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Hampton Inn & Suites West Little Rock
Little Rock - AR, United States 1301 South Shackleford Road
Our multimillion-dollar renovation of all guest rooms and bathrooms have been completed as of July 14,2020. Photos coming soon!Arkansas' capital city is a vibrant, rich center of history and culture. Featuring many unique attractions including the Clinton Presidential Library, Heifer Project International and an incredible nightlife and shopping, Little Rock is tons of fun for business and leisure travelers alike. If you're looking for a convenient hotel, we think you'll love the Hampton Inn & Suites® hotel in Little Rock. It's just east of Little Rock National Airport and downtown Little Rock. Our hotel located in the thriving west Little Rock business and medical districts yet still convenient to all the many fine restaurants and shopping in the area. Nearby businesses include Windstream, Arkansas Farm Bureau, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, UAMS, and Baptist Hospital, Arkansas Heart Hospital, Dillard's Headquarters, Verizon, Fidelity Information Services and more. The Little Rock Zoo, Verizon Arena, Convention Centers, River Market District, Clinton Library and Heifer International are all less than 10 miles away from the hotel! Fantastic shopping is a stone's throw with Shackleford Crossing, The Promenade at Chenal, Pleasant Ridge Town Center, Park Plaza Mall and the Metro Center Mall. The hotel features 5-stores, a sensational lodge area with a breathtaking stone fireplace, 126 guest rooms with 34 suites. The Little Rock hotel also offers four meeting rooms that accommodate up to 115 people plus full catering services. Whatever brings you to this vibrant area, we think you'll have a splendid stay at our Little Rock hotel and our team looks forward to helping you have a terrific time. Welcome to the Hampton Inn & Suites hotel in Little Rock, we're glad you are here!
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The European Union (EU) is an important export market for countries with high levels of illegality and poor governance in the forest sector. Consequently, the EU initiated the EU Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) action plan.
In March 2013, an additional step was taken with Regulation no.995/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council, commonly known as the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR). This new regulation raises important questions for the future of both the European and the international timber trade.
The EUTR was welcomed by many as a long awaited effort to curb illegal logging. However, particularly in the early stages of its implementation, the regulation could cause ambiguity in international timber markets, when the effects and/or the requirements are not fully understood or known by agents and stakeholders. These issues are likely to arise when each member state (MS) transposes the new regulation into its own policy framework.
An effort has been made to disseminate information and adapt viable risk assessment and risk mitigation procedures through adequate Due Diligence Systems (DDSs) by European companies, industry federations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and MS. Following consultations with stakeholders and experts, the EC has acknowledged that certain aspects of the EUTR and its non-legislative aspects need clarification, hence producing guidance documents and supporting various information campaigns. There are still some concerns among operators and traders regarding uncertainty and risk aversion.
As the EUTR was only recently introduced, assessments of the effects on timber markets of this regulation are very scarce, especially as the full impact of EUTR will be visible only once all national legal frameworks are implemented. However, how the EUTR is understood and regarded by different stakeholders will clearly be of paramount importance for the implementation of the regulation.
The new regulation has, however, generated a lot of discussions in the media and the opinion of some stakeholders is already in the public eye. There is, however, currently a high degree of ambiguity around the new regulation in this early stage of its implementation.
The FLEGT Action plan introduces two policy instruments: the Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) and the EUTR. Both instruments address the problem of illegal logging, the first aimed at producing countries whereas the latter at EU importers. VPAs and EUTR are meant to reinforce each other.
Under the EUTR, European operators (the main focus of the legislation) are held accountable for the products that they bring into the EU. Operators are encouraged to produce adequate documentation as proof for legally sourced timber. Each MS is responsible for determining how to control the legality of its imports, and how sanctions are applied if necessary.
(i)Prohibition—this prohibits placing illegally harvested timber or timber products on the EU market.
(ii)DDSs—which sets the following requirements: provide access to information on imported timber (country of harvest, concession, species, sizes, quantities), implement a risk assessment procedure (evaluate the risk of occurrence of illegally harvested products) and apply risk mitigation measures and procedures.
(iii)Traceability obligation—operators must keep detailed records with information on their suppliers.
Under the EUTR regulation, 'illegally harvested' means harvested in contravention of the applicable legislation in the country of harvest. Therefore, the basis for defining illegal logging is the legislation of the producing country, considering that there is no international agreement on how to define legally harvested timber.
EUTR explicitly states that timber and timber products covered by FLEGT licenses or Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) permits meet its requirements. It could be said that the EUTR creates a strong market advantage for such products.
Furthermore, though certified products provide evidence of legally sourced timber, certification alone does not automatically ensure legality, unlike FLEGT or CITES licenses. Certified products may be considered as low-risk within the DDSs of companies, but it has not been determined if this approach will be accepted by law enforcement bodies. Therefore, the exact role of certification under the EUTR is yet to be determined.
Requirements imposed by a new regulation can be perceived as complex, ambiguous or indeterminate. Consequently, actors may associate complex phenomena, such as the EUTR, with certain characteristics such as safe or risky; predictable or indeterminate; important or unimportant. It is therefore essential, when assessing how a regulation may be perceived, to consider reducing its complexity and to manage uncertainty.
The EUTR creates a new framework within which various actors involved in the timber trade can interact. The regulation incorporates the roles of existing actors with new actors who are responsible for new tasks. It is important to categorise these actors, to classify their roles and responsibilities, and to understand how they interact.
•Monitoring organisations (MOs): assisting operators with adequate DDSs.
The EC assigns different MOs who in turn provide services to operators by assisting with DDSs. Competent authorities, designated by each MS, are responsible for the verification of the functionality of MOs. Hence, although the EC can offer or withdraw recognition to MOs, there is no investigative authority and is therefore relying on the evaluation of competent authorities. MOs offer services to operators and past or ongoing relationships between the two parties are therefore to be considered in the implementation.
The EC and MS are classified as'political actors'. Both operators and traders are also referred to as 'businesses'. In addition, MOs as well as 'trade-related organisations' including timber trade federations (TTFs) and other similar organisations (profit and/or non-profit) are placed in the same category, under 'trade-related organisations'. The rationale being that, although different, such organisations assist and/or support businesses in the interpretation and implementation of the EUTR.
The EUTR is under scrutiny from public opinion and media as well as from different environmental and research organisations. Various NGOs play an important role in influencing both the formulation and implementation of the EUTR—58 international NGOs have called on the EC to adopt a regulation against illegal timber imports, but have subsequently criticised the regulation's implementation and effectiveness. Universities and research organizations are also considered important and influential actors that scrutinise various aspects of the regulation.
Not surprisingly, there is a considerable heterogeneity amongst actors' standpoints. Given the fairly recent introduction of the regulation, most actors are cautious in expressing definitive standpoints.
Political actors such as the EC—which advocate good forest governance, sustainable forest management, and the necessity to combat illegal logging—appear to be the main supporters of the regulation.
There are diverging opinions amongst business representatives. Unfavourable standpoints were found typically to come from companies which have faced public scrutiny and that have been accused of engaging in unlawful practices. Business representatives generally criticised the uncertainty around the regulation indicating 'the lack of operational guidance and a functional oversight mechanism'. Others expressed concerns that the focus is mostly on legal compliance, rather than on both legality and sustainability.
Although there were a vast number of statements from other trade-related organisations, few expressed a clear standpoint. However, these opinion statements generally suggest a need for improved guidance and clarification as there is 'still widespread confusion' around some details of the EUTR.
Some governance experts inferred that the EUTR "is likely to violate at least one substantive World Trade Organization (WTO) provision" because it "makes the marketing of illegally logged timber a criminal offence and therefore creates a 'de facto' restriction on the importation of timber…".
Some WTO members expressed concerns regarding the regulation, representatives for Canada noted that EUTR's "…traceability requirements could provide an unfair competitive advantage to manufacturers of forest products in the EU compared to their international competitors". Indonesian representatives also expressed concerns related to EUTR's DDS requirements.
The view of NGOs towards the EUTR is varied and interesting.
International NGOs have long urged governments to adopt a timber trade legislation and many NGOs had declared their support for the EU FLEGT Action and EUTR. However, since the introduction of the EUTR, some NGOs have criticised the regulation's weak law enforcement, implementation, and effectiveness.
This has led to calls for governments to take prompt and punitive actions against operators who have been found to be breaking the law: "if any governments in the EU turn a blind eye to illegal imports, the forest destruction in areas including the Congo Basin will continue to be driven by our use of wood and associated products." Consequently, NGOs are concerned that weak penalties will lead to ineffective regulation.
The media has a particularly important role in providing the general public with information that may be otherwise difficult to obtain. Likewise, the media can serve as an indicator for public opinion concerning political decision makers. The media also has a more insidious influence on society, influencing and sometimes distorting public opinion on certain issues.
All of the actors recognised and acknowledged the problem of illegal logging, the risks it poses, and the urgent need to combat it. However, concerns as to whether the EUTR is the best method to combat illegal logging and its associated trade is at the core of the debate, resulting in conflicting frames among actors. In general, timber-exporting countries have expressed their concerns in terms of the potential trade-restrictive effects of legislation.
While some actors see the EUTR as beneficial for their businesses, others fear the regulation could be disadvantageous. The EUTR creates a strong market advantage for products coming from low-risk countries; generally those in the northern hemisphere. On the other hand exporters from developing, high-risk countries feel disadvantaged by the regulation as it creates administrative hurdles and extra costs associated with compliance. In fact, bureaucracy-related concerns are expressed by actors from both importing and exporting countries.
It is notable that some perceived short-comings are at least theoretically addressable, ie: they could be solved if dealt with, including enforcement and guidance issues. EUTR's penalty system has also been criticised since each member state decides the level of fines to be applied and there is no consensus on the compatibility of fines within the EU. Creating effective penalty systems at a national level is critical to strengthen the overall effectiveness of the EUTR.
Bureaucracy is a structural, or unavoidable, problem as any legislation which attempts to curb the illegal timber trade will, in all likelihood, incur some degree of bureaucracy, costs, and restrict free trade. Indeed, stricter law enforcement would be likely to increase this 'shortcoming', as the possibility to circumvent regulation would diminish. Therefore, in this sense there is a trade-off between effective legislation and the ease of trade. Increased guidance (by the EC, MS governments, and MOs) should at least alleviate this bureaucratic burden.
Steps to address the lack of guidance have, in fact, been taken. Following consultations with stakeholders, experts from MS, members of the FLEGT facility and the EC acknowledged that certain aspects of the EUTR needed clarification. Guidance and clarification for definitions such as: 'placing on the market', 'negligible risk', and 'complexity of the supply chain' were produced.
Further, details were given on the 'requirement for documents indicating compliance of timber with applicable legislation', 'the product scope', 'the role of third parties' verified schemes in the process of risk assessment and risk mitigation', 'regular evaluation of a due diligence system', 'composite products', 'forest sector', and 'treatment of CITES and FLEGT-licensed timber'. Apparently, additional measures to increase transparency and clarity have been called for.
Understanding how stakeholders interpret and evaluate the EUTR should help avoid unwanted detrimental side-effects of the regulation on the international market. If the requirements of the EUTR are not fully understood, however, European importers may assess the risks associated with the value of the wood they want to purchase and opt for more reliable timber sources within Europe and North America. Hence, the general uncertainty around EUTR interpretation may become detrimental for tropical timber exports.
In addition, any ambiguity related to the EUTR, along with associated costs for compliance, could encourage producers in developing countries to export timber to other, more weakly regulated markets. This trade diversion could be reduced by a transparent and consistent application of the EUTR, again with clear guidelines for exerting due diligence, and by encouraging legal exports from developing countries through, for example, price premiums and/or long-term contracts. These two mechanisms are largely in the hands of market forces.
Although stakeholders seem to have reached consensus on the problem of illegal logging and its associated trade, there are still concerns as to whether the EUTR is the proper instrument to address this issue. Some stakeholders see the EUTR as advantageous for their businesses, others see it as an impediment and raise issues such as: law enforcement, lack of guidance and bureaucracy.
In order to diminish the degree of possible unwanted side-effects (such as trade diversion and substitution of temperate timber for tropical timber) the implementation of the EUTR needs to build on transparency, consistency and clear guidelines for exerting viable due diligence.
It is clear that some aspects of the regulation still need clarification and specific interpretation. However, other structural aspects of the regulation need to be addressed in order to avoid conflicts of interest in the private sector with consideration at the same time, for free and equitable international trade.


Solubility Soluble in alcohol and oils. Insoluble in water.
Flash Point 167 °F/75 deg. C.
Basil is an annual herb that grows up to 20-50 cm with purple- white flowers, appears in clusters. The plant is framed by oval pointed green leaves. It is considered sacred in India and widely used for its medicinal properties.
It consists of aromatic volatile camphoraceous oil.
Basil is generally used fresh in cooked recipes and dried leaves are used as spice for flavoring and for extraction of essential oil. Basil oil is extensively used in perfumery compounds and in areas of medicine.


Moorcroft vase 'Leaf and Fruit' pattern by Walter Moorcroft. Circa 1945- 1949.
Moorcroft Flambe vase 'Orchid' pattern by Walter Moorcroft. Circa 1950.
Minton Majolica tureen- Circa 1870.
Clarice Cliff 'Jonquil' clog, Circa 1930.
Kalahari Studio wall plate, Circa 1955.
Clarice Cliff "Gay Day" Meiping vase.
Moorcroft 'Wisteria' dish with Liberty 'Tudric' pedestal foot.
William Moorcroft 'Late Florian' design flambe vase- Circa: 1925 – 1930.
Kalahari Studio charger, Circa 1955.


Risk managers have a unique competency to identify and analyse risks using advanced tools like scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, decision trees and Monte-Carlo simulations. This toolset can significantly improve business decision making. And just like any other service or tool it needs to be marketed to the rest of the organisation.
Risk management needs to be seen as an internal service offering.


This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by brief biographical profiles of Marc Jacobs, the first creative director 1998–2014, and Nicolas Ghesquière, who helms the brand today, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images. Showcasing hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs – and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway, from Naomi Campbell and Gisele to Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.


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Bu Wancang (July 1, 1900 – December 30, 1973), also known by his English name Richard Poh, was a prolific Chinese film director and screenwriter active between the 1920s and the 1960s. He was born in Anhui.

Career
Originally a member of the Shanghai cinema scene, Bu worked for several studios before becoming a major director for the Mingxing Film Company. By 1931, Bu moved to Mingxing's rival, Lianhua, where he directed such films as Love and Duty (1931) and The Peach Girl (1931) (both with actress Ruan Lingyu).

As the war with Japan intensified Bu made several films with subtle patriotic themes, most notably 1939's Mulan Joins the Army. Once Japanese control over Shanghai was complete, however, Bu was eventually forced to make several propaganda films for the occupiers, notably Eternity in 1943. After the war, he was ostracized by his colleagues for these films, causing him to move to Hong Kong in 1948 where he continued to make films until his retirement.

Filmography

As cinematographer

As director

External links

Bu Wancang at Hong Kong Cinematic
Bu Wancang at the Chinese Movie Database

Film directors from Anhui
Screenwriters from Anhui
Hong Kong film directors
1900 births
1973 deaths
Chinese silent film directors
People from Chuzhou
20th-century screenwriters

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Net localgroup command is used to manage local user groups on a computer. Using this command, administrators can add local/domain users to groups, delete users from groups, create new groups and delete existing groups. Below you can find syntax for all these operations.
We can use below command to create a new local group.
Below is the syntax for adding a user to a local group.
Net localgroup command is used to add a domain group to a local group. The syntax is same as adding a user.
net localgroup groupname prints the list of users in a group.
Run 'net localgroup' command to list all local user groups.
Some of the groups listed above, are created by default with Windows installation.
Below is the command for deleting a user from a group.
All the above commands should be run from elevated administrator command prompt in Vista and Windows 7. Other wise an error will be generated as shown below.
how do I remove all users in a group but leave the group intact on the local computer?


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Vindication Is Mine
Pssst: Like multitasking, unicorns, and Donald Trump's self-made real estate empire, brainstorming is a myth.
I know, it doesn't fit the stereotype of creative spaces "filled with fidget toys and Post-it notes in an array of colors, all meant to absorb some of the energy of a group of fast-thinking, well-dressed hipsters deep in ideation mode." (Confession: I'm neither fast-thinking nor well-dressed, I'm too old to be a hipster, and if anyone uttered the word "ideation" within twenty feet of me, fisticuffs would ensue.)
The big news here is that "a survey of 20,000 creatives from 197 countries suggests that, in fact, a majority [emphasis mine] of these professionals—including writers, musicians, photographers, and podcasters—find that brainstorming is largely unhelpful for solving a creative challenge."
I always just assumed I was alone in my dislike of the practice. While I prefer to work through problems on my own—preferably on a walk, where I'm free from office distractions—I've known more than a few designers and writers and suchlike who rely on that collaborative give-and-take to fully flesh out their ideas.
Nice to know I'm not a weirdo.
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Mere Wordnerdery
Wilfred M. McClay is my spirit animal:
Like a lover of endangered species, the lover of endangered words jumps for joy when he sees a word being rescued, and is grateful when a writer restores to currency a semantic possibility that had fallen into desuetude. It is as if a lovely antique table has been rediscovered after many years of gathering dust up in the attic, and when brought downstairs and cleaned up and polished, imparts a splendor and unbought grace to the room that no shiny new object could possibly match.
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Pretty sure I've said this before, but there are few things more satisfying than a well-written, well-argued takedown of an overrated hack—particularly when said hack's celebrity is entirely unearned. To wit: "Banksy is a talented graphic designer with a flair for self-promotion, no more or less. He is not an artist."
That's Alexander Adams over at The Critic, whose scathing indictment about the "cosy culture warrior and peddler of pedestrian homilies" is concerned not so much about the quality of Banksy's oeuvre as it is in the answer to "how did such banality hoodwink so many people?"
It's a good question.
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Stop! Grammar time!
Oof. "Best known as the drummer and lyricist of the Canadian rock trio, Rush, [Neil] Peart was also a successful man of letters, a novelist, an autobiographer, and an essayist," writes Bradley J. Birzer.
The great Benjamin Dreyer calls the comma following trio the "only" comma – used to "set off nouns that are, indeed, the only of of their kind in the vicinity."
To illustrate, let's say that I have three children: a daughter named Beulah and two sons, Beauregard and Bubba.
My daughter, Beulah, is a Mensa scholar.
Now, the inclusion of Beulah's name here is unimportant. I could just as easily have written "My daughter is a Mensa scholar" because I have only one daughter.
My son Bubba eats paste.
Bubba, in this case, is providing essential information, identifying which of my two sons is the paste eater.
If that doesn't help, check out Dreyer's "Best Illustration of the Necessity of the 'Only' Comma I've Ever Managed to Rustle Up":
Elizabeth Taylor's second marriage, to Michael Wilding
Elizabeth Taylor's second marriage to Richard Burton
See the difference? That one little piece of punctuation can change the entire meaning of the sentence.
Let's go back to what Birzer wrote. The two commas on either side of Rush indicate that the name of the band is, in fact, inessential – because there is only one Canadian rock trio! Forget for a moment that that may as well be true given Rush's supreme awesomeness; the fact remains that it isn't true.
Remember: Only use the "only" commas when the noun you're referring to is the only one of its kind.
Oh, and by the way, please, please don't let my pedantry—or the name of the publication—stand in the way of an otherwise great article by Birzer. It's a nice remembrance of a truly influential man.
Brrr 🥶
Looks like winter has finally arrived. With the snow falling outside of our Spokane office (6-8 inches expected today with 3-6 more tomorrow) I can't help but be thankful for a little snow. It could be worse… much worse. It could be 33 degrees below zero with a HIGH of -4 as the weekly forecast. Coming from someone who has lived through those dark, bone-chilling, ice-fog-filled weeks in the dead of January in Fairbanks… a little snow is pretty okay.
Downtown Fairbanks on Wednesday, January 8* — a day in which the high was expected to reach minus 37 under sunny skies (with lows dropping to minus 41) and with light winds bringing wind chills of minus 65 over the next two nights.
*Wednesday, January 8, at 12 p.m., mind you. 12 p.m.… NOON. HIGH NOON. The moment when the sun reaches its highest position in the sky. Welcome to Alaska in January.
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"I'm getting better! I feel fine!"
Over at The Critic, Dominic Green makes a case for the death of rock and roll—40 years ago. While I agree that The Clash's London Calling is a truly great rock album ("magnificently vital and varied"); and that, after the breakup of the Beatles, John Lennon "made no significant music"—I point I've been arguing for years—I'm not entirely sure Green proves anything other than that he doesn't like post-1980 rock.
I don't think there's any question that the genre as a cultural signifier of youth and rebellion and all that is dead. I mean, if Lars Ulrich going after Napster back in 2000 doesn't prove that, I don't know what does. But rock and roll is still quite alive musically. And, politics aside, that's really all that matters, isn't it?
[barfing-face emoji]
Well, we had a pretty good run, humanity. After watching this, I'd say we as a species deserve to die in the coming hellfire.
There's more info over at the Rokshok website—such as a three-step "How It Works" that was apparently written for morons.
I give up, folks.
Well hello there, 2020
Welcome back, folks. How were the holidays? Restful? Good. Let's get back into the swing of things with the latest in Curated Content™ delivered straight from the bowels of helveticka world headquarters.
Preach it: Lake Superior State University's 45th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.
Can a new book make learning Greek sexy? Yes. Yes, it can.
Against minimalism.
"Politico Magazine asked a group of historians to put all that happened over the past 10 years in its proper historical context—and literally write the paragraph that they think will describe the 2010s in American history books written a century from now." The results are uneven, frustrating, maddening—and fascinating.
Wearing lipstick is now an act of…resistance? Um, okay.
Just Trying to Help…
Over at SlashFilm, Jeremy Mathai spends more than 2,500 words "investigating" the correct order in which to watch all the Star Wars movies. Before you commit to Mathai's post, permit me to simplify things a bit:
Watch Star Wars (1977).
Watch The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Watch literally anything else that's not part of the Star Wars universe, because everything after Empire is crap.
I just saved you 10 minutes. You're welcome.
Nearly twenty-five years since the publication of the final Far Side panel, Gary Larson is back, baby. Well…sort of. The man himself explains.
The true story behind the worst video game of all time.
Aquarium Drunkard's "unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2019." Bonus: their top 100 records of the decade.
For the person on your Christmas list who has everything—and I do mean everything—may I suggest a kit for whittling your own izakaya-grade chopsticks?
It's that wonderful time of year, when, well…pretty much anyone with an opinion is more than willing to tell you what to think about the musical, literary, and filmic output of the last twelve months.
I'd offer up my own end-of-year recommendations for books and music, but (1) I'm lazy and (2) nobody really cares what I think. So instead I'll point you to the inimitable Ted Gioia and his Best Online Essays of 2019, along with his 100 Best Recordings of 2019. That should tide you over for a while.
While we're at it, Gioia's Music: A Subversive History is getting all kinds of attention. I haven't purchased it yet myself, mostly because I'm waiting to see if someone is (ahem) thoughtful enough to wrap it up and put it under the tree for me. Or, if it's easier, pick it up at Auntie's and drop it off at the office. You know, in case you're wondering what to get me this year.
[head smack]
WNYC, a public radio station in New York, has cancelled "New Sounds," a show that's been running for 37 years. In fact, pretty much all of its music programming will be gone by the end of the year. It should come as no surprise to anyone that, in these terrible times, news/talk is a more popular format than music.
That's not why I'm drawing your attention to this story. No, that would be because of a particularly cringe-inducing phrase. According to the New York Times, WYNC made the announcement to employees via an email, which said that the station will "sunset the NEW SOUNDS brand." I'd throw up a series of barfing emojis here, but I'm an adult.
"Sunset the NEW SOUNDS brand" isn't just equivocation. It's a big steaming pile of bullshit. WYNC management determined that its audience wants less music and more news and talk; the station cancelled its music programming. Period. End of story. "New Sounds" isn't a brand; it is (or rather was) a radio show. And the use of "sunset" as a verb? Come on.
I wish this were an isolated incident, but, alas, I see this stuff more and more every day: a complete hostility toward speaking in plain English. It's like every marketing communications degree now requires a semester of Prevarication 101.
"Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract." That's how Strunk & White put it in The Elements of Style. And it's as important in office communications as it is in writing. Give it a try some time. You'll find that your words will be far more effective when you're not trying so hard to be creative.
posted by: Aaron Bragg | category: the writing life | comments(1)
Remember how, way back in July, I told you about the upcoming launch of a WSU-bred apple 22 years in the making—but that, really, the post was less about the apple itself than it was an excuse for me to take a dig at marketing hyperbole?
Well, last weekend, I had the opportunity to actually taste one. And I'll just say this about that: While I take a pretty dim view of our ability to perfect anything on this Earth, the Cosmic Crisp™ is quite possibly mankind's crowning achievement.
Hyperbole, schmyperbole. I paid $10 for four apples, and I'll do it again.
And the decline of Western Civilization continues apace…
Citing "the ignorance and laziness present in modern times," John Richards, 96, has closed the Apostrophe Protection Society. "Fewer organisations and individuals," says Richards, "are now caring about the correct use of the apostrophe in the English Language."
Well… yeah. Nobody cares about the serial comma, either. Or the proper use of the phrase "begs the question." Or that the past participle of drag is dragged, not drug.
And…Action!
When we started this business nearly 32 years ago, we never would have guessed that today we'd be working on such diverse project types. One in particular is videos, which range from 15-, 30-, and 60-second TV spots to long-form presentations and instructional films to documentaries and fully animated stories. At last count, our YouTube channel featured more than 70 of them.
Our services typically include creative development, script writing, planning and logistics, art direction, voiceover and music selection, and editing – always in collaboration with very talented production houses, animators, musicians, and, of course, our clients. These projects are some of the most creatively challenging and the most rewarding, which is why we finally added a separate work category just for videos.
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In the first group of European teams relatively easily eliminated their South American rivals. One is Colombia and dropping them adopted quite normal, but the other is a double world champion Uruguay. However Uruguayans are already familiar with Roman "Sik Transit Gloria Mundi" and thus far have not reached to the other: "Everything flows, everything changes!" But Europeans are not and what is a European champion runners-up the USSR and Yugoslavia. (Only 2 years ago in the final of European Championship, they lead an epic battle among themselves – 2:1 aet). Floating even Olympic champions of Rome – 1960 (after 3 consecutive lost the final of the Olympic Games, finally has a title Yugoslavia – 3:1 against Denmark). But in his first game here against the USSR – 0:2, clearly have not forgotten, and felt the "handbrake", then definitely "the gear" – 3:1 and 5:0 against Uruguay against Colombia. After a strong start, "Sbornaya" slightly "stalled" with 4:4 in a good game in which Colombians stalking some 13 minutes "hibernation" Russian "Bear" Lev Yashin and his "shuffle" goals 4 goals. Against urusite "playing superiority of the Soviet Union has more than its digital terms – 2:1. Moreover, the first match in this group is Uruguay – Colombia – 2:1. Who knows, it is actually soothing?


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Q: Django Foreign key that could contain objects of different classes is there a way to be able to use a foreign key to reference objects of diffrent classes
for example, this is what i'm doing :
Class discussion(models.Model):
    id_discussion = models.CharField(db_column='id_Discussion', primary_key=True, max_length=100)
    id_worker =   models.ForeignKey('Worker', models.CASCADE, db_column='id_user', blank=True, null=True)
    id_director = models.ForeignKey('Director', models.CASCADE, db_column='id_user', blank=True, null=True)

Class Message(models.Model):
    #some other fields
    id_sender = models.CharField(db_column='id_Sender', max_length=100, blank=True, null=True)
    id_receiver = models.CharField(db_column='id_Receiver', max_length=100, blank=True, null=True)
    id_discussion = models.ForeignKey('discussion', models.CASCADE, db_column='id_Discussion', blank=True, null=True)

I want to turn id_receiver and id_sender into foreign keys, my problem is that the sender could be an object of class "Worker" or of class "Director".

A: Yes. You can use GenericForeignKey see here:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/contrib/contenttypes/#generic-relations
NOTE: this can be pretty inefficient. Read this article to learn more about it https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/avoid-django-genericforeignkey/

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The fifth page describes simple methods of calculations of time in numerology according to calendar dates of usual (daily) calendars, and also describes the ratio of numerological numbers with Calendar Era counting from the Creation of the World and with the bible chronological code.
Besides represents psychological algorithms which allow to correlate numerological numbers to age of people, and represents psychological schemes for numerological analysis of a person, which are based on the ancient anthropocosmic schemes.
Time and eras (ages) in numerology.
Calendar numbers of days and years.
In traditional daily numerology do not use special calendars and do not correlate number to movement of heavenly bodies, or otherwise it is possible to tell that well-known modern numerology does not apply ancient knowledge about which it is told on the previous page, but calculations of time make according to dates of usual calendars that in essence is true as the modern Gregorian calendar is connected to movement of the Sun and provides sufficient correctness of calculations.
The basic purpose of a calendar is the indication of days, years and months that matters from the point of view numerology as it is usual in numerology make calculations of year, day and month, for what calendar dates consistently summarize (add) and receive numerological numbers. Consecutive addition of numbers in numerology consists that in result from several numbers one number should turn out. For example, dating number July, 17 (the sixth month) consists of three numbers which consistently summarize 1+7+6=14, then the received result again summarize 1+4=5 and as a result it turns out singular numerological number 5 which corresponds for July, 17. Similarly calculate a singular of year, and also calculate total numerological number of year, day and month.
Such way apply in conventional modern numerology, but such way is not correct as in result to numerological calculations subject numbers which concern to different chronological cycles or directly are not connected with numerology. Namely calculate numbers of months which in essence have no the attitude to numerology, or calculate serial numbers of days in months that too has no basic numerological sense. As 12 months are symbols of 12 signs of the zodiac and matter from the point of view of astrology but are not basic from the numerological point of view, and also quantity of days in months has no basic sense from the numerological point of view as quantities of days are caused by features of a used calendar.
Though during conventional numerological calculations receive results in which there is a certain sense but nevertheless the conventional calculations are not unconditional and authentic.
That numerological calculations were correct, it is necessary to take into consideration a solar cycle of one year and to use for calculations serial numbers of days in the period of one year, i.e. it is necessary to not take into account division of year into months but to count days from the beginning of year.
March ( +59 or +60 ).
April ( +90 or +91 ). May ( +120 or +121 ).
June ( +151 or +152 ).
July ( +181 or +182 ).
August ( +212 or +213 ). September ( +243 or +244 ).
October ( +273 or +274 ).
November ( +304 or +305 ).
December ( +334 or +335 ).
For example, date July, 17 means that to number 17 it is necessary to add number 181, or necessary to add number 182 if leap-year, and as a result we receive number which corresponds to this day in the period of one solar year 17+181=198. Then consistently summarize the received numbers 1+9+8=18 and 1+8=9, and as a result it turns out the numerological number 9 which corresponds to date July, 17. Otherwise it is possible to tell that in result it turns out valid numerological number of day which in a calendar is designated by date July, 17. And if for calculations to use date 17, that is a serial number of day in one month July but not number of day in an annual solar cycle, then will be received the number 1+7=8 which is not correct from the point of view of numerology.
Apparently in the table, date January, 1 is 10th serial day at the beginning of calculations from December, 23 that in result gives the numerological sum 1 and consequently there is no difference at readout of the day sequence in an annual solar cycle from January, 1 or from December, 23 as in any case January, 1 has the numerological sum 1 and so on during one year the continuity of calculations is kept.
Besides as an index point of calculations it is possible to use other calendar dates, i.e. day of a summer solstice or day of a spring equinox, and also an index point of calculations can be birthday of the concrete person for which it is necessary to calculate the numerological prognosis.
Or for numerological calculations it is possible to use lunar calendars provided that at use of lunar calendars it is necessary to calculate numbers of days in the periods of lunar cycles which can be equal to one month, or can be equal to solar year and make a sequence of lunar months within solar year.
The choice of various index points of calculations and various calendars depends on tasks which are necessary for solving by means of numerology, but nevertheless the Gregorian calendar and initial date of year January, 1 are standard for modern (contemporary) numerology.
Except for days calendars specify years which allow to calculate numbers of years. For example, the numerological sum for 2007 is the number 2+0+0+7=9 and in a result for date July, 17, 2007 correspond two numerological numbers 9 and 9, that forms the numerical combination 99 in which the first (left) nine is number of year and the second (right) nine is number of day.
It is impossible (unwarranted) to summarize numbers of days and numbers of years, but it is possible to compare to numbers of days and years which are counted from dates of birth. For example, date of birth of any person is July, 17, 2006 that forms the numerological combination of numbers 89 (17+181=198*1+9+8=18*1+8=9 and 2+0+0+6=8) which characterizes primary features of the person. And the numerological combination of numbers 99 corresponds to date July, 17, 2007 when the person celebrates birthday, and as a result comparison of numbers 89 and 99 allows to do the prognosis for 2007 for the person who was born July, 17, 2006. And if this person requires a prognosis for July, 18, 2007, i.e. the prognosis for the second day after birthday, then it is necessary to compare numerological combinations of numbers of three dates, and also it is necessary to take into account the fact that the age of the person after July, 17, 2007 is equal to two years as numbers of age too have values from the point of view of numerology.
The calculations given for an example seem difficult but in essence in result four numbers should turn out: number of birth year and number of birthday, number of the current predicted year and number of the current predicted day. These four numbers allow to carry out the numerological prognosis. And also it is possible to take into account number of age provided that the number of age after 9 years of life is complex and consist of two numbers, and in a result we have six numbers which are necessary for taking into account.
Or for simple prognoses it is enough to take into account four numbers and to not take into account numbers of age.
It is necessary to consider numbers as numerological combinations which have the combined values, and it is impossible to summarize the received numbers as they concern to different chronological cycles, namely numbers of days calculate in continuation of one solar cycle but numbers of years develop of many solar cycles which calculate from Birth of the Christ or from Creation of the World, and also from birth of the concrete person for which make numerological calculations.
Creation of the World (anno mundi) concerns to 5508 year before new era (5508 B.C.) according to Christian chronology, i.e. it is accepted to count that the beginning of the world is carried out in 5508 year before Birth of the Christ. It means that 5508 year from Creation of the World is last year of old era (zero year 0000 according to astronomical readout) and 5509 year is the first year of new era, that from the point of numerological view keeps continuity of calculations of years from the Era of World Creation and from the Era of Christ's Birth. As the numerological sum of 5509 year (5509 A.M.) is number 1 (5+5+0+9=19*1+9=10*1+0=1) and the numerological sum of 0001 year of new era (0001 A.D.) too is number 1 (0+0+0+1=1), and so on in continuation of years the continuity of numbers is kept. For example, the numerological sum of 2007 A.D. is number 9 that is equal to the numerological sum of the appropriate year from Creation of the World 5508+2007=7515*7+5+1+5=18*1+8=9.
It is possible to tell that calendars are coordinated with the numerological sequence of years, and it is the not casual fact as calendars were made with people which knew numerology. Though the choice of time for Creation of the World is mysterious but is doubtless that the choice was not casual and consequently numbers of years from Creation of the World and number of years from Birth of the Christ can be considered as significant for time of existence of the World. Namely year 2007 from Birth of the Christ is year 7515 from Creation of the World that allows to consider events and cultural processes of year from the point of view of values which numbers 7515 and 2007 have in numerology.
It is possible to assume that date for Creation of the World have calculated according to chronology which is present in the Bible, and as a result have found the index point of calculations which corresponds with bible chronology and allows to see a history of the world in numbers of years. Or it is possible to assume that in the Bible there is no real chronology but is present a numerological code allowed to calculate date which is the numerological code of the world beginning and is the code of a world history. Namely it is possible to assume that the code of the Bible was solved and marked in date of the World Creation which concerns to 5508 year before Birth of the Christ according to the Byzantine style of chronology.
Pay attention to year 5555 from Creation of the World as it is Great Year.
At the end of this page I offer some psychological algorithms according to which it is possible to describe numbers of age.
From 1 till 9 years at childhood age people have features which are similar to characteristics of appropriate numerological numbers and gods who symbolize numbers provided that pure values of numbers are shown, and consequently children are most similar to gods.
The youth age from 10 till 19 years is the period when the numerological number 1 has major importance, and other numbers consistently cooperate with number 1 and add additional characteristics for human individuality.
In the age of 10 years (within the tenth year of life) the human individuality for the first time realizes own existence that is similar to the first year of life, but at ten years' age number 1 is shown at a new level as the zero among 10 increases the category of number 1 according to rules of numerology.
In other numbers from 10 up to 19 during the youth period of life the unit too has the decimal category and consequently the human individuality aspires to consciousness and self-affirmation which is peculiar to the appropriate god of Greek mythology Ares.
In the age of 11 years (within the eleventh year of life) the human individuality for the first time compares with people and also realizes individuality of other people. In essence the human individuality starts to distinguish specific features of each person and starts to estimate itself in comparison with associates as number 11 symbolizes ratio of two units which are comparable but everyone has unique essence according to rules of numerology.
In the age of 12 years (within the twelfth year of life) the human individuality realizes contradictions or sympathies which exist between people, and also realizes influence of people against each other as number 1 cooperates with number 2 which is personification of Artemis and Hecate. Namely in the age of 12 years the human individuality starts to see the world from the point of view of dual nature of Artemis, and also starts to realize influences which Hecate has. But nevertheless the basic number in the youth period of life corresponds to Ares and consequently the human individuality looks at the world by eyes of Ares though sees and aspires to realize the phenomena which are caused by Artemis and Hecate. Or the human individuality is compelled to experience events which are caused by influence of Artemis and Hecate. It is possible to tell that Ares studies to understand the world from the point of view of other gods and by that studies to understand people which have other psychological features.
And so on in continuation of the youth period of life the human individuality is similar to Ares and aspires to self-affirmation, but consistently agrees to increase of age numbers realizes the world from the point of view of other gods.
Then in the age of 20 years the following period of life from 20 till 29 years begins, during which the basic is numerological number 2 and other numbers become significant according to a growing sequence of years. And further age changes of people are caused by numerological numbers in which decimal categories specify the ten years' periods and unitary categories specify years in the ten years' periods.
The most significant during life become numbers which are stressed in dates of birth and names of people, that is numbers of age are shown with different intensity depending on the importance of numbers for this or that person. For example, the person was born July, 17, 2007 and consequently numbers 9 (number of birthday) and 9 (number of birth year) for the person are significant (about calculation of numbers is told above on this page). If date September, 13, 2007 is predicted then the number of age 1 is interconnected with numbers of birth year and birthday 99. Namely it is possible to assume that within the first year of life when usually children cry and demand attention, that it is peculiar for Ares(1), the considered baby will show smaller anxiety rather than the majority of children as the anxiety is not peculiar to Aphrodite(9).
But during predicted date September, 13 2007 number 4 matters (number of the current day 13+243=256*2+5+6=13*1+3=4) and consequently this number influences behavior of the considered baby and can cause emotional frustration as Hera(4) is the strict goddess, and can break the serene attitude to life that is typical of Aphrodite(9).
The shown scheme is similar to system Sefirot (Sephiroth or Sefira) (to system of spheres or ciphers) which are known in Cabala. Namely white circles correspond with position of ciphers and blue lines correspond with channels according to which ciphers are interconnected in the system Sefirot, but provided that in the shown scheme white circles are intended for record of numerological numbers which are significant for the human person.
In Cabala there are no instructions on use of system Sefirot for the numerological analysis of the human person, but in essence the system Sefirot is model of the man and consequently it is applicable for the numerological analysis.
It is necessary to tell that in structure of Sefirot there are analogies to system of a universe and system of Anthropocosmos which were known in Babylon, and also in ancient Egypt and India, and consequently it is possible to approve that the shown scheme was applied in the ancient world as the universal tool to the analysis of human essence. Namely it is necessary to perceive the system Sefirot more globally rather than it is known in modern Cabala.
In more detail about the system Sefirot it will be told in other sections of this site.
For the numerological analysis it is necessary in white circles to write numbers which are received as a result of appropriate numerological calculations.
About numbers of age, and also about numbers of days and years it is told above on this page.
About calculations for numbers of a name it is told in section of this site which has the name numerology.
About numbers of the sun and the moon, and also about numbers AS (line of horizon) and MC (line of middle of the sky) it is told on the fourth page of this site section.
When necessary numerological numbers are calculated and written, it is possible to analyze ratio of numbers according to blue lines which symbolize channels of numerical interrelations. Namely blue lines in the scheme specify ratio which are necessary for considering for definition of psychological features of the person and for the prognosis of events which can be caused by interaction of numbers.
This analytical scheme differs from traditional system Sefirot in quantity of ciphers, but if to take into account that in Cabala the tenth cipher is the increased category of the first cipher then in essence shown circuit is similar to system Sefirot and consequently can be applicable for the analysis of structure of the human person.
Instead of numbers AS and MC in this anthropocosmic scheme can write numbers of space (place) which are calculated according to geodetic lines of the terrestrial surface about what it is told on the ninth page of this site section.
Numbers of space correspond with a place of the person on the surface of the Earth and consequently are in essence identical to numbers AS and MC which too are planetary coordinates of the person.
In the shown scheme it is possible to designate and consider additional channels of numerical ratio, i.e. it is possible to draw other structure of blue lines, but it is necessary to mean that the human person is in a complex organized system and consequently among set of structural ratio it is expedient to consider the most actual from the point of view of structural mentality. For example, a ratio of the birthday number with number of the current year of life, and also a ratio of the birth-year number with number of the current day concern to different chronological cycles and are not stressed, and consequently in the shown scheme are not designated. But numerical ratio of birthday and birth-year with numbers of age can be considered, or numerical ratio of birthday and birth-year with numbers of space can be considered, though in the shown scheme these ratio are not designated. And also it is possible to consider other not designated ratio which exist in the shown scheme if the complex analysis of the human person is necessary.
The left scheme does not specify numbers of the sun and the moon, and the right scheme does not specify numbers of space (place).
Both schemes can be applicable for numerological analyses of the human person and for prognoses of events though these schemes are more simple in comparison with complete system Sefirot.
In essence in the right scheme for calculations of numerological numbers it is enough to use calendar dates and letters of a name, and in the left scheme in addition it is necessary to determine geodetic coordinates according to which calculate numbers of a place. I.e. in the shown shortcut schemes there is no necessity for astrological calculations that differs from more complex anthropocosmic schemes.
Thus, for the person numbers of age and numbers of a name are important, and also numbers of birthday and birth-year matter. And also it is possible to consider numbers of the current years and days of life, and some other numbers which are determined according to positions of heavenly objects within the framework of astrological circle.
All listed numbers form multilevel system of the human person and allow to speak about character and psychological predispositions of the person, or allow to speak about events which result from ratio of the person with movement of chronological cycles and are the reason for formation of individual features. And also allow to speak about many others anthropocosmic spheres of human essence.
More detailed information on methods for numerological analyses within the framework of various anthropocosmic schemes look in other sections of this site.
The following page represents the ancient Egyptian solar calendar which is a source of modern calendars but is a cyclic calendar with periodic recurrence of dates. And also describes the cyclic lunar calendar which in connection with the solar calendar forms a magic square.


Sean Gladding hails from Norwich, England. He came to the U.S. in 1991 and spent 6 years in campus ministry at Texas Tech, also graduating from Tech with a BGS in addiction studies. From there he went to Asbury Seminary in Kentucky, where he met his wife, Rebecca, and was part of Communality, an intentional missional community living and working with the marginalized in downtown Lexington. After graduating with an MDiv in 2002, Sean and Rebecca moved to Houston, Texas, to serve on the staff of Mercy Street, a 'church within a church' at Chapelwood UMC, a community for people in recovery: both recovery from addiction, and recovery from bad church experiences. Sean & family returned to Lexington in August to re-join Communality. Sean and Rebecca have two children: Maggie is 5 and Seth is 4. Sean is the first member of his family to become a Jesus follower, and has had the privilege of baptizing both his parents, a brother, sister-in-law and nephew. Sean has ridden his '84 Harley Davidson most days since 1991.
Jesus is the climax of the story of Israel.
If we don't understand Israel then we won't understand Jesus.
The Bible has not been good news for many of the broken people that I interact with. Many times these people are told that they are outsiders. They get beat with it.
As I began to tell the story of God with a bunch of drunks and addicts, that experience of exile resonated. People who have been estranged from their families, kicked out of the church. People who are alone, and lost. They have yet to hear the story of God that the Bible tells.
As we listen to the story together, over and over and over again, especially with people who are not like us, we begin to see the majesty, and the glory, and the mess of the story that unfolds. The story of God. The story of us.
At this time the lights are dim, there is a campfire video running, and crickets. He has created a campfire environment!
I will begin with the story with creation.
Maybe there is something in this story that we can hear together today, that will speak to us, that we haven't heard before.
It is easy to forget where we have come from. Especially when we sit in the pain of exile. We feel like God has forgotten us.
I understand why we feel like God has forgotten us, but we are still His people.
We are far from home.
We are not God's slaves. We are his partners.
Life is hard, but that is why we must tell the story of God, and continue to tell the story.
When we forget our story, we will find other stories to live by.
In the story of creation, we clearly see importance of relationships. Perhaps God could not help but create us, to share with other people.
Life comes to us as a sheer gift, and not by our own efforts.
To take a day of rest, is to resist the internal forces.
We neglect the practice of communal sabbath rest at our own peril.
Something in God's creation was not good, and that was for the human being to be alone. We were created to be in community.
To be created in God's image is to not be alone.
The very first description of marriage is the very opposite of how we practice marriage in our homes.
In exile, on the margins of society, we are sometimes able to hear the story in different ways.
Vocation is to partner with God in tending the garden.
We pay little attention to our vocation and freedom, and we pay attention to our prohibition.
It is enough for now to remember them and us as it were in the beginning.


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There are many activities in the area, including helicopter tours, horseback rides, a scenic train ride, and mule trips. And, of course, the hiking can't be beat. Some of the best hikes include Bright Angel Trail, South Kaibab Trail, Rim Trail, and Hermit Trail. Backcountry permits are not required for day hikes, but – with the exception of Phantom Ranch – they are if you plan to spend the night.
For visitors who aren't up for a hike into the canyon, a shuttle transports visitors along the rim of the canyon, stopping at many breathtaking vantage points. You can also enjoy the views directly from Grand Canyon Village, then refuel at one of the village's restaurants: Bright Angel Lodge, El Tovar, or Maswik Lodge.
UPDATE: During 2018, ongoing road improvement projects are scheduled to take place within Grand Canyon South Rim Village. Parking will be limited, and visitors are encouraged to arrive early.
Park Services strongly recommendeds all visitors traveling north on Highway 64, especially those in RVs and larger vehicles, park in the FREE Park & Ride lots located in Tusayan (about one mile south of the Park entrance). You can purchase your Grand Canyon National Park pass at several locations in Tusayan and then take the FREE shuttle to the visitor center within the Park.
The free shuttle service in Tusayan is seasonal, and runs only from March through September.


Travels to Mexico were an enormous success and last week we delivered 385 cases of Don Pantaleon tequila to the state of PA store system. Mexico reminded me that tradition and culture are so important in life. I was inspired and humbled with the friendliness and traditional nature of the wonderful Mexican people. I want to encourage all to travel as much as possible and learn to be humble to respect great culture and engulf yourself with these countries strong traditions. Nearing the end of July the tastings of Clique are in full swing.
Service industry accounts have been starting to fulfill their role in stocking our vodka and expansion to Ohio West Virginia and Tennessee is on the horizon. The response from the public tasting Clique has been great as we projected and we look forward to the same rave reviews from the Tequila. We are truly unriveled in the industry with our great value our products represent.
We appreciate your support and again would like to remind everyone to enjoy summer, work hard and play hard, but most importantly Clique Intelligently.


A trust relationship allows one Canvas account to trust another Canvas account and allows users to be enrolled in both places. Instead of creating two separate accounts and merging them together, a trust relationship allows separate Canvas accounts to share user identities, so a user can log in to one account and access courses from both accounts.
To establish a trust between two or more accounts, the Canvas Operations team configures a trust setting, which is stored in the Canvas code. The Canvas interface never shows that a trust relationship is present. Trusts can be established between multiple accounts.
Trusts do not show any information in the UI/GUI indicating you in a trust with another school or that the course you are enrolled in is at another school.
Trusts do not provide any data or a summation of which users are in a trust enrollment at another school.
The Canvas interface does not show provided trust data. The trust is simply an invisible link that exists between two or more sites.
User lists from one school cannot be browsed from another school. Admins from both schools will need to work out a business process to send enrollments from one school to the other.
Trusts do not provide any automation for trust enrollments. Users are enrolled via CSV uploads or via the API.
Users enrolled in courses at other schools are only able to see the name of the course they are enrolled in. They cannot view any information in the interface that shows the course is located at another school.
For questions about trust accounts, please contact your Customer Success Manager.
A person with a login and user profile in at least one Canvas account. With multiple Canvas accounts, the person has a separate login and user profile for each account.
Merged User A user with multiple Canvas accounts merged together to use one profile. For each Canvas account, the user's login may be unified by a central authentication system or retained individually through Canvas authentication.
Login A username and password tied to a specific Canvas account used for login credentials. A login must be unique to a user and is required to authenticate a specific Canvas account.
Trust Linnk A virtual link between two Canvas accounts. The trust link goes in one direction from one canvas account to another. However, the interface does not indicate a trust is present.
Canvas Account A Canvas configuration with a unique URL (i.e. institution.instructure.com). For the purpose of trusts, Canvas accounts do not refer to subaccounts.
Integration ID A secondary identifier useful for more complex SIS integrations. An integration ID can be used for a user without affecting the user's SIS ID.
The tables below indicate intended behaviors regarding various activities and user roles for trust accounts.
Creating a student in both accounts with the same integration ID does not generate a prompt to merge the student.
When the student is merged within an individual account, neither account was made the home or deleted account.
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Q: JavaFX programmatically highlight selected tableview row I've got a tableview that sets the background of a row based on the value of one of the row's columns. This is working and I'm doing it using a RowFactory as follows:
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                setStyle("-fx-font-size: 18 !important; -fx-background-color: #ffb2b2; -fx-text-fill : #000000; -fx-font-size: 18 !important; -fx-selection-bar: blue !important;");
            }
            else
            {
                setStyle( ".tree-table-row-cell:odd {-fx-background-color: #f9f9f9; -fx-text-fill : #000000; -fx-font-size: 18 !important; -fx-selection-bar: blue;}");
            }
        }
        else
        {
            setStyle( "-fx-font-size: 18 !important; -fx-selection-bar: blue; .tree-table-row-cell:odd {-fx-background-color: #f9f9f9; -fx-text-fill : #000000; -fx-font-size: 18 !important;}; .tree-table-row-cell:even {-fx-background-color: #ffffff; -fx-text-fill : #000000; -fx-font-size: 18 !important;}" ); // -fx-font-size: 18;}" );
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However, whenever I select a row whose background has been set by the if clause, the selected row color does not display. That row is not highlighting. The background color seems to take precedence.
How can I get the selected row to highlight when it's background has already been set because it met the column value condition?
Thanks

A: I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about CSS and I'm also just starting to work with JavaFX. In any case, after scouring more Stackoverflow posts I came across a problem/solution similar to mine where the solution was to use -fx-control-inner-background: and -fx-control-inner-background-alt:
I honestly don't know what these are or how they worked but I used them instead of -fx-background-color: and that worked.


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Home > JOURNAL-OF-SUSTAINABLE-MINING > Vol. 21 (2022) > Iss. 2
Investigating the causes of stope instability at Golden Valley Mine
Ashley Ruvimbo Sabao, Manicaland State University of Applied Sciences, Department of Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering, Mutare, Zimbabwe / Central South University, School of Resources and Safety Engineering, Changsha, China
Prosper Munemo, Manicaland State University of Applied Sciences, Department of Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering, Mutare, ZimbabweFollow
Peter Kolapo, University of Kentucky, Department of Mining Engineering, USA
Author ORCID Identifier
Ashley Ruvimbo Sabao 0000-0002-7161-1402
Prosper Munemo 0000-0001-5126-5322
Peter Kolapo 0000-0002-8840-1284
The study is based on mining operations that are concentrated in a ground exposed to flooding with varying stope dimensions. Stope stability was assessed in the four stopes, which resembled the mine's different ground conditions using the stability graph complemented by the equivalent linear over break slough (ELOS) stability approach. The stability graph showed that the stopes in rock masses exposed to flooding fell in the potentially unstable and caving zones whereas the ones that were not affected by flooding fell in the stable zones. The ELOS approach showed that mining the previously flooded rock masses resulted in high over-breaks in the stopes despite them having smaller hydraulic radii. Therefore, it was deduced that although stope extension plays a part in the over-breaks experienced in different stopes, it is not the main cause of the overall stope instability. The results confirm the supposition that over-break is largely controlled by pore pressure than it is by blast induced stresses. Continuous implementation of the old support systems was no longer compatible with the state of the ground conditions. Hence, the mine should implement 6 × 8 m pillars, which have an acceptable factor of safety against failure.
Sabao, Ashley Ruvimbo; Munemo, Prosper; and Kolapo, Peter (2022) "Investigating the causes of stope instability at Golden Valley Mine," Journal of Sustainable Mining: Vol. 21 : Iss. 2 , Article 8.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.46873/2300-3960.1354
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Varianti
Femminili: אָרְנָה (Orna)

Origine e diffusione

Vuol dire "[albero di] pino" in ebraico; fa quindi parte di quella gamma di nomi ispirati agli alberi, insieme con Olmo, Ilan, Ivo ed Eglė (quest'ultimo, in particolare, fa riferimento allo stesso albero).

Non va confuso con Oran, nome irlandese di origine differente, con il quale fra l'altro condivide la forma femminile, Orna.

Onomastico
Il nome è adespota, cioè non è portato da alcun santo, pertanto l'onomastico ricade il 1º novembre, giorno di Ognissanti.

Persone

Oren Aharoni, cestista e allenatore di pallacanestro israeliano
Oren E. Long, politico statunitense
Oren Moverman, sceneggiatore e regista israeliano
Oren O'Neal, giocatore di football americano statunitense
Oren Peli, produttore cinematografico, sceneggiatore, regista, direttore della fotografia e montatore israeliano

Note

Altri progetti

Prenomi di origine semitica
Prenomi derivati da fitonimi


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Q: Is there way to change the labeling name in ggplotly I have a challenge solving the below issue. Request experts here to help me in this. Before I put the proper reprex, let me explain the problem here:
df
   sd   x      y        x1         y1
1  1    12    1019    0.3867382  1.3484106
2  2    20    1016    1.7618076  0.8860984
3  3    7     1006   -0.4726801 -0.6549423
4  4    3     1009   -1.1602147 -0.1926301

Well, I have to plot x and y but their scales are different. So what I have done is I have normalized the data and came up with x1 and y1. Normalizing formula is
((x - mean(x)) / sd(x)
Now I need to plot x1 and y1. So have made some data wrangling and below is the reprex of that. I am getting the output, but the main issue here is that since x1 and y1 are getting plotted, when I move the cursor over it shows x1 and y1 values, which I do not want. Even though x1 and y1 are plotted, I need to have the actual values being shown (x and y values). Is there a way to achieve this?
library(ggplot2)
library(plotly)
require(reshape)
df <- structure(list(sd = c(1, 2, 3, 4), x = c(12, 20, 7, 3),
                     y = c(1019, 1016, 1006, 1009),
                     x1 = c(0.386738249968166, 1.76180758318831, -0.472680083294425, -1.1602147499045),
                     y1 = c(1.34841060188091, 0.886098395521742, -0.654942292342157, -0.192630085982987)),
                row.names = c(NA, -4L), class = "data.frame")

df$x <- NULL
df$y <- NULL
df1 <- melt(df,id=c("sd"))
ggplotly(ggplot(data = df1, aes(x = sd, y = value, color = variable))
          + geom_line(size=0.2))

A: There might be many ways to this but after formatting the dataframe then you can use tooltip="text" to show the desired tooltip here.
df1 <- df
df1$x <- NULL
df1$y <- NULL
dfx <- melt(df1,id=c("sd"))

df2 <- df
df2$x1 <- NULL
df2$y1 <- NULL
dfy <- melt(df2,id=c("sd"))
names(dfy) <- c("sd1", "variable1", "value1")

df <- cbind(dfx,dfy)

ggplotly(ggplot(data = df,aes(x=sd, y=value, color=variable, text=value1))+
           geom_line(size=0.2), tooltip = "text")


It´s been a week since I left Colombia and I am still trying to convince myself that it was the right decision to leave and see something new.
This update seems kind of forced as its been so long since i posted. I don´t really remember most of the details now but i´ll try.
After finishing up a week in the sweltering heat with my dad, I flew back to Bogota, the capital city where i first started my trip this and last year. I think Bogota may just be my favorite city anywhere in the world. That may change when i bus to Rio later this week, but for now, Bogota has everything i want. Its the type of place i can walk around each day for hours and stay entertained discovering new parts of the city.
For instance, here is a tank in a parking lot!
The place i stayed, where i always stay, is my favorite hostel. The staff are so friendly and always treat me well. I´m on a first name basis with the owner, all of the workers, the maid, etc. When i have been sick before, the owner and staff have always been there offering food, water, etc. They refused to let me pay for the laundry they did for me which ended up costing more than a nights stay there.
On tuesday, i met up with a few friends, one of whom i met on my second week of the trip. For the next four days i had a blast seeing new sights and meeting new people. That night myself and two others found the only discoteca bustling on a tuesday. But before that i had one of those great nights in the hostel with excellent conversation.
until we reached the entrance.
The mine is pretty impressive as you can see. They began the salt mine 400 years ago and eventually converted different parts of it into a cathedral.
When we returned later that day i met up with everyone from the hostel and together all 20 or so of us marched to one of the clubs for some dancing.
When i eventually woke up the next day i decided to take it easy. A few of us went to a poolhall during the day and got some delicious green tea ice cream from none other than Crepes and Waffles, my favorite restaurant.
But the night turned out awful and i learned that going out in big groups just does not work. The 20 of us once again marched through the streets in search of a discoteca. But this time, we continued walking for a few hours and actually never found one. Instead, we somehow ended up in a really shady part of town with all of the prostitutes who proceeded to grab at us, trying to remove our wallets. We immeadiatly jumped into a taxi and called it a night.
The following night was a bit strange as I ran into a few Colombians i had met last year.
My last night in Colombia was special. A few travelers organized a big party in the hostel with food, drinks, and a show. The show was performed by a Japanese guy who has been working all of the world by performing these Japanese dances. The place was packed and i saw many travelers i had met from different parts of Colombia.
After getting in a at 3am i packed my stuff and headed to the airport for my flight to Lima, Peru. I have been here in Peru for a week now and am leaving for Brazil tonight.


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Q: Convert SSMS .rpt output file to .txt/.csv I want to export my big SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) query result (2.5m lines, 9 fields) as .csv or comma-delimited .txt (with headings). (MS SQL Server 2005 Management Studio.)
So that I can then either read it line-by-line into VBA program (to do certain calculations on the data) or do queries on it in Excel (e.g. with Microsoft Query). The calculations are complicated and I prefer to do it somewhere else than SSMS.
If I choose 'query result to text' in SSMS and a small answer (few lines e.g. up to 200k) I could of course simply copy and paste to a text editor. For my large answer here I could of course copy and paste 200k or so lines at a time, 10 times, into a text editor like Ultra-Edit. (When I try all 2.5m at once, I get a memory warning inside SSMS.) But for the future I'd like a more elegant solution.
For 'query result to file', SSMS writes to an .rpt file always.  (When you right-click in the results window and choose 'save as', it gives a memory error just like above.)
--> So it looks like my only option is to have SSMS output its result to a file i.e. .rpt and then afterwards, convert the .rpt to .txt.
I assume this .rpt is a Crystal Reports file? Or isn't it. I don't have Crystal Reports on my PC, so I cannot use that to convert the file.
When opening the .rpt in Ultra-Edit it looks fine. However in Microsoft Query in Excel, the headings doesn't want to show.
When I simply read & write the .rpt using VBA, the file halves in size. (330meg to 180meg). In Microsoft Query the headings do show now (though the first field name has a funny leading character, which has happened to me before in other totally different situations). I do seem to be able to do meaningful pivot tables on it in Excel.
However when I open this new file in Ultra-Edit, it shows Chinese characters! Could there still be some funny characters in it somewhere?
--> Is there perhaps a free (and simple/ safe) converter app available somewhere. Or should I just trust that this .txt is fine for reading into my VBA program.
Thanks

A: Well with the help of a friend I found my solution: Rpt files are plain text files generated in MS SQL Server Management Studio, but with UCS-2 Little Endian encoding instead of ANSI.
--> In Ultra-Edit the option 'file, conversion options, unicode to ASCII' did the trick. The text file reduces from 330meg to 180 meg, Microsoft Query in Excel can now see the columns, and VBA can read the file & process lines*.
P.s. Another alternative would have been to use MS Access (which can handle big results) and connect with ODBC to the database. However then I would have to use Jet-SQL which has fewer commands than the T-SQL of MS SQL Server Management Studio.  Apparently one can create a new file as .adp in MS Access 2007 and then use T-SQL to a SQL Server back end. But in MS Access 2010 (on my PC) this option seems not to exist anymore.

A: Simple way: In SQL Server Management Studio, go to the "Query" menu & select "Query Options…" > Results > Text > Change "Output Format" to "Comma Delimited". Now, run your query to export to a file, and once done rename the file from .rpt to .csv and it will open in Excel :).

A: You can use BCP
Open a command prompt, then type this:
SET Q="select * from user1.dbo.table1"
BCP.EXE %Q% queryout query.out -S ServerName -T -c -t

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*You can use -U -P (instead of -T) for SQL Authentication.

*Your app have a problem with UNICODE. You can force a code page using -C {code page}. If in doubt, try 850.

*-t will force tab as field delimiter, you can change it for comma -t,
The nice thing is you can call this directly from your VBA running shell command.

A: This is the recommended way I see you can do it.

My Source (Answer from DavidAir)
Pick "results to grid" then then right-click on the grid and select "Save Results As..." This will save a CSV.
Actually, there is a problem with that if some values contain commas - the resulting CSV is not properly escaped. The RPT file is actually quite nice as it contains fixed-width columns. If you have Excel, a relatively easy way of converting the result to CSV is to open the RPT file in Excel. This will bring up the text import wizard and Excel would do a pretty good job at guessing the columns. Go through the wizard and then save the results as CSV.

A: Here is my solution.

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*Use Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

*Configure it to save Tab delimited .rpt files: Go to 'Query' > 'Query Options' > 'Results' > 'Text' > 'Output Format' and choose 'Tab delimited' (press OK)

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*Now, when you create a report, use the 'Save With Encoding...' menu, and select 'Unicode' (by default, it's 'UTF8')

*

*You can now open the file with Excel, and everything will be in columns, with no escaping nor foreign characters issues (note the file may be bigger due to unicode encoding).

A: I recommend using the "SQL Server Import and Export Wizard" for a couple reasons:

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*The output file will not have a status message at the bottom like a .rpt file does (ie. "(100 rows affected)") which may mess up your data import

*Ability to specify custom row and column delimiters of a length greater than 1 character

*Ability to specify custom source to destination mapping (ie. column FirstName can be mapped to first_name in the CSV)

*Ability to perform a direct transfer to any other database accessible from the SSMS machine

*Ability to explicitly select your file encoding and locale

It can be accessed by right-clicking on your database in the management studio (you must right-click the database and not the table) and selecting Tasks > Export Data.

When asked for data source you can select the "SQL Server Native Client" and when asked to select a destination you can select "Flat File Destination".
You are then asked to specify a table or query to use.
You can find more info about the tool here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/import-export-data/start-the-sql-server-import-and-export-wizard?view=sql-server-2017

A: In my case, I execute a query on SSMS (before that press CTRL+SHIFT+F) the result open a window to save it as an rpt file, I couldn´t read it (no Crystal Report install in my computer) so...next time I runned the query I saved it as (all files) set with extension *.txt, and that´s it I was able to read it as text file.

A: First get your data in .rpt file by using any of above method.
Default .rpt with fixed space column. (262MB)
Comma delimited with Unicode. (52MB) - I used this.
Change file extension to .csv.
Open/Import it in excel and verify data. File type is 'Text Unicode'.
Save it as CSV (Comma Delimited), which reduced size to 25 MB.


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