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UN Forces uses for first time drone in Democratic Republic Congo for surveillance missions 0412131
Posted On Wednesday, 04 December 2013 08:56
Defence & Security News - Congo
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 08:51 AM
UN Forces uses for the first time drone in Democratic Republic of Congo for surveillance missions.
United Nations forces in Democratic Republic of Congo have launched unmanned aircraft to monitor the volatile border with Rwanda and Uganda, the first time UN peacekeepers have deployed surveillance drones. The surveillance UAVs will be used for the first time in Democratic Republic of Congo by the UN to gather intelligence.
The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) is introducing the use of Unarmed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance protection capabilities.
(Credit photo UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti)
The UAV will be used to monitor the volatile border between DR Congo and Rwanda and movements by militias and armed groups in the east of the country, which has been stricken by conflict for the past three decades.
The mission will start with two of the UAVs, built by Italian firm Selex ES, a subsidiary of the Italian giant Finmeccanica.
Up to five UAVs could be in operation after trials are completed. General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz, MONUSCO Force Commander, said last month that by March or April of 2014 there would be a 24 hour UAV surveillance operation in the eastern DR Congo.
The vast mineral-rich region is at the heart of the conflict zone where millions have died over the past two decades.
In recent months UN troops have supported DR Congo forces who beat M23 rebels.
UN experts said the rebels were supplied and backed by neighboring Rwanda. The Kigali government denies the charges but has given only reluctant support to the use of the UAVs.
The DR Congo government and UN officials say that the next target in the region is the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which is made up of ethnic Hutu rebels, some of whom are accused of taking part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide of ethnic Tutsis.
The Ivory Coast government has already said it would like the UN to use the surveillance UAVs to monitor its borders. The commanders of other peacekeeping missions, such as in South Sudan, have also said they would like to see the UAVs used there.


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Research Education Manager
Location: Bronx, New York
The Research Education Manager will manage all administrative aspects of a comprehensive research education program within the Office of Human Research Affairs (OHRA) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center. The OHRA oversees the ethical and regulatory conduct of research involving human subjects and provides research-related education and training for a diverse group of faculty, staff, students, fellows, and residents.
Design, implement, and maintain web-facing educational applications and opportunities for OHRA web users (web-based educational programming, content-specific videos, etc.)
Oversee and coordinate all logistics for in-person and virtual trainings (room reservations, invites, RSVPs, reminder emails, follow-up questionnaires, finalization of content, Zoom support, etc.)
Collaborate with the Office of Clinical Trials to coordinate new hire orientation for research coordinators
Collaborate with IRB Operations to coordinate new hire orientation and training for IRB analysts
Create, coordinate and disseminate material for IRB member training at IRB meetings
Maintains the training schedule portion of OHRA website
Serve as the primary point-person for answering general research-related in-boxes(IRB, research agreements) and Research 411 phone line
Review of all requests for individual ethics and regulatory consults and delegate to appropriate staff
Assess and coordinate department specific training sessions
Review IRB submissions as needed
About Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Founded in 1955, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) is one of the nation's premier institutions for medical education, basic research and clinical investigation. A full-time faculty of some 2,000 conducts research, teaches, and delivers health care in every major biomedical specialty. The college has some 730 medical students, 193 Ph.D. students, 106 MD/Ph.D. students and 275 postdoctoral fellows.Einstein's major strength, in addition to training physicians and scientists, is its science. During fiscal year 2015, the faculty's consistently high level of scientific achievement resulted in the awarding of more than $150 million in peer-reviewed grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Einstein is part of Montefiore Medicine Academic Health System, an integrated academic delivery system comprising seven campuses, including 8 hospitals, a multi-county ambulatory network, a new state-of-the art "hospital without beds", a skilled nursing facility, school of nursing, home health agency, and the state's first freestanding emergency department. As the University Hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore is a premier academic health system, e...mploying Einstein's clinical faculty and training Einstein's medical students, over 1,300 residents, 420 allied health students, and 1,600 nursing students annually.The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. Einstein seeks candidates whose skills, and personal and professional experience, have prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence, and the communities we serve.
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NEW!  Validation helper.  Validate your change set in another org directly without uploading or leaving your changeset.  Feel free to send me your feedback and if you'd like to have deploy as well!
- Includes the last modified date and user and api name for each item.
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Please feel free to report bugs, or issues or request new features!
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Utilizing your work computer for personal reasons may not always be the best decision. Most companies have work policies against employees visiting certain websites and/or accessing personal email accounts during work hours. The reasons for rules against such use range from protection from unwanted viruses on company computers, and also desiring employees to be as productive as possible while on the clock. Due to the advancements with smart phones, most employees are able to send/respond to personal matters on their own devices, but what happens to the personal information you research on your work computer or emails you send and receive, even if on other sites such as Gmail, AOL and/or Yahoo?
There are no guarantees that deleting the history of personal websites visited and/or emails sent and received on your work device actually "disappear." Emails and other information may stay stored on your work browser's cache, in a network monitor's log of your computer activity, or in some of the spyware logs of computer activity. In fact, only your IT department may truly know what happens with this information, even if you attempt to clean it up by deleting information.
Additionally, laws such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act should be taken into consideration while utilizing your work computer, as it is a statute designed to prevent unauthorized access or malicious interference with a computer system. Most employers attempt to utilize this law to claim a violation that an employee actually damaged (i.e. – "any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information") its computer system or data. This may be accomplished by not only deleting emails from your work email folder, but also "double-deleting" by emptying the trash folder as well.
Employers, through their employee handbooks, often apprise employees that work emails, even personal ones sent from your work email, are company property and should be held/deleted consistent with their computer use and email policies.
The lesson here is simple. You should only use work property for work, and save personal matters for personal devices and personal time.


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HERV in MS
HERV in COVID-19
HERV in ALS
Other HERV-mediated diseases
HERVS are likely to play a major role in a variety of other neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases.
GeNeuro has conducted a clinical trial in Type 1 Diabetes, showing safety of its approach on an adult population of patients who were insulin-dependent, and observing positive effects on pharmacodynamic markers such as a reduction in the number of hypoglycemic episodes. This trial opens the door for further exploration of this approach in a pediatric population with recent onset, where stopping the degeneration of insulin-producing cells is still a critical unmet medical need.
Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is a chronic disease resulting from the autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. As a consequence, the pancreas is no longer able to produce insulin in response to increasing glucose levels in blood and T1D patients become hyperglycemic. Lifelong insulin replacement therapy is the only option for these patients to control their glycemia, as there is currently no cure for T1D. Despite improvements in insulin replacement therapy in the past decades, normoglycemia is rarely achieved by T1D patients. The absence of proper glycemia control is associated with mortality and severe complications, including diabetic retinopathy, nephropathy, foot ulceration and diabetic neuropathy.
GeNeuro has shown, using immunodetection methods, that pHERV-W-Env protein is present in the pancreas of T1D patients. Immune cells of these patients also express pHERV-W-Env mRNA. Transgenic mice expressing pHERV-W-env have been shown to display abnormalities in glucose regulation, including hyperglycemia and reduced levels of insulin. In vitro experiments on human pancreatic beta cells have demonstrated a toxic effect of pHERV-W-Env, which inhibits insulin secretion in response to glucose. This pathogenic effect can be blocked with temelimab. Overall, GeNeuro has shown (1) significant expression of pHERV-W-Env in T1D patients, (2) the pathogenic effect of pHERV-W-Env in diabetic models, and (3) the positive effect of temelimab on diabetic models.
Inflammatory Psychosis
GeNeuro has also collaborated with a pre-eminent consortium of academic institutes, under the auspices of Fondation FondaMental, establishing a clear link between HERV proteins and psychotic disorders. These results open a new path for treating inflammatory psychosis by developing a drug candidate that neutralizes causal factors arising from human endogenous retroviruses.
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy- CIDP
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a rare autoimmune disorder of the peripheral nervous system (PNS). CIDP is related to multifocal inflammation and demyelinating lesions of the proximal PNS. Its clinical presentation is heterogeneous and its diagnosis is challenging because of its unknown etiology and the lack of specific biomarkers. Existing CIDP therapies are intravenous human immunoglobulins (IVIG), corticosteroids and plasma exchange. Long-term therapy is often limited by side effects and one-third of patients are refractory to existing treatments. This illustrates a critical unmet medical need for new treatments of CIDP and diagnostic biomarkers in this indication. Several studies have confirmed that pHERV-W-Env is found in half of CIDP patients and that this protein is expressed in Schwann cells in CIDP lesions. The effects of pHERV-W Env- expression were studied in vitro on cultured human Schwann cells. The cells expressing pHERV-W Env presented a strong and significant increase in proinflammatory cytokines transcript levels, such as IL-6 and CXCL10.
In February 2018, GeNeuro received Orphan Drug Designation for temelimab by the US-FDA.


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Colby  é um queijo típico da culinária dos Estados Unidos da América. É produzido com leite de vaca. O seu nome original era inicialmente Colby Swiss Cheddar.

O queijo Colby é semelhante ao Cheddar, embora não seja sujeito exatamente ao mesmo processo de maturação. É um queijo mais mole, mais húmido e mais suave que o Cheddar. É considerado um queijo de pasta semi-dura.

A variante é Longhorn é a mais conhecida, consistindo num queijo moldado em forma de cilindro comprido cor-de-laranja. O queijo Colby não envelhece bem, tornando-se seco rapidamente. É normalmente vendido às metades.

Por ser um queijo suave, o Colby raramente é usado para cozinhar. É usado sobretudo como queijo de mesa, em merendas e saladas.

História
Em 1874, Joseph F. Steinwand desenvolveu um novo tipo de queijo, na fábrica de queijo de seu pai, perto da cidade norte-americana de Colby, no estado do Wisconsin. Batizou-o com o nome da cidade, que fora fundada três anos antes.

Queijos dos Estados Unidos
Queijos de leite de vaca

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Yep the consumers interests are really being looked after by cablelabs....I wonder how that dingo is doing with my baby.
Interesting business idea out of Australia - Dominos Pizza have started something called Pizza Mogul, basically you create your own pizza and then if someone buys one of your creations....you get a piece of the revenue.
It looks like they are doing this mainly for charities as you can get your revenue directly to a charity but like Launchrock short codes....if something went viral quickly....could really generate some easy cash flow.


I am not sure why I decided to read this article to-day. Procrastination? Even though the end of the debate season and impending freedom is the growing light at he end of the tunnel? Regardless of cause, I needed the good laugh.
Mendelsohn's argument is that Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction) is a bad film. Maybe he doesn't it find it bad in the artistic sense, but he finds it bad in the dangerous sense.
An alternative, and morally superior, form of "revenge" for Jews would be to do precisely what Jews have been doing since World War II ended: that is, to preserve and perpetuate the memory of the destruction that was visited upon them, precisely in order to help prevent the recurrence of such mass horrors in the future.
I have two orders of criticism of this alternative. First, Mendelsohn is incorrect about his description of the real Jewish act of remembrance and second, this alternative, even if descriptively accurate, is the real danger.
Are Jews merely remembering? No. Munich (Steven Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan) was based on a true story. That is clearly not a case of mere remembrance. Hunting down former Nazis and having them extradited and prosecuted is not mere remembrance. Some will argue, correctly I believe, that the Palestinian/Zionist issue is also a manifestation of the Jewish attempt to say 'never again.' Even if the Palestinian/Zionist issue is not an active policy for revenge, it clearly demonstrates the inaccuracy of Mendelsohn's remembrance alternative.
Mendelsohn will probably answer this order of argumentation with a distinction based on revenge and (some other process). After all, what other possible reason can he have had for drawing the quotation marks around 'revenge'? He knew his error and still decided to take the palatable position (it was published in Newsweek, after all); drawing erasure around 'revenge' was a way to front load the response, to pre-empt, to my criticism.
Second order, memory vs killing. It is not odd that Mendelsohn valorizes the current Jewish revenge act of remembering. What else are they to do? The Nazis are gone and/or already punished. The reason may not have anything to do with a choice. The Jews of that time, the kind in the movie, had a choice. Mendelsohn, however, equivocates them as having the same options before them. This is a silly burden to place Tarantino within.
In the Tarantino/Mendelsohn binary, I would put my money on Tarantino as being the one with the most horsepower. An odd prediction for me as I would almost always bet on the critic. Maybe Tarantino's larger argument is one not about revenge but rather about violence. Mendelsohn resonates with me when he says the Jews in the climax scene are nearly the same as the very Nazis they are exterminating. Yes. And that is what I found to be the brilliance of Tarantino's movie. Both the Jew and the Nazi were acting a violent revenge fantasy. Mendelsohn's insight stops short. Sadly, this does not prevent Mendelsohn from lodging a criticism based upon morality. This is what is known as exceptionalism (a topic worthy of a career, let alone a blog post).
I will return to the next two paradoxical concepts later: abnegation (acting out to prevent acting future acting out) and interruption. Both are reasons why Mendelsohn's alternative is wrong. It is interesting that Mendelsohn cites 'inversion' at the top of his piece (the description) but then forgets its relevance in the bottom (the criticism) because inversion is the product of the interruption.
One last aside. Mendelsohn foreshadows his own jumping-the-rails in the second paragraph.
That's an interesting aside. It is accurate. But why is it said? There are two reasons, assuming that a good writer (Mendelsohn usually is) uses every word carefully. First: it is an act of denigration: most filmmakers begin in school, but Tarantino did not hence his lackluster-ness is understandable and predictable; second, as exemplariness: most filmmakers begin their careers in school, hence Tarantino's magnificence and brilliance. I decided to default to the second reading, even if I was not a fan of Tarantino's prior work. But, I'm an optimist.
[M]ovies aren't real life, and this is where Tarantino, with his video-store vision of the world, gets into trouble.
Serve that sentence up with a side of anti-intellectualism and you get Sarah Palin (anti-intellectual and privilege masked as populism). Maybe that sentence was not quite fair: the Sarah Palin function also requires sentimentality. But wait, the Mendelsohn "morally superior" alternative is precisely sentimentality: historic revisionism where the people of the past are given to-day's options.


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Cargill unit Black River plans $400 mln Asian food fund
1 Published: 20 Apr 2011
Short URL: https://farmlandgrab.org/18486
Posted in: Cargill China Costa Rica Netherlands PFZW/PGGM Singapore US
Reuters | 18 April 2011
Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Julin Province, 2005 (Photo: Edward Burtynsky)
By Kevin Lim
Black River, the private equity arm of U.S. agribusiness and trading giant Cargill, is raising a $400 million fund to invest in firms that will benefit from rising Asian demand for meat and vegetables.
The proposed Black River Capital Partners (Food) Fund, which has already received about $200 million in commitments, expects to invest about half the money in China, where people are eating more protein and fruits and less cereal and tubers.
"GDP growth is driving food consumption in emerging markets (and) the demand for safe and high quality food, against a backdrop of outdated production methods and fragmented industry means high margin revenue opportunity for leading players," Black River said in presentation notes seen by Reuters.
"Recent surveys indicate more than 96 percent of (Chinese) consumers are very concerned about food safety and 75 percent of interviewees expressed a willingness to pay extra for safer food," it added.
Black River's Singapore office could not be reached for comment.
The price of grains and other agricultural commodities have risen in recent months, pushing up inflation in many developing countries and raising concerns about possible food shortages.
Last week, the World Bank warned higher global food and energy prices are affecting a larger swathe of developing countries than at the beginning of the year, threatening to push more people into poverty.
According to the presentation, Black River is targeting 30 percent gross cumulative return per annum for the planned food fund, which has a life of 10 years. It will charge a 17.5 percent performance fee if it achieves a hurdle rate of 8 percent.
Black River's investment pipeline includes a Chinese pork producer and distributor, a duck farming firm in northern China, a fish producer in Costa Rica and a frozen fish processor in Singapore.
Institutions that have committed money to the food fund include Dutch pension fund PGGM and Utimco, which manages money for the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, according to the presentation Black River is now targeting investors in Singapore and Hong Kong.
(Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
Original source: Reuters
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Assassin's Creed Photo Features Michael Fassbender in Action
Movies based on video games have not had the best of luck once audiences have been able to see them. At the end of this year, Assassin's Creed will try to turn the genre around. Based on the video game by the same name, for the movie, Michael Fassbender will be starring as Callum Lynch in the present day. When he learns of the ability to connect with his past ancestors through the Animus, he will begin training to relive the life of Aguilar. The simulations will take both Lynch and audiences back to the 15th century, where no English will be spoken.
Throughout each game, the appeal was the free roaming capabilities of an unfamiliar time, as well as the parkour and fighting styles. While the game allows users to jump from city to city if they please, the movie could take the realistic approach. If they do, Aguilar's choice of transportation will be a horse, and fans can now see him riding one in the heat of an action sequence.
Total Film has been able to release a brand new image from Assassin's Creed from their latest issue, in which Fassbender graces the cover. The new picture shows him riding on his trusty steed but with a sense of desire to either reach his destination quickly or outrun people that are after him. Check out the photo below:
There is not much to pick out from the photo itself, outside of the fact that viewers could be getting an intense chase scene at some point in the movie. Regardless of how this scene in particular is used in the movie or if it even makes the final cut, it has given fans a chance to take another look at the making of the film.
This may not be one of the bigger action sequences from the movie, but with the filmmakers and stuntmen performing an actual leap of faith, it is clear that they want to make all of these scenes feel as real as possible. If the trailer was an indication, there should be a great deal of action scenes in the movie. After all, this is the aspect of the games that so many people have enjoyed that it would be foolish not to keep this at the heart of the movie. Great action sequences could go a long way in delivering a great video game movie; now fans will just have to wait a few more months to find out whether or not this is the case.
Assassin's Creed will see theatrical release in the U.S. on December 21, 2016.


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UK Politicians Chase Undecided Voters
LONDON (AP) -- British political leaders rose early Wednesday to pursue undecided voters on the eve of Britain's election, zigzagging the country in hopes that one last push will get the wavering to the polls.
Though polls have consistently shown Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in the lead, the size of the margin is seen as narrowing before Thursday's contest. All of the parties are nervous about the verdict of a volatile electorate weary after years of wrangling over Brexit — and likely to dump traditional party ties.
All 650 seats in the House of Commons seats are up for grabs in the election, which is being held more than two years early in a bid to break the political impasse over Brexit.
Johnson has tried to focus minds on the potential of an uncertain result and a divided Parliament, which would endanger his plan to lead the U.K. out of the European Union on Jan. 31. He started his day by helping load milk and orange juice bottles onto a delivery vehicle in West Yorkshire.
"This could not be more critical, it could not be tighter — I just say to everybody the risk is very real that we could tomorrow be going into another hung parliament,'' he said. "That's more drift, more dither, more delay, more paralysis for this country."
Meanwhile, the main opposition Labour Party said the narrowing in the polls showed that momentum was moving in their direction. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn campaigned in Scotland and urged people to elect a government that will "give real hope."
"In this city of Glasgow, which has some of the poorest people in this country, which has wards which contain the lowest life expectancy all across this country, they need an end to austerity,'' Corbyn said. "They need a U.K. government that will invest all across the country."


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Q: Compiler errors on for loop Here are the errors:
main.c|188|error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '<' token|
main.c|195|error: expected expression before '}' token|
main.c|195|error: expected expression before '}' token|
main.c|195|error: expected expression before '}' token|
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And here's the part of my code where they appear, along with the corresponding line numbers:
(I am compiling this on Codeblocks)
//If Option 4 is selected

if (input == 4) {
    printf("You selected Option 4: Display all courses.\n");
    for (int counter = 0, counter < 560000, counter++) { //line 188
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        fread(&ToDisplay, sizeof(course), 1, in_file);
        if (ToDisplay.dept != 000 && ToDisplay.num != 000) {
            printf("%2s.%d.%d %d.%d ", ToDisplay.div, ToDisplay.dept, ToDisplay.num, ToDisplay.credits, ToDisplay.title);`
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    }
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By: Wallbox via Business Wire
December 05, 2022 at 09:28 AM EST
Wallbox (NYSE:WBX), a leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions worldwide, today announced its participation in an upcoming virtual event for the investor community titled "Wallbox: Powering up the North American EV Market".
On Monday, December 12th at 11:00am ET, Douglas Alfaro, General Manager of Wallbox North America will join George Gianarikas of Canaccord Genuity to discuss Wallbox's opportunity and strategy, the NEVI and Inflation Reduction Act subsidies, and the competitive dynamic in this large and fast growing market.
This event is open to all interested investors. Registration link can be found here, and in the Events and Presentations Section of the Investor Relations website at Investors.wallbox.com. Questions can be sent directly to the company in advance by emailing investors@wallbox.com.
About Wallbox
Wallbox is a global technology company, dedicated to changing the way the world uses energy. Wallbox creates advanced electric vehicle charging and energy management systems that redefine users' relationship to the grid. Wallbox goes beyond electric vehicle charging to give users the power to control their consumption, save money, and live more sustainably. Wallbox offers a complete portfolio of charging and energy management solutions for residential, semi-public and public use in more than 110 countries. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Barcelona, the company now employs over 1,200 people in its offices in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. For additional information, please visit www.wallbox.com.
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• swarovski crystal beads – mine were the bicone (also called tapered) shape in a variety of colors i bought a long time ago from rio grande. they were really assorted sizes and have a lot of sparkle, but you can use whatever beads you like at the time.
Begin by deciding how long you want your necklace to be. I followed the Anthro version pretty closely, so I aimed for 31″ long from clasp to clasp. (This is what the ruler is for.) Once you decide how long you want it, you can begin making the chain.
Take a piece of the 24 ga. wire, about 3″ long. Curl one end around your round nose pliers like this.
With your pliers, hold the loop you just made and use your fingers to wrap the short tail around the longer piece of wire to secure it. Trim the excess short tail with your clippers.
Add a bead and straighten the loop so that the remaining wire sticks out straight from the loop center and not at an angle.
Loop the other end of the wire the same way you just did. You should end up with something like this. This will be 1 "beaded link" for your necklace.
Cut another 3″ piece of the 24 gauge wire. (If you want to cut a bunch of them in advance so you don't have to keep clipping as you go, it's helpful.) Put the end of this piece of wire through one of the loops of the beaded link you just made.
Make a loop with this end and wrap it, just like you did on both ends of the beaded link. This will connect the new piece of wire to your first beaded link.
Put a bead on the wire and close this link with a wrapped loop.
Continue adding beaded links until you have a length of about 10″. For me, this was 24 beaded links.
This is when you add your first gold ring! The rings I used had a really cool hammered texture but were open (meaning they didn't make a complete circle, they had a tiny space.) So that the beaded links wouldn't slide through and my necklace wouldn't fall apart, I wrapped a little wire around the opening. You would be better off using a solid closed ring though.
With a 3″ piece of 24, link your last beaded link to the gold ring. Make a wrapped loop, put on a bead, and make another, slightly larger wrapped loop closing the gold ring inside.
Take one of your drop/briolette beads and cut a 5″ piece of 24. String the wire through the bead and then put it through the larger wrapped loop you just made to connect the beaded link to the gold ring.
Make a loop like this then wrap it closed.
Bring the other end around to keep the bead from falling off, then wrap both ends of the wire around the bead, making a little cap like this.
The bead will then dangle inside the gold ring like this!
Connect the gold ring to another beaded link, like you did earlier. This will suspend the gold ring between two lengths of beaded links.
Continue making beaded links until your chain is 18″ longer. This was 42 beaded links for me, but it depends on how big your beads are and how big you make your wrapped loops.
The second gold ring is a pendant that slides freely around the chain. To make this, I wrapped the gold ring with 24 wire again so that it wouldn't open unexpectedly. I then used a 5″ piece of my thicker wire to make a large wrapped loop, like this.
DON'T WORRY if it isn't "perfect." this necklace is all about the beauty of imperfection.
Like you did with the other ring, connect a drop bead and wrap it so the top looks capped. Do this 3-5 times. They will dangle inside the ring.
Slide the pendant onto your long chain of beaded links. On each end of the chain, you will attach half of the gold clasp. Do this by making wrapped loops with the thicker wire, like you did for the beaded links, only don't use a bead.


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The Start Summit starts in Dublin Castle
By: Mark August 21, 2018
Jamie White, the winner of Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur in Dublin for 2014 and 2015, has launched the inaugural Start Summit.
The event for aspiring entrepreneurs will take place on Saturday, September 15, 2018, at Dublin Castle,
"We want to inspire and support the business leaders of tomorrow," says White.
White built and sold businesses, including CollegeTimes.com and TeenTimes.com. He now works with brands worldwide through his business Leading Social.
The line-up includes Ray Nolan (founder and CEO of HostelWorld and XSellco), and Dan Kiely (founder & CEO of VoxPro).
"I'm hosting the event I wish was there for me when I was starting off," says White.
For more details about speakers and tickets, visit StartSummit.com.
Q&A with Jamie White
If you were in a position to change policy, what would you introduce to help startups?
The first thing I would change would be to ensure that if the startup goes south, the founder is still entitled to social welfare. At the moment they are not which I think is very negative and discouraging. I would also look at some tax incentives, whether that's a rebate or even a tax-free salary when starting. Sometimes, from my own experience, being a founder you are paying everyone else and the taxman first before yourself which is a struggle.
What advice would you give to someone thinking of starting a business?
In starting a business, we are all very enthusiastic about our ideas, and there is a prevailing thought out there that you shouldn't talk to people about your plan, and get stuck in yourself right away. I would argue that is a very a bad plan and that it is so important to talk to people about your idea. Sometimes when you're that enthusiastic, it's hard to tell the difference between a good idea and a bad idea. Seeking advice in the early stages can guide your way and ensure you progress in the right direction, but also save you from the bother if someone can show you why it isn't a feasible idea.
What Irish entrepreneurs do you admire and why?
Iseult Ward from Foodcloud, she's inspiring and radiates positivity. She's making a massive impact. Jack Kirwan, the guy behind Sprout and Co., is exciting. He's essentially building a healthy fast food restaurant, something many people have tried to do.
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To Prevent HIV Infection, Couples Try Testing Together : Shots - Health News The majority of new HIV infections among gay men in the U.S. these days occur within committed couples. So researchers are piloting a strategy that's been successful in Africa. Gay couples in several cities have tried it and say the benefits are unexpected.
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David Lozano (left) and Kevin Kreinbring stand in front of a painting created by Lozano. The couple says they get tested for HIV together every six months. Courtesy of David Lozano hide caption
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David Lozano (left) and Kevin Kreinbring stand in front of a painting created by Lozano. The couple says they get tested for HIV together every six months.
Getting tested for HIV in the U.S. is almost always private, sometimes even secretive. Ditto for disclosing the results.
But some say the approach is outmoded at a time when many at risk for HIV — gay men — are in committed relationships.
Research shows as many as two-thirds of new HIV infections among gay men these days are within committed couples. That's very different from the days when promiscuity fueled the epidemic.
The implications of this for HIV prevention are big. AIDS researcher Patrick Sullivan says what brought it home for him was the discovery that gay men in coupled relationships aren't any more likely to know each other's HIV status as those with casual sex partners.
"In our analysis, lack of awareness was pretty much the same," Sullivan tells Shots.
So Sullivan and his colleagues decided to borrow a strategy that has worked in Africa. For 20 years, heterosexual couples in Rwanda, Zambia and other countries have been encouraged to get tested for HIV together — and learn the results at the same time, from counselors who can help them deal with the information, whatever it is.
The result is a program called Testing Together. Successfully piloted in Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, San Diego and Seattle, the program is being rolled out nationally in HIV prevention programs funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Couples go through the whole process together," Sullivan says. "They get pretest counseling together. Get their blood drawn together. Get the results together. And make a plan on how they're going to remain HIV-negative — or how to support an HIV-positive partner to get into care and keep the negative partner negative."
David Lozano and Kevin Kreinbring, a gay couple in Chicago, say it makes a big difference. "It's just very comforting to do this jointly," says Lozano, a 47-year-old painter and art instructor. "It kind of affirms our trust with each other. I feel like we may not get tested as frequently otherwise."
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He says the couple generally get tested together every six months.
Kreinbring, a 51-year-old accountant, says some of the benefits have been unexpected. "It almost becomes an event," he tells Shots. "In a bizarre way, I almost look forward to it. It creates a lot of dialogue about things we might not talk about otherwise."
Those things may include whether the couple's relationship is exclusive or so-called open, and what kind of rules and understandings are in place.
If one partner is HIV-positive and the other isn't, it opens a discussion about condom use and the importance of getting the positive partner on an antiviral regimen to lower the amount of HIV in his system — and his risk of transmitting the virus. It's called treatment as prevention.
And the conversation might turn to whether the negative partner should consider taking an antiviral pill that lowers his risk of infection, an approach called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP.
Testing Together is aimed at dispelling a dangerous myth that helps explain why there are still around 50,000 new HIV infections a year in this country.
"The narrative, even within parts of the gay community, is that the epidemic is fueled by promiscuity," Sullivan says. That can lead men in committed relationships to have a false sense of security.
"But the current epidemic patterns are not driven by promiscuity," Sullivan says. "The face of the epidemic is quite different than it was before. So we need to be providing prevention services where the risk is occurring."
Sullivan, a researcher at Emory University, says the math of sexual relationships makes that clear. "Men with a main partner have sex with that partner about 100 times a year — about the same as male-female couples do with their main partners," he says.
But about a fourth of male-male couples have open relationships that allow for occasional encounters with someone outside the couple. That's a little bit higher than heterosexual couples, according to Sullivan.
"If you add up episodes of sex with main partners and casual partners, it might be 104 or 105 a year total," he notes. So obviously, the biggest risk of infection is from a main partner, even if the virus is introduced into the relationship by a casual encounter. The risk of transmission within couples is raised further by the fact that main partners are more likely to engage in anal sex with each other, which greatly increases the risk of HIV transmission.
Sullivan says if one partner in a gay couple is HIV-positive, there's a 40 percent chance the other one will become infected over time.
So far the results from Testing Together programs, funded up to now by the MAC AIDS Fund, bear out the importance of getting gay couples tested. About 10 percent of couples had one HIV-infected partner — but weren't aware of it. Sullivan says that's higher than the HIV-positive rate in most centers that offer individual testing and counseling.
Even when gay couples have agreed to be monogamous, Sullivan says, there are slips. "In surveys we did, about one-quarter of men said they had stepped outside their agreement in the prior year, and most did not tell their partners about it," he says. "As counselors, we all know this happens."
When the couple tests together, the counselor can defuse anger and focus the couple on how to deal with the news that one or both have become infected — or on how to stay safe in the future.
Sullivan says counselors might frame it this way: "You guys are a strong couple, with a clear commitment toward monogamy, but we want every couple to go out of here with a Plan B."


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Nickelodeon: The Fairly OddParents: the 10th Anniversary and T.U.F.F. Puppy Year Two
Series creator and executive producer of The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, and T.U.F.F. Puppy Butch Hartman is joined by T.U.F.F. Puppy cast members Jerry Trainor (iCarly), Grey DeLisle (The Fairly OddParents), Daran Norris (The Fairly OddParents), and Matthew Taylor (Open Season 1, 2, 3), and story editor Ray DeLaurentis (The Fairly OddParents) to share sneak peeks, pesent a script reading, answer questions, and even invite a few lucky fans to join in on the fun! Moderated by Dana Cluverius, director of current series for Nickelodeon.
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Soldier Of Fortune: Payback
Built to harness the power of next generation- Featuring an incredibly realistic modeling system allowing for accurate hit detection and detailed damage modeling. Enemies will not only react to the specific area they've been hit but also to the power of the weapon they've been hit with.
One of the most lethal collections of weapons ever assembled - Over 30 of the baddest weapons including sub-machine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, projectile explosives, weapons attachments and futuristic prototype weapons.
The world's most dangerous hotspots- Players will find themselves thrown into authentic mercenary situations in real world hotspots around the globe. Survive and ambush and rescue a diplomat, infiltrate a terrorist organization, go on a search and destroy mission and much more.
Enemies around every corner- High intensity combat situations where players will need to take down over 15 unique enemies including terrorists, mobsters, insurgents, enemy soldiers and more.
Online multiplayer- Play your favorite individual and team based online modes including death match, team death match, elimination, team elimination, capture the flag and demolition. Additional online options include maps tuned specifically for multiplayer action, and persistent stat tracking.


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Ferrari 458 Speciale named Britain's Best Driver's car by Autocar
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Team Autocar drove down to Castle Combe circuit in the UK to find out which of the following list of supercars and sports cars is the best all-round driver's car. So, the contenders for this year's title included everything from the super quick and track focused to the practical yet blisteringly fast.
Last year's winner- Porsche 911 GT3 was also at hand to try and defend the crown. The rest of the line up included a Ferrari 458 Speciale, McLaren 650S, Chevrolet Corvette Stingray C7, BMW M4, BMW i8, Jaguar F-Type R Coupe, Porsche Cayman GTS, Vauxhall VXR8 super sedan, Alfa Romeo 4C and the Ariel Atom 3.5R, Renault Megane RS 265 Cup and there could be just one winner. And so Best Driver's car of 2014 is… Ferrari 458 Speciale.
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THIS hardened villain was nearly sixty years of age when he committed, with aggravated cruelty, the foul crime for which he most justly underwent the sentence of the law.
Two maiden ladies of fortune, of the name of Hammersley, resided near Windsor. On the night of the 4th of February some ruffians broke into their house with such caution that they took the ladies' pockets from under their pillows while the owners were asleep. A maid-servant, who it was supposed had been alarmed, was murdered by them before they quitted the house.
The struggles of the poor woman awoke the ladies. They called, but getting no answer they got up, and procured a light, and, to their horror, found the dead body of their faithful servant, with a handkerchief crammed into her mouth, a cord tightly twisted round her neck, and her head forced between her legs, and tied to the foot of the bedstead.
A reward of fifty pounds being offered for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer, Thomas Watkins, by trade a gardener, was taken up on suspicion, and committed to Reading Jail.
His trial occupied eight hours, during which the hardened wretch behaved with great resolution, asked the witness many questions, and asserted his innocence in the strongest terms. Though no absolute proof could be adduced of his having committed the murder, a great number of concurring circumstances rendered his guilt clear to the jury, who, with little deliberation, found him guilty, and he received sentence of death.
He was carried in a post-chaise from Reading to Windsor, where the murder was committed, accompanied by the executioner, the under-sheriff and his javelin-men. His body was afterwards hung in chains.


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Editor | April 2, 2014
The Republican National Committee trimmed its list of potential 2016 convention sites to a half dozen on Tuesday, eliminating Phoenix and Columbus, Ohio from contention.
That leaves Cincinnati and Cleveland in Ohio, along with Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Mo., and Las Vegas advancing to the next round for further evaluation, which will include site visits.
"In any other year, Columbus and Phoenix could have topped the list, but with so many strong cities competing, the committee had to make the difficult decision to narrow the field," said RNC Site Selection Committee Chair Enid Mickelson in a statement.
[READ: A Brokered GOP Convention in 2016?]
The next significant step in the process will occur in May and June after the Selection Committee determines which cities will be tapped for official site visits. In addition to the primary concern offinancing the convention, the committee will be homing in on venue space, media workspace and hotel capacity, or "nuts and bolts" as an advocate from one of the cities in contention put it. But the RNC has not said how many cities will actually receive an on-the-ground visit, according to a spokeswoman for the Kansas City contingent.
The cities vying for the Republican convention boast home state bipartisan support, mainly because of the economic boost the additional 50,000 visitors will provide during a week in the summer of 2016. A University of Tampa study found the 2012 GOP convention held in that city had an estimated impact of $400 million.
Steve Scheffler, an RNC member who sits on the Site Selection Committee, said committee members only decided to eliminate two cities at this point in order to "err on the side of caution."
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"I wouldn't say any is the front-runner," he asserted, disputing the Beltway-generated notion that Las Vegas leads the pack because of its superior ability to finance the operation. Many younger Republican staffers simply want the convention in Sin City in order to enjoy its provocative round-the-clock night life.
The next GOP convention is tentatively slated to be held earlier than in recent history, occurring sometime between June 27 and July 18, 2016. That decision was made in order to give the eventual 2016 nominee the ability to tap general election funds earlier than the fall.
Democrats are a bit behind in their quest to find a convention city.
In February, the Democratic National Committee invited 30 cities to submit bids for consideration, but have yet to announce finalists.
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Q: Learning ActionScript with a JavaScript background I've thought about learning ActionScript (3.0) before, and, as I've heard, it's a dialect of ECMAscript, making it similar to JavaScript. As I come from a JS background, this makes it all too easy to trip up on things that work in JS but are done differently in AS. What are the crucial differences between the two languages that I should watch out for?

A: Classes/Interfaces (static typing) are the main (obvious) difference and the syntax is more strict. But you have all the convenience of dynamic typing if you want, Closures etc ... and an effective API for UI programming (display object life cycle by events Event.ADDED, Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE ... etc). There are already ways for immutable values (const), but not for immutable collections. And check out E4X ... which is nice! Check out the API.
You should feel right at home, after you understand the lexical/syntactical differences.


After leaving Barcelona yesterday morning and arriving in Rome yesterday with what ranked high on the most horrendous hangovers of my life, we spent the entire day (a complete waste – I know) in bed before meeting my friend from home and her boyfriend who conveniently were still in the city on their own trip when we arrived. From the airport we chose to travel by bus to the city, costing us only €5 each and dropping us in front of the main train station, Termini, only a five minute walk from our hotel. We had to wait around fifteen minutes for the next bus, but it seemed the most economic choice when compared with the €14 per person train or a €48 taxi, plus we had our own seats, air conditioning, free wifi and knew our bags were safely stowed. Both we and my friends had hotels near to Termini, so we decided on a restaurant nearby called Ristorante Imperium. Pints cost €6 each, so we will definitely be steering clear of beer for the rest of our two weeks in Italy, but other than that I found the food incredibly reasonably priced and the pizza was SO good. We asked as many questions about their trip as we could, figuring out the best times of day to visit each of the incredibly popular sights and the pros and cons of booking tickets in advance.
Our first morning in Rome consisted of a very early start to the day. We jumped on the Metro after buying a 48 hour unlimited pass for all of the city's public transport systems and cost €12.50 each. We are pretty used to using metro lines and Rome's only has three, making it far less confusing than some of the others we have encountered. The Metro station beside us is conveniently only a few metres from our hotel, B&B Drago d'Oro (£96 for three nights) to the Colloseum at around 8.45.
After talking to friends about the prices of excursions they had already been on during their stay in Rome, then going home and weighing up the pros and cons of queue lengths and prices, we decided to just wait in the queue and guide ourselves around the Colosseum, Palatine Hill and Roman Forum. When we arrived the queue looked pretty (really) daunting, but it moved just as quickly as those for pre-booked tickets so we were pretty happy. Online, each ticket requires a €5 booking fee per ticket, so we avoided that and at the ticket desk we showed our British Passports and so only paid concession ticket prices (€7.50 instead of the typical €11) because, for the time being, we are members of an EU state between 18 and 24 – the same discounts on and in some cases free entrance fees apply in most large European Union cities, including Paris.
Inside the Colloseum, we spent around 45 minutes wandering around, admiring the vast stone walls and reading the extremely informative signs posted all around, telling tourists about the history of the building itself and the Cesars who built it. I actually found myself walking around a little open mouthed, in complete awe of how a building of such magnitude was still standing two millennia after being built. The floor of the auditorium has been eroded, revealing a network of what were underground tunnels where prisoners, slaves and animals were kept. Vast stone archways line the entire building, offering stunning views of the ruins surrounding the Colloseum as well as more modern architecture. Around the hallways are artefacts such as pilasters, column heads and sculptures that have been recovered from the site over the years; for me to see an authentic, vast composite pilaster at eye level made for one of the most iconic Roman buildings of all time was an absolute delight. Although the majority of the building is now brown stone, some old and some new to ensure it stays standing, slivers of its previous white marble interior can be seen still clinging to parts of the walls and some on the ground. Although the thousands of tourists may put some people off, for me it was truly like stepping into a time warp and I felt it really showed the sheer scale and capacity of the building and what it would have been like inside so many years ago.
From the Colloseum we walked across to the Roman Forum – the ancient governmental heart of the city which boasts an extensive collection of existing buildings and ruins from clerical buildings, Basilicas and more. Even the buildings that have crumbled lay scattered around, marble heads or sections of pillars baking in the sun. The size of the remaining buildings was pretty unbelievable, and the whole time I was walking through this millennial old city I was dumbfounded by how any of it was built. Higher up the Forum, on Palatine Hill, the balance began to move less in the favour of stone and more towards trees, flowers and shrubs. From the top of the hill we had incredible views of the city, both old and new.
The energy in Rome is tangible, it's warm and exciting and so vibrant in all ways; from its weather to its shopping to the way the Romans carry themselves around the city. The streets of Rome emulate the highlights of Italian culture: art, fashion and food. They are lined with bars, restaurants and gelaterias decorated romantically and in such an inviting way; checked cloth tables, candles and ivy with lights on their exteriors. Between them, shops contrast with their coolness; a haven of white air conditioning from the sweltering heat outside made all the more appealing by the clothes they have to offer. The women's clothing is so incredibly modest in terms of cut; shorts and skirts more often than not fall below the knee and I have very rarely seen exposed chests, but the colours and prints of the clothes worn and being sold around the city are flamboyant, bright and attention grabbing whilst the men's clothes and stores are sharp, tailored and smart. Above this ground level of commerce are homes in buildings of light yellow, oranges and pinks. The colours of the more modern buildings here are harmonious with one another and with the historical buildings scattered around the city which are a blend of off-whites and browns. They are engraved, dated by their year of construction and ornately decorated in a typical Classical and Romanesque style.
One thing I will say about Rome is that it never seems to slow down. All night long we heard sirens and the hustle and bustle of people passing past our window – which is two floors up. As a result, sleep on the first night was near enough impossible, and so after our morning exploring the historical centre of Rome we headed back for a nap (which never happened because of the noise outside) and to escape the sun for the hottest hours of the day.
After eating some of our beloved spicy noodles for dinner we headed back out on the metro to Piazza Barberini, close to the Spanish Steps, the Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain. The fountain was closed last night due to the Fendi show taking place on the fountain – yes, on it, as they were the ones who paid for its recent renovations in return for building a Perspex runway over the water to end Couture Fashion week. As a result we had to take the scenic route to the Pantheon, which in itself was sightseeing. Once we reached it, nestled amongst winding cobble streets and facing onto a bustling piazza, I was utterly transfixed. In what will probably tank as the most Italian moment of our trip, a man sang opera while people scurried around the square, others sat on the steps of a fountain with a direct view of the building and others ate dinner on the outskirts. When we walked underneath the vast stone pillars in front of te building, Paul have me a history lesson on the weight and origins of them while we bothrepeatedly asked ourselves and one another how they built such a building two thousand years ago. Inside lay a building of unimaginable proportional perfection. The Pantheon really is the epitome of Classical architecture; the vast dome constructed of unbelievably symmetric, seamless and identical square blocks of stone, gradually decreasing in size to be centred by a vast (and now covered) oculus. Frescos can still be faintly seen on the walls below along with sculptures and other canvas paintings. Even the floor is glorious. I could remember studying this building in an architecture lecture almost two years ago, and had to pinch myself a little that I was here and able to experience and enjoy it in a critical artistic way.
After the Pantheon, we walked to the Spanish steps, which were under restoration thanks to the jewellery house Bulgari, then we jumped on the metro to the Colloseum to see it at night. We visited the nearby Capotiline Hill, which had been reconfigured in the mid sixteenth century by Michaelangelo, then down to see the glorious Altare della Patria or Altar of the Father, a vast white marble memorial flanked by pristine fountains and lavishly decorated with chariots and lions alike.
Morning two began after perhaps even a worse sleep than the night before and an early rise to see the Vatican City. As full time students, we both only had to pay €8 per entry ticket opposed to the typical €16 after a delightful hour and a half wait in the lengthy morning queue. In all honesty I was actually really disappointed in the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel because it was just far too busy. I found the countless phones in my face to take photographs quite sad because I felt like very few people were actually taking it in, and tour groups of up to thirty people were moving around in swarms, sometimes taking up entire rooms and leaving it pretty difficult to go and read about the works in rooms or actually see them up close. The building itself was glorious, each room was detailed and thought out and the building had a good flow with regard to chronology and the subject matter of works. Heading towards the Sistine Chapel I felt incredibly claustrophobic, actually unable to stop and observe any of the works on the ceilings or walls for being pushed forward by the sheer mass of people behind me, and as Paul quite rightly said, if you can't even get a visual experience of the building how are you supposed to have a spiritual one? This was then brought to a climax inside the chapel where loud tannoy played over the crowd reminding us not to take photographs and to be quiet. I just felt sort of disgusted with the entire experience, and I sort of felt it was hypocritical to ask for respect within this part of the building meanwhile within it and in the rest of the building the same respect wasn't being extended to the visitors – I genuinely felt like a cow being led to the slaughter the entire time I was in the building. I usually have an immense amount of time for religious buildings because I think they are the most culturally rich places on earth. History, religion and art all come together under one roof and usually it's an absolute wonder to observe, so I was really disappointed by how I felt after our visit. Maybe in a lower season or at a quieter time of day it would be different, but from what I've read since our visit not very. All of that being said I'm so happy we got to check it off of our list sand that I got to see Michelangelo's glorious frescos in the flesh as well as the incredible St Peter's Square.
We spent our evening at La Galleria Borghese after booking a two hour slot along with 358 others. Compared with our excursion earlier in the day, the peacefulness of the ex residence was sublime. I was beyond impressed at the range of works displayed there; and although there are works by non-Italian artists, it was the first time I had ever visited a gallery and thought it was a wonderful representation of its country's art history. The layout was also faultless, again the flow of the building was seamless. The palatial rooms with decedent decor were such a welcome change from the stern white walls of modern museums, and the Carravaggios and Berninis seemed at home below cherubs and Roman figures observing from the ceiling abovr. My favourite rooms had to be the entrance, purely for its ostentatious nature and then the room directly to its right, for surprising me with a graceful Canova and reminding me how much I adored his work.
I found Rome a beautiful and vivacious city with its only flaw being the tremendous amount of tourists in it, which of course I was one, so really who am I to criticise? The historic centre is so beyond any other place on earth I've visited and the Vatican was incredibly beautiful. I think Rome gets a bad name for being expensive but if you look things up before you go you'll save yourself an absolute packet, on everything from airport transfers to admission fees to dinners. We packed so much into a few days, and the things we missed give us the perfect excuse to return soon.
Wow, I am so jealous!! Thank you for sharing! Have a wonderful time!
Hi Caitlin, I have been meaning to visit your blog for a long time and just got the opportunity. This post brings back memories of my time in Rome. Great pics.Keep it going.


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World Jewish Restitution Organization "Profoundly Disappointed" at Proposed Polish Property Legislation that would Exclude Vast Majority of Holocaust Survivors and Their Families
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Urges Government to Ensure Fair and Just Law
October 20 – Over seventy years after 90% of Polish Jewry was killed during the Holocaust, the Polish Government today published proposed legislation that would address property confiscations. The draft legislation as proposed would exclude most Holocaust survivors and their families.
On behalf of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder, Chairman, and Gideon Taylor, Chair of Operations, made the following statement after the Polish Ministry of Justice released earlier today the text of planned legislation on confiscated property:
"We are profoundly disappointed that the Polish government's proposal excludes the vast majority of Polish Holocaust survivors and their families. Polish Holocaust survivors and their families were an integral part of Polish life for centuries. Their property is often their last tangible connection with the life they lived before the destruction of the Holocaust. We strongly urge the Polish government to ensure that the legislation, when introduced to the Parliament, will have eligibility criteria and a claims process that are fair and just to those who suffered and lost so much."
According to the text published by the Ministry of Justice, the legislation would:
Require that claimants currently be citizens of Poland today. In addition it would require that they have been residents in Poland at the time that their property was nationalized by the Communist regime. These provisions would exclude the vast majority of Holocaust survivors, and their families, who left Poland during the Holocaust or in its aftermath and now live outside Poland.
Exclude heirs, other than spouses and first line heirs (i.e. children, grandchildren). This unprecedented exception to existing Polish succession rules would disproportionately harm heirs of victims of the Holocaust. Because of the devastation of the Holocaust, non-linear heirs, such as siblings or nieces and nephews, were often the only remaining heirs to Jewish properties.
Bar claims by foreign citizens if they were eligible for compensation under postwar bilateral treaties between their country and Poland – even if they did not file claims. Most survivors were not eligible to file claims under these treaties, but even those who were eligible often did not know to file claims as they sought to rebuild their lives after the Holocaust.
Prevent people from filing claims for their property if owned through shares in a corporation.
Establish a short one-year claim period after which property would be transferred to the Polish Treasury.
Eliminate the possibility of return of the actual property, or of substitute property and limit compensation to 20% of the value of the property in cash or vouchers, or 25% in government bonds.
The proposed legislation, in Polish, can be found at the Ministry of Justice website www.ms.gov.pl/pl/informacje/news,9903,duza-ustawa-reprywatyzacyjna.html.
Since 1993, the WJRO has urged the Government of Poland to address the issue of Holocaust-era restitution in a comprehensive manner. Roughly half of the Jews who perished in the Holocaust were Polish – approximately 3 million Polish Jews were killed in the Holocaust, 90% of the Polish Jewish population. Poland is the only major country in Europe that has not passed national legislation for the restitution of property unjustly seized by the Nazis and/or nationalized by the Communist regime.
Tags: Justice, Poland, Property, Restitution
World Jewish Restitution Organization Welcomes Poland's Announcement of Need for National Legislation for Confiscated Property; Urges that it be Fair and JustNews, Press Releases
Senate Unanimously Passes Baldwin and Rubio's Bipartisan Legislation To Support Holocaust Survivors, FamiliesPress Releases, Updates


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Q: How to redirect UIWebview? I am new to iPhone development and I want to move to UIWebview based on the URL when the user clicks on a particular row (Google,Facebook,Yahoo). I want the page to redirect to the UIWebview.
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    SBJsonParser *parser = [[SBJsonParser alloc] init];
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"URL"]];
    NSData *response = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:nil];
    NSString *json_string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:response encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    statuses = [parser objectWithString:json_string error:nil];

    if (indexPath.row == 0) {
        //What do i write in here
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    } else if(indexPath.row == 2) {

    } else {

    }
}

Can anyone help me?

A: If a webView is managed by the same ViewController (so the ViewController has a property like this):
@property (nonatomic, retain) UIWebView *webView;

then you can open a link like so:
    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://your-url-goes-here.com"];
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
    [self.webView loadRequest:request];

However if the webView is managed by another ViewController than you have to pass a link to that ViewController and then trigger a segue.
A common approach is to set viewController's property to pass a link.
For example in WebViewController.h
...
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString *linkToOpen; //My fantasy isn't really working right now :)
...

in WebViewController.m
...
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    NSURL *url = [[[NSURL alloc] initWithString:self.linkToOpen] autorelease];
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
    [self.webView loadRequest:request];
}
...

And a segue from your ViewController to the WebViewController has an identifer @"myTestSegue" then you can do it like so:
WebViewController *webViewController = [[WebViewController alloc] initWithStyle:/*I don't honestly remember what to write here, sorry :(*/];
webViewController.linkToOpen = @"your link goes here. You can assign it inside a switch operator.";
[self.navigationController pushViewController:webViewController animated:YES];
[webViewController release];

The code is incomplete and probably incorrect somewhere, but I hope that it will help you to achieve your goals.

A: You have to create a new controller and navigate to that controller on click. Also you have to pass link to another controller for load the url in to webview.


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LOANDEPOT ALERT: Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C. is Investigating loanDepot on Behalf of Long-Term Stockholders and Encourages Investors to Contact the Firm
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NEW YORK, December 04, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C., a nationally recognized shareholder rights law firm, is investigating potential claims against loanDepot (NYSE: LDI) on behalf of long-term stockholders following a class action complaint that was filed against loanDepot on September 3, 2021. Our investigation concerns whether the board of directors of loanDepot have breached their fiduciary duties to the company.
According to the complaint, loanDepot violated the Securities Act of 1933 because the Registration Statement failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's loan originations had already declined substantially at the time of the IPO due to industry over-capacity and increased competition; (2) that the Company's gain-on-sale margins had already declined substantially at the time of the IPO; (3) that, as a result, the Company's revenue and growth would be negatively impacted; (4) that the Company had already been forced to embark on a significant expense reduction plan due to the significantly lower growth and refinance originations that the Company was experiencing; and (5) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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"To love, to know and to protect the oceans"
The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco has just celebrated its 100th anniversary. This temple of the sea is full of life and dedicated to the oceans of the world. Overlooking the Mediterranean offering an exceptional panoramic view the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco has more than 6000 specimens of fish on display. You will discover the amazing species of the Mediterranean, the incredible diversity of the inhabitants of a living coral reef and the monumental shark lagoon.
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2020 hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand's hunt for support from home-state colleagues stands in stark contrast to her Democratic rivals, who have made more progress locking down their respective delegations. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
Gillibrand struggles to get N.Y. delegation on board for 2020
She is the only one of five senators running for president who doesn't have a home-state congressional endorsement.
By ELENA SCHNEIDER and LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is still searching for a first presidential endorsement from colleagues in New York's delegation, leaving her the only senator running in 2020 without any home-state congressional backing.
The New York Democrat, who is still in the exploratory phase of her presidential bid, is working behind the scenes to curry support among her colleagues. Gillibrand is having lunch with House members — some for the first time — and hosting informal drinks with the state delegation next week. She's made phone calls to them and asked others for help in shoring up endorsements. But, so far, no one has jumped on board.
Gillibrand's efforts to get home-state colleagues committed to her presidential campaign reflects some members' wish to see the field develop, as well as the complex internal politics of New York's huge Democratic delegation — and the fact that Gillibrand could face presidential competition from within the state. Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't conclusively closed the door on a run and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio travels to early caucus and primary states. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg bowed out of the 2020 primary only on Tuesday.
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But Gillibrand's hunt for support stands in stark contrast to neighboring Sen. Cory Booker, who locked down the entire New Jersey Democratic delegation within a month of his presidential launch, as did Sen. Bernie Sanders in (much smaller) Vermont. Sen. Elizabeth Warren was introduced by Rep. Joe Kennedy, a Massachusetts colleague, at her official launch event last month, while Sen. Amy Klobuchar shouted out to freshman Reps. Angie Craig and Dean Phillips as she announced her campaign in a driving snowstorm in Minnesota.
And while Sen. Kamala Harris has not yet received the support of most of her California colleagues, she has locked down endoresements from five House members there.
Rep. Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.) noted that "the governor could still be in play" for a 2020 presidential bid from New York, but that he's open to supporting Gillibrand.
"It's too early to make any kind of decisive commitment without knowing the full lay of the land," Higgins said. "It's early and there's seemingly new candidates coming in every single day."
"It's early. I'm taking my time," said Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.). "I don't know all the candidates yet. I'm going to wait to see who all of the candidates are."
Sen. Chuck Schumer, the minority leader and New York's senior senator, is also expected to remain neutral in the 2020 primary.
And Rep. Carolyn Maloney said Gillibrand hasn't asked for her endorsement yet. "She's working hard, she's been going into South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa," said Maloney — who was more critical in a recent New York Daily News story, questioning whether Gillibrand could beat President Donald Trump in Midwestern states key to victory in 2020.
And some members of the New York delegation are waiting to see whether Beto O'Rourke jumps into the presidential race, citing their close relationship with the former House member from Texas.
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"No one seems to be willing to stick their neck out for" Gillibrand, said Rebecca Katz, a New York-based Democratic consultant.
Katz noted that Gillibrand's 2017 comments that former President Bill Clinton should have resigned during the Monica Lewinsky scandal "might be part of the hesitation."
But Katz said that "if you build it, they will come," and if Gillibrand "resonates in Iowa and New Hampshire, then I'm sure the New York delegation will take notice."
Some House members privately noted that Gillibrand's relationship with other New York Democrats isn't as strong as Schumer's. "We see and deal with him a lot more," said one member, granted anonymity to discuss internal delegation dynamics.
But Gillibrand is reaching out to her colleagues. On Tuesday, Gillibrand invited members of the New York delegation to an impromptu event with New York county officials at Bistro Bis, a restaurant on Capitol Hill. But only one member showed up to the early evening event, which coincided with House votes, after Gillibrand's office extended the invitation two hours earlier, according to people with knowledge of the invitations.
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Harris faces a similar problem as Gillibrand, staring down a massive California delegation with its own set of allegiances and priorities. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), for example, has already endorsed Sanders. And as in New York, some California members are also waiting to see O'Rourke's next move, while Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) has also said he could run and could attract some in-state support.
"I think it's pretty early in the process," said Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.). "I mean, I've known Sen. Harris for a long time. I'm proud that a woman of color, Indian-American woman is running, and that's what I shared with her. But I also said it's really early in the process and the field's not set."
"Four people from my class are potentially running — Beto O'Rourke, John [Delaney], Tulsi [Gabbard]'s already running, Swalwell potentially runs," Bera continued. "I think all of us will weigh in at some juncture. Kamala and I will talk again in a couple of months."
But Harris has still secured endorsements from California's governor, a handful of big city mayors and much of the state Senate to go with the five members of Congress who have endorsed her so far.
"Just by virtue of how large and diverse the New York and California delegations are and how complicated their internal politics can be, it will be harder for any presidential candidate to lock them down," said Craig Varoga, a Democratic strategist who's worked on presidential campaigns. "It's a credit to Booker that he could get New Jersey, but it's still easier to get New Jersey than California or New York — those just aren't as realistic."
Heather Caygle, John Bresnahan and Melanie Zanona contributed to this report.
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UB40 featuring Ali Campbell and Astro announce 'A Real Labour Of Love and 40th Anniversary Tour' including Aintree.
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Dazeworks Technologies holds first ever Salesforce Customer Success Platform event in Sri Lanka
An exclusive business technology summit
Salesforce Customer Success Platform was an exclusive technology summit held on 17 January at Taj Samudra – the first of its kind happened in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was a great opportunity to explore how Salesforce Silver Consulting Partner, Dazeworks Technologies along with Salesforce has transformed businesses in Sri Lanka and across the globe.
The event was an action-packed day between the keynote, thought-leader panel discussions, customer success stories, and live demos. The event was designed exclusively for the CxO community. It was an exciting chance to meet experts from Salesforce and business leaders from the community.
The event was filled with guests from the CxO community in Sri Lanka. Anjan Kalyani, Director of Sales at Salesforce, India was the keynote speaker for the event. Speaking about the 'Fourth Industrial Innovation', Anjan said, "With technology rapidly changing and transforming customer expectations at an unmatched pace, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is paving the way for disruptive changes in how we live and is impacting every business sector in unprecedented ways."
The event also had ESMB India Regional Sales Director Kamalkanth Tummala as one of the speakers. He spoke about 'How Technology enlightens our World' and said: "With embedded technologies, the Internet of Things and AI adding intelligence to nearly everything around us, we are beginning to connect to the world in whole new ways."
Campus Direct Director of PR and Marketing Amrith Weerasekara acknowledged and endorsed services by Salesforce and Dazeworks. Amrith said "Dazeworks has a great professional approach to support businesses to digitally transform with Salesforce. They have given us the flexibility to focus on brand experience, while they focus on architecting and building the how of it."
Other key participants included Suresh Gunasekara – Director of Operations at Campus Direct, Chandma Cooray – Chief Digital Officer at Hemas Holdings and Omer Fareed – CEO of Envoy Holdings.
The Dazeworks journey
The Customer Success Platform event was organised by Silver Consulting Partner Dazeworks and was powered by Salesforce. Dazeworks is the only listed Salesforce partner in Sri Lanka. They are pure-play Salesforce consultants with a global footprint in nine locations around the world. The team of certified Salesforce admins, developers, and UI experts work their magic in designing and developing a cloud solution that best matches the company requirements. They offer a gamut of services ranging from Salesforce development and implementation to Appexchange and the Salesforce mobile app development. With over 100+ clients in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia, Dazeworks has proved their expertise by working hand-in-hand with them for projects in implementation, development, system integration and data migration.
Salesforce is the world's #1 customer relationship management (CRM) platform. All Salesforce products run entirely in the cloud so there are no expensive setup costs, no maintenance, and your employees can work from any device with an internet connection – smartphone, tablet or laptop. Salesforce enables you to manage all interactions with your customers and prospects so your organization can grow and succeed.
The Dazeworks team in Sri Lanka is led by their director Chamil Madusanka. Chamil is also the founder of Sri Lanka Salesforce Developer User Group, Sri Lanka Salesforce Saturday and is the author of two Salesforce related books (first Sri Lankan to do so). He has been working towards spreading knowledge on Salesforce within the Sri Lanka region. The latest edition of the Customer Success Platform Event is one such initiative aimed at bringing the benefits of Salesforce to the business community in the country.For additional information on Dazeworks and Salesforce, visit their website at http://dazeworks.com/ or send an email to info@dazeworks.com.