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Hervé Moreau on Pronovias
News26-Jun-2019
Bridal Buyer gets an exclusive interview with Hervé Moreau the Artistic Director behind successful bridal brand Pronovias
Hervé on Pronovias
If you're a fan of bridal fashion, then there's no doubt that you'll be familiar with the name Hervé Moreau. The Nice-born French couturier is the Artistic Director of Pronovias, and is responsible for the creative direction of a number of the Pronovias Group brands: the Haute Couture collection Atelier Pronovias, Pronovias, Pronovias Privee, St. Patrick, and White One.
Bridal Buyer was lucky enough to get an exclusive interview with Moreau after the renowned fashion show that saw a model fly above the stage.
When did you first realise you wanted to pursue a career as a designer?
I have been interested in bridal fashion since I was little–I drew sketches of wedding dresses; they fascinated me! My career was always related to the bridal world. I studied fashion design in Cannes, and for the following 15 years, I worked as a designer for Jean-Louis Scherrer.
In 2010 I started at the high fashion firm Matsuo Fashion House in Japan as the head of the bridal and cocktail collections. And now I ́m at Pronovias! I started here in 2013 and being a part of this company is simply a dream come true. I hope to have a long and fruitful tenure here.
How is working in the bridal industry different today than from when you started?
The market for bridal fashion is ever evolving. Nowadays women know what they want. They have new icons: confident, sexy and sensual women, and they don't necessarily want princess dresses anymore.
Hence, why we have reinterpreted the classic volumes for lighter versions, while still offering ball gowns. We ́re embracing modern designs and trying to break old rules, also continuing to offer the classical options, creating all kinds of gowns for brides all over the world.
Read More: Pronovias Announces Amandine Ohayon as CEO
What motivates and drives you?
The best thing about working for Pronovias is being part of a company where I can pursue my dream and the dream of all the women around the world. Also, the chance to see the excitement and the happiness on the brides' faces, is such an honour. The wedding day is such a huge moment in the woman's life, and I feel so lucky to be able to help them to make the day as wonderful as possible!
What would you say is your biggest achievement to date?
Dressing the dreams of thousands of brides around the world on the most important day of their lives is a constant pride and my biggest achievement every day.
How would you describe a typical Pronovias bride?
A bride who feels faithful to herself. I want my brides to feel like the best possible version of themselves on their wedding day.
Watch Now: Pronovias In Bloom Collection
What inspired your latest collection?
I've always been fascinated by the art world and inspired by grandmasters like Monet and van Gogh who were artistic pioneers of their times. While crafting the 2020 Atelier Pronovias Collection, I went back to my childhood in Nice, where I was first exposed to the arts in the Museum of Marc Chagall.
Famous for painting worlds of fantasy, love, and joy, Chagall is renowned for celebrating the blissfulness of brides and portraying their beautiful silhouettes floating in harmonious dreamscapes, surrounded by flowers, birds, and glowing stars.
In our 2020 Collection, we re-interpreted Chagall´s universe in a unique way, adorning the gowns with stunning beadwork. Our team of 60 passionate artisans worked on this and the result: An array of stars, glowing moons, and lovebirds artfully beaded onto the gowns.
Can you tell us about any specific fabric and silhouette trends to look out for in the latest collection?
With the desire to create bridal dresses that flatter and celebrate the female form, the design team and I tailored impeccably glamorous silhouettes, crafting them with new materials, such as Crepe Couture, embellished mesh, and handcrafted laces from France.
Also, this innovative collection of wedding gowns was created with an improved fit that ensures both comfort and confidence – the aspiration of every modern bride. Every dress was designed to be featherlight, with streamlined construction made for moving with the grace and elegance reminiscent of the dreamy brides in Marc Chagall's masterpieces.
Read More: Summer Suggestions From Pronovias
How has the Pronovias brand evolved over the years?
The Pronovias Group is the international leader in the luxury bridal wear sector, with more than 4,000 points of sale in 105 countries, including 155 Pronovias boutiques. A family business founded in Barcelona more than 50 years ago, it was acquired by private equity fund BC Partners in October 2017 and is on track to further expand and underpin its leading international position in the luxury bridal wear sector.
Pronovias have a fantastic online presence, how has social media influenced the bridal industry/fashion industry?
The millennial generation communicates through social networks, chats and many, many photos are taken! We could say that practically everything happens through a picture. A millennial bride will first take a selfie with her dress then look into a mirror… so dresses should be, first, very photogenic, then surprising and consistent with their values.
The new collection is designed with every bride in mind, but which designs do you think British brides will respond most to?
We always attempt to appeal to as many styles as we can, trying to offer plenty of possibilities to brides all over the world to find their perfect dress and make them feel comfortable, elegant, trendy and beautiful on their big day.
Read More: Pronovias Unveils Global Expansion Plans
Are there any differences in what British brides want in comparison to other European countries?
We love British brides! The British style is known for its elegance and classic nature. The historically grand Royal style, but nowadays, the cool, punk, urban London trends are also well-recognized.
The difference in British brides and other international brides is tastes and trends. British brides are flexible in that they like the classic-romantic-royal style and the cool-urban at the same time. So, British brides can always find their perfect dress in Pronovias.
If you could dress anyone in the world who would it be?
All brides are a dream to me! I have had the opportunity to dress many brides and of course, many more to come.
If you loved this interview with Hervé Moreau from Pronovias, read our catchup with Richard Marsh, the Managing Director at Rainbow Club here.


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Abbott, Texas
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Moves Forward to Reopen State
MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is charging forward with the state's reopening process, announcing that businesses in 19 of 22 regions will be permitted to expand capacity next week.
On Thursday, Abbott announced he is allowing businesses in most areas of the state, including restaurants, retail stores, and gyms, to increase their occupancy from 50 percent to 75 percent. The governor is using hospitalization metrics to make the determinations on which areas are permitted to increase capacity:
This metric focuses on areas with high hospitalizations — referring to any Trauma Service Area (TSA) that has had seven consecutive days in which the number of COVID-19 hospitalized patients as a percentage of all hospitalized patients exceeds 15%, until such time as the TSA has seven consecutive days in which the number of COVID-19 hospitalized patients as a percentage of all hospitalized patients is 15% or less.
Beginning Monday, September 21, 19 of 22 TSAs will be permitted to increase capacity. The remaining areas must maintain a 50 percent capacity. Those TSAs include Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Lavaca, Victoria, Jim Hogg, Webb, Zapata, Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy counties.
Additionally, Abbott authorized the hospitals in most areas of the state to resume elective surgeries and issued updated guidelines on nursing home visits:
Effective immediately, 19 hospital regions in Texas can resume elective surgeries.
More information ⬇ #COVID19https://t.co/ZodZ7hgULH
— Gov. Greg Abbott (@GovAbbott) September 17, 2020
Under the new rules, residents will be allowed to designate up to two essential family caregivers who will be provided necessary training to allow them to safely go inside a facility for a scheduled visit, including in the resident's room, to help ensure their loved one's physical, social, and emotional needs are being met. Designated caregivers will not be required to maintain physical distancing, but only one caregiver can visit a resident at a time.
"With the medical advancements we have made and the personal hygiene practices we have adopted, Texans have shown that we can address both the health and safety concerns of COVID-19 while also taking careful, measured steps to restore the livelihoods that Texans depend on," Abbott said in a statement, reminding Texans to remain vigilant and continue to "heed the guidance of medical experts by wearing a mask, social distancing, and practicing proper sanitation strategies."
"By maintaining health and safety standards that are proven to mitigate COVID-19, we can continue to slow the spread while opening up the Texas economy," he added.
The Lone Star State reported 678,819 confirmed cases of the virus and 14,590 related fatalities as of Friday afternoon.

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Meet the Kick-Ass Girls Who Just Won Google's Science Fair
Margaret Eby
Updated Sep 25, 2014 @ 12:28 pm
An amazing team of teenage girls won top honor's at Monday's Google Science Fair with a project that identified a potential way to end world hunger.
Emer Hickey, 16, Ciara Judge, 16, and Sophie Healy-Thow, 17, a team from Kinsale, Ireland won the Grand Prize with their project, which stemmed from an observation that Hickey made while gardening. The teenager noticed a grouping of nodules on the roots of a pea plant, and examined them to find that they were full beneficial bacteria that helped the plant survive.
Hickey, Judge, and Healy-Thow set up a lab in a spare bedroom to study the effect of the bacteria, called rhizobia, on barley seeds, and found that the bacteria helped seeds germinate rather than simply rot in the ground. The girls figured out that the bacteria germinated seeds at a 50% increased rate, resulting in 74% more food production.
"It has a lot of implications," Hickey told Scientific American. "By the year 2050 we actually need 50 percent more food just to feed everyone." The bacteria may help resolve some of the pervasive food shortages in the world eventually.
Their prize? A $50,000 scholarship and a ten-day trip to the Galapagos Islands, plus inspiring thousands of girls everywhere to make an impact in the fields of math and science.
"We're not even finished yet," Hickey said. They sure aren't.
Check out their science fair entry video where they explain their project—you know, the one that could END WORLD HUNGER. Amazing.


Members of the SedonaKind Kindness in Schools Committee had two wonderful days delivering gift bags to all the teachers at West Sedona and Big Park Schools last week. "We had filled the bags at our last general meeting in April, and intended to give them out during Teacher Appreciation Week in May" said chairperson Gloria Woody. "But with the walk out looming on April 26th, we all decided our teachers could probably use a little TLC and support right now".
So on Tuesday the 26th, gift bags were delivered to every teacher at Big Park, with Principal Debbie Jones personally escorting the KIS team to every classroom. Then on Wednesday the 27th, the regular day for the KIS team to go to West Sedona, the team spread out throughout the campus, and delivered gift bags and hugs to every teacher there. "You would have thought we were giving them a million dollars", said KIS member Constance Loef. "Every teacher was so surprised and touched, not only by the beautiful little gift bags, but by the show of support. And the kids were delighted to see their teachers honored in this way, and they all joined in the applause and high spirits". Each bag contained a handmade card, a Kindness Charm, two gift cards to Starbucks and Safeway, and a delicious KIND BAR. "We loved creating a special card for our teachers, which we put the finishing touches on at our general meeting. Our Charmers made the 48 beautiful charms at a session at Alma de Sedona, and the wonderful KIND BAR company, which has been so supportive of us for the past two years donated the bars" said Sandy Brandvold.
SedonaKind has dedicated much of their efforts this year to supporting our teachers, and this project made our hearts sing. We're looking forward to finding more ways to help, and give these true heroes the love and support they deserve.


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Q: vagrant INIT works, vagrant UP - doesn't work I have installed Git, VirtualBox and Vargant on my Windows 10 computer.
Have problems with starting Vargant using git-bash console.
When I do vargant init - this create vargant file and looks like it's ok.
Alex@DESKTOP MINGW64 /d/shell
$ vagrant init hashicorp/precise32
A `Vagrantfile` has been placed in this directory. You are now
ready to `vagrant up` your first virtual environment! Please read
the comments in the Vagrantfile as well as documentation on
`vagrantup.com` for more information on using Vagrant.

But when I try to start vagrant with vagrant up command I receive error.
Alex@DESKTOP MINGW64 /d/shell
$ vagrant up
bash: vagrant: command not found

I have tried restarting, reinstalling these software, installing latest or previouse versions of software - nothing helps - still bash: vagrant: command not found.
What shell I do next to solve the problem?

A: the command / program name is vagrant  , not vargant.  You spell it correctly in the init, but the rest of your examples have it spelled incorrect. Try running vagrant up and you should be all set.

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package org.thymeleaf.expression;

import org.unbescape.uri.UriEscape;

/**
 *

 *   Utility class for performing URI/URL operations (esp.escaping/unescaping).
 *

 *

 *   An object of this class is usually available in variable evaluation expressions with the name
 *   <tt>#uris</tt>.
 *

 *
 * @author Daniel Fernández
 *
 * @since 2.1.4
 *
 */
public final class Uris {

    public Uris() {
        super();
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI path escape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input using <tt>UTF-8</tt> as encoding.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   The following are the only allowed chars in an URI path (will not be escaped):
     *

     *

     *
<tt>A-Z a-z 0-9</tt>

     *
<tt>- . _ ~</tt>

     *
<tt>! $ & ' ( ) * + , ; =</tt>

     *
<tt>: @</tt>

     *
<tt>/</tt>

     *

     *

     *   All other chars will be escaped by converting them to the sequence of bytes that
     *   represents them in the <tt>UTF-8</tt> and then representing each byte
     *   in <tt>%HH</tt> syntax, being <tt>HH</tt> the hexadecimal representation of the byte.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be escaped.
     * @return The escaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no escaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String escapePath(final String text) {
        return UriEscape.escapeUriPath(text);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI path unescape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input using <tt>UTF-8</tt> as encoding.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   This method will unescape every percent-encoded (<tt>%HH</tt>) sequences present in input,
     *   even for those characters that do not need to be percent-encoded in this context (unreserved characters
     *   can be percent-encoded even if/when this is not required, though it is not generally considered a
     *   good practice).
     *

     *

     *   This method will use <tt>UTF-8</tt> in order to determine the characters specified in the
     *   percent-encoded byte sequences.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be unescaped.
     * @return The unescaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no unescaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String unescapePath(final String text) {
        return UriEscape.unescapeUriPath(text);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI path escape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   The following are the only allowed chars in an URI path (will not be escaped):
     *

     *

     *
<tt>A-Z a-z 0-9</tt>

     *
<tt>- . _ ~</tt>

     *
<tt>! $ & ' ( ) * + , ; =</tt>

     *
<tt>: @</tt>

     *
<tt>/</tt>

     *

     *

     *   All other chars will be escaped by converting them to the sequence of bytes that
     *   represents them in the specified encoding and then representing each byte
     *   in <tt>%HH</tt> syntax, being <tt>HH</tt> the hexadecimal representation of the byte.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be escaped.
     * @param encoding the encoding to be used for unescaping.
     * @return The escaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no escaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String escapePath(final String text, final String encoding) {
        return UriEscape.escapeUriPath(text, encoding);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI path unescape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   This method will unescape every percent-encoded (<tt>%HH</tt>) sequences present in input,
     *   even for those characters that do not need to be percent-encoded in this context (unreserved characters
     *   can be percent-encoded even if/when this is not required, though it is not generally considered a
     *   good practice).
     *

     *

     *   This method will use the specified <tt>encoding</tt> in order to determine the characters specified in the
     *   percent-encoded byte sequences.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be unescaped.
     * @param encoding the encoding to be used for unescaping.
     * @return The unescaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no unescaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String unescapePath(final String text, final String encoding) {
        return UriEscape.unescapeUriPath(text, encoding);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI path segment escape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input using <tt>UTF-8</tt> as encoding.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   The following are the only allowed chars in an URI path segment (will not be escaped):
     *

     *

     *
<tt>A-Z a-z 0-9</tt>

     *
<tt>- . _ ~</tt>

     *
<tt>! $ & ' ( ) * + , ; =</tt>

     *
<tt>: @</tt>

     *

     *

     *   All other chars will be escaped by converting them to the sequence of bytes that
     *   represents them in the <tt>UTF-8</tt> and then representing each byte
     *   in <tt>%HH</tt> syntax, being <tt>HH</tt> the hexadecimal representation of the byte.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be escaped.
     * @return The escaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no escaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String escapePathSegment(final String text) {
        return UriEscape.escapeUriPathSegment(text);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI path segment unescape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input using <tt>UTF-8</tt> as encoding.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   This method will unescape every percent-encoded (<tt>%HH</tt>) sequences present in input,
     *   even for those characters that do not need to be percent-encoded in this context (unreserved characters
     *   can be percent-encoded even if/when this is not required, though it is not generally considered a
     *   good practice).
     *

     *

     *   This method will use <tt>UTF-8</tt> in order to determine the characters specified in the
     *   percent-encoded byte sequences.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be unescaped.
     * @return The unescaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no unescaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String unescapePathSegment(final String text) {
        return UriEscape.unescapeUriPathSegment(text);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI path segment escape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   The following are the only allowed chars in an URI path segment (will not be escaped):
     *

     *

     *
<tt>A-Z a-z 0-9</tt>

     *
<tt>- . _ ~</tt>

     *
<tt>! $ & ' ( ) * + , ; =</tt>

     *
<tt>: @</tt>

     *

     *

     *   All other chars will be escaped by converting them to the sequence of bytes that
     *   represents them in the specified encoding and then representing each byte
     *   in <tt>%HH</tt> syntax, being <tt>HH</tt> the hexadecimal representation of the byte.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be escaped.
     * @param encoding the encoding to be used for escaping.
     * @return The escaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no escaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String escapePathSegment(final String text, final String encoding) {
        return UriEscape.escapeUriPathSegment(text, encoding);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI path segment unescape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   This method will unescape every percent-encoded (<tt>%HH</tt>) sequences present in input,
     *   even for those characters that do not need to be percent-encoded in this context (unreserved characters
     *   can be percent-encoded even if/when this is not required, though it is not generally considered a
     *   good practice).
     *

     *

     *   This method will use specified <tt>encoding</tt> in order to determine the characters specified in the
     *   percent-encoded byte sequences.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be unescaped.
     * @param encoding the encoding to be used for unescaping.
     * @return The unescaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no unescaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String unescapePathSegment(final String text, final String encoding) {
        return UriEscape.unescapeUriPathSegment(text, encoding);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI fragment identifier escape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input using <tt>UTF-8</tt> as encoding.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   The following are the only allowed chars in an URI fragment identifier (will not be escaped):
     *

     *

     *
<tt>A-Z a-z 0-9</tt>

     *
<tt>- . _ ~</tt>

     *
<tt>! $ & ' ( ) * + , ; =</tt>

     *
<tt>: @</tt>

     *
<tt>/ ?</tt>

     *

     *

     *   All other chars will be escaped by converting them to the sequence of bytes that
     *   represents them in the <tt>UTF-8</tt> and then representing each byte
     *   in <tt>%HH</tt> syntax, being <tt>HH</tt> the hexadecimal representation of the byte.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be escaped.
     * @return The escaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no escaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String escapeFragmentId(final String text) {
        return UriEscape.escapeUriFragmentId(text);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI fragment identifier unescape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input using <tt>UTF-8</tt> as encoding.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   This method will unescape every percent-encoded (<tt>%HH</tt>) sequences present in input,
     *   even for those characters that do not need to be percent-encoded in this context (unreserved characters
     *   can be percent-encoded even if/when this is not required, though it is not generally considered a
     *   good practice).
     *

     *

     *   This method will use <tt>UTF-8</tt> in order to determine the characters specified in the
     *   percent-encoded byte sequences.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be unescaped.
     * @return The unescaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no unescaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String unescapeFragmentId(final String text) {
        return UriEscape.unescapeUriFragmentId(text);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI fragment identifier escape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   The following are the only allowed chars in an URI fragment identifier (will not be escaped):
     *

     *

     *
<tt>A-Z a-z 0-9</tt>

     *
<tt>- . _ ~</tt>

     *
<tt>! $ & ' ( ) * + , ; =</tt>

     *
<tt>: @</tt>

     *
<tt>/ ?</tt>

     *

     *

     *   All other chars will be escaped by converting them to the sequence of bytes that
     *   represents them in the specified encoding and then representing each byte
     *   in <tt>%HH</tt> syntax, being <tt>HH</tt> the hexadecimal representation of the byte.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be escaped.
     * @param encoding the encoding to be used for escaping.
     * @return The escaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no escaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String escapeFragmentId(final String text, final String encoding) {
        return UriEscape.escapeUriFragmentId(text, encoding);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI fragment identifier unescape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   This method will unescape every percent-encoded (<tt>%HH</tt>) sequences present in input,
     *   even for those characters that do not need to be percent-encoded in this context (unreserved characters
     *   can be percent-encoded even if/when this is not required, though it is not generally considered a
     *   good practice).
     *

     *

     *   This method will use specified <tt>encoding</tt> in order to determine the characters specified in the
     *   percent-encoded byte sequences.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be unescaped.
     * @param encoding the encoding to be used for unescaping.
     * @return The unescaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no unescaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String unescapeFragmentId(final String text, final String encoding) {
        return UriEscape.unescapeUriFragmentId(text, encoding);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI query parameter (name or value) escape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input using <tt>UTF-8</tt> as encoding.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   The following are the only allowed chars in an URI query parameter (will not be escaped):
     *

     *

     *
<tt>A-Z a-z 0-9</tt>

     *
<tt>- . _ ~</tt>

     *
<tt>! $ ' ( ) * , ;</tt>

     *
<tt>: @</tt>

     *
<tt>/ ?</tt>

     *

     *

     *   All other chars will be escaped by converting them to the sequence of bytes that
     *   represents them in the <tt>UTF-8</tt> and then representing each byte
     *   in <tt>%HH</tt> syntax, being <tt>HH</tt> the hexadecimal representation of the byte.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be escaped.
     * @return The escaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no escaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String escapeQueryParam(final String text) {
        return UriEscape.escapeUriQueryParam(text);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI query parameter (name or value) unescape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input using <tt>UTF-8</tt> as encoding.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   This method will unescape every percent-encoded (<tt>%HH</tt>) sequences present in input,
     *   even for those characters that do not need to be percent-encoded in this context (unreserved characters
     *   can be percent-encoded even if/when this is not required, though it is not generally considered a
     *   good practice).
     *

     *

     *   This method will use <tt>UTF-8</tt> in order to determine the characters specified in the
     *   percent-encoded byte sequences.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be unescaped.
     * @return The unescaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no unescaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String unescapeQueryParam(final String text) {
        return UriEscape.unescapeUriQueryParam(text);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI query parameter (name or value) escape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   The following are the only allowed chars in an URI query parameter (will not be escaped):
     *

     *

     *
<tt>A-Z a-z 0-9</tt>

     *
<tt>- . _ ~</tt>

     *
<tt>! $ ' ( ) * , ;</tt>

     *
<tt>: @</tt>

     *
<tt>/ ?</tt>

     *

     *

     *   All other chars will be escaped by converting them to the sequence of bytes that
     *   represents them in the specified encoding and then representing each byte
     *   in <tt>%HH</tt> syntax, being <tt>HH</tt> the hexadecimal representation of the byte.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be escaped.
     * @param encoding the encoding to be used for escaping.
     * @return The escaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no escaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String escapeQueryParam(final String text, final String encoding) {
        return UriEscape.escapeUriQueryParam(text, encoding);
    }

    /**
     *

     *   Perform am URI query parameter (name or value) unescape operation
     *   on a <tt>String</tt> input.
     *

     *

     *   This method simply calls the equivalent method in the <tt>UriEscape</tt> class from the
     *   Unbescape library.
     *

     *

     *   This method will unescape every percent-encoded (<tt>%HH</tt>) sequences present in input,
     *   even for those characters that do not need to be percent-encoded in this context (unreserved characters
     *   can be percent-encoded even if/when this is not required, though it is not generally considered a
     *   good practice).
     *

     *

     *   This method will use specified <tt>encoding</tt> in order to determine the characters specified in the
     *   percent-encoded byte sequences.
     *

     *

     *   This method is thread-safe.
     *

     *
     * @param text the <tt>String</tt> to be unescaped.
     * @param encoding the encoding to be used for unescaping.
     * @return The unescaped result <tt>String</tt>. As a memory-performance improvement, will return the exact
     *         same object as the <tt>text</tt> input argument if no unescaping modifications were required (and
     *         no additional <tt>String</tt> objects will be created during processing). Will
     *         return <tt>null</tt> if <tt>text</tt> is <tt>null</tt>.
     */
    public String unescapeQueryParam(final String text, final String encoding) {
        return UriEscape.unescapeUriQueryParam(text, encoding);
    }

}

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Edinburgh St James, 9 September 2020
In another COVID-inspired innovation for the Society, Nuveen Real Estate kindly hosted the first SPR virtual site visit. Martin Perry, Nuveen's Director of Development for Europe gave an evocative presentation of the ground-breaking new Edinburgh St James retail/mixed use project, which looks set to transform the city's retail offer when it opens next spring. The SPR rarely holds site visits outside London, so the event also gave members the chance to gain some insights into a different metropolitan market.
Martin explained that Edinburgh St James covers seven acres in the heart of the city centre, close to Princes and St George's Streets and is surrounded by historic buildings, some of which are integrated into the project. The development consists of five floors of shopping, dining, leisure, entertainment, hotel and apartment space that have effectively been built into a granite hillside, with the aim of enhancing the city centre 'physically, culturally and socially'.
One of the most visually striking elements of the scheme is the ultra-modern hotel structure at its centre, which is somewhat reminiscent on London's City Hall. The hotel will be part of the W brand run by Marriott, which Martin described as aimed at the wealthy young international traveller. Another part of the 244-room hotel will be housed in one of the repurposed 18th century terraces.
Edinburgh is already a highly successful tourist destination, but the presentation emphasised that its retail offer is currently constrained the format of space available, so that many leading retailers have not been able to find suitable premises. This is a need that Edinburgh St James seeks to meet, potentially becoming one of the UK's top-ten retail schemes. Martin explained how Nuveen's City Megatrends research has underpinned the development, with Edinburgh rating very highly for its quality of life and education, two factors that are seen as critical in creating buoyant real estate market prospects. The city is also unique for its number of festivals. One of these, the Edinburgh Fringe, is the second most ticketed event in the world, next to the Olympics.
Clearly the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted preparations for the scheme's opening. Martin noted that construction virtually ceased for three months during the most severe phase of the lockdown, meaning that activity is now intense given the need to catch up in time for opening in April 2021. Nevertheless, advance leasing of the retail space has clearly progressed well, with anchor tenants including Zara and John Lewis in place, and only a few units remaining to be let.
Tim Horsey
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2010 Ranger Z520 Comanche bass boats for $40,000 (or best offer).
This boat is located in Irving, Texas and is in great condition. She is also equipped with a Evinrude engine that has only 30 hours.
Reason for selling is make room for a new boat.


For more information about the Dan Wesson 715 Revolver Airgun, and to show your support, please visit our sponsors using the links under "Sponsor Links" in this description.
I'm a fan of revolvers. I've owned and still own many. I previously owned a Dan Wesson .357 with 8? barrel. This 715 Replica is like spending time with an old friend. The attention to detail in creating this replica is exceptional. In this video we will go over the various features, operation, and performance. It's truly a wonderful piece for the collection.


Looks really good. And damn, you are fast.
More superb additions; glad to see a sudden surge of productivity.
Thanks guys, I'm currently off with my daughter's march break so I do have a bit more time than usual. I got 2 more today and maybe Silverrager tomorrow if I finish him off.
The A.R.C. Is the faction I like the most and I believe this one was my favorite model to paint.
Big raging ape with extra arms - what is not to love about that. Well done!
Thanks guys, next up, I'll probably rebase apebot and 6FU to their new 50mm bases.
He looks great. Thanks for sharing.
Well, this took some time but here's 2 more pictures.
And this one is 3 more supreme joining the ranks of the painted ones.
Here's this weekend painted supreme. I got the twin done and a quick repaint of stormblade. I didn't like the yellow skin I had for him so I brought him back in the blue skin scheme which is a color I really enjoy painting.
Nice work. I can't wait to paint them by myself.
Love all the recent work - the new minis as well as the re-bases.
The twins look fantastic! I think... I might just borrow your idea of the inverted colour schemes!
Yeah the inverted colors is a fantastic idea. Consider it stolen by me as well.
Thanks guys, I can't take credit for the inverted color idea for those guys but I'm happy if they can inspire you!
Thanks hapotte for sharing the model picture!!! you did a great job !


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Transforming the traditional (social) intranet into a valuable Employee Experience Portal
Joris is Product Owner of ING's global intranet. Serving more than 70,000 staff in over 40 countries, the 'One Intranet' application is one of the most daily used tools within this financial institution. As Product Owner, Joris is part of a multidisciplinary squad of developers, OPS engineers and customer journey experts. Half of the team is based in Pune, India, the other half at ING's headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The team's ambition is to bring ING's global intranet to the next level in 2020-2021, transforming the application from a traditional (social) intranet into a more mature and valuable "Employee Experience Portal". This will use the latest (cloud) technologies, microservices and insights to enhance the employee journey and facilitate an efficient workspace in the bank.
Before joining ING back in 2014, Joris worked for ABN AMRO Bank for 11 years. He then started to work as a freelance consultant and project manager, undertaking projects for TomTom, The Dutch Chamber of Commerce, Van Lanschot Bankiers, JustRed/Media and others. He has broad experience of the agile way of working and scrum teams in the domains of a digital workplace, intranet, online video and mobile apps.
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It's been at least a decade since rap-rockers Limp Bizkit ruled rock radio, and for fans of nü-metal, the lack of Fred Durst has been enough to make you want to break stuff.
Catchy! It's enough to make us want to start wearing a red ball cap at all times.


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Meghan Markle 'wouldn't want to come back to royal life' after gaining freedom
Meghan Markle wouldn't want to come back to royal life because she has freedom of expression in the US, according to a biographer.
Sean Smith, author of Meghan Misunderstood, told Yahoo UK there is "absolutely not" a way for Meghan and Harry to return to the royal fold, but added that the actor and activist was unlikely to want to go back.
He said: "Meghan is an American woman who, when she went back, the first thing she said practically was 'it's good to be home'.
"Why would she want to give that [freedom of expression] up to be a royal Stepford wife?"
He added: "Harry is a different case, because obviously he was born royal and is the Queen's grandson.
"The royals acted 100% to block them and I think there should have been more compromise.
"The way he was stripped of his military titles was ridiculous. Maybe they should share them out but I don't think anyone who has seen how much he cares about his comrades and wounded comrades would be in any doubt that he would be a great addition to that field ongoing."
Harry and Meghan stepped back from their senior royal duties formally at the end of March, though their last engagement had been earlier in the month at the Commonwealth Day Service.
The Royal Family is due to review the couple's situation in March 2021, but with coronavirus dominating life, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have had a different first year than they had expected.
Reflecting on what had caused the couple to make their move to California and out of senior royal life, Smith said Meghan had faced unfair press coverage and a lack of support from the Royal Family.
He told Yahoo UK: "It went wrong with the press coverage of her. Here was a 35-year-old self made millionaire, a woman who had been an activist, still is, for female empowerment, racial equality, and she was described as a 'saucy divorcee'.
"There was that notorious headline about her starring on PornHub. It was ridiculous, one journalist said it was a clip that 'wouldn't even fit into your religious grandmother's idea of pornography'.
"It clouded the British public's view."
Watch: Learn to sit and pose like a royal
Smith, who has written best-selling biographies on celebrities including Adele and Tom Jones, said Harry stepped in but the situation would have been better if one of the other senior royals had done so.
"There are three royals that really matter - the Queen and the two future kings. If one of them had said 'this is not the way to go' it would have stopped but they did not," he said.
Harry released a statement in 2016 which criticised the "racist undertones" of abuse Meghan faced, and later, William released a brief comment, saying: "The Duke of Cambridge absolutely understands the situation concerning privacy and supports the need for Prince Harry to support those closest to him."
Smith notes one of Meghan's early engagements after her royal duties finished, interviewing founder of The 19th Emily Ramshaw, as the moment it became clear "the British public, had lost Meghan in just four years".
In his book, he says: "In my opinion we lost her right at the start – within one week.
"In context, Meghan was not at a coffee morning telling the ladies that lunch that it was good to be home after a tiring and tiresome trip to Europe. The 19th describes itself as 'a non profit, non partisan newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics and policy'.
"It declares, 'Join us in our mission to empower all women', a rallying call that would always find favour with Meghan Markle."
Harry and Meghan are now working in California and plan to launch a non-profit.
Discussing whether the Royal Family would learn from what happened with the Sussexes, to avoid any similar situation when the Cambridge children grow up, Smith said: "Meghan was a particular case.
"One of the things we don't know is what the status of the monarchy will be in 20 years, when the children are finding their feet.
"We don't know where we will be with gender equality, whether Britain will be more accepting of people from outside.
"My suspicion is that they will not do anything in advance."
Meghan Misunderstood is available now.
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Models are strutting their stuff on the catwalk throughout the day at Optrafair wowing visitors with the latest frame styles set to music and dance.
Shows featuring frames fromEyespace, Bondeye, International Eyewear and Wolf Eyewear lasting with 20 minutes will take place at 10.30, 12.00. 13.30 and 15.00 on Saturday and Sunday sono one will miss out.
On the stage from Eyespace will be itslatest Land Rover, Cocoa Mint and Basebox styles while Bondeye will feature its ROAV foldable sunglasses and Haseley & Co wooden sunglasses. The latest styles from International being displayed by the models are Hero, Episode and Ocean Blue while Wolf features its eponymous ranges of day and sunwear.


This is THE weekend for holiday events in Orange County! Choose from 8 tree lighting ceremonies, watch the movie ELF at the beach, take a boat ride with Santa, enjoy a Christmas parade, shop at numerous craft fairs, and more!
Balboa Bay Resort Tree Lighting is Sunday 12/3 from 6-7pm. Live music, a visit from Santa & more. FREE to attend. http://bit.ly/2zSoO7Z FREE to attend.


While all of the focus so far has been on the current gen PS4, XBOX and PC versions, Activision Games Blog today confirmed that the latest in the Call of Duty franchise, Black Ops III, will also make an appearance on old gen, PS3 and XBOX360, via development teams at Beenox and Mercenary Technology.
Fear not, the promise of, "a true next generation experience," unchained from the shackles of old hardware is not necessarily down the tubes as the first details on Black Ops III for last gen are all about how it will not be able to achieve the same heights as on PS4. For example, the announced four player co-op campaign on current gen will be paired down to hopefully two player co-op.
For instance, the campaign mode on Xbox 360 and PS3 is currently in development with a goal of enabling two-player cooperative play, instead of the four-player cooperative campaign on next-gen.
Hopefully, because if you read between the lines there, it seems like they haven't quite got it down yet. Other features that won't be supported on PS3 will probably be revealed at E3 next week.
The upcoming multiplayer beta will also only be on current gen and PC.
Good news for Call of Duty fans who have yet to upgrade. Bad news for WiiU Call of Duty fans as in the same post, Activision also confirmed there will be no WiiU version of Black Ops III.
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'use strict'
const describe = require('mocha').describe
const it = require('mocha').it
const expect = require('chai').expect
const createRegistry = require('./registry')

describe('Registry', function () {
  it('should resolve version', function (done) {
    const registry = createRegistry({
      url: 'http://registry.npmjs.org/',
    })
    registry
      .resolve({
        name: 'lodash',
        version: '0',
      })
      .then(function (pkg) {
        expect(pkg.version).to.eq('0.5.1')
        done()
      })
  })

  it('should throw error when version cannot be resolved', function (done) {
    const registry = createRegistry({
      url: 'http://registry.npmjs.org/',
    })
    registry
      .resolve({
        name: 'lodash',
        version: '0.99.99',
      })
      .catch(function (err) {
        expect(err).to.be.instanceOf(Error)
        done()
      })
  })
})


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Q: Pushback elements of other arrays I created two arrays A and B, the array C should store the first elements of A and B.
Ex : A={1,2,3}, B={4,5,6}, C must be {1,4,2,5,3,6}.
My program doesn't show anything after the input of my arrays.
This is my loop :
for(int i(0);i<3;i++){
        C.push_back(A[i]);
        C.push_back(B[i]);
}

for(int i(0);i<6;i++){
        std::cout << C[i] << " ";
}

A: Try this:
int main()
{
    std::vector<int> A = {1,2,3};
    std::vector<int> B = {4,5,6};
    std::vector<int> C;
    for (int i(0); i < 3; i++)
    {
        C.push_back(A[i]);
        C.push_back(B[i]);
    }

    for (int i(0); i < 6; i++)
    {
        std::cout << C[i] << " ";
    }

    return 0;
}

Or you can change it to:
int main()
{
    std::vector<int> A(3);
    std::vector<int> B(3);
    for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
    {
        std::cin >> A[i];
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
    {
        std::cin >> B[i];
    }
    std::vector<int> C;
    for (int i(0); i < 3; i++)
    {
        C.push_back(A[i]);
        C.push_back(B[i]);
    }

    for (int i(0); i < 6; i++)
    {
        std::cout << C[i] << " ";
    }

    return 0;
}

A: // Initilize n = length(A) + length(B)
vector<int> C[n];
for(int i=0;i<3;i+=2){
       C.push_back(A[i]);
       C.push_back(B[i]);
}
for(int i=0;i<6;i++){
    cout<<C[i];
}


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Q: What's the loss function of neutral network with a vector output? We know that usually the output of neutral network is a value. If the output is a vector such as the multi-steps prediction in time series, what's the loss function of vector? Is it simply the sum of the loss functions of each component?

A: Depends on the loss function. Some losses are defined in terms of vectors, and then give a scalar for each vector. Some will just compute a scalar loss for each element and then sum/average the elements to give a single loss value.
Triplet losses are used to train embedding vectors $f(x_i)$, so for each input (an image, a text, something else), the network returns a vector. The loss $L$ for a sample $x^a$ is computed in terms of distances to the embeddings of two other samples $x^p$ and $x^n$ .
$$\begin{aligned}
L &=  \max\left\{0,
\left\|f(x^a) - f(x^p) \right\|_2^2 -
\left\|f(x^a)-f(x^n)\right\|_2^2
+\alpha\right\}
\end{aligned}
$$
See also In training, I first have a solid drop in loss, but eventually the loss slowly but consistently increases. What could cause this?
Other losses just suppress the distinction between vector and scalar values. Suppose that your network takes an $n \times m$ pixel image as an input and gives an $n \times m$ matrix output as a prediction (for instance, if you're computing a boolean mask of the input image). For some task, it might be sufficient to flatten the output and the mask (label array) and compute the softmax loss in the usual way.


Bullying is not simply a matter of one bully and one person being bullied. Usually, there are a number of people who actively or passively encourage the behaviour, or who could, but fail to, prevent bullying from happening.
The Bullying Circle is an activity to show the many roles that people play when bullying happens. The central point is that too many people who could stop the bullying don't do so. By understanding how bullying happens we can change our behaviour.
We present the bullying circle as an educational activity here. We encourage you to use it in any programme that you may be involved in.
We have explained how to use it both for children and for youth and adults below. It can be a very emotional activity, so please take great care when doing this activity.
The activity explores eight different ways of being involved in bullying. The key point of this activity is to recognise the importance of actively intervening to stop bullying. If we don't act to stop it, we are directly or indirectly responsible for the bullying, even if we are not the bully ourselves.
Here is a short description of the eight different roles we can play when bullying happens.
1. Bully (or bullies) plans and/or starts the bullying and takes a leading part in it.
2. Followers take active part in the bullying, but they don't start it.
3. Supporters encourage the bullying, but they don't take active part.
4. Passive supporters enjoy the bullying but do not show open support.
5. Disengaged onlookers observe the bullying but think and act as if it's none of their business.
6. Possible defenders dislikes the bullying and know they should help but they don't act.
7. Defenders actively resist the bullying and try to stop it.
8. Target. This is the victim of abuse, they often have some characteristic that bullies choose to exploit, and they don't feel they can stop the bullying by themselves.
"Adult intervention is often 4%, peer or classmate intervention is 11%, and no intervention is 85%. This means that it is more common for these incidents to be ignored." In other words, adults only intervene in 1 of 20 cases of bullying and peers only in 1 of 10. Almost 9 out of 10 times, no one does anything to stop the bullying! 3 The conclusion to draw is simple: Let's be a "defender" and stand up to the bully!
How to use the activity will depend on the age of your participants. It will also depend on the specific group or camp. It is very important that a good group feeling and level of trust has been established before this activity is done.
For all ages and groups, it is important to start by making sure that everybody understands the word bullying.
Be aware that there may not be a direct translation into all languages, so give language groups sufficient time to discuss what bullying means to them. The various experiences and thoughts that come out from different language and country groups may reveal interesting differences. When the group has a shared understanding of what bullying is, the activity should be explained.
The activity uses the Bullying Circle for a role play. Those who perform the role play stand in a circle (with the target in the middle) to play out a bullying situation.
Each person in the role play is given a card to explain their role (see the end of the document), and a scenario is presented, that they should act out. The planning group should prepare the scenarios beforehand, and make sure that they are relevant and appropriate to the participants.
In the beginning, and with younger groups, the scenarios should not be very dramatic or severe. More serious scenarios can be used later in the activity based on what the group is ready to handle. The scenarios should still let participants feel safe and open to discussion.
For example, a scenario could have the bully picking on a boy or girl with freckles, saying repeatedly that they are dirty. The target is visibly upset and unable to stop the bullying. The followers repeat what the bully has said and in a way that the target hears them. The supporters make sure the bully hears it when they deride the target for being freckled. And so on, continuing until the defender steps in to end the bullying.
1. In groups with young participants (11-13 years old) OR in situations where there is not a strong level of trust in the group OR if the development of the group is at an early stage (groups with weak group dynamics).
2. Groups where all participants are 13 or older AND in which a strong level of trust has been developed AND if individuals have come together and act confidently within the group (established groups).
You should have the adult group perform the bullying situation as a role play so that the activity will avoid distressing anyone. The participants will act as audience, so groups can be big or small depending on number of available adults, and on what is appropriate for the group.
You could have the participants tell the adults how to change their behaviour and try out other ways of doing the scenario – so the kids would in effect be directing the role play. The adults should then try to improvise based on these directions.
Based on the performance of the adult group various debriefings can be used. It can be a good idea to have the kids do something creative to express their feelings about what they witnessed – have them draw, make a song or create a story or cartoon based on the experience. Then create comfortable small groups to discuss how they felt and share stories of bullying.
Conclude the activity with a discussion of how the children could apply the lesson of the activity by becoming defenders, and what they would see as challenges in becoming defenders.
The role play can involve the participants themselves. It is very important that this is not done until trust has been established, and that the activity is very wellplanned and considered by the facilitators.
Groups should have 8 participants, one for each role in the Bullying Circle, and each group should have a facilitator present. Give each small group participating in the role play a description of their role (see appendix), and allow enough time so that groups can prepare and decide on how they want to play out their role.
To deepen the learning experience, you can have people try several different roles to experience and feel the same situation from more than one perspectives.
Debrief the activity so that all participants a) can express the feelings they experienced during the activity and b) discuss how they can apply the lesson of the activity by becoming defenders.
Make sure to consider carefully how to run this activity based on the age of the participants and how strongly the group has already bonded.
It is very important in this activity to spend adequate time working with the emotions of participants. Make sure that everyone feels comfortable, that no one is pressured into sharing, and that all emotions and experiences are listened to and treated with respect.
These role cards are for printing off and cutting so you can hand one out to each of the eight groups who will play act the role play.
You are the bully or a group of bullies. This means that you initiate and drive or lead the bullying.
Consider the following: What body language will you use? What facial expressions will you make? Will you say anything?
You will start the bullying.
You take part actively in the bullying but you don't initiate it. You take your lead from the bully or bullies.
You cheer the bully on and support what the bully and his/her followers do, but you don't bully the target.
You enjoy the bullying but do not show open support. Perhaps you hang back a bit to be the audience.
to talk with others. You don't find the bullying very interesting, and you don't want to get involved.
you, and a little ashamed that you don't help.
You actively resist the bully and speak out against him/her. You try your best to stop the bully.


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Journal of Insulin Resistance
Home ▶ Vol 5, No 1 (2022) ▶ Zinn
Caryn Zinn
School of Sport & Recreation, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Human Potential Centre, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Catherine Crofts
BioDesign Laboratory, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
School of Public Health and Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Zinn C, Crofts C. Interpreting quantification: Is this the Achilles heel of insulin diagnostics? J. insul. resist. 2022;5(1), a70. https://doi.org/10.4102/jir.v5i1.70
Interpreting quantification: Is this the Achilles heel of insulin diagnostics?
Caryn Zinn, Catherine Crofts
Copyright: © 2022. The Author(s). Licensee: AOSIS.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
With the re-establishment of the Journal of Insulin Resistance, it is time to pause, look back and appraise where we have come from and how we have progressed with diagnosing insulin resistance and hyperinsulinaemia. These metabolic states are becoming increasingly better established as underpinning a range of chronic health conditions. What is not well established is the difference between these two states. Whilst they generally do occur concurrently, insulin resistance occurs at the target cell, whereas hyperinsulinaemia results from excessive secretion of insulin. Both states can occur acutely and chronically based on the physiological context but have different downstream physiological outcomes. Whilst these might appear to be technical subtleties, the two conditions are not one and the same and need to be considered as separate entities.
The understanding of these two separate entities and how they coexist, alongside their diagnostic interpretations, might very well be the Achilles heel of the field.
Let us step back in time to see how history has shaped our understanding of insulin dynamics.
Insulin was first discovered 100 years ago, but it was much later, that is, 40 years after its discovery, that it was first quantified. Yallow and Berson established the radioimmunoassay technique, which later won them a Nobel Prize in 1977 and which progressed the understanding and utility of insulin via laboratory explorations.
Joseph R. Kraft progressed this work and was one of the first pathologists to use the radioimmunoassay technique in clinical practice. By measuring insulin in the blood in the 1970s, he was able to recognise the presence of hyperinsulinaemia in the normoglycaemic state and to develop an understanding of the relationship between hyperinsulinaemia and type 2 diabetes. His work culminated in the establishment of the 'Kraft patterns' but it took until recently for this work to show academic and clinical traction.
Fast forward to today, there is a plethora of diagnostic techniques that measure insulin resistance and a few for hyperinsulinaemia. Diagnostic technologies have advanced and all modern techniques accurately quantify intended markers, especially insulin. What is missing is the collective ability to effectively interpret findings of these two metabolic states in a translational way that is meaningful in clinical practice. Several of the techniques are more suitable to research, such as the hyperinsulinaemic-euglycaemic clamp, the gold standard test for insulin resistance, which uses a glucocentric methodology and the oral glucose insulin sensitivity (OGIS) index, a more insulinocentric model addressing dynamic measures of insulin resistance. Both have little application in the real world of clinical practice as they are executed under stringent laboratory conditions and may induce supraphysiological states. Techniques more commonly used in clinical practice include the single fasting insulin measure, which may also be included in other methodologies, such as Homeostatic Model Assessment (HOMA) and quantitative insulin-sensitivity check index (QUICKI). All measures based on fasting insulin are flawed because of insulin's highly oscillatory and reactive nature. The use of insulin as a diagnostic variable is further complicated by the lack of a universal laboratory reference interval and imprecise unit conversion factor. Furthermore, the single fasting insulin measure may fail to diagnose people with hyperinsulinaemia or insulin resistance, with Hayashi et al.'s1 work showing patients who have lost their first phase insulin response, which may not be identified by fasting insulin measures, have a 30% chance of developing type 2 diabetes in 5–10 years.
The current gold standard for diagnosing hyperinsulinaemia involves measuring insulin over a 5-h or a 2-h period after consuming a glucose bolus.2,3 Whilst a useful tool in research, its application in the clinical setting (despite being applied by some) is still impractical from being adopted across the board.
We have learnt a great deal about insulin dynamics over the last 100 years and dramatically improved technologies for its quantification. However, there is still no single practical test that we can currently recommend with confidence for diagnosing either insulin resistance or hyperinsulinaemia. There is also much more work to be done in order to refine the translation of quantified insulin into meaningful interpretation of metabolic states. We look to the future to improve our understanding and development of diagnostic techniques that direct us to a more accurate and real-world application model, which will benefit translational research and practice.
Key directions for future research include the following: (1) a shift from a glucocentric to an insulinocentric model for diagnostics and treatment; (2) an expansion of the reductionist lens with which we approach a concept, to a more holistic approach, whereby a simultaneous interplay of hormones and the normal state of play of the human body is considered; (3) an investigation into the role that other hormones such as glucagon, gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) or glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) play in the diagnostics of metabolic disease; and (4) a drilling down on the specific contexts of insulin dynamics and assessing the differences between acute and chronic and normal and pathological states.
Overall, with consistency in terminology, semantics and understanding, we will be able to develop effective interpretation and translation of existing and new diagnostic outputs into real-world outcomes. This is what is needed to overcome the Achilles heel and advance metabolic health improvements.
The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.
C.Z. conceptualised the vision and direction of the editorial. Both authors (C.Z. and C.C.) discussed the content to be included. C.Z. wrote the editorial and C.C. contributed to its refinement.
The views and opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any affiliated agency of the authors.
Hayashi T, Boyko EJ, Sato KK, et al. Patterns of insulin concentration during the OGTT predict the risk of type 2 diabetes in Japanese Americans. Diabetes Care. 2013;36(5):1229–1235. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc12-0246
Kraft JR. Detection of diabetes mellitus in situ (occult diabetes). Lab Med. 1975;6(2):10–22. https://doi.org/10.1093/labmed/6.2.10
Crofts C, Schofield G, Wheldon M, Zinn C, Kraft JR. Determining a diagnostic algorithm for hyperinsulinaemia. J Insulin Resist. 2019;4(1), a49. https://doi.org/10.4102/jir.v4i1.49
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Sage People today announced that Canonical, the company behind disruptive open source operating system Ubuntu, has selected its Human Resources Management System (HRMS) to replace its existing HR operations information systems and to scale its new talent management initiatives.
Canonical provides software and services to enterprises as well as government and education organisations around the world, to help migrate and manage their Ubuntu deployments. The company ensures Ubuntu runs reliably on every platform from PCs, tablets and smartphones to servers and the cloud. In just a few years, Canonical grew from 200 to over 600 employees in 30 countries as the company added new products and responded to significant global demand for Ubuntu. To support the increased scale of operations and continued growth the company recognised the need to invest in HR operations management.
Canonical operates in a high performing, fast paced, dynamic, global culture, and relies on its people, processes and systems to support an ongoing approach to managing talent proactively. Sage People's centralised system and standardised user interface replaces Canonical's previous organic, distributed HR management systems, to provide a single, integrated experience for its employees. The HR system also provides the ability to easily scale as Canonical continues to grow.
During the bid process a number of large traditional enterprise vendors were unable to match Sage People's mixture of functionality and flexibility that Canonical required. Canonical, which needs to be able to dramatically scale systems and processes to support substantial growth, selected Sage People as the most capable system to support the business globally.
Looking after the culture of the company has been an important element of Canonical's success. As a globally dispersed workforce, and with approximately 75% of employees working remotely, effective technology is a necessary way of life for Canonical employees. Alongside the Sage People HRMS implementation, the business is currently implementing a new Talent Management strategy to ensure it is effectively and proactively managing its talent and presenting opportunities for career growth.


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How girls question feminism yet embrace 'girl power'
While interviewing teens for their book, 'Smart Girls,' Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby discovered some surprising attitudes towards sexism and feminism
By Carla Lucchetta - Published on Jul 19, 2017
A new study shows teen girls may believe feminism is no longer needed, but they still think girl power can see them through life to combat sexism. (Kikovic/iStock)
In Smart Girls: Success, School and the Myth of Post-Feminism, Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby, two Brock University child and youth studies professors, set out to show how girls in elementary and high school are caught up in a balance between academic excellence, perfectionism and popularity to achieve what media headlines declare about their lives: Girls Are Taking Over the World. Girls Are the New Dominant Sex. During conversations with girls in the study that informs the book, Pomerantz and Raby heard some unexpected ideas about sexism and feminism. In preparation for their Agenda in the Summer interview, I asked them to explain what they learned about next-generation feminism.
When you asked the girls in your study about sexism, what was their response?
Shauna Pomerantz: We often heard them say they didn't experience sexism and that it's something that occurs in other parts of the world like Afghanistan, but that here they have all the rights and freedoms that anyone would have. So this is how we discussed the post-feminist climate where young people feel they're beyond the need for feminism, that feminism is redundant. But at the same time we really pushed this point. We would ask them whether or not they thought boys judged them on their looks and bodies and many of them inevitably would say, "Yeah, we feel judged by boys and other girls." So sometimes we would come to a point in the interview after a bit of questioning where the girls would say, maybe there is a bit of sexism.
What's with boys telling the girls to "go make me a sandwich"?
Pomerantz: We were surprised because it's such an antiquated notion of women in the kitchen. We heard that comment more than any other in our study. On the one hand [girls] said it's not fair that boys tell them to go make sandwiches and they say all these sexist jokes and they laugh, but on the other hand actually the boys are struggling too.
Rebecca Raby: In our interviews [girls] were making observations that then other observations would contradict. It does come out as being a complicated web.
The girls you spoke to seem to have internalized the idea of "girl power" – girls are doing it for themselves. How important was it to deconstruct that?
Pomerantz: It's one of the central bases for the book, and it was also really important in our analysis of what girls had to say about themselves and to show that they rely on those narratives a lot. They said, "I can do it. It's up to me. My friends and I will get through." And to some extent I think that's important. Friendships are important and thinking you can handle things and relying on yourself is important. But, we wanted to show that girl power is a discourse of individualism where young women are not at all told that they should be thinking broader beyond their own friendship groups, beyond their own individual experiences. So they're not given information about sexism, about racism, about classism. They're not shown ways that they can connect their own personal struggles up with broader structural, social inequalities.
Raby: And it's where the idea of the "supergirl" comes from – this idea that girls can do it all, need to do it all – that seems to have permeated a lot of the girls' lives even though it's really challenging for a lot of them. There's a sort of darker side that we found where some of the girls are really stressed out in striving for perfectionism.
I found it interesting to read that girls are still softening their intelligence to be more attractive to boys.
Raby: I do think that for some people reading this book that it surprises them to read that girls are still dumbing down. I think that because of post-feminism, because of girl power, there's a belief that it's quite easy to be academically successful and popular at the same time and that girls are cleaning up in every area. There are these threads of gender inequality related to girls' smartness that certainly gave us pause that certain things haven't changed so much.
In the book you write that sexism is actually flourishing out of girl power. How does that work?
Pomerantz: In the post-feminist culture – the girl power culture – where people feel they are empowered and power comes from their own individual choices, the idea of calling oneself a feminist is tantamount to saying, "I can't do it, I can't handle it." But at the same time in our culture, when we tell young people they don't need feminism, they're beyond the need for it, that they should be able to rely on themselves, what we're doing is enabling post-feminism to flourish because young people aren't equipped with the language of opposition, with politics that allow them to speak up, to speak against sexist jokes they may be hearing, or to talk about representations of women in the media in a more powerful way. They're lacking this language, this understanding, that otherwise would allow them to combat and negate some of the stories that are sexist in our culture.
It's surprising that some girls equated feminism to victimhood. How do you think that happened?
Pomerantz: Feminism really has taken a beating in the media and in popular culture as being something where you don't stand up for yourself, as being a discourse where you blame other people. It's been twisted around. But I also want to point out in the book that while there was a lot of discussion about victimhood and "I'm not a victim" and "I can handle myself," there was also a fair bit of discussion around girls who felt that feminism was still relevant and important. So, it wasn't all one or the other.
Where did you see hope in these conversations with young people?
Raby: We talked to a lot of girls who are still forging their own way, who said, "I know I've been told to dumb it down but I refuse to dumb it down," "I know I should be doing this to fit in but I'm not going to do that to fit in," and so we do have girls who are pushing back. We also talked to girls who were familiar with feminism and embraced it and could recognize inequality in their lives, and to really great young women who were poking holes in assumptions, including our assumptions about [what it means to be a smart girl], which was awesome.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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Huddersfield Town looking to strengthen in the January transfer window, says manager Danny Cowley
Ben McKenna
Published: 16:22 Updated: 16:27 Saturday 07 December 2019
Huddersfield Town manager Danny Cowley has already identified the areas he wants to strengthen in the January transfer window.
Huddersfield were beaten 2-0 by West Yorkshire rivals Leeds United at the John Smith's Stadium on Saturday afternoon, with Cowley forced into making three changes from the side that lost 5-2 at Bristol City.
Huddersfield Town manager Danny Cowley.
The Terriers chief also revealed that he only had nine senior players available as Demeaco Duhaney and Josh Koroma were drafted in for their senior debuts.
And Cowley has targeted the areas he wants to bolster next month, hoping to add another left-back and "more competition" in wide areas.
"The group needs balancing. We had 11 right-footers today," said Cowley.
"We have a young left-back in Jaden Brown, who, prior to this season, hasn't played a senior game and he is our only left-back at the club.
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"So we definitely need support in that area.
"We would like to add a little bit more competition in wide areas, just to help what we have already got.
"But the most important thing for us is that we want to bring in good people.
"The success that we have enjoyed has been around hard-working, determined and humble people.
"I talk about humility, the willingness to learn and get better and they are the characteristics we look for in players.
"And if you get enough like-minded people in a changing room, then you start winning."
Second-half goals from Gjanni Alioski and Pablo Hernandez were enough to help Leeds secure their sixth-straight win.
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But Huddersfield gave as good as they got for large parts and were only prevented from finding the net by some wastefulness in front of goal.
Cowley added: "I felt we did well first half, I thought we played with an energy, intensity and a purpose.
"We got right up against a very good Leeds team, we disrupted their rhythm and didn't allow them any fluency.
"We had spells of domination in that opening 45 minutes and we probably needed to find a goal.
"They scored a really good goal with their first shot on target. We will always be critical when we concede goals.
"But sometimes you have to congratulate your opponent, I thought it was a really well-controlled finish.
"We then chased the game which is always going to leave you open."


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DARPA awards artificial intelligence work
By Doug Beizer
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded BBN Technologies a $5.5 million contract for the first phase of the Integrated Learning Program, an artificial intelligence project.
Under the contract, BBN will develop an artificial intelligence capability that will learn plans and processes after being shown an example. The value of the work, if all four years of the development program are completed, could be as much as $24 million.
The goal of the project is to combine specialized knowledge with common-sense knowledge to create a reasoning system that learns as well as a person, and can be applied to complex tasks. Such a system would expand the kinds of tasks a computer can learn.
The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, will administer the contract.
BBN's first-year research will focus on military medical-logistics planning. The specific scenario will be a simulation that requires evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians from Fallujah, Iraq to hospitals in Germany and Kuwait.
This is expected to enable a capacity to develop more effective military decision and planning support systems at lower costs and that require less training.
Doug Beizer is a staff writer for Government Computer News' sister publication, Washington Technology.
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A Denim Story: Inspirations from Bellbottoms to Boyfriends
Author Emily Current and Meritt Elliott and Hilary Walsh
This style bible is a chic and sexy look at the myriad possibilities of blue jeans, the classic and ever-evolving fashion essential. Blue jeans are an iconic part of American culture. And, like the American dream, denim is constantly reinventing itself. A Denim Story showcases timeless images of blue jean style. Featuring such icons as Marilyn Monroe, Patti Smith, Jane Birkin, and Kate Moss, as well as dreamy inspiration boards from the authors' own work, this volume is full of ideas and inspirations. A pair of jeans always makes a statement, whether they are tight and purposeful or loose and frayed. Blue jeans can embody dreamy, girlish innocence or the best of boyishness, as when worn two sizes too big, low on the hips, and rolled up at the ankle. A Denim Story takes us on a journey through the most stylish looks of Americana culture, from the cutoffs and rolled-up cuffs of carefree summertime days to the simple ruggedness of overalls in the countryside, and from the rebelliously ripped jeans of rock 'n' roll to that beloved pair of faded and patched blue jeans we will never throw away. Denim is the material of independence and self-expression, timelessly cool, boasting an authenticity and function that transcend trends and is always sexy. Exquisitely curated by Current, Elliott, and Walsh, A Denim Story is a visual love song to blue jeans, sure to seduce everyone who picks it up.
Emily Current and Meritt Elliott have been styling together for more than a decade and are known for the popular denim brand Current/Elliott. Hilary Walsh is a fashion and portrait photographer who has been featured in many advertisements and publications such as Vogue, Interview, and Elle.
Publish Date: March 18, 2014
Category: Design - Fashion & Accessories
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"...one of the most beautiful fashion and decorating books of spring...A Denim Story is a paean to everyone's favorite wardrobe staple...it takes readers on a sartorial journey though classic styles..." ~Boston Proper/Style Edit
"…the tome is an image-heavy tribute to denim using their favorite archival photos as well as original photography by Walsh." –Los Angeles Times
"A Denim Story categorizes and classifies denim, from overalls to American Summer styles, workwear shapes to the most loved, lived-in pairs." ~Style.com
"...Showcasing iconic looks from cool classics to reinventions, this is a love letter to to an ever-evolving fashion essential. Jeans will never die." -Marie Claire
"...a love-letter to denim" -People Magazine
"Chronicles the wardrobe staple in all its many forms" -C: California Style Magazine
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