"By taking advantage of her natural talent in paying attention towards creativity, trends, art and chromatism, Anna Lapini has developed a remarkable ability in window , spaces and environments in general fitting. In this way, she has obtained a great success in her activity from public but also in eminent exhibitions. Her study and passion for the art of well eating , her particular attention towards good manners and the art of welcoming, together with a full activity in sector of ceremonies and events have increased her great experience. This experience has been put into effect in her work as teacher of " the art of welcoming" in all occasions and some other educational activities such as home setting up for particular moments, the art of setting the table, accommodation of interiors with a consultancy in order to collect materials and to purchase in a conscious way. Anna Lapini is one of the first Italian consultants as regards " the Art of tidying up". This figure already exists in Japan, USA and England for years and the activity takes the name of " cluttering and decluttering" or " space clearing consultant".Besides her professional skills, she loves music, design, contemporary art and impressionist painting. "
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Dr. Gary Schwartzhoff, second from left, meets a veteran on the 60th anniversary of D-Day in France. He will lead the UW-Eau Claire Alumni Choir when it performs this summer at the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
France is probably most famous for its art and cuisine, but it's a well-kept secret that the French also really love choral music. Most cities and towns, including Paris, boast cathedrals and churches that are home to spectacular organs and magnificent choirs.
This summer, that love for music will be played out at the Paris Choral Festival Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. The UW-Eau Claire Alumni Choir, under the direction of Dr. Gary Schwartzhoff, will be there, representing Eau Claire and singing their hearts out in commemoration. For, as festival organizers put it, this is a celebration of the centuries-old Franco-American friendship.
France's rich history will be on full display throughout this trip. While in France, the choir will travel to Normandy and perform at the American Cemetery, where American troops who died in Europe during World War II are honored. There, the musicians will participate in an Independence Day "Choral Remembrance" and a wreath-laying ceremony.
The choir will then return to Paris. After a couple of days of serious rehearsals, with a little free time tucked in between, the UWEC contingent will join with 13 other ensembles from across the United States to form a 350-member choir with orchestra to perform in the world-renowned Church of the Madeleine. There, they will be singing a collection of choral works, including music by French Composer Gabriel Fauré, and the chilling masterpiece, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save," adapted from the Benjamin Britten opera, Noye's Fludde, a song which became the United States Navy Hymn. Schwartzhoff will serve as the artistic director and conductor.
One member of the 2019 ensemble making the trip, Marcia Van Beek, has participated in both of the previous UWEC Alumni Choir European trips under Schartzhoff's direction. Van Beek is a charter member of the alumni group, and of The Master Singers, an Eau Claire choral group also directed by Schwartzhoff.
Van Beek says that she was drawn to this concert tour as a chance to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. "I see this as an opportunity for the participating musicians to not only share our gift of music but to be ambassadors for our country," she said. She is especially looking forward to their performance at the American Cemetery in Omaha Beach, France.
Knowing firsthand that music is a powerful way to bring people together, Van Beek hopes their performances will cross boundaries as they commemorate the lives of those who fought to liberate Europe during World War II.
The 75th Anniversary of D-Day is a solemn event worthy of glorious commemoration. The UW-Eau Claire Alumni Choir, under Schwartzhoff's skilled direction, aims to pay the soldiers the homage they are due, using the power of choral music.
The Eau Claire Master Singers, under the direction of Gary Schwartzhoff, will perform Sunday, March 17 at the First Congregational United Church of Christ. Members of the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra and guest organist Christopher Stroh will join the group to present Requiem for the Living, Dan Forrest's 40-minute, 5-movement prayer for rest. Tickets are available now at Festival Foods, First Congregational UCC, and at the door. Adult tickets are $18 and student tickets are $5. The singers will also perform Requiem for the Living at ECCO's Norwegian Conference concert at the Pablo Center for the Arts on March 23. The orchestra, conducted by Frank A. Watkins, will also perform Edward Grieg's Holberg Suite and Johan Halvorson's Suite Ancienne, Op. 31 in a show that honors Eau Claire newspaperman Waldemar Ager and Norwegian heritage. More information about the Master Singers and their 26th season is available online at www.themastersingers.net. Information about ECCO's March 23 performance can be found at www.pablo.org.


I've blacked out the name on this fragrance to protect the vendor. I ordered this fragrance off of E-Bay because one our customers claimed they were selling inferior products, utilizing our trademark.
It turns out that they were selling inferior products using our name, slightly modified. Can you see the bottom is darker than the top? The fragrance is clearly diluted with a diluent, such as DPG. This is a common practice to extend fragrance and dilute it.
The final product ends up weaker or half strength so the user needs to use twice as much. It certainly doesn't make the initial cheap price seem like a good idea, does it?
The fix for this E-Bay vendor was simple. Since they were selling non-Bramble Berry products on E-Bay on the strength of our trademarked name, we sent a friendly note to ask them to quit using our name to sell fragrances. As for the fragrance? It wasn't strong enough to do anything with, so it went in the trash.
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Yeah, E-Bay vendors come and go and aren't responsive to customer service issues. I don't buy from E-Bay for fragrances either now.
I've made the mistake of buying FO on ebay from people who were "closing their soap business", only to find that those same vendors were there a month later with the same offers. Always selling "brand name" oils, but when they arrived, it was nowhere near the quality.
I've learned to stop looking for bargains, and stick with reputable vendors.
That is so lame. I can't believe that they tried to use your trademark to sell products. I respect that you did not give their name out here though. THat was big of you.
I think Brambleberry is key!
I was thinking about fragrance oils last night. I know there are a lot of companies out there that sell fo's pretty cheap. But, how good are they? I'd rather pay a bit more and have something that holds up. I also love that you guys give us specifics about what works well in cp and what is going to discolor etc.
Thanks for the ebay heads up…think i'll stay away from them all together.
I don't think it's *all* E-Bay sellers that sell diluted fragrances but in this case, it was just such a blatant dilution using our name (!!), I thought the photo and post would be educational.
It's like people don't want to actually work for themselves… they want to skate by on someone else's hard work and determination. I hope they stop.
Ugh, I hate people like that. No ethics whatsoever. You tell them Anne-Marie!!! I hope they won't want to start a fight about it.


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Tampa General Hospital is among the first to dedicate a wing in its facilities with a patient and family first approach to end-of-life care with their new, 9,400 square foot, 16-room LifePath Hospice Unit.
Located on the fourth floor of the hospital's east pavilion, the unit will provide short-term, round-the-clock care for individuals who have terminal illnesses and require acute medical care. The unit features a kitchenette, lounge, and on-site laundry for use by families and guests.
"The facilities were designed to foster an environment that focuses on compassionate care and comfort for both patients and their families at the end of life," said Peter Horstman of Carlson Studio Architecture.
Chapters Healthcare committed to TGH that the unit would be available to accept patients on October 1st, only eight months from the initial schematic designs. Renovations had to be carefully planned to institute strict infection control methods and limit any disruption of the outpatient operating rooms on the floor below our project. Construction was limited to a mere four months.
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Should Infosys get into Banking ?
Infosys Technologies (Infy) is the bluest of the bluechips in the Indian IT sector. It is usually the first company to declare its quarterly results. The results and guidance given by Infy sets the mood for the earnings season. Like every quarter, Infosys declared its results for the Q1 2011 on the 13th of July. The market was not enthused as there was a dip in the profits and the guidance is nothing spectacular.
It now appears that Infosys has become a prisoner of its own success. It has become huge with a turnover of nearly Rs 25,000 crore and a workforce of 114,000. Just running this large enterprise and maintaining the profit margins in a volatile environment seems to be keeping the top team entirely occupied. The business model of the company remains largely unchanged in the last 15 years. US (67 %) continues to be the major market. Insurance, Banking and Financial services remains the biggest vertical, accounting for 35% of all business. Application Development and Maintenance, ADM accounts for about 40 % of all the services. These % have remain largely unchanged. Consulting and BPO businesses may provide them the breadth of services, but they remain small. Unlike, other Indian IT companies, Infy has not made any major acquisition in India or abroad.
What was a growth stock is slowly becoming a dividend-yield stock. With no major growth plans or big ideas, it will be diffcult for the Infy stock to keep its P/E ratio at 25-30 that it commands today.
Now here is a piece of unsolicited advice to the management of Infosys. Enter the Banking Business, by getting a new banking licence, about which RBI has said they would be releasing a few licences as per the new policy. They could also be looking at acquisition opportunities for the old private banks which may come up for sale. Given their conservatism/arrogance the second option looks unlikely.
Here are a few reasons why Infosys could get into banking :
Infosys is a big brand and a solid reputation as a respectable and ethical company. Infosys Bank should command a lot of goodwill from customers as well as investors from Day One.
Infy would be having good knowledge of the Banking and Financial Services processes worldwide thanks to it being their major vertical. Infy also has its own Core Banking Solution Fiancle which may be deployed in the new bank. This would bring down the investment cost significantly. The BPO arm of Infosys can handle a part of the customer service.
Infy being headquartered in Bangalore, availability of experienced bankers to handle specialised positions should be easy. Karnataka is home to several banks and bankers. Banking is in the blood of Kannadigas. Mohandas Pai , though Director HR, is basically a Finance person and handles the HR function like an accountant. He could be an asset for the Infosys Bank.
K.V.Kamath, the man who transformed ICICI Bank is already on the board of Infy. He could be given a special assignment to set up this new bank. Great professionals don't retire. Look no further than E.Sreedharan who took up the Delhi Metro assignment, after being well past 70 years of age.
Infy already has its first set of customers. It has 113,000 employees.
Infy has a huge cash balance of nearly 15,000 crores. Instead of keeping them as FDs with State Bank and other PSU banks, it could easily deploy a part of this for its Banking business.
Infy Bank may not require a public issue. But if its IPO does come out, it can command a huge premium and will be a sell-out.
The promoters are occupying the top job by turns. How about the promoters' children ? They would be ready for jobs now. The Infosys Bank could well be a place for them.
Financial inclusion is one of the stated goals of the UPA govt and PM. Infosys could easily deploy its Foundation to get a lot of 'aam aadmi' to open accounts with the Infy Bank and thereby improve its CSR image further.
If all the above reasons are not convincing, then here are a couple more. Infosys may have technology in its name, but it is hardly a technology company in a classical sense. It is a huge and efficient bureaucracy where the bean counters rule. For such a strength, banking is an appropriate business.
If banks can start IT and BPO companies, like ICICI Bank had setup ICICI Infotech, (now 3i infotech) and First Source, why the reverse cannot be done. An IT company like Infy setting up a bank.
I am waiting to open an account in Infy Bank.
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Nanda Kishore Sethuraman says:
At 50000 ft this may be a plausible advice, but I think that there are some territories within the IT business itself that Infosys can rather venture into! It is true that some banks have ventured into IT & back office, but Infosys' strengths don't lie there. As your article clearly indicates, the other verticals of Infosys is yet to kick in. For instance retail. While companies like Hexaware and TCS have made a lot of headway in this direction, Infosys is lagging behind. With over dependence on BFSI, Infosys will continue to struggle in maintaining its PE, but with a bit of adverture outside BFSI, I think they will become nimble again.
What a childish advice……..why would infy want to kick its bread and butter (BFSI vertical) while in search of new growth opportunities.The business environment is not so professional where a business would give its confidential data to a direct or indirect competitor(Read BPO units)
Infosys needs to focus its energy on bringing in more business and not on diversifying into unknown verticals. The cash surplus must be used to acquire companies in newer geographies and not on opening a Infy Bank.

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Stephen Crane's "The Wayfarer" and Other Versanelles
Linda Sue Grimes
Poetry became my passion after I fell in love with Walter de la Mare's "Silver" in Mrs. Edna Pickett's sophomore English class circa 1962.
Introduction: Three Versanelles by Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane is most widely noted for his important American Civil War (1861-1865) novel, The Red Badge of Courage; however, his little series of poems that appeared in Edmund Clarence Stedman's An American Anthology demonstrates a useful form that poets from time to time engage; it is a form called the versanelle, a term that I coined for use in my commentaries about poems.
A versanelle is usually quite short, twelve lines or fewer, and gathers to an enigmatic punch line that implies an observation about human behavior. It often describes a scene as it tells its very short tale, sometimes quite mysterious and tantalizing. It may use ordinary poetic devices such as metaphor, personification, metonymy, and simile, or it may simply rely on other colorful language.
First Versanelle: "The Wayfarer"
It was thickly grown with weeds.
"Ha," he said,
"I see that none has passed here
In a long time."
Later he saw that each weed
Was a singular knife.
"Well," he mumbled at last,
"Doubtless there are other roads."
In novelist Stephen Crane's much anthologized "The Wayfarer," the speaker imparts a little tale about a traveler who sets out to travel down the "pathway to truth." The traveler is at once "struck with astonishment" that the pathway is overgrown with weeds.
So the traveler remarks that obviously nobody had traveled down this path for quite some time. Then he notices that each weed is actually "a singular knife." It is at this point that the traveler decides he will also abandon this pathway to truth and look for another road.
Of course, the implication is that like all the others who have tried and then abandoned the way to truth, this traveler will not get to truth either, because he would prefer to travel an easier path.
Reading of Crane's "The Wayfarer"
Second Versanelle: "The Violets"
There was a land where lived no violets.
A traveller at once demanded: "Why?"
The people told him:
"Once the violets of this place spoke thus:
'Until some woman freely gives her lover
To another woman
We will fight in bloody scuffle.'"
Sadly the people added:
"There are no violets here."
In "The Violets," the speaker relates a tale that accounts for there being no violets growing in a certain location. A traveler asks the residents why there are no violets in the area. They tell him that violets used to proliferate there, but then once upon a time the violets made the odd announcement, "Until some woman freely gives her lover / To another woman / We will fight in bloody scuffle."
The local residents therefore professed, "There are no violets here." The absence of violets demonstrated that the violets fought a bloody battle, and the battle continued until the last violet was dead, and thus no more existed to reproduce. Clearly, not all of Crane's versanelles can be judged a total success!
Reading of "The Violets"
Third Versanelle: "'Scaped"
Once I knew a fine song,
—It is true, believe me,—
It was all of birds,
And I held them in a basket;
When I opened the wicket,
Heavens! they all flew away.
I cried, "Come back, Little Thoughts!"
But they only laughed.
They flew on
Until they were as sand
Thrown between me and the sky.
In Stephen Crane's versanelle titled, "'Scaped," the speaker reports that he used to know a "fine song." He interjects to demand that the listener believe him because "It is true." He continues, "It was all of birds." He kept them "in a basket," and surprisingly, when he opened the basket door, all the birds "flew away."
The speaker demanded of them, "Come back, Little Thoughts!" But of course, they just "laughed" at him and continued on their flight. Then they suddenly transformed into "sand" that seemed to be, "Thrown between [himself] and the sky."
Instead of protecting the "fine song" that might have lived in perpetuity in his wonderful mind, he let the grace notes escape, and they devolved into meaninglessness.
Reading of "'Scaped" --The first reading
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In your corner: Fighting back against Parkinson's disease
YMCA Adaptive Fitness Coordinator Salem Gibson, center, gives pointers to Rick Corey, right, and Gina Kim, left, at a station in the Rock Steady Boxing class at the Frank P. Phillips Y in Columbus Thursday. The program for individuals with Parkinson's disease incorporates exercises adapted from boxing drills to focus on agility, hand-eye coordination, balance, endurance and overall strength. Corey and Kim live in Columbus. Photo by: Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch
Mary Anna Nelson of Columbus works out at a stationary bag Thursday.
Photo by: Chris McDill/Special to The Dispatch
Al Broadbent of Millport, Alabama, exercises at a Rock Steady class station Thursday. He commutes to Columbus several times a week for adaptive fitness classes at the Y.
Salem Gibson, standing, leads the Rock Steady Boxing class in a strength and cognition exercise. Participants take turns holding a 10-pound weight above their heads while each person answers a question posed to the group.
Class assistant Kim Westmoreland, left, encourages Jim Sebert of West Point in a floor exercise during Thursday's Rock Steady Boxing class.
It was in July of 2018 that Mary Anna Nelson noticed a tremor in her hand on the steering wheel as she drove. She feared it was an ominous sign; her brother had battled Parkinson's disease for the previous four years. By December, her suspicions were confirmed. Nelson had Parkinson's disease.
"I became a member of a club I never wanted to join," the Columbus woman said. "It's a pretty stinky disease."
Before long, though, the retired elementary educator learned of another "club," one might say -- this one at the Frank P. Phillips YMCA in downtown Columbus. Now, she says, she doesn't know what she'd do without it.
Thursday morning at the Y: Jerry Lee Lewis belts out "Great Balls of Fire" as Nelson delivers an upper cut to a 75-pound stationary bag suspended from a steel beam.
A few feet away, Gina Kim practices vigorous lunges on an industrial-sized tire. Al Broadbent gives what-for to a speed bag with his gloved fists. All around the Rock Steady Boxing class, men and women punch, step, lunge and lift to the quick-paced music of Chuck Berry, Elvis and Whitney Houston. The boxers are motivated; they are all in a battle against the same opponent -- Parkinson's. The neurological condition marked by tremor, muscular rigidity and slow, imprecise movements is progressive. Some class participants have borne their diagnosis longer than others. But wherever they are in the journey, they know the Rock Steady workout and the Y's other adaptive fitness programs help.
For Parkinson's patients, exercise is more than just healthy -- it's vital to maintaining balance, mobility and activities of daily living, says the Parkinson's Foundation. Establishing early exercise habits is essential to overall disease management.
Salem Gibson is the YMCA's Adaptive Fitness coordinator. Adaptive fitness specialists develop physical fitness programs for people with specific needs. He traveled to Rock Steady Boxing headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, last spring for certification in the program for individuals with Parkinson's. (He also holds a bachelor's degree in
and exercise science, and is certified as a movement disorder specialist.) Rock Steady exercises are largely adapted from boxing drills that focus on gross motor skills, balance, flexibility, muscular endurance, hand-eye coordination and strength.
"We're not curing anything," Gibson made clear. "What we're doing is creating a lifestyle that delays the symptoms and, in the long run, creates empowerment to continue to choose what they want to do and have a body that can support it."
Kim was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2011, in her very early 50s. She lived in Atlanta at the time and quickly got into an exercise program that included boxing. When she and her husband moved to Columbus about two years ago, it was important to Kim to be able to continue the regimen. The couple met with Y staff about instituting a boxing class locally.
"It's a research-based program, and it's been determined that two and a half hours of vigorous exercise per week can help slow the progression and help manage symptoms," she said, citing a Parkinson's Outcomes Project report.
Rock Steady participant Al Broadbent of Millport, Alabama, can attest to it. When he began commuting to Columbus several times a week for adaptive fitness classes, he had to use a cane. Now he's moving freely without a cane from station to station in the boxing room.
Broadbent and several other Rock Steady boxers also take advantage of the Y's Adaptive H2O, a class held in heated water to focus on large and fine motor skills, balance and hand-eye coordination; Pedal Power, which uses stationary floor pedals; and PWR!Moves, an exercise class designed to improve symptoms for those with Parkinson's and other limited mobility issues.
"We also have little seminars or health talks about certain topics, for family members as well as (class members)," explained Gibson. "And we've started a new Adaptive Walking Club that gets together on Fridays to walk outside, to kind of give us a little elevation change, get away from familiar surroundings, focus on how to step, not fall, recognize cracks ... "
The range of classes makes "a world of difference" said Broadbent, who was diagnosed in 2010. "If you ever stop, Parkinson's catches up with you," he said. "And the staff treats you like family; they're concerned for you."
Kim Westmoreland is one of several volunteers who assist with Rock Steady classes, which meet twice weekly.
"It's been even better for me than for them," she said of the rewarding experience.
Gibson added, "We get to see some amazing results. It pulls on your heartstrings. I've had people that have been coming for maybe three months with a cane, and then one day they no longer need the cane. I've had guys tell me, 'I can drive again.'"
Nelson has been taking classes since early January. She credits fellow church members Norman Ford and Toby Lott for telling her about them.
"It was a God thing that I saw them together that morning at church because I was at a loss about what to do to be the best I can be. Now (the Y) has become my next favorite place to be besides my house. I come to five or six Parkinson's classes every week and love them all.
"Has my tremor gone away? No. But I can tell my balance is better. I could fall over a pair of socks on the floor before." The classes, she said, challenge her to use her brain and body together. "We can't afford to baby ourselves."
Parkinson's disease doesn't quit. So Rock Steady Boxing and the Y's other adaptive fitness programs are ongoing, a continuing resource for all the participants. Workouts can be adapted to capabilities.
"One of the coolest things is, because the Y is what it is, we knew it was important to be able to do it for free," Gibson said. "If you're a member of the Y, you have access to all the adaptive classes." Community support and grants make the programs possible.
"Be Rocky!" Gibson called out to Thursday's boxers as the music boomed and everyone followed instructions to lift their gloved hands high in the air, an iconic Rocky Balboa silver screen move. From the beginning, the class pace had been steady and challenging. When the hour was up, everyone had earned the satisfaction of a good workout -- another "round" in their favor in the match against a degenerative disease.
"We are so fortunate and blessed to have this program at the Y," said Kim, after the class. "It has made a huge impact on the people that were in that room today. When I leave, I feel like I have fought my best and that I've done what I can today to battle against Parkinson's. It's a very empowering feeling."
Editor's note: For more information about YMCA adaptive fitness programs, visit columbus-ymca.com or call 662-328-7696.


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Jen this looks like so much fun!!! I'm jealous!!
You inspire the heck outta me. Seriously, that looks like such a blast!
Keep sharin' the journey, cause I'm soaking it up!!!
Jennifer, that is amazing...running through vineyards. In tutus. Such fun--you are an inspiration!
That IS a lot of fun... Love it... I need a friend to run through vineyards with (and drink wine at the end.) HA! Too awesome.


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Q: AngularJS gives index as blank inside ng-repeat I used the following code but I get the index as blank, also I am not able to access r and c using the angular js expression {r} and {c} , that is blank too.
What could be the reason? (There are no errors on Javascript console)
I need to set the color of the div element on page load based of r and c

The above code run standalone in plunker works though when you dont use the directives for draggable.
I used the directives from this site, can it be because of those directives ?
http://logicbomb.github.io/ng-directives/drag-drop.html
UPDATE: On further debugging I realize that it is due to the following module since when I comment the module the indexes do appear, but still do not know how to fix it
module.factory('uuid', function() {

var svc = {
    new: function() {
        function _p8(s) {
            var p = (Math.random().toString(16)+"000000000").substr(2,8);
            return s ? "-" + p.substr(0,4) + "-" + p.substr(4,4) : p ;
        }
        return _p8() + _p8(true) + _p8(true) + _p8();
    },

A: I do not see that as a problem. Check here. Only correction required is " (closing quotes after col="{{c}}") in span which was missing and
 tag missing. See my edit to question.

A: Don't know exactly what you're looking for here, but I added two missing closing quotes and it seems to be printing out the indices now.

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var app = angular.module('app', []);

app.controller('homeCtrl', function ($scope) {

$scope.msg="hellp"

});

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Q: Displaying data from a google sheet onto an html table As the title says, I'm having some issues properly displaying data from a google spreadsheet onto a table in HTML. For context, what my program is supposed to do is: when the button 'New Alert' is pressed, a form pops up that allows for user input. After inputting all the information that the user wants to add, they then  press save. The alert is then saved to a google sheet, and the data from that google sheet is displayed on the HTML table.
The point I got to before I was stumped was when a user presses save, the alert they created is then saved to the google sheet. I added two additional methods (which I will highlight below), however I believe one of those two is what is stopping the program from executing properly. When I press 'F12' and view the console to check and see what errors are occurring, the two I get are: 1) Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token '{' and 2) Uncaught ReferenceError: init is not defined at onload (userCodeAppPanel:1:18618). I've looked over the program a couple times, and I don't think there is a floating open-bracket, so I believe there is something else wrong with it currently. Shown below is the code:
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//TODO: Adding comments explaining method
function doGet(e){
  let template = HtmlService.createTemplateFromFile('Index')
  template.data = getData()
  return template.evaluate()
}

//TODO: Adding comments explaining method
function include(filename) {
  return HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile(filename).getContent();
}

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function getData(){
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  codeData.toObject();
  let portLoc = Array.from(new Set(codeData.map(el => el.PORT_LCC)));
  let railLoc = Array.from(new Set(codeData.map(el => el.RAIL_LCC)));
  let weatherLoc = Array.from(new Set(codeData.map(el => el.WEATHER_LCC)))
  let out = {
    portOpLoc: portLoc,
    railOpLoc: railLoc,
    weatherLoc: weatherLoc
  }
  return JSON.stringify(out);
}

//TODO: Add comments explaining method
function saveAlerts(data){
  let sheetData = alerts.getDataRange().getDisplayValues()
  let keys = sheetData[0]
  data.forEach(el => {
    let temp = []
    keys.forEach(key => {
      temp.push(el[key])
    })
    alerts.appendRow(temp)
  })
}

//TODO: Add comments explaining method
function getAlerts(){
    let data = alerts.getDataRange().getDisplayValues()
    data.toObject()
    return data
}

//TODO: Adding comments explaining method
Array.prototype.toObject = function(){
  var keys = this.shift();
  for(var i = 0; i < this.length; i++){
    var temp = {};
    for(var j = 0; j < keys.length; j++){
      temp[keys[j]] = this[i][j];
    }
    this[i] = temp;
  }
}

JS.html

Index.html
The Methods getAlerts() and updateAlertList(data) are the methods I believe to be causing the error
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <base target="_top">

  <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"
    integrity="sha384-EVSTQN3/azprG1Anm3QDgpJLIm9Nao0Yz1ztcQTwFspd3yD65VohhpuuCOmLASjC" crossorigin="anonymous">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap-icons@1.7.0/font/bootstrap-icons.css">

  <?!= include('CSS') ?>
  <?!= include('JS') ?>

      <button type="button" class="btn save-btn btn-dark" data-bs-toggle="modal" data-bs-target="#newDateModal">New Alert</button>

Create New Alert

            <button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="modal"></button>

Alert Type

              <select class="form-select" id="alertSelect" onchange="updateAlertLocation()">
                  <option value="Port/Vessel Operations">Port/Vessel Operations</option>
                  <option value="Rail Operations">Rail Operations</option>
                  <option value="Rail Disruption">Rail Disruption</option>
                  <option value="Weather">Weather</option>
                </select>

Alert Location

                <input type="text" list="codeList" class="form-control" id="alertLocation">
                <datalist id="codeList"></datalist>

Alert Subject

                <input type="text" class="form-control" id="alertSubject">

Alert Details

                <input type="text" class="form-control" id="alertBody">

Alert Date

                <input type="date" class="form-control" id="alertDate">

            <button type="button" class="btn btn-color-grey" data-bs-dismiss="modal">Cancel</button>
            <button type="button" class="btn btn-dark btn-color-magenta" onclick="saveAlert()">Save</button>

            All Active Alerts

                  Alert Type
                  Alert Location
                  Alert Subject
                  Alert Details
                  Alert Date

Constants.gs
//Spreadsheet ID for
const locations = SpreadsheetApp.openById('1_0zMVU8JHpasH8WbLsSB-w--3HvFNUVwHws33O2b0cs').getSheetByName('Locations');
const alerts = SpreadsheetApp.openById('1_0zMVU8JHpasH8WbLsSB-w--3HvFNUVwHws33O2b0cs').getSheetByName('Alerts');
const keys = ['Alert Type', 'Alert Location', 'Alert Subject', 'Alert Body', 'Alert Details'];

I can provide further context as necessary, and can remove or add portions of code as deemed necessary. I've never asked a question regarding a web app before, so I was unsure of what I should and should not be including. Thank you in advance.

A: If you wish to use templated html then this html file should be quite helpful
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <base target="_top">

Your can write an introduction here

The following table is a summary of the current <?= lr ?> matches

       <? var vs = getMyData(); ?>

         <? vs.forEach((r,i)=>{ ?>

           <? r.forEach((c,j)=>{ ?>
             <? if(i == 0) { ?>
            <?= c ?>
           <? } else { ?>
             <?= vs[i][j] ?>
           <? } ?>
         <?  }); ?>

         <? }); ?>

Your can write an ending here

All you need to do now is to write a function that returns a 2 dimensional array like the ones that getValues() returns and name that function getMyData.
GS:
function showMyDialog() {
  SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModelessDialog(HtmlService.createTemplateFromFile('filename').evaluate(),"Dialog Title")
}

*

*creating markdown tables

*google-apps-script reference

*javascript reference

*Learn More

A: this piece of code is invalid

JS.html line 69

getAlerts() {
  let activeAlertSpinner = document.getElementById('activeAlertSpinner')
  activeAlertSpinner.hidden = false
  google.script.run.withSuccessHandler(updateAlertList).getAlerts()
}

function getAlerts() is already defined before, and now I don't understand what are you trying to do here.
If you want to just call getAlerts() just use
getAlerts()

Or just define that function properly, but with other name
function someFunction() {
  let activeAlertSpinner = document.getElementById('activeAlertSpinner')
  activeAlertSpinner.hidden = false
  google.script.run.withSuccessHandler(updateAlertList).getAlerts()
}

A: I found the issue. It was in the JS.html file. It was because I didn't put function in front of the getAlerts() method. I put function in front and it worked. I have never felt more like an idiot in my entire life, but after doing that, everything worked. Let this be a lesson to anyone who finds this answer to make sure your methods are all properly declared.


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Q: Base64 encoded String to binary file I have a Base64 encoded String that contains PDF data. Using the EncdDecd unit I can decode the String to a Byte Array.
This is where I am having trouble: I tried saving the characters to a String but once it hits a zero value (ASCII = 0 or #0 or $00) the String no longer appends. Example:
uses
  EncdDecd;
var
  EncodedString : String;
  Report : String;
  Base64Bytes: TBytes; // contains the binary data
begin
  Base64Bytes := DecodeBase64(EncodedString);
  for I := 0 to Length(Base64Bytes) - 1 do
    begin
      Report := Report + Chr(Base64Bytes[I]);
    end;

Writing to a text file seems to work better but after renaming it to .PDF the file does not open correctly.
How can I write to a binary file in Delphi? Or even save the data to a stream? Basically I am just trying to take the encoded String and save it to a PDF/binary file, or display the PDF in Delphi.
I have looked around quite a bit and found a possible solution in
Saving a Base64 string to disk as a binary using Delphi 2007 but is there another way?

A: This should do it:
procedure DecodeBaseToFile(const FileName: string;
  const EncodedString: AnsiString);
var
  bytes: TBytes;
  Stream: TFileStream;
begin
  bytes := DecodeBase64(EncodedString);
  Stream := TFileStream.Create(FileName, fmCreate);
  try
    if bytes<>nil then
      Stream.WriteBuffer(bytes[0], Length(bytes));
  finally
    Stream.Free;
  end;
end;

Note: I have only compiled this in my head.


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Kate Walsh Returns As Addison In Grey's Anatomy Season 19
Caterina Scorsone and Kate Walsh [Image @katewalsh/Instagram]
Good news for Grey's Anatomy fans as Kate Walsh is set to reprise her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery in season 19. This is the latest huge change to the cast of the hit medical series. As previously reported, Ellen Pompeo will have a limited role in the new season, as she works on a new project. Meanwhile, five new residents are set to join the cast as first-year residents.
Kate Walsh to reprise her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery in Grey's Anatomy
Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Montgomery [Image @katewalsh/Instagram]
Former Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice star, Kate Walsh has previously expressed an interest in a return to the ABC medical drama. Fans will recall that she was previously introduced back to the cast in the season 1 finale. She stayed in the role of a neonatal surgeon until the end of season 3 when she went on to star in Private Practice. However, the Grey's Anatomy spinoff wrapped in 2013.
During season 18, Addison returned to the show and connected with Dr. Meredith Grey over the death of Dr. Derek Shepherd. However, Variety informs us that Walsh will return to Grey's Anatomy in a recurring role as Addison in season 19.
When will Addison return to Grey Sloan Memorial?
Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredith Grey and Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Montgomery [Image @katewalsh/Instagram]
Apparently, Walsh's first appearance in season 19 as Addison is set for episode 3. So far, it is unknown how long she will star in the series, but reports say her role will recur. Meanwhile, previous comments by Walsh indicate that she is eager to see where her character's journey takes her.
So far, little is known about the plot of the upcoming season 19 or Addison's return. However, Kate's appearance will lessen the sting of Pompeo's absence during the season. As previously reported, she will only star in eight episodes of the new season but will narrate all episodes. In fact, she is producing and starring in an upcoming untitled limited series for Hulu.
Meanwhile, James Pickens Jr. as Dr. Richard Webster will have his hands full with the new surgical residents. As reported before, Harry Shum Jr., Adelaide Kane, Alexis Floyd, Niko Terho and Midori Francis will join the cast.
Niko Terho, Adelaide Kane, Midori Francis, James Pickens Jr., Harry Shum Jr. and Alexis Floyd [Image @therealjamespickens/Instagram]
As for Kate Walsh, on the day that her appearance in season 18 of Grey's Anatomy aired, she posted a series of images on Instagram. It was clear how excited she was at that time, as she captioned the photos of her cast mates, writing:
Counting down the minutes until an #Addimelia reunion and oh so much more! Going home to Grey Sloan Memorial is a feeling like none other and I simply cannot wait to do it one more time with all you lovers.
Now, fans can rejoice in the fact that Dr. Addison Montgomery will be starring in the upcoming season 19 of Grey's Anatomy.
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OTTAWA – "To possess a firearm is a right, and it's a right that comes with responsibilities." — Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney at a news conference in Powassan, Ont., while announcing planned changes to Canada's gun laws, July 23, 2014.
The Canadian Press has examined Blaney's statement and put it to its baloney meter test — a dispassionate examination of political statements that culminates in a ranking of accuracy.
Spoiler: On a scale from "no baloney" to "full of baloney," the claim would appear, from a strictly legal standpoint, to meet the criteria for a "full baloney" grade. By law, there is no right in Canada to possess firearms.
The right to bear arms has been a hotly debated topic in the United States for decades.
That right, say advocates, is deeply entrenched in the U.S. Constitution, and provided for in the Second Amendment that was adopted Dec. 15, 1791, as part of the United States Bill of Rights.
In Canada, such a right is not specifically spelled out in the Constitution, although proponents of the notion argue that such a right exists.
"Indeed, most Canadians prefer the peace of mind and sense of security derived from the knowledge that the possession of automatic weapons is prohibited," said the court.
The rights issue was tested again in the case of an Ontario firearms dealer and manufacturer.
Bruce Montague was charged with several weapons offences after police found more than 200 firearms and 20,000 rounds of ammunition at Montague's home in northwestern Ontario.
Montague didn't renew the registrations on his weapons, convinced that he had a constitutional right to bear arms without government interference or regulation, despite the passage of Bill C-68, the Firearms Act, in 1995.
Montague argued that he had "a constitutional right to possess firearms for self defence" derived from the constitution of Britain.
His convictions were upheld in the Ontario Court of Appeal and in September 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear a final appeal, without offering reasons.
Montague is facing further legal troubles after the Ontario Court of Appeal further ruled last month against his challenge of the Criminal Code's automatic forfeiture provisions.
That, after a judge ordered most of his weapons cache — including sub-machine guns, assault rifles and sawed off shotguns — be turned over to the province of Ontario. He may also lose his house to forfeiture.
The right to gun ownership in Canada has been far from universally accepted throughout the country's history, says Saint Mary's University associate professor Blake Brown.
Many 19th-century lawyers — including Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald — believed in a limited right to bear arms, Brown wrote in his book, Arming and Disarming, a History of Gun Control in Canada.
An 1869 law that prohibited people from carrying "offensive weapons" did not mention firearms.
During his tenure as prime minister, Macdonald generally opposed new gun laws, arguing that "citizens needed arms to protect themselves from American criminals who crossed into Canada," wrote Brown.
And even though the British Bill of Rights declared a guarantee of arms to men "for their defence suitable to their condition," the federal government declared that right invalid in 1885, because it deemed aboriginal peoples incapable of full citizenship and didn't want to afford them such a right.
Blaney has not since clarified what he meant by "right," nor has his office responded to several inquiries about whether the minister was stating government policy.
But critics immediately called the statement into question.
The courts have laid to rest any argument that Canadians have an absolute or legal right to own guns, says the Coalition for Gun Control.
"Quite simply, (Blaney) is wrong," said the coalition's Wendy Cukier.
But gun ownership is a rights issue, says Sheldon Clare, president of Canada's National Firearms Association.
The debate about firearms control has been centred on the issue of public safety since the late 1960s, said Clare. He pointed to the RCMP seizure of guns from homes in flood-ravaged High River, Alta., in 2013.
The Mounties cited safety concerns as a reason for confiscating guns from homes they had entered while looking for flood victims and pets.
But many gun owners called that reasoning into question, accused the police of violating their rights and called the operation an unwarranted search and seizure.
Governments since Confederation have framed laws that are much more in line with gun possession being a "privilege" that is regulated and licensed, similar to laws that allow Canadians to drive cars. However, there remains a strong divide on the issue between gun control proponents and advocates of the right to own firearms.
Supreme Court of Canada Judgements, R. v. Hasselwander, May 19, 1993.
The Right To Keep And Bear Arms In Canada website, www.rkba.ca.
English Bill of Rights, 1689.
Arming and Disarming, a History of Gun Control in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Canada's National Firearms Association website, https://nfa.ca/.


The MAVEN space probe has been inspecting Mars's upper atmosphere for about a year and a half now, and in that time it's helped NASA researchers learn important insights about the red planet. Now MAVEN — which stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution — has revealed that Mars' atmosphere contains charged metal atoms (aka "ions") — just like the atmosphere on Earth.
The metal comes from small meteoroids that rain down constantly upon Mars. First, the meteoroids vaporize. Then charged particles within the atmosphere pull some metal atoms away and transform them into charged atoms.
The neat thing about metal ions is that they can be used to understand motion in the ionosphere layer of the atmosphere. Winds and electric fields move these ions far from their origin point. Since the ions have a long lifetime, researchers can use them to deduce how movement is occurring within the ionosphere over an extended period of time.
Earth's atmosphere also contains metal ions. If any news about Mars makes you immediately ask, "What does this mean for the prospect of future human colonization of Mars," we've got bad news for you.
It amounts to very little, unfortunately. That's the professional opinion of Joe Grebowsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and one of the authors of the study.
An artist's concept of MAVEN exploring Mars.
NASA researchers suspect that metal ions may exist in the atmospheres of every planet in our solar system, because radio signals emitted by roaming spacecraft are sometimes blocked as they pass through planets' atmospheres.
However, this discovery is "the first direct detection of the permanent presence of metal ions in the ionosphere of a planet other than Earth," Grebowsky says.
Up next for MAVEN: another year and a half of scientific research about Mars, and then six years as a telecommunications orbiter, before it finally runs out of fuel.


Globalworth is a real estate investment company, incorporated in Guernsey and listed on AIM. The leading office investor in the CEE region, with a portfolio approaching €2.5bn in Romania and Poland, it targets a sustainable and growing dividend with capital growth.
A strong FY18 performance included a full-year earnings contribution from Globalworth Poland and good underlying progress from the existing portfolio, including strong leasing activity, a growing contribution from recently completed developments, rental growth, ongoing acquisitions and operational efficiencies. EPRA earnings grew from €16.8m (17.9 cents per share) to €60.9m (46.0 cents per share). Including increased DPS (54 cents) and growth in EPRA NAV to €9.04 per share, NAV total return was 7.8%. We see strong organic growth potential from the management of the existing assets, further developments, and acquisitions. The acquisition of two assets in Poland has recently completed, for a combined consideration of €170m, and adding an immediate €12m to annualised contracted rents, with reversionary potential. Further Polish assets are under negotiation and other opportunities evaluated. To fund this investment and the elimination of the minority interest in Globalworth Poland, 55m new shares were issued in a placing and exchange offer at €9.10 per share.
The Romanian and Polish economies continue to perform well, which should support occupier and investment demand for commercial property assets.


The UCI Board Club actually made it snow in the middle of November in sunny Southern California. The hilly grass-covered area that held Reggaefest only a few months before, was covered in densely packed and flaky soft snow. Boarders took turns doing tricks down the slope and to everyone's amazement, the snow wasn't so easily claimed victim by the noontime sun.
In some places around the world, the change of seasons is particularly pronounced. However, in perpetually sunny Southern California, summer has a tendency to last all year. UC Irvine students were given a rare treat: Snow.
As the sun shone brightly at UCI on Nov. 17, snowboarders anxiously awaited the arrival of the rarest of coastal Californian commodities.
The UCI Board Club hosted 'Rail Jam,' a snowboarding demonstration in which snowboarding companies showcased their sponsored riders, with KROQ providing the music. The biggest draw however, was the arrival of several tons of snow, transforming the Student Center lawn into a mountain slope.


A comprehensive plan and design service.
The latest technology with adjustable temperatures to suit all purposes.
Humidity control to create a temperature-stable environment.
We'll create a custom sized room for your needs – we build to fit.
We'll build you an insulated panel room (a room inside a room) that, in our extensive experience, we believe is the most efficient method of regulation.
The use of our well-respected sub-contractors for the panel and electrician for the wiring and sign off of the Code Compliance Certificate.
Browse through some of the smart solutions we've provided for our clients.
I don't know where to begin - help!
Don't worry - we offer a complete plan and design service that covers all aspects of your wine cellar, from the size of your wine collection to the space you have available. We can then design and deliver the ultimate wine cellar for your needs.
Do you build the wine cellar yourselves?
Yes, we take on the first meeting with the client, architect or consultant through to the turn key finish of the wine cellar.
How many bottles of wine can a wine cellar hold?
From 400 bottles up to however many you want – the wine cellar is custom built to your own individual needs. If your fridge won't fit your collection, we can help with a custom wine cellar build.
Do I need a mansion to house a wine cellar?
Not at all - the average size of the wine cellars we build is about 2.4m2, a very achievable size. We can build one within an existing room of your house!
Why do I need to cellar my wine?
Wine changes as it ages, softening tannins and developing complexities. Cellaring – and maturing – wine means you'll enjoy all the unique qualities of mature wine without having to pay a premium for old vintages. Having wine on hand also means no more last minute dashes to the wine store when an unexpected guest turns up.
How much will building a wine cellar cost me?
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Originally posted on December 2nd, 2011.
Howdy! Another beer review here on this cold day in December. Well, this is another beer from Texas brought to me from Aunt over Thanksgiving. This brewery is down in East Texas, Fort Worth. This is a schwarzbier, black beer, or black lager. I've not had black lager before, at least I don't think I have. The Ugly Pug story goes like this, Fritz Rahr once saw Oscar, his mother-in-law's dog and shouted, "What an ugly pug!" I don't know how that relates to a beer but maybe Fritz has his reason for name his black lager that. Ugly Pug pours a nice black color as it says on the bottle. If you don't know that then I suggest you ask for help. It has a semi-thick white foamy yet creamy head. It looks interesting at this point, so now you sip. When you first partake of this you get a light mouthfeel of very faint coffee and a very light taste of malted caramel. When the aftertaste hits you get a tiny little sour bite of caramel candy. This is not heavy like a stout or porter. It's a lager beer, therefore, it is lighter. You should know that. Remember that from now on, that will be helpful when buying beer. This one is good. I don't know much about Rahr & Sons. But I am finding more info about it. I would like to buy this again. I thought it was good, not a WOW GREAT, but a solid good, a buy it again good, tell few of my friends kind of good. You to should try this one. Keep your eyes and ears open to the news here in N.C. about the changes coming regarding the brewing laws. It will be SO AWESOME!! Cheers! Please drink responsibly!


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Shells and Cells
Glimmering on the inside of oyster and mussel shells, mother of pearl, or nacre, has a secret – it encourages human bones to grow. The Mayans used nacre for dental implants, and modern day lab tests confirm its astonishing properties – but how does it work? Here, a black and white sketch picks out the repeating patterns found under a high-powered microscope. Researchers know nacre's layers build up over time, developing in 'controlled disorder' – they believe this is the key. Nacre's patterns form a natural biomaterial, acting as a precise scaffold for developing bone. On tracing paper resting over the sketch, blue dots show a grid of nano pits – an artificial design, inspired by nacre's natural example, that could help mesenchymal stem cells to develop into new bone. It just goes to show, interesting things happen when surprising ideas meet – such as art meeting science at the place where shell meets bone.
Written by John Ankers
Image by Rachel Duckhouse
Research from Division of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow and Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, UK
Image copyright held by the artist
Research published in ACS Nano, June 2017


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Q: Django newbie question: can't start a new project I'm totally new to django, and I'm using its documentation to get help on how to use it
but seems like something is missing. i installed django using setup.py install command
and i added the ( django/bin ) to system path variable but. i still cant start a new project
i use the following syntax to start a project :

django-admin.py startproject myNewProject

but it says

Type 'django-admin.py help' for usage.
1

UPDATES :
i use windows vista x64 . i checked the environment variables and i don't have DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE variable in there . should i add one ?? and with what value ?

do i miss anything ?
thank u

A: do you have permission to write to the directory?

A: See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#startproject-projectname

This command is disabled when the --settings option to django-admin.py is used, or when the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE has been set. To re-enable it in these situations, either omit the --settings option or unset DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE.

A: check whether you have djagno or not and the it is in python path or not.if using linux  go to terminal type python  and then try to import django

A: This question is old, but...
Here is my answer:

I switched to directory C:\Python27\Scripts\ and then typed:
python django-admin.py startproject MyProject

and it worked!


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La Chiusa Hotel In Tuscany with its own Michelin-star restaurant is Now Open
La Chiusa, an 18-room boutique hotel in Tuscany with its own Michelin-star restaurant, has reopened following a renovation, it was announced by George and Linda Meyers.
The hilltop building dates back over 700 years to the 1300s when it was originally a watch tower. It was transformed into an olive oil mill in 1645, and later a hotel in 1978. The Meyers purchased the property in 2018 and renovated it prior to its current reopening. It is still surrounded by an olive grove with more than 900 trees which are used to make olive oil each year for use in the restaurant.
La Chiusa features 18 unique guest rooms (each with its own bathroom) ranging from a standard double priced at $128 per night, to a deluxe family room with terrace priced at $278 per night. All rates include a fresh buffet breakfast daily.
La Chiusa's garden-to-table restaurant is now under the direction of new Executive Chef Allesandro Goracci, from Tuscany, who uses fresh, locally sourced ingredients to prepare each meal with recipes passed down from generation to generation. Specialties include pea soup, suckling pig, handmade pasta and bread, and the signature dessert, a black olive paste (made by soaking black olives in Scotch) and gelato sundae, topped with fresh crème, vanilla ice cream, pistachios, and a raspberry balsamic blend. Guests are welcome to stop into the kitchen during the day to enjoy a slice of fresh baked cake or a piece of cantucci (biscotti).
Travelers can also book private cooking classes which take place right in the hotel's kitchen. Usually beginning at 10 a.m., the class ranges between two to three hours, is designed around a typical Tuscan meal, and is taught in English. It focuses on fresh, local, seasonal ingredients and features a four-course meal of antipasti (appetizer), primo piatto (first dish) of pasta, a second piatto (second dish) and a dolce (dessert). The pasta is handmade. Travelers who want a more intensive cooking experience can sign up for a week-long cooking experience headquartered at the hotel called Cook In Tuscany.
La Chiusa is centrally located in the Tuscany region with easy access to Pienza (12-minute drive), San Quirico (20-minute drive), Montalcino (35-minute drive), Siena (50-minute drive), Perugia (50-minute drive), Cortona (40-minute drive), and Montepulciano (20-minute drive). It is approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes from Florence.
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Less than a year and a half after the minimum length for speckled trout was raised to 15 inches, anglers are already seeing change.
"The fish are there," said Sonny Schindler of Shore Thing Charters. "The smaller ones, those 12 to 14-inch fish, are everywhere.
"There's a lot more fish on both sides. There's a lot more keeper fish and a huge amount of 12, 13 and 14-inch fish. We didn't have this before."
Schindler said a Friday morning fishing trip with clients was a perfect example.
"Just this morning we had six guys fishing and I fished a little," Schindler said. "It was every cast, every angler.
"Don't get me wrong, we caught some beautiful fish, but we all released 30 or 40 small ones. It was still fun as heck."
Schindler's experience is something Matt Hill, Finfish Bureau director for the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, is seeing first-hand and hearing from other fishermen.
"We've seen an increase in our independent sampling," Hill said. "The data we see and the talking — what we call boots on the ground — we hear the same thing.
"We've definitely seen an increase in all of our size and age classes. We'd like to attribute that to our length changes."
Prior to the adoption of the 15-inch minimum length, Jamie Miller, then executive director of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, said a stock assessment was taken of the speckled trout population in state waters and data showed only 10.2 percent of population was capable of reproduction. Miller said that number is well below the 20 to 30 percent Spawning Potential Ratio that is considered sustainable.
"Ten years ago the stock was considered stable or sustainable," Miller said. "Currently, we've seen an increase in recreational fishing and as a result of that, we're taking more and more speckled trout out of the population.
"The number of trips have gone way up since the 2007, 2008 time frame. It's the most targeted species in the Mississippi Sound I think, without a doubt."
Hill said the 12-inch to 14-inch trout are the product of a strong spawn last year and he expects a productive spawn again this year.
"The majority of these fish are spawn-capable, so we're expecting a very strong spawn depending on environmental factors," Hill said. "At 14 inches all of our trout are reproductive-capable.
"We're not only potentially gaining another spawning season out of these fish, we're ensuring that all the females have at least one spawning. When the limit was 13 inches, about 60 percent of them spawned."
Hill said other factors have worked in favor of Mississippi's trout population. Earlier this year, the Bonnett Carre Spillway near New Orleans was opened to divert floodwater into Lake Pontchartrain, and that freshwater eventually pushes trout from Louisiana waters into Mississippi's.
"Opening the Bonnett Carre pushed some fish our way," Hill said. "That made a short-term impact.
"Anytime the spillway opens we see an increase in the smaller classes. The fish tend to stick around and we get at least one spawning season out of them. So, that helps in the long-run."
When discussions were taking place in 2016 about how to best improve trout numbers, one of the ideas considered was a slot limit to protect much larger trout, which generally produce more eggs than smaller trout. From what he sees, Schindler thinks protecting the smaller fish was the best option.
"I don't see a lot of 4-pound fish," Schindler said. "What I do see is an ungodly number of 12 to 14-inch fish.
"I see thousands of them. There's not as many of those 5-pound fish as the gajillion 12 to 14-inch fish. Do you let the one 7-pound fish go and think you're doing something or do you let hundreds and hundreds of 12 to 14-inch fish go?"
While Schindler feels the 15-inch minimum length is making a big difference, he said it's painful at times.
"The excitement is in what's coming," Schindler said. "I hate to throw back 14-inch trout, but if it's for the greater good, let them swim. This sets the wheels in motion for the next decade."


In Fox's relentless attack on liberals, they breached sacred ground by calling the Muppets, those cuddly little characters, communists; putting Miss Piggy and Kermit in the same category as Stalin or Lenin. Is Eric Bolling, host of Fox's "Follow the Money" joking? Joining Bolling in his rant was Dan Gainor from the conservative Media Research Center (MRC's stated mission is to neutralize the impact of liberal bias in the media) who said, "It's amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message," I saw "The Muppets" this weekend and found it to be one of the best feel-good movies I can remember seeing. Sure, the antagonist was an evil oil barren, but who would you, Misters Bolling and Gainor, like your Dr. Evil to be? An "illegal alien" from Kenya, or a tree-hugging environmentalist, or maybe someone who believes in the scientific process? How about a Dr. Evil Scientist who believes in global warming? Here's an idea, let's make Dr. Evil Scientist gay! Perfect! Gainor was especially opinionated with his rant against the movie, "They've been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry," he says more, "They hate corporate America. And so you'll see all these movies attacking it,"…and there's more to his rant, "attacking the oil industry, none of them reminding people what oil means for most people: fuel to light a hospital, heat your home, fuel an ambulance to get you to the hospital if you need that. And they don't want to tell that story." What story don't you want to tell Mr. Gainor? That the organization you work for, MRC, receives funding from Exxon Mobil? I, for one, salute you Miss Piggy. "Heil Comrade Piggy"!


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Jennifer Babcock, Consultant, based out of the Ottawa Office.
Jessica Brown, Graphic Designer, based out of the Toronto Office.
Grant Goldberg, Analyst, based out of the Toronto Office.
Jennifer Babcock joins Crestview Strategy following years of experience at a national agricultural association as an in-house lobbyist. Jennifer has extensive experience in federal policy files including trade, agriculture, health, environment and transportation. Jennifer has worked on Parliament Hill, providing strategic advice to Ministers, Members of Parliament and Senators, implementing communications plans, and managing stakeholder events.
Jessica Brown joins Crestview Strategy after working as an in-house graphic designer for a non-profit based out of Calgary. She is a skilled graphic designer, with extensive experience in web and mobile design, brand development and print. Jessica graduated from St. Lawrence College with an Advanced diploma in Graphic design.
Grant Goldberg is an experienced political professional, staffing campaigns at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels. Prior to joining Crestview, Grant served in the Leader's Office of a national political party in the United Kingdom, and as a legislative intern for a Member of the UK House of Lords.
"Grant brings a range of research experience and a deep understanding of politics in Canada and abroad. He is a committed team member and will add significant value to our research offering," said Crestview Strategy partner Rob Moore.


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West Branch Sacandaga River is a river in Hamilton County in the state of New York. It begins northwest of Benson and flows west then northward then eastward before converging with the Sacandaga River south of Wells.

Recreation

In May 2021, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation stocked 133  brown trout and 1200  rainbow trout into the river in the town of Wells.

Tributaries

Right

Silver Lake Outlet
North Branch
Chub Lake
Trout Lake
Cow Creek
Moose Creek
Ninemile Creek
Devorse Creek
Vly Creek

Left

Whitman Flow
Good Luck Lake
State Brook
Shanty Brook
Teeter Creek
Piseco Outlet
Cold Brook
Hamilton Lake Stream
Dugway Creek
Jimmy Creek

References

Rivers of Hamilton County, New York
Rivers of New York (state)
Tributaries of the Sacandaga River

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A resource for Dungeon Master and player alike. Nerdarchy introduces five new and unique mounts ready for your 5E game from our Chimes of Discordia campaign setting. This digital book includes rules for these creatures with regards to trade goods, training, and adding flavor to your campaign world. There's even multiple versions the different mounts we introduce. Perhaps you'll even find your druids assuming the guise of a dranther or kangoram in your game.
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This April in celebration of International Tabletop Day Nerdarchy has orchestrated the giving away of a full set of special rewards normally reserved for our patreon members.
This is part of our homebrew rewards and we want to celebrate international tabletop day with all of you by giving it away for free. All you need to do to get a hold of this is to add it to your cart and download it by following the instructions.
What you will get in the Empusia, Curator of Souls supplement is a collection of magic items, a monster, an ally or enemy, a dynamic encounter, and lore of the land – in this case, information on Empusia herself!
From Hit Dice to Heroics
Sometimes heroes need to dig deeper and become a little more heroic. From Hit Dice to Heroics is a supplement for Fifth Edition. There are over 40 options for spending Hit Dice other than regaining hit points. Players can begin tapping into these options as soon as they hit 2nd level. Your character class and sometimes your subclass determine what option might be available to you.
Channel your very vitality into arcane or divine might if you are a spellcaster. A barbarian can channel even more of their mighty totem animal. Fighters are inspired to even deadlier skill with their blade. These are just some of the possibilities found within. There at least three new options for each class.
Horris the Horned Lord 5E Encounter
Horris the Horned Lord is an encounter for 4-6 adventurers of 5th-8th level for the world's most popular role-playing game. Perfect for Game Masters that need a single encounter or to fill in for a night of gaming. There is opportunity for social and combat encounters during a jaunt to a wizards tower on the way to or from a small town.
Horris the Horned includes four new creatures: the spelleater and greater spelleater minotaur, elite bugbear of the horned king, and bugbear witchdoctor of the horned king. There is also a map of the wizard's tower.
North Road 01: Death & Taxes for 5th Edition
Finding a module to run for your fantasy tabletop role-playing game is sometimes hit and miss. You want an adventure module that will entertain your RPG group, that will hook them with an interesting story, great characters and memorable encounters. You don't mind doing prep, but you really don't want to have to rewrite the whole thing to fit with your style of gaming, your group's current levels, the rule system you are playing, or because you always have had to do that with previous modules.
Getting your players to engage beyond a single quest and to build a campaign they will want to keep returning to play is important. However, you don't want everything to be prescriptive and you still want to be able to add your own flavour and make it your own.
You don't want to have to drop all aspects of your homebrew world, or your house rules that have taken so long for everyone to agree upon and get used to. You also don't want to spend hours having to bend a module to fit what you have already achieved, or to have characters start again from level 1, or whatever level the module prescribes.
If you are new to being a game master or dungeon master for your group, adventure modules can be quite complicated beasts to wrestle with. This makes it difficult to actually learn the skills required to be a good game master and to begin to create your own successful campaigns. You just want something you can actually run straight out of the book.
We at Quest Givers found that traditional modules for tabletop role-playing games tend to lack certain important components. Components that lead to frustration and having to take the adventure apart and put it back together again so that it works for your group. For beginner game masters this becomes quite a daunting task as you don't really know how to do this and the game rulebooks give little in the way of instruction on how to actually structure a story or how to flow from scene to scene.
The first thing we found lacking was a consistent structure to the story, an easy to grasp and simple to relay structure to build interest and continuity with the players. We also found most modules don't really give you an idea of how to portray NPCs. There is no dialogue to help you figure out how they should speak, how they carry themselves in the environment of the story and how they react to player input.
Adventures usually tend to be built around a monster encounter and the game world lacks depth and continuity, leading to player disinterest and murder-hoboism. We don't like being lured into a purchase that lacks substance, ending in a pile of RPG books that are only ever good for picking a handful of ideas out of. Death & Taxes gives you, the game master, a wonderful starting point to a 12 episode campaign. You will find enough detail and depth to the setting to get the players to truly invest in your game and return for the next session. The group begins in a seaside fishing village that is under the burden of over taxation.
Death & Taxes is system neutral, so you are free to use any system that embraces a fantasy genre. The adventure will work for characters of different levels, so you can include it into your game at any point. We introduce a monster that is not in any monster manual, but you will enjoy creating your own stats for to be just right for your players. We only give the flavour and style of the monster; you get to do the juicy bits.
The culture of the game world, while different from most, will not be completely alien to most home brew worlds, or settings of major game systems. You will be able to easily insert this realm as another area of your world as if it had always been there. Interesting political structures, strange cultural differences and a different approach to a society that will give the players the sense that they truly are in a foreign land.
Characters and monsters are loosely described so you are able to flesh them out with your own details, change the level of severity as you see fit, but maintain the flavour of the character and its role in the story. The story provides detailed responses to character questions and plenty of rumours and utterances by the local populous to build a background to events.
The story unfolds as you read it through the first time, so you get an idea of what the players will experience when they play. The module is written in a style reminiscent of the old "choose your own adventure" book series. The narrative is event driven, so you can easily allow the players to find their own path and then use the next event to propel the story forward. Learn a little of the history of the place in books that detail more about the realm the characters find themselves in.
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Croak Hollow
A Horrific Adventure for a Party of four to six characters of 4th-6th Level.
The once cheery rustic village of Stilt has fallen into a pall of gloom and only a brave band of adventurers can try to set things right, though they might find not all horrors can be undone.
The players will battle the mad forces of the Cult of Byatis and be confronted by a horrible plague. They themselves may be corrupted with it!
Gaze of the Void Eye for 5th Edition
For 5th Edition of the World's Most Popular Fantasy Role-Playing Game
An adventure for 4 characters of 10th-14th Level.
Are your adventurers afraid of the dark? After this jaunt into a world perpetual darkness to face the threat of the Void Eye, they will be. Perfect if you need an evening adventure or want to take your campaign in an unexpected direction.
What You Will Find Within
New rules to traverse a world of darkness, new magic items, new monsters, new spells, and NPCs all of which can be dropped into your game.
Secrets of the Vault: Mage Forge Vol.1
Who knows what treasures and secrets lie within the vault? Mage forge volume 1 is a collection of magical items, trinkets, alternate materials for crafting, and a new magic item type, Charms.
Order of the Wizened for 5th Edition
A Product for 5th Edition of the World's Greatest Role-Playing Game.
From a secret stronghold carefully concealed high in the mountains, the Order of the Wizened guard vast repositories of ancient knowledge.
Cursed by Baphomet for stubborn refusal of its gifts the oreamnos, or goat folk, now act as guardians against the Horned King's return to the world.
These sentinels of civilization are ever watchful for agents of the Labyrinth, devotees of the demon lord ever plotting to reach the secluded stronghold and seize the knowledge within.
Inside you'll find new magic items, monsters and NPC allies from the Order of the Wizened, an adventure that draws heroes into a deadly maze, a new playable race and background, and details on the demonic cult of the Labyrinth.
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What do you get when you combine the master animation of Walt Disney Studio and the thrilling stories and characters from Marvel?: "Big Hero 6."
The story centers around Hiro Himada (Ryan Potters), a 14-year-old super genius who graduated high school at 13. He lives with his brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney) and Aunt Cass (Maya Rudolph) in San Fransokyo while enjoying his favorite hobby of betting on bot fights.
San Fransokyo was designed by the animators to be combination of the style and cultures of the major cities San Francisco and Tokyo. In my opinion, it was beautifully done. You can see the classic trollies of San Francisco as well as the use of the Japanese language on signs. The buildings in the city combine both cultures in the architecture. The city was meant to combine eastern and western culture and I believe it does exactly that.
Hiro has no interest in doing anything else with his intellect until he meets an inspiring robotics professor Robert Callaghan (James Cromwell) and Tadashi's college friends: Honey Lemon (Genesis Rodriguez), Go Go Tomago (Jamie Chung), Fred (T.J. Miller), and Wasabi (Damon Wayans Jr.). He is also introduced to Tadashi's project, Baymax (Scott Adsit), a healthcare companion robot.
What immediately grabbed my attention was the diversity amongst the characters. The main characters include asian, hispanic, and african american characters as well as giving female characters a chance to be in the spotlight as heroines.
After his meetings, Hiro wants to get into The San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, the college Tadashi and his friends attend, but must first impress Callaghan with a new invention. He creates a microbot with numerous possibilities that immediately impresses Callaghan as well as a business executive named Alistar Krei (Alan Tudyk). Hiro is convinced to not sell his invention by Callaghan and is granted acceptance into the school.
Here, it becomes obvious the plot is beginning to thicken. There is clear tension between Krei and Callaghan, who seems to have some sort of grudge against Krei.
Hiro and his brother talk after the convention when suddenly a fire starts at the convention hall. Tadashi, learning Callaghan is still inside, goes inside to save him. Before Hiro can stop him, the building explodes, killing Callaghan and his brother in the process.
Tadashi's death was a big surprise to me and it also hurt to see such a good character go. It was also heartbreaking to watch Hiro and the other characters mourn over his death – especially the scene right after the explosion where all the other sounds were muted other than Hiro calling out his brother's name.
Hiro spends a few weeks in a state of depression until one day he accidentally drops something on his foot. His cry of pain triggers Baymax to come to heal him. Hiro is unwilling to interact with Baymax until he discovers one of the only surviving microbots is trying to escape to connect with the others he created – ones that should have been destroyed in the fire.
I like the way the filmmakers slowly brought Hiro out of his shell. Weeks after Tadashi's death, Hiro isn't ready to join his new friends in college and it doesn't look like he's done much more than sit around – which is believable for someone who had just lost the last of his immediate family. It's only through a lot of care from Baymax that Hiro is slowly able to return to his old life.
He and Baymax follow the microbot until they reach a warehouse where they find Hiro's microbots and more being produced. Before they can search for clues, a large man in a black cloak and kabuki mask tries to kill them. When out of harm's way, Hiro comes to the conclusion that the man who attacked him set the fire that killed Tadashi. He is determined to catch the man and teaches Baymax karate and gives him armor.
Hiro's first encounter with the man in the mask, also known as Yokai, almost has him killed. Luckily, his college friends are able to get him away before he gets hurt. He encourages them to join him to catch the man who killed Tadashi by forming a super hero team together.
While it may be a bit cliche, I believe this is an important turning point for Hiro. Even if it is for something like revenge, he is finally able to focus on something other than his brother's death is able to get help from his friends.
Without spoiling the main plot twist of the story, Hiro learns to move to the future and depend on others when he needs them. This movie is fantastic for any age and I wholly recommend it for anyone who is ready to be on the edge of their seat.
Big Hero 6 was first released in the United States last year on November 7th. The movie was released on dvd on February 24th.
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Born Amanda Ava Koci, she is a pop singer who broke through with her third single "Sweet But Psycho." The song topped the Sweden Sverigetopplistan chart. She was also featured in David Guetta 's 2018 album titled 7.
In 2017, she was featured on the Le Youth song "Clap Your Hands." Her debut single, "My Way," was released in April of 2018.
She danced alongside The Williams Family for her "Sweet But Psycho" video.
She was born in Wisconsin.
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If you didn't know the name "Justin Thomas" prior to this season, you certainly do now. What an incredible year it was for him in the world of golf!
Despite these incredible accomplishments, I think it is important to look at Justin's season in its entirety. In doing so, we will begin to notice some common themes in the professionals games and our own.
1.) Justin played in 25 PGA Tour events in 2017. He missed the cut in 6 of them (25% off the time). 25% of the rounds he played in, Justin Thomas (#3 ranked player in the world) was beaten by half of the players in the field.
2.) The difference between his best score and his worst was 21 shots! Seeing as he shot a 59, that number is a little higher than most. But nearly every PGA Tour player will have a differential in the 12-13 range between their lowest score and their worst. Most golfers will only shoot their best scores a few times during a season.
3.) Justin's scoring average for the season was 69.39. His mean score for the season was 69.5. (There are as many rounds above 69.5 as there were below it for the season.) On any given day, Justin had a 50% chance of shooting around below 69.5 and 50% chance of shooting above it.
As great of a season as it was for Justin Thomas, he (and all professionals) is not as consistent as we often are lead to believe. In part 2, we will look at how this same "inconsistency" is seen in our own games and how better understanding this can help you improve your scores.


To be able to provide these new statistics, Google needs to follow your footprints through the Google Network. So Google will embed a cookie that monitors how many times you've seen an ad and whether you clicked on it. If this doesn't sound like a good idea to you, there's the possibility to opt out.
How about the not-so savvy users?
As a savvy user, you'll be aware of this. But the majority of people browsing around the Google network still think there only is an analog version of cookies (the ones you'll find in a jar). So how will they be able to know Google is tracking most of their online activity?


What in hell are these people smiling about tonight? Are we to believe they feel a sense of accomplishment from savaging local governments once again, stiffing the schools once again, willingly forcing IOU's upon small businesses in the midst of a recession, and harming the most vulnerable with program cuts just to protect the wealthiest Californians from tax hikes?
Yes, Governor Schwarzenegger and the GOP had an empirically-sound argument against tax hikes in the midst of a recession, but scoring those points came at the expense of local governments, schoolchildren, small businesses, and the disabled. Yes, the Democrats in both houses of the Legislature fought a successful rear guard action to stave off worse cuts, but it came after waiving a white flag of surrender early on because of a lack of ideas, vision, or a killer instinct in combat with a neanderthalic foe.
California has too many people, too many cars, not enough water or jobs, underperforming school systems, a bad revenue base and poor business climate, all locked in place by a right wing special interest machine bent on ensuring that nothing changes for corporations and the wealthy through the financing of a far-right red district minority in each house of the Legislature.
One thing abundant in the Capitol however is hot air. Sacramento floats on a haze of right wing talking points that are never fully attacked and debunked by a state Democratic apparatus that is inept and bereft of a winning message. So we are left with debacles like what happened today.
Much like Bush's tenure represents a lost decade for America, Schwarzenegger's time in office represents a lost decade for California. It all started with a Democratic governor and legislature spending one-time windfalls like drunken sailors, only to watch the Bush White House sink the state economy twice: the first time through Ken Lay and Enron, the second time through the sinking of the US economy.
Governors of both parties have let this state fall apart for decades since the days of Ronald Reagan, and with term limits these governors are now enabled by the worst legislature money can buy. It's hard to blame Schwarzenegger for all of this, when the fault really lies with us, the state's all-too-easily duped (non)voters. We tossed out Gray Davis and replaced him with this guy, who will leave the state far worse off than when he came in.
Where can I send my "thank-you" card to the state's GOP and their special interest masters who gave us all of this bounty?
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