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The Recovery Connect Community Navigators program is a pandemic relief program that uses awareness, access, and support to connect individuals, nonprofits, and small businesses with resources through a grassroots community navigators model to help Sedgwick County residents bounce back from the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recovery Connect is for every citizen in Sedgwick County. The marketing and communications efforts of the program seek to connect with all areas of the population to provide equitable access to services. The COVID pandemic has changed our daily lives in Sedgwick County, but the impact of the pandemic is not the same for all people. Research indicates that communities of color and low-income individuals have received less funding through traditional avenues. This program is designed to address those disparities. The PPMC provides a comprehensive, grassroots approach for Recover Connect that connects individuals, businesses, and non-profits to benefits and services that help meet the needs resulting from the health and economic impacts of the pandemic, with a specific focus on targeted zip codes of underrepresented populations. The American Rescue Plan Act funding, in addition to other federal, state, and local resources, are available to assist many of those struggling from the effects of the pandemic. This program creates connections to these opportunities and help beneficiaries overcome barriers to have Awareness, Access, and Support to obtain those resources.
Recovery Connect is for all residents of Sedgwick County. The global COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the health and economic issues affecting everyone in Sedgwick County, and particularly among minority populations. Before the pandemic, over 25% of Black and Latinx adults were food insecure. The pandemic only made these issues worse. People and communities of color are disproportionately affected by the pandemic and problems related with housing, health insurance, and employment. Plus, Black, Latinx, and Indigenous populations are three times more likely to get COVID-19 and twice as likely to die from it, compared to white people.
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At last, an eye witness to the resurrection?
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JOHN — (enters, speaking into microphone, strolls to DC) Ladies and gentlemen, I am your action reporter and I am on the scene here near the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth, (motions to exit) investigating the mysterious disappearance of his body….
FRED — (enters, wearing combat fatigues and a bird house on his head, crosses to JOHN) Hey, I saw the whole thing.
JOHN — Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, we seem to have a late breaking development. (to FRED) Can you repeat that, sir? (points mike at Fred)
FRED — Yes, I said, I saw the whole thing. Can you hear me alright?
JOHN — Before we go on, sir, can you explain how it is that you have your head in a bird house?
FRED — Yes, of course. I'm a private investigator. This was a very clever idea of mine to camouflage myself during the surveillance.
JOHN — camouflage?
FRED — See, when I stand behind a tree and lay my head on a branch my camouflage clothes blend into the background and I look just like a your common garden variety bird house. Clever, no?
JOHN — Clever. Well, I guess you can take the bird house off your head now.
FRED — No, I can't.
JOHN — You can't?
FRED — No, in order to avoid blowing my cover at an inopportune moment I decided to nail myself into this bird house.
JOHN — No kidding.
FRED — No kidding. I'll need a claw hammer to remove it.
JOHN — Well, let's get back to the resurrection.
FRED — Yes, I was staked out in a tree just a few feet from the tomb. (points to exit)
JOHN — That's the tomb of belonging to Joseph of Arimathea?
FRED — That's right. He let the Christians bury Jesus in his brand new family tomb. I was there when they wrapped the body and layed it in the tomb. Then, they rolled a big round stone in front of the opening.
JOHN — You could see all that that through the hole in the bird house?
FRED — You might say I had a bird's eye view. (laughs)
JOHN — Bird's eye view.
FRED — Yes, I am a trained observer.
JOHN — Can you tell our audience why a trained observer would be staked out in front of a tomb?
FRED — Yes, of course. Jesus predicted that he would raise from the dead after three days. So, the boys at the Sanhedrin decided to post a guard at the tomb to make sure the Christians didn't steal the body and make it look like a resurrection. They hired me to keep an eye on the guard.
JOHN — I see. Now, back to the resurrection. The people in the city reported an earthquake. Did you feel the earthquake?
FRED — Boy, did I. The ground shook like crazy! The guard was so scared, he hid behind me. He thought I was a tree. So, the camouflage worked, you see.
JOHN — You saw him behind you?
FRED — Well, no, I could only see the entrance to the tomb in front of me. There's just one hole in the bird house.
JOHN — Then, how did you know he was hiding behind you?
FRED — I could hear his knees knocking.
JOHN — Then what happened?
FRED — Then a clown appeared from nowhere and rolled away the stone.
JOHN — Wait a minute. Did you say you saw a clown?
FRED — Yes, uh huh.
JOHN — Are you sure you saw a clown?
FRED — Well, not exactly.
JOHN — What do you mean, not exactly? Did you see a clown or not?
FRED — Well… (shrugs)
JOHN — Look, you boasted that you were a trained observer. What exactly did you see?
FRED — Well, I got hungry after staking out the tomb for most of the weekend.
JOHN — What does that have to do with a clown?
FRED — Well, I was pushing food into the bird house through the hole when the earthquake started. I tried to clear the food out of the hole. But have you ever tried clearing raisons and peanut butter out of a bird house hole during an earthquake?
JOHN — I don't believe I've ever had the pleasure. You still haven't explained the clown.
FRED — I'm getting to that. I could see enough of the guy to know that he was a clown. He glowed in the dark.
JOHN — Oh, brother.
FRED — What.
JOHN — That wasn't a clown. That was an angel of the Lord.
FRED — Angel… clown, what's the difference?
JOHN — (to audience) He's a trained observer.
FRED — How's that? I can't hear you. I've got a bird house on my head.
JOHN — So, you had raisons and peanut butter in your bird house hole.
FRED — Makes a great sandwich. You ought to try it sometime.
JOHN — Can we get back to the resurrection?
FRED — I got most of the raisons and peanut butter out of the hole with my fingers and then I found a twig and poked it into the hole.
JOHN — So, then you could see?
FRED — Not real well. I poked myself in the eye.
JOHN — I'm not interested in your eye.
FRED — Well, you ought to be. Have you ever poked yourself in the eye with a twig? That smarts!
JOHN — I'm sure. But did you see Jesus come out of the tomb?
FRED — Well, the twig got stuck in the hole. I should have stripped the leaves off of it first.
JOHN — So, you didn't see anything.
FRED — Yes, I did. I finally got the twig out of the hole and I could see the empty tomb just fine.
JOHN — The empty tomb.
FRED — Well, it wasn't completely empty. The wrappings from the body were laying there.
JOHN — So, you didn't see the Lord Jesus rise from the dead or leave the tomb?
FRED — Well, no. But I do know that Jesus raised from the dead.
JOHN — How do you know that Jesus raised from the dead?
FRED — I heard the guard behind me peeing in his pants.
JOHN — Well, that's it for our eye-witness account of the resurr….
FRED — (stumbles toward exit, hands outstretched) Which way do I go to get out of here?
JOHN — Watch where you're walking, there!
FRED — (exits) Oh, I'll be alright. I can see just….
(crash)
JOHN — (shrugs, exits) Now, back to the studio.
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In late July and August 2016, the Australian Missing Persons Coordination Centre is hosting a series of related events in major urban areas across the country. The Federal Police's theme is STAY CONNECTED. We decide to dedicate this blog in support of their campaign.
Please forward this news page to anybody you know who has a missing person in Australia, and put it in your Facebook and your Twitter so we spread the news as wide as possible. With help from Missing Persons Week, let us hope many more missing persons in Australia come home.
The STAY CONNECTED theme is focussing on raising awareness of how missing people impact on the community, by leaving what it calls 'frayed edges' and broken hearts behind. The Federal Police want us to remain in contact with friends and family, so we do not drift apart, and lose each other completely in the haste and confusion of life.
The Missing Persons Week campaign - of which we append details below - wants to increase awareness of how missing persons in Australia cut deeply into the hearts of all involved. Any one of us, regardless of culture, educational background, gender, age or home language are at risk of this happening to us. If it does, we may face family disruptions, ill health, time off from work, and income contractions all deeply disturbing to us.
Before we treat missing persons in Australia harshly for the pain and trauma they cause others, we should hear what Missing Persons Week has to say about it first. Missing people must deal with huge disruptions too. Moreover, unlike those they leave behind they often have no support group to turn to for help. In the case of teens especially, we should remember they went missing to escape a situation they found intolerable.
Approximately 30,000 people from all walks of life go missing in Australia every year. This affects the lives of 360,000 friends and family members, especially the 18,000 who may never see their loved ones again.
Missing Persons in Australia provides a confidential service in the hope of bringing them all home one day. We have been remarkably successful in finding missing persons in Australia in matter of a few days. May we help you find a missing person? Please call 1300 553 788. You can call now.


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from django.test import TestCase
from django.test.utils import override_settings
from django.db import connection
from .models import Auther, Book
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class TestAuthor(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        auth = Auther(name='zhangqian', age='23')
        auth.save()
        book = Book()
        book = Book(title='python', publisher='renmingongye')
        book.save()

    @override_settings(DEBUG=True)
    def test_filter(self):
        auth = Auther.objects.all()
        print auth
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March 30, 2018News Alert
"Frivolous" Town Complaint Results in Attorney's Fees Award for Affordable Housing Developer
Judge Finds that None of the Issues Raised by Town Were a "Close Call"
Beveridge & DiamondBrian Levey, Dylan King
The Massachusetts Land Court's recent award of attorney's fees to an affordable housing developer serves as a warning to municipalities opposed to affordable housing projects under the Massachusetts affordable housing statute, M.G.L. c. 40B. In Town of Sudbury v. Bartlett, et al., Land Court Case No. 16 MISC 000734 (2017), the Town sought to block development of property that it had sold to the developer, arguing that the parcel was subject to a deed restriction. The Land Court rejected this argument and sided with the developer in a decision on cross-motion for summary judgment. The developer filed a subsequent motion to recover attorney's fees under M.G.L. c. 231, § 6F.
The Section 6F motion required the judge to determine, in part, if the Town's claims in the underlying action were "wholly insubstantial, frivolous and not advanced in good faith." The developer claimed that "the Town advanced claims that it knew or should have known were without merit, and that it did so in an attempt . . . to use any means available to stop the G.L. c. 40B development." After reviewing the facts, Land Court Judge Howard P. Speicher made plain that he "did not find any of the… issues raised by the Town to present anything resembling a close call." When the Town argued that reference to an approved subdivision plan in the deed is tantamount to a restrictive covenant, the Judge called it a "dangerous and farfetched proposition." The Town's contention that an equitable servitude can be imposed by "circumstances to be deduced from other evidence, including statements at public hearings" met a similar fate: the Judge found that this claim is "not supported by any statutory or case law . . . [and] is antithetical to our jurisprudence . . . ."
As required for an award of attorney's fees under Chapter 231, § 6F, the Court also found that the offending party operated with an absence of good faith. Massachusetts case law supports a finding of the absence of good faith where there is evidence that municipal claims against a Chapter 40B developer are brought with the intention of delaying or preventing low or moderate incoming housing projects. Here, the Court found undisputed factual evidence in the minutes of town meetings and correspondence that the Town was aware prior to filing its complaint that the parcel was not subject to any deed restrictions or covenants. The record also demonstrated a desire by the Town to file the complaint to merely block the proposed development. At one point in the process, a member of the Board of Selectmen said to the Developer, "that type of a project will bring the riff-raff into the center of town . . . you know, riff-raff like they have in West Virginia, with people that will be working on their cars in the front yards, hanging laundry on their laundry lines, and leaving a mess outside."
Finding that the Town had run afoul of Section 6F, the Land Court ordered the Town to pay the Developer more than $75,000 for attorney's fees incurred in fighting the Town's frivolous complaint. The Town of Sudbury serves as a harsh reminder for opponents of Chapter 40B projects that legal challenges must be based on substantive issues and cannot be a mere pretext for delaying or blocking an unpopular development.
Beveridge & Diamond's Boston Office represents developers and owners of residential, commercial and industrial projects in land use and environmental permitting and litigation throughout Massachusetts. For more information please contact Brian Levey or Dylan King.


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Researchers based at the National Graphene Institute at The University of Manchester have developed an innovative measurement method that allows, for the first time, the mapping of the energy levels of electrons in the conduction band of semiconducting 2D materials.
Writing in Nature Communications, a team led by Dr Roman Gorbachev reports the first precise mapping of the conduction band of 2D indium selenide (InSe) using resonant tunnelling spectroscopy, to access the previously unexplored part of the electronic structure. They observed multiple subbands for both electrons and holes and tracked their evolution with the number of atomic layers in InSe.
Many emerging technologies rely on novel semiconductor structures, where the motion of electrons is restricted in one or more directions. Such confinement is in the nature of 2D materials and it is responsible for many of their new and exciting properties.
For instance, the colour of the emitted light shifts towards shorter wavelengths as they get thinner, analogous to quantum dots changing colour when their size is varied. As another consequence, the allowed energy available for the electrons in such materials, called conduction and valence bands, split into multiple subbands.
We hope this study will pave the way for exploration of intersubband transitions and lead to development of prototype optoelectronic devices with tuneable emission in the challenging terahertz range.
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Optical transitions between such subbands present a large potential for real-life applications as they provide optically active in terahertz and far-infrared ranges, which can be employed for security and communication technologies as light emitters or detectors.
Dr Roman Gorbachev said: "We hope this study will pave the way for exploration of intersubband transitions and lead to development of prototype optoelectronic devices with tuneable emission in the challenging terahertz range."
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The city of Nuremberg wants to become European Capital of Culture 2025 and be together with the locals, the cultural artists and visitors from all over the world, the centre of European culture and life. "The application for the European City of Culture 2025 paves the way for the future of Nuremberg", says mayor Dr. Ulrich Maly. It will give the city the opportunity to develop further and be ready for the coming generations.
Until the year 2018 the city will develop, together with the inhabitants and creative artists, the topics and strategy in order to submit an extraordinary application in 2019. That year a panel of experts will do a pre-selection of two to five cities, that will be asked to submit a more detailed application.
The next coming step is to define which kind of European City of Culture Nuremberg wants to be. The locals have different opportunities to influence this process and define the identity of the application. On one hand they can answer online four questions about the USP of Nuremberg. On the other hand they can join "Let's Talk" discussion events, where they can discuss about the application together with international experts.


I have a new family. We live together in a little house. We have a garden - well Jim has a garden. We have two dogs and two cats: Barkley, Woody, P-Nut & Poly. The cats live in my room and the back yard. The dogs come to visit them and bark loudly to say hello and then they go eat the cat food and search the cat box for poop to eat.
We recycle and have a compost box. And a fish tank with more snails than fish. I have an armoir on the patio that has been out there for two months. I am trying to refinish it but it seems to be the never ending project.
What is mine is theirs and vice versa. We support eachother with food and hugs. I have a new family - in addition to my own.


Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team enjoyed a superb start to their 2018 campaign with a double podium result on Rallye Monte-Carlo yesterday (28 January). Team newcomer Ott Tänak scored an excellent second place, leading home the Yaris WRC of Jari-Matti Latvala.
Tänak impressed throughout his first event in Toyota colours, quickly adapting to the car to set four fastest stage times and challenge for victory in typically demanding road and weather conditions. Lying in second place going into the four stages that made up the fourth and final day of the rally, he played a cautious game which duly delivered his podium result.
"It's really nice to start the season like this, it looks like I've joined a very strong team," he said. "The car has been amazing and I've felt really comfortable in it since the start of the rally. It was an extremely tough event with such difficult conditions, but we managed to get through without any serious problems.
More ice and snow await the team on the next event in the WRC calendar, Rally Sweden, running from 15 to 18 February. Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT scored its maiden victory in Sweden last year and will be looking to repeat its success.


The Black Eyed Peas are not a band I have much time for; never have, and it's unlikely that I ever will.
Fergie is someone I wouldn't be particularly star-struck by, apl.de.ap barely counts as a person due to that ridiculous name, and then there's Taboo, who as far as anyone can tell is a moany distant relative they reluctantly allowed to join the group despite his inability to contribute anything meaningful.
There's a fourth member of the band. He has stupid glasses, stupid auto-tuned vocals, and also has a stupid alias. Despite this, and against my better judgement, I have a strange respect for him. He is William James Adam. You might know him as will.i.am.
He's the lead member of this group, one which seems to be a simple rap group churning out singles on topics such as shutting up and stating the quality of impending nighttime. However, they have been together in some form since 1987. William and apl.de.ap began rapping together when in eighth grade, stuck with it, and actually ended up somewhere. Fair play William.
In the meantime, when William launched his own fashion line in 2005, it might have been seen as some company trying to cash in on the recent success of the musician. But no, he started this endeavour in 2001, before the band really took off, while studying at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in his hometown of Los Angeles. Despite putting the name of his band on everyone's lips in 2003 by getting Fergie to tell everyone to Shut Up, he still stuck with it and produced a range of what I don't doubt for a second are lovely clothes. Fair play.
But sure he's just doing it for the money, right? Probably yes, but he did so under his own steam. This attribute of entrepreneurial drive has resulted in me having a surprising amount of respect for William.
Even Scream and Shout, the musical love child of himself and Britney Spears and a perfect example how a song with essentially no musical or lyrical substance can top the charts, does not deter me from admiring him. The song is simply the result of a man who knows how to make money by writing simple songs. He is making himself a manufactured artist. He knows exactly how to do, so why get someone else to do? Get the auto-tune out, ring Britney, and sing about going to a club and making loud noises. Sorted. Fair play William.
But wait, he also works for Intel? As in the computer company? His position as the corporation's Director of Creative Innovation may be something of a joke, seeing as one Lady Gaga holds a similar position in Polaroid, but it seems to be something he's genuinely interested in. In a different vein of electronics he's designing a snap-on camera for the iPhone, the i.am+, which claims to improve image qualify involving technology that a lot of people are skeptical about. It's his own product, not one he is simply endorsing. He really doesn't need to make any more money, especially when it involves effort, so he must simply enjoy it. Fair play.
And he has his own charity and gives money to others. A bonus, and makes him a nice guy.
Just fair play William. Fair play.


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Joint effort called for on stray animals
Ke Jiayun
Adviser wants residential complexes, neighborhood committees and subdistricts to get together to strengthen the management of a rising number of stray cats and dogs in communities.
Managing an increasing number of stray cats and dogs in communities should be a joint effort by residential complexes, neighborhood committees and subdistricts, according to a proposal by political adviser Zhu Naimei.
Zhu said the animals posed risks to residents with more reports of people being attacked and the possibility of spreading rabies.
Stray animals are often in poor health and behaved more aggressively due to a lack of care and food, Zhu said.
The noise of cats can be annoying when they are in heat, they can bite through cables and damage the environment.
She said there were various factors contributing to the increase in the stray animal population. Some animal lovers were feeding them, causing more animals to gather and speeding mass reproduction.
Since there were no related regulations on the management of stray animals, no specific measures had been taken by communities' property management companies and neighborhood committees to deal with the problem.
There were also no formal animal shelters set by local government as well as professional groups and funding. Most of the current shelters had been opened by non-governmental organizations.
Zhu said communities should collect ideas from residents on how to manage these cats and dogs. Casual feeding should be prevented and, instead, animal lovers are encouraged to participate in the treatment of these animals.
The government should establish shelters for these animals with guidelines on their coverage, sites and adoption standards.
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Aluminium is one of the most abundant metals in the world. Techniques to extract it have improved recently, which has lowered the cost of aluminium products. As a popular choice for modern radiators, most suppliers will have these radiators in stock, such as http://apolloradiators.co.uk/Category/3/header/3/radiator-ranges.
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After the hurly burly of con season, this was a welcome return to an old fashioned comic con.
This weekend, it was the Baltimore Comic-Con, celebrating its 20th edition. It had been a few years since I had attended, due to scheduling, but the timing two weeks after NYCC couldn't have been more ideal, at least from my vantage point and that of many of the pros I spoke with.
As one attendee put it: "This show is like the morning after a wedding – everyone is hungover but happy."
Indeed, after the epic struggles of NYCC, stepping on to the floor of the Baltimore Convention Center was like a return to more pleasant, simpler times. You could stand and talk to people for 10-15 minutes without being jostled. You could get to panels without fighting giant lines. You could go to the bathroom whenever you wanted. Paradise.
Baltimore Comic Con is truly a throwback con, but it has a guest list second to none, including legends like Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Walt and Weezie Simonson, Juanjo Guarnido, Marv Wolfman, and Jim Steranko. And tons of contemporary creators as well, from Amy Chu to Brian K. Vaughan.
Perhaps most impressively of all, all the lines were for comics folks (no slebs or giveaways!) – some folks had brought entire wagons filled with books to be signed – a bit over-enthusiastic perhaps – but there was a brisk business being done at almost every booth. Just because there was time to chat didn't mean no one was busy.
The laid back vibe was just what many were looking for. "This is the perfect size con," one happy creator told me. "It's like Thanksgiving for comics," said another of the family-like atmosphere.
While the timing might have been great for road warriors like me who wanted a chance to hang out and catch up with friends after the brutal schedules of the mega cons from ECCC on – I hope it was right for the con itself. BCC weekend coincided with the Baltimore Marathon and the street closures on Saturday may have dinged attendance a bit. A brutal all-day rain on Sunday was a similar dampener. Still, there were always crowds and lots of costumes.
My own con started on Friday morning with an important lesson learned:
DO NOT TAKE MEGA BUS TO BALTIMORE!!!!!!
Unlike other cities where Megabus drops you off downtown, the Baltimore stop is 18 miles away from downtown, meaning a 20-30 minute $30 Lyft ride or a ONE HOUR public transport ride. Unacceptable! (The NYC drop off spot is actually right on my street, although a few long city blocks to the west.) This caused some anxiety on Sunday after the show, when a friend dropped me off at a barren, isolated bus stop in the middle of a downpour – luckily we had timed it right and the bus arrived one minute later. Still, not pleasant! If you need to take public transport take Bolt Bus or book Amtrak early enough to get a cheap fare!
Friday night, a typical con rabble found food at a new ramen place a few feet from our hotel. Inner Harbor food is decent but touristy, but this place was excellent. I expect it to be closed or utterly overrun by next year but we timed our wait fairly well this time.
Evening activities were moved to the Sheraton because the Hyatt had been taken over by the marathon. This meant the bar was actually a room meant for breakfast buffets, but, hey comics people can hang out just about anywhere and the camaraderie was not lessened.
Later, I attended the Ringo Awards, the program that sprang up after the Harvey Awards moved to NYCC. The Ringos follow the shape of the old Harveys, with a slate of awards, some voted on by pros, some by fans, and a banquet format. The elements that made the last few Harveys in Baltimore a bit of a slog – questionable nominees and an overly long format – have been stripped away making this a very pleasant evening to spend with colleagues. The 2019 edition included special awards for Jose Luis Garcia Lopez and Louise Simonson, and I can honestly say there are no two people in the industry who deserve to be feted more. Personally speaking, I couldn't have been more gratified to be able to stand and give these two geniuses the ovation they so richly deserve.
A story – evidently well known but not to me – about Garcia-Lopez was told in which Moebius, the great French artist was looking at some of JLGL's art in an editor's office (probably Andy Helfer.)
Does he use models? Moebius asked. Told no, he replied "Son of a bitch!"
Garcia-Lopez is truly an artist's artists, his model sheets for the DC characters – now nearly 40 years old – as fresh and perfect as the day he first drew them.
As for Weezie – as her husband pointed out, she was in the middle of every comics "event" that defined the genre and her writing makes her true Hall of Famer.
Since I hadn't been to the Ringos before, I also realized how fitting it was that the award was named after the late artist Mike Wieringo, and so many presenters spoke about how he had touched their lives. 'Ringo was immensely talented, but even more immensely loved, basically a hard-working, talented cartoonist who tried to treat people the right away. In a way, that's the kind of person that the whole camaraderie of con culture recognize. People can be "ordinary" in many ways and yet still have an extraordinary impact on those around them. Through comics culture, I've met an amazing number of amazing people…and that's why I keep coming back.
Along those lines, one member of the comics tribe had his wallet and phone stolen outside the con – a disaster at any time, but maybe a con was the best place for it to happen. He told me that everyone had offered him rides, loans, and whatever else he needed. I know the comics industry can be a very shitty place, but sometimes Team Comics does the right thing, as well.
Sunday morning I was a panelist on Amy Chu's "Coffee and Comics" panel which includes caffeine for those who need it (all of us basically) and general chat with the audience. Once again, this was such a pleasant way to wrap up my year in travel. Fellow panelists Dan Parent and Paul Storrie told stories about coffee, and answered some excellent fan questions. A lot of them were about Archie, due to Chu and Parent's work on various titles, and it was fun to hear Parent especially talk about the many variations on Riverdale's endlessly modifiable cast. One question from the audience was about writers' weirdest pitches and Parent's was about a mini-series where the Riverdale teachers turn in to superheroes. I'm not enough of an Archie buff to remember that one but yes, weird. Chu talked about how hard it was to write the Betty & Veronica & Vampirella & Red Sonja crossover – it's indeed a strange bunch to meld together, but the results have been popular with fans.
Storrie mentioned that Gotham Girls, a mini-series from the early part of the century, will finally be reprinted as Harley Quinn & the Gotham Girls. I'm old enough to remember when this came out and how controversial it was to have a book that focused on DC's female characters for younger readers.
How times have changed.
That was mostly my experience at Baltimore Comic Con. For those who want the authentic old school experience and not a frantic endurance race against time, it's a good getaway con, and despite its problems, Baltimore is still a wonderful city, full of proud citizens. As a bonus for me, it turned out two of my cousins were in town to run the marathon, and I even got to squeeze in some family time! Team Comics FTW!
Something awfully cool but expensive – a complete DC paperback POS display from back in the day – the header art isn't by Garcia-Lopez but was clearly taken from his style guide.
Shazam cosplay with Alex Ross as inspo.
(This article first ran in The Beat's weekly newsletter.)
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I usually ride the Metro in from Owings Mills it's only a three block walk to the convention center. The parking at the Owings Mills station is free unlike most parking in Baltimore.
Sorry i missed the Coffee panel , you were not listed in the program or i would have attended or at least stopped by on my way to the Some have Tourettes. I Have Fourettes around the corner.
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New York Rangers have good mix of size and skill at junior level
By Leslie Treff
Photo: Defenseman Daniel Walcott is having a strong second season in the QMJHL, with 12 points through 16 games. The Rangers picked Walcott in the fifth round of the 2014 NHL Draft. (courtesy of Richard Wolowicz/Getty Images)
The New York Rangers have nine junior prospects in their system in 2014-15. For the past few years, the Rangers traded many of their picks, and in the process depleted their junior prospect pool. But with the selection of seven prospects in 2014 NHL Draft, New York has restocked the system.
All but one of these junior prospects play for a CHL team-with Tyler Nanne, being the sole USA junior-A player. Additionally, although Anthony Duclair is eligible to return to his junior team (the QMJHL Quebec Remparts) this season, he is currently donning a Rangers sweater.
Ryan Graves, D, Quebec Remparts
Acquired: 4th round (110th overall), 2013
Ryan Graves had shoulder surgery after the 2013-14 season and the recovery period required Graves to miss development camp, the Traverse City Rookie Tournament, and the Rangers NHL training camp this fall. However, for the last three weeks, the 2013 fourth round pick is back on the ice. A very large, mostly defensive defenseman, Graves developed really well last season. The Rangers rewarded him by signing Graves to an entry-level contract in March 2014. Recently traded from Val-d'Or Foreurs to his third team in as many seasons, the Memorial Cup host Quebec Remparts, Graves has begun to show a bit of offensive upside to his game. He currently has four points through eight games.
Daniel Walcott, D, Blainville-Boisbriand Armada
Walcott was drafted by the Rangers as a 20-year-old this past summer. At both development camp and Traverse City, Walcott showed why the Rangers selected him. A dynamo on the ice, this small, very offensively minded blueliner is a spark plug on every shift. Off to a terrific start with the Armada, Walcott, the team captain, is scoring at a rate of almost a point-per-game. He was also named to the QMJHL all stars and posted one assist in two games in the Canada Russia Super Series earlier this month.
Keegan Iverson, C, Portland Winterhawks
Acquired: 3rd round (85th overall), 2014
Keegan Iverson was named the alternate captain of the Winterhawks prior to the 2014-15 season. A good forechecker with a thick body, Iverson does not put up big numbers, but he is a presence that opponents cannot ignore. Iverson had his first fight of the season last week, but it will likely not be his last. He will need to learn to improve his positional play, but the Rangers do expect some significant development from Iverson this year. Projected to be a bottom six forward in the pros, he will likely play on the wing.
Richard Nejezchleb, RW, Tri-City Americans
Acquired: 5th round (122nd overall), 2014
A very good sized winger, who uses his strength very well, Nejezchleb was traded earlier this month from the Brandon Wheat Kings to the Tri City Americans. Injured in the Traverse City Rookie Tournament, after a very impressive first game, Nejezchleb has belatedly begun his WHL season strongly (one game winner and 12 points in nine games). With excellent size and offensive instincts, Nejezchleb projects to be a power forward in the NHL.
Adam Tambellini, LW, Calgary Hitmen
When Adam Tambellini was drafted, the Rangers thought that he would be a four-year project. Expected to spend those years at the University of North Dakota, after one semester, Tambellini decided it was best for his development to leave the university and join the CHL. His rights had to be traded for him to get to Calgary, but since his arrival, Tambellini has done very well. Tambellini has good hands, size, and bloodlines, and he continues to develop in Calgary. The son of ex-NHLer Steve Tambellini, Adam is in his second season with Calgary and is currently leading the Hitmen with three game-winning goals in 21 games, while producing at over a point-per-game rate.
Troy Donnay, D, Erie Otters
Acquired: Signed as a free agent, August, 2013
The tallest skater in the Rangers's system, Troy Donnay does not have much defensive upside, but he can be a tough, crease clearing blueliner. A free agent signing, the Rangers are trying to get Donnay to improve his positioning and the use of his stick. Thus far this season, Donnay has been very effective offensively too-in 14 games, he has recorded 12 points (three goals, nine assists).
Brandon Halverson, G, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds
Acquired: 2nd Round, 59th Overall, 2014
Halverson is in his second year in the net; taking over the number one duties in the Soo this season. A very athletic butterfly netminder, with a good glove, in 19 games this season, Halverson has recorded a goals against average of 2.94 and .914 save percentage for the Greyhounds. A top Rangers prospect, the NHL team is striving to bring Halverson along slowly. New York expects him to learn his trade in the OHL for at least two more seasons.
Ryan Mantha, D, Niagara IceDogs
Acquired: 4th Round, 104th Overall, 2014
Ryan Mantha has a huge frame and is mostly a stay at home blueliner. A member of the Niagara Ice Dogs, Mantha has appeared in only six games this season (0 goals, one assist, five penalty minutes, minus-eight) and is currently sidelined with a shoulder injury. Mantha will have to work on skating and gap control over the next two years to make it in pro hockey.
Tyler Nanne, D, Madison Capitols
Acquired: 5th Round, 142nd Overall, 2014
Nanne is an offensive defenseman, who started the season as a member of the Sioux Falls Stampede. Traded last week to the Madison Capitols, Nanne has only posted four points (two goals, two assists) in play this far this year. Nanne is committed to Ohio State for next season, so the Rangers will have almost four more years to make a decision regarding offering Nanne an entry-level contract.
New York Rangers Top Performing Non-Junior Prospects
At the NHL level, the top performing prospect is Duclair. The rookie forward has been getting top nine minutes in most of the games in which he has appeared. He has been scratched at times, but with seven points (one goal, six assists) in 16 games, Duclair is in the early conversation as a candidate for the Calder Trophy.
In Europe, Igor Shestyorkin has stopped almost everything he has seen in net. The 6'1 goaltender has played for the MHL St. Petersburg team and recorded a goals against average of 2.26 and a .934 save percentage. In the junior ranks of the VHL, Shestyorkin has a 1.72 goals against average and a .943 save percentage in eight games.
New York Rangers Prospect of the Month: October
The Rangers prospect of the month for October is Pavel Buchnevich. Playing for Severstal Cherepovets of the KHL, Buchnevich is a 19 year old Russian who plays against adults. During the month of October, Buchnevich posted six points (two goals, four assists) in 10 games. This season, the 2013 Rangers third round selection has potted two game winners. He has nine goals and nine assists through 29 games this season.


Many advisors and investors have utilized sector exchange traded funds to gain exposure to targeted areas of the market. However, maintaining the right mix of these various sectors is equally important.
"Given the importance of a stock portfolio's sector mix to its outcome, monitoring a portfolio's sector mix may be one of the most important – yet often overlooked – efforts that can be pursued by an advisor," Fidelity strategists, led by Scott O'Reilly, said in a research note.
Fidelity has found that over the past 25 years, sector exposure has had a larger impact on stock returns than style and market-cap combined, so investors should pay attention to their sector exposure to achieve a desired outcome or to better control for risks.
For instance, different market environments can produce various effects on sector returns. During periods of accelerating U.S. economic growth, more economically sensitive sectors, like technology, consumer discretionary, industrials and financials, have outperformed on average between 1962 and 2015 while defensive sectors, like utilities and telecom services, underperformed. During periods of decelerating economic growth, defensive stocks outperformed more economically sensitive sectors since the products or services are more likely to be in demand regardless of the economic state.
Sectors also show sensitivity to interest rate changes. When the 10-year Treasury bond yield falls or rises by more than 50 basis points over a 12-month period, rate-sensitive sectors, like utilities, telecom, and consumer staples, have either out- or under-performed. For example, with rates depressed and bond yields low, utilities has been the best performing sector this year.


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Q: Is there a good way to diagnose spring bean/service creation problem? My project uses spring and spring-dm for bean/service configuration. When I try to import an old project which also use spring for DI, bean will not be created.
An example to make clear,
I first define a url-alias in spring-appContext.xml
<bean name="xxxx" class="XRegistry" init-method="init">
    <property name="webRoot" value="/WebContent"></property>
    <property name="alias" value="/test"></property>
    <property name="cAliasPattern" value="/test/*.do" />
    <property name="conConfigFile" value="ddd.xml"/>
</bean>

in ddd.xml, I define some controller bean with url like /test/abc.do
No errors occur when launching as OSGi framework in eclipse.
But when I try to access the URL(/test/abc.do),"Unknown OSGi URL:" is met.
The problem really confuses me is I am not clear where to start. My bundle has depended on spring bundles and have appContext.xml and dispatcher.xml. Just a normal spring usage scenario.
As spring looks like black box to me, I can only try some other possible reasons I can think, but haven't fixed it till now. Is somebody know how to moniter the spring startup process or helpful logs?
Thanks.
Edit when using spring-dm, you need to create a new fragment including log4j.properties to enable logging. This can help u to track spring startuping error.
As I explain in the 1st answer, the root cause is found, two choice,

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*For those bundles exist in both workspace and target platform, increase the bundle's version in current workspace. When error happens , you should also look into the dependency bundles

*Remove the high version bundles in target platform.

A: Have you tried setting the log level for the spring framework to debug?
E.g.
log4j.rootLogger=WARN, stdout
[...]
log4j.logger.org.springframework=DEBUG

This is always my first starting point when trying to diagnose problems with bean creation.

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Our Time (1974)
Before establishing a reliable brand with a run of moody conspiracy thrillers and wiseass action pictures, director Peter Hyams took journeyman gigs like helming Our Time, a sensitive-ish youth drama that's only incrementally better than the average afterschool special of its era. Shot with a photographer's eye for atmospheric detail (always a Hyams signature), the picture has adequate period texture but nowhere near enough originality or substance. Set in 1955, the exceedingly slight story concerns the romantic travails of private-school students Abby (Pamela Sue Martin), a pretty youth generally found courting trouble through insubordination and tardiness, and Muffy (Betsy Slade), her ugly-duckling best friend/roommate.
Over the course of several months, Abby takes her romance with prep-school student Michael (Parker Stevenson) to the physical realm, while Muffy endures all sorts of misery as she pursues a stuck-up boy who doesn't want her and reluctantly accepts the affections of a bespectacled dork who does. The first hour of the movie is quite tedious, since there's no real dramatic tension—the characters aren't interesting enough for viewers to get concerned about their romantic entanglements. Worse, Abby's storyline, which is ostensibly the main thread of the story, is eclipsed by Muffy's sordid melodrama. It's not as if the filmmakers failed to select a focus; rather, it's as if the filmmakers grossly overestimated the dramatic value of Abby's romantic misadventures.
This problem is exacerbated by a charisma inequity among the leading players: Martin and Stevenson, who later reunited as costars of the TV series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, are not well matched, for while Martin offers naturalism and pouty sexiness, Stevenson is so blandly professional that he seems more like a stand-in than an actual performer. Therefore, Slade easily steals the movie from both romantic leads, since she gets to perform nearly every interesting action in the story. (It's hard to discuss the specifics of her big moments without giving away the only substantial turn in the story, so suffice to say she's affecting when the time comes.)
As for Hyams, he delivers characteristically confident camerawork, slinging long lenses low to the ground in order to create scope, and sliding dollies through large spaces in order to accentuate scenes with motion. It seems clear he also created a comfortable space for actors, but the twin shortages of a shallow script and unexceptional acting limit how much he can accomplish. Still, the last half-hour of the picture, when the lives of the characters take a bleak turn, has a little bite, and deft character actor Robert Walden shows up for a memorable one-scene role. (Available at WarnerArchive.com)
Our Time: FUNKY
Labels: betsy slade, funky, pamela sue martin, parker stevenson, peter hyams, robert walden
Dark Star (1974)
Operation Daybreak (1975)
The World's Greatest Athlete (1973)
A Town Called Hell (1971)
Man in the Wilderness (1971)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1970)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)
The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1975)
Skin Game (1971)
Meatballs (1979)
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972) & The Strong...
The One and Only (1978)
The Deep (1977)
The Blue Bird (1976)
Lucky Lady (1975)
One on One (1977)
Showdown (1973)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Pretty Maids all in a Row (1971)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Monte Walsh (1970)
Yanks (1979)
Penitentiary (1979)
Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)


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I had a poem accepted for inclusion in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee, to be published by the Texas Review Press. This means a lot to me, because it's been 25 years' of frustration in trying to get publication recognition in my home state of Tennessee. I've been wildly successful getting published around the world, in 26 countries and five languages, but Tennessee's never been very kind to me. So, this is a nice gift.
New Poetry At Ray's Road Review!
Hey! Check out some fantastic new poems by Kenneth Pobo, Howie Good, and Robert Lietz in the Winter 2012 issue of Ray's Road Review. The new issue is out; read it & submit!