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North Carolina Hardee's and Tar Heels Celebrate Football Wins on 'Tar Heel Tender Tuesdays'
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SOURCE: Hardee's
CHAPEL HILL, NC–(Marketwire – September 2, 2010) – North Carolina Hardee's® restaurants want to celebrate every victory with University of North Carolina Tar Heels' fans during the 2010 football season by offering something special on Tuesdays. Every Tuesday this season following a Tar Heel football win, Hardee's restaurants across North Carolina will offer a 3-piece Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders™ combo meal for a significantly reduced price of $3.99.
All 230 Hardee's restaurants statewide will participate in "Tar Heel Tender Tuesdays" and the promotion will run during the entire 2010 Tar Heel football season. The Tar Heels kick off their season Saturday, Sept. 4, against the LSU Tigers in Atlanta.
"Hardee's, like the Tar Heels, is another Carolina-born winner, and we're looking forward to celebrating every win this season with the 'Carolina Nation' on 'Tar Heel Tender Tuesdays,'" said Jerry Allsbrook, chief marketing officer for Boddie-Noell Enterprises, the largest Hardee's franchisee both in North Carolina and the U.S. Like Hardee's, Boddie-Noell was founded in North Carolina and has a long-time relationship of support with the University.
Hardee's new Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders are fresh, all-white-meat chicken tenders, hand-dipped in eggs and buttermilk and lightly breaded. Introduced to the Hardee's menu in June, the tenders are already a big hit throughout the country. The 3-piece Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders combo meal includes Natural-Cut French Fries and a beverage. Chicken tenders were introduced to Hardee's management by Boddie-Noell who first developed the menu item in the company's North Carolina test kitchens.
About Boddie-Noell Enterprises
Boddie-Noell Enterprises (BNE) is a diversified family-owned business engaged primarily in restaurants and land development. Founded more than 45 years ago, BNE is the largest Hardee's franchise operator in the United States with 337 restaurants across four states. For more information about the company, visit www.bneinc.com.
About Hardee's
Celebrating 50 years in the quick-service industry, Hardee's Food Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the end of the end of its first quarter fiscal 2011, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,134 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 16 countries, including 1,233 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,901 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com. Hardee's social media sites include www.facebook.com/hardees, www.twitter.com/hardees and www.youtube.com/hardees.
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Exchange of experiences between Latin America and European local and regional governments and public management to develop social rights and democratic political participation.
Together with its interdisciplinary Working Group on Industry, transform! in cooperation with Rosa Luxemburg Foundation will hold a European Workshop dedicated to the characteristics of a Left Industrial and Investment Policy contributing to the social, ecological and democratic transformation of Europe.
Presentation and discussion of the paper "Democratizing the Police in Europe", by Georgios Papanicolaou and Giorgos Rigakos, in cooperation with Nicos Poulantzas Institute and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
Watch the Live-Stream at transform-italia.net !
Organized by Nicos Poulantzas Institute in cooperation with transform! europe and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
Center for Marxist Social Studies (Sweden), Left Forum (Finland) and transform! europe present the book "The Politics of Ecosocialism" at the Historical Materialism Conference in London.
transform! europe will hold four workshops in the frame of the European Summer University for Social Movements (ESU), organized by the European Attac Network from 19 to 23 August at the University Paris-VII Diderot.
The goal of the workshop is to analyze the new relationship of political forces in Europe within the EU and its member countries, and to draw conclusions for the European Left Party in particular countries and regions, and also for the strengthening of the Europeanization of struggles.
!!! New live streaming address: http://bambuser.com/v/4624226 !!! After six years of crisis and four years of new EU economic governance measures and Troika policies, it is high time to assess their devastating results. Since the economic crisis broke out in Europe, the narrative behind the policies imposed by the EU institutions has been based on fiscal consolidation and competitiveness, which in practice has meant dismantling of public services and destruction of social and labour rights.
Which classes exist on the European periphery today? The answer to this question cannot be purely academic. This year's May Day School aims to identify the strongest and the weakest links of the concrete class alliances that reproduce the status quo at the expense of working people.
On 2 October 2013, the Commission published a paper setting out rough contours for deeper integration and for strengthening the EMU by creating a "social dimension". The idea has been discussed in the past. This time it is also about responding to the Euro crisis and rising forces of nationalism. As the Union is threatened by fragmentation, integration needs to be given a "human face".
The commemoration of the centenary of the First World War gives us the opportunity to embark upon a series of talks under the general title "Why does the world change? The Left in the 20th century: Strategic choices and historical conjunctures". The talks are organized by Nicos Poulantzas Institute and Archives of Contemporary Social History.
The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, with it's Brussels and Athens Offices, is organizing an international conference in co-operation with the Nicos Poulantzas Institute and transform!europe, taking place from 20 – 22 March in Athens.
This event will gather more than 30 international speakers (academics, media practitioners, librarians, experts of open culture and public space, activists and policy makers) from Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom, and will call for an open discussion on the challenges of freedom of information in the light of the recent surveillance revelations and the increase in censorship and prosecutions of media, journalists and whistle-blowers in Europe and beyond.


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Beverly Rowland receives promotion
By Christina L. Kern, office assistant
CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – Beverly Rowland, instructor in nursing at Campbellsville University, has been promoted to associate professor of nursing, according to an announcement from Dr. Michael V. Carter, president of Campbellsville University.
Beverly Rowland
Rowland of Glensfork, Ky. in Adair County, has served in her position at Campbellsville University since 2007. She also served as interim dean of the School of Nursing.
Rowland was awarded the Kathryn M. Mershon Nursing Faculty Scholarship at the Kentucky League for Nursing annual meeting in 2010. The scholarship was put toward her doctoral studies at Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis, Ind.
Rowland has served in many roles during 38 years as a registered nurse, including hospital nursing, community health nursing, management and leadership roles, peer review, quality management, and school health. Rowland became a registered nurse in 1973.
Rowland graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2007 with a master of science in nursing, with emphasis in nurse educator and family nurse practitioner. She is a lifetime member of the Western Kentucky University Alumni Association.
She also graduated from McKendree College with honors in 2005 with a bachelor of science in nursing. Rowland received her associate of science degree in nursing from Henderson Community College in 1973.
Rowland is a member of several professional associations including American Nurses Association, Kentucky Nurses Association, Professional Nursing Practice & Advocacy Cabinet in the Education Role, National League for Nursing, and Kentucky League for Nursing.
Rowland and her husband, David, have two grown sons, Bob and Kyle.
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The USC Jane Goodall Research Center is a part of the department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. It is co-directed by professors of anthropology Craig Stanford, Chris Boehm, Nayuta Yamashita, and Roberto Delgado.

The center was established in 1991 with the joint appointment of Jane Goodall as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Occupational Science.  The Center offers USC students the chance to study in Gombe.

See also
USC Center for Visual Anthropology

References

External links
Official website
Jane Goodall Spreads Message of Hope
Gombe Chimps Archived on Video and CD-ROM (1996)

Biological anthropology
Anthropological research institutes
Centers of the University of Southern California
Jane Goodall
1991 establishments in California
Research institutes established in 1991

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Many individuals, local businesses and community groups around the region encourage F.O.L.E.S.' fundraising efforts, through financial support, assistance and donations of all types. They know that their help makes sure the students at L.E.S. enjoy a better school experience, with more educational activities and modern, up-to-date equipment.
Sponsors for 2016/2017 include numerous parents, family, and friends who support FOLES and its fundraising activities by purchasing products, making donations, providing goods to sell, volunteering their time, etc. We appreciate and thank each and every one for their generosity!
If you'd like to make a company donation or support our fundraising efforts on behalf of your business, please get in touch. We issue income tax returns on request, and we'll formally recognize your generosity by publishing your company name in our newsletter and on our website.


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Our cocoa kit comes with the adorable cocoa mug and a special house-made cocoa mix along with two sets of our very delicious, marshmallows to put on top — mini vanilla marshmallows, plus medium-sized peppermint marshmallows.
We brought back the popular Cocoa Kit for this season! The cocoa mug is adorably embellished with our festive cupcake dude on one side and a few words on the other that sums up the season... "But first, cocoa". Even better than all this? What's inside the mug!
Our hot-cocoa mix has 3 simple ingredients -- ground cocoa, sugar, and vanilla. Super easy to make, not too sweet with a hint of warm vanilla. Made with a single-origin Peruvian chocolate, the cocoa carries delicate floral and fruit notes to a velvety earthy finish.
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Packed with enough hot cocoa supplies for 8-10 servings, there is enough to share, or not! Just add the warm milk of your choice... cow, almond, soy, rice, coconut ... they all pair perfectly with our cocoa mix! Our favorites were organic whole milk from our local dairy, full fat coconut, or fresh cashew milk.
THE BEST MARSHMALLOWS: Each cocoa kit comes with the best marshmallows you've ever tasted. Light & squishy, we'll include a pack of mini vanilla marshmallows, and a pack of medium-sized peppermint mallows.
NEW OPTIONS: This gift was so well loved last year, we are adding a few choices. Now you can choose a vegan or conventional cocoa kit! The vegan kit features are wildly popular vegan marshmallows, while our conventional cocoa kit features our gelatin-based mallows. Both are out-of-this-world.


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Q: Can I limit how much graphics memory Ubuntu uses? (Cuda/OpenCL related) I have a test suite that uses openCL and I notice that I pass more if I close down everything and just run the tests. I fail more if I have lots of programs open on my desktop. Is it possible to cap how much vram my displays are sucking up?

A: Stop using a compositing window manager. They use the GPU for their special effects, which means that in addition to the framebuffer in VRAM, every window is backed by a texture in VRAM and shaders are used to render the desktop. If you use a simpler window manager with no fancy or 3d effects there should be less contention for your GPU resources.
(Some compositing window managers can be run with compositing features disabled, so try that before you go shopping for an entirely new window manager.)

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The New Orleans Office of Criminal Justice Coordination announced on Wednesday that the city has been awarded an additional $2 million from the MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge.
According to Criminal Justice Commissioner Tenisha Stevens, there has been a 25 percent drop in the New Orleans jail population since 2015. The funding received from the award will be used to continue to build on those previous successes.
"We look forward to continuing our work with the community, local leaders, and the MacArthur Foundation to create a fairer and more effective local justice system for all," Stevens said.


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Tea room, restaurant and delicatessen all rolled into one, Les Enfants Gat'thés occupies a magnificent building from the 16th and 19th centuries that simply oozes history. This throwback to the schoolrooms of yesteryear offers a warm atmosphere, with its schist stones, limestone walls, beams and comfortable furniture. Everything has been designed for your utmost enjoyment.
In a warm and convivial ambiance that calls to mind a 1950s schoolroom, take a seat under the one hundred year old beams and enjoy a relaxing meal or drink. With different teapots for different teas, egg timers to guarantee the perfect infusion, and white and brown cane sugar, our friendly service is rounded off with carefully considered finishing touches.
Our tea room menu features 80 teas, 22 organic tisanes, 6 organic coffees, and a range of hot chocolates. Or try one of Caroline's delicacies, like Macha green tea friands, clafoutis with fruits of the season, cannelés, macaroons, rhubarb tart, tarte Alsace and tarte Tatin. Breton biscuits made by Vénètes are also available.
Cold drinks: A selection of cold drinks and ice creams completes the menu, including organic and artisanal lemonade, organic fruit juices and cordials, Terre de Glaces artisanal ice cream, and Organic Spirit natural cocktails.
Choose from 80 quality teas, half of which are organic, 22 organic tisanes, 6 organic coffees, organic Rooibush tea and Monbana chocolate.
Quality delicatessen products for sale include Canasuc sugars, A l'Olivier oils, "Oh!" bottled preserves of forgotten vegetables, Breton biscuits made by Vénètes, Coteaux Nantais organic vegetable and fruit juices, specialities from La Nougaterie des Fumades, Lancelot craft beers, a selection of wines (mostly organic) and fine china, not forgetting a range of Olivier Langlois and Esprit Zen cast iron, terracotta and glass teapots.
Tea aficionados Caroline and Françoise are on hand to welcome you and help you find what you are looking for.
A wide selection of gift boxes and baskets is available. Alternatively, why not have one filled with the products of your choice?
Caroline's inventive cuisine embraces fresh, seasonal produce. Her ever-evolving recipes blend tradition with new flavours and incorporate local produce. Her exotically flavoured dishes often feature long-forgotten vegetables and even seaweed.
Marinated tomato verrine, pesto, ricotta breadsticks and organic Spanish ham.
Homemade brioche perdue: Two homemade jams. These jams and jellies can be made from elderflower, berries from our own hedges, cider, elderflower, apricot and lavender or roseflower.
Two menus are available, one at €14.50 and one at €22. It is also possible to order dishes à la carte.
During the week, you can choose from either a starter and a main dish or a main dish and a dessert for just €11.50.
On the menu: recipe listings, the wine list and the selection of teas and other delicacies.
The wine list features 80 wines from organic and biodynamic wine growers, and organic viticultures.


For some drivers, being caught driving while intoxicated is enough to scare them straight. For others, it seems as though no amount of punishment, fines, rehabilitation programs, or jail time can keep them from drinking and driving. These habitual offenders – those who rack up one DUI after another – are a great concern to authorities, who are always looking for ways to keep known drunk drivers off the road.
A new technology being shown this week at the Nashville, TN Lifesavers conference could do just that. The device, called "SCRAM" (which stands for Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor) is a temperature sensitive bracelet that takes periodic readings of the alcohol in a person's system. The maker of the product, Alcohol Monitoring Systems, is touting their device as a way for cities with overburdened court systems and overcrowded jails to keep an eye on DUI offenders while they wait for their court date.
According to the makers of SCRAM, the majority of device users are drunk drivers. It costs about $84 per week for the device, the cost of which is usually passed on to the offender. Another surprising use of the technology is parents who want to keep their teenagers alcohol-free during big events like prom.
The device worn on the ankle, and takes samples of 'insensible perspiration' (this is perspiration that evaporates before it is felt as moisture) on the skin every 30 minutes. The data is stored on the device, which sends the information to a SCRAM modem at pre-determined times (at least once a day). Data is sent from the bracelet to the modem – which is installed in a telephone LAN line at the user's home or office – using a wireless radio-frequency (RF) signal, and all data is date and time stamped for easy reporting and analysis. To prevent the wearer from tampering with the device, it comes with five types of anti-tamper sensors.
Data stored on the user's modem is transmitted by telephone lines to a master computer, running an application called "SCRAMNET". SCRAMNET is a web-based application managed by AMS, the company that produces the bracelets, and it allows data uploaded from user bracelets to be viewed and analyzed around-the-clock using a web browser. This means that law enforcement officials – or concerned parents – can view up-to-date information about events like drinking, tamper activities, and equipment malfunction.
Devices like this are another tool that can be used by law enforcement officials to keep habitual offenders from committing additional alcohol-related crimes – and if it keeps drunk drivers off the road, it could potentially save lives.
If you or someone you love was the accident victim of a drunk driver, please contact the Northern Virginia law firm Dulaney, Lauer & Thomas today.


About the Community Henderson Area Chamber of Commerce, member of the world-wide ChamberPlanet.com business network. Free for Chambers of Commerce across the Planet.
Henderson presents a picture of a stable but growing town, with a population in excess of 13,000. The county population is currently estimated at 45,000. The economy is based on oil, gas and lignite, agriculture and forestry, light industry and correctional institutions. Rusk County Ranks among the top five in the State in the production of oil, with 1,730,171,100 barrels of oil produced from 1930 through 1986. Lignite coal from deposits in Rusk and Panola Counties is now being used to fire an electric generating plant located in Rusk County. Other uses for the lignite are developing, and all of this is creating tremendous economic growth for the area. The County's agriculture income in 1990 was approximately $28 million. The sandy-loam upland pastures yield high-protein hay for the many fine cattle and horses raised here. Timber is a productive crop and in row-cropping, the watermelon has been a leader. Total retail sales in Rusk County for 1995 were $188,514,000.
Recreational facilities include Lake Forest Park, consisting of a 20 acre lake and 35 acre park area, Yates Park with 15 acres. The Parks are equipped with a splash pads, softball fields, tennis courts,disc golf and picnic facilities. The Henderson Country Club's recreational facilities include a clubhouse, one of the finest golf courses in East Texas . There is also one public golf course. The Public Schools offer a good school athletic program. The Rusk County Sports & Recreation Association has an active program, and in the summer there is Pony League, Little League and Girl's Softball. The newest lake in the county is in the Martin Lake State Park. Other lakes in the immediate area include Cherokee, Striker, and Murval. Henderson also boasts of a sports and recreation complex, which has played host to the Dixie League State Tournament, the Rusk County Youth Exposition Center and the multi-purpose Henderson Community Center.


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Q: what is causing Unhandled exception at memory : Stack overflow I'm new to C++ and I'm implementing the Canny edge detector algorithm by myself. for that, I've declared some 2D arrays. it gives me the error " Unhandled exception at 0x000A1809 in ConsoleApplication3.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow (parameters: 0x00000000, 0x00E92000)"
I minimized the number of elements of my arrays, and it worked. but when I need arrays with more elements
//2.Gradian Calculation: a.Calculating Gx and Gy   b.Calculation sqrt(Gx^2 + Gy^2)   c.Calculating the gradiant orientation
int Fx[3][3] = { {-1,0,1},{-2,0,2},{-1,0,1} };
int Fy[3][3] = { {1,2,1},{0,0,0},{-1,-2,-1} };
int image[100][100] = { 50 };
int gradian_x[100][100] = { 0 };
int gradian_y[100][100] = { 0 };
double edgeStrength[100][100] = { 0 };

//Calculating Gx
for (int i = 1; i < 99; i++)
{
    for (int j = 1; j < 99; j++)
    {
        gradian_x[j][i] = image[j - 1][i - 1] * Fx[0][0] + image[j][i - 1] * Fx[1][0] + image[j + 1][i - 1] * Fx[2][0] + image[j + 1][i + 1] * Fx[2][2] + image[j][i + 1] * Fx[1][2] + image[j - 1][i + 1] * Fx[0][2];

    }
}

A: Stack space is limited. Provided that int is 4 bytes on your platform and double is 8 bytes, you ask for 195 kiB memory, which may or may not be available in stack (that's ignoring any other necessary things from stack like function calls etc).
For storing larger sets of data, you should use dynamic memory allocation with std::vector (it uses heap memory instead of stack memory, which is much larger than stack):
const int initialValue = 50;
std::vector<std::vector<int>> image (100, std::vector<int>(100, initial_value);

Note that int image[100][100] = { 50 }; will initialize only image[0][0] to 50 and the rest of the e lements to 0. It is fixed in above example (all elements are initialized with 50 there), but if you want to retain that behaviour, you should make initial_value to be equal to 0 and change image[0][0] directly.

For increased performance, you should preferable use a specialized library like Eigen. If you don't want external resources, you may want to use std::vector<std::array<int, 100>> instead, which will allocate memory in single block (better for processor cache):
std::array<int, 100> initialArray;
std::fill(initialArray.begin(), initialArray.end(), 50);
std::vector<std::array<int, 100>> image (100, initialArray);


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import com.google.gwt.resources.client.ImageResource;

public interface HasImage {

    /**
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    void setUrl(String url);

    /**
     * Gets the image url.
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    String getUrl();

    /**
     * Sets the resource image.
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    void setResource(ImageResource resource);

    /**
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    ImageResource getResource();

    /**
     * The required alt attribute specifies an alternate text for an image, if the image cannot be displayed.
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    void setAlt(String alt);

    String getAlt();
}

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The Coalition for Learning + Health is dedicated to creating the conditions for health in our nation's schools by increasing collaboration between the health and education sectors.
The research is clear: healthier students are better learners. They miss fewer days of school, are better able to focus in class and are more ready to learn. Not only that, but long-term studies reveal they also grow into healthier and more productive adults. Right now is a key moment for health and education stakeholders to come together to build an effective national movement to ensure children can learn and thrive.
The Coalition for Learning + Health builds upon the work of the National Collaborative for Education and Health that Healthy Schools Campaign and Trust for America's Health co-convened over the last four years (find out more about the history of this work in the Background tab). HSC is proud of the foundation this work has given us, and now want to build on this work by launching a new coalition that will actively engage in joint advocacy to connect learning and health.
Connecting learning and health means building the systemic supports that ensure schools have tools to build a culture of health for students, including school-based physical and mental health services, physical and health education, clean air and water, healthy food and opportunities for physical activity and play. It means building new connections and data-sharing arrangements between education and health systems, so children with chronic and acute health problems get the services and attention they need. It means promoting a broad definition of health that includes school climate and mental and emotional health. It means providing principals and teachers with the knowledge and skills to build a healthy school environment. It means paying attention to the racial and socio-economic disparities in access to high-quality health and education that impact our most vulnerable students and widen the achievement gap.
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a major overhaul of federal education legislation, was signed into law in 2015. ESSA gives states and school districts significantly more authority and flexibility to create standards for accountability and regulate school performance, and specifically recognizes the need for schools to support the whole child. The law also provides opportunities and incentives for states to prioritize student health and wellness and to address health disparities in order to provide a well-rounded and equitable education program. Currently, 36 states include chronic absenteeism in their accountability systems for schools, which means they have a powerful incentive to address its health-related causes. Learning + Health will work with states and school districts as they build health and wellness into their implementation of ESSA.
As the health sector increasingly prioritizes prevention, population health, care coordination and chronic disease management, health providers are realizing that school health services are a way for them to engage with otherwise hard-to-reach populations. School health services can also help them meet many of the new metrics they are being held accountable for under the Affordable Care Act. At the same time, changes to Medicaid policy have created the opportunity for many school districts to access a major funding stream that had previously been blocked. Learning + Health will identify and advance opportunities to increase access to school health services through cross-sector cooperation.
Healthy Schools Campaign and Trust for America's Health launched the the National Collaborative on Education and Health in March 2014. The Collaborative brought together advocates, policymakers, school stakeholders and funders to work toward more fully integrating education and health. This vision including both building schools' capacity to address health and wellness needs and building the health sector's capacity to engage the community, including schools, in truly promoting health.
The work of the National Collaborative grew out of Health in Mind, an initiative created by Healthy Schools Campaign and Trust for America's Health to highlight the need for increased collaboration between the education and health sectors. In 2012, HSC and TFAH released the report Health in Mind: Improving Education through Wellness and presented a set of key policy recommendations to then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and then-Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius at a public event attended by advocates from both the health and education sectors, including the presidents of our nation's largest education unions. More than 150 attendees from 80-plus organizations gathered for the presentation of these recommendations. More than 80 organizations signed on in support of the Health in Mind vision.
At the inaugural steering committee meeting of the National Collaborative in 2014, the group identified five key issues and charged working groups to develop reports outlining the challenges and opportunities in those areas. Their reports are below.
Given the education sector's increased emphasis on data-based decision making and transparency and given the importance of health to all students' ability to learn, there is an important opportunity for integrating health and wellness metrics into public reporting systems used by the education sector. Incorporating metrics for health and wellness into public reporting systems can provide educators, policymakers and the public with a more complete understanding of how student health and wellness are shaping learning and provide a complete framework for improving academic achievement.
Read the Metrics Working Group Report.
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Sure this is a departure from protocol. That's what i told them. There are professionals out there for this sort of thing, folks that can actually make us sound like decent human beings. However, i somehow hired myself for the job: to pen our inaugural band bio. I'm the Robbie Seay portion of the Robbie Seay band, pretty tricky i know. Countless hours of soul searching for a good old fashioned band name produced nothing. My God given name + band is where we landed. We should have done better.
Yet here we are. After many years of making music, traveling in toyota corollas and buses, playing for thousands and groups of 12, and making albums (some pretty good and some pretty bad), it's good to be alive. It's good to be making music. It's good to have you join us in this dialogue of life, love, grace and the things that give us breath and a new day.
Houston is home for us. The 4 of us came here on different trains though. Dan from California, Taylor from Dallas, and Ryan and I showed up on this earth via Houston rooting for the Astros immediately. I love these guys because they have a voice with something honest to say. They have talent and yet have perspective on what it is we do. Its just music. Sure, some of the things that come out of the music are of great significance. People find hope. Some find some solace. Others stumble upon a journey of faith they had no idea they were on. Those things are amazing and yet have very little to do with us as a band. So at the end of the day, its just music and we love it - so we do it.
RSB songs have origin. They have a birthplace of sorts. For us, our community in Houston creates intersections at every corner of who we are. Our church is called Ecclesia, which is greek and weird to say so pronounce it at your discretion. Our music fights its way to the surface here through struggle, shared meals, conversation, communion, family and by way of pastors and friends. That's where I want us to go together as we engage one another in music and discussion. Life is not meant to be lived alone, and so we'll all be messed up and grateful here, changed and alive together.
We get a lot of feedback about the RSB sound. What exactly that is,i have no idea. I do know that whatever that turns out to be, we arrived there as a band by complete accident. The four of us have have our own journeys of musical influence. Travis, the Police, Stevie Wonder, Bill Mallonee and all the great Texas musicians that we grew up on. Yet somehow we found ourselves on a rock and roll landscape with Britain on one end, Texas on the other, and many stops in between.


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Q: How to show current week dates from Sunday to Saturday how to show current week dates start from sunday to saterday?im creating app which display current week dates when click on nextweek or previous week show next  or previous datesmy code display same dates on all 7 buttons
    public class MainActivity extends Activity {

public static int mYear;

public static int mMonth;
public static int mDay;

Button last_week;
Button next_week;
Button e00;
Button e01;
Button e02;
Button e03;
Button e04;
Button e05;
Button e06;

String completedate;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    e00 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.e00);
    e01 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.e01);
    e02 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.e02);
    e03 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.e03);
    e04 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.e04);
    e05 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.e05);
    e06 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.e06);

//  e01 = Mon;
//  e02 = Tues;
//  e03 = Wed;
//  e04 = thur;
//  e05 = Fri;

    last_week = (Button) findViewById(R.id.last_week);
    next_week = (Button) findViewById(R.id.next_week);

    Calendar mCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    mYear = mCalendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    mMonth = mCalendar.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;
    mDay = mCalendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);

    completedate = mYear + "/" + String.format("%02d", mMonth)
            + "/" + String.format("%02d", mDay);

    last_week.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {

            e00.setText("");
            e01.setText("");
            e02.setText("");
            e03.setText("");
            e04.setText("");
            e05.setText("");
            e06.setText("");

            }

    });
    next_week.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {

            e00.setText("");
            e01.setText("");
            e02.setText("");
            e03.setText("");
            e04.setText("");
            e05.setText("");
            e06.setText("");
            }

    });

   // i want to show like this

   //       e01.setText(" 9/9/2013");
  //        e02.setText("10/9/2013");
  //        e03.setText("11/9/2013");
   //       e04.setText("12/9/2013");
   //       e05.setText("13/9/2013");

    DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(completedate);
    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    calendar.setFirstDayOfWeek(Calendar.SUNDAY);
    calendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, Calendar.SUNDAY);

    String[] days = new String[7];
    for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++)
    {
        days[i] = format.format(calendar.getTime());

        e00.setText(days[0]);
        e01.setText(days[1]);
        e02.setText(days[2]);
        e03.setText(days[3]);
        e04.setText(days[4]);
        e05.setText(days[5]);
        e06.setText(days[6]);

    }

}

A: calendar.getTime() returns the current time. I think instead you will want to use:
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.add(Calendar.DATE, -1);

In this case -1 gives you one day before and +1 will give you one day in the future. So with this knowledge, you can keep track of the difference in time from today to the week you are displaying.
Does this make sense?
EDIT:
//positive numbers indicate future, negative past
int numberOfWeeksSinceTodaysDate = 0;
int dayOfTheWeek = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK)

last_week.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

        //Go back seven days
        numberOfWeeksSinceTodaysDate -= 7;
        cal.add(Calendar.DATE, numberOfWeeksSinceTodaysDate)
        e00.setText(cal.getTime());

        //Go back eight days
        numberOfWeeksSinceTodaysDate--;
        cal.add(Calendar.DATE, numberOfWeeksSinceTodaysDate)
        e01.setText(cal.getTime());
        }

});


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Joe Biden sees fundraising improvement after rough summer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden took in more than $15 million for his White House run over the past two months, a sum that shows the former vice president's fundraising operation has rebounded slightly after a lackluster summer in which he trailed his leading rivals. Biden's campaign would not say...
FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg speaks to the media in Phoenix. Democrats are narrowing Donald Trump's early spending advantage, with two billionaire White House hopefuls joining established party groups to target the president in key battleground states that are likely to determine the outcome of next year's election.(AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, File)
Trump campaign to stop giving credentials to Bloomberg News
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's campaign said Monday it will no longer give credentials to Bloomberg News reporters to cover campaign events because of coverage "biases," an accusation that the news organization rejects. The decision comes a week after the news service's founder,...
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Cute, skinny and scantily clad, flappers gave the rough-and-tumble funnies a much-needed sexual charge.
By Christopher Miller Dec. 13, 2009
By the 1920s, the slapstick violence that makes early comics so funny and scary had given way to strips about pretty girls. Everyone wanted to draw them. Even unlikely strips like Barney Google found pretexts for including hotties and cuties, most often in the form of flappers, as the mass media of the age—already showing a penchant for instant labelling of new subcultures—called the saucy, fun-loving young women whose unconventional approach to dress and sex first came to media attention during World War I. Blondie started out as a flapper (Dagwood was just one of her many beaux), and so did Nancy's Aunt Fritzi. Together with their mousier, less hedonistic sisters in the working-girl strips (Winnie Winkle, Tillie the Toiler, Somebody's Stenog, etc.), flappers took over the funnies for more than a decade. Not themselves especially funny, they became a staple of humour because everybody liked ...
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Abuse: to insult, hurt, injure, rape, and/or molest another person. Such behaviors may include but are not limited to: physical abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse, spiritual abuse, and/or verbal abuse.
Abuser: a person who uses abusive tactics and behaviors to exert power and control over another person with whom the abuser is in an intimate, dating, or family relationship.
Advocate: a trained professional or volunteer working for a non-profit or government-based domestic violence or victim-witness advocate program.
Attorney: a person legally appointed or hired by a respondent or petitioner to represent her/him in legal matters.
Batterer: a person who uses coercive and abusive tactics and behaviors to establish and maintain power and control over another person with whom the batterer is in an intimate, dating, or family relationship. Such behaviors may include but are not limited to: physical abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse, spiritual abuse, and/or verbal abuse.
Burnout: a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by long-term involvement in emotionally demanding situations.
Case Management: the coordination of services on behalf of an individual by an advocate.
Civil Contempt: judge finds the respondent violated a provision of the TPO/CPO that is civil in nature. Examples include, but are not limited to failure to pay rent to the petitioner and/or failure to attend or complete counseling.
Civil Protection Order (CPO): a court order that usually requires a respondent to stay away from and have no contact with the petitioner and directs the respondent not to commit any criminal offense against the petitioner. The order can also specify terms of custody, require the respondent to vacate the household, and/or order the respondent to relinquish firearms or other property. CPOs are in effect for a period of one year and can be extended or modified by a judge.
Coercion: when one person forces or attempts to force another to think or act in a different way. Examples include, but are not limited to: threatening to report the victim to Child and Family Services or police, forcing a victim to drop charges against the batterer, and/or forcing a victim to participate in or commit illegal activities.
Common Partner: a prior intimate/dating partner of your current intimate/dating partner, or current intimate/dating partner of your former intimate/dating partner (for example the old boyfriend or girlfriend of your current boyfriend or girlfriend).
Compassion Fatigue: a state of exhaustion, where one feels depleted, helpless, and hopeless about work, life, and the state of the world.
Contempt: violation of one or more terms of a protection order (TPO/CPO) by the respondent.
Contempt Hearing: hearing to decide petitioner's motion for civil or criminal contempt. Both sides have the opportunity to present evidence as to whether or not the respondent violated the TPO/CPO.
Continuance: a judge can reschedule the case to a later hearing date; if there is a TPO it can usually be extended until that date. Even if a case is continued, the petitioner must appear at every court date so that the case is not dismissed.
Control: Any form of restriction or limitation used to keep activities within certain boundaries. Limitation of ingress or egress, expression, and withholding of various types of opportunities.
Crime Victims Compensation Program (CVC): a government fund established to assist qualifying victims of violent crime and their families with crime-related expenses, including, but not limited to: costs related to counseling, funeral and burial, medical and mental health, emergency/temporary shelter and other costs as permitted by statute.
Criminal Contempt: judge finds the respondent violated a provision of the TPO/CPO that is criminal in nature. Examples include, but are not limited to: failing to stay away from the petitioner or another protected party named in the TPO/CPO, contacting the petitioner or another protected party, committing assault, sexual assault, malicious destruction of property, or harassment.
Cross-Petitions: separate petitions filed by a petitioner and respondent against one another.
Dating Violence: domestic violence that occurs between people who are dating. This is the preferred term to use when describing teenage relationships that are abusive.
Domestic Violence: a pattern of coercive behaviors used by a batterer to gain or maintain power and control over another person with whom the batterer is in an intimate, dating, or family relationship. These behaviors may include, but are not limited to: physical and sexual abuse, direct or implied threats, emotional and psychological abuse, intimidation, verbal abuse, isolation, stalking, financial control, spiritual abuse, threatened or actual use of
weapons, destruction of property, and/or harm to the victim's family, pets, or others.
Dual Arrest: when a police officer arrests both parties in a domestic violence situation because the officer is unable to determine the predominant aggressor or believes both parties have committed an Intrafamily offense.
Economic/Financial Abuse: when a batterer uses finances to establish and maintain power and control over a victim. Examples include, but are not limited to: controlling a partner's finances, taking the victim's money without permission, giving the victim an allowance, prohibiting/limiting a victim's access to bank accounts or credit card, denying the victim the right to work and/or sabotaging a victim's credit.
Emergency Temporary Protection Order (ETPO): an emergency court order granted when the court is closed (nights, holidays, and weekends) and valid only until the next business day the court is open. ETPOs generally order a respondent to stay away from or have no contact with the petitioner and can also direct a person not to commit any criminal offenses against the petitioner. The only way a victim can get an ETPO is to call the police, who then can initiate the process.
Emergency/Temporary Shelter: immediate, confidential, and safe housing for victims of domestic
violence who are fleeing abuse; can be through a domestic violence program or at an undisclosed hotel.
Emotional/Psychological Abuse: when a batterer uses emotions, self-esteem, and/or a person's mental state to establish and maintain power and control over a victim. Examples include, but are not limited to: putting the victim down or making the victim feel bad about her/himself, calling the victim names, playing mind games, making the victim think s/he is crazy, making the victim feel guilty and/or humiliating the victim.
Empathy: when one person identifies with or experiences the feelings or thoughts of another.
Gaslighting: an elaborate and insidious technique of deception and psychological manipulation, usually practiced by a single deceiver, or "gaslighter," on a single victim over an extended period. Its effect is to gradually undermine the victim's confidence in his own ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or reality from appearance, thereby rendering him pathologically dependent on the gaslighter in his thinking or feelings.
Intimidation: when one person uses threats to cause another person fear and/or coerce her/him into doing something. Examples include, but are not limited to: making someone afraid by using looks, actions, gestures, and/or a loud voice, destroying property, abusing pets, and/or displaying weapons.
Isolation: when one person uses friends, family, and social networks to establish and maintain power and control over a victim. Examples include, but are not limited to: controlling where a victim goes, who s/he talks to, what s/he wears, and/or who s/he sees, limiting involvement in places of worship, PTA and other social networks.
Lethality Assessment: an analysis done by an advocate or law enforcement officer to determine the level of risk of homicide for a victim of domestic violence based on recent and changing behaviors of the batterer.
Motion: request for the court to take some specified action.
Narcissist: A person who is constantly in need of being the center of attention. They have little regard for the feelings and needs of others. They seldom, if ever, admit to mistakes. The use of bullying and threats to leverage control and feel they are in power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Perpetrator: a person carrying out domestic violence behaviors; see also "abuser" and "batterer".
Petition: an application asking the court to issue a protection order.
Petitioner: a person who has filed for a protection order (ETPO/TPO/CPO) seeking protection from a batterer.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): a psychological disorder that can occur in an individual after s/he has suffered a traumatic event (such as domestic violence) and is characterized by flashbacks, avoidance of things that may trigger a memory of the traumatic event, and a significantly heightened state of alert.
Power and Control Wheel: a tool many advocates use to illustrate abusive tactics and behaviors used by batterers against victims.
Predominant Aggressor: the person who poses the most serious ongoing threat in a domestic violence situation.
Pro Se: a person representing her/himself in court without an attorney.
Protection Order: the general term for an order issued by the Court mandating a batterer to not contact, harass or come within a certain distance of the petitioner and/or other persons named in the order.
Remedy: the means by which a court grants relief to a person who has been harmed by another person. Remedies can be civil, such as an order of protection, financial compensation or enforcement of other rights, or criminals, such as incarceration or an order to pay a penalty.
Respondent: a person against whom a protection order (ETPO/TPO/CPO) has been filed; the person from whom a petitioner is seeking protection. See also: "Batterer", "Abuser", "Perpetrator"
Safe Housing: emergency, transitional, or permanent shelter/housing that is confidentially located.
Safety Plan: a plan, verbal or written, a victim of domestic violence creates with an advocate. The plan consists of action steps a victim can take to keep her/his children safe when violence takes place or to stop violence from happening.
Secondary Trauma: a risk we incur when we engage compassionately or empathically with a traumatized adult or child.
Service of process: delivery of legal papers to a respondent notifying the respondent of legal action taken against her/him. Documents must be given either to the respondent personally or to someone living in the respondent's usual residence. Any person over age 18 can serve the documents as long as s/he is not a party to the case. The judge can also order the police to assist with service and a petitioner can ask the police to assist with service when s/he files for a protection order. Whoever serves the papers must complete and sign a Return of Service form indicating the time and place the respondent was served and file this form in the clerk's office.
Sexual Abuse: when a batterer uses sexual acts to establish and maintain power and control over a victim without her/his consent. Examples include, but are not limited to: making the victim do sexual things against her/his will, sexual assault, treating the victim like a sex object, forcing sex after the violence, and/or forcing the victim to watch pornography.
Sexual Assault: any unwanted sexual activity forced on one person by another.
Spiritual/Religious Abuse: when a batterer uses spirituality or religion to establish and maintain power and control over a victim. Examples include, but are not limited to: controlling the partner's ability to practice her/his own religion or attend services, forcing the partner to convert or practice another religion against her/his will and/or using the spiritual or religious environment, leader and/or congregation to influence a victim's behavior.
Stalking: when one person pursues, follows, or harasses another person against her/his wishes. Examples include, but are not limited to: repeated, unwanted phone calls, following a victim, sending unwanted gifts, destroying or vandalizing a victim's property, repeated threats, and/or tracking a victim's online activity.
Status Hearing: parties appear before a judge, who sets a timeline for how the case will proceed.
Survivor: a person who was or is being abused or harmed by another person.
Temporary Protection Order (TPO): a court order that usually requires a respondent to stay away from and has no contact with the petitioner and directs the respondent not to commit any criminal offenses against the petitioner; the order can also specify issues of custody, require the respondent to vacate the household; and/or relinquish firearms or other property. TPOs are in effect for a period of two weeks but a judge can extend them. To get a TPO you must show you fear an immediate danger from your batterer.
Threats: an expression that demonstrates the intention of one person to inflict pain or injury to another person. Examples include, but are not limited to: verbal threats such as threats to leave, harm, commit suicide, or physical threats, such as a raised hand, fist, or gesture.
Transitional Housing: shelter for victims of domestic violence and their children that typically lasts up to two
years, between receiving emergency services and finding permanent housing.
Trauma: experiencing an event that causes injury or stress to a person's physical or psychological well-being.
Verbal Abuse: when a batterer uses words to establish and maintain power and control over a victim. Examples include, but are not limited to: the use of language to manipulate, control, ridicule, insult, humiliate, belittle, vilify and/or show disrespect and disdain to another.
Vicarious Trauma: the impact of exposure to extreme events experienced by another person resulting in the listener feeling overwhelmed by the trauma or triggering the listener's own past trauma(s).
Victim: a person who is abused, harmed, or killed by another person. See also: Survivor
Source: National Network to End Domestic Violence,
https://nnedv.org/


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Q: Django: Custom Metaclass Inheriting From And Extending `ModelBase` I am trying to do some metaclass hocus-pocus. I want my own Metaclass
to inherit from ModelBase and then I want to add additional logic by
extending its __new__ method. However I think there is something
strange happening with the MRO/inheritance order in the way I'm using it.
Here is the basic situation:
from django.db.models import Model, ModelBase

class CustomMetaclass(ModelBase):
    def __new__(cls, name, bases, attrs):
        # As I am trying to extend `ModelBase`, I was expecting this
        # call to `super` to give me the return value from here:

        # https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/db/models/base.py#L300

        # And that I would be able to access everyhing in `_meta` with
        # `clsobj._meta`. But actually this object is
        # `MyAbstractModel` and has no `_meta` property so I'm pretty
        # sure `__new__` isn't being called on `ModelBase` at all at
        # this point.
        clsobj = super().__new__(cls, name, bases, attrs)

        # Now, I want to have access to the `_meta` property setup by
        # `ModelBase` so I can dispatch on the data in there. For
        # example, let's do something with the field definitions.
        for field in clsobj._meta.get_fields():
            do_stuff_with_fields()

        return clsobj

class MyAbstractModel(metaclass=CustomMetaclass):
    """This model is abstract because I only want the custom metaclass
    logic to apply to those models of my choosing and I don't want to
    be able to instantiate it directly. See the class definitions below.
    """
    class Meta:
        abstract = True

class MyModel(Model):
    """Regular model, will be derived from metaclass `ModelBase` as usual.
    """
    pass

class MyCustomisedModel(MyAbstractModel):
    """This model should enjoy the logic defined by our extended `__new__` method.
    """
    pass

Any ideas why __new__ on ModelBase isn't being called by
CustomMetaClass? How can I correctly extend ModelBase in this way? I'm pretty sure metaclass inheritance is possible
but seems like I'm missing something...

A: The way to get a clsobj with the _meta attribute is as simple as:
class CustomMetaclass(ModelBase):
    def __new__(cls, name, bases, attrs):
        bases = (Model,)
        clsobj = super().__new__(cls, name, bases, attrs)

        for field in clsobj._meta.get_fields():
            do_stuff_with_fields()

        return clsobj

And we can do the same thing with MyAbstractModel(Model, metaclass=CustomMetaclass).
But, ultimate success here still depends on the kind of work we intend to do in the __new__ method. If we want to somehow introspect and work with the class's fields using metaprogramming, we need to be aware that we are trying to rewrite the class using __new__ at import time and thus (because this is Django) the app registry is not yet ready and this can cause exceptions to be raised if certain conditions arise (e.g. we are forbidden to access or work with reverse relations). This happens here even when Model is passed into __new__ as a base.
We can half-circumvent some of those problems by using the following non-public call to _get_fields (which Django does itself in certain places):
class CustomMetaclass(ModelBase):
    def __new__(cls, name, bases, attrs):
        bases = (Model,)
        clsobj = super().__new__(cls, name, bases, attrs)

        for field in clsobj._meta._get_fields(reverse=False):
            do_stuff_with_fields()

        return clsobj

But depending on the scenario and what we are trying to achieve we might still hit problems; for example, we won't be able to access any reverse relations using our metaclass. So still no good.
To overcome this restriction we have to leverage signals in the app registry to make our classes as dynamic as we want them to be with full access to _meta.get_fields.
See this ticket: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24231
The main takeaway being: "a Django model class is not something you are permitted to work with outside the context of a prepared app registry."


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If It Is Fine Tomorrow
Brian Etling November 22, 2015 | 2 books mentioned
This list of the ten best weather events in fiction history includes, among other things, the mud in Charles Dickens's Bleak House and the fraught weather forecast from Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. Let's talk a little bit more about weather with this review from The Millions.
Brian Etling is an intern for The Millions. He reads and resides in North Carolina. Brian can be found on Twitter @jbetling, and in the real world behind the counter of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, NC.
And the Award for Lifetime Achievement Goes to
Kirstin Butler September 21, 2016 | 2 books mentioned
"His life's work, and his stunning prose, teaches us to better understand political influence, American democracy, and the true power of biography." The National Book Foundation just announced Robert Caro as this year's recipient of the National Book Awards lifetime achievement medal. Definitely pair with this piece by our own Michael Bourne on Caro's epic literary ambitions.
Kirstin Butler | 2 books mentioned
Sandman is Back
Thomas Beckwith July 3, 2013 | 2 books mentioned
Neil Gaiman is famous for a lot of reasons, but perhaps the number one reason is Sandman, the graphic novel series that won the author nineteen Eisner and six Harvey awards. Now, twenty-five years after publishing the first issue, Gaiman has written a prequel, named Overture.
Disturbing the Book Reviews
Rhian Sasseen November 7, 2012 | 2 books mentioned
Over at The New York Times, our own Garth Risk Hallberg reviews A. M. Homes' May We Be Forgiven. And in October, so did we.
Once You See It
Presented Without Comment: the newly unveiled logo for the newly enacted College Football Playoff and the new poster for Lars von Trier's latest film, Nymphomaniac.
What an Egomaniac!
Brian Etling August 27, 2016 | 2 books mentioned
Cara DuBois April 8, 2016 | 2 books mentioned
Stop Reading this Post Right Now
Tess Malone June 7, 2013 | 2 books mentioned
Get off the internet and read a book. Research has shown that deep reading (slow, immersive reading) is like an exercise for our brains that can enable us to be more empathetic.
Tess Malone | 2 books mentioned
"That shit was too white."
Nick Moran May 4, 2014 | 2 books mentioned
The introduction Junot Díaz wrote for Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop has been adapted as a contribution to the ongoing conversation (of which The Millions has been a part) about writing programs at large and about MFA vs. NYC specifically. At issue is Díaz's (rightful) assertion that an important topic – diversity – hasn't been adequately addressed in evaluations of the supposed program and publishing dichotomy thus far. (Related: Sandra Cisneros's "I Hate the Iowa Writer's Workshop.")


Discussion in 'Marijuana Photography' started by Aksarben, Apr 14, 2019.
Well the plants seem to be coming along nicely. I only started growing this year, and posting an OG Kush Auto picture I took with my Nikon D5300 set on "flower" setting and using a Sigma 18-250 Macro Zoom lens, auto-focus off, but image stabilizer on. This plant broke the ground around Feb 15, 2019, and has some growing yet to do, but... looking promising.
novitius and hollowpoint like this.
Yep, looks like a Bud...well done!
hollowpoint and Aksarben like this.
Thanks! Still small though, but coming along. That macro lens, and cropping using Adobe Photoshop helps to bring out the Trichomes. I've never had a marijuana plant before and kind of fun. Curious how it smokes. Have many more seeds to try as soon as out darned weather straightens up. Only 40 deg F today at noon, and some forecast of rain / snow mix for Sunday.
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Nice pics and plant....thanks for sharing bro!
Thanks! Too many times I just use my phone, when I have some fairly expensive photographic equuipment. BTW you should see my hollowpoint Winchester Ranger T 45acp.
I live in the country on 10 acres with no one really close to me. Field to the West (corn or soybeans) trees to the East. Now, hoping YOU don't have neighbors upwind of you within 30 miles growing industrial hemp.
Can we see the whole plant?
Yes, but I'll have to get a picture first. Maybe set it out in the snow we got Sunday (4-14-19) for a good contrast, LOL.
Took this right after dinner with phone. Not the best quality but should show the basic structure of the plant. Small pot as well.
Well, she's looking just fine, isn't she! Sorry about the snow. We are expecting 80 degrees on Friday.
Thanks!! I can't wait for REAL spring, where I can get these outside. I'll have to slowly inch them into natural sunlight, or else harm them. I figure I'll start some seed in small pots this weekend and by the time they are a couple inches tall can be moved into bigger pots outside.
Snow is all about gone now. It was near 70 here today. Looking at thunder showers tomorrow, a bit cooler and breezy but the weekend looking pretty decent.


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Desert X 2019: Lauded Exhibition to Return
If you found yourself enchanted by the springtime installations dotting the Coachella Valley, be glad: More art is to come.
By Alysia Gray Painter • Published October 10, 2017 • Updated on October 16, 2017 at 1:00 pm
IF IT IS HUMAN... to seek shared experiences that make us think, that move us, and that stick with us in a lasting way, then the installations seen around the Coachella Valley over some of the late winter and early spring of 2017 easily drew out our common human-share-ability. For Desert X, the spread-wide art exhibition, gave both locals and visitors to the area a chance to view often sizable and starkly displayed works for free. Those works included "The Circle of Land and Sky" from artist Phillip K. Smith, a circular and sandy outdoor space hemmed by a row of tall, thin mirrors, and "Mirage" by Doug Aitken.
"MIRAGE"... was also commonly called the "Mirror House" by the many people who headed up the Mt. San Jacinto foothills to patiently queue before stepping inside the artwork's funhouse-like interior. If seeing these pow-packing pieces provided you a passionate topic of discussion with others who were visiting the installations at the same time, or if a photo you posted on social media prompted questions and passionate conversation from your friends, then hooray: That was some of the power of the inaugural Desert X, which received wide acclaim. Now, in just under 18 months, a fresh exhibition will rise in the Palm Springs area, and it shall be dubbed...
DESERT X 2019: An opening date for the exhibition, which will again include an array of site-specific installations, was revealed on Monday, Oct. 9. So mark Feb. 9, 2019 on your calendar, with the knowledge that Desert X 2019 will shutter at the close of April that year, much like it did in 2017. Neville Wakefield will again serve as Artistic Director, with Amanda Hunt, Director of Education & Public Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and curator Matthew Schum serving as co-curators on the large-scale, large-of-vision project. And, yes: The exhibition will likely coincide with the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, like it did in 2017.
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Lord of the Rings cast on real-world quest to buy $6 million house; here's why
The actors of the Lord of the Rings films got together for an epic quest. This time to purchase the residence of their creator, author JRR Tolkien.
By Samarpita Das
December 3, 2020 00:56 IST
Aditya Narayan heads to the marriage hall with baartis
The Lord of the Rings stars Sir Ian McKellen and John Rhys-Davies have now embarked on a new virtual yet epic adventure. This time instead of fighting the forces of Sauron, the actors have joined the fellowship to save the house of their creator, JRR Tolkien, at 20 Northmoor Road. The author has gained immense fame for Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings France.
The initiative to purchase the project was called, Northmoor, and the crowdfunding began on December 2. The cast hopes to raise as much as six million dollars to purchase Tolkien residence. The initiative was also supported by Martin Freeman.
"If people are still reading in 1,000 years, Tolkien will be regarded as one of the great myth-makers of Britain and it will be evident within a matter of years that not to secure this place would have been such an act of arrogance and ignorance and folly on our part," said John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli.
For now, Rhys-Davies, McKellen (Gandalf) and Freeman (Bilbo Baggins) have filmed a promotional video which were given celebrity supports including from Gladiator star Sir Derek Jacobi and singer Annie Lennox, who wrote and performed the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings theme "Into the West."
"If The Lord of the Rings is about anything, it's not so much about Hitler and his rise, it is about the fact that generations may peacefully go by but now and again there emerges a threat that actually will challenge your very civilization and a generation must arise to deal with that threat," said Rhys-Davies about the author, who was wounded fighting for the British in World War One.
"Future generations will thank us," he adds. "I can't honestly see any reason why one would not want to support this."
"We cannot achieve this without the support of the worldwide community of Tolkien fans, our fellowship of funders," said Ian McKellen.
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ГЕС-ГАЕС Сент-Елен (фр. Ste Hélène) — гідроелектростанція на південному сході Франції, у сточищі річки Ізер (ліва притока Рони), яка дренує західну частину Грайських Альп.

На початку 1950-х років на Ізері для роботи ГЕС Рандан спорудили арково-гравітаційну бетонну греблю Echelles d'Hannibal (інша назва d'Aigueblanche) висотою 41 метр, довжиною 70 метрів та товщиною від 3 до 36 метрів, яка потребувала 25 тис. м3 матеріалу. Вона утворила водосховище об'ємом 0,4 млн м3, яке через певний час вирішили використати у якості нижнього резервуара ГАЕС.

Верхній резервуар la Coche створили на висотах лівого берега Ізеру між долинами двох приток — Nant-Brun та Morel. Його утримує земляна гребля висотою 34 метри, довжиною 150 метрів та товщиною від 9 до 180 метрів, яка потребувала 350 тис. м3 матеріалу. Вона утворює водойму об'ємом 2,1 млн м3, що поповнюється за рахунок деривації із ряду лівих приток Ізеру — окрім двох згаданих вище, це також Encombres, Belleville, Allues (протікають на схід від Nant Brun) та d'Eau Rousse (долина на захід від Morel, створені водозабори як на самому d'Eau Rousse, так і на його лівих притоках Bridan та Nant-Perou). Загальна довжина тунелів водозбірної системи становить 25 км.

Підземний машинний зал ГАЕС обладнали чотирма оборотними турбінами загальною потужністю 75 МВт у турбінному та 80 МВт у насосному режимах. При напорі у 916 метрів вони виробляють до 640 млн кВт·год електроенергії на рік, в тому числі 390 млн кВт·год за рахунок природного припливу.

У 2016 році власник станції компанія Electricite de France підписала з австрійським виробником гідроенергетичного обладнання Andritz Hydro контракт на поставку турбіни типу Пелтон потужністю 240 МВт. Її планується розмістити у новому наземному машинному залі (дещо нижче за течією Ізеру від існуючого), подача води до якого здійснюватиметься через відгалуження від діючої напірної шахти. Вартість проєкту оцінюється у 150 млн євро.

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