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On February 17 last year, 56-year-old Allan Morgan, from Witton, fell six metres through a roof. He broke his spine, pelvis, and wrist – and was at risk of bleeding to death. However, thanks to the efforts of around 100 people he survived. Today, to mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS both he, and we, say thank you to the many people within it who save people like Allan every day. And in a special report, health correspondent Geraldine Scott spoke to just some of the heroes who helped Allan. Allan, a builder, struggles to remember much of what happened on February 17, 2017. But for his wife Natalie, the memories are stark. "I was at home and I got a call from the air ambulance, they said 'we've just brought your husband in, it's nothing to worry about, take your time," Natalie, 50, said. But knowing the air ambulance was only called to the most serious incidents, Natalie rushed to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, 12 miles away. Both the couple's daughters, Nicole, 27, and Ellie, 21, lived in London at the time and dropped everything to dash to Liverpool Street station to be by their dad's side. In the meantime Natalie arrived to find her husband in agonising pain in A&E, surrounded by medical staff. The family were then moved to the relatives room, where they endured a long wait to find out Allan's fate. "All I kept thinking was he will be okay, he will be fine," Natalie said. But then Ben Davis, consultant trauma surgeon, who had been called in from home due to the severity of Allan's condition, explained the significance. He told the anxious family Allan had broken his spine, his pelvis, and his wrist. He also had internal bleeding, which was causing them most concern, as it could kill him. For all Natalie knew, that might have been the last time she saw her husband. But it would not just be that night Allan spent in hospital. Instead he spent the next two weeks at the NNUH, with Natalie visiting every day. He endured three operations, moving through the intensive care unit, to the high dependency unit, and then finally onto Gateley Ward. The impact on Allan has been long-lasting and the effects caused a ripple effect throughout the family. Allan had some counselling last year and still sees a psychologist now to deal with the flashbacks he suffers. And he has intensive physiotherapy to try and recover the best he can. Dale Gedge, 35, from Norwich, was booked on as officer for the day and was the first one on the scene. He said: "As soon as I got out of my car and got my kit I could hear he was in a lot of distress and then when I got to him and established where he had fallen from it was obvious he could have life threatening injuries. "It was a significant height so as a first person on scene my job is to carry out a primary survey which is a really rapid assessment. "I guess the key thing with Allan was purely because of the height I was initially worried about his spine, and moving on from there he had a very obvious wrist injury. An injury like that is horrible but usually not life threatening so I had to put that to one side and go through this rapid assessment which was a query over whether he had fractured his pelvis, which can be a life threatening injury because someone can bleed the whole contents of their body into that cavity. "The pelvis fracture was the big one. I then updated the critical care team knowing they were on their way to let them know he was a time critical patient. "And then I guess from there it becomes quite difficult as a solo responder because I was on my own, he was in a lot of pain, so it was basically giving him analgesia. By the time Dale had done all this, Tom Miller and Abigail Alderton had arrived as well as the critical care team from East Anglian Air Ambulance, who took the lead. "I think [making those rapid assessments] gets less challenging with experience because you do kind of flick into autopilot a little bit. We are drilled quite heavily so that initial 90 seconds to two minute assessment and not getting distracted by bone sticking out of his wrist is key. "I think it's really rewarding [to save a life]. Tom Miller, a 36-year-old paramedic from Loddon, responded to the call. It was on Tom's first shift as a qualified paramedic, although he'd already done five years on the road. He said: "It was quite late in my shift, it was around rush hour and we were in Norwich so we didn't have far to go, but that means we didn't have that long to think about the job. "Usually we get details and have some time to think about what we need to do but all we knew is a man had fallen through a roof so me and Abbie thought it sounded serious. "One of the things we do train for is trauma related injuries. But although we absolutely know what we have got to do it's not something we practice in real life very often. Tom was also conscious of any unseen pelvis injury, which could be life-threatening. Once Allan was in the back of the ambulance preparations were already being made for his arrival at hospital. "What happens is we call ahead and in A&E they pick up their red phone and we tell them what we're coming in with, so they can take him straight through when we arrive. Abigail Alderton, a 30-year-old emergency medical technician from Griston, was crewed with Tom for the day. "I remember Tom didn't want it to be a crazy shift because he had only just qualified as a paramedic," she said. "And it wasn't up until that call. Abigail said it was a challenge to reach Allan, and they could not get the ambulance close to where he was. "It was quite a difficult working environment," she said. She said the challenge with major trauma is often unseen injuries were the most dangerous. On being part of saving a life, Abigail said: "Obviously that's why I do the job, we go to work to save lives. "It makes all the hard work and rubbish jobs we go to where we don't get a good outcome worth it. Allan's injuries were so severe that one of the hospital's most senior surgeons was called in from home. Consultant trauma surgeon Ben Davis, 43, was the first of three to operate on Allan. Ben said: "I was at home on in the evening about 5.30pm and I got a phone call to say Allan was in A&E having fallen through a roof and they thought he was bleeding to death from his pelvis. And Ben was then the surgeon to put Allan's pelvis back together. "If you look at the literature it says that if you take a patient with these injuries they are more likely to die than not. "Mortality rate for this particular fracture is about 30pc with patients dying from uncontrollable bleeding. "I didn't fix everything but I stopped him from bleeding and kept him alive. "But actually it's about the initial reaction, what the paramedics do to keep them stable, the nursing staff and medical staff in A&E. "And the people who work in theatre. After his surgery, Allan's care would have moved to the critical care team for the first tentative days of recovery. This treatment on the intensive care unit, and then on the high dependency unit, would have been essential in his recovery. Lesley Little, 58, is a sister on the critical care complex. She said: "Our first job would have been to make sure Allan got an appropriate nurse to look after him. "He was one-to-one for a while, and was with us for three days and in between he had some more surgery. We deal with critically life-threatening and life-changing injuries, so Allan's condition was quite serious. Teamwork is vital in most areas, and in cases like this. After a few days Allan moved to Gateley Ward, which specialises in orthopaedics. The move to Gateley was a good sign Allan's condition was improving, but there was still a long way to go. Laura Rackham, 30, from Lowestoft is deputy sister on the ward. She said: "In step down our job is to carry on the care, get them on physio and keep going. It's not so intensive care. "I know people remember Allan from when he was there – he was with us for a couple of weeks – and they're so pleased he's recovering. The impact on Allan was not just physical but psychological too. And after he left hospital he had a course of counselling. Tracey Blackett, 50, is a counsellor with Wellbeing Norfolk and Waveney, based in North Walsham. She said: "I first met with Allan in October when he shared with me the details of his accident and described the psychological impact. "Allan shared that he had said his goodbyes to the family as they did not think that he would survive the night. "Over our 11 counselling sessions we explored the impact of the accident, including the loss of role and associated impact on mood and self-esteem. The accident had compromised Allan's ability to provide for his family, instead he felt a burden which was magnified by his physical dependency for support. Allan's journey to recovery did not end when he left hospital and still today he is having physiotherapy. Thaleia Karyeti, his physiotherapist, said with Allan she worked on more functional exercises and the aim was to enable him to walk without a stick.

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The Travelling Companion The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival 3/22/2002 - 3/23/2002 (schedule) Producer: DRAMA! Category: Drama Photo Gallery (1 images) Written late in the playwright's life (1983), this little known one-act on the displacement of the human soul has two characters: a gay writer travelling alone, with only his manuscripts for company, and the sexually confused travelling companion he has picked up in a San Francisco gay bar. Familiarity with Williams' work would almost declare this play autobiographical. This play examines one of Williams' majors concerns as a writer- What are the things we take from the lives of others to make it through our own? Without that need of others, we do not exist. DRAMA! produced the southern premier of The Travelling Companion in 2001 in New Orleans and has subsequently produced the play for the 2002 Tennessee Williams/ New Orleans Literary Festival and the 2002 Columbus [Ohio] National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival Total performances: 2 Blake Balu .... Beau * Michael-Chase Creasy .... Vieux * Danny McNamara .... Bellhop *=featured role Charlie Farve Hayes .... Director; Photographer; Producer ; Executive Director Record created by: charliehayes NOTE: StageClick.com is a free website controlled by its users from all over the world. The information on StageClick.com is entered by its registered members using show programs, newspapers, the internet or other reference materials as a source. Therefore, this page may not be an accurate or complete representation of this production or the people listed in the credits. Most likely, the credits listed here were entered by someone involved in this production. If you were in this production and would like to update this page, or create/claim your own profile, you can register for free. © 2011 StageClick.com Are you in the 'click' ?

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/ Movies Falcon and Winter Soldier Man of Steel Clip: A Good Death By Russ Burlingame - September 6, 2017 09:27 pm EDT star Christopher Meloni appeared on HuffPost Live earlier today to talk about his role as Colonel Hardy in Man of Steel and, along the way, share a clip from the movie with the site's viewers. We brought you a few quotes from that interview, along with the unedited video of the episode, a little earlier but here's the scene from Man of Steel itself, taken out of the context of the show. Some fans online had speculated that the photos of Hardy with a knife suggested that at some point the U.S. military fashioned some kind of weapon that could be effective against Kryptonians. Quite the opposite, actually; he had the knife because, with a downed aircraft and no remaining bullets, that was his desperation play. When Faora quotes back to him that "A good death is its own reward" (apparently Kryptonians are aware of this expression), things seem bleak. And with only a second left in the clip, too... Everything Coming to Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max & Other Major Streaming Services in January 2022 The Batman: Reported Run Time Reveals It Will Be the Longest Batman Movie Ever The Batman Star Robert Pattinson Said Joke About Not Working Out Came Back to Haunt Him The Batman Director Matt Reeves Explains Why the Movie Needs to Be "The World's Greatest Detective" Story The Batman Director Matt Reeves Explains Riddler's Connection to the Zodiac Killer The Batman: Matt Reeves Breaks Down How Catwoman Helps Bruce Wayne's Awakening The Batman Cast Praises Director Matt Reeves for Obsessive Attention to Detail Captain America 4 Star Anthony Mackie to Direct First Film, About Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin

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This is currently Little DinoEgg's favourite cartoon besides Ben10. At least its better then Ben10, no aliens, fighting, kicking etc. However there are "ghosts" and "monsters". He was watching the show excitedly and then covering his face with his hands OR run away from the tv when the "ghosts" and "monsters" come out. I have to reassure him that its all fake, there are always someone pretending to be a "ghost" or "monster", as in Halloween where pple wear masks n play pretend. Took him a few weeks to come to terms to that n not be scared. So far, every morning when he has washed up n changed into his uniform, he will be sitting in front of the tv watching Scooby Doo that starts at 7am in Boomerang till he leaves for school at 8am+.

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Restoring Family Links Blog Restoring Family Links Blog Blog en Espagnol Reconnecting Families Bulletins Archives About Mentors Blog Contributors Gallery Photo Gallery Holocaust Remembrance Day Videos Restoring Family Links Blog Blog en Espagnol Reconnecting Families Bulletins Holocaust Remembrance Day Videos Restoring Communication after Thirteen Years August 21, 2014 / Family Links Story by Kaitlin Sullivan, Colorado Wyoming Region, Communications Volunteer Sarah in Uganda Local Red Cross workers connected a Colorado mother with her daughter in Uganda after they had been separated for over ten years. Sarah was separated from her family as a young girl when they fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to escape a violent conflict. Sarah's father, brother, and all but one sister were killed one night in the heated civil war plaguing the DRC. Unbeknownst to her, Sarah's mother and sister made it to the US, eventually making Colorado their new home, while she found her way to Uganda. Dr. Naomi Leavitt met Sarah while volunteering with a small non-governmental organization in Uganda. Leavitt also serves as an American Red Cross volunteer in the Restoring Family Links (RFL) program in Massachusetts. Knowing that the Red Cross RFL program has successfully reconnected families like Sarah's, Leavitt stayed in touch with the woman. Sarah had provided Leavitt with key information about her mother and sister that would prove helpful in initiating a Red Cross Family Tracing case. For example, she knew their birthdates and had been told the two had been sponsored to move to the US from their refugee camp. That trail led to Colorado, where Sarah's mom had resettled. A RFL Red Cross volunteer in Colorado located Sarah's mother and sister and contacted the mother concerning her long- lost daughter. "She thought she was dead. It had been ten-plus years since she had seen or talked to her daughter," said Tim Bothe, International Services Manager for the American Red Cross of Colorado. The mother didn't hesitate to reach out to her daughter in Uganda. She filled out a form to re-establish communication. The form, which is routinely screened for content, included information on the family members and asked to get in touch. The rest was in the hands of her separated daughter. The form traveled from a local case worker in Denver to the American National Red Cross in Washington DC to the Ugandan Red Cross, to a local case worker there, and finally, was delivered to her daughter. Thanks to Leavitt and the other Red Cross volunteers and staff working on this case, communication between a mother and the daughter she thought to be dead has been restored after ten years of silence. For the first time, the mother learned she has five grandchildren. The American Red Cross assists in reconnecting more than 5,000 families in the US and around the world every year through the Restoring Family Links program. There is no charge for the program, its purpose being to locate family members and restore communication. To find out more, please visit the reconnecting families website. For more stories from the Colorado Wyoming Region, please click here. August 21, 2014 / Family Links/ Comment American Red Cross, DRC, Refugees, Restoring Family Links, Uganda Kaitlin Sullivan Colorado and Wyoming Region Home is where the heart is, but a bed wouldn't hurt March 19, 2014 / Family Links Story by Kaitlin Sullivan, Colorado and Wyoming Region, Communication Volunteer Tina Porter gets the mattresses and housewarming baskets ready to go. When refugees flee their countries due to persecution, conflict or other life-endangering issues, they often arrive in their new home country with little but the clothes on their backs. They receive a small amount of resettlement assistance, but it doesn't stretch very far. So the American Red Cross, Lutheran Family Services and American Furniture Warehouse are partnering together to make life a little easier and more welcoming for these refugees who have settled in a strange new land after what is often already a traumatic experience. Earlier this year, the American Red Cross distributed housewarming baskets to relocated refugees who have settled in the Denver-metro area. The 15 baskets contained what Tim Bothe of American Red Cross Colorado & Wyoming calls "standards of care." The Red Cross housewarming baskets include kitchen utensils, pots and pans, as well as information on how refugees can reconnect with family members through the Red Cross Restoring Family Links program. This program's services includes tracing which can help locate family members from whom they were separated from as well as Red Cross Messages which foster communication where it may otherwise be impossible. By assembling these baskets, the Red Cross is supplementing the assistance provided by Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains, a refugee resettlement agency that helps families set up a new household in Colorado. When a refugee family is resettled to the US, Lutheran Family Services is summoned at a moment's notice to provide assistance, despite given little information about the incoming refugees until they have arrived in Denver. Along with providing their own set of services, Lutheran Family Services also delivers the housewarming baskets to the newly arrived refugees. Tina Porter, Red Cross, and Horace from Lutheran Social Services American Furniture Warehouses is the third partner in the refugee settlement project. The company has donated 20 mattresses to refugee families through this partnership. On average, nearly 2,000 refugees are relocated to Colorado each year. Efforts such as housewarming baskets filled with "standards of care" and a donation of mattresses are the gestures that help these people overcome the trauma they've experienced and turn over a new leaf in the Centennial State. March 19, 2014 / Family Links/ Comment Local Youth Help Prepare Nepali Refugee Community October 23, 2013 / Family Links On the last Saturday of September, seven George Washington High School students led a preparedness event for 15 Nepali refugees who are influential in their communities. The three George Washington Youth Club leaders, seniors Hannah Walker, Claire Baker and Sadie Van Vranken, reflected on last week's event with their American Red Cross Youth Programs Manager. Community leaders were asked to attend the event led by the George Washington Red Cross Youth Club. It is hoped that these respected individuals will disseminate the information throughout the Nepali refugee community. The event took place at Hidden Brook apartments in Denver as a collaboration between Hope Communities, Colorado Africa Organization and the George Washington Red Cross Youth Club. Some of the residents at Hidden Brook were evacuated during last month's flood, many of who do not speak English. Unable to access news in a language they understood, these families and individuals faced unique struggle. Many were left in the dark when seeking information on the national disaster that swept through their new home. Organizers utilized interpreters at the preparedness event. The crowd, primarily adult refugees, engaged in the presentation and related the information to past experiences. "They talked about a fire in their refugee camp and that really brought our message home for them," Van Vranken said. Before beginning their presentation, the student leaders surveyed the room, asking if any of the attendees had participated in a preparedness event before; when one man raised his hand and confirmed that he had attended a Red Cross preparedness event in Nepal, the students said "it really confirmed what we were doing was worthwhile." As an official American Red Cross Youth Club, "We're part of a bigger movement," Walker said. The George Washington Red Cross Club was initially formed to fulfill an International Baccalaureate (IB) Community Action Service project requirement. IB programs work to help students develop a well-rounded skill set that will help them live, learn, work and promote peace in our rapidly globalizing world. Approximately 20 members strong, the group is always looking for dedicated students to join the club. Prospective upcoming events include preparedness events for Burmese and Ethiopian refugees as well as a blood drive. Story originally posted on the Colorado and Wyoming Region Blog. October 23, 2013 / Family Links/ Comment Outreach, Refugees, Nepal Restoring Family Links blog is in support of the work done by the American Red Cross Restoring Family Links program which helps find family members separated by crisis, conflict, or migration. Stories include successful reconnections, the work of Red Cross staff and volunteers to support refugee and migrant communities, and pieces on refugee and migrant issues. The Restoring Family Links blog is in support of the work done by the American Red Cross Restoring Family Links program which helps find family members separated by crisis, conflict, or migration. This is a personal blog so all opinions are my own. Entries may contain information about events that support the Restoring Family Links Program, as well as links to stories or information relevant to people in need of the reconnecting families services of the American Red Cross. 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Hayes is such a strong puck possession player. If he ever figures out how to not screw up the opportunities he creates for himself and others he really does have the potential to be a strong 25/25 to 30/30 player while providing shutdown defense. I am always so intrigued by the strengths of his game, yet always seem to come away disappointed by the end results. Similar to Kreider in a way in terms of the amount potential and talent (albeit different talent) that exists combined with underachieving production. There are so many guys like that in and around the NHL. They have the ability, but lack that certain mentality, drive and/or single mindedness required to produce day in, day out in a gruelling 82 game season. It's very difficult, and few can actually do it. If Hayes could play to his potential most nights he'd be an excellent player. But his problem, one he shares with many, is that he can't do it consistently. Kreider is the same, and it's what is likely to result in them being decent players rather than very good. Worth noting that Brooks has now mused over the question of whether what the Rangers would get back in a Hayes deal would actually be as good as Hayes is. If they decide to hold onto him, it definitely changes the face of the rebuild both for what they don't acquire in a deal and a potentially lower draft position. If they decide to keep Hayes and sign him to a long-term deal, the rebuild is over. If Hayes keeps playing like this, the rebuild is over. I have never really been a big Hayes fan....until this season. This guy has really taken a step forward that I did not think he would. The way he leverages his size to keep possession is great to watch. If they do trade him, it needs to be quite a haul. Vesey has grown on me too. Another guy I didn't care for until this season. I don't know how much of it is coaching or how much it is just getting more ice time and bigger roles. Last edited by rmc51; 11-11-2018 at 12:37 PM. He's a UFA so it won't actually be a massive haul. It'll be a first + a mid level prospect. It's either that or sign him. I like that he's playing like that. His value is at all time high. If he keeps producing at this rate? I'd think more than a mid-level prospect and 1st. Which UFA's comparable to Hayes have returned more than a 1st and a decent prospect at the deadline in the past few years? I can't think of many deals that went beyond that. I mean someone as good as Paul Statsny got a 1st and a mid to lower range prospect. Last edited by Gravesy; 11-11-2018 at 02:17 PM. I am the biggest hater of Kevin Hayes but even I have to admit he is playing well. That said, he's only scoring at a .64ppg rate and therefore I have to agree with you. He'll fetch a 1st. But likely not much more than that. I'm not saying he isn't playing well. In fact he's about as good as I've seen him. There simply isn't much evidence to suggest he'll fetch more than a 1st and a decent prospect at the deadline. For Hayes I consider that a pretty good haul. I didn't think he'd get more than about a 2nd rounder last year if they traded him. He's 26. It's perfect, they can pay Hayes and Panarin if they dump Zucc/Spooner. The issue isn't money. It's playing time. Explain to me how you plan to divy up meaningful ice time for the following, all of whom are natural centers: Zibanejad, Hayes, Howden, Andersson, Chytil. Ryan O'Reilly is a comparable player that has a horrible contract. Move Hayes to wing when Andersson takes over his role in who knows how long. Chytil and Howden can swap 2nd +4th line roles when needed. Howden plays way better than a 4th liner but can do what we need him to do in any situation. If Chytil and Andersson break out, it'll be Zib-Andersson-Chytil-Howden barring injuries. Chytil might need some time to make offensive gains judging by his performance so far. I think trading Hayes depends on how the rookies do over the long haul. It also depends on our place in the standings, and how free agency will break down. Zucc and Staal may not be here as well. The question is, how many if's can turn into certainties? Zibanejad could be a first line wing. He's not a first line C. You change their position, voila.

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Q: Android - Issue between Threads (NullPointerException) I've written an Android-App, thats checks the Internet-Connections to Google(over a Socket, i guess)! When I got the answer from my Networking-Thread(the checking method), i try to update my textview with setText, but i get a nullpointerexception! It might be a quiet easy bug in my code, but i simply don't get it. Here's my MainActivity: package at.springsits.michi.hostchecker; import android.os.Bundle; import android.app.Activity; import android.util.Log; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.View; import android.view.View.OnClickListener; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.TextView; public class Main extends Activity implements OnClickListener { TextView connection_internet; Button pingbutton; Networking net; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); connection_internet = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.connection); pingbutton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.ping_button); pingbutton.setOnClickListener(this); } @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu); return true; } @Override public void onClick(View v) { new Thread(new Runnable() { public void run() { `enter code here`net.connectionToGoogle = Networking.testPingToGoogle(); runOnUiThread(new Runnable() { public void run() { connection_internet.setText(String .valueOf(net.connectionToGoogle)); } }); } }).start(); } } Logcat: 06-26 16:38:00.030: D/libEGL(2756): loaded /system/lib/egl/libEGL_adreno200.so 06-26 16:38:00.030: D/libEGL(2756): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv1_CM_adreno200.so 06-26 16:38:00.030: D/libEGL(2756): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv2_adreno200.so 06-26 16:38:00.030: I/Adreno200-EGL(2756): <eglInitialize:269>: EGL 1.4 QUALCOMM build: Nondeterministic AU_full_mako_PARTNER-ANDROID/JB-MR1-DEV_CL2961380_release_AU (CL2961380) 06-26 16:38:00.030: I/Adreno200-EGL(2756): Build Date: 12/10/12 Mon 06-26 16:38:00.030: I/Adreno200-EGL(2756): Local Branch: 06-26 16:38:00.030: I/Adreno200-EGL(2756): Remote Branch: m/partner-android/jb-mr1-dev 06-26 16:38:00.030: I/Adreno200-EGL(2756): Local Patches: NONE 06-26 16:38:00.030: I/Adreno200-EGL(2756): Reconstruct Branch: NOTHING 06-26 16:38:00.070: D/OpenGLRenderer(2756): Enabling debug mode 0 06-26 16:38:03.414: W/dalvikvm(2756): threadid=11: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40bf9930) 06-26 16:38:03.414: E/AndroidRuntime(2756): FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-6549 06-26 16:38:03.414: E/AndroidRuntime(2756): java.lang.NullPointerException 06-26 16:38:03.414: E/AndroidRuntime(2756): at at.springsits.michi.hostchecker.Main$1.run(Main.java:37) 06-26 16:38:03.414: E/AndroidRuntime(2756): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856) A: net is null. You are trying to access one of its fields before it's been instantiated. You declare it up here: Networking net Then try and access it in the onClick() net.connectionToGoogle = Networking.testPingToGoogle() But at this stage net is null. Instantiate it in your onCreate() or similar before you try to use it: net = new Networking();

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Communication and Integration Products Debut at ARC Forum Automation industry vendors lined up to tout their latest wares before the trade press at the annual event. Gary Mintchell Suppliers took advantage of one of the few remaining gatherings of industry press to hold a series of press conferences at the 14th annual ARC Advisory Group Forum, sponsored by ARC Advisory Group Inc. (www.arcweb.com), in Orlando, Fla Feb. 8-11. The new products announced can be grouped into two broad categories: communications and integration. Kepware Technologies (www.kepware.com) has released KepServerEX version 5.2. New in this release are inclusion of OPC UA (Unified Architecture) client and server, an alarm and event condition option, updated drivers and enhanced custom interface driver (CID). OPC is an open communications standard. The combination of OPC UA Cclient and server interfaces, in addition to all other KepServerEX interfaces enable it to be a "standards-based" tunneling solution. Tunneling solutions are a replacement for Microsoft DCOM communications in distributed OPC DA (data acquisition) applications. The company points to security inherent in OPC UA, making it "an excellent choice for real-time data sharing in automation-related real-time business-to-business (B2B) applications." Fred Yentz, chief executive officer of ILS Technology (www.ilstechnology.com), characterized his company as a connectivity company. Reviewing the company's current products, he noted, "DeviceWise enables us to instrument devices from the edge. SecureWise secures remote data access." At the ARC press conference, ILS announced "Virtual Service Infrastructure (VSI)" Application Suite. This product is a visualization tool for manufacturing information for smaller companies that do not have the full visualization options of an IBM or Oracle enterprise system. Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc. (www.meau.com) announced the addition of the Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center to its e-F@ctory manufacturing solution. e-F@ctory is Mitsubishi Electric's vision for manufacturing to connect control hardware, networks and enterprise IT systems—beginning with IBM and Microsoft and now extended to Oracle. It says it is the first hardware vendor with an Oracle-tested-and-approved connection to the Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center. Online Development Inc. (www.oldi.com) now has a standalone module. It previously developed modules to fit within Rockwell Automation controller racks. The eATM tManager Standalone module is designed to enable data exchange without custom programming or the use of a middleware computer. It can be installed in a panel or cabinet and connects to controllers and computer systems via two independent Ethernet ports. It can connect controllers from Rockwell Automation, Siemens and Schneider with databases such as Microsoft SQL, DB2 and Oracle as well as Java Message Service (JMS) systems. Configuration software for the eATM tManager features intuitive screens and drop down menus to select data and establish conditions for triggering data exchanges based on values, time and other characteristics. It also configures the appliance's store and forward and failover features. If data is interrupted between the controller and the computer system, it is either stored in the module, then forwarded when the connection is resumed, or sent to a defined failover destination. In either case, configurable alerts can be sent by e-mail to warn of data loss. Invensys Operations Management (http://iom.invensys.com) has released a new version of InFusion Enterprise Control System (ECS). The InFusion ECS 2.0 features new software platform updates building on the company's ArchestrA object model. Some of the new enhancements, which are actually incorporation of these existing products into the object model, include integration with the company's Foxboro I/A Series distributed control system (DCS) and supervisory control and data acquistion (SCADA) hardware and software offerings, open integration with "virtually any other automation or information system," and enhanced platform integration with the company's latest applications, including its Wonderware batch, manufacturing execution systems (MES), mobile workforce management, enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) and enterprise business system integration offerings. Yokogawa Electric Corp. (www.yokogawa.com/us) announced the release of VigilantPlant Services, a package of automation service solutions to help manufacturers achieve safe, environmentally friendly and profitable plant operations in line with the Yokogawa VigilantPlant concept. The company reorganized its operational and consulting services business, under the VigilantPlant Services name. It includes three basic types of services: opportunity identification; solution implementation; and lifecycle effectiveness. Opportunity identification includes identifing new improvement possibilities and optimum solutions through free plant analysis, comparative effectiveness analysis, management seminars, master planning and leader development programs. Yokogawa provides services to help implement solutions. Schneider Electric (www.schneider-electric.com) announced its PlantStruxure architecture, a new collaborative system that allows industrial and infrastructure companies to meet their automation needs and at the same time deliver on growing energy-management requirements. The system offers flexible, scalable and collaborative architectures that are the building blocks for manufacturing and process within Schneider Electric's comprehensive EcoStruxure energy management architecture portfolio. EcoStruxure allows organizations to improve energy efficiencies across multiple domains of business, including process automation. PlantStruxure integrates both a solution that allows companies to optimize their energy usage and drive maximum efficiency within their operations while also improving productivity. PlantStruxure combines a platform from the company's Citect software acquisition along with manufacturing automation, building automation, and electrical power products and expertise. On top of these are support for a variety of networks, especially Ethernet-based technologies. ARC Advisory Group Inc. www.arcweb.com ILS Technology www.ilstechnology.com Invensys Operations Management http://iom.invensys.com Kepware Technologies www.kepware.com Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc. www.meau.com Online Development Inc. www.oldi.com Yokogawa Electric Corp. www.yokogawa.com/us Subscribe to Automation World's RSS Feeds for News Edwards Named to Head Lenze Americas Wireless Eliminates Ground Loop Noise Invensys Reorganization Explained

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National, AMLO's energy policies are hurting trade with the U.S. and Canada By Yucatan Times on November 8, 2022 The United States and Canada are frustrated with Mexico's approach to energy. The country's energy policy has fluctuated over the last decade as different presidents have taken wildly different approaches to transforming the sector. The previous Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto, made a seismic shift when he opened up the long-nationalized sector to international investors. For nearly 80 years, the state-owned and -operated oil and gas company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was the only company allowed to explore for gas in Mexican territory. When London's Premier Oil Plc, Houston's Talos Energy LLC, and Mexico's Sierra Oil & Gas began offshore drilling in May of 2017, it made history as the first private exploration in Mexican waters since the country first nationalized its oil industry in 1938. To Mexico's foreign allies, it was a cause for celebration. But now, five years and a regime change later, current leftist and populist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly referred to as AMLO) has made moves to re-nationalize the Mexican energy sector and once again push out foreign interests in a politicized bid to make Pemex great again. AMLO has been open about his disdain for Peña Nieto's 2014 energy reform bill opening Mexican oil to foreign interests and based much of his platform on his nationalistic and protectionist beliefs that Mexican resources should create profits for Mexican workers, Mexican companies, and the Mexican government – and no one else. "Foreign energy companies that began flocking to Mexico six years ago after the government opened energy markets and ended a nearly century-old state-run monopoly are finding themselves increasingly unwelcome," the Houston Chronicle reported back in 2020. While the Mexican government did not explicitly reinstate any ban on foreign interests, international companies found themselves faced with petty citations and bureaucratic runarounds which have been accelerating and generally making life unnecessarily difficult for Pemex's competition. Understandably, this has not gone over well with the United States and Canada, who share deep economic ties with Mexico. Not only is Mexico's anti-trade approach bad for business, it's also bad for climate goals. As Mexico's renewable energy sector is run by private companies, it too stands to suffer from the nationalistic goals of the Mexican energy sector. The United States has held numerous talks with Mexican officials to push dramatic cuts in Pemex's gas flaring and methane emissions, as well as to discuss renewable energy. Despite these talks, AMLO has remained convinced that a revitalization of the Mexican economy will go hand in hand with continued reliance on fossil fuels. "We ignored the sirens' song, the voices that predicted, in good faith, perhaps, the end of the oil age and the massive arrival of electric cars and renewable energies," López Obrador told a roaring crowd in Tabasco at the opening of a new oil refinery this summer. AMLOMexicoTMECTradeUSMCA

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// This file was automatically generated by the code gen tool - do not modify. using System ; using scg = System.Collections.Generic ; using sd = System.Data ; using sds = System.Data.SqlClient ; using sr = System.Reflection ; using mst = Microsoft.SqlServer.Types ; using mss = Microsoft.SqlServer.Server ; using acr = alby.codegen.runtime ; namespace alby.pantheon.codegen.table { public partial class Party : acr.RowBase { public scg.List<Address> children٠Address٠By٠PartyID( sds.SqlConnection connˡ, int? topNˡ = null, scg.List<acr.CodeGenOrderBy> orderByˡ = null, sds.SqlTransaction tranˡ = null ) { AddressFactory factoryˡ = new AddressFactory() ; return factoryˡ.LoadByForeignKey٠From٠Party٠By٠PartyID ( connˡ, this.PartyID, topNˡ, orderByˡ, tranˡ ) ; } public scg.List<Centre> children٠Centre٠By٠PartyID( sds.SqlConnection connˡ, int? topNˡ = null, scg.List<acr.CodeGenOrderBy> orderByˡ = null, sds.SqlTransaction tranˡ = null ) { CentreFactory factoryˡ = new CentreFactory() ; return factoryˡ.LoadByForeignKey٠From٠Party٠By٠PartyID ( connˡ, this.PartyID, topNˡ, orderByˡ, tranˡ ) ; } public scg.List<Communication> children٠Communication٠By٠PartyID( sds.SqlConnection connˡ, int? topNˡ = null, scg.List<acr.CodeGenOrderBy> orderByˡ = null, sds.SqlTransaction tranˡ = null ) { CommunicationFactory factoryˡ = new CommunicationFactory() ; return factoryˡ.LoadByForeignKey٠From٠Party٠By٠PartyID ( connˡ, this.PartyID, topNˡ, orderByˡ, tranˡ ) ; } public scg.List<Franchise> children٠Franchise٠By٠PartyID( sds.SqlConnection connˡ, int? topNˡ = null, scg.List<acr.CodeGenOrderBy> orderByˡ = null, sds.SqlTransaction tranˡ = null ) { FranchiseFactory factoryˡ = new FranchiseFactory() ; return factoryˡ.LoadByForeignKey٠From٠Party٠By٠PartyID ( connˡ, this.PartyID, topNˡ, orderByˡ, tranˡ ) ; } public scg.List<LeaseExecutive> children٠LeaseExecutive٠By٠PartyID( sds.SqlConnection connˡ, int? topNˡ = null, scg.List<acr.CodeGenOrderBy> orderByˡ = null, sds.SqlTransaction tranˡ = null ) { LeaseExecutiveFactory factoryˡ = new LeaseExecutiveFactory() ; return factoryˡ.LoadByForeignKey٠From٠Party٠By٠PartyID ( connˡ, this.PartyID, topNˡ, orderByˡ, tranˡ ) ; } public scg.List<LeaseGuarantor> children٠LeaseGuarantor٠By٠PartyID( sds.SqlConnection connˡ, int? topNˡ = null, scg.List<acr.CodeGenOrderBy> orderByˡ = null, sds.SqlTransaction tranˡ = null ) { LeaseGuarantorFactory factoryˡ = new LeaseGuarantorFactory() ; return factoryˡ.LoadByForeignKey٠From٠Party٠By٠PartyID ( connˡ, this.PartyID, topNˡ, orderByˡ, tranˡ ) ; } public scg.List<Lessee> children٠Lessee٠By٠PartyID( sds.SqlConnection connˡ, int? topNˡ = null, scg.List<acr.CodeGenOrderBy> orderByˡ = null, sds.SqlTransaction tranˡ = null ) { LesseeFactory factoryˡ = new LesseeFactory() ; return factoryˡ.LoadByForeignKey٠From٠Party٠By٠PartyID ( connˡ, this.PartyID, topNˡ, orderByˡ, tranˡ ) ; } public scg.List<Solicitor> children٠Solicitor٠By٠PartyID( sds.SqlConnection connˡ, int? topNˡ = null, scg.List<acr.CodeGenOrderBy> orderByˡ = null, sds.SqlTransaction tranˡ = null ) { SolicitorFactory factoryˡ = new SolicitorFactory() ; return factoryˡ.LoadByForeignKey٠From٠Party٠By٠PartyID ( connˡ, this.PartyID, topNˡ, orderByˡ, tranˡ ) ; } public scg.List<Staff> children٠Staff٠By٠PartyID( sds.SqlConnection connˡ, int? topNˡ = null, scg.List<acr.CodeGenOrderBy> orderByˡ = null, sds.SqlTransaction tranˡ = null ) { StaffFactory factoryˡ = new StaffFactory() ; return factoryˡ.LoadByForeignKey٠From٠Party٠By٠PartyID ( connˡ, this.PartyID, topNˡ, orderByˡ, tranˡ ) ; } } }

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Abitibi Royalties Canadian Malartic Mine Royalties 2020 Reserve & Resource Estimates Royalty Production Schedule 2021-2023 KWG Completes Debenture Conversion to Units InvestmentPitch Media Video Discusses Newly Listed Rakovina Therapeutics, a Developer of New Cancer Treatments Targeting Critical DNA Damage Response Mutations – Video Available on Investmentpitch.com Palladium One Closes $15 Million Bought Deal Financing Investment Pitch Media Video Discusses Great Atlantic's Samples Metals Industry Report Executive METALMIN TriStar Gold – Appointment of Independent Director February 9, 2021 April 9, 2021 Bachittar Scottsdale, Arizona–(Newsfile Corp. – February 9, 2021) – TriStar Gold Inc. (TSXV: TSG) (OTCQX: TSGZF) (the Company or TriStar) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Mark Isto to the Board of Directors as an independent director. Dr. Quinton Hennigh will be standing down from the Board of Directors but will continue to support the Company as a member of the technical advisory committee."First, I would like to thank Quinton for the years he has given this company, and it's important to point out that we will continue to benefit from his expertise and experience through his role as a member of the technical advisory committee," says Nick Appleyard, TriStar's President and CEO. "Mark's addition to the Board shows that the Company is advancing, his experience in developing and operating large-scale open pit gold mines will be invaluable."Mr. Isto has also been awarded 300,000 incentive stock options, granted for a 5-year period starting on February 8, 2021, each option allows the holder to purchase one common share of TriStar at an exercise price of $0.25 and vest immediately.Mr. Isto has 38 years of experience in mining engineering, mine management, and project development on a regional and global basis. Mr. Isto is currently the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Royal Gold Corporation.Previously he served as Vice President, Operations for First Nickel Inc. and Senior Vice President in the Projects Group at Kinross Gold Corp. He served as Mine General Manager of Golden Sunlight Mines, Inc. (Placer Dome America) and previously held numerous other management positions in Placer Dome's global operations, including Chief Engineer, Mine Superintendent, Project Director and Senior Advisor over a nearly 25-year career with Placer Dome.Mr. Isto holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mining Engineering from Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, as well as a Master of Business Administration degree in Business Administration from the University of Nevada – Reno.About TriStarTriStar Gold is an exploration and development company focused on precious metals properties in the Americas that have the potential to become significant producing mines. The Company's current flagship property is Castelo de Sonhos in Pará State, Brazil. The Company's shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol TSG and on the OTCQX under the symbol TSGZF. Further information is available at www.tristargold.com.On behalf of the board of directors of the company:Nick AppleyardPresident and CEOFor further information, please contact:TriStar Gold Inc.Nick AppleyardPresident and CEO480-794-1244[email protected]Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.Forward-Looking StatementsCertain statements contained in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements under Canadian securities legislation which are not historical facts and are made pursuant to the "safe harbour" provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Generally, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "expects" or "it is expected", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "will" occur. Forward looking statements in this press release include statements about the Company's plans to complete a pre-feasibility study on the CDS project, the results of further in-fill drilling on the CDS property, the ability of the Company to complete the current in-fill drilling program, the results of further exploration target identification and the anticipated effects of the COVID-19 virus. Such forward-looking statements are based upon the Company's reasonable expectations and business plan at the date hereof, which are subject to change depending on economic, political and competitive circumstances and contingencies. Readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause a change in such assumptions and the actual outcomes and estimates to be materially different from those estimated or anticipated future results, achievements or position expressed or implied by those forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause the Company's plans to change include changes in demand for and price of gold and other commodities (such as fuel and electricity) and currencies; changes or disruptions in the securities markets; legislative, political or economic developments in Brazil; effects of the COVID-19 virus on all aspects of the Company's business, the need to obtain permits and comply with laws and regulations and other regulatory requirements; the possibility that actual results of work may differ from projections/expectations or may not realize the perceived potential of the Company's projects; risks of accidents, equipment breakdowns and labour disputes or other unanticipated difficulties or interruptions; the possibility of cost overruns or unanticipated expenses in development programs; operating or technical difficulties in connection with exploration, mining or development activities; the speculative nature of gold exploration and development, including the risks of diminishing quantities of grades of reserves and resources; and the risks involved in the exploration, development and mining business. Although management of the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements or forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities laws. Newsfile Corp. February 9, 2021 – 5:30 AM PST News by QuoteMedia www.quotemedia.com ← QuestEx Gold & Copper Announces 2020 Exploration Results from their 100% Owned Sofia Property and Delineation of 2021 Drill-Ready Targets Crestview Exploration Announces the Results of Phase 1 Program at Divide and Castile Mountain Projects – Elko, County, Nevada → Element 29 Appoints Dr. Paul Johnston as Vice President, Exploration February 4, 2021 April 9, 2021 Desiree Justice Beaver Dam Mine Project – Participant Funding Available February 10, 2021 April 9, 2021 Bachittar Rockcliff Retains Oak Hill Financial to Provide Investor Relations Services February 12, 2021 April 9, 2021 Desiree Justice Finance METALMIN Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – April 5, 2021) – Rakovina Therapeutics Inc. is one of the latest new listings on Black Mountain Gold Closes Private Placement for Proceeds of CDN $5,000,000

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Lighting up "only" when you're out with friends for drinks on the weekend or reaching for a single cigarette after a rough day is like playing Russian roulette. You simply don't know when that one additional cigarette puts a cell over the edge and it begins growing out of control and makes lung cancer, says Dr. Ray Casciari, chief medical officer of St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. "So how do you know how much you can get away with? You don't," notes Casciari. Reviews of dozens of studies of light and intermittent smokers show a 500 percent increase of lung cancer risks in women and increased heart disease, various cancer risks and overall general poorer health-related quality of life. Snuff out all butts to stay safe. Getting by on little sleep may sound virtuous, but it could actually be costing you your health and well-being. Several studies have demonstrated a strong link between sleep duration and mortality, says Dr. Allen Towfigh, a board-certified sleep medicine doctor with Weill Cornell Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital. Those who sleep fewer than seven hours per night have up to a two-fold greater risk of death and diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Most people need seven to nine hours of sleep per night. If you find yourself getting less than this, take a look at possible reasons, which may include anxiety, late-night TV watching or a sleep disorder such as sleep apnea. If the last time you applied sunscreen was during last year's beach vacation, you may be doing more damage to your skin than you know. Driving, gardening, running errands and other daily activities expose you to damage from ultraviolet (UV) rays even when it's cloudy or raining, says Dr. Sarah L. Taylor, associate professor of dermatology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C. "UV light is present anytime it's not dark (e.g. night)," she adds. Protect your skin with an SPF sunblock of between 30 and 50 any time you go outdoors, Taylor suggests. Veggie chips may sound like an easy way to get in your daily servings of vegetables, but in reality they're not much better than potato chips. A typical serving of veggie chips contains 150 calories — similar to a serving of potato chips — and possesses little more than small amounts of vegetable powder or puree mixed in. "The calories still add up," says Amy Goodson, a dietitian for Texas Health Ben Hogan Sports Medicine. You're better off choosing a piece of fruit or a salad with real vegetables along with a lean protein such as yogurt or cottage cheese to keep you full longer. Smith recommends strength training on three to four non-consecutive days of the week and including some cardio activity three to four days a week. Unwinding at the end of the day with a glass of wine sounds like a good way to relax. And that's exactly how it works at first. As a central nervous system depressant, alcohol initially helps you feel relaxed and leads to a feeling of drowsiness, says Towfigh. "However, once alcohol begins to wear off, your centers of alertness come back online and you get a rebound effect, which causes you to wake up from your slumber and have a difficult time falling back asleep," he notes. A glass of wine with dinner should be fine, but any more than that can significantly impair your ability to get a good night's sleep.

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NOWCAST WESH 2 News on the CW at 10pm Sunday Get the facts: How the 25th Amendment works Updated: 12:53 PM EST Jan 7, 2021 get the facts on the 25th Amendment. The 25th outlines what happens if a president or vice president gets replaced during their term. Sections 12 and three are pretty straightforward. If a president is removed, the VP steps in. If you need a new VP, the president nominates, then both the House and the Senate have to confirm. And if the president can't fulfill their duties because of something like going under for surgery, they send Congress a letter transferring powers to the vice president. Now all of this has happened in the past, but not Section four. This lets the vice president and either a majority of the Cabinet or Congress remove a president by declaring in writing that the commander in chief quote is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. That's either for physical or mental concerns. In that case, the vice president would immediately assume the powers of acting president. The 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967 after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It was a way to formally outline a transfer of presidential power, helping you get the facts in Washington. I'm Jared Hill The 25th Amendment details how presidential power can be transferred, either temporarily or more permanently, in the event a president is unable to do the job. Here's what to know about it.WHY WAS IT PASSED?The push for an amendment detailing presidential succession plans in the event of a president's disability or death followed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. President Lyndon B. Johnson in his 1965 State of the Union promised to "propose laws to insure the necessary continuity of leadership should the President become disabled or die." The amendment was passed by Congress that year and ultimately ratified in 1967.HAS IT BEEN INVOKED TO TRANSFER POWER BEFORE?Yes, presidents have temporarily relinquished power but not all invoked the 25th Amendment. Previous transfers of power have generally been brief and happened when the president was undergoing a medical procedure. HOW DOES IT WORK?To temporarily transfer power to the vice president, a president sends a letter to the speaker of the House of Representatives and president pro tempore of the Senate stating the commander in chief is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of office." The vice president then becomes acting president. When the president is ready to resume authority, the president sends another letter. That's spelled out in the amendment's Section 3.The next section of the amendment, Section 4, lays out what happens if the president becomes unable to discharge duties but doesn't transfer power. In that case, the vice president and majority of the Cabinet can declare the president unfit. They'd then send a letter to the speaker and president pro tempore saying so. The vice president then becomes acting president.If the president ultimately becomes ready to resume his duties, the president can send a letter saying so. But if the vice president and majority of the Cabinet disagree, they can send their own letter to Congress within four days. Congress would then have to vote. The president resumes duties unless both houses of Congress by a two-thirds vote say the individual is not ready. The section has never been invoked. The 25th Amendment details how presidential power can be transferred, either temporarily or more permanently, in the event a president is unable to do the job. Lawmakers openly discuss ousting Trump, possible impeachment Here's what to know about it. WHY WAS IT PASSED? The push for an amendment detailing presidential succession plans in the event of a president's disability or death followed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. President Lyndon B. Johnson in his 1965 State of the Union promised to "propose laws to insure the necessary continuity of leadership should the President become disabled or die." The amendment was passed by Congress that year and ultimately ratified in 1967. HAS IT BEEN INVOKED TO TRANSFER POWER BEFORE? Yes, presidents have temporarily relinquished power but not all invoked the 25th Amendment. Previous transfers of power have generally been brief and happened when the president was undergoing a medical procedure. To temporarily transfer power to the vice president, a president sends a letter to the speaker of the House of Representatives and president pro tempore of the Senate stating the commander in chief is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of [the] office." The vice president then becomes acting president. When the president is ready to resume authority, the president sends another letter. That's spelled out in the amendment's Section 3. The next section of the amendment, Section 4, lays out what happens if the president becomes unable to discharge duties but doesn't transfer power. In that case, the vice president and majority of the Cabinet can declare the president unfit. They'd then send a letter to the speaker and president pro tempore saying so. The vice president then becomes acting president. If the president ultimately becomes ready to resume his duties, the president can send a letter saying so. But if the vice president and majority of the Cabinet disagree, they can send their own letter to Congress within four days. Congress would then have to vote. The president resumes duties unless both houses of Congress by a two-thirds vote say the individual is not ready. The section has never been invoked.

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Coalition of 60 Environmental Groups & Community Leaders Demand FDA Ban & Reclassify Oxybenzone, Octinoxate & Octocrylene in OTC Sunscreen An alliance of environmental groups, community leaders, academics and businesses representing thousands nationally submits a Citizen Petition to the FDA calling for the ban of toxic sunscreen chemicals ahead of FDA's September 27 proposed order on sunscreens. The petitioners representing the group are non-profit Island Green Living Association and Joe DiNardo, a retired industry toxicologist. ST. JOHN, U.S. Virgin Islands (PRWEB) September 13, 2021 Citing multiple scientific studies and an abundance of evidence showing the harmful impact of oxybenzone, octinoxate and octocrylene, the "Toxic 3 Os" commonly found in chemical sunscreens, a coalition of 60 environmental groups, community leaders, academics and businesses submitted a Citizen Petition to the FDA calling for the removal of affected products from the marketplace and reclassification of these chemicals to "Not Generally Recognized as Safe & Effective" (GRASE Category II). The initiative was started by Island Green Living Association in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Lisa Bishop of Friends of Hanauma Bay, Cynthia Punihaole of The Kohala Center, and Ted Bohlen of the Hawaii Reef and Ocean Coalition. The U.S. Virgin Islands and Hawaii are especially vulnerable to the environmental impact of contaminants on coral reefs and both have laws on the books banning toxic sunscreen. The petitioners, Harith Wickrema, President of Island Green Living Association and Joe DiNardo, retired scientist and industry toxicologist, are the designated signatories for the coalition. This includes those in original group as well as Senator Janelle K. Sarauw, Senator Marvin A. Blyden, Senator Steven D. Payne Sr. of the US Virgin Islands; Senator Mike Gabbard, Senator Chris Lee, Representative Gene Ward, Representative Nicole Lowen, Maxx Phillips of Center for Biologic Diversity, and Pat B. Lindquist of the Napili Bay and Beach Foundation of Hawaii; Kurt Lieber of Ocean Defenders Alliance, and Mark Okrusko of AirtimeWatertime, Inc., of California; Key West Mayor Teri Johnson and Mill McCleary of Reef Relief of Florida; as well as Katie Day of 500K-member Surfrider Foundation, and nearly 50 additional environmental organizations, community leaders, academics, businesses and members of the public. The Citizen Petition was prompted by the chemicals' health risks and the negative impacts to waterways and coastlines. The full Citizen Petition, which includes all signatories and referenced research, can be found HERE. In May 2021, the FDA published a notice of intent (NOI) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act to evaluate the potential environmental effects of certain sunscreen products for OTC use without prior approval of a new drug application (NDA). They will issue a proposed order addressing sunscreens by September 27, 2021. Oxybenzone, octinoxate and octocrylene, along with 11 other Soluble Organic UV Filters (SOUVF), were removed from the GRASE Category I (generally recognized as safe & effective) list in February 2019 "because the public record does not currently contain sufficient data to support positive GRASE determinations." Since then, they have been designated GRASE Category III "insufficient data for use in sunscreens" while continuing to be widely available. It is now time to ensure that all sunscreen products are safe for both people and the environment and remove those ingredients that are not. If the FDA doesn't protect the public from unsafe sunscreens, then the FDA has not done its job. Extensive published research demonstrates that oxybenzone, octinoxate and octocrylene, active ingredients present in more than 2/3 of all sunscreens, pose a threat to public health, marine life and coral reefs. This includes the latest studies earlier this year showing that octocrylene in sun protection products degrades into benzophenone, a carcinogen that can also interfere with key hormones and reproductive organs. Only mineral sunscreens formulated with titanium dioxide and zinc oxide are considered GRASE Category I (generally recognized as safe & effective) by the FDA. These mineral sunscreens, along with rash guards, hats, sunglasses and avoiding direct sun during peak hours, are critical in protecting people against the harmful effects of UV radiation. The "Toxic 3 Os" have been shown to destroy coral and trigger health risks to people and marine life. They cause human cell damage that has been linked to cancer, disrupt hormones, have been found in breast milk, blood and urine and are known allergens. Likewise these chemicals are devastating to coral reefs and marine life. They wash off people's bodies when they swim and contaminate through waste water runoff and cause 'zombie' coral which looks healthy but is unable to reproduce, coral bleaching as well as other issues. Coral reefs take up less than one percent of the ocean floor but are home to more than twenty-five percent of marine life. They are vital to protecting coastlines, especially crucial given climate change and rising sea levels, as well as supporting ocean life and have the highest biodiversity of any of the planet's eco-systems. Oxybenzone is particularly toxic to corals at concentrations as low as a few parts per trillion — the equivalent of three drops in an Olympic-size swimming pool may be enough to severely damage or kill coral. The "Toxic 3 Os" are also detrimental when there is fishing in contaminated waters, impacting human health and the economy. The "Toxic 3 Os" and the other SOUVF listed in the FDA's 2019 docket are structural and functional analogues to human estrogen, pesticides like DDT, BPA (Bisphenol A), phthalates, atrazine and glyphosate (Roundup), parabens, and other known hormone disruptors. They will never be found to be GRASE or environmentally safe because they aren't. No amount of further research can change their chemical nature. It is for this reason that the coalition urges the FDA to apply the Precautionary Principle that the burden of proof for potentially harmful actions by industry or government rests on the assurance of safety and that when there are threats of serious damage, scientific uncertainty must be resolved in favor of prevention. Established in 2004, Island Green Living Association is a registered 501 (c)(3) not for profit organization on St. John dedicated to sustainability throughout the USVI. http://www.islandgreenliving.org. Lisa Herbst Island Green Living Association

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home > guide > How do I get mail & post? The mail will then be sent to the main post office in that town where you can go and pick it up (photo ID required) free of charge! For more details on this great service click here. The official mail carrier in New Zealand is NZ Post (www.nzpost.co.nz). They have post office all over New Zealand where you can send both domestic and international post. If you want to send stuff home this is the place to head!

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Eighteenth Century (12) Prose Fiction (3) Tory (3) Anglican (High Church) (3) Anglican (2) Deist or Theist (2) Dissenter or Nonconformist (1) Your search for Metaphor Category: "Uncategorized" , "Container" AND Gender of Author: "Male" AND Literary Period: "Restoration" , "Augustan" , "Long Eighteenth Century" , "Early Modern" AND Nationality of Author: "English" returned 12 results(s) in 0.005 seconds "Here walk'd a Fellow with a long white Rod on his Shoulder, that's asham'd to cry his Trade, though he gets his Living by it; another bawling out TODD's Four Volumes in Print, which a Man in Reading of, wou'd wonder that so much Venom should not tear him to pieces, but that some of the ancient M... — Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704) "It were unjust, no let me spare my Friend, / Lock up the fatal Secret in my Breast, / Nor tell him that which will undo his Quiet." — Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718) "It is true indeed, we may be tempted to our Perdition under a fair and false Appearance of Religion, which commonly proceeds from the Discontentments of Life, or from some Capricio or Fancy of the Brain: And therefore it is very necessary to sound to the bottom of Mens Hearts, to know whether th... — Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724) "'Till then be kind, and leave me to my self; / Leave me to vent the Fulness of my Breast, / Pour out the Sorrows of my Soul alone, / And sigh my self, if possible, to Peace." Now among other things of this kind which he discover'd, it appear'd to him that the Animal Spirit, which is Seal'd in the Heart (as we have mention'd before) must necessarily have some Quality superadded to its Corporeity, which rendred it capable of those wonderful Actions, different Sensations... — Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720) "Never, never would she [the mind] buy / Indian dust, or Tyrian dye, / Never trade abroad for more, / If she saw her native store, / If her inward worth were known / She might ever live alone." — Watts, Isaac (1674-1748) "There is no way of estimating manners or apprising the different humours, fancies, passions, and apprehensions of others without first taking an inventory of the same kind of goods within ourselves and surveying our domestic fund." — Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) Date: 1710 [1719, 1729] "His [Man's] ranging Soul in narrow Bounds contains / All Nature's Works, o'er which in Peace he reigns." — Oldisworth, William (1680-1734) "There is no way of estimating Manners, or apprizing the different Humours, Fancys, Passions and Apprehensions of others, without first taking an Inventory of the same kind of Goods within ourselves, and surveying our domestick Fund." "By this means, when the Heavens are filled with Clouds, when the Earth swims in Rain, and all Nature wears a lowering Countenance, I withdraw myself from these uncomfortable Scenes into the visionary Worlds of Art; where I meet with shining Landskips, gilded Triumphs, beautiful Faces, and all th... — Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

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Publishers in Bellinzona, Switzerland: Directory of Swiss Publishers in Bellinzona. Displaying 1 to 1 of 1 Swiss publishing companies in the city of Bellinzona, Switzerland. Because of its geographical situation Italian-speaking Switzerland is perfectly positioned to promote cultural exchanges. Edizioni Casagrande has been publishing history essays, novels, poetry and architecture books. 1 publishers in Bellinzona, Switzerland in the directory.

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Marcelo dos Santos Marinho or simply Marcelo (born 2 March 1984 in Mococa), is a Brazilian goalkeeper who currently plays for Penapolense. Honours Corinthians Brazilian Série A: 2005 External links CBF sambafoot zerozero.pt placar Guardian Stats Centre 1984 births Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense players Association football goalkeepers Brazilian footballers Clube Atlético Mineiro players Esporte Clube Bahia players Living people Paysandu Sport Club players Sport Club Corinthians Paulista players People from Mococa

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Old trees, or trees that have become a stump because they have not been correctly removed can begin to cause problems if they are not treated correctly. To get them removed and cut down from your garden call 07957 388 285 today and speak to Essex Garden Care. Old trees are prone to becoming unstable and could easily fall down and hurt someone. If you notice a large tree in your garden that appears to be dead, contact us to help remove it. Likewise, with large stumps that have been left in a garden, although if they have not started to rot they could be used as additional seating. Contact us if you are interested in having a garden seat created out of an old large tree stump. You might find that an old tree or stump could become home to fungi or a root disease, which in turn might then infect localised plants and fauna. This is best avoided and the simplest solution would be to remove the old tree or stump. If you have taken control of an overgrown garden yourself, but now find yourself in a position whereby you have, you are left with a large stump of a tree and that takes up a large percentage of the available space in the garden, it would be best to use our services to either reduce the space that the stump takes up or remove that stump entirely. Give Essex Garden Care a call today for more information. Old dead trees and stumps are ideal places for a haven of insects to settle and infiltrate. The last thing that you would want in your garden is to have a wasp or bees nest, that prevents anyone leaving the house in the summer for fear of being stung. You would then be left with having to contact both an insect termination company to removing the infestation of insects and then a garden company to come and clear out the dead tree or stump. Take preventative measures, by contacting us today to make sure the outside space does not become a haven for any insect colony. To find out more about dead tree removal and clearance of tree stumps, give us a call on 07957 388 285 today, leave a message if we do not answer.

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Q: Group by rows which are in sequence Consider I have a table like this PASSENGER CITY DATE 43 NEW YORK 1-Jan-21 44 CHICAGO 4-Jan-21 43 NEW YORK 2-Jan-21 43 NEW YORK 3-Jan-21 44 ROME 5-Jan-21 43 LONDON 4-Jan-21 44 CHICAGO 6-Jan-21 44 CHICAGO 7-Jan-21 How would I group Passenger and City column in sequence to get a result like below? PASSENGER CITY COUNT 43 NEW YORK 3 44 CHICAGO 1 44 ROME 1 43 LONDON 1 44 CHICAGO 2 A: One way to deal with such a gaps-and-islands problem is to calculate a ranking for the gaps. Then group also on that ranking. SELECT PASSENGER, CITY , COUNT(*) AS "Count" -- , MIN("DATE") AS StartDate -- , MAX("DATE") AS EndDate FROM ( SELECT q1.* , SUM(gap) OVER (PARTITION BY PASSENGER ORDER BY "DATE") as Rnk FROM ( SELECT PASSENGER, CITY, "DATE" , CASE WHEN 1 = TRUNC("DATE") - TRUNC(LAG("DATE") OVER (PARTITION BY PASSENGER, CITY ORDER BY "DATE")) THEN 0 ELSE 1 END as gap FROM table_name t ) q1 ) q2 GROUP BY PASSENGER, CITY, Rnk ORDER BY MIN("DATE"), PASSENGER PASSENGER CITY Count 43 NEW YORK 3 43 LONDON 1 44 CHICAGO 1 44 ROME 1 44 CHICAGO 2 db<>fiddle here A: From Oracle 12, you can use MATCH_RECOGNIZE: SELECT * FROM table_name MATCH_RECOGNIZE ( PARTITION BY passenger ORDER BY "DATE" MEASURES FIRST(city) AS city, COUNT(*) AS count PATTERN (same_city+) DEFINE same_city AS FIRST(city) = city ); Which, for the sample data: CREATE TABLE table_name (PASSENGER, CITY, "DATE") AS SELECT 43, 'NEW YORK', DATE '2021-01-01' FROM DUAL UNION ALL SELECT 44, 'CHICAGO', DATE '2021-01-04' FROM DUAL UNION ALL SELECT 43, 'NEW YORK', DATE '2021-01-02' FROM DUAL UNION ALL SELECT 43, 'NEW YORK', DATE '2021-01-03' FROM DUAL UNION ALL SELECT 44, 'ROME', DATE '2021-01-05' FROM DUAL UNION ALL SELECT 43, 'LONDON', DATE '2021-01-04' FROM DUAL UNION ALL SELECT 44, 'CHICAGO', DATE '2021-01-06' FROM DUAL UNION ALL SELECT 44, 'CHICAGO', DATE '2021-01-07' FROM DUAL Outputs: PASSENGER CITY COUNT 43 NEW YORK 3 43 LONDON 1 44 CHICAGO 1 44 ROME 1 44 CHICAGO 2 If you have ordered the input result set (note: tables should be considered to be unordered) and want to maintain the order then: SELECT * FROM (SELECT t.*, ROWNUM AS rn FROM table_name t) MATCH_RECOGNIZE ( PARTITION BY passenger ORDER BY RN MEASURES FIRST(rn) AS rn, FIRST("DATE") AS "DATE", FIRST(city) AS city, COUNT(*) AS count PATTERN (same_city+) DEFINE same_city AS FIRST(city) = city ) ORDER BY rn Outputs: PASSENGER RN DATE CITY COUNT 43 1 01-JAN-21 NEW YORK 3 44 2 04-JAN-21 CHICAGO 1 44 5 05-JAN-21 ROME 1 43 6 04-JAN-21 LONDON 1 44 7 06-JAN-21 CHICAGO 2 db<>fiddle here

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The Toddler Community The Kindergarten Year at Montessori Academy Lower Elementary (Grades 1-3) Upper Elementary (Grades 4-6) Extended Day (ExCEL) Program Arts and Enrichment Parents' Organization (MAPO) Explore Montessori A Montessori Education Montessori Versus Traditional Learning Sponsorship & Donations Evening of Elegance, Silent Auction and Dinner Resources for Current Families Afternoon Clubs 20th Anniversary Keepsake Dr. Michelle Wiley has a BS and master's degree from Kutztown University, K-12 principal certification from Penn State University, and a doctorate in Evidence-Based Education Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wiley has an impressive academic career spanning two decades including 12 years as an administrator in both suburban and urban schools. With a long-term commitment to honoring and developing the potential of young students, Dr. Wiley has had great success and recognition throughout her career. She has a proven record of creating positive programmatic and cultural change in schools that has resulted in innovation as well as improved outcomes for children.. Ann Marie Simonetti attended Shippensburg University where she was a graduate assistant in the Teacher Education Department, and graduated with a master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction. She holds a Montessori certificate from the International Montessori Council and a Pennsylvania Instructional I Teaching Certificate for K-6. She began teaching in 2009 after discovering a passion for early childhood education during her time as a private nanny. Her three daughters attend Montessori Academy of Chambersburg and enjoy dance, horseback riding, and gymnastics. Ann Marie is a dance fitness instructor and enjoys sharing her passion for fitness with others and pairing it with philanthropic endeavors. Tracy Bryan is a graduate of Hagerstown Junior College with a degree in Paralegal Studies. Ms. Bryan was employed 14 years as a paralegal prior to joining the Montessori Academy of Chambersburg in July 2011. She resides in Hagerstown, Maryland with her husband, Ryan, and daughter, Taylor. Her hobbies include reading, knitting and spending time with her family and several cats and dogs. Amanda Krantz is currently the Executive Assistant in our front office. Miss Krantz obtained her Lead Teacher certificates for Infant/Toddler, Pre-school and school-aged children at Howard Community College. Amanda previously worked for a Montessori and Arts school in Frederick, Maryland for four years as an assistant for Lower Elementary and a Lead Teacher for the Toddler classroom. She also helped as an Administrative Assistant. She lives in Fairfield, PA with her spouse Corey and three children, Twins Easton and Sophia (8) and Raylynn (4). Outside of school Amanda enjoys spending time with her family at their river house and traveling to off-roading parks to ride their ATV's. During the winter months she enjoys going to as many Washington Capitals Hockey games as possible. Kimberly Frohm is a Licensed Practical Nurse with the Chambersburg Area School District. She graduated from the Nursing Program at the Franklin County Career & Technology Center in February of 1998, with an Outstanding Honor Achievement Award in Clinical Practice. Ms. Frohm enjoys spending time with her family. She likes to do scrapbooking and enjoys camping. She lives in Shippensburg with her husband, Tony, and has two sons and four grandchildren. Toddler Community Maria Rodriguez is the Lead Teacher in the Toddler B Community. Her son began attending Montessori Academy of Chambersburg in May of 2016 and she became involved in the parent organization. In early 2018 she began working as a substitute teacher and with the ExCel program. Maria studied biochemistry at Penn State University and is currently involved in the Infant/Toddler Montessori certification program through the Center for Guided Montessori Studies. Outside of school she enjoys crocheting, knitting, scrapbooking, and dance. Carrie Mong is currently the Assistant Teacher in the Toddler B classroom. Mrs. Mong attended Hagerstown Community College where she obtained her Associates of Applied Science. Carrie has a history with our Academy, her son attended our school 10 years ago and her mother is currently a Teacher for Children's House. Carrie is married and has two children, Emma and Titus. She has a love for animals and has two dogs, three cats, three chickens and two horses. Outside of school Carrie likes to spend time with her family at the beach and sporting events. Mrs. Mong also likes to cook and take pictures of her family and friends in her spare time. . Cathy Davidson joined the Montessori family of Chambersburg in 2002. Before she came to the Academy, she worked in childcare for seventeen years in Pennsylvania and South Carolina. She attended school in West Virginia. Currently she resides in the town of Shippensburg with her husband, Tim, and two sons, Russ and Ethan. She has a house rabbit and a very large puppy. Her family is very active in area sports. Kim Walter is currently our Children's House B Teacher as well as the 8th grade Math Teacher. She attended Messiah College where she received her Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and minor in Human Development and Family Science. She also was able to obtain Certificates in PA Elementary k-6/Mid-level Mathematics, 7-9/PA Private School Nursery-Kindergarten. Mrs. Walter started co-teaching 5th-8th grade at Montessori after graduating from college in 2004. Then she spent a year in Greencastle-Antrim School District and 9 years in the banking industry before returning to Montessori in 2017. Kim was interested in a school that would challenge children by developing their strengths, encouraging their weaknesses, while also valuing development of the whole child. Kim resides in Chambersburg with her husband Tyson and two children, Seth and Ethan, who currently attend our school. Outside of school Mrs. Walter enjoys singing, spending time with family, working with children, youth and music departments at church. Kim Kulla has many years experience teaching at the Children's House level. She completed her Montessori Training at Montgomery Montessori Institute in Rockville, MD. Ms. Kulla hopes that her classroom is a prepared environment that will allow each child to enhance their natural love of learning. Ms. Kulla lives in Waynesboro with her husband, two of her four children, and five dogs. She has two granddaughters and two grandsons. Diane Jones was born and raised in Schuylkill County, PA and graduated from Moravian College in Bethlehem with degrees in Psychology and Business. She has 14 years working in both Toddler and Children's House Montessori classrooms. Ms. Jones enjoys preparing the environment and work for the students. She especially likes the art and practical life areas. Ms. Jones and her husband, Bob, have lived in Chambersburg since May, 1989. They have 3 daughters who all attended The Montessori School. Sarah Durden has been teaching for 9 years, but is new to the Montessori method. She holds a Bachelors in Early Childhood Education with a Pennsylvania Instructional I Teaching certification for birth to 3rd grade. She also holds a Masters in Special Education and is currently studying with the Barrie Center of Advanced Montessori Studies. Sarah is a mom of 7 kids and enjoys coaching soccer with her husband Bobby. She is an art instructor and enjoys sharing a passion for art and creativity. Her hobbies are photography, drawing, reading, writing and being outside. Cindy Maritza Rodriguez considers herself both Latina and American since she was born in the United States and was raised to be proud of her Guatemalan heritage. She is bilingual, as she grew up speaking two languages; Spanish as her first language and English as her second language. Cindy obtained her Associate's Degree in Early Childhood Care and Education from Harrisburg Area Community College. In addition to being an Assistant Teacher in Children's House A here at Montessori Academy, she works at the YMCA aftercare program as a counselor. She also works with the Lincoln Intermediate Unit, during their summer program as a teacher's assistant and as a translator in their office. Cindy enjoys working with children of all ages and will continue to educate the future generation with knowledge at Montessori Academy of Chambersburg Pennsylvania. Lower Elementary Stephanie Miller graduated from Shippensburg University with a degree in Elementary Education and Early Childhood. She taught at the preschool level for 3 years in Martinsburg, WV, before joining Montessori Academy. Ms. Miller lives in Shippensburg with her husband, Zachary, and her 2 children, Ryan and Madison. Alison Gilbert is a graduate of Kutztown University with an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education. She taught at Magic Years Kindergarten and Pre-School before moving to South Carolina to teach in the Columbia School District. She joined Montessori Academy of Chambersburg in May 2006. Ms. Gilbert moved from South Carolina to return to her home town of Chambersburg. Kristin Byers is currently an Assistant Teacher in our Lower Elementary classes. Mrs. Byers is a Shippensburg University graduate with her Bachelors of Arts in Geography. She has a passion for cultivating natural learning through exploration. While homeschooling her sons during their Elementary years, she implemented many Montessori type strategies, which started her love of Montessori. Kristin lives on a rural homestead outside of Newburg, PA with her husband Sam and four sons. Outside of school Mrs. Byers is the violinist for Blythe Spirits Harp Trio, a string trio that performs for special events in central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. Alicia Runkle is a graduate of Shippensburg University with her undergraduate degree and teaching certification in Elementary and Early Childhood Education and a minor in Reading. Also, Mrs. Runkle received her Upper Elementary (9-12) Montessori training and certification from the Center for Montessori Teacher Education in New York. She has worked in a daycare center and tutors in reading, writing, and math. In her free time, she enjoys singing, attending Hershey Bear hockey games, and spending time with her husband and family. Mrs. Runkle joined Montessori Academy in March 2012. Amy Stevens graduated from Shippensburg University and Wilson College with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She also received her Education certifications for grades K-6. Mrs. Stevens has interest in providing learning experiences that occur naturally and are child-driven. She is very motivated by the connections with children that allow her to enhance their connection with the world. Amy is a mother of two boys, who are involved with boy scouts as well as soccer, baseball and instrumental band. She feels that being a mother has provided her with experiences that have shaped who she is as a individual and have helped her grow through strengths and weaknesses. Amy enjoys spending time outdoors because nature provides her with a feeling of calm and solace. She also enjoys repurposing neglected or unwanted furniture as well as painting and other creative activities. Stephanie Whitlock graduated from High Point High School in Beltsville, MD. She provided daycare in her home for 10 years. She helped design a cooperative pre-school with her church and participated in it for 6 years. She has spent many hours as a volunteer in her children's classrooms. She resides in Fayetteville with her sons, Sean and Nicholas, and her daughter, Sofia. Ms. Whitlock joined Montessori Academy of Chambersburg in August 2006. Liz Cleary is a graduate from Shippensburg University, with an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education. Ms. Cleary is a member of National Council for History Education and Kappa Delta Pi, an International Honor Society in Education. Since graduating college, she has taught a variety of grade levels in various local school districts. She joined Montessori Academy in November 2006. 875 Ragged Edge Road Chambersburg, PA 17202, Ph: 717-261-1110 - info@montacad.org

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Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season finale, the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, promises to be a classic, with the final round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup featuring four drivers still in the hunt: Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin and Ryan Newman. The highest finisher among those four will take the title. That's drama reminiscent of what is considered by many to be the gold standard for Sprint Cup finales, the 1992 Hooters 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Six drivers came into that one mathematically eligible for the title. Alan Kulwicki came away with the championship via a second-place finish, edging race winner Bill Elliott by merely 10 points in the final standings. The race also had two historic sidebars going on: it was Richard Petty's last race and Jeff Gordon's first in NASCAR's premier series. Race fans were able to purchase a classic collectable: the race program with a "Richard Petty's Last Ride" patch attached. That program is shown here, along with a Victory Lane photo of Kulwicki's post-race celebration. Both images were provided by the ISC Archives and Research Center here in Daytona Beach.

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From lush flora and exotic birds to tranquil seas and soft palm-lined sands, Fiji is a picturesque dream destination like no other. This cool breezy pastel mint blue is sure to be a summer hit! Suzi Without a Paddle is rated 2.0 out of 5 by 1.

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Is it possible to prevent MS Access from changing the selected ribbon tab automatically when using a custom ribbon? When a custom UI XML file is used to add several custom ribbon tabs in Access, the selected ribbon tab changes back to the first custom tab whenever a form is closed. We load a custom ribbon programatically from VBA. I've create an accdb that reproduces the problem. The folder also includes an XML file that contains the ribbon definition. It must be in the same directory as the .accdb file. Notice that Tab1 is now active. Of course, in this small example db this problem seems very minor. However, we have a very large project with many custom tabs, each containing numerous groups and buttons. Our users are finding it very frustrating indeed that they keep losing their place on the ribbon every time they close a form. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Have you found a way to prevent the tab from changing automatically? Edit: It seems that this problem was introduced with a fix implemented in Office 2010 SP1 . (Sorry, no link: don't think I can have more than two.) The problem is not present in the RTM version. The fix list for SP1 includes this: "Access does not activate or return the user to the correct Ribbon tab for a previously opened database object when the user returns to that object." It seems that they've tried to fix use of the Form.RibbonName property (which supports contextual ribbons), but have broken the default ribbon in the process. Something I stumbled across that's been working for me is to hide the first tab in the XML using the visible tag. I haven't tested it much, but I have a copy of the standard Home tab that is hidden (no idea if it needs to be a populated tab or not). It appears to me that since Access can't actually activate the hidden tab when you close a form, it remains on the currently selected one. I don't know if this was fixed in Access 2013 or not, but hopefully the info isn't too late to be of use to someone. Just make it your first tab in <tabs>. Big thanks to Scott's Potential Workaround answer!! (Tried to Vote it up and/or comment, but just signed up so not enough reputation.) This saved hours (or days) of work versus the other complicated workaround! Thanks! MS support has accepted a bug submission for this, and commented regarding Office 2010 SP1, "The change that was implemented allows us to track the active tab for each database object (forms, reports, etc) using the tab's TCID so that as you move between objects the active tab is restored. However custom tabs all use the same TCID value, so with this change the active tab for custom tabs will always move to the first custom tab." We hope that they will release a hotfix to resolve this in the future. The following information has proved useful for us in creating a workaround. See the answer from Johanness above regarding the IRibbonUI.ActivateTab method. This was introduced in Office 2010. activate the tab using IRibbonUI.ActivateTab. This article shows an interesting use of IRibbonUI.Invalidate and the getVisible callback to select a particular tab. ' Used By Send Keys to Select Correct Ribbon Tab. Create a form in ms Access called "zFrmRibbonSelect" and put an unbound text box called txtTabValue and then put the following code in your new form. (Suggest set form mode to hidden. Set form timer interval to 500 and check on event for timer shows in property box etc. Actually one approach that works well is to reduce or eliminate the tabs in the forms you open. If you specify the ribbon (other tab in properties sheet), then when you switch between forms the ribbon displayed switches for you automatic and without code. Now while this is not really a solution to your problem, the idea and concept here is that if you have to start writing a bunch of code to engage and switch to what tab then this really becomes difficult as you point out. As noted for Access/office 2010 you can use code to set the active tab (this feature is not available in Access/office 2007). So all of the above options are different things but are group in one ribbon to allow you to get one job done. So the idea here is to group ribbon options not by type of option such as all reports, but group + create a ribbon based on doing ONE task that includes the options that the user requires for given task at the given time. As noted, the above may not be a solution to your issue(s), but avoiding additional tabs often will solve a lot of these issues. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged ms-access access-vba ribbon office-2010 or ask your own question. How to mimic tab onAction attribute? Fluent UI (Ribbon): Is it possible to target multiple tabs?

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I also love sewing projects where you get to make design decisions throughout the process - when you have an idea in mind, but you have to wait to manipuate the actual fabric to decide which effect works best. Something you can't always see in a toile. In this case, I didn't know if the bows would end up poofy or square, or layered or ribbons (one of each, please!)... in the end I decided on these narrow flat strips cut on the bias, with a short tail peeking out the back. I also omitted a tie, so they are more like figure-eight folds. I did toile up the basic construction, to make sure it would stay up. Using a block, I measured the outer circumference of my back and shoulders from the front of my left arm scythe, or arm hole, to the front of the right. Then i cut out a strip from the centre back of the pattern, about 15cm or so in length, and inserted a piece of elastic which was slightly smaller, so that it would help hold the top up and expand with my arm movement. Also worth mentioning that to let the front exterior shell hang freely and maintain a clean edge, I added interfacing only to the inside of the top band (the side that's hidden). Just one last thing to figure out - how to get my winter coat over these arm bows... Ah, forget practicality, I have bows! Too cute! Such a nice top, good job! Eek! How cute! Love this! Followed you over from burdstyle *follows* yay!! this is so lovely and elegant! I would love a little shift dress like this! Did you put any darts for the bust at all? Gorgeous job, looks so well made! Thanks so much! It was originally going to be a dress but I decided it out as a top first to see how well it held up (I worried the dress would be too heavy with this fabric). I moved the bust darts to the hem but maybe a little more shaping would be a good thing? Looking forward to seeing your version if you decide to do it! THanks again. This is adorable! It looks like there is some kind of magic holding in up. Love it. Thanks! Ha.. I swear there's no double-sided tape..! This is truly magnificent. I LOVE how sleek and minimalist it is. It's almost startling in its simplicity and it really frames your lovely face so well... I may totally try something similar after seeing this beauty! Thank you Heather Lou! Would love to see your version! I absolutely love that top. It's simple yet elegant with the off-shoulder bows. You look amazing with that top, it really frames you face beautifully. I am definitely keeping this idea stored in my mind for later, thank you for so much inspiration. Hi Pauline thanks again and yes please do! Love your coat and looking forward to seeing more creations! This is such a pretty top. i made two of off shoulder tops recently and thinking how i can make this top using my pattern.if you don't mind.. I love your original pieces very much. amazing. what fabric did you use? it looks kind of shiny. Thank you! Yes please do, would love to see what you do with it, and how your elisalex turns out too! Just added you to my blog roll, looking forward to following!

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The continual education of moi. This week I have learnt a lot of things. I have learnt (from Erin!) that the more water you drink the more your stuffed up nose will run…… down the back of your throat causing spazzaming choking coughing attacks at 3am. Causing you to vomit in the hallway. I have learnt that said spazzaming choking coughing attacks at 3am do not wake my snoring husband. Even when I purposely do it 2 inches away from his ear. I have learnt that said SCCA@3am causing vomit covered hallways need to be cleaned up by said vomiter. BUT only if your names starts with K and you are the mother. I have learnt that KFC takes longer than 8 hours to digest. Ew! I have learnt that toilet paper really is better for blowing your nose. No peeling nose for me! Thankyou near poverty for being able to afford toilet paper or tissues. Not both. I have learnt I am easily pleased. Ecstatic actually. When DH brought home the new coffee maker yesterday by whole body shuddered with pleasure. I have learnt that I am a much nicer person with coffee. LOTS of coffee. I have learnt that if you stuff the Eye Toy camera in your mouth you can actually see your tonsils on the screen! Source: Watching Boo through the family room window. I have learnt that I hate the Teletubbies. Well I have always hated the Teletubbies, but I especially hate them when 1. they are lined up on my kitchen bench while I am trying to cook, mocking me and 2. when they join their partner in crime, Boo, in scaring the bejesus out of me in the middle of the night, sneaking up on me to yell 'Kill Kill Kill' while I am in a SCCA. I have learnt that I NEED coffee. Really. Oh sweet nectar of the Gods…. I have learnt that I have some wonderful caring friends both in real life and on the internet. Thankyou. You are my life line. I have learnt that the very idea of DH going back to work gets me rather, ahem, um, excited. He starts MONDAY!!!!!! I have learnt that my workmate A is truly mad. Certifiable. And that is why I love her. She is currently putting in a tender to get a used Army tank. For her front yard. And she has a dead cat in her freezer. Apparently for DNA evidence if the police ever take her complaint seriously. Yes, mad as a cut snake, but wonderful. She took pity on me yesterday and went out and bought me a coffee. I have learnt that my kids are wonderful. I have always known that, but I need to put something in here about 'em! I have learnt that waking up in the morning and finding comments on my blog makes my day that little bit brighter, even if I have to go to work. And I have learned that I LOVE reading your blog! And thats why life is journey! Cos you are still learning along the way. Glad you have coffee on tap again (so to speak). Sorry K, you were not meant to choke on it. Yes toilet paper is a godsend, but not when DBF decides to buy a maxi bundle (24 rolls in one packet) of cheap scented stuff cause he "thought" he was saving me money. I cant stand the scented stuff on a good day, on a day with sneezing and coughing, well, lets just say if you want to make me sneeze more, then buy me scented toilet paper! Bettina I agree on your idea of hell, my kids have learnt to recognise packets of "mummy nappies" when i get sick and need someone else to go into the shop incase i sneeze or cough in there (i do keep spares but three to six straight weeks of coughing and sneezing is not good on anyones bladder). Thank god my kids work together well as a shopping team, DS knows the location of EVERY item in the store (he hates shopping yet he can memorise all the shelves??) and DD can identify any product we regularly buy and will handle money through the checkout with DS in tow (he wont buy mummy nappies himself, he has worked out thats embarrassing, DD has no such qualms but needs DS to help her). Oh and thankgod our coles is small enough i can park within 10 metres of the door and the security guard is on a first name basis with both my kids because they always say hello to him and have a chat when he isnt busy. K – Glad to hear you have a coffee machine again. I only wish I had the income to buy nice coffee more often. Unfortunately its a case of suffer the largest tins of the cheapest possible instant because of the amount of it I drink. Coffee at uni is made with the "good stuff" but at $3.50 a cup is a rare treat these days. We are planning a trip down your way, within the next 12 months (when we can save enough money for it) to go see two old garden houses and try and find where my great grandfather was head estate botanist/gardener somwhere in the late 1800/early 1900's. DBF has to go see these places, his green side insists on it, which is great cause he wont kick up a stink about spending money on travelling or accomodation.Maybe we can meet you and have "nice" coffee somewhere. Wendy will just have to meet us all down there too and am sure the other E! would like to go see the garden houses that DBF is going too, two of them can be found on the Diggers weblink she has on her blog. Bettina you want to come too? Hmm who else can we rope into having Coffee with K? Here's where I admit that I am a Folger's girl (French Vanilla). I know. It's not fancy and most people think it tastes like dirt rolled in crap, but I love it. Wheeeeeeee boy! What a week. Just left you an award, over at my place. Congrats! Wendy: Thanks! That really makes my day! Bettina: I am soooo glad that I don't have bladder weakness to add to the mix, OMG how I would be whinging then! Getting better, DH went out and bought me some mega drugs so hopefully I will sleep tonight. Erin!: Goddamn woman you can type! Yeah, DH bought the scented stuff recently and I was using it for a couple of hours. Now the smell makes me want to chuck. Using different, unscented stuff now! Would love to have a cuppa with ya babe! Contrary: Well I had to go and google Folgers LMAO, enjoy your dirt-rolled-in-crap girl. Have one for me 🙂 I take my coffee without sugar and that turns a lot of peoples stomachs anyway. Thanks for the feeling-better wishes. Jodi: I have been thinking of doing a 'shoe of the day' in my sidebar….. WhyMommy: I am so touched by your gesture. It is my first blog bling and even more special cause it came from you! Thankyou! Now I just have to find out what I have to do, LOL!!! Still loving your blog! And am almost killing myself laughing about your SCCA. Can I come for coffee too????? Or you could all meet here – it is kinda half way & I have a coffee machine in my kitchen – just need someone that can use the darn thing better than me. oh my LOLOL Erin @ mummy nappies and your kids being on first name basis with the coles security guard!! Shoe of the day sounds like a great idea!! Me, me. Can I come for coffee too. I am a bona fide coffee addict. And happy to travel wherever, just need some advance warning on when to travel. Does Erin! really type all that without the aid of caffeine??? Serious????

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A Estação Consolação é uma das estações da Linha 2–Verde do Metrô de São Paulo. Foi inaugurada em 25 de janeiro de 1991, data da comemoração do aniversário da cidade de São Paulo. Está localizada na Avenida Paulista, na altura do número . Desde 25 de maio de 2010 passou a fazer integração com a Estação Paulista da Linha 4–Amarela, apenas para quem deixava o sistema operado pelo Metrô, já que a outra estação ainda não tinha cobrança de tarifas e isso permitiria que passageiros acessassem a rede sem pagar. A integração à estação a partir da Linha 4 teve seu início em 21 de junho de 2010 quando as viagens da Linha Amarela passaram a ser tarifadas. Apesar de ter sido batizada como Estação Consolação, ela está localizada na Avenida Paulista enquanto a Estação Paulista está localizada na Rua da Consolação. A Estação Consolação foi inaugurada quase vinte anos antes, em 1991, e optou-se por não mudar o nome das estações para não causar confusão. História Primeiro projeto (1968) O projeto embrionário da Linha Sudoeste–Sudeste (Anchieta/Vila Bertioga–Jóquei Clube) foi apresentado em 1968 pelo consórcio HMD. Entre as estações previstas naquele projeto, havia uma localizada no cruzamento entre as ruas Fernando de Albuquerque e Consolação, batizada como "Consolação". O projeto da Linha Sudoeste–Sudeste foi estudado até 1973, quando foi arquivado após a demissão do prefeito José Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz, que tentara iniciar as obras da Linha Paulista, enfrentando oposição dos proprietários e comerciantes da Avenida Paulista que eram contrários ao projeto e fizeram campanha pela sua demissão ao governo federal. Segundo projeto (1980) O segundo projeto para a Estação Consolação foi elaborado dentro do estudo "Terceira Linha do Metrô", realizado pela Empresa Metropolitana de Transportes Urbanos. Apresentado em 1980, o projeto da estação foi inicialmente elaborado pelo arquiteto Renato Viégas, em colaboração com a empresa Promon Engenharia. A estação elaborada por Viégas previa a construção da Estação Consolação sob a Avenida Paulista, entre as ruas Augusta e Bela Cintra, com as salas técnicas da estação construídas no subsolo de um novo prédio de três andares no cruzamento entre a Avenida Paulista e a Rua da Consolação, que também serviria para integrar as linhas Paulista e Sudoeste–Sudeste. O prédio também abrigaria um pequeno centro comercial composto por restaurante, bar e teatro/cinema. Viégas deixou o projeto em meados da década de 1980. O projeto da futura Estação Consolação acabou ligeiramente modificado pelo arquiteto João Batista Martinez Correa em 1985, principalmente com o cancelamento do prédio de integração e o redesenho do mezanino proposto com apenas duas escadas de acesso (ao contrário das quatro projetadas por Viégas). O projeto de integração com a Linha Sudoeste–Sudeste acabou congelado até 1995, com a estação Consolação sendo projetada apenas para atender a Linha Paulista. Obras A gestão Quércia pretendia iniciar as obras até o fim de 1987, embora não tivesse obtido recursos nem elaborado licitações para o projeto. As obras da Estação Consolação foram iniciadas sem licitação em 30 de novembro de 1987, pela construtora Camargo Corrêa, e faziam parte do lote 3 do projeto da Linha Paulista: Em janeiro de 1990, as obras da estação estavam 40% concluídas, enquanto o governo do estado formalizava a contratação das empresas construtoras da Linha Paulista por meio de licitação. A Estação Consolação acabou inaugurada precariamente, junto com a Linha Paulista, em 14 de setembro de 1990. Após uma vistoria da prefeitura de São Paulo, em 23 de setembro, foram descobertas irregularidades, e a linha foi declarada interditada por ser até aquele momento insegura para o uso da população (incluindo um acidente com dois operários eletrocutados durante as obras). Em 25 de janeiro de 1991, a estação foi aberta junto com a Linha Paulista, apesar de ter obras em andamento. Inicialmente, a estação funcionava das 10 às 15 horas. Os acessos da estação não tinham escadas rolantes e cobertura definitiva (implantadas ao longo da década de 1990). Características Estação subterrânea com área construída de metros quadrados, composta por mezanino de distribuição e plataforma central. Possui acesso para pessoas portadoras de deficiência. A capacidade é de até vinte mil passageiros por dia. Obras de arte Quatro Estações, Tomie Ohtake, Painel (1991), Mosaico, tésseras de vidro (4 painéis de 2,00 x 15,40 m). Instalada na plataforma da estação (sentido Vila Prudente). Tabelas {| ! align="center" | Linha ! align="center" | Terminais ! align="center" | Estações ! align="center" | Principais destinos ! align="center" | Duração das viagens (min) ! align="center" | Intervalo entre trens (min) ! align="center" | Funcionamento |- |bgcolor="green" align="center" style="color:white"|2Verde |align="center"|Vila Madalena ↔ Vila Prudente |align="center"|14 |align="center"|Alto de Pinheiros, Pompéia, Perdizes, Vila Madalena, Clínicas, Bela Vista, Jardins, Paraíso, Vila Mariana, Cursino, Ipiranga, Vila Prudente |align="center"|28 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|Diariamente, das 4h40 à 0h24; aos sábados, até a 1 hora de domingo |- Estações do Metrô de São Paulo Avenida Paulista Fundações em São Paulo em 1991

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TRENTON, N.J. — Dozens of lawsuits filed against Benicar manufacturer, Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd., in New Jersey have now been consolidated in the Atlantic County court following an order this summer. The New Jersey Supreme Court's order will apply to the Benicar lawsuits that are currently pending in New Jersey as well as future lawsuits that regard the same issue. The order also extends to other lawsuits that were brought against manufacturers of other blood pressure drugs that are similar to Benicar and that contain olmesartan medoxomil. Benicar was first approved for use in treating hypertension (or high blood pressure) by the United States Food and Drug Administration back in 2002. However, the FDA issued an update in 2013 warning of the serious health complications that have been linked to it, specifically sprue-like enteropathy. Sprue-like enteropathy can cause gastrointestinal complications resulting in malnutrition, weight loss and chronic diarrhea. These gastrointestinal complications can continue permanently – even after the patient has stopped taking the medication. Benicar has also been linked to kidney failure. The FDA followed up this warning in 2014 with a requirement that Benicar containers include a warning label disclosing these risks. As a result of these serious complications being linked to Benicar, several patients have filed lawsuits against the drug's manufacturer, Daiichi Sankyo, and against the drug's promoter, Forest Laboratories. These lawsuits allege that the plaintiffs suffered from one or more of these side effects and that these side effects were the result of taking Benicar. The lawsuits also allege that the defendants knew or should have known about these serious health risks but that they still aggressively promoted their drug despite this knowledge. How Does This Consolidation Affect You? When similar cases, particularly ones dealing with the same medication and the same manufacturer are consolidated, it often makes the process more efficient for the plaintiffs, the defendant or defendants and the court ruling on the lawsuits. Discovery can often be consolidated, saving time and money for all parties, and consolidating similar lawsuits can also prevent two different courts from issuing conflicting rulings. One downside of this consolidation, however, is that many of the plaintiffs live in different states throughout the U.S., but Daiichi Sankyo has its U.S. headquarters in New Jersey, meaning that the litigation may be more efficient for them than for the patients who are scattered across the nation.

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It's time once again to be putting plans in place for the upcoming Spring ( yes, Spring is round the corner ! ) but I just want to say a heartfelt thank you to all the Companies, Associations and individuals that have supported in the previous year. It's all of you that make Mayfield successful and allows us to continue to develop as a respected mental health and as a busy plant nursery. A very happy New Year to you all.

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Not all content available to us on the Internet are extra. As you may know, there are many free tools and applications that constitute the very essence of the philosophy of sharing knowledge. The tablet of Apple , the iPhone is an interesting support for this type of content. The other day we talked about various sources that allow us to download comic books, both free and paid, to read from our iPad, and why not, from any other tablet that works with other operating systems like Android or Windows Phone . Today we offer another interesting set of resources for book lovers. If you leave on vacation and want to enjoy a good selection of books for the whole family can read, you can visit all the libraries that we offer. And download free books for everyone! That yours is the Spanish literature, since you have to connect to the Cervantes Virtual Library , a space which provides the good and the best of literature written within the Hispanic field. Do not you going to finish all summer, so we have a great proposal if you want to review some classics as Cervantes, Calderon, Lope, Larra, Zorrilla, Perez Galdos, Pardo Bazan, Lorca and Alberti, to name a few. Here you will not have to download any PDF, since the texts are available through the navigation between pages. In fact, Cervantes Virtual ask you to sign in to the page for each author to take a look at his biography and enlighten step in this area too. If you decide to download the classic Hispanic Americans, will have the option of looking into the letters of Indian Jesuit Bartolome de las Casas, delight in the poetry of Oliver Girondo or enjoy the ironic history of Alfredo Bryce Echenique. You have a whole world at your fingertips, without downloads or prepayment. 2) Cervantes Library of Children's Literature. It is that despite the holiday, children do not lose the taste for reading and enjoy the summer thinking that there are thousands of stories that are waiting in the books. In the same Library Cervantes, there is a major subdivision, of Children's Literature. If your children have the iPhone by hand, can access this page and you can suggest some interesting reading. Is Gloria Fuertes, Ema Wolf and Jordi Sierra y Fabra, among many other classics. 3) Touch of Classic Children. The illustration is as important as the text. Taking advantage of the interactivity offered by resources such as iPad, an application has been born as Touch of Classic. From this space, you can download an application that will take you to a shelf with interactive literary classics, which fail to capture the attention of the child through activities and interaction touches. This is a new way of reading using the iPad. We are not talking or the story or the book of Borges. Today we have to refer to a page swilling , where you can download any book in various formats, to open on the iPad. Best of all, by navigation, you can find almost any book of world literature translated into Spanish. Apart from fiction, poetry or theater, you'll also find practical books on health, medicine, sport, language, biography, business, television, et cetera. If you want you can download the volume you want via the iPhone itself and can enjoy any time and place of your favorite books. 5) iTunes, a universe full of possibilities. Finally, if you have an iPhone know that Apple offers (from iTunes, of course) a book selling service where you can find thousands of hits. You can browse all the sections and enjoy the content in English: this is without doubt a good way to review our level of English. In this case, the books are extra, but you can find interesting news to the price of three, four, ten euros or even free.

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This Phlox widget?provides you to display your Instagram content directly on your website. Your?latest Instagram photos can appear on any widget area, or even between the content of the posts and pages. Also, some options are available. Such as configuring the number of photos and columns. Recommended: We recommend to add this widget to Subfooter Bar Widget Area. Important: This widget is only for public Instagram accounts. In this section, you are able to add a title to your widget. This field is for your Instagram ID. To get your ID,?you can go to WordPress admin panel > Dashboard > Instagram Feed?or visit here. Enter the number of photos you want to display on your website, up to 33 photos. Auto, Thumb, Medium, and Full are three considered sizes for photos. Our recommendation is medium-sized. Here you can set the number of columns 1 to 10. In this field, you are able to add space between photos. The unit of the spacing can be pixels or percentage. The height of Instagram feed is changeable. It can be either in pixels or in percentage. Here choose a solid or transparent?color for the widget background. By enabling this option, you can add a header to Instagram feed. Switch on this option to display a follow button on the feed. By switching on this option, a load more button will be added to Instagram feed. This field allows you to?customize particular content element. Just write the style on your CSS file and define a class name for it, then add the class name here.

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One of the most important Australian printmakers of the inter-war period, Jessie Traill produced a number of distinctive etchings which paired lyrical subjects from nature with dynamic industrial imagery. She infused many of her scenes with a sense of the progress of modernity, culminating in her celebrated Building the Harbour Bridge series of 1927-31. Born in Melbourne to a wealthy family with an interest in the arts, the young Jessie Traill befriended artist Tom Roberts, who encouraged her to become an artist. Through extensive travel in France, England and Australia, she developed a cosmopolitan outlook that would continuously inform her career. After the death of her parents, she commenced art studies at the National Gallery School from 1901 to 1906 and was taught by the Australian impressionists Frederick McCubbin and John Mather. Mather was one of the first artists to practice etching in Australia; his plein air prints of the countryside around Melbourne would later provide inspiration for Traill's own work. In 1906 Traill left for Europe where she studied at the Academie Colarossi and La Grande Chaumière in Paris and was inspired by the art nouveau movement. This was particularly evident in her sensuous depiction of trees, such as in the decorative frieze of trunks and branches that define the composition in Ti-Tree Frieze 1910. From Paris, Traill travelled to London in 1907 where she studied with Frank Brangwyn, who exerted a powerful influence on her work. He encouraged her to use larger plates, more forceful lines and the dramatic effects of chiaroscuro as reflected in her early Charing Cross Bridge 1908. This etching also reveals Traill's growing interest in industrial subjects of bridges and ships influenced by Brangwyn's images of construction sites. Traill exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Old Salon in 1908 and upon her return to Australia in 1909 held her first solo exhibition in Melbourne. During World War One Traill was a member of the British Voluntary Aid Detachment active in France. After the war she joined the newly-formed Australian Painter-Etchers Society and regularly took part in their exhibitions entering into a productive phase of work in the 1920s. Her prints produced during this period were dominated by two major subjects: the bush, particularly nocturnes, and industrial subjects such as factories and buildings under scaffolding. In 1922 Traill visited Red Cliffs, in northwest Victoria, where she made a number of etchings, including End of the day, Red Cliffs 1923, which were exhibited at Broken Hill. Returning to England via New Zealand and the United States in 1925, she submitted several etchings to the annual exhibition of the Society of Graphic Arts and was elected a member of the society. Back in Australia Traill visited Central Australia in 1928 and was the first white artist to paint the region and mount an exhibition at Alice Springs, where she pinned her watercolours to blankets at the police station. With a strong emphasis on line used to articulate the scale and depth of the construction, the early etchings in the series, exemplified in Building the Harbour Bridge I, beginnings 1927 and Building the Harbour Bridge IV: the ants' progress, November 1929 1929, depict tiny ant-like figures dwarfed by pylons and scaffolding. In the later works, which focus on the physical tension inherent in the reach and span of the bridge's arch, Traill uses a Whistlerian sense of design and tone to great effect to define mass, space and mood. As interest in the medium declined, Traill stopped producing etchings in the 1930s and spent her later years at her cottage near Berwick, Victoria, as well as in England and France. Her prints were the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in 2013.

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We've gone all the way and recorded most of the commonly used Middle Eastern melodic styles (maqams). It is available in all parallel western contemporary root keys. These can easily be triggered and displayed in the Kontakt user's interface. For easy and quick scoring Desert Voice provides patches with Arabian styled melodies which are harmonically mirrored to western minor scales. Performed by mr. Hammam Al Sayid who's schooled in the classical Arabian art music. With full dedication to this project he put out the best musical performance we've experienced yet. From the deepest low to the highest intense emotion Hammam took us by surprise and open our ears and imagination to the mystic and fantastic world within the Arabian music. Base samples: 1 male voice. Deser Voice / Iraqi / Egypgian Arabian styled sound. BPM switch for different speeds of chanting. 7 recorded vocal styles. The most commonly used melodic styles: Hicaz, Acem, Kurdi, Nihavent, Rast, Saba and Lami. These are applied to songs and chants. – Male folder: Chants & Songs in all keys, voice effects; whispered and spoken texts (ancient Arabian poems). Chants are wordless melody lines, Songs contain words. Western Minor Improvisations: with these special patches we've tried to blend the Arabian melody to the western harmonics. For quick scoring and creative artistic features to your music. Not all keys are available due to the vocal pitch limitation. Song and chant patches programmed key switches linked to the harmony root. With corresponding interface views. Root harmony and scales are presented for each key zone. As for the text and poems correspond to the title of the spoken text. 1 "Morphious� sound artist patches. A handpicked set of the best vocal performances from Desert Voice , morphed, edited , analog and digitally remixed and remasterd by two professional sound designers. "Ezan�, another very exclusive one of kind original Middle Eastern recording. The "Call for prayer� is like the church bell for the Christians. Very recognizable and beautifully and artistically performed. Time stretching patches. (TS); all male chants and songs patches are available with mod wheel function to slow down and speed up the phrases and melody lines. 5 impulse responses: 24 bit wave format. Red Desert Cave, Sahara Cave, Large Istanbul Dome Mosque, smaller dome mosque and Turkish empirical hall. Interface installers for Mac, PC and manual instructions. Historical and Musical Origins , manual (pdf). A musical theory about Middle eastern music specified to the maqam style used in "Desert Voice�. Arabic – Turkish – English translations for all sung and spoken texts within "Desert Voice�. These texts have never been translated. This is a genuine first. And we're proud to present them as an extra feature. All links interchangeable. If you like my post, dont forget to say thanks.

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6 boneless pork chops – cut from a boneless pork loin about one inch thick. Make a pocket in the pork chop. Do not make the pocket on the side with the outer fat. For the stuffing, combine all of the ingredients in a food processor and give a few good chops. Do not over process the stuffing. Stuff the pork chop before coating. Combine the cornmeal and flour along with the dashes of seasonings. Dip the stuffed pork chops in the flour-cornmeal mixture first, then in the milk and back in the flour-cornmeal mixture. Heat a large frying pan with about a ½ inch of vegetable oil. Carefully, place the pork chops in the hot oil and let the coating get a beautiful golden color on each side. This takes about 3-4 minutes per side. Remove the pork chops and place in a baking dish. Bake the pork chops for about another 15- 20 minutes. This is a nice dinner for a special occasion and of course that may be any occasion you like.

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Happy New Year to all our listeners! Another year ends and in preparation for 2019, Jules and Madeleine are looking back on what they loved and hated, as well as found totally nuts, over the last year. From Marvels Cinematic universe to Broadway plays, from soap shaped like genitalia to political farce, the dragons have got it covered. Naturally plenty of books make the list too! Plus as the pair look back on what they have accomplished in 2018, they also provide tantalising hints of their project line-ups for the next year. Join them for an hour of light-hearted reflection.

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Butlogłów północny, wal butelkonosy północny, wal butelkonosy, dogling (Hyperoodon ampullatus) – gatunek ssaka morskiego z rodziny zyfiowatych (Ziphiidae). Taksonomia Gatunek po raz pierwszy zgodnie z zasadami nazewnictwa binominalnego opisał w 1770 roku niemiecki przyrodnik Johann Reinhold Forster nadając mu nazwę Balæna ampullata. Holotyp pochodził z Maldon, w hrabstwie Essex, w Wielkiej Brytanii. Opis oparty na butlogłowach północnych widzianych na morzu przez Pehra Kalma i zasadniczo na podstawie opisu wieloryba przez Thomasa Pennanta który został znaleziony na mieliźnie w 1717 roku. Autorzy Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World uznają ten gatunek za monotypowy. Etymologia Hyperoodon: yperōa "podniebienie"; οδους odous, οδοντος odontos "ząb". ampullatus: nowołac. ampullatus "butlowy", od łac. ampulla "butla, dzban, słoik"; przyrostek -atus "wyposażony, odnoszący się do". Zasięg występowania Butlogłów północny występuje w chłodniejszych wodach północnego Oceanu Atlantyckiego aż na północ do Cieśniny Davisa, Jan Mayen i Spitsbergenu oraz na południe aż do północno-wschodnich Stanów Zjednoczonych, Azorów i Wysp Kanaryjskich; we wschodnim Oceanie Atlantyckim występuje stosunkowo rzadko na południe od Zatoki Biskajskiej. Rozmieszczenie stosunkowo ciągłe na niektórych obszarach, np. we wschodniej części Oceanu Atlantyckiego, ale bardziej rozdrobnione na innych, np. we wschodniej Kanadzie. Morfologia Długość ciała 600–1000 cm; masa ciała 7500–10000 kg. Butlogłów północny to jedyny gatunek z rodziny zyfiowatych, w przypadku którego istnieją dowody na to, że dorosłe samce są konsekwentnie większe niż dorosłe samice. Noworodki osiągają długość ciała około 300–350 cm. Bardzo charakterystyczne dla tego gatunku jest silnie wypukłe czoło, zwłaszcza starych samców. Czoło jest wyraźnie oddzielone od dziobowatego pyska. Otwór nosowy znajduje się na wierzchołku głowy, nad oczyma. Na wierzchołku żuchwy znajdują się 2 małe, zaokrąglone zęby, dobrze widoczne szczególnie u starych samców. Młode samce mają często 2 pary takich zębów. Płetwy piersiowe nie sięgają połowy długości ciała. Dlatego wydają się małe, a w czasie poruszania się odgrywają tylko pomocniczą rolę. Ubarwienie grzbietu i boków ciała jest ciemnoszare do czarnego, z wiekiem rozjaśniające się. U starszych samic może wystąpić marmurkowy deseń. Młode osobniki mają szczególnie jasny spód ciała, wyraźnie odcinający się od ciemniejszych boków i grzbietu. Ekologia Środowisko Strefa wód głębokich w pobliżu wybrzeży. Tryb życia Tworzy niewielkie stada, złożone z samic z młodymi i z młodych osobników, ale niekiedy łączy się w gromady liczące ponad 1000 zwierząt. Stare samce wędrują samotnie. Butlogłów północny pływa wolno, a po wynurzeniu się pozostaje dłuższy czas na powierzchni. W poszukiwaniu głowonogów nurkuje bardzo głęboko – poniżej 500 m. Wdech trwa około minuty i jest dobrze słyszany dookoła. Potem butlogłów nurkuje. Może przebywać pod wodą do godziny. Pokarm Butlogłów północny jest wąskim specjalistą pokarmowym, żywiącym się głównie głębokowodnymi głowonogami. Bardzo przypomina pod tym względem kaszalota. Rozród Butlogłowy północne osiągają dojrzałość płciową przy długości ciała około 600 cm u samic i około 730 cm u samców w wieku 7–8 lat. Ciąża trwa około 12 miesięcy, po czym rodzi się jedno młode. Status zagrożenia W Czerwonej księdze gatunków zagrożonych Międzynarodowej Unii Ochrony Przyrody i Jej Zasobów został zaliczony do kategorii NT ( "bliski zagrożenia"). Uwagi Przypisy Bibliografia Zyfiowate Gatunki i podgatunki zwierząt nazwane w 1770 roku

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Q: Best way to run task on Windows from web server on Linux I have a task written in Python with a 1-2 minute run-time that I want to run on-demand. The requests would come In very small volumes from a Django server on Linux. The return would be a file. Usually, I'd use a queue system like Celery. But, this task can only be run on Windows. What is the best way to make this happen? Remotely execute the task by establishing an SSH session? Still use Celery, go through a lot of workarounds to get it to work on Windows (seems messy)? A: I could think of 5 solutions which do not require ssh I didn't talk about authentication in my solutions you should implement something based on chosen solution Solution 1: * *write a simple flask/django app for windows server which runs the task and returns response *in your linux server send a request to windows and get data *linux server can make this call using celery so you wouldn't bother about 2/3 minute wait Solution 2: * *write a simple flask/django app for windows server which calls a celery task in back ground * *this app should return the url of result file *celery task creates a file which contains the result *serve this file with nginx (or a windows based static file server, I don't know windows) *send a request from linux server to windows to get result (if file doesn't exists it means result is not ready yet) Solution 3: * *write a simple flask/django app for windows server which calls a celery task in back ground * *this app returns a random id for given request *from your linux server send requests to windows app with task id *when task is finished windows app returns result Solution 4: * *write a simple flask/django app for windows server which calls a celery task in back ground *add an endpoint to your linux django app for uploading data *when windows app finishes processing it uploads data to linux django app Solution 5: * *solution 4 but your linux django app is not for uploading data. it only sets a boolean which mean task is done *if task is done linux server send a request to winsows server to get data (this request contains the task id)

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Sidelined by injury for much of the 2017 season, Lendore has been battling to regain his best form. Back in March, he gave a glimpse of his undoubted pedigree with IAAF World Indoor Championship men's 400 metres bronze for Trinidad and Tobago. And on Saturday, in his first outdoor 400 this year, the 25-year-old quarter-miler clocked a fast 44.81 seconds for gold at the Star Athletics Sprint Series meet in Florida, USA. Lendore outclassed his rivals in the Star Series one-lap race, Bahamian Alonzo Russell finishing a distant second in 45.28 seconds. The 44.81 run was Lendore's first sub-45 clocking in more than three years and the sixth of his career. His personal best is 44.36. Lendore also has a 44.41 to his name, with Saturday's 44.81 at third spot on his all-time career best list.

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Ravens notes: Slumping team looking forward to well-timed bye week By Edward Lee | The Baltimore Sun | Nov 05, 2018 | 6:05 PM The Ravens limp into their bye week with a 4-5 record that includes a three-game losing skid and find themselves trailing the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals in the race for the AFC North title. While the position is not ideal, the bye could not have come at a better time for a weary group of players and coaches, coach John Harbaugh said. "It's a long season obviously. It's been a tough stretch," he said during his weekly media availability Monday afternoon. "We've played three really good football teams the last three games. We haven't won them. Two of the three have been really tight good football games and we didn't do enough to win one, two or any of those games. That's the difficult part. The plus part is they're good football teams, and we've been going hard, our players have been playing hard." Harbaugh laid out the schedule for the week, saying players will attend meetings and work out at the team's training facility in Owings Mills on Tuesday before being given off the rest of the week. The coaches will remain at team headquarters to begin planning for the next game, against the Bengals on Nov. 18 at M&T Bank Stadium. Harbaugh said he has already watched film of Sunday's 23-16 loss to the Steelers and came away with specific points and areas to address with the members of his coaching staff and the players. "If you watch the tape, we played fast, we played hard," he said. "But are we as fast as were early in the year? Probably not, probably a step off just because it's Week 9. So this week is going to help us. It's going to help us pick up that step back, and I'm really kind of excited about that." [More from sports] Does this bobblehead actually look like Orioles great Brooks Robinson? » Barring a last-second development, the players will return from the bye with Harbaugh in his familiar position as head coach. After answering questions Sunday about his future with the team, he said Monday that he was not offended by the questions about his job security. "I understand that's part of it and probably not surprised because you have to win games in this league," he said. "That's the bottom line. I'm not really surprised or insulted, no." Five Things We Learned from the Ravens' 23-16 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers By Childs Walker Nothing 'serious' for T. Young Slot cornerback Tavon Young suffered a right ankle injury in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game but did not appear to be walking with much of a limp inside the locker room underneath M&T Bank Stadium. Harbaugh confirmed that Young's ailment was minor. "I don't think it's a serious ankle. In fact, I know it wasn't," he said. "But the rest is going to help Tavon. He's been putting some reps up, and this week is going to be big for Tavon." Harbaugh said outside linebacker Terrell Suggs' absence on a few third-down plays late in the game was not injury-related. He said the bye week should help players such as left tackle Ronnie Stanley (left ankle), right tackle James Hurst (back), outside linebacker Tim Williams (right ankle) and maybe even a player on injured reserve like cornerback Maurice Canady (hamstring). [More from sports] Ravens 2019 training camp preview: Running back and fullback » "I think all of our injuries are along those lines, and then we'll be looking at a few guys coming back potentially," he said. "Maurice Canady maybe. Guys like that. So, yeah, the timing is pretty good right now that way." 'Issues' for Dixon Harbaugh said the decision to trade a 2020 seventh-round draft pick to the Green Bay Packers for running back-wide receiver Ty Montgomery was not related to the absence of running back Kenneth Dixon, who has been on injured reserve since injuring his knee in the fourth quarter of a 47-3 thrashing of the Buffalo Bills on Sept. 9. But Harbaugh indicated that Dixon's return to the field might take longer than anticipated. "There's issues going on with him that are beyond our coaches' control," he said of the 2016 fourth-round pick who has played in only one game since the start of the 2017 season. "We just have to wait for league clearance and things like that. I don't even delve into that because it's not my concern. [General manager] Ozzie [Newsome] takes care of that. When he tells us he can practice, he'll be out there. I'm really hopeful it's next week. We'll know more next week." Red zone slippage After setting an NFL record with 13 touchdowns in as many trips inside opponents' 20-yard line, the offense has gone 9-for-20 since then. [More from sports] Orioles prospect Brenan Hanifee starting to see hard work pay off with overhauled pitch mix » The unit has converted 66.7 percent of its red zone chances, dropping from fourth to eighth in the NFL in red-zone efficiency after a 1-for-4 performance against Pittsburgh. "It's frustrating because in these types of games, you don't get that many plays and that many opportunities, and obviously scoring touchdowns is the name of the game," quarterback Joe Flacco said Sunday. "That's how you have to win games in this league, but there are plenty of other things that we can look at that we didn't get done today, and that's what we'll do." O. Brown's body slam Orlando Brown Jr. added a personal touch to the Ravens-Steelers rivalry when the 6-foot-8, 345-pound rookie right tackle drove back 6-4, 252-pound T.J. Watt and then body-slammed him to the turf. The professional wrestling-style move was shared widely on social media, but Brown insisted that he meant no physical harm to Watt. "Yeah, I've got to see the film, but the body-slam block, I was just trying to set the tone for whenever I'm out there, and he's out there," said the organization's first of two third-round picks in April's NFL draft. Latest Ravens Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, ex-Maryland star Darnell Savage Jr. to throw out first pitches at Orioles' game Wednesday Ravens 2019 training camp preview: Running back and fullback Former Ravens RB Alex Collins says he had successful surgery on broken leg 'Madden 20' ratings takeaways: Ravens' Lamar Jackson fastest QB; Marquise Brown fastest rookie Ravens 2019 training camp preview: Quarterback "He's a great player, [but] I don't back down from any fights. He's a guy who is really good at what he does. I want to be one of the greats, and it basically starts by dominating guys like that." Orlando Brown vs. T.J. Watt. 😮 #OUDNA | #Soonerspic.twitter.com/LU3s7tiT5u — Sooner Gridiron (@soonergridiron) November 4, 2018 John Harbaugh Most Read • Ravens

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difference, on the control of disorder. alternatives, most notably the automobile. drastically along with our nation's wealth, while public transport's share of total travel has fallen. A. even if they make more buses are not the largest contributor to pollution. B. they don't remove the old buses which means they still add to the pollution. C. 3. divisions are rooted in the poor economic condition of the urban city. im- prove the quality of life in poor African American neighborhoods. central, issue of American politics. the economics of the situation. trends, that their older evidence cant take into account. suburban lifestyle. Americans are running harder just to stay in place. then modified to fit the private industry, then the new products take time to catch on.

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Others have started pontificating about the future of desktop computing. In particular, public predictions that free Unix variants - in particular, Linux - are going to displace MicroSoft's propietary OS Windows. The last dinosaur was the first such. The logic is a bit specious, but it still makes a good read. An excerpt from The Cryptonomicon was the second such. The logic and the writing are both better. It's by Neal Stephenson, the author of The Diamond Age and other things. The Diamond Age is part of the pontificating. We are shown a society where the computer revolution and the nanotech revolution have combined. Computer are ubiquitous, and nearly invisible. The infamouse "computerized book" is a sheet of nanotech paper. The computers are inside it. Touching the corners does things like turn the page, go to the index or table of contents. It's basically printed that way, and combines the best features of paper with the best features of a computerized document. If that's the coming revolution do we need operating systems? Answer: Yes, in the classic role as the mechanism that controlls access to the resources of the computer. However, these days the phrase operating system tends to include the user interface code as well. With this new paradigm, the user interface is pretty much invisible - and radically different as you move from one thing to another. So there is no need for an operating system in that sense. The question is then whether either operating system can make the transition to this new environment. One is large, slow, and thoroughly tied to a graphical user interface. Newer variants work on smaller systems - but are still tied to a user interface. Given that there is a competing OS that is smaller, faster and not tied to any user interface, that certainly won't make the transition. Will Linux make the transition? That's a more interesting question. Also interesting is whether Unix moving onto these new platforms will increase it's visibility on the desktop. It's 2011. The iPhone - based on a tweaked version of Apple's OSX, which is a Unix variant, has been around for four years. But the hot news is the Android phone - which is based on a version of Linux with a new UI. Both run on devices that aren't much smaller than a page of paper. MS is still trying to come up with a hit OS in the phone market - but they aren't using a tweaked version of Windows, but completely new OS's. It would seem that Linux - and Unix - has made the transition. I think it's still to early to decide if this means more Linux visibility on the desktop.

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A bidirectional switch affecting phosphorylation of Shank3 influences homeostatic synaptic plasticity By Azra Jaferi August 16, 2022 A loss of function of Shank3, a scaffolding protein at excitatory synapses, is associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (Betancur and Buxbaum, Mol. Autism, 2013). Animal models of Shank3 loss have revealed various changes in synaptic function and an imbalance between excitation and inhibition within brain circuits (Lee et al., Front. Cell Neurosci., 2015; Speed et al., J. Neurosci., 2015). However, the cellular mechanisms that underlie these deficits are not yet fully understood. Understanding Shank3 function in the brain is critical for gaining insight into forms of ASD linked to Shank3 mutations. Typically, Shank3 may play a role in compensatory mechanisms — known as homeostatic plasticity mechanisms — that maintain stable function in the developing brain in the face of destabilizing challenges and changes (Turrigiano and Nelson, Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 2004). In a recent study supported in part by a SFARI Research Award, SFARI Investigator Gina Turrigiano and her colleagues further explored how Shank3 mediates synaptic plasticity and showed that changes in phosphorylation state are important in this process (Wu et al., eLife, 2022). One type of homeostatic plasticity mechanism in the brain, termed synaptic scaling, allows excitatory synapses to increase (scale up) or decrease (scale down) their strength in response to changes in neuronal activity, which ultimately helps maintain the proper excitation–inhibition balance within brain circuits. Shank3 is essential for synaptic scaling up, as previously demonstrated by Turrigiano and her colleagues (Tatavarty et al., Neuron, 2020). In their recent study, they used mass spectrometry–based proteomics in rodent neocortical neurons to show that Shank3 can be phosphorylated and dephosphorylated to regulate homeostatic synaptic plasticity in both directions. Their findings revealed that hypophosphorylation of Shank3, through a process dependent on protein phosphatase 2A, is critical for maintaining increased postsynaptic strength during scaling up and that the function of Shank3 is dynamically modulated by its phosphorylation state to switch it from scaling up to scaling down. These findings offer clues as to how Shank3 loss could contribute to synaptic and circuit dysfunction in the brains of individuals with ASD. A bidirectional switch in the Shank3 phosphorylation state biases synapses toward up or down scaling. Wu C.-H., Tatavarty V., Beltran P.M.J., Guerrero A., Keshishian H., Krug K., MacMullan M.A., Li L., Carr S.A., Cottrell J.R., Turrigiano G. Elife 11, e74277 (April 26, 2022) PubMed synaptic plasticity Decoding of emotional vocal cues by the auditory cortex correlates with social communication abilities in children August 16, 2022

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Q: Getting "Missing :action key on routes definition" when I try and create a route with a parameter I have an app with Rails 5. I would like to create a route to search through names in my model taht would look like /people/search/search_str So I created the below route in my config/routes.rb file resources :people do collection do get 'image/:id', :to => "people#image", :as => 'image' get 'ranks', :to => "people#ranks", :as => 'ranks' get 'search/:search(.:format)', to: :search end end but this results in the below error /Users/nataliab/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.0.6/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:329:in `check_part': Missing :action key on routes definition, please check your routes. (ArgumentError) from /Users/nataliab/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.0.6/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:318:in `check_controller_and_action' from /Users/nataliab/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.0.6/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:252:in `normalize_options!' from /Users/nataliab/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.0.6/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:116:in `initialize' from /Users/nataliab/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/actionpack-5.0.6/lib/action_dispatch/routing/mapper.rb:69:in `new' What's the right way to construct my route? A: Try to the following: get 'search/:search(.:format)', to: 'people#search'

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There was the first trailer of the movie the Catharsis about terrorist attacks Date: 6 months ago 2019-01-10 19:00 Category: Cinema Bankrupt The Weinstein Company had to be engaged in production of a tape, but the rights to the film bought up. In Network the movie trailer the Catharsis from film companies Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures appeared. Anthony Maras acts as the director of a tape. The roller appeared on YouTube channel Bleecker Street. The tape is the art version of a series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai which happened in 2008. Then terrorists occupied Taj Mahal hotel, and several dozens of people are shot. The picture is also devoted to these events. A trailer Mislaid in ices of the Prime minister of the Catharsis it is planned for May 9 of the current year. It is known that initially the The Weinstein Company was engaged in production of a tape, however subsequently, after its bankruptcy, the rights for it were redeemed. Earlier it was reported that there was a trailer of a comedy horror the Drone in which the gadget entices people into deadly traps. News from the Correspondent.net in Telegram. Subscribe for our https://t.me/korrespondentnet channel URL: http://newswell.info/articles/there_was_the_first_trailer_of_the_movie_the_catharsis

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Morning from the hotel window opens up to a freshly harvested paddy field. Four years since last visit, this town feels remarkably changed in its spatial arrangement, including its name. The establishment is busy appeasing the tribes here with the name change. A smooth wide concrete highway gets visitors to this town faster. What was a tribal heartland is now a district connected, linked and tied to the state's dreams of progress. Need more time here to see changes in people's lives.

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In a game of high stakes CBS treats Auburn-Georgia showdown as typical SEC fare Doug Segrest CBS moved its studio crew from New York into the mezzanine of the rookie Mercedes-Benz Stadium for pregame, halftime and postseason coverage. But as far as frills, they were few and far between. The network's marriage with the Southeastern Conference doesn't need bells and whistles. All it needed was an Atlanta showdown with two teams vying for a berth in the College Football Playoff. More:Malzahn among multiple reasons Auburn failed to show up in title game More:SEC Championship Game: Auburn Report Card - Tigers fall short on multiple levels Play-by-play man Brad Nessler and color man Gary Danielson set the stakes, but played it straight. This could have been a September SEC game. It just happened to be the most anticipated game of the year. While the game itself didn't live up to the hype, the broadcast was typically solid. Here are a few examples of what worked and what didn't: - All eyes focused on Auburn running back Kerryon Johnson, who suffered an injury against Alabama and his status for the Georgia game was a game-time decision. "If that arm isn't falling off, he's going to play," Danielson predicts. - Auburn sends out two offensive linemen – Braden Smith and Austin Golson –- for the coin toss. Danielson points out that Auburn's sending a message in terms of strength up front. More:Auburn SEC Championship notebook - Johnson struggles battling injury More:Georgia flips script ... without a healthy Johnson Auburn has no answer - Georgia does a great job defending quick screens early, with one exception. With the receiver covered, Jarrett Stidham pump fakes, tosses over coverage and delivers a sizeable gain. Danielson quickly points out how well Stidham and Eli Stove adjust on the fly for a big first-quarter play. ·Two plays later, Danielson says Georgia crosses the line on a roughing penalty as replay shows the Bulldog defender continuing to drive Stidham's shoulders into the turf after making the play. The call elicits boos in the stadium, but drives home the point to the TV audience. Did the injury have an impact on Stidham later in the game? It's not addressed. Mentally put that one in the missed column. · Danielson draws a parallel with Georgia's first touchdown, a pass from Jake Fromm, to Johnson's jump pass in the Iron Bowl, noting how Georgia uses a fake toss sweep to freeze the Tigers secondary long enough. · Touchdown, Georgia, to temporarily make it 14-7. Yet Danielson is ready to nullify the score. Why? "A pick play." On cue, CBS spots the yellow hanky and Danielson explains how SEC officials recognized offensive interference that, according to Danielson, Big 12 officials missed when Clemson scored the winning touchdown in last year's national title game. · What's the key to Georgia's first-half success? At halftime, analysts Rick Neuheisel points out how offensive coordinator Jim Chaney keeps Auburn off-balance with new looks and a departure from the regular-season game plan. · This will become a common theme throughout: Malzahn's comments after the regular season win. "When Gus said, 'we kicked the dog out of them,' right then Georgia said, 'we want Auburn again,'" Danielson says. · Danielson notes Ryan Davis' lack of production in the first half. On cue, Davis catches a pass underneath, breaks a tackle and goes 29 yards early in the third quarter. · Auburn fails to capitalize on a scoring opportunity when Daniel Carlson's game-tying field goal is blocked. Danielson points out that timing may be off, with the dependable Carlson leaning and anticipating the snap before the ball's arrival. Again, those little details set him apart. · Jim Chaney, are you listening? Danielson wonders aloud why Georgia doesn't attack a Carlton Davis-less secondary with a "50-50" ball. Instead, the Bulldogs go with a flare to a running back on third down, and Auburn holds. · Honestly, does it even matter? Georgia turns dominant, the Bulldogs turn to their third-string running back, and freshman D'Andre Swift goes 64 yards to put the game out of reach. · In the fourth quarter, sideline reporter Allie LaForce gives us a glimpse inside the Georgia program in the aftermath of the Auburn loss. Not only did Smart play up Malzahn's postgame comment, but he put together a "freebie tape" that showed game-changing plays that Georgia "gave away" in the Jordan-Hare game. · As discussion shifts to Arkansas' flirtation with Malzahn, Danielson makes the point that "the market has changed," which sums up for viewers outside the SEC why a less-than-lateral move would even be considered by the Auburn coach. It's about big, big money. · How does Auburn's loss affect Alabama? Danielson waits until the final minutes to campaign for inclusion of a second SEC team in the four-team playoff: "Game 1 to the last game, Alabama has been the most consistent team. I think you can make the argument that, top to bottom, they have not had any bad games. They are one of the four best teams." ABC and FOX, you're on the clock for rebuttal. · Wait? Is Verne Lundquist back in the booth? "Auburn. Alabama. SEC Championship," offered Nessler leading into the final commercial break before kickoff. Uh, Brad … no. · Few analysts know tendencies better than Danielson – the benefit of covering one league throughout the season. When Auburn goes into the "sugar huddle" to open a first-quarter possession, Danielson points out that Auburn usually follows by going wide or deep. Instead, Johnson goes up the middle for little gain. Chip Lindsey breaking tendencies didn't fool Georgia, but at least it fooled the former Purdue quarterback. · Opening the second half, Deshaun Davis blows up a Georgia flea-flicker -- with Fromm throwing the ball away. CBS cameras find Malzahn protesting to officials but Nessler and Danielson fail to follow up with the noncall as the Auburn coach pleads for intentional grounding. In truth, Fromm makes the throw from the middle of the pocket. · Georgia's seconds away from victory, and Smart blows up at a staffer on the sideline. Danielson pontificates, without a real answer (or even a good theory), and LaForce doesn't follow up in the postgame interview on the field. Granted, it's not the biggest story, but every viewer just saw the coach rant for no apparent reason. AWAY FROM THE FIELD · Chick-fil-A tells a great story in less than 90 seconds with an ad showing the pop-up store built on the Alabama-Georgia state line that went up for the regular season meeting between the Tigers and Bulldogs. It's effective advocacy not only for the food chain. It also conveys how the rivalry among family and friends is uniquely southern. · CBS' camera work, as usual, is quality stuff. One of the more intriguing shots comes during an Auburn third-quarter drive, with a view from above the Mercedes-Benz Stadium peering at the field through glass windows. It's a different look and an effective use of aerial photography.

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Iroquois PTO Van Antwerp Glencliff Policy & Vision Statements‎ > ‎ Middle School Vision Statement NISKAYUNA MIDDLE SCHOOL VISION STATEMENT In order to contribute to the success of the Niskayuna School District Mission, our Niskayuna Middle Schools will engage the community of students, staff and parents to: provide a nurturing environment for students to build a strong sense of self, community, and responsibility as they transition from childhood to adolescence provide an educational program that challenges and supports all students based on their developmental, academic, and personal needs help students develop interpersonal skills and respect for the uniqueness of one another help students develop the learning and thinking skills necessary to become life-long learners Background of Vision Statement Development: Our Vision Statement was the culmination of a year-long effort by both Van Antwerp and Iroquois Middle School staff, teachers, parents and students. This Vision Statement was written to support the Niskayuna Central School District Mission Statement: Empower each individual to make responsible choices, meet challenges, achieve personal success, and contribute to a global society. The Middle School Vision Statement was originally developed by a team of middle school staff, students, and parents. The first round of feedback was sought at the end of the 2006 school year from faculty and staff. Each word and phrase was carefully considered and debated at the monthly Middle Schools' Shared Decision Making (SDM) Team meetings. As we ended 2006 and entered 2007, a draft version was formalized. The draft was then presented to three audiences: teachers and staff at both schools during faculty meetings; students in small group discussions (moderated by a SDM member); and parents in PTO meeting presentations, in written form within letters to parents and via survey on the Iroquois and Van Antwerp PTO websites. Thoughtful feedback was obtained from all three groups and enthusiastically discussed by the team. The Middle Schools Shared Decision Making Team would like to thank the faculty, students and parents from both schools for their interest and input in this project. This Vision can now be used to share our goals for the schools with others, and as a basis for strategic planning and decision making. Get Informed - Get Involved - Get Connected!

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Q: Braintree checkout gives error `Braintree::ConfigurationError` after deploy Hi I deployed an App to a VPS yesterday using Passenger/Capistrano and Nginx server. All is running smoothly except when I enter the checkoutbutton on the order page. Then the app crashes and in the production.logthere is this error line Braintree::ConfigurationError (Braintree::Configuration.merchant_id needs to be set): app/controllers/orders_controller.rb:22:in 'new' The thing is that the Merchiant_idis set and I'm totally lost. before the deploy I changed the Sandbox API keys to ProductionAPI keys in application.yml. I'm using figaro to hide the API keys. When I ran this on the localhostbefore deploy everything worked fine. I've went through the Braintree guides again and again. I can't find anything wrong. Am I missing something here? here is the orders_controller.rb were the error is coming from. class OrdersController < ApplicationController include CurrentCart before_action :set_cart, only: [:new, :create] before_action :set_order, only: [:show, :edit, :destroy] def index @orders = Order.all? end def new @images = ["1.jpg", "2.jpg", "3.jpg", "4.jpg", "5.jpg"] @random_no = rand(5) @random_image = @images[@random_no] if @cart.product_items.empty? redirect_to root_url, notice: 'Your Cart is Empty' return end @order = Order.new @client_token = Braintree::ClientToken.generate #this is line 22 were the error is end def create @order = Order.new(order_params) if @order.save charge if @result.success? @order.add_product_items_from_cart(@cart) Cart.destroy(session[:cart_id]) session[:cart_id] = nil OrderNotifier.received(@order).deliver redirect_to root_url, notice: 'Thank You for Your Order' else flash[:error] = 'Please Check Your Cart' redirect_to root_url, alert: @result.message @order.destroy end else @client_token = Braintree::ClientToken.generate render :new end end def show end def destroy @order.destroy redirect_to root_url, notice: 'Order deleted' end private def set_order @order = Order.find(params[:id]) end def order_params params.require(:order).permit(:name, :email, :address, :city, :country) end def charge @result = Braintree::Transaction.sale( amount: @cart.total_price_usd, payment_method_nonce: params[:payment_method_nonce] ) end end A: I had a similar problem once, basically it was the same Error. What I did to solve this in my case was to add config/application.yml to set :linked_files in the `deploy.rb`` so the line would look something like this set :linked_files, %w{ config/application.yml} then before you deploy again you must create the application.yml on the server. Most likely it is in ~/YOURAPP/shared/config$ And you copy/paste the code from the application.yml on your machine to the ~/YOURAPP/shared/config/application.yml I can almost bet that adding this will fix your problem

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I was born in Oxford in 1945 and still live near Oxford to this day, only leaving Oxfordshire for Art College at Brighton and the Slade, UCL in the sixties. After College I created and ran a clothes business called Mabs. After eleven years and the birth of my son I returned to painting full time. I could not, when I returned to painting continue the minimalist abstract canvases I did as a student. I was at that time very much in the 'main stream' which looked around at themes to influence one and hopefully to develop. An American movement, Photo Realism, influenced me. I may not have worked in the Conceptual way they approached their work but it did lead me to work from photos and consequently away from abstraction to realism. Although I used photos for heightened reality I always worked imaginatively and I often combined them with flat surfaces copied from fabrics used in my former clothes business. However around 1998 I decided I wished for more content in my work and so I began a series of paintings dealing with a nervous breakdown I had as a young girl after the death of my father. It was this series I seriously exhibited, first with ITHACA, an Oxford charity and later in London, at the Raw Arts Festival, the Mexico Gallery and with Artesian in Edinburgh. Since my mental health series my work has taken a different turn. I now work entirely from my own imagination with little or no reference to photos or any other images or objects. I no longer paint to tell stories or put over messages. It has made me feel a great sense of freedom, not having to look for rhyme or reason but simply wishing to create images which move people and hopefully 'wow' them. I would like to restore images in painting which for many decades have been lost. Films have stolen the great images created by the Surrealist and Symbolists, and are having a Renaissance with them. Added to this I simply love paint and canvas and everything low tech, so intimate with the human mind. This is of course all in direct opposition to the training I received and the Conceptual Art training now exercised in Art Schools today but defiantly on the side of Outsider Artists in which they so beautifully excel.

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#NerdBlast: Girls Can!: Smash Stereotypes, Defy Expectations, and Make History! by @MarsinCharge @BlackMajiik 9:00 AM Crossroad Reviews No comments Girls Can! Innovate! Discover! Create! Lead nations AND rule kingdoms. Girls can change the world! This book puts to rest the tired adages of things girls "can't" do with powerful proof that girls not only CAN, but they DO! Featuring profiles of over 75 remarkable women from across centuries and around the world, from math whiz Katherine Johnson to legendary leaders like Queen Elizabeth I, game changers like Serena Williams to avant-garde artists like Frida Kahlo, and so many more, you'll discover amazing, diverse women, both famous and little-known, who smashed stereotypes, overcame odds, and achieved their goals. With interviews and encouraging advice from world-changing women of today such as media mogul Oprah Winfrey, philanthropist Melinda Gates, renowned journalist Christiane Amanpour, National Geographic explorers and planet protectors like Sylvia Earle, and more, as well as concrete tips for breaking barriers and raising your voice, this inspirational book will have you ready to follow in the footsteps of women who made-and are making-history. Praise for IZZY NEWTON AND THE S.M.A.R.T. SQUAD: ABSOLUTE HERO This series opener highlights diverse, sympathetic characters using their smarts and their emotional intelligence to solve scientific and social challenges. Charlie has light-brown skin and speaks Spanish with her two moms, Allie presents white, Marie presents Asian, and new girl Gina Carver is black; Izzy is a winning black protagonist who steadily challenges herself and nurtures her friendships. Bowers' half- and full-page grayscale illustrations add personality to the characters. Backmatter offers further information on the characters real-life inspirations and women scientists. Wholesome entertainment for preteens, offering positivity without didacticism. ―Kirkus Written by girl-power expert Valerie Tripp---the author behind some of your favorite American Girl stories---the Izzy Newton and the S.M.A.R.T. Squad series features five brainy friends inspired by iconic scientists---Izzy Newton, Allie Einstein, Charlie Darwin, Marie Curie, and Gina Carver---as they go through the wild time that is middle school, with stories on friendship, growing up, and of course, solving mishaps with science and the scientific method. ... It's one thing to have children's books about scientists or podcasts or stories about strong women in STEM, but it's another world entirely when your children get to feel represented by the characters they're reading about. The characters in the Izzy Newton and the S.M.A.R.T. Squad series are diverse, smart, and sure of themselves the way all middle school girls are---through their dreams and newly acquired skills they're still getting used to. ―Romper OFFICIAL NERD BLAST FOR TWO GIRL POWER TITLES FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS This is a Nerd Blast, you will post the promotional info we provide you with, including the giveaway. No reviews required. Please mark your Calendar. You'll see that not only some Girls Can-you can! AMAZON | BARNES & NOBLE | BOOK DEPOSITORY When middle school mishaps happen, five friends form the S.M.A.R.T. Squad and use their collective skills and the power of science to bring order to their school. Science reigns supreme with this squad of young brainiacs. Join Izzy Newton and her friends in the first adventure of this fun new middle-grade fiction series from National Geographic Kids. A crowded new school and a crazy class schedule is enough to make Izzy feel dizzy. It may be the first day of middle school, but as long as her best friends Allie Einstein and Charlie Darwin are by her side, Izzy knows it'll all be okay. However, first-day jitters take an icy turn when Izzy's old pal Marie Curie comes back to town. Instead of a warm welcome, Marie gives her former pal the cold shoulder. The problems pile up when the school's air-conditioning goes on the fritz and the temperature suddenly drops to near freezing. The adults don't seem to have a clue how to thaw out the school. Cold temperatures and a frigid friendship? Izzy has had enough of feeling like an absolute zero. She rallies the girls to use their brainpower and science smarts to tackle the school's chilly mystery ... and hopefully to fix a certain frozen friendship along the way. Will the girls succeed and become the heroes of Atom Middle School? Photo Content from Authors TORA PRUDEN is a social media manager and the director of brand growth at Equality for Her. She also works as a freelance journalist and culture critic. MARISSA SEBASTIAN is a social media coordinator and the co-creator of the social media positivity movement #Blackoutday, which aims to promote the positive representation and presence of African Americans on social media. PAIGE TOWLER writes poetry, has co-authored books, and was a children's book editor at National Geographic Kids for five years. MARISSA: TWITTER | INSTAGRAM TORA: TWITTER | INSTAGRAM Part of the creative team behind the American Girl series, Valerie Tripp has written many of the American Girl books about Felicity, Josefina, Samantha, Kit, Molly, and Maryellen. She also wrote American Girl's Welliewisher and Hopscotch Hill School books. Tripp has also written numerous levled readers, songs, stories, skills book pages, poems, and plays for educational publishers and is the editorial director of the Boys Camp series. She is a frequent speaker at schools and libraries. Geneva Bowers is a self-taught illustrator who lives in the North Carolina mountains. Her drawing career started at age seven, when she wanted to draw horses better than her sister. Bowers works mostly digitally, using a vivid palette and simple shapes to create interesting images that reflect whimsy with a touch of realism. She has illustrated several webcomics, books, and book covers and is a 2018 Hugo award winner. FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | WEBSITE | GOODREADS *JBN is not responsible for Lost or Damaged Books in your Nerdy Mail Box* Posted in: Giveaway, JeanBookNerd, Middle Grade, Promo

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Themes: MIND TRAINING OtherLife This movie helps us get in touch with the power of the mind and how real the experiences in this… Imagine That "Once upon a time he was a king. But one day he left his kingdom and got lost in 'the… 12 Dates of Christmas This movie's main message is the value of extending and giving from the heart in order to escape from the… The story of Jesus is the story of awakening and enlightenment. It is a story for all times, because it… This is a romantic comedy movie which is a rare comprehensive look at the self-concept limitation based on the belief and protection… The Guitar Healing involves change. What initially appears as a tragedy is often the beginning of a deep journey of transformation. Have you had enough of the game yet? You entered it voluntarily, although you are not sure when it began. Mr. Destiny The central problem of the world could be characterized as the belief that things would be better if circumstances in… Forever My Girl Liam is a famous country music singer with a deep underlying hurt. All his fame and fortune are part of… Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey Billy Graham was a passionate preacher. He didn't aspire to become a minister when growing up, but in his late… Ten-year-old Lucia and her two cousins playfully go out into the fields, as they do regularly, and call out to… Liar, Liar The self-concept is a lie. It is not who you are. You were never meant to play a role in… This movie shows there is a way to truth through surrendering to something greater than one's tiny self. Through trusting in the intuitive voice of the Spirit, Pocahontas draws us out of past learning into a transcendent experience… Who is it that is in need of healing? Lawyer, heal thyself, for thus are you helped. The Two Popes When Pope Benedict resigns in 2013, he calls cardinal Francis to join him at the Vatican. Though Benidict and Francis… Electric Dreams The Hood Maker All private thoughts are attack thoughts and need to be released for you to make it back to Heaven. Black Mirror Hang the DJ Frank and Amy meet on a first date set up by a futuristic dating app called "Coach." It's only through giving that we receive. How wonderful it feels when our heart is wide open and the love… This is a world of doors. The Spirit can guide us through the use of these doors to return home. Peaceful Warrior This is a brilliant movie about a young man who meets an unlikely spiritual guide and goes through a rapid… John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky This movie offers us a new way of perceiving relationships. In this world, relationships are used by the ego as… The Black Godfather The movie demonstrates how an unplanned life and purposeful, heartfelt interactions can unfold easily when being helpful is put above… Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment until he meets Lucy, who has short-term memory loss. A fantastic 'contrast' movie to be shown how deluded the sleeping mind is - believing in and seeming to play… This is a five star movie for "no private thoughts" and "no people-pleasing." It is the year 2257, on a… Needle in a Timestack How many of us have struggled with questions, like Did I mess it up? Did something pass me by? Am… Our whole purpose is to transcend the voice of the ego and learn to tune in to the voice of… An awakening classic for loosening from roles and worldly ambitions, and opening the heart to an experience of true intimacy… Life as a House A typical American family has suppressed rage and past grievances that cover over compassion and love. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Love sees no error. This movie is set in a time when racial divisions were still firmly held in the… Sam keeps reliving the same day over and over again. With each passing day, Sam starts to question why she… This futuristic movie centers on Jack, a veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources for a surviving human colony that… The willingness to communicate attracts communication, even across and beyond the barriers of time. In the ego's world, the mind is a slave to the body. To wake up from the dream of separation,… A wonderful movie for if you have lost your spark, or have gone through complete undoing / loss of 'who… The Great Hack This documentary film follows Brittney Kaiser, the former business development director of Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm. This documentary about the life of Whitney Houston is a good mind-watcher to see the distractions of the world play… Electric Dreams Human Is This is a profound futuristic episode that shows the possibility of having special romantic relationships transformed into holy relationships. The Holy Spirit arranges time and space for the miracle and, even though Papale doesn't fit the mold of a… Marvellous Once asked, "How do you stay so positive?" Neil replied, "I've always wanted to be happy, so I decided to… James accepts a cargo delivery job from Mexico to the US, only to discover his "cargo" is two young women… Only by laying aside separate interests and truly communicating can these astronauts return home together. Electric Dreams Kill All Others Nobody is ever directly upset by people or events. It is only an interpretation that gives rise to upset. Black Mirror USS Callister This episode has the authority problem as its central theme. This is a powerful and inspiring movie about non-compromise and facing the doubt thoughts that arise in the mind in… A willingness to look upon and release attack thoughts and repressed emotions is the only way out of fear. We… This powerful documentary set in Folsom Prison is a vivid reminder that all things are possible in God. It matters… Though pushed out of awareness, the belief we have separated from God has us feeling fearful of the power of… This is a great movie for moving past the fear of intimacy. It exposes the false belief in private minds… A wonderfully-inspiring movie based on the relationship between the late 19th century Queen Victoria and an Indian servant named Abdul.… Black Mirror Nosedive Season 3, Episode 1 This episode is a great parable of undoing and letting go. Every interaction in it involves… Love & Mercy This is a profound movie about the life of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. It beautifully portrays that when… Dalai Lama Awakening This documentary presents the life-changing journey of several innovative Western thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai… Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Hard Time This episode is great for showing the power of the mind. If something disturbing is held onto that is believed… This is a touching movie about the power of prayer and faith in God. Mack grew up in a family… Will Trainer's active and adventurous life changes suddenly when he is left a quadriplegic after an accident. He becomes bitter… Touched by an Angel Fallen Angela Season 1, Episode 4.The ego wants us to keep secrets and thus maintain our sense of guilt and separation. Angela… Touched by an Angel Secrets and Lies Season 8, Episode 15 Thank God there is a plan of such magnitude and perfection where nothing is out of… This is a touching story about the healing journey of Ben and his six children who live in the forests… Jim Preston faces his beliefs in separation and loneliness after waking up alone on a spacecraft traveling to a distant… Daniel believes he is stuck in time, living out a curse that he doesn't understand. He finally realizes, "I did… The Object of My Affection This movie takes us through a variety of special relationships to holy relationship. "Old ideas about time are very difficult to change, because everything you believe is rooted in time, and depends on… Driven by success, Adam Jones is a visionary with a passion for food. He yearns to make food that makes… Homer is uninspired at the prospect of becoming a miner like most other men in the small town of Coalwood,… The single desire of the Son to reunite with the Father is a Love that knows no limits. At times, the path of awakening can feel exceptionally difficult, even impossible. But this is only the limited perspective of… Stranded on Mars, Mark is an astronaut who is clearly not at home. When tragedy strikes the community surrounding a cafe in West Philadelphia, the cafe's regulars come to realize how intertwined their… Amanda & the Alien (TV) True love is extending and helping regardless of changing appearances. Form seems to shift and change, but the strength of… Opportunities for healing come in unexpected and surprising ways, and no one is more surprised than Jules, founder of a… The Sunchaser Michael is a doctor who undergoes a rapid "cracking and peeling" of his self-concept in a twenty-four hour period. He… Star Trek Next Generation: The Inner Light A metaphysically pure episode showing that the perceived world is merely "wish fulfillment," the playing out of the desires of… A good leader is intuitive, and extends a clear invitation to the other to join. Firmness is necessary when met… To merge into an experience of dancing as one, both leader and follower have to make a decision, in strength,… Star Trek Deep Space Nine Emisario - Spanish El comandante Sisko, el personaje principal de este episodio maestro de la serie Star Trek, siente un fuerte disgusto en… Touched by an Angel Last Dance Season 4, Episode 25 Underneath the attempt to control someone else is guilt, protectionism, and fear of the past being… The Stone family and their relationship partners gather for Christmas and experience a profound undoing of pride and an opening… Ice Castles This is a classic tale of the seeming fall from grace. As the film opens we see Lexi happily figure… Noboru Yasumoto is a confident young man ready to make his mark on the world as a personal doctor for… Awakening requires a full focus and a never give up attitude. Spirit gives the means. The goal is set. The… Spirit is always waiting at the slightest invitation to swoop in and support our efforts to heal. The ego is a death wish, being the denial of eternal life. No matter how clever and ingenious it seems… When the mind is ready to expand to a new level, everything that stands in the way of that expansion… We are Marshall It is not up to us to decide what strengths and abilities are most helpful in God's plan for the… Those who are destined to meet will meet. The script is written and there is nothing we can do to… Nothing in this world will satisfy you. When you forget this and pursue things in the world, the result is… Me, Myself & Irene This is a hilarious movie for seeing the intense rage underlying the face of innocence. The ego pushes the cause… This movie is a mind watcher for healing the belief in victims and victimizers. In truth, they are the same.… This is a timeless story of love and forgiveness. The ego is a belief in lack. If you believe that something in this world will give you anything or… Following the advice of his dying father, Hal only dates women who are physically beautiful. Hal however, wants to see… This movie is a good one for trust, prayer, letting go of control, and letting go of the authority problem… Star Trek Next Generation: Remember Me Everything comes from thought and thus thought makes the world we see. It is time for a wake-up call. Avoidance of meaningful communication and relationships through insisting on "having fun" is a… Dare to open your heart and face the fear of being hurt by love again. The association of love with… Unfinished Song (Song for Marion) The layers of defense that cover over the light within can seem impossible to be free of. As 22-year-old Neal's life is on track to become a lawyer just like his father, the prayer of his heart… Now is Good A heart opener of a movie. When we decide for God, everybody wins.

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BANGKOK: Thai Prin­cess Ubolratana's unprecedented attempt to become the country's next prime minister was abruptly nixed on Saturday after her party agreed to comply with a command from the king opposing the plan. The move rattled the status quo and threatened the ambitions of the generals who have controlled Thai­land since they toppled the administration of Yingluck Shinawatra almost five years ago. Thai Raksa Chart resp­o­nded swiftly, cancelling a campaign event on Satur­day and issuing a statement saying it "complies with the royal command". Royalist Thais and cele­brities praised the intervention on social media after the order, writing "long live the king". Others expressed un­­happiness with groups such as Thai Raksa Chart linked to Yingluck and her brother Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 coup. An activist who called himself Champ 1984 said he was "disappointed" with the idea of a pro-democr­a­­cy party enlisting a royal fa­­mily member and would now vote for a different party. "The palace disapproval invalidates her candidacy," said Puangthong Pawa­ka­pan, professor of political science at Chulalongkorn University. She thanked supporters on Saturday on her widely followed Instagram account, saying vaguely that she wanted Thailand to "move forward". Observers had said Tha­ksin and the party would not have teamed up with the princess without royal approval. But the bold play appears to have backfired dramatically on Thaksin. It is good to be King... Kudos! A king is everything. In Thailand they are gods.

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Floating SectionLead StoriesNews Lucky punter scoops half a million euro in Donegal! written by Rachel McLaughlin January 17, 2020 Someone in Donegal has just won themselves a massive €500,000 prize from a very lucky scratch card. O'Donnell's Mace in Crolly, Gweedore, has revealed that a jackpot-winning All Cash card was sold in their store. And one local person is starting their new year with a wonderful half a million euro boost in their bank account. The winner may be keeping their identity under wraps, but the staff at O'Donnell's are only too happy to celebrate the local success. The team revealed that the winning card was a €20 All Cash Extravaganza, which carries a €500,000 top prize that can be won instantly. "We are over the moon with the news," said the O'Donnell's Mace team. The celebrations are set to truly get underway in store at lunchtime! "Join us tomorrow at lunchtime to celebrate," said the O'Donnell's team. "As they say…IT COULD BE YOU! "Comhghairdeas agus Ádh mór leis an buaiteoir €500,000" Lucky punter scoops half a million euro in Donegal! was last modified: January 21st, 2020 by Rachel McLaughlin Rachel McLaughlin

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The 19th Furniture Manufacturing & Supply China (FMC China 2013) successfully concluded its latest events attracting attracted over 33,000 visitors, including more than 5000 from overseas to an event with 790 exhibitors. The exhibits included woodworking machinery and tools, coatings and coating equipment, CNC machinery, upholstery machinery, office furniture supplies, adhesives and chemical products, hardware and cabinet fittings, furniture panels and surface decor, fabric and leather and upholstery furniture components. A truly international events, exhibitors hailed from over 43 countries and regions such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Sweden, USA, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico and the Netherlands. Seven groups and associations shared their new technologies and products onsite. These were: the States of North Carolina, the American Hardwood Export Council, the Swedish Trade & Investment Council, the French Timber Industry Association, the Taiwan Woodworking Machinery Association (TWMA), the Yuhang Home Textile Pavilion, and the Asian International Furniture Material Trading Center (AIFM). With the help of FMC's worldwide agents, the organizer invited five overseas buyer groups and nearly 300 trade buyers from Mexico, Korea, Vietnam, India, and Indonesia. FMC China says there were 5,022 overseas buyers in total – 43.3% came from Asian countries, 17.1% from Europe, 14.3% from South America, 11.6% from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 5% from North America, 4.6% from Oceania, and 2.3% from Africa. 22,976 visitors belonging to decision-maker levels attended 'FMC Premium 2013', a show for high-end suppliers of Furniture Components and Raw Materials. Artificial Board Area, 2nd Coordinated Innovation Forum on Furniture Manufacturing, Inspired by Changed: the Mobility of Office Furniture Trend, How to Connect Product to the Present Trends and Green Furniture Coating Development Forum, which delivered the latest industry information to exhibitors and visitors. FMC China 2014 will be held from 10-13th September, 2014 in Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center.

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Home > How Things Work What Does "4K" Mean for Televisions? Simon Batt If you've been shopping around for a television recently, you may have seen the term "4K" thrown around. Unfortunately, the term doesn't explain what it means all by itself; as such, many people may be confused as to why this is so important. So, what is 4K, and why is everyone talking about it? What Does "4K" Mean? If you stream videos online, you'll probably see terms related to video quality. These will be numbers that end with a "p," such as 360p or 720p. These represent the number of pixels in the video. A 360p video will have 480×360 pixels in it, while 1080p videos have a whopping 1920×1080 pixel resolution. This matters because higher resolutions have more room for fine details. Imagine you're making a tile mosaic of the Mona Lisa. If you made the mosaic in a 48×36 grid, you'll lose a lot of the quality and things will look "blockier". If you upgraded your workspace to a 192×108 grid, you'll be able to fit a lot more detail in, and thus the end product will look better. As you may have guessed by now, 4K relates to the number of pixels on the screen. So, if 360p has 360 horizontal pixels, and 1080p has 1080 horizonal pixels, that must mean 4K has 4,000 pixels, right? Unfortunately, it's not that easy! The Digital Cinema Initiatives group define 4K resolution as 4096 × 2160 — which fits the 4K moniker. The TVs you buy in the store, however, are likely to have a 3840 x 2160 resolution instead. Should I Get a 4K Television? 4K televisions are at their best when they're displaying content that's at a 4K resolution. You can use a 4K television to watch content at 1080p and lower, but it's like purchasing a double-sized mattress while keeping your single-size sheets and bedding. It'll work, but you may need to stretch things out or leave some of the mattress bare. Thankfully, popular streaming services such as Amazon Prime and Netflix support 4K video resolution, meaning you'll get the best quality possible with a 4K television. You can get a smart television to get Prime or Netflix on your screen, or make an existing television smarter with a Chromecast that will add online functionality. Is 4K Required for the Future? Fortunately, 4K isn't like the big analog-to-digital switchover that televisions underwent a decade or so ago. If you don't have a 4K television, you won't see your current one get phased out anytime soon. You will find, however, that 4K content will be more readily available as time goes on. On top of that, 4K televisions will come down in price. As such, while your current television won't become useless overnight, it's worth dipping a toe into the world of 4K and seeing if you can upgrade your viewing experience. Paving the Way with 4K While 4K is not a mandatory upgrade, it will provide better picture quality for your movies and games. Just make sure the content you watch is 4K compatible, else you may find everything looks a little stretched! Will you get a 4K television? Let us know below. Simon Batt is a Computer Science graduate with a passion for cybersecurity. Everything You Need to Get Started With Arduino Projects What Is the Headphones Driver and How Does It Affect Audio Quality? What Does It Mean When Data is "Roaming?" Is a 4K TV Worth Buying in 2021? What Is a Journaling File System? How Do Computers Know the Time? How do Foldable Phones Work? A Definitive Guide to Prolonging Your Device's Li-Ion Battery Life FAT32 vs. exFAT vs. NTFS: What's the Difference? How Does Reverse Image Search Work?

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Why Tononi Should Think That the United States Is Conscious The is the fourth and probably last in a series of posts on why several major theorists of consciousness should attribute literal "phenomenal" conscious experience to the United States, considered as a concrete but spatially distributed entity at least partly composed by citizens and residents. Previous posts treated Dennett, Dretske, and Humphrey. Humphrey and I have an extended exchange in the comments field of my post on his work, and I have offered general considerations supporting the view that if materialism is true the United States is probably conscious here, here, and here (page 18 ff). A full-length paper is in the works but not yet in circulatable shape. I chose Dennett, Dretske, Humphrey, and Tononi as my sample theorists for two reasons: First, they represent a diverse range of very prominent materialist theories of conscious. And second, they are theoretically ambitious, trying to explain consciousness in general in any possible organism (and not just human consciousness or consciousness as it appears on Earth, like most scientific and neural accounts), covering the metaphysics from top to bottom (and not, say, resting upon a relatively unanalyzed notion of "representation" on which it would be unclear whether the United States literally has the right sort of representations). Of our four theorists, neuroscientist Giulio Tononi's view (2004, 2008; Balduzzi and Tononi 2009) enables the quickest argument to the consciousness of the United States. Tononi equates consciousness with "integrated information". "Information", in Tononi's sense, is abundant in the universe – present everywhere or almost everywhere there is causation. And information is integrated, at least in a tiny degree, whenever there are contingent causal connections within a system with a bit a structure – a system that is not collapsed into maximum entropy. Since integrated information is pervasive, so also, Tononi says, is consciousness. He says that "even a binary photodiode is not completely unconscious, but rather enjoys exactly 1 bit of consciousness" (2008, p. 236; cf. Chalmers 1996 on thermostats). Likewise, Tononi attributes "qualia" (that is, consciousness) to simple logical AND and OR gates (Balduzzi and Tononi 2009). On Tononi's view, what distinguishes human consciousness from photodiode consciousness, OR-gate consciousness, and speck-of-dust consciousness is its richness of detail: The brain is massively informationally complex and integrated, and thus enjoys consciousness orders of magnitude more complex than that of simple systems. Before we saddle Tononi straightaway with commitment to the consciousness of the United States, though, there is one issue to address: Despite the liberality of his view, Tononi does not regard every putative system as an "entity" that could be the locus of consciousness. If a putative system contains no causal, that is, informational, connections between its parts, then it is not an entity in the relevant sense; it is not, he says, a "complex". Also, a putative system is not a conscious entity or complex if a larger, more informationally integrated system entirely subsumes it. For example, two disparate nodes do not constitute a conscious complex if a third node lies between them creating a more informationally integrated network. This restriction on the possible loci of consciousness is still extremely liberal by commonsense standards: Complexes can nest and overlap, for example, within the brain, where tightly integrated subsystems interact within larger less-integrated systems. It seems straightforward that residents of the United States also form multiple overlapping, causally connected complexes. Despite Tononi's general caveat about what can legitimately count as an entity or a complex, there seem to be no Tononian grounds for denying that the United States is such an entity or complex and thus a locus of consciousness. Its subsystems are informationally connected, and it doesn't appear to be subsumed within any more tightly informationally integrated system. (I'm assuming the world community and the Earth as a whole are not more tightly informationally integrated than is the U.S., but doesn't matter for my ultimate argument if we relax this assumption and grant that on Tononi's view it would be the world community or planet as a whole that is conscious, rather than the United States.) This conclusion seems especially evident given Tononi's assertion that conscious complexes exist "at multiple spatial and temporal scales" "in most natural (and artificial) systems" (2004, p. 19). Choose the right temporal and spatial scale and Tononi's view will deliver group consciousness. The only question that would appear to remain is whether the United States is informationally integrated enough to have a rich stream of conscious experience, or whether its consciousness is substantially impoverished compared to that of a normal human being. This matter is somewhat difficult to assess, but given the massive informational transfer between people and the highly sensitive complex contingencies in human interaction, including in large-group interactions over longish time frames, I would think a plausible first guess from Tononi's perspective should be that the United States (or world community), when assessed at the appropriate time scale, has at least as rich a stream of conscious experience as does a small mammal. Update April 3: In the comments section, Scott Bakker has kindly pointed me toward a new paper by Tononi. This paper seems to reflect a substantial change in Tononi's position with respect to the issues above. While I think the view above accurately captures Tononi's view through at least 2009, it will require substantial modification in light of his most recent remarks. Update June 6: See here for my reaction to Tononi's updated position. Posted by Eric Schwitzgebel at 10:19 AM Labels: stream of experience Scott Bakker said... Tononi's most recent account can be found here: http://www.architalbiol.org/aib/article/view/1388/pdf_1 The references you cite have always made me curious since Tononi's therapeutic aim has always been to find some way to localize and quantify consciousness in the brain to help determine 'levels of consciousness' in those suffering traumatic brain events. So in his 2005 "Consciousness, information integration, and the brain" (collected in Progress In Brain Research 150) his interest is to show how the thalamocortical structural features capture the kinds of informatic intergration requisite for consciousness, whereas the structural features belonging to the cerebellum do not. So I've always just assumed that he's talking about a 'sliding scale' possessing some steep slopes. In which case, he could shrug his shoulders and say something like, 'Sure, Eric, but that isn't the kind of consciousness anyone is interested in. America? That's background radiation: it's the plasma that's interesting because that's where we're likely to figure it all out (because that's where we can see it in action).' But I'm just guessing. That hasn't stopped me from cribbing the idea of a 'consciousness Goldilocks zone' for my next SF novel! Fri Mar 23, 11:15:00 AM PDT Neil said... Most neurobiological accounts of consciousness are motivated and justified by evidence regarding report. If they are accounts of consciousness, it is access consciousness they explain. It is nothing more than a fond hope that these accounts explain or ever describe phenomenal consciousness. But the US probably *is* access conscious. Fri Mar 23, 03:01:00 PM PDT Baron P said... Is the US aware that it's conscious? Sun Mar 25, 10:19:00 AM PDT Sorry for the slow reply, folks! I had a feverish weekend of flu. (Still not wholly recovered.) Scott: I agree that Tononi could quite reasonably say that as a practical matter people who aren't theorists of consciousness shouldn't care too much about the simple consciousness of simple or poorly integrated systems. You're right that this would fit with his clinical interests. At the same time, Tononi does himself seem to be interested in the simple consciousness of simple systems. Those are the sorts of examples he uses in developing his own theory in the papers cited, so I don't think he could quite make the "plasma" move. (Besides, CBR turns out to be hugely important and interesting to cosmology, after all!) Crib away! If you end up using these ideas in a novel, I'd be interested to see. Mon Mar 26, 05:05:00 PM PDT Neil: Ah, the old A-consciousness/P-consciousness two-step! By "consciousness" I always mean what Block means by "phenomenal consciousness". If you're a skeptic about our capacity to figure out phenomenal consciousness, I wouldn't disagree! Baron P: Not to judge by linguistic reports. But neither, then, are rabbits. I believe that rabbits are aware that they are consciously aware. Also they have the awareness of anticipation. The argument however that the US is conscious because it's aware would require that it also be alive to be aware of consciousness. Your CBR point is taken. But my guess is that Tononi would say that other informational sciences have the CBR version of 'consciousness' well in hand. It's not that they need change anything because they're missing some 'special' ingredient. Remember he has a specific pedagogic purpose in mind when using the diode and the camera: to illustrate the incremental, yet VAST, nature of the difference between the these and (highly integrated) human processors. So in a sense, I think he would complain that, even though you are reading his examples correctly, you are misconstuing their significance. To identify consciousness with information integration allows you to tar any system possessing differences making differences with the 'consciousness brush,' and to so license applications of the concept far beyond the comfort range of most everyone except panpsychics, thus putting skeptical pressure on the identification. But it depends which way you're pressing, doesn't it? When you make the noo-informatic identification you're either suggesting that information is really something special, or that consciousness really isn't all that special after all. For someone like myself, who thinks they can 'explain away' most all the things that make consciousness seem 'special,' I really don't feel that pressure. 'Sure,' I might say, 'it's a sliding scale, but if THAT'S the way you're going with it, we probably should just chuck 'consciousness' altogether, and talk varieties of information processing (culminating in the one you're living this-moment-now).' And for Tononi, I suspect, it all comes down to the differences in 'phi' value. If the cerebellum can't pull together what it takes, I certainly can't see a system as NOISY and unintegrated (as Tononi defines it) as a bunch of god-fearing Americans passing muster! (I'm afraid the Republican Primaries have put a substantial dent in your case!) One of my long time readers is actually studying with him. I'll drop him a line and see if he won't steer Guilio this way... Tue Mar 27, 12:01:00 PM PDT My point is that theories like Tononi's - though I suspect he takes it to be about p consciousness - are always constructed on the basis of evidence about a consciousness. It takes several further inferential leaps (while closing ones eyes and hoping like hell) to get from there to p consciousness. Arnold Trehub said... The retinoid theory of consciousness exhibits integrated information (as does a Google server center), but, contra Tononi, its explanation of phenomenal consciousness depends on a putative neuronal mechanism that realizes a transparent brain representation of the volumetric world from a privileged egocentric perspective. In this model of consciousness, one could have a very low level of integrated information in one's brain and yet be conscious. In fact, consciousness is a necessary precondition for having any level of integrated *phenomenal* information. This minimal level of consciousness would correspond to C1 in retinoid theory. See "Space, self, and the theater of consciousness", here: http://people.umass.edu/trehub/YCCOG828%20copy.pdf Wed Mar 28, 07:43:00 AM PDT Arnold: How would your theory apply to blind group-mind aliens? (Or would it apply?) I have no idea how the group mind/brain of blind aliens might work. I would say, however, that if the brain of an alien is conscious, then he/she/it must have subjectivity -- a transparent brain representation of the world in which it exists from a fixed perspectival spatio-temporal origin. The retinoid theory of consciousness is a claim about creatures in this world. It proposes that consciousness did not exist before the evolutionary emergence of the retinoid system, and that autaptic-cell activity in a brain's retinoid space is necessary and sufficient for consciousness to exist. For example, see here: http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/trehub01.htm Thu Mar 29, 09:27:00 AM PDT Eric, if the US is indeed conscious and you proceed to convince a lot of people of this idead - would that entail that you just have made the US conscious of it's own conciousness? Well done sir! Matt Sigl said... Is the US conscious according to the IIT? I don't think we know enough about what sorts of causal structures are necessary and sufficient to make a system integrated to know. Tononi certainly can't rule it out though. In his lecture available on YouTube Tononi asks and then answers the question about Ned Block's thought experiment of whether a billion Chinese people on cell phones can be a single conscious entity. Tononi claims that he can't give a certain answer but stresses that getting a high value for phi requires a very unique and special causal structure. Not a lot of physical systems have this feature, or so it seems. There's a reason the brain is the most complicated matter that we know of. I don't think a system having "multiple overlapping, causally connected complexes" is a complete enough criterion to warrant attaching a high phi value to it. Unless, that is, you already have established that "causally connected" implies integration, but that would be tautological as it would be proving America to have something (a phi value) that it already has by definition (causal connectedness). But, assuming that America IS complex and integrated enough to produce phi it would again be a danger to ascribe a human-like mentality to this system. As Tononi points out, the phenomenal aspects of a system, the actual content of its qualia, is specified by the geometry of the informational space over a certain timescale. Phenomenal experience is an abstract shape in multi-dimension qualia space. If conscious, a system like America is bound to have a very alien qualia space compared to a normal human mind. The shapes produced in this space are probably totally incomprehensible to us, even if the phi value is high. I would be reticent to ascribe to it the kind of intentionality we experience. Still, it's true that the IIT admits the possibility of such bizarre superordinate minds. Why do we balk at this? I think it's challenging for us to a imagine a mind with no clear causal power. The "American mind" would presumably have no such power. Where would it be? Yet the IIT doesn't assume that OUR minds have causal power either. The relation of minds to action or physical causation is not an issue that Tononi discusses. His view could be seen as a kind of epiphenomenalism though Tononi would probably want to stay agnostic on the question. A monist view is hinted at but not explicit in the IIT as is an attenuated idealism, though it's not explicit or necessary for Tononi argument to go through. Personally, I find the idea of an American consciousness (or "world consciousness") beautiful. Just as we peer deeper and deeper into the material nature of reality only to discover an infinite, expanding, inflating and splitting multiverse, it would be equally beautiful and awe-inspiring to discover that the reality of mind in the universe is equally baroque. An even deeper, potentially theologic question is whether the whole universe is itself an integrated system of information. Certain discoveries in physics—I'm thinking Bell's theorem and "spooky action at-a-distance"—may imply just such a structure. Tononi has a fascinating footnote about the quantum world in his IIT Manifesto. I couldn't tell if this blog entry was attempting to imply that the possibility of an "American" consciousness makes the IIT a theory worth rejecting out-of-hand or if the idea, while a bit extreme, nonetheless deserves serious attention. My vote is for the latter. Thu Mar 29, 03:03:00 PM PDT fficeya someMatt, best comment yet. Keep it up! I hate that anti robot device. It's consciously inhuman. Wouldn't Tononi be in the same boat as Edelman with his 'phenomenal transform,' Matt? Since information IS causality for Tononi, and consciousness is a function of information integration, how could consciousness be epiphenomenal? The real question would be whether it was causal in the way that it assumed it would be. I don't know about Edleman's "phenomenal tansform" so I can't comment on that, but your second point is an interesting one Scott. I actually agree that Tononi's theory can be seen to imply an identity thesis between causation and information (or changes in information states over time perhaps) but I don't want to put those words in his mouth. Tononi isn't all that interested in fundamental metaphysical speculation. He is clear that he sees "consciousness" as a fundamental property in the same way that mass or charge are fundamental properties. He does not claim, however, that objective mass or charge can be themselves reduced even further into an information paradigm. (Ironically enough with the holographic principle it seems contemporary physics might be starting to do just that.) Whatever the case for fundamental ontology, all the IIT needs to demonstrate is that consciousness is fundamental and, at the very least, corresponds to the causal flux of the world in certain lawful ways. I don't think Tononi would want to take the leap that I would endorse, which is that consciousness is what grounds the reality of all causation itself. So, I don't think Tononi would agree with your characterization and claim that for the IIT to be true, causation would have to be identical with information. The IIT is neutral about the ontology of information other than to say that wherever information occurs there is a corresponding instance of consciousness whose character is lawfully determined by the structure of its qualia-space. Mind may be ubiquitous in the IIT but it may still be epiphenomenal. Thanks for the continuing comments, folks! @ Arnold: I figured you might say something like that. By not aiming for full metaphysical generality, your theory doesn't fall into the class of target theories I am currently evaluating. @ Anon: That would be a funny result, if true. @ Matt: Thanks for the detailed reflections! I agree that Tononi might not be committed to a *high* phi value for the U.S. (or other similar group entity), just a non-zero phi value, which is all that is necessary for consciousness on his theory. High phi seems to me the most natural interpretation, given our complex informational integration, but evaluating that isn't entirely straightforward! @ Scott/Matt: I'm inclined to agree with Matt that Tononi's theory might be open about such issues, although I'd be happy to see textual evidence that he's committed. I wouldn't leap quickly to the conclusion that the consciousness of the U.S. is epiphenomenal just from the fact that U.S. behavior fully depends on the behavior of individuals. Note that a parallel argument could be made for the epiphenomenality of a human being's consciousness, since a human being's behavior (presumably) fully depends on the behavior of her lower-level physical structures. Sat Mar 31, 05:08:00 AM PDT Eric, must a theory aiming at full metaphysical generality be isolated from empirical constraints? I'm really interested in how you conceive of full metaphysical generality. Eric and Matt: his most recent article http://www.architalbiol.org/aib/article/view/1388/pdf_1 actually lays out his position regarding causality and information. Sun Apr 01, 03:52:00 PM PDT Thanks for the reference, Scott (again)! I hadn't seen it before. His section on "complexes" puts a spin on his work that makes it less straightforward to reconcile what he says with the consciousness of groups. I'll have to reflect on that more! Mon Apr 02, 08:09:00 AM PDT Thanks for directing me to Tononi's new paper. Lots of food for thought. Once again, Tononi impresses me greatly with his philosophical sophistication. Though he rarely explores his ideas to their furthest philosophic conclusions, it's not his job to. His new explanation of the relationship between information and causation is a rich treasure trove of ideas. Tononi tends to put some of his juiciest material in footnotes, as is the case here. Footnote 33 is worth reading and re-reading; its content has deep philosophic implications for the problem of emergence and the ontology of causation and the mind. It's worth quoting a little bit. He writes: "However, things are different from the intrinsic perspective - that of the complex itself. If a set of macro-causes accounts for the complex' behavior better that a set of micro-causes, i.e. if the micro-level is causally less complete than the macrolevel, then the exclusion principle (Occam's razor) implies that the behavior of the system is determined by the macro-causes only, and the micro-causes cannot be double-counted." If I read him right, he is claiming that since integrated information is always ONE THING, not many smaller things, it's prudent to view the "macro-state" of the complex as more causally efficacious than the entirety of the micro-elements considered independently. He doesn't, it's important to note, claim that the causal flow of the micro-elements is incomplete, only that, when a complex is active, it, as a whole, is a better, more informative, more accurate causal story than mere micro-elements. This is somewhat hard to conceptualize, and there may even be an argument to be made that it doesn't make total sense. Briefly, if the micro-elements entail any and all macroscopic effects then in what sense can the macro integrated state be said to be more primary than it's micro-physical parts? I think the answer has to do with information's identity (and not just correlation) with causation. Since causation IS information, (and microphysical elements like quarks and electrons are best perhaps conceived of as elements in causal processes, not isolated entities), then the ontology of the world admits a causal role for consciousness that truly is above the sum of its parts, even if the "parts" entail the conscious state. Later in the footnote Tononi says, "In terms of dynamical systems, this means that microvariables are 'enslaved' by macro-variables." This strikes me as a conceptual revolution over how we understand the causal flow of the world. It presents a reality in which causal processes build upon themselves, creating larger and larger "units" of causal efficacy. Furthermore, these "units" are always necessarily conscious, reaching their apogee, so far as we know, with the human mind. Tononi's theory smells like the truth to me. Given the impoverished state of the science of consciousness (as opposed to the philosophy of consciousness, which has been a robust field of study since at least early 90's) this is itself a triumph. Until now, even sounding plausible was beyond the pay grade of most scientific theories of consciousness. Whether or not the IIT is in fact the case should be known soon enough as rapidly advancing experimental correlation could quickly give the theory serious empirical support. It could also show it to be fundamentally mistaken. What the IIT means however is a topic that, even if the IIT is accepted scientifically, will take a long time for philosophers to unpack and correctly conceptualize. Wed Apr 04, 11:44:00 AM PDT It was a gem to find for me as well. He's been under some critical pressure from Edelman and Seth (here's a link - it was openly available a couple of months back, but no longer http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1952/3748.abstract )which might explain a couple of the new twists. Edelman now thinks that it could take several different analytic approachs to causation and information to home in on consciousness. I've had my chips on Tononi (or someone from the Edelman 'bratpack') for quite some time. He was the first theorist I encountered who self-consciously took the 'intraneural perspective' that destroyed my dissertation (on phenomenological ontology) way back when. I actually think it'll prove a disaster for philosophy as we understand it if any of these guys wins the empirical day. But then science has always been in the business of popping human balloons, not matter how sophisticated. One of the immediate issues that the 'intraneural perspective' and IITC raises, is what might be called the 'Positioning Problem.' Information integration means information horizons, points at which integrative availability peters out. The cognitive sufficiency of ANY feature of conscious cognition would depend entirely on the informatic topography of integration. IITC raises the possibility that 'conscious cognition' could be a thoroughgoing 'intraneural perspectival artifact,' not so different than the one informing the Ptolemaic conception of the universe. The idea is to look at consciousness, not as a problematic 'perspective' on the world mediated by a brain, but as a problematic perspective on a brain possessing a problematic perspective on the world. This is essentially what IITC and related theories surmise: consciousness is the result of accessing certain neural information in a certain way. Tononi's 'intrinsic perspective.' And this is why I've been selling you so hard on my paper Eric! Not simply because I need professional help (which I do), but because your book can be read as an exploration of the integrative information horizons of consciousness from the inside (as opposed to Tononi's outside approach). And your conclusions, I think, show that the answer to the Positioning Problem ain't going to be pretty. Consciousness is causal, but not in any way we should expect to be able to fathom given the information it gets. Tue Apr 10, 08:05:00 AM PDT Arnold: Sorry for missing your previous comment! No I don't think a theory aiming at full metaphysical generality will be isolated from empirical constraints. But I do think that someone aiming for a theory that encompasses weird aliens is playing a very different game from the person aiming for a theory that is silent about such hypothetical cases. To the extent a theory aims just to be about *human* consciousness, or *mammal* consciousness, or *consciousness in beings with brains*, it's unclear what implications it would have for the case of the U.S., since the U.S. is not human or mammalian or possessed of a single unified brain. That's the point of my remark about metaphysical generality. Scott: Thanks again for the helpful reference! I don't seem to remember getting a paper from you, so please feel free to resend. I find your comments above interesting but a bit too compressed to fully evaluate. Matt: I've always been attracted to the thought that privileging the small over the large causally and explanatorily is problematic. Rob Wilson calls privileging the small "smallism". Originally, some of John Dupre's work from the 1990s is what convinced me of this. I'm inclined to think that to the extent there's truth in smallism it's really not about size but rather about certain privileges the specifically detailed has over the coarse and approximate. In one of the papers of Tononi (in 2010) he say that the consciousness could be one emergency. If Tononi is an emergentist (in the sense ontological) seems that the notions of causality are redefined. Maybe the phenomena of low level (for its organization and complexity) produce a new level, which can not be reduced to the inferior level. And I seems that could be one downward causation (no is a epiphenomenon). To be clear, you have misread something in the theory. There are strong "Tononian grounds" to reject the consciousness of the US. The United States would not be conscious because Tononi employs an "exclusion principle" to deal with subsets. For instance, given a set of elements {ABC}, if the set {ABC} has a higher Phi value than any of its proper subsets {AB}, {BC}, {AC}. then the set {ABC} is the phenomenally real entity. Compare this to Kim's usage of an "exclusion argument" in philosophy of causality (different in details and usage, but they operate on the same principle). This "exclusion principle" is stated throughout Tononi's papers. The same would apply for supervenient macro phenomena - since the US government has less phi than the set of its citizens (which it supervenes on), the US government is excluded. It's essentially a problem of: once you've found the maxima, what do you do with the long tail of minima? A sensible answer is to exclude them. Your confusion stems from a misreading of Tononi. You've stated that complexes have liberal boundaries, but this is false in all formulations of his theory. Complexes cannot overlap - for any set of system elements, each element belongs only to a single complex. He has always held this view, and it is in his 2004 paper as well. Thus when you say there are no "Tononian grounds" for excluding the United States, that is incorrect. There may be reasons for excluding it that are not Tononian grounds, but under his grounds, it is strongly excluded. Right! This was based on 2004-2008 Tononi. I know he now uses an exclusion principle to rule out such cases. But I think that leads him into other troubles: http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-tononi-should-rethink-his-rejection.html csimmons said... The idea that a photodiode or transistor has some minimal amount of consciousness but that the U.S. has no consciousness because it is an aggregate seems ... non-intuitive ... to me. http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1668/20140167 Sat Jan 16, 09:29:00 PM PST On Whether the Rich Are Jerks Why Tononi Should Think That the United States Is ... Final Call for Papers: Consciousness and Moral Cog... 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JUST IN: Laila's biological mother takes stand in foster parents' trial It seemed like a blessing to Tessa Clendening. A woman she vaguely remembered from her childhood was offering to care for her two young daughters, at least until Clendening could get her life on track. Clendening had drug problems, and wasn't able to give the girls a Laila's biological mother thought foster parents were a blessing It seemed like a blessing to Tessa Daniel. A woman she vaguely remembered from her childhood was offering to care for her two young daughters, at least until Daniel could... 071719_HDH_RosenbaumRoundup McDONOUGH—Here is a recap of highlights thus far in the Jennifer and Joseph Rosenbaum trial in the 2015 death of foster child Laila Daniel, 2. JULY 8: Jury selection... Henry Herald 2019-07-16 Testimony continues on Rosenbaum murder trial McDONOUGH — Here is a recap of highlights thus far in the Jennifer and Joseph Rosenbaum trial in the 2015 death of foster child Laila Daniel, 2. JULY 8: Jury selection... Fewer photos, visits led mother to record Rosenbaum call McDONOUGH — Laila was sick again. Pictures of Laila grew less frequent. For these reasons, Tessa Clendening told a Henry County court, she started recording her... Sister, adoptive mom testify at Rosenbaum trial McDONOUGH — Doctor visits, a heartbreaking encounter in a Walmart and wrangling over allowing a teddy bear in court marked Friday's testimony in the murder trial of Jennifer and Joseph Rosenbaum. The pair are charged in the 2015 death of foster child Laila Daniel. Defense attorney Corrine M. Mull objected to a request that Millie be allowed to bring a small teddy bear that her... Henry Herald Convicted Dunwoody day care killer Hemy Neuman seeks new trial — again The Orthodox-inspired beard has been trimmed. He's a little heavier now and a bit more gray. On Tuesday, Hemy Neuman returned to a familiar setting: Courtroom 5-D of the DeKalb County Courthouse. The defendant in one of the most sensational trials in metro Atlanta's history, Neuman has faced judgment in the courtroom twice before, and both times he was sentenced to life in... Sudden death of baby in foster care under investigation LAWRENCE — The sudden death of a baby that was placed in a Lawrence foster home is under investigation, authorities confirmed Wednesday. The 15-month-old baby girl died Sunday morning after she was taken by ambulance to the Lawrence General Hospital emergency room, said Carrie Kimball, spokesperson for District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett. Kimball said the girl's foster father... Eagle-Tribune Indian toddler killed in US, internal organs were eaten by maggots The Indian-American foster father of Sherin, Wesley Mathews, in an unexpected move, pleaded guilty on Monday to injury to a child by omission, a lesser charge, at the start of what was supposed to be his capital murder trial. On the second day of the trial on Tuesday, 39-year-old Mathews said in a testimony that he raised his voice at Sherin while he was trying to get her to... Man wanted in Jackson County after allegedly abusing girlfriend's 1-year-old A 24-year-old man is wanted in Jackson County after allegedly abusing a 1-year-old. Justin Michael Taylor was taking care of his girlfriend's child alone June 29 when the incident occurred, according to a Jackson County Sheriff's Office wanted poster. Police did not go into detail about the injuries but said the infant has been released from the hospital and is in the mother's...

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At Newcastle, we provide quality teaching and a great student experience. Our awards, accreditations and student satisfaction survey results demonstrate our commitment. Newcastle University was founded in 1834 to educate the pioneers of the industrial revolution. Teaching was then, and is still, at the heart of our University: at Newcastle we educate for life, to develop and nurture successive generations of creative practitioners, clinicians, scientists, engineering and educationalists, and set them on the path to make their own mark on society. We are proud to have achieved the best possible outcome - a Gold Award - in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Based on the evidence available, the TEF Panel judged that Newcastle University delivers consistently outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes for its students. It is of the highest quality found in the UK. Find out about our excellent teaching and the many academics who help support our students from our TEF submission (PDF: 10.8 MB). We hold the QAA Quality Mark for our high quality of academic standards and learning. The QAA commended the wide range of ways we develop the employability of our students. You can read the full QAA review report online. We are proud of our academic staff for the quality of teaching they give to our students. In recognition of individual excellence, nine of our academics have received a National Teaching Fellowship. Our University library is the only one in the UK to have received the Charter Mark five times. We now hold the Customer Services Excellence award, which replaced the old award. As a university with a global reputation, we work hard to make sure our students receive a great experience. The high-quality student experience at Newcastle University is reflected in our rankings. We're joint 9th in Europe with 93% of students indicating they would recommend the University to family or friends, Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings 2018. We received a first place award in the University Compare Student Experience Awards 2017. The overall satisfaction levels for students on pathway programmes at INTO Newcastle University centre is 94% - the highest satisfaction of INTO's eight UK centres. 86% of Newcastle University students are satisfied with their experience, higher than the national average of 84% (National Student Survey 2018). 93% of international students stated they were satisfied with the University overall (International Student Barometer Autumn 2017). It's not just the academic student experience we're good at. Our Students' Union won Students' Union of the Year in the Educate North Awards 2018, and there was a 97% satisfaction rate for our Students' Union in the Autumn 2017 International Student Barometer. We also have a reputation for sporting excellence. We're ranked top ten in the British Universities and Colleges Sports League (BUCS) 2017-18, for the third year in a row. I have found my lecturers to be well qualified, really kind and ready to help if you have any problem or issue.

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Hugh O'Neill and the Tudors By the dawn of the 17th century only one region of Ireland was largely out of English control. To change this, the Gaelic Irish heir to Ulster- Hugh O'Neill- was raised under close watch of the English crown. So what went wrong? Why did Hugh O'Neill end up in full rebellion against Tudor Queen Elizabeth I? And what exactly was the Flight of the Earls? Podcaster: Christine Nicholas Canny. "Hugh O'Neill, second earl of Tyrone (c. 1550-1616)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004; Online edn, Jan 2008. Steven Ellis. Ireland in the Age of the Tudors: 1447-1603. United Kingdom: Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., 1998. John Guy. Tudor England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Margaret MacCurtain. Tudor and Stuart Ireland. Dublin: Richview Browne& Nolan Ltd., 1972. Hiram Morgan. "Hugh O'Neill and the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland." The Historical Journal. 36 (1993), pp 21-37. ​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)

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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso plans to withdraw its troops deployed in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur and to bring them home against a backdrop of growing security threats in the Sahel-Saharan region, the Burkinabe army's chief of staff said on Thursday. The West African country was rocked in January by an attack on a hotel and restaurant in its capital, Ouagadougou, claimed by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, that killed 30 people. The group has been targeting since November civilians at locations frequented by Westerners. It carried out attacks in Mali's capital Bamako and in a beach resort town in Ivory Coast, leaving dozens of people dead. But the current circumstances and the logistical costs "led us to a reassessment of the means deployed to support peace keeping theatres and consider the prospect of a withdrawal of one of our three battalions," he added. Burkina Faso, which is the eleventh-largest troop contributor to UN peacekeeping missions, has one battalion of 850 soldiers in Darfur and two battalions in Mali. A military source said the battalion to be withdrawn would be the one in Darfur. The withdrawal from Darfur has yet to be approved by the political authorities, Zagre said.

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After a young boy mistakenly calls them to earth, a race of Predators, the most lethal hunters in the universe are loose and must be contained. The local authorities begin conducting an extensive investigation to figure out how to deal with the newfound threat, enlisting the help of retired soldiers, law enforcement, and even a jaded science teacher. Through their efforts the team has to figure out the proper way to combat the Predators before their presence on Earth becomes more deadly. Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting blog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate. Young OB/GYN doctor Mindy balances her personal and professional life, surrounded by co-workers in a small office. This season Mindy is embracing motherhood, career advancement, and new romantic interest(s). Fuller House revolves around Full House characters D.J. Tanner (Candace Cameron Bure), Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin), and Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber) who found their way back to the house they grew up in and are now journeying through adulthood together.

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Understanding the Difference Between Maryland Civil and Criminal Claims May 17, 2022 | Lebowitz & Mzhen Following a major accident involving criminal charges, some victims may believe that because the state will be criminally prosecuting the at-fault party, this is the same as filing a personal injury lawsuit and receiving compensation. In reality, the criminal prosecution led by local authorities and a civil personal injury lawsuit that a victim of an accident may bring are completely different cases—even though they may both implicate and arise out of the same set of facts from the accident. Understanding this difference is crucial so that you do not miss out on the compensation that you deserve. According to a recent local news report, a major car accident involving multiple vehicles left at least one individual dead. Based on a preliminary investigation, a Mercedes failed to stop for a red light at an intersection and crashed into a Chevrolet. The Chevrolet then crashed into a Honda. Both the driver of the Chevrolet and the Honda were stopped at the intersection while waiting for the red light. The driver of the Chevrolet was declared dead on the scene and the driver of the Honda was transported to a local hospital by helicopter, where he later died. Based on this preliminary investigation, local authorities believe that speed and alcohol were both contributing factors to the accident. The details of the crash remain under investigation. What is the difference between a criminal and civil lawsuit in Maryland? Following a major car accident like the one described above, local authorities may prosecute the at-fault party if criminal wrongdoing, such as driving or operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol, was a contributing factor or the cause of an accident. The charges that local authorities bring against the at-fault party, however, do not involve compensation to the victims of the accident. Instead, they aim to punish or deter the at-fault driver through fines imposed by the government, jail time, community service, or suspension of a license. If you are a victim of a car accident where the at-fault party is being charged criminally, you should file a personal injury lawsuit separately. This claim would take place in civil court, separate from criminal court proceedings where local authorities charge the at-fault party, and would award damages or compensation to victims to help them financially recover from the accident. Although both the criminal case and your civil case may arise out and implicate the same facts and details from the car accident, that does not mean they are necessarily tied to each other or affect each other. For example, an at-fault party could be found not guilty in a criminal prosecution claiming that they were driving under the influence, but still required to pay damages in a separate civil personal injury lawsuit because their negligence contributed in some way to the crash. Do You Need a Maryland Personal Injury Lawyer? If you or someone you know was recently injured or killed in a Maryland car accident, contact the lawyers at Lebowitz & Mzhen today. Our lawyers have years of experience representing clients in all different types of claims and will work to get you the compensation you deserve. To schedule a free initial consultation today, contact us at 800-654-1949. Posted in: Car Accidents Updated: May 17, 2022 8:53 am

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Caryn brings her customer service orientation to her leadership position as the Training and Certification Program Director, working to promote the Association and its mission to better meet its members' professional development needs. With her expertise in personnel management she has developed full-day classes, conference workshops and webinars around a wide variety of topics including all aspects of effective human resource management. For the past twenty five years, Caryn has served as the Association's Membership Director, with her focus on strategic thinking, assessing and implementing activities and services that provide value to members and promote membership growth and retention. Additionally, for five years, Ms. Souza served as Executive Director of the Association for Commuter Transportation and before joining CTAA, she was a Human Resource Director at Macy's.

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Tag: O'Brien Flann O'Brien's Novel At Swim-Two-Birds Is a Postmodernist Masterpiece of Comic Storytelling February 11, 2013 February 11, 2013 Edwin Turner15 Comments The vibrant force of storytelling in Flann O'Brien's excellent first novel At Swim-Two-Birds threatens to overwhelm reader and narrator alike—and what a strange joy it is to be overwhelmed. This novel overflows with stories; its plot threads twist into each other, break out of each other, erupt into new ideas, characters, riffs, sketches. First published in 1939—the same year as James Joyce's Finnegans Wake—At Swim-Two-Birds seems light years ahead of its time—indeed, this is a book that is still ahead of its time. Summarizing At Swim-Two-Birds is difficult but worth attempting. We have an unnamed narrator, a student living with his uncle who doesn't think much of how his nephew spends his time. Our narrator likes to imbibe large quantities of porter and wax philosophical with his friends about his literary projects. These projects, our narrator's riffs and scribblings, begin to take on lives of their own: they intersect, overlap, intermarry, degenerate and regenerate. The book's opening paragraph announces the novel's intention to disregard the classical unities of action, place, and time: Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings. First, we meet "Pooka MacPhellimey, a member of the devil class," a hobgoblin of Irish folklore (he turns out to be a thoughtful and polite fellow). Then, there's John Furriskey, who "was born at the age of twenty-five and entered the world with a memory but without a personal experience to account for it." Furriskey is the literary creation of another of the narrator's literary creations, one Dermot Trellis, a grumpy old man who writes Westerns; Trellis (an author, it's worth reiterating) is the eventual antagonist of the novel, the target for all of the other characters' vengeance. The third opening offers up Finn Mac Cool, "a legendary hero of old Ireland." Much of the early part of At Swim-Two-Birds features Finn Mac Cool holding forth on all matters Irish in wonderfully baroque and hyperbolic passages. Here's a snippet (a long one!), featuring Finn on the ideal man: When pursued by a host, he must stick a spear in the world and hide behind it and vanish in its narrow shelter or he is not taken for want of sorcery. Likewise he must hide beneath a twig, or behind a dried leaf, or under a red stone, or vanish at full speed into the seat of his hempen drawers without changing his course or abating his pace or angering the men of Erin. Two young fosterlings he must carry under the armpits to his jacket through the whole of Erin, and six arm-bearing warriors in his seat together. If he be delivered of a warrior or a blue spear, he is not taken. One hundred head of cattle he must accommodate with wisdom about his person when walking all Erin, the half about his armpits and the half about his trews, his mouth never halting from the discoursing of sweet poetry. One thousand rams he must sequester about his trunks with no offence to the men of Erin, or he is unknown to Finn. He must swiftly milk a fat cow and carry milk-pail and cow for twenty years in the seat of his drawers. When pursued in a chariot by the men of Erin he must dismount, place horse and chariot in the slack of his seat and hide behind his spear, the same being stuck upright in Erin. Unless he accomplishes these feats, he is not wanted of Finn. But if he do them all and be skillful, he is of Finn's people. It's hard not to feel something of Joyce in the passage (I'm particularly reminded of the Cyclops episode of Ulysses), and O'Brien's narrator name-checks Joyce (along with Aldous Huxley) in the first few pages of the book. The narrator's comically mechanical and precise descriptions also recall Joyce. Joyce and O'Brien drew from the same well of mythology, but O'Brien more keenly attunes his focus on Irish legend and folklore in At Swim-Two-Birds, while Joyce's project skews to archetypes. Similarities and divergences aside, there's something strangely fitting about O'Brien's Finn Mac Cool dreaming his way into other characters' lives in At Swim-Two-Birds, as if this Finn is the psychic twin of Joyce's Finn. Indeed, such a reading would fit neatly into our young narrator's ideas about the function of character in literature: Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find a suitable existing puppet. The modern novel should be largely a work of reference. Most authors spend their time saying what has been said before – usually said much better. A wealth of references to existing works would acquaint the reader instantaneously with the nature of each character, would obviate tiresome explanations and would effectively preclude mountebanks, upstarts, thimble-riggers and persons of inferior education from an understanding of contemporary literature. This decree strikes me as wonderfully post-postmodernist. That the "modern novel should be largely a work of reference" finds its suitable echo over half a century later in the note-card novels of David Markson (and other reality smugglers). The citation above serves as a metatextual description of At Swim-Two-Birds itself: O'Brien's narrator framing the various tales that erupt in the novel, but also undoing the frames, allowing his characters to converge, to tell their own stories (and within those stories characters tell other stories…). In its finest moments (of which there are many), At Swim-Two-Birds operates on an ad hoc logic that it creates and describes in motion, a kind of improvised dream response pattern. Most books, particularly postmodern books, teach the reader how to read them—that is, most novels provide keys, hints, and reading rules early enough in the text to allow perceptive readers to interpret (subjectively, of course) what the novel is doing. O'Brien's novel in toto, with its discontinuities, gaps, eruptions, and juxtapositions, paradoxically is its own discrete, unified key. But I seem to be getting bogged down in a bit of literary theory, which is not my intent at all. Instead, let me draw attention to a wonderful extended jaunt in the middle of At Swim-Two-Birds where the Pooka MacPhellimey enters into an ersatz quest with the Good Fairy, two cowboyish thugs (or thuggish cowboys) named Slug and Shorty, the poet Jem Casey, and the mad King Sweeny. This ragtag band sets out to bequeath gifts to the forthcoming child of Miss Lamont (the creation of a creation of a creation). These episodes unfold in comic bravado, their slapstick rhythms recalling the manic but precise energy of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin and the linguistic brio of the Marx brothers. This miniature picaresque is tempered in sweet pathos for poor crazy Sweeny who must be plied forward with the promise of a feast. The poor man, broken, starving, and living solely on watercress, falls into despair. What eventually moves him? The force of language: And getting around the invalid in a jabbering ring, they rubbed him and cajoled and coaxed, and plied him with honey-talk and long sweet-lilted sentences full of fine words, and promised him metheglin and mugs of viscous tarblack mead thickened with white yeast and the spoils from hives of mountain-bees, and corn-coarse nourishing farls of wheaten bread dipped in musk-scented liquors and sodden with Belgian sherry, an orchard and a swarm of furry honey-glutted bees and a bin of sun-bronzed grain from the granaries of the Orient in every drop as it dripped at the lifting of the hand to the mouth, and inky quids of strong-smoked tabacca with cherrywood pipes, hubble-bubbles, duidins, meerschaums, clays, hickory hookahs and steel-stemmed pipes with enamel bowls, the lot of them laid side by side in a cradle of lustrous blue plush, a huge pipe-case and pipe-rack ingeniously combined and circumscribed with a durable quality of black imitation leather over a framework of stout cedarwood dovetailed and intricately worked and made to last, the whole being handsomely finished and untouched by hand and packed in good-quality transparent cellophane, a present calculated to warm the cockles of the heart of any smoker. They also did not hesitate to promise him sides of hairy bacon, the mainstay and the staff of life of the country classes, and lamb-chops still succulent with young blood, autumn-heavy yarns from venerable stooping trees, bracelets and garlands of browned sausages and two baskets of peerless eggs fresh-collected, a waiting hand under the hen's bottom. They beguiled him with the mention of salads and crome custards and the grainy disorder of pulpy boiled rhubarb, matchless as a physic for the bowels, olives and acorns and rabbit-pie, and venison roasted on a smoky spit, and mulatto thick-tipped delphy cups of black-strong tea. They foreshadowed the felicity of billowy beds of swansdown carefully laid crosswise on springy rushes and sequestered with a canopy of bearskins and generous goatspelts, a couch for a king with fleshly delectations and fifteen hundred olive-mellow concubines in constant attendance against the hour of desire. Chariots they talked about and duncrusted pies exuberant with a sweat of crimson juice, and tall crocks full of eddying foam-washed stout, and wailing prisoners in chains on their knees for mercy, humbled enemies crouching in sackcloth with their upturned eye-whites suppliant. They mentioned the leap of a fire on a cold night, long sleeps in the shadows and leaden-eyed forgetfulness hour on hour – princely oblivion. And as they talked, they threaded through the twilight and the sudden sun-pools of the wild country. I've perhaps overshared here, let our characters babble on too long—but the verbal dexterity of the passage above illustrates O'Brien's rhetorical force, the force he lends his characters in order that they should move their insane and desperate friend forward. There's a sublime alchemy at work here, where imagination turns into words and words turn into food and drink. I also fear these big chunks of text I've pulled from At Swim-Two-Birds don't highlight O'Brien's extraordinary talent at rendering speech. The dialogue in this novel is hilarious but nuanced, its ironies rarely if ever remarked upon by intrusive attributions. That O'Brien's narrator's characters (and their characters…) speak through the layers of texts adds to the book's juxtapositions. These juxtapositions will perhaps confuse or even alienate many readers. At Swim-Two-Birds can be read as an attack on the classical unities of action, place, and time. O'Brien's novel is a send-up of stability, order, and tradition. Some of the novel's best moments are its strangest indulgences, as when O'Brien (or his narrator) gives the novel over to citations from imaginary antique texts, or allows his characters to indulge in a seemingly endless recitation of obscure facts, or satirizes the moral dangers of tea-tasting. These moments seem to erupt from nowhere, bizarre, wonderful, joyous. At Swim-Two-Birds lacks the cohesion of theme and voice that characterizes O'Brien's other masterpiece, The Third Policeman, but this is hardly a deficiency. At Swim-Two-Birds is one of those rare books that actually deserves to be called dazzling, a critic's crutch-word that mars too many blurbs. Its dazzle derives from its rhetorical force, its humor, and its openness to experiment with not just the novelistic form, but the form of storytelling itself. And it's here that O'Brien's novel is most real—he captures the strangeness of storytelling, its mutability, its crazy rhythms. Ultimately, this is a novel unconcerned with providing pat answers and clear solutions. I loved this book, loved reading it—and then immediately rereading it. I'll let O'Brien get the last word: Answers do not matter so much as questions, said the Good Fairy. A good question is very hard to answer. The better the question the harder the answer. There is no answer at all to a very good question. Posted in Books, Literature, Reviews, WritersTagged Aldous Huxley, analysis, Book review, Brian O'Nolan, Buster Keaton, Comedy, David Markson, Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien, Ireland, James Joyce, Joyce, O'Brien, Postmodernism, Review, Swim-Two-Birds Book Acquired, 2.15.2012 February 20, 2012 February 20, 2012 Biblioklept2 Comments Peter Behren's The O'Briens. An unforgettable saga of love, loss, and exhilarating change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless family, from the author of the acclaimed novel The Law of Dreams. The O'Briens is a family story unlike any told before, a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O'Brien—grandson of a potato-famine emigrant, and a backwoods boy, railroad magnate, patriarch, brooding soul—Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling riches and consuming sorrows of the twentieth century. When Joe meets Iseult Wilkins in Venice, California, the story of their courtship—told in Behrens's gorgeous, honed style—becomes the first movement in a symphony of the generations. Husband and wife, brothers, sisters-in-law, children and grandchildren, the O'Briens engage unselfconsciously with their century, and we experience their times not as historical tableaux but as lives passionately lived. At the heart of this clan—at the heart of the novel—is mystery and madness grounded in the history of Irish sorrow. The O'Briens is the story of a man, a marriage, and a family, told with epic precision and wondrous imagination. Posted in Books, Literature, WritersTagged Book Acquired, Canada, Iseult, Joe, Law of Dreams, O'Brien, O'Brien dynasty, Peter Behren, The Great Famine

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Need just for the lock ring. Wish the lock ring was sold separate. Closed transfer from Speidel to Keg. Add to top of Speidel. need the collars for the Thermowells. My spigot is leaking and I just nuked my 6gallon batch of Cider, getting ready to ferment. I decided to buy an extra one of these to use as a blow off on top of the fermenter instead of the large airlock. It matched the one which started to leak, but only after about 15 years. You dont seem to sell the replacement gasket, so I hope it comes with a new gasket which is what I really need. Because the fermenters only came with one locking nut and you need two if you want to use mods. How do you take the Speidel spigot assembly apart so that you can use the sleeve to attach this dip tube? BEST ANSWER: The orange spigot will come out of the white plastic piece, it will take a good push. I press the bottom (where the beer comes out) against my counter while rotating the handle. It will pop out, then the whole thing comes apart. I found that you can reassemble the spigot from either direction and it provides a lower or higher position for the drain, check when you reassemble which way you want it. Turn the spigot so that it is perpendicular to the orange ring, then hold the white piece and push the spigot up and out. Sometimes it helps tops the white part into the ring from the back, and push down while holding everything on the edge of a table or something. The white plastic part of the spigot pops out. Use the same silicone washer that comes with the plastic one and slide the dip tube through the open orange thread. Viola! You would just need the orange threaded cap --- twist and remove the orange lever. then you can easily remove the white plastic part. Those who mentioned problems with leaking here should be careful to correctly fit the included O-ring to the white plastic sub-assembly before securing the locking ring. Also, the orange part of the valve is difficult to disassemble the first time, but if a little keg lube is used prior to reassembling, all goes together easily with just finger pressure and the valve is easy to operate. The plastic spigots for the Speidel Plastic Fermenters are okay but I have found that over time they start to leak. Basically they work fine until that happens but they do need to be replaced from time to time. Insert about the first 3 inches of your 3/8 inch pvc beer line into very hot (about 180 deg F) water for about15 seconds to soften it. Work quickly and slide tubing all the way, as far as it can go, onto orange spigot end. This makes for a very reliable connection, once it cools, so long as you do not pull hard on beer line. Works for me! This spigot is the only weak point to Spiedel fermenters. They are oddly the wrong size for standard homebrewing hoses. To attach a 3/8" vinyl hose I have to stretch it with pliers first, and then try not to skin my knuckles putting it on. A 1/2" hose is too big. Opening and closing the spigot also rotates the attached hose, which can lead to it falling off or other messy issues. Spend the money on the chrome spigot and you'll be happier with your Speidel! Insert about the last 3 inches of your 3/8 inch pvc beer line into very hot water for about 15 seconds. Work quickly and slip onto spigot end. Make sure it is pushed all the way on, as far as it can go. This makes for a very reliable connection, once it has cooled, so long as you do not pulled hard on beer line. Works for me! I use a 3/8 in silicon hose, which fits nicely on the spigot. Both spigots work great but they are a little tricky to put back together after cleaning them. If the orange spigot is not fully inserted back into the holder, it may leak. Mine really has to be forced down until it snaps into place. Also these do include a gasket. Not sure why others have had leaking issues. NO leaks here, with 12 gallon batches! This nozzle can also be used on the TOP of the fermenter, which you can use to attach tubing for an airlock - AND to apply a SMALL amount of pressure with CO2 to force the beer out the bottom nozzle, and into kegs (or through a filter between the fermenter and keg, saving time and effort). LOVE IT! I have seven fermenters of various sizes. This spigot is unreliable as far as leaking. All of the spigots have leaked at various times. I have to keep turning the valve back and forth to get it to stop leaking. I have one that won't stop leaking. Poor design. I will replace the spigots with solid caps. Speidel makes high quality items, this is no exception.

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Includes fibre glass items and coloured bristle tubes to customise your floats. Cralusso DIY Bristle Pack includes fibre glass items and coloured bristle tubes to customise your floats exactly to your own specifications. Cralusso Bristle Set - an assortment of different coloured bristles in various thicknesses to fit Cralusso flat floats. Cralusso Waggler Antennae Set - A set of 9 bristles with carbon fibre stems which will insert in the top of the Cralusso wagger system.

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On Sunday, January 27, the women of MBBC came together to be encouraged by the stories of God's faithfulness in the lives of women in our church. The dinner was a combination of fellowship, reflection, and a sharing of what God has done in the lives of women from MBBC. Be sure to click on the links at the bottom of this page to see pictures from the evening and to listen to the stories shared that night by Elouise Williams and Kristy Parrott. Also, press play on the videos below to see testimonies given by Catherine Allen, Toye Gannon, Anne Gibbons, Rachel Hubbard, Ginger Phillips, Sarah Rich, and Kristen Watson.

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2018 polls: Unofficial results show PTI leading as vote counting underway Pakistan Important News Lahore/Islamabad (Staff Report): Imran Khan's party seems all set to form the next government in the country. As per unofficial and unconfirmed results, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is leading in as much as 109 seats. The PML-N and PPP are ahead in 68 and 37 seats respectively. A party can only form the government if it manages to clinch 172 seats in total. قوم کو نیا پاکستان مبارک! وزیر اعظم عمران خان #Eleccion2018 — Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) July 25, 2018 PTI's Shah Mahmood Qureshi won from NA-156 (Multan-3) by securing 93497 votes, whereas his opponent PML-N's Amir Saeed Ansari got 73529 votes. This has been the culmination of 22 years of struggle. I can honestly say I have given my best for Pakistan. Now I leave the rest to Allah. https://t.co/DHO8zDHuN6 — Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) July 23, 2018 In Punjab, the PML-N is currently leading the race with 137 provincial seats but PTI is closing in with 115 seats. Meanwhile, PTI is clearly steering ahead in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 62 seats against Awami National Party (ANP), which currently has 10 seats, as per the results from 16% polling stations across the province. Independent candidates are leading in 14, Muttahida Majlis Amal 10 and Grand Democratic Alliance in 08 constituencies. The polling started at 8am and ended at 6pm on Wednesday. Over 12,570 candidates are in the run for seats of National and four provincial assemblies. Against the National Assembly's seats, about 3,675 candidates are in the electoral race whereas about 8,895 for the provincial legislatures of all four provinces. According to the data shared by the ECP, 1,696 candidates are vying for the National Assembly's constituencies from Punjab and 4,242 for the provincial legislature. From Sindh, 872 are contesting for the National Assembly seats and 2,382 for the provincial assembly. READ MORE: Two missiles fired at Ukraine airliner, confirms Iran Total contesting candidates for the National Assembly from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are 760 and 1,264 for the provincial assembly. For Balochistan's National Assembly seats, there are a total of 303 candidates and 1,007 for its provincial assembly seats. In Islamabad, 76 candidates are in the race for three seats of National Assembly. According to the electoral rolls, 105.96 million voters were eligible to cast the vote. In all, 85,307 polling stations were set up across the country. READ MORE: Parliamentary panel appoints Sikandar Sultan Raja as CEC A public holiday was also observed on the polling day. According to an ECP official, 5,878 of the polling stations were declared as highly sensitive were from Sindh province, 5,487 from Punjab and Islamabad, 3,874 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA, and 1,768 from Balochistan. The official said a total of 85,307 polling stations were set up in all the four provinces, FATA and the federal capital. 47,813 of the polling stations were in Punjab, 17,747 in Sindh, 12,634 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 4,420 in Balochistan, 797 in the federal capital and 1,896 in FATA. Tagged pti counting votes underway unofficial neo tv PTI's Arbab Amir Ayub wins NA-4 by-election Will quit ministry, politics on day of Panama case verdict, announces ... '78th Resolution Day' celebrations commence with military parade ... 09:58 AM, 23 Mar, 2018

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Working South Africans: here's what they earn, at which jobs 25 June 2019 - 08:58 By timeslive When job hunting, a tertiary qualification is more important in some industries than others. Image: 123RF/Julief514 Almost one in three working people in South Africa earns less than the national minimum wage. This is according to a salary benchmarking survey by Giraffe, an automated recruitment platform. "Reducing poverty and inequality - and boosting employment - have long been on the agenda of South Africa's development policies and programmes. However, South Africa has the highest level of inequality in the world - and significant effort will be needed to address this," said the company at the launch of the report on Tuesday. According to the report, the average salary for working South Africans is R6,400 a month. Retail is the biggest industry, employing 18% of the workforce - but is also one of the worst-paying, with 40% of workers earning below minimum wage. The next biggest employer is the call-centre industry, which employs 11% of the workforce. Banking and IT pay some of the highest salaries, but employ only 8% of the working population. Not all of the industries require high-level qualifications. The construction industry for instance pays welders and boilermakers an average salary of R11,500 a month. South Africans share their first salary memories South Africans took to Twitter to share what they did with their first salary, under the hashtag #WhatIDidWithMyFirstSalary. Giraffe said the living wage - income required for a dignified quality of life - is R6,570 and 70% of the working population earns below this amount. According to the law, the minimum wage is R20 an hour or R3,500 a month, depending on the number of hours worked. Despite this, the report finds that 29% of working people earn less than the national minimum wage. According to the survey, the retail sector pays an average salary of "just R4,540". Supermarkets pay the lowest salaries, followed by restaurants and hotels. A large proportion of employees in supermarkets (67%) and restaurants (50%) earn below minimum wage. Employers who fail to pay employees in line with the national minimum wage may be subject to a fine. According to the report's authors, "The fine is calculated per employee as the greater amount of double the value of the underpayment or double the employee's monthly wage. "Employers should further bear in mind that paying at least a living wage will result in increased employee satisfaction and lower staff attrition, which combined will provide a better return on investment than short-term attempts to increasing margins by reducing staff costs." There is hope for those aiming to earn higher salaries: education. "Tertiary education is a major driver of salary, with workers with a tertiary qualification earning on average 72% more than people without a tertiary qualification," said Giraffe. In its sample, 7% of the applicants had a degree and 62% had a matric qualification or less. Graph showing how a tertiary qualification boosts employees' earnings Image: Giraffe.co.za salary benchmark survey Senior employees (aged 36 and older) with degrees or diplomas are paid best in IT and technology, construction, legal and HR, according to the report. Senior employees without degrees or diplomas are paid best in IT and tech, banking, accounting and finance. These are therefore the best industries for jobseekers to get into if they lack a tertiary qualification. There is only an 18% difference in salary between call-centre agents with degrees or diplomas and those without tertiary qualifications. "This shows that these roles are highly accessible to employees without tertiary qualifications, and still pay above living wage," states the report. Industries with the highest differences in salary between degreed vs non-degreed employees are: manufacturing and supply chain (95%); HR and legal (94%); government or non-profit (90%); and education (89%). Comparing junior salaries (aged between 18 and 24) and senior salaries (aged 36 and older) shows a wide range in earning potential between industries. IT workers, accounting professionals and artisans have the highest earning trajectory as they gain experience. "Welders and boilermakers have the highest starting salaries and are in some of the top-earning positions, highlighting the need for skilled artisans and negating the perception that manual work is not a viable career option," states the report. In contrast, cleaners, warehouse staff, restaurant staff and retail staff have the lowest earnings growth potential. Security guards have the lowest growth trajectory (25%) but have a relatively high starting salary (R3,900) compared with cleaners and cashiers, who start around R2,600 a month. Security guards, scooter drivers and call-centre agents are best options for jobless youth Young people are desperate for work and slowly losing hope of ever finding employment. For people working in sales, the report shows where opportunities can be found. "The education sector pays its salespeople best - perhaps reflecting the lucrative nature of private sector tertiary education. Healthcare and IT also pay salespeople well. Construction and transport pay junior salespeople best. "Retail and marketing pay salespeople the worst - the latter reflecting the large number of field sales agents and promoters in South Africa, who typically sell low-end insurance and telecoms products. While call-centre sales might be a good entry-level sales job, career progression appears limited." When promotions come, managers' salaries vary significantly by industry. Managers in IT, HR/legal, banking and construction are compensated best, while managers who earn the least work in retail, supermarkets and restaurants. Giraffe analysed its database of close to 1-million medium-skilled candidates to generate the salary survey. It settled on a sample size of 131,699 workers - 87% of whom were aged between 18 and 35. Salaries ranged from R1,000 to R90,000 a month. The online recruitment platform said its report is relevant for HR departments and small businesses who hire junior- to medium-skilled staff and would like to understand market salaries by industry and function. Siobhan Zurnamer, who led the research, explained: "Employers - especially small businesses - often don't know how much to pay their staff and jobseekers frequently don't know what their skillset is worth. "We find that the large discrepancies in salaries for equal work to be attributed to the inaccessibility of credible and fair salary reports, so we felt compelled to create one." Woman arrested taking selfies in Sea Point gets the job she nearly lost Good news for 23-year-old Esethu Mcinjana: she got the job that she hoped for. Six solutions to tackle unemployment and education barriers, according to the DA Here's what the DA would do to make changes affecting the youth. Get-ahead youth grab future with both hands Rising unemployment and living expenses have brought out the hustle in many young South Africans 35'000 applications for 4'000 security positions in City of Joburg The City of Johannesburg has received 35'000 applications after it announced that it would be in-sourcing 4'000 security personnel.

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The Meaning of Marg bar. A recent guest post at the Log by Reza Mirsajadi clears up a point that had eluded me even though I studied Persian fairly intensively for a while: For much of my adult life, whenever I have had to defend the Iranian people to conservatives, they have fought back with the "Death to America" argument. This more or less amounts to "They [Iranians] want to kill us, they said so!" I am so fed up with these misconceptions, and the news media and translators need to take responsibility for their part in it. As someone who does a lot of translating, I understand that there is an ethical component to the craft. People rely on your work to understand the Other. For this reason, cultural context is absolutely imperative. The "Death to ___" chant commonly heard in Iranian political protests for well over sixty years, is a mistranslation. Yes, the Farsi word "marg" can translate to "death," but "marg bar ___" translates to "Down with ___" […] Furthermore, the "down with ___" chant as it is used today is not about a violent overthrow or physically harming the people of a nation. The phrase became popular during the Persian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911), when political activists would chant "zende ba ___" ("long live ___") in support of a policy or leader, or "marg bar ___" in opposition. These two phrases became entrenched within Iranian political discourse, and during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, swarms of protestors took to the streets chanting "marg bar Shah" to express their dissatisfaction with Iran's monarchy. "Marg bar ___" and "zende ba ___" have continued to live on as colloquial phrases incorporated into political chants, and they have been appropriated to express opposition to or support for any number of subjects. While the phrase "marg bar" has not made its way into most Farsi or Farsi-English dictionaries, it is commonly understood in Iran as an idiom without violent intent. That would have been nice to know forty years ago when I was watching Iranian crowds chant, but it's never too late to learn. Dmitry Pruss says Kind of super-fine parsing here. Marg means death. But the word one uses for "death" / "demise" can also mean "end", right? Like in English, one can kill in a sense of causing death, or in a sense of bringing something to its end. Kill (verb) cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing). "her father was killed in a car crash" synonyms: murder, take/end the life of, assassinate, eliminate, terminate, dispatch, finish off, put to death, execute; put an end to or cause the failure or defeat of (something). "the committee voted to kill the project" synonyms: destroy, put an end to, end, extinguish, dash, quash, ruin, wreck, shatter, smash, crush, scotch, thwart; When one uses the 2nd meaning of "to kill", it is an extension of the primary meaning. How do we quantify the "leftover connotation of violence"? For Farsi "marg", it looks like the same set of two related meanings, with "death" being primary (also attested by such cognates as English mortal or Russian мёртвый) and the "political or ideological demise" (as we are told) being secondary and relatively recent. And now we are expected to argue the fine points, to what extent the connotations of violence flow from one to another? Khrushchev's "We will bury you" has a similar backstory. Next they will say that 打倒美帝!doesn't mean "Smash American imperialists!", I suppose. Linguistic revisionism at its best. I am not sure what you mean by "similar backstory", but no way "we will bury you" can be interpreted as something an undertaker might say to a prospective client as part of a contract negotiation. Maybe in something like Babel's story… Otherwise, active participation in the process of reducing someone to the state of needing a burial is unambiguously implied. Khrushchev's "We will bury you" I remember reading that this literal translation, which horrified the Americans, did not indicate an intention to kill or destroy but meant "We will outlast you", specifically "Our regime will last longer than yours". minus273 says "打倒美帝" really, literally, doesn't mean "Smash American imperialists". To "smash" is "打碎", a manner-result construction: by hitting ("打"), causing something to break into little pieces ("碎"). On the other hand, "倒" means to fall down, so "打倒" is to hit something so as for it to fall down, "knock down" or "knock over". Thanks for clarification. But surely you won't argue that this term is "an idiom without violent intent". My favorite is 打倒蒙修! (Knock over Mongolian revisionists!) This is from a little known episode of the Cultural Revolution. In 1967, embassy of the Mongolian People's Republic in Bejing was besieged by Red Guards who carried the following slogans: "打倒美帝!" (Knock down American imperialists!) "打倒苏修!" (Knock down Soviet revisionists!) "打倒蒙修!" (Knock down Mongolian revisionists!) "打倒美帝、苏修的奴才泽登巴尔!" (Knock down American imperialists and Soviet slave Tsedenbal*!) "一切反华的人决没有好下场!" (Anti-Chinese persons all end badly!) "我们的伟大领袖毛主席万岁!万万岁!" (Long live our great chairman Mao Ze Dong! May he live 10 thousand times 10 thousand years!) Bathrobe says I've never really understood what 'Down with…' means in English, even. Of course it means 'in a downward direction', and presumably means that the subject should 'come down' from a position of power, but in the end it just seems to be a fossilised slogan. I guess it's related to French à bas, which also seems to me to be pretty abstract. Nice to hear that native speakers are of the same opinion! And now we are expected to argue the fine points, to what extent the connotations of violence flow from one to another? That's not a "fine point," it's a crucial difference, the difference between waving a knife and a finger at someone. Translating marg bar as "death to" is like translating down with into some language with the equivalent of "move to a lower position." It's just plain bad translation, and in this case has very unfortunate consequences. Lameen says To form any opinion on this, I felt like I needed to see how else this slogan was used. When I google "مرگ بر" -"مرگ بر آمریکا" -"مرگ بر امریکا" and attempt to apply my half-remembered rudimentary Persian to the results, here are the first three pages of targets of "Marg bar", categorized: Specific people: مرگ بر حمد – Down with (Shaykh) Hamad (of Bahrain) مرگ بر شاه – Down with Shah (English translation given) مرگ بر شاه خائن – Down with the treasonous Shah مرگ بر شاه سابق – Down with the former Shah مرگ بر کرزی – Down with Karzai درخواست اعدام موسوی و کروبی / مرگ بر موسوی، کروبی، خاتمی – Petition for the execution of Moussawi and Karroubi: Down with Moussawi, Karroubi, Khatami…" مرگ بر اصل ولایت فقیه (خامنه ای) – Down with the origin of theocracy (Khamenei) Classes of people: مرگ بر فتنه گر – Down with spreaders of dissension ﻣﺮگ ﺑﺮ ﺧﺎﺋﻨﻴﻦ ، ﻣﺮگ ﺑﺮ وﻃﻨﻔﺮوﺷﺎن *- Down with traitors and nation-betrayers مرگ بر منافق – Down with the hypocrite مرگ بر طایفه – Down with the sect مرگ بر دیکتاتور – Down with the dictator مرگ بر ایران – Down with Iran مرگ بر سایر کشورها – Down with all countries مرگ بر انگليس – Down with England مرگ بر اسرائیل – Down with Israel Abstract ideals: مرگ بر عشق – Down with love (title of a film originally made in English) مرگ بر ضد ولایت فقیه یعنی مرگ بر احمق‌ها – "Down with anti-theocracy" means "down with idiots" مرگ بر این آزادی – Down with this freedom «مرگ بر دموکراسی» و «مرگ بر حقوق بشر» "Down with democracy" and "Down with human rights" ! مرگ بر زندگی – Down with life مرگ بر حکومت اسلامى – Down with Islamic government General situations: مرگ بر این ساعت – Down with this time مرگ بر جهان شما – Down with your world مرگ بر نرم‌افزار نفوذی' – Down with pirated software Clearly if you can use it with non-living things, then "Death to…" is not an adequate translation. At the same time, when used with individuals, it often seems to show up in contexts where death really is being sought, such as the Shah, or that "Petition for the execution of Moussawi and Karroubi". I wonder whether, for (some?) speakers of Persian in some contexts, this slogan is inherently ambiguous between literal and figurative readings – in which case there really wouldn't be any good simple way to translate it. -مرگ بر سایر کشورها – Down with all countries Surely that's "Death to other countries"? Found this interesting discussion which seems to take a view that chanting "death to other countries" is an unfortunate habit and bad for diplomacy, but argues that exception should be made for "Death to Russia", because, well, they deserve it… https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ensafnews.com%2F47621%2Fچرا-مرگ-بر-روسیه-نمی-گوییم؟%2F&edit-text=&act=url At the same time, when used with individuals, it often seems to show up in contexts where death really is being sought But "Down with…" can also be used in contexts where death really is being sought, as can all such turns of phrase, humanity being the violent species it is. The point is not whether it can be so used but whether it must be interpreted that way, and clearly that's not the case. And it's not an academic argument, because a false reading of the phrase is used to justify violent attitudes in return. It seems like it overlaps with English "to hell with…" though that is not usually used in demonstration chants and signs. the difference between waving a knife and a finger at someone. I'm ready to argue that there is a lot of room in between, and that the same expression may elicit different responses from different native speakers. "Down with the Czar" was a call for physical removal, not for mere "disapproval", and it did take waving guns, and to no one's surprise it did culminate in a grizzly regicide. "Down with Israel" / "death to it" surely isn't a mere call for shame and criticism, since its pushers expressed their wish for the destruction of Israel in many addition ways and forms. Politics may be a higher-end abstraction of violence, of course, so yelling for violent destruction of someone's enemies doesn't have to mean that one's ready to take a knife and kill; that's what the armies and the law enforcement and likewise "authorized killers" are usually for. To what extent does it make the call "less violent"? Back to English "to kill" and its reflections in Russian native usage. There is no difference in Russian between "to kill" and "to murder", and the etymology of Russian "убить" "to murder / kill" is transparently violent, like "beat away". Around the time of Iranian Revolution, there was still no way to utter the word in Russian and not to mean violence. But the decades which followed eroded the link, mostly due to the flow of translated English. The 2nd English meaning, "bringing to an end", gradually took root in Russian as well, and now the violent connotations differ depending on age and social layer. Yeah, that's a good comparison (with that caveat). It would be foolish to interpret saying "To hell with…" as meaning "I am going to kill you and send you to hell." My biggest problem with this it that it assumes translation must be based on the assumption your readers are idiots and simpletons who cannot understand metaphor, hyperbole and the like. That other people with knowledge of Farsi, both here and at the LL comment thread, do not universally agree with this particular guy's view makes one more suspicious, if only because it underscores the danger that as one moves down the slope from woodenly-literal translation to free paraphrase, the personal agenda of the paraphraser becomes more and more important to the outcome. JW, I read the commentaries at Language Log. None of the Farsi speakers actually contradicts Mirsajadi's point. Yeah, I'd like you to point to people with knowledge of Farsi who say "No, this guy's wrong, it means we literally want to kill the people we're yelling about." Because I haven't seen any. I do see non-Farsi-speaking people who are apparently reluctant to give up their previous understanding of the phrase, but that's normal mulishness. As a non-native but advanced speaker of Persian I want to strongly disagree with Mirsajadi. The "down with" translation is very clearly one with an intent to soften "marg bar" and make those chanting it seem less fanatical. A desire with which I sympathize, but which I find inaccurate. The truth is, the phrase is ambiguous, even for native speakers. It certainly has a violent intent for many of the people who use it. Lameen tried to categorize the uses of the phrase, but the very most common are: marg bar amrika, marg bar israel, marg bar engelis (England), marg bar fetnehgaran (those who led the protests in 2009), marg bar monafeqin (the MEK), and marg bar zed-e velayat-e faqih (those opposed to the government system led by a senior cleric.) "Down with them" is so lame. It connotes none of the anger and desire for the destruction of the entity being cursed. While Mirsajadi is right that marg bar amrika (for instance) does not mean the chanter wants the people of America to die, this is a problem of translating amrika, rather than marg bar. The chanter definitely wants the United States government to perish. Perhaps the best translation, at least in terms of intent and content, would be "may X be destroyed." to hell with … It seems to me that in current North American English this phrase does not mean "May (X) die and go to hell" (although this may have been the original) but "I don't want to hear about this any more" (from "let it stay in hell where it belongs"). À bas ….! : Yes, this is Down with …. "Step down/Be dragged down from a high position". Death to …! is Mort à …!, originally a wish to kill, but now an insult, usually for a class of people (the police, the rich, etc). Probably the most widespread such insult is Mort aux vaches!, literally Death to the cows, referring not to the farm animals but to the police. There is a short story by Anatole France featuring an old street seller of fruits and vegetables who unintentionally provokes a young policeman by saying something that the policeman mistakenly interprets as Mort aux vaches!. The poor man is dragged into court and condemned to four months in jail. When he comes out and tries to start his street business again, his former customers shun him as a criminal and he is now homeless and desperate. One cold day as winter is approaching, he sees a policeman coming his way and yells Mort aux vaches! in order to be arrested and sent to jail again. But the older, experienced policeman just shrugs as he goes by, muttering "If we had to arrest every crazy fool …i" Long ago, demonstrators against Oakland (Calif.) mayor Elihu Harris carried signs reading "To hell with you, Elihu!" But that is exceptional. Andrew, so what would you say about marg bar slogans addressing inflation and such abstract things? Which of "death to…", "to hell with…", or "down with…" would be an apt English translation? What about the use of the slogan in the 1905–1911 revolution, where protesters were peaceful? The trope of unsuccessfully trying to get arrested on purpose also appears in O'Henry's The Cop and the Anthem, of roughly the same era. It's a good one. languagehat says: Thank you, this is eminently sensible. As you say, it's just like any such phrase in English or any other language. "This weather will be the death of me" does not necessarily mean that the weather is going to cause someone's death, whereas "his drinking was ultimately the death of him" could imply literal death. Those who argue that this phrase must necessarily have violent connotations are mistaken at best, or often deliberately disingenuous. When we want to say "death to" rather than "down with" we often use another slogan entirely: فلانی اعدام باید گردد "X should be executed". Since credentials are being bandied about, I am Iranian and I teach Persian at university. It's good to hear from someone who definitely knows what they're talking about; thanks very much for your comment! Aidan Kehoe says For those like me who looked at Mirsajadi's name and wondered was it a German-oriented transliteration involving میرزا /mirzɑ/, no, the Persian script seems to be میر سجادی /mir sædʒdʒɑdi/. A سجاد /sajjɑd/ being 'one who worships by frequent prostrations' (according to S. Haim's Persian-English dictionary). BWA says There's also the question of who's doing the speaking. My mother-in-law, the vicar's wife, was horrified when Desmond Tutu said "The West, as far as I am concerned, can go to hell." Not that she necessarily disagreed with his take on sanctions, or Reagan, but as a man of the cloth, he was completely out of line to call for anyone to go to hell. She did not live to see the Rev. Wright. As to the revolutionaries, I have to wonder if there might have been another chant possible less given to ambiguity. Slogans can be tricky. You want to tailor them with care, and if, as in this case, the audience was largely anglophone and monoglot…. if, as in this case, the audience was largely anglophone and monoglot…. What case are you talking about? Iranian crowds are not chanting to an anglophone audience. hector says "I do see non-Farsi-speaking people who are apparently reluctant to give up their previous understanding of the phrase, but that's normal mulishness." Perhaps, in some cases. But there are politics involved. People often want to portray those they see as their enemies in the worst manner possible. The translation "Death to America" is used for propagandistic purposes by those who wish to foment war with Iran. I'm not taking Iran's side here, just saying that when politics becomes involved, things like "proper translation" are given short shrift. How should one translate the traditional American baseball-fan exclamation "Kill the ump" into Farsi? "Kill the ump" Fascinating. The German football equivalent meekly translates as "ump, we know where your car is parked; we('ll) set it on fire, so go by train"… it rhymes just enough to be singable. And yet, baseball isn't the one with the hooligans. A good illustration of the dangers of equating speech with action. The Russian equivalent is Судью на мыло (Make soap out of the referee). It never occurred to me to look at it literally, because of the absurdity of the proposition. D.O.: It's a holocaust reference. Y, I don't think so. First google books reference is from 1953 and is used as something completely unremarkable. Remember, it was printed under the heavy Soviet censorship. The version that makes most sense for me is that in 1920-1930 stray dogs were killed and used for soap production (or at least that what lots of people used to believe) and dog comparisons are pretty widespread. Dmitry Pruss (aka MOCKBA) says some people say that it isn't Russian Mylo "soap" but Ukrainian or Polish pomylka "error", but I think it's far fetched Vanya says I have attended hundreds of baseball games, at all levels from little league to MLB and I can't remember hearing anyone actually yell "Kill the ump!" in a serious tone. "Hey Ump, you suck!" is far more common. If a large crowd of people started chanting "Kill the ump!" in unison, I would find that extremely disturbing if not downright scary. Oh, I don't know. From Shaw's play Candida (1894), Act I: MORELL. When you last called—it was about three years ago, I think—you said the same thing a little more frankly. Your exact words then were: "Just as big a fool as ever, James?" BURGESS (soothingly). Well, perhaps I did; but (with conciliatory cheerfulness) I meant no offence by it. A clergyman is privileged to be a bit of a fool, you know: it's on'y becomin' in his profession that he should. Anyhow, I come here, not to rake up hold differences, but to let bygones be bygones. (Suddenly becoming very solemn, and approaching Morell.) James: three year ago, you done me a hill turn. You done me hout of a contrac'; an' when I gev you 'arsh words in my nat'ral disappointment, you turned my daughrter again me. Well, I've come to act the part of a Cherischin. (Offering his hand.) I forgive you, James. MORELL (starting up). Confound your impudence! BURGESS (retreating, with almost lachrymose deprecation of this treatment). Is that becomin' language for a clergyman, James?—and you so partic'lar, too? MORELL (hotly). No, sir, it is not becoming language for a clergyman. I used the wrong word. I should have said damn your impudence: that's what St. Paul, or any honest priest would have said to you. maidhc says In Irish sports, which are organized at the county level, it is common for fans to support their team with shouts of "Up Kerry!" or "Up Cork!". But in one particular county the fans must shout "Up Down!". In the 2001 film "Y Tu Mamá También" I noticed the actors using phrases like (say) "Mata rock'n'roll" (Rock'n'roll kills). The one phrase that everyone seems to have taken from the film is "Pop mata la poesía." But the use of "mata" mostly happens as a positive, which parallels some American slang usage: "Surf music really kills". I presume the scriptwriters were well acquainted with Mexican Spanish as spoken by teenagers of the period. Oh, come on, we cannot go into Victorian times. Next thing we will discuss a hapless captain using a big D. No, my point was that it is appropriate, however shocking, for clergymen to see things and damn them to Hell, the Reverend Wright as much as the Reverend Morell. And as I pointed out a few years back, even the most Victorian of audiences doesn't demand that preachers talk only of heckfire and darnation. I like to maintain that the Reverend Wright was simply complimenting America on its good looks. He wasn't saying "God damn America!", but rather "God damn, America!" Fuck yeah. I'm down with that. David Eddyshaw says On anti-umpire/referee imprecations: A highly misanthropic anglophone South African acquaintance many years ago, to illustrate one of his many pet hates (the alleged stupidity of back-country Afrikaners) imitated what he claimed was a highly typical catcall from such a person complaining about the umpire at a cricket match: "Shook your head! Your eyes is stuck!" I've never felt that this creative use of English actually supported his thesis about the stupidity. Indeed, I have found it a very useful turn of phrase myself. Those who argue that this phrase must necessarily have violent connotations are mistaken at best, or often deliberately disingenuous. When we want to say "death to" rather than "down with" we often use another slogan entirely: فلانی اعدام باید گردد "X should be executed". The problem is the disingenuousness runs both ways. What you and LH say is certainly true. It is not necessarily a violent phrase, but that's not what Mirsajadi argues. He says, "it is commonly understood in Iran as an idiom without violent intent" which is as much a politically-motivated distortion as to insist it means "killing Americans" or whatever. Greg Pandatshang says Fossilised? Most definitely. I think it's an interesting example of the super-broad sense of "with". Forms like "down with the petty bourgeoisie!" seem to use "with" to mark a comment-topic structure. I saw an example one time of someone saying "Give with the money." It is not necessarily a violent phrase, but that's not what Mirsajadi argues. He says, "it is commonly understood in Iran as an idiom without violent intent" which is as much a politically-motivated distortion as to insist it means "killing Americans" or whatever. It's true he goes too far in the other direction, but I think we can chalk that up to an entirely understandable frustration with the usual reading (compare "jihad doesn't mean actual war, it refers to spiritual struggle," another defensively overstated meme). "Down with" does have a parallel in "away with". I agree that both mark a comment-topic word order. Also "off with (his head)", "out with", "in with" ("Out with the old, in with the new"). It's an odd little construction: the generalization seems to be: [Particle] with X = Make X go [particle], where [particle] indicates the manner of boundary crossing. To complicate things further, you can "do away with" someone, but not "*do down/off/out with" – but that looks like it's just idiomatic. The OED points out that there are numerous idioms of the form "verb+away", as do away, make away, fall away, as well as give way, which is aphetic for give away, but not to be confused with give away 'give'. The most infamous study of this kind of sentence is English sentences without overt grammatical subject, by (ahem) Quang Phúc Đông. Nicholas Evans' paper, Insubordination and its uses, is good too, though not exactly about this phenomenon. That one is about sentences that look like subordinate clauses, such as "If you could please sit down," cross-linguistically. An interesting parallel is Tatiana and Sergey's Nikitins classic line in "Ali Baba and 40 thiefs", "May all my enemies croak" (Пусть сдохнут все мои враги // Вкусней не ел я кураги ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwfgVHosRdc Interesting because Tatiana is an ethnic Tajik who grew up in Dushanbe, exposed to Farsi popular culture. Does it mean that "Death to my enemies" was a common rhetorical element in Tajik? Or could it have been an influence of Iranian Revolution? (Given that Ali Baba's LP came out in 1981?) Does it mean that "Death to my enemies" was a common rhetorical element in Tajik? Isn't that much more widespread? What immediately comes to mind is the traditional celebration of the independence day (from Berne) of the Swiss canton of Vaud. It involves destroying some kind of piñata while shouting: "Ainsi périssent les ennemis de la République !!!" Yeah, that doesn't seem like any sort of localized phenomenon. Perhaps we should retranslate classic phrase "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam" in line with latest trends of politically correct linguistics. Surely the senator didn't mean that Carthage should be destroyed, razed and sowed with salt. It was just a rhetorical idiom with no violent intent implied… After which, the Romans had to build it again: it was much too useful. But just a few universes away, Hannibal sent elephants and other rich gifts over the Alps to persuade Reme to a merger of equals between the two largest trading and diplomatic powers of the Mediterranean. Eventually, the Reman Empire didn't so much collapse as spin off too many subsidiaries. Isn't that much more widespread? But my point was exactly that "marg bar" may have been a traditional Farsi curse well before the first Iranian Revolution, despite the author's insistence that it was a neologism emerging just then. j. says On a less serious note, this brings to mind the semantics of fhtagn: it's claimed to literally mean 'dead', but many Cthulhu Mythos works seem to use it as a honorific or epithet of sorts (Cthulhu himself aside, I definitely recall seeing at least Tsathoggua fhtagn put in the mouths of chanting cultists or the like). But perhaps it's instead going for the interpretation "Cthulhu [is] dead [luckily for us]"? The Great Old Ones cannot die. January First-of-May says IIRC, it means something along the lines of "asleep". The normal Russian pronunciation of this word, incidentally, is a spelling one with all the consonants – фхтагн. I don't know what the normal English pronunciation is (but it's probably different). I have this sudden urge to see my Tajik colleague start a literary café. I don't know what the normal English pronunciation is (but it's probably different). I say it the way it's written: /fhtagn/. Hopefully that's not the correct way (as used by the Old Ones); I don't want to summon anything that might eat me. (Though, as we all know, it's better to be eaten first.) Alon says I do my best to pronounce Cthulhu's name according to Lovecraft's recommendation in his letters (roughly [ˈkɬʊlˠ.ɬuː]). For some reason, that makes me want to pronounce fhtagn as something like [ˈɸtag.n̩] or [ˈɸtaʔ.n̩]. Now, let's not get started on the pronunciation of Hastur. That way (literal) madness lies. Glory, honor, and imperishable fame to whomsoever can induce protesters in some third-world capital experiencing political unrest to chant Amerika Fhtagn for the cameras. [ˈɸtag.n̩] ngage92 says In a similar vein, the supposedly common call from Iranian leaders for Israel to be "wiped off the map" is an (intentional?) mistranslation of a phrase that's better rendered as "vanish from the pages of time." It's almost as if there's a political motive behind these bad translations. vanish from the pages of time Yes, sure, whole countries are prone to vanish without any violence. It happened to Poland a couple of centuries ago. Sean M says Similarly, when in English we beat someone at a game, we don't use a stick, and while some prestige dialects of English prefer dead metaphors from Latin over living ones with Germanic roots suppressing a revolt can be just as violent as drucken den Aufstand ünter or verdrangen ihn. Unterdrücken, inseparable prefix, is what you do to ideas and to groups of people, not to revolts; for those you resort to more violent metaphors, like ersticken, "suffocate", or niederschlagen, "beat down". It's ironic that you tried to translate "suppress" literally… Verdrängen is never used in this context, it means "crowd out, push away". I'd be interested to know which of the partitions of Poland you think was accomplished without violence. Мы вас похороним!, to be exact. I think Pratchett makes a joke out of this ambiguity (bury-outlast vs bury-put in a hole and cover with earth), writing about one of his formidable witches "She had buried three husbands, and at least two of them had been dead when she did so". Fair point, but of course my point was not that there was literally no violence but that the intent was not to wipe out Poles but to rearrange the geopolitical map. The Russians, Austrians, and Prussians would have been perfectly content if no Poles had been harmed in the process; they just wanted their borders rectified. Oh, that's what you've meant. But of course, British would be perfectly content for 13 colonies to remain in the empire without any violence and revolutionaries would not mind if king George and the mother country left them alone without the war. There is, I guess, a school of strategic thought in the US that thinks that if America maintains a super-duper powerful military and threatens to bomb whomever disagrees with its goals to Middle Ages, everyone will be super nice and quiet. We probably should call them peaceniks. Indeed, "Peace Is Our Profession" was the official motto of the Strategic Air Command, which during the Cold War had charge of pretty much all of America's nuclear weapons except for the submarine-based ones controlled by the Navy. If my memory is accurate, I saw with my own eyes a big sign with that motto on it near the front entrance to some USAF base I visited on a cross-country trip in … let's see … musta been '81. (Whatever the intent may have been at the time of the Partitions, over the course of the 19th century both the Prussians and the Russians engaged in episodic attempts to suppress Polish culture and coerce assimilation toward their own culture; the Hapsburgs may have been mellower and/or knew they couldn't transition from an old style multi-ethnic empire to a new ethnically-based nationalistic one if they tried, so they didn't try.) But of course, British would be perfectly content for 13 colonies to remain in the empire without any violence and revolutionaries would not mind if king George and the mother country left them alone without the war. Yes, of course, and neither side wanted the other wiped out. This is in stark contrast to the situations implied by the people who insist on taking "death to" literally. The classic semi-veiled rhetorical death threat in the run-up to 1776 was Patrick Henry's "Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third ….may profit by their example." I.e. "hey, just some friendly advice — you might want to think about stopping doing the annoying things that are making us want to kill you." I assume in a broad enough context "Marg bar X" can generally be plausibly understood as conditional, i.e. if X would only stop doing Y and start doing Z instead, we would no longer be calling for X's marg. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn is holophrastically translated as 'In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu lies dreaming.' But the word divisions are just an assumption based on the style of chanting, and even if they're correct, we really don't know how to distribute the four words over the four concepts 'house', 'dead', 'lies', and 'dreaming', if indeed this parallelism is a true one. My guess is that fhtagn means '(is) dreaming' and that "Cthulhu fhtagn!" means "Cthulhu is dreaming!". For us, dreaming and being dead aren't consistent, but we aren't Great Old Ones either. See this 2008 comment on the use of "Down with" in Hindi/Urdu (borrowed from Persian). we aren't Great Old Ones either. Oh, don't Innsmouth off to me. I've seen your face, and there's nothing fishy about it. So police are cows in French, bulls (Bullen) in German (as I learned from watching Tatort), and pigs in English (at least American). peterlin says So police are cows in French, bulls (Bullen) in German (as I learned from watching Tatort), and pigs in English (at least American) … and dogs (psy) in Polish. And in Russia, they are trash (musor). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paskalakki#Finnish

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At the 17th Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival, Rajkumar Hirani interacted with members of the audience and media wherein he spoke about his next film which is a biopic on Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt. "The script of Sanjay Dutt's biopic is ready and we roll in from next year. I was skeptical while writing the biopic script because that is not my world. Abhijat and I sat for 25 days to zero down on the manner of narrating the story because we feel, it is one of the most entertaining films we can ever come up with. It is emotional with a lot of funny moments. It is a story of a person; about father, son, his friends. So Sanjay Dutt's biopic is no different from the kind of films we have done." "I will not be biased while narrating the story of Sanjay Dutt. I made it clear the day I announced this biopic that in no way will we be glorifying Dutt in the film. I will never in my life make a film to glorify someone. The only reason to make this film is because it is a great story which deserves to be told." "Ranbir Kapoor was the first choice for the film. When Sanjay Dutt told us his story, we had Ranbir in our mind to play the titular role in the film. He was the most obvious choice for us."

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Hunger on the coast spurs first food bank San Antonio among top 5 most competitive U.S. housing markets $3.5 M West Texas 'architectural masterpiece' hits the market George Strait finally sold his Texas adobe mansion Report: Sales of rural Texas properties are surging 2022 real estate forecast paints grim picture of Texas market For sale: Rome villa restored by Texas princess auctioned Report: Texas is one of the best states for tiny homes Midland most stressful place to buy a home in Texas, study says Evictions in some Texas cities are almost back to normal levels Millionaire pooch selling Miami villa once owned by Madonna $16 million River Oaks home that used to host celebs is for sale Get a peek inside 2 award-winning Texas homes Robert E. Lee's childhood home is up for sale Beyoncé, Jay-Z are selling their mysterious New Orleans mansion Why the historic blue home by Minute Maid is trapped downtown Neighborhoods // Baytown news Former airport worker strives to open Galveston County facility HARVEY RICE, HOUSTON CHRONICLE GALVESTON — An unexpected 2 a.m. meeting several years ago put an airport employee on the front lines of efforts to combat hunger. Mark Davis ran into the late Pastor Bill Ritter during an urge for an early-morning breakfast at Denny's Restaurant in April 2003. The two discussed how to feed the elderly. A year later, Davis resigned from his air logistics job to become director of Gleanings From the Harvest for Galveston, a nonprofit group that provides food for the hungry. "I felt God calling me to step out in faith and do something," Davis said. Davis is now leading Gleanings' efforts to create the first food bank in Galveston County, where Hurricane Ike and widespread job loss because of the sinking economy have caused widespread hunger. Agencies in Galveston, Brazoria and Chambers counties — all hit hard by Ike — say demand for food aid has doubled since the storm. The increase in hunger is reflected throughout the 15 other counties also served by the Houston Food Bank, spokeswoman Betsy Ballard said. The number of hungry people on any given day in the region has jumped from about 35,000 to 53,000 over the last year, Ballard said. Demand for food is up 42 percent at the 400 agencies served by the food bank, she said. "Some of those people have never before had to go to a pantry," Ballard said. "It's not an increase in homeless people. These are people who are newly impoverished." "It's very important to me," Marilyn Johnson, 60, of La Marque, said about free food as she pulled a can of fruit from a pallet at Gleanings' Galveston office. Johnson has yet to repair the severe wind and water damage Ike caused to her house. Saddled with bad knees and other medical problems, she depends on food from Gleanings to help stretch her $674 monthly disability check. "At least I don't have to live under the bridge," Johnson said. Applications increase Elkie Salas, 36, of Galveston, and her two teenage daughters joined Johnson and a dozen other Gleanings clients on a frigid December morning picking out groceries at the yellow, cement block warehouse about a block from the Galveston County Courthouse. Salas has been unable to find work since the storm and her husband works sporadically. "It really helps a lot," she said about Gleanings. About 75 people show up at the Gleanings office every day to collect food, office manager Janet Castillo said. There were 61 new applications for food assistance filled out during the first 10 days of December, Castillo said. "It was steadily increasing before the storm, but since the storm it has been phenomenal," she said. U.S. Census Bureau figures show 13 percent of Galveston County's population of 283,000 living below the federal poverty line before Hurricane Ike. Davis estimates that the figure is closer to 25 percent since the storm, although no official figures exist. "It's a huge number of people living in households that are economically challenged," Gleanings board member Lynn Eanes said. "These are working people. They are not all people living on food stamps." Grim reality The reality is just as grim in Brazoria and Chambers counties. "Between the unemployment and businesses going under because of the storm, it has just created a nightmare for the residents of Brazoria County," said Mildred Wauson, St. Thomas Center director in Angleton. She said demand at the center's food pantries is up 45 percent from before Ike. Gail Bertrand, executive director of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Diocesan Council in Chambers County, said its pantry in Winnie is serving between 60 to 70 families each month, double the number before the storm. Amid the increased demand for food, Davis cut a deal with Texas City to turn a vacant city-owned building that once housed the defunct Texas City Sun newspaper offices into Galveston County's first food bank. Workers are transforming 11,000 square feet of the building into a food warehouse with refrigeration and another 8,000 square feet into a storefront for distributing food to the needy. If all goes according to plan, it should open late next year, Davis said. To be officially certified, a prospective food bank must show that it has sufficient space, refrigeration, transportation and financial wherewithal, Davis said. Having a food bank in Galveston County would make it easier for agencies such as Catholic Charities to serve the needy, said Harold Fattig, Catholic Charities southern regional director. "It would help us tremendously," said Fattig, whose region includes Galveston, Brazoria and Chambers counties. The Houston Food Bank is working with Gleanings From the Harvest to open the new food bank, Ballard said. "They really showed their mettle during Hurricane Ike," Ballard said. Gleanings volunteers and staff were on the streets handing out food soon after Ike passed, even though they had lost their own homes, Ballard said. harvey.rice@chron.com HARVEY RICE

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In this tour the Mahler Chamber Orchestra reunites with star conductor Gustavo Dudamel for performances in favourite European venues. The programmes for this tour feature beautiful examples from the symphonic repertoire dating from the late classical to late romantic. Both the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel were mentored in their 'youths' by founding MCO mentor Claudio Abbado; the Mahler Chamber Orchestra with its founding twenty-one years ago, and Gustavo Dudamel in his early work in Venezuela. The MCO last worked with Gustavo Dudamel at the Rencontres Musicales d'Evian in July 2017, and a further collaboration has been eagerly anticipated. This tour includes concerts in Lisbon, Paris, Cologne, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Barcelona and Madrid. Star soprano Golda Schultz joins the orchestra in performances of Mahler's Fourth Symphony in G major. Parallel to this tour the Mahler Chamber Orchestra will continue its award-winning Feel the Music education and outreach work with hearing-impaired school children. Gustavo Dudamel, himself a lifelong advocate musical education and social interaction with the arts, will participate in the programme.

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The Best Kind of Food to Cook During a Pandemic I chose risotto, but any recipe that requires your full, constant attention is a good distraction from anxiety. By Hannah Giorgis Naomi Elliott Somewhere around the seventh ladle, I resigned myself to the idea that this was my life now. The chicken stock had been simmering for what seemed like an hour, and my weary right arm had grown accustomed to its new raison d'être: stirring my first-ever batch of risotto until it reached the vanishing horizon of al dente. Or until the apocalypse arrived. At that point, it still seemed unclear which might occur first. But something else had happened somewhere between the sauvignon blanc evaporating and the grains cooking: For the first time in days, I'd stopped obsessing over the impending doom I'd been imagining, as news of the rapidly worsening coronavirus pandemic spread. There was no low thrum of anxiety beating alongside my heart, no voice in my head taking inventory of family members' diseases or tallying the number of onions I'd have left in three, six, or eight weeks in the event of grocery-store shutdowns. There was just me, my right arm, and my stubborn risotto. A comfortable tedium, a congenial struggle. Confined to my apartment for most of the week, and for the foreseeable future, I'd entered the weekend in a mild panic. Though my generalized anxiety most often feels specific and personal, this new strain was nauseatingly big and amorphous. It lived outside of me; it hung in the air and snaked its way through every corner of my life. After days spent reading helpful but stressful articles, and countless conversations with friends about the anxiety we feel, I needed to quiet the noise. I wanted to lose myself in something, to relinquish my focus without dulling my senses in a dangerous manner. (As much as I enjoy Nancy Meyers's oeuvre, wine-drunk is not a state I can or should sustain for the length of a quarantine.) Read: A therapist's guide to emotional health in a pandemic But binge-watching movies and TV shows, even my favorite ones, had already lost its appeal. No matter how many voices emitted from my screens, or how warm the banter, the static in my own head remained louder. The glare of my many screens, and the creeping knowledge that there are always other shows I should be watching for work, further strained my ability to find relief on the other side of a remote. But more pressingly, viewing is an idle pursuit; I needed an activity that demanded my full attention. Enter the finicky arborio. While I cooked rice somewhat frequently, this variety had always daunted me. My experience with risotto ended at Italian-restaurant menus and cooking-competition shows. I'd seen too many Chopped contestants become meme fodder by attempting to prepare risotto at breakneck speed. I had known it was called the "infant of grains": It requires both time and constant attention, things I'm rarely willing to give any dish at once. But faced with the prospect of indefinite social distancing—and mounting anxiety—I welcomed the challenge of attempting a new culinary feat. In a still-baffling shift from my younger years, I'd been able to ensure my pantry was well stocked; being able to acquire enough food wasn't a real concern. (I'm still shaped by the calculus and creativity that my mother employed to keep a family of six fed through layoffs, WIC assistance, and a devastating recession, but my circumstances now allow for a spaciousness that hers didn't.) And for once, I seemed to have an abundance of time to putter about my New York apartment. If I succeeded, I'd be learning to cook something that could serve as a household staple. But if I failed, I reasoned, then the wasted hours would at least have served as a helpful distraction. The stakes were low, but the allure of accomplishing something was enough of a thrill. Read: The rise of anxiety baking Like many Millennials, I'm no stranger to anxiety cooking. The curve of my culinary skills has seen a steep spike in the past few years. In 2017, I rage-baked a cornucopia of carbohydrate-filled indulgences: gingerbread cake, frosted with caramel cream-cheese buttercream; salted-caramel-apple upside-down cake; blood-orange cardamom cake; peach cognac cupcakes; so, so many brownies. But this weekend's endeavor felt different. I wasn't concentrating on the final product or anticipating my friends' eager reactions to the treats I'd giddily bestow upon them to celebrate a birthday or jazz up some big social gathering. My needs were more immediate. I wanted to channel my fear about the months ahead (and intensifying cabin fever) into a task that would make sense of all that nervous energy. And while baking has its obvious upsides, especially for those with a sweet tooth, it wasn't the right vehicle for me this time. Jittery and unnerved, I didn't trust myself to measure ingredients meticulously. My rickety old oven doesn't always stick to one temperature. Nor does it display the temperature digitally, or have a window I can see through. The prospect of assembling a dessert, only to see it misshapen or otherwise ruined when I removed it from the oven, was too disappointing and final for me to entertain. The risks of baking, an undertaking that requires precision above all, felt too high. But cooking, even dishes that demand more focus than I'm accustomed to, is an art that often allows for improvisation. Salt can be added along the way; heat can be adjusted as needed. The meal comes together in full view. There may be surprises, but there are no secrets. Read: You have a moral obligation to post your boring life on Instagram So I found myself stirring. And stirring. And, just when I thought I might be done, I still had more stirring left. By then, the tedium had become a soothing companion. Even before beginning that arduous task, I approached the dish with an appreciation and attention to detail that I rarely make time for in my everyday cooking. I'd eased my way into the recipe with a familiar culinary distraction: the visceral, raw catharsis of chopping onions. But now, with the hours stretching out in front of me, I focused on my knife work. I appraised the allium more thoroughly: Were the pieces evenly sized? Had I rushed the job and left unsavory bits to sully the risotto I knew I'd expend extensive energy on later? Peeling and chopping butternut squash, a labor I often dreaded, took on a more serene quality, too. By the time the ingredients began coming together, still dry and rigid, I felt something akin to peace wash over me. I concentrated on my gestures, the wrist motions with which I moved the grains around my pan. I'm not naive enough to think I can permanently fix my whirring brain with a rice dish, no matter how much parmesan or sage it incorporates. And I know that as the days add up, and the serious catastrophes build, such escapes may not be enough to keep me occupied (or safe, for that matter). But for two hours on Sunday night, I forgot how much all of that scares me. I turned to my stove for more than convenience, and for comfort that extended beyond taste. And though the risotto certainly didn't offend my palate, the routine was its own reward.

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Over the course of a week, President Trump has put at risk the tremendous seven-year bull market in tech stocks that now has the Nasdaq Composite hovering near all-time highs. The ground-breaking innovations that big tech companies create are often the outcome of a variety of different views expressed by people with all sorts of varying world experiences. Technology companies rely heavily on the H-1B visa program, through which highly skilled workers like software engineers are allowed to work in the U.S. for companies such as Microsoft (MSFT) , Google (GOOGL) and Intel (INTC) . Hence, it's no surprise that some of tech's most prominent executives have taken to social media to denounce President Trump's new immigration ban that is sparking protests across the country. In effect, the tech industry's very busy model could now be viewed upon as being under siege by the new administration -- no free flow of talent, potentially no new game-changing innovations. Already, the CEOs of Microsoft, Apple (AAPL) , Netflix (NFLX) , Uber, Airbnb, Google and Tesla (TSLA) slammed Trump's executive order, which could affect their own employees working here legally, as well as the companies' voracious appetite for best-in-class talent. "As an immigrant and as a CEO, I've both experienced and seen the positive impact that immigration has on our company, for the country, and for the world," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a post on the company's newly acquired LinkedIn (LNKD) . Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a memo to employees on the ban that "it's not a policy we support." A June 2011 study by McKinsey & Co. found that more than one in every four science and engineering firms report difficulty hiring. Currently, the number of U.S. students pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields is increasing at less than 1% per year, and by 2018 there will be more than 230,000 advanced degree STEM jobs that will not be filled even if every single new American STEM graduate finds a job. Cracking down on immigration will only make it harder for tech to find crucial talent. What talent is found will become much more expensive, which could take a bite out of the tech sector's bottom line. In 2011, 76% of patents awarded to the top 10 U.S. patent-producing universities had at least one foreign-born inventor. These are people trying to change the world, and of course in the meantime profit in the U.S. from their minds (who doesn't love tech industry stock options?). Microsoft has taken a lead position in at least warning investors of the potential risks to immigration reform. "Changes to U.S. immigration policies that restrain the flow of technical and professional talent may inhibit our ability to adequately staff our research and development efforts," the tech giant said in a filing on Friday. These types of disclosures are what every tech investor needs to be on the lookout for moving forward. One also needs to pay careful attention to comments from executives on how they intend to fight back against Trump, either on Twitter, press releases or lobbying and naturally, via actions inside their own companies. Indeed, being a tech investor has been a relatively easy way to make money the past seven years. But that may no longer be the case. -- Here comes flying cars: Airbus (EADSY) plans to test a prototype driverless flying taxi before the end of this year, and to have the first model called the Vahanas ready for production by 2020, The Associated Press reported. Airbus isn't alone in flying car development, according to the report. -- Shelby celebrates 50 years in business: An impressive streak deserves an impressive commemoration. For the 2017 model year, its 50th year in business, super performance car maker Shelby will introduce the limited edition Super Snake (pictured below), reported GearHeads. Production will be capped at 500 vehicles, each starting at $69,995. Horsepower: 670. -- Social media may be making you dumb: Perhaps this is something President Trump needs to keep in mind. In the time you spend on social media each year, you can read 200 books, Quartz calculates. -- Elon wants to dig into the Earth: Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk has been vocal on Twitter of late on the need to start digging underground to build tunnels in order to alleviate traffic jams. He reiterated that view this past weekend, in a four minute speech. H/T to Electrek for pointing out the video.

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Q: Injected HttpContext is always null This is honestly mindblowing, I can't get it to work. The context is always null, wherever it is injected... Do I have to add an instance of the context in Startup.cs? If Yes, how? Originating calls services.AddTransient<SessionService>(); Toast.Configure(app.ApplicationServices.GetRequiredService<SessionService>()); _session.Set("foo", "bar"); Toast Class public class Toast { private static SessionService _session; public static void Configure(SessionService sessionService) { _session = sessionService; Messages = new List<ToastMessage>(); } } Session Service public class SessionService { private readonly IHttpContextAccessor _accessor; public SessionService(IHttpContextAccessor httpContextAccessor) { _accessor = httpContextAccessor; } public void Set(string key, string value) { _accessor.HttpContext.Session.SetString(key, value); } } Exceptions System.NullReferenceException Object reference not set to an instance of an object. System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Stacktrace System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at EveOps.Services.SessionService.Set(String key, Byte[] value) in C:\Users\youri\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\EveOps\src\EveOps\Services\SessionService.cs:line 25 at EveOps.Toast.set_Messages(List`1 value) in C:\Users\youri\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\EveOps\src\EveOps\Toast\Toast.cs:line 41 at EveOps.Toast.Configure(SessionService sessionService) in C:\Users\youri\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\EveOps\src\EveOps\Toast\Toast.cs:line 18 at EveOps.Startup.Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory) in C:\Users\youri\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\EveOps\src\EveOps\Startup.cs:line 162 --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture) at System.Reflection.MethodBase.Invoke(Object obj, Object[] parameters) at Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting.Startup.ConfigureBuilder.Invoke(Object instance, IApplicationBuilder builder) at Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting.Startup.ConfigureBuilder.<>c__DisplayClass4_0.b__0(IApplicationBuilder builder) at Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting.Internal.AutoRequestServicesStartupFilter.<>c__DisplayClass0_0.b__0(IApplicationBuilder builder) at Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting.Internal.HostingEngine.BuildApplication() A: Thanks to @aguafrommars for stating the obvious; the context is only valid for requests, and even though I knew that, my understanding of DI and services is not yet at a good level. The solution for my problem (pseudo): App.Use() { Toast.Configure(app.ApplicationServices.GetRequiredService<SessionService>()); }

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Norwegian Air reschedules aircraft delivery, to cut 2019-20 capex by $2.1 billion OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian Air has agreed with Airbus and Boeing to reschedule delivery of aircraft to cut capital spending, the loss-making budget carrier said on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: A Norwegian Air Boeing 737-800 is seen during the presentation of Norwegian Air first low cost transatlantic flight service from Argentina at Ezeiza airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 8, 2018. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci The Oslo-listed airline has shaken up the long-haul market by offering cut-price transatlantic fares, but its rapid expansion has left it with hefty losses and high debts. In total, the announced restructurings and postponements of Boeing and Airbus aircraft delivery will reduce capital expenditure for 2019 and 2020 by $2.1 billion, the company said. Norwegian said it would provide updated total capex guidance on Thursday, when it reports first-quarter results. The company said its Dublin-based subsidiary Arctic Aviation Assets DAC had reached an agreement with Boeing to postpone delivery of 14 737 MAX aircraft which were originally due in 2020 and 2021. In a separate statement, it also said that the subsidiary had agreed in principle with Airbus to restructure delivery schedule of both A320neos and A321LRs. The deal with Airbus would reduce capital expenditure by approximately $670 million for 2019 and 2020, and $2.4 billion over the next five years, Norwegian added. Those savings come on top of the reductions from the previously announced postponements, it said. On Feb. 6, Norwegian announced postponing deliveries of 12 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft from 2020 to 2023 and 2024, and four Airbus 321LR aircraft from 2019 to 2020, and on April 10 announced further postponements, including Airbus 320neos. At the end of 2018, Norwegian had multi-year commitments to take a total of 63 A320neos, 30 A321LR and 92 Boeing 737 MAX 8, its annual report published on April 10 showed. The company said in the report it expected in 2019 to take delivery of five new Boeing 787 Dreamliners, which it uses on its intercontinental routes, as previously planned. Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Tom Brown

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Home Investment Crypto lender Genesis Trading files for bankruptcy protection Crypto lender Genesis Trading files for bankruptcy protection Barry Silbert, Founder and CEO, Digital Currency Group David A. Grogan | CNBC Crypto lender Genesis filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Thursday night in Manhattan federal court, the latest casualty in the industry contagion caused by the collapse of FTX and a crippling blow to a business once at the heart of Barry Silbert's Digital Currency Group. The company listed over 100,000 creditors in a "mega" bankruptcy filing, with aggregate liabilities ranging from $1.2 billion to $11 billion dollars, according to bankruptcy documents. Three separate petitions were filed for Genesis' holding companies. In a statement, the company noted that the companies were only involved in Genesis' crypto lending business. The company's derivatives and spot trading business will continue unhindered, as will Genesis Global Trading. "We look forward to advancing our dialogue with DCG and our creditors' advisors as we seek to implement a path to maximize value and provide the best opportunity for our business to emerge well-positioned for the future," Genesis interim CEO Derar Islim said in a statement. The filing follows months of speculation over whether Genesis would enter bankruptcy protection, and just days after the Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against Genesis and its onetime partner, Gemini, over the unregistered offering and sale of securities. Genesis listed a $765.9 million loan payable from Gemini in Thursday's bankruptcy filing. Other sizeable claims included a $78 million loan payable from Donut, a high-yield, decentralized platform, and a VanEck fund, with a $53.1 million loan payable. Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss initially responded to the news on Twitter, writing that Silbert and DCG "continue to refuse to offer creditors a fair deal." "We have been preparing to take direct legal action against Barry, DCG, and others," he continued. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant," Winklevoss concluded. Genesis is in negotiations with creditors represented by law firms Kirkland & Ellis and Proskauer Rose, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC. The bankruptcy puts Genesis alongside other fallen crypto exchanges including BlockFi, FTX, Celsius, and Voyager. FTX's collapse in November put a freeze on the market and led customers across the crypto landscape to seek withdrawals. The Wall Street Journal reported that, following FTX's meltdown, Genesis had sought an emergency bailout of $1 billion, but found no interested parties. Parent company DCG, which owes creditors a mounting debt of more than $3 billion, suspended dividends this week, CoinDesk reported. The crypto contagion Genesis provided loans to crypto hedge funds and over-the-counter firms, but a series of bad bets made last year severely damaged the lender and forced it to halt withdrawals on Nov. 16. The New York-based firm had extended crypto loans to Three Arrows Capital (3AC) and Alameda Research, the hedge fund started by Sam Bankman-Fried and closely linked to his FTX exchange. 3AC filed for bankruptcy in July in the midst of the "crypto winter." Genesis had loaned over $2.3 billion worth of assets to 3AC, according to court filings. 3AC creditors have been fighting in court to recover even a sliver of the billions of dollars that the hedge fund once controlled. Meanwhile, Alameda was integral to FTX's eventual demise. Bankman-Fried has repeatedly denied knowledge of fraudulent activity within his web of companies, but remains unable to provide a substantial explanation for the multibillion-dollar hole. He was arrested in December, and is released on a $250 million bond ahead of his trial, which is set to begin in October. Genesis had a $2.5 billion exposure to Alameda, though that position was closed out in August. After FTX's bankruptcy in November, Genesis said that about $175 million worth of Genesis assets were "locked" on FTX's platform. Genesis' financial spiral has exposed Silbert's broader DCG empire. The parent company was forced to take over Genesis' $1 billion liability stemming from 3AC's collapse. In a later letter to investors, Silbert disclosed an additional $575 million loan from Genesis to DCG for undisclosed investing purposes. DCG pioneered publicly traded trusts , allowing investors to hold bitcoin and other currencies in their portfolio without direct exposure. Grayscale Bitcoin Trust's discount to net asset value widened significantly last year as confidence in the conglomerate waned. 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