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We have a team of qualified personnel who are committed to providing excellent programming for children. LASER is directed by an Executive Director and overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors. During the school year, we offer a licensed after-school enrichment program for children attending kindergarten through sixth grades. On in-service days during the school year, vacation periods, and over the summer, we offer day camp for children ages 5-12. We also offer other fun and engaging events including Parent Night Outs, Family Nights, Curriculum Nights, and more! A staff-to-child ratio of 1:10 is our goal at all times. This allows staff to focus individually on each child's needs. For more information about our policies and practices please read our LASER Parent Handbook.

Q: Invalid option value for attribute "size" in row I am getting 2 below errors, please help me to sort out this issue * *Value for 'size' attribute contains an incorrect value, see acceptable values on settings specified for Admin in the row(s): *Invalid option value for attribute "size" in row(s): i have mentioned size attributes in "additional_attributes" ,"configurable_variations" column. and same as in Back-end as well I am attaching a screenshot for your reference Thanks in advanced. kk A: Please check line number: 2311 in csv where size attribute is missing and same you can find out for price attribute.after all value correct than import csv again.

Home Industries 'Roadmap to Freedom' cautiously welcomed by Property Council 'Roadmap to Freedom' cautiously welcomed by Property Council Luke Achterstraat has called for a collaborative approach to tackle the further reopening of the economy. Image – Linkedin and Canva. This week, relaxed restrictions will be in place for those fully vaccinated This includes home visitors and the opening of hospitality venues Property Council welcomed the announcement, but called for clearer pathways With the New South Wales government recently announcing its roadmap of relaxed restrictions for the fully vaccinated, the NSW division of the Property Council of Australia (PCA) has cautiously welcomed the plan. From Monday, as Australia's largest state passes the 70% double vaccination target, certain gatherings will be allowed such as five visitors into a home where all adults are vaccinated. Additionally, hospitality venues can also reopen subject to the one person per four square metre density along with various other restrictions, although masks will remain mandatory in indoor venues and public transport regardless of vaccination status. Those who can work from home will be encouraged to remain doing so. "This roadmap gives us the light at the end of the tunnel we all want and will enable our economy to start firing again, driving our state back to prosperity," said Treasurer Dominic Perrottet. Further freedoms will be announced once the state hits 80%, which possibly includes international travel, sporting and major events. Luke Achterstraat, NSW Property Council Executive Director, said with the high vaccination rate, he welcomed the announcement. "However, further details will need to be determined including policy settings that prioritise economic recovery," said Mr Achterstraat. "We look forward to working with Government on advancing plans for the reactivation of our CBD and the re-opening of construction worksites. CBDs cannot be reactivated until workers are going back to offices to breathe life into our cities." Luke Achterstraat, NSW Property Council He added that a collaborative process was needed to address reactivation, especially given office occupancy in Sydney is just 4%. A few months ago, $100 restaurant vouchers were offered to help stimulate activity in the CBD. "Investment in attracting people back to the city and to public spaces is critical to ensuring Sydney and our other CBDs, the economic powerhouses of the state, are able to once again thrive," he said. "Activating open-air spaces across our cities is a way forward to bring back that confidence and to encourage the foot traffic back into those hard hit areas and providing entertainment in the spring air." Clearer path for construction Mr Achterstraat concluded his remarks by stating that the construction industry needs to have a clearer path towards a full reopening. "With worksite capacity capped at 50%, the ability for NSW to create jobs and homes currently has a handbrake applied to it. "With much of the economic recovery from last year's lockdown being underwritten by the property industry, it is critical that the industry is provided the right policy setting to underwrite the recovery as part of the roadmap announced today."

Soweto business owners praise Richard Maponya for helping them grow Maponya was passionate about business and developing skills in areas that were largely neglected. Late South African businessman Richard Maponya. Picture: Linkedin @UniversityofJohannesburg Richard Maponya Richard Maponya dies Business icon Richard Maponya Edwin Ntshidi | 15 days ago JOHANNESBURG - The late Richard Maponya is being remembered in Soweto by those he inspired with small business owners describing him as a selfless individual who helped others to grow. Maponya died in the early hours of Monday morning following a short illness. He was 99. The man that some christened "the grandfather of Soweto business" spent the better part of his life investing in the township, even opening the multi-million rand mall that bore his name. And throughout the years he inspired many. Tebogo Mohlamabe is a small business owner who runs a fast food joint in Diepkloof. "Ntate Maponya was one of our mentors in South Africa, a black businessman." Mike Ndaba is a new entrepreneur who started a barbershop 12 months ago. He credits Maponya for his inspiration and where he would like to take his business in the future. "Maponya has encouraged us a lot so we can also grow. He has built us a mall - we used to go to town but now we just walk." Many people have spoken with pride about the business icon who always looked out for those below him, even when he rose through the ranks. Motsuenyane urges Nafcoc to create unity in its ranks Musical legends pay tribute to Richard Maponya Dr Richard Maponya: A hero, sweet grandfather and legend of black business Ramaphosa: Maponya was a soldier for the economic emancipation of his people

Last October, I wrote about local sculptor James Hall III, who has created many pieces in and around Springfield, including several bronzes at Close Memorial Park, Drury and OTC. At the time, the Glendale and Missouri State graduate was working on a 13-foot-tall bronze equestrian piece titled "Marechaussee" for the Memorial Grove at Fort Leonard Wood. Hall said he planned to have the piece in place by September 2016. Hall's plans have indeed worked out, and this Monday, "Marechaussee" will be dedicated as a kickoff to Regimental Week at the Fort, which will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the military police corps. Marechaussee, who is a Revolutionary War-era mounted soldier, started his life long before I wrote about him a year ago. Hall has been working on the piece for some four years. Starting with blocks of insulation foam attached to a metal armature, Hall carved the horse and rider from the foam, then did detail work on the pair with a mixture of concrete and Elmer's glue, he said. That was just the beginning, however. After many sleepless nights for Hall, worrying about how to accomplish what would come next, a friend of his "forklifted the entire horse and rider and took it to Gordon's Fabrication near Willard," he said. The company does a lot of work for Bass Pro, Hall added, and they cut the sculpture into "probably 50 pieces," then encased it in a rigid fiberglass mold. Next, the molds were filled with wax, and all that was taken to a foundry in Lawrence, Kansas. "They dipped each piece of wax into a slurry, almost like breading okra," Hall said, harking back to his Memphis roots to find an apt description of the process. Next, the foundry cast the pieces in bronze about 3/16" thick, welded them together and added a patina to finish the 3,000-pound piece. Now the sculpture was complete, but Hall's next headache was moving Marechaussee along the interstate to its final home. It turned out to be a lot easier than he had imagined. "I was sort of giggling at how easy it was to move," Hall said. He had heard of a heavy hauling company in Olathe, and they picked up the sculpture, checked the height of all the bridges along the way and off they went with Hall following in a second vehicle. Now the work is in place, lifted from the truck by crane, to its permanent home at Fort Leonard Wood. It will be officially dedicated Monday morning as part of Memorial Grove's annual remembrance of military police who have died over the past year.

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Categories Blog T-shirt Maker PRICING Editables Vectors PSDs PNGs Latest Featured Trending Licensing & Subscriptions On December 2016 VectorOpenStock has become Vexels. Since then all VectorOpenStock copyrights belong to Vexels. All licenses aquired to VectorOpenStock from 2009 to 2016 are still valid. It is then desirable but not mandatory to change attribution links to 'Vexels.com'. It is just a change of domain, the owners and team behind remains the same. 1.1. These Terms of Use (the "Terms") for the website https://www.vexels.com (the "Website") constitute a legal agreement between the user ("you", "your", and "user") of the Website and Vexels Inc. S.A. (the "Company", "Vexels", "we", "us", and "our"). The Website is owned and operated by the Company. 1.2 By using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read the Terms and agree to be bound by them. If you do not agree to one or more provision of the Terms, please do not use the Website. 2. 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You are allowed to copyright your logo that has been created using the Graphics, however, such a copyright will cover only your unique logo design and will not prevent other Vexels' customers from using that particular item of the Graphics in their projects. 2.7 Editorial Use. The Editorial Use refers to physical or digital publications that are intended for using only in relation to events that are newsworthy or of general interest to public, including, but not limited to, books, e-books, textbooks, magazines, newspapers, guides, and blogs. 3. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND INDIVIDUAL LICENSES: LIMITS AND REGULATIONS 3.1 Each type of the Individual Licenses and the Subscriptions offered by Vexels have different limits and regulations that depend on the intended use of the Graphics. 3.2 The table below provides an overview of the limits and regulations applicable to each type of use of the Graphics in relation to the types of the Individual Licenses and Subscriptions available through the Website. INDIVIDUAL LICENSES Merch Subscription Merch Lifetime Subscription Business Lifetime Subscription 10,000 prints 200,000 prints 10,000 prints per Graphic 200,000 prints per Graphic No limitations No limitations 5,000 prints, lifetime 1000 prints per Graphic during the subscription period 5,000 prints per Graphic during the subscription period 200 prints per Graphic during the subscription period 30 per day, up to 200 per month 300 per day, up to 2,000 per month 30 per day, up to 200 per month 300 per day, up to 2000 per month These Terms and Conditions apply to purchases made after June 2018. Users who purchased the Pro plan before June 1st of 2018 maintain their benefits and their licences don't change. 3.3.1 Vexels offers three types of Individual Licenses, namely, the Standard License the Extended License and the Merch Lifetime License. The Individual Licenses grant you the right to use a single and specific Graphic downloaded through the Website. Under the Individual Licenses, Vexels grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive and non-sublicensable right to use the Graphics. The Individual Licenses are not subject to an expiration term. The Individual Licenses do not require you to attribute Vexels. 3.3.2 Standard License. The Standard License allows you to use the Graphics for the purposes of all five types of uses listed below without giving a specific attribution to Vexels. The Standard License is not subject to an expiration date. The payment for the Standard License is charged by Vexels per Graphic to be licensed under the Standard License. Permitted uses and coverage for the Standard License: Advertising Use. Limitation: up to 10,000 copies/prints/runs of the Graphic licensed under the Standard License can be utilized for the Advertising Use. Each Graphic licensed under the Standard License can be featured on TV broadcasts. Consumer Merchandise Use. Not allowed. Template Use. Limitation: up to 200 sales of templates containing a Graphic licensed under the Individual Standard License are permitted. Mobile apps & Software Use: no limitations. Logos & Corporate Identity Use: no limitations. Editorial use. Limitation: up to 10,000 copies of a Graphic licensed under the Individual Standard License can be made. 3.3.3 Extended License. The Extended License allows a larger number of prints/runs/copies of the item of the Graphics than the Standard License. The Extended License is not subject to an expiration term. The payment for the Extended License is charged one time for each Graphic licensed under the Extended License. Permitted uses and coverage for the Extended License: Advertising Use. Limitation: up to 200,000 copies/prints/runs of a Graphic licensed under the Extended License can be utilized for the Advertising Use. Each Graphic licensed under the Extended License can be featured on TV broadcasts. Consumer Merchandise Use. Limitation: up to 5,000 merchandise items containing a Graphic licensed under the Extended License can be sold. Template Use. Limitation: up to 5,000 sales of templates containing a Graphic licensed under the Extended License are permitted. Editorial use. Limitation: up to 200,000 copies of a Graphic licensed under the Extended License can be made. 3.3.4 Lifetime License. The Lifetime License allows for an unlimited number of prints/runs/copies of a given vector graphic. The Lifetime License is not subject to an expiration term. As of June 2019, Lifetime Licenses are only available for Merch Lifetime Subscribers and Business Lifetime Subscribers and are not eligible for direct purchase. Permitted uses and coverage for the Lifetime License: Advertising Use: no limitations. Graphics licensed under the Lifetime License can be utilized for Advertising Use an unlimited number of times. Graphics licensed under the Lifetime License can be featured on TV broadcasts (with the exception of those graphics stated as EDITORIAL USE). Consumer Merchandise Use: Items containing a Graphic licensed under the Lifetime License can be sold an unlimited number of times for as long as the user wants. Template Use: no limitations. Editorial use: cannot be used for any Commercial or Merch purposes. 3.4 Subscriptions 3.4.1 Types of Subscriptions - Vexels offers Four types of subscriptions: Pro Subscription, Merch Subscription, Business Subscription, and Lifetime Subscription. The payments for the Subscriptions are charged by Vexels on a monthly or annual basis in the case of the first three subscription types mentioned, depending on your preference; in the case of Lifetime subscriptions, the payment is charged only one time. The Subscriptions offer the following benefits: You do not need to give attribution when using the Graphics (you get Royalty-free license); You get access to Premium Graphics exclusive for subscribers; You get direct downloads without captcha and time delays; You get access to the online editor with extra features and no Vexels watermark; You are entitled to a limited number of non-exclusive design requests according to your plan; No ads will be displayed on the Website; and You get priority customer support. Additional or differential benefits may be enabled depending on the type of subscription. 3.4.2 Registration of the Account. In order to sign up for the Subscriptions, you are required to create an account on the Website (the "Account"). 3.4.3 Cancellation of the Subscription. The Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time. The users can opt for a refund only if the cancellation of the Subscriptions is requested within 15 days commencing on the date of signing up for the chosen type of the Subscriptions. The user must have downloaded less than 30 graphics in that time period. If the Subscriptions are cancelled within such a time period of 15 days, the Graphics downloaded by the user will be erased from the Account and become unavailable. 3.4.4 Subscriptions for the Consumer Merchandise Use. In order to utilize the Graphics for the Consumer Merchandise Use, the users are required to have an active Subscription. In case a user would like to cancel the Subscriptions but prefers to keep using a specific Graphic, the user can purchase Extended Individual Licenses that allow the Consumer Merchandise Use for the specific Graphic. 3.4.5 Pro Subscription. The Pro Subscription is intended for freelancers and small-scale businesses, such as small marketing and advertising agencies, graphic designers, and other similar organizations. Each Pro Subscription can be utilized by 1 registered user only. The Pro Subscription allows users to download up to 30 Graphics per day. The total monthly limit applicable to Pro Subscriptions is 200 Graphics per month. Each Graphic download generates a license certificate that is accessible through the Account. Permitted uses and coverage for the Pro Subscription: Advertising Use. Limitation: up to 10,000 copies/prints/runs of a Graphic licensed under the Pro Subscription can be utilized for the Advertising Use. The Graphics licensed under the Pro Subscription can be featured on TV broadcasts. Template Use. Limitation: up to 200 sales of templates containing a Graphic licensed under the Pro Subscription are permitted. Please note that an active Subscription account is required for the Template Use. Editorial use. Limitation: up to 10,000 copies of a Graphic licensed under the Pro Subscription can be made. 3.4.6 Merch Subscription. The Merch Subscription is intended for merchandise or apparel sellers. Each Merch Subscription can be utilized by 1 registered user only. The Merch Subscription allows users to download up to 30 Graphics per day. The total monthly limit applicable to Merch Subscriptions is 200 Graphics per month. Each Graphic download generates a license certificate that is accessible through the Account. Permitted uses and coverage for the Merch Subscription: Advertising Use. Limitation: up to 10,000 copies/prints/runs of a Graphic licensed under the Merch Subscription can be utilized for the Advertising Use. The Graphics licensed under the Merch Subscription can be featured on TV broadcasts. Consumer Merchandise Use. Limitation: up to 1000 merchandise items containing each Graphic licensed under the Merch Subscription can be sold. Please note that a valid Subscriptions account is required for the Consumer Merchandise Use. 3.4.7 Business Subscription. The Business Subscription is intended for use in medium-to-large-scale businesses, such as large merchandise sellers, medium to large marketing and advertising agencies, and other similar organizations. The Business Subscription can be used by up to 15 users affiliated to one company or organization. The Business Subscription has a daily download limit of 300 Graphics per day. The total monthly limit applicable to the Business Subscription is 2,000 Graphics per month. Each Graphic download generates a License Certificate that is accessible through the Account. Permitted uses and coverage for the Business Subscription: Advertising Use. Limitation: up to 200,000 copies/prints/runs of a Graphic licensed under the Business Subscription can be utilized for the Advertising Use. The Graphics licensed under the Business Subscription can be featured on TV broadcasts. 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These musicians, who lived on and around Dockery Farms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, invented a new style of singing and playing guitar. At Dockery Farms, they sang, played, and wrote the haunting songs that influenced music from jazz to rock & roll. Soulful, fiery and heartfelt, the delta blues began a tradition of a uniquely American style of music. This mysterious forefather and likely founder of the delta blues taught Charley Patton everything he knew. Father of the delta blues, teacher and influencer to the generation that brought the blues to mainstream America. Proponent of the hollerin' and moanin' school of blues, Eddie "Son" House played alongside Charley on his 1930 records. Legend has it that the most famous of the blues players sold his soul in exchange for his talent at Dockery Farms. Learned to play and entertain from Patton himself and went on to record Patton's Saddle My Pony in 1959. Roebuck "Pops" Staples carried Patton's legacy from the Mississippi lowlands to the stockyards of Chicago. A student of Patton's and a colleague of Johnson, Edwards was the source of many first-hand accounts of the blues. From Dylan, the Stones, Clapton, and Led Zeppelin, to the White Stripes, the Delta Blues have left their mark.

WS2812 based NeoPixel strip modules contain 8 5050 RGB LEDs on a tiny PCB. You can use them as an individual module of 8 LEDs or string together multiple modules end—to—end. Each module has a pair of mounting holes. Use only one microcontroller pin to control as many as you can chain together! Each LED is addressable as the driver chip is inside the LED. Each one has ~18mA constant current drive so the color will be very consistent even if the voltage varies, and no external choke resistors are required making the design slim. Power the whole thing with 5VDC (4-7V works). The LEDs are chainable by connecting the output of one stick into the input of another. There is a single data line. Since the protocol is very sensitive to timing, it requires a real-time microconroller such as an AVR, Arduino or PIC. An 8MHz or faster processor is required.

Q: C++ how can I refactor this? I have the code below in my test code in many places: // // Make a function call while expecting an exception should be thrown // bool exceptionThrown = false; try { expectNotEqual(someData, anotherData, methodName); } catch(std::logic_error&) { exceptionThrown = true; } if(!exceptionThrown) throw std::logic_error(methodName+"exception not thrown"); It would be nice (more readable, concise) if I could encapsulate all that, and do something like: exceptionShouldBeThrown(expectNotEqual(someData, anotherData, methodName)); I dont want to use macro ...does anyone know how I could achieve the one-liner above with C++? A: Exceptions are for things that are exceptional. That is, something you wouldn't expect during run time, e.g., out of memory error. You don't want to use an exception to test for common things at run time. Just have expectNotEqual return a true/false on success: if (expectNotEqual(someData, anotherData, methodName)) { //handle success } else { //handle failure (which would include someData==anotherData) } A: I know you say no macro's, but why? They exist for generating code: #define SHOULD_THROW(x, name) \ { \ bool didThrow = false; \ try \ { \ x; \ } \ catch(...) { didThrow = true; } \ \ if (!didThrow) \ throw std::logic_error(name " did not throw."); \ } SHOULD_THROW(expectNotEqual(someData, anotherData), "expectNotEqual") If you really don't want to use macros, you need to make a functor to call: template <typename Func> void should_throw(Func pFunc, const std::string& pName) { bool didThrow = false; try { pFunc(); } catch (...) { didThrow = true; } if (!didThrow) throw std::logic_error(pName + " did not throw."); } Boost Bind helps here: should_throw(boost::bind(expectNotEqual, someData, anotherData), "expectNotEqual"); Of course anything that makes a functor works, like lambda's, etc. But if Boost is available, just use their testing library: #define BOOST_TEST_MAIN #include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp> BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test) { BOOST_CHECK_THROW(expectNotEqual(someData, anotherData) , std::logic_error); }

This 1,277 square foot single family home features 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and is situated on a 4,792 square foot (0.11 acre) lot. It is located in the community of Sun City Macdonald Ranch in Henderson on 543 Towering Vista Place. The MLS number is 2073593 and the parcel number is 178-29-612-061. This listing became available on 02-26-2019 and is currently for sale. The full public address for this listing is 543 Towering Vista Place, Henderson, Nevada 89012. 543 Towering Vista Place, Henderson, Nevada 89012 is a courtesy listing of Stanley J King at Wardley Real Estate. I am interested in 543 Towering Vista Place.

Stories from Saturday, October 20, 2012 Scanner for Oct. 20, 2012 (Police Logs ~ 10/20/12) County Jail On Friday, Oct. 19 at 12:16 a.m. Kenneth Michael Finchum, 33, Greencastle, was booked into the Putnam County Jail for domestic battery, strangulation and intimidation. City Police A two-vehicle mishap on the west side of the courthouse square Thursday afternoon caused about a 30-minute traffic back-up but minimal damage to the two trucks involved, Greencastle City Police reported... Eagles Auxiliary donates to burn camp (Local News ~ 10/20/12) The Greencastle Eagles Auxiliary raised $1,304 to help Abate Region No. 6 with its fundraiser for Hoosier Burn Camp. Abates total donation was more than $3,400. Present for the donation were Eagles treasurer Sue Mitchell, secretary Jody Proctor, trustees Jessie Mitchell, Terry Tuttle and Abate Putnam County president Danny Wallace... Antioch Baptist Church to host Creation Evidence Expo (Local News ~ 10/20/12) The Antioch Baptist Church is hosting the Creation Evidence Expo on the Road on Sunday, Nov. 4. The expo will be presented free of charge at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. The Creation Evidence Expo was founded by Pastor Fredrick Boyd in 2005. The purpose of the expo is to show how the current scientific evidence supports the conclusion that God created man... Porter - 90th Birthday (Births ~ 10/20/12) Elva Mae (O'Hair) Porter will celebrate her 90th birthday on Thursday, Nov. 8. She was born Nov. 8, 1922 in Morton. Elva Mae wishes for her friends and relatives to call or write to wish her a happy birthday. First Baptist Church to host Life Line screenings slated for Nov. 19 (Local News ~ 10/20/12) First Baptist Church will host a stroke and osteoporosis screening from Life Line Screening on Monday, Nov. 19. The church is located at 404 Judson Drive. Screening packages start at $149 and all five screenings will take about 60-90 minutes to complete... Hot Pursuit (Local News ~ 10/20/12) Members of the Putnam County Fraternal Order of Police recently participated in the Terre Haute Hot Pursuit benefit 5K run. The run/walk is a benefit event for the Indiana Chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors and had 163 participants. NY Times columnist, author Freedman to give Mendenhall Lecture Tuesday at DePauw (Local News ~ 10/20/12) Samuel G. Freedman, a New York Times columnist, award-winning author and professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, will present the 2012 Mendenhall Lecture at DePauw University on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Freedman's speech, "Dirty Knees on the Campaign Trail: Religion in the 2012 Presidential Election," is set for 7:30 p.m. in Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church. Everyone is invited to attend the free presentation... Norberg to speak Thursday at Purdue Club Dinner Program (Local News ~ 10/20/12) John Norberg, a Lafayette journalist and author of books on Purdue University history and achievements, will speak Thursday, Oct. 25 at a dinner sponsored by the Purdue Club of Putnam County. The 6:30 p.m. dinner and program at Autumn Glen in Greencastle is open to the public... Boy Scout 'perversion files' include two local cases (Local News ~ 10/20/12) Among the 14,500 pages of documents released in the so-called Boy Scout "perversion files" were two local cases of alleged sexual abuse. The file contains two alleged cases of abuse by a Scout leader in Cloverdale. No names or further details of the incidents are given, only that the files regarding the Cloverdale cases were created in 1998... Putnam jobless rate working its way toward respectability (Local News ~ 10/20/12) If the Putnam County jobless rate were a work zone, the sign of the times might well be: Under construction. It continues, after all, to be a work in progress that has gotten progressively better each of the past two months. Putnam County continued to post some major improvement on the unemployment front Friday as the Indiana Department of Workforce Development released its latest monthly jobless figures... Redistricting lawsuit sent to insurance company (Local News ~ 10/20/12) BAINBRIDGE -- A week after being sued, the representatives from North Putnam are no closer to rectifying the issue, or determining a new course of action. The North Putnam School Board was sued last Thursday for failing to redistrict in an effort to balance the population of the voter districts in the corporation... Raymond Francis Peck (Obituary ~ 10/20/12) Raymond (Ray) Francis Peck, 67, of Indianapolis, passed away at home on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, with Kathy, his devoted wife of 46 years, and his loving family by his side. Ray was born on July 12, 1945 to Frank and Marie (Owens) Peck. Ray and Kathy were married on July 23, 1966 at St. Christopher Church... GHS boys' basketball holding meeting (High School Sports ~ 10/20/12) Greencastle boys' head basketball coach Troy Greenlee will be holding a call out meeting for parents of all boys' grades 9-12 wanting to participate in the high school boys' basketball program this winter. The meeting will take place Oct. 23 at 6:30 p.m. inside McAnally Center. It will last approximately 30 minutes and will cover key information regarding tryouts and the season... Cougars season ends at the hands of Sparkplugs (High School Sports ~ 10/20/12) SPEEDWAY -- Speedway left the WCC in 2009, yet North Putnam has managed to find a way to play their Indianapolis rivals in every year since then, winning the last three meetings in a row. Friday night, the schools met again in the opening round of IHSAA Class 2A Sectional No. 30... Tiger Cubs roll over Vikings to open sectional (High School Sports ~ 10/20/12) WEST TERRE HAUTE -- The most important thing for the Greencastle Tiger Cubs on Friday night was the win, not the 35-0 final score over the West Vigo Vikings. For this is tournament play and the 10th victory of an unblemished season sends the Tiger Cubs into the second week of Class 3A Sectional 21 play against the Tri-West Bruins... Cloverdale picks up first win in sectional opener (High School Sports ~ 10/20/12) MONTEZUMA -- There are two ways to respond to an 0-9 regular season. Many teams in the Clover's situation would pack it in, allow the disappointing year to doom them and get down on themselves. Cloverdale took the opposite route on Friday, working harder, running faster and playing stronger than it has all year... South Putnam falls to Broad Ripple, 34-21 (High School Sports ~ 10/20/12) Entering the postseason at 7-2 and hosting a first round game, South Putnam entered sectional play Friday in a good spot. Unfortunately, the Eagles saw its quest to repeat at Class 2A Sectional No. 30 champions derailed by Indianapolis Broad Ripple... Broadway's David Cryer returning to DePauw to star in 'The Crucible' (Local News ~ 10/20/12) Broadway star and 1958 DePauw University graduate David Cryer will star in a production of "The Crucible" next month at his alma mater. Cryer and his wife, choreographer and actress Britt Swanson, will join a cast of students and local actors Larry Sutton (professor emeritus of communication and theater at DPU) and longtime Putnam County Playhouse regular Jack Randall Earles in the Tony Award-winning play by Arthur Miller... Putnamville horse program reins in donation from Indiana horseman's group (Local News ~ 10/20/12) PUTNAMVILLE -- First, the greyhounds grabbed the spotlight at the Putnamville Correctional Facility (PCF). Now it's horses getting attention and making an impact at the local prison. The PCF Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) and Equine Management program has announced the receipt of a $15,000 donation from the Indiana Horseman's Benevolent and Protection Association (INHBPA)...

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Abstract: I will show that the current derivative of the natural log and the current derivative of 1/x are both wrong. In doing so, I will show the magnificent cheat in the current derivation of dln(x)/dx, embarrassing every living mathematician. I have been prodded by recent events to add an introductory paragraph here, explaining why I would want to attack the calculus. These papers have only been up about a week, but I can already see the firestorm ahead. I come to this problem from physics. In my theoretical research over the last decade, I have come to the conclusion that many of the problems in QED and GR are caused by fundamental and long-standing disclarities in the calculus. These problems include the cause of the need for renormalization, the cause of the failure of unification, and the cause of all the point problems in both QED and GR. All the modern maths are based on the calculus, and a problem with the calculus would infect every manipulation that depends upon it. For this reason, these latest papers are not proof that I am contrary and crazed, they are just one more indication that I have the courage to go where my nose leads me, the consequences be damned. My corrections to the calculus are incomplete and will remain incomplete for many months or years, no doubt. But since the calculus has been incomplete for centuries, perhaps millennia, I do not feel especially pressed to apologize. I will continue to put up what I have as I discover it, and if some of turns out to be wrong, well, so what. No one gets everything right. That derivation is false. It is false because it contains huge errors, errors I can point out very easily. I will lead with the biggest error. The mathematicians write down the brackets and then ignore them, transferring the limit inside them to suit themselves. They don't do that, obviously, because they don't want to destroy their e substitution. By the same token, you can't shift 1/x outside the limit. 1/x is a curve, which will change the way the limit is approached once again. Remember, this is a curve equation, which means that it is not only u that is changing: x is also changing. Go back a step and you will see that more clearly. Before we brought 1/x down, it was with u in the exponent like this: 1/ux. That means that the rate of change of u and the rate of change of x are affecting one another. They are tied together. Which means that the change of u cannot be considered separately. In other words, the exponent 1/ux isn't approaching infinity like 1/u is in the definition of e. Again, that is why the limit sign must stay outside the brackets. That is not really an error. It is a fudge. A big cheat. In other words, it was not done by accident. This proof has very heavy prints of finessing on it, and it is amazing that no one catches these mathematicians in their pawing and gnawing. The gods of math grimace and gnash their teeth. is false. As I will prove again below, the variable d must be equal to 1; so we have no ratio. The rate of change of the independent variable must be defined as one, to get the differentiation tables to work. It must also be defined as one so that we can apply these differentials to the number line, where the rate of change of the integers is one, by definition. You can't push the differential of your independent variable to zero without pushing the dependent variable to zero as well, and this just makes the graph smaller: it doesn't change the relationships of the numbers. If it doesn't change the relationships, it can't give you a solution. You will say that d isn't the independent variable, but it is. It was originally dx or Δx that was going to zero, and the moderns have just relabeled it as d or h or whatever in order to hide this fact. How do we begin to correct such deep-seated problems? If the calculus were healthy, we would not see such brazen and long-lived cheats in full view, so we must assume it is a total mess. In my long paper on the derivative1, I started over from the beginning, but here I will gloss and simplify, limiting myself to the solutions of these two specific derivatives: ln(x) and 1/x. Loosely speaking, a derivative can be thought of as how much a quantity is changing at a given point. The derivative, if defined as the general rate of change of the function, is the second line. The problem, as you can clearly see, is that we aren't straightening out our curve, as we were with the power functions. We can find a derivative of ln(x), of a sort, since we can certainly find a rate of change of the curve. But that rate of change is increasing as we look further and further down the chart. Therefore, no derivative of ln(x) will ever give us a straight line or a velocity. Every derivative of ln(x) is a greater curve than ln(x) itself. There is another problem. The current derivative of ln(x) is said to be 1/x. But you can see immediately that isn't true. The rate of change of line two is not 1/x. Nor is there any constant we can use to make the rate of change 1/x, since there is no value for z that will make the rate of change of line two z/x. But let us be more rigorous. The calculus was invented for the power functions, and with power functions, the derivative is not really the general rate of change of the curve. The derivative, as currently used, is the rate of change at x. To say it again, it is the rate of change at a specific interval, not the rate of change of the whole curve. I have shown that can be read as "the rate of change of the curve x2 times 3 is equal to the second rate of change of the curve x3". The derivative is not simply the rate of change of the curve on the right side. The derivative is a relationship of two curves. The derivative is telling us a number equality between two different curves. That being so, as we study this problem, we have to compare the tables for ln(x) to the tables for 1/x, to see if the rates of change ever equal eachother. Which means the rate of change of the curve 1/x is equal to the second rate of change of the curve ln(x). Well, the two curves are very close, which explains the relative success of the current derivative; but the rates are not a match. But we can check in a few other places, to be sure. The equality may not be at the first rate of change. In the power tables, the equalities are sometimes further down the chart, as with higher powers. Definitely diverging. The best match was with Δ1/x. I have shown that the derivative 1/x is a good approximation, but it is not a match. This tends to confirm my critique of the proof, since if the e substitution were allowed, this derivative should be perfect or close to perfect. The definition of e using the limit is not an approximation, since it allows you to be as exact as you want to be. It would not cause the kind of error we see here in the differentials. The current derivative was found by looking at the curve on the graph and actually drawing some tangents. After long years of this, it was decided that the slopes seemed to follow 1/x. Then the math was simply pushed to create a proof of that educated guess. But instead of guessing and then pushing equations, let us calculate the equation right from the numbers in the table. We want an equation that gives us those numbers above. It looks kind of difficult at first, but we just remember the definition of a differential. We remember how the table was made, and what it means. We remember that we can always write ΔΔln(x) as Δln(x) – Δln(x + 1), since that is the definition of a rate of change, and it comes right out of the table, as you see. The numbers in that line are found by that method. With these lines of differentials, each line is a factor of 2 separated from the previous line. What I mean is, the first real differential in line 1 is the natural log of 2. So we are starting with 2. If we want a rate of change, we have to shift the entire table by a factor of 2. Since we are finding line 3 from line 1, we must multiply by 22=4. The slope at x=2 is .5495, not .5. The slope at x=3 is .3464, not .3333. The slope at x=4 is .255, not .25. The slope at x=5 is .203, not .2. The slope at x=6 is .1685, not .1667. The slope at x=7 is .1435, not .1429. You can see that these new slopes are very close to the current ones. To see a full argument for why averaging forward slope and backward slope is actually better than going to zero, you will have to read the full analysis in my paper on the exponential functions. All I have done is turn the table upside down, then try to find more lines of differentials. But since we are going the opposite direction of what has historically been called differentiation, I call these lines integrals. They are found by adding instead of subtracting, and that is what integration originally meant. But, as you now see, we find the same problem in this direction in the table. Our curve is again increasing. It switched directions, and then immediately began increasing again. So we can't find a straight line, or what has been called the velocity, by either the old-fashioned differentiation or integration. Calculus was invented in relation to the power functions, and ln(x) is not a power function. The power functions could be related to one another, because the rate of change of a higher power was equal to the rate of change of a lower power. As we found the derivative, we took higher powers to lower powers, thereby straightening them out. Here, we can't do that. Both up and down the table, we get more curvature. It is also very important to notice that with this function, differentiating never lowers the rate of change. With power series, finding a derivative always meant decreasing the curve of the function, which means the rate of change of the curve was decreasing. But with ln(x), neither differentiating nor integrating decrease the curvature. Both increase it. In problem solving, this must be important. The current calculus has solved this dilemma by 1) Ignoring it. They pretend these simple tables don't exist; 2) Fudging the equations to match the slope they know exists, from studying the lines on real graphs. If the slope looks like the slope of 1/x, they assume that it is, and they push their math to find 1/x, using chain rules and finessed limits and fake substitutions and whatever else they need to hammer the solution down. The current method has found a fair approximation with 1/x, but my method finds the right answer with no approximation. I never go to zero and don't use infinitesimals. My rates of change are absolutely correct relative to one another, and there is no margin of error. My method is vastly superior to the current method in both operation and answer. My operation is simple and transparent, with no fudgy manipulations. My notation is much simpler than the current method. And my answer is correct, whereas the current answer is simply incorrect. The current answer is nothing but a poor estimate of my answer, and I have explained why in my long paper on the derivative and its history. But we can't apply the power equation to 1/x to find a derivative. If we did, then the anti-derivative, which is supposed to be ln(x), would be x0/0. But the biggest problem is that the differentials themselves tell us the rate of change of 1/x is not 1/x2 . The only reason mathematicians chose that derivative is because it looked right on the graph. But if they had made this table, they would have seen it doesn't look right, even at a first glance. Defined as it is, the derivative is the third line, and the third line is not changing as 1/x2. It is not changing like 1, 4, 9, 16, 25; it is changing 1, 4, 10, 20, 35. We can write the line as 1/3, 1/12, 1/30, 1/60, 1/105. Dividing each denominator by 3 gives us the series 1, 4, 10, 20, 35. So we just need to write an equation for that series. That is the famous pyramid series, and the equation is known to be x(x + 1)(x + 2)/6. But can we derive that equation without knowing the pyramid equation? Yes, we can take it straight from the table again, using the differentials themselves. For x=3, the slope is -.125, not -.1111. For x=4, the slope is -.0666, not -.0625. For x=5, the slope is -.0416, not -.04. For x=6, the slope is -.0285, not -.0278. For x=7, the slope is -.0208, not -.0204. For x=8, the slope is -.0159, not -.01563. For x=10, the slope is -.0101, not -.01. Those values are astonishingly close, and I think even my biggest critics must be sweating a little. I have found a new rate of change and a new slope, both of which give us values that are very close to the current derivative. The new slope gives us values that are closer, but that doesn't mean it is the one to choose as the replacement for the derivative. I have some work left to do in showing why this averaged slope equation either can or cannot apply to 1/x. We know it can be used on x2 without any problem, but that does not mean it applies here. As with the exponential functions, these two functions behave in strange ways. I remind you, for example, that ln(x) increases its curvature with both differentiation and integration. I said that this must affect solutions in physics, and what I meant is that in physics we find a velocity from a curve by straightening out the curve. By the modern interpretation, the velocity is always equal to the tangent, which is always equal to the derivative, but that isn't true even with power functions. It is true only with the power 2. I showed in a recent paper on cubed acceleration2 that the velocity is found from the second derivative, not the first. This is because to find the velocity, we straighten out the curve. For higher powers, it takes more derivatives to do that. But with ln(x), you can't straighten out the curve, no matter how many derivatives you take. You can find a tangent and a derivative, as I just showed, but you can't assign either one to a velocity. To find a velocity for ln(x), you have to go off the table and outside the normal equations of differentiation and integration. I will show how to do that in an upcoming paper, but for now I simply point out that if the curves increase in both directions on the table, they must have a turn-around point. This means that there must be a straight line hidden between two lines on the table, and with ln(x), that straight line must be found near ln(x). The same can be said for 1/x. The derivative cannot be the velocity, because the all the derivatives are still a curves. The velocity must have a constant rate of change, by definition, and our derivative equation does not. Of course, the slope may give us the velocity directly, but it may not. I will have to study the problem more before I come to a final decision. Of course, Newton and Leibniz started all this by cheating in their own proofs. Like the modern derivative proofs, the original proofs were written from the end backwards. Both men knew the answer they wanted, and they forced their proofs to show it. I have already shown this with Newton's proof1, and the same can be said for that of Leibniz. I still haven't figured out the exact history of this mistake. Was it done because no one has been in possession of these simple tables I am making; or were the tables suppressed because they did not allow for solutions at an instant and point, and everyone desired solutions at an instant and point? I suspect the latter. The tables are so simple they could not have been overlooked or misread. My first paper on the derivative1 was probably refused for publication for the same reason this problem has been buried from the beginning. Mathematicians don't want to clarify any of the proofs or manipulations or definitions of the calculus, because that would require that they give up their instantaneous solutions. It would also require that they admit being wrong for 300 hundred years, and admit that they have been pushing proofs for the same amount of time. Unfortunately, no one else seems to have made the connection between this historical choice to look away, and the historical problems with the point in QED and General Relativity. I have shown that renormalization is the price physics is paying for the math department's refusal to face facts. Equations are exploding and imploding in many fields, and mathematicians pretend not to know why. Edward Witten, supposedly a master of mathematics, asks in the Millennium Prize why the math of QED is such a mess. He should know that the calculus itself is the main cause of the mess.

Life drawing model Rhia Robb went from being a bundle of nerves as a first-timer to a regular who has become so relaxed she has gone to sleep while posing. Miss Robb, who has three children and is a master's student studying social policy, has been a regular life drawing model for the past couple of years, modelling while pregnant and breastfeeding. "After my pregnancy with my second child I thought, `My body's amazing, I can run, I can have babies, I can do these things'." She also recognised she was getting closer to 40 (she is 37), and wanted "a story when I'm older". Of her first time as a model, Miss Robb said she was extremely nervous. "I knew it was one of those things; I just had to drop my robe and do it. "I was in the middle of the room, there were about 20 people. "It was just like `drop your robe', and I did, and I was naked in front of 20 people." She said during her first stint she perspired a lot, was "quite uptight" and strongly aware of her feelings of modesty in front of younger and older people, and men. "It doesn't bother me any more. "I feel capable, confident, they're not there to critique me; more than anything they're concerned about their line or their drawing, they're not there to judge me." She had modelled right through her youngest son's pregnancy, and taken him to life drawing sessions, allowing the art students to draw while she breastfed. "It's a good little job. "I like it; it makes me think about my body in different ways. "I'm not really concerned at this point in my life about wrinkles or cellulite or things like that, and it's quite nice to just see beauty in the shape and the change."

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Q: spider graphic line in plotly.graph_objects When I generate my chart, the line does not end, however, and I tried in many ways, but nothing worked for me. what is in r, are some variables that I have declared with already defined values fig = go.Figure() fig.add_trace(go.Scatterpolar( name = "Ideal", r=[ ideal_Funciones_Responsabilidades, ideal_etapas_propias, ideal_Aspectos_Legales, ideal_Gestion_Ambiental, ideal_Gestion_de_Seguridad, ideal_manejo_Informacion, hallado_Tecnicos, ideal_Humanos , ideal_transversales], theta=categories, #connectgaps=True, #line_color = 'darkviolet' type= 'scatterpolar', mode = 'lines', )) fig.add_trace(go.Scatterpolar( name = "Hallado", r=[ hallado_Funciones_Responsabilidades, hallado_etapas_propias, hallado_Aspectos_Legales, hallado_Gestion_Ambiental, hallado_Gestion_de_Seguridad, hallado_manejo_Informacion, hallado_Tecnicos, hallado_Humanos, hallado_transversales], theta=categories, #mode = "markers", type= 'scatterpolar', mode = 'lines', #line_color = 'peru' )) fig.update_layout( polar=dict( radialaxis=dict( #visible=True, range=[0, maximo_valor + 1] ) ), #line_close=True, # showlegend=False ) Image: I will be attentive to your help with this topic. A: You can close the line using go.Scatterpolar() by repeating the first element in both the list for r and theta at the end of the list. Say you declared: r_list=[ ideal_Funciones_Responsabilidades, ideal_etapas_propias, ideal_Aspectos_Legales, ideal_Gestion_Ambiental, ideal_Gestion_de_Seguridad, ideal_manejo_Informacion, hallado_Tecnicos, ideal_Humanos , ideal_transversales] r_list.append(r_list[0]) Then use r=r_list

Reformist Quotes Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook. — Cornel West Professional Reformist quotations I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. — Lionel Blue ...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by reforms, but only by a qualitative change of the capitalist system, by revolution. Hence, in order not to err in policy, one must be a revolutionary, not a reformist. — J. Stalin Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin. I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this. — Susan George Everywhere the Salafi are pushing by saying, "We are the guardian, and we are resisting any kind of relationship to the West or provocation coming from the West." And internally, it's unsettling the whole situation. Now in Tunisian, in Libya, in Syria, in Egypt, the clash between the literalists and - the Islamists or the reformists is something which is going to be part of what we have to deal with as to the future of America. — Tariq Ramadan In fact all the Islamists, that is the reformists not the Salafis, now they all say that they want a civil state, a civil state with Islamic reference points. They are not talking about an Islamic state, or sharia in the way this was once understood in the fight against the colonisers, or just afterwards in the 70's, 80's and 90's. Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier. — Elliott Abrams In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas. — Alison Weir Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism". — Bell Hooks These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements. — Frank Carlucci Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature. — Robert Bork working class quotes future of america quotes islamic state quotes not talking quotes black women quotes can do

User talk:Franky7 Welcome to Bulbapedia, Franky7! By creating your account you are now able to edit pages, join discussions, and expand the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia. Before you jump in, here are some ground rules: Be nice to everyone. It's in the code of conduct. Make good edits. Preview them before you save to make sure they're perfect the first time around. Use wikicode and link templates when adding content to a page. Use proper grammar and spelling, and read the manual of style. You can't create a userpage until you've added to the encyclopedia. It's a privilege. See the userspace policy. Use talk pages to resolve editing disputes. Don't "edit war," or constantly re-edit/undo the same thing on a page. If you have a question about something, be proactive. Take a look at our FAQ. If you're still stuck, ask for help. The staff won't bite. Sign all talk page posts with four tildes (~~~~). This will turn into your name and the time you wrote the comment. For more handy links, see the welcome portal. Thank you, and have a good time editing here! --DJWolfy 17:54, 22 March 2012 (UTC) 1 The Preview Button 2 Serena's Pancham 3 Information Sources 4 "Not standard"... 5 Iris's Emolga 6 Pokémon Lover's Club edit 7 James's Cacnea 8 Yosaku and Sylvester 9 Raboot and Flygon Vs Zapdos The Preview Button Instead of editing a page several times in a row, try using the preview button to make sure your edit looks the way you want it to. It's right next to the Save Changes button. Please try it out, so as not to clog up the Recent Changes. Thanks! ----Pokemaster97 12:30, 1 September 2013 (UTC) Yes I know, sorry. I did a mistake with the name of the character in the italian version, so I had to do it. It won't happen anymore XD Franky7 Serena's Pancham I'll admit it was badly written, but how is it speculation? It has been stated by Nini and displayed by Smoochum herself that she has a crush on Pancham, who doesn't reciprocate. It has also been shown that Pancham does at least act friendly to her too in XY091 after winning the theme performance.-- --Handmaiden 101 (tAlk) 19:59, 7 November 2015 (UTC) You used the terms "it seems" and "may be" in your phrase. I've not seen the episodes so I don't actually know what really happend between Pancham and Smoochum, I based myself only on what you wrote and, for me, it seemed to be speculation. Sorry if I'm wrong.--Franky7 (talk) 16:25, 8 November 2015 (UTC) No problem, I should have worded it out properly.-- --Handmaiden 101 (tAlk) 20:26, 8 November 2015 (UTC) Hello. I just wanted to let you know that other fansites, such as Serebii, are not considered a valid source. Information should only be added from the games, shows, or official sites affiliated with them. Thanks. Crystal Talian 15:44, 6 August 2016 (UTC) Hi! I can disagree with you about the Serebii's validity (they always report only true news and articles, Merrick is a serious person) but, as you can see here, it reports the name's of new episodes from TV-kun magazine. If a magazine of a tv cast program is not a valid source..--Franky7 (talk) 15:50, 6 August 2016 (UTC) You're welcome to disagree. However, fansites (including Serebii) have been wrong in the past and are not an acceptable source. Anything copied from a fansite or stating a fansite as a source will be promptly removed. The magazine itself is an acceptable source, but it's preferable that the user adding such information actually have access to the magazine itself. Thank you. Crystal Talian 16:50, 6 August 2016 (UTC) As you wish ;)--Franky7 (talk) 16:56, 6 August 2016 (UTC) So I was right, uh? XD--Franky7 (talk) 12:10, 7 August 2016 (UTC) "Not standard"... Not standard for what? I never knew there was a standard for writing biographies. GrammarFreak01 (talk) 20:46, 8 August 2018 (UTC) If you take a look at other voice actors' pages, you can see that no-one contains phrases like "dozen of episodes". It's too generic, bad written and useless, better write (next to voiced character's name) the episodes between it was voiced [like Janet (AG010-AG035), for example]. Or, again, you can say "He voiced [the character] between 2014 and 2017".--Franky7 (talk) 15:01, 11 August 2018 (UTC) Just because it wasn't written on other voice actor articles doesn't mean it should not be written at all. And how exactly is it generic and badly written? I can't just clarify the exact episodes Jo Armeniox, for example, voiced Shauna; that's for characters who had more than one voice actor. GrammarFreak01 (talk) 19:20, 11 August 2018 (UTC) How can be "a dozen of episodes" encyclopedic? You have to write properly, the more specific way you can; could you find in other pages things like "he voiced the character for hundreds of episodes"? Surely not. If you cannot clarify the number of episodes, just not write anything.--Franky7 (talk) 12:19, 12 August 2018 (UTC) Iris's Emolga I'm not sure what you're talking about with Excadrill. The trivia is pointing out that Emolga isn't weak to one of its types. Excadrill, as a Steel/Ground, is weak to the Ground type, making the trivia valid.--Rahl (talk) 21:49, 9 November 2018 (UTC) So sorry, I've read "Is weak to one of her types" and not Isn't. My mistake :(--Franky7 (talk) 16:38, 10 November 2018 (UTC) Pokémon Lover's Club edit It has been decided by an admin to add this trivia. Please see : User_talk:Force_Fire#Conflict editing. Jeangabin666 (talk) 15:15, 18 May 2020 (UTC) I saw, to me is still useless and not notable, but that's it.--Franky7 (talk) 08:44, 19 May 2020 (UTC) James's Cacnea Hi, wanted to ask you about edit you made in James's Cacnea article. Was there something wrong with my link template? If so, I'm eager to learn. Do you think sentence "James's Cacnea is the only one of its Pokémon to have appeared in the anime." is... "okay"? Itan (talk) 10:57, 29 January 2021 (UTC) Hi and sorry for the delay! Nothing wrong, don't worry, I've just fixed the template, it's lighter for the servers than a direct link. The phrase itself is correct (up to my memory ahah) =)--Franky7 (talk) 16:59, 31 January 2021 (UTC) Well, you just changed the whole sense of sentence. It was about species, while your edit... I just don't seem to understand how that can be interpreted. It was fixed later by other person, with the same (your) template but spelling "species" (instead of "Pokemon") as it was in my version. Anyway, thanks for the answer about template. Itan (talk) 18:11, 31 January 2021 (UTC) Oh sorry, didn't see I missed one world, I intended to do as the later fix XD I answered you without checking out what I did and I was sure to have done it properly. I wanted to do it as it's now. Forgive me again!--Franky7 (talk) 10:11, 1 February 2021 (UTC) Yosaku and Sylvester I think that their pages should include quotes from their video game counterparts, like Damian. Maybe even info on their game counterparts, like on Harper and Sarah. N. Harmonik (talk) 13:36, 10 September 2021 (UTC) They are based on tc character, not on a specific one.--Franky7 (talk) 16:00, 12 September 2021 (UTC) What is a TC character? N. Harmonik (talk) 22:08, 12 September 2021 (UTC) Trainer Class.--Franky7 (talk) 08:31, 15 September 2021 (UTC) What are you typing about? Charcoal makers aren't a trainer class. How many other charcoal makers are there? N. Harmonik (talk) 18:43, 15 September 2021 (UTC) You got a point. I didn't mean the tc, but they're based on, not the same. Ask an admin.--Franky7 (talk) 07:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC) Raboot and Flygon Vs Zapdos Hi, it's a combination of moves between the two yes, Raboot uses Draco Meteor to gain altitude while Zapdos gets distracted with a move and then Raboot uses Blaze Kick. In pair battles, the two Pokémon are listed in the section and Raboot only beat Zapdos because of this Flygon move. If you doubt it, you can look at the Pokémon sections of the anime Coordinators, such as Dawn(Dawn's Pachirisu and Dawn's Mamoswine) and May(May's Blaziken and May's Beautifly).--Hikaru Wazana (talk) 14:04, 27 October 2021 (UTC) Ok, forgot that episode. But you have to say it's against Zapdos, during Flygon's capture it's not a combination.--Franky7 (talk) 09:31, 3 November 2021 (UTC) Retrieved from "https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Franky7&oldid=3417608" Last edited on 3 November 2021, at 09:31 Content is available under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5. 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Q: Can't change text in textview I have problem with can't set new text in UITextView .I already link up the IBOutlet to textView in interface builder. Here is my code - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; self.title = @"Detail"; [self setupTextView]; } - (void) setupTextView { self.textDescription = [[[UITextView alloc] init] autorelease]; NSString *foo = @"blah blah blah"; textDescription.text = foo; //I try this and it didn't work //here didn't work too. //textDescription.text = [textDescription.text stringByAppendingString:foo]; /*Here is something for dynamic textview*/ CGRect frame; frame = textDescription.frame; frame.size.height = [textDescription contentSize].height; textDescription.frame = frame; /**/ } Thank you for anu help :) A: self.textDescription = [[[UITextView alloc] init] autorelease]; I think this is the problem. If textDescription is an IBOutlet you don't need to allocate it. Just remove this allocation.

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Q: How to use vue-axios in Vue3 Composition API? I'm using express with NodeJS for running the APIs For Authentication I'm using the below package const session = require('client-sessions'); app.use(session({ cookieName: 'session', secret: process.env.COOKIE_SECRET, duration: 30 * 60 * 1000 * 30, activeDuration: 60 * 60 * 1000 * 30 })); I'm using express I have imported axios and VueAxios in my main.js file with the below code: import { createApp } from 'vue' import App from './App.vue' import './assets/style.css' import router from './router' import axios from 'axios'; import VueAxios from 'vue-axios'; const app = createApp(App) app.use(VueAxios, axios, router) app.provide('axios', axios) app.provide('VueAxios', VueAxios) app.mount('#app') Here is the code in my Component Javascript Block import { onBeforeMount, onMounted, ref, inject } from "vue"; setup() { const axios = inject('axios'); const VueAxios = inject('VueAxios'); onMounted(async ()=> { VueAxios.axios.get(...... // I get this error - Cannot read property 'get' of undefined VueAxios.get(...... // I get this error - VueAxios.get is not a function axios.get(...... // this works, but how do I use VueAxios for passing session payload? }) } A: Adding the below line of code after app.provide('VueAxios', VueAxios) made it work axios.defaults.withCredentials = true;

A National Identity Crisis- Research Paper A National Identity Crisis? Humans from various parts of the globe, including the Western hemisphere, arrived tens of thousands of years ago. These people belonged to different cultures, different groups, and spoke different languages. They settled in places where they could find water and food. It's often thought that migration and immigration are the same and immigration came out of migration, which is NOT true. During seasons, birds migrate from one place to another. Once the season is over, they come back to their home. People from Mexico get into the United States during the harvest season and once their job is complete, they return home. If these Mexicans did not go back, but established a residence in the United States, then they become immigrants. Initially when the United States was being formed, most of the people were only settlers. As a result, there were no stringent rules to prevent any illegal immigration. People who inhibited and occupied a certain area became the owners of that area. The most prominent of them, either by wealth or power, was proclaimed as the leader of the group. These descendants were so powerful that when new migrants were seen, they could capture them and convert them to slavery. Moreover, they invaded nearby islands and open lands and by force captured the native people to be used as slaves to work in the fields and the homes. At one point, when the settlers had to fight for their rights against the British, they formed reasonable colonies and tried to establish a united society. Their primary aim was to get the country freed from the British, excluding people, who they deemed undesirable and regulate the flow of new people in the nearby future. These people, who freed the country, called themselves as citizens of America and they saw all newcomers as immigrants. The slaves who toiled during the American Revolution were granted freedom as a token of gratitude. These slaves were the first recognized immigrants. Most of the migrants who came in did not return to their homeland, as their homeland was not rich enough to provide farming land and other natural resources. As these migrants came from different sectors of the globe, various industries and farming started to flourish in the United States. Rapid growth in the rate of these migrants raised concerns within people who called themselves as citizens as they thought that these more skilled migrants would rob their chances. As these migrants came from different societies, there was always one animosity or another between them, which often led to violence. This also made the citizens really think about bringing in some discipline in the form of rules and regulations on migrating to the United States. Basically, all the people were subject to some sort of examination. Most of these immigrants have come to the United States in the hopes of improvising their lifestyle, and none wanted to stoop down unless it was really required. As most of the people were attached to some popular religions, sectors based on religion were also formed. During the early 19th century, the basic rules for immigration were developed, which described the process of processing migrants as immigrants and also limit the size of annual migrations. Immigration, in the United States, has been a precarious issue for a long time. The first people to settle the colonies, the colonists, came to this country for many of the same reasons people today immigrate here. However, the issue of identity has been a highly debated issue. While the immigrants can help to boost the economy and give back to the country, should they be allowed the privilege to call themselves Americans? The two major sides in this debate are one side being that ONLY legal immigrants should be allowed this honor, while the other side is that no immigrant should be given this honor. The truth, though tactless, is that America would not be where it is today if immigrants had not legally come to this country. Most of the entry points into this country were being guarded and all migrants were strictly screened through a laborious process. As the migration patterns reflected economic, social, and political development, the regulations for the number of immigrants and various types of immigrants were being strictly formulated. Most of the least attractive jobs in the country are being manned by illegal immigrants as they work at very low wages, sometimes even below the stipulated minimum wage. The employers try to exploit the situation of these laborers and make their personal pockets bulge with profits. Moreover, these illegal immigrants, as they are not legally attached to any payroll, they do not pay any taxes or any fee to the government. Illegal immigrants do not have proper health coverage, and thereby could not get medical attention when needed. So, they tend to land up in emergency room, which finally falls on legal taxpayers to bear the burden. Also, diseases which are not quite common in this country get into the country via the illegal immigrants posing a gigantic health threat. Another pile of cost to the taxpayers is children born to these illegal immigrants in this country. Taxpayers are left to scramble the rummages out of the ruin, while these parents quietly sit and watch. One of the main reasons why people illegally cross the border is that to get in legally, it is very difficult unless otherwise highly qualified. Despite all the unwanted situations that occur for an illegal immigrant, if caught, they are still cutting to the front of the line before many hopeful, qualified legal immigrants. Also the United States government exercises a lottery system whereby fifty-thousand people are selected to settle permanently in the US. This encourages the illegal immigrant to overextend their welcome period of stay and try their luck. Illegal immigrants also tend to have a greater hand on crime and other offenses. It is a substantial economic burden for a state and country to house all these offenders in prison, which in turn will be borne by the taxpayers. Big US companies embrace undocumented workers which has helped them grow immensely. There are no stringent laws against these cases of hiring illegal immigrants. Most of the farming and low-paid jobs are being handled by illegal immigrants as per a recent Census Bureau survey. "As the U. S. developed into a welfare state, poor illegal immigrants increasingly used a larger percentage of taxpayer dollars through reliance on government programs and use of other government resources, such as law enforcement and deportation. Further, since many U. S. employers illegally hire these workers at substandard wages, they avoid collecting social security taxes from them in order to hide their existence. This results in less tax paid by illegal immigrants for the government services they disproportionately use. " (Haerens, 39). Most of these illegal immigrants are cynically attached to their religion and culture. This instigates them to revolt in various fashions whenever something happens in the US which goes against their ideologies. This is one of the root causes of terrorism. Stronger measures are required to curb illegal immigration and more vigilant patrolling will be required. This has been clearly emphasized as we come to know that at least two of the 9/11 hijackers were illegally staying in the United States. One of the worst aspects of our government's open borders policy is the repeated re-entry of alien criminals who were previously deported but easily return to commit more crimes" (Gerdes, 92). "The group that has borne the brunt of the Bush administration's post-9/11 crackdown is immigrants" (Haerens, 90). As the legal immigrants were highly knowledgeable, skilled, respected, experienced in their field, they brought in good technological, economic, and social growth to the United States. Added to this, they paid taxes, sometimes greater than residing citizens with fewer benefits. In addition, healthcare does cost them more compared to citizens. In a way, they were directly or indirectly contributing to the making of America into a superpower. "I say the class of immigrants coming to the shores of the United States at this time is the kind of people we want as citizens of this country" (Congressman Boren, 27). The immigrants being bilingual and from different societies spread their wings far and wide within America and Americans could learn scores of first-rate things being habituated in the immigrant lifestyles. For example, a lot of God-fearing concepts and life after death, reincarnation were learnt from the Hindu religion of South Asia, to govern and have a single organized government from China, exploiting available resources to grow from the Gulf countries, technologically improving existing conditions and making life better from Singapore, streamlined and smarter working tactics from Japan, etc. The legal immigrants could adapt themselves quickly to the environment and be productive. Sometimes, this was being thrust upon them for their self-survival. For, if they did not perform up to the expectations, there was a possibility that their immigration status could be cancelled. Most of these legal immigrants tried to settle down with their families around the country, which in turn provided surplus funds to county and state budgets. These immigrants had their children educated in US school systems and most of these kids would excel in their academic curriculums, thereby bringing morale to the schools they are in. As these immigrants are highly qualified and are able to adapt to new environments quickly, they become a great asset to the country. Not only in terms of money, by form of tax, but also technologically academically, economically, socially, they have contributed a lot to what America is today. Not all of these legal immigrants or temporary workers wish to live continuously here. Most of them are attached to their country and wish to go back to live with their kith and kin. For all these cases, the taxes paid, the social security paid, the Medicare tax paid are all retained by the government which somewhat boosts our economy. There are various types of legal immigrants, categorized as religious, skilled, etc. America has got a rich mixture of legal immigrants who governed in high technological positions. There are many scientists, research scholars, teachers, and doctors who are academically qualified and experienced and are in legal immigration status. Most of the nurses working in various hospitals are from different countries with legal status to work in the United States. The United States needs a hoard of qualified, skilled people in different sectors and different industries, in different aspects and cannot augment that requirement from the local resources. So every year, many immigrants come in to the States legally to perform these yeoman services. Unlike the illegal immigrants, the legal immigrants have to be paid the stipulated minimum wage. But many-a-times, they are not on par with the wages given to a citizen, even though their qualification is better compared to the citizen. The legal immigrants, in order to maintain their legal status, would not indulge in any crime or unwanted activities. Most of them fear for losing their immigration status and abide by the law, strictly as much as possible. This in turn, provides one less worry for the cops, state, Big Brother. Since all of these immigrants have to be employed to maintain a status, the taxes are more or less assured. Illegal immigration has been a long-growing problem for the United States, and there have been heated debates regarding this issue. The first and foremost thing would be these illegal immigrants, if they were to become legal, would cost heavily-additional dollars to the country. For example, they would be eligible for welfare programs, like Earned Income Credit, food stamps, Medicare, etc. The tax they would pay as legal immigrants will not compensate for half of what needs to be spent for their welfare. Also, once these illegal immigrants become legal, they will be free to choose the type pf job they will work, they place, and their wages which in turn would leave unpleasant jobs vacant and will give rise to another batch of illegal immigration. It would also increase drastically the nation's population which would have dire consequences for everyone already living in the country. In addition, these newly legalized aliens will have the right to bring their close family members from their home country into he United States, which will affect the economy in a negative way. As per the Census Bureau, 90% of the illegal immigrants lack proper healthcare and more than half of them have not completed high school as they could not afford it. If legal status is provided to these people, it will bring in a spike of uneducated future citizens. As America is competing to maintain and retain it supremacy, it definitely needs technological knowledge to be parted to all its future generations. The legal immigrants who come to America want to work and build a better life. They have risked many things, left their kith and kin, and their country with a heavy heart to live the "American dream" to lawfully enter into the United States. By their adaptation and growth, they not only help themselves, but also help the country to grow in various aspects. These immigrant children, because of their love, affection, and family surroundings bring in a lot of added values to the country. These values have been long forgotten due to our so-called Westernized habits. There have been heated debates that all illegal immigrants must be sent back. But there is a risk involved in that too, as most of the unwanted and unpleasant jobs are handled by the illegal aliens. These immigrants, drawn from various corners of the earth, provide a forged, cultural, unified millions of strong, so-called Americans, which, has helped American gain the superpower status it wields today. So many reforms made in immigration laws by Congress have helped the country to come a long way from what it was in the early 19th century. Now all legal immigrants are required to be literate and have special skills, skills that are not available locally in the United States. The history and credentials are scrutinized to a larger extent to ensure that only qualified people can legally enter into the United States. This also makes it very difficult for unskilled, unqualified resources who want to come into the United States, forcing them to look for illegal means to enter the country. 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Chris DeVore (General Partner, Founders Co-op) Graham & Dunn Law 2801 Alaskan Way #300 98121 Seattle May 22, 2013, 6 p.m. Chris DeVore is a founder and General Partner at Founders' Co-op, the Pacific Northwest's leading seed-stage venture capital fund. Previously a co-founder of Adjacency (acquired by Sapient, NASDAQ: SAPE) and Judy's Book (backed by Mobius VC and Ignition Partners), Chris also created outdoor retailer Patagonia's online retailing channel and led product and business strategy teams at AT&T and McCaw Cellular Communications. Chris holds a BA from Yale and attended the MBA program at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Since 2008, Founder's Co-op has bankrolled more than a dozen companies on the West Coast. Those include Simply Measured, Estately, Deal Co-op, Appature, BigDoor and others. DeVore said that he still feels like the Pacific Northwest is a hidden gem of startup activity, with Founder's Co-op positioning to be the "talent scouts" for the best entrepreneurs. "We like to be thought of the guys who find the best stuff in the Northwest," adding the the firm sees its role as a "catalyst" for the Pacific Northwest technology community. He is also a frequent blogger at crashdev.com and is on twitter @crashdev Chris DeVore Managing Partner - Founders Co-op Chris DeVore is Managing Partner of Founders' Co-op, the Pacific Northwest's leading seed-stage venture capital fund, and just recently stepped down as Managing Director of Techstars Seattle, the region's most selective startup accelerator. Between these two roles Chris has helped over 200 Pacific Northwest startups raise over $1.5 billion in investor capital. He helps founders a lot!!! Founders Co-op Chris DeVore is Managing Partner of Founders' Co-op, the Pacific Northwest's leading seed-stage venture capital fund, and Managing Director of Techstars Seattle, the region's most selective startup accelerator. Between these two roles Chris has helped over 200 Pacific Northwest startups raise over $1.5 billion in investor capital. Previously a co-founder of Adjacency (acquired by Sapient, NASDAQ: SAPE) and Judy's Book (backed by Mobius VC and Ignition Partners), Chris also launched Patagonia's first online store and led product and business strategy teams at AT&T and McCaw Cellular Communications. As a community volunteer, Chris co-chaired the City of Seattle's Economic Development Commission, partnered with the University of Washington to create Startup Hall (a commercial innovation space located on the UW Campus), and is a current Board member of Friends of Waterfront Seattle (a non-profit helping to transform Seattle's downtown waterfront after the Viaduct comes down). Chris attended Yale and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Graham & Dunn Law 2801 Alaskan Way #300 98121 Seattle Mike Grabham Esidarap inc Seattle Director Kristin Adams Startup League An initiative by Radix (A global registry for domains like .TECH, .ONLINE, .STORE, .SPACE and any more), the Startup League program rewards startups with marketing benefits designed to help them take their product to market. Health care can be a challenge to find the right combination of choice, coverage and cost. And now affordable health care options are available to even the smallest startups with ALLtech. They offer exclusive pricing and a broad range of benefit plans and comprehensive benefits to help startups compete by offering health insurance that rival the big players. Whether you have two employees or more than 100, ALLtech has a benefit plan to fit your needs. Recruiting Bandwidth Recruiting Bandwidth, founded in 2012 to manage recruiting for startups, building their brands and talent pipelines. They've evolved into a full-service recruiting strategy and talent management firm and offer clients a proven, cost-effective approach to elevating recruiting as a function within their companies and to find the right people to meet growth goals. In 2019, they expanded services to include HR and Finance strategy support on compensation, setup of payroll, benefits and accounting. Create 33 Create33 is an entrepreneurial center for tech startups who want resources and support to build successful businesses.

Kevin Holland brushes off critics, fair-weather fans taking shots at him after last performance By Damon Martin@DamonMartin Apr 6, 2021, 9:00am EDT Kevin Holland had a bad night at the office and he doesn't believe anybody is owed an explanation just because he lost a fight. After building an impressive five-fight win streak in 2020, which was capped off by a spectacular knockout against perennial middleweight contender Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza, the 28-year-old self-proclaimed "big mouth" lost a lopsided decision to Derek Brunson in his first UFC main event in March. Following the fight, Holland received a mountain of criticism for constantly chattering at Brunson and even going as far as shouting at former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, who was sitting cage side, and asking him for advice. UFC president Dana White went as far as saying Holland had a "mental breakdown" in the cage that night. While it certainly wasn't one of his better performances, Holland denies that he fell apart under the pressure or paid too much attention to talking when he should have been fighting. Instead, he gives credit to Brunson for a job well done and acknowledging that he lost after an abysmal showing that night. "Every time you listen to an interview or anything I've said after the fight, I said props to Derek Brunson," Holland told MMA Fighting on Monday. "He went out there with a good game plan and did what he was supposed to do. It's like I'm not one for excuses. Never have. Somebody gets the job done, they get the job done. He did a good job. "It's not robbing him of victory because at the end of the day, they're all trying to find out why I lost. Cause they know 9 times out of 10, I'm supposed to beat the guy. I guess he just found the 10th time. It's nothing wrong with them wanting to know what was going on with 'one of their favorite fighters'. There's nothing wrong that. At the end of the day, you thought Derek Brunson was supposed to beat me? No. So it's like of course you're going to ask, what was going on with you that night? Props to Derek Brunson. He did what he was supposed to do that night but come do that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Continue to hold me the whole night until eventually you're not tired of holding me and then we've got a fight and then I'm going to beat the crap out of you. He did a good job. Props to him." Rather than sit and sulk over the defeat, Holland jumped at the chance to return to action sooner rather than later when an opportunity presented itself at UFC Vegas 23 this weekend. Fellow middleweight Darren Till suffered a broken collarbone in training and that left Marvin Vettori without an opponent for a marquee card set to air on ABC. Without hesitation, Holland offered his services and now he'll compete in a second straight main event but this fight isn't about redemption or proving anybody wrong after what happened his last time out. "I just like to fight," Holland said. "At the end of the day, that's one thing that will never change, I love to fight. I want to get the bad taste out of whose mouth? Out of the people who believe in me mouths? Yeah. The people who have something negative to say or always got something to say but they don't do sh*t but sit on the couch? I don't really care. At the end of the day, they don't really bother me. They don't pay my bills. The people who pay my bills, the people I truly affect — not the people who are just betting a couple of dollars on me trying to get rich off my name? Not those people. The true people, that's what I care about. "Other than that, I don't really care. It's like you have to be close to me for me to care. A lot of these people aren't that close to me. A lot of these people don't pay my bills. A lot of these people don't have nothing that I care that's invested into me. Appreciate the people for tuning in but I don't know. They tune in for a good show. I give you a good show and you still complain." Considering what Brunson did in that fight, Holland has a pretty good idea about what's probably rolling through Vettori's head as well. "I expect him to try what seems to work," Holland said about Vettori's game plan. "It's like I expect him to do what's in human nature. Do what you think works. Whatever you guys thinks works, that's what he's going to try and do. I lost my last fight a certain way, so obviously everyone thinks that works so that's what they're going to try and do. "It's simple. It's very simple. I'm just going to fight. I hear you, I feel you, I smell you but I'm just going to fight." One loss obviously isn't going to force Holland to re-examine how he approaches future fights much less make him change the way he has fun whenever he's competing. If there's less talk happening against Vettori, it's only because Holland promises he'll be too busy throwing strikes to tell his opponent what's coming next. "I want to fight. I don't know if everyone's catching that drift," Holland said. "You guys wanted big mouth the last time I did all that talking and then everybody complained. This time, I'm going to fight. So just be happy, I'm going to fight." Regardless of what happened the last time out, Holland has always recognized his true ride-or-die supporters versus the swath of fair-weather fans that are always going to plague the sport. Rather than allowing himself to get mired in negativity, Holland prefers to just give his attention to the people who actually deserve it and not the ones begging for it. "I've got a lot of other things to worry about than just those fans who love you when you win and hate you when you lose," Holland said. "Like I said before, there's the people who pay the bills, people who are truly there and that truly care. Those are the ones that really matter."

1. Combine strawberries, 1/2 cup sugar, and, if desired, almond extract. Cover berry mixture, and let stand while making biscuits. 2. Beat whipping cream at medium speed with an electric mixer until foamy; gradually add 2 Tbsp. sugar, beating until soft peaks form. Cover and chill . 3. Combine flour, remaining 1/4 cup sugar, and baking powder in a large bowl; cut butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender or two forks until crumbly. 5. Bake at 450° for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden. 6. Split shortcakes in half horizontally. Spoon about 1/2 cup berry mixture onto each shortcake bottom; top each with a rounded Tbsp. chilled whipped cream, and cover with tops. Serve with remaining whipped cream. Garnish, if desired.

About Psychology Dept. PSY Faculty & Staff Contact Psychology Dept. College of NSS The Department of Psychology THE CENTER FOR MULTICULTURAL RESEARCH The Center for Multicultural Research is a recent addition to the Psychology Department. It was established in 1996 and currently has two faculty members involved, Jean Phinney and Eric Kohatsu. Dr. Phinney's research program has been on-going for 12 years, with support of the Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Program of the National Institutes of Health. About four students per year have received support and research training under this program over the course of the grant. This research program has addressed a variety of issues related to ethnic factors in adolescence, including ethinc identity development and its correlates, intergroup relations, cultural values, and adjustment in immigrant families. Dr. Phinney's current facilities house an ongoing longitudinal study of identity formation among adolescents from five ethnic groups; Mexican American, African American, European American, Armenian, and Vietnamese. This project is supported by a four-year MBRS grant (1996-2000). Currently eight students are actively involved in the project. In addition, two community consultants (from the Armenian and Vietnamese communities) are employed by the project to provide support for the study, including information about ethnic communities, community contacts, and translations of research surveys. Dr. David Sam, a postdoctoral scholar from Norway, was a visitor to the project from February through August, 1996 and from April through July, 1997. Return to Previous Menu

'Ravel, Bolero' 124 pieces found Piano Four-Hands Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which ... Joseph-Maurice Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess This is the original version, for piano. Pavane pour une infante défunte is a piece for solo piano by French composer Maurice Ravel. The piece was composed in 1899 while Ravel was studying composition... Ravel orchestrated the piece in 1910. Pavane pour une infante défunte is a piece for solo piano by French composer Maurice Ravel. The piece was composed in 1899 while Ravel was studying composition at... The movements are: Modéré Mouvement de menuet Animé Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré Piano score ♪HQ Violin part Three Songs Voice, SATB Solo voice and piano arrangement Ravel transcribed this piece for medium voice and piano in 1915. Voice, Piano Publisher: Durand & Cie., 1910. Plate D. & F. 7746 Ma mère l'Oye is a suite by French composer Maurice Ravel. The piece was originally written as a five-movement piano duet in 1910. In 1911, Ravel orc... Solo arrangement Ma mère l'Oye is a suite by French composer Maurice Ravel. The piece was originally written as a five-movement piano duet in 1910. In 1911, Ravel orchestrated the work. Orchestral score Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55 is a suite of piano pieces by Maurice Ravel, written in 1908. It has three movements, each based on a poem or fantaisie from the collection Gaspard de la Nuit — Fantaisies à ... Les grand vents d'outre-mer Song with piano after Henri de Régnier. Jeux d'eau is a piece for solo piano by Maurice Ravel. The title is often translated as "Fountains", "Playing water" or literally "Water Games". At the time of writing Jeux d'eau, Ravel was a student ... L'heure espagnole Vocal score scenes 1-10 French and English. L'heure espagnole is a French one-act opera from 1911, described as a comédie musicale, with music by Maurice Ravel to a French libretto by Franc-Nohain, based on Franc-Nohain's 19... Vocal score scenes 11-21 Histoires naturelles Histoires naturelles is a song cycle for medium voice and piano after Jules Renard. Song titles: * Le paon * Le grillon * Le cygne * Le martin-pêcheur * La pintade Introduction and Allegro Mixed septet Harp, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello Manteau des fleurs Song with piano after Paul Gravollet. Music search → 'Ravel, Bolero'

Fun:Death Note Death Note is a Japanese serial manga that spanned 108 chapters, and was later adapted into three live action movies and an anime series. It was written by Tsugami Ohba, with art by Takeshi Obata. The story revolves around a bored, genius teenager who finds the Death Note, a notebook that will kill whomever name is written in it, barring certain conditions. The teenager, Light, decides to use the notebook to create an Utopian world, where he himself sits as God, presiding over the people he has allowed to live. The action in Death Note focuses on the cat and mouse games between Light Yagami (Kira) and the detectives that try to stop him. In the first half of the series, pursuing Kira is brought to you by the letter L, while in the second half of the series, it is done by L's successors, Near and Mello. Death Note has sparked both moral debate and controversy worldwide. It is banned in China. In America, students have been both suspended and expelled for possessing mock Death Notes with the names of fellow students and teachers written inside. Comparison: Kira and Andy[edit] A comparison between the fictional Light Yagami and the unfortunately real Andrew Schlafly Given their fanatical nature in their respective quests to purge the world of "evil", the following chart has been made to compare Kira to Andrew Schlafly. Light Yagami AKA Kira Andrew Layton Schlafly Kills those whom opposes him Has the death note, described as the ultimate murder weapon Studied at the finest University in Japan Despises the world around him, sees it as rotting No humility Sees himself as a god Uses the Death Note to educate people the difference between right and wrong Loves his family, yet willing to use them and caused the death of his father Mostly calm, yet subject to extreme fits of anger when he is outclassed or outsmarted (which is rare) Misogynistic, uses women around him to his own benefit Has a religion based around him Killed the President of the U.S.A. Killed the FBI agents in Japan sent to capture him, giving the agency a black eye. Mother is a traditional Japanese housewife Father was a police chief. Uses the internet to gain information on criminals to kill Great voice acting made the character all the more powerful A little math. Death Note has sold 20 million copies in Japan. There is 189 pages of story in the first volume alone. On that logic, the first volume of Death Note has about 3,780,000,000 pageviews alone, not counting international sales. There are twelve volumes total. Bans those who oppose him Has Conservapedia, described as the ultimate stupidity on the net Claims to have studied at two of the finest Universities in the U.S.A Despises the world around him, sees it as liberal Sees himself as a prophet Uses Conservapedia to educate his students on the difference between "right" and "wrong" Loves his family Subject to extreme fits of anger when he is outclassed or outsmarted (which is often) Misogynistic, gives women different questions on tests Rewriting the Bible to suit his own interests Insists President Obama is a Muslim and a product of of affirmative action. Annoyed the FBI with an incident that must never be talked about Mother is a writer, political activist who ended the ERA and employed a nanny 40 hours a week mother, which she insists is her occupation Father was a lawyer Uses the internet for actions that should be considered criminal Should consider getting someone to dub his voice Claims that CP has over 105,000,000 pageviews as of this moment. Comics Code Authority because this series would never pass Retrieved from "https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Fun:Death_Note&oldid=2081081"

Boutique Newstead Series delivers world class art and architecture Artists whose works have been displayed in the Louvre have been commissioned to weave a multi-storey artwork into the façade of a new luxury residential development in the Newstead riverside precinct. In a unique approach to weaving art into the architecture of buildings, the Newstead Series, has commissioned 3 award-winning artists and designers to create both art installations and to build artwork into the structural design of its façade and brickwork. Over $550,000 has been spent on local artwork and integrated into the project reflecting the historical significance of the area. With over 85% of Stage 1 already sold, the highly successful Newstead Series is pushing the design envelope to deliver a residential development unique to the Newstead riverside precinct and the Brisbane market. John Livingstone from JGL Properties said the luxury townhome and premium apartment development was designed as a place for contemporary living in one of Brisbane's thriving riverside precincts, but was using art and architecture to weave Newstead's past into the future. "The market research we've done shows that people who choose Newstead as their home are generally young professionals with high disposable incomes, and many are looking for modern well designed and spacious residences," Mr Livingstone said. "We've handpicked a design team that has been heralded internationally to create a strong sense of identity and place through art and architecture. The design team is a collaboration of architect bureau^proberts, artistic collective Rinzen and renowned local artist Jason Fitzgerald, who each have a connection with the precinct and share this common vision. "From the luxury foyers, to the striking external facades and landscaped gardens, the design team have incorporated the history of the site and suburb throughout the project, identifying the Newstead Series as a modern expression of Newstead's extraordinary history," said Mr Livingstone. The foyer spaces will become the backdrop to artwork by renowned local timber artist, Jason Fitzgerald. Jason, who is represented by leading Brisbane gallery Jan Murphy Gallery, has exhibited nationally and won several awards. Jason will use local timbers to create an intricate and layered pattern – much like a three-dimensional timber tapestry – which will act as an inviting and luxurious entrance to the boutique towers. "Jason's unique style of timber treatments including cutting, shaving, sanding and painting timbers will create a tapestry of the past in a contemporary form," said Mr Livingstone. Local artist group, Rinzen, whose works have been exhibited at the Louvre, have also created a large-scale abstracted graphic in the glazed sections of the external façade of the development, which references the trusses and framing of the local warehouses. The Rinzen group currently have large scale artwork installations in Tokyo's Zero Gate and Copehagen's Hotel Fox. "The fritted glass handrails on the Evelyn Street façade create a dramatic reference to the Newstead warehouse framework," said Mr Livingstone. "The Rinzen group has created a large scale abstracted graphic in the glazed sections, and play with perception, so that when draped over the building, a series of abstract dots become pattern and texture at a personal level, and piece together to form a larger graphic which can only be seen from afar." Adrian Clifford from Rinzen said "the graphic balustrade that wraps the Evelyn Street façade provides a lightweight external skin to the tower form – it champions the role of the site by taking ordinary images from Newsteads' history and applying them at billboard proportions". Finally, the Newstead Series award winning architects, bureau^proberts, have created a striking sculptural brick façade at the base of the development which is an interpretation of the strong edges that characterise the Newstead suburb. bureau^proberts' reinterpretation of the brickwork is taken from the surrounding warehouse typology and creates a fragmented pattern delivered from the simple decorative brick patterns of the 19th Century and responds to the triangular trussed forms of existing buildings awhile creating a permeable screen to allow the living spaces beyond to engage with the street whilst maintaining private usable spaces. The bespoke brick screens allow dappled natural sunlight into courtyards during the day whist creating a lantern lighting effect at night. Liam Proberts, Managing Director, bureau^proberts said "Art is an essential element to all our architecture projects because it is such an effective way to connect our buildings with their place and history. "Integrating art into architecture can create memory, intrigue or feeling. In our design, we use art to bring connection or activation to a space, or create a sense of presence or even calm. It helps us to craft the kind of environment that is right for a place." Mr Livingston said, "We were excited about taking the design initiative to create a strong identity by incorporating the history of the Newstead precinct site into the project. The collaboration of a talented, world class design team has enabled us to produce this vision. Thakral Capital's Managing Director Jaginder Singh Pasricha said "from the outset we saw Newstead Series as a high quality development that gives back to the residential community through exemplar architecture distinguishing it from other projects". The Newstead Series comprises four boutique buildings – The Carlyle, The Donaldson, The Ajax and The Koerstz – which were named after Australia's famous wool presses. The buildings are brought together by an expansive half an acre of subtropical landscaped gardens and amenities including a 25 metre lap pool and spa, sauna, gymnasium, alfresco dining areas, fire pit, outdoor cinema, recreational lawns and exercise spaces. Newstead Series construction is scheduled to commence in the last quarter of 2015. Information supplied by Articulous Communications Last Updated: 23 July 2015 Published: 23 July 2015

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Immigration matters are often confusing and overwhelming to a non-attorney, especially now given the changes to the laws. This article is the third and final installment of our series discussing the procedure of immigration hearings and how to prepare. In this series current attorneys who practice immigration law in solo and small law firms in the United States provide guidance and advice about this stage of the immigration proceedings. Individuals and lawyers should be aware that immigration laws often change, especially in the present political climate. This article addresses immigration procedures that are applicable now.

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People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people.... The world doesn't want to acknowledge it either. Lewis uses the terms "luck" and "accident," but it's not quite this arbitrary usually. Some people aren't just lucky but have advantages that are built into the system, into our social structure. Luck is something that can be thought of as fairly randomly distributed; in all societies, however, certain people, because of their ascribed (i.e. unearned) identities*, are disproportionately advantaged. "Luck" is inexplicable, but social advantage (a/k/a privilege) is socially determined and, thus, can be socially mitigated or eliminated through social movements. With luck comes obligation.... You owe a debt to the unlucky. * - I suppose we could get into a philosophical debate as to whether some individuals are "lucky" to have been born into certain advantaged identities. For example, being born male, white, and heterosexual to a middle class Presbyterian family is "luckier" than being born female, black, and queer to a lower class Muslim parent, but this is beside the point.

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Note that any comment can be independently flagged as Buried and Children buried, therefore a Children buried comment shouldn't have special styles applied to itself. In the same way, you can also have a featured AND buried comment, having both styles should be applied together! Hikari Featured Comments provides a special metabox in comment edit page (/wp-admin/comment.php?action=editcomment&c=XXXX) where you can flag these properties, and it automatically attach new classes (featured, buried, children_buried) to comments in frontend. You can see live exemples below in comments area. Note that I developed a special jQuery code that collapses and expands comments, having buried comments collapsed by default! You can follow Hikari Featured Comments updates and older versions at Wordpress.org Plugin Directory (http://wordpress NULL.org/extend/plugins/hikari-featured-comments/), or you can get the last version from the direct link hikari-featured-comments.zip (http://downloads NULL.wordpress NULL.org/plugin/hikari-featured-comments NULL.zip). Hikari Featured Comments requires at least Wordpress 2.9 and PHP5 to work. Download the zip file, upload it to your server and extract all its content to your /wp-content/plugins folder. Make sure the plugin has its own folder (for exemple /wp-content/plugins/hikari-featured-comments/). That's it! Go to any comment you wanna flag, open its edit page and see the new metabox available! At first, no change will be visible. You must edit your theme's comment.php or style.css to add any feature your creativity creates based on these properties. If you have to upgrade manually, simply delete hikari-featured-comments folder and follow installation steps again. Ok, I installed your plugin and as expected nothing happens when I flag a comment as featured. What now? Now your creativity defines what happens! These properties open a variety of possibilities, in both Web Design and Web Development areas! Nice! This gives me some great ideas, but that would require more advanced code... What can you offer? Add some default features to be used out of the box to highlught and bury comments. Thanks to all my friends that support me and thumbs me up to continue. Thanks to everybody who use my plugins (even not donating). Thanks to everybody that add comments to my site! And most of all to everybody that hire me as consultant to implement custom code for their ideas! It has accumulated a total of 50,823 views. You can follow any comments to this article through the Comments RSS 2.0 Feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site. researchThis comment is buried, this text is hidden and can only be seen when it's expanded. This comment is featured, it has special styles that highlight it among other comments. It's also flagged as Children buried, it has a threade comment, but that comment is hidden and must be expanded to be seen. This is a normal comment, it has no special property flagged. But, because its parent is flagged as Children buried, this comment can only be seen when expanded. How can I filter featured comments (or buried) in Admin/Comments/Edit Comments area? Do you mean comments list page in /wp-admin/edit-comments.php?comment_status=all or comment edit page in /wp-admin/comment.php?action=editcomment&c=2294 ? Is there a way to display featured comments on sidebar randomly ? maybe updated in real time or updated in each page load..

Here is a department that has been working untiringly towards helping the Subabharthi students out a difference in the corporate world. Our college provides a friendly and challenging environment that helps and guides the students to meet out the demands in the competitive world outside. There are two ways of spreading light: 0ne, be the candle and the other, a mirror that reflects it. The department of training and placement serves as a mirror that reflects the dreams and goals of the institution. It offers various training programmes for the students and grooms them furthermore to sharpen their intellectual abilities. Instead of awaiting opportunities, they learn to chase and grab opportunities to realize their dreams. It also inculcates discipline and moral values in the students which help them to become better individuals.

Bailey Harmon, our 2011 Lilly Scholar, shared her college experience with us. In 2011, Harmon was selected as the recipient of the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship. Harmon is one of the over 20 Brown County residents who have received four-year full-tuition scholarships through the Endowment's Community Scholars Program. After graduating high school, Harmon began her college career at Indiana University in August 2011. After many years of hard work, she is set to graduate in August 2015 with Bachelors of Arts degrees in Biology and Spanish while minoring in Business and Chemistry. Harmon will also leave Bloomington with the General Honors Notation from Hutton Honors College. Aside from studying, Harmon has kept busy volunteering with Indiana University Dance Marathon (IUDM), participating in equestrian sports with her horse Jenny and working as a server at the Malibu Grill. The Brown County Community Foundation congratulates Harmon on her educational success, dedication to volunteerism and upcoming graduation. Harmon will go on to positively impact her community serving in whatever career field she ultimately choses. Harmon is one of many Brown County Community Foundation scholarship winners who is pursuing a career in Indiana and working to make our Hoosier state a better place to live and to work. You can help support the college and career dreams of Brown County students by making a donation to one of the Brown County Community Foundation Scholarship funds.

Andris Reinholds (Rīga, 7 juni 1971) is een voormalige Letse roeier. Hij vertegenwoordigde zijn land op verschillende grote internationale wedstrijden. Hij nam tweemaal deel aan de Olympische Spelen, maar won hierbij geen medailles. Op de Olympische Spelen van 1996 in Atlanta maakte hij op 25-jarige leeftijd zijn olympisch debuut. Hij kwam uit op de dubbel twee. Met een tijd van 6.20,82 in de kleine finale eindigde hij op een negende plaats overall. Vier jaar later op de Olympische Zomerspelen 2000 in Sydney kwam hij individueel uit in de skiff en finishte in 7.06,28 (series), 7.06,40 (herkansing), 7.15,04 (halve finale) en 6.56,33 (kleine finale). Tijdens het olympisch toernooi werd hij gediskwalificeerd nadat er bij een dopingtest, die at random gehouden werd, verboden middelen bij hem waren aangetroffen. Het zou gaan om het middel Nandrolon. Volgens de regels van wereldroeibond FISA werd hij voor het leven geschorst. Hij was de vijfde atleet die bij deze Spelen positief werd getest. In zijn actieve tijd was hij aangesloten bij Daugava / Dinamo / SK Majori. Naast Lets spreek hij op Russisch. Hij werd gecoacht door zijn vrouw. Palmares dubbel twee 1994: 16e WK - 6.32,28 1995: 9e WK - 6.23,55 1996: 9e OS - 6.20,82 skull 1997: 4e Wereldbeker I - 8.17,86 1997: 4e Wereldbeker II - 6.52,37 1997: 7e Wereldbeker III - 6.58,83 1997: 7e WK - 7.05,56 1998: 5e Wereldbeker I - 7.04,27 1998: 7e Wereldbeker II - 7.00,89 1998: 7e Wereldbeker III - 7.02,69 1998: 9e WK - 6.58,44 1999: 6e Wereldbeker I - 7.03,33 1999: 5e Wereldbeker II - 7.31,73 1999: 9e WK - 7.33,96 2000: 6e Wereldbeker I - 7.25,55 2000: 11e Wereldbeker II - 7.47,99 2000: 8e Wereldbeker III - 7.14,49 2000: DSQ OS Lets roeier Lets olympisch deelnemer

Happy Monday everyone, I hope you all are doing well! I am back to reality today as the winter semester begins. At least this is my last semester with textbooks and exams! The card I have to share with you today again uses the Happy Watercolor stamp set and Gold Fancy Foil Designer Vellum. I let the Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper really shine on this card. I used two patterns, the watercolor polka dots and the yellow to orange watercolor. This paper is great because it looks like you spent all day watercoloring, but you didn't! Also, I love the gold vellum because it adds some metallic shine while still being able to see the paper beneath it! You have probably realized by now that I love the Gold Baker's Twine! The twine does have a tendency to unravel some, but as long as you don't work it too much it seems to do just fine. It is the perfect finishing touch on this card!

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Molly has settled in and seems to be enjoying running the house. She has found her favourite spot on the sofa and with her heating pad, is now enjoying the spa experience every day. Molly has made her food preferences clear : mixed kibble, sardines, sardines and more sardines. She is a quiet and gentle girl and we are happy to have given her a loving home. The thought, care and time that you all generously put into your work there is clear to see. It was our pleasure to have been part of the Paws & Claws experience!

These numbers are evident of a strong entrepreneurial spirit in Canada, but they don't reflect the confusion that many business owners have when it come to establishing the right business structure for their business. As a former farm equipment dealer, I feel that there are three smart strategies to consider. First, choose the right business structure. Sole Proprietorship: The simplest to set up and administer, but all of your net business income is taxed at your personal marginal rate. Your personal assets such as your home and vehicles could be vulnerable to business creditors. Partnership: A structure that has a partnership agreement that defines how the management, profits, and assets of a business will be shared. If needed it can also define how to dissolve the business. A partnership is subject to the same limitations as a sole proprietorship. Corporation: Is a federally or provincially regulated entity that comes with more regulation, more record-keeping requirements and more expenses. The advantages is that it creates a separate legal entity so that shareholders are not personally liable for many of the company's debts, obligations or actions. There are also tax benefits, as well as allowing more flexibility as far as ownership. Cooperative: Is an association of members that own and make decisions for the business. A group of people or companies can pool resources to provide goods and services to a community. Like a corporation, it provides limited liability protection for the members. Which is the best structure for your business depends on numerous factors. This is where your financial advisor, lawyer and accountant can help to determine the right structure for you. Next, protect your personal assets: If you run a sole proprietorship or a partnership, it's very important to protect your personal assets from creditors. One solution is to hold personal savings inside investments administered by insurance companies. That allows you to name a "family class" beneficiary to provide creditor protection for these investments. Work with you financial advisor, legal and tax professions to develop a plan. Finally, protect your current and future retirement income: While business owners are usually interested in the taxes they can save or defer as a result of doing some tax planning, many tend to neglect their insurance and retirement income needs. Business owners have similar life insurance needs as your average person but often lack group plans that provide adequate protection for the owners and their families. Critical illness, disability and business interruption insurance are also vital to protecting the business and the family's income in the event the owner cannot run the business. Where there is more than one business owner, key-person life and disability insurance also need to be put in place. Business owners need to consider the best structure for tax efficiency and creditor protection to protect their business during their working life. They also need to plan what changes are required both before and during retirement to ensure they have adequate tax advantaged income for as long as they live.

25 TV And Movie Roles That Switched Character Genders by Turner Minton – on Jul 11, 2016 Patty (Leslie Jones), Abby (Melissa McCarthy), Erin (Kristen Wiig), and Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) in Ghostbusters There's a trend making the rounds in Hollywood, and it's testing the waters of gender roles in movies. In the past year alone, there's been a spike in the amount of parts that were originally written for men, changed to women. These recent occurrences aren't the only examples of characters being retooled to suit the opposite sex. It's been happening for a while now, and we've got the list to prove it. Casting controversies are a hot topic among fans. Most recently, the reboot of Ghostbusters has been on everybody's mind. With the film set to hit theaters on July 15th, we're eager to see how it all turns out. Whether all the talk ends up to be worth it we'll have to see, but just because the cast isn't what you expect doesn't mean a project is definitely doomed. We've gathered a list of roles, some great and others forgettable, but all of which were cast with the opposite gender in mind. Each actor mentioned has proven their willingness to cross all boundaries in order to tackle any character put before them. We've put them all here in chronological order for your viewing pleasure. So as a testament of the ever-evolving portrayals of gender in Hollywood, we present to you the 25 Movie And TV Roles That Changed Genders. 25 Spock in Star Trek Some casting changes go unnoticed because of how little they've affected our culture, while others are hard to ignore because of how greatly they've influenced everything that's come after. It would be hard to conceive of another version of Spock, one portrayed by a woman, especially when the Half-Vulcan has grown so substantially in the minds of viewers from the wise, logical conscience of Captain Kirk, to someone who hasn't been afraid to occasionally let his emotions show. Still, the idea of a woman in the role was being tossed around in pre-production, and had the writers got their way, the character we've grown up with could have been someone completely different. When everyone was still considering ideas for what would eventually become the unaired pilot "The Cage," the first officer of the Enterprise was being envisioned as a woman. The character went by the name "Number One," a second in command who would be played by Nichelle Nichols, the actress who would later go on to play Lieutenant Uhura in the same series. When the studio began to worry about giving a woman such a prominent role in a television series, they rewrote the part as a man and cast Leonard Nimoy. Spock would retain many of the characteristics of the original character and would go on to become one of the most recognized faces on television. 24 Luke Skywalker/Starkiller in Star Wars With The Force Awakens, we finally have a leading woman playing a Jedi Knight in the universe George Lucas created, but audiences were almost treated to another female lead much earlier on. When Lucas was still fishing for ideas to get his sci-fi classic off the ground, he toyed with the thought of making Luke Skywalker a woman with the last name Starkiller. Although it would take many more drafts to eventually change the last name, the leading lady role was scrapped early into the story's creation. The story from the original draft would have been very similar to the movie we know today. The lead would hail from Tattooine, destined to bring balance to the force; however, Starkiller would have been a 16 year old girl who falls in love with Han Solo and Obi-Wan wouldn't have even made the cut. Concept art for the female version of Mark Hamill's character can still be seen today alongside earlier drawings of Han Solo sporting a beard. Luckily, Lucas put some more time into his script before putting it on film. 23 Ripley in Alien Today we recognize Lt. Ellen Ripley of the USCSS Nostromo as quite possibly the most badass female character to ever grace the silver screen, but a leading lady wasn't always what Twentieth Century Fox had in mind. According to director Ridley Scott, it took some convincing to make everyone believe a woman could survive a ship with a Xenomorph on board. The idea for a female protagonist crossed Scott's mind when he began reflecting on the most recent on-screen heroes of the time. The question arose, "What would people think if Ripley was a woman?" No one would consider her the character to make it all the way to the credits. The actress would have to display her physical strengths while also being authoritative and logical, despite being new and inexperienced. The character would eventually be based on Scott's longtime friend who ran an environmental lobbying group, and the survivor we know today would be born. 22 M in GoldenEye As far as female typecasts go, no other film series has gone out of its way to subject actresses to exploitation more than the 007 film series. Sure, the Bond girl has become a staple of the series, with each character often becoming iconic sex symbols that can often hold their own with the best of them, but in 1995, Eon Productions was looking to shed a new light on how women were perceived by Bond fans. They did so by casting Dame Judi Dench as M, the Head of the Secret Intelligence Service, a part which had been played by actors Bernard Lee and Robert Brown prior to her appearance. According to Ian Fleming, the creation of M first came about when the author began thinking about his former Director from the Naval Intelligence Division during World War II. With the idea for the original M coming from a man, a new source of inspiration was needed for Dench's version of the character. That inspiration would be Stella Rimington, who would head the real-life MI5 between 1992 and 1996. Dench would be replaced by Ralph Fiennes after the end of Skyfall in 2012, but not before redefining women's roles in the James Bond series as more than just eye candy. 21 Lt. Saavik in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Assigned as a navigator aboard the Enterprise, Lt. Saavik served as a trainee in The Wrath of Khan while embarking on a three week training cruise. She later assumes a full position when the crew are forced to terminate the training program and deal with the impending threat of the Genesis crisis. The character would make for an interesting addition in the film, displaying a rare moment of emotion during Spock's funeral despite being of Vulcan heritage. The emotional moment would later be explained by a version of the script which called her part Vulcan and part Romulan, but her ancestry wasn't the only surprise Spock's protege had hidden away. Early script treatments of the film had Kirstie Alley's character written as Dr. Saavik, a young Vulcan originally intended as a man. Despite being called "Mr. Saavik" in the movie, there are no indications that the final screenplay retained any of the early script's references to Saavik's original gender. Alley later admitted that more was supposed to come of her role, even going so far as to have Spock's child, an idea which never came to fruition on screen. Despite not returning to the role in The Search for Spock, Trekkers have kept a soft spot for Alley's version of the character, which would have never made it to the silver screen if it weren't for the change in gender. 20 Dizzy Flores in Starship Troopers Casting a woman as a character originally written as a man in the novel may come as a surprise for those who read Starship Troopers. What's even more shocking, however, is how insignificant the character turned out to be in the novel in the long run. Dizzy Flores was written by author Robert A. Heinlein as a minor character who is fatally wounded during a raid in the first chapter. When Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Edward Neumeier got ahold of the source material, they took the character and ran with it. Dizzy was changed to Isabelle "Dizzy" Flores and became a central character with a substantial amount of screen time. Dina Meyer would be cast in the part, which would become a love interest for the movie's main protagonist Lt. Johnny Rico. She develops a liking to Johnny, whose training unit she later becomes a part of. She eventually becomes a squad leader after she is transferred to the Roughnecks. It isn't until an ambush from the Arachnids of Klendathu later in the film that Dizzy ultimately meets the same fate as her male version from the novel. She leaves a lasting effect with her time on screen, later getting a funeral in her honor where she is called a friend and citizen of the Terran Federation. 19 Dory in Finding Nemo It's funny how the smallest events can fundamentally change the direction of a project. When Andrew Stanton was first kicking around the idea of a story about a clownfish in search of his missing son, he could never have guessed that the true star would be the blue tang fish with short-term memory loss that accompanied him along the way. Neither could he have envision that same side character as a woman. It wasn't until arriving home one afternoon while his wife was watching an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show that he would hear the voice that would become Dory. Imagine the outcome of the popular Pixar picture had the character of Dory been a guy. It's possible the role would have come off as less endearing, less sympathetic and even quite possibly annoying to viewers. All those little idiosyncratic tendencies, her quirks which made her remarkably relatable to audiences, could just as easily irked fans if any other voice had been behind the character. Instead, we were left with a memorable talking fish and a sequel which has proven to be worth the wait. 18 Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica Fans of the Battlestar Galactica of the late '70s weren't particularly enthused when they first heard word about Katee Sackhoff's casting as Kara Thrace in the sci-fi show. Luckily, viewers can be just as forgiving as they can be brutally honest. That's a good thing, because Lt. Starbuck proved to be one of the most complex, hard-nosed and opinionated characters on television in recent memory. In the 1978 version of the show, Starbuck is a hotshot pilot and a Colonial Warrior fighting on the human side in the war against the Cyclons. The role was played by Dirk Benedict in the series, which only lasted one season. Sackhoff's take on the character would become one of the most satisfying parts of the remake. The stogie-smoking tomboy grew to possess a newfound lease on life aboard the Galactica under the command of Admiral William Adama. The change in sex between the series would make Sackhoff's version more layered, often projecting an appearance many people wouldn't consider ladylike but which gave her an edge and made her more rugged and outwardly confident than the well-groomed version from the original. It was her display of confidence which make the character among the most intriguing to watch on television in the past decade. 17 Paula in The 40-Year-Old Virgin Sometimes Hollywood can really feel like a guy's club. It's hard not to believe male actors stick together when you hear stories about Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack or see movies from Judd Apatow or Adam Sandler all featuring the same people. On occasion, however, an actress can breach those inner circles and impress enough to hang with the best of them. That's what happened when Jane Lynch auditioned for her role as the store manager at a SmartTech in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Lynch landed an audition when Steve Carrell's wife Nancy suggested she play the part. Something must have gone right for the actress because she was convincing enough that Apatow cast her in the role. She would eventually add a new spin on the character, constantly flirting with the hapless virgin Andy Stitzer. Lynch would later work her way into other Apatow productions, including Talladega Nights and Walk Hard, proving she was perfectly capable of playing authority figures intended to be portrayed by men. 16 Kyle Pratt in Flightplan Picture an actor in an action thriller on board an airplane searching for his missing daughter. Who would you cast as the lead? If you're thinking it sounds like another vehicle for someone like Liam Neeson, that would probably ring true. It was that way of thinking which led director Robert Schwentke to retool the story behind Flightplan. According to him, the story of a father losing his daughter wasn't gripping enough and didn't deliver the emotional connection they were looking for. In the script, the father was travelling with his daughter from Berlin, despite knowing little about how to care for her. His wife was the caregiver of the family and the father was said to not know "what kind of sandwiches" his daughter would eat. Foster would re-ignite the project when the studio suggested leaning towards a more sympathetic angle with a mother's instinct taking control of the narrative. As Foster would say it, "women tend to typically have a problem differentiating between themselves and their children; they kind of don't know where their kids stop and where they start, and it's hard to explain that to people." 15 Salt in Salt What's the best way to avoid being typecast as the damsel in distress or object of desire in an action movie? It's simple. Stop auditioning for those roles and target the leads you want to play. That's what Angelina Jolie did when she stole the role of Evelyn Salt from Tom Cruise - that is, before the role was rewritten for a woman. Jolie has been quoted in the past as saying she would never play a Bond girl, although she would never be opposed to playing the 007 agent. With a go-forth attitude like that, there's little question why Sony pursued her after Cruise turned down the role. Having already played in other big action flicks like Tomb Raider and Wanted, she slipped easily into the role of the CIA agent accused of being a Russian spy. The rewrite would include changing the character from a father whose family was in danger to a single woman without children. In order to keep the character's hard edge, the studio rejected the idea of her being a mother. The result was another ass-kicking role for Jolie to add to her filmography. 14 Prospera in The Tempest Shakespeare's plays have a long history of cross-gendered castings. The first woman didn't appear in one of the author's plays until 1660, approximately 44 years after he died; until then, men played every female part. Because acting was considered a lowly profession at the time, teenage boys often took over the roles of women on stage, which meant such famed characters as Juliet or Lady Macbeth were first acted out by prepubescents waiting for their voices to drop. Taking all this into consideration, Helen Mirren's casting as Prospera, the protagonist and sorceress in The Tempest, would be viewed as beyond transgressive to the audiences that would have attended one of Shakespeare's shows. The part of Prospera was originally written as Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan who is put on a rotting boat at sea left to die by his brother Antonio. When he and his 3 year old daughter Miranda wash up on an island, he uses books of sorcery to learn magic to protect her and control a beast named Caliban that inhabits the island. Helen Mirren's rendition of the character closely follows that of Shakespeare's with her also protecting her daughter Miranda. Ultimately, Mirren's performance was well received, despite the film feeling aesthetically misguided and overly ambitious. 13 Amanda Clarke in Revenge Revenge is a dish best served with fine wine at your oceanfront getaway in the Hamptons. This ABC series may have been gone after only four seasons on the air, but its soap opera roots lent to one of television's strongest female-led casts at the time. While many of the actors who worked on the series have admitted that the show was in fact a soap, it's also well known that another notable influence was Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. The novel shares a lot in common with its modern day retelling, including a character who lost everyone dearest to them only to become wealthy and return with a vengeance. The biggest difference, however, is the change of the protagonist from a man to a woman, a decision which sets up what many viewers perceived as a larger feminist message. Emily VanCamp plays Amanda Clarke, a woman who loses her father after he was framed for treason and comes back under the new name Emily Thorne to get revenge on those who wronged her family. Much like Edmond Dantès, Clarke concocts a ruthless plan to get justice and pulls it off convincingly. She comes off as exceedingly competent compared to her rich acquaintances and exhibits a confidence which is slowly becoming increasingly prominent among female leads in television today. 12 Dr. Watson in Elementary Elementary may not be the highest rated series on network television, nor is it even the most popular rendition of Sherlock Holmes currently airing, but it does have one interesting change which keeps it in the running with the BBC series. Sherlock's longtime friend and assistant on cases, Dr. John Watson, is not only not the same character that shares a flat with the sleuth detective in 221B Baker Street, he's not even a man. The CBS series took a different approach to the reserved Watson, casting Lucy Liu in the role, a decision which undoubtedly led to some heavy criticism from fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. According to Robert Doherty, a writer for the series, the casting idea came from the creators who believed Sherlock's relationship with women had not been challenged enough. The writers believed that Sherlock's past inability to deal with the women in his life showed psychological issues with the opposite sex which had not been explored to their fullest. In order to handle the often controlling nature of the detective's obsessions, the studio searched for a female counterpart to balance him out. Lucy Liu does an admirable job reeling her colleague in, forcing him to come to grip with reality and respect her as a co-worker. 11 Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3 A lot goes into promoting a superhero blockbuster, but ticket sales and large scale cinematic universes are all for naught if you can't sell toys- or at least that's what director Shane Black would have you believe. According to the director of Iron Man 3, the antagonist of the Marvel movie, Aldrich Killian, was originally written as a woman before Marvel interjected over concerns about selling action figures to children. The studio felt that a female villain would not do well in the action figure department, so they sent the script back to the writers' room for revisions. The original draft would have called for a female version of the scientist that challenges Tony Stark with her Extremis experiment. Black likened the idea to the TV series Remington Steele with a female running the whole show behind closed doors and a fictitious figure acting as the shadowy leader. Instead, the script was rewritten with Guy Pearce eventually landing the role. Had Marvel gone through with the initial idea, we would be looking at a different movie today, one where a female antagonist may have been a welcomed change from the studio. 10 Secretary Delacourt in Elysium Two appearances on this list must mean Jodie Foster knows something other actresses don't. It takes a commanding screen presence to pull off a character like Secretary Delacourt in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium. The anti-immigrant villain works as the Secretary of Defense on the populated satellite orbiting the overpopulated Earth below. She's devoted to keeping Elysium pure from the lower class citizens living outside her home. Her plans ultimately go awry when she's forced to come into contact with Max Da Costa (Matt Damon), who is in need of one of the Med-Bays on Elysium in order to survive a recent exposure to radiation. Following the success of District 9, Foster had said she was a fan of Blomkamp's film and was looking to work with him in any capacity. When the director realized his bad guy could work as a bad girl, Foster's face was the first that came to mind to play the part. The role originally written as Secretary Rhodes was changed for the actress and Foster soon got to work keeping the population of the contaminated Earth at a distance. 9 Major Anderson in Ender's Game Set in a futuristic, imperiled world after two major alien attacks on Earth, this adaptation of Orson Scott Card's young adult novel saw the character Major Anderson change genders. In the novel, Anderson in the second in command at the International Fleet's Battle School where children are trained in military tactics in the case of a third invasion. Anderson would question his superior Hyrum Graff, the principal of the Battle School, after witnessing his unorthodox methods for training the children. Viola Davis' version of the character is a psychologist who cares for the children and comes head-to-head with Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford). When asked about the casting, director Gavin Hood said Davis could encompass the role in a way no male actor could. In just a few short scenes, she could deliver the kind of arc the character needed to display to the audience. In the end, it was her acting ability which landed her the role, re-imagining yet another character from a novel as a member of the opposite sex. 8 Deputy Minister Mason in Snowpiercer Tilda Swinton in Snowpiercer Tilda Swinton's first of two appearances on our list has us believing we may be witnessing one of our generation's greatest transformative actors embracing some of the most atypical roles in movie history. To say her characters deviate from the obvious would be a severe understatement. We need only to look at Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer to know as much. In the dystopian picture set on a speeding super train, Swinton plays Deputy Minister Mason, a matriarch with thick rimmed glasses and dentures. The role was supposed to be a mild-mannered man in a suit, but when Swinton was sent the script she had some ideas of her own. The character was never rewritten for the new casting decision. Instead, Swinton tackled the role head on with some improvisation to make the character her own. She patterned her part after Margaret Thatcher and delivered her lines with the mannerisms of a clownish dictator. Mason's final appearance was entirely constructed through Swinton's own wicked fantasy, producing a memorable performance that stands out for its unusual eccentricity. 7 Murph Cooper in Interstellar The relationship between a father and his daughter were at the center of Christopher Nolan's decision to gender swap the role of Murphy Cooper in his space travelling epic Interstellar. After Nolan and his brother had put the finishing touches on the screenplay, something seemed off to the director. While he had written the role of Murph to be a male, the father-son dynamic had felt tired and overdone. Having a daughter of his own, he changed the script to reflect the relationship he had built with his own child. Jessica Chastain, who would play the adult version of Murph, later acknowledged the change in the script, stating she believed the character retained some of the masculine qualities from the early draft of the script. Murph's relationship with her father would dictate how she presented herself to the world, even going so far as to wear his jacket 25 years after he had disappeared to save Earth from its ecological disaster. It was these traits which attracted established actresses like Chastain and Ellen Burstyn to the role in hopes of encouraging more writers to create headstrong female leads to put in their films. 6 Karsi in Game of Thrones In 2015, Danish born actress Birgitte Hjort Sørensen came onto the scene in a big way. The relatively unknown actress debuted on the HBO series Game of Thrones along with a supporting role in Pitch Perfect 2. The character was a minor one only appearing in the season five episode "Hardhome" before meeting an early demise, but her short-lived appearance was enough to make an impact and leave her stuck in the minds of viewers watching at home. Sørensen played Karsi, a wildling leader who is forced to retreat back to Hardhome after the loss at the Battle of Castle Black. When Jon Snow arrives with Tormund to offer the wildlings refuge due to the impending war with the White Walkers, Karsi steps up to represent her clan just before the army of the dead ambush the Free Folk. Director Miguel Sapochnik said Karsi, who was intended to be a man, was later changed to a woman due to one pivotal scene during the attack in which she sends her two daughters to safety shortly before being mauled to death by child-wights. The scene leaves a lasting impression with viewers feeling for the character they only just met. Sapochnik credits the effectiveness of the scene to Sørensen who delivered the lines as a mother looking to protect her children. 5 Jane in Our Brand Is Crisis If there aren't enough strong female roles of interest floating around Hollywood, what is an actress to do? If you're Sandra Bullock and just coming off a major payday for a blockbuster sci-fi flick, you take your pick of any written male role you want. For this political dramedy, Bullock looked to her Gravity co-star George Clooney for answers. Having just landed the part of a lifetime in Alfonso Cuaron's space thriller, which many studio execs felt was better suited for a male lead, Bullock pulled no punches looking for her next character. "Calamity" Jane Bodine, a campaign strategist enlisted to help a Bolivian presidential candidate get re-elected, was originally envisioned with Clooney in the starring role. When Bullock caught word of the project, she inquired about the idea of changing the character's gender. The role would see Bodine pitted against her nemesis Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton), the consultant for the younger, opposing candidate. With Clooney set to produce the film, he happily stepped aside to make room for the new lead. 4 Jeri Hogarth in Jessica Jones The first lesbian character written as a recurring part in the MCU, Jeri Hogarth is a lawyer and businesswoman going through a divorce in the Jessica Jones Netflix series. Carrie-Anne Moss was brought onto the project after her history of playing badass female characters proved enough for her to take on the role the studio had in mind. The workaholic persona that often clashes with Jessica's roughneck methods proved to be a winning combination, but Moss was lucky to have gotten an audition at all. If Marvel had kept the character true to the comics, Jeri Hogarth would have remained Jeryn Hogarth, the no-nonsense lawyer that hangs out with superheroes on a daily basis and also happens to be a man. All things considered, everything came up roses for Moss. She landed the part and put a whole new spin on a show that was already led by a strong female performance. It's a good thing, too. Without Hogarth, who would have been around to let Kilgrave out of his prison so he could go after Jessica one last time? 3 Jessica Cobb in Secret in Their Eyes For last year's Secret in Their Eyes, Julia Roberts geared up to play a grieving mother who investigates the murder of her child. The part, which had originally been written as a man who loses his wife under the same circumstances, was changed once Roberts was brought on board. In both Eduardo Sacheri's novel and the 2009 Academy Award winning adaptation, the story takes place in Argentina. It wasn't until the movie was rewritten for American audiences that director Billy Ray shifted the story's focus to a mother and her deceased daughter, a decision which the studio believed would make the character more compelling for viewers. The change of the lead from male to female also brought a change in the character's involvement with the murder case. In the remake, Roberts also plays a district attorney's investigator, putting her at the scene of the crime when it's reported. In both versions of the film, the characters become obsessed over finding the murderer, eventually leading to some emotionally charged decisions involving what to do in retaliation. Still, Roberts brought a whole other intensity to the role with the mother-daughter dynamic which wasn't present in Juan Jose Campanella's 2009 adaptation. 2 The Ancient One in Doctor Strange We're still a few months removed from the release of Marvel's Doctor Strange and the picture promises to widen the MCU in ways we haven't seen before, but when the film drops there will be one particularly major change between the comics and the on-screen adaptation. The Ancient One, Doctor Strange's mentor and the "Sorcerer Supreme," is a man in the stories. In the movie, the Tibetan mystic will be played by Swinton, whose varied career should serve her well when taking on such a controversial casting decision. Rumors were swirling soon after the casting choice that Swinton may be playing the role as a man, but all that was quickly put to rest when Strange's advisor was announced as a woman. The odds are stacked against the actress as her character isn't only a different gender, but also of Tibetan descent, making a white Scottish woman the least likely of candidates for the role. It will be up to her to bring a new and unique interpretation to the character to satisfy die-hard followers of the comics, but it seems like a challenge she's more than willing to overcome. 1 Ronda Rousey's Character in Road House Ronda Rousey has paved her way to fame through the MMA scene as the UFC's first Women's Bantamweight Champion, going undefeated until her first loss again Holly Holm last November. Since then, she has shifted her focus to other projects while she contemplates her return to the ring. One such project is a planned remake of the 1989 film Road House, which starred the late Patrick Swayze. Having already appeared in side roles in films like The Expendables 3 and Furious 7, this will mark her first leading part in a major motion picture. The original part of Dalton will have to be rewritten for Rousey, although with the nature of the character we expect her to slip into the role quite easily. She will play a professional 'cooler', a bouncer who specializes in throwing rowdy people out of bars. Since Rousey is often referred to as The Rowdy One, it should be a nice change to see her disposing of the bar's worst patrons. Whether she'll be able to handle all the bad tempers that walk into the Double Deuce in Jasper, Missouri remains to be seen, but something tells us she'll be just fine. Harry Potter: The 10 Worst Things McGonagall Has Ever Done

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Home » Archive » Is Clash Royale Safe for Kids? Is Clash Royale Safe for Kids? Mohammad Z. Playing games online can keep kids busy on their phones and fill up their spare time. However, this can make your child addicted to their screen or have adverse effects on their mental health. Clash Royale was at its most popular in 2017 and has declined in popularity since then but many kids still play it. Parents are concerned about their children since playing games online takes up a lot of time and can keep kids from studying for their finals. Or it can make them more susceptible to exposure to inappropriate content. These are major concerns for parents and they must know if Clash Royale is safe for their children. Let's not waste time and dive right into this article's question: Is Clash Royale safe for kids? What is Clash Royale? Clash Royale is a strategic mobile game made by Supercell and just like its predecessor, Clash of Clans, it's been very successful in the market and has many fans across the globe. Clash Royale was at its most popular in 2017 and has declined in popularity since then but many kids still play it. This game is almost entirely child-friendly, but there is always the chance that children will be exposed to inappropriate material such as strong language or cyberbullying on it. The chat box that players use to chat with each other is where the danger lies. When players lose a game or just get frustrated, they tend to use strong language that might not be age-appropriate for your child and this exposure can severely harm their mental health, which we will get into in the next section. Negative Side Effects of Clash Royale You might be asking yourself "why would a mobile game made for kids have so many side effects?". Well, every gaming app can have negative side effects and most of the time, the creators have no idea about them. A couple of Clash Royale's side effects are screen addiction, dopamine-related disorders, and exposure to strong language. Screen Addiction In recent years, the general public has learned that addiction isn't limited to illegal substances and humans can even get addicted to the chemicals in their brains. One of these chemicals is Dopamine. When you're on your phone and you're playing games, the bright colors and the animations on the screen release Dopamine and in the long run, addiction is inevitable. The way screen addiction works is that your brain gets exposed to high amounts of dopamine, and to not get overloaded, it lowers the base dopamine levels. As a result, you will have low dopamine throughout the day unless you pick up your phone and start playing a game, e.g., Clash Royale. Read our article on screen addiction to learn more. Exposure to Strong Language Being exposed to strong language might not sound like a big deal to some, but it affects how your child transitions into an adult. Children who are exposed to strong language are likely to repeat those swear words at school or at home, which causes them trouble. This means that if they read an inappropriate text in Clash Royale's chat box, they could repeat it at school and be expelled. This will undoubtedly damage their future in society and when they're looking for a job. Some studies show children who hear swear words on TV or any other media, tend to become more aggressive both physically and verbally. In a study done on 223 children in middle school, researchers found that exposure to profanity on TV or other media such as video games had the same effect on children as being exposed to violence in different media. Although no causation from profanity in media to aggression in real life is established, the correlation between them is strong. The chat box in Clash Royale that we talked about is also the perfect place for cyberbullying. Kids that are aggressive, whether they've picked it up on TV or not, tend to bully their peers. Being bullied at a young age can have lots of negative effects on children, one of which is low self-esteem. A common thing that happens when someone is trying to cyberbully you is that they will upload an embarrassing comment or photo of yours online. This will result in other bullies publicly shaming you, which often leads to low self-esteem. Another possible side-effect of being cyberbullied is committing suicide or self-harm. How different people react to being cyberbullied or humiliated varies greatly depending on the person. Some might go as far as thinking about physically hurting the bully, whereas others might hurt themselves instead. In fact, research shows strong links between self-harm and being bullied. The effects we just explained can make some children react significantly more aggressively. In some cases, cyberbullying has resulted in simply missing a day of school on purpose, or in more extreme cases, bringing guns to the school. All parents must be on the watch for any sign that indicates their child is being cyberbullied. Conclusion: Is Clash Royale Safe for Kids? The popular mobile game Clash Royale has been very popular in the past and is still relatively popular. This game is made for children above the age of 13, but since kids can just enter a different age, you must know if it's a safe game. Clash Royale (we're talking about the game itself, not the players) is totally fine and safe for kids. However, the game offers a feature that compromises your child's online safety — the chat box. This feature allows other players to use swear words in the chat, which as explained above, can have negative effects on your child. As a safety measure, you could use parental control apps like Safes to be notified when they get inappropriate messages in the chat box. Check out the Safes Family webpage to learn more about Safes's features. Can a 12-year-old play clash royale? No. The Clash Royale game was created by Supercell for kids above 13 years old. Is Clash Royale a safe app? Since the characters in the game don't use any strong language and there's no blood and gore in the game, the app is safe. However, the chat box can expose your child to inappropriate language used by other players.

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The ten-cent wage cut imposed by the mill owners broke the camel's back — workers were real angry, and even though most of the workers were unorganized they poured out of the mills fighting made. They were fed up with the wage cuts and the speedups, and it was almost as if everything was organized beforehand, but it wasn't. When the Textile Council rejected the ten percent cut and announced that they were gonna strike, all the unskilled people that they paid no attention to got out there. And they became the made force of the strike. Quoted in The Strike of '28, by Daniel Georgianna with Roberta Hazen Aaronson (Spinner Publications, 1993). In the introduction, you say, " Although only members of the Textile Committee were permitted to cast votes,..." Don't you mean the Textile Council? Six years ago Joe Ross wrote: "In the introduction, you say, 'Although only members of the Textile Committee were permitted to cast votes,...' Don't you mean the Textile Council?" Yes, that's what you meant. Now change it already! Try to send them a message directly. Otherwise it can last a long time. On this day in 1928, after a bitter six-month strike, the members of New Bedford's Textile Council voted to accept a compromise offer. Faced with overproduction and falling profits, the mill owners had imposed a ten percent pay cut. Both the moderate Textile Council, to which skilled mill workers belonged, and the radical Textile Mill Committee, which included many unskilled immigrant laborers, responded by going out on strike. At first, the strike felt like a holiday. But as the months passed, and strikers faced a hungry winter, pressure increased to settle. In late September, the mill owners proposed a five percent cut. Although only members of the Textile Committee were permitted to cast votes, their acceptance of the deal brought an end to the strike. As the strike dragged on, tensions mounted. New Bedford police were initially tolerant of picketers, but as crowds grew larger and rowdier, arrests, primarily of TMC strikers, became more common. In the years during and just after World War I, New England's textile industry prospered. The old whaling port of New Bedford had become one of the state's success stories. From 1913 to 1920, its 30,000 textile workers saw their wages triple. Small businesses and local banks thrived as workers spent and saved their earnings. This prosperity was good for organized labor, too. Most skilled English and Anglo-American weavers and loomfixers joined the Textile Council, a federation of local textile craft unions founded in the late nineteenth century. As the Council developed relationships with the business community and with local and state government officials, it earned the respect of both mill owners and the press. In the 1920s, the growth that had followed the end of WW I slowed, and overproduction caused prices to fall. In 1928 the Manufacturers' Association tried a voluntary effort to cut back production by 20 percent, but New Bedford mill owners were hesitant to comply. Instead, on April 9, 1928, they asked the workers to take a 10 percent pay cut to improve the industry's competitive position. From 1913 to 1920, New Bedford's 30,000 textile workers saw their wages triple. The outraged young leader of the Textile Council, William Batty, immediately called for a strike to protest the cut. He realized that this would be a gamble; only a small percentage of mill workers actually belonged to the union, which had long excluded unskilled Portuguese and Polish immigrant workers from membership. But he took a chance that the unorganized workers would follow union members out on strike. The risk paid off. On April 16th, the first day of the strike, scarcely any workers entered the mills. All three of the city's newspapers came out in opposition to the wage cut, running editorials calling for state intervention. A sense of celebration marked the informal pickets at the mill gates; strikers wore their best clothes and brought picnic breakfasts. That afternoon, New Bedford's movie theaters reported record crowds. For people who had worked nearly every day in the mills since the age of 12 or 13, the early days of the strike brought a welcome change in routine. But the strike soon lost its air of festivity. Although initially the striking workers seemed unified, divisions soon became apparent. The 20,000 immigrant workers excluded from the Textile Council joined the Textile Mill Committees, a militant labor organization two avowed communists had established in 1926. The TMC sought to unite all textile workers. Under the TMC banner, the Polish and Portuguese workers played a more active role in the strike than immigrant workers usually did. For people who had worked nearly every day in the mills since the age of 12 or 13, the early days of the strike brought a welcome change in routine. Rather than simply protesting the wage cut, the TMC demanded a 20 percent increase in wages, a 40-hour workweek, equal pay for equal work, an end to child labor, and no retribution against union members. While both the TMC and the Textile Council were fighting the mill owners, William Batty believed that the TMC's overly ambitious goals hurt workers' ultimate chances of success; furthermore, he regarded the Textile Mill Committee as a threat to the Council's social, political, and economic clout. Newspapers and government officials, alarmed by the communist views of the TMC's leadership, sided with Batty. Large numbers of Polish and Portuguese workers continued to support the TMC, although they acted more from loyalty to a group they believed represented their interests, rather than to the union's communist leadership. As the strike dragged on, tensions mounted. New Bedford police were initially tolerant of picketers, but as crowds grew larger and rowdier, arrests, primarily of TMC strikers, became more common. At the end of May, a Citizens' Mediation Committee convinced mill owners to meet with the Textile Council to discuss a compromise. Nothing came from the meeting, but the TMC, excluded from the negotiations, stepped up picketing to show that the strike could not be settled without its cooperation. Large numbers of Polish and Portuguese workers continued to support the TMC, although they acted more from loyalty to a group they believed represented their interests, rather than to the union's communist leadership. By August, the Textile Council, realizing that its members were falling into dire poverty, began to court the mill owners, who were also suffering from heavy financial losses. Both the Council and the owners now regarded the TMC as the enemy; they consistently excluded it from their meetings believing that a two-way settlement was the best way to eliminate the militant group. On September 25th, the Manufacturers' Association (representing the mill owners) proposed a compromise: a five percent wage cut. The city's newspapers endorsed the proposal, although conceding it was less than ideal. The TMC immediately denounced it as a "sell out." On Monday, October 1st, about 2,000 members of the Council's unions voted against the five percent compromise, and it was rejected. While the TMC rejoiced, the city's newspapers turned against the Council, blaming it for prolonging the strike. They called for another vote, claiming that there had been confusion about the time for voting. Worried about losing the support of the press, Council leaders complied. On October 6th, a second vote was taken. This time police supervised each polling area, keeping TMC protesters away. With similar numbers voting, the proposal passed. Although the TMC vowed to keep the mills closed on its own, thousands of workers reported to their old posts on October 8th. The New Bedford strike was over at last, and for most that was cause enough for celebration. The Strike of '28, by Daniel Georgianna with Roberta Hazen Aaronson (Spinner Publications, 1993). Mandatory field Spam Prevention* Please calculate 1 plus 5.

Well, hello folks. When was the last time we spoke? Yea… it's been a few months, hasn't it. The last thing I posted was the talk I gave on synaesthetics; I'm very proud of this, you should check it out if you've ever got 50 minutes to burn expanding your mind. Since then, what's been going on? Oh, just making records, you know, the usual. The burden of Irrational Optimism or "burden" as I colloquially like to call it, is my second foray into the creation of electronic music exclusively using a hardware exclusive technique. That is, while the recording was made digitally, the music was composed and is performable using hardware based synthesizers, sequencers, sound fx, and mixing elements. Effectively, this music is created by performing a music studio. burden extends upon what Impedance started, maturing in sound design, composition, and performance. Presently we're tying up all our fun record-label release planning, including finaling the artwork, planning music videos, and creating the first single. Expect the album to officially drop in March or April and the record will be available on CD as well as iTunes/Spotify; info on purchasing n such to come later, today is just about the music. Just an add, the first single will not be Center, this is just a special soundcloud only release for you folks. I just really wanted to share what's been going on with you all, since the formal release will take some time. Okay, I want to keep this one short so, we'll catch up later, enjoy!

The former head of the charity that collects and dispenses cash from Wikipedia's fundraising secured a pay rise worth almost 50 per cent – after she stepped down as chief executive. The details only emerged after the US-headquartered Wikimedia Foundation released its 990 tax form for 2014-15. Gardner joined the WMF in December 2007 and revolutionised its shambolic fundraising efforts. The operating costs of the world's sixth biggest website are under £3m but the WMF brings home far more that that, with $75m raised in 2014/15. Gardner's compensation rose to $320,057 after she stepped down as an executive. How come? Gardner agreed to stay on as a "Special Advisor" until a new chief exec could be found, earning an extra $165,000 on top of her $200,000 basic salary. Wikipedia volunteers questioned the deal. @SuePGardner Ta for the time when you can. Position was never listed on "staff & contractors" page, never mentioned until Form990 published. Before she stepped down as chief exec, Gardner admitted that some of the surplus has been "frittered" away, questioning the wisdom of doling out of large amounts to regional WMF chapters, and acknowledged that the windfall created "sometimes difficult dynamics" between unpaid volunteers and the new class of paid bureaucrats. A decade ago the Foundation employed just three people. The Wikmedia Foundation has so much spare cash floating about it has been able to create an endowment fund.

Blood Brothers 2017: A chat with Loandi Boersma 19 September 2017 Off By Floris Groenewald The cancer-fighting Blood Brothers are returning with the 2017 edition of their annual fund-and-awareness raising concerts. And for the second time, there's a female "brother" in the mix — so we made sure to ask Cortina Whiplash' Loandi Boersma a couple of questions about the upcoming show on 30 September… "Of course it means a lot to me," she tells me. "I have always been 'one of the boys' because I like guitars and cars, but I am a woman of today, and I am extremely excited to present myself as such." Cortina Whiplash. Picture by Leigh Taylor Photography. The Blood Brothers, as an extension of the Vrede Foundation, aims to raise awareness and funds that go towards cancer research – specifically in young people. It was started by Herman Pretorius, a high-school musician, behind-and-in-front-of-camera TV guy who was involved with some of the most important music-TV productions, like MK, AMP, JIP, Meet the Fan, Meltdown, Beatlab and Selekta. His own cancer diagnosis kick-started Vrede, as an awareness and fundraising campaign. "I knew Herman personally," Loandi says. "I was in Rokkeloos at the time of his diagnosis. He was also the first person to ever do a television interview with me." Picture by Leigh Taylor Photography. "I have also been a part of the South African music scene since I left school basically, therefore I know all guys in the Blood Brothers band too. I was overwhelmed with excitement when they asked me to join." She tells me that the preparation has already been a very long process to plan the evening. "The whole team is extremely professional and the guys have obviously done this before, so that makes things a lot easier." Picture by Andre Badenhorst. And what's going to be exciting at this year's event? "I will be performing a classic AC/DC number and a killer version of Paradise City by Guns 'n Roses. I will also be doing some Cortina Whiplash originals." Loandi will be joined by Kobus de Kock Jnr, Garth Barnes, Hanu de Jong, Albert Frost, Jason Hinch, Jaco Mans, Jason Oosthuizen, Francois van Coke, and Chris van der Walt to form Blood Brothers 2017. Blood Brothers 2017 is at The Good Luck Bar on 30 September 2017. Check out the Facebook event and get your tickets here. Floris Groenewald Floris sometimes writes things when he's not watching movies or playing video games or editing videos or folk-rock singing/songwriting. CategoryEvents Interview Music Club TagsBlood brothers Blood Brothers 2017 Cortina Whiplash Loandi Boersma Vrede Foundation Floris sometimes writes things when he's not watching movies or playing video games or editing videos or folk-rock singing/songwriting. Recent posts on TheFlow Bring an Umbrella! A Rainy Day In New York Twice the Will Smith is a great idea on paper Back of the Moon #FliekInAfrikaans resensie

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Sept. 23 marks the 25th anniversary of Alkek Library. Students can look forward to a series of events hosted by the university this semester in celebration of Albert B. Alkek Library's 25th anniversary, as well as renovations for the future. Alkek staff will kick off the event-filled semester with the Book Pass Reenactment on Sept. 23 at 10 a.m. in the Quad. The event is intended to recreate the symbolic move that occurred on Alkek's completion day when the library was moved from the JC Kellam building to the newly completed library in its current location, said Joan Heath, university librarian. During the original book pass event in 1990, a human chain was formed from the third floor of the JC Kellam building to the top steps of the newly completed Alkek library, according to university archives. Four books were passed along the human chain that began with Jerome H. Supple, former president of the university, Heath said. She said the book passing signified giving a new home to the university's library collection. This year's book passing reenactment will begin at the plaza in front of Old Main, where President Trauth will begin the event and commemorate its significance, Heath said. Heath said the celebration of Alkek's 25 years of existence is a milestone for the campus and the library as a whole. "What's most important about the celebration of Alkek is it presents a good opportunity to focus on the library and how central it is to the campus community," Heath said. JC Kellam building. These shifts continued from 1903 on, until the collection found a permanent home following Alkek's 1990 completion. University officials decided to construct a building solely dedicated to serving as a library after the collection maxed out the allotted space in JCK, Heath said. John Martinez, library facilities assistant, said he was shocked by the enormity of Alkek. Heath said that 25 years later, Alkek is now running into the same issue the JCK location encountered: not enough space. Starting this month, Alkek will be subject to renovations that will take several years to complete, Heath said. The renovation will happen in phases that begin with the first floor and proceed upwards from there. Heath says more space will be created through an infrastructure update. Heath said the renovation plan includes an increase in space where students can collaborate for group projects, as well as individual study rooms. Heath said the university will build a storage space at STAR Park to hold less-used materials rather than adding more floors to Alkek. Heath said university officials have worked to keep the library updated as Texas State shifts focus to becoming a research university. When Alkek first opened its doors, the library only had 12 PCs to offer, according to university archives. Today there are more than 80 computers on the main floor alone. Despite all of the changes in Alkek over the past 25 years, the library's mission has stayed the same, Heath said. Melissa Bonano, student worker and biochemistry sophomore, said the silent floor of Alkek is her favorite part of the building because it gives students the chance to study and focus without any distractions. Heath said as a testament to Alkek's centrality on campus, people should know that the library had 11,980 people walk through its doors on the first class day of the semester. Follow Kasandra Garza on Twitter at @KasGarza.

The Times has reported that, despite the fact that 75% of the population are afraid of developing dementia or losing their ability to make decisions, 97% of people have taken no legal steps toward securing care in the future. Dementia is the leading cause of death in England and Wales, making up 12% of the total deaths in 2016. It's on the rise, too: the number of people diagnosed has increased by 54% in the last ten years, according to The Times. In just 7 years, more than 13 million people who are at risk of dementia will have no legal or medical arrangements made due to a lack of preparation. Rosie Runciman, co-founder of The Sound Doctor says: "We know first-hand that people are reluctant to talk about the condition. Sufferers think they can leave key decisions to their next of kin without taking legal steps to ensure that it happens, whether it be their pension, writing a will or saving for retirement." The Sound Doctor's library of films on dementia, created with Newcastle University Institute of Ageing, takes people through the timeline of what to do when they are diagnosed with dementia. This means that patients can think about power of attorney, when to move into a care home, when to stop driving and other important questions that they don't want to think about but need to give to consideration to early on. The film library covers all the main topics, including beginner-level knowledge. There is helpful information to address the question of whether we can reduce our risk of getting dementia, as well as information about the early symptoms. Films to provide support around memory loss, communication problems and incontinence are also available. Carers, as well as sufferers, will find the support they need with The Sound Doctor. Professor Louise Robinson, Professor of Primary Care and Ageing at Newcastle University Institute for Ageing, worked closely with The Sound Doctor to both create and clinically review the films.

Nowadays there is barely any place where there is no digital interface, from the digital tables on the street (whether it is an advertisement or a timetable) through the digital maps in the malls, to the growing number of websites and applications. Since the beginning of the spread of digitalization it is getting more and more important to understand what makes these interfaces understandable for the people. If an application cannot be used easily, if the user cannot figure out anything in order to complete a task , they will probably not going to use that application anymore, which will cause less income if it is a website, and if it is an information equipment it loses its purpose. To understand and eliminate these kind of problems we need to use usability testing, which I am going to describe in my thesis. For a usability testing we need to select people from the target audience and face them with typical task regarding that application. In my thesis I am going to introduce some of the ways usability testing can be done, and I am going to describe one of the method in details. I am going to describe why it is important to usability test an application. After that I am going to present the specification of my application, the technologies which I used to create the program, and I am going to describe the usage of the final application.

Two matches added to the Rumble Kickoff show Comments Off on Two matches added to the Rumble Kickoff show The Royal Rumble Kickoff show will feature two matches, one of them with the Raw Tag Team titles on the line. Cesaro and Sheamus will be defending their titles against number one contenders Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson with two referees assigned to the match. The other match on the card is Sasha Banks vs Nia Jax. Meanwhile, four more Superstars from the Raw brand have been added to the Rumble. These are Big Show, Sami Zayn, Big Cass, and Rusev. Raw now has 13 Superstars in the Rumble, Smackdown has 7 Superstars and the Undertaker, not attached to any brand, is the other individual in the match. With less than a week to go, there are still 9 empty spots, a few of which will probably be filled tonight on Smackdown. Replay webcast of Linda McMahon's hearing for nomination of SBA Administrator NXT tapings at University of Central Florida set for next month Royal Rumble 2017 WWE Universal title match announced for the 2017 Royal Rumble The 2017 Royal Rumble started to take shape yesterday on Raw with the first match announced, and it's good news for Roman Reigns haters as has no chance of winning the Rumble…again! The WWE Universal title will be on the line as Kevin Owens will be defending… Triple H expects a surprise Royal Rumble ending In an interview with IGN.COM, Triple H said that this year's Royal Rumble match will "go in a way that nobody expects." The former WWE champion talked how usually people kinda guess who will win the Royal Rumble but this year, it's a tough call and no… Five more join the Royal Rumble match Five more WWE Superstars have signed up to enter the 30-men over-the-top-rope Royal Rumble match on January 29, sending the total number to seven so far. Joining Goldberg and Brock Lesnar will be Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods of The New Day, as well as…

Q: Computed value not updating in vue I am new to Vue and I am working on a project in which I need to display different components based on a boolean value that shows whether a user is logged in or not. <template> <div class="container-fluid" v-if="isUserLoggedIn"> <main-navigation/> <router-view /> <MainFooter /> </div> <div v-else> <router-view /> </div> </template> <script> import { defineComponent } from "vue"; import MainNavigation from "./MainNavigation.vue"; import MainFooter from "../../common/MainFooter.vue"; export default defineComponent({ components: { MainNavigation, MainFooter, }, }); </script> <script setup> import { useAuthMethod } from "../../../auth/Auth"; import { computed } from "vue"; const auth = await useAuthMethod(); const isUserLoggedIn = computed(() => auth.isUserLoggedIn()); </script> In the above code the auth.isUserLoggedIn() returns a boolean value indicating if a user is logged in or not. My issue is that the "isUserLoggedIn" const defined by me is not updating automatically or say is not automatically calculating the boolean value and updating the components rendered accordingly. I am not sure if this is the right way of doing it, so please tell me the correct approach to follow. I tried removing the "isUserLoggedIn" from computed also but it is of no use, the component does not update automatically. A: Looks like auth.isUserLoggedIn() is not reactive, You can make it reactive by assigning its value to a reactive variable and then use that in your computed property. Can you give a try to this : const loggedIn = ref(null) const auth = useAuthMethod(); loggedIn.value = auth.isUserLoggedIn(); const isUserLoggedIn = computed(() => loggedIn.value)

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Zdeněk Herman (24 March 1934, Libušín – 25 February 2021) was a Czech physical chemist. Life and work Herman studied physical chemistry and radiochemistry at the School of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, Prague (1952–57). He then joined the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, to which he remained affiliated. Herman's early work, with Vladimír Čermák concerned mass spectrometric studies of the kinetics of collision and ionization processes of ions (chemical reaction of ions, Penning and associative ionization). During his post-doctoral years (1964–65), with Richard Wolfgang at Yale University, Herman built one of the first crossed beam machines to study ion-molecule processes. Herman also built an improved crossed beam machine that was used in Prague with colleagues to investigate the dynamics of ion-molecule and charge transfer reactions of cations and dications, and ion-surface collisions by the scattering method (1970-2010). Herman has published over 240 scientific articles in this field. Awards Herman's academic awards include the Ian Marcus Marci Medal (Czech Spectroscopic Society, 1989), the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize (awarded in Germany in 1992, the first time the prize was awarded to a Czech natural scientist), the Česká hlava ("Czech Head") National Prize for lifetime achievements (2003), an Honorary Degree from the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck (2007), and honorary membership of the Czech Mass Spectrometric Society. Special honorary issues of The Journal of Physical Chemistry (1995) and The International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (2009) were issued to celebrate his 60th and 75th birthdays respectively. Since 2014 the Resonance Foundation awards "The Zdeněk Herman Prize" for the best PhD thesis in chemical physics and mass spectrometry. Since 2016 the international conference MOLEC (Dynamics of Molecular Systems) awards the "Zdeněk Herman Young Scientist Prize". In his free time, Herman painted and sculpted, and has exhibited his work on several occasions. Busts by Herman of founders of several institutes of the Academy of Sciences are on display at those institutes. Three statues sculpted by Herman stand in the countryside around Rakovník (e.g., in the park in Pavlíkov). References 1934 births 2021 deaths Czech chemists Physical chemists Charles University alumni People from Libušín

Themes of the 1st SEE LEADER conference are as follow: Alternative management of LEADER/CLLD - why, for whom and by whom LEADER/CLLD as a territorially embedded private-public policy tool Role of actors in LEADER/CLLD implementation Social capital of LEADER/CLLD The innovation in LEADER/CLLD LEADER/CLLD fostering (dis)empowerment The issue of scalar governance and geopolitics in LEADER/CLLD LEADER/CLLD as development based on local area features and oriented to expected results (process vs. projects) Financial models and instruments for LEADER/CLLD implementation Networking and Collaboration of LAGs and other actors in sustainable integrated local development We encourage scholars to provide contributions that can help practitioners – Local Action Groups, Managing Authorities and Implementing Bodies answer to the existing challenges in LEADER framing; shaping and implementation process. Whereby aiming to provide further insight into identifying the causes or roots of the major challenges LEADER posses to practitioners on daily basis. In the hope to offer solutions we call for scientific evidence and academic rigor to help us shed light on whether LEADER is, has been or has potential to foster successful sustainable development of local communities. More about Conference themes…… The practical aspects of the LEADER in the new financial framework of the EU – what it brings to Central and South-Eastern European States and what is needed In the past decades a lot of experience has been gained in the implementation of the LEADER. Extensive research on the LEADER programme underlines its success and its failures; its evolution from a community initiative towards one of the measures of not only the Rural Development Programme but also the social and convergence programmes of the EU tells us that there is an understanding of the potential of LEADER to truly "democratize rural development" and "empower" the grassroots to manage the territory in a sustainable and climate change resilient way. However, to date the question of LEADER evaluation remains to be a point of debate among the practitioners and the academics. What perspective do we take when valorizing so many intangible aspects of LEADER (first and foremost being its production of social capital). What set of methodologies and measures do we envoke and develop so as to show its tangible effect? How do we approach its processual nature, constantly in flux and prone to regression as well as to evolution? How do we defend or attack this process always defined and framed by the actors that make part of it. With this conference we call for contributions from the practitioners of the LEADER programme at all scales, European, national and the territorial to provide us with practice abstracts showcasing their examples of achievements, but also the failures of LEADER implementation. We aim to provide more empirical and theoretical contributions around the following questions: Is LEADER truly promoting neo-endogenous development of rural territories harnessing the potential of an area and its local resources, or merely another formalized grassroots strategy delivering financial subsidies to disadvantaged areas. How does LEADER change and or (dis/e/)volve when faced with financial, managerial and societal challenges thought its unfolding on European, national, regional and local level. We encourage scientific papers from various disciplines and a plurality of perspectives. The theoretical underpinnings of the LEADER – making practice theoretical Scholars have analysed LEADER from various perspectives. As a new European policy based on integrated rural development that is to bring about endogenous, territorial approaches to rural development based on network relations. As a pan EU laboratory of rural development that will be effective at building on local assets and promoting local cooperation and innovation. As successful in providing a blueprint for its urban counterpart. Others have questioned whether it is an inclusive bottom up programme or it just blurs and neglects inequalities that exist on the local level by further empowering the hegemons from the public, private and the civil sector on the local level. As research has informed us it is multifaceted. In its quest to answer to the needs of a given territory it represents an integrated territorial approach; One that aims to respond to the totality of social and environmental challenges given territory faces. It is in this complexity that we invite scholars to provide new outlooks on LEADER.

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Spring is one of the favourite seasons of the year. In late spring, it's time to cram away jeans and sweaters and come out with those funky shorts shorts and cute tank tops. But how do you know which pieces are essential for the weather? Make a list of all the pieces you'll need– Mentioned below is the list of sample shopping list, but if you want to remove anything that isn't to your liking, or even add some more pieces. The number of each apparel may be little too much or too little for you, but it must give you an idea. Don't feel pressured to buy as much as listed. If you don't like to spend a lot on clothes, buy some versatile garments that you can wear in tons of different outfits. Short sleeved shirts. Make sure you have a mix of basic/solid colored t-shirts, lovelier tops, and graphic tees that represent your personality. Different colored basic tank tops.These are useful for layering, or on lazy days. And the most ideal ones are the Racerback tanks. Tank tops. There are various online stores selling fun, colorful, graphic tanks that you love. Solid colored denim shorts. Mint green and baby blue are considered as the two greatcolors for spring season. Neon pink, yellow, fluorescent orange, green, and any other light color that you like are also good for shorts. Patterned shorts.Try floral, striped ( most flattering pattern – Vertical), or even tie-dye/ombre. Anything presentable, cute and funky is great! Blue denim shorts. At least you must have one or two of these pairs that are basic, plain shorts. You can also buy shorts that are ripped, studded,distressed,highwaisted, etc. Workout shorts.These are good if you are into sports/ gym or if you just want to lounge around your house in comfort. Flip flops. Different colors and styles of flip –flops which are trendy are a must for the season. Simple ballet flats. Test your style with different colors and styles. If flats are too girly for you, thenwedges . Cropped leggings.On spring's chillier days, cropped leggings gives you that cool look. Wear these If you don't want yourselfto be freezing in a pair of shorts! If it's still cold during spring then you can prefer wearing long sleeved shirts and jeans during spring! But don't limit yourself to this list, either; jeans can also work in the summer during chilly evening events. Know what online stores suit your style.There are number of brands that have a great mix of both funky graphic tees and basic, fancier tops. They also have cute stuff for warm weather, but they can be a bit pricey to shop at all the time. Limit yourself to buying few things from those types of online stores. Buy basic things fromstores over the web instead of splurging on designer. Get your friends along with you while you shop. It's always more fun to go out on a shopping spree with your best friends there. They serve as pairs of eyes to catch cute apparels you might have not have spotted, and they can also be your fashion consultants! Purchasing dress on that you're not sure about. If you fell in love with a pair of shorts, but the only sizes available are too big or small. Don't just buy them anyway , if doesn't it you. However, if you're buying t-shirts in a size you're 100% sure you fit into, don't worry about it. Thinking twice on every single thing you plan to buy buying will definitely be beneficial for you.

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01/22/21: Vilification Tennis Inaugural Balls Vilification Tennis is going to hold an online gala to celebrate the inauguration of a new President or to show fealty to our glorious leader for life (just in case - we love you leader for life)! FUCK 2020! Online Shows New Years Eve & New Years Day 11/27/20: Vilification Tennis Works From Home 9/25/2020 – VilTen Erases History! Visit our LIVESTREAM What is Vilification Tennis? Vilification Tennis is a Minnesota comedy show that has been performing at the MN Renaissance Festival for over 20 years. Now, we are also a Minneapolis comedy show because we play venues such as the Bryant-Lake Bowl Cabaret Theater very regularly throughout the year. Simply put, Vilification Tennis is a structured improvisational comedy show where competitors engage in a battle of insults. We often touch on subjects that other Minneapolis comedy shows wouldn't dare to, and that allows us to be quite possibly the edgiest comedy show in Minneapolis. Those who are easily offended will be. Those who aren't easily offended will be. For more info about Vilification Tennis, please visit our About Us page. Our Performers We have an ever-changing cast of performers and comedians that literally hurl insults back and forth at each other. Doing a comedy show in Minneapolis allows us to recruit a diverse cast of "opponents" who are always rotating and bringing fresh material to each show. Each show will often have a unique theme; so you'll never see two Vilification Tennis shows that are the same. Please visit our performers section for more info about our cast of performers. Vilification Tennis is NOT a 501c3 organization, but that doesn't mean you can't contribute to our overhead expenses. We do sell tickets to shows and we make a little (very little) money off of that. So, since we don't do this for exposure, but for that sweet sweet cash, feel free to click the link below to throw a tip in our virtual tip jar. Virtual Tip Jar 06/26/2020: NOW ONLINE!! Join Vilification Tennis for some hot girl on girl on person action as we kick the men to the curb! This full length online show will take on the patriarchy and all of their small dicks. Warning: White guys will probably be triggered by this show and we couldn't care… Vilification Tennis goes online AGAIN and this time, we are doing a show all about Musicals! We might do signing even though we don't know how to do accompaniment yet! It's gonna be fun! You can watch from your computer on FB live, YouTube or Twitch.www.facebook.com/vilificationtenniswww.vilificationtennis.com/livestreamTwitch.tv/vilificationtennisYouTube.com/vilificationtennis Date: Friday May 22,… Copyright © 2019 Vilification Tennis: Minneapolis Comedy Show. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks and Brands are the Property of Their Respective Owners.

Official P.J. Proby Fan Forum - WELCOME TO THE 60's. Official P.J. Proby Fan Forum › General › P.J. PROBY LIVE › WELCOME TO THE 60's. So far we have 14 great Proby fans that will be meeting at 'The Postal Order' on Saturday Sept 29th. The meeting time is 5.00pm. This should give us time to chat, drink and eat before making our way to the Swan Theatre for the evening show. A table has been reserved for us allowing for 14-20 people. So still room for a few more. Gina and daughter-in-law, John and Liz, Kathy, Diana, Dave and Wendy. If anyone else would like join us, just let me or Ron know, you would be very welcome. Should be magic from start to finish. Have a great time, I have no doubt that the show will be brilliant, I'm just sorry that I can't make it. I would have loved to have met up with you Annie & Michael. It's been a good few years since we got together. Hope you all have a great time this weekend, I'm sure PJ will not dissapoint you. I'm looking forward to the reports of the shows. Wish I could be there but I will have to wait for the Blackpool show. All the best. I expect you are all on your way now, I have got to wait till tomorrow! I know Pauline is there already. Hope you all have a fabulous time tonight and we will see you all tomorrow. What an amazing weekend! 2 great shows at the Swan theatre. The shows were fantastic. Non stop 60's music and sketches performed by the brilliant choir "Voices Unlimited" and the special guest P J Proby. There were some great performances but Ria Keen's "You've Lost that Loving Feeling" was terrific. PJ was in great form, looking great and singing as good as ever. He looked as though he was really enjoying being backed by the choir. PJ joined the show in the 2nd half when he came on singing "Niki Hoeky" then he did a song that he not recorded before "The Three Bells" it was wonderful (it would make a great Christmas record). That was followed by "Somewhere". After a few more songs from the choir PJ returned to close the show with "Hold Me" which by the end had every one on their feet and dancing. So a great show and a great weekend in Worcester. Thank you to the fans that came to the meal and chat on Saturday at "The Postal Order" hope you enjoyed. Sounds really good.The Three Bells is a lovely song.I used to have the single by The Browns.Looking forward to the tour. It was really, really brilliant. Everything went so well & meeting the P.J. fans, many of whom I have not seen for quite a few years, was amazing! P.J. is so SPECIAL & his fans are also so SPECIAL. I'm bursting to get the DVD of the whole show(s). Plus being as "60's Gold" is the last ever tour I do hope & pray that it also gets filmed. If anyone sees Manja ask her if a dvd of the final "60's Gold" tour ever will be possible. Or maybe the shows organisors will consider it? i, too, await the DVD of this tremendous show. I thought Ria was electric and couldn't take my eyes off her when she sang. PJ said he enjoyed it immensely - as did we all. I also enjoyed chatting to Dave and Wendy; we stayed at the same B&B. So glad the weekend went well and you all enjoyed yourself and of course PJ performed so well. The "Farewell Tour" starts tonight. I don't know what his choice of songs will be but I hope he performs his own hits. The "60's Gold" only has two more gigs to go before it's over.I saw it in Margate & P.J. was wonderful. I've been trying & asking to get the whole show professionally filmed & put out on DVD but Manja says this is something that will never happen! Well I say "why not!?". But I'm so happy that the filming of the September Worcester "Welcome To The 60's" shows could happen & I'm bursting to buy the DVD when it's out.When it's released I'll let everyone know on here & on FB. And if anyone on here knows before me then please pass on the info to us. Last night (Wednesday,28th Nov.) the "60's Gold" was in Birmingham. BRUM is my home-city so I'd love to know how things went there at the beautiful Symphony Hall. 2,262 people would have watched & enjoyed that show.

Q: use a string variable returned by a method in java Creating a text based game. I have a method for each of the following: Race, profession, name. So for instance: public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO code application logic here intro(); name(); System.out.println("Welcome " + name); } public static String name(){ System.out.println("Enter Name:"); String name = sc.next(); return name; } Yet I get an error when using the name variable in my print in main. Why? A: You need to assign the return value of name to a local variable: public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO code application logic here intro(); String name = name(); System.out.println("Welcome " + name); } public static String name(){ System.out.println("Enter Name:"); String name = sc.next(); return name; } A: Your name() method is static, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the namevariable in that method can be accessed without a getter or something similar. It won't recognize that variable since it's only defined in that method. You can try something like Sysout("welcome" + name()); since your method will return that value.

Subaru Bids Farewell to the Crosstrek Hybrid Justin Cupler Justin Cupler has specialized as an automotive writer since 2009 and has been published in multiple websites and online magazines. In addition to contributing to CarsDirect, Justin also hosts a web-series car-review show and dabbles in the world of personal-finance writing. His specialty is in the high-performance realm, but he has a deep love and understanding for all things automotive. Before diving into the world of writing, Justin was an automotive technician and manager for six years and spent the majority of his younger life tinkering with classic muscle cars. , Automotive Editor - October 11, 2016 Subaru launched its compact Crosstrek in 2015, and since then it's been a massive hit. In its second model year, Subaru added a hybrid model that saw a 4 mpg increase in city fuel economy and a 12-horsepower gain. Recently, Subaru unveiled the 2017 Crosstrek line, but the hybrid model was missing. A quick call to our friendly Subaru rep and we learned the Crosstrek Hybrid will not be a part of the 2017 lineup. While this may come as a shock that Subaru would eliminate the hybrid version of its popular crossover after just one model year, there could be one very likely explanation. The price gap seems the most logical reason, as the Crosstrek Hybrid was an eye-watering $4,800 more than its non-hybrid counterpart in their respective base levels. Moving into the Limited trims, this gap grew by $100. While a significant price increase for a hybrid model is no shock, it was likely quite difficult for Subaru to tangle with the RAV4 Hybrid, which has a price gap as small as $800 between its hybrid and non-hybrid variants. Even the larger $1,600 gap between the RAV4 Hybrid LE and the RAV4 LE AWD makes the Crosstrek's gap look like the Grand Canyon. Other than the elimination of the hybrid, the only other change of note for the 2017 Crosstrek lineup is the addition of a new Premium Special Edition model that will top the range at $26,670 (destination fees included). For those who still need their hybrid crossover fix, the 2016 RAV4 Hybrid XLE has an attractive 36-month lease deal that runs $269 per month with just $1,999 due at signing. Alternatively, shoppers can take 0% APR financing for 48 months or a $750 cash rebate. Time is running out, however— the model is becoming harder to find now that the 2017 RAV4 Hybrid has arrived. Justin Cupler, Automotive Editor The 2019 Crosstrek Hybrid will be Subaru's First Plug-In Hybrid 2019 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid Earns Highest IIHS Safety Rating 2019 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid Priced From $35,970 Toyota Unveils 302-hp 2021 RAV4 Prime 2019 Subaru Crosstrek Pricing Announced

Marjorie Chandler (1897-1983) est une paléobotaniste britannique qui s'est fait une réputation de scientifique après un long partenariat avec Eleanor Mary Reid, en tant qu'assistante de recherche. Biographie Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler est née à Leamington Spa, dans le Warwickshire, au Royaume-Uni, de Frederick Augustus, un bijoutier, et d'Alice Sarah (née Roberts) Chandler. Elle est l'aînée de six enfants. Elle obtient une bourse au Newnham College en 1915 après avoir fréquenté la Leamington High School. À l'Université de Cambridge, elle obtient un diplôme de première classe en sciences naturelles en 1919. Elle obtient sa maîtrise en 1948 de l'Université de Cambridge. En 1920, elle travaille comme assistante de recherche d'Eleanor Mary Reid. Reid est l'une des quatre femmes qui deviennent membres de la Geological Society cette année-là . La base de Reid est à Milford on Sea d'où elle travaille et où ils établissent un partenariat scientifique à vie. Chandler devient finalement l'infirmière de Reid jusqu'à sa mort en 1953 à Milford-on-Sea . Chandler elle-même prend sa retraite et est décédée à Swindon, Wiltshire, Royaume-Uni en 1983 . À sa retraite, elle est une passionnée de jardinage et s'implique dans des activités liées à l'église tout en restant en contact avec le monde scientifique par l'intermédiaire d'autres paléobotanistes. Carrière Chandler et Reid font des recherches sur les plantes préhistoriques en utilisant les collections du British Museum. Après six ans, elles publient Bembridge Flora qui est une description détaillée des plantes cénozoïques et en particulier de celles trouvées sur l'île de Wight. Le deuxième volume est publié par Chandler et Reid en 1933 et celui-ci regarde les plantes fossilisées de l'argile de Londres. Le grenier de Reid est leur laboratoire et Chandler endure ses hivers glacials et ses étés chauds. Reid décrit les conditions climatiques changeantes de la période tertiaire en utilisant les restes de la flore observés dans différentes roches vieillies. Cela donne de nouvelles preuves des changements évolutifs qui ont lieu au sein des plantes. Les études de Reid et Chandler montrent que le secteur maintenant connue sous le nom de Londres a à un moment donné fait partie d'une forêt tropicale . Reid est reconnue pour ce travail lorsqu'elle reçoit la médaille Lyell en 1936 par la Geological Society . L'impact de Chandler sur l'étude de la géologie est visible à travers ses recherches sur la flore argileuse de Londres. Ses recherches examinent les "fruits et graines d'angiospermes des flores paléocènes ... et ceux de l'argile de Londres non décrits auparavant" . À partir de 1933, Chandler prend les devants en se concentrant sur les flores tertiaires. Reid continue à soutenir Chandler et à écrire occasionnellement un court article. Les finances de Chandler dépendent d'une petite subvention du British Museum qui est accordée chaque année. Chandler est reconnue internationalement car elle étend le travail qu'elle et Reid ont fait en tant que partenaires à d'autres aspects des périodes Éocène et Oligocène. Les propres recherches de Chandler décrivent les plantes historiques du Dorset et de Bournemouth et elle créé un supplément à la London Flora qui compte des centaines de pages. Une de ses publications remarquables est The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England qu'elle a publiée en 1961 . Références Liens externes Botaniste britannique du XXe siècle Femme botaniste Paléobotaniste Décès en octobre 1983 Naissance en mai 1897 Décès à 86 ans

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Barkha Dutt published a piece in the Hindustan Times on Modi's visit to Varanasi to file his nomination and the mass hysteria it generated on the streets. I have been meaning to write a response to the piece since I read it. However, Kavita Krishnan has since written an excellent rejoinder to Dutt's piece, especially on the 'Muslim question'. Dutt's piece seems to be suggesting that it's certain Modi is going to be India's next Prime Minister, with or without the Muslim support. In that case, how is he going to assuage the Muslim fear? Dutt's piece is almost a continuation of her early morning pitch from Varanasi, "Chai Stop" (on 23 April). In this early morning conversation with the potential voters at a well-known tea-stall, she asked some of the visitors to the stall about their preferred candidate to represent Varanasi. What struck me was how all but two said Modi is their preferred choice; the two differing voices belonged to two gentlemen – one of them supporting the AAP and the other (who appeared to be Muslim) backing the Congress. The whole picture seemed quite absurd: in a gathering of about 50 people, 48 supported Modi. If one were to believe Dutt's conclusion that there definitely is a 'Modi Wave' in Varanasi, it would suggest that more than 95% would vote for Modi. Thus, after providing a graphic description of a Modi 'surge' on the streets of Varanasi, when Dutt concludes, "the images from Varanasi on Thursday afternoon brilliantly captured how one individual has succeeded in filling a leadership vacuum that the Congress only has itself to blame for. Looking at the mesmerised followers, it was also more than evident that the BJP campaign is now all about the Cult of Modi," I am left wondering if Dutt was repeating from a script that she had set in motion with her first pitch itself. Her early-morning street-side show had set the stage already; her article in the Hindustan Times was merely a repetition of that. We can't possibly expect any different from the mainstream media, can we? After all, they have their TRP compulsions. When all that an assertive middle class would like to hear is the 'garjan' of a macho leader, the media must simulate that image as best as they could. The murmurs of dissenting voices, which the mainstream media would not like to hear or entertain, get submerged in the hysterical simulation of a surge. However, as Kavita Krishan writes one never knows when these voices will pull a surprise. Modi might still win from Varanasi on the strength of his appeal as a prospective Prime Minister, riding the 'political emotionalism'. It doesn't render the marginal voices void. Interestingly, post-Modi road-show, Dutt's "Chai Stop – Narendra Modi now a Banarasi babu" (on 24 April) threw up more dissenting voices. As one expects in such cases, Modi's critics came down heavily on Dutt for her supposed pandering to the 'Modi surge'. In her defense, Dutt said she wrote what she saw on the streets of Varanasi. Such a defense is perfectly fine. Yet, what puzzles me is how after the assembly elections merely a few months back the same media (NDTV included) disproved the theory that there was a 'Modi wave'. What did really happen in four months that a senior journalist, Barkha Dutt, has woken up to the 'Modi surge'? Is it an effort to mend fences with the would-be Prime Minister, as some of the western countries have started warming up to the man, who was once a persona non grata? Or was it that our big media houses were biased and have been deliberately ignoring Modi's popularity so far? Instead of merely describing what she saw on the streets of Varanasi, it would be worthwhile for a senior and respected journalist like Dutt to answer some of these questions. Coming to the Muslim question, Dutt writes that though Modi might win from Varanasi and BJP form the next government at centre, he "must begin a more compassionate dialogue with a community that remains fearful of the BJP and of him." Krishnan's excellent reply has already pointed out the fallaciousness of such a claim. Dutt's use of the word 'compassionate' is interesting. As Krishnan points out, it's certainly offensive for Muslims. One doesn't expect compassion from the man, who many Muslims hold responsible for the carnage in Gujarat. However, what intrigues one about the term, 'compassionate', is its underlying suggestions of theocracy. Modi has already reiterated that he has been chosen by God to lead India. Traditionally, most people (esp. the God-fearing ones) expect compassion from God. Dutt's choice of word suggests that she unconsciously subscribes to the idea that Modi is God's representative in India, like many of the medieval Kings believed. Are we anticipating Modi rule in a Hindu India, where he might compassionately engage with his subjects, Muslims? However, I agree with Dutt that Modi must engage with Muslims. Also, the Indian Muslims must engage with Modi. Muslims must press on with their demand for justice. A pragmatic minority position would demand that Modi be asked the difficult questions that our mainstream media would not. How Modi and Muslims will engage with each other is not certain at the moment because of the heavy distrust with which Muslims view him. But the very terms of their engagement might open a new era of inclusive politics in India. yeah, more than any one else, Barkha Dutt seems under psychic vibration that day. such kind of reporting is unusual from NDTV which may be well expected from Times Now and some of the Hindi channels. Already Modis statement that all Bangladeshis will be sent out from India once he assumes power, explains what kind of engagement muslims as a minority going to have with Modi "if" he get elected by people of India or selected by corporate houses of the world. Let's see, whether people of Varanasi disappoint Barkha or not (in fact many more Barkha's of corporate media houses) !! Suneetha, it's all about simulation and image-making. And TRP adds more pressure to the channels, as advertisement revenues are tied to TRPs. Let's see what happens to the hype. A neatly written article, very powerful and analytical in its approach, while addressing some very relevant existential questions. Would love to read more of such pieces from you in the near future! Thank you, Lopa! This is part of my work as I work South Asian Muslim life.

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For health professionals, impartially curated by OptiBac Probiotic Professionals Probiotics Database New study shows probiotics DO work for colic By Jacob 10th Jun 2014 Probiotics for colic? A new study1 has revealed that probiotics (see Probiotics Learning Lab) may play a preventative role in the development of infantile colic, gastroesophageal reflux and constipation. The prospective, multicentre, double-blind (see Probiotics Learning Lab for more glossary terms), placebo-controlled, randomised clinical trial observed children at 9 different paediatric centres in Italy from 2010 to 2012. The treatment group of children received the Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 strain, suspended in oil, 5 times daily for a duration of 3 months. The placebo group received the same oil, but with no active ingredients, for the same duration. Parents (also unaware of the group their child was in) kept a symptom diary throughout the 3 months and were asked to record events such as episodes of regurgitation, minutes per day of inconsolable crying, and the number of daily stools. Parents also kept a record of outpatient medical visits, changes in formula or feeding routine, visits to the hospital, pharmacological interventions including over-the-counter medications, and the number of lost parental work days. All children in the study were visited in person by the research team monthly and contact made via telephone weekly. Initial analysis of the results revealed that the probiotic strain reduced all three gastrointestinal disorders (colic, reflux and constipation). Parental records showed that the probiotic group spent half as long crying per day compared to the placebo group. The probiotic group also had better stool frequency and almost half the amount of reflux episodes. Records of secondary outcomes also revealed that the probiotic group had 44% fewer medical visits for gastrointestinal symptoms, 71% fewer emergency department visits, 82% fewer lost parental work days, and significantly less use of over-the-counter medicines. Further study is necessary to discover the efficacy of other probiotic strains for colic and similar disorders. Researchers also pointed out that the 3 month study duration may not be long enough, further long term studies may be necessary to ascertain whether further beneficial or adverse effects are felt. Nevertheless, this study marks a significant landmark in understanding the potential preventative effect of probiotics in infant gastrointestinal disorders, helping to improve health of children and also reduce healthcare costs. Interestingly, probiotics were recently deemed 'ineffective for colic', following an Australian study2 recently published which looked specifically at colic, and actually at the same strain. (Take a look at Jo's write up on this story here in the Probiotics Learning Lab.) Colic is a very difficult condition to measure scientifically, due to the reliance on symptom diaries being kept by parents and the openness of interpretation of what constitutes a colic episode. However, taking an broad view of the studies undertaken on the L. reuteri DSM 17938 strain and colic; there certainly appears to be more positive outcomes than negative. Read more about gut bacteria and its possible impact on colic here, also in the Probiotics Learning Lab. 1. Indrio F, Di Mauro A, Riezzo G et al. (2014) 'Prophylactic Use of a Probiotic in the Prevention of Colic, Regurgitation, and Functional Constipation: A Randomized Clinical Trial'. JAMA Pediatr. 168:228-233. 2. Sung, V. et al. (2014). ' Treating infant colic with the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri: double blind, placebo controlled randomised trial'. BMJ, 348 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g2107 Image: healthandcare.in NB: We don't publish advice queries submitted using this form, but please use this form to share your thoughts and feedback on the articles. The Probiotic Professionals site is run by the nutrition team at OptiBac Probiotics. This site includes new research and news related to probiotics. The material on this website is intended to be educational, informative, and non-commercial. Content is not limited to coverage of strains in the OptiBac range. For further reading you can also visit the Probiotics Learning Lab, which is open to members of the public and can be signposted to clients seeking more information. © Wren Laboratories 2019. Some rights reserved. Posted {{posted}}

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If you have not dealt with the misery of divorce first-hand, you almost certainly have known someone who has. Do you have a clear understanding of what the Bible teaches concerning this issue? Todd Wagner • Dec 2, 2001 Mark 10:1-12 Messages In This Series (10) A Great Assurance From a Great Leader Todd Wagner • Jan 13, 2002 Looks, Lips, and Lives That Leave Us Still Lacking Before the King: A Rich Lesson from the Rich Young Ruler Todd Wagner • Dec 23, 2001 Adult Applications from Four Verses About 'Children' Three Salty Statements to Spice up Your Understanding of and Effectiveness for Him Todd Wagner • Nov 25, 2001 One for All, All for One - Just be Sure You're for Him. Todd Wagner • Oct 21, 2001 Prioritization, Patience, Pithy Statements, and the Practice of Selflessness? Do It Anyway. When Life Throws You to the Ground, Here's What to Do Todd Wagner • Oct 7, 2001 The King on a Hill: Listen to Him to be Transformed Todd Wagner • Sep 30, 2001 "And rising up, He went from there to the region of Judea, and beyond the Jordan; and crowds gathered around Him again, and, according to His custom, He once more began to teach them. And some Pharisees came up to Him, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife. And He answered and said to them, 'What did Moses command of you?' And they said, 'Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.' But Jesus said to them, 'Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother [shall cleave to his wife] and the two shall become one flesh; consequently… What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." Shocked at this new standard of commitment, his disciples sat with him alone later. They started to question him in the house alone, and they said, "What do you mean by this?" He answered, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery." Where is the tenderness? Where is the cultural relevance? Where is the awareness of the pain in the American family? Sure, 2,000 years ago some Jew walking around some dusty landscape can make bold statements like that, but what about today? What about the reality of the hell that comes early in relationships? What about the hell that exists between two people who say they love this Lord and their family is anything but a portrait of what they thought it was going to be? What then? What now? What about those who have been a part of a divorce already? Where do they go? What do they do? What if you sit out there today, and you go, "Well, that's fine. You welcome me, you tell me I can process stuff safely here, and you label me an adulterer before you know my name." Thank you. Welcome. There are a couple of different routes that the church can go when they deal with this difficult topic called divorce and remarriage. In order to stay away from the difficulty and the complications, they can just raise the bar and elevate it beyond even where the Bible has it and say, "Listen, divorce should never happen, and remarriage is never a possibility. That is always the case, no exceptions." Frankly, the Bible doesn't go there. Jesus just did, and we'll explain that. When you come across difficult things like this, you can imagine that it's tough to sometimes find just one place in the Scripture you need to go to to get a full understanding of a biblical theology of relationships, specifically covenant relationships, specifically marital relationships where there is strife. The other route you can go, and frankly, it's the route the church and the society has gone more quickly, is to lower the standard. To say, "Look, we know the reality of life. We know how difficult it is to keep any family together, especially an American family in the year 2000, when kids have all these different activities. Dad has to work, Mom sometimes has to work, and they're lucky if they can still have any kind of conversation together, much less take care of intimacy and work toward oneness. We know there's temptation everywhere like never before. You can't do your job at work without having banners come up saying, 'Come look at this!' People dress differently now then they ever did. Family units aren't there to support. The accountability of culture is slowly weaned away, where divorce isn't that big of a deal anymore. There's nothing holding us together, so let's just be honest. We need grace. Let's extend it to one another, and let's move through this awkward thing. Let's just kind of sheepishly not talk about it as much as can. We understand, and, in fact, your struggle makes me feel more entitled to my struggle. Let's just lower the bar. Let's deal with it that way." I want to tell you; I don't want to go near either one of those extremes this morning. I want to handle a very difficult topic and a very difficult text in a way that appropriately maintains the high view of marriage that God has in his Word. At the same time, I want to make sure I talk about the exception and try to handle that also with input from Scripture and deal with that in a biblical way. In my job, I get to marry a lot of couples. Many become my friends. I was meeting with some of my friends who are young married guys. We were talking about our walks with Christ and how all of us, whether we're pastors or newlyweds, have a hard time living in our marriages the way that we know we want to live and know we're supposed to live. These guys, married anywhere from a couple of months to almost a year, sat there and talked about how hard it was. We have other couples in Community Groups, who have been married for six, seven, eight weeks, who have already had the courage to share, "You know what? We can't really stand each other." It's more than just a drama. It's the drama that we're living, isn't it? Then there are those of you who have been married for 10, 15, 20 years who don't even talk about the struggle anymore. You've settled for something less. You've settled for a marriage of mutual toleration. For whatever reason, divorce won't be an option for you, at least not until the kids are gone. You're in a culture, probably around some church, where it's not really the in-vogue thing to do. It won't help you professionally. You don't want to look like that much of a rogue, and so you're going to hang in there, but marriage as you dreamt it would be is out and no longer there. You settle in here quietly this morning just accepting what is going to be and what is, never pursuing God's ideal for marriage. I know how hard it is. I mentioned to you a couple of weeks ago, when we talked about how a central part of what we want to be about here is just being honest… I hope you can see the way we're entering into this text. We're not going to try to skirt over it. We're going to try to put people up here on stage where you go, "Man, I could have said that, and I didn't memorize a script." We just sent out our Christmas picture, and we all had our best clothes on, and we were smiling. What you don't know is the hell that was wrapped around that 30 minutes when that picture was born. What you don't know is the hell that is wrapped around that relationship that's at the center of that picture, but it's an American family tradition to send out an American family portrait every Christmas. Baby, you'd better do it at church. We don't ever hold hands except for when we walk from that parking lot into this building because that's what you have to do, right? We prayed this morning for our time together with you as a body, and we realized it is hard to come in here ready for worship. We struggle… We're here since 7 in the morning after setting up all day yesterday. Then the worship team is running through the songs, and we're working through the stuff that's going to allow you to receive God's Word in a way that is instructive and that your heart is open to it. We realized how hard it is for us to be ready to worship at 10:00, much less going through the battle of finding shoes and kids who say, "I don't like this! Mom, I don't want to wear this! Mom, I want this for breakfast, not that for breakfast!" At our house this week, word got out that the Wagners are moving out, so we've had several rats who have already moved in. My wife came to me this morning about 10:15, got here a little late, and she goes, "Look at this." I go, "Did the rat get you?" She goes, "No, the trap did." We've got Arnold Schwarzrat loose in our house. The trap has gone off on this sucker; we got his buddy, but this guy continues to get the peanut butter, the cheese, or whatever else we lay out there and somehow escape. He is the Houdini of rats. The trap goes down, it will break a wife's finger, but it will not get Arnold Schwarzrat. When you come from that in here ready to worship, or when you get home last night from The Nutcracker, and you have an 8-year-old girl absolutely hysterical because rats are in the house and she won't sleep… I'm mad at them; I have to get some time alone. They're frustrated, and we're all frustrated. Oh, but let's take our Christmas picture tomorrow, shall we? I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that we're committed to authenticity, and one of the things I thought about doing was simply saying this: If you are in this room and you have a marriage that has struggle in it, that at times you wonder if it's worth it, what you heard our friends here today say, then just come on up here. Just come up on the stage, and the other three elder men, their wives, and I are going to walk up here and stand before you. We didn't do it because it was, in a sense, inauthentic. We had talked about the fact that we should and could. I want you to know that we wouldn't be surprised if the whole church stood up here and looked out at empty seats, or at least the singles who were like, "Well, that's encouraging!" You know what? I hope you are encouraged. There is this misconception out there that I don't struggle to walk with Christ, that it is easy for me. My wife is cute; how couldn't you love her? God blessed us with five great kids. I'm a student of the Word, and there is never anything but the Walton family Christmas at the Wagner house. And so it must be with the other elders, these pinnacles of godliness and greatness. We want to let you know that if it weren't for the power of Christ working in our lives, our marriages would end up on islands of despair. We would be statistics, just like maybe yours is, was, or soon will be. If that Spirit of God which, in grace, works in and through me and my wife to help us work diligently to maintain the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace, and the other elders and other godly leaders and couples in this church, our marriages don't have a chance. We want to let you know that you can make it. There are some singles out there who are 30, 40, 50 years old, godly in their purity, who are looking at some of the 20-year-olds and saying, "Oh, yeah, it's hard when you're 45 still, but you can do it." If the Spirit of God doesn't work in you like he works in me, then you are going to cave and make bad decision as a single person. There are people who are doing it and by the grace of God will continue to do it because we understand what is at risk and because God does transform hearts, and God does allow folks to work through what is best for their immediate flesh, for what is best for their family, what is best for themselves, what is best for their community, what is best for their God. This morning, we're going to talk about what God wants for you. We're going to talk about this very difficult thing. We're going to just peel it back, and we're going to do it quickly. We're going to cover as much as we can, and we'll see where we are in a few short minutes. Let me start by not losing the first two verses, which we want to rush through when we come to interesting texts like this, by learning something right from the very beginning. In Mark 10:1, it says, "And rising up, He went from there to the region of Judea, and beyond the Jordan; and crowds gathered around Him again, and, according to His custom, He once more began to teach them." The purpose in reading God's Word is to bring about not just information into our life but transformation. If we say that Christ is our Lord, then his way ought to be our way, we ought to lean not on our own understanding, in all of our ways, we ought to acknowledge him, and we ought to trust him to make our paths straight. If we find something that is customary in his life, we ought to do more than just read it was his custom to teach, we ought to ask ourselves, "What difference does that verse make in my life? Why is it there?" There are several reasons why it's there. It explains to you the question he's about to be asked, but it also models for you what ought to be customary in my life and in your life if he is your Lord. Let me give you an application point out of this, right out of the chute. If our customs aren't his customs, then our Lord isn't this Lord. That works for what his custom was whenever he was around a group of people. That works for what his custom was whenever he dealt with folks who wanted to compromise God's Word or lower his standard. That works for how he is committed to oneness in relationships and the example he went to to maintain oneness where there was isolation and brokenness. That is our model, and his custom ought to be our custom. Most specifically, right here at this one verse. If it is not a part of your life to regularly be teaching other people about the kingdom of God, the holiness of God, the putridness of sin, the brokenness which results in lives, the reconciliation and restoration which is available only through Jesus Christ, that there is no other name under heaven by which men must be saved, that the kingdom of God is coming, that God will hold men into account, that the Lamb of God has come to take away the sins the world, that the lion of Judah will come to bring men to a purifying fire of destruction if they don't rightly relate themselves to him, then this Lord is not your Lord. If it is not your pattern in life to further equip yourself and to be equipped by those who are more mature than you, that you might do the work of the ministry, which is the building up of the body of Christ, then this Lord isn't your Lord. I say that not to our guests this morning because we've already established that many of you are here trying to understand more about this God who loves you. We don't expect you to worship him and don't expect your life to look like his life. Those of us who have taken the name of Jesus, who are members here, who have covenanted with each other to live a life of full devotion with him, is it your custom to be an equipping individual, to get equipped so you can equip? Can you say these things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also? Are you ready to preach in season and out of season? Are you ready for the conversation that needs to happen tomorrow around the copier or at the coffee table at work during the break, when somebody comes into your office, some event on TV, some event in a newspaper, some worldview that is being skated on Oprah, are you ready to dialogue about that, and, as is customary, teach people about ultimate truth, grace, and the knowledge of God? If not, welcome. We believe that authentic lives are appropriate and best used by God to introduce other people into a process where they can believe in Christ and then belong to a community that will love them, extend them grace, and spur them on to love and good deeds, that they might be trained in truth. We want to equip you here for the work of the ministry and the building up of the saints of God. You don't have to be ready to get on Larry King tomorrow night and debate Deepak Chopra. You don't have tomorrow to go downtown and argue with some heretic, but you ought to be ready to take the next step. Make it your custom when you're with people to teach them from God's Word. Let us help you. Let me give you another observation, right here from verse 2. In verse 2, we have that little statement where it talked about how they came to Jesus to test him. Let me give you a little application point. Look at the perspective of the Pharisees when they came to Christ. They wanted to know this right out of the chute. They said to him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? We want to know where the law is going to give us an out. What is the minimum that we need to do? What am I required to do so I am free to do no more? What can I do, Jesus, so that I don't get in trouble with this God who you say you know so intimately?" That's what the legalist always does. The legalist comes to every perspective of truth by asking this question: "What are the demands of the law so I can meet them so that I can get on about my life, doing what I want?" That, folks, is what Jesus is about to respond to in the way that he did. He is not giving pastoral care to divorced persons. He is not addressing those contemplating divorce or those who have been struggling in broken relationships who need encouragement. That is not what we find in Mark 10. What we find in Mark 10 are a bunch of legalists who are trying to set him up so that he at least alienates himself from some of his followers. Quite possibly, what they are trying to do is get Jesus to do what the one who came before him, John the Baptist, did, which is to speak truthfully to others about God's Word, specifically to the ruler in that region, a man by the name of Herod, who married Herodias, who happened to be previously married to Herod's brother, Phillip. John the Baptist, being a truth-teller, in a conversation with Herod one day, who was curious about this man who was drawing a lot of attention in his land, had John come in. He was amused by John. He was wanting to be taught by John and learn from this John. He was a powerful communicator. In the context of one of their conversations, John dropped this bomb on him: "Oh, by the way, Herod, do you want to know more of what God thinks? That woman who you're currently bedding down with, she's not your wife. She's Phillip's wife, and you're an adulterer, and so is she." Now, that didn't fly very really well with the ruler. So John was put in jail, and eventually, because it didn't fly really well with Phillip's wife, who was currently sleeping with Herod, she asked if she could have the head of John the Baptist on a platter. These men have already sworn their hatred for Christ. What better way to get rid of him than to let Herod get offended once more by another long-haired prophet radically dropping ideas about purity in relationships? So they try and set him up. "When is it lawful for a man to get out of one relationship and into another?" They want to know, "Jesus, can you put your foot in your mouth?" They want to know, "Look, it's been our practice to not debate whether divorce is permissible." It was a known fact in Israel in this day that you could divorce based on a text in Deuteronomy 24 that God had given Moses to give to the people in the midst of hardheartedness and sin. This is what it says: "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her…" This has been the rule of the day. God didn't say this is what he wanted; he just acknowledged that it was a fact. God, as an accommodation to hardheartedness and human sin, said, "Moses, tell the people to act this way." Specifically, as a result of sin, we no longer had men who used their headship and their strength to serve women, to partner with women, to cover women, to bless women, to treat them as queens, and to count them as co-heirs, as image-bearers. No, men, in their sin, took their position of headship and they thumbed women down. They treated them as property, much like cattle. When they were sick of that head of cattle, they just got rid of it and brought another one in. As an accommodation to human sin, to put some boundary on rampant divorce in the sinful society that Moses was leading, God said, "Moses, you command men to when they now turn a woman out and send her away, to give her a piece of paper which simply says, 'I am sending you out through no fault of you own other than that you burnt the toast or salted the potatoes too much, or that, frankly, you're not as cute that 18-year-old Jewish gal that just moved in. Or, you're not as cute as that seductive Canaanite woman whose territory we just moved into, and so I'm done with you. Out you go.'" It was to provide some level of accountability to these men. Many scholars believe they had to go to the priest and say, "This is why I'm leaving and sending out this wife." It was to protect women so they would not be scorned as an adulteress because the only reason, up to that time, that remarriage was permissible in Jewish society was when your spouse was no longer alive because you did turn her out because she was an adulterer. Deuteronomy 22 tells us that if a woman or man was caught in adultery, they were to be put to death, which doesn't make whether or not you should stay married to that person much of an issue, because they're dead. Sin had this all perverted. We're going to look at a passage in Malachi that talks about the fact that God hates divorce. It had been so perverted in Israel in that day that that statement had come to mean and was translated in the language of the day, Aramaic, which was spoken by most Jews, "If you hate her, divorce her." They had taken that clear word from a prophet, "God hates divorce," and made it, "If you hate her, divorce her." That is the culture that Christ speaks to today in Mark 10, and that was the culture that Moses gave this word to. He said, "I have to put a limit on your rampant abuse. If you're going to send a woman out, then you give her papers, and you make it very clear that she's not an adulterer. If you're going to do what you're going to do, and because of sin, you clearly are, then I'm going to protect the woman." A few men, and the Pharisees were leading the people in this, would run through women, in and out. They would marry them and have their way, and then they'd see somebody else. They'd say, "I'm done with you," and go there. Moses was saying here in Deuteronomy 24, "Listen, guys, before you do that now, you'd better think twice. Once you let that woman go out, we're not going to legalize wife swapping anymore. Because of your sin, I am going to command you that if you're going to behave that way that you are, you will not abuse the woman. If you put that woman out and she marries another, she's not coming back into your tent. It is an abomination for you to send a woman out, take another one, and then go back and take her again." It was legalized wife swapping. What they'd do so they wouldn't be adulterers is say, "Divorce. Sex. Remarriage." That's the perversion that was going on in Deuteronomy. That was the perversion which continued all the way to Jesus' day, even amongst the religious leaders. What these guys wanted to know, along with having Jesus put his neck on the line, literally was, "Hey, we want to know, big guy. We all know divorce is permissible because Moses told us we could divorce. So what do you think?" There was one of school that said you could never divorce except in the case of adultery. There was another, more popular school (can you imagine that?) that said you could divorce her if she just didn't look good anymore. If she ate too many matzah balls and carried them around in a way that wasn't attractive to you anymore, if she burnt the matzah…get rid of her. So there was a debate amongst the leadership as to which kind of divorce was right. This is who Jesus speaks to today. He comes at them, and he says, "Let me just tell you, gentlemen. A legalist always wants to know the minimum he can do to get by, and that is an example of your hard hearts. Somebody who loves me is not looking for the minimum they can do, but they want to know, 'Where is there an opportunity for me to show my love?'" Let me just show you the kind of teaching Christ was calling people to. In Luke, chapter 6, Jesus introduces an idea that had been out in society. It came in Asia with Confucius. There's this thing that we know today as the Golden Rule. Jesus was not the first person to put some statement related to this out there in the public square. Confucius is one who this statement had been attributed to earlier. Watch the subtle difference. Read verse 31 as I tell you what Confucius said. He said, "Don't treat other people the way that you don't want them to treat you." Do you see the difference? He said, "You want to know what's appropriate in terms of morality? Just make sure you don't make other people miserable." Jesus turned that on its head, and he said, "Look, we're not a bunch of legalists who are just skating by so we don't get thrown in jail. We are people who are made in the image of God, who are called to be lovers of people, not just moralists looking for the minimum to get by and not thrown into jail, but looking to be leaders, who, in a relationship of love, treat other people the way we want them to treat us." Now follow on. He says, "And if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, in order to receive back the same amount. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful." What he's saying is, "Here's the law: Love others. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy. Love you wife as you love yourself. If you love your wife as you love yourself, you're not going to divorce yourself. I'm not asking you how she makes you feel; I'm telling you to stay there and dwell on that land. Cultivate faithfulness. Don't look for a minimum to get out; look for a maximum to give out of love in your relationship with me. Let that love, which you are experiencing from me, overflow into the love you give to her." Do you see what Jesus is saying right here to a group of men who are coming at him and are looking for a reason to not have to be committed? They want the minimum so they can skate by. This is the context of the response that you're about to get with divorce and remarriage. Let me show you in Mark, chapter 10, again. In verse 3, after he had been asked the question, "When is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" which is the wrong question. The right question is, "Jesus, how can I love my enemies? How can I love the one who I don't feel love for anymore, the way that I was always told in Hollywood movies?" (Or whatever it was that was affecting their culture in that day.) "How can I love them though I don't feel like loving anymore?" He says, "It's not about how you feel; it's about whose you are, and whose life you're modeling." He answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you to do in your hardness of heart?" They said, "Moses permitted…" Note that honest revelation by them. "…a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away." Literally, that word there means to put her out, or to basically pronounce her innocent. It is to acquit her of guilt, and then you put her away and proclaim her free, not bound, and innocent. Jesus said to them, "Listen, I'm going to tell you why Moses wrote this. Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, that's not the way it was supposed to be. Let me take you back, before Moses, to how God intended it to be, and not deal with your sinful state but call you to a righteous standard. God made one man and one woman; that was his plan in the beginning. Sin has perverted that to every kind of imaginable indulgence that we could speak. This is what we want, and when that happens, you're no longer two, but you're one. How could you rip apart one and still have it be whole? You cannot. What, therefore, God has joined together…" "There's your standard men. If you want to walk in holiness with me, you make that your standard. Don't come to me with your minimalistic obedience; you come to me with hearts that are rent, that hate sin like I hate sin, and are committed to holiness like I'm committed to holiness." The disciples were stunned. They got in a room, and they said, "Listen, Jesus, this is not in our culture." It would be much like me saying to you today, "When you buy a car, you do not sell that car. If you sell that car to another person that drives it, you make them a car thief." Now how would that sail in this room this morning? It would shock you. You would go, "Wait a minute, Todd. Can you explain that to me?" I would say, "Yes. Don't you know from the very beginning God made one Model T for every man? That's what Henry Ford said, and that's the plan. I want you to love your Model T, and I want you to endure with it. Anybody can love a car that's new, that smells new and drives nice. I want you to love this car and work on it in your garage and make sure that until that thing melts back into the earth, it is your car." That is what God did. He didn't give us a Model T; he gave us somebody else, created in God's image, that together, we were to display a relationship which was a picture of the divine. God did say something radical. He said, "Listen, your view of marriage has been dumbed down. You need to get it back where it belongs. You need to know this: There was a permission given to you in the midst of sin, but it is not the standard. Don't come at me with a minimalistic standard. You come to me with hearts that are rent and hearts that are transformed and are made new and say, 'How can I love like you love?'", He'll give you an answer to that. Let me make it very clear. Divorce never was and never will be part of God's design. Let me say that again. Divorce never was and never will be part of God's design. It is an accommodation to the sin of humanity, and it's necessarily abuse of a destructive force on others. What is God, then, going to do given sin? Will he maim and destroy, wreak havoc on all lives that are affected by this sin called divorce? Or will he wink at sin and say, "Aw, go ahead. Listen, I have to say this stuff. I'm God; I have to make a big standard, but we all know it's tough. Just go on, and the more you sin, the more my grace abounds, so it'll work out for both of us"? Neither. What he's going to do is make a merciful provision for those who have been caught in sin and that repent. He is going to very clearly call hard-hearted spouses into account. He's going to let them know that there is a standard out there, and there is a God who takes very seriously the vows that you made, who you are accountable to, and who you'd better prepare yourself to be with. Let me give you a couple of applications, and we're going to deal with the exceptions. It is very true that God hates divorce, but it is not true that God hates divorced people. It is true that God hates divorce; it is not true that God hates divorced people. Divorce is not the unforgiveable sin in God's eyes, and it should not be in the church. God has made an accommodation for human sin even today, but we don't want to listen to what that accommodation is. We want to pursue his standard and then deal appropriately with the pain, havoc, and destruction sin brings into every relationship. Marriage, folks, is made for humankind. Humankind is not made for marriage. If you fail at marriage, that doesn't mean you're going to fail at humankind. Humans were made to enjoy God and to glorify him forever. Just because you failed at glorifying God in a pervious marriage doesn't mean that you have to fail at glorifying him forever. God hates divorce. God hates sin, its symptoms, and its consequences, but he doesn't hate the sinner. He never has. There is a stigma with this sin, just like there's a stigma with homosexuality. We need to make it very clear: there are certain sins that have certain consequences that are greater than other sins, but all sins are sins in God's eyes and enough to separate us from him for eternity. Instead of casting dispersions on those who struggle with certain sin issues, we need to call them to repentance as we radically deal with areas of repentance in our lives, whether they be arrogance or exaggeration, or slander or gossip or half-truths, or insecurity, and call ourselves to repentance as we call the sinner in divorce, in homosexuality, in heterosexuality, and in more relationships to repent. I want to remind you of the context we're working in in Mark. Mark just got through talking about how there are some radical demands that are made on disciples. God is calling men and women to follow him, to bear their cross, to love enemies, to love those that hurt them, to be a servant of other people and not look to be served, to prepare themselves to be salted with the purifying fire of persecution. He says, "If you find something in your life that keeps you from being obedient to Christ, get rid of it." He uses the hyperbolic statement, "If your eye causes you to sin, get rid of it. If your hand causes you to sin, get rid of it. If your foot causes to sin, get rid of it." Jesus is saying that there's nothing too great for a holy God to ask of those who have been won by redemptive grace into a relationship with him. "I'm gong to tell you, die to yourself so that you might live in a way that glorifies me." He'd always said this kind of thing to his people. Back in Malachi, chapter 2, verse 11, it starts talking about how the nation is an abomination to God. Part of the reason they were an abomination is because they were marrying irresponsibly. They were marrying people who weren't committed to the God of the Scriptures. In their unions, where they were supposed to have a one-flesh relationship, you had two people coming into that marriage with two different blueprints. He said, "It's going to pervert you. It's going to pull you away from a life that glorifies me and enjoys me. That's an abomination to me." He spells that out. Then in verse 13, he starts off with another consequence to sin. He says, "And this is another thing you do [that has gotten my attention, that bothers me]: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears.Some people think that means because of your hard-heartedness and sin, there are many women in your land who come and cry over me, saying, 'My husband who told me he would love me has loved me for a moment, only to love another woman. Now I have this stigma on me of being a woman who's been put out. God, in my weakness, in my sex, I have been abused.'" Many people think that's what this is. I think it's better understood this way. In fact, this is what most folks understand this to mean. When it says, "You cover my altar with tears," it is referring to the fact that the Jewish men, the spiritual leadership, cried out over the altar of God with tears, saying, "God, you don't listen to us anymore. You don't respond to our sacrifices. You don't respond to our worship. More horror comes upon our land. There's no sense of your divine protection and participation with us. Why is it, God, that you are not committed to us as you said you would be to our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?" Those are the tears they are pouring out on the altar. He says in verse 13, "Because you no longer, God, accept our offering with favor from your hand." "You say, 'For what reason do you do this?'" He says, "I'm going to tell you why. Because I'm a witness between you and the wife of your youth. I was there when you said you would love her with an everlasting love." In this New Testament sense, "I was there when you said you would love her as I loved the church. I was there when you said your relationship is a picture of God's relationship with his people. I was a witness for that, and now I'm a witness for the way you treat her. You've dealt with her treacherously," verse 14 says. He says in verse 15, "Anybody who does this has no remnant of the Spirit." He finishes that verse by saying, "Take heed then, to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth. For I hate divorce…" Can he be any more clear? Why? Why does he hate it? Because it destroys the picture that God gave us as image-bearers, this mystery of a plurality of persons who dwelled together in unity. This picture of people who have different roles but who deal in mutual subjection with one another, not seeking their own self-interest… Even though one might look like the Father and another look like the Son and another look like a Spirit which glorifies both, none of them reign over the other one. He says, "That is a hard concept to grasp, that I can be one God, yet exist in three persons who eternally are sharing community and submission in love. I'll give you a picture on earth where two persons will cleave together and become as one and will not rule over one another, will not desire to thumb the other down for their own selfish interests because it ruins that picture. It hurts innocents; it devastates children whom I care for. It brings chaos to lives; it corrupts society. Because it embarrasses me and my name, I hate divorce." He says right there. "The man that covers his garment with wrong is the man that I stand against. So take heed, to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously." Let me explain this to you very quickly. In Ruth, chapter 3, you see this picture and again in Ezekiel. When a man would get married, he would take his garment, take it off, and he would cover the wife of his youth with it as a symbol of protection and care. "I'm going to serve you with all of my provisions to make sure you are secure, warm, and valued." He said, "That woman who you, publicly, before me, said that you were going to love in that way, what you have done is cover her with a garment of violence. You have beaten her, abused her, and bloodied that garment. You have assaulted her. The one who you said you would care for, you have battered and bruised, and I hate that, especially when you say this is a picture of my relationship with people." God hates divorce, but he doesn't hate the divorced person. Unfortunately, and I want to make this observation, there is more pressure in our society for you to get married once you're engaged than there is going to be to stay married once you get in there. I tell my engaged friends that all the time. I say, "Right now is the time for you to be doing some serious evaluation. You'd better educate yourself as to what marriage is, but you need to know this. Now that she's wearing a ring, once you have a few showers, once Aunt Edna buys a non-refundable plane ticket to come to Dallas, once you have deposits at the DoubleTree, at this florist, at that tux shop, once those hideous bridesmaid dresses are bought and cut, once the wedding consultant has been booked, God forbid, the invitations have been mailed out, good luck trying to back out of this gig." People say, "Hey, everybody gets cold feet. I've been there; you're going to do fine." But you take those same friends who are going to say, "Look, man, that's a big step to back out of this thing." In two or three years, folks are going, "No one deserves that kind of pain. No one ought to carry that kind of cross. God doesn't want you to feel that way. Get out. Get on with your life. Start over. There's someone better. This isn't what you looked for." I'm gong to tell you something: that spirit that whispers that is not the Holy Spirit. It is not the Spirit who spoke to Malachi, and it is not the Spirit who speaks today. He hates divorce. Let me make this observation: divorce is the ordeal, but staying married is not the ideal. I'm going to make this my last point today, and then we're going to come back next week and talk about the exceptions, the accommodations for sin, and what God says to us who are in the midst of marriages right now, what God says to those of us who have made a decision or who have been a victim of a decision that others have made. Let me just remind you that God doesn't go to either extreme. He doesn't maim, destroy, and wreak havoc on those who have done certain things, and he doesn't just wink at sin. He makes merciful provision and calls hard-hearted spouses into account. He acknowledges that sin still exists in the church and out. Divorce is the ordeal, but staying married is not the ideal. Let me just make this very clear. Some of you all are not married biblically; you're just undivorced. It's just as much of a shame to your Lord as your friend who went through. God is not concerned with when the legal documents are filed or the niceties of some timing. He is concerned with the attitude of your heart. There are all kinds of statements about marriage and how difficult it is; we all know, right? That one deal: there's the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and then the…what? The suffer-ring, right? I wanted the ideal; I got an ordeal, so now I want a new deal. There's a story about a guy sitting there, and there's a dietician talking about all of the things we put into our stomach which cause us problems. How Chinese food has too much MSG, that red meat is awful for us, soft drinks corrode the stomach lining, vegetables can be disastrous… None of us realizes the long-term harm caused by some of the germs that exist in our drinking water. This dietician giving this presentation said, "Do you know what the most dangerous food of everything we can eat is?" There was some 75-year-old guy in the back who raised his hand and said, "Yeah, wedding cake." The guy that says that is obviously, after 50 years, maybe not divorced, but he has settled for a marriage of mutual toleration that is not a glory to the Father. God wants us to pursue oneness, and isolation is the enemy of oneness. Genesis 2:24… You've memorized this verse without ever trying. People who have never been to church know this verse. Look what God's ideal for marriage is: that you leave, that you cleave, and this is marriage, that you become one flesh. If you sit out there today, let me tell you, this is my prayer. I want to speak grace and truth, I want to speak pastorally, into the lives of those who have been hurt in relationships. We're going to do that. Do you understand Jesus' words today, who they were addressed to? I want to speak pastorally into the lives of those of us who are like my wife and me, who have taken divorce out of our vocabulary. We have a long list of words, and the list gets longer. Jerk is out; she can't use it. Witch is out; I can't use it. There are about 20 to 25 others. Divorce is one that from the very beginning we said we weren't going to use, but can I tell you something? We could commit to never using divorce, and we could go through life like this and be just as much of a shame to our God as some of our friends who have caved to the pressures of a failed marriage. Staying married is not what God wants his children to pursue. He wants to see you radically committed to oneness. He wants to see you die to your flesh. He wants to see you depend upon the Holy Spirit and the community of the saints, to say, "We will fight to maintain oneness." I tell people all the time, I sometimes think my name is Todd "I'm Sorry" Wagner. This is my wife, Alex "Yes, I Forgive You" Wagner. I work all the time. I have a wife who is a completer, who calls me on the carpet, in love. Sometimes, not so much, but she gets me there and says, "Todd, listen. I believe your heart. I believe that you are a man who wants to honor God, and you don't want to play games. But the way that you're treating me right now, or the tone or the indifference, is not godly. I will not stand for it, or I will fail you as a wife." I do the same with her. I go to her, and I say, "Sweetie, it's not enough to just say we're never going to divorce. We have to work hard to maintain unity. We can't just go through the motions in our marriage because if we do, we won't go through the motions of the physical love we both enjoy together. We won't glorify our Lord. We have to pursue that with a tenacity and an honesty that is God's ideal." If you are here today and you're not divorced, let me just tell you something. Speak up if you're struggling. This is a safe place to say, "You know what? I married a sinner, and so did she. We sometimes sin against each other, and when we sin against each other, we isolate ourselves. We don't know what to do, how to communicate, or how to work our way back. Frankly, we've been doing it for 15 years." Or, maybe, "We've been doing it for 15 months." Or, maybe, "We've been doing it for 15 weeks." Or, maybe, you've just been doing it for 15 minutes. Would you realize that this is a place where God wants to transform sinners' hearts, to equip them that they can be a blessing in their marriage, to understand what it means to be filled with the Spirit, to love your spouse, to die to yourself. Not divorcing is not the standard at Watermark Community Church, because it's not the standard of God's Word. The standard is a marriage that is committed to oneness, that glorifies him. Singles, if you're out there listening today, can I tell you something? You don't marry somebody that makes some lame profession for Jesus Christ. You'd better find somebody who is radically committed to pursuing him. I tell my single friends, "You don't marry somebody who's not already well-married." By that I mean if they're not in a covenant relationship with the living God, and in that covenant relationship they have not shown fidelity, faithfulness, and steadfastness, you are naïve to think they are going to show it to you. You find out what a faithful single person looks like, and you see if that's the direction of that spouse's life. Don't look for the fourth person of the Trinity; they're not out there. But you look for somebody who's direction of their life is godliness. You make sure the direction of your life is godliness. When an ungodly aspect of your life roars its ugly head, you repent. When you see that happening, you have a potential candidate for marriage, but if you marry someone who has a lame relationship with Christ, you can bank on it that they're going to have a lame relationship with you. If they are casual relationship with Christ, you will have a casual marriage, which is not the ideal. You need to know this: The most miserable people on earth, the loneliest people on earth, are not single people. They are poorly-married people who feel trapped. God doesn't want you to feel trapped in your marriage. He wants you to have the ideal, which is community, submission and love, mutual subjection, and service for his glory and your good. That can't happen without the Spirit of God transforming our hearts on a regular basis, amen? Let's pray. Father, we just touched on a topic today, and next week, we'll come back, and we'll talk about the exception. We know that you are not in the heavens and you have not forgotten what it's like and the difficulty to be committed. You know that people wrong people, and you know that people hurt people. Father, I want to pray right now for a couple of folks specifically. I want to pray for the individuals who are out there who are divorced and remarried, and they're wondering, "Well, am I an adulterer? At least for seven days, I have to live with that insecurity." I pray that they go to your Word, that they study it, that they're diligent to look at what your Word says, they read 1 Corinthians 7, they read Matthew 19 and Matthew 5, they wrestle with your Word. Where they find sin in their lives, that they would repent, and that they would find grace in the midst of their repentance. For a broken heart and contrite spirit, you have yet to deny. I pray, specifically, for my married friends who are out there who think they are better than the next person because they haven't filed yet, and yet in their life is such inconsistency and such rebellion against you because they have stopped looking to pursue intimacy, oneness, love, subjection, care, and tenderness with their spouse. They've just laid that down and given up, and there are kids in their household who grow up with a view of marriage that is distorted and perverted, and who think the view of intimacy, even with you, is therefore casual because they see that in their mom and their dad. I pray that those folks would dig deep in their heart and would find conviction and would repent. I pray for my single friends who are out there, who are saying, "Hey, I don't care how bad marriage is. Just let me in; give me a shot." They're struggling with their covenant relationship with you. I pray that they wouldn't just have a nominal relationship with you, Lord, but they would today take a good, hard look at the fact that they already are married if they know you. They ought to work on that relationship and make sure oneness, intimacy, purity, fidelity, faithfulness, and a desire to grow deeper with you are there, just like they're going to need to do with someone with flesh. We thank you, Lord, that someone with flesh did come. That's what we're celebrating this Christmas season. The visible image of the invisible God has come to us and deals with all of our sin, no matter what it is, all of our brokenness, no mater what it is. I pray for our guest who's out there today, who's never known that God loves them, that he hates their divorce, he hates their homosexuality, he hates their lying, he hates their arrogance, but he loves them. I pray, Lord, that they would hear of a Jesus who was so committed to those he created that he modeled for us what we say we need to do in marriage. He died that we might live. I pray this morning there would be somebody out there who'd be so full of need that they'd find that need met in Jesus Christ and his death on the cross for their sin, and they would come and they would reconcile with their one Lord and that you would be glorified. For those of us who know you, we just worship now. We say, "God, we can't be married the way we want to be, we can't stay unified as a body the way that we want to be., and we can't serve our lost friends the way we want to if your Spirit doesn't rain on us." So we pray, would you reign in us? In Christ name, amen. About 'Gospel According to Mark, Volume 4' The most influential person in history is also the most misunderstood and misrepresented. Two thousand years after He walked the earth, Jesus of Nazareth is still a mystery to many people. Whether you admire Him, worship Him, despise him or simply don't know about him, it's difficult to deny that any other single person has had more influence on our world than Jesus has. But how do we come to understand a man who is so commonly misunderstood? Join Todd Wagner for a walk through the Gospel of Mark and look into the life of one man who changed the entire course of human history. See Jesus for who He truly is and learn how He can change the course of every individual life that understands, responds to and trusts in Him. This volume covers Mark 9:1 through Mark 10:34 and includes the 2-message series "Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage: The Ordeal and the Ideal". email [email protected] 11000 Frisco St., Unit 300 Frisco, TX 75033 email [email protected] email [email protected] arrow_right Explore Discover Watermark arrow_right Ministries arrow_right About Sign Up for The Current ©2020 Watermark Community Church. All Rights Reserved.

HomeCity of AustinCity CharterCity Council's Stealth Pay Raises City of AustinCity CharterCity Council City Council's Stealth Pay Raises Austin City Council's Pay Raises Fly Under the Public Radar County Commissioners Court Raises Require Published Notice, Signed Approval The Austin City Council of 2006 The Austin City Charter (Article 1, Section 2) establishes the city council as the city's policy making body. But when it comes to giving themselves a pay raise, the mayor and city council members are just part of the rank and file. When city employees get a raise, so do council members—automatically, without any public disclosure required. The mayor and council members have obtained three such raises in the last four years. While the cumulative amount of these recent raises has been relatively small, the process is far from transparent. From 2000 to 2010, the mayor's salary has increased 124 percent, council members' 109 percent. Adding to the lack of transparency, salaries for the mayor and council members are not posted anywhere on the city's website, a fact confirmed by the city's public information office. Council payroll documents for the past five years were obtained by The Austin Bulldog through submission of an open records request and payment of $127 in fees to retrieve and search boxes of older records. Because of the city's inadequate initial response to the request, incomplete records, and the city's changing methodology for documenting council pay changes, clarity was achieved only after submitting numerous follow-up e-mails to city officials to obtain answers. The city's current system of pay raises for the mayor and council members was established November 16, 2006, when the council led by Mayor Will Wynn voted unanimously to pass Ordinance 20061116-081. This ordinance grants future raises to the mayor and council members "…equal to the base percentage amount established for 'meets expectations' compensation adjustments for non-Civil Service employees." (Only police and firefighters are civil service employees and their pay is determined by contracts. The rest of the city's 12,000 workers are not civil service employees.) Tom "Smitty" Smith is director of Public Citizen Texas, a nonprofit group that addresses a broad range of public policy issues, including what it calls "clean government" by working to hold public officials accountable. "I think Austin City Council members should be well paid, comparable to the other 20 large metropolitan cities in the United States," Smith says, "because it's more than a full-time job. "But council members pay raises should not be done through subterfuge," Smith says. Smith says the Texas Legislature is an example of more extreme subterfuge. When our low-paid lawmakers vote to raise judicial salaries they are actually voting to raise their own retirement pay, because their retirement pay is pegged to judicial salaries. The preferred way to address salaries for council members, Smith says, is for the city auditor or some other disinterested official to establish a citizens committee removed from council influence that would study compensation issues and make recommendations for the council to adopt. While the City of Austin's methodology is opaque, this below-the-radar procedure is permitted by Local Government Code Section 141.004, which states, "The governing body of a home-rule municipality may set the amount of compensation for each officer of the municipality." County commissioners are much more closely regulated. In fact, Local Government Code Section 152.013 requires newspaper publication of a notice of any salaries, expenses, or allowances that are proposed to be increased for all elected county or precinct officers—including the amount of proposed increases—more than 10 days before the commissioners court meets for a budget hearing and adopts the budget. To view the ad published for the current fiscal year click here. County commissioners must publicly vote on these proposed pay increases. Then, each member of the commissioners court must personally sign the order setting salaries for elected officials, including their own. To see the order for the current fiscal year click here. Council raises 2000 to 2010 In early 2000 the mayor was paid $33,000 per year and council members $30,000. That same year the mayor's pay was increased by $20,000 to a total of $53,000, and the council pay was increased by $15,000 to a total of $45,000, according to a May 19, 2000, report in The Austin Chronicle. Mayor and council pay was not increased again until the 2006 ordinance was passed. That action set the mayor's pay at $67,981 and council pay at $57,736. Since the 2006 ordinance was passed, the council has granted raises to city employees three times in four years, the last time being in 2010. Correspondingly, the mayor's pay has risen from $67,981 per year to $73,944 and council members pay has grown from $57,736 to $62,795. The mayor and council members are also paid an automobile allowance of $5,400 a year, a figure that has not changed since it was approved in 2006. The mayor and council members are entitled to a cell phone allowance of $75 a month. All but one council member stopped taking the phone stipend soon after the county attorney's office started looking into whether these elected officials had violated the Texas Open Meetings Act, the Austin American-Statesman reported April 5, 2011. That investigation is still underway. 2006 ordinance action According to documents obtained through an open records request,Mayor Will Wynn and then Council Member Jennifer Kim both declined to take the pay raises they voted to approve in 2006, while Council Members Betty Dunkerley and Brewster McCracken accepted the raises. All four have since left the council. The current city council includes Mayor Lee Leffingwell, Sheryl Cole and Mike Martinez, all of whom were council members in November 2006, voted for the ordinance, and accepted the pay raises. The conversation leading up to the November 16, 2006 vote, as recorded in the closed-caption transcript for Item 81, was brief. Mayor Pro Tem Dunkerley, who made the motion to pass the ordinance, noted that council salaries had last been adjusted in 2000. Council Member McCracken seconded the motion and talked about the drastic city budget cutbacks that had taken place since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Mayor Wynn summed up before the vote: "I will just say that I trust people recognize that no elected official relishes the opportunity to vote on one's own pay. That's the situation we have found ourselves in over these years as has previous councils and I think the council has taken appropriate action this afternoon." Passage of the 2006 ordinance made sure no future city council would ever have to do so, unless action is taken to modify the statute. This report was made possible by contributions to The Austin Bulldog, which operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to provide investigative reporting in the public interest. You can help to sustain The Austin Bulldog's reporting by making a tax-deductible contribution. Betty Dunkerley Brewster McCracken Jennifer Kim lee leffingwell Public Citizen Texas Sheryl Cole Tom "Smitty" Smith Will Wynn Previous articleCity E-mail Policies Still Not Implemented Next articleAt-Large Elections Favor Anglo Choices

STL Chess Club The Turk, Chess Automaton $ 24.00 (Members save 20% with code CHESSM at checkout) With new research revealing facts unrecalled for two centuries, this is a richly detailed account of the astonishing 18th century chess-playing machine in human form known as "the Turk," Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen's amazing Automaton that held the world spellbound for 85 years beginning in 1770. The Turk was actually manipulated by a man housed in a hot box, working by candlelight - but the secret was kept for decades. The hidden director (who had to play a very good game) had to keep track of the position, move the pieces with the pantograph arm apparatus, nod the head, roll the eyes, cover up sneezes and coughs, and work the mechanism that spoke the word, "Echec!", This work contains a detailed discussion of the sizeable body of literature surrounding the Turk, along with an extensive analysis of its hidden operation. A collection of games played by the Turk, many, again, unknown for 200 years, is also included, along with numerous games by the Turk's various hidden directors that are known to have played elsewhere. *Please note that the books we sell online come straight from the shelves in our store. We won't send anything that looks bad or is torn, but they may not be in mint condition. Learn about new products, sales, and more WCHOF Event Tickets © 2021, World Chess Hall of Fame POS and Ecommerce by Shopify

1. 1 KIt PN50-0217 NV4500 TO CHEVY NP T/C 10 SPL. 3. 1 Kit PN715534 GM MECH. CLUTCH LINKAGE BRKT. 4. 1 Kit PN716050C NV4500 SHIFT HANDLE ASSY. This package is for a GM 4WD NV4500 to the GM 10 spline NP205 (1971-85). This application requires the shortening of the NV output shaft to 4.498" in length. When using this kit, we couple to the 31 spline area which is under the harmonic balancer. In order to cut the shaft, you will need to remove the GM tailhousing. The NP205 has a 10 spline male shaft. We manufacture a female coupler that engages the 31 spline transmission to the 10 spline transfer case. We have included a new seal for the adapter housing along with a new sealed bearing for the transfer case for extra protection. This transfer case adapter kit uses two castings to couple the NV4500 to the NP205. These castings have been machined to allow for proper transfer case shift rail clearance. A shifter bracket has been provided to mount the stock NP205 shifter handle; however, you may be required to modify the handle to properly fit up into the cab of the truck. The bellhousing in this kit bolts directly to the front of the NV4500. Depending on the type of clutch linkage your vehicle has, we offer two brackets to assist you. The kit comes with Part No. 715534, which is a bracket for the mechanical linkage. This bracket provides a pivot point on the bellhousing similar to the pivot found on a stock GM bellhousing. Some mechanical linkages use a pivot point off of the engine block which would remain the same. If your vehicle was equipped with a hydraulic linkage, we also offer a slave cylinder bracket that bolts to our bellhousing, PN715535. This bracket is designed to fit 1985-1991 GM slave cylinders (GM #15615868). You can substituted P/N 715534 with P/N 715535 when ordering this complete kit. The SM465 is 12" long with an adapter housing of 7.250". The transmission and transfer case adapter length is approximately 19-1/4". The overall length of the adapter kit is approximately 1" longer than the stock; therefore, driveline modifications may be necessary. The overall assembled length including the bellhousing is 26.250". The New Venture Gear Corporation was developed when GM's Muncie Transmission Division and Chrysler's New Process Corporation joined forces to manufacture a full product line of manual transmissions. The NV4500 transmission was the highlight of this new venture. Featuring a granny low first gear coupled with a fifth gear overdrive, the stout NV4500 is truly the best of both worlds. First introduced in 1992, the NV4500 is a constant mesh helical geared, heavy duty 5 speed transmission. All forward gears are fully synchronized. The initial Dodge version offered a synchronized reverse. The transmission case is cast iron with an aluminum top cover. The case measures 12.375 inches and features dual PTO ports. The shifter handle typically allows for better accessibility over older granny 4 speeds as it is located further rearward at 9-1/2" from the face of the transmission. The 1992 & 1994 GM versions have a lower first gear of 6.34 and can be identified by a smaller front bolt pattern with a top to bottom measurement of 4.685". After 1995, the first gear and front bolt pattern reverted to the Dodge 5.61 first gear and the taller top to bottom 6.043" bolt hole configuration. The synchronized reverse was also added and the front bearing retainer was enlarged from 5.125" to 5.6" diameter. As a general rule, a GM NV4500 4WD transmission will always have a 32 spline rear output shaft with an 8-1/8" rear tailhousing. The input shaft is 6-5/8" 1-1/8" 10 spline with a .590" pilot tip. We have also seen a rare 1995 GM NV4500 which can be classified as a hybrid. The transmission has the lower 6.34 with the newer bolt pattern. Dodge 4wd NV4500 transmissions have always maintained the same gear ratios and bolt patterns throughout production; however, variations occur between diesel (and V10) versus gas models. Diesel NV4500 4WD transmissions always have a 29 spine rear output shaft with a 6-1/4"" rear tailhousing. The input shaft is 7-1/2" 1-1/4" 10 spline with a .75" pilot tip. The front bearing retainer index is 5.6" with a snout diameter of 1.75". Dodge Gas 4wd NV4500s initially were introduced with a 23 spline rear output shaft and a 6-1/4 tailhousing. The input shaft is 7-1/2", 1-1/8" 10 spline with a .75" pilot tip (we have seen very rare 1" 19 spline inputs in 1993 trucks). The front retainer is 5.6" with a 1.43" snout. In 2001, Dodge discontinued the 23 spline output shaft on the gas version NV4500, and all Dodge transmissions standardized to 29 spline. For most conversion applications, we like the Dodge gas version transmission with a GM input shaft. This allows the shortest transmission length for most applications. The GM input shaft from a 6.34:1 early transmission will not fit the Dodge transmissions. TRANSMISSION LUBRICATION: The NV4500 transmission uses approximately one gallon of synthetic oil. This oil is available at your local Dodge authorized dealer under Part No. 4874459 (quart), or your local GM authorized dealer under Part No. 12346190 (quart). Unlike regular petroleum oil that breaks down when it gets too hot, this synthetic oil is made up of different properties that do not break down. The transmissions are also equipped with synchronizer rings that are made of a fibrous material. The wrong fluid will cause the unit to develop "sticky" shifting. If the wrong fluid is used, more than likely you will have to have your transmission rebuilt. TORQUE SPECIFICATIONS: Top Shift Cover Bolt 200 Inch pounds. Adapter Housing 40 Foot pounds. Front Drive Gear Retainer 265 Inch pounds. Main Shaft Nut 4WD 275 Foot pounds. P.T.O. Cover Bolts 30 Foot pounds. Reverse Inhibitor Bracket 95 Inch pounds. Counter Shaft Brg. Ret. Plate 200 Inch pounds. Main Shaft Brg. Ret. Plate 200 Inch pounds. GASKETING SPECIFICATIONS: In order to install the new adapter housing, top cover, and bearing retainer, we recommend using Loctite 518 Gasket Eliminator. This sealant seems to work best. SPEEDOMETER: Most 4WD installations provide a speedometer drive gear on the back side of the transfer case. On 2WD transmission swaps, Dodge transmissions are the most desirable due to the mechanical speedometer drive. The later versions (1998 & newer transmissions) do not have any type of speedometer provisions. The GM 2WD NV4500 transmissions use an electronic speed sensor. These transmissions will not allow you to retain a cable speedometer drive. BACKUP SWITCH: All NV4500s are equipped with an electronic reverse backup switch. If your vehicle is equipped with some type of backup indicator light, it can be adapted very easily to the new NV4500 switch. The parts required to couple to this switch are PN300378 (1), PN300378 (2 req.), and PN300378-1 (2 req.). NV4500 rebuild kit: If you find your own NV4500, but need to freshen it up with some new bearings seals and synchronizers, we offer PN715691. This kit supplies you with replacement parts for the normal wear items of the NV4500. Click the button below to add the Advance Adapters 27-0030 Replacing GM/Chevy Fullsize SM465 to your wish list.

Frogs and Toads is a comprehensive guide that covers all aspects of caring for your favorite amphibian. This title covers over 40 species within the hobby, both common and rare, including fire-bellied toads, horned frogs, tree frogs, African clawed frogs, and many more. The author discusses topics vital to caring for your frog or toad, such as housing, temperature and humidity control, feeding, health care, and breeding. Designing your own natural terrarium is made easy with step-by-step instructions and full-color photos to guide you.

The South African Communist Party (SACP) joins participants of the 20th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties (IMCWP), to express our profound fraternal best wishes to the Greek Communist Party (KKE) on the occasion marking its centenary and also on 20th edition of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties (IMCWP). It's by no small measure to attribute this achievement to a solid party, with a commitment to principle and the ideals of a better society - socialism. We salute the leadership, the members and supporters of KKE, it's allied formations, it's youth formation KNE and the militant class-orientated trade union PAME. We are adjoined by the theme of this 20th edition of the IMCWP to not only analyze the conjuncture, but also to reflect critically in the workings of our parties in the direction of deepening, advancing and defending the ideals for an alternative society to the rapacious system of capitalism and its variant manifestations of neoliberal financialised globalization. These tasks are even more important in this period, as has been demonstrated by the adverse international developments recently across the global, occasioned by the deep crisis of system capitalism in its financialised manner. The inevitable boom and busts cycles are a key characteristic of capitalists economies, wherein the subsequent bust the economy shrinks, people lose their jobs, the quality of life of the people declines. The 14th Congress of the SACP held in 2017 under the theme: 'Defend, Advance, Deepen the National Democratic Revolution: The Vanguard Role of the SACP', directed us to and confirmed our strategic posture in this period, that of a radical second phase of the National Democratic Revolution as the most direct route to a socialist South Africa. The 14th Congress also called for provision of leadership in the widest patriotic front in defense of our democracy and our country's national sovereignty. Delegates of the historic 14th Congress pledged to actively carry forward all the resolutions of congress, such as on the vanguard role in places of work, in our communities, in our places of learning, and in all other key sites of power. Our Party is of the view that we have to win our vanguard role in the trenches of struggle - through active work between and amongst the people and their formations. SACP has noted that the defense of our democracy against large-scale looting of public resources by a parasitic political-bureaucratic stratum is the first order of the day. There are important lessons elsewhere in the world such as the development of a bureaucratic bourgeoisie in the post-Revolutionary Iran, from which we must learn in order to overcome the immediate challenges that face our revolution. Samir Amin, who recently passed on, is instructive on this matter. In the final chapter of his recent book, Amin considers the present from the perspective of a lifetime of activism stretching back to the 1940s. The central thrust of this chapter (appropriately titled "Revolution or decadence?", provides an important reference points that help to clarify - at least in South Africa, our own situation and help to situate our reality within a wider set of global trends. He writes, "In the periphery [the geo-political South] the socialist transition is not distinct from national liberation". Amin proceeds:" It has become clear that the latter [national liberation] is impossible under local bourgeois leadership, and thus becomes a democratic stage in the process of the uninterrupted revolution by stages led by the peasant and workers masses". Amin correctly, argues that 'a revolution cannot be advanced only with a vanguard political formation, or state power'. 'Popular forces' that are, in his words, "non-alienated" are the critical factor. In the past period the SACP has been undertaking concrete measures, to both to tackle these challenges but also build alliances, anchored around the broad goals and ideals of the 14th Congress and previous congresses' Party Programmes, and in the process address the issue of alienation and agency of the broad masses. The SACP is unfolding a process of developing both a broad patriotic and left fronts within the terrain of the socio-economic and political challenges of our country, such as confronting corruption and rampant looting of the public resources. This has also resulted in a debate for a 'reconfiguration of the Alliance' with the African National Congress ( ANC) and Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). This debate is important in the post-1994 context where the ANC Alliance are in government. Finally, we think it will be a critical mistake, if we don't reflect on the recent developments and emergence of rightwing populist charismatic strongmen personalities, such as Duterte, Trump, Bolsonaro and Salvini in Italy. Rightwing populism ascendancy today is a symptom of the failure (somewhat) of progressive politics. The roots of this predicament, some argue goes back to the 1980s. Indeed, this is a spectacular failure of neoliberalism! The rise of rightwing politics has its origins in the decaying of the politics of amongst others, center-parties, and social democracy. These are dangerous times for democracy. In the United States Donald Trump represents the greatest threat to the American constitutional order since Richard Nixon. The hard reality is that Trump was elected by tapping a wellspring of anxieties, frustrations and legitimate grievances to which the mainstream parties have no compelling answer. This means that, for those worried about Trump and about populism, it is not enough to mobilize and protest and resistance, it is also necessary to engage in politics of persuasion that must begin by understanding the discontent that is roiling politics. As many commentators now note, another economic downturn looms. We know that all the reforms and regulations imposed in the wake of the Great Depression of the 1930s failed to prevent both smaller downturns between 1941 and 2008 and then another big crash in 2008. Capitalism's instability has, for centuries, resisted all efforts to overcome it with or without government interventions. Yet mainstream economics mostly evades an honest confrontation with the social costs of such economic instability. Worse, it evades a direct debate with the Marxian critique that links those costs to an argument that system change would be the best and most "efficient" solution. Therefore, IMCWP must develop appropriate responses towards these set of politics in order to present our people with concrete and realistic responses to the challenges confronting our societies as a direct result of crisis of system of capitalism. Socialism is the future - build it now!

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/content/lb/en/destinations/flights-to-ho-chi-minh-city/from-madrid https://www.qatarairways.com/en-lb/search-results Search /content/lb/en/destinations/flights-to-ho-chi-minh-city/from-madrid https://www.qatarairways.com/en-lb/search-results Ho Chi Minh City: a city humming with invigorating energy from Madrid Formerly the capital of French Cochinchina and later South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City is today Vietnam's largest urban centre. Many westerners will be more familiar with the city's former name, Saigon, which is still what the Vietnamese call their capital. Still heavy on culture, this city is packed with energy and has vibrant art and food scenes. You'll find that in Ho Chi Minh City, there's a juxtaposition of old and new; glistening skyscrapers compete for space with colonial buildings; and ancient temples are as popular with visitors as modern shopping malls. Check the price of flights to Ho Chi Minh City further below and book Economy or Premium Class flights with Qatar Airways to discover a modern metropolis filled with culture and history. Flying from Madrid Madrid's Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is the major civil and commercial airport serving Spain's capital. It's the largest and busiest airport in the country, and one of the key departure points in Europe, making it of international importance. Ultra-modern and incredibly efficient, it is nevertheless a very friendly and welcoming airport, where professional staff go out of their way to make the start of your journey as pleasant as possible. Passengers flying from Madrid with Qatar Airways will find that connections to the rest of Europe and South America in particular are well served. Madrid-Barajas Airport is located within the city boundary of Madrid and is just over five and a half miles from the financial centre, making it particularly popular with business travellers. RENFE trains operate along between Terminal 4 and Prínicipe Pio station in the city centre, with a journey time of around 40 minutes. Madrid Metro has stations at Terminals 2 and 4, and the line 8 connects the airport with Nuevos Ministerios in the heart of the city's financial district. Municipal buses run regularly and journey times range from 30-40 minutes, while fleets of taxis are also available both to and from the airport. Official taxis are white in colour with a red stripe – ensure that the metre is turned on at the beginning of the journey. Parking is available at six public parking areas. Short-term options include the outdoor P1 car park in front of the terminal building and the indoor P2 car park (which has direct access to terminals T2 and T3. Long-term parking is available at a remote car park with 1,655 spaces. A free shuttle is available to the terminals. VIP car parks are located near each of the airport's terminals. Arriving at Madrid Passengers flying from Madrid with Qatar Airways depart from Terminal 4. Note that flights outside the European Shengen EU zone may depart from the satellite building, Terminal 4S. The airport is very large, so it's important to ensure that you arrive at the correct terminal. Allow at least two hours before your flight is due to board to check in and to pass through the airport's very strict security checks. The award-winning Terminal 4 is one of the largest airport terminals in the world. It has its own nursery and play area for children, as well as a large selection of retail outlets selling luxury and designer goods, accessories and essentials. There are plenty of spacious lounge areas, including VIP and exclusive lounges for first and business class travellers. T4 also has a full-service business centre, and there are various business meeting rooms available for hire throughout the airport. Food and drink is plentiful and range from fast food outlets, snack and drinks vendors to excellent restaurant meals for something a little more substantial. Arriving in Ho Chi Minh City Essential facts about Ho Chi Minh City 220 V 50 Hz

Gothic Sculptures © Tête de religieuse, XIVème siècle, marbre blanc, marbre noir The core of the museum's collection of Gothic sculpture covers a period from the very beginning of the 13th century to the start of the 16th century. The preserved convent halls (the Chapter hall, the sacristy and the Chapel of Notre Dame de Pitié), which are all contemporary to the pieces, make an ideal setting for these works which mostly come from Toulousan buildings. The term 'Gothic' was forged as a pejorative by the humanists of the Renaissance to describe the 'barbarian' art which had preceded them. Today the term is used to name a style which appeared around 1140 in Ile-de-France (Paris and its surrounding area), on the building site for the Saint Denis Royal Abbey. This style went on to spread, more or less successfully, throughout Western Europe. In Toulouse in the 13th century, while a southern Gothic architectural style was establishing itself with the building of Saint Etienne Cathedral, then in the great wide, single-naved, aisle-less buildings of the Jacobins, the Cordeliers and the Augustins, sculpture did not begin to adopt the Gothic style until later, in the second half of the century. This particularity can be explained by the political and religious context in the city and county of Toulouse, annexed to the kingdom of France in 1271 after a long period of troublesrelated to the Cathar heresy. The arrival in the city of the mendicant orders did not immediately foster sculpture. A new economic prosperity built on the presence of the parliament, on trade and on the production of woad, as well as a more generally favourable context, created the conditions for a real resurgence of the workshops, from the 14th century to the beginning of the 16th century. The Renaissance was introduced as was often the case, via ornamental vocabulary. The themes addressed and the style of the sculptures fell within Gothic style until around 1520. The small number of secular works preserved no doubt accentuates this impression, as religious sculpture was often more conformist, following the requests of the patrons themselves. Churches and convents attracted large numbers of clergy, noblemen, lawyers, merchants and artisans who wanted to be buried close to holy relics. The Chapel of Rieux This chapter is somewhat artificial as here we discuss funerary sculpture once again, this time in its most extensive development! The piece in question is not a tomb or a cross but an entire chapel with all of its sculpted decor. Around 1500 Around 1500. Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Mystical movements have always largely centred on a meditation on the suffering of Christ. It is to those movements that the art of the end of the century owes this taste for the... Panorama of works Download our audio guides

Oxford arts center makes smashing debut: Clearly enjoying the ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of Oxford College's new Hugh and Gena Tarbutton Performing Arts Center are (l to r): Euler Bropleh, Oxford SGA president; Hugh Tarbutton, Gena Tarbutton, Cheryl Fisher Custer, chair of Oxford's Board of Counselors; Dana Greene, dean of Oxford College; and President Bill Chace. The ceremony took place, Oct. 12. Photo by Kay Hinton. Click here or above for the full story. Scholarship & Research/New 'fast-track' center PACEs Grady ER care: Richard Ismach, medical director of Grady's new Patient Ambulatory Care Express center, says the program is helping patients move in and out of the Grady ER much more quickly than they had before. Photo by Jon Rou. Click here or above for the full story.

22 Mar, 2011 19:44 HomeSport News Meet Russia's hottest fight prospect ALeksandr Bolshakov (R) and his coach Ruslan Nagnibeda The name Aleksandr Bolshakov may not be one of the best-known among Martial Arts fans around the globe but that could all be about to change. RT's Konstantin Potapov caught up with the man who's regarded as Russia's hottest fight prospect today. Russia has been synonymous with producing world-class fighters for many years. Various disciplines in various martial arts have seen Russians dominating ring, mat and octagon.Batu Khasikov is one such fighter. The undisputed world kickboxing champion was recently invited to the prestigious K-1 world series after winning every belt he had fought for.Another is mixed fight legend Fedor Emelianenko. The 34-year-old Last Emperor may be in the twilight of his career now after losing two consecutive bouts but he's still undoubtedly one of the greatest fighters plying his trade today.Emelianenko's former coach Ruslan Nagnibeda believes the next global star of the combat game is in his corner. Aleksandr Bolshakov is a Thai boxer by definition but he is ready to knock down the K-1 door. "I have been training Bolshakov for more than a year. A good pupil deserves a good coach and vice versa. When I started to train him I had to change his technique a little, but his punching and kicking style is now as good as anyone's. His hits are so powerful that sometimes after training I can't feel my hands," says Nagnibeda. Bolshakov has had 11 K-1 qualifying bouts, winning 10 of them and drawing one. With a flashy style featuring flying knees and kicks, the 27-year-old outclassed the competition to claim the European crown last year. A world crown is now top of his agenda. "First of all, I want to become the best on the planet. And then we will get an opportunity to hold a title defense fight in Russia. Because if you win you dictate the terms. And hopefully that will happen," Aleksandr says. Bolshakov has been addicted to martial arts since he was 10, each year making impressive progress with regional and national title belts added around his waist. But for almost a decade it's all been about K-1 for the St Petersburg native."In Germany and the Netherlands for example, fighters are paid by their federations. That's why we don't have a lot of athletes as all of them have to earn money, so instead of training they stay in the office. Foreign fighters are fully focused on honing their skills. I hope my success will help to establish a section of K-1 here, and that Russian fighters will get lots of opportunities to develop," he explains.The policeman, who specializes in drug enforcement, believes that if a federation actually starts up in his native country, his rise up the pro K-1 ranks will happen sooner rather than later. And that is sure to be a very important step in developing the sport in martial-arts crazy Russia. The best of M-1 Global Champions Fight Night Major K-1 martial arts event finally in Russia

Amid ranting and raving Opposition members, Prime Minister Narendra Modi succeeded in winning back the trust of his party members, and of course, of some of his allies during the discussion on the no-trust motion in Parliament. Though he could shut the mouth of his opponents with his two-hour usual sarcastic rhetoric, but, in reality, he's all hat and no cattle. He couldn't riposte and refute any of the charges made by the Opposition against his government, especially about the political brinkmanship. On the contrary, though the outcome was predictable, the Opposition successfully put the failures of the BJP government before the nation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government faced a vote of no-confidence in the Lok Sabha, the first in 15 years. The last time a vote of no-confidence held was during prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's tenure in 2003. After a raging 12-hour debate, the NDA government defeated the no-confidence motion by 199 votes. While 126 members supported the motion, 325 MPs rejected it. A total of 451 MPs were present and voted in the House and the majority mark required in a House with an effective strength of 534 MPs came down to 226. The day-long session in the Lower House saw the government and the Opposition trade charges and a moment of drama when Congress president Rahul Gandhi, after a blistering speech, hugged the Prime Minister that put him hot and bothered. The TDP, which is scheduled to face an Assembly election along with the Lok Sabha polls early next year, used the no-confidence motion to take to the people the party's demand for special category status for Andhra Pradesh. The party mounted a strong attack on the ruling BJP on the one hand, and disrupting the speech of Prime Minister Modi through sloganeering on the other. In a never-before move Rahul Gandhi had crossed the Lok Sabha floor at the end of the scathing speech, and hugged the Prime Minister. Late in the evening, PM Modi gave a point-by-point rebuttal to the attack. He also took on Gandhi's mother Sonia Gandhi and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, whose party had moved the no-confidence motion. The strength of the House slid after Naveen Patnaik's BJD, Telangana's ruling party TRS and BJP ally Shiv Sena skipped the voting. Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK voted in support of the government. The no-confidence motion debate outlined the broad battle lines of the 2019 general elections. While Congress president Rahul Gandhi unveiled his narrative for the Opposition parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the tone and tenor of the likely BJP electoral pitch. In his response to the debate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi showcased the achievements of his government -- electrification of 18,000 villages, healthcare for all, LPG for the poor, initiatives for farmers, One-rank one pension for soldiers, the flagship Goods and Services tax and the strengthening of economy. During the debate, Modi said since taking office in May 2014 his government had made great strides against corruption. "We started a war against black money and this war is not going to stop," he told parliament. Authorities have ordered nearly 250,000 shell companies to be shut down and another 200,000-250,000 are on their radar, Modi said, blaming the previous Congress government of shielding corrupt people. Targeting Sonia Gandhi over her recent statement on numerical strength of the parties supporting the no-confidence motion, PM Modi said he was reminded of 1999, when she joined other parties to challenge the NDA government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. "She stood outside Rashtrapati Bhavan and said, 'We have 272 and more are joining us'. She destabilised Atal-Ji's government and never formed one herself," he said. Taking on Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on Rafale, PM Modi said, "They raised Rafale issue and I was surprised... Due to one careless allegation in the House on Rafale, both nations had to release statements. Does this childish behaviour befit anybody?" Modi said he told Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu that he moved the no-confidence motion "just because of your internal politics with the YSR Congress Party". Earlier, terming the no-trust vote against his government a result of the Opposition's "arrogance", Modi called on all parties to dismiss the move and accused the Congress of working with the mindset of 'Modi hatao'. "Only the electorate of the country can decide his fate and make him sit on his chair," Modi said, before asking sarcastically, "What is the hurry?" Gandhi was present in the House when the Prime Minister made the statement. Congress has no faith in the election commission, the judiciary, in the RBI or in the international agencies. They have confidence in nothing, Modi said. "You called the surgical strike a Jumla Strike. You can abuse me as much as you want. Stop insulting the Jawans of India. I will not tolerate this insult to our armed forces," Modi said in his address. Mentioning the popularity of phone banking before net-banking, Modi took a dig at the Congress and the party's bias. He said before net banking was popular, there was 'phone banking' invented by the Congress. One phone call and those favoured by the Congress got loans. This created the NPA problem, which his Government is solving, he added. Speaking ahead of the Prime Minister, the Congress president refrained from referring to 'secularism', invoking instead the theme of protecting 'Ambedkar's Constitution' as the main narrative to indicate his broad theme for the 2019 campaign. Gandhi, leading the Congress offensive, alleged that the government's deal with France for 36 Rafale fighter jets was massively overpriced and its claim that details could not be revealed was an "untruth". He said when PM Modi went to France, "with some magic" powers, the price per plane increased to Rs 1,600 crore, much more than Rs 520 crore when the Congress was in power. Gandhi had alleged that the defence minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, had lied to the nation claiming that India was bound by a secrecy clause in the Rafale fighter jet deal signed with France. He said that French President Emmanuel Macron told him there is no secrecy pact between India and France. But the French government countered his claim with an official statement confirming that a secrecy pact exists between the two countries. In her reply, Sitharaman also contradicted Rahul and cited Article 10 of the Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) between the two countries on the purchase of Rafale aircraft, which calls for the protection of classified information and materials exchanged under the pact. Singling out the BJP leadership of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, Rahul said they fear losing power because they know that "other processes will start against them" as soon as they are out of office. Leading the Opposition assault, Gandhi accused the Prime Minister of unleashing "jumla strikes" on the people, and of becoming a "bhagidar" (partner) in the Rafale fighter deal instead of acting as the "chowkidar" (watchman) he had promised the country during the 2014 election campaign. Sinha had last week expressed his "regret" after facing intense criticism for felicitating seven convicted cow vigilantes in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh last week. Rahul Gandhi said, "Everybody understands the relationship the prime minister has with certain people. Everybody understands the amount of money that goes into the marketing of the prime minister and everybody knows who have funded that. One of those people was given the Rafale contract. The gentleman benefitted to the tune of Rs 45,000 crore," Rahul alleged. Uproar was created in the House as Rahul targeted PM Modi and defence minister Sitharaman over the Rafale deal. "The defence minister said there is secrecy pact with France on Rafale deal. I personally met PM of France and asked him if any such pact existed. He clearly said there is no pact," Gandhi said. The Congress leader said the government's five slabs of GST destroyed crores of lives. PM Modi doesn't talk to shopkeepers. He only meets the big 10-20 businessmen of this country. India's youth believed in Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The PM had said he will provide employment to two-crore people every year and yet only 4 lakh people got jobs. This is the truth of their unfulfilled promises... They tell you to make 'pakodas' instead, Gandhi said in a scathing attack on the Modi government. The Congress president also hits out at BJP over demonetisation. In his reply, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said his government has already asked states to take stringent action and make strict laws against incidents of lynching and vigilantism. "The biggest incident of mob lynching happened during 1984... And a big leader (a reference to Rajiv Gandhi) said when a big tree falls, the earth shakes. And they (Congress) are trying to give us lessons on mob lynching," he said. At a time when BJP governments in different states have faced criticism of failing to check attacks on people from Dalit communities, Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, the chief of NDA ally Lok Janshakti Party, took on leaders of both the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and alleged that both parties are against the interests of Dalits. The BJP is losing by-elections and they lost even in Karnataka. The Prime Minister has become a travelling statesman. He went to Bengal for a meeting for no reason: Saugata Roy of the Trinamool Congress said in Parliament, referring to PM Modi's recent rally in Midnapore. "The PM is spending Rs 1,800 crore for globe-trotting and our poor farmers are committing suicide," Roy said. Barely five minutes or so into Prime Minister Modi's speech during the no-confidence motion debate, members of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), one of whom had moved the motion, came down to the Well of the House. Modi continued his speech, he also said that unlike in Andhra Pradesh, the TRS in Telangana acted with "maturity" and started "working towards development". At this, the TDP leaders returned to the Well with their slogans.