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Unprecedented No. 00
An Introduction to the "Unprecedented" Story Series
"Unprecedented rainfall."
"Unprecedented flooding."
"Unprecedented destruction."
From August 25 to 29, those were the words cyclically spoken on local news stations across the Houston area as meteorologists scrambled to find a way to describe what was happening to the fourth largest city in the United States.
Rivers overflowed their banks. Streets became impassable. Houses filled with anywhere from a few inches to the height of a full-grown man with floodwater. Some people were forced to abandon their homes, grabbing what possessions they could, while others had no choice but to flee from their cars amidst the rising waters. Helicopters rescued families from rooftops, while boats roamed the flooded streets searching for people looking for a way out.
As the storm finally relented and the water began to recede, people hoped to return to some semblance of normalcy, but were met, instead, by widespread devastation.
Hurricane Harvey was finally over, but the effects lingered. The road to recovery would be long.
But through the most monumental rainfall event resulting from a tropical cyclone in the history of the continental U.S. came another factor that no one saw coming. News of the destruction and massive loss of materials was interrupted with stories of courage and sacrifice. Reports of the colossal numbers associated with the storm gave way to reports of the smallest acts of selflessness that were immense in meaning. The nation and others around the world took notice.
Right in the middle of horrific circumstances came unprecedented resilience, unprecedented compassion, and unprecedented love for one another.
While many watching struggled to comprehend the tremendous acts of selflessness they were witnessing, the church understood that these acts were rooted in a precedent set long ago. Jesus Christ set the standard when he said "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends," and then he provided the ultimate example when he died on behalf of all mankind, to take away the sins of all who would believe in him and his work on the cross. Through the greatest sorrow in life, he showed an unprecedented love for those who didn't deserve it.
And so the people of the church saw Hurricane Harvey as the catastrophe it was, but knew it was so much more than a tremendous storm. It was a tremendous opportunity.
What follows are the stories of Harvey – through the stages of rescue, relief, and recovery – as told through the people of Clear Creek Community Church.
Unprecedented No. 1 – U of H Volleyball Serves 72-Year-Old Retired Teacher in Flooded Home
Unprecedented No. 2 – "My life is in that pile."
Unprecedented No. 3 – CCCC Couple Takes on 100-Plus Dinner Guests in Wake of Harvey Flooding
Unprecedented No. 4 – League City Man Finds Help In Unexpected Place
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Q: SQL Server: how import XML with node's fields I'm following this guide that is teaching me how to import an XML file to SQL Server.
My XML looks like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<osm version="0.6" generator="Osmosis 0.46">
<bounds minlon="-180.00000" minlat="-90.00000" maxlon="180.00000" maxlat="90.00000" origin="http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6"/>
<node id="1014954" version="5" timestamp="2016-01-09T23:33:09Z" uid="1894634" user="Wikilux" changeset="36472980" lat="46.4928487" lon="7.5628558">
<tag k="url" v="www.cine-rex.ch"/>
<tag k="name" v="Ciné Rex"/>
<tag k="amenity" v="cinema"/>
<tag k="website" v="http://www.cine-rex.ch/kino.shtml"/>
<tag k="addr:street" v="Landstrasse"/>
<tag k="addr:housenumber" v="18"/>
</node>
<node id="20823872" version="7" timestamp="2017-09-12T15:19:00Z" uid="364" user="Edward" changeset="51976823" lat="52.2062941" lon="0.1346864">
<tag k="name" v="Vue Cambridge"/>
<tag k="screen" v="8"/>
<tag k="amenity" v="cinema"/>
<tag k="operator" v="Vue Cinemas"/>
<tag k="wikidata" v="Q39197413"/>
<tag k="cinema:3D" v="yes"/>
<tag k="addr:street" v="The Grafton Centre"/>
<tag k="addr:postcode" v="CB1 1PS"/>
</node>
<node id="20922159" version="12" timestamp="2017-09-12T15:19:00Z" uid="364" user="Edward" changeset="51976823" lat="52.2028721" lon="0.1234498">
<tag k="name" v="Arts Picturehouse"/>
<tag k="screen" v="3"/>
<tag k="amenity" v="cinema"/>
<tag k="operator" v="City Screen Limited"/>
<tag k="wikidata" v="Q39197264"/>
<tag k="addr:city" v="Cambridge"/>
<tag k="wheelchair" v="no"/>
<tag k="addr:street" v="St Andrew's Street"/>
<tag k="addr:country" v="GB"/>
<tag k="addr:postcode" v="CB2 3AR"/>
<tag k="addr:housenumber" v="38-39"/>
</node>
</osm>
so I first imported the XML this way:
CREATE DATABASE OPENXMLTesting
GO
USE OPENXMLTesting
GO
CREATE TABLE XMLwithOpenXML
(
Id INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
XMLData XML,
LoadedDateTime DATETIME
)
INSERT INTO XMLwithOpenXML(XMLData, LoadedDateTime)
SELECT CONVERT(XML, BulkColumn) AS BulkColumn, GETDATE()
FROM OPENROWSET(BULK 'C:\Users\franc\Desktop\cinema.osm', SINGLE_BLOB) AS x;
SELECT * FROM XMLwithOpenXML
And then imported id, lat and long from each <node>:
USE OPENXMLTesting
GO
DECLARE @XML AS XML, @hDoc AS INT, @SQL NVARCHAR (MAX)
SELECT @XML = XMLData FROM XMLwithOpenXML
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @hDoc OUTPUT, @XML
SELECT id, lat, lon
FROM OPENXML(@hDoc, 'osm/node')
WITH
(
id [varchar](50) '@id',
lat [varchar](100) '@lat',
lon [varchar](100) '@lon'
)
EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @hDoc
GO
Perfect, it works!
But now I'm stuck. What do I need to do in order to create 2 more columns with name and website?
Because the <tag> is always the same and I need to take the v= in behalf of what is the vale of k=
A: You can also do it with native XQuery support in SQL Server, without having to resort to the legacy OPENXML calls which are known for memory leaks and other problem.
Just use this code instead:
DECLARE @XML AS XML
SELECT @XML = XMLData FROM XMLwithOpenXML
SELECT
id = xc.value('@id', 'int'),
lon = xc.value('@lon', 'decimal(20,8)'),
lat = xc.value('@lat', 'decimal(20,8)'),
name = xc.value('(tag[@k="name"]/@v)[1]', 'varchar(50)'),
website = xc.value('(tag[@k="website"]/@v)[1]', 'varchar(50)')
FROM
@XML.nodes('/osm/node') AS XT(XC)
And I also recommend to always use the most appropriate datatype - here, the id looks like an INT - so use it as such - and lat and lon are clearly DECIMAL values ; don't just convert everything to strings because you're too lazy to figure out what to use!
A: Dammit, I found the solution by myself thanks to this post on StackOverflow:
USE OPENXMLTesting
GO
DECLARE @XML AS XML, @hDoc AS INT, @SQL NVARCHAR (MAX)
SELECT @XML = XMLData FROM XMLwithOpenXML
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @hDoc OUTPUT, @XML
SELECT id, lat, lon,name,website
FROM OPENXML(@hDoc, 'osm/node')
WITH
(
id [varchar](50) '@id',
lat [varchar](100) '@lat',
lon [varchar](100) '@lon',
name [varchar](100) '(tag[@k="name"]/@v)[1]',
website [varchar](500) '(tag[@k="website"]/@v)[1]'
)
EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @hDoc
GO
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You are here: Home › Products › Turbocharger › Vauxhall › Turbocharger. 2002 Vauxhall Astra 1.7 DTi.
Turbocharger. 2002 Vauxhall Astra 1.7 DTi.
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There are those who call it the "food of the czars." Others see it as gourmet black gold. But the most popular and appreciated caviar doesn't come from Russia or Iran. The country that supplies one-fourth of the worldwide production of sturgeon eggs (40 tons per year out of a total of 160 tons) is Italy.
Of these, 25 tons come from Agroittica Lombarda, which breeds this most prestigious of fish species in about 60 acres of tanks in Calvisano (near Brescia) and Cassolnovo (near Pavia). It is the largest aquafarming operation in Europe with strict health and hygiene standards and a production process that is 100% eco-friendly.
The company's brand Calvisius, which has sales of 25 million euros per year with exports accounting for 90% of business, has won over starred restaurants, airlines, luxury hotels and gourmet shops throughout the world.
"In the last year in particular, in contrast to the overall macro-economic situation in Italy, we have seen consumption grow a great deal on the domestic market," Lelio Mondella, general director of Agroittica Lombarda explains to MAG. "Currently, almost all Italian chefs prefer Calvisius, including Massimo Bottura for one." In his Osteria Francescana restaurant, Bottura uses "our Ars italica Oscietra Royal," but Gualtiero Marchesi uses it as well in his famous dish that combines spaghetti and caviar.
The main export countries for Calvisius, in order of importance, are the United States, Russia (despite the embargo), France/Belgium, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates. The company has also become the main caviar supplier in first-class cabins airline cabins for the likes of Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways and Cathay Pacific.
Sales director Stefano Bottoli explains how future marketing strategies include making the most of new packaging, with 10-gram tins that cost 16 euros. This is the perfect size to allow two people to taste the delicacy, and it makes the product more accessible to the public.
The origins of Agroittica Lombarda's success date back to 1977 when industrialist Giovanni Tolettini decided to utilize the hot water generated from his steelworks in Calvisano together with pure resurgent waters to create the perfect environment for farming various fish species. The turning point came in the 1980s when Gino Ravagnan, a long-time partner in the company, met Russian professor Serge Doroshov, a marine biologist at the University of California, Davis. After consulting with Doroshov, Agroittica Lombarda stopped breeding eels and began breeding white sturgeon. In 1992, in addition to producing and packaging sturgeon meat, the company began harvesting and selling very high-quality caviar via the traditional Russian "Malossol" method, which is low in salt, meaning that the taste of the eggs is much more delicate. Agroittica has gradually won over the market thanks to the purity of the water it uses, its rigorous health and hygiene standards and its highly sustainable technologies.
The Washington Convention of 1998, which included sturgeon in its list of endangered species, was an important moment for the company. This limited the amount of harvesting that could be done with wild species of sturgeon and was a boon to the Italian company's aquafarming operation. Since 2000, the Calvisius brand has launched in the United States, France, Great Britain, Asia and has even conquered "motherland" Russia. Who knows if those in the land of the czars know that the largest breeding operation for caviar in the world is in Calvisano, Italy. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,703 |
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from dino.hooks.connect import *
from dino.hooks.create import *
from dino.hooks.delete import *
from dino.hooks.disconnect import *
from dino.hooks.get_acl import *
from dino.hooks.history import *
from dino.hooks.invite import *
from dino.hooks.join import *
from dino.hooks.kick import *
from dino.hooks.leave import *
from dino.hooks.list_channels import *
from dino.hooks.list_rooms import *
from dino.hooks.login import *
from dino.hooks.message import *
from dino.hooks.remove_room import *
from dino.hooks.rename_room import *
from dino.hooks.request_admin import *
from dino.hooks.set_acl import *
from dino.hooks.status import *
from dino.hooks.startup import *
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from dino.hooks.update_user_info import *
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from dino.hooks.received import *
from dino.hooks.heartbeat import *
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Q: Binding JAX-RS bean validation error messages to the view We can easily validate a JAX-RS resource class field or method parameter using bean validation something like the following:
@Size(min = 18, max = 80, message = "Age must be between {min} and {max}.") String age;
What is the easiest way to bind the error message to a JSP page?
(Say, I am using Java EE 7 with Jersey or Resteasy)
A: EDIT 1
We introduced new annotation @ErrorTemplate in Jersey 2.3 that covers this use-case. Handling JAX-RS and Bean Validation Errors with MVC describes it deeper and shows how to use it.
With Jersey you can follow these steps:
*
*add the following dependencies: jersey-bean-validation and jersey-mvc-jsp
*create an ExceptionMapper for ConstraintViolationException
*register your providers
Dependencies
If you're using Maven you can simply add these dependencies to your pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-mvc-jsp</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-bean-validation</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</dependency>
otherwise refer to the modules dependency pages to get a list of required libraries (jersey-mvc-jsp and jersey-bean-validation).
ExceptionMapper
Bean Validation runtime throws a ConstraintViolationException when something goes wrong during validation an entity (or JAX-RS resource). Jersey 2.x provides a standard ExceptionMapper to handle such exceptions (ValidationException to be precise) so if you want to handle them differently, you need to write an ExceptionMapper of your own:
@Provider
@Priority(Priorities.USER)
public class ConstraintViolationExceptionMapper implements ExceptionMapper<ConstraintViolationException> {
@Override
public Response toResponse(final ConstraintViolationException exception) {
return Response
// Define your own status.
.status(400)
// Put an instance of Viewable in the response so that jersey-mvc-jsp can handle it.
.entity(new Viewable("/error.jsp", exception))
.build();
}
}
With the ExceptionMapper above you'll be handling all thrown ConstraintViolationExceptions and the final response will have HTTP 400 response status. Entity passed (Viewable) to the response will be processed by MessageBodyWriter from jersey-mvc module and it will basically output a processed JSP page. The first parameter of the Viewable class is a path to a JSP page (you can use relative or absolute path), the second is the model the JSP will use for rendering (the model is accessible via ${it} attribute in JSP). For more on this topic, refer to the section about MVC in Jersey Users guide.
Registering Providers
The last step you need to make is to register your providers into your Application (I'll show you an example using ResourceConfig from Jersey which extends Application class):
new ResourceConfig()
// Look for JAX-RS reosurces and providers.
.package("my.package")
// Register Jersey MVC JSP processor.
.register(JspMvcFeature.class)
// Register your custom ExceptionMapper.
.register(ConstraintViolationExceptionMapper.class)
// Register Bean Validation (this is optional as BV is automatically registered when jersey-bean-validation is on the classpath but it's good to know it's happening).
.register(ValidationFeature.class);
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The Arctic Monkeys was my favourite band when I was 15. That was the era of the Favourite Worst Nightmare, The Kooks, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers and many other bands that were influenced by them, creating the "indie scene", a term that became somewhat tacky nowadays. Since then, a lot has happened and as I've grown older, I've watched the most hyped band of my teenage years to become one of the most notorious bands of the UK, with five different album, a side project called The Last Shadow Puppets, and well… they even played at the Olympics!
My relationship with the Monkeys, however, have changed throughout the years. Even though I've become more interested in other things while they've taken a more glamorous rock'n roll side, that didn't mean I wouldn't go back to a song or two to enjoy my teenage hits or a new single or two, which kind of made me excited for this new album, specially after Everything You've come to Expect by The Last Shadow Puppets. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, however, disappoints.
The first thing you can tell about the record is that is not an album by the Arctic Monkeys, but Alex Turner himself. There are no melodies, no rhythm, no riffs or anything. The band plays on the background with no characteristics at all while Alex Turner delivers one of the most ridiculous, pretentious and boring melodies that have nothing to do with the Monkeys or his side project with Kane. In fact, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino seems like the type of music that would be playing on the elevator of such facility.
For trying to pursue something calmer and more personal with jazz influences, psychedelia and pop-rock from the 60s, Alex Turner jeopardize the whole record by closing himself on his own shell and leaves the band behind. The other members themselves have said that the new record is all Turner's material and it was so different from anything they've done before that they didn't really know what to do with it. As a result, Turner exploits his references in a very singular way, saying nonsense things like "So who you gonna call? The martini police baby that isn't how they look tonight" or "They've got a film up on the wall and it's dark enough to dance. What do you mean you've never seen Blade Runner?".
What seems a little interesting at the beginning it soon blurs out through repetitively and boredom as the band seem to be playing the same tune for 40 minutes while Turner delivers lines that don't necessarily rhyme or makes sense. Even though the material itself isn't bad, the worth critics and fans will make to try to "understand" and "enjoy" this new phase don't hide the fact that we wouldn't be listening to this if it were a new band. I always think about this when I listen to a new album. Would I be listening to this if it weren't for this and that? And Alex Turner, who has been the center of it all for a while, is probably taking himself too seriously and maybe should leave the rest of the band to take part of the creating process. Maybe next time. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,706 |
Receiving natalizumab injection may increase the risk that you will develop progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML; a rare infection of the brain that cannot be treated, prevented, or cured and that usually causes death or severe disability). The chance that you will develop PML during your treatment with natalizumab is higher if you have one or more of the following risk factors.
You have received many doses of natalizumab, especially if you have received treatment for longer than 2 years.
You have ever been treated with medications that weaken the immune system, including azathioprine (Azasan, Imuran), cyclophosphamide, methotrexate (Otrexup, Rasuvo, Trexall, Xatmep), mitoxantrone, and mycophenolate mofetil (CellCept).
A blood test shows that you have been exposed to John Cunningham virus (JCV; a virus that many people are exposed to during childhood that usually causes no symptoms but may cause PML in people with weakened immune systems).
Your doctor will probably order a blood test before or during your treatment with natalizumab injection to see if you have been exposed to JCV. If the test shows that you have been exposed to JCV, you and your doctor may decide that you should not receive natalizumab injection, especially if you also have one or both of the other risk factors listed above. If the test does not show that you have been exposed to JCV, your doctor may repeat the test from time to time during your treatment with natalizumab injection. You should not be tested if you have had a plasma exchange (treatment in which the liquid part of the blood is removed from the body and replaced with other fluids) during the past 2 weeks because test results will not be accurate.
There are other factors that may also increase the risk that you will develop PML. Tell your doctor if you have or have ever had PML, an organ transplant, or another condition that affects your immune system such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), leukemia (cancer that causes too many blood cells to be produced and released into the bloodstream), or lymphoma (cancer that develops in the cells of the immune system). Also tell your doctor if you are taking or if you have ever taken any other medications that affect the immune system such as adalimumab (Humira); cyclosporine (Gengraf, Neoral, Sandimmune); etanercept (Enbrel); glatiramer (Copaxone, Glatopa); infliximab (Remicade); interferon beta (Avonex, Betaseron, Rebif); medications for cancer; mercaptopurine (Purinethol, Purixan); oral steroids such as dexamethasone, methylprednisolone (Depo-medrol, Medrol, Solu-medrol), prednisolone (Prelone), and prednisone (Rayos); sirolimus (Rapamune); and tacrolimus (Astagraf, Envarsus XR, Prograf). Your doctor may tell you that you should not receive natalizumab injection.
A program called the TOUCH program has been set up to help manage the risks of natalizumab treatment. You can only receive natalizumab injection if you are registered with the TOUCH program, if natalizumab is prescribed for you by a doctor who is registered with the program, and if you receive the medication at an infusion center that is registered with the program. Your doctor will give you more information about the program, will have you sign an enrollment form, and will answer any questions you have about the program and your treatment with natalizumab injection.
As part of the TOUCH program, your doctor or nurse will give you a copy of the Medication Guide before you begin treatment with natalizumab injection and before you receive each infusion. Read this information very carefully each time you receive it and ask your doctor or nurse if you have any questions. You can also visit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website (http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm085729.htm) or the manufacturer's website to obtain the Medication Guide.
Also as part of the TOUCH program, your doctor will need to see you every 3 months at the beginning of your treatment and then at least every 6 months to decide whether you should continue using natalizumab. You will also need to answer some questions before you receive each infusion to be sure that natalizumab is still right for you.
Call your doctor immediately if you develop any new or worsening medical problems during your treatment, and for 6 months after your final dose. Be especially sure to call your doctor if you experience any of the following symptoms: weakness on one side of the body that worsens over time; clumsiness of the arms or legs; changes in your thinking, memory, walking, balance, speech, eyesight, or strength that last several days; headaches; seizures; confusion; or personality changes.
If your treatment with natalizumab injection is stopped because you have PML, you may develop another condition called immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS; swelling and worsening of symptoms that may occur as the immune system begins to work again after certain medications that affect it are started or stopped), especially if you receive a treatment to remove natalizumab from your blood more quickly. Your doctor will watch you carefully for signs of IRIS and will treat these symptoms if they occur.
Tell all the doctors who treat you that you are receiving natalizumab injection.
Talk to your doctor about the risks of receiving natalizumab injection.
Natalizumab is used to prevent episodes of symptoms and slow the worsening of disability in people who have relapsing-remitting forms (course of disease where symptoms flare up from time to time) of multiple sclerosis (MS; a disease in which the nerves do not function properly and people may experience weakness, numbness, loss of muscle coordination, and problems with vision, speech, and bladder control). Natalizumab is also used to treat and prevent episodes of symptoms in people who have Crohn's disease (a condition in which the body attacks the lining of the digestive tract, causing pain, diarrhea, weight loss, and fever) who have not been helped by other medications or who cannot take other medications. Natalizumab is in a class of medications called monoclonal antibodies. It works by stopping certain cells of the immune system from reaching the brain and spinal cord or digestive tract and causing damage.
Natalizumab comes as a concentrated solution (liquid) to be diluted and injected slowly into a vein by a doctor or nurse. It is usually given once every 4 weeks in a registered infusion center. It will take about 1 hour for you to receive your entire dose of natalizumab.
Natalizumab may cause serious allergic reactions that are most likely to happen within 2 hours after the beginning of an infusion but may happen at any time during your treatment. You will have to stay at the infusion center for 1 hour after your infusion is finished. A doctor or nurse will monitor you during this time to see if you are having a serious reaction to the medication. Tell your doctor or nurse if you experience any unusual symptoms such as hives, rash, itching, difficulty swallowing or breathing, fever, dizziness, headache, chest pain, flushing, nausea, or chills, especially if they occur within 2 hours after the start of your infusion.
If you are receiving natalizumab injection to treat Crohn's disease, your symptoms should improve during the first few months of your treatment. Tell your doctor if your symptoms have not improved after 12 weeks of treatment. Your doctor may stop treating you with natalizumab injection.
Natalizumab may help control your symptoms but will not cure your condition. Keep all appointments to receive natalizumab injection even if you feel well.
tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to natalizumab, any other medications, or any of the ingredients in natalizumab injection. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for a list of the ingredients.
tell your doctor and pharmacist what prescription and nonprescription medications, vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbal products you are taking. Be sure to mention the medications listed in the IMPORTANT WARNING section. Your doctor may need to change the doses of your medications or monitor you carefully for side effects.
tell your doctor if you have ever received natalizumab injection before and if you have or have ever had any of the conditions listed in the IMPORTANT WARNING section. Before you receive each infusion of natalizumab, tell your doctor if you have a fever or any type of infection, including infections that last for a long time such as shingles (a rash that may occur from time to time in people who have had chickenpox in the past).
tell your doctor if you are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding. If you become pregnant while receiving natalizumab injection, call your doctor.
If you miss an appointment to receive a natalizumab infusion, call your doctor as soon as possible.
Natalizumab injection may cause other side effects. Call your doctor if you have any unusual problems while receiving this medication.
Keep all appointments with your doctor and the laboratory. Your doctor may order certain lab tests to check your body's response to natalizumab injection. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,707 |
> > have some overhead.
> Unless you can recompile the code*... Oh, you can!
Recompiling the code is overhead by definition, and quite large at that compared to the cost of a virtual call.
> trigger may be in the cold path that causes the change, not in the hot path.
Sure, but you have to consider the general case. Assume we have several classes which each have several objects for different purposes (logging or whatever), and in each class you repeatedly switch between different subclasses for those objects (in a cold path, say only 10 times a second). Every switch causes recompilation of all functions in that class and all other functions which they were inlined into. Do you understand the problem with your "optimization" now? | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,708 |
Wattleseed is highly nutritious and versitile to use.
Wattleseed has been a staple food for Indigenous people for thousands of years as a rich source of protein, fibre and carbohydrate and used to make cakes and damper.
Wattleseed has a hazelnut, chocolate and coffee taste and aroma, it can be used as a coffee substitute. Wattle lattes taste great but don't throw away the nutritious seeds as they can be reused in baking or cooking..
As a Latte or long black. Wattlelatte !
Alternatively add 1 cup of milk to a saucepan with 5-10g of Wattleseeds, simmer for 1minute then let stand for 3 minutes, strain into a coffee cup and add some local honey. As an option add a sprinkle of cinnamon or turmeric on top.
For desserts soak the Wattleseeds in a small amount of hot water (just enough to cover) for a few minutes for a less crunchy texture when adding to other recipes.
You can even use the seeds as a facial and body exfoliant !
Wattleeeds contain Calcium, Zinc, Magnesium, Iron, Potassium and other nutrients for good health. They are a Low GIycemic Carbohydrate, a source of protein and fibre too. As part of a healthy balanced diet you can incorporate the Wattleseed into your everyday cooking making it nutritious and delicious. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,709 |
"I have found Quantum Construction to be professional in their approach, helpful in related matters, efficient in their building programmes, and realistic in their pricing."
Sheldon & Clayton Ltd
Projects - Charter House Holdings Plc
Trent Lane, Castle Donnington, DE74 2PY
JCT Intermediate Building Contract With Contractors Design 2011
JT Design Partnership
100 Nine Design Limited
The main works consist of a 22,090ft2 (2,052m2) extension to an existing distribution warehouse, including associated external works, alterations to existing underground drainage system, new parking and landscaping.
The new steel portal, complete with profiled metal cladding, was specified and constructed to precisely match the existing building.
Essential to success of the project was the maintenance of access, for the client's distribution operations, across a small shared access yard.
The degree of difficulty in managing the operation was high due to the new construction being undertaken along two sides of the existing yard with the client's existing building on the third.
Careful planning of the works, including undertaking specific tasks to suit the particular periods of high intensity use of the existing facility by the client, was successfully translated into the programme for the works. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 1,710 |
Thomaz Bellucci was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Gastão Elias.
Nicola Kuhn won the title after Viktor Galović retired trailing 6–2, 5–7, 2–4 in the final.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
References
Main Draw
Qualifying Draw
Sparkassen Open - Singles
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Seahawks sticking to plan in offseason
Gregg Bell
Tacoma News Tribune
If the Seahawks' offseason goes as smooth as it looks on paper, it would already be July.
Yes, at first glance, Seattle is in better salary-cap and roster shape than it was at this time last year. That was after the first of what became consecutive road losses in the divisional round of the NFC playoffs.
The Seahawks' younger core remains intact, under contract for multiple years beyond 2017. That's how franchises remain in the playoffs year after year — and the Seahawks just finished their fifth consecutive postseason.
But it's the moves on the edges of that core that determine whether teams win championships. Just like last winter and spring, those edges are where Seattle's most important offseason moves will be.
This offseason, some of the Seahawks' edges are especially rough.
Upgrading their much-maligned offensive line, finding a new starting cornerback for injured DeShawn Shead and adding depth on the defensive line are top priorities in the draft and free agency.
Now that the Legion of Boom's best years seemed to have passed, better pass defense in general is a need.
In their final eight games beginning with the Nov. 27 loss at Tampa Bay that Earl Thomas missed, the Seahawks went 4-4. With the three-time All-Pro out for the season with a broken leg and Steven Terrell making his first career starts at free safety, Seattle's pass defense allowed 149 completions in 239 attempts (a completion rate of 62.3 percent), 1,857 yards, 11 touchdowns, zero interceptions and an opposing passer rating of 101.8.
In the eight games before Thomas got hurt, Seattle went 6-1-1. Its pass defense allowed 193 completions in 308 attempts (62.7 percent), 2,145 yards, eight touchdowns, nine interceptions and a passer rating of 79.8.
"We've got to get Earl back, get the corner thing squared away," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. "We will certainly be looking at that in the draft. We need some youth at the linebacker spot, now. Bobby (Wagner) and K.J. (Wright) played thousands of plays this year between the two of them and were extremely successful. But we need to address that. We didn't get anybody that really made a difference in the last couple of years to really fight to take those guys' jobs.
"Think if somebody could battle K.J. and Bobby for their starting time."
We haven't even gotten to the offense yet.
That unit's inconsistency doomed much of the 2016 season. The running game was 25th in the league, after years of being ranked in the top four. Russell Wilson got sacked 41 times. He played through a high-ankle sprain and sprained knee ligament that doctors said should have sidelined him for a month. That kept him from running. That, plus a lack of lanes through which to rush, kept the running game in neutral.
"Offensive line will continue to be an area of focus. It will be," Carroll said.
The first move of the offseason came last week: the signing of 30-year-old cornerback Perrish Cox to a one-year contract.
The Seahawks have about $32 million in space under the salary cap of $170 million for the 2017 season, according to overthecap.com. So there is room — and a need — to make moves.
Seattle has 14 players who could become unrestricted free agents in March, two fewer than this time last year. This year's group is far less prominent than last year's, which featured Bruce Irvin, Russell Okung, J.R. Sweezy and Jermaine Kearse.
Only one of Seattle's potential free agents this offseason is a starter — strongside linebacker Mike Morgan. And he only starts when the Seahawks don't begin games in a nickel defense with five defensive backs against passing teams.
Other prominent Seahawks with expired contracts are kicker Steven Hauschka and No. 2 tight end Luke Willson.
The bigger financial considerations are with two stars who are entering the final year of their deals.
Four-time Pro Bowl strong safety Kam Chancellor, who turns 29 in April, is the soul of the defense and a respected team leader. The Seahawks could save $7,125,000 of his $8,125,000 cap hit in 2017 by releasing him this offseason.
But the first player Carroll named moments after the season-ending playoff loss at Atlanta as a key leader going forward was Chancellor. Chances are he might be Seattle's first big offseason move: a multiyear contract extension with a more team-friendly cap number for 2017.
Seattle could save $10 million — all of Jimmy Graham's 2017 cap charge — by releasing the 30-year-old tight end.
Tempting? It seems unlikely. The team has yet to fully realize the scoring capabilities of a 6-foot-7 physical freak for whom the Seahawks traded a two-time Pro Bowl center (Max Unger) and first-round pick to New Orleans before the 2015 season.
Maybe if Seattle was feeling more of a financial squeeze than it is now.
"Our roster is pretty well set right now. We're in pretty good shape," Carroll said. "Money-wise we're in good shape. We're solid. We know where we are.
"We're going to add a draft class to it and see how far those guys can take us again."
Most casual fans think Carroll and general manager John Schneider should throw money at a free-agent offensive lineman. Or three.
Problem is, those linemen have become even more expensive relative to their quality and the league's market, as teams from New England to Seattle cope with inadequate blockers unprepared by college spread offenses for NFL play. Plus, the draft on April 27-29 is widely viewed to have fewer top-quality offensive linemen than last year. That means tackles especially will be overvalued, and players who are third- to fifth-round talent will go in the first and second rounds to teams desperate for bookend blockers.
Are the Seahawks desperate? After all, they started an undrafted rookie (George Fant) and a third-year player who got benched and won his job back (Garry Gilliam) at left and right tackles this past season.
"I don't think that way. That's not how we (think) — 'OK, let's take money and put it here and all of sudden you're going to be better,' " Carroll said. "You've got to get guys that will play worthy of it, and when they demonstrate that, then they get paid. We've shown that we understand that and are committed to that mentality.
"I don't think you can just buy your way to it. We're not going to do that. We're not going to go out and spend a ton of money in free agency, on one guy, to try to save the day. That's not how we function, at all. We bring the young guys up, developing them and make them a part of this program. Then as they go and they earn their opportunities, then we'll reward them as we can.
"I hope that it's really clear that that's the way we've done this with a really clear intent. John has done a fantastic job of managing that."
Asked about the overwhelming majority of Seattle's salary cap being devoted to the core of Wilson and No. 1 wide receiver Doug Baldwin plus defensive stars Richard Sherman, Thomas, Michael Bennett and Wagner, Carroll said: "That's the way it's come out because the guys have been such impacting players, you know.
"It's not about where the money's going. It's (that) we've got to make the right investments as we move forward. I think we have a really cool formula here, and I think we've demonstrated that. It's demonstrated in consistency over years, that is pretty obvious.
"But this is a whole other one. Here we go again. We've got to keep going." | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 1,712 |
Wordstock, Portland's literary jewel, is bringing 175 authors to the convention center October 8-9. Greg Netzer – Executive Director of Wordstock to some, Mr. Alma of Alma's Chocolates to others, stopped by our NW market to talk shop.
Today is the last Market of the season for our NW 19th & Everett location, we'll be back in the spring. Stop by today or enjoy the Market virtually below.
I receive these new posts as emails.The last several of them have been blank. I thought you should know that you seem to be having technical problems with the blog.
It appears to be fixed now. Today's email had the blog text in it rather than the blank grey screen! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,713 |
Myisha - Name Meaning, What does Myisha mean?
Myisha as a girls' name is pronounced mye-EE-shah. It is of Arabic origin, and the meaning of Myisha is "woman; life". Variant of Aisha.
Aisha (#501 A YEAR AGO), Asha (#1296), Ayesha (#1331), Isha (#1635), Aiesha, Niesha, Tyisha, Tyesha, Tiesha, Takisha, Taisha, Myeisha, Myesha, Miesha, Maisha, Iesha, Aysha and Tynisha are the prominent variation forms of Myisha appearing in the Top 2000. These relations of Myisha reached the height of their popularity 3 decades ago (AVERAGE #1393) and are now significantly less widespread (#1829, DOWN 71.1%), with the version Iesha falling out of fashion. Aisha is the most chic baby name here.
Myisha is alike in pronunciation to Masha, Michi, Mischa and Misha. Other suggested similar-sounding names are Abisha, Alisha▼, Amisha, Anisha, Brisha, Elisha▼, Erisha, Irisha, Keisha▼, Kisha▼, Leisha, Lisha, Maiga, Maisa, Maisee, Maisey, Maisie▲, Maisy, Malisha, Marisha, Marsha▼, Maysa, Meica, Melisha, Mesa, Mica, Mika, Missy, Monisha, Myka, Mykah, Nisha, Saisha, Tisha▼ and Trisha▼. These names tend to be more frequently used than Myisha. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,714 |
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ETNOPEDIA TEAM NEWS 2010 04
Hello everyone – In This Issue:
Etnopedia to be promoted in Tokyo 2010
How to add your Etnopedia portal on Facebook and Twitter
Notes of Encouragement from the portal teams
Advancements on Etnopedia
Pray for the Bengali and Tamil Portals and the Research Movement
We have found a person to represent Etnopedia in Tokyo. He will be taking the promotional materials to the conference. Pray that we find new translators at this conference. Also pray that those who do not speak English will find out about Etnopedia in their language.
The purpose of this is so that your portal team can send a people profile every day or so in your language to all your followers of Facebook and Twitter. A few months ago it occurred to 4JC that Etnopedia should be promoted on Facebook with it's own page. I agree, as so many Christians spend a lot of time there. So I found that you can update Facebook and Twitter at the same time with an application called Ping. I can go into Ping and type a link to a people profile every day and all the Facebook fans and people following Etnopedia on twitter get this message. I have tried other services and Ping seems to be the easiest to use and also adds the photo to Facebook posts. See examples here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Etnopedia/136899230983
I suggest that all the portals set up these three accounts for Etnopedia in their languages.
1. Facebook Page (not personal account but a page). I think you do need a Facebook personal account to set up a page. Once you have a personal account and a page http://www.facebook.com/pages/ – then become a fan of your page.
2. Twitter account (The Etnopedia username is taken so you could add one like the Spanish portal and use EtnopediaEs. For example, you could use EtnopediaDe or EtnopediaKo. http://twitter.com/
3. Ping.fm account. This is where you can add messages that automatically update your Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. First add your Facebook (personal account) first then add your Facebook (page) then your Twitter account. Don't forget to become a Fan of your page within your personal account. Then set up Ping.fm http://ping.fm/
Here is the tricky part. A.) In your Ping settings for your Facebook personal account, you will only check one box in the "Connect to Facebook" settings. Check "Upload and post photos to feed". B.) In the "Mange your Facebook Pages" settings you will check four boxes: 1.) EtnopediaXx (your username) 2.) Status updates, 3.) Upload and post photos to stream, and 4.) Post links to stream. Then you are done. Add your twitter account also. Then on your dashboard you should disconnect your Facebook personal page so that it is "Not Posting" . Take the check box out of status updates in your Facebook personal page settings. Do all this is that order. By doing this you will not get posted twice on your personal wall. The Etnopedia personal Facebook page in Spanish has over 1,500 friends so the Spanish portal coordinator began yesterday promoting the Etnopedia Español Facebook page to 100 people. Today they have 20 fans. These fans will now receive an unreached people profile in Spanish with the photo every time he posts one to his Ping Dashboard. I suggest one every day, and don't forget to add the link to the profile in your language. The only down side to Ping is you only get 145 spaces. But This is all people will probably look at anyway. We don't want to give people whole profiles, we want them coming to the Source, Etnopedia. This is where they can find more and updated information. If you decide to add these social to your portals, send me the links to your Facebook page and Twitter and I will add them to the Etnopedia.org multi-lingual page. See example for English and Spanish: http://www.etnopedia.org/index.htm I am including the graphics we use if you want them.
Twitter logo Facebook page logo The .org is spaced away from the name so that your thumbnail just shows the globe and Etnopedia. Click "Edit Thumbnail" on the picture once you have uploaded it.
If you want to add the links and icons to your Etnopedia front page or contact page, they are in globals and are called Facebookicon.jpg and Twittericon.jpg. Also Twitter_tiny.jpg and Facebook_tiny.jpg
Indonesian Portal Team: We are happy to see some progress in the Indonesian portal, despite all three contributors are very busy. There are now 90 people profiles, most of them are from Indonesia, but there are also people profiles from 44 other countries. From the beginning of the portal there 5100 page views, that is not much, because up-to-now Etnopedia is not yet known in Indonesia. Please, pray that the number of writers can increase and the number of readers, who will use it for their intercession for the peoples in this world. visit the Indonesian portal here: http://id.etnopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Halaman_Utama
German Portal Team: There is good news, the German portal is growing each day, with new profiles, but also profiles are up-dated, also in many discussion pages of the country pages are vital information from a Christian perspective, because German readers cannot move to Mission Manual or other Christian web-sites to get back ground information, because most of this material is in English. We are thankful, that there are few, who have contributed first-hand data about peoples. This is an enrichment, but we hope and pray that more contributors will be ready to provide first-hand data. Visit the German portal here: http://de.etnopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite
The European ESMA Conference was on 18-21 March 2010 in Germany. ESMA stands for European Students Mission Association; this is the organization of the student mission prayer fellowships at the European theologian seminaries. There were 150 participants from the member schools, one even as far from St. Petersburg. We were asked to have a workshop on mission prayer in English, translated into French. On Friday and Saturday night George Verwer, OM, spoke about "Vision for Mission". On Saturday night I was been asked to start the evening to present the challenge of the UPGs and about the tools the Prayer cards of the Joshua Project and the Etnopedia. We thank you for all prayer support. At least a number of the students got a new vision about worldwide mission. I tried to challenge some French speakers to get involved, but there was no response. Two or three mission organizations have promised to look into Etnopedia and then to add or correct profiles, if necessary. I hope they will do it. In my presentation I opened Etnopedia on-line and showed some profiles and the links. Some were quite enthusiastic about this project.
Spanish Portal Team: We have a person translating new Spanish profiles. We also have a new Facebook page and twitter page like the English portal. The Spanish Facebook site is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Etnopedia-en-Espanol/107069209331700 and the Twitter site is: http://twitter.com/EtnopediaEs
This past month we have been working on English profiles as well as new changes to Etnopedia.
We have added code that allows you to see more than 200 peoples in the category pages. It is now 500. For example, when you click on the China category, you can see all 400+ people profile links. We added this to the English, Spanish, German, Indonesian, and Korean portals.
We have also cleaned up the Disambiguation articles to show "related peoples" on the main disambiguation page and not on each profile. This will cut down on the code translators have to add and make updates easier. See: http://en.etnopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Kurd and http://en.etnopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Talysh
We added the "Etnopedia Language Portals" page so that people can see which portals are needing translators. They can also see the progress. See: http://en.etnopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Etnopedia:Language_Portals
We have also added IPhone skins to the five most active portals. If your portal does not have the IPhone skin let us know and we will install it. If you want to see Etnopedia on your mobile you can create a user and change the skin in your preferences. Choose the Chick skin for most all mobil devices and the IPhone skin for your IPhone.
Pray for the two new portal teams that they are encouraged and break through that initial spiritual barrier. An estimated 77,000,000 people speak Tamil and 230,000,000 people speak Bengali. Imagine the impact! It is a tremendous spiritual battle to translate your first people profiles. So we pray for you! Every people profile in your language takes back enemy territory. Every profile has the potential to create much needed prayer and awareness for unreached peoples. I was reminded this week of the tremendous impact of all our ministries when peoples from Iraq and Iran were translated into German and Spanish for the first time. More than 95,000,000 Latin Christians and over 100,000 German speakers have these people profiles in their language for the first time. Now they can pray and consider going to them. Your work is very important to the missionary movement! Many times a portal starts with only one or two people. Push forward and translate your first profiles and promote your project. God will bless your efforts.
We need to pray for the research movement as well. These are the people who are making this vital information available to us so that we can translate it. They have many struggles and obstacles to overcome. There are many peoples in the world that are not in anyone's data and need to be added. It's very complicated. This is part of the spiritual warfare they face every day, so please keep them in prayer.
Be Sensitive to Missionaries and Christians on the field.
Please do not put specific information about Christians and or mission agencies and missionaries on the people profiles in any language. This helps keep the people groups and mission workers safe.
Learn About MediaWiki – the software that powers Etnopedia
The Wikipedia Foundation is offering full scholarships to go to Poland where you can learn more about MediaWiki. You can apply and tell them you are working on Etnopedia and give them the Etnopedia email contact as a reference. Wikimania conference in Poland July 9-11 2010 http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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A US appeals court has reversed a four-year-old order banning the publication of the computer code which can be used to copy DVDs.
The court reversed a 1999 injunction favouring the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA), which had filed a lawsuit against California resident Andrew Bunner, accusing him of violating its intellectual property rights by posting DeCSS (De-Content Scrambling System) software on his website.
The court ruled that "the preliminary injunction... burdens more speech than necessary to protect DVD CCA's property interest and was an unlawful prior restraint upon Bunner's right to free speech".
Last month, the DVD CCA, representing motion picture and consumer electronics companies, had asked the California Superior Court to dismiss its lawsuit, but Bunner opposed such a move.
The court denied the motion for dismissal as it felt that the appeal presented "important issues that could arise again and yet evade review".
DeCSS allows users to access movies on DVDs that are protected by the CSS encryption technology.
The code was first published by a Norwegian teenager, Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, who was acquitted of all charges in a Norwegian court last year.
That ruling was then upheld by the Oslo Court of Appeals in December, which found that Johansen had not used DeCSS to make DVD copies in violation of intellectual property regulations, and that is was not his intention to make illegal DVD copies.
The California Supreme Court had originally granted an injunction against publishing DeCSS based on a decision that the software contains trade secrets found in the CSS technology, and that those secrets should be protected by law.
The Appeals Court, instead, ruled that there was no evidence that CSS was still a trade secret when Bunner posted DeCSS, as it had been available on thousands of websites around the world.
However, the ruling will not necessarily make it legal in California to post DeCSS online in the future.
The court stressed that their ruling was "not a final adjudication on the merits. The ultimate determination of trade secret status and misappropriation would be subject to proof to be presented at trial".
But the ruling is a victory for free speech advocates groups that have been caught up in the aggressive campaign by Hollywood studios to prevent DVD copying with encryption technology.
The DVD CCA said it was disappointed by the California Court of Appeals ruling and that the group is taking into consideration, but has yet to decide its "next steps in this case". | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,717 |
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Artist Spotlight: Daft Punk
Welcome back to the artist spotlight. These are intended to educate and provide a basic commentary on the chosen band, and listing their biggest hits, as well as the hidden gems they've recorded.
This week the spotlight is on Daft Punk.
Daft Punk are a french electronic music duo consisting of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. They rose to prominence in the late 90s house movement and have enjoyed years of success since then as one of the defining artists of the genre.
Having met in secondary school, the two musicians formed an indie rock band named Darlin', named after the Beach Boys song. After a string of negative reviews, of which a particularly negative critic described them as 'a bunch of daft punk', the band disbanded, but Bangalter and de Homem-Christo found the review so amusing that they adopted the name 'Daft Punk' for their next project, an experiment using drum machines and synthesizers.
In 1996, after the release of an EP and their first successful single Da Funk, they signed a record deal with Virgin Records. After being presented with a choice between artistic control and more money from the label, they chose control, and it looks like a smart decision on their part. In 1997 their first album Homework was released.
Their next album, Discovery, released in 2001, would go on to become one of the defining albums of the electronic music scene, adopting a more playful synthpop sound than their older work. Single One More Time in particular became a major club hit.
Having achieved worldwide recognition and renown for their robotic personae, as seen in the picture, the offers kept coming in, with appearances in various tv commercials, and going on to produce the anime film Interstella 5555 which featured songs from their Discovery album. They later went on to direct their own feature film Electroma, which in a change in style did not feature any of their songs. However their most recent studio album Human after all was met with mixed reviews, despite achieving moderate success anyway.
Since this release in 2004 there hasn't been any new music from them, despite a few successful live album releases, the most recent of which Alive 2007 featured mash ups of their songs and went on to win at the Grammy Awards. During this same ceremony they made a rare and very special live appearance to do a solo during Kanye West's Stronger (video included- awesome), which featured heavily sampling from their single Harder Better Faster Stronger.
Fans anxiously awaiting a fourth studio album are still disappointed to hear little if any news from the band, though it has been announced that Daft Punk will be making the soundtrack for the new TR2N movie, which will have to tide them over for now. It has also been rumored that Daft Punk may be making a videogame appearance in the upcoming DJ Hero, though frankly with their catalogue they should really get their own dedicated game in the mold of what has recently been done with Aerosmith, Van Halen and the Beatles.
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She was a bit shy in telling me all this because she didn't know how I would react, but I explained to her that I deeply believe in the power of focus and manifesting. Then I told her that, when my husband and I were planning on applying for our green cards and relocating to New York City, we actually created a little alter of sorts in our bedroom. It included a New Yorker magazine, a little yellow cab toy, a figurine of the Statue of Liberty, and anything else that helped us to support and infuse our thoughts with positive energy around moving to NYC.
Last summer that dream became a reality when we moved into our new home in Brooklyn.
My friend was bolstered by this powerful alignment and said she would continue to focus her energy on her big goal, despite whether her partner believed or not.
Wouldn't you know it, just last week she found out that her application was accepted and she will be writing for The New York Times!
Another conversation… The day after that brunch with my friend, I was on a phone call with another friend of mine who happened to mention that she manifested the exact client she was looking for. She said she had written out all the details about the type of client she was seeking to work with. She wrote it all down in her journal and was very specific.
A short time after, she was in a café and happened to meet a woman who was interested in her business. As they got talking, my friend realized that this woman perfectly fit her ideal client description!
When thoughts materialize in the real world, this is manifestation.
I didn't always believe this, but it has happened in my life over and over again. I can't deny the power of setting an intention and trusting that the universe will have my back on it.
It's powerful to think that we are responsible in some way for creating our world and our reality.
Rewind to my 20s, and I knew I would move to New York one day. I'm not American, nor did I have any credibility or connections at that time to be able to get a visa. Again, I just knew it was something I wanted.
Then my husband and I got serious about it a few years ago. We created the aforementioned New York alter and worked with a Life Coach to help us through the process (which was a big deal for both of us). Now I'm living in one of the greatest cities in the world with my family.
I've manifested amounts of money I've needed. I've manifested meeting certain people in my life. I've manifested homes I've wanted to live in. I've manifested experiences I've wanted to have.
And sometimes things evolve in ways you don't expect.
Recently I've been asked how and why I got into coaching, and truthfully it's not something I ever set out to do. I never saw myself as a life coach, or a career coach, or a health coach. But similarly to becoming an entrepreneur, it manifested for me in a way that felt seamless and natural, and made complete sense to me.
After the people around me recognized that I was building businesses, and creating the life that I wanted, they started coming to me for advice and I did that for YEARS! I advised my friends on all sorts of things from relationships, to career advice, to manifesting what they wanted out of life.
Once I recognized this (during a breakthrough session with my own coach), I spent some time training to enhance this skill and the tools that I use. Today I've landed on an amazing career path.
Life-Coaching people, turning their dreams into reality!
Now I have the privilege of coaching people to live their best lives AND I LOVE IT! It is so inspiring to see the people I work with create their lives on their terms, and work with them to live more consciously and turn their dreams into a reality.
If you're familiar with the power of manifestation then you know it comes with an equal amount of energy being focused on gratitude. It's a crucial part of the law of attraction. Being grateful for all that you have raises your frequency, allowing you to harmonize with the energy of what it is you desire.
Gratitude creates abundance. Complaining creates lack.
Have you ever manifested something in your life? I invite you to look around you right now — how much of what you see is the product of your own desires and decisions?
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Author(s): Francisco Bueno, Manuel Hermenegildo, Pedro López, Edison Mera, Amadeo Casas.
This library contains a set of properties which are natively understood by the different program analyzers of ciaopp. They are used by ciaopp on output and they can also be used as properties in assertions.
or also as a package :- use_package(nativeprops).
Note the slightly different names of the library and the package.
compat/1, instance/1, succeeds/1, mshare/1, indep/2, indep/1, covered/2, linear/1, nonground/1, clique/1, clique_1/1, is_det/1, non_det/1, possibly_nondet/1, mut_exclusive/1, not_mut_exclusive/1, possibly_not_mut_exclusive/1, not_fails/1, fails/1, possibly_fails/1, covered/1, not_covered/1, possibly_not_covered/1, test_type/2, num_solutions/2, relations/2, finite_solutions/1, solutions/2, cardinality/3, no_choicepoints/1, leaves_choicepoints/1, size/2, size/3, size_lb/2, size_ub/2, size_o/2, size_metric/3, size_metric/4, steps/2, steps_lb/2, steps_o/2, steps_ub/2, rsize/2, costb/4, terminates/1, exception/1, exception/2, possible_exceptions/2, no_exception/1, no_exception/2, signal/1, signal/2, possible_signals/2, no_signal/1, no_signal/2, sideff_hard/1, sideff_pure/1, sideff_soft/1, constraint/1, tau/1, user_output/2.
Use Prop as a compatibility property. Normally used with types. See the discussion in Declaring regular types.
(no_rtcheck/1)compat(Prop) is not checked during run-time checking.
Use Prop as an instantiation property. Normally used with types. See the discussion in Declaring regular types.
(no_rtcheck/1)instance(Prop) is not checked during run-time checking.
A call to Goal succeeds.
(no_rtcheck/1)succeeds(Goal) is not checked during run-time checking.
X contains all sharing sets [JL88,MH89b] which specify the possible variable occurrences in the terms to which the variables involved in the clause may be bound. Sharing sets are a compact way of representing groundness of variables and dependencies between variables. This representation is however generally difficult to read for humans. For this reason, this information is often translated to ground/1, indep/1 and indep/2 properties, which are easier to read.
The sharing pattern for the variables in the clause is X.
(native/2)This predicate is understood natively by CiaoPP as sharing(X).
(no_rtcheck/1)mshare(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
X and Y do not have variables in common.
(native/2)This predicate is understood natively by CiaoPP as indep([[X,Y]]).
The variables in the the pairs in X are pairwise independent.
(native/2)This predicate is understood natively by CiaoPP as indep(X).
All variables occuring in X occur also in Y. Used by the non-strict independence-based annotators.
X is covered by Y.
(native/1)This predicate is understood natively by CiaoPP.
X is bound to a term which is linear, i.e., if it contains any variables, such variables appear only once in the term. For example, [1,2,3] and f(A,B) are linear terms, while f(A,A) is not.
X is instantiated to a linear term.
(native/2)This predicate is understood natively by CiaoPP as not_ground(X).
X is a set of variables of interest, much the same as a sharing group but X represents all the sharing groups in the powerset of those variables. Similar to a sharing group, a clique is often translated to ground/1, indep/1, and indep/2 properties.
The clique sharing pattern is X.
(native/2)This predicate is understood natively by CiaoPP as clique(X).
(no_rtcheck/1)clique(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
X is a set of variables of interest, much the same as a sharing group but X represents all the sharing groups in the powerset of those variables but disregarding the singletons. Similar to a sharing group, a clique_1 is often translated to ground/1, indep/1, and indep/2 properties.
The 1-clique sharing pattern is X.
(native/2)This predicate is understood natively by CiaoPP as clique_1(X).
(no_rtcheck/1)clique_1(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
All calls of the form X are deterministic, i.e., produce at most one solution (or do not terminate). In other words, if X succeeds, it can only succeed once. It can still leave choice points after its execution, but when backtracking into these, it can only fail or go into an infinite loop. This property is inferred and checked natively by CiaoPP using the domains and techniques of [LGBH05,LGBH10].
All calls of the form X are deterministic.
All calls of the form X are non-deterministic, i.e., they always produce more than one solution.
All calls of the form X are non-deterministic.
Non-determinism is not ensured for calls of the form X. In other words, nothing can be ensured about determinacy of such calls. This is the default when no information is given for a predicate, so this property does not need to be stated explicitly.
Non-determinism is not ensured for calls of the form X.
(no_rtcheck/1)possibly_nondet(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
For any call of the form X at most one clause succeeds, i.e., clauses are pairwise exclusive. Note that determinacy is the transitive closure (to all called predicates) of this property. This property is inferred and checked natively by CiaoPP using the domains and techniques of [LGBH05,LGBH10].
For any call of the form X at most one clause succeeds.
(rtcheck/2)The runtime check of this property is unimplemented.
For calls of the form X more than one clause may succeed. I.e., clauses are not disjoint for some call.
For some calls of the form X more than one clause may succeed.
Mutual exclusion of the clauses for calls of the form X cannot be ensured. This is the default when no information is given for a predicate, so this property does not need to be stated explicitly.
Mutual exclusion is not ensured for calls of the form X.
(no_rtcheck/1)possibly_not_mut_exclusive(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
Calls of the form X produce at least one solution (succeed), or do not terminate. This property is inferred and checked natively by CiaoPP using the domains and techniques of [DLGH97,BLGH04].
All the calls of the form X do not fail.
Calls of the form X fail.
Non-failure is not ensured for any call of the form X. In other words, nothing can be ensured about non-failure nor termination of such calls.
Non-failure is not ensured for calls of the form X.
(no_rtcheck/1)possibly_fails(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
For any call of the form X there is at least one clause whose test (guard) succeeds (i.e., all the calls of the form X are covered). Note that nonfailure is the transitive closure (to all called predicates) of this property. [DLGH97,BLGH04].
All the calls of the form X are covered.
There is some call of the form X for which there is no clause whose test succeeds [DLGH97].
Not all of the calls of the form X are covered.
Covering is not ensured for any call of the form X. In other words, nothing can be ensured about covering of such calls.
Covering is not ensured for calls of the form X.
(no_rtcheck/1)possibly_not_covered(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
Indicates the type of test that a predicate performs. Required by the nonfailure analyisis.
Calls of the form X have N solutions, i.e., N is the cardinality of the solution set of X.
(callable/1)X is a term which represents a goal, i.e., an atom or a structure.
For a call to Goal, Check(X) succeeds, where X is the number of solutions.
(callable/1)Check is a term which represents a goal, i.e., an atom or a structure.
Calls of the form X produce N solutions, i.e., N is the cardinality of the solution set of X.
Goal X produces N solutions.
Calls of the form X produce a finite number of solutions [DLGH97].
All the calls of the form X have a finite number of solutions.
(no_rtcheck/1)finite_solutions(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
Goal Goal produces the solutions listed in Sols.
Prop has a number of solutions between Lower and Upper.
(no_rtcheck/1)cardinality(Prop,Lower,Upper) is not checked during run-time checking.
A call to X does not leave new choicepoints.
A call to X leaves new choicepoints.
Y is the size of argument X, for any approximation.
(no_rtcheck/1)size(X,Y) is not checked during run-time checking.
Y is the size of argument X, for the approximation A.
(bound/1)A is a direction of approximation (upper or lower bound).
(no_rtcheck/1)size(A,X,Y) is not checked during run-time checking.
The minimum size of the terms to which the argument Y is bound is given by the expression Y. Various measures can be used to determine the size of an argument, e.g., list-length, term-size, term-depth, integer-value, etc. [DL93,LGHD96]. See measure_t/1.
Y is a lower bound on the size of argument X.
(no_rtcheck/1)size_lb(X,Y) is not checked during run-time checking.
The maximum size of the terms to which the argument Y is bound is given by the expression Y. Various measures can be used to determine the size of an argument, e.g., list-length, term-size, term-depth, integer-value, etc. [DL93,LGHD96]. See measure_t/1.
Y is a upper bound on the size of argument X.
(no_rtcheck/1)size_ub(X,Y) is not checked during run-time checking.
The size of argument X is in the order of the expression Y.
(no_rtcheck/1)size_o(X,Y) is not checked during run-time checking.
Metric is the measure used to determine the size of the terms that Var is bound to, for any type of approximation.
(measure_t/1)Metric is a term size metric.
(no_rtcheck/1)size_metric(Head,Var,Metric) is not checked during run-time checking.
Metric is the measure used to determine the size of the terms that variable Var bound to, for the approximation Approx.
(bound/1)Approx is a direction of approximation (upper or lower bound).
(no_rtcheck/1)size_metric(Head,Approx,Var,Metric) is not checked during run-time checking.
The types of term size measures currently supported in size and cost analysis (see also in resources_basic.pl).
int: The size of the term (which is an integer) is the integer value itself.
length: The size of the term (which is a list) is its length.
size: The size is the overall of the term (number of subterms).
depth([_|_]): The size of the term is its depth.
%% The size of the term is the number of rule %% applications of its type definition.
void: Used to indicate that the size of this argument should be ignored.
X is a term size metric.
The types approximation (bounding) supported in size and cost analysis (see also resources_basic.pl).
X is a direction of approximation (upper or lower bound).
Y is the cost (number of resolution steps) of any call of the form X.
(no_rtcheck/1)steps(X,Y) is not checked during run-time checking.
Y is a lower bound on the cost of any call of the form X.
(no_rtcheck/1)steps_lb(X,Y) is not checked during run-time checking.
Y is the complexity order of the cost of any call of the form X.
(no_rtcheck/1)steps_o(X,Y) is not checked during run-time checking.
The maximum computation (in resolution steps) spent by any call of the form X is given by the expression Y [DL93,LGHD96].
Y is a upper bound on the cost of any call of the form X.
(no_rtcheck/1)steps_ub(X,Y) is not checked during run-time checking.
Var has its size defined by SizeDescr.
(no_rtcheck/1)rsize(Var,SizeDescr) is not checked during run-time checking.
Lower (resp. Upper) is a (safe) lower (resp. upper) bound on the cost of the computation of Goal expressed in terms of Resource units.
(no_rtcheck/1)costb(Goal,Resource,Lower,Upper) is not checked during run-time checking.
Calls of the form X always terminate.
All calls of the form X terminate.
(no_rtcheck/1)terminates(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
Calls of the form Goal will throw an (unspecified) exception.
Calls to Goal will throw an exception that unifies with E.
Calls of the form Goal may throw exceptions, but only the ones that unify with the terms listed in Es.
Calls of the form Goal do not throw any exception.
Calls of the form Goal do not throw any exception that unifies with E.
Calls to Goal will send an (unspecified) signal.
Calls to Goal will send a signal that unifies with E.
Calls of the form Goal may generate signals, but only the ones that unify with the terms listed in Es.
Calls of the form Goal do not send any signal.
Calls of the form Goal do not send any signals that unify with E.
X has hard side-effects, i.e., those that might affect program execution (e.g., assert/retract).
(no_rtcheck/1)sideff_hard(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
X is pure, i.e., has no side-effects.
(no_rtcheck/1)sideff_pure(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
X has soft side-effects, i.e., those not affecting program execution (e.g., input/output).
(no_rtcheck/1)sideff_soft(X) is not checked during run-time checking.
C contains a list of linear (in)equalities that relate variables and int values. For example, [A < B + 4] is a constraint while [A < BC + 4] or [A = 3.4, B >= C] are not. Used by polyhedra-based analyses.
C is a list of linear equations.
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The Seasons Mosaic is one of the earliest mosaics on display in the Corinium Museum. Emma will share more about one of the finest Roman mosaics in the country. We will spend time in the gallery next to the mosaic giving opportunity for discussion and appraisal. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,722 |
A Paris zoo exhibited a strange new living being on Wednesday, named the "mass", a yellowish unicellular little living being which resembles a parasite however acts as a creature.
This most up to date show of the Paris Zoological Park, which goes in plain view to the general population on Saturday, has no mouth, no stomach, no eyes, yet it can identify nourishment and condensation it.
The mass additionally has just about 720 genders, can move without legs or wings and mends itself in two minutes whenever cut down the middle.
"The mass is a living being which has a place with one of nature's riddles", said Bruno David, chief of the Paris Exhibition hall of Common History, of which the Zoological Park is part.
"It shocks us since it has no cerebrum however can learn (…) and on the off chance that you consolidate two masses, the one that has educated will transmit its information to the next," David included.
The mass was named after a 1958 sci-fi repulsiveness B-motion picture, featuring a youthful Steve McQueen, in which an outsider living thing – The Mass – devours everything in its way in a little Pennsylvania town.
"We know without a doubt it's anything but a plant however we don't generally if it's a creature or a parasite," said David.
"It carries on shockingly for something that resembles a mushroom (…) it has the conduct of a creature, it can learn."
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The 1930 Frankford Yellow Jackets season was their seventh in the National Football League. The team failed to improve on their previous league record of 9–4–5, winning only four league games. They lost all eight games they played in October and finished ninth in the league standings.
Roster
Nate Barragar
Bull Behman
Eddie Bollinger
Tom Capps
Clyde Crabtree
Wally Diehl
Jack Ernst
George Gibson
Royce Goodbread
Eddie Halicki
Hal Hanson
Charlie Havens
Henry Homan
Jack Hutton
Herb Joesting
Tom Jones
Tony Kostos
Harvey Long
Jerry Lunz
Roger Mahoney
Jack McArthur
Mally Nydahl
Tony Panaccion
Jim Pederson
Art Pharmer
Neil Rengel
Ray Richards
Kelly Rodriguez
Herman Seborg
Johnny Shultz
Gene Smith
Tony Steponovich
Cookie Tackwell
Bob Tanner
Clyde Van Sickle
Johnny Ward
Gordon Watkins
Lee Wilson
Ab Wright
Schedule
Standings
References
Frankford Yellow Jackets seasons
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The C.E. Forrester House is a historic house at 140 Danville Road in Waldron, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood frame I-house, with an attached single-story wing extending from the rear of the center, giving it a common T-shaped plan. The original front facade has a two-story gable-roofed porch extending across part of it, while the south-facing side of the wing, now serving as the main entrance, has a vernacular Craftsman-style porch with a shed roof extending along its length. The house was built in 1896, with the wing added by 1904; it was built by Charlie Forrester, an Arkansas native who operated a number of retail and commercial business in Waldron.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Scott County, Arkansas
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Houses completed in 1896
Houses in Scott County, Arkansas
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Chelsea v Manchester City: Lampard to fight fire with fire
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Two of the Premier League's most exciting teams will lock horns on Thursday night, and Kevin Hatchard expects them to produce a thrilling encounter.
Chelsea v Manchester City
Thursday 25 June, 20:15
Live on BT Sport 1
Exciting times for Lampard, but tough work ahead
The Roman Abramovich era at Chelsea has always been one of boom and bust, cycles that feature dizzying highs and the kind of lows that invariably cost managers their jobs in a high-pressure environment. The temptation is to think that the Blues' money was always used to snare ready-made talents, mercenaries with a track record, but young talent has often featured strongly in their spending sprees down the years.
That emphasis on developing youth has never been stronger, and with club legend Frank Lampard at the helm and the impressive Jody Morris alongside him, there is a rare willingness to provide a pathway from the youth team to the first team. Christian Pulisic is settling down in his first season since moving from Borusia Dortmund (he scored the leveller in the recent win at Aston Villa), and he'll soon be joined by Bundesliga alumnus Timo Werner. With Bayer Leverkusen superstar Kai Havertz strongly linked with a switch to Stamford Bridge, it's clear that Chelsea see the Bundesliga as an excellent finishing school.
This accent on youth development comes with frustrations attached, and Lampard has often complained of his team's failure to be ruthless and clinical. In Sunday's win at Villa Park, Chelsea were ahead on most metrics, but actually lost the xG battle according to Infogol. They gave up some big chances, and didn't defend at all well for Villa's opener.
With 40 goals conceded, Chelsea have the worst defensive record in the top six, and they have only conceded one goal fewer than an Arsenal team that is often accused of being lamentably soft. They have only kept two clean sheets in their last 11 PL games, and Bayern Munich brutally exposed their flaws in the Champions League, sweeping to a 3-0 win at Stamford Bridge.
Jorginho could return to the midfield after serving a suspension, Fikayo Tomori is sidelined, but Callum Hudson-Odoi could play some part.
City have sparkled, but too late
After Liverpool huffed and puffed their way through a drab goalless draw at Mersey rivals Everton on Sunday, Manchester City produced a footballing dismemberment, as they destroyed Burnley 5-0 with surgical precision. Pep Guardiola's swashbuckling side scored from five of their seven shots on target, and for the second match running, they didn't allow their opponents a single effort on target. They also swept aside a feeble Arsenal 3-0.
However, the uncomfortable truth that hangs over this part of the season for City is that one of their primary goals is surely out of reach. Only a mind-boggling collapse from Liverpool would allow City back into the title race, so the focus is on reaching the peak of their powers for the Champions League tests to come. This trip to Stamford Bridge offers the chance to show that defeats at Liverpool, Wolves, Tottenham and Manchester United are things of the past, pre-lockdown curiosities that are no longer relevant.
Sergio Aguero is out with a knee injury, while young defender Eric Garcia is also unavailable. Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling, Aymeric Laporte and Kyle Walker could also return to the starting XI.
City are rightful favourites, but does an odds-on price appeal?
Given City's swaggering displays since the lockdown, and the fact they are 12 points ahead of Chelsea in the standings, I can understand why Guardiola's defending champions are favourites to win here. City won the reverse fixture 2-1, and have won their last three meetings with the West Londoners.
However, the price of 1.87 doesn't excite me. By their lofty standards, City have lost a lot of away games against top-six sides this season, and this is arguably their first true test since the restart. I think City may well edge an exciting game, but I'll look elsewhere for my primary wager.
Goals on the menu at the Bridge
Chelsea play an exciting brand of attacking football, and have scored at least twice in six of their last nine Premier League games. However, there is a fragility about them, and the fact they lost the Expected Goals battle at relegation-threatened Villa underlines the fact they give away too many good scoring chances.
City have rattled in ten more goals than runaway leaders Liverpool, but against top-six sides they have found clean sheets hard to come by. In eight games against the current top six, City have managed just one shut-out.
I'll double up Over 2.5 Goals and Both Teams To Score here at 1.89.
Olivier to provide another twist?
With Sergio Aguero sidelined, Gabriel Jesus is likely to spearhead the City attack, and he is 11/10 to score at any time on the Sportsbook. While the Brazilian has ten league goals this term, he has only scored in one of his last eight top-flight games. Raheem Sterling finally scored his first goal of 2020 against Arsenal, and he is priced at 13/8.
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Here's Tabitha Thompson's (@TabiCat90) new story Phoenix, written to accompany my Return to Dune Towers piece above.
Out of everyone, she survived. Everything that was thrown at her she exceeded beyond expectation. With her mother's green dress draped over her like a shield, she gazed upon the place that had once ridiculed her, banished her and almost killed her. Although her legs was heavy due to the relentless torture that she endured, she finally escaped the torture that plagued her for several months that left her speechless upon her return as a new person who wasn't driven on fear but anger. The blood, sweat and tears were cleverly hidden along with her true identity; the only sounds that accompained the police helicopters was the rapid beating of her bitter, cold, heavy heart as her silence remained deafening. Her dress matching green eyes flickered with vengeance as she stood, watched and waited for her chance to once again rise from the ashes and take back what was hers.
Isn't it amazing how many different stories can come from one artwork?
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It was worst Doctor Who episode this season. Was this episode written for Matt Smith's Doctor? This was more like his Doctor's episode than Peter Capaldi's Doctor's episode. After good science fiction episode we got fairy tale nonsense. I have hard time finding anything good from this episode. I could have gone much longer telling what was wrong with the episode. I kept video this short because I just want to forget the episode ever happened.
This was last episode before two part season finale. I still have two episodes to go of this season. If I don't get to see Doctor Who Christmas Special this Christmas, I will do good last episode before season finale after Christmas. These episodes haven't always been bad ones.
I tried to get unreal fairy tale look on this video. I am not sure if I went too far. But you don't find you limits if you never go too far. My videos start to find their form. I will still be trying different things, but I think my videos will look more artistic than realistic from now on. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,733 |
In one instance, workers were reportedly observed sitting in the vehicle before leaving without taking time to look for people in need.
The contractor hired by the Long Island Rail Road to address the homeless problem in and around railroad stations has not been doing its job — including one instance of workers sitting in a parked car instead of canvassing for people in need of help, according to a report.
The audit, issued Wednesday by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, examined the work performed by Services for the Underserved (SUS) on behalf of the LIRR over an 11-month period concluding Sept. 30. It chided the Manhattan-based agency for "failing to assist homeless people to the extent possible under its contract responsibilities." It also criticized the LIRR for its weak oversight of SUS, which it is paying $860,000 over five years.
A state audit of an Long Island Rail Road contractor determined workers were not actually doing their job, which was to provide help for the homeless in and around train stations. Photo Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
While taking issue with some of the findings of the audit, LIRR president Phillip Eng said the railroad has taken steps to tighten up its oversight of SUS and will continue to do so.
Auditors both rode along with outreach workers as they visited LIRR stations, and also observed the workers during unannounced visits. According to DiNapoli's report, the outreach workers' efforts varied greatly depending on whether they knew they were being watched or not. During announced observations, workers spent an average of 17 minutes at stations, as compared to eight minutes during unannounced observations.
SUS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
LIRR officials called it an unacceptable, but isolated incident, and that it was not representative of the work performed by SUS.
Auditors found that, despite never leaving their car, the SUS workers reported to the LIRR that they had encountered a homeless person at the station and even provided his name. The railroad had no process set up to verify the information or other inaccurate and incomplete data routinely provided by SUS, according to the report.
DiNapoli made several recommendations to the railroad, including that it establish performance measures and internal controls for SUS, and that it better monitor the company and provide input. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,734 |
Celebrating its 17th year on the Monterey Peninsula, the Monterey Beer Festival will be held on Saturday, July 7, 2018 at the Monterey County Fair & Event Center, 2004 Fairground Road, Monterey, CA 93940 (enter Gate 5) Phone: 831-372-5863 or email: [email protected] website:www.montereybeerfestival.com. (12:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. for General Admission with 11:30 a.m. early entry for VIP Ticket Holders), and tickets are available via the website, www.montereybeerfestival.com.
Take advantage of the VIP entry that will allow early access. VIP ticket holders will have their very own private area to beat the lines in the general festival area. They'll also have access to private restroom facilities adjacent to the Monterey Room. Back by popular demand will be Donut Pairing featuring four flavors of delicious donuts from the legendary Red's Donuts in Mont erey and Seaside, hot wings from the Bull & Bear Whiskey Bar & Tap House plus other benefits to be announced.
A big thank you to our 17th Annual Monterey Beer Festival Major Sponsors including Big Sur Canna + Botanicals, Chevrolet of Watsonville, Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino, Peninsula Tires and Red's Donuts. This year's media sponsors include KSBW TV, Central Coast ABC, Estrella TV Costa Central, 101.7 The Beach, 104.3 The Hippo, 102.5 FM KDON, 101.5 FM KOcean, 92.7 FM KTOM Radio, Powertalk Central Coast AM1460 FM 101.1, Monterey County Weekly and the Monterey County Herald. Take advantage of great community sponsorship opportunities! Sponsors will build the loyalty of new customers by supporting this upcoming non-profit event which attracts thousands of attendees with the average age 21-40. They'll gain outstanding visibility and very unique benefits through your valued sponsorships and support of an important resource in Monterey County! Sponsors will also reach thousands of people! A limited number of sponsorship opportunities are available with many great unique benefits. Please call Wendy Brickman at (831) 594-1500 or [email protected] for more information.
It's a 4 only because I can't go!
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I'm back with more song references, this the time Psychedelic Furs, but being a 40-year-old woman, we all know I mean the John Hughes Brat Pack Film Pretty in Pink. As you can only imagine from a girl who calls herself GEKE, I popped this flick into the Betamax (actually, I think this one was VHS) and all but wore out the magnetic tape. Coming out between The Goonies (one year later) and Dead Poet's Society, it was a favorite for this usually dateless angsty teen.
Except it's about something I don't like, the mismatched pair. From Redeeming Love to a modern version, adaptations of the Bible story of Hosea, a Godly man who marries an unfaithful prostitute, are a hard sell for me. I ended up liking Redeeming Love but it took some soul searching.
With the girl from a rough background falling for the rich boy scenario, there are movies I don't like (Pretty Woman) and ones that I do (Cinderella). Often compared, there's a big difference. Cinderella gains my sympathy because she's not a poor street urchin but a girl of breeding whose life takes a drastic turn.
Same with books, I laugh that my favorite genre is orphans and invalids (Heidi, The Secret Garden, Pollyanna, Anne of Green Gables). It's not that I don't like the underdog, it's that I have to actually like the underdog. What is different is these characters are intelligent achievers, not uncouth and unlovable wretches.
I don't like the opposite either rich girl gives up everything for the poor boy. Again, it's not all or nothing with me. Sometimes you can't help but cheer for the underdog. Other times, it's cringe-worthy.
I'm going to use two examples by author Sarah Sundin to show what it takes to make the "mismatched" pair to work. In A Distant Melody, wealthy Allie Miller falls for engineer and B-17 pilot, Walter Novak. The problem is she's engaged to her parents' choice. She risks everything to marry "beneath" her station. I don't care who her fiancé is, Walter Novak won me over with B-17 and engineer. He could have been as ugly as homemade sin and I would swoon for him. In fact, both Allie and Walt are described as being plain looking. The thing is he's intelligent, brave, clever, talented, and, Godly.
In A Memory Between Us, the opposite happens when Ruth Dougherty falls for Jack Novak. Jack is a proud B-17 pilot. Ruth comes from a rough background and has an unbecoming past. The thing is she's an orphan who went to nursing school, works hard and sends her money home to take care of her younger siblings. I don't care that she came from the slums and falls for the respectable pastor's son. She overcomes her past and remains throughout the story, a hard-working woman of virtue.
Yes, we're only 2 days into the fourth quarter of 2013 but I think I can call my favorite book of 2013. Robert Treskillard's Merlin's Blade. Not that the choice was easy but that it's just "that story". For me, the best book I read has to be well-written. Have a story world that loses me in it even if it's a real and modern location. The characters have to resonate deep inside. The supporting cast has to be a well-rounded and interesting. Teenage Merlin grabbed a hold of me and held me tighter than the stone to the druidow. Nearly blind he navigates his world on his own. He's strong in his faith despite the druidow making it difficult for him. And there's his sweet crush on Natalenya.
Last year my two picks were Kat Heckenbach's Finding Angel and Siri Mitchell's Love's Pursuit. Not surprisingly, Kat's Seeking Unseen and Siri's Unrivaled floated near the top. Others that were highlights of 2013 were pretty much any of Julie Lessman's Daughters of Boston Series. I think I read all six back to back.
Another author I started reading this year is Jill Williamson. All three New Recruit books rank up there too. Project Gemini was my favorite of the trio and my second place contender. Mostly because it's what I call an 8-star book. One that because of character, location, etc. it earns an automatic 3 stars, but the author deserves to earn stars for writing well. The book is YA and takes place on Okinawa, where I spent the summer of 2003. It was like a 10-year anniversary celebration revisiting this Japanese island.
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Plant them 2 to 3 metres from other trees and 5 metres from other guava trees. Planting. Dig a hole about twice the size of the bag in which the young tree is growing. Remove the soil from the hole and add some compost and manure. Mix this with some of the soil that has been dug out. Take the plant out of the plastic bag by cutting the bag open at the side. Do not disturb the roots. Place the... Guava trees grow rapidly and fruit in 2 to 4 years from seed. They live 30 to 40 years but productivity declines after the 15th year. Orchards may be rejuvenated by drastic pruning. They live 30 to 40 years but productivity declines after the 15th year.
Guava trees generally start fruiting in about 3 to 4 years from planting. At the time of harvest, you will see a clear change in the color and aroma of the fruits when they ripen. For best flavor allow fruits to ripen on the tree, then you can collect the ripen fruits by hand.
To propagate a guava tree from stem cuttings, the cuttings should come from newly matured terminal wood and should be 6 to 8 inches long with up to three leaves. The cutting should be misted and needs a warm soil bed of 75 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,737 |
Investigators were working Wednesday to identify who shot and killed a man outside an Oceanside home.
OCEANSIDE (CBS 8/CNS) - Investigators were working Wednesday to identify who shot and killed a man outside an Oceanside home.
Officers were sent to the 400 block of South Freeman Street near Missouri Avenue after several people reported hearing "four loud pops" and screaming in the street shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday, Oceanside police Lt. Matt Cole said.
A neighbor says she heard several gunshots. She thinks the victim was a white male. It's not clear if the victim lived in the normally peaceful neighborhood.
Detectives believe the man was gunned down on the sidewalk following some type of argument Tuesday night.
"There is a vehicle we're hearing that left the scene, very nondescript. A dark-colored vehicle. Not a lot to go on," Lt. Cole said.
Lt. Cole said although officers initially had no information on the gunman, Crimes of Violence investigators were working to collect evidence, identify a suspect and determine a motive for the slaying. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,738 |
35%76°54°Night - Showers with a 70% chance of precipitation. Winds S at 11 to 13 mph (17.7 to 20.9 kph). The overnight low will be 51 °F (10.6 °C).Breezy with a high of 65 °F (18.3 °C) and a 25% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 11 to 22 mph (17.7 to 35.4 kph).
Tonight - Showers with a 70% chance of precipitation. Winds S at 11 to 13 mph (17.7 to 20.9 kph). The overnight low will be 51 °F (10.6 °C).
Today - Breezy with a high of 65 °F (18.3 °C) and a 25% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 11 to 22 mph (17.7 to 35.4 kph). | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,739 |
Out artist Catey Shaw has a holiday song called "Cuddle Up." Add it to your playlist!
If you want even more Christmas listening, Kathryn Lounsbery has covered some classics on her new album, Homeland for the Holidays.
Rizzoli & Isles has been renewed for a sixth season. Celebrate by kissing your BFF.
Yahoo has a great piece on a nurse trying to make hospitals and doctor's offices more friendly places for lesbian and bi women.
Congrats to Tatiana Maslany on her SAG nomination! The Orphan Black star is up for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series. Also up for awards: Uzo Aduba, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series; Rachel Brosnohan as part of House of Cards, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series; and all of Orange is the New Black for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Comic Dana Goldberg stars in this new BlueParrott ad.
Vulture suggests watching Wentworth, which is now available on Netflix.
Sarah Paulson has been cast as prosecuting attorney Marcia Clark in Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson. Out Hunger Games producer Nina Jacobson is also part of the new series, although I don't think there's anything too Sapphic about this real life story.
Rebecca Levi makes really cool embroidery art that comments on gender and sexuality.
PRI has a cool piece on Turkey's bisexual Twitter activist, Meryem (not her real name).
New York's LGBT Center is getting a facelift but keeping elements of its historic past.
Alice Arnold writes about finally getting to marry her boo, Clare Balding, as civil partnerships convert to marriages in the UK today.
This year's Oscars should be pretty gay, with host Neil Patrick Harris having two hilarious lesbians on his writing team: Liz Feldman and Paula Pell.
Kristen Kish looks delicious on the cover of Cherry Bombe.
I am really loving Kate McKinnon's blazer in this SNL promo. Also, amazing awkward dancing. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,740 |
"The health pass is the life insurance of restaurateurs" says Bruno Le Maire in Strasbourg
At the start of the fifth wave of COVID, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire was visiting Strasbourg on Tuesday. To participate in the national congress of the UMIH, the union of industries in the hotel and restaurant trades.
In particular, the Minister returned to the insistent request owners of hotels or restaurants of a rescheduling repayments of PGE, loans guaranteed by the State. But for Bruno Le Maire, it's no. This is not, according to him, the right solution.
_"I don't think rescheduling is the best solution. I prefer case-by-case treatment. I know that PGEs are a real concern. But I'm providing a more efficient and rational response. The first is is that anyone who needs it will be able to subscribe until the summer 2022 a new EMP. Those who have difficulty repaying should not be face to face with their bank advisor either. There has to be a mediator." said the minister.
And he specifies: "I have set up in each department a mediation with the public authorities so that it is collectively that the reimbursement of an EMP can be treated. And this will make it possible to find a solution for each file" he said.
Bruno Le Maire at the national congress of the UMIH © Radio France
– Antoine Balandra
Facing the labor shortage (30% of employees would be missing in the hotel and catering trades according to the national president of the UMIH) post Covid, the minister also called for substantial increases in the sector and to conclude the ongoing salary negotiations.
Sanitary pass
And he said again, in the middle of the fifth wavethat according to him it was more essential than ever to enforce the health pass in establishments: "What I want is for the health pass to be respected. The health pass is life insurance for restaurateurs and hoteliers. The worst situation is to be forced to close. So rigorously enforcing the pass and control is the best answer we can give today."he hammered.
The supporter beaten up for wearing an OM jersey recounts his attack
The class action lawyer who accuses Renault of selling faulty engines | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 1,741 |
Gilchrist and Lowe join FC United
Tony Scholes August 8, 2016 Gilchrist and Lowe join FC United2016-08-08T17:35:59+00:00
Striker Jason Gilchrist (pictured) and midfielder Nathan Lowe, both released by Burnley last season, have signed for FC United of Manchester and made their competitive debuts as substitutes two days ago in a 3-3 draw against Chorley.
Just under two weeks ago, the pair scored all the goals in a 4-0 friendly win against Mossley and although there has been no confirmation that either of them had signed, they are both now listed as members of the FC United squad and were both used as substitutes in Saturday's opener.
They came up against two other former Burnley players on their debuts who were making their own debuts for Chorley. Waqas Azam, who signed for them last week, was used as a substitute while Stephen Jordan, who was with Burnley from 2007 to 2010, played the full game for his new club.
Best of luck to Jason and Nathan at their new club.
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'Process consulting' is a question-based approach where a consultant will work one-on-one with their client to develop strategic, targeted solutions. In my opinion, it is the most effective way to create lasting strategies because it ensures that the client drives the changes, not the consultant.
Now, a consultant will not likely refer to himself/herself as a "process consultant", but you can use the checklist below to know if he/she is utilizing this approach.
Ultimately, a process consultant is not there to tell a client what to do; they're there to guide the client through his/her own discovery process.
Consider, for example, a difficult math equation. There are two options; the first is to have an expert tell you the answer. The second is to have someone show you the steps to figure out the problem yourself. The quickest solution in this case is probably option number one, but should another problem come along of equal difficulty, you will need to reach out for help again. The most cost effective solution is definitely number two; but it takes an upfront investment of time and effort. Once you have the know-how to do it yourself though, you will be self-reliant in solving similar problems down the road.
Believe it or not, as a consultant employing this approach, I know that I have been successful when I am not hired to return to work on the same problem. If I've done my job well, it won't be needed. With clients being involved in the solution development process, they are (or should be) equipped with the skills and know-how to implement solutions that will serve the organization as a whole, for a long time. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,743 |
This year marks the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day, with the treaty that brought the end to the Great War, World War I, signed at the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, 1918. Veterans Day ceremonies are planned across the North Fork to commemorate Veterans Day.
11:11 a.m.: Veterans Day ceremony hosted by Combined Veterans of Riverhead at World War I memorial, West Main and Court streets. Lunch follows at American Legion Post 273, 89 Hubbard Ave.; all welcome.
1 p.m.: Veterans Day ceremony at Calverton National Cemetery, 210 Princeton Blvd.
10:30 a.m.: Mattituck American Legion Post 861 will be holding a Veterans Day Ceremony Sunday, Nov. 11. The ceremony will take place at the Legion Hall, 600 Wickham Ave., Mattituck.
Coffee and doughnuts will be served. The event is free, and the public is invited to attend.
11 a.m.: Southold's American Legion Post 803 will host a Veterans Day ceremony at its headquarters at 51655 Main Road in Southold. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,744 |
On October 2, advocates like you gathered in Omaha's Memorial Park to remember the lives of Nebraskans who passed away without having health insurance and to call for our elected leaders to work together to fix this problem.
Nearly 100,000 hard-working Nebraskans continue to be unable to afford health coverage, with harmful impacts to their families and our state. In September, Appleseed released a new policy brief showing how expanding Medicaid would help thousands more Nebraskans get behavioral health treatments while saving our state millions of dollars.
With voices like yours, we will reach a day when every Nebraskan can afford quality health insurance. Want to get involved? Click here to receive updates from the Insure The Good Life campaign.
Our twentieth anniversary Good Apple Awards celebration in Omaha is sold out! We are excited to honor our outstanding partners who fight with us for justice and opportunity for all, celebrate successes since Appleseed's founding in 1996, and look forward to progress we can make in the years ahead.
Click here to meet this year's honorees!
With November's General Election less than a month away, Get Out The Vote efforts are in high gear across the state. If you need to register to vote, change your name or address, or find your polling place, click here. Remember, you must be registered to vote by October 21 if registering by mail. October 28 is the final day to register in-person at your local Election Commission office.
Want to vote early? Starting Monday, October 10, you can start voting early in person at your county Election Commission office.
Census data released in September shows high numbers of Nebraskans struggle in poverty and still do not have health insurance.
About 12.6 percent of Nebraskans lived in poverty last year, with rates higher for children and minority groups. Nearly 16 percent of Nebraska families with children reported difficulty affording food.
We will continue fighting alongside you to support policies that help working families get ahead and meet their basic needs.
During our 20th Anniversary year in 2016, we we are taking a look back at the influential people who helped Nebraska Appleseed grow into the advocacy organization we are today in our "Roots of Appleseed" series.
This month, we caught up with former law clerk Eric Hallstrom, who has made a career out of public interest legal work and currently is the Deputy Commissioner of Minnesota Management and Budget.
Click here to read our interview and other entries in the "Roots of Appleseed" series.
The Omaha World-Herald and KTIC Radio recently spoke with us about Nebraska's still-high uninsured and poverty rates.
Economic Justice Director James Goddard told KIOS Radio why expanding Medicaid is essential in Nebraska.
Students at for-profit colleges should have financial protections if their school shuts down, we tell the Omaha World-Herald.
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This project is designing and implementing a professional development model that uses data from the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) to improve mathematics instruction at the high school level.
The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum Professional Development Model (SECPDM) project, at RMC Research Corporation in Oregon, is designing and implementing a professional development model that uses data from the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) to improve mathematics instruction at the high school level. Teachers participating in the professional development work together at the school level to learn how to use the data gathered through the SEC to align their curriculum with state and district standards. The teachers work in professional development communities within schools to better understand the content embedded in curriculum materials and assessments, and to be able to use that understanding to improve their daily instruction.
The SEC collects data from K-12 teachers of mathematics, science, and English language arts on course content and instructional practices. Using this data, one can determine the alignment between instruction in a specific school and state standards or assessments. Efforts to use the SEC data for school improvement have been hampered by two key constraints: (1) The survey is lengthy and not easy to complete and (2) The results provide a year-end summary that does not reach teachers in time to adjust instruction for the current year. The SECPDM project is designing a teacher log system in which teachers enter brief reports more frequently and get useful feedback throughout the year. The project is also designing and conducting professional development that will help teachers learn to use the data and feedback to align their instruction with state standards, and it is helping teachers build professional development communities within their schools. This project includes teachers in Ohio, New York, and Oregon. The project is conducting a quasi-experimental research study to test the hypothesis that if a critical mass of mathematics teachers collaboratively implements the professional development plan, then (1) the mathematics courses will be better articulated and aligned with state standards and assessments, (2) teachers will improve their instructional practices, and (3) student achievement in mathematics will increase.
The SECPDM project has the potential to improve the use of the Survey of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) by making the data entry process easier for teachers and the survey data more useful. By piloting this model of professional development and analyzing their findings, the project is making a significant step towards improving the alignment of the mathematics curriculum in high schools, helping teachers use the SEC data to inform instruction, and improving student achievement in mathematics. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,746 |
Justin Myers attorney-at-law is here to help lift the weight off of your shoulders. He will help to educate you and gain control over your finances again. You can reach them by phone at 801-505-9679.
You've done it. You've finally exalted all of your resources. You ran your credit card debt up and/or you took out all the loans you could. You don't know what to do. The last thing you want to do is lose the roof over your head. You need somewhere to sleep at night. You've heard of filing for bankruptcy but never really considered it for yourself. Filing for Chapter 13 Bankruptcy may be your best option. You will get 3-5 years to resolve your debts. This plan allows for repayment of part or all debts as an alternative to liquidation. You'll get to keep your house. The two questions you need to be asking yourself are how does it work and do I meet the qualifications?
In order to qualify for Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, you need to be an individual (businesses cannot file). You will be asked to submit a reorganization plan in order to protect your assets from repossession and you have to request for forgiveness for other debts. You must have no more than $394,725 in unsecured debt. Unsecured debt is debt that doesn't have property serving as a collateral for payment. For example, personal loans and credit card bills are considered unsecured debt. You can also have no more than $1,184,200 in secured debts. Secured debts are those made with collateral. These would be car loans or mortgages. It's important to know that in filing for Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, it doesn't eliminate things such as alimony, child support, or student loans. It allows for you to stop the effort in foreclosing your home. With Chapter 13 Bankruptcy you can make regular mortgage payments and keep your house.
As mentioned previously, in order to meet the qualifications to file for Chapter 13 Bankruptcy you need to be an individual. You must demonstrate that you have the ability to pay off your debts. You must submit a report of all your income within 14 days of your petition. This income can come from any type of sources such as unemployment compensation or proceeds from a property sale. You will need to show proof that you have filed for state and federal taxes for the past 4 years. When the repayments are complete, the case is discharged. This whole process takes 3-5 years.
Many people go through or have gone through what you're experiencing. It happens to the best of us. Now it's your time to reach out for help. You've struggled enough. Once your 3-5 years are done, you don't have to worry about those creditors anymore. This plan works best with those who have a steady income but can't get a grip on their bills. Chapter 13 Bankruptcy attorney at Justin Myers attorney-at-law is here to help lift the weight off of your shoulders. He will not only give you all the information you need but he will help to educate you and gain control over your finances again. You can reach them by phone at 1-801-505-9679 or via e-mail. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,747 |
Their early steps will feel as good as they look in these super soft and flexible leather Mary Janes. This shoe is perfect for first walkers with wide or narrow feet!
Material: Leather upper and a flexible rubber outsole.
Breathable, lightweight footbed conforms to the natural shape of the foot, so your little one will barely notice they are wearing shoes! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,748 |
The blog of the day is Victory Girl's Blog, with a post on an Obamacare truth teller being audited.
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At the same great location as last years "standing room" only event.
Buffalo Wind Wings has more than 40 beers available at this location, so I m sure you'll find a favorite.
There is no specific speaker this time, so it's a great time to meet and chat with all your fellow digital users; get help from an Elmer, etc. We'll see you there. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,750 |
#Utilisation d'une factory
Cela va être court, mais nous allons voir comment commencer à ordonner notre code proprement : nous allons ajouter une factory à notre module d'application, cette factory sera une sorte d'helper destiné à nous fournir les données, nous l'appellerons `Models`.
##Factory
Pour créer une factory il suffit d'utiliser la méthode `factory` de notre module angular, de la facon suivante :
```javascript
var booksApp = angular.module("booksApp", []);
/*--- factory ---*/
booksApp.factory("Models", function() {
return {}
});
```
Nous allons ensuite extraire la partie données de notre contrôleur `MainCtrl` :
```javascript
$scope.books = [
{title:"Backbone c'est de la balle", description:"tutorial bb", level:"très bon"}
, {title:"React ça dépote", description:"se perfectionner avec React", level:"bon"}
, {title:"J'apprends Angular", description:"from scratch", level:"débutant"}
];
$scope.levels = [
"très bon", "bon", "débutant"
];
```
Pour l'intégrer dans notre factory de la façon suivante :
```javascript
/*--- factory ---*/
booksApp.factory("Models", function() {
var books = function() {
return [
{title:"Backbone c'est de la balle", description:"tutorial bb", level:"très bon"}
, {title:"React ça dépote", description:"se perfectionner avec React", level:"bon"}
, {title:"J'apprends Angular", description:"from scratch", level:"débutant"}
]
};
var levels = function() {
return [
"très bon", "bon", "débutant"
];
}
return {
books : books, levels : levels
}
});
```
Donc, notre factory `Models` comporte 2 méthodes `books()` et `levels()` qui vont maintenant fournir les données à notre contrôleur.
##Modification du contrôleur
Modifiez le contrôleur de la manière suivante :
```javascript
var MainCtrl = booksApp.controller("MainCtrl", function($scope, Models) {
$scope.books = Models.books();
$scope.levels = Models.levels();
/*--- partie de code inchangées ---*/
$scope.selectedBook = null;
$scope.selectBook = function(book) {
$scope.selectedBook = book;
}
$scope.createBook = function() {
$scope.books.push({
title : "This is a new Book",
description : "...",
level: "???"
});
}
});
```
Nous avons remplacé le code des données précédent par :
```javascript
$scope.books = Models.books();
$scope.levels = Models.levels();
```
**Et surtout, notez bien la modification des paramètres du contrôleur:**
```javascript
var MainCtrl = booksApp.controller("MainCtrl", function($scope, Models) {})
```
Vous pouvez tester à nouveau votre page `index.html` qui fonctionne de la même façon sans avoir été modifiée. Nous avons donc séparé les responsabilités entre la factory `Models` et notre contrôleur.
Nous verrons par la suite comment ajouter un service pour ensuite nous connecter à un serveur.
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Learn how to manage Azure Stack storage accounts. Find, recover, and reclaim storage capacity based on business needs.
Select All services > Storage > Storage accounts.
By default, the first 10 accounts are displayed. You can choose to fetch more by clicking the Load more link at the bottom of the list.
If you are interested in a particular storage account – you can filter and fetch the relevant accounts only.
Select Filter at the top of the pane.
On the Filter pane, it allows you to specify account name, subscription ID, or status to fine-tune the list of storage accounts to be displayed. Use them as appropriate.
As you type, the list will automatically apply the filter. .
To reset the filter: select Filter, clear out the selections and update.
The search text box (on the top of the storage accounts list pane) lets you highlight the selected text in the list of accounts. You can use this when the full name or ID is not easily available.
You can use free text here to help find the account you are interested in.
Once you have located the accounts you are interested in viewing, you can select the particular account to view certain details. A new pane opens with the account details such as: the type of the account, creation time, location, etc.
You may be in a situation where you need to recover a deleted account.
Browse to the storage accounts list. See Find a storage account in this article for more information.
Locate that particular account in the list. You may need to filter.
Check the state of the account. It should say Deleted.
Select the account, which opens the account details pane.
On top of this pane, locate the Recover button and select it.
The recovery is now in process…wait for an indication that it was successful. You can also select the "bell" icon at the top of the portal to view progress indications.
Once the recovered account is successfully synchronized, it can be used again.
Your deleted account shows state as out of retention.
Out of retention means that the deleted account has exceeded the retention period and may not be recoverable.
Your deleted account does not show in the accounts list.
You account may not show in the account list when the deleted account has already been garbage collected. In this case, it cannot be recovered. See Reclaim capacity in this article.
The retention period setting allows a cloud operator to specify a time period in days (between 0 and 9999 days) during which any deleted account can potentially be recovered. The default retention period is set to 0 days. Setting the value to "0" means that any deleted account is immediately out of retention and marked for periodic garbage collection.
Select All services > Region management under Administration.
Select Resources providers > Storage > Settings. Your path is Home > region - Resource providers > Storage.
Select Configuration then edit the retention period value.
Set the number of days and then save it.
This value is immediately effective and is set for your entire region.
One of the side effects of having a retention period is that a deleted account continues to consume capacity until it comes out of the retention period. As a cloud operator you may need a way to reclaim the deleted account space even though the retention period has not yet expired.
You can reclaim capacity using either the portal or PowerShell.
Navigate to the storage accounts pane. See Find a storage account.
Select Reclaim space at the top of the pane.
Read the message and then select OK.
Wait for success notification See the bell icon on the portal.
Refresh the Storage accounts page. The deleted accounts are no longer shown in the list because they have been purged.
You can also use PowerShell to explicitly override the retention period and immediately reclaim capacity.
If you run these cmdlets, you permanently delete the account and its contents. It is not recoverable. Use this with care.
For more information, see Azure Stack PowerShell documentation.
For information on managing permissions see Manage Role-Based Access Control.
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Q: Scala Play Test Server serving static content I have a question. I am using trying to test using webbrowser, therefore I went to the playframework documentation site. However, I don't want my whole application to run, which is obviously going on here:
https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.7.x/ScalaFunctionalTestingWithScalaTest
But what I want to achieve is not this. I have multiple html files, which I want to serve on a server without my application. Just a typical test server, where I will make my request to test application.
So for example: I have 2 html files called test1.html and test2.html in directory called testing and I would like to able to make requests to sites such as localhost:8080/testing/test1.html and localhost:8080/testing/test2.html to get resources which I provided before. Is it possible using play?
A: You don't need a fully fledged web framework to serve static files. You can use plain NGINX to serve your static files from a remote server.
Take a look at this:
Serving Static Content with Nginx
And here is a nice Tutorial: A guide to hosting static websites using NGINX
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Due to the Nitrification that occurs in a healthy aquaponic system, the pH should naturally fall over time. Calcium Hydroxide and Potassium Hydroxide are added to maintain pH at the desired level of 6.5-7.0. By alternating between the two, a good balance of nutrients is maintained for growing the healthiest plants. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,754 |
Q: Как получать Range из файла и сразу отдавать не дожидаясь загрузки всего фрагмента Раздаю видео как в вот этой статье https://codesamplez.com/programming/php-html5-video-streaming-tutorial
Для того чтобы правильно его получить, скажем с Ютубчика нужно отправлять заголовки правильные. И, в результате, выходит скачивать куски видео функцией вроде такой:
// Функция получения куска видео
function videoGetRange($url, $range) {
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36'); // Обязательный параметр, без него не скачивается
$headers =array(
'range: '.$range,
//здесь еще заголовки правильные
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
Далее передаются правильные заголовки и отдается кусок на сайт-реципиент как-то вот так:
//здесь заголовки передаем правильные
$data = videoGetRange($this->path, $range);
echo $data;
flush();
И лучше не отправлять много запросов а тащить большими кусками, чтобы не дергать сайт-донор слишком часто.
Вопрос в том как начинать отдачу не дожидаясь скачивания всего куска, в идеале сразу-же направлять данные сайту-реципиенту по мере прихода от сайта-донора?
Еще хотелось бы узнать как прекращать работу скрипта, если браузер пользователя сайта-реципиента уже отключился от данного видео, пользователь переключил видео на другой фрагмент?
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Q: How do I tune performance when displaying query results in an android TableView? I'm writing my first android app and coming from the iOS world. I've got a rather large query (~100k+ rows) that I'd like to display in a Table View with scrolling.
When I built this very same function in an iPhone app, their version of the tableview had automatic handling of JUST the rows that were on screen. This made the display pretty easy to get working.
From what I can see, It appears that the android tableview is loading the entire result and is massively slowing down.
Is there any built in functionality for the android tableview class that enables some form of "lazy loading" or do I have to write a number of handlers and limits into my query?
For example the pseudocode:
// Event Method:
// tableview "onscroll"
// get current table view index
// query DB with limit "Number of rows to display", Offset firstRowOnScreen
// display each of the values in this "subset"
Currently the display code is:
EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.lookupFoodInfo);
String message = editText.getText().toString();
android.util.Log.i("FOOO", message);
String where = "";
if (message.trim() != "") {
where = "WHERE Long_Desc LIKE '%"+message.trim()+"%'";
}
String sql = " SELECT bt.Long_Desc " +
" FROM BIG_TABLE bt INNER JOIN OTHER_TABLE ot ON bt.id = ot.fk_id " +
where +
" ORDER BY ot.value, bt.long_desc ASC";
Cursor c = sqdb.rawQuery(sql, null);
if (c != null) {
c.moveToFirst();
while (c.isAfterLast() == false)
{
String data = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex("Long_Desc"));
TableRow row = new TableRow(getApplicationContext());
row.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(
LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
TextView b3=new TextView(this);
b3.setText(data);
b3.setTextColor(Color.BLUE);
b3.setTextSize(25);
row.addView(b3);
table.addView(row);
c.moveToNext();
}
}
c.close();
sqdb.close();
myDbHelper.close();
something very similar in iOS runs like lightning.
A: What you're looking for is a ListView and a CursorAdapter. ListViews have rows which are recycled once they move off screen, so you only have ~ n + 2 (where n is the number of visible rows) instead of one row per item in your database.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/listview.html
A: you are doing a very big mistake. you can't use a table layout for loading a list of rows. you might be done this as you are coming from ios background. you refer for LIstview in Android which does half of the work for you.
Refer for this link. Every thing explained clearly
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Cynolebias porosus es una especie de pez, de la familia de peces de agua dulce de los rivulinos.
Especie usada comercialmente en acuariofilia aunque es muy difícil de mantener en acuario, con el cuerpo vistoso y una longitud máxima descrita de 15 cm.
Distribución y hábitat
Se distribuye por ríos y aguas estancadas de América del Sur, en charcas de la llanura de inundación del río San Francisco (Brasil) en Brasil. En los remansos y charcas de agua dulce donde vive es bentopelágico y no migrador, prefiriendo una temperatura del agua entre 22 °C y 30 °C.
Referencias
Enlaces externos
porosus
Peces de la cuenca del Amazonas
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General Relativity: Well-Tested and Standing Strong
by Jeff Zweerink
General relativity represents the best description known to humanity of how the universe behaves. It explicitly incorporates the idea of constant (in both space and time) physical laws. It also generically predicts a dynamic nature to spacetime such that space expands and the whole universe begins to exist. Such results comport well with biblical descriptions of the universe.
When Albert Einstein first introduced his general theory of relativity, it revolutionized the way scientists viewed space and time. First, it explicitly codified the notion that the laws of physics were constant and consistent throughout the universe. Second, general relativity revealed that space and time comingle in a dynamic fashion (rather than existing as distinct, absolute, static, and eternal entities) such that space expands and time exhibits a boundary in the past. Stated more directly, tracing the history of the universe backward in time ultimately leads to the conclusion that time, space, matter, and energy all began to exist. All this follows from general relativity. And both constant laws of physics and a cosmic beginning bear a remarkable resemblance to the biblicaldescription of the universe.
Scientists seek to verify the validity of general relativity and the latest results affirm its accuracy. One difficulty in testing general relativity arises from the fact that its most "natural" descriptions apply to regions of extreme velocities and/or gravitational fields. Costs and technology prohibit fabricating such environments so scientists utilize powerful telescopes to locate these environments in the cosmos.
More extreme environments permit more stringent tests. For example, the pulsar PSR J0348+0432 resides in a tight binary orbit with a white dwarf. Most pulsars have a neutron star mass around 1.4 times the mass of the Sun. However, PSR J0348+0432 contains a neutron star with two solar masses. Furthermore, a white dwarf orbits the neutron star with a 2.5-hour period. This configuration provides a way for scientists to test general relativity with gravitational binding energies 60 percent larger than previous tests. The precise timing that resulted from pulsar observations allowed astronomers to calculate the energy radiating away from the system, and the data matched predictions from general relativity.1
Such results really come as no surprise because previous tests of general relativity repeatedly demonstrated its reliability. Those tests included:
the precession of two pulsars in a binary system;
the orbital characteristics of two massive blackholes in a distant galaxy;
desktop-sized experiments using precise atomic clocks;
the Sun's deflection of radio waves from a distant quasar; and
Researchers even tested whether the results of identical experiments might vary from location to location.
Scientists know that general relativity must break down at some point because it does not incorporate quantum mechanics into its framework. Finding environments where general relativity fails will help determine how the theory needs modification. RTB expects that even a more complete theory of general relativity will continue to comport with the biblical description of the universe and affirm the Bible's accuracy.
John Antoniadis et al., "A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary," Science 340 (April 26, 2013): 1233232.
The Difficulties of Testing String Theory
"Test everything. Hold on to the good." This biblical passage underscores a central principle of the scientific enterprise. Any successful model must undergo testing...
New General Relativity Test
The reliability of general relativity in describing the dynamics of the universe is the basis for the scientific proof that the universe must have...
Most Accurate Distances Shore Up Creation History
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< Return to Artists
Sereno Wilson
Sereno Wilson (b. 1979) was born in Germany and moved to Chicago at a young age. A working artist at Gallery 37 (an arts training program for youth in Chicago) during his high school years, he became a very skilled painter while working on the program's popular Park Bench Painting series. This technical skill has helped him to develop a unique style and process. When Wilson first began at Project Onward, he was still driven mainly by painting, though often incorporated glitter and other mixed media into his paintings and assemblages. Overtime, the work became more and more about glitter, and the studio's ability to supply the artist with a extensive assortment of glitter colors also led, over time, to an almost exclusively glitter-composition style. By "painting" with
glue and applying blocks of color with glitter, Wilson creates spectacular images of
celebrities and fellow artists, special commission portraits, and lucky images that
express his hopeful sense of fortune and fate. Recently, the artist has been reintroducing elements of acrylic painting back into his images.
Wilson's accurately caricatured depictions of hip hop artists, actresses and visitors to the studio, and his obsessions with four-leafed clovers, dollar signs, prime numbers and glitter-bling make him a wildly popular artist at Project Onward. He joined the studio and gallery in 2009 and lives in Albany Park, Chicago.
Shop Sereno Wilson's art
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If you have been arrested, the first thing that you want to do is to get out of jail. Once you have attended a bond hearing, you will know exactly how much it will take to get out. If you don't have the full amount of the bond to pay, using a Bondsman in Euless is an option. Here are a few things that you need to know about using one.
Besides enjoying your freedom, there are several reasons you will want to get out of jail. You will want to continue going to work as well as spending time with your family. In some states, you have to pay the full amount of the bail to the court to be released. The advantage to using a bonding agent is that the customary charge is 10 percent of the amount imposed by the courts.
The main stipulation of the bail is to ensure that you will appear to each and every court date. If you miss one court date, your bond can be rescinded and there will be a warrant issued for your arrest. On top of that, depending on the charges and the circumstances, you can also be charged with bail jumping.
It is important to note that many of the rules will be the same as those that are set by the court.
The money that you pay to the bonding agent for your release is nonrefundable. Even if you are acquitted or all charges are dropped, the money will not be refunded to you. The money that you paid is simply a fee for the bondsman rendering the service to you.
Going to jail can be very expensive. If you follow all of the rules and stay out of trouble, you will get through it just fine. If you have questions regarding Bail Bonds, set up an appointment today.
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Woman who searched for days learns mother killed in wildfire
October 12, 2017 October 11, 2017 richmond2day 0 Comments
By BRIAN SKOLOFF and PAUL ELIAS
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A frantic Jessica Tunis had been calling hospitals and posting on social media when her family's search ended up back at the charred ruins of her mother's Santa Rosa house on Wednesday, looking for clues in the debris as to where she might be.
Linda Tunis had last called Jessica from her burning house at Journey's End mobile home park early Monday, saying "I'm going to die" before the phone went dead. Her home was destroyed in wildfires that swept Northern California's wine country.
"She's spunky, she's sweet, she loves bingo and she loves the beach, she loves her family," said Jessica Tunis, crying. "Please help me find her. I need her back. I don't want to lose my mom."
Hours later Tunis texted an AP reporter to say that her brother, Robert, had found her mother's remains among the debris. Authorities put the remains of the 69-year-old woman in a small white plastic bag and strapped it to a gurney before taking it away.
Hundreds of people remained unaccounted for Wednesday as friends and relatives desperately checked hospitals and shelters and pleaded on social media for help finding loved ones missing amid California's wildfires.
As of Wednesday, 22 wildfires were burning in Northern California, up from 17 the day before. The blazes killed at least 21 people and destroyed an estimated 3,500 homes and businesses, many of them in California's wine country.
How many people were missing was unclear, and officials said the lists could include duplicated names and people who are safe but haven't told anyone, whether because of the general confusion or because cellphone service is out across wide areas.
"We get calls and people searching for lost folks and they're not lost, they're just staying with somebody and we don't know where it is," said Napa County Supervisor Brad Wagenknecht.
With many fires still raging out of control, authorities said locating the missing was not their top priority.
Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano put the number of people unaccounted for in the hard-hit county at 285 and said officers were starting limited searches in the "cold zones" they could reach.
"We can only get so many places and we have only so many people to work on so many things," he said. "When you are working on evacuations, those are our first priority in resources."
As a result, many people turned to social media, posting pleas such as "Looking for my Grandpa Robert," ″We are looking for our mother Norma" or "I can't find my mom." It is an increasingly familiar practice that was seen after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the Las Vegas massacre.
A sobbing Rachael Ingram searched shelters and called hospitals to try to find her friend Mike Grabow, whose home in Santa Rosa was destroyed. She plastered social media with photos of the bearded man as she drove up and down Highway 101 in her pickup.
Privacy rules, she said, prevented shelters from releasing information.
"You can only really leave notes and just try and send essentially a message in a bottle," she said.
Ingram said she hopes Grabow is simply without a phone or cell service.
"I've heard stories of people being relocated to San Francisco and Oakland. I'm hoping for something like that," she said. "We're hearing the worst and expecting the best."
Grabow's name was among dozens written on a dry erase board at the Finley Community Center in Santa Rosa, which the Red Cross had turned into an evacuation center with dormitories, cold showers and three meals a day. Dozens of evacuees hung about, waiting for word for when they could return to their homes.
Debbie Short, an evacuee staying at the Finley Center, was a good example of a person listed as missing who was not. She was walking past the dry erase board when she noticed her name on the board, likely because a friend had been looking for her.
A Red Cross volunteer erased her name off the board.
Frances Dinkelspiel, a journalist in Berkeley, turned to social media for help finding her stepbrother Jim Conley after tweeting authorities and getting little help. But it was a round of telephone calls that ultimately led her to him.
A Santa Rosa hospital initially said it had no record of him, but when the family tried again, it was told he had been transferred elsewhere with serious burns.
It was a frustrating experience, Dinkelspiel said, but "I'm glad he's in a hospital and isn't lying injured on the side of the road."
This story has been corrected to show that people used social media to search for missing after Hurricane Irma, not Rita.
Associated Press writer Janie Har contributed from San Francisco.
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The EPA will award grants that support activities designed to empower and educate communities to understand environmental and public health issues and to identify ways to address these issues at the local level. The EPA also recognizes that affected communities often face disproportionate impacts from a changing climate. As a result, the fiscal year 2015 program will have a special emphasis on proposals supporting community-based preparedness and resilience efforts (community climate resiliency). The goal is to recognize the critical role of localized efforts in helping communities shape climate change strategies to avoid, lessen, or delay the risks and impacts associated with climate change. An overarching goal of including this emphasis is to help bolster the efforts of such communities to address climate change vulnerabilities and develop solutions. EPA anticipates a warding up to 25% of fiscal year 2015 awards to fund projects that support community climate resiliency.
An "affected community," for the purposes of this program, is defined as a vulnerable community that may be disproportionately impacted by environmental harms and risks and has a local environmental and/or public health issue that is identified in the applicant's application.
Amount: Total available is $1,200,000. EPA anticipates awarding up to four grants per EPA region in amounts of up to $30,000 per award for one year.
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Chrysler Canada and its union are set to re-enter labour negotiations Monday in a final attempt to reach an agreement that could save the company from bankruptcy or even liquidation, and the two sides have never been farther apart.
Apr. 20, 2009 2:54 a.m.
And with both federal Industry Minister Tony Clement and potential Chrysler partner Fiat saying the company will have to lower labour costs by $19 an hour to remain competitive, Chrysler has little room to manoeuvre.
Because of this, the Canadian Auto Workers' insistence that they will stick to the pattern established in a deal reached with General Motors Canada in March, which reduces that company's labour costs by about $7 an hour, may seem futile.
But analysts say the union does have some wiggle room.
Chrysler Canada has been given until the end of the month to reach an agreement with the CAW and provide the federal and Ontario governments with a viable restructuring plan in order to receive long-term government bailout money.
Chrysler has threatened the union several times by saying it will pull out of Canada or go out of business entirely if it can't reach an agreement, most recently in a letter from president Tom LaSorda and CEO Bob Nardelli to employees on Friday.
But Charlotte Yates, a labour analyst and dean of social sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, said Chrysler needs the CAW just as much as the CAW needs Chrysler.
Workers just want to keep their jobs, and many CAW members are wholeheartedly entrusting their union to negotiate the best possible deal for them.
Bob Stewart, an employee of Chrysler's minivan plant in Windsor, Ont., for 25 years, said he feels like workers already gave up a lot in a contract negotiated with the Detroit Three companies a year ago. That contract froze wages to 2011 and cut paid time off by a week a year, among other things.
But he said he'd be willing to give more if the union thinks it's for the best.
"It seems like the leadership in the union seems to believe we might be overdue to contribute to some of the prescription drug costs and some of that, so maybe it is time," Stewart said in an interview from the Windsor plant.
Stewart criticized Chrysler and the government for placing all of the company's problems on the backs of its workers.
"I can't see how taking the money away from the labourers is really going to solve the issues when the people who make the multi-million-dollar cheques are the ones who make all the decisions. We're just soldiers in an army that they actually run," he said.
Mostly, though, Stewart just wants to keep his job.
The company and governments have said many times that Chrysler needs to slash its labour costs to remain competitive, but no one seems to agree about who exactly the company needs to be competitive with. Is it UAW plants in the United States? Or non-unionized Honda and Toyota plants in Canada? Or is it non-unionized plants in the U.S?
Yates said the CAW should push Chrysler to define who exactly their competitors are. GM CEO Fritz Henderson has said more than once that his company's deal with the CAW is competitive with non-unionized plants in Canada, and the union has used this claim as its primary reason why it shouldn't have to give more to Chrysler.
Another factor affecting competitiveness is the Canadian dollar. If Chrysler is comparing its Canadian plants to facilities in the U.S., unionized or not, it needs to factor in the exchange rate, which increases the competitiveness of Canadian plants as long as the loonie stays low, Yates said.
"Why should the company reap all the benefits of a lower Canadian dollar?" she asked.
Chris Piper, a business professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, suggested the union ask for a stake in the company in exchange for long-term concessions.
"Give them so many shares per dollar that they earn based on the current price of the share or even a discounted price of the shares, and that way you're going to benefit in the long-run if the company survives," he said.
But Piper said this only works if the union thinks Chrysler will survive.
"If you don't believe that the company will survive, then that's a whole other story, then you really ought to be making wage concessions to make sure that at least for the short-term you're able to at least have a job and not nothing," he said.
He added that the state of the auto industry may dictate that the union has to give more if it wants to keep production in Canada.
"All the terms that are used, 'We've already made sacrifices and we're giving back,' that's not the point. The point is you're working for a bankrupt company that nobody will lend money to except possibly the government and then only maybe," Piper said. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,767 |
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I like the part when Nate the Great found out where Oliver's boring beach bag was because Oliver was very happy. This book connects to my life because I lose things all the time. My favorite character was Sludge because Sludge is funny. He plays around instead of helping. Sludge likes pancakes! Dogs don't usually eat pancakes very often. The author gives me a picture in my mind by adding very detailed words. A feeling I felt reading the book was worried because I was afraid Nate the Great was not going to find Oliver's beach bag. Another feeling was happy because he found out where Oliver's beach bag was.
I recommend this book to boys and girls who like going to the beach because this book is about Nate the Great going to the beach. You might be interested in the extra fun activities in the back! I think other first and second grade readers could read this book too if they really want to. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,769 |
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Good Faithlessness
"The typical effort of a Pavese hero is lucidity; the typical problem of a Pavese hero", Susan Sontag believes, "is that of lapsed communication." Writing on Cesare Pavese in Against Interpretation, Sontag reckons the "novels [including The Moon and the Bonfires and Among Women Only] are about crisis of conscience, and the refusal to allow crises of conscience." Much the same could be said of a number of Pavese's stories, including 'Suicides', 'The Wedding Trip', 'The Idol' and 'First Love'. But Sontag is most especially astute when noticing that in Pavese's work "a certain atrophy of the emotions, an enervation of sentiment and bodily vitality, is presupposed." It is a point Pavese returns to again and again in his Diaries, This Business of Living, published after his suicide in 1950 at forty two. When Pavese says "in any course of action it is not a good sign if a man starts with a determination to succeed in it, for that implies rivalry, pride, ambition. He should begin by loving an activity for its own sake, as one lives for the sake of living." Such a claim sounds from a certain perspective like a variation of Kant's categorical imperative: that one does good not because of a feeling but because of an obligation, that a proper moral system relies on disinterested actions. But while one might even have problems with such a claim in relation to morality, imagine how it plays out in relation to an area where one would assume feelings are absolutely vital, like love?
In 'Suicides', Pavese's narrator says "I am convinced now, that no passion is powerful enough to change a man's true nature. Even the fear of death cannot alter his fundamental characteristics. Once the climax of passion is over one becomes once again what one was before…" In each claim, in the diary entry and the narrator's comment, there is justification for the inevitability of the enervation Sontag mentions. Pavese also claims in his diaries that "the art of living, granted that living means to make others suffer…lies in developing an aptitude for playing all sorts of dirty tricks without letting them disturb our own peace of mind." Perhaps Pavese's significance as a writer rests on exploring this problem of selfishness and turning it into good faith not through action, but through the lucidity Sontag addresses.
This problem of good faith is one philosopher Jean Paul Sartre of course constantly addressed, but saw its resolution chiefly in action: how could one act in good faith, Sartre mused, and concluded in Existentialism and Literature that though producing literature isn't an action, the author nevertheless "makes an appeal to their [the reader's] freedom, and in order for his works to have any effect, it is necessary for the public to adopt them on their own account by an unconditional decision." It is in Sartre's words, "the moment of reflective consciousness". The good faith of the writer can lead the reader to revolutionary thinking and possible action. Yet Pavese's notion of good faith would seem to be quite different. When Sartre says "the true problem of bad faith stems obviously from the fact that bad faith is faith", leading hopefully to a faith that is no longer bad but good, Pavese might reply that there is also good faithlessness: an awareness of one's own emotional limitations in the presence of the other. Indeed, from a certain angle, bad faith can at least offer passion, since it is in Sartre's reckoning a faith. Pavese's best writing, his most acute insights, come out of a kind of good faithlessness, echoing his comments about the art of living in his diary, and Sontag's comment about atrophy of the emotions.
In 'Suicides', the narrator observes that he envies "those people who, before doing something wicked or grossly unfair, or even merely satisfying a selfish whim, manage to pre-arrange a chain of circumstances to make their action seem justifiable, even to their own consciences." It appears the narrator lacks the bad faith to do so; he is incapable of creating the peace of mind that could give his body energy even if he is in the process of treating others badly. 'Suicides' exemplifies this idea as the narrator drives a woman to her death, but 'Wedding Trip' also seems fascinated by a similar problem. Here the narrator notices that his wife Cilia is transformed by the love she feels for her new husband. "Her smile, especially, was transfigured. It was no longer the half timid, half-teasing smile of a shop girl on the spree, but the gentle flowering of an inner joy…" The narrator "felt a twinge of jealousy at this sign of a happiness I did not always share." When they take a trip he notices "Cilia was almost beside herself with delight, held my hand and tried to make me talk", but the narrator is "moody and unresponsive", as he cannot quite connect with life. He is clearly causing Cilia pain, but can neither share her pleasures, nor can he not notice the trouble he causes. He is caught between the good faith of acting well, and the bad faith of not noticing another's misery, and instead settles for the horrible state of good faithlessness.
In The Savage God, Al Alvarez says of Pavese, and the type of suicide he believed Pavese to be, that "a suicide of this kind is born, not made." "…He receives his reasons…when he is too young to cope with them or understand. All he can do is accept them innocently and try to defend himself." For "by the time he recognizes them more objectively they have become part of his sensibility, his way of seeing and his way of life." What interests us is how such a sensibility permeates the fiction, creates a way of looking at the world. In both 'Suicides' and 'Wedding Trip' the stories appear almost like diary entries themselves, long, first person meditations on the problem of acting at all. In other stories the problem is addressed more obliquely, and where the male narrator is at the mercy of another's bad faith, bad faith in the manner in which we have couched it through Pavese: in relation to someone's ability to be obliviously happy with another's misery that they are responsible for creating. In 'The Idol', the narrator visits a prostitute he becomes fascinated by, and after some time tries to persuade her to marry him. "I love you and I'm as much yours now as I was then. But marry me, Mina. Give up this life" as he says he feels like murdering her clients. Mina just assumes he is ashamed of her, and the narrator says "that was the first moment when I realized I was up against immense senseless power, like a man banging his head against a brick wall." It is not only the jealousy that is destroying him, but also a certain gap between the two of them: the gap between his misery and her refusal to acknowledge it on the terms upon which it is offered.
In Pavese's work jealousy is no more it would seem than a subsidiary of misunderstanding, of a failure to be recognised for the singular person one happens to be. Though in 'The Idol' the narrator, Guido, acknowledges concrete examples of jealousy, the story's meaning and significance lies elsewhere. "You see, Mina, I can't get that fellow out of my mind – the one you went off with that Tuesday evening…" and Mina replies "I remember…you were a bad lad that evening. Why did you come? I was very hurt about it." Guido replies, "and what about me?", stating it was clear he was hurting a lot more. This scenario of jealousy is intriguing for several reasons. Often one person is jealous of others in relation to the person they love within the context of a relationship, and so the jealous person feels they have rights over the loved one, and the loved one acknowledges these rights by lying if they have been cheating on their partner. They won't be telling the truth, but they're at least recognising their partner as someone who has a right to jealousy, and allays their fears by being dishonest. Guido might be in love with Mina, but he has no rights over her, and so she has no reason to lie to him, but instead misunderstands him as she trivialises his response. Moments later she asks him why his hands are shaking, and Guido replies "they need a ring on to hold them still." Mina laughs out loud, "diverted by my little joke" the narrator says, and Mina adds that "you're a dear when you say things like that" as she condescends lightly to the intensity of his feelings.
What we notice in 'The Idol', as in 'Wedding Trip' and 'Suicides', is basically an affective imbalance, where one character feels so much more strongly than the other person in the situation. However, where the women in 'Wedding Trip' and 'Suicides' are affectively adjusted, if you like, Guido in 'The Idol' is affectively maladjusted. The tragedy of 'Suicides' and 'Wedding Trip' is that the two women end up dead after contact with someone affectively atrophied – they are 'normal' women, capable of gaining much pleasure from life. Guido though is again the character without much faith in the world who masochistically projects onto a woman who can bring out that despair. Near the end of the story, after Mina decides to marry another man, she says "Just a boy. A silly boy", as she still refuses to take the narrator's feelings seriously. "For a long time I felt shattered…I thought of Mina and her husband as two grown-ups with a secret. A boy can only watch them from a distance, unaware of the joys and sorrows that make up their life." But is the narrator the sort of man who could have been capable of the joys and sorrows that make up a 'normal life' in the first place? One thinks not, as the existential despair finds an outlet in the women who are impossibly out of reach. If Alvarez describes Pavese as "a suicide born, not made", we can notice in much of his work the manner in which the narrative event seems secondary to an underpinning sense of loss. A made suicide would be someone unable to cope with an immediate situation; a born suicide one who knows that the situation is only a realisation of the emptiness that is a given. As Pavese says in This Business of Living: "One does not kill oneself for love of a woman but because love – any love – reveals to us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness…"
If in 'Suicides' and 'Wedding Trip' the feeling of despair is the male narrator's in relation to their relative indifference to their lover's misery, and in 'The Idol', about the narrator projecting feelings onto a woman who does not love him, in 'The Leather Jacket', the trouble with loving is more obliquely presented. Here the narrator is a boy fascinated by a charming, muscled man, Ceresa, who rents out boats on the Po, but who falls for the young woman Nora whom the narrator describes as a "pretty girl", and the narrator realises "there must be something quite extraordinary about her, and this worried me because I didn't quite understand what it could be." Over the course of the story the narrator watches as Ceresa's casual approach to life becomes tested by his increasing feelings for Nora. "You shouldn't bother about what grown-ups say. But if Nora tells you anything, let me know" Ceresa says. The boy notices that Nora is often rude with Ceresa in front of other people, and over time "Ceresa talked less than he used to do, but I gladly stayed with him because I knew he was dazed." Not long afterwards someone tells him that Ceresa had "throttled Nora and thrown her into the Po." It would seem Ceresa would be an example of a murderer made rather than born, but the point of view is that of the boy, and we might think again of Alvarez's comment that a certain point of view can become part of our sensibility, our way of seeing the world. 'The Leather Jacket' is a story about mistrust in a relationship contained by the narrator's partial view that indicates his first experience of love is at one remove and horrific. The story still seems consistent with the Pavese question of the impossibility of love, and perhaps even more pronounced as it is seen from the perspective of a young boy whose feelings aren't directly involved, but whose sensibility seems to be. Superficially the story is about the tragedy of a man caught by a woman who plays with his feelings, but it is also about a boy for whom the events impact upon him as a human truth about relationships. When the narrator says there was something extraordinary about her and what troubled him was that he wasn't sure what that happened to be, he senses the pang of pain before the feeling of love: a sort of Pavlovian cue that might leave him assuming pain is an inevitable part of loving, instead of merely one amongst many signs that may be invoked by it.
In such a world where love inevitably brings pain, where pain is even more present than love, what else is there to pursue but loneliness? "The only heroic rule is to be alone, alone, alone", Pavese insisted, but he also says elsewhere in the diaries, "the greatest misfortune is loneliness." "So true is this", Pavese adds, "that the highest form of consolation – religion – lies in finding a friend who will never let you down – God." Here the notion of good faith takes the form of willingly accepting one's loneliness and communing with God as a way of avoiding the messy interaction of humans destroying other human beings.
Yet of course most of Pavese's stories are about human interaction, and just as a number of them focus on the inability to connect with others, occasionally the stories show moments of emotional revelation. These come not from the deep feelings of love, but the possibilities in contingent acts of decency and casual friendship. Even in 'The Leather Jacket' what holds is the narrator's fondness for Ceresa, a figure we sense he still has a bond with, despite the man committing murder.
In 'Misogyny' what we could call the gesture of feeling, as opposed to the abyss of love, comes when a young fleeing couple arrive at a small tavern and receive help from the barman and his sister. The couple are initially very suspicious when the barman tells them that they can't get any petrol because the people in the village are all fast asleep. The girl thinks it is just a ploy to keep them there for the night and to spend money, but by the end of the story a good deed has indeed been done. The barman may say at one moment, "and all this for a woman", but by the conclusion he and his sister have done enough for strangers for the boy to insist "we shall always remember you." One may see an apparent contradiction between a man who thinks all this for a woman, and then helps out a stranger, but taking into account Pavese's suspicion of the problem of depth of feeling, and also the inherent selfishness of each individual, then paradoxically the relatively disinterested gesture of helping a stranger can be more human than the emotional entanglements with a lover.
Numerous Pavese stories hint or focus upon the problem of love as if they were echoing the barman's comments "and all this for a woman" or for a man. 'In Land of Exile', the narrator, an engineer working in the south of Italy, gets talking to a convict at an open prison there. Over a period of time the convict tells him about his wife, saying "here I stay, living like a monk, and she just knocks around." He explains that he ended up in prison "because he tried to punch some sense into the head of a soldier who was having an affair with that wife of his. They gave him five years and he hadn't yet finished the first." By the end of the story someone she was knocking around with knocks her about so badly that she ends up murdered. "D'you know the best bit? He bashed her seven times, all in the face."
Whether the stories offer passion and murder as in 'Land of Exile' and 'The Leather Jacket', projection as in 'The Idol', or low affectivity in 'Suicides' and 'Wedding Trip' that leads to the woman's demise, the relationship is not the highest purpose one can aim for, but the lowest. It results in painful indifference or passionate enslavement. In 'The Cornfield' the narrator says of one young woman in love "she felt her heart contract…why had he lied?…But once the day of the race was over, she would never leave him. He meant too much to her." In the lengthy story 'A Great Fire', a character says "It is said that to understand other people you must love them. I do not know whether it is true."
Pavese seems to offer such a perspective not as a philosophy of life, merely an angle that unavoidably permeates his own fiction. "It happened that I became a man when I learned to be alone", Pavese says in his diaries; "others when they felt the need for company." At another moment he writes, "it happens that a conversation overheard makes us pause, interests and touches us more deeply than words addressed to us." Pavese offers it in the plural, but it is a statement with the sense of the singular. There were many writers of importance in Italy from the thirties to the sixties: Moravia, Primo and Carlo Levi, Calvino, Pasolini and Bassani, and most were concerned with the problem of memory and the difficulty of existence, but perhaps no one more than Pavese captured the loneliness of a lonely profession. "I know that I am forever condemned to think of suicide when faced with no matter what difficulty or grief…the thought of it caresses my sensibility." It would also, as we've explored, hover over much of his work.
"The typical effort of a Pavese hero is lucidity; the typical problem of a Pavese hero", Susan Sontag believes, "is that of lapsed communication." Writing on Cesare Pavese in Against Interpretation, Sontag reckons the "novels [including The Moon and the Bonfires and Among Women Only] are about crisis of conscience, and the refusal to allow crises of conscience." Much the same could be said of a number of Pavese's stories, including 'Suicides', 'The Wedding Trip', 'The Idol' and 'First Love'. But Sontag is most especially astute when noticing that in Pavese's work "a certain atrophy of the emotions, an enervation of sentiment and bodily vitality, is presupposed." It is a point Pavese returns to again and again in his Diaries, This Business of Living, published after his suicide in 1950 at forty two. When Pavese says "in any course of action it is not a good sign if a man starts with a determination to succeed in it, for that implies rivalry, pride, ambition. He should begin by loving an activity for its own sake, as one lives for the sake of living." Such a claim sounds from a certain perspective like a variation of Kant's categorical imperative: that one does good not because of a feeling but because of an obligation, that a proper moral system relies on disinterested actions. But while one might even have problems with such a claim in relation to morality, imagine how it plays out in relation to an area where one would assume feelings are absolutely vital, like love?
In 'Suicides', Pavese's narrator says "I am convinced now, that no passion is powerful enough to change a man's true nature. Even the fear of death cannot alter his fundamental characteristics. Once the climax of passion is over one becomes once again what one was before..." In each claim, in the diary entry and the narrator's comment, there is justification for the inevitability of the enervation Sontag mentions. Pavese also claims in his diaries that "the art of living, granted that living means to make others suffer...lies in developing an aptitude for playing all sorts of dirty tricks without letting them disturb our own peace of mind." Perhaps Pavese's significance as a writer rests on exploring this problem of selfishness and turning it into good faith not through action, but through the lucidity Sontag addresses.
This problem of good faith is one philosopher Jean Paul Sartre of course constantly addressed, but saw its resolution chiefly in action: how could one act in good faith, Sartre mused, and concluded in Existentialism and Literature that though producing literature isn't an action, the author nevertheless "makes an appeal to their [the reader's] freedom, and in order for his works to have any effect, it is necessary for the public to adopt them on their own account by an unconditional decision." It is in Sartre's words, "the moment of reflective consciousness". The good faith of the writer can lead the reader to revolutionary thinking and possible action. Yet Pavese's notion of good faith would seem to be quite different. When Sartre says "the true problem of bad faith stems obviously from the fact that bad faith is faith", leading hopefully to a faith that is no longer bad but good, Pavese might reply that there is also good faithlessness: an awareness of one's own emotional limitations in the presence of the other. Indeed, from a certain angle, bad faith can at least offer passion, since it is in Sartre's reckoning a faith. Pavese's best writing, his most acute insights, come out of a kind of good faithlessness, echoing his comments about the art of living in his diary, and Sontag's comment about atrophy of the emotions.
In 'Suicides', the narrator observes that he envies "those people who, before doing something wicked or grossly unfair, or even merely satisfying a selfish whim, manage to pre-arrange a chain of circumstances to make their action seem justifiable, even to their own consciences." It appears the narrator lacks the bad faith to do so; he is incapable of creating the peace of mind that could give his body energy even if he is in the process of treating others badly. 'Suicides' exemplifies this idea as the narrator drives a woman to her death, but 'Wedding Trip' also seems fascinated by a similar problem. Here the narrator notices that his wife Cilia is transformed by the love she feels for her new husband. "Her smile, especially, was transfigured. It was no longer the half timid, half-teasing smile of a shop girl on the spree, but the gentle flowering of an inner joy..." The narrator "felt a twinge of jealousy at this sign of a happiness I did not always share." When they take a trip he notices "Cilia was almost beside herself with delight, held my hand and tried to make me talk", but the narrator is "moody and unresponsive", as he cannot quite connect with life. He is clearly causing Cilia pain, but can neither share her pleasures, nor can he not notice the trouble he causes. He is caught between the good faith of acting well, and the bad faith of not noticing another's misery, and instead settles for the horrible state of good faithlessness.
In The Savage God, Al Alvarez says of Pavese, and the type of suicide he believed Pavese to be, that "a suicide of this kind is born, not made." "...He receives his reasons...when he is too young to cope with them or understand. All he can do is accept them innocently and try to defend himself." For "by the time he recognizes them more objectively they have become part of his sensibility, his way of seeing and his way of life." What interests us is how such a sensibility permeates the fiction, creates a way of looking at the world. In both 'Suicides' and 'Wedding Trip' the stories appear almost like diary entries themselves, long, first person meditations on the problem of acting at all. In other stories the problem is addressed more obliquely, and where the male narrator is at the mercy of another's bad faith, bad faith in the manner in which we have couched it through Pavese: in relation to someone's ability to be obliviously happy with another's misery that they are responsible for creating. In 'The Idol', the narrator visits a prostitute he becomes fascinated by, and after some time tries to persuade her to marry him. "I love you and I'm as much yours now as I was then. But marry me, Mina. Give up this life" as he says he feels like murdering her clients. Mina just assumes he is ashamed of her, and the narrator says "that was the first moment when I realized I was up against immense senseless power, like a man banging his head against a brick wall." It is not only the jealousy that is destroying him, but also a certain gap between the two of them: the gap between his misery and her refusal to acknowledge it on the terms upon which it is offered.
In Pavese's work jealousy is no more it would seem than a subsidiary of misunderstanding, of a failure to be recognised for the singular person one happens to be. Though in 'The Idol' the narrator, Guido, acknowledges concrete examples of jealousy, the story's meaning and significance lies elsewhere. "You see, Mina, I can't get that fellow out of my mind - the one you went off with that Tuesday evening..." and Mina replies "I remember...you were a bad lad that evening. Why did you come? I was very hurt about it." Guido replies, "and what about me?", stating it was clear he was hurting a lot more. This scenario of jealousy is intriguing for several reasons. Often one person is jealous of others in relation to the person they love within the context of a relationship, and so the jealous person feels they have rights over the loved one, and the loved one acknowledges these rights by lying if they have been cheating on their partner. They won't be telling the truth, but they're at least recognising their partner as someone who has a right to jealousy, and allays their fears by being dishonest. Guido might be in love with Mina, but he has no rights over her, and so she has no reason to lie to him, but instead misunderstands him as she trivialises his response. Moments later she asks him why his hands are shaking, and Guido replies "they need a ring on to hold them still." Mina laughs out loud, "diverted by my little joke" the narrator says, and Mina adds that "you're a dear when you say things like that" as she condescends lightly to the intensity of his feelings.
What we notice in 'The Idol', as in 'Wedding Trip' and 'Suicides', is basically an affective imbalance, where one character feels so much more strongly than the other person in the situation. However, where the women in 'Wedding Trip' and 'Suicides' are affectively adjusted, if you like, Guido in 'The Idol' is affectively maladjusted. The tragedy of 'Suicides' and 'Wedding Trip' is that the two women end up dead after contact with someone affectively atrophied - they are 'normal' women, capable of gaining much pleasure from life. Guido though is again the character without much faith in the world who masochistically projects onto a woman who can bring out that despair. Near the end of the story, after Mina decides to marry another man, she says "Just a boy. A silly boy", as she still refuses to take the narrator's feelings seriously. "For a long time I felt shattered...I thought of Mina and her husband as two grown-ups with a secret. A boy can only watch them from a distance, unaware of the joys and sorrows that make up their life." But is the narrator the sort of man who could have been capable of the joys and sorrows that make up a 'normal life' in the first place? One thinks not, as the existential despair finds an outlet in the women who are impossibly out of reach. If Alvarez describes Pavese as "a suicide born, not made", we can notice in much of his work the manner in which the narrative event seems secondary to an underpinning sense of loss. A made suicide would be someone unable to cope with an immediate situation; a born suicide one who knows that the situation is only a realisation of the emptiness that is a given. As Pavese says in This Business of Living: "One does not kill oneself for love of a woman but because love - any love - reveals to us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness..."
If in 'Suicides' and 'Wedding Trip' the feeling of despair is the male narrator's in relation to their relative indifference to their lover's misery, and in 'The Idol', about the narrator projecting feelings onto a woman who does not love him, in 'The Leather Jacket', the trouble with loving is more obliquely presented. Here the narrator is a boy fascinated by a charming, muscled man, Ceresa, who rents out boats on the Po, but who falls for the young woman Nora whom the narrator describes as a "pretty girl", and the narrator realises "there must be something quite extraordinary about her, and this worried me because I didn't quite understand what it could be." Over the course of the story the narrator watches as Ceresa's casual approach to life becomes tested by his increasing feelings for Nora. "You shouldn't bother about what grown-ups say. But if Nora tells you anything, let me know" Ceresa says. The boy notices that Nora is often rude with Ceresa in front of other people, and over time "Ceresa talked less than he used to do, but I gladly stayed with him because I knew he was dazed." Not long afterwards someone tells him that Ceresa had "throttled Nora and thrown her into the Po." It would seem Ceresa would be an example of a murderer made rather than born, but the point of view is that of the boy, and we might think again of Alvarez's comment that a certain point of view can become part of our sensibility, our way of seeing the world. 'The Leather Jacket' is a story about mistrust in a relationship contained by the narrator's partial view that indicates his first experience of love is at one remove and horrific. The story still seems consistent with the Pavese question of the impossibility of love, and perhaps even more pronounced as it is seen from the perspective of a young boy whose feelings aren't directly involved, but whose sensibility seems to be. Superficially the story is about the tragedy of a man caught by a woman who plays with his feelings, but it is also about a boy for whom the events impact upon him as a human truth about relationships. When the narrator says there was something extraordinary about her and what troubled him was that he wasn't sure what that happened to be, he senses the pang of pain before the feeling of love: a sort of Pavlovian cue that might leave him assuming pain is an inevitable part of loving, instead of merely one amongst many signs that may be invoked by it.
In such a world where love inevitably brings pain, where pain is even more present than love, what else is there to pursue but loneliness? "The only heroic rule is to be alone, alone, alone", Pavese insisted, but he also says elsewhere in the diaries, "the greatest misfortune is loneliness." "So true is this", Pavese adds, "that the highest form of consolation - religion - lies in finding a friend who will never let you down - God." Here the notion of good faith takes the form of willingly accepting one's loneliness and communing with God as a way of avoiding the messy interaction of humans destroying other human beings.
Yet of course most of Pavese's stories are about human interaction, and just as a number of them focus on the inability to connect with others, occasionally the stories show moments of emotional revelation. These come not from the deep feelings of love, but the possibilities in contingent acts of decency and casual friendship. Even in 'The Leather Jacket' what holds is the narrator's fondness for Ceresa, a figure we sense he still has a bond with, despite the man committing murder.
In 'Misogyny' what we could call the gesture of feeling, as opposed to the abyss of love, comes when a young fleeing couple arrive at a small tavern and receive help from the barman and his sister. The couple are initially very suspicious when the barman tells them that they can't get any petrol because the people in the village are all fast asleep. The girl thinks it is just a ploy to keep them there for the night and to spend money, but by the end of the story a good deed has indeed been done. The barman may say at one moment, "and all this for a woman", but by the conclusion he and his sister have done enough for strangers for the boy to insist "we shall always remember you." One may see an apparent contradiction between a man who thinks all this for a woman, and then helps out a stranger, but taking into account Pavese's suspicion of the problem of depth of feeling, and also the inherent selfishness of each individual, then paradoxically the relatively disinterested gesture of helping a stranger can be more human than the emotional entanglements with a lover.
Numerous Pavese stories hint or focus upon the problem of love as if they were echoing the barman's comments "and all this for a woman" or for a man. 'In Land of Exile', the narrator, an engineer working in the south of Italy, gets talking to a convict at an open prison there. Over a period of time the convict tells him about his wife, saying "here I stay, living like a monk, and she just knocks around." He explains that he ended up in prison "because he tried to punch some sense into the head of a soldier who was having an affair with that wife of his. They gave him five years and he hadn't yet finished the first." By the end of the story someone she was knocking around with knocks her about so badly that she ends up murdered. "D'you know the best bit? He bashed her seven times, all in the face."
Whether the stories offer passion and murder as in 'Land of Exile' and 'The Leather Jacket', projection as in 'The Idol', or low affectivity in 'Suicides' and 'Wedding Trip' that leads to the woman's demise, the relationship is not the highest purpose one can aim for, but the lowest. It results in painful indifference or passionate enslavement. In 'The Cornfield' the narrator says of one young woman in love "she felt her heart contract...why had he lied?...But once the day of the race was over, she would never leave him. He meant too much to her." In the lengthy story 'A Great Fire', a character says "It is said that to understand other people you must love them. I do not know whether it is true."
Pavese seems to offer such a perspective not as a philosophy of life, merely an angle that unavoidably permeates his own fiction. "It happened that I became a man when I learned to be alone", Pavese says in his diaries; "others when they felt the need for company." At another moment he writes, "it happens that a conversation overheard makes us pause, interests and touches us more deeply than words addressed to us." Pavese offers it in the plural, but it is a statement with the sense of the singular. There were many writers of importance in Italy from the thirties to the sixties: Moravia, Primo and Carlo Levi, Calvino, Pasolini and Bassani, and most were concerned with the problem of memory and the difficulty of existence, but perhaps no one more than Pavese captured the loneliness of a lonely profession. "I know that I am forever condemned to think of suicide when faced with no matter what difficulty or grief...the thought of it caresses my sensibility." It would also, as we've explored, hover over much of his work. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 1,771 |
I celebrated my 21st birthday with my beloved parents and Little Bro by going to the movies and seeing something I've wanted to see for months, "Rock of Ages" (yay)! I'm a huge fan of the Broadway performance and the movie didn't disappoint, although, the movie and the musical are two completely different things that I love for completely different reasons. The movie has a HEA ending while the musical ending is more realistic but still happy. Both are awesome in their own way.
Some might know that a couple of weeks ago was the Summer Solstice also known as Midsummer or Litha. And it's not just a Wiccan or Pagan holiday, its celebrated all over the world as the longest day of the year and as the half way point to the end of summer. It's the end of the Oak King's reign and the Holly King has taken his place, and the time has come to prepare for the upcoming harvest.
The sun was setting, and I was alone with my family doing their own thing.
I couldn't take it anymore. I walked outside, barefoot in my cupcake pjs, and knelt at the foot of the several years old willow-esque tree in the back yard where I like going for making offerings and doing rituals. I felt awkward and uncomfortable, not just because I was kneeling on some very hard dirt in my unpadded pajamas. I had only felt that way once before in the seventh grade when I had to talk with the school counselor after a poem I wrote about a grey cloud made my English teacher think I was depressed…don't ask.
I knelt in the quietness of Nature and I cried everything out of me, every frustration in my life, every angry thought that I had of me and how disappointed I felt with myself. After the crying, I still sat. And…I talked. I talked to the God and Goddess for what seemed like hours, but it was only a couple. I know my neighbors must have thought, "Oh, that neighbor's kid is just not right" but… I had never felt so connected to Spirit than in those moments. I felt a pressure release inside of me and a velvet comfort in my mind that seemed to say "I hear you. I understand. It'll get better".
My point of this is that life has its sucky moments where you feel mentally and emotionally shattered. It could be from the death of a beloved person in your life or from financial hardships or just from plain loneliness. But I think something that M. Flora Peterson said rings true, "Today in our fast paced lives, its challenging to find those 10-15 minutes a day where we can find our center, find our balance, and really feel that divine connection in our lives". For months I've been feeling that something was missing. That something wasn't right. I don't know if what I described could be called a 'spiritual awakening' or 'wakeup call' or something. But whatever I was…It was something that I really needed and maybe it's something that many people need.
Go someplace where you feel comfortable, preferably somewhere quiet. Close your eyes and empty your head of all the junk we accumulate in the average work week, boss is ticking you off, parents are breathing down your neck about something, the kids aren't listening to you. Just chuck that out the window for 10 minutes and let the silence speak to you. Because I have come to believe that silence can tell you a lot more than the noises we have to listen to on a daily basis.
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John Howard says Australia remains one of the world's safest countries.
a sense of proportion when reflecting on terrorist threats.
sober different world," he said.
as he was still in shock.
student was yet to file a formal complaint about the attack.
Jerome yesterday condemned the attack on the Grade 10 student.
outbreak of measles has hit Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands.
say they have no doubts.
a major outbreak of the disease in Majuro.
measure aimed at controlling the media in Tonga.
to shut down any newspaper regardless of its origin.
matters as determined by the Minister.
to what standards they can impose, and lays down how that can be imposed."
between 7.00 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. Monday to Friday for the next six months.
police station where he was detained said they lost his files.
with assaulting the government's permanent arbitrator, John Semisi.
The court was told that Banuve had reconciled with Mr Semisi.
the state about US$10 million .
Samoan police officers are expected to leave for Solomon Islands in two weeks.
Papali'itele Lorenese Neru, says only 15 officers were requested at this time.
based in Honiara, with normal policing duties.
first of the Pacific island contingents to be sent to Solomon Islands.
Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
$11,000 from the agency during a month-and-a-half long scheme.
year; tourism marketing budget, about $3 million a year.
Sounds like what Guam could be in some distant future?
four flight hours from Guam.
single largest source of tourists.
left East Sepik Province severely short of fuel supplies.
Napa oil refinery in Port Moresby commences production next year.
most of the refinery's export capacity.
estimated market value of US$1.4 billion. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,773 |
Framing hockey jerseys differs from framing jerseys used in other sports because they are thicker and have longer sleeves. But with a little ingenuity and information, a novice can frame a hockey jersey that looks good enough to hang in a memorabilia store.
Find or purchase a picture frame that is twice as deep as your hockey jersey. A frame that is 2 inches deep will work. The sleeves will be folded in front of the jersey's back side increasing its thickness.
Purchase a piece of mat board that is big enough to cover the jersey. A piece one-eighth or three-sixteenths-inch thick will work well. Use a box cutter to cut the mat board so it is wide enough to stretch the jersey flat when placed inside.
Cut the mat board to the length of the jersey, remembering that the board will be placed inside the jersey to help it lay flat inside the frame. The board should be long enough to support the entire jersey from shoulders to hem without being exposed on the bottom.
Use the box cutter to round the corners of the board that will fit in the shoulder areas of the jersey. This makes the jersey look like it is being worn and give the jersey natural-looking shoulders.
Turn the jersey so the back side is facing upward. This is the side that will be displayed as it shows the player's number and name.
Fold the sleeves of the jersey so they are flat and are visible with the name and number being displayed. The angle of the sleeves is really up to the person framing it, but in many framed hockey jersey the sleeves are parallel to the length of the torso.
Use sewing pins to pin the jersey and sleeves down to the mat board so it will maintain its form when placed in the frame. Pins usually are placed near the top on the shoulders, the bottom of the torso and the bottoms of the sleeves. Make sure the pins are placed inside the jersey so they are not seen.
Place the mat board inside the frame. If the frame is big enough to house the jersey, you should be able to place it in the frame and replace the glass without any problems. The finished jersey will lay flat and not move around inside the frame.
When getting a jersey autographed for framing, it is ideal to get the back of it autographed in an area that will be clearly visible after it is framed.
Do not overstretch the jersey with the mat board. It should be wide and long enough to make the jersey rigid when flat but not damage the fabric.
Kody Schafer has been a journalist since 2008, specializing in technology, hockey and outdoor topics. He writes news stories for the "UWM Post" and has been the newspaper's online news editor since 2009. Schafer is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in journalism, advertising and media studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether GSK2402968 given as a continuous dose and as an intermittent dose is effective and safe in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
This is a phase II, double-blind, exploratory, parallel-group, placebo-controlled clinical study in ambulant subjects with DMD resulting from a mutation that can be corrected by exon skipping induced by GSK2402968. The study aims to randomise 54 subjects. There will be 2 parallel cohorts. Each cohort will include subjects on GSK2402968 and matched placebo in a 2:1 ratio.
Voit T, Topaloglu H, Straub V, Muntoni F, Deconinck N, Campion G, De Kimpe SJ, Eagle M, Guglieri M, Hood S, Liefaard L, Lourbakos A, Morgan A, Nakielny J, Quarcoo N, Ricotti V, Rolfe K, Servais L, Wardell C, Wilson R, Wright P, Kraus JE. Safety and efficacy of drisapersen for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DEMAND II): an exploratory, randomised, placebo-controlled phase 2 study. Lancet Neurol. 2014 Oct;13(10):987-96. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(14)70195-4. Epub 2014 Sep 7. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,775 |
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When Portugal Ruled the Seas
The country's global adventurism in the 16th century linked continents and cultures as never before, as a new exhibition makes clear
David Zax
Portugal's voyages of discovery turned the nation into a trading empire. Maps, such as the 1502 Cantino Planisphere, traced a new view of the world.
Cultural cross-pollination inspired works of art, like this c. 1600 ivory carving from China, likely inspired by the Virgin and Child.
Explorer Vasco da Gama sailed his four ships into the Indian Ocean in late 1497. Before long, Portuguese merchants were trading in luxury goods (mother-of-pearl ewer made in Gujarat, India, in the early 16th century and mounted in Naples, c. 1640) and exotic animals.
A zebra taken from Africa to India in 1621 was depicted by an artist in the court of Mogul emperor Jahangir.
Known to the Japanese as "Southern Barbarians" because they arrived, in 1543, from the south, the Portuguese (with pantaloons, hats and caricatured noses in a detail from a 17th-century Japanese folding screen) traded in precious goods.
Their chief export, however, was Christianity. By 1600, the number of converts reached some 300,000. But the religion would be banned, and suspected converts were made to walk on fumi-e, plaques to step on of religious images.
Led by explorer Jorge Alvares, the Portuguese arrived on the southern coast of China in 1513. Since China had forbidden official commerce between its own citizens and Japan, the Portuguese served as middlemen, trading in pepper from Malacca, silks from China and silver from Japan. Chinese porcelain (a 16th-century bottle, mounted in England c. 1585) was in demand because the technique was unknown outside Asia.
Beginning in the 1430s, navigators sailing under the Portuguese flag explored from Africa's west coast all the way to the Cape of Good Hope, which they rounded in 1488. Most African works of art from this period were created for export (a 16th-century ivory saltcellar from the Benin Kingdom of today's Nigeria).
Because of Portugal's explorations, Europeans were also made aware of exotic animals ("The Rhinoceros," by Albrecht Dürer, 1515).
In 1500, a Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Alvares Cabral landed by accident on the coast of Brazil. After initially setting up a trading center there, as they had done in Africa and Asia, the Portuguese established a colony. Its economy was based on brazilwood—the source of a valuable red dye—that was harvested with the help of local Indians (a c. 1641 painting of a Brazilian Tapuya woman by Dutch artist Albert Eckhout) and, later, sugar, which depended on the labor of slaves brought from Africa.
The colony's growing wealth was evident in its many churches and the art to adorn them (a 17th-century silver altar vessel).
Globalization began, you might say, a bit before the turn of the 16th century, in Portugal. At least that's the conclusion one is likely to reach after visiting a vast exhibition, more than four years in the making, at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. The show, like the nation that is its subject, has brought together art and ideas from nearly all parts of the world.
It was Portugal that kicked off what has come to be known as the Age of Discovery, in the mid-1400s. The westernmost country in Europe, Portugal was the first to significantly probe the Atlantic Ocean, colonizing the Azores and other nearby islands, then braving the west coast of Africa. In 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa, and in 1498 his countryman Vasco da Gama repeated the experiment, making it as far as India. Portugal would establish ports as far west as Brazil, as far east as Japan, and along the coasts of Africa, India and China.
It was a "culturally exciting moment," says Jay Levenson of the Museum of Modern Art, guest curator of the exhibition. "All these cultures that had been separated by huge expanses of sea suddenly had a mechanism of learning about each other."
The exhibition, "Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th & 17th Centuries," is the Sackler's largest to date, with some 250 objects from more than 100 lenders occupying the entire museum and spilling over into the neighboring National Museum of African Art. In a room full of maps, the first world map presented (from the early 1490s) is way off the mark (with an imaginary land bridge from southern Africa to Asia), but as subsequent efforts reflect the discoveries of Portuguese navigators, the continents morph into the shapes we recognize today.
Another room is largely devoted to the kinds of objects that made their way into a Kunstkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, in which a wealthy European would display exotica fashioned out of materials from distant lands—ostrich shell drinking cups, tortoiseshell dishes, mother-of-pearl caskets. Each object, be it an African copper bracelet that made its way to a European collection or Flemish paintings of Portugal's fleet, points to Portugal's global influence.
It would be a serious error to think that Portugal's global ambitions were purely benevolent, or even economic, says UCLA historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam: "The Portuguese drive was not simply to explore and trade. It was also to deploy maritime violence, which they knew they were good at, in order to tax and subvert the trade of others, and to build a political structure, whether you want to call it an empire or not, overseas." Indeed, the exhibition catalog offers troubling reminders of misdeeds and even atrocities committed in Portugal's name: the boatful of Muslims set ablaze by the ruthless Vasco da Gama, the African slaves imported to fuel Brazil's economy.
When different cultures have encountered each other for the first time, there has often been misunderstanding, bigotry, even hostility, and the Portuguese were not alone in this regard. The Japanese called the Portuguese who landed on their shores "Southern Barbarians" (since they arrived mostly from the south). Some of the most intriguing objects in the exhibit are brass medallions depicting the Virgin Mary and Jesus. Not long after Portuguese missionaries converted many Japanese to Christianity, Japanese military rulers began persecuting the converts, forcing them to tread on these fumi-e ("pictures to step on") to show they had renounced the barbarians' religion.
With such cultural tensions on display in often exquisite works of art, "Encompassing the Globe" has been a critical favorite. The New York Times called it a "tour de force," and the Washington Post found the exhibition "fascinating" in its depiction of "the tense, difficult and sometimes brutal birth of the modern world." The exhibition closes September 16, and opens October 27 at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Brussels, a seat of the European Union, now headed by Portugal.
The president of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, declares in a forward to the exhibition catalog, "The routes that the Portuguese created to connect the continents and oceans are the foundation of the world we inhabit today." For better or worse, one is tempted to add.
Former intern David Zaz is a fellow at Moment Magazine.
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Abduction of Children in Germany
General Situation
The Foreign Office and the German missions abroad (embassies and consulates-general) are often asked for help when children are abducted across borders. The majority of such cases occur in the context of binational marriages or partnerships; when the relationship fails or after divorce the foreign father or mother takes one or more of their common children to his/her home country against the will of the German parent. Very often the children are left in the custody of family members living there. The rights of (joint) custody of the German parent are regularly infringed, any decisions already taken regarding rights of custody are ignored and rights of access abused.
German fathers and mothers can also be guilty of child abduction if they, against the will of the foreign father or the foreign mother or in violation of a decision by a foreign court, return to Germany with the common children.
The abduction of minors is punishable pursuant to section 235 of the German Criminal Code. The prerequisite for criminal prosecution is an application by the person whose parental rights have been infringed. An exception to this requirement can be made inter alia if the public prosecutor considers it necessary to intervene for special reasons of public interest. Experience however shows that measures under criminal law or police action alone only help achieve the desired objective in rare cases.
The Decision is in the Hands of the Court
In cases of international child abduction, the Foreign Office and the German missions abroad have no legal means – and in practice only very limited real means – of helping to secure the abducted child's return to Germany. In nearly all the countries of the world, issues relating to custody and the child's place of residence are decided by the judiciary, that is the courts. This also applies to arrangements concerning rights of access.
In states governed by the rule of law and the separation of powers, it is not usually possible for the country's government to interfere with the administration of justice. This is the case even if the German mission or the German government asks that government to help and given the good political relations between the two countries it would like to do so. When the situation is reversed, the Foreign Office or the German government too have no choice but to refer to the independence of the courts. After all, a disagreement between a married couple or divorced parents as to who should have custody of their common children is a private (family law) matter, not a foreign policy issue.
Types of Legal Proceedings
As is the case in Germany, the police of a foreign state cannot act solely on the basis of a decision handed down by the court of another country. In principle there are two possible legal options. It is wise to discuss these options with an attorney to determine which is the most promising.
If a decision has been handed down by a German court concerning the right of custody of a child and the right to determine the child's place of residence, the duly entitled parent can attempt to have this decision recognized and declared enforceable by the court of the country to which the children have been taken. Without the successful conclusion of these proceedings a German court decision is not binding in the foreign country.
Another option is to bring an action for custody of the children before the competent court in the state to which the children have been taken with the aim of securing their return on the basis of the ruling by the foreign court.
The Foreign Office's experience with these options is that both are time-consuming and expensive. In most cases the people concerned will need the help of a local attorney. The German embassy or consulate abroad may upon request and without obligation furnish addresses of attorneys (many of whom speak German). The staff of the German missions abroad themselves are not empowered to represent the interests of German nationals before the courts. Court and attorney's fees cannot be assumed by the Foreign Office or the missions abroad.
Special Rules for European Union Member States (Excluding Denmark)
EC Regulation No. 1347 (Brussels II) has amended the procedure for recognizing and enforcing judgements (orders, decisions) on matters of parental responsibility of spouses (right of custody for common and jointly adopted children) as of 1 March 2001. Any judgements on these matters taken in the course of divorce, separation or annulment proceedings are now automatically recognized in the other EU member states without any special procedure being required. For such a judgement to be enforced, it must also be enforceable in the member state in which it was made. It still has to be served properly, and will only be enforced when, on application of any interested party, it has been declared enforceable in the member state in which enforcement is sought.
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction on 25 October 1980, mentioned below, takes precedence over the Brussels II Regulation, insofar as it governs matters covered by the Regulation. The courts must therefore exercise their jurisdiction in accordance with the Hague Convention.
Foreign Law Regulates Many Things Differently than German Law
The German missions abroad have only very limited options if the children abducted are also nationals of the state in which they are staying. The authorities there will then regard and treat the children exclusively as citizens of that country; whether or not the children also have German nationality is completely immaterial. This position is taken by all states (including Germany). Thus provision of assistance by the German missions abroad is virtually ruled out and in practice nearly impossible. This applies above all in those cases in which abducted children have been taken to an Islamic country.
Family law and legal practice in Islamic states assigns primary responsibility for children to the father; as a rule, it is also the father who alone determines in which country and with which persons the children are to grow up. Even though the Islamic view of the relationship between men and women does not observe the principles governing German family law, it must be respected. Efforts by a mother to bring an action for custody of her child in a court in an Islamic country usually have little prospect of success, especially if she is a foreigner and not a Muslim. Only if the father has grossly neglected his duties – by failing to take care of his child, for instance – does the mother have a slightly better chance in some Islamic states.
But even winning custody does not necessarily enable the mother to achieve her goal of taking the child back to Germany. Should she exceptionally be awarded the right of custody, she might only be able to exercise this right in the foreign country at the father's place of domicile, for in most cases the child may not leave that country without the express consent of the father. A German passport or child's travel document in lieu of a passport (Kinderausweis) does not help to resolve this problem.
Out-of-Court Solutions
In view of the difficulties described above and given the uncertain outcome of court proceedings in a foreign country, a consensual settlement between the parents should be sought, if at all possible. Careful consideration must be given to the question of whether time-consuming and costly recourse to the courts is simpler than a meeting of the parents – if necessary with the participation of persons in a position of trust or counselling services – during which both, notwithstanding their personal differences, let themselves be guided by the best interests of the common children. Legal positions – no matter how clear they may be from a German standpoint – are often irrelevant for all practical purposes. Decisions of German courts are useless if they cannot be enforced abroad. Other states claim the sovereign right to take decisions on their own territory through their own authorities and courts, just as Germany does.
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
In order to return abducted children as quickly as possible, a number of states concluded the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction on 25 October 1980. The object of the Convention is to secure the prompt return of children wrongfully removed to or retained in any Contracting State. The return of abducted children is designed to ensure that rights of custody and access are respected. It does not govern parental custody.
At the moment the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction is in force between Germany and the following states:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark (excluding the Faroe Islands and Greenland), Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Macau (which belongs to the PR of China), Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Turkmenistan, the United Kingdom (including the Isle of Man, the Falkland Islands, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Montserrat), the United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
Central Authorities have been designated in each country to implement this Convention. The German Central Authority is the Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof (Public Prosecutor General of the Federal Court of Justice), Adenauerallee 99-103, 53113 Bonn, Tel: +49/228/410-40, Fax: +49/228/410-5050, postal address: Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof, 53169 Bonn. This Authority should be contacted if a child is abducted to one of the aforementioned states. Assistance is free of charge to those in need of help.
On 1 October 2000 a task force was set up in the Federal Ministry of Justice, Jerusalemer Strasse 27, 10117 Berlin, Tel: +49/30-2025-9063, Fax: +49/30-2025-9248, which is concerned with the settlement of conflicts in international parent and child cases. This task force is to provide organizational and professional help to the experts and parliamentarians who are charged with mediating in international conflicts concerning parent and child law. In particular it assists the German-French Parliamentary Mediators Group which has been set up by the Ministries of Justice of Germany and France with a view to resolving binational conflicts regarding rights of custody.
European Custody Convention
The European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children and on Restoration of Custody of Children of 20 May 1980 (Custody Convention) entered into force for Germany in 1991 and is currently applicable vis-à-vis the following states:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark (excluding the Faroe Islands and Greenland), Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, the Republic of Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom (including the Isle of Man, the Falkland Islands, the Cayman Islands and Montserrat).
This European Convention primarily governs the recognition and enforcement of judicial and administrative decisions on custody and access. The Convention thus does not only cover cases of child abduction, but also other custody cases.
Pursuant to the Convention, every decision regarding custody taken in a state which is Contracting Party must be recognized and enforced in all other Contracting Parties if it is enforceable in the first state (Article 7). The central authorities designated by the parties (in Germany the Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof in Bonn, as for the Hague Convention) are required to assist applicants, discover the whereabouts of the child and arrange for further legal steps to be taken.
Neither the Hague Convention or the European Custody Convention precludes the application of the other (Art. 34, 2nd sentence of the Hague Convention, Art. 19 of the Custody Convention). The two treaties complement each other and together provide a tried and tested legal framework. In practice, the Hague Convention has proven to be the more effective in bringing about the return of abducted children. In accordance with section 12 of the German Law of 5 April 1990 Implementing the Custody Convention, the Hague Convention is to be applied first, in so far as the applicant does not stipulate otherwise.
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What a wonderful start to the New Year- so many exciting new books coming out.
Emma Carroll's 'Sky Chasers' was the first one to find a place on our book shelves at the shop. on the 1st Feb when Chicken House will bring us the third book 'Battle of the Beetles' in MG Leonard's brilliant Beetle trilogy ('Beetle Boy' , 'Beetle Queen'). 'Skysong' by Abi Elphinstone published by Simon and Schuster is now out and our Book Clubs are currently reading it . We have just popped a window display in to celebrate 'The Light Jar', Lisa Thompson's latest book published by Scholastic.
It's only 14th Jan - i have a good feeling about what's in store this year. I'll make sure I make some headway through my pile of proofs to ensure we keep you posted about the books that are about to be published over the next few months. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,779 |
Johann Rudolph Ahle, född 24 december 1625 i Mühlhausen, Thüringen i Tyskland, död 8 juli 1673, var en tysk tonsättare och evangelisk psalmförfattare. Förutom tonsättare var han också kantor i Erfurt 1646-49, organist och i Mühlhausen från 1654, från 1672 även borgmästare. Han var far till Johann Georg Ahle.
Bland Ahles kompositioner som omfattar flera samlingar andliga konserter, arior och dialoger. Ett urval av hans sånger inklusive en verksförteckning utgavs i Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst (1901).
Ahle finns representerad i Den svenska psalmboken 1986 med tonsättningen av ett verk som används till två psalmer (nr 379 är samma som nr 406) och en tidigare publicerad psalm (1921 nr 555).
Från hans koralbok Viertes Zehn geistlicher Arien 1662, hämtades melodin till Johan Olof Wallins psalm "Jesu namn begynna skall" (1819 nr 65).
Psalmer
Jesu, du, som i din famn (1921 nr 555) tonsatt 1664 och samma som:
Du som var den minstes vän (1819 nr 341, 1986 nr 379)
Käre Jesus, vi är här (1986 nr 406)
Jesus lever, graven brast (ingen svensk psalmbok) tonsatt melodin som publicerades 1687
Jesu namn begynna skall (1819 nr 65) tryckt 1662
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The Story of World War One
Written by Richard Brassey
LoveReading View on The Story of World War One
It began 100 years ago. They said it would be over by Christmas. They were wrong.
Read about the tanks and trenches, bombs and battlefields that make up the chilling story of World War One. Did you know that German Zeppelins were made from cow intestines, the same material as sausage skins, so sausages were banned in Germany? Or that the fighting was stopped on Christmas Day 1914, so that German and British soldiers could play football in no man's land?
Richard Brassey's unique and accessible style has proved enormously popular with children, and this book will provide an easy way to explain the importance of the event to young readers.
The Story of World War One Synopsis
The Story of World War One by Richard Brassey
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Find out some amazing facts about World War One which began 100 years ago from Richard Brassey, author of the successful THE STORY OF THE OLYMPICS. Brassey brings World War One to life in this unique take on the history and events of one of the 20th century's most important episodes. Full of wonderful, full-colour illustrations and interesting stories, this is a timely addition to existing books on the subject that will interest even the most reluctant readers. Illustrated throughout this 24 page book will captivate readers of all ages.
Why not try out some of these questions (answers at the bottom):
1. A man was shot and killed in 1914 and his death was responsible for the start of the war. Who was he?
2. where was the Western Front?
3. Which country invade France?
4. What di the German and British troops do on Christmas Day 1914?
5. Why were trenches zigzagged rather than built in straight lines?
6. What did many British women do while their husband's were away fighting in the war?
7. What is a zeppelin?
8. What is a U-boat?
9. What does Armistice mean?
10. How many people were killed during World War One?
1. Archduke Franz Ferdinand
2. Belgium and France
3. Germany
4. Played Football
5. so that bombs exploding didn't send shrapnel straight along the trench
6. Worked in munitions factories building bombs
7. An airship
8. A submarine
9. Ceasefire
10. Over 16 million
Publisher: Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) an imprint of Orion Publishing Co
Publication date: 5th June 2014
Author: Richard Brassey
Genres: History, Warfare / Battles
Other Categories: The First World War
About Richard Brassey
Richard Brassey is the author and illustrator of a host of colourful and original non-fiction books for children, among them the bestselling Nessie the Loch Ness Monster and The Story of Scotland, which won the TES/Saltire Society Award. He lives in London.
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The Allen Superior Court Drug Court program is a free-standing Problem-Solving Court Program that promotes abstinence, recovery, lasting change and community safety through a coordinated response to offenders who abuse and/or meet criteria for a substance use disorder of alcohol and/or other drugs. The program combines alcohol and drug prevention and/or treatment with the structure and authority of the judiciary by connecting drug court participants to a broad range of services and other necessary treatment interventions. The program takes an innovative non-traditional holistic collaborative approach to prevention and/or treatment within the judicial system in an effort to prevent, curtail, or end the abuse of alcohol or other drug use as well as criminal activity associated with it or triggered by it.
Drug Court derives its authority to operate from IC 33-23-16 and in accordance with Indiana Judicial Conference Problem-Solving Courts Rules. The program receives direct referrals from Allen Superior Court and transferred cases from Allen Circuit Court and surrounding counties. The program may also receive technical violator referrals from Allen County Adult Probation. The targeted population for the program are criminal offenders charged with alcohol/drug related offenses, individuals who are identified as having committed other offenses to support their substance use habit, and certain operating while intoxicated offenses. The program operates as an assessment, referral and supervision agency through the use of intensive case management and judicial monitoring. The Program staff develops assessment-driven therapeutic case management plans that are designed to address identified criminogenic needs of participants. The program uniquely utilizes a system of graduated sanctions for non-compliance and incentives for adhering to program requirements. The overall goal is to attempt to reduce recidivism and to reduce the link between substance abuse and criminal activity by connecting offenders to prevention or treatment services, pro-social and/or adaptive habilitation services, and other adjunctive services (as clientele needs dictate) and guiding them towards long term sobriety and overall life skills development.
Drug Court utilizes a system of incentives and sanctions, the magnitude of which is relevant to risk/needs as well as proximal and distal behaviors. The structure of the program emphasizes and allows for an individualized approach that tailors the dosage of treatment services and other pro-social interventions to one's risk and needs. The Adult Drug Court Best Practice Standards (Vol I & II) along with the 10 Key Components of Drug Courts (as published by the Drug Court Program Office of the United States Department of Justice) provide the operational foundation for the Drug Court program and contributes to the program's implementation of the eight Principles Of Effective Interventions (as published by the National Institute of Corrections).
The program consists of three phases, each of which include minimum goals that must be reached in order to advance to the next phase. The typical period of participation in the program is approximately twelve (12) to eighteen (18) months. The frequency of Court appearances, case manager contacts, community supervision (field visits) and support group meetings is assessment driven and determined by a client's Program Track placement along with the client's level of compliance with their individual Program requirements. Random urinalysis is also an important component of the Program.
Drug Court is a cost-effective benefit to the taxpayer in the long run because it avoids or reduces future criminal justice costs including law enforcement efforts, judicial case-processing, and victimization resulting from future criminal activity. By reducing future criminal justice costs while at the same time facilitating the acquisition or enhancement of academic vocational and pro-social skills development in offenders, not only does the community benefit through future criminal justice cost avoidance but the offender benefits by achieving sobriety and maintaining gainful employment as a tax-paying citizen.
Drug Court is one component of the overall services offered by the Allen Superior Court Criminal Division.
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Q: Dealing with async closure in swift I have a class with init function, which contains URLSession.shared.dataTask(with URL)
It gets some data, modifies it and I want it to be listed in TableView.
In TableView extension of ViewController class file when I am referring to my data object properties, these are all empty, because all code in the closure is running after TableView setup and functions (ex: numberOfRowsInSection).
I tried using DispatchQueue.main.async function but same effect.
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Every year the board conducts its examination for those candidates looking for undergraduate posts. Meanwhile, the board decides even the cut off marks for those applicants taking up the examination. Cut off marks is the minimum qualifying marks contenders must score to get qualified for further rounds. The UCEED Cut Off marks are decided by the board and hence there would be no ambiguity. Those contenders failing to the required qualifying marks will not be allowed to take up further rounds. Hence applicants appearing for exams must prepare well to meet the required qualifying marks.
UCEED Merit List 2018 is prepared by those officials who have taken up the examination. However, the result is prepared by the board and hence there would be no ambiguity. However, the UCEED Exam Results 2018 contains the names of the shortlisted candidates. Only those names of the applicants present in the result sheet can take up further rounds. The UCEED Result 2018 plays a major role for those contenders who have taken up the examination. However to help individuals easily check their results we have provided direct links and steps. Hence stay tuned on our page and check your results here.
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At the end of December 2018, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its selection of 10 pilot projects for the beneficial use of dredged material. The projects are part of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016, Section 1122, which required the Corps to establish the pilot program.
According to the legislation, project selection was based solely on the environmental, economic and social benefits; and diversity in project types and geographical locations. The legislation also exempts projects from federal standards that require dredged material placement selections to represent the least costly alternatives, as beneficial use often adds more cost to projects.
On February 9, 2018, a federal register notice issued a call for proposals, which were accepted through March 12, 2018. The Corps received 95 submissions.
"We didn't really know what to expect," said Joseph Wilson, environmental dredging program manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters, Operations Division. "We never imagined we'd get 95." He said the program would have probably generated more proposals with more time. Both the American Association of Port Authorities and the Dredging Contractors of America contacted the Corps and requested an extension for proposals, which the Corps ultimately declined because of the large response.
"The 95 [proposals] we had were very hard to evaluate," Wilson said. The proposals represent 30 states and one U.S. territory.
Dredged sediment from a federal navigation channel will be used to restore a tidal wetland in San Francisco Bay, in part using tides and current to transport sediment to the marsh plain. The project will augment the sediment supply to mudflats, marshes and breached salt ponds. The shoreline stabilization is a first line of defense against tidal forces.
On the Island of Oahu, sediment from maintenance dredging at the Haleiwa Small Boat Harbor will be used for beach restoration to stabilize the seawall, enhance the eroding shoreline, prevent exposure of a sewage treatment facility, prevent erosion of terrestrial soils that affect water quality and harm coral and marine life, and enhance habitat for benthic and endangered sea turtles and Monk seals.
At Lake Michigan in Illinois, about 70,000 cubic yards of dredged material from the Waukegan Harbor federal channels will be placed at six sites. The project will protect 30 miles of shoreline and provide improved recreational access. The project will enhance shoreline and dune habitat with sand placement, and vegetation plantings will provide habitat for several species of birds.
The Deer Island Lagoon project in Biloxi, Mississippi, will incrementally fill the lagoon to create 100 acres of tidal marsh using fine-grain dredged material from the Biloxi Harbor federal navigation project. The incremental filling encourages natural consolidation, natural forming bottom features and prevents the need to build large containment structures. The sediment will enhance the marsh and a number of endangered species.
Dredged material from federal and state navigation channels would be placed on portions of the Barnegat Inlet to Little Egg Inlet (New Jersey) Shore Protection Project, where offshore sand sources are becoming increasingly scarce. The removal of material would advance maintenance dredging for the federal channel, reduce future navigation costs and create a new habitat island in Barnegat Bay. The project restores marsh habitat for numerous species.
On the northern coast of Puerto Rico, dredged material from the San Juan Harbor navigation project will restore the degraded aquatic ecosystem in Condado Lagoon. Expanded sea grass communities provide valuable nursery habitat in the lagoon, including species with commercial and recreational fishery value.
Dredged material from the Charleston Harbor Post-45 Deepening Project will be placed at the Crab Bank to restore and enhance 80 acres of island at a seabird sanctuary to support shore bird habitat. The material placement will be in a non-uniform pattern to allow for greater topographic variation and therefore greater habitat diversity. The project will provide habitat for several species, including brown pelican, black skimmer and royal tern. Additionally, Crab Bank serves to dissipate wave energy, thus protecting the salt marsh and essential fish habitat.
Dredged material from a portion of the Sabine- Neches Waterway will be placed to restore 1,200 acres of emergent marsh habitat in Sabine, Texas, at the Hickory Cove Marsh Restoration and Living Shoreline project. It will remove sediment left from Hurricane Harvey, which has not been removed due to lack of placement sites. The habitat is important to wintering migratory waterfowl and resident water birds along a 6-mile reach of the waterway at the intersection of the Neches and Sabine Rivers.
In Seattle, Washington, at Grays Harbor, dredged material from the federal navigation channel will be pumped ashore from a hopper dredge to restore the eroded beach and primary dune along the shoreline south. The shoreline placement will also help protect the south jetty. The restored beach will provide habitat for birds and aquatic species.
Dredged material from the Mississippi River Lower Pool 4 will be placed to create aquatic ecosystem habitat in Upper Pool 4, which is largely degraded from sediment deposition caused by material from the Minnesota River. The project also includes dredging of the Bay City federal harbor adjacent to the project area, which was previously not dredged due to a lack of a placement site. The project provides a unique and valuable riverine focus for beneficial use to restore bathymetric diversity to the area impacted by Corps locks and dams.
To evaluate proposals, the Corps formed regional teams and a national interdisciplinary evaluation board of subject matter experts (SMEs). The national board at Corps headquarters included economic and environmental experts, district representatives and those familiar with the Continuing Authorities Program (CAP), which authorizes beneficial use projects through Section 204 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992. The board was entirely Corps employees "to avoid any perception of bias," Wilson said, from outside interest groups. "We were very careful about following the legislation and implementation guidance," he said.
The evaluation process also involved regional teams at local Corps districts. The submission period was limited, and Wilson said a lot of potential applicants didn't get the notice in time. He said the Corps encouraged those that needed more time to submit something by the deadline. The proposals would then go back out into the field to the regional boards in eight Corps division offices, who could help add more substance to the proposals where needed. Regional teams reviewed the projects first and developed a list of eligible projects for further consideration by Corps headquarters.
The Corps implementation guidance, filed January 3, 2018, said existing Corps funds from headquarters were used for the identification and selection process. For each eligible project, the regional teams used available data and its analytical tools for preliminary analysis, estimating costs, environmental impacts, and economic, environmental and social benefits. The teams completed fact sheets for each eligible project, which were submitted to Corps headquarters for further consideration. The teams evaluated projects located in different geographic areas and that served the criteria from WRDA 2016, Section 1122: reduce storm damage to property and infrastructure; promote public safety; protect, restore and create aquatic ecosystem habitat; stabilize stream systems and enhance shorelines; promote recreation; support risk management adaptation strategies; and reduce the costs of dredging and dredged material placement, such as projects that use sediment for construction of fill material, civic improvement objectives or other innovative uses and placement alternatives that produce public economic or environmental benefits.
• ensuring that the use of dredged material is consistent with all applicable environmental laws.
In the First Sort, the team compared proposals against the criteria in the legislation to choose a subset for consideration. Proposals were scored using a set of scoring definitions to assess how well the proposal met each consideration. Proposals were scored independently by five evaluators, and the highest scoring proposals were identified and compared. "There was considerable congruence within the approximate top third of each evaluator's scores," the EA/FONSI document said.
While the legislation required the selection of projects be based on their environmental, economic and social benefits, and required geographic diversity, it was not possible to develop a scoring method for these measures. Instead, the SMEs with specific experience evaluating projects assigned impact ratings in each of the three areas.
River, and projects in Hawaii and Puerto Rico," according to the EA/FONSI.
authorization yet. Wilson said they will likely seek appropriations under the CAP, Section 204. A few of the projects are already in the CAP program. "We have some guidance on how to implement the recommendations, how to evaluate the proposals and how to put them into the cue for CAP funding," Wilson said.
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Q: You tube API for editing videos Is You tube API methods allow to edit videos or merge videos dynamically while uploading videos directly?
A: No you can't. Read this http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_direct_uploading.html
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Who doesn't like to dance on the dance floor with the disco ball shimmering above them? Prepare to bust out your best moves in Party King! Use your finger to make your way across the dance floor and pick up some lucky ladies. Bring them to the arrow that appears on the floor and get ready for the party to start! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,788 |
Radio Tower #21: Larry Davidson
Life has taken Larry Davidson from a bodega in Spanish Harlem to a vineyard in Aquebogue and many places in between. Through it all, his keen mind and relentless curiosity have helped him forge a career in broadcasting as an interviewer of authors, singer songwriters, politicians, and more. He's worked on WGBB and Cablevision as well as on a number of well-received series conducted at libraries and other cultural centers around the region. His latest is a foray into podcasting with The Artful Periscope.
Join us on a trip through Larry's life. We'll meet Long Island broadcasters past and present, prominent authors such as Nelson Demille and Pete Hamill, and musicians like Woody, Arlo, and Sarah Lee Guthrie. Along the way we talk about everything from podcasting to early soap operas to the mind of the long distance runner.
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Honourable Tony Nwulu, a member of the House of Representatives and governorship candidate of the UPP, on Tuesday, September 11, picked up his nomination form in the party headquarters in Abuja.
Nwulu, 39, is the sponsor of the Not Too Young To Run bill in the green chambers that was subsequently passed by President Muhammadu Buhari, opening up the political space for young politicians in the 2019 elections and beyond.
He promised to liberate Imolites "and restore our pride of existence" as he begins his quest to govern the south-east state in 2019.
Addressing supporters during the event, Honourable Nwulu said: "I seek your prayers in your daily devotions and support. There shall indeed be showers of blessings; seasons refreshing; precious reviving and sounds of abundance when we assume office.
"I bring message of hope to the unemployed youths, the deprived pensioners and the oppressed people of Imo state. I am confident that together we'll emerge victorious. We are one people, one destiny. With eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we shall carry on this great task of rebuilding Imo state and deliver it safely to future generations."
Similarly, 39-year-old Oluseyi Olowookere has joined the race to be the number one citizen of Ogun state in 2019 under the Alliance for Democracy (AD).
Olowookere, an electrical engineer, announced his decision to succeed Governor Ibikunle Amosun recently, while addressing supporters of the AD in Ogun state. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,790 |
GRIP can be used to locate goals for the FIRST Stronghold by using a series of thresholding and finding contours. This page describes the algorithm that was used. You should download the set of sample images from the WPILib project on http://usfirst.collab.net. The idea is to load up all the images into a multi image source and test your algorithms by cycling through the pictures.
Click the Add images button to create the multi-image source, then select all the images from the directory where they were unzipped.
I decided that in this example the images were too big and would work just as well if they were resized. That may or may not but true, but it made the pictures small enough to capture easily for this set of examples. You can decide based on your processor and experience whether you want to resize them or not. The images are previewed by pressing the preview button shown above.
Changing the scale factor by 0.5 reduces the images to 1/4 the number of pixels and makes processing go much faster, and as said before, fits much better for this tutorial. In this example, the full size image preview is turned off and the smaller preview image is turned on. And, the output of the image source is sent to the resize operation.
Since the targets were illuminated with a constant color ringlight, it's possible to do a threshold operation to detect only the pixels that are that color. What's left is a binary image, that is an image with 1's where the color matched the parameters and 0's where it didn't. By narrowing the H, S, and L parameters, only the target is included in the output image. You can see that the there are some small artifacts left over, but mostly, it is just the vision targets in the frame.
Now we can find contours in the image - that is looked for connected sets of pixels and the surrounding box. Notice that 17 contours were found that included all the smaller artifacts in the image. It's helpful to select the Color Contours checkbox to more distinctly color them to see exactly what was detected.
Filtering the contours with a minimum area of 400 pixels gets down to a single contour found. Setting these filters can reduce the number of artifacts that the robot program needs to deal with.
The Publish ContoursReport step will publish the selected values to network tables. A good way of determining exactly what's published is to run the Outline Viewer program that's one of the tools in the <username>/wpilib/tools directory after you installed the eclipse plugins.
Reducing the minimum area from 400 to 300 got both sides of the tower targets, but for other images it might let in artifacts that are undesirable.
In some of the images, the two faces were slightly different colors. One way of handling this case is to open up the parameters enough to accept both, but that has the downside of accepting everything in between. Another way to solve this is to have two separate filters, one for the first color and one for the second color. Then two binary images can be created and they can be ORd together to make a single composite binary image that includes both. That is shown in this step. The final pipeline is shown here. A dilate operation was added to improve the quality of the results which adds additional pixels around broken images to try to make them appear as a single object rather than multiple objects. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 1,791 |
package lightning
import (
"os"
"os/signal"
"syscall"
"github.com/pingcap/tidb/br/pkg/lightning/log"
"go.uber.org/zap"
)
// handleSigUsr1 listens for the SIGUSR1 signal and executes `handler()` every time it is received.
func handleSigUsr1(handler func()) {
ch := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
signal.Notify(ch, syscall.SIGUSR1)
go func() {
for sig := range ch {
log.L().Debug("received signal", zap.Stringer("signal", sig))
handler()
}
}()
}
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Are you unable to scroll in Chrome or mouse scroll wheel not working in Chrome browser? Learn how to fix Google Chrome scrolling not working in Windows 10 PC.
Scrolling is that one thing which people do the most when it comes to Internet browsing.
Since Google Chrome is one of the most popular sources of web search, many users of the Chrome web browser have encountered the problem of mouse scroll wheel not working in Chrome on Windows 10 operating system.
If the mouse scroll wheel not working problem is occurring for other web browsers and programs as well, it means your mouse device may have some problem.
But if you are unable to scroll in Chrome browser only and it's working fine on other browsers and programs then probably, there is something wrong with the Google Chrome browser and you need to get it right.
Google Chrome browser scrolling problem apparently only takes place when the modern user interface is used for Chrome. There have been no issues detected upon using the browser in desktop mode.
In this tutorial, we have jotted down some most helpful suggestions for fixing the Google chrome scrolling issues such as Google chrome scrolling not working properly or Chrome stops scrolling etc.
Restarting computer should be the most obvious and the first thing for any user. At times, all your computer needs is a simple restart to refresh or to finish some unfinished procedures. So, before doing anything or applying any solutions to fix Google chrome scrolling issue, simply restart your PC and probably the problem will be gone.
In many cases, the browser extensions are the main culprit that ruin your browsing experience. So if the scroll wheel not working problem arises as soon as you install a certain Google Chrome extension, you can try disabling the extension you have added currently.
Once you disable that particular chrome extension, it is quite evident that the Google Chrome not scrolling issue in Windows 10 will be fixed. And if the Chrome browser scrolling problem is still there, then you can disable all Chrome extensions of yours and see the results.
If the problem does not go away with the above methods, you can try to restore default settings in the Chrome. By resetting the Google Chrome browser, everything will be changed to its default settings as well as cookies and browsing data will also be cleared.
Resetting Google Chrome to default settings will assist in resolving several types of Chrome issues, including when Chrome stops scrolling and mouse scroll wheel not working in chrome.
First of all, open Google Chrome browser on your Windows 10 computer.
At the top right, click on the Menu (three vertical dots) and then Settings option.
At the bottom of the Chrome Settings page, click on the Advanced option.
Now under the Reset and clean up section, click on the Restore settings to their original defaults option.
Now the Reset settings pop up will appear on the screen, simply click on the Reset settings button.
After resetting Chrome settings to default, relaunch the Chrome browser and see whether the issue is solved or not.
If you are often getting the mouse scroll wheel not working issue in your Chrome browser, there are high chances that you might also be coming across "Chrome Pages Unresponsive" and "Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage." issues too.
This might be the result of third-party services, programs or specific browser extensions. Therefore, to fix the Google chrome scrolling not working issue on your Windows 10 computer, use the Chrome Cleanup Tool (formerly known as Software Removal Tool) which is a free Windows program designed by the Google.
When you download and run Chrome Cleanup Tool on your PC, it will scan your computer for programs that cause problems in Google Chrome. And if any unwanted programs are found, it will alert you and wait for you to remove them from your system.
Once the problematic programs are removed, it will reset Google Chrome back to its default settings.
At first, go to Windows 10 Settings and select Devices > Mouse option.
Next, disable the option which says Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them.
Now wait for a few seconds and then enable it again.
Repeat this action three or four times and then check if the mouse scroll wheel working perfectly on Chrome.
First of all, open Control Panel in Windows 10 and then from the All Control Panel Items, select "Mouse" option.
On the Mouse Properties dialog box, go to the "Lenovo" tab and then click on the "Advanced Properties" button.
Now on the Advanced Properties dialog box, go to the "Wheel" section and make sure the "Enable Universal Scrolling" option is selected.
Here, click on the "Exceptions" button and then in the next screen that pops up, add Chrome to the exceptions list.
Thus, you can easily enable universal scrolling on Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 operating system in order to fix Google chrome browser scrolling problem.
Once you follow all these solutions one by one on your system, the mouse scrolling wheel will start working in Chrome. And if all these above-explained methods did not work for you then reinstall Google Chrome browser.
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The Grant County Historical Society meets the third Monday of each month in Williamstown. Contact [email protected] for more.
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