the case of weekends and holidays, a couple days later. What do you think? Do you like the What Would You Do? TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for another season? More about: What Would You Do?, What Would You Do?: canceled or renewed?, What Would You Do?: ratings Cancelled or Renewed? Status of ABC TV Shows Friday TV Ratings: TKO: Total Knockout, Masters of Illusion, What Would You Do, American Ninja Warrior, Basketball Friday TV Ratings: Masters of Illusion, What Would You Do, Whistleblower, American Ninja Warrior, The Orville Friday TV Ratings: Quantico, Masters of Illusion, Whistleblower, American Ninja Warrior, The Orville Friday TV Ratings: What Would You Do, Masters of Illusion, MasterChef, Dateline, Hawaii Five-0 What Would You Do?: Winter 2016 Ratings Friday TV Ratings: What Would You Do?, Masters of Illusion, 20/20 Friday TV Ratings: Crossbones, 20/20, Dateline, What Would You Do? Friday Ratings: Crossbones, What Would You Do?, 20/20, Dateline Elfaba THIS SHOW ROCKS ITCH OFF HAWK!!!! My friends, occasionally strangers and I talk about scenarios on the show. In fact I just had one myself last month when my bank paid me back A couple of hundred more dollars than what I asked for. I did not notice until I returned home as They failed to stamp the correct amount they gave me on my bank receipt or debit my account. I know why it happened because the girl was too busy chatting with a male customer in another line and her colleague. I contacted the bank and let them know what happened and why I… Read more » personally, i really love this show. it captures the thoughts and actions of reg ppl out there when serious situations happen in front of their faces. my issue w/ the it is i wish they would do each epi in a diff location, for w/e reason, they stay mainly in NJ. they only go elsewhere occassionally and to me, they're not getting a fair view of what ppl would do if they stay in the same general area.. so if they would just change this, and even get more diff actors (traci is their fave lol), then the show would… Read more » If you want lame, trite, & just plain boring, this is the show for you!

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…but above all, don't get caught. All the rules you need to occupy a neighborhood, recruit mobsters, hire made men, and start running your own rackets – whether you're fleecing elves or dragonborn. A new stat block system for tracking the stats of your own mob: respect, infamy, defense, upkeep, and territory. Pre-statted NPCs to occupy your underworld setting, ranging from fantastic criminals to extraordinary made men. Ideas for underworld events and corresponding actions of the law to help fuel the plotline in your campaign. In short, this book includes everything you need to run your own mafia-themed campaign – in a fantasy world!

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Justin Brookman is the Director, Consumer Privacy and Technology Policy, for Consumer Reports. In this new privacy role at CR, he will help the organization continue its groundbreaking work to shape the digital marketplace in a way that empowers consumers and puts their data privacy and security needs first. This work includes using CR research to identify critical gaps in consumer privacy, data security, and technology law and policy, as well as building strategies to expand the use and influence of the new Digital Standard being developed by CR and partner organizations to evaluate the privacy and security of products and services. Prior to joining CR, Brookman was Policy Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology Research and Investigation. At the FTC, Brookman conducted and published original research on consumer protection issues raised by emerging technologies such as cross-device tracking, smartphone security, and the Internet of Things. He also helped initiate and investigate enforcement actions against deceptive or unfair practices, including actions against online data brokers and digital tracking companies.

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Call Us Today | 205-343-0340 Newell Associates LLC Herbert M. Newell, III As founder and managing member, Herbert has practiced in Tuscaloosa since 1981 with a wide range of practice experience. He has been a part of different firms and practice groups in the city. Herbert is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification. He also handles creditor's rights in all types of bankruptcy cases, both secured and unsecured. Herbert has served as creditors committee counsel in several cases. He focuses his practice in Business Bankruptcy, Consumer Bankruptcy, Civil Litigation, , Real Estate matters, Commercial Law, Collection, drafting and dealing with Contracts, Civil Litigation of different types, and Civil and Appellate Mediation. Herbert is listed on the Alabama State Court Mediator Roster, that lists Mediators who have met the Mediation Registration Standards and Procedures adopted September 18, 1998, and is registered with the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution, Inc. Herbert received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration at Samford University in 1978, and went on to receive his juris doctor degree from the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University in 1981. He was admitted to practice law in Alabama in 1981, and is admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, as well as all of the federal district courts in Alabama. He has also practiced in the bankruptcy court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Herbert is a member of the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar, and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Herbert was born in Fayette, Alabama. He is married to Susan who has been a public school teacher for 34 years. They have one son, Herbie, and three grandchildren. Herbie is the executive director of Lifeline Children's Services, a ministry involved in the care of orphans around the world. Herbert and Susan are members of First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa where Herbert is a Deacon. Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification Copyright © 2020 Newell Associates LLC, all rights reserved. 2117 JACK WARNER PARKWAY, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401 (205) 343-0340

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Wiki and Net worth of Sharna Burgess and why she is so famous, know here? Sharna Burgess is an Australian ballroom dancer best known for her appearances on ABC's Dancing with the Stars as a professional partner and troupe member. She and her celebrity partner Bobby Bones won season 27 of the American television show dancing with the Stars, and she has also placed second in several other seasons. Since 2019, she has also served as a judge on the Australian edition of the show, with Craig Revel Horwood and Tristan MacManus. Scroll down to learn everything you need to know about Sharna Burgess, including her latest relationships, family, and qualifications. Sharna Burgess's estimated net worth, age, biography, career, social media profiles such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, family, and wiki are all shown here. Learn more about Sharna Burgess' current net worth, as well as her earnings, worth, salary, property, and income. Sharna Burgess is a well-known dancer who goes by the name Sharna May Burgess. She was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, on June 21, 1985. New South Wales is a beautiful and populous city in the Australian state of New South Wales. Sharna May Burgess began her professional career as a dancer after completing her official studies. Sharna Burgess's Childhood, Family History, and Education? Sharna Burgess was born on June 21, 1985, in Wagga Wagga, Australia, to Ray and Lucy Burgess. Burgess discovered a love for dance despite being a tomboy. She participated in a variety of sports and dancing disciplines as a child. She began ballet, jazz, and gymnastics training at the age of five. She began studying ballroom when she was eight years old, and she went on to win numerous local and national titles. She was chosen to represent Australia in the World Championships in both the Standard and Latin styles at the age of 15, and she performed in the Closing Ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics. Personal Life, Relationships, and Dating of Sharna Burgess? Burgess realized she suffered a slight tear in her knee ligament after her performance in the World Championships semi-finals. She insisted on finishing the competition rather than taking quick action. Because she ripped two ligaments in half and lost all of the meniscus in one knee, she needed knee ligament reconstruction surgery. From 2010 to 2015, she dated choreographer and dancer Paul Kirkland. Brian Austin Green is her current boyfriend. Social Media Activities of Sharna? She is well-known on social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Biography of Sharna Burgess? First Name? Sharna. Full Name? Burgess, Sharna. 21 June 1985. Place of Birth? New South Wales, Australia's Wagga Wagga. City of Birth? New South Wales, Australia. Country of Origin? Nationality? Australian. Zodiac Sign, Sun Sign, Horoscope? Occupation? Dancer. How much money does Sharna Burgess have? Sharna Burgess has a $3 million net worth as an Australian ballroom dancer. She is most recognized for her role as a professional dance partner on ABC's smash show dancing With the Stars. Sharna's first appearances on television were on Dancing with the Stars Australia and So You Think You Can Dance Holland. Sharna joined the cast of Dancing with the Stars in season 13 while also aiding choreographer Jason Gilkison on the Australian and American versions of the show. She stayed with the ensemble until the season 15 finale. Sharna was promoted to regular pro for Season 16 and paired with Andy Dick. For season 17, she returned as a professional, this time partnering retired NFL player Keyshawn Johnson. They were the first couple to be sent home. Sharna Burgess teamed up with Olympic ice dancer Charlie White for Season 18. Despite fantastic reviews and high scores throughout the season, they were ousted during Week 9 (the Semifinals) and finished in fifth place. Sharna was then cast in Season 19, alongside talk show host Tavis Smiley. What about Sharna Burgess personal life? From 2010 until 2015, Sharna dated dancer/choreographer Paul Kirkland. In the year 2020, she started dating actor Brian Austin Green. Sharna and Brian revealed that they were expecting a child together in February 2022. What is her real estate? Sharna purchased a property in the Hollywood Hills for $1.1 million in 2017. She put the house on the market in March 2022 for $1.4 million. Sharna Burgess has a husband? Sharna Burgess wants the world to know that her chemistry with her boyfriend and "Dancing with the Stars" partner Brian Austin Green is genuine. "This isn't a showmance, this is real-life love," the 36-year-old professional dancer posted on Instagram on Monday. "Each stride. Each battle." Sharna Burgess' nationality? She's from Australia. What brought Sharna and Brian together? Brian said that "We met at a coffee shop, had a few dates, and then we were imprisoned in a house together." I was thankful for that because it allowed us to take our time and enjoy ourselves. What colour is Sharna Burgess' hair? Sharna, who is naturally a blonde, has previously credited Kennedy with inventing the red hair dye she's been wearing since 2015. Are Sharna and Brian dating? On September 1, 2021, Sharna captioned this black-and-white selfie with Brian, "END GAME." Many admirers assumed she was hinting at an engagement, although the couple has yet to take that step. Is Sharna Burgess dating anyone? Following a PDA-filled Hawaiian vacation in December 2020, Sharna Burgess and Brian Austin Green discovered happiness with one another-but that was only the beginning of their love affair. Burgess originally hinted at the relationship earlier that month when she told Us Weekly in an exclusive interview that she was dating someone new. What does the name Sharna mean? Jane is derived from the name Jane, which means 'God is gracious.' It's also possible that Charna is a spelling variation of Charna, which comes from the Slavic word for "dark." Sharna Burgess's height? Sharna Burgess' father's name? Ray Burgess is her father's name. Read More – Carmen Electra: Net Worth, Career And Investments To Read About Now! Sadhya Guptahttps://trendingtales.com/ I'm Sadhya Gupta. Pursuing post-graduation in mass communication and journalism. I'm a content creator. I am working as a media and content creation at Trendingtales. Sharna Burgess Sadhya Gupta

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Physicist, TV presenter and former pop star (he was a member of D:Ream, famous for Things Can Only Get Be er) Professor Brian Cox is coming to Clerkenwell. Who better to mark the centenary of Holst's The Planets than the presenter of BBC series Wonders of the Universe? Cox will join conductor Ben Gernon and the BBC Symphony Orchestra to take a fresh look at at the otherworldly masterpiece at the Barbican on September 29. The venue's new classical music season is already underway, including Play! (March 18), a symphonic celebration of classic computer game themes and the works that inspired them. He's better known as Dame Edna Everage, but Barry Humphries has been winning rave reviews for his current show with cabaret diva Meow Meow. Alfresco films come to The Barbican!

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The STX District WNOP Regional Summons convened on July 20-22, 2017, at First Church in Pearland, Texas, where District Superintendent Ken Gurley is pastor. This event was a great SUCCESS! The overall attendance was well over 500, with an additional 35 in the Kids Summons. The evening evangelist was Joshua Herring, and during the Friday evening crusade 72 individuals were filled with the Holy Ghost! After Miguel Garrick preached on Saturday morning one more person was filled with the Spirit, making the total 73. Several people were baptized in the name of Jesus! Many miraculous healings occurred throughout the Summons. There were great moves of the Spirit of God in every service! Lives were transformed and the supernatural and the gifts of the Spirit were in operation! Some attendees were so amazed and expressed that they had never experienced anything ever like this before. Speakers included Ken Gurley, Joshua Herring, Miguel Garrick, Jason Sciscoe, Flo Shaw & Colleen Clabaugh: The anointed messages divinely aligned with each other. Plowing Before the Planter focus: Key training conducted by PBTP Prayer Coordinator, Phillip Hofstetter. Further equipped attendees in prayer evangelism. Powerful Pre-service/Summons prayer: Led by Charles Russell, First Church Prayer Coordinator, prayer coordinators, ministers and intercessors. Great moves of God: God did phenomenal things through preaching, worship, divine impartation, intercession, miracles, healings, educating, equipping, defeat of enemy, etc. First Church of Pearland singers/musicians: Anointed worship led by Jonathan Dean, Tyler Walea and a team of anointed and talented singers and musicians. STX District Interactive prayer team: Led by Esther Hunt and the STX District sectional prayer coordinators and prayer ministry team. Grassroots For Israel representation: Esther Olds represented this dynamic ministry of advocacy and support for Israel/Jewish people in behalf of Dr. Wesley & Esther Shaw. Reach Out America presentation (Disaster relief/humanitarian aid ministry): Key focuses presented by Ken Gurley and Larry Williamson, President. Many people entered into new dimensions of prayer and the Spirit. For many attendees the Summons was a life changing experience! On behalf of WNOP, I would like to personally thank all who worked and participated in this Summons to contribute in it being a great success! Eternity has yet to reveal all that was truly accomplished! The photos and quotes below speak volumes in part of what we experienced from the "GROUNDBREAKING" impact, and because of this…our lives are forever changed!

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America the Beautiful Quarters/ America the Beautiful Quarters® Program Fact Sheet Program Background The United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Program is a multi-year initiative to honor 56 national parks and other national sites in each state, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories—Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, United States Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. Under this program, five new reverse designs will appear on the quarter-dollar each year beginning in 2010 and through 2021. The coins will be issued in the order in which the featured site was first established as a national park or site. The 2020 United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters will be released in the following order: National Park of American Samoa (American Samoa) Weir Farm National Historic Site (Connecticut) Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve (U.S. Virgin Islands) Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park (Vermont) Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (Kansas) The 2021 and final coin in the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Program honors Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site (Alabama). This program immediately follows the 2009 District of Columbia and U.S. Territories Quarters Program. The United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters will be legal tender coinage, issued by the United States Mint and available in general circulation. The United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Program designs will be displayed on the reverse (tails) of the quarters, while the obverse (heads) will continue to bear the familiar "restored" 1932 John Flannagan image of George Washington. The designs will be developed through a consultative process involving the governor or other chief executive of each host jurisdiction, the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, and will be selected after review by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee. The Secretary of the Treasury will approve all final designs. Coin Specifications Weight = 5.670 g Diameter = 0.955 in (24.26 mm) Thickness = 1.75 mm Edge = Reeded Composition = Cupro-Nickel Clad (8.33% Nickel, Balance Copper) United States Mint America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin™Program The United States Mint will also mint and make available for sale silver bullion quarter-dollar coins that are duplicates of the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters. The bullion coins will be made of .999 fine silver and have a diameter of three inches and weigh five ounces. Online Enrollments Eleven (11) product options are available through the United States Mint Product Enrollment Program. Customers may sign up now for these products and when they go on sale, they will be automatically shipped to them as each product becomes available. This is the best method to ensure you collect a complete set. Customers can cancel at any time throughout the program.

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In a system based on capabilities, everybody grows. Capableism is a purely positive and benign thought about human beings that essentially involves everyone's striving for increased capability. It transcends political views and recognizes the essence of human nature. Some people get it wrong and see other people as their competitors, but my feeling is that even the most competitive person in the world probably spends 95 percent of their time cooperating so that greater progress can be made. There's a direct connection between your personal capa­bilities and the Capableism of the entire human race. If you want to understand how the individual comes to grips with the overall world, it's the understanding of their unique capabilities that they have and then how those unique capa­bilities can become teamwork.

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Video: Local man convinced that "powerful voices" don't want him to be mayor AllahpunditPosted at 3:11 pm on August 12, 2013 Technically he's correct. Basically everyone doesn't want him to be mayor, which is pretty powerful. So now he's running as the underdog. Notice is served, New York: No authority figure, be it the Clintons, congressional Democrats, or an overwhelming majority of the voting public, is going to bully him into giving up his dream. Spitzer fares better than Weiner, boasting a 59 percent unfavorable rating, versus Weiner's 80 percent unfavorable rating among New Yorkers. "Weiner has set a new all-time Siena College Poll record with 80 percent of voters viewing him unfavorably — including three-quarters of Democrats and New York City voters — compared to only 11 percent who have a favorable view of America's most infamous tweeter," Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said in a statement. His fundraising's in the toilet too now that Friends of Billary are no longer chipping in as a favor to Huma. And yet he soldiers on, determined not to suffer the humiliation of dropping out before election day even if that means suffering far greater daily humiliations on the trail. It's come to this: Anthony Weiner, campaigning in Astoria, Queens, yesterday, put several fliers into mailboxes on Crescent Street. Told that this might violate postal regulations, his spokeswoman, Barbara Morgan, said, "I think that if it's not all the way in, it's OK.'' I can vividly picture Post staffers high-fiving in the newsroom over that. Semi-serious exit question: Is this whole campaign a stunt? Before you answer, read this. I think Weiner jumped in with mostly serious intentions, sensing (correctly) that Christine Quinn was a weak frontrunner and could be beaten in a runoff if he got that far and if there were no more embarrassing sexting revelations. So much for that. The fallback plan, though, might be to market himself as a media personality once the campaign's over. The "documentary" is his de facto audition tape. He's a sleaze but I do think the guy would be good on radio; he ain't much for legislating and his future mayoral dreams are almost certainly now deceased, but he can blather engagingly about politics and has a decent, if jerky, sense of humor. He was more watchable in that obnoxious exchange with the British reporter than anyone in MSNBC primetime. Perfect for talk radio — provided that he can keep the callers talking politics and current events instead of inquiring about Weiner's weiner. The chances of which, admittedly, are near zero. Tags: ad Anthony Weiner documentary mayor New York poll siena Biden may have only two years to get anything done

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In April 2017, the 9th International Materials Education Symposium will be held at the University of Cambridge. This is the latest in an established series that have welcomed hundreds of materials educators to Cambridge over the past eight years. The Cambridge event is one of a worldwide series of three Symposia. Hear Prof. Mark Miodownik (UCL) speak about his project, "Design Led Materials Science Teaching", which he will be presenting at the Symposium this year.

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Drayton és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Dakota del Nord. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 913 habitants. Demografia Segons el cens del 2000, Drayton tenia 913 habitants, 401 habitatges, i 249 famílies. La densitat de població era de 597,5 hab./km². Dels 401 habitatges en un 29,4% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 52,6% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 5,5% dones solteres, i en un 37,9% no eren unitats familiars. En el 35,2% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 18,7% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,28 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,95. Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 25,4% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 5,4% entre 18 i 24, un 27,3% entre 25 i 44, un 22,3% de 45 a 60 i un 19,6% 65 anys o més. L'edat mediana era de 40 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 103,3 homes. La renda mediana per habitatge era de 37.344 $ i la renda mediana per família de 46.484 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 35.543 $ mentre que les dones 18.750 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 17.211 $. Entorn del 8,5% de les famílies i el 10,6% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa. Poblacions més properes El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes. Referències Entitats de població de Dakota del Nord

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Home » Earnings, Earnings Dec-17, Internet, MakeMyTrip, Online Travel Agency, Travel MakeMyTrip posts net loss of $45.3M as marketing & personnel costs continue to increase Rashi Varshney By Rashi Varshney ( @varshneyrashi [email protected] ) February 9, 2018 Online travel agent MakeMyTrip (MMT) reported a net loss of US $45.3 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2017 (Q3 FY18). The company had reported net profit of $16.5 million in the same quarter last year. Profitability was weighed down by the increase of 144.6% in marketing and sales promotion expenses, which stood at $109 million, from $44.5 million in the same quarter last year. In Q2 FY18, marketing and sales promotion expenses were $116 million. The company said that the primary drivers of this increase are customer acquisition programs to accelerate growth of its hotel booking business and increases in brand advertisement, and the consolidation of marketing and sales promotion expenses of the ibibo Group. Note: 1 USD = 64 INR (as on Feb 09 2018) MMT's personnel expenses increased significantly, by 97%, to $27 million in the quarter from $13.7 million in the same quarter last year. This was "mainly due to the consolidation of the ibibo acquisition, an annual increase in wages in fiscal year 2017. In Q2 FY18, personnel expenses stood at $29 million. Total revenue stood at $151.4 million up 98% from $76.5 million in the same quarter last year. The company mentioned that in Q3 FY18. Hotel and packages revenue Hotels and packages continued to be the majority contributor to MakeMyTrips's revenue. Revenue from the segment stood at $83.8 million, up 136.4% from $35.4 million in the corresponding quarter last year. Gross bookings for hotels and packages stood at $367.8 million up 101.5% from $182.5 million in the same quarter last year, the increase was driven by the consolidation of the ibibo Group acquired in January 31, 2017. The total number of transactions stood at 3.2 million up 115% from 1.5 million in Q3FY18. On sequential basis it reduced from 3.5 million to Q2 FY18. Air ticketing revenue Revenue from the air ticketing business increased by 33.3% to $51 million in Q3 FY18 from $38.2 million in Q3 FY17. Gross bookings increased 82.4% to $690 million from $378 million in Q3 FY17. The number of transactions stood at 4 million, up 71.6% from 2.3 million in the same quarter last year. Other revenues Other revenue includes redBus, Ryde and Rightstay brands, which MakeMyTrip acquired from ibibio. Other revenue stood at $16.6 million for the quarter, as compared to $2.8 million in Q3 FY17. Bus ticketing revenue (less service costs) stood at $11.6 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2017. This was primarily contributed by ibibo Group consolidation coming from 9.2 million travelled bus tickets. Bus tickets with gross bookings stood at $129.8 million. Download: Financials Q4 2017 results: After 12 years, Twitter has its first profitable quarter UC Browser launches new version; crosses 130 million users CCI calls meeting with restaurants' association and EY for recommendations on e-commerce policy: report Don't access social media on official devices unless permitted: Home ministry's social media and internet policy for govt employees ORF Round Table: India, US, Law Enforcement and data governance

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Shandong Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines will increase more flights staring from June 1 and June 12, Yinchuan Hedong Airport announced on May, 28. From June 1, Shandong Airlines will increase non-direct flights from Xining to Jinan with a stopover at Yinchuan, flying on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The flight departs from Jinan at 15:15, arrives in Yinchuan at 17:15, departs from Yinchuan at 18:00 and arrives in Xining at 19:00. The flight back to Jinan will depart from Xining at 19:45, arrive in Yinchuan at 20:45, depart from Yinchuan at 21:30 and arrive in Jinan at 23:15. From June 12, China's Eastern Airlines and China's Southern Airlines will respectively open a new air route. China's Eastern Airlines will open daily flights from Yinchuan to Ningbo with a stopover at Xi'an, departing from Yinchuan at 12:35 and arriving in Ningbo at 17:00. China's Southern Airlines will open daily flights from Yinchuan to Haikou with a stopover at Chongqing, departing from Yinchuan at 14:20 and arriving in Haikou at 17:00.

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Home News & Update English Nisha Ghosh and Pooja Saxena appointed as judges for the global ADC 99th Annual Awards Nisha Ghosh and Pooja Saxena appointed as judges for the global ADC 99th Annual Awards Celebrating 99 years of excellence in design and craft, The ADC Annual Awards are back. This iconic award show is now open for entries. This year, the jury for the award will witness faces from India. Nisha Mathew Ghosh and Pooja Saxena will grace the function as jurors Nisha Mathew Ghosh is the co-founder and one of the Principals at Mathew and Ghosh Architects, Bangalore. The works of her firm have merited numerous national and international awards. She will be judging work in the Spatial Design category. MatraType is the design practice of Pooja Saxena. She is a typeface designer, graphic designer, and an occasional design educator from IndiaMatra.She will be judging work in Typography The ADC Annual Awards features a global competition celebrating excellence in craft and innovation in all forms of design and advertising. It encourages entries from smaller shops, studios, and freelancers, allowing their work to be showcased on a global stage alongside some of the biggest names in the industry More than 130 highly qualified creatives representing 26 countries will judge work from around the world. The complete list of all ADC 99th Annual Awards jury members can be viewed here. The ADC 99th Annual Awards are part of The One Club for Creativity, a non-profit organization celebrating creative excellence in advertising and design. There are 12 categories for the same, advertising, typography, photography to name a few. Entries can be submitted here. The final deadline is January 31, 2020 Kevin Swanepoel, CEO, The One Club for Creativity, "For nearly a century, the ADC Cube has been awarded for work based on excellence in craft, design, and innovation. This strong tradition is alive and well in the hands of this year's jury members, who are recognized as creative leaders in their fields. This year's competition marks the continuation of a tiered pricing system designed to make it easier for smaller studios, agencies, and freelancers to participate in the ADC Annual Awards." Twitter Unveils Its Top Tweets Of 2019 Banijay Asia Partners With The Natural Studios To Bring Action-Adventure Content To The Indian And Southeast Asian Markets.

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Atlanta suspect charged with murder as victims identified 10:55, March 18, 2021 The alleged gunman who killed eight people at massage parlours in Atlanta, Georgia, has been charged with murder as police begin to identify victims. Officials cannot yet confirm if the attack, in which six Asian women were killed, was racially motivated. Four victims were named on Wednesday. The suspect faces multiple counts of murder as well as aggravated assault. Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said the suspect may have been a patron and claimed to have a "sex addiction". The attack comes amid a sharp uptick in crimes against Asian-Americans. Four of the victims have been identified as Ashley Yaun, 33; Paul Andre Michels, 54; Xiaojie Yan, 49; and Daoyou Feng, 44. Elcias R Hernandez-Ortiz was identified as having been injured. What did police say? In a news conference on Wednesday, investigators said suspect Robert Aaron Long admitted to the shooting spree, and said that he denied that the attack was motivated by race. Mr Long has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff's Department. "He apparently has an issue, what he considers a sex addiction, and sees these locations as a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate," said Capt Jay Baker, adding that Mr Long was caught with a 9mm handgun and did not resist arrest. Massage parlours are known to sometimes provide prostitution services, but authorities say there is no indication yet that this is the case at the targeted locations. "These are legally operating businesses that have not been on our radar," said Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who added that the city would not engage in "victim shaming, victim blaming". Police also noted it is still too early in the investigation to definitively state a motive and that the suspect appeared to have been acting alone. Ms Bottoms said that he was on his way to Florida, possibly to commit more shootings, when he was arrested. The suspect's parents helped to identify him, officials told reporters. According to CBS News, the suspect told investigators that "he loved God and guns". Massage palour fatal shooting Murder charge 8 people killed

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Behind The Thrills | Legoland Florida's World of Chima opens with a splash! Legoland Florida's World of Chima opens with a splash! Legoland Florida's World of Chima opens with a splash! Legoland Florida's World of Chima takes guests on an interactive journey into a world controlled by energy, a world controlled by Chi. The World of Chima allows you to not only quest for Chi, but use the mystical powers to battle your way through many adventures with animal tribes. The balance of power rests in your hands, can you help the Laval and the Lion Tribe save the Chi from the evil Cragger and the Crocodile Tribe? The World of Chima is the all new interactive area at Legoland Florida that brings guests three different areas to play in and explore. Three different areas, each taking guests on different adventures. In true Legoland Florida fashion, the whole area is kid friendly, and has something to keep the adults happy with as well. Kids can compete in the Speedorz Arena, take a stroll through Craggers Swamp or even go on the Quest for Chi in a splashtastic battle in an interactive adventure by boat. While Legoland Florida has opened tons of great attractions in the first two years of it's operation, this marks the most ambitious project that the park has embarked on, that has taken almost two years to come to fruition. The area uses characters from the all new Lego line and Cartoon Network show to tell the story of a world where "Chi" (pronounced CHEE) is the ultimate power source. Those who control the Chi control the world. The area has three major elements, each one taking on a different role. In the Speedorz Arena, guests can build their own Speedorz and blast them through a challenging obstacle course. Speedorz are the chariot type vehicles that the characters ride in the show. They are made from the fallen rocks of Mount Cavora and carved to look like their riders. At the park, they are play sets and vehicles that guests can purchase. They are made up of three parts, the ripcord, the body and a wheel. It's played as a game, and there are different playsets available for purchase. The object of the game is to knock the other players down, and get through the obstacle course. Speedorz arena focuses on the obstacle course aspect of the game. Craggers Swamp is an interactive play area that allows anyone to walk around and get wet. You can find little water canons, Lego figures and even special springs that pop up as you walk around. The signature attraction of World of Chima is The Quest for Chi, a water battle ride in which riders shoot interactive targets within the ride to get back the Chi that was stolen from the Lion tribe by Cragger the Crocodile. The queue area is one of the most immersive that Legoland has ever seen. It shows not only animation from the show, but a whole temple dedicated to Chi. You see characters from the show, as well as characters in the ride. Once you get out to the ride area, be prepared to get wet. There are water cannons both onride and off that allow guests who aren't experiencing the ride to take part in the action. The ride area is beautifully crafted with a great looking "floating island" effect. The river battle ride itself is one that guests of all ages can experience. According to General Manager Adrien Jones, if they can walk, they can ride. The World of Chima marks the first of what is hopefully many new areas built at Legoland Florida. While the area definitely has an appeal for boys, it's something fun that everyone can enjoy. The World of Chima is now open at Legoland Florida! Previous PostConstruction gets "furious" at Busch Gardens Tampa Next PostEvil Takes Root-Evil Dead remake to become a house at Halloween Horror Nights Orlando and Hollywood?

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Celebrity Breakups: Who Burned Who? Posted In: Love, Relationship Advice Articles Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. Photo: Scott Alan / PR Photos; Wild1 / PR Photos By Tanni Deb Celebrities might seem like they have it all – a successful career, beautiful looks and a significant other who everyone runs after. Though their lives may appear perfect, don't be fooled by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood's shine. We all know that some romances don't last, and the following pairs are no exception. Here are five celebrities who were bitten by the cheating bug – and then burned by their former flame: 1. Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake: Timberlake admitted to falling in love with Spears when they first met on the set of The Mickey Mouse Club in 1993. "I was infatuated with her from the moment I saw her," he told CBS News. The couple started dating five years later, but ended their relationship in 2002 when Spears allegedly cheated on Timberlake with choreographer Wade Robson. Shortly after their split, Timberlake released 'Cry Me A River,' a revenge song for Spears. However, the N'Sync singer later told MTV, "The song is not about her. The video is about me." 2. Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid: This actor pair divorced after she was caught cheating with Russell Crowe while filming Proof of Life in 2000. She used Quaid's infidelity to explain her own actions and accused him of adultery throughout their marriage. Quaid fought back and said, "It was eight years ago, and I find it unbelievable that Meg continues publicly to rehash and rewrite the story of our relationship." Although Quaid and Crowe both have new loves in their lives, the You've Got Mail star remains single. 3. Valerie Bertinelli and Eddie Van Halen: Bertinelli revealed to Oprah Winfrey in 2008 that she and her ex-husband cheated on each other. "He claims to this day that I cheated first, but I don't know," she said. "I don't know about the timing." Although their 25-year marriage ended in 2006, they remain friends. Bertinelli even attended Van Halen's wedding to Janie Liszewski in 2009. 4. Elizabeth Edwards and John Edwards: When John Edwards admitted to having an affair, his wife Elizabeth Edwards got the ultimate revenge. In her will, which was released on January 2011, she left all of her possessions to her children. Well, can you really blame her? After all, who bothers leaving something to their cheating spouse? 5. LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian: This couple is a double whammy. Rimes not only ruined her own marriage, but also Cibrian's, as the couple cheated on their spouses with each other while filming Northern Lights. They eventually tied the knot this year, despite rumors about Cibrian cheating on Rimes with his estranged wife. The saying "once a cheater, always a cheater" comes to mind in this situation. Have a couple in mind who didn't make this list? Let us know in a comment below! Related Tags: Britney Spears, Celebrity Breakups, Cheating, Dennis Quaid, Eddie Cibrian, John Edwards, Justin Timberlake, LeAnn Rimes, Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, Valerie Bertinelli <a href="http://cupidspulse.com/16104/celebrity-breakups-who-burned-who/">Celebrity Breakups: Who Burned Who?</a>

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Q: Query string for Dropbox events Is there any way to search events with query string or API dropbox.com/events?date=30-9-2019 Works for dates but I would like to search by name of the file / folder in the event. I recently found recurring disappearance of files/folders and need to investigate when and who deleted them in shared folders. A: The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to list/retrieve events programmatically unfortunately, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. The closest thing on the Dropbox API would be to process all of the entries from /2/files/list_folder[/continue] with path="" and recursive=true, and keep track of the server_modified values manually, but that would be more work and may not give you exactly the right values you're looking for. (The Dropbox Business API does offer /2/team_log/get_events[/continue] but that's for the Dropbox Business activity log, and only available to Dropbox Business API apps connected to Dropbox Business teams.)

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A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics, Količina 2 Po avtorjih Sir George Cornewall Lewis the science of navigation ought to teach what are the essential conditions of a ship; the science of architecture, what are the essential conditions of a house, a bridge, or any other structure; the science of banking, what are the essential conditions of a bank, and so on-before they respectively proceed to consider what it is that constitutes the excellency or defects of a ship, a building, or a bank. $ 3 11. After we leave the certain and universally true propositions of positive politics, we come to another class of general propositions, lying on the confines of positive politics, but nevertheless essentially distinct in their nature. These are the propositions which may be styled the principles of universal jurisprudence. These principles were called by the Greeks unwritten laws.() That is to say, they were political or moral maxims, which were recognised as having a binding force almost equivalent to a positive law, but which had not been reduced into writing by any lawgiver. They were conceived as rules obligatory upon mankind, of universal application, emanating from a Divine source, and sometimes too strong to be repealed by any human ordinance. Thus Antigone, in the tragedy of Sophocles, describes herself as bound, by the unwritten and immutable laws of the (6) The expression unwritten laws (äypapou vópot) first occurs in the funeral oration of Pericles, in Thucyd. ii. 37, where it appears to denote those laws of the state which are corroborated by the moral sanction. It next occurs in a conversation between Socrates and Hippias, reported in the Memorabilia of Xenophon, iv. 4, § 19-25. In this passage, it signi. fies moral rules of universal application, such as the duty of honouring parents. Compare Xen. Econ. 7, § 30-1. The expression was doubtless adopted by Socrates from popular usage. Thus, Plato speaks of tà kalovụeva ŬTÒ TÔV Tollwy dypapa vóupa.—Leg. vii. p. 793. It occurs frequently in this sense in the Greek writers, see Demosth. cont. Aristocrat. p. 639; and the passages cited by Ast ad Plat. Rep. viii. p. 563. In Plato, Politicus, c. 37, ãypapa márpia é on are opposed to written laws. Dionyείus, Ant. Rom. vii. 41, speaks of άγραφον και ανομοθέτητον φύσεως δίκαιον. On the opposition of fon and vópol, i. e. of customs and written laws, see Ast ad Plat. Leg. i. 8, p. 636. Aristotle, however (Rhet. i. 13, § 2), makes unwritten law a species of jus civile, or of the law peculiar to each state ; and opposes it to the universal law of nature. See the notes to the passage in Dr. Gaisford's collection. This use of the word agrees exactly with that of the Roman law.–See Inst. i. 2, § 3, where reference is made to the Greeks. gods, to bury the dead body of her brother, notwithstanding the prohibitory decree issued by the king. (*) As examples of these universal principles of government, we may take the seven axioms laid down by Plato in his Laws, which he declares to be applicable to every state, great or small, and likewise to families; to be of necessary obligation, and to be according to nature. These are1. That parents should rule over children. (*) 2. That the noble should rule over the ignoble. 3. That the elder should rule over the younger. 4. That masters should rule over slaves. (*) 5. That the stronger should rule over the weaker.(%) 6. That the wise should rule over the ignorant. 7. That those who draw the lot should rule over those who miss it.('') Of these seven principles, Plato declares the sixth to be the most important, in which view of government he is supported by the general voice of the ancient philosophers. His seventh principle affords a remarkable instance of the danger of generalizing institutions with which the writer himself is familiar ;(12) for election by lot, though universal in the Greek democracies, (13) is rarely used in the free governments of modern (7) Antig. 454. (8) It is laid down to be a law of nature (κοινός ανθρώπων νόμος, ον η púous čowkev äraoiv), that progenitors should rule over descendants, in the speech of Fufetius in Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. ii. 10. The existence of any such necessary institute of nature is denied by Tullus Hostilius, ib.c. 11. Fufetius afterwards (c. 23), in a speech to the Alban officers, describes the Romans as violating the natural law, common to Greeks and Barbarians, that fathers should rule over their descendants, and mother-states over their colonies. He treats their conduct as an attempt to supplant divine by human laws. (9) Servius Tullius, in Dionys. iv. 23, denies that the distinction between master and slave is natural. Compare the doctrine of the Roman law, cited above, vol. i. p. 429, n. 115. (10) The same law of nature is laid down by Dionysius, ib. i. 5. (11) De Leg. iii. 10, p. 690. He calls these principles åţiópata. (12) For Plato's more detailed doctrine respecting appointment by lot, see Leg. vi. 5. He considers it in the light of a necessary evil. (13) In the Rhetoric, Aristotle defines democracy to be a government in which the offices are distributed by lot (i. 8, § 4). Concerning the natural law of Zeno, see Minucius Felix, c. 19. times. A similar remark applies, though in a less degree, to the subject of slavery. The Romans called those legal principles and institutions, which were deemed to be common to all nations, by the appellation of jus gentium, as distinguished from the jus civile, or the law peculiar to each state. As the Romans extended their conquests, and incorporated into their empire a larger number of independent states, each possessing a peculiar system of law, they formed, by this experience, an idea of certain abstract principles and rules of jurisprudence, which were common to all, or most of these states. To this abstract collection of rules they gave the name of jus gentium—the law common to all nations. Afterwards, as their legal relations with their subjects increased, it acquired in some measure a positive character, and was engrafted into the practical jurisprudence of the empire. It became a sort of lingua franca-a medium of communication between persons of different countries—in which the peculiarities of their respective languages were rubbed off, and they were thus enabled to meet on a common ground. There were certain principles or institutions which all systems of law, in countries with which the Romans came in contact, agreed in recognising, such as dominion or ownership, buying and selling, hiring, partnership, marriage, slavery. These, independently of the peculiar form in which they were clothed by the jurisprudence of each state, were juris gentium ; any peculiar form of them, such as the Roman marriage, belonged to the jus civile. (11) The jus gentium of the Roman jurists was equivalent to their jus naturale, to those positive institutions and laws, which (14) Inst. i. 2; ii. 1, $11. See the subject explained with remarkable clearness and precision by. Savigny, System des heut. Römischen Rechts , vol. i. p. 108-116, and aph. i. p. 413.20. As to Ulpian's fanciful doctrine of a law common to men and animals, see above, vol. i. p. 16. Compare also Austin, Prov. of Jurisp. p. 188-91. The patria potestas is an example of a right peculiar to the jus civile of Rome, and not a right juris gentium. * Jus autem potestatis, quod in liberos habemus, proprium est civium Romanorum. Nulli enim alii sunt homines, qui talem in liberos habeant potestatem, qualem nos habemus.' - Inst. i. 9, § 2. Compare Dig. i. 6, § 3. were substantially common to all nations enjoying a certain degree of civilization.(15) Taking man, with the conditions of his nature, physical and mental, and of society, as they exist, he naturally establishes certain laws and institutions; and, hence, the law common to all nations and natural law become equivalent.(16) Thus, as soon as regular judicatories are in operation, the principle of hearing the defence of an accused man before he is condemned,(") and the principle of hearing both parties in a suit before the decision is given in favour of either, can scarcely fail to be recognised. Other elementary principles of this sort, having a very wide application, (such as that 'no man ought to be a judge in his own cause,') might be adduced. Such practical principles, however recommended by an obvious and strong utility, are not acknowledged by all nations ; and Savigny properly remarks, that when the Romans speak of the jus gentium as being recognised by all men,' and 'all nations,'(18) they were doubtless aware that their induction was (15) · Neque vero hoc solum naturâ, id est jure gentium, sed etiam legibus populorum, quibus in singulis civitatibus respublica continetur, eodem modo constitutum est, ut non liceat sui commodi caussâ nocere alteri.'-Cic. de Off. üi. 5. Societas est enim latissime quidem quæ pateat, hominum inter homines ; interior eorum, qui ejusdem gentis sunt; propior eorum, qui ejusdem civitatis. Itaque majores aliud jus gentium, aliud jus civile esse voluerunt. Quod civile, non idem continuo gentium ; quod autem gentium, idem civile esse debet.-Ib. c. 17. Æquissima vox est, et jus gentium præ se ferens, Redde quod debes.'-Seneca de Ben. ü. 14. Gentium jus est quod acceperis reddere,' in a passage attributed to Seneca, vol. v. p. 427 ; ed. Rukkopf. (16) Cicero, referring to the ief in the existence of the gods, says: • Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturæ putanda est.' Tusc. Disp. i. 13. Also in the speech, De Harusp. Resp. c. 14: 'Quanquam hoc si minus civili jure perscriptum est, lege tamen natura, communi jure gentium, sancitum est,' &c. 'Commune jus gentium.'-Nepos, Themist. 7. (17) μηδε δίκην δικάσης πρίν αμφοίν μύθον ακούσης, , Ap. Pseudo.-Plat. Demodoc. § 4. Aristoph. Vesp. 725. Compare Paræm. Gr. vol. ii. p. 759; ed. Leutsch. In Latin, Audi alteram partem. The putting of persons to death without a trial (kreivelv åkpírous) is always spoken of with severe reprobation by the Greek writers ; and as if, in condemning such a practice, they appealed to a recognised principle.-See, e.g., Dion. Hal. A. R. üi. 22. (18) • Omnes homines,' omnes gentes,' 'gentes humanæ.'-Gaius, Savigny, ib. p. 110. Thus Ovid said of himself • Mihi fama perennis Quæritur, in toto semper ut orbe canar-(Amor. i. 15) yet he knew that there were parts of the world, inhabited by savage incomplete. In the first place, they were not acquainted with all nations; and, in the next, they did not inquire very narrowly if a certain law was really common to all the nations with which they were acquainted. As soon as we travel beyond the limits of the nations partaking of the Greek and Roman civilization in antiquity, and those partaking of the civilization of Western Europe in modern times, we arrive at nations which adopt different practical principles in the fundamental departments of civil law, and reject those principles of jurisprudence which theoretical writers denominate universal. All nations above the savage state recognise a right of possession ; but tribes in the nomad state do not recognise a right of property or ownership in land ;(19) and there tribes, where his name would be unheard. The whole world' is a hy. perbole, as in the account of the temptation in St. Matthew, iv. 8-the high mountain from which all the kingdoms of the world' could be seen. * All Asia and the world' is said to worship Diana, in the speech of Demetrius the silversmith, Acts xix. 27. Gibbon (c. 15) cites a passage of Justin Martyr, which describes Christianity as having spread over the whole world in the first century. Speaking of the gentium consensus tacitus, Pliny says, that its first object was the use of the Ionic letters, the second was the practice of shaving the beard, the third was the division of hours. -N. H. vii. 58-60. From the instances given, it is clear that he means to limit himself to the states enjoying the Hellenic civilization. By a natural hyperbole, the orbis Romanus has often been identified with the entire inhabited world. Thus Florus : Ita late per orbem terrarum arma circumtulit, ut, qui res ejus legunt, non unius populi, sed generis humani facta discant' (i. 1, § 2). Compare Gibbon: 'Dazzled with the extensive sway, the irresistible strength, and the real or affected moderation of the emperors, they permitted themselves to despise, and sometimes to forget, the outlying countries which had been left in the enjoyment of a barbarous independence; and they gradually usurped the licence of founding the Roman monarchy with the globe of the earth.' - Decl. and Fall, c. i. ad fin., who refers to Bergier, Hist. des Grands Chemins de l'Empire Romain, liv. ii. c. 1. (19) See Horace, Carm. iii. 24: Campestres melius Scythæ Quorum plaustra vagas rite trahunt domos, Vivunt, et rigidi Getæ, Immetata quibus jugera liberas Fruges et Cererem ferunt; Nec cultura placet longior annua. Speaking of the Suevi, Cæsar says: 'Privati ac separati agri apud eos nihil est ; neque longius anno remanere uno in loco, incolendi causå, licet.' -B. G. iv. i. • Arva per annos mutant,' of the Germans.' Tacit. Germ. 26. On the nomad state of society, see Comte, Traité de Législation, 1. iv. c. 14; Gibbon, c. 26; Volney, Egypte et Syrie, tom. i. p. 351.

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#ifndef CELLULAR_BASE_H #define CELLULAR_BASE_H #include "netsocket/NetworkInterface.h" /** CellularBase class * * Common interface that is shared between Cellular interfaces */ class CellularBase: public NetworkInterface { public: /** Set the Cellular network credentials * * Please check documentation of connect() for default behaviour of APN settings. * * @param apn Access point name * @param uname optionally, Username * @param pwd optionally, password */ virtual void set_credentials(const char *apn, const char *uname = 0, const char *pwd = 0) = 0; /** Set the pin code for SIM card * * @param sim_pin PIN for the SIM card */ virtual void set_sim_pin(const char *sim_pin) = 0; /** Start the interface * * Attempts to connect to a Cellular network. * * @param sim_pin PIN for the SIM card * @param apn optionally, access point name * @param uname optionally, Username * @param pwd optionally, password * @return NSAPI_ERROR_OK on success, or negative error code on failure */ virtual nsapi_error_t connect(const char *sim_pin, const char *apn = 0, const char *uname = 0, const char *pwd = 0) = 0; /** Start the interface * * Attempts to connect to a Cellular network. * If the SIM requires a PIN, and it is not set/invalid, NSAPI_ERROR_AUTH_ERROR is returned. * * @return NSAPI_ERROR_OK on success, or negative error code on failure */ virtual nsapi_error_t connect() = 0; /** Stop the interface * * @return 0 on success, or error code on failure */ virtual nsapi_error_t disconnect() = 0; /** Check if the connection is currently established or not * * @return true/false If the cellular module have successfully acquired a carrier and is * connected to an external packet data network using PPP, isConnected() * API returns true and false otherwise. */ virtual bool is_connected() = 0; /** Get the local IP address * * @return Null-terminated representation of the local IP address * or null if no IP address has been received */ virtual const char *get_ip_address() = 0; /** Get the local network mask * * @return Null-terminated representation of the local network mask * or null if no network mask has been received */ virtual const char *get_netmask() = 0; /** Get the local gateways * * @return Null-terminated representation of the local gateway * or null if no network mask has been received */ virtual const char *get_gateway() = 0; }; #endif //CELLULAR_BASE_H /** @}*/

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Thanks to a $10,000 donation, Manning High School's Golden Pride Marching Band has finally raised the $40,000 it needs to march in the parade following President-elect Obama's swearing in on January 20th. The donation came from the Greenville-based nonprofit South Carolina Enterprise for Excellence. The Sumter Item has some more details on this latest development. We've talked about the South Carolina band's opportunity and strugle before.

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Q: Sass/css wont render in cloud9 polling-fallback error My sass or css files are rendering and i got this pooling fallback error. Does anyone know what this error means? carlagoncalves:~/workspace (master) $ node server.js server running.... ^C carlagoncalves:~/workspace (master) $ node app.js carlagoncalves:~/workspace (master) $ sass --watch styles.scss:styles.css >>> Sass is watching for changes. Press Ctrl-C to stop. error No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - styles.scss Ignoring executable-hooks-1.3.2 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine executable-hooks --version 1.3.2 Ignoring ffi-1.9.23 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine ffi --version 1.9.23 Ignoring gem-wrappers-1.2.7 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine gem-wrappers --version 1.2.7 [Listen warning]: Listen will be polling for changes. Learn more at https://github.com/guard/listen#polling-fallback. ^Ccarlagoncalves:~/workspace (master) $ sass --watch styles.sass:styles.css >>> Sass is watching for changes. Press Ctrl-C to stop. Ignoring executable-hooks-1.3.2 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine executable-hooks --version 1.3.2 Ignoring ffi-1.9.23 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine ffi --version 1.9.23 Ignoring gem-wrappers-1.2.7 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine gem-wrappers --version 1.2.7 [Listen warning]: Listen will be polling for changes. Learn more at https://github.com/guard/listen#polling-fallback. A: As it says in the error message, the file styles.scss cannot be found: error No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - styles.scss It seems there is a file called styles.sass in your directory, so you could try changing your command to the following: $ sass --watch styles.sass:styles.css Also, it seems there are unbuilt extensions, which you can try to fix by using the commands specified in the error messages (a couple of examples below) Try: gem pristine executable-hooks --version 1.3.2 Try: gem pristine ffi --version 1.9.23 Try: gem pristine gem-wrappers --version 1.2.7

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associate professor in architecture, XJTLU University, Suzhou, China; director, Future Cities Project; convenor, Bookshop Barnies; founding member of New Narratives Austin Williams is associate professor in architecture at XJTLU, Suzhou, China; and director of the Future Cities Project in London. He is also the managing editor of www.MasterplanningtheFuture.org - the first independent, online architecture magazine in China. Williams is the author of The Enemies of Progress: The dangers of sustainability and co-editor of The Future of Community and The Lure of the City: From Slums to Suburbs. He is currently writing China's Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities (Bloomsbury) and 20 Chinese Architects (Thames & Hudson). His other books include The Enemies of Progress: The dangers of sustainability, The Future of Community and The Lure of the City: From Slums to Suburbs. He is the China correspondent for the Architectural Review and a founding member of New Narratives. In London he retains his position as director at FCP Ltd, an independent film-making production unit specialising in architecture and the built environment. He also devised and chairs the Bookshop Barnies. Saturday 22 October, 12.00 Frobisher 1-3 Zaha Hadid: her life and legacy China's Urban Revolution Saturday 22 October, 17.30 Free Stage Bookshop Barnie: Hillary Rising with James D Boys Sunday 23 October, 10.00 Garden Room Britain's infrastructure: the road to nowhere? Utopia myopia: the future of cities

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Shakespeare's popular comedy about love, friendship and infidelity, is playing in The Old Globe's outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre and the cool night air is an added treat to beat the heat of day. Even if you've seen the play before, this production is so thoroughly refreshing and entertaining, it's worth a revisit. Designer John Arnone's stage sets, inspired by Italian Renaissance frescoes and oil paintings, establishes the intrigue of what is about to unfold on stage. Director Mark Lamos begins the story with a delightful group of sword-crossing, vibrantly dressed men who go through a routine that feigns what it's like to be a gentleman. Valentine (Hubert Point-Du Jour) and Proteus (Adam Kantor) enter the street of Verona and start a conversation about love. Proteus is deeply in love with Julia, and Valentine, having not yet found a true love, makes fun of his friend's romantic notions. Enter Speed (Rusty Ross) who is Valentine's servant. He's surprised to learn that Valentine has left for Milan. He then goes into a frisky game of teasing Proteus as he claims to have a letter for Proteus from Julia, but demands some payment for its release. Meanwhile Julia (Kristin Villanueva) is getting lessons from her woman-in-waiting, Lucetta (Erin Elizabeth Adams), who informs Julia the men she finds suitable are not right for her and that Proteus is the man for her. Proteus and Julia are soon swept away in their love for each other, but too soon Valentine beckons Proteus to Milan. Julia is so distraught that her true love is suddenly gone that she dresses like a man and makes her journey to Milan to find Proteus. Meanwhile, Valentine has finally found his true love in the beautiful Silvia (Britney Coleman). She is intrigued by him but made cautious as her father, the Duke of Milan (Mark Pinter), already has picked out her future husband. When Proteus arrives in Milan, he's dumbstuck the first time he lays eyes on Silvia. He's instantly in love with her and forgets every emotion he had for Julia. This sets up a tedious competition between Proteus and Valentine. The play is light, short and very funny. In wondering who will end up with whom; the cast members are terrific. Point-Du Jour and Kantor easily handle the transformation from friends to enemies. Coleman evolves into a regal and beautiful Silvia, who is hard to take your eyes off of until Villanueva shows up on stage.

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Family / Why is Borgo Egnazia a great hotel for families? Puglia's Borgo Egnazia is a five-star ode to everything that is great about getting away. The rooms at La Corte and the townhouses and villas of Il Borgo are perfetto for families of every size. Parents can tap into long lost me-time whilst children enjoy pool games in one of four pools. Borgo Egnazia's Trullalleri childrens' club and Fichi d'India Teens' Club are extremely popular with families, with watersports, dance contests and a football academy as just some of the activities on offer to entertain energetic younger guests. Borgo Egnazia's Trullalleri childrens' club and Tarantari & Marinai Teen Club are extremely popular with families. Da Puccetta is a dedicated children's restaurant, whilst private chefs are on hand for carefree Mediterranean dinners together.

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Hello, Im trying to create a volume of a Object in RiScan. Is this even possible in RiScan or do I need to transfer my object into another program? You can measure volumes in a few different ways in RiScan. They all use a mesh (either a previously-created one, or one will be created during the volume measurement procedure). Volumes are calculated to a plane. You can create a user-defined plane in a few different ways too (see the RiScan help file - a simple way is co-planer with the X/Y plane). Drop this plane into the Object View (3D view) along with the points you want to measure (these must be PolyData). Select the area of interest, right-click in the view and choose Measure > Volume & Surface Area. The help file has good notes about all the available options. Ticking the option "Create volume(s) as triangulated mesh" creates a watertight mesh (with a flat bottom) showing the calculated volume. I've just read your post properly... what kind of Object do you have?

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Vikings Offense With O'Connell Still A Work In Progress Associated Press Published: September 27, 2022 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After opening with a decisive win against the Green Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings have been tested the past two weeks. A Minnesota offense looking to make a jump under new coach Kevin O'Connell is still a work in progress. But a three-play, 56-yard drive in the final minute Sunday against Detroit led to a comeback win and has the Vikings tied atop the NFC North while enduring their growing pains. With star receiver Justin Jefferson being taken away by opponents and with running back Dalvin Cook out of the game with an injury, quarterback Kirk Cousins found K.J. Osborn for two big plays, including a 28-yard touchdown with 45 seconds remaining in Sunday's 28-24 win. "We're still getting there," Cousins said after the game. "We're still getting there. And I think you can see today, it's not where I want it to be. It's a good plan. It's just, time on task. Every game, we're learning something and getting better. But we just don't have time. We've got to get it locked in." Minnesota had 317 total yards before the game-winning drive. Through three weeks, the Vikings are 18th in the NFL in offensive yards (344 per game) and tied for 17th in points per game (19.3) entering Monday. "We're just continuing to evolve and we are still just three games into, officially, our guys running this system and this offense, so there's going to be some times where we've got to try to have that learning curve happen on the fly," O'Connell said Monday. "We've got such talented players that we feel strongly about when they do that and when they feel comfortable completely, the execution will be a bit more consistent across the board and we'll be at our best." Despite entering O'Connell's first season as coach, Minnesota chose health over preseason game repetitions, sitting out much of the first-team offense for the three games. In Week 1 against Green Bay, the Vikings didn't show many signs of novelty, racing out to a 20-0 lead and putting up 395 yards. The past two weeks, with Philadelphia and Detroit able to see what Minnesota did against the Packers, the execution on offense has been a bigger challenge. "Sometimes, for whatever reason, it can be one or 11, where there's just some indecisiveness somewhere across the board of guys doing their jobs depending on the look," O'Connell said. Cook left Sunday's game late in the third quarter with a shoulder injury when he fumbled on his final carry. Before that, the Vikings' offensive line opened up several holes in the running game. Cook's longest run was 13 yards, but he averaged 5.6 yards per carry. With one cut, he often found running room straight up the middle of the defense. Cousins, who has only been sacked four times, has 32 pass attempts while being blitzed this season, according to SportRadar. He's completed just 12 passes for 81 yards. His 51.0 passer rating in those situations is ahead of only New England's Mac Jones and Chicago's Justin Fields. Cousins is 0 for 9 when facing at least six rushers. Osborn was expected to have an increased role under O'Connell, with three-receiver sets becoming more common. The third-year receiver only had six targets in the first two games, catching five passes for 39 yards. With Jefferson drawing extra attention, Osborn came through on Sunday. He had five catches on eight targets for 73 yards in the game. On the final drive, Osborn got loose for two 28-yard receptions. Greg Joseph had been perfect through two games, hitting three field goals and three extra-point attempts. On Sunday, he connected on all four of his PATs, but missed a pair of 56-yard field goals. Joseph has already made one 56-yard attempt this season for his career-long conversion, but neither attempt Sunday was close. "My confidence will not waver in Greg, and everybody in that locker room feels that same way," O'Connell said. Cook's status will be one to watch. He sustained another shoulder injury, with O'Connell calling it a subluxation. Cook has played in the past with a harness on the shoulder. "He's pretty sore today, but obviously something he's familiar with, with his shoulder," O'Connell said. "He's tough, he's rip and ready to try to get back out there and go, but we'll take it day to day." Safety Harrison Smith, who missed Sunday with a concussion, has passed testing and will be eased into practice with the expectation he'll play this week. O'Connell said he hopes rookie cornerback Andrew Booth, who's missed two games with a quadriceps injury, will get back to practice this week. 58.62: The completion rate for Cousins over the past two weeks. A career 66.8% passer, Cousins completed 71.88% in Week 1 and is 22nd in the league in completion rate this season (62.2%). Another week provides another challenge for Minnesota. This time, it's the opponent and the circumstances. The Vikings will practice at home Wednesday and Thursday before leaving to play the New Orleans Saints in London on Sunday. Did you know these celebrities were born in Minnesota?

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For almost 15 years, the EIT camera on board SOHO transmitted a picture of the solar corona every 12 minutes, providing ground-breaking observations of the Sun that changed our perception and understanding of our star. After a remarkable career, this instrument has now eased into semi-retirement. Although no longer as active as during its heyday, EIT will still provide snapshots of the Sun - at a more leisurely pace. Launched in late 1995 and still in operation, the SOHO mission has revolutionised the way we all view the Sun. A collaboration between ESA and NASA, SOHO carries a suite of 12 instruments which have been enjoying an uninterrupted view of our parent star for almost one and a half decades. Observing the Sun from outer space, SOHO can probe wavelengths that are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, such as the ultraviolet (UV). It thereby allows astronomers to study the corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere, which has a typical temperature of about one million Kelvin and thus shines brightly in the UV. Of the suite of instruments on board, the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) is probably SOHO's most popular workhorse, having taken over 500 000 snapshots of the Sun. A European-led instrument, EIT was realised by a consortium of laboratories and institutes in France, Belgium and the US. "Designing and building it was extremely complex, especially because the resources were scarce," explains Jean-Pierre Delaboudinière, the Principal Investigator for EIT who led the project from inception until 2005 at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France. "Nevertheless, we managed to produce a great instrument: planned to last only a couple of years, it has worked exceptionally well for almost 15 years," he adds. "EIT wasn't meant to be the extraordinary instrument it then became," notes Bernhard Fleck, ESA's SOHO Project Scientist. In fact, this telescope was originally intended as a mere viewfinder, to set the context for data collected by the two spectrographs. As such, EIT was supposed to take images of the corona twice a day. "Only after having seen the Sun with EIT did we fully realise the enormous scientific potential of the instrument. This is why we decided to increase the cadence of the snapshots to one every 12 minutes," Delaboudinière adds. Thanks to such frequent sampling, EIT revealed the dynamic nature of the solar corona, which appears to be constantly changing. EIT's observations have strongly influenced the evolution of solar physics, paving the way for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched in early 2010. Thanks to substantial improvements in technology, the AIA instrument on board SDO is able to monitor the Sun at much higher cadence and much greater resolution than SOHO's EIT. After a few months of joint operations to cross-calibrate the instruments, it was time for EIT to pass the baton to its successor. Since 1 August 2010, EIT has reverted back to its original observing mode, taking images of the Sun only twice per day. "EIT has been hugely successful, producing a wealth of results which could not have been achieved without it," says Frédéric Auchère from the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France, the current EIT Principal Investigator. "Originally intended only as a support instrument, it turned out to be one of the most productive aboard SOHO: a winning underdog," he adds. In fact, over 400 refereed publications and doctoral theses arose from data gathered by EIT alone, leading to a vast number of 'first' discoveries. "It was the first instrument to routinely provide daily images of the Sun's lower corona, thus allowing us to identify large-scale coronal structures and study their evolution," says Daniel Müller, ESA's Deputy Project Scientist for SOHO. Another great finding of EIT was the discovery of travelling waves in the corona, which propagate at speeds of a few hundred kilometres per second — a global phenomenon that had never been observed in the pre-SOHO era. Having almost continuous monitoring of the corona was crucial to detecting waves that travel so fast that they can propagate through the entire corona in less than an hour. "At first we detected a few spectacular waves. They were interesting because of their extreme speed, and most importantly because they affected the entire Sun, so we decided to conduct a systematic survey of such waves," explains Delaboudinière. These waves are now referred to as 'EIT waves' in the scientific literature. Thanks to EIT, astronomers figured out that these waves are related to Coronal Mass Ejections (CME), one of the most spectacular, transient phenomena taking place in the Sun. CMEs are colossal eruptions during which enormous amounts of gas are released from the Sun into outer space. The key feature of EIT is its ability to follow the temporal evolution of solar events: this unprecedented 'cinematography' of the Sun allowed solar physicists to tackle its phenomena from a global perspective. "It might sound subtle, but there is a substantial difference between a sitting eagle and a flying one," says Fleck. "You have to see an eagle fly to understand what an eagle is. This is exactly how we felt when we first watched the amazing footage collected by EIT." EIT has also captured the imagination of the general public and shaped the way many people see the star that provides us with light and heat. Its pictures have been featured in countless articles and EIT movies have been downloaded millions of times from the SOHO website. "EIT has certainly done much more than we expected," says Auchère. "It has monitored the Sun over an entire, 11-year solar cycle, and has even witnessed a period of unusually intense activity in October 2003," he adds. Now time has come for retirement. Or, better, only a semi-retirement. "EIT is still up and running, and keeps taking, every day, two of the snapshots that made it so famous," Fleck concludes. SOHO (SOlar Heliospheric Observatory) is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA to study the Sun, from its deep core, through its outer atmosphere — the corona — and the domain of the solar wind, out to a distance ten times beyond the Earth's orbit. SOHO monitors the Sun constantly from a privileged point in the Sun-Earth system, the so-called First Lagrangian Point (L1). Located between the two celestial bodies, at a distance of about 1.5 kilometres from the Earth, SOHO enjoys an uninterrupted view of the Sun — something impossible to achieve from a ground-based observatory due to our planet's rotation. The Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) images the Sun's corona in four extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) filters, centred at wavelengths of 171, 195, 284 and 304 Ångström, respectively. The first three filters probe radiation emitted by highly ionised atoms of iron, corresponding to temperatures in the range 1-2 million Kelvin, whereas the last one is sensitive to light emitted by ionised helium, corresponding to significantly lower temperatures (60,000-80,000 Kelvin). EIT was designed and built in France under the leadership of Jean-Pierre Delaboudinière at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) in Orsay, France. The EUV optics, including their multilayer coatings, were provided by the Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliquée (IOTA; Orsay, France), the telescope structure was built by Centre Spatiale de Liège (CSL) in Belgium, while the camera and electronics were contributed by the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL, Washington DC). Other institutions belonging to the EIT Consortium are the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL; Palo Alto CA, USA), the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC; Greenbelt MD, USA), the Observatoire Royale de Belgique (ORB; Bruxelles, Belgium) and the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale (LAS; Marseilles, France).

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Q: ClassCastException String to Object[] I am using the following code: { // ... String[] roles = new String[resultList.size()]; int i=0; for (Iterator<Object[]> iter = resultList.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) { roles[i] = new String(); Object[] objArr = iter.next(); roles[i] = objArr[0].toString(); i++; } return roles; } However, I get a ClassCastException saying cannot cast from java.lang.String to Object[]. A: try this: { // ... String[] roles = new String[resultList.size()]; int i=0; for (Iterator<String> iter = resultList.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) { roles[i] = iter.next(); i++; } return roles; } A: Try this to convert an Object list to a String array: // Create an object list and add some strings to it List<Object> objectList = new ArrayList<>(); objectList.add("A"); objectList.add("B"); objectList.add("C"); // Create an String array with the same size of the object list String[] stringArray = new String[objectList.size()]; // Iterate over the object list to fill the string array, invoking toString() in each object to get a textual representation from it for (int i = 0; i < objectList.size(); i++) { Object object = objectList.get(i); stringArray[i] = object.toString(); } // Iterate over the string array to print the strigs for (String string : stringArray) { System.out.println(string); } A: Can you make this: Object[] objArr = iter.next(); Into this: String[] objArr = (String[]) iter.next();

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CIMO officer shot during Haiti Protest Here is a picture of a CIMO officer shot during Haiti Protest. Violence Continues Over Final Results. The final tabulation of election results is wreaking havoc in Haiti. The PEC announced Martelly's pick, Jovenel Moise, placed first (33%) and Jude Celestin second (25%). They will compete in December's run-off. Peaceful protests have turned violent whenever the opposition encounters government supporters. Not only have protestors been injured and killed, the Haitian police have also been targets. The media reports one officer injured by gunfire, and another hurt by hurled rocks. The PEC urges calm. Permalink | Comments Haitian promoter Ewald Etienne gunned down in Rivière-des-Prairies, Montreal Well-known Haitian promoter Ewald Etienne was found dead by Montreal police outside a home in Montreal on Thursday, December 18, 2014, What is further speculated, is that the two men who contracted the debt left the country, leaving Mr. Etienne with the debt. He then filed a complaint with the authorities and was promptly threatened to withdraw it, but was unable to. Whether this is a viable lead remains unsaid by the police, but witnesses had described Etienne as being scared following the affair. His death has been the third murder in the northeast region of Montreal within the last three weeks. It puts the yearly total just one homicide down from the 28 of 2013. Security guard shot to death outside Chez Le Bebe Restaurant, Little Haiti Francois Presley who has been working as a security guard in front of Chez Le Bebe Restaurant in Little Haiti was found dead Monday night(December 8, 2014). The testaurant is located on Northeast 54th Street Police who is investigating the crime has no suspects or motive for the shooting. The shooting death of 50-year-old Francois Presley, outside the Little Haiti restaurant where he worked, Chez Le Bebe Restaurant, has left the community shaken and his family asking for public assistance to apprehend the person responsible. Presley had been employed to the company for a year, and was found in his uniform, shot dead while sitting in his car. As of yet, the police have no suspects, nor a motive, for Presley's killing, leaving his grieving widow to question why the act was committed. Jean Dominique And Radio Haiti Inter Here is a picture of the owner of Radio Haiti, Jean Dominique. He was very popular and vocal in bringing abuses and crimes committed by the haitian authority. Jean Dominique concentrated on corruption. He criticised a pharmaceutical company, Pharval Laboratories, for selling contgaminated medication Guiteau Toussaint, Assassinated At Home In Petion-Ville, Haiti Here is a picture of Guiteau Toussaint, the President of the Board of Directors for Haiti national Bank of credit. According to Haiti National Police, several individuals entered the residence of Mr. Toussaint in Petion-Ville, to rob him. He was shot in the head and while being died Haitian Student Damael D'Haiti assassinated by Pierre Paul Maceus Here is the Faculty of Law and Economics (FDSE) in Haiti Pierre Paul Macéus who is an agent of the National Penitentiary Administration of the National police in Haiti was accused for causing the death of the 4th year student, Damaël D'Haïti Police Division Inspector Yves Michel Bellefleur assassinated Here is a picture of Haiti Police Division Inspector Yves Michel Bellefleur. He was assassinated on November 9, 2012. Same stated that Police Division Inspector Yves Michel Bellefleur was implicated in the affair of Clifford Brandt ask killed for communicating information to the Police. A spokesman for the Police reported that the killing is in connection of Clifford Brandt Kidnapping case Assassination of Jules Edouard Moscoso This is the picture of Mr. Jules Edouard Moscoso who as assassinated in December, 2012. This act took place in the night of December 8, 2012. We was 57 years old. Jules Edouard Moscoso is the cousin of Robert Moscosso and Robert is the father of the Moscoso children who were kidnapped by the Clifford Brandt network. According to the report, Jules Edouard Moscosso was killed by bullets Jacques Roche prominent Haitian journalist assassinated Here is a picture of Jacques Roche who was assassinated after being kidnapped. He was a journalist and poet. Jacques Roche was kidnapped on July 11, 2005 by a group of unknown people and on July 14, 2005, he was found dead, tied to a chair and mutilated. Mireille Durocher Bertin assassination Here is a picture of Mrs. Durocher Bertin died at the age of 35. She was a well known lawyer assassinated by bandits in Port-au-Prince She was assassinated in a white Subaru in which Mireille Durocher Bertin was traveling It was reported that gunmen in a red Mitsubishi jeep shot up the front tire to stop the car. They then got close to the window and fired from both sides of the car. Mireille Durocher Bertin and her driver were shot many more times. The death of this prominent lawyer was a symbol used by many to get back at the government of Jean Bertrand Aristide. This death has become a rallying point for members of various groups who wanted an end o the Lavalas regime . They all attributed the shooting to President Aristide's supporters. The supporters of President Jean Bertrand Aristide denied any involvement on the crime. Inauguration Lycée Jean-Louis Dulciné in Gris-Gris, Haiti All inclusive Royal Decameron Indigo Port-au-Prince on fire over gas prices hike Jean Henry Céant deposited documents in Parliament for... Joe Celestin at the Ceremony for First Haitian-American Chief... La maison D'Haiti in Montreal, Canada Ginette Cherubin, Electoral Advisor CEP Gallerie Macondo - Haitian Art Carnival In Miami, Haiti Represents

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CSA Official Press Release Cloud Security Alliance Issues Code of Conduct Self-Assessment and Certification Tools for GDPR Compliance New mechanisms offer vested parties structured, transparent path to meeting personal data protection requirements SEATTLE, WA and LONDON – JUNE 5, 2018 – InfoSecurity Europe Conference - The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world's leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, today released the CSA Code of Conduct (CoC) Self-Assessment. An essential tool for those charged with General Data Privacy Requirements (GDPR) compliance, the CSA CoC Self-Assessment provides a transparent means for standardizing compliance initiatives. "The CSA Code of Conduct for GDPR Compliance is a comprehensive and complete resource for supporting cloud providers' compliance and fostering accountability and transparency in the market. Today, with the release of the CSA CoC Self Assessment, we are offering cloud service providers the opportunity to openly demonstrate to business partners and regulators evidence of their adherence to the GDPR requirements. The CSA CoC Self Assessment acts as the assurance and transparency component of the STAR Program," said Daniele Catteddu, CSA Chief Technology Officer, lead outside counsel and Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Working Group co-chair. "We believe it will go a long way toward providing the industry with a standard for accurate compliance with the GDPR." "The release of the CSA CoC Self Assessment serves two purposes," said Paolo Balboni, European ICT, privacy and data protection lawyer, and co-chair of the PLA Working Group. "First, to afford cloud service providers (CSP) a means to demonstrate, in a structured way, the level of personal data protection they offer, and second, to provide cloud customers and potential customers a tool to evaluate and compare the level of personal data protection offered by various CSPs. And while the CSA CoC Self-Assessment is not verified by a qualified third-party, it does offer transparency regarding the level of protection offered by a cloud service provider." CSPs and cloud customers that would like to adhere to the CSA CoC for GDPR should submit the CoC Statement of Adherence and PLA Code of Practice (CoP) Template – Annex 1 using the STAR submission form found here. CSA will then verify that a "good faith" effort has been made to thoroughly address the entire Code of Conduct and then will publish the Self Assessment on STAR. The applicant will receive a self-attestation compliance mark once all the necessary conditions are satisfied. Those interested in learning more about the CSA Code of Conduct for GDPR Compliance should visit the CSA GDPR Resource Center, a community-driven website with tools and resources to help educate cloud service providers and enterprises on the new European data protection regulation. The CSA PLA Working Group is comprised of independent privacy and data protection subject matter experts, privacy officers, and representatives from data protection authorities. It was formed in 2012 to help transpose the Art. 29 WP and EU National Data Protection Regulators' recommendations on cloud computing into an easy-to-use outline for CSPs to follow when disclosing personal data-handling practices. The scope and objective of the PLA initiative were previously presented to the European Parliament as part of discussions on the potential effect of the proposed General Data Protection Regulation on cloud computing. Since then, the PLA Working Group engages in defining a structured method for communicating the level of privacy that a CSP agrees to maintain. Share this content on your favorite social network today! About Cloud Security Alliance The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information, follow us on Twitter @cloudsa. For press inquiries, email Zenobia Godschalk of ZAG Communications or reach her by phone at 650.269.8315.

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Noah's Ark is one of the most favorite Torah stories of young children. This is a version with preschool & kindergarten children in mind. It features drawings done by children and simple, repetitive text which makes it easy for children to "read" along with the teacher. Included is a colored classroom book & Noah's Ark katan (little) to copy and assemble for your students. Noah's Ark katan is exactly like the classroom book, except that it is not colored and it has an extra page for each of your students to illustrate, "My favorite animal on Noah's Ark is _______."

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Awards February 4, 2019 American Theatre Editors Leave a comment Playwrights Announced for 2019 Finish Line Commission Plays by Leah Nanako Winkler, Kate Hamill, and Herbert Siguenza will receive a staged reading at Cygnet Theatre. By American Theatre Editors SAN DIEGO, CALIF.: Cygnet Theatre has announced the plays of Leah Nanako Winkler, Kate Hamill, and Herbert Siguenza as the recipients of this year's Finish Line — a Bill and Judy Garrett Commission. The winning plays will each be given a week long workshop culminating in a free public reading to take place Feb. 17-18 at Cygnet Theatre. The playwrights will additionally receive a financial reward and the potential for their plays to have a world premiere production at Cygnet. Leah Nanako Winkler. (Photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) "I read many plays to make sure we selected playwrights that represent a wide range of diverse voices that fit Cygnet's mission," said Cygnet artistic director Rob Lutfy in a statement. "Voices that don't fit into a boxes that are easily checked off, but instead, create their own box. The footprint of this program is to allow writers to work on their dream play." Nanako Winkler's Diversity Awareness Picnic (Feb. 17) follows six employees of a university's tele-fundraising department facing tension, anger, true love, and candid speaking when they're forced to participate in diversity awareness activity. Jesca Prunencio will direct the reading. The Prostitute Play (Feb. 18) by Hamill is loosely based on the life of Harriette Wilson, a famous courtesan in mid-1800s England. Set against the shifting social attitudes of the Victorian era, The Prostitute Play is about a courtesan attempting to receive a long promised annuity from one of England's most powerful men and the conflict that ensues. Rob Lufty will direct the reading. Siguenza's Bad Hombres/Good Wives (Feb. 17) draws inspiration from Molière's The School of Wives, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. A classic farce set in modern-day Sinaloa, Mexico, Bad Hombres/Good Wives deals with issues of gender inequality, gender fluidity, and marriage. Daniel Jáquez will direct the reading. A public reception will be held on Feb. 17, and each of the readings will be followed by a post-show forum with the playwright and creative team. Bill and Judy Garrett Finish Line CommissionCygnet TheatreHerbert SiguenzaKate HamillLeah Nanako Winkler Previous PostAfter an Injury, 'Spaceman' Readies Its RelaunchNext PostLoretta Greco Presented With Zelda Fichandler Award

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\section{Introduction}\label{introduction} There are several steps in the study of self-organized systems \cite{bak1988self}. One of them is to study the existence of a power law distribution in the data from our system. This property is intrinsically related to the scale-free behaviour these systems exhibit, that is, systems where there is no single characteristic event size \cite{golyk20self}. Understanding what distribution is producing our data gives us insights of how confident we are about claiming that our system is in a critical state, since these states are usually correlated with the appearance of a power law \cite{newman2005power}. Moreover, it is interesting to see if there is some kind of evolution in the distribution of the data. A change in the distribution could be originated by a phase change, which usually implies that we have crossed a momentary critical state described by a power law. However, during the process of investigating the existence of self organization, or the change to a critical state, we have to justify every conclusion we get, not only by fitting our data, but by giving a proper statistical measure of the probability of our conclusions, that is, following an standardize mathematical method based on hypothesis testing. In our case, we are mainly interested in code repositories. The existence or not of a critical state is essential to understand the processes taking place in free software repositories, which are sometimes partly or fully based on volunteer work. In these cases, sustainability is the main objective, and understanding how self-organization relates to productivity and to the continuous collaboration of volunteers is essential to keep a software team healthy. Also, understanding the micro-mechanisms through which self-organization takes place provides insights on the possible incentives to avoid churn of volunteers, as well as to make their work add as much value as possible to the project. Following the approach outlined in \cite{merelo16:self,Merelo2016:repomining,merelo17vue,DBLP:conf/iwann/MereloCV17,merelo2017self}, we are going to try and comprehend code repositories by the interactions (events) made in them. Code repositories are one of the main ways software is developed nowadays. Multiple platforms like GitLab or GitHub offer the possibility of interact with the code making changes, adding and deleting lines. All these interactions are reflected in an archive by the so called commits. From this archive we can obtain the data about how this code has been changed. Although these changes sometimes obey issues with the code, or bug fixes, in many cases they simply are piece-wise improvements or code changes that are decided by programmers themselves. But to really start to understand the behavior and possible self-organization of software development teams as reflected by their activity in repositories, we should not only try to fit a power law in our data but try to make a statistically accurate study to confirm how much evidence we have of this type of behavior. Most of the measures and estimations about power laws in code repositories are collected in studies like \cite{merelo2017self}, where some evidences of power laws are presented. However, since there are better methods to study this data \cite{clauset2009power}, we are going to re-evaluate all the results obtained, offering an alternative skeptic view of the existence of power laws, following recent papers such as \cite{Holme2019,Broido2019}. We have focused in this particular topic because of three reasons.\begin{itemize} \item First of all, there are no extensive analysis that addresses this question. We haven't found a comparative study that offers data-based statistical measures to check if the power law assumptions hold. So we are going to fill this gap offering a complete statistically study about the evidences of power laws behavior in a variety of repositories. \item Moreover, we are not going to evaluate just our evidences about the existence of a power law, we are going to offer a short range of distributions that can generate similar results and could easily be confounded by a power law. This is an standard way to discover if our data is more likely to be produced by other heavy-tailed distribution \cite{clauset2009power}, like the logNormal or the truncated power law. \item Finally, since we are able to access to multiple years' data, we also interested in study the temporal evolution of the two previous analysis. Here our main objective is to show how these measure could have changed (if they have at all). We should remember that repositories are evolving system by definition, so they can experiment qualitative changes in his events distribution. Furthermore, even if they preserve their behaviour, they can still change some distribution's parameters. To locate and analyze this changes could be translated in a deeper knowledge in the evolution of these system, specially in the presence of phase changes \cite{merelo2017self} or self-organized critically (understood as a mechanism by which the system is regulating himself to stay in those parameters \cite{newman2005power}). \end{itemize} This way, we offer a test to analyze how much evidence there is for or against our assumptions in every step, and a set of comparatives to identify some relevant temporal changes, establishing a statistically correct result about the existence of power laws in repositories. All these questions lead us to our final result: power laws are not the only concept that should be used to address the question of self organization in repositories \cite{alderson2010contrasting}, we should use additional measures to assure our conclusions. Even if we use them, the statistical significance of these fits is very low (which means that other distributions have at least the same probability of being generating the data). Next, we will explain our methodology followed by the results obtained, closing with our conclusions. \section{State of the art}\label{soa} The study of code repositories from the point of view of self-organized criticality has not followed a continuous line of investigation. Methods and conclusions often change from one research paper to another, making difficult to compare results and possible implications. On the one hand, we find that self-organized criticality has been described by a wide variety of code repositories with a certain probability. These studies can be found in\cite{wu2007empirical,gorshenev2004punctuated}, but they are not the only ones of this kind. Tests on the possible self-organized criticality have also been sought in another type of repositories and projects, which are enumerable in size and purpose \cite{Merelo2016:repomining,merelo16:slash,merelo16:self,merelo2017self}. In most of these studies, however, the evidences in favor of the existence of a power law are not accompanied by a significant statistical study. It is usual, as described in \cite{newman2005power} that the evidence leading to a suggestion of a power law in the distribution is visual. Once we have these tests, the study goes through the adjustment of a possible power law \cite{merelo2017self,arafat2009commit}. The general trend being the lack of statistical evidence that supports the hypothesis of the existence of a power law, the truth is that as described in \cite{newman2005power, clauset2009power} the most common method for making subsequent adjustments, Leas Square Medium \cite{merelo2017self,arafat2009commit,merelo16:self}, usually implies the existence of a greater error than the possible alternatives. Currently, the general trend that started with the description of the power laws in self-organized systems has been slowed down. Instead, due to the existence of more objective evaluation methods, the results that were assumed until now are being re-evaluated. Examples of this trend are papers such as \cite{Holme2019, Broido2019}, where the power laws in the networks and in the results have been reevaluated, obtaining an analysis that can change the way we make our assumptions about power laws. Next we will present the methodology used to choose those repositories and mine their information. \section{Methodology} \label{sec:method} In this part we are going to explain the methods used in our research. It is divided in four sections, explaining all procedures used from the data extraction to the visualization. We emphasize the second and third, being the ones that really represent a conceptual change in the analysis of the existence of power laws in code repositories. \subsection{Data extraction} We have chosen 16 repositories in different states of development. These repositories were chosen in \cite{Merelo2016:repomining}, for several reasons: They all represent a wide array of languages and functionalities, from web frameworks such as Django to Atom plugins, through one-of-a-kind frameworks such as Docker. Normally a code repository is related to a software project, for this reason, it is usual that they include several different languages which are used in different parts of the project. This mixture of languages also offer a big range of variability between languages that are interpreted or compiled, either to machine code or to bytecode. Repositories vary also in {\em professionalism}, that is, the team behind that software project. From a small Atom editor plugin to TensorFlow, an open library created and maintained by a fully professional community. Repository mining was done during the months of January to March 2017, with the second sweep of the same repositories performed in February 2019. The way we look at changes in the repository was initially proposed by \cite{Merelo2016:repomining} and was also used in \cite{merelo2017self}, where a deeper explanation can be found. This procedure is based on three main concepts: \begin{itemize} \item The usage of a discrete timeline formed by the commits, with every commit counting as time=1. \item Work with selected files in the repository, excluding those related to images or style \item We take the largest value from the inserted and deleted lines of code. \end{itemize} Please note that, in principle, we are not interested in the number of developers that participate in the project. A certain amount of developers is not a necessary condition for self-organization, but in any case we are interested in detecting power laws in these time series of change sizes in repositories, which do not include data at all on the number of users. The repositories we have been analyzing here do have a wide range of users, from one or two to several dozens but, as indicated, our methodology does not need to include information on the number of users. Up to this point, there is nothing new. But is the way that we evaluate our results that differs from previous analysis. \subsection{Hypothesis tests} Once the information from the repositories has been extracted, we proceed to analyze it in order to find clues about what kind of distribution is generating our data. With that particular objective in mind, we change the methodology used in \cite{merelo2017self} for several reasons. First of all we want to offer a test that checks whether the observed data set actually follows a power law, instead of only visualize the result. This kind of tests can vary based on different measured and techniques. The one we are going to use is suggested in \cite{clauset2009power}, which consists in using a goodness-of-fit hypothesis test via bootstrapping procedure. Due to the use of bootstrapping, this procedure is a time and resources consuming one. We essentially generate multiple data sets with our two main parameters $x_{min}$ and $\alpha$ and then we re-infer the model parameters. The outcome of the algorithm will result in a P-value, which, if is large enough, tell us that the difference between our data and the power law model we have generated is small and mostly attributed to statistically randomness. On the other hand, if P-value is close to 0, it is quite unlikely that our model fits the data properly. Following \cite{clauset2009power} we choose our threshold value in $p=0.01$, in addition we are going to perform this analysis with R package: {\tt PoweRlaw}. A detailed description of it and the hypothesis tests can be found in \cite{gillespie2015power}. Up to this point, we have detected what data sets are unlikely to be fitted by a power law in any of its range. Notice, on the contrary case, that we are only assuming that we can not discard that a power law is generating the data. However, as there is some probability of the appearance of this distribution in our data we can study and analyze how its two main parameters may evolve between 2017 and 2019. As it is unrealistic to think that a power law distribution will fit all our data, our first step is to check what portion of the data could be fitted with a power law, or in other words, what is the minimal value (if there is one) from which the scaling relationship of the power law begins \footnote{This is a fair assumption since we are working with heavy-tailed distributions and our main interest is the behaviour of the tail of our data.}. This value is usually noted by $x_{min}$ and is our first parameter. Once we have the first value, we proceed to estimate the scale of our power law. As it is shown in papers like \cite{newman2005power, clauset2009power}, least square method is a poor but wide-spread way to proceed when estimating the scale parameter. Instead, we are going to use a direct method describe in \cite{clauset2009power} and implemented in \cite{alstott2014powerlaw} that use the data values we have. This method is known to produce a very nice fit with less error than the others mentioned above. Up to this point we have revisited our way of analyze power law fitting and the estimation of our parameters. However, there is a more deep question unanswered: does our data really follow (in a statistically relevant way) a power law? This kind of answers were lacking in \cite{merelo2017self} and they are relevant independently our first test's results, since they usually offer an unbiased look of the data . Taking into account that our main question is whether a power law is the best description of our data, we choose to apply a comparative test that could evaluate if there are any alternative distribution that could have generated our data with greater likelihood than a power law. That is the main reason why we choose to use a log-likelihood ratio test implemented in \cite{alstott2014powerlaw}. There are two algorithm's outcomes. First we have the log-likelihood ratio between the two candidate distributions. The sign of this quantity will point out which distribution is more likely to be producing out data. After it, we calculate the signification of this ratio, a P-value. Following \cite{alstott2014powerlaw} indications we establish our P-value threshold at $p=0.05$; above that point the loglikehood ratio has no significance and we can not decide which distribution is better fitting out data. \subsection{Classification} With all this information we are able to offer a precise conclusion about the probability that power law is generating our data. To sum up all the tests in a single statement we use the scale proposed in \cite{clauset2009power}, which is described as: \begin{itemize} \item \textbf{None}: Data-set is probably not distributed by a power law (first test failed). \item \textbf{Moderate}: Power law is a possible fit but there are other plausible distributions that fit the data. \item \textbf{Good}: Power law is a possible fit and none of the other distributions is plausible. \item \textbf{Truncated}: when truncated power law is clearly favored over a simple power law \end{itemize} A relevant remark should be made: Even when the first test give us a low probability of our data being distributed by a power law, the next tests offers us an interesting insight. A power law can exceed others distributions at explaining how our data is distributed, meaning that, even though our data is not distributed by a power law, this fit could offer us more information about our data than other distributions. \subsection{Visualization} On the visual aspects, a clarification should be made. Here we offer a graphical view that differs from \cite{merelo2017self} but not a novel one. It has been used in \cite{arafat2009commit} with similar purposes. Briefly, we are going to use the probability density function (PDF) for plotting. Due to the requirement of binning the data to this type of graphic, we are going to use a logarithmic spacing, since it reduces the statistical errors in the tail in log-log plots at it is stated in \cite{newman2005power}. \section{Results} \label{res} \begin{table*}[h!tbp] \caption{2017 Parameters with power law fitting} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{| p{0.12\linewidth} | p{0.1\linewidth} | p{0.3\linewidth} | p{0.3\linewidth} |} \hline Repository name &$x_{min}$ & $\alpha$ & $\sigma$\\ \hline atom &10.0 &2.039242998376567 &0.15492119930071382 \\ cask &18.0 &1.7336857967225443 &0.06725686671465021 \\ Dancer2 &107.0 &2.177500075690754 &0.07730666731550309 \\ django &10786.0 &2.1744317304939558 &0.01917838984962695 \\ docker &73.0 &1.4645926562553306 &0.004754872537365103\\ ejabberd &2.0 &1.228631569923214 &0.0033017325614456455 \\ fission &25.0 &1.7697310637483803 &0.09937185303186655 \\ mojo &32.0 &2.1283668081735456 &0.03162540535355575 \\ Moose &36.0 &1.768059278495766 &0.0197132783524576 \\ rakudo &11.0 &1.6159534004325067 &0.006834230629556248 \\ scalatra &105.0 &1.7126278313239238 &0.02583273870367301 \\ tensorflow &6.0 &1.2136744934008 &0.002587381661200525 \\ tpot &39.0 &1.601798428793051 &0.0374663336679551 \\ tty &85.0 &2.5687968664786887 &0.16355837969418938 \\ vue &10.0 &1.4008340778667951 &0.007381204719143647\\ webpack &66.0 &1.7525127838915868 &0.030568742256899546\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \label{tab:2017pars} \end{table*} \begin{table*}[h!tbp] \caption{2019 Parameters with power law fitting} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{| p{0.12\linewidth} | p{0.1\linewidth} | p{0.3\linewidth} | p{0.3\linewidth} |} \hline Repository name &$x_{min}$ & $\alpha$ & $\sigma$\\ \hline atom &9.0 &1.8359195263285408 &0.11705214645679832 \\ cask &22.0 &1.7974451838770937 &0.07249501671609943 \\ Dancer2 &106.0 &2.261037545006354 &0.08425661509414822 \\ django &22380.0 &2.6887068697480156 &0.03580856180986959\\ docker &85.0 &1.471139237773135 &0.004450258248742491 \\ ejabberd &4.0 &1.2671552485187476 &0.00372055095134032 \\ fission &22.0 &1.4589753590316525 &0.021399836458042016\\ mojo &32.0 &2.1384964656994434 &0.031043490328162827 \\ Moose &36.0 &1.7677961781806713 &0.019622681314368864 \\ rakudo &12.0 &1.603181925304308 &0.006028504486885445 \\ scalatra &105.0 &1.678355887867916 &0.02363164712583398 \\ tensorflow &16.0 & 1.276851335699674 & 0.0017743964236792348 \\ tpot &176.0 &2.139617006349855 &0.08401368034180524 \\ tty &83.0 &2.6669971731409587 &0.1582243695783554 \\ vue &12.0 &1.4407170088980175 &0.007474075257736019 \\ webpack &50.0 &1.481958114820392 &0.00906295021690492 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \label{tab:2019pars} \end{table*} First, analyzing the parameters of the possible power law distribution, we find that in those repositories with low variation of the $x_{min}$ parameter there is a lack of correlation between the changes in the estimated starting point from which the distribution of power law starts and the scale parameter, $\alpha$. Even if small changes in $xmin$ produce small changes in $\alpha$, the lack of correlation probably means that this changes are the result of the natural stochasticity of the evolution process. However, as it can be seen in Tables \ref{tab:2017pars} and \ref{tab:2019pars}, repositories such as Django, which have a strong variation in the initial point, also have a greater variation in the scale parameter. This is not produced because of a global change in the overall distribution. The main reason for this change is the variation of the $x_{min}$ parameter, due to the existence of a different range of commits that fits a power law better than the previous one. \begin{table*}[h!tbp] \caption{2017 summary results} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{| c |c| c | c| c |c | c |} \hline Repository name & KS test & PL vs. LogN & PL vs. Exp & PL vs. PLtrunc & Result \\ \hline atom & 0.244 &ND & ND &PLtrunc & Moderated \\ cask & 0.236 &ND & PL & ND & Moderated \\ Dancer2 &0.178 &ND &PL &ND & Moderated \\ django &0.002 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc &None\\ docker &0 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc &None\\ ejabberd &0 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc &None\\ fission &0.654 &ND &PL &PLtrunc & Moderated\\ mojo &0.874 &PL &PL &ND & Moderated \\ Moose &0.2 &PL &PL &PLtrunc & Truncated\\ rakudo &0 &PL &PL &PLtrunc & None\\ scalatra &0 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc & None\\ tensorflow &0 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc & None\\ tpot &0.01 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc &None\\ tty &0.418 &ND &ND &ND & Moderated \\ vue &0 &PL &PL &PLtrunc & None\\ webpack &0.004 &LogN &PL & PLtrunc & None\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \label{tab:2017tests} \end{table*} \begin{table*}[h!tbp] \caption{2019 summary results} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{| p{0.12\linewidth} | p{0.08\linewidth} | p{0.08\linewidth} | p{0.08\linewidth} | p{0.1\linewidth} |p{0.13\linewidth} | p{0.09\linewidth} |} \hline Repository name & KS test & PL vs. LogN & PL vs. Exp & PL vs. PLtrunc & Result \\ \hline atom &0.108 &ND &ND &PLtrunc & Moderate\\ cask &0.276 &ND &PL &ND & Moderate \\ Dancer2 &0.426 &ND &PL &ND & Moderate \\ django &0.862 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc &Truncated \\ docker &0.118 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc & Moderate \\ ejabberd &0 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc & None\\ fission &0 &ND &PL &PLtrunc & None \\ mojo &0.88 &PL &PL &ND &Moderate \\ Moose &0.224 &PL &PL &PLtrunc &Truncated \\ rakudo &0 &PL &PL &PLtrunc & None \\ scalatra &0 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc & None \\ tensorflow &0.418 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc & Moderate \\ tpot &0.184 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc & Moderate \\ tty &0.47 &ND &ND &ND & Moderate \\ vue &0 &PL &PL &PLtrunc & None \\ webpack &0.002 &LogN &PL &PLtrunc & None\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \label{tab:2019tests} \end{table*} Another special remark should be addressed to Tensorflow. The distribution fit of the repository in 2019 has caused a little controversy between \cite{alstott2014powerlaw} and \cite{gillespie2015power}, as the final numerical results where different. We believe the main reason for that is the two different sections detected by their algorithms. One package gives more probability of fitting a power law between 10 to $10^5$ commit size and the other starting from $10^5$ commit size till the end. However, choosing different starting points produced similar results in the final tests. After analyzing the parameters estimated by assuming a power law fit, it is time to check what are the results from the hypothesis tests, made to know if there are other possible distributions generating the data. These results can be found in Tables \ref{tab:2017tests} and \ref{tab:2019tests}. We can observe that in general, as the repositories evolve over time, there is a tendency to the appearance of a greater probability in favor of power law existence, as None cases have been reduced between 2017 and 2019. Even so, it is worth noting the complete lack of repositories in which our confidence in finding a power law distribution is high (following our scale: \textit{Good}). Faced with the most common visualizations, the one used in our paper highlights even more how we can not affirm the existence of power laws distributions if we look at them in detail. See as an example how Fig. \ref{fig:docker}. shows that the adjustment of a power law would not capture some characteristics in the tail of our data. We would like to remark that, even in smaller plots like \ref{fig:pl2017} and \ref{fig:pl2019}, where we could easily say that there are power laws only by sight, the mathematics presented in this paper support that the probability of that happening is, as maximum, \textit{ moderate}. A proper example of this kind of biased assumptions is Fig. \ref{fig:mojo}. Seen the Mojo distribution and power law fit we can suspect the existence of a power law in the repository. Its distribution that also remains in time till 2019. This can be an indicative that this repository is self-organizing to stay in that point. But even in this case, the probability of a power law is only, again, \textit{moderate}. On overall the higher rank is not achieved in any repository. We can only state that in most of the repositories a power law could explain the data, but, other distributions are equally probable. \begin{figure*}[htbp] \centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth]{plots/mojo-2017.eps}} \caption{PDF plot of a repository with \textit{Moderate} rank: Mojo from 2017.} \label{fig:mojo} \end{figure*} \begin{figure*}[htbp] \centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth]{plots/docker.eps}} \caption{PDF plot of a repository with \textit{None} rank: Docker from 2017.} \label{fig:docker} \end{figure*} \begin{figure*}[htbp] \centerline{\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{plots/pl2017.eps}} \caption{PDF plot of all repositories 2017. Red line represents the power law fit and the area where it fits.} \label{fig:pl2017} \end{figure*} \begin{figure*}[htbp] \centerline{\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{plots/pl2019.eps}} \caption{PDF plot of all repositories 2019. Red line represents the power law fit and the area where it actually fits.} \label{fig:pl2019} \end{figure*} \section{Conclusions}\label{conc} In general, we should always use a standard mathematical approach in order to affirm any behaviour in the distribution of our data. That way, we can be assured that our results are unbiased, not simply based in our sight or plots, and they have been tested statistically. This is what we have done in this paper, that not only uses that methodology on data already published, but also updates the data checking whether there has been any evolution in the actual existence of a power law in the repositories under study. In general, the probability of finding a power law in the repositories studied is quite low, so, up to now, we can not categorically affirm that the studied systems are in a critical state due to self-organization, at least from this point of view that uses the size of changes in every commit in a repository. This result, however, does not imply that there is not any kind of self-organization or even a power law, but that the systems have not been regulated enough and, therefore has not been established near a possible critical state. Furthermore we would like to explore the possible causes of such dramatic changes as the ones seen in repositories like Django, since they may be related to a possible phase change. In any case, the article presents an principled and objective workflow to study the existence of power law distributions that settles the status of these kind of measures in software development via repositories. Thanks to this procedure, we hope we can establish a new state of art, from which researchers can begin to study these and other properties of code repositories in order to understand which of them may be related to self-organization and which ones have a very low probability of that. This paper is also a starting point for the in-depth study of how, when and what produces complex behaviors or self-organized criticality in code repositories. We have only treated the number of commits, but there are many other parameters or variables (contributions per author, per file, blame chunks sizes \footnote{Code lines that are next to each other and were modified together} or authors in different files) that can cause the appearance of power laws within the repositories, which could give us clues about a possible critical state of our system. On the other hand, as our sample size of repositories is relatively small, we could extend this study to different repositories, to detect possible general patterns or patterns related to repositories written in certain languages or ascribed to certain software projects. We would like to conclude pointing out that all the software used in this research (being the main ones R\cite{R}, Python \cite{CS-R9526} and \LaTeX) is open source. Furthermore, all the scripts used and data obtained (curated and not curated) are open and can be checked at \url{https://github.com/geneura-papers/2019-SASO-Repos-Powerlaws}. \bibliographystyle{apalike}

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Moving!! It's stressful! We uproot an established life and routine in the hope of something better. It might sound like I moved across continents. In truth, we just moved 4 kilometers from our previous rented house to a new home that's all ours. This being the very first home owned by us, we planned and tried our best to make everything perfect from the get-go. That was not how things turned out to be in reality. It took nearly 8 months to transform this previously unfamiliar, almost 1000 sq. ft. of space into my tiny paradise. Today I feel like I have earned this Sunday morning when I sit in my cosy living room and give my complete attention to this thus far neglected but dearly beloved blog. This preamble is an explanation I am trying to give – mainly to myself – for being unable to write over the past few of months. I am back now with a review of stories from Burkina Faso. It is a landlocked country in West Africa. The population is made of many tribes who have occupied the region from prehistoric times. It is Francophone due to the colonial occupation by France during the European scramble for Africa. It is one of the least developed countries in the world.There is regular migration to Ghana and Ivory Coast for seasonal agricultural work. Slavery in the region dates back to the era of Arab slave trade. Reports say it still exists in the region. The capital Ouagadougou hosts its own International Arts and Crafts festival and a pan African film festival called FESPACO. As expected there are very few options to read from the country in English. So when I saw the collection of Folktales from the Moose of Burkina Faso, I could not resist. According to the African Books Collective, the author is engaged in several research projects in Burkinabe culture. Folktales are an amazing way to get an insight into a culture, specially one dominated by tribes where the tales describe their thought process and way of living excellently. Folktales from the Moose of Burkina Faso is a collection of stories orally recounted among the Moose tribe. The Mossi are the original and the largest ethnic group in the region of Burkina Faso. The stories are bizarre and often extremely violent. The characters are mostly various animals, each with a distinct attribute associated with it. The hare is usually the protagonist. He is intelligent for sure, but his value system may be quite different from the one we believe in. Occasionally a human character pops in and automatically jumps to the top of the intellectual ladder. The hyena is usually a disliked character trying to pull tricks but in the end paying a price for its stupidity, usually with its life. Various other animals make many interesting appearances in the stories. The wisdom the stories try to impart may not be immediately relate to the mainstream cultural context. That doesn't make them any less fascinating. The key takeaways from all these stories seems to be that violence is rampant and inescapable and intelligence is a more helpful tool for survival than honesty. Located in south-eastern Europe on the Balkans, Bulgaria is known for its deep cultural roots and heritage. In the 4th century A.D., the first Christian monastery was established in central Bulgaria. Persians and Ottomans have laid claim on the region and it has witnessed severe Christian persecution. Even though it was a Stalinist state for a while, Bulgaria finally evolved into a democracy. It is still known for corruption and inefficiency in the systems and has one of the lowest population growth and birth rates. It has not fully recovered from the economic collapse of the post socialist era. It is a market based economy and is one of the biggest exporters of IT products. Bulgaria is home to one of the richest folk heritages in the world and to Pre-Slav and Orhid literary schools. It is also the place of origin of the Cryllic script, the second most widely used in the world. Worked gold is said to have originated here. One of the unique cultural distinctions is the indication for Yes and No that differs from the rest of the world. Short left and right shake says yes and top to bottom nod says no. Bulgarians pride themselves on hospitality and neighborliness. While there is a huge body of literature available for reading from Bulgaria, I am writing about a book I love – Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You. It uniquely blends the trials of homosexuality and economic despair in current day Bulgaria, without making the reader feel miserable for it. More about it in the review. Their final encounter is one of much indifference and pity – signs of a relationship that has lived its course. This book is about coming to terms – with the relationship between father and son, brother and sister, friends, lovers and between a person and his country; acknowledging the missteps that makes one the person he is today. It is about the slow discovery and coming to terms with one's sexuality. A winner of the 2017 British Book Awards and definitely on my wall of honor. Brunei is a tiny country on the island of Borneo, sharing territory with Malaysia and Indonesia. It has one of the world's highest standard of livings, thanks to its bountiful oil and gas reserves. It's largely ethnic Malay population enjoy generous state handouts and pay no taxes (Source: BBC Country profile). It is the first country in the world to have Sheriya law as penal code. The country is known to have low press freedom and women's rights. Since there are no discos, alcohol serving restaurants and night life, the idea in Brunei is to 'savor the slow life'. Literature in Brunei is mostly folk based. A free form poetry called Sajak is practiced here. The number of books available internationally in English can be counted on one hand. For my reading, I choose Written in Black by K H Lim, a coming-of-age story set in Brunei. I will discover for myself how the actual reading turns out to be. Written In Black is a charming tale of the misadventures of a boy pining for his mother. While this is the worst kind of pain a child can go through, nowhere through the story the reader is made to experience the boy's misery. We feel his anxiety, hope and desperation but we don't come away feeling that all is lost for him. I think that's a clear win for the author. Jonathan lives with his Brunei-Chinese family of his father, brother and sister and has a heavy case of the Middle Child Syndrome. His mother and elder brother have left the house about 6 months back. He hasn't spoken to his mother even over the phone in the recent past. The story starts with the death of his paternal grandfather, Ah Kong. The news is received quite unemotionally by Jonathan and his younger brother Aaron. There is an elaborate funeral to attend though, held at the home of his far wealthier paternal uncle, with whom his grandparents have been living. We are slowly introduced to the family dynamics and intricacies of relationships with the background of the funeral. 'Had life here with us been truly that terrible? It could've been with Pa, but were the rest of us not enough to keep her from leaving? Or was it because of all of us? 'Eating her food always made me feel like I was having a good day, regardless of how terrible it might have really been'. He comes out of his ordeal more mature and richer with experiences. One of the main complaints from other reviewers of this book is that the protagonist does not act his age that is all of ten. While that my be true, in my opinion, the author still managed to convey what he set out to do in this book – the lengths a boy can go to for just a few words with his mother and the complex situations in the family that force a mother of four to step away from all her children. Common themes like the family history and gang violence are not overtly alluded to, but left for the reader to infer. It was one of the better books narrated from a child's perspective – John Gresham's A Painted House is another such gem – and I am very happy with my choice of reading from Brunei. Techno thriller in which Brunei is saved. Brazil is the largest country in South America. Due to the cohabitation of European settlers, former African slaves and Native American peoples, Brazil is a veritable melting pot of cultures with its own version of Portuguese as the spoken language. An emerging power in the world, Brazil provides military and diplomatic aid for peacekeeping in varied regions. Most people associate the country with its world leading soccer team. For me Brazil always brings to mind the colossal Christ the Redeemer, standing tall, looking over the colorful Rio de Janeiro, spreading his protective arms over his people. Brazilian literature is a vast, living, breathing organism, growing everyday in size and reach. The amount of world class writing available from the country is simply mind boggling. The most easily recognizable and commercially successful name is Paulo Coehlo with his The Alchemist. While I liked some of his work like Veronica Decides to Die, the books off late like The Witch and The Spy just seem to be playing to the expectations of the audience and not living up to the hype associated with Coehlo's name. When I started researching the authors to read from Brazil, the list grew to be too big to manage and I was unsure for while about a choice of reading. So I started out with the absolute first classic available. Machado de Assis lived and wrote in the mid 19th century. He is hailed as the greatest writer of all time from Brazil and is supposed to be the pioneer of magical realism. His The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas has the narrator speaking about his life, mistakes and learnings posthumously. It is unlike anything I have read so far and I expect to be engrossed till the end. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas has a chatty narrator speaking from beyond the grave. Bras Cubas has just lost his life and is trying to come to terms with eternity. He is most likely speaking to make sense of the life he lived and has the urge to share it with others in the form of a book. The narrative is leisurely since the narrator doesn't have anywhere to get to or any deadline to keep. The way he relates the story is heavy with irony. Their love affair is bound to end in tragedy. There are many many books from Brazilian authors that I would like to read. Machado de Assis's masterpiece is a fitting beginning for this exploration. After the death of her hasband, Donna Fiora marries again. Things take an interesting turn when her dead husband starts visiting her, claiming his marital rights. Reading about Botswana has been a pleasure. A mid-sized, landlocked, Southern African country, it has Kalahari dessert occupying 70% of its territory. One of the most sparsely populated countries in the world, it has one of the highest growing per-capita income and human development index. The country is resource rich but lacking in institutional structure. The economy is highly dependent on diamond mining. Both its unique culture, and language are referred to as Setswana. Sadly, the country has one of the highest reported cases of HIV/AIDS in the world and putting in place significant resources to deal with it. While there is published literature available in Setswana, the writing in English mainly started with travel literature (Source: http://www.thuto.org/ubh/bw/bhp9.htm). Currently we have a large and unique body of literature in English from Botswana with many prominent literary figures. The most popular writer from Botswana is Bessie Head. Her 'When Rain Cloud Gather' gives a succinct account of the life and culture of Botswana from an African refugee's point of view. Another wildly popular series is Alexander McCall Smith's No.1 Ladies Detective Agency mysteries. Quirky and funny, the series is well known as books as well as TV shows. For my reading, I have chosen 'Murder for Profit' the second story in Laurie Kibuitsile's Kate Gomolemo mysteries. A mystery similar to the 'No.1 Ladies ..' series for sure – the key differentiator being that the author lives and works in Botswana. It is a short read and I hope is as charming as the 'No.1 ..' series too. 'Murder for Profit' is everything I hoped the book would be – short, interesting right down to unputdownable towards the end, full of references to Botswana culture and way of life. Set in Mogobane, a small village within riding distance from the capital Gaborone, the story revolves around the grizzly murders of three children and their elderly grandmother. The murders look almost motiveless, the victims completely helpless in front of the greed of the people willing to commit such acts. The local police rules the murders as a fire accident. An anonymous note about the murders brings detective Kate Gomolemo back to the village. The detective has her own personal losses to deal with like the recent death of her husband and the separation from her only son, studying to be a doctor in United States. However her sense of justice and duty push her on and she manages to get to the root of the murders, even when she has to risk her life for it. The thing that sets the novel apart and makes it a delightful read is the author's emphasis on the 'who' of the murders rather than on the 'why'. The intention is not to awe the reader with an unguessable mystery, but to give a sense of the havoc and destruction caused by misplaced beliefs and traditions. And finally the world-wide belief of infertility being a woman's problem (a good write-up about fertility, confinement rituals after delivery etc. in Botswana here). The book was certainly worth my time and I am pretty sure I will go back for more from Botswana. Last month was the first time I missed posting in this blog since I started it almost 2.5 years ago. Life caught on. Amidst all the chaos, I could still clearly feel how much I missed posting here. Now I am back and it feels great. This month I write about Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country in the Balkan peninsula, bordered by Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. The region was a part of the Ottoman empire, the Austro-Hungarian empire and the Republic of Yugoslavia at various points in modern history. Currently it is a liberal democratic nation. The country is remembered the most for being the site of the assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand which proved to be a spark for the First World War. It hosts the immensely popular Sarajevo Film Festival as well. Bosnia and Herzegovina has a rich literary tradition going back to the middle ages. There is a wealth of fiction and non-fiction originating here aiming to shed light on the various conflicts . The most obvious choice to read is Nobel Laureate Ivo Andric with his The Bridge on the Drina, a historical novel where the bridge stands testament to the history of the place from Ottoman occupation till World War I. For my reading, I have chosen Death and the Dervish by Messa Selimovic. Its a poignant tale of a dervish, who regularly misquotes the Quoran, loses his brother and tries to deal with the tragedy in a state of half delirium. Its a Bosnian classic and I hope to enjoy reading it. The dervish left his family a long while ago to take the order. The decision was mostly triggered by the separation from the woman he loved. He still cares about his brother immensely and is quite confident that he could not do anything unlawful or hurtful. In spite of this belief, he cannot bring himself to do enough to save his brother from a certain death in the hands of the authoritarian rulers. He loses a lot of time contemplating how to come out of the whole incident looking good and his brother safe. By the time he realizes only one among the two is possible, its too late. His momentary spur of efforts gets him imprisoned for a while. When he does come out, he takes up a higher position as a kadi(judge) and is eventually forced to rule against his best friend. A more significant underlying theme throughout the story is the cowardice of the dervish. At the bottom of cowardice lies extreme selfishness, a desire to protect only oneself, at any cost. Cowardice leads to pain, loneliness, desperate search for a friend and definite depression. The story is supposed to mimic an incident in the author's life who lost his brother to the Communist regime and blamed himself for not doing enough to save him. The entire story runs like a reprimand for failing to protect a brother or a friend who fills the soul, even at the cost of one's own life – a self righteousness used to justify sending a brother to the gallows. Death and the Dervish is by no means an easy read. But if you persevere, the reward is an absolute classic with deep political and philosophical undercurrents. Bolivia is the largest landlocked country in the Americas. It was colonized by Spain in the 16th century. The Spaniards built their empire in great part upon the silver that was extracted from Bolivia's mines. Modern Bolivia is constitutionally a democratic republic but is still a developing country and ranks at or near the bottom among Latin American countries in several areas of health and development, including poverty, education, fertility, malnutrition, mortality, and life expectancy. Home to lake Titicaca along with Peru, Bolivia is a part of the Like-Minded Mega Diverse countries, due to its rich biodiversity. For my reading, I have chosen American Visa by Juan de Recacoechea. The author is a Bolivian TV mogul and was also a journalist in Europe in his previous avatar. I expect the writing to be contemporary along with the 'local feel' the reviews promise it has. American Visa captures one's imagination about Bolivia. It checks off every stereotype out there about the country and many about Third World countries in general. It delivers what is promised by the title – the struggle of a man without hopes to reach the land of opportunities. This story line is enhanced with numerous back stories about each character and several encounters with prostitutes; embellished with platonic romance and surprise sexual encounters. There is a crime in the making to ensure the reader keeps turning the pages. Despite all these valiant efforts, what the novel wants to convey remains a bit questionable. If poverty and debauchery is all it set out to show, then it definitely served its purpose. The broader plotline is of the protagonist, Mario Alvarez from Oruro – 'Bolivia's famed folklore capital' – who has been sent tickets to travel to the USA by his semi-estranged son, who does menial jobs himself over at the US. The sole purpose Senor Alvarez has in life is to get the visa to travel to the States and work in a pancake house. However what the story is actually about is his time in the dingy hotel in La Paz, the bonds he forms over there and the slice of his life in the big city. There is the plotline of the crime Alvarez commits to gather the money for the visa, which is predictable and falls flat. The interesting plotline is his relationship with Isabel, the niece of the local political, who is the witless victim of the crime. Isabel clearly likes Alvarez, and is one of the few characters in the novel evolved enough to be capable of having a meaningful relationship, but does not commit herself to take the step forward. Her decision to nip the relationship in the bud lays bare, the pitiable state of affairs in a country riddled with poverty and hopelessness, more than any other grizzly encounter the author feels compelled to narrate. Not all reactions need to be pleasant, but they are worth being heard. I did not lose by my choice of reading for Bolivia. Bolivian War of Independence narrated by an old revolutionary.

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I must have spring fever...all I can think about is bunnies, Easter eggs, jelly beans and peeps. I hope you enjoy todays ETSY treasuries and visit my fellow Estian's shops. They are truly wonderful and so much fun. What adorable collections! Thank you for including my little duck and chick! What an adorable blog, I love it!!!

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Govt mulls making paracetamol duty free US urges Pakistan to seek debt relief from China Turkiye dispatches 14th plane carrying aid to flood-hit Pakistan 1,576 people die due to flood-related incidents in Pakistan Anadolu Agency September 27, 2022 The floods have displaced hundreds of thousands of people who are living in tents. Anadolu Agency ANKARA: The 14th plane carrying humanitarian aid from Turkiye is heading to flood-hit Pakistan, the country's disaster management authority announced on Monday. In a statement, the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management (AFAD) said Turkiye continues to extend its helping hand to Pakistan, where millions of people have been affected by floods. Turkeye has so far dispatched 14 planes and 12 "Kindness Trains" carrying humanitarian aid supplies to Pakistan under the coordination of AFAD and with the support of the government, municipalities and Turkish nongovernmental organizations. Planes and trains loaded with over 25,000 tents, 409,000 food parcels and cleaning materials, 38,000 blankets, beds and pillows, and over 2.2 million pieces of medical equipment have been dispatched to Pakistan. A total of 23 people – including 12 AFAD personnel, a medical team comprising three persons, and eight NGO officials – are working in Pakistan to coordinate the distribution of aid and to assist in the establishment of tent cities, the disaster management authority said. Turkeye has also sent two mobile health units and 50 motorboats to the flood-hit South Asian country. With seven more deaths, the number of casualties from flood-related incidents across the country has risen to 1,576 since mid-June, according to Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority. Some 803,400 houses have been completely destroyed, while over 1.21 million houses are partially damaged across the country. The floods have displaced hundreds of thousands of people who are living in tents. The monsoon season in Pakistan, like in other countries in the region, usually results in heavy rains, but this year has been the wettest since 1961. Currently, one-third of the country is underwater as the massive rains and melting glaciers have caused the country's main Indus River to overflow, inundating vast swaths of plains and farms.

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Sheep herders are using llamas to fend off wolves and coyotes. The llama will scream, stamp, and kick with their feet. They are capable of stomping a coyote to death if the coyote refuses to retreat. Under attack sheep and lambs will gather into a tight circle. Llamas will stay on the outside of the circle and chase off the intruder. It's the end of the growing season. If you are familiar with the name Frankie Flowers (Frank Ferragine) you may also be aware that Frankie's family own and operate the Bradford Green Houses Limited. The mural is located on the south wall of the greenhouse. It depicts Francis Ferragine and his wife Chiara at work in the greenhouse. The artist Zewochko painted the mural in 1999. Artist: Yannick Pickard. This mural was conceived as the companion mural to Sail On and Fair Well (2009). It was designed for the upper level of a neighbourhood plaza, and painted during the summer of 2010. The mural depicts aspects of the landscape and seasons, with some of the artist's interpretation of iconic Canadian symbols. The Shahab Plaza murals were supported by grants from the City of Toronto. Rick McColl a CN Rail worker, at the age of 53, was struck and killed by a Via Rail passenger train. Someone had an imagination to create something like this. Located in Feversham, Ontario. Before the mural got painted a delivery truck accidentally backed into the brick wall of Short's Store. Damage fault was not in dispute but when new bricks where needed it was discovered that a match could not found. In order to cover up that flaw a mural was painted. It shows a period in time when the local mill was operating in the town. The condo complex known as San Francisco by the Bay consist of townhouses and three high rise towers. No, it's not located in California, but rather Pickering, Ontario, Canada. I took this photo in late August. It was just a little early for the fall salmon run. They told me that they were avid fishermen and were eager to get going. I don't know the name of this wildflower that I spotted growing along side the river. This is no perspective illusion. It's one big over size croc. At street level is the introduction to the Chrysalis Mural. The second mural in a series of murals dedicated to the monarch, the butterfly is a central figure to the mural, a physical representation of metamorphosis. Ellen Bleiwas, Leah Burns, Katy Mulla, Summer 2004 2446 Kingston Road, Scarborough, ON. Just west of Midland Avenue. Designed by artists Leah Burns, Katy Mulla and Ellen Bleiwas, the mural was inspired by stories told to the artists by Scarborough Storytellers - Bluffers Tales. Working with themes of metamorphosis, transition and migration, members of Bluffers Tales told a series of stories to the mural artists. These stories were translated into a design that celebrates the experiences of community members who left their homes to come to Canada.

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In this post I will begin showcasing some of Volatility's new Linux features by analyzing a popular Linux kernel rootkit named "Average Coder". These new features will include recovering .bash_history from memory, finding userland processes elevated to root by kernel mode components of the rootkit, and discovering overwritten file operation structure pointers. Average Coder gains control over a computer by loading as a kernel module and then overwriting a number of file_operations structures within the kernel. file_operations is a C structure used by the Linux kernel to provide generic handling of files by a number of subsystems within the kernel and contains function pointers such as read, write, readdir, open, close, etc. Each active file in the operating system has its own file_operations structure that is referenced every time activity is performed on the file (e.g when a file is read, the read function pointer of the structure is eventually called to handle reading the file contents from disk). To hide users, Average Coder hooks the readmember of /var/run/utmp in the kerne lin order to hide logged in users from applications such as w and who. This effectively hides logged in users from network administrators and incident response members working from userland on a live computer. Commands are taken from userland by hooking the writemember of /proc/buddyinfo, which is a file that normally does not support writes, and data written to this file (commands) can be used to hide process, users, and to elevate privileges. Kernel modules are hidden from lsmod by hooking the read member of /proc/modules. The modules file is the only source used by lsmod to list loaded modules, so this effectively hides it from the application. Again, we will see in a future post how to find hidden modules on both a live system and from a memory image by leveraging sysfs. As we study this output, we see a number of interesting results. First we see that the rootkit was inserted into the kernel sudo insmod rootkit.ko. We then see "hide" being sent to /proc/buddyinfo which hides the kernel module from lsmod. Next, we see the person checking to be sure that rootkit does not appear in lsmod output. The user then hides the centoslive user from utmp (we covered this earlier). The user checks the success of this by running the w command. Finally, we see the user spawn and background the sleep command, which will print the PID of it to the command line, and then this PID is sent to buddyinfoto be hidden. The user then checks this to make sure sleepdoes not appear in ps auxw. Average Coder provides the ability for userland processes to send a command to /proc/buddyinfoin order to have their privileges elevated to root (user ID 0). This is a very common method used by attackers in order to maintain persistence on compromised resources. This changed in later versions of 2.6 as the kernel adopted a cred structure to hold all information related to the privileges of a process. This structure is fairly complicated and forced rootkits to adapt their process elevation methods. Although the kernel provides the prepare_creds and commit_creds functions to allocate and store new credentials, a number of rootkits choose not to use this functionality. Instead, they simply find another process that has the privileges of root and that never exits, usually PID 1, and set the cred pointer of the target process to that of PID 1's. This effectively gives the attacker's process full control and the rootkit does not have to attempt the non-trivial task of allocating its own cred structure.

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A festival favorite, the annual Car Show is a highlight of the NC Blueberry Festival. Held on Saturday, June 15th, this is an open car show that includes all classes of cars and trucks. Located in downtown Burgaw, festival activities and the Historic Train Depot serve as the backdrop to show off these sweet rides! This premier event includes a variety of awards, door prizes and raffles. Registered vehicles are judged by an independent panel of experts and awards are given to those with the highest ratings at 3:00pm. The first 100 preregistered vehicles receive a gift from the festival. Preregistration will end on June 7th and can be completed by filling out the "Preregister Online" form linked below. The cost to register in advance is $20 and can be paid by credit card below or by mailing a check to NC Blueberry Festival, PO Box 1554, Burgaw, NC 28425. Payment must be received by June 7th in order to be preregistered. Limited same-day registration will be allowed between 7:30-9:30am. Registration must be complete by 9:30am in order to be considered for judging. The cost for same-day registration will be $25 and can only be paid with cash or check.

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Randolph public schools ditch Columbus for Indigenous Peoples Day Erin Vogt Erin Vogt Published: May 18, 2021 "Landing of Columbus" by John Vanderlyn, from the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, Washington D.C. (AOC.gov) RANDOLPH — Another North Jersey school district has opted to swap Christopher Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples Day on its calendar. Randolph Township Public Schools will amend its district calendar, following the unanimous vote during a Board of Education virtual meeting on Thursday. A member of the board's Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee made the immediate recommendation to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, proposed about an hour and 40 minutes into the meeting, saying it was meant to "strengthen Randolph's commitment to diversity and inclusion and show our community that we embrace the histories of all people." The district typically observes the October holiday as a professional development day with students off and the staff reporting for an in-service. Indigenous Peoples Day recognizes Native Americans, who were the first inhabitants of the land that later became the United States of America. Newark has been observing Indigenous Peoples Day since 2017, as the holiday also appears on the city's school district calendars. Last fall, Montclair also added Indigenous Peoples Day to its public school calendar, as approved by the Montclair Township Board of Education at a September meeting. Princeton municipal officials voted in 2019 to observe Indigenous Peoples Day, but the Princeton School District calendar online does not note either as a holiday for this or next school year. For New Jersey communities with strong Italian-American heritage, not only does Columbus Day live on, but there are often parades and festivals alongside the fall weekend — though many were cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Columbus Day became a federal holiday in 1937. The Tastiest Jersey Shore Food Trucks You Should Try This Summer Filed Under: Columbus, Essex County, Montclair, Morris County, Newark, Randolph

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MOST land-based Southeast Asians (like me) can't quite comprehend a world in which the earth itself can suddenly start groaning, moving and in the most extreme cases, such as in Palu last week, turn into molten mud (the technical term is "liquefaction"). Before I moved to Indonesia some 15 years ago, my only experience of an earthquake was a mild tremor in Kuala Lumpur when I was seven years old. According to my mother - I slept through the whole thing - even as our television (they had wheels back then) rolled gently across the room. There were no fatalities. Maritime Southeast Asia (Philippines and Indonesia) is quite different. Situated atop the "Ring of Fire", a chain of unstable tectonic plates, these two archipelagic nations are constantly roiled by seismic activity. For Indonesia, "Alam" (or Nature) has been a constant presence, if not a threat. Over the past decade and a half, there have been countless tremors, eruptions and tsunamis - so much so that my office administrator in Jakarta chose ground-floor premises because she was too afraid of being stuck in a high-rise building in the event of an earthquake. The effect of liquefaction is devastating, forming swamps and sucking in entire villages. (AP Photo) My notebooks are full of first-hand accounts, stories of ordinary people battling the elements, coming to terms with loss and then rebuilding life. Each of the experiences is different - there is nothing constant, with the exception of the extreme fear and helplessness felt by the victims at the moment of impact. Indeed 'Alam' in Indonesia is highly unpredictable. There are times when it appears to be playing with mankind, toying with humanity like a cat with a mouse just before it delivers the final coup de grace. For example, back in 2006 as Central Java's iconic Gunung Merapi threatened to erupt and all eyes were focused on the lava flows and ash being emitted, the tectonic plates suddenly shifted, sending a whiplash-like earthquake through Bantul's placid communities far to the south. More than 5000 unprepared villagers died from the impact. Mount Merapi in mid rumble, spewing ashes all around it. Its 2006 and 2010 eruption have wreaked havoc on the island. Ceritalah / Joseph Tertia Similarly, earlier this year as the Balinese were preparing for the revered volcano, Gunung Agung to erupt, emptying the many villages and farms surrounding the smouldering presence, the Ring of Fire surprised us once again by unleashing its full force on the neighbouring island of Lombok - wreaking havoc on unsuspecting farmers and claiming 564 lives. The stories are hair-raising and heart-breaking. In Aceh, one interviewee described to me how he was engulfed by a torrent of filthy salt-water (in the 2004 tsunami) and was swept along with garbage, cats, dogs, trees, cars and houses, losing his youngest daughter in the chaos. A 120-year old woman evacuated to Tembuku Bangli camp in Bali. Ceritalah Photo In Bantul, after the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in 2006, local farmers described the nausea they felt as the earth itself swayed and shook like the open sea mid-storm. Indeed, I have tried my best to understand what it must be like when the land - something we take for granted as solid and immutable - is transformed into a writhing mass. Having experienced the mildest of tremors, I can only relate the stories of others. Of course, the extreme disruption is matched by the extraordinary fertility of the soil after the earthquakes and eruptions. In the case of Gunung Kelud that erupted four years ago, spewing over 160 million cubic metres of nutrient-rich ash into the skies above East Java and closing down commercial aviation and airports for weeks, harvests in the region have been prodigious. According to my intern, Destya Darmawan whose family farms in nearby Kediri, in the years after the eruption of ash, their pineapple crop doubled and the rice harvest was 50% higher than normal. Karim speaks to 53-year-old Nyoman Gerti and granddaughter Gita after Gunung Merapi's eruption in November 2017. Ceritalah Photo But a growing familiarity with natural disasters doesn't make the loss of life, disability, injury and destruction of property any easier to accept. If anything, it makes you understand all the more keenly the importance of faith and the constancy of religious practice in Indonesia - especially on the Island of Java. With the possibility of death always so close at hand, we need to keep up a constant stream of offerings, prayers and incantations. We can never just give up. No one can ever be certain that the next outburst from Alam will be like the last. And indeed, the earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi has proved once again, Alam's capacity to surprise and shock in the way whole chunks of Palu were reduced to molten mud that swallowed up communities, homes, churches and mosques like quicksand. Evacuees staying positive after Mount Agung's eruption. Ceritalah Photo Essentially, tectonic activity exerted pressure that loosened the earth's soil, making it fluid. Previously steady ground turned into a land tsunami, sucking in entire villages in waves. Plots of drier land ended up being carried across the tumult and deposited hundreds of meters from their origin. Liquefaction is Alam's newest and deadliest trick. If you live atop the Ring of Fire, you should never falter in your faith because no one can anticipate what will turn up next from Nature's arsenal of tricks. However much we learn, Alam will always reduce us - mere mortals - to supplicants. *Follow Karim Raslan on Twitter @fromKMR / Instagram @fromkmr ** The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of Astro AWANI.

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With the premier of Bill Nye the Pseudscience Guy's new show on Netflix, Bill Nye Saves the World, Nye's scientific ignorance has been a recent topic of discussion. In fact, one year ago today, John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, called Bill Nye just that. Last year, a movie called Climate Hustle, which gave skeptical criticisms of climate change and global warming, was released much to the distaste of Nye. Nye is extremely public in his faith in climate change, going so far to call for the imprisonment of climate change skeptics. This remark was the "most awful thing since Galileo was jailed for saying the Earth was not the center of the Universe" in Coleman's mind. Regardless of one's views of climate change, imprisoning people for calling a theory into question is not scientific. It is a promotion of dogma and peer review fraud. It is the suppression of facts that might disrupt your worldview with a government gun. It is tyranny. It is contrary to human liberty. Coleman called it last year, Bill Nye is no science guy. He's a hack with a leftist agenda that bows down to the First Church of Barack Obama.

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Perfectionism and the pressures it brings can be a key factor in the development and maintenance of a number of mental illnesses, especially eating disorders. It's time to better understand what it means and to get more realistic. It's a common enough word, a label that most people are proud to own. It's often used as a compliment for someone's hard work and dilligence, or as a way of telling someone, jokingly, to just get on with something. But most of us, when we use the word 'perfectionism/perfectionist', don't realise what it actually means and that there is a darker side to this usually shiny badge of honour. The Oxford English Dictionary defines perfectionism as 'the refusal to accept any standard short of perfection'. Many would argue that this a positive, healthy quality to have, especially in the work place or in school. And you can't really argue with that: we all want to do our best, to be successful, to do a good job, to earn the praise of others. But how do you actually define perfection? Here a dictionary can't help us. Objectively, 'perfect' doesn't exist. How can it? Can anything really be perfect? I'm sure even if you've written an essay that got top marks, you've felt that you could have added just that bit more, or weren't happy with a certain sentence somewhere. OK, so for most people who might be labelled a perfectionist, it's not an inherently bad thing. Maybe it puts more pressure on them than they need, but overall, trying to be the best you can is a positive thing – as long as you remain largely realistic and balanced in your outlook on life. It's when perfectionism, the refusal to accept anything other than perfection, becomes a rule to constantly live by and measure yourself against that perfectionism becomes unhealthy and potentially dangerous. There is a big difference between a healthy and helpful pursuit of excellence and an unhealthy and unhelpful striving for perfection. I'd argue that for most people, when they use the term perfectionist, they refer to a healthy pursuit of excellence: the best we can expect of ourselves given the circumstances. Striving for perfection, however, can have far reaching consequences. Relentless striving for demanding and unrealistic high standards. Judging your own self-worth based on your ability to strive for and achieve those high standards. Continuining to pursue those unrelenting standards despite the negative consequences. Can you recognise any of these aspects in yourself? I think a lot of us can. And I bet a lot of us can also identify how those three elements can be extremely tiring, pressurising and intense to the point of being stressful and depressing. And the thing with perfectionism is that even if these unrealistically high standards are met, it tells you that it is still not good enough, that you should go further. The goal posts just keep moving and you never achieve 'perfection'. How can you ever really be happy if you live like that? Such unrelenting standards lead to feelings of anxiety, stress, dissatisfaction with life and with ourselves, guilt and shame. You begin to feel that you are not good enough, that you're a failure: you're self-worth and self-esteem plummet. This in turn can lead to social isolation, frustration, relationship problems, an overall sense of failure, guilt, stress, shame, and can feed into the development of mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, OCD and eating disorders. And that's the point. Regardless of mental illness, perfectionism just isn't good for our mental health in general. We are increasingly exposed to pressures all around us that put more and more pressure on us to be perfect. Social media is full of people posting their achievements, their 'perfect' holiday pics; full of adverts showing us how to be the 'perfect' person in how we look, in what we buy, in what we wear and how we behave. It's no wonder then that the rates of depression and anxiety are increasing, especially amongst the younger Instagram and Facebook generation. These rules and assumptions are very similar to those which can lie behind a number of mental illnesses, for example anxiety, depression, OCD, eating disorders. Perfectionism leads to a vicious circle which reinforces the perfectionism and can lead to the development of severe mental illnesses. The unrelenting high standards can rarely be met, therefore you conclude that you are not good enough, that you're a failure and therefore people will judge you and reject you. For many people, not meeting an unrealistic target might just mean that it is time to give up. But for perfectionists, it means that it is time to be even tougher on yourself, to try even harder. And even if the standard is achieved, perfectionists will often just see it as a fluke, or a sign that the bar hadn't been set high enough in the first place. The feelings of not being good enough and of failure can generate stress, guilt, shame, self-hatred. It is hard to underestimate how powerful guilt and shame are. They are often the root of many mental illnesses. There is a very strong correlation between perfectionism and eating disorders. That is not to say that everyone with perfectionistic traits is going to develop an eating disorder. Anorexia has been especially linked to a previous tendency towards perfectionism. In fact, perfectionism can be seen as a central aspect of eating disorders like anorexia. I'll use the example of anorexia most because that's the type of disorder I am most familiar with. Anorexia (just like other EDs) is a coping mechanism, a way to deal with difficult thoughts and feelings and situations and the world in general. Now, perfectionism can have two roles here. Perfectionism may have caused that person to need to find a coping mechanism in the first place, thus the development of the eating disorder, and it can maintain the disorder. The constant feeling of inadequacy and failure, of shame and guilt, the constant pressure to be 'perfect' can be overwhelming. An eating disorder can offer an escape and an outlet from this in a number of ways. Firstly, the constant preocupation with food and weight leaves little room left to think about anything else, so those feelings and thoughts or situations you want to escape from are pushed into the background. Furthermore, the perfectionism can hone in on weight and eating and find something that it can achieve and therefore, those feelings of being a failure are less frequent if you continue to maintain at a low weight, or continue to lose weight, or go for a certain amount of time without eating. Rather than those feelings of shame and guilt, you get a sense of achievement. In my own experience, I know that I used perfectionism as a coping mechanism for a long time in order to protect myself from my own feelings of inadequacy as a person: I believed I had to be perfect so that people wouldn't see the 'true me'. First, this was in my school work: nothing was ever good enough. Even if I got an A*, this was either just a fluke or a sign that I would have to keep up the pressure on myself so as not to drop the ball and therefore be judged and rejected as I feared. I also became a perfectionist in my relationships with other people: I had to be as nice, as good, as 'perfect' as possible so that I wouldn't be rejected if they saw the bad person I believed I really was. And with more independence at university, the perfectionism also took aim at money: I had to keep strict control of my finances to the point where if I spent more than £12 a week on food shopping I was a failure. And then, due to various changes in my life, the perfectionism turned on my weight and diet. I could only put healthy things inside me, or else I was a failure. I had to maintain or lose my weight, or I was a failure. I had to be slimmer, or I was a failure. Even as I became increasingly emaciated (not that I could see this, of course), I was still not good enough. And those feelings of shame and guilt and failure all fed further into the anorexia itself. I've learned to be more realistic in my expectations of myself nowadays. I no longer listen to myself when I set unrealistic, inflexible standards. I try to be the best I can be in any given circumstance, but recognise that, just like everyone else, I make mistakes and I have off days, but that this does not make me a failure or a bad person. Recovery from any eating disorder must involve a balancing of any perfectionist traits. Eating disorders feed off perfectionism and comparison with others. To beat them, you have to beat that little voice in your head telling you to always be perfect. We have to be more balanced, more flexible, more compassionate in the way we judge ourselves and in our expectations of ourselves. Striving to be perfect only takes you further from true perfection: just being yourself. Pursue excellence, but don't demand perfection. ‹ PreviousMental Health Awareness Week: what is mental health?

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West Lindsey District Council could have the answer for anyone looking to expand a business online. The council is working with a range of training providers to address training needs in areas that have been identified by rural businesses as important to their future growth. It is running two training workshops on the subjects of websites and social media. Hosted at the White Heather, Caenby Corner, 'Using Social Media for Your Business' is taking place on Thursday February 5 and 'Getting The Most from Your Website' is on Wednesday February 25. Aimed at rural tourism, leisure and hospitality businesses, the programme is subsidised by Lantra through the RDPE programme and delivered by specialist trainers Tourism Growth Ltd.

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Schlesisches Wochenblatt (Slezský týdeník) jsou noviny z Opolí vycházející každý týden. Noviny vychází se články v německém a polském jazyce. Šéfredaktorem novin je Till Scholtz-Knobloch. Slezský týdeník je v první řadě pro polské státní občany, jenž se hlásí k německé minoritě. Vzhledem k tomu, že největší koncentrace obyvatel německé národnosti v Polsku je v Opolském vojvodství, se noviny vydávají především v tomto regionu, ale malá část výtisků novin jde do celého Polska. Jako noviny pro německou minoritu v Polsku je Slezský týdeník (Schlesiche Wochenblatt) podporován institucí pro zahraniční kulturní vztahy (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) ve Stuttgartu. Historie Slezský týdeník byl prvními novinamu pro německou minorita v Polsku se články v německém jazyce vydávány od roku 1990 v nakladatelství Silesiapress. V současné době se tiskne okolo 6 500 exemplářů, z toho se však vrací 20 až 30% zpět. Odkazy Reference Související články Oberschlesien (Noviny) Externí odkazy Oficiální webová strana Slezského týdeníku Německé noviny

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Le canton de Conlie est une ancienne division administrative française située dans le département de la Sarthe et la région Pays de la Loire. Géographie Ce canton était organisé autour de Conlie dans l'arrondissement de Mamers. Son altitude variait de (Degré) à (Tennie) pour une altitude moyenne de . Histoire Administration Conseillers généraux de 1833 à 2015 Le canton participe à l'élection du député de la première circonscription de la Sarthe. Conseillers d'arrondissement (de 1833 à 1940) Composition Le canton de Conlie comptait en 2012 (population municipale) et regroupait quinze communes : Bernay-en-Champagne ; La Chapelle-Saint-Fray ; Conlie ; Cures ; Degré ; Domfront-en-Champagne ; Lavardin ; Mézières-sous-Lavardin ; Neuvillalais ; Neuvy-en-Champagne ; La Quinte ; Ruillé-en-Champagne ; Sainte-Sabine-sur-Longève ; Saint-Symphorien ; Tennie. À la suite du redécoupage des cantons pour 2015, toutes les communes sont rattachées au canton de Loué. Anciennes communes Les anciennes communes suivantes étaient incluses dans le canton de Conlie : Verniette, absorbée entre 1795-1800 par Conlie. Saint-Julien, absorbée en 1810 par Neuvy-en-Champagne. Démographie Voir aussi Liste des cantons de la Sarthe Liste des conseillers généraux de la Sarthe Communauté de communes de la Champagne Conlinoise Canton de Loué Notes et références Notes Références Conlie

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Q: React Native realtime database build error So I tried adding firebase database to an existing project and it kept throwing this gradle error, however when I made a new project and installed it, It worked fine, even the the project I'm currently working on was made only a couple months ago, so it's not that old of a project, These are my dependencies: "@react-native-community/masked-view": "^0.1.11", "@react-native-firebase/app": "^14.5.1", "@react-native-firebase/database": "^14.5.1", "@react-navigation/bottom-tabs": "^6.1.0", "@react-navigation/native": "^6.0.7", "@react-navigation/native-stack": "^6.3.0", "@react-navigation/stack": "^6.1.0", "firebase": "^9.6.9", "intl": "^1.2.5", "react": "17.0.2", "react-moment": "^1.1.1", "react-native": "0.67.3", and these are the logs I'm getting in console > Configure project :react-native-firebase_database Subproject ':react-native-firebase_database' has location '--\node_modules\@react-native-firebase\database\android' which is outside of the project root. This behaviour has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 8.0. Consult the upgrading guide for further information: https://docs.gradle.org/7.2/userguide/upgrading_version_7.html#deprecated_flat_project_structure FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring project ':react-native-firebase_database'. > Could not load compiled classes for build file '--\node_modules\@react-native-firebase\database\android\build.gradle' from cache. * Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights. * Get more help at https://help.gradle.org BUILD FAILED in 1m 12s at makeError (--\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\node_modules\execa\index.js:174:9) at --\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\node_modules\execa\index.js:278:16 at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5) at async runOnAllDevices (--\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli-platform-android\build\commands\runAndroid\runOnAllDevices.js:109:5) at async Command.handleAction (--\node_modules\@react-native-community\cli\build\index.js:192:9) A: how you doing ? Try to include those lines in android/settings.gradle. include ':@react-native-firebase_app' project(':@react-native-firebase_app').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/@react-native-firebase/app/android') You can also set the compileSdkVersion to 30 or 31. and targetSdkVersion 30 or above too. Cheers A: So basically deleting the gradle cache fixed this issue for me, however gradlew clean didn't work either so I had to delete the cache folders * *On windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gradle\caches *On Mac / UNIX: ~/.gradle/caches/ How to clear gradle cache?

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On The Bus Rock Trivia News Muse Mango Playlists Mango Features DNA source songs If You Missed Your Ride The Jam Band Experience Daily RockTrivia Its gorgeous, emotional break combines an out-on-the-highway slide guitar folded magically in with surf guitar. We longed for accessible tunes from Patti Smith. The wish was fulfilled via Springsteen's towering collaboration. The intro casually noodles, then fires up into an ardent gallop that supports and then is overshadowed by the lead guitar riff. Eight Miles High One of the most influential Rock tracks – arguably the first Psychedelic Rock song. It certainly was the first psychedelic hit. Mango Facebook SongMango.com After The Thrill Is Gone (1975) Written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey What are DNA Source Songs™? Suggest a source song for inclusion via Rock Populi. The Eagles endlessly meander between three poles. There is the pure Country spirit that grew out of the nexus formed in Los Angeles by people like Gram Parsons, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Chris Hillman and J.D. Souther. One of The Eagles songs that best typifies it is "Lyin' Eyes." There is the Eagles' not entirely unpleasant Hollywood School of Schmaltz with songs of theirs leading the lecture series: "New Kid In Town"; "Best Of My Love," and the often-lampooned "Desperado." In one episode of Seinfeld, "Desperado" becomes a running gag: ELAINE: (speaking of a current love interest) Brett is so generous, and sensitive. Last night he was moved just listening to a song. JERRY: What song? ELAINE: "Desperado" JERRY: "Desperado"? ELAINE: Uh huh. JERRY: And you're still dating him? Then there is the Eagles' Arena Rock side: "Hotel California" and "Life In The Fast Lane," both of which have hot-buttered Joe Walsh figuring prominently. (The move toward more stadium pleasers precipitated Bernie Leadon's departure. He was replaced by Walsh.) Astride those three corners lies "After The Thrill Is Gone," one of their huge concert favorites. It's fine SoCal Country mixed with the cinematic, overdramatic lost-love obsession well known to fans, but it is also wildly loud and audacious, featuring one of the best guitar solos of Don Felder's career. "After The Thrill Is Gone" https://songmango.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1-16-After-The-Thrill-Is-Gone.m4a The solo, in fact, borders on Heavy Metal, and engenders an unusual effect in the listener as it crosses back and forth between Country, the soundtrack of a Broadway musical that's been filmed in a studio, and a tenderly painted sob story. We're not just hearing a sorrowful tale of decayed amour, we're listening to the last round-up of a tremendously creative time that was passing, an approach to music that was being lost. The love story is no less compelling because of the examination of the musical and historical changing of the guard. The lyrics are ridiculously hooky. Sick. Practically every line is a hook. The title is a hook. (They're called out in bold type below.) The musical hooks abound, too, while the tune behind the words draws out the social commentary. Going further, the song is about the tensions in the band, how their varied artistic sensibilities were diverging. It gives what is outwardly a boy-girl love song another level of meaning, and adds depth to the pathos. The boys of summer were at the very top of their game. "After The Thrill Is Gone" is an indisputably brilliant Rock ballad. To top it all off, the song is tight and concise, clocking in at under four minutes. Same dances in the same old shoes Some habits that you just can't lose There's no telling what a man might use The flame rises but it soon descends Empty pages and a frozen pen You're not quite lovers and you're not quite friends After the thrill is gone, oh What can you do when your dreams come true And it's not quite like you planned? What have you done to be losing the one You held it so tight in your hand well Time passes and you must move on Half the distance takes you twice as long So you keep on singing for the sake of the song You're afraid you might fall out of fashion And you're feeling cold and small Any kind of love without passion That ain't no kind of lovin' at all, well Musically, the opening bass slide and part-Folk, part-Country lead guitar seduce us into the drama. The slow march-time instructs the listener to take heed, a serious discussion of loss and lamentation is on deck. When the first few stanzas pass, a slight upshift in tempo occurs and middle-period Beatles harmonies arise. As "After The Thrill" struggles towards the end, it morphs a final time into a pure Country song, Bernie Leadon providing a sweet, echoing pedal steel part that seems to say "farewell" to a woman, to a band, to the great, unconstrained creativity that began in the mid-1950s and closed in the mid-1970s. Check out our giant selection of Eagles merch – albums, shirts, posters, DVDs and more. mangoids After One Of These Nights was released and The Eagles started their tour, one of the founders, Bernie Leadon became so enraged at Glenn Frey that he poured a glass of something on Frey's head and quit the band. The Eagles are the best-selling American band of all time. They are the fourth best-selling Rock band in the U.S. market of all time after The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Led Zeppelin. One Of These Nights has sold in excess of 4 million copies. It was the #1 album in America for the year 1975. Also by The Eagles on SongMango.com: Hotel California"Hotel California" might well be subtitled "The Rise And Fall Of Los Angeles." It flaps and flies somewhere very intriguing. Mardi Gras With The Meters Hey, la-bàs, crawfish étouffée! Philly When It Sizzles They'll be rockin' on Bandstand In Philadelphia, PA. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid List In the words of Dr. Timothy Leary, "turn on, tune in, drop out." Lovin' Spoonful Six O'Clock The Spoonful were best when crafting songs centered on the mysteries of love, slipped connections and post-adolescent yearning. Good Lovin' It is fast, hard, inventive and has an ultimate cool whirling around it – garageband music, New York style. An air of genius formed around Brian Wilson, whose devotion to precision is one of his many calling cards. We can listen, nod our heads and say without reservation, "Now that's Rock-N-Roll." Shakes is doing it their way. Mango Tweets � Copyright 2019, 2020 Song Mango. All original matter, written and visual, is copyrighted and/or trademarked. All rights reserved.

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My Guardian is taking me somewhere…. We go to a place that specializes in swim massage for dogs. My guardian seems worried, I sense fear. There is a feeling of happiness here but haven't they noticed I am old? Who is the lady offering me cookies? She seems friendly and kind. Before I know it … she picks me up and we're in the water, I'm sitting on her lap. I feel nurtured and beautiful. There are no expectations… What was I worried about? I can't remember but it doesn't seem to matter anymore. I feel painless and light, allowing the water to do its magic. It's like silk against my fur and skin… moving and gliding…safe. The warm water embraces my muscles and there is no weight… it's like flying. I feel graceful… moving… stretching… dancing in the water. Breathing comes easy…. Everything is easy! I guess it doesn't really matter!

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namespace mtl { /// Cursor going in strides over element of matrix, matrix row/column, or vector template <typename Value> struct strided_dense_el_cursor : public detail::strided_base_cursor<const Value*> { typedef Value value_type; typedef const value_type* const_pointer_type; typedef detail::strided_base_cursor<const Value*> super; typedef strided_dense_el_cursor self; // strided_dense_el_cursor () {} strided_dense_el_cursor (const_pointer_type me, size_t stride) : super(me, stride) {} template <typename Parameters> strided_dense_el_cursor(mtl::matrix::dense2D<Value, Parameters> const& ma, size_t r, size_t c, size_t stride) : super(ma.elements() + ma.indexer(ma, r, c), stride) {} // Why do we need this? strided_dense_el_cursor(super const& x) : super(x) {} self operator+(int x) const { return super::operator+(x); } }; } // namespace mtl #endif // MTL_STRIDED_DENSE_EL_CURSOR_INCLUDE

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Origins Space Telescope NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech GALEX • News Release • May 15th, 2012 NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos. GALEX: Managing the Unexpected Explorers are among the lowest-cost missions flown by NASA, but they can pack a big scientific punch. Such is the case with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or GALEX, a mission designed to map the history of star formation over 80 percent of the age of the universe. Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide GALEX • News Release • May 2nd, 2012 Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel GALEX • News Release • April 3rd, 2012 Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower. Cygnus Loop Nebula GALEX • News Release • March 22nd, 2012 Wispy tendrils of hot dust and gas glow brightly in this ultraviolet image of the Cygnus Loop nebula, taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode GALEX • News Release • February 7th, 2012 NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer was placed in standby mode today as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch. The Spitzer Photo Atlas of Galactic "Train Wrecks" Five billion years from now, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. This will mark a moment of both destruction and creation. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Helps Confirm Nature of Dark Energy A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds. Ultraviolet Spotlight on Plump Stars in Tiny Galaxies GALEX • News Release • April 21st, 2011 Astronomers using NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer may be closer to knowing why some of the most massive stellar explosions ever observed occur in the tiniest of galaxies. NASA Telescope Ferrets Out Planet-Hunting Targets GALEX • News Release • April 7th, 2011 Astronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. The technique should help in the hunt for planets that lie beyond our solar system, because nearby, hard-to-see stars could very well be home to the easiest-to-see alien... GALEX • May 15th, 2012 NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the... Explorers are among the lowest-cost missions flown by NASA, but they can pack a big scientific punch. Such is the case with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or GALEX, a mission... GALEX • May 2nd, 2012 GALEX • April 3rd, 2012 GALEX • March 22nd, 2012 GALEX • February 7th, 2012 A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our... GALEX • April 21st, 2011 GALEX • April 7th, 2011 Astronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. The technique should help in the hunt for planets that... → Last Displaying entries 11 - 20 of 40 in total

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Brush up on your general knowledge at a charity quiz or watch the latest blockbuster film at the Odeon this weekend. – There are three films coming out on Friday for you to enjoy at the Odeon, in The Centre. Kate Beckinsale and Theo James will star in the next installment of Underworld: Blood Wars as vampires out for revenge. Ben Affleck will play a prodigal son turned gangster in Live By Night. An uncle (Matt Damon) must care for his orphaned nephew in Manchester By The Sea. – Victoria Methodist Church in Station Road will hold a coffee morning from 9.45-11.45am on Friday. – The U3A will enjoy a talk by Mike Richardson on Friday. His talk on caving in the Mendips will take place at the Boulevard United Reformed Church hall in Waterloo Street, and will begin at 2.15pm. Entry costs £1.50, and will include a tea or coffee. – A quiz with a fish and chip supper will take place at the 49 Club, in Baker Street, at 7pm on Saturday. Tickets, priced £10, are available from Rose on 07597 807008 or by emailing [email protected] and all proceeds will go to the Birnbeck Regeneration Trust. – Weston 2nds Rugby Club will be playing on Saturday at home against Old Redcliffians 2nds. Kick off will be at 2.15pm at the club's ground, in Drove Road. Hornets 2nds will also be at home against St Bernadettes Old Boys on Saturday. The match will kick off at 2.30pm at Hornets' ground, in Hutton Moor Road.

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The competition provides the opportunity for young South Australians to examine and empathise with the remarkable sacrifices of South Australian service men and women during the 20th century. Following a selection process, students will be invited to participate in the State Government's fully funded study tour to Vietnam during the October school holidays in 2019. The costs of travel, accommodation and meals are covered during the fourteen day escorted tour of Vietnam. The students will be accompanied on the tour by a representative of the SA Branch of the Returned & Services League (RSL) of Australia, a representative of the Department for Education and appointed teachers. Selection of the students to participate in the tour involves the submission of an entry as outlined below and an interview for those students shortlisted. Prior to the study tour the student awardees and their parent/s or carers will be required to attend an orientation briefing in Adelaide during July and undertake preparation activities related to the Vietnam War. Teachers also will be selected to accompany the students on the study tour. Teachers are eligible to apply if they have worked directly with students entering the 2019 Premier's Anzac Spirit School Prize. The prize is open to all South Australian students in Years 9 and 10 in 2019. Using a range of sources, research the experience of a South Australian service man or woman who served (Navy, Army, Airforce or Nursing) during either World War 1 and/or World War 2. (Maximum 1000 words). The Anzac Spirit is generally considered to be comprised of courage, perseverance, mateship and resourcefulness. Using evidence drawn from your research in Part A, choose two of the characteristics of the Anzac Spirit and describe how the individual you researched demonstrated these two characteristics. (Maximum 500 words). A multi-media presentation to a maximum of 6 minutes (submit on a DVD or USB). Only four entries from a school can be submitted via the school competition. The expectation is that each school will determine the four entries to be forwarded for judging by the Premier's Anzac Spirit School Prize judging panel. The judging of the school entries is expected to be based on the judging criteria shown above. All entries forwarded must be accompanied by the Student Entry and Declaration form. Students in Year 9 or 10 may enter the competition through a community group e.g. Australian Defence Forces cadets. The entry has to be submitted through the student's school and can be in addition to the four entries submitted by the school. other personal information relevant to the judging process. The study of lesser known individuals is a general expectation of the competition i.e. a person whose experiences in World War 1 and/or World War 2 have not been the subject of considerable publication. The individuals profiled in previous winning entries that appear on the Veterans SA site at http://veteranssa.sa.gov.au/themes/premiers-anzac-spirit-school-prize cannot be the subject of your submission. Please refer to this list for your quick reference of ineligible entries based on being a previous winner. Entries must adhere to the word count (Part A to be a maximum of 1000 words and Part B a maximum of 500 words). Appropriate referencing in the text and a list of references is required as part of the entry. 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is a Japanese football player currently playing for Fagiano Okayama. Club statistics Updated to end of 2018 season. References External links Profile at Jubilo Iwata Player profile at Goal.com 1986 births Living people Association football people from Tokyo Japanese footballers J1 League players J2 League players Júbilo Iwata players Omiya Ardija players Fagiano Okayama players Association football midfielders People from Ōme, Tokyo

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Q: Problem with MAX() and `group by` in an SQL query I'm writing a particularly troublesome query. It boils down to this: I obtain a table of the structure: pid | tid | points after a pretty large query. For ease of explanation: * *pid = problem id *tid = team id *points = points awarded to that team for that problem. I want to find the team who has scored max points for a particular pid. My question is twofold: * *If this were a simple table that went by the name teampoints, how do I get the tid that has MAX(points) for every pid? I tried SELECT pid, tid, MAX(points) from teampoints group by pid; but understandably, that would not work *I've arrived at this result after a rather large query. If the answer to my first involves selecting data from teampoints again, is there any way to do that without having to calculate the whole table again? Thanks PS: I use mysql. GORY DETAILS: TREAD WITH CAUTION I have a few tables in my system, their relevant structures being: users: uid teams: tid | eid | teamname teammembers: tid | uid events: eid problems: pid | eid submissions: subid | pid | uid | eid | points | subts Some notes: - problems belong to events - users belong to teams - submissions belong to problems(pid) and users(uid). the submissions table has a redundant eid field, which can always be determined from the pid. The use case is: * *users form teams. users are identified by uid, teams by tid. Team members are stored in teammembers table. *users can make submissions, which are stored in submissions table. submissions are awarded points. subts is the unix timestamp of when the submission was made. *users can submit multiple times for the same problem. the latest submission (max subts) is counted. now, in this set up I want to find the teamname that has scored maximum points for any given event (eid). I hope this makes my situation clear. I wanted to ask only what I needed to know. I furnish these details up an a request in the comments. EDIT: the query that generated the teampoints table is: SELECT s.pid, teamlatest.tid, s.points FROM submissions s, teammembers tm, teams t, (SELECT max(maxts) AS maxts, pid, tid FROM (SELECT latest.maxts, latest.pid, t.tid FROM submissions s, teams t, teammembers tm, (SELECT max(subts) AS maxts, pid, uid FROM submissions WHERE eid=3 AND status='P' GROUP BY pid, uid ) AS latest WHERE s.uid=latest.uid AND s.pid=latest.pid AND s.subts=latest.maxts AND latest.uid=tm.uid AND tm.tid=t.tid AND t.eid=3 ) AS latestbyteam GROUP BY pid, tid) AS teamlatest WHERE s.pid=teamlatest.pid AND teamlatest.tid=t.tid AND t.tid=tm.tid AND tm.uid=s.uid AND s.subts=teamlatest.maxts A: * *One way: SELECT pid, tid, points FROM teampoints WHERE (pid, points) IN ( SELECT pid, MAX(points) FROM teampoints GROUP BY pid ) Another, using joins: SELECT s1.* FROM teampoints AS s1 LEFT JOIN teampoints AS s2 ON s1.pid = s2.pid AND s1.points < s2.points WHERE s2.tid IS NULL *You can INSERT INTO a temporary table for the complex query: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE scores ( pid INT, tid INT, points INT, KEY pp (pid, points) ); INSERT INTO scores (pid, tid, points) SELECT <a complex query> then SELECT the top scorers from that. A: select pid, tid, points from teampoints tp where not exists ( select 1 from teampoints tp1 where tp.pid = tp1.pid and tp.points < tp1.points) or somesuch .... A: You could store the results of your first query in a temporary table and try something like this SELECT pid, tid, points FROM teampoints tp INNER JOIN ( SELECT pid, points = MAX(points) FROM teampoints GROUP BY pid ) tp_max ON tp_max.pid = tp.pid AND tp_max.points = tp.points Note that you will get doubles when two teams have equal points on a project. If you would post your query, it would be easier for us trying to optimize it io trying to invent it all over.

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At Christmas, most people will have to deal with family members who are less educated about LGBT issues. Are you spending Christmas with your family this year? Are there still one or two family members who are less enlightened or supportive of LGBT issues? Pink News have an article about how to deal with arguments which might arise this festive season. IT's based on some of the things going on in the USA at the moment, but some of it might strike a chord with you, depending on your particular family circumstances. You can read the article here. Don't forget, Liberate are here to offer support at any time. You can get support via our Ask Liberate page, or by emailing [email protected]. There are also other national support networks, for which you can find details on our Inform page. Whatever you do, from all at Liberate, have a safe and happy Christmas.

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It's that time of year - oodles of graduations and weddings each week. So it begs the question, where should one go after a ceremony or which caterer should one choose? Well, on a sunny afternoon following a graduation ceremony, a journey to Southeast San Diego to enjoy some soul food was well worth the trip and answered these questions: and the answer is...Felix's: BBQ with Soul. Soul Food, for the uninformed, is the food made popular by African-Americans in the South. Felix's, a landmark already in just its first year, offered a special and authentic array of delicious soul food. For instance, chitterlings or ' Chittlins ' are offered and so are hoppin' john. Chittlins are a dish made of pork small intestines and hoppin' johns are seasoned black-eyed peas with rice. Anyone looking for an introduction into soul food or an old-time fan of the fare would be happy with the assortments available to eat at Felix's. At Felix's, each meal is accompanied by moist and sweet cornbread muffins with butter. For the entre, an order of the BBQ rib tips with fries and collard greens was chosen for this trip. The staple item, French fries, were a pleasure and the collard greens tasted like a homemade batch - tangy with a hint of spiciness. The main course, BBQ rib tips, were enjoyable as well. The flavor profile of the sauce was robust and slightly sweet. The pork was tender and cooked to perfection. With ample helpings of these expertly prepared dishes, one can gladly say that this meal, as they say, 'hits the spot.' Samplings of the fried chicken wings and fried green tomatoes from a fellow visitor were delicious as well. The fried chicken had a thin layer of batter and the tomatoes were tangy and enjoyable. Furthermore, the ambience was fitting for a special get-together. The spacious establishment allows for large parties and the down-to-earth serving staff is welcoming and gracious. Felix's is found in a small strip mall, nestled between several other restaurants. As well, the location offers plenty of nearby parking. Felix's is recommended for breakfast, lunch, dinner or your catered event. In fact, breakfast is offered until 2pm for the late starter. Felix's is closed on Mondays, however, there is an open mic night on Tuesdays at the San Diego location and it's open every other day of the week. Felix's restaurants are located at 342 Euclid Avenue, San Diego, California and at 3613 Ocean Ranch Blvd., Oceanside, California. Enjoy your meal! Talk about great food! And to complement, a great experience too. My boyfriend and I stopped here for a quick bite to eat, and we were served quickly and our server always came to our table with a great attitude. I looked around and saw the other guests getting the same service from other waitresses. As we were waiting for our food, there was a man sitting at the table next to us wearing a Felix's shirt; it appeared he was on his lunch. After he was finished he asked us how everything was and began making small talk. We asked for his name, and it was Felix. It's great to know that the man himself cares about the guests and experiences his atmosphere first hand. And to add, their sweet tea is to die for! Service was very friendly. Portions were generous and matched the price, which was very reasonable. The complimentary corn bread was a nice touch, our toddler loved them! The Chicken & Waffles was a hit! Chicken was seasoned well and crispy on the outside and very tender on the inside. Highly recommend it!Service was very friendly. Portions were generous and matched the price, which was very reasonable. The complimentary corn bread was a nice touch, our toddler loved them! The Chicken & Waffles was a hit! Chicken was seasoned well and crispy on the outside and very tender on the inside. Highly recommend it!

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Can Japan Do an 'Invictus' at the Rugby World Cup? Hiroshi Yoshida October 19, 2019 9:53 am Leave your thoughts 1995 world cup, ajinomoto stadium, Ayumu Goromaru, blossoms, brave blossoms, Clint Eastwood, Editor's Pick, Guinness, Hiroshi Yoshida, Invictus, Ireland, japan, Japan Rugby Football Union, JRFU, Katsuyuki Kiyomiya, Michael Leitch, Nelson Mandela, Peugeot, quarterfinals, Rugby, Rugby Union, Rugby World Cup, RWC2019, scotland, Shigetaka Mori, South Africa, Springboks, Tokyo, TRC Japan Rugby Team Captain Michael Leitch South Africa Springboks Play Japan in September Springboks, Brave Blossoms in September 2019 Match Brave Blossoms and Springboks, September 2019 South Africa Rugby Fans Japan Wins v Scotland, Advances to Quarter Finals The 2009 movie Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood, told the inspiring story of how former South African president Nelson Mandela rallied the support of a nation badly divided by the rancorous racial legacy of apartheid behind the national rugby team, the Springboks. With the backing of all ethnic groups, the team overcame numerous difficulties to achieve a miracle victory in the 1995 World Cup. It was a classic case of unity and spirit overcoming seemingly impossible odds. The name of the film was taken from the poem "Invictus" (meaning "invincible" in Latin) by William Ernest Henley, which had provided Mandela with much solace during his decades in prison. Host country Japan is already causing waves at the ongoing Rugby World Cup, reaching the quarterfinals for the first time in history after winning all four matches in the pool round. But its biggest challenge awaits. Japan's Rugby Team is Hot – Why Now? Ironically, Japan's team meets perennial powerhouse South Africa on Sunday, October 20, at the Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo. The Brave Blossoms are a motley group of players born in seven different nations, including Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand. Yet they have come to pride themselves in being ONE TEAM and would very much like to follow Mandela's example. The greatest factor behind Japan's ability to beat the sides from the traditionally strong rugby nations of Ireland and Scotland in the current tournament is that this year alone it engaged in 240 days of lengthy, hard training to fine-tune its skills and build team solidarity. This was a luxury no other team could afford. That is the secret weapon that has allowed Japan to punch above its weight. The backgrounds of the Brave Blossoms are indeed disparate. So in order to weld them into "one team," captain Michael Leitch, who was born in New Zealand, has had them practice singing Japan's national anthem, "Kimigayo." Why Has Japan's Rapid Progress Attracted Such Attention? In the past the Rugby World Cup had only been staged in England, one of the other traditional rugby-playing European countries or rugby empire countries like New Zealand. For a country with an until-now weak side like Japan to host the event is far from the norm in the rugby world. The key term to explain the situation is "worldwide." World Rugby, the governing body for the rugby union, realized that, although the Rugby World Cup had grown to be the third largest international sporting event behind the Olympics and Soccer World Cup, it still lacked popularity and player populations outside the British Commonwealth member nations. In order to overcome a feeling of being boxed in, World Rugby had looked to Asia as a target for expansion. World Rugby paid attention to the "sleeping lion" — China first. But the envisaged huge market failed to materialize. China decided to concentrate its investments in money, time, and labor into building up its capabilities in the seven a side version of the sport added as an Olympic event, rather than the 15-man rugby union. Instead, the impact of the rapid improvement of the Japanese team and its meteoric rise on the rugby world has been incalculable. Shortly after Japan clinched its berth in the quarterfinals, Shigetaka Mori, the chairman of the Japan Rugby Football Union (JRFU), lauded the Japan team's rapid progress and announced Japan would be joining the Rugby Championship (TRC), an annual event involving teams from Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. This year saw a shortened version of that event because of the Rugby World Cup. "Yes, I think it was due to the huge potential audience," Mori explained. "I think world rugby has woken up to just how much promise the Japan market holds. But whether that situation will continue depends on whether from here on out we do what needs to be done." Building Long-Term Support Mori is well aware that for Japan to truly gain admittance into the ranks of the global rugby powers depends on talent and, at the same time, financing. Money is an ongoing problem for rugby in the Southern Hemisphere. In Europe, multinational corporations based in the region provide support for rugby leagues and associations. Advertising for global brands such as Heineken, Société Générale, and Land Rover are very much in evidence at this year's World Cup. At the same time, for the Six Nations Rugby Tournament (involving England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales) the main sponsors are Guinness and the French automaker Peugeot. Multinationals are willing to spend huge sums to secure such sponsorship. However, it is always a struggle for Southern Hemisphere rugby, since there are few global-sized companies based there. The Brave Blossoms view the Rugby World Cup as a golden opportunity to show the world what they are made of. And already there are calls from overseas voices in the world of rugby for Japan to be included in the Southern Hemisphere Rugby Championship and Six Nations competition. Can Rugby Fever Be Sustained? If the rugby fever currently sweeping Japan can be sustained and new sponsorships added to the list of companies that have supported Japanese rugby up to now, then countries in the Southern Hemisphere may well come to emulate Marco Polo in viewing Japan as "the Land of Gold" ("Zipangu"). Four years ago, during the 2015 Rugby World Cup, fullback Ayumu Goromaru, who played a major role in Japan's miracle victory over South Africa, became a national rugby icon and set off a rugby boomlet. But a mere one year later, the enthusiasm of the Japanese public had largely evaporated. In short, the necessary steps were not taken to harness and sustain the initial interest. The question now is how much of the current public enthusiasm can be maintained after the World Cup ends. Will this enthusiasm assume a tangible form in terms of investment? Notable in this regard is the announcement in June by Katsuyuki Kiyomiya, vice chairman of the JRFU, that plans are afoot to start a new domestic professional rugby league. But materialization of such efforts will depend on whether new financial backing can be found. Japan's challenge to the rugby world will take place against this background of reform on the domestic front. The real struggle has just begun. Japan's rapid progress in fielding a first-class rugby side is definitely shaking up the world of rugby. Hope is running high, and a new dawn for Japanese rugby alluringly beckons. Nevertheless, no one can say for sure what lies over the horizon. RELATED STORY: Japan Advances to RWC Quarter Finals in Historic, Nail-biter Win Over Scotland Follow the Rugby World Cup 2019 on JAPAN Forward's Rugby Portal, here. Author: Hiroshi Yoshida Hiroshi Yoshida is a freelance journalist on sports and rugby. Joining the Sankei Sports in 1989, Yoshida has been writing rugby stories since 1995. As a Sankei Sports reporter, he covered the Rugby World Cup for five consecutive games until the 2015 England. As a field reporter, he witnessed two of Japan's big games: men's football team's win against Brazil at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996 and the victory against South Africa at Rugby World Cup 2015. He left Sankei in April 2019. [Hidden Wonders of Japan] Hiyoko-chan Graces Manhole Covers in Ikeda, Osaka Japan Postpones Emperor's Enthronement Parade As Country Recovers from Typhoon EDITORIAL | RWC 2019 Fever Should Fuel Japan's Campaign to Host a Rugby World Cup Again "It would be a waste not to host a Rugby World Cup again. We aim to realize another RWC […] [SOCIAL WIRE] Spectators React to Japan's Historic Win over Scotland in RWC 2019 RELATED ARTICLE: Japan Advances to RWC Quarter Finals in Historic, Nail-biter Win Over Scotland Japan's 28-21 nail-bit Brave Blossoms' Legacy Will Live Long Past the 2019 Rugby World Cup Hiroshi Yoshida Leave your thoughts The Rugby World Cup action in Japan will have drawn to a close with the championship match between England […]

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Facebook Buys Social Travel Startup Nextstop By Sara Inés Calderón Nextstop, a two year-old startup that allowed users to share activities and other info for fellow travelers, has been acquired by Facebook, it announced today. The company was founded by Carl Sjogreen and Adrian Graham formerly of Google — specifically Google Groups, Calendar and Picasa — and the Nextstop team is set to join Facebook. In a post on the Nexstop web site the company noted it would be shutting down as of September 1 of this year, but will allow current years to export their information to other services. During the two years the company has been active, more than 100,000 recommendations were made for places around the world, according to the blog. It's possible that the team and the service might become part of Facebook's forthcoming location service (details of which are still not confirmed). The company said the decision to move to Facebook was difficult, but, ultimately the company's mission to help make travel experiences better was best accomplished on Facebook. Nextstop also noted that users' data will not be shared with Facebook. Facebook's been busy with acquisitions this year, buying contact importer Octazen in February, photo app maker Divvyshot in April, and most recently, private conversations site Sharegrove in May. Sara Inés Calderón

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Art from Storm #25 (Published by Don Lawrence Collection), pencils by Romano Molenaar, colours by Jorg de Vos. Yes, that's something that sometimes seems to be missing in the Netherlands. One artist has a lot of plans, but is not there yet qualitatively, while there are also people who really do top work and who go: "Gee, I can draw, now what do I do?" And I'm always trying to see with the projects I have on standby and in the Art Kings studio, what else can I do with them and what would be interesting now. That's part of the business side of the trade. Finding a comic to draw is great fun, but what can I do with the name that I have built during the last fifteen years? How do I improve my chances of getting my foot in the door at video game companies? If I tell them I'm currently working for DC that opens a few doors. That's why I regularly keep myself busy with the business side of things. Talking about the business side of things, does DC allow you royalty rights? Yes, I think with DC, when you sell 75.000 units, you get royalties. Only Birds of Prey sells about 17.000 a month, so we've still got a long way to go… However, I did receive an amount of royalties from the digital sales of Birds of Prey. That arrived rather unexpectedly, but it was a nice surprise of course. It wasn't a staggering amount of money. But it does work, DC is very well aware of the sales numbers and it's further incentive to the creators. Is my assumption correct that the addition of royalty rights into freelancer contracts reflects an improvement in the way creator rights are handled by the 'big two' compared to the nineties? Even for my Marvel work [in the nineties] I once received a royalty. For my Top Cow work I didn't because they weren't big sellers. But they had a similar type of construction. I believe that nowadays every contract has some kind of construction that when you sell above a certain threshold you receive royalties. So, were you in a position to negotiate hard about your contract with DC? Of course you'll make a price agreement for the page rate. And you agree or you don't. In my case, I was like: I have a studio here, I've got Storm, so I won't let this opportunity pass. As an artist, you can choose not to go for the top rate -I can tell you, the top rate ain't bad- but instead do it to build your name. That way you're investing in your résumé, and the money will come later, when you can sell yourself at a better price. When we began talking Romano told me he works from nine in the morning till twelve at night. Only interspersed by driving the kids to and from school and dinner. I asked him how his work schedule influences his family life? It means it's pretty hectic and there are some things I just don't do very often. I don't watch movies, I don't watch TV -or I watch the news at half past one in the morning. Now that I work from home I see more of my children than ever before, and my wife of course. So that in itself became a win-win situation. The hard part of this is that I am home but not readily available. With children that's sometimes difficult: When they want you to play or when they ask you to come play football outside… Then it all depends on my workload and schedule, whether or not I'm able to play with them. Sometimes, it's not possible. On the other hand: if I'd just go to work in the morning, I would definitely not be able to. That's tricky sometimes, when they do see their father but he cannot come along. I have identical twins, 10 years of age. They are now at an age that they are very curious and want to learn a lot. Of course I'll answer them, but then I go: "Sorry, I have to continue working." Being kids, they don't always understand. But I have a spacious studio, so they occasionally come and play with me or make some music –I've also got some instruments in my studio- and sometimes they draw or colour along with me. That's always a good time. So, that's nice enough, no complaints there. Only other things… [exhales] ….like, parties… …If I really want to go to a party, I must really plan ahead in my schedule to decide if I can make it. It sounds harsh, but then the party really has to be worth it, to make the time. That's sometimes difficult for people to understand: I'm constantly under a whole lot of pressure, because of my work. What's your general outlook? Is the time you're currently putting in a temporary situation? Thanks so much again to MR Molenaar for taking time out of his schedule to talk to me. If you missed part one, part two, or three you can always listen to the whole interview (in Dutch) through the Open Your Geek Mouth podcast, or find a paper version in the Dutch comic magazine Strips2Go. That's it for now… I'm already busy with my next interrogation victim Boykoesh, of Captain Ultimate fame! A couple of commissions by Romano Molenaar. That's all very traditional, do you do any digital work? For comics, not really… I do a lot of pencil work, even for Storm. For the studio I do a lot of work digital. Now, I've also started to try out digital inking a little, but I'm old school and prefer working on paper. But yes, you have to stay up to date. And especially with our studio we work digital and I keep informed about that. I just don't use it for the comics and Storm. Okay, do you use any specific software, like Mangastudio, or is it more general stuff like Photoshop and Indesign? I have checked them out, and gave them all a try. I've been working with Photoshop for about eight years, and that in itself is working very well. Occasionally you receive something new, like today I got Mischief, a vector-based drawing program, that's quite interesting. It allows you to blow up your paintings on a really big scale. That's something I'm going to take a look at, perhaps it's interesting for the future. But now, it's mainly Photoshop. Here's a look into Romano's proces, from a cover he did together with colourist Jorg de Jong, for a Conan translation by Dutch publisher Dark Dragon Books (animation courtesy of http://www.stripspeciaalzaak.be). Has the use of Skype and modern communication technologies changed the international aspect of your work at all? Not really, I've actually worked like this forever. Fifteen years ago, when the internet was just coming up, I believe around 1995/96, I already had the idea of: "Hey, if you have internet you can communicate with each other much easier." And that was just around the time an American Studio named Lion Comics came to the Netherlands -to Breda- henceforth things went very fast. What's your favourite character to draw? I'm a big fan of The Darkness and I have had the honour to have drawn Wolverine in the X-men. Unfortunately, he did not have such a big role, but that's a character that I'd want to tackle once more. I'm not explicitly looking for work at Marvel, if that was the case I'd already have knocked on their door. But I would absolutely love to work for Marvel again. I'm not really tied to DC. Again, if DC or Marvel would not be interested, I would like to work for other studios. But there are still a number of characters that I would like to draw: Iron Man, Superman, Green Lantern… You know, all these characters are interesting to work on. Do you have any particular objects you enjoy drawing? I'm more in favour of the male anatomy, especially the muscle groups. But it actually turns out that my women are often eye catching. I think that women are artistically my weak point. That's funny because the studios do not always find that, that's how I got put on Birds of Prey. Because my women were described as very strong, yet still feminine. It's just like [Storm creator] Don Laurence, who thought he didn't draw women well. While actually he his women were exquisite. Interestingly enough, that's a similarity between us. I think my women are not as good as my male forms. Anyway, perhaps that will change. I'll always have something to improve on. The female form actually is more difficult to draw than the male form and so I'm always playing around with that. Okay, but do you enjoy drawing a certain object specifically? I am always in favour of cars. I actually wanted to be car designer. So I'm always a big advocate of including cars or motorcycles in the script. In Birds of Prey I get to draw Batgirl riding her motorcycle a lot, so that helps. I'm not very much into drawing buildings, but that's something that has to grow I think. I'm trying to get my buildings on the same level of my men and women. And Gotham City is of course super interesting to give a twist of your own! You are not schooled in art. How did you teach yourself? Purely by looking, seeing. Watching others. Take criticism, take it in and do something with it. It is not easy, you have to do it yourself. Nobody will draw for you. You should be open to improvement, you must be open to set a standard for yourself. Ask yourself: "Why are THESE artists where are they now?" Be critical of yourself. Just as I am critical of my women: These aren't what they should be yet, that's just an area where I can improve. And there are more things like that. You've got to make sure you keep an honest look at your own work. That's hard because sometimes it becomes a grey area: When everyone says you're good, you'll be inclined to stop learning, which is obviously a dangerous pitfall. You have to remain clearheaded and keep looking at other artists to see where you can refine your own art. The urge to keep learning is imperative. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand here's part two of my Romano Molenaar extravaganza. If you missed any of the earlier stuff, here's part one and here's the podcast of our talk. Can you give an idea of collaborations that worked really well? Yes, exactly! Phil's a very good writer, who can also draw particularly well, which is always an advantage. I must also say, that I… …Did I mention I'm not very good with names? [Both laugh] When you work at Top Cow, you often find out who inks your work, after the fact. And they've got inkers like Joe Weems who are really great. There are other names as well, but that's a tricky subject for me as you can tell… Also, I must say that the team I'm working with now, Jonathan Glapeon and Chris Sotomayer, is a dream team. In fact, I used to do more freelance assignments, each six to seven issues and then on to the next thing… But now that I've had a year working for DC, those names stick in my head because I'm working with them for longer periods of time. I think that when you work together for so long, you're going to appreciate their work better and your own work improves because of how great they are. As such, these guys are currently the names that pop up in my head when you ask about great collaborators. That makes it difficult for me to think of other less recent names. Are there any names in the industry that you would like to work with in the future? I'd really like to do something with Marc Silvestri and Jim Lee of course. If Jim Lee would like to draw layouts for a new Superman book for me to fill, I would not mind that at all… [laughs] Also, here's the interesting thing: I'm now entering an area, where my contacts aren't exclusively horizontal anymore, I may just end up working with someone higher up the chain in the comic industry! Though, overall I don't tend to look over my shoulder too much, I'm much more interested in the future. Which is why I have to say: I'd like to work with anyone who knows what they're doing and who can simply excite me with their story. I know, I know, that's a very politically correct answer…. To me, the names are a little less important. But if you succeed in affecting me with you script, inks, or colours then I'd definitely like to work with you –whether it's at Marvel, or Dark Horse, or wherever. Did you ever receive any pro-feedback of big industry names that has been of particular value to you? The other day I got some from Jim Lee! Jonathan [Glapion] had sent the cover ​​for issue 22 of Birds of Prey to Jim. Later Jonathan showed me Jim's reply, along the lines of: "Very nice, it looks super good." At that point you're like: "Okay. We're definitely getting closer to the fire." You also see that a guy like Jim Lee is only human. Jim has obviously done a lot for the industry and achieved a lot. As an artist, that's the guy you want to get feedback from, so you know you're on the right track. And that's something you have to do yourself, you need to strive to get the idea out of your head and onto the page as good as possible. But when a celebrity like Jim Lee says that, or Marc Silvestri 'likes' your art on Facebook, you think: "Okay, apparently I'm considered a good artist." And it's the same with big names like David Finch, sitting next to you at a convention, or Barry Kitson. When they see you drawing a Lara Croft commission and say: "Wow, that looks very good," to hear it from their mouths is invaluable. Those are very nice experiences. Have you done any design work for DC characters? Yes, I designed a character named Condor for Birds of Prey. You get a description from the writer saying: "There will be a new character, that's like this and this… …he only needs to be designed." After that they basically tell you to go for it… Also, the cover of issue 22 shows a new team of villains I designed too. That is insanely cool to do. You get basic information, like one of them is a guy with electric powers, the other one is a big guy. Then you have to figure out how to visually fit these characters in the fictional world and make sure you're actually designing something new… You have to give them your own twist. And that goes back to the experiences of my younger years, designing my own superheroes as a kid. You actually take some of that with you when you're designing new characters. Like, when I was about twelve, I drew this guy… You know what; why not give this new character HIS coat? So sometimes you take a ride in the wayback machine, only this time it's for real. That realisation is super cool. The suit was open, so to speak. I wasn't told to do this or that. But he's called Condor, so it should somehow have a bird motif. Designing the suit basically took a single sketch. The helmet however… I had given him a helmet that looked too much like Hawkman. Then Jim Lee made ​​a quick sketch of a Roman helmet, one of those things with an eye slit in it. After that, I finalized it in one or two sketches. I also created a number of colour variations in Photoshop and they chose the red, white and grey version. Does he have a purple helmet? I think he has a red helmet. I often only see my pages back in black and white though. Let's see… Yes, officially he should be red… It may be that the colourist put a layer of lighting on it, making it purplish… It's supposed to be a little bit like burgundy. That's right, I didn't get to talk to him. But apparently he went around the office with the designs and received a lot of positive reactions… There was just the thing with the helmet, which makes you think: "Okay, that's very cool. My design is going to my hero, my role model." I'm actually creating characters that are for ever part of the DC legacy. That makes me think I'm doing something right. U Decide: Condor's helmet: Purple or Burgundy? Art by Romano Molenaar, from Birds of Prey #13 (DC comics). Would you consider working for the Big Two to be your ultimate career goal in comics? I've always been a big fan of Marc Silvestri and Image comics, so that's where I initially leaned more to. But I've never thought: "Now it's time for me to work for Marvel or DC." I did say it'd be cool to work for them some time. But I think more along the line of: If it's a cool character, or a cool story I don't really care for which company I work. And now that I'm working for DC, I notice that –for me- there is no difference compared to working for Top Cow or Chaos Comics. To me, it's all the same… Of course, with DC and Batman you have a slightly larger audience, which admittedly is an advantage. But if I stopped working for DC and started working for a smaller studio, I would do it with the same passion. I have to admit though: Working for DC doesn't hurt your résumé. And how does this relate to your European comic work? You know, Storm is also something we have inherited from Don Lawrence. That will never be mine or Jorg's. So I relate to Storm in the same way as my DC work. Fortunately, the fans are responding very well. We're positively accepted as the new team at Storm. But it will never be our own thing. That's the same with Birds of Prey. With Condor for example, it feels like that is actually my character, but it is –and always will be- the publishers'. So I can never say that Storm is closer to me than the comics, because in principle they exist at the same distance from me. Yes, there are some projects in there that are our own initiative. When we design our own videogame characters we're credited as the designers. That's a big difference. The copyrights of those characters are also ours. Look, I will never get any rights on Condor. I can only say that I'm responsible for his visual design. And that's okay, it's good to know that I've contributed with my design. That's more for myself, I won't say: "Look, that is my character!" To me it's just a milestone, and I take pride in it. So, am I correct in assuming you have some creator owned ambitions in the comic field then? Yes, I have. But because of my workload over the last 10-15 years, I haven't had time to do a lot with that. But there are certainly a dozen ideas on the computer that I occasionally pick up again. These projects advance slowly, gradually, step by step… And if there's ever time or an opportunity, these projects will certainly proceed. It's just that my workload right now… …If I'd currently continue work on these projects I'd get in some serious deadline trouble. Because making your own production -creating and publishing it- that takes a lot of time and energy. But I'm always working with people, just throwing out lines. That's also a precautionary strategy, for if DC calls it quits. I want to have some things standing by. In that respect, I'm always thinking ahead. I'm not really very conscious of my style, of course I grew up in the Image era… So there's a lot of THAT in my style, but I try to add to this with my own sensibilities. Shading, cross hatching, that kind of stuff. At the base of my work is the art of Marc Silvestri. I'm a big fan of his work, there are definitely more than a couple of layers of him in my art. Then there's also guys like Todd McFarlane, anyone can tell that I'm affected by his stuff. But as you progress, you'll go and add things of yourself, leaving other stuff, defining camera angles… In doing so, you create a certain style of your own that is going to be recognized by the fans. Looking back at the launch of the new 52 and the house style that harkens back to the nineties, you seem like a natural fit. Could you have guessed that this new editorial course from DC would lead to a steady stream of work for you? I must admit that up to the point that I got in touch with Tony Daniel [writer of Molenaar's first published DC work Detective Comics annual 2012], I didn't read any comics anymore. I was actually more involved in game development. At that time I was just coming back at Top Cow, where I've done issues 95 to 100 of The Darkness. Top Cow's is also my style, you know: The dynamic, flashy, sharp look. That really appeals to me with them. At that time, I had the intention of quietly trying to set myself up in the comic world again. That went a little further than I expected… And indeed looking at the New 52, that 90s era Image style was really what DC was looking for. Looking at the different titles you have worked on in the past, it seems your visual style seems to change slightly on a project-to-project basis. How much of this is the result of working with different inkers and how much of this is you deliberately changing things up? If I work for Top Cow, or for another studio, I look at the work of the studio and then I –apparently- take something of that style with me in my own work. And I often hear people go: "Hey, your work at Top Cow is much sharper!" Perhaps this is because Top Cow has those inkers, whose line work is very sharp. If you know that, you're going to accentuate such a style in your pencils. My DC-work, in comparison, has much more of a narrative-driven focus. Also, the current house style of DC uses slightly quieter, rounder lines, with more shadows, more mass in the characters and backgrounds… Knowing myself, I probably picked up something from that. And I think that's what people notice sometimes. But I don't go like "let's throw some DC into my art today", or something… It goes quite unnoticed. Can you elaborate on your different experiences with inkers? Yeah, inkers are an important part of the team, as are colourists. They say the artist is the number one name on the book -although that is actually the author. Comics are foremost a graphic story, and I think that without a good inker and colourist –I've been there- the graphic part can go horribly wrong. In principle you work in a team of three and occasionally you have to hope that you are paired with people that you have a good click with, both artistically and personally. When you are tuned-in to each other, you can reinforce each other and learn to read each other's work. When that happens, it strengthens the whole visual side of a book. This really raises the appreciation for your collaborators. That's the point we have now reached with the creative team of Birds of Prey. We [Molenaar, inker Jonathan Glapion & colourist Chris Sotomayor] form a cluster of three with which we hope to raise the bar for Birds of Prey. I hope fans too will take notion of this, so we can get this title up and running again. Yeah, reading the last couple of issues of Birds of Prey, I got the idea that this was a creative team that was perfectly in sync. Yes, we've hit the point where we're in the flow of delivering the next book, and then the next book, and happily continuing that cycle. Is the collaboration for DC comics at all different from that on your Dutch title Storm? Seeing as the two products look very different, is it true to assume there's a big difference in production time? Do you take more time to produce pages for Storm? Per page I take a bit longer, working on a typical page of Storm. That has to do with the fact that filling out a Euro-comic page works differently than filling a US comic page. In American comics you can play around with silhouettes and large blackened shadow areas, which is not possible on a Storm page. Because all of the backgrounds are fully painted, I also have to render them completely in pencils. So, there's something of a difference. 41:00 Paars of Bordeaux rood, wie is er kleuren blind? Gerard, Romano of de inkleurder?!?! 43:09 Werken voor the Big Two, het summum? 44:36 Ligt Storm dichter bij je? 48:16: Verdient het Amerikaanse werk ook beter? 51:07: Ontvang je ook royalties op basis van de verkoop van Birds of Prey? 53:14: Hard onderhandeld over het contract met DC? 55:15: Hoe ziet jouw werkproces eruit? 57:44: Werk je ook op digitale media? 60:00: Herken je de ontevredenheid van Paul Jenkins naar DC editorial toe? 62:02: Welk personage teken je het allerliefst? 1:08:54: Wat teken je liever niet? 1:10:31: Hoe heb je het jezelf allemaal eigen gemaakt? 1:12:22: En hoe heb je jezelf de sequential story telling eigen gemaakt? 1:14:24: Effect van jouw werkdruk op je gezinsleven? 1:18:47: Zijn er ook schrijfambities? 1:19:58: Wat doe je nog naast de comics?

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Just About A "Fait Accompli" (French for "done deal") Taxes are going up for people making north of $250,000 — and most likely, tax rates, too. So what does the final tax hike look like? That will take a while to hash out, but those involved guess it will include a rate hike, higher taxes... The Coming Entitlement Cuts Democrats involved in the process said the chest-pounding by liberals is just that — they know they will ultimately cave and trim entitlements to get a deal done. "A lot of the big entitlement savings comes in the 10-20 year budget window, not the next 10 years," a Democratic aide... Working On A Unified Republican Message Representative Tom Cole, (R-OK) told the Republican leadership's team (and the world) that the party should give in and pass legislation extending expiring Bush-era tax cuts for the 98% of all households earning $250,000 or less. Only then, he said, should Republicans take up the fight over what to do... Aid For Long-Term Unemployed We've heard about the tax increases. We've heard about the spending cuts. But expiring emergency aid for the long-term unemployed is also part of the fiscal cliff, and analysts have started to sound the alarm. At the end of December, more than two million workers will lose federal unemployment insurance... Grover Over? When Republicans signaled a willingness to break with Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge, it triggered speculation that the longtime small-government crusader had lost his leverage with the GOP. But reports of the death of Norquist's clout appear to be exaggerated. Yes, high-profile lawmakers such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, have signaled... White House: Payroll Tax Should Be On Table As recently as September, the tax cut seemed destined to expire. In recent months, however, it has enjoyed renewed support among Democrats. The president's top economic adviser said on Monday that President Obama still believes the expiring payroll tax cut should be a part of broader fiscal talks, suggesting that...

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Q: Queries with colon (:) in the search variable using pdo I have an annoying problem. I'm trying to do something simple as getting a cell value from a db. This is the most basic thing you can do with a db... give me a value where there is a cell with this value.... The problem is that the search query contains a colon (:). I'm using pdo function in a class with prepared statements but no luck. I have tried everything, even dividing up the query so it wont contain a colon but still no luck. I have tried to revert to mysqli but still the same result... The data table contain values like title -> Morlanda C:2 and sourceID -> S11. btw, if I try to search for an title in phpmyadmin I'll get what I want when I look for Morlanda C:2. But when I'm calling my function, thisly: $sourceID = $sources->sourceAvalibe('Morlanda C:2'); I'm accessing my function: public function sourceAvalibe($sourceTitle){ try { $sql = "SELECT sourceID FROM sources WHERE title=:sourceTitle"; $core = Core::getInstance(); $stmt = $core->dbh->prepare($sql); $stmt->bindParam(':sourceTitle', $sourceTitle, PDO::PARAM_STR, 32); $stmt->execute(); $row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); return $row; } Then the result will be empty.. but if I call the function like this: $sourceID = $sources->sourceAvalibe('1910 Massachusetts Census'); The result will return what I'm looking for. The result will be an empty if the query contains a colon (:) but will return the correct sourceID if I it contains something without an colon (:). I have tried to escape the colon in different ways but it wont find a result then either. Can you please help me before I go bananas??? Update 1 Hi Thanks for your answers. The data I'm searching for is exactly the same as in the db, using copy/paste. I have looked for evil white spaces but nothing extra was found. I have now switched to bindValue instead. Regarding the comment about disable emulating of prepared statements my answer is.. Que? :) I have now found what you where talking about regarding emulating, in this article: Best way to prevent SQL injection?, and have updated my constructor class. I'm still getting the same result tho.. nothing.. I'm using this constructor class for my db connections: class Core { public $dbh; private static $instance; function __construct(){ $this->dbh = new PDO("mysql:host=$db_host;dbname=$db_name", $db_user, $db_pass, array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8", PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => false)); } public static function getInstance(){ if (!isset(self::$instance)){ $object = __CLASS__; self::$instance = new $object; } return self::$instance; } } Update 2 Hi When I hard code the search value, Morlanda C:2, into my sql line everything works as intended. So I did a comparison of my php generated title: $sourceTitle = $sourcePreTitle." ".$preTitleNumber[0].":". $preTitleNumber[1]; with: $orginalString = "Morlanda C:2"; and they didn't match. Did a type check but both came out as stings. I'm starting to think that it's the old UTF8 encoding problem that is messing with me here. My database, table and cell is set to utf8_unicode_ci. The pdo connection is UTF8 and have encoded the php files with 'ANSI with UTF-8' (without BOM) using Notepad++. The whole project here is to turn a genealogy note to a source so I'm collection a long string from a table, in the same database, and exploding it and then assemble some pieces into tho a sourceTitle like above. I then searching the database to see if the source already exists, if not, then I just create a new one. The collection of the data and searching for the sourceTilte is done by the same pdo class. Update 3 Hi It was a stupid white space or something similar.... I did use trim at the $sourceTitle variable but not on each piece in the array from the explode function. When I did that, it worked. I guess it was a endline or something after the last number that messed with me. Thanks for your help I can now finally convert my 3000 notes to sources :) Next project is how to prevent my scripts custom to choke my VPS... A: The data that you bind does not need to be escaped in any way. That's pretty much the whole point of bind parameters. Your problem is not that there is a colon in the data. Most likely, you've typoed the title, either in the code, or in the actual database record. On an unrelated note, it would be better to use bindValue() instead of bindParam() for your use case: $stmt->bindValue(':sourceTitle', $sourceTitle); Get in the habit of using bindValue() unless you know that you need to bind by reference (in this and similar cases, you're only using the value once, so you have no need to bind by reference).

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Premier kicks Pat Rehn out of UCP caucus after municipal complaints EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he has kicked Lesser Slave Lake backbencher Pat Rehn out of the United Conservative caucus. Kenney made the announcement in a statement posted on Twitter on Thursday. Jan 14, 2021 10:15 AM By: Canadian Press EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he has kicked Lesser Slave Lake backbencher Pat Rehn out of the United Conservative caucus. Kenney made the announcement in a statement posted on Twitter on Thursday. He said the most important job of a member of the legislature is to represent constituents and Rehn has failed to do that. "He has made no meaningful effort to work in his constituency. He has ignored calls from me, UCP caucus leadership, and his constituents to do so," Kenney said. "Regrettably, MLA Rehn's performance falls well below the high standards we expect in our caucus and party." Rehn had been criticized by municipal leaders in his constituency, including the entire town council in Slave Lake, for not doing enough to listen to concerns in the area. Rehn was also one of several UCP members who left Canada over Christmas to vacation in sunny hot spots, despite the government urging Albertans to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Rehn apologized on Facebook for taking a family trip to Mexico. Last week, Kenney took away legislature committee responsibilities from Rehn and other MLA vacationers. Tracy Allard resigned as municipal affairs minister for travelling to Hawaii, and Kenney asked his chief of staff to step down for going to the United Kingdom. Rehn's removal from the UCP caucus is immediate, said Kenney. Rehn is to sit as an Independent MLA and will not be allowed to run for the party again. Kenney said he and other government ministers will be meeting with constituents in Lesser Slave Lake in the coming weeks to "ensure that they have direct access to their government, and to help them address important local issues." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 14, 2021. Get your daily Cochrane news briefing No place for 'far right' in Conservative Party, Erin O'Toole says Kenney, Moe condemn Biden's plan to scrap Keystone XL on Day 1 of presidency A chronological history of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project

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Funky Valley - Christmas Day! Arriving on Milkshake! this Christmas morning is a special seasonal episode of the colourful, texturerich animation based at a crazy farm called Funky Valley. Aimed at a preschool audience, the stories centre around the madcap antics of a group of animal misfits including Clara the bossy hen, Dippy the forgetful cow, Norris the naughty rat, Amadeus the wise old wolf and Chipolata the cream cake-loving pig. In today's show, 'Funky Christmas', it is Christmas Eve at the farm and all the animals are busy putting up the decorations. However, in Funky Valley, things are never straightforward… As Dippy and Chipolata are cleaning the chimney, Santa's sleigh drives past and catches hold of the chimney brush! Dippy and Chipolata are dragged up the chimney and high into the air. After a whiteknuckle ride through space, the sleigh loses control and crash lands on Planet Christmas. Santa does not know how he is going to deliver all the presents, but some friendly aliens let Dippy and Chipolata take their flying saucer back to Funky Planet. Can the intrepid critters deliver the presents for Santa while he gets his sleigh fixed? Continuing on Five this week is the colourful, texture-rich animation based at a crazy farm called Funky Valley. Aimed at a preschool audience, the stories centre around the madcap antics of a group of animal misfits including Clara the bossy hen, Dippy the forgetful cow, Norris the naughty rat, Amadeus the wise old wolf and Chipolata the cream cake-loving pig. In this morning's episode, the animals cannot decide which panto to put on this year, so they all choose their favourite characters from different shows. Dippy plays Little Red Snow White and asks the genie for five magic beans so she can climb a beanstalk and rescue her prince, while Ralph and Norris are the ugly sisters in search of the treasure. In tomorrow's episode, 'Clara's Summer Camp', Clara's summer camp is full, so when the noisy rat family arrive there is no space for them. The rats move next door, and park outside cousin Ralph's shed, but their music is so loud that all the other campers leave. However, Amadeus likes the rat music so much, he joins in with his guitar. Clara invites the rats back to the almost empty campsite and Norris asks if she and Dippy want to share his cheese pie. From Monday there is a chance to relive some classic adventures, beginning with 'Buster's Magic Rabbit'. When the Amazing Buster tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he accidentally makes himself and most of his friends disappear! On Tuesday, in 'Sleepy Spike', Spike the hedgehog is looking forward to the Funky Valley games –but the games are being held in the summer and he must hibernate! Wednesday's episode is 'Dippy's Wicket'. Star batsman Angus leaves his cricket team in trouble when his car breaks down on the way to a match, so Dippy is put in to bat. In 'Funky Festival' on Thursday, Ralph wants to play at the Funky Festival, so he prevents the other acts from turning up. Amadeus is called in to troubleshoot –can he save the day? Rounding off the mayhem on Fridayis 'Hoot Dun It?'. When a piece of cheese goes missing from the Funky Valley Cheese Festival, Hoot opens a detective agency to solve the mystery. Continuing on Five all this week is a new series of the colourful, texture-rich animation based at a crazy farm called Funky Valley. Aimed at a preschool audience, the stories centre around the madcap antics of a group of animal misfits including Clara the bossy hen, Dippy the forgetful cow, Norris the naughty rat, Amadeus the wise old wolf and Chipolata the cream cake-loving pig. In this morning's episode, Clara sends Dippy and Daphne to the top of the observation platform, but the lift gets stuck and Daphne admits she is scared of heights! Intomorrow's episode, 'Bubble Trouble Dippy', Dippy causes problems at the fashion show. Monday's episode is 'Bad Hair Bunny', in which Hoot invents an automatic hair-cutter – and unwisely asks Dippy to operate it! Tuesday's episode is 'Dippy and the Scare Cow'. Clara worries that the scarecrow is not working. Luckily Dippy helps out –by mistake! On Wednesday, in 'Rat on a Hot Tin Roof', Clara hires Norris and Ralph to fix her roof. Thursday's instalment, 'Daphne and the White Horse', sees Daphne accidentally create a work of art that wins a painting competition. And rounding off the week's episodes on Fridayis 'Ralph and the Prize Marrow'. Ralph resorts to cheating in the vegetable show. Beginning on Five this morning is a brand new series of the colourful, texture-rich animation based at a crazy farm called Funky Valley. Aimed at a preschool audience, the stories centre around the madcap antics of a group of animal misfits, whose behaviour is watched over by the parental figures of the sun and the moon. Among the quirky characters featured in the series are Clara the bossy hen, Dippy the forgetful cow, Norris the naughty rat, Amadeus the wise old wolf and Chipolata the cream cake-loving pig. When the Amazing Buster tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat in this morning's episode, he and most of his friends disappear! Can Clara save the day with a piece of carrot cake? Tuesday's episode, 'Sleepy Spike', finds Spike the hedgehog looking forward to the Funky Valley games. However, the games are being held in the summer and Spike must hibernate! Thursday's instalment is 'Funky Festival'. Ralph wants to play at the Funky Festival, so he prevents the other acts from turning up. But when Amadeus is called in to troubleshoot, he finds the missing performers and his band plays until bedtime. And rounding off the week's episodes on Friday is 'Hoot Dun It?' When a piece of cheese goes missing from the Funky Valley Cheese Festival, Hoot opens a detective agency to get to the bottom of the mystery. Do some of the other animals know more than they are letting on?

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Canada needs more pilots Somebody needs to make Top Gun, but for regular airline pilots, because the profession is facing a shortage and could really use a shiny new recruitment tool. Dividing the skies Air Canada and WestJet have been cutting domestic flight routes in recent months, a move that one business group thinks is fishier than an in-flight meal. Standard or automatic, Android or Apple? The battle between blue and green bubbles is about to get a whole lot uglier as cars evolve into drivable devices and tech companies set their sights on partnerships with automakers. VIA needs a buffer In today's normal, nothing-to-see-here news: VIA Rail is adding 'buffer cars' to its oldest passenger trains to absorb impact in the event of a crash. Don't forget to charge the plane The legroom situation is probably not improving, but one aspect of air travel is about to get a bit better: you'll soon be able to fly (short distances) in Canada without burning any fuel. Air Canada is buying 30 electric-hybrid planes and says it will offer fully electric short-haul flights as early as 2028. Why it matters: It's a first step towards reducing emissions from aviation, which is a sector that's particularly difficult to decarbonize and accounts for around 2.5% of total carbon emissions. It's getting cheaper to ship After soaring during the pandemic, the cost of shipping goods across the ocean is falling just as dramatically, down 60% from the beginning of the year, per The Wall Street Journal. Why it matters: Cheaper shipping rates will ease some of the upward pressure on prices (good), but they also show that consumer demand is falling and the global economy is cooling (bad), which naturally sends off a warning light on our recession dashboard. Holding airlines accountable Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse for Canada's airlines and airports, the government has launched an investigation into the flight cancellations making headlines. China's getting robotaxis If you find yourself hailing a ride in Wuhan and Chongqing, you won't have to worry about making awkward chitchat with the driver… because soon, there won't be one. GM's Super Cruise gets some super news Good news for people whose hands get super sweaty after gripping a steering wheel for too long: GM's advanced driver-assist system (ADAS) will soon be more available in Canada.

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COMMON FEAT. BLACK THOUGHT & PJ – SAY PEACE Black Thought, Common, PJ Common knows that this country is in disarray as the Presidential Election is right around the corner. Ultimately, all he wants is peace and collaborates with Black Thought for "Say Peace" with PJ on the hook. COMMON – GOOD MORNING LOVE (A COLORS SHOW) [VIDEO] The Artist Formally Known as Sense stops by A Colors Show to perform "Good Morning Love" from his recently released album Let Love. COMMON FEAT. SWIZZ BEATZ – HERCULES [VIDEO] Common, Swizz Beatz Common rolls up in a convenience store with Vince Staples behind the counter and finds himself in the middle of a robbery. What does he do? Find out in the video for "Hercules" featuring Swizz Beats from Common's upcoming album Let Love. DJ ABSOLUT FEAT. COMMON, VADO, HAVOC & JOELL ORTIZ – WORLD RECORDS Common, DJ Absolut, Havoc, Joell Ortiz, Vado DJ Absolut always seems to have something stashed in the vault. This time, he drops this slapping collaboration with Common, Joell Ortiz, Havoc and Vado titled "World Records." AUGUST GREENE (COMMON, KAREEM RIGGINS & ROBERT GLASPER) FEAT. KIRK FRANKLIN, KIERRA SHEARD & BJ THE CHICAGO KID – OPTIMISTIC REMIX August Greene, BJ The Chicago Kid, Common, Kareem Riggins, Kierra Sheard, Kirk Franklin, Robert Glasper Common, Kareem Riggins and Robert Glasper dropped the August Greene project earlier this year and now the trio remix the opening song "Optimistic" with a little help from BJ The Chicago Kid, Kirk Franklin and Kierra Sheard. AUGUST GREENE (COMMON, ROBERT GLASPER & KARRIEM RIGGINS) – BLACK KENNEDY August Greene, Common, Karriem Riggins, Robert Glasper Common, Karriem Riggins and Robert Glasper continue pressing forward as August Greene and release a new song titled "Black Kennedy." AUGUST GREENE (COMMON, ROBERT GLASPER & KAREEM RIGGINS) FEAT. BRANDY – OPTIMISTIC August Greene, Brandy, Common, Kareem Riggins, Robert Glasper Common has formed the group August Greene alongside Robert Glasper and Kareem Riggins. You may have heard them before on the soundtrack for 13th with the song "Letter to the Free." Now the trio are back at it with Brandy providing additional vocals on "Optimistic." "August Greene actually formed before we chose a name, before we even knew it was a band," Common said in a statement. "Karriem, Rob and I go back many years. It was something natural. When I started working with them it was like, 'man, this feels like home,' and it felt new and fresh. We love working together. The music takes us all to new places and it just feels like, everything I want to be as a musician is within the group of August Greene." COMMON FEAT. GUCCI MANE, PUSHA T & BJ THE CHICAGO KID – BLACK AMERICA AGAIN BJ The Chicago Kid, Common, Gucci Mane, Pusha T For his remix of "Black America Again," Common taps a pair of emcees who couldn't be more different in Pusha T and Gucci Mane. Along with BJ The Chicago Kid handling the hook, "Black America Again" is black excellence. WATCH COMMON'S SHORT FILM FOR 'BLACK AMERICA AGAIN' FEAT. STEVIE WONDER [VIDEO] Common, Stevie Wonder The artist formally known as Sense drops this 22 minute video for the title track to his Black America Again album featuring Stevie Wonder. COMMON FEAT. SYD & ELENA – RED WINE Common, Elena, Syd Common keeps the love and affection intact with "Red Wine" featuring the vocal stylings of Elena & Syd.

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Q: Installing AUBit4GL via binary package I am trying to experiment with AUBIT4GL, an Informix clone. I am running into a problem with the process as the steps outlined in the manual and the instructions given in the ./etc/aubitrc file seem to be a tad incomplete. My questions are: * *What is the purpose of the ./configure and ./make scripts in the distribution directory given that the software is distributed as a binary package and the install instructions make not reference to them? *Where is the env TARGET_OS set and why is there no reference to this setting in the install instructions when failing to define it causes the aubit program to fail? *Is anyone else besides me using this software or has attempted to? A: If you're running on Linux - always trying compiling from source. If you must run from binary - you dont need to do anything with the ./configure or make. Just point $AUBITDIR to the code. set PATH to include $AUBITDIR/bin set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include $AUBITDIR/lib and you should be good to go. For Windows - its pretty much the same - except compiling from source is a massive pain - so use the binary ;) There - you need to have PATH include both %AUBITDIR%/bin and %AUBITDIR%/lib In both cases - you'll likely need to make some configuration settings (what type of database, what UI etc etc) If you're using Informix on Linux, setting : export A4GL_UI=TUI export A4GL_SQLTYPE=esql will probably be enough (if they are not defaulted in the $AUBITDIR/etc/aubitrc)

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In the previous post I showed how to create tailored views for known families of devices. But if you want to apply tailored views based on your custom logic you can make it as well. First of all you need to follow naming rules in order to associate a new view with the existing code-behind file. In order to do it just use the following rule: <initial page name>.<any extension>.xaml. Don't use "DeviceFamily-" for your own extensions – probably it is reserved by Visual Studio and you will get runtime error if you use it. For example, if you create a new view for MainPage.xaml you can use MainPage.Raspberry.xaml name. Once you add a new view to your project you can see that Visual Studio will generate one more InitializeComponent method. Using this approach you can implement any custom logic in your constructor and apply different views based on different devices, parameters etc.

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The MIRACULOUS survival story of Juliane Koepcke! 17 year-old Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane in 1971 after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. She fell 2 miles to the ground, strapped to her seat and survived after she endured 10 days in the Amazon Jungle! She survived!!! And she was able to walk away. How have I never heard about this story before? In case you haven't: On December 24, 1971, Koepcke and her mother were traveling from Lima, Peru to Pucallpa, Peru, the city with an airport closest to Panguana, to visit their family. Things were going well on the flight until they flew into a thunderstorm. The plane was struck by lightning and started going down. Koepcke said she only remembers the "quiet" free fall into the Peruvian jungle before she passed out as she entered the trees. Koepcke only suffered a broken collar bone. She was discovered by a team of loggers on January 3, 1972. She'd been in the rain forest for 11 days. How did she manage to survive the crash at all? She was the sole survivor among 91 other people on the plane. Let's take a closer look at an amazing story you probably never heard about. The Ill-fated Flight: On Christmas Eve of 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke boarded LANSA (Líneas Aéreas Nacionales S. A., translated "The South American National Airlines") Flight 508 at the Lima Airport in Peru with her mother, Maria. The two were traveling to the research area named Panguana after having attended Juliane's graduation ball, in Lima, on what would have only been an hour-long flight. They had only been flying in the Lockheed Electra L-188A commercial plane for about 30 minutes when they flew through a sudden and violent storm. The plane was struck by lightening and in an instant began to break apart, at which point Juliane heard her mother declare calmly, "Now it's all over." Amelia Earhart disappeared in a Lockheed Electra as well, although it was an earlier model and also a different model. Passengers were sent falling from the plane two miles above the Peruvian Amazon rain forest. Juliane was strapped to her seat and was catapulted from the plane, spiraling through the air, until she hit the jungle canopy, with the other two seats in her row still attached. The dense forest obviously played no small part in making her landing survivable. The Incredible Trek: Before Koepcke hit the ground she had lost consciousness. She awoke to a concussion, a broken collarbone, and cuts on her arms and legs. Miraculously, she was still able to walk and attempted to look for her mother and for other survivors, but with no luck. Armed with a bag of sweets from the plane, Koepcke found a stream and followed it, reminded of her biologist father's advice that it would always lead to a larger river and to people. She then followed the call of the Hoatzin bird, which is found mainly near open waters, a fact she learned from her ornithologist mother, having grown up in the jungle in a hut on her parents' research facility. For 10 days she traveled through the jungle, often floating in the middle of the stream to avoid piranhas. Upon reaching a logging camp, Koepcke found some gasoline and used it to clean the wound on her arm, which by this point had become infected with maggots. The gasoline trick was another she had learned from her father. In another lucky turn, Koepcke was found unconscious by loggers that same day, as they rarely visited the camp. It seems unlikely that most people would have been able to survive the ordeal. But, Koepcke, with her unique childhood experiences, had the skills to make her way through the Amazon. Many visitors have lost their lives in the jungle due to the overwhelming heat, the sheer number of insects, and all of the dangerous animals. A young Juliane with her mother. Now a librarian of zoology who has studied bats, Koepcke has written a book about her harrowing experience, "When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival." There have been two films made about her as well. Panguana research hut where Juliane spent most of her life until the accident. Via/ Wiki Commons Years later Koepcke would be interviewed and filmed for the film "Wings of Hope" by Werner Herzog, a filmmaker who avoided dying in the same crash that Koepcke managed to survive. Herzog had tried to book a seat on the doomed Flight 508, but had been (fortunately) unsuccessful in doing so. Amazing…, amazing…, amazing…, and amazing. From an article by Rose Heichelbech. miracle, miracles, survival, Uncategorized juliane koepcke, koepcke, miracle, miracles, miraculous, plane crash, survival, unbelievable Poster boy for term limits, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, is off the mark on trade tariffs. See ya…, wouldn't want to be ya, Cali!

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COVID-19: Tesco counts cost of pandemic as profits slide 20% despite 'exceptional' sales Shoppers piled up baskets in stores and online during lockdowns but coronavirus measures took nearly £900m out of the bottom line. John-Paul Ford Rojas Business reporter @JPFordRojas Wednesday 14 April 2021 09:46, UK Image: Tesco is Britain's biggest supermarket Tesco counted the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic as full-year profits fell by a fifth despite "exceptionally strong" sales growth. Britain's biggest supermarket group reported pre-tax profits of £825m for the year to 27 February, 19.7% lower than a year earlier even as UK like-for-like sales grew by 7.7% to £39.4bn and online capacity doubled. Live COVID updates from the UK and around the world September 2020: Tesco boss says COVID panic buying 'unnecessary' That was after Tesco faced COVID-19 costs - including bonuses for staff - totalling £892m and also took a £535m hit on business rates relief handed back to the government. The headline sales figures also stripped out fuel sales, which were down by £2.8bn, or 38%, as customers "travelled significantly less" due to pandemic restrictions. Tesco said it had won customers "from all key competitors", with especially strong sales growth as customers stockpiled at the start of the first national lockdown last spring and again when tighter restrictions were imposed more recently, and a record Christmas. Online demand surged by 77% to £6.3bn over the year, growing to represent nearly a fifth of sales over the winter period, and weekly delivery slots more than doubled to 1.5 million. Despite the shift to online, Tesco's larger supermarkets also enjoyed sales growth of 1.5% - with shoppers making fewer visits but loading bigger baskets - and convenience stores were up by 3.9%, helped by the trend towards shopping closer to home. The company said it expected some of the sales gains "to fall away as COVID-19 restrictions ease" in the coming year, though its forecast coronavirus costs of just over £200m will take a smaller chunk out of annual profits than the nearly £900m hit in 2020/21. Outdoor hospitality venues reopened in England this week Tesco chief executive Ken Murphy said: "Tesco has shown incredible strength and agility throughout the pandemic. By putting our customers and colleagues first, we have built a stronger business. "I'd like to say a huge thank you to the entire team for rising so selflessly to every challenge they've faced. Their efforts have been truly heroic." Shares fell 3% in early trading. Tesco and other supermarkets have enjoyed strong sales over the past year, when they have been allowed to remain open throughout lockdowns unlike "non-essential" retailers. They have also benefited from restaurants and pubs being closed, which means consumers having to eat and drink more products purchased at stores instead. But costs such as staff sick pay, in-store measures to guard against infections, and hiring extra workers have eaten into the store groups' bottom lines. Tesco hired almost 50,000 temporary workers during the pandemic, about 20,000 of whom have joined the retailer permanently Tesco boss seeks rates shake-up after repayment The closure of hospitality businesses also had some negative impact for the company, which owns wholesaler Booker. Booker's sales were up as demand from the smaller retailers that it supplies grew, though it saw sales to catering customers tumble by 41%. Donald Brown, senior investment manager at Brewin Dolphin, said: "Tesco's results reflect the sometimes tricky position that supermarkets found themselves in over the last year. "Although they have largely been able to trade through the last 12 months, this has come with significant extra costs."

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